skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Article briefly addresses that. They talk about how air gapping is easy to breach with a compromised flash drive.

But speaking from experience in the controls industry its the people who write the cheques. I don't work in systems like a nuclear power plant but the critical systems I help design are absolutely air gapped and secured from all basic user access. The business managers who want to remotely administer their system or check the data logs are the ones that introduce components susceptible to attack and hopefully integrators learn to stand their ground.

Another issue I see frequently, and not to discredit the brilliant engineers I work with, but there's too many non-software people in the software field. Too many electrical oriented people I work with figure software is just a slap on system that interfaces the user to the motor but fail to realize all the pitfalls it creates if not done in as rigorous of a manner as the electrical design.
Being an instructor in a coding bootcamp
>it's clear that this Sarah started any and all problems herself

How so?
"...consistently one of my top ten web hits, partly because of strong Google ranking." Wonder what the other part is, because the article is garbage.
I think this is a good example of a rant that doesn't come across as hostile, a response to the question "RegEx match open tags except XHTML self-contained tags": http://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454
I get 5-10 replies each month, and they're mostly reasonable matches for our open positions.
Without knowing all the full transcripts it is of course possible we are hearing an editorialised version of events, but things like this:

“Why are you here to see a shrink?” he asked.

She explained that she needed prescriptions for her boyfriend, who’d hurt his
foot.

Dreyer asked if she was having pain, too.

She shook her head no.

“Cramps?” Dreyer asked.

“I mean that makes sense, cramps.”

“Well, we’ll get you covered,” Dreyer said. “And you know it’s a hundred-dollar
charge.” After she paid him, he told her, “And that, my love, is the game.”

Makes it seem pretty clear that he was blatantly breaking the law regarding prescriptions. Letting a patient pretend they need painkillers for themselves when you know it's really for their boyfriend, because you couldn't legally prescribe it for someone who isn't there...

Plus he didn't seem interested in checking whether people were in pain beyond an "are you in pain?".

Sure, you could argue that he was still "just trying to help people", but short of having all prescription drugs laid out on supermarket shelves for anyone to pick up whenever they want, there has to be a line drawn somewhere for "how to be responsible about giving out dangerous drugs", and giving them to anyone who asks for them is not on the right side of that line.
Neither of those links you shared provided any evidence whatsoever for LinkedIn and Facebook having a secret bidirectional data sharing relationship.

The far more intelligent explanation is that suggestions are, as LinkedIn repeatedly emphasizes, based on imported contacts. Note that even if you don't import contacts, the other person might have.

Try using Occam's razor before jumping to unprofitable conspiracy theories. (Again, why on earth do you think Facebook would voluntarily share data with Facebook?)
Crossborder co-operation? Great!

They hand over Roman Polanski, and we're off to a good start.

> What's not legal is warantless universal wiretapping.

So punish the government of the United States - not the businesses.

> Would you want a police without a court?

That's called "a military." And yes, I want a military. And since our enemies don't bother to dress up in bright-colored uniforms, and stand in a row in a field anymore, our military needs to be a lot more nimble. And since our international efforts (the UN) are often blocked by one or two security council members, I'm not impressed with the UN's ability to keep the peace.
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Yeah, the special rules for U.S. persons are a result of U.S. forcing banks doing any business in U.S. to apply special rules to U.S. persons. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Account_Tax_Compliance...
Been there, done that (elisp included), don't think that's quite what I had in mind.

But thank you for persevering. :-)
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What about the English speaking world or the Spanish speaking world?
There is no linkage between your anecdote and the linux kernel development community.
This could just as well have been posted in a discussion about: IRC culture, your distro community, internet culture or anything else.

Unrelated to your post: When you live and work intimately with people you know on a public mailing list it you will have friction. There are way to many people self inserting themselves as "victims" in online conversations without any knowledge about the relationship between the conversation partners.
Urgh... talk about giving tech people a bad reputation as philistines.

It's a wonderful, thoughtful project.
Boundaries have problems in monoliths as well, can't really imagine it would be any easier with microservices.
I read your story in the rain on the last day of my failed vacation. I do not know if you are reclining in your Lazyboy bemused and self congratulatory or in an more dramatic parallel irony- you haven't a clue what Ycombinator is and don't know that you are an old man who did achieve his 15 minutes. Either way-delightfully crafted.
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I think he was referring to where the article said that one of the advantages of breaking a monolith into any amount of services is that they can store the data in the location and format that suits their task best, and also be written in different languages.

