skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Friends only events on facebook are phenomenal.

It's much much easier than having to find out someone's email or phone number that you might not have.

And while I haven't organized a large open event, I do enjoy using facebook for attending them.
Computer History Museum's collection [1] is fantastic. Specially recommend the Oral Histories [2]. Quite a lot of the greats are there. For example, Andy Bechtolsheim of Sun Microsystems [3], John Backus [4], Charles Hoare [5], Bill Joy [6], SPARC [7], ...

[1]: http://www.computerhistory.org/

[2]: http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/oralhistories/

[3]: http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102737929

[4]: http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102657954

[5]: http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102658017

[6]: http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102739973

[7]: http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102745979
That's just so out of touch with reality. People with that attitude scare me because they lock us into the "one true solution" rather than the one that actually makes the company successful. Nobody pretends that JS/electron apps are supafast, but don't pretend like they don't have tremendous benefits too.
Announcing Kata Containers 1.0
TypeScript 2.9 Release Updates ES.Next Support
Lets be clear, nearly all of the issues presented at the royal commission were already known by ASIC and APRA.
This misses how we established a peaceful western Europe. The US provides military protection to cover Europe so that countries like Germany don't need a big military. This keeps France and Germany from contemplating shooting at each other because they don't see a threat there anymore.
had to ban all the good vpn apps to make sure users would download the latest ones with all the latest backdoor tech!
I will recommend The Innovators a 1000 times
Already mentioned, but Meetup and its kin (Eventbrite, Facebook events) are good gateways into meetups that you’d have enough interest in that the possibility of connecting with someone you’d get along with is high.
I'm guessing the title would have sounded like the crows are being murdered:

> Japan Fights Murders of Crows
The Innovators by Walter Isaacson is your book
The article dances around and slightly touches this, but for me, it was always the mythos and size of the universe. The movies were never the big draw for me. The novels held the true universe.

Legends was massive. The feats within Legends were sometimes outlandish, so it makes sense that it was all scrapped. The Plagueis meme was a throwaway line in a prequal movie. Luceno wrote the novel roughly 7 years later, and it is one of my favorite SW novels to date. It perfectly encapsulates the feeling of the Rule of Two, the Sith moving in the shadows to subvert an entire collective of governments, and the true power of patience.

Current canon isn't giving the universe enough room to breathe. They want to fill in every last detail on the timeline with no room for secondary or tertiary characters to have their own plot in the background. Plagueis was Sidious' master, but Luceno did not nor needed to fill in every last detail of Sidious' apprenticeship. We get some details of a young Palpatine, but the novel doesn't crash headfirst into the Phantom Menace.

TL;DR: Star Wars shined, because it always left room for interpretation and exploration - even in fleshed out novels.
Accusing me of dog whistling seems to be an extremely bad faith interpretation of anything I said. There is absolutely a well supported, highly researched and discussed relationship between density and increased crime rates and that you simply dismissed my point reeks of preconceived notions that you aren't attempting to actually grapple with.

http://theipti.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/covariance.pdf

http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/13030.html (non-primary)
Messenger has a setting to encrypt your messages.

Not sure if it's on by default, but mine was turned on and I don't remember turning it on.
In the US insurance companies themselves are meant to fight to keep prices down, but right now due to a miscalculation during the creation of Obamacare ("Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act") they're incentivized to INCREASE medical costs...

Why? The 80/20 Rule ("Medical Loss Ratio" rule).

> The 80/20 Rule generally requires insurance companies to spend at least 80% of the money they take in from premiums on health care costs and quality improvement activities. The other 20% can go to administrative, overhead, and marketing costs.

Meaning insurance company executive wages can only come out of 20% of your premium, so if the CEO wants that pay increase they have to increase overall healthcare expenditure, premiums, and by extension their 20% cut.

While the 80/20 rule was a fantastic idea on paper, it changed insurance company's incentives in such a way so that premium increases are good for them.

