skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Instead, government could've imposed ban on the consumer products which are wrapped using plastic material. Almost 50% plastic come directly from such consumer products sold by all FMCG companies. Such plastic material which is used as a wrapper (e.g. mineral bottles, wrappers of chocolates, biscuits, wafers, tobacco, etc.) is often useless and people tend to throw it right away.

I agree that "we", the people need to take a pledge to stop using plastic as much as we can. But if there's no restriction put on giant FMCG companies such as Hindustan Unilever, ITC, Patanjali, Netsle, Procter and Gamble, etc. from supplying their products wrapped in plastic, I consider all of these government initiatives merely as a gimmick.

EDIT 1:
Another comment I left on this thread - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17400028.

EDIT 2:
In India, plastic is a major contributor of blocking sewers and rivers, especially in rainy seasons. Another important problem plastic waste produces is that since government bodies (such as, municipal corporations, gram panchayats, etc.) are unable to dump and/or recycle plastic waste properly, it is accidentally consumed by animals and is the major reason for their deaths. Another issue is that, often "dumping waste" is considered as "burning" it. Burning plastic waste disturbs healthy air and is a major factor among others responsible for the increased air pollution in Indian cities recently.
Show HN: Send scheduled SMS messages to employees phones and target groups
sidebar: I'm quite fond of hcl[0] I hope it worms its way through more systems as a config format option

[0]: https://github.com/hashicorp/hcl
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This is nothing.

I was entering my workplace yesterday and as usual, the guard at the first checkpoint rummaged through my backpack.
I was shocked when he said the plastic bag I was using to protect my notebooks from rain could not be taken inside.
Upon asking for an explanation, he said plastic bags are outlawed and we cannot risk them in company premises.

I had to keep that bag in my vehicle trunk and then was allowed to enter premises.
Hmm. X.509 subject names aren't meant to be case-sensitive, right? I just realised one of the domains I manage have MX records in all-caps, and the cert checker fails on that, even though Gmail's SMTP servers have valid certs.
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Not only, since bad passwords aren't the only way passwords can leak, bad password storage practices on a hacked site do it too.

HIBP also includes leaks that didn't include recoverable passwords, but other personal data.
I am in a similar situation. And I found that it works great when the recruiters/companies feel that you really want to move and will not do any last-minute cancellation.

In my case, I was just granted a Work and Holiday kind of visa, my SO already moved and started to work. When I told recruiters that I was moving even without a job offer, the conversation was way easier and smother - and yes, I still need to get a long term work visa, but I can work while waiting.
Wait until you read about how animals treat each other, and you'll pretty much think we are angels (obviously factory farms and what not are bad).

And before you say "yea but I choose to not contribute to their suffering", well what does that matter? You're still standing by while innocent creatures have all those things done to them by other creatures.

Aren't they entitled to not be tortured and slaughtered as well? Or does it just not matter if you're not the one doing it?
Google Play algorithm update screws Indie devs
Background: In the Google Play app when you view an app/game you'll see 'similar apps' listed. Indie devs get about 80% of their app installs from these organic installs.

Since 20th June Google has removed actually similar apps and replaced them with what seem to be big title games with large download numbers (50 million plus) with questionable similarity.

Hoping this is some sort of glitch and not a sign of things to come.
Absolutely. I myself don't trust closed source and for-profit on such a sensitive matter. It's a matter of time before you have to deal with some bullshit. I'm leaning towards bitwarden, seems very nice.
Yeah seems to be a paid post, it says "Brought to you by Zilliqa" right there.
"We lost the contract to Amazon"
If I use Kubernetes, this service is superfluous, right?
Instead, it's useful if you use Docker containers in other fashion since services should communicate with each other.
Ping Identity acquires stealthy API security startup Elastic Beam
Perhaps someone from the US could help me understand the federal vs state legality of cannabis in the USA?

Can a state override any federal law?

Could federal-level law enforcement theoretically charge someone in a cannabis-legal state for drug offenses?
> rather it's directly connected to your bank account,

So a debit card?
No formulas, only speculations IMHO. Physics is fundamental, not abstract...
Why not create a Gmail account for that purpose then? (Or Yahoo/Outlook if you're concerned with data collection.) The amount of hassle is the same. With Mailinator I just type khdgfkasjdhfg in the register field, then then type Ctrl+L "maili" [Enter], paste khdgfkasjdhfg in the (already active) "Check Any Inbox" field and bang! - I'm already there, always. Maybe there's something I don't see here.
> I don’t really understand how the mere utterance of a word, without the intention to offend or even to use it as anything other than a descriptor for the word itself, can be this offensive.

