skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A non-democratic state controlling democratic states seems to me to be a spectacularly bad idea. But I'm a consultant and I've worked and work for these people, mostly indirectly.

The EU isn't a state it's a union of states and there is EU elections happening.
They have first class access that makes what LocationSmart has look like a toy.
They would do better to look at the few serious autopilot crashes Tesla has had. They tend to involve the car driving straight into a large stationary object, in situations where a much cheaper car with a basic automatic emergency braking system (AEB) would refuse to collide and would just stop.

It looks like Tesla’s over-sophisticated system which builds a live 3d map of the whole environment, too heavily filters out large non-moving objects, believing them to be things like overhead bridges which it can pass under.

It needs a supplemental and independent AEB system based purely on highly directional forward facing sensors which can confirm that the path ahead is clear. This is so cheap that it is becoming common on mainstream cars like Hondas and Toyotas. The current model S probably already has the sensor hardware onboard to enable this extra redundant safety system in software and save lives.
Many of us view startup culture in the valley as probably overvalued as well, although maybe not as much as a few years ago.
Nobody actually knows what "GDPR compliant" means. As it's up to you to demonstrate, and it's up to your regulator to decide a policy enforcement guideline, basically nobody knows. It's really, really, really burdensome, especially if you have to retrofit it to existing systems.
No. I hear both simultaneously as well.
I thought we already accepted that JS is bad.
It is objectively a bad language, with the weak typing, quirky edge cases and a hundred bad libraries, and some backdoored ones available on npm as well.

We've also accepted that Electron is bad, we don't need native applications that bundle Chrome so they can run JavaScript. It's a bloated memory haemorrhaging mess pretending to be a cross platform framework.

And if that wasn't bad enough, we have JavaScript developers who know nothing about security, writing a supposedly "secure" desktop app where a XSS is now a RCE.

We've come such a long way that browsers can now almost securely execute JavaScript and you're telling me that a 2018 "secure" chat messaging desktop application has a RCE from a XSS in the messaging feature. It sends and receives text to other people for god's sake. Myspace wasn't even this bad and it didn’t pretend it was secure.

It is absolute lunacy.
I won't be surprised that the Signal desktop brand is completely ruined by all this fallout because these are just rookie mistakes compounded on rookie mistakes.
Would NSA require a third party website's API to amass phone geo-location data considering the fact that they might as well exploit the carrier provided APIs?
You are suffering needlessly my friend. The first 3 days will be tough but you will change your life in ways you currently don't think are possible.
He doesn't have enough technical skill to pull off anything. The AT&T hack, a for loop in php, was beyond his technical ability and had to get someone else to do it.

Blogging about being a bad boy and pretending to be master of anonymous/the cyber aryan nation is his gimmick. He wishes he was david koresh, but he's completely harmless.
I may be wrong, but I think the Signal desktop app was written by like interns or new developers working for Signal.

The Android app was written by Moxie, and I think it's the one about which Matthew Green said:

After reading the code, I literally discovered a line of drool running down my face. It’s really nice.

https://signal.org/
“Tractable” is another way to say “I can finish what I came to the site to do, and then leave.” Of course they don’t want that! ;)
Almost Half of US Families Can’t Afford Basics Like Rent and Food
I wonder if there might be something in cerebrospinal fluid that doesn't show up in blood tests.

I read an article recently about a doctor who discovered that many of her patients with treatment-refractory major depression had clear metabolic abnormalities that showed when looking at cerebrospinal fluid and addressing them made dramatic improvements.

I don't think "magnesium deficiency" really constitutes an explanation in itself. One of my parents and my sibling have had migraines, but I don't. If you blame it on magnesium, then it only moves the question to why does one person have a deficiency and another not? It's certainly not because I go to great lengths to have a balanced diet or take supplements.
The fact that this equifax data hasn't surfaced yet makes me think it may have been collected by state actors and being kept for more nefarious purposes than selling it piece meal on the dark web.

Imagine the chaos caused by a distributed, automated, nationwide creation of fraudulent accounts and debts being created.

It would bring the financial system to a halt until the fraudulent transactions could be identified and filtered out.
Move fast and break (laws) things!
those and brain needle and green storm work for me too.
In case this issue on pages 7-8 is overlooked:

Because 'home.arpa.' is not globally scoped and cannot be secured using DNSSEC based on the root domain's trust anchor, there is no way to tell, using a standard DNS query, in which homenet scope an answer belongs. Consequently, users may experience surprising results with such names when roaming to different homenets.

