skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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China attacks Apple for allowing Hong Kong crowdsourced police activity app
I would have borrowed "/.,/.," a long time ago had I heard about it sooner. That is just way too convenient.
I disagree, there's often no "full version" of these free to play games to buy. There are a few developers that do the in app purchases to unlock the full version, and it seemed to a more popular business model in the early days of mobile app stores, but now they seem to be drowned in a sea of games that rely on an unending stream of in app purchases that incrementally move you forward.
It's not "each other", it's the US supporting Erdogan in attacking former allies against ISIS.

https://defence-point.com/2019/10/07/syria-kurds-slam-us-wit...
There was never any wireline ICO
It’s the end of the first successful socialist experiment since the 30’s. Systems of people are interesting to nerds too. I don’t see why this would be off topic.
These are what I usually see, or else an automated call with the same approximate script. Is there anything insecure about doing this one? The only thing I can think of is a MiTM where your account credentials are already compromised and they are using your answers to reset your password.
Another Hallway
You can't just transfer debt like that. Otherwise I could go take out a mortgage and transfer it to a homeless guy for beer money.
Not necessarily. They say you can’t prove you’re being surveilled, therefore, you can’t claim a violation of your rights. The argument is that because the evidence (the Snowden leaks) were obtained illegally, they’re not admissible. I understand the reasoning (we don’t want the government using illegally obtained stuff against us).

I personally find this ridiculous. I agree that government against the people shouldn’t use illegally obtained evidence, but the other way around should be allowed; the government shouldn’t be able to hide illegal activities under the pretense of “national security.”
I'm shocked at how well the old hashing stood up; sure, it's totally crackable today, but a well-picked password still took 4+ days to crack on modern hardware, which is remarkable. (Granted, it doesn't sound like they did anything fancy like throwing a hundred cloud instances at it or something; I'm not saying you should use DES today:) )
This is what really killed Toys R Us.

PE firms essentially made TRU borrow shit tons of money from them at ridiculous rates to buy itself from public shareholders, then eventually they couldn't keep up with the interest payments.

At the time of the buyout, Toys R Us was in a sales slump, but they were still making a profit and continued making a profit until the very day they closed their doors.
Will it work for humans?
I guess, to enter the Unix password you need physical access to a machine. If they have access to a machine and can crack a lowercase password, a harder password will not necessarily save you. So at least you can make it easier for you to type.
Malicious firmware concerns might be alleviated with cross-compilation. There might be an assumption that firmware inserting untrusted code only actually inserts trusted code of its native architecture, though even this is no guarantee.
Alternative view (not necessarily my view): Hedge funds are able to buy companies that are already in trouble. They do a lot of up-front financial engineering to free working capital for last-ditch efforts. Frequently, those last-ditch efforts don't work and the companies fail anyway.

Obviously, this isn't universally true, but, not all troubled companies can be saved, or really, need to be saved. The standard pivot model just doesn't work on most businesses, while deferred investment and cash flow problems are always fatal.
> Where is the rest of the Western world that supposedly supports democracy and freedom now?

Now suddenly without the support of the largest superpower with the largest military in the world.
Hedge funds and private equity are slightly different. Private equity is the leveraged buyout business that got rebranded after its callous performance in the 80s. Hedge funds are usually long/short in public equities (stocks, bonds, etc). Those guys haven't been performing well, and they have had a secular decline in their ability to charge high fees to clients. 2/20 doesn't exist for the vast majority of HFs anymore, more like 1/15, etc.

There are a small number of funds that do growth equity (where they buy a small business and grow it), but so much of it just depends on financial engineering in the way you mentioned in your comment.
A lot of Chinese people have Twitter and Facebook accounts FWIW.
Show HN: Prefab Home Marketplace (No-Code)
The Intercept is incredible: https://theintercept.com
Good point! So, in reality, it isn't the dog, it's what you do when you're a dog owner. I think that's why they phrased the paper with "dog ownership", implying that the main condition for improved health isn't the dog itself, but your routines as owner of one.
Turkey ? Socialist experiment ? Did I miss something ?
Aside from being able to use your phone at night without blinding your partner, another positive aspect of dark mode is the battery savings with OLED displays. Because the blacks on OLEDs are not emitting light, some simple text on a page saves a very surprising amount of battery.
For what it's worth, Snopes did an article about these brain-wave trackers: https://www.snopes.com/news/2018/05/03/activists-skeptical-c...

tl;dr is that they kinda work, but not nearly as effective as advertised.

It also raises the point that even if it didn't work, all you need to suppress people is for them to believe that it's working.
Professional players maybe, but how many millions and millions of recreational players?

Most gamers aren't pros either.
The funny thing is that you can be totally focused on something else - just not on what the teacher is teaching.

