skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There must be more to this story than given here.

How can distributing keylogger software be illegal? Keylogger apps have been widely available from legitimate sources for years. I have a highly respected app called 'Type Machine'[1] installed on my Android devices at the minute, which is essentially a keylogger.

I suspect this person is being targeted for selling a keylogger by specifically promoting it for illegal use, rather than just for selling a keylogger per se.

Simple tip, kids. Always promote your product as having a legitimate use. The underworld is perfectly capable of working out the nefarious uses for itself!

[1] https://rojekti.fi/typemachine/
I read:

"Preston told CBS News that months after leaving the jungle, he noticed a bug bite that simply wouldn’t go away. And so did half his team members. Eventually, the National Institutes of Health diagnosed them with Leishmaniasis — a rare parasitic disease — and the team was forced to undergo treatment"

So I looked at wikipedia, and the article [1] there says:

"About 12 million people are currently infected in some 98 countries. About 2 million new cases and between 20 and 50 thousand deaths occur each year. About 200 million people in Asia, Africa, South and Central America, and southern Europe live in areas where the disease is common."

Not unusual indeed.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leishmaniasis
It is true that many traffic cameras, depending upon the vendor, technology the camera uses and supporting infrastructure, may or may not produce the actual cause of violation. This is the reason why many cities have multiple level of validation from authorized officiers.
The article title gives out a negative vibe.
AMD has a marketing team and the team so far is doing good work. #savedyouaclick.
Two terms you should look up: "sesame credit" and "songbun".
i cant see myself with vr.
here is great video explaining the importance of 5th amendment rights: https://youtu.be/L-WlZ7Sa0SQ

there's also a longer 2-part video of the entire talk including a complementary perspective from the police POV. look in the related videos/sidebar.
Well it depends on the evidence, right? I'd imagine that the FSB has reasonable OpSec, and APT28 too.
Your scenario seems a bit off. I imagine that if your kids did something stupid they should admit it - or they lose access to the car, period.

'A year old' case seems unlikely as well. I don't know about the UK laws, but over here most (all?) traffic violations expire after 3 month. There's no way to receive questions about a speeding ticket in the distant past..
I've little to add to this, other than the point that the UK's IP Act allows GCHQ (and other UK government agencies) to abuse this issue individually or en-masse against anyone, anywhere, more or less at will.

That's the world we're in now. I respectfully disagree with Moxie's point about key verification. I think the point you raise about easy-to-imagine-scenarios would've been laughed away years ago, but is not only realistic, but also distinctly possible now.

Whatsapp told the original reporter that they had no plans to fix the issue. The question is that in light of mass spying by the intelligence services, what else will Whatsapp not fix?
I take it you haven't actually used the tool that was mentioned in the comment you replied to, namely git-svn? My use of svn to interface with projects using Subversion has essentially entirely been replaced by git-svn, and I can say it is essentially
impossible for someone who has used it to not realize that at least offline now works like git. Taking a step back: at some point what you run on the server is just a storage format; unless you used some of the more advanced Subversion features (at which point you might actually like using it), it generally maps pretty directly to git semantics, at which point essentially all other functionality differences are mere porcelain.
Just because more people cite it does not necessarily mean that its correct.
Why should the government of one country pick the business model Microsoft must use on their games console? For a country that seems to bleat "freedom" like a trademark, that's pretty authoritarian.
Mathematical Model Reveals the Patterns of How Innovations Arise
The article is spot on in what is essentially the main performance indicators: price, and the price/performance ratio.

Ryzen's performance means close to nothing if its priced out of the market. Nowadays, most computational needs are already well met and even surpassed by what's on the market for the past, say, half a dozen years. AMD's newest product may blow Intel's offerings out of the water, but that means close to nothing as they already outperformed the market's needs. In a world where the main incentive to increase performance is laid squarely on e-penis bragging rights, either the price makes sense or it's yet another nice-to-have-but-don't-bother offering.
I wouldn't have thought having an over-abundance of user data needing storage would have been a problem for Google+.

Can this algorithm compress tumbleweed too?
I love this. I love it partly because I could never imagine this happening in the UK. The UK doesn't have a constitution. And I could imagine this getting shut down pretty quickly.

I hope this kind of attitude persists in the US. It's one of the things that continues to give me hope for western style democracy.
I think that's one thing that's different vs the US. It's not the car being charged but an individual. That's the article's point that in the US they can't arbitrarily decide that someone was responsible for a crime like that, it's a direct violation of our requirement of due process and other proceedings.
Could you succinctly outline the case for pardoning Chelsea? My simplistic overview is that she leaked a bunch of somewhat interesting confidential information because she was pissed off with the people she was serving with. Sucks she's being made an example of, but that's presumably why these punitive sentences exist?

