skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So now, quitting your job (because you're asked to do something unethical) is the equivalent of losing your life and limbs?

It's an expression. How about "Losing your livelyhood." It's a real thing for some people.

> Let me guess, you believe all government actions are lawful. All lawful actions are righteous and justified. The only permissible way to change the system is through the system. Did I get the gist of your morality?

You're way off on my morality. It's more centered on not causing harm to others, which is what you're suggesting people do, to others that don't fit your sense of morality.

> In which case, keep voting and I'm sure you will see the changes you want reflected in legislation just so they can be ignored in by secret courts and intelligence services.
In the real world, people respond to threats (e.g prison). That's what the government uses. Why are we expected to behave differently?

Do you really think voting or threats are the only two methods to enact change? Neither work particularly well. What does work well is changing the opinion of the majority, and until you do that, you must question whether your minority opinion is actually the correct one, and provide reasons for others to change their opinion of you believe it to be so. Taking the low road and suggesting punishing people who aren't the cause will get you nothing but negative comments on hackernews.
I tried to schedule my wedding for the Saturday before the (Monday) eclipse in my GF's rural Idaho hometown so that my science friends would have a reason to make the 800 mile trip from Seattle. Unfortunately, all hotels in the path of totality have been sold out for months. ALL OF THEM. AirBNBs in an area of Idaho with 3bdrms renting for $650/m are going for $1000/night.
Where do new gTLDs stand on trademark issue?
Since trademark is country specific, and new generic TLDs are not, how shall I consider trademark while looking for a domain name? Is there any clear legal stand on this?

For example- wifi is registered at USPTO and in many other countries. So, perhaps, choosing wifi.us or wifi.com won't be a good idea. But, what about wifi.shop, or wifi.tech, or wifi.club?
3 Part Essay on Small Space Business
It's hard to prove anything without some type of escrow service. It'd be cool if eBay offered such a service for an additional fee.
All others are bad, though right turn on red light is legal after stop.
The 10 Biggest AWS Stories of 2016
It takes more time than a leaf blower. Especially around shrubs and hardscape. There’s a reason professional gardeners use leaf blowers after all, even though they’re way more expensive than a rake and require more maintenance.
Never trust the client.
I was curious what that meant with "even if the server is malicious." Turns out, in short, the Mylar paper creates a distinction between the "web site owner," and "the server operator."

It shouldn't need to be stated, but not all people believe that is always an important distinction.

Mylar places complete trust in the application developer, whereas an important aspect of other security software is that you don't need to trust the developer: if one version of the software is audited, you can stay on that version; or the other can be examined.

Mylar doesn't make the web any less of an ephemeral and invisible black-box execution environment, where code goes in and vanishes without earlier proof of existence.

It sounds like I'm panning it, but really I think the idea is sound: It makes the lives of non-affiliated/non-government attackers more difficult. I'd use it with my bank website. Just not for highly sensitive communications.
Haha that's great! Extra reading material when pewping.
You should use stripe checkout
Rowing should only be done with a very good coach. Source: Girlfriend has two bulging discs in her back due to a bad coach of her freshman year rowing team.
Satellite images show China put up weapons on Artificial Islands: US think thank
While I do think the concept of community ostracision is impractical (because there is never only one tech community to start with) - "I just followed the law" is never a moral free pass. Given that what law means actually is daily debated in courtrooms it's not only morally hollow, it's uncomputable to an individual in the general sense.

"I just did what the authority figure told me to" is one the oldest excuses in the book.
If this electric car has an interior that is on par with, or better than, the low end BMW/Audi/Merc models (3series/A4/C) then I am very, very interested.

Setting aside the design aesthetic of the tesla, which is minimal and modern, the actual quality and finish of the tesla is stupefying. It's unbelievably bad. I sat in a mazda recently that was much better by every measure.
Netflix and HBO launch virtual reality apps on Google Play
> You could be impeding the investigation into a deadly plot.

We have warrants for that. Subpoena Yahoo for specific records. I'm not willing to trade the freedom of an entire country for a single investigation. This isn't an episode of 24 and there is no Jack Bauer.

