skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The way every standing army out there does it by just being there and having guns?

Now contrast with all the posts going around social media from military veterans explaining the training they got on rules of engagement, including use of deadly force as an absolute last resort when all other options fail after explicit attempts, and look at how often the narrative with police is simply shoot first, then shoot more, then keep shooting. And that's without getting into increasingly-recorded incidents where we see things like officers retroactively planting guns on corpses to back up a claim that "I had to shoot him, he was going for a gun!"

Also:

5, or even 50 deaths

Try 2.8 per day[1] that we know of, which is over one thousand per year.

http://www.vox.com/a/police-shootings-ferguson-map
And how are people supposed to find it if it's not SEO-optimized? Only Hacker News folks in-the-know?

It seems like a really odd point to bring up.
Does my phone have a portion of this BSSID db locally?
It's also an interesting business model. Core platform tech and then consultancy.

A LOT of hand-cranking integrations and massaging data, presumably that's where they make most of their money - billing hours to agencies with deep pockets.
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Palantir likes to promote these minimal links to the CIA quietly to increase the feeling that they give to their "forward deployed engineers" that they are some Seal Team 6 of developers. Their office in the Meatpacking district of NYC is kinda reminiscent to a cult headquarters. Rooftop bar/DJ booth unlimited* vacation time, bring your pets to work, free gym membership right nearby, every desk has a "go bag"... Why would anyone want to leave?
Batteries don't generate power, they only store it. We still need to get the power from somewhere, and for the foreseeable future, that will have to include fossil fuels.
But how can one figure that out?

Isn't enforcement of a law (through an arrest for example) the first indication that a crime might have occurred?

If so, how to figure out if the 75% attribution is fair or just a result of selection/confirmation bias?
And \\//, to refer to LLAP
That automatic emoji concept can be quite annoying sometimes.

For instance, Outlook 365 will automatically turn "B)" into the "smiling face with sunglasses" emoji. I cannot fathom this use case. Apparently someone at Microsoft thought that things like, oh, a fairly common styling of a simple lettered list (A) Do this B) Do that C) Etc.) and parenthesized words / sentences ending in capital B (abbreviations will get you there, like say BBB) are not very common in corporate communication. The need for a smiling face sunglasses clad emoji was much stronger. Go figure.
it's actually the tip of the ice burg. Given that there is no standard of care and that there is no barrier to entry to being a software developer there are a lot of things that are poorly done in this industry. Security is just one of them. With that being said I've seen a lot of secruity people go overboard with security and not take the other factors into account. IE: security people trying to prevent the CEO from having acccess to resources, or adding in policies that cost more to implement than the cost of the threat etc..
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I flagged this article (is that an abuse of that flag system?). Part 2 is now up but is woefully thin on useful detail; we learn nothing about who at UBS or Knight might be manipulating the market or why.
> What really should be done is getting rid of auto playing videos at the HTML spec level.

Or, let autoplay be a an explicit flag in the spec that is advisory as to publisher's intent, and establish a norm of user agents providing at least "big switch" configurability (Autoplay video on/off) and, ideally, optional per-site override of default on/off configuration for autoplay.
> the spread between the option grant price and the current 409A valuation is due as AMT tax

For ISOs. When you exercise NSOs, the spread is taxed as ordinary income.
Blocking ICANN’s independence would hasten the Balkanisation of the Internet
They're taxable on delivery. For public companies that's almost always at the same time as vesting, but for private companies that's generally at the time of an exit.
Derivatives Markets by Robert McDonald is a great textbook. I would not suggest reading it cover to cover, but it's a great reference for truly understanding bonds, options, etc.

I'd also recommend anything by Matt Taibbi, but only if reading about the shadiness of Wall Street interests you. His books are well written and fact checked, but definitely have a bias that you may not care for.
Forum culture on certain communities in the Internet lends itself to eyecatching buzzwords like 'shitpost'. Note, however, that shitpost is not always a negative term. Often, 'shitposting' is the game and the end goal; users laud one another for clever or topical shitposts, and particularly popular ones may be reprised in the form of memes. This trend encouraged the adoption of shitpost as both an affectionate and perjorative term.
Progress at what cost? Does maintaining security have to also mean breaking the systems that pay my bills?
Hell, Facebook has - and had for a long time - ways to limit the audience all the way you like.

And my experience says they'll flip that off on a whim. It's been several years now, but one day FB decided that all formerly private photos would now be public. Not a bug, a design decision. I deleted my account the next day, so I can't say I've kept up on the latest in FB's privacy features.

