skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Facebook intentionally revealed that a small amount of money was spent by one firm via its ads platform.

In reality it is the news feed behavior that was exploited. Facebook can "fix" the ads platform by adding a bit more human vetting, but unless the behavior of the news feed is changed specifically to censor political content deemed objectionable by Facebook, the same basic PR strategy will work in the next election.

So we have to decide whether broad censorship over social media is what we really want.

There is also too much emphasis being placed on the foreignness of the ad-buyers. It's just as likely that in the next election some domestic entity will sponsor similar ads, since any foreign interests will have had time to establish domestic branches run by American citizens.

So we must ask again, do we really want censorship?

The solution, I think, is to allow the marketplace of ideas to function, and for all of us to make the extra effort needed to hold informed, reasoned opinions and to resist tribalism and the good guys vs bad guys mentality that plagues politics and political debate.
Found this post from 2015 for anyone else curious for details:

https://malwaretips.com/threads/avast-and-jumpshot.46539/
Semantic web technologies are not very common today. You couldn't easily implement Xanadu-like content linking in a web browser without using semantic web technologies.
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Great article.Thanks.
There is "CoaL", or "Cloud on a Laptop" from Joyent just to get the feet wet with Triton:

http://blog.shalman.org/running-sdc-coal-on-smartos/

this video demonstrates that it doesn't take days and the description even says it is just as suitable for bare metal as it is for VMware:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apZ-G5LwYiY
It is usually specified in a law somewhere. No, salaried workers are not paid to get the job done, they are paid for the time. That is why companies can let the job loosely specified.

Contract workers are the ones hired for a job, not their time. Yet, actual pricing will vary and even then some contractors will insist on getting paid by time.
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> For its time, its "closed" architecture seemed reasonable.

The currently dominating platform gives the impression that "closed" has won nowadays.
I think you are looking for this.

https://www.amazon.com/ThinkPad-Compact-Bluetooth-Keyboard-T...
Because a failure that causes one interface to fail, but not the other seems really unlikely. Plus it wouldn't just be another driver to write, you also have to come up with some logic that determines if one has failed and use the other instead. This isn't linux where you can reasonably tell users "oh just blacklist this kernel driver and it'll use the other instead."
One of the major "problems" with African economies is they manufacture essentially nothing, and everything they export is completely unprocessed raw materials.
It's in the book you have to study when you get your license here in Texas :) you can exceed the limit by 5mph. Have a nice day!
What? You lug around a laptop from 95 and you're a web developer? And you don't care if it gets stolen? You have to do a Reddit IAMA. Please.
For me, the allure of bitcoin and any other newer payment transfers systems is to be able to get rid of the "In $somelocation" clause. I want internet money to be as universal as email.
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Others have stated only 32-bit Windows installer was comprimised. So, no, macOS version was not infected.
I'm far from a low level grunt in my orgs. So far working hard has proven to be key in moving up. While in my field there isn't such a clear line between management and non management my last two titles have have had a foot in the management side.

In seems to be en vogue to despise hard work today (unless it is manual labor).
What are some up-to-date equivalents to the X60/1 if any?

I want something small with a nice keyboard and durable enough I can throw it in a bag without worry but I just can't seem to find anything better than my current X61 which is getting a little tired.

I'd be interested in going even smaller but netbooks don't seem to be a thing anymore.
"If you can't explain what you're doing to a 6-year old, you don't know it yourself" (ascribed to several famous physicists).

This is pretty true, and thus the exercise of explaining things in plain prose is very useful to make you polish your understanding, and find any problems in it. When hand-waving is not acceptable, problems in understanding become very visible.

Even if nobody reads this, it's very useful if node honestly. Having other people to read it just keeps you from slacking off.
For your use case (~10 peers) I wouldn't get bogged down with network plumbing. Use free solutions such as PeerJS, Xirsys, EasyRTC, etc. You can always open a Twilio account if you have a hit and need to scale.

That way you can start building immediately and get onto the hard stuff like managing global game state, handling dropped connections elegantly, network lag and prediction...

Good Luck ;)
Ah, gotta love Telecheck! Their blacklist is nigh impossible to get off of though for those that are on it, but it is optional to use the blacklist.
Confused why they thought a Cessna 172 was a biplane. Its even in the title of the article.

One thing for sure it shows the durability of the Cessna planes. Testament to that design and construction.
English has many heteronyms. I think that property is horrible and should be avoided whenever possible. Why is it accepted by english-speaking people?
The prevalence of close calls on the Soviet side, and their likely existence on the American side too, suggests thst the MAD system is robust to false positives.
Equifax, Cryptography, and the Anatomy of a Data Breach – Tozny
I am softer towards Amazon because they are a customer-oriented company. Google doesn't give one shit about me. Amazon gives the impression that it does.
There's a massive amount of potential lock in on the integrations side. How your pagers fire, how code deploys rollout, etc
Objective score would obviously be a conponent, it's not like you wouldn't tell them what they got right/wrong
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I think you are right. Andrew Ng is an academic and I have no doubt he works 80+ hours per week. Working really long hours is common in that world. I average about 60-90 hours per week. I know my colleagues in AI research are working just as hard and so are many of their PhD students.

