skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My S5 has expandable storage, NFC, replaceable battery, headphone jack, RGB notification light, hall effect sensor (for flip covers), fingerprint reader, wireless charging, and even an IR emitter (which I use heavily). It's even decently water resistant.

It seems like every phone since then has dropped at least one of those in favor of (to me) useless things like edge-to-edge displays or curved glass sides.

I'd love to see a new phone (Samsung or otherwise) with all the same features, but if one exists it hasn't been well marketed.
Salesforce investing $2B in Canada, as U.S. tech firms head north
Bay Area News Group Hammered by More Layoffs, Resignations
Also anecdotal, I've used uber in DC many times, and many, many, many times in Toronto. Almost every driver I have has was supplementing their income.
Does it have to be though? I'm sure reading/writing were thought the same for women/blacks/etc.. at some point in history.
What would Russel have to say about a parking ticket under the wiper on the roadster? Or "wash me" scrawled in space dust on its rear hatch...
> If people don't like the concept, they don't really understand it.

I think plenty of people understand it, they just don't agree with it. Why wouldn't humans use every advantage available to them to succeed? It's a tough world out there and people want to thrive and survive, they'd also like to pass along the fruits of their labor to their offspring. That's how nature works.

There will always be a will to be the best, it doesn't matter if the demographics of people with economic advantages shift. I don't imagine we'll ever see people willfully make their lives more difficult and we shouldn't expect them to.
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As far as we’ve been led to believe, yes to both. It is supposedly a fully typical and operational Tesla Roadster.
Thanks - just sent you guys $50.
But paying into a pension is optional.

And to the extent that it's not (e.g. National Insurance): it should be.
Explicit limits on density and construction are unambiguously responsible for too-low levels of density and housing construction. That’s not “government can’t do anything right” - that’s “government works.” When you design public policy around single family homes and car-dependence, that’s what you get.
How to beat imposter syndrome
Cryptocurrency Trader Sues T-Mobile for Giving Hackers Control of His Account
Could Thunderbird be configured to open a web browser to display the message if it's not rendered properly?
Further to this, my £10 credit for missed deliveries could only be applied to items sold by and shipped from Amazon. No third party sellers. It also only showed up right at the end of the checkout process just before the final click.

Mentioning because I both thought I hadn’t been credited with it (first time of chasing Amazon I actually hadn’t it turned out...) and then was miffed I could only use it on a subset of items.
3. Gigster with intent to steal. Absolutely no way to tell lost vs damaged vs misdelivery vs opened & reboxed vs stolen. It just never madr it
This is a tale about what dedication to backward compatibility implies
>Making Facebook good for democracy is not entirely altruistic. (emphasis mine)

This is the crux of the issue: what authority does anyone have to insist that a company should act in a manner consistent with their subjective view of what is 'good for democracy'?

What fair standards could exist that would limit Facebook's appeal without also upending the gambling industry, the entertainment industry, the food industry etc.?

Given that Facebook is not physically harming, stealing from, or unfairly discriminating against it's users, who use the service voluntarily, what infractions are they making that requires government intervention?

Since when is it not the right and responsibility of parents to judge which activities are healthy and productive for their child? Since when does the same right and responsibility for an adult not exclusively apply to themselves, outside of criminal activity?

My solution is the same as Lisa Simpson's in that Treehouse of Horror where giant corporate logos come to life and wreak havoc across Springfield: Just Don't Look!
well if the size of your country fits into most US states that's not a real accomplishment. Reduced land mass and a mature postal system... you would expect that.
Some Reddit subforums are good. Just avoid the front page like the plague.
Is there a good reason for Google not to help vlc, as it's making the Chromecast more accessible? Chromecast doesn't seem that innovative?
I guess you installed from binary then?
I share to pocket on my phone and create a backlog of interesting articles. Since they're cached I'm able to read some of the lighter ones on the tube to and from work. Worth noting that my backlog grows faster than I can read it.

Unlike the top comment on this post I mainly dont pay attention to the comments apart from an initial glance and I only save the article link to pocket. That's the opposite of my browsing habits on Reddit where I usually pay attention to the comments more than the articles.
Machine learning ethics
If you can't understand the results of a design experiment, that makes your web dev job harder.
I'm with you 100% on technical instructional videos in general. It is absolutely the worst medium for the simple fact that you usually need to go back over the steps multiple times the first time you do something.
Soros regularly uses his wealth to pursue political aims throughout the world. He often does this through "philanthropic" groups. For example, UK news stories have been popping up about him spending £700,000 on anti-Brexit movements. The Koch brothers might be a similar comparison?

