skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When you read these bully letters you see the real, rotten soul of these callous companies.
The Pitch: podcast about startups pitching to real investors
The Optical Communications hobbyists have been using this idea since LEDs first arrived nearly 50 years ago.

It sure makes things easier to use the same optical system (lens, etc) for TX and RX.

The only problem is that LEDs make a fairly poor Optical sensor.
> provide just enough wages and internal services to allow their employees to live a healthy life

The fact that this is a novel concept is terrifying.
Ranges are interesting. I had an app once that dealt with biodiesel. Each gallon of biodiesel needs a serial number. I cannot remember all the rules, but you assign the numbers sequentially at the origin. So, a 10,000 gallon truck would have XXXXX00001 - XXXXX10000. When you offloaded into a bigger container it would have those numbers plus any ranges already in the tank. Loading would entail picking an amount from the ranges, reducing the range in the tank, and assigning it to the truck. We had routines for all this including consolidating ranges (two trucks dumping into a tank with sequential ranges would create a big range) or subtracting from ranges. A truck could end up with a collection of ranges. It was all arbitrary in a way and weird. I really hope they do it differently now.

I wonder how hard it would be to write that in PostgreSQL these days using the range types?
Well, the Obama administration was doing this for 8 years. No news coverage, no protests, no licenses changes.
And now every snowflake is crying 24/7 about that.
Whoa, this is awesome. (I mean that half-sarcastically in a "you must go and see, you won't believe it" kind of way.)

I'll cherry-pick these comments, which I think have the best signal/flame ratio:

> ...

> this doesn't seem safe anymore. this stack has too many individuals with no oversight in charge

> i really wish the javascript community would start seeing unnecessary tooling as a vulnerability

> this happens so often in this language

IMO you could totally s/the javascript community/everyone/ here, obviously not for universal values of "everyone" but certainly for many.
Like validating email addresses with a regular expression. There’s an edge case to break every assumption.
Free hosting VPS for NGO project?
Daniel Stenberg: Now at 134 days since visa application
Sin is not for you to judge though. That is for your G-d alone if you follow your scripture as I assume you assume you do.

"He looked around at them in anger and, deeply distressed at their stubborn hearts, said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out, and his hand was completely restored."

Mark 3:5
If you have sanitize the name field because then you're doing everything wrong. Nothing should break no matter what characters a user puts in their name. Even if they use punctuation or null bytes or control characters.
Sometimes Helen isn’t on speaker phone, and the handset is laying on the desk while she deals with the emergency.

Helen doesn’t hear the warnings, sadly.
> And if there is an oversupply of employees with those skill levels, then they can choose from the pool based on the market rate. This is pretty standard economic theory.

Right, and part of the point of all this rhetoric is the fact that our current economy is upending economic theory. Labor is in short supply and wages aren't budging.
For some reasons why, see:

Eric S. Raymond commentary: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=8106

Richard Stallman commentary: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/programs-must-not-limit-freed...
What needs to remain secret? At a certain level of presence, it's a de facto occupation. Could Germany, as a purportedly sovereign state, decide to start working against US foreign policy goals? Decide their interests were better served by making a pact with Russia and asking the US to leave? Running Microsoft's sieveware seems to be the least of their worries.

I don't have a constructive answer to move towards . I just don't like the present-blindness exceptionalism that keeps the US from just being considered an empire, nor the centralization created by having essentially three sovereigns in the world.
I don't think Slack would ever go after end-users who install something like this. But they could go after the creator, who presumably created a Slack account in order to be able to build the extension, and who therefore must have agreed to the T&Cs. This could include a no-reverse-engineering clause that prohibits the sorts of things that this extension does.
> Coupled with the flooding of capital back to US via the reduced expatriation tax rate, US is firing on all cylinders.

What happens when all the money is repatriated and no more dollars left for other countries to import from US?
“View Source” in DevTools
Also, new WSJ piece out today with a travelogue through a Islamicized UK town, including Sharia courts and ubiquitous face veiling:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-visit-to-islamic-england-1535...
This is such a big shame, especially since the native Slack app is consuming such a lot of processor and battery power and it runs much more efficiently in the browser!
And what exactly wrong with supporting ICE?
Has anything like this ever been hashed out in court?

I'm curious where the line is from a legal perspective? Ad blocker (purposely deny some scripts from running)? Custom user styling? User scripts (greasemonkey/tamper monkey etc), browser "reader views"? Accessibility tools? The browser dev tools?
Looks like they’re working on moving to HTML5. That’s awesome!
Build protocols - not platforms
Disroot.org, https://disroot.org/en
ProtonMail, https://www.protonmail.com
Tutanota, https://tutanota.com
Zohomail, https://zoho.com

The first three are just copied and pasted from this article:
https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/foss-software-alternati...

