skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not an activist, but the head of the Interpol was kidnapped (and currently whereabouts unknown) by his own country. Not a random person, but head of the Interpol.

Don't see the same outcry. Also the Maltese journalist (Caruana) uncovering European dark money who was bombed --not much press.
The Forbes Bug Bounty Experience
Nah its not limited except by memory anymore AFAIK.
Had to search for how to use eww since I have never used it before now.
The author says the opposite:

"The non-recursive way is more efficient as the CLR does not have to keep pushing and popping its call stack (which is quite slow). The non-recursive way is unfortunately harder to code. So the challenge was on!"
Probably because when his country was annexed to the federal republic 28 years ago, the new governors decided that everything that took place in the 40 years before was worthless and had to be forgotten. Well, everything except the bad things like the state security, which we have to remember every day. That's why we have the Stasi museum and things like that.
No. What would the point be? You'd still need TLS. DNSSEC isn't even encrypted, and even if it were, it's still only addressing the name lookup. Meanwhile, TLS was designed to assume the DNS is insecure, and has worked that way for decades.

Try a thought experiment: imagine the root DNSSEC keys are published to Pastebin tonight. What happens? What blows up? I think, apart from DNS operators (maybe?), you'll have trouble identifying a company who would have to do anything.
Why Khashoggi's murder shocked?

A power network in the West was pushing Muhammad bin Salman a the reformer and the good guy in an imminent attack on Iran.

Khashoggi's Apple Watch helped solve the case as he recorded his own murder. And suddenly MbS has turned out to be a "butcher" killing a journalist in a Saudi Arabian consulate. So the power network has a dilemma.

Now the irony is that Apple is one of targets for Saudi money in Silicon Valley money.
Well, we do use a blockchain whenever we use Git. Of course, nobody thinks that's cool or revolutionary since that's not sticking it to the man or getting anyone rich.

Don't get me wrong, I actually do think the idea of cryptocurrency is really fascinating and that it's worthwhile to try to find new ways to apply blockchains, but as you say, they currently solve a very limited number of problems.
I would say that to start, read the Ashby books to get some basic sense of things. That, to me anyway, is really core and useful engineering practice. What to balance, what can be physically traded, and fundamental constraints.

https://www.amazon.com/Materials-Selection-Mechanical-Design...
The truth isnt so simple.

Electrically adjustible shocks were all over race cars in the late 80s to mid 90s. Sometime around the late 90s, we realized a good static setup is easier to setup, more reliable, cheaper and better understood in most cases. While some sports like drag racing still ocasionally use the tech (due to differing forces during launch vs run). Aditionally, the bose system, in development since the 80s, never really materialized in useable form, despite some neat demos.

True, most roadracing leagues ban it as 'active', and being outside the spirit of the race. This was due to it potentially becoming an arms race of whose sponsor has the deeper pockets.

I do wish there were still a few 'unlimited' style races. Outside some hill-climb racing it seems most innovation is explicitly forbidden. Nascar has no relation to stock cars, f1 are not as fun to watch and have become a bizarre weird sidenote, e-racing is finally coming of age, but regulations are making for some monotonous designs.

I am sure there would be some interest in a no-holds barred race. Hell, there needs be no rule that the craft even needs to touch the ground (or not be sucked down to it). Lets open our collective transportation imagination...
Squeak is the most delightful IDE I've worked in. I liked the idea that the IDE, including the interactive debugger, was available to the user to program. I hope Pharo gains more traction and becomes popular at least in teaching environments.
care to explain why?
Well knowing they exist (and affect intelligent, thoughtful people, too) is surely half the battle.

I guess Charlie Munger wrote about the kind of thing you're looking for in 'Psychology of Human Misjudgement'.

But then I heard him interviewed on Chinese TV recently, and he seemed to be displaying some huge misunderstandings on human genetics and intelligence, and making what I consider basic reasoning errors. Perhaps he didn't feel like applying his knowledge of cognitive biases to this area.
Perhaps w/o Scotland though. After all, if the British may leave the oppressive yoke of Brussels, doesn't the same hold true of Scottish leaving the oppressive yoke of London? "But...but...but...how would they DARE!!! Of course they mayn't!", I keep hearing from the English. "But isn't the situation symmetric? Of course we may!", I keep hearing from the Scots.
Tangential, but curious as how one would classify the various national astroturfing propaganda offices (think China, N Korea, India, Russia, etc.) Since they are human operated, they're not bots but actually fit the astroturfing definition but I often see them confused or conflated with "bots".
and you know I have extra domain knowledge specific to this role

Funny story, at a previous employer people who had been there 10+ years, would always say, it takes 3 years to really hit your stride in this company. They meant the time taken to have made the contacts and established the reputation that you could really be effective, be trusted with important decisions, and so on. It was a vast company and operated on multi-year cycles was a large part of the reason.

