skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find the claim of being able to cheaply and quickly transfer large amounts of money to be comical. The argument breaks down to, traditional transfer methods take too long, so let’s add two layers of traditional transfer methods on top of a bitcoin transfer. Then we just ignore the bid/ask spread and the transfer time on either side.
I wish I could activate a content-only CSS.

You can use userscripts and CSS in the browser, and/or rewriting MITM proxies (when the browser is not as featureful or easy to control), although personally the combination of usefulness and annoyance has to be quite high before I start trying to restyle a site --- not very many qualify.

CSS completely off also tends to produce good results, but usually not for "app-ish" pages.
Because the consumer doesn’t matter? What exactly are their alternative options if the only game(s) in town decide to only sell a particular level of product quality?

Not asking rhetorically. What exactly is it you’re suggesting these “quality conscious” consumers do?

Markets and naked capitalism as solutions go these issues have proven ineffective. This article is evidence of it. And all you suggest is some naive, Econ 101 platitudes.
sockJS is a good solution, websocket are reliable, but it's annoying to make sure they reconnect when they close, sockJS does it in a sane way

People are using socket.io because of the hype/sheep behavior and misinformation
It's not just posting photos that can cause this kind of trouble. I get a lot of email intended for other Doug Webbs sent to my gmail account, with variations on the presence/location of periods, or CC'd with another gmail account that's the same but with numbers on the end. For a while I was getting boarding passes from a major airline for a Doug that was frequently flying up and down the US west coast. Those emails gave me the confirmation number, and a link directly to the page that would let me make changes to the reservation, with no security barrier at all.

Granted, this most likely was caused by that other Doug providing my email address to the airline, but the airline is at fault too for assuming that access to a given email address is proof of identity. That's a very common mistake, often made intentionally to provide a more "user-friendly" experience. Had I been malicious, I could have caused that other Doug a lot of un-friendly grief.

I was not able to see any contact information on the reservation, and I didn't have full access to his account. (I don't know if a "Forgot Password" request would have given me that, though it probably would have.) I contacted the airline customer support to tell them they had the wrong email address on the reservation and they should contact their customer through some other means if they could. I think I got a form-letter thank you and never heard from them again, but I did get a few more boarding passes for a while.

I also get a lot of online shopping order/shipment confirmations, and plenty of personal correspondence. I try to tell the senders to fix their address books, and when I get a CC with the real address I contact the other Dougs too, but most of the time there's no response. I've had to set up a filter that puts all email with TO addresses that aren't the one I use into an "Other Dougs" folder, which I treat like spam.
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So this is the much ballyhooed new Microsoft? Doesn't look like the Tiger's stripes have changed so much after all.
Can you make a large aluminum tank with it?

I need to transport a blue whale into orbit, and through time.
I would definitely be weary of using the same answer in multiple places. Even more so than with passwords. These stupid answers clearly get stored unhashed (how else would they be verified via phone?). Do if the system gets compromised the attacker now has your security question response for multiple targets.

Other than being pronounceable I see the exact same requirements for security questions as for passwords. If anything they need to be stronger.
Turns taxi industry into a subsistence workforce. Uber drivers get screwed in the equation once you factor in all the costs and depreciation, then uber sucks up the profits and takes them out of local communities.

The sharing/on-demand economy is incredibly cruel to the 1099s doing the heavy lifting
We have an issue for that here https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/2004, the UX team is pushing hard to get it scheduled asap. Give the issue a thumbs up!
You are wrong. In the few major urban centers, you can buy the most expensive and supposedly high-quality food, but that food is still MUCH LOWER QUALITY than the one sold in Western Europe. And we're talking international brand names here too. E.g., for example, soft drinks and candy bars would be sold with HFCS instead of sugar, chocolate will have lower % cocoa. You will find artificial colorings, preservatives and, generally, all kinds of artificial flavor improvers over healthier, more natural ingredients that are found in the Western versions of the same products of the same brand names. And don't get me started on the quality of meat...

If you haven't noticed that, it is possible you just haven't travelled enough. I've lived for years in both Western and Eastern Europe, so I can tell you -- the differences are very stark and, IMHO, should be illegal.
> for example, soft drinks and candy bars would be sold with HFCS instead of sugar, chocolate will have lower % cocoa. You will find artificial colorings, preservatives and, generally, all kinds of artificial flavor improvers over healthier, more natural ingredients that are found in the Western versions of the same products of the same brand names.

