skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Cryptographers have maintained that when you create a back door, it is a question of time until it is found and publicized.

Why would it not be possible to create a system that required several manual and offline steps in order to break the encryption?

For example (and perhaps similar to offline cold storage of bitcoin) why couldn't a system be designed whereby 3 or more people in geographically diverse areas were in a position to agree that a request for information was legitimate (by court order) and thereby produce what is needed to unlock certain information? So one person would not have the key or access.

After all right now you have a case where a single person (the owner) is able to unlock information. The feeling is a back door can be hacked. What if it's not a back door though?
When I work from home (about twice a week) I usually take my elderly mom out to a local restaurant for a quick lunch. I regret nothing. :)
I wash my hands well and try to avoid touching my face. I try to avoid touching bathroom door handles and use some type of napkin or glove. I have been doing this for a long time, so its not really something I am doing just for this virus.

If you read CDC website they also recommend washing hands and avoid touching your face. It is much harder if you have small kids, just don’t forget to also wash their hands if they have been out in public places.
Bought some extra food; planning on buying some extra dayquil type medication. Fervently hoping that maybe I can donate some of it if things blow over. Maybe getting some extra soap, and especially TP. I'll be the king of the neighborhood if I'm the last one with real TP!
There is at least one preparation that you can take: Make sure you have enough (non quickly perishable) food and essentials such as tooth paste and toilet paper at home so you don't have to go out shopping if you are at home sick for a week.
The strength of emacs is that once you can program it it's extremely easy to write extensions for it, even for one off tasks, because it's so quick and easy.

Compared to this in vscode writing extensions is much more convoluted. You wouldn't create a new vscode extension for a 1 hour task, for example, while with emacs it's trivial to write some small code which can help you with your current task. I often do.
I live in that P6 life
It depends on which part of China. Some of our manufacturers have already started work and shipping. Few of them haven't resumed work and expect to on first week of March.

Most of our suppliers are in India and Nepal but it's business as usual in these countries
You can run Lambdas in a VPC now. They used to be a lot slower to do so because Lambda had to create ENIs that could access the Lambda VPC within your VPC, but that latency has been reduced significantly.
Personally, i'm not taking it seriously at all. I'm in my 20s. If I get it I'll take some sinus medication and ibuprofen.
Key points:

>>Volodymyr Kvashuk, a 25-year-old software developer and Ukrainian citizen who worked for Microsoft from 2016 to 2018, took advantage of a testing program for Microsoft’s online retail sales platform. He made test accounts to obtain “currency stored value” such as Microsoft gift cards and then resold them online.

>>Kvashuk will be sentenced June 1 in U.S District Court and faces up to 20 years in prison.

Ouch.
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I would wager that you run into a ton of people in your daily life who use drugs on a regular basis. You just don’t see them as drug users because they otherwise keep their lives together and are productive members of society. Frankly our war on drugs has done nothing but disenfranchise and harm people who would otherwise be law-abiding citizens.
You'd think that the screenshots of horrific losses on robinhood, interspersed throughout would have a moderating effect. That, along with the obviously sarcastic investment advice and general crude language makes anything coming out of there less trustworthy than something like Mad Money on CNBC.
This is very likely to overwhelm not just medical infrastructure, but shut down supply chains for basic necessities for months. If the pandemic hits, most businesses will shutter, just like in China. It is prudent to stock up now for 1-2 months of cheap, non- perishable foods like rice and beans (complete protein together) at a minimum. There's just no excuse not to now if you make a tech salary - a couple hundred dollars and you have an emergency stash which is good for years.

This isn't just about personal protection - the whole community and nation can expect better outcomes of we stagger preparations, lessening the chance and impact of everyone running to the store at the same time. There is no question now that this is an unprecedented event, now is the time to prepare to mitigate risk.
All animals panic even in minor danger.
Considering the amount of time to develop and produce a vaccine for widespread distribution, I don't expect anything in place until next flu season if not the year after.
No, you just create a new card component and adjust the tailwind classes on it.