The fourth amendment was sold as follows:

> The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

I'm not a constitutional lawyer. I'm sure the actual amendment can be interpreted to mean whatever George W and Co want it to mean. But that's not how it was sold, and this government is not legitimate as far as I'm concerned. Not as long as it runs dragnet surveillance over the American people. Snowden is a patriot and the U.S gov't is betraying the public.
Godbolt: Enter C, get Assembly
Sort of stupid to price it out there like that then. To me it just seems a cheap way to mess with the lowend market. Try to get some of those people using AWS, so you can hook them into your expensive offerings.
Shame on Silicon Valley for Climbing the Tower in Silence
Tor at the Heart: Tor Messenger
Meet the Women in GovTech 2016
The comments are full of opinions. It would be interesting to know experience of anyone who has moved to Bay area, have family and does not have double income :).
Australian ISPs required to block pirate sites
>messing with its AS-adjacency topology in non-free ways at OSI layers 1-3

Can you please explain how this works? I would like to understand.
Thank goodness I decided to bite the bullet last week and make the jump to v2. Upgrade took a while but was rather painless thanks to the great migration guide on the new documentation site.

If you are using a ton of loaders that aren't v2 ready you may have a more painful experience, you'll have to get familiar with the LoaderOptionsPlugin.

If you're newish to webpack it could be a frustrating experience.

Shout out to the webpack team though, It's an impressive tool.
Whether Uber or any other company does this doesn't change my premise. Uber is just like others further baking the problem and encouraging people to treat 100% as the status quo which means we have nothing to look forward to. I enjoy being pleasantly surprised when service is above average.

Its the same problem with the game industry has with reviews. If I were to market a game as "so and so" gave it 7/10 no one would care but if I say 9/10, 9.9/10 or better yet 10/10 than we have a marketing headline.

I wish more people would understand this.
No domain left behind: is Let's Encrypt democratizing encryption?
It doesn't matter how many laws you follow. It matters how many you break.
Or you could encrypt it to tape and get bitten by an HPE firmware bug:

http://h20564.www2.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docId=emr...
You talk to your boss. Your boss talks to the NSA. The NSA will find a way to silence the white-hat. Problem solved.

Philosophical dilemmas are fun to talk about, but only as long as you take the premises as granted. People who carry swords tend not to waste time trying to disentangle knots that they can simply cut in half. Most "technical" solutions to "human" problems suffer this vulnerability.
Why do you phrase this in a way that implies that is my problem? That is a mechanism Uber created because of the problem I originally called out.

If we didn't have this rating problem, 4.5 threshold would probably be much closer to the 50%.
I'm not sure the capital punishment part is a good comparison... It's because north american governments are squeamish about solutions that look brutal but efficient. I'm sure that if a state wanted to implement capital punishment via firing squad and advertised for death penalty proponent rifle marksmen they would have no lack of candidates.
Yes, but if you charitably take the point as being that sellers should assume it is certainly a scam, then it holds.
I stopped using eBay in 2003 when I had aweful service with PayPal. It's sad. eBay could have been Amazon. It had so much going for it--too good to fail--unfortunately poor leadership wronged the ship.
"We analyzed this data with the assistance of outside forensic experts and found that it appears to be Yahoo user data"

How the forensic experts could have analysed? based on the log data? my another question is, just assume if yahoo is trying to dump the experts, can it be possible? or else, still the experts be experts to make sense out of it?
That was the point I decided I didn't want to sell things on ebay. Honestly, just about any person-to-person service that only lets one side review the other ends up being a crappy experience for the person who can't write a review or easily see feedback. Case in point: fiverr. Everyone I know who offered services on it ended up quitting due to buyers constantly holding star ratings over sellers heads to get additional free services and discounts. If you don't have a near-perfect rating, no one will use you. Tons of buyers take advantage of that to the point that you work for less than minimum wage if you do stuff like voice-over.
Here is a list of books that I have found most useful in my daily routine, both as a Linux systems administrator at work, and more generally as a human being learning to deal with other people.
As always, I welcome correspondence with anyone about these texts or related topics: mitchelldeacon9@gmail.com

PSYCHOLOGY / SALES / MARKETING

Berne, Eric (1964) Games People Play

Carnegie, Dale (1981) How to Win Friends and Influence People, revised ed.

Cialdini, Robert (2006) Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, revised ed.

