skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really don't blame the author here, sure there was an issue with the sample code - but come on it was sample code. If someone is implementing user uploads they should really do the due diligence and understand what the sample code does.

To be honest I'm not really that surprised that the vulnerability stayed hidden for so long; many PHP users are hobbyists or come from a more traditional "webmaster" background. This is not to say that there aren't good PHP programmers, just that there is a large group of novices.
You are correct. I suspect the reason he uses old machines is that with 80 acres, he doesn’t generate the free cash flow for anything other than picking over the junk pile.
"boring, stable governance" as an export industry is a good observation. I think this is true of other places too, for example in London both the top-end property market, and arguably the City, are doing exactly this.

It would be nice if they could figure out how to export this with fewer side effects. I don't quite know whether a city-state Vancouver is the right measure though. What does this solve compared to the status quo? Living in Vancouver is already unaffordable, but other places are not. Would such a setup lower the barriers for Chinese businessmen to buy a flat there very much?
Great points. Another thing I think may have contributed is the odd way (odd to me at least) that information trickled out. Things were released in a way where the story wasn't able to be buried. New details emerged seemingly daily and they emerged in a way that helped paint a detailed picture of not only the crime but the cover up.

People aren't buying it and it also helps lift the curtain on politics and people get to see the dark machinery behind the clean cut curtain politics likes to have.

Politics definitely helps manipulate tons of markets but in the world we are in right now and the way I imagine most people feel about the way the governments represent them around the world people seem to be sick of not only that but the way the government's power has a stranglehold on media. People like to say people are stupid but I don't think they are stupid enough to have the wool pulled over their eyes all the time.
People do change. Calling it posturing is premature judgement.
It’s strange how inconsistent everyone’s experiences are with digital assistants. In my opinion they are all fine for basic things like unit conversions etc. and terrible with everything else.
As other commenter pointed out, we don't have enough information to judge the situation beyond reasonable doubt.

MBS was selling himself as a reformer and everybody deserves a benefit of a doubt. Maybe it was of one the generals that decided to kill the journalist. Why would MBS risk all the deals he has made and about to made? Oil doesn't give him that much leverage right now and sanctions could topple the government.

I'm not trying to make a case for or against him. It's impossible for an average person to know what is going on exactly.
Same here, I made the switch to Almond milk about a year ago and have stopped using any "real" milk or butter as prices here in New Zealand are through the roof at the moment (e.g. 500g butter is $6.30 NZD ($4.15 USD), over double what they used to be. I have no plans to go back either, I feel great these days, and I'm pretty sure it's because of the lack of milk products.
How about this (just throwing some ideas out there):

1. Create more niche "properties" that provide a small to medium services. focus on something people might need, be willing to pay a small amount for, and ideally can run with minimal supervision.

2. Rinse repeat #1 until a few of those are ongoing. 8 euros per month becomes maybe 800 and growing over time.

3. Don't try to be Zuckerberg. There is only one of him, thank all the gods.

4. Don't even think about the words "startup", "exit", "investment" etc. Focus on stuff that will provide you with a lifestyle of your choice.

5. Try to make each "property" the best you can. Focus on making a "Good Product" (tm). Good products have better chance of being used. Give each one the love it needs. Stay focused. Complete the project. Take it slowly, there is no rush. You have no Boss here. No deadlines.

6. One of these days, one of those niche idea becomes semi-niche, broader audience. Go with it.

7. Remember there is no magic formula, no secret sauce, luck is a huge factor and there is no guarantee for anything.

8. Aim for lifestyle. It's a good aim.
Oh thanks. I should’ve googled cause this part of the Wikipedia article has all the answers:

After unveiling the prototype, Steve Jobs called Schwartz's office and told him that Apple would sue Sun if they moved forward to commercialize it. Jobs claimed that the project is infringing Apple's IP.[3] Regardless of the threat, Sun determined that the project was not a priority and decided not to put more resource to develop it further into product quality.
So what are you suggesting or are you just complaining to no end?
I imagine it's like most money laundering laws where the circumstantial evidence that prompted the investigation is enough to convict if you don't provide a verifiable explanation.
Thank you for coming that clear.
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It definitely does. If it’s not appearing something is wrong. A common cause is some asset being delivered over http rather than https.

