skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can have privacy and security, you just have no guarantee of one just because you have the other.

Cookie tracking is like wearing only a towel at the beach. Under the towel, you have privacy. But browsers suck at security, and so many websites can still walk up and yank off your towel, exposing you.

Security would be locking the towel to your body with a padlock. I'm not aware of browsers implementing strong security mechanisms for user data, so I'm pretty sure any privacy gains you get are just another towel.
That's fucking scary. Never heard that story, will be looking into it.

Process for any whistleblowers:

- Don't go to your boss

- Don't go to the authorities

- Don't go to anyone who may be remotely suspected of having any involvement or benefit from the activities

- Research how to protect your identity online (this is a bit recursive, as researching how to protect your identity online may set off flags if you are suspected as the whistleblower)

- Burner phone

- Burner laptop

- Burner email address(es)

- Tor

- public wifi (know where the cameras are in the area and make sure you're unrecognisable on them, stake it out in winter when it's more acceptable to have your face covered with a scarf or something)

- Contact a respected journalist that's NOT in your local area

- Try to make sure the journalist has the facility to allow documents to be transferred by a SecureDrop system or similar

Australia's federal political-class appear to be deep in the pockets of mining companies given the extent of the resistance to renewable energy. I'd almost consider it naive to go to a politician about any kind of mining-related corruption in Australia.

Edit: Just noticed CPAHem's post saying it was QFTAC that got Fiona Wilson 'committed'. The Q stands for Queensland. To give you an idea of how protective the Queensland political class is of the mining and energy status quo, they're trying to get a NEW Coal Power Plant built in Queensland, and they have enough power behind them that the Federal Government is not flat-out saying no. There are no banks, Australian or otherwise, willing to fund the building of a new coal power plant because it's so far from financial viability that even existing coal power plants are shutting down because they can't compete on power prices.
I think I like my tomu.im gadget better.

Just sayin'.
Reading through that, is this kind of thing really popular in startup culture? I have only worked at medium-large companies, and this sort of thing would have been completely nutso.

> PayPal was a place where the younger engineers could and would sometimes wrestle with each other on the floor to solve disputes! If you didn’t get the odd mix of nerdiness + alpha maleness, you just stuck out.
Read the first sentence in the article. It brings it up.
I handle it by saving all the articles into pocket then never actually reading them. One Day.
What are BA's and Ae's?
What clearances would those be? I had a TS/SCI and didn't have Precheck.
Also check out http://levels.fyi for some software salaries
Nexus is even better: $50 gets you all 3 programs for 5 years.
IIRC, specifically because wealthy people are much more likely to kick up a scandal when mistreated, because they've learned to expect better. This lets them weed out most of the complainers without actually having to improve their policies.
The article was about VC funding for startups. Has comp at startups improved that much recently? Not to my knowledge.
Trivial to implement if you use git for deployment.

git reset --hard HEAD^

Then redo build/post-receive hooks.
Red flag for a database: a table with 1 million rows is considered large.
Don't forget. He also had time to browse HN...
I'm sorry to hear you've been banned from so many places. I would be interested in your story. Do you want to make a post about it?
> Women, of course, have clearly played a major role in their own successes in the field. But that is only half the story: They were also helped by early feminist men like Daniel Lehrman.

A few years ago, I started at company that had a tech department of 15, all male. I made the case to the department that it was in the interest of the company to have a diverse tech team, and my colleagues and management responded. Three years later, the department was 5 women and 11 men.

People who care can make a difference.
By that logic every company is already a monopoly in its own labor and a union is just a second monopoly with equivalent bargaining power as a counter balance.
Are Cities Making Animals Smarter?
>One of my India friend has applied for a B1/B2 visa for multiple times and did not get approved, even though he had already traveled to quite a lot countries.

Even though? Or precisely because of this? Which countries those were might have mattered...
" … police discovered two Apple laptops in the teen’s home with serial numbers matching the devices that had accessed Apple’s network"

I wonder what that means? _Probably_ just sloppy reporting or police-work, but I wonder if there's some mechanism by which your Apple devices reveal their serial numbers to Apple while "illegally accessing a network"? Perhaps software update ran while he was skript-kiddie-ing them?
PiCat seamlessly integrates with solvers. MiniZinc does need a solver capable of processing it, but it's fairly easy to do so. I just thought this kind of problem was a bit easier to describe more generally in a constraint form than SAT (which takes a bit of effort).
Unfortunately global entry sucks for Indian citizens - if you reside in the US you have to go back to India to complete the process. I finished all of the steps in December 2017 and have yet to get India to submit the paperwork to the authorities...not sure they ever will.