Covey, Stephen (1989) Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

Ekman, Paul (2007) Emotions Revealed: Recognizing Faces and Feelings to Improve Communication and Emotional Life

Gray, John (1992) Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus

Greene, Robert (1998) 48 Laws of Power

Kahneman, Daniel (2011) Thinking, Fast and Slow

Munger, Charles (1995) 'Psychology of Human Misjudgment', speech at Harvard, unpublished

Packard, Vance (1957) Hidden Persuaders

Patterson et al. (2012) Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High, 2E

Sun Tzu (ca. 400 BCE) Art of War

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY / STATISTICS

Bowden, Mark (2011) Worm: First Digital World War

Brooks, Frederick (1995) Mythical Man-Month, 2E

Hunt, Andrew and David Thomas (1999) Pragmatic Programmer

Levy, Steven (2001) Crypto: How Code Rebels Beat the Government – Saving Privacy in the Digital Age

MacCormick, John (2012) Nine Algorithms that Changed the Future

Mitnick, Kevin and William Simon (2002) Art of Deception

Poulsen, Kevin (2011) Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cyber-Crime Underworld

Raymond, Eric (2003) Art of Unix Programming

Taleb, Nassim Nicholas (2005) Fooled by Randomness, 2E

_________ (2010) Black Swan: Impact of the Highly Improbable, 2E

Torvalds, Linus and David Diamond (2001) Just for Fun: Story of an Accidental Revolutionary

Williams, Sam (2002) Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software
Look like this is the best option so far. I'll need to write my own "cart" in Javascript to display in the sidebar, but the fees are low and the checkout modal is simple.
I didn't assume zero credentialed medical professionals are involved in the company. The article clearly states you have 12 nurse practitioners serving your 19,000 members. I looked at your website too and saw some of the other clinical operations roles.

I also didn't assume random engineers are making care decisions. I said this is ambiguous and I asked a question: What is that suggesting process and who is involved?

The article says you are "developing software to organize the trove of data coming from workers on the ground in New Jersey, mine it for likely health problems and suggest ways to prevent them before they happen." Your website says "we’re also partners in care, using patient-centered analytics and a dedicated care management team to identify potential risks and directly provide preventive care."

Well nurses generally don't know much about data science software and data scientists generally don't know much about practicing medicine or preventive care.

And of course you are not a tech-led company. You are a marketing company and government contracted middle man connecting health care services to patients and handling some of their paperwork and payments. Still this is an industry entirely living off regulatory capture.

I'm not accusing you of denying someone's valid insurance claims because they didn't take your eat brown rice suggestion.

But you yourself claim to be an insurer "trying to change the statistics". I get the preventive care and data science shtick looks good when marketing to potential members and to potential investors. But it's not clear how you are taking on the "change the statistics" part you claim to be, which is the most interesting and important part of all this to the extent it is real as improving peoples' health and wellness, and preventing serious health problems would be amazing!

So I asked a question about how the process works and who is involved as getting data and actionable data analyses to and from health care professionals in the field is not straightforward, nor is it trivial, nor is it explained anywhere.
Is this english?
I'm not so sure of that. For example, it's not clear that Congress has the authority to create NSLs, a sort of not-a-warrant. It's not clear that they can issue gag orders like this. Even if they could do these things with warrants, they're not---and that matters.

The judiciary is not meaningfully overseeing the parts of the state where law enforcement and national security intelligence mix. The FISC is a great example: it pisses off the agents and attorneys who have to deal with it, because it imposes an unholy amount of drag: they're trying to do their jobs, catch bad guys, etc.---and a FISC submission takes weeks of full-time work. But the FISC only exercises drag, not control. It can't steer---we see this because it never refuses a request. I suspect that's all one-sided proceedings can do, given the way we train our lawyers and judges. So it fails the needs of the citizens, and it doesn't protect liberty.

The FISC, and NSLs, will someday be looked at with the same light as Adams' Alien & Sedition Acts: as fundamental betrayals of the American promise by an executive too scared of what might go wrong to trust the country to go right.

Look, there's a lay assault on their legal and democratic authority: NSLs are not obviously a legitimate exercise of Federal authority. And for all that, if I were at the FBI and chasing a terrorist cell on American soil, I'd use one in an instant.
That sounds smart! It would take a stern constitution to cope with such frequent changes, but it sounds like a decent way of diversifying if you can stick to the strategy.
In about a month, I don't think this is going to matter anymore. I heard somewhere that Trump plans on relaxing all these regulations anyways.
Damn! And I was just thinking about looking for a spot in Yellowstone or Jackson for that day :(
Hot exit is finally here. I missed this feature when I moved from SublimeText. And very useful on desktops
Imagine the poor Google koala car in the streets around Union Square...
Presume there's a multiple choice with two decent answers. A "rebellious" person would see the merit in both and essentially coin toss. A conformist would mimic what the professor sees and pick his right one.

The rebellious person did a deeper, objective, thoughtful analysis but did worse than the obedient mimic.

