skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an interesting area. I haven't thought much about it. But at a first glance (and please correct me if you are an expert) an investor with a short position has already sold his borrowed shares, with a promise to deliver back the same number of shares at a future date. He is a former shareholder, who has an obligation to a third party that depends on the reference stock price. What kind of protections such a person enjoys, I dunno. maybe there is a good law review article in that!

edit: here's a link to a law review article more or less on this issue; as I suspected, it's complicated!

47 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 1003 (2005-2006)

https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/73965975.pdf
He may not have traded but his compensation is tied to the stock’s value. Which is a criminal offense since he is a direct beneficiary.
I've been using Gmail since high school, but I'm definitely thinking that it's time for me to abandon ship and actually get my own damn email.
Are Apple products different now that Jobs are gone?

https://www.fastcompany.com/3053406/how-apple-is-giving-desi...
They get taxes typically.
Libertarians will now make themselves scarce. They will soon resurface with a complete revisionist history of ifs and buts to wash their hands off this latest disaster of their ideas in practice.

Meanwhile others will continue to pay the price for their delusional anti-social ideology.
I wonder why nobody has mentioned Njalla [0] yet.

>We want to keep things simple and we're not trying to compete on price but security. We will never be the cheapest domain name registration service but we'll always be the most privacy centered one

You sign up with email or XMPP+OTR, they send mails PGP signed + encrypted (using info from key server or the key you uploaded), they have app based (TOTP) 2FA and they accept various cryptocurrencies.

There's no bullshit and so far the support has been quite good.

Their DNS (currently) supports: A, AAAA, CAA, CNAME, MX, NS, PTR, SRV, SSHFP, TXT (also "Dynamic" and "Redirect")

It's run by some of the Pirate Bay founders and they're still making fun of legal threats. ;)

0: https://njal.la
Yes. Elon is not naive and no one thinks that Joe Rogan is just some secret thing that nobody watches. He went on Rogan with the intention to spread a specific message.

Practically the entire value of Musk projects is based on the myth that Elon is a mystical being bringing advanced technology to humanity. Going on Rogan and doing something to harm that belief, like diverting all credit to his "amazing team of engineers", would be far more damaging than anything else he's done.
The secret is that a solution where typical CSS classes are the exception and not the common case, is generally more useful.
Does it? It seems that it ought to add nothing to the content

"Add"? It's a part of the content. It's been in paper for more than a century.
Perhaps summarised as "the percentage of your battery this tab has consumed".
I wish they didn't stop development: https://github.com/benjie/prettier-plugin-pg

I use plv8 very often, and this would be perfect.
"Well, sure, it's fake, but the fact that I believed it sure says something anyway..." is the worst argument.
Right. If he was just complaining and said he was only thinking of taking it private and talking to people he could probably get away with it.

Instead he said he heavily implied that he would take it private and already had all the money he needed from various investors.

There’s a world of difference between those two statements.
So how many financial execs got punished for creating the 2008 financial crisis, the worst in our lifetimes (hopefully) , which brought the world to the brink ? https://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/finance/309544-why-ha...
It's still reasonably common to see hot_new_movie.mp4.exe or have an encrypted mp4 with a install_this_codec.exe beside it.
I wonder what impact this monitor has on power usage itself.
I wouldn't count FB to be among the "coolest" tech companies. Maybe 10 years ago they had some cachet but today it's just Mega Corp.
Snapchat Partners with Amazon to Bring ECommerce 'Visual Search' to Its Platform
Ok, so it looks from that like the Pi is there to act as a VPN endpoint of sorts to allow the operators to use the recruit’s Facebook account undetected by FB’s geolocation security. From which it would appear they then run some sort of high-volume affiliate marketing scam.
I know HN doesn't react well to soley critical comments but does anyone else get a Pons and Fleischmann vibe outta this article?
You'll pay more for the highest density chips, but there are back-planes that support more of the lower density parts. I buy the raw chips in reels not DIMMs. The $7k was based on my costs.
It’s entirely possible the tweet was only designed to screw over short sellers.

