skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's almost like malicious code can come from trusted or unexpected sources. (Yes, the examples of infection paths in the article aren't very creative, that doesn't mean local exploits are irrelevant)
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I've never seen a vaguely popular programming language use ¬ and that is available on all keyboards (for some weird reason).
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React-Native, Redux-Saga and Firebase
You missed the 100+ deaths!!
It's nice seeing Futhark on here. I prefer my array languages to be more like APL or J, but perhaps this is better for longer code. I know it is easier for the compiler to put on the GPU I guess?
Different etymology though.
Grundies <- Reg Grundy's <- Undies <- Underpants.
One of the best alternatives I've found is https://intensedebate.com/ from WordPress.

Copy a line of JavaScript onto your page and you can host comments. Commenters can sign in with various SNS, or email. Easy to manage and filter. Email alerts.

Only one problem - WordPress have abandoned it. It still works, but there are no updates. So some of the icons look dated. And who knows what security holes are present :-/
> They make sort of okay attempts at privacy, but since they don't collect a lot, they don't need to do a lot

Not collecting data in the first place is a pretty big part of respecting user privacy.

Numerous parts of the iCloud-related tech stack in iOS/macOS devices do peer-to-peer syncing between account-linked devices specifically so that data isn't sent to Apple servers. That isn't something you just do by chance and then capitalise on later.

> many of the things they have done have been weak, easily exploitable, or hacked

[citation needed]
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I would guess people who are part of IT sector are less than 1% of the population and don't affect the statistic
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> These decisions are made by two people, not one.

But they are affecting one of those people more than the other.
So they should factor it in.

There should be implicit thinking "if we get separated later in life, then what?"

> Don't like it? Don't have a stay at home family.

I have no trust that alimony will only be applied to stay at home mothers, and not extended to any women with any earning capability.

And that is a trust issue right there that is damaging marriage as an institution.
Insteon and Wink home hubs have a problem with encryption: neither do it
There are two sides of the issue. One is gullible people who lose money. The others are frauds who gain it. I don't think that the society should in any way encourage becoming an asshole who preys on other people's stupidity.
"Some 800 pages came back containing information such as my Facebook “likes”, my photos from Instagram (even after I deleted the associated account)"

It's going to be interesting to see how Tinder tackles the 2018 EU General Data Protection Regulation in 2018 and how things will play out in courts and practice.

For example, are you allowed to store information that I have chosen to unlink? Will Tinder have an easy way to export the data without having to settle to long email conversations, as there is a right to data portability? If so, in what format will this data be presented?
If you'd like a real world example, I once used the predictably of core dump filenames to (legitimately) gain root access to a busy public nameserver.

https://inopinatus.org/2015/08/24/privilege-escalation/ has the detail.
He's exaggerating for effect. Providing military, political and financial support to a coup is in the same general area.
Create a separate account for them, and make sure you have FileVault turned on so your home folder is encrypted.

I've managed to get this concept across to authorised repairers who don't speak english (and I don't speak Thai).
Ερωτική Απογοήτευση: 3 Βήματα Για Να Την Ξεπεράσετε – ATHENS CALL GIRLS
Check out the UI of Adobe Photoshop.

They use numeric text boxes which also pop a slider when given focus.

You can also let the users drag the textbox left and right directly (with some visual cue), thus achieving the same functionality as the current implementation, but still without getting in the way of someone who just prefers to use the textbox normally.
People just can’t stop crashing into GM’s ‘self-driving’ prototype cars
> Logical operator graphs for graph dataflow-style execution (think TensorFlow or PyTorch, but for data frames)

> A multicore schedular for parallel evaluation of operator graphs

Does anything like this already exist somewhere?
Of course. Because the salary is the major cost?
China 'invests' in Africa where other nations don't because the Chinese government needs to get rid of wealth to prevent its own people catching up with western living standards too quickly. Once living standards are caught up, "things are getting better" is no longer a good justification for tolerating the abuses and corruption.

In 1984 Big Brother did this same thing by having perpetual war, and Chinese military spending is in fact stupendously huge, but even so they aren't actually in a war so need other ways to burn large quantities of capital. Building unprofitable railways in the middle of Africa is a great way to keep their own people poor whilst claiming some sort of moral high ground. But if these were good investments, it wouldn't be up to the PRC to make them.
Closed source means there is no way to migrate from you as a provider and no way to keep the comments when your service eventually folds. That's a "no deal" proposition, thank you - but no thank you.
We’re not “resources”
Agreed. I've payed out north of $100 several times for old print copies of books which simply aren't available in digital form (not even as sketchy scanned PDFs on piracy sites, trust me, I tried).
I think you'd be amazed at what you just can't get, or which would not even be listed anywhere so that you would know of its existence.
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> Racket by default also doesn’t use the keyword "lambda", but instead uses "λ".

