skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly, this could happen at any company, for all the same reasons - in my experience, any workplace that isn't actually, or at least run as if it were, military is rife with subpar physical security.

And I can't claim not to be part of the problem - I'm forever wandering off to get coffee without locking my screen, holding doors for people I kinda think I might recognise... every security sin you can name, I'm guilty of it at some point. And so are you. Yes, you. No, probably not you, Mr. Schneier.
How is that ironic? That's basically the goal of most socialists, so its an intended effect.

Organized labor benefits the majority of workers, but not all workers (the top X% would be better served by a free market allowing them to exploit their competitive advantages for personal gain). I just don't believe most people are exceptional (that's sort of the definition of "exceptional") and I'm fine with this outcome.

TL;dr- Doesn't look like anything to me.
Here's a nice 20-minute summary of the management problems leading up to the Titanic disaster. The information is taken from the book "Project Management Blunders: Lessons from the Project that Built, Launched, and Sunk Titantic".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbvfir2x344
The answer is unambiguous yes. There has never been more laws, more agencies, more regulation, more government employees and so on.
Foxconn Is Reconsidering Plan for Manufacturing in Wisconsin
Not if you don't do any work, I suppose.

(It's also clearly satirical)
I’m guessing Apple has more to lose getting in to a battle with Google. There’s a fair degree of co-dependency between the two organisations.
New research says intelligent people are messy, stay up late, and curse a lot
Also the increasingly common practice where a seller takes your money, wrongs you in the most blatant way, such as just not sending half of your order (Instacart), charges you for wasting your time and never providing any service (Uber) and when you complain, they keep your money and give you their Monopoly money instead.

I feel like for someone somewhere in the attorney general's office, prosecuting these should be someone's full time tax paid job.
It's not very typical for pilots to push buttons quickly. Especially not the thrustreversers and engine and flight controls.

But it is entirely possible that nobody pulled the reversers while still airborne in 9 years, because it's a very strange thing to do. A bit like opening your car door while still driving 60 mph... Nobody does that in normal operation.
AI is solving one of music’s most expensive problems
It's more interesting to answer two questions:

1. Can I easily subvert this type system?

2. Can I make this type system map to concepts in the problem domain?

In C, the answer to 1 is "yes" and the answer to 2 is "to a limited extent". In fact, in C, you can subvert the type system so easily that it's considered impossible not to, to the extent that using the standard library requires throwing type information away, by using pointers-to-void or generic "char" buffers, and as for the second... well, Apps Hungarian notation exists for a reason. (Systems Hungarian exists for a reason, too, but I'll try to keep the insults out of this post.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_notation

The first question is interesting because it tells you if the type system can be used to enforce invariants, and the second question is interesting because it tells you if those invariants will be worth enforcing. If you're writing in Standard Pascal, and your type system enforces array length as a part of array type, well, to quote a metal album: "So Far, So Good... So What?" What does that tell me about whether my program is semantically correct as regards the problem domain? Similarly with enforcing size specification types: Differentiating between a short, an int, and a long tells me Sweet Fanny Adams about what values of those sizes mean in my program. Typing isn't "strong" if it's enforcing rules which ultimately make no sense, and if it's "sound", well, mathematical proofs of something I'm not interested in are themselves uninteresting.
Make me think about could we use a robot to fuzz physical inputs.
Only slightly less mainstream than the "crypto" answer everyone has, is the whole "bots" revolution that was supposed to happen in 2016, then 2017, then 2018; and the related FB Messenger and Slack bots store.

There had been pretty much no killer apps on FB Messenger or Slack (yes there are a few profitable ones and some businesses built on them, but nothing like the mobile app stores from back in the days). If you were in the "bots communities" (on various social networks) like I was, you'd see that most entrepreneurs simply try to profit off of the rush by building "easily build a bot" services. (e.g. the Chatfuels of the world) I think it's an example where more people try to sell shovels than actually mine for gold.
>>I think we're eventually going to see a resurgence in open platforms where content creators better control their content.