I've used (am using) Zoho for a domain of mine. It doesn't see a lot of use - but it's worked whenever I've needed it.
How do I get into top 5% pay when working in a satellite office?
Just fire up a VPS instance and set up a VPN on it. It's much cheaper, you get more control over it and it's dedicated to you so less crowded traffic. e.g. Vultr instance is just $3.5 a month and they're pay by the hour. There's many one-key VPN script. So set up is easy too.
Well done mate, very impressive.
Probably has nothing to do with all the credit consumers and businesses are running up:

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/21/consumer-debt-is-set-to-reac...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/beware-the-m...
Cool at the time? A comment often heard in the nineties was that XP was a joint venture with Fisher Price. Win 98 style UI was getting tired for sure, but there was plenty of laughter for XP's UI.

I think 90% of those under construction icons were on geocities weren't they? :)
This is a nice reality check for remote-work partisans.

Yeah, we have the technology, but in practice you get this...
Another attempt at minimalism in software was Alan Kay's http://www.vpri.org/ , which aimed to develop an OS and applications in less than 20k lines of code [1]. It operated from 2001 to the start of this year. It is also associated with YC's harc [2].

[1] http://www.vpri.org/work/ifnct.htm

[2] https://harc.ycr.org/project/
The average yearly S&P returns is 9.8%, to reach 40% in 4 years you'd need 8.7% yearly returns.
How many companies do you think have successfully sued ad blockers?

There's far more of a financial incentive there.
Few places have speed limits as high as 80 (certainly nothing on the east coast, sheesh), so you're looking at Texas or Montana or somesuch.
Gender quotas and targets would speed up progress on gender equity in academia
Ultrasonic Tracking
“Did you know your phone is a really good listener? Apps on your phone might be sending and receiving data over ultrasound. Ultrasonic communication is used for everything from tracking your daily habits to enabling light shows at music festivals. We hear from Yale Privacy Lab's Sean O’Brien and Michael Kwet, and privacy and technology counsel Katie McInnis. We also discuss the more positive uses of data over sound with LISNR CEO and co-founder Rodney Williams.”

This is from the site 20k.org It wouldn’t let me post the link for some reason... It’s a 22min audio episode. It’s a dope technology but could be used in malicious & unauthorized ways

20k org / episodes / ultrasonictracking

Just add the period and mind the gaps

edit: wording
It’s somewhat disconcerting when Amazon or its employees suggest the solution is regulation, when Amazon fights that very same regulation. It would lead me to believe that regulation might be a partial solution, but taking Amazon on directly is also necessary.
Also missing Zoom audio artifacts.
Linkedin doesn't put children in cages, to the best of my knowledge. (I just randomly chose one company from the list).
This list is random. There are companies which do business with federal government, some of them with ICE and law enforcement agencies. I'm paying federal income tax in the US and as every other citizen or LPR or even H1B visa holder fund ICE. I'm much more complicit in "putting children in cages" than Linkedin.
One thing I've noticed hiring in both the USA, Australia, and Europe is the huge amount of 'hidden' taxes in Europe.

For example, if I hire a worker even on minimum wage, I'm paying up to half of their gross labour cost (depending on the country) as taxes to the Government! This is called things like a social security tax, healthcare tax, disability tax, etc etc.

By contrast in the USA you have one pretty simple and low payroll tax, plus health insurance. Australia has it even better, with no health insurance, though you do have mandatory superannuation/retirement fund contributions on behalf of the employee (all still much lower in Europe).

This creates huge incentives in Europe to just pay cash in hand, or say pay the annual bonus or overtime as cash. There are also a lot of companies afraid of growing larger and hiring more staff, because it will make their cash payments harder to conceal.

I hope from this boom in the US that the Federal Government can remove payroll taxes there. Combined with a move to a single-payer healthcare system, hiring and paying US employees could be the simplest on the planet.
ZeroCater is hiring a Full-stack Engineer (Front-end focused)
That has become a common misconception. See https://lobste.rs/about#michaelbolton
>If national critical systems are running Windows or other US closed source tech, then technically yes. The US is potentially in control of these systems.

What? So because US govt't systems run (or ran) Kaspersky (or TrendMicro) that means the US is (was) controlled, technically by Russia or Japan? Huh!
woooooowwwwwww so... I could use riot to connect to my company’s slack?

that’s a dream come true!!! I’ll def check it out
The judge can oversee it, and if it appears anything illegal was involved, he can disallow it.

With money, this is much harder, because it's difficult to determine where money really came from.
> You don't have to literally sign something to be bound by an agreement.

That's only in the US as far as I know, everywhere else you can't be bound by an agreement without signing anything.
You have pretty high expectations for one night of work
It's not the tactics that people are critical of.
1. This feels like the beginnings of the inevitable and on-going battles for power between technology-based multinationals and governments as foretold in various dystopian sci-fi novels.

