skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The PARA method for organizing digital information
Well, then what about that

350 Million£ a week for the NHS bus the Brexiters were so proud of displaying?

If that's not about money I'm not sure what is.
Stack Overflow has dumbed people down significantly because of the mental laziness it engenders.

In a time before the internet, it used to be that books, and occasionally magazines, were the initial entry points to understanding software, hardware and electronics. Then the BBS came along, these secret islands of knowledge and trade.

I learned Pascal and assembly on Turbo Pascal with trial-and-error and lots of context-sensitive help. These days, development is mostly fragmented and half-working. Progress is neither linear, increasing nor assured, and much is lost, reinvented not necessarily as well and lost again.

Also, eventually coding will
decline or bifurcate more because general AI will allow non-programmers to ask a machine to do Star Trek-like self-programming. Essentially all office jobs are vulnerable to elimination as mechanical machine operators.
Just because that's one thing that the campaign talked about, doesn't make it the reason that people chose to vote leave.
A lot of it is due to the press we have in the UK reinforcing misconceptions and mistrust of European institutions.
If you're thinking of a private actor, I think that once you have access to MBS phone, you run to Doha before attacking Bezos. Qatar would pay a ton of money for that access.

If you're thinking of a state actor except Saudi Arabia, I think there would be much easier and more discreet vectors to Jeff Bezos Whatsapp than MBS phone (literally almost any of Bezos other contacts would be less risky).
I have to say that my own experience is that people over 40 work less and at the same time seem to make more money.
But British had so much influence and power on EU and outside EU by being a member.
> Poverty doesn't make you free.

Incredibly true. People who have the fortune to believe that ‘personal choice’ reigns supreme can’t imagine what it’s like when you only have one choice.
Financial trading bots display behavior similar to that of people
There are already comments on this post about leave voting people having no brain or being stupid. This is exactly the kind of rhetoric that only makes the situation worse! Let’s not forget that over half the country voted for it, calling these voters stupid only makes the divisions in what has become a divided country worse.

We have to except the decision has been made and move forward. Continuing to argue about who was right and wrong only holds us back, and I say that as a passionate remain voter. Let’s make the best of the new direction the country has taken!
The capital cost of the 737 Max fleet is likely to be at least $20 billion. Do you think the airlines or Boeing are just going to write that off?
Favicons are mentioned once in the first page of that discussion. I think attributing all that outrage to the favicons, not the fact that they made ads look like results, is a massive mischaracterization of that discussion. Bordering on bad faith...

I maintain that favicons are VERY low on the list of reasons people are switching from Google to DDG. DDG having favicons too should be proof enough of that.
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> in the EU as a whole, all this is simply not possible. Not because of dark patterns being illegal, but rather because they would not be profitable.

I don’t understand this argument. It costs Tesla literally nothing to reverse these purchases. They’d still make a profit from everyone who doesn’t request a refund.
Based on your analysis, how did you decide not to move to containers?
Thanks for the writeup - I feel like trying redis again just because it opens some interesting possibilities (yes yes could be done in SQL whatever).

Regarding "ulog" in your example application, do you keep those lists unbounded? Does this work well in practice?
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Yes, you can actually put them anywhere in the string.
Yes, it seems he was pretty hardcore about it. "Go ahead, publish it."

Since J. Edgar Hoover, it is has been an open secret that blackmail drives the upper echelon of politics and media. The Bill Clinton thing is another example, pretty sure he put his foot down and said fuck it, hence Lewinsky turning up with a tainted dress from 8 months ago, and down goes the U.S. president. How many just acquiesce and play along quietly?

More people should have guts like Bezos (probably did). Though at some point, I'm sure the shadow people will just fall back on good old violence, like the Epstein case.
Your comment is the first one I've ever downvoted on here.

It's not an accurate description. Far from it.

I consider myself to be smart. I sought out as much data as I could before deciding to vote leave and I am sure I was not the only one.

The EU pact was originally trade-related. It wasn't about governance.

That's all I want.

Edit: To the person or people that downvoted me, any chance of an explanation?
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I have quite a few friends doing scientific research in the UK, many of them highly regarded in their fields, who were already being dropped from EU-funded projects more than a year ago. Research in the UK is going to become a real shitshow over the next few years.
The narrative I've seen from the people I know who supported it is basically split 50/50 between not wanting to take orders from Brussels (even if we were at the table, making those rules) and just straight-up xenophobia.

I think the common thing about Brexit is that voting to leave is quite likely not based in any actual reason, but is a purely emotional reaction.

