skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One angle that I haven't seen covered is the "gang" nature of hate groups. They advocate for the commission of murder, either directly or obliquely. That could be one line in the sand that could be drawn. No groups may promote the extermination of, or by extension, scapegoating society's problems on, a group of people. The scapegoating could be aligned to implicit murder because none of these groups is advocating for assisting or "rehabilitating" that scapegoated group.

Further, offering a means to join a hate group affords anyone an "immediate membership to a gang", in the sense that an otherwise disempowered person can quickly appear menacing by aligning himself with an established hate group and facebook is the vehicle he uses to advertise it
People being harassed because they moved out of state is not FUD. Its abuse, and it definitely happens.

Why would I move to a state and have a career there if I know at the end of my career I'll be at peak earnings and at that time want to move elsewhere for retirement or pre-retirement? Many people in my state move at that time to other states for tax reasons or cost of living reasons. They know they won't be able to afford to live in the high priced state when their earnings drop.

I know of at least one person who's in the process of moving to FL, and they received legal advice to save all receipts and other evidence. The only reason they received this advice is due to the widespread abuse by the state.

Not a NYer, but I
Unfortunately, while Apple lets you install other apps that provide web browsers, they're all using the same engine under the hood.

Apple still doesn't allow other browser engines in iOS.
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Yeah, I liked it -- was a good mix of biography/personal stories about Kahneman and Tversky and brought in some real-world examples of applied topics covered in Thinking Fast And Slow.
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too late. softbank is charging far, far ahead with cruise/gm, and google far ahead of Ford.
Senator Ron Wyden on Breaking Up Facebook, Net Neutrality, and Internet Law
AWS Lambda does not support PHP. You will need to spin up an EC2 instance for running PHP and another instance in RDS for MySQL. For development, you can spin up t2.micro on EC2 and RDS and pay $0 but pick another instance type when you go live to production.
Do you really believe that Facebook is giving a platform to the extreme right ?

If one thing should be clear to everyone is that Facebook got a very clear Leftist bias, as pretty much any company in Silicon Valley.
Whenever they will make a conscious decision of censorship it will definitely be more on censoring the Right than the Left.
Apple charges a huge premium for their machines because they supposedly integrate design and QA so that they don't ship with broken video cards like cheap commodity computers do.
At least it's not a JS script being used as a CGI executable.
A comment in the source code seems to describe what you need to do:

MasterSegment is the length of the string at the end of the encrypted data that contains the secret key
To decrypt - we do the following
1. Take masterSegment (88) length - from the right of the data - this has the private key
2. Everything from 0 to the end - master segment is the raw data - that needs to be decrypted
3. Decrypt the 88 characters using the public key - that will give you a pipe separated string of the private key (random guid from MDS) and a time stamp (to scramble it)
4. Now use the private key and decrypt the data stored from step 2.
5. Parse the decrypted data - and rejoice
6. KSUE -means key issue
7. __$$_jmd - the public key that we obtain

__$_s1 : variable name for the Security object in the Helper.js file - that file has the calls to actually decrypt the data.
Media companies and publishers are the same thing. Media companies, as such, are not regulated. Certain media functions (broadcasting, for example) are regulated, FB isn't, for instance, a broadcaster.
It says the fix is for High Sierra. For everyone running Mojave on the new MBP, will there be a fix for that as well, or was it previously patched in Mojave already?
Yep, freight has right of way.
Concurrency is hard. Channels make it somewhat easier. Basically, see if you can do concurrency with only synchronous code.
Am I the only person not excited by this? It seems to be based on the idea that you can just paper over the chasms between vastly different implementations. Putting aside the fact that the differences are important and you can't ignore them, doing this well is simply not scalable. How could it ever be all of: comprehensive, correct, up to date, elegant?
I have an X on tmobile and it's abjectly terrible. I had a 6S+ before it. In the same location, on the same network, it will drop signal or become unusable and gets lower reception almost everywhere.

This is nearly as bad as the issues reported with the essential phone, honestly. It's a night and day difference you can compare side by side if you have two devices.

With good signal it's fine, and the speeds are plenty fast. I have no complaints about battery life. It's entirely when the signal is marginal that it's garbage.

I've considered selling it and buying the verizon or unlocked qualcomm model multiple times.
Makes me want to hop on the Zephyr.

