skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You just need to compromise their database and you should have access to plenty of source code running around, possibly with secrets/credentials etc - a disneyland for bad guys.
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I suppose we disagree, somewhat.

In my view/experience labour movements have generally pursued job stability as a primary instrument (for worker rights), even if it was not formally a goal in itself. This may be somewhat at odds with solidarity, but every movement deals with some internal contradiction.

There a multiple reasons for the focus on permanent employment. One is the labour union history of labour movements. Unions represent members and their interests, which are protecting their jobs, not jobs in general. Another reason is practical: it's almost impossible to unionize and hard to apply protections to a casual workforce. Labour movements (esp unions) are empowered by permanent workforces. Another reason (possibly the dominant one) is simple practical politics: people want a guarantee of permanence.

I believe that casual employment types have a role, in many cases one that permanent employment struggles to fill. From the worker perspective, this has to do with the low commitment, low barriers to entry, and relative absence of gatekeepers. Historically, when labour movements have tried to regulate casual labour they have tried to turn it into permanent labour.

In my view this is misguided. They should try to insert worker rights into the class while maintaining the casual noncommittal aspects of it.

For a practical example, I recently talked to some squatter/anarchists. They're hardly a major group, but weird and marginal enough that they're good at illustrating a point. Many of them work in the Gig economy (bike delivery). No Gatekeepers is what makes it work for them.
Someone asked "Why not a ring instead?" and someone mentioned they had the imbed done by a tattoo shop full of people with piercings, etc.

So my thought was combine the two into an RFID nose ring or something.

But the downside is you'd have people swiping various body parts in checkout lines. "It didn't go, try again. Wait, please don't try again."
The 'comment is free' section of the guardian is their freelancer/blog bit. What you're probably seeing is the same author being paid for the same piece from multiple sources. Not all that fishy, just the way freelancing works.
The main issue I have with this is that, like you could guarantee vi/vim being present on any Unix/Linux installation, mspaint.exe would always be present on any Windows installation for easily taking screenshots. When working with locked-down systems, such as we do at work, that was a really useful feature.
The answer to this should be a resounding "fuck off and don't come back".

Open source is great because it is generally free of this pushy and disingenuously non sense. Defection over cooperation leads to the detriment of the commons.
If the efficiency could just increase (to ~8% maybe) and inverters got a bit cheaper still, I think you'll start to really open the "just for fun" part of the market. I wouldn't hesitate to put them on my shed.
Indeed. This struck me at times as a rather bizarre, alien article for someone who lives in Great Britain and owns a combination washer-dryer - both aspects of it work, it isn't noisy, and it was not expensive.
That's a very expensive sleeper bus. I took an 8 hour sleeper bus here in New Zealand, including free wifi (which you don't even need, you're sleeping), and it cost me NZ$30 (US$22), including luggage. The same thing in Vietnam cost me about $10, but had the problem that the beds were Vietnamese sized, which for a European wasn't super comfortable.

Sure, they weren't quite as fancy, but it really doesn't matter if you're sleeping, you're asleep. I guess that's the SV markup on everything that's been common in the rest of the world for a long time.

They are super convenient though, pick up and drop off in the middle of the city, and accommodation included. Go to sleep, and you wake up at your destination.
Roman Roads of Britain
For me, the program lost its charm when they introduced the antialiased shapes, soft brushes etc (Win7?). The MSPaint aesthetic was all about rough and ready aliased drawing.
This: "Computational psychiatry has suddenly made it possible to mine data from long-standing observations and link it to mathematical theories of cognition. It’s also become possible to develop computer-based experiments that carefully control environments so that specific behaviors can be studied in detail."
They also have their own OS to worry about, which they are rebooting once more, now with .NET Core as SDK.
That's good to know, actually. I have grown up with an "it's broken - chuck it and buy a new one" mentality, and the fact that it often costs a comparable amount: £30 for a repair guy to come out and "see if he can fix the problem", and then undefined labour costs and parts vs known cost of a new one doesn't help.

I suppose if you're chucking the old one out anyway, it's worth trying to fix it yourself for a bit, but I've always got time constraints (I'm a serial procrastinator), and I never do.
So, what prevents any Atom package from being silently taken over and turned into a private code Hoover? Is there anything in Atom's packaging APIs that ensures plugins that can read source cannot also access the network without permission?
Snipping Tool still there for screenshots.
I don't have any experience with their Windows client, but webdav with nextcloud has been painfully slow in my experience.
I have the exact same usage, generally with the same names too.

