skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's unbelivable how no one ended up in jail for this whole Telekomunikacja Polska and Orange privatization enterprise. Then the sudden and mysterious death of the Polish oligarch responsible for the transaction. Story for a movie, because any legit investigation is probably impossible.
Not my experience. The expressive control is exponential, so either you clip on either end of the velocity spectrum, or you get discrete steps at the lower end.
Exactly, this was the point I was (trying) to get too.

Ultimately I believe that _the majority_ of stories that will be of interest to the HN community will either be:

1. niche posts from free sources

2. More wide spread news that will be covered by every major news site, some of which are "paywalled" sites

When the latter of these two happen, where a non-niche story is published, instead of users submitting a paywalled version of the article they could instead reference one that seems to not have this issue (like this forbes article https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2018/04/21/dont-worry-... ) that covers the same content or reference the original paper with it's given flaws.

I am aware that this is by no means a perfect solution, but simply suggesting that you can use work arounds for every instance is a cure for the issue, instead of a preventative measure that I believe would be more beneficial and one we should be taking as a community.

P.S.

Just to be clear, I'm not gunning for the OP of this article, but was simply my trigger for the topic. As I said before it is an interesting article.
Firefox Ext: Highlight Vital Keywords on Privacy Policies, ToS, Cookie Policies
Yeah I don't think this whole proposal works at all, and shows these people have very little experience with the actual adtech industry. To me it seems like they could only get a proposal this wrong if they did not even consult a single industry expert.
Tiddlywiki
Ask HN: Who Is the Audience of Hacker News?
I'm curious to know what kinds of people read HN. Is it mostly developers or are there founders and tech entrepreneurs here also? Is there any data on this?
I always thought I'd find Lyx more useful than I do. I tried it many times, and it works; it just doesn't offer a speed or ease advantage over writing LaTeX for me out of the box. Maybe that's because I used LaTeX for a while before discovering Lyx, but the speed improvements are overcome by the clunkiness and unfamiliarity of the interface, where the ease of using a familiar text editor gives LaTeX the edge.

Really clever project though, and I hope there are a lot of people whom it does help.
Yup, raise any flags and risk being treated as an outsider/treated poorly. That's my current situation after raising concerns ranging from being way overcharged on a government client project by a vendor who happens to be friends with a manager, and catching a now ex manager pulling mitm attacks on a router (to snoop/play politics) which happens to be on the same network as servers housing client data. It's an awful feeling not being able to have glaring issues resolved or be treated like shit after doing what seemed right and in the best interest of the company.

Needless to say, I'm making moves to get the hell out of there
All liars are fools?!
Is there no limit to the bullshit dopey “management consultants” will come up with an acronym for? “OKR’s”? Oh, do you mean creating some objective and then working towards it as a team? Measuring progress through some empirical metric? You know, the same process humans have engaged in since the dawn of our species? What a load of garbage.
If they are using public posts, this seems fine. It’s more of a general study and could have a real impact on our understanding of how stories spread (at least via this medium, today).
I always wondered why databases have not implemented a scheme like Microsoft's Active Directory RID master FSMO role. One server is responsible for handing out chunks of ID's to each server. They request a new block whenever a threshold is reached (50% by default IIRC).
I wasn't around at the time and the only thing I know is from reading Knuth's books/papers/interviews. :-) But I imagine that (1) the typesetting machine wouldn't attach to your microcomputer like a peripheral, and probably came with its own computer or equivalent, (2) there wouldn't be too many bits to process: you'd first load your preferred high-resolution fonts onto it with floppy disks or whatever (the shapes for each letter), then the actual output sent to the device would just be the letters and their (relative) positions (not each bit of the page “image”).
It's Quora. They pretend to discourage answers with such a low weight-to-usefulness ratio, but in reality those are highly rewarded - not only by the users with upvotes, but by Quora themselves by promoting those answers even in excess of their upvote count and awarding the authors Top Writer status etc. It's the way things are done there, and it's why (despite having been a Top Writer myself for two years in a row) I left.
> The last time I had a business analyst that wanted to write SQL, he tripped over one join and asked me to do the job.

Anecdotal counterpoint: I've met many an analyst who had some mean SQL skills.
That's a common explanation, however it's necessary to refine the statistics, because FT employees may not match the general population.
The author says it works "<= 10.14.5", but no mention of the current beta available, 10.14.6. I wonder if the beta fixes this.
> Basically all scientific or logical analysis about power generation yields a pro-nuclear conclusion

What's the scientific analysis that says power plants have on average cost a metric fuck ton more to clean up than was ever expected or planned for, or that there is still no effective plan to get rid of the waste they produce?

See this is my point. I can admit that some scientists are no doubt pro-nuclear, and pro-GMO.

