skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it gives a false sense of security

Why is getting the latest security updates giving a false sense of security exactly?

> The File Manager UI, for example, lacks too many features and user must investigate alternatives and either assume that everything is all right or deeply examine security vulnerabilities for each available option. Same goes for basic things like text editor or calculator and so on.

This is where you're being unfair, the notion that the default file manager is not good enough is subjective, it is plenty good for most people.

(Finder for macOS also lacks many features, yet many people never bother with alternatives).

Moreover, if you do need to find a replacement, if it is in the official repos, it probably means it is popular enough to be solid.

As for things like an editor,, are you telling me that Notepad is more featured than gedit?
You're ignoring that most Linux distros come with better defaults, i.e. no open ports. Reducing the attack surface is an important part in keeping the OS safe. Windows is remarkably bad in that regard.
Yes you're right. It all depends on amount of clients he visits in one day, if they are flexible in time or not and how to get from client A to client B (or C).
What does being 'trustworthy' have to do with anything in this context?
Honestly I am not worried, I am pretty sure one or more carriers will attempt to capitalize on the restricted or limited offerings from other carriers to move the market in the right direction.

by offering bound services the carriers are only going to increase users appetite for more and they will have to open the gates as the carriers will not have access to exclusive content that requires a data connection. those that offer unfettered access will win subscribers to their cell service and those that do not will adapt or just take what they can get.

would I like to see a bit of pressure from the FCC, sure but I would like to see the market work. the carriers for the most part cannot deliver bandwidth reliably but this will push them to get better
Emacs has ParEdit minor mode which is a general-purpose tree editor.

https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ParEdit

edit:
paredit demos:

Productive Emacs: Paredit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1WBsI3gdDE

Emacs Rocks! Episode 14: Paredit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6h5dFyyUX0
> As far as I understand the libraries of Rust itself can't have everything written in "safe" code.

Extremely low-level code or code that uses FFI indeed uses unsafe, this in unavoidable, but most Rust code doesn't need unsafe at all.
I think we don't have a general-purpose tree editor for two reasons:

1. Nobody knows what it should look like.

2. Nobody knows how it should work.

I fear this article has left me as much in the dark on these points as I was before I read it. Perhaps someone else here will find something in it I missed.
If you're downloading music from youtube you should really leave it in it's native AAC, Vorbis, or Opus format (and remux the container if necessary). This saves further quality loss caused by another iteration of lossy to lossy transcoding.
Mike Monteiro on the importance of a contract: "Fuck you, pay me."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6h3RJhoqgK8
Apparently, the code for parsing PDFs has grown larger than the linux kernel. That's quite an attack surface!
I'm not sure it's only the outrage, also that this impacts their business more than past decisions. Rather than "fairness" (which I agree they don't really credibly care about) I think the key for the companies is the "predictability" part, in that imposing a travel ban for people who already had valid visas and work permits is unwelcome from a corporate-planning perspective. Especially because the initial version applied to even green-card holders, which includes large numbers of people in the tech industry, such as Iranian-Americans. Though the administration seems to have backed down from enforcing the no-entry order in the case of green-card holders.

If green-card holders had been exempted from the start, it's possible opposition wouldn't have been galvanized in the same way, because including them brought in opposition from all kinds of people who don't usually see themselves as being impacted by the immigration debate (essentially: affluent, well-integrated immigrant communities with legal residency). The cynical take on it is that Trump screwed up by not confining his hawkish immigration enforcement to the powerless & poor types of immigrants that immigration hawks usually stick to harassing.
Contrary to my jubilation at this progress, a cynical friend of mine does not take any reassurance from the power checks the judicial branch has brought against the administration. He believes the administration will just find subtler and less obviously illegal ways to slowly move things in the direction they want. I hope this is not so. It is true that you only seem to see this kind of massive reaction to huge, broad-stroke actions like the travel ban. The quieter legislation passes by unnoticed and (by comparison) unprotested.
>No matter how evil Trump is

Evil is a theological assessment.

Do people really believe Trump (or other politicians) are some kind of evil incarnate, constantly thinking about how to do harm?

It's just people with different values and different approaches on the world. Of course not all approaches are equally valid, and some can be said to be evil or harmful etc, but nothing Trump ever did can warrant the person is particularly bad -- or that different from most politicians and businessmen for that matter.
Research finds flaws in studies of mass deworming for children in poor countries
The XY problem
What would that be (that is coming next)?
You are right, there is no spartan 6 support.
FCC rescinds claim that AT&amp;T and Verizon violated net neutrality
The man is funny :)
This changed my perception of stress and pressure, and then, in consequence, my life as a dev.

https://www.ted.com/talks/kelly_mcgonigal_how_to_make_stress...

