skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Ban the player not to make China happy but because he brought politics into a neutral sporting event

It's a stage where people express themselves.

They are there because they won the competition and earned that position on that stage.

If people couldn't earn that stage and that kind of exposure, they would not play games professionally.

Forcing people to be neutral about politics is not neutral.

> The same thing that NFL and NBA did with players kneeling during the anthem because it pissed off half their fanbase.

They took a stance against a legit position, therefore becoming politically active in the situation, therefore pissing off the black community, the neutral viewers, the minority of already pissed off that expected more radical punishments and in the end they are losers in the game.

There are way more people pissed at NBA/NFL in general than people pissed off by players kneeling.

The only way to be really neutral is support every instance: you want to kneel? it's ok!
You don't want to? it's ok!

People are pissed? they would be anyway! It's what they do, they would not be staring a 70 inches TV alone if they had a life!
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They probably are a minority, but how does that relate? There are still millions of people participating in the game, having more spectators doesn't negate the participants. If anything I think that would reinforce it being a good game.
I'm not sure I'd agree with your assumption that "outrage machines" are wholly unconnected/uncontrolled by governments. We know governments have used bots on Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit to stir controversy, why would Weibo be any different?
Were they escorted out because of what they were saying, or were they escorted out for being annoying and disrupting the game?
IIRC because of that incident SNL added a 5 or 10 second delay so they'd have time to cut if something similar happened again.

A comedy show is in business for fifty years, and the only off-color appearance was a musician with a political opinion? As if we ever needed a demonstration of how bland and conventional SNL really is, regardless of the image they would like to convey.
This is because their name is not Blizzard. Their legacy is Blizzard. Their name is Activision Blizzard. They are actively opposed to players' interests in many ways, like lootboxes which many countries seek to outlaw for teaching children to gamble, always-online DRM etc.
on mobile via brave browser, I could not find a way to display a map of results. Even checking "show desktop site" just showed a bigger but still mobile-optimized site.

the lack of sort by price, gets me every time im searching. I usually end up using a different site when it comes to booking
> If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.
We may see in a few weeks: https://www.gofundme.com/f/free-hong-kong-tshirts-on-nba-ope...
Waze. They even featured it in a keynote.
My understanding is that this style of loan, balloon payment mortgage, used to be common in the US too, but government intervention in the form of Fannie Mae loan purchases made the 30-year fixed loan widely available.

As a borrower, there's a big risk with a balloon payment that you may not be able to find financing when it's due, so having a full term loan is very desirable.
Ah, yes. Good ol' Aerojet. I grew up in Chino Hills, CA near the base of their operation there. As a kid, playing in the gullies around the area, we didn't really question the sounds of munitions in the background during the day--until we became teenagers and started exploring it.

After a few friends retrieved spent (and unspent) mortar shells, it quickly was guarded and a project to clean up the site was initiated.

These fine folks have been following the closure, cleanup and build over of the facility for some time: https://www.enviroreporter.com/investigations/aerojet-chino-...

For the low price of only $3.5M, you too can own a nice house on a toxic waste site: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/2276-Celano-Ct-Chino-Hill...
An Illusion with a Future [pdf] (2004)
That's absolutely right.

The toxic and relentless push for infinite growth pairs really well with the dreamy promise of infinite untapped market potential in China.

I really wish even the greediest of investors and shareholders in general to finally wake up that this dream will never materialise. Even if you get to China you'll quickly find out there are a lot of strings attached if you want your "infinite growth" -- and it definitely will be a lot less than you thought.
China’s swine fever epidemic turned into a global crisis
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What is surprising about this line of thinking? People stated, correctly, that companies should support gay rights and other progressive causes because it is in their their self interest to do so. Companies followed that advice.

The same calculus is at play here. If militia groups in Texas started marching in the streets calling for secession would we blame companies that want to distance themselves from that sort of political instability and unrest? That's how most Chinese see Hong Kong protests: a segment of the country that want to unlawfully remain independent. And China has a large market power. The negative consequences of alienating the Chinese market is larger than the negative consequences of bad press in western media.

It's valid to point out that the people's opinions don't always match that of the CCP, but it's erroneous to asset without evidence that the average Chinese disagrees with the party line on this issue. 50% of the mainland Chinese I've talked to have a negative opinion on the HK protestors and the other 50% don't really care very much. I haven't met any that actually support the protests.
From above:

A broken clock is right twice a day
Your personal interpretation disagrees with the Constitution that actually exists and with the two centuries of legal cases on constitutional rights.

The Constitution was intended to give the government broad powers. It was written in reaction to the Articles of Confederation, which created a government with limited powers that failed with 5 years. The provisions of the Constitution and the bill of Rights need to be understood within that context.
There's CV Dazzle [1], but any kind of system would have to be used by several people in a location to be more effective, preferably with people switching things up often.

