skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Shared Web Credentials and App Links are set in the same file: you have an .entitlements where you set on what domains you want to have applinks, webcredentials. Then the iOS downloads from those domains a signed json file where you specify what apps can do applinks or webcredentials and you can limit those actions on some paths. What booking.com did is populated the paths section will 2.4M of urls instead of using wildcards (like "hotels/*"). The effect on the iOS is the Shared Web Credentials Daemon (the file is swcd) has a bug and with high amount of data it corrupts it's own database and fails. When opening absolute urls (schema://, ex: http://) the iOS wants to pull some data from swcd which isn't running because of the corrupt database so it freezes the app opening the absolute url. From my point of view Apple is the only to be blamed (of course booking.com has been sloppy). They shipped a buggy core component (swcd) and they failed on the booking.com app approval process to detect this behavior.
You're absolutely right. I will not try to compare what I did to pinboard. I still have the channel running on a DigitalOcean box and even though the service is simple and stable, I still have to fiddle with it once in a while. I only keep it running because it's valuable... to me.
In this case, it would be the Sherpas deciding that they didn't want to continue. Do you see any insurance companies paying out such a policy when it was their own choice?
for the HTML parsing - I was able to pass all the test cases using a stack (push the tags when they open and pop them as they close). I was doing zero validation as the challenge was to take valid html. (I didn't verify that the proper tag was being closed, I knew I'd get out of bound errors due to this, but it should work for valid html)

I was using a string builder to eat the input as I had parsed it... but I got an error on submitting my result - it gave "unexpected termination" even when I had replicated the "unexpected termination" error with a custom test case and caught the error - I still got an unexpected termination error when submitting - sigh - maybe it's related to using C# for the challenge... overall not so hard though...
> handing the boxes off to another set of androids

Uhm, if they don't resemble humans, then they aren't androids. (Or gynoids.) I wonder how much "android" phones are to blame for the erosion of terminology...
Rancher reach v1.0.0
Housing isn't that expensive outside of Vancouver. You can buy a one bedroom condo a 2 min walk from the CN Tower for $230k to $260k USD / 300k to $350k CAD, and salaries here are lower than SF or NYC, but not by that much. Vancouver, yes, pays very poorly and has unreasonable housing prices, but that is far from all of Canada.
Corporate Website Design and Development
Some people think depression is also linked to inflammation.

e.g. http://www.nature.com/nri/journal/v16/n1/full/nri.2015.5.htm...
The tool you linked to actually requires an SEM.

Also, you cannot "desolder" the secure enclave and hook it up to a "mirroring" device. That attack requires the NAND to be encapsulated in a desolder-able memory chip that supports reading out state. Not the case with a secure enclave.
Dialogue at the center of design: an introduction to the Conversational UI
I have tried to use it in my projects, but it's so slow that I couldn't go on. The last thing I want is feeling as if I am in a slow motion movie. Maybe I need a very speedy processor.
I hope that is is a past problem but it still simmers away in the background in some parts of the world.
I feel like the burden of proof is definitely on the people suggesting that this was inevitable.

The west, lead by the US, has been destabalizing the middle east since the 1940's in order to pillage their natural resources and it continues to this day. This is their clear motive, stated in writing.

Here [1] is an FOIA'd email to Hillary's private server from a French aide where they are found casually talking about overthrowing Gadaffi in order to look after their interests in global oil markets, regional monetary dominance, and to make their military look good for the sake of internal political posturing. This email changed the way I saw the world so much.

I used to hear people say this sort of thing and think, "Well, it's the internet. Lots of crazy people out there. I guess what they're saying is plausable, but I don't believe that our government is making such a conscious, concerted effort." But it's hard to look at an email like that, served from a .gov domain, and think that the cheap oil we get from destabalizing this region is just a pleasant side-effect of pursuing an honest humanitarian goal.