FB has obviously since gone back on that decision, but there's nothing stopping them from doing it again, or from introducing a bug.
Tech Giants Team Up to Fix Typography’s Biggest Problem
Agreed on poor finances. But Twitter has one thing that no one else has - they are in the center of the zeitgeist. Every political candidate is on Twitter. Every news network discusses Twitter happenings everyday. NFL broadcasts list players' Twitter handles. Half the commercials on TV advertise hashtags. South Park just did a whole episode about Twitter. The cost to embed your brand in the minds of Americans like that would be far greater than $10B. The question is can some larger company capitalize on that mindshare.
Wow, that's a lot of downvotes. Mind telling me why?
This argument is so seductive, but it bugs me that people assume that "crime rates" are based on how often people are committing crimes. It's how often crimes are reported / how often criminals are caught.

Given the greater prevalence of things like stop and frisk in neighborhoods with large minority populations, is it any surprise more people are caught for things like drug possession? That's going to further skew the stats, leading to more enforcement in those neighborhoods (since they are "high crime").

Drug use is actually higher in young white populations than it is among young black populations, but because of where law enforcement spends their time the incarceration rates differ wildly.
Usenet archives are also a treasure trove for this kind of things. Searching old posts on Usenet feels like modern day archaeology
whoa!!
this is huge - can you talk a bit more about your stack please. This is the first time I have heard something like this - what libraries, code style, etc would get you the same "feel" as clojure ?
For Reference: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regu...

This directive will drastically increase fines for data leaks in the EU.
lol, yes, Asimov also writes stuff in the preface like he's 35 and people tell him they thought he was long dead, because even their grandparents read his novels. Which gives the feeling he's still with us.

OT: Is foundation better than pebble in the sky and his short stories? I like his philosphical views, but his science ideas feel real outdated to me.
The link makes it entirely unclear how this relates to decrypting the keychain. Yes, this makes it much easier to get access to the keychain, but isn't it also encrypted?
Actually it's quite common. For example in .net you have a Uri class and a DirectoryInfo class which are basically just wrappers on top of strings with some validation and helper functions.
Haha, no number rounding function/method in the standard math lib? And I thought Dlang missing a BigFloat type was a deal breaker.
You mean an attribute on the video tag? That is a thing. It looks like this:

<video autoplay>...</video>
Shout-out for sidereel.com

They send emails for new episodes, and also allow you to mark episodes as watched, which is great for working through archives.

I only wish they had something for movies as well.
I use Photoshop regularly (over 18 years) and earlier this year I gave GIMP another honest 2-3 week try. There are some big conceptual differences, but the small things like it not remembering what folder you last loaded images from slowed me down too much.
Yeah. Offlineimap was a bear to get working right. I've heard good things about isync, but I don't really want to touch the house of cards now that it is all working.
I've never seen that one and I've been using Facebook for quite some time. It sounds bad though :/.

That said, the way I perceive Facebook over the last few years, is that they're constantly baiting people into increasing their privacy. They switch defaults towards "more private", and even for some time they had this annoying popup when you tried to post publicly that said something like "Did you know you're posting publicly? Click here to change it."
I'm never sure whether or not I should adopt these fancy new command line tools that come out. I get them on my muscle memory and then all of a sudden I ssh into a machine that doesn't have any of these and I'm screwed...
This is intentional, since the previous submission didn't get much attention and is now too old to have a chance. Resubmissions are fine in that case and the software allows it.
> they took me through a bunch of whiteboard algorithm crap that had nothing to do with Drupal.

Oh I hate that type of interview. I had a similar experience getting interviewed for a front-end dev position by two backend devs at a consumer VPN company in Toronto who asked me to write common CS algorithms while they both sat there staring at me.

Even ignoring the total lack of connection between the content of the algo with the job in question, I've never coded like that in my life. Largely because I also never took a CS course and didn't bothered to study cliche interview questions because I don't apply to big cos. But most importantly, I don't solve problems on the spot in front of other people IRL, so what aptitude are they testing for exactly?

I'm an introvert who always codes with headphones on and likes to spend time thinking through problems on my own - but can also work with other devs to solve problems when needed. I also had OSS projects, private repos I could show them, and live production apps with tens of thousands of visitors I built myself to point to my aptitude. That's been more than enough for other smart teams to hire me. It's also the content I look for most when I've hired people myself.

The non-technical founder also never told me ahead of time they were going to do this type of interview so I was surprised when they sat me down.

Also during a telephone interview with their other semi-technical founder asked me to describe how NAT works (yes asking a front-end dev to describe network implementation details). I figured he was just confused about what I would be doing for them... then I showed up to meet the two backend devs the next day.

I just walked out of the interview and told the founder his hiring process was silly, even though I liked the company (product). I'm happy I did.