Often it's a D student who knows the material the best, has the most passion for the subject, is the smartest in the class, and puts the most work in. I saw it all the time while I was TAing.
example: all ISPs in Iran are required by law to be downstream of the single government run ASN, which controls all paths for data in and out of the country: https://www.google.com/search?q=DCI+iran+ASN&ie=utf-8&oe=utf...

example: the turkish government orders ISPs to null route IP blocks of things they disagree with (occasionally all of youtube).
Wait, according to this,

"""
Based on further analysis of this data by the forensic experts, we believe an unauthorized third party, in August 2013, stole data associated with more than one billion user accounts. We have not been able to identify the intrusion associated with this theft. We believe this incident is likely distinct from the incident we disclosed on September 22, 2016.
"""

this incident occurred in 2013 and 2016, or they needed three year to figure this hack out. How is this possible?
The UK is the same as the US in this respect. Something I'd taken for granted until now.
If you want to see what TLA+ specifications of distributed systems look like, there's this lecture series, each on a different distributed algorithm: https://github.com/tlaplus/DrTLAPlus

The kind of bugs you find when verifying distributed systems is, if this machine was in that state and that message was in transit, and then the other machine failed, then data was lost".

Basically, because formal verification of this kind ensures the specification is correct, it will find any kind of bug there is. But it's those bugs that are either a result of a severe flaw in the design, or bugs that would be hard to find in testing but their results may be serious, that make this worthwhile.
Even for home pricing comparison is not apple-to-apples. In Seattle, you can still buy descent house in 10-rated school area for $500k. In Bay area you can probably buy house with 30% more money but it would be no where close to what you can in Seattle area.
Internet companies forced to block Pirate Bay, BitTorrent websites in Australia
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Dear engineers: Please build friendly robots; IEEE pushes for ethics in AI
I just left Seattle a year ago, be careful about confusing Seattle Metro with Seattle. Seattle is surrounded by water and its mass transit system is nascent, so it's pretty hard to live too far outside the city to take advantage of the cheaper real estate.

Seattle city proper prices are getting ridiculous and I suspect they will catch up with the Bay Area quite quickly and maybe even surpass it.

Seattle doesn't come close to the level of tech/economic output that the Bay does, but the output is more geographically dense. Amazon is, effectively in downtown Seattle. The most far flung tech outlier is Microsoft a mere 20 miles away. Expedia moved all of its staff from Bellevue to downtown. I would venture to put median home prices closer to 600k than the 450k reportedly here.
> when the true purpose is to identify blockers and dependencies before they become problems.

I don't see why we need daily stand ups for this either. What's the point of saying "everything's going fine" every meeting?
i got smartomi boot. it is cheaper alternative for the apple airpods i buy with a discount code at cnet https://www.cnet.com/news/get-a-pair-of-waterproof-wire-free...
Charting Mergers and Acquisitions by the Big Five Companies in Tech
What engineering program doesn't require ethics as a standard freshmen engineering introduction?
That is such an apples to oranges comparison.
I wondered if it would even be worth considering. I'm glad this comparison is out there; I'll stick with Vultr for VPS, and my own bare metal when I need more power/storage.
Whether or not the company is doing everything they can to resist the order, I think that NSL's are always accompanied by a clear communication channel between a company's counsel and the agency.

So, after someone under the gag realizes the situation, they get the company's lawyers in contact with the agency to see what to do. The agency would then gag the white hat.

IMO, that's a huge part of why NSL's are scary. You are in an absolute strangle-hold and are at the mercy of the agency for your every move.

If I remember correctly, people even had to argue for the ability to talk to a lawyer about receiving an NSL. So, the feds are really not messing around here and will do absolutely everything to ruin you if you don't cooperate fully. Any perceived resistance is crushed.
Even worse though, is that these sorts of courses are almost always derided by the majority of the student base as a waste of time, and "common sense stuff".

I actually really enjoyed the one I did, although it had just gone through a major rewrite to improve it a lot. And yet, I don't think I ever heard any of my peers mention the course with anything but contempt.
The Washington Post published an interesting take on manufacturing in America: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/manufacturi...
> Download the Xcode 7.3.1 release.

The app requires a different version.

https://github.com/kickstarter/ios-oss/blob/master/README.md

I concede. There are issues getting the dev environment configured.
I regularly dream about being involved in the creation of a project that lasts this long. News groups, IRC, etc. I would love to look back on my career and think that I contributed to something that user's would simply not let die. The feels to be a creator of something of that magnitude has to change a person.