skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>This is a cautionary tale. Anyone writing for any publisher in today’s commercial market, where the managed advertorial and native ad seems to be the only way to make money, needs to be cautious. More importantly today’s readers need to be a little more than cautious when believing anything. Native advertising is a most insidious concept and should be rejected by every publisher. Instead it is welcomed by the broadcasting networks and most of the major newspapers including the New York Times. Are the writers saying nice things or are they paid to say nice things?

I think we quickly need changes in the way we handle native advertising. It is hugely problematic and basically predatory.

I believe that there are ways to genuinely advertise if the advertisement is openly disclosed and the ad is informative, but native advertising is essentially just a sophisticated and insidious form of manipulation. It turns readers into non-consenting consumers and the purpose of journalism from informing truthfully to a sales pitch. I have trouble imagining that many people think this is tolerable if we'd be debating it openly and brought it to the forefront of the news (which ironically is not going to happen).
Major Windows 10 releases continue to receive security updates for quite some time after a new release drops, so force-feeding major releases to home users is not even necessary to keep users secure. As for warnings, as soon as the update is auto-applied you lose the ability to reboot without having your OS replaced and possibly rendered inoperable. Security updates are quick and mostly painless, on the other hand, but home users don't get to choose what to install.
This is John C Dvorak style. I guess if they don't like it, they had to fire him. But, if this gets you fired, how can you write about anything.

I hope he gets hired quickly somewhere much nicer.

Really concerned about 5G now that I connected the dots. I don't mind 4G being branded as new 5G and being always connected.
I followed your previous link. The link immediately above is to a newer post (14 minute ago) than the one from you to which I was replying. No time travel on HN.

"Scam" (glad you looked it up) means "a dishonest scheme; swindle", i.e., someone was deceived. Whom did we deceive? You keep abusing it to mean extortion or theft, while admitting users can block without compensating anyone.

Reminder: we don't put ads on pages unless the particular publisher partners and the user agrees. No one is deceived. Since our baseline mode is just blocking, no one is owed, either.
I build camera gear for 172s and fly (as passenger, not pilot) probably 20-30 days per year, sometimes much more, and I get nervous at <60kts at low altitude.

40kts IAS is I guess around the full flaps stall speed but you sure don't want to be doing that intentionally. At least not with me in the plane please.
It's pretty obvious when an iPhone X is repaired. Apple's strict stance on security means it's not impossible that this was done for security.

A kill-switch on unauthorized modifications has a massive positive impact for device security.
In California, the person registering is the check,
since they are completing the form under penalty
of perjury. See Section 2111 here:

http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displayText.xh...

In the days before high mobility in the US, there tended to be an assumption
that the clerk or registrar accepting the completed registration forms would
be likely to know the registrant personally, so the laws tended to not expect
any form of documentation beyond a completed form and a signature.
source: former registrar of voters

With the recent ginned-up moral panic over supposed voting fraud, calls for various
forms of documentation now abound. My opinion is that any states that wish to require
voters to have ID at the polls should be willing to provide such ID to the voters for free.
To require the voter to spend money to be able to vote is effectively a poll tax,
which were prohibited by the 24th amendment.
Sure. But it’s not at all clear to me that this trick would actually handle multibyte utf-8 chars correctly.
No, they're trying to make sure they get their pound of flesh any time one of 'their' devices needs to be repaired. If the NSA (et al) are really serious about having hooks into Apple products they'll make sure to get them [1], glued screens and batteries and firmware kill-switches notwithstanding.

