skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, you often only need the 6-char conf code and last name to change or cancel a random reservation.

The system is not set for security only for convenience and assumes a world of 80-90s of regulated travel with never full planes and no change penalties. At the time (US) airlines were even honoring competitor tickets at gate (assuming they has space, which they almost always did) -- show up with AA ticked at a United gate and get it swapped for a United flight by agent on the spot. Gratis.

The system had lots of problems, but malicious changes were not one of them.
This sounds like the same conclusion as parent, not the opposite.
The man who saved 'The Resurrection' (2011)
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Come on, be fair, half the web properties are a GUI to something you could have for free on the CLI, making a usable GUI is not a trivial task.
Uber 'competition' in China was a marketing thing, surely? The country CEOs were cousins. It seemed to me that Uber entered China to fail, and China-savvy, but 'fail' doesn't mean lose, as they grabbed a big chunk of Didi (China's Uber equivalent).
Yes, they were meant for efficient consumption. The 'Q" is for quick.
Qt multithreading http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/threads-technologies.html

Aria for downloads https://aria2.github.io/

Pigz and pbzip2 for compression https://zlib.net/pigz/ http://compression.ca/pbzip2/
That would work for me.
this is pretty cool and huge! thanks for this.
>"Uber passengers were paying only 41% of the actual cost of their trips; Uber was using these massive subsidies to undercut the fares and provide more capacity than the competitors who had to cover 100% of their costs out of passenger fares."

Wouldn't that constitute very clear violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act and be considered profound anticompetitive behavior? I'm fuzzy on specifics, but I thought offering your product at a loss to drive away or outlast competitors was one of the big giant no-nos alongside price-fixing. Is the person doing the analysis just interpreting the numbers in that way because they're not showing a profit? Or, in other words, would the FTC be likely to interpret the situation in the same way?
I did some work in the UK and was staying in London, not far from the bit they call the City if London (I think they said it was just like a square mile, or similar.)

Anyhow, one of the people I was there to work with brought me over to Bletchley Park and to the museum. It was easy to spend the full day there between the two.

So, even if you don't live there, I recommend visiting even if you're more than an hour away. I seem to recall the drive taking about an hour and a half, though my memory may be fuzzy. I was there in 2007 and I think they'd just recently opened.

If I'm back in the area, I'll be sure to visit again.
> Mr. Abagnale now puts his skills to use teaching FBI agents around the country about cybercrime, identity theft and fraud. “Frank has a unique ability” to communicate, says the special agent in charge of the FBI’s Charlotte, N.C., field office, John Strong, who has worked with Mr. Abagnale on multiple occasions. “The guy is a genius.”

His masterpiece scam?
Classifications of Refrigerants
"Author profile pages got a cleaner look, especially on mobile devices. Rest assured, we did not change your citation counts - at least not intentionally."
Solving the Facebook feed problem
Wait till Uber (and others) launches a rewards points system. All they have to do is to give regular riders some multiple of their number of completed rides. People will willingly lock themselves inside the Uber World network to earn points. Leading the charge will be people like The Points Guy.

Then comes co-branded credit cards.

The endgame is to replicate the airline industry - 4-5 companies controlling everything.
If it's any consolation, that link made me laugh hard.
True, and it's a shame because a movie like Train to Busan is more engaging than World War Z or Marvel Civil War, but the latter will rack up more ticket sales. Most people don't care about substance or quality in the end.
VCU physicists discover a tri-anion particle with colossal stability
I used to live not far away from Casal Ventoso, in the 80's. Anyone crossing that neighborhood in those days would easily see hordes of alienated people, in soiled clothes, gazing idly, sitting in the sidewalk and sometimes even injecting right there. Whenever you saw them running in one direction, you'd know some drug dealer had arrived. There is a cemetery nearby, and so it looked like death ruled the place.

Today it is still a poor neighborhood, but you don't see that kind of thing anymore. Taking the bus there is no longer a gamble. You still see a couple of people looking somewhat emaciated, but nothing like the walking cadavers of 30 years ago.

There were some slums outside Lisbon, like Pedreira dos Húngaros, where the police (other than SWAT teams) simply wouldn't go. It was just too dangerous. One would occasionally hear the blasts of fireworks, telling people drugs had arrived, or gunshots, warning drug dealers an intervention squad was near. This slum no longer exists, and many others are simply gone.

It's nice to see this article in HN, for many reasons.

António Guterres is an engineer, and when he graduated he was the best student of his year. From what I know, he considered a PhD in Physics before taking his chances in politics. Back in those days, his university (Instituto Superior Técnico) didn't have a Physics course, so many of its first faculty members came from IST's Electrical Engineering course or Physics courses from other universities. He lectured Theory of Systems and Telecommunication Signals.

