skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Offtopic:

>If nintendo goes batshit when people refurbish gameboys

Source for this? I know they've renewed their interest in going after ROM sites recently, but I've seen no indication they wish to stop people from repairing or refurbishing old, unsupported hardware.
That should have stopped happening in iOS 11.4. If you’ve upgraded to-or-past that and you’re still seeing that happen, please let me know: email in profile or @jernoble on Twitter.
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Inference can usually be done on much cheaper hardware, or using lambda.
Indeed, DDG usually gives better results for me because it second-guesses precise search terms less than Google, and because its instant answers from sites like StackOverflow are high quality.

The one place it's really currently lacking is in rejection of spam sites.
I may be downvoted, but /pol/ is where you see stuff like this.
What if what you want to do for the rest of your life is run the company the way you see it fit for as long as you want?
The link is broken but this looks like the right one: https://www.tinfoilsecurity.com/blog/How_to_Choose_a_Web_App...
It's not that it will be impossible to detect (they probably will be for quite some time) as it's about nature of dissemination - you first see fake, and only in its echoes you possibly see the truth.

Now, problem is, if fakes are easy to make, there'll be more of them, particulary if they generate impressions and spread faster than rebutals. And as space of fakes is infinite compared to space of truth, with advanced tools, it can be concocted in such a way that falsifying it might be lengthy process. And, in some cases there, it may be too late.
RowHammer most certainly works in a VM:

https://github.com/IAIK/rowhammerjs
Pixelmash: Resolution-Independent Pixel Art Software for PC and Mac [video]
The Trezor [1] hardware device supports backing up (at initialization) and restoring of the secret seed which is quite useful. It can also be used as a password manager [2].

[1] https://blog.trezor.io/secure-two-factor-authentication-with...
[2] https://trezor.io/passwords/
"An important legal requirement for common carrier as public provider is that it cannot discriminate..."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_carrier

"Net neutrality is the principle that [providers] treat all data on the Internet equally, and not discriminate"

"In a "dumb network", the endpoints are thought to be where the intelligence lies, and as such, proponents argue that the network should leave the management and operation of communications and data transfer to the end users, not a government bureau or Internet company."

"Supporters of net neutrality... want to ensure that [companies] cannot screen, interrupt or filter Internet content without a court order."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_neutrality
Ability to set one's MFA is something you'd set in IAM, as opposed to a truly permissionless account.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/tutorial_us...
> Gourmet breakfast, lunch, and dinner every day? No problem.

These eke a few more hours of work out of you per day.

> A couple hundred bucks for a second monitor?

Arguments about productivity aside (I agree, more productive), these don't.
PyPy is far more than just 'python with a JIT'.

It's a tool that allows you to write an entire interpreter in RPython (a subset of Python) and then have it build a native binary with a free jit compiler included, with the specifics of your language encoded within. The reference implementation for this project is a Python interpreter.

It's seriously, seriously cool.
Yes, if they have access to your microphone, pull audio and convert it to text, search keywords and display ads. It's not really practical though, and there are other behaviors which are way better and easier to track for advertising purposes.
I agree. People supported a war in Iraq based largely on cartoonish photoshops of mobile nuclear weapons labs in ice cream trucks.
Once upon a time, you were only able to have a stable relationship if you were married. A stable relationship being distinguished as being emotional rather than purely physical or economic or very short-term (one-night stands).

That all changed around the 1960s when it became common for people to live together even if unmarried leading to fewer recorded marriages. Many unmarried people can and have maintained stable relationships for decades.

Obviously, if there are less official marriages occurring, the number of divorces will also fall. That's purely a semantic distinction, and actually quite meaningless.

A better study would be to find the ratio between the total number of stable relationships (married or not being irrelevant) and the number of those which breakup.