The biggest problems I have are meetings. I can do research and code for 12-15 hours straight on weekends, but 8-9 hours on meeting days are utterly exhausting. Got to figure out a better way.

Kids would be the real obstacle to my current output.
I did cut my salary by 40% voluntarily. I now work part-time (3 days per week, plus the rare emergency). Much better, as I can still pay the bills and got a 4 day weekend to do whatever I please with. I'm also a lot more productive as well both in and outside of work.

The only downside is that I don't have as much spare money as I used to to spend on those free days (e.g. travelling or taking lessons on x/y/z), but there are other low cost hobbies I take instead (my own coding projects amongst them). Socialising has gone up as well.

Working 70+ hours can be fun at some point in life, I've done it before. But it's too easy to get stuck in there and burnout or worse.
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Looking to volunteer some of my time and skills.
This is exactly the issue with what people think about running/walking and how people execute their motion. You can make any exercise a core strength exercise. I run and walk from my çore, I perform all motion from my core. This is a feeling and skill you learn from taijiquan and it is applicable to any type of exercise.
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Good to know, thanks. It would be nice if the original page had this (also: I don't think it's helpful to downvote for asking why...)
It is "known good" specifically for repetitive manufacturing labor. That's what all of our business structures are optimized for. As work changes to be primarily mental, things will change. It's good that you're thinking about this sort of thing, it will give you a significant advantage in the coming years. Lots of research into how capable humans are of extended periods of mental exertion shows that we can be productive far less than with physical exertion. I suppose it's a good thing that thanks to computers, mental exertion ends up producing productivity multipliers rather than just incremental improvements then!
What would you say if I told you in a given work day, I only work maybe 3-5 hours (including meetings) and still meet all targets?

This has been consistent for every job I've ever had.
Anecdotal as well: It's all relative.

I was homeschooled for much of my childhood and first went to a public school my Junior year of high school. I didnt think of myself as exceptionally smart - average at best. I was in a English class one day half way through the year when the teacher was putting us into group. A girl he paired me up with said, "Yay he's smart!" and that was the first time I ever thought I was a "smart" kid. That was a town in Vermont where the public education system was not very good.

Later when I went to college I realized I was just about average at most things, a bit above average at some, and significantly below average at many things (due to poor homeschooling).

As an adult I realize that I'm more intelligent than the average joe but when I'm in a room of professors or even people who have a passion for studying and learning I can tell I'm simply not at the same level as them.
My concern is that I can't leave a tab open long-term without risking a performance hit. Of course that's also true now (with ads or heavy JS), but those generally aren't deliberately trying to induce high(er) CPU loads.
According to the article, Petrov actually died on May 19th.
A Functional Web with ASP.NET Core and F#'s Giraffe
I remember having signed up for Flattr ages ago so I tried it out. Turns out they seem to have scrapped their original product and I'm now on the waiting list for its successor ("Flattr beta"). I have no idea wtf they're doing. Edit: Also can't login w/ old credentials or recover my password. Duh
>This differs from traditional banks which requires a physical bank robbery.

Not really. Recent example: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/11414191/Hacker...
So the only defense is to sleep under mosquito netting... even sleeping on a bed (with legs) on a higher floor doesn't help you...

Well, shit.
> Slack is a 'chat app'. It's not that big a deal to switch.

You're over-constraining lock-in to its technical factors. Facebook has lock-in for totally non-technical reasons. These are equally, if not sometimes more, powerful than technical lock-in.

Lock-in means high switching costs. If it's more disruptive to switch than you could hope to gain from switching, you won't bother even contemplating switching and are, again by definition, locked in.
Your old chats might not be valuable for you, but in many companies, it has become de-facto documentation. People get questions answered, and it never makes it to the wiki.
I wouldn't trust anyone who thinks a solution is a panacea in the software field, but having type annotations demonstrably leads to not just more correct code but also code that can be understood better by its surrounding tooling, thereby enabling automatic refactorings, auto completion, smart browsing, optimizations, etc...

Static typing is not perfect but it's better in all respects than dynamic typing.
No, it's a great question.

