skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could you imagine if every program storing sensitive data — which is quite a substantial portion of them — tried to reinvent the wheel like this? Word processors, email clients, chat programs etc all inventing their own substitute for good disk encryption or account security.

A waste. The problem of securing data at rest is orthogonal in all these use cases. It is up to the OS. If that’s broken, fix it.
Please. The clear implication is that men will be so busy coming to the restaurant and thinking with their dicks that they won't notice the shitty food.

You don't have to accuse an entire group to be guilty of stereotyping.
No English citation available.

But this English article implies basically the concept:

https://www.resilience.org/stories/2014-02-12/limits-to-grow...

"Unfortunately, the problem this appears eventually to lead to, is collapse. The problem is the connection with debt. Debt can be paid back with interest to a much greater extent in a growing economy than a contracting economy because we are effectively borrowing from the future–something that is a lot easier when tomorrow is assumed to be better than today, compared to when tomorrow is worse than today."

Capitalism is a debt based economy, requiring to pre-finance industrial production. In the end, the debt pressure drives the whole process. Something Mises, who never worked in a company his whole life, fundamentally did not understand. He thinks you have to "save" to "invest" later.
I was an avid user of StandardNotes (particularly a fan of the minimalism), but I've since been really taken by Joplin[0] and end up evangelizing for it whenever I can.

Joplin's FOSS, syncs using a number of methods, support E2E (I'm no crypto expert, but they use AES in OCB mode which seems appropriate), and supports things like LaTeX out of the box. Oh, and it has nice things like mobile apps and web snip extensions for browsers.

Collaboration is apparently on the radar, but doesn't currently exist in a meaningful way.

[0] https://joplin.cozic.net/

EDIT: I had cast some vague arm-chair dispersions on StandardNote's crypto claims which I've removed in light of the comment below regarding a security audit. Apologies for not informing myself on the matter!
You’re Not Managing a Team of Software Engineers, You’re Managing Writers
> imagine yourself up on stage in front of thousands of people, with 2 or 3 seconds to come up with an answer

I know, that's why you usually prepare a series of answers for QAs.

And sure, some things you can't prepare for, but a PC question from fans of a PC game is inevitable.
Persisting a log of events. Used with CQRS and event-sourcing to decouple the Read model(s) from the Command layer for benefits like: multiple read models (projections), time-travel and audit-ability (rebuild the read model to certain point in time), and decoupled contexts.

Event-sourcing can be a really useful tool in many domains, but especially where having a state-of-the-art audit log is helpful.
Something like reinforcement learning on neural-net parameters, to quickly find solutions to a set of constraints.
This a nice practical technique for extracting Chrome cookies, and is slightly less work than the alternative of writing a cookie db decyptor based on Chromium’s publicly available source code.

On platforms that have a decent OS-level keychain API (not Windows), this technique does not actually bypass password encryption and may trigger a password prompt/require the user to enter their password. This depends on whether the user previously granted permanent access to a given secret by a given application (e.g. by clicking “Always Allow” in the macOS keychain prompt). The author of the exploit probably did this at some point and forgot about it, which is why this appears to be a bypass of Chrome’s cookie db encryption.

Ultimately, encrypting the cookie DB provides limited protection anyway and if you have user privileges then you’ll eventually be able to access their data. This is not news, although it was the topic of some controversy back when Chrome resisted making changes to support this specific threat model, which is impossible to completely defend in the general case from the POV of a typical application developer on a modern desktop OS.
Sorry about that! I jammed several gifs and a video into the template without thinking about responsiveness. I know on Macs the video below the about section doesn't seem to play.

I'll look at it asap.
Actually, this is one I have seen in a trustworthy journal from Belgium ( De Tijd).

It started in 1989 and looks like the real deal this time. They have gotten funding and have been growing ever since. Doesn't seem like crap to me:

https://www.tijd.be/ondernemen/farma-biotech/het-bloedspoor-...

Ps. They were on the Belgium stock market as Ablynx

PS2. They got approval of the European Commission
If you ever need help setting up a macOS virtual machine, contact me! You should be able to get the files easily!
Do human doctors make over a million a year? My veterinary student girlfriend has classmates getting offers of $110k USD per year straight out of school. After she does a speciality residency she’ll be in the $300k range.
Look at how websites describe scents:

e.g. https://www.luckyscent.com/product/21631/black-by-comme-des-...

>Notes: Cedarwood, vetiver, leather, liquorice, birch tar, pepperwood, black pepper, incense

This is the information people who are buying perfume (for reasons other than brand image) actually care about. Sure, there's a lot of other marketing text there, but literally none of that information is in perfume ads (without sniff strips).
I come to my disdain for pro sports honestly, it’s not an intellectual virtue signal. I played baseball, basketball, and (later) American football from childhood (~5yrs old on) through high school. I think the sports themselves to be great, with the exception of some obvious problems with football. They help build so many hard and soft skills, and in their best forms they really help build character.

