skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google was not fined for displaying ads, but for promoting its services, illegally, via product tying. Google search should be responding to a query with relevant web pages that their crawler indexed. Instead, they insert a popup that links to their shopping service and try to make a buck off of that. This is the first complaint, the second is that they demoted rival shopping services from their search results.
..but a chart that is five years old and a fast-moving space like the Internet: difficult to argue patterns, since the patterns may have changed dramatically since the chart was made!
So is Perl, you should try it.
What an odd obsession with preventing crime with cameras from the culture that brought us 1984.
Interesting. If I was Posteo I don't think I would've been so quick to ban the email, this will potentially cause a lot of harm. What about all the people that need their data back? They have no way to get it now. Plus many people are still going to post the money only to get no response from the email.
If the final patch does that, nobody will apply it.

Security is a process, not an application.
I used an IRC client called BootFucker Pro back then that had all of the weaponry built in. Those were the good old days.
Might have been 98/99, can't recall... I started at that company in 97

But it was back orifice I was thinking of.
HackSociety: AI Hackathon in Bogotá, Colombia
> Also, people can't apply what they were supposed to learn in high school physics.

Well, it's very rare and therefore you don't think about it.

I make telescope mirrors, so I can't be accused of being unaware of the laws of optics. Yet until now I never thought about crystal balls (heck, even acrylic balls) as a potential fire hazard inside the house.
I'm so scared of relying on one company for everything.

I personally run my own mail server and use Mail to move all messages to Google Inbox, so that I can use Google's excellent spam filter and email grouping while still keeping control over my email.

I use both Google Photos and iCloud Photos.

If I had to have Google proxy my website, I would at least give my visitors a CNAME instead of Google's URL, to avoid getting locked in into the technology.

I know a lot of people that would be totally screwed if Google closed their account for some reason: no more email, contacts, photos, etc. etc.
I'm curious if you believe there is any room for people who care about the environment, but thought the Paris agreement was a waste of money and resources?
I try to be consistent with my questions, but it depends on how well the candidate is answering them as to the depth I go into a subject. Generally I ask the candidates about previous projects and work my questions into the conversations. It usually isn't a rapid fire pop-quiz type interview.

Tell me about a project you had the most fun working on. You tell me you started working on a SPA in Angular 2 and I ask if you've heard of some common attacks like XSS or CSRF. You say yes to both and I ask if you had any preventive measures in place or how you would go about trying to prevent them (I'd stop you if you kept going on and on). We'll work our way through the projects stack best we can in the same manner.

We generally used recruiters at all the companies I worked at due to lack of applications. I agree they're part of the issue. I also phone screen for recruiters so at least some of them are doing their due diligence (no idea how they act on my reviews though).
Back orifice!
Nonetheless, even an implementation of a well-established protocol could have problems like a timing attack or an oracle attack, so it's worth being extremely careful.
I don't understand how that would be possible. Such a change would be detected and very loudly discussed, making it pretty useless. There would be very little positive gain yet a whole lot of negative blowback from doing such a thing.
Great. Maybe we can finally put a price on lack of security protocol.
> Uhm, glyphosate doesn't affect pollinators.

It does affect pollinators, show in some examples of recent research [1][2], and effects on other non-insect animal species like frogs [3] and fish [4][5]. We may not know why it does yet, but there is plenty of evidence. This is just a tiny sampling.

> And drift that reduces "critical forage"? That's not even part of the glyphosate controversy.

This is very much part of the controversy. As one example, glyphosate has been linked to decline of milkweed habitat, significantly impacting monarch butterflies. The NRDC petitioned the EPA in 2015 to restrict the use because of this [6]. Just because of the widespread application in agricultural and urban areas, drift and runoff contaminate large areas of habitat, impacting countless non-target species of both plant and animal.

One could also draw the conclusion that glyphosate-tolerant corn and soy have been particularly responsible for the conversion of over 150 million acres of land (almost the size of Texas) into food or biofuel development in the last ~25 years. This land is no longer animal/pollinator friendly and is leading to a rapid decline in plant/pollinator relationships.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25063858
[2] http://jeb.biologists.org/content/jexbio/218/17/2799.full.pd...
[3] http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1890/11-0189.1/abstrac...
[4] http://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/es404258h
[5] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17933590
[6] https://www.nrdc.org/media/2015/150624
Surely the universe is not homogenous. You will encounter different types of people living at a Shaolin monastery vs working as a stock person at the supermarket.
Interesting - it is trivial to prove something was done today rather than yesterday, by hashing with the most recent bitcoin block or some new info.

Is it possible to prove something was done in the past? All I can think of is some sort of scheme involving destroyed information.
Indeed. Anecdote: Several years ago I worked on a U.S. GOSS (Government Open-Source Software) project that was a web app that allowed different apps running on different domains to function as "widgets" and allowed cross-domain communication between these apps in a drag-and-drop window environment in the browser. The intention was small apps could be composed into larger apps by allowing them to communicate with each other in this environment.

