skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did I say that? Please don't twist my words. I was responding to the OP who was talking about the WordPress plugin system, which allows just about anyone to add third-party PHP code into the system. And those plugins have access to everything in the WordPress stack (and the file system for that user).

And I think you can definitely argue that a low barrier to entry means that it gives beginners a lot of power they don't quite understand.

Which is why I think most people steer towards common web frameworks, because not many people can know all the ways you can create security issues.

Then you get into the complexities of various common web frameworks (Zend, etc) and you have to really wonder if the original OPs argument about simplicity and ease-of-use are worth that trade-off from using something else.
This is funny because you can't tell what are click bait ads and what is content.
Then I’d agree, but when you think of how far burning cinders can be carried on the wind, it would have to be very very far away. There would also need to be some legal framework to allow firefighters to say, “No thanks, we’re not risking our lives for your property, and we are 100% sure there isn’t a kid or homeless guy who snuck in for the night.”

http://johnsalvatier.org/blog/2017/reality-has-a-surprising-...
I once built a mandelbrot fractal renderer which emitted a data-URL encoded PNG string to stdout in BCL (a spiritual predecessor of Jsonnet @ Google).

Yeah, I know what you mean. It lacks generic input/output, you cannot read write arbitrary files and perform arbitrary network requests etc.

I do like that restriction in the context of managing configuration systems, because it allows you to build hermetic evaluations.

With kubecfg we added the ability to import from URLs, which I wish was available out of the box in jsonnet.
"If there is more that one *Config in scope at any one time, calling them config1 and config2 is less descriptive than calling them original and updated ."

The correct naming is of course "originalConfig" and "updatedConfig".
Simple solution is to allow paid accounts to run adblockers and block free account users who block ads without banning their accounts.
I'm curious; what's the hostile subscription service experience you've encountered with Spotify?
Novo Nordisk has yearly profits of somewhere in the neighborhood of 10b a year.

Those numbers are partially generated by pricing insulin products out of reach of many people who died from not being able to afford it.

Sorry if I don't have a lot of sympathy for them.
Philosophy of Software Design by John Ousterhout was a great quick read on designing good code.
There is no point talking about an app that implements a messaging protocol without talking about how that protocol compares to existing standard messaging protocols. I couldn't even find a comparison to XMPP.
The amount of people here outraged that Spotify is preventing them from blocking ads on the free tier is astounding. Pay for the service if you don't want ads.
https://live365.com/
If you're a software developer the way to fight this is financial. Make a ton of money then pay journalists to write about it and pay other software developers to build the tools to evade it.[0]

Regarding VPNs:

What I want is a very small, open source program that I can give my credit card. It will light up little DigitalOcean droplets (and other VPSes to stop potential monitoring from them) and create VPNs here and there. I also want to build my own browser that will be capable of making the rendering happen on these rented-for-a-minute servers then pipe back just the PNG. I also would make certain things local. I can use machine learning to predict which areas of Wikipedia I will probably want to read in the future. This should just be local and occasionally synced. Same with Stack Overflow.

Fingerprint me now bitches. (They still probably can, at least partially. It just raises me up to the top of the trees in the jungle.)

[0] Though I will say I see the downsides. Surveillance is how we stop malice and per-individual power is going up.
the actual work was done under contract as in proprietary, but the closure library is the interesting part, is owned by me, and something i can send you.

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if you're interested we can go over the interrupt path, its pretty straightforward at that point. by flipping the control flow around, the virtio virtqueue support for example becomes nice and self-contained. it provides an interrupt continuation to the interrupt layer, and each queue is initialized with a continuation to call on a dequeue. vector assignment is still a bit cross-cutting.
I'm saying Novo Nordisk produces insulin, and in doing so causes downward pressure on insulin prices thanks to basic economics. (When the supply of a good increases at the same level of demand, price falls.) This is true for both type 1 and type 2 diabetics.

In Novo's case, they have two kinds of long-acting insulin analogue taken 1-2 times per day for both T1 and T2; they have to my knowledge the only ultra-long-acting insulin on the market, taken once every 2-3 days, most appropriate for T2, but also viable for some T1 lifestyles; they have very-rapid-acting insulin for T1 diabetics only, and they have older kinds of insulins appropriate for older patients.

They offer all of these products in good supplies. I've never seen or heard of a Novo product's being unavailable at the pharmacy. So, as far as I can tell, their only influence on insulin prices is downward pressure, not upward pressure. Every new product they produce lowers the price of insulin despite industry-wide changes.
NEH Invites Proposals That Respond to Historical and Multilingual OCR Report
So add lots of ballast?
Well, it will eventually expire so we can revisit this then
NYTimes (and others) buys small journalism orgs/individuals that it likes. A small journalism outfit is like a startup that can get an exit via acquihire. Economy of scale is a law of nature.
I think it depends on the company too. For tech companies especially in Stockholm and Malmö, It's really easy to hire developers. If it's a startup good luck getting unpaid leave during huge rushes as well as during industrisemester. So of course as always it depends.

