skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article proposes buzzword-level security theater. IDS! Rotate certificates and credentials! Have pentests!!

What it fails to mention is: Do not collect data you do not need. You do not need my email. Forcing me to give it to you is bad. You do not need to know my home address. Forcing me to give it to you is bad. You do not need to know my birthday. Forcing me to give it to you is bad. etc pp. The mind boggles why they thought they need to collect passport data!

IDS and certificate rotation are snake oil and security theater. Sure, they usually don't hurt. But here is some good advice:

1. Don't collect the data. If you don't have it, it can't be stolen.

2. Apply all the patches. Immediately. No you don't know better than the vendor. Install all of them. Always. Immediately.

3. No unnecessary dependencies. Yes that means don't go in the cloud.

4. Have an architecture that segregates stuff by security level. Don't put all your things in the same basket unless you are prepared to have the highest security level for all of them. No "this is just a chat server, it is less important than the database" unless those are properly isolated.

5. Minimize your TCB. The less things you have to trust, the better.

And THEN, after all this is done, can we talk about IDS and certificate rotation.
Those 2-strokes are a menace. That they didn’t ban those demonstrates that the Paris “ban” is just political posturing rather than a desire for actual improvements. Not only are 2-strokes heavy polluters, they are the noisiest vehicles on the street.
That depends a lot on how you define knowledge.

If you take two 25 year olds, and one spent 7 years in the university system learning 'book knowledge', and one spent 7 years in industry learning via an apprenticeship (this sort of situation is common in Switzerland), then who is really more knowledgeable? What even is knowledge? Is knowledge obtained only from professors, or from managers and supervisors on the job, or practical experience, or a blend of all of these?

There's a reason the most famous successful tech CEOs in the USA seem to be college dropouts.
It says $13.81 FBA cost. https://i1.wp.com/fbaexperiment.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/...

You can easily ship a light purse in domestic USA for $5 if you have a business shipping account with a carrier. Making $8 with FBA per sale vs $16 by shipping yourself when you already have boxes is pretty simple.
Sony has been friendly to indies during the PS4 generation. Nintendo was especially good for indies in 2017 and is practically giving away development kits. Even EA is becoming increasingly friendlier to indies on their Origin platform.

Steam has brand recognition for developers, but that is changing with competition.
Wouldn't Mozilla just have to say that any add-on that isn't malware is eligible to be signed and that it's a security feature, not a tool for curation of content.
>I did photography (and made money from it; had a darkroom at home growing up) and artistically it would be extremely odd for someone (especially of his caliber) to release photos that were not up to visual standards.

Photographers released all kinds of photos, even when they weren't up to "visual standards". It was "f8 and be there" when it came to photo-journalism, not some aesthetic ideal.

Besides those are the photographs that weren't picked for the story.
He had a huge and spectacular collection of cameras and used all of them a lot. This most likely are taken with the Hasselblad 500C, he has a couple of very well known pictures with the 80mm and the 120mm and the dates match.

If you are into Ansel and gear get "The Making of 40 Photographs" were he details gear, exposure, composition and scouting and development process for 40 pictures.

Also I think most of his well known pictures are 4x5 and not 8x10, he has a lot of spectacular 8x10s because he liked to contact print big, like the famous portrait of Edward Weston sitting in the tree in Carmel.
It's complex. From what I've seen, it's largely fine if you're young and don't have children, or if you're older and your children are past the first year of kindergarten. There is still a proverbial glass ceiling in place at a lot of companies, but there are also a lot of examples of women in prominent positions in business and government.

It gets difficult - again, from what I've seen - when you run into edge cases that brush up against how things are traditionally done. I don't think that a lot of companies have gotten a handle on how to accommodate women with children. For example, average working hours can easily go past 17:30, but most kinderkrippe close at 18:00. There are also social expectations that are hard to interpret or otherwise navigate, especially if you're not a native citizen and didn't grow up in the culture.

I think that the situation isn't that different from a lot of other European countries, and it also appears to be improving (even in my limited time here, I've noticed that there has been a lot of discussion around the gender pay gap, and a stronger focus on accommodating women with children at work).
> In 2011, the NYPD committed 685K stop-and-frisks. In 2017, they did 10K.

Am I wrong to read this as "if we can't be racist about it we're just not going to do it as much"
If we stick to software and not tangent to movies/tv (itunes), Apple have absolutely moved some on this issue, since 2016 the App Store now offers 15-85 revenue shares for subscriptions once the user has subscribed for over a year.

Sure it’s slow progress, but it is progress.