To prevent this from happening, it could be useful for the resolver on the host to securely differentiate between different homenets and between identical names on different homenets. However, a mechanism for doing this has not yet been standardized and doing so is out of scope for this document. It is expected that this will be explored in future work.
Still better than nothing? Sure, maybe sometimes exceptions aren't handled properly, but at least you know that it was trying to do something, rather than having users click a submit button 10x because there was no UI feedback whatsoever.
Their tv commercials are so bad I got turned off by vpn.
I missed that. I'm an asshole, sorry :)
What is the goal of the keyboard?
I am really curious about "frankly they have a point". Could you expand more on it?
Blockchain mentions in job postings vs. Bitcoin price
They did that in a rather smart way, too, by diverging it enough from the original that they could sell it elsewhere as a new thing.

I mean, it never really took off here, very few people prefer it over the original, but better than not being able to sell it outside of the US at all.
I think I answered this possible objection, but you've ignored that. Also, I made a distinction between stakeholders and devs direct managers, rather than conflating them.

I don't believe I can be of further assistance to you.
What is this website?

"The Hacker News"? And no actual relation to HN? This website doesn't even have an about page...
Some more details for those of us who would like to know who “Sweden” is in these circumstances. This kind of decisions are usually not taken on the level of the national government.

http://openaccess.blogg.kb.se/2018/05/16/sweden-stands-up-fo...
If I accept that using PGP manually is acceptable for getting wide-spread encryption then you're right, but the fact is that tech people rarely use it because it's so cumbersome that the chance of normal users using it successfully, let alone using the terminal these days, is so slim that it's basically absurd to think that is the way we're gonna get wide spread encryption.

I don't want to only talk to my tech friends. My best friend runs a small business doing nothing to do with tech and when I talk to him I want to be sure no one else can read/listen to what we're saying because it's private. There is no version where my friend learns to properly use PGP consistently so we can talk that way. The only reasonable way is WhatsApp or Signal.
There are certain things in the original comment that I agree with(in certain situations I too have found Alexa to be better performing than Google Home), certain things maybe not so much(like this statement "Google used to under promise and over-deliver. Now it has been taken over by marketers who tend to over promise and under deliver.")

One of the things I've decided to do these days when I find things that make no sense when I read them, is to figure out if the commenter had any pre-existing biases.
You're still missing my view point. It's always unnecessary, whether you engage or not.
Just block all EU users. EU only makes 15% of the world population and after Brexit even much less than 15%, so they are not that important.
I could be wrong, but I believe the postulation was along the lines of a quantum effect utilizing virtual particles from quantum vacuum fluctuations to generate microthrust. If that were true, it wouldn't really be a violation of the standard model - more of an addendum like a lot of things involving quantum mechanics.
Has Theo de Raadt ever endorsed the security of anything except the default install of OpenBSD?
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Am I the only person that learned a lot in college lol
Will you start over again with a new account in the Fall?
They marketed it as a new thing beside the original here in Germany.

Most people seem to prefer the original, though. They lost a lot of charm by going from toy+edible+tinfoil to plastic+toy+plastic+edible+plastic spoon+plastic.
I have no idea. I've never had anything 'mystical' happen to me after that.
In the USA, the word "audit" is used to describe any process by which a company tries to determine if it's in compliance with some set of rules. Sometimes that process has special legal consequences, but it usually doesn't. The final deliverable is often literally called an opinion.

No lawyer or accountant has ever given me anything that I couldn't have come up with myself, with sufficient study. I still paid them, because the law is very complex and I have other things to do with my time. That's how any country with a nontrivial legal system works.

You seem to have great confidence that you understand how the GDPR will be enforced. I'd suggest that:

1. Not everyone knows as much about EU law as you do. This is especially true for people who don't live in the EU.

2. You might be wrong. Maybe GDPR compliance really is dead simple, and the lawyers who keep answering "it depends" are just cheating their clients; but from my experience in complying with similarly complex regulations, I wouldn't bet 20M EUR that's the case.
It has everything to do with physical form. The fact that research is carried out via centralized journals is a relic of a practice that is over 300 years old, when printed paper was the only feasible medium to distribute such research.

If scientific research had started in this century, I am pretty sure no researcher would have ever thought of publishing research papers in a centralized journal where the journal gets to make so much money for a contribution that is not commensurate. Instead, they would have chosen an online platform that is funded and managed by the universities and research centers participating in this platform.

What you are saying is equivalent to stating a tautology: Elsevier is still important for researchers' careers because Elsevier is still important for researchers' careers.

The deeper question I ask is: Why is Elsevier or such centralized journals still important for researchers' careers?

