skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There will always be concerns and complaints. I'm more surprised they didn't expect a firestorm given the way they explained the change, though. I wonder how many people actually reviewed the language.
If I were giving a security recommendation to famous people and congresspeople I would recommend using a password like this. You might think it’s incredibly insecure, but imagine this GIF contained that 6 digit number that the congressman uses for all of his accounts. Suddenly, a ton of other services and passwords are vulnerable to an attacker.

In reality a lot of iPhones now require authentication at the app level for apps that have sensitive data.

To each his own, but knowing how public you are and how many people would want your passcode, I think the best practice is to use something dumb like 6 of the same keys.
Funny, I have a habit of reading HN comments before clicking on the actual link, and thought the link would be about the planned outages here in the SF bay area :)
As a rule, the structures around product teams tend to discourage asking if it's better to not ship a thing. When you measure a team by what (and how many things) they ship, they are always going to default to shipping things.
And as someone who has worked as a cashier, it is BLATANTLY obvious when someone's pin is 1111 or 1234. No matter how hard they try to shield it.
I don't think this has anything to do with you personally. It's just human nature. Go to a food court in a mall and observe. People will occupy the empty tables first, and only when all empty tables have at least one person sitting, will people start joining strangers at "their" table.
You got fired. Deal with it. Move on.
There's a fair bit of evidence now than most of stretching is, indeed, actually about training the body not to reflexively contract to fight the stretch.

> Due to neurological safeguards against injury such as the Golgi tendon reflex, it is normally impossible for adults to stretch most muscle groups to their fullest length without training due to the activation of muscle antagonists as the muscle reaches the limit of its normal range of motion. [1]

> First, they end up mostly agreeing with a body of previous research suggesting that increased range of motion following a prolonged stretching program is mainly the result of increased tolerance to the sensation of stretching, rather than actually loosening the muscle-tendon unit. [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stretching

[2] https://www.runnersworld.com/health-injuries/a20811349/does-...
> Yes, driving is a good de-stressor, probably because it gives you more agency when you feel powerless.

Until you approach that intersection where there's a 90 second red light that you can't control which you always seem to get stuck at.

And when you're 4 cars back from that light, there's a 10 second delay to move when it turns green because everyone in front of you is on their cell phone and now the light turns red again just before it's your turn to go but you can't gun it through the red light at the last second because there's traffic cameras at every angle.

That's just in typical suburban areas of the US. You're pretty much at the whim of the organization who controls the lights, the government for having traffic cams and every human being in front of you. It's a very non-controllable situation unless you're open to making decisions that will get your license revoked and maybe get put in prison.
Indeed, DB25 is all over pro audio still. It's mechanically fragile compared to elco (or whatever other multipin) or just using a lot of XLR... but it's easy to get off-the-rack or custom DB25 audio cabling.
It's an absolute pain in the ass for the user, especially something you're going to be asked to enter multiple times an hour potentially. I play a game that has a 'bank pin' and they scramble the location of the digits and it slows you down a lot and makes you look and think about it every time you enter it. It's a pain and I only have to enter it after 10 minutes of inactivity.
Quantum algorithms have the potential to crack public key algorithms, affecting things like SSL. Session data would not be encrypted with a public key algorithm.
Linux Mint Cinnamon on my 10 years Lenovo laptop. It works fine out of the box, while Windows sucks.
> Sure, but if your angle of attack is "someone swiped my phone off my desk and wants to unlock it within the next 30 minutes before I wipe it remotely" then 111111 is as good as literally any other 6-digit pin code, unless the attacker just tries 111111. In which case 999999 is probably a better choice.

Asking "How secure is this?" is essentially the same as "What angles of attack would this prevent?" So if your phone is susceptible to a very basic dictionary attack (which is just a codified way of saying "susceptible to educated guesses") then it is not "just as secure as any other code" because there are other passwords which aren't susceptible to this attack.

Note that my post was responding to the claim that it's "just as secure as any other code". It is not.

If you myopically only look at the most basic of attacks, then you can use crap security and it will work for those attacks. But a US Congressman could obviously be a target of sophisticated attackers. And you're literally proposing an attack which would break your proposed password, yet still defending the claim that it's just as secure.

I was just reading someone's comment saying they come to HN because the comments are so good, and I can't say I know what they're talking about. So much uneducated speculation about comments taken out of context is being presented as fact in these comments.
Not cool to use the name of an existing open source project: https://www.mantisbt.org/
Intel patents chip-to-chip optoelectronic bridge
New data suggests the universe expanding more rapidly than believed
If you are self-hosting the product, you can control changes to the environment. If you are pulling in third-party scripts on the fly, then that control is gone.
> "both sides"

This has been the BBC response to criticism of its news reporting for a long time now.

