skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, ok, so you're saying if i managed to convince a a few youtube personalities that you're a child trafficker and they talked to their audience and invited them to attack you over it, and the thousands hound you for a month over it on every possible venue you might frequent, including actually calling your home for the lulz, you'd be an emotionless rock and vulcan overlord with not so much a twitch as a reaction, despite things being actively and effectively disrupting for your personal and professional life for a month.

Is that it?
They'll likely be settled and come with a non disparagement clause.
It's reasonable to assume that if you're still moving and apparently underground there's a problem with the sensors, and therefore it's best not to do anything rash - like starting the landing sequence.

This does sound like a rookie mistake, and I'll bet there's a dev somewhere saying "Oh crap" a lot because of it.

It's also a hardware design problem. NASA's human missions have a weight budget that includes multiple redundant systems. I have no idea if this probe had three of everything, but missions that do are more likely to be successful.

More subtly, I'm curious if the sensor failed or maxed out. The kinds of forces that would max out the sensor might also max out the probe. So it's possible it was already doomed after they were encountered.
What's the difference between an IMU and an accelerometer?
Not sure what the comment about NIO in Java was for, there are surely rough parts to it even in NIO2, however compared to the status quo, Java's NIO is like a breath of fresh air. Simply because it is hard to abstract over poll, select, epoll, kqueue, AIO, Windows' async sockets, etc and provide consistent behavior over all those supported platforms. Because of this the async I/O implementation in Mono has been broken for years ;-)

As for Akka, well Akka is really not about abstracting over I/O or a replacement for Netty, even though projects like akka-http exist. At this point Netty is so good, well tested and so widely deployed that nobody sane would even dream of replacing it, even though there are some people trying.

And on the .NET ecosystem, I really love what Microsoft is doing with it and how .NET Core is turning out, however open-source is definitely a big weakness of the ecosystem. In the Java world, Oracle is not driving anything other than Java the language and the runtime (i.e. the core). Not the IDE, not the frameworks or the tools being used. Everything else is provided by the community.

And when I click to view the source of some class or method in my IDE, I have my IDE automatically download the original source, instead of getting a decompiled one, because proprietary libraries are almost unheard of.
Eheh, thanks.
That sounds like a pretty good idea. What about using this as a central place to track GPL violations? I have a feeling that there are quite a few products out there in the wild that use GPL software but don't confess to it. Maybe a site like this could persuade them to become compliant with the license.
There are things in human life that we have not reached a sufficient level of science to quantify yet.
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more than 40 samples. 200 samples at minimum.

"Long term" is misleading and relevant only to a space age start point where we launched satellites.

2000 year ice core samples:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/04/15/western_antarctic_me...

Longer records exist in ships logs showing that ships sailed through an ice-free arctic.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/03/goddard_polar_ice?pa...

According to official US Weather Bureau records (pdf) from 1922, there was open sailing very close to the North Pole that year. Anthony Watts unearthed this quote from the Weather Bureau:

"In fact, so little ice has never before been noted. The expedition all but established a record, sailing as far north as 81 degrees in ice-free water."

So much lower extent than today.
Probably he indeed started doing this for fun but eventually did the "pivot" :-).
> Can you as the CIO be trusted with highly personal, highly sensitive data on millions of Americans?

Perhaps a better question is: can anyone be expected to properly secure data on that scale, against well-resourced malicious actors?
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> When you have no idea what the system is, you just stick to the function definition and have it handle all the weird cases. You don't make assumptions. You can still make mistakes, though, some of them caused by the lack of global understanding of the system because the specification writer had those assumptions in mind and did not write them down in the specification of this function because they were obvious to him or they were already written in another part of the specification.

This, alone, deserves an article. It's a fundamental knowledge in any software development made by different teams, or even a discussion about the pros vs cons of having a monolithic team versus distributed teams.

If you expect that small teams, doing parts of a project, take care of all possible interactions of their piece of program with all other components, you'll fail. They just have a subset of the knowledge, and how all those information was passed so that they could act is relevant. And in general nobody writes down every single detail that could make a difference. In those scenarios, analysts who are able to write requisites until the point that some can be considered non-sense or obvious, should be paid in gold.
To clarify, are you suggesting that someone was indicted based purely on a Reddit post?

If so, that in itself is scarier than anything else being discussed here.