But the average tenure of an engineer at this company was 2.5 years...
OK. But WHY? All technology has moral implications. Did you create this to actually help people? Do you care if it is weaponized? Think before you create.
It does happen in American cities too. Many of the very expensive apartments on Billionaires Row were bought by rich foreigners trying to park or launder money.
Ugh, I hate "pranks" like that.

I once met an Englishman, who assured me he was from South Africa, after talking with him for like 10 minutes, he starts cracking up... when I asked why he said "Because I'm actually English!!"

...

hilarious.
Perhaps legally, but as for actual effictive safety, the default is not to declare everything safe barring counterevidince without due dilligence. Known unknowns and all that.
We have a very talk-about-what-you-need-to structured 1-on-1, where the managing party does every now and then try to ask about work specific ideas and feelings, but mostly it's a conversation that can be about anything, and can last pretty much any duration.

My conversations are about 70-30 regarding work-nonwork topics, often last between 45 minutes and 90 minutes (but we usually schedule about 60), and for some people is more about personal development and conversational experiments than direct work issues. This is because work 'issues' are almost always handled on-demand, and don't require scheduled meetings as we see them as high priority for the people experiencing the issue(s).

The result so far (pas 1.5 year) has been that team clusters (we cluster about 4 scrum teams for a total of 24 people) work well on a personal and social level which solves the politics and technical communication as a side effect, which works much much better than the other way around (trying to fix social/political issues with technical communication). Out of every 30 people we have about 4 that can't seem to integrate very well, even after a year of trying from both sides, at which point we find a different structure, team or cluster of working. If that doesn't work, the person(s) in question usually aren't comfortable in their position anyway and can get help finding work elsewhere, or try to define a position that suits their needs more while still providing the value we expect contractually (but you get much more technical and contractual at that point which never really works out well).

TL;DR: 1-on-1 talks work best when they are an additional contact point and not the only time you get to review and solve things in work or life.
Sorry, weak was perhaps the wrong term, it’s more the management that’s at issue. You can see the sibling comments that of course argue that perspective more accurately.
I wish you'd posted this as a comment on the article so I could have promoted it so that everyone would see it.
Heat is not a guaranteed way to destroy lectins. It depends on how long you cook it, how hot, and the moisture level. Most of the time, it just reduces the levels.
There's not been the same outcry but there has definitely been coverage of the fact that Meng Hongwei had been detained by the Chinese government [0], just as there was when Fan Bingbing, "China's most famous actress", disappeared before recently announcing she had been investigated for tax evasion [1]. Should there be more outcry about the Chinese government detaining its citizens without transparency? Sure, but I think it's obvious why Khashoggi's case has received more attention. Not just that he died and his body is currently missing, but for the ongoing coverup. Also, both have at least been officially accused of crimes by their government, whereas Khashoggi AFAIK had not been at the time of his death.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/07/world/asia/china-interpol...

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/13/world/asia/china-fan-bing...

edit: Memories and perceptions vary, of course, but Caruana's murder from what I remember got a massive amount of attention in the media. The top Google result for "Caruana murder" are currently from the BBC, NPR, The Guardian, and the NYT. In addition, the "Forbidden Stories" collaboration was launched to continue her work:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/17/world/europe/journalist-m...

> After her death, 45 journalists from 18 news organizations agreed to work together to pursue leads from her work on corruption and international money-laundering networks, as well as look into the circumstances surrounding her death. Forbidden Stories, an investigative nonprofit in Paris devoted to completing the work of jailed and murdered journalists, coordinated the collaboration, in which The New York Times took part.

She was killed 1 year ago but her death still gets recent coverage, like this article from 2 days ago from the Committee to Protect Journalists:

https://cpj.org/blog/2018/10/efforts-to-find-mastermind-in-m...
They are still mostly not multi-byte string (i.e. unicode) aware after decades of work. I.e. you cannot really search for strings, with case-folding or normalized variants.

See http://crashcourse.housegordon.org/coreutils-multibyte-suppo... and http://perl11.org/blog/foldcase.html for an overview of the performance problems.

This tool only does the minor task of validation of the UTF-8 encoding, nothing else. There are still the major tasks of decoding, folding and normalization to do.
In my 1-1s (as the subordinate) this note taking sometimes makes me nervous. It begins to feel like a therapy session. “Did I say something wrong? Was I just being weird? Is he gonna hold me to some offhand, throwaway comment I just made???”

If you’re taking notes it helps if you communicate what you’re doing with them, and what exactly you wrote down. I have adjusted my 1-1 conversation to avoid anything that might be considered a commitment or otherwise official. So that I speak very vaguely now. And often avoid issues that are related to my current role or work. In the past not doing so has bit me. Even though I’ve been told the 1-1 time is not about status updates.
Do you have a source for that number? UNHCR lists 44,400 displacements per day worldwide in 2017 [0].

