skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Easiest way is deployment of VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure). Only allow specific keyboards and mice and disable any other USB functionality. This way there is no local data to download or need for upload directly on the system.

In terms of loss protection most companies use DLP (Digital Loss Prevention) technology and the system logs any activity of information leaving the system or entering a system (use of smartcards, usb drives (auto encrypting usb drives)) logging all contents burned to a disc, all emails going in/out of the system, etc.

With VDI normally there is a zero client with a keyboard and mouse and that is it. There is no local storage and everything the user interacts with is streamed to their desktop. If they need to upload something they will normally send it to the systems engineers for processing, this insures their requests only goes one way and they cannot download anything off the system.

If they need to send something they normally do it from their zero client and the server they are connected to processes their request. Normally with these setups the server and network infrastructure is extremely powerful to enable the ability for the zero client to appear faster than a regular desktop due to the server being able to deliver PCoIP otherwise known as DaaS (Desktop as a service)
- Google AdWords > Landing page data entry form

- Email (spam) blast > Landing page data entry form

- Game or content paywall > submit personal info to bypass.
*(league)(year)

Fifa

NHL

NBA

...
It is true. Another common case I see is people using fork as a way to snapshot stuff they depend on “just in case” (since forks don’t go away if the original is deleted or overwritten). I don’t do it, but it’s quite common. (source: I asked people why they fork my repo but never sent a PR)

My stance to this opinion is similar to many others here: this is all good if it works for the author, but please don’t project your idea of a “good” GitHub profile onto other people.
Reminds a bit of https://xkcd.com/1322/
PiD and Marathon show just how far ahead of the market Bungie was.

Halo was most people's introduction, but there are amazing ideas all through their back catalog.
California’s Foie Gras Ban Upheld by US Supreme Court
> All abandoned for a game completely lacking any story (or backstory!)

Destiny actually has a rich backstory comparable to or greater than their previous titles like Marathon. I’ve got the first volume of printed lore they’ve done here and there’s lots more available through online sources.

As for what’s next - more Destiny. There’s a reason they’re holding onto the IP rather than selling it to Activision. The studio is hugely passionate about the game and about continuing it to the finish as far as I can tell.
Docker for Mac and Docker for Windows do use a VM, but it’s a single VM for the entire host system, not one VM per container. So the overhead is very reasonable.
I still play CE from time to time. Such a great game.
I don't think I could go back to Pathways. It was really a product of it's time and while I enjoyed my time with it, I don't think it has aged very well.
It's both - if he didn't have his skills, he wouldn't succeed either. But for him to deny that luck played any role is naive. We should work our hardest so we're ready to shine when the opportunity comes, but we need to remain humble because not everyone gets the same opportunities.
NetHack beaten in 7 minutes 15 seconds real time
Installed Firefox Developer Edition after using only Chrome for awhile. Pleasantly surprised how well everything works, especially the dev tools pane -- feels more smooth than Chrome's dev tools.
I've only visited Silicon Valley once, so my impression may be skewed, but to me it came across as this incredibly bland, entangled sprawl of anonymous strip malls, with each "city" indistinguishable from the next.

To some extent these cities seemed walkable, but in practice everyone has a car, and most endeavours have you end up on the highway. Everyone seems to complain about either traffic or about the awfulness of BART, but maybe that's HN.

I did love SF itself, though it seems to be in a similar situation as NYC, nestled deep within this huge web of urban sprawl that you have to punch through in order to get out into the wilderness.
Same here. My Japanese father who speak English and regularly traveling foreign countries for the job is now became extreme nationalist and far-right fanatics.

I know he didn't have that kind of personality before. It's quite shocking.

And yes. I'm worrying to become like him one day.
Violence and crime rates are down due to the reduce use of lead in gasoline. Alcoholism seems to be down due to much greater difficulty in being able to drink (can't drive the bar anymore without fear of stiff penalties) and greater information.

