skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hassling people with drug tests doesn't keep out foreign agents.
Let me see if I got this: Tactics is using the Queen to take out the opponent's pieces, while strategy is throwing the whole chess board to the floor in a tantrum?

Check.
Cheney certainly doesn't seem like a good guy, but I can't go along with you here.

First, the white house bunker is supposed to survive nuclear weapons. Was his life even on the line?

Second, do you imagine the air force base commander was the first person to ask 'are you sure'? I'd imagine between Bush, Rice, the aides in the room and the pentagon he'd probably have been asked that at least twice by other people already.
Like Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES)?

http://www.arrl.org/ares
If only it's easy to remember/type. 5 or 6 digits had the real value.

As for account protection, S in ICQ stands for security.
I hope this is the cards/kanban update!!?!! Have been holding out ages for this. Love the app, its my favourite and i have tried them all, my main point of value is that the platform is so stable. Thank you! Missing features 1) task start date (and option to hide those that have not started / in future), 2) sequential task linking, 3) heading sections that are not actually considered as tasks i.e. : just hides the button, should change task 'class', if that makes sense in an OOP manner, better subdivision of projects 4) My day view in to do by microsoft is great - a quick add / starring system to highlight priorities for the day would be great, p1,p2,p3 are not really that useful, but could be converted like to-do, to a 'today' type thing... may just change a filter for displaying p1-3 for top three priorities for the day instead of importance of the task (love the custom filters) 5) Why is there no calendar view 6) google calendar integration - the tasks need to be better synced, i lack confidence in the 2-way sync with google 7) completing a task should remove the task from google calendar... I could keep going, todoist is the best task manager out there. Ps repeat after completion is essential in task management i seriously wonder why so many apps lack that feature. 8) habit tracking... a bubble 'streak' format integration for repeating tasks... would love that... basically i think the app is missing views, it requires more clarity when you have a lot of tasks. My 2 and a few cents. Looking forward to the new version!
Not anymore it isn't.
I suspect that the commercial VPN messaging has modified/manipulated the general public's understanding of the matter so thoroughly, that the Mozilla employees who wrote/approved that text were themselves mislead by those commercials and unwittingly perpetuated the falsehoods.
My Best Friend Died by Suicide. I Wish I Had Seen the Warning Signs
[Stripe co-founder]

As multiple commenters note, UK and EU interchange is significantly lower than that in the US. So the rewards market tends to be different as a result.

That said, launching this in the UK would still be attractive to us. We don't think rewards are the primary thing businesses are looking for.

As we talked to founders, it seems like they all want a corporate card early on for their business spending (to get it off personal cards). As the business adds employees, they need a sensible way to keep tabs on spending without the expensing process being really painful. I think that's just as relevant in the UK, with the added detail of multi-currency spending being more relevant.
Not all anti-competitive behavior is illegal, or wrong. What I'm interested in is when does a company's territory become a public right to insist that others have access?

Starbucks coffee shops give preferential treatment to Starbucks products, and not to others. Can you claim a similar right to have access to sell your goods through their stores?
The (current, I've been told this is being worked on) problem with cloudflare's registrar is you MUST use their DNS if you buy a domain through them. Great if you already do and never intend to switch, useless if you don't or might need/want to switch in the future.
I'd err closer to $300/month.

How do you find ideas in this category? Simple: Just look at what people are already paying lots of money for.

Off the top of my head, consumers spend lots of money on education (courses, seminars, books, classes, workshops), events and experiences, travel and vehicles, rent and housing, clothing and accessories, food, hobbies, etc. Businesses spend lots of money on recruiting and hiring, hosting, advertising, marketing tools, analytics tools, productivity, real estate, etc.

I know tons of indie hackers building businesses that help others learn to code, for example.
It will trigger an error to review the code. It still is bit of a trouble to debug async code with sync code.

"Note that as a side-effect of this change, Django is now aware of asynchronous event loops and will block you calling code marked as “async unsafe” - such as ORM operations - from an asynchronous context. If you were using Django from async code before, this may trigger if you were doing it incorrectly. If you see a SynchronousOnlyOperation error, then closely examine your code and move any database operations to be in a synchronous child thread."
One Strange Rock, a nature documentary hosted by Will Smith (stay with me) actually goes into this in some detail and I would definitely recommend a watch. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7651892/
New UK government rushing through increased user tracking on government websites
My online life is more and more simply Googling for their Knowledge Graph, and Twitter for anything else. So why not...
> "And with the proper graph theory tools, much more complex interactions could be tracked."

So you've said, and I already agreed that it isn't impossible. But do you have any real-world examples where someone followed reasonable OPSEC (fixed denominations, mixers, randomized timing) and still had their transactions successfully traced via these "proper graph theory tools"?
Any references on this you're aware of you could suggest?

