skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a runner and lover of endurance activities, this is an exciting prospect. Seeing what is possible in the easiest (or most extreme) possible environment will help us get closer to understanding the optimal altitude difference or even an optimal training, living, and competing environment.
Man vs. Marathon
Oh, yeah, SMAC is the best civ ever. Man, that game had atmosphere. The faction leaders were great. And the technology! Will we have to research Alphabet for the sixth time in Civ6? Well, SMAC had us research Mind/Machine Interface, Frictionless Surfaces, Digital Sentience...

And the Planet Busters! God, I'd love a SMAC 2!
Someone who makes into the Army is a high achiever.

A friend's child is sufficiently handicapped that at 20 he is incapable of speech more complex than grunting. He is still capable of relativly simple tasks. But to asume there is a binary choice where every person is either totally disabled or capable of becoming a fortune 500 CEO if they just worked harder is both idiotic and common.

There are many people with hopes and dreams who are worthy of respect, but simply can't function at a high level. Increasingly we simply throw them to the wolves as even if they can hold down a simple job that's not enough for rent, which starts a cycle of homelessness and often prison.

A living wage is about human decency even for those who have trouble with tasks more complex than mopping a floor.
Huge props to Gulshan and Javier for launching. This is an incredibly cool platform, and the work they've been doing to introduce people to security through CTFs is hugely important: the only way we're going to build a more secure internet is by training all developers -- not just security engineers -- to understand exactly what it takes to attack an application.

I often meet people who wish they knew more about security, but they feel as though things like cryptography are beyond their grasp. Nothing could be further from the truth, and CTFs are evidence of this fact.

You can always find upcoming CTFs on CTF Time [0]. Give one a try sometime, and you might surprise yourself with how quickly you're able to pick things up. Even if you don't solve any problems, you'll have an absolute blast.

If you ever have questions about getting involved in CTF or you're looking for resources on learning security, don't be afraid to reach out to me. My contact info is on my profile.

[0] https://ctftime.org/
People seem to forget that overture (bought by yahoo) was the first to do SEA in auction model like google does now
You hit the nail on the head. Thank you.
FTC Investigating Android Patching Practices
Whole Foods provides ratings on its meat[1] -- but instead of $5 for an entire chicken from Safeway, it's more like $7/lb for boneless/skinless breasts at Whole Foods. It turns out that social responsibility is expensive.

[1] - https://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/mission-values/animal-welfa...
True, except it was distracting to the point that I couldn't finish reading the article...
I hope we struck the right tone in this article. Please let me know what you think or if there are any questions.
This is because the people running the show have created a problem. Let business be done. Let all prisoners know all phone calls are recorded and may be monitored at any time. And record all of them. Then get a company that does this sort of thing to transcribe them all. Then do a search on all the text for keywords that might indicate problems or send the text to India to be read. That's it. The rest, well you know who they are calling, those are potential people to investigate... send those to the NSA or the police.

Or just let illegal business be done. What's the worst that could happen. Lots of criminals outside of bars too.

Also you could let the non-violent ones do whatever and only watch the violent ones. It just depends on whether or not you have a problem solving attitude or a problem creating one. It seems the prison industrial complex creates problems and then spends lots of money to solve them, money of prisoner's families who are already broke and belong to low income households.
SkillSesh' 300k investor pitchdeck
I've been in situations where, despite telling them what I'm looking for, they've pressed me to disclose my salary. I've always been honest about it, but I can recall one specific instance where I disclosed my salary to a recruiter and told them that I was seeking a particular salary, only to be told, "No one is going to give you that big of an increase." Who said anything about an increase? It's about paying what I'm worth.

I've seen how a hiring company might look at a person who wants $X, but earns lower-paying figure and think, "Well, market pay is $X, but if the company before was paying them $X-20%, we can get away with offering $X-15% or $X-10% because it's a marginal increase for the applicant and we still save money."

evilduck, below: nails it with this[0]:

"companies aren't going to tell your their actual upper bounds for what they'll pay in salary, why should you tell them your actual lower bounds? "

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11678634
Sunrise is the only calendar app that has ever worked for me. I tried others like Google and the integrated outlook calendar, this is sad news.

Is it impossible to have apps that don't go either Microsoft or google? I don't want to be locked in an ecosystem.
Sorry I've never used Scala macros, beginner's question: are Scala macros not completely compile time? Why would they use reflection? Is it just syntactic sugar for dynamic type inference?

If they just use reflection during compilation: why would that not be compatible with whatever the runtime is? Shouldn't that be unaffected by runtime and purely depend on the compiler's support for reflect?

Or am I looking at this the wrong way?
I think I agree with you, but the EFF raises some good questions. If content producers have this kind of control, how do you ever create a new browser? And can users really choose their browser if the major publishers have that much control?

