skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that's unfair: A lot of people have attempted to solve these problems(), and the Windows Way™ has it's own problems. The real answer is probably between elastic infrastructure and the fact that computers got faster and cheaper, and so -- at least for a while the number of people needing solutions here went down.

https://lwn.net/Articles/219954/

* https://lwn.net/Articles/223899/

* https://lwn.net/Articles/221913/

* https://lwn.net/Articles/316806/

* https://lwn.net/Articles/612038/

* https://lwn.net/Articles/671658/

* http://www.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu/~vass/linux-aio.txt

* http://ogris.de/howtos/splice.html

And so on.

However a few companies have seen real commercial benefit from actually analysing their data, so we're seeing a lot of "big data" interest. Some of these companies have noticed that a bunch of hadoop/mongo/whatever boxes can't even approach the performance of one "big" box tuned right, so we're seeing somewhat of a resurgence in interest here.
It is being a luddite - in a good way! Don't knock the luddites, they had analogous concerns.

They didn't hate machines or novelty per se, they hated the specifics of how the machines were affecting their quality of life.

Same with facebook - networked communications might be OK (remains to be seen if you ask me), but the socio-technical-political blob that is facebook's implementation of same has side effects that lots of us find horrible.

Pedantry over.
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If they have any sense they should outsource the whole thing.
It could also lead to a too many chefs situation, since every contributor would have a steak in the outcome.
- Keep trying to fix it. Keep going.

- Go through, line by line, testing your assumptions about what the code should do.

- Re-read all the documentation about any libraries you're using, do you really understand what that function is doing?

- Ask someone else to look at the code (if there is someone), often they can see obvious errors that you're brain is now bypassing.
OK, thanks :)

But still, there are some questions that you'd arguably never want to say "yes" to. Such as, did you visit some verboten site (terrorist, child porn, etc) today?

So how can an algorithm "know" which questions it's safe to use differential privacy with, and which it isn't?

Or would you argue that it's safe enough to use differential privacy with even such questions?
I presume in the same way that wireless breaks SSL.
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No the ISO setting works in the analog domain, amplifying the signal prior to digitisation, so it is different from digital postprocessing. Edit: apparently my knowledge on this is outdated.
I would be interested in an experiment.
Do sales with comission and without and compare the results. Also consider that without having to pay comission you could hire more salespeople for the comissionless model.

I bet that there should not be a significant difference in the amount you are selling.
Indeed that's something Cal Newport has been always saying!

Social media is engineered to be addictive and hooking us while the BS reason that we give to be on social networking for is to gain popularity but popularity would follow us when we do Deep work! https://hackernoon.com/hackers-guide-to-internet-minimalism-...
OK, thanks :)

But ... [please see reply to omarforgotpwd].
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Short story: from German Literature to Neuroscience, after a family member was diagnosed with mental illness. Once In Neuroscience, almost literally no research questions I was interested in could be answered without substantial computer science expertise, started taking compsci courses and ABSOLUTELY LOVED THEM. And thus: Bioinformatics!

Well, ah, I'm paused at the moment, my wife got semi-unexpectedly pregnant after quite a number of years unsuccessfully trying to do so - she is a salesperson and makes more than me (I was an intern at a genomics startup at the time) so I am being the dad, finishing school, and working on side projects while we map out what we do next - We're planning on swapping roles as soon as I'm finished with school and it's otherwise workable. That does mean I'm focusing more on programming than the data science/bioinformatics side of things, but I'll keep my eyes open for opportunities there too, never know exactly what will happen. Also, the baby is totally amazing, and I adore being his Dad, seriously, I wish stay home dads were a much more common thing than we are, it's freaking fantastic, makes me wish things worked differently to facilitate a pair of parents staying home with anc raising a child as their primary function. :)
Even if the monkey did it consciously, it did it with stolen equipment, on a mission somebody paid good money to go and setup. And of course the photographer set the camera's settings too -- pressing the button is the easiest part.

In fact, lots of nature photographers use "camera traps" with automatic trigger sensor when an animal walks nearby -- which is the same as the "animal pushing the trigger" and nobody seriously suggests those are photos the animals took.
> External images are regularly abused to track if the email has been viewed, which I consider creepy.

My understanding was that external images are automatically fetched and cached on their servers by Google, so they can't be reliably used to track message views [1]. Has this changed?

