skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also had a bedroom full of electronics in the late 1970s/early 1980s. I certainly wasn't a rich teenager. All the audio gear was given or scrounged. For example, I got given a very good turntable by the father of a friend of my parents for free, when he upgraded his. I didn't even know him, but I'd got a reputation for knowing about electronics, and it was starting to become a little flakey. People would just give me old gear, if it developed an intermittent fault. Old gear was pretty easy for me to fix, but getting it repaired professionally was expensive, and so they replaced things and gave the old ones to me.

My mother worked for a company that made cash dispenser (ATM) machines. Every now and then, they'd scrap some old machines, and she'd tip me off. I'd raid the bins behind the company, and carry off whatever I could carry - professional grade power supplies, AC motors, all sorts of electronics that I'd de-solder components from and re-use.

We'd also raid the local council dump when the workers weren't watching. A surprising amount of stuff got thrown away that could be fixed and re-sold to friends for a little extra pocket money.

Sometime around 1982, aged 15, I saved up and bought a Jupiter Ace computer. It had 3K of RAM, and was programmed in Forth. That summer, I wrote a whole load of games for it, and sold them on cassette through a computer magazine. That paid for the computer several times over. It was never a popular machine, and I think I was one of only about three people selling games for it that summer.

Then my school threw out an old teletype. I got permission to take it. There was no printer available for the Jupiter Ace, so I resolved to connect the teletype. Trouble was there wasn't an RS232 interface available for the Ace either. I'd built a TTL-logic parallel board for the Ace from scratch. To get +/- 12V for RS232 I used one of the cash machine 24V smoothed power supplies, used second hand cash machine transistors to switch the power via a parallel port pin, and wrote an RS232 implementation in software in Z80 machine code (hand assembled, as I didn't have an assembler). Eventually it all worked. I must have been the only owner of a Jupiter Ace that had a 1960s printer attached.

The Jupiter Ace had one of those crummy rubber keyboards. I'd scavenged enough cash machine keypads, so I desoldered all the keys from them, etched my own circuit board, and made a proper keyboard. That made programming much nicer.

Anyway, my parents weren't wealthy, and I certainly wasn't. But you should never underestimate a resourceful teenager.
Careful, though. Plain human bureaucracy can be just as bad - and often harder to debug :)
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It would also be a good idea to search for the hashed version of that user’s password. It’s really bad to leak the unencrypted password when it comes in as a param, but it’s only marginally better to leak the hashed version.
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100010735598198&hc_r...
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You forgot the part where the Dev team needs to get it under one second, and like most of the articles telling developers to get their experiences loading under one second, completely forget to give the parameters under which "one second" is measured.
Do you by any chance did come across an online course for biochemistry or something similiar? I've wanted now for quite some time to study biology and change my career in that direction, but no relevant degree seems to be designed for remote study.
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FWIW, the 50k are for fixing this bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1203503
I'm not saying that the prizes have equal merit. I'm saying that they're both similarly famous prizes that are judged as prestigious even though the award process isn't based on peer review.
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Through the sheer motive force of his gigantic balls.
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The whole story sounded fishy. That would have definitely made national news with a hostage situation and drones used by the hostage takers...yeah something is fishy.
> When traveling, ride your train respectfully, take no personal chances, cause no problems with the operating crew or host railroad, act like an extra crew member.

Just what they need, a passenger who thinks they are crew.
It's a photo of the author next to their name. It's not "out-of-context".
Olympic gold in most sports are based on excellence measured objectively. It's not a human judgment. You either did race 100m in 9.5 seconds or you didn't. There are some sports where asthetics are included in scoring (like synchronized swimming).
>Secondly the reasons for the resignations and turmoil is the unwillingness of some, the majority, of the Academy members to recognize and properly handle the _alleged_ sexual harassment by Jean-Claude Arnault.

How about their don't recognize or handle anything?

If Jean-Claude Arnault is guilty of sexual harassment, let him legally go to jail / pay a fine / serve community service or whatever.

That's for the law to decide.

They can then take them off the academy (or not) -- if he is convicted.

Otherwise, it's not their business to do anything about it, and even less so for something "alleged".
Which makes me wonder, is this really a bug or did someone make it look like a "bug"?

Also they say they found no evidence of anyone stealing these passwords, but I wouldn't be surprised if some companies decide not to look too hard just so they can later say "they found no evidence of such an act."
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I like the tone. It comes across as a normal guy who is excited about his product extolling the virtues of what was probably a very hard decision.

I use pocketcasts daily and share your unease at anything changing. But. It looks like things may stay broadly the same so maybe we have nothing to worry about?
I’ve never walked out of a store with eyeglasses I just baught. I don’t think that experience is typical.
Adults always seems to believe teens don't work like they did.

