skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an interesting conversation to have as I used to feel very similarly, until getting to experience a nation where there are really no rules or regulations on food at all. It's actually what started reshaping my general view towards regulations in general. Think about the implication of your statement/belief. You're implying that the primary reason restaurants aren't making people sick, en masse, is because of rules and regulations.

The restaurant industry is one place where self regulation works surprisingly well. Think about your own experience, as it's true for just about everybody. When you choose to go out you most often go to one of a handful of the same restaurants. What happens if you get sick at a place? You're probably not going back there. And you're also probably going to tell your friends. If you're particularly upset you might even post some less than friendly reviews of the restaurant. That restaurant, with one mistake, converts a high value customer into a one man image destruction machine. And now let's imagine it wasn't a one off, but this restaurant actually makes a significant number of people sick - even if on just one a single day. They're pretty much dead.

All the rules and regulations make it much harder for people to start new restaurants. In most states you're looking at several permits and associated educational courses just to be able to even call yourself a restaurant. And then don't forget to fact in the fees for the permits, the fees for the classes, and plenty of more fees on top of that. Basically you end up having to pay the government a whole lot of money just to be able to sell the food you've probably already been making your friends and family for years if not decades.

And this leads to utterly ridiculous scenes like this [1]. How dare a man try to sell some hotdogs without asking the government for permission. Time to take all the money out of his wallet, fine him, and probably schedule a court date too. By contrast, you can be completely certain that 100% of McDonald's franchises have every single government fee and permit covered inside out. But that does little to stop people ending up with their food being mishandled, and in some cases intentionally. The big thing you'll see in industries with heavy regulation is a trends towards centralization. Here [2] are some actual data on this 'golden age of restaurants', though the ridiculous number of chains itself is more indicative of the issue than a recent slump.

[1] - https://streamable.com/3dvge

[2] - https://www.npd.com/wps/portal/npd/us/news/press-releases/20...
Yes, certainly. Large companies have good relationships with the cloud providers and have "necks to strangle" when things go south. But unfortunately that's not everyone on these providers. You've gotta grow up from a lil ol startup (when you hopefully start using all these cool technologies suggested) to a big company before you get the attention and during that time... you can get majorly screwed.
It boggles my mind that this was cited as a positive anecdote.

If you believe in markets and capitalism, then it makes perfect sense to consider children investing into the returns of capitalism (By, say, buying an index fund) to be a good thing. You expect the economy to grow, you know that the economic system encourages wealth to flow to investors, you want everyone to be an investor, all is well in the world, let's have a drink and move on.

With cryptocurrencies, though, its all pump and dumps and spirit advice animals, and 'everyone decided that these baseball cards are worth a lot of money, so let's trade them around' while the Tether Printing press is going full swing.

Capitalism insists that we'll all be better off if money is invested into businesses. It, or its proxy effects has given us automobiles, iPhones, and has funded and built millions of profitable businesses that solve trillions of dollars of user needs.

What exactly has the crypto mania built? You believe that cryptocurrencies will build worthwhile businesses? Why did Bitcoin grow 10000% over the last 18 months, then? Why is IOTA worth 6 billion dollars? It's as if a bunch of people looked at Wall Street, and said: "Gee, wouldn't it be amazing to make as much money as they do, but without the side effect of financing the economy that gave us airplanes and automobiles and cellphones and the McRib.

What is the social ROI on the money and electricity wasted on the crypto-bubble? People argue that once all externalities are accounted for, it is negative for capitalism, but at least we can all point to a Prius, or a 767, or a grocery store, or a 300-unit condo in Seattle, and say: "Well, it played an important role in building that."
That had been a good long read; thanks for linking again
> IMHO, They should rename the S in HTTPS to $.

This is an absurd thing to say when Let's Encrypt exists.
Remote arbitrary file disclosure vulnerability. Please fix the submission title.
I like having the same player across systems and haven't ever had problem with HD in it; basically, no incentive to leave VLC. I've probably used it for about 10 years now, and it's always done the job. Why wouldn't it be worth using?
Screen tearing and muddy audio were prime problems among them.
While I definitely agree with you that VLC is a gem I'd like to add that on Windows there's a - AFAIK - more feature-rich open source project called MPC-HC.

My main reason for using it over VLC is that it's comically easy to download (just press "D") and sync subtitles (pause in the beginning of a sentence -> CTRL+6 -> select sentence -> F5).
Last time I checked this was a lot harder in VLC. It required a trial-and-error method to try and get the correct delay.
maybe because a lot of the potential people you might want to donate actually use paypal?

there's already monero and bitcoin donation addresses there, but paypal is something most people already know about and can deal with (from multiple currencies around the globe).
coursera has a great course on self-driving cars. the only prerequisite is a college course in linear algebra and some python knowledge. If you don't have either of the two the course is still very much approachable - you'll just have to learn two (or three) things at the same time, so expect to double (or triple) the time you sink into it.

