skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Frink can do interval arithmetic.

https://frinklang.org/#IntervalArithmetic
I don't think Facebook forces them to download new versions that day. Because responsiveness is clearly more top of mind with them than download time/cost.
That's strange. The store seems to work fine on my local-only account.
> The very fact that it's characterized as an unwanted advance

http://www.aauw.org/what-we-do/legal-resources/know-your-rig...

> Sexual harassment is a form of sex discrimination that violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Very generally, “sexual harassment” describes unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, or other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature.

Federal law appears to disagree with you.
HIPAA rules specifically permit incidental disclosures that accompany a permitted purpose such as relating to safety, patient communication, or health treatment, including payment.

If your doctor has a reasonable reason to Google a patient beyond mere curiosity, HIPPA would allow the search to take place because the revelation of a name is considered a 'minor' disclosure, and was incidental and as minimal as possible.

If HIPPA didn't have such exclusions, merely calling a patient by name in a crowded waiting room would be a violation.
This isn't about "differing opinions", this is about "your opinion has a demonstrable harmful effect on the culture in which we all live." Choosing to excuse sexual harassment is real awful but you can always choose to not be awful. So cut the pity party and get down from that cross you've put yourself on.
I don't see this on iOS, for example web browsing is required to be done with a UIWebview from iOS.
I find it hard to believe most doctors have the time to casually google patients.
Modern day outhouses are serviced by a truck that come s and vaccums out the waste.

How is hauling off a bag any better?
Here's a link to the site for the toilet: http://loowatt.com/
Why don't these people use 2 factor auth like a yubikey? And not sms because it can be hacked and redirected. I know the reason, they are not wanting these non-technical foofaws to be slightly inconvenienced. And they'd lose their second factors even if they had them - too bad, you shouldn't be able to get an official email without it. Give everyone a couple of those keys, put one on their keychain, one in their computer at home, one in their work computer. They'd be so much safer.
Oh wow, even microparsec/kilofortnight in m/s works now. This did not work for many years, and prompted me to write my only ever e-mail to Google with a complaint about 5 years ago.

Unfortunaetly, the conversion 30 miles per gallon in liter/100 km still displays an equal sign, which is technically wrong. However, this conversion is so useful, that I won't complain about it.
It might be here or there to some of us, I think that's the original poster's point. It's great that LTSB works for you, but even then you are applying third party software to get it to basic functionality. I'm curious why you don't run Windows 7? It doesn't EOL for 2 1/2 more years.
As far as I understand the setup:

Task manager runs elevated (Admin)

DLL injection allows the attacker to launch a child process (Word) inheriting the task manager privileges. Now you have word running as admin
I think the idea is that with the Haxl approach the scheduling can be dealt with independently from your business logic.

By the way, I don't see how Church-Rosser would give you any free parallelism---even in theory. You'd still have to heed Guy Steele's advice (see https://vimeo.com/6624203).
Swift size difference is almost unnoticeable. What is noticeable is writing more correct code to produce higher quality apps.
Actually, he explicitly called out "feature velocity" as a factor.
People don't know what an absolute greedy cesspool silicon valley is. It's money. It's human nature.
Why would Apple ban Facebook?
For the discussion part, you can just write a comment in the thread itself. That what the show bit is the thing you want to show and the things you want to say go in the thread.
> I've works on multiple projects that have been pen tested, been audited by the UK Gambling Commission and/or had to adhere to PCI Data Security Standards.

Why do you want to 'disclaim' that? Assuming it's true, you might have meant 'disclosure', but I think what you really mean is much closer to 'source' - i.e. 'why I know this'.
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It's because comments can have troll effects even when they're downvoted or flagged.

There's a difference between expressing a view and setting this place on fire. There's no view that can't be expressed substantively and thoughtfully if one has a mind to, but it takes work. Throwing fuel on the fire or sand in the gears is different; that's vandalism, and it destroys the free exchange of views by ruining the container—the community and site—that supports it. The container is fragile and needs protecting.

People mostly do this without realizing how destructive it is. Dealing with it requires moderators whose role is to protect the commons. That's how HN still exists as a place for (hopefully) thoughtful discussion. We'll never all agree about where to draw the line every time, but that's secondary to the point that someone needs to.

A comment crosses into trolling when it does things that are known to ruin thoughtful discussion, whether intentionally or not. I chided the commenter upthread because they were going much further than merely (say) arguing against a rush to judgment about the OP—they were signalling bad faith with polemical swipes (e.g. 'Your prejudice that in general, "men are pigs"'). That is not thoughtful discussion, it's destructive of it.

