skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Going there always made me feel inspired, excited, and reinvigorated with creativity. Good for coders block. There is a thrill with holding an artifact and considering its previous use and a potential use. Or just the challenge of buying some vaguely non-functional vintage computer, learning about it, repairing it.

I've found software that I've worked on, things I'd lusted after from magazines, but couldn't have afforded at the time (ooh, a Telebit Trailblazer! A wide format plotter!) and just weird (16 gross cleanroom booties! queCats!). Once I found a box of floppies with the name of someone that I used to work with at another company. Things just wind up there.

Oh well, I guess its going to have to be more frequent visits to the foothill[1] flea market...[2]

[1] Not at Foothill[3] anymore - moved to DeAnza College.

[2] http://www.electronicsfleamarket.com/?electronics=

[3] Big note on [2] that they're actually moving to the Fry's parking lot in Sunnyvale for the first one of the year (April 14, 2018)
Hmmm, was the service updated?

I couldn't get my emails obfuscated on .com and .io addresses about 2~3 years ago. Just managed to get it done.
I've had the same experience with The Shining.

On my PC, it's a bit plodding and slow, but on the big screen, it's a completely visceral and intense experience like no other film I've seen.
There is more (and better) information over on Slashdot, which had the story earlier today: https://it.slashdot.org/story/18/04/07/2312200/vigilante-hac...

Motherboard was able to make contact with the purported attackers.

This doesn't carry any of the typical fingerprints of a state-level attack. It was a single exploit against Cisco devices, combined with Shodan for an easy directory of vulnerable devices.

Given the recent surge in nationalistic sentiment among young people in the tech community in the last decade, it looks reasonable to stick with the simplest explanation here: one or more folks found a flaw and exploited it for fun and attached a flag to it for more fun.

There are situations for which "Russia did it" is an explanation that makes sense. I don't think this is one of them.

We should also beware of being too willing to jump to conclusions that anything was done by America's enemy-du-jour; the country's been down that road plenty of times before and it never goes anywhere good.
Unwatchable? I liked 2010 very much, treasured it on VHS for a decade
> US built sedan

> huge panel gaps, cheap plastic everywhere giving off a strong chemical odour

Tesla?
Pilots have a professional duty of ensuring safety. If the pilots deemed the situation unsafe, there were enough avenues to pursue (FAA, local inspection). Complaining afterwards and looking for whistle blower protection doesn't absolve you of responsibility. It just suggests a good match between the lack of ethics of the company and the pilots.
Youtube in background is a built in ios feature?
Please check your home page on 4” devices. Headline is clipped.
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There's a creek like this in Banff National Park in Canada [1]. It is amazingly fake. It was rebuilt when I was younger and the rocks that keep the creek in place are not found upstream or downstream of the divide. Before it was rebuilt, it flowed into a marshy area and trickled off to both sides. My guess is that it was originally constructed by the railroad (which is right next to it) as a tourist attraction when crossing the divide.

The problem with a divide creek is that it is inherently unstable. One of the sides will erode more quickly than the other, which diverts the water and erodes the remaining side to permanently capture the water.

I note that photos of the Wyoming creek show a suspicious number of rocks in perfect place diverting some water off to the lesser branch. Perhaps someone has been fighting off the inevitable end of the fork.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divide_Creek
Anybody who's actually investigating this will not consider that a useful clue in either direction. It's easy to take it to ridiculous dimensions from "Go USA!!1" to "Now they'll think it was the USA" to "Now they'll think someone's framing the USA."

It's just not helpful digital evidence in any way because it was clearly intended to be seen in a world where you cover your tracks as much as you can.
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https://secure.phabricator.com/book/phabricator/article/arca...

it's pretty common
"Some 55,000 devices were affected in the United States and 14,000 in China, and Iran's share of affected devices was 2 percent," Azari-Jahromi was quoted as saying.

Pretty misleading headline.
The problem with your canonicalization idea is that it doesn't work in all cases. Yes, it might work with gmail addresses, but there's no way that you can assume that "david+x@example.com" and "david+y@example.com" are actually the same mailbox. If you so assume that, then you've just broken you websites for users where that isn't the case.
As far as I know things like the space shuttle had 3 different guidance computers developed by 3 independent teams. They were given the same requirements and came up with the hardware and software independently.
Is somebody trying to contact american time travelers in Iran?
67 stars?

Thus is literally a False Flag event.
CF does a good job caching, if you do a good job segmenting.

Here's a screen cast I did a while back exploring HLS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9TJuWT5sNM&t=6m27s
> Hammer the Netflix signup form until you find a gmail.com address which is “already registered”. Let’s say you find the victim jameshfisher.

