skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Get Grandma a Chromebook.

It won't stop 100% of all scams, but it does eliminate a whole class of malware.

I converted my 88-year-old father to Chromebooks 3 years ago. He loves it, and my support calls have tapered off :-)
Yes, but although the arstechnica article points out a lot of problems with the original article's claims about this specific bacteria and points out the fear mongering about this specific case, even the ars article admits that the overlying problem of antibiotic resistance is still a bigger issue:
"For now, the case serves mostly to highlight the ongoing crisis of rising antibiotic resistance and furthers the need for better stewardship of old antibiotics and development of new ones."
Meaning money or grades? Either way, I partied my way through college AND got that diploma. The last 15+ years in my career have been considerably above average, if I do say so myself. That's more about luck and hustle than anything else...certainly not book smarts.
I'd say that's a tad overreactionary, but whatever strawman you feel like knocking down, man. I guess actually refuting my point would be too great a strain on you.
One problem there is riders. Bills are a big mishmash of everybody's favorite pork and loophole fests instead of being a nice isolated single story commit. This leads to no end of treachery later. For one thing, it means you can smear someone for voting either _for_ or _against_ the same bill. For another, places without line-item-veto are screwed.
"We Kill People Based on Metadata" -- former NSA and CIA director Michael Hayden

Bruce Schneier's take on the distinction between "data" and "metadata": https://www.wired.com/2015/03/data-and-goliath-nsa-metadata-...
Please use line breaks. Ir will help others to get point.

For now, a wall of text.
I'm not saying you are a quack, but you are crying the rallying cry of quacks everywhere.

You also setup a straw man. Any scientist or thoughtful person says "there isn't a known/proven" link between non-ionizing radiation and cancer and so far most evidence seems negative.

Of course there is a lot we don't know. That doesn't mean we are incapable of making any statements about anything at all. If cell phones caused a significant risk in the rise of cancer (say 1-10%) we'd have easily seen that by now. We haven't. This study didn't see it either... In fact the rats exposed to radiation lived longer than the ones not exposed!

So what we can confidently say is that if cell phone radiation causes cancer, it is an extremely minor contributor. In all likelihood it's contribution is zero, but that is also unproven and should be further studied.
The core is hopefully audited and so far except some XSS problems no remote exploits are know for the last few years?

However having an usable remote exploit gives you a shell on more than 20% of the websites.
I mean, where do you expect links to go? If you look at the biggest websites there's:

* Facebook,which has large portions of its content invisible to Google
* Wikipedia, which is probably in the #1 spot
* YouTube really is the next most likely result for many queries.
I think it serves as a good. Society definitely needs to place an accurate value on information sources. Currently, there's so much information available that "bad sources" push "good sources" out by cost/quantity.
It's more like cah-actor, I'd say.
Do you have laws in the USA that mandate protection of health data?
I picked multiple, based on what I have to do. I write NLP software, so I ticked front-end (make GUIs in Angular), back-end (make REST/WebSocket APIs for gluing our software together), AI/ML (that is the core of most advanced NLP software), and systems/desktop (since we need to package and deploy our software in self-contained packages).

I hope I didn't screw up the metrics. :/
>> If you were Bob, what would you do?

A self-made millionaire who probably stuck assets in a tax-avoidance investment only to have it ruled taxable later on. So now he owes a half-million. Wow, as a middle-class taxpayer who owns (cough rents, because property tax) a home I really feel for him. Pay the damn tax, Bob.
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Holy Clickbait Batman! Changes in the bright spot might be a plume of volatile chemicals, and Ceres was water. Thus, there might be life on Ceres! Where is my Jump to Conclusions mat?
> Anyway I'm sure there will be a systemd-mux soon enough where you can declaratively define your long-running post-logout processes and register them via muxctl or some other existing sd-bus client.

The problem with your sarcasm is that it actually matches current reality. This is how various programs are busily being rearchitected to operate, or indeed already have been rearchitected to operate.

