skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Excellent, hopefully something positive comes from it. :)

On a similar note if they get back to you, Mozilla is testing the waters with dumb privacy invasion stuff in Germany soon too:

https://www.ghacks.net/2017/10/06/mozilla-to-launch-firefox-...

They're probably across that already though, but if not it might be useful to point out to them. :)
How do you tell some one's religion, sexual orientation, or disability status from pictures?
> run your own VPN endpoint on a security hardened BSD or Linux box with your own hardware

In another country where you paid with bitcoin or prepaid credit cards, otherwise the IP's assigned to that hosted server will be associated with you and offer zero protection from an FBI raid.
It helps to decentralize data in healthcare. Currently, the healthcare providers/organizations put up silos.

Our blockchain will do two things:

1. Give the patient control of their own data.
2. Incentivize them with our token that we can take as payment for their prescription co-pay at every pharmacy in the U.S.

On chain, it will just be a hash of their adherence profile, token transaction, and whether it is a controlled substance or not.
You can do either. But if you generate the data pool from a seed that you retain, then you're back to trying to protect a 256-bit value from leaking.

Generating the data pool with constantly cycled and discarded keys (i.e. /dev/urandom) means the only way to have the pool is to go and get every single bit of it.

We went the second route because I like sleeping at night and it just felt like retaining a seed would defeat the whole purpose of bounded retrieval.
It takes a real turn towards developer centered humor with the opening line "With even more time on your hands than ever before, you go just a bit mad and start...". Great Deus ex Machina type segue into all out yummy tech craziness he relishes out.
Being put in charge of 14 engineers each with 10+ years experience usually requires some experience in something. But then I guess that's literally what the article is about, that Sephora found away over this restrictive approach (moving the restrictions to a different attribute of course, but I digress).
I think you are stretching to argue that the time you spent grieving over a $3 shipping cost could have instead been used to earn money instead, in any practical sense.
In addition to sampo above, https://medium.com/@dropeik.com/on-taleb-et-al-s-the-precaut...

> We need honest conversation about agricultural biotechnology, both about the facts regarding its health and environmental risks and benefits, and also about how this technology fits with or conflicts with our values about large scale monoculture farming and big companies having too much influence and about the harm that some modern technologies certainly do to the natural world. Sadly, the essay by Taleb et.al. poses as objective argument but is clearly advocacy trying to hide in a rationalist’s clothing. It doesn’t hide very well, and in its deceit only further polarizes discussion of an important risk issue we do have analyze carefully, objectively, and honestly.

I think the bigger issue I have with this kind of argument (beyond the lack of solid scientific basis) is that we do so many things that are known to actually be terrible or have terrible ramifications if done wrong (burning coal, mining coal, removing mountaintops to mine, drilling for gas, drilling for oil, transporting gas and oil thousands of miles, &c) and yet very few people blink an eye.

The day every person who is concerned about the effects of GMO plants also is as concerned and vocal about the amount of greenhouses gases, particulate matter, as well as the toxic and radioactive chemicals released by coal powered power plants, then we can start to talk. Those emissions are known to be extremely dangerous to us and the environment. Yet, no one seems to care because they're used to it -- it's not a change.
There's another startup idea.
Or, you know, a utility-maximizing actor found it utility-increasing to place certain words into certain sequences in certain contexts due to the expected effect said arrangement would have upon the expected audience?

It's not terribly complicated.
He didn't sponsor only men, and I didn't say that. I'm saying: men as the majority group in tech have been the majority benefactors of "taking a chance on someone."

The idea that this is a unique stance to take for women (or indeed, a new concept) is absurd and incendiary on its face.
A BigQuery partner here and a long-time user of Redshift.
(https://cloud.google.com/partners/directory/#?q=caura
https://discourse.looker.com/t/bigquery-migrating-from-legac...
and you can Google my creds for Redshift with "Troubleshooting Redshift performance")

So having benchmarks tests is great as a general guideline for what works under different architectures/schema designs. Unfortunately, benchmarking is highly subjective to the initial choices. I am a big fan of BigQuery (enough to go through Google's vetting process), but there are plenty of performance issues that I've run into it that would have been easily resolved with Redshift. Here are some concrete examples:

1) Running a Query across several very small tables. It turns out that occasionally querying small tables causes heavy network traffic within Google's distributed system. The solution on Redshift would be to adjust distribution. On Google, however, you don't have any control over this. You just have to hope that Google's algorithms pick up the issue based on usage (they don't).

2) Joining large tables. Avoid joining large tables in BigQuery. In Redshift the join would have been done by making sure that the sortkey is set on the column that is used for a join on the (typically) right table. Then having a common distkey between the two tables (this way the relevant data on both tables lives on the same node. BigQuery just throws resources at the problem. Well, it turns out that throwing resources at the problem is super slow (think 5-15 Redshift seconds vs. 200 BQ seconds).

