skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This strategy would have been worse for Microsoft and furthermore it would have been ineffective at achieving your own desire.

Old Edge was already getting the same treatment from web developers as Firefox. If they picked up Gecko they might as well have just stayed with old Edge for even less effort.
Encryption isn’t like using a mask - we can still see who is communicating with who, we just can’t see what they’re saying. Banning encryption is like banning envelopes.
"Kvashuk’s grand scheme was thwarted by the hard-work of IRS-CI’s Cyber Crimes Unit"

Something that caught the IRS's attention, apparently. Probably lots of deposits of real money to real banks, from a crypto exchange.
OTPs are impractical to use for average people, while their use is entirely tractable (and widespread) for covert operations.
Apparently not in the original :

http://landlordsgame.info/rules/lg-1904p_patent.html

However:

> Borrowing: A player may borrow from the “Bank" in amounts of one hundred dollars, and for every one hundred dollars borrowed the " Bank" takes a mortgage on one or more of the borrower's lots, the total value of which must be at least ten dollars more than is borrowed. For every one hundred dollars borrowed from the "Bank" a bank mortgage is placed upon the property on which the loan is made, and the player puts his note in the "Bank," paying upon each note five dollars (interest) every time he receives his wages. One player may borrow from another, giving a mortgage on any property he may own and making the best bargain he can as to interest, terms of payments &c. The player loaning the money places his individual, mortgage on the top of the borrower's deed to show that he has a mortgage on that property, Should a loan be repaid before passing the beginning-point, the borrower saves the interest.

But there are a few variations... This one looks closer to "modern" monopoly - I can't seem to locate the "two rulesets" referenced by Wikipedia though (one "pro" one "contra" monopoly - in the second everyone supposedly benefits from created value).

http://landlordsgame.info/games/lg-1906/lg-1906_egc-rules.ht...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_(game)

> Magie created two sets of rules: an anti-monopolist set in which all were rewarded when wealth was created, and a monopolist set in which the goal was to create monopolies and crush opponents.

See also: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/apr/11/secret-...

[edit: here are the combined rules with rules for "prosperity"
https://landlordsgame.info/games/lgp-1932/lgp-1932_rules.htm...
]
Designing the ideal bootstrapped business [video]
I am assuming that in the next few weeks I will need to be isolated for 3-4 weeks. I am assuming that electricity is mostly on, and water to my home is mostly available, (although possibly tainted -- preparing for that).

After that, who knows. Hopefully there will be a vaccine.
You have a good reason for your paranoia. Even today, we have flights from Italy, South Korea, and Japan coming into U.S and nobody is bothering to contain this situation seriously. Unsure how Insurance is going to treat a spread in U.S. We are not set up for success.
Die hard emacs user here (but looking sometimes into vscode). Which things you get from vscode that couldn't get in emacs? Are you definitely set?
Their general consumer friendliness has also been why I've gone out of my way to buy games on GOG when it's an option. I think the interesting question will be how well that strategy generalizes beyond people who care on principle.
Not meaning to hijack your question, but if anyone has ideas on what might get today's youth interested in hacking (e.g. certain movies, books, twitch streaming), I would love to hear some thoughts.
Ask them if they'd be ok with the mailman reading all their ingoing and outgoing mail. If they say "Yes", at least they're being consistent.
I didnt get that, I tried with Firefox 72. Note I am also using uBO 1.25.0.
Measuring Originality in Science
So one unproven claim from one person, amplified by an author who has a clear intent to paint the project as bad.

