skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Point one here is the BIGGEST. If you do nothing else, own your domain name, and forward mail to a service provider of your choice. In my case, I made my new email address forward to Gmail, and then started changing everything over to use my new address. Then, when I moved providers to FastMail, all I really had to do was re-point my domain name.

Even if for some reason I lost my FastMail (pretty unlikely), I'd just repoint my domain to a new mail service, and I could easily recover all my other accounts. And of course, my email archive is backed up locally, so there's no risk of losing that.
I've got a domain name and an E-mail address on it that forwards to my gmail account, but I find out of laziness I usually end up directly specifying my @gmail.com account when signing up for online services. It might be time to slowly start switching over to using my personal account, so, in case I'm ever banished from gmail it's simply a matter of pointing my forwarder to a different E-mail provider.

Sooooo many accounts to switch over though, probably will take a few days...
Every language falls victim to the functional paradigm over time, because functional language community is very vocal and promises riches if you use their paradigms. But when you do implement them, they turn out to be hard to use or not viable for big applications and people stick to their old languages anyway.
All of the world's postal services have peering agreements, the same as for Internet traffic.

See also http://fortune.com/2015/03/11/united-nations-subsidy-chinese...
We don't use Electron, but its the same principle. The desktop app is written using HTML/CSS/Javascript running inside a webview.

I get why people hate Electron based apps, and we are working hard to ensure that Flock keeps its footprint as low as possible given our architecture (there's a significant advantage in building one desktop app instead of three different ones). We are not there yet, but soon we should reach a point where our CPU/memory usage is not a concern.
I'm pretty sure if you said to someone that you were worried a vote for Clinton is a vote for war with Russia then that person would understand what you meant. A person might disagree with you, but a person is not going to worry you feel the way you do because of their skin color or religion.

Does that distinction make sense?
Very clever. Apparently by default, Windows, OS X and Linux recognize an ethernet device, load it as a network device and perform a DHCP request, even when the machine is locked or password protected. Ouch.
AR enabled Planner connects online and offline calendars
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We have active users from both these companies.

We launched our product a year and a half ago at SXSW in Austin, but it’s only recently that we’ve started aggressively marketing it.

This year, we were at Techcrunch Disrupt, NY and SF and currently exhibiting at TNW Momentum, NY. Do drop by our booth, if you happen to be in the city.
I'm rather curious, what's preventing you from supporting Firefox?
Scrolling is very annoying.
Does FastMail have any equivalent to Inbox (reminders/snoozing emails)? I started to migrate last month, got lazy when I realized how much I used those, and then I think my trial account lapsed.

This article might scare me enough into trying again anyway, but if I can find any replacement for reminders (Fastmail or otherwise) that's as nice to use I'll jump over so fast.
No, I am making the observation that most users are conservative and resist change, even for the better. And that most people can't recognize progress even if it hits them in the face.
That ship sailed long ago. I fired up the mail client in windows 10 for the first time in a while yesterday and it had this weird galaxy background. It looked like an access app an amateur would throw together.
More generally, stop reyling on any single platform for your news.
There are better details on this web page for the vulnerability, apparently it affects Mac, Windows, Linux computers with default configs:

https://samy.pl/poisontap/
Serious question: How does this make it to the front page?

Unless I missed something, it's a basic feature, and doesn't seem even remotely innovative.
"We need a more educated and engaged public". Well said.

However, the issue here is that pretty much every news outlet straight up shilled for a candidate. CNN, MSNBC, NYT, HuffPo, ABC, CBS for Clinton and Fox News for Trump.

How is a non-computer savvy person (your parents, aunts and uncles) that doesn't know how to research things online supposed to form an independent opinion if these news organizations are their only window into the world?
You could accomplish the same thing by plugging in an Ethernet cable that ran traffic through a malicious reverse proxy. The difference here is that the USB device presents itself as an Ethernet device.
Who cares? If it works on Linux and works well they can put their favourite Gifs inside for all I care
I've seen some horrific UI on some 3D secure implementations. Also, I've seen some websites refresh to a "loading 3D secure ..." page, only to somehow skip it and go further. If the merchant can just skip it and charge your card like a regular credit card, then what's even the point of having it?
Fewer than 3% of cars sold in the U.S. have manual transmissions
Probably not. In this case, everyone set their shipping address to one location though, so Google simply cancelled the orders. (And then digitally killed everyone who placed them.) Had they shipped them to themselves and then shipped them elsewhere, this would not have been possible, but it would have cut into their profit margins a lot.
You may want to rethink how you differentiate Flock from Slack

