skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It looks like Coinbase is preparing to add a lot more cryptocurrencies
>A lot of our software's more complex interfaces are Chrome-first since its faster to develop - yesterday was the first time I made a serious consideration to change that approach.

Heh, I wonder if the next privacy blunder from Google will make you further reconsider your "voluntary vendor lock-in" approach :)
You might not be familiar with the Oracle policies - which is fair enough, not everyone has worked there ;) Once Premier support is over, the only thing you get for your money is “we will not delete related KM, and we will still answer the phone and tell you you’re screwed”. Even Extended Support is a bit of a joke, you’ll just get “don’t sue me” fixes.

But what I meant is that now they can drop support for any non-LTS Java release immediately, and limit LTS support to shorter periods if they want, because when you call them crying that you need a fix, they can simply point to someone else.
Well-put. To state that our ethical standard must be vigilantly maintained goes without saying. To put the treatment of these cold-blooded killers first is unnerving at best.
Karma.

Google has always been super ruthless in their data gathering practices. I think the recent uproar is just the tip of the iceberg. Shit's happening for real this time.
Don't try. The concept is a scam, much like dowsing rods.

But the more you read, the faster you'll be.
Yes, they have a customized internal version, just like SAP, Twitter and Alibaba do.
Unlock and commnd the google assistant via a bluetooth device. Sometimes it would work, sometimes it wouldn't, sometimes it would unlock but then be unable to respond to subsequent commands. Then every few days, the feature would disable itself and stop working entirely (via voice or bluetooth) and have to be set up again.

The first support person showed me how to clear the application cache, and then walked me through the process off testing the bluetooth. I was very impressed. I hadn't actually intended to request support - I was just using the device's help system.

Except - it happens again, two days later, and clearing the cache and setting up the voice assistant every couple of days isn't much of a solution. I didn't expect a fix - mainly wanted them to let them know the solution wasn't working.

The second support person had me walk through the basic diagnostics and then tried to give me reasons why what I was trying to do wasn't possible. First, it wasn't possible at all, then it became impossible to do with all my specific bluetooth devices and finally, it became impossible without using google bluetooth gear. (I misspoke previously - these actually do exist).

Pushy, inexperienced, untrained and unsupported. And very clearly miserable and under the gun.
Telltale Games Sued for WARN Labor Law Violations
'How I Built This'. Everything else that my wife and I have tried listening to is either extremely dull or frustratingly conversational.
Yes that is pretty much it.
IE's NTLM authentication, which can integrate with your Windows login, might come close.
Oh dear, so this awful problem has also hit the Java world now??
But the comment contrasts Kansas City (favorably) with San Francisco.
This thing remains just unfathomably weird.

An extra-solar object -- that's not actually the weird part; sure, we haven't seen any before, but their existence is to be expected and is totally reasonable. BUT...!

That shape? Asteroids don't come in that shape. They just don't. We've got literally thousands of data points which say that doesn't happen.

And the whole changing-trajectories business? Comets do that by outgassing a bunch of shit. But this has done it without outgassing anything detectable at all. That's also something for which there are thousands of data points in the "not a thing that happens" column.

Why aren't people more freaked out by this?
Hospital in Thailand Turns to Robot Nurses
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative_principle#Maxim_of...
I wish. While I could see dedicated apps for the conversion and tagging tasks (on macOS this is done by apps like XLD[1] or Meta[2] respectively), the ability to download, extract and move files requires a good, powerful, ideally first-party file browser in my opinion. It could be handled apps, but I think it's awkward to use several different apps for basic task like extracting, file management and talking to SMB shares.

