skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see a new market opening - creation of US favorable social media profiles as a service. UFSMPaaS, just rolls of the tongue, I know. Pay a company and they will populate your social accounts with "I love the USA!" type phrases and media. They do that for a year before someone tries to immigrate.

Or even worse. Don't like someone, send a public social media messaged directed at them with something like "Yeah, I got your plans. Already bought the pressure cooker and ball bearings". Watch them being turned away at the border and ruining their vacation.

When those in power act irrationally there will always be a new opportunity for someone to take advantage and abuse that.

Also I am not sure if it is good that I never signed up for Facebook and Twitter or bad because now I'll be flagged - "Got nothing on this weirdo, only some computer programming nonsense. Probably good to keep an eye on him".
Among the things that people can't afford and really need, the most common ones are healthcare and housing.

The problem with giving people more money to stimulate demand for those things is that it only solves half of the problem. Healthcare is limited by the supply of doctors so no matter how much government subsidizes it, the amount of people who can be seen by the constant number of doctors will be the same. In practice, this means the price will increase every time you try to give people more money for healthcare.

Housing is similar in that even if you give people money for new houses, everyone wants their house to be in a nice location and there are only so many houses that can fit in a constant amount of desirable real estate.

Without reforms to medical school and medical residency programs, healthcare might never be affordable. Without reforms to zoning laws, housing might never be affordable.

Without at least allowing for an increase to the supply of nice things, increasing the demand of nice things won't be very helpful.
Policy is not my department, but technically speaking... I think a VPN service would probably be more effective running on AWS or Digital Ocean or whatnot.
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>Maybe I'm being contrarian but how is this a big deal?

Ask a person in Argentina, Chile, Spain, and lots of other places besides.

>I'd expect the government to be collecting all public information for its citizens and those visiting the country - why not?

Because their social media lives are not its business -- citizens or not.
Perhaps, but I'm not convinced that nation state resources were needed.

A different Equifax site had an admin account with the password..."admin"

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/14/equifax-used-admin-for-the-l...
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I can wait to "declare" my "Hacker News" account at a border. Surely there will be no misunderstanding.

All of that aside, there's nothing particularly surprising or even notable. PRISM has been operational for, what, 10 years? This is pretty tame in comparison.

This is a more of a disclosure test. They already know what you do on social media. Now you just have to tell them explicitly, because if you leave something out, you'll be denied entry.
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Don't be too positive though - if the TSA think you really love the USA then you might want to move there.

You need to write a bot that tweets 'I love the USA but wouldn't want to live there' every day.
FAA outlaws drone use around 10 US monuments and dams
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I also really, really want that. Things that go some of the way are Audacity (which has noise reduction and spectral editing but is not remotely on a par with RX) and https://github.com/lucianodato/noise-repellent.

If somebody credible put together a kickstarter for a FOSS equivalent of RX then I'd back the hell out of it. Mostly I think what's needed is a GUI around OSS stuff that already exists, either as plugins or code that can be borrowed.
We are discussing with each other publicly on a website, sharing ideas and information. Each of us is doing so tied to an identity, such as it is. Just as we might on Reddit, facebook, instagram, etc. All are social media. HackerNews is by no means different.

In what way do you find it is not social media, or maybe I should ask how narrow is your definition of social media?

I tried to find how exactly DHS defines "social media" because that is actually what is relevant to this discussion, but I was unable. I think someone had posted their definition in one of the other threads on this topic, if you want to try to find it yourself.

Feel free to read through Wikipedia's article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media
>Australia is nice this time of year. Why not send a conference or two down under?

Because it's even worse in this regard.

>Smart, well educated individuals

Well, let's not generalize.
Gmail's image proxying actually won't help much with this style of tracking. In the paper we found email addresses (or hashes of them) leaking to third parties via a query string parameter in the request URL. So the proxied URL still contains your email address and the third parties can still learn you opened and read the email. As another commenter mentions, we found these requests to occur the moment you first open the email in the Gmail web interface. Since the request URL is unique to you, it can still be used to serve you targeted content. See: https://web.archive.org/web/20170922213846/https://support.l...

Actually I suspect image proxying will also interfere with request blockers like ABP or uBlock Origin, which may have otherwise blocked all requests to that third-party domain.
In 32 bit float, about 50% of the possible values (no denormals) fall between -0.5 and 0.5 (~2 000 000 000), the space on each side between 0.5 and 1 adds only about 80 million new values.
doesn't change the fact that OT God is a psycho that routinely sanctioned genocide against any fools he disagreed with.

please go ahead and refute any of the following crimes against humanity which this psycho happily documented for all time.

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Examples_of_God_personally_kil...
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This recent reveal of warrants makes it even more chilling http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/353043-trum...
Yes, true. But I am not a salesman to sell you a solution.