https://api.slack.com/docs/message-buttons
Are there any plans to add video calls or screen sharing as a feature? Having those work cross platform would be a huge advantage over other existing messaging applications.
Seems like an even worse problem for the new Mac Book Pro's, all Thunderbolt/USB-C ports. You could probably spoof any type of input.
I read your article and all of your comments, and my consequentialist argument is this: you will be a lot happier, and other people will like you more, if you learn to use rationalist thinking modes and lists of fallacies less as weapons to wield against others, and more as tools for self-examination and ways to question not only what you're thinking but why - sometimes you'll realize that you're over-reacting to a perceived insult, and justifying your angry response with a weakly related argument about why the entity that insulted you is terrible. And maybe you'll stop yourself before you do that publicly where people can see your tantrum.
I started reading the article, in the middle it said "this is how they linked the DNC hacking to Russians" and I finished the article and there was no revelation at all, did I read it incorrectly? Or is the article misleading?
Any reason for terming Electron app as slow?
The best i could find was
https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/5672
Presumably portable services will work on Ubuntu so you could skip the snap.

There will never be agreement on standards that are used as strategic weapons in developer mindshare turf wars between companies using monopoly-or-die-trying business models.
For certain values of safe.

Poisoning the DNS subsystem of your computer is not safe. At the very least it could record which requests you made indefinitely. This does need to be fixed.
Yes, they just scrape your banks online system.
Possibly something similar to this[0]?

[0] https://www.fastmail.com/help/account/icantlogin.html
years of training and all they do is press the copy button

:-D that is a funny take at their life. they do have to live in "enemy" territory as a double life, living that itself would account their intensive training!
It is my understanding Android simply uses the class library of OpenJDK. Android will continue to used the ART VM instead of the HotSpot VM.
This is already the case for SuSE and Redhat. Package names are different, RPM macros are different. Doing a package that works for both is gruesome. Also, at the time of SysV, you had to use two different init scripts.
That would suck if anytime I wanted to deal with things back home while travelling I had to remove my local sim and put back in my home sim just so I could receive SMS messages from my bank.

Do they offer any non SMS options?
I don't consisted that a solved problem. Austria has the same "solution". Try paying as a foreigner without a local bank account. Also no support for chargebacks.
You can get tires rated for 186+MPH. You run out of gas quickly at those speeds.
Also curious about this. For reasons that our team was personally against, we had to devote some serious upfront development work to building an integration with a WordPress backend and the rest of our Ember front-end (which consumed, thankfully, a JSON-API spec backend). We wrote custom adapter and serialization layers for this, which was trivial; the only exceptions to the ease of writing such code was when the WordPress developers would return bizarre status codes or missed root objects or some other such nonsense.
Exactly, I was hoping for some details regarding this, but it seems that this line was added for catching eyeballs
Wow. so many things. Please consider taking time to write about how you are able to be so much productive. Just Curious, how old are you ?
Blogspam. Better source: http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/sc-directs-centre-t...
That is an excellent point that no one else has noticed!
They haven't been for a long time in the EU. All recently issued cards use two factor or are at least required to support it.
Nothing actually, we just want to make sure the Firefox build is fully tested before releasing it. We will be launching it soon.
Strange – I've been using a .coffee domain and haven't run into a problem yet (although I've only used it maybe 30 times, not adding too many new accounts these days)
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I feel that these problems are linked.

If we solved (1), everyone would be equally likely to suffer from police brutality. This would make us more likely to then go ahead and fix (2), because suddenly it would no longer be something which mostly happens to long-downtrodden minority groups.

Mind, if we fix (2) first, it's somewhat plausible that we might continue in a situation where minority groups are disproportionately targeted by the police, and we just go "eh, it's not that bad, we're not shooting them all the time any more".
>I would. 60+ million people voting for a man as odious and unprepared as Donald Trump says a whole lot to me.

Let me rephrase: you are extrapolating the wrong thing when you say the "liberals drastically overplayed their hand" and then use this election as evidence.

Obama almost certainly would have annihilated Trump (his support in rural swing states is much stronger than Hillary's), and he's more liberal than Hillary. For all we know, Bernie could have done decently. Hillary's downfall is that she's seen as an out-of-touch corrupt establishment politician, which Trump (and Obama) were not.
You are really stretching to find a way to feel superior to people.
Or they simply use long wire buried in sand.
I don't know about you, but I'm paid to solve problems.
The fix is to upgrade to the new Macbook. No more USB ports!
Imagine google buying MS. They seem more complimentary than competitive these days.
Actually, many aren't. Many Terms of Service agreements or EULAs are looked at quite critically today because of the fact that companies reasonably expect that nobody has read them. Sensible provisions tend to be upheld, unfair ones... aren't always. If I install an app, and buried in it's EULA is a requirement that I become their indentured servant, it isn't enforceable.
Thanks for the link. Need to prepare for it.
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Yeah, that was going to be my question. (if) I bought and paid for your phone, why do you give 2 shits about what I do with it?

