skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let me be more specific: they might be fined out of existence and/or executives do prison time if they don't comply. They'll also be told to lie to preserve both the collection method and their businesses' success. Read the Lavabit case records to see FBI doing that. So, they'd be forced to comply and lie to you about it in that scenario. In such a scenario, faking transparency reports would support the lie and/or do some good showing they're stopping other threats. It's not all or nothing despite forced backdoors.

So, you basically have to believe the US-based company you trust won't take 8-9 digit bribe, will accept bankruptcy, and/or has people who will do time for your privacy. I don't trust anybody running for-profit companies to do that except for maybe Levison. Even he might change after weighing damage he received vs probably no benefit of principled stand. Maybe he'll stay in the fight, too. Who knows. I do know Cloudfare has financial incentives to take massive investments and/or avoid massive losses. Might work against users at some point.

To be clear, Im a big fan of Cloudfare. They're awesome. There's just upper limit of trust since they're profit-motivated operating in a quasi-police state (ie a Dual State).
You also can give RSUs, which don't actually become owned by the recipient until the company is acquired or become public. No fancy IOUs required. This IOU is denominated in stock units instead of a cash price.
Maybe I misunderstood, but isn’t the tax reduction for charitable donations effectively allowing you to donate based on pre-tax revenues as opposed to post tax. If you really donate these assets/income, you are still left with less money than if you hadn’t done the donation. So the tax deductibility isn’t really in question. What it is question is donating an asset of which you still enjoy the usage. Right?
Bug Bounties for Penetration Testers
But if they violate their promise to Mozilla, won't they be liable?
And won't Mozilla have standing to sue?

What do you think damages would be if you violate a contract with Mozilla that puts millions of users at risk?
(I wouldn't want to test that)

And won't they get caught during audits? Or at least risk it.
https://ricochet.im/ - uses Tor hidden services for extra security.
On the flip side, the software tradition of As-Is licensing with no liability for anything going wrong is probably a major factor in the high dynamics and growth in the field of computers. I would agree with those that think technology improvements outside of computers has basically stalled and believe the lack of a safety-first philosophy in the computer field is largely the reason it has and continues to advance at a rapid rate.
The Curse of Work
Could a messenger like Telegram or Signal be created on top of AP? Could such implementation replace all the numerous messaging apps I currently have?
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In 1990 only around 3% of the US population had a passport[1]. These days it's up to 42% due to a combination of stricter ID requirements (particularly at the Canadian and Mexican borders) and an increase in popularity of international travel among Americans in general.

[1]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2018/01/11/the-sh...
Not me personally, but the company I started my career with (was an intern there for a few months).

ERM software. When a new client comes onboard, install the product and database, but make sure not to make any optimizations, not even the basic indexes in the DB. Depending on the usage, the DB will get slower and slower in a few months. Then send a "consultant" who will simply run a script and add indexes etc and test a bit (no more than an afternoon worth of effort) and charge a high fee for it.

We had a project once for conversion (not getting into details). My team found a tool online. Boss bought it, finished the entire project in one day. Boss bills for month (which was the original estimate), puts the team to work on another project for the next 29 days, gets paid for that too. The only decent thing in this story is that we didn't know before the quote, that such a tool was available. Some would say this is smart way to do business, it felt shitty for me though.
The Greatness of Ancient India's Developments
Beijing is planning world’s longest rail tunnel to link Taiwan to mainland
fetlife -- Like a kinky facebook, where everyone can ask really embarrassing questions and discover:

1) misconceptions

2) that there are others like them.

3) others have the same problem as well.