Different disciplines tend to have different words for similar things.

Schemas, worldviews, frames, models, maps. All largely refer to the same thing.
Khashoggi children have received houses in Saudi Arabia and monthly payments
There is absolutely a meme. Google "United Flight 93 heroic sacrifice".

>a group of civilian passengers made more or less the same decision

What decision was this? The decision to sacrifice their own lives, as the fighter pilots were prepared to sacrifice theirs? Because that makes no sense. The passengers were trying to regain control of the aircraft to prevent it from crashing. Likely the hijackers downed the plane rather than relinquish control; the other possibility is that there was a struggle in the cockpit, and the plane crashed accidentally. What almost certainly did not happen was a passenger obtained full control of the aircraft, and intentionally flew it into the ground.
Congratulations on shipping!

Just signed up with a new Firefox account and tried it on Nightly on Windows.

Looks very nice.

Fast.com reports:

Your Internet speed is 420 Mbps
Latency

Unloaded 10 ms
Loaded 71 ms
Upload Speed 300 Mbps

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> There MUST be some sort of ISO certification for support people.

Would it matter if there was?

You have to pay money to even read what the ISO standards say. The lack of ISO certification is not an impediment for most people or businesses.
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Unfortunately MFA doesn’t help in this case if an attacker can just circumvent it by calling customer service to fairly easily bypass it.
Ha, nice one! So if the Amazon is like lungs in this sense, where is it bringing the oxygen in from?
I've never had issues with iwantmyname.
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A tiny piece of unsolicited copy editing advice:

> Search Engine on the top of twitter to find jobs in real time.

Should generally be written as:

> Search Engine on top of twitter to find jobs in real time.
We’ve writing most new code with hooks (including the Apollo GraphQL hooks like useQuery and useMutation). Generally been really pleased with them but did get bitten hard the other day.

The value returned from useState is just a plain ol’ variable like any other so it also gets captured by closures like any another variable. We had an editor that updated some state and then an event handler (defined as a closure) that did something with the state variable. The state was updated as expected but when the event fired, the closure had the original value. It can be worked around via a container/useRef (and is maybe a code smell in the first place) but it made for some painful debugging.
I don't think regulating antitrust and competition properly is going to suddenly inspire European-based tech companies, I think much like trying to move manufacturing out of Asia, there's a lot of reasons people found tech companies in the US, a lot of momentum to overcome.

But lack of competition even among US companies causes a lot of problems and harm for EU consumers, so I understand why this would still be a very big issue for them to ensure big tech is broken up... even if it just leads to new US-based competitors.
According to [0], your company should be able to work around DOH, there's fallback for internal queries, and you can apply parental controls. The way your company will be able to work around it seems to be [1] or [2], which means I'm about to become a single-person enterprise, because I 100% agree with you and don't like how browsers try to become operating systems disenfranchising users to such extremes that 90s-era Windows looks like GNU system in comparison.

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[0] - https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2019/09/06/whats-nex...

[1] - https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/customizing-firefox-usi...

[2] - https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/customizing-firefox-usi...
> it had a just fine object model, that no one ever took the time to understand properly

Plenty of the people who dislike Javascript's prototypal inheritance model and (relatedly) scoping rules do understand them.
Please correct me if I’m wrong — does this fact not imply that any attempt to actually use cryptocurrency as a currency to buy and sell goods (I.e. how we currently commonly use USD) is completely impossible, since the capital gains taxes will cause everything to cost substantially more?
fwiw, I use Uber or Lyft multiple times a week across multiple cities and generally ask drivers if they drive full time or just during free time. Out of the last 50ish rides, I think two of them were not doing it full time (as in they do 6+ hours a day). I'm fairly confident we're well past the original "gig" only-when-you-want phase of ride sharing.
Of course, that's already the case now for a lot of weapons. It doesn't fundamentally change the equation of war though. It's always been about machinery and the logistics to support it. There are very few exceptions, such as fighter pilots, where the actual humans are meaningfully expensive.

Now instead of having humans inside machines fighting other humans inside machines, it'll mostly be machines fighting machines. And yes, they'll be devastatingly effective against just humans but that's already the case with non-autonomous machines.

Autonomous weapons are a step on the existing tech advancement = force multiplier curve, I don't think they're fundamentally doctrine-changing. Like someone else commented here before, the actual game changer weapons will probably be biological. Unlike autonomous drones/tanks/whatever, advanced biological weapons will soon become available to just about any two bit state actor. Very little thought has been given towards defending against such attacks.
> It just seems like WeWork took an existing business model of renting office space, went all VC and gathered a bunch of money and sky high evaluation (toss in some creepy insider dealing) ... and ... that's it

The nutty thing is WeWork could have worked as a well-executed business. The core thesis, that companies of all sizes appreciate the flexibility of spinning up and down remote workplaces as a variable (versus fixed) cost has legs.

