skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is indeed very much true. Though there are many attempts to attack Freedom of Speech in the US as well, so not sure how long it lasts.
> Would you be okay with having your bank history plastered across the web for anyone to see?

I used to think the answer to this question was obviously "no", but then Venmo happened, and I learned that some people like the 'social network' feature of it.

Which I find appalling, but tastes differ, I guess.
I see people in this thread surprised that this is happening in Singapore, a “modern” country. Singapore is certainly wealthy, the population is highly educated, institutions aren’t corrupt, all of which is great. However, the political system resembles a democracy only superficially. Every election since 1965 has been won by the same party. It is inconceivable that the People’s Action Party wouldn’t win an election either now or in the future.

Some find this surprising. Surely a de facto dictatorship like this shouldn’t be so wealthy and successful. Turns out Lee Kuan Yew is that one Dictator in a million who managed to do pretty much everything right. Almost every decision he took turned out to be the right one for Singapore, including rigging it’s politics so he could stay in power throughout his lifetime. But he’s gone now, so it remains to be seen if his successors can carry on his legacy.

Source -

1. A glowing obituary in The Economist, a publication harassed in Singapore for criticising the PAP - https://www.economist.com/obituary/2015/03/22/lee-kuan-yew

2. The Dictator’s Handbook
Social media attacks 19 year-old with autism
If their gross margins are the same, and the Macs cost as much as they do now, I'm going to point the obvious and say that Apple is wasting their money on stuff like the touch at, which customers don't see that much value in, more like a cheap gimmick.
Erickssons original number was more like 10 years of daily deliberate practice increasing drom 0.5 to a max of 4/hours per day iirc for experienced people. It was roughly observational based on violinists and pianists. The original paper was interesting.
I believe the point being made is that the _value_ of the crypto system is largely controlled by small groups. Forks rarely achieve the value and status of the prior coin (considering ETC the "fork" here as it was the chain that didn't have the core dev approval).

Furthermore, crypto value is beholden on whales not to just dumping their vast hoards of coins into marketplaces all at once. That is to say, the largest stakeholders in a chain have the opportunity to crush the value of that chain, which means that they have power over other users' choice of chain .
> This would mean that you could only send grin to people how are online. Is this correct?

No. interactive != online. You can exchange information over any comms method, i.e. email, carrier pigeon, message in a bottle, or... Grinbox: A a federated transaction relay specifically designed to facilitate grin transaction building. It supports asynchronous message delivery. (Disclosure: I'm part of the team building it.)

Best way to try it out in action is via https://github.com/vault713/wallet713

An update on what else we're up to
https://medium.com/vault713/hello-from-vault713-6f7b01d9abec
There is no time wasted really - sometimes we need to literally do nothing alone to recharge after busy day.

Think about delegating some chores to housekeeper.

Is your wife doing night shifts every weekend? Is there a way to reduce them or move some into the week.

Generally I would reduce both hours or would take some extra time off even unpaid. I do part-time with my spouse to spend more precious time with our young kids. Once they will grow up into their later teen years then we will be back into full-time work probably.
It fails on Chrome Android with an invalid framebuffer message.
(Shameless plug:) Those of you who care to follow the project can subscribe to https://grinnews.substack.com for weekly updates.
Do you love your wife or your work?

Why does your son goes to therapy?

I would take a step back before trying to "manage" long hours vs. spending time with loved ones, and look at the root of the problem.
Why would Microsoft be interested? (no idea what "Doogle" is - do you mean Google? Why would they care about nested KVM?) Anyway when I find bugs in nested KVM I have reported them to the kernel developers or QEMU in the usual way and help any way I can to get them fixed.
Show HN: AlphaOne announces completion of digital single “Keep it Tight” by Diao
Perfect Storm: Energy, Finance, and the End of Growth [pdf]
Just another flamebait article as pretty much all articles about China in US owned media these days.
You'll all be living in a police state eventually, if you do not already live in one (or know you do).
I greatly enjoyed listening to Professor Zhang’s guest lecture at Google when his talk was first posted onto Youtube [1]. I may have never had the chance to meet him personally, but I know for a fact that it is with immense loss to the world that this man had his life cut short. The physics community and science as a whole mourns at his passing.

[1] Link if interested - https://youtube.com/watch?v=MozDSajpLTY
More up-to-date discussion at https://github.com/mimblewimble/grin/issues/2121
> Storage (still not viable on a large scale)

You may have been missing the last few years of development.
My city (Lünen, Germany) has 2 battery storage systems, one with a capacity of 13MWh and the other (built from EoL smart ED batteries) with 16MWh.

