skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the things completely written out of the us press record of state hacking is that way before the US was concerned about china Germany made credible accusations against the NSA for conducting industrial espionage in Germany.

And when you then remember the project Gladio revelations of the early 90ies/late 80ies and the fact that the last of America's house trained nazi's(the Gehlen organization) would have retired from west Germany influence and you get the idea that the modern German intelligence services consider some parts of the US intelligence network to have become "captured" by non-democratic interests, something the french realized doing the campaign by the OAS against DeGaule in the 60ies when DeGaule suspected that the CIA was not exactly his ally in trying to stamp out right wing coup mongers from inside the french army.

And while all of this have been published by mainstream academics and journalists it's completely left out of any narrative about America's place in the world put forward by the "mainstream"(as in approved by the establishment) American press today when discussing America's place in a post cold war mercantilist conflict against countries that are not taking orders from Washington, nor buying more from the US then they sell to the US.

The problem here is of cause if you consider American authorities to be captured by an mercantilist elite waging an commercial conflict on everyone else the way America accuse the Chinese of doing then the obvious thing is to ban American and Chinese tech from your networks as neither can be considered reliable partners and to be honest an better argument can be made that America with it's rising domestic problem and declining economy is the party more likely to pull the trigger and cause problems for the European economy by utilizing backdoors for harm, then for China doing the same from a position of economic growth.
And I think that’s a good thing. Intellectual Property is harmful to most and only benefits a few. If we abandoned the notion we’d be better off.
https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome
>The target audience is likely "privacy-minded technically capable home network owners"

why would you use apple if you're technically capable? locked down linux would be waaaay more secure(and give you waaaaay cheaper options)
Straight emacs handles drag events and integrates well with the system clipboard, FYI.
Tldr: nothing fundamental but WebStorm has a few features that the author likes that VS Code doesn't have.
Listen to what I'm saying.

The entire province of BC had just one single cannabis storefront on day of legalization - despite hundreds of storefronts applying for permits. So customers went from buying weed in storefronts to having to do alleyway deals because of legalization.

https://vancouversun.com/cannabis/cannabis-news/partaking-so...
I don't know if it's exclusive to us - I hope not - but I am German and that's pretty much what I thought.

I'm aware that people have to make a living. I'm much more open for advertising at the end of an enjoyable piece, if I have developed an appetite for more.
I know the feeling. What has somewhat helped me is to not write for publishing to the general population but for somebody who doesn't know about the topic. A gentle introduction that they consider not too demanding to follow but feels like they have a better understanding after reading. You can publish later, but I find it easier to focus on a single person and make it useful for them.
You know you can just go and download your FB content, right? You follow a couple links, wait a while, and then they let you know when you can download your zip file.

I downloaded mine, read some stuff that made me think a bit, and then I finished up with deleting my account.
I guess if your underlying data is not uniform, a uniform color map isn't going to do great?

Say, if you have a bimodal underlying distribution and you're interested in coloring according to quantiles, you want to have a similarly bimodally distributed color map.

The easiest way to achieve this is to compute the quantiles for your data set, and color by that (rather than height).
Rolodexes are trade secrets are why.

Hell, there's case law that a myspace friend list can be a trade secret under the right circumstances.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christou_v._Beatport,_LLC
> One of the rare people

We have no idea of the prevalance of this kind of person. There's no research.

(I am in favour of legalisation.)
I feel this too, and the way I deal with it is writing targeting the audience that you can still remember being a part of, for whatever is interesting to you.

So think back to what you knew and thought 6-9 months ago, and write for people in that boat. You probably learned a nifty trick or two since then, or had a recent revelation. Write just about that. Once you have an audience you can start to listen to their reactions and further questions to decide how to back-propagate from there even more (because not everyone arrives at that point from the same path).

The cool thing is that this works even for stuff you aren't a master at -- there's always someone who is just a step or two behind you in whatever it is you are doing, even if you are only on step 4 or 5 from being an absolute beginner. As long as you care about the topic and can pinpoint a meaningful thesis for your writing.
I have used both. You can easily prototype games with either, but Gamemaker becomes more difficult as the game scales up. Both use proprietary languages, but you can go around that in Godot with a little know-how. Also, Godot does 3D, its UI is a bit cleaner, it’s free and runs on Linux.
Derek Sivers wrote about exactly this:

Obvious To You, Amazing To Others
https://sivers.org/obvious

There's also an animated video version, if you prefer video.

https://youtu.be/xcmI5SSQLmE
Deploying with Confidence Without QA
Some developers are a funny bunch, always chasing after the next cool thing: either a language, an editor, a stack or a methodology. I’ve watched the RoR hype, the Agile frenzy, the Sublime Text popularity, the Angular and React mania... The truth of the matter is that while a developer needs to keep up with new tech, often “new” doesn’t mean better, just different. Choosing the right tools for the job at hand from all the available ones, not just the “cool” ones, is an often missed quality of a good developer.
Can we change the title to use the word "less" instead of "minimally"?

