skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey–the original maker of Knox here. Thank you for this trip down the memory lane. We launched the app in 2005 and sold it to AgileBits (makers of 1Password) in 2010. I just had a look and people are still discussing Knox on the AgileBits forums today!

Here's what has changed since 2010:

– Apple introduced FileVault 2 in late 2010, making full disk encryption of both internal and external drives simple and straightforward. Knox was always about convenience over the built-in tools in the OS, and for the simplest cases, the OS finally caught up.

- It was a time when a small menu bar utility could go for $34.99…

Before the AgileBits sale we were exploring some cool new stuff for Knox:

- App Vaults: swizzle some NSFileManager calls and have apps such as Mail or Safari direct all their reads and writes (including for preferences and Keychain access) to a vault. Multiple independent, encrypted, secret app instances.

- Online Backups: Knox Vaults were already encrypted and block-based, so many of the hard parts of backups were already taken care of. Backing up incremental Vault changes to an online block storage seemed straightforward enough, but in 2010 we just couldn't make the math work. (for example, in early 2010, S3 was $0.15/GB/mo and AWS still charged for inbound data transfer at $0.10/GB.)

In the end, it just wasn't sustainable. 2010 saw the launch of iPad and iPhone 4, and demand for Cocoa devs was becoming red hot. The opportunity cost of working on a niche Mac product like Knox was just too high.
Might use Rhino or something, since it’s on the JVM
Scheme sounds like it's pretty close to what the author is describing. It's a very small and simple core that you can build on, and even create mini languages on top of. The macro system allows you to pretty much express any idea without having to change the core language. As a bonus the runtime is interactive allowing you to explore ideas and see the results immediately.
> Microsoft lost because they didn't have the users or the apps

I wonder how much of it was because they had a sorry arse mobile browser? Not supporting ontouchstart etc events must have been a killer. MSPointerEvent was awfully buggy in the initial release, and what dev wants to rewrite their web app/page to use PointerEvent?

Why wouldn't you make sure Hybrid apps (Cordova etc) work well? Why not just copy WKWebView (20/20 hindsight now!).

Their equivalent of WKWebView is some sort of zombie IE11 version (not edge, with different features and flaws than IE11 desktop). Hideous.

Disclosure: we developed a Hybrid app for Windows Phone (based on Xamarin).
Well volunteered!
Replies on Facebook articles had the same style of attack on anything negative, go after the source.

They probably do it because it still works. Muddy the waters, suggest there’s another side, play to people’s desire for a middle ground. Then the dust will settle and they’ll get to set the narrative again.

Media coverage really needs to be relentless to get through their tactics.
Does anyone know of a good guide to the Minecraft versions? My daughter wants to get mods and maybe venture into scripting, but it seems confusing as to what each version is capable of. We have it on Xbox and android but it seems none of this works on those. It seemd java edition is best; except this has now been replaced by win10 edition, but that does not support most mods or so it seems. It's quite confusing so if anyone has a magic decoder ring for versions/platforms/compatability I'd really appreciate the info!
Request for service to replicate ancient objects
Bedrock edition is in C++, isn't it?
This. I think if we, as a species, wanna survive the next two generations we need a more radical approach to fix climate change. It should be ranked as the #1 issue to resolve, quasi the "ultimate goal". And this, my fellow HNers, won't happen by pointing fingers or call out people.

The political establishment as we know it has to go. We _ALL_ have to pull in the same direction and have to put common interests above individual wealth and greed. I'm not at all left but I can't tolerate that big corporations are getting a tax cut or even cheat the tax system while the little man has to pay their fair share. I have seen how much money goes down the drain every year with authorities (eg. Pentagon) don't even know what they are spending it on. All this has to stop. We need common sense here: take $ out of politics (make senators can only be elected for 2 terms max), stop fighting wars overseas, address climate change where people don't wanna see it (ie. Superbowl half time show, Sunday television, etc), change our perfectly trimmed backyards into mini farms, completely stop relying on fossil fuels, replace plastics wherever possible (eg. food industry could leverage technologies based on corn starch), and much more.