Sure, but as those platforms grow, they will run into the same problem: having to pay for infrastructure. That shit ain’t cheap once you get past a certain size.
Yeah, and on top of that I've agreed to let them use my data for training/research purposes, so definitely happening there.

And even from a moral standpoint you gave your word that these things were okay to do with your information, and you can revoke your permission at any point.
Read the full CSS spec:

https://www.w3.org/TR/CSS22/

https://www.w3.org/TR/CSS22/sample.html

And the W3C flexbox and grid specs

Recently I read the full CSS spec front-to-back in detail, and I can say that it was so totally worth it. Tutorials don't cover a lot about CSS. Once you read it you'll know things about CSS that most devs think is a mystery
Hmmm that sounds like a perfect use case for...maybe those countries, rather than pirating Microsoft's products, use and contribute to open source projects, like libreoffice, and help make it a proper competition for expensive licensed products.
The Texas government uses their mineral rights to fund roads and schools that they otherwise wouldn't be able to pay for with their 0% state income tax. Although Texas is not very socialist, maybe 0.1%, it would have to be even less socialist if you took away the minerals without allowing the tax rate to go up.
When your UX is so bad your userbase ridicules it in a whole series of comics
Facebook – Open source year in review
I actually am signed in, but I know a lot of their traffic is anonymous users.
Yeah, but Musk presumably does travel a lot, and again presumably can’t afford to never show up in the U.K. again. Practically speaking if he loses, he’ll have to pay.
The fragility of the steel is a very valid point, however by the standards of the day, Titanic had high quality steel - so while relevant, any ship of the time, would have had the same issue.

I am however quite skeptical of the claim in that link that Titanic would have remained afloat for 6 hours had there been not watertight compartments - various marine architects have done simulations and have determined that the ship would have capsized or rolled over onto its side well before that point - beyond that, the ship would have lost lighting between 45 min, and one hour after collision, creating a panic situation as well.
Restoring Apollo Guidance Computer: Part 1
Oddly enough, your comment makes me think that you are writing it from the perspective of a member of the very group of programmers you decry. Companies that write high-risk, life-critical systems don't just let any ole J. Random Hacker work on such critical systems, and I don't think anyone who has worked in such a field would realistically think that these "brogrammers" as you say would be seriously considered for such a position. Companies don't play around with this kind of thing as failures are EXTREMELY expensive in terms of both funds and reputation.
Let's see how GitHub is used in the workplace
Relevant article: "Reality has a surprising amount of detail"

http://johnsalvatier.org/blog/2017/reality-has-a-surprising-...
This scenario seems distressingly common in post-WW2 U.S. foreign policy.
The key words being

> The parents are explicitly consenting

Nielsen asks the parents to consent to monitoring. The parents are adults, and adults are in a position to be able to give such consent. Parents routinely make decisions for their children that the children are not in a position to make on their own. This ensures that children, who do not have the education and life experience to be able to make such decisions on their own, have their interests looked out for by responsible adults.

Facebook skipped the parents and pitched their app to the kids directly.
that’s because 90 pct of people applying to any job are unqualified. all three times i’ve interviewed at amazon getting an offer was trivial.
The Welfare Effects of Social Media [pdf]
Obviously a basic example with one type of entity(user) makes it look the same but GraphQL's power is in being able to create whatever view of the data you want from the client and also being able to traverse the data's relationships IE User to Posts explicitly at the API consumption layer.
Cool, thanks for the reply. Sorry, I am not trying to be a downer, just giving you honest feedback. I know it is extremely hard to come up with an idea, create a website, all the sketching/coding/testing, promoting it, etc. The website looks pretty slick.
People are opting into data collection in a way that creates a severe security vulnerability. Not only have you given up confidentiality (of everything, including passwords), you've also sacrificed integrity and availability. You can no longer trust anything you do on your phone.

