skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>In contrast, we have a ton of blockchain hype without a single legal use which solves a problem normal people care about better than existing, well-tested technology.

Maybe this is your blind spot? You assume it has to be legal to be useful.

But in any case, there are legal use cases that work today: sending money with very little friction, including no need to provide a trusted third party or the payee your personally identifiable information.

With Ethereum, we'll soon have social networks and markets that participants can trust will not have fees increased and terms changed once the platform has become dominant. So you can have monopolies without monopolists.
Haha you won me over by bringing in Ted Kaczynski :-)
One thing I was thinking about was how to leverage Open Graph share details for less than reputable sites. If scammy sites lost the ability to have an image/description attached to share, wouldn't that be a powerful way to show maybe a link isn't reputable?

So many fake news sites are using high quality stock images fo OG share, and we are more or less conditioned to believe a headline with a high quality image attached, right?
I have one of the 2016 MBPs and while I bought a USB-A to USB-C dongle, I almost never use it. I have the USB-C to USB-C cable that came with it for power, and also (gasp) bought a couple new cables: one USB-C to Lightning, and one USB-C to Micro-USB.

I get that people are upset that Apple's gone full bore on USB-C "early," but they did that with USB, period. When the first iMac came out in 1998, it was the first computer to have only USB ports--and pretty much nobody was making USB peripherals back then. (And one of the two USB ports on the iMac was guaranteed to be taken up by your keyboard/mouse, so as USB took off, Apple was also early to the "not having enough ports" game. Heyo!)

There are legitimate things to complain about with the current MBP models; I don't like the keyboard, either, although I certainly don't have any problem with battery life. (My understanding is that it varies much more sharply than previous models depending on the system load.) I think only 2 USB-C ports on the low-end 13" model (the one I have) is too few. I think all of the laptops should probably have SD slots (c'mon, Jony, SD cards are thin, okay?). And at least so far, the Touch Bar hasn't justified itself. But when it comes to going all-in on USB-C, I'm not one of the ones who thinks that's a mistake on Apple's part. If anything, I think it's a mistake not to swap the Lightning port on the iPad Pro for a USB-C port.
Were you under the impression that credible journalists are in the business of "fake news"?

I want you to think about what would happen if that were actually the case.
Eugene Kaspersky was trained by the FSB (formerly KGB).

Here's a good article (by a Democratic senator)
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/04/opinion/kapersky-russia-c...

"That threat is posed by antivirus and security software products created by Kaspersky Lab, a Moscow-based company with extensive ties to Russian intelligence. To close this alarming national security vulnerability, I am advancing bipartisan legislation to prohibit the federal government from using Kaspersky Lab software."
According to my tinfoil hat, if we plugin sensible defaults to the drake equation, the aliens should have been broadcasting something around 21,000 light years ago for us to get something in 2035.
This seems to be the very definition of hubris.
The Remarkable Comeback of Przewalski’s Horse
The median performance for non ECC memory is very good. The problem is worst case performance is hard to detect and much much worse than that.

"The median number of errors per
year for those machines that experience at least one error
ranges from 25 to 611." "We find that for all platforms, 20% of the machines with errors make up more than 90% of all observed errors for that platform."

A minority of that 20% again have even more issues.

The worse case is literally 10,000x more than 1 bit error per year on a single machine. Without using ECC you really can't tell other than some vague not sure what's wrong just replace it.
U.S. releases rule to end 'debt trap' of payday loans
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15408416
The article at that link has nothing to do with resetting passwords, it refers to recovering your lost account password. It even says so right in the text that you quoted. The article you're looking for is probably this one: https://support.apple.com/en-us/ht201487
I'm sure DataGrip is better for writing queries in.
I really doubt it's better for managing SQL Agent jobs, doing backup/restore, or for managing users.

Does DataGrip let you do Kerberos authentication?
What irks me the most is that they went through all of that trouble to make sure that you can't use the mouse like a wired mouse. You shouldn't ever have to take steps to hinder your customers using their devices just to protect your brand image.
Wow.. time flys when you are getting old! To protect the mostly innocent, my uid is just over 64K, so definitely one of the early adopters. /. was definitely the premier place for nerdy/tech news prior to the dot.bomb and it definitely had an outsized influence in the tech world.

