skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not scanning emails for ads? Corporate business?

I wonder if Google will be pushing end-to-end email encryption? They have already had some experiments on it.

They have the majority browser, they have the lions share of email hosting. It they played their cards right, they could claim the entire email ecosystem, except for the small portion who won't use Google products on principle. The questions would be would 3rd party clients be allowed, and how would Apple fight it.

Or maybe this is all just a smoke screen to sucker dumb corps. In the existing architecture, your emails still need to be scanned so they can be indexed for search. You could get the same result scanning these indexes as scanning the emails themselves, so from a privacy perspective it could be a non-event.
"In experiments, male adolescent monkeys also prefer to play with wheeled vehicles while the females prefer dolls — and their societies say nothing on the matter."

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.livescience.com/22677-girls...

This suggests there may be something deeper than expectation from culture and society.
This is neat, I hadn't seen it before.
> The law was utterly insane and I'm glad the likes of Uber and Lyft are challenging it.

Not all jurisdictions limited the number of taxis (via "medallions"/etc). Arizona had a limited number of regulations to protect people from blatant dishonesty (inaccurate meters, background screening for drivers, etc). Large taxi companies were trusted to regulate themselves, or the department of weights & measures helped single-car companies certify their meter's accuracy & verify vehicle safety, etc.

I drove for a large company because they'd spent decades building a brand that people trusted. They took care of the regulations, provided a clean well-maintained vehicle, and made a little off my efforts. I considered it an acceptable arrangement.

The company changed its leasing operation to unmarked vehicles that drivers can use with any of the apps. Their contracts (Medicaid patients to/from appointments, etc) pay better than non-surge uber fares, and their app is cheaper for riders than the upstarts'.

When uber cab is dead and gone, no one in Arizona will care.
AnandTech reports [1] Denver being VLIW. They might be wrong though.

[1] http://www.anandtech.com/show/8701/the-google-nexus-9-review...
>Harsh and an obvious problem for those over 40 and industry in general, but is this simply the natural result of companies optimizing for maximum productivity at the lowest possible cost to them?

If we go one step further, it's the result of society allowing them to "optimize for maximum productivity at the lowest possible cost to them" all other things (product quality, workplace safety, agism, sexism, environment, health safety, etc) be damned.

Addition: I think shareholders, and the shift of moral and motive center from a person or board to an blob of people is one of the worst structures that's allowing for the above.
I draw a Kilroy.

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I'm a big fan of mpd[1]. It's a headless music player you can run on pretty much anything with audio out. You can then control it from a client, of which many are available for nearly any conceivable platform.

[1]: https://www.musicpd.org
Edit: this is not entirely correct; transactions may go online or stay offline, depending on amount and connection speed. See comments below.

It might depend on where you are. Where I am, in the UK, chip card transactions are quite fast. Fast enough to use contactless (tap and go a.k.a. "pay by bonk") where you literally just tap your card on the pinpad and go on your merry way [1].

The difference is that in the UK, transactions are not immediately sent online. I repeat: they're not immediately sent online. So you don't have to wait for the merchant to contact the acquirer, for the acquirer to respond and so on and so forth.

Instead what happens is that you dip, or swipe, or tap your card; the pinpad and the card figure it out between themselves whether you are the rightful owner of the card; the pinpad makes a record of the transaction; and you're told the transaction is "approved", then pick up your goods and go home. Later in the day, the merchant (i.e. an automated process at the store) sends an overnight "batch" of transactions to the acquirer, (i.e. the bank or credit network etc) and the acquirer either transfers the funds directly to the merchant, or blocks out the funds so you can't use them again and they can be transferred to the merchant later.

That's the EMV standard in a nutshell and entirely from memory, with a distance of a good few years from the time I worked for an EMV vendor (we sold a bit of EMV software that went on the Point-Of-Sale machine and handled all of the above). I might be misremembering a few things but I believe the above is mostly accurate.

tl;dr: having to go online for each and every transaction takes forever.

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[1] Or of course sometimes do a double take, realise the transaction hasn't gone through, tap again, eyball the pinpad, then possibly insert or swipe etc. Sometimes it doesn't work.
While true, I don't think that's related to the OP.
Me too, I'm obviously over the hill and should abandon the new project I'm just starting.
The super hornet typically only carries 6 air to air missiles. While SU-22 can carry the most modern short range aa missiles.

Hornet would not win with gun only against 4 missile armed fitters. If the missiles are modern. In air warfare numbers have always mattered and always will.
>A union won't make a company hire you. Whatever power union has, it comes after signing on the dotted line, so that particular problem would not be solved by a union.

