skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can safeguard the process the government needs to go through to get approval to decrypt things all you want. That doesn't stop bad actors separate from the government from finding and taking advantages of the vulnerabilities introduced by enabling the government to forcibly decrypt things.

Cant fix technology problems with people processes.
The oldest company in almost every country (that is still in business)
Also check out Ralph Anspach's "Anti-Monopoly". There's a book about the huge lawsuit it caused, and it's an amazing story!

http://www.antimonopoly.com/

>Anti-Monopoly – a board game with a twist

>This game may look familiar, but don't be fooled – it's a real estate trading game with an exciting twist! Players choose free enterprise or monopoly, then play under different rules. Competitors charge fair market value while monopolists take over whole neighborhoods and jack up rents. In real life, monopolists have an unfair advantage. But in Anti-Monopoly, competitors have a fair shot at coming out on top!

Parker Brother's Billion Dollar Monopoly Swindle

https://www.amazon.com/Billion-Dollar-Monopoly-Swindle/dp/09...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Anspach

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Monopoly

>Anti-Monopoly is a board game made by San Francisco State University Professor Ralph Anspach in response to Monopoly.

>Background and history

>Anspach created Anti-Monopoly in part as a response to the lessons taught by the mainstream game, which he believed created the impression that monopolies were something desirable. His intent was to demonstrate how harmful monopolies could be to a free-enterprise system, and how antitrust laws work to curtail them in the real world.

>The game was originally to be produced in 1973 as Bust the Trust, but the title was changed to Anti-Monopoly. It has seen multiple printings and revisions since 1973. In 1984, a new version appeared as Anti-Monopoly II; this version was updated and re-released in 2005 without the numerical designation. The game is currently still in print, and is produced and distributed worldwide by University Games.

>Trademark lawsuit

>See also: History of the board game Monopoly (Anti-Monopoly, Inc. vs. General Mills Fun Group)

>In 1974, Parker Brothers sued Anspach over the use of the "Monopoly" name, claiming trademark infringement. While preparing his legal defense, Anspach became aware of Monopoly's history prior to Charles Darrow's sale of the game to Parker in 1935, and how it had evolved from Elizabeth Magie's original Landlord's Game into the version Darrow appropriated. Anspach based his defense on the grounds that the game itself existed in effectively the public domain before Parker purchased it, and therefore Parker's trademark claim on it should be nullified. The case dragged on for ten years,[1] with numerous appeals and overturned judicial verdicts, until Anspach and Parker ultimately reached a settlement, permitting him to continue using the name Anti-Monopoly and distributing the game.[2]

>For a time during the dispute, the game was marketed as simply "Anti."

How a Fight Over a Board Game Monopolized an Economist's Life

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB125599860004295449?mod=rss_US...

The Story of Class Struggle, America's Most Popular Marxist Board Game

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/58318/story-class-strugg...
Oh wow, this is great news. I though the project was effectively long dead. Is there a new/up-to-date "couchapp" too?

> Default installations are now secure and locked down.

More good news!

Anyone have recent experience with couchdb?

I see the (quickstart) docs use plain http - should one terminate ssl in front, eg with a recent version of haproxy?
I've found some themes pretty difficult to modify, or that it makes working with third-party components harder (say for Bootstrap), but since Tailwind UI is built on Tailwind, it won't be difficult to tweak.
Check the websites for places you're interested in visiting. A number of museums have announced closures.
You are making an assumption about how blockchains work. Do you think the linked-list like structure of how blocks are added to the chain is how data is stored and retrieved?

For reference:
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Bitcoin_Core_0.11_(ch_2):_Data_St...
https://hackernoon.com/getting-deep-into-ethereum-how-data-i...
Wouldn't it be prudent to try and get the virus as soon as possible?

Apparently, it's not that dangerous of a disease assuming you have medical care available.

So, now is the time to get it... when you have the entire intensive care unit st your disposal. If you hide out in your bunker, wear your mask, and follow the CDC's advice, you'll probably not get it for a few months. But when you do, instead of having a nice empty intensive care unit at your disposal, you'll be laying in a hospital corridor, unattended, surrounded by body bags and moaning patients.

So, my preparation is to book a trip to Wuhan with a layover in Italy. Tickets are super cheap.
All of the mechanics available to the Fed and Politicians are large imprecise tools. Regular people still have unmet needs and successful businesses are still started all the time to meet those needs.
> they aren't going to change anything for at least another 9-12 years.

That's an oddly specific timeframe. Any reason for that? Is there an agreement that due to be renewed by then or something?
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Exactly. But for the people that want that data, for the people who will pay for it, FUD is a great political tool, and this issue is too subtle for most people to get. I've tried to explain to my family, how the abdication of private behavior logs to some companies is creating economic/political inequality that may forever destroy norms of fairness & competitiveness that we enjoy, but they just don't get it...