Or, if it is a minor change, then conditionally include / exclude a small subset of tailwind classes.

The point is to not write your own CSS, you only use tailwind classes. In this way you can look at the template for each of your components and reason about / edit their style and layout easily.
I thought Lightsail were using your default VPC?
Asking athletes to perform in dramatically different conditions than they train for (which will be the case for at least for outdoor events) is practically asking them to drop out.
Without the loan up front, most businesses never get off the ground to begin with. You're calling lenders "rent-seekers" like they don't provide a valuable, essential service that underpins the whole economy. If I want to start a business, I can either 1) raise capital in exchange for equity, 2) borrow money at a set interest rate or 3) save money for years until I personally have enough to start a company.

For many types of businesses, option 1 isn't a tenable option. Outside of the tech industry, the margins are lower and there is not a large network of VC angels for things like restaurants, farms, retail stores, home services, etc.

The classic example would be farming equipment. Sure, you could save for 10 years to buy an International Harvester Combine. Or you could borrow money to buy the Combine today, your efficiency goes up 10x and you pay off the loan with the higher profits you reap. Then, if you want to expand your farm, you might likewise save for 10 years to buy another plot of land...or you could borrow money today and buy that land and use leverage to grow quicker. The loan created wealth by enabling the farmer to become more productive.
Desktop app to keep track of time spent on different jobs
Startups bet that lonely freelancers crave company
I didn't understand. You mean it's unique to work over http(s)?
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Facial recognition critics are 'ill-informed' says the Met police chief
Where did the CDC recommend a months worth of food and water for COVID-19 specifically?
At the same time, rent-seekers will be investing in property. If there's a run of successful businesses in an area they will gain by increasing rents and speculating on property prices.

And if they are speculating and the market goes south, they will lose their investment.

It’s not like there isn’t risk involved.
Maybe that was true in the past, but CD Projekt Red made $28 million profit compared to GOG's $8000 in 2018. The company as a whole is not exactly in financial peril even if GOG is barely breaking even.

https://www.tweaktown.com/news/65367/gog-com-barely-making-p...
At the end of the game, yes, but if players don't try to bankrupt each other it probably won't happen.

Early in the game the expected value of a trip around the board is positive because of low rents of undeveloped properties and the net gain from Chance and Community Chest, plus passing Go. Cash flow into the game is positive as a whole.

Later in the game, when property is developed you're going to be paying bigger rents. This is going to cause players to mortgage or sell houses to pay the big rents (also their own liquid cash supply is likely lower from developing their own properties), each of which is a money sink since you don't get full value for these. This causes money to exit the game, eventually leading toward bankruptcy.

However, this requires that players actually get to develop their properties. If the game hits a lock due to no one trading and no one getting a natural monopoly, the game can go pretty much indefinitely.
‘No way out’: Demographics drive GOP nosedive on West Coast
I'm assuming the owner of the units wasn't around for it at the time so there wasn't the backlash while saving the whole rest of a community from the fire spreading.

Don't ever discredit a certain percentage of humans urge to destroy and break things, especially in a drunken rage. We spend a great deal of effort keeping people well socialized, despite plenty of pent up anger.

That's why we have professionally trained police and firemen now. Things are always improving for the better.
Service-Oriented Architecture Tradeoffs
What's "utility-CSS"? Not having luck googling for it, not familiar with this stuff.
> I’m personally okay with secret police

What? Why are you ok with secret police? Where has this idea ever worked?

> I find it interesting that the hn world is largely unified in beliefs about the trade-offs of exceptional access that aren’t necessarily true.

Which trade-offs are you suggesting aren't true? The base claim is that back door access makes security weaker. Do you disagree?
Fair enough; this was nearly 25 years ago on a laptop with 4 megs of ram, and no internet connection, though, so firing up emacs (I used 'jed') was kind of a PITA and I'm not sure I even had the info pages.

