skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I never understand the 'no devices' thing. It seems wrongheaded. Not just from the 'an inability to be a sophisticated user of technology will be a gigantic deficit to them in a multitude of ways' standpoint, but it seems like it's trying to take away a solution the child has found to a problem their parents created in the first place. Many parents complain that their child doesn't want to go outside and play, that they just stay inside on their tablet or in front of a videogame console. Most of those parents, if you ask them, fully intend to go WITH their child if they DO decide to go outside and "play". They intend to watch over their child, make sure they don't do anything too risky, make sure they don't use 'dirty words', and stand on hand to judge their every move.

Kids gravitate to devices because they give the kid power. They are the only outlet in our society where THEY get to make things happen, THEY get to decide what to do next. In every single other arena of their life, those choices are taken away from them by people who think they know better (and people who do not consider control itself to be inherently harmful, which it is).

I would imagine that if you give them other situations in which they are unobserved, unregulated, and empowered, the device use would fall off of its own accord. It's like the 'rat park' studies that upended addiction research in the past. Sure rats hit a bar to get cocaine until they die - if they're in a cage. But put them in an outdoor area with other rats with lots of things to do and they'll never get addicted in the first place. And if you put a rat that IS addicted in that environment, they wean themselves off of the drug naturally.
and the rebuttal, which argues that nearly all of the increase in infections is due to a bacteria wave that started before the ban and was international in breadth:

http://berkeleyblog.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/...
No, its because in theory we have religious organizations providing that service in exchange for large tax breaks...

http://bigthink.com/21st-century-spirituality/how-to-make-71...

I'm perfectly ok with churches getting tax breaks as long as they can prove to be doing more good in the community they they are saving on all that prime real estate that generally sits vacant 6 days a week. If churches were forced to have 24-hour open door policies, then homeless people would always have a place to sleep and use the restroom. But of course we can't have "bums" wandering around church property, lets call the state/police to arrest them.
"Why did you leave your last job?"
For whatever reason Canada doesn't require childhood HepA vaccinations, though they could.
so good, just recently found it too.
I would laugh at you if I could.

Oh, wait. I can.
I still remember an illustration of what Pluto was like from when I was a kid: icy forms under a dim sun and starry sky. But it turned out that in reality Pluto is far more interesting. Ice mountains, an atmosphere, and a large-appearing moon.

What's really out there is far more fantastic than our minds can conceive. But in the meantime, an art or two ain't bad.
https://twitter.com/patio11/status/908814104927789056
In my school, we were taught about them, sure, but not in great detail. We certainly weren't taught how to detect code that has bad branch prediction behavior or how to write code that prevents branch mispredictions. I don't think we even covered cache locality.

I disagree on the original SO question as being a good weed-out question for an entry level position. This is a code optimization that I certainly wouldn't expect a newbie to know.
The average person is amazed when tech breaks. Those who understand it, are amazed it works at all.
You'll be shocked to discover that some IT folks never graduated or even went to college. Hell, some didn't even graduate high school.
That server behaviour change is an excellent illustration of why "backwards compatible" isn't a simple black-and-white concept.
Ah deploy those golden parachutes and sail off to the Bahamas while giving 140M American a big fat middle finger.

I can see the justification for those large compensation packages for CxO only when something like this happens they would bear the corresponding responsibility - maybe even forced to sell a few yachts or a few summer homes here and there maybe to offset the investigation costs even.
It's the same reason people try to get each other fired, "deplatformed" or ostracized for off-handed remarks, relatively mainstream opinions or even for supporting the wrong side of a divisive issue years in the past.

People are very tribal, the Anglosphere is highly politicized and it's a lot easier to make a snap judgment and label someone as part of an enemy tribe than it is to deal with nuanced statements.
I wonder what intern had the responsibility to find some 90s clip art of rice, wheat and barley.
Literally not related to their competency or experience in the field
Do they not get their apps security scanned? In my experience checking all requests go over HTTPS is the first thing that the security teams check. You'd think since Equifax works with banks they'd force them to adhere to some kind of security testing.
The home mortgage interest deduction is effectively a subsidy for suburban borrowers.
> “Nickel manganese cobalt cells are also the choice of the German automobile industry when it comes to the next generation of electric cars,” Held said.