To top it off, none of the fees are refundable, even though the processing in the United States has not even started.
Not sure if that's what they're referring to, but it used to be that a DoD ID/CAC card number worked as a TSA precheck number.
> FB & Google track and use all sorts of customer data for their own commercial reasons. If it is a privacy violation for the Chinese/US government to see/use this data, why is it OK for Google & FB to use this data?

Because Google & FB can't lock you up for saying something about Tibet, for example?
That doesn't mean it's not a side-topic that's been copiously discusses elsewhere, and not the main topic of the submission. Less than half of the comments here are about the core topic that's new-ish to HN, since you and another user successfully derailed it.
Very serious? Millions of people in the US have one with no serious effects on them whatsoever (I'm talking of DIU and being caught, not hitting someone on it). E.g.:

"The penalties for drunk driving vary among states and jurisdictions. It is not uncommon for the penalties to be different from county to county within any given state depending on the practices of the individual jurisdiction. Some jurisdictions require jail time and larger fines, even on a first offense. For instance, Ohio requires a mandatory 72-hour jail sentence for a first offense conviction; however, the jail time component is satisfied by attendance of the Ohio A.W.A.R.E. Program, which is a 72-hour alcohol-education program. Compared to many other countries, such as Sweden, penalties for drunk driving in the United States are considered less severe unless alcohol is involved in an incident causing injury or death of another, such DUI, DWI or OWI with Great Bodily Injury (GBI) or Vehicular Manslaughter."

"Wisconsin regards first offense drunk driving as a municipal offense, and New Jersey treats all drunk driving cases without serious injury or death as traffic violations."
"tuh-ple"

But TIL that "too-ple" is more common [98 pts vs 43 pts], apparently.

-ss
Unless your ESTA gets declined for any numebr of reasons. Then you need to get a visa.
Same here - it's very cute when someone does this on their own for fun but don't know what to make of it when Github (owned by Microsoft) promoting an AWS service and button.
The Arch wiki has been extremely helpful to me aswell.
You created a throwaway to troll me about my misspelling. Bravo Bravo... Tool...

Instead of fostering a constructive discussion... you do this. And you get upvoted. HN isn't what it used to be...
If you can afford formal verification and application programmers also fluent in hardware level coding, you can probably afford more RAM.

I'd want to see a solid paper comparing the security of the approach you mention to a microkernel+app. Until then we have this.

But agreed, there are other ways, of varying practicality, to achieving security.
From the article, it seemed like the “tech” is just text messages triggered based on flight paths of aircraft. How does that translate to killing more people?
I love info pieces like this - journalists who really put themselves in a lot of potential danger to get the story. This was a fascinating and insightful look into how music is leveraged as a tool on the south side
There's good skepticism in this thread, but at the end of the day, I think there's reason to be optimistic about better batteries.

* So many different technologies are showing some promise, and only one needs to be commercialized for a breakthrough. Put another way, this is an engineering an manufacturing issue, not a physics problem.

* The battery market is getting bigger and bigger, with ever more money at stake.

* Some real big investments into various battery startups and R&D programs have been made, at least several hundred million from various automakers. Either they're taking desperate risks, or else they see real progress on solid-state lithium batteries.

So often with technology, you don't see much progress until it arrives, and then things seem to change overnight.
Being mostly self taught I had a few of these. First couple of months working with other developers one would come up every week or so. Luckily not very embarrassing. The new juniors have a few too!
> You're arguing that only the Damores of the world can express themselves...

> Which boils down to you arguing that no one else should have free speech.

> So you're admitting you're not in favor of freedom of speech.

All you've done in this conversation is attempt to put words in my mouth while at the same time saying I'm the one not speaking in good faith. I see no benefit to continuing this discussion.

I've presented my reasoning, analogies, and historical precedents to the best of my humble abilities. Let the readers decide.
"For the study, under 40 percent of energy intake from carbohydrates qualifies as a low-carb regimen..."

Well, that's pretty meaningless...

"Seidelmann and colleagues poured over the medical histories of nearly 15,500 men and women who were 45-64 when they enrolled -- between 1987 and 1889..."

Yeah, I call bullshit on the whole thing.
Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness
are they actively enforcing the 'turn over your social media accounts' thing right now?
I have multi friends and family who came to visit me in the states recently and nobody mentioned that.

As a Brit, I don't think you will encounter any difficulty entering United States.
Then OSes/DBs/Platforms/Frameworks feel like second order functions
~25,000 of the most starred Github repos have Gource vids on YouTube.

Search "YOUR_REPO_URL gource" or "Evolution of YOUR_PROJECT_NAME gource"

Full command found in recent vid descriptions.

---

Back in the day when YouTube didn't set reasonable user upload limits...
I have nieces and nephews that can prove the fireproof claim invalid.
Or maybe a database.
For some reason, I always felt that tuple meant two things, but it's really n-things.
Yes! Nexus is the magical trusted traveler program that few people know about because all the enrollment centers are only found at Canadians airports and land crossings near the Canadian border. Only U.S./Canadian citizens + permanent residents qualify however.

