skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We can laugh as long as we like, but maybe the next attackers won't make such simple mistakes. Or maybe this was just a test that got out of hand, etc. In any case, this thing temporarily being defeated because it checked a domain, or the failure to use many bitcoin addresses are easily fixed. If we get smug about this, we do so at our peril.
That is the correct answer - provided that your parent was serious.

I cling to the hope that your parent was actually joking.
Windows update is, put simply, a pain in the ass.

That has been the case for over a decade, and it has been getting worse over time.

The reason I recommend a free operating system is not because you are allowed to read the source (although that is a bonus), it is because you have the freedom to control your operating system.

The problem with Windows is that "updates" are done in the most inconvenient way possible, and with no control by the user. They often include changes that the user does not want bundled in with security patches. To contrast, a free operating system gives you options (liberty). If I just want an old stable version of Debian with security patches, I can get it.

The issue here stems from using proprietary software in the first place. Proprietary software is controlled by the company, not the user.
Learn math, and everything else in life gets easier, including programming. We did a quick proof about similar triangles on the whiteboard this morning and it saved us a bunch of effort. Learn programming, and you can automate some stuff that's too laborious to do by hand. I say, learn math first, then learn programming. Otherwise you're bound to spend your days automating the wrong thing. For programming statistics, I'd spend some time with Tukey's Exploratory Data Analysis before writing any code. It's pretty amazing what you can do with pen and paper.
Windows comes preinstalled on most PCs, you are being disingenuous if you say that is not a major factor. MS was ruled to violate antitrust laws regarding web browsers. How is that for a lock in if you can just download Netscape?

The arguments against switching come down to "I hate Apple/Linux"

Not at all. Many people are forced to use MS software, they don't have a choice. Not just running Windows, but using various MS Office apps, formats, Skype etc.

Also, there are others (mainly elderly) who are only familiar with Windows, learning another platform is not a freebie for everyone.

Most apps people need have alternatives on other platforms, but there are many - besides games, that target Windows only. Well, VS being the bloatware it is, not one of them of course.
no it wouldn't, they would just hire someone who was willing to do it.
I mean, a great example is medical records. I know because the concept if using hash blocks for history predates Bitcoin.

Personally I think both the hype and the anti-hype exist because we finally gave this family of data structures a snappy name.

Also, I found the BG solution he was referring to and it's rather soft.
oh right, it's not the managements fault because the developers are the ones coming up with the nefarious ideas.
If only they'd bring back sort by number of ratings...
That seems like an excessive response to arguably the least dangerous mode of transportation humans have come up with. Safer than driving, bicycling, walking on the street. I wouldn't be surprised if it as safer than pushing your computer chair from one side of the office to the other.
You (and the other commenter from Google Cloud team) do not seem to have compassion for the fact that migrating application code is very expensive.

1. Take a talented, valuable developer off whatever important task they're working on now.

2. Get them review whatever changes have supposedly been made between old version and current version.

3. Get them to read the existing code and think about places where it may break. (Often not obvious.)

4. Deal with doing the upgrade, which may often have dependencies that can break other unrelated things.

5. Write whatever code needed to make changes. (Often not obvious.)

6. Test on some sort of staging setup, which was probably written by some other person a while ago and may or may not have adequate coverage for this specific feature (since it was already working!!!).

7. Deploy and test in production.

8. Hope and pray nothing breaks.

All of that work (time and $$$) must be done to achieve ZERO benefit for your customer. High cost! Zero benefit! That makes developers (and founders) angry.

1 year deprecation is insanely short for public-facing infrastructure APIs. We should be talking about 10 years.
> They didn't.

How do we know? Presumably the NSA has used this exploit before, and we didn't know. Presumably Russia and China use their exploits in similar ways.

It's not about locking someone out of their computer and displaying a giant skull and crossbones to say "I was here". Isn't it more about getting information off computers without people knowing you were there?

That's why this event is so interesting. It's an obvious hazard we can point to from hording vulnerabilities. In contrast, isn't it pretty much impossible to point to some target having their system opened up so enemies can read information? It seems like there's no way for us to know how many NSA horded (or planted) vulnerabilities have been exploited by people they don't want to exploit them.
Doesn't this seem like a major problem with the business model? Of course you're going to have flexibility problems if you don't decide your own prices...
Thanks for the feedback. I'll surely look into it.

And regarding the example, you should see how it will look on the Download page once you fill some of the information.
You can't really make people work on things they aren't interested in though. The experts that are involved in the space industry may not function well in other industries, regardless of imminent doom.
You likely lose your job and your healthcare insurance, at least after some period of time, I'm assuming.
(Fortunately I can't speak from experience.)