You might be thinking "but in a competitive landscape people would just switch!" but there's nothing competitive about health insurance, people cannot even pick their own (their employer does) and most employers only offer two of the larger ones from that state.
I've like all the trailers for SWTOR (and enjoyed playing the game), but trailers are different from movies, they are telling a short story without any details, which, expanded on a full-length movie, would be on the same level as the Disney movies.
If you were to take a random room of people. Reset all of their incomes to square one. In a few years the same people that were rich to start would emerge "rich" again.

Some people are willing to be disciplined and motivated to change. While others talk without the walk.
There's a huge difference between the death of 95% of all males, and 100% of all humans.

Humans are probably about as difficult to exterminate as rats are, and for similar reasons.
Sign me up for some scientific rigor in all policy work, journalism.

State hypothesis, compare predictions to reality, show your work, cite your sources, peer review.

The "replication crisis" touches everything. What I like to call "governance technology".

We live in exciting times. I'm irrationally optimistic. Eager to see what happens next.
Under pressure, imposter syndrome hits men harder than women
The Dark Den. A guy that lives in a tiny apartment and keeps pretty much every species of spider.
Ticketfly website was compromised, the hacker also stole customers’ data
A++ the Smallest Programming Language in the World
looks like there are only 8 american voices, with 2 of them being children. Most still sound pretty robotic. I could really use a a good TTS solution for training video creation at my company.
I've been using this for a few internal "worklists" for customer service. It works great and I didn't have to learn JS.

It's not quite like Qt but it tries to follow the same style.
The quality is not quite up to par with Qt either but it was definitively good enough for the internal projects.
The thing is, if you're looking for action, adventure, melodrama set against the backdrop of of a richly imagined universe, Star Wars delivers. It's triple A, top rate.

Whereas if you're looking for philosophical questions of humanism, sentience, and scientific plausibility: then what the heck are you doing watching Star Trek? It's watered down tripe. Go to the library, you turkey.
If we're headed to an Orwellian future, drones have nothing to do with it. The fault isn't in a weapon system but is in us.
Level1techs for hardware, and linux content : https://www.youtube.com/user/teksyndicate
Counterpoint: Your chances of dying before "making it big" and retiring are somewhere in the 1-in-10 range. Investing works mostly because of the current trend of artificially propping up the stock market. Any failure in your investment strategy leave you in the same boat as the current boomer retirees who are trying to get back in the workforce.

Not to mention, your life is going to be pretty miserable if you're working two jobs and spending a lot of effort on living frugal. There's just something off-putting about the thought of spending decades living frugally and working yourself to the bone so you can retire and finally have fun.

The exemplar folks who advocate doing this, a'la Mr. Money Mustache, are real pieces of work too. They tend to hide the fact that they went into the process with an inheritance to fund their their nest egg and are working nearly full time in their "retirement" as paid frugal advocates.
There is no challenger for "ultimate political power" within the US region

How quaint - "regions" don't exist with modern weapons. To say the US doesn't have to worry in it's "region" is laughably naive.

Their spending and investment is well beyond what is necessary to keep up with the "competition"

Also quaint. China is able to leapfrog decades and trillions of dollars of US spending on defense due to modern technology advancements. One only needs to look at terrorism and militants fighting in the Middle East to realize that spending does not equal capability or effectiveness. In war games, China's sheer numbers overwhelm a technologically superior foe at a fraction of the cost.

hasn't actually been needed to enforce "ultimate political power within its region" in decades,

It is literally being used every second of every day to project power and maintain stability around the globe (not to mention daily active engagements over Syria/Iraq/Afganistan etc.). Just because we haven't had a "traditional" war in (years) doesn't' mean this power isn't a vital part of defense.

*Making this violence engine more powerful is evil, even if one accepts that a military force is 100% necessary.

