skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like this is why the advice is always to consult an attorney. If the law has some easy to fulfill requirement (service policy) then concerned people should have one even if they're only providing access to Uncle Bob and not the general public. It may not be likely that Uncle Bob would cause any trouble (though maybe his computer is infected), but it may not be likely that anyone with physical proximity would cause any trouble. If you're worried about it then why not do the thing that mitigates the risk regardless?

It's even possible that not providing public access may increase certain risks. If you restrict access and someone guesses/cracks the password and does something terrible, that may make it harder to argue that it wasn't you.

I'm also not sure where you're reading the requirement to identify the users. There are many sites (e.g. Slashdot) where users can post anonymously (and via Tor or equivalent). Are you saying they don't qualify?

They have some info here:

https://openwireless.org/myths-legal.html

But notice that half the page is dedicated to extra-legal ISP shenanigans, which brings us back to routing your whole internet connection (guest net included) through a VPN. Which, again, you probably want even if you're the only one on your connection. It's not as if copyright trolls are renowned for their accuracy in targeting only people who are actually infringing something.
Proposed Stack Exchange Q&A site about mainframe technology
Well, here it's cos(acos(x)) and sin(acos(x)), which are easier. But still that's pretty smart, I did not know this.
I'm learning a lot today
That would mean that you trust the client completely to log somebody in. What's preventing somebody from bypassing the clientside bcrypt check?

As long as the password is sent over a secure channels (TLS) and doesn't leak somewhere on the server (e.g. logs), sending it plaintext from the client is not where most password breaches come from. But stuff like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Remote_Password_protoco... would provide a solution for that.
I'm afraid I don't know enough to talk about it, but to me it seems more of a collection of observations than a "theory" in the speculative sense. As far as I'm aware though, we have observed that cities with less greenhouse gases tend to be colder, so in that sense lowering CO2 levels "works" to reduce temperature, though we can't speak of global "correctness" until we manage the same with the global temperature.

This is a special case however, in that we have to assume correctness because otherwise we'll all be much worse off, and the possible cost of reducing pollution are slim in comparison. But if anything I think this supports my point that correctness itself doesn't matter, only the material consequences do.
What's the best way to browse the web anonymously?
Nice, that's the kind of writeup I was waiting for. :) planning on setting this up in the next couple weeks.

However, I found a huge error:

> Linus Torvalds himself said that he loves it, which took the software world by storm, as we weren’t aware that Linus was capable of love or any emotion other than perkele.

Linus belongs to the Swedish minority living in Finland, so while he's probably able to perkele he jävlas most of the time.
To have a more traditional valuation, Amazon would have to have a GDP roughly the size of Russia (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17691875), (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28...)
> The cost of regulatory compliance has massively increased

Many people in this discussion repeat this claim, but what I would love is citation of evidence. We know that regulation has been politicized, with one party trying to eliminate regulations as much as possible. That kind of situation leads to claims that gain currency through repetition - through talking points - not evidence.

I'd love to see the actual research and data (from non-partisan sources, not the AEI or Cato, for example). Particularly, we need evidence of the costs, of their relative size compared to (when? increased since when?), and of their impact. For example, according to the article the market was much larger and had more small participants in the 1970s, when the U.S. government in general (I don't know about the stock market) regulated business much more.
I believe zirp results in higher secondary (and as you pointed out primary) markets. The stock market in the US is shrinking because of the shift in focus toward foreign markets. Namely those with higher returns (and risks) which again is partly due to low interest rates. From investor’s perspective, however, the secondary market really doesn’t give you much now. Shareholder rights/influence have diminished over the years especially among technology companies. Facebook is a primary example of this.
I have no hard evidence one way or another, but I do remember that the introduction of Sarbanes-Oxley (2002) was a very big deal in terms of IT spending for years. SOX came as a reaction to Enron and WorldCom.