To assume Reddit is a unedited source of truth is just insane. Why people felt it was 100% tamper proof is beyond me. I wouldn't even trust public companies like Twitter to not have potential flaws like this.
Quote 0:

What that turned into was a state representative in the House
in Colorado proposing actual legislation to prevent people from
using their food stamps to buy marijuana based on something
that had just never happened," Coler says.

Quote 1:

Coler, a registered Democrat, says he has no regrets about his
fake news empire. He doesn't think fake news swayed the
election.

Quote 2:

However, Coler insists this is not about money. It's about
showing how easily fake news spreads. And fake news spread wide
and far before the election. When I pointed out to Coler that
the money gave him a lot of incentive to keep doing it
regardless of the impact, he admitted that was "correct."

Did he created his own bubble to justify this?
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You can buy a TV, and then not connect it to the internet.
Not only that, usually hate and stupid is born by different people, where the stupid ones are gullible and numerous but earnest, and the hateful ones are trolls pushing the stupid ones for their own purposes; and punishing one groups effectively is hard without affecting the other unduly.
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> I am afraid that your average engineer will make a pretty incompetent legislator.

Sadly, so does your average legislator.
There should only be 3 options to moderation that are acceptable

1. Removal of Post outright

2. Editing of post WITH ATTRIBUTION or Acknowledgement of edit

3. Banning of user/thread/topic/etc with full and open disclosure

This habit of Redit and other sites have of "hidden" moderation needs to end

The Practice of silent moderation, silent editing of post, shadow bans, etc should not be acceptable to anyone that values free Speech

And before you go off on your moronic tangent about Reddit not being a democracy. Yes Reddit can legally choose to censor anyone they want, or do anything they want really on their platform, that is not the topic of debate. The topic of debate is around do YOU a presumed reddit user want to continue to support such a site. Do you want to visit an ecochamber of heavily censored topics and discussion?

Reddit became popular on the back of having very very very few limits on expression, the reason people flocked to it was because of open and uncensored discussion. If the site Admin's want to turn it into a Democrat echo chamber free of any alternative view points they are free to do so. I am also free to fucking call them censorious fuckwits if they do

Some how I have a feeling you would not hold the same opinion spez did this to a community you approve of, or on topic you approve of

//and for the record, and I should not have to say it but I feel I need to which is telling in itself, I did not vote for, nor do I support Donald Trump. I have been for more than 20 years a Libertarian, and voted for Gary Johnson in 2016
OK, so why is the most common document something to do with the Turkish 2012 elections? (If the rough Google Translate is to be believed...)

Weird...
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I live in Germany. I read the domain name as d'Klo. As some kind of reference to "Klo" - the toilet.
You can't see the agenda, but is part of it. An "agenda" don't need to be bad to most people outside the inner circle, which is exactly the case of SV and HN. They "just" want to hold the power and who benefits from the prosperity created.
Neat. There actually is a wikipedia entry about sensor fusion:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensor_fusion

TIL, thanks.
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Hi there, sorry to hear there have been problems with the UX so far. It may have been to do with the database scaling issue we faced earlier. Everything shown in the video is or will be available available soon (mind maps/analytics).
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You've heard of Neilson ratings... How about a Trust Rating?

How about a third party that certifies the facts and guarantees that the opinion in which they are expressed by is not slanted past a certain degree. Perhaps give a slant rating. Also, These third party could give a balance rating to a company on a certain issue or candidate. Out of X number of news stories, how many (positive and negative stories) did a given outlet run on each side? The third party could have internal peer reviews and other checks and balances (who watches the watchers?)

Can you imagine what these numbers would look like this election season? One last thing. How about each story has the author name at the bottom, but the link to their profile includes their voting record and party affiliation.

Now that would be transparency.

How about a startup for a news aggregation that somehow did this in an open and transparent way. They would disclose the reasons for all their decisions to keep things honest. Finally a one stop shop to get a balance of stories and opinions, both sides of the story, the actual truth about what is going on. There are so many misinformed people today.
That dodgy formatting made me think you were in OK Go for a moment.
It's not about opinions.

That particular sub-reddit is a mixture of real people, and trolls who pose as trump supporters to egg the supporters on, as well as scaring and pissing off people against trump. The result being that with little effort and prodding on their side they get to see glorious internet mudfights.

However due to the way they're doing it, it's hard to tell which is which. That puts reddit admins in a bind and they have to balance things. Do they keep distance and let subtle trolls go unscathed? Do they take harsher measures and hit actual trump supporters? How much of this spills over into other reddits? How to handle the /all pollution? Letting it get in there just increases the mudfights, but if they take steps they'll be accused of censorships.
Oh, how I miss having a working USB stack...

https://opensource.apple.com/source/IOUSBFamily/IOUSBFamily-...

