skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Considering I've worked at a place in the past where providing an "excellent work-life for it's employees" was written into the quality policy, but they consistently treated all their employees like crap; I'd be willing to argue that only 27% of businesses believe in their own values.
The explanation is in the issue thread now. If you have Angular running in an extension, if it sees Angular tags in the page you're viewing, it could execute them with the elevated permissions of the extension instead of the permissions of the page.
For centers of innovation and insight into the future, startups collectively shoot themselves in the foot by centering on some of the most expensive real estate in the world.

It'd be far more logical for VCs to pick a far more livable, affordable area so that their investments could go further, last longer and have a higher chance of success.

VC firms are really just high risk money lenders that have a seat on the boards of the companies they lend to. One could take a dystopian view that VC firms like the super high burn rate that having a startup in the Bay Area entails because the high costs makes companies more dependant on round after round of capital thus giving higher and higher percentages to the VC firms of the companies that do eventually make it. That's a little dark, even for me.

More likely, we've made this hellscape of $4k 1bdrm apartments because VC firms are comfortable in their big, well appreciating homes in choice parts of the Silicon Valley and the greater Bay Area and they don't want to drive very far to meet with the companies in their portfolio. This and other factors (NIMBYism) creates the situation to this day.

If VCs were brave and smart, they would try and find a longer term solution to the problem. Find a city nearby that has significantly lower cost of living. I'm actually looking forward to the VC bubble bursting again so that companies would be forced to get scrappy again and start solving this problem themselves.

If I were founding or running a startup today, I would in a location that 1hr or two away from the major startup centers in a place where my workers wouldn't have to spend 50%+ of their salaries making NIMBY owners richer.
The DeepDream neural network
I think they are doing the right thing. Taking pictures is a core feature of smartphone usage and smartphones took a lot of camera-marketshare. Vacations have become much more enjoyable since people don't have to carry the international sign of gullibility around their neck, the tourist's camera, that also weighs more than a phone, costs at least as much and has a terrible OS.

I too think though that Kodak can't be superior on smartphone stuff. At least not on their first iterations. But having the stomach to pursue such a dramatic and pragmatic shift in as how to perceive their product says a lot. Either about the company's future prospects or of how much they are on their last legs.
The lesser performance can be a setback for Nintendo systems in some ways, but I think the DS and 3DS outperformed their competitors due to having cheaper hardware. The lower price point made appealing-looking games less of a financial commitment.
One place I'd love to try prediction markets is with product changes undergoing A/B tests. A product manager could submit an experiment and people at the company could bet on what the product change will do to engagement/revenue/growth metrics. This framework could eventually be used to weed out product changes before they are built. It would be particularly useful when the product change is driven by the leadership and most of the rank and file think the direction is wrong.
Recently my wife, without any identification, went to Tmobile and was able to have my account automatically canceled and added to a new joint family account.

She went with my knowledge, but TMobile never called to confirm.

After which my phone no longer had service, and I had to install a new sim card prior.

While she did this with my knowledge, I no longer have access to make changes to the account, until she adds me to the list of authorized people, and I lost all my voice mail.

It's very disturbing that she could do this, without any sort of checks and authorization.

Also, FWIW, my wife and I do not share a last name, and she did not provide anything other than my phone number to TMobile. She was a new Tmobile customer, and I was an existing customer, albeit on a very cheap pre-paid plan.
The phone companies have horribly bad security practice. I once had a phone number taken over by someone. When asked, the phone company just said, oh, someone called in and wanted to take over the billing of the account, so we let him. WTF.
On the Internet? You'll get alerts that people are trying to hack you every single day. There are whole botnets that go around just trying to authenticate to everything everywhere using usernames sniffed from other hacks and every password under the sun.
Looking at the concept video it's clear that Nintendo is doubling down again on the idea of personal, physical interaction as the concept for multiplayer activities -- the "you and a friend in the living room" idea. I applaud this, but online gaming is something that Nintendo really struggles to "get" and has cultural issues with as well.

There was a an article (gamasutra maybe?) about how the N with the Wii, fundamentally had no idea what their competition was up to or understood gaming notions that had become very commonplace by that time -- like online matchmaking for gaming, etc.

However, as a gamer, I think this is definitely setting a differentiable and right path that doesn't tie Nintendo to just selling another port target for games.

I'm reminded of this old Reddit post that presages some of what's in this video:

https://www.reddit.com/r/FutureGaming/comments/2eox69/the_un...

https://pdf.yt/d/J5nSHPu5dzdpWwvn
Hey, thanks. Perhaps I might, not right now though. I'm not very worried about the association, these things aren't that secret.