Are you talking about USA?
Show HN: Maximum1X2 – Native Mac software application for sports betting in beta
"Tut-tutting" is accurate. Your criticisms are mostly mistaken: He isn't demanding a citation. Let's look at what he's actually doing.

The best idea I have come up with so far is printing a citation notice
on STDERR if output is to a terminal when GNU Parallel starts. The
notice will not be printed if STDERR is redirected (to a pipe or a
file), it will also not be printed if --no-notice is given and it can
be disabled completely by running --bibtex once:

"""
When using GNU Parallel to process data for publication please cite:

O. Tange (2011): GNU Parallel - The Command-Line Power Tool,
;login: The USENIX Magazine, February 2011:42-47.

This helps funding further development.

To get rid of this notice run 'parallel --bibtex' once or use '--no-notice'.
"""

That's just about the most straightforward nag screen I've ever seen. It includes both the rationale and how to disable it permanently. Run --bibtex once!

--

> The citation nag notice is confusing people on their legal responsibilities. It has prevented people from using it due to the fear of liability it causes.

Whoever decided not to use parallel due to this was being silly. There are no legal concerns.

> Ole's citation is not from a scientific or peer-reviewed publication. It simply cannot be used in some contexts. In many contexts, a citation of Parallel is highly inappropriate.

He is asking for a citation where possible, to help him out.

> This approach isn't scalable. If other GNU tools, or other free software started using the same language as Ole, it would cause widespread problems.

But other tools don't do that. You can accept this one case to help this one author.

> Mr. Hess is correct, this is very antithetical to Unix.

Y'know what's more antithetical to Unix? When the authors can't build tools because it makes no sense to spend their limited time working on projects that further label them as "not a webdev, so why would I hire them?"

There are still plenty of jobs for non-webdevs, but millions of new programmers have popped up in recent years. Those non-webdev jobs are getting sparser and more competitive.

This argument is full of holes, but the overall point is that Unix as an ideology has been steadily losing ground for the last decade. It's not financially lucrative to be a Unix ideologue. You could argue that that's just the price of adhering to the philosophy. But when a project is actively shunned merely for making a polite citation request, what are onlookers supposed to think?

This is just about the least evil type of hustling that the author could do, yet it's still being treated as some kind of offense. How dare he ask you to run --bibtex.
You might want to explain to Americans that a "black cab driver" isn't what first comes to mind for them (especially as juxtaposed with "and I come in peace"). It might also be worth a mention what "Green Badge" means.
It usually takes a while for the search to update after an app has been published.
We invite you to try our software that is in the beta test phase. We recommend testing the beta to anyone who starts in the world of sports betting with 1X2 systems. We are just starting to make branding on the internet.

https://twitter.com/Maximum1X2

https://www.facebook.com/Maximum1X2/
> but that booking a ride costs Uber pennies. Their share of the ride revenues is dollars. How is that not going to be super profitable once new market development costs ramp down?

Yes, booking the ride costs pennies, but actually providing the ride costs them dollars. The question is how many dollars do they need to charge customers and pay drivers to maintain them both, and whether that calculation leaves Uber (or any other of these services) any profit. This is where the 'low barrier to entry' argument comes into play; it is so easy to enter this market combined with the fact that both drivers and customers can (and already do) swap to the service with the best financial benefit to themselves. It remains to be seen what the steady state of this equation is.
I've noticed this completely nonsensical behaviour with regular Google too. "Sort by" shouldn't ever be a "filter" --- but an ordering.

The result counts are usually highly inflated and approximate anyway (i.e. can you eventually actually get all 3M+ results?), so perhaps they don't mean all that much.

The best explanation for that anomaly, which is more of an excuse, is that they don't want to spend computing power sorting all the results.

Nevermind the fact that sorting by date is probably much easier than computing "relevance" and sorting by that...
Most if not ~all of those women are doing it so people can find them on Facebook, and people in the States rarely use the middle name field anyways except for legal docs.
Manjaro Deepin 17.0.5
Nope, but it is generally well known to us, Europeans, that a lot of the food sold in the US is of lower quality, which is contributing to the US obesity epidemic, cancer rates, heart issues... This is starting to become a problem here too.
Why you ask lawyers on a matter concerning computer programmers?

