skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
PII just stands for personally identifying information. If it identifies you, it is PII. Even if it isn't linked to any behavioral data explicitly, the fact that its in your DB means they are associated with you. Thus email and IP are PII.
> It has been 21 years since the last release.
I do distributed computing and feel as equally dark about my prospects as the OP. You use TensorFlow, Tensor Flow Serving and call it a day? Compared to the advances in ML, systems is pretty well-mined out. The biggest excitements in the last 5 years were Docker and Kubernetes. There was a small blip of consensus systems around the time Docker was being rolled into production. I feel kinda depressed :'(
> So, yeah, you lose all the syntax highlighting etc. that comes with just writing normal CSS

Except you don't. Editor support is quite good, and syntax highlighting, syntax validation, auto-completion, etc all work.

I mean, same way with Vue really. If the editor didn't know wtf a Vue file is, you'd lose all the integration too.
What's Joe's reason for learning a foreign language?
>So, your beef is that you're more concerned whether Wikileaks tweeted a pointer to the doxxing or actually hosted the files?

Yeah, that seems like a pretty relevant detail when they're accused of "doxing millions of
Turkish women".

Wikileaks did not do this. Another journalist, Michael Best published the data on archive.org. Thousands of other parties besides WL pointed to his release.

>So who's being misleading here? Wired is being incomplete, you're being incomplete. Zeynep Tufekci ftw.

How am I being incomplete? The doxing happened, WL didn't do it. End of story.

Tufekcis post is titled "WikiLeaks Put Women in Turkey in Danger, for No Reason". Which is not something Wikileaks did, what is that but a lie?

The article starts with Tufekci explicitly suggesting that it was WL dumped this data.

>But Snowden couldn’t have been more wrong about an act that was irresponsible, of no public interest and of potential danger to millions of ordinary, innocent people, especially millions of women in Turkey.

"an act" being spoken of here is WL releasing AKP emails. That act did not actually involve "millions of women in Turkey".

Another lie.

>However, WikiLeaks also posted links on social media to its millions of followers via multiple channels to a set of leaked massive databases containing sensitive and private information of millions of ordinary people, including a special database of almost all adult women in Turkey.

All out of sudden the whole premise of the article changes when she finally corrects herself that WL didn't actually release this data, which was unrelated to WLs AKP leak.

"incomplete" suggests missing information, these articles contain fabricated information.

Tufekci also doubled down on her inane claims on twitter.
https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/757599082928082944

>Instead of "AKP emails", Wikileaks dumped private info of ALMOST EVERY WOMAN in Turkey Yes. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/zeynep-tufekci/wikileaks-erdog...

Again, clearly a lie.

Here she admits to deliberately misleading: https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/758348011344986113
Incendiary title, even if correct. There is no proof whatsoever the recordings were uploaded anywhere.
Me neither, other than that I am very glad that the Spectator continues to survive
I agree. When I read the original I expected violence and gore videos put together by trolls to freak out kids. And I thought the article was a total waste of time. We live in the age the mob.
> If you ask anyone who knows me, I’m probably the biggest Apple fan they know.

> To tell the truth, I’m a life-long Windows user that grew to be disillusioned by Microsoft after Windows Vista.

You're just a fanboy looking for a bandwagon.
The main problem with RSS is that it is simply not discoverable.

The related UX problem is that major browsers didn't have a built-in reader, so there is nothing with which to discover RSS.

To use RSS, you have to get some add-on like Brief for FireFox, or third-party app for Android. Or else use some website like Google Reader (I think that's dead now?).

Before you do that, in the first place, you have to know what the heck RSS is, and what are the benefits: why should you be installing this additional stuff for interacting with some hidden aspect of the web.

Browsers need to make it discoverable by alerting users, like by bringing up a bubble: "Hey, user! This web page's updating listings are available in a condensed RSS feed [learn more.] You can register the feed into my built-in feed reader, and then not only browse the items conveniently, but be alerted of new ones, search through the items, and delete ones you don't want."*

When we were recently looking, on Craigslist, for a bunch of different types of items simultaneously, I showed my wife RSS. From the beginning: how it is the condensed version of a web-site, and how you need a program to deal with it (went through an installation of Brief on Firefox). Then how you add feeds to the reader, and go look at them through the Brief toolbar button, etc. Then configuration: explaining how Brief just surfs the RSS periodically the same way that a human being refreshes a web page, and that the frequency can be configured, as well as how long the items are stored.

So after that she was using it daily, no problem, and mostly liking the convenience of just checking the feeds for what has dripped in, and being able to erase the duds, as if it were an e-mail inbox.
BigQuery uses a lot of tricks to get efficiency, but this post emphasizes Apache Arrow and open data formats like it as the way forward (in particular the last point, "Be open, or else…") which are not currently supported by BigQuery.

