skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lets say I ran a well-known business that sold a some sort of physical product.

It could be a toy, a common household tool or appliance, or anything else that is small and inexpensive. It more-or-less works as intended, but it also included a small robot. The packaging and marketing would be designed so you weren't supposed to notice the robot, but the packaging included the necessary fine print and an explanation that this robot was just there to make sure you got the best experience possible for anybody that spotted this "extra feature".

Unrelated to whatever it was that you bought, at night the robot would install a device on your phone that re-routed all your phone calls through my office (a MITM attack). The phone still works ok, except now calls to your favorite pizza deliver restaurant seem seem to be re-routed to the competitor across town. Some time later a neighbor complains that he can sometimes when he checks his voicemail, he gets your phone conversations instead.

After finishing with the phone, the robot does the same thing to your cable TV.

Some days, the robot would go through your (physical) mail and place stickers with new advertisements into your magazines. Occasionally one of those stickers would end up on your electric bill, obscuring important information. The power company has a similar logo to one of the sticker-ads, so the robot probably confused the two logos. Even if the robot didn't have any stickers to place, it would still open your mail and leave it (opened) on the ground near your mailbox for anybody to see.

If I rand a business that did this - possibly as my main (or only) product - how long would I be able to run this scam before someone threw me jail?

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Intentionally breaking TLS with a MITM attack goes way beyond the usual scam/trojan. This isn't even the usual negligence that we see in the "security" of a lot of products. Creating a certificate that lets you MITM any domain is very obviously a willful act.
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> while at the same time there's no money for schools, police, refugees etc because Wolfgang Schäuble is obsessed with his "black zero".

Schleswig-Holstein just decided to drop any plans for the black zero, and doubled the funding for new police recruits. Additionally, we decided to also build more schools. And fix the infrastructure.
I think a lot of people tell their SO just exactly that.
I would not want to be in a diagnostics startup right now. Between 23andMe and theranos, its clear the FDA is being rightly, (I don't say this lightly because I'm often skeptical about a lot of FDA activities) very strict about their standards on testing & diagnostics. I'm all for disruptive technology and businesses, but sv is not only schumpeterian creative destruction, it's also about growth hacking. To me it's not clear that the silicon valley growth models are appropriate for this industry.
No, HMG, bulk data surveillance is Not inevitable
He wrote a column in Scientific American too.
The dating game
> They charged less than their competition

It's a lot less crazy than it sounds, because they are wholly owned by Vanguard. So the customer is effectively setting the fees.

There are certainly scenarios where you could see how this is clearly abusive. As a contrived example, imagine if Apple moved its legal headquarters to Ireland and made California into a subsidiary. They would still have to pay the California subsidiary for the design services it provides, but they could set those fees at way below market price and thereby shift all tax liabilities to a lower tax jurisdiction. We have transfer pricing rules in place to prevent this.

The situation is more complicated than this because the fund (the client) is not a profit-seeking corporation, so it's not arbitrarily moving funds around. It's an odd scenario where the customers are also the owners.
I'd like to offer a contrary perspective. I actually like the idea that some of our "stuff" ends up being ephemeral. By accident or design. I'm not really talking about burning the occasional Alexandrian Library, but the stuff that didn't seem important enough for anyone to really care about.

And if something I made only exists on Soundcloud, I either don't really care or I'm a bit stupid.

For most of our history nearly everything we thought, said and did was ephemeral. Not recorded and then gone. We've become pack-rats. We're at the beginning of technology civilization and already we have amassed so much that for any major genre of music there exists more content than a human being could consume in a lifetime.

And the vast majority of it is, at best, unremarkable.

I think we are wired for worrying about losing information because it used to be a disaster. We used to be terrible at recording information. We're not anymore. Oh boy are we not. We'll just make more. Or we'll repeat whatever process brought us there.

And if it can't be repeated you now have the rarest and most unique gift: a cultural experience that only exists in the memory of those present.

Imagine the storage space we as a civilization are going to use for storing worthless shit just in the next 100 years.
I think Amazon will have a hard time of it. Alibaba has a considerable lead, superior processes, lower costs and more access to top talent.
Yet another running app has been bought by a shoe company
OTOH, you can buy Kindle-competing ereaders on the store just fine. Seems to me not even the store unit is consistent in trying to enforce a monopoly.
Is that instead of property taxes, or in addition to?
And then you set a Group Policy to ban Chrome and instead enable a browser with more reasonable settings for this case, like Firefox.
I often scan them to hire a bike in Glasgow, the mobile app uses a QR code to identify the bike and give me the lock code.
On what grounds would you guess that walk be taken?
http://picturesofpeoplescanningqrcodes.tumblr.com
:-) Yes, you are probably right.
Giant iceberg could wipe out Adélie penguin colony at Cape Denison, Antarctica
That only applies if it is, in fact, legal. We have specific laws in place to prevent corporate tax evasion through unrealistic transfer pricing, and it's unclear if Vanguard falls afoul of those rules.
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TTIP: A locked room, no internet access, two hours, 300 pages and lots of typos
...but you forgot a little detail, the US saves each of its banks if they get any close to becoming bankrupt. They don't save foreign banks if the same happens, at all.
Visualizing a century of European demographics
You can see the visualization here:

http://laem.github.io/eurpop/
> Headquartered in the same city as the bank, the newspaper said

I thought their HQ is in London.
Do it for cheap?

