skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the solution will lie as much with law enforcement as with the social media platforms. In examples as extreme as yours, they should be treated like any other credible threat and reported to the appropriate law enforcement agency right away. Unfortunately, I have a hard time imagining my local PD will even know what Twitter is, much less how to pursue a case involving it. I think social media platforms need to ensure that law enforcement can easily (through the appropriate legal channels) access the necessary information on the sites to pursue such cases.

Unfortunately, far more cases are less extreme than yours. The line gets blurrier when you get down to persistent low-level harassment, where individual examples will look relatively harmless to an outsider but the victim is forced to face them as a whole. In those instances, it's the responsibility of the social media platform to allow the victim to properly document and report the harassers, and most definitely put up the appropriate barriers to prevent future harassment. Twitter's biggest failing on this point is in how easy it is to create "sockpuppet" accounts, such that as soon as one is banned they can continue uninterrupted from the next.
Both the 5c/per ad and user-willingness-to-pay estimates are way optimistic. Ads you see probably has a CPM (cost per milleu, or thousand) of at $5 on the upper end and I'm guessing average around $1 CPM, which would be .5c and .1c respectively.

Facebook's per-user revenue in the US as of Q4 2015 was around $11/yr (source: http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-average-revenue-per-...) although its grown by 50% yoy.

Chances are if FB / Twitter / Instagram had high confidence that could monetize their product with a subscription model averaging even $10/user a year I think they wouldn't hesitate to implement such a model.
I can fit the concept of mp3 decoding and a sample decoder in a few dozen lines of text and code. This is a patented technology (for another year or two, at least).
https://medium.com/basic-income/wouldnt-unconditional-basic-...
You're thinking too much about your blog's hypothetical popularity and your company's hypothetical success. Blog wherever is easiest, create the company when you can, and figure the rest out later. Preoptimization is the root of all evil.

If you want to transition later, you can use redirects from your personal blog to your company blog. Nothing worth agonizing over.
Slightly off-topic, but isn't Oracle a bit of a dangerous name to use? I seem to remember it was something to do with some big company or other... ;)
Meh. http://oi65.tinypic.com/11uagc6.jpg
That already happens now. Tenement apartments in the hood rent at rates similar to suburban developments -- using vouchers.

The only actual "benefit" I can see from UBI is laying off a half million welfare workers.
The technical term is charismatic megafauna.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charismatic_megafauna
An image of the sea (e.g., https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8e/Lines_of...) returns whale or dolphin. I'm still waiting for one to show up.

This isn't actual visual "recognition" but rather pattern matching, I guess.
Nah I don't think this is what gets them out of bed every day.
That is true. Most people use a 4-digit or 6-digit numeric password and that's what the FBI is betting on when they ask to remove the brute force restrictions.

However Apple allows something like a 35-char max with numbers and letters so in the worst case they will never crack it.
Indeed, compile time is a currently a problem for API with a large number of routes. It'll probably get better with the C++17 Module TS.

What do you mean by the dangers of writing C++?
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> You literally just suggested using standardized encryption algorithms to protect your OTP key.

I suggested using standardized (or non-standardized, but other than OTP) encryption algorithms for an initial key data distribution channel that completely differs from the main communication channel and exists for a relatively short period of time. That's my key point.

> Or you could...you know...just use standardized crypto across the board.

I'm not going to dive deep into the topic of why I consider "just using standardized crypto" unsafe and prefer rolling another custom end-to-end encryption layer on top of it.

> OTP is by definition impractical. I'm sorry that you don't see that.

I'm sorry that you can't see beyond the algorithms. We're far ahead of the time when OTP was the only active instrument (aside from straddling checkerboards and Enigmas). Modern crypto can be combined in such a way that every encryption scheme finds its natural place. I honestly don't see why OTP cannot have one.
1. UBI can be thought of as large-scale debt forgiveness. You are simply giving people the means to escape (often, but not always) self-imposed debts.

2. UBI would lead to a huge jump in inflation (as a %, nearly as much as the initial UBI stimulus % of total money in circulation) as the vast majority of UBI recipients would have a large propensity to immediately spend that money, thereby simply releasing it into circulation and ramping up inflation. If UBI were made into a sustained payment, the market would simply adjust prices up on consumption goods accordingly.

