skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, my thoughts exactly :)

Based on an OPSEC risk assessment, it may seem rather unlikely that the NSA and other national intelligence agencies are adversaries. Why would they care about Mirimir?

However, I find it useful to assume that they are. And so I employ many countermeasures that might seem foolish. Basically, I do whatever is workable. And then I write about it for income and pleasure. I do keep in mind, however, the "possibility that [a] countermeasure could create an OPSEC indicator" (DoD OPSEC manual at p. 14).[0]

But burning everything, that's also obstruction, I think.

0) https://www.OPSECprofessionals.org/official/081103_DOD_OPSEC... OPSEC manual
" If working like a robot is cruel, why are people doing it? Because it's better than their alternatives? Ok then, how exactly does taking that option away from them help?"

The idea behind boycotting sweatshop labor is that it creates a market for non-sweatshop clothing, which creates a better-paid alternative for the people working like a robot.
Because you literally can't tell the difference.
Wait, people thought mp3 was dead because of that announcement?! O_o I feel like people have lost touch with the history and the entire reason many Linux distros do not distribute mp3 codecs!

Some of these writers/editors really need to spend each day reading at least one headline from that day in 2016, 2015 .. all the way back to 1999.

MP3 is now more free/libre, or at least when it comes to encoding/decoding. Patents are one of the reasons people have been so hesitant about H.264 and why we see things like WebM.

Personally, I've encoded in FLAC for years, and even in the early days (2003-ish) I was backing up CDs to oggs instead of mp3s. Unless you're really concerned about space today, download your music in a lossless format. Sites like Bandcamp and CDBaby now support lossless (FLAC and ALAC)
This list could just as well be called "List of security stuff I learned about when making my product". Some of the stuff is just Draconian, certainly not applicable for any arbitrary web developer.
Full employment, if it simultaneously means having a job which pays your living, is a solution to the problem as it also contributes to redistribution of wealth. If the job market is supply driven (ie. the workforce has more power to determine the conditions) the market is required to make it more favorable for the workforce as otherwise the workforce will not work at all.

So far the theory. However, as more and more jobs become replaced my machines and robots which do not pay social taxes, there is no money to redistribute and the labor market will be supply driven by those who create the jobs.
Not everyone is an audiophile.

If I want to store some really high quality audio, I'd use something like FLAC. But for general listening? Nah, MP3-320 is fine.
They do have third party stuff
Everything is pretty awesome, one of the things I really miss on Linux.

When I last looked for a Linux replacement for it, none had the real time updates or the instant search ui, and even those that claimed to index the file system for a quick search were very slow. I actually ended up writing my own hacky and rudimentary GUI over locate to achieve something that fits my needs (and of course doesn't support real time updates).

Maybe things changed since then? Any chance that the HN crowd knows of a good Linux replacement for Everything?
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Giorgio Moroder did it first.
So long as it's high bitrate (like 320k), then most likely.

If I play only 128k mp3s on a modern hi-fi system, I can tell the difference. I prefer FLAC myself. It's a little more space, but at least I know I have a real archive of a CD.

I have rips of some good bands bands that never made it past the bar scene and who abandoned their MySpace pages long ago, so it's nice to know I have a preserved copy I can share with other audio-nerds.
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In the long term i think new gene tests will pose a threat to every person with a condition the insurers will not insure for.

I feel fairly confident that insurers will in the future at some time force people to be tested for every test available if people want insurance against any possible scenario.

So in the future I can see how the whole purpose of insurance being undermined.. ie "everyone chips in together" to care for those few in need...

Whereas in the future I am sure people will only be able to get insurance against deseases they are unlikely to ever get leaving the desperate few sufferers without any care.
A simple solution is to not allow UPDATE or DELETE statements without a WHERE clause.
It bugs me that "reputable" news outlets like Fortune Magazine were running stories which essentially amounted to a Fraunhofer press release with a couple of paragraphs tacked onto it.

Clearly there's absolutely no effort involved in being a journalist anymore.
It seems to be a US law.

https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0213-lost-or-stolen-cr...
It's not about audio quality alone, it's about collecting a flawless source.

If you want or need your library in another format at some point you really should not transcode from a lossy source. You may say that won't ever happen, but storage is cheap it's very short sighted to risk being locked into one format. It's not something you could easily fix later.
Profession: Marketing

Position: Sr. Digital Marketing Analyst at http://www.spaceotechnologies.com/ a mobile app development company in India.

Workday:
-Wake up, breakfast, swimming

At Office
[9:30 to 10:00] Planning the day

[10:00 to 11:00] Checking social media channels, checking latest app related news using Google trends, and redditing.

[11:00 to 1:45] Trying to automize my work, checking on-page of our website, technical discussion of GA.