So you did not, in fact, have insurance against a very bad situation. All the more reason to eliminate employer-based health insurance tax incentives. I don't buy anything else through my employer. Why should I be insuring against my future medical bills through them?

It obscures my effective insurance premia (via a lower salary), on top of the already obscured price of healthcare, since most insurance policies cover so many incidental, non-catastrophic medical costs.
Last month, my doctor gave me a shot of toradol (for reasons I don't want to go into). The allergic reaction I got from that shot had me terrified I was experiencing the early symptoms of TEN at first.

I had hives all over my body, plus muscle pains all over my arms and legs (at its worst, I could barely hold a razor and needed a cane in order to shuffle around). You know what comes up when you search for bumps all over your body combined with pain? Yeah, TEN.

Fortunately it was just allergy-induced hives and myalgia, and I understand that the pain I went through functioned like an acute case of rheumatoid arthritis, but that was still nasty. I ended up in the emergency room twice. The first course of steroids they prescribed me wasn't long enough or strong enough: the hives never fully went away, and the myalgia came back as soon as I finished the prednisone. So I had to go back, and then they gave me a shot of decadron and put me on a two-week course of prednisone.

Yeah, that wasn't pleasant. At all. The side effects I suffered from the prednisone were awful and insidious, but at least it killed the allergic reaction.

Oh, and during that time, a friend of mine died, and her death was all over the local news because of how mysterious it was (they still haven't solved it or even released a coroner's report yet). April 2017 was terrible all around.
yes, i avoid transcoding as much as i can.
Honestly, if you fly coach, don't plan on using a laptop. There really isn't enough room for your elbows and there probably isn't enough room for the laptop itself unless you have a mini version of some kind. I'm not saying it's the way things should be but it's the realistic expectation in standard coach.
> Steidl’s press can print six colors—or five colors and a lacquer—at once. For Gossage’s book, ten colors were required, which meant that each sheet had to go through the printer at least twice.

fffff and I thought I was making impractical overproduced books when I did a graphic novel with 4c+spot gloss on every page. I shudder to imagine how much the books this guy prints cost.

oh wait Chanel pays him obscene buckets of money for printing stuff for them, and then he uses that money to pretty much potter around printing collections of photographs for materials cost, if that. Well okay I guess?
Are you sure it doesn't index anything? There is even a section in the settings called Indexes.

Also when you launch it first, it's going to be empty and says it's scanning your folders and it takes a little bit until you see something.

I think it is still indexing (maybe using the MFT instead of recursively listing files and directories), it's just a lot better than Windows search indexing. And it might use this [1] to keep up to date? It's mentioned in the settings

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USN_Journal
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Are 1TB keys still secure?

I seem to recall that some schemes have issues with keys being too large because of things like prime scarcity.
Everything is correlated to obesity. Arkansas has the highest obesity rate in the nation. When you look into our infant mortality rate it is linked in preterm births. Preterm birth is highly linked to obesity and is trending up.

http://sm.stanford.edu/archive/stanmed/2013fall/article2.htm...
I'm having a bit of an issue with your site in Safari. 10.12.4 sierra, extensions turned off. https://s2.postimg.org/4t8v7lqdl/Screen_Shot_2017-05-15_at_1...
Kudos for giving people a year to migrate! I know you're getting drubbed by some for the forced migration, but a year is more than generous, particularly if indeed most of your customers are hobbyists anyway.
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Thank you for taking the time to clarify the status of the project to a stubborn mule such as myself.
I'd really like to know why Microsoft can't do something like this in Windows itself. Everything is very useful.
I think for most people in that situation, working is easier than relaxing.
Interesting concept, but it seems rather heavy. Installing it from npm pulls in over 400 packages, weighing in at about 60MB.
Rust used to have a light runtime that managed asynchronous operations using green threads. It was eventually discarded because it caused an unavoidable performance hit even when not using it (because the low-level runtime and I/O methods all needed virtual dispatch) and it wasn't providing any clear benefit over just using OS threads.
We can't even get people off SHA1 to SHA2 "because of lower performance." Somehow I doubt the "1 terrabit RSA key" would go over well with them.

I think there's a much better chance we move off to still slower, but not as slow, quantum-resistant crypto algorithms, than just much larger RSA keys.
It's possible but I am just expressing my opinion as one among many.
I think a lot of this is because people do not want to lose saved work. If Windows was to offer the ability to restore file state, that would be something that would help people keep Windows updates on.

MacOS has been doing this for some time and while it's not perfect, it's definitely led me to be less concerned about rebooting my Macs.
even without an index, having a way to project declaratively instead of relying on cut/sed is giving me hot flashes.
> Does anyone here still bother buying cookbooks?

Yes.