If Apache Arrow takes off I hope BigQuery will support it as a data interchange format in the future. Zero-copy is pretty awesome, as are open standards in general. This feature does not exist in BigQuery today (as far as I know - definitely not as discussed in the source).
> It occurs to me that the first steps I take in most new-to-me established projects are basically magic - I'm looking for specific shell commands that the other dev(s) use to perform certain actions: build, run, test, deploy, etc. What's more, there are often undocumented environment dependencies - env vars that need to be set, certain executables that must be installed on the dev's system and in the path, etc.

I fully agree with this. In fact, I've reified it into a pattern I use to learn new things: Copy, Paste, Break, Fix. Start with copying and pasting, to make sure I know what happens ("My environment is broken! Their code is broken! I've found an ancient tutorial and the example is broken!") then, once I know it's good, break it somehow, and fix it. Then I make changes to the example, fix what breaks there, and then iterate until I've gotten a good end result.
I used a twitter digest for a while. I found it frustrating. Most tweets are part of a larger conversation thread which aren't visible in a digest. I found myself opening more than half the tweets in a digest individually to read the whole conversation.
I'd clarify your statement of "3 times the work" as a positive. I had to read twice to not think that Vue took 3x the effort to do something.
This reminds me of the hostility towards the Tinkers in Vernor Vinge's The Peace War.
For most developers, AI/ML will be just another tool in their toolbox.

You probably use compilers and/or interpreters every day, but most programmers i know have never written one. Have you? Software Security (Web/Internet Security) is a concern and you probably know the basics and how to use the libraries, but are you a security researcher who works on new encryption algorithms for a living? Probably not. There's a lot of major technology nowadays that uses hardware acceleration; even browsers use openGL/Vulcan/DirectX for rendering. But do you need to know how to write a 3D engine?

What i'm saying is: it wont hurt to know how to use AI/ML. A few will earn their living as AI/ML researchers and developers. But will it be necessary? I don't think so. It'll be just another branch of specialization.
Looks like their publishing platform is that old that it's still using Flickr's Flash photo embedding widget.

TIL Flickr had such a widget.
I tried to report someone who was clearly under 13 but the process involved giving musical.ly a huge amount of my personal information (above and beyond Name / email address) so I decided not to bother. They know their target audience is young children.
Whiteboards are usually used for collaboration, and your coworkers or candidates can't really "opt out" of a smell, so it does make sense to be thoughtful about this (some people have strong aversions)
> Taxes are just too darn complicated!

While I understand this sentiment, I feel that a complicated tax code (or legal code in general) is just where countries end up going as they become larger and more important in the day-to-day lives of its citizens. All the various financial situations in this country are incredibly complicated.

Perhaps we should take a similar route as public defenders (not in practice but in theory, public defenders are horribly under-funded at the moment). The government could provide a tax management program for the general public that does the basics for you. Basically if you qualify for a 1040-EZ you can just use some IRS front-end system. If you have a more complicated situation, then accountants are always available.

I'm frankly disappointed our governments have not done more with the Internet.
(48) Not FAKE NEWS 9
Not one of the cited videos in the article was a example of something that is 'designed to hurt and traumatise'
I am writing an article right now (to be published soon) about this, and I can tell you that there are lots of underground communities that just share YouTube, Musical.ly, Snapchat, etc. links for sexual reasons, with no attempt to hide the pedophilic nature of their viewing.

I am not about to post links to these places, for obvious reasons, but perhaps I'll post my article once it is finished. If HN had a PM system, I would bookmark your name and send you a link. Maybe just keep a look out in a month or so, or check back on my page for submissions. Lots of fact-checking and analysis to do before I publish this, not to mention protecting some of the children I am documenting.

There's also a large community of teens on these networks that consume pseudosexual content of kids their own age, and you obviously have to factor out of any statistics about pedophilia. I myself consumed a lot of preteen/teen model stuff when I was 13-15, but that content has only gotten more disturbing to me with age.

There are some disturbing trends out there, and it's clear to see the cause-and-effect in many cases. Kids are figuring out that if you dance on camera, you get a lot of views - but if you dance on camera in your underwear, you get A LOT MORE views. These sites are putting forth little to no effort to curb this kind of content, and there is little public oversight.

It's not illegal, but there are people profiting off of the ad revenue associated with this content, and there are children sexualizing themselves online, often without their parent's knowledge. It's not something we should ignore, because this is just going to keep getting further normalized as people try to downplay what is actually happening.

And there are people out there who become fixated on online personas, and this can lead to some very dark scenarios. The last thing we need is adults preying on children in environments that children frequent, and parents are ignorant of. These places are candy shops for pedophiles, and kids often don't notice that their peers on these sites aren't always fellow kids...
A floppy drive for the Bandai Pippin
I'm a little sad that the Martian wasn't popular,I guess it's a niche readership
Could any service not offer this curation? Try Pocket for an example.
Content-aware chunking algorithm (for backup deduplication, etc)
...that's an option?