Doesn’t matter, it’s illegal for someone in his position to try and do that through a tweet that’s on an account that’s registered with the SEC.
This is a horrific thing you have just described. Where is it documented how Yezidi women are prosecuted for supporting terrorism?
>The "white" part is unnecessary, as we don't tend to racially classify our population

That's utter bullshit.
Tesla is not without challenges, but I am very happy with the products they have delivered thus far, and if I could afford them I would have a model x and s.

I see this sentiment a lot but the reality is not only are the cars that they have delivered good but I think their safety ratings are top notch. I am not sure I want a 'regular car company ceo' I do not think they would have delivered in the way Tesla as a company has.
Wow, this adds a lot of perspective. I thought that things were bad nowadays.
Rubiix spending data shows Venmo is now as popular as the ATM
Fewer people than switched off of those services to Chrome and Google, leading to a net loss but a slower-than-usual one?
For example you can go to my http://website.com now the normal website has a HTTPS redirect on home page. Your router replaces that page and disables the redirect. Now is up to you to notice you're on a http connection.

If you think is rare, I can tell you some fortune 500 FX and stocks trading have this vulnerability a year ago (didn't checked again).
My understanding is that stuxnet got out of Natanz, by mistake. The world was never supposed to see that code. It was planted inside the Natanz secure perimeter.
I work on a software company. You would be amazed to know how many manager types, earning 6 figures, who are absolutely naive with regards to security. Those are prime targets for this kind of exploit.
Adoption of Microservices and Lessons Learned – In series of blog posts
Jack Ma's Chinese nationality speaks to his alienation from the needs, desires, traditions, and sovereignty from the local flora, fauna, and peoples indigenous to (or settled in) the region.
Marijuana is illegal, federally.
If bitcoin's only long-term effect were to be to goose legacy money into competing better, well, that's not nothing.
Yes, because he showed such amazing judgment. It’s obviously the law that’s messed up.
Sugar? Why?
I think Grails has died under it's own bloatedness, and all the moreso because frameworks like Micronaut [1] are showing that you can get all the advantages of a full stack framework without the horrific bloat. I won't miss Grails because I think that, a bit like Gradle, it is an antipattern use of Groovy - needlessly applying its dynamic features where they are not even required and hence resulting in code that is very hard to trace and figure out, and sacrificing performance everywhere. Groovy is best when it's dynamic features are used least, I find, at which point it hits a sweet spot that no other language achieves for me.

[1] http://micronaut.io/
Smoking marijuana and, allegedly, the acid that prompted the tweets in the SEC suit.
> This non-absolute, generic universality must guard against the facile tendency of conflation with bloated, unmarked particulars -- namely Eurocentric universalism -- whereby the male is mistaken for the sexless, the white for raceless, the cis for the real, and so on. Absent such a universal, the abolition of class will remain a bourgeois fantasy, the abolition of race will remain a tacit white-supremacism, and the abolition of gender will remain a thinly veiled misogyny.

— Xenofeminism
I like and use Njalla, but you should be aware of what you're getting into:
> When you purchase a domain name through Njalla, we own it for you. However, the agreement between us grants you full usage rights to the domain.
It's not at all unlikely that they will eventually be shut down very hard. Please do not use them (or, as long as I'm here, any ccTLD, but that's another story) for any serious/long-term purpose.
But it's not cash you control. You control the credit the bank issues to you when you make a deposit. And you rely on the bank not freezing that credit, and faithfully redeeming it for cash when you make a withdrawal.

The entire reason cryptocurrency was invented was to get around having to rely on trusted third parties to transact.
I could really be a bore on this. Short version is DeMesquita describes the underlying mechanism of the effects Sachs observes, and if you switch in AI/ML for oil or mineral wealth in Sachs model, you can make predictions about some of those consequences using DeMesquita.

