skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The cons about 2nd-U2F device seem rather odd. Several boil down to "houses aren't secure", but the primary attack vector for the vast majority of users is not physical invasion or destruction of their home. Similar concerns are raised for recovery codes.

For OTP, calling it out as "non-universal" seems strange: far more services support TOTP/HOTP than U2F at the moment, so for most users, even if they use U2F everywhere it's available, they'll still end up with a pile of TOTP codes on their phone.

The proposed solution is even more strange: it still recommends storing the 2nd token at home, but offers to solve registration of new services while abroad. No solution is provided for improving recovery beyond just using two U2F tokens.
I believe one of the reasons Linux continues to be successful today is _because_ they keep the drivers in mainline _without_ a stable API.

It is a key motivator to ensure drivers remain available and supported well into the future of Linux.
So you support a dictatorship as long as it permits emigration? Not that monarchies actually had anything to do with that, serfdom was abolished in most places long before them.
Start up idea:

Free app controlled urinals that play curated digital advertisements in front of you while you pee.
Really? I always figured that plain text looked pretty damn awesome in a browser. Example: https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/

I'm honestly curious how Medium is an improvement over that. Are you referring to the technical challenges of hosting content, perhaps?
In which way u2fzero can be trivially hacked?
I have a counterexample to make: Skripal's case. AFAIK the police pieced together CCTV footage from multiple cameras, which allowed to track and identify the suspects. Given that the suspects are likely trained hitmen and the stakes were pretty high, I can only assume that the main reason most crimes don't get solved that way is the complexity of the search. ML is poised to change that.

I'm not sure I'm for surveillance per se, but I do believe painting CCTV as useless and inefficient is wrong. It can be efficient in aiding high-level investigations if applied properly.
I like absolute positioning but it's really hard to learn how to use fluently. New devs need to be educated on the concepts otherwise you get a total mess.

Flex and grid are more intuitive so they're easier for juniors to train up on.
I didn't know it in my 20s, but I was completely distracted by chasing girls to find one that I thought is perfect. Once I found my wife in my 30s, my ability to focus and learn went through the roof. Wish I had this focus when I was in school.

My suggestion is to only have 1 or 2 goals and viciously cut everything else out. I've learnt to say no to other distractions. In fact, I only have a 2nd goal around because there is waiting involved in 1st goal.
In my experience Whole Foods is the cheapest grocery store in the city... and certainly the best value all around. Bloomberg did a study four years ago saying so [0], and they’ve become much cheaper post Amazon.

OP: don’t listen to the neigh sayers, come to NYC! I always thought I’d end up in Chicago, I’ve lived in Boston and a bunch of other places similar to what others are suggesting, and there’s truly no comparison.

Last thing: as a former Midwesterner (a region known for its friendliness) I can say New Yorkers are the friendliest people in America. It’s a city that draws people from all over the world who are excited to be here and passionate about what they do. If you want to be here you’ll figure out a way!

[0] https://www.google.com/amp/amp.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2014...
Those checks are at the driver level, and only for Windows (you can circumvent them by not exposing VM cpuid details to the guest).

On macOS I haven't done anything special. Kepler cards work out of box, and other cards just need NVIDIA's own web drivers installed. Even on real Mac Pro hardware, those drivers are notoriously bad. They're tied to explicit macOS updates, so most people use something like this to patch older versions if new releases have issues: https://github.com/Benjamin-Dobell/nvidia-update
The first story doesn't seem to support your point. It's talking about engineers saying a bridge was unsafe after it collapsed. Whilst a FIGG engineer seems to have reported that the bridge was collapsing two days before it did, what I'm talking about is where a senior engineer i.e. chief engineer on a project says "this design is not safe" and is then told to build it anyway, or where a bridge isn't finished on the day that was expected and then traffic is put on it anyway whilst the builders are still working. People realising they screwed up after disaster strikes is normal but unrelated to project management discipline.

