skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's important to keep these two questions separate:

1. Is it probably better than the current solution

2. What could go wrong

The first being (probably) true does not negate the need to ask the second.

The new option may have a completely different risk profile
Hi!

Well, note that I say that golden-layout does not play nice with Redux, not the other way around. It's not Redux being problematic here, as far as I can tell.

There's an open issue on their github repo asking for examples of how to integrate it:

https://github.com/deepstreamIO/golden-layout/issues/280

Maybe things have improved since I've last looked at it, but when I tried a few months ago, it seemed like it would require quite a bit of change in my code to get it up and running

By comparison, this new React 16 solution looks like it's a lot simpler to integrate in my existing code.
Anecdotal, but I can't imagine living a normal life while regularly using though--even if regular is just a couple days a week.

It's legal where I live and the handful of times I have used during the week, I can't remember what I did the day before as well, or what my tasks for the day are. My performance at work noticeably degrades. I'm also more tired the day after, despite generally getting more sleep.

It's great for the weekend when I can just sleep it off or my only tasks are to go for a hike and get groceries though. Better than alcohol at least.
Making a mistake is getting the house next to yours. You know, making good-faith attempts that are a mistake. This wasn't a mistake. At all.

"Making mistakes" and malicious compliance of literally driving by and not stopping are 2 very different things. Shows up on their GPS they were "there".

I was at the house, sitting on my screened-in porch when DHL 'updated' to "Sorry you didnt sign". First, I said no sig needed. Then they didn't even bother to stop. I WATCHED THEM DRIVE BY. They didn't do their fucking job.
I understand that you are fine with them looking at your data, but how exactly is it obvious that the primary purpose of a company you are paying to backup your data is to mine that data?
not unless they have a bachelor's or master's STEM degree + years of experience or Phd in a STEM field, I'd imagine.
The decisions behind Monsanto's weed-killer crisis
honestly just caused me to realize I'm not even positive what version my last react app was in.. I thought I was 'current' but I know it was a single digit number so I guess I wasn't.
It might have once been expensive ("Imitrex" (R)(TM)) but there is a generic now. I understand there are also non-pill delivery systems, like nasal or patches, and other permutations that may still be under patent. The pills seem to work for me.
> We understand stuff pretty deeply now.

Case in point... this is the mindset that worries us.
The game changer for Python VSCode would be to run Jupyter Notebooks natively and can save/read .ipynb files. (The current Jupyter extension by Don allows code to be run as cells, but doesn’t save cell output/allow text cells)
With GPU, I think it is possible
While I largely agree with your observation, the problem with ChromeOS is that not everybody wants to ship their behavioral data in real-time to Google. So, there is is still a place for a basic Linux-based family desktop that just runs a privacy-friendly browser.
Given that some big exploits can fly under the radar for decades (e.g: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/02/23/linux_kernel_gets_p...), I think it's always interesting.

But the point is moot anyway: either their tools are still relevant today, in that case it's good to see what they can use against the people, or they are not, in which case it won't hurt them if we see them and it's not "anti american".
Calm down, take a deep breath. There's no reason to get so bent out of shape over someone merely asking for a little evidence. The parent poster has already gotten plenty of replies like yours.
> The difference is choice. Companies can offer whatever they want and it's up to me to decide whether I consume their products and services or not.

Please, tell me how I can escape Google? God knows I've tried - I have a Fastmail email account, I use DDG, and I stick to Apple hardware. That doesn't change the fact >90% of advertising I see on the open web is still "suggested" for me by Google's algorithms, that my employer uses Google Apps and Google Drive for just about everything, that many links I encounter on social networks are AMP, and that most of time I need to verify I'm not a bot I'm filling in a recaptcha.

