skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe it's worse: If these are really off the shelf tablets, presumably the camera can be turned on remotely. Though I'm sure the hotel would have put a piece of black tape over it, right?
While I agree with the general premise, it appears Harvey Silverglate is a fraud. This came up on HN a while ago and I looked up a few of the cases mentioned. A brief search revealed that these people were all actual criminals and he had grossly misrepresented the cases.

The one I remember had to do with shipping undersized lobster tails. He made it out that a bunch of average restaurant owners were sent to jail for years b/c they broke a foreign export law which was somehow enforceable in America due to a law he had a problem with.

What actually happened was these people had been conspiring to to break environmental law for decade by packaging lobster tails in such a way that inspectors found it difficult to inspect them and made mistakes. They had a whole system for routing their stuff to specific ports that had inspecting facilities that were easy to manipulate. They continued doing this for a year after they were informed they were under a federal investigation, right up until they were all arrested.

They made millions of dollars by poaching undersized lobsters and all of the rules they broke were not vague and specifically made their packaging actions illegal, in order to prevent people from doing exactly what they did.

So I wouldn't put too much faith in this guy.
Once upon a time I used to work for a multinational company that did retail audit. They had developed a program which adjusted the ads a selected group of people were watching on their TVs. Then they provided them with special debit cards and monitored the relevance between viewed ads and purchases of goods in super markets. All that around 1999. And that was just once of a multitude of technologies they used. They also had a technology where a camera was tracing face movement to identify which items on the shelves attracted more attention by gender and age. I can’t even fathom what they’ll be using these days. Profiling is the holy grail of the marketing world. At least online we have the option of ad blocking. Offline we’re helpless.
The mobile Resolutions to be aware of when designing
Calculating and Managing Risks of Outsourcing IT? Piece of Cake
In an early stage startup, building the product is just as important as fundraising. In a non profit, the product is not the good feelings they give donors, it's the impact they have on whomever their mission fulfills. If they spend all their time fundraising their product is the good feelings they give donors, which will dry up really quick without accomplishing their mission. Full time fundraising is appropriate at a scale that is not < 10 people, for sure.
Despite the attractive nuisance of "go build", if you're in a fast save-compile-test cycle, you really want "go install". Both do pretty much the same thing (ignoring where the result goes), but install keeps the intermediate package compilations around and does the minimum, whereas build seems to discard them. Put "-v" on both of them and you can see the differences.
I can't see the images/charts since the site is down and I am reading the cache, but this analysis seems a bit suspicious to me. They are comparing AB&B prices without taxes and fees (and website + cleaning fees can be quite expensive) to hotel prices with taxes. The conclusion is that AB&B is more expensive, but I suspect if the additional fees were factored in, the difference would be even greater.
Whichever it is it can't be worse than implementing other languages in Javascript directly or using stuff like GWT and there are plenty of those already (including development for running Perl 6, btw).

Runtime for a few selected implementations should be very well be packaged or installed along with the browser itself. Failing that, it should be cached.
I assume that if you change the file names of those internal analytics tools then they will stop being blocked.
https://www.airbnb.com/host-protection-insurance
The most shocking one:

There is a lot of terminology flung around here that is insufficiently explained. What exactly is meant, for example, by “false negative” and “false positive” rates? “median, first quartile, and third quartile”?
> Which step is the unrealistic one in the game?

In real life, "finding all the Uber Wunderkids who can easily be bought" is actually extremely hard, as there are too many external factors that could determine if a wunderkid becomes a Ronaldo, as demonstrated by several talented athletes that achieved nothing.

Plus, a lot of those factors are hard for an algorithm to "handle", e.g. luck in finding/identifying a wunderkid, getting him motivated and committed, him having enough maturity to work on improving and the psychological resilience to withstand what comes with the job, etc etc...
All added, thank you.
I could guess that isn't uncommon if the critic isn't aware of the student's nationality. I have had the same issue, where having a vocabulary that exceeds the average English-as-a-2nd-language student makes your writing appear difficult to another non-native speaker.
University lecturers seem to have little patience for students who are better at something than they are, even if they could easily turn it on its head and say, "but I'm better at my native Spanish!"
Sure, no language is perfect but I've never ran into problems using Lombok in production. I'd gladly welcome the majority of its features being part of the core language though! :)
>It's exactly the sort of thing that leads to mandated programs like common core.

