skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting regarding USB devices. When US DoD systems were infected with a virus someone brought from home on a USB stick, I remember hearing there were going around filling USB ports with epoxy. There was some method behind the madness I guess.

There is also a market for routers and other devices which are produced as much as possible in US (are they rolling their own capacitors I am wondering...). I saw some of those devices come with a 100x markup. $400 device from China vs $40k from US. Those who sell the $40k know how hard it is get on the list they are milking it for all its worth (the sales person was quite frank about it).

It was also funny to see "Windows" as an approved security blessed OS and then Debian, Ubuntu, OpenBSD rejected (with only ancient version of RHEL's approved for Linux).
How the Maker of TurboTax Fought Free, Simple Tax Filing
You may want to learn J instead. It uses ascii, and it's from Iverson, so it's the true continuation of APL.
> The researchers went on to speculate that the project was funded by a nation-state, but they stopped short of saying which one.

So ... does anyone, perhaps who doesn't have Kaspersky's business interests to protect, care to actually speculate? In other cases it's been seemingly well-known in the security community which APT attacks trace back to which countries, it's just apparently impolite to say it in public.
If you took a look at the inbox of an ordinary consumer, you'd see lots of desired ads – in my case, a weekly email from a high end audio shop I like.

You may assiduously unsubscribe from all unsolicited email, but most do not. For most people, what is in Gmail's spam folder is genuine junk – emails from Nigerian princes, emails in cyrillic, etc.
Because it pays their bills and salaries?

The only real reason need your personal data is so they can show you Ads with presumably more effective targeting so they can get a greater share of advertising revenue.

It pays to remember that most forms of media - TV, Net, Print etc. are basically funded by money from advertisers.
If FB tries this, the awful performance of their site will start putting a drag on their business.

But also, adblockers will keep up. If they have to use canned deep-learning neural nets to catch and crush advertising based on how it looks rendered, they will.
I would suggest to try a 1-dimensional example first. In that case, the kernel does not look like a matrix, but more like a vector.
>Hackathons? Have you ever just wanted to write a web scraper in a new language to see how it is different

That stuff can be as fulfilling as cleaning the house/having sex/shooting guns/dancing but it's only happening on company time-- Especially when the terms of my contract essentially give my company ownership of anything I write. Also, 8-12h per day of any one activity is enough
Easy Image to Material Color Palette Conversion
delete it. that uncomfortable feeling in your gut is telling you something important.
This assumes an artist is stuck with the same limitations as a camera. AKA they must accurately represent a situation. Reality is an a painter can for example paint an outfit on a mannequin and then paint someone's head.
Codeship: Level Up Your Security in Rails
I got through my undergraduate without even trying to avoid doing research. It never even came up. If wikipedia doesn't count, then I still don't have any idea how you do research.
Shit happens for everyone, and this kind of error could have happened for other clouds as well. It's the responsibility towards customers and lessons learned that matter.
Previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9151799
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9156644
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10465435
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9290149
Google's culture of blameless post-mortems is commendable.

In internal post-mortems names are named when necessary for disambiguation, without consequences to the persons named. This results in all participants being candid, and the real source of the problem more easily uncovered. (I wrote two post-mortems for small incidents I triggered.)
Another idea would be to flood your page with a lot of stuff: like everything that FB suggests (unless it's controversial or possibly illegal), create posts with random content (you can make it visible to "Just Me", reshare everything that pops in your timeline, etc
I think it's becoming clear that job boards have failed as model. Simplyhired, now Monster. I think employers are tired of posting jobs or scouring the resume databases have realized it might make sense to just outsource the whole recruiting thing. Which is why Indeed is now owned by Recruit a Japanese staffing firm and Monster by Randstad. That leaves Adecco to pick up Careerbuilder.
True but a meteor doesn't have to. As it has been written of in our sci-fi, the robot uprising specifically requires the machines to understand and, most of all, care, about dominance.

