skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> At worst, those companies are mainly just screwing over other companies (though depends on if Netflix is up to something behind the scenes)

Or, you know, profiting from human rights abuses: https://www.newsweek.com/iphone-x-release-human-cost-apples-...
This is probably the problem of the title, he obviously doesn't mean all developers.

In any case, I hope articles like these help us to overcome the inertia you mention, although, realistically, I don't think a project like the Linux (or BSD) kernel will ever be rewritten in a language different than C and* be complete enough to gain widespread use.
TunnelBear VPN Completes 2nd Annual Independent Security Audit
Not sure if you work there but the pay store link is broken. "app not found" when clicking through
I'll spare you the need to click through to this article. Basically, there are enterprise users and enterprise purchase decision makers. The article says you can't fail to market your product to the latter in addition to the former. There are no recommendations as to how to do so.
Terminalizer.com is released :D Start sharing your terminal recordings
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Virginia to Produce 25K-35K Additional CS Grads as Part of Amazon HQ2 Deal
Totally true!

Some folks use S3 kind of a like a quick dropbox to share big files even internally in an org. Bob in accounting to Sue in finance.

One solution I've found if folks INSIST they do not want any login / security. Expose the bucket contents using time expiring shared links (presigned links). This has worked great in one use case I had where users INSISTED on no security with sensitive data. Users can then cut / paste / download / share links for a few hours (all they really want - send it to a few folks on a project). Even if their email is hacked you are OK. Not ideal, but better than nothing.

If you look inside orgs, the desire for no security is sometimes surprisingly high!
> If you're at a low altitude and managing other problems will you have enough time to even recognize the problem and then wind the cranks and recover before you hit the ground?

My suspicion is that it would probably have required a well drilled crew to have handled the problem correctly. But I don't think we're up there with the extraordinary levels of piloting which we've seen demonstrated previously e.g. Flight 1549 (the miracle on the Hudson).

> Can MCAS drive the trim full down? What I've read suggests that if you give it time, it can.

I'd be surprised if it can drive it outside the normal range of electronic motion. There aren't really enough details out there for me to be sure though.
How was your specific issue resolved in the end ? Were you refunded ?
Anyone had any experiences with Fuel by McKinsey
The alternative is live forever in a worse-than-cobol self-inflicted hell.
Brilliant. Must be a Chrome extension to do the same thing.

It'd be one thing if you could accept the cookie banner once, and it persisted forever, but that acceptance is almost always stored in a cookie, and by the next time I go to a site, that cookie has timed out or been cleared. Or my ad-blocker doesn't allow cookies anyway. So the net result is that you just see bullshit cookie warnings all the time, and they contribute to the problem of users never, ever reading popup messages.
> You can find data points such as what % of users discover/use X feature, how many pin applications to the taskbar, use X app with Y app, have night mode enabled, etc.

> This allows you to expend resources where they are actually needed, to improve the features that the majority of people would find benefit in.

Let me give you a different idea. Instead of allowing you to expend resources where they are actually needed, it allows you to (often incorrectly) guess what users are trying to do.

Product improvement? You're not improving the product at all if you're not directly engaging the user.
Quoting myself from the top of this comment chain:

> the least they could do is bring Xcode, Terminal, and external storage support to iPad Pro

I think a virtual terminal is a necessary piece here, which implies a Unix shell.
VanEck: institutional investors don't care if BTC ends 2018 at $3,000 or $10,000
that claim doesn't make sense. SRI protects your site against third-parties changing the files you include from them in your site. Here the claim seems to be that ProtonMail changed files to snoop on users using their website, SRI doesn't help against that.
Not just tablets but many SBC's (RPi, BBB) are also ARM.
A bit ranty but i’l allow it because you are right.

All praise his noodleness.
put space around the * characters to prevent them being interpreted as formatting
I don't care about cookies
Yeah, that was what I was hoping/expecting the definition would use, that mountains come from some plate interaction involving lava which would provide a natural boundary between "mountain" and "rest of earth".
Working Remotely During Holiday Travel? You May Be a Risk – ObserveIT
True is not always true
The world just redefined the kilogram
Especially since I can't understand half of them. If your job depends on calling people, why wouldn't you practice speaking clearly?
Meet the people hacking their bodies for better sex
> the desire for no security is sometimes surprisingly high!

The desire for security to not get in the way is high.
> It's not fair to pin this on the ambiguous collective "developers."

Why not? Is not as if the majority of us are much into fix things, instead of continue along. Developers are very much the main problem here.

Neither is a problem of resources, suposely developers earn well and some of the biggest corporations of the world work on software.

