skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Muddy Waters is a famous research shop that specializes in exposing fraud or fishy accounting. They can spend years on a single thesis. They have tanked many companies who went out of their way to mislead investors.
As they say: Is that a lot? I hate the way headlines measure things in useless units, just to get a bigger exponent. Why didn't they say it was 19000 trillion teaspoons? That's just as easy -- i.e. impossible -- to visualize. I think a possibly easier-to-visualize description is enough water to cover the whole state of Texas six inches deep.
awesome, thank you! Have you tried uBlock + ghostery together, necessary? conflicts?
EE. Embedded systems.

Code up and down the stack when on occasion when required.
Try some job shadowing with your friends or somebody who could introduce you into their field.
Google extremely obviously did not use the name Oreo without asking for permission
PayPal launches its first cash back credit card to boost PayPal usage in stores
Mystery of the Somerton Man
While this topic should be well understood already by most HN readers, I upvoted this because it's a pretty clear layperson's explanation that deserves a wider audience.
Software engineer.
Ask HN: Any good SaaS service for summarizing english stories?
I'm sorry but how is this got to be on the first page of HN? I seen similar article on.. DailyMail. How is this related to hacking and technology? Just curious...
São Paulo has the biggest helicopter transport fleet in the world, so that's not necessary. Just a case of someone trying to cheat the system, paying less for something illegal.

Executives and doctors are some of the common users of helicopters around here.
I've heard this happen specifically with potatoes at some point in history.
While growth has slowed in recent years, 6 of the world's 10 fastest growing economies were in sub-Saharan Africa from 2000 to 2010 (https://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2011/01/daily_cha... ). While Kenya isn't included among those countries it has also shown robust growth. It may be that this growth is unfairly geared toward the wealthiest Africans but I think you'd find that the life of the average Kenyan has improved markedly in the last 20 years.
A certain point around 7 digits I'd say
If the EPA tried to ban controlled burns, there would be a lot of trouble in rural areas. Its a basic part of working the land.
I really wish Ubuntu touch was more complete. I would switch in a heart beat.
Philosophy PhD Student
Works for me as well, NoScript in default deny all javascript mode.
Wow, this was a path I did not expect this conversation to take. Thank you for mentioning this.
Using DuckDuckGo is fine for let say 98% of my searches (most of them probably IT related). For the rest, I go to Google or Bing or others. Is there Britannica on flash drives? I should add it to those 2%.
If you do insist on logging in to YouTube, purging your history with high frequency is actually quite useful.
First of all, it should be common sense that no one has the right to force legitimate news articles to disappear because they don't like the content

I think a lot of EU people (I'm not one) would disagree with you here. The notions of privacy and of the goals of the criminal-justice system in several parts of Europe are radically different from the notions your "common sense" position is based on, which means that what seems "common sense" to them seems ludicrous to you, and vice-versa.
If you do it from the constructor (assign this to a shared field) then that seems acceptable and narrows the scope of issues a ton.
Do you know of a definitive answer on this by an actual team member with citations? I've seen well respected community people assert that partially constructed objects can be visible but that seems wrong. I would expect this to have practical memory safety issues: somewhere in the standard libraries there have to be interoperability classes that could result in unsafe access if partially constructed.
Empty Promises and Other Heresy
What if you run an online payroll service? This type of SaaS obviously requires you to collect personal information.

Do you think it's reasonable to have to get individual user approval to move their data from one database vendor to another?
Sorry, not well said. Via Wikipedia:

"In his afterword to the 2000 re-issue of Neuromancer, fellow author Jack Womack goes as far as to suggest that Gibson's vision of cyberspace may have inspired the way in which the Internet developed (particularly the World Wide Web), after the publication of Neuromancer in 1984. He asks "[w]hat if the act of writing it down, in fact, brought it about?" (269)."
You need to research the right to be forgotten as it applies to news articles, it doesn't work in the way you describe.