I have found good work-related question discussions like: "How can I say something nice to a woman without crossing any personal boundary lines." (A question that is hard to get a good answer from HR training); "How can I break up with someone I work with"

There is also the "Kinky And Geeky" group: (https://fetlife.com/groups/81) and the "Kinky & Geeky Convention Circuit" (https://fetlife.com/groups/121830) which are good for meeting up with others randomly.
if you arent 1234 yet then im going to have to make a phone call...
UBoat – HTTP Botnet Project
Absolutely! Nets are totally in the feature pipeline. Until then, check this out: https://www.korthalsaltes.com/
Are there more poor people in America percentage wise than there was 80 years ago? Are standards of living higher today than they were 40 years ago? The classist argument that the middle class is disappearing fails to address where those middle class people actually went. One less person in the middle class does not represent one person “losing” but just as much of a likelihood as that person winning.

Here is an alternate viewpoint on the “shrinking” middle class: http://www.aei.org/publication/yes-the-us-middle-class-is-sh...
Duckietown – A playful way to learn robotics
"All of these involves cloudflare violating terms of service they've made to Mozilla."

Terms of service don't overrule federal law or court orders. That's assuming they'll turn down money. RSA told customers they were buying crypto with no mention of backdoors. Yet, they put one in for about $30 million.

So, a company might willingly violate ToS for a pile of cash or unwillingly do it via legal coercion that comes with secrecy order. Leaks indicated most took the bribes. Many more bribes or coercions might have happened since. So, we should just assume its true with companies in surveillance states with other security practices designed with that assumption baked in.

Also, it might not even matter if one isnt doing anything over those connections that's illegal. The backdoor becomes something probable but irrelevant for those users. From there, Cloudfare protdcts them from relevant-to-them threats like DDOS or delays causing lost sales.
They are absolutely better at things they are experts on.

You don't hire a plumber to do a colonoscopy.
Yeah I felt like barfing when he said “Good ideas usually win out at Google, and we were convinced this was a good idea.” It’s like dude you’re using an anecdote about running into a VP on a shuttle ride and saying this? Google is such a magic non-political place.
Isn't that what cable was? Only this one you can buy for a month, binge, and cancel. It isn't all that bad.
How do you reconcile these ideas with the fact that most developed countries do have free universal healthcare and are doing fine?
Didn't do it, but I was asked to "pre-package" the results of a piece of test equipment. Basically, we didn't have a clue what we were doing, and we were in way over our heads on the project. The customer was coming in to do the final approval and we were nowhere near complete. The boss told me to make sure the test results matched the specification "no matter what".

I quit instead.
> Ciao dozzie, I have omitted "implementation" from the title because I thought that was obvious enough. It seems not.

Keep the proper terminology. If you omit words left and right, it becomes
incomprehensible garbage.

> If you want to know what it does, read the specifications

The whole point of README is to say what it does so I don't need to read
specification that will be useless to me.

> or at least the first sentences of the README :)

I read it. The wall of words you cited says nothing about what it does and
what purpose it serves.
SONGFIGHT![0]

This is a shameless plug for the venerable bi-weekly songwriting and recording competition known as SongFight!

The idea is, every couple of weeks over at the SongFight website they announce a new song title, from then you have roughly 10 days to write and record an original song with that title. After the deadline expires, the new songs are posted to the site and voting begins. Anyone on the Internet with a unique IP address can vote, and there are usually anywhere between 75 to 250 votes cast for a given fight. Also at that time the votes for the previous competition are posted and the winner(s) are announced. Winners enjoy the smug satisfaction of a job well done.

Everyone who participates enjoys the benefits of having a firm deadline, and a good reason to write and record a song, as well as a motivation for doing a good job.

Members of the SongFight community often review the songs submitted for the fight over on the forums[1], so it can also be a place to get detailed feedback and constructive criticism about your songwriting.

[0]: https://songfight.org

[1]: https://songfight.net/forums/viewforum.php?f=3
http://obsolescence.wixsite.com/obsolescence/pidp-8

http://obsolescence.wixsite.com/obsolescence/pidp-11
That's a big surprise, I thoguht it's about sending audio and video somehow.
> Kind of like reading the paperwork and after-mission reports of SHIELD.

