skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Something could have easily been lost in translation--on your end--there. For Taiwan in particular, there's a lot of nuance and purposeful ambiguity in its relationship with mainland China.

The ROC's official policy is that Taiwan is just another province of China, which the ROC administers (along with part of Fujian province); the ROC, furthermore, is the legitimate government of all of China, including the island, current mainland, many of the PRC's disputed territorial claims, and even Mongolia. This is more or less identical to the PRC position. There are many Taiwanese who do see it as a totally separate country, but that's controversial even within Taiwan.

If you had asked her the more concrete question about whether Taiwan is currently administered by an entity calling itself the ROC, I guarantee there wouldn't have been such a manifest gap in understanding.
They also have a reputation of carrying billions of people out from poverty and to prosperity. Of course the credit mostly goes to the people, but still it's something.

Sure I don't like the censorship and change narratives, but most governments do the same thing. Let me know if you find one government that is both competent and honest.
> WebAuthn doesn't use biometric data, the authenticator does. You can just as easily use a PIN or whatever you want.

Except the standard permits sites to only trust authenticators with specific features, or rather from a specific whitelist of manufacturers/models:

https://www.imperialviolet.org/2019/01/01/zkattestation.html

Of course, not every site will make use of this DRM-like anti-feature, but I can well imagine that a lot of sites/industries will adopt policies that treat non-biometric authenticators as insecure.
Bush v. Gore was decided more than a month before inauguration. Why would this take much longer?
Wow, shill much?

Well now you are receiving an informal education on how propaganda is used to separate people from each other, and make enemies where shared goals should exist. Like all educations, you get out of it as much as you put in to it.

Good luck.
> we are no longer an actual representative democracy.

Claiming that because California has 57 votes and Wyoming a whopping 3 votes, instead of California having 70 and Wyoming one (if at all), we "no longer have representative democracy" is nonsense. California still have wastly more votes. Yes, Wyoming also gets some, otherwise it why bother voting at all if everything is essentially decided by the most populous states anyway?

> protection results in a tyranny of the minority

3 votes against 57 is hardly "tyranny".

> Why are the concerns of the people living in LAC less important than the concerns of the people in Nevada or Arkansas?

Why people leaving in LAC should be in virtually full control (with the current power of federal government it's very close to that) over people of Nevada and Arkansas and Wyoming? What's the point for Wyoming to sign up for such a deal to be ruled by LAC?
I seem to recall the HB site, in the early days, saying something to the effect of "Our promise: 100% DRM free games". They even did a bunch of bundles that donated part of the proceeds to the EFF. It's sad to see them as just another front for Steam sales.
I grew up in a Communist country in Eastern Europe and the article hits the nail; most of the education was single sourced and filtered by the Communist Party, there was never any debate over it, it was an axiom.
Then Communism fell and 30 years later the thinking is different, the knowledge is different and healthy discussions are possible, but most people still have strong socialist/communist positions; some were never able to grow above their indoctrination, some were benefiting from that system, but it is very hard to understand people that are 35 - 40 that have a love for Communism, they were too young to be indoctrinated at that time.
Screenshot of an early version of Safari for Windows.

Safari 3

https://lifehacker.com/safari-3-beta-now-available-for-windo...

Safari 5
http://cdn.osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/safari-fo...
Someone has run the numbers and figure out energy cost and total tonnage and figure out what makes sense to streamline.

Plastics is a term which applies to thousands of different polymers. Some it makes sense to recycle, some don’t.

We can then begin to whittle down on the plastics we allow on the items which make most sense. For example we don’t needs tends of different plastics just because one vendor prefers the aesthetics of one over the other. Give them a select choice rather than an infinite choice.

Then label the packaging simply with simple easy to understand labels which are clearly visible. Avoid mixing incompatible plastics.
There are a lot of us out there with dev and prod environments that aren’t allowed to be connected to the Internet or otherwise strictly controlled. Languages that rely on me downloading packages are mostly dead in the water at my workplace.
The Census's definition of "urban area" doesn't quite match what most people think of, I don't think. It's any area of over 50k people. If you reverse sort the list provided on Wikipedia[0], you'll find a lot of places that aren't top of mind when people think about "urban life:" Grand Island, NE; Hazleton, PA; Albany, OR.

Edit: I'm not disputing the larger point. I just think the number is probably a little lower than that if you adjusted for being "truly" urban.
> I say it's not neccesarily less. Just differently.

So ... separate but equal?
Fltk can give you a static binary on every platform where simple GUIs are under 100KB.

Win32 isn't actually all that bad and getting simple GUI programs with icons under 10KB is completely doable.

Thinking that GUIs need to be 6 MB or painful is a complete false dichotomy.
You're referring to blockchain I assume, I guess a trustless VPN would be more akin to Tor than a centralized VPN service.
I'd love to imagine, but in reality TBH I don't see a lot of positive examples.