It's great for going back to a project you haven't touched in months/years and then typing "make" to build it regardless of the language or tool chain.
I'm not the author of the blog post. I think you're comparing apples and oranges, also this kind of reasoning is an example of "tu quoque" logical fallacy.
That is quite straightforward and makes it clear from all perspectives.

From the hacker "hat classification" perspective, that's obviously black hat, nothing gray about it.

From the legal perspective it's not a debate anymore (like in the original article) if you do this, it's clearly a crime, if you get caught in whatever way (e.g. by bragging about it someplace later that leads to your person, or by testing a "discounted" pass in some place that has cameras), it's a straightforward conviction for extortion.

From the ethical perspective, that is an unethical action, doing that shows that the person is immoral.

But you are right, yes, it can be quite effective, and definitely makes it more likely that they will panic strongly enough to actually do something about the issue. It's just that if this happens, then it's not sufficient to just fix the hole, identifying and catching the perpetrator becomes a big part of what they should be doing.
It's probably the Microsoft product I use the most outside of windows, visual studio and outlook. If it could save pictures without a background I probably wouldn't need any other image editor.

I probably use it around 10 times a week professionally, much more than I use Word (I do most of my writing and notetaking in standard text editors and only use Word when it's time to style it or save to PDF).

So this is terrible news to me.
I think we need a swift and damning response to this. I'd rather have an even worse walled garden than the Apple 'App Store' than deal with having to worry about my source code getting stolen to be used by some stupid cloud service. I don't even want data collection in my text editor; maybe from the vendor its acceptable but not N times for each plugin. I now feel compelled to vet the network usage of any plugin I install.

Thanks, Kite. I'll make sure to remember this in case anyone ever considers your service.
The fact that income disparity was widespread hundreds of years ago and today helps lend impetus to the gig economy.
Many issues with Solidity as a contract language were pointed out in a previous HN thread after the Parity multisig-incident: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14810008
> Most open source software is libraries or frameworks

Out of the 5000 most popular repositories of github, most are libraries or frameworks.

The author is not bad at clickbait.

edit I wonder if they actually checked if those 5000 licences are actually compatible with the open source definition[1].

[1]: https://opensource.org/osd
They do, if you fly first class. You just have to spend several thousand dollars on a ticket. Air New Zealand also offers skycouch (https://www.airnewzealand.co.nz/economy-skycouch), which is similar and cheaper, but really is only worth it if you're traveling with your partner or someone else you feel comfortable spooning for an entire flight.
"Telemetry" ... nice spin.
Only used trains in Europe so far hence why my impression of trains is probably a bit biased...
Checkout ERPNext (https://GitHub.com/frappe/erpnext). It is based on a metadata framework (Frappe) that lets you build by configuration, so complexity can be handled much better.

Frappe also lets you build extensions (apps), add hooks to standard events, has a built in RESTAPI and more. Here is a quick overview https://www.slideshare.net/mobile/rushabh_mehta/frapp-framew...

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As far as I know: nothing yet. It hasn't been necessary. I don't think people even thought about it. But I think now it's going to become an ordeal...
To sandbox them away from the editor contents? I can't think of many of my (Vim) plugins that would work without access to the editor itself.
https://www.shiftnrg.org/
Just use paint.net
No I don't think you need to do that to get interested in it. If you want to see it in action and spin up a playground really quickly, I suggest using Embark (https://github.com/iurimatias/embark-framework). (I contribute to this project)
How to Sell the Problem Before Selling the Solution
AltGr+Scroll, Win+R "mspaint", Enter, Ctrl-V is in my muscle memory.
My apologies dang, but it wasn't a snarky post. I've been seeing recent uptick in people posting spam links in comments, I assumed this was something akin to that. I'd assumed it was spam and was curious as to how it made it.

I did try reading it but as the other commentator mentioned it looked like it was indeed spam.

Mistakes happen, and I hope this site does indeed continue to keep the high quality comments going.
Your brain is not immune to the problem, it's just hard to automate the creation of optical (and audio, and presumably all other sensory) illusions when we don't have a synapse resolution connectome of the relevant bits of your brain.

Examples include That Dress, duck-or-rabbit, stereotypes, "garden path sentences", and most film special effects.
Agreed, these Kite fuckers need to be purged.
OTP application.

And I don't see anything especially wrong with MVC in non-OOP languages.
Just wait until artificial intelligence does it for us...
Well, really it ended up boiling down to how late they were to enter the market. By the time they had set a toe in, the app gap was already far too wide to make a difference.