(Ex-academic here.)
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Aww man. I even studied Akkadian way back in the day. I should send them my resume.
For Thinkpads the documentation you're looking for is the "Hardware Maintenance Manual" (HMM). E.g. here is one for the X260, it clearly describes where the camera/microphone assembly is, how to get to it and where its wire connections go: https://ok2.de/ThinkPad/HMM/x260_hmm_en_sp40j72016.pdf I haven't taken apart one of the more Ultrabook-style ones, so not sure how accessible those are, but the traditional ones are very serviceable.

I wouldn't be surprised if the better Dell models have similar documentation available.
Haven't seen it mentioned in here yet, but I've recently started using Inoreader (https://www.inoreader.com/) as my RSS reader and am quite happy with it so far. I haven't tinkered with it very deeply yet, but it seems to have a lot of great features for organizing feeds, viewing in different formats, and so on.
Imagine how Stallman feels.
How many qubit does it take to crack an AES 192 key?
this makes my day. I still use popurls, though it's covered in cobwebs and seems like abandonware. glad to see you have a new project up and running.
Well i'd be interested in using it if it had an RSS feed lol. That's just me though.
What I'd love to have, for this purpose, is a signet ring with a stylized version of my initials on it.

If I need to sign something official, I'll pull out an stamp pad and a bottle of ink, soak the pad, press my ring into it, and then slam my hand down on the paper ring first.
Until fairly recently alcohol also helped with the problem of contaminated water causing massive casualties eg more died through disease during the napolionic wars than through firefights.
If you can't make a race condition in a device driver into an interesting story, you need to work on your story telling :)

And compilers are fascinating - you are, essentially, formalizing the act of translating between languages. Something anybody who speaks more than one language can understand.

You probably can't translate everything you do into a great story, but the basics of your field should be straightforward.
A wall of lava lamps securing the Internet
Once you have remote code execution with privilege escalation on box Z, no amount of encryption can save at least box Z
Post-Quantum Cryptography
Do you plan on releasing the Twitter list RSS feed generator? It's something I've wanted for a while.
err no a quick google will find many military forces destroyed by disease in the pre modern era one of the sieges of Malta for example
> If you’re not careful, every time you open your RSS reader, there will be 1,000 unread articles waiting for you, which completely defeats the purpose of using RSS.

No, it does not.

The point of RSS is that you subscribe all your interests which you consciously come into contact with. You then have a steady stream of content waiting at your fingertip.

The solution for "1000 unread articles" is to have a shift of perspective in your mind, that it is okay if you cannot get to all the knowledge and information in the world. This is, as long as you have prioritized your reading lists properly.
We’ve actually worked a lot to ensure that Mozilla can’t dictate what happens with Rust; we run a consensus based process, and while Mozilla has the largest single group of people involved in leadership, it’s still a very stark minority.

As a huge production user, Mozilla’s needs are still important to us, but we think of Rust as an open source project Mozilla contributes to, not a Mozilla project per se.
...where does the title say they were uploaded? It says they were recorded. The company admits they were recorded.
Come on, they still have a keyword AND two sets of parentheses AND a sigil AND a set of braces to define a function.

It's like they couldn't agree on which syntax to use, so they decided to use them all.
It's probably infeasible to run that type of filter in-path during uploads without adding too much latency to posting, wheras the hashing approach is much less expensive. AI filters likely take down images after they've already been posted
Thought this might be relevant given how many people in the following thread were surprised to see IBM's 50-qubit computer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15671408
Don't sites put it in the HTML meta headers anymore? This is then picked up by the browser and displayed under the feed icon/menu.
It’s a double sided auction so someone who have a sell order at $26 will have priority (Assuming his order has the lowest price), and the stock will tick to $26.
Does anybody here know of a good native RSS program for Windows, Linux and/or Android? All of the ones I've tried are buggy or ugly or just unfriendly to use. My Reeder envy has gotten so bad, I've been running Reeder in a VMWare instance.
I was a little disappointed that a 600+ year-old fairy didn't remember to properly set conditionals, though. :D
I got to answer the question with "I write file system performance benchmarks" once. Got looked at like I said I played with spleens for a living.
If that's true, then the web is dead: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=web
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> Put yourself in the shoes of a CTO at a new startup

My first step is to hire someone that knows how to build a FE app. We'll use the tool that someone is familiar with.

If you're a CTO of an incubator startup with 2 people straight out of college who learnt Python and basic JavaScript and you're trying to build a serious web app from there, well, it doesn't really matter what you pick, you'll have to rewrite it in a few months anyway (that's a pretty common scenario).
If it isn't open source it doesn't matter.
No, if it is in your DB because it gets written to that DB as a result of them being associated with you, then that is PII, prescisely because that is information about them being associeted with you.

