skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> how does any of this increase attacker cost?

Because it forces the attacker to write a specific payload for your service. Standard, reused "drop shell.php and register IP" will not work anymore. And realistically if the target of the attack was a WordPress installation, it will likely be a trivial, automated script.

> Cant you do the same thing at the OS level already?

Yes, you can. Even better, split execution privileges from file privileges, then make it read only, then put a grsec/apparmor/selinux profile on the service. It's not docker specific, but docker does make read only service a little bit easier.

> Wouldn't making the dir read only do the same thing?

Yeah, but who would do that old school thing. Docker security! :-(
Cool work, and When do WebComponents become enabled by default, does anyone know?
This sounds a lot like what they wanted to do with the great leap forward in China.
Nobody for whom absolute CPU power is paramount is crunching on a laptop anyway. The sorts of examples you cite are better off implemented on a grunty workstation or even cloud computing. If portable access is needed, remoting in is the answer.
Laptops outsell desktops by roughly 1.5 to 1. Although sales are still in decline, around 113 million desktop PCs were sold in 2015. Most of those probably went into businesses.

Roughly 700 million desktop PCs have been sold over the past 5 years, and probably a large proportion of those are still in use.

They work faster, they are easier to repair and upgrade, they are cheaper to run, and they are far better ergonomically (1).

Companies like laptops if they can avoid giving users fixed desks. (Hotdesking more staff across fewer desks reduces costs.) If they're using laptops on fixed, personal desks then they are not very smart.

(1) Ergonomic problems with laptops can be reduced by providing risers and external keyboards, and sometimes by adding external monitors. These are extra costs.
Based on the "Full Text", it looks like they used an automatic OCR to obtain the text from the PDFs, so they are full of many spelling and formatting mistakes. I prefer to get the B/W pdf and split it into files that are small enough not to lag on the Kindle hardware (I have the 2nd generation).
A Call for Cooperation Against Fake News
One aspect I enjoy about woodworking is that there's no "undo". Or "repeat".

When you've spent 10 hours doing joinery on a work piece, you tend to be really careful before sticking your knife, saw or chisel into it. And when you realize that you've done a knife mark on the show side, you know you've fucked up (just did this last week on a piece with 30 hours in it).

It's a very good balance to software engineering. It's (arguably) an engineering discipline but a very different kind.
don't be a pendant. (some fuel for your fire?)
This seems like a decidedly un-Stoic statement:

"Stockdale rejected the false optimism proffered by Christianity, because he knew, from direct observation, that false hope is how you went insane in that prison."

Perhaps the author is interjecting something.

Stoicism and Christianity share many traits. Consider, as but one example, this statement by James:

"Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything."
I expect that to be dependent on location. Near coasts, for example, the physics driving sea and land breezes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind#Sea_and_land_breezes) will either increase or decrease wind speed depending on local prevailing winds.

It also can depend a lot on height (very important for wind turbines)
Urban design, and transport in particular are intrinsically political subjects. You can optimise things in one way or the other in a rigourous way. But there is no way to objectively determine how to balance different issues. That has to be decided politically, and then a solution is "engineered". Using science to draw political conclusions is destined to bias however well informed the person. But there is nothing wrong with pushing an agenda.
The public toilet 'problem' (in that public toilets must be bad) isn't really a thing as any mall can seem to handle this issue.

When I went to Germany I was amazed at how bad their toilets were and I often had to pay to use them.
I can't see any stories you posted. I'm guessing you used a different account for that?

I don't know all the details, but some services are banned by default. There also seems to be some penalty for the green (low points) accounts, so this post was dead as well.

If it seems to happen without a reason you can always email the hn guys via the contact at the bottom of the page.
It's a euphemism.
I like the idea, but...

> If a venue took the cash and didn't display its sticker, for example, the public would soon report it to the city.

How exactly would "the public" know the venue takes part in the program if they don't display the sticker?
> Whatever you're using it for, clearly it's the 1%.

This was on a small - fairly certain <1MLOC - codebase. I'm small fry. The only unusual thing would perhaps be having small enough compilation times (due to e.g. incremental compiles and small changes not rebuilding the world) for linking of multiple projects to overlap. Boost and the Linux Kernel, noodling in at closer to ~20MLOC, or VS2012's ~50MLOC, might spend more time compiling in their typical edit cycles.

> Expecting Apple to completely gimp the macbook for the average pro user (dev, photoshop, video editing)

I suppose I'm having difficulty here seeing how a small weight and size increase for more DDR chips, or a larger battery, is going to "completely gimp" the macbook. Since I already touched on dev - I'll let someone else touch on video editing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJtrQ5CcCN0&feature=youtu.be... . Things will only get worse on that front as 4K becomes popular.

> They can't cover all use cases, but they can cover most.