An emotional reaction that's certainly already screwed up my own future plans, so take that as my bias for remain.
Agreed. Most of the historical PHP security problems are mitigated with practices that are common for any language. Like "use a template DSL", "use SQL bind variables" and "don't let the web server user have write permissions to the docroot".
Is it unfeasible that the tin was traded from ancient Britain to ancient France to Ancient Greece to ancient Israel in sort of a chain rather than ships transporting them directly to Israel?
The cloud may not be just someone’s else’s computer, but someone else’s computer (and other material) is certainly involved. When my career began, the word we used was “outsourcing”.

There are advantages and disadvantages to outsourcing, or to using the cloud, and a cost benefits analysis needs to be done on a case by case basis. I don’t believe that’s changed much over the last thirty or so years, although the details regarding the exact pros and cons has certainly changed.
We do not have to cooperate with law enforcement. Encryption is still legal, even if law enforcement would prefer service providers not ever use it.

We have to comply with court orders. That’s it.
I don't think raegis was suggesting there are only two options, but simply had qualms with the way it was compared to slavery.
!so -> Stack Overflow
See it as the price of privacy (priced in).
What facts would those be?

There are no facts there about brexit costs only speculation by Bloomberg about potential lost economic growth.
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"Stack Overflow has dumbed people down significantly because of the mental laziness it engenders."
+1 for this
The situation isn't clear to me. What changed that lead to more productive deployments?
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I hold the Remain campaign in as much contempt as the Leave one personally. You don't get anywhere by complacent insults, and what did we get - people rebelled against complacency and being insulted. In record numbers.

"Making the best of it" though is a bitter-sweet pill. There are a lot of futures that have been made much more difficult/impossible. You can't "make the most" of something you're no longer allowed to do. Humans don't tend to like regression to a shittier state, that's one of the reasons climate change is such a tough nut to crack too.
Data shouldn't be end-to-end encrypted. It should just be end-to-server encrypted, without the server having an ability to decrypt your data.
Related: table extraction using mixed integer programming to encode constraints: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21256005
It's the cycle of search engines. We saw this with AltaVista et.al. back in the Web 1.0 days, which crufted up their user interfaces only for a neat new upstart to come along: Google. What set Google apart was that it had a simple, effective, and above all clean user interface, with minimal cruft.

Inevitably, Google has succumbed to the same temptation that AltaVista did, and now there's a neat new upstart to come along, with a clean user interface and minimal cruft: DuckDuckGo.

Lather, rinse, repeat.
Numlock.
It is spelled "Tor".

https://support.torproject.org/about/why-is-it-called-tor/

Note: even though it originally came from an acronym,
Tor is not spelled "TOR". Only the first letter is
capitalized. In fact, we can usually spot people
who haven't read any of our website (and have
instead learned everything they know about Tor from
news articles) by the fact that they spell it wrong.
No it isn't. The money argument isn't a valid argument for the vast majority of people that voted to Leave. The people that voted leave just didn't think the economic argument is as important as you think it is. That doesn't make them stupid it simply means they have different priorities then you do.
It also wasn't entirely inappropriate as a way of giving the UK political establishment a good kicking, given that they'd been using the EU for decades as a way of pushing through laws they knew voters didn't want without that pesky business of having to publicly back them and get MPs to do the same. Remain supporters love to point to the fact that many unpopular EU laws were actually pushed for by the UK government as proof Leave supporters are stupid to blame the EU, but I don't think that argument flies.
I voted remain, but can understand your specific viewpoint despite not wanting what you do.

But I'm curious - did you think that was what you were voting for when you voted to leave? Vote Leave's campaign was so nebulous that it felt really hard to understand what they were actually campaigning for.

Also, political realities aside, would you (like Jacob Rees-Mogg did before the referendum) be interested in the results of a second referendum now that we know what the actual terms of the deal are?

Edit: the downvote didn't come from me.
For a very long time there was no TLS to Telegram servers, only their own MTProto. I think they introduced TLS wrapping at some point as an anti-censorship measure, not sure if that’s even deployed in all markets.

E: Well, I took a look at the desktop client with wireshark. It appears to just do MTProto on port 443, not TLS. When I use iptables to drop traffic on port 443, it falls back to MTProto over HTTP(!).

They list some alternate transports on their website, but it looks like you need to host them yourself.
https://core.telegram.org/mtproto/transports
They likely just want you to buy the whole thing from them instead of doing it yourself.
Unfortunate analogy in a situation with two clear distinct choices though.
I think PHP suffers from the java migration, we now write code like this https://github.com/aran112000/Advent-of-Code-2019-PHP/blob/m... when functions in a namespace would have sufficed

It seems like collectively developers are patting themselves on the back for putting the same old crap code in classes, as if putting data into a change by reference data structure is a good idea

Personally I'm trying to migrate out to Clojure where mutation is hard and controlled by default & we don't pretend modelling reality with a tree of nouns is a good idea
Literally the same thing can be said about any language that is not niche tho.