Juggalo or Juggalette face paints could also confuse current recognition systems.

[1]: https://cvdazzle.com
I wish more would stop using Paypal.

paypalsucks.com
I remember when I was first thinking about designing good pages, I picked up a book called something like "Ugly Websites" and it was drilled into my head that "mystery meat navigation" is always a bad idea.

And that late 90's advice still holds true. Though I am seeing a lot of it lately.
> But this is not what the evolution metaphor is alluding to. Nobody in their right mind would argue that technological progress is driven by random mutations.

I agree and will add that human evolution IS becoming plan driven, we are learning to fix genetic diseases, and keep people alive to reproduce despite genetic conditions (genetic diseases via various treatments, susceptibility to disease via antibiotics and vaccines and basically all of medicine). Soon we are likely to be making intentional changes to people's dna before they are born.

So evolution itself is becoming planned.
That has become the attitude of many companies toward China.

Money and market access >
Agreed. That's why if I were doing it today, I would just shut off the account after the second warning.

Although I don't think it's PII if it's all internal company data, especially if it is known that IT will crack your password.
English Resource Grammar – A high-coverage symbolic grammar of English
> It is not very different from writing something naughty in a private diary, or even thinking a naughty thing.

I don't know if I'm too normal or what, but my gut feeling is that yes it's really creepy. And all these things have different creepiness to them. Thinking a naughty thing is the least creepy. A private naughty diary is starting to be creepy. If it's just a passage in a normal diary, it's not too bad, if there's a whole book just about this one girl it would get super creepy. Making your work password a naughty phrase about the girl working in front of you, definitely super creepy.

Some of those I'd start to consider beginning signs of harassment honestly. The password one, it's like slowly trying to bring to the girls attention your thoughts. What's happening, are you hoping they see you typing it out one day? Everytime you type it do you stare at her and imagine whatever you typed? So ya, if there was all kinds of other similarly creepy small behaviors they'd add up to a pretty bad environment for that girl to be working in.

Just my opinion. Maybe I'm overreacting, but I wouldn't do that, and so I find it very surprising and creepy that someone else does. Are they harmless, innocent, didn't know better, just have a cute crush, nice guys, maybe, but doing something unexpected to me, that I'd never think of doing, is pretty much the defining characteristic of creepy, and it naturally puts me on my guard. It's just strange behavior, and that's scary.

Note: I'd like to hear some replies that are like... oh no, it's not creepy, way more people have naughty passwords or big naughty diaries of their coworkers than you think. I know I do. It's a totally normal behavior, you're the actual outlier here if you never did any of that. Otherwise I will continue to believe this is strange and creepy behavior which warrants suspicion, and possibly a good indicator that someone makes others feel uneasy and unsafe when around them.
This is in fact free publicity for Overwatch. Wouldn't be surprised if there's a boost in sales in the next quarter. I have no problem with it since it's one of the greatest games ever made.
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Because if people don't push back against it, what we get is yet another incarnation of the witch trials.

Some people evidently want that, because they're "not a witch" themselves.

It's really awful that in some/many cases, accusations of rape or sexual assault or sexual harassment or creepiness end up reducing to one person's word against another, when there's no good objective evidence either way.

You should doubt everyone. You should doubt the accuser. You should doubt the alleged harasser's claim of innocence. Without evidence, you can't adjudicate it, and unless it's a matter of rape or sexual assault, the compulsion to adjudicate it in the absence of evidence is unhealthy[1]. What you can do is try to engineer the environment or counsel the people so the alleged behavior by the accused or negative perception by the accuser is less likely to occur; most obviously, by separating them and ensuring they rarely/never have to interact.

If you can't keep the two people from communicating or interacting, and you have to fire one, and that one should be the accused, that is precisely a witch trial, but without a declaration of being a witch. The accused might not be a witch, but we're going to burn them anyway, because the social fabric depends on it!

And of course, criticizing witch trials can make you a witch, because there's evil in the world and therefore the witch trials must go forward! To do nothing is to enable witches, and who would want to do that except a witch? "Cui bono?"

[1] And in serious cases, you can try to take it to court, but it'll fairly likely end up unsatisfactorily for the accuser unless they're particularly persuasive or the defendant is obviously creepy or there's some other evidence. Even a string of accusers, although it means something, is not necessarily good evidence. Again, see the witch trials.
Having Go experience on my resume, I do get a lot of recruiters reaching out to me for Go jobs. It's quite popular for infrastructure work.