What exactly is wrong with the common core?
I think this is a really good idea. Best of luck with it.
but it's "close to half"
I think the implication was that some asshole can obtain photos of you sleeping by opening the curtains and switching on the lights in the middle of the night. A nuisance, sure, but also a massive violation of privacy.
My first idea is a variation of all-or-nothing: if you cannot get rid of all X now - tjen you shouldn't even start thinking about it.
Can you upload source code for Brothers?
The threat of a scorched earth policy needs to be strong enough for governments to either not consider these types of actions or suffer the consequences.
I can understand it not being practical for the people involved though, and I sympathize.
New app Tagly bets on connecting consumers with brand content
This is the direction we should and, I predict, we will be headed. Personal recommendations and analytics should be optional and opt-in. The EU cookie law is a step in the right direction but the reason it's so clumsy is because cookies for now are opt-out.

The way to get there is to separate the browsing/shopping process from the tracking/recommendations. Instead of bouncers we should have personal shoppers. The majority of people I speak to have no problem with trackers so there is no reason not to make it more transparent where users can choose which data they want to share and for what purpose.
A Greenpeace report is simply a propaganda piece. For an accurate appraisal, we'd need systematic reviews of the various areas of study in this report, published in a reputable journal. And comparing this incident to Chernobyl is inane.
how we are going to fix this

Lawsuits for damages, as usual.
Wouldn't the way to go about this be: Create an MVP (w/out much security) - get funding for the MVP, hire security experts, get over the obstacles?
Plonking that idea into a brawler-style melee game would be great. Especially if you could change the game dymanics: big players have more health, but small players can't be hit; two players fighting over one object tug-of-war style; guns shoot bullets with odd distance mechanics.

I could see that being a fun one-off game.
GM Buying Self-Driving Tech Startup for More Than $1B
> Well the security they engender is mostly physical security i.e. not getting blown up by terrorists while the security they want to breach is information security.

This is exactly my point. They use the terrorist strawman to frame their agenda; which is to hack all the internets without anyone batting an eyelid.

Information technology is but one facet of reality, and a reflection. It is not the whole thing. It's for this reason it is more suitable to get to the core of why anyone would want to commit an act such as blowing oneself up in the first place.

It's like going all guns blazing on the symptoms of flu. Unless a cure is invented it will haunt us and we only have symptomatic relief.

I can understand the motivations for going after anyone doing something technically interesting with a computer (actually a rare thing unless you are supremely skilled and have chosen a life of learning systems and divulging technical manuals). Also see: homebrew crypto
No. If we think it's good it's good. It's a useless question unless 'good' is defined.
Is it useful to you now without clustering?
I didn't know about the UI, thanks. But why isn't it built into the web console?
A Brief History of Haptic Feedback in Video Games
You upvote the negative comment.
Or you could just implement them as-is, earn a shitload of money and then enhance their security in the next version or with a firmware update once you'll have the luxury of investing in R&D. At least it's better if a security-wary entrepreneur implements them instead of someone who simply doesn't give a flying fuck.
Apple and U.S. Bitterly Turn Up Volume in iPhone Privacy Fight
California Could Drop Daylight Saving Time
Perhaps the hotel was getting ahead of UK gov requirements for network backdoors.
Under pressure in an interview, yesterday, I found myself saying "'The Internet of Things' is short for 'The Internet of Things you don't need, sending surveillance data you don't want, to people you don't know.'"
I've travelled extensively for the last 2.5 years using a combination of Airbnb, hotels (booked via Agoda & Rakuten Travel) & apartments arranged via local classifieds (Craigslist, Gumtree etc.).

At the beginning airbnb was my main choice, because of the experience it delivered. Not because it was cheaper. I used to stay in houseshares and the vast majority of the time the host was amazing, sociable and generous. But I think as airbnb has gone more into the mainstream and hosts get more experienced, the host cannot maintain that level of service. Now the best hosts are professional, but without the friendliness of the early days.

What works best on price depends on many factors: the time of year, the country, the length of stay, big events or festivals, number of guests.

I now make my choice based on the price and quality. I've recently found last-minute hotel bookings via Agoda have worked well.

Hotels in cities work especially well in off-seasons. They have staff cost and vacant rooms, so have a strong incentive to get any revenue they can. Prices can sometimes be lower than anything that an airbnb host would be willing to accept[1]. Also hotels work well for 1 day stays. Many airbnb hosts want 2 day minimum stays. Also airbnb hosts often add a cleaning fee, which can significantly bump up price for very short stays.

Conversely airbnb can work great when your visiting a city/area during an extremely busy period. Hotels are obviously aware these peaks and have adjusted prices accordingly. Experienced airbnb hosts have done the same. But novice airbnb hosts will often have much lower prices.

[1] I used to be an airbnb host in a UK city. During the winter months it just wasn't worth competing with the budget hotels (EasyHotel, Premier Inn etc.)
Great point- it seems like the NY Post is following standard whitehat full disclosure procedures. My takeaway is that for any security vulnerability, as long as you append "because terrorism / for the children", you're in the clear.
It was a reading comprehension error. You're making the same mistake in reading if you think
pc86's answer is valid.
I worked for a startup and found cross site scripting vulnerabilities and other issues like GET urls for deleting things. I was told to leave it alone and not "waste my time" because we dont have a lot of users and we weren't popular. I cringe at the justification. Security should be a necessary skill. It shouldnt be something after the fact
>For example: NPM compiling C-dependencies together with ECMAScript/JavaScript into a single WebAssembly package that can then run inside the browser.