Guterres is an intelligent man, and he would've probably become a great physicist, an excellent teacher, or a renowned engineer. Instead he chose politics, and now he's Secretary-general of the UN. His drug policy from his Prime-minister days saved thousands of lives and definitely changed Portugal for the better. I think that was a really nice hack.
>"It's amazing that with the algorithmic power Facebook brings to bear on every photo you upload, finding faces etc., that they can't spare a few cycles for security."

Do you really believe the problem here is FB? Do you really believe FB should be the arbiter of what incidental information their users's pictures can and can not convey?

And even if they did parse pictures for sensitive data do you believe that FB, given what we know about them would simply redact that information from photos and then discard that sensitive data? I think we can safely assume that FB doesn't discard data on individuals.
Bitcoin can easily be stopped by governments, at least in countries that are not failed states. All they have to do is declare it illegal, and enforce the law.

It would be trivial for them to shut down exchanges. Without that, it would hard, and expensive, to convert to fiat.

Legit businesses would not accept Bitcoin. The only uses would be black market, and I doubt they would continue using bitcoin on the darknet markets. Without the ability to easily convert to the currency of the country you live in, Bitcoin would have little to no value.
Who wants to bet this petition has been started by Uber itself? How many of these votes are bought?
Would love to add Blocknet to this. They are the only project that currently has the capability of enabling cross-chain atomic swaps and creates interoperability by allowing data to be passed with these swaps as well.
Cassette tapes are having a minor resurgence. Well, I hope it is minor. I can think of no good reason to use them today. Then again, I can think of no good reason to use vinyl today either.

There are probably better articles, but this was the first one in my search for a link:

https://www.theverge.com/2017/1/23/14360162/cassette-tape-sa...

So, yeah... Cassettes seemingly haven't quite disappeared.
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I use git mostly for solo projects, are there advantages to hosting on gitlab versus GitHub versus bitbucket ?
That's besides the point.

My point is OP acts as if W3C ever had any authority and the DRM affair took it away. In reality, they never had much authority.

Browser vendors will pretty much do as they please, as they always have.
I'd not considered it, but you're right. Centralization of any business which absolutely requires physical proximity of the person providing the product and the person receiving it has a pretty poor track record. Sure, there are things like McDonald's, but they will never displace independent restaurants and smaller regional chains and the like.

The Internet and software makes solving the problem of distribution trivial which provides an existential threat to any traditional business which does not absolutely require physical proximity of producer and consumer, but Uber isn't acting in that space. They do not seem to be preparing themselves for a future where they are only one among many (even if the biggest)... would they be likely to be able (or willing) to survive with a smaller piece of the pie?

I've always thought Ubers big problem was that they built it so much like a traditional company when their only actual value was running some servers and knocking down regulatory hurdles which doomed them to be replaced by a much lighter-weight organization taking only a standard 10% 'finders fee' for hooking up a provider and consumer (a standard older than our money)... but now I'm not sure if they'll make it to the point where they get to see that even.
UBI is unconditional: you don't lose it if you work. That is not the case with welfare, typically.
Status of APFS support in SuperDuper
Please please please fix "sort by date" filter. Searching for "natural language processing" returns 3,330,000 results with the default "sort by relevance" and 4,730 with "sort by date."
>"The problem is not barcodes and it is not Facebook. The problem is airlines with security systems that went out of style in the 90’s."

No the problem as outlined in the post is people not thinking through what they are sharing on social media.
> What's outrageous is that you'd rather see those people die. That's the alternative.

You're not supposed to save lives at any cost. Not if that means you'd associate with or reward crime. That's why you don't submit to blackmail, for instance. In the same way when someone is selling drugs illegally, you're supposed to put him in jail, not help him with his business.
Bitcoin is fiat money with (almost) constant supply.

This is the real problem, not it being fiat money. This is what makes it a terrible currency for trade and a great one for speculation!
Or any job in general. Also, make 4.x comes with the handy -O flag which makes the output seem "serial" instead of intermixed between processes.
> He deploys macOS? What? What does this have to do with anything?

And what does that even mean? That he buys Apple stuff? Indeed the weirdest endorsement I've heard in a while.
>I've had so many awful movie going experiences over the last twenty years of adulthood that I've more or less stopped going. I have a very hard time blaming a rating system. I'd look instead to very shallow, implausible scripting (punchy one-liners, hollow melodrama), lackluster cinematography (zoomed in facials, schizophrenic shot switching), repetitive and/or assinine plots (corporations are eeevil), weird editing and incoherent writing (random, poorly interjected side stories or comedy, bizarre scene shifts, prolonged melodrama), boring, implausible, drawn out action (ugh), predictable demographically targeted identity fantasies, and I don't know, the list goes on.

Those are present in modern movies, and I agree to your characterization of the Marvel franchise etc, but you seem to be randomly going to various movies and suffering from that?

