skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One billion dollars, well perhaps they will have a little spare change to invest in protecting their users ... https://www.channel4.com/news/children-bombarded-with-sexual...
ME is used for market segmentation too, from locking hyperthreading to overclocking capablities.
(they used to sell product update keys for some Pentium CPUs that were processed by an applet on the ME...)
Yeah. She's only allowed on Netflix now. I've seen Sofia 10,000 times.
What communities are you seeing this in?

In the firearms/gun rights communities, it seems like the prevailing opinion is that YouTube is specifically targeting them based on political bias.

I've not really considering it much, but your comment makes me wonder if their issues are part of a much larger pattern.
This company wants to build an indoor farm next to every major city in the world
I think a lot of Americans have a different view of how labor and markets should work. Especially on this forum, which is very much pro-laissez faire capitalism (I see a lot of Randian themes being repeated).

Labor can be exploited only when a corporation can sidestep the organized labor pool and tap into the pool of labor that demands no protections. If most Americans thought as you did, I don't think American corporations could get away with paying their employees such pitiful wages and benefits.
Prior to the NSA contractor Edward Snowden's revelations in 2013, Room-641A had already been exposed by an AT&T employee-turned-whistleblower Mark Klein. The EFF sued the government in 2006 over it.

Tape over laptop cameras isn't just a "parents-of-friends" thing, it's a good idea. Buy a set of stickers and support the EFF: https://supporters.eff.org/shop/laptop-camera-cover-set

Anyone know somebody at Wired?
"Am I predicting the imminent extinction of C? No. For the foreseeable future I think it will retain a pretty firm grip on OS kernels and device firmware. There, the old imperative to squeeze out maximum performance even if it means using an unsafe language still has force."

Maybe, but there are projects like D's betterC[1] that are designed to remove that reason to use C as well.

[1] https://dlang.org/blog/2017/08/23/d-as-a-better-c/
I decoded it from the first 60 seconds. It's a courseware platform for internal use in companies, presented as white label, the company can pass it as their own product.
Probably depends on what field they're in and how much 'further ahead' they seem compared to everyone else. I suspect some people think of people/teams who are really good at programming video games as 'magicians'. And when they're so good at programming that they outshine pretty much the entire rest of their 'industry' or 'niche', then I can definitely see people treating them like magicians. There were certainly people who saw the developer of the SMW hack Brutal Mario as one, thanks to the huge amounts of custom code present for the new enemies/bosses/blocks/level gimmicks/whatever else:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INa41RSwiCc

But eh, I suspect a good programmer in most fields wouldn't be seen as 'magical'.
Not sure where you got this idea. Has that ever happened?
I think more and more the trend is for aggregators to buy networks and strengthen themselves. Facebook did so with WhatsApp, Instagram, and TBH. Amazon did so with Whole Foods. Google bought DoubleClick. Software can be easily replicated, but not ecosystems because of the difficult cold start problem.

If Toutiao wants to play in US markets, then this acquisition could make a lot of sense as the first defensible foothold.
For those looking for an alternate hacker-friendly solution, you can make your own smart remote with a Raspberry Pi Zero W. I made an IR blaster that replaced all my IR based remotes [1]. I’m sure you can make one for RF ones as well. And they’re not too hard to integrate with Amazon Echo or Home Kit.

[1]: http://www.instructables.com/id/Amazon-Echo-Controlled-IR-Re...
Maybe it's both :)
>Especially in a community with a name like "Maker" that purports to be about technical ability.

These are orthogonal concerns that I don't see any relation between. Isn't that the point?
Because they are expected to have the skills needed to perform their job, specially such an important one.
Yeah. It's pretty amazing the speeds at which kids learn but seem to "even" up as they get older. My son is doing this completely different than my daughter. At 3, I can barely get my daughter to eat and my son at 7 months flips out if we don't feed him real food when we're eating now.
Uber ordered to treat drivers as workers with full rights after losing appeal
What? No. Possessing stolen property is a crime.

This has absolutely nothing to do with civil forfeiture.

Civil forfeiture is when the getaway car is seized when you are robbing a bank.

Restitution is when you are ordered by a court to repay the victim for their losses that your criminal behavior caused. This case involved restitution, if he didn't comply with giving up the private keys he would be ordered to pay restitution.

Civil forfeiture doesn't impact restitution.
This concerns me as well. I would downvote such comments if I could but I don't have downvote powers yet, and don't know how to get them. Can anyone shed light on that?
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Eric_S._Raymond
Seems like that point would be easier to make without a story that is clearly just a vehicle for name-dropping, but what do I know.
>One way to think of ME is, we all woke up one day and discovered we have had high resolution night vision spy cams installed in our bedrooms.

Sure, if by one day you mean - for the past 10 years? And if by spy cams you mean - A product with official documentation from the vendor, and similar to other products from other vendors. And these products can be purchased by anyone.