They could have built an OS that was light-years ahead of iOS and Android and it still wouldn't have mattered because no apps, no sale.
There's a saying that democracy is not when a government gets installed by fair elections, democracy is when a government gets removed by fair elections.

Hitler was democratically elected as well, that is not sufficient to label his regime as democracy.
I hated it when somebody called my startup stupid
https://www.getpaint.net/
Seems like I hit a nerve.

People (and nerds in particular) have a major cringe-inducing tendency to turn everything into a competition or even a lifestyle, and they forget to actually have fun.
"Some corporations are bad, some are good, some are in the middle."

I don't think we need to bring morality to the discussion and complicate the issue.

Corporations are organized around profit, open-source is not. With only that in mind you can predict what will happen in most of the cases.

To put Mozilla, a not-profit, in this context, in the same set that Google and Apple is not fair, by the way.
would be more common-sense to just kill Windows
This is silliness. I Win+R, mspaint at least 10 times a day. I paste in screenshots and quickly cut out just a portion of them. Or leave the screenshot there for later review. Why don't they just remove the file browser? Or how about mouse support?
the best defence against AI is to reduce the # of bits for algorithm to use
Prior exposure to machine learning, robotics, Python/Tensorflow is a plus, but the idea is to learn many skills along the road.
General info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-circumvention#European_Un...

More about the directive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Directive

Actual text of the directive: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:320... (see Chapter III, containing things like "Member States shall provide adequate legal protection against the circumvention of any effective technological measures" and then going on to define "effective" to mean "not necessarily effective")

Some parts have been amended (for example, copyright duration has been expanded from 50 to 70 years after death), but I believe the anti-circumvention parts to be unchanged. I'm not sure how to find up-to-date codified versions of EU laws, though.
Judging by the frequency which which catastrophic bugs seem to appear within smart contracts, it appears that most users of the platform also don't grok the complexity of the Ethereum network and it's vulnerability to bugs.

This argument can get dangerously close to 'clever people have invested a lot of time and effort into this, so you should either invest the same amount of time and effort or trust that the whole thing is safe.'

Not sure this holds up, especially when increasingly people are being asked to trust Ethereum, but anything, like Parity, that interacts with it.
My thoughts are with all those help-deskers who will have to explain this to a million people who used this to cut and paste pictures.

Microsoft sure likes to put up a rodeo-experience for the customers.
If your security is "http://example.com/1234/secret_data/", but 1234 is your customer number, and changing the customer number gives you someone else's data, then the analogy is more like:

"the sheriff has told everyone that there's a bad dude wandering round town trying doors, and [responsible citizen] noticed that everyone had identical door-keys which would open every lock".

Is that still creepy?
Just be careful where you click, that site is loaded with adverts for dubious software.
Agreed. In fact, I also use OSX a lot, and would love to have 'Paint' there too.
Telling them their strategy is unacceptable should be enough.

Do you want to fire up the ovens too? Oh nevermind, I see you're a self declared "commie feminist", wrong end of the horse shoe, my bad.
If you are a physicist you don't have to ask, because you are stupid otherwise you are just good
Thank you. Unfortunately I'm on an enterprise controlled software stack. I'm not sure my needs warrant adding new software and thus more maintenance work for the IT department when our stack also includes photoshop.
> Economics and politics haven't caught up with this yet.

That seems unlikely. Political and economic leadership throughout the "White West" has been subsidizing and expanding the non-productive underclass for decades.
Here's a firefox one

https://wiki.mozilla.org/SecurityEngineering/HTTP_Strict_Tra...
Consequences of Docker Becoming 'Moby' on Go Dependencies
And that's overwhelmingly on the Web.
Further thought: this is a similar problem to creating too many standards. https://xkcd.com/927/
These tools are not web apps. They work entirely on a local machine. Their fundamental mode of operation is not to run on a remote machine.
Hywind: The world’s first floating wind farm is awesome
Why kill it though?

If they were going to replace it with something good enough to challenge Adobe (pls do, they need some competition) then sure. Paint can't need that many maintainers?
The "jobs" economy is over. It felt good while it lasted (about 140 years), when the economic output was mostly measured in material goods, and jobs were organized around large factories (either belonging to corporations, like in the US or Europe or Japan, or directly to the state, like in the USSR). Now in the post-industrial world, when the material goods production is mostly saturated, still believing that jobs can provide economic sustenance is about as realistic as believing that everybody can work as a farmer and live a good life producing food.

