skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is the official investigation thread:

https://www.reddit.com/r/CoinBase/comments/7xs1aq/update_on_...
"most" (of the mail you want to read/reply to) sounds a bit extreme - afaik both Google and outlook/exchange/office365 will supply a semblance of a text part unless you go out of your way to avoid it. As we as most real mail clients.

You could always just bounce mail w/o a sensible text part...
Lyft gets into bike-sharing through partnership with Baltimore
Scala also has lazy values and arguments as an option.
So far, if I understand correctly, nobody knows of a sequence of characters you could write down in any language that would trigger a crash when encoded in Unicode in a straightforward way. That suggests that the invariant being assumed may come, ironically, from a deep understanding of the scripts rather than ignorance.
After the crashes are fixed on iOS, sure.
> JavaScript Promises Discussion: Make Them Monadic?

No, just totally ditch them!

I can't help to hate Promises. Sometimes I have to work on a code base that is completely baked with them, it's just a nightmare. With the stupid async await implementation things haven't got any better.. Now they expect me to write async calls in a try-catch block!?!

With JS I prefer to use simple callbacks until they come up with a proper async await without try-catch and Promises bullshit. Callback hell happens not because of the callback principle itself. It exists because it's too easy to keep nesting functions. Most devs simply don't know how, or are too lazy, to apply good patterns for using callbacks.
UX is not my strength, for years before this I was doing fulltime math + MATLAB :). But it's improving! Yes, it was even worse than it is now not too long ago :o
For the last 15 years or so i've earned my money doing Linux stuff. Before then I was doing VB/.NET/SQL Server etc.

January 2016 I worked at a secure facility that wanted an entire system doing malware analysis. The bare servers were running Linux, but some of the software used Windows so there were Windows VMs there. Usual KVM stuff.

Bear in mind this is a closed system and the Windows VMs were ephemeral, i.e. had to be discarded and reset after each malware run where we did static code analysis etc. So we used the Professional (hah) version, with AutoUnattend.xml or whatever it was to automatically reset them.

This worked fine until after a certain point with WSUS - we obviously applied security updates - where the VMs wouldn't boot. Turns out that a point in Windows 10's life they decided you needed a better version of Windows to be able to do the equivalent of a preseed or kickstart. 4 months of work disappeared, plus the additional licence cost; need to run a domain etc etc.

Luckily I left soon after but trust me - at any future role I will look at every possibility before Windows. I moved a subsequent client (large international appliance manufacturer that you've heard of) to Linux servers precisely because of this sort of shit.

Windows is done, it's just a case of when it disappears. This is exactly why Microsoft are pushing Azure and Office - they know the outcome, they're just squeezing the pips until it happens.
Open source video game console emulators are certainly not worse. If anything, the best by far emulator (Dolphin) is open source, but even beyond that almost every open source VGC emulator is also open source and those emulators tend to be the most long running ones (almost always because the developers of the closed source emulators lose interest). For some systems, you have only open source emulators.
Swiss pharma company Roche is buying Flatiron Health for $1.9B
Yeah I'm being a bit loose in my terminology, by "syscall" I really just mean tracing it to some specific function call(s) in a vendor-provided library (as I assume the problem must be on Apple's end) to expedite the process of fuzzing.
Women Were Better Represented in Victorian Novels Than Modern Ones
In the US, we have Social Security and everyone pays into that but for the most part, you can't collect anything on the benefits until you reach retirement age or become permanently disabled.
I’m curious too. Koreans, for example, think in an alphabet similar to ours (actually fewer letters), but it forms into a grapheme. I don’t think that is the case here, but don’t know for sure.
This cryptographically signed sender stuff is extremely important.

DKIM+SPF+DMARC means you can prevent anyone else from impersonating your domain.

Every MTA will reject mails that violate the DMARC policy you specify in your DNS, if you have any.

All the old From: support@paypal.com scams are gone, impossible.

This means spammers either have to use hacked servers, or their real From: address.