I think that they become bogeymen because their wealth provides substantial power and they're involved with controversial things. On the other hand, people like the Gates focus more on "dry" issues. (Edit: or maybe they have better PR!)
> I'm pretty sure 90% of us would just look for a Stack Exchange question

When you're starting from scratch, I think the bigger barrier isn't "where do I store this data", it's "what the hell is data"? Try to explain to a computer illiterate person that the latest Mariah Carey CD is just a really big number and you'll get a glimpse of this. The person who knows they can jump on Stack Exchange is already past the worst part of the learning curve.
Depends on how things come in and out, who built the facility, etc.

It's not the first time things like this have happened http://www.cryptomuseum.com/covert/bugs/selectric/index.htm
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https://letsencrypt.org/getting-started/

With Shell Access and automatic renewal, what could possibly go wrong?

What happens to all the web sites if the Let's Encrypt certificates, one day, expire?
I would guess being good hits the first mark, being good and knowing someone who can pay a lot that knows you're good hits the second mark.

Perhaps the second mark not only includes being good and knowing someone, but being good and providing a larger value, like being able to analyze and communicate with a company and quantitatively save them money through business process automation.
Great feedback, I have actually done a lot to pare it down since we launched open alpha last Halloween. Typically people know now to make forum posts for long-term discussions and to come chat in Discord for quick back and forth. Nobody has actually used the contact form on the site, now that you mention it.

My team of community manager volunteers is pretty active with moderation in-game and out-of-game so it's gotten pretty good. But still, I think I need to isolate myself and the other developers from the public, because it can be really demoralizing when you spend 30-40 hours of free time per week on a side project for free and you hear some terrible things.
> What's missing is a LetsEncrypt-style effort to make it easy for people in non-managed environments to get and renew certificates.

This is a far harder problem than it looks. Let's Encrypt basically relies on a demonstration of control of a web server, and the resulting certificate is only as strong as that validation. For email, the way you can demonstrate control is in being able to read and send emails originating from an address... but the point of S/MIME is to secure against other people who can also do that.

That's sort of the conundrum with email encryption. Your connections to and from the email server are encrypted (assuming you're not using an idiotic client, but if you care about encryption, this assumption is valid). Most traffic (~80%) between the major service providers at large is already encrypted. So the only people who can access your email in the first place are the people who can access your email account, namely you, anyone you give access to, and administrators on your email server. Any practical way of rolling out universal encryption is going to have to involve the latter party anyways, so there's little point to going for automatic universal encryption at the S/MIME-level: making the MX/MX links be SSL and banning non-SSL connections at the MUA level are much more effectual.
I wish I could give direct examples but it's happened a few times when traveling. I believe they were all boingo hotspots but not 100% sure.
So, from the Southampton link below:

> The information encoding is realised in five dimensions: the size and orientation in addition to the three dimensional position of these nanostructures.

I still think this is a bit disingenuous, it is a three-dimensional encoding. Would people consider a colour photograph as encoding four dimensional information when its pixels are represented as (x, y, brightness, colour) for example? How many dimensions does writing have?
If you use either Google and Facebook on your phone they do know where you live. Most likely they know where you work, how you get there, your voice (Google), your income, your demographic information, what websites you visit, what you buy, who your friends and family are and what you look like.

Google and Facebook buy the data from those credit agencies and they resell that data to the highest bidder numerous times a day. Google and Facebook have far more data on anyone in the US than any credit agency ever will.
What about original sin?
Unfortunately, what Cato says is very worrying (1). Primarily, they highlight court cases in which Social Security is pulled away from people, and reaffirmed by SCOTUS. This is the troubling quote:

The Court’s decision was not surprising. In an earlier case, Helvering v. Davis (1937), the Court had ruled that Social Security was not a contributory insurance program, saying, “The proceeds of both the employee and employer taxes are to be paid into the Treasury like any other internal revenue generally, and are not earmarked in any way.”

We would likely have a national riot if Social Security was just yanked at once. But if my own life is any guess, the age to qualify for "benefits" keeps going higher and higher. It's theft by attrition, and backed as not theft by courts.

I do not agree with CATO's eventual policy of "privatization" at all. The other choice, which was not posited, was to earmark the funds, keep them segregated from the general fund. Then do the right thing and set Social Security as a guarantee at the same age for everyone. And, remove that cap.

(1) https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/is-there-right-...
Having been very deep down that rabbit hole of misinformation, it is a miracle that I was able to resurface again with pretty much the same left leaning political stance that I had when I entered.

One important takeaway though: "Critical thinking" is important. I'm not sure if people want it though. It is sad that political news and social media are treated as entertainment rather than as a tool. People are very quick to band together around a cause if it will make them feel like a part of something without investigating if that cause is based on any sort of factual information. And "fact checking" is definitely not the solution to this because that is also subject to the same bias.

