skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The actual Rox was a human, though, not a female Street Shark as the author described her and people are claiming to remember her.

Edit: to be fair, I'm trusting the author's current account, I never watched Street Sharks myself. I could be the victim of some epic meta trolling.
I expect the content of my document to look the same everywhere.

I expect the app that I use to view my document to behave like other apps on the platform.

It is Google's choice to make, the article is arguing that they made a poor choice. They can still make the app very Google-y in looks and organization but make it much nicer for iOS users by following a few platform conventions.

There is a very wide variety of iOS apps that look completely different but feel similar due to following the guidelines. Google should be able to fit into that.
Are EU migrants really taking British jobs and pushing down wages?
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WiFi and Bluetooth do not operate in the 900 MHz band.
These are the types of cases SV money should fund and defend.
hahah thanks. It's funny, i look at it the same way. I am fairly technical. I feel confident I could fix the issue technically(install new reformatted HD & RAM, security programs, ect) but I am more concerned with:

* Was this the whole attack? Or was this stage 1, and they are going to sell/use data for identity theft.

* Use contacts info to try and scam friends/family

* Worth reporting to build narrative for the future if needed to prove identity theft leter?

* What a 'typical' scammer business model is

* If there is a simple way to check if they have active malware installed.

I could never be comfortable with the old hardware, but I would suggest credit monitoring ect if I could verify 100% they either downloaded all the data or backdoored it. I could do this on mac/linux and probably figure it out on windows, i just don't want to freak her out. Do you think it is worth trying to tcpdump and look at the sys logs and stuff and trying to diagnose that they did more than just scam? If I knew they did, I would get lifelock for her or something, but when the friendly support rep(the hacker) told her there were 26 hackers currently on her computer and he was fixing it for her, she was obviously super concerned.
At some point, some court will just decide that the email body constitutes meta data
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It sounds like Patterson Dental deserves as much blame as the FBI, if not more, because it sounds like they were the ones pressing charges and motivating prosecution in the first place. Also, why aren't they being charged with what is almost certainly a HIPAA violation?
Ironically, Wikipedia seems to be the only place you can actually trust about Street Sharks...
Pranks and studying how unsourced information spreads is fine, the "history is meaningless on the internet" claim is probably what people are reacting to.

A lot of mystics use the argument, "because you can be fool here, truth itself does not exist" and sometimes that can be fairly harmful.
If you're referring to my comment and the tree under that, there isn't any animosity whatsoever, just a lack of respect for the notion that the author's own mischief is somehow a sign of how the Internet isn't capable of representing truths, which is absurd.
Do you think MS Word should have been free? Or that google should have charged for it?
They are definitely not closed; poorly maintained, the water vapor they output can spread pathogens for miles. Cooling towers were blamed for the recent outbreak of Legionnaires' disease in New York City.
thanks. i am capable, but i don't want to "untangle" it. I would always treat that system as maliscious. I just want to know if i should confirm it was maliscious. I could, in fact, run some program diagnostics. The impediment is less technical skill than a cost/benefit of me taking her computer back and freaking her out more.
> today's extremely partisan environment

That's all a big show on wedge issues. On topics that matter to people with money (bankruptcy laws, banking laws etc), it's just business as usual. The DMCA was passed in a similarly "partisan" environment. Don't believe the hype.
The Amish live in a very different environment from the general population in all sorts of ways. So they're not a good control group, because where their health differs from the general population, you don't know if it's because of radiation exposure, diet, electric lighting, chemicals in cars, or any of a thousand other things.
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The difference is Whatsapp isn't intended to be used outside of mobile, where it's atypical for the majority of users to have both an iOS and Android device. With the Google suite of applications however (most prominently Drive), the same user is expected to access the service across a variety of devices. A consistent design means they don't have to re-learn how to use it.
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Thanks for making the post! Always appreciate the feedback.

We're thinking about adding translations in the future, as you can see in the linked issue.

The problem with it, is that it would require significant extra effort from our developers and designers to account for all languages. It would also raise the threshold for other people to contribute.

Your feedback does give it some extra weight.
It is possible to index content and then retrieve it with (simple) regular expressions, see (https://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp4.html). The trick is that each regular expressions can be seen as a tree where leaves are n-grams to be searched for, and nodes are AND and OR logical operations of n-grams and intermediate nodes.

So, a regexp like /banana/ can be seen as a search for the trigrams "ban" and "ana" and "nan" and "ana", all in that order. A regexp like /ca[tp]/ can be seen as a search for "cat" or "cap". Once you have simple n-grams like that it's trivial to index content on the way in (note that what you index doesn't actually need to interpret content, all you need is to split every n characters) and use that index to restrict potential matches.
Yes - and that's also pointed out in the arcticle:

“It’s weev all over again.”
Also note, it's already known that Bluetooth and WiFi cause the blood brain barrier to become 10-100x more biologically leaky[1], letting more chemicals into your brain.