However the thing I think that is more unique to Sweden and drives these kind of nice benefits is that it's really hard to get rid of an employee. Employees are protected so much with rules and regulations that even if you get let go you have a required three month grace period unless otherwise negotiated with the employee.

It's not uncommon I would say to see tech workers "fired" but then still on the payroll for an extra 2 months while they are arbetsbefriad (paid leave)

Pretty nice if you know how to game the system
I've had earbuds fall out often... Do I just have weird ears?
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Windows 7 currently has less than a year of support (January 14th, 2020 is D-Day), and given the free upgrade having been available, and the improved security and performance, there is no legitimate reason to be on Windows 7 today.

LTSB is not intended for computers which browse the web. It's very specifically only intended for things like embedded platforms like computers operating medical devices. Aka, things that require the Windows kernel to run, and insane platform stability, and literally like nothing else. Business users who need a desktop should be running Enterprise, which does allow you to disable all the things most Windows installs don't, but is far more capable than LTSB.
Or instead make the information public/transparent as possible. To level the playing field. Yes there are going to be many issue arise from this, so it's these issue that need to be fixed instead of trying to fight to make information private.

>They know more about us than we know about ourselves or than we know about them

Right so we need to fight for knowing more information about them as much as they know about us

Governments want surveillance the citizen, fine, the citizen should fight for ability to surveillance the government as well.
Are Algorithms the Key to the Future of Technological Development?
Culture-First Companies
> I see no reason to waste the time and influence while its here.

Then let me suggest one: it violates the intent of democracy, which is government by the consent of the governed. To exert your influence over the rules that others have to live by when you no longer consent to be governed by those rules is just a dick move in my book.
I don't use Spotify personally. I have Apple Music, my problem is more with the fact they are now forcing you to run arbitrary 3rd party code to have access to their catalog. Just keep the ads as images and videos and sound and I'll be pretty happy.

I have this problem with websites, apps, social networks, etc. as well. I don't want to be tracked, retargeted and so on. Not because I think ads will influence me or anything but its about my trust in those companies and how they protect my data. When my data gets leaked because they are inadequate at security I don't get money back. I get a message saying "We take your privacy seriously"... And that data can then be used in various other ways to harm me.
Interesting !!!
Amazingly (anyway I was amazed), Islamic mathematicians thoroughly explored non-periodic tilings a thousand years ago. Our only records of this are the tilings on the walls of mosques, and the design books for the tiles. (There might be records in archives, written in Arabic.)

These were studied in depth by Peter J. Lu in 2007.

http://www.peterlu.org/content/decagonal-and-quasicrystallin...
You're misunderstanding how this would work. This is effectively what a hacker would do brute force. You have to generate a hash for each password in your common list, for EACH salt in your user list.

326 million Twitter users x each password in your list.

Really comes down to which hashing function they chose, and how fast it does that calculation.

Something like bcrypt is roughly 100ms per hash, which is a LONG time when you're crunching billions of them.
> It's time to stop being dickish

> sneering anti-Brexiters.

...uh-huh
The sinking ship of self-interested super rich
The truth is, if they let it die It's highly likely it was not useful. G+, wave, RSS feeds, etc, legacy services that needed to be replaced for security sake.

It's unfortunate end users have to be dragged along kicking and screaming, but thankfully google is willing to do it for the end users own good.
I'm on the same boat, here are some UX Designers portfolios that I found interesting and bookmarked. Even if it's a different profession, you may find inspiration there:

http://jaredgranger.com/

https://danielkorpai.com/#work

https://katiemacoy.com

https://www.vanschneider.com

https://heyshawn.co
The Intel 80386, part 15: Common compiler-generated code sequences
this feature doesn't work. I've done extensive work with this; "Show Fewer" doesn't show fewer (for example I am still seeing articles about Elon Musk and Tesla even though I've marked "show fewer" over a hundred times). Removing from search history doesn't really work either.
i think they are referring to vpn services that don't require you to create an account with name/contact/etc. For instance, the one I use, they create a bitcoin wallet, once that wallet receives coins, it generates a random string username and random string password, and that is the entire "signup" process.
Once ingested, water dissolves a disk of sugar, using a spring to release a tiny needle made up almost entirely of freeze-dried insulin. The needle is injected into the stomach — which the patient can’t feel, owing to a lack of pain receptors in the stomach. Once the injection has occurred, the needle can break down in the digestive tract.

