skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The question about the laptop is pretty settled to me.

Why do you keep repeating that he "hacked into laptop"? As I mentioned above, the accusation is related to Chelsea Manning asking him to help them crack a password hash that Manning acquired by dual-booting on a Linux machine and him agreeing to (and Assange never did help Manning crack it).

As I said, I seriously question the truth of such a claim because anyone even slightly technical knows that there's effectively just one tool you use to crack Unix hashes -- johntheripper. I knew that in high-school.
I don't see your point. If you want money go make money, it's not unattainable and it's fairly easy to get if you have skills. If any of those developers really wanted to prioritize money I'm sure they'd have no problem making plenty of it.

If you want to make free open source software then do that.

If you want both then build a business model around your open source software.
I do agree. But ever since Malcom Gladwell popularised the "Matthew effect", I am sad that an-out-of context quote is used to justify the promotion of deliberate cold-blooded apathy towards inequality. Whereas it is very clear in other contexts that the New Testament discourages accumulation of wealth. (Disclaimer: I am not a Christian, but read the Bible and other scriptures regularly).
When it comes to teenage brothers the line between "normal antics" and "unstoppable force of mayhem" (especially if one/both have jobs and therefore money) is very, very thin.
Left-leaning people wanted pot legalized and regulated and didn't seem to grasp that this means an increase in prices.

Left-leaning people grasped that this meant increased prices...Pot shops do quite well in liberal areas even though they're more expensive than the corner dealer.

As stated in the articles I linked to, the black market is thriving in many parts of CA..it has nothing to do with right-leaning areas.

It has everything to do with right-leaning areas since the black market is thriving in the many parts of red CA that still prohibit marijuana sales. The black market (for sales to end-customers) isn't doing as well as it used to in left-leaning areas, though the black market for suppliers is still doing well for the suppliers that haven't yet been caught.
FWIW, I was in high school at the time and I remember something similar.
Where can I start writing blogs and earning some good money?
What I don't understand is the the following.

1. Julian is not a United States of America Citizen. So USA laws don't apply to him, unless he is in the USA and has committed a crime or offense of some kind

2. Julian is a citizen of another country. How do the laws of USA all of a sudden encompass people outside of the USA? Yes, wikileaks did receive "secret" stuff, but the exposure of these events is for the greater good and exposes how the USA is corrupt and "evil." The USA needs to be held accountable for their actions. The USA has no business in other countries, killing, maiming, destroying their homes and lives. Regardless of what happened on 9/11, which I was present on NYC when it happened. Yes, it was horrible, but our own government and their meddling in the affairs of other nations is to blame

Is there some kind of unknown laws of the USA that apply to people and countries not part of the USA (non-citizens and other countries)?

Peace
The efficacy of vaccines is tested as part of the approval process, vaccines are not profit centres for anyone, I award you zero points and may God have mercy on your soul.
I think it is also about how rich you are? (Coming from an expat/economic immigrant)
Because Huawei is based in China.

There's literally an article on the frontpage right now that talks about how WeChat (also based in China) is heavily censored, moderated, and how people have been arrested for things they said in "private" chats.
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The UK had a chance to give the people of Hong along citizenship so they could immigrate, just like Portugal when they returned Macau to China.

Maybe the UK can have a retroactive policy. All people from Hong Kong, born before 1997 can get citizenship and immigrate.
I'm not sure if that's your point but the US clearly have not mended their ways and continually violate international human rights by killing, torturing and illegally detaining people.
I think the difference is in the second step. Both companies excel in moving the target forward, but Microsoft rarely, if ever, shuts off access to the old targets, maintaining compatibility essentially forever, which keeps them from ever being able to make major transitions.

There are any number of ways to develop for Windows, and the fact that many, even most developers use Visual Studio is different from the Apple approach: everybody must use Xcode. This sucks for companies like MetroWerks that once developed a popular IDE for MacOS only to be shut out, but it's necessary to ensure that the tail end of the migration, that pesky step 2 of shutting things off, happens.
> I'll start off by saying that in a world without Saudi oil, the world economy will collapse, and the economic prosperity implicitly assumed by our modern progressive values will evaporate, leaving us with a Stone Age economy and the Medieval values that come with it.

Funny :-) This is 1) untrue, the world can do very well without Saudi oil, and in fact our future would be better without it given the upcoming climate catastrophe, and 2) exactly the kind of muddy scaremongering reasons I expected.