Many have spoken of having their websites slashdotted though it was not uncommon to get email months and years later about a story submission. Somehow early netizens believed the submitter must be an authority and would be more than happy to answer their questions lol.
Is not NSA a threat? They have tools to break into any computer and steal data therefore they are a threat.
Uber’s iOS App Had Secret Permissions That Allowed It to Copy Your Phone Screen
Agreed. For many, morality is relative, especially in a competitive/capitalist society.
I am not suggesting a democratic end-user process, I am suggesting making the investment of a fact-checking department that any credible news source would be delighted to fund and create. The end-user process is the sharing, the veracity metric must be up-stream, or something that is triggered once a threshold number of users start sharing/approving something. To know the veracity of something that "goes viral" would be valuable, and the veracity metric is not something that end-users would be able to edit directly.
I've implemented a facet search in Postgres for an application where the number of documents is reasonably limited, and for that purpose it worked very well.

Calculating the counts for each facet was by far the most expensive part of the query. I found the GROUPING SETS feature very useful to calculate a lot of aggregate counts efficiently. Though this wasn't parallelized by Postgres, I'll have to check if that is possible in Postgres 10 now.

I wondered if there are better ways to calculate facet counts, but I simply can't think of a way that doesn't require at least one full table scan.
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There have been a few cases like this. Presumably the original was created/maintained by just one person, they move on, and then when the next person comes along they decide it's easier to re-write than modify the old code. But they don't have sufficient time and the new version is inferior to the old.

Bear in mind the old version did need to be updated (new CoreStorage features, has to handle Fusion drives, now APFS).

I get the sense there's a lot of shuffling between teams in Apple, and teams are a lot smaller than you'd expect, and this is the inevitable result. The advantage (I'm guessing) is that they get to move quickly, and it reduces bureaucracy/politics, but ... yeah, this isn't great.

At least diskutil is still there, and is as powerful as ever.
> Hell, imagine if car's manufacturer warranty was voided if you took it to a dynamometer.

Ferrari has the right to force you to give your car back if you do anything unauthorized with it, including any modification, or any unapproved testing. This was why Deadmau5 had to give back his Purrari (he modified the logo and theme to a nyancat theme)
Why? The point is the same. One need not be an expert on something to come to a justified believe that it does more harm than good.

One of the consequences of your argument is that the only opinions that matter in the gun debate are those of gun enthusiasts. Doesn't pass the smell test.
By fake news you mean the stuff that Russia created in the US, and Sputnik and RT and Breitbart and Fox, right? That's the true fake news.

For the reason why people are trying to redefine the term "fake news" into being stuff in real outlets with real journalists like WSJ (this article), read this great piece from Masha Gessen:
http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2017/05/13/the-autocrats-langua...
Or more reasonably, assuming only current physics and assuming they mostly stay in their system, they simply don't incur the inefficiency of broadcast radio any more. For example point-to-point using lasers is reasonable, and we'd never see it here unless we were the target.
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Can confirm I have a hybrid wired/wireless mouse (Logitech G700s) and I generally just leave it plugged in.

Which works fine, so I'm glad Logitech decided not to be assholes about it.
Federal judge: Wells Fargo execs, board must face lawsuit over fake accounts
I like the aviation mind set on mistakes: accidents are thoroughly investigated, the aim being to find out what happened and how, not to pin blame. Then, when facile "explanations" of human error are floated, the investigation goes beyond that and examines how the whole system (training, management, SOPs, organisational structure, etc.) allowed the error to happen and, in particular, to escalate into an accident.

Mistakes happen, inevitably – a good system will catch them early enough.
HN can be a fickle beast - glad you haven't been downvoted.

The hate on the new macbook pro's was especially interesting - they are solid machines and my company had no issues as they started provisioning over the old ones for new employees.
I can think of loads of reasons they haven't made contact, from the altruistic (something like the prime directive) to self-preservation interests.

Even if they're massively more advanced, why invite trouble? We're much more intelligent than fire ants but I for one know I'm not in the habit of sitting on fire ant mounds.

These two can go together. If they contact us and we become belligerent, they may be forced to annihilate us. That would be morally reprehensible to them, so the solution is not to make contact.
>These methods focus on finding extraterrestrials with an equivalent or greater technological advancement to our own.

... AND actually willing to communicate with us, which is not IMHO to be assumed as given.

We need to find a rather "narrow" set of aliens with a technology similar enough to ours, and animated by a similar curiosity about the rest of the universe.
Apparently the supplemental update also fixed the Keychain extraction vulnerability https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208165
Friend told me his wife leaves it charging when she's done using it at night. But I agree it's kind of terrible UX. On the other hand... The Marathon Mouse I bought years ago only needed new batteries 3 years after me having owned / used it daily, and it came with it's own batteries.
> > Slashdot was awesome right up until the point that they forced the redesign on everybody and drove away all the users that made it great.

