skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm waiting for the inevitable EU firewall that will ultimately be required to aggressively control all Internet usage for anyone in the EU.

It can end no other way than that. Particularly as these draconian regulations continue to get worse. How else will they enforce these policies against foreign entities that can trivially ignore them while still serving EU users? They have to put a stop to that, as it's an easy circumvention.

I can build a service in the US. Allow EU citizens to sign up. Entirely disregard most, if not all, EU laws. Monetize the huge US market first as a cash springboard. Acquire scale. Then turn on EU monetization when it's convenient to deal with the regulatory challenges there. There might be considerable retroactive fines involved for ignoring EU law over time while still taking on EU users (when you attempt to monetize the EU users, requiring business on the ground in the EU, that's when they'd land punches financially; the retroactive approach would be the solution the politicians would come up with as a desperate stop-gap against this approach); so what, I'm now a monopoly platform, I already won, hit me with your speeding ticket. If you make the speeding ticket too large, I'll demonetize the EU users, remove all business from the EU, ignore any fines, retain the EU users anyway to prevent competition, and keep going (come back later and see if I can lobby/bribe the EU politicians in some kind of fine settlement).

The sole means to stop that scenario - which is almost obnoxiously beneficial to furthering US dominance in platforms - is to lock down all Internet usage in the EU and dictate by permission what sites may be used. The tighter they get with Article 13 style regulations, the more likely they have to implement an EU firewall.
I did it "manually" a while ago: https://glandium.org/blog/?p=139 https://glandium.org/blog/?p=141

There are more automated ways to do the conversion now. Here's the first one I found while searching for my own blog posts above: https://www.johannes-bauer.com/linux/luksipc/
...and if a single person (or company) with your number in their phone allows Facebook to access their contacts, FB has your phone number anyway.
What can online radicalisation teach us about cybersecurity?
Which is one of the reasons why these schemes are horrible. But the point remains that banks are afraid of database leaks for other reasons.

Maybe think of it like this: imagine that you have an airgapped system where all the endpoints are running Windows XP (reasoning being something like hardware drivers that were written by defunct companies and can't / won't be upgraded). Is it horrible that such machines are running unsupported, EOL versions of Windows? No question. But if there are other controls in place (like airgapping, like 24/7 physical access control to the endpoints), it might still be possible to provide de-facto effective security.
What a corrupt nation this is that such practices could come to exist.
Jula allows it, initially only defining the integer division operator for non-zero divisor. That default changed due to a (at that point) lack of syntactic sugar and type-inference to not make it a massive hassle.

Edit:
It's called a partial function, and I confused Julia with Pony. The former might be able to express it, the latter can handle it in some way, but I'm not familiar with either type system.
Indispensable JavaScript library inspired by lodash
Career opportunity. Proximity to family and friends.
Why the focus on niche languages / frameworks? Why not make your life easy and use Qt (C++) or Electron (JS)?
You can encrypt /home/<user> relatively easily, but you can't avoid having to type in two passwords if you want FDE.

You have to decrypt the hard drive to reach the login screen, and other users would have to do the same as well. You don't need to share any of those two passwords, since LUKS has up to 8 password slots I believe.
> In any organisation it's only the owners who are ultimately concerned with overall cost - managers can have all sorts of incentives for larger or less efficient staff.

I wonder if that could be accounted for by performance/productivity related bonuses or other perks.
Should be very easy to swap the google map out for something offline. You can still use the remaining 99% of the tool which does the receiving/decoding/interpreting of the signals.
Pardon my naivety but wouldn't making the code twice as efficient mean they could reduce their aws costs by half?
Hiding in Plain Sight: Pac-Connected Activists Set Up ‘Local News’ Outlets
I don't know if you're up to speed with US politics, but at the time the photo was taken, they were the Congressional minority leaders. They had just told the President that they wouldn't support funding for his border wall project:

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2018/12/11/trump_mee...

The President insisted on debating the issue with them with the press in attendance, which is somewhat unusual, and they embarrassed him rather badly as a result. They are strutting away more or less triumphantly. Whether that was a good or bad thing isn't a good thing to get into here, but that's basically the gist of it.

The joke is that the wooden plaque above the front door to the White House resembles the 'Great Seal' bug that userbinator mentioned. This was an advanced listening device that the Soviets presented as a gift to the US ambassador at the end of WWII. It was advanced in the sense that it was entirely passive, requiring no power or vacuum tubes, and was very hard to detect with the technology of the day. It could be said to be among the first applications of modern RFID technology.
> In Windows, encryption is totally transparent to users (I need only to type the account password).

With transparent encryption, Windows decrypts the disk at boot using the TPM. Prior to login the disk is already mounted (decrypted).

