skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I'm missing is on board flash. Even 512MB would be such useful for many usage scenarios to put OS there. SD cards are biggest source of problems on long run RPi's without some tweaking. There are almost none SBC with built in flash (BeagleBone is shiny exception).
> It's illegal in NYC for a yellow cab to refuse a ride request to any of the five boroughs.

This is true and only a direct threat of report as they start to drive away will occasionally stop them.

"I had my Off-Duty light on, I don't have to take your anywhere at 5pm" is the normal reply
Indeed it is quite frustrating and I often wonder why someone would waste energy in updating titles for no apparent reason.
They do all these things, I'm not sure what's your point. Of course google must abide by local jurisdiction if they want to make business here. Your search results and the ads your shown are tailored to your profile and your geolocation is part of your profile.

It's completely irrelevant to the problem at hand however, it's their service and if they decide they don't want to advertise strawberry yogurt or brands containing the letter 'w' anymore then they can.
The video mentioned support for PoE (with a HAT) as a feature. Why would they specifically point out an addon that doesn't come with the board as a feature of the board? PoE HATs already exist apparently, and are quite pricy. But I don't consider Arduino ethernet shields saying arduino comes with ethernet.
> As an HN reader, I believe I am qualified...

Yes, those qualifications being: 1) Have a browser. 2) Be able to type your words.

> By pushing to make Windows as idiot-proof as possible... They've basically lost the mass market. The e-mail checking machine in the kitchen has been replaced by a tablet...

I've never known anyone to have an "e-mail" checking machine in their kitchen. I do know lots of folks who work at home though and they all use Windows.

> Their only hope is to position Windows as the OS for people who want to get serious work done...

OK, done and done.

> ...because it's never been easier to find an alternative...

Go ahead, find one. I'll wait. Please tell me what OS is going to replace Windows??

> Telemetry. User-hostile update policies. Minecraft in the start menu. Pushing a Microsoft account for desktop login. These things are not office-user friendly...

Telemetry, updates and games have been part of Windows since forever. None of this is new. Search for: Office 2000 Customer Experience Improvement. You'll find people asking how to turn it off.
It would not be possible to have an AD server using PAM, AD protocols need the NT hash.

Samba can only use PAM when plaintext passwords are used, which is not supported at all with AD (Samba as standalone requires you to store passwords in it's own database). As an Active Directory server, passwords are stored in the directory with access provided by multiple protocols. This was an issue in the LDAP ACL verification.
First, dismissing the subjective appropriateness of commenting immediately upon his passing, while your points on Hawking's personal failings may be completely valid, highlighting them without the context of his successes seems misleading.

Second, I believe Hawking's contributions and accomplishments hold greater relevance to the audience of Hacker News (and in my opinion humanity at large) than those of Harvey Weinstein.

Known for:
Hawking radiation
Penrose–Hawking theorems
Bekenstein–Hawking formula
Hawking energy
Gibbons–Hawking ansatz
Gibbons–Hawking effect
Gibbons–Hawking space
Gibbons–Hawking–York boundary term
Thorne–Hawking–Preskill bet

Awards:
Adams Prize (1966)
Eddington Medal (1975)
Maxwell Medal and Prize (1976)
Heineman Prize (1976)
Hughes Medal (1976)
Albert Einstein Award (1978)
RAS Gold Medal (1985)
Dirac Medal (1987)
Wolf Prize (1988)
Prince of Asturias Award (1989)
Andrew Gemant Award (1998)
Naylor Prize and Lectureship (1999)
Lilienfeld Prize (1999)
Albert Medal (Royal Society of Arts) (1999)
Copley Medal (2006)
Presidential Medal of Freedom (2009)
Fundamental Physics Prize (2012)
BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2015)
Likewise, an argument can be made that developers should reach for Excel more often, because Excel is what the business world knows and uses.

We have so many great, specialized tools. But the act of development often bifurcates into "problems that don't have to scale, or even present a great interface" and "problems that need extensive customization at every layer and support millions of users" and our stacks reflect that.

