skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Consider Uber's "Greyball" program. This attempted to identify people (read: government officials) who would use Uber in order to document how it worked for purposes of determining if it complied with local laws, and ensure they couldn't get a ride and thus couldn't collect evidence of Uber breaking the law.

They said that was really a program to deal with people violating their terms of service. So one would think, given Uber's demonstrated commitment to enforcing its own terms, they'd have the utmost respect for competitors' terms. Of course, if they violate competitors' terms to gain an advantage, then we know where they really stand and what their own standards are (i.e., no standards other than "anything that gets us ahead is good").
The point is that focusing more on female (and older) engineers may be a way to pick up talent that is traditionally missed by bigger companies. I agree though that no real measure of the success of this is provided in the article.
No, it works both ways. Ive personally been in the room where my VP and ~2 others favor product/feature A. The other ~6 people favor product/feature B. Everyone reports in to the VPs org. A round of discussion and it ends with "Ok, I dont understand/agree with points B.1 B.2 & B.3 but the room is clear. Lets move ahead with B, and make sure to follow up on answering those points early."

Much more commonly it's applied in the context of group decision making. Imagine Alice presents design Alpha for implementing a sprint story. Bob asks some pertinent questions, outlines an alternative, Bravo, and explains his reasoning. A round of discussion with Carol and Dan commences. Whether the group decides on Alph or Bravo doesnt really matter. Everyone has had the opportunity to ask, and answer, relevant questions. Everyone (hopefully) has greater context and understanding of the context, risks, and intended outcome. Everyone, including both Alice and Bob, is expected to stick with the decision and move forward with that single implementation.

When IC's play "I told you so" theyre poisoning team morale and disincentivizing others from speaking up. When managers resort to "just do it" they're fundamentally failing to communicate context the team lacks, or failing to understand the knowledge they're missing. Neither is an acceptable pattern.

PS: six years at amazon as an IC
Well you said it.

There is a reason IoT is not secured. It's hard to make thousands of connected devices with little system resource but connected on foreign networks in heterogeneous context secure.
Or they're being smart with PR: they issue a statement saying this is concerning, but not too strongly worded, and let the general coverage and zeitgeist say all the things they'd like to say, but without anyone being able to pin those statements on them later.
Careful.

For sure, Science, unlike dogma, prides itself on changing belief in the face of conflicting evidence.

In theory, anyway.

In practice, I have a PhD in Computer Science and Geography.

Do I understand climate models? No, they're not my field.

Do I have the time to verify them? Certainly not.

How do I know then that the field of climate science is getting it right? I have to trust the institutional process, which as Kuhn points out is far from perfect.

If they're getting it wrong, it's not likely to be me that figures it out, so for the time being the rational course of action is to accept the consensus of experts.

tldr; belief in science.

Though cynically speaking you're right, people who trot out that phrase usually don't understand the above.
She lived to be 103 and has Alzheimer's. Does it matter? Plus, at that age and frailty, lots of things could have killed her that a younger person would survive.
Upvoted because I would love an answer to this as well. An associate in the phone-cracking hobby has mentioned to me that _no_ Android phone is malware-free. They have cracks and methods for phones and OS versions that have yet to hit the market. I've understood from him that the only "secure" device is the iPhone, and even that is not secure from targeted (government) attacks.

That said, I personally would never own an iPhone and I'm happily bliss on my Note 3 with Android 4.4. But I don't access my mail, bank, or anything else sensitive on the device. For me it is no more than a phone, camera, and Anki interface!
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Because it can be a way to compromise your account[0]. HN discussion[1]:

[0]: https://blog.coinbase.com/on-phone-numbers-and-identity-423d...

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12597609
I think the lesson here is, if the conversion looks horrendous, then the original was questionable in the first place.
>The article has that Jews Run the World Through Secret Organizations smell.

Exactly, and I don't like it! I too was quite surprised it came from politico of all sources.

Similar comments on the article here: https://thefederalist.com/2017/04/10/needs-alt-right-conspir...
Given a problem, C may or may not be the correct tool to solve it. Decrying C as so dangerous that it can never be safely used under any circumstances, as you and others on this discussion seem to be doing, is absolutely ridiculous, like trying to ban chefs from ever using sharp knives because they might cut themselves.

