skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could it be caused by the fact that the middle class of the Western World seem to be shrinking all over the board, with job security and a smaller ration of home owners as the result?

When I grew up in the early 80's most kids would have expected to be home-owners at 25, have a steady job and a few kids with an optimistic look at the future.

Instead, most woke up into a reality where they would have to partake in an obvious real-estate bubble, or rent a smaller-than-expected apartment in a downtrodden neigborhood, and where jobs were hard to come by due to outsourcing and automation, or to the older generations simply not wanting to retire.

Most of those I grew up with now seem to be amongst the people with a very pessimistic world view.

Have the World become a better place for the majority of the World's population? Definitely! For the middle class in Europe and North America? I'm not so sure.
what will happen now?

Presumably the first use of data will be to figure out whether the problems people worry about really exist.

For example, maybe we're worried foreign governments / billionaires are using facebook ads to influence our elections. Maybe the data will be good news, proving that this hasn't happened.

And if the evidence shows it has happened, we'll be in a more informed position to discuss fixing it.
Many places do say the same about commercial ads, for example, banning advertisements for cigarettes.

A key difference in many cases is that my life and the world are much less affected by me choosing to go to KFC instead of MacDonalds, than they are by a large country being run by a parties of different ideologies.
> Pinning is what is done by sites like gmail to prevent third world dictatorships from using stolen certificate credentials to spy on their citizens. People who have been victims of this have had their email read, been arrested by state security forces for dissent, and have been tortured to death for lack of certificate pinning working in their browsers.

Well, this is awkward - Chrome has deprecated HPKP in favor of a new header: 'Expect-CT' [1]. The new header requires any cert to have a valid certificate transparency log entry and has reporting features as well [2]. This is slightly different - the scenario above would be allowed to happen and would be be valid, but that it would be logged publicly. Whatever CA (dictatorships) had issued the cert would lose their trusted status. But then again, if you have a dictatorship, then you can require that your CA remains trusted and the burden of removing trust to your dictatorship CA would be on individual users.

[1]: https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-chrome-is-backing-away-...
[2]: https://scotthelme.co.uk/a-new-security-header-expect-ct/
Pro tip: always polish the atoms when you make record breaking pictures of them.
So good, they disbanded the same year I went off to college. That reunion show 16 years later was like they never skipped a beat. It was amazing!
I use notmuch-mode[0] to read my email and I get a lot of email. It's easy to sort and quick to search. In this case, other tools communicate with the mail server.

I use Calfw[1] to keep an eye on my calendar, I believe this mode uses TLS when communicating with Google, etc.

[0]: https://notmuchmail.org/notmuch-emacs/

[1]: https://github.com/kiwanami/emacs-calfw
OpenComputers: Introducting “Lunatic”
One reason is to use infrared remotes with an HTPC.

With LIRC (and now possibly this more performant solution), you could use pretty much any remote you could find with your computer, with cheaply available and DIY receivers.

It's great not to need to use a keyboard and mouse to control something like Kodi, and be able to use the same remote you use for your TV.
> A number of people on emacs-devel, and IIRC, RMS too, suggests that we should not be over-protective parents of Emacs users, and on most levels, I agree. While this might seem like a strange philosophical position to take when it comes to security, I don't think it is (or will be) the case for Emacs.

I've been a heavy Emacs user since 1997, using it as my primary editor on all platforms. (In the last year or so, I've been mixing Emacs and Visual Studio Code, because of the latter's solid support for particular language servers.)

I am completely horrified at the suggestion that it might be OK for Emacs to have have insecure TLS defaults. This would be an absolute deal-breaker for me (and would almost certainly result in Emacs being banned at work, with no objection from me).

I do not have the time to fix every Emacs install on every server to be secure with the latest TLS standards. I need to be able to trust the developers of the software I use to get this right. I do not want to worry about whether `package-install` has been affected by a MITM attack.
Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Twitter Launch the Data Transfer Project
NAME THE EUROPEAN EXOMARS ROVER
Are there any additional benefits other than the collector value? Can you keep your money in Antigua and Barbuda or Vanuatu to avoid enough taxes that the deal becomes a net positive? Are the banks there reliable enough that the risk is low and you can be confident it's going to work out?
Is Social Media Good for Democracy? [video]
WhatsApp limits forwarded messages to curb the spread of fake news
Donald Trump slams EU over $5B Google fine
What's being missed here is that this is, in some ways, a return to normal for Google Maps. Google only introduced pay-as-you-go Maps API access in September 2015[1]. Before that, you could get 2,500 free per day. If you needed more, you had to sign a $10-20,000/yr enterprise contract. That was it. There was no pay-as-you-go access. If you needed just 5,000 or 15,000 a day, you were SOL. (That's a big reason we launched Geocod.io in the first place, because we found ourselves in that unserved middle of the market.)