UBI doubled the amount of money in circulation? Bread, milk, eggs, and rent cost 2x as much. Of course the effect would not be immediate (rent is sticky) but UBI would not leave much (if anything) left over for the poor today. In the mid-long run the poor are no better off, other than having a few immediate debts paid off through the first few rounds of UBI.

3. UBI leads to the misdirection of resources. People who are not financially secure enough to bring children into this world will suddenly find themselves with the resources to have children. Some, not all, will. We observe fewer and fewer jobs available to the general population, but we have hit a glut in productivity. We do not want to redirect resources to bring more labor into the economy before we hit another period of high productivity brought on by whatever technology drives forward the next paradigm shift in information/goods transportation and synthesis.
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Which is why they should charge for usage above X followers. You can't send unlimited emails to a 1mil person email list for free so why should you be able to do your marketing for free on twitter?
Can anybody offer an explanation as to why an image of a tiger can have a confidence score of 99% as a tiger but only 84% confidence score as an animal. I guess the system has no concept of taxonomy.
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If you want to feel more assured start interviewing now. See what questions they ask and feel more familiar with it. You don't have to go on site anywhere or actually take another job. The questions you'll be asked might be academic, things you never think about anymore but the wrong answers can bar you from the next step.
Why would your current employer not be happy about it? Do you have a clause that forbids you from creating your own company?
Where will they take them?
Actually, it's not a straw man. Laws (or codes of conduct, at universities) like this actually do exist. In the US, they are generally unconstitutional, but challenging them is expensive and time consuming. For a fairly comprehensive listing of such laws/codes and an analysis of their constitutionality (again, only for US purposes), see Professor Volokh's blog, now part of the Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/cat...
Largest doesn't mean highest quality. JavaScript may well be the most widely used programming language there is. However, this survey is too unrepresentative to give us any evidence one way or the other.
> when you are both on the same career track

I think this is one of the root issues, the perception that management is somehow the natural next set for software developers.

Why should that be the case? It'd be like you trained all your life to be the best violin player you can be, then after some years somebody pats you on your shoulders and tells you it's time to start conducting.

I am mid-career, and interestingly I had a couple of short stints in management early career, as much as it helped me quite a bit now with team leading duties and in seeing things from the point of view of my manager when we have 1 on 1s, I would never want to be in management as my full time job.

Management and software engineering are, or should be, parallel tracks: there is no competition, so a software manager should be as thrilled to be able to hire an experience software developer as a young hospital administrator be excited if they are able to snag a renowned surgeon for their hospital.
I always think people should get a full time position rather than earning money through bounty as a full time job. When I have time, I do play with bounty and if I am lucky I can make extra dollars. I earned one big one, but in the second one the company did not honor the payment at all, but I was cool enough to let that shit go despite what I found was critical enough to destroy their product launch that night (basically elementary web vulnerability).

Your statements are going to be attacked by the usual "you don't know shit, we have argued about this ten million times here on HN." Companies are not going to reward you with $1M (think about Instagram's 1M bug [0]). While you can't really sell this to the blackmarket and expect to overload people's credit card, this is still a P1 incident and requires a major bounty reward. I am not going to discuss about what happened in this case, but even if he did get paid he wouldn't be getting 1M.

The reason is simple: there are a lot more people willing to play this game and many believe being on some Hall of Frame is a great addition to their security professional resume.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10754194
I am not the state. And when I look around, a lot of states certainly aren't 'for' or 'by' the people. Maybe you have to start thinking independently, rather than smugly reciting one-liners from school. The state is a large entreprise that gives us some things and forces us to do things and pay money under the threat of violence and incarceration. I argue for voluntaryism, the notion that people enter into contracts and relationships by their own free will and without force, which is fundamentally at odds with most of what the state does.
That behavior is illegal regardless of the medium. Report it to the police. It has nothing to do with the internet.
As opposed to now, where your livelihood will be destroyed by just putting you in jail?

With UBI, if you hold a job you'll still be able to survive even if your benefits are revoked. You're not forcibly dependent on the state (at least not beyond the ways we are now, for roads and utilities and such), it's just an option. I imagine most people here would continue to hold their nice high-paying jobs even if UBI were implemented.
"since the money is available?"

