skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wish someone could explain in simpler terms to us casual users what this means.

If only privileged users can SSH into my server, does this really affect me? In other words, I already allow only SSH users to become root.
>We have to rewrite everything in JS because JS is the language that runs on browsers.

Not much of an argument. We already have 24/7 internet connected laptops, tablets and smartphones, which is were those browsers run in the first place anyway.

Perhaps we could, and I'm going on a limp here, just cut the middleman and run on the metal?

If the problem is discoverability/installation/security etc we could focus on app stores and sandboxes (which modern OSes also have both), instead of rewriting everything on the web.

>* But it often feels that y'all just want to complain about how we're doing things wrong, rather than actually helping.*

Well, you first stop someone from drowning and then you show them how to swim...
Store their stuff.
This is the running premise behind the book Art and Fear, which basically concludes that iteration with quality feedback is the best way to develop your abilities and produce your best work. That is, quantity is the best path to quality.

https://www.amazon.com/Art-Fear-Observations-Rewards-Artmaki...
Hi wldlyinaccurate, thanks for your comment. There are a lot of frontend performance things we are focusing on for the next release. https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/23213.
Sorry for getting back to this so late, but yeah this was great! Again thanks for taking the time to write this. I had no clue it got this weird in quantumland, and it's awfully fascinating.
1080p is about as high as one should go on 13" Windows display. Windows has poor and blurry scaling for many apps. Higher and you're paying more and wasting processor power. While Macs have better scaling, performance in high dpi modes is worse than in low dpi modes.
Such attempts have rarely gone successful in past. May be the Streisand effect will be known as Samsung effect
I wonder if Samsung took a calculated risk.

Risk of brand damage if the mod was not taken down, vs. Risk of brand damage if they took down the mod and the blogtwitfacesphere laughs about it...

And as I write this I notice I'm sitting in front of a Samsung LCD monitor, shit I hope it doesn't explode!
Facebook has apologised for removing this cancer awareness video
> adjustable seat pan depth

Which the Aeron doesn't have. I don't think any Herman Miller chairs do, actually; Mirra has an option to not dig into the calves quite so hard, but that's it.
falloutx: Please report to the nearest re-education camp.
Curious Tilt of the Sun Traced to Undiscovered Planet
> Here's another heresy I'm testing that I think may turn out to be true: Spending any effort whatsoever organizing files on your computer is equally worthless.

As long as the proper files are in the backed up folders, I suspect your theory to hold true.
Hi, this is a great idea. I'm curious if you would pay a little extra (say $5/month) to have say, up to 3 devices? What about if they could all just stay active? Just curious about it as a mental exercise.
Why do you think none of the marketers care about privacy?

Why do you think all engineers do?

For the record, I'm an engineer, have almost nothing to do with web development, and my honest opinion is actually against so-called privacy advocates. At the same time, a lot of marketing people that I meet actually argue against me on this.

If you see a corellation between a profession and political opinion, it does not signify causation.
Where I work cast-off Aerons bunch up in abandoned cubicle tracts. Some people like them but others seem to move back to traditional ones. Personally, I don't like the hammock-feel very much.
There is no "bad faith". There are "diverging faiths". JavaScript frameworks as an analogy for life :)
AWS Budgets Update – Track Cloud Costs and Usage
If those are not made for showing off, I don't know what they are made for.
What is the advantage of the Inbox App over just using the archive button and maintaining only a few important emails in the regular inbox?

I did briefly try the Inbox app when it first came out but found the automatic sorting meant I occasionally missed important emails. If you use the regular inbox and the archive button you can at least see everything coming in and decide if it is important. I've been aggressive about disabling email from services that offer their own inbox (Facebook, Asana, Github etc) and unsubscribing from automated email lists - that helps limit how much I am archiving.
Missing from the title: «…significantly slower on network access than…»
Lenovo has the TrackPoint pointer nub, which is a big part of why I love and buy ThinkPads. I'm constantly amazed nobody else ever picked that idea up...
It appears to the the upcoming definitive edition remaster.

It looks like the power is somewhere between Xbox 360 and Xbox One.

The specs I saw showed it with 4 GBs of ram, which would put it clearly above Xbox 360/PS3 power and even a bit above the Wii U, which can do way better looking games than Xbox 360/PS3.

We shall see what the final specs and games look like, but what they showed off looked pretty good. It won't be PS4 Pro or Xbox One Scorpio powerful, but it's a device you can use on the go (or for second-screen gaming, which might be the killer app here).
Thanks for the kind words. I was with a group of developers in person last night and mentioned this plan casually and was amazed by how many questions everyone had. I'm start to feel like this disconnect is, paradoxically, going to result in me spending more time on social media talking about and setting up meetup groups with like minded people. I don't want to bury my head in the sand, and I'm not a Luddite – I just want to be more intentional about how I'm spending my time and go to sleep happy with how I've spent my day.