All that said, pro sports culture is basically a social cancer for various reasons, including some that are illuminated directly in that article. The “but how will you relate to the working class” argument is weak, and gives the reader permission to use social crutches rather than useful, generalizable social tools. Indeed, the idea of “becoming” a pro sports fan to be able to socialize with a certain class of people is rather condescending.
> Something valued at

I mean, good point, almost a great point, except, by whom? There are other forms of value than money.

You're right that it's unlikely they've made up the overall reduction in wages by doing something else and why, but you're missing what I'm trying to point out.
That’s a lovely analogy, but let’s cut to the chase. If a business owner cannot run a business (say a restaurant) without exploiting their workers, then maybe they shouldn’t stay in business.
Intelligence chiefs of four countries (Iran, Russian, China and Pakistan) met in July, 2018

https://tribune.com.pk/story/1756290/1-pakistan-regional-spy...

I guess this meeting had something to do with all of this.
> just need to be able to execute code on their computer

Hmm, so privilege de-escalation... You can just install a keylogger at that point, so I don't see the problem.
You pay for work because it produces more value than out costs. Minimum wage requires paying at least $X/hr; some work is simply not worth that much - the employer loses money by paying for it.

Example: I'd like to hire someone to sweep floors every day, but a self-emptying Roomba is $949. At just 2 hours a week, and buying a new one each year, the Roomba costs less than $10/hr. At $15/hr minimum wage, I could buy a new one every other week and still save money. I'd rather hire a person who needs work, giving them a leg up to a better paying job, but between the state threatening me if I pay what the work is worth, vs the cost of buying robots to do the job, someone doesn't get a job.
No matter his personal practices, this guy was basically a secular saint.

So I personally do think it matters that his name and image would be used to sell smartphones.

I realize the production company has a good sized staff, a board and ambitions to carry on their mission.

But paying for it this way looks cheap and like they aren’t really trying.

Given the weight and voice of this brand I suspect they could have earned just as much through some kind of crowdfund.

I think it is a bad sign of things to come w regard to the use of me Rogers content, unfortunately.

This taps into a bigger question about the use of a dead persons name and image to make money.

This came up when Kurt Cobain was made to sing any song on Rock Band a few years ago: https://www.alistdaily.com/media/bon-jovi-weighs-in-on-cobai...

While I carry no celebrity, it would matter to me if my name and image were exploited in a way that was against my values.

One of the things that supposedly sets us apart from “animals” is that we have respect for and bury our dead. I’d say that foundations, organizations or “estates” that need to exploit the persons image for financial reasons fail to meet this test.
I suggest reading Type-Driven Development with Idris by Edwin Brady. I don't think you have enough experience writing Haskell to understand the outcome of type driven development.

In Haskell you start by defining your domain as types, and constrain those types with typeclasses. By the time you get to writing signatures, the implementations can almost be inferred (in Idris they actually can be inferred, the code literally writes itself).

In an imperative language with side effects, examples and documentation are a must because behavior is hidden in the body of a function; the signatures lie.

A journeyman Haskeller can write code that is completely self documenting. No examples are required, because the types coupled with the purity of the language allows us to tell the whole story.
That's not possible. As has already been discussed in this thread, you cannot create another email that is the same but with dots. Google will consider it a duplicate and tell you the address is already taken.
I think we do forget it. More specifically, we forget the responses to disease which work, and as a result have dismantled our ability to respond. I read Laurie Garret's book "The Coming Plague" where she described the many things which were done to control the spread of disease. None of those things exist anymore, and would take a lot of time to re-create. No consideration is given to them in a "profit oriented" society, where return on investment is more important than people's lives.
* Because it was a century ago

* Because we have public agencies watching for this

* Because it's a rare event

We didn't forget. We dealt with it.
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You either get into buying and selling or you open up a B&B :-) I'm convinced a lot of B&B owners got into it so that they could cover every last surface with cutesy "antiques."
You mean like Cambridge Analytica did in 2016?
Thanks for sharing.

The homepage doesn't provide enough information to convince the user to register.

I saw a registration form without knowing anything about the service/app/features/prices/benefits.
> This is security theater.

Today it is more widely recognized that the applications within a given user context can benefit from limited scopes. And we have various mechanisms for that, ranging from things like Android app permissions to SELinux to the BSD "unveil" syscall and so on.

Of course, an encryption scheme in the application isn't the answer.
He knew what you was doing, he was just letting you have some fun. If you work in IT now, he probably helped push you in the right direction.
> (For what it's worth: I don't think this bill is going anywhere; it's a discussion draft by a single member of the minority party.)