And as soon as they have to use their real From: address, it becomes trivial to block spam.

Blocking spam is only so hard because From: was basically meaningless until now.
I thought that lede had a different meatning from lead until now... I think it should be Lead.
”We are struggling with democracy. We are looking at new ways of doing it”
I like the idea. I'm worried that this ship has sailed though as it's becoming harder to even get phones without cryptographically verified bootloaders, and god forbid you want to mess with the baseband/modem source. This is only going to get worse too, as software becomes the part that's actually valuable. AI will mean that everything on the processor will be a trade secret x1000 and everything that can possibly be kept from the local processor will be hidden away in the cloud, forever dependent on continued server access.
It is probably the sign of a good professor that they are producing their own course material rather than just telling students to go and read a certain text book chapter.
That material is what they think is important and is in their own style, if that style clicks with you then great, if not then you're out of luck.
With text books, you get everything, not just what someone thinks is important and you can go to the library and find one with the right style to suit you.
I still have all my text books, and I actually do use some of them occasionally if I need to revise some topic.
Ditto the rest of the cephalopod family, the ingenuity demonstrated by octopuses is well-documented but endlessly fascinating!
Love the concept. Do you guys have any plans for a mobile app?

Update: Oh I just read through your FAQ and you plan on launching one soon. Any ETA on that?
It still needs to be quite small, as there are realistically proportioned tunnels, railroad station halls, and trackside buildings a large camera will bump into.

I wind up with about 20mm vertically and 30mm horizontally to work with when you count the space used by the flatbed.
You're doing well. 加油！
Ultra-processed foods 'linked to cancer'
First read "Capturing Stallman from 1M miles away" and had a good laugh
If you have a business and spending a lot of money on banking take a closer to the new Fintechs around the globe. If you are e.g. in the EU you are not forced to have a bank in the same country as your company... you can use any bank in the EU (and also beyond). It's also advisable to have bank accounts in different countries. I've seen more than once bank account blocks by state regulation although no crime was conducted, simply an computer error on tax authorities side (this can happen any time). Many banks live in the past and think they can charge a lot because there are no visible alternatives... but they are wrong in the digital age...
It depends on your ability to conceive of a future without the suffering you're attempting to escape.

If the money is not significant enough to meaningfully impact that assessment then a short term distraction is a rational way to spend the money.

It's analogous but no the same as the prisoners dilemma with a known number of games.
The people whose brains are not fried by dual booting should be dual booting and moving the platform steadily forward to reduce the excuses for the people whose brains are fried by dual booting.
>Would really welcome your thoughts and ideas here as well!

Will write to feedback@cointracker.io
Discussed in 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11244103
It's definitely a blast from the internet commenting past, but given their recent user-hostile design decisions which can't be justified by anything other than abject greed at my expense, I think it's about ready for a comeback...
This. Every time I try and get up to speed on those things it's like, "wtf? this is actually better?"
How do you account for the observation that incidence of cancer in young, immunosupressed individuals (e.g. solid organ transplant recipients), whilst increased, is no way comparable to that seen in elderly individuals?
> Now they expect me to write async calls in a try-catch block!?!

What do you mean? In my experience, the use of async/await leads to much cleaner code for I/O driven tasks like querying APIs and databases. Yes, I do have a try/catch at the top of the callstack to catch and log unexpected errors.
They just posted on Twitter about it: https://twitter.com/coinbase/status/964248915695448064
Ah. Forgot that existed for some reason. (Windows/Linux user that gets screwed out of programming for my own phone. Hate that....)
There are several systems where your only option is Windows, unless the situation has changed drastically since I last looked into it. I remember Dreamcast, Saturn, DS, PSP, and PS2 being in this category, and also the options for N64/PSX not being very good, the last time I was interested. Of course, someone can respond to arguments about any program being missing with "well, I don't care about those," but you can't expect anyone to find that persuasive if they're not already converted.
Shipping early and working on stability later may work for something like a video game but not for a database my system depends on thanks
Via mechanisms similar to either the hygiene hypothesis or hormesis, it's possible those might backfire. This is highly speculative, but:

* the hygiene hypothesis suggests that allergies and auto-immune disorders can arise from having insufficient immune-system challenges, especially when young. Lacking the calibration from an 'expected' or 'optimal' level of dirt/allergens/infectious-diseases, the immune system starts doing unwanted self-destructive things.