If you hate the one-party idea, just think one more layer -- there are factions inside the party, probably more than 2 actually.
This isn't a spatial metaphor any more than "upperclassmen" and "underclassmen" are for high schools or "left" and "right" are for politics. We call it the "upper" chamber because it's supposed to be the higher status, more "dignified" chamber.

Words have histories of course, and probably at one point this was a spatial metaphor - maybe some bicameral legislature literally did have one of their higher status body on a different floor than their lower status body. But the words upper and lower when applied to the legislative branch have evolved since then.
Why West Papuans are holding violent protests against Indonesian govt
You can recycle polyethylene pretty easily on its own, and a lot of those plastic wraps that the article says aren't recycled are made out of LDPE. HDPE and LDPE are great materials for a lot of things that you might otherwise make out of wood or 3D-print. It's easy to machine, and it can be very strong and rigid for its weight.

Basically, you just shred the donor plastic, heat it to 300-350F, press the air out, and let it cool. With LDPE plastic wrap, you can fold and stack it instead of shredding it. You can also get cool tie-dye effects by using multiple colors in the same batch.

You can use plywood for the walls of your molds, and a toaster oven that you don't plan on cooking with ever again can be a reasonable furnace. To compress the hot plastic, try making a loose-fitting lid and tamping or clamping it down while the plastic heats.

But make sure that it is polyethylene - some plastics, like PVC, release highly toxic fumes. And others, like polypropylene, are often mixed with plasticizers which evaporate into nasty fumes and reduce the quality of the recycled plastic.
Is there anything an early startup employee can do to safeguard against this? Is the only viable exit for a non-C-suite going public?

Can options be traded / liquidated legally outside of the stock market?
You can compile a subset. See AssemblyScript. Actually more like a subset of TypeScript.
If you're creating a desktop application in the browser, a SPA is the way to go or the experience will be nightmarish for both users and developers. For anything else a classical server rendered web app is OK. Example: Amazon is not a SPA.
I'm not quite as pessimistic as you regarding HK and Ukraine. In the short run, yes, the powerful people (China, Putin) will win. In the long run, will Putin and his cronies continue to have the economic power to strong arm all of Ukraine? I highly doubt it. In the long run will the CPC continue to pull 100m's in poverty into wealth while protecting their failing water systems, soil systems, international good will? Again, I highly doubt it. I think the long term is in favor of HK and Ukraine, not against it.

Edit: And regarding Occupy, it is often considered the most successful protest in modern Western history. Countless leaders and young people have seen it as a blueprint and guide to how to continue their struggle. I have seen dozens if not hundreds of videos on youtube that cite the enormous progress Occupy made on how to run a successful protest in the current era, and movements such as Extinction Rebellion are going to take those tactics to another level.
I don't think it is correct. Chinese people truly are in a support of China's leaders and China's policies, just like Soviet people were in support of the Soviet policies.

Had it not been the case, there would have been no government capable of stopping the rebellion: if one solider can control a 100 citizens (via say bullets) then in order to control 1.3 billion, China would need to give bullets to 130 million people so if 10% of them switch sides the other side gets 13 million people with bullets who aren't friendly to the party line.

That's exactly how the USSR fell. Population stopped supporting the government.
> We can take the universal genetic code and with effort change it into something completely different ... just as viable, but doesn’t exist in nature. In fact, observed universality ... is sufficient evidence for common descent.

Or, some would argue, evidence of a common designer.
Ok, sure, but I've lost the thread here. Walton sounds like Walmart, and so does Wall Street and walrus. And this means...?
It's probably not their fault. There was a leaked propaganda document saying to portray HongKong people as violent rioters, censor police brutality and censor mentions of protestors apologizing for disruptions.

Look at Youtube channels like CGTN and Nathan Rich to see what they hear and you'll know what they don't hear.
This. Living in a rural area on the border between a solid Blue and solid Red state, no one cares.
>long term variance

That's not a phrase I used. I'm sorry the sentiment upsets you; please don't conflate it with mine.
I'm interested in hearing arguments from anyone who genuinely believes that California and New York are over all politically underprivileged.
> The ROC's official policy is that Taiwan is just another province of China, which the ROC administers (along with part of Fujian province); the ROC, furthermore, is the legitimate government of all of China

To be fair, part of the reason that is the official policy is because the PRC is perceived to be (because it's pretty openly said this) more willing to be tolerant of dispute over which one governs all of China (which the PRC can't reasonably lose barring some radical inversion of power) than Taiwan declaring independence, such that the latter would be more likely to lead to war to settle the dispute.
That is the official stance of the ROC, along with outer Mongolia. It isn’t the popular perception among the 70% of Taiwanese who do not consider themselves mainlanders, including many of those currently in political office.
I talk about this a bit, I'm in favor of at least medium granularity crates, but if they break down into smaller features, where different use cases will meaningfully choose different sets of features, use feature gates. So, for example, you might have a "string formatting utilities" crate with a "left-pad" feature. (Note: this particular example is unlikely because the `format!` macro in the standard library can do it just fine)
I hope someone pointed out that it's legacy JavaScript that's too complicated. Very modern JavaScript is quite a bit _less_ complicated.
> In other words, you're assuming that the President's job is to "take care of everyone's concerns", so everyone needs an equal vote to elect the President. That seems to me to be absurd.

