skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's the best way to obtain Win10 LTSB, if you are not a large enterprise?
> This should be an obvious choice for sites not requiring dynamic elements. Also their choice of comments through email is a good solution to a problem static-made blogs have.

This is one I find interesting. I doubt they want to manually go through every email. So some semi-automation sounds sensible too. What would be an elegant solution to that?
I think you have two problems here that are in your control.

>When she caught my CouchSurfing guests not using soap to wash the oil out of a tin of tuna, she wouldn't talk to me for 3 days and refused to let me have guests again

You should consider getting a different girlfriend. Someone who blows up, and more importantly, refuses to talk to you because of something like this is not worth the effort.

>If you want to throw away broken glass, and put the pieces inside a cereal box for safety, the rubbish collectors will yell at you for throwing it in non-recycling

Another solution is to care less about the judgment of people who don't understand your circumstances or intentions.
It's crappy wordpress themes.

Before going static as well I made a WP theme with Twig, removing most <?php wp_magic_function(); ?> from there. It was fast, way faster, than the usual WP themes. Obviously nowhere close to a static HTML.
We have js printed at the "OuterIST" phase right now. It's the phase just before we sent to the native backend which will generate llvm. You can go to the playground ( http://skiplang.com/playground/ ) and click "JavaScript" to see the output.

We talked about doing it at an earlier phase in order to output JavaScript closer to what the input code was, in a very similar fashion as BuckleScript does. But we never gotten around to as we focused on the native backend.

We also have a prototype of a wasm backend using emscriptem.

Right now none of them are really usable as is but there's a lot of potential there.
Inbox was kind of an experiment and competition with their main GMail offering. It had resources that ABC probably felt could be used elsewhere, so they took what were probably the most used features from it, merged it back into GMail and killed it.

Docs doesn't have anything in their current product line that they can do the same to, they might merge another product INTO Docs and kill that product, but never Docs itself.
Stripe is the second most valuable YC company. Total valuation of all companies that YC funded (more than 1,900) now exceeds 100 billon dollars.

Airbnb has a private valuation of 31 billion.
Stripe has a private valuation of 20 billion.
Dropbox has a public valuation (DBX) of 11 billion.

So the two most valuable companies account for about half the total value of all the YC companies. This is what a power law looks like!
Same as this , except with one change. For the router, use the (cheaper and more powerful) Mikrotik Routerboards. We don't use a Poe switch - we just use cheap Poe adapters and connect directly to the routerboard.

For those who have never touched a Ubiquiti, configuring it could be a little iffy . I normally advise setting up DHCP 43 advertisement on the router before trying to setup the access points.

But seriously, this stuff scales.
20+GB years ago. Some modern games (especially with uncompressed textures) can be >100GB after installation.
It is one thing to apply broad sanctions and tariffs on a company, forcing them to be an extension of national policy. It is another to expect (and perhaps enforce) that a product/company whose service is the exploration of knowledge stays consistent with a fundamental principle of Western human rights, which is the freedom of thought and speech.

There is a line somewhere. Where it is, is debatable.
While I do think that this might be abusive behavior, I disagree with you.

>You must conform to an externally defined standard of virtue, or face consequences

What you just described is culture.
That was technically their business model, but they gave you one year free and also extended your 'subscription' indefinitely if you decided not to pay after that - basically the WinRAR of messaging apps.
It depends upon what the decisions made are. At a certain point it will reach the level that voters will want it to be controlled by politics, and likely the control will be tighter than if they hadn't crossed whatever line motivated voters to push for control.

The US already enforced some laws on its citizens as they travel regardless if the behavior is legal overseas. These tend to be done to actions that are deemed the worst of the worst. Minor crimes are not enforced globally.

At what point is supporting and working with China going to cross that line, given many of their current actions against unpopular groups?
Could someone with more experience expound on why this is the case?

Could you not just alter slightly the desired output? - Here's the 5 things we tried this year, why we failed and why we think it's still worth pursuing
Can you give any more detail about this? Or a reference to a bug report or mailing list thread?
Can't wait! If they implement something like VTOL VR HMCS[0], it would be a dream come true:

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlHs9gwGsJw
Not a start up per se, but my Medium blog is fairly profitable, ~2k on a good month.
This is one of the small handful of books that changed my life. I think everyone will be happier and have better relationships and social interactions if they follow this book.
Different problems, no? Trying to pick out an airplane against the ground is different from detecting an object in the air, which doesn't generally reflect radio back, and detecting the ground, which does reflect. The problem you're describing requires you to differentiate between two things that both reflect signals back to you. It's obviously do-able since the military does it all the time for targeting. However, I doubt it's cheap and there might be cheaper ways to do it that don't leverage the two systems you've mentioned.
Femtocells are probably legal because they're owned/controlled by the carriers and thus they can use the carriers' spectrum.
> quickly becomes a game of favoritism

Then remove money/favoritism from politics so that we get policies for the people, not some businesses.

