skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everything on the web is converging to the same bland, middle of the distribution curve, unoffensive mean. Everyone has A/B tested to the exact same product, and it's a bad experience.

The technology industry has become more about marginalization, to the point of nonexistence, those who don't fit in the middle of the curve. Might as well not exist if you're outside the 90% intervals nowadays.
I don't think this argument holds up to analysis. According to the OneWeb and Starlink Wikipedia pages:

1. May 2014: OneWeb (formerly 'WorldVu') receives its initial $500 million in funding [1]

2. January 2015: SpaceX's satellite constellation is announced. [2]

3. December 2016: OneWeb receives an extra $1.2 billion from SoftBank and existing investors [3]

4. March 2017: Blue Origin signs OneWeb as a customer [4]

If SpaceX was a neutral transport provider, there's little reason that OneWeb would have chosen Blue Origin over SpaceX. Blue Origin is probably offering very low prices, but SpaceX arguably could match them.

[1] https://spacenews.com/40736google-backed-global-broadband-ve...

[2] http://old.seattletimes.com/html/businesstechnology/20254807...

[3] http://fortune.com/2016/12/19/softbank-oneweb/

[4] https://spacenews.com/blue-origin-gets-oneweb-as-second-new-...
Breaking it down into achievable chunks is important too. The paradox is you can’t plan too far ahead as life will get in the way. But if you don’t have a direction of travel you forget where you’re going.

Hence the five/three/one year ambitions followed by a twelve week plan.
I think the proposed solution in this article also covers educating people to find a qualified source of information.

I was prepared to read an article talking about a problem without giving a proper solution for it. But it seems proposed solution is covering (not all) but a lot of the ground.
Equal negotiating power generally implies employees unionising or having some form of collective bargaining that allows to right to strike.
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I plan fixed periods for training. Personally, running and swimming helps me a lot. I try to solve problems or difficult topics directly.
Here's a story about a DNS hijacking attack unprecedented in scale for which DNSSEC is powerless, and your conclusion is that DNSSEC is an important priority.

If you believe control of the DNS is straightforward without DNSSEC, and that control of the DNS is all you need to get an X.509 certificate issued, go get a GOOGLE.COM certificate misissued. Or FACEBOOK.COM. If you actually manage to do it (you won't), turn the timer on your iPhone on so we can measure how long it takes for Google to kill the CA you got it from, with no notification or further intervention from you.

We do not implicitly trust the DNS roots. In fact, it's a core feature of modern Internet security (modern since the late 1990s) that we do not trust DNS at all. It is a small faction of standards zealots, whose pet standard failed for almost 30 years to either gel or get traction in the market, who have decided that their spurned work turns out to be critical to all Internet security, and they're the ones revisiting that long-decided question.

You made this argument in, I think, 3 other places in this thread, and I'd just like to say that I put some effort into making sure my rebuttals relied on different arguments each time. Collect them all! I wrote them I think a little snarkily, but I tried to exceed the bar you set by claiming I'm "peddling bullshit".
How to hide (obfuscate) any traffic using obfs4
Robert Spencer i.e. @jihadwatchRS

https://pjmedia.com/trending/jihad-watchs-robert-spencer-ann...
While the author makes good points, but clearly also has some nostalgia, I’m mostly thankful for the web we have today, it could have been much worse.

All serious publishers have their own website, and use social media for advertising mostly. Facebook articles and google news have failed. Facebook has not become “the web” as some feared.
Unlike yours, his comment was interesting. You even didn't understand his comment, as he said eras are different and not better than one another, which is what you're saying. Relax and don't be the you-sound-like police.
The whole premise of AGL's article is the fact that you can't have pure DANE. Literally, "a hybrid of DANE and CAs" is just a restatement of the sentence "you have to trust all the CAs and the DNS". You haven't said anything in this comment.
How to hide (obfuscate) SSH traffic using obfs4
Yes, with a few exceptions it's restricted to a maximum of 8 hours a day on average (and 10 hours max), with 5 days a week.

However, how much stress you can be exposed to in those 8 hours isn't mandated. You can run many businesses understaffed with fairly little impact if you are willing to regularly replace employees suffering from burnout [1]

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupational_burnout
All marketing is propaganda, but not all propaganda is marketing.
Ask HN: Is there a service to be notified about drug trials for specific issues
I was wondering if theres an app or service which either notifies you of or allows you to sort of register with companies/hospitals etc for trials of new treatments for specific conditions eg you just sign up with your details and the conditions you have and youre informed of any trials in the area that you are eligible for
the human eye might not be affected, but are any animals or insects susceptible to these wave lengths ?

plus are there any weather conditions the light become visible?
The solutions are already in front of us.

Solar, wind and gas for electricity. No more coal. Technology already exists. Side effect: cleaner air.

