skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
similar experience - worked with 6, 6.5 and 7 on NT 3.5 and NT 4. 4 was better, but it often was 4 itself which ended up needing rebooting, vs SQL Server itself, but... when one's on the other, does it make much of a difference? There wasn't an option to run MSSQL 7 on anything else, IIRC.

I do remember 7 on 4 was much improved re: requiring reboots, and the projects I was on ended up doing it periodically more out of proactive concern re: NT4 than real demonstrated problems with MSSQL 7. 1999 project had 80 NT servers running IIS reboot on a schedule every few hours with a big load balancer in front. 70+ up at any one time, always a handful being reboot and coming in and out of the pool. If we didn't proactively do it, they'd just go down anyway. IIRC that spoke more to IIS than NT but again... how can you necessarily tell the difference? Not rhetorical, there were probably good ways to dig in and try to determine root causes (and I think some folks tried or did) but it didn't mean we could actually do anything about it (like patch and recompile the NT kernel).
Firefox and Chrome only store for 60s and 30s, respectively.

For IE, you can just refuse connections to the internal webserver for logged in users, as IE will then mark those IPs as bad and refresh the DNS: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/ieinternals/2012/09/26/brai...
Like I said, I just leave my dongle attached to my headphones all the time. I forget the dongle even exists.
well now I can always have a place to paste print screen :)
Maybe he sets up and operates honeypots. Alas, what is in the domain but words, and what is in a word but that which we pour in?
But you should. I started using Typescript with TsLint a month ago. As I was refactoring a ~15k LoC project I found hundreds of bugs. Many were easy to replicate once I knew what would trigger them.

The list was astounding and enough for our architect to order that zero new code was to be written in plain JavaScript.

JavaScript is a minefield with shiny new objects in it. Without protection you're asking for trouble.
Wouldn't work. Too inconvenient. What if you need to add another account? Go to the safe deposit box, create the account, then take it back again?
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Not really; Nabokov was born in Russia but left at 19, and wrote Lolita in English while in the US.
Wells Fargo Red-Faced Over Massive Data Breach
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While the title may be a little clickbaity, it's important to note that roomba is making it an all or none feature. If you want to use the mapping feature which gives the product better ability to navigate, you must agree to having your info sold. Definitely not cool.
> I still think that building a html+javascript package, and have the default browser run it

I think the thing that kills that approach is the default browser, which on Windows is IE 12 (Edge).

Edge isn't actually that bad to work with these days. But almost no web developers will use that when they could ship Chromium / Electron just as easily and get the exact same browser on all three platforms.

Even Microsoft's own teams will sometimes make that choice (VS Code using Electron.js and not Edge, for example)
In Oxford a lot of things are named after "Isis". Isis is the local name for the River Thames, presumably named after the Egyptian Godess. We should not change that name, just because it is used by a terorist group. But it would be a bit distasteful to use it as a new name. Especially if you use it intentionally with the intent of causing offence. Nuance matters.
> The logical conclusion is to do as much as you can yourself, and only get others to do things you are unable to do yourself.

I think there's also a social/psychological aspect to this. When people pay for something that they are unable to do/produce by themselves, they feel (or at least should feel, from the society's point of view) some respect for the person doing the job, because he is a specialist with some non-trivial skills. In contrast, when people pay for something that they can do (or at least think that they can) but don't like to, they feel sympathy at best, or superiority and disdain at worst, because the job doer is now perceived more as a servant.
That's also a huge problem with SaaS (e.g. Google docs): the software can break even while using it. In that respect, even Windows 3.1 was actually much better.
One interesting influence of Chinese on Esperanto is that you now have two ways to use adjectives as predicates. To say "Anna is beautiful" you can use the copular verb est:

Anna est bela.

Which is like English and most European languages. But you can also say

Anna belas.