But I don't think I am idealizing anything. The benefits of having a job when you are young are abundantly clear, and remain abundantly clear for those who still do so today. There is no reason why children cannot work and also have pursuits that are useful in other areas. It is not an either-or situation. They do not need to be full-time jobs. There is plenty of time for other pursuits.
You're technically right, but that's potentially an enormous task. If we're comparing Unity with Unreal functionality, integrating a scripting language should include editor integration, debugging, etc. I'd rather spend my time actually making a game.
Of the people I know who have fallen into this right wing vortex, regardless of age, all of them are retired. But it’s not everyone who’s retired! I know retirees who travel, stay engaged with hobbies, etc who did not end up in the vortex. It’s the ones who just sit there in retirement, immersing themselves in this stuff all day long, doing nothing else, that are getting sucked in.

I’m getting up there in age and I’m worried about this myself. My criteria for retirement is not just that I have enough money to stop working, but that I also have enough to travel or do a hobby and stay mentally engaged with something.
I don't. I don't want to be disturbed most of the time.
Doesn't Nintendo publish Mario games directly?

I can do without FIFA COD and AC, personally. They're probably burning up the time of developers with good ideas rather than producing anything actually interesting (though of course everyone needs a day job).
Agreed. I actually forgot about it, subscribing now. Ironic that the only good publication is free and has no ads.
Tiny yellow dots

[1]: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/06/how-a...
It’s a year and half out of date by now, but https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/672n45/what_the_peop...

A decent number still at bungie, a lot have moved on to other places of course.
Speaking of luck, this article was on front page sometime ago and had lot of good things about how to attract good luck.

The key to good luck is an open mind - [http://nautil.us/blog/-the-key-to-good-luck-is-an-open-mind]

So luck can be a factor, but may be that also could be a trait?
Things are even better than what you’re saying would suggest because of huge amounts of legal and illegal immigration constantly refreshing the US’s supply of poor and uneducated people. If you could look at people who were in the US twenty years ago and their children things would look even better.
If you don't mind me asking, I'd like some help laying out what my next steps should be on one of my side projects. I had an idea for a side project, ran it by a hand full of friends and associates, expecting to have a bunch of holes poked into it (they have done that to me many times in the past). This time they all think I have something.

Problem is I work full time, as a Linux systems engineer (30 years of Unix experience), with a side passion for C programming, web technologies, and have built a hand full of web apps that are getting a lot of use at work (btw I'm not under any contract prohibiting side projects, and have cleared it with my management).

Next problem: The project itself is relatively simple, has client-side pieces that will be open source, and over all I prototyped it in about a weekend's worth of work, but need probably a month or so to get it more polished and robust. The upshot is that it can be easily replicated by anyone in a similar space. There are similar products that try to solve the same problem, but in a rather backwards and less secure method, but I'm really not sure why other vendors haven't thought of this project first.

Third problem: I'm relatively new at modern advanced web apps, so things like taking payments, handling customers, integrating to a customer's on-premise or cloud based authentication (O365, Active Directory, etc) is something I'm not too familiar with (for my projects I just used ldap bind for authentication against a local AD server).

So for my next step, should I put a prototype / demo site online, and let people create demo accounts that last for a couple weeks? Then if there is sufficient interest, set up something like a Stripe account? Start off with local user account authentication, then later on add the ability for customers to set up users authenticating against their own AD domain or O365 account?

Or would I be better off finding a business partner that has been through all this already?
I wonder why it actually matters to these people if the earth is flat or not?
Astronomers may have finally seen a star become a black hole
These algorithms are called "fuzzy hashing." Examples include "ssdeep," "smapsum," and "nilsimsa."
This is covered in their docs, along with mitigation.

https://magic-wormhole.readthedocs.io/en/latest/attacks.html
Been reading through the full book of this guy who designed alot of the dungeons in World of Warcraft. He's realistic about alot of the challenges they faced but overall had a good experience with the project.