[1:45 to 2:30] Lunch, reading

[2:30 to 6:30] Working on special assignments and updating the daily reports to track the work progress

Well, apart from this, we have sometimes different activities which I like the most.
> Engineers and coders as people are often less than comfortable with human interaction, so naturally they are making a world that is more accommodating to themselves.

Man, you know things are bad for the fedoralords when even David Byrne turns on you.
Darwin award.. natural selection at work

Actually that reminds me of a joke..

There is a guy sitting on the roof of a house in rising flood waters who turns away people trying to rescue him in two motor boats and a helicopter because he is sure god will save him. he finally drowns and turns up to the pearly gates and complains.. only to be told by St Peter he was sent two motor boats and a helicopter....

So surely if one wishes to be a person of faith, surely it would be reasonable to reason that God gave one a mind that can reason that entering water containing man eating animals would end in disaster and therefore the reasoning mind is God's gift to one in order for you not to do it and thus god has saved you.
> The idea that doctors ... are somehow immune to those effects defies logic.

That claim was never made by OP. Can we have a discussion without attacking a straw man, please? You yourself acknowledge you only know one side of equation. If the other components are larger it would not matter that you have shown one aspect - that nobody disputes, incl. OP! - to be negative.

https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2016/02/longer-shifts-...

> A new [...] study [...] showed allowing surgical residents the flexibility to work longer hours in order to stay with their patients through the end of an operation or stabilize them during a critical event did not pose a greater risk to patients.

> “It’s counterintuitive to think it’s better for doctors to work longer hours,” said principal investigator Dr. Karl Bilimoria [...]. “But when doctors have to hand off their patients to other doctors at dangerous, inopportune times, that creates vulnerability to the loss of critical information, a break in the doctor-patient relationship and unsafe care.”

I have no doubt that overall the long hours are bad, I only respond because you attack a position OP didn't take. Also, the long hours may still be a logical conclusion and even beneficial - within the twisted logic of dysfunction in the larger system: "For evil to triumph, all that is required is for good men to respond rationally to incentives."
Engineering knowledge-base
How a Blind Developer uses Visual Studio [video]
I haven't worked with Pascal since 1999, I remember it being a much simpler language.

And no where near as fun. Hilarity ensued when I didn't realize there was no garbage collector.
Hunting for Vulnerable NuGets in .NET Core
You should probably just stop commenting at this point.
I had the same impression. Pretty sure it was their MailChimp (or similar service) account.
Can you please enlighten us as to what kind of legal restrictions apply here? It is always interesting to see how these «little» legal details get in the way of running software.

Congrats for getting the app out!
When do we get a SaaS which just comes with all this built-in? I want to pick a framework and let the service add all these things, including automatic updates.
It might be short-sighted if the format doesn't have excellent open source decoders. MP3 won't die ever, because of LAME.
I love GNU/Linux and I love bashing Windows but I remember a time not even ten years ago that people (better at computers than I am) would not dare run apt-get upgrade before a presentation.

I think it still applies today.

Personally, I don't understand computers well so thus might be misguided but what I want is something similar to se Linux or jails but every application stack lives on its own and does not share libraries with anyone else. The idea us upgrading one application should not break another.
As sibling comment says, sweatshop labour (or underplayed employees in food chains) reduce the cost of the product/service, undercutting the businesses that don't have predatory practices, who then cannot compete and go out of business leaving the ones that underpay their staff as the only option and "better than the alternative" only because the alternative has been driven out of business by these practices. Besides, why support something that perpetuates human misery? (I mean that as a philosophical question, not trying to judge anyone. I buy stuff from companies that I probably shouldn't buy from too all too often...)
Cloudflare MITMs your secure connections. If you get the cheaper Cloudflare options, it's really insecure.
This is not an accurate description of the difference between credit cards and offline debit cards with regard to disputed transactions.

In both cases, fraud disputes are handled in the same way. Either the issuer or the account holder suspects fraudulent transactions and the bank engages an investigation in order to determine veracity of the claim.

Where things differ is that the onus of proof for credit card accounts is on the merchant to prove the transaction is legit. When an offline debit card is used, the funds are deducted from the account when the merchant captures funds and, therefore, the onus of proof lies with the card holder to prove it is fraudulent.

Liability, in this context, is non sequitur as fraud claims exist in either scenario and one party or the other must provide proof to support their position. The other, by definition, is responsible for said funds.

I'm not really sure what you mean regarding "a reversible ledger", as this has nothing to do with credit card transactions.

