skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If startup time is the issue, you can use emacsclient for near instant starts.
Pythia: Identifying Dangerous Data-Flows in Django-Based Applications [pdf]
> Can a user meaningfully determine the correct answer to that question?

> The experience is “I clicked no and nothing worked” vs “I clicked yes and the site worked”.

I agree; but the extra click may be an insentive for web developpers to try not to use JS.

> Which is why you weren't asked about running flash on every website you went to.

Firefox did ask about running Flash, because "attackers can also use the security flaws in Flash": https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/set-adobe-flash-click-p...

> they are designed to be safe in spite of all content being untrusted

But they have flaws, like Flash.
I was surprised when I read that as well but reading further my impression was that you can confirm the contents of the ballot only while voting and then afterwards you only get access to a message along the lines of "Yes, vote a678b234 was correctly counted" or a message saying otherwise but not the contents of the ballot.

(which, while more secure, is also slightly less useful)
... use the contact pages on web sites you like that use AMP- to stop using AMP.
Qt has LGPL3 license Not GPL3.

It's really easy to ship commercial Qt app with LGPL3 (except few modules that are GPL3) You just provide sources or linkable object files.

Qt intentionally avoids explaining how to do this because they are selling commercial licenses. If you are in software business and can't figure this out, maybe you should consult someone.

(disclosure: I own commercial Qt license and stock in the company)
The Ecobee has been great, simple and just works. I received it for free from some in-home energy program, but I will buy another when I move.
That's probably true, but the issue is that everyone is an addict to some extent.
There's a difference between a book or a (ethically) good game (like the ones we used to have a decade ago), that try to suck you into the narrative so that you can experience the fictional story, and the modern games that try to suck you into spending time and money on them to secure recurring revenue for the publishers.
I know someone who's naturally born of a 50 years old mother, completely accidentally and unplanned. So this could happen, too.
Hopefully dotty solves some of those problems.

Compared to Scala, I personally find Kotlin inexpressive and ugly.
> Disneyland with the death penalty

Haha, that's a unique description and also a good point.
Not even other parts of the world. These US economy cars are very nice in terms of quality and features, so luxury cars are really competing for status now, not experience (except for dealership amenities).

Combine that with a large used-car market, and unupgradeable infotainment systems, and it could be a tough sell.
> If it was something that was done at local level, not in conspiracy with central government, then why the investigations in cases of election fraud are so ineffective, and even if the case gets to the court, it typically ends with just a fine? If the central government didn't have relation to the fraud, they would prefer to punish local officials, yet they try to avoid doing it. Instead, they warn heads of regions that the results of election in their region might affect their evaluation.

Maybe I misunderstood your phrasing but that's precisely what enables large-scale fraud. High-ranking officials can maintain plausible deniability by outsourcing fraud to the local level and doing nothing overt themselves. If low-level officials are caught, they suffer token punishment because some semblance of rule of law must be maintained (but punishment cannot be too strict because they were doing what they were supposed to do).

> Regarding things you have described, they are possible with electronic voting as well. Hashes not matching? You probably made a mistake, verify again, our experts say that everything is correct.

Right, but if you have evidence that say 10% of votes are tainted, it is something worth fighting for and going to the streets for. Whereas if all you have is a recording of a handful of ballots thrown into a box at some poll station in rural Yakutia, well who cares about a few 100s of ballots? You can try to string a few of these videos together to provoke an emotional reaction but it will subside quickly as public attention will be redirected to the next outrage du jour.
Further, if there is any measurable value to much art other than how much someone pays for it? Which is seemingly driven by hype, not any intrinsic worth such as beauty/utility.

For example, anyone going through Gloucester Road tube station in London might wonder if the platform 'art' there does anything noteworthy but hide the brickwork behind.
At least in the UK there are the concepts of "fit for purpose" (and of merchantable quality) and "reasonable expected life". Now I doubt there's yet been much chance to evolve what a reasonable life of a smart thermostat or associated devices are, but crucially liability is with the retailer. It's on them to prove they are not liable. If they then want to chase the manufacturer, that's separate. It probably pays not to buy direct from manufacturer.