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2015/09/01/google-introduces-uncompli...
I thought Egyptian sarcophaguses were healing/brainwashing devices. A buildup of a toxic substance must be caused by a malfunction.
Not just fuel taxes, also sale taxes. Plane tickets 0, train tickets 20%.
This title makes my eyes red.
we should stop tolerating failure to hire remote workers

What are you suggesting?
I gave you several ways it could be done, but as long as you are so fixated on the object you can't see it.

Humans apply value. Today the Mona Lisa has no value inherent you can say that someone who pays 400milion for a painting is being scammed even if it's original.

But even if you can replicate the atomic structure the human perception of the value of the original does not go away and that means there is a market for that.

Claiming that it's not possible to send something created from earth which itself would be valuable even if it was something which was replicated on earth without being scammed is simply misrepresenting humans and that's the important part here humans, not the object.
I think you are wrong on all accounts, but specifically take a look at Transfer-Encoding: chunked and learn some crypto.

Also you don't need to put all those headers in the requests/responses. And soon you will be able to override the horrible User-Agent one even in Chrome.
Maybe there's a feature where you can quick-reply from the message notification. Now it needs permission to draw over other apps.

iOS has a framework to take actions directly from notifications without requesting permission.

Maybe it's smart enough to not DING! during a phone call. Now it needs permission to "make and manage phone calls".

Or that could be provided by the operating system without needing the feature....

Maybe there's a feature where it suggests a "here's my location" response when somebody texts you "where are you?". Now it needs permission to access your location.

Fair enough.

Contact integration? Camera integration? Access storage?

Why would it need to access storage outside of its own sandbox?
It happened about a week or two out from the vote, in a campaign that had been officially been running for a couple of months (I can't remember how long exactly), and had seen low-key unofficial campaigning for easily a couple of years at that point.
> If you build a suburb

I didn't build a suburb - it was already here, just like you didn't build the city you live in. I drove to the suburb to begin with of my own free will because I didn't like living in a city (having already done so, Buffalo & Boston.) I'd already made the choice to live a lifestyle that is automobile-inclusive ;)

You don't get to judge or decide for me what is right for me and vice-versa. We all have a choices to make and do the best we can with what we have.

It's interesting that for all the intelligent people on HN, there's a lack of empathy and understanding that everyone has their own perception of reality. What's 'right' and 'real' in your mind may 1) not actually be reality 2) be neither 'right' nor 'wrong', but just a personal preference/opinion. I got a taste of this myself when I stumbled upon this book (and it's second part) https://www.amazon.com/DAY-Through-German-Eyes-Hidden-ebook/... (D-Day through German Eyes.) It's been eye-opening for me because I'd always assumed the Germans troops were evil men who were all bent on conquering Europe.
An electric scooter could be good too, depending on the road surface.
For me it’s closed vs open, and less so stable vs unstable (although 3-wheel motorcycles break that pattern).
Yeh sure, a dish of vegetables, and or meat that comes with a sauce. There a million different types of sauces. Curry just isn't a thing you ask for, and get the same thing every time.
Indigenous man has lived alone in Amazon rainforest for 22 years
Inventing new time concepts, now and then, is very narrow sighted.

Think of archaeologists in 1000 years from now come over documents with 100 different time concepts.

B.C. and A.D. suffice, anything else is political nonsense or anti-religious propaganda.
Cold contact people.

While I've never been part of a proper startup where you'd want advisors, I have reached out to folks in general including those that have successfully sold startups for large sums of money.

You'll get rejected. A lot. The vast majority just won't reply to you. Do NOT take this personally.

Some will reply and give you an excuse (real or fake), 'hey, I'm busy with this or trying to raise funding for something or my dog currently has diabetes and we're trying to dial in his diet can I get back to you in X amount of time' and chances are you can go ahead and write them off because in my experience most aren't interested and just aren't the kind of person to flat out tell you no. Again, don't take it personally.

Eventually, unless you botch the contact emails, someone is going to reply. Be cool. Read the email. Read it again. Read it again. Yeah, you read it right. They replied favorably. BE. COOL. Digest what they said, think out your reply, type it out and leave it as a draft. Come back to it a half hour later and read it again, still sound good? Send it.

Keep your initial emails brief. "Hi Mr. Smith, I'm Ryan. I noticed that we had these similar experiences/both had a passion in the same industry or field/etc. I'm doing thing and I feel lost about other-thing. I'd really appreciate if you have any time to point me in the right direction, I can make myself available at any time to have a quick call or can send you more info via email. I know you're very busy but I'd appreciate any time you can spare."

You don't have to go after a billionaire or even a multi millionaire. You can just find someone working in the industry you are trying to do something in and reach out, you'll probably get better response rates this way and will likely find just as valuable (if not more so, a lot of successful start-up founders will claim luck was most of their success). If you go for 'lower-rung' people you can target people in your city and, ideally, offer to buy them coffee or dinner if they'd talk to you in person for an hour. You can get actionable information MUCH QUICKER in person.

