skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Has anybody tried running some old computer viruses on it?

Or what about those "tech support" calls you get, where they try and take over your Windows computer? It would be fun to follow their instructions in ReactOS, mainly out of curiosity (and to screw with them).

Seriously, next time you get a call from one of them, give them an excuse to ring you back later; then install Virtualbox, ReactOS, some mic and screen recording software, and wait.
A victim of domestic violence would be fearing retaliation, not self incrimination.
A big component of mastery is wiring your brain to make the right decision without sweating over the details like you did when you were 25. Replacing problem solving with intuition. But what happens 20 years later when your intuition is no longer correct? Or when someone keeps asking why? You’re out of practice, And you’re trying to rewire a part of your brain that is no longer part of your internal dialog.

Teaching seems to be one way to avoid this. You have to keep defending your decisions. Switching specializations (or creating new ones) is another. The only other way I know is to seek outside help, and that level of humility is rare in experts.
Please don't leave animals in cars!
When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail
How much of a book must one read to qualify as reading a book? Do we include online books that are unfinished, or not read start-to-finish?
Just use secure e-mail. No company is selling my e-mail to anyone. Anyone can make this choice, and anyone can also host their own - either you get an unlimited mailbox for free, but of course your data is sold (they need to pay for it somehow), or you pay a few dollars and your data stays yours. It's your choice, we don't need regulations for that. I want to have that choice in my hands.
I am not familiar with the situation in in other countries, but here there aren't many job opportunities for recent engineering/science graduates other than IT consultant.
I've met people that took a PhD positions just because it was decent pay and less hours when compared with most junior and mid-level consultant jobs available.

In terms of adding value, I guess it depends on both the field and what your objectives are. For example, I work in a field where no one would offer you a job unless you have PhD or some sort insane amount of experience.
You don't have to testify against yourselves, but, if given immunity, you have to testify against someone else (barring exceptional circumstances).

This can put crime victims in the legal position of being forced to testify against their accuser, even if they are afraid or do not want to, under threat of contempt of court charges.
I would like to know what portion use the Internet for whorthwhile activities and what portion uses it only for browsing Facebook and Twitter.
That number doesn't surprise me. I personally did not read a book in whole or in part in 2017 or 2016. It's something I don't need to do for my career and is not a past time of mine. My reading primarily comes from the internet. When I do read it's maybe a handful of books in a year.
Looks like it is working now
> who understands concepts way more complicated than the IP protocol or a browser

Do you need to now IP protocol to use the internet?

Old people generally don't like change, they have things set up as they like them.
So much this.

IF you consider that there are some fundamental flaws in the Android Framework at the surface level, either oversights or just based on what the landscape looked like 10 years ago, then we have to reach a tipping point where it makes more sense to do a full rewrite than to continue building on this codebase.

FWIW, there are major incremental improvements made at each release, most of them with very few changes to the high level APIs.

The VM itself evolves at each release and has even been completely replaced from Dalvik to ART. The permission system has moved from install time (designed by engineers .. ) to iOS-like incremental runtime permissions.

Not everything can be updated that way though. So it might be worth redesigning the OS with better assumption about its usage and by totally rewriting the APIs from scratch in order to avoid the mistakes made by Android (of course Fuchsia will also make some mistakes in its APIs .. all immense projects do, it does not mean that it can't improve on Android)

And I don't think the OP article applies very neatly here. Android is still being worked on and is constantly improved.
We are not in a situation where Android's development is going to freeze for 5 years while Fuchsia is being worked on. Completely different teams work on the 2 projects.

If anything, Fuchsia has a lot of pressure in order to catch up with Android. And it might want to start supporting kotlin so that the dev experience gap is not too wide and to add an Android VM for retrocompat before starting to consider competing with Android.
Hi there - I'm the author of the post in question. I chose my language carefully. I do think FLOSS only is a fundamentalist position. The word is used to describe a religious believer who interprets scripture literally. I did mean to bring the baggage, but to provoke thought rather than to insult. And I must stress, this only applies to those who believe in FLOSS ONLY, completely turning their back on proprietary software. It's my opinion that this is not a rational position. Proprietary software can complement FLOSS. This is for the people who write to me and say "Not open source? Forget about it!".

Personally, I am a fan of FLOSS. What's not to like? But sometimes private companies compelled to compete in a free market produce better software. Seems to be especially true of consumer facing software. Think Gimp vs. Photoshop or Sketch.

Also, I don't think this is true anymore: "most got attracted to the platform for the advantages of its open and freely usable code". It used to be true, but I think Linux has wider appeal now. And I think that's a good thing.
It is funny, I think that is pretty standard stuff, getting instant photos. But it is actually a huge change compared to how things were 20 years ago.
I was talking about synaptic strength (strength of connections between neurons which can vary from +ve to -ve) [0]. There is no mention of synapse in that article.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synapse
No, that does not help, unfortunately.