HN was a big part of the inspiration [0] and the few articles I've read about Tristan Harris have filled me with a desire to reclaim my life. We're in sort of a planning stage right now and are realizing there's quite a few things we're going to have to buy, which seems intimidating, but it'll be nice that my egg timer or flashlight won't become out of date in a few years. I was looking at a wristwatch [1] I feel embodies how I'm feeling I should live life lately. It seems a little silly at first but it really struck me as a timepiece that makes a particular statement.

We don't form memories of what life was like at 12:07 PM or 12:09 PM, at most we need to know the general time of day. I feel like even the exact time of day might be too much information. I've started checking email at work once a day and disabled the always visible clock in OSX and have yet to have any issues with this. If someone really needs me real time they'll come talk to me or send me a message on Slack.

I'm thinking about blogging about my experience, but it feels like that might be against the spirit of what I'm trying to accomplish. Then again blogging is a different sort of communication than writing 144 character responses, and may be appropriate to get the word out.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12678325
[1] https://www.slow-watches.com/
As I recall, Apple has made sure to patent all of its touchpad technologies, making sure only Macs have those excellent touchpads. It seems like any competition would have to make good touchpads some other way :/
>What does the first part of the sentence mean? Where is "selfish nastiness" considered good?

In political candidates with strange hairdos who attract a huge majority of the population, in fictional pop heroes like Dr. Gregory House, in actual pop heroes like Kanye West and numerous other places besides...
Mine was already unchecked.
> Do sales people have something important other than their interpersonal skills?

Consider the difference between my dad telling a joke at dinner and a standup comedian doing a 2 hour set to a sold out arena. They both technically are "just telling jokes", but there's a lot more that goes into the latter – pacing, rhythm, crowd control dynamics, an extensive repertoire, so on and so forth.

Similarly, great salespeople have 'advanced interpersonal skills'. They have a great understanding of human motivations, how people think about how to make decisions, and they're great at systematically breaking through worries and concerns and so on. They also typically have great networks and relationships with others, which can be very useful.

But yeah, I wouldn't hire a sales person until much later either.
As for now, there is no viable alternative to Google. There is no distributed, free independent search engine that provides such quality relevant search results as Google, and is caring for users privacy.

I do not think either it is financially possible to run such a thing, without someone's vested interest in metadata behind such possible endeavour. There is silent demand for such an effort however.

UPD: I know about DuckDuckGo, but look: https://www.netmarketshare.com/search-engine-market-share.as...
This is why I won't rely on Google Voice for anything important - if they won't make it a paid service with some additional features, that means it's a cost center that could go away at any time.

Heck, I'd happily pay for Google Voice with the addition of fax capabilities (even if it was receive-only), particularly since my online faxing service was bought out by eFax (feh) and at the next renewal will jack up from $15/year to $85/year (bye!). I'd happily pay multiples of how much I was previously paying to be an actual /customer/ who gets that kind of services.
I've sat in Aerons for a few years across various jobs and they were always just OK - I felt like they could have been great if I could just adjust a few more things to fit my body better.

When it came time to get a "real" office chair for the home office I decided to go with the Steelcase Leap[1] and I have not regretted it. I had no idea a chair could fit me this well. Everything is adjustable and actually labeled - it's like they actually thought about how people use chairs.

The biggest problem with having a chair as good as the Leap to sit in 90% of the time is the other 10% of the time where I'm somewhere with a terrible generic office chair - I can feel it in my back and legs within a few hours.

Everyone is different but I really can't recommend enough at least trying out the leap.

[1]https://www.steelcase.com/products/office-chairs/leap/
Why Java Is Doomed to Fail (1997)
Why I Tell My MBA Students to Stop Looking for a Job and Join the Gig Economy
I wouldn't be surprised if the texture of the model in the mod is a photo published by samsung in some way, meaning they would have a copyright on the texture, and publishing a video made with the mod made with the texture would indeed be a legit copyright violation.

Keep in mind that in general all gameplay videos are copyright violations because they display copies of textures belonging to video game studios, just usually the studios don't do anything about it since it's actually free advertisement.
Local Heap Exploit on an Old RedHat8 Machine into a Local Shell
As an HP engineer this makes me very happy.
They may be commuting by bike or foot.
How Apple Influenced the Labels to Shut Down My Music Streaming Startup (2015)
On macs, palm detection is excellent, don't remember ever having the cursor move while typing (though I'm sure it's happened).
I wonder this too. Suppose you switch a product from one purchase of $120 to $10/month.