It's worth listening to if you're in a high pressure environment, or struggle with stress.
Non-monetary data usage threatens Bitcoin’s efficacy
I understand the gigantic task of moderating boards on the scale that IMDB's probably were, but social network accounts are definitely no substitute as history on these is not tuned for searching. They're flat streams of haphazard comments to whatever is posted on these accounts.

I just now chose to search IMDB's Facebook page for "Star Wars The Force Awakens" for a recent huge movie, using IMDB's supposed "replacement" to these forums. It ought to get no better than this. Top three results:

1. Which film do you think will be the next $2 billion dollar movie?

2. John Boyega to star in Pacific Rim 2

3. Daisy Ridley to star in novel adaption Chaos Walking

None of these are even about the movie I searched, much less a focused discussion! It's completely useless. But that's not because Facebook's search engine is bad. It's searching what has been posted. No, it's because Facebook is not a search engine for catalogued knowledge to begin with. Why? Because Facebook doesn't even contain organized information. It's the wrong tool for this job. It's like going to a pub to extract information rather than going to a library.

This is in extent a problem I've felt has grown worse lately. The big social networks are eating up the web which is not only a loss due to consolidation and reliance on what the giants decide to do (a ton of eggs in very few baskets), but because social networks are tuned to be live or at best "the fresh of today". That works when chatting daily with friends, but not to look up thoughts and opinions on a movie from 1995, or anything else for that matter.

There is also a conceptual difference here, even if social networks did catalogue information to be browsable. They usually work as advertisement platforms and people write reactionary comments, while on a message board people go there in order to indulge themselves in a discussion or get questions answered = much higher discussion quality. Even if the IMDB boards weren't exactly always top quality, they were often much better than the swamps of Facebook.
And ADirStat for Android https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.flightofst...
It aired during the pregame show. Just a potato with the word "ADVERTISEMENT" on it for 30 seconds. There is a chance they only bought slots for Chicago, as a lot of the twitter feeds mentioning it are located in that area.
I believe they are expensive because:

* They have a captive audience and no competition inside the security area in the airport - people who want to sleep between flights, but can't/don't want to go through passport control, customs and security to a hotel,

* They have to be cleaned between each visitor, many times per day.
This is keeper, I'm at 350+ ideal weight around 230-240lbs (6'7") and looking for something to shake up my consumption that makes sense. I regularly exercise (20hrs/week low-medium impact) but eat fast foods
The terminal is pretty. But it was 10 years behind schedule. It costs $3.75 BILLION dollars to build, making it the world's most expensive transportation hub. And it runs about 46,000 passengers a day. (Compare and note that Grand Central does five and a half times that many).

It was not worth it.

Even the director of the Port Authority (the one in 2015, not the one when it was approved) declined to hold an opening ceremony because he was troubled at the cost overruns, decrying the station as a "symbol of excess".
I have a (related) counterpoint. The real problem is that there just aren't that many good US-educated engineers. This boils down to the US's weird college system, where either parents have to save up for their children's tuitions, or the people have to be lucky to get a scholarship.

The US is not a land of equal opportunity when it comes to education, which is costing a lot of potential talent to be lost. There's some improvement in 'free' online courses, but that's still only a patch next to a formal education.

If the US would invest more in its people and their educations, they wouldn't need as much foreign talent.

(spreading work out over the country instead of focusing it in SF would also help)
How Beacon Technology Changes Shopping Habits
Beacon technology is making shopping a more personalised experience, creating a connect between retailer and customer. It is enhancing the entire experience through personal engagement by leveraging technology. We discuss how beacon technology enhanced shopping experience and changes shopping habits
Picture a scenario where you walk into a store and you immediately receive a message on your smartphone welcoming you personally to the store. You walk forward and more messages come informing you about the latest deals centered around the products you wish to purchase. This is the basic premise of the beacon technology. There is much more that can be done which will completely revolutionize the way we shop. Furthermore, it is not a very expensive technology to adopt, hence small establishments can adopt with the same ease as big businesses. More importantly, the beacon-based apps are as relevant for small businesses as big ones, since they can cater to their customers directly and make new customers aware of their presence.