Much of the software that we all currently rely on is in C, for example all of the common operating systems are in C, and the reliability of these operating systems shows very clearly that C is nowhere near as inherently dangerous as you claim it to be.
I've been curating my .bash_history for years; it's a great way to recall all those contorted commands which come in handy every year or so:

https://github.com/l0b0/tilde/blob/master/.bash_history

Git GUI plus a simple Makefile target to sort it is all the tooling necessary:

https://github.com/l0b0/tilde/blob/b16794f2ff209a6bc64813f02...
OT: Again, HN changing the title to the original title makes everything worse. "A new vantage point" means nothing to me unless I go to the article or comments. "Canonical CEO steps down" is short, to the point, and is a perfect description of the topic.
My Yubikey recently died, so I'd +1 on this approach to have another as backup. They offered to replace it under warranty, though.
Create a new user
Switch to it
Launch a browser
Start private mode
"Go shopping"
Delete and purge the user
Burn the hard drive
It seems to me Google could easily mitigate against this by fingerprinting the query. If anomalously high levels of the same fingerprint appear at the same time, ignore it.
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Also, if you have a rooted device, you can get the original secret from the SQLite database of the authenticator app.
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Yes, you'll get ticks. And you need to check for them, remove them the right way, and if you get red rings you need to go to your GP and get antibiotics. But out of the millions of tick bites that happen, tiny percentages cause anything more than a few days of fever (even that is already rare!) and debilitating, life-long consequences have a probability of happening in the same league as, say, getting bitten by a shark, or being shot at by Russian cruise missiles while you're on your way to your holiday destination.

While if the gruesome story of how 'a tick I got just from being outside' is front page news for a few days, many people will think 'o I better keep my children inside'. And the aggregate effects of that (while not as spectacular, or even reducible to this news item), are worse than whatever it is they're trying to prevent.

How often do you see 'person has something horrible happen to them, studies the field for 10 years, becomes expert and launches a well-balanced education or prevention campaign'? I've never heard it. What I do hear and see is 'person with median intelligence has something happen to them, goes on myopic crusade using mostly pathos in the form of graphic descriptions of their physical tribulations as a crutch for their own emotional healing'. Nothing wrong with people of median intelligence (or less), but it is wrong when they use things that happened to them by accident as a means of presenting a distorted vision of reality to others.
If you ignore all of the “superstitious crap”, what you end up with is: people experiencing mental illness in this tribe are treated with kindness and respect, told that they are experiencing something important and special and helped through their recovery by a patient and sensitive guide, instead of being told they are broken and thrown into a jail-like setting where they are treated with drugs that have severe side effects.
Linux had that as well until it was castrated a while ago. It was called "exec_domains".
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It's not an exploit. There was no privilege escalation, denial of service, theft of private data, or anything like that. You can take the technology involved and replace it with a human process: multiple people around the city open the app and report back to the HQ the locations they see. Now, would you say this process is illegal?

Simplifying it even more: If you had people on the street, looking for cars with a Lyft sticker and reporting back every one you see - would you say that is illegal?
Maybe nepthar was making a joke because nepthar has a sense of humor. Maybe that joke was highlighting the absurdity of having an unsecured, always-on listening device in your home that may be used against you.

Instead, Hacker News tries to rip him apart for not observing the chilling effect said device creates, despite the complete legality of it. Ironic.
His "personal" section on Lars.com seems to indicate very strongly that he is American.
only siths deals in absolutes? Maybe try: "Unity didn't provide enough advantage compared to use an already baked DE compared to the cost of making it". I would be happy also with: "not enough people liked unity or mobile". Plenty of people liked unity and I'd like in this discussions a little bit of respect was given to the people who thought, designed and liked Unity. At least acknowledge their existence now that you "won"... I liked unity and actively dislike kde and gnome 3 (gnome 2 was ok but clearly nowadays is old and I still liked unity more).

Many people liked mobile too: I backed their failed indigogo and plenty of people did, but that was a weird move and it failed being TOO ambitious (I'm not sure they would have been able to deliver in hindsight).

When they did make a mobile, plenty of people would have loved to have a more privacy minded alternative to google (but still open), but they focussed on lower end where google was already present (and where this privacy power users are not) and, I think, made the mistake of discarding the option of going with android that had the apps needed to make the platform viable for users. In a way it's the "unity" move of mobile, but the difference is that on desktop you didn't throw away all linux desktop software.