Just do the right thing. In the long term, we'll always be better off.
Ask HN: Why does apple still charges $99/yr for App developers
A trillion dollar company charging $99 for each of its app developers? what is the actual deal with that charge?
> unless you put software on your computer to make that happen

Couldn't that be ... any software?
Agreed. The thrust of this article is correct, in that people should support open source projects as much as they can (I usually donate around $100 a month, which is really not that much). But, other sources of income are being missed here. Sometimes companies will pay maintainers as consultants for integration or new features. Sometimes people have companies that provide their project as a service as well.
You cannot link foreign cards to Alipay account. Best way is to ask Chinese colleagues to transfer you Yuan and you pay them via cash. You can then use the wallet amount in shops.
>Here is my great question, can I help more, if I charge money?

It depends on which dimension of "help more" you want to affect.

I looked at your website "efficiencyiseverything.com" and here's how I would break it down: "more people" vs "more features"...

- if you want to help more people, it's better to keep it free because no subscription/paywall payments means the biggest audience (including those without discretionary income) can be helped by your information

- if you want to help less people but add more features, you should charge money. The paying audience will always be less than a non-paying one but the ones who do monetarily support you can be assisted with new website features that requires revenue to develop

(One can sort of try to get the best of both of the above scenarios by keeping it free with voluntary donations but to me, that just simplifies down to "free" since the percentage of donators will be very small.)
You sort of prove my point. And don't generalize people suffering from bouts of anti-Americanism to all Americans or all the West.
It's always worthwhile to learn the history of an organisation. That tells you a lot about it's culture.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Food_and_Drug_A...
Interesting, seems to prove Paul Graham's essay on how cities influence behavior as correct[0].

[0] http://www.paulgraham.com/cities.html
HK is not a country. And your GF is an ass.
Mesh networks have already been used in protests to coordinate rebel operations. Apps like FireChat[1] allow non-technical users to set up their own meshnets that others can join within a certain radius. Theoretically, user devices can then act as repeaters/routers and extend the range of the entire network until it covers very large areas.

In places like Cuba where the Internet is really slow, users resort to "sneakernets" which consist of thousands of flash drives spreading through roads and towns with other users downloading and uploading media (like music, news or movies) as they pass along. While the ping is atrocious, it gets the job done ;)

As for non electronic methods: posters work well, as do pamphlets. In WWWII the Allies would use bombers to drop leaflets to spread propaganda as well as alert residents that their town was about to be bombed, so they had time to collect their belongings and get out. Of course these methods require an absurd amount of manpower compared to e.g. making a Facebook post or launching a WordPress site, which really makes you appreciate the power of modern communications platforms.

I would argue that in the absence of the internet, the best method for organizing and disseminating information over a large area would simply be to restore the internet if possible, or just restart it otherwise. Since ARPANET was built with nuclear war concerns in mind, all of the protocols we got out of that already account for decentralization and sudden node introduction/disconnection.

[1] https://qz.com/922010/meshkit-the-tech-behind-firechat-can-s...

[2] https://boingboing.net/2018/05/03/inside-cubas-massive-weekl...
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Thanks, I'm hoping the latter as well. Might also have to do with trouble scaling up, related to the hype. I hear they're working on a new factory here, so hopefully that helps.
denver

but most places do have bars and serve alcohol in restaurants, which counts as public consumption of alcohol
tbh, I'm not sure why people shouldn't be allowed to have sex in the street. no one is saying you have to have these people over for dinner or hire them for a job. they can still be denied entrance to restaurants and generally shunned from polite society. all I'm saying is maybe they don't need to be locked up.
That should be evident by the fact that Saudi Arabia is one of our closest allies.
While a laudable environmental goal, I just don't see that much industrial farming shut down in just 20 years.
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> That's an extraordinarily mild way to respond to a massive and thoughtless leak of extremely sensitive information.

I said that I disagree with what that aspect of what they did, and had I been in that situation I would've redacted many more things. But I agree with their publishing of the documents. I'm not sure what response you'd like me to have -- call for him to be in prison for the rest of his life?

> I wonder if you are so charitable towards the US government!

They are the most powerful government in the world, and are blatantly violating the Nuremberg convention and their own constitution. Julian Assange and WikiLeaks are not.

> They no doubt would also have claim to have mended their ways since the release of the "collateral murder" video.

They haven't claimed that (Obama claimed that they "tortured folks" and have stopped, but Guantanamo Bay is still "open for business"). But even if they did claim it, we have plenty of evidence they haven't. But we do have evidence that WikiLeaks did start redacting more documents -- because many of their subsequent leaks had more heavily redacted documents.

> A disingenuous request.

So what would've made you happy? That they don't publish anything? Newspapers ask the government to help redact leaked documents all the time (the Guardian even did line-by-line redactions of the Snowden documents with GCHQ). I really don't understand what your bar for "responsible journalism" is, if doing what other journalists do is not enough.
How is it confusing, exactly?
Thesis: discussion software evolves towards replicating the feature set of slrn reading Usenet, only with better page design.