Unfortunately they don't post many (any) updates, but I haven't heard any complaints either.
Does masturbation make you physically weaker?
I must have been a bloody hard and interesting work, back then.
Hi Mareko!
Was wondering if Celo considers international candidates for internship.
Very common in 2019? I haven't run across an OAuth provider in some time that isn't properly checking redirect_uri against at least a whitelist of domains (if not the full URL).

Is there another redirect attack I'm not aware of? The other attacks on redirect generally involve gaining access to some other page on the client you are attacking and using that as a redirect which the provider will often allow if it's only validating the domain. That's not really an open redirect, however...

Am I missing something?
Using something like wallet713 & grinbox, it becomes simple, see demo here: https://github.com/vault713/wallet713

(Disclosure: I work on the project.)
Price movement and number of shares traded are not very correlated. 2% of shares changing hands might come with a 10% price swing, or it might come with a 0% price swing.

When a stock leaves the S&P 500 you can have people selling off a double digit percent of ownership, but once the process is over prices tend to be quite close to where they started. And that's despite the implication that it's a bad stock.

If someone has a plausible reason to buy or sell a huge amount of stock, that isn't related to the company itself, counterparties will show up. If you offer a stock at a 10% discount for purely personal reasons, there will be many many buyers.

And as billmalarky said, in a merger you can have all the shares changing hands with only a small price shift.
This is starting to get a debate of "principles", like forcing A and B to talk, or forcing A and B to have more explicit boundaries, and so on. Guess where that ends (hint: it doesn't).

With a monorepo, the basic effort you have to put in to start scaling is quite high. To properly do a local build, you need bazel or something. But bazel doesn't stop at just building, but it manages dependencies all the way down to libraries and stuff. Let's say you're using certain maven plugins, like code coverage, shading, etc. Would bazel have all the build plugins your project needs? Most likely not. You have to backport a bunch of plugins from maven to bazel and so on. Guess how many IDEs support bazel? Not a lot.

Then you need to run a different kind of build farm. When you check-in stuff to a monorepo, you need to split and distribute one single build. Compared to a polyrepo where one build == one job, a monorepo is like one build == a distributed pool of jobs, which again needs very deep integration with the build tool (bazel again here), to fan out, fan in across multiple machines, aggregate artifacts, and so on.

Then the deployment. Same again. There is no "just works" hosted CI or hosted git or anything for monorepos. People still dabble with concourse or so on.

And guess what, for a component in its own repo, you don't need to do anything. Existing industry and OSS tooling is built from ground up for that. Just go and use them.

To provide a developer a "basic experience" to go from working on, building and deploying a single component – the upfront investment you need to provide with a monorepo is very high. Most companies cannot spend time on that, because scale means different things to different companies. There is a vast gap in the amount of ops/dev tooling you have for independent hosted components vs monorepo tools. Just search for "monorepo tools" or DAG and see how many you can come up with. So what really happens with a monorepo is, most companies go with multi-module maven and jenkins multi-job. The results are easy to predict. I'm not saying that maven/jenkins are bad, but they are _not_ sophisticated, and are not anywhere close to what Twitter/Facebook/Google or any modern company uses to deal with a monorepo (for a good reason). They are just not good at DAG. If you're relying on maven+jenkins as your monorepo solution, all I can say is "good luck".

Instead, if you start by putting one component in one repo, you keep scaling for _much longer_ before you hit a barrier.

In principle, monorepos are better. In practice, they don't have the basic "table stakes" tooling that you need to get going. Maybe monorepo devops tooling is a next developer productivity startup space. But until then, it's not mainstream for very good reasons.
Introducing Scratch 3.0
"Make it up driving" is what makes Thailand world's second most dangerous country to drive
Ask HN: How would you rebuild a new freelancing platform?
I am working on building a better alternative to upwork/freelancer etc. If you are a user of these platforms kindly please suggest ideas/features/systems or processes you wish existed.
The article mentions two paradoxes that are worth considering:

> How could a great mathematician not want to study these things? [these things = Lie groups, Riemannian manifolds, algebraic geometry, algebraic topology, global analysis, or the deep ocean of mathematics connected with quantum mechanics and relativity theory]
>
> This suggests the fundamental question: How much, or how little, must one know in order to
do great mathematics?
> [...]
> The second Erdos paradox is that his methods and results,
> considered marginal in the twentieth century, have become
> central in twenty-first century mathematics.

I never had the feeling that his results were 'marginal', but the fact that he never got a full position anywhere got me thinking---maybe Erdos was just interested in these positions (which, given his personality, might be likely), or maybe he did not 'sell' his work well enough. As someone who hates advertising their own work, I can see how tragic this would be.
I quit taking it when I quit drinking. I literally never finished the second box of tablets.

