skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Heard very mixed reviews of Reamde. Could you please tell me what elements you liked of the book?

It's been on my reading list for a while but the mixed reviews always lead to it being left for another day
Facebook. Not because of a changing formula, but disregard for the importance of reputation in a fluid market.
not that JSON is immune to this - mongodb's query interface is a reinvention of the same, but in JSON.
This has been debunked several times over the years at Hacker News. The standard imposes no such limit; additional HIDs are not required in order to exceed that number of keys; and properly written ordinary HID drivers can handle what is necessary, as it is an ordinary part of the specification to describe the size of the input report and an ordinary part of a driver's operation to decode and process an input report descriptor in order to know how to decode an input report.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8191260

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7358911

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8478042
The fact Google is making a search engine specific to China to meet their requirements for censorship opens the door for that very specific thing. First it's hiding results that the government doesn't want seen. Next it will be reporting who's looking for censored topics. It's a slippery slope.
How do you plan to compete with my mom?
According to the article this page doesn't include everything they track.
Well it's private property so it's kind of up to the owner to decide that.
This sounds like a male perspective. Women have a very different view on how safe they are when anyone can find out who they are and where they live.
You can return it if it doesn't match what was advertised.
Nevada is a weird place, it sort of balances the near libertarian natives with the demands/requirements of the casinos that keep the money flowing.
We Were Gods, by Alex Feinman. Among other things, it contains an amazing scene describing an attack on a race condition from inside a fantasy game's magic system.

Here's part of it:

Giggling a little from the alcohol, the four points began the slow juggling routine I'd sent them; just a simple ball passing, in rhythm. Pass, pass, pass. Throw and catch in the same instant; the balls went round and round until all four were landing in palms at the same time, four little smacks merging into one sound. Their avatars were better at this than they were. After a moment I threw another ball in, then another, until there were eight in the circle: four in the air, four in the hand. Faster and faster they went round, until there were little streaks of light behind them, until the streaks almost formed a complete, rippling circle.

Around us the world leaned in, currents of energy creating a field of magic potential. Rhythmic motion always attracted the attention of the underlying world routines as they struggled to incorporate it into the ebbs and flows of the wind and water; a vortex here, at one of the two hearts of the world, drew a lot of processing power. And each point of the cross was a magic-using engine; those strands of energy consumed a surprising amount of resources. But the real trick was the synchronization: slight imperfections in the coding routines for distribution and rationing of magical energy made them susceptible to a timing attack. It was a matter of chance, though; each time the circle tossed and caught, quanta of energy were requested at nearly-identical times. Sooner or later the system would try to service two at once and--ah.

One of the balls vanished momentarily, lost to accounting for a brief instant before the system found it again. It left a tiny kink in the circle of light as it passed: an opening, into the collection routines. This was what my watch-spell was waiting for: a chance to insert my own instructions into the information transmission stream: instructions that said 'open', 'open'.

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/396337
IAG Cargo records surge in pharma deliveries to Venezuela
And exact same thing is true for Android as well - even Google apps won't get location data if you disable the permission or toggle.
They used deionized water, not unusual for gaming rigs either.

The temperature range is about 15C to 125C, at high pressure this is most ideal for use with water and water itself is a rather good coolant.
Mister Pai does not seem to care about the customers at all. It is quite painful to wittness his actions as FCC chairman.
>My $100,- Motorola Moto C plus is great but I can't remove the Google search box from my home screen for example.

It's quite annoying and show how far Google goes to shove their data collection tools down our throats.

I recommend this free and independent launcher: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/ch.deletescape.lawnchair.pla...
I'm not 100% positive that is great advice. Looking at a lot of projects I have begun, especially startups, I'm glad I didn't finish them--I would have lost a lot of money! There's one in particular I wished I had quit my job to finish, however. But 1 in say 25 it's hard to tell which one the winner would have been.
Karax: single page applications in Nim
While your complaint is valid, replacing the launcher on your phone will remove the Google bar. (Nova launcher is very popular alternative to the built in ones and gives you quite a few options for customisation.)

The constant nagging to enable Location History is the worst though.
ReBench: Execute and document benchmarks reproducibly
i dont believe the spending of Satoshi's (nor anybody else's coins) would cause any issue, since the market knows of the existence of these coins. It's that bitcoin is quite volatile due to its immaturity as a currency and commodity (it seems to act as both atm...)