Anything like this for Canadian rail? Love to ride from coast to coast up north.
That is bit borderline claim. My reading would be that the image would have about 180 PPI (or less..), which is maybe passable but certainly not above human ability to notice improvement to something like 300 PPI. Assuming of course sufficiently good printer etc.
Wow, 7 hours and nobody's posted https://github.com/uuner/sedtris yet.

HN, you're starting to drop the ball :P
> Would you really base your project on reverse engineering and hacking a third party service? It will end up being an arms race. Everytime they change something you'll race to hack it again. In the meantime your service will be inoperable. If your user base is in the tens of thousands that will kill you.

Depends on what the service is. youtube-dl faces this issue but is some of the best software I have ever used.
Will this be something like COS or even CoreOS? Also, I'm curious to hear more about this part:

> GKE On-Prem has a fully integrated stack of hardened components, including OS, container runtime, Kubernetes, and the cloud to which it connects.

Which runtime are you shipping? CRI-O? What type of outgoing cloud connection is that? I have so many questions. I'm actually at the conference this week if you're willing to grab coffee.
I don't see how parents failing to do their job changes what I said.

But to answer your unrelated question: Of course, responsible adults, which includes teachers, should help them as well as they can.

Unfortunately, try as they might, only parents can do a parents job. Really, it comes down to providing a good family to as many kids as possible.

Divorce, broken families, single parent homes, foster care, etc... They all fall short of what a good solid Mom/Dad home (with a good relationship between Mom and Dad) can provide a kid. That's where we should be focusing.

Oh, and while I'm at it: World Peace.

*edit - Unfortunately, we can't do anything about people dying or getting sick. But short of that, people really need to be responsible about the situation they are in when they bring kids into the world. And then they need to take care of those kids.
> The question is, at what cost? The US taxpayer also picks up the welfare tab for Walmart and Amazon employees, as well as the costs associated with un- or under-insured people getting sick from physically demanding work. The American taxpayer directly subsidizes these companies [1][2].

But would the American taxpayer subsidize the entire retail market any less if it were the same size but split up among several smaller and less efficient (meaning consumer prices were higher)? I could see that being possible, but I see no reason to assume it would be likely.

Yes, one way that Amazon and Walmart reduce their costs (and thus their prices) is by paying certain employees as little as possible, but it seems to me that smaller firms can and probably often do the exact same thing, but are still less efficient than Amazon and Walmart due to economies of scale that are unrelated to labor costs.
It depends on the backend that powers your GraphQL API, some are much easier than others, but all are doable. Which backend are you using?

We have already done a lot of the groundwork, embedding other GraphQL APIs like GitHub's into OneGraph. We're careful to namespace all of the types so that there will be no collisions.
Chromecast turns 5 today: here is the missing feature
Chromecast turns 5 today.

Please Google, add playback speed control when casting (1x, 1.5x, 2x).

youtube.com/tv also lacks this feature.

Thank you.
I prefer references so I have more information available to assess the validity myself. If an author makes assertions without evidence to back them up, then they are much less credible.

Having many recent studies available to back up a hypothesis at least informs us that it is credible, given our knowledge at the time.
Society needs to pick a side. Do we want large private companies acting as the arbiters of public discourse?
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My experience with the X is very different. It's entirely possible you're experiencing duff hardware. Have you approached Apple with your concerns? Remember you may have consumer rights depending on your location...
As a Jewish American, you have very little to worry about, when Lin Cheng, in rural China has not heard of the Holocaust. He almost certainly doesn't care very much about it, one way or another. You probably haven't heard about the genocide in Equatorial Guinea. You probably don't care much about the particulars of your knowledge of that atrocity, either.

It's not key to his value system. He doesn't live next door. He isn't marching with the Proud Boys, who want to make America white again.
"key" as in dictionary key, not cryptographic key
Ya I agree. I think the lifestyle signals are the new thing since the old signals (homes, cars, material things) could be faked through debt. The car you drive doesn’t send a signal anymore unless it’s a Bentley or lambo etc.
Pretty cool of YC to link to the books on Amazon and not include affiliate links for monetization. Creates more trust in the "realness" of the creation of the list.
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> first thing that came to mind was how anti-communism played out in vietnam, chicago boys of chile, and the contras in nicaragua

What does this have to do with the Chicago school or libertarianism?

> you could also argue the underdevelopment of the third world by washington consensus (free market) policies

I have no idea where you got this from. The evidence indicates the complete opposite. Free markets and free trade are a boon to developing countries.