I don't think this is necessarily a question of whether regulation as such is good or bad. It seems intuitively plausible to me that regulation like SOX can be both beneficial in terms of trust in the markets and a deterrent for smaller companies to go public.
right - but we're coming for cleartext sni too:

https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-rescorla-tls-esni-00

interestingly, something like DoH is a pre-requisite for pulling off esni.
Planet-Hunting Kepler Telescope Wakes Up, Phones Home
Interesting that mistakes like this tend to be in the big co's favor. You never read about 400 people getting a free home due to a bug.
In what world does this solve anything? Tokenize it! You mean assign the worth of an asset to an arbitrary symbol of value? Like, say....a dollar?
how many will still build web applications for helping perform tax audits for lawyers?

Enough. During my professional life, the software companies I worked for built business software like that, and we licensed it under A/LGPL. Much of it actually published online for everyone to use.

Instead of relying from rents based on IP, we simply got paid ahead of time to build new applications, or change existing ones. Lawyers would simply do the same if they need that software, either individually or as a group. Crowdfunding works too (even for B2B software!).
It’s ok running your mail server until yahoo black list you and there is no recourse for 6 months other than all email to yahoo will be deferred permanently.

Unfortunately I know lots of people on yahoo (still) and no amount of brow beating appears to be changing that.

Paying for FastMail did the job for me in the end. It’s the least shit solution I’ve encountered so far. Note I didn’t use the word best.
matrix.org is federated rather than p2p, but it's e2e implementation has some very nice features (group chat, multiple devices, forward secrecy, etc.).
Chess over ActivityPub
ridewithvia.com is a recent startup, doing "demand responsive transportation", for regular people, very successfully - multiple us cities, and various (new) global partnerships.
Just to add on, sometimes it's useful to be able to link to large query strings without large numbers of characters in situations where there's no way to copy and paste (for example any form of print media).

Many internet giants have set up their own link shorteners for this very purpose: see https://goo.gl/ and https://t.co/
This is why “Nigerian Prince” scams continue to dupe us
I saw a lot of people paid 20% more commission once due to a bug. They honoured the payments as well.
What makes driving on the left "simply the right UX?"

I would have guessed it is arbitrary, but you may know something I don't. So I'm curious to learn about it.
There was a good thread here about scraping and the use of paid proxy services. Seems like free isn’t a solution for anything at scale.
Tox might be one of the most underrated projects out there.

Launch a client (qtox suggested), add a few friends by copying their tox address (=pubkey) and start talking. It just works, is completely decentralised, and the only way to talk is end-to-end encryption with forward secrecy.

It literally solved the IM problem for most use cases.
This comment should be printed out and hung in Times Square.
Is it possible that drone explosion caused gas tank explosion?
Bit Splotches: Dot Matrix Printing with Python
His website is now one giant advertisement for 1password, so, yes, he does have a strong, biased (because ttey pay him), opinion on at least one security topic.
The major threat to indeed investing is if the index ceases to represent its sector of the economy. As implied by this article.
Thank you, appreciate the positive message :)
Years ago, I'd seen some his art in China and liked it, and I vaguely know he's an activist, but I don't follow it so I didn't know he had left the country until I read the article. I don't think anyone would know what had happened if he wasn't internationally famous.

What I meant (by 'the last part') is that if we excuse the government for politically motivated force to punish non-violent dissent for any reason, then we are agreeing with the worst form of corruption. Bribes (and excusing them) are bad enough, but excusing threats, violence, and property destruction by the state is worse. How to create a better (more fair) place to live for the poor and weak with this kind of threat, when even the wealthy, connected, and famous can't speak up?

When I see this sort of acceptance from my colleagues from Africa, India, South America it saddens me just as much as it does in China.
The country was in a state of civil war from the late 1940s, and North Vietnam was the sight of much intra-Vietnamese bloodshed due to revolution, land "reform" etc, without France or US involvement in the matter. In any case, your example may be undemocratic, poor judgement, etc, but that's not the same as "imperialism".
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> ... that servers are silent/invisible unless you know their public key (cant provoke any response packets without) ...