Who fill this power vacuum if the US steps down? Will the world hold hand and sing peace songs if the US reduces military spending and activity?
This could be fixed with rel="noreferrer noopener" added to the links, would that be a beneficial addition to HN?
Neural User Interface Co CTRL-Labs Raises Series A from GV, Lux and Founder Fund
Also, this only helps if you're living in some place where food is expensive.
"Code Rush" is a film documentary (now public domain) covering Netscape's engineering team around the time they were open sourcing Mozilla.

It provides a nice view into engineering practices and valley/start-up culture at the time - a lot has changed and a lot has stayed the same.

https://archive.org/details/CodeRush
Kata Containers is a novel implementation of a lightweight virtual machine that seamlessly integrates within the container ecosystem. Kata Containers are as light and fast as containers and integrate with the container
management layers—including popular orchestration tools such as Docker and Kubernetes (k8s)—while also delivering the security advantages of VMs.

The Kata Containers project has six components: Agent, Runtime, Proxy, Shim, Kernel and packaging of QEMU 2.9. It is designed to be architecture agnostic, run on multiple hypervisors and be compatible with the OCI specification for Docker containers and CRI for Kubernetes.

Kata Containers combines technology from Intel® Clear Containers and Hyper runV. The code is hosted on Github under the Apache 2 license and the project is managed by the OpenStack Foundation.

GitHub repo: https://github.com/kata-containers
I'd be fine with just an alias to a group of emails. A use case is that a customer service rep finds out that there is an issues with a patient's data. They can't forward a request to a business operations team to look into the issue or to the engineering support team. Just having an alias for a team that we could email would be a big win
So I should be able to build a fracking site next to your apartment building then, since it's "land I own".
There is no such thing as cheating, only staying within boundaries that don't land you in jail or sued in your own jurisdiction. If you can get an edge by using Google's own data, do so.
نتيجة الدبلومات الفنية برقم الجلوس 2018 تجارى – صناعى – زراعى – فندقى
> the Marvel universe is better at it than Star Wars

I think that's coming from an existing story structure (Comics) which work very well for multiple PoV serials and big cross-over finales. In addition to that, with the comics, there are a lot of storylines that can be used as inspiration
_Showstopper_ One of the best tech books, after _Soul of a New Machine_ (recommended in the comments, too). Covers Microsoft's creation of Windows NT.

_DEC is Dead. Long Live DEC_ about the rise and fall of Digital Equipment Corporation.

_Skunkworks_ Lockheed-Martin's creation of the SR-71.

_Moneyball_ using math to build a top flight US baseball team.

Broadening the category a bit:

_The Smartest Guys in the Room_ is about Enron's collapse. Not directly related to computer tech but definitely tech and people.

_Billion Dollar Lessons_ covers several spectacular company failures. Again, not strictly tech related but amazing stories of crash & burn. Includes (IIRC) Iridium, Kodak, IBM.
You appear to be using innuendo, but I don't know what you're implying. Here is my answer reading you literally:

Yes.
Your argument, while presented against make-a-wish, actually applies to all artistic endeavors. Yes, it is good and right to make life worth living.
"Ethereum" does not match normal English spelling rules, so native English speakers have a tendency to spell it in the "correct" way as Etherium.

If anything, I would argue that "Etherium" is the more proper spelling and that we should migrate to that.
Who Killed the Kiev Protesters? A 3-D Model Holds the Clues
Agreed so much. Can't even count the number of times I thought 'what would have happened to ... after all these years?'. From time to time I do see for example documentaries going back to places years after a disaster (Fukushima, BP Gulf, ...) but that's from actively looking for them. Hardly ever this pops up in the news. Well, it's maybe not literally 'news' but if I see the amount of rather trivial events which do make it to the news I really think some money in media/journalism could be better spent. They spend weeks and weeks of reporting the same thing again and again when some major event is fresh but then it all dies out.
Thats essentially what the Mass Effect franchise is. Bioware got sick of being constrained by the Star Wars IP, costs, and continuity and simply created their own "Star Wars" which is actually much better than Star Wars IMO, or it used to be anyway.
Motif?
This!! Kevin Anderson, Timothy Zahn... The stories were great and the fact that all the authors included and referenced each other’s events really made the universe cohesive and rich.