[1] https://tmkk.undo.jp/xld/index_e.html
[2] https://www.nightbirdsevolve.com/meta/
Can anyone explain how it works in Japan? I visited twice and I noticed that public garbage cans are basically non-existant. I kept my trash in a plastic bag and dropped it in the wastebasket at the hotel.
How was the permission gathered? If it’s anything like what Toyota does then it’s a mailer that you must respond to to opt out.
Hey, can you mail me (in my profile) would love to chat
>who invites the mayor of Taipei (!) to walk the streets picking up cigarette butts

One consequence of the lack public trash cans is that every smoker I've seen disposes of their cigarette butts by throwing them down the steel-grated drains that line every street.

In several years, I've never seen anyone cautioned or fined, despite sometimes doing this in front of police and traffic wardens.

Given the copious rainfall, I can only assume that the butts find their way to the rivers surrounding the city and onward to the ocean. Presumably this could be prevented with a little education and enforcement, but there appears to be little concern.
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I would use it if they provide a way to "lock" local installation or to make it portable: I want to use it in my office PC, which can be accessed by lots of people...
What is it about the conversation that you find frustrating when listening to those types of podcasts?
Exactly my point, which I thought was obvious enough I didn't elaborate.
Jason Calacanis of course!

Startups: This Week In Startups

Startups: Mixergy https://mixergy.com/

Startups: How I built this

Startups: Rocketship

Startups: Steve Blank podcast

Startups: The SAAS podcast

Startups: Startup grind

Startups: Art of Product

Startups: Rocketship

Fantasy fiction: Podcastle

Fantasy fiction: Beneath Ceaseless Skies

Horror fiction: Psuedopod

Sci fi fiction: Clarkesworld

Sci fi fiction: Lightspeed magazine

History: History of the Crusades

History: In Our Time

History: Emperors of Rome

Science: ABC The Science Show

Life: The Moth

Life: Modern Love

Games: IGN GamesScoop

Games: Eaten By A Grue
Paytm Parent Approves $300 Mn Investment from Berkshire Hathaway
Sanctions are one of the most powerful tools in the US toolbox short of war. In fact it's more important than war when dealing with Great Power adversaries because they have nukes. The US should aggressively block any attempt to get around it.

Trump shouldn't have pulled out of the Iran deal, but preserving that power for the future is more important.

Here's a good article about OFAC, the Treasury Department group that handles sanctions:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-sanctions-insight-idU...
Evidence of a relationship between the two?
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Hoping you can fill out this 2 question "less than 2 minute" preliminary survey. http://bit.ly/simplelistco Thanks!
This project has so many cryptographic wrong answers, I don't know where to begin.

Glaring problems:
- The same unchanging aes key is shared between all nodes on a network. Compromise one, compromise all. Additionally a bad node can impersonate any other node.

- The 96 bit nonce is derived randomly and there is no rekeying which means sending more than 2^32 messages will leak your (static, unchanging) key to the world. That's 2^32 total between all clients on a network. Hope everyone is manually updating their keys!

- Default unchanging password of `hello-world` is set. Everyone remembers to change that environment variable right?

- The KDF is md5, which means attackers can brute force guess the key incredibly fast.

- There's no perfect forward secrecy (aging out of old keys).

Amazingly, this is still better than their last version, which used AES-CBC and used the same value for both the key and the IV (which is transmitted over the network).

Summary: Stick to Wireguard!
Google has gone rogue...
Before Oracle synchronized all the code between the proprietary version and OpenJDK, stuff like the graphics engine and font rendering wasn't the same.

So many applications, including JetBrains ones, did not look that good on FOSS/OS X platforms with many rendering issues.

Hence why JetBrains started bundling their own version of OpenJDK for those not willing to install Oracle JDK.
Almost everything runs just fine in Firefox.

Google software seems to be chrome-optimized, but it's usually only slightly slower on Firefox - it still works.
Seems to be the fashion these days. I do not applaud it.
Nearly everything.
Old k8s version. No upgrade possible. Odd deployment process (not fully automated). Support is unable to help in a timely manner. First deployed cluster was directly broken (no DNS resolution).