And all begins with you!

Unfortunately a Trump or even Sanders won't help us here either. We need to skip the forward thinking by at least 20 to 50 years or the planet will be in jeopardy.

(Disclaimer: Granted, it's not always easy to hear the truth about what's wrong with the world. But the sooner we start rolling up our sleeves and cleaning up the mess the sooner we will be getting ROI, ie. clean water, clean air, progress in healthcare, just to name a few).
I have gone through the same thing on many of my projects. Some projects however do get to a better level of done on the UI. My greatest source of discouragement is the expected effort it will take to evolve the UI to a desired state. This comes about because making front end changes seem to take a long time just to look up some CSS combination etc, and it still looks very basic.

What I have come to realize though, is that if you keep at it, the aesthetic gains get bigger and better with each additional change and overall it doesn't take as long as initial progress rates would have to think.

I think the big thing is to value it as a user. Often if I make something for my own use, it's considered done when it works. To show someone else, it needs extra effort of value to others but not myself. When completed, of course I appreciate and am pleased by the outcome but would not have done it for myself. I think it's this difference between effort and perceived value that's demotivating. Practice reduces effort, but we have to also internalize the difference a nice UI makes.

Other than that, use a framework that has many components, or even better entire component set libraries available. Choosing a component set and tweaking a theme can do a whole lot in short order.
I would certainly not be a refugee! Using such terminology denigrates those who are refugees because otherwise they'll die. It's like saying everyone we disagree with is a Nazi, and their policies are equivalent to the Holocaust. Such things are only said by those who've never lived through truly horrible circumstances themselves.
Sounds of Mars:NASA’s InSight Senses Martian Wind
Hey dude I'd be really happy to snag that from you, but I think it'd only be fair if I paid for shipping.

I couldn't find an email address for you, mine is HANEEF at PDX dot EDU. I've never actually had a smart watch before, but hearing all these people talking about the pebble is making me really interested to try this one.
> However, all of these unlicensed bands have strict limits.

This is absolutely key here - even in unlicensed bands one cannot just start using the spectrum without careful consideration of regulations for that spectrum.

When I was working in the 902-928 Mhz (FCC and similar) and 860s (for ETSI) for RFID we had to do a lot of work to ensure our transmit power, power ramp up, frequency hopping and listen before talk were all implemented properly and demonstrable for certification. It was not trivial.
If Canada's an exporter and the US is an exporter, who's importing, and does this make the Canadian pipeline less valuable?
I'm only five minutes in, and the vid has everything: vague sense of hype typical for television and supported with random imagery, nonspecific glorification of tech, first-rate new-agey babble mixed with self-righteous entrepreneurship, confusion of the two sorts of magic, padded shoulders that make a businesswoman look like a bouncer.

My brain is additionally confused by the appearance of one of Nino Rota's themes from “Amarcord.” For the circusey feel, you know.
Technical-eBooks: PDFs for programming tutorials
Not really. The Netherlands has a high dollar value of "agricultural exports" which includes flowers at 10% of that value and equipment and machinery at another 10%. Of the 80% that is actually food, a lot of it is high value low calorie food. And the methods used to produce that food are horribly destructive, not sustainable, and will cost future generations untold hardship to deal with: https://www.dutchnews.nl/features/2018/03/dutch-agriculture-...
Some roads were shut down for construction near where I work a few months ago. Uber and Lyft don't seem to take data like that into account, so I had a hell of a time getting home from work - I'd have two or three canceled rides before I got one that happened not to be routed through any closed roads.
And yet we are here, despite the past.
The best way to mobilize large-scale demonstration and action is by informing the public. Try to do that through "legal" channels and see how far you get. Strikes and other worker-organized rallies were ruthlessly suppressed by the law before we arrived where we are today. Massive corporate entities will use every legal avenue available to silence you
Civil disobedience is always an option, but those who use this tactic need to accept that the law will temporarily punish them pending some societal realignment. It's a big bet. It's still unreasonable to expect an exemption from the law because one feels that one's cause is just.
This kind of thing changes lives. I used to play a lot of counter strike source. One day I found a server mod called EventScripts, and suddenly I could make all kinds of crazy game modes on Python. I found I picked up this programming thing pretty naturally, and without that mod I doubt I would have even dabbled.