Unless satoshi has somehow hidden a large chunk of coins that has never been released somehow (which, would be weird, since as soon as they release it, it would invalidate the current chain!)
Eh, I think you mean the fear of world ending nuclear war.
The fields of nutrition and economics do have the basics worked out. But the basics aren't things like "is eating too much salt bad for you?" The basics are about nutrient metabolism and the human body is a very complicated (/complex) system. The basics don't necessarily have to be "actionable", and they don't necessarily need to say how the system comes together as a whole. For instance, in your example of evolutionary biology, there is a lot of debate about whether natural selection or neutral evolution is the primary driver behind species diversity. We know that both exist and both happen, but we don't know how they came together to create the species diversity we observe.

Another aspect of this is that there are certain fields (namely economics and nutrition) where the popular press over-exaggerates every single paper as a groundbreaking discovery because it gets clicks. The media tries to present the idea that scientists as a whole have come to a brand new conclusion which should change the way everyone behaves, when in reality it's just a few people in a windowless room reporting on some observations they found and speculating on what those observations might mean.
> News is just content now. What you believe isn't the truth, it's identity, your tribe, your personality. It doesn't matter if it's true, it just matters that it's in line with the belief of your tribe.

When was this idealized time when news _wasn't_ content produced for money?
1. Not just bad guys look for vulns. What about White hats?

2. Your adversary maybe has an endless supply of said resource you want them to run out of: time. A state-sponsored attack can have a dimension so mind-boggling that it's laughable to try and use cheap "security tricks" to stop them. Remember Stuxnet?

3. Since when is obscurity a valid security measure?

See also https://twitter.com/polytomous/status/1025869511004577792
One estimate of the total exotic matter required to form a bubble puts it around 10^20 galaxies worth.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/gr-qc/9702026.pdf

Those insignificant civilizations don't need to worry about pollution, they need to worry about being gobbled up for mass-energy.
Are you kidding? There are hundreds of successful digital transformation stories.
> I can't remove the Google search box from my home screen for example.

You can remove it if you disable "Google Play Services" in Settings -> Apps. Of course if you do then can't use the android store or most apps.

I use the alternative fdroid repository and it works fine.
> I’m an American and your logic is flawed.

Let me show you why I consider this line genuinely hilarious. In my opinion, an American would not normally make an absolute statement of that kind, they would say "I think your logic is flawed" or at least "let me show why your logic is flawed". An absolute claim of this kind sounds very Russian to my trained ear.

> Try actually visiting the place and learning about/from the people.

Thanks, but I spent half of my life in "the place" and have firmly settled on staying away for the rest of it.
as @nickthemagicman says - except (at least in Europe) you have to write to the merchant (hotel) asking them to refund all charges and explain why.

If they refuse or don't reply you call your credit card company and tell them you dispute the charges; they usually immediately refund you and take it up with the hotel.
How a Billion-Dollar Autonomous Vehicle Startup Lost Its Way
They still track you with Location Services off, according to this map: https://interactives.ap.org/google-location-tracking/
“git commit murder” is a story in the style of a detective novel set at a BSD convention. Not sure if it counts as “cybercrime” because it’s about a murder but of course the motive and circumstances only make sense in terms of the internal politics of a fictional BSD distribution. It’s also a really authentic description of what it’s like to be at a technical conference as a newcomer where you don’t know anyone.
Ohh man, for me it was EXACTLY the opposite. Daemon was one of the finest examples of a book in the cybercrime genre. It was one of those "Black Mirror" style entertainment: Take known tech and push it towards dystopia style stories. Daemon was was super-fun, and absolutely un-putdownable (Literally read it in a single sitting IIRC).

Almost all the tech (Self driving cars, distributed systems, daemons that can self replicate (viruses), collaborative systems, a Darknet all exist in some form or the other today! Is it fantasy? Duh!

Is it a fun read for someone who works building these exact systems fora living? Definitely!
Good to see that they offer free slides for the instructor. Now what's missing for widespread adoption is the online autograding system because at teaching colleges instructors are totally overworked and could not keep up with the weekly assignments even if they wanted to. College textbooks are chosen for the online student assignments, which typically cost the students 50 USD or thereabouts.
Three Signals Your Industry Is About to Be Disrupted
Cory Doctorow's Little Brother. I could not put it down, and read it in one sitting.
I was fed up with Google increasing insistence on pushing crap onto my home screen. The unavoidable news feed was the last straw. I have now installed Nova Launcher and it's made my phone great again. No Google crap on the home screen at all.
C# Features: Innovations or Imitations? – Part 1
I mean in general, that the very fact that you can carry weapons at all (subject to local regulations) implies a system whereby guards can ransack your room for fear that you might actually use your guns. Pretty much everywhere else on the planet carrying around weapons designed to kill are simply illegal, and therefore there isn't the worry that they might be used. Simply having weapons would get you locked up.