We eyed on switching from kops to EKS. But immediately stepped down after experiencing so many issues.
It works fine in Firefox, I do it for the intentional isolation. To me, chrome browser is "google browser"
http://bit.ly/simplelistco
Risky Biz infosec podcast - https://risky.biz/
>Plus how you going to live in SV on $30,000 a year when rent alone is that much?

By working for one of the companies that offers:

* a shuttle (so you don't need a car)

* food perks

* a phone

And if you're taking the shuttle you can live in cheaper areas or select the cheapest areas available and/or live with roommates. You can get below $24k/yr on rent and easily live on a $6k/yr or $500/mo budget.
> Eero - I don’t need it, but if someone asked me what to get, it would be the top of mind.

I think that illustates the OP's point well; you don't have need or experience of the product, but the psychological infiltration of ads means that you'll recommend it anyway.
Fintech Startup Goals101 Raises $3.5 Mn from Nexus Venture Partners
Yes, but the problem is that you can't make everybody follow the rule, especially when uses 3rd party library.
Planet Money just turned 10 years old and in that time I haven't found a podcast that has been more consistently informative and entertaining.

Some recent highlights:

- P is for Phosphorus https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?stor...

- How the Social Security Number Became our National Identification https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/03/14/593620579/epis...

- The Poop Cartel: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/07/25/632444815/epis...
I'm not sure I'd call them desperate looking at the valuation, 20+% revenue growth, and the fact that EU keeps pushing legislation that increasingly cements their dominance against any potential competition in the region.
red scare (female russian immigrant socialists in new york critique metoo and other neoliberal stuff in a sexy manner)
"...their current active military is over 2m"

Yes and that doesn't even count how many brainwashed citizens China has who believe anything they read in the government controlled media, who think they know all about Taiwan and have strong, confident, opinions based on ignorance.

They could easily marshal a few more million volunteers if they wanted to.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but I thought the whole idea of ubikey was that it proves who I am because I have it, no? If I own 4 ubikey, how does the system know whether I'm really me, or if I'm someone whose stolen one of my ubikey?
I doubt that'll happen with Qt 5.12, but it hopefully will with Qt 6: https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-63235
I only played with Scala but never found a good business reason to actually use it.

Personally I rather not be in the bleeding edge and not having to deal with interop issues, or missing tooling.
Those final statements on the Twitter thread stuck out for me too - they seemed a little incongruous. But they're taken (as is the entire thread) from the BBC Africa video, where they actually make perfect sense as the closing remarks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbnLkc6r3yc

I'm not sure whether it's the medium (Twitter), or the lack of editing that makes them jar in the thread.
Algorithm Archive: A collaborative book on algorithms in multi languages
Dan Carlin's Hardcore History - Carlin has an amazing way of telling stories, and he goes really in-depth.

Critical Role - A group of people playing Dungeons and Dragons, the episodes are long and always keep me chuckling most of the way through.
Simon Schama’s Power of Art series starts with an episode on Caravaggio. The series is well worth watching and explains a lot about the artists lives.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Schama%27s_Power_of_Ar...
It annoys me when I have gone to the trouble to hear about a specific topic only to have the hosts chat for the first 8 minutes about their personal lives or about stuff that is completely off topic. Focus would be appreciated.
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>Such transactions, presumably in euros and pounds sterling, would not be transparent to American authorities.

Then why make this plan public?
The Google Chrome change was serious for Chrome users (and really even non-Chrome users because it affects most of the people you probably know and hang out with since many of them use Chrome).

The issue could have more easily been resolved with a dialogue if you log into a new Google account while Chrome is logged into a separate account saying, "Your browsers is logged in as x. Would you like to add y to your x account? (Say no on a public or shared computer)."

Honestly I had trouble with Google starting in 2012 with the PRISM revelations (which either aren't true or everyone has collectively dismissed).

Google is today what Microsoft was in the 90s. I'd be happier if we just had more options of search. I hate that we went from Lycos, Hotbot, Yahoo, Dogpile, Excite and others to just Google, DDG and Bing.
My ‘watch later’ seems to have a problem catching videos. I add videos and they are gone from there. I created my own ‘Watch Now’ playlist, which consistently works.
Yes, developers that like getting all the low level Lego pieces and are able to write higher level abstractions themselves.