Interesting claim. I'm not familiar with NMC batteries.

Here's what wikipedia says:

> Handheld electronics mostly use LIBs based on lithium cobalt oxide (LiCoO2), which offers high energy density, but presents safety risks, especially when damaged. Lithium iron phosphate (LiFePO4), lithium ion manganese oxide battery (LiMn2O4, Li2MnO3, or LMO) and lithium nickel manganese cobalt oxide (LiNiMnCoO2 or NMC) offer lower energy density, but longer lives and less likelihood of unfortunate events in real world use, (eg, fire, explosion, ...). Such batteries are widely used for electric tools, medical equipment, and other roles. NMC in particular is a leading contender for automotive applications. Lithium nickel cobalt aluminum oxide (LiNiCoAlO2 or NCA) and lithium titanate (Li4Ti
5O12 or LTO) are specialty designs aimed at particular niche roles. The newer lithium–sulfur batteries promise the highest performance-to-weight ratio.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium-ion_battery

So, it's another kind of lithium-ion battery.
Most of the principles are always in tension to some degree, and come down to a design decision. In this case, the shorter, clearer term won out. The two terms are practically synonymous, so if you know what a "boolean" is, you probably know what a "flag" is.

In actual use, you rarely interact with the names anyway -- you use `true` and `false` as values like most other languages.
I know multiple languages and to be honest I still don't know how to pronounce it :)
One of the richest and largest polities on earth has a large number of mentally-ill people who would befoul basic sanitation facilities were they given access to them.
right, that's my point, what does an iphone face id-ing in the vicinity of a Kinect look like? I'd can't wait to read about what fascinating ways people figure out to attack this.
Yes, the PIN is the least secure way of unlocking a phone, by a wide margin.

If someone can shoulder surf while I unlock my phone with a PIN, then they can watch which buttons I press and now they can unlock my phone too. If I use the fingerprint reader to unlock, then they have no chance.
Ouch.

To be fair, fonts really do pave the way for malware into your kernel - https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.no/2015/07/one-font-vulne...
....Yes?

The support system in the US is drastically underfunded, which leads to it being understaffed and underprovisioned for the tasks it tries to accomplish. There's a second layer of ideological opposition to helping poor people that exacerbates the problem.

Proper funding and removing ideology-driven sabotage for safety nets would remove a sizable amount of street bag pooping.
It's hauling mineral deposits, not trash, so no compacting.
The same enemies the Clinton sold all that uranium to? This narrative is falling apart.
Ultrasonic power delivery gone wrong?
I'm a little triggered when people bring up BEVs being more intensive to manufacture. That report I linked was used as the posterchild for why BEVs are garbage, like Wired's "Tesla's electric cars aren't as green as you might think"[1]. But the report is amazing! It put to bed fears that electric cars needed 50% or more as much to make, that they needed to be driven 150,000 miles to break even, etc etc. On top of that it says that BEVs will be cleaner than conventional cars to build. It was an incredibly great result to that investigation, but people still turned around and portrayed it was a bad thing. That really annoyed me, since it was more optimistic than even most proponents of electric cars had expected. I personally thought electric cars would always produce more waste just by virtue of weighing more, but they are so much simpler to create that that isn't true.

[1]: https://www.wired.com/2016/03/teslas-electric-cars-might-not...
Why would you think that? Are people who buy million dollar shacks in SF forgoing their deduction? It's hard to imagine.
Contributing to science
> I think it's important to take a step back, take a breath, and look at this rationally.

> Whatever company you work for, if you do not have regular pentests, you are no better off.

> It seems very strange to choose this one company and crucify them just because they lost your data.

