skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think if you go to the Keychain, you can configure it to put an icon in the top right tray that you can click on to lock your computer. I often find myself accidentally moving my mouse to the top right corner of my Windows and Linux machines to lock them now.
I have always lamented the lack of such automation techniques on Linux. Even though Linux systems are open and free software platforms, their desktop interfaces are ironically less programmable as compared to OSX and Windows.
> Secondly how many of these were remotely exploitable?

I don't think this is a valid question. The vulnerabilities are in syscalls. Unless some application exposes them in a very unexpected way, they're local-only by design.
It seems you didn't read the article. It talks about oil as a co-conspirator.
Kinda wierd you posted this. I've been actually looking for something similar to this recently. Thanks!
The alternative would be something like

l.prepend(a).append(b)

Horrible. Ghastly. Can't see anybody tolerating a language that looked like that.. /s
That's interesting because (a) it's first I've heard of COS and (b) I cant find jack on it. A bunch of ComputerWorld articles and a patent reference it with a description it's a custom OS for COBOL apps. A web site says it's for an abstract, C machine but nothing to confirm. BitSavers doesnt have anything that stands out to me. Checked jnder Tandy as adds indicated it was licensed to them.

I'd be interested in links to guides on this product or scanned pages that show whether OS itself was COBOL. I'll put it on Wikipedia's Timeline of Operating Systems list if I get the info. I got quite a few added there so far.

Edit: Some paydirt showing ghe company along with at least compilers absorbed by MicroFocus. Tech might still live on somehow.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digitek

Looking with Digitek, MicroFocus, and Liant still didnt get me jack. This is some phantom of a product.
Your making very large leaps and bounds here. And misquoted a lot of what I said.

"Founder of quantum mechanics" - I didn't say founder. I said one of the founding members; Planck, de broglie, einstein, von Neumann. I don't see how quantum mechanics materializes without the foundation created by these thinkers.

> "list of only true scientists"
I didn't say list of true scientists. And you inserted 'only' as if I made the claim that this list is comprehensive (i.e. these are the only scientists that ever existed). But rather these scientists paved the way for a lot of scientific advancement in the last two centuries.

Lastly, which this one is more my fault - I clearly didn't explain my thought. Newton's association with calculus was to refute your claim that he only had an influence in the field of physics (he was the Lucasian professor of mathematics after all).

Alternatively, your "quotation" of founded (twice) is smug; and condescending. Further, none of this tit for tat banter is contributing to anything of real or inherent value. Perhaps our time is suited better on something else?
I've tested coke/pepsi/RC by random identical cups and I was able to tell, but it was more difficult than I expected it to be. I believe some of that is the way your brain works to where, if you believe you know what you are about to eat/drink, it primes you with your memory of the flavors. Going in blind makes it more difficult to do so.

To me at least, Coke has more citrus notes and is a bit more sour. RC, at least in the US is slightly more bitter and also seems to have a slightly sweet aftertaste, but not that different from Coke. Pepsi is more sweeter as well, and doesn't have the citrus hit.

The more interesting difference is Sugar cane Coke, like they have in Australia, and Corn Syrup. They are both equally sweet, IMO, but the corn syrup has a different aftertaste and texture. Still mostly identical.
PHP won't win you any cool points, but there's still a whole lot of it running in production.
We measure our progress
yes and half of that 1% of typing should be commenting and documenting!

the trick is to remember, you're commenting for you, because you're the one that's going to forget all this stuff in a few months and have to figure it out at the worst possible time.

sounds a little weird but i always liked commenting my code. it felt like i was bragging to myself about how clever i was.
I'm in the recruiting space. An enormous part of the disparity in applicant success comes down to "job-hunting skills". Will their resume, as presented & formatted, speak to the employers they're after? Are they applying to enough jobs? Do they tell the story of their career trajectory in a compelling way? It's very exciting to see a company trying to level the playing field the way Mentat seems to be.
How? If I rent to polite, responsible people, what's the problem? If I don't, and raucus behavior ensues, then follow the procedures in place for reporting disruptive behavior.
I see your point, but it doesn't happen to be true, a bug in recv, send or other networking syscalls certainly could be much worse than a local priv escalation.

