skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Extensions used to have carte blanche to change the browser, which was a security risk …

I don't buy that. It's my browser running on my computer, it's my choice whose code I choose to run on it.

If, say, emacs or vi had this kind of handholding, neither one would be much more than a text editor.
Slakware historically has been closest to a BSD feel of the Linux distros
Not quite. It's a claim on a distributed processing infrastructure. Where every node processes every instruction. So not worthless. But not very efficient.
Crowds feed of one another, especially when it comes to outward reactions. At home, you're usually either alone or with a small group at most, which tends to limit how enthusiastic people get.
This is addicting <3
I strongly suggest you compare the two. It's not even remotely the same thing. On Windows 7, right-click on start offers two options: "Properties" and "Open Windows Explorer". On the current version of Windows 10, it has eighteen options, including handy options to launch PowerShell with or without admin rights, access admin tools like Event Viewer and Device Manager, etc.
It's all based off of the Yale system. Basically longer term outlook allows use of decoupled asset classes such as timber and commodities
> Linux has switched its kernel to NT. See WSL

This makes absolutely no sense. Linux is a kernel. If Linux 'switched its kernel to NT', it would not be Linux. Perhaps you meant the userspace, which is not dependent upon the kernel?
Bear in mind that anti-tax groups, and other profiteers of inefficiency (Grover Norquist, Intuit, et. al) actively lobby to make paying taxes as painful as possible so you will hate paying taxes period.

https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-maker-of-turbotax...
You presuppose that individual determination is blind. How can you honestly look at an Amazon or Microsoft and say their impact on the world was essentially indeterministic chance? Amazon, especially, has had ample competition, yet the disparate decision making within each organization has resulted in disparate success.
Do you have a source for this?

That WE pay (or more) for THEIR military.
The US Dollar is a commodity with a semi-guaranteed demand, barring no radical changes in monetary policy. That's what gives it a relatively stable value.

The same cannot be said for cryptocurrencies. Demand for them is speculative, and fickle.
Are we also omitting the fact that it's a nonprofit and therefore has grossly better tax treatment?
When a large portion of students get their tuition money from their family, then family background can't be irrelevant, because it's relevant by definition.
> 1 + 1 will always equal 2, no one debates that.

Challenge accepted.

* In boolean algebra, 1 + 1 = 1

* Over the field Z2 (the integers modulo 2), 1 + 1 = 0

* In binary, 1 + 1 = 10

* In a language that allows overloading +, 1 + 1 = usually 2, but potentially almost anything else

In conclusion, context matters
I’ve been developing on and for Windows for 20 years and just started doing anything with Linux earlier this year.

If you told me I had to do anything advanced with Windows using only a CLI, I wouldn’t know where to start. On the other hand, I could maneuver my way around a bash shell. I haven’t thought about that before now.....
I'm sure we'll see an article about solving it with blockchain tomorrow.
> Windows ux is better out of the box than on any Linux so far, it's really polished.

I strongly disagree. See how opinions work?

> and super winrar.

Winrar the compression utility, or is this some meme?
mint was built off of yodlee.
Have you checked out detox and pyproject.toml? I think together they would solve some of your criticisms of tox and setup.py
> At the end of the day, I am writing software, and that software is one part of a real, physical system which obeys physical laws. This makes me an engineer.

The person that made my coffee this morning is also an engineer by this definition.

Apart from that I agree, we have real constraints to deal with and we can't hand wave away the environment the code runs in.
It really nice of you to notice. Some crusaders still think it's about complex vs simple.
During Summer 2018, I read 2 very interesting books called “Measure What matters” by John Doerr and “High Output Management by Andy Grove.

I found that OKR (Objectives and Key Results) is part of the secret sauce in Silicon Valley to succeed as a business or a person as it helps to be focus.

At GI, we decided to apply it. As I did not find any great tool and thought everybody in the world should benefit from it, we realized a tool internally.