EDIT: clarified liability phrasing.
http://atlas-test.wail.wisc.edu/InternetAtlasLimited/
This is exactly why I love PowerShell.
Even more direct link: http://atlas-test.wail.wisc.edu/InternetAtlasLimited/
The Quantum Analysis of Economics
Switching to Void Linux on My HTPC (2016)
Life gets harder the more we dive into the financial crisis. Blue collar workers sometimes don't even get a job anymore, or work 3 at the same time just to pay rent. White collar workers work themselves to death in one job, although I have to admit it's maybe only 80% as harsh for IT as in medical. Even the rich that we all complain about lose more and more control over their money and their investments. We just don't like to see that, since who wants to admit that someone above oneself in the foodchain may also be struggling? Then we would also need to admit that the dream part of why we slave off ourselves so much will never be true as well.

I don't think that we're heading into a zombie apocalypse level destruction. Highly skilled people will always have one of the best lives. But it gets harder for everybody, and no matter how much we complain there isn't anybody who can give us a better life at the moment. Everybody is losing something.
It is company business if you do it in their property.
SSTO with a significant payload then, presumably.
Mute them and put them in "Do not disturb" so they don't vibrate either? What other noise does your phone make?
This looks great, haha! Shame I can't access it from the UK.

It would be really interesting to read more about your thoughts on working with RN and C++ and perhaps how you did some of it. I'm currently doing the same (but with a C++ audio engine rather than image processing stuff) and I think it's an incredibly powerful combination - but I do feel like I'm making up some interop patterns as I go and there might be better ways, so would love to hear how other people use it!

Broadly, I've created a "repository" singleton that stores a reference to both the React Native module instance (which gets set when I call its setup method from JS) and the C++ main class instance (which gets set when it starts up), so they can get a handle on each other (I bet there are better ways to do this, but I'm new to C++/ObjC and couldn't work out a better way to get a reference to the RN module).

I'm then using RCT_EXPORT_METHOD to provide hooks for JS to call into C++ via an ObjC bridge (in an RCT_EXPORT_MODULE class), and using the event emitter to communicate back to JS (so the C++ can get the RN module instance from the singleton and call methods which emit events).

I've not done anything that really pushes the bridge performance to a point where I've seen any noticeable latency/slow down caused by the interop - have you had any issues here?

Like I say, I'm finding a really cool way to build apps that need the power of native code but still with the ease of RN as the GUI and some logic, and I actually quite like the separation it enforces with the communication boundary.
“Help me, my shop doesn’t sell a thing”
Being a security-focused post, it probably refers to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13718752
Yes it does that and that will rule it out for some apps.

An option for many sites is to configure CloudFlare in pass-through mode (no MITM) and then just switch it on when you are being DOS'd.
Using technology to tackle gender bias in film
Airplane mode when I'm at work and at night when no one should be calling. So pretty much, my phone is only ever "on" for a few hours a day.
277 days ago you wrote, "Medical research sucks as it is, and longevity research is inherently time-consuming. There are ways to ease this, like testing treatments on mice first, but I don’t see an easy way around the need to apply the test to humans and wait many years to see the results."

Why the change in heart?
It's a bit surreal. Engadget interprets "becoming patent-free" as "being retired". Gizmodo interprets it as "it's dead". We're not in a world where file format fanboys have the writing prowess to hold positions in the media right?
Running a vacuum-optimised engine in atmosphere means the exhaust is overexpanded, which causes severe flow seperation and chaotic flow.
Even small amounts of overexpansion are harmful to the nozzle; overexpansion to vacuum-type ratios is likely to cause an Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly.
I agree and I especially hate talking to people on the phone, but just yesterday I was reminded how much I hate those automated audio interfaces. After ten minutes of talking to the robot, it took all of my restraint not to yell into the phone (not that the robot would have cared) and it eventually put me through to a human who was immediately able to help me (and made everything I said to the robot pointless as they quickly asked for the same information again and understood it right away, unlike the automated interface where I had to repeat and confirm multiple times). I was never happier to talk to a human!
Wow, I just signed up for this today. Unbelievable. The timing.
Perfect cold pitch email
V0 has replaced 320 for a while now
My apologies for making assumptions :)
Not really. It is much easier to just reboot than try to hot swap. When it comes to windows users, we have people still on xp so I'm sure these people would never reboot unless they were forced to reboot. It is fun to make fun of Microsoft but it is a damned if you do, damned if you don't scenario.

People really don't care about eventual (in)security. If given the opportunity, we pick convenience every time.
A lot of complaining in the article, but no viable alternatives to working.
Yup. Even carbon composites don't really work out (minimal payload) until the rocket is very large (see: ITS)
I see in a lot of threads that people talk about "many companies that do third-party fulfillment". As someone actively in the market for such services, can anyone provide some links to a few services please.

I know about the YC Company - Ship Bob.