This is in the US, not sure if it's the same in other countries.
That varies on a state-by-state basis. Even in states like California where it's illegal to discriminate based on political beliefs or activities, there's still some wiggle room for a company to fire someone if their activities make the company look bad or make someone's coworkers feel uncomfortable.
>In India, a Modi fan can argue with a Rahul Gandhi fan, and then peacefully enjoy their beers without fear of violence or discrimination.

I nodded along till the beer part.

Besides, these days it is incredibly hard to hold any public opinion, other than a fawning admiration for the PM. If your family and friends don't eviscerate you, the online trolls will.
SciHub or LibGen deliver, for those interested.
People buy devices cheaper than the iPhone either because they cannot afford it or because they disagree with Apple somewhere.

First group doesn't really have a choice and the second group has no interest in an iPhone.
I've been thinking since the China tariffs began (and talking about with close friends in back channels) that the tariffs could essentially be sold as sanctions-lite. It's disappointing that Trump is such a divisive character, because it would be great if US citizens realized how malevolent China's influence has been on our economy, society, culture, and health.
What is virtue signaling?
American companies for sure, rest of the world it depends.
You password is "the21stcharacterisa'z"
He's not an employee though. And in general, if you do your protest on company time using company resources and damaging the company (by i.e. saying from their Twitter account that $largeCustomer is evil and stupid), would you still be protected?
What movie is that?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_notation

See the "chess notation examples" table. The password doesn't match any chess notation, but it's close enough that it's obviously (to me) intended to be a chess move. In particular, it moves the pawn in front of the queen (in the initial position) forwards two spaces.
He was fired for sexual harassment.
South Park Studios and Comedy Central are having a great week.

I'd be surprised if it wasn't one of the biggest episodes in South Park history. And certainly the most viewed episode in China, haha.
I wonder how long McCarthyism lasted. I also wonder how long the CCP has been in power for.
That didn’t take long. NBA, American Airlines, Blizzard, Marriot.. the list grows. Soon they will have to ban rest of the 6 billion people.
"Dieselisation" of cars in Europe: https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/daviz/dieselisation-...

Health effects of diesel Particulate Matter: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1440-1843...
Apple does require apps to provide context in a lot of cases, and the app’s provided reason appears alongside the message.

There is nothing about a combined window that requires context to be lost. For example, add a column that includes trigger conditions and reasons for each one, e.g. “while launching startup item”, “when opening AppName”, “to authorize task performed by AppName”, “downloaded from xyz.com”, etc. If that information really isn’t enough, the user still has the option to deselect one and try it again in isolation.

An API can be held in a modal state without requiring each app to have its own dialog; the system can decide what action allows the API to return to resume the app. Similarly, an app can fire off an async notification without caring if that notification window is separate from others. This is entirely a presentation issue.
Btw. ancient greeks already had a form of steam engine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeolipile. Why it didn't produce an industrial revolution is debatable (they had slaves, for one).
Nice strawman. I didn't claim it was. So yeah you kind of exposed everything about your intentions here. Thanks for that.
They gonna end up out of characters very quickly if they go this way
30 years ago you could just sniff the passwords on the local subnet because everyone was using telnet and ftp in the clear.
That is different from prioritizing imagined, hypothetical injustice over real, actual injustice.

Something obviously bad happens, and everyone falls over themselves to correct and defend not the bad thing that just happened, but a thing they just imagined might happen.

It's a very peculiar (and fairly revealing) thought pattern.
Then I think our only difference in opinion is whether making sexually aggressive statements about your coworkers is crossing a line or just "naughty."
Clean, sustainable, and efficient energy storage is probably the most important thing humanity needs right now.

The big problem with renewable energy is that generally it's not available on demand.
I agree. Why is the title targeted at all US Government developers?

I feel like this press release is also trying to create political drama where none is needed. GitHub is used by good people and bad people, just like anything is. I'm a long time GitHub user, but this press release is disappointing.
Bars in Italy Starting to Use Pasta Straws to Reduce Plastic Waste
There was little change over much that time.

Human nature, or at least capabilities and behaviours, have shown several marked breakout points.
One thing Businesses like consistency - if GitHub goes after ICE, then why not IRS or FBI or any other private organization - every Org is one controversy away from to be deemed persona non grata.

Its not about ICE with GitHub, what they are doing is worth mulitple millions in future earnings. So good move CEO - the question is how much the WOKE nation is going to eat this PR CAKE.
The comment above is indicating issues with the pigment, rather than the solvent used to disperse it. You can have very toxic water-based paint, see watercolors with cadmium etc. That being said, it's completely plausible to mix eg chalk with something non-toxic that also doesn't wash off so quickly.
Please don't post unsubstantive comments here or take HN threads further into political flamewar.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21204717.
Collection of Iranian freelancers with expertise in different areas
The windows server nano images are 96mb and the windows server insider nano images are around 63 i think
No politician for the past 50 years stood up to China until Trump faced them head on. Credit where it’s due.
For some context of how hashcat works with GPUs:

https://hashcat.net/wiki/doku.php?id=frequently_asked_questi...