I left linux on desktop a couple years ago, not because of unity but because

* I suddenly needed to buy a laptop, I wanted it with linux and the dell xps was about to be replaced with the newer. I also didn't bother to understand how to get a lenovo (possibly I wasn't aware you could get it with linux at the time, I don't remember) so I got a mac

* having a mac seemed like a good occasion to try some proprietary software I wanted to try for a while. Both the proprietary stuff and mac os were good and I could develop in virtualized linux so I couldn't see any reason to go back to linux for not linux.

So I think ubuntu failed in the desktop and mobile. Not that others did any better there in the linux camp.

Now for the armchair CEO moment:

If I had to go mobile AND drop unity, a few years ago, I would have rebuilt ubuntu as a multi form factor experience based on android, possibly replacing (or giving the option to opt out from) the google bits.

Now it could be late (but no problem I guess, as they are not doing it :D). This if convergence was the target, otherwise ubuntu + unity on desktop and android based ubuntu on mobile.
The data says it's likely you'll get ticks, but not that you'll suffer severe consequences if you do minimal care. Every bushcrafter and scout knows to check for ticks. The prevalence of life-long Lyme disease with debilitation consequences is very small. I know that you're not even claiming otherwise, but the way you're making your argument is scare mongering and misleading to those who know nothing about ticks and tick-borne diseases.
how much money did it cost to make this phone?
Ubuntu was the first distro I was able to successfully deploy to non-tech members of my family, friends, and clients. For people who just wanted to browse the web, watch videos, etc and already had old hardware lying around, it was (and is) perfect.

(If someone wants cheap and simple nowadays, I recommend Chromebooks. But if they need free, as in I can re-use some of the flow of decommissioned machines from work, Ubuntu it is!)
It's worth pointing out that this article is just completely flat-out wrong. Kevin Drum is just completely screwing up here.

The stats he references do not point to de-planing - a term he invents only for this article.

All those involuntary denial of boardings he references are before passengers board the plane. Which makes a huge difference.

The paper he links to (indirectly) makes zero mention of passengers being kicked off planes. They only make reference to involuntary denial of boarding, which happens before passengers get on the plane.

I think there's only one other comment in this entire thread that makes this point.

Just thinking it through a bit, you can see it makes no sense. If a plane is oversold, how the hell do they let the passengers board? You'd have two people trying to sit in the same seat.
What can we learn from Albert Camus about being a rebel and a hacker?
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Conferences are always interesting and leade.rs in Paris is a good one
That's one (important) aspect. When looking at a team or individual I check wiki contributions, design documents, commits, code review feedback provided to others, ticket queue depth/volume, "cm" volume, customer forums, broadcast sessions, and org role/level/tenure blend. Also for teams get a referral or just send a "cold" email to have coffee with an IC on the team. I'd hazard that most of those data sources work for most of the teams at Amazon.
If your on a production server with the ability to read and act on the data in a users .bash_history you have far far bigger problems.
> Science doesn't rely on belief, it relies on evidence. Belief plays no part.

The Platonic ideal of Science may exist in a realm of pure logic, but scientists and students are human and always subject to biases, preferences, hunches, and gut feelings.

It's quite possible for misguided science education to convey the lesson that anything a scientist says is true, and you need not understand or question it. That's dogmatic belief in science.
I replied to you on Twitter, but for the sake of discussion, there is a third option that may be worth exploring - using Chrome running in virtualized Windows Manager - https://www.alexkras.com/running-chrome-and-other-browsers-i...
Sure, but no need to scare people into doing that with worst-case scenario stories of loosing eyes. From a public health advocacy point of view, that's counter productive. There are huge amounts of research on this, which of course the uninformed (but well-meaning!) crusaders are generally totally oblivious about.
That's a good one. In other words, if you state "I declare there is no deity worthy of worship but Allah", you leave it entirely possible that Allah itself doesn't exist. The follow up that "Mohammed is his messenger" is not a contradiction either.
Huawei+CEO+admits:+“I+do+not+understand+this+thing+with+the+smartwatches”
(New throw away account because HN doesn't like when people with unpopular opinion to post too many comments here.)

> They are humans

I've never said that they aren't.

But hey, if expecting someone to work in exchange for food and housing is "dehumanizing" and "laughable" then I've got nothing else to add here.
Ah, nice. I was actually looking for the DMCA notice. I wanted to see what they wrote to justify the takedown, and whether or not anyone counternotice'd them.
Assuming they did like you said the main point is

> collected and analyzed the data Lyft provides

they did it without permission
Haha! In quote,

"Google pays a tiny amount each time an ad appears, and a somewhat larger amount if readers click on an ad. To understand exactly how the payment system works requires several PhDs, a four-digit IQ and stay-awake drugs."