It's worth it
I was in a small group of people having an intimate (private) conversation in a church. Out of nowhere we were interrupted by a Windows computer sitting in a cabinet, connected to the booming AV system: "I'm sorry, I didn't get that. I'm sorry, I didn't catch that."

I hate these things.
Their easy multi-platform support makes VLC a no-brainer for even non-tech people.(through recommendations of course)
Yes, it's so bad: Poor white kids are less likely to go to prison than rich black kids "https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/...

"One in ten Black males in their thirties is in prison or jail in the United States." That's insane.
you are an annoying person.
Summary: Operating an interdependent service environment at scale is hard to do if you have multiple areas with heavy technical debt + known breakage and no testing past 'x'.

IMO this is shit soup of the modern day. These guys explain it away better than most.
Mozilla has plenty of money. If they truly cared about an open internet as they claim, they would be taking better care of Thundebird. It is by far the most popular open source mail client, and email is something that needs to be saved from the evil clutches of FB messenger and the like.
Do libraries get bad press? Are you serious?
For software developers (and in fact, for the general public), the smart play is to rely on real engineers to provide mechanical, electric, or electronic failsafes in their designs.
> How else would you practically verify integrity for web browsing?

Download a signature once, verify any file before rendering it. You could even control this behavior using an HTTP header if you wanted granular control. It would be a trivial extension.

Today, nobody verifies that content was created by the author. That content can be subverted on the web server, and this is how malware is distributed today. Verifying content with a signature would actually be more secure than just TLS.

> What's wrong about caring about your privacy?!

Ignoring all the other concerns for the sake of it, is what's wrong.

> ISPs that want to tamper with connections to inject their ads can fuck off and die in a fire. That is more unethical than anything Google has ever done.

Google reads your e-mails and search history and tracks where you go on the internet, and sells the information to advertisers, who then display the ads no matter where you are or what you're looking at - including over HTTPS pages.
Being a star athlete is highly correlated with having a risk insensitive personality.

According to whom?
I would imagine it's the constant problem-solving with real-world, "dirty" problems. You can't take the fact that your crops are failing through a debugger and reason about it line-by-line. You can't quickly run another simulation. You can't insert a single solution at one point and know that it won't affect the rest of the application.

Your answers are always based on fuzzy data, experience, and intuition. Your solutions will always affect the local ecosystem of the crops, and cause hard-to-predict chain reactions.

...but I'm not a farmer, so I'm just guessing.
If you are still on Mac, you should check out IINA(https://github.com/lhc70000/iina). I switched to it when I needed to watch 4k videos on my Macbook and it out-performs VLC.
I think VLC's cross-platform compatibility hurts it here as IINA uses some Mac specific APIs.
Equifax Hack Might Be Worse Than You Think
I think it might be because they engineered their own solutions for decoding those. Licensing fees usually need to be paid out when you use the decoder made by the company. If you figure out the format and roll your own decoder, though, I think you don't have to pay licensing fees, especially when the software is non-commercial. You can't pay for VLC so there's no damages.
I had a package delivered to my work and the Amazon guy gave it to some random person in the building. Didn't even bother to come to the Suite #
Chrome could easily turn this warning off for private network address blocks. I wonder if this has been discussed, and if so why was it rejected?
Why is there a pop-up window?
Electron has more permissive licensing. I'm open to suggestions for a light weight alternative to Electron has an equally permissive license and still looks good. I've done some research and I'm not sure what I can legally do using Qt without open-sourcing my app. This may sound like FUD, because it is, I am uncertain what the legal situation is, can't get a straight answer, and fear I might end up facing a lawsuit or $500 a month in licensing fees. I'm just looking to experiment with a side project and a little passive income, I'm not doing anything that would justify $500 a month.
My hosting service makes no money from me installing Let's Encrypt on my sites. Is that available on your hosting provider?
I don't disagree. I was just assuming that either the computers were removed when being maintained (laptops?) or otherwise inaccessible / turned off.
Related story:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/social-issues/how-compa...
I thought this was going to be about compiling regular expressions, which is how CL-PPCRE (https://edicl.github.io/cl-ppcre/) manages to be faster than C. Better algorithms beat compilation, though.
The Astrophysicists Who Faked It (2016)
Riot Games is using XMPP to provide in-game chat for League of Legends.
Eh. Books, water filters, video games, camera lenses/filters, bags, lawn fertilizer, shoes, movies. All of that stuff is definitely cheaper on amazon than anywhere else. Big ticket items especially. Factor in 5% back, and you get most of your tax, or straight up 5% off tax free items. Can't really beat 2day prime shipping, and no hassle returns.
SpaceX aims to make history 3 more times in 2018
Kahoot Music played by 4 Violins
Forging a quantum leap in quantum communication
One Amazon delivery guy knocked on my door so aggressively around 7am that I thought he was trying to break in.
Yes, the Number type in JS is defined as IEEE 754 64-bit floating point number. The result would be the same everywhere.
I've always had great experiences with VLC, on any platform, for as long as I can remember using it. Cheers!
Could be an exception to the rule, but the highest profile athlete bankruptcy recently is from a hockey player

