skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are reasonably well organised political advocacy groups around privacy, "digital rights", and so on.

The trouble is, most of our elections are decided on a very small number of very high profile and high impact policies: economics, education, healthcare, and the like.

Technology raises many minor issues that affect lots of people, often for the worse, but few are going to care about those issues more than their child's education or putting food on plates.

Meanwhile, the tech firms getting insanely rich off these kinds of measures have small armies of lobbyists "advising" the technologically naive political classes on what they should be doing, backed by effectively unlimited war chests.

Until we have political systems that aren't dominated by rare elections decided by very few issues, this will unfortunately continue.
Well, what? A teeny bore hole in a multiple-thousand-mile structure that involves vast forces over huge scales. Almost certainly completely insignificant.

Iceland is covered in huge freaking volcanos.

Are you worried about releasing the Ancient Ones or something?
Luckily nothing in this article suggests that they're getting rid of the keys themselves. These kinds of keyboards have been around for a while, although they've been more of a niche market. A prominent example is the Optimus [1], but there have been ones before it. Apparently Apple has been toying with this idea long enough that they have a patent filed from the Optimus days (but not sure if it's before or after) [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimus_Maximus_keyboard

[2] http://www.macrumors.com/2008/01/03/optimus-like-oled-apple-...
No, luck cannot be the explanation for what these quant funds do. These funds are run by mathematicians. People with PhD's in probability and physics. They are not being fooled by randomness. They are right, and they are right consistently.

However, they are also at least generally, not making traditional 'investing' decisions. They are making statistical arbitrage bets - they are looking for instances where mispricing exists in the market, and they can make a guaranteed (statistically) profit by buying and selling statistically equivalent securities at different prices. The classical simple example is pairs trading: you notice that coke is always worth 10% more than pepsi, so when you see coke trading at 15% more than pepsi, you short coke and buy pepsi, betting that the gap will close to its traditional norm. Now, what they are doing is obviously substantially more complex and rigorous than that, but that is its flavor.
How many people here are old enough to have seen "Crack in the World?" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059065/
Regulatory capture is truly a wonder to behold.
None of the regulators have signed off on this yet. I'd expect heavy regulatory scrutiny, and the deal may well yet be scuttled as a result.
Often overlooked is the fact that Buffett has used celebrity to his advantage. [1]

Buffett gets to do deals (on better terms no less) that others can't as a result of his celebrity and this has been the case for a long long time.

[1] In the same way Trump has but with a much better track record.
> US consumer law allows suing everybody in the supply chain

IIRC, US consumer law requires the consumer to be the victim. (IAAL/NY, but not practicing) This restriction is called privity – the exceptions to privity are narrow, and no exception comes to mind here.

In this case the primary victims, the online services, are third parties, with any consumer recourse blocked by privity.

These third parties arguably have a couple options, though. The first and perhaps most theoretically interesting is the "class defence", the procedural complement of a "class action", where a few people (the third party online services) can sue multitudes (owner-operators responsible for malicious devices on the Internet) in a single process. Were such a case brought forward, these consumers could sue the manufacturers for indemnity. While as a litigator this makes the most theoretical sense, and this procedure exists in at least one jurisdiction I know of, I have never seen it tested.

Arguably a better option would be for the third parties to sue the manufacturers for negligence, based on the obligation that the manufacturers have to the public.

Any litigation is fraught with uncertainty though, not least of which is having a member of the judicial bench who is capable of properly evaluating the facts (which is not to say they are not out there, but they remain rare).

Like most externalized costs, the recourses of affected individuals are slim and ineffective.

> If Homeland Security tells the Consumer Product Safety Commission this is a national safety issue, the CPSC can order a recall

Proper regulation is a better choice, IMHO, though I don't know what the best process might be.
That's what regression tests are for.

Also, no amount of compiling or strong typing is a sufficient alternative to regression testing when it comes to refactoring.
Yes, and the same advice applies to westerners living in Asia! Especially in cities like Shanghai or Hong Kong, there are westerners who live for decades without interacting with the local culture in a meaningful way.
Those people are demonstrably wrong. See: all successful quant funds, HFT firms, etc..
Your second point has nothing to do with indexing and everything to do with asset allocation. If you're nearing retirement, you shouldn't be holding risky assets like equities.
Not just for people from Asia, this applies to anybody going to a different country.

I'd add: stop reading and listening to news in your native language, stop switching devices to your native language, force the immersion experience try to live, eat, read like a local.

Not being comfortable is part of learning.
This is at face value so absolutely insane, I wonder what alternate reality I woke up in today.

This is horrible for competition! Holy effing fuck. What is going on with our regulators?

The telecoms are reconsolidating:

http://online.wsj.com/media/attmap03282011.jpg

The service providers are consolidating

https://si.wsj.net/public/resources/images/BN-BQ192_cablec_G...