What you are referring to are those who for whatever reason wish to continue drinking in moderation.
Do you know if it can run Windows 10 LTSB? The telemetry on regular Windows 10 is a deterrent.
Grins are mined by finding 42-cycles in random bipartite graphs with billions of nodes.
Copenhagen-based social media company Falcon.io has been acquired by Cision
Java in 2019: A Look Ahead
Same for me. I prefer Apple hardware because I still consider it the best tool (maybe with the exception of the MBP keyboard). I won't go into debates with others about my choices (here in Europe most people prefer Windows laptops and Android phones). However I can't ditch Gmail, Chrome and Google Search. They still offer the best service :/
you're advocating for captive audience pre-installed appstores not the web
> “one a bad imitation of Thomas Mann,” he later said, “the other a worse imitation of Thomas Wolfe—which is very bad indeed.”

I wonder if he has read about mimetic theory by René Girard?
If the universe originated with the big bang and then expanded, then unless it expanded infinitely fast it must be bounded. But if it's bounded, how can it be flat?
> The "I could've learned that in a 5 min blog post" applies to basically anything and is condescending, arrogant, and does not warrant a discussion.

You've completely missed the point and even failed to assume that the OP was well-meaning.

The whole point of making it clear that the content of an online course can easily be learned by reading a blog post on the subject is to warn potential users that they risk wasting their precious time watching hours of videos consisting mostly of useless filler when spending 5 minutes reading a blog post would get you the same results.

Frankly, this is a major and all too frequent problem witg MOOCs. Sadly, some courses are obvious exercises on how to stretch close to no content into hours of video.

Personally I would hate to waste hours of my personal time unnecessarily, thus I appreciate these warnings.
keep in mind that beautiful code often a) isn't and b) took years of refinement to end up the way it is now. Don't fret if your first prototype isn't the prettiest thing on earth, Just keep refining it until it's acceptable for your purpose.
Some would remember HHGttG, but there's no need: Pan Sonic could probably find a proper use for this monolith. That's the band that have used in their concerts an armored car with a 5000 watt riot dispersion siren—effects of which include nausea and loss of orientation.

A shame that they're disbanded and Mika Vainio is no more.
they are affiliate links, yes.
The "West" actually enjoys much less freedom than the rest of the world. It's only an illusion of democracy and personal freedom.
Yes.....please go ahead
Depends on the quantity I guess, but... why is drinking 4-5 times a week not ok? Something like a glass of wine or a small beer should be fine, right? In some countries (e.g. France) it's a wide-spread habit to drink a glass of wine at lunch, and it doesn't seem to harm public health.
I don't know why. One of the founders of AA was atheist. He just realized that acting like a bigger entity exist helped him, so he started using it as a tool.

This does not mean that he really believed that.

I had seen several atheist and agnostics go to AA without any problems. When you have a serious problem like this that makes you loose your wife, your kids, your job, you try anything that could get you out.

When you are desperate you try anything, anything, including visiting shamans.

From my point of view the people that have problems with AA will be the hyper rational people that could not test something without knowing why they are doing that.

The problem is that when you are under the influence of drugs, your mind is not really free to think, but is strongly biased(cognition bias), so what looks from inside like common sense is not objectively. You can rationalize anything.

What the AA method does is you accepting that the solution is outside you, accepting external influence without judging. This is a necessary step, at least while the influence is very strong.
what are your memories of computer shopping in the 1980s?

In SV, before Fry's (the original Sunnyvale location, 2 moves ago) there were small stores all around, mistky dealing in drives and peripherals.

There were two major local, free newspapers (mostly ads): Computer Currents (biweekly) and MicroTimes (Monthly), each with dozens of small advertisers. I bought my first hard drive (30MB!) at some San Mateo hole-in-the-wall. I got my second from my sister's employee price when she worked at Seagate.

There was also a Heath/Zenith store on South Bascom.
Ah, but here's the disagreement:

> but Python does support old functionality

is completely compatible with "should deprecate functionality that could have easily been supported". There should be only one way to do it is correct. Under the zen, you should bias towards deprecation. That doesn't mean deprecate every old functionality always. Indeed if there are compelling reasons not to deprecate something (the maintenance cost truly is zero, it is infeasible, the new functionality only covers a subset of uses, etc.) you shouldn't!

The python mailing list and peps have a good bit of discussion about most backwards incompatible changes from py2 -> 3 (and more recent ones, like adding new keywords).
A tactic is slightly higher level concept than a mechanical movement, or firing a trigger. A tactic would be how you lay an ambush, or how a small engagement is fought.
How long is the perfect book?
Key points from the article -

TL;DR - Speaker was on Skype. 121 people gathered together to listen to him. Police had told the organizer to get a permit, which he didn't. Location was inside a public mall.

