skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "spying" of one's competition, mainly in e-commerce. Tracking inventories, fine-tuning prices, tracking how they promote certain products online, etc.

That’s not spying, that’s a completely legitimate and normal use case of the web. Everything on the web is public, and the web was also created to allow that.
Whole Foods employees reveal why stores are facing a crisis of food shortages
I think Marco missed the point. He's taken a decline in Apple & iOS specific conferences, then assumed that means all conferences in general are over.

But web development conferences are still going fine. PyCon & DjangoCon & JSConf & Laracon all seem to be doing okay, and even have regional conferences. Indie developer conferences like FemtoConf are selling out. Business Of Software is still going strong. Even niche conferences like the Xojo programming language are holding annual conferences on multiple continents. There's still plenty of conferences for digital nomads & travel bloggers & Etsy makers & songwriters & authors out there.

It's Apple-specific conferences that are disappearing. (I tweeted that last October [1] and I'm now kicking myself for not blogging about it instead.) Some of the Apple conferences pivoted to include Android and web-dev - for example, iOSDevCamp became Developer Camp and was hosted at Google premises.

Maybe this is just part of a cycle, Apple-related conferences have disappeared before (like Wolf Rentzch's C4 conference did in 2010, [2] [3]). Or perhaps it's an early indicator that developers are moving on from Apple to other platforms.

[1] https://twitter.com/syneryder/statuses/919474979086798848

[2] https://www.macworld.com/article/1151210/c4_end.html

[3] http://rentzsch.tumblr.com/post/592949476/c4-release
> It turns out, shockingly enough, that there are many situations in which government creates problems.

True of course, but not in this case. Many governments want their airports to expand, but they simply can't, because there's no space for it, and they're not totalitarian enough to screw over the millions of people living in those areas. It's not a case of governments being unreasonably obstructive, it's a case of governments actually caring about the interests of the people for a change.
I want to be able to buy systems with an Opensource boot loader like Coreboot and no Intel management features at all. Plus with secure system calls in the cpu.

Please disable Intel boot guard for coreboot and work with the open source community.

That way we will have more secure systems.
I mean, it took how many decades to find this, and accidentally? Using the "current year argument" is silly, because it assumes that any view from an earlier time is just inherently inferior because of where it fell in history.
> President Donald Trump’s vow to relax fuel economy rules could add momentum to the SUV and truck boom and invite General Motors Co. and Ford Motor Co. to pull the plug on some passenger cars.

Is there anything this administration won’t ruin for future generations?
As a general statement, this post doesn't fit with what I personally observe. As I mentioned elsewhere, I attend a lot of events and many of these are growing between 20 and 100% year-over-year. Maybe iOS is down for some specific reasons such as it's no longer the new thing.

I'd also say that there's been a big increase in Meetups generally. These aren't conferences per se but I could see them cutting into conferences in areas where there are a lot of them.
That’s why the word “spying” is in quotes.
For all that is good and sane S T O P naming issues with stupid marketing names .

Stop and ask why are all the cool kids in infosec naming their work ; why in English words ? Why not in Nahuatl , French , Tagalog or any other language ?

Also check my mastadon for info about the coolest attack for little median mips running upside down and only on a Tuesday called Mictlāntēcutli
I mean. Based off of his posts, he implied he took an image from a physical machine with Nvidia hardware and put it in a virtual machine (on an unspecified system with out guest additions anyway). Are you claiming a disk image of an OS running with Nvidia hardware (that used the acceleration) - with that shim installed - is not going to have that package added anymore if I just stick it in a VM? If so what mechanism would have done that?

As to your effort question. Because I want people to use these systems. As I was writing a detailed response he started writing troll responses (implying the people had read some other story and responded to his for some reason he couldn't fathom; and requiring excessive amounts of evidence) to people offering honest explanations and differing opinions. So I wrote an ending paragraph to what I had that called him out on trolling these people for "tech support" as that as the most charitable way I could view his actions.

It's frustrating when trolls take advantage of people's willingness to help with technical requests as a way to disguise shutting down disagreement by asking questions with large burdens. And then also his changing his story once they respond (often editing his posts without EDIT markers), implying they got everything about his vague statements wrong and that his evidence - his anecdotal setup - disagrees. He has set up a situation where it is easy for his anecdotal evidence to be infallible unless someone can somehow figure out his vague error which is a symptom of his misunderstanding more than it is the system, but his response to attempts to explain the system have been met with his trolling about how they are reading something different. I suspect now that his trollish behavior is a way to defend his argument and incompetence from being challenged.
But does it still make sense to have conferences so big? re:invent is so big it is extremely hard to actually attend sessions and there are logistics problems like sessions being in different far away locations. Small conferences seems usually more useful to actually connect with people that those kind of massive events.
Ask HN: What technology will take off this year?
I'm especially curious about the tech that isn't already on everybody's radar(cryptocurrencies, AI, VR, self driving cars, etc.)
My aging would be much slower with 1M
Wait, so they're not using Android? They're going to try and make their own phone OS?!