What is the number of stable relationships? How many of those are breaking down? What is the ratio of the breakdowns to those which remain stable? Does that ratio agree or not with the current divorce-ratio?
Is the name an abbreviation of Meet-eater?
Even after 18 years it's still a bit magic to me. The only thing I can pretty accuretely tell is... if I can estimate it correctly. So if I say "1 day" it will be 4h-16h, when I say 3 days, it will probably be done in a week.
But if say "I have no clue" - then it can literally be 1 day to 1 month.
Spotlight on iOS actually sources data from Google now. See: https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/25/apple-switches-from-bing-t...
Librem 5 hasn't shippped yet. If you preorder one now, they're estimating you'll get it in April.
Swift on server may not have "great performance", but compared to mainstream stuff it definitely has "pretty good performance" while still providing a somewhat nice language.

I guess the key selling point is, well, being able to use Swift on the server (some people do like the language). It is pretty useful for sure. Certainly not the only choice.

That Swift is compatible with almost nothing on Linux sounds strange, not sure what you mean by that. E.g. I find it particularly nice for writing Apache modules (the Swift C integration is really neat).

P.S.: While Apple puts minimal effort in anything but macOS and iOS, others put significant effort into Swift on Linux. Like IBM.
Delta Computer Glitches Force Flight Halts Third Year in a Row
I saw an ad in the mobile web while i am checking a news article. it was a basic retargeting adsense i think
The first step towards pattern matching will be previewed in JDK 12[1], as a Kotlin-like switch statement, to form the basis of pattern matching[2] together with changes already in JDK 11[3]. I think it will be more like 15 months than 15 years.

I don’t expect higher kinded types any time soon, though.

[1]: http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/325
[2]: http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/305
[3]: http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/309
1Password can store/generate TOTP codes.
At the end of the day, as the article correctly points out:

> Letting Facebook build the business may have made Systrom and Krieger rich and freed them to focus on product, but it made Zuckerberg the true CEO

Instagram's decision to include advertisements is best understood from Zuckerberg/Facebook's view. Even if the local view is that IG adverts are negative, they are likely accretive from the perspective of the entire Facebook enterprise.
It depends. If you live in the Sunset neighborhood that's not true - in SOMA, yes.
It is normal to sell at 3x the cost of parts. That $443 is a bit surprising though, I would have guessed a lot less.
Is that what people learn in Windows sysadmin school?
do u think they can send the text with advertising id of the iphone ?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 is the reference
it is a regrettable episode but they had their reasons. i would also wish this would not be used against this great project. everyone knows how territorial we can be as developers. people make mistakes.

i have been using it and pentadactyl ever since vimperator stopped working and i love it. it gets updated frequently and fairly recently had a rebase to a newer ff build. also their theming support is really nice and their logo isnt as obtrusive. give it a chance and you won't regret it.
>It all started with a tip that gave them the general area though.

So, good old fashioned journalism?
That was me being tired. If you look at the pics you’ll see I was super excited and happy with my purchase.

And I agree I’m a fresh rider and naive and overly excited and I prob could have bought cheaper gear to start with. But I’d rather pay for more gear than for more skin.

Same reason I wear an overpriced full face brain bucket on my boosted board.
As someone who really enjoyed Cryptonomicon, do you have any good recommendations for reading the real story?
Art is a bit of a special case though isn’t it, embodying precisely the opposite of “economy of scale”?
Yes, but why? They're up there fighting Boko Haram -- this is a war-torn part of the world. Why is the Cameroonian military killing the people they're charged with protecting?

It's something I'd really like to know, after reading through this. I don't understand anything but the most superficial issues facing this region, and it rather shocked me that the national military that's up there to quell the Boko Haram insurgency is committing these atrocities.

I mean, yes, people kill people for fun. People kill children because they're monsters, and I get that. But is that what's happening here? Or is this ethnic cleansing? Or is this something else entirely?
> "it all must live inside the sandbox provided by the runtime."