I'm not sure that's true:

Welcome to Racket v6.10.1.
> (define foo (lambda (x) (+ x 1)))
> (foo 1)
2
> Providing power to homes is the job of the govt

This is far from universally accepted. If anything, as countries modernise and their institutions develop, the trend appears to lean towards the state not doing this.
Well I guess the debate is settled then.
It's very tedious to write and change a big query. It's really hard to read a big block of SQL.

And it's bizarrely rigid about certain rules, meaning "English-like" is more of a hindrance because you're tempted to think, "This makes sense in English," even though SQL doesn't allow it.
what can i say... welcome to the internet? ;D
Centralization of police makes them less susceptible to corruption, not more. It is even an argument for centralization as it makes bribing both more expensive and less likely by preventing localized buddy-buddy behaviour.
It surely is not avaiable on mine. Maybe it's a local thing?
By convention, when a unix program is passed "--" it means there are no more flags being passed. Try the following:

$ rm -- -
Damn, the right to data portability had completely passed by me. This has the potential of being way more of a headache for existing services than the right to be forgotten. It's great, though - I can't wait to see when this gets tested in court.
Maybe my English skills aren't up to what I thought they were, so please correct me if I am wrong, but isn't "Bruttojahreseinkommen" "gross annual income"?

On the left there is wealth (/assets, "Vermögen"), then the next part is about the percentage of people who own houses ("Anteil Hausbesitzer"), and then comes the meat of the chart, the difference in gross annual income ("Bruttojahreseinkommen").

I am sorry to venture so far off topic, but I do most of my thinking either in German or in English which makes me vulnerable to stupid mistakes when the two overlap, so I would really appreciate it if you could tell me where I went wrong.
Apple has a very strict internal culture of privacy. All new features which request user data must go through a rigid internal review process, for example.

It's not just skin-deep.
But you "agreed" even you signed the loan or credit card (or anything really).
What are the implications for apps being designed in Firebase?
But you'd get both ads and mining. The point of mining was to get rid of ads!
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"More than $BIGNUM entries? These guys know what they're doing!"
never say never ;D it will end in tears!
I think an experienced developer is worth much more then an inexperienced manager. And I also believe in flat organizations when it comes to software.
Anyone here who is smart enough to write alternative solutions to the problems that pandas solves is capable of making a meaningful contribution to the pandas project, yet it seems that once pandas reaches the limits of its usefulness people go off and write a proprietary solution, never giving back.

What stopped you from contributing improvements to pandas? Have you taken alternate routes to open source your work?
Thanks for the link. The article offers some really useful advices.
It seems like they didn't want to add a backdoor to the OS just for the sake of repairs.
>My video of my kid's first at-bat, in a file I named a.out, got mysteriously clobbered when I took my first programming class.

This is a failure to understand GCC's default behavior, not a fundamental flaw with your operating system.

The "core" thing is a little more understandable, but it can all be remedied by choosing reasonable filenames with accurate file extensions. "aux.c" isn't that unreasonable, and if I'm reading it right, he could've called it "aux.foo" and it still would've been broken.
That's a good point. With the kind of equipment I was talking about, small shops won't even be able to talk to a sales rep.
This is exciting stuff but will it have any downsides for the majority (??) of users who don't use pandas for big data? Also, this all sounds very similar to the Blaze ecosystem, whatever happened to that? Finally, will arrow/feather replace hdf5 and bcolz in the future?
> "What is Pandas" is assumed to be known, for good reason

What good reason? Why on earth would every single person on HN who happened to click on that link know what `pandas` is? How would they even know whose blog it is on?

Unless your blog is specifically, only for people who are already familiar with your `thing` (in which case, a mailing list might be better), then it simply makes sense to always have a header with a tagline explaining what your `thing` is and a link back to the main project website. Just in case it gets featured on HN or something.
The biggest issue with compiling APL and J is the presence of dynamic types (and other dynamic behaviour). For the subset of APL can that can be resolved statically, I don't see why they should be particularly difficult (Co-dfns[0] seems to be making good progress). To handle anywhere near full APL, you probably need some complicated JIT compiler, unfortunately.

[0]: https://github.com/arcfide/Co-dfns
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"You learn a lot about interacting with others, getting a social life, developing relationships with different people, discovering more about yourself and the list goes on."

This. Very important, and this process is made much more effective if parents or teachers or other adults are with the young on that journey to coach them. Not easy to do online as you need to see the young people in their everyday interactions.

"But the Internet will never replace teachers."

I'm not sure. The point isn't to replace teachers, is it? You can get to great teachers, mentors and peers through other means, schools aren't the only source of teachers for the young.

