skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a passcode that is really tough to replicate- behaviour - aka habbits. Every day, you travell down the same road, meet the same people (okay as your cellphone the same cellphones, wifi-stations). This habbit is like a fingerprint, as in, there are very few people who have the exact same browsing behaviour.
If you could extract a fingerprint from that information, you have a sort of biometric identifier that is at least hard to come bye.

Problem- every holiday your phone thinks youre a phonethief
Jonathan Blow on Software Quality at the CSUA GM2
To Be Creative, Let the Absurdity In
Just use Powershell, it will work as expected.
Hi Dave, firstly thanks for all the hard work on Openfire over the years, very much appreciated.

Secondly regarding XEP-0136 support in OF. I did state that Openfire has only recently had 'XEP-0136 implemented across the board'.

Whilst the Open Archive plugin which provided support is a fine piece of work it was an incomplete implementation with only 1-to-1 chats (no group chat support).

I worked on merging the monitoring and open archive plugins to provide support for both MUC and 1-to-1 using XEP-0136. That work was only fully finished a couple years ago in 2013 so think my comment's still accurate.
Performance Widget – FT Labs
No, but I realize the demo doesn't make it very clear. It inspects the structure of the code up to the cursor position, based on the syntax tree, along with nearby variable and function names, and matches to similar constructs from SO. It could be greatly improved, but I haven't had a lot of time lately.
Burner phones and mysterious encryption: how is Isis communicating now?
> ask yourself why you're using SMB/CIFS in 2016

Because the annoying WD NAS you have is incapable of doing NFS reliably.
you have a point about not all regulations are bad. But this one seems like airbnb bad, not mortgage2008 bad.

s/curry/anyfood

Asking your neighbour is not the same thing as letting cooks broadcast what they are cooking and if they are willing to sell plates.
There are many different sugars. They all vary in how sweet we perceive them and how they affect blood-glucose (and how fast).
We've been waiting for this confirmation for a long time! Excellent timing with GC Next happening in San Francisco from tomorrow ;-)
Probably a response to this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11334597
So since this is a "dictionary" based algorithm, what about specializing the dictionary per content (content/type=javascript would have a different dictionary than html for instance).
Also to embed Brotli for my custom application format, what should I expect by specializing the dictionary for my use case?
> Many GNU, Linux and other utils are pretty awesome, and obviously some effort has been spent in the past to port them to Windows. However, those projects are either old, abandoned, hosted on CVS, written in platform-specific C, etc.

I have seen such a paragraph in another projects README, IIRC a Go rewrite of standard utilities. I do not understand why a project would be obsolete because it's on CVS or is old. CVS is simpler than Git, albeit less capable. I, for one prefer it over Git for this reason, and others may do so too. Why would the end user care?

And why would we care about the age of a programme if it works?

Now, that said, the authors need not justify anything, they are free to do whatever they want, and I guess it's fun to code this stuff. I tried this just to play with Golang when it was 1.1.

And lastly, that Makefile is really a bunch of shell scripts, and some common environment variables. There is no real dependency tracking in it, and it is easier to maintain a bunch of shell scripts than a seriously ugly and complex Makefile like this. N.b. that when I say dependency tracking I mean dependencies among input and output files of processing commands, not tasks. I guess Cargo would know how to do that, and how to not build if the build artefact is already there. It's a useless use of make. And that makefile is very GNU-specific, not complying with a project whose purpose is to be cross-platform. Also, I guess, tho I'm really unfamiliar with Rust and Cargo, if that makefile was removed, maybe on Windows they'd be able to drop development dependencies on Cygwin or Msys.
Also not a lawyer.

But who would do that, when it's unlikely to help them?

The evidence against them would likely stand, either a matter of inevitable discovery (Evidence gets tossed when it is "fruit of the poisonous tree", but if you can show that you'd have gotten that same evidence a different way, the evidence remains. Just like here: Had Apple folded, given the evidence, and then it was ruled inadmissible due to the methods, the FBI could just argue other hack options were available) or as a matter of "good faith" (where, if the cops didn't know what they were doing was illegal, they get to keep the evidence they obtained under "good faith"). My understanding is that good faith allowances have grown quite large in recent year, to the point of absurdity.