Actually, it should allow you to add ordinary websites to the desktop, but doesn’t display them full screen. Forgive me if this is a stupid question, but did you just not scroll right on the menu in safari? I couldn’t find it the first time I went to add a site to desktop either.
Until he comes out and says "we made $X from doing business with questionable entities, and here's how we gave back $X without lining our pockets", it's posturing.
This doesn't sound so convincingly acceptable if we consider that their investments make profits, which end up funding whatever unethical thing they do.
Smalltalk used bytecode since the early days, which was interpreted by microcoded CPUs.

Deutsch and Schiffman designed the first Smalltalk JIT compiler in 1984.
The example you gave about shaving bumps is a perfect example, because it has nothing to do with race - a no-beard rule that was unrelated to the business would be equally discriminatory against black and latino people who happened to have that condition. In that case the correlation with race is immaterial. Admittedly the courts have probably made a few mistakes in the past when ruling on this issue.
Except, Fred made the decision about his LPs over the last 15 years...
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The prices for other staples won't rise that much with an increase in rich people. After housing, the next major expenses for many people will be transportation and food. Rich people aren't going to raise the cost of a bus ticket or gas. There will be fancy restaurants and high end grocery stores that cater to wealthier customers but a typical store can't just double the price of a loaf of bread without losing many of their customers.
Still I wonder what Sun thought they were going to do with this... I find it fascinating they’d pursue a heavyweight UX project such as a window manager with no clear stake in the game... a last chance at pushing for Solaris adoption?!
Why do they lose one bit?
You might want to consider some alternative views, for example this article from Stanford seems reasonable in the tone of its discussion:
https://www.hoover.org/research/our-latest-global-warming-sc...
While human effects on global climate certainly have to be considered, the idea that 200 years of industrial human civilization is enough to meaningfully alter global climate implies that if we wanted to, we could terraform other planets within just a few 100 years - which I’m sure is wrong. Or we would need to somehow make the case that this particular planet was in an unstable equilibrium, so our actions were somehow enough to knock things out of equilibrium, which I also doubt: If the earth’s climate equilibrium was so unstable, I doubt mankind would have survived this long.

“Don’t sell your coat” by Harold Ambler is another well-argued discussion of some of these issues.

Of course, some people would argue that you shouldn’t even consider alternative views on this topic, because it’s “climate change denial” - reminds me of the fundamentalist Muslim priests I would have to listen to growing up, telling me not to listen to the “unbelievers” because they would corrupt my mind.. :)
Had me a little confused there for a second. I’m used to semi to mean that, not bi.

I could see every two weeks working in other circumstances than the ones I happened to have found myself in. Maybe even weekly if I worked remotely or something like that.
Good in-depth and balanced piece. (Although it does gloss over a little some of the struggled Fujifilm had during the transition from film.)
If you want to get money from donations you need publicity because most people who visit your website will never donate. If you are someone who releases/has lots tools I would recommend setting up a single domain with dedicated pages for each tool (e.g. tool.domain.com or domain.com/tool) and setting up a Patreon in addition to the donation button.

Honestly I would put ads on the extractemailaddress.com website and work on improving it's position on the search results. In addition to that localization to one or two other languages would probably be nice to boost the views. That "make a small donation" button really put me off.
Developed by Gilead, the same company that created the Hep-C cure Sovaldi. Some kick-ass work there.
I think Kodak merely picked the wrong pivot. They thought they were a photography company, but they were actually a chemical company. There is plenty of demand for chemicals these days, and if they had stuck with that, they'd be doing fine. (I think these days they brand themselves as an "imaging" company, and they sell products like document capture systems. But that really makes them a software company, and I doubt they're doing great there. Document capture will probably be taken over by phones; Google is already playing with that and I'm guessing they have better software development teams than Kodak.)

Fuji was in a similar place, of course, but they were already making high-end cameras and they were selling well. I use a GW690ii from 1985 regularly and it has one of the best lenses I've ever used. They did not forget how to manufacture those over the intervening 30 years, and there is plenty of market for lenses. (Though I would still worry. Tiny cell phone cameras are becoming better and better every year, and that's really a function of the sensors, which they buy from Sony.)

Ironically, Fuji did kind of screw over the film photography community recently. They stopped making 4x5 Velvia 50. They stopped making Acros 100. Now everyone is using Kodak or Ilford film. But it's because they could afford to, getting someone to buy a new digital camera every couple years is way more profitable than making chemicals for a super niche industry. Kodak still doesn't understand that, but they do get some of my money as a result ;)
Marginal demand matters greatly in real estate pricing. Reducing all analysis to "spot the racist" is a fun game to play to score points with your buddies, but not so useful for solving problems in the real world.
I've always thought this was very interesting; specifically, the ability to use objects and functions as keys. [1]

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
People do change by supporting some of the most violent, racist, and brutal people in the US? Doesn't sound like much of a change to me.

https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/
Agreed, it's so opaque. I feel like I've called a specialist asking what they think my copay will be given my insurance plan and they said they don't know, talk with my insurance firm. I call my insurance firm and they say they don't know, I have to submit the claim first.