And this isn't something new. It started with the Red Line Agreement in the 20's, where we entitled ourself to middle eastern oil. This became another agreement and into another, but the point is that we wanted their oil, and their political climate was in turmoil. All it takes is one nationalist movement to shut down a pipeline and our economy goes to hell.

Turns out there's a very simple solution: throw muscle at it. Don't risk someone unfriendly getting into power by reducing power all-together through destabalization and make sure that those who are in charge are effectively puppets.

[1]: They actually retroactively took this email off foia.state.gov, so a cached version will have to do... : http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/...
I wouldn’t say that it was that unusual.
There's some research happening recently arpund the use of ketamine as a short term measure to stop suicidal thinking or to get people out of deep treatment resistant depression.

So there's some possibility.
I just got this image of a classic Star Wars scene:

"These aren't the 'droids you're looking for. Seriously. Hell, the stubby one isn't even a 'droid. Look it up."
> Money will find its way. People will find their information and entertainment. New channels will form. Capitalism works quite well for this.

Depends on what you call 'working well': we currently witness the direct consequences of the commoditization of what could arguably be considered as a public service--namely, access to trustworthy information for all--, but somehow some still have faith in that model.

You are perfectly right that money will find its way, but the question is: whose money, and for what goal? Big corporation or mogul's money, who want to buy mindshare in public opinion and trade it for influence in the political sphere, like, say, the good media networks of M.Berlusconi, Bouygues and tons of others?
How to Deal with Emotional Problems: Getting to Know Your Two Minds
DDG proxies Bing for most of its searches. I've been relying on it for several years now. Results for recent (past 5 years) Web material are excellent. Some older archival materials not quite so much.

That's exclusive of other DDG features which I like but aren't Bing related.
> I am often stunned at how eloquent some conversations are on 4chan

Can you show me some examples? I tried browsing 4chan, but the site's navigation trips me up badly.
Seriously, banks don't lend reserves:

http://www.economonitor.com/lrwray/2013/08/15/banks-dont-len...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/francescoppola/2014/01/21/banks-...

It's a fascinating subject when you start to dig in it.
> Many of the things that Multics had eventually made their way back into various UNIX derivatives, because they were great features that a modern OS wants to have.

Interesting. Can you name some?
Criminal cases are not precedent based are they? This whole thread is about civil suits.
I would love to read a blog about this.

Perhaps a different person writing about a different system each month.
Is South Africa's Film and Publication Board Beefing with Netflix?
The EU needs reform. However, historically Europe engaged in very nasty wars every few years. A fractured isolationist non-corporative set of European states could be very bad for all of us.
What surprises me is how little media coverage asset seizure is getting.

Why is asset seizure not covered more by the media and why is everyone so complacent about it?
Just thinking out loud here: What about allergies?

In that model, what you need to fix is not to remove the trigger (e.g. the pollen may be safe) nor to inhibit the ability to respond (sometimes you need a big immune reaction) but instead to focus on whatever's gone awry with the fiddly logic in the middle that normally regulates frequency/severity/duration.

If that were the case, then the "depression reaction" might be a useful adaptation... but for some people it's occuring disproportionately.
You don't do brute force. And any information you already know about the message can theoretically help you decipher it. In fact, there is no such thing as unbreakable encryption, even if you disallow brute force methods.
Technically, I think that's a recursive acronym. Backcronym is when something has a name and you after the fact make it into an acronym.
> We could revoke the 13th and 14th Amendments and have slavery again

Could, but won't. Government won't ever try.
People are saying - right or wrong - that they will try again to enforce backdoors.
Being a "very serious CEO" isn't necessarily a good thing.
I stopped using Atom after I ran into this issue:[0]

Basically it's possible to accidentally do a mass replace of a word you did not intend to. In sublime, if you do a mass find/replace, it doesn't save the file. However by default atom saves all the files you make a find/replace in. So you could lose a lot of time undoing an accidental replace. Given my habits (listed in the issue) while in a text editor, this was unacceptable risk for using atom, so of course I filed a ticket which promptly died out.