In other words, if I want to create a new browser, I then have to convince every single publisher whose content I want to display that they should add me to some list of approved providers. This does seem like it's just going to reenforce any initial power dynamics. I'm not sure what a better solution is though.
This is terrifying.

So many live systems, from CNC lathes through den feeders and boiler controllers to entire city water treatment facilities..
Sorry, this is just wrong. The time to parse CSS + HTML is negligible and isn't a reason native is better.

Native apps have a better foothold currently because mobile platforms had better support for their own native languages, than for sophisticated web runtimes like V8 at release.
The problem with the modern era is that it's kind of boring from a strategy game perspective. Eras that are boring from a strategy game perspective are the best eras to live in, so I'm not complaining, but a strategy game where the biggest challenge is to manage the Eurozone crisis or react to changing oil prices is not going to be nearly as popular as a strategy game where the biggest challenge is to win a World War.
Freed to do what that is worthy of support?
Samsung Galaxy TabPro S review: A taste of a future I’m not ready for
> First: all work must support raising a family.

Really?

What about the work of a Twitch streamer? Or a rock musician?
> Perhaps the cancer is the fact the desktop development community has had decades to settle on a decent cross-platform 'native' toolkit and completely failed.

Probably you are underestimating how complex is to build a GUI for different platforms and also underestimating how much browser technologies have been improved integrating zillion of years of experience.

Also, you can't compare how easy is to develop a desktop UI with Windows Forms in Visual Studio to how difficult is to build an HTML UI.
>what other kind of corruption and crime is going on in investment-fuelled industries

HSBC actively and knowingly helps funnel Mexican drug-cartel and Hezbollah (literal terrorists) funds with mere fines as punishment. The U.S. government does not stand up to multi-national banks which can ruin the global economy.
> Netflix was the largest site using Flash.

Netflix didn't use Flash; it used Silverlight.

> don't disagree with what you say, but it's possible to see EME as a pragmatic inevitability, assuming that browsers want to get rid of plugins

Or browsers could just collectively get rid of plugins, and the media industry could whine ineffectually at the lack of DRM. They're not going to build their own browser, and people wouldn't use it if they did. Netflix wouldn't go away; millions of people would complain if it stopped working.
Problem is that Netflix & co are stuck with Flash or similar because content owners will not allow it to be streamed/provided without DRM. So currently it's Flash with no alternative.

EME is not the ideal situation from the consumer's PoV, but it's on par with flash (maybe a bit better) and preferable to nothing* .

It would be a net loss if previously unencrypted content would now become encrypted, but I don't think that's likely as a host like say Youtube already had access to DRM/encryption in their Flash player even before HTML5 video was a thing but never used it. I thus expect it to be mostly a net gain/neutral.

* If you personally think nothing is preferable over watching content with EME: great, don't use it. But forcing that choice upon others is not better.
Oh yeah, totally! Surprised there hasn't been, thought it was a hit (for an RTS, that is)
Were they bought?
What happens if a random wordpress blog's frontpage (/) is compromised and has malware injected, setting the immutable keyword? Cloudflare and letsencrypt means most sites will be https sooner than later, so the https part will be "taken care of". (At least that's better than nothing; imagine the power granted to captive wifi portals if not!)
Is there a danger here of getting a corrupt resource, then no matter how many times you mash reload it never gets fixed? What do we have to stop this... I don't think CSS files have a SHA checksum header by default do they?
Civ 5 did a bit of experimenting with distinctly asymmetrical nations - for example, there's Venice, which can only directly control a single city. It feels like they completely forgot about that kind of thing when they got to BE, though.
Re-Coding Planning
From their announcement of acqusition:
http://blog.sunrise.am/post/110577824529/sunrise-microsoft

> Today, we’re excited to announce that Sunrise is joining Microsoft. For Sunrise, this is just the beginning.

> Sunrise will remain free and available for iPhone, iPad, Mac, Android and Desktop – we’re not going anywhere.
Any of you fellow SMAC fans play Beyond Earth? Is it a spiritual successor?
Vivaldi?
In theory, the hospital should be able to provide a minimum price based on the standard order set for labor and delivery -- "If you have a natural birth in the hospital, and you spend 1 day in the room, 2 days in recovery, only use these drugs and receive these tests, your visit will cost $XX." But that isn't really helpful since most births will vary a substantial amount from the 'basic' plan. This gets back to why insurance exists in the first place, if the average price for 10 births is $10,000 -- that could be 10 births at $10k or 9 births at $1k and one at $91k or literally anywhere in between.
Here's a blog (that I found from an HN comment, interestingly!) where someone goes through and analyzes all the SMAC flavor text and writes about how well-done it was. It was interesting for me because there's a lot more depth than I realized when I first played SMAC, and the different factions all seemed to me more like caricatures than real philosophical viewpoints:

https://paeantosmac.wordpress.com
Assuming you are using annual numbers there, you are saying you have 55 users on Github. The relevant number isn't your IT budget, it's the salaries of the people using GitHub. If it's $75k per person thats over $4.125 million a year.