The 250 users who don't need Ultimate are using our GitLab-installation for entirely different things (different projects, different repositories, etc) than the 25 who do.

For example, our training academy keeps a bit of training material in asciidoc format, stored in GitLab, and available to everybody in the organization . GitLab Starter is fine for this need, and this is one reason why every employee has a GitLab license.

On the other hand we have a software project with 6-8 team members who could benefit from GitLab Ultimate. Their needs do not apply to the rest of the company, so we will not get 275 Ultimate licenses for this purpose.

We want (wanted) to have a single GitLab instance to rally around, where we could keep track of all sorts of projects across the company. We went for the Enterprise edition to make sure we could use it without limitations, but we're slowly realizing that it ain't so.

Also, some quick stats: 264 users with altogether 76 groups and 887 projects, adding 5-10 projects a week and 5-10 users a month. We managed to create the hub we wanted, but the hub we bought is no longer catering for our needs, and the hub we need is too expensive.
Some companies are working on this sort of thing.

https://www.killi.io/
A Drop of 4 Degrees Made a Big Difference for a Garment Maker's Bottom Line
Why else would Condi Rice be on the board /puts on tinfoil hat
In that case the sentence would have simply read:

> Likewise, many of the genes that are associated with IQ today are likely important “because of how today’s IQ tests are set up.”

See also The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mismeasure_of_Man
> I’m not clear on the connection between reading and the internet.

Prior to the internet, books were the only way humans consumed large amounts of textual information. Now, we have web pages, which 89% of people use, whereas books, which have never been more accessible, still linger at 76% usage.

One assumes of the 89% of people who use the Internet, 100% of them use web browsers, web sites, and thus read lots of textual information. That's as close to 100% penetration for a technology as you're gonna get, in my view. I wonder what percentage of Americans use toothbrushes!

I suppose there might be some subset of Internet users who exclusively use YouTube/Netflix (children, maybe?) That would be the only wrinkle in the comparison, IMO.
Is this so wrong? Less expensive than flowers and sex means intimacy and its with someone you love. The only bad part is the manipulation.
I'm not the OP, but having also watched a ten year old consume YouTube videos... they tend to stay far far away from anything remotely educational.

For example, this is the kind of thing that the particular kid I know watches: https://youtu.be/5O66ssNpg_A

22 million views. So basically nothing is gained from watching these sorts of videos. But what's lost? Maybe the opportunity to connect with family members?
The UI has been refreshed twice in recent years, including a few weeks ago. When was your most recent experience with the latest hosted Jira?
Agreed. Elimination of material causes is the best we can do given our current lack of insight into the brain. The discussion becomes much more interesting when we do begin to gain that insight when coupled with the ability precisely and extensively modify it.
The cited study was a number for "in whole or in part". So, in other words, 24% of Americans "neither cracked open a print book nor sat down in front of a Kindle to start reading a digital one."
My father is like that, although not as extreme. He was also a professional Fortan programmer. I showed him Visual Basic 6 when he retired in the mid-90s and he's still using it today for all his programming projects. He uses email and will websurf some, but has no interest in a cell phone or anything else invented in the last 15 years or so.

Oh, but he really wants a Tesla. He's in his mid-80s. :)
> every video that confirms their worldview will be seen as totally legit, every video contradicting it will be "fake"

Yes, this has been true for quite some time already since even innocuous footage can be made to lie with creative editing.

The chain of custody thing is already a problem and has been since courts started admitting photographic evidence.
The article puts forward the notion that "the universe is simply too big for a government to establish law and order in a top-down fashion." However, conflict will most assuredly not be "extremely difficult to avoid" because space is large, and interstellar travel will always be extraordinarily difficult and slow. There will be no war between two groups when they have basically no interaction whatsoever.
That is one of those sentiments that sounds good but really isn't useful. Say, hypothetically, President Trump said, "There was no collusion!"

Would you say that there is no utility in inspecting Trump's motives and his history of telling whoppers, because, after all, the statement "There was no collusion" stands or falls on its own no matter who said it?

In the real world, as individuals we don't have the expertise nor the time to develop the expertise to evaluate fully what we read, and it is rare that we personally have firsthand knowledge of the facts in question. So we can't determine if the claims of the article stand on their own and we rely on the reputation of the author of the article to help decide the likelihood that it is true.

The person you replied to was very careful not to claim that there is anything wrong about the article.
I love Jira, but it's easy to abuse because of its flexibility. I'd be hesitant to inherit a heavily customizes Jira configuration.

Sometimes tools need to be more opinionated to minimize the risk of user error, and Jira seems to fall into that category.
An artist puts a toilet paper roll on the front of the toilet seat for.... reasons.

