skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does anyone is using Redox OS ? I don't see how you can compare OS used in hundreds of millions servers to one that is used nowhere in case of CVE. No one is probably searching for CVEs in Redox OS compared to Linux Kernel.
That will work out great when the middle tier of colleges implodes.
What are you even talking about? Samsung has no dongle and continues to put headphone jacks in all of their devices.
I agree with this. But on the contrary, nations like Saudi could also go with the trend and opt in to using renewable energy such as solar as same goes to Russia. One must adapt to changes in order to allow balance. But yes, as we know, it will come with risk, much as been said, fossil fuel is also one of the things that deteriorate our environment and leave a mark. They either can have less the usage of fossil fuel or reserve it as for larger market such as aviation fuels or with in a large scale of industries and reduce as day to day usage basis.
Isn’t that anything we do is actually always multitasking, coding - you use your fingers to type and brain to think what to type and at the same time you are thinking about why you are typing that.
Right. I'm saying even when used correctly, it wasn't protecting your hearing from the noise of the flight. Notches of noise were poking through the filters despite the impression of quietness, and causing fatigue damage to the cells tuned to those frequencies.
Do no evil was a reaction to Microsoft. I don't know how old you are, but back in the 1990's/2000's Microsoft actively tried to destroy/takeover the internet (in favor of desktop and/or vendor lockin), and Google's "Do no evil" was a reaction to that: A promise to grow the internet.

And they kept that promise! Look at the internet today.

Microsoft is no longer "evil", and the internet is fine, so "do no evil" is no longer necessary.

People assumed do not evil had something to do with privacy, or this or that, or lots of other things people read into it.

It didn't. It was just one thing: Open standards and promoting the open internet.
I'm terrible at "tricking" myself into doing things. It's like trying to tickle myself, it just doesn't work that way. If I don't want to do something it's simply very difficult to motivate myself to do it. Maybe imagining the repercussions of not doing the thing, if they are sufficiently grave, but that's all I can think of.
Al Gore said 2015.
Only if the public likes the way that service contracts are working.
If you're on the Rust, Postgres / SQLite side you'll be fine.
Choosing to stay out of the community
ARIN shows that as a Roadrunner IP, so I'm not so sure that's the right answer. Unless that's actually the OP's IP address on RR and it was auto-detected and plugged in programmatically somehow.
First Google Titan Security Key Unboxing
In case you don't know:

There is a post on the first of every month called "Who is Hiring." You might do better planning to participate in that.

Most recent:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18113144
4 Examples of Gamification in the Workplace
Something throws off our Muon (fork of Electron) browser, but it isn't lack of content-type: or funky content-disposition: or whatever. Good news is it works the way you expect and the way it presents in Chrome (but still via PDF.js, we are not using the 0day factory known as pdfium that Chrome uses) in brave-core. Dev channel: https://brave.com/download-dev, beta channel: https://brave.com/download-beta.
I've taken the photos and video; uploading to that page as I assemble them from my digital camera now! Let me know if you have questions or want to see another view not shown.
Bloomberg: Major US telecom was infiltrated by backdoored Supermicro hardware
Whoops... missed the link to the article for some reason and thought it was a question? I must be under-caffeinated; pls ignore kthx.
It is not accurate that LCOE provides apples-to-apples comparisons. For examples, there is no value for dispatchability. As EIA explains, “The direct comparison of LCOE across technologies is, therefore, often problematic and can be misleading as a method to assess the economic competitiveness of various generation alternatives because projected utilization rates, the existing resource mix, and capacity values can all vary dramatically across regions where new generation capacity may be needed.” https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/aeo/pdf/electricity_generation....

The point is that care should be taken to compare various types of generation and LCOE isn’t a good measure to do that.
Just curious if you're finding it challenging to hire for Erlang? Have you generally hired people with some experience, or do you typically expect new devs to pick it up upon hiring?
I have a Hugo site on github pages, and it's updated whenever I push. And no Netlify in the middle.
Erlang has Prolog roots. Like Prolog, its syntax is not pretty, which has hindered wider adoption.