But you apparently can't admit that there are scientists who don't believe one or both of those things is net positive.
Nah, OSC is just a message format. I see it routinely used across a serial port for instance.

(disclaimer: I develop an OSC-based sequencer, https://ossia.io)
Looks like Tidlywiki with the map plugin. Cool.
According to the linked page, 5-pin DIN still only supports traditional MIDI 1.0 and there's no plan to change this currentlyt.
Programmers fault? Audits fault? Securities fault? Pentesters fault? It fault?

Listen until C-level funds these programs properly and security is taken seriously by all issues like this will forever be in the news.

I would be willing to bet their security like most have a long list of security gaps they cant get fixed because resource issues just hope they documented or it could fall on them.

Most coding classes just teach how to make things work in Mister Roger's world. Secure coding is an elective! Most run the DevOps model instead SecDevOps and only involve security after it is ready to go into production no matter what flaws security finds.

Why are black box pentests still taking place? Because company required to have pentest but really do not want testers to find things. Their goal is not to improve security rather check that box ... we had a pentest.

C-level, this keep the lights on budget you give Security/IT is costing you more than properly funding us! Oh yeah you put that $ into cyber insurance! Lol let's see how well that works.
Some people are lazy. Some people are busy, stressed etc. There are many reasons that an analyst might not want to write SQL on a given day.
For most of the article the author seems to be discussing non-professional programmers rather than non-programmers. Or perhaps using the two interchangeably?

There is certainly a need for non-professional programmers to be able to program (e.g. in the sciences). For non-programmers, programming a task via GUIs have been effective, although admittedly in the worst case they can devolve into a mess of check boxes, drop downs and spinners.

EDIT: Of course in a business you'd hire professionals for a job (or outsource it). That's just good sense for anything your business relies on.
Braille Music and Unified English Braille [pdf]
Thank god, I thought HN would bash me for being childish but nice to see I’m not alone...
People are just too afraid or they don't give a damn.
> Sometimes I kind of wish I knew someone who I know is healthy so I could ask about precisely what they eat for each meal

Being healthy is not just a matter of diet, but also ... stress levels.

> I feel clueless when it comes to this kind of thing

But you can find it out for yourself, can't you? By trying out a diet for one month, and see how you feel at the end.

Example instructions for the carnivore diet: http://www.empiri.ca/p/eat-meat-not-too-little-mostly-fat.ht...

Finding out the facts for yourself is the best way to go, as listening to other people means you will inevitably be inheriting their biased beliefs.

It is called self-experimentation.
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For years I used Evernote but give it up a few years ago.

Now I use a combination of org mode, PDFs and miscellaneous document types replicated in both Dropbox and Google Drive, and on macOS the system search finds things. Dropbox search only hits file names, Drive search is more useful.

In addition to my own notes, I collect PDFs of good papers, copies of books I have bought, etc.

EDIT: forgot about Google Keep and Apple Notes - sometimes use for specific things like vacation travel notes
Show HN: A renderless and extendable rich-text editor for Vue.js
Jonathan Blow played a preview build of Miegakure at PAX East 2016 in his “Storytime” talk, where he solves some of the early levels:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwBl7Rnkt78&feature=youtu.be...

His analysis of the game is great — he says it parallels early sci-fi and speculative fiction, which started by asking “what if?” questions to build stories around worlds constructed from the answer (“What if the world was four dimensional?” in the case of Miegakure, or “what if the world was two dimensional?” in Flatland.)

Braid was born of asking similar questions. (“What if you could play with the flow of time?”) Jonathan suggests that games elevate the art of asking that question further than fiction because you actually have to _build_ the world spawned from your “what if?” question rather than write it. But it creates some of the most interesting games — he demos some others in his talk.

It's great to learn that Marc ten Bosch is still working on Miegakure. I really enjoyed the previews and the concept art on his own site: http://marctenbosch.com/news/
I don't know what 1.whatever is. Yes, I've worked for supercorps, mainly financials, and I have a responsibility to ensure customer and employee data are managed responsibly.

It is important to escalate what doesn't seem right. Sometimes that means email after email after email (written record) and that if it still doesn't smell right to keep pushing. Ops was a strange place, but 500 emails per day is no longer a challenge.

I commented this as an organisational failing rather than a technical one as a debate about UUIDs seems to be missing the point that people could have been aware something was not right but did not, or weren't allowed, or it got drowned in organisation, to do anything.
“Since Apple is aware of my 90 days disclosure deadline, I make this information public.”

Great, so now, potentially, there are lots of people who will lose all of their baby photos, lose money or even their contact with people who are important to them just because of some arbitrary number of days you made up and because you feel slighted by apple.

This could have real consequences and you can’t expect a big company to move faster just because you want them to. I have now knowledge of the internals of the development of MacOS, but maybe this isn’t trivial to fix.
Like when they privatized energy because "competition will lower prices". In France, since the "opening to competition", electricity prices went up 44 percent. What's not to love?
You can turn the little red bubbles off.