Site:
https://whenitsready.com/wowdiary/
jQuery is still worth knowing and is a handy library for managing cross-browser compatibility outside of a SPA framework. Same as using something like normalize.css to baseline your CSS.

It's still a long way off disappearing and in many high security environments might be the only approved library.

https://trends.builtwith.com/javascript/jQuery
I'm assuming the ease and likely success of UberPool[1] was the straw that broke the camel's back. Even Waze has a similar offering [2].

Yet I'm not at all surprised they ran out of cash (I'm assuming) and had to shutter. I do feel bad for the folks (drivers and support type folks) who are now out of a job.

[1] https://www.uber.com/ride/uberpool/

[2] https://www.waze.com/carpool
>A rating difference of 100 points means that the stronger player will collect 3 out of 4 points

That would be correct if you'd written 200 points.
I don't know, I've enjoyed my time with Destiny 2 quite a bit. I never even finished Halo3…
Thats pretty interesting, it seems there have been some narrow circumstances for removal of criminal cases from state to federal venue but not a viable option like in civil cases
I wouldn’t be surprised if this turns into a feature with a price attached.
AT&T location privacy add on. $5.
A lot of comments here about “luck” ignore the essential nature of it: its subjectivity. Objectively, there is no such thing as luck, but only circumstance. Circumstance can certainly be beyond our control. Luck, however, is our subjective interpretation of circumstance, and is very much within our power to control.

Are you lucky or unlucky? Are your circumstances lucky or unlucky? Your answer to that question doesn’t impact your circumstances — what happens to you — but it does significantly impact your mindset and behavior — what you make happen. A person who believes in bad luck is disempowering themselves. A person who believes in good luck does the opposite: priming themselves to see patterns of opportunity where the unlucky brain sees patterns of obstacles.

Do these beliefs change anything about the real opportunities or obstacles that come our way? Not one bit. But beliefs dramatically affect what we see and what we do.

Having said that, in my case I am special. I actually am objectively the luckiest person I’ve ever met.
Sure, but overall the impact of ACA is positive in that more people have medical insurance.
Ask HN: Startup – what's it called when
In a startup: As soon as a 'make the company profitable' customer fades a startup CEO will magically find a shiny new customer to make the hockey graphs work out. The company will then pivot enough to try and engage that customer, but it doesn't work out for some reason or another. It's obviously a tactic to keep the troops motivated and investors from asking hard questions. All companies have customers that don't work out, but I mean a repeating pattern that becomes predictable over at least a year or more. It feels like this is sort of common. Is there a term for this?
The US has a larger social spending budget than Canada.

So if the US is “less horrendous”, then canada’s must be even worse?
Two. My parents.

When their laptops were getting too old for the latest Windows, I switched them to lightweight Ubuntu releases - Lubuntu and ChaletOS - after a trial period and feedback. I configured both to be as close as possible to their old Windows workflows. I gave them the choice to stay with Windows if they wished, but both said they prefer the faster Ubuntu experience. Thanks to Dosbox and Wine, my father can even run his 1980s BASICA math programs on it. They don't have any problem whatsoever.
Federal workers rally for their jobs at White House
Gov security falters during U.S. shutdown
Link http://gitlab.davepedu.com/dave/docker-desktop doesn't work.
Natural Artificiality
Marathon was amazing too. It was the first game I played where I glimpsed the possibilities of what video games could eventually become. The feeling I experienced being not-quite-alone on that ship is still quite vivid. I loved Halo and tried to - but couldn't - get into Destiny.

Hoping for the best for/from Bungie.
I don't know if they could do much more with it, but that was a darn enjoyable video game.

I've recently read some of Glen Cook's "Chronicles of the Black Company" and I think that was very much in line with the story in Myth in some ways. It was kind of like reading a novelisation of the game, only to find out the novel was written 15+ years ahead of the game!
Short term, find sources of fulfillment that are not your job.