They re-wrote IOUSBFamily (or at least they said they did) and it's buggy as all heck whenever you try use a USB 3 hub (since the 10.9 rewrite).

I'd fix it myself, but it's no longer open source. Plus, to really rub salt in the wound, there's no longer a USB debugging kext. Yay, Apple...
I'm not sure what that link you posted is. Even after adding 15 uMatrix rules I couldn't get it to work (whitelisted everything that wasn't tracking i.e. Google Analytics, Segment, ShareThis).
Sorry, what I meant to say was a redundant IMU that could be read in specific cases like this one.
Hiya, thank you so much for pointing that out. Both of those issues were fixed last night. Sorry for the late response!
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This was done by installing malware on a Tesla owner's Android smartphone. Tesla's response to electrek [1]:

The report and video do not demonstrate any Tesla-specific vulnerabilities. This demonstration shows what most people intuitively know – if a phone is hacked, the applications on that phone may no longer be secure.

That is, of course, true. However, is a login and password [2] really sufficient to secure access to a car? Why isn't there some kind of paring between the smartphone and the car?

Some argue that stealing a physical key is even easier. Of course it is, but that doesn't mean we can't do better.

[1] https://electrek.co/2016/11/23/tesla-hacker-steal-car/

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlVFhT-DjnI
Yes (what is quite inline with the C tradition).

What is interesting is that I can't think of a lot languages that do it. It should be the default, as it's easy, safe, and gets good results. Somehow, it isn't.

And then there's the Haskell's way of: let the community informally choose the one best option, and when somebody uses any of the other ones, just get somebody near him telling "nobody goes there anymore, come to this other place". It works very well, but is a bit confusing for newbies.
> The free market crowd would argue that the surviving companies will bake in the right security if consumers demand it.

No, the free market crowd would recognize the cost of poor security for what it is, an externality. That fits into basic economic theory as something that the market won't naturally correct. No one will demand security if they're not the ones suffering from the lack of it.

Governments need to figure out some way to price in the externality. A good for instance would be to allow companies that don't take reasonable security measures to be held accountable for all damages caused, not just the portion attributable to their negligence. If Dyn had grounds to sue any device maker who, say, has a default password that isn't required to be changed during initialization before the device connects to the internet, then it would start to change things.

After enough of the fly-by-night device makers are hit with large judgments, it will start to become common practice to put every new device through security audits before introducing them into the market. Those reviews and the followup development will take time and cost money which will add to the final cost of the device, but make them safer.
I was about to comment on this and your take makes my point obsolete. Specifically I'd argue that this:

All you need is a training dataset for the targeted population's underlying views and beliefs.

is not as easy as it looks.
Not to pile onto nationalist sentiment but anything of this size is quite big for the British tech scene too. Heck European too. We don't have many unicorns on this side.
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Hard-wired terminals in secure rooms, airgapped from the internet and no external/portable devices allowed, enforced by there being no sockets, and if that fails, by Marines with rifles. It really is not difficult to make a system 100x securer than that one...
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Good points.

> But when riding a bike, they shield the eyes.

In my experience, they shield the eyes from sand and small debris, but they also tunnel the wind in from the top and bottom with more force, resulting in constantly flowing tears if going at any decent biking speed. I always hated riding with glasses because of that, especially as the tears would end up staining the glasses and making it harder to see.
> it's extremely hypocritical to cheat your way to success and then reprimand others for cheating.

Wouldn't this logic condemn all of US history [land theft, slavery, etc.]?

Note: I don't think it's wrong to do so I just wonder where you think it stops.
Would a tablet with the PDF on your desk be an acceptable compromise? That's what I tend to do. You can 'flip through' in iBooks by either using the text search, or just hopping over to the contents/notes/bookmarks. It can be pretty effective once you get used to it.

You could also pay a relatively small amount to get the PDFs printed and spiral-bound at a print shop. That solves your problem of free-flowing text, plus they lay flat, which is a godsend.
This type of breach of trust could be used to help educate people on what digital security really means, and to demand real security in all parts of their digital lives. It is also good to demand multiple layers of security.