> https://www.macrumors.com/2016/06/08/apple-major-app-store-c...
Just like we don't forget how to drive a car. It becomes instinctive.
Exact same name, nearly the same purpose except that Cesanta’s is not limited to C++ only. My mistake.
Great idea to scan the books in the bargain bin.
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfdZTZQvuCo&

Penn and Teller on Vaccinations. This really drives home the point of herd immunity ( in ~ 90 seconds ).
Valve's cuts are fine. I remember the times when developers were glad if they got 20-30% of the profits in general, with publisher deals starting at 70% cuts for IP-first game releases, and way higher if it was your first game. This after you pitched the game with a tech demo running, of course.

Steam is a blessing on digital distribution, and the most competent platform to date, albeit it has its problems.
This is really interesting, and it should also be noted that NOAA's mission and ability to provide weather data directly to US citizens is in jeopardy. Rather than paying for it just once through their taxes, there is an effort to charge fees for public access so that companies which repackage weather data can serve forecasts with ads and gather users' data.

https://blog.ucsusa.org/andrew-rosenberg/conflicts-of-intere...

edit: If the Union of Concerned Scientists is too ideological (?):

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-06-14/trump-s-p...
If you want to build something like this yourself, Postgres has a Trigram index: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/pgtrgm.html
You are such an optimist :)
Have you ever opened an old phone earpiece, maybe as a kid? They contained a big slab of cut metal inside.

Weight, or more appropriately density, is a big part of how an object "feels" in your hands.
not just mobile homes, but "kind of high-quality" mobile homes

sheezus, couldn't he have pitched this a little better?

"mobile homes", in the popular imagination, already connotes something of lower quality than just "homes." and, if you want to attract people to something like that, you don't say "kind of" you go all the way. you say "extremely" or "high tech and modern" or something.

finally, just don't use the term "mobile home" at all. say "top quality, pre-built, modular" or something. and if you're Elon Musk, paint your vision for creating the world's largest factory for constructing high-tech modular housing in the next state over.

I don't think that even was the real Elon Musk. This guy is an imposter.
You're definitely correct, the Zeiss was one among many he used over the course of his career.

I knew about the 500c but didn't mention it here because he wouldn't have been able to use it for these shots unless he were a time traveler. :)
Best iPhone manager for Mac
This reminds me of a browser-side search I once wrote using a combination of regex, Soundex, and Damerau-Levenshtein. The reason I made this browser-side is because the app doesn't have that many records that it needed to be on the server; the records were in the hundreds to thousands, not millions.

https://github.com/SCPR/fire-tracker/blob/master/app/lib/sea...

Not the best code I've ever written by far, but it was a neat little experiment.

Basically, indexing each record with Soundex(phonetics) makes the search semi-tolerant to misspellings and also brings up similar-sounding results, while Damerau-Levenshtein is used to sort the results by closeness. I also had it index timestamps with

Here it is in action:

https://firetracker.scpr.org/archive

As you can see, you can misspell search terms and it will usually get it right. Granted, a lot of unrelated records usually come up in a search, but the important thing is the user should get what they're looking for in the first few results, usually the first.

Regex is a powerful thing.
Describe Chinese Characters with the Recursive Radical Packing Language (RRPL)
AirBnB wants to reinvent the city, one house at the time
The poster probably referred to the operation at 55 Savushkina Street in Saint Petersburg: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Research_Agency
A highly likely explanation for why we’re seemingly the only intelligent life in a vast universe is the great filter, something in the path between inert matter and a galactic civilization that prevents progressing along said path. What if there have been hundreds of human-like intelligent species in our galaxy, and what if all of them wiped themselves out before spreading among the stars? What would that say about us?

Anyway, there’s an interesting podcast “the end of the world” that covers this in depth.
Oh, wow, this is basically a chip full of trigatrons isn't it?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trigatron

For anyone who doesn't feel like reading the wiki, these things are normally switches you use when all other types of switch would be destroyed by the amount of current you're trying to pass (the pictured device has a mesh cage to catch fragments if it blows up).

If you've ever seen one of those demos where someone 'shrinks' a quarter or crushes cans with magnetic fields, there's a good chance that's what they're using to switch the power on.

Seeing the same concept used in a cpu is bizarre, but really exciting if it works.
From my perspective, as a British person, the difference is that this is being done by British people to support British interests. As a person who lives in Britain, and by extension the west, and who supports the general values on which my society is based, I'm not interested in relativist comparisons. If the information war must be fought, I'd like us to win it.
You could make moral arguments for and against the companies seeking these protections and even Mozilla itself.

Ultimately businesses will always ruthlessly try to make more money, and software will ruthlessly seek a more efficient user experience.

Often these objective clash. Spotify is the obvious example that seemed to offer a solution in the music space. But we have yet to discover such a solution in online publishing.
> Your pseudoscientific dismissal of racist policing

Honest question: where did I dismiss racist policing, not to mention pseudoscientifically? I really can't find it. For the record, I agree with all your statements from "The fact remains" and forward up until the last sentence.