Saying I have a choice not to use Google is only true in the academic sense. It's theoretically possible, but not without extreme effort and probably not without finding a career outside of the tech industry.
Don’t go with your gut instinct
We don't have millions of people dying every year in the US from mosquitoes and this is only about US policy. Millions die every year globally, but this decision will only impact a minuscule portion of those deaths.
Seamless Google Street View Panoramas
No, people don't usually say that, because it is obvious to most people what the product is in that situation, and trying to redefine terms so that it's something else seems like newspeak.

The game is a product — the company produces it. The players are players — they play the game. The whales are a sub-category of players, so if the players are indeed the product, you'd have to say they're buying themselves. In fact, the game is a product that both paying and non-paying customers consume, in some cases with barely differing experiences.
I'm having a hard time telling if you're talking about the various spy agencies, Wikileaks, or both.
Of course someone got triggered by the presence if the word "systemd". I am surprised that it didn't take longer. But that was not my point at all.

The fact is that all attempts to fix the Linux user space have essentially failed to deliver. The additional complexity added over these years did effectively nothing to move the Linux desktop into the 21st century, let alone this decade.

I was extremely hopeful around 2003 to 2005 that Linux might carve out a corner in the desktop market. Now I find myself pondering switching to Windows full time after dual booting for two decades.
no, they do not use the same infrastructure - it was migrated to Afilias. I own a .io registrar and I went through the migration process in June
They seem like very different markets to me. Beers are usually brewed, start to finish, in about a week. They also don't have a very long shelf life--they get skunky if they're not stored well or wait too long. I also think beer is mostly a lower-end product which deals in single-servings versus whiskey being an exclusively luxury good.

I think the beer nerds also just hate to see breweries they like bought up by big companies that, in general, ruin the product.
That Snopes article is just wrong. Coca Cola still contains coca leaf extract. Coca leaf extract is not cocaine.
Ask HN: Accelerate learning of white-hat hacking
Are there any bootcamps that quickly teach you the basics you need to know to say develop exploits, and hack systems?

Thanks in advance
‘Simply’ may mean entering, possibly cracking, the BIOS password (hm, are there BIOSes that use two-factor authentication?). It also means you can’t simply plug in a USB device.
YES! I'd love to see the native Jupyter and REPL experience improve as well.
Thanks for the explanation! I vaguely remember reading about concepts and didn't quite get how they would be used in practice, but this seems like a good example.
> Or you could do the same with a data centre or supercomputer that runs useful services, like hosting websites or doing research (in fact there are already projects to use heat from servers for district heating).

That depends on your definition of "useful". It looks like you don't think bitcoin adds value, but I'm pretty sure many people think the opposite and as such bitcoin is useul.
Logitech will brick all Harmony Link devices in March
Major version numbers are now actually reflecting major changes. If you're reading an article for React 16 and have strange issues because you're on React 12, it's going to be a lot more obvious than if we're just bumping up minor versions. You can also be more sure that a if you're on 16.0.4, and the article is for 16.0.1 - that you're less likely to run into issues.

It's the same reason chrome is on 62 and Firefox is launching 57 at the end of the month.

Semantic versioning gets bigger numbers faster, but it's better for developers.
Perhaps the next project can be rendering Medium.com as text, so I can read it on mobile. As it is, when I zoom in, random parts of the page expand on top of the text for what can only be lazy/incompetent web developer reasons since even the large font and loads of whitespace fetishists would have a hard time justifying that.
The last episode, where the honeybee population collapsed, left me on the edge of my seat. I can't wait to see what happens next.

edit: Seriously, wouldn't it be best to solve existing problems with direct threat to food production than to go off tinkering with new ideas and unknown side-effects?
> but even in your example, you already made 2 rest requests as opposed to 1 via graphql.

You can easily mitigate that with something like:

GET /user/1
Accept: application/vnd.my.user-full+json

Where the server will return full data if the client sends `application/vnd.my.users-full` Accept header

> What if your scenario is to GET all friends whose names start with D of friends of a friend ?

I really wonder what your scenario would be on the server for this request in GraphQL

For REST you would look at actual use cases and design for that.