http://ftw.usatoday.com/2016/11/columbus-blue-jackets-jack-j...
Because of the Fed, which is an organization many people don't want manipulating (devaluing) their currency. Monetary freedom is a big draw for many in the crypto community.
Some people knew, others didn’t. “People know” is a nebulous and misleading concept. Today people know that vaccines are effective without causing autism, but um, yeah. Today people in much of the world don’t know or believe that smoking is harmful, and those places are the emerging markets for tobacco.

Besides, there’s knowing, and accepting. See AGW.

Edit: to clarify, people can be strongly influenced to disregard what is known in favor of what “feels right” or serves their perceived interests. Simply instilling knowledge in the absence of the ability to critically examine said knowledge is insufficient.
One thing is, for tech companies, generally if you're in court you're losing. It sucks away time, money, attention, and PR from the rest of the company.
Bonus points for using AWS AI services to power this over AWS Lambda.
> Spinlock fixes and support for Motorola 68K and 88K architectures

I'm astounded that they support those architectures
>> federated authentication

> What is it?

Think Jabber, AD, kerberos, email... those are federated environments.

Basically you tie a user to a domain, have some way to discover all domains, and design an authentication that can be trustworthy enough for the interaction of multiple domains. The end result is that your username is (more or less) trusted on other domains.

Of course, it does not mean that what I'm building is limited to federation, but it simplifies a lot of things after a while.

> There is a "message authentication hash" being sent in messages and I can't see anything about that in the spec, so that might be it?

By the name it is either that or you are talking about the MAC of each packet, but it could be that, yes.

> * I don't think it makes much sense to prove that you own the IP after the handshake has been done. It's mostly a countermeasure to DoS attacks for the very first handshake message

> * The client should actually be able to roam and change IP without having to re-negotiate a secure connection with the server, as long as it uses the same 64-bit connectionID.

Yes, I think only QUIC has such a mechanism. It was probably introduced exactly to handle roaming stations, and avoid having to require another check before the server can send data to the new IP. If no such check is in place, then you could start a file transfer and then spoof the source IP to that of someone you wanted to DoS.
In Machining, it is common to refer to that as 5 dimensions. I.e. a machine would be controlled on:

X = Left to right
Y = front to back
Z = up and down
a = axial rotation (yaw)
b = radial rotation (pitch)

The names and setups can differ on different machines, but this is the common setup because it influences how to physically manipulate a part relative to a machine in order to make it.

An example of this might look like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fjzhygzafr0&t=9s
An interesting approach might be a service where you could post your preferences, accessible to drivers of any service automatically when they're out to give you your package. Security implications would be nontrivial, though.
Ten years ago I interviewed for the head QA and Community Manager position. I flew out, did interviews, got back, even received an offer for the job, but then I was told the offer was rescinded because they felt they didn't need to fill that position.

Ten years later, people don't know the project exists, it doesn't have a forum or community.
The page executes my code, and my code contains the alert() command.
I don't see why they couldn't add mongo support to this. If it had mongo support I'd buy it instantly
Since only the keypair is cached, certificates are generated on each startup. This means they never expire (unless you run your application without any interruptions for a whole year).

But yeah, if they're leaked you just gotta re-send them to the clients. This isn't meant for large professional projects, only for stuff where the convenience outweights the pros of using a proper certificate.
I would argue that most people who studied an empirical discipline in college and did ok (good school and/or good grades) can pick up a paper and, using the internet, understand and critique it creatively within three weeks. The basic idea of science (minus a little nuance) is "I'll believe it when I see it, and I can show that it can't be explained otherwise." This isn't too much to think about.

If a paper doesn't link back to its foundations directly (citations) and clarify its assumptions, that isn't the fault of the reader.

One really dumb thing that many academics do is, in an effort to be respected in their field or accepted to a solid paper or a good conference, they write obscurely. With very few exceptions, this results in bad science writing because the point of science writing is to express clearly and precisely the steps and formulations that lead to an ideological or project accomplishment. But that bad writing doesn't make the paper less intelligible for normal people. It simply makes it take longer to read, for a typical person.

One of the reasons it's easier to understand research than to do it, is that it's easier to verify a solution than to create it. This is the famous Columbus' Egg, and it is a principle that should be well known to computer scientists who understand the time complexity of verification versus solution.

