skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anonymous participants in genome research have been re-identified in the past [0]. In one of these examples, people were re-identified merely using zip code, date of birth and gender. Everyone should assume that they can be identified once they have revealed even a few personal datapoints. The genome contains millions of datapoints.

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamtanner/2013/04/25/harvard-p...
I don't know about that, I trust Mark Zuckerberg more than that.
Even today, people rarely die from Alzheimer's, because something else gets them first, as Alzheimer's is a very slowly progressing disease.
Yeah that includes cached resources. But in my opinion that's even worse since it's not an app that I would anticipate needing so much cached information.

Music or Photo applications I would expect to grow in size with use. But for something like Facebook to grow 5x in size on my phone with use seems rather disingenuous. Like "hey we reduced our upfront app size by grabbing assets after install!".

Maybe I'm misunderstanding what's happening here?
Agreed. I wonder how long before most of FB's users notice how aggressive this is and, perhaps more likely, how boring the feed becomes with these tricks.

Is FB getting more aggressive because it wants even more or because it is actually losing clicks/logons/attention?
I keep trying to do exactly that, the majority of my time wasted on my phone is spent in Chrome. Almost every other app I have left is a valuable unix-esque utility, like weather, radar, notes, chat, etc.
They're too busy having google music and youtube red already being the same thing.
Notice below I stated that I believe racism unhealthy for the human race as a whole - I can back my argument up.

A racist may be capable of making a racial purity argument to the same point, however, the racist's argument will infringe on real freedoms (give certain people less because of the color of their skin) whereas my argument is snip that mindset out of the culture as a whole.

I get what you're saying, all morality is arbitrary, and yes I agree. However, I've made a decision, and you don't exactly get a lot of points for a morality argument as a perfect nihilist. At some point you have to put some skin in the game, and that's what I'm doing here.
Reddit takes user's content on the assumption there is value. In the case where there is liability and no value, they are not interested in the content(makes sense).

I think the future is in a decentralized reddit-type system where content creators and curators are rewarded for their contributions fairly.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/s/stanley-millionaire.htm...

This article is about people with more than $1 million in assets (sample median of $1.6 million).

"About 80 percent of us are first-generation affluent."

" On average, we invest nearly 20 percent of our household realized income each year."

" Our household's total annual realized (taxable) income is $131,000"
Here's what I've realized lately. Our product is for teachers (K-6 mostly) who tend to not be very techy. They use phones, tablets, etc. to the extent that they need to. We spent TONS of time optimizing our website for mobile. At one point it was a PWA that was very optimized and had like a 95 lighthouse score (not anymore because of finicky SW behavior). They didn't care one bit. Like, not even one little bit. To them, it was annoying that it wasn't "an app".

I don't think this battle is one of "build good enough mobile web experiences", it's more "convince non-techy users that a good mobile web experience is good enough for you in x% of cases." For us who read HN, we're jaded on apps, installs, 100mb of storage wasted. For the less techy world, they don't feel the pain we do, and that will continue to be a problem.
I'm 5' 4".

I've generally found that in a professional setting, my height is not generally an issue.

However, if, at a bar, my height is considerably (>= 6-8") below the median of the people i'm hanging out with, interjection does require more effort than it does amongst those who are closer to my own height.

It may just be pure acoustics :P

[Edit: in case it isn't clear, this is in situations where everyone is standing]
Yup. And for those rare occasions you need to use facebook messaging, use mbasic.facebook.com so that facebook doesn't "force" you to install their messenger app!
>When will google decide let's encrypt is not secure enough and start giving a warning around that

When they start issuing illegitimate certificates.
I thought this was going to be the salaries of employees at a school. I was going to check my son's elementary school.
You can be found in contempt of Congress if you decline the subpoena. But keep in mind that people who are subpoenaed to testify in criminal cases but are not a defendant nor suspected of any crime can be found in contempt of court for not testifying. In fact, the only time you can refuse to testify is when you are accused of a crime, as you can invoke the Fifth Amendment. (But in the case of Congressional testimony, you'll still have to show up and assert the Fifth. In a criminal trial where you are the defendant you'd just not take the stand at all.)

