skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the tomb of Ti at Saqqara, in a mural depicting a battle, there is a hieroglyph comprising a stylised phallus entering an even more stylised vulva. It is an insult that one warrior is hurling at his enemy. Apparently it is usually translated, somewhat primly, as "Come here, you copulator"; in his Scorn: With Added Vitriol (a collection of invective across the ages), Matthew Parris prefers the earthier "Come 'ere, you fucker."
It's subscription, rent-seeking based now. I won't call that non-cloud. Cloud is useless anyway as it doesn't allow to upload RAWs and they obviously slapped it on Lr to justify switch to their individual user hostile model.
I fully agree that the signal-to-noise ratio on HN is better than elsewhere on the web, which is why I love coming here.
HN shines when people share their sharp thinking, creativity and ability to reflect and adjust their strong, factually based opinions. That is exactly what led me to post my comment, because I've noticed that this community has grown in the past few years and with the growth the quality of discussions (sometimes) has become less informative and occasionally resembles a "typical" comment section on the internet.

I realised that I can influence this trend by participating more actively in the discussions. Hence, my resolution for 2018 is to more often post questions, rather than arguments to hopefully drive forward our collective creativity and intelligence. HN is a truly special place on the web!
Wouldn't abandoning the von Neumann architecture do this immediately? Store the code and data in separate memories. I'd think that would take out most all exploits in one strike, no?
There are several differences between the medical field and software engineering, some of which are:

1. The former is highly regulated because of potentially highly catastrophic outcomes in most cases.

2. The former also is several thousand years older than the latter.
You know why this claim is “repeated quite often”? Others have already given multiple citations. But it’s one thing to miss a news item or two, it’s quite another to essentially say, “I don’t pay attention to the news whatsoever, so imma gonna need a citation for that thing that was the headline in every major newspaper last year.” Hell, even I knew that Beyoncé was pregnant.
Part of me wonders whether a solution may be to do the following:

1. Subject all patent applications to a two month public appeal period, where any objections from the general public can be received for the patent
2. Then, these objections are reviewed by the patent examiners, with any patent applications that turn out to already exist in some form being invalidated
3. And all rejected patent applications being subjected to a Git style diff setup, where anything with the same wording is immediately rejected before it enters the system.

Add this to a requirement to 'have some plan for manufacturing a product based on the patent (ie, no way to register patents just for licensing or court battles), and that'd probably go a long way towards making the patent system more fair and stop bogus patents getting approved.
If you really think the completion in current shells is the best there can be then I think you lack imagination.

I don't want remembered commands, I want the terminal to tell me what stuff means. I want it to tell me what makes sense in which context. Like the IntelliSense when coding Java or C#. Docs at your fingertips, all relevant options (and none else) available, etc. This is incomparable to the kind of autocomplete any shell I've seen to date has. Zsh is a nice step in the right direction but it's still shit.
In other words, the 500 wealthiest people added a trillion dollars of value to the economy this year.

Edit: you all that are down-voting need to learn how the economy works.
>How else would you add live comments without JS? This page is effectively a big chatroom. You can write at the bottom of the page and the website fetches the new messages async.

Why on Earth does it need to be some kind of live chatroom? Just render them server-side and add live updates as a nice-to-have if JavaScript is enabled.
Many Comments Critical of ‘Fiduciary’ Rule Are Fake
Start with this thread[1] from HN a couple of months ago (search for "inert"). This has been a long time coming[2] and is in response to TWA 800 which was a 747 that exploded in 1996 due to lack of fuel tank inerting[3].

The FAA issued a directive in 2008 saying that by December 26, 2017 (not 2018, sorry) [4] passenger planes flying within or into the US had to have fuel tank inerting. Many operators such as Delta and United (can't find a better source for that now than this reddit comment [5]) decided not to retrofit and flew their 747s pretty much right up to the deadline.

Other operators, such as BA (presumably) have already retrofitted their 747s and will continue flying them.