For example, a friend worked at a proprietary hedge fund of a major US bank that was looking into the private accounts of their customers to drive trading decisions. Other investors can't compete against that, stock market investment is no longer fair. And you've broken a fundamental component of the economy, a fair & transparent investment system.
Mongol Military Tactics
I recall there's a way to sign up to an email subscription of Matt Levine's writing, without Bloomberg and their pop-ups. Anyone know how to do that?
Russian artists wear anti-facial recognition make-up and get arrested
> 3 or more people in geographically diverse areas

Sure, a system could be designed where the “master key that unlocks everything” is distributed - that makes the problem of the attacker who wants to get his hands on that key slightly harder, because now he has to compromise three systems instead of one, but that doesn’t change the fundamental risk, which is that he can do that in the first place. Remember, you’re talking about one piece (or three pieces) of information which can be used to decode every single secret in the United States - this isn’t limited by technical feasibility, this is the explicit end goal that you’re asking for. If Russian hackers got a hold of it undetected, they could decrypt everything for a very long time. Even if it were revealed that it were compromised, everything that was encrypted using the old key would have to be re-encrypted somehow, and the old copies destroyed somehow.
> Law enforcement wants to be able to break security, and promises that their super secret, super safe system will provide everyone else protection from evildoers while letting law enforcement find the bad guys

Wasn't this how Google, Adobe and several other tech companies had a major security breach about 5-7 years ago? They provided the DOJ backdoor access.
He means undergrad computer science prof approved. No real business ever operated on the basis of "we shouldnt be pushing these bits when they already have perfectly good bits probably."
Regulation is a reaction to demand, it's not what creates demand. We can debate about the pros and cons of regulation, but that is quite a tangent. Certainly some businesses are prohibited by the existence of stringent regulations. Certainly regulations make it more expensive to start a business in certain industries. But they do not determine what the market wants.

The Fed also doesn't create demand for products and services. That demand is there, all the time. Right now there is latent demand in the marketplace to extend the human lifespan to 1000 years if possible. There's demand to travel at the speed of light or faster. Whether or not these things are even possible is completely independent of the demand for them.

It's also quite absurd that on the tail end of a decade of a start up boom in the tech industry that you would assert that all these factors make it impossible to succeed today. We are on Hacker News, a site powered by YCombinator, an incubator and investor that has helped make it possible for hundreds of companies to succeed that you claim is impossible. The combined valuation of the top YC companies was over $155 billion as of October, 2019. None of these companies existed 15 years ago.
It's a perfectly patronizing reason. If they're so concerned that test requires may be misinterpreted then the solution is better education. It is not their place to serve as gatekeepers.
I think you're supporting the parent poster's point: Given that there are a number of petty people out there, GOG may be hoping those kinds of folks will just torrent instead of buy+refund.
Ok, which part did China mislead people? China told the world the virus can be transmitted asymptomatically, can be transmitted human to human, with a 14 days incubation period, and provided all the clinical data.
Other than maybe the utilities, when is it not advantageous to buy a property you land on? Until an opposing monopoly exists, there is a net positive value to each turn, so you have plenty of resources and if all you do is deny the property to someone else, you essentially get it at 50% discount by mortgaging it.
There is only a ~2% mortality rate from COVID-19, less than the usual flu. If one is prepping to survive from this, it is much more likely you have deeper emotional & psychological issues that prevent you from holding long lasting intimate relationships. And are at a higher risk of death from depression, anxiety, loneliness,and general social isolation. Thank you for listening. P.S. I work in this field and attached is an analysis of the ebola virus breakout from a few years ago, if you feel so inclined to work on something similar using your CS skills for COVID. See you in New Zealand with all the other bitcoin moguls :-)
https://petridishtalk.com/2014/10/02/retooling-analysis-pipe...
wow dude...I had exactly the same line of thought
I hope those people access their bank over port 80.
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>Don’t be selfish and consider safety of other less fortunate people.

In the country right now there are a few dozen cases on a population of 60 million people. Even assuming there is hundreds or thousands of cases, the idea that I stay home (which is a trade-off, because I'm needed at work) isn't rational at all.

If I get sick I'll obviously stay home, as I always do to avoid spreading any disease. But to preemptively lock myself in to avoid a disease that isn't particular dangerous in 80% of people and that has barely spread anywhere is ridiculous.
Think of the WWW as a Monopoly board. Except unlike the board game the first move involves no roll of the dice. The class of players known as users always start the game on the same certain properties, owned by a small set of players known as Google, Amazon, etc. Microsoft used to have a marketing slogan to address the growing presence of the internet: "Where do you want to go today?" The question we should have is, "Why does Microsoft need to know?" Why do these companies need to know what we are going to do next? In the WWW monopoly a small set of players collect rent from nearly every user and strive to know every users' next move. It may be through the control of websites or devices, or both. As they say, the game is rigged.
Infected people helped spread the coronavirus
This is practically ancient news at this point. RCTs are already underway in China and now starting up in the US. The question that hasn't been well answered anywhere is, assuming it does prove to work, can we make enough of this stuff in the space of time to really make a difference? What would that look like? Would we need to stop producing other drugs to switch over production lines? Etc. What that would look like would be interesting to read about.
Huh.