Yes, this is beautiful.
Yes, due to the .COM bubble bursting (2001-2003) and the sub-prime mortgage crisis (2008-2009). Take a look at page 3 in [1].
In the hard sciences, for example, the problems that people work on are often less complex and more removed from everyday human life. I think this causes for much less over-generalization to occur.
I imagine the urban systems tend to be more restrictive than the rural ones.
Thank you for this. I've been missing mercurial interactive committing for a while.
My god, Patrick Stewart looks like he hasn't aged in 30 years.

On another matter, does anyone else wonder who at TechCrunch thought it was a good idea to make scrolling to the bottom of the page be an automatic redirect away from the article?
Facebook is up almost 500% from its IPO price, so even the very smart private equity and venture folks can misjudge when an opportunity has been completely milked.
I wonder if self-driving over highways, coordinated with jitney-on-demand for the inner city route would be feasible ?
I agree. Surely these sentences are outright wrong:

"While a computer might find some pattern in a string, it cannot find the best pattern. We might find some short program that outputs a certain pattern, but there could exist an even shorter program. "
> The higher cause that allegedly justified the invasion of Ukraine was the preservation of the sacred Russian nation.

I'm sure there were many reasons, but the one I heard was that Russia said it was committed to defending Russian speaking populations wherever they are and said that the Russian speaking population in Ukraine was being discriminated against it repressed in some fashion.

Regardless of the primary reason, it seems these issues are more complex than a single primary motivating factor.

For example, why Crimea and not all of Ukraine? Why Ukraine and not another ex-Soviet satellite? Why now? Why not earlier?

I'm sure there were lies and disinformation, but I also think the issue is more complex than the author might be suggesting.
> It seems intuitively plausible to me that regulation like SOX can be both beneficial in terms of trust in the markets and a deterrent for smaller companies to go public.

While I agree, I think the problem here is that many, many things are intuitively plausible. Maybe market fraud is increased and the markets are less safe for small businesses, or maybe policies or custom or collusion have cemented big players who have less interest in small companies. We need data and reason to sort the wheat from the chaff.

Our intuitions suck. If they were good, we would have had the right physics in 1,000 BCE instead of 1900 CE. (Not my line, but a good one.)
I don't want to lose control over it. If I open source it then anyone could just take it and rebrand it and pretend it's theirs.
I think the right analogy would be that 400 people just barely avoided foreclosure because of a bug. It might have already happened and nobody heard about it because neither Wells Fargo nor the homeowners had any reason to publicize it. (Or neither were aware of it.)
Company suspends use of mall directory cameras running facial recognition
When you say Vanguard has the next largest, does that mean they are holding it for their clients or own it themselves? If I invest in a Vanguard ETF which contains AMZN does Vanguard maintain voting rights? Can it leverage its holdings on behalf of its customers to take over a company if it becomes the largest shareholder?
Erg too late to edit but I meant to say this was on LibriSpeech
Not a CLI, but GitKraken does that for most commands.
> There are no profiles, likes or comments, and strictly no advertising or third-party access to your data unless absolutely necessary.

What do you mean by absolutely necessary?
First, I have to say that I love cloudflare, but the last thing we need is the centralization of all our DNS resolution to them. Please Mozilla, don't give anyone too much power.

And if DNS over HTTPS is the way to go (which might be), give the user a choice. There are 3 public resolvers already offering DNS over HTTPS:

Google[1] (was the first one to support it)
CloudFlare[2]
CleanBrowsing[3] (for security and/or adult filtering)

And hopefully Quad9 will join the list soon. I hope this doesn't become a "search engine" war that the company that pays more becomes the chosen DNS. Please Mozilla, don't do that.

* 1: https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/dns-over...

* 2: https://developers.cloudflare.com/1.1.1.1/dns-over-https/

* 3: https://cleanbrowsing.org/dnsoverhttps
I meant both registration and sign in forms, hash the password in JS, so there is no way to bypass bcrypt?
My bad, I thought you were speaking only in the context of text fields. I don’t really use those shortcuts outside of text manipulation.