China's economic liberalization reforms (agricultural decollectivization, privatization of industry, elimination of price controls, protectionist policies, and regulations) lifted millions out of abject poverty. India's economic liberalization reforms (making the economy more market-oriented, expanding the role of private investment, reducing import tariffs, deregulation of markets, reduction of taxes, and greater foreign investment) similarly led to a vast reduction in poverty and extraordinary economic growth, particularly in sectors opened to competition.

> the seemingly detrimental policies enacted after the collapse of keynesianism in the 70s

Which policies are you referring to, and why do you think they were detrimental?

Regarding the Great Depression, I suggest you read what Friedman had to say about it.
Because with ssl they still have to attack your site. Without ssl any attack is generic and easy.
This is insane. How much time did they put in to this pointless obfuscation, and then why would they go and document it all?
Is Facebook in danger of not making money? I think the decision is a bit easier: should we make as much money as we possibly can, or should we forgo some profit to mitigate the assault on privacy and democracy that is the by-product of our business model.
I can understand this to a certain degree. Especially when working internationally where things don't translate well. I'm currently working with a code base created by a person no longer at the company. There are many things where the original developer did something because he thought it was funny and amused him, but for someone not aware of that, I've spent way too much time trying to track things down that don't exist. However, easter eggs like the crayons wearing down over time needs no translation. Anybody that has ever used any non-ink based writing utensil will understand.
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Except that Amtrack is consistently late on the NEC and other regional lines that they have priority on. Really annoying when you are on a train waiting to pull out of a station and can't go because a late Amtrack has priority.
Not really. In terms of density, the only part of the U.S. comparable to Germany (600 people per square mile) is the northeast megalopolis (900 people per square mile). Also, your map includes regional trains, while the Amtrak map is just inter-city. This is a more appropriate point of comparison: https://4194e6d9-a-62cb3a1a-s-sites.googlegroups.com/site/no.... (Note that the middle of Pennsylvania, or upstate New York, or almost all of Virginia are not part of the northeast megalopolis: http://statchatva.org/files/2015/11/Northeast-Corridor2-991x...).
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> The question is, at what cost? The US taxpayer also picks up the welfare tab for Walmart and Amazon employees

They'd pick up the welfare tab if Walmart or Amazon didn't employ them, too; the only area where that might increase with their employment is EITC, since EITC goes up with earned income to a point.

While Walmart and Amazon should be cashed out for our labor practices, the idea that welfare that their employees qualify for is a subsidy to them is odd. The subsidy is favorable tax treatment of the capital income of their shareholders compared to the labor income of their workers, but that's not something particular to low-paying employers.
Memory seems rather like a multi-tier cache hierarchy to me. You can only really keep something like seven objects in your mind at once, and everything else seems to be pushed to slower sections of your memory.

Within this analogy cache eviction strategies start to have massive effects on our ability to process information.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17604143 and marked it off-topic.
My (admittedly quick) reading of this is that the issues stem, primarily, if not exclusively, from using multiple file descriptors for the same file, necessitated by using/supporting threading for concurrency.

If that's the case, then perhaps it's not so much that PAL was broken by design but that the original design merely didn't anticipate threading. I'm not sure how the advisory locking scheme compares in terms of timeline with threading support, but Unix file locking in general easily predates even SMP.
I'm not sure I'd hold up nutrition labeling as a success. Feel free to correct if I'm missing some great shift that it caused (I mean this honestly, I haven't been paying much attention) but the biggest impact I see of nutritional labels is e.g. "Non GMO" on like, a can of soda, and "Gluten Free" on a steak. For me as a consumer, nutritional advertising has been diluted into nothing more than yet another set of stickers to be gamed.

(Disclaimer, the actual Nutritional Facts on the back are more useful, but as the endless debate about "what is actually good vs not good" might indicate, it's far from a Source Of Truth, and in many cases can likely be gamed as well. Similarly to how even if a news article lists all their funding sources, an average person probably doesn't care/might still not get much information from it/might still be mislead by crafting of that fact. I don't say this to encourage gatekeepers, but to call out that I'm not sure the current approaches are effectual)

Post-factum-edit: To the downvoters, before this post disappears, at least tell me where I'm wrong. US Obesity rate is through the roof[0]; and while this absolutely has socioeconomic roots, that's the crux of my statement: we're not addressing root causes, and are thus lacking many of the outcomes we'd want.

[0]https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db288.pdf
Is it not moral to have an economic system where transactions are mutually agreed upon?

