skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Good point. I suppose that's a valuable lesson in relying on third parties for critical functionality.
SYSTEM is even more privileged than Administrator. This is the real "root" user. One thing that sometimes annoys me greatly is that on Windows, Administrator is not the most privileged user and SYSTEM is hard to actually get to when you need it.

On a tangential point, one common "hack" when XP was popular was to replace Winlogon.exe with Minlogon, which basically made it an ultra-fast-booting "single user mode" (and coincidentally, also bypassed WPA) and that single user was... SYSTEM. That along with EWF and some creative RAMdisk usage made for some interesting liveCD-like Windows environments.
> Did she? How do you know this?

Left column says: Finder-natashenka

twitter.com/natashenka -> Natalie

I added a "seems" since I wasn't sure, but let me use it again: there sure seems to be a connection.
It is, and they are. There is a wide variety of governmental standards programmers have to follow in a wide variety of industries (healthcare, education, banking, defense/military, etc) and programmers manage not to bribe their way into total control of the government because being a good citizen is too hard.

Having regulators with interests that diverge from people in industry is exactly the point; the things they are doing are often dangerous, reckless, and careless. It does not matter if it's "standard industry practice" or part of the "byplay common in the industry day-to-day". In fact it's crucial that regulators ignore this; we didn't particularly care that it was commonplace to put asbestos or lead in products when it started killing people, we just stopped it.

I don't care if it's "commonplace in the industry" to hash passwords with MD5 and leave a telnet port on the database server open to the Internet. It should be criminal because of how careless it is with people's personal data and I wish there were more regulators in the IT industry to come down on people who do it.
The mentioned lottery savings bonds: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premium_Bonds
I'd like to see data scrubbing/anonymisation disclosures become standard for services like this. Knowing there's a robust email or SSN scrubber would increase confidence, though for unstructured PII you have somewhat of a chicken and egg problem where you need training samples to build the robust anonymiser.
It's like doing crash tests with live passengers, but it's OK because you have a machine that can duplicate people and you just kill the duplicates. Except one day you get it mixed up and kill the originals, whoopsie.

I greatly enjoy this analogy.
Shuttleworth puts Canonical on path to IPO
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Whenever I'm surprised by an investment announcement like this, I like to look the company name up on Google Trends. This curve will give you a sense of how rapidly user interest in Grammarly has increased the past few years: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=grammarl...

It's no Snapchat or Instagram, but it's comparable to, say, Docker in magnitude and trajectory. I hear from a lot of writers through my own websites, and I hear them mention Grammarly more and more often lately.

That's not to say the $110M investment makes sense, just that Grammarly may be more popular than the community here realizes.
I thought you were the other poster.
Weren't most big name composers from all "classical" periods prolific improvisers also? Stories of Bach's fugue battles come to mind so I don't think the two have to be mutually exclusive. I think it's more that transcribed music is as close as we have to recorded music from periods before vinyl which inevitably draws a certain crowd of purist. To me it feels like a subculture within the classical space.
It's probably because of the syntax highlighting, which is fairly slow due to regex. Sublime should have no problems reading it in text mode. more would also work!
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Blocking the domain is not an effective step. Every censorship circumvention tool's domain is blocked, except for ones that aren't popular and so are essentially unknown. As with many other areas, half the battle is just entering the arena. Until you do that it's hard to know what your real challenges will be. The IPFS team should be commended for entering the arena, and we should all help however we can.
And of course the first ad in the article is for an antidepressant.

Drop the ad script in and forget it they said... Targeted ads they said...
So? I hear all sorts of bullshit from armchair psychiatrists trying to scare people from using SSRI's. I'm saying, it might work for you, like it did for me. Or it might not. Might as well try if other things don't work.
Running the program to see if it ever stops is an easy way to solve the halting problem. The trick, of course, is that you need infinite time to be sure of a "never halts" answer.

Turing's proof essentially says that there is no way to be sure of knowing what an arbitrary program will do except for running it and seeing what it does.

It's an imperfect technique for real-world programs, but so is everything. Think of it as being like static code analysis versus runtime "sanitizer" tools. Both are useful, and both can detect problems the other can't.
> Luckily, the existence of confused or insincere persons doesn't provide any evidence against my claims. Any pair of people who believe themselves to have a sincere disagreement about whether mathematics is science are in fact both mistaken

The arrogance dripping from this statement is hard to not consider insulting, when such "confused" individuals include those such as Stephen Hawking, and Godel struggled with it for some time.

