skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm glad to hear that I'm not the only small phone fan. My new job is asking me to get a new/other phone for work purposes...and while I've always been a fan of android (not especially religious fan, simply a mild fan)...any recent phones which have decent functionality are immense in size. The only phone that I find that is a great balance of size and functionality seems to be the iphone SE. That fact alone was putting me on the fence as to whether i would stay with android - for this new/other work phone - or if I'd take the plunge to the apple side. Well, now reading this privacy piece, i'm leaning a bit more to the apple side. And, it is nice to hear that there are other folks out there who like small phones...i mean, i certainly don't want to walk around with a phone nearly the size of a freakin' tablet! :-)
> She earns about 825 euros ($990) per month and gets an extra 500 euros ($600) in welfare because of her low wages.

> But rents are high — and rising — in Fürstenfeldbruck. Kus’s apartment alone costs her more than 800 euros ($960) per month.

That's one expensive rent for a small town in Germany. Usually one would not spend that much in rent with that income if they can help it.
the fact that they care about privacy doesn't mean that they aren't user hostile
Paypal is offender number one. I don't understand why they can't use google authenticator. Is it some kind of pride thing, like paypal and Amazon?
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For those not using Kotlin, or using Kotlin and Java, check out Room:

https://developer.android.com/topic/libraries/architecture/r...

It's in their list, at half the size and method count of Anko (with no need to pull in the Kotlin runtime if you're not using Kotlin). It offers all the same features, really awesome migration testing, and RxJava integration.

For me these days the options that make sense in Android's world of infinite DBs/Orms/Wrappers are down to SQLBrite+SQLDelight, Realm, or Room depending on what you want
Except their new truck isn't a workhorse, and that's the problem with it. I'm not saying EVERY Mac has to be a Macbook Pro. There are two product lines (Air, and the standard Macbook) that should be a little "softer" for the consumer level. The Macbook Pro though was always supposed to be a really powerful, well equipped workhorse, and switching to all USB-C for no other reason than thinness? That's totally fine for a Macbook, and totally irritating for a Macbook PRO.

Also, the gimmicky as hell trash can Pro with no meaningful upgradability was a slap in the face to anyone who loved the silver full tower BEASTS that preceded it. We STILL have some of those in service than were manufactured in 2008.
Congress should look at the SEC obligations for disclosure (the delay seems wrong given the organization's mission of transparency... the SEC would sanction a public company for a similar failure to disclose) and why the SEC decided to wait a year to inform the public. Not disclosing the hack back in August 2016 strikes me as a political decision by the Obama Administration to avoid criticism during the home stretch of the election.
Usually performance in GNU yes is a canary for other bad performance. Its more like saying "if you can handle yes, you can handle anything." I've legitimately crashed hyper term (another electron-base term) when dumping other large amounts of data, like in large log files.
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Yes and the scary thing is no one even knows what's causing this. Insects? Mining too greedily? Warming temps?
Right, no real effect for most users and ad publishers. Apple didn't really do much here.
A simple Google search failed me, maybe I don't know what I am looking for, but now I am at the mercy of the internet when I ask...

What is a RF Lab?
And if they continue to operate and continue to screw people over, what's the cost of that? It's not like they're benefitting anybody (not 'people' anybody).
One more dsl for SQL is cool, but not maintainable, not approachable or scalable.

SQL scripts in assets/ folder would be not cool or sexy, but everybody knows what are they.
Scala.js scratches that itch for me. I rarely write frontend code, but when I do the extra IDE support given to me by IDEA for Scala.js is pretty great.

I'm a full time Scala dev though, so I'm totally biased
There are projects of differing scope like TypeScript, ClojureScript, WebAssembly (not standardized but getting there) etc that are all helping to ease our pain. Javascript isn't going away but writing in pure JavaScript is.

Combine those with Babel or other ES6 transpilers, a linting and build system, and you've got yourself a pretty decent environment.

Personally I find working with JS far more fun (this phrase is used loosely) than working with Java.
Using the wrong tool for the job is a reflection of a engineer's skill.
https://philipmorganconsulting.com/ has lots of good advice on this.
You know the point I'm trying to make, and it's disingenuous to point at some line in some far-away terms and conditions, and say "that authorizes Equifax and two other companies to collect and maintain all information on you, in perpetuity, without any option to revoke this grant."

Are they licensed to do this type of work? Shouldn't they need to be? Should that be revokable? What is the process for revoking that permission, and can we get it started already? It just came out that in their response to the breach, they've been linking their "customers" to a phishing site since September 9. It's time to revoke those grants.
Having caught a lot of flights at about 6am I always regarded being able to sleep through entire flights as a useful life skill ;-)
I do man parsing for one of my projects and it is as painful as HTML parsing. OK the syntax is less complex but you still end up with the problem that the body of text is designed for human consumption so the formatting doesn't always follow the same rules from one man page to the next (tokens aside).