There is a borrowing-short-buying-long aspect to their business, but that could be managed through a combination of first-loss guarantees and sandboxed leases (on both sides).

The problem is the CEO, enabled by Masa Son, showed zero discipline on any level. Nepotism, self dealing, lack of focus, cost inflation...about the only thing they did right, it seems, was expansively disclose all of this to their investors.
Agreed, any application regardless of language or framework can age poorly. I've seen some pretty solid "long running" Rails applications that were just maintained well.
I switched from Square to Paymentech. IMO, Squareup merchant services is garbage
Do contractors always really get to negotiate? All the contractor jobs I’ve seen have had take it or leave it fixed rates. I think negotiation is only possible at the high end, not for low end devs or cleaners or construction workers.
I use gandi and I love it. They have 2FA, good management systems, friendly support, etc.
Seems to be a copy of a medium post from 5 months ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19554425

No attribution to the original author. I see other articles are also 1:1 copies from various medium.com posts making geekwall.in a low quality source.
Anyone else's BS detector sounding off right now? This is certainly the most helpful "attacker" I've ever heard of, politely answering all kinds of detailed questions AFTER he got what he wanted. This story states the attacker was able to register a Twitter handle just minutes after the author changed his. Does Twitter actually allow this, it doesn't lock up the old handle for a period of time?Seems like a basic security measure for Twitter to implement.

And what does the Facebook account have to do with anything -- why would the attacker want it, and further, how did he steal that without already knowing the password (if the attacker couldn't receive Twitter's reset emails, he couldn't have received Facebook's either)? And if the attacker "was able to control my email" then how did the author continue to communicate, by email? There's just a lot to unravel here.
When will OS vendors stop defaulting `python` to Python 2? It seems like an unnecessary trap that pushed new developers to an out of date version. Even Ubuntu 19.04 defaults to Python 2.7.16
This may actually kill Uber.

I hope to see some popular decentralized alternatives (like Arcade City, but better or more popular?) within the next couple of years.

Beyond 1-2 years I expect Waymo, Tesla and others to start deploying on a fairly large scale. At that point people may be discussing "basic income" etc. very seriously.

Meanwhile, the US still will not have much manufacturing and our leads in other areas will be diminishing.

China will be over dollars. Cryptocurrency will be threatening all fiat.

There may be a war at first between China and the US, primarily driven by AGI invented in China.

Then an international group of cyborgs and AIs may decide to end both China and the US and create a new global paradigm.

We may only have another 10 years until the Singularity.
Addition to the question, it was a Porsche SUV so it's definitely more expensive than regular car. So the safety features didn't work in case (assumed driver got epileptic seizure?)
Contractors send 1099 they receive from a company to FTB. They don't need to complain.

This means that a bootstrapped start-up cannot temporarily hire a graphics designer or a coder in California anymore, without the budget to make him an employee. But non-VC entrepreneurship has been hardly possible here for other reasons: building and rent control regulations driving the housing and office space costs. Since the 2006's "web2.0", progressive California regulators are at it for real, pitching entrepreneurship as an enemy of labor: it's no longer a place for small business and non-VC startups. Those have been fleeing.
What's Cloudflare been doing that's not privacy-friendly?
I saw it, a bit skeptic about Will Smith but the production is high Quality, I suppose with Will the show is pointing younger generations.
It's remarkably easy to make fun of WeWork, given the company's high-as-a-kite ambitions, its largely conjectural business model, its dependence on fresh capital for survival, its charismatic CEO’s new-age antics, and its disregard for conventional norms of ethical corporate behavior.[a]

But if the IPO of a company as prominent as WeWork fails and the company is unable to raise the fresh capital it needs to stay afloat, we should view that as a warning sign that capital markets are shifting from "grow at all costs" to "show me the profits."

The last time we had such a shift, in 2000, it was sudden and cruel. Many fast-growing companies found themselves unable to raise capital. Down-rounds became common. There was a wave of failures. The startup ecosystem went through a long, cold winter.[b]

If you are at a money-burning startup, please make sure your company has a viable plan for survival in the event that access to fresh capital is suddenly cut off.[c]

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[a] https://twitter.com/shiraovide/status/1161601877517246464

[b] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot-com_bubble#Aftermath

[c] Here's a good first-hand account of a fast-growing, money-burning company that managed to survive the post-2000 environment, while most of its competitors went bankrupt: https://a16z.com/2010/03/17/the-case-for-the-fat-startup/
Perfectly an acceptable reason as long as you know how to use the older devices well.

