skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You kind of do though. [1] The government sends national security letters to tech companies all the time. Interest in certain topics can land you on lists. [2] The US absolutely intercepts anything they can in plain text (and does their best to break the encryption on things that aren't).

1. https://www.zdnet.com/article/top-374-keywords-the-u-s-gover...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XKeyscore
The funny, or disturbing, thing about this is the baby boomer generation actually believes this shit. Not sure if it's because they grew up trusting the media or what.

They don't see all the smoke and mirrors associated with "success" now days.
I'm not sure what you mean. I agree that there is a difference. So there should be a law blocking the 2nd type of activity. The lack of a law is implicit moral approval of the American people.
I second this setup! I run Arch Linux on a Lenovo X1 Carbon 5th gen, I use i3 wm, and my shell is Fish. I've used Arch, i3, and Fish for about 4 years now.
you can only downvote with enough karma/rep/whatever it is here
Some members of the National Socialist Party adopted the swastika to signal their identity. Many employed it, though, simply to unsettle Jews who had come to believe the swastika was a genuine hate symbol. Which it was.
> A company complying with the laws of the country it does business in seems fairly uncontroversial to me, even if you may not agree with those laws.

Stopping your analysis at legality/illegality is morally bankrupt. Local laws can be explicit tools of oppression and malice, and I would say its very controversial for western companies to follow such laws in authoritarian countries like China.

For an utterly obvious example of why this is true: look at Nazi Germany. Everything it did was in compliance with its local laws, but now many of its actions are universally considered crimes against humanity. Foreign companies and individuals that collaborated with it on those crimes are not excused by those laws.

> Do you want your companies to be extensions of US foreign policy?

I want them to be extensions of some basic liberal values, not agents of profit uber alles. For instance, I applaud European pharmaceutical companies for refusing to sell the anesthetics used for lethal injection to the US states that use them for executions.
All from Wikipedia/Wikidata. Now they're served from my own database.
Just SSH to My Jump Box
Old books from the 1800s with very outdated views on race, sex, etc would be an obvious example.

Edit: and why is curation relevant to the question of whether there should be a common crawl that can be accessed by all, a publicly hosted mirror of the web that can be used to create competing search engines?
I've been waiting for these guys to launch in the USA since I first heard of them. They're still in beta?
That's not the offer on the table. China is already a developed country (and they already got there by more than their share of exploitation).
> > What about all the other American companies doing business in China?

> We'll get to them eventually.. but why shouldn't we go after the biggest business first? Wouldn't that provide the greatest reduction in harm?

There's actually a name for laws that target one individual while ignoring others guilty of the same behavior, and that's a "bill of attainder" [0]. They're banned by the US Constitution and also every state constitution, which might give you some idea that there are pretty good reasons "why not" (namely, that they're ripe for abuse, they violate someone's right to due process, and can be used by the legislature to take on judicial or executive functions, violating the separation of powers).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_of_attainder
Modifying covenants is really hard - but with good reason. You don't want a heavy-handed HOA to drastically change the rules after you're heavily invested in a property.

Historically, some states have passed laws that allow racial restrictions to be amended out without the usual process, and without the usual filing fees, but even then nobody wants to take on the work (or their own legal fees).
K3s: Kubernetes without the features I don't care about
People approach payments in the same way they approach, say, twitter: They think of the simplest parts of the business, and think that's all there is.

If all you are doing is taking credit card numbers, taking money out, and handing it to merchants, then sure, there's relatively little value there, and the competition at that level can be fierce.

But what you find in companies like Uber or Amazon today is not just taking credit cards: They run marketplaces where signing on is easy. They will take very different payment forms in different countries: The world is not really all about credit cards in US dollars. You need to fight different kinds of credit card fraud, build a reporting infrastructure, integrate with some traditional accounting system, and connect it all to your logistics in some fashion. A large marketplace will have dozens, if not hundreds of people dedicated to payments, and that without caring of the little bit of taking credit cards. It's in those areas where payment companies don't have feature parity, and a big part of what you'd pick one over another, especially as a startup. And in differentiation there's money, not in taking all the physical retail sales for Walmart.

I suspect that eventually a few big players will really be feature complete with each other and margins will go down, but maybe there is a big winner there, who has an expensive to replicate product, or whose product relies on so much data that competition is impossible. If that were to happen, that kind of big winner's valuation would be far higher than what we see today from Stripe, Square, Paypal or Alipay.
I have been programming professionally since 1974. I have never had any regrets.
The sentence you copied started with an important qualifier: "Counting both ends of a cable,"

> If you’re new to making cables

However, IMO if you're making your own patch cables, you're so far on the wrong side of what's reasonable that I don't know what else to say. Punching down horizontal cabling to jacks makes sense; there's no other choice. Making patch cables is an enormous waste of resources.
All of the current major brands inspect hotels frequently. I don’t see anything different Oyo is doing, other than being in a country where people are just starting to be able to afford midscale hotels with some quality control.
Programmatic refers to the automated bidding and placement of ads in real time auctions done over a DSP. It can be done for audio but would take the listener out of the experience as the ad is built prior to the recording.