Congratulations.
REI was in a much worse position though, as they first had to pay for the physical product from the manufacturer. Digital goods have little to no upfront overhead (provided the network for distributing and payment already exists), making this kind of return policy less unfavorable.
Heavy claim against a named individual... can you back it up?
Kubernetes vs Tech Gentrification
Do not despair! FTFY:

https://i.imgur.com/JZf4z90.png
I guess it comes down to who are you more afraid of? Terrorists and pedophiles or law enforcement with unlimited power and resources to spy on you and imprison you. Of course it's a false choice anyway, if encryption is legislated away the bad guys will very easily continue to encrypt their communications anyway, after all you can communicate with someone by shooting a wall in a game of halo if you want to.
When the submitter is clearly the author of an article or project, we give some leeway about how they present their work to HN. You can see that most clearly at https://news.ycombinator.com/show. The exception, of course, would be if the title is misleading or baity, but "YC's new guide to Raising a Series A" isn't.

The way to understand the site guidelines is in a 'spirit of the law' way, not a 'letter of the law' way. If you watch closely you'll notice plenty of little deviations, but they should be in keeping with the underlying principles. In the case of the title guideline, the principles are (1) titles should be accurate and neutral (i.e. not misleading or linkbait) and (2) the content should get to speak for itself, and not be replaced by something that the submitter imposes over the author. When the submitter is the author, #2 shifts a bit.

I appreciate your point, though, about needing a higher degree of visible consistency when the content is from YC. I'm happy to change the submission title, but I suggested to Aaron to change the article title instead and I think that's what they are going to do. Will check back in a bit. Thanks! Edit: looks like that's done now.
There seems to be some kind of intentional ignorance of just how many programs people blame Trump for have been there since Obama or even earlier.
Question is about disruptions caused by people's reaction to the outbreak, not the virus itself.

Stuff like this: https://www.ibtimes.sg/wuhan-virus-italy-supermarkets-are-ru...

The freaking panic is already starting in my country too. People buying up food in 10x the quantities than the usual shopping visit, etc..

I've gone shopping yesterday, when the virus was found in the country next to mine, to buy enough food for a week, just to avoid the inevitable initial panic that's starting today, when the first case appeared in my country.
They also tested a lot more.
Thanks! That means a lot.

And yeah, biotech is an important focus for us. Jared and Uri have been incredible at building that program and our knowledge.
As another example, doctors and dentists have traditionally been prime targets for investment scammers long before cryptocurrencies were invented. They're intelligent in a particular field and have money, but often lack business experience and common sense.
Related: r/pennystocks

https://twitter.com/packyM/status/1229910436184756225?s=20
Even if they don't take it too seriously, I'm sure people pick up ideas there. If you see people talking about buying Tesla options every day, you'll probably consider it far more than you would otherwise.
> I'm an emacs user, and find the windows-y keyboard shortcuts foreign, so I have to think about them, and prefer just using the right-click mouse menu.

it's a little surprising to me that you can't remember cut, copy, and paste that works on any computer in the last two decades but can remember all of the esoteric emacs shortcuts, which include references to a key that doesn't even exist.
Nice, poor support and lack of refunds really discouraged me from buying from GOG.. maybe I'll consider browsing their catalog again some day.
There have been some good arguments that when the downturn hits, it’ll be less of an exciting and satisfying bubble pop ;P, and more like a slow burn.

http://reactionwheel.net/2015/01/80s-vc.html
> It is not obvious to me why an account that purchased the bundle should be treated differently from an account that purchased the three individual offerings. (Well, in this case, the bundle is cheaper, but that's not always true.)

It sounds like they've just chosen not to deal with the complexity of refunding parts of bundles. It's not a question of whether they should, just a question of whether they wanted to spend the time and energy.

The part where it's not obvious how to price individual offerings in a discounted bundle for refund purposes is precisely the problem, and simply saying "we're not breaking up bundles" is one valid way to get around the problem, whether or not it's the consumer's most preferred way.
Keeping the Pirates at Bay (2001)
That's just being pedantic and obviously not what the GP's post means. If it were, then walking in the garden is an existential crisis because you're bound to step on a bug and that individual will cease to exist.
Not to mention that the copy of the game you get from GOG is more likely safe to run, than something pirated from a torrent.
Good gracious, you have to install a toolchain specific to the UI framework to see the sample app? I know I'm curmudgeonly about front-end toolchain bloat, but doesn't this seem excessive?
Sharing this as another alternative, unfortunately unmaintained:

https://github.com/pojala/electrino
I follow other subreddits like /r/investing /r/personalfinance /r/financialindependence that basically send people like this to /r/wsb.
So... corporate action is meaningless because other companies will continue to pollute. Technological advancements are meaningless because other countries will continue to use old tech.