If you use an RNG to generate IP addresses, that does not represent any information about any person, hence no PII, even if it is in fact the IP address of a person that is protected under the relevant regulation.
I use the RSS feed finder user script. If it really can't find it, I use the feed autodetect bookmarklet. Both work well for me.
Used popurls for long period of time in history. It is an illusion (the grid reading that is). Don't think I will go back. The river of news per folder hierarchy (Google Reader) is better in a long run. It takes some effort upfront in organizing information and priorities, but it yields better reading results later.
One of the other theories I've heard is that it's partly because 4 is an unlucky number in Chinese, which is a major market. Thus why so many SoC vendors pushed to 8 core chips instead of taking those extra transistors and spending them on an L3 cache instead, which would have helped real world performance far more than the extra 4 cores do.

Probably not very true, but it's a fun theory. More likely is it just looks better on the spec sheet to have more cores & ever higher burst-only frequencies rather than the things that would have more bang/buck on more real world workloads like an L3 cache would. It's why you ended up with ridiculous nonsense like the Helio X20 & X30 (10-core SoCs with only 2 good cores and 8 low power ones)
To all intents and purposes, when people say Sass, they mean Scss.
Videos where peppa the pig gets tortured by a dentist and turns into a robot don't count as violence?
PhotoDNA scans images for child abuse (2009)
The biggest problem is the number of people who rolled their own XML generators or use broken templates to generate the XML.
Thank deity Go language design is not done by popular vote. If you want the Trump of programming languages, you probably have to look elsewhere.
Old news, but there’s nothing self-referential about a formula that draws all possible bitmaps of height 17, where the bitmap is encoded by the gigantic number n (not displayed in the image!) that defines the y coordinate where we choose to start the graph. Tupper himself didn’t even call it self-referential.

For more details on how it works, see my Quora answer: http://qr.ae/TbcJFK.
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They only call it a 'minor bug' because nobody's discovered the 'major bug' yet. Gotta leave yourself some wiggle room (so to speak).
K/q, Mathematica
Posting this in antique article in context of the new Facebook 'intimate images' tool because it talks about an academic study of the false positive rate in a similar tool:

" In the latest announcement, a large scale test of the PhotoDNA tool found that less than one false positive occurred in every billion images scanned, said Hany Farid, a professor of computer science at Dartmouth and co-developer of PhotoDNA. In addition, the software recognizes about 98 percent of images derived from those in its database.

"We tested it over billions and billions of images," he said. "We tried very hard to make it very efficient ... and to minimize the false alarm rate.""
The big offender here is Google. They nuked it with killing Reader and FeedBurner is also minutes away of being sunset.

Choosing between evils, Google seems a better bet then Facebook, ofcourse, but these actions they've taken will backfire for them eventually. The more "open" and "accessible" web, should be in their benefit, long term thinking.

But what I see, what they're busy with is self driving cars, google glasses, augmented reality and all of that: GREAT.

But supporting some basic, easy, cheap, webstandards, they're just completely neglecting and they might up being the next AT&T, or IBM.

They do have some charm offensives going ("Google News Lab") and, well, basically any big tech corp looks better then Facebook -- if you care about the internet in it's current form, Google is really screwing us over. I really am convinced Google is completely losing it's way.

There's no real good quick adequate alternative that I can think of, but they could've just done things so much better, and it would've costed them, quite literally, nothing.
I'd rather just have junior high and high schools offer a calligraphy elective. That'll allow people to learn it for its artistic merits if they want to without having to bog down the elementary school curriculum.

And instead of teaching people pure block letters, teach them some form of italics or D'Nealian. That offers some of the aesthetic advantages of cursive without the unreadability.

(interestingly enough, my elementary school in the early '90s taught D'Nealian and cursive, but no pure block letters)
Normally I'd call BS on a Company calling unauthorized collection of data a 'minor' bug, but in this particular case, it seems likely that this is the case.

I say this because -- according to the company's official response[1] -- the recordings were only created on the Android version and not the iOS version of their app.

They also state that the recording is only cached locally on the phone and not uploaded to their servers.

Leads me to think that it's very likely their Android app programmer(s) wrote some test code to save the file, and forgot to delete it or conditionally hide it in their release version of the App. There's no excuse for the sloppy programmer(s) if this was the case, I'm just saying the 'bug' angle is a possibility, because the Company has also been very quick to fix it and release an updated version for the Andriod app.

One more thing, I wouldn't call something like this a 'minor' bug. Likely their PR team threw that word in.

> Source: Lovense's official account on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/sex/comments/7bmi3i/psa_lovense_rem...
I use Android because iPhones are too expensive for absolutely no additional functionality. How does that figure?

My next phone isn't likely to be Android or iPhone, but Linux, assuming Purism pans out.