That's enough for GroundUp to make these decision.
Check the policy again. As of 2017-04-01 (for reals) there are effectively no restrictions on internal transfers. Including "performance" restrictions.
Release 17 of Vibur DBCP added around advice hooks on SQL queries execution
Just add it to your ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bashrc (source it or restart your terminal).
PROMPT_COMMAND: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prompt-HOWTO/x264.html

Nope, no cron. It basically takes your command, and appends (creates if it does not exist) it to a file based on the current date.
+1 for xvfb
Not sure about this in the US, but I'm pretty sure that in the UK, gathering a database of intelligence on competitors' staff earnings would be a violation of the Data Protection Act.
Similar situation. I just run Linux in a VM.

Though I think I regret not inverting it and running Windows in a VM instead.
As does UbuntuBSD, of course.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11415985
then it's more expensive than buying a new one.
>Cars kill people.

Two words: "national security"
One of the few comments here that shows great insight. I think you should push the argument down a few layers, to talk about the discreteness of quantum observables, the underlying unobservable continuous wavefunction, and the randomness of the Born rule that maps between the two (Copenhagen collapse or forking of Many Worlds).

Tegmark takes a similar, but rather extreme, MW approach in his book 'Our Mathematical Universe'.

Personally, I struggle with Tegmark's use of Measure Theory, and proponents of various Anthropic Principles, because they seem to have a completely broken frequentist view of probability and inference.
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I like to quickly flip between overlaid images, so I can notice movement where things are different.
I don't live in the US and I never saw an ad for Alexa or G Home - and I have a problem understanding how can they be useful beyond a fancy gimmick. Can you seriously trust it with your pizza order even if you don't know what the menu is and what you want? Then how many times a week do you order a pizza? Maybe I it is just me being old, please educate me.
Agree. Google not only tracked Bing but also set up fake results to catch them copying.

There's an app that compares the price from Uber, Lyft and others services.

These two examples are using data from computer systems in a way companies didn't intend. Have you guys ever thought that search engines scraping your site is opt-out?

We are just repelling this because Uber has a bad reputation.
There are still some interesting applications of tries (and dictionary automata). E.g., if you want to find all words given a prefix (wildcard searches). If the dictionary is static, you could use an array with binary search, however for dynamic dictionaries this gives you O(n) insertion.

Ternary search trees are really great and relatively compact. A while ago, I compared memory use of storing a dictionary (the SOWPODS word list) in Rust using various tries (as measured with the heapsize crate):

- Trie, using a HashMap to store edges: 691MB

- Trie, using a sorted Vec to store edges: 44MB

- Ternary search tree: 18MB

A typical ternary search trie is even more compact, but I implemented randomized ternary search tries, which uses two extra member variables in each node for bookkeeping (in these measurements u16s).
Hah, splendid!
One of my favourite Makers on youtube, Laura Kampf from Köln, also built her own "tallbike". It's smaller than Cepero's, but there's a video of her actually building it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWZnGQiSbtQ
Can you, personally, demonstrate that the atomic theory of matter is accurate? Maybe you can, I dunno, but most of us can't. We've had it explained in a way that makes at least superficial sense, but we don't grasp it on a deep level. Yet we accept it as true. We trust that the people who really did the research knew what they were doing. We believe it.

What would you call that?
I think it's a pretty common ethics case study. Therac-25 almost seems like a meme to me these days:

"What are the ethical implications in the field of software engineering?"

"Therac-25."

I don't think we've gotten any better, either. I'm surprised there aren't thousands of Therac-25s killing people every day, actually. I guess the hardware engineers got better at turning off software, because I don't think software engineers got better at software engineering.
Do you think it's OK for violating the T&Cs of an app to be illegal?

I don't think determining legality and harm should be a boolean operation. There are layers of subtly and nuance in most things, and the law is one of them. I don't think posting the F word on a forum where the owner doesn't want you to post it should be treated as an equal violation of the law as deliberately abusing your competition as a billion dollar business. The amount of damage, and perhaps potential damage should be considered. When I swear a reasonable person would think the harm is minimal. When I try to sabotage another company where the damage could result in billions of dollars of lost investment and thousands of jobs vanishing a reasonable person would think that's pretty bad. They're technically the same 'crime', but they're obviously not the same in scale.