Yes, removing money from political influence is hard, but the US has swung so extreme in the wrong direction that it puts the entire democracy at risk.
I always second a Ubiquiti recommendation. They have a great range of products that can serve people wanting robust home networks up to small business scale networks. In college I setup our fraternity to run on a edgerouter lite and 4 UAP-ACs and we went through 2.8TB a month with no issues.
Is there any path for security updates/LTS for deb based linux distros?..
If they don't have the support from their stakeholders they shouldn't give such a promise.

In this specific case Mark Zuckerberg holds controlling amount of the stock.
Beware the The Tyranny of the Minimum Viable User:

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/69wk8y/the_tyr...
Extract and add metadata from/to PDF invoices
As a user your contract is with the company you give the data to. That's simply how contracts work. If the contract says they can give that data to someone else, that's fine. If it doesn't, they can't. That shouldn't be surprising.

The GDPR treats personal information as property of the user. Even if access to and processing of that data is permitted by the user, it remains the property of the user. If the company is permitted to also pass that data on, they're still responsible for ensuring the data is handled appropriately.

I'm not sure what you are doubting. The GDPR is (in)famous for this.

This is why GDPR compliance makes it nearly impossible to hand over information to third parties who aren't GDPR compliant and why EU companies are nervous about working with Google and other US companies (because the Privacy Shield is not any more trustworthy than Safe Harbor which died an extremely swift death).

As far as the user concerned there's no difference between you "selling" their data and you handing it over to a third party as a data processor. You can't "sell" it because it's not yours, you can just take money for handing it over -- but that's between you and the third party, the user isn't part of that transaction.

Think of it this way: users can't sell you their data (they literally can't) so the data isn't your property. You can't sell what isn't yours, so the data you hand over to a third party is still owned by the user who gave it to you with the (GDPR-backed) expectation that you're retaining the control necessary to comply with their requests.

FWIW I'm not sure how this works for third-party tracking (e.g. Facebook widgets). Google Analytics avoids this by requiring compliant websites to enable IP anonymization (which supposedly should be sufficient) but liability still resides with the website owner (and the Data Protection Agreement makes this perfectly clear).

As you want sources, here's what a quick Google yields:

https://iapp.org/news/a/threes-a-crowd-third-party-risk-unde...

https://martechtoday.com/gdpr-mean-third-party-data-processo...

https://www.out-law.com/en/articles/2017/november/stricter-c...

And especially this:

http://www.infocore.com/insights/data-privacy-a-marketers-lo...

> Under the GDPR, EU citizens must be given the easy ability to withdraw their consent, often called "the right to be forgotten". If consent is withdrawn, those data subjects have the right to have their personal data erased and no longer used for processing by the data collector, and by any other entity who has ever used or purchased that data.

So in other words: "selling" user data is no different from handing the data to a data processor.

The point of the GDPR is that personal information is something that taints your product's data and therefore something you want to avoid. Selling it to dodgy companies that abuse the heck out of it is exactly what the GDPR is meant to combat.
link should be: https://blog.lukaszolejnik.com/am-i-logged-in-or-not-additio...
Not really: "When companies become too large it quickly becomes a game of anti-competitive actions and distorted markets"

Companies dont have our interests in mind any more than the government, but we can vote the government out.
Can't tell if you're serious or not. Is there a way for people to monetize their Medium blogs? If so, what's yours about?
do you have any links for doing this?
People accept that deal when they have a very strong guarantee that their $100 will still be worth $100 at the end of the term. Combining the low yields of bonds (let's be honest, your numbers are chosen for their roundness, not their realism) with the low safety of stocks is the worst of both worlds.
Believe they'd say that popularity of the language is on the upswing rather than down. In a world where JS, Python, and Perl already exist, is there still room for Ruby? (Mention Perl because I believe it might fill some Ruby use-cases, and is generally already installed on Unix.)
It’s not obviously wrong, nor is it objectively the same product since the censorship and surveillance makes it very different. It makes it a tool of control.

Governments routinely regulate exports as matter of policy. Lockheed would very much like to sell Taiwan (or really anyone and everyone) F-35s, but as a matter of government policy, it’s not allowed to, as it runs counter to the policies of the American government. This maybe censorship in a broad sense, but it certainly doesn’t make it prima facie wrong.
Sand is stolen in large quantities in many countries to be used in concrete production.