A retailer can be busy ducking all their legal obligations and telling you that you're long past the window of refund, but mention the provisions of the Sale of Goods Act and you usually get a very different response, or a manager is called over (to authorise the inevitable refund). The Sale of Goods Act is still law (Well, parts of it), and the newer EU Consumer Rights Act is in force as well. Good job too, the Sale of Goods Act is stronger in several areas, whilst the EU gave us 2 year warranty.

There is case law where things have been judged to be within reasonable expected life, and a repair, refund or compensation ordered long after the mandatory warranty ran out.
American educator Khan wins prestigious Spanish prize
Between this and the infamous hacker group called "The Shadow Brokers" I think it's time someone did a study on the influence of Mass Effect on tech culture.

Not me, though - I'm in the middle of some calibrations right now.
-Oh. That was unexpected. Thanks!
Thanks. Not easily findable.
The Feature I Most Want in Web Browsers
Years ago I built an extensive Ms Access database to manage our accounting firm. Recently my son has been doing similar activities this time using Libre Office Base. It’s cross platform and learnable by anyone that is comfortable with computers and using spreadsheets. No code required.
It only suits building something desktop based to be used on location but could be all you need to make an envelope mailout app, book library manager or simple stocktake app.

Stay away from trying to make webapps without wanting to deeply learn to become developer, here be dragons.
Got any resources on EMI testing on the cheap? Would be a great thing to share in our makerspace, as many do semi-professional electronics.
If that one lady did that a few years ago, around my area, she wouldn’t have been convicted of murdering he husband. The Fitbit is how they caught her.
Breaking Android Security Mechanisms via Malicious Bluetooth Peripherals
I think you've hit the nail on the head. Having recently finished reading Natash Dow Schüll's excellent _Addiction By Design_ it's startling to read this take on where ethical responsibility lies; it's startlingly similar to the attitudes of the machine gambling industry (and the alcohol industry for that matter) customers are pathologized in favour of addressing the toxic choice architecture that the systems confront their users with.
I have gigabit internet and the web is still dog slow. It got a good bit faster when I started blocking third party garbage, but it still doesn't feel any faster than it was in the early 2000's, despite that my internet is literally 17,000 times faster and my computer is also tons faster.
G-Suite (Docs).
This is a great addition to "Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names": https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...
An app for identifying art looted by the Nazis
To what extend, is Swift being used for ML or DL by Google or others? Is it a new TensorFlow core? Or just just another binding?
> Plus, even Fuchsia is not so focused on Flutter anylonger. Android userspace is being ported to Fuchsia, and now they have a UI Framework agnostic layer, Scenic, with examples in C++ and Rust.

I highly doubt that. See here https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/topaz/+/bd4464d6b8d586d74b6...
Go to Zabriskie point, go hear the eire tinkling of the devil's golf course. Go to the hot spring oasis in the middle of a neighboring desert valley. Walk through canyon a hundred feet deep and 5 feet wide. And go to the Panamint Valley in spring after a rainy winter. They are certainly as unique as any other natural monument.
For a more general-interest version, check out https://yetigogo.com
I think the other oppprtunity for the tech savvy ‘power user’ that works in a company but is not a developer would be to get really clever with a tool like Zapoer. You could go a long way mixing and matching SAAS apps and wiring them together into custom workflows without the need for code just a bit of logic thinking on your workflows.
Only few areas of DVNP have any flora or fauna. Most areas are devoid of life. I have no idea what section of the park this mine would be in, so your concern might be deserved, but also could be overblown.
While it's a nice hack, the problem with the EM certification world (and why it's so expensive) is not about the devices themselves but about calibration and measurement stability.

