skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's worth noting that geocentrism wasn't held onto for no reason either. At least the ancient Greeks had solid logical reasons for believing it: if the Earth orbited the sun, then there would be parallax visible between the stars since the Earth's position among the stars is changing throughout the year. Yet, there is none. Therefore the Earth is fixed in space.

The error of course is that the stars are really unimaginably far away and hence there is parallax but it's practically indiscernible. The Greeks thought the stars being that far away was the less likely answer to the apparent lack of parallax than the Earth simply being the center of the solar system.
You're not creating it, but rather enabling it. When the bug is triggered, the root user is enabled (per Directory Utility).
From my experience, this is more dependent on the team/process than Excel. I've worked in investments for several years and auditing Excel sheets was a core, well-run process at several companies I worked for. It was quite easy for smart, non-technical folks to follow formulas and equations to track down why their checks weren't passing.

It also scaled fine to thousands of employees.
That's not necessarily true, especially if you work in tech.
structural engineers are required to keep all communications, notes, etc for seven to ten years, depending on the jurisdiction.

These super short email retention policies seem extremely unethical to me.
Good point. Force of habit. Unfortunately I can no longer try since I set the root password under the Directory Utility, which probably changed the state of the system.

Apparently someone verified that it /does/ also work with `su - root`.
Not a lawyer, but I don't think it's unusual to have a retention policy that says when documents should be deleted. This is apparently legal as long as it's a blanket policy. (For example, by default all email gets deleted after a year, unless someone takes action to save it.) Of course anything under legal hold has to be kept.

It's also not unusual to make sure employees know about attorney-client privilege and how to use it properly, or that you should avoid discussing legal matters in a discoverable medium under the assumption it may be used against the company in a lawsuit. This is basic employee training stuff.

So, yeah, no. Sometimes maintaining a paper trail is the thing to do but this isn't the only thing companies do.
Only if the laptop is locked (as the encryption key is already in memory).
Is is possible? Yes. Is it likely compared to the alternative? No.

Comets are theorized to have brought us water from within the solar system, so the comparison doesn't really apply unless life evolved in our solar system but somewhere other than Earth.

Here's some of what has to happen for life to cross naturally between planets in different solar systems:

0. Life evolves somewhere else

1. Somehow, some of that life ends up on an asteroid heading out of that solar system. The mechanism for this is pretty iffy. In the case of the ISS, we took those bacteria with when we launched, and they still haven't left Earth's gravity well.

2. That life survives the multi-millennia trip to another solar system, on an airless rock exposed to interstellar radiation for millennia.

3. The asteroid with life on it happens to hit a planet that can support that life.

4. The life isn't all destroyed in the blazing fireball caused by its descent through an atmosphere.

Each of those events has a probability, most of which are very low. To get the probability of the overall chain of events, multiply all the probabilities together, giving a much lower probability.

For life to evolve on Earth, all that's needed is step 0. Therefore, without even trying to assign actual numbers, we can see that the probability of life having originally evolved on Earth is far higher than it having come from somewhere else.
Classical click and bait title.
First promises that you'll become a hacker, and then when you actually click the tweet is deleted.
technically, after they are hacked they are no longer self-driving.
I spent a lot of time with my parents. Lots and lots of time splitting wood, tinkering on equipment, toiling in the garden, working in the yard. At the time, I would have loved to spend less time with them.
It's strange to think that selling some means selling all. Why wouldn't you have bought some at (say) $10 and sold half of them at (say) $100 and kept the rest? You would have made a tidy profit in dollars and a tidy profit in Bitcoin.
Why should a school select students based on extra-curriculars? Why is "working at a job" not considered an extra-curricular?

Why should a college even choose the highest academic performers? It's an educational institution, not a contest.

At the end of the day, what is a college optimizing for, and why?

Colleges could be selecting for students who the college can provide the most value to, or which students need that college the most, or which students show the most potential for post-college success by the college's metrics.
I am new to this VPC thing. Is there an overview that explains why I want it and how it works?
the only thing not-cool is this egregious short-coming from Apl
Possibly not, but the death & maiming stats everywhere show we're absolutely not ready for human-driven ones.
You have a valid user as far as the OS is concerned, so you'd be able to access encrypted files and copy them off of the machine.
Standalone iMac here - the 'Join' button is disabled. So is this vulnerability only for Macs on a network?

EDIT: My bad - editing was locked on that screen. Got it now...

EDIT2: Root user is disabled on mine. Is that enough, given that this bug seems to create a new root user each time? Should I enable root user and set a password rather than leave it disabled?
This is the best workaround for now. Enable the root user with a strong password till the bug is fixed by Apple.
Anyone who wants to tell me about how net neutrallity is killing innovation needs to show me they understand how peering agreements work.