Agreed. I'm just not sure they have covered most "pro" users.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12967630
Patents are to incentivise inventions. If an HIV patient could patent their antibodies, that would limit their usefulness while also giving no incentive to anyone to invent better ones, since you can't invent them - just wait and hope if they appear. So I certainly hope they can't do that.

Rather, it's the researchers who went looking for them who should be granted any patent rights. They're the ones who could work harder to produce better results and can have their performance improved with more rewards like a patent's monopoly.
"Pro" is not some standard measurement. In fact, it's marketing above all else. They could call it Plus or Extra or Super. It's not required to fit your notion of what a professional does. For example, I'm both a professional developer and a professional lawyer. The new MBP meets both of my pro requirement sets.
Several comments have hinted at the possibility that this would be a over-unity device but as I couldn't find a specific demonstration, here is one that does not involve any fancy physics.

Let's assume we have a spacecraft powered by an energy source with total energy `E` and mass `m`. The EM-drive produces a constant thrust `F` at a constant power `P`.

Kinetic energy of the S/C after time `t`:

Ek = 0.5 * F^2 * t^2 / m

If `t` is the time at which the energy in the source is exhausted, then the ratio of kinetic energy developed to the expended energy (E = t * P) is:

Ek/E = 0.5 * F^2 / P^2 * (E/m)

So this basically says that we have a over-unity device whenever the energy source has a specific energy above:

E/m > 2P/F ~ 1.6 10^6 J/kg

which is certainly not achievable in practice, but in theory is totally fine being still well below c^2 (which by the way justifies a-posteriori the neglect of relativistic corrections in the above).
I highly recommend checking out estate sales for dirt-cheap, high quality woodworking tools and equipment. A lot of this stuff is built to last. Once you get past the old looking appearances, you will appreciate having spent 10 cents on the dollar for things you use once in a while to do great things in the shop.
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How can you possibly trust organizations engaged in partisan politics such as FB or Goog or WashPost or NYTimes or ... to not produce or disseminate fake news?

When we have to rely on Wikileaks hacks to reveal the collusion between so called news organizations and political parties, talking about fake news doesn't even scratch the surface.

The best corrective action is just to understand that these organizations are not trustworthy and seek alternative sources.
There's a website (and an app) with a list of all participating venues: http://www.die-nette-toilette.de/wer-macht-bereits-mit.html (in German)
So we meet again, SomeStupidPoint. :) I still uphold my claim that regular QM is a local theory and just found time today to reply to your comment on non-locality that you posted a week ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12936699

Let me know what you think!
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That's a great summary.

Apple could also have brought out a new expandable, upgradeable cheesegrater tower for the many pros who need real power.
What are the IDs? I can't see anything, even though I've turned on "Show Dead", so you'll need to give us a clue. Some sources are on a blacklist and so are Dead On Arrival, but without any clues, can't help, and I'm just guessing.

You can also simply email the mods - email can be found via the links at the bottom of each page.
2 feet is inadequate for a bike lane. I just measured the width of my bicycle and it's 23.5 inches, so even if I rode perfectly central I'd have only a quarter inch clearance each side. And my bike is not unusually wide.
This blog post is a text version of the talk that Maciej Cegłowski gave last week: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Plwt3QSlBs
There's enough spin and inconsistency in the scientific community that not even they agree on it.

The scientific consensus is that global warming is real. Climate change is happening now. The debate is about the details: how much warming there will be, how fast, and what the effects will be. This is a normal part of science, and how it's supposed to work. Regardless of the details, at this point, it is pretty clear by now that we are screwed even if we aren't quite sure how badly.

As far as I can tell, the only spin comes from idiot politicians invested in the status quo.
With little research I've done, it looks like DynamoDB offers a great deal more than cloud datastore.

http://db-engines.com/en/system/Amazon+DynamoDB%3BGoogle+Clo...
The finger video is even more convincing (skip to 3:40):

https://youtu.be/eiYoBbEZwlk
I just had a quick look at the code and the code quality leaves a lot to be desired. If internal quality is an indicator for external quality there is indeed a lot of room for improvement left.

While Microsoft claims the new driver is fully JDBC 4.1 compliant key JDBC 4.1 methods throw SQLFeatureNotSupportedException and the code is littered with comments

// The driver currently does not implement JDDBC 4.1 APIs
>The best corrective action is just to understand that these organizations are not trustworthy and seek alternative sources.

How do you know those alternative sources are more trustworthy than the mainstream?
It uses https://snowboy.kitt.ai/ for offline hot-word detection (which i hadn't heard of before, and have to look into) and then a (switchable) online API to understand the full query.
No labor problem. What is missing are highly educated or experienced IT people.

What a problem is that germans arw too expensive. Back when germany invited the turkish people they at least admitted they wanted cheap labor.