I see this as being in contrast with Snowden, whose revelations have (perhaps) led to politicians prioritising oversight of surveillance, and whose actions claimed to be motivated by an attempt to protect citizens' rights.
Dynamics on expanding spaces: modeling the emergence of novelties - Vittorio Loreto, Vito D. P. Servedio, Steven H. Strogatz, Francesca Tria (2017)

https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.00994
That's not what the article says. At all.

The article says that although Ryzen does outperform Intel's offerings, the deal breaker will be its price. If it's too expensive, it won't sell well. If it's just the right price, it will be an overnight success.

In short, platitudes.
Take the ban of any JIT alike executable - Java, Javascript engines, virtually any web rendered.
That is basically how 2FA works with Apple devices. You use an old device to approve new ones. Sure, if you lose your cloud account, laptop and phone all at once you'll need to start from scratch. But under normal circumstances it reduces the amount of blind trust.
I'm not sure there's as strong a correlation between current opinion of a public figure, and the degree to which their death becomes a cause célèbre.
No. The security of WhatsApp is not dependent on it being closed source.
If you get cancer, chances are you get treatment and die.

I've been through chemo and radiation once, if I ever am told I need to do it again, to scrape and cling to another few months of life, I'm going to laugh in their faces, put my affairs in order, go on a hell of a vacation, and Old Yeller myself.
"Security researcher" on MacOS using time machine for backup. Pff. Every backup it wants to back up a 40gig file. Bahahahah.

Linux, btrfs, snapnots nooob!
The community contribution concepts in git are great, but it is confusing to then mention GitHub: their modus operandi is to provide tooling to make things easier that are only hard if you insist on misusing git as if it were Subversion (by for example having a single centralized repository with multiple committers, requiring complex and annoying access control and public key management). If someone had built tooling like GitHub around Subversion and then encouraged use of svk (note the "k"; this was a replacement client for Subversion that supported offline operation and had better merging support, but which worked with any svn server), things would have felt much more reasonable before; the irony is that if you follow the actual git workflow used by Linus for Linux (where everyone has their own repository, rather than at best their own branch and at worst trying to share master), you shouldn't even need any of that for git :/.
Its really cool to see people say this hear without the immense backlash im used to bassically everywhere else on the internet. Its not what i expected at all.
BITCOIN GOES TO WASHINGTON – TRUMP MAY HIRE MORE DIGITAL CURRENCY LEADERS
"they are fallible people, no more or less honest or prone to error than journalists."

As people perhaps, but there's a big difference in how prone to error someone is when speaking within their area of expertise than when speaking outside of that area.

The problem with most journalists is that they're required to write on many different subjects, write for an audience whose only exposure to the subject will be a few thousand word article, and write all of this on a deadline that is sometimes just a few hours or days. You can't really understand a subject under those constraints, and it's inevitable that misconceptions will creep in.
This is speculation, also outside US prices tend not to end at .99.
I didn't make these assumptions at all.

I born in a small provincial town in a poor third world country.
There was literally no social support of doing programming because vast majority of people had absolutely no idea what it is (in 90s).
I was doing programming completely alone!

To start coding you need: open a book, download compiler/interpreter, write a code snippet from the book, run the code.

To start competing in algorithm competitions: register by entering your email, read a problem statement, write a program, submit your program.

To start contributing to open source: download software, hack it, send a patch to a mailing list.

That's it, no social interactions involved. Yet I still don't see much of women among programming hobbyists.

I have no idea why women are not interested in CS. They just don't.

To any female feminist I prepared an answer - open a text editor, write a code, run it, repeat.

And please, don't talk about discrimination, I was rejected many times based on my lack of degree, lack of experience (when I just started), on my citizenship (when I started looking for a job abroad), on my bad Engish and many other reasons I don't know. And still, I managed to find a job in 4 countries with completely different cultures (UZ, RU, SE, NL).

P.S. I have different background and born in mixed family. You can't just fit me into your typical western political classes - left, right.
Why do you doubt this?
>> Imagine you've got a knife, you lend it to somebody for some legit use, and that person commits an homicide using it. Are you a killer?

Swap the knife with a gun. You're probably an accessory to murder. Why do you hand out your killing utensil to someone else? It's just senseless. Same with your car. It is your car. Hand it to someone else and frankly yes, I blame you for their behavior while using it. At a minimum, I expect you to have knowledge of who is in possession of your vehicle, and that you be willing to offer up their identity in place of your own when they break the law. I have never handed my car to anyone else. I don't understand people who do.

I am sensible enough to agree that it's quite far from the same degree of severity (car vs. gun). But the excuse of "it wasn't me driving my car!" is a copout, and exactly that - an excuse, designed to shove the blame on someone else. Well, someone other than the perpetrator - "it was an unknown person driving my car, even though my car wasn't stolen!".