Most likely something like

GET /user/1?filter=friends&by=D
Accept: application/vnd.my.user-full+json

GET /user/1/fof
Accept: application/vnd.my.user-full+json
Serious question: is it still possible to get a hold of asbestos clothing and/or accessories (bags, napkin, etc.)? Also, how dangerous are these materials relative to the finer and more processed industrial counterparts?
Thanks, now I know what to search for next time :)
If it's backward compatible, its not so bad, but whole number releases usually imply that there will be some breaking changes (or they do to me at least).
Except this is an actual known "evil capitalist" scenario, where pharma execs literally bribed doctors to over-prescribe opioids. RICO conspiracy charges are generally reserved for the likes of the mafia, and even then are rare due to the overwhelming burden of proof required. I'm honestly not sure who I consider worse in this case: the pharma execs handing out bribes, or the doctors who accepted them.

Reference: https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/pharmaceutical-executives...
Abbyy has had that ability for a longer period of time so it may be more accurate, but this is something tesseract supports[1]. In fact I'd say most OCR systems support it with varying degrees of accuracy.

[1]:https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/wiki/FAQ#how-do-i...
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My issue was that I needed one that exposes an API for doing OCR on pictures taken from mobile devices. It was really difficult to find non-desktop packages.
The .io registry transitioned management of the registry operations to Afilias in June of this year. They did not keep the existing infrastructure - it was migrated to Afilias systems.
Why not just spin up fresh nodes and age out the old ones?

See: pets vs cattle
Can we make it harder to re-headquarter?
If It Weren’t for Charlotte: Alice Spawls on the Brontës
I like this. I'm going to see if I can get it to work on Linux.
Kaspersky has a response to the attacks on attribution that's quite relevant to this story which you can read here:

https://cdn.securelist.com/files/2017/10/Guerrero-Saade-Raiu...

It was on HN before, but it vanished quickly -

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15483529
Not at all.

A self-signed certificate using the CN of a website which the target device may already connect to (assuming it has KAV) is useful for stealth as it allows your implant to blend into traffic more easily.

However, attributing an attack based on the CN of an invalid TLS certificate would be very silly, as literally anyone can generate one (Instructions for generating the self-signed certs are actually right there in the source bundle).
Ok. I just think it’s important to remember that different people handle pain differently, and we shouldn’t end up refusing people something that helps them because an average in a study said it wouldn’t help. That does need to be weighed against the danger of addiction/dependence, though.
Legislation that U.S. computing professionals should watch in 2018
My point is not about whether or not it's possible because just about anything can be done eventually. It's simply a case of what is more likely:

1) Bleeding edge algorithms that can not only separate multiple speakers in parallel on a small device, but also transcode them and track their identities over periods of time and report back.

2) Alexa does exactly what it says on the bin because Amazon already extrapolated everything they need to know about you (including whether you have a teenage daughter who is pregnant[1]) from your last 3 text searches.

Also see this relevant comic:
https://xkcd.com/538/

Now I may sound defeatist but this is not my intention. Like I said you should stay vigilant, but this article is barking up the wrong tree and may in fact distract from the real dangers in mass surveillance and tracking. Those dangers are far more primitive, yet effective, than you might think.

--

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-targ...
I'm slightly mistaken! There was a temporary 3-week event last November with a 4-player PvE story as Overwatch agents going on an actual mission. But other than that, gameplay has been all non-canon.

https://overwatch.gamepedia.com/Overwatch_Uprising

Should be another one this year, we'll see what they do with it.

Anyway, expanding on what I said in the previous comment, it's a neat narrative structure. Rather than "here's a game, go play the story" they've given us a game and then having released it are now telling more of the story out in bits and pieces. New map, new comic, new animated short, new character, new voice lines, anything like that related to the game is a chance to flesh out the world, its history, and where the conflict between Overwatch and Talon is headed.