> Would it not be more useful to simply learn how to cook without referring to recipes?

They aren't mutually exclusive ideas; if you have a basic understanding of cooking, recipes are great points of departure.

> Who needs that level of restaurant-style uniformity and consistency in their own kitchen?

Consistency is not the only reason to buy a cookbook.
Say that the padding had worked, you might have rationalised it to to be that it's unnatural to walk on hard surfaces ("our ancestors never walked on concrete").

There are also probably many instances in your life where this hasn't worked, but you've cherry picked the example that does.

It's very likely that your body healed itself regardless of the padding. You might have just needed time. You've figured that it's removing the padding but it might not be a factor. It's why studies need decent sample sizes to make strong conclusions.
It's worth noting that the incredible success of Epic EMR software is because it tightly controls all of the administrative billing issues, NOT because it makes clinician's lives easier. There are endless check boxes in Epic and each site has its own interface. It's a huge mess and difficult to navigate...but arguably still better than the other vendors.
> That is simply irresponsible and should have been rectified in the purchase contract.

Simple does not exist in even smaller private organizations, let alone large government organizations.

> As it is, are there specific examples of software used by firms and government that are not updated to current versions of Windows?

There is code written 60 or more years ago running on today's mainframes. The cost of rewriting even a fraction of this code can be staggering. This is precisely why COBOL programmers get paid big bucks and why Microsoft gets paid by large clients to provide support past end-of-life. If it works, it works.

You can't blame one person for something going wrong in an increasingly connected world.
Because ECC and OC are targeted at different audiences. If you want both... you don't understand one or the other.

ECC is to guarantee system stability. Solving rare event that become regular once you have hundreds of boxes running.

OC INCREASES system instability. You put more power into a chip, increasing the probability of incorrect or malformed answers.

Now both these scenarios are rare, especially for single box home enthusiasts. Generally if you have a stable OC you won't hit garbled instruction results. Likewise you may almost never have an error that ECC would present.

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Having OC and ECC basically says, "I want to solve one extremely rare error while opening myself up to another!" This is an idiotically unsound decision.
Craiglist design actually sucks. When I first used it, the whole thing was almost revolting from design perspective. Where some people see simplicity, others see utter lack of modernity, friendliness and affordability. I still can't get some of my relative to use it (they ask me to post on their behalf!). Before you cite page counts, revenues and unique users, think about how many people are not using it despite the fact everyone has heard about it and everyone has a need to sell something on and off. Amazon UX is almost complete opposite of craiglist but is usable by much much wider audience.
Looking back on this, I meant download.
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I'm glad to see Feathers growing and adding additional clients. While I'm not going to personally benefit from this one (although I do have a React Native project that uses the standard Feathers JS client) -- it's great to see the flexibility of the framework.

Developers continue to throw new and interesting use cases at it, and I've yet to see it fail. I suppose we shouldn't be surprised, since Feathers doesn't do all that much to begin with-- most of its key dependencies (e.g., express, your favorite ORM adapter, etc) are doing the heavy lifting.

Feathers has managed to tie a few different pieces of solid technology together to create high value with very little additional code, while still maintaining its adaptiveness. Few have achieved that in similar projects.
Your site is returning brotli-encoded data even when the browser doesn't support it. At least, I assume that's what it's doing, because the return value is complete garbage and it contains a "Content-Encoding: br" header.
Where does the AMA stand on this?
Why continue in a job that sucks that hard? Is it the money? The prestige? Family expectations? It seems like a terrible way to live.
These slides did not appear to explain any techniques of integer factorization, even though the file title is "a method for factorizing arbitrary length integers in real time".

If you have such a method, you could instantly gain tons of credibility and notoriety by factoring, say, RSA-896.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_numbers#RSA-896

If you can't, maybe you don't actually have a method for factorizing arbitrary-length integers in real time.
> dynamic import

Umm... you mean like AMD? Yeah, it's awesome (edit I mean, was a solved problem years ago). Somebody explain to me how people live without this.
Overall, most press/journalism sites I use are terrible. Performance stinks, flash everywhere, ads that nobody clicks on. Horrible.
I tend to agree, but being able to have a REPL at all is a symptom that your language is capable of an extremely fast compile-run-debug cycle.

In other words, if you can't implement a REPL, that's the definition of "less productive language." It's not about the REPL itself but the capability of implementing one.

Think about it like this: On your list of languages, which of them would you say is most productive? It depends on the context, certainly: libraries, familiarity, etc. But let's assume the languages had identical ecosystems, and that you were competent in all of them. Which of them would take the smallest amount of time to write your feature?

That'd probably be Python, Haskell, or even Perl. It seems very difficult to argue that Rust would top them. And the reasons why this is might be true are worth examining.