It’d be extremely expensive if every university would have to pay for a full CA root certificate.

Instead, just having a self-signed one, limited to their own domains and subdomains allows them to use eduroam, or provide their own signed software, or sign certificates for people who want to provide their own software, etc.

Safer, simpler, and cheaper. (Although some unis actually have a CA certificate limited to *.uniname.tld)
Lazio mengalahkan Verona
Templeton's $5.9B Bet on Brazil Bonds Paying Off in 2016
17 Quotes from Big Corporate Execs Who Laughed Off Disruption When It Hit
Yet, somehow, all those persons have no problem at all using facebook, but ordering something from some online shop, do a google search to solve some problem, or even read the Help menu on some software is out of the question for them... It seems they have their priorities all mixed up.
And then let Greece pay for the bailout! Good idea. We get rid of Sylt, and Greece has to pay.
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Women considered better coders – but only if they hide their gender
Almost any user manual nowadays has a QR code, I also see it on magazines, even in printed ads (in Finland also).

However, the UX is really bad:
1. most people don't know what they are
2. if they learn, then they have to find a QR reader app
3. reading experience: pick phone from pocket, open it, find the app, start it, scan it.

Possible solution:
1. phones should have it pre-installed
2. it should be simple to snap a qr tag (e.g. without opening, e.g. with hotkey)
3. url should go to notifications queue or very easily accessible, also for integrations
4. users should be better educated, e.g. when there is a qr tag in a magazine there should be a short explanation. (https://www.quikklytags.com/#/ seems very promising from this point of view)

I think QR tags have huge untapped potential.
I would imagine that in a world where my mum is compiling from the 'source', the 'source' that she's compiling would be infected in the same way as Download.com is.
the bank is headquarted in Frankfurt: https://www.db.com/en/content/Imprint.htm

As far as i know the Investment Banking branch mainly operates from out of London.
DBS, OCBC Said to Submit Bids for Barclays's Asia Wealth Unit
Yes, unbound is great—I run it on my local machine with a list of ad servers to block. I use this little script to download and convert the Someone Who Cares hosts list to unbound format[0] every few weeks. BTW, the pgl.yoyo.org list is available[1] in Unbound format since a few months ago[2].

[0] https://github.com/jodrell/unbound-block-hosts

[1] https://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/serverlist.php?hostformat=unb...

[2] https://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/news.php?#unbound
While pretty hideous sweashops do exist, there is still good chance that the person who sowed your jeans chose to do it. Because the alternative was even worse.
top talent xD
However, Merkel also pushed new EU legislation, so the government cannot help the bank (even if it has unlimited money) until depositors are bailed in. Currently, however, Italy is trying to find a loophole, that Germany might use as well later.
This is an announcement from October 2015. It would be more interesting to see some analysis of how many courses have begun charging for grades - I know the python intro I have been doing is not charging.
Well, a diet without allergens made a big difference. :-)

Also, I lowered coffee/sugar intak drastically when I wasn't tired all the time.

I still have the allergies. They got worse, which is why their existence obvious. (The main problem it took time was that I was bad for five days after eating anything wrong, so I never really saw anything but sick.)
Except they only did this in New York. Only if they had gone ahead and did this as a global crackdown, that argument might fly.
...and Chrome reports the HTTPS cert for that URL as unsafe. How ironic.
The Badfish page at https://filippo.io/Badfish/ seems to be down. Any other place where I can direct people to check for invalid security certificates?
Physics will always be based on observations. Consciousness is fundamentally hinged TO observation. I'd argue that the way your brain works is more fundamental to reality than the physics causing a Mhz of conduction throughout your synapses. In summary, all bullshit theories are possible in spirit of deceit. For why should good senses be wasted on a cohesive system when the mind is simply a slave to its own devices?
Fitness App Runkeeper to Be Acquired by Running Shoe Maker ASICS
I found it fairly odd as well, then checked the domain, insideairbnb.com, what the hell? Sounds like some corporate blog domain. But no, it's not. Tiny yet frustrating detail.
They can't - they are banks!
Who needs it?
I think that irrespective of the title and the benefits of conservation of the ecosystem, letting mosquitoes stay alive needs a far more compelling argument than "it might take away some other animal's snack"
Why hasnt companies like Download.com and CNET been dragged to court yet beats me. People have had to pay hard cash just to have their systems purged many have lost priced documents and information while attempting resets because of this.