But... individual actions are meaningful because... other people won't continue to live wastefully... I guess? I don't see the logic here at all.
The current administration came into power in January 2017.
> In his own words, as filed with the court, Federighi said: “On Saturday February 8, 2020, a process server was outside of my home. He came to my front door and attempted to serve a subpoena to me, but my wife turned him away.”

That's not harassment. It's due process.
1. is heavy (size)

2. is huge (libs)

3. was made by SAP for custom HANA apps with "normalized" widgets and skins, originally known as SAP UI5

4. MVC, Single-App, two-way data-binding, tutorials are hard to grasp, conventions that may not lend itself to front-end devs mindset.

5. naming convention is a mixed of Java and C++ (hungarian notation) instead of JavaScript

Source: used SAP UI5 in the past. Nobody likes it.
Well, it runs an instance of Chromium. So basically the same thing in this context.
So...a pump and dump then.
Show HN: AsOne – Reddit and Patreon for Research
well g-mail still barely works in chrome after the update they did, so i am not sure it's malice in this case.
Hi, HN! This is Thomas from AsOne.

AsOne is a website where anyone can contribute to research discussions.

The website is organized like Reddit, with each "subreddit" being a research topic. Topics include famous unsolved math problems (Millennium Problems), AI safety research, ways to prevent climate change, and user-created topics. The goal of the website is to solve humanity's hardest problems by bringing together humanity's brightest minds, as one.

We plan to eventually integrate a crowdfunding platform which will allow anyone to sponsor research that interests them via recurring donations, like Patreon. These contributions go toward a per-topic pool which is distributed among the topic’s verified researchers on a monthly basis; the amount received by a researcher is based on how much time they commit to actively researching the topic and helping its community.

I am applying for the Summer 2020 batch of YC, and this is my current description for the "What is your company going to make?" question. I would love to hear any feedback about my pitch or the startup itself.

I am also looking for suggestions on which topics to focus on for our initial beta release - the goal is to achieve a novel result through collaboration on the website. You can vote and add new suggestions here: (https://poll.ly/#/2Mr5rOq1)
You can't solve a collective action problem just with free will, though.

You can choose not to use those services and still have your privacy invaded, through other people posting things about you, cameras in public spaces, phone tracking, etc.

You can choose to live like a recluse to avoid this (no phones, stay out of public places, don't let friends take your picture, etc), but saying that is a reasonable choice is ridiculous.

This is like people who say "well, if you don't like how the credit bureau's operate, just don't use credit! Sure, you can do that... but you won't be able to ever buy a house, get many jobs, fly on an airplane, etc. More and more restaurants and stores are even going 'cashless'. It might technically still be a choice, but it is not a reasonable one you can expect people to make.
Why can't you run an Emacs with Magit alongside Vscode? You don't have to miss it, you can still use emacs for that.
I think we might in fact have a different definition of "quickly", yes. I think we may also have different definitions of "entire product is hosed". If gmail is significantly worse to use (not "doesn't load", just "loads with obvious visual artefacts"), that's obviously enough to get people to change browsers, all else being equal.

And just to be clear, there are certainly cases when things got fixed quickly. But "always" is really stretching it; this was the exception, not the norm.

> regressions are to be expected in an environment where the extent of browser testing is a function of engineer interest rather than centrally mandated

Sure. The problem is the environment and corporate policy, not individual engineers. They're just responding to incentives as best they can, and in my experience are generally quite helpful within the constraints of the system.

> just that this sort of thing was not Firefox specific

Indeed, I don't think it was. It was not-Chrome specific.

