skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Compiled from over 100 books read in 2019, "Cult of the Dead Cow" takes the top pick for this year. Other cybersecurity picks include "Sandworm", "The Hunt for Leroux", and science fiction book "Stealing Worlds".
You need to read this:

https://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/10/28/dont-call-yourself-a-pr...

If you are calling yourself and marketing yourself as "labor", you have already lost the game.
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> If you're concerned with privacy, that's what encrypted communications are for [...]

Privacy includes who you communicate with, when, and how often... not just what you talk about.

This is especially true when there might be an unscrupulous government willing to round up social circles for "re-education."
Thanks for the reference. I quickly browsed through the paper.
The problem you mention seems to arise from the fact that GA is able to tie the user across different domains (about.me, depressionforum.org etc) using a shared cookie etc. Is it still an issue if 3rd party cookies are blocked and the GA is forced to set a first-party cookie. In that case, the ID GA will get for about.me would be different from depressionforum.org? Assuming the owners for these websites are different and only care about their respective stats (depressionforum doesn't care about about.me analytics), why do we need 3rd party cookies?

Am I missing something here?

Well, it can probably fingerprint the browser but there is no reason to store that information.
What struck me about this list is how old these companies are. It's sad because that web gold rush seems to be over. Do the lessons from that generation of startups apply to the much more consolidated web of today?

Instagram 2010, Whatsapp 2009, Groupon 2008, Twitter 2006, Youtube 2005, Facebook 2004.
I like the ELM model for UI. The stateless/functional view approach is very similar to IMGUI [^1]. It makes things much less error prone with much less state management / hierarchy management to do than the React model.

[^1]: https://github.com/ocornut/imgui
Unfortunately it doesn't react to horizontal scroll events...
I will never give up my right to carry a weapon. Liberals say they want to ban guns and then they turn around and foam at the mouth when cops try to take away the guns if it’s a black persons guns. I would consider giving up guns if liberals would let cops do stop and frisk. Or let cops do anything really.

But liberals don’t care because they live in their mansions, far away from any danger. And rich SV CEOs throw money at anti capital punishment efforts while they relax in their mansions where they are sure to never encounter anyone that it might be used on.
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We are an insurance program manager (or "MGA" in insurance speak), and our insurance programs are back-stopped by Munich Re, one of the largest re-insurers in the world. We very purposefully didn't set the company up as traditional broker, because then we'd be reliant on a bunch of old-fashioned and off-line partners, which would undermines the experience we're trying to create for our clients.
Okay, I was scrolling through this feed to find some proof that this is a joke account. But they are actually serious, right?

Are there laws in the UK that allow the police to enter your house and steal all your tools? For people who didn't click on the link: It is a picture with literally nothing but tools supposedly found during a "#weaponSweep"

This is fucking dystopian
He knew or should have known the potential consequences of the code he was writing. Maybe this could have been you, but it definitely wouldn't have been me, because I would not have committed the first line of code until I was reasonably sure that a) I was not going to kill somebody accidentally, and b) the project had sufficient safeguards.

I'd also like you to note that you're pointing out the lack of accountability as a problem, and then dismissing one of the fundamental mechanisms of accountability: naming people who harm others.

Yes, other people on the project also should have pushed for traceability and accountability. But responsibility is not zero sum. "I was just following orders" is never an excuse for killing people.
Something like a minute or two is probably the upper bound. Look at TOTP timers for a sane default (often like 30 seconds), and add a bit more for SMS delivery delays. You can always try to send a new code when the old one expires.

But also: basically the entire security world has been recommending against SMS 2-factor for years, because it's so incredibly easy to steal access. Don't use SMS if at all possible, don't have it as a backup (because "a backup option" == "an option" == "you are only as strong as your weakest link"), etc. Avoid it entirely.
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I signed up to stdlib a while back because it sounds like exactly what I want and looked really cool. I don't remember what through me off exactly but I will take another look.
What was the FAP? I've never heard of that legislation, and it's obviously ungoogleable.
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OK got it. You guys @ Cliqz want aggregate stats across websites so GA is not the right example.

Depending on the aggregates you want, client-side aggregation may still be leaking privacy. You would probably need to implement differential privacy on top before you store the data.
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Yes. Here's an online drag and drop simulator: https://algassert.com/quirk

Until recently [1], classical simulation was faster/cheaper/more-accurate than any existing quantum hardware. But the hardware has been improving and all classical simulation of quantum computation takes exponential time with respect to some important property such as the number of qubits, the depth of the computation, the number of non-trivial gates, or etc.