To clarify FWIW: the problem is not race, it is racism. I find it problematic that the way this database is presented points rather to the former than the latter.
My bypass paywalls addon got taken down too, just provide on XPI file like I did:
https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-firefox
It’s quite impressive what they did. They divided the city into 4 sectors and it’s impossible to get from one sector to another without using the motorway around the city, which lengthens these trips. Bicycles can travel freely.

Here’s the sectors map: https://stad.gent/mobiliteitsplan/het-circulatieplan/princip...
Even within FAANG as a developer You the developer gets a choice of MBP vs PC. But PG was alluding to the specific fact that Macs outnumber PCs within the YC bubble which still holds true.
The vacuum has a finite impedance of ~375ohms so it is not a perfect insulator. This comes from the fundamental magnetic permeability constant mu naught divided by the speed of light. Also interesting is the fact that the vacuum impedance is an exact number because it’s solely based on fundamental constants.

Given a small enough distance, arcing is possible between 2 surfaces in vacuum as charges are ejected from the surface (that’s how vacuum tubes and these transistors work).
> Or are you someone who believes the propaganda that some russian company spending $100K on facebook ads is why Trump got elected?

https://www.justice.gov/file/1080281/download

I didn't know that the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation was a Facebook ad campaign! Why have we been worried about all this mutually assured destruction stuff then anyway? They clearly don't have as many likes as we do.

The point isn't to play victim. It's to come to terms with the evils we have all committed (as Russians, Americans, etc.) and make sure we don't do so in the future.
> Since when was HN anti-privacy?

Why should there be any expectation of privacy about what someone does during the course of their job paid for by tax payers that also involves direct interaction with the public?

This sounds like expecting us to anonymize what politicians do in some sort of weird effort to protect the "privacy" of their public actions.
You're not in agreement. GP is saying that "racism" isn't a quantifiable metric, so you have to deduce it from data that include race. You're saying that it's not "racism" without officer intent, which is entirely semantic; data can still show racial discrimination.
Just a reminder that there are ZERO published studies showing that these UB "optimizations" have significant value for any real programs. They impose a bizarre notion of C semantics that is not compatible with the language design. A good critique, for example, of the UB alias behavior can be found in Brian Kernhighans article on Pascal ( http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655-S00/readings/bwk-on-... ). The Standards authors have made the exact same error but in an ad hoc hacked up manner.

Just use the flags that Linux has forced on the compiler developers in order to be able to make use of C or else give up on writing correct code. http://www.yodaiken.com/2018/11/17/standard-c-is-more-fun-th...
An Ethical Framework for a Good AI Society
> The reason for why E-Mail based workflows like those used by Linux and Git didn't win over "just host on Git(Hub|Lab)" is because this requires a lot of setup [...]

That's a reasoned recurring argument and my usual answer is: quality vs quantity. More in detail we are not talking about a hello world software for first years of high schools students but large and complex software; if casual contributors do not have a proper email setup or the knowledge to make it it means they probably do not have enough IT knowledge in general to be valuable contributors. Emails are the base of FOSS communication infrastructure together with nntp news, without them there is substantially no free software nor free "ecosystems" so...

However there is a point in criticize actual "sorry state" of email development. I know "bigs of IT" do non like mails because they are an open standard that guarantee no lock-in but we as free software users/devs should help newcomers to gain knowledge and tell actual students "go get mbsync/notmuch/emacs/custom scripts for refile/delete afew/IMAPFilter for autorefile, ..." does not help, offer per-coocked solutions does. Something is happening from fish to precooked zsh configs to {doom,prelude,spacemacs,...} emacs config etc but it's still not enough.
I'm on a public internet connection, but I'm not too worried because to perform such an attack, you would have to compromise some physical network infrastructure between me and sciencemag.org, and do it in a such a way to not get yourself in trouble with the law.

It's possible sure, but it seems difficult enough to not worry about.
The most common other arrangement in this society is serial monogamy (the original comment by marchenko means "stable marriage is the best", not "a bunch of marriages in a row are the best".)

In other cultures, the most common other arrangement is to give the child's mother's brother (uncle) all the rights and responsibilities that we give to the biological father/husband. The uncle rears the child, with the mother.
Marriage can exist in those societies but gives no rights over the child, and no or few responsibilities. (Might be time to consider offering this as an option for people in this society, at least.)

Children are little consoled by tax breaks, in my experience. Single mothers can't stay home on a tax break, since there's no income to get that break from.
> 47MHz to 6GHz

Ok wow!
> new ideas in housing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_town
This is hardly a new idea.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_town
Of course you would rather take the toolbar hell. Because you're not the one who will be installing random toolbars. This is really no different than saying: "I'd prefer that when a company that has to make a decision that affects millions of users they go with the option that's best for me"

What's somehow worse is that you can literally have your cake and eat it too -- just install Dev or Nightly, you're exactly the advanced user those branches are targeting.
I'm genuinely curious in a breakdown of the good and bad of company housing _without also assuming company scrip_ if you'd actually like to put some content into this low-effort post.