Yeah good luck with that.
DeSeatMe: Deletes all your forgotten accounts
Yes the proposed solution in the article as well as some solutions proposed here in the comments ignore decades of theory and knowledge developed in social sciences, philosophy and other subjects by thousands of thinkers.

I guess when you only have a hammer everything looks like a nail.
Over 100 new games are released on Steam every week. I hardly think YC invests in that many companies.
That, or it props up the researcher's ego / Twitter cred.
AMS below capacity? Then why are they already eyeing the small (hobby/sports) airport Lelystad for expansion? I think the Dutch government is a bit too concerned with turning Schiphol into a major European hub.
The complaint always used to be that people never talked about security enough, that the references to specific issues were too obscure, and that not enough attention was paid.

I don't know whether it was ever expected that the general populace would suddenly develop a deep interest in understanding the latest CVE-XXblahblah, but if the only complaint is the marketing then frankly I'd prefer the "people talking about vulnerabilities using cute names" over "people not talking about vulnerabilities".
That's the point. No Android. They aren't going to make a whole new OS, they are using Linux but with conventional glibc and graphics stack (Mesa / Wayland). They are relying on Etnaviv: https://github.com/etnaviv

That's a good thing. There is more than enough Android around already, we need proper Wayland based mobile Linux with open drivers, that also works on a decent usable device (and that it's privacy respectful is a huge bonus too).

Jolla for example never opened up their SailfishOS despite multiple promises (it's just too hard and not a priority for them). So Librem 5 can be that option at last.
Even if that were feasible (I doubt it is in practice), how do you do the timing analysis and send the results somewhere?
A rare look inside Apple’s expanding Reno data center
The end of the Awl and the vanishing of freedom and fun from the Internet
How to run Phoenix integration test on Circle CI 2.0
It's nice that this is open-source, but if it involves an intermediate server anyway, PushBullet also does a great job, and on various platforms: https://www.pushbullet.com/ (No affiliation)
Well, you are right about the hive mind and the popularity contest and I don't know how to solve those things easily. But what I like about the system is that it reduces negativity (to some extend). So many internet discussions are full of nonconstructive, negative criticism that I am happy that the Karma system tries to hide such comments. But obviously it has its own problems :-/
If you can install an open source Tyk gateway in your stack, you can use TLS on the Tyk Gateway to refuse HTTP outright. However, this isn't a Tyk cloud feature at present.
>"I have never met a Neoliberal"

That's because neoliberalism is not an ideology, but a label used to try to understand a historic period.

Neoliberalism would be the bastard child of neoclassic economics and liberal ideology and it can be defined by events and people that definitely exist.

The intellectual parents would be the economist in the orbit of Milton Friedman and the 'Chicago school' and the political parents would be Reagan and Thatcher. The playground rules would be the Washington Consensus [1].

The foundational charter would be the Powell Manifesto [2], that I recommend to read to everybody that want to get and insight about the last forty years.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Consensus
[2] http://reclaimdemocracy.org/powell_memo_lewis/
They won't make any friends at intel with that logo https://skyfallattack.com/apple-touch-icon.png
Weekly Machine Learning Opensource Roundup – Jan. 18, 2018
These things always go in cycles. There were once huge Unix conferences. Then Linux World tried to become all things open source and then imploded. Comdex was once, I think, the biggest conference in the world. The dynamics around Apple-related conferences is probably different but these things come and go.

Personally, I do a lot in the cloud-native, containers, DevOps, etc. space and pretty much everything event-related I see there is growing enormously.
Amazon Narrows List to 20 Locations for Second Headquarters
What a PR bullshit.
Personally I'd go for a radiobutton list, with a submit button. That way there's time to double-check your selection. Furthermore the real alert should probably pop up a bright red page with flashing warning lights and siren sounds indicating that the user is entering a serious situation.

This all is assuming that falsely sending a test alert is no big deal.
From Asymmetry to Symmetry of Information and the Change of Sales
There's not even any info on the damn site. I'm going to have to flag it because there's literally nothing to discuss about the "linked article". This is basically a marketing teaser.
Just randomize the content they're trying the scrape imho
> I'm left wondering if there's a gap in the market; c.f. Facebook vs Myspace ca.2008.