That is, you turn the adjective to a verb and use it as a predicate directly. This mirrors the syntax of Chinese.
Haven't used it, but the Soft U2F README refers to a Safari plugin for U2F.
Quite a good write up I thought, especially interesting about the OpenWorm project and their successfully funded Kickstarter [1]

[1] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/openworm/openworm-a-dig...
According to the founder, the amount of stolen tokens is 37k: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1887061.msg20355530#...

That number also matches the number transferred (36,687.9382688909) to this wallet mentioned in the article: https://etherscan.io/address/0x3fff90bf314673194c3a265ed1c0a....

Also, according to two other articles (linked from the bitcointalk thread), cite the value of the stolen as US$4.5M, not US$8.4M:

http://www.altcointoday.com/ethereum-ico-veritaseum-suffers-...
http://www.newsbtc.com/2017/07/24/yet-another-ethereum-ico-g...

Checking market charts around the time it happened (~00-08 July 24th), there's a significant dip in value, with the price going as low as US$~122: https://coinmarketcap.com/assets/veritaseum/#charts. At that rate the stolen tokens would be worth US$4.48M.
Does anyone else here never read programming books?
> some people who contribute to open source projects are really nice and considerate people, and some are vaginas. When someone makes significant contributions, people tolerate a bit of vaginaish behavior and shrug it of as the behavior of a slightly eccentric genius. But for everyone else, people won’t put up with your shit. If you want people to accept your contributions, be nice, and don’t be a vagina.
Not if the entire App and Windows Store system is disabled per corporate policy and/or firewall.
[The companies] dies a hero instead of living long enough to become a villain
Official announcement: https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2017/07/25/elixir-v1-5-0-releas...

We have published a draft version of the announcement since the release notes are not super helpful for those unfamiliar with Elixir. Is it possible to update the link to the official announcement? Thank you!

EDIT: We are done with the changes on the draft. We've added asciicinema snippets to show some features, improved the section on Calendar changes and also mentioned the compilation time improvements (expect at least 10% faster compilation).
You can have bulletproof protection against MITM as long as you have a shared secret so it's possible with wifi. The other answers in this chain about PAKE have details.
How about plutonium?
Honestly, UBI isn't going to fix anything if the mentality are still in the frame of mind that making money is an end to itself. Until, the american society learns that adolatring money is completely wrong, there isn't any hope for any of this to succeed.
The aux cord in the car was actually a major concern for me too when I was considering upgrading to the 7. And then I found this $15 bluetooth FM transmitter: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01KJJP1TG/

The sound quality is fantastic and it's easily way more convenient than using an aux cable: No cord, and it has play/pause and track skip buttons on it!

Also has a microphone for Siri/phone calls though I've never used it to speak to its quality.

There are a bunch of similar ones on Amazon with slightly varying features.

I do understand it would be frustrating to swap the dongle around if you have multiple headphones though. Worth noting that the "crappy included ones" that come with the phone are already lightning though so they don't need an adapter.
What is the general feel on "Esperanto vs English as a world language" there?
> What i'm seeing here is that you just need to figure out what per hour rate is after tax, and use that to make quick calculations based on your local market.

Yep, it's a whole chapter in the book I wrote on the topic of working less to live your dreams.

The other thing to realize is that when you are spending money, you are spending the time you have left in your life. You can never, ever get that time back, so spending should be very precious.

It's quite a mind-shift, but once you make it you'll never be able to go back.
They are a great ladder for when one wishes to climb up the shoulders of giants. Much can be learned in blogs, but long-form text is not that easily replaced.

That said, my books-to-read list is ever growing as well...
Anyone make else make a bunch on scooping up cheap coins on etherdelta then selling them the next day?
Encryption for purchase forms on the Internet made a lot of sense even in the early days - a lot of early Internet businesses were genuinely worried that people wouldn't be willing to send their credit card information over the Internet.
It shouldn't be hard for Amazon to detect such behavior and improve it's reviews or scores. Why don't they do that?
This is way off topic, but that kind of simple gamification is "broken" because there are three Nash equilibrium, only one of which is actually marking spam correctly.

