skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's simply an established fact that women on average are more nurturing and empathetic, and those are qualities one should seek when one needs help.

I'd argue that most non-developmentally delayed adults are fully equipped to assist a lost or scared child.

This might come as a shock to modern society but men are fathers, grandpas, brothers, and uncles to little kids. They know how to interact with them.

All you're doing is repeating common gender tropes. There are plenty of women that are about as nurturing as a potato, and plenty of men that are extremely nurturing and comforting. But ultimately that is completely besides the point as we're talking about someone who has to take a little kid's hand and bring them to customer services/store security, we aren't asking them to adopt the child.
Your points are valid if we're talking about a pull request on some amateur jQuery parallax effect plugin, not anti-virus software.
I don't know if the OP actually exhibits this, but what you're describing is known as risk compensation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_compensation
I think he was trying to draw an analogy between installing untrusted software, and getting intimate with untrusted people. Both are avoidable.

One obvious difference is that the consequences of mistakes can be higher for STDs then for infected computers, but that's the analogy.
This looks really great and I am definitely going to be giving it a solid try!

If I could nitpick about something...it really bothers me that all the links on that page open in a new tab! Ahh! It shouldn't matter, but I just found it a little frustrating. /rant
Any pointers to more approaches for more efficient alternatives?
To a certain degree I do. I believe - which is that I will operate under an assumption that rests entirely on (probably flawed) logic, not evidence - the NSA's unspoken mission is not against average citizens, but rather to keep tabs on other parts of the US government. And perhaps keep tabs on the financial transactions of very wealthy people.

We as readers of HN should not assume we have a monopoly of wisdom about subjects such as the Roman Empire. Certainly more than one US govt official has read a few books on the subject and decided a good bit of the Empire's instability was caused by rebellious legions and fickle praetorians.

As a country we have been rather lucky in that our obvious political crises - coups, putsches, and rebellions - have been infrequent. Now maybe under the veneer things have been a little less tranquil - think the movie "8 Days In May" - but that's something not likely to be made public until after the fall of the US.

To me the question is whether the NSA will become a fickle praetorian in its quest to thwart the rebellious legions.
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Addiction is a symptom of other underlying psychological or neurological problems, not a cause. Healthy people do not become addicts any more than healthy people run high fevers or vomit uncontrollably.

The underlying causes of addiction are medical, psychological, and social, and fixing those is the solution.

Criminal drug prohibition harms everyone. It harms non-addict drug users in an obvious way: by punishing them for a completely voluntary non-crime. It harms addicts by punishing them for having a psychological health problem that should be treated, and the follow-on effects of criminal prosecution further damage their lives (e.g. having a felony) which in turn causes them to be more likely to suffer from further addiction. Finally, it harms society by creating a massive off-the-books profit center for criminals that in turn increases crime and promotes corruption. (I call it the "federal subsidy for organized crime.") It also wastes police resources that could otherwise be available for pursuing more pressing problems.

If drugs are legal, why would organized crime continue to be involved?
Can anyone explain why a security product needs a local HTTP server, or why it needs endpoints at all, let alone 70?

WTF it would have components written in Node or JavaScript?
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Closest you can get is keep.google.com, not a desktop app, but something you can use on the desktop...
There's something seriously squirrely about that math.
>other countries don't trust us with their data.

To riff on this, the reason is a cultural issue regarding the value of self-restraint. Self-restraint is no longer valued. In fact, self-restraint is considered a critical weakness. To not take any action you can get away with, that advances your interests, is weak. It's lack of value is written in stories of police brutality, it's written in the manner in which popular elections are conducted, it's written in the policies of our executive agencies, and it's written in the way business is conducted. Confronted with clear evidence of wrong-doing, leaders are no longer expected to apologize and resign; we expect them to deny, to resist, to fight to the bitter end, no matter what. They wait out the public, they wait out the courts, and they win.

The question that I am having a hard time answering is simply: how did it get this way? Bush had a profound impact on this culture; there was a man who knew the anti-value of self-restraint! The anti-value of self-reflection, of taking responsibility for mistakes. Wall Street learned the anti-value of self-restraint, because they gambled, lost big, and got bailed out anyway. Police are taught the anti-value of self-restraint, because there is risk to the officer when using too little force, but virtually no risk to the officer when using too much.