And as far as this stuff being difficult to do, sure, but isn't it worth doing? Why shouldn't a customer have a say which cloud provider hosts their data? Why shouldn't we be able to make sure no data is kept about us after we stop using a service? Like with anything novel in software it only seems hard to do because we haven't done it, but in a ground up design it's not that hard to add gdpr compliance, and a few years down the line this stuff will be business as usual.

You don't need a compliance officer, but you do need a security officer, and their job now also involves data lineage, not just data security. You already should have that person if you're building a SaaS solution.
> 3.x kernels with security patches. What seems to be the issue?

Limiting the scope of vulnerabilities before they are patched.

There's plenty of more recent defence-in-depth work that will make some vulnerabilities impossible to exploit on more recent kernels, and while they will get patched on the older kernels it'd still be nicer if they weren't exploitable in the first place.
Numeric ratings are GIGO anyway, since cultural differences in how people map satisfaction to star ratings mean that the same number of people with the same degrees of preference for your product can produce a near-infinite array of different sets of preference ranking simply depending on how preferences are distributed among subcultures.
I don't think you're completely correct about EPS in the broader market, (but correct in the headline names). The rest I agree with completely. What's surprising to me is that there wasn't some sort of retrenchment after the 2007-8 crisis.

I agree with your analysis about the agency problem, but I also see the it as too much money chasing too few assets. Ever desperate for return, money managers will chase anything that has a return, whether it's rational or not.
> ...he's arguing over a word and everyone else is discussing what things we should guarantee everyone has.

And I would say that settling on a useful definition of the word is a great way to settle the question of actual policy. In this sense, the definition becomes a decision criteria.
The take away is that there aren't likely to be technological remedies to the affects of climate change. Once the earths defense systems are triggered we simply die.
Like the Play Store/Android. In a space where content is king, monopolies win big.

FWIW, YouTube is actually the only Google product I allow to store my history and recommend me stuff, because it's the only place I find it actually helpful or valuable, and the privacy risk of that data is of low value to me.
You're not generalizing at all.
Stoicism. It's a practical philosophy where ability to be rational and do good work is considered the only goal worth pursuing, and incorporates mindfulness into that system to be able to pursue Virtue. Quotes from adherents include:

"If your body was turned over to just anyone, you would doubtless take exception. Why aren't you ashamed that you have made your mind vulnerable to anyone who happens to criticize you, that it automatically becomes confused and upset?"

"It is in your power whenever you choose to retire into yourself. For there is no retreat quieter or freer from trouble than a man's own soul."

Similar to Zen and Minimalism, but with the built-in goal of searching for virtue as the best way to live a life. It's the basis for modern CBT/DBT therapies as well. Good stuff.
Nobody loved Trump when he stayed out of politics, he just didn't matter. When he injected himself into the political world and started influencing the national conversation that's when people started to care.

I'm not even going to debate with you on the racist or sexist fronts, if you reject facts there's not much of a conversation to be had.
haha so not surprised by your anecdote, I met him only once but it seems very degrey. Doesn't waste time.

From I what I could hear, he has to spend a lot of time managing funding for sub parts of the foundation and other efforts. Maybe this dilluted his claims a bit in time. All of his friends seemed to be pretty high grade researchers, it was a bit of an SF experiment sitting among that crowd.

Thanks for the name, there's another Kirkland studying aged things https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Kirkland_(paleontologist... but well .. couldn't resist that joke.

The panel I attended was the ICSA 2017 at Paris (Pasteur) http://www.icsa2017-senescence-on-the-seine.org/

Kirkland wasn't there but a nice international bunch

They were supposed to plan for a sequel since a few hundred people attended their surprise talk; we'll see.
Web App Developer
Here is discussion and issue [1] it might be something they implement on .NET Core 3.0. Not very soon though, but this is a big ship, and it takes a long time to turn it.

https://github.com/dotnet/designs/issues/12
Job-seeking iOS Developer

Just moved to San Francisco on Monday.