So obviously Delta and United weren't very interested in flying the 747s anyway since they consider it more economical to turn them into beer cans or cargo planes than continue flying them, but the immediate reason they're stopping at this time is because they couldn't legally continue past the deadline.

Which is all I'm pointing out here, that they've known this was coming since 2008 but didn't value the safety of their passengers enough to retrofit the planes, and continued flying them right up to the deadline.

It's worth calling out corporate doublespeak and convenient omissions whenever they occur.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15478442

2. http://www.iasa.com.au/folders/Safety_Issues/FAA_Inaction/in...

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TWA_Flight_800

4. https://www.faa.gov/documentLibrary/media/Advisory_Circular/...

5. https://www.reddit.com/r/aviation/comments/7bxs0x/final_unit...
How would you allocate work? Suppose you are paying a “fair” wage above the market wage, so you have 5 equally qualified candidates apply. They are not allowed to compete on price since you already decided to pay what you consider a fair wage.

How do you decide who gets the work?
Your reply reads like an advertisement for your company, and doesn't mention anything about your corporate culture, which is what OP was asking about.
Oh I agree on warrantless wire tapping the one of problems with the states is they don't separate the Police role of the FBI from is Security / Contra Espionage.
Not in Saudi. In Saudi it's pretty much a single "normal" form of Islam, Wahabbi. Same one that Al Qaeda and ISIS adhere to, except Saudis are "friends".
There is a difference between designing a system where objects always behave similar to network nodes and designing a cludge... I mean, a protocol that allows procedures to be called across a network.

I'm not saying that message-passing is magic and transparently solves all the problems associated with distributed computing, but conceptually it's different from RPC. In fact, it's kind of the opposite of RPC. Keep in mind that Smalltalk 72 was developed in the same environment (Xerox Park labs) that gave us Ethernet and developed large parts of the conceptual framework underpinning our modern networking.
It's way simpler. As population grows, the 500 richest people (whoever they are) are expected to get richer even if the wealth distribution does not change. And as the society gets richer, they are expected to get richer too.

So, if there is any indication that wealth has been accumulating faster, it is not on the article. And as such, the article is valueless and a complete loss of time.
From 2001 to 2007 (just 6 years), the proportion of US households that left their income quintile were (starting at the lowest quintile) 44%, 61%, 58%, 55%, and 34%. Even by global standards that's quite high income mobility.
stopped reading at modules. I think this is an interesting ideas, but if one would seriously consider this, this is a disaster waiting to happen.
So what? Inequality should only matter to you personally if it means the lower bound on income, the poorest of the poor, is going down. If the richest is getting richer, maybe that means the poorest are becoming poorer as a consequence, but not necessarily, in fact, most likely not.
> Intel will just maintain the status quo until there's some sort of black swan event.

I absolutely hate Intel and AMD for sabotaging their customers like that. Please people, get to that black swan event ASAP.
America Is Heading for an Unprecedented Constitutional Crisis
Show HN: Ad Revenue Prediction Tool for Side Projects
Lufthansa economy on the A380 is the best, if you can get one of the upper deck seats, particularly a window seat where you have a massive storage console/armrest between you and the window.
Didn't he drop bags of money down the chimneys of poor people? According to Catholic theology, Saint Nicholas as a saint can also bestow gifts via prayer, i.e. "prayers of a righteous man availeth much." So one could argue the essentials of Santa Claus are true in Saint Nicholas, and parents are not lying when they tell their kid that Santa Claus exists.
That's not N^2 it's N*k where k is number of devices and is generally very low. Most people will have at most 3 or 4 devices. You could also have a single key and store it on a wearable device, like a phone or watch, and we're back down to a single key per person.

I think the bigger issue with PSK at scale is key generation and distribution.
House prices less affordable than 50 years ago: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8468605.stm
Buffett has described investing as ability to find the right pitch to swing at. He invests in companies which are within his "circle of competence":

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/02/02/warren-buffett-simplifies-in...

