skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't read the techdirt article but did read the relevant section of the bill.

It sounds on the whole fairly reasonable. Here is my understanding...

Companies can monitor their own systems or the systems of clients for cyberthreats and share this information with the government and with each other. They must redact personal information of non-involved parties. The capabilities and scope of the monitoring system are to be disclosed publicly. All sounds fine. Where it appears to go a bit off the rails is page 1765-1766 (section A). Here the purpose seems to expand beyond "cybersecurity" and deviate into monitoring non-cyber criminal behavior. Preventing threat of death, terrorist attacks, harm to minors (yes.. think of the children), and... serious economic harm (what exactly is that and to who?). So... it is more than a cybersecurity bill but this little bit is buried in a small few lines 40 pages into the section after mentioning "cybersecurity" probably 70 times previously as the purpose of the bill. Seems a little bait and switch.

For the record I don't disagree (in total) with monitoring for these types of serious criminal activities.. I've always assumed it was done and assume it will continue to be done. Just don't call it "cybersecurity" when it is really flat out mass surveillance for non-cyber related threats.

Also, it seems that the bottom line is a committee to talk about a committee in some far off period of time. Typical.

But overall I agree... bureaucratic silliness. Bait and switch dishonesty. Think of the children nonsense. In short, typical Washington DC behavior. But not the end of the free internet.
Unfortunately, all this story does is confirm what I already knew about Lexmark.

I've refused to purchase Lexmark gear after they started using the DMCA to try and prevent third parties from manufacturing compatible toner and ink cartridges for their printers.
Interesting, so they are using it as a timestamping service. Whatever bitcoin ends up accomplishing or not accomplishing in the money realm it seems like the distributed timestamping aspect is getting a lot of use. I wish there was a simpler P2P distibuted timestamp only system.
Incredibly cool to see this data released!

I FOIA'd the same data twice and got rejected both times. Apparently the data was part of an active court case where ex cops were suing to get 4+ year old complaints deleted. It wasn't that surprising of an outcome, but... Damn.
Escalating software risk and cost with automated testing
The same way anyone gets a raise: increase your skillset, show your employer how much more productive you are (with numbers), or get work from another employer at a higher wage.
Apply for a job at a different factory, one he or she finds preferable.
Avast gives me a Win32Evo Trojan warning when downloading NT 4.5 binary or ISO images. Is it a false positive or did they accidentally introduce a Trojan into the code?

Anyway Avast won't let me download NT 4.5 due to a Trojan warning. So I can't test it out unless I disabled my AV.

Edit: Why the downvote, scan it with Avast yourself if you don't believe me. I refuse to use it unless it is verified to not have a Trojan. Even if it might be a false positive.
Fed raising interest rates 0.25% and setting a goal of "normal" 2% by 2018 means little to nothing. Market already priced the miniscule rate hike in as the move was widely expected, and move did nothing to assure markets that the Fed is in control, or set credible, measurable goals for future hikes.

I'm pretty sure it doesn't mean nothing and that it actually is more than just symbolic.
I was gonna write a long post about how Google just doesn't get it, but I think I give up.
There is definitely a cultural aspect to this. Where I used to live, it would be insane to leave your car in a traffic lane and if the cops saw it they would certainly have words for you, if they hadn't asked for a tow.

In San Francisco, this is the normal way of doing business for many people, and while the left lane sucks because of people waiting for yielding left turns, the right lane sucks just as much because of all the cabs, uber/lyfts, delivery trucks, and random people doing god knows what who have left their car in the lane of traffic.

I figure that anywhere where parking is very difficult to find, it's going to be more socially acceptable to double-park, even when doing so blocks traffic.
No they don't. You are simply confused.

