skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but in 10 years may soften. So no they don't get better with age, it just takes years for them to be ready to drink.

A relative of mine did some work for a winery. As part of the payment or as a gift for a job well done they got a bottle of wine from 1965. The bottle was covered and dust and grime, looked pretty gross. By that time we drank it it had aged for about 25-30 years. The taste though was amazing. Didn't even taste like wine, had a very smooth velvet-y taste. Almost no acidity, not tannic at all.
That is a different feature (although a cool one). They provide the ability to run a query as of a point in time. We are moving the database backward in time (which matters for running applications)
The difference is how the Pepsi Challenge works: Pepsi is sweeter, so after one sip, most people like it better, but after a whole can, most people prefer Coke because they're tired of all that sweetness.

If you chill them enough it's probably a lot harder to tell, but at the normal temperature of a "cold drink", it's pretty obvious.
And then three months later I read about them and think "that sounds really interesting".
Sadly no. The only viable (and closed) alternative to Bloomberg Terminal is Eikon from Thomson Reuters [1].

However, I find Routers finance news & details much more accessible than those from Bloomberg as they offer a bunch of rss feeds, depending on category you'd like to track.

[1] https://eikon.thomsonreuters.com/index.html
[2] https://www.reuters.com/tools/rss
This is a different feature than PiTR. We have both. They serve different needs.
PUBG update brings Intel Chromebooks to the game
I want Microsoft to make a Surface phone...that runs Android but has Microsoft everything on it. Cortana, Office, the Microsoft Launcher etc all baked in. Sure some people might switch it back to Google services, but who cares? Maybe even allowing Android apps to run on Windows and accessible in the Microsoft Store and have your own app store on Android bypassing Google.
I have noticed this on the front audio connectors, as the leads supplied with the case are not properly shielded but not on the rear, so that might be worth a shot before buying another sound card.
If you're getting drunk, yes, they are equivalent.

But pricing doesn't really scale with alcohol content, in particular given the extra work required to create whisk(e)y.
Brand is all they have, since the app is so simple. Saying that a typeface in an app is wasteful is like saying it’s wasteful for Starbucks to commission their own chairs.
> My wife likes strawberries. I don't care for them. Professional wine tasters are just people with their own preferences.

Yeah but we expect some trends among professionals, don't we? Just like we'd expect all food critics to rate McDonalds below French Laundry. Wine ratings are all over the map for professionals, amateurs and everyone in between.
>Pretty much the whole cryptography field has been saying PGP is broken for something close to a decade now;

No they don't. Also PGP works just fine. It could use some improvements, but it's doing well.
Thanks. These are exactly the kinds of examples I was looking for.
Maybe it's a conspiracy to replace OneDrive search results with their own haha
According to the article, their first speaker-integrated keyboard was released in 1992. That's 26 years ago. Patent term is only 20 years in the US. The patent must have expired long ago.
I wouldn't say it's gimmicky, I wish actual Windows did this. How Windows handles rotation is a bit sloppy.
Hadoop datacenter migration
1800MICROSOFT (which interestingly works, despite being 13 digits) is just a call center in india, however they seem to be at least somewhat knowledgeable. I haven't called them in probably around 9-10 years but I remember they would remotely control my PC and run commands in the command prompt (which doesn't mean much if they're just following a script but they seemed to be able to at least somewhat interpret the results). If the L1 tech can't solve your problem you get escalated to someone who is smarter (And these people definitely knew what they were talking about).

I believe you get three free calls for every licence you buy (home/basic licences only get one or get none, depending on the product).

*This is all based off of my experience from many years ago so it might not be true any more.
It reminds me of Ubuntu One. It was one account for cloud storage, the Ubuntu store and may be I forget something else.

Cloud storage was the primary service, so there's precedent for the 'One' used I this context.
This is such a wow moment for interdisciplinary research. Most have hears of analyzing ice cores but this is unprecedented in it's level of detail.
A smartphone absolutely is a computer. It's maybe not a "productive" computer for a lot of workloads, but it still carries out operations and produces output based on the input it is fed.

You're just making up your own definition of "computer" and then claiming a smartphone isn't one because it doesn't match your made up definition.
> The next day I received two references from the recruiter—but neither was a manager and neither was from Acme Corp. Apparently she was still waiting for that particular reference. Odd…but OK. Why wouldn’t he have that info readily available?

Getting ref's takes time, it is silly to think it doesn't. You need to contact the people and ask them first, and lots of people are very busy with work. You are not there priority.
It seems like the camera is detachable and can be placed anywhere. Probably has a clip, that's why they didn't build it into the bezel.
I'm a fan of Amazon Drive. The native clients are nice with a clear interface, and have the option to simply upload files or directories once, without having to synchronize them in local directories. It's not immediately clear how to do this in Google Drive, which seems confused especially since they've split it into two different products already.