I wonder if Prolog is strictly necessary these days, even for uses cases in its niche, that is, logic programming. It seems one can achieve the same functionality as Prolog with an internal DSL built on top of a more mainstream language.
An xss bug exposes even more data than this vuln. Why would that be less severe?
Naming and Shaming Web Polluters: Xiongmai
You can create whatever arbitrary naming convention you want for internal networks, and use either hosts files or your own private DNS server to resolve those names. But if your scheme overlaps with something that's published publicly, it's probably going to cause problems at some point.

There's a little bit of info in some RFC's about special / reserved names, which are dedicated to certain special uses. See, for example:

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6761

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2606

In years past, a lot of people would just pick a tld that didn't exist and then use that for internal domain names. That was probably safe back when new TLD's came into existence very infrequently. In this day and age, TLD squatting is a risky proposition, as seen here:

https://medium.engineering/use-a-dev-domain-not-anymore-9521...
> Well, Flatpak is designed for GUI applications, where the user indicates their intent to grant access to a file by picking it the file chooser (which is magic, runs outside the sandbox, and grants the sandbox access to whatever file the user picked). This is nice because the sandbox can be invisible from the user’s perspective.

That works where it works, but it seems like the sort of thing that will cause so much trouble that people end up turning it off. For example, a lot of files come with meta files containing thumbnails or other data with the same name but different extensions, or an associated directory with related data, and the app will want to access those too but a framework that doesn't understand they're related won't provide it.

You also end up with lots of little bugs, like breaking apps that predict what file you might open next and pre-load it or generate their own previews of files in the app's format.

A possible fix is that if the app tries to access a file you didn't expect it to, display an access prompt. But if that happens a lot it only conditions the user to just click yes every time.

> For a CLI application like tar, this would be a bit harder because every program has its own command line syntax and you can’t always tell what arguments are supposed to be filenames.

You also don't know what's implied. Most commands default to operating on the current directory when not otherwise specified (e.g. as the output location for a tar extract), but half the time that's the root of the user's home directory.
Online Dating in the Bay Area, Gender Ratios by City and Age – Match.com
Pony up the bucks, Shell and their ilk externalized and dumped environmental costs on society and the planet for a century.

They should be paying for whatever active geoengineering can be done. All executives current and former should have 75% of their net worth taxed.

A 200% gasoline tax should be imposed. Think that is too much? Do napkin calculations on the cost to remove the CO2 that results from burning a gallon of gasoline.

Sprawl property taxes should be immediately instituted.

Massive government research should be initiated in wind, solar, battery, thorium reactors, lab-grown meat, vertical farming, bio/algal fuels, and space mining.

I won't hold my breath.
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This was not my recent experience with Uber's 2FA at all.

I had purchased a new phone, but lost cellular service and couldn't authenticate into Uber. I found contact info and they asked me to verify my recent ride history (including fares, times, and destinations) before disabling 2FA for me.
Show HN: Bargad – data integrity, efficient Blockchains, transparency logs
Why Nobel winner Donna Strickland didn’t have a Wikipedia page
"sandbox" is an ill defined term, but what flatpak provides fits it perfectly well.

A sandbox is an environment where capabilities can be restricted in a set of ways.

The javascript sandbox lets you manipulate the website and make network requests, but not access arbitrary files.

The flatpak sandbox is configured per-app and can prevent all fs access, all file io (with seccomp), all networking, etc.

The article is simply pointing out that most popular applications do not use the sandbox features well.

That doesn't mean flatpak does not have the sandbox they claim to, merely that it does not mesh well with many popular apps currently.

I still see nothing that merits the word "lie".
Well Firewire was a fail. It was great in term of tech but it never caught on outside of Sony and Apple products(both contributes to the standard)
Hello,

I have applied to the Solutions Engineer role two weeks ago but did not mention Hacker News. Should I resubmit another app?