I can tell you though that there is some more disturbing things going on in Ghana, with what they call Sakawa Boys. Sakawa is the name for online scams. Sakawa Boys are more into carding/skimming, but there is a way darker side to Sakawa which I don't think is happening with the 419ers. They are also much less approachable, at least to me, Nigerians (at least in Ghana) tend to be very easy going and open.

The thing with Sakawa is that it is tied up with juju/voodoo and dark magic. They will perform various rituals to earn magic, money attracting powers. I'm interested in magic myself but stay the hell away from this. It's hard to know what's real and how the whole thing works, but young men (around 20) often unemployed, poor and lusting for a western lifestyle, status and respect will go to a witch doctor to get magical powers.

The witch doctor will tell them to perform a ritual. It may involve snakes or other animals, but sometimes they will be told to kill a person and bring, well, body parts. After that they will get magic money earning powers. It's shrouded in secrecy and nobody likes to talk about this but I think it's similar to entering a gang, you need to prove yourself. Same thing which also happens in secret societies. It's a way of building unbreakable loyalty because you have done something unthinkable together. The difference with criminal gangs in the west is the whole dark magic thing. Really, it's just about power, bonds and hierarchy.

The thing is, you will see young men (the big boys, usually, around 30 perhaps) with extremely luxurious cars. In an area with people living in shacks you will see someone roll up in a Bentley, even. I don't quite understand how they make all that money. Even young men will have bags of cash. There are Sakawa girls too, who will romance you and steal your card.

This is much harder to know about because nobody will talk about it. I suspect it also involves the drug trade, since West Africa has become a port for cocaine from South America. Sometimes a boat will come ashore with mountains of coke.

There is a guy in the area where I use to visit who always walks around completely naked, in a zombie like state. He could have been 17 last time I was there almost three years ago. I was told someone had performed voodoo on him and he was unable to wear clothes. I'm pretty sure he has been given datura, which may well be the worst drug known to man (apparently, the British soldiers who fought down Bacon's Rebellion took it).

These witch doctors wield considerable power and are a huge problem in parts of West Africa.

Thanks again, I'll write something up when I get some inspiration and peace and quiet.
Microsoft stock just beat its all-time high, set in 1999
I'm all for privacy tools for now, but the privacy-surveillance arms race feels like a hack compared to actually fixing the culture that creates a need for privacy. Is anyone discussing what it would take to solve the problem from that level?
There are always exceptions.
Show HN: Zammad – Open Source ticket system
This is the time to get to know https://mail.yandex.com

Seriously, the interface is so much better than todays gmail, its astonishing. There is no spam either, and no ads.
We just published our new open source ticketing and customer service system.

Commercial page: https://zammad.com/
Source: https://github.com/zammad/zammad
Org page: https://zammad.org/
Foundation page: http://zammad-foundation.org/

Background: The founder and creator of the OTRS ticket system build an open source Zendesk alternative with some pretty neat features which can be found here: http://days.zammad.org/

Can't wait to read your feedback and what you think.
I always enjoy wondering what sort of person downvotes a comment like this. I can't help but feel it's someone with shame/guilt for not having CI/CD in place.

But yeah, if that's too much to ask for, just don't ship the framework in your project. You can still have it installed as a system package. But to be frank, it's nearly the same problem, just in a different spot.
That's a good point. Though I think it would be challenging to have a phone number that no one knows which you also carry around with you.

It's possible if you use something like Google Voice for most of your regular calls, but you still need to make sure that the telco can't tie your name to your number…
Here is a US election prediction market: http://tippie.biz.uiowa.edu/iem/

The "Winner Takes All" market predicts Trump vs Clinton presidency: https://iemweb.biz.uiowa.edu/graphs/graph_Pres16_WTA.cfm

According to this, after last night's performance, Trump has an 8% probability of becoming the 45th President of the United States of America, while Clinton has a 92% probability.
It had better have superior photog specs than the newest iphones otherwise it's dead in the water
>But the real killer is: games are still tied to hardware, not user account.

This seems crazy in this age of apps
https://github.com/rickyhan/bodine

This is a tiny tool I wrote a long time ago. There's also writefullapp.com which is closed source.
Mr. Robot did a great job of exposing all this corporatist bs garbage.
Note: it completely thrashes your browser history. Making every setting push a new entry is not a good idea.
I too, share in the goal and passion of making monkeys.

In all seriousness though, I'm surprised the number is even as high as 27%. Unless you're working for the Peace Corps or some charity that's trying to do some real good in the world, you're probably working for a business that is there to make money. And the reason you're working there is most likely that you need to make money to live on.