As for why exclude non native apps... it’s a personal preference thing, and I don’t enjoy using them. I avoid them whenever I can and will opt for a native alternative where possible, even if it means shelling out some cash.

In fact, I’d say that’s one of my gripes with desktop Linux — for some things, an electron app is the only option and nobody cares to develop a GTK+ or Qt alternative. I’m a big believer in use of the local UI toolkit, regardless of platform.
isn't that the promise of a self driving car though? it can respond faster to dangerous situations?
To spare a few the arithmetic: Wells Fargo set aside $8 million for compensation; divided among 400 persons, this works out to $20,000 each.
Yeah I think this is key. The entire concept of what the public market is for has changed significantly. Historically the stock market had a kickstarter like function, which meant that there were opportunities for people to bet on neat new ideas and recognize enormous gains - but also a lot of chances to lose the entire value of a bad bet.

These days we have Kickstarter instead and investors get swag instead of equity. Really good deal for getting a little project to go, but sometimes too bad since it means willing investors can’t participate in long-term gains from the successful business launches.
Google purchased Android before the iPhone was created. I agree that open source is good business, but some of the causes you listed aren't the whole story.

Also, they learned a lesson from Hadoop. If they'd open-sourced Google MapReduce, the cloud industry might look very different.
My dad has COPD and IPF he's still going with (very expensive) medication but it's taking a toll. It sounds great to live but living well is the goal.

Lung transplants are great but most lung disease occur decades later after a long career especially blue collar jobs where a person is exposed to many irritants not toxic but cause cumulative damage. Although anecdotal sailors (Navy, Coast Guard) for some reason have an unusually high rates of lung disease mainly COPD and IPF.

Lung transplants if possible cut certain nerves and the transplant recipient no longer has a cough reflex due to cutting vagal nerve fibers. But it seems it's possible it can recover, maybe only for younger patients.

I think the recent articles about mitochondria transfer from muscle tissue to damaged tissue is more promising. It would be nice to see some studies on that involving lung tissue.
There’s this thing called reputation. Also this thing called science. And another thing called Liberal Democracy. In all these systems, people get to make up their own minds with regard to claims about reality, as well as the trustworthiness of a given service.

Your solution is a Ministry of Truth.

Here are some actual solutions: http://magarshak.com/blog/?p=114
Shares grant a lot of rights, but the basic concept of an ETF is to hold shares proportional to an index and leave it at that. They will generally not be activist holders. This reduces the cost of holding. Nobody needs to be hired to do research, to lobby, to plan etc. You basically have people babysitting a computer program, which is relatively cheap.
How does this fit into the new timeline that the Abrams reboot creates? Will the new Picard series be in the TNG timeline?
> Historically, the stock market would return 10% YoY (after averaging out). The problem is that that number has dropped.

What do you mean? The current market has many problems but recent returns being low is not one of them (of course returns going forward are something else entirely).

S&P 500 total returns (annualized) are:

17% over the last one and two years

13% over the last three and five years

11% over the last ten years

9% over the last eleven years (roughly corresponding to the peak of the previous bull market)
When I visited Tim Berners-Lee’s SOLID project, I recommended one thing to them: do NOT have one canonical WebID for everything.

I had to grapple with these issues years ago and here are some solutions:

http://magarshak.com/blog/?p=114
Alzheimer’s/vCJD-like prion disease
Note[1]:

The decrease in the number of listed firms is a recent
phenomenon. Figure 1 shows the evolution of the number
of listed firms since 1975.1 The number of listed firms
follows an inverted U-shape: It increased by 54 percent
from 1975 to the listing peak in 1997 and decreased
strongly since then.

Somehow, both the NYT piece and this paper manage not to mention at all the increase in regulations since the late 90s.

[1]: https://www.nber.org/reporter/2018number2/stulz.html
Agreed.