Now they are just lying. Or completely ignoring that in ten or twenty years those people will be useless and sit at home because a ton of those jobs will be automated.
One big difference is that Laureate's schools are generally legitimate, with proper accreditation and whose degrees actually have some value. Generally about the worst you can say for most of the programs and schools is that you may have been able to get a better deal financial at a non-profit school.

Trump University, on the other hand, was pretty much a straight up rip off.
glad it works for you, it's not something I'll ever do, unless someone offers me a large bag of cash :-)
> It's not unusual for an engineer in charge of a service to help resolve a customer an issue.

This is the norm with AWS, in case you didn't know.

Like someone pointed out, having a deeply engrained customer-focussed culture is different from having a massive support org that quantifies customer happiness as datapoints on a review board somewhere in cozy SV offices.
But that's socialism, and the USA will never tolerate socialism.
depends. the 50c toilets are often significantly cleaner with automated washing between uses and similar stuff.
Ask HN: Anything Like Carl Sagan's Cosmos for Computer Science?
Is there anything like Carl Sagan's Cosmos that talks about the history of computing in an accessible way? Pondering Christmas gifts for my niece.
The traffic islands before towns[0] have proven to be extremely effective at actually making people slow down to 50km/h.

[0]: http://www.rediweldtraffic.co.uk/media/9186/RediPaveHeader.j...
I use runbox. Perfect support. A lot of free aliases (100).
The only drawback is their UI. The default one is far from "pretty" or ergonomic. You can use a roundcube interface and gpg, but I must confesse the protonmail interface is way faster and eyecatching.
I'm in Norway - and this honestly makes me hesitant to drive, whenever I do wind up with a valid license here.
In my case, where the email was hosted in Google apps, it would have been helpful if Google apps had checked with GCE before allowing email deletion. After all, this is one of the situations where being within Google Eco-system should have been a good thing.
Germany has a huge army of unemployed immigrants.
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It'll be a long time until the entire USA implements socialised healthcare (if it happens at all...) but are there any individual states which have something resembling a single-payer system, or is this an issue where they all have roughly the same system?

Also for some reason this reminded me of a BBC story I read a while back - where "Heavy Legs" is described as a medical condition that only exists in France: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspon...
True. Unfortunately, Apple discontinued its tower, and that leaves you with two out-of date systems -- the Mac Pro and the mini -- that are not designed to be upgradeable.

This is a problem with proprietary systems like Apple, where you have no alternative hardware supplier. If Apple doesn't want to make it, you can't have it (unless you can Hackintosh it).
Who knows, if someone pitches this to Donald Trump and calls it "TrumpCare" he may be vain enough to push it all the way :)
If you disliked the logic or content of what OP said, you essentially said the same thing from the other side of the spectrum.
Ok, writing this one down...
For a Western European this is the normal.
And Europeans and Scandinavians generally, especially here in Norway, get out of the way when an emergency vehicle is heard or seen. Often this happens on roads that are only six metres wide yet there is still room for the ambulance or fire engine to storm down the centre with room to spare.

Of course not all Europeans are so public spirited, I've seen video from the UK and Germany where people made no attempt to get out of the way.
> My individual burden, however, is far more reasonable than

> an American might assume. I pay an annual income tax of

> about 23%.

How comes this number is that low? Tax revenue in France account for about 48% of the country's GDP[1].

I'm living in Belgium, and my payroll tax is already higher than these 23%.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tax_reven...
I said this jokingly recently at a talk about what effect Snowden has had and people laughed then actually said it makes sense.

Fundamentally the Snowden relations haven't lead to serious legal or operational change. Why is that? Because knowing all the technical information about PRISM etc is interesting for techies but it hasn't resonated with policymakers. They act on personal interests and those personal interests are dictated by a fear of looking soft on terrorism, crime or child porn etc.

So in theory what should a new Edward Snowden do in the future in make policy change?

Well having worked in Westminster Parliament, I think (if possible) he should release one month's worth of communications (email, SMS, web history) between MPs or House Members/Senators in the USA..

Why? Because that will change the personal risk calculous for policymakers. Without wanting to be crude, if you have ever worked in a parliament, a huge chunk of parliamentarians have something to hide - they are fucking someone else, they do coke like it's going out of fashion, they vote against things when they secretly do it themselves etc.

Parliamentarians always write bills with added protection for themselves which their citizens are not privy too (the Wilson Rule in the UK for example). Now at times that privilege is important (e.g speaking rights without threat of libel etc) but often it serves parliament to pass laws safe in the knowledge that they won't be subject to them.

Think I'm being ridiculous? Maybe I am, but remember what happened with the Senate Intelligence Committee over Snowden revelations (not much) and compare that to what happened when the CIA got caught spying on the Senate and interfering with the route report (people got torn a new asshole). That's because the US parliamentarians suddenly felt the same sense of violating that they were happy to allow citizens to be targeted by.