In those days, it would have been sufficient to have

tar czvf something.tar.gz some_directory/
tar xzvf some.tar.gz

In the man page.
The biggest thing that I see as missing right off the bat is the popup. That lets you execute anything very fast. Having to use the Command Palette to run commands really breaks that flow.
It's a paint-mixing problem: every success story is some blend of skill, merit, grit, pre-existing resources, and dumb luck; and post-hoc, it's non-trivial to tease out the exact causes and proportions in a success story.

From the point of an individual actor, I agree: it's always correct to maximize your agency, knowing full-well that there are factors outside your control that might unfairly sink you (or, unfairly cause someone to out-compete you despite shortcomings).

That in no way contradicts the idea that there may be ecosystemic benefits to providing resources to maximize the odds of success. To use a trivial example: if I'm a hardware vendor hosting an app store, the success of each app will be a blend of skill and luck. But if I provide tools like ratings, analytics, and discoverability, I can potentially increase the odds that meritocratic apps succeed. (Take it as read that poor interventions could also make this go the other direction.)

One curious quirk is that in the space of game design, this luck/skill dichotomy is flipped on its head, and turned into an explicit goal: that a satisfying game should permit the winner to believe they won on skill, while the loser believes they lost on luck. There's a great talk from MtG creator Richard Garfield on the subject [0]; I'll leave you to draw your own conclusions what inferences we should draw from this in the "game" of market competition. :)

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=av5Hf7uOu-o
It's almost like people think their personal data is zero-sum - if we give it to the government then companies won't have it! Just like if you download a car, someone else loses that car.

Makes me think of the Israeli voter rolls hack[1].

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/11/tech/israel-voters-data-expos...
Side note, what about carpets? Admittedly I haven't read the article fully yet, but does my apartment's carpet also contain flame-retardants?
I don't think the SEC would buy that excuse. Even on thinly traded stocks there's going to be volume from non /r/wsb participants.
Even happening with a second Chrome profile, so it might be more heuristic-based than the previous tricks[0].

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20670596
(Re-posting this to bypass the censor-downvoting that is going on. Factual information needs to be emphasized, and the same few accounts are downvoting everything that doesn’t promote panic.)

The virus is like the flu unless you’re old or sick.

More specifically:

0) In the case of the parent, I was saying that the virus spreads and infects people in the same manner as other upper respiratory viruses. It does, this is a fact, and fatality rates are not relevant.

1) I’ve never said that I have no concern about old or sick people. I said that young healthy people should not panic.

2) It would indeed be concerning if hospitals are overwhelmed. Currently, they are not (anywhere) and therefore, again, people should not panic.

3) Comparing tiny ratios with large error bars and freaking out over a “20x” difference in relative risk is pointless; the risk is still quite low.
It also overlooks the far more relevant fact that you’re thousands of times more likely to get the flu than covid-19. At this point, you should not panic.

Get the idea? The relative risk to most people is lower than...well, most things in life. That’s why my argument is, and continues to be, that most people, in most places, should not panic.
It's the specific combination of HTML and CSS. That's what you're paying for and that's what is licensed.
To me, this reads like an argument for a serverless architecture and not a discussion about VPCs themselves. But that's not always on the table. Even if a serverless architecture is better for some use case, if you have a traditional application that already works, it's inconceivable that setting up and monitoring the VPC is more effort than a massive rewrite to go serverless.
Not only can I not find a source corroborating your statement by John Nicholls beyond this forwarded email of a transcript of a call that allegedly happened weeks ago, but what you stated ("This virus will burn itself out in May when temperatures rise.") is not even an alleged quote from him. It's a summary by the person who typed this up. The closest thing Nicholls (allegedly) said is this:

In regards to temperature, the virus can remain intact at 4 degrees or 10 degrees for a longer period of time. But at 30 degrees then you get inactivation. And High humidity the virus doesn’t like it either. That’s why I think Sars stopped around May and June in 2003 – that’s when there’s more sunlight and more humidity. The environment is a crucial factor. The environment will be unfavourable for growth around May. The evidence is to look at the common cold – it’s always during winter. So the natural environment will not be favourable in Asia in about May.