You should never try to learn 3D graphics programming if that basic stuff is already "uuuuuuuuurgh" for you.
Here is the full video package on this from BBC Africa:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbnLkc6r3yc
You can install side-by-side (I have 1.8 and 11 both installed) and switch using java_home, see https://alvinalexander.com/macos/how-to-set-mac-osx-java-ver...
How would a proof by induction work with only two natural numbers?
How to Get Product Stock Information in Magento 2
They don't have to use the word or mention it at all because bad results are already implied by the context. The reader already gathers as much.

Mentioning the word luck draws it in a different light, as if next time the odds might be on their end. Luck is meaningless if there's enough skill. Its an overused (if not downright abused) word.
Their cloud business doubles every year. Play & hardware are also considerable now: https://qz.com/1334369/alphabet-q2-2018-earnings-google-is-m...
I set up a Shortcuts (formerly Workflow) to auto-map to my home address in Directions view, which is far more convenient anyway.

There isn’t much point in creating lists of important places within the app because Google can’t seem to figure out how to show these to you in fewer than 5 taps/screens. It’s crazy when the 3rd party solution can provide more direct access in an app than the app itself.
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"Unfortunately I wasn't able to understand this piece of code and what it was aiming to, so I didn't changed."

That seems alarming for a commit message.
I've always found it fascinating to link the stand of an entire country to a single person or a group of people. For instance when we say, the U.S. has imposed X sanctions, it's weird to think that it's simply the work of a small group of people. I am doing an awful job at wording my thought, but what I am trying to say that putting a human face/name on an entire country's action makes it interesting.
Sanctions are a type of war on civilians. Great power adversaries are no worse than allies like Saudi Arabia. American unilateralism is evil, and it has to end. The sooner the better!
Google to allow certain cryptocurrency ads in U.S., Japan
Yeah, there may be a legal difference, and there has to be a point where the majority starts to say: Hey! That's wrong!

I think the fundamental difference is null. Or maybe I am just one of the first to start to say: Hey! That's wrong!
Would you mind sharing where you found leads on technology oriented Slack channels? I'm old school, used to hang out on IRC some 15 years ago, but went silent and passive after starting a family. However my boys have grown and I'm looking into getting back into general or topic oriented technology talks and banter, but have no idea where to start looking for like minded people.
I like the way it looks like it is hovering.
Which is part of why that extension point was introduced :)

https://twitter.com/nickjshearer/status/608833134902140928
Web-Based Startup Success Prediction
This limitation also exists in other languages that have reflection.

In .NET Native and Lisp for example, you need to list code that should be kept around and not removed by the linker.

It is not an easy problem to sort out in some kind of automatic way.
Moved from the UK to Norway in 1986.
If you have one Yubikey, how does system know if it’s really you or someone who stole your key?
> Why aren't people more freaked out by this?

Besides possible rational explanations for its behaviour: Why should we freak out? It's been on his voyage for at least tens of thousands of years. Any communication from this object will take hundreds of years, at least, to reach anyone. And then it will take again thousands of years, at least, to reach us again.

Why invest vast time and energy resources to reach us? If any data was gathered, it will suggest that we are well underway to have made this planet uninhabitable by then.
I'm so pleased that this is the top-voted comment! (And I totally endorse it.)
One of our customers still has a couple of Red-Hat 5 with Java 1.4 servers if that makes you feel better.
Ask HN: What should a coder read to learn Product Management
So, I have been running a development team for some time now. My responsibilities have now shifted to more "formal" Product Management.

What am I meant to be doing differently with my time? Which are the best books to read?
I agree with most of that but why should buildings be taller and population density higher? I'd like the opposite: taller buildings == less visible sky, more people around == more noise and more long lines. The three things I didn't like of China when I was there on vacation and I was happy not to find back home.
Yes. I am working on a blockchain based voting system too.
https://www.patentprogress.org/2017/01/27/no-listen-qualcomm...