When we ask commenters not to do this, reactions vary. Some react by taking responsibility and learning how not to produce such effects in online conversation. Many HN users have gone through that process. I had to go through it myself (it took years); I used to optimize for snark and venting as much as the next person. If HN has anything superb about it, to use your word, it's because of the community members who do this work.

Other commenters prefer the melodrama approach. They proclaim they're being 'censored' for their 'unpopular opinions' by mods who 'can't handle the truth', then storm out the front door with an 'enjoy your circlejerk' or two. (Typically they then walk around the building, come back in through the back door and start over with a new account.) This is the Pythonesque 'help help I'm being repressed' phase of the internet cycle of life. It's eternal and will never go way, but I'm confident that in most cases, most neutral readers observe the same signs of bad faith that mods were reacting to in the first place. How do I know that? Because otherwise our job would be impossible.

In the end the root distinction isn't about what view a commenter has on this or that topic, it's the difference between users who comment with care for the whole and those who don't. Sometimes that's because they're so agitated that they lack the self-control to do anything other than toss a hot potato into the thread. (It happens to everyone.) But often it's just that they haven't yet learned about this dynamic and why it matters. Once somebody gets that, they're motivated to participate in the community quite differently—but it isn't a question of changing their views, becoming more 'conformist' or 'groupthink' or any of that sort of thing people say. It's more akin to not littering in a city park, or to taking good care of a campsite.
Psychologists usually have self-imposed limits on the number of patients that they see in total.
Even in Haskell you still have to write some boilerplate to get this by default. Languages that don't separate pure computation from IO (and other side-effects) make it even harder on the compiler.

So to answer your question: implementations will do this by default only after pure/constant will become the default for all functions/variables, with side-effecting/mutable clearly marked.
How was Kosovo different from Crimea?
The problem is the download size doesn't match the store size, but customers can't see that. They also have differential updates, but again customer can't see that.
Analysis of real software that has looked for the maximum theoretical implicit concurrency has found that software to have its implicit concurrency level top out very quickly, often not even making it up to 2x. You don't hear about this today not because nobody has tried it, but because it's been tried and it hasn't been found worth the bother. Amdahl's law is a real jerk sometimes.

If you want concurrent code, you're going to have to write it with an awareness of concurrency issues. There are things that languages can do to make it easier, but in terms of doing it automatically even that hasn't had a great track record. Fortress [1] took a good run at it, but ultimately didn't seem to get that far, at least relative to their ambitions.

Personally I suspect that while Haskell may not be that language today, and may not be that language ever necessarily, that the "magically concurrent" language of the future is going to end up looking a lot like Haskell, in particular, with the ability and need to consider the mathematical properties of your code for things like associativity and commutativity. It's going to take a pretty major sea change in a whole lot of attitudes before "the youngsters" are just casually reeling off group theory names while the "old fogies" are stuck going "What's a monoid again?" Not impossible, but hard to imagine how we get to there from here.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortress_(programming_language...
Not sure how this is any better than a good composting toilet set up. Grew up with one in the house (hippy parents) and it doesn't smell and is minimal maintenance. Not sure how well this would translate into an urban setting but that seems like a solvable problem (and a better approach than a subscription based service like this one).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composting_toilet

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/258852961_Compostin...
> Hickey created a malicious, macro-based Word document on his own computer that when opened would allow him to carry out a reflective DLL injection attack, allowing him to bypass the app store restrictions by injecting code into an existing, authorized process.

That's enough to show that you could have run ransomware. Unsigned code execution under Word privileges (which presumably has write permissions to user documents) is enough to encrypt user documents.

I think the point is that it's dishonest/irresponsible for Microsoft to advertise 10 S in this way. Even though technically they're not saying you can't get hacked by ransomware--anyone without technical knowledge can reasonably assume that's the case. The article showed that MS didn't really put too much work into adding extra security/mitigation. Just shutting down side loading isn't work proportional to what they advertise.
The actual win is avoiding bloatware like Cortana
Commodore (Amiga) and Atari (ST) would have destroyed themselves anyway regardless of the competition. Their management teams were just completely incompetent.
Endless? I think I saw it only once. Said "nope" and it was gone.

The whole marketing mess still sucks (they sure try their chances every once in a while), but it's not that bad - and at least it's different every time (not sure if this is good or bad, though).

I think the only repeated warnings I even saw with W10 were from Windows Defender discontent with me telling that I don't want automated uploads of whatever it thinks it should.
Or better, SFSarfariViewController, which ensures user privacy by being sandboxed off from the app, supports content blockers, and provides all the standard system sharing options instead of trying to pigeonhole users into a subset of highly tracked "desirable" sharing options.