A comparison to SHIELD would be misleading, I think, in that it would suggest an aesthetic/ideology of "heroism" behind the work that's not there. SCP paints a picture of a cynical and dystopian organization, with little concern for loss-of-life of its test subjects.

I would compare SCP more to the Half-Life universe's Black Mesa and Aperture Science research facilities. Or to the Cube movies. Or, I suppose, to The Syndicate from the X-Files (though in that case the comparison would be to the parts of the military doing security and ops under them.)
I tried it a few months ago and was unable to import pyhash.
Yeah but you don’t need to use all the features (I only use emails, contacts and calendar). Most of the defaults are reasonbable, you just need to harden the security a little bit.
can you give us the continent at least? ;)

i have a couple of guesses.
r/programminglanguages along with the associated IRC channel, #proglangdesign. I'm working on building a compiler, so I'm interested in learning more about newly built languages and related topics (e.g. type theory).
Lobste.rs

Hacker News with less Silicon Valley culture.
Me 2. I think that's the whole reason Patrick Stewart signed back up...to portray positive SciFi to counter the dark times.

I'm extremely excited at the possibility for a new "Measure of a Man", or "The Drumhead". These are episodes that have positively shaped the minds of many.
This replaces decentralised with centralised in the hope it would be a good idea if the choice is right. I'm sceptical, if nothing else because it would be easier to compromise or DoS one target than a lot of individual DNS providers.
Edit: This comment should have been attached to the parent comment. Sorry about that. I don't expect any internal changes at Wells Fargo, just commenting they are concerned about their image on this issue.

Wells Fargo is certainly worried about how the revelation of all of these anti-customer actions might hurt their bottom line. Thus its "Re-Established" brand campaign[1]. Most companies just change their name when they want to "Re-Establish". I'm not sure it is such a good idea to spend a lot of money telling people that you were a bad actor and now, trust us, things are different.

[1]https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180507005415/en/Wel...
20-30ft deep
> allowing them control of where they donate

They are also not required to disclose how the charitable dollars are spent.

You don't see the problem here? How do we, as taxpayers, know the money is even being spent for real charitable purposes?

See for example this story: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/06/14/new-york-attorne...
Well, see my other comments here. I might sound that way to people don't realize the real consequences of many of his activities if someone else did something similar.
there’s a weird card game in alpha right now where the cards are all made by the community and people vote on which cards get in using their subreddit. it’s the first thing i’ve seen using reddit not just as a social network, but a platform for balancing a game. i’m on the waiting list. https://reddit.com/r/collectivecg
I was wondering the same thing! Especially considering modern messengers all talk HTTP any way.

I think it should be possible. For example, federation in Plemora seems lightning fast on a local instance. (Mastodon is a bit heavier and slower it seems. Then again, I’m currently fighting interop issues with Plemora instances.)

So it seems it should be possible to build a decently responsive messenger with ActivityPub.
VTTEST – VT100/VT220/XTerm test utility
!pip install pyhash
import pyhash

... seems to work fine.
Show HN: A simple interactive maze creator and solver
I worked on a system like that but it was run by a charity so whilst unethical at least somebody wasn't profiting from it.
No, they were pretty clearly fascists, from what I've read.

A key issue here is how difficult it is to apply evidence from what actually happened to what might have happened. I mean, sure, the North Vietnamese did lots of horrible stuff, both during the war, and after they won. But the issue is that "the North Vietnamese" wasn't some static thing. There was selection, based on what went down. And for sure, some horrible stuff went down.

Who's to say what would have happened if Ho Chi Minh had become president of Vietnam in 1956.
Tesla has raised billions of capital from the public markets
JavaScript ML! Wow, I didn't know they'd expanded kernel support beyond Python. Thanks for mentioning!
Seems not especially maintained: "The latest version is 1.1.4 (November 5, 2016)."