* hormesis is the observation that almost everything bad for you also turns out to be good in very-tiny exposures – radiation, poisons, cancer-causing chemicals, etc. It's as if tiny doses trigger beneficial self-repairs to occur even beyond the direct damage received, even as larger doses overwhelm that mechanism.

Removing mild, survivable challenges from the environment could thus leave the immune system less 'tuned' for the full spectrum of challenges it faces (like clearing early cancers). It's an adaptive dynamic system with nonlinear effects, not a simple pool of fixed exhaustible capability.
>Windows is done

Your use case is very niche compared to how MS makes most of its money on Windows licenses. Windows isn't going anywhere until it's no longer pre-loaded on every machine, enterprise customers stop buying it completely, and Linux is much more user friendly on the desktop.

I don't disagree with anything else you said, admin'ing windows boxes is a terrible experience.
That's a bit like asking someone to sell you on using a plasma cutter over a dremel tool. It can be done but it's not particularly useful or sensible.
From memory yes, it's a lot faster. Compile/link of programs with a few thousand lines of code typically takes on the order of a fraction of a second to a second.
This is really great! Thanks for the link. I think you should post it to HN
5g is shared bandwidth from ~20Gbps download 10gbps upload, increasing the number of users over a minimum does not increase peak bandwidth just utilization.

Considering multiple carriors would each have 20gbps and there are ~200,000 cell towers in the US we are talking massive bandwidth in aggregate.
If you are a junior frontend developer, WASM probably just doesn't mean much to you, and probably won't. You'll use it, wrapped by a JavaScript facade, to do some performance-sensitive stuff. (Some folks are rubbing their hands together about the possibility of using the DOM in another language and not writing JavaScript; this will eventually happen, but I strongly doubt mainstream frontend development will go that way in the reasonably near future.

I don't really see why you should be intimidated by it any more than a Java programmer who sees JNI barf once in a while should be intimidated by C. If you're that interested, all you really have to do is learn a normal, natively-compiled language. Which would be wise anyway--nobody serious about the field should only know one language, JavaScript or not. Then you can learn how to compile down to WASM (it's rarely difficult) and just go from there.
High power applications use both sides of the split phase, for 240v.
Autocad/inventor->OpenScad/FreeCad

Photoshop->Gimp or just run it with wine

Lightroom->Darktable

Here's a few other pretty awesome art tools you might want to know about BTW:
Krita
Blender
Inkscape

If we're doing "what abouts" though, what about:

freely interchangable desktop layouts

native docker support

a user-friendly terminal

an os kernel that is designed to be malware resistant

Like seriously buddy, the GUI desktop is now ~40 years old and windows /still/ can't support uninstalling the default desktop and installing your own. Custom launchers are one of the most downloaded android app categories, don't try to tell me people don't want it. But hey, at least windows finally got multiple desktops by cribbing the idea from linux after two decades of unsuccessfully trying to tell their customers that it wasn't really that good a feature.

If the best you can say about your operating system is "adobe supports it", which is what it seems like you're saying, then oh dear. Like, I get it, photoshop is pretty darn good. But for realsies, we're in a thread where the title post is about microsoft installing random crap on your computer without permission. This is the same company that is showing ads on your lock screen and start bar[1], has been formally chastised by national governments for it's handling of telemetry[2], autoinstalled updates that bricked peoples laptops[3] and then autoinstalled other updates that put other peoples computers in reboot loops[4]. They're gonna keep doing this stuff. For goodness sake, they incentivised peoples "upgrades" from windows 7 by installing nagware with a deliberately malicious UI[5], and attempting to directly cause professional conflict for sysadmins with stability concerns[6].