If you're talking about just being victims of machine logic, we've been suffering that since the invention of the traffic light traffic jam.
What's the value of FB of it does not have people's personal data on it?
As long as greasemonkey is available, it won't be possible. If it gets too bad, then a custom jscodeshift script could manually edit the functions in question.

Ultimately, there isn't a good way to dictate what a user does when you're in a sandbox.
Your tailoring from Facebook might be unique or mine is. I find the stuff they serve up just plain wrong. Or, it's one sided and I see the same ad over and over and over again.
I'm not sure. I lost the flash drive, despite living in a tiny one bedroom apartment in Manhattan. Maybe a 3 letter agency took it while I was away.
Facebook starts blocking adblockers
If you're a terminal person, definitely check out Termux[1], it's really, really good (Android 5+ only, however). For a text editor, I really enjoy Quickedit[2]. But I'm not aware of any decent quality IDEs, either. Personally, I'm really hoping Blackberry knocks it out of the park at some point with an Android phone with PKB. I do a lot of traveling, and Termux (with ssh, vim, go, tmux, fish, etc.) would handle 99% of my computing needs if I had a good keyboard. (But I'm not willing to get a phone without a removable battery, and I don't see BB going back to that anytime soon.)

[1] https://github.com/termux/termux-app
[2] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rhmsoft.ed...
That would be the case, if anyone on the jury hadn't followed the judge's orders.
My future job prospects depend on my degree, and my degree depends on my research, and my research depends on navigating this library. If I don't figure it out it's going to mess up my future. No pressure. And if you read the article, it's more about a combination of being organized in a confusing way and being physically imposing. Many libraries are literally designed after temples. It's no surprise when buildings that try to be intimidating end up intimidating people.
Indeed, proxying is basically pointless. At that point, it would be better for the site and for the advertisers (and users who don't block ads) for the site to simply self-report. At least then they avoid the extra overhead and load times (which might, btw, be detectable by ad blockers).

Alternatively, advertisers could host a server on the site's domain. A subdomain or specific path would be easily blocked, but a random path wouldn't be, e.g. http://www.example.com/626164776F6C66/ with identifier generated randomly. Plenty of existing content already looks this way.
If you just leave away the USB mass storage kernel module when compiling the kernel, the mass storage device won't work anymore while the mouse still works. I wonder if this is a solution to this problem or not since it seems quite naive.
I agree, it is one of the best tutorial/technical books I have ever read. Very clean writing style, and the authors clearly enjoy their topic.
Generally agreed, though the industry's obsession with retargeting makes this annoying sometimes. Facebook is much better targeted than most, especially when it comes to interests/hobbies/brands I'd be into, but it's still very crude if it tries to get any "smarter" than that, especially with retargeting.

Retargeting: the ad technology that believes my home needs 54 couches and 36 vacuum cleaners.
Kansas, and likely other mid-Western states that I don't know about, have historically added "artificial" curves on their highways to increase safety by stimulating drivers and reducing boredom.
So what if there is a lack of cash? Keep demanding more.

If and when the cash comes, will your real salary increase? No! Of course not!

You will be the last to know and this information asymmetry is the reason the rules are stacked against you, which is why you should never stop asking for more money. If the company tanks then so what? Not your problem, you're a developer.

The premise of my argument is that the separation between the two groups you mentioned is so temporary that it doesn't even matter -- and not only that but whether you're a mercenary is not up to you, it's up to your employer. You might as well get paid fairly to reduce your risk surface.
>Okay first, it probably doesn't get information from air gapped computers without being plugged in, //

A hidden WiFi to create a mesh network, or use ultrasound, seems doable.
> scrambling DOM classes and ids with no discernable pattern

That's why I have been beefing up the DOM filtering code in the latest versions -- there are already sites doing this.

