skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You make a noble point, but it will not change anything at this stage. I am human. As are all of us. My well of empathy for Trump's people has gone completely bone dry. I am past the tipping point.

They elected an egotistical reality TV star, backed by a hostile foreign government, to the White House and he's taking a wrecking ball to every institution of federal government exactly as one would have expected him to. Any assertion that tears should be shed or some level of respect should be offered to Trump's people or duped Republicans, is absurd nonsense. The only feeling I have left for these people is rage and it grows with every passing day.

Things are going to get very very ugly soon
From what I've read, Shuttle also did quite a bit of satellite repair (like fixing Hubble). And the orbiter's cargo bay certainly was useful to transport many parts of the ISS.

The Department of Defense still actively uses a spaceplane-ish vehicle. It's just a much smaller unmanned one called the X-37b. Many folks speculate it's used to repair and refuel spy satellites, and potentially even rendezvous with and and hack enemy satellites. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_X-37

Generally I totally agree though-- capsule design makes way more sense for anything leaving or reentering atmosphere. The upcoming Orion are clearly in that directly.
I, OTOH, would rather know about it and start to take advantage of what's already available, rather than wait for the finish, if and when it ever comes.
Meanwhile. Many of us just plug our xinput devices in, and they just work with almost every game, no need to run steam in the background, no need to set up 6 different "modes" inside a walled garden distribution platform he tto use my controller.
> how many people actually plug in a controller and a mouse at the same time?

How many people actually unplug things when they, uh, don't need them for a second or two?

I leave my monitor plugged.
I leave my power cord plugged.
I leave my keyboard and mouse plugged.
I leave my headphones plugged.
I leave my hard drive plugged.
I leave my ethernet cable plugged.
Why should I not leave my controller plugged?
Semaphore [0] is great. It was the only place where I could get selenium tests to work reliably.

[0]: https://semaphoreci.com/
This guy drove through the Southeast and talked to a bunch of Trump supporters: http://www.the-american-interest.com/2016/08/02/listening-to...
It seems like Trump has been doing similar to quite a few federal agencies. I'm concerned with some of the early moves, but it's going to be interesting, I do hope that some common sense prevails. For example, bowing out of TPP isn't so bad.
Brilliant name.
Is there any good way to timestamp things like this?
I've seen false negatives multiple times in Microsoft's.
> if you can abide by this rule you will loose the weight

This is the key point and it makes all the difference. You need to be able to stay on the diet for a sufficiently long time, and that's why different approaches are needed fro different people. If you eat carbs you need to measure carefully every meal and calculate the calories, which to many people very quickly gets extremely annoying. On low carb diets you don't have to. Also there are mood changes depending on the taste of the food that you eat. If you like eating meat and veggies, low-carb diets taste great, you enjoy every meal. It makes it much easier to abide the rules. Also general mental state is important, high stress and depression will sabotage your efforts.

Diets are not just about nutrition, that's one of the biggest misconceptions. Psychology and physical activities play equally, if not more important role in dieting.
I love Medellin. I visited and fell in love. I pretty well travel and hope to spend some decent time in Medellin. Starting a business to get to point where I can sustain a life in Medellin.
Yes they do, the cracking scene ethos is all about technical one-upmanship and the thrill and glory of beating copy protection. Or at least it used to be. The really smart ones do it for their own enjoyment or ideological reasons.
UK as well, please.
Wine has been good with the few Windows games that I play. (Dosbox with dos games is better, but it has been crashing way too often with certain titles.) Stuff works way better than in a VMWare box, games like Fallout, Jagged Alliance 2, GTA 3, VC, SA, even 4 at times, Fallout 3, New Vegas, Skyrim, Rise of Nations, most Needs for Speed.

Whatever glitches I get in Bethesda games, I google about them and quickly find out the same issues happen in Windows environments as well.