What are some alternatives?

Thanks!
Why are you measuring effort that goes into a job and not it's utility to other people? Wasting effort on things that people don't value doesn't make you automatically deserve anything.
There is misconception that "free market" means "no regulation". Actually free market theory works (perfectly) under extremely specific conditions, see for instance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_competition

Often government regulation (not intervention) can be useful to get closer to such ideal conditions for the market to work efficiently. One example is taxes that cancel externalities. Can net neutrality also be justified in that way?
The real power of white papers in content marketing
I think this is true not just of images but also for text with things like word2vec etc
One has to wonder if its actually just an AI doing web scraps looking for 'news' and posting a summary or just direct excerpts from the source. Then changing/adding a few things it knows are clickbait/headliners.

If this isn't being done, it seems like something that could potentially be achieved with current tech, if not now, then in the near future.
Please don't ask questions to imply that someone doesn't know something. People often do that as a point-scoring tactic (e.g. to prove how smart they are compared to the other person) and that's uncivil.

If someone doesn't know, teach them (or just don't comment). blackflame7000's reply is a great example.
It likely won't, that's true. My point remains though: With storage that cheap and lossless audio sources widely available, why would you not use the lossless option?
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I dare you do blind tests! :) I also think the fact that the hi-fi system is modern has little to do with it.
I like it when the cashiers don't talk to me and ring up my stuff as quickly as possible.
I only heard about this yesterday on that thread. And by facebook? I really should pay more attention to what they are doing over there... FSQL is pretty cool too and surprisingly fast.
The effect of modern app browsing trends on desktop internet usage
App browsing trends on smartphones have certainly surpassed the desktop usages. With the introduction of innovative phones, the trend of browsing on smartphones is increasing like never before.
Did you get written consent to provide that link? Their TOS says you have to: "8. You may not create a link to this Site from another website or document without WAIL's prior written consent."
We offer free origin certificates on any plan level (yes, including FREE). It's not 'really insecure' and you seem to imply that encryption costs more with Cloudflare. That's not true.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-ca-encryption-origin/
Silicon Valley's nightmares comes true in Russia
It’s time for a real European passport
I can tell the difference. And if used proper equipment you would too.
Not at all surreal when you keep in mind that the world turns on money. From that point of view MP3 is indeed dead.
Pascal and Turbo Pascal aren't the same thing.

Turbo Pascal was more a kind of simplified Ada than a pure Pascal, which made me look down on C when checking down the laundry list of language features of Turbo Pascal 6.0 versus ANSI C89 in 1993.

Also by 1999 no one was doing anything serious in Turbo Pascal with the last version being targeted at Windows 3.1.

Delphi 1.0 was released for Windows 95, and it did at least have some kind of GC for COM based classes.

Also Delphi 10 might not have every Rust feature, but it surely has it own set of complex language features.

Or if you prefer Ada, C#, D are also possible sources of information regarding performance of compilation toolchains, with relatively complex languages.
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Congratulations to the Rust team for the great work!

The impact of Rust on the programming safety community has grown so big that even hardcore Ada developers are getting really nervous about Rust's powerful competition.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.lang.ada/H35QcY...

Although Nim and Lisp are still more productive than Rust for my use cases -- Rust really needs a convenient edit-compile-debug cycle, and also an easy bootstrap from source mechanism -- I am watching Rust's development with pleasure.

I am pretty convinced that within the next ten years Rust will not only cause a serious decline of C++ but also eat a big portion from Ada's lunch in safety critical applications.
"a force of 800 miles per hour"

It's Newsweek, but still...
Breach at DocuSign Led to Targeted Email Malware Campaign
This is the exact reason I started building Breach Canary[0], so that businesses can be alerted as soon as their user data is used in a way they wouldn't expect it to be. We produce authentic users with real working email addresses and phone numbers, so that as soon as they are contacted, you know someone has a copy of your userbase and is using it for reason x.

We have already started seeing a tonne of DocuSign phishing emails as others have mentioned. They were already a popular target for phishing users but now with very realistic documents the users are expecting? Nightmare.

[0] https://BreachCanary.com
Deserializing tons of records all having one of a few values for a particular field is an easy and probably fairly common use case.
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JFK that the link doesn't work: the Russian government is going to create national big data operator. All internet companies must store their information there. They can use this information to generate ad-revenue but they should pay 2% fee to this regulator. BTW, they should pay the taxes from this money as well.
Related: I haven't heard whether popular free software such as Audacity, Linux distros, etc. will begin including LAME binaries by default as a result of the patent expiry. Anyone know if such plans exist?
Thank you, that's a pleasant surprise! Cheap and painless enough that it makes me want to try my hand at an ARG with fake corporations.