Long version involves introducing and describing the relationship between their ideas. DeMesquita gets rejected as being too abstract, but his model has useful predictive power.
Yeah, that's also why I don't like this.
Cloudflare showed a lot of positive things, but also what you just mentioned.
Centralization and the 1.1.1.1 preload thing. Cloudbleed was bad, but I'm not sure it wasn't just "a bug" like every big company had, this just happened to have a big fallout.
From all the stories in the last year it seems like if you took a regular car company CEO they would’ve been delivering faster with better build quality. Perhaps service times wouldn’t be so atrocious either.

Or rain wouldn’t cause bumpers to fall off.

Tesla’s tech is pretty top-notch (excluding auto pilot which I have doubts about).

I think their ability to build cars is questionable.
How heavy are both of those laptops, though?
Did you forget that this is only the SEC action and that the DOJ is also investigating? The DOJ has subpoena power… they can easily build a case by gathering witnesses, starting with the board of directors.
How to Develop a GRPC Microservice
Have USB sticks stopped being common...? I'd guess there are a dozen or two around my house right now.
Are Windows 0-days really that common? I thought they were usually saved for really serious attacks, e.g. from state-sponsored actors, not scams on the level of "pay some random person $15 a month to attach a mysterious device to their router".
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18090419
Identify theft from a credit card payment?! Jesus, did LifeLock's commercials start to rub off on HN crowd?
If he was angered by the haters, then - while tanking a couple near term shorts would serve that goal - the best most final and bold way to get back at them would be to take the company private (thereby depriving them of the opportunity to short) and succeeding (thus proving them wrong and depriving them of the opportunity to later bandwagon). Ie he meant what he said about his intentions & funding.
Which is totally redundant because that can be done on operating system level, but hey, bottled water is a huge industry too.
Organized crime tends toward brutality regardless of the country of origin.
The rise and fall of the company behind ‘Reader Rabbit’ and other games (2018)
Why on earth did you put racial slurs in your post? That's the kind of thing we ban people for on HN. Please don't do that again.
Tesla safety record stats are better than the minimum required score for five stars. You can read an example of their pride/righteousness/aspiration in this truth/fact/reality here https://www.tesla.com/blog/tesla-model-s-achieves-best-safet... or here https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1042827334758260736
SlimDB: A Space-Efficient Key-Value Storage Engine for Semi-Sorted Data [pdf]
Last time I looked at their Terms of Service it appeared that losing your Google account would cause you to lose access to all services. It's not good to put all your eggs in one basket. With that being said, I've used Google Domains as well and haven't had any issues with it.
This is why certificate pinning and modern web security practices are so important. On a well configured site, this attack would fail.
Gotcha.

Unfortunately what we have isn't really sharable yet, but we're planning to update as soon as it is - but I get this isn't that helpful when you want to play around with it. We figured out the hard part (OCR algo is pulling the card info) and were hoping to get some feedback on the direction / interest level / use case before completing all the rest of it which will take us several more weeks. We'll journey on.
so on ios 12 iphone x should see some speed up ?
Thank you for articulating these points, agreed. They seem to have an insatiable desire to "become" the internet. I also find it bazaar that their CTO submits every single one of their blog posts to HN. This is the 16th Cloudflare blog post they've posted to HN this week. You would think they might have a marketing budget.
Gotcha, didn't realize. We're several weeks away from fully working product (tried to be transparent on the page about timing), but have figured out the hardest part (generic OCR algo to read the numbers). Was hoping to get some feedback on the direction / interest level in advance of full completion, but this may not be the right forum.
What's your source on the Monero claim?
I’m not sure I understand what the big deal is unless your machine tries to run software automatically from devices that are plugged into it. If you plug something into a centOS machine it’s not going to be able to do anything until you mount it and even then why would code be able to run from it?
It's also three (!) years old, which is crazy to think someone has been mailing these out and running the same scam on FB without getting caught, particularly from 2016 on, with the scrutiny placed on FB's illegitimate political ads
I really wonder from time to time if it's just me, having become and old grumpy "get off my lawn" grandpa...