So tooling choice is often more dependent on maximizing leverage while setting appropriate cutoff points for scalability - in almost all production scenarios you are better off simply to design the system down to the featureset of available off-the-shelf tooling and anticipate a hard break where it migrates upwards, versus thinking you have to boil the oceans immediately so that all facets can be transitioned smoothly and all features are possible right now.
....yes https://www.investopedia.com/terms/i/intrinsicvalue.asp
For the past four years I've architected, built, and maintained a system largely designed using the pipes and filters pattern. Does that make me Mario?
Nothing of that answers what do you do to show gratitude for the plants you kill for your enjoyment. It's the least plant eaters can do for themselves. (A little step beyond that reverence would be trying not to be self-righteous).
It's easier to just click 'web' link here on HN. It will show you google search results, and clicking on those bypasses the paywall too.
Do you have a medical degree? Then you're probably too stupid to properly make decisions in your best interest regarding medications/medical treatment.

This does not mean that Doug the village doctor isn't in Novartis' pocket and trying to shill their pills, just that your area of expertise is not nearly as high enough to make an accurate diagnosis of the best way to treat an ailment through medication.
Pi day works in that format...

2018-03-14
You forgot the part where you scroll down that humungus lead image
Forgive my ignorance...

How can Uber not support an area? If a both a driver and a passenger in Goldsport Wyoming both have their apps installed, they can't transact?
Interesting I would have thought it was much earlier. I had to look it up on wikipedia:

>The first device identified as a gun, a bamboo tube that used gunpowder to fire a spear, appeared in China around AD 1000. The Chinese had previously invented gunpowder in the 9th century.

&

>English Privy Wardrobe accounts list "ribaldis", a type of cannon, in the 1340s, and siege guns were used by the English at Calais in 1346.The earliest surviving[clarification needed] firearm in Europe has been found from Otepää, Estonia and it dates to at least 1396.

I think it's fair to say that guns have been around a lot longer than the USA has.
And do we really need to find a responsible?

I don't mean it when the AI was just used as a tool, like someone programmed a robot to kill a person, because then there was intention and the whole AI package was just a tool to commit a crime.

But in cases where there is no relation, no intention, do we really need to find the responsible? Shouldn't be better to focus on how to avoid and how to correct this "bug" ? That, by its own characteristics, brings some problem.

We, humans, strugle do deal with cases where a death occurs, but it was perhaps the best outcome. For example, is it better to change the train and kill 1 instead of keeping it going and kill 5?
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Thank you for your thorough reply. Colleges are under fire, even from their own ranks, by people whom I believe confuse training with education, but it's clear that's not your issue.

It sounds to me like there needs to be some sort of deep-dive "onboarding" program where new hires can work on a curriculum of projects and learn the SOPs of the organization.

Colleges could take some of it on, of course (testability and maintainability for example), but one of the complaints I heard even ten years ago is that they can't keep up with the changes in the field. No true fundamental best-practice principles have evolved, it's largely company-dependant.
The article touches on this. I think it's an interesting article. Regardless of what you think of IV's business practices, Myhrvold has had a fascinating life.
Yes because at the end of the day an share of AMZ means you own a small percentage of that company. That includes a small percentage of all their physical assets, servers, real estate, cash on hand etc.

So yeah there is some intrinsic value.
I don't think they really have a choice here. If you think the SEC rules on "is X a security" are broad, take a look at FINRA's rules on advertising and recommending securities.

The crypto litigation mass is approaching its Schwarzschild radius... By acting as a conduit for these ICO ads, Google etc. are making themselves part of the accretion disk arond the black hole, teeing up a decade of subpoenas, complaints, etc.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/chloesorvino/2017/05/23/james-l...

Interesting article about leprino a while back.
No I did the plan and then didn't look at it at all and did the deploy :P
qcad initially wrote libredwg, but apparently uses now the non-distributable Open Design Alliance library. Wonder what happened there.

There's also a pretty complete libdxfrw as GPLv2.