No, it is not.

Your source: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8012056

No similar effect found at 1439 Mhz: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16142770

Replication of experiment at 915 Mhz sees no effect on blood brain barrier: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19580497

Do you have any other evidence? So far you are shooting blanks.
On one occasion I overheard SQL pronounced as squeal.

Stunned into silence.
Doesn't matter. Pretty much everyone knows most of media publishing is bullshit. After N+1th comment thread debunking a news article I'd thought at least everyone on HN understands that implicitly now. But quite many people agree and then immediately forget about it when the next story hits.

On-line news publishers don't care about accuracy or truth. Period.
I take the professor's viewpoint on right and left wing to be (a product of its times) more a contrast between paternalistic authoritarianism under claimed democratic ideals, and liberal (as in freedom, particular personal liberties) democracy.

Beyond that, right and left have no meaning anymore so it's best to read statements regarding them in the context they were made. Thus why I switched the language to refer to authoritarianism and liberal democracy in my comment.

Right and left, if they have any meaning, represent only a single dimension of a very complex space. Right can mean: fascism, anarcho-capitalism, libertarian, Republican (confused mix of various ideologies), religious authoritarianism (under an ostensible democracy or not), generally conservatism. Left can mean: libertarian, anarchist, socialist (various forms, including anarchism), communism, Democrat (confused mix of various ideologies), various green movements, etc.

It's far better to break out what we're actually wanting to discuss. Tipper Gore's motion, from the professor's perspective, was a right wing motion. Even if she is not right wing in general. Warning labels on records was seen as part of a paternalistic authoritarian attitude, that it happened to be coming from a left wing person did not make it a left wing idea. It really appealed to more conservative individuals.

It is bizarre, I agree with the professor, that modern college students might actually be in favor of such governmental mandates. It's not the warning label on records, or trigger warnings before a class, that are a problem. It's the mandate from on high. It's authoritarianism, it removes agency from individuals (producers and consumers), it's potentially anti-free speech (certain labels will, while being on good products or good lectures, turn many people away, so the material itself is avoided because the market is left barren of consumers).

Whether intended or not, that last part is the really frightening part, to me. Once we mandate ratings and warnings, it becomes difficult, if not impossible, for people to even discuss difficult or challenging topics. It breaks the first amendment without actually having to do anything, society will censor itself. Individual speech, the press, etc.
There are a lot of prominent counterexamples though:

- Blender (Blender's UI is pretty odd and entirely un-platform-like, but very efficient)

- Photoshop (case in point, Ctrl-Z; I'm very glad Adobe didn't follow conventions—Photoshop's Ctrl-Z behavior is good for Photoshop)

- Chrome (I guess it's standard on Android now, but when Chrome was released it was very unlike a typical Windows or OS X UI, and it was so good that everyone else adopted it)

- Vim

- Emacs

- Snapchat

- AutoCAD

Personally, I do prefer 40 unique UIs optimized for long term user happiness. That's kind of the Unix way: bc, awk, find, and dozens of other tools with different patterns that are geared very well to their niche.
your point is valid but i wouldn't say that drupal is 'that great', either.
Yes, I see your point, of course one the keys for a project is to keep a decision log up to date, so the PM (or anyone within the team) can update it reflecting any technical decision, I'd update this after a team discussion regarding any issue.
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no problem, did you have a look to it ? What do you think ?
Well... very few pastures actually store anywhere near that amount of co2. my numbers are based on evaluations of carbon sinks in northern Europe (northern germany and Scandinavia) that my wife did. the publication is in Swedish, but if anyone is interested I can dig it up. The result was that less than 10% of optimal pastures(current and potential) were effective carbon sinks.
The fact that people have blindly accepted them as false is subtlety proving his point about history on the internet.

the fact that you do not understand that people simply do not care about street sharks does not make his premise intelligent or thought provoking.
> And this is why we need SCM-level tracking for our laws.

That'd be great. Each commit would be pushed by the attesting legislator and they could even put the corporate lobbyist that actually wrote the change in the author field!
Excellent. Thank you, again.
Not my experience in Brazil. Can't buy antibiotics at pharmacies without prescription. Most doctors will not prescribe them for viral infections, even though they will prescribe something, as it is expected by the population.

Maybe you'll find doctors that will prescribe antibiotics for anything, but the amount of required paperwork seems to be eliminating the practice successfully.
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Hi,
I will appreciate the guidance of Senior Software Engineers/ Technical Hiring managers, with regards, what makes a good project, one could share with prospective employers, in seeking a Development role.