And seriously, only one local priv escalation and some crashers is still a pretty light haul for a good fuzzing session from a competent team. The sky is not falling for OpenBSD today.
or rather, what you are browsing.
Just googled it myself and found the same -- following up with her about the name.
Yelp's Real Time Data Stream Pipeline
But you're presuming that mostly suicidal is an nonfunctional mode. If a person has been depressed for 15 years, held loaded weapons to their head while they cried, and have a good way to kill themselves, it's good to be good doesn't matter. If that person doesn't care about longevity, but hopes for a fast death soon, meh. There is no meaning. Especially when you have only one drive, a fast death.
I have never tried heroin because at the time when I learned about it, I looked at some information and came to the conclusion that it would not be a good decision to make given the physical addictiveness of the drug. To be honest, I attributed almost zero weight to the fact that it was illegal.

Remember, opiates are legal now, with a prescription.

I wonder, hypothetically if there was a drug where the effects were as pleasurable as I assume heroin must be, but with no physical addiction or nasty side effects, would people still be against it?

What if, in the future, your cellphone could emit a frequency that generates pleasure in your brain, but as soon as you turn it off, you are back to normal. Would that be made illegal?

Could it be simply a moral objection to unearned pleasure that people are really against?
Steve Jobs - fashion over function
Ask HN: What did you think of President Obama's Town Hall today?
The Disastrous US Approach to Strategic Missile Defense [pdf]
The difference between Graham/Altman and Thiel is: someone asked Thiel to speak at a political event. Graham and Altman suffer from severe Dunning-Kruger effect, specifically in the realm of politics.
Your startup is probably not very important. Do you act like it is?
Anti-Patterns in OOP
Yah, the free market is an amazing thing where free individuals freely agree upon rates even as astounding as those figures. The even cooler thing is that there even exist institutions that can fit that into their payroll! Maybe cooler still is that economies exist that even hold institutions such as those.

I remember going to this Bay.net talk with Juval Lowy who beat down on everyone calling devs code monkeys who got paid peanuts. Haha, ~100K range is definitely peanuts compared to a seven figure salary. What a world.
Great writeup, and interesting seeing where http2 performed worse. Definitely going to refer to this as I update my backend to http2.
I have enough stick hours to have obtained my instrument and commercial ratings. It was enough for me to realize that this wasn't a passing problem that would go away with experience, it would (and did) get worse as things became routine.

But thank you for the "chicken" insult, it made me laugh.
Ah, those Mentats... They increased Charisma right? :)
yes language are NOT difficult, it's the same concept everywhere (conditions / loop / boolean logic / etc)

BUT the hard part was, is and will always be domain knowledge, with special cases here & there, obscure logic, miscommunication between expert & developer and others
We are a Stanford AI Lab Startup, developing software for autonomous cars, well positioned with our 1st round of VC funding of $12 million.

We are based in Mountain View and currently have a team of about 10-15 people.

All Candidates MUST be more than proficient in C++ and Python. Applications that do not meet these requirements will be tossed immediately.

We have three open roles.

1. Software Engineer (Tools) - OpenGL, C++/Python

2. Software Engineer (Motion Planning) - Graduate Degree. MS or PhD.
C++/Python

3. Software Engineer (Controls) - ME with C++/Python

Let's revolutionize the next great transportation technologies together today!

http://goo.gl/forms/qXGnyBS4xqPKe89A2
perhaps it was to have the capability of launching AND servicing military satellites
For what it's worth… I /do/ work for a very efficient company, and benefit from it relative to our competition.

I'm not personally interested in Silicon Valley brogramming for social video sharing sites, but thanks for your confidence that I could dominate the market.
I get to the interview and bomb it on the cultural fit.