Totally different from "it will burn itself out by May", which multiple experts across multiple fields increasingly consider uncertain at best.
“There are hundreds of millions of people who agree with him. Get over it.”

Somebody talking about Germany in 1932
There is a bit of a puzzle because many large corporations do pretty well with hierarchical planning and competition involves lots of duplicate effort. The markets also seem to encourage centralization for economy of scale? (Consider big tech, the airline industry, and index funds.)
Just call it LVT, as the land value tax is the policy focus of the ideology. It would fit in next to other acronyms in vogue like UBI, MMT, FJG, etc.
Each of these systems is degrees of the other as well, and that seems proper for the exact reasons you mentioned - not including desired externalities in pricing/market dynamics.

There are a few things that I believe only work in a moral way when they are taken out of the hands of capitalist pursuit-of-profit dynamic:

* Healthcare: What does the demand curve look like when your alternative is death or a painful, limited life?

* Pollution/Environmental damage control: Without regulation the chemical company owner has zero incentive not to dump their leftovers in the creek.

* Access to quality education: Equality of opportunity

* Access to housing: Simply a question of morality. In the US at least, we have so much goddamn money and so much goddamn land and the ability to build giant buildings on that land. No one should be homeless.
I think question was about ie6 era, which is like 2001.
To clarify, if you send a property to auction you can still bid on it. You can even use this technique to over extend a competitor.
A physical goods company pays a significant cost for every item sold, so each return always turns into a loss. While I don't exactly know the arrangements GOG, I suspect that they have insignificant costs for creating copies of many of their games (certainly the ones they made), so a refund eats only bandwidth costs.

Additional publicity will cover those bandwidth costs as long as there are some customers who buy and don't return.
Time in Ethiopia
I'm obsessed with China and to watch a modern society go from 100 to near zero, is incredible. That concerns me especially living in San Francisco where it seems society is already fragile to say the least.

- I stopped taking public transportation on January 20th; so I'm biking to work now. I'm much more healthy because of this decision

- invested in Gold, Gold stocks and puts expiring March 20th betting against the market (Though I did most of this 2 years ago because of the trade war, and the puts were purchased in December)

- I've got some extra food and water, and lots of purell

- I've called my grandparents and told them, the virus is very dangerous effecting older people [1]. I told them to stock up on food medicine, and if they hear word of it spreading to stay indoors.

[1] https://www.marketwatch.com/story/coronavirus-fatality-rates...
Yes but someone out there is generating these original opinions that then get picked up by others.
Murdering reality: the spurious spies of fiction
AMD Ryzen 4000 APU Flexes 4.4 GHz Boost in Laptop Listing Ahead of Release
Just use view templates to capture this if you need to reuse.
WTF? I cannot cancel my NYTimes subscription online?
I signed up online and they gladly accepted my credit card, but when I try to cancel my subscription, I am left with 3 choices:

Call us
Text us
Chat with customer care (which is btw busy at all times)

What kind of BS is that ?
> A President (and the priorities of his administration) can make bad programs much worse.

Ok? So that should counteract the behavior.

> 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.

There is an element of "outrage" culture that means to ascribe new fault, in the established pursuit of a "federally safe" cryptography, to the administration as a proxy for other wrongs. This is not relevant to the issue of original fault.
Aerial Visual Search of the Continental USA in 0.1 Seconds
While Obama might have been nice to some states in some contexts that passed some laws he was as if not more aggressive on weed than the previous administration.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/obamas-w...

https://swampland.time.com/2012/05/03/what-is-president-obam...