I don't think it matters how you split it - if the team working on one module prefers ruby and the team working on another requires python for any 'serious' work you need programmers who understand both to get the 'big picture' of your codebase now. That one guy who writes all his stuff in PERL can write his plugin that way because it just interacts via API. :O

Now how do you debug something?
The west has given $23T in aid since the 1970s. The bullet isn't even made from water, let alone silver.

One reason, according to William Easterly in his book "The White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good" it is because the aid tries to meet the goals of the givers, not the recipients.

This kind of scheme is more of the solution Easterly proposes, just give people money and see what they come up with, rather than creating schemes that attempt to implement a solution dreamed up in a nice office or by Bob Geldof shouting "do something"

[1] http://www.independent.org/publications/tir/article.asp?a=63...
> homogenisation

That one wouldn't be actually bad if people stuck to good solutions in terms of usability. I mean, half of the forum boards on the Internet would be an order of magnitude better if the owners started them as a subreddit instead.
Do they still have sync problems ? I stopped using Wunderlist about 2 years ago since the sync wasn't reliable (I think I had a web, a Windows and an Android client, only the web client was reliable).
That is still a consequence of editing as opposed to the editing itself.

Perhaps it's unfair to discuss eugenics in the way it would be used in an ideal world. I agree with you that the scenario you sketch seems far from impossible.

But I would like to submit your example now for your own consideration.

Are computer today not so ubiquitous that it's reasonable for an employer to require you to be skilled in their operation? Don't certain jobs just _require_ you to possess a certain physical or mental trait?

I know I'm begging the question here, and that 'being good with computers' is very different from 'forced to modify body because out of financial necessity'.

But is is also very different from 'accepting that time moves on, and that nowadays (2100AD) it's very normal to get a job-related tune-up'?

As opposed to the 'culture fit' and personality tests (which may or may not have a causal relation to the benefit that you provide to the company) a specific and objectionably verifiable improvement to a part of your body or mental capacity is not something that companies should be barred from expecting from their employees I think.
It's a fun redesign of "HazeOver" app I've been working on. The process involved designing a new "Dimmer" control knob, shooting a live demo video for trackpad gestures and creating a dedicated utility that synchronizes mouse clicks to the soundtrack beats. Hope you like the demo and the app.
Have you looked at prices for data centers in Europe versus the US? Or their incompetence?

> Economies have becomes so intertwined that shutting Europe 'off the internet' by any other party

BS. Google shut off China. Independent companies are free to not do business anywhere the laws are stifling. I think it would be awesome if they did it all at once. Internet Blackout for Europe.
And this is why we need better traffic rules for the information highway.

Seriously, when was the last time that someone knowledgeable used the term "cyber?"
also, the company that provides the data currently is currently looking for a Chief Product Officer

http://tamedia.prospective.ch/index_digital.cfm?sprCd=de#
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It was oppressive to try to change the culture in the first place.
It's just my 2 cents :)
Yes, you're right. It's my mistake. Thank you
Hard to read any discussion here on HN when random posts get removed while hating on stereotypes of men get a pass.
Not sure that they realized that the Internets motto is "good enough for jazz" as opposed to proper OSI internet standards :-)

Even then OSI had It's "kids on the variety sunshine coach" members who couldn't implement to standard I am looking at you Sprint and ICL.
Did so in the past, and therefore not a programmer anymore.
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Not his job, but I guess his career choice.
Sooner or later? It's been happening for a while in mapping. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/10922595/Reveal... http://qz.com/224821/see-how-borders-change-on-google-maps-d... “Google Maps makes every effort to depict disputed regions and features objectively. ... Where we have local versions, we follow local regulations for naming and borders.”
Wow a billion dollars. That would pay for about 60 seconds of the war against the Taliban.
Sounds like these business managers need to buy one way transfer devices.
Wait, this is the first iteration. Look forward in the next release.
This. Segregation, not punishment. I believe as neuroscience advances way fewer things will be ascribed to amoral choices. Explaining crime with free will is often like explaining natural disasters with God's will - mere supersition.
For the lazy: "SJW" is not mentioned in the linked post, but is mentioned in a highly-ranked reply.
Somebody needs to automate this.
Does doing this in silicon mean we may start to see mass produced qubit ICs? You'd have to keep coherence between all of the quantum circuit elements to actually have a calculation carried out properly, wouldn't you?

Perhaps this could lead to some sort of quantum FPGA equivalent within the next few years?
It's been a continuing problem with tech sites since the beginning of tech sites, not just HN.

But yeah, this is really frustrating.
What political narrative is being pushed here?
> Instead, I need to pick projects that I care about and not spend long stretches of time on things I don’t.