Most EE will be able to guess the patterns this setup generates just by looking at the boards themselves.
I have a LG V30+ that has USB-C and a head phone jack. It has glass front/back with a continuous metal edge band ( except for the antenna insulators). It has a IP68 waterproof rating. ( It's basically the same hardware as Pixel 2XL)
I think you are correct,
in that it will become a rich-person’s luxury to operate an ICE vehicle in the future.
Thanks for the advice!

I hadn't thought much about desktop-only options, but that's a good call, something I'll give more consideration to. We would probably need some sort of remote database access, webhooks, or something to integrate with the rest of our systems, but it's possible that we could build something for that.
I don't think enough people know about this. People from India have to wait for 150+ years to get permanent residency via the employment-based route.This website does a great job at explaining this: https://siia.us/ People from most other countries can get employment-based green cards in a matter of months. These people have approved (I-140) green card applications, yet cannot "receive" their green card unless they wait 150+ years.

Moreover, until recently, their spouses were prohibited from working. The Obama administration issued regulation that granted permission to work for spouses of people with approved (I-140) green card applications, who've been waiting for over a year. In a cruel and sadistic manner, the current administration, decided to revoke these authorizations, so that their spouses don't "enter the labor market early"[1].

> But now, he has to leave everything behind and go back

I don't think this is necessarily true. Can't he try to find another company that will sponsor him for an H-1B? If he has an approved I-140, he's cap-exempt, practically forever.

[1] https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/eAgendaViewRule?pubId=2018...
Quote:

> Anticipated Costs and Benefits:
> DHS anticipates that there would be two primary impacts that DHS can estimate and quantify: the cost-savings accruing to forgone future filings by certain H-4 dependent spouses, and labor turnover costs that employers of H-4 workers could incur when their employees’ EADs are terminated. Some U.S. workers would benefit from this proposed rule by having a better chance at obtaining jobs that some of the population of the H-4 workers currently hold, as the proposed rule would no longer allow H-4 workers to enter the labor market early."
> Electronic voting is the classical solution to a nonexistent problem.

That is incorrect. Voting is a feedback loop for the will of the voters. The slower the process is, the less representative it is. The fidelity of the loop is paramount, but the issue remains.

EDIT: do the downvoters understand that there is setup involved in a paper process and getting results is not the end of the feedback loop (not race)? SMH
This is just a different spin on the (now fixed in most browsers?) trick of using ':visited' with a background image to uncover which sites the user has visited.

It's things like this that drove me to start browsing the web with CSS disabled by default. It's yet another vector for tracking.
Guilty as charged!

I got a defense however:

You may recall that this completely idiotic DRM implementation allowed to beam a DRMd song up to 3 times to other Zune users. That process was called squirting.

One /. commenter suggested that one should imagine Steve Balmer in the process of squirting.

Well, that pretty much killed it for me.
The Banana Boat Swing and Other Distinctive 'Fists' (1996)
China has backtracked on nearly all aspects of the US draft trade agreement
It would be better to report the collision because most likely it means some error.
You're bemoaning that the lack of use of DOM to render the UI???? Seriously? That ship has sailed when Canvas was introduced in the mid-2000s and it was introduced for the EXACT reason to provide the same kind of capabilities that people had with Flash.

People wanted and want to build rich web-based APPLICATIONS - not just websites with columns of text. That's why Flash became huge, and that's why HTML now has Canvas, Video, WebGL, WebAssembly, WebRTC (all of which were available in Flash - sometimes years before they were available in HTML).

The specific example you showed, nyTimes puzzle game, you'd never build that on-top of DOM (you could, but why would you?). You'd use JS to draw your UI with the Canvas 2D APIs. So I don't know what you're talking about.