This was a big deal back during his term which I feel like people are already forgetting.
Even if they sell 15,000 licenses in a year, that’s over a million dollars each. Not everything needs to be recurring revenue, they can make a truckload of money In a very short time span.
Please don't pollute HN by just reposting your comments because you don't like that people are downvoting you. Make a better argument.
I think about Fireworks all the time. RIP.

It was what I was most scared about dying when Adobe bought Macromedia... and I was right.

Now only if I could get a "Fireworks" clone in JavaScript, ha.
> I'll be the king of the neighborhood if I'm the last one with real TP!

Consider getting a portable bidet as an alternative. All you need is water.
The commands in the pallete can be triggered by a single key-press (indicated to the left of the item).
This makes it only visually different from Magit.

Its not perfect, but close your eyes and its the same sequence of keys to triger an action.
Six-year-old girl arrested at Florida school
You're right that both of these forms are needed.

There is, however, yet another category of documentation that is increasingly common and often becoming necessary in order to cope.

I don't know if it has a formal name, but let's call it "context-sensitive" documentation. Some examples that come to mind are when you have auto-completion, "light=bulbs" or intellisense in IDE's, or -? options in the commandline.

In situations where you are just trying to get stuff done, and you forget something trivial-- it's usually not some extremely complex edge-case, it's usually something mundane that you forgot because you don't often do that particular task everyday. In such scenarios, it's infuriating to have to skim through detailed man pages that cover every damn exotic use-case of the the command in alphabetical order, nor is it pleasant to pick up a user guide that starts from the most fundamental basics.

There's room for documentation that sort-of reads you rather than the other way around. This kind of stuff has sometimes gotten a bad rap, since the days of "clippy" but it's getting better. In the IDE world, there was Resharper, and now even the Rosyln for dotnet has this stuff increasingly built in.
Off topic: are $1M/$2M seed rounds realistic during YC demo day?

Even with some traction/users/conversion/revenue, and a grand long-term vision, a suggested 15%-25% dilution [1] gives $4-10M valuation. Outside SV, this is already Series A valuation. Any thoughts ?

[1] https://blog.ycombinator.com/how-to-raise-a-seed-round/
Computational Storage Winds Its Way Towards the Mainstream
Jens Nygaard Knudsen, designer of Lego minifigure, dies at 78
Masks don't help because of low quality and people lack proper training... you shouldn't touch the mask, you shouldn't reuse it, you should properly dispose it, etc.

A saner advice is to wash your hands frequently and to avoid touching your face when in public. Because you can get this virus by touching infected surfaces and then touching your face. It doesn't seem to be an airborn virus, but it does survive on surfaces.

I cary a hand sanitizer for those moments in public when I feel the need to scratch my face :-)
The Silent Meeting Manifesto: Making meeting suck a little less
OpenStreetMaps in Watercolor
Disney really does own everything, huh?

"Be afraid of the mouse"
That TW3 is profitable is good, but the store itself shouldn't be struggling, unless something is wrong.
Why would the water be tainted?
Everything technological is impractical to use for average people until people like us go out and build a practical solution.

OTP is not a very complicated scheme. All you need is a good source of entropy, a place to store a big fat array of it all, some XOR operations, and a safe way to hand the codebook to your trusted parties (e.g. phone-to-phone transfer options).
Rust and light a possible answer to the conundrum of hydrogen fuel production
Cloudant on IBM Cloud is CouchDB API/replication compatible and offers support for Apache CouchDB (1). Also, OpenWhisk integrates nicely with CouchDB/Cloudant and can even be a backing persistence for it (2)

(1) https://www.ibm.com/cloud/blog/announcements/announcing-supp...
(2)https://github.com/apache/openwhisk/blob/master/tools/db/REA...
Wsb is in the honey moon stage of a subreddit where you find a ton of amazing humor and and an occasional deeply insightful comment.