skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The BBC looks increasingly anachronistic to me. There is little content which would not otherwise be available elsewhere in some form, and the content that is deemed not commercially viable but justified as it serves Reithian principles (https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/reithian) is only a small subset of the whole. I also question whether it's healthy to have a small, unaccountable group having such considerable power over media - certainly the way the BBC handled Jimmy Saville and the Muslim paedophile gangs in Rotherham (lack of coverage bordering on outright suppression of the truth) doesn't fill me with confidence. I could also mention Brexit and Trump, where their coverage has been far from impartial.
I think this is unfair. Stallman is seen this way, I think, because of his appearance. If he cut his hair and wore a suit, he would be the Ralph Nader of software.

If you watch his interviews, he is very calm, precise, and careful to explain his ideas.

Maybe I'm radical, but he seems a very reasonable person to me.
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I have no BIOS option at all for this, yet it’s enabled and provisioned. What do I do?
Is disabling always possible? I don’t find UI to disable in recent Lenovo ThinkStation BIOS even though I’ve seen such option previously in ThinkPad BIOS.
I disagree. While DNS-based blocking can block more advertisements on mobile devices, such as in-app advertisements or in browsers without extension/content blocker support, it's nowhere near as flexible and a major pain to work around in case of false positives. Furthermore, it only works on your local network (it will be abused for DNS amplification DDoS attacks if you open it to the world), and requires dedicated hardware. It's nowhere near as easy to set up or as flexible as a browser addon.
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That is at best a correlation, it in no way says that men are promoted faster simply because they are men which is what your are asserting

Correlation does not equal causation
How are you going to be locked into an IDE for Python? You can edit the Python code in any other IDE. There is no switching cost. If you put in dependencies or built it on Azure maybe you'd have problems switching, but you could still do it. But if you don't want any sort of lock-in, you can just use the IDE. The anti-Microsoft sentiment on this board is so laughable sometimes.
I recently bought MacBook on eBay and it arrived with bended lid that was not mentioned in the description. Messaged the seller hoping that he could at least offer $50 compensation for that. Will see how it goes.
After the recent so called 'cyber attacks' of WannaCry, I was careful to update any Windows machine I have and install things like EMET and MalwareBytes on them. I switched to Linux years ago because I've heard nothing but bad news concerning Windows, but one thing struck me about the WannaCry infections: I heard the attackers used an exploit pulled from the recent ShadowBrokers leak, something related to 'SMB'. A few questions:
Explain it to me like I'm five please

1.) What is SMB? And is it easy to remove from systems by simply uninstalling it (like I have done[0])?

2.) Does WannaCry just land on a machine through a simple point-and-click exploit? Do they just enter a vulnerable IP address and they can plant the exploit on the machine and run it?

3.) I am aware that it also gets onto machines by people randomly clicking on shady e-mail attachments, but I am very curious about how it simply lands on computers with very little or no user stupidity at all?

[0] I uninstalled SMB by going to > Add or remove programs > Remove windows features
Netflix does offer a 4K streaming tier for a few dollars more.
Love the idea around this. This provides an easier more powerful wrapper for querying complex datastructures. With this package we can start using redis differently.
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The ME processor is located in the PCH as far as I know. SoC systems have it all on one die, of course.
>No need to be sorry, but how so?

With root on linux there is nothing outside of your control, With Admin on Windows there are still all kinds of things outside of your control. Just look at the Telemetry controversy as an example. No way for even an "admin" to disable it

>I didn't know that. Is it done based on OS detection or is it just Netflix neglecting to support?

In order to play HD Content you much have a OS that refuses to follow the Admin's wishes, instead follows the wishes of the OS Vendor.

You much have full stack DRM built into the OS that is not bypassable.

Currently the Only OS that support browser based HD Playback from netflix is Windows in the Edge Browser because MS DRM is built into the OS and the Admin of the OS has no control over it.
Ex eBay employee here. Don't buy or sell on eBay. It's not that no-one there cares, I certainly did, it is that no-one in power cares. The corporate culture is toxic. I worked in bad buyer experience and building algorithms to fix this is trivial. It happens a lot so there is a lot of data and the patterns are simple. The problem is that every fix costs eBay a discernible amount money.

We did customer analysis to show that existing customers were leaving faster than new ones were coming in. Usually people have one bad experience and never come back. They still didn't care and given their culture they will never care until their stock plummets or a real competitor comes along.
Party with a need for faster horse?
EU system is a bit different - first, you're not stuck with the bill as in USA, and second, there would be no patent so no reason to sue.