Those adults are almost always wrong - although not necessarily in the obvious ways. A small minority of teens run successful YT/Instagram/WA/Etsy channels, and some of them make surprisingly good money from them.
> If you model drive failure as a Poisson Process (each drive flips a coin each day with probability of failure x)

IIRC the Poisson distribution applies when the rate is roughly constant per interval of time, which is not exactly the same as a probability of x per interval of time. (Failures are independent in the latter, not in the former).
>Because building a case strong enough to stand up in court in situations like these is really hard and the police/prosecutors have decided not to priorities it.

So it's the ideal ground for character assassinations?

Especially since society doesn't blame/shame the victims anymore (which is good) -- so someone wrongfully accusing has all the upside and no downsides (which is bad).
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It depends on your requirements.

Do you only use Apple devices? Despite spending most of my time on a laptop with macOS, I also have a gaming PC with Windows, a home server with Debian, a mobile device with Android, and a tablet with iOS. It's nice to have a bit of flexibility available.

If you use an alternative browser such as Firefox you lose access to the built-in integration.

I think their SaaS offering has vault sharing for friends and family, which isn't available through iCloud Keychain.

They provide additional security audit features, such as vulnerability tracking. Quite relevant: I just opened the app and Watchtower had a vulnerability alert notifying me to update my password on Twitter.

It supports One-Time Password, which can occasionally be convenient.

Other kinds of item are supported as well, such as credit cards, bank accounts, software licenses, identities, and secure notes. No more having to grab for my wallet when I need to input my credit card or driver's license info. No more having to search for a checkbook to find my bank account number.
The best ASCII art editor I've seen is http://www.jave.de/ . It's basically like MS Paint, but for ASCII art.
I’m using it for personal hosting and it’s way cheaper than others. The speed isn’t a big deal for a Nextcloud or Gogs server since I am the only user.

I wouldn’t use it for any large web service though.
That is horrifying... Don't sell me a virtual server if the hardware isn't remotely close to being available. I understand fronting me a bit on resources other than storage, but dang.
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The nobel prize committee is far from "an arbitrary commmittee" as far as I know.

At least for the nobel prize in physics I know it's peers who decide and I'd assume it's the same for the other subjects, and it's not just "arbitrary people who have PhDs within the subject" either, it's a few selected ones who are well known in their fields.
>The second is a fictional prize created to let Americans have prizes too.

Huh? Doesn't the U.S. have more Nobel laureates than any other country?
Why are students using essay writing services to cheat?
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For worse.
You have to understand that statists, many in government don't want citizens to be omniscient, omnipotent or anything else that gives individuals more power.

Oh no siree bob...that must be stopped with only government authorities to have these abilities
Givent the recent track records of many fishy apps on the PlayStore, I'll take my risk with the OSS of FDroid.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/phony-android-security-apps-in...
https://blog.malwarebytes.com/cybercrime/2017/11/new-trojan-...
https://thehackernews.com/2017/12/google-playstore-malware.h...
https://thenextweb.com/hardfork/2018/04/20/google-play-crypt...
I don’t believe they do this now.

I am using Scaleway for hosting my own mail server and never sent them an ID. They have my credit card info, of course, but that’s it.
I agree that the deciding committee isn't completely incompetent. As you know, there are plenty of other intelligentsia that could also award prizes but they aren't deemed as prestigious. E.g. why the Swedish academy instead of the Royal Society? I think it is a bit strange how we fetisihize the Nobel above all others.
> The first is an actual prize for scientist works

This article is about the Nobel prize for literature.
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Its sort of part of the definition of ‘criminal’ that they don’t follow laws. That doesn’t mean that laws are pointless.
PS: of course you can't switch before the game maker reveals a box. But isn't that immaterial? In one of three cases, your first choice is correct. Therefore, in two of three cases, the first choice is incorrect ... so switching should be correct in those two.
They work everywhere, except on the command line or file dialogue windows.
Nice, I just loaded the extension into chrome manually and it seems to work.
In some situations you can. In others you move 11 timezones, have no local network, and need to find a job. It's not the best way, but it's not wrong.
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Firefox Focus gets mentioned a lot on HN yet still doesn't support a simple feature like file upload.

https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/focus-android/issues/937
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Ah yes, had the same fun problem at a customer's facility last week. Moving 350 TB of data from an old DDP storage server to a Linux one. Mounting with CIFS (no other option available), an copying using "cp -a".

The file names look OK after the copy on the Linux machine. However, when exporting the directory through Samba, the Macs Finder doesn't display files with accents in the names (though they appear correctly with "ls", weird...).