There was even a trilogy (!) of books already written about young Han Solo, which were equally amazing and rich..
> Only because it causes collateral damage? But why do I care

Because the collateral damage may not be worth it. The website a handful of dissidents use may not be worth blocking everything running on Cloudflare for all your citizens, for instance.
The pattern you're describing is unfortunately a pretty accurate reflection of the post WWII history of the Middle East. However, consider how these mistakes happened.

First there were the Nazis. They invaded half of Europe while the US remained neutral until it was attacked by Japan in 1941. After the US and its allies won the war, the overwhelming majority of Germans celebrated their liberation and went on to become a prosperous ally of the US. Great success.

Then there was the cold war, which was essentially an attempt to prevent the Soviets from achieving their avowed goal of world domination. Again, the US and its allies won that conflict and the overwhelming majority of Eastern Europeans are greatful for it. (Let's not get into a debate about the merits of Socialism here. Soviet style totalitarianism and Stalinism isn't what most on the left want nowadays. At least my Marxist friends don't)

So there were two very important historical episodes during which a refusal of the US to do anything more than defend the homeland would have been catastrophic. Unfortunately, this has lead to a doctrine of uncritical and imprudent interventionism and to a refusal to learn from the many mistakes that were made during the cold war, most importantly in the Middle East (but also in Latin America).

My point is, even though your criticism of failed interventionist policies is correct, it means little without also discussing the crucially important successes of global US military power.
Why you need a makefile in your project
Ask HN: What's Your Ideal Vacation (Including Activity)
As many of us work in technology and high pressure environments, I wonder what other people think of as an ideal vacation or recreation activity? For example, people would like to go on hiking trip in the mountains of Colorado and try to disconnect from technology. Which places do you normally prefer to go to?
Show HN: Making managing kubernetes cluster easier
My absolute favorites:

Art of the Problem (Information Theory/Cryptograpghy) : https://www.youtube.com/user/ArtOfTheProblem

Historia Civilis (History) : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCv_vLHiWVBh_FR9vbeuiY-A

3 Blue 1 Brown (Maths): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYO_jab_esuFRV4b17AJtAw

Primitive Technology (Survivalism) : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAL3JXZSzSm8AlZyD3nQdBA

PBS Space Time (Physics) : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7_gcs09iThXybpVgjHZ_7g
Free as in Freedom by Sam Williams is quite an interesting book about Richard Stallman and the origins of the free software movement.

A version revised by Stallman himself is available under the GFDL:

https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmcGNKQQKnywV4mtAsUFmi9xaYthkoBucwAKGo7...
They're just not the same genre, despite superficial similarities. Star Trek is (often) sci-fi, Star Wars is more like space fantasy. You could pretty much take all the characters and plot from Star Wars and move it to a Lord of the Ring-like heroic fantasy setting and 99% would still work with only minor tweaking. It's all character driven drama. Even the "a long time ago in a galaxy far away" is telling, Lucas didn't try to predict the future of humankind, he's telling an old story that doesn't really concern us. Like Tolkien and Middle Earth.

Being born in the mid 80's I think I think I "missed" Star Wars, by the time I watched the original trilogy in the mid 90's it was still enjoyable but already dated and when the prequels released I was old enough to see the many obvious flaws of the movies through the thick CGI layers. I expect younger generations might have a different relation towards the Star Wars "brand", having it fed to them almost non-stop since birth.
Emacs provides comprehensive building blocks for any kind of undo/redo system you could want, while providing it's very basic example implementation of undo/redo. Many other packages exist that focus on different ways to do this.
Wizard Developer Skills – 3 Ways to Conjure Joy from Project Pain
Definitely one of the best tech case study books I've ever read. Book flows so well.
> To me, it's more political than mechanical.