I don't think it's just you. At the very least, us :-)

Seriously, I think there are different kinds of people that don't care:

- Most. They don't know it could be done otherwise. For them bloat is the way web is.

- People that likes bloat. It's obvious if you can see how they dress or their furniture.

- People that works making those websites. There are a lot of them here, so don't expect many upvotes.

- People that repeats what others say: the phrases that make your breath heavy.

I believe that at some moment in the future, there will be a swing to simplicity, because fashion if for no other reason.
Sure, especially as it won't hurt.
I think I've been doing pretty good with the websites I control - but I don't have many visitors (which is fine).

Everything is 'every little bit helps' and it shouldn't make you listen to the naysayers (e.g yours truly) - I'm just a little disappointed because I think it will not make a big difference. At least my conscience is clear ;)
> There's a kmart (which is owned by Sears and therefore in the same situation)

The current “Sears Holdings” is, in fact, actually the result of Kmart buying the old Sears.

> Unlike many other retail stores, it doesn't even feel like Kmart is trying to adapt.

Ruthless cost cutting is an attempt to adapt. It's just a bad one, as actually executed by Sears/Kmart.
That's how a lot of trucks work already, and as everything scales up I can see it becoming more common. Many truckies will become last-mile couriers.
How is that better than epoxy squirted into all unused ports of your existing computers while also distributing fast charging USB wall warts across the office like confetti? Even the good ones are relatively cheap, especially if bought in bulk. Relative to the cost of a desktop computer they're practically free.

(I'm genuinely surprised that the standard DELL and HP corporate workstation doesn't have its front USB ports deleted and its rear port access covered by a lockable metal cowl.)
Parallax Propeller 2 First Boot
By spending x amount per week and by measuring signups/purchases/leads marketers are tracking roi.
Haven’t you been following the news at all? It’s called “rich white male privilege”. The person occupying the White House exemplifies it. Inauguration day was tough for many parents; lots of people didn’t know how to explain to their kids how such a person could get to the highest office in the land.
Agreed, current add-ons are clearly not enough.
If you download putty, it comes from an http link. Try it right now
Yes, and they're not alone in that. Many car companies are above the minimum required for five stars.
China’s Muslim Detention Camps Spark Protests in Islamic World
Ask HN: Calling all cynics what's your most usefully pessimistic heuristic?
was taking a stroll through paul graham's website and on his quotes page I read this:

"Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable."
- J. K. Galbraith, Letter to Kennedy, 1962

So, I wanted to ask all you out there: what's the most depressing quote(s) about society and the nature of mankind (as nebulous or granular a connotation of either word as you prefer) that has been useful to you as a heuristic for keeping your mental guard up and being seen how you want to be seen (or at least some recognizable semblance of how you want to be seen) in work and/or social circles?
I was doing a touristy Hunter Valley Wine Country tour a few months back, and the bus driver mentioned how Tesla Powerwall and solar panels were taking over in that area, due to the relative remoteness of the area and feebleness of the grid.
What Will Intel Do Next
Can’t go into too much detail but had a meeting with some of their top tech peeps (title wise) and it was really, really clear they have no clue how to run an effective eCommerce business.

It was also incredibly hard for me to sit there and watch a company I fondly remembered visiting with my father to pick up some tools (back when it was run much, much better) have such minimal vision for their eCommerce + little leverage at the table.

Feels really bad for the employees.
You're right that there is nothing anti-free-speech about censoring a private forum like /r/bitcoin, but the purging of big-block voices from the subreddit was unethical nonetheless.

Countless long-time Bitcoiners who helped popularize /r/bitcoin, and more generally, Bitcoin, suddenly saw their posts advocating for a hard fork deleted, and eventually saw their own accounts banned.

When this purge happened, pro-fork posts were overwhelmingly popular, and absent the intervention of the moderators to restrict advocacy of Gavin's hard fork efforts, the hard fork would have gone through with majority support.