2. Whilst all the issues in the article are cause for concern, what are the practical, technical and legal limitations to these requests? As I stated in a comment to a previous article, warrants are required for pursuing end-users (don't know about companies), so that means it's not a willy-nilly application of new powers.

It wouldn't be practical to pursue trivial crimes through forcing a company to release an intentionally insecure app update that targets one person.

Having said that, however, the Australian Government has authorised warrants to raid the homes of whistleblowers and their lawyers (see below), so I'm probably underestimating the pettiness of the powerful.

3. Further articles illustrating Australia's recent and worrying lurch towards authoritarianism and nationalism:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-06-28/witness-k-and-bernard-...

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-08-29/chelsea-manning-austra...

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-08-23/huawei-banned-from-pro...

First they helped to liberate East Timor and I said "good onya, mate", then they tried to screw billions of dollars from East Timor by illegally planting listening devices in the offices of the East Timorese government and I said "whoa, hang on a sec, that's Unaustralian! That's not why we helped them achieve independence in the first place is it? You sly c*nts!", then they came for my private messages...
Do you know about an instance where something like that already happened?
That is an ideal situation most of us do not have much influence on. We can help lobby/advocate at the margin but check out who we are up against esp in developing countries, where the problems are most acute.

In the meantime, air purifiers reduce the extent that our health deteriorates. The effect of air purifiers production is relatively tiny compared to pollutants from the rest of the economy.
I just tried "love" and "hate" - the first three results were very similar shades of red.
I highly doubt it, particularly in the absence of any legal precedence.. I'm vaguely aware of a couple cases where EUAs were enforced, but I believe they were in the context of avoiding monetary compensation.
We win.

Seriously though, you’re asking a fantastic question. And, surprisingly, my tongue in cheek response above is sort of correct. The world was actually in a similar position to the one you ask about right after WWII ended. The world was still on fire and most countries had no real currency to spend. So, we loaned them the money to buy our goods (not much of a services economy back then).

Of course, that’s what we know today as the Marshall plan. In it, we gave billions of dollars of aid to other countries to help them rebuild their infrastructure and economies.

But if that ever happened in peacetime (I.e. not right after a war), then that would be very unusual. Maybe after a worldwide depression, but that is usually followed by war anyway.

Great question, and hopefully we never really find out. It probably would be a very rough ride for lots of people on this planet.

[0] - http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/marshall-plan
Higher than the 'West' being what? In regards to 'intentional homicide'. America? Sure it's lower... UK, Australia, NZ? Nope it's higher. What about rape? Yup lower than America, again, but still higher than UK, Australia, NZ, etc.

The 'west' isn't JUST America.

But India is a country where honor killing, and the caste system are outlawed, yet, honor killing and discrimination by caste still exists outside of major cities.
Agreed. It's evocative, and way better than the exhibit where the clown weeps at you continuously.
This Is the World's Purest Water Drop
Nerd might be chic in some circles now but is still widely derided by politicians seeking to show themselves as men of the people.

While Asian countries proudly and unabashedly pursue technological advancement and innovation western policitians are still pretending that our economy is dependent entirely on guys mining coal with a pickaxe.

You can see the Western fall of technology not only in AI but in renewables as well.
If it alters the DOM, it impacts security, and in a very significant way, since DOM security is in a sense the most important security barrier between untrustworthy content and all the messages a user has access to on a Slack.
I struggle with this too.

To combat it, I divide my long term, life changing goals into one or more of three categories: healthy, wealthy, wise. It's an idea taken from Time Ferris' book, Tools of Titans.

If a goal I have doesn't fit into one of those categories, it's not worth my effort and is simply a diversion. If it's a diversion, I only look at over the weekend, when I wind down, to ensure I'm not losing focus or procrastinating throughout the (highly focused, productive) working week.

Hopefully you can find some wisdom or knowledge in my approach and either adopt it or craft your own.

Cheers.
It’s less about governments, and more about how the law of unintended consequences applies in all human matters.

Example: anthropologists believe that on the whole, more polite societies typically murder each other at a higher rate than less polite societies.
A lot of animals (including us) have a common ancestor. That animal had dominance hierarchy characteristics. So pecking orders were already in our ancestors well before we even became anything like us.
You have to increase your metabolism somehow. Either through exercise or weightlifting. It won't be easy and it will take time but it's not entirely impossible.
Sorry posted the wrong code. You will find what you need at this page for microphone mute.

https://autohotkey.com/boards/viewtopic.php?t=15509
If you would start a channel where you review code of random public repos I would definitely subscribe. Well done.
I agree that it's fundamentally an empire. It basically subsumed the British, French, German, Japanese, etc empires after WWII. I've seen some stuff online which suggests that the US made explicit deals about this with Britain and France, before joining the war. But I'm no historian, and am not qualified to have opinions about that.
What you should be looking at is total compensation. Wages plus non-wage benefits. It’s been growing over the last few decades and out pacing inflation.