I have yet to see a single "professional IP lawyer" who knew more about GPL than an average IT pro. The was majority simply puts forwards claims without doing a minute of actual research on GPL
Usually you can trigger the electromagnetic sensor if you ride over the edge of it; there's usually a visible seam in the pavement. You want to ride along the edge of the loop.
Recently saw a viral tweet with a picture of a political mailing posted on twitter with the address blacked out, but the USPS bar code (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_Mail_barcode) showing (looks like a comb with broken teeth).

They obviously didn't know the barcode contained the precise house address of the recipient (presumably the user's home address). Anonymization is hard!
Cilia is an understandable CI server that's made only for one relatively simple task: building and serving web frontends defined with Docker Compose. It has a very simple hook system and it can show Browserstack videos inline.

The one little feature it has that I haven't seen in other tools (but I'm sure it's not unique) is that it can reverse proxy by Git commit, so that "<commithash>.ci.example.com" becomes a way to see how the frontend looks at some particular revision.

Actually I wouldn't really pitch it to anyone, because it was quite internal and somewhat made in anger over the complexity of build servers like Jenkins. It was also an exercise in slightly larger-scale shell programming, which is considered extremely stupid around here, so.

Testdown is still the best system for smoke testing React apps I've used, and I made it because the company I was working at really had horrible experiences with frontend testing. The natural language specifications are kind of like Cucumber, except better and with no need to code step definitions, just define the "data-role" attribute on elements, which I found to be a much nicer paradigm than maintaining a bunch of CSS selectors in the test code, etc.

It was really useful to have UI test specifications that could be read by everyone in the company. And because it's made in a way that integrates with the React app, instead of sitting outside watching via e.g. PhantomJS, it can be very accurate and robust. For example, our app showed a spinner whenever it was loading an AJAX call, so we came up with the "Wait." command that simply waits until no spinner is visible, and that worked really great.

I don't care so much about Cilia, but Testdown is still a really interesting project for me. It's as much about a specific implementation as a way of thinking of testing in a pragmatic and nice way. I'd like to try implementing it with a parser based on GF (Grammatical Framework), to be able to handle actual grammatical constructs with more sophistication.

Neither of these projects are mature technology, but they worked like champs internally for about a year, and helped kickstart us into continuous integration of the frontend, which had been a thorny problem.
Most yogurt in the US -- all the major brands except Dannon (IIRC) -- are full of pectin, which makes the yogurt thicker. This is not too bad for eating (but I avoid it) but it messes up the cooking characteristics of yogurt as an ingredient in dishes like tave kosi and sauces. Some versions of Greek yogurt don't have pectin (Chobani) but that doesn't help me
At this point I think one has to assume there are more advanced machine-learning-based crawlers out there too. ML is very good at picking up 'anomalies'.
I suppose that in terms of modules interacting, dependencies, information flow, etc. there are analogs in car mechanics.

Troubleshooting is always the same, regardless of the technology:
Look at the symptoms.
Observe the system to see what it's actually doing.
Analyze any residue left behind as the system operates/fails.
Start with the most obvious potential sources of error.
Eliminate things as you go.
What's left at the end is the root cause.

However, keep in mind that computers are vastly more complex than engines. Add networking and it gets even more complicated. One way to think of it is that a computer running a LAMP stack (as an example) has hundreds of 'engines' all interacting with each other. The result is that what's wrong with one 'engine' affects the others in ways that aren't always obvious.
It's also the "UNIX Birthday".
> If you live in a few major urban centers, you can buy high-quality food, often the same products as in Western Europe

Don't take that for granted. Some of the Italian pasta sold in Romania would not be eaten in Italy: http://stirileprotv.ro/standard-pentru-est/marea-diferenta-d...