I just took over the stalled libredwg and will finish support for the missing bits. If licensing permits. I signed with the FSF, but I'm not so sure about the contributed patches.
There are some places where brands like Uber is extremely valuable, like Manila, where taxis are very apt to rip off free-off-the plane foreigners. Heck, most of SE Asia (there are local services also, but I’d rather not track them down before each trip).
"actual software engineering" is like saying that you're not doing "actual farming" unless you're using some oxen and an iron plough.
Err, or just use Razor cshtml?
Nothing that Microsoft is doing is shady and every department is user friendly.

There. I've argued my points as well as you have yours.
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I couldn't get that into Orbiter. If there was more comprehensive building it would be a bit more fun. It's closer to a flight sim than to Kerbal.

But reading that second article makes me think I'm using a drastically outdated version— and I haven't pursued the user-made add-ons. There goes some of my coming weekend... looks like I'll be giving it another shot.
Inside bicycle parking. I don't like chaining my bike outside in any neighborhood.

A part startup I worked for (10 employees at the time) installed a shower for employees.
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Well, my anecdata is the exact opposite. ;)
I agree 80% with this, I'll add something. I always had a lispy side, I hated Java, PHP, C and others prevalent languages that most companies would bet their money on, I like APL, I like Forth.

That said I found something weird, sometimes, and with a little bit of adequate libraries (guava for instance) I enjoy doing some Java. It's verbose, way more than lisp, clojure, kotlin (not even mentionning mr Haskell of course). But I find a little pleasure in doing code there. It's manual, it requires doing a lot of things but even though its slower and more "work" it's another kind of stimulation, that I think is one large factor of people doing code in subpar languages. They're just happy doing things and solving things their own way.

Some say that lisp and haskell can't be mainstream because their power is best fit for complex problems, and I think that hints to my previous point. People who need more than mainstream have the brain power and desire to solve non mainstream things.

ps: about the plumbing thing, you might have heard that MIT switched to python exactly for that reason. I was and still am stumped that the people would brought SICP decided that plumbing was the way to go.
This isn't an ordinary obituary - it actually describes Hawking's contributions to physics from the perspective of another renowned physicist. Really well written.
> Are you surprised that the users "opted out" of further violations of expectations?

Not in the least. Like I said, I think MS is terrified of another Conficker, and they reacted in the worst possible way by trying to coerce people into applying updates. Worse, not all of those updates were truly for the users' benefit, and some of them rendered the user's computer inoperable. The not-unexpected result is that people, especially the less sophisticated userbase we're talking about, have moved from total indifference towards updates to moderate distrust.
The algorithm is less elegant than http://www.openpostcode.org/ but it is at least a simple open algorithm. The presentation and documentation are far better than Open Postcode, which counts for a lot.

If Google Maps learns to recognise these location codes (the algorithm was designed by Google staff), they might become widely-used enough to be usable in practice.
There's Vim-Vixen [1] and Tridactyl [2] for Firefox Quantum. Both suffer from "you can't use the extension on all pages"-itis, and Tridactyl even manages to break a handful of web pages, but for me it was good enough to stop using Firefox ESR and Vimperator.

Disclaimer: a lot of Tridactyl's jank is due to me.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/vim-vixen/

[2] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tridactyl-vim...
What are you worried about, exactly? If there is some other reason besides that this data has the potential to be sold, I would like to know so I can be worried too.

I live in one of the largest cities in Canada, which doesn't compare at all to New York. I've never been through an intensive security protocol (haven't even been to Disneyland, and our airport is just a matter of a simple metal detector) and this prospect doesn't really bother me. I would like to know about it when it's being done, but otherwise I believe that any data obtained from my person is ultimately inconsequential to the way I live my life.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems the most anyone can do with such data at the moment is ad profiling, and I don't pay attention to ads. I don't really buy things. I am in control of my own actions, and to know that somebody has information on me doesn't change that. The goal is to be as authentic as possible. Is there a reason to care?
It is not a bubble you idiot, the world is in the middle of switching currencies and you are too dense to accept it.
Nostalgia Chick is another one, though I don't think she does that actual show anymore.
As usual, the .NET Core announcement contains no technical information, making it impossible to assess the actual impact for a specific application...