The worst part is, you know who sped with your car. If you knowingly provided your gun to an acquaintance and they killed someone, would your conscience really be comfortable claiming "I didn't commit the murder... and I know who did it, but I won't tell on them!". Come on now. People only rationalize this because they think that speeding is "normal" and not "a real crime". They know the law has been broken, but because they personally believe it to be a minor "everyman" offense, they make excuses to justify the situation.

tldr; Either you, or the person you allowed to drive your car, broke the law. Grow up and pay the damn ticket. You're not a genius for nitpicking over "it wasn't me and you can't prove that I didn't know who was driving my non-stolen car!" - when clearly you or someone you have authorized to drive your vehicle is at fault.
Can you provide details on what type of computing environment will be used in the course? Will it be based on something like Jupyter notebooks, GPUs on AWS, for example?

And will be there be some type of discussion forum, like the one in the other popular deep learning course fast.ai?
The point is that in society the ratio of men to women is 50/50. I'd also argue achieving that is a reasonable aim in female-dominated jobs, such as some teaching jobs.
The origins and future of AI at Facebook
Blockstack, a startup, lets you control your own personal data
This may not be quite the case, see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoburn_v_Sunderland_City_Co... .
Being able to focus sight on far or on nearby object at will is also a simple problem and already solved in VR? (I honestly have no idea).
Until it is solved there is no R in VR.
Guess what happens when "cash is dead" ?
Long live the cash!

We need more competitors in the business of issuing money; What are they going to do about all the gold coins ?
I don't understand the connection you're drawing between the 5th amendment and inquisitorial systems (which I understand to be jusics systems which do not separate the judgers of law (neutral) from fact gatherers (prosecutor)). The original comment above was about the no-self-incrination clause, and now you seem to say there's a tension with the grand juries clause. But I can't see how either conflicts with an iquisiorial system in principle (even if inquisitorial systems generally don't have grand juries in practice). Could you explain?
Could you explain for the benefit of non-americans how Hispanics aren't white?
He was rich from reddit and would have had to lose all his money fighting the case...and he still might have ended up in a cage for years...Seems like pretty bad treatment over scraping academic PDFs.

The response was entirely unwarranted. Violating a website's terms of service should not cost anyone their life savings or years in federal prison. A slap on the wrist? Sure...but they treated him like a "cyber terrorist" and tried to make an example of the softest possible kind of "criminal".

If the PDF website doesn't have anti-crawling technology then that's their fault. He didn't do anything more than stick a laptop on MIT's network and crawl the content. Any student might have done the same...should they have their life ruined?
Absolutely disgusting. Abusing a "feel-good" impulse to get people hooked on cashless payments.

I've said it before (and was naturally downvoted), but The Netherlands is devolving into a totalitarian society -- not Orwellian, but Huxley-style.
Since I temporarily have HN's attention with this side blog of mine, can I suggest one simple tweak:

Please, please, if your site requires AJAX to work at all, then retry failed AJAX queries. Use exponential backoff or whatever but don't let the AJAX query fail once and the page be unusable.

This happens all the freaking time when I'm on dialup, and there's nothing more annoying than having filled out a form or series of forms only to have the submit button break because it used AJAX to do a sanity check and threw an exception because the server timed out after some absurdly short (dialup-wise) period of time while the client was sending the request.
Well, I was hired all the time just because of my pure programming skills. That's because I have zero soft-skills :)

P.S. HackerRank and Codility are doing great job to improve blind non-CV based hiring.
I love this quote from the article: "Viruses outnumber prokaryotes by ten to one and are said to kill half of the world's bacteria every two days."
It wasn't looked at, because no one paid a bounty for it. And they stated as reason for that, that Firefox simply didn't have any major architectural changes since the last pwn2own, i.e. they probably wouldn't find anything new.
If they had expected to find many vulnerabilities, then it would make more sense to target it, as the whole point of these events is to find vulnerabilities, so that they can be fixed.
why do you even need to stream more than a single movie at a time?

I upgraded from 16mbit/s to 50mbit a couple years ago and didn't really notice the difference. Now I could get 400mbit but didn't bother.
A top British cop wants to fit teenage hackers with wearable Wi-Fi jammers
I put myself in the shoes of a homeless person for a few minutes while looking at that site for Richmond. They require you to bring both "Proof of homelessness" and "Proof of residence". I don't know what the first one might be, and the second seems to contradict the first (unless "residence" == "right to remain in the UK"?). In any case, I think i'm ill-equipped to be a homeless person, and looking outside at the snow falling I'm appreciating how lucky I am that this isn't an issue I have to deal with right now. Just remembered a local bar/restaurant lets you pay a little extra on top of your bill to fund a dinner for the homeless, I'm making a note to do that next time I'm in.