I think my favorite part of it is the environmental storytelling. Every level has some significance to one or more of the characters (video from the previous comment takes place at Eichenvalde), and there are bits and pieces of lore scattered throughout. The name that we see being carved into the bar at the beginning of the video exists in-game at the start of the level (and has been there since launch). In the present-day, with the non-flashback portion of the short having now taken place, the Overwatch emblem that Reinhardt sets on the armrest now exists in-game at the same location.

On another level (Ecopoint Antarctica), you can see the cryo-chamber where all of Mei's colleagues went to sleep in the pods to wait out a storm, and then never woke up. There's an animated short telling that story as well.

What's remarkable about the game is how well it functions as "just an action game" with bright colors, fun characters, really great gameplay, and gorgeous level design. But if you want to look into it deeper, there's a pretty big world with some heavy stuff going on.

I'm going a bit fanboy here, but if you're into shooters definitely check this one out.
"Cure" is a strong word with little medical science backing up the claim, but "treat" is completely different notion and cannabis is a wonderful drug with very few side effects for treating a variety of conditions, both physical and mental.
When I did my big project I was using the cheap standard edition of Finereader on (virtualized) Windows, and I built an automated pipeline for it with a combination of AutoHotkey, pdftk, Multivalent pdf tools, and Python.

I too tried the Acrobat OCR first and found it to be vastly inferior. One surprise was that (at the time at least) the OCR-by-Acrobat files were not only much less accurate in the text layer, but the file size also bloated up surprisingly.
China electric car startup Nio raises over $1B from Tencent, others
You would assume wrong about WA, much to my chagrin. I think CO allows it, though.
That's a nice goal on paper but in the real world a "generic" architecture is never going to approach the performance of a specialized one with bare-metal optimizations.

If your program is computationally intensive enough that you're abandoning general-purpose processors and moving to a specialized co-processor card, you should really just go whole-hog on it and bare-metal optimize to get some performance out of it. It doesn't make sense to do this half-way - which is why Xeon Phi has always faced such an uphill battle for adoption.
It was believable to me because they had shown adults talking about people that had bragged to have jumped from there. I remember as a kid thinking that everything others bragged about was true and I was just lame. I totally see him thinking it would be no more dangerous than jumping from a bridge, just a bit scarier.
M-wallet payments doubled in a year post demonetization ($1Bn/month in 2017)
I'm not so sure about that. WL released the documentation back in April, which contained more than enough information to create a few behavioral detection signatures for the implants. I would assume that any AV company who cared has already created and deployed signatures.
The problem is that after a decade of FOSS zealotry (1994-2007) I couldn't really go back to Windows. Windows is now fundamentally incompatible with how my brain works. I have used macOS desktops from 2007 onwards, though I am annoyed by general bugginess (Preview.app seems to have degenerated even further from the already stripped version in Sierra) and Apple's Mac price inflation.

At home I have started using the Dell Linux Workstation that I had lying around (mostly as a headless server) more and more the last few months. I run Wayland and replaced the nVidia card by and AMD FirePro and it has mostly been smooth sailing.

(For some reason, despite being a rolling distro, Arch seems to be more stable than most distributions I have used in the past.)

Of course, I wouldn't dare to switch to Linux on laptops (yet).
Author here. I played Wizardry games in the 1990s. How is the combat system in Wizardry similar to what I'm arriving at with the "fractal stories" concept?

I actually brought up a Wizardry 7 gameplay video just to make sure I'm not remembering it wrong, and here's the text:

JOE CASTS ENERGY BLAST
RAVEN
HIT!
RAVEN DIES!

Not what I'm going for at all. This looks more like the "Try #5" (D&D-style actions).

If what you mean is that Wizardry had great writing (not in combat, but elsewhere), I'm not disputing that. But Wizardry was a videogame. I'm trying to build a text game.
Spend money to get your system into schools, because a huge proportion of workers will adamantly HATE anybody who tries to make them learn something new after their first few years working.