Native advertising is when the creative is in the same manner of the content. On a website, the ad would have the same formatting as the other articles on the page. In audio, it's currently being done by having the host read a loose script with keywords/phrases and tie in their personal experience with the product--making it seem like its part of the program.
Holy crap, that is awesome! I might start crimping my own cables again! Nah, but still good to know.
>> I've (mostly) stopped crimping cables because I've had too many go flaky and don't have 4-5 figure testing equipment.

I just redid a lot of the ethernet wiring in my house, and it's super easy compared to how I did it 10+ years ago.

If you use EZ-RJ45 jacks (the only way to go, imo), it's super easy to get cables working properly the very first time. The wires feed through the jack so you can verify wire order before crimping.

I spent less than $200 on the tools I used to do my wiring:

* EZ-RJ45 crimper

* RJ45 cable tester with probe and toner (this was easily the most important tool I bought)

* Punchdown Tool

* An adjustable Cat 5 stripper

Out of the several cables I did, I only had one with problems, I wired one end backwards (it was before I had my morning coffee), and it was quickly "debugged" with my cable tester.
I think I've got a good mental model of it. It seems like every action you need to do is a whole new thing to type into the command line. Maybe you could say it's like learning Chinese in that each word gets its own glyph as opposed to english where you build up words with characters (which are atomic). I have most day to day commands memorized but beyond that I have to google and possibly even do a full fledged search to get the command. That wouldn't happen if you could guess what the command might be or maybe if commands were grouped hierarchically or even better if I never have to think about version control at all, lol.
>- They are solving problem differently

So like thousands of businesses do?

>- 24 year old scaled a company to $5 billion value

And that makes it useful because? It shows that another few out of billions of 20-something might also be able to do it? We already knew that from Zuckerberg.
Higgins is the person who groomed Kaszeta, together they formed the theory behind hexamine being used as an acid scavenger on the first Sarin chemical attacks attributed to the Syrian government. Together they tried to take on MIT's Postol and others who found it ridiculous (and implausible at best).

If you followed Higgins prior to Bellingcat (back when he was "Brown Moses") you'd know he had a strong bias for the rebellion which has since just turned into a strong anti-government bias, strong interventionalism and explicitly anti-Russian.

A great example of how their bias slips into their analyses is examples like the fake sniper boy[0] which fooled a lot of anti-government "experts" to the point where people like Higgins tried to organise witch hunts against the scene director.

[0] https://journal-neo.org/2014/11/27/what-the-fake-syria-snipe...
Maybe I'm just a simpleton, but this, traditionally, just seems like 4chan-level trolling to me.
> If you want to look at some history, I will unfortunately have to invoke godwins law, by using the example of IBM, which everyone condemns now for working with the Nazis.

Godwin's law has been repealed: https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2018/06/19/27874178/godwins...
My 3080 day experience with my 2010 MacBook Pro
Introducing Amazon Relational Database Service on VMware
Yes of course you'd need to improve transportation, but the existing built environment of the Sunset is self-sabotaging. It's car-dependent and the cars are in the way of the buses and trains.
Thanks! That's a good point.

People might crap on your idea because it relies on a Google product, but massive companies like Snapchat and Airbnb use Google Cloud.

Obviously GDocs are a bit different but lots of businesses are built on top of Google products (e.g. Google Maps)
You can't downvote submissions, only flag them. Downvoting is reserved for comments.
well, the fix on the GitHub Repo also has the XPS 9370 listed...its just a config file change.

https://github.com/erpalma/lenovo-throttling-fix
People being as interested to follow new music after 30-40 as opposed in their teens early 20s...
Microsoft Adds Starburst Presto to Azure HDInsight
Fucken sell out.

Is what I would have said.

Are these the scum you breed?

Way to go YC.
Nice!

How is the legal situation with these paintings? They are from well known artists (van Gogh, Monet, ...) - is it now possible to sell them because the artists are dead for a long time - I thought that maybe some descendants hold the (exclusive) right to sell them, but I may be wrong ...