This company literally has the one of the juiciest gold mines of exploitable personal data in existence. They should be crucified because standards should be higher for them than almost any other enterprise.

And unlike stolen addresses and credit card numbers (which can be changed), this genie can't be stuffed back into the bottle.
5% is not earnings, it's revenue.

A tiny fraction of that will be earnings.

Hence a problem with the valuation.

Assuming they have 10% margins - that means sales of 10x what you described in order for the valuation to make sense.

Note that Twitter and many others, have never even turned a profit, and are still billions away from breaking even.
I have data-collection systems that bring in readings around a solar power plant. It all comes in as CSV files. So I use Python to collect that data and archive the data with files named by the day's data, at midnight. Then another Python program collects all the archived files from each system and brings it into another hard-drive-based system where all the files named by the same date are collected together. It then runs gnuplot for .png representations of each, and then calls Imagemagick to make montages for each day which include data from each kind of sensor. Love Python.
It is no different than, say, incorporating. If you fail to perform certain rituals each year, you can lose your legal status. The odds of this happening any time soon with Coke are slim, similarly with ownership of coke.com, but it could.

Nothing is 'immutable' if you look at it hard enough. The Bible's teachings have changed over time. On the right scale, the Earth is a temporary novelty and questions about proton decay become relevant.

Tl;dr: set your expiration dates appropriately and you won't have a problem.
"The accidental nuclear launch was blamed on a single piece of software in a web service" -> Is obviously a stupid assessment.

"Equifax was the victim of a hole in Apache Struts" -> Likewise.

Nothing so valuable should be safeguarded such that a single failure results in total loss. It is utterly their fault.
Great way to be hospitable to the foreign tourists who don't carry coins...
They're probably making a conservative change that's easy to back out of, as a default, and then let various extensions experiment and discover how it should really work.

Personally I would want tabs to be in the bozo container by default, unless I explicitly grant the website access to a trusted container, or something.

Extension makers will experiment and Firefox can choose from what gets learned.
Brilliant idea from 1960.

Immediately I thought of Safecoin/SAFE Network[0] and Mercury Protocol[1]/Cyber Dust[2].

[0] https://safenetwork.wiki/en/FAQ
[1] https://www.mercuryprotocol.com/
[2] https://interestingengineering.com/billionaire-mark-cubans-n...
>> It seems very strange to choose this one company and crucify them just because they lost your data

Why? I crucify every company that loses my data. I would imagine that most people do. This company lost everyone's data.
FWIW, your initial comment had two substantive and astute points. But much like the countless unsung plastic bags, you loaded it with shit.
We live in a world where if you have an online presence you need to keep on top of all security patches. You need to do penetration testing. You need to practice secure coding practices. In my experience, often at larger companies you have to fight to make sure that everyone in the organization understands how important security is and to make sure that it gets prioritized properly.

It's not about the security issue in particular, it's about an organization that didn't have proper security practices. This wasn't an unknown security issue, it was a reported and fixed issue.

(Also, they were using Struts, not Spring.)
Yeah, and Jews tend to be white, so when people get in their jabs about white people, it's really ignorant and hateful. You can't tell by the tone of someone's skin what they and their family have been through. We could start discussing things like where the word Slav comes from and how much the Irish were despised in the US for a couple centuries, but those are just white people, right?

You tolerate hatred because it's against the right people, and one day some innocent person is gonna die because that hatred is no big deal. Hate is hate, let's be done with it.
Nobody is asking for perfect security.

We just expect a company that stores the highly personal information of hundreds of millions of people to have better security than that of a random blog site maintained by one guy in his basement.
More importantly I hold them criminally liable for their actions or lack thereof after the incident. There should be no retirement here. The CEO should already be in jail pending bail and should be found guilty and sent away for a long time. If found not guilty, we must amend laws to make sure the CEO goes to prison for a long time next time this happens. Nothing else will work. Fines will not work. Congressional hearings will not work. After all, we all read about how many phone calls the DNC and the RNC require our representatives and senators to make and how much money they must raise.