I also run many games that have native Linux ports in wine, because it handles sound better (pesky games these days presume I have a channel mixer set up)... like Faster Than Light.
> a repeatability of 0.06mm

That is in a controlled environment where the robot can be programmed to know where it stands in a coordinate system, and the surfaces it works on aren't moving relative to that point.

Take any robot in an industrial setting and put it's base on a soft pillow, and it will be a more difficult problem. It will have to use computer vision rather than just precise stepper motors to get where it wants.

This thing places things like bricks which are probably +/-5 or 10mm in shape, on a wall that sags, and does so standing on e.g. flexible wheels or tracks, on a construction site where the floor might be a temporary plywood one. I'd guess it can move its arm, if the load is light, to within 0.06mm of somewhere. It just can't know where that somewhere is because it's using a computer vision system with much higher tolerances to do so.
Yes, that was the point of the "Signature Windows" series laptops, which looked promising but didn't seem to actually go anywhere...
People often need to exit the country they live in and apply for a new visa from outside. It doesn’t make much sense, but many visa/residence permit types can only be applied for from outside.
A friend of mine worked as an on-site contractor for the AVG. He claimed that the "toolbar department" in the company, working on the browser toolbar displaying ads is as big as the "antivirus department", working on the engine (or bigger). It shouldn't be a surprise, since the toolbar is the main revenue source for the company.
Ok, disclaimer first: I've previously worked at Kaspersky Lab (incident response division).
Now, I want to say that many of the incidents that we have investigated, would have been prevented by anti-virus software (in many cases AV software was deliberately disabled by user).
And I'm talking about incidents that resulted in million-dollar thefts - not just cases of some user getting cryptolocker on their home computer.
I agree that AV software is bloated and has very large, messy and barely maintainable codebase, but I disagree with people who say that "I have never used any AV products and in 10 years have never been infected with malware" - this attitude is careless, to say the least, and in corporate environment could lead to huge financial losses.
There are many criminal groups that put serious effort in the development and distribution of malware - not just script kiddies, but professional programmers and hackers.

BTW, there are also region-specific malware - so for example I would rely more on Kaspersky for detection of malware targeted at Russian businesses, than Symantec or Microsoft AVs.
I would imagine it might also help to organise a list of popular topics on a website/forum - eg: Tuesday thousands call about education, Wednesday thousands call about immigration etc?
That's incredibly bad luck. I've currently got 2 dualshock 4 controllers (the launch ones with the known fault of the dodgy analog grip), anxbox 360 controller and an Xbox one controller that are used regularly. (Xbox one controller used in work for ~4 hours a day maybe?) and the only issue aside from the known DS4 fault is that my Xbox 360 cable needed the removable connector replaced.

Mind you, I don't regularly drop my controllers from 4ft (1.3m) either, so I can't comment on that.
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> "Without a clear indication that the Commission rejects this current proposal, content creators will be hesitant to invest in high-quality video programs," they wrote to Pai

Well if they're not willing to produce quality content, the Netflixes of the world will. Feel free to keep digging your own grave, cable companies.
1) Fair enough, I guess that's a Chrome bug which maybe will be fixed in time.

2) Also fair enough, I don't find that I have to deal with this too much. Can you switch editor for those files? It's only a Cmd+Tab away :)

4) I use multiple cursors for stuff like this.
No, I don't think so and if it does, please tell me which browser does it so I can keep away from it, because that defeats the purpose of TLS.

Either way, Bitdefender installs their own root certificate and generates their own for google.com. I've got proof if you want.
Microsoft doesn't exactly have a great record with root certificates either.

>Emergency Windows update revokes dozens of bogus Google, Yahoo SSL certificates

https://arstechnica.com/security/2014/07/emergency-windows-u...

They revoked certs like this silently in the past which makes it even worse.
Acupuncturists have a unique business model that can be applied to startups
What "immediate pain" are you suffering?
> Killing is different than terrorism, US military is involved >in killing in many countries as well!