Being driven by the motivation to make Business & Society work together, we decided to launch a business line (a free tool we give to the community and a paid version for organizations which require more features).

As usual at GI, we give back part of profits of the business to the Fair Business Deal Innovation Foundation to finance great causes like cancer research, brain diseases, autism, homeless people & poverty, animal protection, environment...

Xavier Vaucois, GI CEO & Founder
The IRS administers and enforces the income tax laws beyond the parameters of the laws passed by Congress and signed by the President as well as beyond the parameters laid down by the U.S. Supreme Court. Moreover, the IRS’s own internal procedures, manuals and literature itself indicate the IRS knowingly deceives the American public about the scope of its true income tax authority.

In addition, consider this: https://www.numbersusa.com/news/irs-12-million-illegal-alien...
Firefox have a search bar for this purpose. Isn't Chrome sending everything you type in the omnibar, including urls and search queries, to Google?

To search for "apples" on Youtube, press Ctrl-E to focus on the search bar, type "apples", click on the Youtube icon or press Ctrl-down/up arrow to choose Youtube, then enter.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search/?type=search
I posted this in another thread recently, but highly recommend the article A Tiny Village in Vermont Was the Perfect Spot to Hide Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn[0] to learn more about his life in Vermont.

[0]: https://www.neh.gov/humanities/2018/summer/statement/tiny-vi...
If they do not find a way to believably eliminate the counterfeit problem, the marketplace may end up a lot more than 50% of their revenue.
1. Try to type wasingtonpost.com.co and press delete (more generally - hover the mouse over a url-suggestion and pressing the "delete" button will remove it from history.

Very strange that clearing the history doesn't resolve it though..
Winrm stopped being usable if the machine was overly remote.
My opinion is that this (having CEOs of big companies appear before Congress in televised sessions) is mostly just theater, meant to appease the masses. I remember when Mark Zuckerberg was in front of Congress or some committe and all he had to do was repeat "my team will look into this" and he didn't have to answer any hard questions.

If we want to hold tech companies accountable, we should realize that politicians these days are either incompetent to do any real hard questioning themselves, don't care or are paid to look the other way. Looking at all these televised sessions its a rare politician that asks actual hard questions.
Teen electrocuted after dropping charging iPhone in bath
Recently asset-backed stablecoins like USDC from highly regulated US organizations (Circle, Coinbase) have emerged that allow stable asset transfer over Ethereum[0]. If ETH is seen only as an asset to pay for computation, then other assets like USDC can be used as value transfer.

[0] https://www.circle.com/en/usdc
I could not help reading this as Starfox 64 Released.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Fox_64
Samsung brought Supreme faker up on stage at a launch event
Bagels are boiled dough, so an uncut bagel is therefore a dumpling.
They are by far the simplest cloud platform one can use. They for sure honor the best principal (KISS) in Software Development community.
When you dress something up like a stock (ownership of a piece of a company) but there is nothing behind it, it really starts to look like a scam. That is where the hate comes from. There are no fundamentals to analyze.

For Ethereum, what do you propose? It is a way to buy incredibly inefficient computation. What are the killer smart contracts? How does the price reflect the price of computation? Has someone made a more efficient EVM? A less efficient one?

The US dollar is the currency that you need to use in order to participate in the largest world economy. No one claims it has a market cap. No one claims it is going to the moon. No one tries to analyze it's fundamentals. No one is pretending it's a stock.
I disagree, I find both Gnome 2 and 3 vastly superior to Windows UX
I was more or less with you until this...

>>uses less water than the farm it replaced, so that counts as a net benefit.

>No, it doesn't. Less waste is still waste.

If waste is bad and this wastes less, that is a net improvement from a waste perspective regardless of whether or not you think it's good for the world.
Wow, that's absolutely awesome. It respects container tabs too (search opens in YouTube container tab if launched from any other container).