This means that while it is easy enough to pull flags from the man pages, offering usage suggestions is something too tricky to handle in an automated on-demand fashion.

I did toy with the idea of starting a new project porting man pages to a new document format designed specifically for utilities parsing (eg a JSON format with standardised fields). However even that would be a massive job to maintain without the support from other developers upstream.

But I'm open to other suggestions if anyone has any?
> native multi-platform/multi-OS support

Nope, just Electron.
Other suggestions here are good in terms of how to track it, but I suspect you don't need to track it beyond what you already know- it's most likely that air conditioner.

Even if every other electric appliance in your house doubled or halved its power consumption, it wouldn't move the needle near as much as the biggest energy user in the house.

If your AC is more than 5 years old, consider replacing it. Not only do they eventually wear out, wasting more energy, but newer ones can be more energy-efficient.

Consider buying a cheap mister for your AC's radiator. It uses a small amount of water to conduct the heat off the coils. Cool-n-save, Mist-n-save, Mistbox.. may want to soften the water you use to avoid scale deposits.

The smartest thing would probably be to explore a 5kW PV system on your roof. Not only will it remove heat from your roof but it will also save a lot on your air conditioning no matter how efficient it is nor how hot it gets outside. SC's government and utility incentives (visit dsireusa.org) look a lot like those in PV-friendly states from 5 years ago (which is to say, ridiculously good for the homeowner).
Well, I guess the sticking point is that no one has found a better way to measure loan risk. If they had, lenders would work with the agency that more accurately assesses their risk because otherwise they are leaving money on the table by not lending to creditworthy individuals.
Also, travelling by plane is safer than by train and especially safer than by car.

Really, as a rational person, you should be scared by the road more than by any other type of transportation. It's just that all those deaths are scattered across the time axis, while for planes and trains, more deaths happen at once, which is "better" for media coverage.
I guess home users who are not behind a restricted firewall are most likely to be vulnerable to this attack vector.
Love these ideas! I have a long list of ARKit apps I want to build.. if only there were more months in a year.

I think my favorite is a Mario Kart style "ghost mode" for running. Where you could tell it what pace you wanted to go and it'd show ghost running in front or behind you at that pace!
Don't teach students the hard way first
Governments, at least in the West, are elected and have a public mission compared to places like Google
It’s a reasonable point; I stay away from tobacco, and am iffy about gambling and alcohol for the same reasons. But on the whole, the stuff I build is either generally beneficial for the user or at least inoffensive.

Buy hey, that’s just my opinion :) You do what you think’s best and I’ll do the same. My point was just that it’s not just the US who has people who are ‘out of touch’ (apparently).
I guess these are quite slow (because no indexing) once you have a serious number of records? That in itself isn't a problem as long as you understand the scope of the project. I wonder why they didn't use (a well-defined subset of) CSV as the format however.
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Maybe he's talking about the sanitizers? eg: https://clang.llvm.org/docs/AddressSanitizer.html
Anecdotal, but my 90 year old father uses a chromebook and gmail very successfully.

I'd go so far as to say chromebooks are ideal for seniors, because there is very little they can screw up.
John Carmack on his 10 year old son's first program.

> I’m still taking a little heat from my wife for using an obscure language instead of something mainstream that is broadly used in industry, but I have nothing but good things to say about using Racket and DrRacket for a beginning programmer, and highly recommend it. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/racket-users/yjRuIxy...

I would say that typing your Python code is easier, but the rest is much easier in Racket.

1) easier to debug

2) easier to deploy

3) easier to design

4) easier to think through due to the concise manner of building programs

I have plenty of friends who use Python and they can write a 100 line program without a problem. After it is over 1000 it just falls apart. In a functional(ish) language it allows for a MUCH easier way to follow Do Not Repeat Yourself.
In reading the article, the claim is made that someone with a high IQ will not find the work compelling, will get bored, and leave wasting that training and money. That does beg the question: Is policing only appealing to someone with a low IQ? Worse, is this the only reason the state wants police officers with low intelligence levels?
They ARE the invisible hand, personified. The invisible hand got us here. Clearly, it's an invisible hand with palsy (possibly claws, or leprosy).

Mind you, I agree about adding accountability. I just doubt that's really a solution; it's part of a solution.
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What kind of projects?
A company full of progressives and liberals is still profit-focused, and profit-centric decisions win out compared to the public good
The problem is that we already have a nationalized version of this - the OPM database for security clearances - and it too has been hacked. It was known vulnerable in 2009 and nothing was done about it until it was known to be hacked 6 years later.

Even worse, while the author criticizes how Equifax got started - private investigators looking for affairs, etc - that is exactly what the OPM database is. They're looking for things that could be used to blackmail an individual so it includes financial history, marital info, drug use/abuse info, and potentially medical records.