The feedback loop is phenomenal and is something you simply do not get with other forms of learning. I really can't think of a better method and I'm so excited the younger generation will be exposed to this.

Kudos Microsoft, I only wish it was done a bit quicker.

Edit: For anyone interested some tutorials are archived here: https://web.archive.org/web/20140810191103/http://python.eve.... Good times :)
I'd say it's far more likely that they're concerned with Google's increased evilness becoming a hot topic among current employees as well as the general public. This will no doubt result in many of the brightest engineers choosing to work for competing companies that aren't morally bankrupt.

Working for Google used to be argubly the most prestigious job among software engineers, but they're heading towards the same path as Facebook.
Xmarks

Being able to pretty seamlessly synchronise bookmarks across browsers was awesome.

Its shuttering was the final impetus that made me move away from the decaying mess that is Lastpass. (Hello BitWarden!)
Keyboard-driven DOS Outliner Software:

* Borland Sidekick Plus[1] (not to be confused with the earlier Sidekick) OUTLINER applet(?). I loved the features (and key-bindings) of this more than ...

* Grandview 2.0 by Symantec (before it became a purveyor of software I despise) [2]

The closest I have come to finding a replacement for the following is Outlook email (which isn't saying much). Seemingly viable alternatives fail to meet my needs most immediately due to ineffective key bindings.

A hardy soul did yeoman work using vDos to allow Grandview 2.0 to be run on any recent Windows version with more than expected amounts of integration with Windows (clipboard)[3]. I used this for a few months at work but the relative inability to share my work led to me discontinuing it's use, though I never found a satisfactory replacement; I use plain text files today.

[1] http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/borland/sidekick/Sidekick_Plus_...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GrandView_(software)
[3] https://www.outlinersoftware.com/topics/viewt/6291
Hey, are there are intern seats left? (Couldn't find something on your website).
There's no real right answer since the start and end destination matters. The parent was just stating that it's misleading, which it is, but every case would be misleading unless specifically stating a start and end point or the discrepancy in analysis.
I wonder what do you think about this: https://github.com/cztomsik/node-webrender
node+react+servo, consumes ~30M ram on my osx (if you precompile typescript files)

it's nowhere near to XUL but it's also little more powerful because of react (vdom is more dynamic than XML, it will be possible to use react-devtools and it should support HMR too)
You're right, I had to cut the part where I talked about they being emasculated because of the character limit of HN and forgot to update the post title. This dude has working for 8 years or so, so I don't think it's a matter of poor performance or behavior in this case. IMO even that would not be a reason to berate someone, if you're not happy with someone else's performance or behavior after talking over and over about it with them, just fire that person, don't be a douche. I appreciate your input. Thanks.
Well they are hedging their bets with their gigafactories at least. Economies of scale should ensure somewhat of a niche.
Jasc Paint Shop Pro. I've always found it incredibly intuitive to use.
Yes, the 2009 leak. Did you look through the material yourself?

And if this is such an important issue, and so many people remain to be convinced, wouldn't it behoove researchers to make their research as transparent, clear and reproducible as possible? Seems that can only help the debate move forward in a productive manner.

UPDATE: I followed your link, and things that stand out to me:

- Images showing station concentration shows only in fairly recent history that stations are global. Before then they're mostly concentrated in the US and Europe, and the station data only goes back to the mid 1800s, and is pretty sparse up until the last few decades. It is unclear how such sparse temperature data can give us a clear understanding of how world temperatures have changed over the past few centuries due to industrialization.