Here's a thought experiment. Say someone at Google who did _not_ test in Chrome committed a change that degraded the visual experience of gmail in Chrome and it got shipped. How would fixing that be prioritized vs a similar visual degradation in Firefox or some other non-Chrome browser? Assuming there is no emergency push involved, if the fix was not ready by the next push cycle, would it just slide, or would the original commit get rolled back?
Samsung Starts Production of 16 GB LPDDR5-5500 for Smartphones
> I wasn't popular for pointing out the irony when at least a few of them drove to a demonstration against a new refinery.

So...they should've walked or biked to protests instead? What if (as refineries often are) it was 100 miles away in a rural area with no public transportation? What about disabled people? People without enough free time to bike 100 (or maybe even 10) miles? People with children?

Don't let perfect be the enemy of good. Would it be better to have no rallies at all, rather than rallies that people drive to? These people spent their free time going to rallies instead of motorboating on lakes or flying on a jet to go skiing. They have skin in the game.
Ah, that’s cool, I didn’t know. Seems like a winning solution to me.
Is a pump and dump illegal if everyone's in on the joke though?
We ran a drill a couple of weeks back where everybody worked from home to ensure that if we have to close our office we are able to continue working (assuming we're not ill, of course). This was really just to shake out any issues.

Fortunately, since most of us already work remotely for at least some of the time we didn't have any significant issues.

Beyond that, nothing really.
> in a way that was nearly impossible for the average citizen a few decades ago

Ehh, maybe if you are talking about speed and scale. The average citizen could always learn how to use a one-time pad.
Unlike the other people I enjoy workshopping ideas like this and am glad you contributed. Thank you.

I think the problem is that you have a thing with no moat. Once you start getting any traction, you'll be hit by the drop-ship and print-on-demand guys who'll lemonize the market. You see this with 'Vaporwave' and 'retrowave' clothing which had a short Renaissance.

The opportunity is for the guys close to manufacturing who can rapidly print out each one and then spend the rest of their budget on marketing (say on Instagram).

Alternatively if you have a big brand, you can pull off stuff like Supreme's Dragon Work set (which I do have) but otherwise it's hard for people to spend because they'll assume they're buying from a fly by night print on demand Shopify site.
Ask HN: What personal tools have you built?
Hey everyone. Curious to hear what personal tools you have built, software or otherwise, to make your lives easier/better.

I'm currently working on a simple tool to remind me to follow up on emails and another to track my reading progress.

Feel free to include links/screenshots if possible!
FF 73 and uBO 1.24.4 I still get it in a private window.
The mind boggles at how people can characterise preparation of a month’s worth of food, water and other essentials as “bomb shelter”-style hunkering down.

The CDC, amongst other US and foreign government agencies, recommend it. When the CDC speaks, I listen.
Gaia GPS: We Brought Backcountry Maps to CarPlay
Automatic differentiation meets conventional machine learning
A President (and the priorities of his administration) can make bad programs much worse.

Take marijuana enforcement as an inverse example. The federal law around marijuana hasn't changed, and it's as illegal in 2020 to use, grow, and sell as it was in 2004. But the Obama administration made clear to the DEA and FBI that pursuit and enforcement of that law in states that had passed their own laws to legalize it would be a career-limiting move, which gave the states breathing room to experiment (and allowed hard evidence to gather that allowing medicinal and recreational use wouldn't cause societal collapse or, really, almost any negative outcomes).

This aspect of the intersection of law and executive enforcement is why the Trump administration is correctly condemned for worsening the situation regarding immigration in the US. Most of the laws the administration uses have been on the books since before 2016. This administration chooses the harshest and cruelest ways to interpret and execute on those laws.
At work, we have a Terraform module that receives a few input parameters and generates a VPC that complies with all of our corporate security guidelines. The module isn't complicated, and it ensures that we get it right every time.

We do this for every commonly-used AWS resource -- S3 buckets, SQS queues, etc. It eliminates most of the risk of misconfiguration, allows our infrastructure changes to be code-reviewed and unit tested, and eliminates a lot of the fiddly crap work associated with setting up something on AWS.