Terrorism is a relative term.
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No. I was curious about that too, they check if the parameter is a file and if it's not they try and fetch the github user's keys. [0]

[0] - https://github.com/gravitational/teleconsole/blob/master/lib...
what motivated your father to vote for trump?
Who writes all these viruses ?

I mean, I've experimented with assembler when I was a teenager and I may have developed some kind of program which could replicate itself.. but I highly doubt today's viruses are written by teenagers...

Who and why do people write viruses ? Is this a thing at all or are all the viruses written by the Antivirus makers themselves ?

More 'threats' is good news for the A/V makers so why not have a separate department which develops them ?

I wouldn't be surprised at all, given that much crazier things are happening in this world..

Can anyone confirm or disprove this ?
> Last I checked though we don't train people to walk into ?>markets and blow themselves up.

Check again.

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/737430/CIA-ISIS-Wikileak...
It's worth noting that not everyone who rebuffs some of the proposed actions is a climate denier. There's still some question as to the extent of human involvement. That said, smog is enough for me to be in favor of working towards renewable, less polluting energy sources. In my lifetime I've gone from having allergy-like flare ups once every few years, to now 2-3 times a year, mostly seems to follow the pollution levels not just the pollen count.

By the same token, not every "green" program is a great thing... and even in treaties, exempting the worst actors (China, India) because they are often considered third world doesn't do a lot to help the global issues. Improved working requirements as a requisite for international trade deals would go a long way towards "cleaning up."

I bring this up, as I tend to see a lot of people who question the approach, intensity, and cost getting lumped in with climate deniers.
I work at a large games studio, and we ordered a box of Steam Controllers on launch, everyone was so excited about them - now I think they are all in a bin somewhere, they are just cheap feeling and nowhere near as good as what Valve was trying to sell.

If you are happy to spend $150 on a controller, I can deeply recommend the Xbox One Elite controller. I don't know anyone who isn't happy with theirs - the price is stupid, but the build quality is unrivaled, there's nothing like it on the market.
There's always a tradeoff. 95% of the time I'm not editing files more than a few hundred lines because my code is organised. I'm happy to switch tools for the "anomalous work". Nobody is stopping you using multiple editors, each for a different purpose. I'd prefer a tool that was extremely useful for the mainstay of my work, as opposed to one that makes sacrifices in order to be able to do 100% of it.
I trust them enough for my use case. Got one running as an OpenVPN server and another hosting a few small websites I've made for friends and family.

Would I trust them as a production server for an income generating app? Nope. But for my light/trivial uses they've been perfectly suitable.
Same time it would have took to Google it...
Strange, I've had VS Code open for the last several weeks and it's not been an issue.
Boring Job
Awesome. Its a huge task to get a site with so many external content over to SSL, cudos to them.
PR is certainly part of their job. I think OT has a point.
Surely we need to fork the religion.
If it's not so difficult to follow what science says, can you sum it up for us here?
> I should say here that I fully expect someone reading this has managed to uninstall an AVG toolbar with no issues. They have multiple different auxiliary tools to their antivirus, and I'm not sure specifically which one(s) caused me trouble personally.

I can say this: I never had a problem with uninstalling a browser toolbar, or restoring the default search engine in the browser. What I always have problems with, is getting rid of AV software itself. Oh God, how hard it is sometimes.

Norton AV taking half an hour to uninstall is a known thing; I'm convinced they actually have some Sleep() calls in their code just to piss people off. But just last week I tried to get rid of Comodo AV (+ 2 bullshit pieces of software it installed) on my neighbour's computer. Took a while. The uninstaller didn't work (it reported "an error" and gave up), so ultimately I had to resort to manually deleting stuff until the uninstaller finally unlocked itself and cleaned up the rest.

I've been having similar experiences with all AV software in past few years. They're a menace.
There are many criminal groups that develop malware - it's a multi-million dollar business.
Usually around IP incentives as part of the grant, in order to further entice applicants. This is taken further by pressure from educational institutions and their researchers to file for patents against said research.