The second link has the same issue - the engineers cited as saying something is unsafe are saying that after problems are spotted and they are not the same people who built the bridge. Sure, anyone can say "that was clearly unsafe" after the fact.

To repeat, what I asked for is cases where the engineering management of a project said "this is not safe" at the time they were being told to build it and non-technical management then overruled them and put traffic on it anyway, that is, the engineers were not allowed to complete the job to their own level of safety satisfaction.
Open sidewalk urinals in Paris
Yeah, bad things tend to happen when Germany gets focused on their military. Let's not encourage them!
"More funding like that means more companies trusted to spend that money into creating something profitable. If this goes into people who have grown companies into a unicorn a couple of times; scaling faster local operations lead by managers with relevant experience; AWS, GCP, Twilio & Square bills, it’s certainly expensive but overall sensical."

Who are these founders who have grown "a couple" of unicorns? There are huge numbers of them walking around now? More importantly: who are these mythical founders who have experience growing/managing a company by hundreds of percent in a single year? They're pretty thin on the ground. This money is going to inexperienced people. Save for (maybe) a few founders who lived through the late 90s, nobody has experience with this. It's new territory.

Also, Let's not kid ourselves: this money isn't going to AWS and Twilio. It's going to salaries, and it's going to marketing. And that's why it's risky. When you have to hire insanely quickly and buy revenue with marketing spend, it's essentially impossible to manage the growth. Overfunding is a real thing, and unless you've seen it firsthand, it's hard to internalize the perverse incentives it creates.
> You will never see proof because even if someone has it, they can never publish it for legal reasons

Since when are guests required to sign surveillance equipment NDAs to get a hotel room?
No pizza places deliver to rooms in casinos on the strip, you have to go down and meet the driver.
QEMU 3.0 Released
I know people who were exactly not like that.

Anecdotes cancel out. Do you have a point, or a strawman?
I think you're commenting about Ulbricht's case without having read the actual indictment. It's easy to find and read; you should go do that.
http://uritrottoir.com that marketing of the guy taking a selfie while using one. We have free robotoilets here but drug addicts cover the floors in used needles and other piles of trash that clog the autoclean ergo alleys reeking of urine all summer persist.
Stuff like that happens also in construction.
For instance the BER airport: Midway through the project they decided to build two instead of one floor.
This comment exemplifies a style of argumentation that's become very common. It doesn't address the central point. Instead, it reiterates the commentator's position while using FUD and misleading links to ideological blogs to create the false impression that well-established ideas are "up for debate". Climate deniers use the same schtick for the same reason.

The linked article is one of those tedious affairs that tries to deconstruct what Smith the man may have thought about contemporary mercantilist politics or something. It's not an indictment of Smith's ideas, which are timeless.

I am sick and tired of people today attempting to dismiss profound and influential ideas by pointing out that the people who formulated these ideas were complicated people.

Aren't the people prone to doing this supposed to believe in the "death of the author"?
Nope. Still #1 in GDP. From 2017 [1], top 10 economies:

1. US - $19.42T GDP (25% of world GDP)
2. China - $11.8T GDP
3. Japan - $4.84T GDP
4. Germany - $3.42T GDP
5. UK - $2.5T GDP
6. India - $2.45T GDP
7. France - $2.42T GDP
8. Brazil - $2.14T GDP
9. Italy - $1.81T GDP
10. Canada - $1.6T GDP

Personally, the one that shocked me is Italy, what with the all you see about the country's debt problems, but I hear a lot of that is due to corruption and tax evasion.