Of-course that loophole would end with mind-imaging. The government has the _right_ to your thoughts to see if you are deviating from lawful conformity. Negative/non-conforming thoughts will adversely affect your social credit score. Superior citizens receive superior benefits!

Those who fail the conformity test can be admitted to a separate labour class that best matches their talents. Mundane work is important for a modern society and some opportunity should be given to the talentless.

The next logical step after that would be full-fledged eugenics. After all, if any patterns on large data-sets can be established linking CCP approved intelligence, focus, behaviour and conformity to genes, then birth-preference should be given to such superior citizens who will contribute most greatly to the future of the state.

This is not merely the road to hell, its the high-speed 1000 km/hour bullet train to hell.
The US doesn't need to drop bombs to exercise power. As the strongest nation economically, all we had to do was maintain a united front with our allies using soft power except we have a fucking toddler in the White House who can't play well with others.
I’m Caleb, the maker of Dwellito. It’s a no-code project for prefab shopping - think backyard guest house that you can rent or use for family / friends.

I just launched Dwellito 2.0 with 40+ prefabs (w/ kitchen & bathroom), starting at $18.5k and up. We redesigned the site so you can deal shop and compare. Our goal is to help cut through the noise since the prefab market is a pain to navigate.

What do you think of prefabs - would you buy one to rent, to office, to house your family? Would love to hear your feedback.
Seems to be only i686 and x86_64. It's a pretty small project all things considered, but I'm sure a porting effort would be appreciated.
>Since the DES-based crypt(3) algorithm used for these hashes is well known to be weak (and limited to at most 8 letters)

>ZghOT0eRm4U9s:p/q2-q4!

How is that 8 letters?
Yes, 废话 is a different word than than 大话, and sounds different. I've heard 大话 also means bullshit, though. E.g., "大话王 King Of Bullshit": https://www.le.com/ptv/vplay/26199923.html
Of course it's the same

Things can have both positive and negative properties. Diesel is no exception and has certainly saved more people than it killed.
Here we have ChipTAN - I put my card into a special reader (some photodiodes plus keypad and display), hold the diode-end of the reader onto my PC display and a flickering image on the website transfers some info to the reader. On the reader I then see some info on the transaction (IBAN and amount), plus a TAN. I then enter that TAN on the banks website.

So an attacker would need to alter the image (simple) and cause a collision (hopefully difficult) or somehow abuse an error in the reader firmware.

It seems there is now a QR variant of that (which increases the attack surface since now it has to understand a more complex data format).

If my bank would have had me install an App or use SMS 2FA I would have kindly asked them to .... off (or, if they think their "2FA" is safe, just connect their mobile phones to this totally unsuspicious looking USB device).

ChipTAN on wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transaction_authentication_num...
That's right. This study shows that those who have a dog have lower cardiovascular risk. It doesn't show that getting a dog is an effective intervention for lowering cardiovascular risk. We need to be careful about conflating pre-existing factors (already owning a dog) to interventions (going out and buying a dog to try to fix something).

That said, your post talks about stress as a cohesive entity, but there's some research that shows two kinds of stress: distress (negative) and eustress (positive). And there's some evidence linking a few stress factors in your post (having a child, having a dog) to better long-term outcomes.
Tsinghua? They made some form of VPN just for foreign exchange students as I heard. Never heard of details though.
Dunbar's number: Why we can only maintain 150 relationships
The part before : is the hash, the part after is the cracked 8 character password.
"affect"

Verbs and nouns matter.
VCs don't do the same kinds of questionable financial engineering that PEs do.
Berkshire is one of the best run organizations in America.

Most private equity that uses leverage actually destroys businesses. Just look at what happened to toys r us for example. That's extremely common.

The problem is that when private equity buys a company, it usually uses lots of loans to do so. Then the most experienced people in the business are removed or deincentivized (the previous owners). Finally, this now poorly run and heavily in debt company struggles to survive and goes bankrupt in the next recession.

You will see this pattern repeated over and over with private equity.
I think the American Republic is failing. We expect a certain steady-stateness about things given how short our lifespans are. But there's no guarantees that the American system is or continues to be a viable one.

My understanding is that the tremendous power given to the Executive is balanced by the Legislative. But I cannot believe that the Republicans in the House and Senate are supporting the White House in good faith I'm pretty convinced they're playing a metagame, largely about keeping their jobs, keeping their power, worrying about re-election and the 2020 election. So, to me, that system is broken and there is nobody stopping the President from acting like a King.

I used to say to my wife that if he ever did anything completely off limits, that would be it. But clearly I'm wrong. So my joke years ago about the U.S. annexing part of Canada the way Russia did with Ukraine is not insane anymore. Clearly nothing needs to make sense for Trump. And the Americans in congress are spineless cowards.