I'm not saying it's right, and agree with you. But often there's a lot of entropy with the status quo, and to the seated incumbents in a space.
When not in use a handgun will be in its holster. When it's needed, you'd arguably want less to think about, such as worrying about disengaging a manual safety.

They may well have been a requirement for a manual safety. If there were, I'm surprised that there hasn't been an explicit mention of this. There are rumors that it was down to Glock or Sig:

While a number of companies submitted guns, rumor has it that it came down to Glock and SIG.

https://www.americanrifleman.org/articles/2017/1/19/the-keef...

If Glock was disqualified for not having a manual safety, why wouldn't it have been eliminated earlier? Also, Glock did include in models submitted for Austrian trials (see comment by 'mrbill upthread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13489074). For a contract as large as the US Army, I would imagine Glock would be willing to add a manual safety if it meant they'd get the contract.

Regardless, any of this is speculation unless there are definitive references out there that speak to why Sig was chosen over the other submissions.
I can't suggest an interview or documentary, but if you want to keep tabs on how conservatives/republicans/midwesterners etc. think, I highly recommend reading this blog:

https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/

Glenn Reynolds and his cadre of right leaning bloggers have a decent finger on the pulse of conservatives in general.

I try to read from as many opinions as possible from different sides. You'd be surprised how different the world is from another's eyes.
The Hollywood List Everyone Wants to Be On
Just tried it out and sharing my experiences. It is quite choppy for me, only getting a few frames per second, on 2K monitor, but I'm on a computer that will happily play Civ 6 on low quality. I wasn't expecting it to be fast, though.
>ReCAPTCHA couldn't find user-provided function: onloadCallback

The captcha is solved, but the page doesn't recognize it. Is signing up really necessary for such a game?
.docx files can't contain macros
Got an example? I haven't heard anything about this and I'm genuinely curious.
> In the name of "security", this undermines the very purpose of what HTTPS is about, knowingly endangering their users.

It doesn't have to be insecure. If the software that does the MITM checks the certificates correctly, I don't see how it would be worse than letting the browser handle it.

Not that I'd ever use an antivirus, of course.
An instance might want to reach anything on the internet that's using an IPv6 address is a use case.

Also, having instances connect to IPv6 parts of the internet while you can see which subnet of your vpc the traffic originates from, and maybe filter on that fact.

Having routable addresses is a different thing than them being public or private, which is determined by the fact if you accept traffic to them or not when it arrives at the last hop before entering your vpc.
A "purge" isn't getting criticized for being completely wrong. That's how science works.

https://www.skepticalscience.com/fivethirtyeight-pielke-down...
That is a bad idea.

If you MITM the connection locally it triples the computational cost for both encryption and handshake operations. Then more websites don't use TLS because it's three times as slow for the user.

It also prevents you from using a good cipher suite when the MITM doesn't support it even though the browser and the server both do, again reducing security or performance or both. And it's very easy to screw this up the other way and have the browser show a good secure connection with strong primitives and forward secrecy while the MITM is actually communicating with the server using export ciphers or RC4.

The existence of a trusted root private key on your machine exposes you to KCI of all servers. And key compromise is not even necessary if they use the same root private key for everyone, which has actually happened.

This is not a comprehensive list of the reasons why that is a bad idea.
Hezbollah and Iran have a history of targeting Jewish civilians, not only in Israel. Which I do think you know.
Can't you just download a pristine Windows 10 ISO from Microsoft's website and install from that? I've done that on my Dell Precision and it works great.
If you have some time to watch a video, here's a clip of F-Secure's Mikko Hyppönen expaining some of the origins of network attacks and malware: https://www.ted.com/talks/mikko_hypponen_fighting_viruses_de...
I am not disagreeing with you, but I want to point out that, usually, the certificate is generated locally during setup and then installed in the trusted certificates store.
So no one else should have that certificate.
I also assume there is an option somewhere to disable the MITM scanner.
Any references, because I don't know what you're talking about?