Power delegitimizes itself when it shows a systematic lack of self-restraint.
PTO or sick days most likely if you have to do it during a normal work day. Sometimes, if you are lucky, you may find a company willing to work around your schedule (e.g. maybe a late-day interview) - it wouldn't hurt to ask.
Lol. Yes, funny how people love to throw JavaScript/Node.js into the mix.

It's like "They're using JS; how could it possibly be secure?!". That's actually highly ironic considering that JS is so far the only language that is secure enough to run universally in every browser on the planet.

People can't get around the fact that JS has evolved a LOT since it was launched and it still suffers a bad name.
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Those interested in optimal neural network compression might consider the paper "Bitwise Neural Networks" by Kim and Smaragdis http://paris.cs.illinois.edu/pubs/minje-icmlw2015.pdf which enables much better compression than simple quantization and pruning.
If they're at your university are the results you're looking for not all under the same domain? I would have expected site:university.com to return the right results for you. (Okay, perhaps it's not the every-man solution.)
> 3 people living in 20 sq meters with communal kitchen and bathroom is slums.

Or just roomates in many large cities...
It's strange to me how these conversations tend to center around failure modes that would be apparent to

a) anyone who has driven in that situation since it's not even remotely an outlier of an event

b) anyone who took their self driving car out into that situation more than a handful of times

we've already seen self driving cars leave their lanes in response to pedestrians or road hazards or just temporary detours around construction. Why would a snow bank not be avoidable as well?
It's not quite a desktop app, but the web version of Keep stays in sync with notes you makes while mobile: https://keep.google.com/.

There's also a Chrome app that wraps the site, which almost makes it feel like a real desktop app: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-keep-notes-....
MacIntyre's work was incredibly interesting to this layman. The main point I took away from it is that earlier moral theory asserted that the moral good was the same as in the sense of "this is a good chair". Looked at this way, the ancients had much simpler answers for moral questions than we do, because they all boiled down to "is this person fulfilling their purpose by this action?". Virtue ethics, which he's famously associated with, then brings back that question, with an intermediate step of "what are the traits of a person who is fulfilling their purpose as a person?", as a way of reducing the original question to a heuristic than can be applied to situations.

Where I think this has a problem is that people may disagree about the purpose of a person, or people in general. Just as a chair's purpose is most clearly set by the chair's builder, talking about a person's purpose intuitively implies a person's builder, or "Builder", if you will. A rock shaped by water and accident to look like a chair may serve as one, and so be a good chair, but being a good chair doesn't have any apparent bearing on whether it's a good rock. Without design and intent, purpose is a little fuzzy. Hence (I believe), MacIntyre became religious a while after writing _After Virtue_.

So, even though virtue ethics, if accepted as better than consequentialist ethical theories, makes moral questions simpler, it seems a bit arbitrary with regard to the actual answers, and two virtue ethicists might disagree on which are the important virtues without either being more correct than the other. Without a creator, virtue ethics is on only slightly firmer ground (in my opinion) than consequentialism, but with a creator, it provides strong moral guidelines while not requiring that those guidelines apply to the universe at large, or to said creator. That is, for a virtue ethicist, believing in a creator god grounds moral theory for humans in a way that neither deontology nor consequentialism can.
Most people side with law enforcement at least some of the time, and many support the legal system and war on drugs on general principle.

If that point of view is incomprehensible to you, then perhaps you're the one who needs a Voight-Kampff test.
no links? how do I apply?
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Stakeholders != CEO. It can be, but it's hardly the only option.
Windows Defender on Windows 10 works fine. You'd be crazy to either disable it and/or install a different security product.
Add "bazel" to this growing list. Blaze (the real thing) is a great build tool, the best. But they kept the distributed engine for themselves, rendering Bazel useless. So far, they have done the same thing with TensorFlow - kept the distributed engine proprietary.
I would argue that philosophy isn't a choice, if ones mind works philosophically, one will think about philosophy.

As an armchair philosopher, I'd say my ideas have helped my live my life in a more positive way, and has helped me to expose others to ideas that can be fun to think about and helpful for dealing with various life situations.
> Build things that people want.

That sentence has a very familiar ring to it. :)
Whatever 1.2 million is not much money. And if they don't do it someone else will do it.
Any third party (company, or otherwise) that you depend on for your business can elect to make your life more difficult (or nigh on impossible) at any time.

This applies to so many things involving computers, and of course most aspects of modern life.

Back in the good (bad?) old days there were no such things as "personal" computers. We created our programs on punched cards and trudged down to the computer center to run them.