[1] https://gmail.googleblog.com/2013/12/images-now-showing.html
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Hi @davymac, I appreciate your feedback. I'll just get it tested asap. Are there any other noteworthy improvements you would like to suggest?
OTOH it is easy to teach human drivers to behave carefully and differently when they encounter a self driving car. They could even require special marking or color on the cars. People learn to be careful with trains, trams etc so i don't see why they won't learn to behave more rationally when a SD car is passing by.
When this came up a few hours previous, one of the comments (at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15224617 ) said "Swish is an app for micropayments. ... Everybody took swish and almost everybody paid by swish." Isn't that the same niche as contactless/RFID payments?
I haven't had to figure out anything like that in the last few years. I'm not very social - I hang out with friends a few times a month and usually just hack on stuff and drink a few beers.

I've got lots of radios though, and I use them sometimes if I'm doing a convoy or camping, etc.
Economics + Agenda = New way to learn economics.

Not a more correct, or better, way.
Continents are basically rafts of granite. Like any raft, if you put more stuff on it, it sinks a bit.
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> 5 years of updates for a smartphone is pretty good.

As mentioned, I don't mind about OS updates, I care about browser updates or at least patches for iOS Safari.

> By now, the battery cells will be damaged, the CPU/RAM too slow or limited, the flash memory wearing out

Nope. The battery on my iPad3 is fine. iPads should not be classed as a "throw-away" replaceable product like phones seem to be. CPU and RAM is fine for web browsing and most apps. Flash memory wearing out? Gimme a break.

Every Steam game homepage gallery is broken now on browsers that don't support ES6 javascript. The highlight player doesn't display images or video since recent update to their website. I previously enjoyed browsing Steam on my iPad looking for new games. Example:

http://store.steampowered.com/app/449640/Bloody_Zombies/

Note, I partly blame Steam web devs for not making it backwards compatible, but also Apple for denying Safari any updates because of their dirty business model of abandoning their own products. Disgusting lack of modern environmentally concerned tech life-cycle standards. They boast about green packaging for products destined for the grave in only 5 years.
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That's the second half of the quote:

> Or get it from a trusted source that did the review for you.

Incidentally, curl has been reviewed by the Mozilla Secure Open Source project [0], who maintain lists of audits which include checksums within the report. Maybe you're looking for something similar?

[0] https://wiki.mozilla.org/MOSS/Secure_Open_Source
It differs between the different camera sensors. With CCD sensors, there were switchable amplifiers, but sometimes camera companies added software-pushed sensitivities. The most modern CMOS sensors are called ISO-less as the higher ISOs are implemented not by changing the amplification, but by digital post-processing. So for a wide range of exposures, there is little difference between higher ISO settings and pushing in post-processing. There might be some slight differences after all, as the in-camera processing might vary as well as some low bits skipped at low ISO values.
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I don't entirely agree. Pre-emptive action could be a 5% higher chance of buying an iPhone, or a bump in existing iPhone user's stickiness to the platform (you value keeping something you have more than not getting something you don't). That's enough to make a significant difference.

Other than financial data I don't particularly value my privacy. I post on many online forums under my own name and even my alias here is a composition of elements of my name. I use Google services quite happily and have no material gripes with the company. But still as an iPhone user it's good to know that Apple has my back on this and I'd really hate to lose that feeling.

Also I don't think this is entirely a commercial decision on Apple's part. They must know very well that taking an absolute stance on customer privacy puts them diametrically at odds with the interests of the Chinese government. China hasn't taken many overt steps against them (though they shut down iTunes movies and iBooks and chipping away at Apple Pay and other services with onerous regulations), but does anyone really doubt that they're working away in the background to try to help Apple's competitors and slow down Apple sales and service expansion in China? There's no way the Chinese government can be happy with Apple's privacy stance and nunlike int he West Apple doesn't have the shield of the law to protect them in China. They stand naked against the Chinese government, but they're still doing it. That takes some real conviction. I really don't think I'm exaggerating in saying that this stance on privacy may very well cost them any chance of a dominant position in the Chinese market. It's certainly running a real material risk of that anyway.
>The picture did not capture creative expression of the photographer.

That's extremely provincial and 19th century view of the matter.

In modern art all kinds of artists including photographers give creative control to random elements and processes.

It's the setup they built and the creative concept behind it that defines their artwork, not the details like "composition/timing" which they can leave to chance, others, etc. (Yes, in some works even "composition" and "subject matter captured" can be detail left to chance -- this is often the case in e.g. generational music and painting, where the artist just sets up the general framework).
I don't think this approach applies in such situations, and wouldn't be a good idea if it did.