So, I argue that basic science literacy is enough to understand and critique. Verification of an idea is different than creating it. Papers that don't reference how they fit into their field are flawed in a way that can't be blamed on the reader. Obscure, bad writing doesn't change the meaning of a paper, even if it hides it. And the basic tool of science is a pretty accessible idea.
Another day, another bullshit piece about facebook. There has been daily hitpieces on facebook for months now.
Pretty expensive to call it a toy. The Altair 8800 was $2000 in current dollars for the kit, $3000 assembled. The Apple II would be $5K now, the IBM PC $8K.
Here's the story http://nanocrew.net/2005/06/23/vlc-cone/

One day, people from the VIA association (VIA is a students’ network association with many clubs … amongst those is VideoLAN.) came back drunk with a cone. They then began a cone collection (which is now quite impressive I must say). Some time later, the VideoLAN project began and they decided to use the cone as their logo.
4chan is a threat to human civilization because of its use of images? I think you'll be happy to hear that one of the most common forms of 4chan post is "greentext", a specific kind of long form story. Some of these break the character count cap by many, many posts. And many of these get sizable reactions from the userbase.

4chan, like life, is what you make of it.

If you want to regain your long form writing ability, you could try taking a Moleskine or small pad with you when you travel. You can use it as a way to help create content while you're out and about, as a replacement for your phone.

Additionally, if you're tech inclined, setting up a blog has become easier than ever before.
To be honest, yes. The web was designed for hyperlinked documents. 90% of what I use the web for is still following links to pages with text and images. It is an unfortunate historical accident that people are trying to build thick client interactive applications using a technology envisioned and designed for sharing documents.
The VideoLAN organization behind VLC is based in France; software patents are not recognized in Europe.

Problem solved!
Logistics in the UK are quite different than in the US. In fact, I always thought the UK was a bit more innovative when it came to shipping. For example, shipping lockers are still quite new in the US. In fact, I think Amazon owns the only lockers I've ever seen in person.

As a side note, I will also apologize if you've ever used Yodel, since a small part of my development efforts went towards their early logistics systems.
Another place where it came up, but probably on purpose was our annual security refresher course. In the old days this was basically a slide deck with a multiple choice quiz at the end. You could breeze through it in 10 minutes because the content was always the same and the questions were obvious.

That was replaced by an unskippable video system where you have to sit through a full hour of people not emailing their passwords to phishers and remembering to lock their screen when they walk away from their desk. It's miserable.
Today's software developers are the ivory tower architects of tomorrow
There's been good discussion quite a few of the times this has been posted. Check the "past" link below the submission info at the top for a quick search of all the submissions.
H5mag releases version 2.8 with Print/PDF Artboard
VivifyScrum - https://www.vivifyscrum.com. It's free for smaller projects (and very feature-complete) but robust enough for the largest of projects (and very affordable @ $8/user/mo.). They also have a native app for both desktop and mobile. I'm not affiliated with them in any way. I'm just a very satisfied user.
Contrary to popular belief, hind-sight is even more muddled and confused than the present : ) I really wanted to be an archeologist, but I thought it was too impractical. In general I was too "practical" in my life choices. I wish I had at least tried vagabonding at bit combined with writing, looking for something - adventure or I don't know what. That, however, it probably naive. Real world choices were much more difficult and uncertain and my memory is inadequate.
A poor white man is less likely to be convicted than a rich black man. So, the racial devise is larger than the economic one.

I don't think the term white privilege is great, but it is a massive injustice that's IMO worth talking about.
But like Sequel Pro, it only supports MySQL.
Introduction to Asynchronous Iteration
This sort of exploit is attractive to state actors with virtually unlimited budgets. For them, it might be quite practical. The CIA has been toying with insect-sized remote controllable flying vehicles for decades. Stick a USB stick and magnetic receiver on one of them and you've basically got your exploit.

You and I wouldn't spend 20 man-years and $50 million to do that, but our government definitely would if there were a chance to, say, disrupt Iran's nuclear ambitions for a few months.
They do exist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_black_NHL_players
You feel bad for delivery workers, because they have work to do? I'm not sure they feel the same way.
Sounds like you guys should be hiring self-learners. If someone has taken multiples years of teaching themselves from scratch with no CS degree and no bootcamp attendence, they sound like the lifelong learner you guys are looking for.

How often do you guys hire someone who is _neither_ a CS graduate nor a bootcamp graduate?
Couldn't agree more, I shut down my profit generating gaming project because of death threats, not worth.
Good to know. Our team is evaluating it now and if everyone is on board, we will be grabbing a few licenses from you!
Primitive fish's sea-floor shuffle illuminates the origins of walking