I submit this is not HN material.
Oh wow. Did not notice that. If it’s from 2015, Why would someone post this though?
but then this just shows him in good light, no?
I don't believe this would work with the rustc compiler because, although it uses Cargo to build, it has a special process that bootstraps the compiler by building itself.
The US isn't the only place to use "states". Austria, Germany, Argentina, Mexico, etc are all based around states.

There's an important distinction between "states" and "provinces" that people tend to forget. Provinces are subdivisions of a larger entity, usually a unitary State, and inherit their powers from it. States, on the other hand, grant a central arbiter powers via cession; almost exclusively in the form of a federation or confederation.
>I have never once heard anyone criticise radio consumption that I can remember.

You're far too young to remember. There were two distinct moral panics about radio; the first in the 1930s when radio first became popular in the home, and the second in the early 1960s when transistorisation allowed teenagers to have radios of their own.

Until 1967, the BBC did not have a pop music station. Until 1973, commercial radio was illegal. The pirates who filled the demand for pop radio in the interim were hugely controversial. A great many column inches were spent fretting over the corrupting influence of foreign broadcasters, beaming salacious rock and roll music into the bedrooms of British children.
I don't really see how this works...

Can I demand cash back from Amazon for all the stuff I bought last year? A 20% retroactive discount should do. If they don't give me that discount, I'm off to buy stuff from eBay!
I've never heard that quote before but it's pretty solid. :)
First of all, the whole "left wing / right wing" spectrum is an outdated, archaic legacy of a bygone age, and has no place in modern society at all.

That said, to the extent that you can squint real hard and find some meaning in the idea of "right wing" or "left wing", American libertarians are typically described as "simultaneously left of left, and right of right".

Ultimately that just goes to illustrate exactly the point that a simple one dimensional spectrum cannot even begin to model the diversity of political beliefs in the world.
More than libraries, I wish there would be really affordable computers.

We’ve already proven it’s technically possible, with Raspberry Pis and cheap Android phones. Now I wish we would stop cramming bloat and shit (like useless JavaScript and ads) into our websites and operating systems so those low-end machines actually remain usable and productive.

Internet access should also be a right - not high speed 100+Mbps, but basic 1Mbps or so. The unused cell network capacity should be given away for free so that less fortunate people can still get online.
While "other bets" are not showing much income, Waymo looks like it will be a big win.
Seems reasonable. All the big oil companies used to be called “the 7 sisters” (before mergers) and then back in the 70’s for accounting it was “the big 8”.
No it doesn’t at least for g. MZ twins reared together show as much variation as those reared in different families (at least by adulthood).
There are at least some signs that our childhood nostalgia is not misplaced:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/suicide-youth-teens-whats-behin...

(I don't live in the US, but I'm afraid this trend will arrive here soon enough.)
As a counterpoint, I've taken Ambien for like four years now, have never taken more than 20mg, and have never done anything destructive or hallucinated.
Not surprising. I think it’s been written how easy it is to hack into PA systems at restaurants. Apparently they all have remote dial-in features secured by nothing more than a numerical pin.
I imagine you have no regrets?
And this is a very very good thing. Period. I am glad they removed the backdoor. Backdoors are front doors for evil doers and, well.

Yes, it means that backups are even more important, but srly Apple make it so stoopidly easy with Time Machine that there really isn't an excuse. Besides, the SSD itself could die and there wouldn't have been a way to recover anything anyway.
Emmy Noether’s revolutionary theorem explained, from kindergarten to PhD
A store.
>This seems to prove that intelligence influenced by genetics

Only if the educational attainment difference predicted by these genes is because of "intelligence." It could just as easily have to do with "stick-with-it-ness" or "I-have-parents-that-insist-I-go-to-college" or "I-do-what-is-expected-of-me."
Since the encryption key is (by design) not extractable from the T2 chip, having raw access to the flash isn't particularly relevant. From a security perspective this is good, because imaging the encrypted disk can also reveal information, and potentially allow replay attacks (like patching the sectors where a password is stored back to a prior version).

https://duo.com/blog/apple-imac-pro-and-secure-storage
It gets better: there are places selling their software via hardware appliances that run RHEL6.
This is a little bit confusingly worded, here is the full press release: http://hub.digitalasset.com/hubfs/Press%20Releases/DA_Google...

As best as I can tell, all that has happened is that Digital Asset (a company) is offering their software through the GCP Marketplace:

> "The DAML PaaS is a fully-managed solution that developers can use to test and deploy DLT applications, ​accessible through Google Cloud’s Orbitera application marketplace technologies."

This article http://fortune.com/2018/07/23/google-cloud-digital-asset/ makes it sound like it is a big deal, but I'm not seeing anything on Google's side about this. I don't think Google Cloud is actually offering anything here?
They didn't have to cheat on NOx. They could have installed a selective catalytic reduction (SCR) system with an end-user refillable urea (AdBlue) tank. Just like all heavy diesel vehicles have had for years now. It would have added maybe $100 in cost to each vehicle.