All I ask for is to be more conscious about these, sometimes subtle, sometimes less so - things.

If it helps you, here's a simple framework of mine to develop some kind of directional feeling for technology: If it helps to lessen the power of a single entity it's perfect, if it enables you to do new things it's good, otherwise, it might only be a distraction.

Linux and free software is perfect, it is free and a huge enabler for all kinds of things - even for businesses. Bittorrent is good, because it is a huge enabler and took power off content distributors. Raspberry Pi is perfect, because it puts computing into a lot of hands. AWS is only good, because it is an enabler, but it actually feeds a single entity - so that's bad. Cryptocurrencies in theory are perfect, since they take power off single large entities - but they are not robust yet. Solar power is perfect, because it can a human make independent of a single large entity.

So, it is somewhat simple: There are things that liberate you - you as a person and let's you voluntarily choose to cooperate and there are things that lock you in - facebooks walled garden, adtech in general, where information asymmetry only grows - and many other things, that only make sense in the capitalist framework (in however shiny colors you want to paint its advantages).

Maybe that's a start?
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"remember the credit agency" doesn't have much of a ring to it, though.
I downvoted you. Social media are a new category. It's not like writing to the newspapers, yet it's not like telling somebody in private.

And society will still have to figure out where to draw the line. Is searching your social media a search? I mean, I think by U.S. laws, searching a large hall which only purpose is to meet with other people, even large number and by invitation, still requires a warrant.
The underlying assumptions of the value of the used cars may well be too optimistic particularly during a crisis period.

That is not counting the systemic risk from regulation e.g. my diesel car is has lost considerable value and there is a non zero risk that I may not be allowed to drive to the city center in two years. The used car market for diesel cars tanked in Germany.

The widespread adoption of electric vehicles makes calculating the remaining value of a car difficult for any period beyond 5 years. When the buyers fully understand that and factor that into discounting future values the regional used car markets will move a step down.
Do you really think that they will simply look at your public Facebook page? Tell me if I’m wrong but I think they can already do that without changing the law.
He kept 750 coins on an exchange? That's surely asking for trouble, granted it's shouldn't happen that he would lose anything but given the industry and their reputation then I would thought minimizing exposure on exchanges may be prudent
Same - resident alien going for citizenship next year. Active on Twitter and FB with plenty of political posts. Really looking forward to sending in my application next year....
This is literally the thesis of the software startup industry as well. Ironically it was Amazon that arguably kicked off the latest wave by leveraging their resources to create AWS... can you blame them for doing the same in media, especially given the wealth of metrics they have about both physical shopping habits and digital media usage by the same people?
Give us all your passwords please. You have nothing to hide anyway.
I also don't control the phone company, the post office, or my friends' email providers. Am I supposed to never communicate with them unless it's face-to-face?

I'm not talking nuclear launch codes here. It's impossible to lead a normal life without using communication services, and it's some sort of fantasy to think you could, for example, organize your social life without leaving enough clues to create a pretty accurate profile.

So I think what we need to stop doing is pretending it's realistic for everyone to run around cosplaying MI6.
Googling someone is not an unreasonable search or seizure.
Nice national security cover to preempt lawsuits. Can't be sued if Uncle Sam failed to protect you. Or can you still be sued?
Not the parent comment but in the Netherlands where I live you have to pay tax on your savings once it exceeds about 21K EUR.

The government then makes up that you must be at least getting 4% (up to 9% if you have up to 1M) interest, and it wants 30% of that interest of anything over that 21K EUR limit.

Meanwhile the current interest at banks is anywhere from 0.05% to 1% here (most major banks are around 0.2%).
And Equifax linking to a fake phishing site by mistake, was that also "state sponsored"? Give me a break...

The Equifax hack has the hallmarks of Equifax's complete incompetence when it comes to security, and that is all.
We are taking input on what the use cases are in order to come up with a pricing model that makes sense. Definitely reach out with what you're trying to do and we'll take it into account as we're designing how it's priced.
I would absolutely assume that they will look to collect browsing data.
You mean that you didn't realize there was a film don't you...
I guess a "State-Sponsored Attack" sounds better than "we got pwned with a bug that was known since March that we didn't patch and could have been exploited by a guy in a basement" [https://qz.com/1073221/the-hackers-who-broke-into-equifax-ex...]
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It feels like lately bots and AI are the biggest hype-train. Everybody wants bots. Bots for this, and bots for that. With natural language processing bolted on somehow.

Got a simple, defined flow that could just be a decision tree? Nope, we need natural language processing in a chatbot, we can't possibly present a menu.

I feel like I'm fighting the Infocom parser again.
I was quite puzzled why boxing would be required, when the language has static typing. It turns out the boxing is an implementation detail of Ocaml's GC implementation. Ref: https://realworldocaml.org/v1/en/html/memory-representation-...
Ah, good point, I left that out.