Of course, maybe the answer is "we sell the phones at a loss, and you are only supposed to get one, so we have a tentacle around you". Who knows...
As the son of an otherwise amazing woman who falls for every credit card scam to ever hit her inbox I think this is another great reminder of the mindset disparity between techies and the wider public. While we obsess over end-to-end encryption and distributed ledgers the vast majority of people are perfectly happy typing online banking credentials and uploading pins to random websites.
Hacker group targets Mark Zuckerberg's online accounts – again
>Do not expect Xcode for iOS at WWDC2017.

Saved for future claim chowder. Just watch... something that makes apps on iPad is coming. They might not call it Xcode but something's definitely coming.
I love it for organizing my personal todo lists and daily tasks, but I've had the same experience as you with trying to use it in a team setting. We use Trello, which isn't perfect either. I guess this is Asana's attempt at closing the gap.
Screamers is surprisingly underrated. It's one of the best pop-sci-fi movies from nineties imho.
I looked at mobx, but it did not appeal to me at all. Lots of ceremony (observables) to eliminate a small amount of typing. The power of Redux is that it works in an extremely simple way and you can hold the operation of the framework in your head along with your app.

Redux is just a big switch statement that ingests plain action objects and outputs a modified state object, along with a connect function to bring parts of the state object into your components. Mobx looks quite baroque in comparison.
The NSA Chief Says Russia Hacked the 2016 Election. Congress Must Investigate
You have run into a monster.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packing_problems

Packing of regular shapes in a confined space is hard enough... much less a general collection of cuboids in a 3D box. On the bright side, if you find a good way to do this you will have accomplished a lot more than packaging candy.

Here is an annealing approach that might lead somewhere (although I'm not sure... I am no expert on packing and really smart people have been thinking about this for hundreds of years)

Instead of thinking of sharp cubes as geometric objects, think about each one as a function from space to 0 or 1. (0 if you're outside the box, 1 if you're in it).

Blur each cube function with a Gaussian, then try to position these blurry functions in your box so that they are well-separated. This positioning can be done using ordinary numerical optimization as a 'feasibility search': your objective function can be the maximum of the sum of the functions throughout the box, searching over the space of positions that lead to the cuboids being within the box's boundaries. You have to scale the blurred functions so that they all individually have the same max. Declare a positioning infeasible if the max of the sum is above the individual max.

The positions you get from this will be a first approximation of where you should put your candies.

After you've found the positions, reform your cube functions, this time using a sharper/thinner Gaussian. Then run the optimization again using the previous step's result as your first guess.

The idea here is that hopefully the problem of shifting blurry functions around to be uniform is a lot easier than the strict packing problem which most people try to avoid solving.

Also it's pretty amazing to me that you have made headway in this using Javascript. Good luck!
3D Secure (at least in India) offers both SMS OTP and Password validation. So you can use your 3D Secure Password (which is different from bank credentials) or use SMS OTP to confirm the transaction.
Gambling regulation's #1 worry is fraud/theft. Everything has to be predictable. Builds have to be repeatable. Think about that, gcc has to emit the same binary / assets down to the timestamps from the same inputs. Java too. All source is read, all rng's are run massive numbers of times to experimentally prove them. Program storage needs to be non-volitale and they will run an arc welder across the frame of the box to try and skew the computer.

All of this is to say that they are ultra paranoid of changes that could lead to fraud. Remote updates without their review woudn't pass. With their approval and auditing maybe.

Source: My boss worked in this industry and talks about it basically every lunch.
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Xamarin is a bit of a hack. What we really need is a cross platform solid (i.e. not javascript) language supported natively.

What would be ideal would be that Apple, Google and Microsoft sit together and agree on a common language and GUI API that would work on Android, iOS, Windows, MacOS and Linux natively.
Is it only available on HTC Vive? Can Google Cardboard users experience it?
The EU has introduced limits for card fees, so there's no reason for merchants not to accept debit cards now.
Pretending that the Russian government isn't an adversary seems extremely foolish
I'm guessing that the page gets skipped when you're on a familiar IP address with a familiar cookie, or there are other factors where the bank decides more authentication is unnecessary.
Why does 64-bit Windows need a separate “Program Files (x86)” folder?
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Ask HN: How much do you make in 2016?
Total experience / Location / Title / Salary

Side Income?