The SCR system is an after-treatment for exhaust gasses and does not significantly affect fuel economy or performance.
> Exhaust particles are the absolute worst

Second worst is the noise pollution by the constant use of the horn. I swear it should cost money every time someone uses it.
There were years when it wasn’t free and there was a proprietary enterprise edition sold for on-premises usage.
> That's Microsoft's strategy in a nutshell: be Good Enough for a very large captive audience.
+100 to fitness. Especially since its much easier to get fit when you're younger. Maintaining the same level of fitness is much much easier than having to achieve it later in life.
Regarding exception handling, letting internal exceptions define external behavior is perhaps a bad idea. The possible exception types can be wide and change over time as new parts or features are added. Example:

// pseudo-code
qry = new query(sql=theSql, dbConfig=DB_FOO);
if (! qry.Execute()) {
errMsg = "Something went wrong during your query. ";
if (qry.errorExceptionName=="DB_Busy") {
errMsg += "The database appears to be busy."; // append more
}
displayAlert(errMsg);
} else {
processQuery(qry.resultRows);
}

Here any fatal errors are caught inside the query object, but details are available if and when you wish to take advantage of them outside the query object. The query object (API) user doesn't have to know all possible exceptions types in order to handle an exception properly (or at least in a good-enough way).
> Dropbox gave us access to project-folder-related data, which we aggregated and anonymized, for all the scientists using its platform over the period from May 2015 to May 2017 — a group that represented 1,000 universities. This included information on a user’s total number of folders, folder structure, and shared folder access

This seems like heaven for industrial espionage purposes. Just because there's some anonymisation doesn't mean that the metadata is useless. I sincerely hope they get GDPR'd over this.
> First of all, the whole "left wing / right wing" spectrum is an outdated, archaic legacy of a bygone time and has no place in modern society at all.

Not really. It doesn't tell the whole story, but it reflects a real and current axis of variation.

> That said, to the extent that you can squint real hard and find some meaning in the idea of "right wing" or "left wing", American libertarians are typically described as "simultaneously left of left, and right of right".

American “libertarians” (that is, people referred to that way in America) are typically right-libertarians. To the extent they sometimes seem left, it's because some of the popular perception of the right is set by right authoritarians.
This may come across as argumentative, but it's still a valid question - What's the harm to you?
"hard to get" is overselling it a little. Maybe hard to get in very large quantities. Where I am, I can get up to 7.5 grams per month with zero issues. Not enough to make meth, enough for the maximum dose every day of every month.
Yes it's definitely messy for some topics. Mostly we agree.

Can you answer the specific question about a specific topic (holocaust denial) that the CEO of the platform raised or is that case too messy?
You may not be the best example of how this can help, sounds like you have good security sensitivity.

Where I'm working now, we deal with several credential loss incident each month. Invariably, our users are tricked into authentication via a bogus site. 2FA would protect the credentials from being used by unauthorised people. Our staff are encouraged to use password managers, but that does not help this situation.
How much of this discount is for tracking, and how much is pure price discrimination?

The barrier of carrying a card allows the supermarket to give a discount to customers who are motivated by that, without needing to give the same discount to everyone.

The value of the tracking is probably irrelevant to how they set the price: it is not that loyalty card discounts have increased since tracking has become more valuable.
I don't think this is relevant to the reason why most people are using ethanol, though... or most of the people using Ambien for that matter, at least is the impression I get from reading the discussion thread on this post!
Uber doesn't seem like a market since the "sellers" can't actually set the price of their service.
The comments there are spot on.
Found a copy freshly archived today @ archive.org:

http://web.archive.org/web/20180723220131/https://www.realwo...
Define educational.

Watching stupid Call of Duty videos as a teenager is what allowed me to learn English (I am not a native English speaker) and I now owe my entire career to that.

On the other hand, proper “educational” stuff has yet to make me a penny.

Just because it doesn’t look “educational” (or should I say boring) to you doesn’t mean the kid isn’t learning stuff by watching (or listening to) the video. Chances are, those people are doing real-life stuff that is never taught in school and they would otherwise try to figure it out by themselves via trial and error.
I did not have that experience with IntelliJ. Bugs were everywhere, and during one of their product Beta cycles, they moved from Beta to release without fixing many of the problematic bugs I had reported!
This is all great, but I feel like all these problems could be caught just with properly written tests. If your tests correctly cover the API usage of your code, and I mean both your code complying with the intended API and the API complying with the intended usage, then the implementation behind that API should be totally transparent. No need to check versions, release notes, or any of that, just run the API compliance tests on the new version, and if it works then your code should work too.