However there are very few debates which have only two points of view, and the very act of reducing every issue to a "both sides" argument is a real problem for the BBC (well, for me anyway!)
IMO fuel cells could also be better for freighters, which can’t use batteries for weight reasons as well.
It is not about an oasis, it is about top of the funnel. To hire 1 eng, you have to interview 5-10, and have to phone screen 20-30, and have have hacker rank tested 100-200. Now scale that to a 1000 person eng team
They give a fuck about your data, as they can make a buck off it. Your rights? Well what about their right to maximize their net worth?
When I commuted into the Stripe office by car from Oakland, it would take me about 45 minutes to get there, and well over 60 minutes to get home. With this move, you can add about 30 minutes, at least, on to each end. And that's on a good day and assuming you are already commuting by car.

From Oakland/the East Bay, there is no good way to get to South San Francisco by public transportation. You are looking at a 2+ hour commute in each direction to go < 15 miles
This is hitting too close to home. Currently on a team that does what’s on the task list without questioning anything—driving me up the wall.
This is like asking, "Why can't I decide to enjoy broccoli if I believe it's healthy to eat?" The evolutionary story behind curiosity notwithstanding, it seems to me that this is just a case of the more general observation you can't alter your desires simply by reflecting on whether they are good or bad.
That comparison (I’m not familiar enough with Eigen to truly say) is going to change over time too; once const generics lands (which is proceeding, finally) the APIs for numerics libraries are going to be significantly different in Rust.
No, that's not true.

Tor's anonymity depends on distributed control of its nodes. If one entity, say a government org, controls a large portion of entry and exit nodes it may be able to trace some requests. That's an attack that has been known since the beginning though, it's not new.
It's unfair because Square pays more tax than Saleforce. Not because they have to pay tax.

It would be great next time if you can mention the whole reason around. unfairness.

Here's the tweet: https://twitter.com/jack/status/1053312151136362496

Do you think that's fair?
> imagine having an entire neighborhood ruined by these kind of people

So, just like multiple neighborhoods in any big urban city? Except that it's at least somewhat regulated/under legal protection?
> I have a credit card that gives me 1.5% cash back on every transaction

Some of this is paid for by people carrying balances. The bet is that cash back will attract enough people to get and use the card that, in aggregate, interest will make up for cash back.
The "localised EMP" you mention could simply be a low power microwave oven of same type we have in our kitchens you have to walk through. Waves of that frequency would not harm a person if they were fairly low power, but it would mess up every bit of non-metal-shielded electronics.

If you want to destroy a piece of electronics quickly put it in a microwave oven and hit start (also don't expect to eat from that oven later - plastic residue etc if it heats up that much is probably not safe to eat). This will destroy usb keys and storage on them, SSDs, laptops, smartphones and data on them. The only kind of data safe is magnetic type hard drives, but they become less and less common these days.

You could even make a kind of "wand" similar to what guys at the airport have for pinpointing metal items on people. Wave it around someone suspected of having a listening or recording device - job done.
Yeah it's bizarre. Why rush it like this? It feels like an artificial internal deadline to roll out the "feature", and they realized it violated the ToS at the last second.
Minor correction, this all actually went down before the new CEO was on board.

It's very hard to tell for sure from the outside, but there seems to be a Director (the person who blabbed to the Register) at the core of it. On the other hand, the CTO posted as well, effectively in the Director's defense, so who knows.
This reminds me of the almost completely forgotten use by Anzac forces of the "bat-arang" in the Middle East during WWI.
The Superyachts of the Future Are Bigger, Better, and Bolder
so... it is okay as long as people can't see it?

> wherever there’s money, there’s corruption

... I guess I should stop working in IT
Playing Colossal Cave Adventure in 2019
> Not once I heard of a local Dutch girl doing this.

How is this relevant? I mean in what manner would nationality change your opinion on this topic?
Entered a gibberish email and was still able to see the results, you can just try that.
Even worse would be the "Protect and Survive" videos they had planned to run in the event of an attack.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yrv505R-0U
Just installed it again to test it and you are right. The scrolling is now as fast as Chromium. Many thanks.
HN contains a lot of information that isn't visible on the public web. Ban lists, point counts, user access history, etc.

> Everyone has read access to HN

No, not to their databases as OP is discussing. It would be definitely a crime if any of us had that info as it would imply we broke in and stole it - but OP is suggesting that they assume NSA already has it (a potentially paranoid but also reasonably fair thing to do, IMO).