You're part of an eternal beta of questionable QA control at the hands of a company that has a documented history of behaving unethically. Do they have to send someone round to your house to kill and eat your cat in front of you before you decide you could maybe dig deep and stoop to learning gimp?

[1]https://www.pcworld.com/article/3039827/windows/7-ways-windo...

[2]http://www.zdnet.com/article/french-authorities-serve-notice...

[3]http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2016/08/25/windows-10-...

[4]http://news.softpedia.com/news/windows-10-fall-creators-upda...

[5]https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/229040-microsofts-latest...

[6]https://www.windowschimp.com/admins-angered-new-windows-10-u...
> Wrong, most emulators are open source, support Linux, and work great.

As I said to the other guy, for a number of systems there's no emulator except the one on Windows.

> "way worse" is a bit harsh for describing LibreOffice. It works quite well in my experience.

Yeah, because your experience doesn't involve using the advanced features that have no analogue and you aren't overly concerned that the formatting will look totally different if someone opens it in MSOffice.
This is great news. One of the most frustrating things on Twitter is everybody pretending to be a hardbitten journo throwing this term around like they were on a deadline...or even had a job.
One of my complaints on DuoLingo was that there was no Russian, I am glad thay added it. I am learning Spanish and could use some grammar explanation for sure.
That seems to be a breakdown of the people who have VR HEADSETS broken down by headset type.

What does "up 82%" mean?
It's true they mostly have phone apps. But phone app is not phone app... there is a huge difference for tracking your account actively with instant messages on charges vs. a more or less good web wrapper as I've seen on most bigger banks.
It doesn't force restarts to install new "features" you never asked for and can't decline all while creepily reminding you that "don't forget, Windows is a service!"
> They force some behaviors to always happen even when it doesn’t make sense. That’s okay

No, it's not. Promises suck, that's all, no need to spend more words on it.
MicroFusion in Intel CPUs
What can I say, I'm a man! I attempt to build the Lego without the instructions, drive the car without the map, and play the board game without the rule book :D
If we want AI to explain itself, here’s how it should tell us
Why not just snapshot the vms in a clean, updated state and reset them from there when needed?
Not sure why I'm not able to trigger this crash on any Apple devices in the office - saw on twitter about how it was messing with iphones even if it was an SSID, unable to replicate here though.
There was an episode of Reveal awhile back about Essure, a permanent, implantable female contraceptive that, due to unforeseen nickel leakage, caused severe long-term reactions (and in some cases, even pregnancy) in a significant subset of its patients. Essure underwent clinical trials prior to FDA approval, but there was no control group, and its ~400 women studied for one year were compared against a long-term study of 10,000 tubal ligation patients.

Reveal episode: https://soundcloud.com/thisisreveal/her-own-devices-is-a-con...

There's also a good Washington Post long-form on the subject: http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/style/2017/07/26/essure/
> You have a ton of native autohotkey applications for writing macros

Note that you can do that with X11 too using tools like xbindkeys, xdotool, xnee, xrebind, wmctrl, etc.
Emulating entire computers: http://blog.archive.org/2018/02/13/emulation-in-the-browser-... This is powerful because it makes the emulator itself platform-independent. Any wasm-capable browser can now emulate a ton of other platforms.
How Do Humans Understand Explanations from Machine Learning Systems?
I don't get how you can raise $225 million dollars in VC and not manage basic financial transactions.
Been using it as a save hook in vscode (with RLS, too)... never noticed any slowdown because of it.

The bug where it _refuses to run_ if lines are > 100 chars is annoying
I didn't know about Arabic having more ligatures than a few common ones (e.g., Allah).