I would like to continue using atom, even with the latency startup issue, but there's too much risk for me in accidentally wasting a lot of time getting bit by this issue.

[0]https://github.com/atom/find-and-replace/issues/550
Before WW1, that was the Ottoman empire.
The arab provinces of the empire were unhappy, and contacted the entente. The agreed to revolt against the turks in exchange for control over all that area.
The arabs fought against the turks, with the help of the entente, however as soon as the war ended, the entente revealed their actual plan: the sykes-picot agreement. Basically they got backstabbed.

In this agreement they would divide the area, give it new names, put it under foreign control. Since then the area is a constant mess. By design.

Then every other year they finance some rebel group or army here and there so there's never peace.
Dating and Dealing for music festivals. I think this could be the next big shit and i had that in mind for some time now.
He's getting help from some IBMers via MAIN. I suspect sidechannel support may be viable.

I've only done a small bit of MF work, but the old-school IBM mainframers I've met (usually at conferences) have always been exceptionally helpful and friendly. It's a fairly small community. Young blood is often quite welcomed.

And those beasts will likely be around so long as there's mains power.
How many passwords are you storing currently? And are you using password managers for the convenience of not having to commit secure passwords to memory, or for the ease of automatic password entry?

Sticky notes are a hallmark of bad security, but that doesn't mean a pen-and-paper approach has to be ruled out entirely. Depending on how you answered the last two questions, a small notebook containing the passwords written out in some format other than plain text could be a surprisingly viable contender for any software password manager.
> All things considered...

This sounds like an impossible balance to the detriment of people.
Atom is in competition with Brackets (Ace), Visual Studio Code (CodeMirror), Advanced Editor (Ace), to cite only the free software. All the others are quicker. I wonder how they get all these users.
> The whole business is an ugly affair, full of arrogant, rich, narcissistic fat cats, local corruption and fraud, and striking inequality.

So it's essentially modern human history and current human affairs, in a microcosm. That might be coming across cynical, but at the same time, hopefully there is light at the end of our collective tunnel - so to speak.
Foundation dropped IE8 and below supports at very early stage. I think it caused them losing the Community.
USB Thief, the new USB-based data stealing Trojan
Keyword "seems". by eliminating competition around him, Putin is building a power vacuum to happen when he is inevitably gone. The idea that dictator is needed to stabilize a corrupt society isn't completely wrong. But it requires that the dictator is actively growing a next generation of self-thinking competent leaders. Putin is a +60y ex-spy treating every self-thinker as a threat, instead surrounding himself with inept yes-men. That is paving the the post-putin russia to look a lot like Maduro's venezuela.
Why do the EU and US dislike Assad? He has been saying for years that the Free Syrian Army are a bunch of crazies who Barbecue heads etc. There could well be IS-ers among them. Why are we (EU/US) not working with the Russians and Assad? Remember that those chemical weapons, after a lot of accusations were fired by the rebels, not by Assad.
I think as the 'Fourth Estate' there's a definite need for Journalism to stay well away from government funding, control and oversight - while I would contend almost all journalists are capable of setting aside any biases such a funding model might create, 'Journalism must be done fairly, and it must be seen to be done fairly' and being dependent on the government makes it hard for a populace to believe it's objectively investigating the government.

But you encounter the same issue if you suggest, say, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation ought to fund "high-quality" journalism. (When was the last time the WashPo ran a scathing attack on Amazon?) Even some kind of group model - part government, part philanthropist, part donors will always create a perception of bias.

I'm mixed on your point about Capitalism. Yes, 'the market' will deliver what the people want, but not always what they need ('in the public interest' v 'of interest to the public'). A government example might work here - would taxpayers in one state willingly contribute money to a road project in another? I suspect not - taxes aren't voluntary for just that reason. Longform investigative journalism, I feel, would similarly not be funded by sufficient people. And I think that would usher in a new era of corruption in most capitalist nations.
His bio states: "Gregg Henriques, Ph.D., author of A New Unified Theory of Psychology, directs the Combined Clinical and School Psychology Doctoral Program at James Madison University. He is a licensed clinical psychologist..."