Apple figured it out. Microsoft figured it out. Google is figuring it out. GNU hasn't quite gotten there.
> Since OCR is basically "hello world" for tensorflow, I don't understand why these incumbents haven't been wiped off the map.

Do you have an example of anyone working on that? I think those packages have a lot of inertia because you can buy a product with an API, documentation, etc. Something which says “Learn TensorFlow & enough AI to be dangerous” is going to be hard to get in the door at many large organizations so this might be an area where a solid open-source project could have a significant impact.
seems like a power play the restaurant could win by grabbing some taco bell.
Quick Video Summary of the Book “Good to Great”
iOS is relatively young. It attracts a lot of new programmers. For years iOS suffered from lack of ideas around architecture and solid programming practices.

In the last few years I've seen this start to change and now it seems a bit like "ARCHITECTURE ALL THE THINGS!!!". We're in a period of trying out new ideas and figuring out what works and what doesn't.

Give it a few more years and these ideas will start to mature.
technically it uses typescript :P
Yeah, no. Money tends to stay around.

https://qz.com/694340/the-richest-families-in-florence-in-14...

The Rockefellers are still the 24th-richest family in the US: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kerryadolan/2016/06/29/billion-...

Sure, it takes work keeping up - the Vanderbilts are a great example of what not to do - but money does usually beget money.

Carnegie is, I think, the most interesting example: He gave away almost all his money. His belief was summed up with "The man who dies rich, dies disgraced".

The Carnegie Corporation (a foundation), however, held on to the money neatly - their current endowment is $3 bln.
This is kind of like neutering/spaying feral cats, and returning them to where they were found. They stop breeding, but continue to compete with others for resources.
In the previous paragraph I'm more clear about my meaning, which is that the array elements are not tracked properly, meaning that Flow/TypeScript can't determine if the actual usage is valid 100% accurately.
Windows and Office have changed so much in the last years that I thought it would be just a perfect setting for people to move to Linux and LibreOffice.

But people lots of people stick to whatever has an MS logo on it.

I had an interesting conversation once with a relative who wanted Windows on a tablet. He argued that it would be easier to configure Wifi. I just had to point out that he couldn't configure Wifi on Windows either. Still, he thought it would be easier.
A deceptive step towards quantum speedup detection
Cat lover?
Flutter + Redux = Fludex
We have package theft and coyotes. So two of out three ain't bad..
That was the old idea of how these parasites worked.
This seems like a easy way to explain a Bitcoin ban, should any country wish to do so.
What sort of black markets currently exist to evade taxation for consumer goods currently, that threaten the existence of that legalized and taxed industry? The only thing I can think of is cigarettes, and even then, the taxation is extremely high and the legal market is still very strong. I don't think that high taxation is going to derail a legal market, but I'm willing to be proven wrong.
The truth is always bitter my friend. You could've made an argument against my cases but instead you chose to derail the discussion lol.
That’s not what’s going on here.
But the “organism of humanity” lacks biological drivers and hallmarks for differentiation of classes within the same species within a reproductive familial chain of ancestry.

All class divisions and duties are contrived, and artificially forced by what amounts to oral tradition and other communicative habitual norms like handwriting, long after invention of the wheel and mastery of fire by prehistoric humans. It is artifice, that can be wiped away if we fail to learn the craft of language by adolescence.

Liken this to hunting patterns among cetaceans, which we’ve only recently noticed with intensive study. Few animals are capable of language, but that emergent detail alone, remains an extremely ephemeral quality of social organization, capable of being destroyed by large-scale disagreements resulting in what we call war. Refugees can be reduced to orphanage and stone age civilization in a conflict severe enough.

Ants and other eusocial insects are not quite so vulnerable to having their classified reproductive divisions destroyed in less than a generation, simply because a small number of them have rationalized and chosen to dispose of a way of life. Forces of nature and other outside actors would have to opportunistically disrupt their biological qualities which seem baked in once hatched.