With the right compound in the needle, thst sounds like an incredible way to assassinate someone without leaving any traces which are unlikely to be found. The combination of a tiny needle mark on the inside of the stomach, a lack of dissolved pills in the gut, and a likely delay between administration and onset of effects, it’s sort of perfect.
Pandora will pause the music if it detects you muted your phone (it tells you this, not a hypothesis) so I always mute it and up the volume one bar. This way I still cant hear it but it is not technically muted.
This will only accelerate Chrome's rise to being a browser monopoly though. Google has been doing a ton of anti-competitive stuff to put the hurt on Firefox and IE. It's really a very bad thing for the internet.
What do you mean by cannot be doubted? It might be clearer if you eliminate the negative.
> His comms is very non literal

If that argument held any water we'd have to erase all attempted communication-based crimes: blackmail, libel, bribery, etc.

"Yes, my Email said I wanted to blackmail Jeff Bezos, but I wasn't being literal your honor" -> "OK, you're free to go"

Sorry, words matter especially when they have consequences and impact people's lives.
For SSL Configuration there's always https://mozilla.github.io/server-side-tls/ssl-config-generat...
Seems like an awful lot of non-portability for very little benefit.
If a homeless person was living in your home, even if you invited him there in the first place, you still have every right to kick him out of your home if you decide you don't want him there anymore. Even if it's winter, and he'll die of starvation or freeze out on the streets without your hospitality. It may be a cruel and heartless thing to do, but it's perfectly legal, and should remain so. I believe we should have at least as much autonomy over our own bodies as over our real estate.
Can Yelp elite survive the age of the influencers?
What's the point of having this be an internal device? Why not use the same technology to make external injection devices easier to use? It seems to me like having the device be internal just increases the number of possible failure modes and makes failures harder to spot/recover from.
There's a kernel of truth in there, but taken to its conclusion,Bezos is saying that days is irrelevant unless it's a cheaper way to collect anecdotes. I don't think he agrees with himself on that.
> Not all Presidents or foreign powers are obsessed with finding and collecting dirt on their enemies with the intent to harm or influence them.

Yes, all presidents and foreign powers do this. Although Bezos doesn't present any proof that it's actually happening here, just speculation.
I don't. I just suffer through the anxiety. Mostly trying not to pay attention to it until I've made something. Once I've made something with a new technology I've got evidence for myself, than I can start to find comfort.
gross. i got a letter that looked like the bill for the record of a deed. but you can get the deed for free from the town. i wish consumer protection agency would do something about these scam companies.
It should be a legal requirement that all papers resulting from taxpayer-funded research be open access.
A masterful performance by Morgan Freeman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUfv32dmVFw
Hell that's true of enterprise applications as well. What amazes me is large SASS companies like ADP whose eTime timesheet app required the JRE to function until they upgraded it a couple years ago to use Flash instead.

They still only officially support Internet Exploder, and when we switched to Chrome as our office standard they forced an addon that opens certain incompatible sites like ADP.com in IE if you try to visit them in Chrome.
Richard von Weizsäcker (President of Germany) was fabulous. Every interview worth reading, every word well chosen. Nobody since has lived up to that high standard yet in my opinion.
Yeah, AMI really seems to be operating with an outdated world view here, whereas Bezos correctly assessed that the public at large will be more impressed by the act of standing up to a blackmail attempt than they're concerned about his marital fidelity. AMI's going to get dunked hard : being simultaneously amoral and stupid makes them the easiest target in the world.
Jeff Atwood's blog is great and still (very infrequently) updated.

https://blog.codinghorror.com
The surveillance economy is a direct result of advertising becoming the default business model for Internet companies.

At its root, advertising is attempting to predict an individual's preferences and subtlety nudge their preferences toward specific buying behaviors.

With more granular and pervasive data inputs, you can arguably do better predictions and thus better targeting.

The only counter to this is either:

1: proof that more individual data /= better ad targeting as DDG is attempting to do

Or

2. Changing the default business model for internet companies

Surveillance capitalism is a natural result of our form of consumption driven economy.

The most interesting thing here actually is that there's an argument to be made that this is also a good approach to building very complex artificial intelligence, effectively aggregating how people respond to input.
All licensed. Even so, our adobe account emails end up filled with crap.
Grats on the Dexcom. It's a game changer. I don't use a pump myself for a variety of reasons (chiefly, my current routine is working well, no reason to change it), but I dearly miss the Dexcom when I have to go without for some reason.
Charging an iPhone X with passthrough charging using an iPad Pro Results
The simple solution is that Spotify accept liability for any malware delivered via their ad system.
Depending on what I eat, I need different ammounts of insulin, and adjust the dose acordingly using my insulin pen and needle.

How does one adjust the dose in a pill? Do I take more or fewer pills?