I know this is a right dear to many Americans -- certainly not all though -- but hn is a global forum and I'm giving an outsider's perspective. Wouldn't have thought that'd merit downvotes?

nb: that was a reply to vageli, but there wasn't a reply button yet.
While not really the same, how about HBO? I think HBO is a stunning example, as they were an early leader in (invented?) a dedicated movie-delivery method. I'd argue that their original lifeblood (cable movie channel) is largely dead, but yet they flourish. A large part is because they embraced the digital world, knowing that they had to create something worth paying for. The take away I see is that "digital transformation" is more than going online or providing services, you still have to have something that people actually want to buy.
Fair enough. Even so, NATO countries still participate in other military operations such as the bombings in Syria and Libya - is the difference that those had the force of UN resolutions behind them, involved only air attacks and were not sold on the back of patriotism?
Website Domains Will Be Available in Hindi, Bengali, Other Indian Languages Soon
Android enforces permissions on Google apps too. I don't think that's what this is about.

Rather, the AP is interpreting location history as a feature that controls all use of geographical location for any purpose across all products. But what it actually refers to is a specific product called literally Location History which lets you see where you've been on a timeline and map.

The article does admit half way down that Google says this clearly in popups that appear when you toggle these settings on and off. So the "story" here is, if you want to call it a story, that some AP journalist and a couple of academics believe these warnings are not worded clearly enough. They may well have a point but I'm not sure this rises to the level of news.

It'd also be very hard to really eliminate _all_ use of location across all products. Even very basic queries like [buy flowers] needs some rough idea of the user's location to give results that aren't nonsense. Even just opening Google Maps has to request the tiles for your current location, and as those tiles are customised to your prior usage of maps, who you are has to be sent along with the tile query. How do you implement that without Google knowing your rough location? The provider knowing this is rather inherent to the whole concept of digital maps to begin with.

So I can't imagine Google offering the sort of setting the AP wants.
RouterSploit v3.3.0 – Exploitation Framework for Embedded Devices
So, you're saying one can allow some apps to have access to location data *andµ not allow Google from accessing it?

Wow. Please tell me how to that. I've been trying to do that for yeaaaars (to no avail).

I have a Moto G5 with Android 7.1. Please tell me.
Microsoft's AI can convert images into Chinese poetry
Same story for mobile service providers.

Cellphone companies have known your "exact" location for the last 20 years. There is a lot less oversight or scruples in the engineering teams of providers (that I have worked at) then I have seen at Google and the likes.

Nobody (but a couple of spies, smart crooks & prewarned govermental types) take any measures to hide from them, or complain about this information being available.

Luckily for us, telecom companies are not that smart|agressive when it comes to finding new revenue streams. Be it based on your (phone's) location or their excellent position to offer verified identity services, since they have a payment relation with all their customers.
"Imagine the exotic "pollution" caused by civilizations which are advanced enough to tinker with the fabric of spacetime, but not advanced enough to understand (or care about) the long-term consequences of that tinkering"

That's fun science fiction, as others have pointed out, but in terms of real science, at the moment that's just a sort of subtle way of anthropomorphizing the universe and projecting human experience far, far beyond where it is applicable. Einstein's equations for spacetime evolution don't have anything that looks like "pollution" in them. There's no "stress term" for "space time that has been put through the wringer and is broken now". Black holes do not seem to leave "broken space" behind them or anything like that; indeed, "leaving broken space 'behind' them" would be an incredibly ill-defined term. In what preferred reference frame does your "pollution" take place in?

The only real concern is if there is some way to violate the conservation of energy, as real space does seem to do that at large scales at the moment. In that case someone might explode something, potentially large enough to make a mess of a galaxy or more. But we don't have even a hypothetical example of how to do that; just because the universe is violating energy conservation does not mean there's any conceivable organization of energy we can create that will do it, if the reason conservation is being violated is the injection of energy from some other effect or something.
There's no reason to think the same thing could not have happened in some other city, but if it became common knowledge amongst hotels that doing this will potentially cost your city this business opportunity, it would be very unlikely to happen afterwards.
"My father Sydney was a watchmaker from Nottingham, and my mother Verity was - well, she was a nurse, actually."
Agreed. Consumers will and should do what is best for them.

But, there are some consumers who are rattled by the priced software and give the developer a hard time for it.

They think the money being charged is too much when it's mostly not the case. And they are the same folks who pay $$$ for an overpriced physical entity. This article is targeted mostly at them.
Mark Russinovich's Jeff Aiken Trilogy. If you're looking for a quality bestseller similar to Dan Brown books.