They area prime example how capitalism can be constructed to benefit consumers, drive down prices, and foster innovation.

All Pai is going to create is a system that is inefficient and monopolistic.
I believe this is the study that's being referred to. It's not by the NYT but they wrote about research by economist Raj Chetty, of Stanford, and others.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/18/opinion/sunday/americas-g...
Or, just not use servers. Aws lambda, etc - and never care ever.
I missed that, how was groklaw connected to Snowden?
No. I am also skeptical of more modern cars with complex computers. The thought of being in one scares me.
Quite honestly you just sound bitter and apparently can't wait for "idiots" to lose money because you're not going to make any. There is no difference between investment and speculation. None at all. If you look them up you'll just find vague notions of one being more risky than the other. But as a HN reader I would expect you to understand that all investment is somewhat risky. Apple could become irrelevant in a few years much like the ice shipping companies of the past. You don't know that. If you buy Apple as an investment you are betting that it won't. If you work for money then you are betting that the government won't just print more and make it virtually worthless. Open your mind.
this is too serious to hide. better to tell users how to fix it than wait until apple releases something
I wonder if you could build something to detect gamma rays which it sounds like the iodine emits, into a watch, possibly making use of a PIN photodiode.
> It just kicks the can down the road without solving anything

Panspermia is an attempt to explain one inconsistency in our observations so far: it appears that life spontaneously emerging from inorganics is hugely unlikely. On other hand, geological records show that life appeared on Earth very soon after it became viable.

If life on Earth originated somewhere else, then this discrepancy can be made to disappear. For example, abiogenesis only needs to arise once within a large radius around Earth and within a much broader time margin. Hence it can be a very rare event while still not making early life on Earth a unique event in the universe.

I don't personally believe panspermia is likely. But it is a valid theory (although without much supporting evidence as far as I know).
They control ‘a’ flow of information.
Certainly it's common to write fewer tests than Python or Ruby projects, where you need tests to verify basic type and existence assertions.
Yeah but Firefox is already struggling while supporting all the possible standards and more ("sorry our site is better view with Google IE4... ehm Google Chrome").

The whole Mozilla strategy of corroding Firefox piece by piece is actually very professional. Big backwards-incompatible transitions in technology almost always fail.
Will Ctrl-Tab and Ctrl-Shift-Tab work productively like they did in MDI days (cycle thru most recently used tab rather than the arbitrary, but "aesthetically pleasing", left-tab and right-tab?)

Can the tab's currently edited document be associated with the tab beyond simple "title" metadata? For example, can I get an icon on the tab representing the tab's in-progress document that I can drag to drop sites like Slack or an email being composed?

What statuses can be visualized on the tabs out of the box? (Percentage complete? Ancillary status icons?)

How's accessibility going to work with tabs? What happens to the client area when you switch tabs? What gets read on the tabs when you cycle through them?

I suspect these Sets are not going to make MDI great again because they will be underspecified as a UX standard or will be denuded of any productivity features (mobile first), and thus will be abused by developers who resort to hacking to get the results they want.
Analyst: 1M VR headsets shipped last quarter, an industry first
It's the neighborly thing to do, but people are under no obligation to report vulns privately. The blame lies squarely on Apple, not on the messenger.

The fact that we know about it means we can take steps to mitigate the damage.
Probably could still get 15 minutes of fame if you disclosed privately then blogged about the back and forth and a picture of the $10,000 cheque from Apple.
Any chance that self clears after an interval?

Might be a bad day to leave the laptop at the table at the coffeeshop when ordering.
> Lead by the Ivy League and similarly elite private colleges

They aren't similar. The Ivy League has ultra-wealthy donors and parents paying the tuition of students of modest means.

Most students don't pay the sticker price
I wouldn't read into that beyond pure coincidence.

US investors are only a portion of the Bitcoin market, and the price action of the past year or so isn't at all out of line with the general growth trend.

The notion that Bitcoin would serve as a 'safe haven' during a market crash is also far from a foregone conclusion. Certainly possible, but I have difficulty accepting that traditional financial institutions would see it that way.
A quick mitigation workaround: If you follow the steps here https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204012 to disable the root account until the point where you open and authenticate the Directory Utility, in the Edit menu there's a "Change Root Password" option.

Set a good password there and disable the root account again.

Now people making use of this vulnerability will still be able to re-enable the root account (that's why it fail the first time - root is default off, but this bug enables it), but now there will at least be a useful password set.
> they cannot be monopolies unless helped by governments.

So natural monopolies aren't a thing? How did Google, Microsoft, US Steel and Standard Oil benefit or receive government support?
so...either San Francisco has no restaurants at all, or this argument is complete garbage.

Or maybe you only get rich people and already successful chains opening new restaurants. Maybe you don't get a lot of first-time small business owners and innovative concepts because the barriers to entry are too high.
Weekends.