They mention the insulin is "freeze dried". What does this mean in practice? Do I need to carry around a climate controlled box with my insulin in?
> I doubt the people who voted for brexit are fine with saudi money.

Not the ordinary Leave voter, sure. But there are links between the upper echelons of the Leave campaign and the upper echelons of Saudi royalty, suggesting that those who pushed for Brexit are happy to deal with the Saudis.
Google's 2FA doesn't require a phone. Use a USB token, use a secondary email, or use a single recovery code and leave the account logged in in a separate browser used only for GPM.
I'm not a heavy multimedia user, but Signal's Mac and iOS apps have been working wonderfully well for me and my friends.
And some ancient greek doesn't hurt either ( philosophy, philadelphia, telephone, etc ).

That neither latin nor ancient greek are part of the public education curriculum is a sin.
I found this quite fun, not sure if it still works.

http://blog.soulshake.net/2016/04/command-line-resume/
So if someone connects to a public Wi-Fi network with a Pi-Hole installed, they'll get banned?
Not on the topic of software, but with other crafts, I like to think about the idea "Nothing is hard, it is just slow". the biggest beginner mistake in woodworking is trying to work to fast, same with welding, same with music. If you just content yourself with working on new, hard things slowly and don't try to be fast it all ends up less daunting. FWIW, this has been my experience learning the little code that I know, too.
> Can extend itself as it runs. For example Wordpress, running off of php files can download plugins to its own server (which are just more php files) to instantly extend itself. Without restarting or redeployment. (What other web platforms can do this?)

Since it's basically just doing eval(loadFile(...)), any language with eval() can do this, for better or worse. Which is like most of them. Perl, Python, Ruby, and Lua, to name the most common.
One thing is to learn not to fear jargon. It's just a bunch of made up words, and you can quite easily learn them, and then you will sound just as clever and sophisticated as those people you saw in discussions.

Like, you might be getting into woodworking and see someone casually saying this, a real example I ran into earlier today:

"I built a jig to hold my boards down and run them over the stacked dado with the miter guide. Despite this, the cupping that some of the boards had made the cross cuts uneven. I opted for half lap joints because I've seen people do miter joints on this bed design before and they don't seem to hold up very well over time."

That's actually a self-proclaimed beginner talking about one of his first woodworking projects. When someone asked him how he learned all these words, he said "You can learn a lot from YouTube."

Indeed those concepts aren't advanced; a miter guide is just little gizmo that holds your plank at an angle, a half lap joint is just a particular way of gluing two planks together, etc.

But reading stuff that has unfamiliar vocabulary can be tiring, so keep an eye on that and make sure you look up the words you don't understand, maybe keeping a small lexicon in a text file.
Nifty, but shouldn't this be an open source app? Who would give you access to their repos?
Yeah, corporate filters blocking a number of ad domains is quite common, and a lot of people listen to Spotify at work. This is probably going to go very badly.
I think you mean "continue to act"
If you're the size of Spotify, you have no business using third parties. You should have an ad sales team and be selling inventory directly.

TV companies and print newspapers don't need third parties and invasive tracking to sell ads.
I have no beef with ads in general. But I do have a concern for user tracking. If the ads are just ads - then that is all fine and well. However, most if not all of these so called ads are tracking users across services and devices. Then 'enriching' that data with more data from other sources and selling that information about me to whoever wants it.

I think privacy is what the majority of people who use these blockers are trying to get. I know that is the reason I use ad blockers at least. I do have a right to privacy, and the amount of information advertisers can learn about me though meta data is a serious violation of that privacy. Unfortunately with targeted advertising, then line between ads and tracking has disappeared, they are one and the same. And yes, I am aware that a lot of advertisers allow you to disable targeted ads- however they still collect the same amount of information, they just claim not to use it for their ad choices.
Embedding Chromium is easy, embedding Gecko is....not. I'm guessing that's about where it started and ended, TBH.
More of a stretch, but we should also get rid of copyright overall, so anyone who wants to share any such valuable research or other cultural works can just do so.
Article mentions the Roof of the World Regatta. It provides a F--ebook link which I'm not clicking on, but an internet search returns e.g. https://caravanistan.com/trip-reports/roof-world-regatta/ . Short summary - you can kite surf, and use an inflatable raft, at least, assuming you can get there with your equipment.
Freeze dried foods usually remain stable at room temperature and do not require refrigeration/heating once freeze drying is completed.
Force every single user to change their password right now. When a new password is entered, check it against common passwords, and reject bad inputs as needed.
> Hacking implies a sophisticated attack.

Depends on the audience I guess. The big majority of hacks are not sophisticated at all. There's also so many people that use it without an implication on the grade of sophistication.

But one thing is true, we can't possibly know for certain his intentions by using that word :-) so these are just our opinions for now :-)
And that vault's combination in my digital vault.