If everyone marks everything as spam, then anyone not also doing the same is "punished" because they are missing out on points they could get by marking more things as spam.

If everyone is marking everything as "not spam" then anyone marking spam as spam correctly is punished as having "false positives" because everyone else is marking it not spam.

To prevent those bad outcomes (which happen very quickly in some situations, I'll try to dig out real-world examples later) you need to know what is "really" spam and what isn't, but if you know that then you've already solved the problem you set out to solve with this system.
Yes. http://uk.businessinsider.com/read-the-bloomberg-chats-that-...
They aren't hackers, they are scammers and crackers. Hackers are builders and creators, they persevere in the face of improper tools by being creative.
Mainly periodic random unexplainable KDC_ERR_C_PRINCIPAL_UNKNOWN which appears to be the Kerberos equivalent of "fuck you!"
"Robots playing dumb" is a terrifying thought
Elixir is truly an under-appreciated language. I've only toyed with it, and I'm really impressed with the whole ecosystem. Elixir, Phoenix, Ecto, Hex, etc all make a great ecosystem, and the awesomeness that is BEAM/OTP is just amazing. I loved the hot code deploys, and updating a system while it's running is something I've never seen before in action. Also Rustler is a great way to write CPU intensive NIF code too.
Disclosure: haven't done this but I have a girlfriend of many years and a startup so here's my 2 cents.

Both these things are hard and as such both will have a hard time succeeding but they're both worth the trouble so I say go for it with these considerations:

You need to have an agreement that you will be professionals first while at work and that at work, work comes first. Your company is very important to you and emotions(good and bad) will tend to take precedence but you have to be cognizant of your emotions and try to separate them. You have to.

For this reason, have an agreement of sorts, a kin to a prenuptial agreement. Answer questions like if things go wrong and you can't work together anymore, what happens then? There's a reason companies have strict policy for workplace relationships and how they ought to be handled.
I hope you are using a throwaway account to ask this question.
> Apparently REST has come to mean such a small and specific thing

It's called an argumentative straw man. The article attacks… something, but that thing ain't Rest, clearly. But ooooh boy, must it feel satisfying for Samer Buna to topple it over!

HN readers should not fall for the oldest trick in the book.
Using App Market Data to Fuel Mobile Growth
Not if you have high speed transport. If you can commute at 200mph, living as far as 100 miles from work you could commute faster than people who live closer and go by car.
I read in many places that the easiest way to generate a really strong password is to memorize a fairly long sentence and use the first letter of each word.

However definitely DONT use a quote or lyrics. Needs to be something unique.
I think it's partly a hat-tip to ISVs using .NET. Entity Framework (Core and Desktop) works best with SQL Server, with whole .NET Core is cross-platform thing they let ISVs sell to Linux shops too. The alternative would be to mix EF with PostgreSQL or (horror of horrors) MySQL which is a pain-in-the-ass for testing/QA. ORMs are leaky abstractions!

If you're ponying up for a SQL Server license you can afford to pony up for the Windows license. But if you're not a Microsoft shop and you're buying .NET Core-based COTS you can skip the license fees and install SQL Server vNext Express on your Linux machines. (Up to the point where you max out Express and have to cough up for Standard anyway.)
I'll go with Blackstone's ratio. I suspect that more than 1/11 of the use of Signal is legitimate, but more than 10/11 of the use of Bitcoin mixers is for crime.
It's the pendulum I spoke of earlier at play.

Love your HN bio BTW. Too funny.
Same here. I haven't been able to find an RSS reader I love since Google Reader went under.

I'm loving all the blog recommendations I get here, but I don't see how I can follow the content reliably like I can with my favorite podcasts.
It is way less than what Google does on my Android devices.

