skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know some passengers (myself included) prefer Lyft because they do more driver vetting. For instance, to drive for Lyft you actually have to have someone from Lyft get in the car and ride around with you, which is not a requirement for Uber.

Perhaps the people who value that sort of thing are better behaved? Or more likely, it's probably because the people who are willing to pay slightly more for a better experience are better behaved (like Walmart vs Target).
> Also, watch your words. "More than a little ridiculous" is not an objective rational statement, it's just pure ad hominem.

Not at all. He said (paraphrasing) "this claim is ridicuolous", not "you are ridiculous".
From the article:

"Asking someone what the size of a pixel is is a good way to confuse him or her because it’s a trick question. A pixel has no size, no physical value or meaning outside of its mathematical representation. It is a part of a relationship between the physical screen size, expressed in inches, the screen resolution, expressed in pixel per inches and the pixel screen size, expressed in pixels. Laying it all out, it looks like this:"

"As you might have noticed in my explanations, “Resolution” stands for PPI, in this case “109” but not “2560x1440”, like you might commonly see everywhere on the web."
I acted as a man to get work – until I was accused of rape
There are virustotal clones that don't send back results to the vendors. This is specifically done to prevent that kind of problem.
I think I invented a sister to Schrodinger's cat
Lib Dems pledge to end 'Orwellian' snooping powers in manifesto
"What we're seeing now is more like planned obsolescence, where new designs and form factors are getting introduced but the computer is more or less the same."

Every time I hit "Install later", I wonder if planned obsolescence is actually a business strategy? 'We'll offer an update that will slow down the computer, make certain programs not work, and then blame it on security.'

Actually, I think it's a dirty secret in the industry. If they can't throw in a Capacator that has a relatively short duty cycle, or place that cap next to a hot part of the board--they will eventually get us with a software update? I sometimes wonder? And maybe I'm just wrong.

I don't think anything will change in the future. They will always find a cheaper country to exploit. We will never see a device that's build to last years, and upgradable.

For myself, I'm really gun shy on buying any new electronics.

I think about the money I spent on electronic and cringe. If I saved the money, I could have bought a old corvette convertable. Something I could drive to the beach, and pass on to a loved one. Something that just goes up in value.

And now with the whole dumb devices(smart phones, iPads), and the addictive apps.(I don't want to admit apps I like are addictive, and hold no value. It's weird they provide just enough useful information so you can't say your just wasting precious time? But then again, I'm not going out like I used to? I blame it on myself.

I do know this--I don't know how anyone puts up with any person who is buried into that iPhone? It's more of a turn off, on so many levels, than oral herpes. I've gotten to the point where I subconsciously judge a person by how quick they pull out that phone.

They must be laughing in their mansions?

And my app developement strategy? Yes--it would be geared towards making whatever it is addictive, especially if I was putting my money into it. Meaning I don't have throwaway money to put out purely altruistic apps. And the average Phone Zombie would download it?
Language changes, and as speakers of modern English, we should adapt to changes instead of tilting at that particular windmill. However, I commiserate with you over the transformation of a useful word into yet another synonym for "really".
We're heading towards needing to travel sans devices if we want any kind of privacy, but then doing so in itself could be seen as cause for suspicion.
A proposal to remerge OpenWrt and LEDE
currently, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14340871
Perils of Remote Work
Christoph from MachineLabs here.

>>Do you have public code for containers as Floydhub has?

Can you elaborate what you mean with that?

>What machines are you using in your cloud? Can I specify the >machine CPUs and RAM size?

We'll have different hardware type categories. At the end it boils down to VPS on Google Cloud Engine running Ubuntu. That said, thinking long-term we'd love to give people access to things like Nvidia Tesla V100.

>Do you have time/memory limit for job execution?

Your experiments can run for as long as you wish (but you'll pay for everything that goes beyond free hours). Memory limits will be defined by the hardware category you chose when you run your lab.

Do you have specific requirements regarding memory or CPU/GPU power? We'd love to learn from people like you what the community needs.
Well isn't that a huge hint the authorities should take when an Islamist pressure group, in today's context, feels closer to the general public than the government ?

We all hate those laws. We hate the TSA. We hate the border control overkill checks. We hate the "give us the password" bullshit.

We hate it so much when something suspicious may be happening we automatically assume the suspect is the victim.

Somewhere down the road the gov messed up so bad it's guilty by default until proven innocent into the eye of people on HN, a group of usually pretty well educated people.