Education is the treatment we have right now. Keep having students read and discuss Lord of the Flies, 1984, and Brave New World. Having skeptical 15-30 year olds will lead to more intuitive solutions down the road.
Currently the only way to exploit this would be a Hollywood style infiltration of a human, at which point a usb stick might be easier to use to get in and out quick...
https://youtu.be/ar0xLps7WSY
This is my favorite book ever. However, another commenter mentioned that having studied classical economics a bit is an important precursor to really understanding this book— I agree with that assessment.
Found a good description:

> So what exactly do they mean by 5-dimensional? Traditionally, we think of our universe in terms of the 4 known and easily perceptible dimensions. The first 3 dimensions are our directions of movement or an XYZ axis; the 4th dimension is traditionally thought of as time. These 4 dimensions combined are referred to as spacetime. Unfortunately, this can cause quite a bit of confusion. The 5-dimensional discs made by the University of Southampton are not time traveling devices that can view parallel universes, but instead tiny patterns printed on 3 layers within the discs. Depending on the angle they are viewed from, these patterns can look completely different. This may sound like science fiction, but it's basically a really fancy optical illusion. In this case, the 5 dimensions inside of the discs are the size and orientation in relation to the 3-dimensional position of the nanostructures. The concept of being 5-dimensional means that one disc has several different images depending on the angle that one views it from, and the magnification of the microscope used to view it. Basically, each disc has multiple layers of micro and macro level images.

https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/news/5d-data-storage-how-do...
Thunderbird is not maintained by Mozilla, and those new hires are not by Mozilla, so it should not affect Firefox. It might affect desktop Thunderbird, of course.
>primarily because they can charge more for micro transactions and private servers this way as far as I can tell.

It also hurts the game's image if many servers spam players with "Donate $20/mo for the MASTER rank and get exclusive weapons that deal twice the damage of normal weapons!"

I haven't played in a while but I remember playing Minecraft when I was still in school and servers were filled with this- many would let you donate hundreds for admin/OP/whatever, many would restrict core parts of the game to "donating" members (such as mining certain ores, going into certain areas, etc).
Eventually it got so bad that Mojang actually had to step in and (vaguely) threaten to sue any server owner who does this - http://andrewtian.com/mojang-threatens-lawyers-against-pay-t...

Also, admins that can ban players for any reason, who are picked by the server owners (and not the devs), can result in backlash if someone influential is banned.
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I don't think they were actually cropped, I think the way they setup the roadster on an "incline" and then placed camera mounts to capture the driver means that none of them are pointed 'down' at the 2nd stage.

See http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2018/02/08/16/48FF7CDC0000057... for camera positions.

To get a picture of both, you'd really need alot more distance away, or to be looking mostly 'down' towards the payload adapter.
This is one piece of the puzzle certainly if man is going to look beyond Earth. If a Mars colony for instance was indeed established there would be some interesting data transfer and communication problems to work out in order to effectively transfer information and knowledge:

Mars at its closest is 58 million km (36 million miles) away from Earth. It varies though and can be as far as 100 million km (63 million miles).

That's about 192 seconds to 333 seconds of latency which an electromagnetic signal would have to traverse each way.

I can't dig up what the maximum permissable latency of a TCP based network is but I'd imagine 5 minutes exceeds it. Even if you created a network in which a 5 minute latency is acceptable your throughput would be ridiculously low.

There would likely have to be proxies and relays along the way to ensure acceptable performance but in itself the problem would require a lot of resources to effectively solve. I wonder if SpaceX is actively looking at offworld comms or if they hope organizations like Arch will attempt to solve it. Either way, an exciting time to be an engineer!
Nintendo Switch Successfully Boots Linux
That looks great and it’s relatively affordable. I’ll dig into it.
The prior art cited in that news item only invalidated 'patent 936'. (That's my comment there, 3rd from top). The infringement claims were thrown out earlier than that (September 2017, IIRC).
That's application specific, not protocol specific. Or maybe I didn't understand your comment? Could you be more specific about what DTLS doesn't provide for streaming that QUIC could have provided?
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First, I've never been in a SCIF as far as I know. That said, one of the history classes at USC was "Espionage and Terrorism" (which was a killer History elective if you were an engineering major) and the professor discusses various tradecraft strategies. One of which is local recording.

Because "bugs" that transmit are susceptible to being sniffed by RF signal detectors, opponents would disguise devices which could record their environment, and figure out ways to 'leave' them in places of interest and recover them later.

Because I've not been in a SCIF I don't know if it gets janitorial service or any regular maintenance at all but if it did, then that might be how this might work.