>There's a reason why flash died out, and it's not only apple. It was dropped for making interactive website long before apple killed it - it doesn't work well with the web

NO!!! That's not why Flash died out. Flash died out because you had a standards-based alternative. Steve Jobs probably accelerated the transition a little bit, but it was inevitable.
What makes you think they were not needed at home?
I live in Krakow and I definitely see AirBnb as the culprit. Students are having a much harder finding housing than before. The situation in Europe is somewhat unique in that there's both a large disparity in nominal income and a large disparity in taxation of alcohol. The cost of a beer at a bar varies from €1 to €10. That creates incentive for people to fly out to places like Prague or Tallinn on the weekend just to get plastered. AirBnb, of course, caters specifically to these "tourists". Quality of the accommodation is unimportant when one's completely shitfaced.
Content that includes other content is usually a licensing mess so at high risk of unavailability.

I always thought the original draw of Beavis and Butthead was the MST3K approach to music videos, but those are often stripped from current versions.

The State, WKRP, and The Wonder Years all lost great original soundtracks too:

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110801/11062015346/new-b...
> If this person was from any other country, he would have a green card by now.

Can you elaborate this a bit (or provide some links)? I am well aware that there are some policy changes around H-1B extensions, and that Indian workers make a huge percentage of the total denials, but I don't understand the connection between the two.
https://www.amazon.com/Extracted-Mineral-Wealth-Plundering-P...
I'm just curious what the math looks like for you with all monthly total costs accounted for? How much is the monthly loan payment on an EV plus charging costs vs the monthly loan payment on an ICE plus gas costs? How many miles do you drive per month?

There are some used EVs that are available pretty affordably, and the monthly savings on gas could be substantial depending on your typical monthly mileage.
I agree that we don’t know the reasons he was let go.

But!:

Of course he deserves special treatment for his role in the VW scandal, because of course we desperately want and need to build a society that always actively encourages and never discourages actions like those he took.

– But: Of course the car industry cannot be relied on to give him that special treatment. And we haven’t yet built the kind of society that does.

So it is incumbent on us here and now to give him that special treatment.

Not least to give the signal that we will help you if you help us. Keep you safe. To remove doubt of that. As it stands, that doubt has increased, and the expectation that the auto industry will retaliate has increased, so on the table there is less apparent safety to do what he did.
Yeah! I've used sikuli to automate some legacy ui-driven application with an embedded scripting engine-- wanted to rig CI to run an automated test suite to test scripts that executed in the application, but there needed to be lots of pointing and clicking to get the app into a state where it was willing to execute scripts. Sikuli was handy! The embedded image recognition is cool and pretty easy to use -- detecting the buttons certainly wasn't the most fragile part of that rube goldberg test automation setup
".io" sounds the same whether pronounced or spelled out. We usually pronounce TLD's - com, org, net, ly etc.
Really fun :) I'd love to see what this looked like for other venue types? Say a restaurant or the like?
>> Sometimes you need someone rude and obnoxious and tough to implement the necessary politics rather than just allowing the "experts' to run a game that's obviously been hurting america.

America was not run by the "experts", it was run by politicians just like it is today. The situation was different, China was not this assertive nor this powerful, nor this rich. It seamed like/was a good trade-off to get cheap labour so that US companies could export competitively worldwide. It worked.

To me it's just the way it was supposed to work. Situation is different now so terms have to change too. China is now a rich and great market for US products which was not the case 20 years ago.

What you experience now is a bit of envy and naive confusion. "You" expected China to be forever the cheap way to produce US products and sell them worldwide. I'm pretty sure that both the experts and the less experts knew this day will come.

I wouldn't mind if Africa would follow a similar path(except the communism/dictatorship). I don't think it would be bad for the world nor for the US. Some countries need to "cheat" a bit to have any chance of catching up with the developed world.
What is their branding if not the opinion of their user base?
> Cars are less responsive than ever

I don't think this is remotely true. Cars are more powerful than ever before and have way better automatic transmissions than ever before. There's simply no comparison, modern cars are faster and more responsive than older cars.