[0] http://www.unhcr.org/globaltrends2017/
sorokod: “Humanity made it to the 21st century consuming pork. Labeling pork 'unclean' is just standard operating procedure where arbitrary restrictions are introduced to generate an "us vs. them" divide and give the religious authorities more control over the everyday lifes of the believers. Same dynamics as when religions take great interest in the sexual lives of the belivers”

Going on how your comment has been rendered invisible, looks like you triggered someone :]
Can someone explain how a language can’t have primitive types?
I don't see how that is a Western moral, in fact modern Western mores are incredibly self-loathing about imperialism, in sharp contrast with say Japanese attitudes, just as a recent example. You suggest that non-Western cultures are less power grubbing. Which ones exactly? The Aztecs? The Mongols? The Japanese? The Zulu? The Arabs? The Persians? The Chinese? Power grubing is as universally human as speech.
I only caught the tail end of this era, but kinda miss it too. We had a network on campus where servers had names, you'd know where to go for movies, porn, music etc.. We also ran an uptime 'contest' of sorts, I remember the top position was in 1530~ days at some point.

However, with the complexity of modern runtime environments; the ridiculous availability requirements & and crappiness of lots of software, it simply is not sustainable to not automate.
I mean, it's all fun and games, but once you are running 500 servers in 3 DC's with a 3 man team, there simply isn't time to fix things most of the time. On the other hand, we did not need docker etc to keep that all running nicely.

That being said, I am not sure containers are truly an improvement.
I would say, suit it to the person you're managing.

me I just trained my reports to use their judgement where appropriate, and bring things to my attention when it looked like it was going to be a problem that needed to be addressed long-term (and was above their paygrade/resources).

for exceptional workers (blessed with danger sense, good judgement, aptitude), they had full autonomy (fill me in on your touch points but otherwise, handle your business).

you could think of it as an "evented" style of management. with direct monitoring as the core. I've always been a fan of go and see; relative to wait and read report.

to be frank, when it was just about the work, things went swimmingly. I made sure the right people had the right styles of work (worked to their strengths) and never assigned work to someone who wasn't capable of it. most importantly, I always took into account a persons limitations (physical, social, mental, personal).

day-to-day stuff they manage their own time.

... plus a 5 minute discuss/debrief on long-running projects works well with capable workers.

same with the general group dynamics (unless there is an objective problem, I let them run their own thing). and yes, that meant sometimes they had disagreements; but as long as they were adult about it, they usually sorted it out on their own.

--

same way I run my direct reports up the chain to my bosses, btw.

I tend to alter the corporate culture under my "umbrella" of responsibility.
Zygomys – an embedded scripting language for Go
Okay let me rephrase: the axis of rotation becomes relatively obfuscated!

I guess it doesn't matter if you're doing everything on the computer, but it's pretty cool that with quarternions you can immediately see the composite rotation's axis and angle without any extra work!
this article contains alot of inaccuracies.

better read the akamai report instead
Latest Windows 10 Update Has yet Another File-Managing Issue
$800 billion isn’t that large for a country like China. China’s cumulative GDP over the past 4 years was something like 40 trillion. This amounts to 2 percent of that.

The US inflow of capital is much higher in both absolute and relative terms.
You can currently add a transaction to the Bitcoin blockchain for (converted) approximately one US cent.

Reference: https://bitcoin.electronrelocation.com

In the future we expect fees to increase (as they must for security purposes), but the idea that someone that can afford to run a full node will not be able to afford to insert a transaction does not hold up under basic scrutiny.
Residential gas piping hasn't changed much over the years. Threaded steel pipe from 1910 should be able to hold a couple orders of magnitude more pressure than it should ever see.

The real determining factor is not age but whether the installer was lazy and hand tightened it all (which you can get away with at 1/2psi, but not much more).
Show HN: AI Assistant can help you compose your images better
I was just doing this earlier with my arms
The occurence of HSV-1 and HSV-2 together is around 90% of the population. The occurrence of alzheimer’s is insignificant compared to that. So, clearly just having hsv doesn’t mean you’re going to get alzheimer’s. Ideally you’d be able to test for the presence of risk factors before taking a preventative drug (with potential side effects) for the rest of your life.
Post the thesis to HN when you're done, or PM me (my Gmail username is the same as my HN username) and I'll host it and post it. Better communication tools for statistics and technical subjects is seriously something that the HN community could use and promote.
Don't underestimate the importance of human-to-human contact. Reminding a blind person that people do care and what can be a very lonely world for those who cannot see!