Zero day, Trojan Horse and Rogue Code are all excellent novels. Some common themes include computer virus epidemics, cyber armies, cyber warfare, dangers of an overnetworked but undersecured society
As a GE SW developer, I could chime in.

Regarding digital transformation, this should not come as surprise but there is an incredible tension and misalignment between a GE core pushing for a platform and different businesses.

The issue is that businesses have roadmaps where they need to release new products each year, and it does not take into account having to rewrite everything or huge part from scratch to get some longer term platform benefits. So in the end the adoption is an issue.

I joined GE just before Predix introduction, and no one in my business rushed to adopt it. As a matter of fact, now that GE digital is going to be divested, that was likely the smart move.

Moreover, the product I am working on, is based on the "GE platform" effort of a few years prior. Platform that has no longer any official support (the maintenance team is one guy somewhere in the world) and that has re fragmented in every different product it was used in. The lack of support is not really an issue because the framework has been battle tested but on the other hand, there is no obvious benefits coming from having an "almost-common" core between applications or devices. So as business it makes you wary to adopt the last idea coming from GE digital or GE central, event it makes absolute sense on paper, because you have no idea how long they will commit to that idea. This is really a chicken-egg problem, because no one wants to use a zombie platform, and no one wants to spend support on a platform no one uses.

Maybe on a more positive note, even if I have not seen much direct impact on GE digital products, GE SW culture has changed. When I joined, SW was kinda neglected, more seen as a liability than anything, and now at last we have moved to more modern tools with CI pipelines, focus on devops and so on. But this is more like a grassroots effort. But I don't feel anymore that we are using a sw stack and tools totally outdated.
This not very different from when the Wall
Street Journal published a story a few weeks back about how: "GOOGLE IS LETTING PEOPLE READ YOUR EMAILS (provided you've given them the permission to do so)".

It would seem that news organizations are trying to entangle google in a cambridge analytica type of controversy, maybe thinking about the potential traffic going their way or maybe they just don't like it that the bulk of ad spending is going to Google/FB, or probably they just think it's worth publishing.

The reality is that the conflict of interest is hard to ignore and the publishing industry should consider adding disclaimers when reporting on their business rivals.
This is generally my opinion about all gaming. I'd rather do anything with real world results than spend time and money on video games. As a kid I would spend a whole summer on the PC playing SimCity, Doom (I am old), and later Rainbow Six (I loved that game), but eventually I realized how empty I felt after playing those games to death.

Oh, and Tetris dreams, I don't miss them one bit. I still get the same effect if I work on a programming problem relentlessly into the night, dreaming in code is torment for me.
Popular Android Apps Vulnerable to Man-In-the-Disk Attacks
Not really. I expected the Equifax leak to lead to a widespread move away from SSN being effectively your password for signing up for new financial accounts, but nothing has really changed as far as I'm aware.
Gateway, Zynga, Groupon

AMD has had a few cycles of it over their history.

There was a stretch of bleak years where Adobe's reputation had become quite bad (not least of which was their software becoming one of the biggest security risks).

Microsoft for the better part of a decade had burned its reputation, between some really bad security problems and Vista. If you had polled most techies about Microsoft in the midst of Vista, the resounding view would have been that they had a dim future. It has taken many years to recover some of that lost reputation.

Electronic Arts is a company that has managed to remain quite successful over time despite becoming belligerently infamous at times for their product quality and corporate behavior. They had some very bad financial performance years, but have somehow managed to recover from that despite not really improving their reputation. Probably the benefits of being one of the few companies left standing capable of putting out hyper expensive tier one titles.
What's the difference between this and cnx.org? It seems tho have more books
Controlling Lights with a Pebble Smartwatch
Does it even makes sense to run PCA on the change percentage of a stock. To me it would be make more sense to use it with physical properties of the under lying the company. PCA helps you reduce dimensions of a higher order dimension to lower dimension so you can group stocks together. I am a little confused by what the author is trying to do.
Let's remember that DEFCON has been happening there for quite a few years, so the hotel should know what to expect, and what the customers expect, and either decline the business or accept that they're going to have a large and diverse group of counter-culture oriented people bringing large padlocked hard cases to their rooms and declining maid service for days at a time while expecting privacy.
I also highly recommend nova launcher. I've been using it for years and honestly forgot that Google forces you to have a searchbar on the home screen.
This is about Pocket, which is what krn referred to as "a proprietary cloud synchronization service". Mozilla has been promising to make Pocket open source since it acquired it over 1.5 years ago, but haven't done it yet.
Seraphim establishes fully-automated 300MW solar module plant in South Africa