- The unfiltered 'all' category is not easily accessible. I'd either have to download a whopping 2.9G tar, or visit the directory that does not seem to load very quickly. I'm thinking it is just a flat dump of the files without hierarchical organization, so FTP tries to fetch everything.

- The accessible 'yearly' category readme.txt states the data is not raw, but 'merged together' and subjected to 'quality assurance review' just like the monthly counterpart, which I assume is the 'all' category. So, even if I did download the 2.9G tar, I cannot get the raw readings from the ground stations.

This is the sort of lack of clarity and transparency that does not improve the skeptic's perception on the matter.
I've had several gastroscopies and always had biopsies taken. Eosinophils were within the normal range, so whatever I have is not a true allergy.
My favorite personal site:

http://www.otherhand.org/

And the best part:
search for the death valley
Germans.
http://www.otherhand.org/home-page/search-and-rescue/the-hun...

Warning: you're about to spend a few hours of your life.
Isn't it crazy? Twenty years later there ain't no product that has all the capabilities of EccoPro. I used Emacs/Org several years myself. And several other tools (Toodledo, Todoist,...)
No it's not. If you claim "my computer doesn't work" and your fixit guy says "yes it does", it is up the person making the claim to show that it doesn't work. Otherwise, no one will take you seriously.
Now, I would estimate the chances of this being your issue somewhere below 20%. But for me, there was a time when coding was a joy, I was completely in the flow writing efficient code, tweaking data structures to squeak out more performance, and generally loving building stuff and learning stuff, getting a thorough understanding of how things work from Maxwell's equations to high-level languages.

Then after spending a few years in employment, the environment getting more and more toxic (and less and less about technical excellency and more and more about dirty politics), you can lose sight of how that stress gradually eats away at you. Ultimately, I just couldn't work anymore, I couldn't focus. I started having panic attacks. I was completely lifeless, fatigued all the time. I would later find out that my endocrine system had become completely out of whack. Long story short, it took me well over an year to get to be barely functioning again. I had a lot of anxiety symptoms, and clearly fit 100% most technical descriptions of burnout (but don't put too much weight to it, after all burnout is just a label attached to a set of symptoms). But worst of all, you become very cynical. Your brain gradually gets rewired to model the world as a cold, harsh, evil environment, where most everyone is against you. You end up in a state of learned helplessness, you fall victim to avoidant behavior to sooth this permanent state of doom that you're feeling.

The way out is learning to relax. Learning to rewire your brain, to have fun again. Learning to solve your anxiety problem. Following the steps from a book like "Anxiety & Phobia Workbook" by Edmund-Bourne is almost mandatory. Exercising regularly is mandatory. Depending on how deep you are in the hole, how much social support you have, this may be one of the hardest thing you achieve in your life (keep in mind that most drug addicts never make it out alive - see "In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts" by Gabor Mate).

In short, it may be that you stress yourself too much. Life can and should be a joy. What I've described above is my experience, which is closer to one end of the spectrum, but even if your issues are much more minor, the same rules apply. But again, the chances are small that anxiety is the source of your issues, given the limited information in your post.
@theprotocol thanks for this detailed explanation. Very helpful.
You realize _some_ science put a man on the moon, right? Clearly some of it is "more correct".
I don't have notes per se, and I am afraid to say something that can be considered advice. I can answer any question you might have though (assuming it's appropriate for me to do so here, I hope I don't annoy HN users).
Google killed the need for a decent mail client. The entire PIM space on Linux has gone through a major regression since 2012, when I shut down my XMPP/IMAP/SyncML/CalDAV/CardDAV services and started using google. It seems like a lot of folks jumped ship to web based tools about that time.
Personally I've been reading the text and trying to grasp the implications of this.