Thanks.
If you are interested in how mathematical modeling works I recommend any course that covers the contents of this book:
https://www.amazon.com/Mathematical-Financial-Derivatives-Sp...

Again, experience beats academia. These courses do a great job at introducing you to how mathematical modeling works. You need to go through an incredible grind (I can't stress this enough, it's a GRIND). I would recommend having a solid foundation in analysis. I can't stress how important this is, it's pretty much your bread and butter. I never took any computational finance courses, I wasn't a physicist, but a pure mathematician.

I will say this: from my experience, there is no such thing as a genius. Anyone can be a great mathematician, and gain this skillset. Often times, these so called geniuses from Ivy league schools are over inflated. You will get stuck, and get stuck for weeks to even months. It takes a very special mindset to push through it and those are the minds that are the most successful. Math is hard, no one is naturally gifted at it. You may have had people in your past that you thought were geniuses. I assure you they weren't. You saw them solve "easy" problems. They weren't anything special. Mindset always trumps innate abilities.
Advice on “making it” in tech
In theory, one should be able to use information about the stop lights to improve the prediction.

Anyway, I really would like to see a histogram of the predicted distribution of arrival times. Sometimes I 1-sigma need to make the bus and sometimes I 3-sigma need to make the bus...
Swift is always so fun to work with, especially when you see what it brings to the table outside of the Apple ecosystem.
A surprisingly convoluted story, but no much the fault of the author as the lack of transparency by Sony. Most stories of account compromise have an obvious cause, such as SIM cloning. This story makes it sound like Sony’s system has many possible attack vectors via social engineering. And given Sony’s history of catastrophic breaches, it’s really hard to imagine the fault is on the user here.
So far they have been pretty good at making people want to replace their existing iPhone with a new iPhone. I'm using an iPhone 7, and while I won't buy a new phone any time soon because my current one still works, the 120Hz oled screen is attractive (and the design makes my current phone look ancient with its huge chins on the top and bottom), and the better camera would be nice to have.
Nicorette, nicorette, you can beat the cigarette
If one is free to ignore or alter the definition of anything, then one could consider anything to be anything one wants.

But I get what you mean. We can only hope that permanent means permanent if you don't do anything to reverse it like being overweight.
I think we should judge by facts,not by stereotypes. In my opinion, newspapers are all propaganda machines driven by some
their benefit.
I'm not a flatpaker but maybe it was updating the runtimes? http://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/available-runtimes.html

Honestly I would be more worried about running mint (a topic not suited for this thread, a quick search would probably show you what I've read about it in the past).
We are trying to be all Terraform but its not moving fast enough. We still need the the Azure/AWS consul/cli to do much of the work. I switched from an AWS shop to a "migrating to Azure from AWS" shop. The new job is all Kubernetes work so I love it but I cannot get comfortable with Azure. I was so much more productive and confident with AWS its crazy. I miss S3, EBS, Snapshots, Route53, IAM and even fucking AWS role policy. I understand MS realizes this which is why they change there API every 4 months but its getting ridiculous we can't even use AKS (instead of ACS) because for some reason they don't role out services to the US North Central Region. WTF?
The volume of "technically recoverable" oil increases with price though, since a higher cost per bbl can justify more expensive extraction. Somewhere around $70-$100 bbl, shale oil becomes economical to extract, and the US and Canada have trillions of barrels worth of the stuff.

We're never going to run out of oil in the sense that oil will become unavailable, not in 64 years, and not in 640 years. Oil will become more expensive, and eventually, price increases will diminish and eventually stop the use of oil as an energy source. It'll always be available for use as an industrial feedstock and for use in highly specialized situations.
It is far more likely that the website was created by an individual, probably by the guy who submitted the site to Reddit's Linux forum.
Library author and lazy README updater here to report that technically as of October 09, 2018, boltons is 79 types and 146 functions, for a grand total of 225 utilities.