It provides an easy way for enterprise to say, "yes- we have FDE".
give me your idees of insispensable lodash-like functions
> and Windows its relatively simple too since they added BitLocker in 10.

Not really. OEM installs have it, but Windows 10 Home doesn't. If you're on an OEM install and decrypt the hard drive once, you won't be able to re-encrypt it without paying for a Pro upgrade. That mistake costs $100.
>Also men do this...

True story. A stalker found my blog via my Instagram account and commented some far-out there shit on it, inferring a conversation that we never even had, "Told you that you weren't dead." WTF!?

Now, it's pseudonyms, pseudonyms everywhere; except, of course, where it serves a necessity to have your actual name being used, such as on LinkedIn, but even those will be discarded, as soon as it's no longer necessary. (Necessity, here, meaning seeking gainful employment.)
Steam has a game called Rape Day. And yes – it is what you fear it is
+1

> a more enterprise solution where I can store a recovery key centrally that a user can’t remove.

The enterprise solution is to not give users administrative privs.
I'm opposing the slowing of metabolic state due to external temperature versus a neurological origin.
newsflash- poaching is lucrative enough for people to not listen when you tell them to please stop killing the animals(they'll even shoot at you if you irritate them enough). it is essentially a war between economically and ethically motivated people.

buzzfeed: [surprised pikachu face] for clicks as usual
I don't get this kind of destructive attitude. Surely the sensible thing to do when you want more equality and women are skewed towards lower paying jobs, is to hire more women in higher paying jobs?

I'm all for paying people in lower-end jobs better, mind you, but using this as an excuse to hurt salary growth seems like it's intended to discredit the whole idea of gender equality. Well, unless the people involved are provably overpaid, like CEOs tend to be. But somehow I suspect the CEO is still getting his excessive raises.
Native English speaker here, I still browse HN at 150% zoom because I use displays with a high DPI (Macbook pro retina 15" and the Dell U25 and U27 series screens).

It's just more comfortable that way.
I don't know anyone around me who still uses facebook. Heard the story of a relative who organised a birthday on facebook and wondered why no one showed up.

I don't think it's an unhelpful answer to a complex problem. I think it's the right answer.
Works well for me on Ubuntu 18.04 and 18.10
What products would a martian colony produce that are worth transport costs? Even taking into account you only need to pay for the return trip, because the earth-mars leg is payed for by imports anyway.

Data has much more favorable transport costs, but there is only so much valuable data on Mars. Especially since astronomy isn't really a free market.
There might be resources on Mars that are rare enough on Earth to be worth it. I'd be interested in hearing more on those.

It seems to me like the main value of a Mars colony (human exploration, achievement, and insurance against planetary wipe-out) are abstract, and can't be exported in any real sense.
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There's an amazing movie created by 101 East on the topic of China's surveillance, called "China's spying Eyes", you can find it on youtube or AlJazeera homepage. For the sake of security, like in Hobbessian Leviathan, the citizens have sacrificed all of their freedoms to a monster, a state and this sacrifice is not proportional. The topic was once proposed by https://www.effectivepapers.com/ and now, investigating even further, it becomes apparent that not only Chinese govt heads to that direction. EU anti immigration programs, implementation of AI at the customs, etc. Those commiting crimes will find the way to do that, while the ordinary people will pay the price. Finally, for the states this a zero-sum game and always win.
The problem of gender pay gap is a really hard one to tackle.
You have to be a fool to pretend there is no issue, but the number of causes is incredible at the gender, education, industry, company and individual levels.

Every time there is a public debate around that topic you end up with two major groups, one saying that women work less or are less productive because of XYZ, the other saying something close to "it's the patriarchy".

Striving for equality of outcome is a good first step, but it's attacking the symptoms and not the causes.

Just like for politics or employees quotas, you can bend the end of the process to make it look fair and balanced but if the 10 steps before are biased against women (and other groups) you end up with an illusion of parity while the only thing that changed is you now make "positive" discrimination.

Making the wages public is a good thing no matter the reason, after all the first step of making a decision is to have access to data. If it helps with pay gaps all the better.
Indeed, [1] shows inherent issues with coins that rely purely on transaction fees for eventual security.

[1] On the Instability of Bitcoin Without the Block Reward http://randomwalker.info/publications/mining_CCS.pdf
If they could brute force just one hash they would know the pepper. But this is already infeasible if the pepper has sufficiently high entropy.
Another option would be GTK. It is quite portable and while I haven't checked out the GTK libraries for Common Lisp, but as GTK is a pure C-based API, binding to it from other languages is very easy, so good bindings should be available. Personally, I have been using GTK3 via Go on Linux/Mac.