Sure about that? Some fraction of the population will buy a new iphone, some will experience the rare luxury of health insurance, some will repair the car they use to get to work or buy a better car to get to work, some will spend money on higher education, some can finally afford dental work, some will pay up whatever had garnished their wages (child support,taxes?), catch up on bills. Most of that money is not going to be available for basic food or rent.

The experience will vary greatly depending on the socioeconomic class and the size of the UBI. It'll also vary based on institutionalization status. College students will likely be expected to pay 100% of it toward tuition. Prisoners will likely either not get it or the state will keep it for restitution and court fees. On the other extreme the average slumlord likely will not see an additional penny.
Pretty sure this is exactly how my nexus 6p operates.

I have fingerprint set up to unlock the screen - but at least once a day ill have to enter the passphrase and it wont accept fingerprint. It says something like "for additional security, please enter your passphrase" instead of "finger moved too fast" or whatever

Every reboot you have to use the passphrase to unlock the phone the first time.

I dont see any options for configuring the time period when it asks for the passphrase again though.
N/e^D would be vanishingly small for most problems on which deep learning is used. Image recognition for example may involve more than 1000 pixels and e^1000 is a number that makes the number of the atoms in the universe look tiny.
It will be swallowed by an immediate increase of the price of goods and services UBI would be spent on.
Yes, but - when you hit some bug or just need some specific combination of commands, there would be thousands posts on the web that explain how to do on unix that will work in Cygwin. Will they work in this environment?
Basically the point is that a VAT with a UBI tied to inflation WOULD be redistributive. It effectively nullifies the regressive portion of a VAT and ties the UBI to the overall productivity and cost of doing business of the nation.
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This is one of the reasons I spend time on the weekends doing projects in new technologies. I can put Rails, React, Angular, Swift, etc. on my resume and answer questions about them (and point to projects I've used them on). I see keeping up with new technologies as an important part of my career development. If someone is truly biased against me because of my age, there's not much I can do about that. But I definitely have control over whether someone is biased against me because I haven't kept up with technical developments.
Not to point out the obvious, but "is she cyberbullying him?" and "Should her access to Twitter be cut off" are both clearly attempting to misrepresent the argument of the other side. Just because they are rhetorical questions doesn't mean it isn't obvious what the poster is implying.
I like the "new, correct, and significant" guideline. But, I would add it's often easier to look at a thesis as a way to document original research than an end goal. Basically, if you are in the habit of doing original research then creating a dissertation is easy. If you try and find research worthy of a dissertation what that can be much harder.

Remember, the value of a PHD is maintained by rejecting people. If you demonstrate your 'in the club' then you can often just stable together a few papers and call it a day.
I don't think that' what he was saying at all. He said he does use real noodles, and was just calling his homemade version "Adult-Kraft".
I keep seeing people say use the cost of living index. Do any of you realize what a fraud that is? They have taken out the two most expensive categories people spend money on to survive. Food and energy. And it's been like that for decades. That index is as useless as tits on a tree.
Yes, Jane Street uses OCaml for their trading systems but we also use(d?) F# for some (very important) odds and ends.
> The only difference would be which goods have more money chasing them. That choice would be made by the market

... for what people must spend on, and where it's hard to create new competition. So, rent - exactly where most middle-class surplus is going today (and I think a large part of what makes people yearn for BI).
Don't speak for the entire world ("no one"), I personally know two guys that still use Symbian-powered smartphones and don't plan to change them to anything.
A beer truck? Seriously everywhere you have free and open communication some people will be trolls. The only difference between today and say 2500 years ago is the speed of dissemination and little fear of being run through with a sword.
> In other words, shouldn't the "rewrite it in Rust" folks have to prove that the cost of their proposed rewrite will be justified?

Agreed, they do. But that it hasn't been proven to make things better doesn't mean it will make things worse. It just means that we don't know enough to say. The right way to answer the "would this software have fewer bugs if it were rewritten in Rust?" question requires a detailed look at what bugs the software has empirically encountered.
At least when I test that image now it seems to only tag person.
MDN documentation is excellent. Node also now has pretty good docs. Googling vs. central docs is more driven by the culture of the programmers. Google's search algorithms also have most of the blame for driving searchers to blogs/articles/SO instead of central docs.