Mostly I was responding to the challenge of "it's only 100cm and you can't transmit anyway" assertion that the vulnerability was not exploitable. I'm expect someone could figure out how to exploit it.
It is exactly the same as Mark, but I am arguing it is worse than XML/HTML for these scenarios.
Oh hey they take donation in crypto currency! Nice! I wish more open source projects did.
My advice for them?

Don't tell people you paid for a coding bootcamp.

Without fail, every single "code bootcamp" that has applied for a job here has had a horrible resume. They didn't have anything on their resume that wasn't from the bootcamp, and even that was horrible.

And they generally failed our "use Flickr's API to get some images" test that we give out. Miserably.

I think we ended up interviewing 1 of them, out of dozens, and they just weren't worth trying out.

So now, when I see that on a resume, I groan. I still go look at whatever's on their Github, but I'm already primed to fail them. They would have been better off having nothing on the resume and anything in their portfolio.
Just tested it in Safari 10 on Sierra and Safari 11 on High Sierra and it worked fine in both - so the issue is very likely something on your end.
A review on siacoin would be great..
I would happily run that.
There is more and more pressure to signal fame & success...

It's a big act that needs constant reinforcement via social media.

Our narcissism has reached a fever pitch while the traditional methods of success no longer support the aspirational narrative.

It's no longer work hard, goto college, get a house and family..

Everyone needs to be a motivational / spiritual / business guru with a million followers, "passive income" and a schedule of traveling the world to exotic locales.

That lifestyle is also required now, not in 50 years, so fake it till you make it and bring on the debt / Airbnb / Lyft "sidehustle".

CryptoCurrency is the only lottery ticket left that provides any appearance of hope of covering people's bets and supports the current narratives of unbounded wealth with little to no work.
That still definitely sets the record for most miles traveled by an automobile.
Im sure they have a form for that.
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Slightly off topic, but I'm working on putting together a newsletter aimed at career advice for junior software engineers and bootcamp graduates. It will focus more on the soft skills side of engineering. I've gained enough experience in my career where I feel I can offer advice for career advancement for people just starting out their careers. It's something I never had when I first started and I haven't been able to find a lot of solid advice more than a blog post here and there.

If you're interested you can take a look at the first post and subscribe if you think it would he helpful.
https://exponentialbackoff.substack.com/
Perhaps this quick settlement is driven (sic) by the possibility that self-driving cars don't work, and neither party wants that situation to be exposed in open court?
Internet of Things - security is literally the last thing on their mind, even the name points it out lmao
I think “privilege” because the right is not the norm. Like “black lives matter (, too!)” because being black and having respect for your life and freedom is not the norm, at all.

In a situation where not being exposed to massive dangers and obstacles is a rare occasion, I think it is fair to classify that as a privilege.

White / wealthy / male / educated / citizen of the US, all indicate the top parts of pyramids of oppression and massive obstacles.

The blind acceptance of these structures by the ones standing on top of them, is the actionable part. We (I am definitely amongst the privileged) can’t easily see the nature of the structures, the way we don’t choke on clean air.

But once we’re aware of them, our responsibility kicks in. Not taking actions to actively challenge these structures makes us complicit and defines where we stand.

The anger of the ones living life on “extra hard” so that we can live ours on “quite/super easy” or even “normal”, is fully justified. We are passive perpetrators, there’s no way around it.

Very uncomfortable.
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> https://www.sequelpro.com/ (Mac and MySQL -only, donationware).

sequelpro is open source: https://github.com/sequelpro/sequelpro
Second Airflow - fantastic app on both Windows and Mac. I donated.
Used to use these in work until our internal security team banned all desktop clients. "Just works" is incredibly charitable.
I still remember zipping/splitting files to fit on floppies. I permanently have the number 1457664 (size of a 1.44MB 3.5") in my head.
To borrow a phrase from reddit: name checks out.
I actually have a high-deductible health plan which will pay 100% of the cost for preventative care (like influenza vaccinations).

Even so, that's more money that the insurance company is paying out that could just as well be paid for directly everyone who gets the vaccine. If routine care was affordable without having to involve insurance, then insurance premiums wouldn't be as high and the out-of-pocket costs for medical care wouldn't be as high either.
> However, this seems like a major change in the vision of the internet to me. So has the internet community at large now agreed that we want to get rid of middleboxes completely?

Quite the opposite: Middleboxes are traditionally considered rule breakin kludges, they were never never part of the vision of the internet, or even allowed by the standards. The internet vision was end-to-end architecture, and global addressability, and a dumb network that does routing in a best-effort fashion in order enable host-to-host communication. IPv6 is an attempt to keep this all working.

(And no, inspecting your own personal traffic on your own private network does not traditionally count as middleboxing)