It supported multiple browsers, including IE7 in as late as summer 2014, because end-users in the U.S. Navy had machines that only had IE7. Countless man-hours (and U.S. taxpayer dollars) were spent to ensure all features worked in IE7, including drag-and-drop and responsive UI.

That project was the single biggest driver for me to get the hell out of the government contracting world and into the "truly" private sector. At least at a startup I can say more or less "if it works in Chrome, it works."
Sure. But I think a better way would be a separate build tool and step, which generates the javascript proxy functions. With that way you get code completions and type checking for the remaining javascript/typescript, if the loader does everything dynamically you are more likely dynamically typed.
Anecdotally, I had high school friends in rural Oregon who were something like 1/4 native American, and they all got a free college education because of it.
The EO frame is definitely one of my favorite technology purchases of the last few years, so this announcement makes me sad. I hope the space continues to grow though. My family gets a lot of value out of having one of these in our home...though we use it pretty differently than EO seemed to intend.. their model appeared pretty dependent on users having paid art subscriptions, which we never signed up for.
As a city dweller who has grown a lot of plants on balconies and in apartments I have also been down that road but I found a much easier solution to the watering. Autopots[1].

With those you can have 6 plants on a single 47l tank and only re-fill it every month. (depends on how thirsty they are)

It's a gods send when I want to go away for a few weeks vacation.

For other house plants that are not connected to a huge water tank I tend to just turn over a 2l plastic bottle into the soil after thoroughly saturating it first with water.

So with this the only real requirement I had for my grow op was monitoring. Because I have hard wood floors and I don't want them to swell up due to a leaking tank.

1. https://autopot.co.uk/products/
Any price not paid for is automatically removed after only 3! days. So effectively > 99.99% are being paid for but they still maintain the illusion that it is user generated content.

"Om de Pricewatch actueel te houden vervallen handmatig toegevoegde prijzen na automatisch na drie dagen. Bedrijven met een Pricewatch Manager abonnement kunnen een onbeperkt aantal prijzen toevoegen."
I think it makes sense, though.

I also never publish websites on Friday, although for some reason most of my clients want to start the weekend knowing that they're done with it and always beg me to do it.

You just want to play safe and make sure if something can go wrong you're ready to deal with it—in this case by having doctors around rather than being 3AM and the hospital is half empty.
Additional bonus, Firefox Android has extensions, so you can get uBlock Origin and such :)

I have a similar problem with Google Maps. I don't want it tracking my location history to my Google Account (integration I never asked for), but when I disable this it even refuses to remember my search history for addresses and such (no reason that needs cloud storage except Google wanting to get their hands on this info). Therefore I most often use Open Streetmaps with Maps.me. Which has other advantages too, so it's not all bad.
> Especially since an NSL would prevent ANYONE who detected anything from speaking about it

Forced malicious updates would indeed be a reasonable concern if this was somehow actually the case. It is not, though, and I am not sure how that would even work. Are you saying that when it is detected, the government would somehow become aware of the detection and threaten the finder with an NSL before they could tell anyone?
When I saw the headline, I immediately thought "it's because of C-Sections." A few pretty graphs and thousands of filler words later, I discovered that — SURPRISE – it's due to C-Sections!

Data visualization of the bleeding obvious that anyone who gave it a moment's thought would have been able to guess.
Yup, that solves some of the issue to an extent. But again, Europe-Canada is often served by a transfer or stop in the USA, hitting the same UX-funnel. Also, it's a longer (and likely more expensive) trip.
I think it is correct to say that, in the functional paradigm, you effect change by making something new (and forgetting some older things.) Regardless of the paradigm (other than self-modifying code, perhaps) programs just are, but they must be evaluated if they are to do something useful.

I will leave that last sentence as I wrote it, but it immediately leads me to wonder if functions that write functions have wandered into the self-modifying code realm?
Oral-formulaic composition
> what they were doing was purposefully bypassing their own algorithm to their advantage, giving doctored results

Where did you get this from?
It seems that there's more potential for meaningful differentiation than in the case of the Groupon-type services but the rush to be one of the few winners who IPO and damn the customer acquisition costs seem like valid points.

These services just seem very niche-y to me. I'm not really the target market but, for any given service, there's a pretty narrow profile of cost-sensitivity, interest in prepping/cooking but not just buying ingredients, ability to plan a week out, etc.

Finally, if there were a real clamor for meal kits, what's to keep Whole Foods or whoever from just assembling their own meal kits?
I am fascinated by the class of problems it is worth spending your life working on only to fail.
I would definitely agree with that.
I don't want my vote to be recorded on a blockchain. Nobody shall be allowed to track down how I voted.