The closing of debate on /r/bitcoin was a betrayal of everyone who entrusted its mods to oversee one of the community's most important communication channels.

>>Layer 2 is a scaling solution, I don't see why it wouldn't be.

He provided his rationale: transactions on L2 aren't Bitcoin transactions. Perhaps respond to his rationale instead being obtuse.
That's because his PR team has pushed that narrative for years. He wasn't a founder however.
So these IT genuises at a Fortune 500 company were clever enough to test their employees' computer security acumen (and get the predicted result) but they weren't clever enough to simply block all use of USB mass storage devices on their corporate operating system distribution?

Surely by now all corporate desktops should be configured to not respond to any USB devices other than the generic HID for mouse and keyboard, plus a whitelist of approved devices (e.g. fingerprint readers, Yubikeys). Inserting a USB mass storage device into a corporate workstation should result in nothing. Plug-and-play shouldn't be triggered. The mass storage driver should not load.
A Computational Model of Time-Dilation
This is a really interesting discussion because it makes me wonder what CSS could have been like if it had cascaded per-element according to the order of classes.
Well he turned Tesla into a multi billion dollar behemoth in a short time and revolutionized the electric car industry. He didn’t create Tesla but he did “create” Tesla the billion dollar company.

PayPal is more complicated agreed. Elon’s portion of it might be a billion due to inflation? But regardless he set the basis for it.
Being unconstrained by reality? You might actually be onto something there; I know a few people who are similarly unconstrained and they end up bringing just the right mix of crazy and sweat together to make something novel. It also has a serious downside in this particular case, however.
C# offers three different ways to denote an anonymous function: Anonymous delegates, lambda expressions, and statement-bodied lambdas. Each of them are true closures and can be used to construct a "method" of a given delegate type (i.e. any one of them can be used to as a value for a given variable — interestingly, in any case, an anonymous method must be assigned to a variable (or parameter) before you can use it, unlike, say, the anonymous functions of Lisp, JavaScript, F#, or even the criminally underrated VB).

But they have some important difference:

1) Anonymous delegates (introduced in C# 2.0) allow you to elide the formal parameters when defining a method of a given type if the body of the method doesn't use those parameters. Even though this construct is basically obsolete, I still use it just for this feature.

2) Lambda expressions can be automatically transformed into expression trees, which means that you can use them to construct (awesomely powerful) fexprs[1]. But, they can't contain statements, which means you can't use them for any kind of imperative code. These are the most equivalent to Python's lambda as far as that limitation is concerned.

3) Statement-bodied Lambdas can contain statements (as the name implies), but the language won't convert them into expression trees for (you can do it manually – tedious but not at all hard). At the time that the lambda expression feature was introduced (as a member of the constellation of features that made up LINQ), the framework didn't even contain expression classes that corresponded to most of the imperative constructs, but that changed with the advent of C# 4.0 which implemented a meta-object protocol[2].

Another implementation detail (last time I checked, which has been a while) is that anonymous delegates get turned into instances of System.Multicast delegate, whereas a lambda expression either gets turned into a class with a method that corresponds to the lambda expression (and fields that correspond to closed over variables), or into an expression tree, depending on the class of the variable to which it's being assigned.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fexpr

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaobject
Which would capture passwords in plaintext sent from the user side, no?
I wrote the implementation of the Nintendo Switch support. It currently uses the publicly available open source library Libnx and Devkitpro.

See https://github.com/switchbrew/libnx and my wrapper around that library (it has all functions exposed using nimgen, a C wrapping library, but the Nim-friendly wrapper is a WIP) https://github.com/jyapayne/nim-libnx

In order to use this, you must have a homebrew enabled Switch. Google is your friend!
Well for starters, if you’re curiously plugging it in, you’re going to mount it aren’t you?

Second, it can emulate an HID keyboard device and type keystrokes faster than you can react and pull it out, at which point it’s far too late - it’s pulled a secondary payload down or mounted a USB mass storage device and you’re owned.