At any rate, the $249 is still deductible from taxes.
Hey all, I'm the author of that blog post. I'll be floating around for a while, happy to answer any questions.
By now, people are used to being dicked around by the masters of whatever walled garden they choose to play in.

It's not like this sort of behaviour is new to Apple (or any of their competitors) .
Thanks mate, really appreciate it.
This is cool. Must be motivating to see it throughout the day.
Companies normally charge for that kind of prospect details. What's the data source?
Snobby or not, there's something really great about being able to make an app that has an icon on your phone. Easy to show friends, and it feels somewhat tangible. And practical experience.

As a total noob programmer myself, stuff that exists only on the command line is a bit of a let down.
FlightCar shuts down
Cleveland TFR (for RNC) affects drone pilots
If only St. Steven were still alive. He'd figure out how to profit from this. I can just imagine the new "I'm a Mac", "I'm a PC" ads showing how Windows spies on people and how awful the user experience is.

Instead, Apple just doesn't give a shit anymore. At least not about desktops or laptops.
(Cross-posted from /r/DailyTechNewsShow, but I think it may also be of interest to HN. Below is what I added to the original Reddit post.)

To be honest, it's not really much of a story. The Republican National Convention has a multi-layered TFR (temporarily flight restriction) established for it, which is not at all surprising. What's interesting is the bit at the end:

F. THE FOLLOWING OPERATIONS ARE NOT AUTHORIZED WITHIN THIS TFR: …, MODEL AIRCRAFT OPERATIONS, MODEL ROCKETRY, UNMANNED AIRCRAFT SYSTEMS (UAS), …

I wonder how many licensed drone pilots are aware of this? The largest part of the TFR is a 30-mile circle, and goes from surface to just under Flight Level 180 (approx. just under 18,000 feet).
> Politics mainly. And inertia. And the sunk cost fallacy.

I would say no, sort of, and maybe. I don't think I've ever seen a language chosen because of politics. For "inertia", I would say "conservatism" - people know that they can build systems (even safety critical ones) using C, and they know where the problems are. They don't know where the problems are using Lisp. And they don't want to take the time to learn Lisp - that's sunk cost, but whether it's a fallacy or not depends on whether Lisp really is more suited for such work than C. You assert that it is; many of us would like to see considerably more evidence before we agree.

What evidence? Maybe a few hundred hard real time systems successfully written in Lisp. (But how are we going to get them, if everybody defaults to C? I will grant you that there's a chicken-and-egg problem here...)

> > Is it because the entire profession is blind, and only you and a few enlightened ones realize how wonderful Lisp is?

> Yes. Pretty much.

Yeah... um... I think I'll just let your words speak for themselves.
So RStudio in a browser? Jokes aside, this looks great. The biggest frustration I've had with the notebooks is the organization of code. Nice to see that become a bit more compartmentalized from the execution window.
"Assault trucks must be banned now!"

"Society needs self-driving cars!"

<shoots brown-skinned delivery driver in white neighborhood>

etc
This seems to bode badly for CDNs versus own tuned servers, unless there's a way for origin websites to provide hints on response ordering?
Microsoft wins landmark appeal over seizure of foreign emails
Agreed! The code is lot easier to read than the docs.
I generally think of DRF as "that which has to be true so that mixins.py[1] makes sense"

1- https://github.com/tomchristie/django-rest-framework/blob/ma...
This one has been on my list. I'm starting it next!
With rotation it's "Diamond Pentile" (the current popular layout on OLED smartphones). One difference though - pentile doesn't do extended gamut, at least not the way he proposes.
If one is interested in a take on this problem by an anthropologist/archaeologist turned epic fantasy writer, touching upon some of the thoughts in the comments here,
see:
http://www.steven-erikson.com/index.php/commentary-endgame-v....