And for Common Lisp, there is of course LTk, it is extremely portable, but you have to live with the Tk UI toolkit (which got a pretty native look in the meantime).
Background for this artcile - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair
From the above link (emphasize is mine)

> This release increases the major version number to 5. This change does not mean anything and does not affect programs in any way, it just makes Linus happy.

Oh...
> If you watch some of the reality TV you see in UK about CCTV surveillance you’d think the county is suffering from a crime epidemic when in fact a lot of the situations are minor and often escalated by overly aggressive police officers interacting with uneducated angry drunk people.

I couldn't find London's murder rate further back than 1990 for some reason, but for England, the murder rate is higher now than it's been since at least 1900.

We don't know if CCTV surveillance, gun bans, and silverware purchasing restrictions have had an effect reducing violent crime, but at the very least it hasn't been enough to counter the increase.

> Better social policy regarding education and alcohol would be the better solution.

I'm pretty skeptical that this would decrease violent crime and/or murders. Do you have any evidence for this?
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That's actually mentioned in the article itself.
> `you’re on Medium after all’

Ahhhhh! You got me!
I just ran into this when I installed ubuntu and wanted to preserve dual boot. Definitely more room for improvement on the "Just Works" front here.
fuck sake steam.
That's actually hilarious.
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I think it's pretty newsworthy that donations to the WWF are being directly spent on AK-47s.
How do you remove biases from such a process though.

Given two employees, same education, same title, same working hours, same productivity (based on managers reports), nothing guarantee that the HR department won't "like" one more than another. Or one might ask for raises more often or with better arguments (having kids, longer commute, getting offers from other companies all the time).

Office politics are what they are, politics, as long as you have human in the process you'll have biases. Now if these biases are stronger against certain group it probably should be addressed.
I have the paperback version and I have read the Jupyter, Numpy and Matplotlib chapters as well as most of the Pandas chapter (I haven't read the scikit-learn chapter at all). So far I like it. It's well written, well edited, overall a good quality book. It's really focused on the tools and it shows you how they work with small, contrived examples. This is good because you can use it as a reference, pick up pretty much any section and understand it. However it doesn't teach you much about the process of data science, which would require larger examples. In other words it's focused on the how but not on the what and why. Maybe a more accurate title would be Python Data Science Tooling Guide. In my opinion it should be perfect for people who've already done some data science in another environment and are switching to Python. Other people might need to seek additional guidance elsewhere.
Any reason why is not compiled to WebAssembly?
>But it sure would have been nice to keep separate numbers the same way it's sometimes necessary to keep separate google accounts.

In Sweden, you can request a pre-paid SIM be sent to you in the mail[0].

To be fair, it's not entirely a "burner" SIM, as it's associated with your personnummer but it's a lot more convenient than queuing in a shop (if that's not your thing).

Maybe your country has a carrier that does the equivalent? :)

[0] - https://webbutik.comviq.se/kontantkort/checkout/comviqcart/p...
Cryptocurrencies of interest leave long trails of discussion on bitcointalk.org and reddit, and project websites tend to leave traces on the internet archive.
Yes you are correct. That is my mistake.

Oracle is attempting to define their ownership of an API primarily as one where they have a copyright to it rather than a patent. There is apparently a not insignificant difference between the two definitions in legal-speak.
I can see how being instrumental in creating an exciting and tight race might be more lucrative than merely winning all the time. At least when the main source of revenue is spectators rather than sponsorship.
> Internet access makes it too easy for inmates to conduct this remote abuse while hiding evidence that they did so.

Setup a web proxy that only allows outbound port 80 and 443, MITMs all port 443 traffic, only GET and HEAD (no PUT/POST/CONNECT), and only to a select list of pre-approved domains (e.g. wikipedia.org, news/educational/government websites, etc), and which records all traffic. Risk of harassment from such a setup seems pretty low, and the inmates might learn something useful.
I use it too, but most of the projects are Nim-related (https://forum.nim-lang.org, nimble package manager, etc), we do like to eat our own dogfood.
I find it funny that the "right way" link has HTTPS whereas the "wrong way" link doesn't.
It's a shame it cripples the performance though. It roughly quartered sequential read/write for me.
Tesla was a utter disaster when Elon took over and would have failed. Making a tiny as car maker into a very large on is 100x harder then starting a little car company and running it into the ground.

Elon didn't start Tesla but he wanted to start a car company when he heard that another company had just started with the same idea so he joined them instead.

Since then he saved Tesla by taking over and investing his own money.

> He's been snow balling off initial success and

I'm sorry but that is just insane. The company was not very successful when he took over, so 'snow balling of early success' is just nonsense.