Why can't the academia move to a model where only the impact of the paper matter where the impact is measured by some open source metrics like citations, number of stars, etc. I am not suggesting these exact same metrics. These are only examples. But it should be possible. For example, in the software world, GNU, Linux, Node.js, Git, etc. did not become important by publishing in a centralized journal but by publishing on open repositories, some amount of marketing, and by the virtue of being very useful. What prevents existing researchers from moving to such a model? If enough influential people move to this model, Elsevier and others automatically become unimportant.
Ibuprofen, like aspirin is a nsaid. So it should have similar effect when combined with acetomeniphin (Tylenol). In fact, acetomeniphin, ibuprofen is also commonly prescribed together. And some studies have shown it to be as or more effective than opiods like oxycodone for certain types of pain.
Out of curiosity, what kind of job were you able to land without a college degree? More and more jobs require a degree, even those that don't seem to need it, just because more and more people are going to college.

Though if you're the type of person who's driven enough to do that cold calling, I'm sure you'd find a way around it.
My local grocery store, Woodman’s, has 4 types of checkouts. Normal full service, 15 or less self checkout, over 15 self checkout with a conveyor, and their newest self checkout with a conveyor but they bag and assist.

That last option is the best. It’s the quickest as there is two pay stations with dedicated baggers. I use it every time. It is the only store I have seen that has this option. If other stores knew about this system I’m sure they would adopt it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/7afm5r/t...
> so just tip off a foreign national who already lives in Russia or whatever, and they can do it.

That's ends up being conspiracy to commit the crime, which hits you just about as hard as the crime itself. You better be _very_ confident that the FBI/NSA won't be able to intercept your communications or tie you to the foreign national who commits the crime.
Yes the only problem is that the text markup language happens to include by default a Turing complete network-enabled live-interpreted programming language because 25 years ago someone wanted to write a funny message in the Netscape status bar.
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Sounds like you might be dehydrated, which is definitely a known trigger for severe headaches.
We created poverty. Algorithms won't make that go away
Then JavaScript is a huge problem, only made safe when wrapped in a professionally built and battle tested bubble.

OpenBSD is a famously secure unix(alike) distro. That doesn't mean that every piece of software in OpenBSD is safe to use in any other context.
> On the other side Of the argument I’m still very convinced by the fact that our brains are physical things doing some sort of computation, so computers will one day be able to achieve anything that our brain computation can achieve.

The author seems to suggest that figuring out this brain computation is an upper bound on possibilities.
You mean, the innerHTML of a <script> element. Which isn’t really a thing, because the inside of a <script> tag is a document boundary—assigning raw Javascript to innerText or innerHTML directly would make no sense in either case. You need to wrap your Javascript in a CDATA node ;)
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FTA:
> Maybe in the grand scheme of things, the fate of one man on death row doesn’t seem so important;

I completely disagree, though the author points this out.
But while I am in the favor of the death penalty in certain cases (until we have a way to rehabilitate even the most degenerate murderers), the death of even one innocent should stop us from using it unless there is incontrovertible evidence and proof of both guilt and the inability to rehabilitate.
This article points out obvious reasonable doubt, and I seriously am baffled as to why the California Democrats won't even consider it or even justify their position.

Maybe there's more to the story, but this all seemed incredibly persuasive to me.
This one blows my mind. I must have replayed it two dozen times, trying to think of one word but to hear the other one. It just can't be done. There's no in-between, no fuzziness. When I think of "brainstorm", the word is unequivocally that. I even looked for "brain needle" or "green storm", but nope.
Yep. This is going to be the next cold fusion - the device will soon be debunked, but we will still be hearing about it from conspiracy theorists for decades.
You can if you don't want the authenticating side to actually know the plain text.

e.g. password + client_salt => hash => send to server => (hash+server_salt)^hash2 => compare to db

By doing this you'd protect a user when their password might be accidentally logged (e.g. Twitter recently). Then if you compromise the hash you don't immediately reveal the password itself, just the text needed to authenticate, which can be changed. If you simply change the salt used client side you may not even need to have the user change their password (although obviously better if they did).

That said, I don't think this is required, but there is actually a case for it. Also obviously you should never log the password, but mistakes are made. This helps mitigate the risk of that password being exposed.
Not by the government directly but by a national library organisation reacting to a goverment mandate for open access.
I deeply regret not getting a PhD or at least a masters. I'm forever stuck being a slacker without the real insights my peers with such accomplishments have. My career is all about being an operator, and as time goes on this feels more and more hollow.

It's not like most folks even remember NeXT.
> where the consequences of fucking up usually aren't as severe.