You have some valid points, but they are clouded by your sweeping generalizations and needlessly polarizing language.
I just did some quick googling. It seems they received the Ig-Nobel award, not an actual Nobel prize. This award is a bit strange, I don't fully understand... It's some kind of parody:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ig_Nobel_Prize
Is the author seriously so deep in the "Apple-is-the-world" bubble that he has not yet heard of BigLittle?

In what way is the A11 different?
I have the form right here in front of me. I requested to be paid in bitcoin.
The books Daemon/Freedom by Daniel Suarez was pretty entertaining on that front. The idea that people could literally affect the world around them via "magic spells" which mapped aliases of a invented language that would be picked up by microphones and then executed on computers.

There is a section that muses about the future of humanity and how in the near future, these would literally seem like magic to anyone who doens't have technical know how, and for all intents and purposes, it was.
"...Ever tried to set up a Postfix server?" is the new "...Ever tried to set up a Sendmail server?".

(When I was younger, I was told by a veteran sysadmin that only 5 persons in the world knew how to configure Sendmail directly, everyone else was relying on preprocessing scripts written by the aforementioned wizards).

Edit: my point is that Postfix is actually quite easy to configure, compared to Sendmail which was the standard in the 90s.
> As a side note, if anyone's interested in looking a bit more into "programming as magic" there's a great book series called The Wizardry

If you like that kind of thing and you enjoy/don't mind anime, there's also the serie Knight’s & Magic. It is about a programmer being reborn in a world where people wield big "golem" armors. The protagonist then proceed to make his own version, completly disregarding the philosophy of that world. Thinking of those golems as nothing more than machines and using magic as nothing more than "inputs/outputs" for those machines and the world.

http://www.crunchyroll.com/knights-magic

"A genius programmer and hardcore robot otaku is reborn into a world of knights and magic, where huge robots called Silhouette Knights roar across the land! Now reborn as Ernesti Echevalier, he uses his vast knowledge of machines and programming talents to begin to make his ultimate robot. But his actions have unexpected results...?! The dreams of a robot otaku will change the world!"
If I own something and I want to control the term of how it's used, that's not bullying. Isn't that exactly what licensing is all about in the first place? If that's 'bullying' then every OSS project with a license is also bullying...
This has turned into a very well-curated A&R scouting platform. The valuation isn't surprising to me at all.
Oddly enough C never bothered me. It has its purpose, and despite its flaws it still feels elegant. C++ however should be illegal. When do we get to say goodbye to it?

Edit/Continuation: I feel like the freedom offered by C works because of it's simplicity, and as a language for embedded systems I still enjoy developing in C. As someone who recently started working primarily in C++ though I am frequently astounded by the choices that were made. And to make things worse, offering C style controllability in a complex OO language doesn't work well. I shouldn't have to feel like I need to read the designers minds to predict how a language will act.
It's not beneficial, it's just how it is. I worked a job in Japan where one employee was late delivering a project, so his manager spent literally his entire day standing over his shoulder and berating him loudly for not getting it done sooner and being a failure. As you might imagine, this did not help get the project done sooner.
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This showing up next to "LibHTTP: Open Source HTTP Library in C" on the HN front page made me giggle. Someone should start a website a-la bitcoinobituaries for C.

C will be around for as long as everything under the sun has a C compiler. If you ask yourself when was the last time you started a C project, ask yourself when was the last time you wanted to write something truly (truly, including embedded) portable instead and there is your answer.
First, and this isn't really relevant, price and scarcity play a much bigger role in what is considered "good wine" than you're saying.

Back on topic, "expensive" and "price" again add the concept of profit to the value produced. The only value of wine is enjoyment, so even Petrus wine has little more value than similar wines.

That increase in value is largely labor from learning the trade and long running slow maintenance. The only part that is scarce is the soil composition, something that could be recreated with a large amount of labor. Similarly, discovering that that area produced quality wine was labor intensive as well.
"it's not too awesome"

Maybe if you had seen some of the eldritch devious monstrosities I've seen people create in Excel (even without VBA) you might reconsider that statement.

Be very worried if someone says "we have this Excel spreadsheet that needs to be turned into an app"....
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24 Months for this is crazy. He stole 10.4 million dollars of goods. He tipped off about another case coming against MtGox and knowingly continued these activities after being caught.

I think this just shows the weakness of out sentencing guidelines. People with a thousand dollars of drugs get decades and this guy gets 2 years tacked on?
While I appreciate the nature of these questions, many of them exclude network-driven consumer businesses. You know, those like Tinder, Facebook, Twitter, Medium, Yelp, FourSquare... If you're spending time with a consumer company like that, I'd focus less on LTV and more on organic growth rate.
Same here. I specifically requested to be paid in bitcoin. I had bitcoins on MtGox and I wanted the bitcoins back from the day they were stolen. They have been found and my claim is accepted. Now give them back.
It's going to be a loooooooooooooooong goodbye. COBOL is still around for what it's worth. The dominant OS (Linux) is written in C. I'd assert that any language used to implement a widely deployed operating system has at least that operating system's lifetime + 20 years, assuming the OS isn't rewritten.