Unlike prior art, which often needs to be proven in court, disallowing software patents as a class means that this patent simply would not get issued in EU.
I think it would almost have to be someone like Stripe or Paypal, such that they have a broad enough view into the buyer. They would get data via chargebacks versus just seller initiated data.

Personally, I think credit card companies should send back something like "percentage of purchases with a chargeback" and let us decide how risky we want to be.
You really can't. I heard stories of people selling MacBooks, buyer requesting a refund and sends an empty box back and you can't do nothing about it
Completely agree on the point that putting hard constraints like living in space is a good driver for reusability and sustainability - tech that can be put in use on Earth later.

But let's look a little deeper why pollution is happening in the first place. Don't you think that people's greed and desires of having more and more things contributes to this at least a little? Overconsumption? Short-term profits? But what if we can fix _that_ at least a bit? Now that's a question I'm much more interested, since I believe it can have real effect and stop the runaway consumption culture.
If the employer created a famine to help recruit cheap labour, I agree, there is no consent
While the "top N" password lists are likely english centric, the other parts of the analysis aren't.

Things like "length of password" or "percentage of users using their name/email in their password" is not something that is language dependent.

That said, the wording of some of the passages appears to be one of "India is better than China at passwords." As the author appears to be Indian ("1.5 lac") there could be a hint of nationalism in this.
ublock.org is controlled by Chris and is meant for his now unmaintained uBlock extension.

Note to everyone : use uBlock origin only which is built by gorhill. ublock.org is not related to uBlock origin in any way.
I'm surprised there isn't seller-side insurance... eBay etc all have buyer side insurance.
Please don't donate, it's a scam.
> I would think most jobs would be really specific like a type of machine learning or computer vision etc.

Isn't that putting the cart before the horse? A "robotics engineer" in my mind is someone who evaluates the problem needing to be automated and then finds a solution to automate it. That solution may include machine learning or computer vision, but not necessarily. There are lots of problems that can be solved more effectively in different ways.
3 points, no discussion, only 4 hours old and ranked 19? Is the ranking algorithm at HN broke?
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It does have a look similar to images drawn in Deluxe Paint, though without the characteristic dithering since there is no color limitations.
"Article I, Section 8, Clause 8 of the United States Constitution, known as the Copyright Clause, empowers the United States Congress: To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries."

The trade off with patents is that the author will, in exchange for a limited monopoly, reveal his invention to "promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts". In the case of software patents, the things that are patented are not worth this trade off and, IMO, are a net drag on Progress.

As a developer, I'm making Progress in spite of patents. Software patents are a bit like giving tax breaks to oil companies when we are awash in cheap oil - the cost isn't worth it.

Whenever a client wants to patent what I've done for them, I grit my teeth and fill out the paperwork they ask me to. My reluctance is partly because I know it is making the world a worse place for developers and partly because I feel ashamed that they would consider it patent-able - like getting your crayon drawing put up in the Louvre.
https://help.netflix.com/en/node/23742

Resolution:

Google Chrome up to 720p

Internet Explorer up to 1080p

Microsoft Edge up to 4K*

Mozilla Firefox up to 720p

Opera up to 720p

Safari up to 1080p on Mac OS X 10.10.3 or later

Mainly it has to do with PlayReady / Widevine support at the OS Level. Windows has PlayReady baked into the OS, and will communicate with the Edge Browser in a Secure way that can not be bypassed by any user on the System

Linux and other browsers on Windows lack the ability to do this at an OS Level there for netflix limits the stream quality because the OS does not have the proper DRM Controls

This is the exact same reason they do not want the Netlfix app on Rooted devices
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Ralph Nader is crazy and wrong.
In the cases you outline, doesn't it simply mean that for those persons one critical life system failed before the willpower one did? (whatever the latter's form may be)
Using browser supported methods should be more efficient. Content security policy (what's used in ublock) means requests don't even get made, and the browser 'knows' this, whereas if your DNS just keeps getting blocked you may still be attempting the query.

But having a DNS fallback for other applications is nice too.
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Silicon Valley has peaked
The comparison gets moot because you typically don't pick the company who delivers. You just pick whatever's cheapest or selected by default; instead, you pick where you order your food. Because that's the largest factor affecting the quality of the food.

You'll have different segments indeed. Say we keep it simple and you got two: a luxury one and one for the (poor) masses. Most people won't be able to afford the luxury one, so they'll grab the cheap one. (The cheapest one is still either not drinking coffee at all, drink it at a place where its free ie. at work, or bringing your own coffee in a vacuum can.)