It's nice when companies just cut through all the bs and pretense and are honest about it.
Don't forget that the WiiU also follows USB standards strictly and won't power a portable USB hard drive over a single USB port, requiring a Y-cable. Also you only get the option of formatting the entire drive to use for the WiiU.
DC was dumb enough to build a street car route because yuppies think they are better than bus riders.
I see that you are in favour of security through obscurity, and I favour security through vigilance and exposure. We will forever be at an impasse.
https://www.coursera.org/specializations/jhu-data-science
If you wish to go deep and learn R as well as data science and machine learning fundamentals, then this is a great specialization course on Coursera.
I don't need evidence to question a claim, only to make a counter claim.

I am questioning the claim that law enforcement doesn't need a warrant to legally view data about an individual or individuals collected by a 3rd party.
Problem is that so few people would be wearing dazzle makeup that the act of wearing dazzle makeup would get you more government attention instead of less.
Plus the hobbyist in question, was a rather brilliant[1] programmer at a young age. According to ESR:

"You are a brilliant implementor, more able than me and possibly (I say this after consideration, and in all seriousness) the best one in the Unix tradition since Ken Thompson himself. As a consequence, you suffer the curse of the gifted programmer -- you lean on your ability so much that you've never learned to value certain kinds of coding self-discipline and design craftsmanship that lesser mortals must develop in order to handle the kind of problem complexity you eat for breakfast."

[1] http://lwn.net/2000/0824/a/esr-sharing.php3
But the way you challenge it is by not buying into it. The policy is restrictive and perhaps a bit paranoid, sure, but that doesn't mean that it needs to be made illegal. Tesla can't force anyone to buy its cars and if this is such a poor value proposition for most people, then I don't see how it'll succeed. They don't have a monopoly on anything they're doing.
amazon has limits on the type files you store in drive, and they can terminate the service at any time without notice. That's all according to their terms of use

that's very scary if they can terminate my service and delete all my binary backups because they did not like binary files.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/?nodeId...
If Kodak really wants to make a killer product, they should focus on battery life at the expense of size (within reason, of course).
I'm in a similar boat. I've used Gmail since its first year in operation. I started transitioning off it earlier this year, keeping it running as I've slowly migrated the vast number of web accounts that use my Gmail address as an ID, to use the new email address. With the benefit of hindsight I see that I should have registered my own domain and used that for all web registrations. Oh well. The final step will be to migrate my archive. I hope to be done by Christmas at which point I will strip all details from my account and then delete it.
> As a side perk, Australia has no equivalent to a National Security Letter, and FastMail is able to hence notify me of any government requests for access to my data.

Unfortunately we've got something pretty close: ASIO can designate any of its activities to be part of a Special Intelligence Operation at will, which makes any disclosure of the operation or its components into a crime (10 years jail if it 'endangers' the operation).

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-10-14/journalists-face-jail-...
According to my simplistic math using standard 10x12x15 inch boxes of pages where each box has 5000 sheets, it's about a 15x15x15 meter cube.

15 meters is approximately a 5 story building.

If it's 16lb paper, then about 3,828 metric tonnes.

Obviously the weight of the paper is a huge factor here.

Another way of looking at it: if there are 260 days in a year (not counting weekends), then over a period of, say, 10 years, it amounts to 1.47 metric ton per day.
No one is perfect, but IMO when it comes to security, Google goes to great lengths to make stuff in the web secure, probably the most from all the bigcorps out there.

They are very aggressive about fixing TLS/SSL-related issues (finding and fixing vulnerabilities, deprecating old ciphers, promoting new stuff like cert pinning and HSTS, lowering SERPs in Google for non-https websites; they've also put in place means to detect and report fraudulent HTTPS certs, and many more).

Many of the top security researchers work for Google, and many of them even not on things directly related for Google's daily businesses.

If I'd have to say about some bigcorp that they don't care about security, Google would be the last on this list.

Google customer support is totally another pair of shoes though.
Researchers Create First Quantum Bridge Linking Quantum Computer Together
In the same way the federal government doesn't care it involves a [exponentially larger] set of people who have nothing to do with terrorism or crime in dragnet surveillance, I don't care that a few dozen friends of one of the most corrupt politicians in history have their privacy violated.
The next generation already has a sense that the concept of "ownership" is colonialistic and often unethical. Does Nestle have a right to the world's water? Does IKEA Shellmound have the rights to an ancient native American spiritual site? Does Tesla have a right to the world's battery supply? Does Trump have a right to New York real estate? Does Putin have a right to Crimea? Does Kim Jong In have a right to North Korea?

Obviously the answers to these questions vary, but few people will answer "Yes, Yes, Yes, Yes, Yes, Yes, always, if you could get a deed to the Earth you could feed us all to the dogs".