Processes with a strong user model are already one of the most effective isolation mechanisms in an operating system. Continually hardening your VM/runtime that was ported into the kernel, in my opinion, either results in either you building a microkernel or recreating the userspace/kernel separation that already exists?
That is true that meeting productivity highly depends on meeting organizers. That role starts with figuring out if the meeting is needed, finding a time, inviting people who own the decision, etc. Not that many people good at it.

But, what happens if we try to de-centralize the organizers? What if anybody can play a role of organizer of much smaller meetings (10 mins vs 60 mins)? What if there is a limit on how many meetings can be scheduled a day (1 hour vs 8 hours)? What if time reservations are not based on the first-in rule, but dynamic and based on the priority?
By addressing it, there is an opt-out of having your email address publicly searchable https://haveibeenpwned.com/OptOut
fwiw, one way to do this with aws is to create two IAM users in the same groups and have a yubikey associated with each one.

You now have a backup login, it just has a different username too.
Ask HN: What was the best decision you made in your career?
It's possible to do a OSHW shader implementation, but we ran out of time/funding. And lack of shader support was hardly the biggest problem with that project.
Java 1.0 was available for MacOS. But yeah, platform support wasn’t great for a while.
I've had good luck communicating with them on the public team keybasefriends. They have various channels for different features, but asking on #general is usually a good way to get help, either from someone from Keybase or someone else who knows the answer to the question.
The recent work on AF_XDP seems like it could became established middleground sweet spot almost as efficient as kernel bypass and userspace networking.
It will only matter if the infrastructure is a large part of their cost of technical operations (as opposed to labor) or, more importantly, overall cost of operations.

In another thread on here (unfortunately I can't recall which), an executive shared a sentiment along the lines of "I don't care if it's 1% or 0.1% of my overall budget".

Perhaps 0.9% would become more significant during a downturn, especially for startups if VC money dries up.
Nice, I was unaware that Metromile offered that.
Love it! :-)
If you're interested in finding the closest dark site near you https://darksitefinder.com/maps/world.html is a fantastic resource. It inspired me to go camping at Goose Lake this summer.
Wonder how this runs on old hardware. I have a 2009 dual core laptop with 4 GB of RAM that runs everything I throw at it without a problem, except a web browser. Web browsers are just too heavy. My solution is to use Textadept, with Lynx as a backend, as my "browser" on that machine. Works well (can even open YouTube videos in VLC) but I miss having a real browser.
I think you're just using the wrong word, is all. "Justified" isn't what you're looking for.
Fascinating indeed. However, the main question remained unanswered (and unasked). Who ordered the killings?
Does it matter if they are contributing if they'll divorce you after you lose your job or don't out-earn them? Some people's love is very much conditional.
You lost me at “pollution is worse”. So far off the mark.
And copy them to the clipboard automatically when it detects you'll need it. I'm slowly moving my TOTPs codes over.
Suddenly, everything else is obsolete: http://oldconceptcars.com/wp-content/uploads/Sir_Vival_10.jp...
You lost the bet, according to the last point of https://www.blog.google/products/chrome/product-updates-base...
And the AS/400 used to be the huge success.
Sorry, but China is likely heading the other way.

China is the only market in the world with taste for American car brands...

G-Wagen or Buick SUV or something even bigger is the logical apex of what locals consider a "proper car"
u505 was 3 and a half years later in mid 44, and was notable only for gaining current code books. That saved time to crack as by that stage of the war Enigma was being routinely broken. Coming in the week of D Day, of course that proved important.

u110 in 41 provided a breakthrough in that it provided warning of 4 rotor naval Engima long before their introduction. It meant Bletchley had already started preparing for 4 rotor by the time it was introduced. It was the trigger for work on the 4 rotor bombes. There were other U boat captures.