You call that concept facism.
Amazon overtakes Apple as the most valuable American brand, claims Brand Finance
For all the craziness that trumps spews, he's actually pretty level headed about this. Why should USA settle for a trade deficit with China? They manipulate the value of their currency, walk all over our IP laws, and systematically destroy the environment. Let the trade war begin!
An Asteroid Exploded Over Russia This Week and We Didn't See It Coming… Again
> The catch is that a process can only have one tracer attached at a time, so it's not possible emulate a foreign operating system while also debugging that process with, say, GDB.

This is actually possible. How? The obvious way... You intercept and emulate ptrace calls with ptrace.

https://robert.ocallahan.org/2016/04/using-rr-to-debug-rr.ht... explains how this works in practice.
The offset in reduced plastic use by consumers will be more than compensated with the rapidly growing e-commerce market.

I am terrified of the amount of plastic my Amazon purchases bring with their packing.

It is a step in the right direction, but the govt. should invest and provide alternatives, perhaps use existing research institutions to come up with new, eco-friendly packing materials, and popularize them.
This, in a nutshell is what is wrong with America (and the West in general)--everything is a scam! When nothing is real, it changes people's behaviors and expectations. It sucks, quite frankly. In a country as rich as ours, it should be possible for poor people to legitimately win a car. Instead, they are endlessly suckered by these fly-by-night vampires who do nothing but tear at the fabric of civilization. Malls suck, btw, which is why nobody goes to them anymore. It could have been different.
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> Where does that leave us?

I guess it leaves us at, "Statistically, three times as many young adult male drivers have fatal accidents than equivalent young female drivers, despite having a smaller population."
New Zealand is famous for being very resource rich, so I'm not sure I share your concern. NZ is an exporter for many of its resources: http://www.mbie.govt.nz/info-services/sectors-industries/nat...
> Waitstaff-less high-end restaurants expand the audience and frequency of visits of people who can now enjoy these better-than-Chipotle dining experiences.

Better-than-Chipotle dining experience is not a definition of a high-end restaurant. You at most hit the bistro-class.
This sounds like a bizarre misunderstanding.
Because the American police isn't known for SWATTING and killing the wrong targets because of "identification errors."
Way more money thrown around this time though?
Creating a new gmail account isn't a one-click thing, adding a new address to Maskmail is, at least according to their website.
> Can a state override any federal law?

No, by the "Supremacy clause" of the Constitution.

> Could federal-level law enforcement theoretically charge someone in a cannabis-legal state for drug offenses?

Yes. Because people interact much more with local police than federal police, it makes a big difference whether or not the local police enforce these laws. The Obama administration also chose not to enforce federal marijuana laws in states with less restrictive state laws. But both of these relate to enforcement rather than legality.
That's such an amazing thing about them.

I know a few places that... would pretty much die for such a global "MITM" service, so I wonder if it's five corners financing it.
I've always been amused by Sainsbury's tactics - as well as the bland and unattractive packaging for their value brands, they also add a little passive-aggressive slogan that slightly throws some shade on their own product (and perhaps by association, you). For example, value wipes have "Not quite as thick, but cleans up quick". Value peas have something like "A little smaller, but just as tasty!"

https://thetab.com/uk/cambridge/2015/06/08/apologetic-sainsb...

Emphasising "less" and "small". I guess the slogan they really want is "You are too poor to afford the good stuff".

(Of course the joke is all the products are indistinguishable out of the packet as no doubt they come from the same production lines and they aren't likely to tool up to make deliberately inferior versions if that would cost extra).
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From your link:

> 1Password isn’t affected by this problem because it doesn’t include an automatic autofill feature.

Are you sure we’re talking about the same app? I’ve used 1Password for years, and it’s never autofilled for me. Maybe it was actually your browser’s built-in keyring?
Being a few inches farther away from a homeless person who hasn't bathed in weeks is not going to make much difference.
These are the kinds of tips you'd get from a teacher who teaches the teaching of programming rather than the doing of it.
Ah, the old prize soap racket: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soapy_Smith#Prize_package_so...

A classic!
So it's artificial scarcity, basically. Someone/something is blocking development, right?
Not-so-happy LastPass user here: I evaluated alternatives, but LastPass is the only one which somehow works on Linux/Firefox. I have even tried to make pressure to 1password about that, without much success: https://discussions.agilebits.com/discussion/comment/410603/...
I think only in the US. That's not even 5%.
Okay...who keeps throwing asteroids at Russia?
I'm on about £28k per annum as a remote contractor -- I'd second this advice.
FWIW Apple's Web browser Safari recently switched to this approach, both on iOS and macOS.
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I mean, the truth is these jobs will go away relatively soon because of drones and robotics.
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As a thought, you might find Robert Cialdini's book "Influence" useful:

https://www.amazon.com/Influence-Psychology-Persuasion-Rober...