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Go to the specific app and turn off Badges

My normal routine is that turn them all off, then go back and turn on the specific ones I want. But it turn off the badges for virtually all of them.
Qualcomm Teases World’s First 5G PC with Snapdragon 8cx to Be Unveiled Soon
At traditional product-oriented companies, buggy releases are recognized as a programmer-performance issue and dealt with eventually (though as others have pointed out immediate firing would be absurd). At modern internet-facing companies, developers who produce buggy releases are rewarded. It's not intentional. It's what happens when performance is evaluated 100% on releases regardless of bugginess. If you push lots of code, you get rewarded. If you slow down to ensure quality, or spend time fixing code that already exists, you get penalized.

BTW my impression is that, within that peer group, both Google and Amazon are on the better side. They don't have "move fast and break stuff" as a core engineering value.
Thanks to everyone for the feedback. Here are my aggregated responses:

• I feel that many commenters missed the fact that I was writing about NEAR-duplicate features of C++; I never said they were identical. But these features overlap so much that often all the alternatives are applicable in a real-world situation, and the choice becomes somewhat arbitrary, and you tend to see divergence between different coders and over the years.

• I'm surprised to see that no one said anything like "Indeed, I do see these near-duplicate features in the C++ codebase that I work with. And it bothers me because I had to learn two things instead of one, and we have no stylistic consistency".

• Some people expressed doubts about why I wrote the article. My intent and tone are clearly exhibited in the opening three paragraphs of the article; please reread them fully before judging.

• Many people dwelled on the difference between references and pointers. I firmly support references and use them in my published code. But I've seen many people who learn C++ after C, and they try to use C-style pointers for as long as possible to avoid learning the new, native C++ feature which is much safer. Hence you cannot avoid seeing pointers in C++ if you read/edit code that come from diverse sources.

• Many of my bullet points received no comments. I take it that either no one cares, or no one recognizes these points. For example, is it really sane for a language to have 3 ways of initializing a variable? (int i = 0; int j(1); int k{2};)

• A subtread about const-by-default is something I agree with, though the syntax would mismatch semantics in C. Regardless, Rust is a relatively new language with nearly all of C++'s powerful features, and indeed it implements immutable-by-default.

• I used new/delete in C++ in my early days, as a naive coder coming from C and Java with their manual management of memory allocation. But now I avoid those and rely on std::vector, std::unique_ptr, and RAII, which are safer and more concise.

• (Previous thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/6clwkq/nearduplicate_f... )
There always will be certain population that believes in conspiracy theories, magic, God and angels, trickle down economy, flat Earth so on and so forth.

There needs an invention in medicine to make these people rational.
Probably just increase your shadow threat score.
Huawei pushed out of Wi-Fi Alliance: What does that mean?
I personally think the board and CEO should be personally criminally liable. I don't know exactly how but if I can't use ignorance of the law as a defense for shouting in public (one yell back at someone who yelled "fuck you" at me and I got a $180 fine) then the CEO and board can't use that as a defense for leaking data for SIXTEEN years.

Didn't know this was happening in your organization? Fuxk you, go to prison.
More details on UKAAF site[0]

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They know, it is measured with some degree of accuracy by the platforms, but nobody wants to remove those numbers from their marketing, except the person paying for the ad..
I wonder if you can still cut and engrave it with a CO2 laser (10.6 µm). It might be a very interesting material to work with.
The case for a new textinput method
90 days is very reasonable for something like this.

> Great, so now, potentially, there are lots of people who will lose all of their baby photos, lose money or even their contact with people who are important to them just because of some arbitrary number of days you made up and because you feel slighted by apple.

For all we know this has already been happening since the gatekeeper was implemented in 2012.
And I can imagine that current “nuclear” is “tech”. Each party will develop cyber warfare in a form of hacker groups, tools, AI, autopilot drones, etc.
Counter example: spreadsheets.
"..This issue was supposed to be addressed, according to the vendor, on May 15th 2019 but Apple started dropping my emails."

I believe Apple could easily have asked for an extension, if solving it was complex.. Apple chose not to.

(from the information available to us..)
What if you want to apply for a company you know that uses keyword detection before setting up an interview? I've been hired twice because my resume contained 2 specific technologies they were looking to add to their stack. Sometimes it's not even a bot, it's a hiring manager that looks at your resume during 5 seconds to see if you have experience with some X tool.
Gos: Armed Golang ( solutions for go module,goproxy,cross compilation, etc.)
Github: https://github.com/storyicon/gos
Could be a play on "M$"? A typo is probably more likely since the keys are next to each other.
Me and my boyfriend are students. I have a good student job, while my boyfriend has a large amount of savings. The last system here would just amount to him giving me his savings.