From a personnel standpoint, isn't Thiel on the board of HN/YC and doesn't Thiel have basically uncountable NSA/CIA/etc connections? I'm not saying Thiel has anything to do with HN's security - but clearly, saying HN's databases might be accessed by someone like CIA (while a board member of YC is active in sales & partnerships to CIA etc) isn't that crazy.
Sounds pretty standard operating procedure for product teams in large software companies, actually.

Sad. But systemic to the industry.
Why comment if you are obviously ignorant of the situation? To you, 10 miles might mean 10 minutes or less. In this situation, it could lengthen an already lengthy commute for many employees by 30 minutes or more in each direction. I know this because I worked at Stripe and commuted from Oakland to their office South of Market by car.
> A big upside to this is that I can log on to almost any server and have an editor that is pretty close to what I use anyway.

Maybe for sysadmins that are always doing a ton of text editing on remote servers, but I haven't run into this. Even when I do work on servers though I don't have any problems using vanilla VIM even though my workstation has 70 plugins. I do take care not to override any of the base keybindings though. If you are overriding core bindings you deserve what you get hehe.
I don't see a way to reach you via your profile/bio except to fill out the Extractable contact form. I've added an email to my profile if you want to get in touch.
The removal is not the legal issue; s__t-talking about her to the press is.
I started working on wizzy for exactly that https://github.com/grafana-wizzy/wizzy
All true. There are other realities worth considering too - one being that if sex workers are driven from Amsterdam, that they'll simply go elsewhere. Ostend and Bremerhaven are both served by ferries from the UK. What might the financial impact of the NIMBYism be on the Netherlands?
I'm not from US and I'm not very informed about the homeless problem.

But I wonder why homeless people don't move to another city. If I'd be in their situation (living in a city where I can not afford to rent a house and live a normal life) I'd go to another city where with a regular job I can afford a normal life and just build my life there.

Sorry if it's a stupid question.
> Stripe charges %2.9 + $0.30 per transaction. That is not an "ultra low margin" by any means in the CC processing domain.

That's revenue, not margin.
There's no need to be cynical, the situation you posed is 100% within the realm of possibility when you consider that the actions Gitlab took benefit Gitlab greatly.
Interesting. I visited in the same time-frame (Jan 2017) and the main tourist sites were crowded. Not uncomfortably so, but there were definitely 3-4 busloads of tourists at each site. And KEF was packed (standing room only) when we departed. Immigration inbound at KEF was busy but efficient.

Reykjavik itself didn't feel any more crowded than any other major European city. Far less so than London or Paris. Probably more like Amsterdam, but with a smaller overall footprint.

Our rental was a Golf Polo (the small hatchback) from a name-brand agency (Hertz or somebody like that) and it was in fine condition.

It was expensive, no question. But, that's also fairly well documented in travel brochures (online or otherwise). So, it shouldn't be a surprise. We opted to rent a flat and cook for most meals. The only problem that caused - the grocer has a wall of milk of varying degrees of "sourness" and we grabbed something that, to my American palate, was rotten. Oops.

Blue Lagoon was definitely touristy. We went at dusk in a snow storm, so the atmosphere was nice (the mist and snow made it less obvious we were swimming with a few hundred other tourists). We enjoyed it, but there's no need to go twice unless you really like a spa experience.

We went snorkeling in Silfra Fissure, which was neat. Nothing at all like snorkeling on a coral reef.

I'd love to go back and do the whole ring road around the island, with a bit of hiking and camping mixed in. We only had a long weekend, so stayed in the city and all the sites we visited were fairly close. We didn't get to the northwest or southeast.
ah, i think i meant overflow checks. and thanks for the pointer, i'll have a look.
The Atari ST line of computers also use DB-19 connectors for their external ACSI interface, usually used for connecting hard disk drives. ACSI is Atari Computer Systems Interface, similar to SCSI.
Finding meteorites with 10cm NEXRAD weather radar
org-mode in emacs.
It's free form and structured at the same Time.
You get your to-do's together with the work you are producing.
It has an agenda and Google calendar integration.

I wish non emacs users could use org-mode..
>All public encryption algorithms have backdoors in their implementation and sometimes (as with Elliptic Curve standards from NIST adopted in the browser) in their spec

Lets see your proofs demonstrating this
i mean the design of it is almost a carbon copy of the github design down to the layout, design, and colors.

https://i.imgur.com/rFbaEkL.png

if i replaced just the logo in the upper left hand corner to the github logo instead of the googs logo would you be able to tell the difference between this screenshot and github proper?
I wrote about how WeTransfer migrated to Stripe
Yeah, back to Flash, ActiveX, Silverlight, Java days, just now you cannot turn it off.
Actually, SF has increased its lead over other regions in startup creation over the last few years. See VC dollars invested and you will see how much of that is concentrated in SF
> At least for now, it appears that the self-hosted versions of GitLab (both CE and EE) will not be getting telemetry scripts.