So our suspect, in this case, will only challenge the evidence if the chance of it helping THEM is high enough. They aren't going to do so for the good of society.

I don't like relying on the good will or desperation of suspects that have evidence against them to mold our legal rights.
Designing simpler React components
Do you suggest they should use raw system calls? On most systems your options are either calling standard C functions or doing raw calls (not portable).

Someone did start a C stdlib implementation in Rust, but it appears to be inactive: https://github.com/mahkoh/rlibc
> I'd like to be able to set up a "duress fingerprint"

I personally just don't use the tip of my thumb, so unless you knew that I would just try it 5 times and lock out touch id.
It's more simple from the point of view of the processor, I suppose, but that's not a useful metric for me.
I'll have to look at textadept. I'm a little weary of VSCode.
> Anyhow, sorry to derail the black bar discussion.

IMNHO Not at all! Just like I love the fact that someone that didn't realize the meaning of the bar, simply asked (and so helped others figured it out), I love your input on accessibility. I'm sure I'm not the only one that hadn't considered the accessibility implications of such "semantic" style/design choices. FWIW, I think it's a bit crazy to use a table with a 1px image and background colour (if I'm reading the source right?), when a "border-top: thick solid black" would do the trick. But then again, HN does stick to a strict 90s table-layout. That still leaves out the question of where/how to communicate the change to those that are vision impaired.

I wish development of the HN code was a bit more open - as far as I know, the current code, has evolved[1] a bit from what's currently readily accessible as FOSS[0] -- but doing something with the layout to help accessibility while still staying true to the spirit of HN really shouldn't be that hard. And I'm sure the result would be greatly helped by some of HN readers that are able to do the change themselves, for themselves.

As for general accessibility, I think everyone would want vote-buttons that work (I'm using vimperator, so on Desktop, it doesn't really matter if the arrows are invisible on a big monitor - I just know that the "first" link-hint is "up", and the second is "down", indications of which way one voted (and a grace period to change/cancel), and a way to hide threads.

The latter is especially useful if the first comment on a story is a controversial tangent.

As for the black bar: Having those that change the bar submit a story at the same time (eg: the "Andy Glover has died"-story that was on the front page earlier), and have the bar link to the HN submission might not be a bad idea. We sadly live in a time where it might not be obvious, even in a relatively small community, for who or what the black bar express sympathy.

[0] "Anarki: a publicly modifiable 'wiki-like' fork of Arc Lisp (http://www.paulgraham.com/arc.html)"
https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki

[1] "Ask HN: Is the Hacker News Team Actively Developing Arc?"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11240350
Twitter is suited more for a ZeroNet-type platform.
That's what I wanted to hear, could really the mentioned in Rust implemented coreutils be compiled and linked equivalently to C or not and can we see the resulting sizes? Not "if I don't use any library I can get the 151 byte binary" but exactly these coreutils that are presented.

It gives a good idea if the replacements can actually be comparable replacements.

The second part is then to compare the number of features implemented and the behavior.
Use Drupal 8 Cache Tags with Varnish and Purge
Who's annoyed?
This is one wall of text that is absolutely worth reading.
Corrected:
ISIS official media wing has claimed responsibility for the attack
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/brussels-attacks-isis-claims-res...
"Bad Lock" - maybe there's a clue
And they didn't go wild over the next one because as far as anyone not involved in the technical end, nothing happened. It looked like everyone cried wolf.

Generating hype by marketing issues doesn't work.
Uber Launches Bug Bounty
Rust is a general programming language, no need to constraint oneself to a single domain.
Firstly I was talking about API support. Since that is the topic at hand.

Secondly, Cmd is deprecated. Powershell supports both slashes and "type c:/home/foo.txt" works perfectly.
I have plenty of working alternatives to CIFS; listing them isn't my point with the original post. Since Samba is explicitly a CIFS implementation, originally named after SMB, I think it's pretty obvious that "even Samba" would use CIFS.