Actually a union can very well push for changed attitudes and laws regarding age discrimination.
you can still get the old winamp (2.3), from before it got all maimed by AOL, if you look hard enough. I use it mostly for nostalgic reasons: old skins and AVS scripts.
I haven't watched that one, but the ones I have watched have been... a bit spotty/incomplete about aviation stuff.
The Itanium is interesting, because it somehow managed to kill most high-end RISC architectures (MIPS, HPPA, Alpha) without even being on the market. At some point even Sun wanted to drop SPARC for Itanium.
So I expect a lot of people here are well above average and wouldn't be better off represented by a union.
>Since it is not legal for employers to require you to give your age as part of an application, doesn't this simply encourage candidates to lie about their age?

Doesn't matter since when they'll interview you they'll find out you're not 20something -- unless you have exceptional genes.

Not to mention a few Google or FB searches and they'll not only have your age, but more than the FBI had on a target citizen in the days of Hoover.
Last month, a small team of computer engineers in Lithuania raised $14 million in 45 minutes by selling a coin, known as Mysterium, that is intended to give access to an encrypted online data service that is still being built.

There has to be more background to this? Why would they ever bother building the service if they have the 14M in cash?
The alias method, or transforming data to increase efficiency (Clojure)
I grew up own one of these rural "rust belt" towns and it amazes me that it's still there, and that there are still plenty of people there doing god-knows-what. Once in a while I go home to visit my (retired) family and I wonder what in the world keeps all these people in these dying pseudo-towns, jobless, hopeless, angry at the world, addicted to meth, and blaming their lot on "the liberals". These communities are dead and they don't even know it. Maybe they do know it and they're just stubbornly clinging to a setting and lifestyle that has no future.
> The reason it's a holy grail is because there are some major materials
> science breakthroughs that need to happen before it's feasible. Since
> the sun's energy cycles rapidly on the minute/second timescale, whatever
> receiver you're using to convert inputs to syngas needs to not be
> destroyed by that periodic, rapid temperature (and thus stress) cycling.

What do you mean here? What aspect of the sun's energy cycles on the minute/second timescale? And why would variability at that time scale do anything to a solar thermal system?

I'm pretty sure the reason it is hard is because you need to go above and below phase transitions that change the oxidation state, achieve high rates of oxygen absorption and release, and maintain a high enough surface area to not lose your oxygen diffusion rate.

Or are you talking about some new issue?
I mean.....ebay is absolutely full of either new or like-new iPods Classic in any capacity you want, I know it's annoying that apple doesn't sell them anymore but if you want one it's not exactly difficult to get one.
> desensitisation of audience

This is probably a good thing. No idea why random people on the Internet get so upset every time some piece garbage is being called out ;)
I don't think OpenBSD people are interested in the kind of service that has to start as root and drop privileges just to play music ;-)
Absolutely. You could avoid even having to use iTunes by using the alternative rockbox firmware. My whole music collection was on there. We miss them.
True, but I doubt that would scale, for popular papers that got press coverage. Authors could automate, of course. But do for-profit journals limit reprint distribution?
I've been using Blackbox and it has been great. It encrypts files directly in your VCS. We've setup the deploy pipeline to decrypt secret config files and then deploy to servers.

https://github.com/StackExchange/blackbox
The great intellectual property trade-off
He's on Windows and didn't mention foobar2000? I've been using Linux exclusively for almost ten years now and foobar2000 is the only program I still miss. Banshee does an acceptable job, though.
For the same reason the Referer header is misspelled in HTTP - because life can sometimes be that way.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_referer
Here is Germany it usually takes a few seconds (less than 5 I'd say) - I noticed however that paying at Aldi Nord is very fast. They really do tweak the cash register speeds at Aldi...
Exploring Scala AST in your browser
I believe the OP means POS as in Point Of Sales. Santander tends to have ATMs, as in Automated Teller Machines :)
The Sonic games are quite good, as they are native ports. But the other games should be avoided, with or without ads.
Where did you email them? They're known to have one of the best support out there.
How Much Do People Trust Your Content?
I watched the three promo movies on their website; it's interesting how much they focus on the "cheaper price tag != better" angle, by highlighting savings coming from better reliability ratings (= better insurance) and more reliable launch schedules. Feels like an obvious dig at SpaceX ;).
Uhmmm I'm fairly certain that's not entirely correct. There may be terminals which batch transactions and send them later, but in most cases you can even see the terminal going "connecting to <bank> servers" and only after it obtains the connection it authorizes the transaction. Larger stores have a constant connection open so the transaction goes through straight away, in smaller shops the terminal actually has to connect with the bank first.

But I guess the best proof is that if you have zero money in your account you can't actually buy anything with your card, the transaction will get declined immediately(unless you have overdraft, obviously), so the terminal has to check with the bank if you have funds to pay or not.
Proper risk management is serious business. "Risk" "management" in smaller businesses may just be pretended. This illusion will cost some time, focus and money to keep up. I believe that's the market referred to.
Ether is more like oil - it is a fuel source used to power smart contracts, token sales, and autonomous organizations.
Headache from using mathematical software
I stopped reading after the "lol". I tend to do not get advice from lols lmaos & company...
Uber was a "car sharing" company. Then it realized that some customers were cheating and acting as pirate taxis. Uber saw that as an opportunity and created a business model based on that fact.