Generally (the exception being catering to travellers such as a drive-in near a highway) you won't see a McDs in a rich neighbourhood, and you won't see a luxury restaurant in a poor neighbourhood. Neither the customers nor the workers live nearby.

Also, don't forget people are loyal to brands.

As a final note, I'd be rather interested to see which local brands have disappeared over the years, if that can be attributed to fast food businesses such as McD's.

As for you not buying the view, that is exactly what was being described in the link with first hand experience from a taxi driver in The Netherlands (heavily regulated market by law) which I posted elsewhere [1].

[1] http://www.taxibelangen.nl/ervaringen-ex-uber-chauffeur/
> The Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-profit library. Founded in 1996, our mission is to provide Universal Access to All Knowledge.

https://archive.org/about/

If a book store was sold out of a popular book would you discourage people from looking for it at the library? For all we know this information has been destroyed and the internet archive is the only place it exists now.
uBlock Origin is indeed incredibly easy to enable, that's why It's my backup when I'm away from home (and I use it on Firefox/Aurora for Android when mobile).

However you might be overstating the difficulty of deploying a DNS server a tiny bit, especially Pi-Hole.
You don't need dedicated hardware per-se, but a small investment in the form of a Raspberry PI (even Zero is fine) makes the deployment almost trivial in most environments.

I'd also recommend looking into Orange PI, not only is it cheaper but I believe it's also POE powered, making it even more elegant on supported routers and switches.

Install, use it's IP as the DHCP DNS entry, done.

It comes with real time stats so false positives are relatively easy to identify, I've never had to do it.
local news papers love local succes stories. even a bad story can be published if you do most of the work yorself basically writing the story for them and supplying photos. there are people making a living selling stories and photos to news papers.
«manufactured marketing based need»

This reeks of paternalism and fascism. You claim you know what people actually want despite their own claims to the contrary?

So what, you'll tell people when they "don't really want" what they say they want?
It used to be the case that with a VPN you could access content only available in other countries. They cracked down pretty hard on that last year.
I agree, I'm just playing devil's advocate.
Upload a script that replaces the old file source and wait for gunicorn or whatever to reload the app server.
By far the biggest perk of this method is expanding the privacy and protection blanket on to platforms that make it incredibly difficult to otherwise block ads and tracking.(cough stock Android).

It's also nice to see 50k blocked attempts at the end of a slow day.
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How does the browser know what hash algo to use?
They're not open source
Apparently there is, sorta: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14335840
To change your habits over the long term it helps to take it really slowly but consistently.
Unfortunately, there are too few hardware developers and not enough hardware-awareness, thanks to the good abstraction nowadays. In the modern age, only few software devs cares about the underlying hardware, because it just works. The thing is, software _runs_ on hardware and any bug/backdoor etc in it undermines everything above.

Did you know that the baseband chip in your smartphone runs it's own linux? Or that every SIM card comes with java applications that can communicate with it? I guess not.

Considering how much hardware is required on a modern PC main board, it's really not that surprising that there are backdoors, bugs, or other mechanisms that can be exploited.
I generally get the feeling that people were way more wreckless before the 80's. The level of technology at the time is surprisingly low. Card catalogs and the dewey decimal system represented a nominal level of information technology, rendering many audit trails nearly opaque.

Of course, physical, structural security was bad too. Break a window and climb on in, just repair the window when you leave and maybe that'd be enough to capture some records. If it wasn't a bank or a prison, a building probably wasn't a fortress unless it was extra special.

People cared a lot less about how life turned out 40 or 50 years ago. Alcohol, tobacco, diseases everywhere, and medicine was kind of terrible. You get a feel that risk taking was normal.

Now, people clench up at the thought of breaking any rules. Call it the new technological superstition. We don't believe in god, but we believe in logs.
And they compensate them quite generously. I don't think something like this would've the reason you'd say no to $350k+ salary to work for Netflix. You'd probably get over it.
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Space travel neither takes away from nor impedes fixing the environment. Heck, the annual NASA budget is half what Seattle is blowing on a transit tunnel that goes a few miles.
It's comical at this stage.
Check again. They should give you instructions on getting the money back after 180 days.
This piece reminds me of http://www.salon.com/2015/09/26/how_to_explain_the_kgbs_amaz...

"What Totrov came up with were 26 unchanging indicators as a model for identifying U.S. intelligence officers overseas."
Well, you would just check the final download dmg/iso file, and only do it for the first n-versions or so (since those will be the most popular.) The other ones can be checked too, but at a much lower frequency.
Monthly subscription was not available for me in October.