The bug is right here - you shouldn't be able to determine if a user account already exists.

If an account already exists:

- Logon shouldn't tell you that you have an account and the password was wrong

- Registration should send a "looks like you already have an account" email to the recipient with "maybe this wasn't you" warning, and the web form shouldn't indicate anything out of the ordinary.

- Password reset should say "if an account exists, we just sent it an email"
>the content creators, and it's now killing journalism.

Nah. What has happened is that newspapers have lost their monopoly.

In most markets, there was one newspaper and that newspaper could charge advertisers far in excess of their costs.

Might as well been printing money with the presses.

Now, their monopoly rents have gone away. Now, they have to earn their money!

Earning money is hard compared to having a monopoly.
It's nice that you were able to put into words some things I like about classic books and poetry. Kafka was also a master of this.

That said, I don't enjoy it as much at all in films. Don't know why. I try to, for sure. It can be stimulating. But it's not on the level of "almost psychedelic" as you so aptly describe what I can experience with books.
OK, thanks for the heads up.
If the harness is anything like the harness I bought from Home Depot to do work on my roof, it would be nearly impossible to get out of quickly. The nylon is the super stiff abrasion resistant kind as well, which I cannot imagine cutting through quickly with a normal strap cutter, which is basically just a razor blade in a plastic handle.

The fact that they were screwed to the floor sounds makes it sound egress would be nearly impossible in an emergency. The way those harnesses are designed there is almost no way to free yourself if they are under tension. You effectively need to call someone else to help you get out.

On top of all that, the mammalian diving reflex means that unless you are experienced and well-prepared you are probably going to gasp as you go under water. Even a strong swimmer can drown due to the effects of the diving response, most commonly in a chaotic situation where they don't have the time or space they normally would to recover.

Of course given the chaos I don't think you could say everyone would have survived with different belts on, but I think it would have been much more likely.
The issue isn't taking medication daily; it's taking psychotropic, brain- and personality-altering medication for years, especially when it comes with potential for bad side effects which may last after cessation (such as with SSRIs). I take vitamin D daily and I really don't think you can equate it to SSRIs whatsoever.

Clearly SSRIs help many people in a significant way, but their mechanism of action is still poorly understood and their effects are powerful enough that they should be prescribed and taken long-term only with careful advising and caution. For some people, maybe taking them until the day they die is the best option, but it probably is also harmful for some people to take them for several years.
> If you don't provide a way in the emails to say "that's not me", then I have no way to ever register for your service with my address.

This happened to me - someone registered an Uber account with my email address. So I password reset it and now I have an Uber account for no good reason.
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In this specific case the hedge fund already admitted that they were syphoning off profits from their newspapers to finance totally unrelated ventures:

https://dfmworkers.org/hedge-fund-alden-siphoned-100s-of-mil...

Unrelated, but the execs of Tronc, another multi-newspaper owner, have massive salaries and perks that in no way match the current state of the business:

https://latguild.com/news/2017/11/21/private-jets-and-golden...

> Which financial decisions will keep high numbers of employees and high quality journalism...with decreasing ad revenue?

Pivoting to subscriber revenue. I suspect a lot of companies will be learning this lesson in time. No doubt newspapers needed to shrink compared to their size a decade or two ago, but I really don't think the outlook for many needs to be so dire. I'd much rather see newspapers experiment with becoming a non-profit than be owned by a hedge fund that'll eat them alive.
Slightly off topic, but why Gmail built a feature of Dots Don't Matter is beyond me.

Might have been a happy accident for all I know, but it changes the behavior that people expect from emails, which IMO is a bit of an inconvenience for other systems that rely on uniqueness of email addresses.
End of an era. Not the same, but Halted's still around.
syphoning off profits

They were allegedly siphoning off assets. Were those papers even making any profit?

The concept reminds me of the story arc in "The Sopranos" where the mob looted the sporting goods chain to collect on the gambling debts of its owner.
The year of the Linux on desktop/laptop is a fabulous myth - nothing more. Read the attached blog before posting sarcastic comments like this one.

On the other hand, Linux is pretty much everywhere other than desktop/laptop, which are becoming increasingly less relevant.

Perhaps demise is too strong a word, but decline from its status as the apex predator of the industry is more appropriate. MS is still powerful, but it is no longer the King.
Does ReRACK really work as a wire rack repair solution?
Yes, in fact this is one of the more annoying parts of this feature. When you're doing a support thing you usually have to reply with the exact same email. In my Google Suite account I have many domains setup to a single account and often times a reply uses my main account instead of an alias+domain I've setup on the account which received the email.