Our system is that we have a shared account, and we keep track of how much money we have both put into that account. I've put in about half what he has put in, because he spent a lot of money when we bought all of the furniture etc. for our rented apartment, when we moved in. So then I just put in a bit more than him each month, until we reach the same level.
> Basically there was very little exchange of goods between the two blocks

Except grain, which the USA provided in vast quantities to the USSR in order to prop-up its system in the wake of poor harvests.

There was a brief blip in 1980 when President Carter vetoed it, before resuming under President Reagan.

Why not use it as a lever to bring down the Soviet system 20 years earlier? Because the balance of power was quite convenient.
I don't trust namecheap. I've been directly lied to from customer support all the way to literally the CEO.

They are super slow to move when something goes wrong and are generally untruthful. Should've realized they're not to be used for important things when their name has the word "cheap"

Edit: wanted to mention that they were the best registrar bar none early 2000s. No one could even compete. Now they are horrible.
Thanks, I wasn’t aware that’s what a badge was!
> GTK Stylesheets can make applications look broken, and even unusable.

Bugs are bad, yes.

> Icon Themes can change icon metaphors, leading to interfaces with icons that don’t express what the developer intended.

That is not a problem if you use icons for the purpose they are intended for.

> Changing an app’s icon denies the developer the possibility to control their brand.

Good. My computer is not your billboard. Consistency is more important than your "brand".

> Appstream Screenshots (the screenshots used in GNOME Software or Flathub) are not very useful if they look nothing like the real app does once you install it.

> User Help and Documentation are similarly useless if UI elements on your system are different from the ones described in the documentation.

Nonsense. Theming doesn't affect the layout of a program. If people were that bad at abstraction, then how do they recognize they can sit on a metal chair if they are familiar with wooden ones?

> They are built and tested for the upstream GNOME stylesheet, icons, and fonts, so that’s what they should look like on peoples’ systems.

No. They should look like the user chooses them to look. One way for the user to express their choice is to choose a distribution whose theme they like.

> Changing third-party apps without any QA is reckless, and would be unacceptable on any other platform.

∀x. x without any QA is reckless.
Being a big, bureaucratic leviathan of a company does not resolve you of the responsibility to protect your users. For all you know, hackers have already been exploiting this secretly, and being public, with a workaround now gives you a plausible chance to defend yourself where there was none before.
Does asking Facebook to delete your account only work in Europe? Perhaps use a VPN if not?
My biggest challenge, not discussed here at all, is how to force my wife into taking financial decisions. Numerous times I’ve tried to walk her through our finances, trying to make our life choices and trade offs more explicit. Yes we could move to a nicer place but we’ll have to cut down on kids activities. I feel I’m taking all the decisions myself.
And if SD Association releases new standard, possible fractures in adoption.
Most online brokerages have at least a set of low-fee ETFs that you can trade for free.
The argument here boils down to: I haven't seen it work in places where I've been employed so it must not work.

Reality check: I've worked on multiple large research teams that successfully developed DSLs still in use by domain experts -- military sigint in one case, doctors in another case, industrial engineers in another.

We developed these languages for specific applications where the domain experts needed to program extremely complex systems to perform tasks in much shorter timeframes than would be possible if programmers needed to get involved.

Why did these DSLs succeed? Funding, manpower, and experienced project managers who delivered constant access to domain experts.

Delivering a successful DSL targeted at narrow domains with non-programmer users is much more resource-intensive than normal software--it's more on the complexity level of a compiler or small OS--but that doesn't mean it can't or shouldn't be done. Plenty of systems couldn't be automated otherwise.
Hopefully your father / brother / SO / whoever doesn't need urgent help from you, ever.

I used to always power off my phone at night, until one day at 2am I was in the middle of nowhere needing help from a friend, and he did actually answer the phone. He told me: "if it was the other way around, you wouldn't have helped me". For me it was a life saver, and I could totally see how harder would everything have been if he did like me every night (no one else to call at that moment, before that's asked).

Since then, my phone is kept on and unsilenced at night. If anyone important to me needs my help, I want to be there for them. Not that it's happened ever once in the last 10 years, though :)
They are detecting 4 parts per billion gold content in the leaves; I don't think we are close to having the technology to detect that from a satellite. Reading another article it looks like they used the Australian Synchatron (x-ray).
How do French companies remain competitive globally if there are no incentives for the employed labor force to increase productivity?
There are plenty of fruitful conversations to be had WRT the concept of responsible disclosure, but a fundamental pillar is that vendors are held to some deadline so that they cannot hem and haw indefinitely while leaving their users vulnerable. It's certainly a valid argument to posit that 90 days may be too short of a deadline, but a valid counterargument is that if a company like Apple cannot ship a security patch within 90 days, then their process itself is broken.
Someone should inform the KeyMaster