More: http://www.solutionanalysts.com/blog/Beacon-Technology-Changes-Shopping-Habits/
In this type of the task only payoff makes sense.
With 30B+ paths and additional f(x) of path and sum of paths, real life optimization is not really possible - I'll bet in the middle of the night that some simple heuristics (e.g. proximity to one of the major transport hubs) will perform much much better. And city prices are likely already reflecting this, contrary to what author claims.
You're disregarding the difference between being more secure theoretically versus in practice.
Grit: the power of passion and perseverance | Angela Lee Duckworth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H14bBuluwB8
Ask HN: What do you use for making webservices in Java?
I think a key fact about this example is that `&Y` is just another type of value which can be used like any other; if you can't return it our put it in a vector or whatever its really not comparable.
Book Notes from Industries of the future
A global VOIP service that is based on open standards. Or an open social network, also based on open standards. Both should be extensible.
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"alternative facts" ;). At least those err, factual inaccuracies didn't have anything to do with formal government policy.

As for the wall, he's making steps to that at least; whether they'll work on a practical matter is of course something else. Can't accuse him from not following up on his promises, anyway.
It's not that it's wrong really. It's just that it's not particularly useful for weight loss.

If I eat mainly sugar and starches I can easily wolf down 4000 calories a day. If I eat a low carb diet it's a struggle to eat 2000 calories a day, the feeling of hunger isn't the growl in my stomach but a kind of mild headache, and after a couple of days my cravings for sugar subsides. The idea that some foods are more "satiating" than others is important, and involves many factors from calorie density to palatability.

Our bodies also regulate our desires for energy input and output. If I am depressed, exhausted or do not get enough sleep I will crave carbohydrates. If I eat certain foods I will feel lethargic and be more inclined to sink into the couch for the evening.

"Eat less, move more" to lose weight is true, but not useful. How you encourage people to do that that is the domain of biology and psychology, not physics.
Realistically, about the same. Many of the problems with Windows are rooted in being developed by a huge corporation with as much budget and manpower as it has.
Blasphemy: All xml editors are General Purpose Tree Editors
So basically a regulated public utility used its position to build plants to push independents out of the market all the while knowing the capacity wasn't needed. It was a power play supported by the regulating committee that should have said no.

The first step in fixing such issues is to block those companies protected by status of being public utilities from contributing to political campaigns.

The issue not covered by the article from what I can see is, how much of this is baseload power and no peak power or variable (renewable)
FWIW the editor in Chromium's and Firefox's developer tools are pretty good. I'd really like to see something like that as a standalone tool for both trees and XML and see how far it can be taken.
> H1B employees are not getting inferior benefit

Techtopus involved well payed engineers (google, Apple etc), yet it still kept wages down unfairly; Even if the H1B workers are paid the same, that might be enough to prevent natural wage rises.

Furthermore, I'm not sure they are: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13552944

> These are companies that have a high enough bar for entry that they truly cannot hire by looking only locally and must consider the entire world.

> Furthermore, your whole implication that the companies care about this from primarily a financial point of view is deeply cynical

How much would it cost to either train local talent, or compete with other wealthy companies for limited talent? I find "we hire only the best, we need to scour the world" to be at odds with there being no financial benefit in skimming the cream off large foreign populations.
It's unbelievable that we are moving to 100% Internet area, regular phones are deprecated, yet we are full of Silos. Skype user can't call Google hangouts user, Facebook user can't talk to Twitter user.

Imagine what would happen if we had the same issues with our phone lines. The last real open service we created as a humanity is email. At least SMTP still works.
The Dell XPS line officially support Ubuntu.

www.dell.com/uk/business/p/xps-13-9350-laptop-ubuntu/pd
> Also, hilarious adventure I went on once: I ate 4000 calories of bacon a day and nothing else for a month... ended up cutting it off a little early because I was losing weight too quickly.

That sounds like an extreme form of a ketogenic diet [1], or Atkins diet [2]. Very effective, but with only bacon you'll miss some important micronutrients.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketogenic_diet

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atkins_diet
I tried to make it clear in my previous comment that I didn't necessarily support such a tax, but I don't find anything inherently wrong with a country, any country, limiting or otherwise taxing foreign real estate ownership.

I would expect that any legal resident of the US would be exempt from such a tax, not just citizens, if they weren't, I would have a problem with the tax even if it had the desired affect of lowering housing prices. But again, I want to stress that I don't have the knowledge to determine this.

As to what other countries should do, I have no idea. Certainly I believe they have every right to determine that for themselves. I believe some countries do have varying requirements or limits on foreign land/RE ownership. Perhaps I am mistaken.
I'd take ZeroNet with a grain of salt.

I helped with it for a little while, but the main developer was resistant to:

* Using a package manager or bundling dependencies into a compressed form. Dependencies had to be in the same git repo, fully extracted. (A bit of a "code smell")

* Dependencies could take months to get security updates.

* Documentation couldn't be in the git repo.