But each time is even hinted "why not ACTUALLY fix things?" the answers is "nope, too much work", but for create chat apps and more tools for surveilance and privacy invasion the money pit is bottomless.
Most ATMs can be hacked in under 20 minutes
My two wishes:

Totally private (no permission) buckets by default.

Some additional support for common usecases that drive the shortcut to public readable (often sharing internally for a project). Not sure if this would be a good thing, but folks are used to defining a group, adding users to a group (project / departments etc) in enterprise context, AWS supports this with IAM, but I wonder if surfacing a UI / something here might simplify this in some way.
The software industry has a huge fad-following problem, too. More amusing in this case is the the proposed solutions are either not nearly performant enough or else susceptible to many or all of the same kinds of security issues.
Keeping RabbitMQ connections alive in PHP
Author of the article here: if anyone wants to talk more about their surprise bills, shoot me an email at bdodge4@bloomberg.net
> Google Drive folder permissions are easier.

They're still crap though e.g. you can have public resources (or broad access & findable within orgs) inside locked down "folders", there is no way to make a "folder"'s access recurse, if you find out that a "folder" had the wrong access rights it's absolute hell to fix it.
Yes, ideally, every version of software that changes any external data format (e.g. of config files) should always accept both new and old versions.

But, unfortunately, some software does not, and it still needs to be packaged.
That dang IRA is always popping up.
How much of the dossier came from systems hacked by a foreign power?
I like this advice, it resonates with my lived experience. I've thought about this some, and the organizational design of enterprise companies is often so different from the leaner designs of startups that the dynamic of needing to have language for buyers can be a org blind spot. On the buying side, I've experienced frustration more than once because it wasn't obvious how I connected the people who could buy me tools with the company who wanted to sell it.
If the goal is equity of outcome above-all-else, ignoring for any differences derived from the data, then why are we bothered investing so much time, money and effort into this area?
Power users doing exactly what with their browser?
This is standard MO for Sony. They make cameras capable of more features that must be purchased separately. However, Sony is not the only company to do this. It is much easier/cheaper to manufacture one thing that is capable of everything, but limit features based on locking them behind a software license.
Agreed. You will find better info on how to sell to enterprise customers in one of the links from the article: https://www.gkogan.co/case-studies/gravitational/
There is only one single version of Adobe XD.

Store apps can be installed via .appx, .msix or any third party installers like InstallShield.
I always enter that date into systems that ask for my birth date (unless there's actually good reason for them to know it). I have never experienced any problems.
Ask HN: Revert to old Gmail for G-Suite
Hi all,

(Feel free to flag / delete if you feel this is irrelevant)

I know the new Gmail design has been discussed many times, but I cannot find any recent information on ways people have found to revert to the old design.

I was forced into the new design without warning yesterday, but as a G-Suite user I thought there would be an option to disable it for now? The 'Go back to Classic' option is gone from my settings cog.

Does anyone have any tricks/tips to do this?

(Not interested in devolving into redesign discussion as this has been done many times)
More context:

https://www.televisionpost.com/dosisro-initiating-efforts-to...

FB was net neutrality, but they want to keep as much as possible, including all communications, with their own technology.
Whenever I've been contacted by a recruiter they make out like cooperating with them is as good as receiving a job offer when none of them have any authority over hiring. It's like why mislead people like that?

The biggest problem I have with them is their incentives are misaligned with what you want. A recruiter doesn't make their money by getting you the best offer. They make their money by helping sign a lot of people. Which is why they always ask the salary question. So they can build a rolodex sorted by salary ranges and then experience levels. In fact, there is probably algorithms for prioritising the placement of the most qualified people asking for the least amount of money.

I would almost be worried about new comers in tech who maybe haven't dealt with recruiters before as recruiters are VERY good at extracting personal information. In any other field what they are doing would be illegal. In fact in information security you would call it social engineering. But people in recruiting just call it their job.

It's even worse when you consider that this is a part of the process when people might be more vulnerable or desperate. Perhaps ironically the old work-from-home-fake-job-offer-scammery-roo is also used by identity thieves, doxers, and fraudsters for the same purpose and really: Is there much difference between that and recruiting? Both of them sell a lie to extract profit from the person they target and the means they do so is extremely similar.
The real problem is we won't know if something is useful until after we get results.

Gravity is a perfect example - physics has a lot of open questions on gravity. What if someone closed one of them? It could mean nothing, just a slightly better understanding of why things fall - or it could be a major change that allows us to create "anti-gravity paint" making a self-supporting colony on Jupiter simple (image all the "land" you could own there - whatever "owning land" on gas planet means)
Probably 'ghosted' for mentioning the word 'latex'
People cant want a lot of things that aren't economically feasible.