If it were about privacy and security Apple could have the device display a warning when it detected tampering and leave it to the user how to act on this, a bit like some Android devices react when the bootloader is unlocked. They could also sell OEM spare parts which could be used by third-party repair shops to repair devices and use a verification routine to re-certify the device (which then would not display a 'tampered' warning, instead showing a 'repair log' in some hidden settings screen).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program)
i don't understand how a bunch of old men that spend all their time getting ready for a new frequency band (600 meters) have energy for such intrigue.
it's just a hobby. does the ARRL really rake in that much money every year?
the board should be open without restraints.
They don’t want home users using a different OS either, because they might start asking for it at work. I’m pretty sure the only reason MS even makes a home version of Windows is to indoctrinate new generations.
Religious fasting won't induce autophagy. At least in those religious fasting traditions that I know of (Christian lent and Islamic Ramadan) observers can consume calories each day. Autophagy (IIRC) only starts after several days with zero caloric intake.
[Photo] a 5MB hard drive being shipped by IBM in 1956
My Mozilla vow of poverty (look at form 990s to see what top person makes; hardly poverty but more than I ever made) is over. Anyway, the ad hominem with a double standard vs. the huge tracking-dependent businesses is a bad look. Change it.
One twist on this concept that we've used effectively at Mavenlink is that there is no approval step.

RFCs function more as a communication and participation process before an effort starts, and approval just hasn't felt like a necessary part of that.

Our org is around 50 engineers and has a very collaborative culture already, and maybe approval would be necessary for other environments.

Another benefit from the RFC process in general is that it's very easy for technical leadership and management (as well as everyone at the company, really) to see all the technical efforts underway.
I genuinely am just making that simple point. But it does follow that under such a scheme you couldn’t totally ban cars.
With respect to the actual post, the issue has come up, e.g. https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/pa8bpk/5g-wireles... (And, yeah, Marin County.) Even if it represents a minority viewpoint, 5G health concerns aren't quite crackpot theory land.

That said, column seems more than a bit sensationalistic and one-sided --but not really all that different from many things that Dvorak has written over the years.
CNET is an all around terrible experience.
Our token sale is over, it ended in 24 seconds. I'm not selling anything, least of all to you who are free to use Brave as a baseline ad blocker. Publishers working with us call that "free-riding".

It's great you don't like most content. Who does? Sturgeon's Law (90% of everything is shit) has not been repealed. But we do not all agree on which 90%, and even the top 10% by many measures needs ads. Why are you trying to make your animus against ads into a universal? Seems cultish.
Dvorak is a troll. I could go show the reasons, but he's all about saying inflammatory things (mostly at apple fans) and getting them to buy magazines / click things. This is a continuation in that trend, but may or may not be true.
If python programmers think they are the only ones with UTF problems, try Lazarus and Freepascal development mailing lists. The debates have going since forever, and I am sure issues will be popping up every now and then.

Try Elixir. According to their docs they've had it right from the word go - I think.
Untouched ISOs for virtual machines are totally legal

I don't trust torrent sites or magnet links sorry not sorry
I don't know what was the cause of him getting fired, but he certainly SHOULD be fired for such a sleazy sensationalist piece:

> When you do a search for "5G is Safe" on Google and Bing, you get a number of negative stories and a laundry list of why some people believe it's unsafe. Companies may as well begin to market a 5G mobile phone with a skull and crossbones on it.

Really, the entirety of his journalistic research is a Google search that somehow justifies him to reproduce conspiracy theories as facts? Technology similar to 5G "has been already weaponized"? Good riddance.
Markdown doesn't require tag closure, and eliminates the <p> tag entirely. This makes for a cleaner and faster composing experience.

I did little but wruite in HTML from the late 1990s to mid 2010s. Markdown is my preferred route now.

Also conversant in LaTeX, formerly; nroff, DocBook, WP4.2, Wordstar (both with 'reveal codes' capabilities), and probably more. Pandoc is a game-changer.
... For some reason. Because Apple. This is one of the things keeping me from taking them seriously.
Dvorak has been known to troll but when you write a typical Dvorak-tier skeptical piece on 5G then new management fires you and suddenly your 5G-skeptical piece has been replaced by a pro-5G piece, I don't see how you can reach any conclusion other than the same one he did in this post. Did you even read the post?
The lack of dedicated key is probably an artifact of the typewriter origins of the keyboard, where the paper moves under the cursor as you type, and it’s somewhere between difficult and nonsensical to move forwards rather than backwards through existing text.