Any marketplace where the buyer isn't informed of the price until after the transaction is ripe for disruption.
This is cool! I wanted to do something similar a while back, but decided I want out of the term, instead of trying to bring more robust UIs into my term.

My goal was to have an editor, like Vim/Kakoune, use a window manager like tmux to provide more rich GUI features, such as popups and overlays. All of that in an ideally easy to use dev UX, making scripting information plugins intuitive and easy.

As mentioned, in the end I just said I probably want a GUI proper.

Very cool! :)
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There isn't much info on how you're doing it but since you're just starting out my advice to you is to keep it simple stupid. To elaborate don't get sucked up too much into new technologies and shiny objects.. If you can make it work with PHP and Vue (or even jQuery) just make it happen.

I had this fatigue when I started learning too much about technology and devops like hosting a site using Docker and stuff and I soon realized that instead of working I was just playing with technologies all day and getting fatigued over nothing. My lesson, there is stuff for big companies and then there is stuff for the solepreneurs.

Also one more piece of advice is there are technologies offered these days as SaaS. You don't have to do everything. A lot of the times you can just buy a service for $30 / mo and get going. Don't wander around too much trying to reinvent the wheel. Need authentication, use auth0, need a file uploader use uploader.win, need to deliver mail use mailgun. This can save you a lot of time and headache.
Processing got me into programming in University while studying design and kicked off my (too-long) transition to full-time software-development. It's an awesome tool and I'm happy to see it is still going strong. To somebody looking for a little more advanced, but still approachable variant, I can highly recommend OpenFrameworks, which is C++-Based.
An entrepreneur is a more difficult job that requires you to be good at more than just programming. A capable entrepreneur imo, would not be churning out random super niche websites like the ones you just listed, hoping that one of them sticks.

Market research takes time and effort, just like programming does. If you do not already have an idea you know will make you money, you will need to put in the time and effort to find one instead of using that time making random websites. Some people do get lucky and find a niche without much effort, but that is likely not the case for most.
How a team of innovators overcame the odds to pull water from thin air
Via compiler magic, conceptually you use all types the same way, but the compiler has specially cases for a couple of them, thus handling them as primitive types, even though you cannot tell the difference.

For example in Eiffel is even more complex, when you create a class it is possible to tag it with the default behaviour (reference or value), which you can later override when declaring variables or type parameters in generic code.
> Also the supply of houses is lower, making apartments even more dear.

Please don't buy into this nonsense. Your sibling comment brought in some actual numbers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18269257

BC has relatively low property taxes for the area. But you can't raise them now or all the current homeowners would revolt as their taxes goes to unsustainable levels. Nearby seattle's king county has a tax rate of %1, texas has rates around %2, while saanich is %0.4. The UK doesn't even really have property taxes, just council taxes which charge flat rates for things like garbage collection AFAIK. http://www.saanich.ca/assets/Community/Documents/Property~Ta...

The property taxes are too low to be sustainable. Progress always causes some problem for some people but we must go forward with it. Raise property taxes for everyone.

> Also the supply of houses is lower, making apartments even more dear. Next many of the houses aren't lived in, so local area businesses don't have enough customers and close (grocery, clothing, restaurants).

What kind of hot garbage is this? Isn't the whole point of a market economy that we don't have to centrally manage grocery stores (and indeed that it asserts we cannot do this efficiently in the long run)?

Of course, planning has its place. Higher taxes in itself does not solve any problem. We still need to plan city expansion and not just build new suburbs because "ZOMG the Chinese will pay for it". That's not what I am saying but I am saying that existing home owners have been benefiting in a manner that I consider unsustainable and we should thank the Chinese elite for exposing our double standards.