Their paper's title is kind of clickbait. This isn't minimally invasive -- it might be a bit less invasive than other methods, but it's still considered an invasive interface.
It runs arbitrary ruby code supplied in the form of a cookie.

This means the backdoor is fully generic and nobody can describe the damage, if any, that has been done.

The only saving grace is the code will run with the privileges of the ruby interpreter, constrained to the process environment of same.
Testing Performance of Cloudflare Workers
Haha that sounds about right. I meant to say is there a magical product that will set them to sleep for 8 hours straight without pooping, peeing and that will burp them occasionally?
The Conquest of Happiness by Bertrand Russell.

Never knew unhappiness after I read this. Highly recommended.

Another one is Méditations by Marcus Aurelius.

Lives by Plutarch if you have the patience.
It's exclusive to non-American, ie, doing this "always marketing yourself" thing whenever you talk or write or communicate in any way is kinda exclusive to Americans (as being acceptable and normal). The "sell yourself" culture is pretty deeply ingrained in this country in almost all personal communication, except with very close and trusted friends, and even then you'll often find inclinations to sell themselves socially.
Book: The SharpBrains Guide to Brain Fitness: How to Optimize Brain Health
On Windows, some file managers are in this category. E.g. Far has been around for about 25 years now, and still has a cult-like following, especially in Eastern Europe / ex-USSR.

ImageMagick is another one that has been around for almost 30 years, and is the Swiss army knife of batch image processing on any platform.
What would be my incentive for fixing something if I earn no money from it?

From big companies to the lone worker, if IP is not a thing, I don't see how we can evolve technology.

I agree with the idea of not patenting software, since that is already covered by copyright, and patents were never intended to cover algorithms, however, discarding IP altogether seems like throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
Telemetry is reset to enabled on every update, don't forget to change every time.
I heard about non violent communication only last week. Heard there’s a course and a workshop too on this.

Very eager to master Non Violent Communivation coz more often than not I find myself in loss for the right word.
That's a bad analogy but yes, AWS is a vast portfolio of services to solve your problems. If all you need are some bare-metal servers and nothing else then you really don't need AWS in the first place and are paying a premium for stuff you're not using.
I think the hacking and being cut out of domestic markets is fairly closely linked.

If you’ve already stolen the IP, you don’t need to let the foreign business in to provide that service.

Possibly even more widespread though has been the standard practice over the last 20 years of lettin foreign businesses setup shop in China, hacking/stealing all their tech, then the state uses its legal/political resources to make life horrendously difficult for the original foreign business.
As a physicist I've always found the name "elastic scaling" funny. If it's elastic in the physical sense, it means that the energy required to grow to some size is quadratic (or higher) in the size. The marketing meaning is "easy scaling", but the physical meaning is "really hard scaling".

E.g. compare a soap bubble versus a bubble gum bubble. It's a lot easier to scale up the soap bubble, which is not elastic.
Isn't most things an application these days? Reddit, twitter, facebook, etc all have some form of formatting for comments, which in and of itself has to use javascript.
Why is Google singled out for reprobation when, as the article points out, they've spoken out more than other companies?

Sure, no one is spotless, but as it stands it's Microsoft that runs a censored search engine (Bing in China) and Apple that handed over its Chinese users iCloud encryption keys.

To be fair, you could say Apple and Microsoft had their reasons for doing so (as people including the Chinese themselves have argued). But why all the focus on Google then? Is the idea of a Chinese search engine (which has since been cancelled) worse than actually running a censored search engine such as Bing China?

It's gotten to the point where people commonly think Google is cozier with Chinese authorities than other companies, when if anything it's the opposite. That seems perverse.
Yeah, there is a reason why the Kremlin uses mechanical typewriters.
I thought that whole printer dot thing was just a hoax? Is it real? How does it work? Is there a central registry of who owns which printer?
It's honestly hard to believe there were people who didn't smoke simply because it was illegal, even though getting charged for personal amounts of cannabis in the GTA was about as common as being struck by lightning.

That said I applaud them. That's a very respectable level of restraint and community-mindedness (I swear that's a word).
I would love to hear more about the issues you’ve experienced with DO. We have been using them more and more lately and have had a much better experience there than on AWS, GCP, or Linode.
No. They figured if you present the decision makers with a way to massively increase their profits, they would happily trade long term advantages for short term gains.
Where do you expect to get that hydrogen? Electrolysis is too inefficient to be economically practical. Currently most hydrogen is produced from fossil fuels, which rather defeats the purpose.
Controlling Hunger
What you’ve described there is exactly how bad things come to be.