The down side is a lot of that is medical insurance where most people don’t see a benefit from the higher expenditure.
America PAYS smart people, France not so much...
Seconded. Do it. :-)
I don't think we need people who can actually create things to waste time in bureaucratic legal battles. Go make other things; there's obviously no way to make Slack better.
Steve, it is outstandingly awesome that you did this and also how you did this! Thanks.
According to item #10 on the page, you can download it and run it on the command line.
It's hard to tell. It was chaos at first but stabilized a bit. We have Americans in many areas, Canadians, a bunch in Europe, at least one in Peurto Rico, Asians... fairly diverse. The programmers include people doing web tech like what's posted here, people doing simplified or hardcore stuff in C, people in CompSci working on theory, some in companies sharing technical aspects of their work, some cultural, and occasionally just whatever's going around in tech news.

The strange thing for me was people rarely commented. Some didn't even vote on articles they liked but emailed me. Aside from stories inviting frivilous debates, the comments were often useful in some way. The mass invite increased low-content comments but it's usually new people learning the norms of the community. Noise drops again sometime after that. I try to message them describing the site a bit to smooth that process over a bit.

It's been pretty fascinating to observe those patterns. It was a strange site with a slow, but steady, stream of interesting submissions, comments, and people but hardly any comments. I just kept sharing and learning more overtime. It became part of my daily routine like Hacker News.
Congrats! I have shown this to my 13 and 12 year old sons to inspire them.
While I was reading your comment I was reminded of a professor I had in law school (for some reason...), he was almost 70, but he still had a ridiculous amount of energy. He had grown a law firm that I believe he sold when he was in his 40s? And then he used some of the proceeds to buy some sort of mechanical equipment company which he grew and then sold like a decade later. He taught a bunch of different business law subjects and he got so excited about some of the driest technical stuff.

I really admired him but I couldn't figure out exactly why, other than that he was successful (but at a fairly highly ranked law school, you're completely surrounded by successful people all the time). One day, I realized that it was because he was, even at his age, still SUPER interested in his own life. That was what I was most impressed with. He had kids and whole bunch of grandkids that he obviously loved and he still had a few business concerns on the side in addition to teaching a handful of courses at the law school. A lot of people that age, even very successful ones, are just kind of running out the clock, for lack of a better phrase, just puttering around and playing golf and wishing they were still doing something worthwhile, watching the news obsessively. But this guy just did stuff he thought was interesting and he did it really well.

Anyway, I'm not sure it's as important to be constantly eclipsing your past achievements as it is to be really interested in what you're doing now. I'm sure when my professor plotted out his life, he wouldn't have imagined all the random stuff he'd do, but in retrospect it's a life filled with accomplishment and apparent purpose.
The Atlantic is an American publication. As is the New York Times, which also has a front page story crowing about this boycott.
IBM Wants to Take Server Memory in a New Direction – TOP500 Supercomputer Sites
Apparently, muting is fine. Blocking prevents comments from showing up in replies. It's a form of moderation.
> my tongue in cheek response above is sort of correct.

The world is in a very different state now. Most of the manufacturing bases are outside the US. If the US somehow withheld the dollar, most of the world would just switch to alternative currencies and continue to trade with one another.

That of course would most likely never happen in our lifetimes, since the dollar is a key pillar in the American economy and global power projection.
Trolling your mom is a pretty weird target, one of the people who would have the least suspicion when talking to you that your trying to deceive them esp if planning dinner like the article
It's kind of weird that this is an HTTP link. It's also kind of weird that certificate-transparency.org doesn't redirect you to HTTPS.
It's cheaper than having your economy collapse when the aquifers empty, and it's only going to get cheaper if money is invested in it.
well, I just tried https://picular.co/hackernews which gives lots of orange, but doesn't seem to give me the color I get when I use a color picker on the top bar of FD6423
He missed IYI. 16 years of school makes you good at one thing, test taking. America recognizes more than other cultures the high probability of bs vendors among this test taking class.
I'm curious how many of y'all have seen the recent hubbub generated from https://cake.co. With all the latest Apple memories I've been looking to see how they plan on shaping it.
What is wrong with the usual cabs? Sure, slightly more expensive but reliable.
US economy is strong enough that it rebounds after a crash like in 2008. The recovery under Obama was the worst in a long time [1]

Stock markets ( which are a rough proxy for investor confidence ) went up on the eve of election results [2], so it is an awfully specific time for the "inherited economy" to improve

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/louiswoodhill/2012/08/01/obama-...

[2] https://www.businessinsider.in/Heres-why-stocks-have-been-on...