Yeah you're probably right. Let's just disenfranchise more than half the population of the country. That'll give the federal government a ton of legitimacy!

> The President's job is to faithfully execute the laws and to make executive decisions about national needs like defense and foreign policy.

And we the people get to decide which candidate will do the better job. Or we should. But because of the electoral college, we don't.
Well, this exactly should be the Democrats proposal - but for some resaon it isn't. It would be an easy way to pull wind out of the sails of republicans.
> "a man was placed on leave, must be a sex scandal!"

> Is this seriously the society we live in?

Unfortunately, yes.
> After all, having money (or not) affects what you can or cannot do far more than whoever's in charge.

This is why I get up in the morning, goals
If you want the US to stay whole, that's a big problem. Technically states can secede, or form a separate union if they so desire. That's also why Senate representation is _NOT_ proportional to population. I suspect that'd be the next thing to be dismantled if whoever is pushing this actually succeeds.
Probably not as much as one would think, but still a fair amount when you add up travel/driving/drinks/activities.

First dates were always a drink somewhere and maybe an activity. That could be an arcade bar, board games, gallery hop, a weekend event in the city or something else more unique than dinner + movie. 100-150 dates was only 5-8 dates a month or 10-16 hours usually. Not as much time as one might think when they would be spending it on video games, happy hour or something similar. I just used it as a chance to improve social skills and meet random people I may not normally meet. If it happened to become something more, then even better.

First dates were 1-2 hours at the most, though I broke that rule with my future wife and we stayed out way into the morning just talking about random things. The best dates were the ones where my date insisted on paying her share in some way. Usually that meant I bought a drink and they bought one or I bought a game and then they bought the next. It might be obvious advice, but if a woman really likes you (I assume the same goes with dating men as well), they'll make it easy. If they don't, it's probably better to cut your losses sooner rather than later.

I don't suggest my experience to everyone, but it gave me the assurance that I knew when I finally met my future wife, that she was the one for me based on my prior dating history. Those previous dates weren't all in vain, even if they seemed like they might be at the time.
Yes it's true. Chinese government actually learned a lot from the Soviet government so that it survived.

Plus Soviet was actually brought down by many of the high officials themselves.
There's none. That's why people rely on elections and news to hear about events even if they are not favourable to the government. Better informed people can then keep the bastards honest.

When you don't have either, what can you do about it?
Firefox, Debian, and many other build systems aren’t either. That’s orthogonal from all of this; the use case is well supported and has been for years.
I wonder if Github has ever considered allowing a 2FA via the use of the private ssh key that's used for running git push or git fetch/pull?
Virtually no modern language or package system requires this. All of them allow you to cache dependencies locally, so they can be committed to version control or otherwise put in place during deployment however you see fit.
The welfare state was much smaller in the 40s. Things have changed, and people need to be "means tested" in order to implement these government programs.
Ask HN: Which tech roles would be good for an ex-management consultant?
Looking for career advice. I'm a Partner at a management consulting company with a computer science/math background. My current area of focus finance but I'm a serious techie outside of work (know a lot about the entire stack) and want to transition into tech full time.

I can code, I can design, I can talk, I can sell, I can lead.

Which type of roles/jobs in tech would be a good fit for me? Also, anybody hiring?
Perhaps the addressable market on their own was too small (or so the team at SignalFx felt), thus now is a good time to sell.

Splunk already has Enterprise and B2B sales down cold, adding a supporting product is an easy in-sell.
I miss Charlie on TV - wish he would still at least do the yearly wipe.
I would argue this actually is popular - I've come across it on most projects I've been contracted to work on. Clients often defend their choice, saying react/vue/angular/webpack prevents them from 'just getting things done'. It's funny because they worry they're in the dark ages, but in reality many young and old projects alike are still using this approach.