Example: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sand_mining_in_Tamil_Nadu
>Russians will feel convinced they can't be GRU officers

Russian internet has a field day(or a month already really) of jokes that the GRU officers, which all are undoubtedly, in the Russian mythos, true patriots and heterosexual macho made in the image of the Putin himself, would carry out every order for the Motherland - to kill a traitor, to die for the Motherland, and even to truly practice homosexuality, all in the name of Motherland on the orders of "the comrade General".

The guys in the interview are obviously very bad at impersonating gays, and that follows pretty much the same outrageous "signature" style (the Russian saying is "sewn together using white thread" as it is very noticeable on any garments except white) as using "Novichok" and polonium (or assassinating major opposition leader right in front of the Putin's office windows) - all that is to make sure that there are no doubts about who really did it while of course officially denying any responsibility. Just like the signature killings by Mafia (which the Russian government in its nature really is) - everybody has to clearly understand who did it without the perpetrators and their bosses explicitly claiming it.

To the "the_grue" below - sorry, man, no offense, you just don't understand what you're talking about. Most probably you're just not a Russian.

Edit: you added that you speak Russian. Being a Russian and speak Russian are 2 very different things. That ridicule you see on the Internet is real, no doubts. What you don't get is that it doesn't make Putin ridiculous [deep] in the eyes of the populace and that it wasn't a failure [deep] in the eyes of that populace - and that is the main tragedy of Russia.
It basically has to be the government forcing them, because otherwise companies (and their lawyers) will just fall back on "Well, we're following the local laws and not doing anything illegal in our home jurisdiction."

You already see that kind of weasily justification here all the time[0]: "Companies are soulless machines that exist only to make money, they should do whatever they're legally allowed to do."

The only response to this kind of moral nihilism is legislation.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18079027
>"What are laws besides a culture's values written down in the form of rules?"

Do you really believe that's true when a country has had only a single political party since 1949?
Oh no, please don't think I'm trying to give the sentiment any cover. I think it's an extremely ugly sentiment, that is very common and that few are willing to openly state.

Youth can both reveal the truth of what people think, as well as not be fully aware of all the possible interpretations of what is being said.
Thank you very much for the link. Tinkering is precisely what I'd like to do with it, on the 70cm ham band if LTE is a bridge too far.
True, but they are also at a scale where they can negotiate long term rates and contracts for predictable, long-term results for both sides.
Munroe redefines it to make it less stupid, but it's still stupid. Which is more likely, that you somehow are missing an entire bridge on fire or collapsing while on it, or that they are being dumb? Mass suicides are not, in fact, unheard of. In the case of 'if Jimmy jumped off a bridge, would you', it's even dumber because Jimmy is jumping off a bridge all the time - to commit suicide. The Golden Gate Bridge alone has had around 1600 suicides (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicides_at_the_Golden_Gate_Br...), >20 annually, net of all the safety measures & attempts to talk people down; as far as I am aware, 0 of them were jumping to escape a fire or serious problem, and if they were, at a fatality rate of >98%, it's difficult to think of a real event on the Golden Gate where jumping was better than not jumping. A similar observation obtains for... quite a lot of bridges. (Humans aren't good at falling.)
Lots of governments do terrible things, and people condemn those governments all the time for it.

And people have been condemning companies for working for those governments as well.

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.

So to answer your question, I am happy to have companies be an extension of US foriegn policy, in cases where the US foreign policy is correct, and the other country is wrong.
You can see very clearly what's happening here. The evidence is out in the open. There's a strong desire by the media and the government to control the tech companies because they all understand very clearly that they absolutely need Big Tech to survive.

On the media side we have an aggressive campaign by all the major media outlets against the tech company. Look at how many hit pieces about Facebook the NY Times have written in the last six months. I've noted this before [1] but in just this year the New York Times has written a constant stream of articles in which they accuse Facebook of destroying democracy, working with the Chinese, and collecting lots of "creepy" patents . This sort of targeted reporting against a single company that has, in fact, broken no actual laws is without precedent.

And absolutely none of these articles mention the extraordinary conflict of interest wherein Facebook is the primary driver of NYTimes readers and advertising.

And this is just one particular case. I don't think anybody has done the quantitative analysis yet but I suspect if you did gather the numbers the last two years would reveal an exponential increase of anti-Facebook/Google/Twitter/etc articles. It's a propaganda campaign that I think rivals the full-court press the media ran to push the Iraq War.

And now we have these endless meetings and threats of anti-trust investigations from the government. Every week brings a new meeting or some new initiative or a draft executive order. It's all bluster; nothing will come of it because the threats are the point.

The end game here is not to actually cut anybody down. The point here is to send a message. This is no different than what happens in China. The government doesn't need to use violence. Intimidate and threaten companies like Google and Facebook enough and they will fall in line. They will play ball.

And so the entire point of this exercise is the Media and the Government taking the gloves off and sending a clear message to certain Tech companies: WE CAN HURT YOU BACK.