FWIW, Fn-delete works as forward-delete on Mac.
That would be way too much democratization.
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Well you will be happy now because he now writes for nobody except the NoAgenda newsletter since this was his last job.
This also exactly describes the modern gaming experience. It's infuriating.
I guess we read the article differently. Because he didn’t seem to be saying 5G was dangerous, more that this was the public perception, and that vendors are doing little to manage the PR around this.
Sure it can, just patch it out
From another article posted above:

> This also inevitably leads one to the question: how did they use the bathroom? Well, because the Cessna 172 doesn’t come standard with a toilet, and there was no room to install a permanent one, Timm and Cook had to rig their own system. This took the form of a folding camp toilet and plastic bags. Once they had been used, the plastic bags were then disposed of over unpopulated areas in the desert around Blythe. According to Mark Hall-Patton, the administrator of the Clark County Museum system in Las Vegas, “I once asked John’s widow if they handed down the waste during refueling runs. She said, ‘No. That’s why it’s so green around Blythe.’ ”
Back when we were working on Bukkit, when Dinnerbone and the other three were aquihired? by Mojang, one of the main things they wanted to do was implement a proper modding interface into the game.

Lots of things conspired to make that not happen, undoubtably including feature creep (because it was going to be the official mod api, it had to be correct not just good), but it finally looks like they're moving in that direction.
It's funny you mention this as I had a very similar thought the other night when clean-installing an old gaming PC to try some VR stuff on.

I'm used to using a Mac, and the update notifications can definitely be annoying, but Windows' default update behaviour is another level of excruciatingly bad UX. I assume — perhaps wrongly — that you can stop windows from installing updates on shutdown/restart. However, the other night (on Windows), forcing an update on shutdown was the only obvious option available to me. I can't fathom what the rationale is to force this kind of experience on users.

When I want to shut my computer down, it's because I want it to turn off, not start a new (oftentimes looping) operation to install software that I won't immediately see (or need to see) the benefit of.
Looks like the Linux kernel would have a gold rating if kernel.org set X-Content-Type-Options to "nosniff".

https://bestpractices.coreinfrastructure.org/en/projects/34?...
You're excused.
My alternative is not some cryptocurrency. I would be happy if credit cards moved to a system where I get a message requesting a charge and I reply to authorize it. Also cash is pretty much a push system, you hand the money to the store instead of telling them where your pocket is and letting them pick what they need. Unfortunately that doesn't work online.
I'm concerned he got to about hour 10 until considering datasets (=video) with validated camera calibration information.

I think the video ended before he applied any of it, though..
I don’t think there’s any change needed. Why prop up the status quo with bureaucracy? Mainstream media was shedding eyes and under scrutiny well before “fake news”.

Let MSM die its slow death while new and better services make their debut.
Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Meh, the chief economics editor for ABC Australia wrote an article on the corporation tax reforms that made some pretty serious mistakes and she wasn't just simply fired even though many conservatives called for her head.
> US telecom corporations are rushing to beat

There are no US based mobile infrastructure companies competing for 4G or 5G installations. Qualcomm is lower level supplier providing components and competing with MediaTek, Samsung and Chinese.

