skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it uses approximately 5% of the battery per day

OpenVPN uses about 20% of mine, so I guess it really is a step forward.

Also, for your DNS lying file, you might be interested in: https://gitlab.com/moviuro/moviuro.bin/blob/master/lie-to-me (which sources multiple domain lists)
they use a lot of php, look at the requests on the site, also phabricator is in php and they use it a lot.
Agreed, I for one appreciated the writing style that had a very delightful story to tell yet didn't wax on and on.
My three steps to learn CSS Grid
> You're correct of course, but I don't really see how this isn't a vacuous observation. Yes clearly our perceptions are at odds, but that has nothing to do with the reality of whether or not they need to be doing that tracking. Obviously they think they need to, or they wouldn't do it. But I think I've laid out a pretty strong argument that they actually don't need to, which leads me to believe that they actually haven't considered it seriously enough to give it a shot.

It most definitely is. But so is the word need, in this context. How would we define what they need to do, and what they don't need to do?

My argument is simply such that, of course they don't need to (by my definition), but nothing will change that unless they see a different, more lucrative offer. Ie, "oh hey, here's 2 million readers who will only read the page in plain html and will pay an extra $20/m". It just seems like a needless argument, as I don't believe there's anything that can change their behavior without us changing ours. Without the market changing.

Rather, I think the solution lies not in them, but in you. In us. To use blockers and filters to such an extreme degree that it's made clear that UX wins here, and they need to provide the UX to retain the customers.

Thus far, we've not done enough to change their "need". If a day comes that they do need to stop tracking us, well, they'll either live or die. But the problem, and solution, lies in us. My 2c.
>We have a solution - reduce carbon/methane emissions. Why bet the bank on a technology that hasn't been invented yet?

Unfortunately we haven't invented the technology to implement your broad brush "solution" either.

In fact, I'm skeptical about the claim Climate Change could have been solved generations ago, given that we still haven't developed the means to do it yet.

Edit: okay, perhaps nuclear could provide us with the masses of power generation we need, but that's been ruled out.
US emissions of CO2 have fallen much faster than Europe's. Europe likes to talk a lot but not to compromise. So while they could be fracking and displacing dirty energy sources, they instead use oil and coal where the US uses natural gas.
That is common with taxis for some reason - probably transaction fees, processing lag time or tax evasion. I know some cities had to pass "broken" card readers are free laws to discourage taxis that claimed to accept cards but really don't.
Fair point, although it’s hard to see what value the smart contract is really adding in this case. The record keeping (what everyone decided) is better I guess. I’m not sure that there’s any (boilerplate) part of a standard employee agreement that could be evaluated on-chain.

Somewhat tangential objection, but AFAIK, the only “action” a smart contract can take is, effectively, to disburse funds.

It can’t force anyone to do anything, although it can pay people to do stuff if you fund it enough. You probably need more oracles and/or subcontracts to make sure they really do it though.

Anyway, doesn’t this mean we need to lock up enough funds to cover all eventualities ahead of time, for all contingencies of the contract? It seems like that could be millions of dollars. What if I lose my arm in a bandsaw and the company was directly responsible?
It's not exactly about refreshing 60 times per second, but actually, not hanging the main thread for more than 16ms at a time. That means it _could_ do 60fps if the user performs actions fast enough, not that it will actually update 60 times per second while idle.
You might want to look at Matias — http://matias.ca — they’re pretty Mac focused.

I had their Laptop Pro keyboard for a bit, but found the Bluetooth a bit shaky. Turned me off to Bluetooth keyboards. BUT, the keyboard felt great.

(I ended up moving to an ES-87 with Cherry Browns, and then a HHKB, but that’s not a normal progression.)
Australia Zoo Breached
To bring in another PayPal toe-in... Peter Thiel made some waves when he said the whole point of being a business is to create a "monopoly." His definition of "monopoly" is more similar to Buffet's "moat" than the legal definition of "monopoly."

There's something very valuable in those guys' intentionally provocative choice of words.
According to the website they do it every first and third Friday: http://www.computerhistory.org/hours/
Scraping and Parsing Sitemaps in Bash
Show HN: DuckRails – Application for mocking API endpoints
Small reminder that companies must submit all source code for review if they do business in China
> On the other hand, even on the blockchain it's not hard to make a contract amendable with unanimous consent.

This. Both proponents and critics of blockchain often seem to forget that it's just technology. Entities trading on it and performing other actions are still subjects to applicable laws, whether they like it or not.
> Thank OVPN for that annoyance!