Longer term, seek a similarly comfortable position that you find more meaningful.
What is this new trend of belittling accomplishments down to luck? At the very least, thousands of people had the same opportunity to do what your boss did. And that's if we take your word that this is all he did, and he didn't negotiate at all or spend any time researching what products to sell, or take a loss in the beginning to provide good customer service for future gain. Even seeing the opportunity is a skill itself, millions of people will happily stay at their current job rather than take a risk.

>But like... he couldn't do again if he had to start from scratch in 2019. Things are different.

This is a losing attitude, a quick search of almost any category on Amazon will show more recent products that are China rebrands with thousands of reviews.

Here is one: https://www.amazon.com/JavaPresse-Grinder-Conical-Brushed-St...

You can find exact copies on Aliexpress for $10.

You can't prove it's impossible to do what he did today. Others are actively doing it.

>I think that's a bad trait :(

Being proud of your accomplishments is not a bad trait. Thousands of people had the same opportunities as him, yet he came out on top (or top 250, in your example).
a service to place phone orders for extra spicy dishes from ethnic
restaurants with calls made by people who speak the language or at
least have the right accent to ensure authenticity

a text processing algorithm to alter a document just enough to defeat
stylometric analysis without changing the meaning

a service to connect people who need to write anonymous threatening
messages with native speakers of Eastern European languages to get
all the grammatical errors right

a discussion forum called "who would win", wherein participants
nominate fictional or historic figures to compete against each other
in a fight and explain why think one would beat the other
I really appreciate how the NSW Australian Government is working on a solution to this.

They are currently running trial on-demand services, where a mini-van will come and pick you up after a request from an app[0].

I don't understand why the US cities are so adverse to setting up similar systems.

[0] https://transportnsw.info/travel-info/ways-to-get-around/on-...
Leisure time has increased for less educated men but decreased for more educated ones. Leisure time generally has increased.

https://www.nber.org/papers/w13837

The Increase in Leisure Inequality

This paper examines the changing allocation of time within the United States that has occurred between 1965 and 2003-2005. We find that the time individuals have allocated to leisure has increased in the U.S. for both men and women during this period, with almost the entire gain occurring prior to 1985. We also find that post 1985 there has been a substantial increase in leisure inequality, particularly for men. Over the last 20 years, less educated men increased the time they allocated to leisure while more educated men recorded a decrease in leisure time. While the relative decline in the employment rate of less educated men is important, trends in employment status explain less than half of the increase in the leisure gap.
It's OK. They have nice travel busses that they use most of the time but any day they can run out of them and I can unexpectedly get stuck with an uncomfortable regular bus. I stopped taking Transbay most of the time and switched back to Emery-Go-Round and BART after a few months of taking it.

This was with being one of the last stops before SF and having a good onramp to get onto the freeway. I tried taking it from the east oakland hills when I lived there and it was completely unpalatable.
NAS? NAT.
If you're looking for "Giant Killer", it's here: https://archive.org/stream/AsimovEdTheGreatSFStories021940/A...
>But like... he couldn't do again if he had to start from scratch in 2019.

This misses the point by a country mile. The skill is knowing and predicting the when and where in addition to executing on the what.
If you’re a rare art dealer or other high-value target, maybe, but then you have tons of things like drones, etc. to worry about. For 99.9999…% of the population, your house probably isn’t getting burgled by someone like that, if at all. The addicts and bored teenagers are just going to walk down the street at a time when most people are at work and look for obvious signs of life — they don’t care about you in particular and are just going to pick an easy target where they can get in easily and without attracting much attention.