That's mostly the 1-3 trilogy. The original trilogy is mostly fantasy in space/space opera
Interactive Shell via BlueTooth
The easiest way to think about Julia's performance is closely related to the observations that inspire tracing JIT's for many languages -- most code in dynamic languages doesn't make use of the features that make efficient compilation impossible. Julia's response to that observation was to build a dynamic language that lacked some of the most extreme features in Python or R that act as barriers to efficient compilation.
there are many true solutions, electron is not one of them though.

>but don't pretend like they don't have tremendous benefits too.

Javascript+html+css is not a global optimum in the solution space of "making cross platform GUI apps", its just the best solution that exists right now (if you are afraid of C++), and that is too bad.

We could have simpler, better performing ways if we bothered to do things that aren't web related more often.
Can you share how you create a certain window/buffer setup on tmux automatically?
Are deepfakes the new revenge porn?
Data Security in the Age of Cloud Native Apps
I saw something like this years before, but have absolutely failed to come up with the source of the data. Do you know how I can get my hands on it? If it's true and honest then we need to focus on the real problems- at least the aspects that we can solve.
>Are you suggesting donors to make-a-wish actually value making one dying kid (and his support network) happy more than saving the lives of several?

Yes.

>I doubt that's usually the case because if you consider it for a moment is seems so unfair and cruel.

Hmm? What about all the discretionary money you spend on dates, living in a nicer than necessary apartment, money spent on hobbies, etc? Do you value those things more than the lives of African children who will die if you don't donate your discretionary spending? Well of course you do because you do one and not the other.

>No, it's probably something else that motivates their decision...

And what would that be?
> you don't really need 12 carriers to defend your country for example, they are mostly useless for defense

There is also the deterrence theory.
What makes you so sure? Has a study like this ever been attempted?
Steam protocol has been well understood for a while now: https://github.com/steamre/steamkit

Which is based on reverse engineering the Steam client, so you can implement game downloading yourself.
Only an Electron Away from Code Execution
I have to imagine those secret raves still exist.

I also have to imagine that sometimes you just want to dance and it's probably nice to not have to jump through a lot of hoops to find a fun party.
Chrome 67 brings Progressive Web Apps to desktops
FBI's Application & Data Division is Looking for Information Security Engineers
The FBI's Application and Data Division goal is simple: deliver on software and data’s potential, to stay ahead of the threat.

The Role:
Information Security Engineer - An Information Security Engineer advises on application system designs and architecture plans to imbed security into development, testing and deployments across the development lifecycle.

• Ability to communicate technical security concepts to diverse audiences, both verbally and in writing.
• Familiar application test methodologies and tooling.
• Working knowledge of at least one or more of Java, Python, C++ and Ruby.
• Experience applying static and/or dynamic analysis in application testing.
• Ability to evaluate cryptography choice and implementation.
• Passion for automating application security testing and the strengths/weaknesses of test automation.
• Experience with security architecture of modern cloud technologies, including multi-tenancy, containerization/virtualization, and control plane and automation services.
• A strong knowledge of technology and security topics including; network security, application security, infrastructure hardening and security baselines, web server and database security.
• Experience including INFOSEC technology, policy and procedure development and implementation on major industry and Government programs/efforts.
• Includes a strong understanding of security policy advocated by the U.S. Government including Department of Defense and appropriate civil agencies, e.g., NIST.

Submit your resume to FBI_Apps_Data@fbi.gov for consideration.

All FBI employees must be U.S. citizens and must consent to a complete FBI background investigation, drug test, and polygraph as a prerequisite for employment and to receive an FBI Top Secret Security Clearance. The FBI is an equal opportunity employer and supports workforce diversity and inclusion.
AFAIK VPNs are not outright banned in China, rather, they have to follow regulation which enables the government to inspect the traffic.