There is a lot of untapped potential with the new operators, I am waiting for opportunities to put them to test, and fine-tune them if needed.
Ooh, I like that, something with a theme of being stuck in some soulless bureaucracy with goals that you morally disagree with, kind of along the same lines as Papers Please.
I think the 'overall representation of the world' requirement is pretty key here. Language in AI is often treated as its own class of problem, with the assumption that there is somehow enough signal in the raw mess of examples provided to any given learning system (usually just plain text, stripped of any prosody, emotion, cultural context, imagery; any of the other modalities of communication available to a demonstrably functioning natural language understander[1]) to build a model that 'understands' general use language. I simply don't see how this is possible[2]. I know the classical philosophies about the complementary nature of language and intelligence are out of fashion right now[3], but I'm not quite convinced they deserve to be.

I'll raise your bet; I'm willing to believe that once we succeed in building a general understanding of language, we'll look back and see that we simultaneously have solved Strong AI. To twist the old saying, I think that language is what the human brain does.

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[1] Yes, we can talk about P-zombies if you want. But I mean more in the Turing Test sense here.

[2] Yes, I know the progress has been impressive. The progress in the 60s with GOFAI was impressive at first too. Then it plateaued.

[3] I'm particularly referring to Sapir-Whorfishm and the various communication heuristics proposed by Grice. But I'd throw Chomskian Universal Grammar in there too.
Er... Prior to .NET, the previous "enterprise targeted" language for Windows was Visual Basic. Visual Basic absolutely supported creating COM DLLs. On 6.0 (and perhaps earlier) there's even some nice templates for "ActiveX DLLs" (ActiveX being the Microsoft buzzword for certain COM objects at the time).
Unless they start misrepresenting stories, you could setup a plugin that keeps track of your friends and only display content from them.
Not an IDE, but you should really check out Termux.
If you're referring to structured records, I saw the mainframe, I used the mainframe, and I was unimpressed.

As for unstructured text communication, say what?!? Every good UNIX engineer knows: build in a -m switch for versioned machine readable output, and if possible, make that output a stable interface. That's clear, at least to me. That isn't clear to you?

And I hope by structured text, you don't mean garbage like JSON, one of the most inconsistent and idiotic formats I have ever seen?

Hopefully you also don't mean XML, which is terrible to parse with standard UNIX tools like grep, sed, and AWK. More complications for negligible gains.
> In addition to what you've said, the maximum penalty for whatever crime someone is charged tends to be about 10 x higher than anywhere else on the planet (probably because of the stacking),

s/tends/seems/

The US (at the federal level...I don't know if this happens with state/local charges too) uses a completely brain dead algorithm for coming up with the maximum penalty used in Department of Justice press releases announcing indictments which results in a great exaggeration in most cases.

The article "Crime: Whale Sushi. Sentence: ELEVENTY MILLION YEARS" [1] has a good explanation of this.

> See Aaron Schwartz.

(Swartz, not Schwartz) Here's an article that looks at how actual sentences are calculated, as opposed to how press release sentences are calculated, as applied to Swartz: [2].

> And the US has started to demand extraditions of people as fugitives, even though they've never set a foot on US soil and their company falls under a completely different jurisdiction. See Kim Dotcom.

You make it sound like this is something new and/or that it is just the US that does this. In fact, it is old and common. In general if you do something against the laws of country A affecting people in country A, from country B, and those things are also against the law in country B when directed against B's people, and A and B have an extradition treaty, it is quite common for A to request extradition from B and for B to agree.

Contrary to popular belief on the Internet (not meant to imply that you have this belief...I'm speaking generally here), the US is not the only country with copyright laws or whose copyright laws criminalize large scale commercial infringement. The acts Dotcom is charged with and for which the US is requesting extradition are acts that are also illegal in New Zealand.

[1] https://popehat.com/2013/02/05/crime-whale-sushi-sentence-el...

[2] http://volokh.com/2013/01/16/the-criminal-charges-against-aa...
Source code is the lowest common denominator.