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/022415/world...
100x Faster Bridge Between Apache Spark and R with UDFS on Databricks
Some places do have free toilets everywhere but still people pee outside on the street. Barceloneta in Barcelona comes to mind as one of the the places like that.
Is it for the same reason there are no trash cans in Japan? You're expected to keep that stuff at home, as home business?
Sounds similar:

https://www.kansascity.com/news/nation-world/article17873589...
After seeing Mark Zuckerberg's "Chinese ability" I have less respect for him than before. I don't think 12 months cuts it. Maybe gives you a cute factor, yes. I would think respect is independent of language ability, unless you are taking language ability as your main selling point as a person. I'm sure Bill Gates is both respected in China, and effective, whether he speaks any Chinese or not. It all depends on the circumstances.
There are some counterexamples that worked, though. In Verisoft, they did a whole stack from verified CPU to microkernel to simple OS and compiler. Everything was necessarily simple.

http://www.verisoft.de/PublicationPage.html

The high-assurance community also did a low-complexity GUI:

https://www.acsac.org/2005/papers/54.pdf
In China I have already seen toilets where each individual urinal/stall had its own small tablet showing ads. Might be viable.
According to [1] windowing functions make SQL turing complete.

Does this make SQLite turing complete or has it been turing complete before?

[1] http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/articles/accidentally_turing_complet...
The inflation due to quantitative easing has already happened at the higher economic levels. It just has not reached the main street yet.
It's worth considering that one of the many, many wonderful things about the modern internet and modern browsers is that you don't have to sit and wait passively for someone to deliver the experience you want to you. You have everything you need to make Firefox or Chromium do it for you!

Then you can share it with others, and they can have the automagic, fresh-from-the-box, on-by-default experience you would like.
/picardface

Yes, I am using Chrome on Windows. Thank you for the Firefox suggestion! I didn't realize it was built in now and you can use a serif font. I guess it's back to Firefox!
What do you mean not working out? Millions of dollars have been gained by many employees, and many millions added to company valuations. That is all winning the lottery in my book.
Seriously. How many times now has the leadership of Wells Fargo been brought in to get a tongue lashing by Congress? And how many times now have they continued to appear repentant and then go right back to being evil?
Netherlands has public urinals in some places (Dam Square in Amsterdam, for example), the sky didn't fall or anything. They are a little unsightly but younger drunken me certainly appreciated their presence.

I wish there was some equivalent to these things suitable for women though, it isn't fair that we have all the fun :)
Go's net package doesn't have opaque errors, just undocumented ones
I've never understood the argument for capping CEO salaries.

It's simply how the free market works. Supply and demand. There is only a narrow pool of candidates for CEO positions that can command that kind of compensation. Why do they command that compensation? Because the potential value they bring to the company is worth far more.

Sometimes it really is that simple.
There's a really good code review guide on the plaid blog that addressed this: https://blog.plaid.com/building-an-inclusive-code-review-cul....

Money quote: "Nothing should be surprising to a reviewer in a code review: discuss any significant design decisions before code is written. Code reviews are a time to iron out implementation details, not discuss major design or architecture decisions."
This is important. But it's still great for people to see that a minimal implementation (for playing with) only takes this much code. It's good when you're learning.
> Democracies elect idiots "who wreck it all" all the time. That is not the problem with monarchies.

It actually is a recurring problem with monarchies (and often that's how democratic republics get established); heredity is no guarantee of competency.
This is a fallacious argument, akin to conservative talk show hosts dismissing the concerns of college students because they own iPhones.

Just because you exist within a system does not invalidate your complaints about the system.
ESXi has a free license, but it is a type 1 hypervisor (basically an OS that just runs VMs).

VMWare Workstation can be patched to run vanilla macOS installs too, but unless you're running it under a boot camp'ed Windows on real Apple hardware, it's a license violation: https://github.com/DrDonk/unlocker

You can't buy individual macOS licenses these days, as far as I know. Apple hasn't charged for macOS or updates for at least a few years now. Their license text includes references to volume licensing, but I guess that's for very large-scale companies with direct contacts.
Phrase-Based and Neural Unsupervised Machine Translation [pdf]
Yes, because beating people will make them suddenly not need to pee. >_>

(Will you also advocate removal of trash cans, and beat people for littering?)