Anyone have any know someone who needs one?

Also, anyone need a roommate?
probably the github camo image proxy being out of date
PhD student in English
IT support specialist, with tons of know how to do more. I'm something of a rogue mathematician.
Former lawyer, now founder at http://www.BeeLineReader.com
PayPal Debuts a Credit Card That Offers 2% Cash Back
It's a video; a vid. A short video is a clip.

Wait; can't call it that because it loops by default.

Gif it is, then.
I think it's very hard for a group of people to coordinate behind a pseudonym that's so high profile.
California has only 20 million acre feet of reservoir capacity, which is currently filled to 125% of typical levels. The last thing that state needs is another 75 million acre feet of water.
A Discussion on Dijkstra's Algorithm
Good answer, this has a nice property that it can be applied to any reasonably behaved average-based system to get an honest mechanism. For a plain average it is equivalent to the median.
I anonymously visit coffee shops in Vancouver,BC and then review them. Also consult for a large IT firm to make actually money.
There is an insect researcher who has been doing that to research nest structure. Article and photos here [1]. Some ants have very interesting architecture for their nests.

[1] http://www.core77.com/posts/23607/walter-tschinkels-aluminum...
Ask HN: Who has/is looking for housing in the Bay Area?
The pen vs pencil thing is a total canard by the author, who is looking to 'dress-up' his indignation. Hand the form to the subject. Hand a pen to the subject. Subject reads and signs the form. Take the form from the subject. Take the pen from the subject. Job done.

It's not like the patient will go bonkers stabbing-crazy the millisecond their flesh touches a pen.
As a 32 y/o m with no preconditions my silver-ish plan in the US is $500/mo though I get reimbursed some of that by my employer (while the ACA is in place at least).
Master student in Computer Science
I'm on COBRA in SF and pay close to $1000/mo. Ridiculously expensive.
One thing I really appreciate from companies is when they give me a policy with just the permissions they absolutely need to function (or a reference to a cross-account policy). That way I can review it and I'm not dicking around with trying to figure out the right permissions, and I know what all you may have access to. Getting s3 objects may be a deal breaker for example, unless the action is properly scoped to a bucket.
thats not what that says

what people tolerate has nothing to do with my "literal beliefs"
Technical co-founder @ https://www.tesorio.com
Has anyone tried holding the people who run public institutions there accountable for their failure?
My next startup will just be a shed full of potatoes

Will be targeting the English market
Film editor.
I find this question difficult. I write code, I design systems, I manage complexity and prevent complex from becoming complicated. I am CTO, I am developer, I am founder and Co founder. I am coffee maker too. When asked I usually say "I make software".
I pay $1200 on cobra for me and my wife. It's a pretty good plan though.
Ok thanks. Might be good to mention comparable AWS services (and maybe others) in your faq. Its only because of this being on HN that I gave it more then a few seconds of consideration ;-) If I ran into it by accident I might have missed the essence.
Happy to see this. TI's newer stuff isn't intuitive unless you grew up using their weird interfaces on the TI-8x series. Somebody needs to move the needle on usability, and I appreciate having physical, dedicated calculator hardware for some problems. Sometimes I need a Mathematica project, sometimes I just want a pad of paper and a decent calculator.
Ah I see, I forgot that in the SSL attack the attacker had to choose both certificate prefixes as opposed to just one. Thanks!

It does seem to me though that if I could coerce/direct the site into accepting one image that I created, I could manage to replicate a second, different file throughout the network. Obviously assuming I computed both images ahead of time and both image formats were unperturbed by the nonsense appended to file by the attack.
So you don't need that new law?
If a US company wants to handle the data of an EU citizen then they'll have to comply or be fined as well.