Read the definition from wikipedia: "Belief is the state of mind in which a person thinks something to be the case, with or without there being empirical evidence to prove that something is the case with factual certainty"

The reason why you're confused is simple; you conflate casual speech with literal definitions.
When you hear scientists say "I believe that... blah blah" is a figure of speech. In the same
way I used "what the hell" but I really don't believe in hell :)

What they mean actually is "I hypothesize that ... blah blah". That's why you won't see any
scientific papers saying "I believe that the number must be something around... 42".

And by the way, even if they believed in the sense that you said, any evidence contrary to
their beliefs would make them adjust their beliefs ;)
You don't get to be "a world leader in laser printers" by giving out an extra $0.35 to a few dozen workers.
Well, yeah; that's what downvoting means: "I want to protect everyone else from wasting their time reading this." It certainly is suppression; and everyone who wants to be here has signed up for suppression.

Calling it censorship, though, makes it sound like you think of HN as your blog. HN is a forum; a downvote is the virtual equivalent of what happens in a real public forum when people—as a group—decide to walk away from someone so they can talk without that person's viewpoint interrupting them. It's not censorship; the person is still free to talk. It's a decision to not listen, and a persistent notice posted that the person is—for people whose tastes agree with those that walked away—not worth one's time listening to.

You can say anything you like by responding to an HN comment as a quote on your own blog. Anyone trying to deny you that would be attempting censorship. Everything else, though, is just the reaction of a community-as-organism to something that community doesn't like. It's no more censorship than a single person ignoring you and walking away is.
Confirmed: Brazil suspends WhatsApp for 48 hours
I've got you beat by several years....
>has been in iOS since forever

Granular permissions have only been in iOS since version 6.0, which came out 3 years ago. The first version of iOS was 8 years ago. For a feature that's "as common sense as it gets" we sure got along fine without it for half a decade.
I think it is pretty fucked up that google is bundling their free email, storage and suite of office products with their free/low cost nosql database.

There just aren't any noSQL options out there right now.
Context: Firebase was bought by Google in 2014[1]

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2014/10/21/google-acquires-firebase-to...
Judge sends off whatsapp in Brazil
I worked at a Regal Cinema when I was 16 for a year, so I guess that counts. There was a lot of monotony, but the experience still managed to be relatively interesting for my younger self. And I got to participate in a different social circle outside of my school.

My favorite times were cleaning out the theaters with the other guys, who were slightly older and would sometimes discuss abandoned houses they wanted to explore. And I remember optimizing how to rip and count movie tickets, having authority over who can go into the theaters, coordinating with other employees, counting inventory. The endless minutes I waited for the clock to slowly tick forwards so I could leave... It was a very memorable experience. In a strange way I kind of miss it.

It's kind of funny how the amount of money I made there over a year is like a stock market fluctuation over a single day now.
Internet is full of bullshit which we suck to recognize
I would like a news site, that would actually check both sides of the story. If Lexmark did it just because 35 cents, then that is bad, but if there was more to it, then I would like to hear it.
I defer to your judgement as to whether your views would prevail, but at least the people who want to should be allowed to listen to them. And if it weren't too much to ask, I would hope for a free discussion of ideas to ensue. Why do I want to listen to you? Because I hope that you're not an idiot. And because I have time and again seen well-meaning intelligent people be very wrong about things they thought were indisputable.

That's precisely what the article talks about, and reddit is a great way to experience the kind of bigoted dogmatism the article discusses.
ethylene glycol--it's what causes a 'bad' apple to cause neighboring apples to also spoil. i think it works something like this: e/g is hormone or hormone-like gas whose biochemical function is to promote ripening. in any event, ripe fruit emit e/g (it's a gas) which provokes the ripening response in neighboring fruit. (Leave some apples in a closed plastic bag and see how much faster they go bad versus the same number arranged the same way sitting in an open bowl)
I didn't know about this: https://accounts.google.com/SignUpWithoutGmail
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Doesn't HP do the same thing?
Brazilian Judge Shuts Down WhatsApp for 48 Hours
ReactOS runs best in a virtual machine. Running it on bare iron is risky. Driver support is limited and they are still working on it. For example they just added Wifi support and printing support.