Yes, for now. But I think everyone can realistically expect that it will be included there eventually.

Those of us who find this unacceptable should probably start planning their mitigation strategy now.
Ask HN: How can I keep my employees happy?
I'm a first time CEO and right now I have 3 software engineers working for me. As a software engineer, what makes you happy at work? What makes you get excited about going to work every day? And what do you really wish your boss knew?
The structure thing is spot on. Decisions like this tend to get made when management has found a way to essentially silence any feedback (by making feedback pointless). This is why I cringe whenever I hear the phrase "leadership team". Whenever I hear that phrase deployed it's almost always to diffuse responsibility for a bad decision so no single person has to answer for it. Which amusingly is the opposite of real leadership: real leaders actually accept responsibility for the decisions they make.
The Stack company also added forced arbitration to their TOS a year or two ago. That may be an impediment for her.
That may be true but plenty of companies around the world that are nowhere near California somehow manage to hire technical talent. The Bay area has a higher density than many places but there's more competition for hiring too.
Not likely. California has too much to offer most ($3 trillion economy). People will get solar (mandatory on new construction residential roofs now after Jan 2020) and Powerwalls and carry on.
We've heard your concerns and questions. There were many more concerns than we expected. We’re going to process the feedback and rethink our plan. We will not activate product usage tracking on GitLab.com or GitLab self-managed before we address the feedback and re-evaluate our plan. We will make sure to communicate our proposed changes prior to any changes to GitLab.com or self-managed instances, and give sufficient time for people to provide feedback for a new proposal. We'll work in this issue: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/issues/5672

Here's an MR updating our blog post accordingly: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/merge_requests/...
Agreed x1000.

I love driving at night when it's quiet and I'm alone on the streets and the lights are green, changing the gears on my stick shift, feeling the machinery work. It's like mediation, it helps me unwind.

During commuter traffic? Hell no, can't really think of anything worse I could be doing voluntarily than being stuck in traffic and watching pedestrians walk by. I feel trapped, like I have no escape and no control over my life.

Recently I took a substantial pay cut to work somewhere in the city where I can commute by bike. From my mental health perspective it was totally worth it.
This cracks me up, I've been on that exact Game of Thrones tour with Theo; he's almost exactly as described in the article, which is really fun by the way.

We did the whole Golden Circle thing. We knew from that start that we were obviously been ferried around the same routes as everyone else. I was OK with that for a first trip to any country.

I didn't find the crowds over powering. Everything is either new to you or you've seen it in TV/films but you get a kick out of seeing it for real.

When we next go to Iceland I think we'll probably stay in the north and make our own way around. That'll be a different kind of holiday but still equally good.

...also I'm pretty sure that Theo said he wasn't originally from Reykjavik no matter what those lying journalist say. :P
Adopting AI in Health Care Will Be Slow and Difficult
No reason no believe rats are sensitive to currents measured in single microamps, which is what’s most likely used to trigger microcontroller inputs. Whatever the schematic, I can guarantee that the rat isn’t used to directly connect the motor to the battery :)
While it looks frivolous, that's probably some kind of attempt to attract... common people to the news front page. We don't have access to BBC's analytics so it's hard to determine if this technique manages funnel the unwashed masses towards quality content.

If you open up something like the World section (and subsections), you'll get a lot of good reporting.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world

I also find the shows From Our Own Correspondent the Global News Podcast to be world-class news sources.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p002vsng

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02nq0gn
Two main problems I faced with grafana:
- Do you plan on allowing alerts on metrics with variables? This very important for a lot of people. For example, you usually have an environment in the metric name and thus we can't share dashboard between environments if we want to keep metrics.
- When do you plan to fully support CSP? I guess you have to remove the angular code for that, is there a timeline?
cgdb is nice too, adds syntax highlighting and vim-like keybindings.
Places with legal sex work have higher rates of human trafficking

> Criminalization of prostitution in Sweden resulted in the shrinking of the prostitution market and the decline of human trafficking inflows. Cross-country comparisons of Sweden with Denmark (where prostitution is decriminalized) and Germany (expanded legalization of prostitution) are consistent with the quantitative analysis, showing that trafficking inflows decreased with criminalization and increased with legalization.

https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/lids/2014/06/12/does-legalized-...
The core philosophy of the Web is interactive documents.

That was lost the moment the powers to be, decided it should compete with OSes as application platform.