Dad used to fiddle in the basement or go golfing, now he goes to soccer practice or the park.
Now if only I used NESL for anything.
>So, unless you think they are lying, your point doesn't stand on limiting low-income students.

You missed the point. Poor kids in general don't go to Math & Science high schools, or high schools that offer college level courses in Calculus I-III, Number Theory, Abstract Algebra, Differential Equations, Linear Algebra, 1-2 semesters worth of programming, Data Structures, etc. These kids don't have have access to private tutors to ensure they ace their SATs, SAT Subjects, ACTs etc. They aren't enrolling in multiple ECs and they don't have teachers with PhDs writing them letters of recommendation. These kids don't have parents that went to colleges and don't have the resources handed to them as the kids that are getting into Brown, Harvard, Princeton, Stanford etc. If you look at the lower level high schools in America, they barely give any of their kids any advantage. They actually put them at a major disadvantage compared to the elite high schools.

It's great elite colleges have these needed based programs. But by virtue of their admissions criteria they are excluding lower income students on a vast scale.
I've been tossing this idea around actually. Gotta find some way to put my anthropology minor to use :P

All unsourced speculative thoughts:

So, traditionally, across all early human civilizations (including pre-ag revolution), my understanding is that kids weren't "raised" by their parents - everyone just kind of hung out in their villages, doing misc tasks/work, while the children ran free. The "raising" was done by the village as a whole, with the village elders taking an authoritative stance.

Unlike in today's society, there isn't this massive, silo'd burden of ensuring a kid grows up sane / well adjusted / useful to society lumped onto two people who have literally never done it before and have to juggle the responsibility with as much as 8 hours a day or more of work to provide food/shelter for the kids. On average, these couples get about 1.5 "kids" worth of "raising kids" experience, and then that knowledge just dies off because they don't raise any more kids and don't really participate in the raising of their grandchildren.

Compare that to a village where everybody is involved in raising kids, in particular the elders who might have seen tens of children growing and developing, from birth right up to adulthood.

I guess my point is I'm not sure we're really doing "raising kids" in the best way anymore - I don't understand how it's acceptable that

1. Parents need to spend the majority of time away from children to provide food and shelter for the children

2. Two people with minimal "parenting" skills are entrusted with the raising of children from birth to adulthood

EDIT: These thoughts apply to American white culture. Asian cultures still involve grandparents heavily in raising the child (grandparents raising the kids while parents are at work - I got my own issues with that as well but this isn't the place for it) and pockets of Black American neighborhoods where kids are raised by the community / large family units. (There's actually really great books written on how Black American kids grow up super socially adjusted, verbose, and confident because of how much time they spend hanging out with various adults)
It might, if you added "root" as a user able to unlock the disk. But you'd probably have needed to set a password for the root account to do that.
That patch set does not implement transparent creation of 1GB mappings. It also contains dubious things like this, which make me think the branch was a WIP: https://github.com/Seb-LineRate/freebsd/commit/66a8d3474d410...

The only mailing list thread I see regarding this is here, and it doesn't seem particularly underhanded to me: https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2014-Nov...
How the hell does a bug this shallow slip through QA?

Of all companies, Apple is the one banking heavily on their image of taking care of their users' security and privacy. How do they not have a test case for this. This kills my trust in them.

What. The. Hell.
No, I'm not. And no it isn't - to say so is intentionally misleading.

The common use of the term rollback is to imply that a server or other system is reset to a previous stored state. We cannot get back to the previous state. Therefore this isn't a rollback.

It is a repeal, and not one that puts us back in 2015.

There is no going back home.
That's anecdotal.

10 minutes of walking won't even get you out of my subdivision. Plop down a 15-minute radius on my map and there are literally zero places of business anywhere in it.

This is largely due to zoning. There is a strip of land zoned for local businesses a mere 10 minutes away, but unsurprisingly, no one has chosen to build anything on it.

You can't always prioritize walkability if you have a limit on your housing budget. My current place costs $11k/year, and the commuting to work by car isn't entirely horrible. But walking anywhere is really out of the question.
Is there anything specific about Rust that you don’t think a commercial organisation would do?

Obviously, commercial organisations have a long track record of developing and supporting programming languages.
I wouldn't have thought that NSA backdoors are so simple
Brown is a University, so that endowment funds research as well as tuition support.
Whilst now we're much more progressive and kids don't see either parent!?
The solution for now is to set a passwd for root... this is ridiculous
For those who can't make it happen, it requires that the root account is disabled, which is the default. If you already enabled the root account for some other reason (which apparently I had on one of my Macs, although I don't know why) then that prevents it from working.