Certainly, you reported that issue through proper channels, and attached detailled information regarding your hardware, software, as well as packet logs?
Schlep Blindness (2012)
You can install pretty easy the F-Droid repository / store and download DNS66 from there. ( FOSS Ad-Blocking via DNS ).
1. It is because we/I expect better from Google. Google has such a huge responsibility, being the gateway to the world's information, and we trust them with that position. For-profit and deliberate blocking access to information erodes that trust. I would not care about other companies doing this, but seeing I care about Google doing this shows me that Google has a great PR/goodwill they've build up over the years. With this move I am left wondering if that is deserved, or if it was merely manipulating me for fanboy profit.

2. I think that is because they love working there, they hold their employer to a very high standard, and they don't want to take a pay cut to work for another (perhaps US-only) company with morals more aligned to theirs.

Doing (or even thinking about) ethical business, puts you at a disadvantage over those that care more about profit and increasing their power. Losing prospective profits by doing the right thing is not a popular choice for a commercial business, so the incentives are there to just sell out your soul and go along with censorship (or spying on your users). For Facebook, this went on for years, until they found themselves in a mess. This mess was the result of 1000s of decisions made by all employees (not just upper management). I commend Google's employees for standing up for their beliefs and vision for the company. Only in a very Ayn Rand world is this sabotage. I am sure the big chief in charge of foreign markets views it as sabotage, but luckily Google is not run by only Eric Schmidt's.
Do you have any sources on that? "Falling much faster" by itself doesn't say much when EU might already be emitting ten times less than the US, for all I know.
Maybe I'm just a robot, but by and large I don't believe that log or commit messages require emotional context. (I do use emoji for some messaging, Slack specifically.)
We don't need to fear the future of work automation
You can definitely see that in Russian politics. It’s very “enemy” oriented. Everyday we see on national tv that west countries are bad and against us. That we have our own path and so on and so on. And it’s very frustrating that it works because it's the only news sourse for many people. It’s psychological thing that a common enemy brings people together. Really hope it will change. We even have this idiom — my enemy’s enemy is my friend.
If you're looking for cashback cards, you may want to look around again on Money Saving Expert. They are definitely available and without a fee. They aren't huge percentages, but if you're only other choice is an airline card and you don't travel enough to make use of the miles, may as well get the cash.

Heck, when MBNA recently lost all it's airline business, the card they switched you to is actually quite decent. A bit of cashback and free Mastercard rate foreign transactions.
So you're still using the original CCFL XGA screen? Yuck.
Cool! But I'm not sure I can buy into it will all my heart unless I know filters against "hate speech, harassment and other attacks on social networks" won't have a high false-positive rate motivated by idea that it's worth trading away opinions at the tail by non-agreeables, for the upside of civil obedience and consensus.
When we were children, my aunt used to take us to a trout farm to get dinner.

The farm owner taught us to tickle and the trout we took home were always caught that way by us.

It was a lot easier than tickling in a trout stream, they were in ponds, but fun for pre-teen children nonetheless.
Why bet the bank on us humans collectively being able to reduce all our emissions? There are problems will all approaches, a quick Google search pokes some holes in why planting trees is not a good idea: https://earthscience.stackexchange.com/questions/2639/how-ma...

So the billion dollar reward would be quite small sum in the grand scheme of things. And for example with a carbon tax, where collectors could offset emitters, it might also become a quite lucrative business.
Ride with someone more scared.

In the 1980s I was on a regional flight that had to come back around and land after a cracked engine manifold caused a small fire that burned a grapefruit-sized hole in the cowling. It was a wide circle and a smooth landing, but I didn't care for it. After that, I really didn't want to get on anything smaller than a 737.

Some time later I found myself on another puddle jumper. The fellow across the aisle was another nervous flier, it seemed. He was deeply unhappy to realize that the woman collecting tickets at the steps was the co-pilot, so that there was an all-female cockpit. That and the mild turbulence kept him unhappy for the duration of the flight. My amusement killed my nervousness, which has not returned.
I'm not a physicist, but isn't the second law of thermodynamics puts a limit on what we can do with the excess energy, most of which are being absorbed by the oceans.

Besides most of the damage is already done.

EPA: It’s as if you’re sitting in your car, in your garage, with the engine running and the door closed, and you’ve slipped into unconsciousness. And that’s it.

McAvoy: What if someone comes and opens the door?

EPA: You’re already dead.

McAvoy: What if the person got there in time?

EPA: Then you’d be saved.

McAvoy: OK. So now what’s the CO2 equivalent of the getting there on time?

EPA: Shutting off the car 20 years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CXRaTnKDXA
Physics/Chemistry: Solid carbon (e.g coal) is more energy-dense than CO2 (per molecular weight unit). This is why you can gain energy from burning coal. To go the other way round you need to add this energy back in to break the very stable double-bonds in the CO2 molecule. This energy is what makes it expensive and there is no way around (except finding a really cheap energy source, but then you probably wouldn't burn coal in the first place)
Baidu doesn’t use page rank like google does, it also has a bunch of ads that look like search results
If you reach a certain scale you effectively are a political power, whether you want it or not.