And that, to me, was what I hated the most about the computers of the time. I was dependent on the good graces of the University to get a few precious minutes of computer time to use to run my programs.

So, when the first usable PCs were invented, people flocked to them. 8K bytes of RAM meant you could run a BASIC interpreter on your own computer. Once you bought it, you could use it as much as you wanted to, for any reason that you wanted to. Period.

It's unfortunate that so much of modern computer life once again depends on the good graces of others.
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Also life span was much shorter, productive years of life were much lesser and there was little incentive to spend time in things such as "learning". It made sense to prepare children of life's hard work right from the beginning. Just the way we currently burden little ones with learning alphabets, basic numbers and memorizing math tables. We don't see these things as burden today but may be 100 years later when human beings will have to work very little to achieve a lot some of the people would look back at future and say our ancestors forced their little Children to learn thing like math tables only to make them slaves at some corporate office.
This is a point release.
Exactly. It's like asking someone to watch your stuff while you go to the bathroom.

The chances of picking a thief are low compared to the chances of a thief picking you.
Why do you need any special cards for such things? Even laptops today can come with LTE modems / SIM readers, and all you need a SIM card from your mobile provider to use it.
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insights into life at that time rely on researchers’ imaginations

Where is this 600M years taken from? big claims based on assumptions, I don't like this kind of science, building on too many assumptions and you are going too far from the truth and this is the opposite of what science tries to achieve.
I forget where this advice came from, but the intent was if you find an parent actively in parent mode (stroller) you're likely to find a person sympathetic to a child in need.
I allow my kids to play in our cul-de-sac by themselves all the time. I've never really been worried about them.

When I was a kid I'd hop on my bike and my friends and I would ride into town, buy pizza, come home a few hours later. It was normal.

This trend toward having to stay within arms reach of your children at all times is, in my opinion, very unhealthy for a child as they don't have opportunities to build confidence and independence.
I found that NoScript required too much customisation for each site I visited - do you have some kind of default ruleset that makes this easier?
And this:
http://visualizing.nyc/bay-area-zip-codes-singles-map/
Apt username.
Except the risk reward outcomes are inverted and time is a factor. Say you're boarding a plane but are running a few minutes late. With a male agent, there is a 99.9% chance they'll give you a break and get on the flight in time. With a female agent, there is a 99.99% chance.

What do you do? You go to the first available agent.
I have a weird idea... What if, on condition of answering the question, you require that the receiver update the wiki? This may not work with close collaborators, but it would work with more distant ones on the threat of withdrawing further collaboration.
> Is it all just a sham?

Yes, unless you are so computer illiterate as to regularly download old viruses by accident.

> How did no one within the company catch it?

I doubt they do any reviews of their code beyond QA/"Does it work?"

> Aren't security products developed by at least somewhat security-minded people?

No. Pretty much the people who test for vulnerabilities [i.e. actual security-focused programmers] are more expensive than the average Windows desktop programmer.

Now just imagine what companies that process your credit cards look like...
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AKA the "Cambrian Explosion". I wasn't aware this was new. I remember this in HS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambrian_explosion
Where here has JS been given a bad name? I didn't get that vibe.
Are you trying to say it was a mistake that allowed the unsigned, non origin checked decryption and upload of all passwords. It looks much more like that was how they designed it.

[IANA-Programmer FWIW]

Also how is an origin check a fix. Like, great, now only Trend Micro (and any impersonators via DNS poisoning or similar tricks presumably) can read all my passwords in plain text??

>It's also likely any large company has a chain of command these things have to go down through and back up again and for every link in that chain there's a greater than 0 chance the person has no idea about proper security. //

When the locks need changing in a school it doesn't matter that the headteacher has no idea how to fit a lock, nor what lock needs putting on which door; they have an employee who has some competency in the field (caretaker/janitor) sufficient to watch an outside expert (locksmith say) perform and certify the work. If the locksmith says "just paint the door with a brick pattern and don't bother with locks" then the janitor should realise that's not sufficient.

>It's pretty likely the devs at any consumer hardware company aren't world-beaters //

Trend Micro are a security software company, aren't they. From their website:

"As a global leader in IT security, Trend Micro develops innovative security solutions that make the world safe for businesses and consumers to exchange digital information. With over 25 years of security expertise, we’re recognized as the market leader in server security, cloud security, and small business content security."