You think people elect for bad things? Bad governments, bad software or privacy violations? They chose things that are full of rhetoric and promises of good things then those bad things get snuck in off the back off relaxed regulation, or existing software adoption, etc.

Take Facebook as an example, people didn’t sign up to it thinking “I wanted to be tracked around the internet so I can have personalised adverts” nor dis Zuckerburg think “Wouldn’t it be good to create a platform that could latter be used for rigging elections”. No, instead we got there because of a serious of good ideas that slowly got abused.

There is a saying that goes “The path to hell is paved by good intentions.” I’m not a religious man but I think that beautifully illustrates how slippery slopes are not a logical fallacy.
Even if something is allowed to be done by everybody it doesn't mean it can be done by everybody. Just look at programming. Lack of ip(patents) shifts the power from those with patents+lawyers to those with skills (workers). Innovators, even when they are a group, are always okay because they have the skills to perform.
Thanks, I thought I went insane, over the last days I've wondered over and over again, "why can't I see the threat to press freedom", "don't they get it", "why are they spinning that press freedom story"?
To Germany, it's either being spied on by the US or by China. There's no "we won't be spied on"-choice, it's only about how much they'll pay for the tech that might be used to spy on them. Banning Huawei makes no sense at all from that perspective.
> tracking in VSCode is mainly used to improve the product.

Not only, that's the main problem. And I can't simply trust it for company without dark M$ reputation and EEE experience.
Absolutely, also it is amazing how little tracking does to understand users.
79656168267468697326697363277420746865207265618(C?)286845792E2E2E2E...?

Don't blur information- block it out.
Not OP, but: e-mail client, calculator, calendar app, TODO list app, terminal app, file browsing app, invoicing app, Jupyer notebooks (org mode can do you better), Git client and - obviously - text editor with syntax highlighting.

Some people even replace their window manager with Emacs (see: EXWM), but I'm not ready for this just yet (I run stumpwm now, which is a tiling WM written in Common Lisp, so it's just another lispy environment with similar levels of live interop).
I can understand that people may perceive VS Code and WebStorm as alternatives. Though, as rightly pointed out by the author, the former is an editor while the latter is an IDE. The whole post just says that in 10 different redundant ways.
Spacing Out – A Perl 6 Grammar for Picat
Yeah, both extremes "all IP is bad" and "we must patent every product even if it brings nothing new to the table" are wrong. The devil is, as in so many cases, in the detail.
And then you have to take into account that our sensitivity to some colors then others. Our cones are tuned to what can be approximated as three different bands of wavelength, which are centered in and sufficiently overlap around the green wavelength to result in our being most able to discern the color. Human eyes can discern at least twice as many distinct shades of green than they can red or blue in a uniform distribution, and color science has to take that into account to prevent such an image from appearing overwhelmingly green.
With unique molecular tags, random mutation and PCR, various cryptographic methods can be applied. But random mutation and PCR are not necessary for some relatively simple use cases. Reversible mutation is not used, but the information concealed through mutation is recoverable with the decryption keys.
Startup Stories – What We Shipped in the Last 3 Months
When I was using azure data studio the opt out was to visit a link, read the wiki page, open the settings.json file using your file manager and then paste in the tracking opt out key and restart the program. Or you could just close the message and be tracked. This is absolutely unacceptable opting out of tracking should be made exactly the same effort or less effort than opting in.
While VS Code presumably can do almost everything Webstorm (and other Jetbrains products) can, my experience in my fairly large software company is that most of the people that use VS Code don't actually bother to install the plugins to bring it up to feature parity. Out of the box functionality is underrated, even seemingly among devs who have the skills and knowledge to tinker.
How can you not be aware of the blatant bribery going on across the globe?

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-02-08/chinese-billionaire-h...

https://www.afr.com/news/world/asia/chinese-aid-funded-1-mil...

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-05-22/chau-chak-wing-un-bri...
>sure -- how about not even running the story at all?

Winner had already risked her career by sending the documents, presumably as she felt the story was important enough to release to the public. The entire thing was mishandled, The Intercept largely seems to understand that, but not printing it is nearly as bad.
Very biased article and by the way, tslint will also warns you if you don't use promise:

https://palantir.github.io/tslint/rules/no-floating-promises...
Are you referencing the ESLint backdoor? From my recollection, the two incidents seem really similar. Both were noticed and unpublished quickly. Both could have been prevented by 2FA. Can you elaborate on why you think this incident was handled better?
There's an alternative in Luakit[1] built with Luajit on Webkit and scriptable with Lua. Also has customizable Vim like key bindings.