Biomedical

http://www.pm360online.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Histor...

It goes on and on. At this point I fully expect us all to one day do our banking at Google, receive our medical care from AT&T, and get all of our meals and groceries from Taco Bell.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gIcE4OvnqAY
Great to see a company use DNS properly. Basically, this is how the internet was designed to work, but startup land forgot it. Problem you have when you do not hire people over 30 :)
On that post, there is also a dupe calling linking to this article...
Ya, had to put on my ISP hat to see that.
Did you negotiate royalties with individual content providers at the beginning, or find the content through a marketplace of some kind?

I'm wondering how you can find good content cheap enough to be profitable at $2/month.
I found this link useful when deciding how to invest my 401k

https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/wiki/401k_funds
Don't most of these devices send an unique user agent indicating what type of device it's from?

If so why not block based on that?
Fair enough, for stocks the index already owned, but what about for the others? If the investor took a stock that wasn't in the top 500 and inflated its value above the 500th stock, wouldn't an S&P 500 index fund then buy it?
For me at least, searching on an iPhone in the UK, I get the standard results query URL. The results are the same as when I search for "year girugamesh" (i.e. without the bang).
It's hard to start from scratch in a language.

Chinese and German share virtually no roots.

For instance, if an English speaker started a PhD program in German, he can probably figure out some stuff since there are a lot of cognates and the writing system is similar. Sure, you'll sound like a sedated five year old, but you can figure out where stuff is in stores and how to ask for things, and grammatically you'll be in the same zip code.

Coming from Chinese, you really are starting from nothing. You're doing a lot of memorizing, not only of vocabulary but word order.
Donald Trump Says He Would Block AT&T-Time Warner Merger as President
Source: https://www.quora.com/Does-LinkedIn-access-your-email-or-con...
I assumed this was happening through their acquisition of Rapportive and all the authorized Gmail plugins that came with that. But this... this is sneaky.
It's easy to understand an aversion to being taxed and drafted.

A Sears storecard can't send you to Vietnam.
Seems like a case where everyone pretty clearly knows what the problem is, and who is causing it.
"We are not doing this to invade your privacy, we are doing this to assist you in growing your network."

Well if they are in my Gmail contacts they are already part of "my network." I can reach out and contact any of these people by simply sending them an email.
Well, I know Vue and Ember are no longer using string based template. Most front end nowadays are DOM based templates.
Reddit has become pretty much unusable thanks to overmoderation lately, so I've largely jumped ship to here. Other people may as well. I hope they don't, but they might.
I am sure our public servants were paid handsomely to take a look at it. (sorry hn, was that snarky?)
You might want to read an article [1] (automatically translate from Russian) explaining what is possibly going on.

[1][https://translate.yandex.ru/translate?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftjou...]
It ain't bad if you can take a breath sometimes. Enemies do not betray you, unlike friends.
Lol. Thats insane!
Counterargument: Projects built in the 80s/90s that are still alive today are the 0.001% of projects that have survived for a myriad of reasons, not necessarily code quality or programmer ability

Given the time period there has been ample time for a large number of highly skilled people to contribute high quality code, increasing the overall project quality and stability.

I would hazard a guess the early beta versions of Apache, MySQL etc. were far from the quality and stability we see today
The trick was to split. ZMODEM down (or YMODEM before that) and Kermit up.
Despite the difficulty of solving tasks humans are good at, we also want machines to solve tasks that are impossible for humans to solve, so I don't think this is really a general argument against no free lunch.
Importing Repositories into GitHub
Watch the CEO of AT&T and New Owner of Time Warner Explain Why Black Lives Matter
They may not have been in their problem domains twenty years ago (though they were for me from the start, albeit merely fourteen or so years ago =). I think that the future is obvious and that the expansion of the "stack" to the underlying runtime infrastructure is a foregone conclusion; this is ignored at a developer's own peril.

(As it happens, I was a developer first--but I was managing my own infrastructure, too, and so from a very early age I had to be damned comfortable with doing that. Now the industry is pivoting there as "devops" becomes more and more of a thing.)
From my perspective? You'd be declaring to anyone and everyone that you're bored and lonely, and starved for attention. If that's what you enjoy, be you, but remember that the majority of people will be, at best, pitying you.
Why would they scuttle it? They'll give a few token concessions and continue to screw consumers. The only way to win in this game is to invest in these monopolies.
So you're openly admitting that you see other people's emotions as a thing to play with for your own amusement?
> What is going on with our regulators?