Ron Wyden is indeed a single member of the minority party, but he is establishing himself as one of the leading voices on these issues. Christopher Soghoian probably played a big role in drafting this bill as his Senior Advisor for Privacy and Cybersecurity.
> If sharing won't generate enough revenue to pay for the cost, why would you?

Any one-time cost can be amortized in time by recurring revenues, after which you're left with pure profit.

Technical work (manage your reader's cookie and policy preferences etc) is a one-time cost. Revenue from EU readers is an ongoing benefit. Hence, as long as EU income is greater than its traffic serving costs, you're bound to come ahead after some amortization time.
Windows’ OS keychain API is pretty weak, accessing secrets does not require user authorization. macOS and some Linux desktops environments do it slightly better, but there’s only so much you can do to defend against an attacker with the same privileges as the user.
Yeah and he demonstrates both a complete and precise knowledge of everything his company is doing in nearly every arm of the business (not to mention his encyclopedic knowledge of business Microsoft is not in). It's easy to forget why Microsoft was so dominant in this era of computing, but listening to him it begins to make more sense.
> The decisions of tech giants like Google, Microsoft and Apple have real, tangible impacts on our careers.

Not only that, they have an impact on democracy. The importance of FB, AMZN, AAPL, GOOG, and MSFT to society has never been higher. The relevance of ATVI to anything important is, to a first approximation, zero.
"It costs money to comply" is a tired argument that gets trotted out every time a new business regulation gets proposed, no matter what the regulation is. All regulations cost money to comply with. Are you arguing against all business regulations?

If your problem is actually with the number of users, please propose a specific number of users that would make a better limit.

EDIT: This is also the exact same kind of "sky is falling" rhetoric that came with HIPPA. Lo and behold, we still have large and small doctors' offices, and have taken the first steps towards actually protecting customer health records.
The question is not "is there anything that would clearly be burdensome?", but "am I confident enough that I am complying with these items, as retroactively interpreted by regulators?"

You need to pay a lawyer to evaluate that for you, that's the cost, not whoever the bills sponsor says this is intended to target.
Business and Investing Lessons from Caddyshack
I don't know anyone who drinks non-dairy milks for concerns over carbon emissions. It's always been one of or a mix of dietary concerns, taste preference, or avoidance of the awful dairy industry.

Also, where I live, dairy comes in those tetrapaks, too.
> half the candidates I take out to lunch in some way ask "is working here as stressful as the rumors say?"

And what do you tell them / what do you think?
> ISP have so far been pretty neutral and have not been acting as gatekeepers

Vodafone in Egypt blocks Skype because it has its own voip app. That's what I'm remembering when I hear of ‘net neutrality‘—not even arbitrary blocking of torrent sites in various countries.
Currently, social media users are the goods being sold, so the companies running the networks don’t have much interest in offering tools and algorithms for high quality discussion. With paying customers the situation would be very different. (Not that it’s going to happen – I’m just saying that we already pay a hefty price for the “free” services.)
Because we don't make rational decisions. We make emotional decisions. If you have 30 seconds to make an emotional connection with millions of strangers, you shoot for the heart.
I would recommend the Ask A Mortician YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/OrderoftheGoodDeath

It's extremely informative and promotes a natural look at death and the necessary arrangements you can make.
Ansi red is not great for the reasons you state, but italic, reversed, underlines might work too.
Act of God? What The Flu!
Massing millions of young men in dirty trenches, no washing, no sleeping, extreme stress hence weakened immune systems, was the perfect breeding ground for the virus.
I would leave God out of this if I were you, or it may cough in your general direction!
Did you try Googling. First hit

https://www.howtogeek.com/212505/how-to-restore-files-from-a...
I was headhunted by someone for Uber's ATG. After reaching out she whiffed our web meeting and turned standoffish when I politely asked if she wanted to reschedule. Maybe I was part of the bycatch? Seemed like a very meat market kind of attitude to building a team.
Something to keep in mind: the DoJ consent decree was 1994, and the lawsuit was filed in 1998.

This was right around the time that Microsoft’s monopoly power was under intense scrutiny.

In that environment, it makes sense for BG to push back against the notion that they could use their desktop OS market share into some kind of content market share.

If you notice he gets particularly vehement whenever someone asks if they can use their control of the OS (or tools or the browser) into control of the content.

He emphasizes that the distribution platform has to be neutral.
Because you're focusing on a technology solution. This isn't a technology problem. We cannot model the impossibly complicated measure of taste, the best we can do is optimize on captured data and generalize. This technique - using optimization functions over sparse matrices - has taken us as far as it can go.
> talk about the real physics we know exists

I have some bad news for Susan.
Trophic layers are a decent reason why. Apex predators of all sorts tend to collect pollutants for little energy gain.
If you let say crows feed upon human flesh that is perfectly fine since they can't really prey upon humans but if you let say big cats, bears, wolves or wild dogs feed upon them they start to view humans a food source and can get it - although not without heavy consequences. Maneaters usually have teeth so bad that they essentially go for humans as their equivalent of "soft foods" despite the danger we are as frankly comparably abominations even by standards of apex predators.