There is only 5 major players left: Huawei, Ericsson, Nokia, ZTE and Samsung. Two Chinese, Finnish, Swedish and South Korean.
Yearning for an it-just-works real Linux Tablet
Why in 2018, does it seem impossible to buy a purpose-built Linux (distro) tablet from any major computer vendor. A device with features typical to those iOS and Android devices.
Well, strictly speaking, Romance languages are not the evolution of Latin - each is a mix of (the Vulgar) Latin and a local language. For example, French has been heavily influenced by Frankish, so much so, in fact, that English, not even being a Romance language, seems closer to Latin than French does - simply because it imported so many words directly from Latin. (The closest example of a continuous and mostly unadulterated evolution of a now dead language into a modern one is Greek.)
I think it is more eloquently stated that "you shouldn't make assumptions about what's inside." Saying "you can't see what's inside" ignores the biggest cause of the conflation. Userspace tools allow you to trivially interpret the bag of bytes as a text string for the purpose of naming it for other people.
Be wary of generalized advice. Most people suck, and for them that advice is probably sound. But there are diamonds in this world, and when you pass them by they are gone.
For those who are not familiar with them term "native advertising", it means integrating the ad into the page content in such a way that it doesn't appear to be an ad at first glance.

In other words, using the same style as the adjacent content, and removing any boxes or rules that separate an ad.

It's pretty far down the slope into dishonesty territory w.r.t. separating content from editorial or advertising, and the FTC should investigate and regulate native ads.
I've heard people say redux and apollo do not work well together because they are both essentially state management libraries, but I've used them both for different things in a UI and they can be a good "team". For example, I've used apollo for mainly storing and sending data in regards to APIs, while redux for just UI related things like modals, prompts, etc.
But it is very good for manufacturers (their bottom line) to make what consumers demand.

If no one is making the products you'd want them to make, it's probably because no one is buying them, after all.
Whats the point being made?

This is more useful: https://github.com/coreinfrastructure/best-practices-badge
GBPUSD Eyes Key Resistance Zone at 1.3200/16
"The power of advertisers over television programming stems from the simple fact that they buy and pay for the programs-they are the "patrons" who provide the media subsidy. As such, the media compete for their patronage, developing specialized staff to solicit advertisers and necessarily having to explain how their programs serve advertisers’ needs. The choices of these patrons greatly affect the welfare of the media, and the patrons become what William Evan calls "normative reference organizations," whose requirements and demands the media must accommodate if they are to succeed." - Noam Chomsky , Manufacture of Consent.
Precise and Scalable Detection of Double-Fetch Bugs in OS Kernels [pdf]
Sounds like you're the least lucky person on earth. I've had my MacBook Air for 5 years now, I've dropped it on concrete/tiles multiple times, it's dented as hell and the battery's wearing a bit, but it works just fine
/!\ Working link

Thanks for this! The in.pcmag.com link to Indian PC Mag shows a very suspicious 403 error now (not even a 404). But yours works. It's fascinating, two pcmag.com links back to back somehow confuses the CMS's router and shows the old article. Nice one.

Since this'll probably be "fixed", I fed the URL to archive.is: http://archive.is/KbsW8

[Also, for posterity, the view of the 403: http://archive.is/ggMat - thanks to whoever added this]
AIQL: Enabling Efficient Attack Investigation from System Monitoring Data [pdf]
What the Correspondent adds to the American press
Do you have any pointers about this? As someone on the outside they always seemed two of the same to me except for the kind of equipment they had access to.
"Shine on you crazy diamond!"
Unless they own the computer, it's not reasonable to disable it because their service is not used. Taking steps to actively, for no technical, or ( for me ) functional reason is such an customer hostile idea, that I can't really understand how it can ever be seen as reasonable?

Their brand being tarnished is of no concern to me as a consumer and user of their product, and neither should it. They do with their brand as they wish, and I with the product I bought as I wish. If a producer wishes otherwise, they simply can't say, or claim that they are selling the product.

It's really just a simple case of Apple trying to have the cake, and eat it too.