Naively I'd imagine there's some sort of argument that company housing is good for both the employees and the rest of the community. If Tesla moves in and uses the general housing market, rents go up whether you work at Tesla or not. Even if they increase their salaries to accommodate, it doesn't help you if you work at the local hardware store. Conversely, if Tesla mitigates their own employees' shock to the housing market by adding Tesla-only housing stock, hardware store guy's rent doesn't go up by as much.

What am I missing?
Address/Undefined Sanitizer (-fsanitize=undefined) will detect many undefined behaviours (but at runtime).
You could create your own LTE station
Most of millenial trouble can be attributed to baby boomers.
What Is Coding? A Dead Simple Explanation
Great question! I should have led with this more constructive comment.

When I started, I would read through several FBA related forums on my commute home from work, including a few Facebook groups and the official Amazon forums. There is also the official "Seller University" videos by Amazon and the accompanying help docs. (Some people buy courses, I did not, but to each their own)

When I was confused, I would search various forums. Almost every single time, I would find the answer asked in almost the exact same phrasing I would have used, and when I couldn't, I just asked.

My response was partially because it would have saved OP a lot of headache. Simply searching "what should I budget for advertising" leads to a huge number of fantastic insights.

Thanks for the question. I could definitely stand to be more constructive, and I appreciate you giving me the chance.
"Many" is an understatement.

People do not drive cars in to their jobs in Central London. It's just not done. Not even CEOs. The vast, vast, vast majority of people take public transport in because it's completely impractical to drive and not for cost reasons.

I would be completely unsurprised if there were less than 1 parking spot per _building_ inside the inner ring road.

Wander about, find a big, multimillion suburban house in Zone 3. You may well see a fancy car.

That fancy car barely ever sees the inside of London. It's for the country jaunt, the holiday, the supermarket run.
I live in Switzerland.

A lot of these questions are extremely US-centric in worldview. I'll try and answer them anyway.

Firstly, how do you define 'indigenous group'? Switzerland is in central Europe, it wasn't colonised in recent times. There are a lot of people from all across Europe here, and in particular lots of immigrants from places like Turkey and the Balkans, i.e. Muslim. I don't know if they'd count or not.

Language families is again a vague term, but there are at minimum four: German, Italian, French and Romansch. However the reality is much more complex. German is only used in formal and written settings, the daily spoken language is a mishmash of what are euphemistically called "Swiss German dialects" but in reality are almost entirely different languages to German. German people cannot understand them, for example. Imagine trying to understand medieval English and you're in the right general area but 10x worse. These dialects also vary significantly across different cities. Oh, and of course English is both widely spoken and used in daily life due to the huge foreign population that has never got to grips with the chaotic language situation.

Switzerland had its last civil war in 1847, so roughly in the same time period as the USA did.

With respect to 'deeply ingrained bias based on only how they look', this is exceptionally US centric. There have been ethno-religious conflicts all over the world and throughout history between people who look identical. Just look at the history of the Troubles in Ireland, or the state of Africa. The USA is actually quite unusual in having such serious racial tensions based purely on skin colour. There's nothing special about Switzerland in not having those problems, it certainly doesn't make the society "homogenous".
Governments set the rules of markets... How could governments adjust the rules so that developing cures makes business sense again?
> When I started swimming again at the age of 22, I could swim obviously - but it took me weeks of re-remembering all of the correct positions of my hands, which muscles to contract and how should I breathe in order to sustain that swimming for longer than a few laps.

But it's important to note that it took you only a few weeks. Originally learning all these movements probably took years of training and you still knew them so well that you could retrain your muscles to use them like back then. You didn't really forget. If I started swimming now, with near zero experience, I wouldn't be able to imitate that.
Can't figure out how to edit but I'm also assuming there are not Tesla-controlled stores since that's a less obvious version of scrip. If it's _just_ houses, is it still bad?
The failure of company towns was because they were paid in scrip, which made it impossible to move away if/when you got fired or found better work.

As long as the employees are paid in real money, and they can choose not to live in the company housing if they don't want to, there's nothing wrong with employer provided housing. That's pretty much what happens right now in the oil and shale fields in the north midwest.
> Eliminating skin in the game won't result in quality.

Actually, it does.

In fact, this is so widely known and understood in academia that specific techniques have been developed to leverage anonymity and the free flow of ideas that it enables due to the elimination of repercussion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphi_method
Can you combine this with or does it use relative positioning of the microphone? Seems like a good way to map where keys are (measure lower decibels which would be keys further from the mic).