There is nothing simpler than voting with a pen. Everybody understands how it works and everybody is able to do it anonymously. There is no risk of exposure and massive scale manipulations. Every computer system that aims to guarantee the same, is massively complicated.
Good List of Deep Learning Resources
There are a bunch of other interesting ideas out there as well.

There's the polywell, my personal favorite, which uses a powerful electric field to confine the fuel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polywell

(You can make a kind of shitty version of this in your garage with two microwaves, some thick wire and a healthy dose of personal risk: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusor )

There's the Dense Plasma Focus, one version of which is being developed by Lawrenceville Plasma Physics. They're cool dudes, I once donated $10 to help them get a new Beryllium cathode about three years ago, they still send me periodic and detailed updates on their progress. You can read about their approach here, complete with radical 90's theme and pretty good video: http://lppfusion.com/fusion-power/dpf-device/

Sandia National Laboratories is using a massive Marx generator [1] to power the Z-Machine, a Z-pinch that uses powerful magnetic fields generated by high current to squeeze matter in the middle of a conductor: http://www.sandia.gov/z-machine/research/fusion.html

This approach is known as ICF, and is also being pursued by the National Ignition Facility, who use lasers instead: https://lasers.llnl.gov/science/icf/how-icf-works

So there's a few different ideas out there. However, if you really want to know why no significant progress has been made[2] you need only look at this graph:

https://imgur.com/sjH5r

Note that it has a citation at the bottom, you should follow it and read the article to see that this isn't a bullshit internet chart. In the US at least, fusion has been consistently funded at a rate that the US government /knows/ is too low to see significant progress. You're welcome to make your own guesses on why this is the case.

[1] My second favorite thing in HV equipment after the explosively pumped flux compression generator: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx_generator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explosively_pumped_flux_compre...

[2] I'm not sure this is really the case. I think that the fusion research community has made admirable progress under trying circumstances.
Me too, most especially if the email is from a student. I imagine the same goes for many of us who write research papers.
Can you suggest any compelling resource to encourage people to switch away from RSA key exchanges in their server configurations, assuming that they're not asking us? (When people ask me, I point them to the Mozilla configuration generator at https://mozilla.github.io/server-side-tls/ssl-config-generat...)

I just noticed two days ago that my bank, for example, uses an RSA key exchange and I was kind of dismayed about the non-forward-secret sessions. But I don't know what I could tell them as a customer that would make them care about this problem. (I don't think my theoretical knowledge of why their key exchange method is bad will really help, compared to some kind of industry or governmental guidance that says "this technology is obsolete and everyone should stop using it", or, even better, "this technology is obsolete and banks should stop using it".)
Unless there is some other mutable state that they both interact with that may cause a race condition. :)
What is cloudflare's endgame for investors? For some reason I don't think there are enough enterprise customers for cloudflare to become a multi billion dollar company.

I love cloudflare and am a happy customer but I'm really interested to know what these investors are thinking before they put up 100s of millions in investment.
It's also a good way to catch the authors. They might accidentally log in without using tor. (It's happened surprisingly often.)
Direct link to more tutorials and the documentation: http://neanderthal.uncomplicate.org/articles/guides.html
I use "; mail" too but if I forgot and need a notification after I've already launched the job "strace -f -p PID; mail" will email you once the job completes. You have to know the PID of the job.
I can't visit this site on mobile without being redirected to a spam page that looks suspiciously like Facebook.
That is a great idea. I expect more usability improvements to come shortly as more people become interested in WebAssembly.
Do they know that organic food uses pesticides? Worse ones, too...
Sounds like you're connecting the device directly to the audio system. With a radio transmitter, you're broadcasting on an fm band that the car picks up via the fm tuner.

Of course if the person is willing to attach something to the car audio as you have, that's the best!
>Cyberattack hits entire Heritage Valley Health System, shuts down computers

>A cyberattack is affecting the Beaver and Sewickley hospitals and all other care facilities in the Heritage Valley Health System on Tuesday.

http://amp.wtae.com/article/cybersecurity-incident-heritage-...
Because they're a US company, duh.

Just like Toyota in the unintended acceleration problem was quickly found guilty of not being GM or Ford.
> On Tuesday, March 14, 2017, Microsoft issued security bulletin MS17-010,[7] which detailed the flaw and announced that patches had been released for all Windows versions that were currently supported at that time

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EternalBlue
It's only wrong if you are optimising for cost, which they are not.
"At its core a Cloudflare app is set of JavaScript and/or CSS files which run on a website, and an install.json file which instructs tools like Cloudflare Apps how to use those files."

Sounds like all of your code executes in the browser then, somewhat like tampermonkey user scripts or basic browser web extensions.
This is indeed a heavily debated topic.

It will cause a major headache for those who pay and will hopefully make people learn to distrust ransomware, in turn making it less lucrative.