AT&T has reached an agreement to buy TWC. The deal has been neither reviewed nor approved by regulators (yet).
Refugees get equipped for business in Vienna restaurant
Thanks for pointing to that add-on. Works nicely.
Oh sure, I agree. My point was that in order for our political systems to be less dominated by "the standard issues," people need to literally get out there, en masse, for anything to seriously change. (Think civil rights movement scale, not OWS). But I think you've hinted at the larger issue when you said "people care more about putting food on plates" - too many people simply do not have the freedom (time/resources) to care about anything other than "keeping their heads above water", as it were.
s/proud/proud or pleased/g

Doesn't really change my point.
We're surrounded by liquid hot magma!
What I'm hoping is that pollution will be diluted in the mantle before coming back as just traces in the magma.
I read that as their point to begin with.
It's going to be dangerous enough on Mars, without adding those factors in. Worse, it's going to be difficult if the person who dies is in a critical position. You would have some redundancy in personnel, but that's costly in terms of Delta-v too, for them, and for everything it takes to keep them alive.
After allowing Comcast to acquire NBC Universal, is there really any expectation that this will be blocked?
Look into why T-Mobile merger was cancelled: industry pushback.
But why would a rational, self-interested person put up with great risk and expense to live in a small closed economy on Mars, when they could much more easily live in a small closed economy on earth? What's so great about Mars?
Comcast has been blocked from other acquisitions, e.g. Time Warner Cable, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9429035#9429514
I'm not too sure. I have heard that the attack also fixed the security vulnerability (changing the default root password) after installing the back door so other people cannot use it.

Although the source code is out there, those will not be able to control all those devices.
> noobs

And thus the cycle continues.
> That’s not merely a high hurdle—the law of averages suggests it’s near to impossible to clear.

Ugh. Now we have npr teaches "law of averages" backwards
Anatomy of a hack: How crackers ransack passwords like “qeadzcwrsfxv1331” (2013)
> Not just for people from Asia, this applies to anybody going to a different country.

I agree with you. That said, there is higher probability of Asian students being in Europe and USA for a Ph.D than vice versa (context of this post). Therefore, while the advice is indeed applicable to anyone - I prefer it to be directed in order to be more concrete. The reason being Asian societies (certainly Indian ones) are not individualistic in nature. Therefore, everyone tends to follow the crowd. There is a set pattern - school -> college -> job/Masters/Ph.D -> House -> Marriage -> Kids. A departure from the usual is not encouraged and even frowned upon.
Loophole: not supernatural if we find one.
If you know about browser security, you know that was is being described is just not possible. Likely that the author had authorized some google importer or something, but simply visiting 2 different websites in 2 tabs would not allow this. Just imagine the insanity if it was possible for another site to read from another tab.
You're assuming all trades are the same size and have the same upside (and downside) risk.
+1 I'm not sure if they're allowing this through for upper-tier competition.

Although when you have a deal this large, the law firms are bound to be well connected and will be pulling every string they have to push the deal through.
Show HN: Devilbox: Docker-based XAMPP alternative
See LinkedIn Dark Patterns [0]. It explains how LinkedIn tricks one into sharing contacts.

There we have it, finally signed up and signed in to
LinkedIn. The next part of the new user experience is filling
out your profile. Depending on how you count, LinkedIn tries to
import the user’s address book three to eight times. It
shouldn’t be this hard to sign up for a product without giving
away any unnecessary information.

Related HN discussion [1].

[0] https://medium.com/@danrschlosser/linkedin-dark-patterns-3ae...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11063178
It's stories like these I refer to when I'm asked why I don't have an account.
groan...grabs pitchfork

But seriously though, why does LinkedIn refuse to learn time and time again? There's a line between being aggressive and being outright dishonest and the line isn't all that hard to determine. Uber is often aggressive but rarely are they dishonest in their practices (at least not egregiously from what I know). But at this point LinkedIn is the leader in practices like this and it's not all that clear to me that it's a great long term strategy.
Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software
I think we are approaching this from opposite perspectives. I've been doing FPGA development for 10 years and am an EE. C was the first programming language that I learned over 20 years ago as a teenager. I've only very recently been learning high-level languages and associated abstractions.

A lot of the trouble with FPGA development in my opinion isn't the HDL, but the toolchains themselves. I haven't met anyone that likes FPGA toolchains. Things like PLL instantiation problems are likely to do with the tool and not the language.

A lot of people (I'm not saying this is you) coming from a software background tend to approach FPGAs as if it were a software problem. They seem very similar, after all. You write some code into a window, hit a button, and bam, you have some functionality. To some extent, I think it leads them to tend to shove a square peg in a round hole. Just like there are programming paradigms governing software design, there paradigms governing FPGA design as well. Trying to force certain abstractions can lead to headache.

Abstractions are very important in any design process, be it analog hardware, digital hardware, software, bridge design, etc. Software tends to favor abstractions because they are powerful, but also very cheap. One can afford to waste some CPU cycles if it reduces development time and the occurrence of bugs. In FPGA and ASIC design, abstractions are just as important but one can't afford to waste clock speed or chip area to get it. FPGAs are expensive and ASICs even more so. The design paradigms of HDL exist for that reason, as frustrating as they may be.