I should note that I'm not against the idea of measuring aptitude during the hiring process, if companies want to be thorough. For example. during another interview process with a different company a dev team gave me a problem to solve (with ample warning before I arrived that day) and let me solve it on my own, using my own laptop in a quiet room, while they went back to work at their own desks for an hour or two (taking however long I needed). I was fine with that process and it worked out. There was also a collaborative element to it as well. That was a test better grounded in the reality of software development.
I'd rather get paid below market value (considering either my current career path or an alternate I could have chosen) and do interesting work every day than get paid a lot and work long hours doing something I hate.

My father made the opposite choice and regrets it every day now that his career is coming to a close.
Try out the Pale Moon firefox forks. I'm running it on an old core2duo 6400 (2.13 GHz) with 8 GB ram. I have over 700 tabs in my session right now with at least 300 of them fully loaded. It's using less than 3GB ram. And it's fast/snappy with smooth scrolling.
You probably break 5 laws every day and do not even know it. There are so many things that are against the law that it is nearly impossible to not be guilty of something. This is by design, allowing these multitudes of laws to be selectively enforced on certain people. "Stop committing crimes" is an overly simplistic response.
this is the first I heard of this - why is this not a config flag ?
Sure, but what's the alternative? Social media is too involved in most people's lives for them to just leave. Maybe we should have legal restrictions on what data can be collected.
Is there actually any nation on Earth where powerful and/or connected people can't screw you over if they really want to and if you have no other powerful or connected people on your side? (and no money, etc.)

The thing about this stuff that's really alarming is that any random script kiddie could also do this by coaxing your machine into downloading something. That greatly increases the surface area of people who can screw you. Given the abysmally awful security profile of a lot of consumer software and devices this is very plausible.
Yes there are. but using your source address means that you are confined by the upload bandwidth of your hosts, instead of some mis configured DNS server with a 1000Mbps up in a datacenter. You'd just have to work a lot harder to get the bandwidth.

to add to that, You'll defiantly get some mis configured servers with 1000Mbps uploads. And those will be really easy to pick out of the lineup. And then you'd probably be able to call the DC and say that they should block that IP at their boarder and they would probably also comply because there's a good chance that customer that was doing 110Mbps and won't want to pay for 1000.

As it is now, because the source is spoofed, you can't really take the source offline, only take the destination down to keep the other hosts in close proximity running.

With a TCP connection you can pick the source and drop the handshake, basically never start the connection. Some of the windowing can be used to make a tcp connection less of an issue as well.
As someone who took the plunge into Debian from Ubuntu yesterday, thank you!
BlackBerry to opt out of Smartphone market by end of September 2016?
And toys. The local Target has "girls" and "boys" sections. I'm wondering what my daughter is going to say when she finally notices that half the stuff she likes is filed under "boys."
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Thank you! I've been looking for this for ages
Theodore Ts'o wrote about a similar Firefox issue back in 2009: https://thunk.org/tytso/blog/2009/03/15/dont-fear-the-fsync/
Yes, the distinction between value and pointer types is explicit in the language, so you have all the control. This is, why you also have more control about the memory layout than in Java, which makes a huge difference in performance.
Not mine. I've painted the whole thing with Vantablack®
What else do you want Google to take over?

Maybe ATT? Verizon? Comcast? TWC? All other ISPs? How about Walmart? And maybe Google could even buy local governments to make things more streamlined.

And we all could pay with Google dollar, and have Larry Page as world dictator.

Google already has faaar too much power and should be broken apart, giving an entity organized like a dictatorship – which all non-coop companies are – even more power basically would mean Google would become more powerful than most small to middle governments.
I just finished Creativity, Inc. and it was a pretty good look at how Pixar evolved. Also highly recommended.
minimum standards of knowledge required for the citizens

Do you know how the electricity in your wall works? What about the plumbing under your house? Would you be able to fix those things on your own?
We made an app to identify bird sounds and learned something surprising
How does any part of "monitoring hashtags such as #BlackLivesMatter, #DontShoot, #ImUnarmed, #PoliceBrutality, and #ItsTimeforChange" work toward keeping peaceful protestors safe? These people are the peaceful protestors.
Yep, StreetView in particular. And don't get me started on Shadertoy, which seems to make "crashing FF" its mission statement.
The article appears to get the "seven years" qualification wrong. The bill states that tax must be paid at:

>> the date that is 7 years after the first date the rights of the employee in such stock are transferable or are not subject to a substantial risk of forfeiture, whichever occurs earlier

Which implies that transfer-restricted stock grants do not start this clock ticking.
Has Yahoo acted grossly negligent? (I don't know the specifics in this case) If so then they are liable for resulting damages, if not then they didn't screw up.