In the first case, you can forecast $120 for every time a person buys the product. (Once every few years), so $120/2 years

However, with $10/mo, you can forecast for every month in the upcoming years. So $240/2 years.
So how do they log in without a username & password ?
Agreed; I'd actually recommend against this. You should know the math and reasoning behind the specific algorithm rather than dissecting it via code.
Create Slack, Say “NO”, Stop Thinking “I Don't Have Time”
"It all depends on the training data"

Exactly.
If "running every 10 minutes" model makes you a BRT, then that makes practically all (somewhat-)working high-frequency buses BRTs. I can give around 50 examples from Istanbul alone
Developers have never had empathy for end users, in part because they always have had better hardware than the end users did. (Because developers love computers and splurge on the good stuff, where most users don't care and just buy the cheapest they can get away with.)

It's a problem that's been around forever. I dunno how we solve it, but I applaud Facebook for at least trying.
Did they run these tests again AFTER the 10.0.3 patch that was supposed to significantly improve Verizon service for many people (back to at least where it was on a 6s)?
I don't think it's obvious from a simple Google search why a material capable of explaining things about galactic orbits and large scale gravitational effects can't also explain localized orbital effects. There's no clear distinction in kind of effect, only scale.

Perhaps instead of not contributing (by shouting RTFM when there isn't a manual for beginns on that topic), you could give a basic summary of why that's the case.

If it's so simple, please outline in a line or two why dark matter can only impact large scale orbits (eg, galactic or bigger), and not cause localized or small scale effects (eg, solar system sized).
Because nobody has yet invented a compelling way to write JavaScript applications, so people keep trying. We're still waiting for the Ruby on Rails of frontend development.

I'm not saying Ruby on Rails is the best backend framework (I don't use it anymore), but when it came around everybody understood that it was getting something right. It popularized a new model for server-side web development that all other communities started to follow and improve. When it came out, most developers who were already working with the web could see that it would be very useful, it solved real-world problems they had, it just made sense.

This is much less clear with JavaScript frameworks. They usually have a tough learning curve and the benefits are not always coming as expected. So people keep trying to find a model that works well.
Dockerfile CMD vs. ENTRYPOINT
"...some greybeard conspiracy nut in the back of the room asked her about the existence of Nibiru..."

I guess he couldn't make it to Guadalajara to ask Musk.
dupe, please check before submitting!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12756006
The most important advice you need to hear: your Flash tool is never going to get the adoption it might deserve because it's in Flash. Your potential user base is shrinking, not growing, and it is only going to shrink faster.

https://chrome.googleblog.com/2016/08/flash-and-chrome.html
I encourage you to take a look at a map of skin colour diversity and decide whether Chine or Europe has more variety: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_skin_color#/media/File:U...

North to south I think it's pretty clear that skin colour goes from light to much darker than Europe.
Inductively defined sets and relations
You think Lenovo would let them?
Or maybe split them into folders like "Receipts", "Documents", "Books", etc... But beyond that is a cliff of diminishing returns.
You guys know that institutional Wall Street investors aren't total idiots, right? They know this as well as you do. On the earnings call yesterday, more than one person specifically asked about the impact on revenue numbers of the migration from one-off to recurring payments, and seemed satisfied with the answers they got.
Forming and maintaining relationships is more difficult and important than commonly assumed by non-sales people. Developing a pipeline, knowing the industry, the right people to talk to, negotiating contracts... I am not in sales, btw, but I have worked closely with them.
Agreed, I feel like I'm missing something here. I had thought that react "won" over angular because people generally preferred one-way data flow vs. angular's two-way data bindings.

At least for me, that's one of the biggest reasons why I feel like I understand react better than angular. It's a little verbose at times, but it does make it pretty easy to follow.

And it looks like Vue.js is a two-way data binding framework? I won't write it off without trying it, but that's a point against it for me.
Red Hat and Ericsson sign open source deal
They are worlds slower than phone memory. It's like usb stick vs Sata 3 SSD.
I don't think you need madvise() for this bug. It's just easier to exploit that way.
Hey, can you share your contact info? I would like to have a conversation with you about an idea.
Thanks. Check this blog post that I wrote
https://blog.whoishiring.io/hacker-news-who-is-hiring-thread...
What am I missing by not using a manager?

I've been doing something like this

set rtp^=~/.vim/bundle/ScrollColors/

for each plugin, and it works wonderfully, doesn't complicate things, plus never broke.

Granted, I don't auto-update plugins but go into each git repo and checkout the desired release tag (or some revision) if I need to.
No they created ContentID so they could say "look we're doing the best we can". If they got rid of it all the large copyright holders could sue again.
Can someone help me better understand how this works, or perhaps point me to a decent article explaining more of the details? Most of the articles I can find just briefly explain the exploit, but not really how it works (in detail).