American involvement is impossible to play down - convoys were critical to our survival, and there were tens of thousands of Americans based here for much of the war. I'm often just as disappointed when Hollywood plays fast and loose with mainly US operations like Guadalcanal or Midway. Even so Hollywood movies rarely attract the outcry U571 did at the time of release.
this is like credit scores on steroids
Yup. As I mentioned in my other comment.
Not to mention buying into their really gross ad-replacement scheme.
I can't say our first few years of marriage were easy by any stretch of the definition. We struggled with a variety of issues - sudden death of her father, back to back deployments (her and I) and the general stresses of marriage and the military. The first 2 - 3 years were the most difficult but once she decided to separate marriage became easier. Then I separated and marriage was blissful - now that I work from home we have afternoon delights.

Back to reality, there are also issues of finding yourself/ourself; on our own and together. The younger versions of ourselves are shells of what we've become together. Marriage is never easy, regardless of when you choose to get married; 20, 30, 40...

Younger people divorce quicker for many of the reasons mentioned throughout the post but my belief is they quit through the hard times as they have an unfounded belief marriage is easy and without growth individually and together. We stuck it out through all those hard times; in part because we were the only constant in our lives as we moved overseas. Now in our 30s we understand and react better to those times life throws us a curveball.

Don't be envious, but do view marriage as a partnership through life - not a financial decision.
Yes I've noticed this trend as well. Other examples of companies moving from the Bay Area include Expensify (Pittsburgh) and Indinero (Pittsburgh too I think, and the Philippines).

I think that's tragic, as there are strong network effects in ecosystems like Silicon Valley — everyone would benefit from all the talent and capital being in the same place! Studies show that cities get more productive, creative and ecological as they get larger.

That said, even with that trend going on, I still think Silicon Valley will remain by far the #1 tech ecosystem in the US 20 years from now. It just has too strong of a tail wind at this point (the network effects I mentioned above). People have been predicting its demise for about 30 years now. Maybe this time is different, but so far it's always done well for itself.
"Put another way, people who don’t care about prestige and having a super broad education don’t go there, and in our field I tink a ton of super talented people fit that description."

But just like Americans go to ranked universities, as a student you learn how to play the game and go to the best (fit) one you can enter.
Linux distributions will presumably do timely & backported patches.
It’s funny, after Mojave was released recently I thought it might finally have a python3 installed, even if it’s not the default. Nope, still Python 2.7.

This is good for me since I deployed a Python-dependent app under the assumption that the system Python would be stable and reliable. It allows relatively complex things to be achieved with a tiny download package.

I’ve been prepared to adopt Python 3 for awhile but it just isn’t necessary when using system defaults.
The Numeo cost of living is bullshit though, SF is not 46% more expensive than Paris, it's much more.

That said, salaries are still much better in SV... Up until the point where you have kids.
I wonder what a flat-earther would say about this backyard satellite photography example
I will agree with you there.

I always believe that understanding is important. There are those who think "Understanding==Condoning", which I find a tremendously, and needlessly, false equivalency. I think you need to understand, to trully fight and hopefully defeat something.

How far does the atrocity go? What are the causes? Is this a one-of or repeated act? Who all is involved? And, ultimately, What are the inflection points that can lead to effective prevention?
Most likely. A lot of ads are third party code being executed on your device, look into malvertising.
This! They used to allow you to, but now I don't save my home address and can't use a lot of Google features because they want you to enable activity tracking. WTF... why do I need all my activity to be tracked to use basic features?
At least the Keybase code is open, so even if you can't personally validate that it's secure, someone else can.

Neither Dropbox nor Google encrypts and keeps the keys client side, so not trusting them is probably the right thing to do (also Dropbox has been misleading in the past about their security, so that's another reason one should be careful).
Are you sure about that? My AWS 2FA authenticator code has been out of sync for a while and they offer multiple options to get around it. I've been receiving SMS codes easily, in fact I just did this a couple days ago. IIRC they also offered to call me.
Did you flip some bit somewhere to disallow this? Do you have a phone number set up?
But you don't get the vacation time to actually get there...
Prison Inside Me: Providing Koreans Peace and Solitude in a Cell
A brilliant piece of work to place the location.