I personally make a point to avoid apps that opt to use a UIWebView over an SFSafariViewController. The reasons for doing so are rarely in my best interest as a user.
That never happened and for people to incredulously report that it did is absurd.

https://medium.com/dfrlab/russias-fake-electronic-bomb-4ce9d...
Scroogled no more: Gmail won’t scan e-mails for ads personalization
As an MS employee: Is SYSTEM really restricted by the sandbox as well?
One effect two years ago was 3x retina images for first iPhone 6 Plus, roughly doubled size of all asset catalogs. With app slicing the 3x aren't usually downloaded to most devices, but that's not clear to customers.
Nah, I disagree. I'm not really bitter and I haven't met a C-suite that openly acknowledged their role as performers (though they are probably aware of it). There are a lot of people with strong non-performance skills who wind up in these roles (and I have met several such persons) because they're recognized as the most important leadership roles, and most people aren't going to say "no" to that.

But by that same token, the super-high visibility of the C-suite comes with a lot of constraints that hinder the freedom of people who are not primarily interested in the dog and pony show, because there is an expectation that CxOs will have a presence at various functions, meetings, and events that are not really related to their ostensible job functions, and because every public action of a CxO is subject to intense external scrutiny, including social media, etc.

Could a CxO come on HN and state his true opinions about things? Of course they would say they can, because the illusion loses its power when the curtain is drawn back, and it'd be a big story that "CxO of ImportantCo admits he's a big fat phony".

If their employer is small enough that nobody cares, then I'm sure it works fine because no one really cares. But if they get bigger, then it doesn't work fine anymore, and their history will be combed through by competitors and media alike in search of ammunition/scalps.

Really just need to get actors or media personalities for those roles so that real people can continue to be real and guide things intelligently, rather than constantly maintaining their persona and having to pull away from serious matters to attend irrelevant functions and presentations (schmoozing).

You can't really give the title "CxO" to people and not expect this kind of intrusive, restrictive, and distracting load to land on them, so it's better to compartmentalize the real tasks away from such titles.
Seems Word macros will also run, with the expected results.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/06/micro...
Right. My point was you have to use a iOS class for web browsing to pass store review.
After Travis Kalanick’s Resignation, Will Uber Really Change?
I also want the Classic Theme back, Classic like in NT4 classic, with the old school minimize, maximize and close buttons.
I view the cto as the person who makes sure the 6 developers aren't using 6 different frameworks. I've worked at places where that was the case and the CEO knew nothing about coding and didn't offer much more advice than "you guys work it out". The problem is you sometimes get a dev who wants to use "insert esoteric bleeding edge tool here" and then leaves a huge mess when they leave the company 3 months later
Generally both of them :)
I find it problematic that the only controls consistently accounted for are age, sex, and race.

I think they are making too big a claim, and they would've generated a more useful insight if they were controlling for pathological behaviors as well.

Are popular alcoholics likely to live longer? How about popular obese people? Is there, perhaps, a causal relation between being isolated/unpopular and pathological behaviors?

The study itself (the pnas source--and by the way, thanks to the NY Times for linking to the source) smacks of p-value fishing combined with making the most grandiose claim you can based on those p-values.

I'm not saying the paper is wrong in a mathematically provable way or that it couldn't be replicated. I'm saying that it isn't science that is meaningful or useful. It strikes me as resume-driven science.

Scientific click-bait.
I despise how someone who makes a false accusation always has the upper hand over the accused. People need to develop a healthy distrust of unconfirmed sources, especially in the age of Photoshop, face- and voice-swapping neural nets, and extreme trolling.
It's negligent for a captain to ever sleep?
Why? They are already running their own unsigned DLL injected code that can do anything they want. Even if the OS wouldn't allow it to launch an unsigned .exe, any malware can just be shipped in that DLL as easily.
Ubuntu Server Development Summary – 23 Jun 2017
> can only run apps from the app store

So basically this is nothing but a control ploy by M$? Even Apple doesn't restrict things like that (on macOS)
It would be valued as something closer to 0 if you did take it over.
Unsurprisingly this article doesn't highlight a big issue (for those of us who aren't minted!) If you have a proofed watch and need to get the battery changed you need to send it off to the factory and shell out a painful sum. Or, have the seal breached and be gutted when it corrodes a couple of years later.
LTSB = Embedded
Maybe, but since I am playing "what if", it could also happened that in spite of their incompetency, they would survive, because the IBM PC market would not turned out as widespread as it did.

In this alternative world, only IBM would be producing PCs just like Atari and Comodore produced their own products, there wouldn't be OEMs driving costs down and creating comodoty computers.
That initial gamble on optimizing for engineering ease-of-use

But that was not a clever gambit. They had a bad product that they told a lot of lies about. That they got rich doing that is a sad indictment of our industry.
If you're in / near San Francisco and looking for great chai, definitely stop by one of the Chai Cart spots; there are a few on Market:

http://www.thechaicart.com/

(I have no affiliation with them, just a fan of their chai and want their business to succeed!)
If it could deduce density from the material name, it'd useful for volume-to-mass conversions., e.g.