He gave a talk covering the same subject matter too, which is faster to grok if that's your kind of thing.

After reading/watching this stuff, these kind of scams become incredibly transparent. And it's fairly ugh to see fellow humans subsequently get sucked in by them.
The delay between inputs of reading every neuron, reading and actually performing a task will be the problem to solve until it opens up totally new and fastest growing sphere for the science.
Mugga the Mongoose is threatening customer service again AR comic
I don't think state laws override federal laws, they're just enforced by different agencies.

Yes. You can get in trouble in a National Park in any of the legal states, since those are federal land and the rangers are federal law enforcement.
That’s not very convenient. I like another suggestion in this thread: standardised components. Have shops hand out reusable metal cutlery rather than disposable plastic cutlery with a deposit scheme. You pay a few quid for the cutlery, but can return it anywhere and get your money back. The key is to make it ubiquitous, which makes it effortless for people.

You could still offer plastic disposable cutlery for those that needed it for some reason - but have a (small) charge. That should be sufficient to massively cut down the plastic waste. The UK introduced a 5p plastic bag charge which was really effective despite it being so cheap.

I realised I’m writing this as I’m eating a take-out lunch with a plastic fork. I have to trash it, but could very easily have used a returnable fork. It came in a paper bag which I can take back to the office and recycle.

Edit: Thinking about it, if having your own cutlery is a habit then it might not be so inconvenient.
As a USA-ian, I've never seen this and would be appalled if I did.
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Slack and keka is the best project management and team communication software. https://goo.gl/bBsbMr
Precisely! Yet they still pop up and ruin readability of the code just the same.
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I need a browser extension (for Safari) to warn me if the site is behind Cloudflare. I'll pay money :) I'm kinda protected by using VPN, IP is not my ISP IP. But the rest, plus browser fingerprinting is busted.

Use this: www.cloudflare.com/ips/ and HTTP headers like CF-RAY
Simos
I just tried this on Ubuntu 18.04 and it worked great!!

Started Firefox in an LXD container created w your customized "profile" went to YouTube a was playing music videos great... All from the LXD container.

Really great work making this so easy now.
It seems that the author followed the same logic as the author of the "English As She Is Spoke"[1] phrase book between Portuguese and English, with the French dictionary in between.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_As_She_Is_Spoke
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>I understand UK law is that you have to have free* entry as an option otherwise it's gambling

The 2005 Gambling Act allowed a much wider range of promotional prize competitions and draws. If the question is a genuine test of skill, you don't need a free entry option (except in NI). If you do include a free entry option then you don't need to bother with the trivial multiple-choice quiz, but the free entry route needs to be publicised with equal prominence to the paid entry route.

http://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/PDF/Prize-competitions-...
> and it's already been abstracted over by systems like Kubernetes, making Docker itself less and less relevant.

But k8s still uses the same concepts used with docker-style 'containers', with registries, layered, isolated filesystem, separate networking, ... all in one box.

Docker was just a big nudge in the direction of democratising scalable cloud infrastructure/application stacks. Yes it can be used for other stuff, but that's what it's extremely good at.
What are, "lies and hype", Alex?
Where I was teaching, we've started doing code review in classroom in basically the same spirit.

The amount of students prevents us from real selection, instead we take exercises which failed tests (and that are not empty) and explain what was wrong, identify common mistakes or bad style and try to make it correct.

We had a very good feedback on this. And we saw an evolution in students' code. It was way better than trying to do collection of bad practice ...
This all uses only "unprivileged" containers NOT "privileged" container.. so "root" in the container is NOT "root" in the Host!
I don't buy from Amazon, but weren't they pushing for minimal and plastic-free packaging? Has the program been dropped?
Ask HN: Do you use more than one cloud hosting provider?
Do you use more than one cloud hosting provider and if you do why do you use more than one?
And as discussed by the article, disabling the equipment can make the abuse worse. Nothing's more likely to put someone in a homicidal rage like "I poured water on your expensive microphone".
I haven't checked the T&Cs, but it has all the same traits - set up in an outlet village, car being presented with "you could win" banners, aggressive salespeople pestering passers-by to sign up with their personal details. The aggressive sales tactics especially are a bad omen in my eyes.
Kindof misleading title. This is about writing etherium contracts.
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I'm frankly surprised these aren't being blown out of the water by litigation. One might even be able to make the argument that the mall operator, timeshare commission payers, et cetera are complicit.
Product ownership is a thing of the past
Wait, why do you have guards rummaging through your bags? Do you work in a high-security facility?
Why not both? It could make what you want easier to do down the road once the public sees they too can live without
TL;DR: They're all non-alcoholic. Which isn't bad, but by that definition water is hangover-proof too.
I won't be upgrading anytime soon. This is disappointing as one of the features I really liked was it was a single pay for the current version. The next version would be an upgrade and personally I would pay for that.