The reason you'd write stuff in C is (aside from performance) to access native API. Browsers and WASM doesn't let you do that.

WASM in the Node could let you do that - meaning that you would get cross platform assembly packages instead of ELF or w/e binary - but you would still need APIs on the platform and often for C the way that's handled is preprocesor macros that choses which platform you are compiling to - so you can't just "compile to WASM and then magic" even with WASM you'd have to "compile to WASM + POSIX and WASM + Win32" if you want to run on POSIX/Win32, etc. for all platform/API permutations.

TL;DR WASM is big but it won't quite be the abstract virtual machine like say JVM or CLR
Turkey was one of the markets I used to cover when I was a trader. Amongst the EMEA emerging markets, Turkey is one of the most popular/active in terms of hedge fund trading. They made a concerted effort in recent years to upgrade their market infrastructure (including the introduction of direct market access, where brokers will sponsor their clients to connect to the exchange electronically).

I think it's unlikely that the new market actor(s?) are taking big directional bets (although it's certainly possible). I think it's more likely that they're market-making or executing futures or index arbitrage strategies (in which case, what would look like a directional bet in the cash equities market would be offset by a corresponding trade in another security or derivative.
And the microphone
I couldn't agree more. It shouldn't surprise anyone that cheap outfits are cutting corners on something optional.

Structural engineering solved these kinds of problems with building codes. While I'm not sure that's the answer here, I think most people would welcome guidance beyond "just put whatever devices you want on a shared network and hope for the best".
> he's not in any position to be asking for the source code

People keep repeating this, but I'm pretty convinced that clause 3b of GPLv2 says that the source code must be given to any third party, since 3a and 3c do not apply:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11218324
The Fired / Not Fired Principle
Mine was:

"Why do you have so many tables? Did you go to Ikea?"
Take a 360-degree Video Tour of CERN's Large Hadron Collider
I used to mess around with ZynAddSubFX quite a bit... glad to see that there's still some development going on!
Should Venmo buy a bank?
“Who Is Hiring”: Python, JavaScript and Ruby Remain the Most Demanded Languages
Salaries of Ukrainian developers – 2016
Well one thing to keep in mind is that some American States alone are the same size in terms of population of some of these entire countries being praised for having better education systems than the US. Sure we can learn from some of the small nuances of their systems, but infrastructurally we are in a much different situation than most of these examples (Finland/Japan)
This article is not good. I, for one, applaud the NY Post for publishing the key. Back when we were all flipping out over electronic voting, I published a "how-to" on Ars for compromising various popular voting machines, complete with some codes and other instructions. It was so easy anyone could do it, and the piece was printed out and waved angrily at various hearings on CSPAN, and the end result was...

Well, actually, the end result was that some counties went back to mechanical, and some didn't, and today it's all still a mess and it's impossible to have any confidence that your vote was correctly recorded. And now, in the digital age, voting is probably just this cargo cult ritual that we all do to summon this "democracy" thing that our ancestors once encountered.

Anyway, my point is, just publish the key. That makes it harder for the people who are embarrassed by this and want to bury it to do so.
This whole IoT craze is turning into a nightmare. People are building all kinds of devices in complete ignorance of Security.
Amazon eyes up education, plans a free platform for learning materials
360-degree Tour of Cern's Large Hadron Collider
I've taught scala to several devs as well and I'd like to echo that the course on coursera is absolutely essential.

On a separate note, I leared scala and clojure nearly at the same time and I'd say that learning clojure actually helped me grow in scala as well.

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Reply fail. This was a response to hythloday
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> WELL WRITTEN SQL outperforms their beloved ORM

"Well, that's the real trick, isn't it?" </Han Solo>
If you intend to acquire then at some point you might have to make a tender offer.
A command line utility to measure HTTP request time with cUrl
I think they were right to tell you to leave them alone, but a better answer would be: "we'll add them to our backlog (or whatever way you manage issues or work), and get to them by X iteration". As long as you were really working on an MVP and not a version 1.x .
What data visualization tools do /r/DataIsBeautiful OC creators use?
The treated water should probably be pumped onto tanker ships and taken to the middle of the ocean for release. It would be so massively diluted as to be harmless, and remove any chance for local contamination. It would be far safer than leaving it in tanks on-site, which are subject to leaks, intentional damage, etc.
Senate Intel encryption bill could come next week
In addition to this, my problem is usually, "I could solve that problem with $5 in discrete electronic components." :P
Ah this game had so much potential, but in the end they didn't really manage to capture DK's spirit, and the game play ended up being uninteresting and frustrating. The constant stream of game breaking bugs didn't help either.
Walmart wouldn't run an ad in GQ highlighting it's clothing section: because the ad isn't going to resonate with the person seeing it.