If you're providing binaries, you might try to cover the latest couple of versions of a distro, plus maybe a stable/long-term-support version for more conservative sysadmins; that's 3 versions.

Let's say you do this for x86-64, x86 and ARM; plus a slightly different ARM version to handle raspberrypi quirks.

You might do this for popular Linux distros, like Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora and Arch. Then there's FreeBSD, and you might want one of the other more-popular unices (e.g. OpenBSD, (Open)Solaris/Indiana/whatever.)

Assuming you've done all of that, you'll still get complaints from someone running AIX on a PowerPC.

On the other hand, if you provide the source, along with some common build system (e.g. autoconf for C, setuptools for Python, etc.) then it should work out of the box on most of those systems; plus, if there are any issues with a particular setup, you've given the user the resources they need to debug and patch it themselves, if they're that sort of person.
Mercurial with Augie Fackler
Compensation is a market. It's not about what you "deserve" or how smart you are, or even your job performance. Your comp is driven by what the market will bear, in other words "what you can make elsewhere." Just like the price of a gadget is not based on the cost of its parts, or how much value the customer derives from it. It's based on what the market will bear.
Not accusing you of being intentionally misleading, but it would be nice if you put a clear disclaimer pointing out that you work for CloudHarmony.
It seems so obvious
You right
I feel Twitter is constantly chasing the wrong metrics - MAU and DAU. Twitter's reach is far more compelling that their MAU numbers. Imagine the number of people that have read a Donald Trump tweet but have never logged into Twitter. Twitter, IMO, should be singularly focused on impressions and embedding ads in impressions no matter what the channel is (other websites, CNN, Facebook etc.)
I saw the landing page and frankly I was unimpressed:

(1) everybody and his brother claims to have something like this, I don't see any reason to believe this is better than anything else

(2) "Free" is for the birds here. I am going to invest so much of my own time into switching to your system that you might as well ask me to put some financial chips into the pot.

(3) Is the product going to stick around? All the time we see people start SaaS products and then a few months later they sell out to Google and shut the product down.

(4) Without email compatiblity I don't see the point. Many of the tasks that I have to do come in through email. If I have to copy every important email I get, then it is almost inconceivable that your product could really save me time.
That works for small websites, but big sites will simply have exceptions listed.
"They’ll see the code, and if the code is shit, then you may be in trouble"

Has anyone EVER gotten "in trouble" for shit code? It's about 80-90% of everything I've ever come across in the last 15 years. And frankly, probably 50-60% of what I've produced in that time also falls in that camp as well. It's only been in the last 5-10 years that attention to code quality has really been on my radar, prompted in part because I've had to provide support on stuff I wrote 10-15 years ago and ... it really opened my eyes as to where I cut corners and the huge impact it can have.
No, I was talking about the "world's finest minds" part :-)
I founded CloudHarmony and now work for Garter which acquired CloudHarmony in 2015.
PHP wrapper now ready, Node.js tmrw, then Ruby, then Python, then... you tell us. :)
There are also teacher unions involved.
Not even remotely surprising. I was hoping to grab a copy before it happened by I didn't get around to it. Oh well.
I suspect your comment will be met harshly here, but I agree for at least a subset of users. If you regularly read HN, you probably can see the clear downsides of the so-called 'walled garden' approach. I can too. Then I have a 10-minute conversation trying to help my mother-in-law with whatever Best-buy recommended cheap PC she purchased 2 years ago, and I am convinced that she needs the walled garden.
Facebook is large enough for add blockers to specifically target them. So, at best this is going to cost a lot and drive away users for zero net gain.
“We’re doing it more for the principle of the thing. We want to help lead the discussion on this.”

I must not have been invited to that conversation where this discussion took place.