I also don't think any of this is appropriate for Hacker News. But I don't social media and I'm angry and scared.
Code analysis with clang-tidy in Visual Studio
The author doesn't know how bankruptcy works. You can say the debt is "secured" all day long, but if it is held by the owners then the bankruptcy judge will immediately kick it to the back of the line by equitable subordination.
Do firms benefit from apprenticeship investments?
Not turkey, rojava

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vice.com/amp/en_uk/article/...
>Why is this relevant on HN?

Aside from this being politically and potentially ethnically/religiously divisive...it is historical. You have Turkey invading Syria to use force against a militia funded/armed/trained by the US. In response the US President took to Twitter to essentially say go in and kill everyone, we have no interest...meanwhile another politician from the same party took to Twitter to tell Turkey not to go into Syria, because, well the US Congress hasn't authorize them to.

Its ridiculous and important, but goes to show while people are dying in armed conflict, for which we are in some ways responsible, our highest political leaders are taking to Twitter.
I think in this case we could argue that Activision Blizzard is an American company and it is obliged to follow U.S. trade laws, but not Chinese laws. A trade embargo is also something that multiple countries agree and abide to, so it can't really be seen as censorship in the same level as Chinese censorship. And while I understand the appeal of the Chinese market, that thirst for profit should not trump values that the company imposes on itself, which in this case are "Every voice matters" and "Think globally". Nor should the company go against the values of the country it belongs to, in this case the democratic values of the U.S..
Hedge funds always love to claim that they fix companies and make them healthier, but most of them have a reputation for looting them, loading them with debt

The genius of PE is convincing the public that all the bad things they do are actually done by “hedge funds”.
> Another mistake, it was pointed out by Kevin Hale, iirc, this year at startupschool, that founders make is they think their pricing model (or their UX) is a key differentiator, when in most cases it isn't.

Yes, I have seen that happen a few times in SuS (I'm a 2018 and 2019 batch alumni). Founders are obsessive about their pricing and as a result they usually undercharge.

My usual advice to pre-market-fit stage founders is that you don't know yet what the right price is, so choose $random_price and move on, you can always adjust later. And for post-market-fit stage: raise your prices.

Of course, there is no single 'right' answer on pricing. It depends on many factors, but for B2B it usually holds true that pricing isn't that much of a differentiator.
Who flagged it? Can anybody do that? Is there a review process?
Normal form posts don't require pre-flight requests. DNS rebinding attacks can be used too.
My first password ever was qazwsx and I used it until I learned that it's included in "known" password text files and thus instantly crackable.

However, I wonder how safe it is to take an "easy" password like /.,/.,/., and then add a bunch of exclamation points to the end, so that it's both long and not part of a dictionary.

I'm sure password crackers are advanced enough to first try taking common passwords and then adding human modifications to make them more secure.

But something like MyDogRules###########! seems like it could be very secure, actually.
And we also forget the many refugees kept away from Europe by Erdogan. He'll sure use that as a negotiation tool...

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/10/world/middleeast/turkey-s...
I agree, China is now a nightmare dictatorship. We should do everything we possibly can to support the free peoples remaining in Hong Kong and Taiwan and perhaps start pushing freedom into China.
My answer on Dev.to[0]:

"So I took the Learning how to learn course on Coursera some time ago. The key point that the lecturer is trying to make is that when you start with an unknown subject, it is better to first uncover some key areas. They are calling them chunks. So imagine having a big dark terrain and slowly start shedding light in some areas until you uncover it all.

I'm doing that when I'm trying to learn something new. Take a new language for example. I will start by asking some key questions:

Why was that language built in the first place?
- What key problem is trying to solve?
- What other languages are similar to this one?
- What does the syntax look like?
- What are some key differences from other languages?
- Etc. Trying to answer these questions will shed light on half of the terrain.

After it, it's time to go deeper. Start a quick project, read other projects on GitHub, get involved in communities and discussions around the web. Follow some people that are working on that language for some time.

The first time I'm starting something new, I am not trying to be an expert. I'm trying to get my self familiar with the subject but also surround my self with experts. I will either be interested and will want to continue with it or will just back down."

0: https://dev.to/kbariotis/comment/gb69
The Kurds, I believe.
weirdly enough a few months ago (maybe like a close to a year...) someone on HN shared an article on J.B. Goodenough which I had read.
Today, before clicking on the link I assumed because of the fact that someone had shared the article here before, that he would be one of the Innovators who had won the Nobel.
Thanks HN for making me learn and remember little details like this!
>Where is the rest of the Western world that supposedly supports democracy and freedom now?