Not to mention other incentive reasons - turning human remains into profit makes for bad incentives for the living. Instead of just leaving them to rot completely they end up being a public health risk, upsetting families with grave robbery, and possible murder for the sake of profit. There is a reason why the medical profession switched to plastic and it isn't because plastic of a perfectly anatomical match is less expensive.
Email address yes, anonymous username not likely

You are posting like this is a bad thing, I think it is great, companies need to be held accountable for gobbling up personal data, and should be discouraged from collecting anything including email addresses, I get enough spam thank you.
How is this different than the "Think Different" Jobs era ads with Einstein and Martin Luther King?

Or the giant American flags waving over every car lot? Or pictures of veterans learning to walk again on an add for Prudential insurance?

This is a very old marketing game, and I'm sure whatever qualms the team creating it had, if any, were overruled by the need to make it rain and get bonuses and keep all of us engineers employed.

"Dignity and an empty sack is worth the sack."
Fair anecdote, but compare that to all of the untold millions of times someone's day has been derailed because they didn't push the shift key. It's a user interface, not an API.
Harvard Converts Millions of Legal Documents into Open Data
Replying to myself because chrisseaton deleted his own post:

Nothing of the sort. I didn't say anybody should be banned from doing any sort of marketing. I merely said that I think people don't need perfume and that the sort of marketing in these industries is unethical.

Convincing people they need something they never knew they needed through psychological manipulation is unethical, period. It happens all over society and it's really too bad. But trying to ban it would create a dystopian society which is arguably worse.

There are more than 2 options for dealing with unethical behaviour, apart from "lock them up and throw away the key" and "let them run amok, doing whatever they want", there is the possibility of rational debate. The vast majority of the time, I choose the third option.

If my (hypothetical, future) daughter wanted to buy a bottle of perfume, I wouldn't forbid her from doing so, I'd talk to her about marketing and beauty standards and so on. I'd try to persuade her that she's a perfectly good person without needing a product like that to augment her.
The GP is talking about deodorant, not perfume. The main selling point of deodorant isn't how it smells, but how it makes you not smell. That's not something you can ship as a sniff strip.

Besides of course the obvious issue with the target market of a "manly deodorant" line having almost no overlap with people who read fashion magazines.
When the bill gets a Republican co-sponsor, it'll be time to take it seriously as "news".
My favorite is wearing ribbons for a cause.
We (the company I worked for as a Systems Engineer in Japan) sold hundreds of millions (billions?) of HC11s. Pretty much a 6809 SoC.

Now, they were embedded in mass-consumer devices, so only a few people had to program them.
That is how people are. We are not identical, interchangeable cogs.

Most people can be trained to do simple things in most any field. But brilliance is innate. Its not learnt and can't be made through hard work. Some people have analytical minds some don't.
Ask HN: Would you like the ability to predict the price of a specific stock?
Epolix is a platform for making AI simple to build. One area of focus is financial markets. We are interested in providing predictive intelligence tools for retail traders.

For those of you who have online trading accounts:

1. Would you like to be able to predict the price of a stock (tomorrow, 1 month, 3 months) from now? This might include the high and low for a given prediction.

2. Would you pay for the ability, and if so, how much per month?

We aren't focused on quantitative trading. Rather, we are providing tools to maximize returns and give greater confidence in planning and decision making.

Thanks in advance for all of your input!!!
Because not enough people care enough for it to register politically until a disaster brings it to public attention.
"You can lead a horse to water but you can't stop it from sticking Lego up its bum."

Probably my favourite quote from the Inbetweeners.
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It is at least the end game for marketing and advertising. E.g. Red Bull marketing wants to sell you the feelings of a life style, not a caffeinated beverage.

It’s definitely been around for a long time for some companies (I think auto manufacturers have been trying to sell cars = personal freedom and status as long as the car has existed) and you could argue that governments and religions have been doing it all of history, but I do agree that a lot more companies have been doing it the past several decades. Every damn podcast ad has to be about how a razor, mattress, or pair of underwear is a defining, empowering lifestyle choice.
Great way to piss away your estate for no reason.
Having a more or less vegetarian diet helps it some at least - less trophic layers since the diet is more akin to other herbivores although not as fibrous as grazers. Since fish was far less spread before advances in refrigeration and transportation those inland more would have been more subsidence farmer involuntarily vegan - let alone the increased acceptance of meat.
I don't understand how this is useful. The purpose of functional programming isn't to make everything immutable, but to use immutability to prevent unnecessary change of state which can result in flaky code. So where's the usefulness in a functional Database?

Also this still isn't functional. Is adding records to a set not mutation?