However, unlike Walmart who would get on the phone with an account executive with Conde Nast (GQ's publisher) and talk through the campaign, most website advertisers and publishers do not have people dedicated to doing 1-1 sales. Publishers want the most money possible per ad unit and advertisers want the most sales possible within a reasonable acquisition cost. To balance those two things out and create value on both sides, ad exchanges and the demand platforms that tie into ad exchanges provide tons of targeting and remarketing opportunities. That allows advertisers to target their most profitable audiences. However, in order to offer all the rich and detailed targeting options, the exchanges and platforms have to know what individuals are doing so they can create personas and profiles of you.

If this happened magically in the magazine industry and magazine ads could be customized to the individual reader, then Walmart might buy some space in GQ if they learned a small portion of GQ readers are actually bargain hunters and shop at Walmart all the time for clothes and only read GQ more for their interviews and cocktail recipes rather than for men's fashion info.
I didn't get that implication at all, that's some creepy stuff there.
Giving away 3.5“ disks
Would anyone like 50 3.5" disks in a case + a couple small locking cases?
"The authors seem to have missed the seminal work by Yourstruly et al. (2015)..."
If that wasn't posted to HN yet you should.
And the GPS
I love the actual content of the site. But the design is trying to be way too clever, and fails for usability. I would prefer a UI that is simple, readable, and easy to navigate.
This seems like a twisted idea of a "fun" interview question that "our candidates really enjoy"
> GM recently formed an internal autonomous vehicle development team and entered into a strategic alliance with rideshare service Lyft earlier this year – adding a whopping __$500 billion__ to Lyft’s latest funding round to help build a connected network for self-driving cars.

WTF?
I dont get why this is a joke. My guess is the paper probably reported the mean as having some significance in the context of how participants scored, and the professor is pointing out that this is misleading. In other words, they should have not reported the mean but the median.
I'm pretty damn angry right now, but I'm sure that in a few days I'll get over it.

I run the tech side of a decent sized startup right now. Having joined ~4 years into the venture, one of my immediate concerns was the lack of visibility into how our system works. Keeping tabs on the performance of several hundred ETL pipelines is not super easy. I decided to double down on InfluxDB, changing the road-map of my infrastructure team.

Then, InfluxData introduced the TICK stack. I can get monitoring and alerting as well? Let's double down again!

I bought hardware, set up a cluster (painful), we filed bug reports, learned what sorts of queries not to run, and we were in good shape. I purchased tickets for a training session and a flight (out of pocket; we don't have travel budget). And then I saw the blog post last night.

All along, I knew that the promise of all of this great technology for free was too good to be true. There was always a little voice in my head asking me about how they actually made money -- I knew that a paid offering + professional services was not sustainable.

I'm angry, but we'll be fine. We're going to break apart our cluster and shard. We've already got code written to do a backup/restore that actually works (slowly) from one cluster to another. If we hit the point where sharding doesn't work, then it'll also probably be financially viable to pay the $399/month (on top of server costs). I'll still go to the training, but I'm not sure what I'll get out of it. The reason why I was going to the training was the section on "Cluster Administration".

The only thing that I'm raw about is the lack of apology. You have to make money, and you had to do a bait-and-switch as a result. I totally understand, but the tone of that blog post was too defensive and unapologetic.
There aren't lines; every case is so specific to that person's needs I don't think it's fair to pigeon-hole too much. For me, my coworker's change in demeanor was enough. You may find that medication smoothes the swings for you (and for all I know, my coworker would swing even harder without the medicine - I think that was mentioned once). Or not.

See a doctor and try it out in a safe dosage. If you find it helps, great! If not, well, maybe something else will work. Or perhaps you're just quirky.

It's hard to tell sometimes :)

There was a comedian who said something along the lines of: "I got got glasses the other day, and it shocked me. How could instantly improved eye sight not be at the top of everyone's To Do list?!" So when people talk about medication like it's a debate, I get confused. How could instantly improved mood and cognition not be at the top of everyone's list? (I'm a hyprocrite in that respect, but I'm just onery and enjoy the struggle.) If you don't want it, but the medicine helps, work your way off it slowly enough that you train your body to compensate (a number of people have told me that it's geometric: you can cut a third, then another third, then another until finally it's a negligible amount, but linearly tends to give poorer results).

But most importantly: do what improves your life. I wear glasses, and I've never felt shame for it. No reason to feel bad about a biochemical imbalance - that's even more complicated!