It may help with categories of sites, like "did you visit a news site today" or "did you watch porn".
From a company's perspective the nice thing there is that they can push some risk to the sales people. If they build a shotty product nobody wants the sales people earn less, while not being responsible ...
>but I'm to tired to bother.

By all means, do. As far as I can see, these do not work without the enforced isolation of running as userspace processes.

>Burning up 100% of a core to copy packets between userspace, the kernel, and then DMA'ing them to the device is pointlessly slow.

That's not how it usually works.
Cryptocurrency minted through these ICO's from a fundamental case represents quantifiable ownership of a network. If many people are involved then the network will continue value.

I always like to relate it to many of these tech networks like twitter which will never make a profit. The twitter network itself is extremely valuable, twitter the company is fundamentally not.

These networks will continue to be supported by their users, and that is how a cryptocurrency derives it's fundamental value.
How is there an argument that it would take too much code? He gives the example of how inserting an off-by-one error can lead to complete compromise of your machine. Inserting an off-by-one error shouldn't be too much code.
The photographer probably feels like this person:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1tsGGz-Qw0

And PETA and those ruling against him are jerks of the "friend"'s in the clip caliber.
If you have no roof access from the attic, and the water level rises, you are stuck.
type "man 3p pwrite" on your local up-to-date Linux box)

Or, of course, type "man 3p write" into Google, there are many man-page sites.

I typically use die.net [1] which is among my top search hits. It could do with some cleaning of the web versions, but it's fine.

[1] https://linux.die.net/man/3/pwrite
Isn't that blackmailing?
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Bummer. That's extremely sad.

They really do need to get that release out, and move on.
Same issue with the wild pigs up here in the North. Friends who hunt them say that the boar meat is delicious (far better than kangaroo), but it has risks with infections and other parasites that can be transmitted to humans.
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I have created a new app that aims to remove such a boring persistent notification. Keep the app installed and such annoying notifications will never appear again.

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Depending on the roof construction it may not be that easy. A true least not without tools. And then you're very likely to end up trapped in there and drown if the water level comes up over your roofline
They are also closer to management - having drinks with higher ups and important customers, going to events. They tend to be more fun to be around and in a better mood. I'm an engineer and I am really not happy about this industry habit. I think it is simply not fair.
You may or may not know this, but that mindset is the exact reason the produce in major chains are so crappy in taste. It's not cheap to produce food, and if you want something that actually taste good it's more expensive.

People rave about cheap meat, eggs, and diary products. But anyone that has actually been involved in producing it, knows that the price you see today is not sustainable unless you only optimize for quantity, and the expense of everything else.
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Which is great for everyone. The company gets predictable estimates, the developer gets a stress-free life. A shorter but unmet deadline is worse for everyone, specially the company, even if the product is still delivered sooner than the padded deadline.
>What makes Xen so bloated?

Size, in kLOC, of the hypervisor itself, which runs entirely in supervisor mode and, as such, is part of the TCB.
Scarce electricity would raise prices, making solar more economical to install.
This is a very real threat for all software, open source and commercial, and hard to completely fix.

That said there are a number of possible mitigations and the fact that they're not more widespread is, to me, an indication that people who rely on software don't think that this threat is worth the trade-off of the additional costs or time that mitigating it would take.

For example :-

- Requiring packages signed by the developers for all package managers (e.g. https://theupdateframework.github.io/ ) . This would help mitigate the risk of a compromise on the package managers hosting, but we see many large software repositories that either don't have the concept or don't make much use of it (e.g. npm, rubygems, pip)

- Having some form of third party review of software packages. It would be possible for popular packages like curl to get regular security reviews by independent bodies. That doesn't completely remove the problem of backdoors but it makes it harder for one to go undetected. This one has obvious costs both in financial terms and also in terms of delaying new releases of those packages while reviews are done. There are some things which act a bit like this (e.g. bug bounty programmes) but they're not uniform or regular.

- Liability for insecure software. Really only applies to commercial software, but at the moment there doesn't seem to be much in the way of liability for companies having insecure software, which in turn reduces their incentives to spend money addressing the problem.

I'm sure a load of commercial software includes curl or libcurl, but if there was a backdoor in it that affected that sofware, I don't think the companies would have any liability for it at the moment, so there's no incentive for them to spend money preventing it.
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Deleted Facebook in 2011 and I've never looked back. I've got a faceless account with no personal data whatsoever I use for social log-ins but that's it. It's popular to bash social networks but I think it's probably more effective to thoroughly educate users on the tactics used by social networks to keep users hooked.
Reminds me of badBIOS[1]. A security researcher became sure he was infected by a very advanced piece of malware that could hide itself completely. Many people think it was just his imagination.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/10/meet-...
> No. I’ve never seen a deliberate attempt to add a flaw, a vulnerability or a backdoor into curl.