Reddit is "https", and did that help here? No, in the sense that it only ensured the unaltered delivery of what Reddit was sending. It did nothing to preserve the integrity of comments that were originally written. This was not a “secure” web site for this case, yet many people would assume so due to the one layer of security that was present and prominently displayed in the browser! Now extend this to any given web site, and data that is far more important than a stupid comment. Real security is not trivial, and figuring out a good way to manage trusted parties is especially hard.
I've been browsing The_Donald lately out of curiosity, and it's like 99% memes based on news articles and links to news articles.

I see very little there that is objectionable, certainly nothing that seems worthy of shutting it down.

Certainly there is a lot of 'things to piss off people against trump', but how is that different from any other political site/sub?
Yeah, I think his point was that it's not sustainable for a company selling $20 webcams to get that sort of scrutiny.

The counterpoint is that, if the webcam is used in failure-critical situations, then it absolutely should be under that level of scrutiny. The problem is finding how you can define that operational scenario in law.
> Kalman filter

I hesitate to speculate but the book I read that talked of Kalman filters and two people I know who messed with them said they are opaque and tricky to get right[1]. Hard to understand what the filter constants mean, and buggy software implementations 'sort of work' then break.

[1] Convinced me to use something else.
I remember a history¹ about one that was tried. It just took down the university network where it was placed.

1 - I'm sure it is in one of my undergrad textbooks. In other words, no way I'll find it again.
We're not. Stupid things can go make their own websites. Reddit isn't a public service.

I'll start worrying if server hosts were doing this, but if Reddit doesn't want a reputation of "slightly better than 4chan", it should try cleaning up a bit.
if only there was a way to turn of notifications when a person says your name....

Ohh wait... there is.

http://imgur.com/a/wXsWU
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Why not ban it all? It's not like these people are contributing good content to the site.
I think Shadowban has an important role in spammers and (heavy) trolls. It should not be discarded

Free speech has a limit, unfortunately, because large groups can't police themselves. And then the trolls take over (either on the internet or outside, see Antifa)

> Do you want to visit an ecochamber of heavily censored topics and discussion?

No, but if you go to the_donald that's what you get. Or do you really think they don't censor certain discussions?

> Some how I have a feeling you would not hold the same opinion spez did this to a community you approve of, or on topic you approve of

The topic or community is irrelevant, because it was directed to a troll. A message like "F U $ADM" has no place in any subreddit
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It runs afoul of brigading due to the sheer scale.

If it managed to stay entirely within the subreddit then the admins would never need to be concerned with it and none of this would've happened.
So pretty much Facebook likes? People vote on what matches their worldview.
I'm not sure this particular example fits the "sarcastic" angle. I believe a more charitable interpretation is possible:

> HH: I’ve got two more questions. Last night, you said the President was the founder of ISIS. I know what you meant. You meant that he created the vacuum, he lost the peace.

You could infer from this that HH is trying to limit the President's culpability - a difference of "happened on my watch" vs "I am directly responsible".

> DT: No, I meant he’s the founder of ISIS. I do. He was the most valuable player. I give him the most valuable player award. I give her, too, by the way, Hillary Clinton.

Perhaps DT's objection is over the implication from HH's statement, rather than to be taken literally. He goes on to temper his statement - the President had a "very important role", etc. Outside of this context, DT's objection is not very coherent, but that's the nature of a (presumably) unscripted, antagonistic interview. Case in point, HH blunders in their retort:

> HH: But he’s not sympathetic to them. He hates them. He’s trying to kill them.

This objection is moving the goalposts. You can be a founder of something and hate it - the founder can be displaced, the "something" can change course, etc. You can tell HH is reading into what DT is saying - HH seems to think that DT is pushing a "the President is an ISIS sympathizer" narrative, which isn't at all indicated by DT's words, and he immediately disagrees:

> DT: I don’t care. He was the founder.

In thinking about this interview and how I just overanalyzed it, I reached a frustrating impasse. It would certainly be great if DT had the eloquence of Obama, and his statements were well-crafted and not so open to interpretation. On the other hand, relying too much on the eloquence of politicians leads you into a hole of "empty talk" - they say a lot of words, take no positions and after analyzing their response you realize it lacks any substance.

DT does not conform to the standard mold of a politician, so I think it's difficult to try and analyze him through it. He will eventually become President, and be forced to make decisions - actions are much easier to evaluate than words.
Most decent content on Reddit isn't from stuff like T_D, it's from local subreddits, community subreddits, fan subreddits and the like.

Just because these people are heavy users doesn't mean they're high value users. Clearly the opposite.
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Why? "Part I of V" is crystal-clear. It's the nineth part of a 22-part series, preceded by "Part H" and succeeded by "Part J". :)
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