Take gnome-terminal, for example. Nowadays, a gnome-terminal-server service runs under the per-user systemd service manager, and requests to open more terminals generated by the gnome-terminal program arrive at it over the per-user Desktop Bus. gnome-terminal is a Desktop Bus client.

The gnome-terminal-server service used to be Desktop Bus activated, rather than simply run as a per-user systemd service. Ironically, given the headline on this page, this too hit a problem with a systemd release turning things on a while back. systemd version 228, in fact. All of the terminal emulator processes and the shells and login sessions that they spawned ended up sharing a single 512 maximum threads limit.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11675129

And yes, gnome-terminal-server too suffered from the kills-screen-and-tmux problem:

* https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dbus/2015-January/016...
This! It's a great example of what users get as a trade off for having to see relevant advt on the Internet.
Is it $30 per machine, or per user, or per household?
>> Likewise, women tend to make significantly less money for doing the same work, in the same positions, at the same company, because of (largely) subconscious biases.

>I see this everywhere, and yet no citations

Because this is a myth based on the infamous "women earn 0.77$ for every 1$ a man earns" statistic. Wikipedia states that the "the gender pay gap is measured as the ratio of female to male median yearly earnings among full-time, year-round (FTYR) workers" - an utterly meaningless number that has no real value, but is great for pushing the myth the other poster has presented.

Why is it meaningless? It's because it seems that no one has the answer to the million dollar (or 0.23$, depending how you look at it) question: "can you name 10 companies that are the worst offenders in this regard". This is the 17th time I ask this question and I have yet to receive an answer. I don't think I'll ever will, though, since if it was actually as big of a problem as feminists like to claim the media wouldn't let such a juicy topic die so easily.
> I don't think anything prevents rampant cheating by American students

The system prevents it. Cheating has consequences at lower levels of American schools. In China, for the most part, it doesn't. Gifts buy good grades. The whole idea of getting into a good school based on your merits is subverted.

The documentary Education, Education, about private colleges within China, shows what happens to poor families with this mindset [1]. They end up paying for schools that aren't really that good, and then they become part of what's become known as the Ant Tribe (蚁族),

> Lian Si (廉思), then a postdoctoral researcher at Peking University, coined the term "ant tribe" to draw a comparison between the lives of these college graduates and ants: "They share every similarity with ants. They live in colonies in cramped areas. They're intelligent and hardworking, yet anonymous and underpaid." [2]

The same thing happens in for-profit universities in the US. The film College, Inc documents this [3].

The degree of cheating by Asians is out of control. The entire SAT is being published. See the 3 minute video "Reused and Abused: How the test-prep industry games the SAT" [4]

[1] https://youtu.be/BP61LwODTnY

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant_tribe

[3] http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/collegeinc/

[4] http://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/college-s...
I'm not sure about that. Those "all possible proofs" will be an infinite numerable set. To pick a specific proof from the set, you will need an arbitrarily large number as the index, so your few hundred lines will not be enough (assuming line sizes are finite).
Yes, remember GwB's "Shock & Awe"
I suggest you to watch this talk on this years ng-conf.

https://youtu.be/mAjjI35RcUE?t=11949
... I pronounce it like "care". :(

But I also pronounce "enum" like "ee num", not "ee noom", so there is apparently no overarching theme.
Yeah, somehow people forget that the act of connecting a computer to the Internet is an implicit permission for all the Internet to access it unless specified otherwise (by e.g. requiring authentication). That's, like, the fundamental principle of the Internet.
This reminds me of something that happened to me in high school back in 1999. I found an Excel doc in a public network drive that contained every single student's SSN, DOB, whether they had free/reduced lunch, address, phone, etc. I was admittedly snooping around, but this was all public stuff every student and teacher had full access to.