I'm not a Windows user, haven't been a Windows user since 2001, my AV experience has been with the PCs of my family, whom I'm trying to keep safe.

But even if I were a Windows user, if you can't trust Microsoft, you can't trust their OS, at which point it would be better to use something else because security really depends on how trustworthy that OS and its vendor are. I do trust Microsoft more than I trust an AV vendor though.
Yes. Also, let's finally start a public discussion about AV companies making money by selling data (they do, either all of them or most).

Of course that being able to peek into https traffic gets them more data (specific urls, not just whole sites).
> Look, if you stray from initial point and keep moving goal posts, don't expect me to be kind.

I'm not asking you to be kind. I expect you to either read what I write, or be polite enough to discuss the misunderstandings without being rude. Neither of those have consistently been the case so far.

You feel like I'm moving goalposts, I don't see how that's true because I've spent most of this conversation trying to interpret and reword the things you're saying to openly attempt to understand what you're getting at. I haven't found your comments so far very clear.

>... Also you blatantly misrepresent what I said

Not at all. I said openly that I didn't follow your point: "Sorry I'm not sure what your point is here. You SEEM to be..." [emphasis added]. I don't think it's a reasonable position that I'm "blatantly misrepresenting" what you said there. I openly stated my confusion at the point you were trying to make.

I'm happy to discuss opposing views but please drop the attitude. It's neither helpful nor necessary... but I'll have another go at trying to find the source of our disagreement.

> That seems like a clear (and wrong) point. Free speech, freedom to move and so on are human rights and everybody understand that. One prisoner has none of these.

I disagree. Prisoners should have fundamental rights (and do in many cases, it varies wildly). There are organisations who spend a lot of time watching for & correcting human rights violations within the criminal justice system (Human Rights Watch, Amnesty, ACLU).

Freedom to move is a point worth discussing too. I think "freedom to move" while often discussed as a fundamental right is interpreted as freedom of residence, or to not be stopped while travelling around a state; I don't think it means everyone should be allowed to go everywhere at all times. I don't think anyone would think it reasonable to let serial killers roam around freely.

> But that rule doesn't work. We suspend basic human rights to prisoners because, well, they're prisoners and there are good reasons to do it.

So your assertion here is that prisoners are stripped of all human rights? Which country does that?
Why I will never have a girlfriend (1999)
While i like the idea of the controller, i dislike how everything gaming has to be hogtied to the Steam client.
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The French paradox (and similar observations for the Japanese) is most easily explained by the fact that they eat smaller portions than the Americans. Anyone traveling from Asia or Europe to the US is easily astounded by the large portions of food the typical US denizen eats.
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The idea of product placement for a firearm just seems bizarre to me... but I'm not American either.
>The blocking of attacks reasoning is kind of bullshit

>I have yet to see evidence that AV software is doing a better job of catching those

I wouldn't be so one-sided. Imagine a fresh new variety of ransomware starts spreading. No one can catch it at 0-day, but good AV can catch it at 1-st day (OK, 1-st week) and neither Google nor uBlock or the likes can't.
_Everyone_ is collecting our data nowadays. Who's left to sell it to?
There are no intermediaries, AV mitm the traffic because otherwise it cannot scan the content, nor the urls, if it was remote on the AV vendor server then i would understand it but its doing it on you local machine, and you can disable it if you dont want it. If i have a antivirus installed on my pc and get infected with one of those fly byes i would be furious because i was thinking that im protected.

I dont know where do you live but there is a TON of different javascript injections in the wild with ad networks that are not caught by browser vendors or are caught to late. Google does not do deep scan of the page or files it just has a blocklist of urls. If i host my code on another url or change a file slightly only AV is good in this situation.

And remember they have to get it right only one time.
> look no further than people like this spouting off misogynistic views

You do realize that the author is a woman, right?