"Re-write Linux in Go" I think would be a massive but classic folly
I think the threshold is 500 points/karma/whatever?
This article mainly addressed his politics. Crazy or not in the political world, he's a superb software engineer.
We should start demanding physical shutters for laptop webcams. Does anyone make those yet?
C is really great for writing format encoders/decoders that easily bind with any scripting or compiled language in existence. The ease of compiling it on all platforms and producing binaries that export simple "function_name" symbols make it still the best choice for delivering a format implementation as widely as possible.
they have had cases where criminals basically handed them the case by not encrypting their storage. then they run into a case where the criminal had encrypted all of their storage and they have zero access to the data. They are basically that they want to force people not to be careful with their data so they can expose their entire with a simple court document. They don't want to have to do real police work.
What about 0 hour contracts? What about literally writing down the flexibility you want in the contract?

If you think about it, it's kind of ridiculous to pretend that drivers are running businesses and employing themselves while all they do is ride a car just like an employee. If there's a reason for employees to have certain right, the same reasons should apply to the Uber drivers, therefore they should receive the same benefits.
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality also explores that topic a bit.
What is cloud native?
A Cellphone-Based Microscope for Treating River Blindness from UC Berkeley
HN is one of the places Ive encountered people trashtalking and saying that shes a fake, I remember commenting that I was a fan of Naomi and really enjoyed her reviews of Shenzhen electronics a year ago and got a lot of responses hating on her.

Issue is why dont we doubt other people who could also just have downloaded instructions off the internet and then just did that or even never show their making process but doubt Naomi?
I did see that while browsing newer shows the other day but I guess I didn't see the programming part and thought it was too generic to watch. I'll have to give it another look.

Thanks for the recommendation!
Sorry yes of course. Log increase. Was thinking the first derivative (rate the happness increases with wealth is negative).
I felt that wizard thing when I was just starting out, for most of my career though, i've thought an apt analogy is tradesman. eg. carpenter or metalworker.

We get commissioned to build something that does X. Then we design and build it.
With experience we develop our own tools / practices and a familiarity with our materials.
Experienced masters might experiment and develop completely novel things or masterworks.
Sometimes many of us will be commissioned together to build something really big or challenging.
No I checked the "I/We would prefer to receive distributions in Bitcoin" on their form. I made a claim on bitcoins, I wanted the bitcoins back from day 1 of the theft.
Yeah, but any post that involves bitcoin, the FBI/CIA/NSA/DOD and the darknet is bound to bring people out of the woodwork. The most interesting articles tend to have more...thoughtful comments.
I agree with the sentiment, but not with the idea that Go is a suitable general replacement for C. Rust on the other hand fits that role.
I read a sentiment that I found myself nodding to: people will stop driving when it’s convenient for them.

Some people love driving, and some people love riding horses, but you don’t see many horses on city streets today.
What percentage of people would really want that? The vast majority of consumers don’t know/care. Or it’s sold as a feature.

Most businesses probaby WANT the feature. See other comments in this discussion about lights-out management.

I’m guessing t wouldn’t be economically worth it.
Most who are calling for moderators are easily offended by things they don't like. If you're that easily offended. You're going to have a bad time.
Nah, it was in his best interest to turn over the private keys. You also don't get less time for turning over stolen property, you are ordered by the court do that no matter what.

If he said "I lost the private key," he would have been ordered to pay restitution in cash. That means his assets (including his house) would be seized, when he gets out of jail his wages would be garnished forever, any inheritance he ever tried to claim would be seized, if he won the lottery that would be seized, his tax returns would be seized, etc. He would never be allowed to build any wealth at all until that restitution was paid, and it never would be because who makes enough money in their lifetime to pay a $10M restitution?

The coins are now completely worthless to him because those addresses will be watched forever, if any coins ever moved from that wallet, he would automatically go to jail. $10 million you can never spend or give away is not useful.
Modern encryption algorithms are unbreakable. Do you even know what you are talking about?
> It allows a remote party to inject their own flow of execution into your program.

Thanks for your helpful explanation. This bit sounds particularly bad - is the really possible in practice or just theoretical? Is there any source that has shown this?
Drivers are in competition with one another in a way, though, in that any given passenger can only ride with one of them at any given time.
D is a sweet language, but there are lots of CPUs/Microcontrollers for which C compilers are available, but not much else (except assembly).
No, there's no other obvious way. You can create and edit presets in print dialogs (unless you're using an app that refuses to use system print dialogs like Chrome), and the printer can default to the last used preset, so that covers the most common use cases.