It is so much better than Global Entry and TSA Precheck in that you get both of those AND Nexus (which even works like Precheck for domestic Canadian flights!) for $10/year.
At the end of the day, Google is still an American company. When Google engineers implement censorship on the behest of the Chinese government in their offices in California, they will be judged by the society here, and it will be done by the standards that are applicable here, not in China.
And if you don't who are you trusting to input the data into the blockchain? I mean, really.
If losing all the user table with it's "password" column is requiring you to "ask all our users to change their passwords", you're probably doing it wrong - and switching to some less well tested auth mechanism without the expertise to get that right either is probably just trading vulnerabilities...

(If you're just requiring password changes out of an abundance of caution even though you're properly using bcrypt/scrypt/pbkdf2 - then my comment above is less relevant.)
> Putnam and Murray suppose that the social institutions and conventions of 1910-1940 were a platonic ideal and therefore ignore the myriad of new ways that people socialize and engage in their communities.

Are the new ways the same though? Not all social experiences are equal.

I'd say bowling offers a much richer social experience than getting coffee or going to a hacker space. There is direct competition, there is teamwork, commitment and the comradery that comes with it, there are winner and losers, good days and bad days, etc. With bowling or church you will also be interacting with a much wider range of the community, it's a much less self selecting group.
I think about this sort of thing every time I get on a greyhound.

I only ever need to go to Chicago and Boston from NYC, so I guess I'm lucky. The TSA is despicable.

I've been random searched on a few greyhound rides but nobody has ever put their hand on me. They just go through a bag or put it through a machine or the dog will sniff it or whatever. I'm a happy greyhounder tbh.
Create a pro brand with your real name.

Create a fun brand that has no association with your real name for your fun projects.

Always use privacy with all your domains.

Have fun.
I've been running doh-client from https://github.com/m13253/dns-over-https on my EdgeMax router, listening on localhost with dnsmasq listening on its LAN interface and configured to use doh-client. I have doh-client pointed at Google's name service. It's worked quite well since I set it up a few months back.

Cloudflare's lack of EDNS0 Client Subnet makes it a non-starter for me. In my past experience that totally breaks AppleTV streaming from Akamai.
>All Communists are Totalitarian, not all Totalitarians are Communists.

Actually not "all communists are totalitarian" either.
We have to apply the same Western liberal standard to companies that are registered and headquartered in a Western liberal country, and especially to the kind of stuff that they produce in such a country.

They're welcome to spin off a Chinese branch to implement all this - with the engineers doing censorship filters and executives signing off on them subject to that censorship themselves. As it is, they want to reject the "liberal standard" while earning that money, but not when they are spending it.
I find a lot of 'productivity' hacks kinda clumsy, but that's actually really clever. I love the idea of nagging/guilting you into making better choices, rather than having hard limits on your time, etc. And if you already keep a to-do list, it's entirely automatic.
Apply for YC China Job
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Twenty years ago I became one of first 1000 employees of CITIC Secutities Co,which is now No.1 investment bank in China.Five years ago,I visited one venture incubator in Israel ,impressed by its accomplishment.Now I hope I have the luck to become first 10 employees in YC China.When I read the news, I know that is what I want.
I can send my resume if needed,and quick profile can be found in Chinese version of LinkedIn.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/健-宋-076b793b/
Thanks a lot.
*FAANG
Not German myself, but I have German friends who have successfully obtained German approval to proceed with applying for Australian citizenship (German by birth and descent, Australian by conferral/naturalisation after years of permanent residency). I'm not aware of the specifics of the process, other than that it took many many months of paperwork.
I'm bookmarking this right now!
Kinda worthless rant, but I'm tired of reconsidering configuration file markup language every couple of years, and please remind me: why TOML isn't perfect?
People who care about, what, exactly? People who care about diversity of their technical team along arbitrary immutable characteristics which have no bearing whatsoever on the technical work are...capable of increasing their technical team's diversity along arbitrary immutable characteristics which have no bearing whatsoever on the technical work. I think that is to be expected, it's not exactly surprising.

Unless you felt as though you were specifically choosing your initial 15 employees because they were men, however, I fail to see where you had a problem to begin with.

I'm sorry for even participating in the beating of this dead horse, but this might just be an argument destined to endure indefinitely.
Or maybe we should just conclude that if a company is in such a position where its private rules have such a strong and broad effect, that is prima facie evidence of it being a monopoly that is distorting the market, and break it up.
This assumes B1/B2 visitor visa is easy to get. I am a passport holder from a third world country. Currently, living in US. My wife got pregnant, and my parents wanted to be there when the baby was born. They were rejected for B1/B2 visa.