> what they really have is a disagreement about what "science" is.

No, the difficulty lies in defining the philosophy of mathematics. It's a tool underpinning nature, so despite its abstraction, does it explain the natural world? Proofs are most certainly empirical in nature.

The upshot is, better people than you or I say there is not yet an answer.
If anyone is interested in STRIDE there's an MSDN article here:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee823878(v=cs.20).a...
Your comment would have been better if you had linked to examples rather than accusing the parent of spreading FUD.

Maybe you're a student or have multiple products (different types of accounts, credit cards, home loans, term deposits) with your bank?

I can't get a $0 / month account for everyday banking from my bank because I have a special rate home loan. They have a savings account that's $0 / month but you can only transfer from / to it via a regular $4 / month account.
I'd be interested in coding on my TV only if it had the same resolution and visual acuity at a 10 foot viewing distance as my 5K retina iMac has at it's current 1.5 foot viewing distance. This would require about a 200 inch diagonal TV which is sadly a bit outside of my budget.
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Get involved [0] make history, defend your voice!

[0] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/05/launching-dearfcc-best...
The FCC should KEEP net neutrality rules. ISPs are fundamentally different from internet website providers like Google and Facebook. A consumer can choose not to use Google, but there is no way to opt out of using an ISP or allowing the ISP to see your private internet history. ISPs serve the same purpose as roadways, water pipes, and electricity wires. We do not want roads spying on where we drive or the electric company spying on which appliances we use at which times. We must also prevent ISPs from discriminating and charging different amounts to access different websites or throttling the speed of competitors' websites. We do not want roads charging different amounts for different makes of cars or electric companies charging different amounts to use one brand of dishwasher versus another brand. Net neutrality is good for human rights, privacy, consumers, and competition. Please DO NOT REPEAL net neutrality.
Even rumors of presence of a backdoor are extremely bad for a business like that.
You do realize you're talking to people who've never had to use these services, never made under $40K (except when living at home), and are many steps removed from ever having to go through this?

Yeah. I have. I did the Green Dot. Pile of shit, with hidden service fees, usage fees, loading fees, fee fees. Oh yeah, YC.

Ive been on food stamps. I've been on unemployment. Even been homeless for a time. Right now, I have a significantly better job... But I still live in a trailer.... err, "Tiny House".

But anyways, good luck explaining what you mean. These people don't get it, and their societal structure means that they won't get it, even if you linked the very documents to them. It's out of their worldview.
Standalone proofreading software for Windows & Word:

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Los Angeles and Manhattan are still in the same country? The quality of public transport is related to density, public money and proper policies not the % of owned cars.
German firms will streamline online login with a European bent
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I was with you until I thought about scale at really large levels. For everyday networking applications, you are correct. But could those very narrow use cases have very positive consequences on the scale of Amazon or Google?
The api request was made by users from quite few years but I don't think so they intend to release it any soon.
That may be so, but the words used were "pissed off" and not any of the wildly different examples you've provided which dramatically change the narrative.
in my previous companies, backend got much more respect and i believe rightfully so. think of the hardest back end problem: its Google scale requiring lots of PhDs to tackle it.

now think of the hardest front end problem. most likely its not even close.
Make do, not due, in this instance.
Cry about it.
There's a company called Outlier.ai that basically exists to deal with this problem. I quoted the CEO, Sean Byrnes, in this article about business intelligence: https://www.inc.com/sonya-mann/business-intelligence-cloud.h...

Covers a lot of the same territory from a newsier perspective.
I am willing to wager that those accounts have requirements for automated deposits into them and or are tied to other accounts that have similar balance/deposit requirements.
As mpengine will unpack arbitrarily deeply nested archives...

Surely not - what happens if you feed it the zipfile quine?
It is similar to "Peak Oil". Things are finite, nothing grows forever.
I love both Grammarly and Hemmingwayapp, which I use both daily. Also, I think there is a huge market for these type of apps in China. If I were assured there are no GFW issues with servers located in China, I'd buy it for all of my customer facing employees in our China office.
I am working on a project using Fable Elmish and I am really happy with it. All I can say is give it a shot.
If I may ask, do those 4 cents include bitcoin's transaction fee? How well have bitcoin transactions worked for you so far?