Happy to know about the web interface though, that will be very handy!
Do you really need to have correlation vs. causation explained to you? You cannot say eggs cause cancer. You can say eggs are correlated with cancer.

This is not surprising due to the fact that eggs have been slandered by pseudoscientists for the past 50 years. The epidemiological data are easily explained by the healthy user bias, in reverse.
If you sell a device that relies on an external service to function, then you are no longer in the hardware business, you are in the services business, and should sell the service as such.

Likewise, if you are a consumer and buying a physical device that needs an upstream service, you dont really own, or really even need to own the device. What you really want is the value the device brings, without any of the headaches that go along with devices becoming obsolete.

Logitech is so used to selling hardware products that they didn't realize that they became a service provider as soon as their Harmony Link required connectivity. They should not be marketing or selling devices, despite their history of being a physical product vendor.
If users had purchased a "Harmony Link" service agreement, and Logitech was responsible for keeping their users devices up to date and functioning with their service, then nobody would complain.

Cable companies figured this out a long time ago. When was the last time anyone had to care about cable modem or set top boxes being deprecated? The cable companies have always sold the service, and the hardware was either rentable, or, sometimes, provided by the consumer, but always with the understanding that the hardware wasnt why people bought cable.

I've avoided any of these connected home hardware specifically because the manufacturers try and push ownership to the consumers. As soon as its the service providers responsibility to ensure the devices are secure and work with their service, I'll sign right up.
Now the real question is what Logitech hardware is safe and what Logitech hardware supports network-based firmware updates or the like.

Currently I only have a M235 wireless mouse; it works well, but what about its drivers? Microsoft and Trust sell similar mice, and the choices for a replacement have just reduced.
IDs get lost and stolen sometimes, so there are established processes for that. In Germany, they cost 28.80€ to replace and take 3-6 weeks to be manufactured. You can continue working normally, and generally there are is no impact on your daily life. The process takes less than an hour, excluding waiting time.

Your citizenship isn't tied to the ID, either.
"The only security you have is the fact that there aren't nearly enough criminals to exploit all of the info that has already been stolen"

This is pretty much the case, to include security vulnerabilities in most systems as well. Most just are not exploited because their arent enough criminals with enough time.
USSR tried to keep Chernobyl blowing up a secret until caught and preassured by Sweden to admit there was an accident. I really don't expect Russia to act different today. Just look at the "we have nothing to do with it" handling when Crimea was invaded.
You hit the nail on the head. It's all about entitlement and that includes whining about the free lunch being taken away.
Some people speculate it's an Equifax cert that's expiring, but I don't know the details of it
I can't comment on BBC, but I can't remember the last time I watched something on netflix or amazon that had missing subtitles.
"MVP"
so trump goes to China. 12% snap bought , 1b for Musical.ly. Is there some mutual future success deals going on more than usual.

Im reaching hard here but I smell something in the air. Maybe its fire (a good kind) or maybe Trump just farted.

1)US economics/job sec says man it would be nice if we could get some investment in companies that are hiring internally
2)Trump gives list of companies to China for favourable deals and profit/tech sharing
3)America and China both see a profitable future.

Is there any other deals Im not seeing. Is there some general stat to suggest that GNP of China is being focused on the US more than usual. Isnt Foxconn opening a factory in Michigan?

Sorry for the lack of research and vague ideas but this could be a spark that lights flames and cooks food for millions/billions.

Is the CEO of McDonald's talking out of his ass[0] or is Trump the bussiness man president we needed to get us through a tough economy?

Not a kind conservative but a practical one, the Chinese like practical.

[0]https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/08/ex-mcdonalds-ceo-praises-tru...
Sadly there is a lot of truly great stuff you'll miss out on, if you rigorously apply Lesson 1. My smart sprinkler controller and thermostat are examples.

(Needless phone-home stuff is another matter, all the risk with no value add)
While that sort of works and I do that, it's a much more cumbersome solution.

I commit WIP code to a separate branch, change, and now if I go back to the original computer, I need to make sure to push, go back, pull again... god forbid I had done interactive rebasing or amended a commit, since it'll be all of of sync... it's just more more complicated than simply saving a file and having it reflected. "Temporary commits" should be a rare thing, not mandatory.

I end up using both git and dropbox for some projects and it mostly works, but having projects on dropbox is a mess because of node_modules, having sync running continuously because some tools/projects/IDEs will keep generating temporary files, etc.
I blocked youtube in my house with dd-wrt on my router because I saw some of the bizarre videos my children were watching. There is too much NSFC (Not Safe For Children) crap floating around.
I would be interested in exchanging notes, send me an email if you're up to it.
Well with that attitude it is...

Part of winning is to even begin to believe you can fight...