That, and that Apple these days seem to be doing everything in their power to make their brand into a luxury brand, and you obviously can't have a luxury brand that the less well off can actually buy, and afford to use, even second hand. Some satire yes, but nevertheless how luxury brands mostly works.
One of my favorite computer articles of all time is also written by Mr Dvorak: https://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2339629,00.asp
Leveraging relocations in ELF-binaries for Linux kernel version identification [pdf]
I notice that repo has commits ranging in age from 7 months to 3 years, so it seems to have taken you quite a bit longer than “a weekend or two”. Maybe tone down the arrogant trash-talking a bit.
Let’s put a different take on this. What if the kill switch is presented as an option to the customer upon purchase? So if your preference is security over repairability you enable it, vice versa you don’t?
Am I missing something? He says PC Magazine fired him because he was critical of his 5G article and that rankled the magazine's sponsors. Who specifically are the sponsors he's thinking of? Is there any evidence whatsoever that this is what happened?

So they linked his article about 5G to a different one. Why does that mean he was fired for writing the article? I feel like an application of Hanlon's Razor (not quite right, but I don't know of someone else's who fits the situation better) is called for. Is it more likely the editors thought his article sucked and used their editorial discretion to redirect his 5G article to a different one or that there was a conspiracy between his advertisers and the magazine's management to fire a guy who's been wrong on just about everything for the last 30 years because he hit the nail too close to the head?

I don't buy it.
Many shoes are actually still made in Europe (Carmina, Lobb, etc.)

They're usually not the cheap brands though. The low end is dominated by foreign manufacturers, so Europeans have moved up the value chain.

There's Carlos Santos in Portugal which takes advantage of the fact that Portugal has the lowest labor costs in Europe.

Meermin (in Spain) has a hybrid model where they source from Europe (French tanners), start the manufacture in China, and finish in Spain. Their products are reasonably priced, and pretty high quality.

It's a similar story with Dutch clothier SuitSupply. Their designs are European, and they source their fabrics from Italian mills, but sew their suits in China.
Maybe his hands were tied in the sense that releasing things open source would limit his ability to package and sell it off at a later date? I'm sure there were negotiations in progress at the time he would have considered doing so and from my POV, which could be terribly wrong, it would seem that releasing the thing you are considering to sell, for free, would sort of meddle with the entire process of selling it off?
The Perfect War: Technowar in VIETNAM (1987) – Part 1 of 2
You'll see in this thread a lot of Dutch commenters who say they don't do the reach as it is described, nevermind what it is called in English or Dutch.
> $ pgrep mu && kill `pgrep mu`

This could be rewritten as:

$ pkill mu
As I pointed out in a few other comments, the code that Microsoft has open sourced represents a tiny fraction of the Minecraft codebase, is only loosely related to Minecraft at all, and represents basic and well-understood problems in the industry.
Right. It doesn't exactly align with what a normal auditor would be looking out for, I suppose. Thanks, I appreciate it.
> > Unlike with operating systems, the independent options are actually better.

> Wait, I know it was a throwaway comment, but are you saying Windows 10 (or some previous version) is actually better than any other OS?

Ha, yeah it was definitely a bit of a throwaway comment. I meant the opposite of that. I think a more accurate way for me to have said it would've been: "With craft beer, and unlike with OS, the independent options are indisputably better".

I'm not referring to the standard Macro brew styles - Bud, Coors, and even Rolling Rock are all indisputably good at what they do (American Lager, generally. https://www.bjcp.org/2008styles/style01.php ). But they aren't trying to be flavourful, adventurous, craft breweries. The independent craft breweries are the ones that have tried new things to see what stuck. They brought us the waves of IPA, and more recently kettle sour and gose. And the craft breweries that have been bought out (eg Goose Island) have generally not been as adventurous or responsive with new styles, and have not even maintained the quality with their existing recipes.

Unlike most of the user base on this site, craft beer is definitely my strong suit, and computer stuff secondary. That said, I think with operating systems, there is a lot of room for dispute (eg, Windows is definitely the best operating system for running AutoCAD or most games, but that doesn't make it the best for every use case). I guess the same could be said for beer. If you're looking for a nice lager, you're probably going to be better off with something reliable from the big breweries, than the ester-y "lager" some brand-new independent brewery is trying to sell you on. Sum it up: yep, a throwaway comment :)