> but the perpetual, or standalone, license isn't for people who need upgrades

This is endemic to Microsoft. Every other software I bought had discounted upgrade options. They also didn't say "hey we release new version in few months and will abandon this one and you will not be able to upgrade"

Maybe I am spoiled by other companies. Microsoft is certainly not small business friendly. Their support also was pathetic. It took them couple of months to say I can't upgrade.
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Why would Intel insist on being so secretive about their management engine? Is it some kind of competitive advantage for them?

Supposedly, it's useful for management tasks in enterprise environments, but if I were CIO, I think I would ban VPro chips. Who wants ring -3 processes running on their network for which they have no information about?
Couple years ago I won as a seller. Item was delayed by usps and the buyer (rightfully) started the claims process. Usps delivered with a signature but the claim was never cancelled. Eventually eBay said they reviewed it and awarded in my favor. Granted this is a bit different than someone sending an empty box back, eBay does sometimes actually look into it.
Length of password is partially dependent on language (e.g German words tend to be longer on average).

Also, many languages have their own diacritic characters (å, ä, ö, etc.), which, when used in password, will be counted as "special characters" (because they do not match standard [a-zA-Z0-9] regexp).

So yes, password safety is at least partially influenced by user's language.
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Last time I sold on eBay I remember there being options to restrict who can bid. Like having users that had a good track record. Do they not do that anymore or have the scammers managed to mess that up even?
> We see that Russia has lower percentages when the password lengths are less than 10 and the percentage increases as we go to higher length passwords. This could mean that people are more aware of good password practices.

Russians commonly make passwords from Russian dictionary words by pressing the respective Russian letters on their keyboards but without actually switching to Russian language. Also for this reason it seems Russians are not using top 50 most common passwords, while in reality they surely do, it's just 50 most common Russian ones.

As for China, was the breached service not blocked by firewall and commonly used by ordinary Chinese? Are you sure you're not analyzing just Hong Kong instead of all the China?

Raw stats like that are misleading. One has to consider how these countries' languages, cultures and political peculiarities affect usage of Internet services.
If your servers have multiple network ports and you aren't using them all, don't use the first one. Apparently the ME interface is only exposed on the main network interface.
Not if you sell your product to a company that have more than 5 employees or make more than million. Essentially community edition is for students and enthusiasts.
But they already have a real competitor: Amazon
You'd expect the amount of work done on farms to increase in line with the population, simply because the population has to be fed. Any comparison should take that into account. The number of farming jobs per capita has declined drastically as a result of mechanization.
Debating whether the number of jobs will actually go down or not is irrelevant.

The fact is on the human lifetime timescale, jobs go away (farming from 1900-1940; various factory jobs in the late 1980s, coal mining 1970s-2000s etc). People with decades in these jobs may not be able to move into equivalent (in renumeration & status) replacement jobs as their skills are likely not transferable.

Thus to the tractor manufacturer in her 50s it is irrelevant whether there is high demand for experienced web designers or not. Perhaps her kid can go into the job, but she very likely can't. This is part of the reason for the demand for low-skill (and low paying) jobs.

So either way we have to plan for rolling mass unemployment. The only question is the shape of the derivative.
This was ten years ago; I might try and dig it up to see if I can get it back, but honestly by now I imagine all hope is lost.
The Economist remarked the same thing in their report on automation a little while back. The automation fears espoused by Bill Gates and Elon Musk are purportedly premature. Automation isn't spreading fast enough.

One other note, while I do believe that automation will cause massive job losses eventually, there exists an alternative narrative. Centered around the knowledge that: 'you don't know you don't know,' we just have no idea which jobs will emerge as a result of new industries powered by automation.

What does seem evident is that concentrated education at the beginning of an adult's life is unlikely to be enough in the future. Investment in education reform and adult education seems critical, whether or not automation causes large scale unemployment.
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Right. More people => more food.

But some combination of "keep farming like I always have" or "grow up keeping farming like Dad" wasn't supported by economic realities.

(FYI, farming automation was much of the reason the population was able to grow by that much.)
Pycharm burns memory, is slow and has a lot of bugs. But still it is the best options
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Maybe not a good idea, but I was thinking it could be cool if they turned on some lock LED in the bezel.
Not sure about the programming, but you might want to take a look at StarMade.

https://starmadedock.net/
Please don't do this, Twitter. This is a step away from growth. There are so many problems you should fix. A ranked feed will ruin the quality of content and it will become another mindless Facebook/Instagram clone. I don't want this and I love Twitter.
The US's population grew from approximately 25mil to 110mil in that window. Was that taken into account?