This'll actually make a measurable difference to me on a daily basis with how much I search youtube for study at the moment. Thanks.
I love gambling. When I was in college I learned how to beat single-deck blackjack by counting cards, which I was very proud of at the time, and I've played tons of poker in my adult life. I enjoy a trip to Las Vegas from time to time.

So note that there's not a hint of anger when I point out that the fundamental use case of Ethereum is and has always been speculation.
AML and KYC Will Swallow Cryptocurrency’s Market Cap
«Basically, I'm wondering how the attiny85 was powered»

You guys are overthinking this. Server motherboard PCBs are usually 4-8 layers with GND and VCC planes available near any component. The hackers, according to Bloomberg, modified the motherboards, so presumably they would simply add vias to the GND and VCC planes to power their rogue chip. You don't gain much by going the trouble of making the chip self-powered by leeching current from the SPI line... The vias that bring power to the chip can be hidden within layers (it's a standard thing to do) It would not even be detectable by a visual inspection. You would have to x-ray the PCB to detect it.

I'm with the GP. I've said it before (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18146566): the presumed hack described by Bloomberg is actually not that hard, and perfectly doable. All the attacker has to do is compromise the PCB manufacturer. Actually not even that. He would swap a box of legit PCBs with a box of compromised PCBs when they are in transit from the PCB manufacturer to the assembler. The assembler (the one who solders components on the PCB) wouldn't suspect a thing because normally PCBs are just passive things. No chip. No logic. No firmware. Just stupid layers of copper that either work (conduct electricity) or don't. That's why no one pays attention to PCB manufacturers and instead supply chain security is focused on everything higher in the chain: the providers of components, the assemblers, the distributors, etc.

This Supermicro rogue chip story is in fact an attack much less advanced than some real-world attacks we have seen, like Stuxnet which exploited four(!) zerodays...
Here's a collection of project ideas:

http://nifty.stanford.edu/
What's up with the crazy dance club right next to that river wave?
My son is 3. While I try to teach him as much as I can keep his focus for academically, one thing that surprised me was how much he has taken to practicing soccer lately.

Over the last couple months, from refusing to kick a ball that was passed to him, to wanting to play pass from the moment he wakes up, he has made tremendous progress kicking the ball, dribbling, and aiming. I have noticed his balance and coordination improve substantially, not to mention the power behind his kick. It has been a blast and we both have a great time taking a ball to the park and working on his skills.

He has now started mimicking some moves that I do - crossovers, maradonas, back-heeling the ball. Not well, mind you, but nothing funnier than watching a 3yo trying to do a crossover with a size 5 ball that goes up to his knees.
Agreed, those four barriers are barriers for me as well. However, I'd note that enterprise startups all face and must overcome the same obstacles. (I'm sure you know this, just stating it for others who might not)

In particular, proprietary is not a sine qua non. Some enterprise companies open source a figleaf to assuage proprietary concerns, while others simply stay proprietary. If you're a product manager and want to use Aha, you just have to use Aha and go with their pricing tiers (including 30 day free trial) and claims of security. There's no open source Aha. That hasn't stopped them from being popular.

Funding and courting early adopters can go a long way towards neutralise 1 ($ and momentum imply a longer lifetime) and 3 ($ implies can hire other devs). Nothing ever removes the risk of a company cancelling a product, but that's the nature of products even from BigCos like Google and Microsoft. Even open source can be abandoned.
A colorful illustration of the value of such checks on power would be the incident in which a single majority vote in the legislature of imperial Athens sufficed to send off a galley to their rebellious colony of Mytilene, with orders to put every male inhabitant to the sword.

As it happened, the next day the assembly changed its mind, and sent off another galley rescinding the order. The second galley was indeed able to overtake the first in time. Thucydides attributed this to deliberate slowness by the captain of the first.
Ask HN: How can I build a Twitter bot that tweets my past tweets?
I want to have something like [this account](https://twitter.com/NavalBot).
If your web browser is compromised, that's malware running on your system right there.