> The redesign wasn't what killed it. The constant astroturfing and (what I assumed to be) collusion between astroturfers and site maintainers killed it real dead.

Agreed; I remember the day they started advertising the Apple marketing conventions and thought "who put Apple on my Linux site? This isn't 'news for nerds; stuff that matters'". The influx of microsoft apologists and apple shills soon after is what killed it for me, and I had been there for a long time (not since the beginning, but still user 32752; so close to a power of two!).

Still, I'm eternally grateful to Rob Malda. Great community, great moderation system, and a site that was unique. I'll wager we shall not look upon it's like again soon.
I don't understand what you mean about resetting the iCloud password. I change mine every 3-4 months, and it always takes place immediately. Furthermore, all of my devices immediately notice and ask me to login again. Everything - my phone, laptop, desktop, TV, etc. Is it possible there's some other problem with your account? I've been doing this for literally 10 years and never had to wait even a minute to do it.
I took it as cheaper to purchase, more expensive to operate.
It's become a bit of a joke that every year is "the year of the linux desktop," but seriously I've been amazed at how awesome machine I can get with linux for half the price of a macbook. Linux UX has come a long way. Both Gnome and KDE these days have a pretty complete and nice experience.
[Citation Needed] With identical memory ECC and non <2% is the actual memory overhead.

Now, non ECC memory might have better specs / a higher overclock rate etc, but doing either of those increases the rate of errors. And sure you might not notice the problem directly, but that does not mean things are ok.
Also, the word "waiting" does not appear on that page anywhere.

Probably undiscerning cut-and-paste from some FUD article, without actually verifying it themselves. I say this because the text of the article might have changed since that little nugget was stashed away, as one can find the following text in the linked article: "Next, wait for the recovery process to finish, which might take a few days or more." And I say "without verifying it" because, well, that has nothing to do with changing your password. Had it actually been tried, it would become evident that these are two very different operations.
Is it just me, or is this possibly related to the Vault 7 materials on Wikileaks, and thus the WannaCry attacks that brought the NHS to its knees this past year?
Look at your password hint for disk encryption.
No mention of Natalie Portman or Hot Grits in the Post. Colour me disappointed.
Pence: “America Will Return to the Moon–and Go Beyond”
We could perhaps detect distant alien life by finding signatures of oxygen or another oxidizer in a planet's atmosphere. These would be highly unlikely to persist long without something alive to keep the thermodynamic gradient up. O2, F2, etc. are extremely reactive.
Yes, I'm really sorry.

This is the usual case of budget - if I had budget to have anyone improve the website, improve the buildbot, improve the benchmark comparison, trust me I would do it. Right now there are no volunteers and the benchmark side is sort of lingering on.
It's partially George Bush's doing - he put a rule into place saying the government had to hire more contractors. Fits with the GOP plans to weaken the govt to enable tax cuts for the wealthy, but the increasing use of contractors has been bad for security.

Full time federal employees take a different oath and generally feel more loyalty to the agency.
To be fair -- and I'm no blockchain booster -- transactional rollbacks should be modeled as separate operations and replacement transactions on an immutable log (or loggish thing, anyway). You can use bitemporal tracking to model invalid belief states, but your system should never be allowed to drop transactions.
not everybody needs strong serializability.

most people do read (sometimes even in another thread / other connection) -> transaction -> write.
Also the basic transaction isolation in pg would still have these inconsistentsis of phantom/non repeatable reads and serialization anomalies.
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This service seems to be targeted at producing controlled artefacts from your application (e.g. invoices) where you know what CSS is in use. If you wanted to capture the original design of the page you can use headless Chrome to capture screenshots automatically (https://medium.com/@dschnr/using-headless-chrome-as-an-autom...). Perhaps headless Chrome can also save the HTML plus assets, or some other archive format that would be interactive.

Edit: this seems to be a take on saving the HTML plus assets - https://github.com/pirate/bookmark-archiver.
I use a Trezor to store my PGP key. I never have access to the private key, it's generated by a seed which I backup in a cryptosteel protected by a password in my brain (to prevent physical theft). The device only provides an interface to sign and decrypt. This keeps the key safe even if your computer is compromised. See: https://github.com/romanz/trezor-agent
I'm so skeptical now of skeptical Russia posts. A 25 day old account who's first comment [0] was about media and divisiveness.

0 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15336362
Radio is likely to be useful for millions of years. Each form of communication has pros and cons. Radio has some advantages over the alternatives, and so we are likely to use it. How much we cannot know without first knowing what the alternative is though.
> I don't think people can have opinions on public policy worth listening to unless they at least possess a novice knowledge and experience of the matter they would see legislation on.