I've been pondering starting a cheap service that accepts bitcoin (too cheap for CCs and not worth the hassle of paypal), but wasn't sure about the viability of relying on bitcoin as the primary transaction currency.
No idea why you're getting down-voted. The mail client was the first thing I thought of too. Was a really confusing read until I realized it wasn't about E-mail.
The reason I have trouble saving is not because I am a weak-willed low-life as implied by this article. The reason is because there is not enough money to pay for things that I need, so I have to make difficult choices about what to go without. And choosing to save usually seems unwise when it means neglecting some other need.
That's a cost that should be worn by the merchant, if they aren't going to check that money is available in the account then that's their problem.

Is their anywhere else in the western world that has these problems? Or even the developing world?
Arguably, the negative outcomes to society of not having children is far greater.
nice link, thx
Yes, it's learning on the job.

In the specific case of 802.11 (different from 'Wi-Fi' which is a marketing term from the Wi-Fi consortium), you'll also need to be familiar with the IEEE 802.11 specifications. You can do this by putting aside a block of time to read parts of the actual specs [1], supplemented by the O'Reilly 802.11 books by Matthew Gast [2] which I found to be really helpful during my time working with various 802.11 modules.

[1] [ http://standards.ieee.org/about/get/802/802.11.html ]

[2] [ http://www.oreilly.com/pub/au/692 ]
Or they could amend the law to fire you out of a cannon into the sun! What will that dastardly congress do next.
I read your comment earlier and saved it for later. I too find myself unenlightened.

Fine it's impossible to correctly calculate externalities. I don't see the line from there to: "BigCo dumped a ton of waste in my pond, but it's unfair for the government coerce BigCo to compensate me because there's a chance the I might get more than the true value of that pond."
Here are my various no-fee checking accounts:

* http://content.schwab.com/web/retail/public/get-started/chec... - amazing checking account, reimburses all ATM fees

* https://www.capitalone.com/bank/360checking-guide/

* https://www.aspiration.com/summit/

I do have a few other ones but they're based on relationship banking. All of the above have no fee and no minimum.
Apparently solar cells larger than a calculator one can give about 30mA, 5V at peak power output [1]. We really need to know surface area and lumen to know how good this thing performs.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/53X30mm-Micro-Power-Solar-Panels/dp/B...
There's a human tendency to overemphasize things you can quantify. So we try to figure out how to test every code path rather than what we should do: try to figure out which inputs we should test against.
The FAQs (https://www.walmartmoneycard.com/account/faqs) say

> You can withdraw cash from your card at any Walmart register or MoneyCenter. This service is free for the Walmart MoneyCard product with Cash-Back Rewards.

Where are you looking?
I have 100% code coverage on a couple of projects. It has two benefits:

Behaviour is completely covered by tests, so changes in APIs which might break consumers of the library will at least be detected.

New work on the library tends to follow the 100% coverage by convention, so it's somewhat easier to maintain. Apps that have 90% coverage, for example, tend to slip and slide around. Having 100% coverage projects the standard "If your contribution doesn't have 100% coverage it won't be accepted". I don't think this is a bad default position.
I've been using Logitech's solar powered keyboard (uses traditional cells) for years and I love the product. The biggest problem are:

1) doesn't charge well in low light

2) doesn't charge well from LED light

At first glance, the new approach looks to address one of those problems and possibly both.
For some things, SourceTree 2 uses libgit2 instead of a new git.exe process. So there's less for Windows Defender to hook into and scan.

https://blog.sourcetreeapp.com/2017/04/27/sourcetree-for-win...
ChexSystems is different than a credit report. They can clear you even if you don't have any credit or have bad credit.
This was kind of depressing. It seems like almost everything aside from IPython and Mathematica in this list is still worshiping at the altar of PARC. That, and two of the most common UIs for GSD (Vim and Emacs) aren't even on the list.

On a personal note, I'm particularly hostile to the Squeak/LabView style of flowchart programming. Once you get something even slightly non-trivial going, you can just feel your life force being drained by all of the scrolling and zooming and dragging and futzing.
That makes sense. I think 'gardening' is a metaphor for composition at an abstraction level where and artist's paint is semi/non deterministic algorithms
Remote Work Digest: May 9, 2017
Software Engineer at Big Corp.