And the new generations believe in the sacred rights of the capital class less and less.
Perhaps the DNI should consider offering some form of clemency for other people who brought "homework" out of their SCIF to turn themselves in.
It wasn't much better. The cameras on the 3DS are absolutely garbage. AR was a fun pack-in distraction.
Yeah, a couple of years back, I went to a t-mobile store (I think it was on Broadway and Park Pl) to get a new SIM card; I'd lost it in Europe when I was on holiday. They gave me a new SIM card and let me pay cash without even checking my ID…
All it would take is a few network attached storage devices with high-capacity 3.5" drives. If you have 8 drives per NAS, and each drive is 4 TB, you only need 2 NAS to store data with no redundancy or RAID 5, and 3 or 4 NAS for more redundancy.

P.S. 6 TB drives are now very common, and 8TB drives are widely available, but more expensive.
They're just describing the data in terms that most members of Congress can understand.
It certainly could be an issue, but honestly even if it were possible to set up my own mail server, that's even worse for pseudonymity than a google account because ICANN records are public and I'd be the only one using my domains. It would make it much easier for some random person to uniquely identify me, which is a worse threat than Google identifying me by my phone number. This is one of those situations where anonymity loves company.

Also, the problem is not limited to e-mail. There are some non-email services from Google. I'd be perfectly happy to sign up for a Google account where you can't send e-mails, or where you can only send e-mails to people who have sent you e-mails.
Yes, by control inputs I meant destinations and probably routes as well, depending on how the self-driving program works.

Maybe instead of asserting that I'm "repeating lies" you could ask whether I mean what you think I mean.
Almost did. And the Princeton book as well. Thanks
This election season has been very difficult. We effectively have two choices for president. I imagine there are very few people whose values align perfectly with the candidate they're voting for. I hope we can all keep this in mind, both now and after the election.

Each voter has to figure out where to best cast their vote, compromising some of their values for others they prioritize. One hopeful way to view this is that they're likely a lot of values we hold in common. These are things we can hopefully work on together.

* This is really a very general statement I've tried to keep in mind in reading all of these comments, not just this thread. It's placement isn't a reflection of my opinion of the immediately preceding comment or the one prior. It just had to be placed somewhere.

In the hopes of better communication, if you'd like to down vote this comment, will you also take the time to add a brief reply? I appreciate it.
Time for a new era of glam rock then

EDIT: If you wore it all the time to avoid mass surveillance that would be a problem. If you selectively wore it only when, say you're visiting a prostitute or engaging in some other behavior you want to keep private, it's a viable alternative.

EDIT 2: Also, as a response to this, I foresee that people will just wear masks that impersonate other people, either some form of temporary plastic surgery or a full-on device similar to the one in the original Total Recall. Too many people value their privacy of movement.
Aha, thanks, that does indeed say that 2FA is disabled. But I'm seriously baffled as to how it became disabled, as I absolutely enabled it previously and have been receiving 2FA verification codes via text since at least May 2015. Is there some way of accidentally disabling 2FA for Google accounts? I haven't gotten a new phone for years, and I've made no other changes to my Google account for as long.
I'm sure they do have it, as well as systems to prevent exfiltration of data.

Clearly they're not working as well as we'd hope, but they're not idiots over there.
Vast majority of Europeans are aware and in favour of European space programmes, although they don't necessarily know all the details/names/impacts.

Maybe if the two of you had actually looked for a source rather than argued you'd have found that yourself..

https://ec.europa.eu/growth/sectors/space_en
(Scroll down to documents - the two eurobarometers)
I was going to suggest "o" and "O" to add new task below/above selected task, but nope, that's already there! The only other vimmy thing I can think of is "/" to jump into the search box. I'm trying to think of reasonable shortcuts for switching boards, closest Vim has is "gt" & "gT" for next/previous.

Also, there doesn't seem to be any way of selecting the first task item with the keyboard. Once you've got one selected, you can move around easily with hjkl, but there's always at least one initial mouse click.

I've been putting off adopting Trello for a while, but this seems like a great opportunity to dive in. Thanks!
I find it quite annoying that many outlets (be it articles, TV documentaries or tourist guides) always try to point out how something arcane can not be reproduced by modern technology or that the "knowledge has been lost". But it seems like people like the narrative.
read this. also fascinating. yes, write it up if you find a good medium (hint hint) to publish it on.

question: you write in one point here "I'm interested in magic myself." You can't say that to this crowd if you said it I would stop reading your article for credibility reasons. So if you believe that any kind of magic or spells exist (that aren't tricks), then you should separate out this belief from your report, because (just telling you honestly) it makes you lose any credibility. if by 'interested in magic' you meant like tricks/illusion (rather than actual magic, which most people here would say doesn't exist) then you should be more explicit.

you've written a lot more interesting things here than even in your original reply. I am fascinated and hope you will find the time to write it up. if you submit it to HN you can refer to this thread where I asked you to :) very very interesting.
Don't understand the downvotes. Thought this was widely acknowledged.
And it's in the interest of the other parties to get that party the smallest amount of votes.