In a sense, I've just grown accustomed to Verilog's warts. I was appalled at the FPGA development process when I first started but at this point I just take it for granted. I think thing will get better but it will take time. Even so, I think that it is best to stick with Verilog/VHDL for the time being. Just like if one wanted to web development, one would have to learn javascript, which is also considered terrible.
Can someone explain how the hell this is even possible? Surely a random website can't read any other random website's session data? Is Google cooperating somehow?
I'd like to see the source code for that. Is it open-sourced?
Note that this is AT&T buying Time Warner the content company [1], not Time Warner Cable the ISP [2]. It's analogous to Comcast's NBC Universal acquisition [3].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Warner

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Warner_Cable

[3] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acquisition_of_NBC_Universal...
Regulators have not approved it.
Especially if you pursue a degree in a technical field, German quickly gets wierd. You encounter a lot of long, composite words ("Doppelkupplungsgetriebe" or "Motorsteuerungseinheit") for which the language is already famous for. Then there also are old terms like "Krampe", "Tülle" or "Flansch" (staple, sleeve and a widened section of a pipe), which are just standing terms for a certain part but are absolutely nonobvious and hard to find in dictionaries. I'm a native German speaker and only recently learned about Tüllen.

Add regional dialects to that which often contain grammatical shifts and even more obscure synonyms for high German words and you'll get a lot of cunfused foreign students.
American vigilante hacker sends Russia a warning
Stephen Bannon is Trump campaign CEO. He runs Breitbart.com, which the Southern Poverty Law Center considers a racist organization.

https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2016/04/28/breitbartcom-...

http://inthesetimes.com/article/19417/trumps-new-campaign-ce...

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/08/stephen-bannon-d...
"Overmoderation" is a per-subreddit thing.
Conversely, if the difference between luck and skill is unknowable, everyone who wins might be skillful. As you said, the existence of winners is not revelatory about the existence of skill.

Related: one can be highly skilled and still lose to someone who is highly lucky.
"... Jason Scott's excellent BBS documentary (you should go watch it. Like, right now. It's that good)"

Agreed. The BBS documentary is superb and really, really entertaining and engrossing. Especially the episode(s) on fidonet.
Having a lot of issues with our merge requests never merging and just spinning forever.[1] Would like Gitlab to put a little more focus on those kinds of dealbreaker issues. Would hate to give up such a great product because of things like that.

[1] https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/2995
> Private individuals can be members of political parties and this is not something that should end up in the public domain. Really, this is about as easy to understand as it gets, in fact in many countries such party memberships and who you vote for is kept extremely secret to make sure that votes can't be bought and/or to make sure that there is a place for 'unpopular' parties and candidates.

> It's a cornerstone of democracy. Some countries take a much less serious approach to voter registration but especially in Turkey such lists are social dynamite and the release of those lists was absolutely uncalled for and irresponsible.

When there's a single ruling party, or two major parties in a system like the USA, the distinction between political parties and the government itself is blurred to point of being meaningless. For an even more extreme example of this see the CPC in China. They are the government, party business is government business, and vice versa. Hiding behind them being a private organization doesn't work.
People have to be totally selfish or selfless says a false dichotomy. People seem to like those. I see people's actions to be along a spectrum between where the motivations vary depending on what they want to do. Some people seem to lean almost entirely toward one or the other but I'm not prescriptive about that.

We don't have to guess about his motivations, though. It's in the article:

"For Johnson, the quest is innately personal. His step-father has early signs of Alzheimer’s."

He and his step-father are suffering through the effects of Alzheimer's. He definitely has personal gain from a treatment that would work. There's a clear selfless angle on helping the step-father. He probably, after personally experiencing it, also would like to prevent others from going through the same thing. That's my guess. Respectable motivations for sure.
I don't know about you but I don't end up running binary installers too much. Certainly not on linux.

Even so, windows style binary installers are at least frameworks designed for installing stuff (many with years of bug fixes under their belt), while the curl|sh style installers are just ad-hoc one-offs written in a language that's known for being pretty hostile to defensive programming.

So yes, any installer could make those errors, but in my experience only random shell installers seem to do that. Saying they are the same is a false equivalency in my eyes.
I want to agree with you but I've seen a similar situation with Yahoo mail for someone else, and I confirmed first-hand they had not imported their contacts. So I don't even know what to believe anymore. It makes no sense for this to be possible, but neither does the story everyone is recounting.
The K80 uses 2 generations older architecture (Kepler)
They have been trying to access Outlook accounts for the same reason for years, by asking for your password in a deceptive way.
But if this is true it's next-level evil indeed, it seems that Gmail has an open XSS vulnerability, and LinkedIn (and Facebook too?) are using it to outright hack into your account.
American airline wins right to weigh passengers to prevent crash landings