Would be nice to be able to easily reply as any of those combinations and default to the one it was sent to (dots, +'s, and domain).
This is more like if iPads were meant for parents. Maybe a little bit overbearing.
Fair warning. That does add a certain level (quite significant) of inconvenience to existing users though. But probably a happy trade-off for most people entrusted with protecting accounts.
> It should be possible, if the subject is given enough time and approaches the task from a rigorous angle, to deduce that the object must be a cube. through a path like...

Rigorous logical reasoning requires some axioms, and someone who has just gained his or her sight has no reasonable axioms to apply (or, rather, no way to decide, even on the basis of experience, which axioms are reasonable to impose). Suppose that I felt an object and discovered that it felt the same from all angles. Could I conclude that it tasted or smelled the same from all angles? I don't think that is a reasonable conclusion. Why then should I conclude, with no prior evidence to guide me, that it would look the same from all angles?
> Still I am surprised that you never noticed, during your visits to China... (snip)

I’ve made exactly zero comment on what I’ve observed anywhere but HN. Please for the love of god stop assuming what I’ve seen/haven’t seen unless I say it.

That said, yes I’ve noticed people in China are favourable to a world with Chinese hegemony as a superpower. That’s not surprising is it? I’ve noticed in America there is a favourable sentiment in general to the status quo - American superpower hegemony.

Thank you for your apology and I do accept it. It is difficult sometimes on the internet and in real life to make sure you’re responding to what the person said/means and not what you imagine them to mean. We can all try to better understand others rather than talk at them.
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Recommended. 8/10 I'd say. The Cambridge Analytica bit was interesting. Musk thinks we'll have superhuman AI within five years.
Not just iPhone. Safari on MBP also just a blank page.
> You have a “wasting” disease which is clearly non-contagious

Not everyone with undiagnosed celiac disease is going to be like that

Eg

https://www.celiac.com/articles.html/celiac-disease-amp-rela...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/17032202/
Does anyone choose to write this kind of software?
My wife's business has a TV that plays some videos from YouTube of her company in the waiting room. At the end of the Playlist pops up videos from competitors. In the past it would autoplay those and it was embarassing but at least I turned that off.

She pays for YouTube Red. There is no way for YouTube to not autosuggest, or to repeat the videos in a Playlist over and over.

I decided for her to use YouTube because of the auto caption. Will need to find some other solution...
> Apparently, we're not, as Waymo has shown.

Can you point me to a website or store where I can buy my fully autonomous waymo car? I doubt waymo is even at par with tesla, considering tesla is actually selling cars. Waymo is just vaporware at this point.
My favorite memory about weird stuff: I have a no name rack mount server case that was missing a key for the front lock. Unsurprisingly they had the exact same case and sold me a spare for cheap.

I always loved looking at all the old gear there, it brought back a lot of memories. Netopia, Netscreens, old Cisco routers, Sun servers.

Here's a blog post someone put up about the closing as well: https://rsts11.com/2018/04/06/weird-stuff-warehouse-is-closi...
>People don't want yet another close sourced OS like iOS, they want something open like Android

So you've conducted a poll and asked what people want? People don't care if the OS is open or closed source. In fact, the extreme majority wouldn't even know what you're talking about. They care about having access to the apps and services they want. Microsoft failed with a closed source OS and they'll fail even harder with an open one too.
Someone's personal perception of things is not a "true story". Generally, it's not anyone's place to try to assess how happy a person is from what they look like on the outside. Suicidal people may look perfectly happy on the outside, and perfectly happy people can sport very impressive RBFs.

You referenced an American in your story, and they're the only group I've ever really heard complaining about people in other countries not smiling enough, so my assumption is hardly silly. I don't know if Australia shares the same quirk, given that Australia borrows a LOT from the US culturally, are you sure you didn't pick that stuff up from the US?

And I'm not sure why the Germans didn't bother you but the Danes did, that doesn't really add up.
Cool, thanks for your help!
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If it wasn't done by the US government this is terrorism pure and simple, going by what the people in your source said:

>"We were tired of attacks from government-backed hackers on the United States and other countries," someone in control of an email address left in the note told Motherboard Saturday... "We simply wanted to send a message...." In addition to disabling the equipment, the hackers left a note on affected machines, according to screenshots and photographs shared on social media: "Don't mess with our elections," along with an image of an American flag...
I'm in need of a similar solution. Only thing I've thought of is to record my own video that is like 1 hour long of just a screen that has text like "end of playlist"...and have that at the end of every playlist.
Almost as bad as Facebook's recent press
SMS is not safe as a 2 factor.