There's also been a persistent problem with the Google Drive native desktop client, where syncing files consumes 100% of your local CPU for hours (or days) as it syncs, a problem which Dropbox and Amazon Drive do not have.
And yet I still can't easily get it to ignore `node_modules` folders.
When I used to work in security, I used Whois every day. In many cases it was to notify a domain owner that their domain had been compromised and was being used for spam. I also used it a lot to track down bad actors because most of them are dumb and don’t hide their Whois.
I know Skype has its problems, but trust me as someone that went from working for a Microsoft Office 365 based company to a Google GSuite based company that Hangouts is not much better. Drops are common among other strange bugs.
For what it's worth I have worked at places where its a fireable offense to talk to anyone about past employees. You'll be referred to our co-employer (insperity) who will only give you mm/yy of beginning and end of employment and not a word more.
> It is the minimally-charitable interpretation of my statement to assume that I'm trying to disparage the people behind the reference.

An "unprincipled dumping ground" says something about those who are maintaining it. It's not about charitable interpretations, it's about the contents of what you said.

> I apologize

Thank you. But...

> I still harbor a latent prejudice against the reference

That you do things like this perpetuates the situation you complain about. You're involved with the Rust project; to see you say things like this has even more weight than some random person. Furthermore, to say the things that you've said also demonstrates that you don't actually know what's going on with the reference, making it extra frustrating.

Please reconsider your actions here. They only hurt, not help.

> That covers all pages...

Thank you! All of these things would make great bugs, and I know you know where to file them. Doing so would be a tremendous help, and is exactly what we need to make the reference better. That's what we need more of, not disparaging it and those who work on it in front of thousands of people.
No, it's not a re-brand. It's the name for their paid storage plans with live customer support.

https://www.blog.google/products/google-one/one-simple-way-g...
The fundamental principle of presumption of innocence means you shouldn't go around spying on everyone looking for signs of criminality.

And the idea that the tech is more dispassionate and therefore fairer than humans is a step on the road to hell. I guess you never had an anomalous credit or insurance rating yet. (Notably GDPR has a clause for precisely the ability to review automated decision making where it can have a material effect.)
I'm kind of disappointed Ubuntu didn't sue Microsoft over the name. Given they had just had to rename from SkyDrive to OneDrive due to trademark infringement it would have been amusing to see them need to do it again for not having actually checked for similar services with similar names. Or maybe there was a payment to Ubuntu involved there.
Another report from twitter:
https://twitter.com/chrisplummer/status/996508091666649089
Executive coaching: what would your first coaching session be like?
Thank you! I should have checked Whirlpool first, seems like the obvious place. Such a great resource in general, but that NBN wiki is very detailed.
I'm lucky enough to live in an apartment with full FTTP NBN 100/40 and in a way it sucks because if I have to move the chances of me getting it again are so low.
Speaking of noisy computers and electronics, I designed a PCB with an ESP32 bluetooth/WiFi chip on it. I'm far from an expert in board design, and my board unsurprisingly emits a buzz when the Wifi/BT radio is transmitting or receiving. It's interesting though, when it's using BLE you can hear the frequency hopping as it changes channels, and then you get entirely different sounds when it stops BLE and uses just WiFi. But yeah I should probably fix that...

Possibly caused by the piezoelectric effect on an SMD ceramic capacitor, making it vibrate and hit the PCB surface at an audible frequency.
This is the name of their paid storage offering with live customer support.
Ditto that was an insta-close for me as well.
Then why use "chatmasta" as your handle instead of your real name, which you have provided in your profile?

The problem with you view is that there are times when your message gets caught up with your identity. Especially, when your message may be against the consensus flow and stills needs to be made, without affecting you in any material way.

Too often today, the messenger is "killed" because of the unpleasantness of the message being delivered.

[Edit: to to too]
If the whole point is to find discrepancies between what the prospective employee tells you and what is reality, not highlighting differences between those two sets of data is an issue, even if because the people doing the background check just lack access.

The real reason most background checks happen are so that companies have someone to point the finger at when one of their employees breaks the law. If that wasn't the case then you wouldn't get into situations like background check companies reporting completely clear records when the government has a simple process to show you every sentence given to someone. They stick to third party companies because they are cheaper and don't trigger compliance regulations required by law.

They would go for the better, if slightly more expensive, data source in a heart beat if finding about criminal history was the actual goal
> Dishonesty is an intolerable trait.

Dishonesty which you can detect is apparently intolerable. But dishonesty which you never catch may not be.