And I always thought we were missing something because players would always end up bickering and hating the experience (except the winner, and it brought out the worst in them).

Now I see that was actually the core lesson.
> Why would it not be possible to create a system that required several manual and offline steps

No matter what "offline" and "manual" steps you propose, they can be made online and automatic after a one-time compromise of the system. And if a single system is protecting the secrets of literally everyone, the incentive for compromising that system is unlimited. There's no attack too impractical when the stakes are so high.
I could see that being the case, but that's not a conjecture that I would lead my story with.

That kind of journalism is really divisive and irresponsible, IMO.
America in Distress: The Challenges of Disadvantageous Change
I wouldn't lump Correlium in with the companies that hoarde and sell actual vulnerabilities. Tools that allow people to find them go both ways: they can equally be used to exploit and to harden a system. It's unclear which direction Correlium favored, if either, but there's at least the potential that it could be used for good.

What Apple needs to do, IMO, is release their own version of this for free and set up a well-funded bug bounty program (lord knows they have the cash). When you have to buy the tool from a third-party, it seems like wealthy bad actors will be more likely to do so than people with good intents.
Reading a book a week for your career
Show HN: Visual OKRs
I’m a big fan of OKRs (Objectives and Key Results). But there’s one thing missing. Research shows that bringing a visual component to goal-setting improves outcomes. That’s why we made a tool for tracking “Visual OKRs”. You can add a motivational image to each critical OKR with https://teamsuccess.io/

It’s very difficult to align teams around a common vision. Visual aids; doodles, diagrams, infographics, photos, images, drawings, cartoons, videos or storyboards are a great way of conveying a vision.

“Visual OKRs” means adding a visual aid to an OKR. Visual aids supplement words with pictures, charts, graphs, or other visual information. They are important because they help teams understand and remember the ambitious goal. Increase interest. And act as reminders for stakeholders and team members.

What do you think?
Apparently even though it's unlikely to kill you, it's still likely to leave you with long lasting damage, so no, I think I'd rather try as hard as possible to avoid catching it in the first place.
We are in a similar situation. 99% of the time everyone is working remote so we don't even really think about this stuff anymore. Our company has been operating like this for nearly a decade. There is a core group that works at a physical office, but they also have the ability to work remote for an indefinite period of time if the need arises.

Distributed/remote companies are amazing for handling disaster scenarios like this. Hurricanes, floods, pandemics, zombies, you name it. We usually just work right through it.
I'm not sure about the non-zero sum economics models anymore. Physics says that the planet is finite, so much of the "wealth creation" is little more than changes in perceived valuation. And while a lot of people have a lot more $ and things like iphones, most people have less land, more polluted oceans, and many other things that may turn out to be move valuable in the long run than those iphones.

On the land thing, one of my grandfathers had close to 500 acres of farmland. Today I could barely pay the taxes on that land if it was still in the family. But its not, instead there are a couple dozen families living on smaller 20 acre plots.
Got a buddy in HR, he mentioned he regularly floats fake listings to see:

1) what kind of hits they get (e.g. lots of over- or under-qualified)

2) what the salary requirements are relative to the hits they get

3) how effective are the ads in terms of writing, conveying what is on the table without saying too much, etc.

4) to make the company look busy / growing / large

5) to stay ahead of the churn, since they're large enough that they may need bodies in a few months (e.g. a poor performer is on the way out / gettin the axe, or a contract is up in 3 months) so they can get a couple of prospects on the hook and do a slow negotiation until they're ready to hire, in which case they make an offer at or near market rates
Indeed :-)

Courant & John, to be exact.
Cities all know they have to be smarter but have not demonstrated an ability to do so. Just asserting they need to be doesn't really suggest any change might happen.

As for a single cancellation: I discussed why this time could be different from the two previous examples. If you think that's wrong I'd like to read the counterargument.
At this point why would you use CouchDB over something like MongoDB?

Seriously asking...

Over the past 5 years MongoDB has gotten a great storage engine, transactions, distributed transactions, multi master replication, first class change streams and is very very solid as a foundational piece of infrastructure you can rely on while CouchDB has languished. I can’t imagine reaching for it in my tool belt when I need a document store over MongoDB but I’m obviously biased so I’m wondering if there is a lot I’m missing.