The known attacks I have come across in India include the hacker somehow coming across your sim card number and using that to get a new sim card issued in your name. A lot of people have had their bank accounts drained this way (source: social media posts)

There was another thread in an yesterday on this where someone mentioned they could just rent a cell tower in Malaysia at $10 an hour and broadcast your number as roaming there to get your messages. Also mentioned were mobile number porting attacks though I don't know how viable that would be in India.

There are so many apps with the permission to read your messages on Android. I wonder how many of these upload your messages to the cloud. An attacker could simply get the OTP from there. By creating a malicious app or attacking the database of another app uploading your messages. Also possibly your sim card number which I have seen apps broadcasting in the open, unencrypted.

Another scenario - let's say you have a prepaid connection. You go abroad on a vacation without this number or get sick or whatever, and forget to recharge your phone. The provider can stop your services and give your sim to a new user. The new user now gets all your OTPs.

There are probably more attacks. Messages to your phone are just not a safe choice for 2-factor authentication, but sadly that is the base on which aadhar is built upon. Even today one can open a bank account with just an aadhar number and an OTP. Wait till people start taking loans in others' names.
> there’s very little that can be verified if you strictly follow the RFC.

That's not correct. You can reliably, completely validate all email addresses . . . by sending an email to them containing information that can be used to confirm the owner's identity. All together now: the MTA is the only source of "is it valid or not" for email addresses.
Actually, irrelevant. There would be more articles that are critical of China if newspaper publishers weren't paranoid about losing a shot at a payday buyout from a Chinese media firm.
The indian government has traditionally subsidized rations and fuel over the decades. This system was gamed massively by middlemen and black marketeers. Linking Aadhar to this system has certainly plugged many holes. The issue of misuse of data by the government is still a concern. People in power are corrupt more often than not, so it's a matter when and not if aadhar will be misused by the authorities.

>As a solid implementation, instead of providing rations for rice and fuel, to prepare food, what if governments can open hotels, where one can have a solid, healthy meal for real cheap, For any one and every one who bothers to show up?

This is also being tried, eg amma canteen -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amma_Unavagam by Jayalalitha aka amma in the state of tamil nadu.named after the politician convicted by the ocurt for corruption and who never served a sentence.
also, Indira canteen -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indira_Canteens by rahul gandhi in Karnataka. named after India's first woman prime minister(grand mother of rahul gandhi and daughter of nehru who was India's first prime minister).

hero worship and dynasty politics in food subsidy programs funded by the tax payer. The food is good though or so I hear.

Technology can certainly ease our pain, or will it make it worse?
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Perhaps the problem is the assumption that journalism organizations have to be run as for-profit businesses. There are many other models for institutions, from non-profits to public institutions (universities) to utilities to essential public/private institutions (hospitals) to etc.

Capitalism is very useful but it isn't the solution to every problem. Journalism, where the incentives of profit don't align well with the mission, might need another model. Newspapers have been for-profit organizations for generations, but perhaps times have changed; also, that model gave advertisers great influence over the news.

The model would have to be insulated from government interference, sustainable, insulated from public whim (the journalists should be able to report news that the public dislikes), and incentivize journalists to do a good job. Perhaps power split between several groups with checks and balances? Or how about a producer cooperative, if I'm using the term correctly - isn't the Guardian controlled by its journalists? Where does its money come from?

EDIT: Another model is the news associations, such as the AP. Also, I just came across the following, which is relevant:

https://www.thomsonreuters.com/en/about-us/trust-principles....
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If western governments can be overthrown by 6 facebook maymays we might as well throw in the towel and accept Putin as our God Emperor.
Your statement regarding the "real world" being equated to "mobile payments" is confusing. FWIW, PayPal cleared $155B in pure mobile payments volume in 2017. Apple Pay on the other hand hasn't published any numbers (apart from a 450% "growth" which every analyst knows is a cop out because the raw numbers themselves are likely not impressive.)
Why would you broadly assume an incorrect rule? Email address parsers correctly implement canonicalization rules that consider the domain e.g. gmail. It doesn't require any extra work as a developer and the logic is hidden behind the abstraction. But certainly, you shouldn't go implementing arbitrary rules that aren't reasonably applicable.
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Wow, this is actually the blog where I first encountered this hypothesis, but I wasn't able to find and link to it. Thanks for doing it for me!
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> I know for a fact that in the Indian Railways, people spend weeks digging up information required to answer RTI queries.

The usual solution to a problem like that is to publish the frequently requested types of information in bulk, before they need to be requested, since they are public records by definition. It costs a bit more than doing nothing, but not nearly as much as corruption does.
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