I am not a lawyer. But as a layperson, I find your objection to be a non-sequitur; I assume that most people who testify before Congress are not suspected of wrong-doing.
One would like to think it would be handled by auto manufacturers. But one would be DEAD (literally) wrong. We found this out a few years ago when Toyota killed a couple people with their cars and their "unintended acceleration". The degree to which they were egregiously negligent was astonishing. They were doing development around 2010... and didn't have a bug tracker. Just, nope, no way for developers to keep track of and tell one another about bugs. Who would need such a luxury? Just don't make bugs! The auto industry has a big list of 90+ required standard practices in coding firmware, and 30+ 'recommended' practices. Toyota claimed to adopt 9 of the required ones, but repeatedly violated 3 in the code, nailing 6. The CPU didn't even have error-checking RAM despite Toyotas claims that it did. It was patently absurd how bad - and how utterly standard - their practices were.

And the court looked at it and said "yep, no negligence here. Software has no standards. There are no licensed engineers to hire. Go ahead and do whatever the hell you want, even if it kills people you're fine." No company is going to take the millions of dollars worth of precautions necessary to prevent things like that.
Did you read the story? While all the other reports were saying "Struts was the problem," this story states that this claim was highly dubious and why it was questionable.
Today I finished unfollowing everything on my fb feed. Now it's just 5 or 6 ads, some relevant, some not. I'm curious to see if this cures the addiction.
Well, according to the summary of this the level of hate speech usage in other subreddits didn't change. So basically Reddit got rid of r/fatpeoplehate and the stuff that went on there, but the culture in the rest of the site remained the same.
My favorite is a push notification to the effect of, "You haven't posted in N weeks. Would you like to post something?" The first time I got it it was annoying. Then it kept happening weekly, by the third time I deleted the app.
I also have direct experience with the opposite: an older friend (late 50s), socially isolated, who over the last year or two has self-radicalized into a hardcore Muslim hater.

A few years ago he was just a plain ol' gentle soul, and he liked to watch those militant atheist videos on Youtube (I have no opinion about such). I guess one of them had some sort of anti-Islam recommended video that caught his eye, because I remember the day we went out for lunch and he told me about a video he watched about Islam.

I have quite a few Muslim friends so I spent some time gently dissecting what he was saying. None of what I said stuck. Over the following year, he got deep into the rabbit hole, until how awful Muslims are is all he'd talk about.

I had to end the friendship, despite my efforts to talk him out of that, because that garbage had literally become the entirety of what he was into/wanted to chat about. (Objectionable and boring, hah.)
I've got a pretty long laundry list of a moral code, but we're not talking about my moral code as a whole right now. It's not topical.
Most of that is advertising deals and/or new products.
Most batteries are made to be recycled. Only a fool throws rechargeable batteries in the trash (not to mention such batteries being bad for the environment disposed of in such a manner).

There are plenty of places to recycle both lithium-chemistry and lead-acid batteries (plus any mercury containing hearing-aid and similar cells). For car batteries, you can usually trade in the old battery for the "core charge", otherwise there are places that purchase old lead acid car batteries and similar.

Virtually everything in those batteries is recycled, and usually turned into new batteries again (heck, I think they ever recycle the sulphuric acid, too).
If you literally don't care what the price tag is, hire a personal driver. People do. But you actually do care about the price tag.
Just What Is Microsoft Azure Blockchain Council?
You get matched to projects based on skill set. I only advertised myself as PHP and Node, so that's what I've been assigned to (75% node/angular/mysql, 25% PHP/angular/mysql).
which communicates that the not-trusting is a change

Not necessarily. "Plan to distrust" would be consistent with "a company has announced that they're going to start issuing certificates; we won't trust them". You and I know that Symantec is a major CA which is currently trusted by Chrome, but that isn't implied by the headline.
> Less Facebook == more happy

More productive, less distracted, etc., sure but was FB really getting you down that much? Am I just using Facebook "wrong" in that it's not upsetting me the same way it upsets others?
Shhhh, why do you have to mention that for. You're responding to a comment that concluded "Less Facebook == more happy" with an alternate way to increase access to Facebook.
I haven't heard of this website before. Don't forget that bad publicity is still publicity.
Wouldn't decompiled/disassembled wasm code be about as readable as unminified JavaScript?
It's useful for no-name companies, an EV certificate highlights a company that went through unnecessary pain just to get a little green checkbox - I know I personally trust smaller online retailers more when they have one since they've had to prove their identity to a CA. Nobody notices the lack of EV on amazon.com, because, well, it's Amazon.
> I'd argue that the best outcome for the human race would be a culture that purges all racist and other arbitrarily prejudiced mindsets that judge entire populations on untenable grounds (race, gender, etc).