I donated to their Indiegogo campaign to get the community edition developed, that campaign allowed them to hire developers to get to the 0.40 mile stone.
I really hope that the next generation of companies founded and run by people who grew up being on the other side will refrain from making this kind of decisions.
Actually I never did plug it into Firewire.

I've never even opened the case on my 3rd gen iPod - it works perfectly, no mods.
The notion that Erlang is bizarre but Scala isn't is a particularly intriguing notion...but that's a different rant.

I suppose the concurrency model of Erlang is a departure from The Way Things Are, but I'd argue that's a good thing. The JVM doesn't offer much fundamentally different in terms of the concurrency model than Ruby and Python. It certainly performs orders of magnitudes better, but it's still subject to a lot of the same issues: you have a pool of threads running your http service, and when you exhaust that pool then you have outages. And stopping the world for GC is enormously problematic. Erlang takes care of all that in an extremely elegant way.

Also it doesn't take minutes (!!!) to compile an Elixir (or Erlang) program. Developer happiness is often overlooked (Scala being the worst offender in my experience) and Elixir really hits that out of the park.
Cross Platform Startup/Login Manager for Node.js
> If your team does not already use Google products, you can create a "slimmed down" Google account using any existing email address here. This Google account won't be tied to any Gmail, Google+, or other Google products.
> that google is bundling their free email, storage and suite of office products with their free/low cost nosql database.

They aren't.

Next time you should read the article before posting.
A Google Login isn't as drastic as it used to be. From the FAQ:

> I don't have an existing Google account and I don't want to sign up for Gmail, Google+, or any other Google services. What should I do?

It is easy to create a Google account for any existing email address without tying it to any Google services. It will only be used for identification and login. You can sign up for this "slimmed down" Google account here. You can also create this type of Google account via the existing migration flow on firebase.com.
As far as I can tell, these days it's about expressing your opinion in a very particular way that makes clear that you are not confusing your beliefs with facts, your preferences with "moral truths", etc. You know, "I statements" from therapy (http://www.austincc.edu/colangelo/1318/istatements.htm). Anything asserted in a more-objective way than that (e.g. "you suck" rather than "I feel bad when you ...") is treated as incorrect, whether or not it is an accurate reflection of your viewpoint.
The DOJ wanted to break Microsoft up into different companies like they did to AT&T. They would have been called the Baby Bills, and one would do Windows all by itself, and another would do Internet sites and apps, and another games, and another apps, and another developer tools.

But that didn't happen and Microsoft got a slap on the wrist instead.

Many people migrated to GNU/Linux or Mac because Microsoft had abused their monopoly, some people and companies are stuck with Microsoft because their business needs Windows to run their custom apps.
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Yes, that's exactly what I meant.
Yeah TFA thinks the important word in the phrase "few bad apples" is "few", but that's wrong.
Node-gyp is definitely one of my pain points. Having to install Visual Studio to run a node package seems insane. And it needs 6gb on _all drives_??

It still didn't work until I stumbled upon the --msvs_version flag for npm i. And this is for a dependency in mongodb!
Sadly HN's URL trimmer buries the lede here: /SignUpWithoutGmail (see my other comment for where this came from James's FAQ).
I think it is pretty fucked up that people expect Google to continue to give away free hosted databases and complain about having to use Google's account system to login.
They can't. There's tons of cheap labor out there in the developing world and 3rd world. Capital moves quick and labor is everywhere.

The best we can do in the long-run to increase working conditions is to increase demand for labor. In the short-term, all they can do is strike.
I know, and simply breaking up the OS division the traditional way would not solve the problems anyway. That is why I suggested a better idea this time.
Actually, the product I got hired out of college to work on was a store-and-forward extension for OCS 2007... It was a nasty inherited mess of SIPScript and mostly broken UCMA 2.0... It's possible to do, but not easy.