You're right that he isn't a psychiatrist, but he is a clinical psychologist. My educated layman's understanding is that this informs the more behaviorally/environmentally-driven view in his article, but because psychiatrists are trained from a traditional medicine/biology-focus, they are just as likely to be shifted towards the (also valid) biochemical explanations of depression (and the pharmaceutical treatments).
'None of these "revolutions" started as US+European backed.'

Really? Clinton on Qaddafi:
https://youtu.be/mlz3-OzcExI

ADDENDUM regarding "US+European" involvement in Libya and Syria (as I was on mobile and had time constraints as I wrote the above):

Libya

'The Libyans were emotional because the U.S. and its allies had toppled leader Moammar Kadafi in a military campaign that averted a feared slaughter of Kadafi's foes. Obama administration officials called the international effort, accomplished with no Western casualties, a "model intervention."'
(http://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-us-libya-20140...)

Syria

This USG cable (https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/06DAMASCUS5399_a.html) written in 2006 (!) lists a number of "vulnerabilities" and "possible actions" - almost like a playbook - on how to change Syrian regime.
(background info and analysis of the cable: http://www.truth-out.org/progressivepicks/item/33180-wikilea...)
Eh that's only true of Western Christiandom, which was of relatively less importance until the fall of Byzantine. It certainly doesn't describe the various Orthodox sects, which either didn't participate or were sometimes victims in the crusades.
Almost no one else on this thread cited sources. Whereas 0xFFC mentioned excellent sources anyone can check out to improve their knowledge. (Like for any other field.) The poster said, "I don't have time to respond for all of that." We're all busy, we don't have to spoon-feed each other arguments amply covered by leading dissident scholars.

> the big bad wolf called US of A

The whole zombie genre (probably anything post-apocalyptic) is based on the premise that the US would immediately collapse into reactionary, extremist militant gangs often out to impose a new state.

What other country goes to the other end of the world and topples governments? Does China drop bombs on US militants? Set up military bases in Canada? Of course the US gov't is the global hegemon, like the big mafia boss, regardless of what propagandized inhabitants think.
https://www.passwordstore.org

It uses GPG.
williamjennings you are shadow banned.
All that complication is entirely nonsensical and sponsored/create by foreign powers. It didn't exist for hundreds of years and only materialized because of intervention.

The US is allies with Saudi Arabia and Israel, and it's in their interest that no significant power forms in there.
Exactly. The complexity is inherent in the domain, and making it seem simpler by sweeping it under the carpet is not solving the problem, and it will result in hard to find bugs when working at scale.
Not to nearly the same level.

Like any major site, I would guess the majority of HN readers do not comment, or only comment rarely.

Losing karma for upvoting means you need to comment if you want to upvote, and I suspect many readers will simply choose not to participate in either activity rather than try to maintain a positive karma balance.
Kinda funny at the end... they zoom out and so much grey hair and bald heads :)
Doesnt that slow down my network extremely?
Yes, the lost potential is heartbreaking when you think of it.

A good piece from the Economist here - http://www.economist.com/node/1213392

> in the 1,000 years since the reign of the Caliph Mamoun, say the authors, the Arabs have translated as many books as Spain translates in one year.

I do hope we see a return to more terrestrial matters from that part of the world.
Could you please post the URL?
Very true... Although I think Artoo does get some major "person-like" bonus for exhibiting sapience and consciousness.

If their dock-robots exhibit R2-levels of intelligence, I will withdraw my objection :P
Requirements should not drive development
But not over oil.
I agree that this is an annoying issue, but doesn't your version control take care about undoing things like that?
It's written by Mat Honan, who earlier used to write for Wired.
Interesting!