This lesson is apparently lost on many people.
As it happens, I switched from Google Authenticator to LastPass Authenticator a few days ago. The app has a feature that allows you to require a PIN or fingerprint in order to use it. That feature is disabled by default. (Note that Google Authenticator has no such feature.) As I understand it, this attack allows someone with access to my unlocked phone to install a activity launcher app and then generate 2FA codes without supplying a PIN or fingerprint. Actually, for my phone they wouldn't need to bother with the launcher app, because I didn't enable the additional fingerprint/PIN feature--it seems to reduce convenience while adding little security.

Still, it's definitely a bug. They should either fix it or remove the feature so people aren't misled into thinking their two-factor codes are secure when they're not.
The only thing clickbaity about it is there is a number in the title. And it isn't a listicle.
tl;dr 40% of comments submitted in opposition to a Labor Department regulation that would require financial advisers to act in their interests of their clients appear to be faked.
Er.. Github, gitlab, gitkraken.. I don't think having git in the name is enough to violate that clause
Sounds good - can it run a decent VCS though, like mercurial?
Unless all major browsers agree on how <main> is parsed.

Then that's how it's parsed.
Most people will only use the password manager app. I didn't realise they make a different authenticator app and assumed that this was about the password manager.
I don't know what you think is missing. "Displaying 'image' type data as images" totally works. Are you aware of magic bytes (which I mentioned above)?
There's so much to hate about the iPhone X - I'm glad it's failing because I never want to see another phone like it again.

My biggest gripes are that I like buttons (even the fake iPhone 7 home button is better than swiping) and I like rectangular screens without notches in them. I also think Face ID is a terrible idea with no future. I predicted (and got downvoted here on HN) that it would fail miserably - and it did. Haha!

I like things to be simple and always work. The iPhone X with all of its anti-features fails to do that. I will never use a phone with any kind of gimmicky Face or Touch ID system.
Except that it wasn't- it was upheld by the Supreme Court.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/04/politics/supreme-court-travel-...

People will dishonestly refer to it as a 'Muslim Ban' despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, in the end it only diminishes the credibility of those who want to allow immigration from those countries.
Sounds like a solvable problem, right? The same protocol that allows the shell to communicate with the terminal window can be used over SSH.

I don't know much about how SSH works, but there has to be a way to communicate between the daemon and the client that both support this protocol and send the data separate from the screen content? In the typical case where you SSH from your own terminal window your ssh client just forwards the connection to your terminal window and done.

It's not like anything stops working when this stuff isn't there. It's just like colors in that respect.
I was just passing through Atlanta, and there was a Delta liveried 747 at what I think was Terminal F (we were taxiing to C). I'm guessing it was there for the farewell tour for their employees.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/flights/todayinthesky/...

Delta replaced it with A350's.
I think that people that read this news are not our potential customer :) Our culture is implicit in our It stack, we started really small and growing around of orders number with no following the current startup culture(that basecamp team doesn't like it )
We started small and stay still small.
I think routes like San Jose-Manchester is a better example of why A350s and 787s are great. You're also seeing a lot of 787 flights out of Oakland instead of all bay area international travel being from SF.

When I was a kid and lived in Santa Cruz, we would always have to drive to SFO for international flights because SJC's runway was too short for some of the bigger jumbos. Now with 350s and 787s, its not an issue.
> so most of us

Most of whom, and are you sure?

> but it literally makes no difference.