That is a red flag.
Yeah, and when the US power grid is offline for three days due to latest NSA cyber toy to get out of fucking Fort Meade, I'm sure the priority of those people stuck in an elevator or families watching their loved ones die due to a life support system failure will be to fucking update Windows XP.
It's a question of trust. That user no longer trusts WU to not silently install Windows 10. The window might have closed, but who says it won't open again suddenly, or a WU bug won't make it think it's still inside the window?
[Screencast] Routing Partials
> I think what fortytw2 was trying to say is that the AGPL is not a wise choice for software that wants to gain the most popularity and usage as possible

Why should that be a laudable goal? Not all projects are megalomaniac.
Yeah, let's tell everyone everything about someone who partially foiled an organized crime operation.

What could possibly go wrong?
The Road to Success Is Always Under Construction
NSA doesn't have legal power outside USA. That still would be illegal hacking with potential political and/or legal backlash. I understand what you mean, but that's grey area at best.
Many blizzard games work almost perfectly under wine including warcraft 3, starcraft and world of warcraft. Last time I tried starcraft anthology (digital download) I did not have any problems.
B2B contracts are different, though, because they are effectively between equals, in a way employment contracts are not.
I think you need to read their statement more critically. "Not vulnerable" is not the same as "not targeted".
Pretty sure that "tonight" just dismisses the prompt until "tonight" at which point you'll see it again, it doesn't irrevocably schedule the update for "tonight."
> What about the value derived from the risk taken by the enterpreneur ?

The fact the entrepreneur was able to take a risk at all is remarkable by itself: without starting capital (often inherited), you simply cannot take any risk to begin with.

Want to reward risk-taking? Think how this very thinking perpetuates (perhaps even increases) inequality.

> What about the value derived from the work done by the enterpreneur ?

That work has value and should be factored in the final value of the products, then rewarded.
Vienna is wonderful :)
Clever, but would likely add "obstruction of justice" to the charges against you, and reduce your chances at beating the original point of suspicion, should it ever result in charges, due to spoliation of evidence.

Why not instead just refuse, and use the technicality of violation of privacy, to beat the authorities by making anything they find inadmissible in the first place?

(I'm assuming US-centric here, of course.)
For the person who downvoted me, do you think I'm wrong? I would like to hear why.
The article also fails to mention that shutting down your computer and turning it back on will not install updates (by default). So if you regularly turn off your computer instead of rebooting it, the updates never get installed.

Then one day windows realizes, holy smokes, we have to install those updates now! And proceeds to restart your computer regardless of your update preferences, typically right in the middle of your business day.

Changing the updates to install on shutdown is slightly more challenging than disabling updates (it is hidden in an option about power settings on boot). So guess what people do?
> Also quite shocking that only 0.2% of people stopped are arrested and non-compliance == arrest. That's a lot of people just handing over data and passwords without a fight.

No, you've misunderstood that. The article mentions that he's been stopped previously, and asked for his passwords, and has declined before without being arrested.

So maybe that low arrest rate is a glimmer of hope: they could be arresting many more people.

It still sucks, and it clearly needs reform which is unlikely under current or future governments.
This article is incomplete without calling out microsoft at the same time. Not many technophiles would object to a stream of pure security patches; the problem is that there isn't one. By doing MS auto-update, you could have your entire OS upgraded wholesale. If your only alternative is to manually manage updates... I guess I can see why some people opt out.
But it doesn't have a "restart and defer update" option. If you need to restart for some other reason, you're forced to take the update.
Out of curiosity, would it not have been a better idea to build your experiments/software on Linux or a BSD variant? Was it a lack of software drivers for your equipment? Given the precise control you can get over the operating environment on these OSes, you can pretty much ensure that the environment your programs run under will never change.
Alternatively, buy an SD card, then notice that your phone does not have an SD card slot.
You're generalising over a whole bunch of devices with different specs. Sure, there was a problem with updates on the 8gb devices. But that was few hardware cycles ago, around 2.3. Now, those devices are around 1% usage, mostly have dead batteries and other components and it's hard to find a new Android device which lacks space for upgrades.

What to do? Upgrade the hardware. It's not supported anyway. Modern Android devices which have updates published do not have this problem anymore.
If you're going to insult people on HN, the least you could do is substantiate your reasoning so the post has at least some content.

And while I'm sure there are many definitions by which I could be called "incompetent" (as could you or anyone else), I'm especially intrigued to know how the rather isolated setup I described would present a danger to anyone.
Free Speech and Hate Speech
In my web development career (with python) it is usually only simple mixin-like inheritance, mostly because I can't stand code redundancy.

In game development though, it is way easier to develop a full fledged class hierarchy. I think it is because OOP is supposed to model a physical world of objects, which is generally what you'll be simulating in games too.
The US gov already pays about $5,500 per person per year. That's about a thousand more per year than Canada. The statistically average household (2.58 people) will pay an average of $27,000 EVERY SINGLE YEAR on average for healthcare ($10.3K/person/yr).