You can follow thinkers, business people etc. online, and reach out to them or their communities, and that effectively can act as a teacher.

You can actually meat with people who become your teachers/mentors because you engaged in online activities.

None of these require an institution, and specifically, poorly run schools will actually promote groupthink and monoculture. It's good balance to get some experience and 'education' outside the regular system for diversity.
Please provide some evidence for this potentially libellous claim. I suggest you should check the other comments first.
Did Google Send the Big Data Industry on a 10 Year Head Fake?
If this became mainstream I’m sure we would find more efficient solutions.
Vauxhall Meriva, also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cars_with_non-standard...
You should email Tim Cook (tcook@apple.com), and see what he says about that.
I will print and frame your last sentence.
Portugal:

+ normal police (immediate events such as car accidents, small burglars)

+ legal police (white-collar events such as economic crimes, bribes, traficking)

+ military police (acting as normal police on remote/wide field regions)

+ townhall police (events such as stadium security, car tickets)

+ secret police (mostly to identify society risks before they become problems)

+ military (in case of war/calamity they replace have precedence on all above)

This decentralization works OK. When the agents investigating a specific crime are suspected to be corrupt, at some point you see another agency taking forward the investigation and exposing the dirt. A recent case was the investigation about the criminal fires going in Portugal last summer. The military police was suspected of closing their eyes on the incident where +60 people died and the legal police took the case away from them.
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It sounds like there is enough power to go around but insufficient regulation and buffers and they are relying on non-variable power sources which cause either the frequency to vary or the voltage to go up and down when load changes.

Where I used to live (in Europe) this sometimes happened , which resulted in power outages, not damage due to safety precautions like sure protectors. But they fixed it when the windmills came along which are quite variable in power delivery and apparently upgraded the net to compensate for this. Haven't had a lot of outages since (changed from about 4-6 times a year to once every 4-6 years).

It sounds like a cheap political hit to me. Just give everyone power and they can say 'we did it' but since it is barely usable nothing has changed.

edit: clarifications
About that hash flooding vulnerability in Node.js…
Most of that text explains the often forgotten issue, it is only the last paragraph that tells his preferences. I didn't even know that CP/M was sane in its naming scheme and thought it was CP/M legacy, not Microsoft's madness. Pretty informative, though not much surprising.
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> Pictures automatically being uploaded to icloud is the issue here

If you enable it in the iCloud settings...
Fraud should absolutely be punished. There are real fraudsters in every industry, especially cryptocurrency, and it would be great to see government resources spent going after them.

But creating a centralized gatekeeper, and applying Prior Restraint to anyone that hasn't registered and been approved by that gatekeeper, is not a proportionate and just strategy for combating scams. It's preemptive and punishing to innocent people.
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This is a problem with software as well -- someone creating quality long-term-viable systems has to fight harder than someone creating shaky facades. Everyone wants long-term-viable systems, but it is an easier, faster, cheaper task to build junk that lets you meet/beat this quarter's numbers.

I wonder if that mentality just grew beyond the point of no return.
Fair enough. I see your point.
I may be missing a lot of details on how YC works, but it seems pretty straightforward to me: you're still the CEO. YC invests $120k and an additional $30k, or so, of intangibles, but they don't take a board seat nor a controlling stake in your company. That is, as CEO, you could decide that the best thing to do to improve your company's prospects is to pay yourself $120k for 3 months of work. But, more realistically, you'd probably pay yourself a minimal amount to cover 3 months cost of living in SF (probably 10-15k) and then spend the other 75k (after taxes, etc) on things that give your company most bang-for-buck.

So, on day 1, YC assumes that you (a relative unknown) and your initial idea (probably unproven) are worth about $2M (investment of ~150k for a 7% stake). Seems pretty good to me. And, of course, if you believe that you and your idea are worth more than that, you could always self-fund or seek other funding sources.
I think worst case (best case?) scenario is that they will 'copy' the data they're not supposed to keep off to another country, maybe anonymize it but otherwise the data will still be there. Its too important - even in anonymized form. Its capable of helping sociologists, medical researchers, advertisers, etc... They don't need to know that "James. T. McLovin' of 123 Happy Lane, went on 15 dates and slept with 3 women, prefers brunettes", but knowing that a "John Doe, M, 27, income of $50k, likes rugby, etc..." is good information to have.
And by having that, they are better off than Europeans, who have nothing. Instead, they add their weight to the network effects of US services.
Well, bit of egg in your face, pretty much all of them by the look of it.