The point is this is not the first time there have been protocol-level SNAFUs with this specific approach. Nowadays maturity, vendor support, and Windows clients are all available from lots of places (I don't know what "staff knowledge" means other than "we're used to this tool").

It's always worthwhile to spend time evaluating your infrastructure and investigating if there might be other solutions that have arisen. It's not a Windows-only world any more, even at the enterprise level, and active directory is no longer the unassailable fortress of big ops that it once was.

It's just a reminder to keep an open mind, that's all.
Ah, understood.

I think neither of these beats actual coreutils and their support base (still under impression of Termux capabilities...), at least not yet.
Steve Jobs - hipster IP thief whole stole every last idea from Xerox PARC shamelessly. Real talent was Woz. Jobs was an aggressive, rude, lucky marketing machine whose success could not be recreated even if he was reincarnated. Apple has huge amounts of money and employees, but a year of work from IP4S to IP5 produced an extra row of Icons and a $650 dollar IP5 that still caters to carrier lockins. Little brat Apple trying to sue Samsung while Android has captured over 50% market share.

Without Steve Jobs we would have: No overpriced poorly supported iProducts, No hyper expensive laptops, anti-standard non-USB connectors, ruthlessly jailed operating systems.

Without Andy Grove : No x86 - the ultimate revolution in tech the world has ever seen, inexpensive, effective and universal.

When Jobs died it was like a third world funeral for a Dictator. Andy dies, nothing from the media.
You don't need a C standard library to run programs on Linux (nor any other system).

My guess is that the Rust team consider that relying on a well tested C codebase is safer than writing tons of unsafe platform-specific code, to replace the functionality offered by libc.

Anyway, I think the Redo project do have a Rust standard library that calls directly the OS and doesn’t need a C library, since they are writing a 100% Rust based stack.
Steve Jobs - hipster IP thief whole stole every last idea from Xerox PARC shamelessly. Real talent was Woz. Jobs was an aggressive, rude, lucky marketing machine whose success could not be recreated even if he was reincarnated. Apple has huge amounts of money and employees, but a year of work from IP4S to IP5 produced an extra row of Icons and a $650 dollar IP5 that still caters to carrier lockins. Little brat Apple trying to sue Samsung while Android has captured over 50% market share.

Without Steve Jobs we would have: No overpriced poorly supported iProducts, No hyper expensive laptops, anti-standard non-USB connectors, ruthlessly jailed operating systems.

Without Andy Grove : No x86 - the ultimate revolution in tech the world has ever seen, inexpensive, effective and universal.

When Jobs died it was like a third world funeral for a Dictator. Andy dies, nothing from the media. ..
SolidOak is a thing.
Active Directory
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Directory
If you have npm already.. I guess?

I personally haven't had a windows machine without git in years. Distribution for windows includes somewhat proper shell with unix utils. I can use the same .bashrc I have on my linux machines, write commit messages using vim, have colors in the terminal, etc...
Prof. Regehr did not find problems with SQLite. He found constructs in the SQLite source code which under a strict reading of the C standards have “undefined behaviour”, which means that the compiler can generate whatever machine code it wants without it being called a compiler bug. That’s an important finding. But as it happens, no modern compilers that we know of actually interpret any of the SQLite source code in an unexpected or harmful way.

At some point some popular compiler is going to make a subtle but important change to some undefined behavior that's not going to be immediately obvious as to it's repercussions, and the fallout will be massive. It boggles my mind the mental contortions people will go though to justify what is essentially an argument of "it hasn't caused a problem yet" while ignoring that it's caused many problems already, just not that they've noticed or that have affected them.
What is the Major Event?
Who is responsible for explosions at a bruxelles airport and train station?
Hong Kong's Transportation AI Revolution
Maybe should add that as a feature to a reshare IDE - if it identifys functional identical code to library functions- it offers a refactoring.
This is very very weak grounds for any sort of lawsuit.