While I'm here, here are the ones I use most:

- OrderedMultiDict: https://boltons.readthedocs.io/en/latest/dictutils.html#bolt... - esp the .inverted() and .sorted() methods

- Exponential backoff and jitter generator: https://boltons.readthedocs.io/en/latest/iterutils.html#bolt...

- remap (recursive map): https://boltons.readthedocs.io/en/latest/iterutils.html#nest... (recipes here: https://sedimental.org/remap.html)

- Atomic File saving: https://boltons.readthedocs.io/en/latest/fileutils.html#bolt...

- Traceback utilties, structured tracebacks: https://boltons.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tbutils.html

Also, my favorite bolton that's not a bolton, glom: https://glom.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

If you have a bolton you'd like to submit, I'm pretty merge-happy. Here are the criteria: https://boltons.readthedocs.io/en/latest/architecture.html
Author here.

Bargad is a Trillian like data integrity framework for building efficient blockchains (like Ethereum Plasma does), transparency logs (e.g Certificate Transparency), secure file systems and more.
It Written in Elixir with focus on reliability, concurrency and scalability.

Yesterday I released a paper about Compact Sparse Merkle trees. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18166298.

This framework implements Compact Sparse Merkle trees as well as binary merkle trees to achieve two types of modes: Log and Map mode.
Flint schools are getting safe water fountains thanks to Elon Musk
Or at least the bachelors in that civilisation.
This is not a bug, this is spec.

variables in javascript are not block scoped, but functionally scoped.

the let keyword introduces block scope to javascript.
Love the joke at the beginning of the Internet & Empires talk where he says he was scared google would take him out with the hardwired mic.
Survivor bias? You couldn’t excavate something that had already been washed away.
Meet the trillions of viruses that make up your virome
Is it because they're all cheap cars? The auto industry is good at price discrimination.
It depends. For a mature business like Walmart, you'd look at EBITDA, and margins to arrive at a valuation. For a growth business, especially a SaaS business, revenue might be used until there's actual earnings.
That presentation leans heavily on biofuels/biomass as precursors to liquid fuels. In fact it doesn't mention any non-bio alternatives. That's not surprising given its age. Less than a decade ago biofuel looked cheaper than fully synthetic liquid electrofuels, considering the much higher cost of solar power back then.

I think that "power to liquids" is a much more likely path for large scale replacement of aviation fuel.

See for example "Power-to-Liquids as Renewable Fuel Option
for Aviation: A Review"

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/cite.2017001...

The main problem with biomass is land requirements. You can get a little biomass "for free" just by using scrap from existing industries, but it rapidly runs into problems of land availability if you want to make enough carbon-neutral fuel for the world's commercial airlines. There's more than an order-of-magnitude improvement in usable power density if you replace biofuel plantations with an equal area of solar farms for making electrolytic hydrogen from water, plus a synthesis/refiner complex for hydrogenating CO2 and building up liquid hydrocarbons from the resulting methanol. It's also a lot less water-intensive and doesn't require any fertilizer.
Location: Piscataway, New Jersey, USA Remote: No
Willing to relocate: Yes (nationally and internationally)

Technologies: Web Developement (Node, Angular, React, Redux, TypeScript, CSS, jQuery, Bootstrap etc)

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Rmdgz1JZHsIWK5e8Wzbqu5-S_E...

Email: averma2206@gmail.com

NOTE: I have 3 years of experience in front-end technologies like JavaScript (Angular, React), jQuery, NodeJS, CSS, HTML, as well as Python and Java and also highly skilled in Full stack SDLC. I am a self-motivated individual always willing to learn new technologies and languages.

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I have released a framework which has a C-SMT module.
https://github.com/ZanjeerPlatform/bargad
Do you think people would benefit from a service that allows them to own their emails regardless of who their provider is?
Hybrid electric jet engines are being developed, and have real potential to improve fuel economy. A substantial improvement in fuel economy could mean carrying less fuel, which in turn improves fuel economy.