My coverage of it at the time: https://caseysoftware.com/blog/why-this-security-breach-is-w...

And no, there has been zero accountability around it.

Whenever someone says "the govt can protect this info better!" remember that this is the same government that doesn't follow the law with regards to wiretaps, FOIA requests, background check info, and many, many other things. Oh, and the NSA can't even protect their best tools.
What is a reasonable alternative to credit agencies? Most countries I know use similar (or sometimes the same, like the UK) agencies, though sometimes with a caveat that they only log defaults or other stuff you mess up.
I wonder if the hackers were from the industry or outsiders who just took advantage of the opportunity.
>It appears to me that Germans are very aware of social inequality

Maybe, but I don't think they are in the sense that really matters. First, I think a lot of people just see social inequality as a global problem, like all the refugees coming there from poorer countries.

Second, the impression that I often get from Germans is that they are all for helping people in dire straits but at the same time thinking that they are somehow excluded from ever getting into such a situation and that for people that do it's their own fault and they are somehow worth less for it.
One thing Github does that really bothers me is that if your paid account lapses, you must pay to get your private repos back. You don't have the option to simply set your repos to public. The only options Github gives you is pay money or lose your repos. As far as I care, that's practically extortion. So I moved to Gitlab.

Luckily, Github screwed up and temporarily unlocked my private repos, letting me grab the ones I didn't have locally and move them to Gitlab.

No opt-out option, no deal, Github. This is something that students should particularly take note of, because it applies to Github Education accounts, too.
Define your security model. If you are talking about advertisers, then both can achieve about the same "security" level. But there's no point talking about security (as remotely inaccessible) while we don't have an open hardware + firmware. Baseband is a "micro PC", some even run modified Linux kernel under the hood, WiFi chip, battery controller etc. -- all are capable of running spyware/malware too.
> and so many people fall for it like Apple cares about user privacy/freedom, etc.

I don't care if you call it a "grandstand PR move". It detracts from what Apple has actually done. It was not a valueless statement of ideals. It's an actual piece of functionality that millions of people will have built into their smartphones.

Stallman sits around hypothesising about vague 'open systems' that—when fleshed out—are completely impractical for the average user. This does very little. You can all sit around installing AOSP (or some other lesser-known open-source mobile operating system) and write your own ML-powered cookie bucketing engines and pretend that this is a viable alternative, and that Apple hasn't done something objectively pretty cool and great.

Thee fact is, the Stallman philosophy is absolutely meaningless to the vast majority of end-users, and they are incapable of doing anything with it. What Apple has done is something that will help end users. It's a selling point, they might win some people over with it, boo hoo, there's no such thing as ethical consumption under capitalism. It still means a whole lot.
No, I have no contract with Equifax. Does that mean I don't have any standing in this discussion? You're being obtuse.
Sorry about that!

That was happening when the phone traveled to the other side of the scene's origin from where it started. The angle calculation got confused.

I just got that fixed and submitted to Apple in v1.1 this morning. Should be inbound today or tomorrow as soon as they approve it.
How China is battling ever more intensely in world markets
I was referring to GDP figures
He already partners with organizations like WaPo and Politifact to be 'fact-checkers', paying them large contracts I assume.

Once these groups determine something to be 'fake news' they are set up to censor as they see fit. Pretty smart if it wasn't so evil.
It has higher risk per trip, and ok per duration. Trip length simply has minimal safety impact.

However, while ISS space station also has a great safety record per mile that does not make it safe. Which is why frequent flyers have high lifetime risks even if you call it 'safe'. ~X deaths per billion miles sounds great until you notice people with 10+ million miles.
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If it was intentionally covered up by Obama's administration, why did Trump's administration wait 9 months to make it public? Not everything has to be politically motivated.
So what is the inductive reasoning behind the alleged conspiracy in question, then?

That it must have happened since the NSA has the intent and capabilities?
Does this mean that any digital conspiracy you can dream up involving the NSA is probable?
The reason Trump won?

1. Trump got us to blame the our situation on immigrants, and Globalism. Trump allowed us to blame the 1 percenter's without being chastised. It's ironic he might be one of them.

2. The idiots thought Trump would go in there and change the way a bill becomes a law. (It's still to early to tell if he can put a leash on Lobbiests.)

3. People voted for Trump because he was the first politician who exposed other politicians in a bombastic NY manor. And they had it comming--on both sides.

4. Trumps rise to power allowed any narcisstic, with money, to run for the grand prize; The President.

5. I still remember voting for a politician on their character. My father was very conservative, but felt Jimmy Carter was at least a moral/ethical person. I wonder if we will ever see those days again? It seems like morals, and ethics are inversely related to people these days, especially the ones pulling the strings, at least in my world.
Gotcha, sad to see the article title is indeed the one you mentioned, even though is not totally inaccurate.
If Hollywood wants a scapegoat for poor ticket sales, blame movie theaters
> They're really different issues.