Is this some sort of favorable treat?
Then why not lobby to have the rule changed instead of outright breaking it?
Whilst I'm sure this is no longer the case, I used to do this back in the day, but it was soooo slow!
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Just so you know, while it's a complete misappropriation of the reference, "the red pill" is a term associated with a particular group with strong opinions on gender politics: https://www.reddit.com/r/theredpill
An auditor friend told me a story about a company that opened a subsidiary to do all their vehicle leasing for the company cars. By charging the main company only their costs, this subsidiary was able to show 0 profit, and so they avoided paying some higher tax rate on the cars they were leasing. (I've probably simplified the story to the point of nonsense, but that was the basic idea).

You can see why that sort of thing would be illegal and that kind of subsidiary would be legally required to charge the market rate for the services they were providing.
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xkcd : Frequentists vs. Bayesians : https://xkcd.com/1132/
Public finances are not stretched at all - Germany is currently running a budget surplus. But apparently that does not fit your narrative.
Why did the half-plane, half-helicopter not work?
If you know enough biology, the conceit that they could do so many of these tests with a fingerstick vs. a venous blood draw was highly questionable from the start.

Sure, they could in theory prove that basic intuition wrong, but they didn't in any way in the dozen years since their founding, and at last count were doing only one of their tests with a fingerstick. The 2nd section of the article covers this with thorough, accurate, and concise prose.

And then we learned about their being extremely sloppy in running one of their conventional blood labs, which is a very well establishing sort of thing nowadays (heck, using machines in blood labs goes back to the '50s). The sort of thing that is justly worth $10,000/day fines.

Ah, one detail here is that this is not what I'd call a "technology" problem, it's as much a "science" problem, and those can be much less tractable.

If you want to label their troubles as being with communications, it seems hard justify after trying and failing for 12 years. And not accepting the norms of the science community, see again that 2nd section, and now the norms of the lab testing regulatory community. There's reasons these two communities have their cultures, and if you want to "disrupt" them, you should at least understand and appreciate them, and why they exist as they do.

As for "criminal-illegal conduct", it's starting to have the whiff of a Ponzi scheme, as their own technology appears to utterly fail in both the scientific and regulatory domains, and they spend a lot more than they're charging to run their tests, not that at this point they're likely to attract any more investment. If the financial regulators choose to push it, it looks like they could make a case for raising funds or spending that money on false pretenses, at which point the membership of the board might come in very handy. (The former structure and huge size (12), though, speak of a CEO dominated board, not one that would provide the company with useful guidance).
It's also worth observing that fund and asset management is one of those areas where the more successful a manager you a the lower the fees you charge. People are used from other areas with higher fees = better. However a good manager can charge lower fees on a much larger pot of money and make an awful lot more than a worse manager charging higher fees on a much smaller fund.
The page contains only the link to another article; you should have used that one instead:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-2e3f0042-75f6-4bd1-b...
Don’t design for mobile, design for mobility
Downloading applications via a package manager is basically the same as downloading applications on your phone via an "App Store" application. (Especially if you are using a package manager with a GUI)

Millions of people use app stores everyday. And I'd say a huge percentage of those people are the ones who would also download a program on their PC from download.com

Which sounds more accessible:

1) click package-manger program
2) type the name of the program you want to install
3) click install

OR

1) open web browser
2) go to http://yahoo.com
3) type google
4) click the first link
5) google "download program_i_want"
6) click on link leading to "www.download.com/malware/viruses/tracking/program_i_want"
7) stare at the dozen different DOWNLOAD! buttons, and wonder which one
8) click the biggest flashiest one
9) wait for it to finish downloading
(if it doesn't automatically start and installer)
a)open File explorer
b)Go to Downloads folder
c)wade through the hundreds of other downloads until you find kd457sfjgs_download_app_i_want_setup_INSTALLER.exe.EXE
10)Once the installer is started click the NEXT button a dozen times, inadvertently installing extra malware each time
What are some recommended books on this topic?
Meet the New LastPass Logo
Assuming you meant why not: "Using 0.0.0.0 is faster because you don't have to wait for a timeout. It also does not interfere with a web server that may be running on the local PC."
LIGO scientist here. The way this is presented can be a little deceptive - the isolation is very frequency dependent. At high frequencies (>10Hz), the pendulums and blade springs in the suspension isolate the mirrors very well, so they are moving by only these small amplitudes (10^-19 meters). But at low frequencies (<1Hz) the isolation ratio is essentially 1, so the amplitude of the mirror motion is roughly the same as that of the ground (about 10^-6 meters).
It took me about a minute to find 12 false entries just by looking what lines end in .de
How to Deploy Information Management and Analytics in the Cloud?
Privoxy is being hosted on Sourceforge, and Sourceforge is still hiding malware in the files. I checked yesterday.
In my completely uneducated opinion, this logo has too much whitespace, and looks unbalanced with the line at the end. I don't know how much of that is an objective analysis though, and how much is just that I'm not looking forward to retraining myself to recognize the icon...
No.