Except most people are not good with nuance. Distinguishing justified judgment from unjustified is pretty much hopeless. Just read any thread anywhere discussing any politically charged issue, like sexism and racism. Purely factual statements are always labelled sexist or racist if they don't support a particular narrative, and sexist or racist sentiments that follow that narrative are applauded. And of course actual sexism and racism is similarly absurd.

The point being that the "untenable grounds for prejudiced mindsets" is sufficiently slippery in and of itself that you haven't escaped the slippery slope argument. People will understand "untenable grounds" to mean what they want it to mean, and we're right back here where we started.

The argument for unrestricted free speech then is, do you have more confidence in the position that speech of type X is unequivocally morally wrong AND that whoever is enforcing morally righteous speech understands the proper nuance not to overreach, or do you have more confidence in the position that people ought to be able to speak about their beliefs without violent reprisal? Because I think these are mutually exclusive.
They're catching up to where Europe was 200 years ago? Kind of insulting to Brazilians, don't you think?
Please don't concern troll.
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SPF, DKIM and DMARC are about authentication not deliverability. They do have some impact on deliverability but their primary usage is authentication. The main way that intersects with reputation is that properly authenticating allows various mailbox providers like gmail, et al to apply more weight to your domain reputation in their inbox placement algorithms.
Casino Hacked through a Fish Tank - Problems with the IoT
Price is the #1 reason I do not choose to shop at Whole Foods. If they fixed price, I'd be in there a lot more - the food is generally better, but not so much better to justify the price increase (for me).
One minor point: Luxembourg the country has a city called Luxembourg inside it. Luxembourg the country isn't a city state, though. It has other cities/towns/villages.
The one that finally did it for me was the "Do you know x?" notification that I couldn't disable.
There is some evidence but not "pretty good" evidence. There isn't much evidence written in the time he was supposed to have been alive. Most of it was written long after the fact by 3rd parties.
Same. I initially only uninstalled messenger (which intolerably presented me with a popup asking me to enable notifications EVERY TIME I OPENED THE APP), then got rid of the FB app. Now even on my laptop facebook.com is pointing at localhost in /etc/hosts, which makes me edit a root file to look at it. I'm much, much happier. If it works for you, cool, but if you're dissatisfied and considering abandoning it anyway, I can offer anecdotally that it has been a great decision for me.

(The only reason I don't close my account: I check it once every week or so, because I have older family members for whom this is probably as far as they're going into the world of social media and I feel a bit guilty either pressuring them to use some alternative or disconnecting from them further, as they are unlikely to understand my dissatisfaction with the FB product and much more likely to take it personally)
Right on! Total agreement here. Since I was pretty addicted (as of about a year ago), not only did I delete the app from my phone, I changed my passsword to one generated by LastPass (e.g. totally freaking hard to memorize). This re-enforces the fact that the only EASY way to get on FB is via my laptop:)
>Unlike most Silicon Valley companies, Apple’s business model is one of "Data Liability." Unlike Google or Facebook which use advertising to extract value from users’ personal information, Apple focuses on selling things that protect a user's data from all unauthorized access — including by Apple. Basically, Apple views user data as a headache, not a monetization opportunity.

https://lawfareblog.com/ios-11-may-complicate-border-searche...
Which desk would you suggest for a studio?
Do you know of a great desk that can comfortably seat two people in a studio?
"Tales from 'narrative spinners' are trying to change our city's formula for success"