A hypothetical experiment Facebook might be interested in conducting: Do people use Facebook more if Twitter is slow and/or unreliable?
Nice! We actually generate our GraphQL Server by leveraging what our framework (which runs off Django Rest Framework) spits out in an OPTIONS request to a resource. We spruced it up a bit, but allows for dynamic creation of a server similar to this.
excluding programmers or content creators - the people that apple is trying to push away from macs to ipads
Considering the level of fly-by-wire that goes into airframes nowadays, I could certainly see such features added to older airframes through flight-software updates after they are already in service. I have no idea if that's how it's done in the field, though.
Are you familiar with the field or have links to resources I can read? Basically what I want to know is how long will a modern core-i5 last before some transistor bridges and it dies? 10 years? 50?
WTF is going on?!

Some engineer somewhere decided or was told: Hey if someone gets a big tip, lets consider that as part of their pay and not pay they what's due. And then they just blindly do it?!

I can understand that an engineer might just be following requirements, but _someone_ made that decision--probably a PM, or does this go higher than that?

It seems that companies (FB, Google, etc.) are almost going out of their way to be evil!

We need the equivalent of a "known to do evil" blacklist: companies and employees known to have been working on specific products/projects should be black-balled:

You wrote a VPN to collect information off people's phones? Good luck getting work with another tech company. You wrote/designed functionality to get kids to play games that require money and is hidden from their parents? Screw you. You wrote/designed a feature that said that people should be screwed out of their wage because they got a big tip? F you.
Amazing project, thankyou :)

Notable artists who started their careers on trackers: aphex twin, machinedrum, axwell, darude, deadmau5 +many more
The proliferation of third-party mobile apps for HN just proves the point. If HN's UI were decent on mobile, these apps would have no reason to exist.
Also: "strong as steel" - which measure of strength and which sort of steel?
> I really wonder if that admin was more of a 'bastard operator from hell'

Ha, yes, he absolutely was. Just very lazy, knew I already had SSH access to our staging server, and knew I needed to develop on there, but didn't want to bother setting up SSHFS and configuring it to be accessible from my windows machine, and didn't want me telling him to do a new staging deploy every 10 minutes while I tried to figure out how to get some connected hardware working right.
If it comes in a package or from a factory farm, you generally don’t want to eat it.
Not every idea is a take-over-the-world multi billion dollar business. Something might be completely sustainable as a medium sized business but it will never have a large enough target audience to be able to scale (as the product was originally envisioned) to a multi billion dollar company.

The problem is this is what VC needs, and if your idea isn't one you're still stuck chasing that goalpost. So rather than be happy with your product you start making distortions to increase your mass appeal to help reach the unreasonably high (for your idea) goalposts set by VC funding.
Expect More from Tor in 2019
Thrust reversers can never be deployed while airborne. This engine shutdown system is only enable on the ground. It's designed to shutdown an engine if the engine thrust doesn't match the commanded thrust, so an engine malfunction on the ground cannot cause the plane to taxi out of control.

But it is still possible for the pilots to deploy reverse thrust too soon, after touchdown but before there there is enough weight on the wheels to provide sufficient steering. I'm guessing the pilots deployed too soon, and discovered a new corner case.
A Mother’s Fatal Fall Rouses New Yorkers to Demand Accessibility
FB ticker is up 3% today. It won't.
No problem! Answering these types of questions and standing behind your idea is as important as a sexy looking website!
That's an interest point, all the articles have been discussing negative rate as an extreme measure that's meant to be temporary without justifying why.

Maybe negative rate is a better solution than wealth tax.
The UAE has the world's largest virtual battery plant
It seems like, in that case, you should just opt out. We didn't have to get involved in that war.
I know: they won’t.
Spam killed forums. Facebook took since it wasn't plagued with spam.
I wonder if the $20 payment was so that Facebook could plausibly claim they _were_ distributing internal apps to employees?