But if having glanced at GPL source code prevents implementing similar functionalities in an entirely different language, that's a pretty darn strong argument for me to never look at GPL code again.
If there were functioning micro-payments system on the net I suspect this would have turned out a lot different. Customers would be less angry paying $1/month for the service (230M users, ~700M in costs per quarter ~= $1/user/month). They might even be able to cut that by 75% or more if they just stuck to their core competency, which is communications, not advertising.
How would you call it?
The Medical Marijuana Mess
Hacking Brain Possible with DARPA’ New Targeted Neuroplasticity Training Program
Oh, but I mean in Rust generally. Ideally any language that is not C would not depend on libc.
JavaScript is the most commonly used programming language
This is pretty common, and the advantages of Rust won't overcome people being inherently lazy (not in a bad way... lazy in this sense is really more efficient).

People love C# for that very reason, once they get used to Visual Studio, convincing them to switch to something with very limited IDE support is a tough argument. Most people have better things to do with their life. Rust will get there though, just give them time.
I just gave a presentation at a local show, here is what helped me:

1) Finish the presentation long before your talk

2) Practice the presentation out loud and make final tweaks to the slides

3) Want to add something "funny"? Yep, plan it out

4) Once locked down, practice the presentation once a day (7 times?)

5) On the day of the presentation, don't review the slides

6) Show up early and stand on the stage and watch people enter

7) You are ready. Start on time.
Hackers Modify Water Treatment Parameters by Accident
And why is that an unnecessary additive? Is it actually harmful?

A quick google seems to indicate that is just the same inciteful(note: not insightful) nonsense to get page views.

Not to mention the fact that she is targeting a drink where the primary ingredient(s) are actually bad for you in the quantities they are served in unless you are already following a fairly well-balanced diet.

It is insane to single out minutiae that are orders of magnitude less impactful than the huge sugar bomb that is the core of the food/beverage.
So is JS.

But like I said, both implementations suck compared to actual coreutils.
The PHP Community votes to deprecate support for abandoned crypto library
Show HN: Hug 2
Yes, the right thing is to port your language's standard library to whatever operating system you want to run on ... just like libc did.

You could have a dummy version that just calls out to libc, for compatibility with systems that you haven't finished porting to yet.
Uber accuses Ola of making false bookings on its platform, drags it to court
Google Photos gets smarter, automatically creates albums with your best photos
What's suspicious? Sharing the same two system calls in the same order, for a trivial function that really can be implemented the same way?
Can we get "(2015)" on the title?
I also think that Anaconda is great. However, I hope that in the future we could install numpy, matplotlib, jupyter, etc. just using pip.
You can also just buy the powder by itself, King Arthur Flour sells a white cheddar that's pretty good.
Data Visualizations of Hacker News Salary Data
It's all about target marketing. I remember some tweets I would make hundreds of dollars and on most of my tweets I was getting $5-$10 epc. The beauty of Twitter is the power of the warm leads in its search. If they can effectively monetize that, there could be light at the end of the tunnel!
> It's not a Windows-only world any more, even at the enterprise level, and active directory is no longer the unassailable fortress of big ops that it once was.

Then name the alternative.

Or tell us how to run AD without CIFS. If you cannot do either then your point about "evaluating your infrastructure" is a waste of time. You can evaluate it until you're blue in the face, but if there are no alternatives then there are no alternatives.

Heck just name a real alternative to GPO? A lot of people seem to think you can just slot in a Mac or Linux machine without any real grasp of how enterprise looks today. IBM are no doubt working on Linux deployment, but we're still likely years away, and Apple has focused more on iPads than Macs in the enterprise.

You don't want people using CIFS, but in 2016 that just isn't possible. It is mandatory for any AD environment and AD is more or less the only large scale enterprise solution. Therefore unless Microsoft redesign AD to use something other than CIFS, it isn't going away.
Not a bad thing IMO. It brings more attention to security issues which is good for public awareness.

Also makes it easier for IT to pitch the downtime to execs if it's something the execs have heard of or can visit a website for with a simple description of the threat.
I imagine a lot of it is segregating your content. All strings in one file, etc.