Their business model is based on abuse employee protection laws, and ignore professional drivers regulations and fighting against them in tribunals when caught.

Years later they continue calling themselves "car sharing" company, even that it has professional drivers which only income comes from them. All their business model is based in lies, legal trickery, abuse of power, etc.

So, why people is surprised by this? I call this effect "Digital Stupidity". e.g. Opening a letter or listening to a phone call are illegal without a warrant. But, oh wait!, we are opening digital mails and listening to digital phone calls: No problem. e.g. Paying below minimum wage and breaking employment laws is wrong. But, oh wait!, we are using an app to hire our employees on a digital contract, so no problem.

Breaking employee and customer protection laws is not a good business model, even in an App. The rest of the behavior can be explained by their business model lack of any morality.

* http://www.timesunion.com/allwcm/article/Judge-finds-NYC-Ube...
* https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/apr/19/uber-appe...
* https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/mar/28/uber-to-s...
* https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/14/uber-appe...
Government is interested in whatever their donors tell them to be interested in. That's why ACA is a trillion dollar giveaway to healthcare industry instead of net savings.

ACA also disincentives private insurers from wanting to reduce cost. Their profit is now limited to a certain percentage of the premiums, so naturally their only real way to profit is by raising the living shit out of the premiums.
Will AFS have compression?
The Russians are only at that price point due to the competition from SpaceX, but the big problem with Proton is the high insurance premiums due to their reliability issues.
Here in the UK I'm generally amazed at how fast they are - slowest part is typing my PIN in if that is required (some places still require it or if the transaction size is over the limit for contact-less).
THE ERA OF CHATBOTS
There are some numbers in http://media.blackhat.com/bh-us-11/Dinaburg/BH_US_11_Dinabur...
The teenage memories of hours spent tweaking this lovely program... Was the software I missed most when I went the Apple path.
This might be the case sometimes, but not always. Sometimes the transaction is sent immediately (which means a longer wait).

Edit: Typo.
Have you looked into DeaDBeeF? I find that to be the closest thing to foobar2000.
How to protect your WordPress website
mpd doesn't have to start as root, and is available for OpenBSD (and on Windows, which the article is about!)
Well, it's arguable that most non-expert commentary will be meaningless.
Samsung Electronics Overtook Fitbit in Wearable Device Sales
I'm not saying eating 1500 calories of sucrose is not dangerous, but from an energy point of view yes it's the same as eating 1500 calories of cheese. At the end of the day if your energy expenditure is 2000cal your body will have to burn 500cal. Macronutrients in this case make a small but negligible difference.

It's anecdotic but as an hobbyist bodybuilder tracking calories everyday I can confirm that my weight follows exactly my caloric input (there can be some latency but it's water retention mostly), in line with the experience of a lot of people like in /r/bodybuilding or /r/ketogains. Playing with macronutrients and insulin is interesting for muscle gain or breakdown prevention and energy and hunger management but not really for pure weight loss.

I agree with your last paragraph, macronutrients are very important for health and body composition, and sure I would recommend a low carb diet for losing weight in the long term, in part because fat and proteins are more dense and keep hunger low
While everyone else here is proposing to try different players, I liked the idea, found at the end of the article, to certify a program for efficiency. We move our digital life on the mobile and efficiency is quite crucial.

Android can show how much a app / internal program consumes in mW so I wonder if Google is collecting this data in order to classify apps based on this.
My kids love The Land of Venn series:

https://itunes.apple.com/at/app-bundle/learn-master-geometri...
> Uber was a "car sharing" company. Then it realized that some customers were cheating and acting as pirate taxis. Uber saw that as an opportunity and created a business model based on that fact.

When I first used Uber it was black cars only. This was great - I'd learnt in the Bay Area that using black cars was cheaper than taxis, but finding a reliable company and getting it on demand was a PITA. Then Uber came along, awesome. Cheaper than what I was paying before, cheaper than a taxi, and on demand, with no tipping.

Then Lyft came along and Uber (AFAIK) copied them with Uber-X.

"Pirate taxis"? What are you talking about?
UKs implementation of contactless is still behind other countries in the EU. In most other places I can use contactless to pay any amount, the terminal will simply ask for my pin if the transaction is over the pin-less payment threshold. In the UK that's impossible - even if the terminal displays the contactless logo when you are attempting to pay over 30 pounds, if you attempt to use your card that way it will just beep and tell you to insert the card. I'm guessing it's a peculiarity of UK banks which decided they would rather disable this system even though the terminals do technically support it.
The dirty secret in software development: most think they how to write efficient software when they need to, but very few can.