I'm sure "employees" is defined loosely enough in the agreement to include "contractors", and the bar there is pretty low, getting paid pretty much makes you a contractor.
Does iSH really run afoul of the App Store guidelines? Seems to me that it's effectively the same thing as the various iOS Python IDEs, just using the Unix stack instead of Python. In particular it's an x86 interpreter, not a JIT...
Robot Eyes Wide Shut: Understanding Dishonest Anthropomorphism
iframe is the best option. You don’t want that ad running first party scripts on the content site your visiting. First party can do anything as the domain you visit. Iframe is a much better way to prevent content destruction and all sorts of malicious things if the ad server is compromised
> REST and GraphQL really aren't that different.

As in: absolutely different, and GraphQL breaks nearly everything that makes REST REST.

Pretending it's not in the server-side code doesn't make it "not different".
Ask HN: Isn't Bluetooth location scanning a privacy risk?
So I recently updated my phone to Android Pie and it asked me if I want to enable WiFi and Bluetooth location scanning. (As separate options, default yes to both)

It got me thinking. The idea of WiFi location scanning is that the person's router is normally at the same place all the time. So it could be used to improve location accuracy.

But with Bluetooth, if the device is a headphone set. Then the user will be moving around.
If the database picks up what their home location is, then couldn't someone with access to a geolocation API, find out where they live?

The google reference for their geolocation api only talks about WiFi however:
https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/geolocation/intro

But it just requires a MAC address.

If there's a similar one for bluetooth would there be any privacy issues?
I’d imagine some Rock Paper Scissors was played to determine who got the honors.
you want skynet? 'cause that's how you get skynet.
Do you mean Amazon management reacted incorrectly to it? How so?
Rubber chickens are best used as ammunition:

https://youtu.be/NLJ5q3-XJtQ
StackExchange/StackOverflow Performance
The purpose of a prison is to hold those who have lost their rights because they have violated the rights of others. To fulfill their purpose, they must maintain a high level of security, both to prevent escape and to prevent further harm to the public. Pervasive and invasive surveillance of the prison population and facilities is a necessary consequence of their legitimate purpose.
Go, Python, C, Postgres, Redis
Chaos inside Facebook as employees unable to open company's apps on iPhones
And spark also has some other goodies: integration with storages, monitoring, fault tolerance, common algorithms implemented.
The workstation wins that easily. Faster, more RAM, not as IO-limited, ...
> You already have to operate as if an exit node could be bad, it's not that different.

Tor's anonymity is guaranteed by its probability and temporary nature of exit nodes. Every Tor client uses the same algorithm to select an exit node, and a single exit node in a circuit is typically discarded within a few minutes for web browsing. Further, Stream Isolation selects different exit nodes for different destinations. Effectively, it means the correlation between an individual Tor user and a particular exit node is practically zero (and tracking at Layer-7 is often better than breaking Tor).

It's like discarding and selecting one of the 1,000 dead-drops at a time, and all of them are being used by a million people. On the other hand, purchasing a VPS is like setting up a single, permanent dead-drop just for yourself. The correlation is almost-certain, and the cost of getting a new one is high.

It may be a solution to a very specific problem where pseudonymous access is needed, like using a VPN/VPS to bypass the Tor blacklist of your E-mail account, and ONLY TO ACCESS your E-mail account. But for greater applications which requires anonymity, or very-shortlived pseudonymity, it's generally unsuitable. You don't want to ruin your valuable VPS that you've spent half-an-hour to purchase via Bitcoin, only to bypass the blacklist of a random website.

Some may suggest a pool of VPS servers can be provided, and well, be purchased on-demand via Lightning Network's micropayment (old-school Cypherpunks will love this idea, the idea had been around since the 1990s, and has eventually become feasible today!). But it effectively recreate the Exit Node infrastructure that Tor is using.
Nintendo gets criticized pretty heavily for their decisions to do stuff like use plastic. Their devices are frequently described as “toys” on gaming forums that I visit due to this.