It'd be an interesting test to take our eight-language set of localization strings and compress them in UI order and language order and see if there's much of a difference. (UI order is all languages for one dialog element, then all eight for the next, etc. Language order is all the English first, then ...)

I'd definitely like to hear Kevingadd's tips though.
ReSwift 1.0.0: Unidirectional Data Flow in Swift
Depends, parts of the code are based on MS Roslyn, parts on Phalanger. It's been a few years in the making, let's put it that way.
I think advertising is the wrong model for Twitter.

Every ad I see makes Twitter maybe 5 cents? I'm guessing they earn $40 / year on me (I'm not a heavy uesr). I wish I could just pay them $40 and not have any ads inserted into my stream for the rest of the year.
> Well, the USG considers Linux users to be extremists also.

That's interesting, since the National Laboratories employ tens of thousands of people who not only use Linux, but use Linux at work. Perhaps you should let the FBI know about this so they can revoke their security clearances?

> My response to these types of comments is precisely - when it is demonstrated that people make laws rather than governments in collusion with corporations - then I will pay attention.

This sounds like an excuse to selectively not follow any laws you don't like. The core law surrounding warrants in the US, which is sufficient for a lot of cases (no All Writs Act or FISA needed), are in the Constitution and some very early bills. Were these also made by collusions between the government and the corporations?
Dire climate study suggests quicker, more catastrophic impact of warming
New Identity for the Sydney Opera House
And the comments went red neck there
I wish I could automatically block any account that has SF in its bio
One of many problems.
Twitter is suffering from "nostalgia" syndrome.

They keep talking about how they were the first at such and such thing. About how they invented this and that thing.

This is the reason why Steve Jobs had the Apple museum removed from 1 Infinite Loop.

They need to start looking at how competition is eating their lunch, instead of living in the past.
Having multiple allergies that can kill me, I always read the ingredients, and even check online.

For example, ice-cream manufacturers make ice-cream with peanuts in it on the same line as everything else. However, because they clean it between runs it's supposedly fine, and wont list it... It's all good until I have a reaction and have no idea why.

If you have allergies it's a great reason to learn to cook your own food. As said, you should also always carry and EpiPen and other drugs.
I've contributed to this project, and yeah, this was a major concern for me while I was doing it. If it shared a license with GNU coreutils, then code sharing would be free and the project would be built much faster because I could just use coreutils's algorithms. As it is, I haven't done any real, hard work for it because frankly, I won't want to re-invent that wheel.

The project isn't terribly far along. I wonder if just starting a GPLed fork and building on that instead wouldn't be a better idea.
Looks interesting, but way, way too fussy. I really don't understand why people make macaroni and cheese recipes so complicated, with the cream sauces and baking it and all that. It's incredibly easy and delicious if you just boil the pasta, strain it, throw it back in the pot, then chuck in butter, a little bit of milk, and cheese, and simmer until the cheese melts. Literally the Kraft dinner directions, just with real ingredients.
isn't that the flipbook logo?
There are many types of intelligence, few of which are measured by these tests. If you read the article, it's clear many of these people have quite a lot to learn from others, especially in regard to socialization.

I've known plenty of people who would perform poorly on most intelligence tests, but who otherwise demonstrate significant intelligence in other areas such as music, visual arts, social interaction, humor, logistics, etc. Even athletic ability/body control could be considered an area of human intelligence.
Domo raises $131m at $2B; surprises with “master plan”
I could see preferring svn to git because of the simpler model, but cvs? No thanks, a vcs without atomic commits is not much better than snapshot archives, maybe worse actually.
Anti-aliasing in modern design tools
He certainly has a point, but I think he goes too far in assurances about the current sqlite3.so.

Testing "every single instruction" does not guarantee that all C-level UB has been eliminated, because some bugs can be input-dependent. For example, even if your coverage tells you that this function has been tested, it could still trigger undefined behavior for other inputs that trigger overflow:

int f(int x) { return x * 2; }