I live in DC and basically all of the reported videos are some dude walking down the street before racing up to grab an amazon delivery or casually knocking on the door (and checking whether it’s locked). They get caught after a few weeks and there’s a lull before the next person with poor decision making abilities gets a couple of grand & jail time. Unlesss you’re doing something which involves storing a lot of cash – don’t brag about your Bitcoin trove – that’s the likely threat.
Uber launched a similar service in Africa last year..

https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/12/uber-bus/
D does this. Although it's not necessarily one or the other. C++ has the c preprocessor, templates, and constexpr. Rust has macros, but is looking at adding const function evaluation too.
My car already gets confused in Chicago. Today, I was driving south towards lower Wacker, and my car thought I was driving alongside Navy Pier in the lake... Wasn't until I got clear onto 290 that it regained its senses.
Los Angeles area had very advanced light railway system including Los Angeles Railway and Pacific Electric Railway Company up until 1960s.

Check the map of Pacific Electric Railway Company, and you can see a railway running on the beach from Hermosa Beach up to Santa Monica. The famous Venice Beach Bike Path was originally what the Pacific Electric Railway Company rail used to be. Can you imagine light rails ON the beach in SoCal?

All the rails were torn up after lobbying by oil/tire companies. :(
Fibre: The lifesaving food 90% aren’t eating enough of
They were acquired by Ford. Doesn’t seem like a failure...even if shitting down after 2 years.
I think there's ideas there that are worth revisiting. One of my favourite being the temporal layering of a story via. Talking to the dead soldiers from different squads from different eras.
Ode to the 767
Yeah that is the dangerous thread as far as getting caught goes.
Auto declarations don’t mean uninitialised, they get default initialisation, which for many types means “undefined”.
Why the need for purity? Firefox released an add-on to sandbox facebook tabs, you can easily make things better without having to turn yourself into a hermit.
Wow. Photoshop IRL! This is cool tech. Very nice application of technologies to a problem domain.
> In particular, binary search has awful cache locality.

That makes me think of an idea which I'm certain can't be original, but I can't think of the jargon for what it's called.

Suppose you have a fixed-length sorted array, and its binary-search can be visualized as a tree. Traverse that tree in level-order and pop it into a helper-array, arranged much like a heap: The midpoint is first and all left and right children are proceed from there at offsets that you can predict.

So the original array [A,B,C,D,E,F,G] has a data-structure for searching of [(D,3), (B,1), (F,5), (A,0), (C,2), (E,4), (G,6)]

While the high-indexed items will get spread out, the most common and sequential activity occurs all together near the lower indexes, minimizing large jumps. Since each entry has the original index stored, you can always switch back to the initial array when a different strategy (e.g. linear scan) becomes preferable.
I meant failure in the larger context, not silicon valley failure :)
Bose “audio-only augmented reality platform”
In that both are pithy dismissals that convey nothing of use to the conversation? Absolutely.
Do you mind elaborating on what else it can do apart from being a media player?

Just for someone who uses the software daily, I'd like to know more!
How does it indicate how well someone knows JS? That's the type of question you can easily Google.

Not to mention in general Javascript does some pretty not intuitive things with objects: https://archive.org/details/wat_destroyallsoftware
It has a story: they just never told it. Extra Credits used Destiny as a prime example of how NOT to write story dialogue.
I had an encounter with one of their drivers tailgating me for ~1 mile until they finally sped past me and cut me off. I was going above the speed limit. Not sure if there were customers in the car, but I would hope not.
So many people up in arms about Facebook. When the reality is that both cell phone providers and ISP's ACTUALLY sell your data. Both location data and DNS query logs. But sure, let's focus on the "social media boogie man".
MtGox is such a great and terrible example how even with some level of service there to help.....it can be even more dangerous.

And for all anyone know, they could have stolen it all from their own customers.
How Dead Space's Scariest Scene Almost Killed the Game

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQ3iqq49Ew8

Disregard the clickbait title. Cofounder Glen Schofield talks about how they resolved all bad bugs 2 weeks ahead of schedule and came out with one of the most innovative titles in the past 20 years.
Ah that makes sense.

Thanks for that insight!
How much Americans make in wages
Good to know, thanks! Do you know of any good resources for reporting on financials and key metrics?