On the other hand, that requires a fair number of "acceptable casualties" so to speak.

I personally think both sides of this are valid and don't know what the best option really is. It will be interesting to watch how things evolve at least.
There's a similar pipeline for food; the people who think about such things say we need to increase our food supply by 85% in the next 50 years. It takes about 35 years for a new piece of agricultural technology to go from the lab to ubiquitous, so we are really looking to have those technological advancements in the next ~15 years.
Won't do it again. I just didn't understand that my (relevant) experience was downvoted.
Yes, for example I think this makes sense for apartment buildings and other communal living situations. I think it would make sense to do solar and/or CHP depending on regional weather.
To me, it seemed like they're putting the money into the apps that run on CloudFlare's platform and not CloudFlare itself
As an aside, I think Google has huge potential to become the source of discovery for all things. Actions where it promotes its own stuff on Google play despite knowing and hiding the same thing on Hulu/Netflix/HBO is myopic. It should continue to do what it is good at instead of fighting for slices of other pie.
This is the result of Cloudflare's eager.io acquisition. You might remember eager from some of their really awesome blog posts on the histories of various techs [1][2].

1 https://eager.io/blog/a-brief-history-of-weird-scripting-lan...

2 https://eager.io/blog/history-of-email/
Those that aren't cooked are smoked. 100% of all frankfurters, wieners, hot dogs, and bologna intended for sale in the US is safe to eat cold, as long as it has been kept sufficiently cold since it was packaged.

If it wasn't cooked or smoked, you can't call it by those names.

The most common [pathogenic] contaminant is Listeria. This would be on the surface, so if you want to be strict about food safety, you can just drop your cold hot dogs in boiling water for a few seconds before eating them. But if you're really that concerned about food, why are you eating sausages at all?
While Enlist blends the two, 2,4-D resistant GMOs are brand new and still rarely used. I'm not as familiar with the toxicity/carcinogenicity of 2,4-D, but I think it's fair to confine this conversation to the carcinogenicity of glyphosate as that's the focus of the CA proposal.
Facebook passes 2B monthly active users
I agree. It seems like these will eventually lose to just normal automated grocery delivery. You will always need other food than just the kits even if they are cost competitive in NYC, etc.
https://lifehacker.com/how-i-turned-my-iphone-into-a-simple-...

The iPhone has the best build quality (come at me), and you can easily make it do what you're looking for here. A device that doesn't give you the option of extra features won't sell enough to get the scale you need for really high build quality.
It also describes California's entire proposition system!
I'm referring to Microsoft v Commission (EU) and related events.
You are exposed to radiation while flying, I wouldn't be overly surprised if California passed a law mandating that the pilot notify passengers that "flying is known to the state of California to cause cancer."
Hard isn't really the right term, more just annoying, because you have to mock out everything and the kitchen sink. To be fair, I can't think of a frontend framework that had any real unit-test framework before Angular. So it was an improvement at the time.
Come on. Maybe unless you live in India or Africa (and even then, still), $60 is nowhere near as expensive as designing and building your own device.

Not that there's anything wrong with building your own device. Just don't lie about it.
Distributed Lambda, which isn't far fetched since AWS' Cloudfront can run Lambda functions at the edge (with reduced functionality).
Probably in the same manner as archive.org
> Finally, if there were a real clamor for meal kits, what's to keep Whole Foods or whoever from just assembling their own meal kits?

Home delivery seems to be one of the key factors, so as long as Whole Foods/etc can offer home delivery, then yeah there's nothing stopping them.
This is why strawberries taste like fibrous nothing but look really great. Same for cherries. In fact, most fruits don't taste very good anymore. I recently found bought a bunch of 'Heirloom' oranges which actually tasted wonderful. Probably because they haven't been genetically engineered to look good and last a long time.
agree, sometimes i wish how we could see other worlds, but the hidden ones here are quite amazing
I liked every part of this comment up to "Jon Ossoff's crushing loss", which is crazymaking.

Unless I'm missing something very important, Ossoff was competing for a district that hadn't gone to a Republican by less than 20 points in the entire history of the district (it was redistricted sometime around ~2000).

Ossoff --- who is not a great candidate! --- took one of the most solidly Republican suburban districts in the country and turned it into a real horse race. What am I supposed to learn from that about Democratic strategic weakness?
I really hope for a future where places like this become more accessible to those with a passion for adventure. These photographs are otherworldly and inspiring, but the risk to get there is insurmountable but for a few.
There are plenty of New Relic competitors. Datadog and AppDynamics both have APM products that support python, for example.

The feature set between this and New Relic is quite different. To oversimplify, New Relic works at the python library level, and StackImpact works at the python interpreter level. The functionality is potentially complementary.
"Electron". There's only one ;) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-electron_universe