Now Google Maps even asks me to upload pictures of places where I happen to be.
This matrix is an adaptation of the "Eisenhower Matrix" used in Time Management.
Do not market a product that has no content.
Yes that's a good point. Apple and MS clearly have different values when it comes to OS development. Microsoft favors compatibility, at the cost of having to maintain legacy baggage; Apple favours simplification and streamlining, at the cost of compatibility. I'm glad both companies exist and can see value in both approaches.
Only if you don't value your time. To get to IKEA and back it takes me at least an hour, and I think on average I am on the quick side.
is this really the case in practice, though? Are there websites to measure it for amazon.co.uk/.de?
Asking honestly as I always assume they get around those regulations in some way.
The random console popups give me the jeebies! I still don't know what causes them. Never had such things on older Windows/Lenovo machines.
Look at it this way, almost no bitcoin mixers' users will ever be prosecuted to be called criminals and yet you do call them criminals for no reason.

I don't believe there could even be much legitimate use of bitcoin without mixers, people won't be willing to disclose that much information about themselves to everyone in the world.
This is clearly a person who has many many domains.

Creating a public mirror requires very little time. I created the NYU arch mirror in under an hour. All you need is a server, bandwidth, and a cronjob.

The guy claims he is making an ISP, if so he likely has servers and bandwidth to spare.
they should have found better way to go viral. I am not motivated to use paint3D. people using MSpaint are also be able to use MSexcel to paint.
It's been used not because microsoft produced minimal tool made huge impact! actually the other way around!
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Which article?

For once the title is not click-baity and it is actually true and accurate, a list of three most common topics heard (and nothing else).
Paint 3D is actually a decent app. I think people are going to hate it by default though.
"Kid"

There is no need to be condescending, this is HN not Reddit.
Most of the new stuff was on ADO and ODBC drivers, if I recall correctly.

I only made use of TDS C library, because there were some DML features not yet exposed via ADO and ODBC.
Hackers Stole and Then Dumped $8.4M Worth of Veritaseum Tokens
There's Electrino, which provides the Electron api but runs whatever your OS's built-in rendering engine is: https://github.com/pojala/electrino Still in development and relatively limited, but the idea's there!
It is possible to catch 4 way handshakes completely passively. You're not hacking into anything, simply observing.

It's not illegal to receive signals on an unlicensed band with stock equipment
Clifford Algebra are century hold. Why would you need a new one...?
I think inside jobs are likely in a large number of these ICO hacks. It's a good way to just enjoy the millions of dollars (or tens of millions) you raised for a non existent product just based on a flashy website with crypto buzzwords.

Most of these products I have taken look at make no sense and truly just seem to be a bunch of crypto and tech buzzwords mixed together to make it sound like some real business plan (e.g. "decentralise", "blockchain", "trustless", "distributed", "peer-to-peer").

It makes sense to "get hacked" and be able to just walk away with the money without having to pretend you actually want to create and deliver a product.
What kind of impact do these lifestyle businesspeople have on an average person's life? Or do you mean that they are a good example of giving up on pursuing wealth in exchange for spare time and unquantifiable humanly joys?
He didn't mention using it under a company. I was tempted to use this for personal projects as I don't care where my code gets uploaded, it's all on github anyways.

The reviews above made me reconsider.
Good point! HTTP requests and responses are retained in the program's memory for the duration of an SSH session, then forgotten on SSH disconnect. IP addresses are logged on SSH connect. I'll add a statement to the website and the tool's help message.
AFAIK it is a notation present in both the Lisp family and the ML family. In Lisp it means an empty list, and some dialects conflate it with nil. In ML it is a 0-tuple, but I don't know enough ML to say its relationship with nil but it seems tempting to conflate them as well.
Dstl scientists tackle growing problem of space junk
Another off-topic comment, I think those racing bikes where you bend forward are actually bad for people who spend their workdays behind a computer. Why? Because these people tend to stick out their necks forward, leaving force on the trapezius muscle. And when you are on these bikes, you are doing essentially the same thing.
What should they 'know'? If they can use it for their purposes then it is, per definition, usable. It's like saying that 'most cars are unusable for getting around'.
I do this, but the downside is, if I lose one I have to go through each service removing both tokens (because some services do not tell you which is which) then adding the existing (not lost) token with the new one. This is making me wish for OpenID again where I nominate my authenticator of choice so I only have one place I need to maintain my tokens.
> It shouldn't be hard for Amazon to detect such behavior and improve it's reviews or scores. Why don't they do that?