My father is retired, and we are not super rich so I assume the visa officer thought they will not return once they are here. On the other hand, parents of my friends who are from the same country, and retired but kind
of super rich are coming in all the time just to have fun. Anyway, fortunately, my parents have no desire to live in US, and are living happily in their third world country.
Once you cross the border, the country is awesome.

The (international) airports are something out of a dystopian novel. And the experience can vary wildly. I got the coolest agent ever at Atlanta – even after my fingerprints didn't match (consulate screw up), but that did cause me to miss my connecting flight.

On another trip, the guy in NYC was apparently pissed at his job and was very rude. But all my paperwork was in order.

Then you have a connecting flight, and you have to go through security again (but not border control), because the security areas are either not big enough or not properly planned.

I have not had to give up social media passwords. Is that a new thing?
Where did this one claim to not be based on Chromium? Homegrown can just mean "the UI and core behavior parts" not not using any third party libs (including rendering) at all.
Quite so. A less intentionally disingenuous word for the computing context would be "hidden".
The problem with pre-check and things like it is that it exempts those who would otherwise complain the loudest and have the political clout to get the system changed ie: politicians, frequent business travelers etc...
Don't talk down on your man unless you're helping him up.
That seems like a strange standard, considering the airports in question are likely to be so large that one wouldn't be stuck with those colleagues any more than with any number of random travelers, which could vary minute to minute.
This is why the best time to join a startup is increasingly at the post $1B mark. Significantly derisked with product and economics proven, solid comp, crazy upside.

The unicorn is a silly designation, but it also isn’t. There are exceptions of course as it is not zero risk.
Well, it wasn't in China where the ideas that "software patents are evil" and "copyrighted software is wrong" spurted a whole movement...
Well, with the way we hope to do it we'll leave it to your package manager to establish trust in most cases. So if you install a screenshot tool from your package manager, it'll be installed with all of the necessary permissions set up, and you'll never be prompted. It's important to us that users are able to use tools and workflows that they're comfortable with on X in a secure manner on Wayland.
If you already believe TOML is perfect, why do you reconsider configuration file markup languages every couple of years?
Extremely interesting take, with a lot of good stuff to think about.

I'm unclear about the claim that less economic growth would be better, though, and the author seems very committed to it. I wasn't able to find the article they reference as explaining how less growth is what we really need (J.W. Forrester, World Dynamics, Portland OR, Productivity Press, 1971), and it comes from almost 50 years ago, which might as well be another economic era altogether.

Does anyone know what the arguments are, what assumptions they require, and whether they still apply today? My understanding is that "less growth is better" is a distinctly minority take amongst modern economists, but the rest of this article seems very intelligently laid out, so I'd like to dig deeper.

I've always thought that for any dial we have, there's always an optimal setting, whether it's tax rates, growth rates, birth rates, etc., and blindly pushing one way or the other (like both political parties tend to do) is not helpful, or at the very least merely indicates different value systems.
> I am not really sure why Google matters in China and how this matters to anyone.

It matters because Google is an American company. So not all laws - and not all social conventions - are created equal in this context; American ones get priority.

In a similar vein, if a Chinese company decided to operate in US, and the Chinese government took offense that they freely distribute information about e.g. Tibet there, they would be in their right to criticize such a company, or use legal measures to prevent them from doing it.

TL;DR: you can't argue for absolute cultural relativism when things flow across the border; at the very least, the countries on both side of that border have a say.
Because they are clearly superior humans than me.
Corrupt? You have a very limited understanding. The reasoning was to have people with a vested interest in the good of the country act as a brake to the swings of elected (popular) Reps. Our whole system is predicated on balancing competing interests and not giving any one group too much power.
I've been using https://codesandbox.io/ pop up a lot. Repl has always been my favorite as well for other backend languages

My goto will always be codepen though if its purely frontend. It just has the nicest UX interface and works really well.

Funny thing about codepen is I also use it as a CDN too.

I'll grab my compiled single CSS file from my main github repo, and paste it into a new codepen file. Then on a new codepen, I'll link that CDN codepen so I can isolate and make a webcomponent, while still adhering to my original CSS. I use the commit# / merge# to keep track between the main git repo VS the codepen CDN file
Yes tons.

Besides this cliche was said for the US (back when it copied European inventions in the 18th and 19th century to bootstrap its industry) and Japan in the 60s and 70s (which started by copying western products).

Funny how those two places turned out...
A 16-year-old hacked Apple and stole 90GB of secure files
Because we don't think that EU laws are too onerous, from our perspective. But it's still our perspective in both cases.
The above is pretty good advice (except for DoorDash) and is what VCs are doing these days - piling on after a company is a runaway success.

In other words, if it's a small startup, do it as a founder.

Otherwise, stick to BigCo and Unicorns.