Ever thought about how a blind person strikes up a conversation with a stranger whose body language or eye contact cannot be read?
Use quotes instead of plus. Plus was reassigned for Google plus
I think there are a bunch of use cases, for example verifying authenticity of high-value products. For example, if you buy a bag from Louis Vuitton from some third party reseller or ebay, you could verify it against LV's centralized product blockchain by scanning/checking some code on the label in the bag.
you, sobbing: "you can't just point at every thing using
a merkle tree and call them blockchains"
me, pointing at git: "blockchain"

­— https://twitter.com/whitequark/status/946886702932557824
IOTA isnt trustless, it has a central Coordinator, which can and has censored transactions before.

Why dont they just use any SQL database? No one would be buying their coins if they didnt lie and glitter their Coordinator around with "the tangle" and "muh quantum safe crypto hash function which is broken by rookie level cryptoanalysis".
Oh, it actually does that on other people's machines? That's a relief. I'd been genuinely worrying if that was actually some kind of malware symptom. Glad to know it's just Win10 being Win10.
I think it is about swallowing the less poisonous pill.

Of course, he is related to Dodi Fayed (the dude killed with Diana), and his uncle is Adnan Khashoggi, the billionaire arms dealer. The entire family was very well connected in the West, especially the elite (British monarchy, Washington DC, etc).

But beyond that, he was also a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, a diametrically opposing philosophy to Al Saud's Salafism (but still islamist and regressive, in my opinion. Bin Laden was a member, someone who Jamal was friendly with for a long time).

Perhaps the American media are more closely aligned with MB than with Al Sauds. This would explain the outrage to me. The GCC nations are extremely anti MB. However, MB has a relatively positive presence in the US. Here is an article from WaPo about when CAIR was designated as a terrorist org in UAE due to MB ties (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2014/11/17...).

I think the US generally turns a blind eye to both MB and Saudi atrocities. However, MB is a little better connected socially in the US (elites, civil rights orgs, etc) compared to Saudi, which is better connected on a federal level (aid, trade, investments).
> bots = lies

Bots that attempt to make themselves indistinguishable from humans - the bots under consideration in this article - are attempting to deceive people. If something is signed 'Amazon Ad Bot' or 'Moscow Political Ad Agency Bot, funded by the Bob Charles for Senate campaign', that's one thing. If it's signed 'Amy Jones", that's a lie.

> The automation part doesn't seem to be relevant, as paid trolls are the problem.

Without the automation, the paid trolls' reach would be far less. It's like saying, 'the nuclear weapons part doesn't seem to be relevant; it's the hostile dictator that's the problem'.

So far, the most common issue raised in this HN discussion is the poor bots being demonized. Only on HN.
I wonder if studying to become an astronaut around the world (like for NASA or JAXA, etc.) there is required reading on Jahn or if they just become fans of a cult hero like him?
Haven't you seen that idea, that you might know some media sucks in tech, but think is ok in other stuff, because you are an expert in tech, but not in that other stuff? E.g. Bloomberg might suck in everything, but you'd only see a problem with tech.
This is similar to the futile struggle to get people to stop calling "crackers" "hackers". "Bot" has now come to encompass "bot", "troll", "sock puppet", and "shill".
> A bot can scale to appear as millions of people.

Meanwhile, labor in Asia is quite cheap ...

Also, they might use bots for the "easy" people, and real human workers for more alert people.
Unfortunately some cultures cherish and reward "quick thinking" and action over real thinking.
I feel the answer might be simple actually.

As contraceptives becomes well understood and taught kids are opting to have a better quality of life and not reproduce. They put it off so they can build a career.

When they build a career they get used to a certain quality of life. And so by mid thirties they don't want to have 3 kids. Of course they delay having kids till they are financially stable enough to have kids and not worry about money and hardship. Because who wants to voluntarily go through extreme hardship.

And so as cost goes up and pay goes down with available contraceptives people are just not having kids until they have the financial stability which many might not have.
I work just a couple of hours per week

Do you mean per day?
The front page layout sucks, but click the Menu button at top right and you'll find the content.
Our team-leads have 1:1s every 6 months with their team-members. Every team-lead has 3 to 8 people they 'manage', although managing in this case means keeping them informed and supporting their professional development. The 1:1 is mostly about ways to improve and setting goals in personal development (what to learn next, attending a rhetorics-seminar etc.) and defining the necessary steps to become senior/principal/etc.
Also we elect our team-leads once a year.
I'm surprised to see so many companies where weekly is the norm.
People generally don't build weallth in Vancouver. Cost of living is too high and salaries too low. Outside of real estate and film production, there dosen't seem to be sufficient scale / diveristy of business activity in Vancouver to make it a place Canadians relocate to work/start companies. Hence it's not a business center even though it's a big city.

My feeling is Vancouver is more like Monaco then New York City. Already rich people move to Vancouver.