Like come on. "Global leaders in IT security" can tell exposing remote code exploits across your entire install base is worth paying a not-rubbish programmer to get here ASAP and fix your product.
I would hope "stakeholders" is in reference to Project Stakeholders (i.e. Project Managers) and not stakeholders in the company (which would be absurd).
You watch star-trek, and other films/shows set in the future that show classrooms with tablet like devices?

There is something pretty special with the tablet, and the only thing that is changing is really the way input (and less so-output) is done.

As a kid, I also remember the power strips for the Apple lab were so janky, that if you accidently kicked it, it would reset the entire bank of computers.

Or those old 5 1/2 floppy disks that had exposed magnetic media that tended to get screwed up.

Logo-writer, kidpix (omg so great), Hypercard, were foundational to me.

But todays children have access to minecraft, and very soon Virtual Reality. There is no way I'd want to force the tools of my education on kids today.

I'm so excited for my (soon to be born) child.
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While this is certainly one way to do it (and the set-up is beautifully hi-fi), cmus and vlc have options for streaming music. I couldn't imagine a "music server" distro being better than a small appliance or VM running my own light(er)-weight distro for streaming from either my library or from a list of online streams. https://github.com/seriousben/cmus-droid-remote
I was raised in India. I walked half a mile till 4th grade and 2 miles from 5th grade to 10th grade. I remember I had to deal with a madman on the way who would keep running after the kids and throw stones on them. I remember once I slipped and fell into a small ravine where there was this huge f python (goosebumps on my hand right now just remembering that incident), once I was chased by a fox.

I never even bothered complaining to my parents because in one way it was fun. We ventured deep into woods, caught crabs, put traps for birds and squirrels etc. etc.

It was a wonderful part of my childhood, my kids may not experience the same but I dont want the government to restrict their experience either.
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Oh...you don't accidentally leave your car in NY when you're in LA ...just me then?

This was a joke

It is a large step, let's just get it to drive me to and from work first!
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Do you think that AV, on net, makes you less secure? If so, can you provide any data?
Early demos of speech recognition software come to mind.

There's quite a big difference between a nice demo in controlled conditions and a serious replacement for a cumbersome, thought to be obsolete, but ultimately irreplaceable entity like a keyboard or a human driver.

As a driver, I really hope they make good on their claims. But they're not even close at the moment.
> You want to live in a bubble, good for you. Give me freedom or give me death.

You can still walk.

They don't allow your rocket car on public roads today, so obviously there's some level of bubble you're willing to accept.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9577150

I didn't care for it eight months ago, either. Non-semantic solution in search of a problem. I understand the motivation, I'm just not convinced this is "better".
Cam you recommend some easy* literature to understand the things you're referring to? I'm interested in particular in things more flexible and easier to understand than the monad.
*as in not written by and for mathematicians
Not every engineer is top of the line, so when the bridge fails we aren't doing ourselves a lot of favors by adopting a harsh tone.

The truth is that technology has gotten to the point where poor security is lethal. From vehicles to medical devices, poor security can now allow a bad actor to put others into harms way.

Now, mistakes happen. No one is perfect. But we should demand the adoption of systems that do their best to minimize the potential damage of human mistakes.

Now, yelling at the construction worker because the bridge was poorly engineered is not at all effective. But the problem here isn't the tone, only that it need to be directed higher in the organization.
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Is drive space that big of a deal?
in regards to your second question: Why wouldn't you write components in a modern, generally well-sandboxed safe language? (Of course you shouldn't break the sandbox to do so, but using JS in general is not a bad thing)
It's not the locked screen, but the "create a locked note" screen
The Cambrian Explosion has been known for quite some time. This is a theory of HOW the Cambrian Explosion happened. One single mutation. Interesting ideas for sure!
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Check Amazon, Huawei make a lot of these dongles.
I really don't think thats true and I also don't think that your doomsday argument link relates to what you are claiming either.
Presumably they get the interchange fee (1-2% in the US and capped to 0.2% in the EU now). I suppose they operate at a loss at the moment but which business we talk about on this site doesn't?
I concur, though note that I am talking about taking notes during an activity like a lecture or a meeting. While on the computer I'd never bother myself writing stuff on paper.
My biggest questions are -

1. is it a full backup like titanium backup or is it adb backup thats not as good.

2. Some apps you can't just uninstall and reinstall without reverifying every time. Google authenticator is an example, that I don't think you can backup at all with adb or theres apps like line, that send you a txt message every time you reinstall even with titanium backup. How would Robin handle that ?