...how about free public toilets, which will solve the actual problem?
See [0] for a way to make recurrent neural nets in to pushdown nets.

[0]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.02516
"Society has the right to change the rules on you. The system belongs to all of us." is something the Bolshevik might have said to the Kulak as the latter was walking up the gallows.
This is a terrible idea because it will lead to a more hierarchical corporate environment. My manager has been coding for 15 years in the embedded space, but he is rarely on my PRs (unless we happen to be working on an overlapping feature).

At my company, PRs will automerge if at least one reviewer with write access approves and CI checks pass. This is the best way IMO. It’s fast, too.
A majority of the conbini in Japan have a trash can out front, along with recycling bins. They're not exactly hard to find.
Nobody believes that Pai had nothing to do with it. And it doesn't matter; Pai is still the one ultimately responsible for the actions of his agency.
The point being that the file input button doesn’t look like any other button on their website. But hey, why solve a problem when you can force the entire world to accommodate it?

Why does there even have to be a button? I want an API not a button...
> Finally, and I hate to bring this up, but if you don't like it, then quit. That's what I did to start a business.

Technology workers who are able to start their own contracting company are a tiny minority of the employed population. To claim everyone has this option and thus should not attempt to affect change at their employer or exercise their power to vote for representatives who enact worker-friendly policies, is naive at best and insulting at worst.

IMHO, this perspective is everything that's wrong with the Silicon Valley mindset. I got mine so f* you if you can't do exactly the same thing as I did.
In that case, a hosts file can go a long way.
Freedom of speech is a principle about how to exercise power.

The first amendment is scoped to the government because the constitution is scoped to the government.
Super inconvenient BTW, and only works because it’s Japan. If it was anywhere else, there’d just be heaps of trash everywhere.
Yes. I have been in the industry for a while, and went back to school at night to get my CS Bachelors, and am sometimes surprised at what these young students who want to program and work in the industry do, and what they do not do.

Classes happen at a kind of abstract level. I took a Java class, and when the semester ended I wrote a somewhat complex Java program which I wanted to make.

I had a semester where I took a graphics and also an AI class. After that semester I started my own AI/ML project which was something of a bust (once I gathered the small amount of data I needed and parsed it, the solutions were obvious without the need for ML techniques). To follow up on the graphics class I worked on a project which used OpenGL to draw things.

Also - years later I worked on a project similar to my original project which did not need AI/ML. This project had a lot of data, and did need the use of ML techniques, primarily clustering. Currently I am using mean shift clustering on the data.

Some things I have not had time for yet - I learned Common Lisp in a class, and would like to learn more about Common Lisp, Emacs Lisp and Scheme, but have not had the time for it.

Some techniques and ideas from class pop into my head when I need to solve something. I had data the usefulness of which faded over time. It occurred to me that the value of the data underwent exponential decay, and I programmed it as such. Or once I need to make a hash and I had the idea to use Gödel numbers, which I did not even know about until a math class. And so on.

Also when I need to deal with concurrency and mutual exclusion, I have weeks (months?) of class study about how critical sections and so forth work. Those are rocks many ships have crashed into (including myself, pre-class - and I still avoid it if possible).

You get a notion of how the same problem can be solved via different techniques. But maybe one uses self-balanced binary trees and one uses bogosort. You consider big O factors in programs. I have come across at least three programs that had a huge big O algorithm killing the program (although the root cause for one of them was actually mixing up signed and unsigned numbers).

If a topic in class interests me, I sometimes go beyond what I need for an A in the class. If we are studying priority scheduling, and the topic interests me, I may spend nights reading books, articles and documentation on how it works.