Prison for CEO and the board should be the least we need to do.
Too bad about this...
I've seen a drone scanning over a large corn field, dropping sensors seems silly when you can outfit infrared tempature sensors/humidity sensors/etc on a drone.
>Universal healthcare does not automatically solve the problem of getting vaccinations to vulnerable populations

A well functioning society, where people don't live like dogs in the street, does.

>or prioritizing the right interventions at the right time given limited resources.

I doubt nations that can spend billions on pet food have "limited resources" for things as insignificant budget-wise as hep vaccines.
“I felt I had contributed all I could and felt undervalued so I’m seeking a new opportunity”
"That sounds like an odd thing to wish for in software where you are the user. That's asking for less freedom.
So why would you do that?"

First, the BSD license offers more total freedom than the GPL does. I say this despite liking both the FSF and the GPL.

Second, I would rather have up to date version of good BSD software than an old versions of good GPL software.
Interesting the phenomenon where although the original presentation...

1. Indicates it will recognize you in the dark (https://youtu.be/mMV_LcrZtLg?t=21m29s)

2. An accompanying video indicates it works in the dark (https://youtu.be/K4wEI5zhHB0?t=1m47s)

3. The Apple website indicates that "Invisible infrared light helps identify your face even when it’s dark."
(https://www.apple.com/iphone-x/#face-id)

4. The parent article indicates "It uses only infrared and existing light, which means it will work in darkness without any more light than is coming off of the phone’s screen."

..that seemingly knowledgable folks can be still confused.

Bringing new tech to market isn't easy, but convincing folks that it's not a rehash of existing tech is hard too.
tectonic drift, specifically.
Some people might do so if the alternative is going to jail.
> they don't want users to have full control over their machines

Oh come on. You sound like a caricature now. "Not having control over their machines" is not a goal and it makes you sound like a crazy conspiracy theorist to claim it is. Security is a goal, and unfortunately security often conflicts with having complete control over the device. But that's different than saying Apple actively wants to prevent users from having control over their devices.

> they spread rumors

No they aren't. Apple doesn't make any public statements about GPLv3, period. Apple can't possibly be spreading rumors if they're not talking to people.

> My whole point is predicated on "someone actually knows for sure that this is the opinion of legal".

I do. I know for sure this is the position of Apple Legal. Which is why I said this was their position in the first place.
Tistalents
Perhaps with enough heat they'll start clawing back some of that money.
Found this mirror: https://github.com/tpn/pdfs/blob/master/Practical%20File%20S...
I don't trust or use either one.
Will it produce enough electricity to offset the projects that move dirt uphill?

What is the uphill/downhill ratio of dirt moved in the world?
WordPress to ditch React library over Facebook patent clause risk
I wonder if this is due to the instant gratification that devices provide, which creates an expectation that the real world should function this way, too, and anger when that turns out not to be the case.
> Not putting the data somewhere else keeps you from having to maintain a second system, keep things in sync, etc.

To be fair there is some amount of "keeping things in sync" one has to do with postgres, even if it's just setting up the right triggers to update the FTS index on updates.
That's nothing compared to Haargoth's damage, back in 2009 or Kartoon's.

Hell we've had single dudes do single corp thefts for more than that.
There's not a whole lot of reason to limit the content allowed.

Most internet sites run into conflicts with content because they're trying to make a profit through ad revenue. Mainstream advertisers don't want their ad next to porn/controversial things, and may not want to advertise on even the non-controversial part of the site if the site is associated with porn/controversial things in the minds of the public.

Patreon's business model doesn't really run into that issue.
They only recently got around to adding electric wheels to airplanes[1], which may save up to 1.1 billion dollars annually since using jet engines to move a few mph is like, zero efficient.