We take the money up front and deposit it in a long-term investment account. Each bettor picks a charity, and the initial bet plus half the gains go to the winner's selected charity. (The charity thing is to get around US gambling laws.) If if that charity doesn't exist anymore (which is plausible given our longest current bet settles in 2150) then we pick a charity that's close in spirit.
Last time I tried it chokes compiling toybox too.
Just a cache of Snapple bottles.
> Ads, and sneaky cryptocoin mining scripts, are underhand attempts at having a cake and eating it too

Like I already said, I'm fine with it if they're transparent about what they're doing. Miners should not run by default, they should get the user's permission first. If they refuse, don't serve the site.
I studied film production in grad school, and one of the reasons I didn't pursue a career in that industry is because of the rampant, pervasive abuse like that mentioned in the article. "12 on/12 off" was a movement started by an industry veteran that cried for limiting the work days to 12 hours and providing a minimum of 12 hours down time before having to be back on set. It was started after a crew member died from falling asleep at the wheel on the way home from a shoot.

I am so glad to work in a place that a). not only doesn't have insane deadlines and the corresponding pressure but, b). has a sub-discipline dedicated to project management. And that I get to push back with my favorite mantra, "poor planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part."
It's the 'correct' amount of hours to maximize productivity for repetitive manufacturing labor tasks. Not mental work. We don't have any companies that have looked at the research into how capable humans are of extended periods of mental exertion and what it takes to optimize that.
Good morning!

quicktype infers types from sample JSON data, then outputs strongly typed models and serializers for working with that data in your desired programming language. In short, quicktype makes it a breeze to work with JSON type-safely.

For an in-depth explanation of what makes quicktype useful, special, and interesting, see http://blog.quicktype.io/debut/

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The Intel integrated graphic card of my laptop does handle 3 screens fine and I dont need to mess with drivers, everything works well out of the box. I would actually advise against NVIDIA cards unless you need powerful graphic processing or to do GPU computation.
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I can definitely believe that. But in my line of work I'm expected to bill at least 8 hrs/day to the client regardless of my personal productivity.
I haven't tried it, but apparently you can upload files, so it would be a matter of pushing the vim source tarball there and build it. (edit: oops, you beat me to it)

As for network, they say this:

>Can I access to the network from the virtual machine ?

> Yes it is possible. It uses the websocket VPN offered by Benjamin Burns (see his blog). The bandwidth is capped to 40 kB/s and at most two connections are allowed per public IP address. Please don't abuse the service.

But I haven't been able to get it to work...

Edit: the X11 VM has networking. Don't know how to get networking in the non-X11 VM
> it'd be easy to boost the economy by forcing people to work less

That looks likely. But it will reduce the concentration of wealth (probably, dramatically), so expect some opposition.
I think the official terminology is that there is only one GNU project with many GNU packages, of which Taler, gcc, and Gnome are: just a package.
There were a lot of ipad 2's sold that cannot upgrade beyond 9.x. It's a shame there is no way to get an upgraded web browsing component onto them to make them safer.
Or I mean, you can just ask if the user is okay with the site running a miner, and if they refuse then don't serve the content. That's what I mean by transparency.
Bitcoin can't directly do Micro payments, is there an Altcoin that can handle say 20 billion transactions a day?

If not then cripto currency's don't actually solve this problem.
I can't believe all these years of typing on newer Macs (even the new pro), Surfaces, Dells, Gateways, etc. I never owned a ThinkPad until recently. The keyboard on my yoga 370 has unveiled a new world of typing. The TrackPoint is a gamechanger.

I just ordered an old X230 and plan to spruce it up and use as my home PC. Might even try to dualboot MacOS.
Apple Risking User-Data Due to Poor Implementation of Differential Privacy
oh look at that, 5% of the float is dictating the entire valuation. Might be a new low for Silicon Valley, by low I mean percent of cash raised to made-up-on-the-spot valuation.

If they want to go public and keep that valuation with that constricted of a supply, S&P/Nasdaqs/NYSE won't list you, but Hong Kong will love you, alongside the other 1% float unicorns.
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I'm pretty sure that's a joking reference to the Y2K problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2000_problem

Payout are to the bettor's selected charity. Or, if that's gone, the closest one we can find.
Web workers are pretty bad if you're looking for another one.
Too bad that there is no model with a 1080p display available.
Thats what I love about the ThinkPads regardless of model. You can find them for dirt cheap on eBay or craigslist. I just bought an X1 Carbon with i5, 256 GB SSD, and 8GB RAM for $194 on eBay. Has a solid keyboard and is pretty solid.
Ditched when they started pushing FUD 5-6 years ago.

I worked in the anti-malware industry for 5 years. Pretty much across the board, this kind of software does more harm than good. AV on corporate email servers or your email provider makes sense. Rooting your own computer and leaving it vulnerable to shitty AV/AM vendor's software doesn't.

Literally saw malware in the wild that exploited AV software.
We're not disagreeing. Server makes it clear they want to run a miner, if the user refuses then don't serve the content.
No, that’s not why they didn’t support Flash.