There are alternatives like GitLens built into VS Code that will be getting a second look from my self.
Fair point, but I was thinking something like Signal, WhatsApp, or the like. So, I like to think of email as a bit dated, not only in security but in model.
That said, the beauty of email is that you have a unique identifier that doesn't force the other party into your walled garden.
If we could develop something akin to Signal, but that didn't require the second party to have to sign up explicitly for that service, I think that could finally start the process. Which, of course, would also require some level of initial adoption, probably the hard part.
For all intents and purposes this is one of many typo classes that just happens to have a cute "antidote", and which also has been all but rendered pointless by the existence of respective compiler warnings.

I've seen weirder stuff get through the reviews and compile cleanly, something like "f,()". Typos happen, but (a) it's not a good enough reason to make the code less readable (b) if the code is prone to this sort of errors, just pay closer attention to them during the review phase. Hedging against a single exotic type of mistake that virtually never happens at the expense of code readability is unacceptable.
hey, it is better to be nice in that case! Because you don't know anything when your are born, everyday thousands of people learn about well-known cool things that are new for them: https://www.xkcd.com/1053/

This guy even explained his rediscovery in a beautiful form.
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Now if only we could do the same in Japan. I am always amazed to see individually-wrapped cookies wrapped in plastic, inside a box, wrapped by more plastic, inside paper inside a single-use shopping bag. I mean... C'MON!!!!
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Are those "large portion of people" your customers? If not, they don't matter.

IE11 in general does not matter.

Use statistics to make decisions about feature adoption, do not generalize or guess... that's a straw man that'll burn in a meeting.
I switched maybe 3 weeks ago. Love it. Highly recommended.
> a human hair is just under 100 nanometers in diameter

Does he mean micrometres? From wikipedia[0]:

> The diameter of human hair varies from 0.017 to 0.18 millimeters (0.00067 to 0.00709 in).

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hair#Description
Why do you sell te for a trade deficit with the grocery store, or your landlord?

I agree that China has a poor history of stealing IP, but that’s what the WTO is for. Trade disputes make us all poorer now.
I just did and it worked great !

Super easy as using the custom "profle" meant I really had to do nothing other than the single cmd to create the LXD container.. which took 15-20 seconds to create.
AFAIK product packing is also included in the ban.

The articles here state that plastic used for storage and packing of goods is also banned. Including packing of tooth brushes.
https://www.firstpost.com/india/maharashtra-ban-war-on-plast...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/mumbai/maharashtra-plastic-ba...
Is Keybase Safe?
Is keybase really that safe ? Also is they're cloud storage safe aswell ?
The "ban single-use plastic" hype train seems illogical to me. Having your city littered with garbage is a government services problem - they should provide convenient waste disposal receptacles, empty them frequently to be disposed of properly, and give citations to litterers. We should not be cheering this short-sighted law.

I also don't understand why plastic in a landfill is all that bad. The fact that it is biodegradable is a positive here - it won't break down into toxic substances.

Evaluating environmental impact is a complex process. Everything we do has multiple consequences. I believe global warning is the most serious environmental disaster we are facing today. Plastics use significantly less energy in production and transportation (because of lower weight and less material needed.) With an eye toward AGW, how can paper packaging and burning refuse be seen as a responsible choice?

It is critical that we consider the effects of our consumption habits in a serious and reasonable fashion. I just don't see the anti-plastic panic to be rational or constructive.
Yes, this is really cool! If anyone’s curious, this is called a rake receiver https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rake_receiver
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That's bullshit. To start a docker container, you don't need to mount a layered filesystem image - nevermind figure out a way how to create and reuse it, you don't need to know all nitty-gritty details of creating network interfaces, private networking, port forwarding with NAT, cgroups, and a ton of other details that are simply not important to get an application running. Docker does that for you.

If you would have to get read all man pages for every single tool you'd have to get familiar with just to figure out how a custom "not invented here" system works - you'd be in for a treat...
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Any of the options you listed above is a possible scenario. I would add, as Thiel says, that the reason recessions happened so often after 1960s was because people's expectation of growth has been more optimistic than the real economy growth.
This resulted in over-leveraging and over-buying of entire asset classes which eventually caused a bubble.

Here's a talk I found interesting regarding growth and the future of the economy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKLDevYyE9I&index=13&t=0s&li...

One relevant part I liked regarding the Madoff scandal:

Obviously, you were like how could these people be so stupid to give this person all this money? Didn't they read the details? ... But one of the reasons it happened, psychologically, was because people thought 8-10% with 0 risk was perfectly normal. That's why nobody asked any questions.
Can't you just run a nginx -t to run the config test and see if it passes before you reload?