skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Strange I find the opposite. There seems to be a "well, these guys seem to be doing okay, but they're nowhere near the polish and design of Apple" for pretty much any competitor. I don't think I've ever heard a compliment toward Asus, yet have heard Apple compliments all my life.

I also think Apple expectations are kinda low. I think everyone is used to Apple and just deal with their oddities and questionable decisions. The same way Windows guys just shrug and upgrade to Win10 without question. People don't want to learn new platforms and just want something similar to what they had, so they'll make a lot of excuses to avoid the pain of migrating platforms.
Oss-fuzz: continuous fuzzing of open source software
Current: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12838335
> "Additionally electron beam optics are magnets, so driving multiple beams in the same space would be complex."

Could you not use a Halbach array?

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

Furthermore, I had in mind that you'd have synchronisation between the beams. Consider the use case of one e-beam per chip. As each wafer has multiple chips you would still have plenty of room for parallel beams working at any one time.

As for cost, do you have a ballpark figure for how much the devices cost?
Vita brevis,

ars longa,

occasio praeceps,

experimentum periculosum,

iudicium difficile.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ars_longa,_vita_brevis

Also

“I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.”
― Steve Jobs

Good to read this occasionally (and Paul's take is nice)
> I doubt, however, that this is an eternal intrinsic attribute.

I'm not sure why something has to be intrinsic and eternal in order to be true, or at least useful.
I think you are very representative of the people complaining about the new MacBook Pros not having 32GB+ of RAM.
OpenCage Geocoder – An API to convert coordinates to and from places
> its all limited to 1 gig ethernet.

10GE ThunderBolt NICs are a thing. Alternatively you could use a ThunderBolt PCI-E enclosure.
I have made several Flash games in the past, and I really wanted them to run in a web environment (i.e. without a dependancy on any plugin).

That is why I made IvanK.js http://lib.ivank.net . It is a library for doing graphics (including rewritable text fields), mouse and keyboard events in a "Flash way". I was able to rewrite my flash games to JS in a couple of hours, it was just a "mechanic" rewriting of ActionScript 3 to Javascript. If you want to port your flash projects to the web, it may be extremely useful to you :)
I thought Trump did not use emails.
Worst of all, they think people who haven't learned about security deserve what happens to them...
well yes, but what about if I want to scale that office?
I found a comically bad example today with an employment agency website. They give you the option of uploading your CV from Google Drive, by granting them access to EVERYTHING on your drive. No SSL either:

https://twitter.com/ServerAngels/status/793390333723893760
I went to college before laptops were affordable to college students, so all of my notes were still on paper. I found that I had to write them in manuscript if I wanted to be able to read them later, plus it was faster than writing the cursive anyway.

It always seemed to me that cursive was optimized for quill or fountain pens and was kind of counterproductive if you had a pencil or a ballpoint pen. I found it far too easy for words to devolve into just a bunch of loops with cursive.
How do you build reports from your databases?
My toaster has to be certified that it meets certain minimum safety standards. It really seems that IoT and safety critical software/firmware should be required to pass a similar (bare minimum) certification.
A hand-picked curation of the Best #UnityTips by Indies on Twitter this week
Show HN: How to learn anything with the Chain Method
Don't have to be particularly obscure cities to get a lot of segments. I once had to take a last minute flight from Cape Town to Seattle (before the direct Jo-burg to Atlanta route existed).

Cape Town > Johannesburg > Amsterdam > Atlanta > Seattle.

4 segments... and about 40 hours... gooooooood times :)
A visual representation of the network asset dependency graph in Chrome DevTools
This is one way to do it, though I can't recommend it as the best way.

The first step is building your WordPress site correctly, and for me, that starts with using trellis (https://roots.io/trellis) and bedrock (https://roots.io/bedrock).

He's partially correct about S3 for media and uploads, but you want to take it one step further and use Imgix for actual image (jpeg/png) delivery because it'll do all of the transformations, cropping, etc. for you without WordPress mucking it up. At that point you have a fairly stateless WordPress installation and can spin up any number of instances of it. Here's my plugin for handling both S3 and Imgix: https://github.com/jawngee/ilab-media-tools/

CloudFlare is really the best thing to happen to WordPress since Imgix. Using CloudFlare's ability to cache at the root and sending correct caching headers from WordPress to CloudFlare, you are virtually indestructible.

We run a news site that gets about 500K uniques a month off a $20 instance on Digital Ocean this way. Granted, it's static, eg no user directed dynamic content like comments, votes, etc.

We build a lot of WordPress sites this way.
Another scheme is giving away fake receipts in addition to or instead of "I voted" stickers.

OK VLM your boss needs a Trump receipt, your communist college professor needs a Clinton receipt, you need another Clinton receipt for facebook and github or they will delete your accounts, that'll be one R, three D, would you like any complimentary green party receipts? OK here's all your receipts thanks for voting see ya in 4 years!