This is no exception.
thanks! I really appreciate it
Measurement of other minute facial feature movements besides blinking to detect whether it's a real person vs picture or other video?
There is at least a partial alternative: you can get involved in the supply chain.

For the F-35, other countries were asked to pay into the R&D budget, with the promise that large contributors could obtain exclusive manufacturing rights to certain components. I've seen a lot of grumbling about this, with people claiming it traded cost savings for a military risk that the planes will be useless (or at least lack spares) if things go wrong for those suppliers.

This is sort of true, but the missing insight is that the dependency is also a goal. It's not going to allay fears that F-35s are calling home with telemetry or have compromised software, but it does help create reciprocal interests in the same way as inviting in a foreign military base.
Without context that's not a very useful set of numbers! Did they select themselves out of better paying jobs or were they discriminated against?
I have tested the red pockets but I couldn't actually receive them. It's been year back or so.
I’m loving (what appears to be) this mass transition to Firefox and seeing companies not yet take it seriously. I knew coming into the comments that I would see this mentioned.
You're embarrassing yourself out of ignorance (and arrogance). Go export something in Webflow and report back.
The proof is the cost of legal weed, which is sometimes double the cost of the black market prices, due to regulations and taxes.

No, the cost of legal weed that is actually 100% what it claims to be is double the cost of black market stuff that might be (or based on police reports and various studies, almost certainly is) adulterated with various contaminants, including lawn grass, actual weeds, and trace amounts of other drugs sold by the dealer or his supplier.

It's like complaining that organic beef is twice the price of grain-finished hormone-treated beef. No duh. You have to pay extra for quality and the proof of quality.
You would get a resistance not too long after. I quit caffeine pills because even if I only ever took them once a week they would do nothing but have bad sideeffects. Now I take 5 hour energies/redbulls or else I feel tired by noon after sleeping for 13 hours.
Case in point. I'm not an etymologist, nir should we expect people to have to research the words they use. If a word is that old and not in common parlance, it is a failure of a word and it really shouldn't be used.
Ha, I made an extension with the same idea as OP to solve just the problem you mention - at least on devices with touch screens (I'm using it on Firefox for Android).

If you're using Firefox, you can install it here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/sihn/
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I'm not sure I understand how I "prove your point".

Why are "victims of communism" allowed to generalize from their experience, while "victims of capitalism"
are not?
Yeah ISO are de facto laws and the should be free
Just want to give a shout out to Hasura (https://hasura.io/) here which removed a lot of these problems for me.
So 6 million people didn’t protest? Are they the silent majority?
Yeah I think what I wrote was wrong.
It's not that they haven't dealt with observational data, rather they had the advantage of being able to use experiments with good external validity to a larger degree, making both observational and experimental studies easier.
I was recently at a medical office (this is in the US), and they had replaced their system, so I had to re-sign the variety of forms that they make you sign, HIPAA disclosure, etc.

They gave me an electronic signature pad and asked me to sign. I pointed out that I did not have a document in front of me, and they said that they would give me a copy of the signed form after I signed it. I once again attempted to point out that I was being asked to sign a form that I couldn't read, and they said, "oh, it's just a privacy disclosure".

A superviser (who was overseeing the migration to the new system) came by and asked what the issue was, and I said I was being asked to sign a form without seeing what I was signing. They very patiently explained to me that it was a HIPAA disclosure, and I said that if I could sign their description, I would be happy to, but I'm not going to sign a more formal document having only been given a summary of it. They further explained that if I wanted, they could print out a copy of the form after I signed it for my records.

Nobody at the office seemed to understand here what my objection was. I overheard other patients saying things like "I'm not signing something I haven't seen", so I know that I wasn't crazy. Eventually I convinced the person I was working with to turn their monitor around so that I could read the documents before signing them.

The thing is that everyone knows that these forms are completely meaningless anyway. I probably would have been better off just signing the forms so that if they ever came up in a court case I could just honestly say that I had never seen the form before.
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That is just completely inaccurate. The black box warning does not apply to only combinations.

Don't take medical advice from "life-enhancement.com". There is an extensive body of peer reviewed literature. See for example https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3400846/

> "The primary effect of GHB on respiration was a dose-dependent decrease in respiratory rate, accompanied by an increase in tidal volume, resulting in little change in minute volume."

Eventually tidal volume cannot be increased to compensate for decrease in RR. GHB is dangerous because this change occurs at the margins of recreational dosages. This is especially pronounced when combined with other respiratory depressants. I am a medical professional, not making this up. Please do not spread harmful misinformation.
I guess the parent means that some people don't have a choice in their situation (or not as much). Open source maintainers do have this choice.