>Any suggestions from the HN crowd to avoid wasting my time trying for find someone?

If you spend 100 hours writing emails, LinkedIn messages and phone calls as long as one person agrees to a chat, you've not wasted time.

Just remember, these people are probably far more busy than you are. Be patient, be respectful, accept rejection and move on.
Ignoring physical/spine/chest issues it could just be a bit of acid reflux/heart burn.
They probably could -- if there were a large demand for Linux laptops, there's no particular reason they couldn't come pre-installed with Linux-based adware.
Here is an example of how you can do this: https://github.com/tinspin/fuse

To use HTTPS, HTTP/2.0 or WebSockets is really not clever options when you can do secure, simple and more performant stuff in clear text over HTTP/1.1
Another alternative is Countly [1], if you are looking at an open source product analytics platform

[1] https://github.com/countly/countly-server
There’s an OS reason: the only way to detect if there’s an incoming or ongoing phone cal is by having full phone permissions.
Isn’t it illegal for a business to offer a product/service at a price lower than its cost?
The fact that it's the only standard way to run on the web without Javascript means that every language and its dog will have a WebAssembly backend.

I wonder if the real difference between WebAssembly and the other bytecodes you mentioned is just the number languages that will end up targeting it.

Though, one advantage over LLVM is that it's simpler.
Disagree.

I think it is the incentive that drives this innovation. The consumer market does not face large scale death if it does not innovate.
They seem to have a least a few: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/02/confi...
Having lived in 2 cities in the US and in Europe in bad neighborhoods, you'd not catch me walking around past 11pm especially in the summer.

Don't assume that everyone can live a life of privilege in an upscale urban area.
>"People can have their own opinions on it but our data is not personally identifiable information (PII),"

Err..isn't the point of this exercise to have enough data to identify who bought the game and why? I feel the exact kind of computer I use and the various customizations that lead to it being a unique machine are very personal and identifiable.
Keep Documentation up-to-date with Deptrac
Microsoft and National Geographic Society are working together
Study Ties Autism to Maternal High Blood Pressure, Diabetes
I think that the people making those arguments are either those who have the money which enables influence or whose living is dependent on the previous group’s ability to continue doing so.

Admitting that mass mind control through advertising may not be in the people’s best interests is simply not in theirs.
It's the standard for packaging "web applications" to run natively, and the path of least resistance for doing the same with code compiled to WASM.

Also VS code runs on Electron, so it's hardly uncommon.
There's another downside: optional functionality. For instance, Firefox can use the camera, but if I never access a website which needs to use the camera, there's no need to allow Firefox to access the camera. Many Android apps have optional functionality which would require extra permissions, but if you never use these optional functions, the apps work just fine without the extra permissions.
Hopefully, support for bidirectional text will be added soon. Microsoft needs to lead the way of handling it in console programs. Even in UNIX systems, only a few terminal emulators support bidirectional text properly.
I believe the incentive to maximize clicks and/or views caused a short term spike in profits at the expense of long term integrity. I doubt it is permanent but the next few years will be difficult for media establishments when they need to restablish trust
I suppose if you are 'super' rich, at a certain wealth point it makes sense to, er, diversify your citizenship portfolio.

It might also help avoid extradition, if they're into that.Edit: IANAL
But that's the minimum, i.e. a Hello World. A Go framework that actually has the same level of functionality would surely be much larger. And besides, JS libraries of that size are a bad thing - JS developers have spent a long time working on things like code splitting to get page load times as low as possible. It'll be a huge shame if we throw all that out with WebAssembly.
No capital gains is what does it for you because it means the money you earn in your sleep is tax free (at least if you are not a US citizen). There is no need to use the banks or brokers in the country you're citizen of. It's important where you live officially and with a citizenship it's easier to claim residence.
I was under the impression that the sterility of urine was a myth.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3957746/

https://www.europeanurology.com/article/S0302-2838(15)00206-...
Have you looked at Countly [1]?

[1] https://count.ly
I've been remote for about 5 years now. Once thing often overlooked is the perception of working remote by significant others. It took a handful of fights with my wife until we came to an understanding that from 8-5 i'm at work, even though I'm home, I'm still at work. Granted, there's give and take like with all things in a marriage but when I "leave" for work and shut the office door I may as well be 30miles away in an office building until 5.
...for orbital launches, which is quite literally what 99% of these rockets have been used for. Which also is exactly what we are talking about.

It's only confusing if you're wanting to be disingenuous.
>8. Arms races. Large countries can spend anywhere from 5% to 30% of their budget on defense. In the absence of war – a condition which has mostly held for the past fifty years – all this does is sap money away from infrastructure, health, education, or economic growth. But any country that fails to spend enough money on defense risks being invaded by a neighboring country that did. Therefore, almost all countries try to spend some money on defense.