Re: Snowflake. Can't speak to it as I haven't had personal experience. I have worked with Data people who had opinions on both favorable and negative sides of the spectrum. This just suggests to me that just like Redshift and BigQuery, Snowflake is not a universal solution. You really need to understand:
1) what your goals are for the usage among varying consumers
2) what skill set do the various users of the database have
Disclosure: I work at Microsoft, I have worked for Microsoft before and quit, and come back. I love the company, but I am no zealot (tried to standardize a company on Macs during my six years away, because it made sense). I never worked on Windows Phone, but I know the company and the tech well.

Here is where we fucked up:

1. We were, for a long time, a company, where every product/business group had to pay for its own right to exist. Everyone had their own P&L, contribution margin targets, marketing. You had to make money by yourself to stay alive. KT made sure we all understood this.

2. We had a history of "fast follower" successes - Windows, Word, Windows Server, SQL Server, Exchange, IE, even Intune nowadays, and many many others got successful not by disrupting the current market leader or by hardcore innovation, but by leveraging either an open or standard platform and always getting better, without trying to rewrite the rules of the game. OK, maybe Office rewrote them when it came out, but it was packaging.

3. Balmer (whom I love as a leader) got trolled by Apple's and Google's success, and Microsoft graduating from not really cool to quite uncool. So he decided to tackle them the way it had worked before (point 2.). Simultaneously, he tried to correct point 1, but, as radical as his 2014 reorganization to break org barriers was, he did not get rid of KT (Kevin Turner). KT brought in the money, KT defined the culture. Everyone had to keep making their own money.

We could have:
Offered the mobile OS for free from day one.
Given Office on Mobile for free from day one.
Bought or OEMed Xamarin a lot sooner.
Returned 100% of app revenue to app devs who sell through the Windows Store.
Made dev tools (Studio CE) free earlier.
Guaranteed no data collection (remember the Scroogled campaign…?)

All those have either been done, or are irrelevant now, while the stock is still at a record high, after we lost the game... We could have done all of the above and fare better than we have, and we have fared well.

Instead, we comp hardware sellers on MARGIN, as if it makes a bloody difference. We monetize the post install experience. All bullshit for pennies. Everyone had to make money on their own so we missed the bigger picture.

Satya fixed this, and it hurt, as it was the only way left to go. I gave up on a phone I really liked, as I saw no future.

I don't know if I should hope for us bringing new phones out, but I sure hope we never again let our Operating Mechanisms kill our ability to see the big picture and disrupt the market.
So are you saying you store them, but not in your version control? What do you mean, like backups of production? What about when production only contains minified / compiled artifacts from the build? Where should I be storing my dependencies? Got any articles to share that elaborate? Or links to open source projects on GitHub that employ the "best practice"? Everyone seems to be just committing bower.json package.json composer.json etc.. & calling it a day.
In a document prepared for a Korean trade delegation to Silicon Valley in May, and obtained by IEEE Spectrum, Strobe claimed that its prototype lidar had a range of 300 meters, a processing time of fewer than 45 milliseconds, and cost less than $100. It also noted that its first product would be commercially available in the spring of 2018.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/sel...
If that is, indeed, the case, then Microsoft makes a bad image of itself by not giving this to their existing users, who desire that a lot.
> All I see is that PureVPN keeps the user's email on file.

Also login time, connecting IP and logout time. So no traffic is stored, just that you logged in and were connected for X amount of time.
I saw this a few hours ago and here it is in Emacs:

https://github.com/narendraj9/dot-emacs/blob/master/packages...

:)

I haven't implemented the next-position function for shell yet.
When i saw this, i thought the reason for making this bot was obvious:

Measuring code quality in "WTFs per minute" (as detailed on this famous comic - http://i.imgur.com/J1svNp7.jpg)

The less WTF/min, the better the code is.
The problem for democrats isn't their ideas or a lack of talking about jobs and economic growth, the problem is that voters instinctively sense that both parties are fungible in terms of economic outcomes regardless of what they say, so they stop critically thinking about a candidate's policy proposals and become easily swayed by bluster and demagoguery; this is a losing position for democrats because republicans are much better at these tactics and the result is the continued decline of the democratic party.
Flyover country has nothing but contempt for coastal liberal elites. To the point where they make up bullshit about how much contempt we have for them and whine about being "flyover country".

At least we have the money.
Wrong, if you deactivate the feature 'last seen at' it doesn't change anything because you can still get the same information with the feature 'is online now' and this feature can't be deactivated
Considering the $7.2 million contract the IRS just awarded Equifax in a no contest bid, I think we're definitely getting close!

/s
On another recent HN thread someone also gave a glowing impression of the film adaptation of this work.