Does 0.15% of your budget matter? Does GitHub not make your team 0.15% more productive? Would the switching cost to a new tool be less than 0.15% of your total cost?

If you are doing that math and coming up with the answer that switching makes sense, by all means do it, but I would argue that your problems are bigger than your GitHub bill. I personally can't fathom working for a company that strapped for cash, I'd be looking for a new job myself.
The Philosophy of Final Fantasy
Can someone clarify what is meant by `publisher' in this piece?
Money does not show up from nowhere. A district that can't afford to pay teachers can't afford to subsidize private schools. The vast majority of private schools don't increase student preformance instead they reject poor performing students.

A more sustainable solution is to have rotating class schedules, so teachers teach year round even if students don't go to class year round.
Renaming was rarely done because devs advised each other to avoid the agony imposed by the tools of the era.

The workaround is ridiculous. Trunk should be what's already deployed to prod and known to work.
I've read many articles critical of EME and this is the first time I've heard this information. If true, as you said, it is THE issue.

It was always my assumption that EME represented a standard way for CDM's to interact with the browser. EME is to CDMs as NPAPI is to plugins. That is to say, a CDM can theoretically work in any browser implementing the EME standard. Is this assumption completely false?
The status quo is this:

If I build a browser right now from scratch, it can't play Netflix videos.
Does EME prevent new browsers from implementing it freely. I admit I haven't read the spec but from what I've read second-hand, it seems like it enables the vendor to ship the DRM code as a binary blob that runs natively in a sandbox.

As I understand, EME doesn't lockout new browsers, it locks out new architectures and kernels. But any new architecture that comes along that anyone would want to use to view DRM-encumbered media would be mainstream enough that content providors would support it, and people running an experimental OS kernel already have to use a more traditional system for a lot of things, and probably aren't a demographic too keen on DRM in the first place.
Hardly black and white? Care to provide us with some sources which provides the legal grounds for Russia annexing a part of Ukraine?
Github is betting on stickiness aka lock-in.
That might prove to be bad bet.
Short term everybody who saves (small teams) will switch to new price model. No sane org will opt to multitude of price increase voluntarily. So github looses revenue short term.
If github forces the switch on everybody many big orgs will jump the ship one way or another. So github looses again.
some might say, "huge tracks of land."
Am I the only one who wants to play this in VR with a Vive?
Yes and the reason many of those people are poor are low paying jobs.
The parties which provide the content, often the one's who create it but not always. As opposed to the browser vendor, or the consumer (browser user).
SQL Server now runs on Linux.
My limited experience with "targeted" ads comes from Amazon as they have access to my extensive purchase history. However, they are completely useless to me. I'm not sure why the system tries to advertise the same product (or type of product) that I just purchased. This is the extent of the ads.

I would actually like to receive more relevant ads. "Hey, we saw that you recently purchased a trash can, check out these garbage bags." There are so many supportive or related products that would be relevant to things I've bought. It's a no-brainer. Yes, I know there are "related" and "customers who bought this..." on each product page. I'm talking about after the fact in the days and weeks that follow the purchase.

And how about the option to say "No thanks, I'm not interested in these types of products right now." or "I already have this."? Is this really a difficult thing to implement?

Maybe I'm missing something.
Low user numbers are something of a self-fulfilling prophecy if it's a bad port in the first place, though.
Not in Mother Russia!

(are we a part of the above community even??) :)
AOL/AIM used to be Huge. Now not so much.
from the article:

Correcting possible corruption (e.g. shift reload in Firefox) never uses conditional revalidation and still makes sense to do with immutable objects if you're concerned they are corrupted.

Also, there is Subresource Integrity, which adds a hash to the including tags, and if it is integrated correctly with the caching logic could catch this: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Subres...
well the effect I heard is that even people who don't buy the chicken (ever, they just aren't chicken buyers) buy more of everything else due to the smell. So the store doesn't need to sell any at all, it just needs to be there. Though come to think of it this actually wouldn't affect price (because that smell effect would hold true if it's too expensive, right?) so perhaps it's a combination of both your effect (which affects chicken buyers) and the one I heard about (which affects non-buyers).
It's the Surface Pro's killer app.
Or you could consider purchasing from open source businesses. Like Nylas, GitLab, Sentry, and others.
I like this one:

https://worldofvnc.net/browse.php?id=2677

It looks like the LCD display of some embedded system, something I would have never expected to see over VNC.
> I remember there was some very very bitter Groovy evangelist a while ago