I'm getting this feeling myself more and more lately. And I've only been doing this for a little over 5 years. Although, I wonder if I'll have this thought regardless of what field I am working in.
You mean I can get all kinds of sweet augs and not even have to pay for them? Where do I sign?]

Also, military will do it WAY before private corps if they are still using human soldiers at the time. If you can give people enhanced strength and eyesight, with less sleep required and resistance to all kinds of diseases, you'd be a fool not to.
Unfortunately, a lot of these kernel developers have day jobs.

I was recently working with a particular hardware module from a certain company. Their lead technical support person was also helping develop the ARM side of the kernel and merge their drivers into the tree.

The awful technical interactions and pretty much the complete lack of patience and empathy for a customer, made the whole thing a nightmare. Eventually I lobbied, and got, our company to drop them as a vendor and move to a competitor. That one developer created -$1,000,000 in annual revenue for the vendor.

I still don't think they realize what happened.
There's a huge difference between being "at the mercy of random emotions their entire life" and deciding that staying in the situation you're in just isn't worth it anymore. People make that decision all the time, and have different thresholds for it. I don't understand the hostility towards Sarah's decision in the thread.
Wouldn't that be the case of you're paying for a service on us soil from out with the us. Instead of providing a service in a foreign country.
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You can see where the story is going from that ridiculous opening photograph...
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I got the "...back in my day, everything was all neat and tidy...now it's all gone to shit..." sort of feeling while reading this article. Websites have always been shit, and if you approach rendering/parsing/consuming web content programmatically and expect perfection...you're in for a frustrating experience.
So, after a law professor retires s/he immediately stops thinking about law?
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She created a false narrative that Linus was encouraging "physical intimidation and violence". She purposefully took a joke out of context to push her agenda. She seems to be trying to create a situation where it impossible to disagree with her, else you're some kind of "abuser", whether it be a racist or misogynist. Why? I don't know but I wouldn't be surprised if she was seeking a position of power where she could govern the moral rules over a large project and assimilate everyone into her monoculture by calling everyone who disobeyed her rules racist or sexist or what-have-you.
If you want to be pedantic, having sex with people you find attractive is already eugenics.
Ask HN: How to value RSU grants for a public company in a compensation package?
So the general advice for private stock options here seems to be to treat them as worthless, due to how hard it is to assess their true value. But what about RSUs? They're much more liquid and there's a much clearer assessment of their current value. So how much should you discount them given the vesting period before you can liquidate them?

Black Scholes suggests that you value it as equal to the current stock price (Given that the risk free interest rate is effectively 0% right now), but for one, BS famously wrongly assumes a normal distribution of outcomes and for two, doesn't take into account an individual's risk tolerance (Ie, I value a 50% chance of 100 $ plus a 50% chance of 0$ at less than 50$ in aggregate, due to loss aversion).

So does anyone have any better suggestions?
Then we will either tolerate the associated defect or find a way to achieve the benefit without it.
Some numbers are better than no numbers. I'm ready to hear your numbers. You also behave rude.

Modern USA as a country is based on premise that anybody can afford to buy a car.
I don't see why society can't be based on premise that anybody can afford eugenics for their children.
I wonder how the server was replying with a different dump every time. It wasn't the dump corresponding to the current request, but a random user's dump on every refresh. How would the server decide what information to dump?

Either:
1. The server was programmed to dump the most recent available session data, and presumably a lot of users were accessing the site concurrently. This would not be the case in development and thus, during dev, their devs would be seeing only the current session's information.

2. Someone intentionally planted this backdoor.

I hope it is the first case. Because if it is not the second case, it would take some really really apparent mistake or an extremely horrible debugging fashion to match the described behavior.
Political incorrectness != being an arsehole, which is what seems to happen here.
Aside, for both the circuit breaker and numeric overloads, is that a particular library you're using or just example code?

By themselves, the overloads for integers like that is pretty neat, never seen that before. I can actually think of several dozen places I do things like TimeSpan.FromSeconds(x) where that could enhance readability.
...but does the black hole have rights to that water?
Answer: NO!
Paywalls never will be the norm; I honestly don't think the Internet can support very many paywalled news sites.

I never liked this line of argument (what if X becomes the norm?) when applied to markets: if X becomes the norm, it will be because the market is demanding X more than anything else. If paywalls become the norm, then it will only be because consumers prefer content produced under a paywall model to content produced under a "free" model. But the friction of payment alone will prevent that from happening; so I don't think the free web is really in a lot of danger.