There are persistent chat rooms available (at least on-premise, if you install the extra server for them - not on Office365, though), but it's a little half-baked.

If we're piling on, there are some other kind of crummy limits, for a large enterprise IM platform. Sending an IM to a large number of recipients is pretty gimped (I believe the limit is in the 100-250 user range), because any chat between three or more users is bumped up into an AV conference. There's limitations on the number both of users who you can subscribe to presence updates, and how many other users can subscribe to your presence.

The client also seems to have some bad memory leaks. Particularly with any kind of extension that makes use of the COM API.
Sure, but the scale and the lack of oversight in the new methods is a lot scarier. Everything you can think of that works like this—DNSBLs, the TSA watchlist, etc.—creates a Kafka-esque hell for a non-negligible set of people. Whereas what these replaced was just lists maintained by people, somewhere—where those people could be reached and pleaded with.
There are graphs at http://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.cfm?id=18131 showing the primary heating fuel choice, based on a US survey from about 6 years ago. Among other things:

> Everywhere but Northeast, fewer homes choose natural gas as heating fuel

> EIA data show that homes built since 1970 use electricity and natural gas as their main heating fuel in roughly equal proportions.

> The South is the only Census region where electricity is the main space heating fuel in the majority of homes.

The survey data is at http://www.eia.gov/consumption/residential/data/2009/ .
You don't have to put stress on any words on that sentence in English, and it will be sound perfectly fine. The vast majority of sentences don't stress particular words.
I think this is facetious but I don't really get it.
StackOverflow to switch to modified MIT License
Funny enough, I perpetually use the right-hand-curl rule before tightening or loosening a screw. Point my thumb in the direction I want the part to move, and rotate the tool in whatever direction my fingers point. I get made fun of for it occasionally, but I haven't accidentally tightened something I planned on loosening in a really long time. Thanks electrical engineering and magnetic field/current interactions! You've prevented me from breaking bolts and stripping screws!
API Abandonment and Cognitive Resources
Great link, thank you!
Many people migrated to GNU/Linux or Mac because
Microsoft had abused their monopoly, some people
and companies are stuck with Microsoft because
their business needs Windows to run their custom
apps.

Citation needed. I migrated to Mac OS X in 2000[1] because it was a Unix-like operating system with a usable UI that worked well on a laptop[2].

Also, there were to be two companies, not five[3].

Of course, I might be biased because I worked for Microsoft for four years in the 00's. So take this for what you will.

[1] Yes, the public beta.

[2] OK, let's be honest, it worked tolerably. It didn't get good until 10.2'ish.

[3] http://money.cnn.com/2000/06/07/technology/microsoft_ruling/
I've been told that google has intraday downloads of their doubleclick logs "on their roadmap". For me in adtech, a lot of the pain I feel in having to add more tagging would be reduced if google had this stuff streaming in realtime. Their lack of this functionality has fed the thirst for other tags (adobe, bluekai, etc.), since we can't build really fast behavioural reactions on their data. They've told me the solution is to use Google Analytics Premium, and upload our behavioural reaction rules into there. Just like everyone else, that is a black box, and I then have to adhere to the functionality they have built. Businesses will always ask for a custom tweak that any black box can't deliver, and that also leads to more tagging. ;)

Truly open up your platforms!!! Currently it feels like a mexican stand-off, where the first company to open up loses control of their data asset, while all others win.
Are you on a phone? I don't see any trimming, either logged in or from an incognito window.
We the people.