If it doesn't really make sense, it does make a difference, and certain wording can actually have the opposite effect and turn people away from the cause - even if they support it, like I do. I'm a huge proponent of "girls can do anything guys can do" and not pushing gender stereotypes on girls, but the GP's very presumptive wording came across as trying really hard to change the status quo, as well as exclusionary, when it could have been done much more naturally and subtly:

> "the techie niece/nephew will do it for most"

(being inclusive of both genders when obviously only the one gender, male, really reasonably applies; doesn't tend to offend anyone and brings them over to your cause because you're not making it look like you're trying to unreasonably exclude - this is probably the most ideal choice of wording)

or even just removing the "for most" (since it's completely inaccurate and very presumptive)

> "the techie niece will do it"

But I mean, techie girls do exist, but they're pretty rare. It's like saying "if most people simply asked their plumber, she'd agree to use more environmentally friendly chemical to unclog your drain". It's like really? Literally only 1.4% of plumbers are female [1], c'mon, stop trying so hard to push your agenda, it just turns people off and hurts your otherwise very worthy cause.

[1] https://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat11.htm
Same here. Not seeing any of these issues. Face ID is slower to unlock if you compare to an iPhone 7 or 8, but coming from a 6 it still seems faster to me.
Dryers are only vented in the United States. Most of the world uses condenser dryers that don't require venting. They also use less energy.
Plenty of airlines have replaced 747s with A380s. British Airways, Lufthansa, Air France and Qantas immediately come to mind.
It matters to me personally that a small group of people have such a massive amount of power. It's already completely uneven regarding voting power - I can vote once in an election, but if I had a trillion dollars I could vote once, and then I could pay lobbyists, and fund advertisements, etc. I, as a single person or small group, with a trillion dollars, can have a massive influence.

This is regardless of how poor anyone else is.

No one should have this kind of money, it's really absurd.
Very relevant.

The nature of software for managing humans is that it's very fuzzy, fashion/tend driven, diverse.

E.g a recent trend is for companies to try and reduce the number of undesirable applicants they get for jobs (since in a big e.g retailer, saying no to a candidate is likely also saying no to a customer).

So customer now needs to inject an e.g culture fit quiz into the candidate experience, which only unlocks the apply button once the candidate has "passed".

This kind of tweaking and evolvement is not possible within a monolith, so good APIs allowing vendors of the customer's choice to inject functionality are essential.

That functionality can then be injected in the form of a small app that does one thing and does it well, has it's own database, i.e has many of the characteristics of what people think of as microservices.
The Google Dapper paper was a good read, but it's from 2010, so I'm not sure if it counts.
There was an interesting study posted (I believe here) on how a flat 10% re-distribution (10% taxed from everyone, then redistributed evenly across everyone, aka basic income), created a more stable "society" in simulation. It did this by helping support a larger "middle class". Does anyone know the link/can point me to the study? Google is failing me at the moment...
10 deep learning frameworks compared in speed and coding style (Jupyter nbks)
What We’re Really Afraid Of
This reminds me of "What Is it Like to Be a Bat?" by Nagel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Is_it_Like_to_Be_a_Bat%3F
But not vulnerable. This is like saying a local root exploit is the Worst Vulnerability Ever in a system that was correctly firewalled from its earliest implementations.

"Worst" implies harm, not just potential. It doesn't get to be The Worst until something happens, no matter how much it offends your personal design sensibilities or confirms your conspiracy priors.
With randomized algorithms you can get within an arbitrarily small epsilon chance of getting a wrong answer, and it’s not unusual to get on the order of machine error in practice.

PAC guarantees are very different. They generally rely on:

- Data proportional to 1/eps^2

- Only reduce the “variance” component of the “bias + variance” (you’ll never fit a linear model perfectly to a nonlinear dataset, regardless of PAC)

- Get worse as you decrease bias

- Assume your data is IID and identically distributed to the test data. In TFA, several of the examples of bad behavior come from data which is distributed differently from training data (adversarial examples or automated cars not moving out of the way)
I've always found this idea that capitalism was "invented" to be so strange.

e.g. When an ancient king had land, and let poor people work the land in exchange for a part of their production, what would you call that? Sure sounds like, "the extraction of surplus value via property relations and wage labor" to me.