I will start with myself -

9 yrs / San Francisco / Manager, Analytics/ 125k

No side income.
This is interesting, though, looks a bit like "attacker might replace explorer.exe" type of vulnerability: if you can physically access a device, you're already in; just like you need to be admin or root to replace system binaries, meaning pwnage long before executables are replaced.
How are there still no federal regulations on default privacy settings in 2016?
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Are Long Term Loans in UK Viable for Almost Everyone?
Flock supports video calling and screen sharing via appear.in and Google Hangouts integration. And it works cross platform too. We don't have anything native yet.

(PS: I work in the Flock android team)
So how do I add a sql server instance in a container with an average of 300 million rows per table and a db of average size of maybe 3 tb and not have io issues? Containers do not seem to scale to enterprise besides nosql type operations of let's commit later.
Both hardware and Stallmanism. I'm a showered and beardless dirty free software hippie.
What options for native UI does IDEA provide? It's mostly a Swing app.
Mainstream OSes and desktop environments (and not just Qubes an people with extra software installed) should really adopt the ask-before-using-USB-devices policy.

If you connected this to a Qubes computer nothing would happen, except a popup behind the lock screen asking for permission. But you could also generally forbid USB network controllers, for example.
That's it. I will never use google for anything vital anymore.
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Nuget solves the dependency issue. MSBuild has switching from part of the framework to VS to framework to open source. On other platforms there was always csc to compile programs (which is dramatically faster), something missing from the new dotnetcore.

There was also nant and a number of build tools, plus good old make.
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There are a number of different answers there, with varying levels of accuracy. It seems to me what it comes down to is 1) organization is good, and it just makes sense to separate fundamentally different types of programs into separate directories, and 2) (the main technical reason) that it will be relatively common for both 32 and 64-bit versions of the same program to be installed. And therefore:

> Installers aren't magic. They have to be written by programmers and are applications (with possible bugs) like any other application out there. So let's look at the situation an imaginary programmer would have to face with and without the current system:

> 1 Program Files folder

> The developer maintains 2 installers. One for the 32bit and one for the 64bit version of his application. The 32bit installer will write to C:\Program Files\App\ and the 64bit installer will write to C:\Program Files\App\sixtyfour\.

> 2 Program Files folders

> The developer maintains 1 installer. The installer will always write to %PROGRAMFILES% and depend on the operating system to expand the path accordingly (you actually don't use environment variables for these cases, you'd use SHGetKnownFolderPath with FOLDERID_ProgramFiles to retrieve the correct path).

> Everything finds it's place automatically and the pattern is identical with every application you install. [1]

Contrary to many of the answers, it doesn't seem to have anything to do with programs finding the correct DLL files, as the install location has no bearing there as far as I know.

[1] http://superuser.com/a/442250/210589
I used to love MWave, many years ago. They were just a fantastic vendor back then. They shipped faster than anyone, handled returns fast and with zero hassle.

But, I had a couple of mildly negative experiences (slow to ship, items listed as in stock weren't, etc.) and I stopped buying from them.

This, though, is just crazy. I can't believe their merchant bank even allows them to do this.
Perhaps not the hardest, but one where there's tons of room for improvement: the Story Cloze Test [1] is a test involving very simple, five-sentence stories, where you pick the ending that makes sense out of two endings.

A literate human scores 100% on this test. No computer system so far scores better than 60%. (And remember that random guessing gets 50%.)

[1] http://cs.rochester.edu/nlp/rocstories/
Some way for debugging scripts. Even a basic "print to console" function is lacking.
This was a little unexpected, but glad to see Flock featured on HN's front page!

(I am the CTO of Flock, and will be happy to answer any of your queries).
> Poisoning the DNS subsystem of your computer is not safe. At the very least it could record which requests you made indefinitely. This does need to be fixed.

I'm assuming that if a domain used DNSSEC this would protect the user against this type of attack?
Oh man, you just put that near the top of my VR remake list along with:

- Sim Ant (or any Will Wright game for that matter)

- Oregon Trail

- Civ

- Baldur's Gate

- Battle Chess

- Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego?

- A VR version of Where's Waldo
I see there's a black-on-white Gopher hiding at U+F800 in the middle of the BMP Private Use area (U+E000..U+F8FF). Besides that, only Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, and a few box drawing glyphs are provides. Are there any plans from the Go Fonts team to provide glyphs for all characters in the BMP, and beyond?
Not a new competitive risk as this has been Musk's plan for at least two years now. http://www.wsj.com/articles/elon-musks-next-mission-internet...
The language and runtime typically cooperate to provide the operational semantics that developers are looking for. The case of Objective-C is especially interesting in this regard: developers evolved a number of conventions around reference counting, because reference counting allowed for controllable, minimal latency and contributed to a snappy UI. The language gradually absorbed these conventions into the compiler, such that certain patterns of use are part of the language specification (certain method names, basically) and the ARC code is generated for developers.
That's not a useful summary.