Apple has an entirely different brand they need to maintain which is why they use metal, make their devices thin, have edge to edge screens, etc.

Personally I have no problems with “toy” style design but I think a lot of apple’s premium is based on their sense of style and the feeling people have that iPhones, iPads, Macs are a “premium” product due to the industrial design. As an old school Mac user from back when Macs were beige boxes I personally don’t care about that stuff.
When their key software was in needs of urgent upgrade, my friend has to drive two wheeler to their server location and had to replace couple of file using USB sticks.
Aren't almost all of the software engineers on those projects writing tests and formally verifying software?
Not being flippant but as a genuine question, besides just bribery, remnants of colonialism or heavy tourism destinations for North Americans, is a tipping culture existent anywhere besides North America?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratuity#By_region

We love traveling and I have yet to see local tipping culture anywhere besides North America (besides cheeky let's-get-more-money-from-the-foreign-tourist type).
They're really pushy about it too. They selected my house and sent a gift basket and some guy came to the house three times emphasizing the "prestige" of being a Nielsen house because you're supposedly helping to define what shows get made. I can't imagine what kind of person would be swayed by that argument.
I've recently switched, as it ticks all boxes for me: simple, markdown, custom domain, ssl, reasonably priced. https://dpc.pw/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19035834
List of times fat fingers have led to chaos
That's why Made in China 2025 exists. China is trying to transition its manufacturing sector to focus on high tech, high valuef products. Shoddy growth strategies (e.g. IP theft and forced technology transfers) aside, it's a sound plan to avoid falling into the middle income trap.
> the trim run-away - happens all the time in airliners you've flown in.

It doesn't. A trim run-away is a very very serious incident for any pilot.

There are procedures to deal with it, and we check trim override in pre-flight checks, but it's absolutely not an everyday thing.

> 737's are even safer here than many airliners, because after you disable the electric trim motors, you have manual wheels in the cockpit that you can rotate to set the trim back to what it should be. Some other airliners in common use don't have these manual trim controls - you have to disable a trim run-away in time, or it's game over.

This is not true at all either. There are no planes with a single electric trim that you cannot override. The FAA and EASA would refuse to certify those.
Some might consider this radical, but if one considers how long CSS will be around, and intends to live in the web development world, it certainly would pay off. There's nothing like the feeling of true understanding.

Not the kind of reading material most people would turn to, admittedly. I've recently found this:

http://book.mixu.net/css/

It feels like a good balance between quotes straight from the spec, and explanation from the author.
The response from Medium was that the service interruption was caused by a bug.

This website owner went all nuclear and indignant because they couldn't wait back for a response from Medium, indicating the interruption was because of a bug.

Then they try to backpedal: "We don't get why a particular bug manifested this specific way so we're waiting for more details, but our heels are still dug into the ground".
Which seems like a part of the problem here. Also, since they're an expense, not an asset, why would you want to invest in them? After all, you wouldn't pay for a paint job on a car you're just leasing.

And then companies are surprised people job-hop :).
They can't. Charting is garbage, everyone knows this.
Hopefully this (likely, and unfortunately only momentary) pause in facebook employees' evil progress will inspire even a few of them to quit and use their experience for good instead.
And so that is the point. If documents are not exchanged fairly a continuance can be issued without ever getting to court first and wasting the systems time.

Right, and they can already do that without going to court, by filing (or for more modern courts, emailing) a request for continuance to the judge's clerk. This has been a thing for literally decades, which is probably why you got mixed thoughts from the lawyers you talked to.

There are plenty of low-hanging fruit in the legal tech market to go after. This isn't one of them.
> "Ever since they've introduced livestreaming on their platform, they've had a real problem with people livestreaming suicides," Marks says. "Facebook has a real interest in stopping that."

https://www.npr.org/2018/11/17/668408122/facebook-increasing...