So the user copies the files again, using the Finder. Now I have files with exactly the same name (uhhhhh???):

# ls -l Mmo-1.
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 8417218 6 sept. 2013 Mémo-1.aif
-rwxr--r-- 1 test test 8417218 6 sept. 2013 Mémo-1.aif
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 363175 6 sept. 2013 Mémo-1.m4a
-rwxr--r-- 1 test test 363175 6 sept. 2013 Mémo-1.m4a

Yes, it looks like two files have exactly the same name, but actually
they're different: one as "é" encoded as 0xCC81, and the other one (the
"good one") as 0xC3A9. Why is that? Why does one work with the Finder, and the other doesn't? who knows.
Except that Goedel, Escher, Bach is not as pretentious...
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Many people rail against case-insensitive lookups like on Windows. How is this different?
Sexist and racist codes of conduct do understandably make people uncomfortable.
Good arguments no doubt but in economics that's rarely the end of it. [ 'How-364-economists-got-it-totally-wrong' ]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/personal-view/3623669/Ho...
Different use cases. If your servers are sufficiently redundant, then RAID is a waste of money, and you might be better off getting more capacity for your money.

But for critical data, or data where you can't scale out as easily, of course, that's another matter.

I won't use RAID for services I have 10 identical copies of and health checks, but I will for the database server that is a pain if I have to fail over or restore, in other words.
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I agree that they're not totally arbitrary and there is probably some correlation between broad peer review acceptance of the genius of some work and a Nobel prize. However, there are also plenty of other committees which could award prizes but which don't carry the same prestige for seemingly arbitrary reasons: e.g. the Royal Society.
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Should probably clarify I'm not talking about client passwords being logged; just the credentials required to read just about anything in the database
Birds of prey have been trained to hunt and take down drones and they do it very well. Seems like an elegant solution to this problem.
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Ok, but that only tells you how to win it, not how or why it’s more prestigious than other gold medals. That’s the point of the parent I think, that prestige is part of humanity and not always easily defined.
Why are the Oscars more prestigious than the Golden Globes?
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Electronics has gotten cheaper, but a lot less DIY.

The UK had a huge DIY computing, hifi, and music hardware scene in the 70s and 80s. Even with DIY, the products weren't as cheap as they are today. But the DIY element made them more accessible than professional equipment, and far more educational.

For reasons I don't understand [1], only the UK and US had this scene. You can find copies of kit-promoting magazines like Electronics Today International online, and the Canadian and Australian issues were a lot less music-oriented than the UK editions.

Even Adafruit etc are lightweight compared to some of the 70s/80s DIY, which needed analog design skills and a willingness to build your own unsafe DIY power supplies.

[1] My guess is the UK had some very early synth startups like EMS and a solid hifi scene. When EMS folded some of their designers needed new work and there was enough interest in kit synths to keep them busy for a few years. Likewise with hifi.
It’s extremely telling that this huge article uses the words ad/advertise/advertising only twice. This is basically a puff piece that talks about all the great changes coming that change absolutely nothing about the fundamental reality of modern SV companies.

Of course advertising is not the problem! Design just has to be more “humanising” and the problems inherent with surveillance capitalism would disappear.
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aphyr on point as usual.

One small point: could we get the title changed? This is a link to a response to the original article, not the original article.
Ask HN: Can SaaS businesses send email verification emails to users under GDPR?
Under the upcoming GDPR law, once a new user signs up for an account after agreeing to the Terms of Service, can we send an email verification email to the user? Or do we need to take explicit consent for that and ask the user to click a button to send the verification email?

I've tried searching the web but haven't found the answer yet.
It's pretty easy to detect and locate the radio emissions from the motors, transceiver, and video transmitter if it has one - as in, screaming in your ear through a bullhorn easy.

It's probably also possible (not sure how easy) to identify the the specific RC controller that's paired with the offending drone, even if there are other people flying their drones safely in the same general area.
I also have ADHD so I resonate a lot with what you're saying. One thing I have found that always tends to bring me back to homeostasis is exercise. The stress of work caught up to me and took its toll mentally and physically. The best thing I did was hire a personal trainer for 6 months or until it became a routine part of my life and I knew I wouldn't quit. Excercise does incredible things for the minds wellbeing
And gymnastics, figure skating dressage, ...

It's irrelevant to the point, things are prestigious because enough people decide they are. The longest breath holder gets an entry in the Guinness Book and a cocktail icebreaker, a Synchronized Swimming Gold Medalist is always a gold medalist.
In TLS 1.3 client certs are sent over an encrypted link, and a reasonable client can and should wait for Finished from the server to arrive, at which point they're entirely sure of who their recipient is too.