If Americans already pay more to the gov for healthcare than countries with universal healthcare, why doesn't it exist in America?
> Cage is an Islamist pressure group.

They've clearly denounced extremist Islam.
Yes, because of course the evil manufacturers could have built 20-30 years ago a pc that could have worked perfectly today if they treated it like a musical instrument.
I think that maybe you are missing the multiple orders of magnitude of computational power increase in the last 2-3 decades..
Computing devices distributions soar proportionally to the revolutionary applications they enable. The iPad rode the pocket computing revolution quite late in its cycle and now it's just there along side laptops and even smartphones. There are no reasons to keep buying new devices that are only marginally better than the previous.

The main reasons smartphone renewal rates are better has to do with the personal nature of it: I may want the latest style to display status or, I need a replacement for a broken/stolen one. In many cases the phone is also the only computing device I ever need.

iPads, like laptops and desktops sit a home/office, doesn't work as well as a status symbol and is much less likely to get stolen/broken.
> if theres a bunch of numbers in my url after i login, and i'm oh so curious what i'd see if i increment that number by 1, now i'm hacking

Under the definition above, if you do it to deliberately bypass the control, then yes. If you do it out of curiosity without believing you might subvert any control, then no you're not hacking.
Yeah we have some way of saving state but its unreliable as of right now unfortunately. Definitely gunna use this an opportunity to push it back into priority though thanks!
they came to the wrong conclusion that someone who bought a kill switch domain, would have been one of the hackers. when it fact the kill switch was firewall check (look for 502 rather than 404) and the person who bought the domain kill switched it for everyone.

Sucky journalism strikes again.
On that same note I'm a huge advocate for static site generators. I build most of my sites anymore using Jekyll and just having forms submit to a php script or even just a Google Form.
Computer interfaces were lower level, and less friendly. Computers themselves are now mindbogglingly more complex than they were back then (and a good deal of that complexity goes towards making them easier to build and use!)

I agree with your hypothesis about games. If you have to do some study and learn some magic incantations even to launch a game (insert fond memories of himem.sys and boot disks here), then it stands to reason that those of us who could actually get into games were the type of people who liked a bit of an intellectual challenge.

Magazines were a big thing, definitely. I have a big box of Acorn Users somewhere that I inherited from my dad, and at long intervals I pull them out to read through the articles and old BASIC listings. :)
Agreed, though it's also worth noting the article does a poor job of conveying an accurate sense of time. As you read it you assume it's a recent story, and then suddenly the year 2001 is mentioned but nothing more. So unless you click through to the podcast, you can't get a good sense of when it happened and how long for.
How? Ive tried group policies and the like and nothing seems to stick.
Probably, yes. But the question is how much of a bump in prices that translates to - how much of the UBI will it wipe out?
Do they stay deactivated even after updates?
I am, and I actively recommend it to anyone sufficiently well educated that they could (and would) go through the contents of the script manually and verify its contents. I don't do anything additional that could be automated in a general fashion, but my own scripts (partly based on Tron) include custom things specific to my setup - adjusting router/firewall settings, interacting with my automated backups, etc.
My first two programming languages were AppleSoft Basic and 65C02 assembly language. Like the Quora answer, I learned from books. My first was the official AppleSoft Basic programming language book from Apple, then InCider, the library, Beagle Bros books, etc.

My first real job as a developer was in C and then C++. I had good college textbooks that I reference and Stroustrap's The C++ Programming Language.

But even as early as 1992 I had access to Usenet and various comp.lang.* groups.

Today, usually I get by with PluralSight videos, MSDN articles, and Google where I put the obtuse error message in and usually Stack Overflow is the first link.

Unlike the bad old days where it use to be Expertsexchange.
Sample Data is Great but it is only Half the Story
This is by far my biggest issue with MS updates. Every time I come in and my computer has rebooted itself I want to smash something.
Silently installing Win10 from Win7 at this point after the window has long closed would be a massive controversy and utterly unprecedented in the industry. Updates introducing bugs is always a possibility on any platform Windows or otherwise, so the suggestion is just to stop installing security updates? Please.
If you're just a code monkey this comparison would be correct.
Your point about consent is inane, you are ignoring their intended meaning, a meaning that is pretty well clear enough (agreement without coercion).
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My weak anecdotal data is that both have suffered lately. I had a 20 minute projected wait on both services for a ride in a major city recently. This has to happened to me in years.
+1 for PC Engines. Their products are a bit expensive for the hobbyist, and generally use very outdated technology, but they are as reliable as they come.
I've been using an Alix 6f2 with a Mini-PciE 3g modem on a remote location with years of uptime and no problems. Same can't be said of many newer, fancier boards!
They may well have. After watching the video you linked, it seems that there is a very blurry, very nuanced line between supporting the rights of the offender and supporting the offenses, and listening to that interview with a blank-slate understanding of the matter, it seemed as though they were mostly talking past each other.