I wrote about the KFTC action recently, in which the KFTC fined Qualcomm about $850 million and ordered it to stop its abusive licensing practices. The KFTC found that Qualcomm dominated the pool of essential patents for the CDMA cellular phone standard, and it used those patents to monopolize the market for CDMA chipsets:

It refused to license to competitors, even though as part of the standard-setting process, Qualcomm had committed to license to anyone on fair and reasonable terms

It forced handset companies to separately take a patent license if they wanted to buy Qualcomm chips. That was on top of the purchase price for the chips.
It forced handset companies to give Qualcomm licenses to their own patents, for free.

https://www.ipwatchdog.com/2017/10/11/qualcomm-antirust-war-...
I listen to mostly political, comedy, and political comedy podcasts:

* Doug Loves Movies

* FiveThirtyEight Politics

* Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4 (for The Now Show)

* MSNBC Rachel Maddow

* My Brother, My Brother and Me

* News Quiz Extra

* No Such Thing as a Fish

* Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast

* What Trump Can Teach Us About Con Law

* Why Is This Happening? with Chris Hayes
@braythwayt considered an engineer following orders to implement an unethical (illegal?) "feature" is directly comparable to Nazis following orders to commit genocide. Even in principle. But...

The Nuremberg Principles define War Crimes. It's quite literally what they're for. Do you not understand this massive difference? All laws take magnitude into consideration. Look at the jurisprudence. It's all related to acts far above what's being discussed here. But if you really really want to draw the parallel between a "regular" act and a the kind of crimes that see this principle applied then keep this in mind [0]:

> An individual must be involved at the policy-making level to be culpable for a crime against peace ... the ordinary foot soldier is not expected to make his or her own personal assessment as to the legality of a conflict. Similarly, such an individual cannot be held criminally responsible for fighting in support of an illegal war, assuming that his or her personal war-time conduct is otherwise proper

You're both conveniently ignoring the fact that this defense was attempted mostly by generals, captains, field marshals. Foot soldiers were never on the same footing as the superiors. Not in the execution of their duties, not in taking responsibility.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior_orders#Legal_proceedi...
I'm in a similar situation with my dad who has dementia to the point where he needs 24/7 attention back home. In my case I have family over there that care for him. I regularly keep in touch and provide any help I can. I can imagine this being a lot tougher if no family was there.
I freaking HATE youtube so much.

Its such a vile POS of a service.

Its hardly even worth my packets to type out all the ways its so bad. I feel like nobody in charge of YouTube actually even uses it for anything.
Tim Ferris interviews so many interesting people.

a16z podcast. They always have very well thought out and interesting things to say for the startup space.
How could DDG ever be as good as Google, which has a profile of large parts of your search history (even if you're not signed in)?
I think it's not a clandestine operation but just a challenge to the US demands, therefore it's public?

US: Don't trade with Iran because politics

UK, DE, FR, CN, RU: Sorry, We like the deal we made and we would like to trade with Iran.

US: If any company trades with Iran, won't be able to trade with the USA. Make your choise.

UK, DE, FR, CN, RU: Okay then, we will create an infrastructure where the USA won't be able to legally identify and sanction our companies that trade with Iran.
I hope they eventually improve the 3D classes, specially shader support.

That and Android support as well.
EconTalk - interviews with social scientists about various topics. The interviewer is an economist so it's an interesting discussion between experts.

Economics detective radio - similar to EconTalk

Rationally speaking - interviews related to rational thinking.

80,000 Hours podcast - in depth interviews about the world's biggest problems and how to use your career to solve them. (Disclaimer: I used to work for them, but I genuinely love the podcast)

Feeling good podcast - by one of the pioneers of cognitive behavioural therapy, discusses mental health techniques.