...anyway this is just a thought experiment but happy for others to point other ridiculous ideas - cos change is getting further away than ever.
I wonder if the images are all that's on his slides when he gives a talk. It would certainly require a great deal of facility with public speaking to be able to pull that off. Kudos to 'idlewords if that is indeed the case.
Let's assume a version 6 QR code, which is 41x41 (larger is unreasonable IMO). Now let's assume that using triangles is a twice as dense packing, and we use 8 colors. Also we don't need error correction.

Then we have 3x41x41x2/8 = 1260 bytes of storage. Even with compression that's still not a decent sized book.

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EDIT: I'm guilty of not reading the article first. I assume now you meant a 'QR film' that you scan for a couple seconds, rather than a static image. In that case you can apply above calculation to '1260 bytes per frame', at 10FPS that'd be 100Kbps, which is reasonable.
A toilet in a mall is not considered public (= state-owned) in context of this article. The latter are usually really dirty and not nice to use.
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US launches next-gen weather satellite that will revolutionize forecasting
But only if it's called socialism. If it can be called something else, then it will be accepted. In my experience, US citizens (not all, obviously; I'm massively generalising) have been conditioned to be against things labelled socialism, but the level of economic and political knowledge amongst the general public is such that if you don't call something socialism, it is judged on its own merits without people realising.
What does your faith hinge on?
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The US spends more per capita on health care than other OECD countries, even ones with universal public health care:

http://kff.org/health-costs/issue-brief/snapshots-health-car...

And yet the US has lower life expectancy than those countries:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expe...
For as long as the world population continues to increase, land will continue to become more scarce and expensive as a result. Land is scarce even in the so-called utopia depicted in Star Trek. We may reach a point where everybody has an apartment and unlimited food, clean water, medical care, and cheap entertainment (books, TV, video games) but what about access to nature? The ability to go hiking, canoeing, fishing, and camping in a pristine wilderness is rapidly disappearing. At what point do we all end up in a sprawling, dystopian mega-metropolis so commonly depicted in cyberpunk? For many who live in Asia, we are already there.
Dell XPS is a high-end consumer brand, like Apple. They can be used by professionals but they're not really pro designs.

Dell's professional brands are Latitude, OptiPlex and Precision. If you want a power-user workstation, you could have a look at the Precision line.
Medicine is one of those few fields the "socialized" approach is actually the better one. Of course you would prefer a I-don't-want-to-pay-for-others* stance when you are young and healthy (ie provided you were not born with a genetic condition or something similar), but once you start aging and caring, you start appreciating why Medicine as practiced in Europe makes much more sense in the end.

*even Ayn Rand allegedly made use of the "social benefits" when the shit hit the fan and it's perfectly alright (https://www.quora.com/Did-Ayn-Rand-really-accept-Social-Secu...)
ah, since the msm propaganda doesnt work anymore (clinton, brexit), they are looking for new ways to regain some relevance from the alternative news sites. this is what this "fake news" bs is all about, am i right?
Income tax is not the only tax.
Real problem in US with health (and education...) is that cost has skyrocketed out of control. How much is hearth bypass ? $30k? Other countries do that for $4k with similar quality and better post-op care.

Public health care will just transfer more money from poor to corporations (like with education). You need to fix the leaks first, for example sponsor medical tourism to other countries, etc...
It's probably tiered, like in many other EU countries. In UK for example you don't pay any tax on the first 10k earned, then 20% on anything between 10k and 40k, and then 40% on anything above 40k. I think there's a tier above it as well, but I'm not 100% sure. I know France has more tiers and they are more aggressive(80% being the highest I think?)
Does France really have that low tax rate? Usually it's not only income tax people are paying over here and once Americans laern the total % of your money regular Joe pays for the government they are in shock, since they are not used to having so little money being left on the table.
In France you pay 0 % taxes for the first 9.700 € of income, then 14 % for everything up to 26.791 €, then 30 % for everything up to 71.826 €, then 41 % for everything up to 152.108 € and 45 % for everything beyond that [1]. Hence 23 % effective tax rate sounds reasonable for an average income of around 50.000 €. The tax system in many European countries is similar btw, as is the health system.

[1] https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar%C3%A8mes_de_l'imp%C3%B4t_s...
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>How comes this number is that low?

A low income person in the US can pay effectively 0%. Your percentage in most countries depends heavily on how much you make.
The good old days, when hardware vendors innovated rather than sticking an Intel reference design inside a slightly different case.
Infant mortality is also 75% higher in the US compared to France: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/...
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I wondered about that as well, I pay like 40%...
> I am of the opinion that a Pro machine does not need to be the thinnest available model.

Good, because it isn't: http://apple.com/macbook
Look nice, but problem with social network services is usually all about number of users :)

Remember diaspora?