Helps to go to a private school, with the grade inflation, advisors who work their magic to keep you from falling off the wagon, generous academic probation, etc.
Given how quickly people are to falsely group people (e.g. Ben Shapiro and Prager being called Alt-Right), I see a huge slippery slope. There really is no balance to be had since balance requires nuance which doesn’t seem to scale, ask YouTube.
well they're definitely getting a comprehensive, free-of-charge penetration test now
Or... just be a foreign national who discovers this in the first place?
Join us! Bring it on!
I love the idea of a name for non-nerds, but don't know how to pronounce "wamb" - is the b silent as in lamb?
> then went on define net neutrality as the exact opposite of the commonly accepted meaning.

[Regarding Obama Administration]

"Then there was the 'fairness doctrine,' designed to limit opposing voices in radio and on television; 'net neutrality,' which promised to regulate the Internet so as to prevent, ultimately, individuals from frequenting Web sites that might disagree with an administration;"

- Larry Schweikart (What Would the Founders Say?)

[Endorsed by Glenn Beck and read by Tea Party supporters all over.]

I think if you just give them the correct definition of Net Neutrality and explain how it works and why they would be for it. But people frequently leave out the "how it works and why" part of an argument so it just defaults to polarized scream matches. If people took the time to explain things to people, IE: "speak truth to stupid", we would be much better off.

To be fair, Larry Schweikart is incredibly intelligent and well read on history.

"Mr 'Buckley' - well-spoken, intelligent, curious - had heard virtually nothing of modern science. He had a natural appetite for the wonders of the Universe. He wanted to know about science. It’s just that all the science had gotten filtered out before it reached him. Our cultural motifs, our educational system, our communications media had failed this man. What society permitted to trickle through was mainly pretence and confusion. It had never taught him how to distinguish real science from the cheap imitation. He knew nothing about how science works."

- Carl Sagan (Demon Haunted World)
Great feedback, I'll see what I can do to adjust for both things!
Second this comment.

No reason to direct hate at YC, they're a good way to get injected into the silicon valley ecosystem and connections from outside, and they accept people well outside the ecosystem.

"Levels the playing field" is a good descriptor for them
I have no understanding of physics, but given that 70% of the known mass isn't measurable, couldn't something like the EMDrive "just" (lol) send dark matter one way, and get momentum the other way?

This is probably stupid to anybody that knows about physics, but I had to ask :)
EU elections aren't selecing the people who make laws. That's the commission and the EU council.

By that standard the Soviet Union, China and Saudi Arabia are/were democratic too. They all have/had elections. Elections that do not determine who has legislative and executive power are not elections.

The reason why is of course simple. People in member states do not care about the EU. They care about local politics 99% of the time. On top of that member states electorates do not agree on the issues. Not on what the issues are in the first place and certainly not on what is to be done about them. There is no way for politicians to campaign across the EU, it's all done locally. Therefore the assessment of most fonctionnaires in Brussels is probably correct: there is no way to have an effective democratic EU. They also asses that they don't want to do that, as it would not be a unifying force.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elections_in_the_Soviet_Union

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elections_in_China

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elections_in_Saudi_Arabia
Having worked in government in the past, I wouldn't be surprised at all if Heroku and Hover aren't approved vendors. Somebody is probably just paying for it out of pocket. Not worth the bureaucratic headache to get them to pay for $20 worth of stuff.
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say EE/embedded space people are paid the same as average Javascript-slinging frontend dev, would you call this paid well?
It would have been nicer to just use discourse.
It's interesting - in the current low rates environment, I'd have thought that the initial outlay is much less relevant. On the other hand, even a paltry 2% are $4m a year on a $200m 77F.

Turning this around, though, we should see even more older planes being kept around once rates rise significantly.
I would add that Americans are (possibly uniquely) politicised and can't seem to stop constant posting about news. My friends from other countries never do that and instead use Facebook to talk about their actual lives.

I also have anti-Facebook fatigue and HN threads about Facebook are tiresome and predictable. It is like a never-ending line of newly converted going on about veganism or Crossfit or whatever...but in HackerNews' case it is about anti-Facebook and how you'll be smarter, sexier, sleep better, lose weight, and your children and dog will love you more once you give up Facebook.
Twitter needs to die just so I can... please, in the name of all that is good and holy... stop being fucking hounded on all other media at 26 second intervals by every Z-list celebrity, podcaster, radio clown, journalist and postal carrier begging me to follow them.
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But what happened to Midgley after washing his hands in TEL?
Electrical Engineering college degree. That's the only option.

I've never seen non-college degree electrical engineers.
> People seem to think that EITHER Republicans OR Democrats are terrible

OT, but I've always found it interesting that in English, "or" is often (and maybe even usually) implied to be "xor". Sometimes I joke that we should just call "xor" "or" and then rename the old "or" to "inclusive or".