I find it's more consistent to have a few favorite directors, with which work you have a longer term relationship, and understand better. E.g. I'd go to any David Fincher movie, and 95% of the time I wont be disappointed even if they vary widely in subject and scope (B.Button was kind of a flop).

And of course lots more obscure directors (someone like Hal Hartley or ‎Kar-Wai Wong for me) with consistent quality.
DDR5 twice as fast as DDR4
I do too, and I've always wanted Winamp on Android. Just a full screen remake of the basic Winamp window. Wonder if this could be ported now with one of the JS->APK tools.
What is awesome is that there are these complaints to begin with. While I was still in academia, I'd have loved to have access to this sort of thing.

We could search back then. It was a paid service, involved a human who actually did the searches as a service, and took several days to get you your results. You did contact them online, so there's that!

But, today, a gripe is needing to hover over an icon to read the tooltip. That is truly awesome, in every sense of the word.

As an aside, when people say that the Internet was better back before commercialization, they are telling horrible lies. No, no it was not. It was pretty horrible and computers pretty much sucked. The hardware, network, and content are much better today.
The click wheel came at v2 or v3. The original had a scroll wheel which actually spun, with buttons around the perimeter.
Wouldn't that just be the same as any loss leader, which are not illegal in general...
This image contains the following info: (long line of gibberish, the boarding pass ID)

User: srsly fb? OK
Let's not conflate issues and leave JavaScript and WASM out of this discussion. They are useful, general technologies.
Only on the labels of Hollywood cookie cutters.
There is plenty of Bitcoin debit cards, which will sell Bitcoin proportionally to the amount of USD/EUR/whatever you purchased for. One of them being TenX.com.

This allows you to spend at any store which accepts cards in general.

That said, there are stores which accepts plain Bitcoin. As one anecdata, the electronics chain webhallen.com in Sweden accepts pure Bitcoin-transactions.
No not at all! I'm just making a point that for a company that oversees an enormous proportion of all the user-uploaded images in the world could make a big impact with a relatively small extension to the processing they already do on uploaded photos. I'm not saying any blame is directed at Facebook. While a certain blame does lie with the airline industry, airline ticketing systems were designed and built way before the web and ubiquitous cameras. To change such a system is non-trivial, given that it operates in every(?) country in the World all the time, and is safety and security-critical.

Since there's no obvious single entity to blame (and even if there is, so what?), we should be working together to prevent and reduce attacks like this. Apart from anything, Facebook popping up a warning about a barcode would go a long way to making people realise that they contain easily readable, and potentially private information.

Also, given how well image classifiers work these days, how hard is it to do the same for photos of (physical) keys, bank cards, and other commonly posted things?
Production can't easily saved in grain silos, so money must be used to buy it, or it should be lent to someone that will use that production productively. If no one needs to buy hard drives ATM, then the hard drive company goes under and there is no better next generation.

Money is a means of allocating production. If it is just stored under a mattress, it isn't being useful and production is being wasted. We capture the negative effects of that waste with inflation.

Deflationn is basically a death spiral for an economy, as everyone consumes only essentials because everything will be cheaper tomorrow; lots of production is wasted because it can't be saved easily for tomorrow, people are laid off, companies go out of business, it sucks. Wars have even been started over silver and gold's deflationary tendencies (e.g. See the opium wars).

Don't confuse inflation with hyperinflation, the latter of which just destroys trust in the currency and makes it useless to save at all, causing runs on all production and starving investment. A bit of inflation is all that is needed to put money's use into a positive state without flipping in the other direction.
This is ridiculous. If any of these crypto currencies became a significant way to hide wealth from the government, all the government has to do is make the crypto currency illegal to use or hold. If the US did this, it could easily pop the speculative bubble in crypto coins, and your wealth would vanish.
> Do you really believe FB should be the arbiter of what incidental information their users's pictures can and can not convey?

Aren't they already do it for other stuff they don't want to see online ?

Surely a nipple isn't a barcode and legal implication aren't the same. And people sharing personal stuff ARE responsible for sharing those stuff.

So I guess it shows us again that FB is not our friend :)
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I'm 26 and I have literally never seen a check in my entire life, I don't even know how one would go about issuing one? It seems like such a US-exclusive thing, together with card payments that require signatures.
I think this a very positive move by Facebook. Dropping the patents part of the licence encourages a more open playing field. Now React can continue to grow unencumbered by the legal minefield found in the world of software patents (the patents will unfortunately still exist, but the chances of them being brought into a court case are greatly reduced).
I hope they didn't change the UI too often, even if they change the UI I hope only small part.

After last change, can't remember which version since it already few month ago, I leave for gitea.

Too many times my co-worker asking for location of x in menu. Where is X, where is Y
What makes me most angry about all this is that the conflict is framed as being between "consumers" or "users" the anonymous masses expected to just passively download and experience "the content" and the "producers" the real contributors who fill their browsers with this oh so valuable "content".