I like contributing to OSS and do so frequently for fun. But the idea of it being a (sole) source of income is scary unfortunately.
100% agree. It shocks me a little bit how few protests there are in the US right now.
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Probably: too old, too young, too occupied with some other life necessity, in the hospital, in school, or afraid.

One million is absolutely astonishing to me. Last I heard it was ~200k people.
I mean, a media stunt can be done for charity rather than personal gain, but I'll trust your judge of their character.
> Data from two subjects consuming only meal replacement beverages suggest that a monotonous diet does not induce microbiome stability in humans, and instead, overall dietary diversity associates with microbiome stability.

That is useful
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> a small coalition of American and possible European forces to facilitate an evacuation

I've seen documents circulated by the US military where they basically said 'we aren't sure we'd win against 2018 China'.

That sort of activity is a pretty clear attack on China's sovereignty, and I suspect the CCP would agree regardless of other possible interpretations.

The UK could break diplomatic ties and stop trading with China, but they can't do anything involving 'forces'. It is a tragic step for Hong Kong, but end of the day it is Chinese territory and they will get their way on anything they insist on.
The US didn't "find a loophole." Prisoner of war protections under international treaties only apply to state participants, meaning members of a state army.

Terrorists and other non-sanctioned armed forces are not protected by treaties between states because they are not fighting on behalf of a state. This is a recognized and intended exception to the rules governing POWs.
CERN opts for open-source software in light of Microsoft price hikes
I'm familiar with all of that, which does not apply to GHB.
I can totally understand the Marines wanting a VTOL/STOVL aircraft. Just don't make it the same aircraft that the airforce and navy use for non-VTOL missions. That's just putting totally irrelevant restrictions on fighters that have nothing to do with VTOL.
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I am ok with a), but b): how should I comply with something I don't know. Sometimes I have to comply by law. What is this the soviet union?
What’s the rationale for keeping it? English should try to be at least a little bit easier parse for a newbie.
Hacker News is also allowed through the Chinese firewall for some reason.
I only tried refusing to sign something once. Nobody ever called me on it. I got nastygrams via email. I ignored them. One day, they stopped coming.

I cannot guarantee that will work in all situations, of course. You basically are calling their bluff, and it could backfire. But if they really are bluffing, all is well.
Technically, Inkscape is another project, though 1.0 alpha does use GTK3.

There is no estimated date, but we hope to release 2.99.2 later this year. There are still some color management related issues to fix before we can do that.
I was able to book via Didi using my Singapore Card.

But then again I had a different problem because the Didi drivers will call up to confirm the booking and pickup location and I had to get help of my friends/colleagues to help me communicate with the driver.
India plans to have its own space station
I work remotely for one of those companies in the US that offers unlimited vacation time. As far as I can tell, it's a real thing - some of my coworkers have taken 30+ day vacations with no negativity from the rest of the team. I've never taken a long absence myself - I enjoy my daily work.

There is a very prominent disclaimer that any employee will tell you... "don't fuck up". That means...if you have a pending deliverable; don't vacation. If someone else is depending on you for their deliverable; don't vacation. Basically, support the company first and foremost and your extended absences are OK.

tldr; I work for a SDN provider with unlimited vacation and high expectations of employees
So Assange is going to be sacrificed to further Javid's leadership ambitions. Shameful.
hey thanks! I really appreciate your kind words

I'm really interested in using this amazing tech most of us have at our fingertips to try new ways to learn things. There have to be so many avenues we haven't yet explored, and I find that so exciting.
Cool, I made one with the exact same principles to scratch a personal itch - inline reply is something I was hoping to add some time.

Anyway, I'd love to be able to just use someone else's extension :) Mine makes up/downvote and collapsing buttons easier to hit on mobile, links to parent/root comments, and rewrites Google AMP links to regular links. It's open source, so feel free to incorporate those features in yours: https://gitlab.com/vincenttunru/sihn
Interesting, do you have any stats about it's speed advantage over let's say Node.js?
In general binance API it's really high frequency'ish at all, it only pushes updates every second (aggregated)...
No, those transitions started (and became sure things) long before there was any commitment from "A-list" developers to support them.

The famous deal where Microsoft promised to keep bringing Office to the Mac for five years was in 1997. Those five years encompassed the classic MacOS to OS X transition. Apple’s five year roadmap was far from a secret to developers.

The whole Carbon API for OS X was done after major developers insisted on it to bring their apps to OS X.

Adobe and Microsoft committed to port their software to x86 when Apple announced the transition in 2005.

Heck Microsoft was on stage committing to the Mac in 1984.
Honestly this is far preferable to listening to the TV commentators.