Amazon doesn't benefit financially from negative or average reviews, but they do benefit from the positive reviews, regardless of their legitimacy, as the parent poster demonstrated.
While a bootcamp graduate would require more investment than a college grad, it wouldn't be anywhere as high as 3.75 years, because college teaches you a lot of skills that aren't directly useful (Turing machines) or not in your domain (compilers or image processing) or not for several years. Training customised for your needs will be much more time-efficient.
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That's entirely irrelevant to this discussion.
The new (~2014?) English Language school in Greenwich was called ISIS. Up until ~2016, anyway. Huge big flashy signs it had, too.

(I like to imagine all the children telling their parents they were going to London to "study with ISIS" causing huge parental conniptions until the penny dropped.)
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That, great news, I'm especially curious about this line here:

[ExUnit] Show code snippet from test source file in case of test errors

ExUnit backtraces have historically been a bit hard to read sometimes IMHO.
His other option was letting them keep the money. Surely that's worse?

The point of the fraud is to make money. He denied them that money.
At our place, we use ServiceStack with OrmLite, which runs well on .net core and plays nicely with MySQL.

You can switch between SQL Server and MySQL by changing just one line of code.
Honest question: if someone starts a hobby project, open sources it, and later decides to monetize it in some way, is that considered bad form? I can think of many open-sourced projects that are being monetized - eg Reddit/GitLab.

I was under the impression that open-sourcing something literally means just making the code publicly available, and doesn't restrict what the owner chooses to do with the project in future.
The tool is super useful. However, your search could be bether with respect to geography. Let me explain ..

I am in the Bay area, and I'm interested in all local tech conferences. Seems like if I search for SF, I only see conferences in that city. What would be useful is to gather commutable geos together. When I was on the east coast, NY, NJ, CT and MA conferences were all reachable in a day trip, which is why that was my region of interest.

I think someone did this for hackathons too but not sure if that died off. Another idea is to link to previous iterations of conferences.

Final thought .. you could mine ACM/IEEE conferences .. those are tech-relevant.
Thanks, I'm glad it was helpful. We work with 501c3 healthcare providers, like Kaiser, to (a) help them raise capital through the public debt markets and (b) provide strategic advisory/M&A services.
All the official ones on commercial platforms, maybe; fdroid on Android works fine with no login, for instance, and GNU/Linux desktops have the equivalent in package managers.
I can see that being of interest to a significant number of people - might the mining pools be wary of being associated with the same 'bad things' as mixing services though?

It's good to be made aware of the term, I've surely seen it mentioned before and read it as the company.
The other reason for a review is to complain to the seller. And it worked beautifully, he got his money back, and the seller lost money.
Good news from elixir and erlang
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it's one of the controversial points in lisp dialects. treating empty list as nil means it's falsey when used as predicate which has it's pros and cons.

for instance if empty list is truthy, this pseudocode won't terminate if tail is defined to always be a (possibly empty) list:

while seq:
head, seq = seq.head_tail()
f(head)
True, but a graphical differ I'll concede could be easier to use than a CLI differ for some people. But a full graphical Git environment is horrible. I've seen my Windows-using colleagues use them. Shudder.

By the way, you might want to look at the `--diff-word` option.
It depends on your location. It's on my way home from work, so it takes 10-15min max.
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Not sure iOS belongs on that list.
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ETH did not participate in the big spike of BTC back-end of last week and is now tracking down today.