That said, there's a reason that I want to learn Arabic.
That, in itself, can be kind of annoying (interrupt all your downloads or whatever you are doing), and it doesn't get at the other issues -- having to run updates for both, having two incompatible filesystems where it's annoying to fetch a document from one and use it on the other, doubling the amount of setup and configuration you have to do, and so on. Every time I've set up a dual-boot system I've ended up just never using one of the options.
Poor fitness linked to weaker brain fiber, higher dementia risk
After further digging I think you're probably right. Variants of this story seem to have been reported in many countries over many years but none cites an actual authority such as government report or scientific paper. Copper theft does seem more likely.
Don't we already have this on a small scale in the San Francisco Bay Area?
Netflix works fine on Linux. You can even run it on a Raspberry Pi.
Now explain to a not-super-technical user how to configure GRUB to boot Windows by default, or how to remove GRUB when they give up on Linux.
Trivial for someone who could use linux. 99.9% of computer users don't even know dual booting is possible.

Also my laptop literally cannot have linux installed on it thanks to UEFI.
In the same way, you also can't say "That's 20 years old and not relevant anymore". Appeal to novelty fallacy and all that.

Are they really that different of a company? Microsoft is huge, organizational memory is long, and decisions made long ago, whether rational or mere cargo culting, will affect how they run today.

I'd argue they're a bit more cunning, but not one whit less underhanded. The EU browser ballot thing was considerably more recent, for instance. The forced W10 upgrades with the trick X dialog. Dark patterns surrounding use of a Microsoft account. Non-disableable telemetry. Hawking Edge in a way that would even make Chrome blush [1].

I think they know that they can't be as overt anymore; a couple of antitrust suits will do that to you.

[1]: https://i.imgur.com/W56CuN6.jpg
Building a Dinosaur from a Chicken
America’s Failure to Protect Its Children from Shootings Is a National Disgrace
It felt wrong at the time but it’s been too long for me to remember the correct spelling.
Its always that one CEO, wanting to emulate the success that is steam by becoming basically becoming the market and the platform. Self-delusion and believe-shapes-reality needs some realistic observation or else one wastes ridiculous amounts of money reinventing the wheel only for the crowd to flock to the first wheel shop anyway.

Those are resources that could go into inventing the first plane. And some superior sooner or later realizes that you are on a unimaginative crusade and cuts the lifeline, resulting in a dead market-plattform, with contract-bound studios being dragged down with the sinking ship.
Referring to wrong charge categorization due to MCC changes, not multiple charges though.
I hadn't thought about using it for decoding images, clever! I'd been dreaming of translating my favorite python package over to the web to use without having to spin up django, but from what I'm hearing that isn't really the purpose.
It's intimidating because the tooling is very immature. Compiler and debugger support is not at the level of Java or C.
Actually this is another example of how regulation allows rent seeking rapacious incumbents like Coinbase to stay in business.
Spectre-meltdown-checker in Fedora and EPEL repositories
Blender is just the worst example that you could have picked. It is a tiny toy compared to the commercial packages in that field. It is like GIMP: just enough for those with simple needs.

KDE 3 would have been a much better example. But these days are gone, too.

What about R and Jenkins? Are there paid developers working on these?
Then you might be a great remote worker. The point is to trial them in the environment they're actually going to be working in.
What, is being a Ron Paul supporter in the new DSM? I’ve never tried psychedelics myself, but I find OP’s descriptions of weirdness to be feeble at best.

Quantum consciousness as far out? I earnestly believe that it’s irrational to thing something that so greatly impacts and is impacted by the physical world as conciousness is somehow not bound by physics. It’s perfectly rational and proven with multiple experiments that quantum particle pairs act synchronously across space(time). If conciousness is based in physical reality, then it is an emergent property of quantum mechanics.

At times my spouse and I have experienced an undeniable and unexplainable shared thought or emotion without communicating with the 5 senses. We have commingled so very much matter together that it’s most reasonable to assume some entangled particle pairs get split between us. I’ve encountered a plethora of antecdotes from others along similar lines- really without seeking them out.

Does constructing that type of argument ensure that I am ‘weird’ like the article suggests?

Maybe I ought to try some mushrooms and see what other weird ideas I’m missing out on?
You misspelled “facepsalmed”