Can you give some specific examples (with model and year) where you think a modern car is less responsive than a comparable older car?
Strange how no one talks anymore about how much more efficient and more suited diesel engines are when it comes to everyday traffic than petrol engines. It's become all about particles, and yes, diesel is more dangerous to humans if not filtered correctly. But at the same time, diesel engines are using less fuel and there is no reason why we shouldn't use DPF when they are available. I switched to a diesel car not long ago, and I can safely say that as long diesel cars are being manufactured, I'll never go back to petrol.
Are you thinking of the Pebble watch? Maybe in combination with some Android app? I had this setup years ago and I do miss it. I'll have to see whether it can be replicated with my current Fitbit, last I checked it couldn't but it was a while ago.
"Dieselgate wasn't about particulates, and unlike petrol cars every diesel car of the last 10-15 years has a particulate filter..."

Not true here in the UK - I buy and sell secondhand cars of this vintage as a side job, and not all the diesels I've seen have DPFs (I'd say it was 50% have them) - lots of models didn't have them, including quite a few vans (which pollute more due to bigger engines, lower mpg, etc). And anyone who's bought anything of this age range also knows that the DPFs are a reliability nightmare. Lots of people removed them (which is now at least tested on the MOT, although it's possible to remove it in a way that is not detected by an MOT test).

But most importantly, although dieselgate wasn't about particulates, it still means getting diesels off the road, which is a good thing. If particulates had been accurately measured in vehicles after a few years, I'm sure many more would be off the road, particularly 1st gen DPF cars.

The problem is that most people now equate a vehicle with a DPF as being a nightmare, and then by association don't care about the effect on the environment as the effect on their wallet is a more pressing need. Much the same as EGR valves, which are a reliability issue on most vehicles regardless of fuel. People block them off, leading to increased NOx pollution and better fuel consumption, and when it can cost hundreds of pounds to get it replaced (if it has to be calibrated to the ECU, etc, often a main dealer trip is involved), it's not surprising that this happens.

The sooner we can all go electric, the better, IMO. And I say that as someone who has considerable skill and experience in repairing and maintaining ICE cars.
I read on The Verge that the Nest cameras will have their operating lights hardcoded to ON.

They cite pervy privacy reasons, but bad luck for anyone using it as a baby monitor, through a glass window, etc.
Flashed died out way before canvas. No one but design shops made their websites with it. It remained strong in games and ads and disappeared everywhere else. That is why apple could even survive not supporting it.
That is a good point, however, I believe the nuance is the future intent of the vehicle’s ‘purpose’.

So, if it is to store value and become a collectible, because of its unique peformance capabilities and driving ‘experience’, that is one thing...

But, if the intent is to eventually have multiples of these vehicles coordinating together to transport safely and quickly through ‘AI’ or ‘AI-assisted safety features’, I can see a possible use for the capability, as well.
...and here's how to break up those jams.

https://www.livescience.com/61862-why-phantom-traffic-jams-h...
This will leave your users vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks. If I control the router between their computer and the Internet, I can serve back a HTTP page which doesn't redirect, and trick them to enter their password (for example).

HSTS is designed to prevent this.
The “Emodiversity” of Star Wars
I also highly recommend Calibre, you may find there are plugins (installable within the application) that assist with physical book cataloging.
Holy hell, this makes me want to never work for google.
I remember doing something like this manually with a C-64 and oscilloscope in my high school physics lab.
"The slower the process is, the less representative it is"

If we are talking about months perhaps, but as long as a result is known within a day or two (at most) I'm not sure it really makes that much difference.
Isn't EPEL the "officially sanctioned" third party repo?
Timeless Physics
Thanks a lot Darshan! Actually, I was quite into Anime series before, but never tried the written version. :)
And break legacy browsers and stupidly implemented corporate proxies and firewalls as well.

Bonus if your URLs get rewritten by something client side which is what HSTS is supposed to protect from and redirect does not.