Heck hand them out with the bake sale goods. Have a free set of pre-printed fake receipts for ALL the candidates with some delicious chocolate chip cookies that fund this schools PTA. "Could I interest you in this cageless chicken egg gluten free organic soy oil brownie with a complimentary fake green party receipt?"
It's not uncommon for start-ups at the more mature stage to work with an investment bank to pull together a round of financing (let's say post Series B), particularly when you get into the triple-$M range. For example, Box used JP Morgan in their later rounds.

Bankers have a much wider network of potential investors than founders, and they can also run the process much more efficiently. Raising $141M is different from raising $14.1M, it gets way more complex. And at that amount / valuation, what can be a financing can quickly turn into an acquisition, think what happened to Cruise Automation.

Frequently the bankers do a principal investment in the same round they are raising for the company, to show that they have skin in the game, but also to position themselves for a potential IPO or M&A transaction (which is the lucrative part, you get 2-3% of the total consideration).

Qatalyst is well known in the Valley, another firm is Allen & Co. Both companies do principal investments, and so do the bulge bracket firms like GS, JPM and MS. GS put money into Uber.

So it's probably not "had to hire" but "decided to hire", and a perfectly common practice.
Not sure about best case, but I see three things WASM will be immediately used for: DRM, games, malware.
AFAICT smartphones are mostly exposed already, they usually get an IPv6 address, along with some IPv4 connectivity behind the phone company's NAT.

OTOH I just tried to ping6 my phone, and got a 'no route to host'. I wonder if it's my wired connection's problem, or a security measure from the phone company's side.
I took a video - https://youtu.be/GAFh8j8pCaQ?t=21s
That's a bit cynical I think. I've read the first two of the Three Body problem series, and part of the delight is the way it highlights (by contrast) the various cultural assumptions made by the sci-fi authors I normally read (a weirdly large proportion of whom are Scottish). But comparison aside, it's a really good read.

Empires of the Deep[1] may break out of the cliche you speak of, but I haven't seen it (and it's unlikely any of us ever will). There was a superb story about the not-quite-making of this film on HN a few months ago[2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empires_of_the_Deep
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11766319
Let's Automate Let's Encrypt
Completely incorrect claim, the IoT industry doesn't spend a penny on security, and therefore will be vulnerable to these type of attacks.

If anything this is proof that the security industry does work, these attacks are happening on devices where there is no security budget - not on servers with large investments in security.
In my experience, Wine is always worth trying first. Definitely good enough for quite a lot of production work with that one obscure Windows binary you absolutely need, in most cases.
AWS has 45% share of public cloud infrastructure market
And avoid caching plugins. Most of them are garbage.
This idea is nothing new.

"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter." -- Winston Churchill
Cursive is awful, with no practical redeeming values. The only reason to learn cursive is if you are a historian who has to delve into primary sources where it was used. If you want to fuss with it, fine, but like calligraphy, it should be an art form, rather than something we waste time teaching universally.

It'd be better if everyone learned mechanical drafting lettering[1]. It's not particularly difficult, and it is clear and unambiguous and everyone can read it with ease.

[1] http://rvhs-denyer.com/web-back/cad/units&tasks/led-ch-5-let...
Shortened version using http://smmry.com/, 56% reduction. (Because life is too short)

"Life is Short

Is life actually short, or are we really complaining about its finiteness? Would we be just as likely to feel life was short if we lived 10 times as long?

That gave me a way to answer the question, and the answer is that life actually is short.

It's not just a figure of speech to say that life is too short for something.

If you find yourself thinking that life is too short for something, you should try to eliminate it if you can.

When I ask myself what I've found life is too short for, the word that pops into my head is "Bullshit." I realize that answer is somewhat tautological.

It's almost the definition of bullshit that it's the stuff that life is too short for.

While some amount of bullshit is inevitably forced on you, the bullshit that sneaks into your life by tricking you is no one's fault but your own."
How to think about Security: Year 1 Retro
This is the playlist I've been using with great success. https://open.spotify.com/user/128017147/playlist/45LpllYld7S...
This is the playlist I've been using https://open.spotify.com/user/128017147/playlist/45LpllYld7S...
Along the same lines, I frequently read the Roman Stoic philosopher Seneca's essay titled "On the Shortness of Life" (https://ia802605.us.archive.org/19/items/SenecaOnTheShortnes...) to come to terms with mortality.

It's a great read, as are all the Stoics, in this regard.
>I know that NAT is not a security feature but, pragmatically, one could argue the opposite: lots of vulnerable devices today aren't part of a botnet just because they haven't been discovered being hidden behind NAT.