Same story if the lord has a mill and charges people to use it. Or a bridge and charges people to cross it. Technology was worse, so there weren't as many physical forms of capital, but it definitely existed.

Some people seem to have this need to see capitalism as this invention created by bad people. Because to admit now natural and organic it is would be to admit how much enforcement and violence their ideology really demands in order to obtain the real world.
Inside San Francisco's anarchist hackerspace
What you suggest requires a significant amount of learning and relies on hidden commands. What I'm suggesting is narrowing the use case of the terminal and making it more user-friendly without relying on non obvious hidden tricks.
The poorer are getting richer, too. But the rich gets richer faster. I don't see a problem with it, but it's funny to see how besides having more regulations, higher taxes and more government intervention (most of the time in the name of making society more equal) increases inequality at a faster rate just to see the very same people saying "we need higher taxes and more government intervention!"
I have a friend who's close to DHH. He claims that Basecamp has a very very very selective recruiting process. To the point where finding talent is extremely difficult. I suspect their litmus for excellence is the real reason their seemingly "guardrail-free culture" works as well as it does, not the other way around.
There are online calculators
http://www.radiolabs.com/stations/wifi_calc.html note that the cable loss mentioned is the antenna feeder cable

And Cisco Press do some good books on the basics of WiFi network design.
That's a great talk Filippo!
Santa has damage reduction 25/+5 chaotic. He's been shot plenty of times by startled homeowners, but none of them have ever previously taken the steps of coalescing solid bullets from Limbo protoplasm and enchanting them to +5.
Given their retention rates, I'm pretty sure they're doing well in "reality." I don't have data handy, but last time I heard about it, they have very low attrition.
If people don't know that LastPass has a 2FA app, they might think LastPass Authenticator is the password manager app, and is affected by this bug. As a matter of fact, a number of commenters seem to think exactly that.
It only says it in the title if you're already familiar with Lastpass's apps offerings.

I happen to be familiar so I can read "LastPass Authenticator app" and know it is referring to their 2F/Google Authenticator competitor. But in the general sense Lastpass "Authenticator" could be the name of their password manager for all people know.

It could be titled e.g. "Lastpass's two factor authenticator app is insecure." Still accurate but also less vague for people unfamiliar with Lastpass's different apps.
The indication you're searching for is called wealth inequality. It is a measure of how much more money the richest people have compared to the rest of the population, and it has increased significantly over the years:

http://fortune.com/2014/10/31/inequality-wealth-income-us/

There is an economist called Thomas Piketty who has made his name by studying and measuring inequality over the years. Read his book and you will get a detailed analysis of how inequality has increased in our society.
Stupid question: what about doing more limited, "pseudo arbitrage"? Where you just maintain balances in USD and cryptocurrencies on each exchange and "buy low sell high" without actually completing the loop, and only later even out your balances across exchanges until you're ahead?

That is, if LTC is higher on exchange A than B, then you buy all you can on B and sell on A. You've made free money, but aren't strictly better than before because you have a different allocation across exchanges. But then you can later do a slow transfer that evens them out.
It matters less because there's less of them. If you have to focus on where resources should go (e.g. time and money) most should go to women.

Why do men have such a hard time accepting that women have it harder?
You are absolutely correct about differences in degree, but I think you chose a pretty misleading example. It's not a matter of whether your employer goes bankrupt or not. Even if your employer continues to grow, if they don't grow as fast as they were predicted to grow, then they will throw employees out the front door without a second thought. If the market dips by 1%, then in order to still meet their goal of growing by 4% that quarter, they will 'cut the fat' and get rid of their employees (while holding on to their executives). Getting a job used to mean protection from fluctuations in the marketplace, so if the product the company makes suffers a bit in popularity, it just meant a reduced profit margin for the business that year. Now, a reduced profit margin is not an option. It's not even thinkable. Obviously the livelihoods of employees are dispensible in the face of that.
https://www.reddit.com/r/IntelME/