A compromised web browser doesn't need X to control the rest of your system. It can usually already write all over your system and perform all sorts of other attacks, including substituting applications, paths, LD_LIBRARY_PATH, etc.. not to mention try kernel exploits and the like -- not that they'd need to on a single-user system, as they could just get your sudo password by one of the other means mentioned above, all without touching X.

Anyway, if a typical user's browser is compromised, they're already completely screwed, as they typically access their online banking and webmail through it. Once again, the attacker does not need to touch X to get access to any of that.

To me it still sounds like Wayland's security model is trying to solve a niche problem that most X users don't really suffer from -- and charging an arm and a leg for it.
I think the idea was for the horn to be in the scooter. I would assume that there's no mute button on a scooter.
The distinction there is the type of device. Caps are not used on data lines. The parent comment is talking particularly about how the Bloomberg article kept referencing the attack vector as a disguised cap.

The comment that you are referring to used a 2-pin device in place of the pull-up resistor on the SDA line of an I2C bus. That does seem fascinating and I would like to read more about it but I still have a lot of reservations about real-world applications.
Chrome automatically adds sites if they have an OpenSearch description document:
https://www.chromium.org/tab-to-search

Firefox requires the user to add the search engine manually:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/add-or-remove-search-en...
With the ways the government (local->state->federal) spend money and manage budgets funding them (thru debt+taxes) at the absolute minimum is the only moral option.

Rationale being:

* Military industrial complex and associated adventurism

* Broken criminal Justice system, prison industrial complex and civil asset forfeitures.

* Drug war

* Chronic pension mismanagement in nearly all states and localities.

Could go on and on ...
No it's about right and wrong. That's why software is fundamentally binary.
Right, I wasn't really confused by the concept of political posters. I'm confused by what regimes you are alluding to using technical watermarking techniques to control this type of speech. I've never heard of such a thing.
I think it's the echo chamber of big tech: they don't like crypto. Probably because they want to align themselves with the regulators rather than with the anarchists. HN comments have become increasingly dominated by Google/FB employees and mid management.
“cyber-” comes from “cybernetics”, which comes from “Kubernetes”
For any given discussion on HN there is usually a song of his that applies.
Here's a description of the spec, if you are interested: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/OpenSearch

Firefox uses it to populate the search bar drop down menu with the available search engines for a site, but it does not add them automatically like Chrome does.
As I recall, not quite.

+ was an exact match. I believe it also precluded stemming; thus the ~ operator, when you wanted stemming (stemming: Not just "wonder", but also "wondering", "wondered", "wonderful", ...).

+ designated "must be in result". With double quotes -- this may be part of or in kind with other changes made to by Google to search results matching -- Google insists and becomes more aggressive at including results that don't include all the specified terms. Sort of a forced default "Did you mean..." inclusion that many find has come to clutter search results to the point of being unusable.

There are some other aspects, I believe, that I'm not recalling right now.

My experience seems to mirror others': I know what I'm looking for. I may well even have seen it, months or even years ago -- my memory's pretty decent, in such matters. Yet I can no longer get Google to cough it up in a search result -- or, it's on page 15 or 20. Despite my focusing my search terms to try to target it.

There are other factors in this degradation. But, to the best of my recollection, the loss of the + operator was a significant factor.
Finally! I knew that the whole modal editing thing and the `hjkl` commands would become useful some day!
They did not investigate themselves. The audit was performed by Nardella & Co as stated in the article.
I actually wrote my own extension to do quick tab movement across multiple windows (often on different monitors/workspaces) all from the keyboard: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/workspaces-fo...
> Fukuoka did rice and wheat every year for decades on the same land just fine.