* Python 3 was "not an option"

Also:

* The main developer has limited experience with the torrent protocol.

It is an interesting project: but it is not a private or secure one.
Then the US should overhaul its voting system completely; when you have just two parties, and when the head-of-state is a person (instead of a commission or a government without a clear leader), you will inevitably end up in a popularity contest, a contest of personalities. "What's right" is much harder to get people to vote for.
Previous discussion – https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10023882.

I think it is pretty interesting, that we are here basically between two fires, assuming too much or too little. This balancing is true art, so the problem is to get enough information to assume with enough reliability without spending too much time.

Also I'd like to point out that in my opinion junior and more senior engineers are often separated by attitude described here (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_Whys) – when to stop and how to identify root of the problem.
Spring (normal or boot) MVC, mostly.

Or Jax-RS/Jax-WS with Jersey/CXF/whatever, if you want to stick to standard EE technologies.

95% of our stuff is Java/Spring (big SOA, banking sector). ESB/Gateway is normally Mule or Camel.
The percentage of the fuel used relates to the kind of fuel and the amount of work done.
"For low pay.."

Exactly. If the cost to produce something exceeds its profit, then either the prices must rise or the business closes.

Why do you think California is so fiercely protective of illegals? Because one of their major industries is agriculture. They have a competitive advantage against states like Alabama because of their unwillingness to enforce the law. Essentially California is stealing from Alabama as they are taking advantage of below-market labor to harm competitors. A lot of the $15 minimum wage advocates are in California -- yet nary a peep about minimum wage violations by the agricultural industry there. If there were actually an enforced $15 minimum wage, Alabama would be competitive agin because they'd be on equal footing with labor costs (and more competitive because of lower regulatory costs and taxes.) Illegals working California fields aren't making anywhere near $15 per hour.

Hiring illegal aliens is quite simply a means to avoid minimum wage.
> Things that stick out at head level...

I'm a tall man (200cm/6'6") and walking down the street in the rain in Hanoi was a test of nerves, as mains power cables would shoot giant sparks at just about eye level...
The Gervais Principle, or the Office According to “The Office”
Given it's the intersection of two such perennially dismal technologies, I'd say pessimism is justified.
And sooner or later, we have the same system as in soccer,
where millions change hands when a player changes employer.
Do we then also get a fantasy league to bet on teams? Oh, wait, that's what the stock market is for.
I like to think about Rust's memory management as static/compile-time garbage collection, as opposed to the traditional dynamic/run-time garbage collection in languages such as Java.

The process is mostly automatic because you don't have to manually free the memory you use like you do in C. The difference is that the moment when the memory must be freed is determined at compile time by Rust, while a dynamic GC has to determine this at runtime, which uses more resources but also ends up being easier to use.
5U5R Niger
I was considering about stripping down the curl binary to make it smaller in size and remove functionality that is not required for httpstat.

So, by compiling it, there would be more options for someone to do something more with the provided snapcraft.yaml.

In retrospect, it would be better to have "stage-packages: curl" as it would simplify the tutorial. I'll add a note in the tutorial about.
I would not want to live/work/sit near such a thing.
Lots of poor Americans don't have mortgages either.
> games and realtime audio processing are an exception.

Not necessarily. D has a garbage collector and is used in games already such as Quantum Break.
I do audio processing and had to limit GC usage in audio callbacks of course, but it was far from a showstopper.
From the brief :

>>> The Order makes it more difficult and expensive for U.S. companies to recruit, hire, and retain some of the world’s best employee

"More expensive" makes laugh... What were the profits of these companies last year ? Do they really need to shave a few thousands dollar here and there ?
Copyright law needs some serious reform. It's unconscionable that you can't even share the laws that govern you. We really need an exception for things that are considered "public" knowledge, including freedom of panorama. (I can't even take a picture of my own city if it contains an artwork in it) We also need to do something about orphaned works. Sadly, it's in the interest of Disney and other corporations that the status quo of a restrictive commons continues indefinitely.
Thank you. I think resources on writing a Unix shell is probably a good place to start :)
Hope retailer has no CCTV. Hope town has no CCTV. Leave phone at home.

It depends how deep your desire for annonimity is...
Its very hard to contribute patch to foss tool in general. There is no substitution for agile development team.
IBM wants to change US law to allow software patents again
> A global VOIP service that is based on open standards.

Is SIP [1] not open?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Session_Initiation_Protocol
That was true until things like optional typing as seen in flowtype/typescript came along.
Why did Walmart buy Jet for $3B?
It is still umproven, burning cash and competing against Amazon with (apparently) no secret weapon