[1]: https://ai.googleblog.com/2019/10/quantum-supremacy-using-pr...
NYC has an impressively low homicide rate, if there is such a thing, and has become a very safe city in the last decade or two.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-york-citys-murder-rate-hit-...
Ask HN: Has anyone used Superhuman's Product-Market fit engine
I was going through Superhuman's Product-Market fit engine (https://bit.ly/2Y7ntTA) and it is pretty amazing . I was wondering how many founders are using it for their products and which tools do they use to execute it?
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New York City is flooding subway entrances to prepare for climate change
a very interesting challenge.
Did you have and process for making sure your work wasn't lost in progress?

I once felt particularly inspired, and wrote 20,000 words in a day, I had been hitting ctrl+s all day, and after reaching a good stopping point, I hit it once more. Then I heard the Seagate click of death, 20' words gone in an instant.
I thought I was doing well for backups, my laptop was scheduled to do a diff backup with my server, and other computers ad midnight. This had saved me in the past, But not this time.

I still have yet to try re-writing what was lost that day, despite authoring other works. It is too disheartening.
> Also, because its a Paradox game, the interface is ass.

Huh, it's a Paradox game? Thar alone makes me interested; I'm a big fan of Stellaris.

> bursts of micromanaging followed by long droughts of waiting for shit to happen

Yeah, that sounds like Stellaris.

Thanks for the review; I'll check the game out.
Neither of these links provide much context to me.

I'm assuming most of the people reading will already know what's going on, but if anyone's willing to post a quick summary with some context for my sake, I'd appreciate it.
> Making this company about him and not the product is typical behavior from Cantrill.

This post is his personal blog, so this is obviously about his personal perspective on the new company. Anything else would be weird on a personal blog.

Also: "The “we” here is paramount ..."

Hmm...

I don't see any evidence of him making "the company" be about him.
I'm curious to see what Microsoft does.

The big breakthrough with Rust was ownership, and Microsoft seems to agree on that. Rust has a lot of other baggage that could be dispensed with. Of course, Microsoft has their own baggage.
I think 'nationalistic flamebait' should be better defined; as time goes on it feels as if any negative comment about any world power is being pigeon-holed into that category, and I think that's incorrect.

It's important to talk about the worlds' woes. Shining light onto issues is how they're resolved.

This thread's topic is about yet another step to reduce anonymity in China. This trend of full-disclosure with regards to any kind of society move ( getting a cell phone, paying a bill, boarding a bus, etc ) IS scary, regardless of the country that employs it.

Lots of countries, not excluding China, have terrible human rights violations that need to be talked about. These kind of issues do make the place a scary proposition to visit for foreigners and tourists -- and furthermore I share the commenters opinion; as a younger person I wanted to travel around China, as an older person who has witnessed recent events, I no longer want to. It's not flamebait, and it's relevant to the thread; these kind of societal decisions sway tourists like myself away from your coutry, regardless of which country it may be.

Can't we reserve 'nationalistic flamebait' for the really ludicrous and racist comments that float around the nation-based threads, rather than the useless anecdotes?
How can we think of housing without considering resource constraints. It’s not just space to build vertically that determines how many homes can be built..it’s traffic, infrastructure, roads, water, power, schools, essential services, public services, public spaces, community amenities..the list goes on.

High density living is potentially more efficient than low density living (look European or some Asian cities, etc). Indeed, the US model of the low-density mega-city is the thing that has become unsustainable - commuting from city to suburb or suburb-to-suburb involves a huge amount of infrastructure that is simple to build but expensive to maintain.

The problem of the US in particular is that low-density has had the upper hand for so long that efforts to produce sane high density get sabotaged in a variety of ways (look the difference in cost per mile of public transit in the US versus Europe).
Per another commenter's link in here, [1] shows pretty clearly what kind of person the founder is. I don't think there's much ground to stand on if you want to actually argue that the initial product wasn't designed explicitly to enable spamming sales prospects.

[1] https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/11/26/20930374/nathan-latka-...
It is possible that there are low hanging fruits for innovation in the world at large but less so at these companies?