10:00 - get to work, check email, coffee

11:00 - standup: please the clueless Scrum Master by reciting the amazing work I did yesterday, which he has no clue about whatsoever. Usually finish with a "good job" praise

11:15 - peruse various newspapers

12:00 - check Linkedin, credit card accounts, Reddit/HN

13:00 - have a salad and coffee

13:30 - random crap: failing builds, random requests from people, pointless meetings. Sometimes interviewing people in this slot

15:00 - coffee

15:15 - more pointless meetings and random crap

16:00 - code review other people

17:00 - check the news/Linkedin/Reddit/HN again

18:00 - practice on leetcode (not looking for a job, just do it for fun)

19:00 - actually do some coding for the day

20:00 - call it a day, home.

The amazing thing is I still got more work done than most people, mostly because the code I write actually works and takes little time to be reviewed by others. Some people seem to be working all day but spend most of the time fixing their own/other people's crap.
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> produce goods and services for lower prices

Produce goods and services for lower prices, not necessarily sell them for lower prices.
But this measure, Japan proved to be utterly Western. They also recovered brilliantly, as predicted.
I think if you read Chaos Monkeys and/or Dragnet Nation (and I'm sure, others) you'll realize the data privacy cat is out of the bag. It's likely such ISP data to be sold is already available via other channels.

Aside from that, the danger of the internet doesn't seem to be free speech, but free thought. The bar is much higher and deeper. Droves are being manipulated, nudged and misled. That's happening, nearly frictionless, now. Even Orwell would blush thinking, "My, I really underestimated what was going to happen."

Mind you a lack of NN isn't going to help. But with NN or without NN the root issue(s) aren't NN.
Microsoft and apple could disappear tomorrow and it would have zero immediate effect. It is an example of how regressive the app store model is and why we should have never allowed it.

As for what can be done about it, everything from hosting on multiple sites to self hosting so that you can't be censored by a corporate entity. And yes, it's an example of why centralizing services on something like AWS is a terrible idea.

But that's too hard, easier to just cry louder and continue to enable the behavior.
One advantage of SMS I forgot: there's no gatekeeper, so any person/company can send messages without restriction.

And one disadvantage: there's no gatekeeper, so any person/company can send messages without restriction.
What about NSF fees? The NSF fee at my bank is 8x more than the overdraft fee ($40 vs $5 + 20% APR). Turning overdraft off would be a poor choice for me even if I anticipated the occasional overdraft.
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General principles will be more interesting than examples: Win32 does not list the errors that can happen, rendering the greater error code space it has half-useless. Even without considering errors, the description of what functions do is often unclear or made in not precise terms. It is often needed to test the functions in tiny test programs to actually understand all their details before you can use them properly, and given they often have a high number of parameters this makes this matter even worse.

Something as simple as the CreateProcess and family of function is a complete mess (both in the doc and in the detailed way they work...)

POSIX actually doubles as a reference documentation. I don't think such a thing really exists for Win32 -- MSDN is way too vague to achieve that purpose. Maybe people from Wine / ReactOS maintain a better doc, I don't know.
I always thought it weird that Gmail doesn't auto check grammar... Still having this on mail, Facebook could be useful.
If that broke it, I imagine it would've been discovered by now. A simple mitigation would be to check if the newly-unpacked file is the same.

However... suppose someone crafted an alternating version -- where A.zip contains B.zip contains A.zip etc. -- I bet there are systems out there which only do one tier of checking.
That doesn't address the "in the wild" part of your claim.
IMO, in Civ 6, going wide is the only way to really win. There are some penalties but they are minimal. In Civ 5 it was totally possible to win with one city, in Civ 6 that's almost impossible. So, if you like building large empires, I highly recommend it to you.
Using signals in the ye olde UNIX fashion is bad. However, that was entirely fixed with the advent of POSIX threads: block all signals in all threads with sigprocmask(), and have a dedicated signal-handling thread that loops around on sigwaitinfo(). That thread then handles signals entirely synchronously, notifying other parts of the program using usual inter-thread communication.
My version of this is working on a team with 100% coverage that still saw a steady and heavy influx of bugs. 100% coverage does not mean bug free.

I advocate spending time on identifying/inventing the correct abstractions over coverage.
I suppose you're in the wrong income bracket to have considered services from them.

Yes, they do charge fees at the register, regardless your link. When I went and deposited the $200 check from Wal-mart at a register, and $197 goes in... yeah. You can link URL's all you want. But 3$ disappeared in that transaction for "reasons".

I know because I've used the plans that people here are talking about. Unlike the rest of you, I've had them. I've used and been used by them.