1 - https://luakit.github.io/
That's basically what H-1B does.
When you guys think about all the developers you know, do you rather see a positive or a negative correlation between the usage of high level tools and developer productivity?

In other words, is your experience that developers who use an IDE are more productive then developers who only use a text editor?

In my experience, the (very few) developers I know who only use VIM or Emacs are way more productive then those who use an IDE.

The reason seems to be that they tend to 'sit back and think' about the task at hand. And then come up with elegant solutions. While the developers who use a lot of tooling seem to hope that the tooling will kinda force them to do the right thing. But from what I witness, that never works out.

I see a similar thing happening with coders who do a lot of tests (test driven development), some tests and no tests. Developers who don't write any tests are often the most productive.
When I was younger, I've done dextromethorphan quite a bit, and while I was mostly doing it for the dissociative effect, it always had the side effect of lifting my mood for a couple of weeks afterwards
What system would you propose would be better, I frankly wish that we didn't have a whole profession based the process and procedures of the court. It makes defending yourself almost impossible.

But the court has the burden to prove that the person is guilty of a crime, to 12 different people. You are required by law to be given a lawyer to assist in your case if you can't afford one.

That is a better shake than probably 75% of the world right there. Hell its better than you get in the military in the US.
One of the more flabbergasting comments I've seen is when Mozilla removed ALSA support from Firefox because nobody stepped up to maintain it, and the metrics showed that it wasn't widely used. There were people complaining about it being removed, and stating that the people who did use it were more likely to have turned off tracking, and thus did not show up.

I mean, sure, it might be the case that there were indeed tens of thousands of ALSA users with tracking turned off, but... From my perspective, it seems more likely that it was just a handful, and really there's no way to tell the difference. If you turn off telemetry, and be aware of and accept the downsides.

I trust Mozilla, so my telemetry is on, but for many other applications, I often opt to turn off tracking - with the understanding that it's harder for them to tell what my needs are.
Opt out is when the tracking is on by default and the user has to take action to stop it. Opt in is off by default and action must be taken to enable it. What happens before the popup decides which one it is. If the user closes or ignores the message about tracking there should be none and there should have been none before the popup.
Copyright had been created in the first place so that people with printing presses couldn't just copy popular stuff to get a chunk of the market for some work without compensating the creator.

Lack of IP doesn't shift the power to innovators, it shifts it to the people with printing presses, with large manufacturing plants that can scale, apple music, etc etc.

IP is the very basis for compensation of innovators.
If IPFS becomes famous to the point governments have to look at it, and that it allows to bypass laws, they will try to forbid by law people to run nodes, same way with Tor in some countries.
This shit is known for thousands years. We have enough experience with it to judge.
What ever you do, stay away from perl! It might give you access to CPAN, one of the finest crowd sourced solution libraries ever created... with modules for delving into data structures dating back to the earliest days of the Internet, and plenty of shims into other things.

The way perl embraced regular expressions and integrated them into the language structure cannot be beat.

Most perl vs. python discussions these days go like this:

python user: "It so much better then perl where you are forced to [contrived and arbitrary example with weird syntax]"

perl user: "Looks OK, though I could do that better. How is it done in python?"

python user: "In python, we just [contrived and arbitrary example with weird syntax]. It's easy!"
I enjoyed his writing, but what is wrong with the warning? The analogy with Murdock is wrong - it would apply if Murdock had accidentally erased his own hard drive or something like that. He is giving advice about IT, not life.

Even when he was still alive, I already sometimes felt he is following an ideology that might end up hurting him. I feel the same way about many young people involved in politics. Unfortunately political movements have the tendency to swallow people, and make them give up their lives for the (presumed) greater good rather than their own benefit.
That's not necessarily accurate.

I have various other sleep problems, but fortunately none of them are caused by/cause me to move while asleep, not even so much as rolling onto my side.

But a great many people are not so perfectly immobile, sober or not, and if you haven't had a problem with rolling off a sleeping surface or breaking things by moving in your sleep, you likely won't consider it a risk.
What did become of him, and who is Alone? I only know The Last Psychiatrist.
I see no correlation
As the article mentions, he is basically being charged for encouraging the source to acquire information and attempting to protect the source's identity. That is a threat to a free press.
The statistical reality isn’t operational for many people. Many people would not want to even begin to look for an underground supplier let alone deal with one.

(I am in favour of legalisation.)
There also this cool text editor, simple and fast, called Pluma and available on Ubuntu Mate which I really enjoyed using.
Who is that, where can it be read?
You should automate that!
It goes beyond encouraging. They're claiming he actively aided in some way. He's charged with hacking, basically. And he hasn't been found guilty of anything yet.