>>>
On November 26, 2016, Wham organized an indoor forum called “Civil Disobedience and Social Movements” at a small event space inside a shopping mall in Singapore. The event featured prominent Hong Kong student activist Joshua Wong who addressed the audience remotely via a Skype video call.

The event’s Facebook Page indicates that 355 people were interested and 121 went. The Skype discussion, which lasted around two hours, was also live streamed on Facebook by The Online Citizen SG, a social media platform focused on political activism, and garnered 5,700 views.

Despite being advised by the police prior to the event to obtain a permit, Wham proceeded without said consent, according to a statement by the Singapore Police Force. Wham faced similar charges of organizing public assemblies without police permits and refusing to sign statements under the Penal Code.
This whole discussion is aggravating. There would be no blind spot if there were two mirrors per side, or those blind spot mirrors, or god forbid, space-remapping cameras or proximity detectors (which now are standard on some cars). It's at the end a cost issue.
Similar to America where Republicans and Democrats are really no different from each other in the grand scheme of things.
You will not always drive cars with perfectly adjusted (or adjustable) mirrors. The responsible thing to do (if you can) is to turn around.

For me this is mostly about the extra time it keeps me from making a stupid deadly mistakes. Switching lanes that way takes longer, and this is a feature not a bug.
I think this is caused by drivers who think "cyclist == basically not moving" when in reality cyclists can be doing a pretty good speed, ~20mph isn't rare. Most drivers haven't ridden a bike since they were kids, though.

When I took my driving test in Ireland the examiner marked me down for checking for cyclists and simply said "there won't be any cyclists doing 20kph" - which of course is a very normal cycling speed.
You write as if that was just a matter of filling out a form. The UK could join if the existing members - and that includes the EU member states - allow them to do so. And why would they?
I hope I am still able to joke. The older folks in my life seem to manage some equinanimity about their situation, even though to me it seems less than ideal.
That might not be an issue for Google, but I could see it being a big problem for a company that relies heavily on projecting a "family friendly" image (think Disney).
especially since having multiple github accounts is a violation of github policy.
What do you call success? If you call success having 30% market share, then you are right. But HTC had smartphones, Nokia as well. They made it a commercial success, but saying that we would have no Spotify without Apple is an exaggeration. Because even without smartphone we would have had Spotify.
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> when they have given no indication that they would even consider it.

That's exactly why I'm asking this question,

> It might be better to spend that free time to build a portfolio of independent projects to showcase to potential employers.

I already have a couple(wordhunt.xyz, getquoter.app), but they do not seem enough to land me a job somehow, and I don't want to apply to 100+ companies to get someone to hire me.

I would like to choose a company that I like and believe are doing a good thing, and then apply and get accepted instead of randomly applying to any company with good pay.
This the country my country's idiot politicians want to model us after, post-Brexit. I despair.
Wow,

Not true, it looks so from where you're sitting. But politics change a lot over time.

It's slow moving and in a two party system, you are unlikely to see big differences between either side.

That said, the world would have looked differently had Hilary won in 2016.
It would be a bit hard for me to get an interview in the first place, I'm not a US citizen.
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A pillars can hide cyclists https://singletrackworld.com/2018/01/collision-course-why-th...
I assume that in summary you're not taking a view..
As a security professional I agree. When I worked at companies with bug bounties I always considered open redirects in the lamest category of bugs, unless the open redirect was cleverly combined with other issues, which was very rare.
The amount of transactions is much higher, but the amount of money being moved is much lower. The highest number I could find for yearly transaction amount in mPesa was 3.7 Trillion Kenyan shilling, which is about 36 billion$. Compared to that, bitcoin moved value for over 400 billion$ in 2018.

I agree with you that the mPesa transactions are much more likely to be transactions for goods and services, but I don't think Bitcoin can be counted as an abject failure just yet.
I see, thanks for your input.

I would like to know for sure if it is good investment to contribute to the companies that I like :)
Weather Underground is yet another IBM company.
So is Weather Channel.

"On October 28, 2015 IBM officially announced an agreement to acquire The Weather Company’s business-to-business, mobile and cloud-based web properties, including Weather Underground, WSI, weather.com, and also the Weather Company brand."

IBM buys firms and then proceeds to eviscerate them.
Value destruction is their strong suit.
Sorry wrong post
Crapaccini
I don't think "more than once" can get you a job, my goal was to contribute a LOT, like full-time for 3-6 months on issues that no one wants to work on so I actually impress.
Completely agree with how ridiculously complex AWS is already, with new services and products added every month. To me digital ocean sort of is AWS light, also really hope it stays like this.
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There are secular AA meetings... heck I just went to one tonight. For those that want AA without the religious aspects

https://secularaa.org/tsml_meeting/