See, no customer is entitled to a 100% guarantee that their private data will never leak. Why? Because it is not possible to guarantee such a thing.

The only thing you are entitled to is that the corporation handles your data following industry standards which usually is at least identical but most often even better than what the law requires.

If a 100% guarantee was somehow a legal requirement then the IT industry would cease to exist the following morning.
It happens rarely to me, but it sometimes does. Also, your machine can crash, someone can trip over a power line, ...

At work, I routinely have something like 30-40 tabs open, if my browser can restore the session after a crash, that is very valuable to me.
Hi, I’m one of the Firefox developers who was in charge of Session Restore, so I’m one of the culprits of this heavy SSD I/O. To make a long story short: we are aware of the problem, but fixing it for real requires completely re-architecturing Session Restore. That’s something we haven’t done yet, as Session Restore is rather safety-critical for many users, so this would need to be done very carefully, and with plenty of manpower.

I hope we can get around to doing it someday. Of course, as usual in an open-source project, contributors welcome :)
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> It is not like Twitter is a tiny company with an unknown brand, few users and no possibility of improving its profit margins.

Investors -- especially for an established firm in a fairly mature market -- don't like "possibility of improving profit margins" (especially, when "improving" means "actually maybe delivering some profit"), they like a plausible concrete plan to do that with some indication that the firm has leadership capable of executing the plan.

"Maybe Facebook will implode and Twitter will pick up some of the debris and, hey, profit!" is not such a plan.
Actually, I'm very confident that I do not engage in any behavior that is punishable with jail time.

Claiming that our current system of laws was created in order to be able to target people at will is an extraordinary statement that will require some pretty strong evidence.
Then you are a very lucky person. For the rest of us, it is very good to have a manageable language at hand.
In the long run, I don't think that Twitter's problem is one of competition from FB or any other competitor. They have enough users that they could turn a profit even if they could monetize those users, regardless of competition. But they haven't turned a profit, which after 10 years is a strong indicator that they can't turn a profit.

If Twitter is able to time an addition of ads with a major event that damages FB's user base, the influx of users from FB might cancel out the loss of users from the addition of ads, and Twitter might be able to turn a profit. But that effect is a) temporary, and b) fairly unlikely. Even if they managed to eat into their competitors' user bases, they have failed to monetize their existing hundreds of millions of users, so there's no reason to believe they'd be able to monetize future hypothetical users.
> This "tax breather" is a positive step

I'm really not sure that's true.

Its usually a bad idea to take stock options instead of a market rate salary because most options are worthless in the long run. Lots of people do it anyway because they have a fantasy about making it big. As it stands now this is a life lesson that people spend some time in their 20s figuring out and probably walk away with nothing but some valuable experience.

Under the current scheme exercising illiquid options is a bad idea most of the time if you can't pay the taxes on it and this is obvious. This change doesn't make it a better idea but it makes it much less obvious that its a bad idea.

That 20 something that would have walked away with nothing will be much more likely to walk away with a 6 or 7 figure tax debt that may cripple him financially for the rest of his life.
To avoid being caught targeting one person you could choose to target all of them.
"Cheaper" is not including the full cost of compromised data. Compromises don't only affect companies' bottom lines, but also those who were compromised. The costs to individuals are undoubtedly much harder to quantify.
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It doesn't save the whole page. Just the url, scrolling position, form data and session cookies. If you're browsing with 500 tabs, most of which contain nested frames, including Facebook "Like" icons and the like, that's actually quite a lot.
I understanding what you are referring to but the point of the article was asking if people who come with low economic background are shut out of science research and the answer is no. True, there are some people with an unfortunate backgrounds in this country and every country, and it is great that people are helping them, but there are many who have little money including the immigrants that I mentioned, but those who are not immigrants as well and they are able to get science and engineering degrees at quality schools thanks to relatively low tuitions, and grants and government-based low-interest loans.

The Nature story is decidedly sensationalistic or the writer(s) didn't do their research. I think they should come to NYC and interview the students at CUNY and other NYC public colleges. Most of these students come from families without resources.
Honestly I didn't know about this instance, but as another poster has mentioned, I don't believe this reflects where Cloudflare is today, and that's who Akamai is competing with.

On a side note, they really don't appear to be making a concerted effort to get out in front of this which tells me that they either aren't aware of the reaction or don't think it's a big deal.

Either way, it just makes them look bad.
this is brilliant. P.S. your chrome link is broken.

On suggestion - please give a button to save all of this as a "session" or something. I'm a tab hoarder and sometimes I just want to dump it somewhere and start afresh.

Please help me !
The alternative is not using social media. Are you really saying it's impossible?
Because winter is coming.

It's easy to read code you wrote yourself 5 minutes ago, try again in 6 months.