Note: the first part wasn't a criticism of the site, just a little bit of reflection. I'm actually impressed they have such some sort of information/guidance available
RocksDB 5.0.1 Released
Most homeless people are insane (i.e. suffering from an intense mental illness). This comes up on HN all the time -- for these people, the only hope is immediate, thorough medical care (involuntary if need be).

For the non-mental-ill homeless...

Why give them money? Serious replies please.

One becomes homeless because one cannot manage money effectively. IMO it's cruel to just give a homeless person a money -- they're going to spend it unwisely again. It's better to provide the essentials (food, water, shelter, basic healthcare, hygiene) then money.

The transition out of homelessness requires a re-learning responsibility. Our solutions to dealing with homeless people should focus on the fact that, fundamentally, homeless people fail in our society. We have to re-educate them so that they are productive and serve as a net positive for society.
McDonald's buys soda and resells it to customers. Apple does not buy apps and resell them to customers.

The current situation in the iOS ecosystem would be more like McDonald's forbidding you from bringing your own beverages into their restaurants, even if they don't sell the same beverage (or even a competitor of one they do sell) and you plan to buy their food.

Of course, restaurants can and do frown upon or even outright forbid the above behavior, but they also don't charge multiple hundreds of dollars for you to walk through the door.
PG Phriday: Why Postgres
Are SSD better per Watt ? I used to see no difference for laptops models in the past years. I didn't check recently though (non sata devices etc).
This is nonsensical. I have to pay that extra tax NOW. That's real money that I have to pay out. An extra 30% on something I nominally own? That's not real. I can't pay the taxes with that. What should I do to get that extra 30%? Take out an extra mortgage on that alleged increase in house value? Sell it and move to a worse house in a worse neighbourhood, somewhere I don't really want to live that I can still afford the taxes?

I bought a house that I wanted to live in, that I could afford the taxes on, and now I can't afford the taxes through no fault of my own. There is no solace to be taken in the fact that if I sold it, I might get 30% more than I paid. I don't want the money. If I wanted the money, I wouldn't have bought the house to live in, in the first place. I want what I bought two years ago; the house I could afford to live in. 30% increase in alleged value is of no use to me, and it's costing me money.
RAM cached profile, dns proxy, makes for really smoother browsing on older machines.
But these cost-control provisions haven't produced significant reduction in cost, according to my premium & deductible.
> the government is picking up the lion's share of the tab

Oh yeah? Where do they get their money from?
Still used, but I'd rather go with pure flexbox + lightweight UI libs (for buttons, etc).

Once you learn it, you can also use it to layout native mobile apps with react-native, or hybrid with ionic...

https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/flexbox.html
Maybe they just don't like CS or STEM fields in general? There's something called the Norwegian Gender Paradox. A Norwegian comedian made a documentary about it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hjernevask.

There are 7 episodes but here is some of it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5LRdW8xw70

Bascially, Norway is/was the most gender equal country in the world according to some index, yet the gender disparity in jobs is still very high. Apparently, the more advanced and gender equal a country is, the greater the disparity. The host of the documentary goes and finds some real scientists and they agree that biology plays a role.

Are we actually going to do further research even if the result is uncomfortable? If we find that biological differences are pushing girls to play with dolls and boys to play with trucks, are we going to stop pushing women to go into STEM fields?
Some households contain more than one person.
SD card failures

I'd love someone knowledgeable to explain why this happens. According to general opinion on the RPi forums, it's because SD card manufacturers cheap out all the time.

I'd have something like a dozen SD cards running things like cameras over the years, and probably a hundred booting ESXi servers. And I've never seen a failure.

Across three RPis, I've bought about seven SD cards, and from everything RPi users tell me, that's a totally normal failure rate.

Edit: In regards to cheap whiteboxes, no such options allow access to GPIO ports. I've learn plenty of interesting things about soldering circuits by having these, without considering the Pi a PC learning tool.
Microsoft owns Yammer and has recently merged it into Office 365. I think the broader goal is to be the Enterprisy version of Slack, Trello, Google Docs (or other), etc. and to merge them into a single platform that they can lease as SaaS.
SSTable and Log Structured Storage: LevelDB (2012)
"But to state that 'Apple's monopoly' has driven the price of software up is to be laughably out of touch with reality."

I reckon the rationale here is twofold:

* The currently-mandatory 30% fee would now be optional, as would be the flat developer fee (if it still exists; I haven't really looked into it in a long time)

* The availability of additional stores means the availability of different apps that might not be available on Apple's store, thus increasing competition and driving down prices through more typical supply/demand curves.
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Alcoholism requires some sort of emotional trauma or personality disorder to be present in order to manifest itself. Alcoholics are self-medicating for mental issues that could be solved by therapy or other interventions. The availability of alcohol and other drugs is not the driving factor behind addiction.
HttpComponents Core 4.4.6 GA released