Electric cars and trucks for transport. Technology already exists. Side effect: cleaner air and better cars.

No more beef. Pork, chicken, insects and plants instead. Technology already exists (has for thousands of years). Side effect: less water use, healthier diets.

Mostly these things would come faster with a broad enough carbon tax, instead they are coming slowly. I'm completely certain that we could do all of the above in 5 years.

At most the above would entail minor inconveniences for the average person. It just takes the political will to place a minor inconvenience on a population whom you hope will still vote for you.
Probably the only solution but it isn't pretty. Can't find anything like that locally so it will be easily the cost of the chromecast just for that.

And I can't find anything about whether it will resample the audio (dealbreaker), or how it will negotiate that.

I'm sure there will be a couple of unforseen issues as well. My chromecast occasionally disconnects itself, which means that you would have to rewire the hdmi cable to the TV just to have a clue of what is going on (can my parents or house gets figure that out when I'm not around?).

And yet another device and power brick.
By using low-pass optical filters on cameras, for example like this one (probably much cheaper in volume): https://www.edmundoptics.com/document/download/396359

I've used band-pass filters which reject everything except a narrow band, so that camera sees just the IR LED (chosen to fall in the middle of passed band) and they cost a few USD in small volumes.
> Unemployment in Europe as a whole (including Eastern Europe) is ~20%.

According to [1] unemployment in the EU-28 is actually 6.7% as of November 2018. Of course, there are some European countries that are not in the EU, but I doubt that including them will cause the figure to rise to 20%.

[1] https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...

> So for doing everything we do today, and for guaranteeing the future, we need around 25% of the human race. Everyone else is economically useless.

No, that does not follow. For example, a stay-at-home spouse who takes care of the kids may be "economically useless" in a very shallow sense (i.e. they do not appear in GDP figures), but that does not make them useless.
Default ordering would be ascending order, smallest to largest. You would need to specify DESC to order the higher numbers first.
Who is "you"? The people we're afraid of manipulating .COM control the DNS. Google can't "map .com to another key". Their option would be to leave .COM; that is the gun DNSSEC would give to the USG to hold against Google's head.
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There are many pre-natal tests available. I was specifically referring to nipt, which is usually priced around $200-600, and can spot Down and other DNA issues with great accuracy.
I suspect it has something to do with the communist revolution rather than the influence of the West
Yeah I think you're forgetting that consumers are a very important part of functioning local, national and global economies. If the only businessman in a farming town runs a grocery store selling the potatoes from one farmer and you killed everyone else off besides that farmer and store owner, that town's GDP will drop to 0 within their lifespan. This can basically be extrapolated to the global level?

Also why should we artificially extend forcing most humans into agency-less drudgery for 60% of their sentient healthy waking hours? I think the sooner we embrace having 15% of the population producing the net economic output and providing the rest of the society with what they need, the faster we can figure out a significantly better and fulfilling society for everyone.
For those wanting an off-line copy: do yourself a favor and get the .djvu file. It's the smallest and ironically it has better quality images than the PDF.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DjVu
Where did you get 2^93? I seem to get 3.6 × 10^51 which is about 2^171. Meanwhile the 128-bit addresses are only enough to give one to each cubic-micron nanobot on Earth (https://www.xkcd.com/865/).
My experience as a female engineer in the tech industry
You manifestly can't trust them today, couldn't yesterday, or for the last 30 years, despite the rise of e-commerce and the gradual shift of all applications to the web with its domain-validated WebPKI. Google doesn't DNSSEC sign. Facebook doesn't DNSSEC sign. No major bank I've found DNSSEC signs. AT&T doesn't DNSSEC sign, nor does Verizon. Some part of Comcast does, or did, and the net effect was that DNSSEC errors broke HBO NOW on launch day for Comcast users (and only Comcast users).

Tell me more about how the whole thing crumbles away? Because I'm pretty sure I'm typing into a TEXTAREA on the real HN, and not some facsimile a DNS hacker created to fool me. The Internet seems to be working fine without the government-run PKI you're saying we have to have.
I meant - no reason not to get that market share in the small-comsat market.

As to why do it themselves as opposed to just be a provider to OneWeb, I think this is a sneaky way to do some price discrimination - SpaceX, like everyone else, may have some spare launch capacity, so having an internal (hopefully-profitable) project to soak up that demand rather than cratering launch prices may be worth it.
It’s even worse now that a lot of online services record your card so it will be easier for valid user to pay a service.

If your credentials are compromised, even a paying certificate is easy to get.