When I found it, I told one of the teachers that I trusted and she insisted that I must tell the principal. So I went down to the principal's office and told her. My primary goal was to get this removed or made private because even at that young age I knew this was very sensitive data and I wouldn't want just anyone having access to my information like that.

When I got home from school, I found my mother upset because we'd been called to return to school for an emergency meeting. I was questioned, and when I told them I only wanted this sensitive information properly secured I was told by the county IT administrator "Did you ever stop to think if maybe this information was public for a reason?" I took a second, and literally wanted to say "There is no reason this information should ever be public" but I ended up keeping my mouth shut in hopes to not get into further trouble.

I was nearly expelled for "hacking". They placed me on "academic probation" and threatened that if I did so much as forget my school ID at home one day, I would be immediately expelled without question. I was removed from my elective classes that involved computers and was disallowed from touching any computers at school.

Fun fact: Someone on the yearbook staff accidentally deleted the only copy of the yearbook files and our yearbook was in danger of basically not being made. I was called to the principal's office and asked to help. I was able to recover the deleted files and save the day. At some point they realized I never had malicious intent, but I still hold a small grudge for the way I was treated as a criminal for uncovering such a big security hole.
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I believe the FBI wanted to seize all of the computers and data access devices before he flashed them somehow. I totally agree with you, but that is my only guess for having guns drawn and not allowing him to get dressed.
Closed source, windows only, diss-assmebles 6502 only, and expires next month. No thanks.
This is really a big thing since it directly affects the Google cash cow(Adwords/Doubleclick). Facebook has all the data in the world about a user(location, personal details, current mood) which google lacks and so they can target users on the rest of the internet in a better way.
> the issue here is not that SF is opposed to density.

Sure it is. Otherwise, given the prices you could get for building higher buildings, someone would have done it. It'd be like printing money.
I thought it was already "concluded" that the bright spots were salts?
Deploying Amazon Lambda Functions with Ansible
If I were held responsible for snippets of casual conversations had amongst peers behind closed doors and as a very young adult...best case scenario I'd be flipping burgers, worst case I'd be behind bars.
Is there a killer feature for wordpress except that it is in Php which is available in shared hosting services?
Western Europe and especially Scandanavia are better. That is my opinion based on the observations I have gathered.

I am not sure where you are from, but I agree that it can also get worse.
Yes. HIPPA.
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The worst part is we just have to slowly watch it happen. As Snowden says, our ability to meaningfully oppose the state has been undermined.
"product over technology". Yep. That is what keeps it going. I have been doing a bit of wordpress lately and it just works for users. Sure, developers love to hate it and reasonably so to an extent but try telling that to the folks who are making millions with wordpress (woothemes as an example). There is a reason for that.
He didn't get into the news because he didn't solve a problem for which a famous mathematician (Ronald Graham) had offered a prize. Also, it's somewhat more exciting to use a huge calculation to answer a yes-or-no question that anyone can understand, rather than to count a huge number of fairly obscure gadgets: semigroups of size 10.

(Personally I love semigroups, and I think it's cool that you counted all the ones of size 10. But any story about them in the popular press would focus on the sheer size of the calculation rather than what it actually achieved.)
> You are assuming they broke the european legislation for "a few years"?

Not parent. I am not particularly famiiar with that legislation, but if it says that allowing websites to use your API and embed links to your site and profiting from the data in some way is illegal.

I am saying that.
Why would the FBI and prosecutors punish Patterson? The gave the FBI an opportunity for raids and prosecutions, and those look great on an annual review.
Of course, said key is a liability if it is found in your possession.
> if you look at it from a democracy standpoint, Mark
Zuckerberg is a dictator. I did not elect him. He sets
the rules

You kind of did, when you signed up.

> And really you can't opt out of Facebook. I'm not on
Facebook but there are a lot of drawbacks in my offline
world. No party invitations, no updates from my friends,
people stop talking to you, because you're not on
Facebook. So it has real life implications.