So it still might be worthwhile to think about it.
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I did read that. So it's not a straight clone, but still, Rust has enough of an uphill battle as it is to reach wide adoption, without having its target market fragmented. So I would've been excited to see Microsoft embracing it instead of building a competitor. Not that I can necessarily judge them for that, but it's still disappointing.
Not to mention camera technology that only records “junkies and thieves” and not the thousands of innocent people going about their day. There is nothing ok about pervasive, constant surveillance of law abiding people.
Currently, yes. Eventually, no.
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If you're going to (try to) attack Communism as an ideology, try criticising states who actually organise themselves in accordance with Communist ideology. China and (Stalin's) Soviet Union are not examples of such. There are more Billionaires in Beijing than in London. You have criticised a Capitalist country.
Skate to where the puck will be.
If climate change turns out to be a vast exaggeration, this period in history is going to look very silly.
You just need to know where your escape hatch is.

SQL -> SQL procedures

Angular templates -> DOM manipulation

Puppet -> custom scripts

And you may even find it depends on the context.

For example, HTML/SVG/CSS DOM scripting can be considered "procedural", but the in other sense the DOM is a rather declarative version of rendering, whose procedural escape hatch is Canvas/WebGL.

You may even find case where they are combined tightly:

A makefile has declarative dependencies and procedural recipes.
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> no one took the exam because it basically wasn't required for anything

No, no one took the exam because it was effectively impossible.

To become a PE, first the candidate has to pass one of the Fundamentals of Engineering exam to become an engineer-in-training. Except, whoops, there wasn't ever a software specific FE exam; the most relevant one is the EE/Comp. E. exam. Take a look at the list of topics: https://ncees.org/wp-content/uploads/FE-Ele-CBT-specs.pdf Most developers aren't going to pass that even with a CS degree.

Secondly, you need 4-8 years of supervision by a licensed engineer. Again, whoops, there are barely any software developers with a PE license, so who would they get to supervise them?

Only then do you get to take the PE exam for software engineering. Frankly, the situation was so absurd that one has to suspect that NSPE didn't want to certify software developers as PEs.
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I had to provide a passport to purchase a throwaway T-Mobile data SIM in Germany. Seems normal to me.
Transporting any significant quantity of sea water would have been a serious challenge to the ancient world, even just from the shore in to the middle of a port city. The easiest way to transport water is downhill, which, alas, doesn't work so well if you're starting from sea level.

You can get water from the seashore just by evaporating it. It's simple, effective, and was done. But it's a lot more convenient to swing a pick and get a chunk of salt the size of your hand, rather than secure somewhere to evaporate off water, load it up, wait for it to evaporate, and collect it. It's the same reason we're stuck on fossil fuels... it's not that they're the only method we have for obtaining energy, it's just that nothing else can compete with putting in 1 unit of energy and getting back 80 or 90.
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> Comments like this look absolutely insane to anyone outside the US

No, it looks insane to the 6 countries mentioned in your article that have significantly less schools shootings.

The other 188 countries in the world are purposely not discussed, since many of them have extremely high violent crime rates despite restrictive gun control laws...
10+ years ago if you weren't familiar with the procedure you were performing, you'd just read a medical journal article about that procedure ( one that had been vetted by a peer-review process ).

10 years from now, will we see high level research from CERN being published to YT before it goes to Nature (or some other journal)?
While the approach mentioned in this article seems interesting, there's multiple other approaches to mitigate privacy issues in data collection, cryptographic approaches like homomorphic encryption or decentralized approaches like federated learning. Still wonder what is the differentiation of this approach from the others.
There are some permaculturists out there, like Ben Falk, who have built radiant heaters by running coils through compost piles.
If you went back 25 years, Bill Gates was considered by many (if not most) the "obnoxious CEO", but you're now using him as an example of "someone else I'd take seriously".
> They are big on values, because in the past Bryan got a bit of a rep for being a bit hard to work with

That's a bold claim. What I've seen in his talks is that he has always been big on values, for example he's been espousing the Sun values that they use here for quite some time, and he has also been very critical of companies with lousy values.

Don't know him personally.
> Why would HK police release video like that

I get the impression that the video is from the mainland, not Hong Kong. The device he's strapped in looks like a "tiger chair":

https://www.news.com.au/world/asia/tiger-chair-sick-torture-...

Edit: I was looking for a better version of this video on youtube. I couldn't find one, but I did find this English Agence France-Presse story that answers the question of why they'd release a video like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8PgCUap1Vg
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Is there anything stopping a sex offender from taking out a classified ad in the paper or a missed connection on Craigslist? This doesn't seem isolated to web properties so the framing is a little odd to me.
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