Here we are talking about people refusing to move beyond beginner phase.
No, the actual goal may have been to increase the visibility of Al Quaeda; serve as a recruitment poster and show that their group can hurt the biggest force on the planet with impunity in a way that can not be denied or spun.

The mantra 'never leave a crisis unused' is enough to explain everything else that followed. Getting the United States out of the middle East was never going to happen as a result of this, rather the opposite and that too would have the effect of driving more people in to the hands of the extremists.
There is a long article in two parts "Radioactive water at Fukushima Daiichi: What should be done?" [1,2] which was previously discussed here at Hacker News [3].

The thing I find most interesting is that even the Fukushima fishermen agree that dumping the water will be harmless, but they are still very opposed to it because they think consumers will be irrationally scared and not buy fish caught in the Fukushima region.

> Over the course of our long conversation, Sawada frankly acknowledged that the scientific consensus indicates very low risk if the water is released. “It’s not a question of scientific understanding,” he said. “We understand that tritiated water is released from other nuclear power plants in Japan and around the world. But we think it will be impossible for the public in general to understand why tritium is considered low risk, and expect there will be a large new backlash against Fukushima marine products no matter how scientifically it is explained.” I pointed out that the [fishery] coops agreed to the release of the subdrain and bypass water from Daiichi, and asked what was different about this. He pointed out that in those cases, the water is pumped out before it is contaminated, and the public seems to understand that the contamination levels are already very low.

[1] https://blog.safecast.org/2018/06/part-1-radioactive-water-a...
[2] https://blog.safecast.org/2018/06/part-2-radioactive-water-a...
[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20304208
> That all said, I don't like it much either. But I don't know if that's just resistance to change or actual technical reasons.

IMO it's technical reasons, all right. Problem being, software engineers are being sidelined as a subclass of users on the Internet, as the vast majority of traffic is now non-technical people accessing commercial services on-line. Under this influence, Internet is turning increasingly into cable TV.
Thanks for reply!

From our point of view, a card where we could use our USD and EUR balance to make USD/EUR payments would be one of the biggest pulls if possible. I think recurring USD charges for UK based businesses are probably quite prevalent.

I don't think many UK startups realise how much they lose out on being charged in GBP on these transactions (especially with debit cards). There's likely an opportunity here to educate UK businesses and use that to promote this sort of card.

> all want a corporate card early on for their business spending (to get it off personal cards)

I'm surprised by this, been a while since we were an early business but didn't have any issue getting a corporate debit card which is more than adequate early on.
Summaries of the 16 Alexa-related papers at this year's Interspeech
As a co-creator of a language (Julia) with a name that is feminine in most of the world, let me give some friendly advice regarding the name "Ballerina", which means "a female ballet dancer". The way you talk about Ballerina comes off rather tone deaf to gender issues. In the post linked here and elsewhere on the language website, the female ballerina—and she is definitely a she—is talked about as an object of grace and beauty to be appreciated by the programmer, who is presumed to be male. In one cartoon on the site, the male programmer is getting a massage from the helpful, friendly, female Ballerina while he does his programming work. And then there is language like this (pointed out by @yoz):

> That obviously starts with the Enterprise Integrator team as that is where this baby was flirted with, dated and then conceived

This is really damaging: the Ballerina in question is referred to as "baby", she is flirted with and then conceived—weird because that's an unusual order of events, but I guess this means you knocked her up and then had a baby with her? I can't continue, even dissecting this sentence feels creepy. Just don't do this. It's weird and disturbing and it will put off most women and many men who might otherwise consider using or contributing to your language.

Consider renaming the language to "Ballet", which is distinctly non-gendered and doesn't have these issues but still suggests the grace and beauty you are inspired by and aspiring to. Seriously, consider this. Yes, it's late in the game (post 1.0) and you like the name you have, but it's close enough to the current name that you won't lose much branding and you can keep the same nice logo that you already have.

If you are going keep the name Ballerina, you cannot sexualize the name and you should have a rule that others in the community not do so either. Julia has a specific rule in the code of conduct saying "do not sexualize the name of the project"—we didn't originally think we'd need to say that, but it turns out people just cannot resist saying creepy, sexual shit about anything they perceive to be feminine.
The thing that sticks out to me as a core differentiator here is the "real-time expense reporting" feature. It looks like it allows employees to SMS a receipt the moment they make a transaction and it'll automatically match it. That's a marked improvement compared to how serious of a pain point expense reporting is for so many employees.
Oh sure, none of this is insurmountable and Firefox is pretty good about being configurable. But they're examples of how this mindset interferes with legitimate use and impacts long-held conventions on how software should work.