On the downside this is a rather long essay, on the plus side it does not require familiarity with the author's work.
you should learn the domain knowledge there while the experts is still around, then migrate it out to ruby or .NET or whatever
This kind of display is poor at representing hard, orthagonal edges, which drive much of our user interfaces, lots of text rendering, and pixel art.
Which you can also do at Digital Ocean (note: you have to take a snapshot, and destroy the droplet in order to suspend billing).

While it might be pennies (or less!) - I'm still wary of how Amazon bills everything separately - your data at rest, your CPU, your bandwidth. I don't know if Digital Ocean would be any cheaper - but it sure strikes me as being a lot easier to predict. Maybe I'm just unreasonably afraid of what I perceive as "billing complexity" at Amazon.

Now I'm actually tempted to set up a small classroom using skolelinux/DebianEdu[1] on Digital Ocean built around a central droplet running the servers - and seeing how easy it is to suspend every thing to a dormant state and revive it... mostly just to play with the ldap-stuff.

[1] https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Jessie/Insta...
This is what he focuses on in his portion of "how to start a startup" on YouTube. It's cool to watch him talk about it. Great concept.
Maxthon browser vulnerable to Chinese cyberespionage and MitM attacks
There are discussions happening on how browsers can allow authors to resource prioritisation hints. I'm curious to see where it goes.

We'd ideally like to be able to say – "prioritise 10 images in the viewport". You hack it together relatively efficiently using IntersectionObserver now, but support isn't great.
Just finished Grit by Angela Duckworth. Great insights for entrepreneurs/start-upers
> Both arrive in similar places, but usually for different reasons.

Kind of how I take philosophers/scientists to be (and other dichotomies that are variations on that kind of pattern). There's a funny [and highly paraphrased] quote I use from Heinz von Foerster that I think is highly relevant:

"The reductionist eventually comes to know everything about nothing (by way of distinction) - the wholist eventually comes to know nothing about everything (by way of generalization)."
If you have one developer that can make a mistake that bad that the government steps in, you have a process problem, not a developer problem.
This was submitted earlier before any reports in English were available here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12094930

From ksdev's earlier comment:

TL;DR: It doesn't matter if you agree to join "User Experience Improvement Program" in Maxthon or not - the browser regularly sends this data to Beijing servers:

- Windows service pack version,
- screen resolution,
- Maxthon version,
- CPU freq,
- Maxthon path,
- adblock info,
- startup site address,

and the most important:

- ADDRESS OF EVERY VISITED SITE - full history, with every query entered in google,
- every ~5 reports - FULL LIST OF INSTALLED SOFTWARE (with exact versions).

English report: https://exatel.pl/advisory/maxthonreporten.pdf
And from watching the WWDC session it seems the playgrounds can have access to the whole iOS SDK, including rather fun stuff like corebluetooth so there is a huge amount of potential in Playgrounds.
A $63,000 salary does not seem too bad for being in Sweden. Sure, it's not as ridiculously high as some salaries are, but the general public would consider it a high compensation.
Could also be a reference to Mentats in Fallout(1,2,3,4) which are an addictive drug. Recursively, also a reference to Dune.
Thank you for being sane.
What? Mutating a list? DISGUSTING!
A day with mypy: Part 2
Nope, that has nothing to do with what I said in that blog post. In fact, the point in that blog post was that I enjoy making things like Mjolnir, and specifically prefer it over building apps like, well, anything you'd see on the front page of the Mac App Store any day of the week.

They forked it because of a difference of opinion: I believe that separation of the core app and the modules into separate projects is ultimately better, and they don't.

When they're separate projects, there's a lot of potential for really interesting tools to be built around them, between them, or bridging them together.

Imagine having a GUI app that manages third party modules for you, installing and loading them at a single click. Or a plugin that centralizes plugin settings into a unified single GUI window. These are the kinds of things that this separation was meant to allow and encourage.

But when it's a batteries-included app, every single aspect of it needs to be built into the app. It becomes monolithic. Every feature anyone could ever want needs to be bundled into it, and even though this is more convenient at first, it ends up bloated. It also doesn't allow for any competition between features in the same domain.