* I say certain because this is not about money. Apple has all the money in the world. You don't see them being attacked though because Apple has little power. They make shiny widgets at the end of the day. Companies like Google, Facebook and Twitter are extremely powerful. They shape reality. It's a power which was previously only held by the Media and the Government and they really resent having these new Tech-Media fusions step on their turf.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17387438
>What makes Google a target for litigation here?

Under laws that are selectively enforced, either drawing the ire of the ones in charge of enforcement or drawing the ire of the general public enough they pressure the ones in charge of enforcement to act. In either case, what draws ire could be actions largely unrelated to the laws themselves and may be based on actions that people generally would not support making illegal. This is a flaw with selective enforcement, and why I support ending selective enforcement.
Have you guys considered offering a live shared repl/editor (and related tooling) for coding interviews? That would seem like a natural extension to what you already offer.
Yeah, before joining the Skip team I worked on Prettier. Once you have an automatic formatter, you can't really go back, so I ported the core algorithm of prettier to Skip and built all the formatter for it.

My biggest surprise was that the language has been designed by people that have been working on languages for their entire lives so it was dead simple to write the formatter for it compared to JavaScript.

It only took me ~2 weeks to get it in a place where we could reasonably convert the entire codebase to it. It took Prettier ~6 months to get to that point.
Solid defense of Watson Business Machines you're making there.
Exactly, among the many other similar things.
> I wouldn’t assume it’s exclusive.

Ahh yeah, and also at the international scale. The article also states that Stripe is expanding internationally (Didi Chuxing, Grab), so it could be that Stripe handles Uber's international payments, whereas Braintree handles the U.S. ones.
Arr, no idea, matey.
In 2017 e-commerce accounted for 9% of all retail sales. If I recall correctly, Amazon is the biggest e-commerce vendor and they are using Stripe.

There are no sure bets in business, but If I had to bet on a private software company's survival 20-25 years down the road I'd be hard pressed to bet against Stripe. I also think their leadership is very impressive w/ the Collision bros at the helm.
The first principles changed. From Elad Gil in First Round Review:

“In the tech world, particularly after PayPal was sold to eBay, the dogma for many years was ‘Don't ever do payments, it's too hard and fraud will blow up and destroy you.’ And during the first internet wave, that was true. It was a challenge to get the type of data and information you needed to really deal with fraud at scale,” he says. “But fast forward to today and take a look at companies such as Stripe and Affirm. It seems that the fraud problems weren’t as bad as we thought and we’ve since developed systems, processes and data science tools that just didn’t exist back then. So if you’d applied first principles thinking five or 10 years ago, asking if those assumptions were still true and digging into whether it was still too hard, then maybe you would have come to a very different conclusion about starting a payments company and gotten ahead of the curve.”

http://firstround.com/review/future-founders-heres-how-to-sp...
I listen to podcasts in the car but there's definitely some friction involved. You have to add episodes you want to listen to to a playlist and skipping to the end of an episode or picking a different one is all sort of fiddly when you're driving. In my experience, trying to control the whole thing by voice just doesn't work.

So there's something to be said for just leaving the radio on your station of choice and listening to that.
Yup, all of this. Their HW really is that good for the cost.

Ars' article[1] was the thing that pushed me over the edge and don't regret it at all. Rock solid APs, central management, isolated vlan+ssid just for IoT, just all around good. Was about $300 to get all setup and outstripped all my "pro-sumer" gear by miles.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/07/enter...
I agree. Right now I have the edge router lite. I have it setup so 4 ports are switched together and then I use poe pass-through to power my access point. Then I run the unifi software on a raspberry pi.

I would love at least a gateway/cloud key combo to simplify things. The separate switch doesn't bother me as much though.
There are much more intuitive markup languages than Markdown, like AsciiDoc and Org-Mode. Plus Markdown's issue with multiple incompatible implementations...
More directly:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/democracy-post/wp/2018/0...

(note that "tens of thousands of cameras throughout Xinjiang" is an error — that's tens of thousands in one county alone https://twitter.com/BenjaminDooley/status/104420148593903616...)
It does delegitimize the complaint
Pro tip: Keep your router/managed switch configurations in source control as text files.
I don't know the details, but he could've turned down monetization of his work for purely selfish reasons as well.
>Companies dont have our interests in mind any more than the government, but we can vote the government out.

Companies are easier to not do business with. Governments only get voted out if enough people agreed to vote with you. Also, only one of these groups generally has the ability to use violence against you, and if the other group has that ability, it is only because the first allowed it to be delegated.
I would think that the first step would be talking with your employer. (I what you are working on is not related to your work)

It’s a great litmus year to see if your employer is a bully or not.