Apache Groovy has always been good for scripting stuff on the JVM, including for Grails and as a DSL for Gradle. Unfortunately, one of its backers tried to retrofit it to do static compilation, and pitched it as a alternative to Java instead of simply an accompaniment. That's when the trouble started. Groovy's static compilation can't be as good as that of a language designed from the ground to be statically compiled, e.g. Java, Scala, or Kotlin. To this day, Groovy's own codebase is still Java. Even though some people talk anonymously of "1 million line Groovy codebase where static compilation is required", Groovy's own "million line codebase" isn't statically compiled Groovy and until it is, any claim of such codebases is just a claim, nothing more.
I think the point is that to consume any particular piece of content, the publisher decides which CDM is appropriate, which effectively lets them decide who (which browser) can consume their content.
https://worldofvnc.net/browse.php?id=2113 judging by the tab names, some Russian botnet HQ.
> It also is very sensitive to resistance, to the point that I actually had to construct ramps for my car to climb the 1-inch lip at the entrance to my garage, otherwise it would stop at that point and refuse to go further.

The pictures of the car in a article linked elsewhere in this discussion (https://www.ksl.com/?sid=39727592&nid=148&title=utah-man-say...) show that the windshield was smashed. I'm finding it challenging to reconcile your personal example with the images of the smashed windshield; in my own experience, it takes some effort to break laminated safety glass. I would think (perhaps wrongly) that it would take more effort to break safety glass than would be stopped by a 1in. step.

> but I don't think there's much room to discuss safety here.

I couldn't disagree more. I don't understand why it should be possible to disable any safety interlock (at least, that's how I'm interpreting the feature description) in a consumer product, especially persistently.
I don't mind Jira, with the exclusion of the abominably confusing user management[1]. I've never found a ticketing system that didn't suck in some major way; it's a difficult thing to get right.

[1] Somewhere I've got a screenshot I made that has arrows pointing to the four locations in Confluence where you can find different ways of adjusting user perms (jira uses the same user system). This doesn't include the location where you actually manage your Atlassian licenses...
> Marie Antoinette would disagree, if she could only find her head...

Not really, the Jacobins that were the main leaders of the French Revolution were elite politicians both from the formal aristocracy and the high ranks of the mercantile/intellectual class.
But subresource integrity is not available for URLs that generate text/html ?
It originally billed itself as a replacement for Hadoop and MapReduce as an in-memory data processing pipeline. It is typical in MR programs to create many sequential MR jobs and save the output between successive jobs to HDFS. So Spark can solve these use cases. Since its early days, it has built on its capabilities.

So real world use-cases? Any MR use case should be doable by Spark. There are plenty of companies using Spark to create analytics from streams, some are using it for its ML capabilities (sentiment analysis, recommendation engines, linear models, etc.).

I apologize if my comment isn't as specific as you're looking for, but I know of people who use it for exactly the scenarios I've outlined above. We are probably going to use it as well, but I don't have a use case to share just yet (at least nothing concrete at the moment). Hopefully this gives you some idea of where Spark fits.
Here's a higher-voted comment on this article:

> It would be nice if Facebook had some incentive for sharing ad revenue with large publishers, the way YouTube does; that seems like that would give at least some companies a way out of this hole. Is there any chance that someone like a Buzzfeed would have enough leverage to broker this sort of deal?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11678329

It's still a personal opinion, of course, but it's directly addressing the question raised by the article: how will news operations make money when all their traffic comes through Facebook? Whereas your comment simply stating that you, personally, don't like Facebook, does not address that question.
Police Accused of Disguising License Plate Reading Vehicle as Google Car
Doom 4 recreated with Unreal Engine 4
Maybe the safety feature shouldn't be disable-able at all.
They record the phone calls. It seems that if there was an incident it is trivial to review phone calls and bring evidence to bear against the guilty parties.
Sadly, no. BE is a dressed up Civ5.
unfortunately would have to say no. bells and whistles and alien fungi but missing the spirit. Stellaris however is AMAZING.. its got the feel of original Master of Orion and old time Civs.
Wow, quite an interesting story. I vaguely remember this device being on the market, but I had always thought it was made by the same Tiger that made those little LCD handheld games
>> Probably you are underestimating how complex is to build a GUI for different platforms

Presumably you're getting at platform-specific differences. I'd suggest these are no longer as important as once deemed. Pretty much all desktop platforms are currently looking dated with respect to their mobile counterparts. So anything that looks 'modern' across all of them (e.g. good design + Electron) actually feels like sweet relief.

(If you meant something else, please correct me).

>> ... and also underestimating how much browser technologies have been improved integrating zillion of years of experience.

No, that's absolutely the point that I'm making. I'm suggesting browser tech is superior, largely due to the insane amount of engineering effort piled into it by Google et al.

>> Also, you can't compare how easy is to develop a desktop UI with Windows Forms in Visual Studio to how difficult is to build an HTML UI.

Yes I can, having done both :)
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