> continues to accelerate thanks to collaboration with brilliant people.

So like all successful business people/inventors in the history of the world?
A missing letter helped create a tech billionaire
It's the headline, and it's fine.
Check the etymology of `hack` and you'll see it's a suitable word for gene editing.
The incorrect assumption is an implicit one: the fungibility of workers.

Your argument would work (-ish) if you were arguing against pay inequality. And, in fact, pay inequality is usually a lot lower than the pay gap.

But for many large organisations, the pay gap is due to women being more likely to be in lower paid roles while men are more likely to be in higher paid roles. Replacing men with women and vice versa would reduce the pay gap but wouldn't dent the overall wage bill significantly.
Quick Look at QUIC
On the surface that is true, but most folks understand it doesn't really work that way and facebook isn't really used that way. At a minimum, facebook is generally full of actual friends (for me, maybe 5 folks now), family (my family is large) and folks you generally have met from school and work and other folks you might know in a professional manner or through groups and activities.

Not all of these groups would have my phone number, but facebook isn't exactly a telephone service at its core.
The current Mayor of London (Sadiq Khan), his religion (Islam) and immigration are unrelated.

Sadiq Khan is the Labour candidate who succeeded the previous Conservative mayor by majority in a democratic vote. Swings between the two major parties are common.

In other totally unrelated news, 12% of the population of London are Muslim.

Your reckless conflation of facts paints you as a troll of religious discrimination if not outright racism.
The audacity of developers to release this on steam. You don't do that with an fetish game. You stay out in the mainstream channels and stick on the fringes. But money needs to be made I guess.
Not yet - I intend it when it reaches a certain spread - I don't want anyone to change that a little and then claim it as his work.
Your assumption in your model is wrong. You aren't assuming the same productivity of men and women, you're assuming the same observed productivity of men and women.

If you're in a widget factory and both a man and a woman are producing 10 widgets per hour then your effect would be expected - because the boss would be able to evaluate true performance. In the real world however, no job is that simple. The problem with the gender pay gap partly is that women are assumed to be less productive than men in certain jobs. You don't hire a woman engineer because women are interested in people not things - so your expectation is that a women is 20% less productive than a man because you've decided being interested in people is bad for the job and that influences your expectations when hiring.
Oh, for some reason I was in the thought that it is. Sorry!
An argument can be made that any prevented crimes are not published, with the intent of lulling would-be criminals or terrorists into a safe sense of security - that is, that communicating via a certain platform is safe enough, not knowing the NSA is listening in.

And on the other hand, what makes you feel safer: no news at all, or "1000 potential terrorist threats thwarted through surveillance". The former is dull, but dull is good right? The latter is stressful on both sides, on the one hand that apparently there are at least 1000 terrorists active - and what about the ones they didn't catch - and on the other that the government is listening.

So that's my theory; if government surveillance is effective, it's kept under wraps so it remains effective.
Hey aboutruby,
the way to use this project is the following:

1. Checkout the repo

2. Follow the README to setup the different browsers

3. Run the tests against the included sample app

4. Replace the sample app with your own app.

That last part depends very much on your own app.
It's easiest if your own app can already be run via docker-compose, then you would simply replace the example container with your own container set.
Otherwise you could point the baseUrl in the wdio.conf file to your host machine (e.g. using `host.docker.internal`) and run your app on your host.
WxWidgets is now available & stable(!) for Py3 and available on PyPI for easy installation & distribution. Moreso, the dev pipeline has been streamlined and they are now able to follow upstream much more closely! Maybe this is sth for you.
> [..] plant-based diet is probably the best way to ensure an optimal Lithium intake.

It looks like a plant-based diet is probably the best way to ensure optimal intake of most micronutrients. Plants and legumes contain a whole lot of micronutrients per calorie, especially compared to calorie-rich 'junk' food.
You can visit many town centres in the UK on a Friday evening and witness it yourself, to a degree. The Police also have a habit of speaking some other kind of language that has the effect of causing people who are already bad tempered to become even more so.

Of course no data, purely observational.
> These articles tend to attract comments with dire predictions for US society if people knew each others salaries, so just a reminder Norway always does nationwide salary transparency

True. But I think it is worth pointing out that the US is not Norway. There is a significant culture difference for one. Secondly the policy may simply not scale. The US population, workforce, economy is orders of magnitude greater than that of Norway.
Past a certain point I don't think it will be used. It will use.
I've seen some English reality / cop TV, it's entertaining enough - mostly because most of the crime shown there is benign, like idk, people driving without a license or drunk people. They probably make those shows on purpose though, showing on the one side that crime isn't that bad, and on the other to remind people to keep their insurance up to date because the cops are watching.