Fukuoka also used wild carrots and daikon to bring up nutrients from lower down (source: My friend studied with him). Also white clover to fix nitrogen (and even went so far as to say, "Don't bother experimenting with anything else. I've tried everything and white clover is the best."). Rice is a summer crop and in most places in Japan you can have a winter crop as well, which you use for nutrient migration. Fukuoka's techniques work very well around where I like (my friend's fields are fantastic), but apparently don't work very well in more temperate climes (just from what I've heard).
Good for you. I definitely support and encourage you and I will get the benefit too. That being said, will I happily pay my tax? Haha no. I would not hesitate to cheat if the risk is very low.
Do Americans marry for love or money? Finally, an answer
It seems the author wants a Surface rather than an iPad.
What university is that? It's a good policy, much better than controversial race-based admissions, but still promoting increased admissions among both minorities and poor white students.
They started on this in the late 2000s when I was an intern there. But there was a lot to untangle. It’s the biggest refactoring job you can imagine. A decade long effort.

Back then they didn’t really understand the point of ssh though. They had a vision of remote management via .net RPC and powershell.
USD is fiat money. It's value is only as good as people's faith in the US government.

Commodity money still has worth from what it's made from (e.g. gold) even if it's no longer used as money.

I'm not sure what Ethereum is.
Why politicians pretend that Google searches are biased against them
World spends about $2t on moving money around. The fee that you pay to transfer wealth on ethereum isnt compeating with AWS, it’s compeating with the banks computer that moves a few digits around when you make a transfer.
Read Windows Internals. It's a very different design from Linux. Worth learning about another approach to operating systems if you're at all interested.

WNT evolved (spiritually) from VMS and has a lot of unique things in its structure.

Note also that Windows already kind of is a perfectly serviceable Linux kernel through WSL. That's one of the unique things about NT - it was designed for binary compatibility for programs written for several distinct systems.
Here's three data points:

Germany pays $45B/yr for defense [0]

The United States pays for 22% of NATO [1]

The United States' defense spending accounts for >70% of all expenditures by NATO countries [2]

Personally, I'd like to kick Germany and Turkey out of NATO and threaten to kick out everyone who doesn't spend at least 2% of their GDP on defense.

[0]https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/nato-ally-germany-urged-u...

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/how-nato-budget-is-funded-20...

[2] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/03/nato-spending-2017.html
If I want to buy computation, I can buy compute time on AWS/GCE/Azure for orders of magnitude cheaper then I can on the ETH network.

Asset transfer is a better case, but why not use quite literally any other cryptocurrency for that, instead?
and your toaster
Could a TLA have silenced the real results? Sure, but that seems pretty unlikely. The US Government is not afraid to call out China for real or perceived threats right now (see tariffs). So the government itself silencing this would be pretty counter-intuitive.

I'd believe more that Super Micro is trying to save it's stock value, more than I'd believe government intervention. Of course, it could also just be faulty intelligence. Guess we'll have to wait and see what Bloomberg does with respect to whether they can get their sources on the record.
Here is more detail about creating custom keyword searches. For example, I have a Bugzilla keyword search so the keyword "bug" will expand the URL "https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=%s". Thus, entering "bug 1000000" in the address bar will expand to "https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1000000".

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-search-from-address...
Yeah I had the exact same response.
It also saves face; it is quite embarrassing to realize you've been complaining about something and suddenly discover that it works fine and you are wrong.
Even though they are highly regulated, you're still taking a credit risk against the organization, not the US Government. The government can create new money to service its debts, where Circle/Coinbase might go out of business.
So called "open-faced sandwiches" are not sandwiches.
They didn’t explain how the run up in all crypto currencies was driven by bitfinex’s unprecedented counterfeiting operation.
Slate's Newly Unionized Writers and Editors Give OK to Strike
Open Source for Science – An organization aimed to promote open source community
It's not there yet (so, admittedly not a particularly practical answer to your question) but what I envision it to be in the future is an expansion of the "functions as a service" paradigm: Deploying functions and building blocks without having to worry about plumbing, infrastructure and cross-cutting concerns such as security or logging.
This is pretty cool. I would also be interested in reading more about it if you made a blog post or some such. How did you manage to sync with SCL?
Facebook Cover Photo Is Vulnerable