The authors behind Hammerspoon prefer the batteries-included approach. They're not wrong, it's not a matter of right or wrong. It's just a difference of opinion. People who want that approach will prefer Hammerspoon. People who want to build tools around their existing tools will probably prefer Mjolnir.
Nice overview! Don't forget Bitbucket Pipelines (in-house), which is intended to replace Bamboo Cloud:

http://blogs.atlassian.com/2016/05/introducing-bitbucket-pip...

(Atlassian employee here)
The "also today" choice of wording is odd. Generally this seems like a straight acquihire, startup gaining attention to get bought by a bigger company and exit operations. But the Forbes article (http://www.forbes.com/sites/briansolomon/2016/07/14/flightca...) makes it sound like it's a business that's been failing.

So I guess the question is: Shutting down because it was acquired, or selling off value because it's shutting down? I guess the answer lies in how much FlightCar was sold for.
Peter Thiel to Speak at the Republican National Convention
When the brain gets incomplete signals from its peripheral nerves, it does its best job to "fill in the gaps" with its best guess of what that information should be.

Unfortunately, this mechanism can lead to symptoms like phantom pain or itching. As the author puts it, sometimes the check engine light is really nothing wrong with the engine but a faulty light itself.

One promising solution to these medical problems is to fill in the missing data in a different way. For example, phantom limb sufferers can look in a mirror image of their good limb, pretend it's their missing limb, and feel immediate and lasting relief. This may help with things like phantom itching, too.
Hi! Glad you still find Mjolnir useful :) Neither app is right or wrong, they're just differences of approach. See my reply to Camillo.
What an excellent example of Nicholas Naseem Taleb's concept of antifragility.
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Yeah, nobody bans like Google
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business

Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

NonViolent Communication: A Language of Life
Bitbucket has remained a standalone product, but I don't think many of its original mercurial userbase feel like it's been "safe".

When Atlassian bought bitbucket it was the place to host mercurial repositories. Now it's a git hosting service that hasn't gotten around to turning off mercurial support yet.
What I think your comment is missing is that the placebo effect is real even if it isn't useful in all cases. Music playing requires a large amount of mental activity across many centers of the brain as well as training and practice to improve muscle memory.

Double-blind trials aren't necessarily the gold standard when there are so many different variables across individuals that can't be controlled and the entire mental process for such a complex idea is not even close to being completely understood.
There is an award-winning compressor that uses many statistical models (and a 3-layered dense neural network) to compress the data losslessly: http://www.byronknoll.com/cmix.html

Also there is a free book that contains descriptions of various common and exotic compression formats http://www.mattmahoney.net/dc/dce.html

Overall I think we are yet to see the full potential of deep learning unleashed on data compression. For example the neural network in cmix compressor is quite primitive compared to modern architectures. Someone will certainly find a way to do better than that!
> The banks have had zero incentive on spending money on their systems.

Yeah, that's just not true.
As the recruiter, why aren't you taking care of that stuff for people?
> A browser is much easier to use. Every computer has a browser and no place blocks said browser.

I think I just realized how much lasting trauma the browser wars caused me. You're completely right, but my gut still reflexively respond: I know you have a shiny thing that works great in Internet Explorer, but those ActiveX controls won't run in Opera on Linux...

Rebuilding trust in the web as an application platform is going to take some force on will on my part...

(That said, I have grumpy reservations on the security of our current and future web - but I guess it's not really worse than what it was like when people were running Windows 3.11 and running random code in spreadsheets on a samba-share...)
Could'nt some static pages ( based on templates ) hosted on S3 ( with its high reliability ) do the job?
It's always amazed me how much England is a polic state with information and the internet while being firmly in West as far as democracy and in the line of history that that extends back to the Greeks.

Seriously, banning End-to-End Encryption? That's just a barrier to businesses operating in your borders and entrepreneurs starting up in your garages (or sheds rather).
Microsoft confirms Windows 10 Enterprise to become subscription service