That's one of the points of the article, the other being that the candidate apparently showed a solid set of skills in the interviews. Dishonest people are dishonest, but they also might be lazy and thus willing to apply a skillset rather than deal with the complexity of additional, ongoing layers deceit.
I get catfished often.

Company X offers me a role where I have responsibilities Y and benefits Z. Promotions after a set number of time.

Times go by, still not doing Y, but intern level work. Benefits Z never appear. And that promotion? Sorry, someone needs to die or leave first, and then maybe we will hire a direct replacement.

Companies lie all the time in order to get a candidate to join.
apparently the contact came from an outside recruiter. not from the candidate himself. when dealing with an agency like this, the agency normally has refs in hand, in advance.
a Google-wide plan that includes Drive storage.
>talks about creating a new signature with the attacker's identity

Wait, if the signature isn't created with the same key as the message encryption, how does this even work? Shouldn't the client fail to either decrypt the message or validate the signature?
this is not a brag but I have never lied in an interview so I have to assume plenty of others have never lied. I have not exaggerated either or told white lies during an interview. Not saying I never lie but never in an interview. If I don’t know sonething I say so. I might follow with “but I can probably figure it out” or “but I think it’s ...” or “I don’t know off the top of my head but it’s the type of thing I look up every few years, implement once, then use the implementation until the next job and promptly forget the details” etc...
Page 4 of the Scope[0] document looks particularly useful in broadly (albeit briefly) highlighting the various domains inside computer security.

Could be a nice 1 pager for highlighting some of the things I do to outsiders. Would be useful to those looking to get into this field (i.e. CS undergrad) too.

[0] https://www.cybok.org/media/downloads/CyBOKScopeV2.pdf
Lol only in California would this be suggested.

Why not just repeal the stupid housing laws you have now instead of adding more complexity to the situation?
> Had difficulty getting a 3ghz Core 2 Duo to emulate SNES effectively with it

That's very odd considering retropie runs snes perfectly.
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There's a daily 10TB download limit according to people on the internet BTW.

https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/802ygu/-/dustd...
> Everyone has a right to privacy

This is far from an absolute. Each country more or less dictates the rights of their people, and many countries do not directly provide this right. As an example, the Indian supreme court only declared it a right last year, and most articles talking about it only list a very select few other countries as ones that provide this right.
To me this is the Amazon Prime for Google, with Drive storage + other perks.
I suspect those are all gone too. TS68C000 went EOL in 2010 -- it was produced by Thomson-CSF, which was acquired by e2v.

One interesting avenue to explore might be the Sega Genesis. It's still being produced in Brazil, believe it or not -- and there must be some sort of 68000-compatible processor at the core of those.
>I would easily pay $10/m for a "personal" version and I know companies that would pay 2x - 3x that for enterprise deployment. Although to an extent - it's redundant now that we have phones with biometric authentication.

You're off by a factor of 10 on how much a service like that will cost, especially in enterprise.
I’ve taken 3 college level courses on linear algebra and only really got an intuition for eigenvectors/eigenvalues when watching his video series. Super great!
A Pale Blue Dot, as Seen by a CubeSat
That is reality of how contracting jobs are in the current environment, but it is circumventing the law. I also have worked contracting jobs where I had to be there 9-5 and implement the exact architecture outlines by one employee of the client, while the boss I answered to on a daily basis was another employee of the client and not my nominal boss at the consultancy.

All of that is solely to get around to requirements with hiring employees like providing benefits, or needing to pay for increased payroll taxes when the company decides to lay a bunch of people off.

It's not right just because the rule of law has degraded so much that the government no longer enforces their own rules
I read this many years back at joelonsoftware. Joel is such an amazing thinker. His ideas are so original. I don't know how one thinks such original thoughts. I can follow orders but thinking for myself is very hard.
I think this may be a problem of terminology. When I (and, I think, others) say "low false positive rate" what we're actually talking about is the (more useful for approximation) ratio "fraction of negatives classified positive" over "fraction of population that is positive".

You have described a false positive 'rate' of one thousand percent (10 to 1). A genuinely low false positive 'rate' of 1 to 10 would require a actual-rate around 0.01% chance of recognising an innocent person as a suspect.

It might help if there was widely known term for 'rate's, rather than using wrong-term-in-scare-quotes.

Edit: Also, it's increasingly impossible to have a low false positive 'rate' for one-in-a-million or one-in-a-billion events, and not-technically-lying about how good your detectors are is probably a significant secondary factor in why this sort of thing gets so much flak for "staggering inaccuracy".
> Nobody forces you to leave wi-fi and mobile data on by default and everything set to default. Don't want to be tracked by Google? Then open settings and switch things off, it's not hard.