Also, wee nitpick of mine; you don't have to build any state on your own, the interpreter does that for you as one of the core principles of the system.
Hence the "some ways" bit. But don't let that get in the way of the high horse you were looking for an excuse to ride.
The UK isn't going to turn into a 3rd world country anytime soon and the Economy at the moment is still growing faster than Germany and is projected to continue after the 31st.
This is not height of ignorance, this is the basis of much good policy: understanding that most people in most cases will not be able to fully evaluate the benefits & tradeoffs.

Say you buy the same food every week and get a discount code. Awesome!

Say you buy the same food every week (sweets, chips and other healthy food) then turn diabetic and change your diet The company, aware that you used to buy those products tries in every way possible to push you again to buy them (vouchers, targeted in-store advertisements, ...). Still good? I guess you have a choice but they certainly increase the temptation they would risk your health. Research shows its not that says - and mentally draining - to resist. But of course you're not aware of this effect as you simply skim through your voucher booklet.

Picture the same but with alcohol/an alcoholic.

Picture the same but they don't just use this but their own data firm resells this data to all other supermarkets in the area and now each shop bombards you with junk food/alcohol/... ads when you're trying hard to stay clean.

Say you are a young woman and start buying wet wipes, creams, baby products. The company concludes that you are pregnant. They pass this info (not the actual sales but the data they derived - which you are not in control of!) on to a data firm in semi-anonymised format. The data firm de-anonymises you (after all that's their the expertise), combined this with your credit score and public records information and sells it on. For example a prospective employer does a 'due diligence' check and finds info that you are pregnant. They conclude that you are likely to go on maternity leave soon and decide not to hire you. It doesn't even matter whether the original purchased were for you, the processing and re-processing of data has just cost you a job.

Or shopping data reveals that you regularly but adult diapers and a data firm concluded you are incontinent. This shoes on an employer's background checks and you lose out.

Shopping data reveals you support children. A potential landlord refuses your request for apartment info because they don't want noise.

You are renovating your parents' apartment. Shopping data reveals you bought a lot of glycerin in the past year and the FBI gets interested...

And none of these even touch on data from pharmaceutical products (would you have gotten your current job if your employer had known you regularly take antidepressants?).

These might be more or less stretched scenarios, but there are a billion of these. And some either are or will probably in the future become true.

My point is: you have no idea how the data you produce is used, reused, interpreted, reinterpreted, sold, resold, etc. You don't actually know what the 20c saved on wet wipes has on your life in the near or far future.

That's why policy needs to intervene and put a stop to the massive data collection and processing going on today. It's not going to increase prices - on the contrary, if this is not anymore an angle companies will put their prices back down to regular levels and don't need to artificially inflate them in order to give loyalty program members a 'discount'.
My apologies, but I am not wrong.
How do they enforce this? For that matter, why do they care?
>WeWork being fully Japanese

Is it not Saudi Arabian?

AFAIK they poured multiple billions into SoftBank, which poured those billions into Uber, WeWork and others.
Anyone know why Scratch lite is so limited on the iOS? My 2 year old has nearly mastered all the features but I'm hesitant to let him loose on a laptop.
The piece starts with an analogy about the MTA, but I find it a rather weak one. The NYC government could have imposed a regulation that any subway built in the city must be built by certain standards for tunnel size and the ability to interchange. That would have helped provide some ability for the two systems to interlink. Moreover, the city government intervened significantly into the operation of private train and subway businesses. The article even notes the city tried to compete directly. Government-run businesses often use the law to squash competitors. Then, when the competitors go out of business, they say it's a natural monopoly and everyone forgets about it.
Look at how metals were traded in that time. "Bullhide ingots" are not uncommon and are widespread, Certainly people copied good ideas and used them locally, too; but I've always thought that evidence of some clever (and tough!) folks doing a lot of running all over the ancient world.
Where does the poverty angle come in?

By leaving the EU, where we were a net contributor, how is that going to make us poor?