1 cup of butter -> g

Not sure if it's quite scientific though... :)
Show HN: Online C to WebAssembly compiler
The correct solution is to answer the call, say nothing and hang up after 3 seconds

Actually I like the idea of fining people into bankruptcy so I don't have to deal with their nonsense. This is literally the basis for paying taxes. If I have to do my own guerilla defense against robocalls it's literally a waste of my time, so I typically let calls go to voicemail instead.
How does this differ from BEAM langs which already make concurrency "unreasonably easy"?
Standard counter-argument: Then be respectful of the trust people (voluntarily or not) place in you and don't abuse the update channel.

The problem is that Windows updates have gotten a bad reputation which is partially justified by the tracking and nagware during the Windows 10 transition. If the reputation gets too bad, then even non-computer-savy people will start to turn off updates - with even worse consequences for security.
> That can be done by having the lower trains be only for express

You have no idea of the layout of the Underground, obviously. They're not lower trains that follow the same routes - they're entirely different (and very important!) routes which just happen to be a lot lower than some others.
What's the Problem with Al Jazeera?
Based on the names mentioned I searched for their email addresses in password dumps and they all match the large 500M+ lists (anti public and exploit.in - covered here[0]) that have been available on some of the credential-stuffing and hacking forums since late last year. They are aggregate lists composed of MySpace, LinkedIn and other breaches.

It appears someone has grepped out parliament.uk emails from those leaks and then published it separately, the earliest mention of such a list that I can find online is from mid-May.

The credential stuffing and darkweb markets are full of such lists as the scammers attempt to make a dollar or two from content that is otherwise publicly available by slicing it in interesting or appealing ways.

I doubt any of the credentials would have worked against the parliament Office 365 login[1] as either the IT admins would have noticed, and/or the list is old enough where it would have been noticed far earlier plus Office 365 even without MFA enabled or enforced will usually require an email or SMS confirmation for a new device login or a login that doesn't match user pattern.

The story mentions they disabled logins, but it appears to still work. This is likely just a precaution from the IT department over what is a relatively minor issue since it is easier to pretend you're doing something rather than having to explain to the media that this is an old issue and not that big a deal.

[0] https://www.cert.govt.nz/businesses-and-individuals/recent-t...

[1] https://intranet.parliament.uk
hatred without idiocy then
I'm on LTSB for my home desktop and I love it. Kind of bummed Linux support isn't available but otherwise I love being left alone.

slmgr -rearm works for a year :)
Imagine you were a sort of "librarian of world-wide knowledge" that people would call to ask all kinds of questions they had. Imagine there were this one person who asked you a lot of questions about all kinds of mental health problems, and then also quite a lot of names of people, in particular during working hours. Are you telling me you wouldn't possibly get the idea from that that a significant proportion of those people would be their patients?

Or are you saying that as long as there is no absolute certainty, sharing of medical info is perfectly fine? So, there shouldn't really be a problem with a doctor publishing the medical file of a patient in the local newspaper ... after all, how should the reader be certain that it's not just a fake of someone the doctor doesn't even know?
wealth correlates with health?

Except it doesn't! Why? Because the hidden variable is that wealthier people tend to be older! So you can easily construct a "proof" that the wealthier you are the more likely you are to die in the next few years...
I think that's exactly what he is describing. Line and Messenger now open all links in a crappy in app web view instead of opening the browser app like they used to.
I have deployed LTSB in a few schools I look after, it's far easier because of the minimal feature set especially in smaller environments where full enterprise management tools like System Centre and WSUS are not installed.

Go old school and customise the default profile in the build for best results!

The best part is that if you have education volume License You get both EDU and Ent LTSB editions!
Broken link, try

https://insights.ubuntu.com/2017/06/23/ubuntu-server-develop...
> > multi-threaded architecture

> I fail to see how a multi-threaded architecture is a problem with Postgres.

While it's not a fundamental issue, it does have some considerable drawbacks. A lot of the work required to make query processing use multiple cores (9.6, and the upcoming 10 release), would've been a lot easier if there were a shared memory space. There's no portable way to guarantee that shared memory that's allocated after process start can be mapped to the same addresses in different processes, so you've to deal with a relative addressing etc, which both complicates and slows down.

There's also upsides, don't get me wrong. Primarily around robustness in case of failures, but also some around resource isolation.
Especially since space is fungible, so deleting 300MB of other apps will have the same effect. Facebook's wastefulness here could be causing users to abandon other apps.
Crowdfunding (kickstarters, etc.) is an expendable income.

ICOs are investments and speculation, sometimes on margin.