Toy example: if everyone demands at least $30/pound for some risky kind of coal mining, because it's such a pain to do and they'd rather a) rest or b) do easier work at any lower price ... that doesn't mean coal miners are colluding or that coal mining is a monopoly.

In that case, if you want a $29/pound alternative, your desire is economically unrealistic.

If there's a single coal miner that does it for $29/pound -- and is thus the most efficient one -- that miner will dominate the (tiny, niche) market. But it would not rightly be called a "monopoly", but "a single provider who is legitimately better and would lose business if he started to falter".

Telling me that someone currently dominates a market does not prove monopoly power.
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I can name quite a few people who'd love to work on this stuff, but the companies that pay them rather would they make yet another chat app or move buttons on a shopping site around. Large movements like this are hard to do on the side, especially since replacing existing software piece-by-piece is often a harder proposition than doing a full replace.
(Author)

My struggle with writing is I start out wanting to share an idea, but then I get caught up in the details and before long I'm writing and editing--or, realistically, procrastinating--a 2,000-word article that overshadows the main point.

Lately I've challenged myself to say just enough to express the idea, and nothing else. Maybe I'll write about the execution details later, but for now I just hope to get people thinking.
I'm having slight trouble understanding the threat vector this is supposed to be protecting against. If you don't trust a package's install script, why would you trust any of the binaries installed by that package?

If you're unsure about bugs in a package's install script, why aren't you equally unsure about bugs in the binaries installed by the package.

In-fact, install scripts are auditable; third party compiled binaries aren't (at least not easily).

I see other advantages in declarative approaches - for example more freedom for debian to change the underlying file system layout, or to give the user some information about what the package is going to change for easier troubleshooting, but I do not see any advantage security-wise.
I'm sorry you are having those problems. I was responding to someone who was blaming their problems on feminism without even bothering to google what it meant first. I have no patience for those people.

> I don't feel like I get much attraction from women

Well I am no expert on that myself, so I can't help you a lot there. I can tell you that the way you phrased it is worrying. Attention (any kind, not just the female one) is not something that is "owed to you". It's not a "right".

There are other ways you can look at it: as mutual thing - if you want attention from women, maybe consider paying them attention first. Like, learning what their problems are, and what feminism means. Or see it as a resource, finite and limited. They can only think about so many men in a day. So it is an optimization problem. What would make you stand out?

And yes, the physical thing helps in standing out, and so does being rich. Those are not the only levers available though (by all means, do some exercise. It is great for you in any case). Being empathetic helps. Being kind helps. Being assertive helps. Being socially active helps. Those things can be learned if they don't come naturally to you. Heck, just being around women more often than other guys will help (provided that you are not an asshole).

Try changing one thing every 15 days, and see what sticks. The worst that can happen is that you live a better life. Don't just complain over the internet without changing anything.

In case it helps: I have been married for 7 years and have a child, the "urge" to get attention from women went away in the 3rd or 4th year. I found it quite ... liberating, to be honest. I can't say whether it was due to the fact that I was married or due to reaching certain age (37-ish) though.

What I crave these days is free time. Families are like gasses, they expand to occupy all space available.
> Protonmail compromises their users data without their knowledge and charges each user a monthly subscription fee. Therefore we felt morally justified compromising Protonmail’s data without their knowledge and charging them a fee for it’s return.

> If they decline again we will [...] sell [all customer data] in bulk to the highest bidder on the darknet

Funny that their moral sense tells them to compromise Protonmail's data because it "charges each user a monthly subscription fee", but it ignores the fact that they might affect users' private information if they release it to the public. Even if they're not lying about the hacking, what's really bullshit is their belief that they're doing the right thing.
While your argument is well reasoned, you are comparing a hypothetical to an actual one (NZ).

They say one good experiment is worth a 1000 theories.
The experiments have been performed, we have the results and they are superior to what we have now.
The type of basic science I'm talking about here is stuff that is foundational for other science that can be applied. A good example would be esoteric math. Looking back, not all of it had immediate application when it was being worked on, but we wouldn't have things like transistors if people hadn't worked on it.

There definitely needs to be a cost sharing scheme in place in science to encourage basic research that benefits everyone. I'm doubtful that the current model is optimal though, and I think we should explore other options.
For anyone wondering why/if orangutans are a threatened species:

- Dramatic decline in Borneo's orangutan population: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/feb/15/dramatic...