Also, I don't trust Facebook advertising because a few of their ads injected pictures of my friends' faces/pictures into them to make them more appealing (erm. deceptive) to me.
Soylent's new coffee-flavored beverage could kill the Starbucks Frappuccino
I'd have opposite filter. Did you correct permissions for folder where you unzipped/placed executables so that it couldn't overwrite itself? Correctly installed software in program files folder would be protected from being overwritten without administrator privileges.
is there a book/documents about DB internals ? I have found some books about theory but not about an actual implementation.
The first quote you've referenced doesn't make mention of the fairness of the justice system.

So, there were two quoted judges bemoaning its effects on the fairness of the justice system, two talking about how their jobs are boring without trials (the quotes included below), and four that do not clearly talk about either of those.

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> “We’d love to have more trials; most of us enjoy trials,” said Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein, who joined the bench in 1998.

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> In April, when Judge Shira A. Scheindlin resigned from the bench after more than two decades, she said the decrease in trials was one consideration for her departure. “Trials are way, way down,” she said. “The building’s quite dead.”
Such a tribe would either be pre-technological then, or piggybacking on a technological society that did make those investments.
I'm curious about how the Superbook is charged. It seems you're shipping a custom charger, but also somewhere on the Kickstarter it talks about micro-USB. So, would a regular USB charger be able to charge the Superbook, or does it only work with your own charging brick?
Maybe in the Valley startup culture but I live very far from the Valley and that's not even close to my experience at all. What kind of "physical strain" does typing code result in? I seriously have one of the most flexible and lowest stress job than anyone I know.
First line of the article:

> Facebook is going to start forcing ads to appear for all users of its desktop website, even if they use ad-blocking software.
This is tangentially related to this, but apparently their mobile app now automatically downloads all the photos on your phone if you give permissions to access photos? My wife and I recently had a child, and when I opened up the app to post one single photo of our child, Facebook was showing in my newsfeed a video they made with all of my photos I had taken. This seems like a gross violation of my privacy. Is there any way to prevent this aside from deleting the app and no longer sharing photos with family and friends via FB?
No, that's for bandwidth savings I reckon.
I'm not sure why you're being downvoted. This seems like a legitimate question.
Work with stakeholders to minimize lateral movement after a breach, get monitoring in place to detect breaches, and have a response plan.

If you have company critical secrets or life-safety systems, you need to air gap where possible.

That's you're job. You cannot stop or prevent attacks, and if option don't have the metrics and logs, the FBI won't be able to do anything, assuming you can get them to give a shit.
They don't have to win. All they have to do is stay ahead well enough to maintain a large target audience that can't be bothered to use the latest blocking technologies.

Absolute security is impossible but that doesn't keep it from being an arms race that has some sort of equilibrium. Ad blocking has the same qualities.
This is the "time flies like an arrow" problem again, isn't it? Fruit flies like a banana. Context, sense, meaning. All of which require facts about the real world.
Is there a reason for the downvotes?
>or the irrigation arm a little longer so that it can reach the corners of the grid.

You'll want to investigate "corner pivot". See also page 3 of

http://az276019.vo.msecnd.net/valmontstaging/docs/default-so...

...or...

http://www.pivotirrigation.com.au/valley-corner-73.cfm
Original announcement from Facebook:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12255132

http://newsroom.fb.com/news/2016/08/a-new-way-to-control-the...
It depends on what the nature of language is. If it is purely a tool of consciousness, a separate module in mind like basic image recognition seems to be, then the picture you're painting may be possible. It may be that the language signal is strong enough to pick up just by looking at orders of magnitude more examples than we can right now. That we can crack the encryption, so to speak.

However, if language is more integral than that. If language is more a facet of intelligence than a building block. If language is the structure of sentience, rather than something sentience leverages, then no, all the chat bots in the world won't help. We need something that can integrate more than just plain text embeddings of incredibly intricate and complex structures. We can't crack this code without a key.

My guess is that this latter scenario is the likely case.
A question: once site owners proxy ads through their own domains, will they become liable when they serve malware?

Right now the usual defense seems to be "we just buy 'em", but that's going to be a lot less convincing once Forbes.com is actively serving malware from their own site.