In summary, the answer might be to do more than class asks for. Class can be very abstract. If you feel as you do, bring the abstractness of a class into the concreteness of a real side project.
Really disappointing with the google analytics javascript used on this site ironically not making it as simple as he claims it is.
There are free toilets in paris already, but they are few and far in between. Also their automatic cleaning cycle is very long. The most ridiculous is that the toilets are paid in the train stations though.
Not true. It gives each of the representatives a chance to look tough and mad-as-hell-damnit on TV, and maybe produce a soundbite they can shove in their next campaign ad.
The only way I know is: read "Programming in Ada 2012" by John Barnes:

https://www.amazon.com/Programming-Ada-2012-John-Barnes/dp/1...

900+ pages of Good Luck With That. All other resources I've seen regarding Ada are really scattered around, so this book is the one go-to reference.

(Also, SPARK is a more demanding subset of Ada, so maybe wait until you have come to grip with the language before breaching that topic.)
Interesting that the article mentions why people would do this (much, much cheaper) but avoids talking about any possible solutions to rising rent costs in urban areas.
FanDuel’s founder didn’t make a dime during acquisition. Now he’s suing.
Sega Dreamcast Software Creation Standards Guidebook
How is it hard to learn. Put someone in front of some graph paper and let them layout what they want the page to look like. Get someone a little more experienced to help them pick the points that can grow, and off you go.

Not to say that they can't do better with flex and grid. But it was like our entire industry didn't even bother trying to learn with the first tools that our industry made.
NO SHIT???
Where is this in the US? McDonalds? Those don't exist except interstate highways.
LinkedIn OAuth2.0 Authentication Using Rest API and PHP
Upgrade to Google One to get more out of Google
That sounds defeating the whole purpose of carrying though.

Also, the whole thing is just mind boggling. Forgetting a killing machine (please don't even start the automobile/edc knife comparisons, killing people is the sole purpose of a gun) on the bottom of a purse. There is something deeply flawed in the whole system if that can happen
Would you, as a company, like people to associate your brand with dark, smelly & dirty places?
Wasnt this discussed yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17761257
Someone working in a company that skirts OSHA requirements for short term profit gains has a lot more skin in the game than investors in my opinion.

> Utopian projects that amount to taking stuff from property owners and giving it to ideologues never work. They usually end up generating nothing but heaps of bodies.

Giving property owners unfettered rights to seek profit over everything else tends to end up generating nothing but heaps of bodies (oh, and a bunch of wealth for a few individuals). So I guess in that case it's worth it?

I don't think workers organizing to make the place they work safer and better long term is "stupid ideological and status signaling games". Adding worker elected board members isn't a new idea either, it's been done with some success.
Before reading the article my first thought was that there was not adequate public restrooms, but its mentioned they've already added 400. It would be interesting to know if the incident rate dropped after adding them, and if so then maybe they need to add more. I'm not sure how much area the 400 had to cover, but it might not have been enough.
You can enjoy this in Europe too. With a sufficiently cold winter, you'll get a nice bunch of ice roads between Estonia and Finland when the Baltic Sea freezes up. It sounds pretty awesome.
Yeah it is hard to imagine what things you couldn't do with $100 million.
This is a return of the 19 century « vespasiennes » (public pissoirs) that were removed partly because they were detourned by men for other purposes. By that time homosexuality was frowned upon. The new version take less space but also offer less privacy; it’s a weird choice in my opinion.
Places with the needle problems (like SF) should bite the bullet and provide sharps containers that are maintained by public employees.

It's simply insane to ignore the problem posed by the kilotons of used needles laying around everywhere, and they're a public health menace, so the government should take responsibility for the issue.
I couldn't find the quote, but there is one where Richard Feynman takes what he reads/hears and visualizes it in his head, then compares any new information to that visualization. This maybe helpful if you can't find a practical application. The mental visualization can be the application... build the thing in your head, watch the data, molecules, money, etc flow around in your visualization.

Edit: Original poster mentioned notes, flash cards, wiki... which seem like more of the same - memorization. Without more context, I really think lack of visualization could be an issue here.
Didn't Facebook recently pull the rug out from under media organizations that worked with them, when they updated their feed algorithm to deprioritize news articles?