What you do and under which circumstances you offer your business is a political statement, whether you want it or not.

There's no way out. You will be held responsible for what you do and what you don't do.
There is a cost-effective way: Planting trees, cutting them down and turning the wood to charcoal. You'd need huge areas dedicated to such forests. You'd also need to "unburn" most of the coal and oil we burned so far. That's a mind-boggling amount of matter we're talking about here.

But who would pay for that? If there were the political will we would long have passed a simple carbon tax that, after some adjustment period, would be tied to the price of unburning a ton of CO2.
On my Kinesis Advantage I type =+m to change to mac keybindings.
It seems that someone asks about ZeroTier on every thread about WireGuard. According to tptacek:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13601928

ZeroTier is cryptographically inferior to Wireguard, but also isn't really a VPN: it has centralized configuration and rendezvous. If you're running VPNs to get the US Netflix from your UK vacation, this is probably fine. If your VPN is how remote employees access your prod network, it is way less fine.

I think it's a bit unfair to judge ZeroTier in comparison to VPNs, because that's not strictly speaking what it's trying to be. I like overlay networks!

And here's some info from the ZeroTier developer:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11996687

You can think of ZeroTier as a virtual smart switch built on a P2P network

...

WireGuard does have some things in common with ZeroTier, such as the use of cryptography to identify endpoints and eliminate the hard-coding of endpoint addresses. ... I really like the WireGuard design in general and I think it has a somewhat different use case from ZeroTier, namely fast long-lived provisioned links across WANs and insecure LANs. You could use ZT for that but this being in-kernel makes it likely faster.
The only capitalists who hate people having property are the ones who are too lazy to earn their own.
This is a common misconception. (The Copenhagen interpretation of) QM is a local theory, in the sense that there's no faster-than-light travel of information.

Otherwise you'd have to take into account what's happening at the other end of the universe in order to successfully predict the outcome of experiments. (Which I hear is what the people working on Bohmian mechanics struggle with.)
Due to regulations I think it is difficult to find any fintech which a small bootstrapped startup in the traditional sense. Some bank tie-in is needed. And by that I might be overloading the startup moniker.

My point was that they're still tiny compared to the giants such as AmEx or Visa. And it shows that the old players can be unseated faster than expected.
That's Foxnews-like nonsense.
Here's some facts. A nice visualization of per-capita EU-US Co2 emissions over the last 20 years:
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EN.ATM.CO2E.PC?location...
The US has over double the per-capita emissions of the EU. The EU has a larger economy, by GDP. The US can do a lot more - particularly leadership.
I think is just key-value pairs stored in JSON, keys are ids and values object with this properties: https://github.com/klauscfhq/taskbook/blob/master/lib/item.j...
Pretty minimal
Wait really?!? I'd love to see a link to that, so China has more knowledge about how the services that control everyone's digital lives function then we do in America. While I see the totalitarian effect that can have the lack of knowledge and trust in these brands is slowly turning me away especially since alternatives exist.
How my comment is different from this one - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17650823 for example?

>Your comment is also borderline rude, as it implies that anyone using JavaScript are unfortunate

No, it does not, that's just your interpretation. I never used word 'fortunate' or anything similar. I'm happy not to work with it as in "I'm happy not to use public transport today, because I like walking". Surely this can't be rude to anyone except those people who see everything as way to offence them somehow. Inferiority complex maybe? No idea.

> I mean, what did you really want to achieve by posting that comment?

Just wanted to express myself. As it turns out that's a wrong thing to do unless you have some sort of clear goal in mind. Noted.
> 1) libraries, so anyone can make a program off them. 2) command line tools, which use the libraries to achieve specific goals. 3) GUI tools, which use the libraries or tools to show a nice graphical representation to the user.

I often wonder if this entire notion of a 'program' is not useful. What people really want, I think, are components. Give people components and they can wrap CLIs around them if they want. Give people components and they can drop them into GUI workspaces if they want. Microsoft COM may be pure unmitigated evil... but the vision, the dream, was on the right track. This thing that happens today where developers throw big, monolithic programs at users doesn't really make anybody happy.
Who is into low tech and (near) zero waste ?

How much would you be happy to lose in today's practices ? (I'm curious about what people need/want)
The cookies are also used to distinguish visitors. I'd recommend using private browsing or a GA blocker plugin if you're not comfortable with that.
I wish I could use Atom but I work with very large files at time and it is very slow at some tasks (like selecting all selections of text and editing them all at once), forcing me to use Sublime Text.