Again though, my knowledge is short on the subject, but the Mencken quote felt an appropriate addenda to the video you linked, from a variety of ways. Remember that even if CAGE organizers are sympathetic to the goals of those they defend, once they've defended them, they're still defending civil rights.
How do I know that's the one? I'm was curious about the process of knowing how to find out if my system is patched against vulnerability X.
> The code is an authenticated knock

Many aircraft have actual keypads on the cockpit door. That's what was leaked in this case.

Edit: Yes...I was thrown off by the context of knock. Thanks for the clarification.
Windows 10 has the option of specifying that a specific network is a metered connection. It won't update the OS when connected to those networks. Found this out the hard way after getting a big bill while traveling and tethering to my phone's 4G connection.
Yes, things are complicated, but airlines manage to routinely take $100m devices out of service for days to months for servicing, so it seems like a bad excuse that a hospital can't plan around taking any given device offline for a few hours every couple of years.
I feel that's one of the reasons the iPad is failing as a laptop replacement.

The CPU/GPU power is there, but iOS is too restrictive.
0patching the “Worst Windows Remote Code Execution Bug in Recent Memory”
Conner McDaniel, “Understanding how sed works”
EDIT: Didn't recognize the username at first. I still have some doubts, but I do remember you talking about going to Antarctica in the Tron subreddit. I recently used Tron, and I hope that there isn't some undocumented part of the script that is disabling automatic updates.

I have some doubts about this story... The forced Windows 10 update was only sent to non-enterprise versions of Windows. I highly doubt any of these experiments were running the home editions of Windows due to the lack of control. Also, I am pretty sure that running home versions of Windows in contexts like this is against the Windows TOS.
I saw that at the weekend. The guy did a good thing and obviously didn't want his name out there.

It was a pretty shitty thing to do.
Fair enough, his description seems misleading. To me a pixel is a discrete RGB value, which is made up of physical components, for example:

https://google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=close+up+of+lcd+screen

https://google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=stack+up+of+lcd+screen
Right time? When you both love each other, when you both want to be married, and when you both are committed to staying married.
> who is at least presumably trying to keep you as a satisfied customer and provide a secure operating system

I seriously question that presumption. I think Microsoft is generally trying to satisfy enough of my needs to keep me in their ecosystem while extracting as much value as they possibly can (within legal, technical and business constraints) from collecting data on me, pushing ads, etc.

I'm certainly not saying Microsoft are "more malign" (by whatever moral standard) than hackers out to steal people's money, however, by virtue of using Windows, I automatically have a degree of exposure to Microsoft that can only be mitigated rather than eliminated altogether. My exposure to ransomware and other non-targeted attacks by non-state actors is vastly smaller, and much easier to mitigate.

I am under no illusions about my ability to withstand targeted attacks by more competent parties, but that isn't a particularly significant concern to me.
what if you don't want some law enforcement chump to know a password you potentially use elsewhere such as website, and will have to change after they've had a look.

couldn't you unlock, and change the password to "changeme" for them.

I suggest using https://www.passwordcard.org/en and telling them where the passwords stop and start and make a new card once they release you.
Our company has a dc but not that kind of control over child computers and it would be a large overhaul (and out of my control) to change the whole network setup.

I wish we used wsus though. M
Only for apps that need those native features.
The vast majority of research papers are barely readable by people in the field, say nothing about a beginner.
Entering the key on the keypad is the "knock". The pilot is only alerted that there is someone outside if you enter the correct code. They then verify using either CCTV or the peephole. If you just physically knock on the door then the pilot will be suspicious.
Conner McDaniel, “Sed Implementation in Haskell”
maybe it's some sort of "parallel construction" payback motive
How will you announce the dataset? I would love to get my hands on it.
I really like their approach, but their template is too opinionated towards python + makefiles. At my company we use mixes of R, python and Scala, together with airflow. We have been toying with our own templates, and should release them eventually
Your last paragraph is confusing. It seems those people rely on your support. Are you really saying you'd rather deal with potential results of them not upgrading than with the upgrade failures? I'm assuming that if they come to you with one, the also do with the other.
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Manjul Bhargava, Fields Medal Symposium 2016: “Patterns in Numbers and Nature”
Serious question: Can you sue them for damages, or did they put the right weasel words into the EULA?
There is a newspaper claiming he's now working with GCHQ. I doubt such information is true, but given what happened to Gareth Williams in similar circumstances, I'd suggest it's egregiously irresponsible for a newspaper to even suggest it given everyone now knows who he is.
I wish this had never happened and I will probably use a different dictionary from now on.
1. https://www.thexyz.com
2. https://www.fastmail.com
3. https://www.hushmail.com