I went ahead and rented out the movie and I have to say, for me personally, I really wish I could get back the time wasted.
The other day I found that my Win10 (Home) has the old Win7 Picture Viewer by accidentally opening a TIF. Tada, old Picture Viewer is back (don't know for how long though).
That’s different. In Super Mario Bros., every Goomba in the game is an identical sprite, but story-wise - to the extent the game has a story, anyway - you’re meeting a series of different creatures of the same species.
This is evident if only from the fact that there are often multiple on screen at the same time. The more modern GTA has a variety of looks for pedestrians rather than just one, but the same principle applies: the NPC you just met might look identical to the one you killed the other day, but story-wise, we should assume they’re two different people - because it makes more sense that way and the game hasn’t told us otherwise.

Bowser, on the other hand, is a named character with a specific personality. Combined with supplementary materials and (in some Mario games, especially the RPGs) in-game dialogue, it’s clear that he’s meant to be a single character who Mario (also a single character) encounters repeatedly.
Show HN: Replaying text in Emacs buffers (inspired by doitlive)
I wish Gitlab all the success in the world.

My team utilized Gitlabs on premise offerings and it's always been a good experience to use. They are adding new features at a modest pace and their support people have always been helpful.

I really need to try them out for my personal projects but I haven't had the chance.
I didn't know this existed at all. I thought they just made phone calls to your previous employer and asked. Are we allowed to see what's in it? I mean normally, not just when there's a data breach (and it looks like they shut it all down right now).

Because when you get asked this on an interview, what's the "right" answer? There's base pay, bonuses, 401k match, all kinds of stuff. So the "right" answer is up in the cloud somewhere, I can't see it, but I'm being turned down for jobs when my answer doesn't match the mystery number?
> That idea of rationality, and rationality over all other concerns, still holds a lot of sway in economic discussions.

Rationality in economics is typically assumed to mean that an actor can unambiguously rank order preferences. It typically does not make judgements about what those preferences should be.
AFAIK, it will display that the user is online (i.e: the user is using the app) regardless of the privacy setting.
The good news is that there is some discussion in sibling threads that seem to indicate the 8x slot will lose you maybe a single frame per second. You can check what your card is running at using GPU-Z, make sure to run something intensive as the card will enter a slower state to save power when it isn't being used.
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Only if you go on the app
Me too. As I recall, I used it to force proxification of traffic for applications that didn't normally support proxies (although I may be mistaken...). Great bit of kit.
Report: TSMC's 3nm Fab Could Cost $20B
If you trust those """services""" to be secure and trust that they care about your privacy, then you will be betrayed sooner or later, in ways you can't think of -- just like in the article.

Fun fact, years ago I accidentally found out that my girlfriend at the time cheated on me on Snapchat, without me actually exploiting anything. She told me to join it with her, telling me that is going to be fun. Snapchat kept track of useds' activity and gamified it to incentivize you by scoring your activity then. Each person has a public activity score when you tap on their profile. One day, I noticed that her Snapchat had more than twice the score that I had. So I clicked on her profile and there it is some strange dude having a score higher than me, it turned out that was her """"ex"""" (I actually never asked her even for his name before, I found out only after that). I never consciously looked for anything, I trusted her 100%, the score was just there on my screen.

Thanks Snapchat for their stupid gamification efforts, otherwise I would have wasted more time on her. But since that accident, I never trust proprietary shit that has money to make, ads to sell, governments to please, and incentives to grow, even it says its selling point is to protect your privacy, like Snapchat. It's not about the "end to end encryption" or "finer privacy control" or "only allow when app is in foreground" or "restricted sharing" or "MIT open sauce license" or "export your data" or "only listening to hotwords" or "open APIs," it's about the intent. If the intent was to expand and make money, then all those techs won't be the magic pill that suddenly cures the ill intent. Anyway, privacy my ass, man.
It's offensive that I have to go jump through hoops, set security questions and a secret pin just so I can secure my own salary information.

Is it too much to dream that Equifax should be legally obligated to provide, at the bare minimum, a way to easily secure this sensitive information?

If I were a hiring manager or in HR this would be a goldmine for verifying candidates' salaries and work histories, and gaining the advantage in any salary negotiation.
Since it seems as though you won't post civilly and substantively, we've banned this account.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I'll file that next to the windows 7 release party:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=22&v=1cX4t5-YpHQ
There’s enough wind energy over the oceans to power human civilization
In practice, this isn't really possible, though. The binary is usually going to be slightly different. In theory you could RE the differences and potentially disprove a backdoor, but it's not easy.