>From a god’s-eye-view, the best solution is world peace and no country having an army at all. From within the system, no country can unilaterally enforce that, so their best option is to keep on throwing their money into missiles that lie in silos unused.

Funnily enough, we can come full circle and say that many developed nations can survive these days with very little military spending just because America's massive military is enough of a deterrent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pax_Americana
Interesting to hear it is a notable effect, I've never ran in a polluted environment before. Next time I'm in New York I'll have to give it a try.
Why not, though? Is it really that useful to fill every Microsoft-related topic with comments that amount to "Micro$oft lol"-level trolling?

I mean, they used to suck, we get it. They're actively trying to improve but that, too, is not enough.

- "You used to be fat!"
- "I'm thin now, though, through hard work. Isn't that worth something?"
- "...but you used to be fat!"
I've been wondering the same. Thanks for asking.
For EU countries the benefits are obvious, you can then live and work anywhere within the union. For the other smaller and more isolated countries I'm not so sure how it works out.
I can tell you in a few hours. But it would be easier if you provide me the correct compile options to produce such a small binary for trivial functions.
Target was of course the webassembly target.
Odd that neither Australia nor NZ figure on the list since both do this (passport for cash, ie citizenship pathways for entrepreneurs) and both are heavily used (China) and both are occasionally pointed to (Peter Thiel?)
Having an Austrian, Maltese or Cypriot passport lets you freely move, work and reside in any EU/EEA country.
I'm glad (some proportion of) the public at large is becoming as paranoid about being tracked as I have become. I never thought it would happen.
Travelling would be the first one that comes to mind. If you're from a country low on visa restriction index (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travel_visa#Visa_restrictions) a passport like this could ease your travels significantly.
I wouldn't be surprised if lots of them didn't actually use their real name. I know it's illegal but with a few millions nobody will care.
> Why would it need to access storage outside of its own sandbox?

To allow you to send and receive attachments.

Name any one permission, I'm pretty sure I'll find a reasonable case for it to be used in a messenger app.

However, a pretty strong case can be made that current permissions allow for way too much. For instance, I should be able to send attachment by picking them through another (OS or third-party) file picker, so that the app only gets temporary, read-only access to the selected file. Similarly, for saving attachments the app needs only a virtualized location with write access.
Yeeeeeep. You are correct. That subthread was too contentious for me to intervene with this information, but I think I subsequently correctly him.
Have any good resources to get into AppSync, especially with CloudFormation?
> designed for humans

That's such a nonsensical argument. Suburbs weren't designed for elephants, they were created for humans, just like cities. You want to alleviate the dependence on cars in cities, make public transportation as convenient and flexible as having a car. Oh wait, you can't. People have cars because they do provide a perceived benefit, otherwise people would choose the alternative in droves.

Maybe you all should create a pedestrian-only city and live happily ever after.
Or just repatriate to wherever your (or your spouse’s) great grandparents came from for free.
Is it not 250GB Data Transfer? That would be a lot more than 250MB. Still hard to guess how they would get over that limit.
I don't think being laser-focused on who as opposed to what and why is relevant or helpful by any means.
Dang, hard to go far with that...
> obviously the ban is via reviewing apps in the store, not on the software level

it's also on the software level. If you are an app and want to mark parts of your memory as executable, you need a special entitlement that requires a signature from Apple. Only a very small amount of OS-bundled apps (Safari for example) and no third-party app have this entitlement.

This is a reason why for a long time web-views embedded into apps couldn't make use of JIT compiled JavaScript: Because the web view was loaded in-process with your app, there was no way to execute any of the compiled code.

Only with WKWebView this was fixed by running the webview in a secondary process that has the necessary entitlements and then rendering the view inside of your process. Getting there took Apple quite some time though.

Only static code loaded from disk is marked executable, but that's not writable in memory and it's only loaded into memory when it has a valid code signature signed by Apple.

So unless you manage to get Apple to sign your dynamically loaded payload, even if you sneak the functionality past app-review, there's no way to execute it.
Getting upset about this seems equally ridiculous tbh. It's just some lighthearted fun.
"We should instead explicitly allow and protect unlimited anonymous political messaging."

Richest party wins? Is that how democracy should work?
1) 2) & 4) are sane, reasonable and common. 3) however is not common at all, in fact I've never come across this behaviour in several years of swimming in multiple places. I just don't see how this would apply if there are not enough lanes for different paces. It does not scale at all. One very fast swimmer could easily dominate a lane, everyone would have to watch out for him/her. When you have more than 4 people on a lane, this is heavily annoying. If everyone applied 4), this wouldn't be a problem at all.
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