Now I do think a lot of paywalled sites try to have their cake and eat it too by posting their articles on news aggregators then presenting a paywall prompt. I think the news aggregators need to do a better job of blocking these types of attempts, but they won't because they're funded by advertising and I would assume paywalled sites are able to pay more to acquire traffic than ad-supported sites. This is the problem with any funding model where the money doesn't come from you: others' interests are represented above your own.

NYT is especially bad about using cookie and JavaScript tricks to allow spiders to grab their articles, but enforcing their paywall on users regardless. The Economist is a better example; when they post an article online, it's available to anyone for a period of time (3 months I think?), then it enters the archives behind the paywall. But there are many other paywalled articles that never get posted online, and they don't try to promote that content.

Also, I don't think there is a "perfect model". I think there are varied consumer preferences and that many models can be successful. There may be other models we haven't tried yet. But no one model is going to be universal, and if it is, it will be because the market actually wants it to be.
because as a beginner logic coder it can be exhausting ... grinding and grinding and grinding away to figure out how to achieve X.

Maybe not having anytime to yourself isn't important, but im not a coding robot and need a nice amount of downtime!
Right.

How about all the non-Syrians GTFO and let the people talk it out among themselves.
You are confusing ionizing and non-ionizing radiation...
Or we accept that the net good that will happen is so great that it's okay even for my ideological enemies to have this power, just so long as SOMEONE does. Lots of people would admit this of space travel. Eugenics is closer to the border line.
You're talking about human evolution. Human evolution won't work if we have almost zero child mortality and roughly two children per women. All we can do in this configuration is damage control.

UPD: This configuration is also prone to splitting humanity into several casts just by biased marriage practices.
I'm not sure what point you think you're making. When someone takes an action, do they immediately stop thinking about the topic of that action?

Did you read the article?
I mean, it's a pretty accurate paraphrasing (https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/7/7/80):

> Of course, I'd also suggest that whoever was the genius who thought it
> was a good idea to read things ONE FCKING BYTE AT A TIME with system
> calls for each byte should be retroactively aborted. Who the fck does
> idiotic things like that? How did they noty die as babies, considering
> that they were likely too stupid to find a tit to suck on?
This comment is a waste of time.
Good for them, I guess. I don't think there should be a legal limit on interest rates, but I also don't think I'd like to be in their business. At the end of the day, I'm of course envious of their money and lifestyle. I'd just like to get there a different way.
To save you looking it up, prices peaked in 2011 @ $1 million for a medallion.

Interestingly corporate medallions are now pushing toward $1 million ($280k in 2004).

And if the 13,347 medallions were once valued at $1mil and now $600k that's a $5.3 billion paper loss. Ouch

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxicabs_of_New_York_City#Meda...
It's telling, though, that in Germany, it had to be an independent website (not funded by the public/government) that had to publish an investigation into government spying (netzpolitik). Not only that, netzpolitik got threatened with an investigation into possible treason.

So it seems in order to be independent from private influence, media has must depend on government funding. But, in order to be independent from government influence (and thus be free to report on government transgressions), a media organization must be privately funded. Which one should we be more scared of?
Due to the nature of critical infrastructure it would not be advisable to force lockout rules and rate limiting on devices.

The main issue comes from the long life cycle of equipment and companies not wanting to change to new securer methods due to fear of costs implementing it.
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All empathy right out the door. No second thought for the lives they were ruining for their own self.
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I've never heard of Tom Steyer, but mainly because the boogeyman on the right is always George Soros.
> No, the data protection directives are not something you can opt out of

> Storing EU citizen data without respecting the data privacy directive is forbidden, period.

The NSA will not stop gathering data on EU citizens. So how did they manage to "opt out" if it's not something one can opt out of? And how did they manage to keep gathering if not respecting your fancy law is "forbidden, period"?

You sound like a rabid child that has never seen a law pass and fail to do what it promised - you really seem to believe this new law will make a difference. How sad.
The narrative that a large segment of society consists of abusers (racist, misogynists, sexists, etc) and that it's a serious problem that needs to be dealt with, when the reality is that these people make up a very small percentage of society.

Part of being free is having the freedom to make bad decisions.
Maybe Spotify can go first. Then CERN can limit its "web sites" to only work from within its member states
> So, after a law professor retires s/he immediately stops thinking about law?

The proper analogy would be:
"So, after a lawyer retires s/he immediately stops practicing law?"

Yes, s/he does.
I am surprised they allowed those pictures to be taken.
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I have a friend who is great web designer (mobile and graphic too) and who asked me for advice as he is looking for freelance/remote projects. He has a nice portfolio with a lot of designs. How can I connect him with some clients or what advice should I give him on how to promote himself better? You can also share your thoughts with me at: ngfor37@gmail.com