From looking at the example code, it seems like the general process is:

- Open some (normally un-writable) file as read-only and mmap it in to your process.

- Kick off two threads. One thread to repeatedly write to the same mmap-ed address via /proc/PID/mem and another thread to keep issuing the madvise call.

- Wait for some race condition to be (un)satisfied such that you're able to write to a cached copy of the file.

What I don’t fully understand is how the /proc/PID/mem thing works.

Here’s what I’m curious about:

1. What would happen if you tried to write to the mmap-ed region directly? Since it’s been mapped in with “PROT_READ”, does this mean that you’ll get a segmentation fault or something? From the manpage, it seems like “MAP_PRIVATE” allows it to be a COW mapping, but I don’t see how the combination of “PROT_READ” and “MAP_PRIVATE” is even valid. Unless this means that any writes to data copied from the mmap-ed region into other buffers will be COW-ed and that you can’t actually write to the mmap-ed region itself? That would make sense to me.

2.How is writing to /proc/PID/mem any different than writing through the mmap-ed region directly? Assume that you weren’t running the madvice thread. What would happen then if you tried to write to the /proc/PID/mem file? Presumably the same thing that happens if you just tried to write to the file directly…

3. Finally, how does the madvice call cause a race condition? I realize this might be a little too much to cover in a comment, but this seems like the meat of it.
And tags solve that, along with smart folders for common searches.
"Every 10 minutes" is a completely typical bus schedule, in the civilised world (greetings from London, or basically any European city of consequence). It's not BRT at all. There are Brazilian BRT lines which run vehicles every 60 seconds -- THAT is how BRT works.
The Fifth Amendment and Touch ID
I understand putting these stickers on cheap machines as they're subsidy machinery, but on k+ machines it's just sad.
1080p on a 13" screen is not low resolution. Maybe 0.1% of the population can tell the difference between that and 4k on such a small screen from normal viewing distances.
Yeah. I've just taken to ignoring those responses.

As far as I'm concerned, jQuery & lodash are part of the "standard library". Certainly there are cases where one or the other isn't needed for a particularly application. But if you're doing anything with the DOM, or doing anything more complex than simple if/then callbacks, you're either using them or you're reimplementing them bit by bit.

Certainly jquery has some... warts... but I haven't seen any project emerge that's succeeded at being a cleaned up replacement. And jquery 3.0 looks like it's trying to forge ahead in that direction itself.

(Still hate jquery's inconsistent ajax callback signatures. sigh.)
Most dell business laptops have one.
Kubernetes, Ingress controllers and Traefik
> What I'm disappointed by is the lack of usb 3.1 type c ports on brand new laptops.

Why that comment here when the x360 has full-TB3 Type C ports? (though disappointingly they're on the same side of the machine)
If you go to about:telemetry in Firefox, you can see exactly what data is being collected.
I have been a Outsystems developer for the last 10 years. I feel quite comfortable about my future prospects, but I live in Portugal where Outsystems has 100% penetration in large companies. I think there is no chance of the company going out of business since so many big customers depend on it.

The platform is expanding fast and lately it's getting harder to find developers for my teams. Many of the most experienced developers are working on project abroad where rates are much higher (Benelux, the Gulf, United States).

As a developer platform it really makes you more productive. I was working with .NET before and I think I became 10 times more productive (of course this could mean that I sucked as a .NET developer).

However licensing is expensive, so it's not for every customer and also not for every project. For enterprise business apps that need to change often I know nothing better.
Vue.js is multi-paradigm. It supports the MVC model of Angular/Ember/Etc. but with Vuex you can use the Flux model encouraged by React or the Elm Architecture, and it works great.
This is good, but it'd be nicer if their pricing was just less convoluted. It's not so fun substituting in five, six variables into a formula to figure out if this month you're gonna be over or under.

Ironic that additional budgets (above 2) cost $0.02/day. Does the budget budget for the amount spent on budgets?
Pointing the Way Forward
Ansible and Weave step by step
The Wii U already has noticeably better graphics than the PS3/360. This will presumably go quite a bit further than that.

With Nintendo's strong art design, there are games like Mario Kart 8 that look as good as most PS4/Xbox One games.
Display Fusion Pro 8 License Key Download
Only service I have really seen being used is O365 emails. Rest of the Azure is not really being used by most of our customer. They are still dipping their toes in water so yeah it look like smoke and mirrors. At least in my anecdotal experience.

Edit: I don't have an issue with down votes but seems like some people are angry. I just shared my experience.Can Microsoft show what is the revenue growth in absolute terms.They are including Azure credits into the Enterprise License Agreement and calling it cloud revenue. Availability of free credits does not translate into adoption necessarily. Enterprise customers are still evaluating the how costs will look like over a period of time.