May still be functioning well; did not try it.
In his blog post on that, he said pretty clearly that he doesn't want and should not have this power. https://blog.cloudflare.com/why-we-terminated-daily-stormer/

(Disclosure: I work for Cloudflare.)
Absolutely. The USSR was an imperialist State Capitalist regime.
If someone succeeds in making a workable screenplay then the Culture novels from the late Iain M Banks are perfect.
Movable type also existed before Gutenberg. China was using ceramic and wood based movable type in the 11th century, for instance.
Why is activitypub implemented over HTTP? Why not just TCP?
> Kudos to all of you true craftsmen out there who do take care and pride in the quality of your work.

This is a very fair point and certainly not all programmers strive for this.

At the same time, in companies where this type of software gets written, the responsibility for delivering a safe product does not rest on the shoulders of programmers alone. "Move fast and break things" is ridiculed by responsible programmers, but outright shunned by responsible team leaders, product managers and CTOs.

No matter how much you care about "craftsmanship", you'll never come up with a well-written program if it's part of an irresponsibly-ran program.

So yes, if software engineers were held to the same standard as civil engineers, people would go to jail. At the same time, it's worth remembering all the other standards of conduct that apply in heavily-regulated fields: companies can be barred from selling a certain product (or type of product) or forced to withdraw them from the market, licensed practitioners may have their licenses withdrawn and so on.
Samplerbox (python raspberry pi synth using wav files)
http://www.samplerbox.org/

A little known fact is that it is cross-platform, I manage to build a executable version with pyinstaller for windows.
Some day I'll take some time to release it with a minimalist gui (just to select the soundcard).
Right it still functions correctly.

There are more recent commits on master they just haven't release in a while.

I think they are waiting for the Tor team to provide an API for v3 hidden services before resuming work on the project.
Implemented APIs for clients that were based on scraping data from other competitor sites that did not give permission, it's some kind of service hi-jacking. Similarly, implemented some clone sites that just rip off other people's work #zuckerberging Some bug bounties ask pentesters not to hit their production servers hard with automated tools... I've ignored this to find some bugs in production servers on occasion.
Medium or media does not necessarily refer to an mp3 or a youtube video. See the original meaning of medium.
r/bikewrench
DNS over HTTPS might or might not be a great idea; but I'm critical whether centralised is better than the current decentralised approach. You're putting all your eggs in one basket, which might become an exceedingly interesting target.
i wouldn't sweat it, a lot of economic activity is just information arbitrage.
The 5% rule was created relatively recently to prevent infinite growth of charities... which has been an actual problem since the Golden Era of Robber Barons.
I really enjoy mechanical keyboards but the community around it makes it so tempting to keep spending more money on building different ones xD at least to me.
Don't confuse "public image management" with actual concern. They've been willfully misbehaving for decades, still do so today, and made a ton of money off it. Multiple generations of WF senior managers got nice bonuses from illegal / "mistaken" fees, "mistakes" in servicing mortgages, misleading their customers, etc.

Seems like these kind of "mistakes" are thoroughly ingrained into their corporate culture by now.

So they also threw some money into a campaign to improve their public image. Makes sense for them. They've also evidently continued their practice of making "mistakes" in their own favor.
I love Patrick Stewart in Trek but, for me, his finest piece of acting will always be the quadruple take masterclass:

https://youtu.be/XFMrBldVk0s
e.g. the spec also utilizes headers
1979 Computer Store Manager Predicts Future
Thanks for drawing attention to this!