Good luck with your endeavor.
Salisbury poisoning suspect named as a Russian colonel by UK media
Fair enough. I didn't notice the previous comment was flagged and didn't receive any explanation. I'll express my point in a different way in the future.
Plus, you can't downvote submissions at all, even if you have the 500 karma necessary to downvote comments. The only thing you can do is to flag it.
And now you're limited to 2048 WASM instances in a single address space, purely because of virtual memory overhead. To be clear, I think the idea is very neat, but, like most things, comes with a variety of trade-offs that should be reasoned about rather than papered over.
I have my own personal goals. The company has some goals. As long as there's some overlap between those, and I can achieve both goals at the same time, then we're all good.
As a person who was born and raised in a city that had an extensive trolly system 75 years ago, completely replaced it with a bus system, and then introduced a light rail system 10 years ago, I get really irritated reading stuff like this. How is this new bus innovating urban transportation?!
Right, for normal playlists YouTube leaves a placeholder saying that there was a deleted video. The frustrating thing about how they do it is that there’s no indication what the video was, unless you remember.
Does it handle Watch Later differently? I do know that it seemed to have odd or buggy behavior which is why I stopped using it.
>That would be way too subtle for the common folk.

Are you channeling H. L. Menken?

I think Putin is a comedian and two things I have noticed about Russian humour are firstly, always be deadpanning, and secondly, it isn't really funny unless someone ends up nearly dead.

I also think he is a good tactician but a lousy strategist and I don't think he is in charge of as much of the CCCP as is made out. He is the front man for a conglomerate of interests, many of which operate largely autonomously, and would cause him no end of internal problems should he try and reign them in.

This explains the sharp disconnect between the relative professionalism in the seizing of Crimea, while at the same time lending out SAM systems to idiots.

I'd also say there is a very good chance that Putin did not order this operation in the first place and is playing cleanup.

---

edit - I think there could also be a lot of "Will nobody rid me of this troublesome priest?" going on.

It not being directly ordered is an alternative reason why someone so high up was doing this rather than a subordinate.

This could well have been showing off to curry favour, knowing that the target was in the regime's bad books already.

Being paraded on TV in the manner that they were after being uncovered, I think lends weight to this hypothesis.
Even this is toned down as I could not bring myself to post the original on HN. For instance, in the real tutorial it is not Brian's ear that is tortured...
I love hearing ATC radio. I think the guy who did the classic SR71 story about upstaging everyone on some California flyby noted this pretty well - even in the times of near peril pilots and ATC will be the cool-as-steel that keep everyone calm.
And many more -- billions in Asia still today -- view it as an ancient prosperity symbol and are totally OK with it.

https://www.tripsavvy.com/why-are-there-swastikas-all-over-a...

Coming back to the "OK hand". Not all insignificant cultural battles in the US (and not even in the whole of the US, just some fringe groups) apply to the world at large. In this here parts we use the OK hand just fine, non ironically and non racially, and have never heard or cared for the people mentioned in the article (either racists or trolls).
I never argued that it shouldn't, just that the issues you're raising aren't relevant to the security of running wasm in kernel space.
I think this is pretty cool. I know more than one person who loves google docs and hates wordpress whom I will be forwarding this to.
just an FYI: you can also install this on your rpi if you're using archlinux: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pi-hole-server
Is that you, Putin?
I found vastly more expensive Meraki APs to deal with noise way worse than Ubiquiti (but that's all I've used so I can't compare to others).
I think some explanatory text somewhere, how to train would be nice. Or lets put it this way, I tried to find the notes to play along, but i didn't notice myself making any improvements doing so.

Also, the reveal could show note names.
You'd be able to get to normal levels of uptime by putting backup solar servers in e.g. the Sahara and northern Australia, then taking them out of your DNS rotation when they dropped below 5% battery, surely.

Though transmitting data that far might be against the point of the art project.
Not really. Many US markets are so concentrated that there are a handful of companies participating, and frequently these companies collude on policies.
That's a good problem to have, but be sure it's necessary to solve customer pain rather than to impress anyone or follow a "grand plan."

Talk to Triplebyte, get on Github jobs, go to related tech meetups... make it your mission to try out people and get more than you need, because some won't work out.

Always be hiring (at least long-cycle interviewing) so you won't be caught without some staff potentials whom are warmly interested, and able to speed up the process when scaling is needed.

Ask solid hires to recommend people they really want to work with because they'll be happier and it makes for faster interviewing.

You have to say "not right now" (rather than no) until you can deliver. Help them find suitable alternatives if you can't deliver in a reasonable timeframe.
Thank you for the explanation, and the keyword issue makes sense.
Symbols only have the meaning that they are given through use. A symbol that originally has one meaning can take on another meaning if it is used to convey that second meaning. Just look at what happened to the word "Isis" over the last few years--it conveys something pretty different today than it used to, doesn't it?

Nowadays, many white supremacists use the "ok" hand symbol to communicate that they are white supremacists. In this way, they have added a meaning to an existing symbol.

I feel like this is obvious, and that one needs to really be leveraging their disingenuousness to pretend to not understand it.
These standards don't only apply to Google, though. They can be applied to anyone, which makes your comparison bills of attainder seem kind of odd.
No idea why this is getting downvoted.
The bias the parent refers to is implicit, I believe, in the selection of information to convey. That is, the choice of which columns and rows to include in the graph in the first place.