My system will max out at perhaps 1M data points in any given series. More typically it might have 1/10th or 1/100th of that.
X11 has supported multiple monitors for 30 years
You say stupid shit, you get downvoted. That’s not even Apple, that’s just basic internet.
It was terrible security, implemented poorly.

It doesn't matter if it was as state or not, it should have been so comprehensive, or easy.

The basic design of where the data was placed, and how easy it was to traverse the network, combined with a stunning lack of monitoring means that it could have almost have been a script kiddie who did this.

_almost_
Have you guys considered side channels?

Seems like whenever there's co-execution (VMs, JavaScript, etc) there seem to be side channel leakages.
They do, but the crux of every Musk fantasy is a radical drop in the cost of these things, a promise he has never delivered on.
I suspect that if you are not a citizen of one of the countries in the Visa Waiver Program then you will need a C-1 transit visa, so you'd likely need to provide the information the same as if you were visiting/working/studying/etc.

Visa Waver Program: https://travel.state.gov/content/visas/en/visit/visa-waiver-...
People enjoy a) traveling, b) interaction, c) face to face meetings, d) networking, e) break off from normal routine, f) the ability to ask the speaker questions / talk after/before the event, g) free gimmicks like event t-shirts.
Lots? Name one ico over $1m that has run off with others money?

Plenty of raisings based on spurious concepts but yet to see one actually go full scam, essentially these people have bs programming jobs for a few years until they admit their product is not desirable to anyone.

Most will fail, but at the very least the world will get some open source software from it.

More than could be said for all the dodgy mining explorers I've invested in.
I don't really find the argument convincing. I'd argue that the original approach was more intuitive.
FYI Hadoop is not a synonym for “cluster”.

A clustered system could be a load balancer and a few servers running percona cluster, or a couple of ldap masters with read-only relicas and proxy-writes.

Doing it on bare metal also gives exposure to the parts amazon specifically don’t
> muh russian hackers

This nonsense is really getting old
So when they repo lots of cars due to a downturn the second hand market will crash. Which means the book value for all cars goes down the toilet.
> Mandiant, the security consulting firm hired by Equifax to investigate the breach, said in a report distributed to Equifax clients on Sept. 19 that it didn't have enough data to identify either the attackers or their country of origin.

Isn't it possible that with the incredible bounty of state-power hacking tools floating around the web that it's just a criminal organization? Or are we trying to paint a cold-cyber-war narrative to put Equifax in a sympathetic light?
Seems like this plus the Cloudflare Apps could yield some interesting projects.
I'm with Schneier on this, it's hard to get worked up about the gov't scraping information an individual publishes publicly. The larger trend is obviously still disturbing.
The difference between New Covenant and Old Covenant is a matter of a change in place, not a matter of a change in God's character (which stays the same).

The Old Covenant was the law written on tablets of stone, see Exodus 33-34.

The New Covenant is the law written on tablets of human hearts, see Ezekiel 36.

The place changes from "tablets of stone" to "tablets of human hearts".

It's also critical to understand that both covenants were given to those who were ALREADY God's people, saved on the basis of grace, through faith. The Old Covenant was given to those who had already been saved out of Egypt by God's powerful grace. The New Covenant is written on the hearts of those who are saved through faith in Christ's suffering, death and resurrection on their behalf. The Exodus then, rightly understood, is a foreshadowing of the need to be saved from slavery to sin (Jesus' own commentary in John 8).

Salvation in both OT and NT has always been on the basis of faith, see Abraham ("and his faith was counted to him as righteousness" - and this long before the Law was given). Salvation has never been on the basis of Law-keeping since the Law was given to fallen man after the events of Genesis 3 (Romans 5). We are not sinners because we break the Law. We break the Law because we are sinners. The Law makes people conscious of sin, and drives them to the grace of God. Once there, the Law shows people how to be godly, because the Law reflects God's own character.

So the difference is where the Law is written, not the contents of the Law itself. As Jesus said, the Law is to "love the Lord with all your heart, soul, mind and strength and to love your neighbor as yourself".

But knowing that, or trying to keep the Law externally will only lead to a knowledge of sin. It's faith in Christ alone which saves. We are not saved BY works, but FOR works and then again only once we are saved (Ephesians 2), and that by grace alone, through faith alone, in Jesus Christ alone, according to God's words alone, for God's glory alone.
HAHAHAHA, couldn't have said it better
A "lottery ticket" does not quite fit the traditional definition of "investment".

Besides, almost no one who buys a lottery ticket ends up winning millions, but everyone who bought and held bitcoins since 2010 is a winner.
"JavaScript doesn’t include this out of the box, but it’s an interesting exercise to write your own."