But that is not what the web should be about at all! Yes in any social gatherings there will be a large corpus of passive participants but we should never just bifurcate the community into consumers and producers because of that. Between the active and passive participants there's a large space of interesting levels of participation, the commentators, remixers, transducers, the ones keeping quiet until they don't and and so forth.

The web should be about this large interactive space where people can exchange and collaborate in any chosen capacity. Not a distribution infrastructure of "content".

So please forget any arguments about what "consumers want to consume" it just promotes this unproductive bifurcation.
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Testdown.org

Cilia.io
I have known situations where the compressed output of pbzip2 was not readable by some .NET library a customer was using (I'm afraid I can't remember which one). Fortunately an alternative multithreaded bzip2 implementation, http://lbzip2.org/, did not suffer from this problem so just in case...
Yes it does, Them using patents that you don't grant them and you being unable to sue them for it is definitely putting the power in their hands.
What other methods are there for enforcing copyright protection?
The current problem I have with AR implementations is they require the user to assist in a relatively slow scanning process of the immediate environment before recognizing geometry. This has to be done every time you use AR. The geometry recognition isn't all that great, can't handle occlusion, eats battery, etc.

Lots of potential, but even with ARKit as the current industry leader, it's still pretty rough. We need LIDAR for phones or something.
Culture is top down, so as a founder you know you are onto something when you staff do a write up such as this.

Plus, that back deck looks like a fantastic place to work.
Why can't the fed just hold onto said toxic assets indefinitely?
Those linear, self-contained flows are what can be packaged, marketed and sold. Then the next flow can be scripted and the cycle repeats.

Seems like it's a pretty natural consequence of how a consumer based culture thinks and defines success.
The first time (years ago...) I had to enter my birth date on a website that asked it to me for no valid reason, there was a default value. It's now my birthdate on every others !
Title IX
If the W3C doesn't support DRM wouldn't that quickly lead to more non-W3C DRM? I don't get the big deal. Netflix would ship their own browser if they had to (and that'd be a bad thing).
If by “sensible” you mean take a device with a larger screen and reduce it to have the same usable screen real estate as the “lesser” 8 Plus, with bonus Screen Goiters on each side, then I would have to agree with you.
It's like someone said "lets make all those comics teenage nerds used to love into movies for adults -- while not only keeping everything as simplistic but making it even more simplistic and shallow".

I was reading all the Marvel stuff when I was a kid/young teenager (5-6 comic magazines every week) but I never understood the point behind modern superhero movies. Those comics were shallow and childlish as well, but, depending on the writer, sometimes touched things beyond that, and at the very least, they explorer some subjects that mattered to their audience: young teenagers.

Today's superheroes movies are watched by 20 to 40 year olds as well, and they don't put any effort to matter at all.

Even Nolan's Batman is at a young teenage level understanding of the world, it just has better cinematography and more than the average comic-movie gore (because it's allowed to show that to kids nowadays) but no real life grit (because that's considered too confusing and adult) and no sexuality either (ditto). The plots and the "moral dilemmas" in the movies are laughable ( https://xkcd.com/1004/ ).

Maybe Logan points to a future where such movies can be actually good, but it's not exactly there yet either.
What persecution of Jews has occurred in Western countries in the last 50 years? "Anti-Semitism", which has basically come to mean "any criticism or expression of dislike of any Jews or anything related to Israel"?
>"When you want to brag about your final destination, be careful of what you post on Facebook and Instagram. Leave your boarding passes (and other barcodes) for yourself (and get a shredder)."

It's funny that for a piece intended to warn other's on identity security the author had no problem reproducing the the unredacted boarding pass picture in question, which incidentally also tells us that he is a member of the One World Club with Saphire status. They also go onto let us know their nationality and profession.

The author also has no problem publishing his friend's full name and linking to their personal website which features 5 large high resolution pictures available of his friend's face as well as well as detailing exactly which Apple certifications they posses.
You're asking GitLab people for a subscription to a code hosting service on the condition it's not GitLab. Did I miss something?
You didn't finish the article. He spent age 21 to 26 in prison. That's long, and it's the years when people usually develop their life direction and opportunities.
As it stands, EME has no direct impact on privacy, but since its very nature is a binary blob explicitly outside the control of the browser or the user, one can imagine DRM being used for purposes other than it was originally conceived for. And such kind of tracking would be impossible to simply "block", without disabling the whole page/site/app, a trade-off that most people will make in a predictable manner.

DRM is just a natural consequence of commercialisation of the web and the pushes and pulls that big money brings into the picture. We won't be going back on this. The best we can hope for is govt regulation and more awareness leading to better choices from the end user, who has the power to shape the web but sadly remains distracted, diverted and ignorant, by and large.