Oh yes you can. Facebook is just about the worst place for
actually expanding your social life.

When I was there, when I would make a post, it often felt
like I was talking to everyone and no one at the same time.
Shame about the title, it's not really about that. The mystery is compelling enough and it's worth a quick read. There's no suggestion that the bright spots are evidence for life. Instead, they may be an indication that Ceres is geologically active and the variation may be due to the presence of volatile compounds. Both of those things together, with Ceres's hypothesized water content, may make it a place where some of the necessary precursors for terrestrial life exist.
You consider that a wall?
Everyone who communicates, lies. One who doesn't expect that, won't be able to make much sense of the world. It's not useful to draw bright lines around the category of "lies". It would be pretty awful to lie to your boyfriend about whether you had an STD, or to your kid about the existence of imaginary holiday characters. Making up shit about some forgotten TV show just ain't the same thing.

The best trolling may not be precisely lying, but it's certainly more about assuming alternate versions of reality than it is about e.g. just being rude.
I get the impression that most people I've worked with in the CE world come from non-CE programming backgrounds, so I doubt there are major obstacles. The biggest help would be familiarity with C/C++ programming, and being comfortable with the practices needed to use these languages properly (e.g. explicit memory management in C, RAII idioms in C++). (Next-generation systems languages like Rust can't come fast enough, in my opinion.)
It's as if the CFAA was intended to protect behavior like Patterson did.
The Choice Between Front End and Back End Rendering on Supermassive Datasets
Does /etc/hosts support *.facebook.com ?
Health experts: postpone or move Olympics due to Zika
This one is better:

http://stackoverflow.com/research/developer-survey-2016
Why SCM-level? Wikipedia does it; why can't the Congress?
Growing Rift Between Valve and Oculus
Microsoft, Facebook team up to construct world’s fastest transatlantic cable
Socket.io ssl cert is expired
Per household, up to 5 machines.
Well no, they're "building a more connected world."

I interned at Facebook on their off-FB ad network and it was really disillusioning. The cognitive dissonance involved with it is intense, and each person's individual justification for their work makes the organization as a whole immune to criticism. There's a lot of social pressure to become comfortable with your work, I felt. Even today, people look at me like I'm an actual crazy person if I say that I didn't enjoy my time at Facebook. A small part of that was due to real problems in the organization, but the sneaking discontentedness was caused by precisely the opposite: the lack of questions raised.

There are lots of really great people there – so great that I can't help myself from thinking about what else they could be building.
Apple Supplier Just Cut 60,000 Jobs. Replaces Factory Workers with Robots
When I lived in the Bay Area, my mental map was rotated by about 90 degrees clockwise. It was constantly annoying to be driving a different direction than I thought, and made actual map use really awkward as I'd search for basic landmarks for a full minute before my mental map would "reset" to match the physical map. Since then, I've wondered if something like this would help keep my mental map more aligned with reality.

I don't think it's a coincidence that I started using GPS navigation heavily around this same time. My mental mapping in general has degraded a lot since I started relying on turn-by-turn magic for all non-familiar navigation.

edit: Is there an off-the-shelf solution like the Northpaw that looks less like a house arrest cuff? I can't imagine wearing something that clunky as a usual thing. The market demand for this in a sleek package is probably close to zero, though.
.. and because "metadata" is something most people don't understand.
But isn't it much better than waste of the best minds for inventing more and more destructing weapons like it was in the twentieth century?
"Chillers" are actually direct expansion cooling devices for liquid. They have a condenser and evaporator just like an air cooled air conditioning system. The evaporator will be on the chilled water supply side and the condenser can be cooled by water or air.

The big empty box with water is an evaporative cooling tower used to cool the condenser side water.
If Mark Zuckerberg were held responsible for snippets of casual conversations had amongst peers behind closed doors and as a very young adult...best case scenario he'd be flipping burgers, worst case he'd be behind bars.
He has really nice handwriting.
The community and massive amount of plugins developers created and still create for Wordpress contributes to its success.