But in the same way, I feel like NAT has allowed a false sense of security. Maybe if NAT wasn't there to hide everyone's PC, more machines would be broken into, and device security would be a lot better today.
I like how the author complains about cyberpocalypse conference talks then goes on to say the security industry is broken...

Hard coded creds and the allowance of default creds isn't the security industry, it's the manufacturer.
The "security industry" was never significantly involved in improving product security and software quality. They have roots in profiting from the deplorable state of PC security. Centralised firewalls, "intranets", and anti-virus products are not sustainable solutions to any of these problems - they're just so ingrained in the mindset of IT profiessionals that they self-perpetuate.
Windows file system compression had to be dumbed down
I think I've read this four or five times since Paul posted it in January. I'm not especially old, I don't have kids, and I suspect most of my life is ahead of me still, but damn does this one strike a chord with me. It's definitely one of his best.
>Every web developer should have a home static IP address

DynamicDNS works just as well, and without the extra charge/phone call to your ISP.
You used to be able to upload your own tracks on the front page, but you really need lots of similar sections for it to skip around - Gotye someone that I used to know also worked well.
How about a law that requires computerized devices to be shipped with unique passwords.

That would be a start.

Second, any computerized device must pass FTC/FCC/UL (pick one) tests for computer security before going on sale.

There's more that can be done, but let's go after the simple stuff first.
wonder if you can setup a US entity that provides services to your Canadian Saas company. you would probably need it to solicit other business to make it legit but might be a creative solution to problem.
Funnily enough, while the mid-Atlantic screen accent was dying out post WW2, its English equivalent, RP, was being kept well and truly alive in the UK by the BBC.

Actors like Richard Burton and Anthony Hopkins were instructed to drop their Welsh accents if they wanted to progress in their acting careers, as RP was the "right" way for an actor to speak.

Even in other professions, regional accents were replaced by RP. My father was told to drop his Welsh accent if he wanted to become a lawyer.

RP was only really dropped in the 1980s.

On a side note, is Clara Bow's story the basis for "Singing in the Rain"?
Although three-body trilogy is one of my most favourite sci-fi books, I think your criticism is valid. Even the Chinese version is kind of so-so in terms of character building.

That's not why this book is great though, it's a hard sci-fi, and its charm is in blending imagination with science in a way that seems very plausible. It blew my mind when I realize some parts of the story which I initially assumed to be imagination turned out to have been scientifically or at least theoretically proven.
The New System Font Stack?
In this case, it's more like we look down on people who don't wash their hands, but don't care if the companies making soap also handle raw sewage. The tragedy of the modern botnet is that it wasn't even the fault of dumb consumers, but companies so careless they didn't give people the ability to set passwords in the first place!
Topper :) Though I would guess many developing world travel experiences are bad, while we are talking about first world problems here.
Yeah, no.

Mirai doesn't have shit to do with the security industry. The security industry are the people who you hire to secure your things, victims of Mirai did not take advantage of the services provided by the security industry.

More like, The Mirai Botnet Is Proof the Security Industry Is Going To Be Doing Fucking Great
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Same sentiment here.

It can be hard to find motivation when you realize how fleeting everything is.

I always enjoy reading the Graham essay though, and trying to balance my awareness of time and not getting crushed by it.
I don't necessarily agree. Yes, we teach children to wash their hands, but first of all there's always a threshold over which people stop giving a damn. How many people are actually following their doctors' advice about diet and lifestyle? Heck, how many people actually take their medicine as prescribed? And there's also a danger in the other extreme. It's pretty bad that many people these days are self-medicating, many times with antibiotics or avoiding vaccines and it's even worse when they do it to their children.

Something to think about. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for education. And just like sexual education, I'd introduce classes about online privacy in elementary school.
Ask HN: MacBook Pro replacement?
After all the threads and posts and hype around the "new" Macs, specially how it is expensive and does not worth the money, there are still a lot of things I cannot find in any other computer.

Not only hardware but also software.

Just a bit of history. As a normal, non tech person, in the beginning I mostly used Windows. After I started programming I started using Linux and I mostly used, and still use, Ubuntu and Arch, obviously depending on the purpose of the installation. But since a I got my first Mac I cannot replace it for any other computer I have tried.

Regarding the software part, there are two things that bother me:

* Iterm2: It is amazing, from the customizations (key binds, theme, fonts, etc) to the easy setup , it just works and allows me to do my job very efficiently.
* General OS features: Overall performance of the OS, and also some minor features such as multi desktop navigation with the trackpad, etc.

In terms of hardware:

* Trackpad, there is no trackpad I have used that can be compared to the one in my Mac. It is so good that when I am on the move I do not worry not to have a mouse, I can use browser and what ever I want outside the terminal and it is amazing.

* The mac size, screen quality, keyboard quality and battery durability.