Can you name a more moral economic system than that?
Context. The question was "how do you backup your files." My answer: on my RAID system at home. The RAID system IS the backup.
>actively targeting political systems worldwide through X

Sounds like what every big player is doing for centuries.

>while also stockpiling latent backdoors and probably more

Sounds like what every big player is doing for at least a couple decades, except for the US which does this since early 90s while having much wider reach (a lot of the infrastructure and most software/hardware companies with irreplaceable products are within US jurisdiction).

>Stuxnet was a targeted attack which accomplished a defensive goal

Stuxnet was deployed outside the US or Israel (where it was created) to destroy the foreign infrastructure. If you're going to call that defensive or preemptive, any attack on the US or Israel infrastructure can be justified as such by the attacker as well.
I won't comment on the rest, but as a Ukrainian living in the US (and thus keenly aware of both countries' politics), I object to seeing Ukraine in this list.

I won't argue more about this point on Hacker News, of all places; however providing un-annotated links to videos (and making others figure out where in the videos any of your claims are supported) surely can't be seen as an acceptable way to reason around here.
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At the university where I did my MS, the university owned the IP.

Patents were a standard affair: the university owned and paid for the patent, the researcher(s) (including the PI and grad students) got inventorship. In the eventuality of a licensing deal, university would get a 50% cut, the inventors would get the remaining 50%.

It was a significant revenue stream for the university.
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The Nawaz issue was far from an open and shut case for one thing, I'll just leave it at that for the moment.
As far as the sloppy comparison of NOI and WAR its important to point out that while NOI sucks (really, really) it is not now, has never been and never will be anywhere near power. From Viktor Orban to Christian Strache to Salvimini to Trump (specifically Bannon, Anton, Miller, etc) we're seeing a very real spectrum of white supremacist leaders winning power. Salvimini literally said there needs to be a "cleansing" of Roma in Italy. If Facebook wants to facilitate that, so be it, but its on them if they do. Its important for them to recognize the social impact of the choices they make. There is no real world equivalence between Viktor Orban and Louis Farrakhan and treating them the same is democratically suicidal.
Using the then-new and expensive 1Mbit DRAM chips. 2MB was possible using 256Kbit DRAM.
I definitely get where you are coming from, given the unfortunately common practice of misconstruing scientific studies to make exclamatory headlines.

I should add then, that the author definitely backs up the studies (which are multiple and often independently discovered) with reasoning about why certain things are evolutionary advantageous and how they fit in to societal phenomenons. I hope you will give this book a chance :)
I basically read the whole trilogy at one go. The first book in particular is a page-turner.
Yeah, I feel that this is by and large the scenario I've witnessed. Not necessarily pushed by slow/lazy engineers but those that are bored with tried and true solutions that have some 'difficult corners to chamfer'. I think the problem with developers is that they want to solve a problem in a very recognisable pattern playing into the Asperger's like nature held by most perfectionists but unfortunately ends up much like your have outlined (but now they have some hot new technology on there resume so moving onto different problems is usually more desirable than re-fixing the new problems they've introduced to solve again)
I would guess "management", probably under the name of Homeland Security. It seems to be some spaghetti code of loops/callbacks written by a frustrated jQuery developer. Here are some more fun tidbits:

> /MasterZoom is the sum of the zoom levels from the routes_list.json file. That is the index in the routesList.v.json -> arr array where we have the public key stored.
IF THE ROUTES_LIST CHANGES, REMEMBER TO CHANGE THE INDEX TO BE CORRECT /

> /Salt Value - the element is at the 8th position. So we can essentially pick any number from 0-100 (length of the s array in the file), get the length of the element, and then go to that index
the following funky looking code will evaluate to 8. Salt has a length of 8
/

> /Initialization Vector Value - the element is at the 32th position. So we can essentially pick any number from 0-100 (length of the IV array in the file), get the length of the element, and then go to that index
the following funky looking code will evaluate to 32 - IV has a length of 32
/

And my favorite:

> masterSegment - length of data to be extracted from the encrypted response - 55 is just a fake //FAKE VARIABLES to throw off people hahahahaha
My apologies; I guess I'm too jaded from online discussions. I'm with you on that.
Concurrency is hard and channels make it somewhat easier. Agreed. That's not relevant to the fact that the use of channels in Go is full of gotchas.
It's not really "open" data in the sense people expect if a letter or change in the scraped implementation results in it vanishing.