Same thing with Minecraft. The huge community of modders pushed Minecraft to be as huge as it is.

Developers flock to both because they themselves can gain recognition and make money off these platforms.

I personally love the success story of both because they both started off small and initially had no intention of getting this big.
How is this different than a plain old CRM ? Don't CRMs already have ways to auto tag emails ?
We started a brand new project in Ember (our second Ember project) in December; launched it in January. We've now started another project in Untangled because nobody wants to work in Ember anymore (apparently, it stopped being cool last year).

So, yes, this actually happens and it's incredibly painful for those of us who want to build a business not throw everything out and start over every few months.
Improve UX;Increase Efficiency;Reduce Late Payments: Ultimate Business Solution
Yay! Very glad to hear that my React/Redux links list has been helpful. Currently working on trying to add in some more intermediate-ish topic articles, beyond the typical "getting started" tutorials.
Alice was a big inspiration!
Why businesses must get ready for the era of robotic things
If you are skilled with ggplot2, this use case appears to abstract away the pain of d3.
In the specific case of Theranos I'd agree, but almost everywhere else it's exactly the opposite. If a company's services are irreplaceable they likely wouldn't be going out of business, so going out of business means there are better alternatives.

Again Theranos is unique: The product they served may have costed customers dearly either financially or worse.
Robots can help reduce 35% of work days lost to injury
Neoliberalism is a term that only resonates inside the socialist box. Is a label engineered to align the left, never any kind of useful thing, or movement nor school of thought.
Multiple assignees on Issues and Pull requests
What makes you think that a company would plateau after 1 year of profitability?
‘Robot kindergarten’ trains droids of the future
It's not nearly as cut and dry as you're making it. Wiki of all places defines 'API' to be broad enough to include network wire protocols and endpoints. This trial was over "sequence, structure, and organization" rather than literal copying.

And of course Samba isn't built of WIN32 APIs, that's not what we're talking about.
About a month or so a go i found a open public mongo database with about 12GB of records regarding peoples retirement founds of what i assume was hundreds of thousands of people, account numbers, how much money was in the accounts when they had moved them to various founds and so on.

Thought long and hard about what to do but decided to not do anything, dont feel like risking my entire life just to help someone.
This is me assuming they did not intend to have it publicly open.

With that story out there, it would be nice to have a legit legal way to inform the police or a similar trustworthy government agency that could handle issues like this.
And suddenly everyone would understand how to use git blame.
Noscript is harmful, the dev sold out and showed Spyware ads on its own noscript website! Noscript didn't block it btw. Change user agent to Windows and visit the site, see uf it's still up. You can't trust noscript.
Except this guy didn't leak a bunch of emails like weev did? Right? If he does go down, that would be terrible for him and his family, but he would be a better poster child for government overreach than weev is.

"He is an upstanding family man, with 4 children. He accessed a publicly available server on the Internet, the kind of server you could access at any time by clicking a hyperlink on Facebook, and now he is a felon and rotting in jail." Or something like that.
A more accurate analogy for an FTP server is a machine that sends you letters on demand.

It's like Shafer wrote a letter to their office asking for their list of patients, and lo and behold, they've sent him back an envelope containing that list.
> The FBI is going to have a hell of a time arguing that accessing a public FTP server with no password protection is a crime.

Why? Andrew "Weev" Auernheimer was prosecuted AND CONVICTED for accessing a public HTTP server with no password protection. They apparently didn't have any trouble pursuing that with a straight face. The conviction was overturned because they had prosecuted him in the wrong state.
"I’m living in an ontological nightmare of my own making. It’s jawsome!"

Had me in tears. Also, I completely forgot about that show until coming across this so thanks for bring back some history!
God, is Ron Wyden (D.Ore) the only one reading and disclosing these things?