It seems like the best mitigation for the moment might be to enable the root user and set a password for it.
Looking back, what about now? Overall, are you happy with the amount of time you did spend with your parents?
Yes, that's correct. Recent macOS (nee OS X) versions:

- Mavericks (10.9.x)

- Yosemite (10.10.x)

- El Capitan (10.11.x)

- Sierra (10.12.x)

- High Sierra (10.13.x)
Oh man, Grimrock I miss you.
Bad conclusion. There are billions of 'other planets' and only one Earth. You'd have to add up the marginal probabilities of all the other scenarios, to compare with just the Earth scenario.
To the community of professionals who have to work with James Bach
Doesn't help to disable it, you have to change the password.
UPDATE: if you disable the account after setting a password, a login without a password is possible again ..
In addition to some other excellent points made on this subthread it's worth adding that matriculation is structurally need-biased, in that attendance requires forgoing a full-time income for 4 years, while also providing for living expenses.
How long term? As long as a whole childhood?
He just wants attention.
> on a side note does anyone else find those youtube videos for kids hella creepy?

Yes, and there was a recent discussion on HN about it, too [0].

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15670109
Wow. This is fun. I remember my Windows98 had the same feature. You just use Administrator with empty password and you're in. Apple is finally catching up.
If we all get shares in the US, doesn't that mean we also get the debt? No thanks. The US govt doesn't know how to manage its debts.
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It only works after getting physical access once to enable the root user by gibing any password UI the root user with no password (which will enable the local root account, which is also why it fails the first time around)
Not sure what kind of Gnome you are using, but in Gnome 3.26 as shipped with Fedora 27, in the Settings, Power options, you have three options what can happen, when you press the power button: "sleep" (the default), "shutdown" and "do nothing".

When you select the second option, "shutdown", and then press the power button, it will throw a dialog at you, that the machine will shutdown in 60 seconds (and will display countdown), together with "cancel", "reboot" and "shutdown" buttons.
It's worse than that. You're enabling the root user EVERY time you use this vulnerability. Even if you disable the root user in Directory Utility, logging in with root and no password will re-enable the root user.
I think it is less in vogue than you imagine. Every single parent I interact with via my son's activities expresses a lot of distain for it and generally promotes free time for their kids.

I think the tide is turning back to free-range parenting.
good police work
The blame lies squarely on Apple, not on the messenger.

There is blame on both.

If you leave your key in your front door lock and I blast out on twitter your address and tell people about it, I think I have some responsibility.
How about

1. Increase in private schools: no school bus for kiddo, but a parent as chauffeur. (A woman I knew claimed to have done 200 miles per day for some period. She had four kids.)

2. Increase in organized sports from an early age. Again, a parent as chauffeur, bystander, and sometimes coach or assistant coach.
One possible implementation would be to build an index tracking fund that tracks a significant portion of the US economy, and pays dividends to all citizens.

It seems like it would be difficult to lock an entitlement program to GDP without encountering funding gaps at some point, though I suppose a funding gap hasn't stopped the Social Security program from continuing to pay out.
Can you clarify what you mean by "underhanded and unfortunate way?" The thread I can see on freebsd-hackers@ had a little feedback, including some very valid critiques (the code was developed against 9.x, then ported to 10.x without testing, at a time when 11 was CURRENT) and the original author just didn't follow up at all:

https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2014-Nov...

But maybe I'm missing something?

See also: https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2013-Sep...
AV1 is not patent-encumbered.

AV1 can be implemented with free software everywhere. No more leaning on H.264 where you are arbitrarily disallowed from using H.265, not to mention when you are also disallowed from using H.264!

AV1 will outperform H.265, even at low resolutions and framerates. That coupled with free software compatibility, and support from Intel, AMD, and NVIDIA means that it will have great hardware and software support everywhere.
How a 23-Year-Old Gamer Got Billionaires to Back His Esports Team
There's lots on https://aws.amazon.com/vpc/, and talks on youtube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4&v=3qln2u1Vr2E is a fav). But the TLDR is this: VPC stands for "Virtual Private Cloud" and it gives you your own virtual data center on AWS. You get a private network that uses whatever IP range you'd like, and you can connect to it privately via VPN or Direct Connect (physical links). You can also connect it to the internet with Elastic IP Addresses.

VPCs are free and you can create and edit them programmatically (add subnets, change routes, manage ACLs and security groups) - so they're a useful way to manage an environment of things like EC2 instances, containers, Elastic Load Balancers, RDS databases, Lambda functions, and more, without needing to worry as much about them being exposed to things you don't control.

With this latest PrivateLink feature, it's now possible to offer services between VPCs. So you can build a service in its own VPC, and map into other ones, securely.
CreateWindow is CreateWindow in Win32 as well. How you name the function that handles messages is up to you. WndProc is merely a convention. It's not like a function pointer has any name, so for the API it's irrelevant.