That's exactly what someone who has deliberately put a backdoor into curl would say.
>some suggesting personal attributes like obesity, smoking, and happiness arise via 'social contagion', that is, behavioral propensities are transmitted over social networks.

Don't know about happiness, but regarding smoking and obesity this seems so obvious to not even need a study (excluding pathological causes for obesity of course which are fewer and far between in people compared to the epidemic rates of obesity we see).

And perhaps happiness is quite impacted by living among other "positive looking/happy/chilled out" people as well -- it sure doesn't help if you're into a social network of depressed people, grumpiness and misery.
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I think we are understanding each other very well! Yes, learning to "sell ourselves" and highlight our own successes well enough to influence social structures when we need to is a hard problem, we're trained quite strongly and mostly correctly that "rooting one's own horn" is quite rude, and even in cases where it isn't actually rude or is expected, we STILL have to tread lightly! (For example, resumes and interviews are functionally places where we're given ORDERS to tout our achievements- yet there's still an invisible line you can cross that'll mark you as a braggart if you go overboard!)

But on the other hand, people can only make decisions based on information that is actually available to them, and so the quiet industrious worker in he corner who rarely pipes up and silently gets the job done but does nothing to make certain his/her contribution is noticed is passed over, because the boss can't magically know that quiet worker is the excellent contributor they are without something imparting that info- good managers will try to understand who's truly contributing in ways like that but even very good managers are frequently subject to imperfect information!

Anyway, I'm glad your advisor told you that, and I'm glad you shared that with me, yours is a succinct way of describing that, I'm almost tempted not to post this reply, as I'm uncertain it adds anything more of value than an emphatic "yes I agree!"
Systems that don't deal well with edge cases aren't so great.

For people who don't really need to care about privacy, I guess that differential privacy is good enough. But there's a gotcha there, for people who ought to care, but are clueless. I'm reminded of that ex cop in Philadelphia, who believed Freenet's claims about plausible deniability.

Edit: A prudent standard for calling something "[foo] privacy" is arguably PGP.
See Harvey Cox's excellent essay about this: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1999/03/the-mar...
I use Messenger way more than Facebook now, so it's similar problem. I have bigger groups (family, etc.) where I know what I send will be seen and read and I don't care about main Facebook very much anymore.
And then the intel ME debacle became widely known and, as usual, the tinfoil hatted among us got to say "told you"
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The Tesla Model 3 motor uses permanent magnets unlike the S and X. Another commenter claims rare earths are not needed in battery production.
The only rare earths mine in the US was shut down because of environmental problems. After that no owner was profitable producing REE because of environmental standards to keep up. That was until 2007 when China restricted REE exports. Now that China exports again, the current owner is broke once again (maybe it's already sold, I'm not sure).

While other industries can/could successfully be pressured to move to sustainable, fair and environmentally conscious production, the Chinese REE production, as a monopoly, just doesn't care.
Tech is time, time is money.
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You can't promoting new tech or refactoring without looking contingencies.
What you need is just a circular graph. Who can be a vicious circle or a virtuous cycle, depending who is in charge.
That's really not good security logic. It's better to trust a very strong entity for 1/2 of your security and a weak entity for the other 1/2, so that when shit breaks you at least have a more accurate suspicions on which part of your system broke, to start the investigations from.

It's much worse to trust a single weak entity for 1/1 of your security.

That said, it's possible SWIFT can be a good CA. But you shouldn't choose them if they do a crap job of it, simply to "reduce the number of entities you trust".
Why would it be impossible for passengers to make calls during the flight? I've made calls from a 747, it's definitely possible?
Sorry, I know it was well-meaning, but it's riddled with "technical crap" and assumed knowledge which make it hard to decide upon. Not least a pretty foreign uses of "trust" and "certification" for non-technical people. E.g.:

1. "Certified by" — what does this mean? Is like a rating thing? A tripadvisor thing for the web?

2. "X" who are they? Do they want my money? Do I need a new one?

3. "Current trusted certifier" oh god, did I choose them? Are they bad now? Did I not pay them money? Has it been hacked? Didn't it do a review of BigWebsite yet maybe? I could just wait I guess.

4. There are three buttons that say "yes"! If I hit "always" what if it was wrong? And "if Google verifies" well that's obviously a scam because my web is Google so it would already know. This is all some kind of scam. I'm out of here.