On a small company, the payment might be noticed. On big companies the odds are low.
It is not Santa Claus. It is "Ded Moroz"[1]. An old bloke from the times before christianity came to Russia. Orthodox priests always (for a ~1k years) opposed such characters, trying to extinguish any lore except christianity, but never fully succeeded.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ded_Moroz
> Go ask any normal person if Google has a reputation for discontinuing products

The multiple Google chat applications.
12 years (or at least it was in the early 90s): we let a neighbouring farmer graze his sheep on some land we had, but had to ceremoniously turf them out every so often to reset any possible claim in law.
I can fully recommend HtDP for beginning programming - tried various options for my 11 year old. I needed it to involve very little help from me - tried some scratch, mit50x, both which helped but did not spark and sustain interest.

Then we came across https://www.edx.org/course/how-code-simple-data-ubcx-htc1x - love it and does not need any help from me :)
planning to move on to https://www.edx.org/course/how-code-complex-data-ubcx-htc2x after that!

edit: corrected typos
True - ornamental was the wrong choice of wording. Ornamental features absolutely aid sexual selection.
Dont forget the multiple google chat applications.
I liked it. My least favorite part wasn't the book itself but rather DrRacket. DrRacket's not bad, in fact it has some slick features, but I don't consider it great either. As an IDE it's good, but as a text editor it's poor. But then again my brain has been poisoned by Vim, DrRacket is probably great for young students without preexisting biases like mine.

I've been using racket for almost all of my recreational programming for the past few years but I don't do it with DrRacket.
We've bought one of the cheapest dishwashers we could find, and it came with a feature to connect it to an app using NFC. Granted, the whole EU is "very upper class" compared to most of the world, but it's still quite a huge number of machines.
Two points in rebuttal. First, companies can expand more confidently if they know they can reduce more easily if they need to. It is more efficient for companies to be able to right-size themselves. Bolstering this point of view is that the USA has a 4% unemployment rate, which is about as low as you can get without things starting to break down. The US economy has been outperforming almost everyone too, creating more prosperity for more people, compared to countries with more restrictive controls over employment.

Second, specific to SpaceX, they actually succeeded in making reusable rockets. They used to need to build a new rocket for every launch. Then they needed to build their reusable fleet up. Now they don’t need to build hardly any rockets. I think this is what success looks like for them right now. From this point of view a 10% reduction is pretty low, and is only so low because they still have even bigger plans.
And yet when attackers want to misissue certs for small sites (for big sites, misissuance is detected automatically and gets CAs killed), they don't exploit vulnerabilities that DNSSEC defends against. Why is that? And given that's the case, why pursue DNSSEC?

And how is any of this, any of it all, relevant in a world where registrars can simply speak RDAP to CAs? If you believe the problem is that the Internet will (to use your turn of phrase upthread) crumble away unless we secure the DNS for domain validation, why should we forklift out the entire DNS to do so, when we can just get a small group of organizations to deploy RDAP, something they're planning on deploying anyways, and then add that to the 10 Blessed Methods?

No part of DNSSEC makes any sense.
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Lots of providers are happy to provide worldwide service for free, as long as you pay $10 per gigabyte. I generally budget 1 check-in per day, of about 250 bytes, so a coin cell can easily power it for a few years with a total service cost for 2 years of just a few cents.
Again if that's true then the game is up, because the USG obviously controls .COM; they theatrically demonstrate that every time they take down a piracy site. But, spoiler! The game turns out not to be up.
Only worked through a part of it, but left a pretty good impression. Writing style was pleasant to read, sometimes imagined it read in Bob Ross' voice. Only Scratch has a shorter "zero to moving pictures" time. The language manual is so tightly integrated with the book it doesn't leave a single character of code unexplained (I've read beginner's books that never explained "+=" while using it in code samples). My only nitpick is that the design recipe wasn't sufficiently explained and it finally clicked when I tried the edx course based on the first part of HtDP, which has its own problems like a plodding pace and unchallenging excercises. All in all a great beginner's book.
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Freedom to fire enhances the willingness to hire. There’s a balance to be found, but if you make it impossible to get rid of employees you no longer want, you end up with an anemic labor market, like Europe’s.

Barriers to firing also make it harder to justify hiring higher-risk candidates (e.g. former felons, high school dropouts).
"the station's future is in doubt, because it, along with WWVB and WWVH, has been recommended for defunding and elimination in the NIST's Fiscal Year 2019 budget request."
Dokuwiki, easy to setup and works great.
Thanks. Wikipedia has the drawing from 1885, i.e. more than two decades before the Soviets existed:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%D0%94%D0%B5%D0%B4_%D0%9C...

Anybody knows even older?
It could also mean firing that one developer who vastly underperforms, but you still have 5 other skilled developers because developing happens to be what your company does.
Sure, but mostly because they’re full of exactly the sort of people I don’t want to interact with
Which is kinda just how capitalism "works".

In certain circumstances, once the means of production are created [most of] the workers are no longer needed, but the means being privately held (by a narrow group of owners) means they alone can benefit going forward.