I have seen lots of discussions around this but still I do not have a replacement that can meet the minimum requirements for the change. Do you have any suggestions for all this points?
Looks like they removed the "upload" button: http://labs.echonest.com/Uploader/faq.html

And it doesn't appear to be open source, sadly.
Emancipator, Tycho, Bonobo. Good stuff!
> the IoT industry doesn't spend a penny on security,

Citation sorely needed [and not to be found].
I wish more people would talk about the economics of why netsec is such a garbage industry. It's a few honest people screaming to be heard above the din of snake-oil salesmen, but there's an economic reason that goes beyond "dumb users, incompetent programmers and CTOs who just look and speeds and feeds". The problem is there's weak correlation, or at least very difficult-to-see correlation, between the amount of effort you put in on security and the results you get.

You could have no security and just get lucky and never get hacked. Or you could have great security and just get really unlucky and have a determined hacker. Or you could be spending uselessly and still getting lucky, although you (and your vendor!) attribute your good fortune to the product. This kind of information failure makes it really hard to have a functional and efficient market, even when everyone involved is honest.

I don't have a good solution for this, which I why I hope someone smarter than me brings it up.
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It has been done with manual segmentation [1]. And the results are mind blowing. There also a lot of work done on segmentation with neural nets [2, 3], so I wouldn't be surprised to see someone implementing this idea in the near future.

1: https://github.com/alexjc/neural-doodle
2: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1605.06211.pdf
3: http://mi.eng.cam.ac.uk/projects/segnet/
I started my career as a Tribune employee (eventually working for a Tribune/Gannett joint venture). It was right after Sam Zell bought them. I recall him bringing in a million dollars in cash and placing on the floor of basement where our offices were as a sort of challenge to come up with some great idea and he'd fund it with that cash. I was young, impressionable, drunk and stupid, so, it was kind of exciting to see. Being from Chicago, I wish they'd do well, but every time I hear about them it usually just ends with me shaking my head at how silly whatever they're doing sounds. Tronc itself recently got the John Oliver treatment in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bq2_wSsDwkQ.
Any competition is welcome. Currently Salesforce is in a "milk-the-cow" strategy, with licensing costs at every corner.
I'm of exactly the opposite opinion. The fact that on the Mac (and old UNIX-proper systems) decoupled the modifier key for GUI-shortcuts (Command/Meta) from the modifier key for terminal control sequences is one of the absolute best parts of the Mac-style of shortcuts to me.

It means I get to have Modifer-C and Modifier-V and Modifier-Z always do the same things no matter what program I'm in. In Linux-land I always have to do some extra finger gymnastics in the terminal. Because Ctrl-C will kill processes rather than copy text for instance. Ctrl-Z will pause a process and push it to the background rather than undo, etc.
what's the response to an undergrad senior (CS major, typical software dev internships, portfolio) interested in working remotely after graduation? i assume the typical route is getting a full-time position and then transitioning—is it too arrogant/presumptuous to think startups would be interested in a new grad hire for remote positions?
Not sure that solves the problem either, perhaps UK has more stringent laws, or perhaps the US does. But if it's not universal a sufficiently large market can still be exploited to attack another. The internet is global. We need global regulations.
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You need uBlock Origin & uMatrix.
I am teaching my children cursive. It should be learned and used. Stuff that in your core curriculum.
Trump the man, or his campaign?

It's hard to imagine his campaign functioning without something like email, then again, I'm old fashioned and prefer it to all other forms of person to person/small groups of people methods, and the Democrats right now are teaching the rest of the world how not to do InfoSec....

I mean, how do you draft position papers (https://www.donaldjtrump.com/policies/) without at minimum running them past a nuts and bolts editor?
We trust computers to:

* Count and record our money

* Operate and monitor medical equipment

* Monitor and control planes, trains, ships, and cars

* etc

To think that we cannot use a computer to record votes is insane.
It's really not. Cynicism not needed.
amazing how brainwashed you are
> Colour me also more than slightly intrigued by this idea of being from the "actual Mid-Atlantic"- which was an ocean last time anybody checked.

That is exactly why "mid-atlantic accent" is called that[0]. It's halfway between American and British, and it's the native accent of somewhere indistinct where nobody is actually from.

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[0] Also, since apparently this needs to be explicitly stated in this ridiculous, Gell-Mann-Effect-in-full-force HN thread: "mid-atlantic accent" and "trans-atlantic accent" are synonyms. They are different words for the same thing. BOTH ARE RIGHT.
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2016)
Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords
REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome.
When remote work is not an option, please include ONSITE. A one-sentence summary of
your interview process would also be helpful.

Submitters: please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no
recruiting firms or job boards.

Readers: please only email submitters if you personally are interested in the
job—no recruiters or sales calls.

You can also use kristopolous' console script to search the thread:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519.
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Please lead with either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER,
your location, and whether remote work is a possibility.