On the other hand, this seems to be...below...the BBC:

"The government statement makes clear that all these men enjoy the presumption of innocence, and that they will be given a fair trial."

"The two women killed outside Zelevet received no trial at all.

"No presumption of innocence was extended to the children who died with them."
The typical U2F user carries at least two keys

Maybe techie personal users have more than one, but I only carry one device (a yubikey) for work, someone at work can reset my MFA if I lose it.

I'd be surprised if "most" people have a backup device/codes.
"Necessary but not sufficient."
I imagine that is what the actual court will flush out. They will all squeal for better deals during sentencing or pleas. No one wants to spend the rest of their life in an improversed hot Cameroonian jail.
See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBnDWSvaQ1I

I tested this with my mother, telling her about this in person and talking about dog toys. My mother does not have a dog - but by the end of our 2 hour talk about how much she wanted to get her dog a dog toy she was getting advertisements for dog toys and dog food on Facebook.

She has an iPhone.
How to create own cryptocurrency coin (ICO)
Agreed - LA seems to have an incredible amount of opportunity right now (but with better weather, and overall better quality of life than SF). Unless of course you have a long commute...
I definitely dont create them routinely. Maybe 4 times a year. Consistency isn't worth much if nobody knows who you are because you never post.

The desire to create a community chafes against the zero verfication HN does for new accounts. If you want to create a community it should be harder to create a new account than login, but it's actually the opposite. To create a new account I don't need to remember my password, I just need a username and keyspam.

This probably isn't what Dang wants but it's how the site currently works. If it's easier to create an account a couple times a year than remember my login, especially when nobody is gonna remember someone who posts 4 times a year, what is the point of maintaining an account. Just being logical here.
Storing password + TOTP together does leave you vulnerable if your vault is stolen/broken into, but I've gone all-in on storing them in 1Password because that's a trade off I'm willing to make.
Tracking the interstellar object 'Oumuamua to its home
Microsoft Support advises, “Please use Chrome.”
My actual, just-received support email from Microsoft Support:

Hello Jeff,

Yes, we do recommend using Google chrome to access our web app. We are however working on a mac app that will hopefully launch soon that will allow you to access and use our app on your macbook.

Thanks so much for your patience,
J...
Microsoft To-Do Support

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September 25, 2018, 21:47
Thank you for contacting Microsoft To-Do Support. We received your message and will get back to you as soon as possible.

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I attempt to login using latest FF on my MacBook Pro, and I get the "too many auth. attempts" error message on the first try. Then again, it worked fine this morning. Go figure.
Same for the last two normal jobs I've taken. I was surprised to also be presented with an arbitration agreement when visiting a new doctor for the first time. I think it's become quite standard since no one is really able to stand up against them.
You choose those names when you add the device. It can be anything.

That said, it would probably be good if they added a note saying that the device name you choose is public, which is not really clear in the current UI.
What surprised me to learn when I was at the NMoC earlier in the year was that there's still information relating to Colossus that GCHQ won't release, and probably never will.
Not the first time, or the latest, either: https://hn.algolia.com/?query="netflix%20for"
People blocked on Twitter are free to host their own websites with their own speech.

I really don’t believe just because Twitter is popular it’s suddenly mandatory that it host any and all content. If hacker news became as popular as twitter could the government suddenly start compelling HN to stop censoring off topic conversation and host any and all posts?

Twitter was created by people to serve a certain purpose and for certain conversations and they are within their rights to control the content they host on their machines and on their site.
Abstract of the NTSB Report on Air Canada flight 759's taxiway overflight at SFO [pdf]
there is no account

only capabilities

accept this, find peace
As per https://www.ntsb.gov/news/press-releases/Pages/NR20180925b.a...:

>The full report will be available on the NTSB website in several weeks.