You can make a feast together and share it; or you can make a feast together, kick out most of the helpers and gorge yourself.

Capitalism says the second option is better because you get to have more.
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Not that hard, the Blue Book last chapters are a description on how to implement a VM.

http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr/FreeBooks.html

You can make use of a reference counting with cycle collector as basic GC implementation, without any JIT, for example.
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Even in a developing country like India or China, a pollution tax would be an effective (and lucrative) defense against opportunistic "race to the bottom" behavior. There are plenty of emerging industries, even in manufacturing, that don't depend on polluting the environment for their viability.
> The article somewhat implies that Ded Moroz was a communist invention based on Santa Claus, but in fact this is not true.

It is true to some extent. I'm not sure, but it seems to me that before communist revolution Ded Moroz was not an essential part of christmas. It was mostly fiction and lore character representing winter and cold, and was not connected with christian holidays. It is communist's work to make a strong connection, and it seems as an imitation of Europe and US traditions.

> he doesn't necessarily has a red dress, although I suspect (maybe some Russian can clarify) that the red dress is the influence of the West.

He have no strong preference for a dress color. Though red and blue are the most frequent. Maybe just because soviet industry made only red and blue dresses for actors playing Ded Moroz. A lack of variety is a known Soviet industy trait.
Or just the use of the phrase “transcend paradigm” - all it needs is a PowerPoint slide deck with a marble background pattern.
> MIT students are far stronger than average and can generally skip certain elided steps that other students cannot.

They are stronger at what?

Either they know things already or they don't. If they know things already then they can skip steps and if not then they can't or can use guesswork. And that's what any other human being will do.
I recommend "Concepts, Techniques and Models of Computer Programming" Van Roy and Haridi. While SICP is an enlightening read, much of what it discussed, looked to be methods that do not all mesh together into one overarching discipline or "science" of programming, which is what CTM aims to do(But admittedly it is a much harder book, and I am still only in the very early chapters). Important questions like how programming in the large is different from programming in the small, how some methods scale and how some do not, topics like these aren't perhaps handled by either of the books, if my memory serves right.
>laid off anytime for arbitrary reasons.

You can also leave for any arbitrary reason, anything else is slavery, simply put. This goes both ways.

>If you create a company, you take care of it and all of its members.

If you create a company, you have a fiduciary duty towards your shareholders. A company only exist when it is profitable (either now or in the future) and it can only continue to exist if it can do so profitably. Companies don't exist to "take care of its members", those are what unions are for ... oh ... wait ...

>Will the 10% of the employees be the ones who are already in the less comfortable financial and social situation in their private life ?

How is this even relevant? You provide a service to the company and they pay you for it, they can decide not to do business with you and vice versa. Empathy has little to no place in business, unless it generates more profit of course.
As someone who grew up in the Soviet Union/Russia, this brings back a TON of nostalgic memories. The entire aesthetic is triggering (in a positive way)

I don't take a jaded approach to the idea that there is an intersection between my childhood innocence and state propaganda. Plenty of North American traditions I see my wife and friends feeling nostalgia for are also based on church or state "ideals" that become beloved traditions over time.

You only call the Soviet ones "propaganda" because the USSR was the enemy.
You are absolutely right that there is a tendency for people to respond to a recommendation request with a book that is too much for the requester, and I've sometimes thought may have been too hard for the answerer on their first time through the material. I see that on /r/math, for instance, it seems to me. (That phenomenon needs a name.)

That said though, let me say that for me personally SICP was mind-opening. I think about it a lot; it has had a major influence on me. An example is that I am working on a Theory of Computation book and I am trying to emulate some aspects of it (while keeping the presentation accessible). I certainly will admit, though, that when I read it I expect that I was in a different place than the post's author or than the typical student.
Ded Moroz is not strange enough to place gifts into stockings, what a stupid idea? Why limit himself with stockings, why do not use underpants as a gift container? ;)
The right place for gifts is under a christmas tree.
The silver lining is that $20B is still a tiny fraction of the cost for the Iraq war (a cost that one notable presidential candidate was historically quite comfortable with paying. No, I don't mean Bernie) That's progress, I guess!
I think the key issue is around “abandonment” which requires a bit of “intent”. These guys intend to go and pick these up. The same is true for a car as other pointed out but more importantly when I park my car I intend for it to be where I left it.

“In law, abandonment is the relinquishment, giving up or renunciation of an interest, claim, civil proceedings, appeal, privilege, possession, or right, especially with the intent of never again resuming or reasserting it. Such intentional action may take the form of a discontinuance or a waiver.“

-It would make cool artwork!
-I dislike seeing scooters strewn about all over the city.
Initial results from reconnaissance flyby of Kuiper Belt planetesimal: 2014 MU69