The Europeans are basically too tired of war after WWII and decades of being right next to the Soviets during the Cold War, and after continental Europe was bombed out in WWII and then occupied by the Americans, they relied on the US for defense mostly. Over in Japan, they were bombed and then occupied by the Americans too, and avoided building up too much military force or projecting power. So that mainly leaves America and to an extent the other 5-eyes nations (UK, Australia, Canada) to counter the powers that have always tended towards authoritarianism.
if you are ridin' dirty just stay off the phones.
Fair enough; I do like the visual breakpoint interface. Honestly, that's one thing MSVC does really well: the debugger. Just curious to see why that didn't work for you. I'm assuming it's viable to implement this, I guess no one yet has.
Show HN: A Simple, Serverless Machine Learning API
The early days of mainframes had some groups of individuals who advocated for no passwords or just your username again as a password: https://www.oreilly.com/openbook/freedom/ch07.html
Show HN: EntropicaQAOA, a optimisation software package for quantum computers
Such a secret key would be very valuable and it's almost inevitable that someone with access to it will be willing to sell it to criminals for the sort of money those criminals will be able to acquire with it.
1 flaw. Missed the part where the also had black painted cows. Still doesn't cover the other 2 issues.
What I’m hearing is, “My precious snowflake app is so important, users must manage its appearance independently of the OS.” Once you allow the possibility of a different app setting, you effectively require them to continue managing it separately. You can’t respect both OS- and app-level settings, so you're going to ignore the OS.

If your app really just has light and dark theme choices, you should get rid of the toggle and move all your dark class styles into the prefers-color-scheme:dark media query instead.
>Blizzard was fine introducing politics into their competitions when it suited them to do so. In that case it made them look progressive and they sold a lot of pins and t-shirts. In this case, they could lose a whole bunch of money.

I agree with you. In fact, I didn't buy Overwatch because of the way they were shoving gay stuff into it.
Nietzsche also put an end to a century of increasingly technical and analytical philosophy by dropping a lot of truth bombs that exposed the futility of a century of German philosophy. He’s kind of an edgelord by 19th century standards, but he wasn’t wrong that German philosophy had been intellectual masturbation with no meaning for quite a while.

His wordplay is an intentional reaction to blowhards like Kant and Schopenhauer — who attempted to be so precise they were almost certain to be proven wrong given enough time. He is intentionally vague, because he’s allowing for the fact that definitions and sentiments change arbitrarily over time. But he is intentionally evasive in his prose to distance him from a specific German philosophical tradition.
That's also the good part, sometimes.
Why is Wikipedia even allowing edits from China at this point?
So if a player said in an interview "It's bad to murder people for being gay" they ought to be kicked out of the tournament and have their prize money retracted? That's how far we've fallen with appeasing oppressive governments in pursuit of their money?
The problem is that when private equity buys a company, it usually uses lots of loans to do so

It can’t be as simple as that because who is making these loans to companies that are about to go bankrupt? Why would they do it?
A slight nitpick with the article - `p/q2-q4` (more commonly written as "1. d4" in modern times) is not the Closed Game, it's just the first move of it. There are many, many other lines after 1. d4 besides just 1. ..d5, most of them quite open!
Company management decided to borrow money at a bad time. You phrased that in really weird way to make it sound like some sinister external force is making them do things against their will.
To Live or Die by Google Search Brings an Escalating Cost
Have you, by chance, read Barbarians at the Gate?
I'm not disagreeing that it goes against company mission/guidelines, but if part of your product is player streams and you give them a caveat of not having the ability to freely express opinions that is going to be an incredibly boring stream.
At an earlier job, I got so annoyed with the constantly changing requirements I developed a form generator. With AngularJS. I wish I could've saved the code, it was so beautiful and horrible.
Sources for...the questions they're asking?
This crap is creeping into the tech world as well: https://twitter.com/mrtz/status/1181646802790969344
Turkey has played (or been played by) shifting allegiances with "the West" and Russia since the late Ottoman Empire.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Question
Well, you weren't wrong.
> The next logical step after that would be full-fledged eugenics.

For the truly dissident, their organs can benefit the state.
They don't call themselves part of China under threat.

Their official position is that they're the rightful government of all of China. Abandoning 'Taiwan is part of China' would mean abandoning that claim.

It looks quaint now, yes, but that's the official position. And it wasn't quaint when they were holding China's security council seat.

The fact that both countries have reasons to say 'Taiwan is part of China' while each claiming to be the rightful government of China is the most basic fact of the relationship. It's embedded in the names of the countries, even. ROC and PRC. I'd submit that anyone with strong feelings on the matter should really already know this.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21126014
The theory amongst some motorcyclists is that know they’re shit drivers, so they go buy a Volvo. They’re not driving like idiots because they’re in a safe car, they’re in a Volvo because they know they’re a menace.

Hard hypothesis to test. Just stay away from Volvo’s.