The UK:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_law_enforcement_agenci...
Now that you mentioned Star Trek, I'll probably read every SQL query ever with the voice of Commander Data.
I think the more interesting question would be, how much data do they retain on you if you close your account?
Get clients with cold emails
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Apache Arrow is the next big thing in data analytics, imagine doing a SQL query in MAPD ( executes in ms on GPU ) then passing the data zero-copy into python, doing some calculations in pandas and outputting the result into web interface, because everything is zero-copy it can be done faster than ever before.
American spelling is gray, English/UK spelling is grey.

Easy way to remember is use "a" for "American" in the American spelling, and "e" (for English) in UK (and presumably the rest of the Commonwealth).
> they could and did put in whatever through a third-party like New Relic.

They didn't put anything through the third-party. It's commented as NewRelic, but anyone even glancing at the link would notice this is completely wrong.
> it was the Unions that helped dealing with convincing the workers to accept shorter shifts and salaries

Schröder paved the way for the Arbeitnehmerüberlassung, which causes a massive rise in time restricted contracts and external workforce. Unions are very happy to keep this going, as this keeps salaries for proper employees higher than ever (a 20000 EUR difference is not uncommon for the same job), and bonus payments that amount to 10000 EUR for Porsche and 6000 EUR for Daimler. For the growing number of employees working under these contracts, it amounts to having a 30 to 40 per cent lower salary to your colleague who works beside you, doing the same job. (Add to that the constant yapping of the SPD regarding a perceived gender based wage gap and you know why they are so detested in large parts of the population.)
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C PROGRAM TO SWAP VALUES OF TWO VARIABLES WITH THIRD VARIABLE
/"swipe right" ?

To be fair, this article is a vulgarization of what "tech-savvy" internet user already know.
Wow--there's some pretty intense SEO in the slug for that URL:
tinder-personal-data-dating-app-messages-hacked-sold
I’m no economist, but it seems like the millions of dollars of electricity that have gone into mining crypto currencies is transferred into the underlying value of the crypto currency. So if I know that it will take $100m of today’s money to mine crypto currency for the next year, then I would expect the total market cap of that crypto currency to rise by at least $100m with a premium for speculation and other supply demand issues. So in that sense the value of the mined currency should increase with the mining cost.
What? I was not aware that cyber is short for cybersex. That's strange. I thought cybersecurity, cyberspace, cyberpunk are what most people would imagine if they hear "cyber". When I hear "cyber" the mental image I get is some sort of a scene from Matrix where Neo plugs a wire into his brain and goes into virtual world.
> People in Germany seem to prefer rent over freehold property, this might explain Germany's low numbers compared to other states.

For the average German, buying a house means 30 years of debt: 300 000 EUR vs. 50 000 EUR salary (which is actually 30 000 EUR due to taxes and mandatory health insurance).
Nobody has mentioned Postgres 10 which is going to be pretty cool in its release - https://www.ashnik.com/new-features-coming-in-postgresql-10/

Postgres is creeping up on Cassandra faster than Cassandra becomes usable. Especially the really cool work that Citus is doing.
It doesn't help that Apple is making bad 'design' choices such as the one that control center doesn't really turn off bluetooth (https://www.cnet.com/uk/how-to/how-to-really-turn-off-blueto...). People can't understand every little thing draining the battery when this sort of thing is put in by design.
Tracking is turned on by default, but it's pretty simple to turn it off as the site owner. It's clearly marked in the administration section. As you said, with ad tracking turned off there are no such requests.
>> mining for content becoming main stream that replaces commercials

Replaces? Like they'll ever give those up...
You've missed the point. "Trusted", signed applications can do the same things this PoC did.
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> Seriously, how is it legal?

Legal? That's Big Government! Crypto is freedom, no gods, no masters! We know better than 300 years of banking, investing, and laws!

/s obviously
I'm reminded of when I discovered on a production system that "killall" is very different on Solaris to Linux.
The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal by Mitchell Waldrop is a great book.
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How granular can access controls go?
Legal uncertainty aside, I could also see an entity like Facebook running their own ICO and then using that crypto currency for micro payments and other transactions on the Facebook platform. In some ways that crypto currency would becomes the official currency of Facebook’s virtual nation state.
The country the data resides in is irrelevant. If the data is about an EU citizen, that's all that matters.

I believe the company in question would also need a legal entity in the EU in order for the EU to prosecute them, as I don't think you can take (e.g.) an American company to an EU court. IANAL though.
> I have a hard time seeing a whole generation of Europeans and Americans wanting to emulate the Chinese, Japan, maybe. China, not so much.

That's more position of ignorance, and thankfully it is changing.

Even Eastern Europe had a problem with such an attitude. There used to be a saying: "Americans are not going to buy Skoda, Chinese will". And indeed, Chinese do.
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Well at the moment, likely because people aren't being told about it...
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