Here's another aspect. Is the Rust community claiming that the entire history of computing has lead up to this point, where Rust exists, and now nobody needs to write anything in not-Rust? Are people 200 years from now going to write Rust and nothing else? How about 20? 2?

It becomes very difficult to argue that your programming language is the lingua franca of the future. (And that's probably true for every language, not just Rust.)
Not disclosing a password that you allegedly know corresponds to what George Orwell called "thoughtcrime" in Nineteen Eighty-Four.
I know they are different, but Google needs to realize their approach to consumer products does not transfers well to cloud computing.
I helped a friend build a computer back in school and when he got the parts in the mail he hurriedly started building (against my advice to wait until I got there) he put the CPU in the wrong way and bent some of the pins. So it does happen more than you would think.
What a bunch of simplistic blathering propaganda that, as usual for this sort of topic, ignores actual facts. The very essence of "conservative" "truthiness". I put "conservative" in quotes as most "conservatives" these days are not at all actual conservatives, but authoritarians having a raging temper tantrum.

Denmark etc are far closer to socialism than the USSR ever was, and they are well run societies with a better average standard of living than the US which is turning into a shithole for a lot of people. But socialism works for those societies because they are largely homogenous and culturally cohesive, unlike a 'melting pot' like the US or a very multicultural one like the UK.

That is a large factor in whether socialism works - because people are on the same page in what they believe society should be like. The US and UK, in comparison, are too individualistic and the basic sociological/psychological/philosophical principles their societies are based upon are not inclined to support socialism. Russia tried to change its basic principles and that was never going to work, especially in a country that had tsars and serfs for hundreds of years. How is Stalin anything but another version of a tsar? How is the current Russian oligarchy nothing but modern day tsars? You can't change a country that easily.

Well, the UK has some socialistic tendencies - the NHS, etc - which have worked over the years but the assault of the "Conservatives" over the years have weakened the social framework. And so I'd say the UK is a far less moral society than it was in the 50s when the NHS was set up... Fucking Thatcher.

Really, whether a society has morals or not depends on a lot of sociological factors and the economic system is hardly a significant one. Only 20 year old libertarian retards who think everything can be reduced to the price of something believe stuff like this. Libertarians know the price of everything, and the value of nothing...
It's not a terrible idea.

Economics requires, though, that the flying experience be made awful enough on average that customers are just barely willing to fly, versus their best alternative.
You need a web browser that supports Brotli compression -- the standard compression algorithm for HTTPS. Safari does not support it, but everyone else does. Even Edge. http://caniuse.com/#feat=brotli
Can you also add a way to add TLDRs to everything, pls? :D
What is this blasphemy of treating humans like humans. It is crazy how many overly dramatic articles and situations could probably be resolved by simply civil dialog and discussion.
What is the WannaCry ransomware, and why should organizations be concerned?
> 1 year deprecation is insanely short for public-facing infrastructure APIs. We should be talking about 10 years.

Thats a little extreme.
Just because you don't understand the benefits other people get from a REPL doesn't mean they don't exist.
I have wonder why this was down-voted.
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The real difference: When you found a crappy workaround, you learned. You were frustrated, felt stupid but you learned. You made the same experience every child has to make once: Dont', just fscking don't, touch the hot plate.

But, you learned. That's something neither SO-driven nor google-driven development can provide. I firmly believe that every detour I took (mostly FreeBSD userland sources or any port I never installed but fetched and extracted just to read the source) was invaluable to help me become a good programmer.

Don't get me wrong: Being able to scan SO/google results for a solution to a problem is important, it's important enough that if you are unable to do so I won't hire you. But: The time saved by constantly referring to SO or google is effectively education skipped. So. if referring to those sites is your MO, I would not hire you either.
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Some feedback:

When I was going through the wizard, I didn't know that I needed to click "add" or "save" throughout the process. I just filled out my info and clicked "Next". It wasn't until I got to the download tab that I realized that none of the information I entered was persisted.
Thanks, unfortunately it's too late to edit my comment now.
Craigslist has alerts:

https://www.craigslist.org/about/saved_searches_and_alerts

I think your idea of making it easier to post from a phone is a good one. For things like global search, I'm pretty sure that's made difficult to do intentionally.
What about interfaces? The basic idea of fat pointers with vtables works the same as Rust's trait objects. If you mean the ability to dynamically cast from one interface type to another, which Rust doesn't support - that does require a global list of implemented interfaces per type, but without generics that's not too hard to implement. (In Rust, it would be drastically more complex, verging on impossible to pull off with a good UX, due to various language features including wildcard impls, type-parameterized traits, and a Turing-complete type system.)