Can some kind user tell me if this latest version performs better now?
Whoever posted that, thank you. It’s sort of devastating to read the oil industry engaged in psy-ops over such an important issue. I was saddened to read about the success of Duane Levine’s misinformation strategy and the effect it had. I’m not a pessimist, I believe the future remains to be written. No-one knows the future and therefore we must look at different scenarios and then choose indicators to assess which scenario we are in. Right now the scenario we are in is “someone invent something to suck the carbon out”, because already without the carbon vacuum, we have locked in quite a high level of climate change.

What astounds me is Peter von Thiel, cynical enough to recognize the likelihood of climate chaos sufficiently to have bought his out in New Zealand, yet also to back Trump. I can only conclude he may be a sociopath.
That is correct no country in the world has reduced CO2 emissions like the US did in the past decade, thanks to Shale revolution. Pennsylvania is the world's #3 producer of NG. I mean one state in US.

Even if some people grudge this fact, the Grid is not ready for variable generation that Wind and Solar does, they do buy some time for Grid to become smarter (Grid of MicroGrids) where it can digest Solar and Wind, especially now that viable storage like batteries and fuel cells are coming off age.
What about vegetal roofs ? not strong enough ? because there's a huge surface area to tap into.
> His definition of "monopoly" is more similar to Buffet's "moat" than the legal definition of "monopoly."

There isn't really a difference: the whole point of a Buffet “moat” or a Thiel “monopoly” is avoiding commoditization and competition, which naturally tends to drive sale price down to marginal cost eliminating profits. That is, they are about retaining pricing power.

Pricing power is also the key test for the existence of legal monopoly, since the existence of pricing power indicates that there are no actual substitutes in practice, even if there appear to be alternative products in the same descriptive market.
> I do not want a world where a few major US tech companies become political powers.

They already are political powers because they are major companies. Tech and US doesn't really matter here. Google is among the biggest companies of the world. (Alphabet is currently 3rd on whatever 2018 list I just found.)

When a company this big moves results in a lot of currents shifting, and that means economies can change. And that's very much political. (Especially when it means cross-border business, and imported/exported competition and so on.)
Everyone would immediately stop taking all Visas.

They charge what they can get away with, and generally they can, or rather could, get away with the higher rates. A couple of percentage points was worth it if it made the sale, especially if there was a high likelihood that your customer only had that one method of payment. Now almost everyone has multiple cards, and many retailers are pushed to much lower margins, so we see the results that we see.
The thing that prevents this from materialising is that it requires energy. For the most part, we get energy from.. converting solid carbon to CO2. Unfortunately, due to 2nd law of thermodynamics, this conversion always incurs a loss of energy in the form of heat.

We can also get energy from other sources, such as solar radiation, but I think you get the gist - the most cost-effective way to carbon capture is not to release the carbon in the first place.
New Hampshire is one of the ones that bills, yes. Over 70K in bills over the last 10 years. They aren't the only state that does it. I'm glad you are in CA where it is free, but that is not universal. It has been a hot topic of discussion for years, but there is no universal answer, and people have been billed. Yes, the culture is that people want to help, and that it should be free, but the entire reason that some state laws allow billing, as well as the reason for insurance plans to exist, is because there is a cost which needs to be paid.

Your original comment was not obvious in its intent to say that SAR folks are cool. It sounded like a superficial recommendation to go out and be safe, and to call SAR early and often because they are a free and 100% reliable safety net. You clearly know enough to know that isn't true.
> Hack is quite different in various non-trivial ways

[citation needed]. In what non-trivial ways is Hack different to PHP?

Of the three distinguishing features highlighted on https://hacklang.org/, PHP has two (the exception is generics, which I don't think PHP has added... yet).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_Rain

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Aurora

https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-approach-to-chin...

Google enlisted the help of the NSA after their internal code repository was hacked. (And before the NSA hacked Google for surveillance purposes).

> [...] we detected a highly sophisticated and targeted attack on our corporate infrastructure originating from China that resulted in the theft of intellectual property from Google.

> These attacks and the surveillance they have uncovered--combined with the attempts over the past year to further limit free speech on the web--have led us to conclude that we should review the feasibility of our business operations in China. We have decided we are no longer willing to continue censoring our results on Google.cn, and so over the next few weeks we will be discussing with the Chinese government the basis on which we could operate an unfiltered search engine within the law, if at all. We recognize that this may well mean having to shut down Google.cn, and potentially our offices in China.

https://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/19/technology/19china.html

> Lanxiang, in east China’s Shandong Province, is a huge vocational school that was established with military support and trains some computer scientists for the military. The school’s computer network is operated by a company with close ties to Baidu, the dominant search engine in China and a competitor of Google.

> “I think it’s impossible for our students to hack Google or other U.S. companies because they are just high school graduates and not at an advanced level. [...]
Thank you for this comment. This is one of the things I like on HN, people think profoundly.
The Vortex Race 3 comes with extra Mac keycaps and a keyboard shortcut to switch between Mac and pc layout. I really like mine.