As for being cool, my opinion is that shipping stuff is cool, and if your project is maintainable that's very cool no matter how you do it.
Apple warns against storing the Apple Card in leather and denim
It also makes many votes useless. I live in California, it has gone to a Democrat every time since I've been a voter. For president, I can't affect California, and I can't affect the national election either, due to the EC. Not that I'd vote for Trump, but there's no practical reason to vote for president in that circumstance.
Since lids and labels and such seem to actually matter, the only sensible solution is for the governments of the world to legislate to mandate specific shapes and material compositions for things like drink containers. Standardize it all.
Modern PHP isn't written that way, is the point. For better or worse.
Missouri farmer convicted in organic food fraud dies by suicide
In my personal experience as a person of Bangladeshi origin, a similar outlook and generational divide exists concerning the role of a job/career and the expectations one has of it with respect to an individual's happiness.

Update: added my origin to narrow the scope of my comment.
The protesters have very specific demands, why do we need to guess? If most of the citizens actually demand full independence, I'm sure they will make themselves heard, like what they are doing now.

And who are "most of the world"? Has the world reached a unified conclusion on what the people of Hong Kong want?
You mention Python, but I am pretty sure you've written some popular Go packages, so what is your opinion on the Go standard library? I think it's a good example of 'batteries included' in the right sense. Though, some of the reason its good may just be virtue of the fact that it's newer and there's less rotting packages; I guess only time will tell for sure, but it definitely feels right to me in many cases.
Musicians Play Classical Songs at Crime Scenes
The gold standard in microbiology for diagnosing an infectious disease has always been to culture the organism alive. Despite notorious difficulties in culturing Borrelia burgdorferi, in about 30 studies this organism has been cultured alive from patients despite at least standard antibiotic therapy, and in many cases after antibiotics far in excess of what is deemed curative by IDSA and CDC. If the pathogen that causes a disease is still present in conjunction with symptoms compatible with that infection, it would appear to me that these ‘fundamental questions about the cause of long term symptoms’ should have been answered a very long time ago. To add insult to injury, recent studies from Tulane, Johns Hopkins, and Northeastern University all demonstrate that we can’t even kill Borrelia in the test tube with the currently recommended antibiotics.
What are the chances that a second disease of mysterious etiology but with the same symptoms as the first disease, would come and replace the first disease when there is published evidence that the pathogen which causes the first disease persists despite both short and long-term antibiotics?
There are numerous chronic bacterial infections which require long-term combination antibiotic therapies: Tuberculosis, leprosy, coxiella endcocarditis, brucellosis, Whipple’s. Why should Lyme be different?

The last link in my previous post is very enlightening in how badly Lyme has been mismanaged so far.
You don't "jar" people into Learning anything.

That is why the late night comedian brigade and the bombastic news reader class (don't call them journalists) have never managed to change anyone's minds, irrespective of how many years of likes, laughs and claps they get from their own fan clubs. It's true of the left and the right.

Jaring (blaming/shaming/guilt triping) or shaking people up is not a teaching technique that works.

And you have to think of it as Teaching. Good teachers don't just shake people up. They know Learning takes Time, A LOT OF TIME. And different subjects require a deep understanding of how much time. Without a sense of that it easy to screw up the learning process and produce outcomes that don't make sense.

You can throw a baby into water, and some have an anti-drowning reflex, that can trigger some learning (about swimming). But many don't and you end up with dead babies. The tragic Story of misguided teaching practices, doesn't usually end there. Those who don't end up with dead babies, easily fool themselves into thinking that they have some great insight into teaching. And they apply it to other subjects, like throwing babies into metaphorical Tiger cages.

In this particular case involving China, you don't attack/blame/judge your friends or hold them accountable or guilt trip them or shame them. That won't produce any learning. Guaranteed. Expect only defensiveness and counter attacks.

It you really truly want to spark learning you just point at the articles and STOP. No blaming/shaming/guilt tripping/judgement passing/sarcasm/correcting/fact checking/finding logical holes etc. And then give it time. Learning how to handle Tigers takes time. Reset that expectation and watch the seeds planted grow.
My girlfriend is the same, this Hong Kong issue has been quite the discussion point whenever something news worthy happens.
I'm pretty sure some of my beliefs has been swayed by western propaganda but she believes China is not in the wrong here, she knows loosely about 1984 and is aware of what's happening with muslims but with HK she and a lot of my other mainland friends think the protesters are destroying everything, who knows how their opinions shape if China decides to start cleansing HK but it's interesting to see how deep this ideology is rooted and it's even more interesting to see her opinions change the longer she lives in a democratic country (like she tried talking about Xi Jinping to her mainland friends but they told her to cut it out since she forgot about the lack of free speech over there).

I think everyone has different definitions of freedom, some might think it only means to be physically free but lack of free speech and lack of proper human rights are a-ok because they don't know any better.
Apple Launches 'Enhanced Privacy' Apple Card, Adult Industry Should Beware
On my ARM Cortex processor it's __StackTop

On a read it's a completely valid address. Write generates a bus fault.

Atmel ATMega parts it's the reset vector. A write does nothing.