Today in developed countries, only about 3% of population work as farmers. Soon, only about 3% of population will have jobs — the rest will have to do something else (like be employed in the sharing economy gigs). This is inevitable, and there is no way to reverse this. Government regulations can't do anything to oppose these immense natural forces, nor they will need to.

Or rather there is a way to reverse the trend and provide the need for immense material economic output: a war. A world war — because warring parties quickly lose the economic edge in a peaceful economy, and it's either everyone's in, or nobody goes. There are no unemployed at wartime.
I said reading as not assuming.
It's being replaced, they're removing the program, not the functionality.
As much as I 100% agree with your comment, from MSs point of view, you now have the Snipping Tool to do that.
MXene Electrodes Push Charging Rate Limits in Energy Storage
Spoilers! Hacker news bot posting the map image into a facebook post was a good way to make sure that I know now where all south shrines are :( https://www.facebook.com/hnbot/posts/1427803187274958
Paint 3D shipped already and is the replacement version, it can also save pictures without a background.
Hopefully not for same purpose as OP, since you can just do cmd+shift+4 and draw the region you want. Maybe Microsoft should implement something like this, so maybe shift+screen shot or something like that would let the user just draw rectangle over what they want captured.
I did the same until I discovered that windows has built in snippet tool. Try it out.
The Botanical Garden setting could be part of the problem. The article says that your location is weighted into the results, considering past occurrences of species found near you. If you tried non-native flowers to the garden, it could have been weighted incorrectly.
https://paintbrush.sourceforge.io/
Use the Snipping Tool.
It's not paint but Preview.app can crop, edit and annotate screenshots.

A handy tip is to include control in the Mac screenshot keyboard command (e.g. ⌘⇧⌃3) to have the output piped to the clipboard instead of a file. Then in Preview.app, File > New opens the contents of the clipboard in a new window.

While I'm at it, ⌘⇧4 (and ⌘⇧⌃4) lets you interactively select an arbitrary region.

Also ⌘⇧4–Space (and ⌘⇧⌃4–Space) let you grab a single window directly from the compositor. Which means you always get the full window, including its alpha channel. Even if the window is obstructed or partially off-screen, you still get the whole thing including its transparent drop-shadow.
Interesting to notice, syskey.exe is also going to be removed. Wonder how it will affect fake tech support scammers.
> Giggers don't really need employers or employees, since gigs can be performed in an ad-hoc p2p fashion.

Until they get knocked off their bicycle while delivering someone's lunch and can't work, meaning they can't pay rent or buy food (because you're an independent contractor who only gets paid while 'gigging'). Then it's pretty useful to have an employer who covers things like sick pay.
Multi-Cursor Support in the Kate Text Editor
Makes sense. Microsoft is missing out on recurring revenue. They purged the other image tool (the MS Office one that let you view TIFFs), and now they're killing paint.

I'm sure there will be a Windows 10 Creators Pack for Creation for Personal Users (not to be confused with a creators update) available on 4 different channels for $6.99/mo. The stable branch will not have the ability to open JPEGs or save to a format other than clip art, but a new revisions will be delivered daily.
A company I used to work for was offered $100k to release a Windows Phone version of their app, but they declined (because they'd be responsible for maintenance)
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Capsules are arranged differently — they can be stacked together vertically, and probably be offered at least for the price of business class seats.

(If the weight is a great concern, and it is, and capsules are too heavy — hammocks can also be an option).
Knuth-Bendix Completion on Non-Abelian Group Theory
Whenever I see a screen like this, I just use the "local engine" and make sure I never use the suggested product, ever.

Have fun finding customers Kite...
Are you aware that you comment contains of bit a bragging that might distract people being able to focus on the content?
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Can't capture a mouse hover with snipping tool.
If you like vim or other console applications with vi-like key bindings I'd would recommend taking a look at http://ranger.nongnu.org/

Ranger is an highly customizable file manager that can be controlled by using the keyboard only.

File management (searching, copying, moving, renaming...) takes considerably less time since I switched from windows-explorer / nautilus / nemo to ranger.

I can't imagine going back.

Getting started with ranger:
https://github.com/ranger/ranger/wiki/Official-user-guide
What use is off-by-default? Who turns telemetry on?
You do know 'purge' has other meanings aside from genocide right? Or is it more convenient for your performative outrage if you pretend otherwise?
Open source is very vulnerable to manipulation. Some years ago, I spent some time trying to understand the PAM module LDAP module on Linux (PAM is used to enable external authentication so its critical code). I found it to be completely impenetrable. We take such components for granted but if someone could inject malware into such code, it could be catastrophic.