Right, which is why if you are a layman with no study of or practice of law, you aren't entitled to any opinion on any area of public policy that involves law.
>We are working to fix the issue that allowed this to happen

This is not some issue that you can fix. This is not some color being off, or some chat message appearing out of order. This is about AI in its continued infancy that’s now being actively and maliciously targeted.

It’s also about a huge responsibility of the worlds two greatest media outlets that both think they can have machines do a humans job and miserably failing at it.

Some users unable to log in? That’s an “issue” you “fix”.

Bringing the world closest it has been to the brink of a world war in the last 30 years, that’s the point where you step back and f'ing take responsibility for your actions and start rethinking your approach.

Sorry for the harsh words. I’m probably overreacting.
Science can't tell me how to lose weight, but SETI can find intelligent life or the absence of it? Maybe the scientists at SETI are better, or maybe searching for intelligent life is an easier problem?

Didn't Carl Sagan already find the answer by doing math?
Good point. While there are some disappointing developments in macOS/iOS land (even hardware), I still much prefer that ecosystem to the Windows/Google/Android datenkraken.
Cut-through[0] has always been faster than store-and-forward[1].

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cut-through_switching

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Store_and_forward
HTTPS won't help against attacker that has a jurisdiction over CA and can force them to issue a certificate.
If you don't want to reformat (and you aren't re-using a password you've used elsewhere) you can change the password:

1. Open Disk Utility and select the volume
2. Select File, Change Password
3. IMPORTANT: If on High Sierra GM, leave the hint field blank. If you've installed the update then you can provide a new hint.

Word of warning: the most secure course of action is to follow the instructions in the linked support article.
what's wrong with ending

every chapter

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cliff

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There are times that installing macOS requires a trip through Disk Utility, is why. Disk Utility.app is basically made for the single use case of "modify the system to make macOS installable."

The thing to understand, is that everyone inside Apple uses diskutil(8), not Disk Utility.app. diskutil(8) is the "canonical" way to do almost everything related to Disk management on macOS, the same way diskmgmt.msc is on Windows. Everything else is a secondary "convenience" view to just allow certain workflows (like installing macOS without overwriting things, or unlocking a FileVault volume with a master password to install macOS on it) to be accomplished more easily—like the Properties view of a disk drive in Windows.

If there are other "convenience views" of disk management that you think would be helpful, why not make them into an app and sell it? One my favourite macOS programs, DaisyDisk, is basically just such a convenience view. People are willing to buy these—especially as a gift for their "prosumer" friends. Apple can't predict every use-case that a prosumer might want an accelerator for, but the free market probably can.
I wouldn't mind it so much if the low battery alert was actually useful.

But it only pops out when there's like 1% battery left in the mouse - basically making sure you will lose power soon. The sheer lack of thinking here boggles the mind. Guys, it's an alert, it's not useful at all if I get it right before the bad thing happens.

How would you like it if I switched on my turn signal 1 second before I actually turn my vehicle in front of you?
Matplotlib Lead Developer Explains Why He Can’t Fix the Docs – But You Can
Massively further ahead or massively further behind.

Additionally, I would assume that any "first contact" with an alien entity won't be a face-to-face, lifeform-to-lifeform meet; We're more likely to meet the robotic creations of an advanced alien civilization well before actual living beings.. unless said alien had an extraordinarily long lifespan compared to us.
> What are you on about? Audio jack is there.

They removed the audio jack from their phones and their "pro" laptops barely have any ports left. Some people use those, you know.

> I think this is a lot better than having a hole on the side of your mouse at all times.

The OP clearly doesn't.

> Please list it. I'm dying to know more!

Just a few of the top of my head:

mDNSResponder, GPU drivers, WiFi issues, Safari used to crash a lot, goto fail, there was the fun one were the GPU driver was loaded too late so that ... something something color profiles ... your screen had a blue tint the whole fucking time. Lots of good stuff, really.

> Silly opinion.

I'd love to elaborate on this one but I'm afraid my MBP will overheat when continue typing.
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You would not accidentally type, with your own hands, some string that would attack the parser. People do not actually name their children Robert"); drop table.

An SPKI parser + a manual keyboard operated by a trusted user is an incredibly small attack surface.
Off the top of my head: Knox secure folder, better split screen options (app pairs), app suspension, power saving modes, file manager, better camera app, many more configuration options.
It's interesting to me how much of the Apple apologia has become, `it's not as bad as ${getCompanyfromContext()}` or `${getRandomCompetitor()} does it too, so that makes it ok`