I have been self learning Python programming, in conjunction with Flask the Python web framework, off and on for about 2 years and will really like to clench a development role. so I set out with the idea of building a CMS system based on Python and Flask, in order to both aggressively push my learning and programming savvy and ultimately clench that dream developer role. What are your thoughts? Too big of a project? have any other projects you might suggest? I will appreciate your feedback
But this isn't about someone editing Wikipedia, and saying "look at Wikipedia".

This is about someone editing some minor little website, and then a bunch of companies and other websites copying that information, and then other people saying that information is true and accurate, and even expanding on it with their own memories about the misinformation.

That's the scary thing - that people build on the lie.

I might not trust that little website, but I should be able to trust Netflix.
If you don't do a complete wipe then this isn't fixing a one time security problem, it's fixing constant problems. Everything she ever does on that computer is now public for all intents and purposes. Unless she literally never does anything that you wouldn't feel comfortable doing in front of a malicious stranger then you HAVE to wipe it.
really? I still can't unlink my gmail account from my youtube account. Voice is still falling to the wayside, and hangouts is being pushed instead.

I'm going to have to respectfully disagree with you
How did they threaten Google?
"Blah blah national security just this one time in this focused fashion. Plus we've been doing it for 5 years already..."

Fast forward 10 years...

"Blah blah national security just this one time in this focused fashion. Plus we've been doing it for 5 years already."

Fast forward 20 years...

"...intelligence bill will give the FBI the right to enter your house and confiscate your possessions, without a warrant, in total secret..."
Isn't it care-actor? I can't say car-actor without hearing a fake British accent.
Can an algorithm stop the bloodshed?
Btw, Java has a great UI stack, it is part of Android.
Cost, artificially-induced social stigma, time investment, and the foolish belief that hard work would procure partner with better genetic material, mainly.
Agreed, this one kind of looks like a disapproving emoji.
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I'd also recommend looking into Bedrock, as it neatly sets you up for updating via Composer, which is quite nice once you get used to it. Good thing to fire off on a post-deploy hook. Then you can completely disable any internal updates and completely control the version of core and plugins.

The folder structure also adds some minor security through obscurity.

There are other niceties in there too.
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It depends - for outright throughput for something the GPU is good at perhaps, but if Intel is coupling the FPGA tightly to their CPU and it has access to the memory bus and maybe some level of cache, then (I'm really speculating here) it might be very advantageous for situations where you have small chunks of data that you want to operate on with very low latency (lower latency by at least two PCIe transfers, to & from the GPU, and likely another memory transfer between the card local memory and the GPU).

Then there are also likely a some set of functions you can directly implement on an FPGA that a GPU simply didn't elect to implement in its hardware or would need to compose out of a number of operations.
Experienced the projection version of this in an art gallery[1], speaking of flashing.

[1] https://www.instagram.com/p/BEoV6w_C4XK/
If patterson dental (and I say if since we don't really know) is behind him getting arrested, I hope all their patients find out about the details of this and they go out of business. If nothing else they should be charged with HIPAA violations.
Good point. However, he does touch on the fact that since the information was so trivial, not many people cared to vet its validity. Hopefully, people would be more critical of "harmful" information.

"We form rough consensuses based on vast amounts of conflicting data, but who really has the power to verify any of it? This is especially true when the stakes are low. A lot of people will put effort into dispelling rumors that the Moon landing was fake or that Hitler is still alive, sure, but who cares enough about something as meaningless and easy to ignore as Street Sharks to make sure all the information about it online is totally accurate?"
Grandparent probably doesn't consider trolls to be "good people". Of course, with the wisdom of experience one finds that trolling is just another form of rhetoric, neither "good" nor "bad". Good people will troll us to the truth at least as often as bad people will troll us to butthurt.
I was going to write a similar reply, but since you've nailed it, I refrain.
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I was a little unsure of which category to choose for my work as a developer of consumer electronics software. "Embedded" means different things to different people -- some people reserve the term for microcontroller-level devices. "Systems programming" seems closer, but the "/ Desktop apps" bit had me running back to the embedded category.

For what it's worth, I think it's a great part of the programming world to be in. :)
Dongz is a surname, fyi.
Awesome. What other data sources were you thinking about?
Hey all you happy systems programmers, I have always been interested. Can you enlighten me? I currently do fullstack web / data monkey stuff
Apple has strict rules for allowing apps into the iOS AppStore, and they are enforced for every developer, including Google. While I disagree with the contents of the article, the rant should not be against Google only. If material design apps are accepted then it is not only Google's "fault".
Great question! I am just starting to figure out adaptations to cope with multiple sclerosis (another neurological disease) that has stolen my ability to touch type. I'll be watching here for advice, too.
Indeed it is. James Hansen discussed it at length in his book Storms of My Grandchildren.