Obviously it’s cool from a more open source databases standpoint — I love learning about how things are built and evolve over time.
Coronavirus Prompts a Whole City to Try Home Schooling
I work in manufacturing sector and this can become a real serious issue for everyone. So many things are made in China that we might see some supply issues. This will have an affect on literally everything we buy in the US. We might see some interesting price spikes.

I don't even know what my company will do if we simply cannot fill our orders.

I am preparing to refinance my house though, the virus is really shaking up the stock market and pushing the mortgage rates down.
https://myaccount.nytimes.com/cancel

Same options when you login?

Why not just do it thru chat? Might be the easiest option.
is it possible to reuse a mask if you put the mask through an autoclave?
The mathematical description might be "necessary but not sufficient".
A very prescient XKCD (which as afar as I can tell, was released before the article was published):

https://xkcd.com/2270/
The problem with startups building hard tech is it takes a long time to fail. Failures that take decades doesn't work in the startup model. Image working on a fusion reactor. It might take 25 years to fail. The failure may not be that your idea doesn't work, but because some other kind of reactor comes along that is a better business (ie, cheaper). At this point, you are now a world class expert at a technology that is not economically viable. But, you can't transfer that knowledge, or at least most of it. You are also now 50 years old, give or take. You don't have 25 years to work on the next hard problem. You certainly don't have time to fail again. Back in the day when lots of people worked on hard technology, they were paid well to work on the problem; their life time earnings did not depend on creating a viable business. Because of that, they usually earned a pension, too. Because if you failed, you could retire comfortably, or, at least have enough to choose a second career that didn't pay as well. That model doesn't work for startups.
SoftBank’s Rajeev Misra Used Campaign of Sabotage to Hobble Internal Rivals
Similar but different anecdote. I installed i2p the other day to see what had changed/improved over the last year, and mentioned to my 12yo son that I had done this. He asked what i2p was, and I said it was the dark web. He immediately thought he knew what this is, and asked "aren't you worried about getting in trouble because it's illegal?"
just typed a novel then decided against it. everyone needs to make their own decisions about their preparedness. For me, I’m preparing for (not the worst, but bad enough to keep me at home for several weeks). Hoping for the best.

-Stocked up on food/water
-Stocked up my medicine cabinet
-Reduced my exposure to stocks by 75%
-Turned off all automated investments
-Consuming zerohedge via RSS for news ahead of the normal cycle
-not trusting a word of any government mouthpiece
SpectX has been incredibly useful while dealing with tons and tons of web server logs. If you've ever thought that surely must there should be something with less overhead than Graylog et al, you should at least consider it.
I feel like I got the wrong moral from the daycare story. If there were so many late parents willing to pay, wasn’t the day car missing out on an untapped revenue stream by making the pick up time too early?
Are you seeing issues with manufacturing currently?
By not having kids.

Joking, but although we are well prepared for isolation (work mostly from home, live in the countryside in one of the remotest countries in the world, have off-grid solar and 3 rainwater tanks and could probably forage enough to live for a long time from fishing and gathering), all of that is undone by having a school aged kid.

That means unavoidable contact with a wide group of other kids, from a variety of different home situations, several of whom may have runny noses etc. at any point in time.
I doubt it will be many (from ones that are buying games right now). If you expect quality entertainment you should be willing to pay for it. (as with anything).

It's kinda copy of Windows strategy. I was using pirated version od Windows as kid but as I got more affluent I can totally justify to pay for it and turned into customer.

I don't know exact numbers but entertainment/games market should grow a lot as more of the world catches up, so it's worth to invest in capturing them. With current prices the big markets are basically US, Germany and China.
Microsoft were certainly the first movers, but they only owned the stations. Muppets.

Amazon, Google, Facebook moved in and bought almost all the properties.

Apple are doing very well from owning the purples.
I feel like one of the hardest problems in tech is making search engine that credibly competes with Google.

It's not just because the tech is hard (and it is), but also because they have some of the strongest network effects, user lock-in, and distribution deals.

It sounds almost dumb/crazy for people to try, but there is a newer effort from Europe that I saw on HN recently (i.e. they've been working for ~5 years and are just starting to publicize). And I think PG has mentioned it a few times -- i.e. encouraged people to take on Google :)

BTW I think "schleps" are different than "hard startups". I think schleps are about raw effort where you kind of "know" you'll succeed at the end. It seems like most companies are hard because you don't know if what you're building will succeed, even if you build it.

edit: "new" search company is cliqz: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21724191
The spread seems to be plateu as well. Total numbers will probably be less than 100,000.
Education, science, art, "enlightenment"...

Giving awards in a posh ceremony to commercial movies and running very fast for a medal does not sound like any of those to me.

Yes, sports are a very big deal in many countries. Fancy social gatherings too. Neither means necessarily "culture".
For anyone else looking to quickstart but on Kube, https://operatorhub.io/operator/couchdb-operator. Should add 3.0 soon.
You say “might offer”. Have they offered anything?
Thanks, this very cool.