There's slightly more info here, which makes it sound somewhat less severe:

https://securitytracker.com/id/1040525

"ASP.NET Kestrel Web Application HTML Injection Flaw Lets Remote Users Reset the Target User's Password

A vulnerability was reported in ASP.NET. A remote user can inject HTML to reset the target user's password.

Kestrel web applications do not properly validate web input. A remote user can supply a specially crafted request to inject HTML and cause a 'password reset' email to be sent to the target user. The password reset may be triggered when the target user opens the email."

(edit)
So I guess the host header somehow ends up in the password reset email without any filtering/escaping? Maybe you could abuse that by turning the password reset link into an <img> link to a server you control, with the password reset secret at the end. Once the image is loaded you get the password reset secret and can use that to get into the account. Something like that?

Not sure if I would classify that as a Kestrel issue.
I can't speak too London but one reason that is for Paris is that the city is far, far smaller than New York. I think it's about 1/8th the size.
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I really like this obituary, this is exactly what I was looking for.

Penrose not only understands the details of Hawking's work at a much deeper level than most of us, but as a contemporary of Hawking's he has followed his career for decades and can give us a good overall impression.
ha yea the fungi really dont get enough credit. they did a lot to make the planet habitable back in the day before much else existed on land and then much later on you have mushrooms entering the early human's diet causing all sorts of eh, "trouble"
For anyone that does not understand Bitcoin their go to argument against it is its a bubble. It is also the easiest way to stop an idiot these days, a clear sign the person is unwilling to learn anything new.
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(1) Learn something.

(2) Develop a portfolio (e.g. Github) leveraging #1

(3) Apply for jobs leveraging #1 & #2

(4) Apply for your next job leveraging #1, #2, and #3.

(5) Repeat

Honestly the route of a traditional college education is exactly the same, except replace #2 with "a magical piece of paper which asserts I know #1." People sometimes struggle because they jump from #1 to #3, and have no way of showing they can apply the knowledge obtained in #1.

But it really depends what you're learning. If you took a bunch of mechanical engineering self-taught courses, it is unlikely anyone is going to let you design a bridge. Whereas technology related fields are a little bit more flexible.

Going this route will always exclude you from some jobs, since they have hard requirements for a college degree. But there's plenty of small-medium businesses that only want to see you can do the work they want doing and will accept their low[er] initial salary.
Yeah, when an accident happens you still need to figure out who has financial liability for the damages. And you don't want a "tragedy of the common" situation where no one takes responsibility for improving things. Just picking someone to be "it" gives them some incentive to go out of their way to prevent future accidents.

Edit: that said, excessive finger-pointing is bad too. If everyone thinks that the one person deemed responsible is the only one who has to fix things, they're not going to work on it themselves. The NTSB seems to have the best model for this.
This isn't a theoretical, "if all cows were spherical, then friction would be disregarded" sort of scenario. It's a real thing that happened for which details are available online.

If you haven't informed yourself on those details outside of this thread, then I guess to your perspective, that's on you.
As a side-side note, I noticed this in the article (near the end):

> The CTS-labs.com domain name was registered on June 25, 2017, around when the Meltdown exploits were privately revealed to Intel.

which somehow sounds "queer" to me, particularly in an article attempting to debunk a possible "conspiracy", I mean June 25, 2017 is also surprisingly around the time the UK parliament was cyber-attacked and the time the large Brian Head fire started in Utah, what gives?
My comment was related to the OP comment. When you were born, you didn't have any reminiscent memory, because memory is intrinsically related to your physical brain. If you damage your brain, you could lose memory or change completely what you call "self". If you are a Christian and believe in after-life, a good way to reconcile this is downplaying the importance of memory itself (overrated). But this is related the OP's point of view (Christians believe in after-life). I, personally, don't believe in after-life, so everything you are is in your brain and memory is crucial.