It can be hard to learn how to move your communication beyond your group of friends and into the masses. This is made more acute by the fact that you can never quite tell when you're about to blow up until you already have. That might actually be a good topic for a blog article.
"... is an Arduino compatible, multi-master, multi-media network protocol. It proposes a Standard, it is designed as a framework and implements a totally software emulated network protocol stack that can be easily cross-compiled on many architectures like ATtiny, ATmega, ESP8266, ESP32, STM32, Teensy, Raspberry Pi, Linux. It is a valid tool to quickly and comprehensibly build a network of devices". If this is a wall of words that says nothing about what the project is for, we are not from the same universe. And also, I don't think an omitted word in a title that must be short will make all the project an incomprehensible garbage, considering the amount of time and effort has been invested in docs and specs.
Mastodon does try to be better. See: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2018/07/cage-the-mastodon/
Ya my old boss did this (the family foundation style). He was worth about $500M at the time I knew him. And ran his little "charity" that gave away 5% a year

Meanwhile all that money was managed by some hedge fund and was making 30% returns (this was '08, right before the Great Recession)

He owned the most expensive house in the Hamptons and had a private jet and complained about all the sycophants

We did get catered lunches by his personal chef every day at work, so I'm not complaining...
Basically the format of a scholarly article with summary, intro/background, evidence (+ methods), interpretation, authors conclusion. The videos under discussion here would be part of "evidence".

I need to be able to skip around to see if there is something there to pique my interest. Having to wait through the video to even find out what exactly this will be about is just too slow so I closed it.
I guess some of the Twitter outrage that goes to people who have used a wrong word should go to Wells Fargo.
I don't really care about "promises" and contracts made between faceless corporations. I have no reason to trust Cloudflare or modern Mozilla, neither have I a reason to believe Mozilla would litigate against a breach of contract publicly instead of settling privately and secretly to prevent public outrage.
Different people want different things.

There are plenty of folks who will read every book in endless genre series and complain when some favorite TV program gets canceled after 10 years.

Others like me are pretty much ready to move in from a series after 5 years or so no matter how good it is. I just lose interest.
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No matter how much financial backing Obama got, he was never going to convince people in the rural south to vote for “an America hating, secret Muslim, that was trying to bring Sharia Law to the United States” (please note sarcasm). As the last Presidential Election proved, not only was Trunp outspent by Clinton, he was also outspent by his Republican primary opponents. But he won anyway. The country is so idealogically divided, once the general election happens, really the only thing that matters is turnout and which side is angrier.
No dandruff.
His love of trek has been life long - he even made a fanfilm as a teenager! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sn_Sgcxg5PQ
Do you really need a branch anywhere in the country? My credit union has ATMs everywhere which is good enough for me. I go to a branch maybe once per year if at all.
> You still have no useful tools with which to make your life better.

Nonsense, you can now use mental health best practices to treat yourself or seek help from someone who can treat you. I say this because I’ve seen this precise scenario: someone told a family member they were narcissistic and to get help, and they did, and they’re largely a more pleasant person to be around now. It took years to effect this change, but I sincerely believe labels can help; even in self diagnosis.

That said, this type of self awareness is a modern phenomenon—David Foster Wallace captured the negative aspects of this quite well in some of his stuff (infinite jest and Men Who Stare At Goats come to mind). The answer for me was meditation and finding a better balance between stress and relaxation; I think true mindfulness (....not an app) could really help here.

And, of course, you need to want to change. This may be the hardest part of watching someone deal with monkeys on their back.
Immediately after the blurb is a section with key properties/selling points, which among other things explains the "multi-media" part. The wording of the description and readme isn't perfect (I suspect the author is not a native english speaker?), but it does contain the details necessary.
Of course it doesn't need to be audio nor video. It doesn't change the fact
that you used a term that has more than one meaning without providing any
context in which to interpret it. If somebody misreads it, then the problem is
with your prose, not with the reader.
I wonder what the percent of that unethical charity's income was spent on its stated mission? Many charities are just fronts for marketing companies with super high salaries and almost none of the money goes to what the donors would expect.
how complicated are snails to simulate? could you share a bit more?
Let's start with BEAST.

That's an interesting one to pick. It could not be fixed by negotiation and configuration at all, in the end. The entire protocol version had to be thrown away.
Specially since is so easy to make it unique enough, like calling it toxx or toxprotocol.