Only notable change is header compression. SPDY uses dynamic stream compression, HTTP/2 uses Huffman. And SPDY can be vulnerable to CRIME attack.
Foreign Office the first to adopt GDS-led 'open register' database initiative
If it's anything like Norwegian "christmas money", it's just a tax accounting rule where you pay for it the other 11 months in year.
Automated high DPI validation for applications built with Visual Studio
It's been suggested that the typos are unique to each viewer as a form of anti-copying mechanism, allowing anybody who sees the pirated excerpt to link it back to the leaker.

Clever, but surely easily thwarted?
Codio has been my favorite. Very great for web development. I used it for a couple years to program from chrome books!
However, their business model has shifted to a more education focus, so I can't say if they'll continue to focus as much on badass web development ide.
Tax should be on profit, not revenue or turnover. By offering lower fees, Vanguard transfers wealth from the investment fund industry to the consumers of its products.

I see no difference between what Vanguard is doing here, and what WhatsApp did for instant messaging - disrupting an incumbent industry with a new and cheap option.

I don't see how anything about it is wonky. Care to explain?
"What's wrong with XKCD's Frequentists vs. Bayesians comic?"

http://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/43339/whats-wrong-w...
He said he used 127.0.0.1 for google analytics. I was asking why he used 127.0.0.1 and not 0.0.0.0, exactly for the reasons you wrote. Sorry if that wasn't clear.
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Is it just me or is this a complete rip off of the NCase?!
https://www.ncases.com/
I use this one, it's only 12.5L:

http://www.in-win.com.tw/Corporate/en/goods.php?act=view&id=...
Move fast and break things. Laws, mostly.
And presumably the companiant thinks that all coops are tax dogers
Maybe your colleague from Greece should realize that when DB 'falls' tons of people will take the fall for it, regular people like you and me, people who are just trying to make a living, like all those poor fucks in Greece. The group of people taking the fall for it won't be limited to Germany, you can be sure Greeks will feel it as well.

Tell him to just stfu and get back to work.
> I mean most Linux users regularly compile binaries directly from the source.

I think not really. It's not that common. Precisely because package management works nicely, you can do an apt-get install or yum install or whatever.

I have compiled Linux kernels and even written device drivers in the past, but in the past 5 years I haven't had a need to compile anything from source.
If you think that's bad, wait until you have savings. Instead of taxing interest earnings as income they assume you earn 4% on your capital and tax that at, say, 50%.

The banks are now paying 1%-1.5% but you still have to pay the tax man 2% - so your capital actually goes down. It's an implicit negative interest rate.

So people like me who didn't get a 6x mortgage* and live frugally end up subsiding my Audi-driving, 6x mortgage, overspending & debt-heavy "friends". The same people who have cause this situation by their dangerous borrowing.

* houses are how you fix this: the value in the house isn't seen as capital so it's not taxed, plus you can deduct interest payments from income taxes; i.e. the entire system is designed to increase property values.
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This is similar to saying I hope the nuclear plant blows up but I would really hate it if the government needs to clean it up.

In a way it is already too late.

The scandal is that DB has been allowed to grow this big.
Ah! This is a key point! Thanks.
Act of Parliament might do it. They did it for Peter Pan, after all.

I wonder if it would stand a chance as a private members bill....
> I think this bank is Exhibit A to the catastrophic excesses of the past 20 years.

Only partially related, I remember one of the German landsbanke (can't remember its name) buying full one-page splashy ads in magazines like The Economist, back in 2007. Only one year later they went catastrophically under because they had bought in into the subprime lending and its derivatives' mania. I remember one of the directors saying something like "we didn't know what exactly we were buying, those products were too complicated for us, we trusted the people who had sold them to us". It's fools all the way down.
Branch prediction on newer Intel processors, part 2
More accessible / concise info on the vibration isolation, here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11084282
What ratio of the most talented developers in the US (and similar markets) do you think want to work for Amazon?

Alibaba is a dream job for the best of the best in China, and to be honest, the developer market in China is a lot bigger than that in the US. In all fairness, Alibaba can probably hire a better dev for 50k USD/year than Amazon could for 150k.
Species go extinct all the time, and the world doesn't end. Wiping out one species deliberately will probably not be a disaster. Letting mosquitoes continue to exist is just as likely to "bring along with it an endless string of unforeseen consequences, one that could possibly be worse for humans than the problems we have now" as not doing so.

On the other hand, we should probably do some due diligence before deciding to embark on a mosquitocide, just to try and swing the odds in our favour.