You may have heard that in the geological record, warming often begins before CO2 rises. The wobbling is the reason for that. It causes a little warming, the warming causes some CO2 to be released, the CO2 causes more warming, and then you've got a positive feedback cycle that warms up the planet by several degrees.

That's why scientists are so worried that the CO2 we're emitting will cause a major problem.
It's interesting that in this case the misinformation can readily be proven false. What method is there to identify incorrect information when no primary source exists? How much trusted information can never be verified?
Note the key word in my post theory as opposed to "The Hedonic Treadmill" (law, or such thereof).
For larger projects this takes literally hours
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11782568 and marked it off-topic.
BBC documentary on Lepht Anonym http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/item/8ca601f1-2d4f-412a-8c94-a...
Here's an investigative tool the CFAA & the FBI needs... if a company like Patterson Dental spins up an investigative raid with a baseless complaint, the Bureau should be able to charge them with a crime. One almost hopes the FBI investigation yields enough evidence to charge Patterson with a criminal violation of HIPAA.
#DisruptTechInterviews using psych methods, maybe
I know it's not actually true, but I choose to believe that "su" stands for superuser and "sudo" is a witty pun which means both "superuser do" and "pseudo" because you're pretending to be a superuser.
> Theft = Taxes = Someone taking money through force

No, with theft you receive nothing for the taking of your wealth. With taxes, you receive something in return, A Modern and Civil Society.

If you don't like paying taxes, move to Somalia, not paying taxes seems to be working really well for them.
I usually only install one or two plugins on client sites. The main draw is the fairly good interface and the extremely wide brand familiarity.

If you know what you're doing with it, it can be a very nice admin experience.
What surprised me the most was people willing to go along with a lie. Human memory is a pretty faulty and malleable thing, but this level of confusion as was cited at one point in the article? I think it requires someone to be either consciously lying or have utter disregard to the value of what they're saying. It's one thing to repeat a lie because you didn't know the information wasn't true (though I'd consider providing confidence estimates on information you repeat as a basic human decency); it's something else entirely to repackage the lie and sell it as something you vouch for personally. These people are bullshit amplifiers.
The FBI has always been our enemy, from John Edgar Hoover onward.
One solution to this could simply be improving our ability to handle traffic. Bots aren't doing anything bad (under normal condition), they just represent a portion of your view traffic that you don't inherently want. An aggressive user, of sorts.

With that said, we have more cycles these days, better web servers, and inherently more traffic capacity than we did 10 years ago.

I have a feeling bot traffic will grow faster than our traffic-handling-tech, but regardless, i think this is just going to be the new standard. Especially since bot traffic could represent UX requirements for potential users.

Quite an interesting future we have though.
Liars, not trolls. I mean I guess there's overlap but it's the lying I'm calling out. The author seems continually surprised and concerned that people would believe lies about history, but that's not new or surprising or even interesting. In fact that's why we each have a responsibility to tell the truth.
I see numerous problems.

Shouldn't there be 2 separate questions? "What field are you in?" and "Disregarding salary, how happy are you with your field?" Would prevent confusion.

How did you come up with this list of fields? Where does academia fit in? Why are systems programming and desktop apps in the same category?
That article does not describe a meta-analysis (or at least it's not clear that it does), and it certainly doesn't 'prove' a link. They classified it as 'possibly carcinogenic' because there is some evidence indicating that it increases the risk of cancer. The evidence is inconsistent, and applying the precautionary principle doesn't 'prove' something.
How is this constitutional? I thought the courts have already clearly ruled that emails are private and therefor require a warrant.
Thanks. Had a look at this website and tried to reach out but still waiting back. I'm afraid that he'll charge me consulting fees just to have a chat.
Microsoft always does this. And I hate it! When they have a new direction, Microsoft brings 10,000 developers to bear on the problem from every angle. Once progress is made in the new direction, their thousands of MVPs and evangelists are instructed to write an articles about the big new thing and nothing else.

That's why I can't avoid articles about .NET Core and fucking Azure these days. I don't use either and I probably won't until .NET Core has been stable for a year - and even then, I'll probably only use it for Windows-based work since I don't trust Microsoft on Linux. When I use Linux, I want to use the truly Unix-based tools that everybody else on Linux is using. When in Rome, you know... (I'll probably never use Azure because I've never liked the way Microsoft runs service-based businesses.)

Now Linux on Windows (as in "Bash" on Windows or Ubuntu on Windows)...that is one thing I'm looking forward to. It would be nice to be able to shutdown my constantly running Ubuntu Server VM.