And if you're complying because you want users in the EU, then you might as well design your system to comply for everybody. And that's a Good Thing as more privacy is better.
Regarding the cookie warning, I was mostly thinking about this infographic humorously describing the delta between what was originally intended and what was eventually implemented [https://silktide.com/app/uploads/2013/01/Cookie-Law-infograp...]. As well as the ICO back-pedaling from explicit consent to implied consent (https://www.out-law.com/articles/2013/january/ico-to-change-...).

I take it the actual implementation went a bit more smoothly than the infographic suggests?
> any large organization or government

China is already well on their way to doing this, with Jihan Wu and the emergence of larger mining 'cartels'.
Ketchup is a good mix of acidity and sweetness - nothing wrong with it.
I didn't say he said them. He strongly implied them. You're being uncharitable with this reply.
Too Big to Fail by Andrew Ross Sorkin only helped me to start appreciating this. It is incomprehensible that lots of the same folks are still in leadership positions. Follow the money, indeed.
.net developer, python, nodejs and php

I trade some bitcoins and stocks

I also sell some stuff on my shop

I ran Pokemon go events in theme parks to test Facebook ads

I bitch about being to busy and then I find something new which interests me that I don't have time to do :)
> What if you run an online payroll service?

Then you should already be treating your data in this way. If you're not, then I'm glad you're being forced to now.

As for your other point, sure. Customers should absolutely have a say in what happens to their data.
But that's not as fun to design and build.
In case you overlooked, Raymond H explained it in another thread[1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15135569
Why must we stand on principles?
Turns out it's a bad idea to ignore regulators enforcing the law.
Yeah, at some point I no longer have time or energy for that. I wish you luck, though!

You may be able to change some audience views but you're more dedicated than I. I've tried reason. I am a scientist. I have explained scientific method and had so many bizarre responses that I guess I've just learned to not engage when people demonstrate willful ignorance.

Honestly, it's not even always from the people you expect. Not that long ago, someone was telling me that sea levels were going to rise by 54' by 2050 and that it was 'a proven science fact.' I gave them a whole bunch of data and citations but I'm a mathematician and not a climate scientist - thus they decided I was an uninformed liar and declared themselves the victor.

I was pretty baffled by that one, actually. I'm really certain that AGW is a serious problem. I'm also really certain the sea isn't going to rise that much by 2050. I know, because I read the research and understand it well enough.

I don't know... Maybe I'm jaded and disillusioned.
Front-end developer.
Agreed, but let's point fingers at the whole stack if we want this to happen.

Treble [0] will finally add a HAL to the base system, so updates to the kernel and drivers should in theory be easier on devices that ship with 8.0 (of which there are exactly zero so far). So at least Google's on the right track.

But Google doesn't create the drivers and Google doesn't ship the board support packages which vendors build upon. And so we come to Qualcomm, Samsung, Mediatek, and whoever else is shipping proprietary drivers for their SoCs and radios, and who don't provide binaries for new ABIs.

The workaround is libhybris, which Ubuntu Touch, Sailfish, and now PMOS are using to support drivers built against Android kernels and its userspace, but that is so fraught with issues that it can't possibly be supported by Google or the vendors.

So we have Android 8.0 shipping with a 4.4 minimum to support the lowest common denominator of BSPs, and it kind of has to be that way until some market force changes the landscape. I don't have high hopes for either of the projects you mentioned, sadly.

[0] https://source.android.com/devices/architecture/treble
it also makes the law enforcement more expensive and, in this case, more wasteful.
>Does that mean you avoid services like facebook or google?

Like the fucking plague. You should too.
That term is an oxymoron.
Don't load the shotguns, turn off the safety, point it at their foot and tell them “please be careful”.
The interesting thing is that HN is usually a place where people are usually quite militant about their data not being used for purposes other than intended.

From the responses in this thread, it seems HNer's are actually fine with their data being used for secret reasons without their consent, as long as it means less bureaucracy. "How dare you use my data for your own purposes... unless it helps you avoid an inconveniencing committee, then go for it!"
I understand why the article is focusing on the "misconfiguration" but the real mistake here is asking for (and providing) sensitive data via email at all.
>Hell, the percentages should be higher.