In Italy, pasta is made from durum wheat, water and - for some northern pasta types - eggs. Nothing else. Not cheaper common wheat like in Romania, not extra vitamins, minerals or even precooking like in US.
> no, the flick is not bad because of that scene

The thing is, most of the criticisms of Prometheus that I have read cite that scene as a reason for its purported badness, which is why I drew comparisons to scenes in movies that are widely regarded as good, and pointed out that those scenes are not criticized.
Licensing and patents are legal matters, and as such, one should consult a lawyer (to be sure, one knowledgeable in the domain) if it may impact one's business.
Yeah, but the key is you need to be able to remember it. Sure, you could store it somewhere, but often times the reason you are needing to use it is because you don't have access to your normal system (computer, phone) that you use to login with.
Yup, I get emails about Cassidy's kids, Conrad's car purchase, Clyde's Lion's Club meetings, etc.
Cyber Security  Man Dupes ETRADE and Schwab and Co. Inc. Of $50,000 by Collecting
This incident, involving a Salami attack-like technique, was published on 17 September 2009. A California man was involved in an
I realize it's somewhat off topic, but I feel like Joyent Manta deserves an honorable mention. It's an S3 style object store, but you can spin up containers on top of objects and do massively parallel computations with Unix tools.

https://apidocs.joyent.com/manta/
Well yes, the whole problem here is that we're discussing a Guardian 'article' as something that should somehow be taken serious. I mean, let's face it, The Guardian is like Breitbart, except from another corner on the ideological n-dimensional plane.
That is not super common in the US.
Would you suggest learning networking a better more relevant alternative? or any other "methodologies", "technologies", or "computer systems"?
Plenty of them is not ALL of them. The fact that any of them do is my point. Not a single person with cancer or aids can just decide to not have their disease.
Ha... I just checked my Other Dougs folder. On Aug 4, I got an email from myidentityassist.com saying that "I" reported a case of identity theft, and that "my" Royal Bank of Canada credit card has been blocked from further use. Then on Aug 5 I got an email confirming an order from a Pizza Hut in Kingston ON, Canada, using the same variation on my email address.

This is one of my repeat-offenders. I see a lot of email out of Kingston with this same variation on my email address, and I've tried many times to reply and get people to tell him he's using the wrong email address, but to no avail. This has been going on for years.
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Or for all the women in my family... their maiden name is their current name, because none of them change their name when they get married.
> ‘Salmon is a disgrace’

> One of the biggest culprits is fish - salmon is a disgrace in the Czech Republic. It is usually cooled to a point before it freezes, then thawed before being passed off as fresh salmon. The cooling data and thawing is written on the side of boxes – but the retailers take advantage of the fact consumers cannot generally read English-language storage instructions. Savvy buyers know to buy goods where labels on products have Czech language labels stuck over the original text. This means the product that is sold in western markets is identical to the Czech market product.

A lot of the salmon industry is dealing with frozen fish. Some may even argue frozen fish is safer.

Salmon at the moment has a pest problem so prices go up and customers in general are feeling they are getting a bad deal.

And then there is the well known fraud passing one fish of as another. This business is fishy, pun intended and that has nothing to do with being in Czech when shopping.

Having people who can be quoted with their opinions does not absolve journalists from providing some perspective. The Guardian should know better.
Nope. If a phrase from literature is “memorable”, it’s guessable.

The logic of passwords is simple, once you realize that all humans are terrible random number generators.

When you allow any part of your password to be chosen by a human, i.e. yourself, you have to assume that the human-chosen part is known to an attacker. The solution is to generate passwords with enough random bits to satisfy current demands. And by “generate” I of course mean to allow a real number generator (either a computer, or dice, or anything really random; i.e. something a casino would accept) to choose the password for you. Without any restrictions except a desire to minimize length, you get the classic unmemorable 0vT2GVlncZ4pZ0Ps-style passwords. If you add the restriction “must be a sequence of english words”, you get xkcd-style “correct horse battery staple” passwords. Both are fine, since they contain enough randomness not generated by a human.

But if you yourself choose, either old-style “Tr0ub4dor&3” or passphrase “now is the time for all good men”-style, you have utterly lost, since nothing has been randomly chosen, and “What one man can invent, another can discover.”.

Note: this also applies if you run a password generator and choose a generated one that you like. Since you have introduced choice, you have tainted the process, and your password now follows an unknown number of intuitive rules (for instance, there was a story here on HN some time ago about how people prefer the letters in their own name over other letters of the alphabet), and these rules can be exploited by an attacker.
That site is really awesome, I've spent a lot of time there as well (for those interested, check out the "Chatbox" tab, where users share stations/frequencies).

Do you think that it would be useful to have an in-browser audio decoding of signals, i.e. support for various digital mode, as fldigi [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fldigi] does?

Tune in to a station, and see the morse output right in the browser..?