They track even when wifi is turned off, they still wake the radio to receive access point ssid broadcasts, they just don't send anything via wifi when it is off.

If you opt out of Google location services entirely then it won't do it.
That's entirely true about NDAs, but then are you really hiring a contractor or just misclassifying full time employees so you're off the hook with employment law?
I think logic is fairly neutral when it comes to truth. It's just a method for organising axioms. Whether the logical system you choose actually favours truth or not, really depends on the axioms you choose. Further more, even with the right axioms you still have the problem of imperfect decidability because in practice we have imperfect observations of all the relevant data, and non-infinite computational power to examine all the relevant permutations of that data.

Now I'm not saying logic isn't useful for seeking truth; with a lot of care applied to the choice of axioms and examination of the data it can still be very helpful in weeding out untruths.

The problem is a lot of these debates are permeated by rhetoric which is more interested in some predetermined conclusion than seeking truth. Even subtle tweaks to a good logical approach can get you out into the weeds very quickly.
Oh, the modern ones absolutely have other external busses -- but not a standard 68000 memory bus. There's no way to hook up an EEPROM with your program on it, for instance.
And you think the algorithms made by racists aren't racist?

This isn't a sorting algorithm where there is a simple provable solution, this is putting heuristics in a computer.
System-Level Power Modeling Takes Root
this is a draft? at this stage of the game in 2018 this is all they have? one would do better to invest time in the 8 domains as developed by ISC2 (CISSP).
Excellent:

“The Republican Party as now constituted is obviously too stupid to survive…. What is to be done? Of course, that was Lenin’s line and the only lucid one he ever wrote. The answer is nothing. America’s position is unassailable. We are the imperial Rome of the 3rd Millennium. Our government is a CSX train on a track. People on one side (the left) yell at it, and people on the other side (the right) yell at it, but the train’s only going to go down the track. Thank God for that. That’s why I find American politics too boring to write about. Nixon is forced from office. Does a military junta rise up? Do the tanks roll? Give me a break.” [February 28, 2000.]

^from the Vanity Fair article
Rather give send my birth certificate and passport to Microsoft and all other personal information than ever store stuff in Dropbox.
I was the same, I used to hobby game dev for many years. I was never a gamer, what intrigued me was creating worlds, and the technical challenge. I learned tons writing things like 3d software renderer, scripting language, path finding, physics. Nothing I wrote ever progressed past a 'tech demo' though.

Nowadays, using thing like unity or whatever, games are essentially an excercise in content creation IMO. Well, this has been true for a long time.
Since customer service is part of it, they probably need to staff up customer support by country/language.
This would be great. We also need to take away local housing regulations and give control back to the state because all that has led to is NIMBYism and blocking new construction.
So true. How about the credibility of RSA.

They should be going out of business because all their customers left in droves.

But they didn't and RSA is still an esteemed security company.

What happened when Juniper firewalls were outed by Snowden.
Did we ever hear the name of the employee who backdoored their product?

Surely they use revision control and can tell who contributed what.
I have to wonder if the NSA mole still works there too.
Zero transparency from these "Security Companies".
There is no such thing as an "objective" source of news that is without bias. All publications express bias through their editorial decisions on merely what stories to cover and not cover.

Not that I recommend it, but if you're looking for a relatively neutral way of 'staying informed' about current events, follow a news wire service like Reuters or the AP. Just don't think that either of them is giving you a complete account of anything.
HN is an international community. In Germany for instance, Apple's EULAs are not the same as in the USA, and installing on a hackintosh is not a violation under German law, IIRC.
Might be a long term plan. When apple rebranded iBook to MacBook, it seemed weird at the time, but they presumably had the iDevice in the pipeline (as well as their iBooks eBook system).

However, I think that One is the name of the overarching storage subscription/billing service, of which Drive, Photos and Mail (and possibly more) will consume.

Also, Drive is getting to be a bit of an anachronism (like the floppy disk icon to save). Google Storage or something similar would be clearer.
If you are requireing who can do the work and how it's done you've constrained the person into an employee-employer relationship regardless of what you decide to call. Contracts are like an interface, you are setting up an agreement on what is being provided and don't care about the implementation. When you constrain the contract so much that only a single person can fulfill the contract you are just abusing the concept of contracting.

In the example above with NDAs and security clearance that can be a perfectly valid requirement, but you can't reasonably be upset if the contractor subcontracts out to someone else with clearance who has signed the same NDA
> definitely a mouse and a mouse-centric interface.

Wouldn’t that mean most servers aren’t computers? Not to mention the DOS machines I grew up with, or everything made before the Xerox Alto?

> I have tried using an iPad Pro for productivity, and it's living hell.

Not going to disagree with you there. But that doesn’t make it not-a-computer.