I strongly suspect there is. I'd love to take a crack at it, but I rather doubt a new social network is something one would realistically be able to bootstrap these days (you would need some serious funding for marketing to get it off the ground).
Why not Playgrounds?
Amazon Announces Candidates for HQ2
Headless browsers are used to create robots in order to automate the gaming of web-based value systems - thus diluting the value for legitimate participants. Examples:

* create fake profiles in order to boost someone's "followers" in a social network where you can monetize your "influencer" status

* click ads from a competitor in a way that would trigger fraud prevention from the ad network effectively preventing the competitor to advertise there
Most unproductive time are conferences. It's like a work-holiday but you never get really serious stuff done. It's fun though and I think it's good for humans to do something like this from time to time. It's also important if you are working in a area where networking is crucial and important.
But when looking at my day to day job as a web and backend developer I see all conferences a waste of time (I've been to a lot in the past) and only see really important topics in my pyjamas on weekends mainly on youtube. It really depends what sort of job you have... for some people conferences are the best thing ever and for other it's like "naaah, too much time and money wasted to go there"
I think at least part of it are laws around rivers/lakes/beaches about glass. I can understand why we wouldn't want people to have glass these places. So perhaps instead of having 2 different production lines with more expensive glass and cheaper plastic they just use the cheaper plastic.
Emirates does its own A380 heavy maintenance, but yeah, they'll have guaranteed the parts supplies
Cross-Platform Desktop UI in .NET with Avalonia
Amazon chooses 20 HQ2 Finalists
hejustdontcare
The issue I always take with people's first reaction to "criticism" is it somehow should only be negative. I see people who only provide negative feedback being, at best, lacking in their ability to truly analize something critically. Positive feedback isn't touchy-feely niceties to save someone's feelings. A lot of brilliance can be absent-mindely lost or discarded if the author isn't made aware that it's brilliant.

If someone creates something and only gets feedback about what's wrong with it they could be lead to conclude the entire work is worthless and throw it out. However, if you say "this part right here, though, is great and for these reasons. Keep it and do more of that" you've actually helped someone's creative process a whole lot more than just "this sucks, get rid of it."

If anything it takes more critical thinking and analysis to point out what's good about something than just ripping apart what doesn't work. 100% negative feedback is about as helpful as someone telling you "Yeah, I liked the story. It had some spelling and grammar errors but other than that it was good!" Great, you didn't tell me at all what you liked about it but then continued to tell me what spell and grammar check already did.
3 free ways to advertise your startup
Other than using 10x more resources than the original version.
Well, your basic SSH does this pretty much by default. Whatever program you execute remotely is handed stdin/stdout/stderr from your local terminal.

That's why you can do things like `ssh <foo> -e 'cat somefile' > some_localfile`

It's not always recommended, but possible.
like netcat?
N-bit machines can use N-bit lengths for strings in memory. If you're storing strings your storage format has to specify a way to decide the prefix length (or you can use some other system).

For example `std::string` uses `std::size_t` as a length which is 32-bit on 32-bit machines and 64-bit on 64-bit machines. When you serialise a string to protobuf (for example) it uses a variable-length prefix. Other formats could have fixed 4-byte prefixes or whatever they want (even null-terminated).
Ask HN: Do you believe that what you wear impacts your life?
The age old question. Curious if people here subscribe to the idea that what you wear makes a difference in how you approach life/work/etc.
Distributed Transactions
It doesn’t interact with the system clipboard.
Torvalds/uemacs
I think it is a bit more complex than that.

I think words (or opinions or ideas or whatever you want to call it) don't hurt people. People are hurt by words. By this I mean that if and how much a person is hurt by a specific set of words is entirely subjective and may be controlled consciously.

If I stab two people in the neck, it's pretty much garanteed that I've caused them harm. Not exactly the same but probably similar harm. But with something I said I cause extreme distress in some person while it is completely insignificant to another.

I usually don't try to atribute malice to people. So I try not to believe critics (or anybody) intend to cause harm by saying what they say. But I don't deny some say extreme thing with the intent of causing a reaction or ever harming some set of people.
This is what saddens me about these invite only Slack channels.

Yes the owners are free to make them invite only, but also if they're not easily discovered how are people supposed to find them?

At least with IRC or Discord or whatever you can browse channel lists, instead of trying to hammer Slack into a niche it's not even designed to fill.
Although I've never been to a developer conference in person, probably a majority of my YouTube time is listening to conference talks that are the best (or only) multimedia available about a topic. They do seem to give certain people the motivation to put together presentations that they aren't finding elsewhere. (Err, motivation that they aren't finding elsewhere.)

I hope that either conferences survive or the experience of self-producing multimedia content can somehow evolve to fill the motivation void that would be left behind.
Free things go away.

If you need geocoding we're here to help: https://geocoder.opencagedata.com

If you're looking for maps, I can recommend: http://www.thunderforest.com
Sorry I meant Teamcentre. Teamcity is great!
Atwood's Law in full effect here!

https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-principle-of-least-power/
Was it globalism that made them richer? They weren't already richer pre-globalism (say, 15 to 20 years ago)?
> 1. Invite-only increases the likelihood of an echo chamber, in my mind.