Genuine question, I only ever saw that argument (with no data, I might add) from hardcore remainers like SNP.
Show HN: C++ UPnP client library using Boost.Asio
Lion Air asked, Boeing declined. Of course some person at Lion Air asked and some person at Boeing declined. That doesn't make a difference. These persons where talking for Boeing.
The fact that leave voters were motivated by non-economic factors (xenophobia, nationalism, sovereignty, etc.) doesn't detract from the fact that their vote was irrational in terms of its effect on their wellbeing.
Anecdotally, from watching shows like Question Time on the BBC, I strongly believe that leave voters are thick and we needn't tip toe around this issue. Here are two studies showing the correlation between votes and education level.

https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/articles-reports/2016/0...

https://www.ipsos.com/ipsos-mori/en-uk/how-britain-voted-201...
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The article and meaningful HN comments where people share their experiences is especially valuable
If Apple were privacy-oriented then they would at least add a big red warning about reversible encryption when turning on cloud backups.
Ah, the notorious Bus of Lies.
Climate change, too. The Minoan Warm Period ended around this time, and temps would not return to their optimum until the Roman Warm Period almost 1000 years later. Had to have an effect on agriculture and trade.
"No it isn't. The money argument isn't a valid argument for the vast majority of people that voted to Leave."

The 350 million a week message was a vital part of the Vote Leave strategy - and given that it was Dominic Cummings in charge there would have been hard data to support its appeal.
Brexit isn't about economics, macro-economics rarely has an influence at the individual level. It's the story that wraps around the numbers and emotion that's important.

That's why Leave won. Not about net contributions, billions for science experiments most people don't understand. It won on the back of "money for more nurses to take care of your nan", "control of our borders to stop illegals taking your mate Dan's job".

So for an anecdote: if the UK pulls out of the EU data-roaming regulations, I'd have spent more on mobile data in just one holiday last year than my yearly total EU contribution from my tax (and that's with a very fair operator travel plan).
As the title says, linked is a UPnP library written in C++ using Boost.Asio. UPnP is a big set of protocols and this library currently only supports creating, removing and listing of IPv4 TCP and UDP port mappings.

The API is based around Asio coroutines, which suffices for our purposes, but if there is interest I'm happy to add support for handlers and futures using Asio's async result machinery.
Lack of network effect, perhaps compounded by inadequate routing (I have no idea if they were as good as possible or much worse than necessary).

Network effect must be huge for a system like that. Imagine a large fraction of the cars on the road was shared in the way of supershuttle, you'd already have in that pool a near-perfect itinerary to tie into for almost any trip. And the remainder could easily be fulfilled by assigning a new trip. If you just have a few cars and price for shared occupancy tours will inevitably be much worse. But once you have a critical mass network, route inefficiency will be just a load factor price/performance tradeoff like in a hash-map.
Counterpoint: Wag raised $300m for an almost identical idea.
HaaS (Home as a Service) is now common. People pay their rent via credit card, online.
did you mean Gobeki Tepi?
It's certainly, unambiguously, true (the Silk Roads were roughly 200AD onwards, and the Roman Empire was trading for centuries before that for smaller values of 'global').
on 1.:
Are there actually US laws that could prevent Apple from offering end-to-end encryption for backups to their user?

That is something very different from cooperating with a specific investigation.

Why did Apple not fight this in court?

Could Apple keep the backups outside the EU, like Microsoft did for email in the Dublin case?
If you know some basic things about Russian government, this can easily be explained by the fact that policy makers are very inefficient, incompetent in technical matters and more often than not decisions are very poorly researched. Just look at the fact that Telegram still works everywhere or the way that even the supposedly most secret russian organization (the secret military police GRU) have handled the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal, and subsequent outage of the agent that did it... It seems that russian governemnt or police still have a hard time understanding even the basics of what the internet is and how the information can be shared or found or leaked in our age. So banning of Telegram vs not banning of Whatsapp really does not say a lot.
Here's an interesting article that links shell scripting and relational algebra - http://matt.might.net/articles/sql-in-the-shell/
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Hype or Flop?
Thanks! I think there's definitely room for rules-based enhancements to the underlying algorithms.

My area of work on the project has been the core file-reading and file-creation stuff so I haven't had much of a chance to review the layout algorithm performance across documents.

Having been working on a purely rules-based approach in a private repository for a side project it seems like the algorithms the contributor has implemented get you a lot closer to the correct result than starting from rules alone but it definitely feels like adding some context-aware rules would get all the way there. I'm not sure whether they'd be in scope for the layout analysis project itself or someone could take the open-core and extend it, as I was attempting in my side project.
arXiv has bulk dumps that anyone can S3. They aren't updated every day, not even every month, but still they have it. I used it myself.
You know? Whith all the ranting here about the pros and cons, maybe you should read about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_tag#History

Edit: From my point of view the gathering of data is unnecessary. The shopped items are scanned by their barcodes at the cashiers point. This is enough to plan for restocking, in real time, with datamining considering time, location, events, holidays, whatnot. Everything else is superfluous, and just a lie. That simple.
If you're a software engineer that security exists in every major city. Plus the cost of living to salary ratio is so much better that it's far easier to save an emergency fund.