Also, it's not necessarily that hard to slip a very subtle backdoor into the source.
I get your point and I in fact agree. I just wanted to say that that is a sentence structure that only a programmer could find beautiful :)
the big problem with this is so many people these days are using phones, tablets, laptops etc... no one wants to waste battery life mining (I certainly don't)
And the expense and commitment of buying a phone is much greater than the cost of taking a chance on the Bearded Lady.
This is not a SKU to play with. If $20/hr is indeed the price (I don't know), this is the hourly cost of a couple of waiters. You get to run SAP on someone's infra and someone to support it.
Yep, no prob, I also posted a link to that kb above (but maybe it was posted after your post and went above your reply because it was a direct reply to	roywiggins' post).

Anyway, I wanted to also highlight how since the company where he worked was specifically a "software company" (I mean not a mom and pop shop around the corner or similar) the IT guys over there should have wiped the disk anyway, possibly using the SecureErase ATA command (that wipes also not normally accessible disk areas), it should be "standard" procedure.
That doesn't help you figure out if there's congestion two hops away in the ISPs network due to them oversubscribing their backhaul links.
> seeing strong female role models will change the lower levels and society's conceptions

Will it? How do you know?

> it seems the only way to change those conceptions is to have them there in the first place

Is it? Again, how do you know?

EDIT: Interesting, usually requesting proof for unsubstantiated claims is encouraged rather than downvoted on HN, I wonder if there's something special about this topic that makes people's mind's work differently.
I'm increasingly inclined to keep my phone on airplane mode for most of the day.

Now, I just need to train people into calling me only between x:00 and x:05. But I don't get many calls anymore, everybody texts...
> As part of our ongoing commitment to performance, reliability and security, Equifax Workforce Solutions will be servicing The Work Number starting Sunday, October 8, 2017. This will result in temporary service interruptions; if you have received this notice please call our service center at 866-222-5880 to complete your transaction. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

Convenient that Equifax is doing "maintenance" on this page after Krebs posted his article...
> "You could argue that theatre, cinema and opera also rely on getting and keeping your attention. Nobody says they're addictive or "gamified"."

Theatre, cinema and opera are experiences that are best appreciated in small doses. Television, on the other hand, is something I'd class as addictive. Wouldn't you?

> "The reason I have trouble seeing the "gamification" aspects of Instagram is that there are none. This idea that a photo sharing site is designed to be like a drug exists in your head - every argument you make easily applies to many other kinds of business that nobody considers addictive."

You have to separate the intention from the result. Did the creators of Instagram intend to create, as you put it, "a drug"? No. However, they did intend to make it a popular platform for advertisers, and advertisers are clearly interested in getting as many eyeballs on their products as they can, and the more the creators of Instagram can do to make their site sticky and drive engagement, the more their company will grow. Whilst their users are of strategic importance, their most important customers are advertisers. Increasing the userbase only makes sense if there's a corresponding increase in advertising revenue, they can't run on good will.

To give an example of a feature that increases the stickiness of Instagram (note that I didn't use "drug", that was your term), I'd suggest Instagram Stories (a feature inspired by Snapchat).

http://blog.instagram.com/post/148348940287/160802-stories

The idea being, you have to use the app every day otherwise you might miss something. Previously, you could dip in and out of Instagram and not miss anything. With Stories, that's no longer the case. Also, as well as viewing the stories of others, creating your own 24 hour story also encourages much more use of the service. What's opera's equivalent of Instagram Stories?

Let's move away from Instagram for a second to consider other players in the attention economy. News organisations are most definitely in this space as well. The rise of sensationalist, clickbait news articles, even by news institutions that were previously above such behaviour, is a clear indication that we're in an era where attention is something that's harder to earn. Have you noticed this trend or would you like some examples?
Managers in various companies routinely hire people including many men mainly on the basis of potential plus skills and other qualities vs on skills alone. The post talks about Sephora doing so with female candidates (per topic focus) but does not say it doesn't do the same with male candidates.
>What do you do when you have five similar queries, and each
needs to be changed if one changes?

In short, I truly utilize a DB with full effects.

I don't follow the mantra of using a DB "only" as a dumb datastore. Something that I get validated as when people use NoSQL and have not option that use all of it.

This mean, that I use views and stored procedures/functions.

This cut a lot. Also, proper modeling of tables also help (a lot). I refactor DBs.

I mean, I truly treat a DB as "code".

Obviously, this strategy is not flawless, and it will benefit from some kind of ORM-ish layer to auto-generate the mechanical parts of the querys. I'm building that part myself.

But so far, is have show to be good.
I hear that, and for the record, I don't support everyone moving to the coasts either.
That's surprisingly frustrating to watch. Protoss throwing away its army of zealots with terrible positioning, zerg wasting time attacking buildings instead of sealing the deal, probes walking by enemy forces that ignore them as they mine minerals...

Which is not to say that there weren't impressive parts. I don't think a human could stutter step that many dragoons that well. But there's clearly a lot left to do in terms of tactics.