We live in a democracy and as such we have an obligation to think beyond our immediate short term benefit when we vote. Vote for sustainable tax structures. I am not saying property taxes should be 50% of appraisal value. In fact, I think we should aggressively cut salaries and wages in the public sector (especially at the top). But lets not delude ourselves by pretending we can think "smart". The extra money raised from increased property taxes (which should damper home prices somewhat already) must be spent in a very disciplined and planned way to increase capacity (which will further decrease home prices). I think we can do it but we can only do it if we want to do it. There will be a little pain but there's simply no way around it I can think of that leaves our moral fiber not too frayed.
If they hiding something and malicious, the end result wouldn't have been to send way too much

Wrong. Dumping a vast pile of irrelevant information at the last possible moment to obscure something embarrassing is a very common tactic in commercial litigation.
I totally agree with the reasoning at the time to go ahead with the Manhattan Project. We didn't know if the Germans or Japanese were close to creating an atomic bomb themselves. But after the war we learned that neither the Germans nor Japanese were anywhere near close. On the other hand, thanks to Klaus Fuchs and other pro-Soviet workers on the Manhattan Project, secrets were passed to the Soviets (yes, our allies in the war, but everybody knew that after the war that they wouldn't be) that allowed the Soviets to build their own bomb just 4 years later. In retrospect, without the Manhattan Project, who knows when anyone would have invented the atomic bomb. Maybe nobody for decades.
"Although we ended up abandoning Looking Glass, Steve’s threat didn’t figure into our decision (the last thing enterprises wanted was a new desktop – in hindsight, exactly the wrong audience to poll (we should’ve been asking developers, not CIO’s)" -- linked from the wikipedia article https://jonathanischwartz.wordpress.com/2010/03/09/good-arti...

I'm guessing it didn't help though.
I couldnt even get cvs to tell me the price of something with my insurance. They said it would take a few days.
I was in your same shoes until 4 years ago. I wanted to be an entrepreneur so desperately. I developed websites which solved technical problems imagining users would flock. I tell you it was heart breaking to see one or two hits every week. I tried 3-4 different applications and had zero revenue - docverifier (a document formatting and verification software for students), inqvest (a platform for angel investors) to name a few which have all been dissolved. In 2014, I was finally able to create a niche software product - www.legistracker.com which now creates some passive income. It is not a real business yet but it helps me pay off some of the bills. I was able to do it because realized I was looking in the wrong direction. The problem is that I never ASKED any potential customer what would be a good problem to solve. Without a paying customer, you have no viable product. What I would suggest is that you target small business owners what would help them in a. increase their sales or b. increase their productivity. <shameless plug>I wrote a small e-book https://payhip.com/b/VdmH exactly outlining how to find your first target paying customer if you are interested</shameless plug>. Don't lose hope. Good luck!
a film called manufactured landscapes(o) completely shook me when i saw it in theatres when it was first released

the film addresses ewaste issues like the fact that a lot of electronics rely on toxic elements, but there is also the shear vastness of dumpsites

there is shot of a dump of motor armatures which could be argued to be one of the least likely failure points in consumer goods that use motors like washing machines, blenders, drills, et al

the film was even released in 2006, one year before smartphones become a cultural ubiquity

it is also wild to think that most of what is being documented is a result of manufacture happening only over the previous 50 or so years.. which is only 0.00025% of the hypothesised almost 200k year human history

it is a film 'documenting a photographer's technique' so retains an air of lacking bias but the subject matter is just so affecting that audience bias becomes seemingly inevitable

you could just as easily goog 'ewaste concerns' and find a myriad of issues but i highly recommend this film.. i was in awe from the opening sequence

(o) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufactured_Landscapes
Product placement will get so valuable that media creators won’t be able to ignore. I already find it tedious to hear product placement in songs and all the stupid camera shots of a vehicle’s logo in tv shows.
We're at a point now where VCs are going to have to start refusing money from nearly everybody foreign thanks to the new CFIUS rules. They're so overly broad in identifying high-tech industries that I think there's going to be a lot of issues over the next couple years of implementation.
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> You can compose an instance of the sealed class in yours.

But I can't subclass a sealed class to fix a bug or add a feature and pass it back into the framework to use. And yes, I have needed to do this otherwise I would never notice it was sealed in the first place.
With the difference that cruffy Smalltalk still has better JITs available.
If you want to fix medicine, increase transparency. Earlier this summer, I had white spots on my throat and needed to go get checked for strep.

I called around, and finally settled on a facility that told me they could check for strep for just $59. I go in, get my throat culture, then get my bill.

"Well yeah, the throat culture was only $59. But the nurse had to do it and it's $120 to see a nurse. Also, the doctor has to check in before any operation is performed, and that's $200. After all other fees, your total bill is $400".

There's no way that should be legal. I was quoted $60.