I suppose given the DIY nature of this project you could trivially have it record in a 15minute loop or something to limit how much you share.
How to Use Cohort Analysis to Improve Retention
So you are suggesting that when sunni extremists kill 50 people with a bomb in a shia market in Iraq, it is because of Western oil contracts?
Oh you wouldn't believe the huge amount of bikeshedding that went into the naming of `String` and `str`. :) The end result might not be the nicest - to my eyes at least - but at least a decision was made!
"An intense burst of consolidation will boost their profits more. Since 2008 American firms have engaged in one of the largest rounds of mergers in their country’s history, worth $10 trillion. Unlike earlier acquisitions aimed at building global empires, these mergers were largely aimed at consolidating in America, allowing the merged companies to increase their market shares and cut their costs."

I suspect being "Too big to fail" is another major reason for these mergers.
Eric Dash actually let out a warning in the NY Times in 2008:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/01/business/01bank.html

"As the government makes taxpayer funds available to banks weakened by the financial crisis, the criteria being used to choose who gets money appears to be setting the stage for consolidation in the industry by favoring those most likely to survive."

Mega companies can make huge profits because they feel more confident taking huge risks.
If we succeed - we profit. If we fail - we're too big to fail.
This is commonly refered to as a Moral Hazard:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_hazard
This isn't just about time, though that's also really cheeky of you since the plumbing is the sole value you provide, who would sign insane terms like this?

You shall not...use the Developer Tool or Service in conjunction with a product or service that competes with products or services offered by IFTTT

IFTTT shall own all right, title, and interest (and all related moral rights and intellectual property rights) in and to the Developer Tool, Service, and Content.

Perhaps Pinboard should come up with some equally crazy terms and ask you to sign it in order to use their service.
I really hope this doesn't happen.

I love Apple hardware, and OSX is much nicer to use as a polyglot developer than Windows. A workmate of mine runs linux on his macbook pro, and it's really a pain. Apple has put so many thousands of hours into getting the trackpad working smoothly, while the linux drivers seem to have been hacked together during a weekend and are truly awful. Things like ignoring thumb input, scroll speed and tracking speed are terrible, just to mention a few.
I wonder if ignoring the prevailing wage of the labor market is the correct approach. Since sherpa wages are one of the principal expenses, this will automatically lead to higher costs for the climbers, therefore less demand and less jobs. In an environment where significantly higher wages are paid to select few, you will have corruption in recruiting (a significant part of the wage will go to middlemen, not to the workers) and even stronger abuse by the team leaders since there is more to lose if you are fired. Also, if western companies decide to provide these "ethical wages", it opens up a large market for Chinese or Nepalese companies who might treat workers even worse.

It goes without saying that no expense should be spared in protecting lives, sherpa should not be exposed to more risks than absolutely necessary and should be covered by comprehensive insurance. If need be, this should be imposed by the regulatory power of the Nepalese state.
>Well, welcome to life in a democracy.

If there has ever been a time to illustrate that our country is an oligarchy and not a Democracy, this has been the year. There is a non-zero chance that even in our rigged, broken system that the candidates that are recognized in one or both parties will be ones that received less voter support and were chosen by the wealthy.

>We have to be prepared to fight the crypto wars forever, like unions are still fighting the labor wars a century later.

Just like the war against CISPA, which was lost to attrition.

>We could revoke the 13th and 14th Amendments and have slavery again--there is no legal impediment to that

What does the Constitution matter at all? Our system of checks and balances is beyond broken - its gone. Not to be disrespectful, but anyone who thinks that the Constitution is recognized by the government is delusional or worse. The 1st, 4th, 6th, and 9th amendments have been rendered basically moot by recent government action and court inaction. The truth is that you can't have a functioning democracy without the informed consent of the governed. When the majority of the population lacks the capacity to generate informed consent and those in power work actively to suppress that capacity you end up with the authoritarian oligarchy that we have today.