They could have included a row for "Open platform for games", or "Has finger detection", etc. Alternatively, they could have included columns for Vive, or Vive+Wireless, and so on.

This kind of implicit bias is very difficult to avoid, however; in general, viewers of ANY online media should already be assuming the viewpoints they're consuming are biased in the first place.

In particular, since the source is the /r/oculus subreddit, anyone viewing this information there (1) already assumes this implicit bias, and (2) is likely to share it.
Nah it's RSSI-based.
The sandbox gives a false sense of security, because it opens a new attack vector.

Apparently you fail to understand how security exploits are taken.

For example, lets say I have an authentication module provided as WebAssembly, written in C.

The browser makes use of the said WebAssembly module to authenticate the user.

Now we make a cross site scripting attack that calls the WebAssembly functions in a sequence that triggers memory corruption inside of the module, thus influencing how the authentication functions work.

Afterwards the JavaScript functions that call those WebAssembly ones, might authenticate a bad user that would otherwise be denied access.

A contrived scenario that can be easily programmed in https://webassembly.studio/ .
I've always wanted to make something on the Sinclair Spectrum but I was too young back then and computers advanced too fast (it was exciting, watching the future materialize in real-time, though.)

Still hope to get around to it some day.
The new (but not widely available) Cloud Key Gen 2+ model is much more stable. It also has a battery so it can gracefully shut down mongodb after 10 seconds of no power. The + model replaces the cloud key and nvr. There is a non-plus model coming as well but that hasn't been released yet.
Second-to-last paragraph really makes the article:

> And their departure, despite its suddenness, does require some perspective. Both Instagram founders stayed on for six years after being acquired — much longer than entrepreneurs usually do after selling their company and long after they had received their full payout in stock.

Dog Bites Man After Unusually Long Delay
tldr; "no"

I have been programming since I was 11 when I first started in Turbo Pascal and Borland C++ (somewhat simultaneously), I then started working as a teenager doing freelance work and getting some cash on the side (which was great). I never had internet back then as it wasn't around yet, so learning to get programs to work and debugging things was a minefield, and I loved it!

I then moved countries and got work visas on my ability, bought houses and raised a family, spoilt everyone along the way.

I'm glad I made those decisions more than 20 years ago, and I still enjoy everyday and what I do!
> implement manually as a decorator in Python

Why don't you just use the functools.lru_cache decorator in the standard library?
Whether or not it will be profitable is yet to be seen, but I am in the process of doing this.

As has already been mentioned, make sure the IP is in your name. My employment contract is one of those generic 'everything you think is ours' kind of affairs. I don't know if it would hold up in court but wanted at least some security. I'm in the UK, so this may not be appropriate to where you are.

After I proved the idea will work but before I started building the product for real, I went to a solicitor (lawyer) and explained my situation. They draw up a Deed of Understanding and Assignment. This is a document that gives scope to the work and states that my employer has no claim to any work inside that scope. My employer (eventually) signed it, as did I, and a witness. It wasn't free, but I feel safer having it.

Even if you're building a product that won't compete with your day job work, do all you can to make sure your employer can't claim it. If you do start making profit and your employer isn't (or is just greedy), it's not outside the realm of possibility that they could find out and claim all rights to it. I also don't see why this couldn't happen after you've left your job, if you built the product while employed.

If you think it's going to go somewhere, speak to a lawyer as soon as you can.
I think I regret becoming a programmer, but I do not regret knowing how to write programs. If that makes sense.
You got a wifi problem? I'll bring the cable.
Usually these blogposts are written to raise the awareness of your company. In this case, not in a good way.
TL;DR - I continue to root for Python's typing story, but it's just not there yet.

I have, and I wanted to like it. On its face it seems like it should be a lot better than Go's--after all, it supports generics and union types! But it falls over in trivial cases, like recursive types (i.e., there's no way to model tree structures such as JSON or linked lists). A few other hard/impossible/confusing things come to mind:

1. How do you declare a typevar for a certain scope. If I define a type parameter `T` for function `foo`, I only want `T` to be scoped to `foo`. I don't want the type checker getting confused with `T`s for other functions/classes/etc.
2. What is the signature for a function that takes args/kwargs?
3. It straight up doesn't work with popular libraries like SQLAlchemy (last I checked, these were simply not supported because the likes of SQLAlchemy are "too magical"--this is a fair take, but frustratingly limiting for users).

These are just a few because my memory is poor, but I run into these sorts of things by the dozens every time I try to use mypy. It's just not ready for prime time. Go's type system is limiting, but its limitations are much more predictable and even less limiting (it turns out recursive types and poor-man's union types are quite a bit better than first-class, non-recursive union types, for example).
Or that delicious small batch whiskey maker is actually owned by Diageo, a mega corp with annual earnings of 12 billion pounds