Before the App Store (and still today), iPhone had support for third party apps and an open (non-Apple App Store) app ecosystem, HTML5 apps installable to home screen with offline mode. At the time, you could install games like PacMac that worked fine.

Apple avoided support for Flash because it was absolute crap on mobile, from hardware issues affecting battery life to UX issues such as presumption of a cursor and hover states.

I wish developers and media streamers had let go of Flash sooner and moved to HTML5+JS, before the native App Store captured all the mindshare. Apple’s biggest mistake here was misunderstanding the lasting power of Adobe’s simpler tool ecosystem for “creators”.

iPhone didn’t need Flash. It did need better tools.

// Source: Owned a video CDN throughout the player wars, with ongoing first person conversations with folks from the companies in question, and their key media and publishing clients were our clients.
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Do you have a cellphone? If so, throw it into the trash right now.
Hadn't really thought of it before, but there's a compelling amount of evidence out there that sitting down for long periods of a day is very bad for your health, which can only be bad for your overall functionality. Definitely something that should be re-examined... My supposition is that companies know this and won't re-examine because they're afraid of the outcome: paying more for less butts-in-the-seat (the only metric management understands).
Regarding book publishers as mentioned in the article, Amazon is the good guy and the publishers along with Apple (and I'm an Apple fan-boy) conspired to raise prices on ebooks. The Justice Dept agreed which is how they ruled against Apple and the publishers.[1]

It would have helped if the writer had been specific about why Amazon was bad when in fact it was Apple and the publishers who acted badly.

As I recall, on eBooks, the publishers were taking a far larger share of profits in proportion to authors than in the very same books in hard copy which of course, is profoundly un-fair. Amazon was the good guy here.

I, for one, hardly feel sorry for a writer who can't write the truth or be bothered to search it out.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/mar/07/apple-450...
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Talking for what happens in EU right now, not everything gets released as open source. Some public funded software has restrictions in regards to which geographies it can be provided.

What matters is that most orgs should make an effort to release as much code as they possibly can.

For example, the tools to access a public API should have an official repository with tools so they are the most complete and up to date.

A positive side-effect of these public projects is finding talent. I've seen it happen that contributors to an open source project will end up working on a EU space agency because they already met other developers and tech being used there.
How much of your email are they storing in UEFI? And why?
I don't think the music industry transitioned to streaming well at all. I think they were forced to which is different from your phrasing that implies they wanted to shift.
Like a lot of people in financial technology and HFT, I dont work outside projevrs very much. I get a lot of my experience with newer tech inside my job and as well have to deal with some fairlt heavy secrecy issues.

But aren't you just trading the location of work for the most part? I get that experience from within my firm on projects I'm working on while others still work on their skills just outside their employment? It is still "work" in a sense. I realize many don't get the same intellectual benefit from employment that i enjoy but trashing people who do and take advantage of it doesn't seem appropriate.

I've also learned that just knowing how to code better doesn't help you deliver a better product always. For example in my case, even though I mostly work front office I need to know how the back office works as well as how our fiber and colo facilities run. I've done everything from trade strategies to program them to installing rack system to work on fiber negotiations to deal with trade breaks to etc... It has helped me tremendously add value to the firms I work in. There is a lot to be said about knowing your business as well as knowing how to code.
Bloomberg has already established the market price of accurate independent journalism:

https://qz.com/84961/this-is-how-much-a-bloomberg-terminal-c...
($24K per year per head)

Not holding my breath on micropayments...
> We take the money up front and deposit it in a long-term investment account

A minimal-fee S&P 500 index fund, I hope. I think Buffett just proved that anything else would be fiscally irresponsible.
Yes, that's exactly what I've been saying. If the user refuses to run the miner, don't serve the content. It's the exact same with ad blockers.
I wish there was more technical information, even the advisory is unclear here.

The CCleaner installer is always 32 bit for compatibility - it installs both 32 bit and 64 bit program binaries. On 64 bit systems, the default shortcuts are to the 64 bit binary.

So was the 32 bit installer compromised, or only the 32 bit binary? The original advisory makes references to the installer which is quite confusing. Tried to figure it out myself but I assume the loader has VM detection techniques as I wasn't able to infect a VM.
I'm very curious how many characters everyone commenting types per day. Personally, I want more actuation pressure/travel. I feel it's safer for long-term RSI to have more muscular engagement and motion.
"Deposit" or in Ireland "lodge" or make a lodgement.
Interested in hearing the opinion of any experts in differential privacy.

Is it possible that a poor implementation could be worse than not using Differential Privacy at all? (My intuition would be "no".)

How big of a tradeoff is Apple making here? If they "correct" this would they be getting significantly lower quality data?
Security.txt Standard Proposed, Similar to Robots.txt