I’ve lived in San Francisco, Oakland and I can see it working there. I’ve lived in Indiana and if it has heat, I can see it working there when it’s warmer.

I’ve lived in Puerto Rico. I can’t see this working there.
NSA’s Encryption Algorithm in Linux Kernel Is Creating Unease in the Community
You’re in agreement with gp- he’s saying that an IPO used to be an opportunity like facebook, but now they just stay private like Uber until they believe most of the value is locked in.
around 80% of Canada's population lives within 100 miles of the US boarder. Canada's density is skewed by northern land with nobody living there.

https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-2c86ad127d43c7e1f9a62d...
I don't think for a moment that the centralization or decentralization of exchanges themselves has anything to do with the problem.

I don't see any reason why the current exchanges pose in any way some kind of problem to the creation of smaller, more healthy, competitive and robust firms.

Yes, there are regulations, and each exchange has a bunch of rules, but that's generally for the benefit of everyone involved. Any kind of decentralized system would have to have rules.

The exchanges do make money, but it's trivial relative to the underlying financial transactions.

I suggest 'the problem' has more to do with globalization and the consolidation of mature industries, and the availability of large, private funds. Both activities have advantage and disadvantages.
He sounds old though.
Two services specifically, Stripe for payments and Intercom for customer support. There is no API, no scraping, no advertising hub. We will expand on this further, it's a good point.
If we are trying to optimize anything, you should probably drop all the unnecessary floating point divisions. I would expect those to be the bottleneck in your code, though you’d probably want to time it to be sure.

(rand()/(double)RAND_MAX) etc.

Instead assign some name to 1.0/(double)RAND_MAX, and multiply.
Not at all. There are plenty of circumstances in all kinds of numerics where one would want points on the sphere in high dimensions.

It's not just a geometric object that has limited practical value for d>3. It is the set of points where the norm is unity, which is a pretty fundamental concept in all sorts of places.
The Incredible Story of Gert Boyle and Columbia Sportswear
Completely agree. I was responding to OPs assertion that even that is not necessary.
I don't think there's anything wrong with mixing composition and inheritance per se, if everything is obeying strict OOP principles (Open-Closed, etc.) If the mix-in was adding functionality to the base class, and then the subclass was there to specialize the behavior of the base class without breaking any of the contracts the base class itself makes (i.e. any unit test that works on a Greeter should work on a LazyGreeter) then I don't think anyone would be confused.

But in this case, OOP principles aren't being followed—the subclass is attempting to override stuff from the protocol, which the superclass didn't override. Essentially, the superclass made an assertion, by not overriding that method, that it wanted the default behavior from the protocol extension. The subclass, by overriding that behavior, is breaking the contract that the superclass declares.
The comment beside you says that a car has a useful lifespan of 200,000 miles, or 50¢ per mile for the tech. The internet suggests the average highway speed in the US is 70mph. That suggests that it will cost $35/hr. for the autonomy and probably that much again for the car itself.

At $70/hr., I expect people will still opt to own their own vehicle.
it's not great for mobile, which is by far the main use case these days. a huge battery drain unless something major has changed since the last time i checked in on it.
I know someone who got extra money out of an ATM once.

They kept it, which I’m not sure they would have done if it was a human teller, but it’s different when you’re dealing with a machine.
One of the benefits of early male pattern baldness. :)
Ask HN: What is the most unethical thing you've done as a programmer?
There was an article a while back about how cell service providers were selling extremely granular location data, and some of the programmers working on those systems immediately showed up on HN to comment on their moral dilemma. I suspect it's not an isolated case.
I switched to gitsavvy a few weeks back because it is more complete than sublimegit. I paid for sublimegit years ago and really love it.

But I wanted single line commits so gave gitsavvy a go. I had to redefine a couple of shortcuts (Ctrl-D from Discard to diff) but it’s been excellent. The only thing I can’t get working is gitlab integration.

It’s a worth a shot.