[1]: http://gizmodo.com/these-little-electric-wheels-will-save-ai...
Apple to Use Sun's ZFS in Leopard
That will unnecessarily break caching of resources that haven't changed between versions. (Hence, hashing the actual content.)
That was incredible. Really moving :'(
Video often presents a significant visual distraction when one tries to focus on the text nearby.

It can bad enough that I'll find the auto-playing video element in my browser's DOM inspector and delete it.
Why not just use Inferno (which is MIT licensed), or Preact?

Inferno has 1:1 feature parity with React, and is significantly faster. With react-compat it can even masquerade as React entirely, allowing people to use the React docs to learn and develop with it.
In this case, if a company dies and a malicious actor gets the domain, there's not much they can do besides tell the browser to load those assets - but they could probably just take a copy of the original site and serve a copy of those assets themselves.

The attack might work the other way around: the attacker buys a bunch of domain names, serves "sleeper" malicious JS files with this on common paths (say, the paths used by Wordpress and other common CMSs), then releases the domain. When the new owner installs a CMS and start serving their site, the browser loads the malicious JS instead, which is now running under the new site's Origin (security context).
I would think hygiene should be part of the government's responsibility.. like security (police) or clean water.

But oh well, at the moment the philosophy is Make America Great Again by defunding everything...
The difference is, people in those situations get breaks (by law), and they also get to leave when their shift is over.
> Everybody is insecure everywhere always,

Not everyone has this amount of personal data, including social security numbers, names, credit history on 140M Americans. So no, it' not "just like everybody"

> N is very small -- maybe four?

That is a ridiculously long time for a company holding the kind of data they are. "Yeah, yeah enterprise whatevs, I know". But I work in enterprise as well and we patch and roll out security updates within days. Like you said, it is mostly "apt-get upgrade" run from Chef or whatever management system they got.

> "they failed to run the equivalent of sudo apt-get upgrade on their framework."

Don't agree with that. It's like saying "The train conductor _just_ had to press the break in time. It's a simple action. Let's not overreact here..."

> machines, this is a situation that almost all of us have wound up in.

I somehow never wound up holding personal data of 140M people. And if someone told me to "hold that data", I'd say "sorry, I am not qualified, it is highly likely I'll mismanage it and it will be hacked".

> Are you sure you won't be next on the chopping block?

No it's not. Because I don't have the personal or financial data of that many people in my care.
I am still sort of baffled by this trend. In my pocket, I have a device with capabilities of a supercomputer from not that many years ago. So do many other people.

Yet, with all this, we're slowly reverting to the days of the dumb terminal. The concept of data ownership is all but dead. Even trivial things, like word processors, are being moved to the cloud and more things are requiring connectivity.
Why don't PDFs just render the text and store it as some form of vector image file.
Grumble grumble grumble... the description of Hepatitis A as a 'hardy virus' and claims "It thrives in cold temperatures and you have to heat it to 185 degrees to kill it" are idiotic and contribute to ignorance. Viruses are not alive. You can not kill a virus. You can destroy it, but it is already dead. All viruses are this way.

"It can live for months outside the body." is simply straight-up patently false. It is not alive, and unless it is somehow destroyed, it can remain infectious effectively forever. This is how viruses work. They can't move, they can't reproduce, they have no metabolism. They are not living things. They are merely a fortuitous compilation of parts that, if put in contact with a particular kind of cell, cause that cell to begin producing copies of the jumble of parts until the virus explodes.

I'm sorry, but this sort of thing bugs me to no end. We can never expect people to learn the basics of infectious disease if we actively lie to them. And no, the intent of making it 'easy to understand' by lying is no excuse. "Good intentions are the opposite of good actions."
Interesting, good to know. I think we can blame that on Google Translate [1], I guess. Dunno where to find better (automated) translations, but I'd be happy to use that source (as long as it has an API) instead!

[1] https://i.imgur.com/PBswmaH.png
Google Is Fighting a Massive Android Malware Outbreak – Up to 21M Victims