There appears to be two limitations on this power:
1. You cannot be compelled to do something in a foreign country that would be a crime in that country
2. In issuing the notice the relevant oversight authority must give weight to your 'legitimate' interests.

I think 1 is a huge point as it effectively constrains the jurisdiction of the law to Australia.

However, there is still significant ambiguity. For example, can I be compelled to commit a crime against a foreign country while in Australia, if I have a legitimate interest in not committing a crime against that country?

Would a company's legitimate interest in not compromising customer trust (more than the existence of this legislation doesn't already), act as a significant constraint on the issuing of TANs/TCNs?

There's also ambiguity as to whether I can reveal the existence of a TAN/TCN to my employer. The law makes certain exceptions, including the ability to publish the aggregate total of TAN/TCN received in a 6 month period and seek legal advice. So in order to seek legal advice or reasonably execute a TAN/TCN can I let my employer know?
Microsoft Musical Instruments was a delightful application that used to grace my local Children’s Museum. It allowed you to browse and listen to musical samples of instruments from around the world.

I believe it was eventually absorbed by Encarta.

It shouldn’t be difficult to create similar software, but assembling quality samples would take a fair bit of work.
I am increasingly amazed by the use of the term "generalization" - without modifiers or contexts - in describing what current deep learning does. Certainly, deep learning systems do generalize in certain ways when present with certain large datasets. But how can this just be "generic"? Is this just "data you find in the world" without other considerations?

Shouldn't they be discussing "generalizing what qualities?" Wouldn't image-generalization be different chat-script-generalization and so-forth?
There's a huge difference between saying "there's more than one side to the story" and saying "all sides are equally valid". Similarly, there's a huge difference between saying " scientists must make value judgments, if only to decide what is important or interesting" and saying "it's all subjective".

As scientists we are supposed to be trying to answer questions. If we've decided in advance what the answer should be, and that we'll spin the data to get the preconceived result if possible and bury the result if it isn't what we wanted, we're not doing science, we're doing antiscience masquerading as science. There is a lot of that out there.
An Exhaustive Analysis of the Iconic Pizza Scene in 'Home Alone' – MUNCHIES
I don't understand what drives parents to want their kids to become code monkeys. I would rather my kids be financially savvy and have business skills. It sure doesn't hurt to know how to code, but getting them to program in Python from age 10 does not make them entrepreneurs or creators of business opportunities, it just makes them the labor workers of tomorrow.
A bit off topic but what is the HN consensus on probiotics? Any brands you can recommend?
Java is the original and I don't think it's fair to say that is has been "replaced" yet. Mods basically only exist for this one.

The Windows 10 one (which as here announced just got scripting beta), the XBox one and Android/iOS versions are all based on the same code base and labeled "Bedrock Edition". There's a bunch of other variants for other consoles etc, but less relevant. The Raspberry Pi one also had a (I think Python?) scripting interface, not sure if they still maintain it.
Neither of the examples you gave have anything to do with signals intelligence.

But yes, FVEY isn't an overarching conspiracy that implements all digital authoritarianism, nor does it have a monopoly on promulgating such corruption - I doubt FVEY itself coordinated the attack on Kim Dotcom. Nor is it the only such conspiracy - Sweden isn't part of FVEY yet eagerly went after TPB and Assange.

But pointing to such agreements is a good analogy for the similar ratcheting totalitarian trends we observe across countries - how intertwined the governments are, and how willingly they give up their citizen-subjects to each other. This is the larger issue - regardless of the actual mechanics of pollination, we can be sure that after the bugs have been worked out in Australia, we'll be staring down the same exact bullshit in the US.

(And I do apologize for blowing up a thread about Australia with US centrism. The point is that we, the people, are ultimately all in this together. Looking to US-exceptionalism as a reason to write off what's happening in Australia as their own problem is a broken outlook)
Yes, but I don't have time to write a personal tutorial. Look up "America Invents Act", "Post-grant proceedings", and
"eBay vs. MercExchange".