They have a great approach to recommend inviting surprising and unexpected people. I don't work in publishing or journalism and have been twice, for example.

> 2. This approach means only topics championed by those loud enough to speak up are discussed.

Same is surely true of topics presented on stages. The organisers of Newsgeist make a serious effort to unearth unusual perspectives, partly through the invite-list. Last year I debated themes with an Icelandic politician, an NYT journalist and Jimmy Wales - there's no consensus from specialism occurring there.

>4. That's good for now, but when Google an The Knight Foundation stop supporting it, who's going to pay?

Great question of course, this approach falls apart.

> 5. This is terrible. Work is for the week, weekends are my time and my work does not get to encroach on that.

To attract a mix of industry leaders the mix of weekday / weekend days is a pragmatic choice.

> 6. Great, so at the end of the day, I can't even relax in the hotel room. So the next day, I'm wiped before we even start.

It's all voluntary of course! And fascinating to observe if not participating. There are plenty of early birds who skip the late hours, or meet up for jogging at 6am.

> Honestly, this sounds awful to me.

The events can be very intense and tiring in the short term. That's because real things are happening, difficult issues are actually being resolved, voices are listened to and progress gets made. Ultimately they are seriously energising, and not for people who sit at the back or like to take time off for sightseeing.
* plagued by firewall/NAT, but connected to the internet
Amazon announces candidate cities for HQ2
If you want to make a committee and decide for everybody what should or shouldn't be worked on, by all means, go ahead. Or agitate against projects online, that works too. Should be a fun for you and funny for most others.

Or you could just contribute to a project you find suitable, for whatever reason. Should be fun for everyone.
As of this morning, all duplicate charges was cleared. Charged amounts returned to the accounts and the over draft fees was erased.
Your boss wants the output of the job. If he can have something else do the work and produce the output for him then he'll take that and fire you. You will have no money.
> support any policies that have actual firm evidence for it

A Neoliberal candidate lost the last US election because people from states whose middle class has been hollowed out by free markets and deregulation voted against them. I haven't seen them take that as "firm evidence" that economic policies that ignore important indicators of social well-being into account, like the level of inequality.

Today's Neoliberal believes that if you take everything from a poor person except their (now cheaper) imported TV and iPhone, they will be happy...because the GDP and stock market are growing. "The pie is bigger, so even though your slice is a smaller percentage, you're still better off," they say. It's too bad that they seem to think there is firm evidence that people are robots who would believe that nonsense.
I have said it before, and will say it again: I do not understand why the assumption is that fully self-driving cars will eliminate individual car ownership. What are the practical reasons to own one now, and why will they be rendered irrelevant by AI drivers?
EMINEM-Hall OF FAME
The term you’re looking for is speculation, not specialization, but no, I don’t think it does either. C++ and other languages targeting WASM often do type specialization, but it’s entirely done before the browser sees WASM, and has nothing to do with what you’re describing. (Which would be speculative compilation).

I’d imagine that nobody does speculative compilation since the benefit is too low given how fast the network is. Also, yes, there would be security concerns.
"Installation" - Game over.

Relevant: https://xkcd.com/949
Uber close to scrapping human backups in self-driving cars
Pioneers, Settlers, Town Planners
All web automation and automation prevention is a cat and mouse game where you never stop the scrapers, you just create more effort for them. It’s like traditional and digital security in that regard, except that security often has an element of difficulty in overcoming it (cryptography, thickness of physical barriers), whereas stopping web scraping is about adding more trivial things to make the process more complicated.

Eventually, human browsing and headless browsing converge. Nobody wants to make the human browsing experience bad, so the headless browsing continues.

In my opinion, if you’re running a site that is existentially threatened by someone else having your content, you need something else for your moat.
You may be right. Wouldn't it be better to run it as a competition or something in that case?

Anyway, it doesn't inspire confidence - developing a game and getting it published (especially on a physical Switch cartridge) is much more expensive than hiring an artist. How do they expect to succeed? Why aren't they crowdfunding?
Trains also carry freight. Make more off of that in fact. So passenger benefits are kind of moot?
I do like Java, but sometimes get a bit pissed off how things went, because we had "an environment where it was easy to create complex applications quickly as well" in the form of Smalltalk, VB, Delphi and C++ Builder.

With the exception of Smalltak, all had native code generation, then Java happened.
What led you to choose Pony for this project?
Christophilus, thank you so much for taking the time for writing such a thoughtful response. I will try some of the things you mentioned. About a month back I deleted my Whatsapp account because I realized I was compulsively checking it. It has brought me some relief. The silent retreat you suggested indeed sounds right even though I find it scary because I have never once attempted to remain silent for a decent length of time. It may be needed to break my compulsive use of smartphone, surfing web.