Another nice thing is that TLS 1.3 servers can send a CertificateRequest asking for a particular _type_ of certificate, so (if that's ever used in anger) it lets us have clients that don't need to waste the user's time when they don't actually have a suitable certificate anyway. In earlier versions servers could only hint about which CAs they trust, not anything else.
Consider your two cases: (1) deciding what time it is by using the mechanism of a man-made clock; (2) inferring there's this invisible thing called gravity at work when a tennis ball is thrown that dictates the flight of the tennis ball and that it is predictable enough that you could catch a thrown tennis ball by intuiting the arc from the velocity of the throw.

In the first case you deduce the time. And, until the law of gravity is established, in the second case you induce the arc.

In the first case it is entirely reasonable to be perform your little verification step because man-made objects sometimes fail. In the second case there is no need to second guess the universe because your intuition that the laws which govern things like the flight of a ball are not susceptible to revision is correct.

I don't think you're butchering anything, I just think you have to be able to recognise when you are using the inductive method and when you are using the deductive method.

Next question would be: do these two methods exhaust the range of methods we employ to acquire knowledge? If not, what are the other methods?
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in the Boston area it is typical, several choices to bring your script and have new glasses in an hour or two, i have used lencrafters for 10 years like this
IBM's backup software TSM/Spectrum Protect messes this up as well.

If the machine has a UTF-8 encoding (like, say, every modern system), it will try to treat filenames as valid UTF-8 strings and fail to back up files which don't fulfill that assumption. The "solution" is to run the TSM software with a single-byte locale like en_US.

I've seen a number of shops that were silently missing files from backup from old systems because of this problem.
I think the Olympics are prestigious because it is such a large competition. Every nation pretty much competes in a large spectacle. So if you win, it means you're the best in the world. The Olympics has more eyeballs on it than the world championship for most sports. And as said, it's objectively measured (although some sports like diving, boxing and gymnastics are determined by subjective scoring to some extent). The only sport I can think of which has more viewers is the Fifa World Cup, and indeed in football/soccer the Fifa World Cup is considered more prestigious than the Olympics.

And as you know, Alan Turing pioneered computer science and helped saved millions of lives, so he deserves our respect :-) Perhaps prestige is like natural snowball kind of effect, like how the rich will naturally get richer. A prestigious event becomes somewhat prestigious, so people want to win it. Then more people want to win it. Then it becomes more prestigious, etc.
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Without injury? What about when it becomes common and they put sharper blades on?
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Huh? I thought it’s been the computing platform for roughly the past billion years.
It did for me just now. Android phone, web link into Incognito Mode, open AMP link. Full text.
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Apple paying some Apple News publishers for early exclusivity rights to video
600 million is probably just the start of it. Think about all those loans that defaulted...
Poverty, social misery and drug addiction no doubt leads to lots of petty crime but hostage takings and illegal immigration is not going to get solved with UBI.

Decriminalisation of drugs (Portugal) would not negate the need of going after importers and large scale dealers.
Facebook (et al) is nothing but a blip on the time line of human history. Just like "we" have a history without Facebook I see no problems in a future without Facebook. Part of this future will come to pass due to legislation (GDPR being a good start), part of it due to the product - Facebook's users - becoming sentient and aware of the way it has been used. Another part will come to pass due to the ever rising censorship on sites like Facebook which will eventually lead to it becoming a bland repository of pablum as anything which could be construed as being even the least controversial will be locked behind dire warnings or flat-out refused with an accompanying block for the user.
ah the slippery slope
Just like Borges never got a Nobel, Kubrick never got an Oscar as director.

These awards systems with arbitrary judges are far from fair.
Since all face cards count as a 5, does the probability increase or decrease if you remove all face cards?
"LineageOS 14.1 without the Google apps" (from the OP)

Google apps/Gapps is what MicroG replaces. Gapps is an optional, separate install not included in LineageOS. Location services etc are part of that.

MicroG works well, I use it on one Android device and have another using LineageOS without either Google apps or MicroG. Both devices are extremely useful and capable and do everything I require, but I've never let myself become dependent on any Google services in the first place (despite having been a web dev for almost 20 years).
Is it possible that Volkswagen could have pleaded guilty as a corporation in order to indemnify its employees? Perhaps also paying higher fines? I find it hard to believe a employee will break the law like this for a company without some motivation or incentive to do so. This whole case has really left me with a distaste towards all the Volkswagen brands I owned 3 Audis in the last decade. Good news is I have been to Germany and talked to people in the industry and there is a real fear of the change coming from electric vehicles.