But if you’re talking about plug-in electric, the challenge is presumably battery weight versus fuel weight.
It is severely limiting. You can’t sell private shares on the open market to buy a condo, pay off college debt, invest in your own company, quit and travel the world, etc. It could be decades before you receive the full share value. If hypothetical employee is working full time it’s probably because they don’t have enough assets 2M+ to live off passive income and need to work. Let’s say they are frugal and save $40k per year. If you have comp like a public co and receive $40k+ per year in shares does it really make sense to have 50%+ of your net worth in a single private tech company? It would probably work out great but 10 years is a long time to wait. I’m pretty sure there is issues with tax too but I don’t know the math.
On motivators: I've decided to make jasmine tea my "get shit done" drink - the intense flavour is great for prompting an associated state of mind.
There's a phrase for that. "not permanent."
It would be really amazing to have an option to engage with suspected telemarketing callers using Google Duplex.

User experience:
* Get a suspected telemarketing call
* Ringer silent while the in call UI waits for user to pick up
* If ignored, call us picked up and Duplex engages the caller to know about the offer and get other details
* Call transcribed; Optionally summarised and saved in cloud for later access by user

What Google gets:
* More widespread use of Duplex with associated improvements
* Data from telemarketer, voice as well as offers information which can be further analyzed for any beneficial purpose
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It also feels a lot like just recreating the original unified $HOME, and requires everything to be sorted by type. If you wanted to organize files by project and each project contained its own images, code, documentation, etc. then if you map the project directory for GIMP it can read all the files even though it should only get access to the images.
Nah you want to use something like Tikzit for string diagrams.
‘THE GOOD CENSOR’: Leaked Google Briefing
Mobile tech has jumped the shark I think. Literally just a snorefest of a year to me when it comes to new devices.
And here I am reading HN instead of doing the work I don't feel like doing ;-)
A decent fraction of the population views password restrictions as a challenge to come up with the shittiest, least secure password that they possibly can while still meeting all restrictions. You can blame users for that with some justice, but as a system designer, it's still your responsibility provide security despite shitty but reasonably likely human behavior.

With modern crypto there are very few systems where it's appropriate to have a user-selected <=12 character password for primary auth, yet unfortunately that continues to be widespread for banks, ecommerce, and (probably) some military systems. High-end security people seem to almost universally hate short user-selected passwords (except when they have to break them..) but old practices die hard and old systems take a long time to be replaced.
Hope ya feel better --

Here's a post that I occasionally refer to when I'm feeling overwhelmed with a project and undersuited for the task: https://www.hanselman.com/blog/ImAPhonyAreYou.aspx
I don't disagree per se but I think you're over-selling physicists' capabilities (former academic physicist here, PhD and all) and also using the latest hype-based machine learning cult in the Bay Area as a stand-in for all ML.

Mathematical modeling is essential to well-done data science. I won't let my team (I manage some machine learning engineers and data scientists) get away with what I call "toy modeling", that is parameter tuning and basic model implementation, and claim they're "doing data science." They need to provide a fairly rigorous analysis and basic mathematical models to justify their choices for particular algorithms or reaching for the "I give up" tool of so-called deep-learning. And the second my bosses tell me to just
let them "do ML" is the second I resign. I won't be part of diluting the quality of my team's work
"That's just eugenics" isn't even true in this case (my point is mostly about culture). And even if it was true, is not an argument, it's a label.
Not to be that guy, but it's disc when you're referring to optical media [1]. Unless you're trying to say that you're fed up with an awful digital ecosystem and you just buy physical disks like Frisbees and vinyl ;)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spelling_of_disc
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The issue is 200+$ a barrel oil is mostly useless.

The world runs on cheap oil, not just oil. And the supply of cheap oil is finite.
Ask HN: Full sized wired keyboard with a touchpad?
What's a good full sized wired keyboard with touchpad for coding?
I dont think most people are qualified enough to give an opinion about how Google operates...
Might be worth pursuing that business anyway!