Then:

https://hashcat.net/wiki/doku.php?id=frequently_asked_questi...

It isn’t running a single thread at 100% GPU use until the end, it has to partition up the search space and balance how it creates possible passwords on the CPU, on the GPU, and based on the kind of attack patterns you asked for - and when it’s getting to the end of the search space, some of the search space partitions are done and the remaining ones aren’t enough to load the GPU fully, so hash throughout drops.
Proof that “e-sports” is an amateur endeavor at best.
Watch Out, MIT’s New AI Model Knows What You’re Doing Behind That Wall
Hey that's actually a neat idea! You could expand upon that system by having it only check the 2nd, 5th, 10th, Nth etc. characters.

So people could type in different gobbledegook each time between the characters that matter.

To further defeat keyloggers, shoulder snoopers etc., let each valid character be an option from a set of two or more characters.

So, if my password is: Any 8 characters, but 2nd character must be A/B/C/x/y/z, and the 6th must be !/@/# then I could type:

9A4jc@23

#C(@$!as

oxo!c#-1

or any other valid combinations to get in.

How more secure would something like that* generally be compared to static passwords?

* (Of course this is a simplified example for illustration. In practice you'd use more characters/options.)
http://linux-sunxi.org/PocketBook_Touch_Lux_3

But I hope people will buy second-hand or broken + replacement display instead of supporting the company and buying new, if they want to play with it. They don't really deserve any support for abusing the free work of others and violating the GPL license.
I don't think you can train people to be good managers (in this respect). There's a personality type and either they fit or they don't. By the time you've gotten them that personality has already been established.

it's more about throwing the fish back in the water until you find the right one.
Oh I agree that it's a ridiculous reason and SO needs to clean up it's act.

I just don't think fixating on very small factual ambiguities helps anything except political ratholeing.
In college my roommate and I made our wifi password something like a fart joke. Perfectly fine to tell to our close friends, but kinda embarrassing.

One day, at the end of the semester, our female neighbor knocked on our door and asked if she could use our wifi since she was moving out the next day and had already canceled her Internet.

I would have been happy to share with her, but I couldn't bring myself to tell her the password. Instead I just said my roommate was "really weird about sharing our wifi" and apologized.

I don't think that incident ever actually made me change the password though.
A great many of his books involve cats :)
First, I introduce myself. I am a Chinese, an ordinary citizen. I want to express my view rationally: the so-called repression of speech, freedom of speech, that also scores what freedom of speech, Hong Kong incident involves national dignity, just as the United States don't want 911 to be supported by some people
(example:
Imagine a well-known person, just days after 911, publicly declaring that 911 was a Great National Renaissance Movement
.)(More seriously, it involves the level of the Chinese nation.)
To say that, I just want to express that this is the common view of the Chinese people at present. That's why there are Chinese people who support 911 on Twitter. They want to express that Americans support Hong Kong's behavior. In their hearts, it's the same behavior as supporting 911.
While being indoctrinated with China's harmfulness theory by the media, I hope that you can rationally understand these recent events, rather than trust the media.
It’s not weird to agree on individual policies and disagree where you don’t. Thank God for America where this still can happen.
If Github really cared about this then they should have forbidden the selling of the contract in the first place. The Trump admin's policy has been the US's policy for the last 20+ years.
Isn't that what GP said? Banning speech sure seems "morally bankrupt" to me...
> If I can crack a DES password in 4 days, I can crack a 3DES password in 12

It's multiplicative, not additive. 3DES is about 2^56 times as difficult to crack as DES. (Not 2^112 times because there is an attack that effectively limits it to twice the effective bits of DES, rather than the three times you might expect at first).
not a bad joke at all actually, but HN is just too far all up their own asses
> That said, considering the requirements this thing sounds like it had to meet, perhaps golang was the right choice after all.

Yes, in this particular case I don't think 'the new hotness syndrome' applies. The performance limits of python given that it's dynamic and the multithreading problems are fundamental to the language.
> Would you insist that we all treat O.J. Simpson as innocent?

The fair way is to withhold judgment (while presuming innocence) when there's a charge against someone but it hasn't been investigated. That's fair whether we're talking about courts or society. Society pronounced its judgment on O.J. after evidence was presented and witnesses testified.

The problem comes when people presume guilt based on a charge alone. Unfortunately, that's often what happens when high-emotion charges are leveled against someone.
I feel like an idiot. It only just occurred to me that the episode's name is "ban(ne)d in China".