No offense, but I don't necessarily trust a local paper to be a no-spin-zone about the disaster either.
Amazing data: Hurricane Irma from space
Since they changed the timeline to the point where it's impossible for me to see things in reverse chronological order (even if I try to tell it to), I've unfollowed EVERYTHING, set up notifications for the few family members whose posts I don't want to miss, and mostly quit using it for anything but family. I'm so tired of all the ads and marketing crap. I was missing posts I cared about and just seeing crap every day. No thanks.
The most important features on Facebook are hide, unfollow, and block.
I think there is a bit of a difference, just because the only reason one has a job, ostensibly, is to get money so one can feed themselves and others. Usually signing up with a military has more to it. But, even in those cases, the US Soldier's Oath I know explicitly includes an oath to never follow an illegal order. And we found out during the Nuremberg Trials just how dangerous it is when people put their head down and say 'just following orders'. Every human being is given the ability to control their own actions, and that responsibility can never (OK almost never, humans are complicated, one might argue soldiers that are trained to the point of killing on reflex and who then get PTSD from seeing their body do something their conscious mind would never permit before it can intervene might have a case) be given up.
You will need an Extended Validation (EV) certificate to get your name in the bar. To get it to go green you "only" need a Domain Validation (DV) certificate.

In simple terms: DV proves you own your DNS domain and EV proves that your real world entity owns the DNS domain.

Lets Encrypt will only do DV and quite right too. EV costs a far bit more because it should require some proper checks - for example checking Company's House in the UK for a Limited Company's details and matching them up against real people.

You can set a flag in Chrom{ium!e} that will put a link to the cert in the menu that drops down when you click on the green bit, saving you a trip to dev tools. Go to chrome://flags and search for "Show certificate link". Don't know why it isn't the default.
Serval actually does this with WiFi mesh networking.

http://www.servalproject.org/
Facebook is almost becoming Farcebook.
Senior developer with experience as a former director of engineering, but yeah, $199k last year, tracking for $205k this year.
Truth can not be libel.
I wish browser vendors would let me choose a trusted entity and make it simple for me to trust only CAs that my trusted entity supports, or the intersection of what multiple trusted entities endorse.

The incentive for a mass-market browser is to trust pretty much everything, but I'd prefer to use a browser that is a bit more paranoid.

If a website can't load properly because I don't trust one or more of the CAs, I might want to temporarily "live dangerously" but would be a bit more cautious about typing data into a form, etc.

Browser vendors should not try to create a one-size-fits-all list of trusted CAs, since there is obviously a very different level of trust deserved by various CAs based on the track record of each one.

If I were a state actor intelligence agency, compromising CAs would be toward the top of my list because of the amazing opportunity for man-in-the-middle attacks.

Distrusting Symantec certificates is a great step in the right direction.
While bunnie is great and this is interesting research, I have a few issues with it:

-Slightly ridiculous threat model (trust should be achieved at the silicon and work its way up, not the reverse). If you don't trust your phone's hardware or software, switch phones. IMHO working towards improving trust and security features is better spent time than trying to shift trust from the phone to the tools you use to monitor and distrust it.

-While journalists are heavily targeted, the research is nihilistic and feeds into fears of 0days. If someone out there has the ability to remotely turn off airplane mode, they aren't going to burn it outside of a WW3-level crises.

-Re: 'silent phone'. What use is an unnetworked phone? Can't call, email, message, find directions, lookup topics, backup recordings. Journalists use phones because they are useful, not because they need to be perfectly secured.
What car requires an oil change every couple of months?
"I’m likely not going to delete Facebook entirely since I do genuinely enjoy staying in touch with the people in my life, and for better or worse Facebook is where those people hang out"

Is it likely that most people are willing to move and the only problem is there are no compelling options?
I'd go buy a Bolt right now if it had the autopilot a Tesla has. They are readily available, relatively inexpensive, and can travel nearly 300 miles on a charge. Try and find a Model3 right now!
Church schools in Ireland are no longer allowed to hire only practicing coreligionists? How do they still function as church schools?
I like that the author ran out of steam for whimsical allegory & contrived examples after a page or two, and the rest of the chapter reads very tightly & well.

Also nice to see another explanation of lexical scoping, to complement my understanding of perl's pads[0].

0: http://hop.perl.plover.com/book/pdf/03CachingAndMemoization.... pp65-80
Not really... sorry.
This has been extremely helpful, and I took it a step further the other week by uninstalling twitter.
Not having a constant stream of news that I can endlessly scroll through has improved my sense of well-being immensely.