- Palm oil producers are wiping out orangutans: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/may/10/palm-o...
They're nigh-impossible, if the data isn't there.
MailChimp teams up with Square to launch shoppable landing pages
I think the idea is that instead of being tied to a cash register, former checkout people would be able to get to know their community better by being free to go anywhere in the store. The Apple Store experience comes to mind for me.
>How do you decide what is a pointless bullshit job?

Market forces: if you have a universal basic income in place (so people don't have to work to avoid starvation), coupled with ever-increasing automation, then there's going to be fewer and fewer pointless bullshit jobs. Businesses aren't going to be able to afford to employ people to do bullshit when they have to pay enough to make them want to come to work, and when they can get a computer/robot to do it instead for next to nothing.

Non-"pointless bullshit" jobs aren't necessarily exciting or fulfilling either. They're jobs that provide real value to the employer, and which they can't just automate away.
> One unusual feature of the journal will be giving authors the option to use a pseudonym (though the journal’s editors say they hope most will feel comfortable using their real names). The thought is that such a policy would allow an untenured academic to publish a controversial paper, and perhaps to claim it later when he or she is on firmer career footing. Or maybe just to put it out there, and never claim it at all.

That seems like an interesting, but perhaps ultimately bad idea. I'm uncertain --- it's certainly interesting.

I see that a founder is Peter Singer, who has sometimes in the past suggested that it may be better for a family (financially and happiness-wise) to kill a disabled child and have another [1]. He considers this from an ethical perspective.

I can imagine it being frustrating to want to consider hard, taboo ethical quandaries from a neutral standpoint.

[1]: https://www.chronicle.com/article/Arguments-That-Harm-and/24...
Judge orders Trump to restore Acosta's press pass
my interest was piqued, but the wikipedia page is actually quite substandard compared to other articles on wikipedia: while it does explain the problem of non SPB and the requirement to have a SPB, it does not state how this is arranged for: are they literally using a much higher pressure? apart from weight issues of stronger sking, so assuming the same weight for a stronger skin, doesn't this cause the balloon to be heavier (since more gas in the same volume) such that it has a lower ceiling? or is that the design tradeoff?
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For reference on Kite: https://forum.sublimetext.com/t/rfc-default-package-control-...
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C and C++ are NOT the same language. If you are writing modern C++ you don't have nearly the memory problems. C++ lets you use/create the C backdoors, but that is something that should only be done when you have to - when you have to are times you either cannot use the alternative language, or you do, but those languages suddenly become just as unsafe.

Yes there is a lot of old C++ out there. But you can do better in C++ without losing the old features that have been debugged over the years, and without all the money of re-writing things that might or might not have bugs.
> Why do you care Microsoft collects your code editor telemetry?

How about, "Because it's none of their fucking business."

Microsoft has clearly gone all-in on the SV surveillance-capitalism model of doing business, and this is exactly what motivated their acquisition of GitHub imho.
Biggest problem at NASA, contractors are paid a percentage of cost

“We’ve got to change the way contracting is done,” Musk told the governors. “You can’t do these cost-plus, sole-source contracts because then the incentive structure is all messed up. As soon as you don’t have any competition, the sense of urgency goes away. And as soon as you make something a cost-plus contract, you’re incenting the contractor to maximize the cost of the program, because they get a percentage.”

From https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/07/elon-musk-knows-what...
I get blasted for network engineering work non-stop. Only 6 month contract though, and usually in some technology that is 1) brand new, or 2) obscure as hell
Detailed anatomy of the human body illustrated in the style of a subway map
This article makes fundamental errors. School performance is NOT a great indicator of intellect. The most successful people I know did just enough to get by decently in school and spent the rest of their efforts on activities that made them happy or were more productive. People who drove themselves crazy working as hard as they could in school generally didn't get anywhere in the real world.
Clearly this is a bad estimating rule for some processes. The one that popped into my mind is the probability of earthquakes (guess where I live...). This would have the probability of an earthquake declining with each quake-free year that passes, where in fact the USGS would say the opposite.
Never really thought about this....but this would really increase my productivity. I get super annoyed when my wife keeps messaging me at work for example, but I also respond all the time.

Disabling notification for few hours at a time is a great idea. I will give it a shot.
But it's a bit difficult to prove, isn't it? I mean, you can just say "We didn't have a buffer overflow error in our software written in Rust", but that's basically it. You can't fix this kind of a bug in a project without rewriting it, and as the author says, it's hard for several reasons. People simply don't have enough incentives to do it.
GSoC 2019 has been announced