I do some volunteer IT work for the nonprofit makerspace in my town, and I obviously don't have access to my employer's tool chain if I have to work in their AWS account. It really is a night-and-day difference.
Per GP this was in a business class likely taught by a business professor, not an ethicist or someone similarly specializing in such discussions. It's not surprising that they'd pose the question to the group in such a blunt fashion. As a CS major, I had to take an engineering and a CS ethics course and it was similarly problematic. The courses were taught by an engineering or CS professor (respectively) and ethics discussions were not their specialty.
What this article is basically saying (though I disagree with them) is that if you’re using a “cloud-native” service (basically anything that isn’t EC2), then you might not need a VPC because they introduce additional complexity, and complexity compromises security.

I disagree with them because VPCs are trivial to set up for the services that support them and they give you a barebones level of isolation with zero extra work. There are SO many guides describing how to set up a VPC correctly (it’s even covered in the Associate exam, which is basically entry-level) and deploying them is easy to do with Terraform, Pulumi or CloudFormation.
Coronavirus Weakens China’s Powerful Propaganda Machine
If it were being reddified, you'd see a bunch of people needlessly turning things into political discus--- ohh.....
I mean, there are definitely those who are trying to exploit r/WSB to do that I'm sure.

But at the same time, it's not like there's defacto leaders. It's more once the zeitgeist takes hold mobs of people will, for whatever reason, follow along.

I'm sure there are a lot of very smart people trying to figure out how to weaponize this and have their positions locked in before the mobs move the market and time their exits.
In historical practice many did, though these were usually set to fixed exchange rates with one another.

The "retail" currency was typically copper, though other base metals (iron, in China) were also used.

The "wholesale" currency, silver.

In England there was also the gold Guinea, which might be considered a finance / government coin, though I'm not specifically aware that it was seen as such.

I'm largely familiar with the coinage as discussed (at considerable length) in Smith's Wealth of Nations. He doesn't draw the distinction I do here, though it seems a fairly natural one.

Note that in pre-decimal English currency, the smallest coinage was the farthing ("four-thing", 1/4 of a pence), and there were 240 pence to the pound (12 pence (d) per shilling (p), 20 shillings per pound (£). If you consider a farthing as the smallest practical unit of currency, roughly a present-day dollar, a pound would be $960.

http://www.historyhome.co.uk/peel/economic/currency.htm

A labourer's wages were about £2/yr, or 5 farthings/day.

http://medieval.ucdavis.edu/120D/Money.html

For modern variants, the notion of a non-accumulating "daily-spend" currency, and various durable currencies but utlisable only in specific transactions, might make certain amounts of sense. I've toyed with this notion off and on for a few years.
Design to Make Users Happy
I still wouldn't care. What's the actuall difference? $10 / month? $20? $30?

Meh, whatever; I need to start my laundy so it's ready before I go to bed. I'll eat the $30.
Brazil Is Cracking Down on Climate Migrants While Worsening the Climate Crisis
going to a tech conference!....
The author gives that date because, as is mentioned in the article, that is when Apple famously declined to help the FBI backdoor its own system, which happened before Trump was elected.
I don't think so, because they reserved the right to reject refunds on a case by case basis. They can reject a few bad actors.

Admittedly I'm a bit concerned about botting new accounts, buying one game, downloading it, and then asking for refund.. I'm afraid they might cancel the policy instead of figuring out a restriction that (perhaps unfairly) would prevent new users from getting full refunds.
http://github.com/marceloboeira/awsudo -> This tool helps me to authenticate withing different roles on AWS.
Going to a tech conference!...
If you speak to anyone who works in supply chain, they're all experiencing massive disruptions. Traffic from Chinese ports has slowed significantly, these things take some time before they start affecting our store shelves. Some people will be quite surprised to see how many things rely on Chinese supply, such as pharmaceuticals. Even if a product isn't exported in a finished form from China, vast amounts of our low-level supply chains rely on China.
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