They're different fixes for the same problem: high memory usage. Depending on the situation you can use one or both, as you say.
Trump's vengeful, bilious and vulgar behavior appeals to the American anti-establishment zeitgeist. People like it because Trump gives voice to the contempt they feel for modern culture, political correctness and the "status quo."

Zuckerberg, on the other hand, may not be able to spin his negatives into positives quite as handily.
I'm with you on this. I can't imagine any other complex discipline where experts offer their time & creativity to the lowest bidder so quickly.

Programming seems uniquely generous in this regard. Or stupid.
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Not that I've seen. There exists SDR hardware for transmitting, but all seemed to start at multiple $100's. In any case note that you will almost certainly need a license to transmit on most interesting frequencies and power levels.

Edit: "ticket" = license?
I just submitted v1.1 to the App Store that supports puzzles on a vertical plane so once that lands you can load up https://websudoku.com on your computer monitor to try it out!

Sneak peek of that update: https://twitter.com/braddwyer/status/910861205442527233

Several bug fixes included as well based on input from early users.
Given that they actually try running a candidate every four years rather than focusing locally, they're not a very serious party
Apple knows this; in fact, I'd say it's their core business strategy. They did this before with the iTunes Music Store, and they will continue doing it as long as they exist.

Apple focuses on the mass consumer as their sole and perpetual customer. This allows them to maintain laser focus on solving the problems of the end users rather than solving the problems of an advertiser and forcing the solution on end users.

Apple's refusal to "innovate" on its business model has actually put them where they are today. Most other tech companies have other motives in making mobile devices: Amazon wants to sell you content, Facebook and Google want to show you ads, while Apple just wants to make the best damn phone out there and sell it at a very high price.

If the market definition of "best damn phone out there" starts to include "protects your privacy", Apple doesn't have the conflicts of interest that Google or Facebook do. I'm sure everyone else will eventually follow suit, but Apple is the only one with the capability to take the lead on privacy.
In at least 40 other countries — including Belgium, France, Germany, Italy and Spain — credit reporting can be done by a public credit registry.

This is not true for Germany.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schufa
CoM is #3 for me with region set to UK.

I get Baby Mama as #1 as well, but at least, from the movie synopsis, it doesn't appeat to be an irrelevant result.
I'm not sure you can comprehend a human that tries to block all forms of advertisement, controls all information the net has on them and sees ads as a possible factor towards not buying a particular product.

I might be an asshole who can be considered useless because I don't bring the ad industry a single cent, but I'm certainly not a sitting duck, mate.
CSV is neither human-readable nor -writable.

And I don't think the performance issue exists.
Computers are fast nowadays. Parsing recfiles is straightforward.
Also you could easily archive historic/old/probably irrelevant records.
Hey!

Thanks guys for your comments! I'm the writer of the article (Evarest).

Just a bit of an update in the mean while :) Our AI team is now busy writing a bit more detail on the actual AI part of the project. The project used:

Random Forested Height Data
Deep Learning Models

We trained on the entire dataset of 60.000+ elements, but did pre-processing on the data. I am not placed to answer detailed questions on the AI part, but we will update the article soon with more details.

Note that this is not a perfect result, nor that we claim to be all-knowing or have all the answers. This is a result from a hackathon, which involved working in suboptimal conditions under heavy time constraints.

As for the AR part, we did not have access to AR helmets. We are aware that not all the data that we showed would work on an AR helmet (currently). However, this tech is totally feasible in the short to medium term. Also, it is completely feasible on tablet or similar.

The concept of the hackathon was to show the potential of these technologies, and to integrate the AR and AI, which I find we succeeded in.
"half an hour from the southern German city of Munich"

Munich rents are pretty insane.
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SQLite is such a fantastic database. I've always wondered, is anyone using it at scale in a client server application? How do people handle syncing online/offline in mobile apps?
SIMON and SPECK are both pretty straightforward block cipher designs. You can implement them in less than 100 lines of code. There are no s-boxes or weird constants. Unlike a lot of what NSA designs, they were published formally, with design papers that included rationales. The software-optimized cipher (SPECK) is a simple ARX design. The hardware-optimized cipher (SIMON) uses bitwise operations instead of AND. This is pretty mainstream stuff. It is very unlikely that they harbor backdoors.

(The point of both algorithms is to provide scalable low-profile crypto, instantiable at very small key and block sizes; this is something you'd want if you were, for instance, building an encrypted IOT scheme on microcontrollers).

That doesn't mean they should be international standards; maybe it makes sense that after Dual EC, the NSA doesn't have a shot at producing a global standard for low-profile encryption. But however well justified, it's mostly a political decision, not a technical one.