The European Parliament wanted a higher percentage but that got negotiated down during discussions with the Council of the European Union.
A pipe delivering enough to refill groundwater levels in CA would still be very useful though...
Divinity: Original Sin 2 Trailer
We could have a "water your lawn" day and use up a bunch without touching the reservoirs.
>Google has monopoly in terms of YouTube.

And I have a monopoly in terms of my living room, and have as much right to control what happens in my space as google does in theirs. Other living rooms, and other websites, can similarly set their own policies.

Yes, there's a point beyond which a single company can become so large and pervasive that it shades into monopoly, and antitrust measures become necessary. Whether Google is at that point or not is debatable, but ISPs certainly are. Congratulations on being in the minority of Americans that has more than one viable choice for broadband, I guess.

In any case, whatever your feelings about YouTube, this hardly constitutes an argument that therefore net neutrality is unnecessary -- in comments elsewhere you've made clear that you do in fact support net neutrality, so I'm really not clear what this contrarian posturing is aimed at.
> Keep in mind that the EU/US Safe Harbor agreement got axed due to a lawsuit of a single student from Vienna against Facebook.

Almost every US supreme court decision come from a single guy challenging something. Are you suggesting that under a certain size, one shouldn't be allowed to sue in court?
If I see an approve/disapprove button, I try to click it if it's for something I've chosen to consume (watch, buy, visit, etc). If it's a decision I'm glad I made, I thumb it up. If it's a decision I regret making, I thumb it down. People and systems will read that input for one of two ways: either optimizing stuff for my preferences, or using that data to make choices further in line with my preferences. Either way, the world is marginally more like I like it.
Nice to see this progress, hopefully it's a serious part of the roadmap and not just a side experiment.
You could be sitting on the ground minding your own business, not hear a hive and one will climb on you and start bitting.

Does that count for causing torment for no reason?

That is one of the many reasons why it is unusual to sit directly on the ground in Florida without something like a picnic blanket.
There are ~500 cities with population over one million, so I think we are going to be seeing a 500-year disaster hit a million-plus city about once a year.
Yes, but who exactly is processing personal data with zero revenue?
Maybe it's time to get rid of privatized prisons and maximizing incarceration and felony convictions. May also be time to start expunging most felony records after N years. Who tries to start a large-ish business when 1/12 the population is caught, how many other felonies are committed? This is of course only part of the problem.

In the end, it's time to look at the value proposition everywhere, cutting education as deeply as they have should be a last resort. I'm all for cutting in most places, but it's pretty clear that they have larger issues to address than 4-day schools and a 1:12 felony rate will fix.
Moving to Parquet Files as a System-Of-Record
> why not use X

Because X doesn't run in a browser
> Once the earths defense systems are triggered we simply die.

Citation/clarification needed. Does your 'we' mean 'all of us'?

To be clear, there are very few people who have been alarmed for as many years as I have been about climate change. And my alarm only deepens over the years.

It's hard for me to imagine a reasonable way that humans will become extinct. I can imagine billions of us passing away.
You can't buy DevOps, but you may need to sell it
A Linux file system developer in theory, a "this is broken and is in/related to the kernel" developer in practice.
That' almost 100 trillon litres. In a few hours it is.

So 1 with 14 zeros after. A cubic meter is 1,000 litres. So we are talking 100 billion cubic meters. Or the same as 100 cubic km.

Or the same amount of water as in a deep square lake which is 10 times 10 km wide and 1 km deep.

Or a square lake which is almost 32 km on each side and 100 meters deep.

Or a shallow square lake which is 1 meter deep and roughly 317 km on each side.
Wickedness as mother beat her daughter and pour pepper into her virgina
Newton Cab Company Closing, Citing Competition from Ride-Hailing Apps
the link says they didn't pay, not that they didn't license the name
Two-factor authentication beta for moderators
The Why and How of Google AMP at Condé Nast