I do agree that this survey is not at all representative, which is why I decided to flag OP.
This is simply wrong and has been shown to be wrong empirically. Details here: https://medium.com/basic-income/wouldnt-unconditional-basic-...
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At least for the nightly builds, you can specify a closure to run when OOM happens. The only restriction is that it cannot return, but you can "recover" from panics in the nightly standard library as well. The thinking was, I think, that in most cases the default behavior of abort is the correct behavior. Recovering from a failed malloc is really only relevant in large allocations, and there are multiple paths (including directly using __rust_allocate) to recovery in that case.

Furthermore, keep in mind that the _pure language_ Rust has no concept of dynamic allocation (apart from "language elements" like __rust_allocate, which are kind of like a pre-linker).
Especially considering that most OECD nations produce more than enough food to cover reasonable consumption; there is plenty of waste, direct, indirect, diversion of foodstuffs to ethanol production etc.
The linter-rust plugin for Atom provides this, as does the RustyCode plugin for VSCode.
I would think that Google has the advantage of being able to use their image search results for training.
and how do you know =which= algorithm to look up in google for your particular requirements? knowledge is not only knowing where the hammer is, knowledge is also knowing when a screwdriver would be more appropriate.
That and what economic activity will be suppressed as capital moves away from prior uses. Nobody is talking about generating new wealth to make this happen: it's pure consumption and some of that will be at the expense of capital investment. The seen and the unseen indeed. Unless there's more than hand-wavy dismissive talk about the negatives such schemes bring, one is foolish to think that this does anything positive at all.... and that's just the utilitarian perspective.

Morally, that any one person, by virtue of their relative wealth alone, is judged a provider, at gunpoint if necessary, to others who, by virtue of their relative lack of wealth alone, is considered worthy of substance, is such an inversion of right and wrong as to warrant some serious soul-searching about what makes one worthy of punishment or reward. Yes, poverty is a problem. Yes, there are institutional barriers to getting out of poverty. I don't see how doubling down on those problems does anything than ease the conscious of the haves.
I don't understand #2. UBI wouldn't increase the amount of money in circulation, unless you paid for it by printing money or borrowing. But everything I've seen advocates for paying for UBI with taxes.

For #3, the overall trend is that people have fewer children, not more, when they have more money. Maybe UBI money would be different somehow, but since you're positing the opposite effect from what we've seen so far, I think it needs way more support.
I maintain a rather large code base and have found several

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comments in random places, put there by people who no longer work here.
> This is because, should it ever come down to it, we want to be able to ascertain that our implementation is completely original

I appreciate that this is how it works today, but isn't that a completely outrageous idea? A well read, well travelled person will have seen countless things that will influence their future behaviours. It is not uncommon to completely forget a particular source of inspiration (sometimes we falsely attribute to someone else, and even other times we attribute it to ourselves!)
It can be tied directly to inflation or even to GDP. See details here: https://medium.com/basic-income/wouldnt-unconditional-basic-...
Draw it out into the absurd to watch it work:

Consider a society with 2 members, Mr Rich (net worth $10M) and Mr. Poor (net worth $100). Mr. Rich is 100,000 X richer than Mr. Poor right now.

Institute a ridiculous UBI of $1M/year for everyone. At the end of the year, Mr. Poor has $1,000,100 and Mr Rich has $11M but Mr Rich is now only ~ 11 X richer than Mr Poor.

Now sure cheeseburgers at Micky-D's are now $700 but the fact has changed that before, Mr Rich could buy a hundred thousand burgers for every one Mr Poor could buy. Now he can only buy 11.

UBI works like gravity. Continually pulling the unequal towards a center. The rich will still stay rich, but unlike today where rich automatically makes richer, the force will be reversed. It will take "energy" to stay rich.
> I spend time on the weekends doing projects in new technologies.

Is that weekends are for? I do that too but do wonder at times...
True, things might have to be explained in a more verbose way due to vocabulary limitations, but I think the trade off of breaking things down into simpler parts and steps is worth it. It matches well with having to explain to my manager (or anyone else) what I've been programming all day.
I suspect you might have better luck by not being so confrontational and generalizing, and instead using that energy to better critique the actual topic.
So the first 'season' of the bug bounty is 90 days long, and to qualify for payment you need to find 4 bugs before you can be eligible for payment? That seems initially quite off putting.