I was being a bit generous with the we bit since I am Australian, but the same thing applies to our government too. My state just sold off a hugely productive piece of infrastructure (electricity poles and wires) to pay down debt. The crazy thing is the infrastructure returned twice as much per year in dividends than the interest on the debt retired.
The 4th most valuable company in the world after only 17 years "doesn't get it"? Yes, you should give up.
This is an excellent read. Pleasantly surprised to see neural nets pop up about half way through. Thanks, Chris.
Yea, it would be complex and have to be planned carefully too.
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The whole world does not work like the Bay area. Their best chance for better working conditions is probably illegal immigration to the US.
This is the same old tired schtick: you must be a member of the Party to progress in your career, and reactionary views are incompatible with holding certain jobs.

It reminds me of Gad Saad talking on Joe Rogan's podcast about being denied professorship at various universities for not being Christian enough. I believe at one point he was asked to write a short essay on his relationship with Jesus as his saviour (at which point he realized that job offer wasn't probably going to work out). [I don't have a link at this time]
Tried to use your service but I got a internal server error after checking out with stripe.
From the article:

>In a statement Jerry Grasso, company spokesman, told the Guardian: “We take our values of mutual respect and employee satisfaction very seriously. We are committed to engaging in open and honest conversations with our employees to ensure Lexmark continues to be a rewarding place to work.”

I doubt Lexmark will comment further on the specific case in any way as it sounds like there will be legal action following the article:

>An unfair dismissal complaint will be lodged before the Board this week, said Prieto Terrazas.
They exist, but they're usually at least a few days (if not weeks) behind, mostly because they're doing the exact thing you ask for. But in today's Twitter/Facebook world, a headline plus a paragraph is about all that most people care about. By the time someone does real research into it, the story is old news and people have already made up their minds about it.

Places like the New York Times & Washington Post still seem to do research and actually employ real journalists. Unfortunately they get drowned out by the "entertainment news" companies who report things faster, and who really don't care about "facts" so much as condensed snippets of text.
Straight from the link:

I don't have an existing Google account and I don't want to sign up for Gmail, Google+, or any other Google services. What should I do?

It is easy to create a Google account for any existing email address without tying it to any Google services. It will only be used for identification and login. You can sign up for this "slimmed down" Google account here. You can also create this type of Google account via the existing migration flow on firebase.com.
I'm not sure what the revolution is. Unlike open-source software, open-source HW design doesn't actually give you something that works. The truth is that Nvidia solutions partners like Exxact will deliver a 4 GPU box for ~$9K.
Just to be nit picky it is the gas ethylene [1], not ethylene glycol [2] that is involved in ripening fruit - ethylene glycol is what is used to help sell Austrian wine.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethylene

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethylene_glycol
Lots of hours lost in ksp :)
Nobody's forcing you to watch Netflix (or use Kinect, Facebook, etc) at gunpoint.

If anything the trend of tracking/surveillance with consent is Huxleyish rather than Orwellian.
> Google and Apple do not have a culture of the type of careful software engineering that I would trust my life with.

No, but they have enough smart people, and engineers of every stripe that if your life did depend on it, they'd probably make it work. Google's driver-less cars seem to be doing pretty good at the moment.

Plus, when you have more driver-less cars on the roads, they can communicate with each other to adjust to similar speeds based on congestion, accelerate/decelerate in the most efficient manner (so as to not slow down the flow of traffic), and in the case of road hazards, they'd communicate together and avoid them.

Based on most of the drivers I see on the roads, I'd absolutely feel safer if most of them didn't control their vehicles, and I'd definitely trust a lot of smart people developing algorithms more than the average driver...
Without clarification or context (i.e., "a new blockchain"), then it is usually Bitcoin.
I wouldn't say we were getting along fine without it. There were some pretty big privacy breaches[1], which helped move Apple forward. I think Google and Android are great, but on this topic they have held out for as long as possible, it seems[2].

[1] http://www.cnet.com/news/path-shares-photos-oh-and-uploads-y...

[2] http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/dec/20/android-ap...
Had the same issue, with the very same person. I even tried to get personal validation and they wanted a phone bill with my name on it. Guess what, the company pays for the phone not me. To much hassle, so I went elsewhere.