Sometimes the excuse is that cpu and memory are cheap as if resources aren't under constant pressure from the hundreds of processes that all pretend they are the only one on the machine.

Many also don't know how to draw simple, low-overhead abstraction boundaries. Everybody wants to make the most generic code planning for things that will never happen or at least not in the way they think. You can't call out most people on this because this one piece of code they are working on is always the exception.

And most developers don't know how to optimize as they write code. They often don't understand the problem or have enough mechanical sympathy to understand what code you should probably be careful with and should be made quick to start off with. They probably don't understand the cache system enough to know why that linked hash table is probably the wrong data structure. Hash means fast to them, and to them this is all premature optimization even when the correct solution is probably no more difficult than what they are doing. Calling something premature optimization is often used to shut down discussion of how their code can be improved.

The field is too in love with horribly inefficient frameworks. Writing network code and protocols is now considered too low level for people. Many are too caught up it what is tech-cool. They're like the holistic medicine practitioners of software and they don't even know it.
Edit: Forget what I'm saying. I may be misremembering things. Batch is a thing, but maybe not the reason why chip and pin is fast in the EU.

Like I say elsewhere this is very likely a regional thing, having to do with regulations that either require the transaction to be completed in one go, or permit it to be stored in a batch to be processed overnight.

I live in the UK and travel around the EU a bit (France, Italy, Greece, Belgium recently) and I've never noticed chip-and-pin being slow in any way. That's because in most of those countries at least, as far as I can tell, transactions are stored and processed in overnight batches instead of being sent online to be dealt with immediately, which may take a long time depending on the network connection etc.

From what I understand, most places outside the EU don't do batch, they send the transaction online to be completed immediately. Which can take quite a bit longer.
Russia threatens to block Telegram
> It probably doesn't hurt that I stay physically fit, either. As cruel as it may be, if you're out of shape and look "frumpy" or "run down," that will count against you far, far worse than your age.

I am still in my early 30's but this really resonated me. All my life I have been conditioned to think that character, experience and expertise is what matters.

But the reality is that people will form impressions of you by they first 5 seconds they meet you.
Sometimes.

Paying for the bus for me is offline, whereas in a supermarket it's processed online
I agree with this - offlining transactions are a possibility for some instances, but in most cases, there is a significant difference in speed - I'm in Russia at the moment and when I have a transaction go through the terminal, my bank sends a notification of the transaction usually before the pay terminal is done with it's processing; so there must be some rapid communication happening to authorize the transaction within a short period, even if the actual transfer of funds transaction takes longer (which is expected). When I briefly returned to the US last year after the chip terminals were implemented, I was a bit frustrated to see that it did indeed take significantly longer than I was used to, neverminding how inconvenient it was to not have the ability to use the NFC or the card slot on the majority of terminals.
> Scientific output is often misrepresented by the media ...

Indeed, it's often misrepresented by science writers.
Why is this marked as dup? This is the first time the Github link is on HN.
Ditto for foobar, it's complete but not obnoxious and tends to focus on what's important. It's probably the one thing I miss when using my (OSX) laptop, OSX players seem to be either obnoxiously turdy (à la itunes) or exercises in minimalist style which end up inconvenient to use.

I don't know how CPU-efficient it really is though, and that seems to be Ted's main concern.

My only annoyance with it is that (AFAIK) there still isn't a 64b version of it, though that problem is so common on windows it's hardly worth mentioning.
I'm sure Linus has a lot to learn that grsecurity could teach him. No, hold on.
> We should rename the profession. "Nurse" is gendered

In Brazil, there are TONS of male nurses working in hospitals, and there is not stigma at all to name of the profession (at least from my various experiences with hospitals and ERs).

The fact that Portuguese has declension to indicate gender in this particular word ('enfermeiro' is male, 'enfermeira' is female) might play a role in this.
A's Hire A's and B's Hire C's
I am absolutely fascinated by this! I have relatively little experience at this level of computing outside of developing some pet project VMs and a bit of 68k assembly in college. Can you expound on the purpose of a NOP sled and why that specific construct lends itself to systems exposed to specific harsh conditions?
An official ppa repository for Ubuntu would be great!
There is a link to an unofficial one in your page, but since this is a security app, installing it from some random repo just feels wrong... Thank you for the great work!
Wefox acquires digital insurance carrier One
Doing it like that is sadly the most compatible (and easiest) way to open a privileged port (below 1024)
I just use command-line program on Linux. Very easily to play the music. If you want a shuffled playlist, you can use the commands such as "shuf" and "xargs". You can use "head" to limit playback time, if you use music playing program that output to stdout instead to the speaker (and then use another program to send to speaker) (as far as I know the only music players that do this are ones I wrote myself, but other ones may well exist, that I do not know of).