I may be misunderstanding point-free notation (I had never heard of it before), but I think `bind` (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...) let's a programmer provide some of the arguments to a function and returns a new function that requires only the remaining arguments.
Thanks, I should have specified I meant in comparison to Lambda@Edge on CloudFront which this seems quite similar in terms of the use cases.
This whole set of measures will probably lead to more and more successful new businesses being started outside USA.

...and most non-American entrepreneurs will breathe relieved, loosing some of the fear that the SV brain-magnet can siphon their talent away at any moment. So yey for everyone (except the USA).
Umm was I the only one too assume that BFR meant Big Feckin' Rocket? Oh, no, I see waitbutwhy has a piece on it [0]

I disappointingly see F is for Falcon, but still I really like the lack of marketing in the name.

Plus I like the parallel with Roald Dahl's BFG.

[0]: https://waitbutwhy.com/2016/09/spacexs-big-fking-rocket-the-...
There is a real problem of profitable propaganda that the internet & unlimited media consumption has created. People get very excited over immigration and other hot button political issues and many exploit the people and the issues for personal gain.

Regardless of who the president is profitable propaganda will divide the country. The current administration validates these otherwise fringe views and magnifies the problem. DJT makes no attempt to heal the relationships between liberals & conservatives and instead really seems to enjoy driving division.
Ah yes, the super-spy excuse. That worked well before, why not go for it again.

It basically boils down to "Don't blame us, we are up against the super-sophisticated Chinese / KGB / aliens etc". It's a way to deflect blame.

> . In a speech at the University of Georgia last month, he [now ex-CEO] described a stagnating credit reporting agency with a “culture of tenure” and “average talent.”

When the CEO talks publicly about average talent, you can be sure the real talent is well below average.
This does give me some SciTE nostalgia from my programming in the early 2000s. That Scintilla look is really distinctive in some way, which is sort of surprising given how little there is to it -- I saw that first screenshot and immediately knew which editor component was being used.

(Granted "you can use Lua!" is always a hint.)
Does it cover immigrants who are not US citizens?
If that's all they were doing, there would be no need for a law.
If people don't really want it, why do they keep paying for it? IoT products are selling like crazy.
The man who came up with the safe password rules admits he was WRONG
Instagram and Snapchat are niche, and even then "only about 75% of US teens" is huge.

> Quite frankly, about 10-20% of even First World populations don't use social media or use it very lightly.

10-20% is still small enough to start by assuming everybody uses them, and treat the 1 in 5/10 persons as a weirdo that merits extra examination.
Hope I don't forget about this case, when I need to argue about maintenance costs, security upgrades etc, also that's why I like Go so much, you don't need or supposed to use a full fledged framework, at most a router with no dependences and lightweight, but best if nothing.
No, it didn't?
Oh yeah, BTW: If you're an experienced systems engineer interested in working on a young codebase written in ultra-modern C++, let me know (kenton at cloudflare).
Producing results isn’t necessarily how you move up the corporate ladder. Internal politics are usually as important, if not more so

For those kinds of people, that should be listed as a pro rather than a con. A job you can do purely by schmoozing and not producing is exactly what they want!
Why do we need yet another term for concepts already known as function composition, currying, and partial application?
It's 10MB uncompressed because go compiles libraries statically in the binary. 10MB is not really a big lift, and static compilation makes binary distribution much simpler.

I don't have any objection to packaging emacs with the OS. Actually, it comes with macOS, although without graphical support (/usr/bin/emacs).
Even if nation state resources weren't needed that doesn't necessarily take away from the fact that it [may] have the hallmarks of a nation state attack.

I only scanned TFA but it didn't' seem to say "Wow, this was a sophisticated attack only a country could pull off," but more of "the [scant] evidence so far seems to point to..."
You could test the principle by including a graphic in an email, send it to an account with images turned off, and then see if any HTTP requests come in, perhaps.
Thank you for these samples, very cool.

To me it sounds like we've got some room for improvement all-around... but color me impressed. I'm also always impressed by Audacity's noise removal when I use it for stupid simple voice-overs. I'd bet this deep learning approach will do nothing but improve, quickly.
Ikea wants 2 million people within 60 miles of a store, apparently, though they've started experimenting with smaller stores in smaller markets.

http://blog.syracuse.com/at-home/2009/11/no_ikea_here_not_ev...
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Replace -d with -D for macOS
idiot God from the OT sanctioned the murder of Egyptian babies, so I don't think he had the high ground there ;)
Read the entry in the Federal Register. They are also collecting internet search results (not the queries, which is odd). In addition there is a constitutional prohibition on collecting arbitrary information on citizens (which the courts have extended to “US Persons”, basically citizens and green card holders)

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2017/09/18/2017-19...