skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're right, and perhaps ideally we should have a mix of both accountability and certification. I don't know who could or would sue TiVo for the attack, and I don't know how to solve the problem of out of business companies. This approach has its drawbacks.

However, give the certification process some thought too. I can see quite a few drawbacks here as well.

First, a significant advantage for established, rich companies. We'll be swamped with IoT from Apple, Google, Facebook and Amazon while small competitors have a hard time getting their products to the market.

Second, you'd need give the regulatory body access to both your software and your hardware. And what if the device is connected to some cloud server? That body may need to look at its code too to make sure that your control server is compliant. And what about the network? The database? Where does it end? And do you need to re-certify each and every version of your server? What if you introduce a security vulnerability?

Third, certification can't be a one-time deal. That protocol your lightbulb uses to talk to the microwave oven for whatever reason? Well, someone broke that and can now make both of them divulge your dirtiest secrets. The same regulatory body would have to keep track of such vulnerabilities and force manufacturers to update their devices - and what if the manufacturer has gone bankrupt? What if he doesn't want to update these devices? Are you going to force people to throw away their light bulbs? You'll have to, otherwise you're back to square one in which all devices are compromised, only now it takes a little bit longer.

Imagine the bureaucracy all of this will require.
Or bitcoin ! Wait, this is ridiculous we have like two centuries showing us that commodity currency is a failure in an industrial economy.
> 5,000 individual downloads/dependencies to use a library that you could hand write in a couple of hours...

Yes, that's a trade I'm always willing to do. I'd rather use those couple of hours to write something new or spend some time with the family. "left-pad" was a minor annoyance that was quickly resolved.
I have mainly because I am trying to use less Google stuff.
Out of curiosity, what does your startup do/what is it called? I suppose your comment itself could function as advertising.
> Because, if we are not careful that can quietly change and AI will make listing to every conversation anyone has in the county a real possibility.

Are we sure mass recording isn't already happening? It wasn't that long ago that the idea of bulk metadata collection was thought of as tinfoil hat material by many.
There also doesn't seem to be any color choice.

I realize you probably meant "positive differentiator" but there you go. :)
Sure thing, blame everything on the Illuminati.

But were there not actual people voting for him, a lot?

(but well, the alternative? you americans degraded indeed ...)
Conflicted here. On the one hand, I agree that it's easier to say, "That's just the way I am, deal with it." On the other hand, folks deal with things like ADHD and depression and different cultural upbringings that make it more difficult for them to, say, remember things than "normal" people. Feels like the author is using his dad as a sample size of one as evidence for a broad statement here.
Every version of 1Password available on https://1password.com/downloads/ works with standalone vaults. The only exception is 1Password 6 for Windows, but there is a link to download 1Password 4 for Windows. The link for that even says "Get 1Password 4 (standalone version)".
Bitcoin's First 1.6MB Block Has Been Mined
a more sensible approach is counting how many people maintain a certain standard of living (determined by local or global metrics, whatever you are interested in) without relying on government assistance or charity.
Is there a way to opt out of the data collection? I haven't used Firefox in a long time but always liked it for its privacy progress. I'm enjoying Aurora so far, but that's not cool.

edit: Found it, very bottom of Privacy
I thought this was interesting because it is an actual study, and attempts to look at leading indicators, rather than mere correlation (where you could imagine employees at more successful companies being more satisfied).
Violin.

(It's really, really hard)
This is all-over-the-place. Firstly it argues you can tell if somebody is "truly smart" based on if they answer interview questions with an overly-technical explanation...

Then it plays heavily on our fame-bias (and confuses correlation and causation) to argue "Look what all these well-known geniuses do, if you that too you'll be a genius like them!"

It then proceeds to offer a self-reported anecdote about the author becoming smarter (with no external validation like some objective test, nor even a definition of smart).

Then tries to sell us a course...
Agreed that this seems fishy. Given that Zimbabwe no longer has a local currency, this seems to be USD->BTC on an exchange that happens to be in Zimbabwe. If you have the financial freedom to move your USD, it seems highly unlikely that you'd want to do so into BTC at a price much worse than at other exchanges.

Can anyone familiar with Zimbabwe shed some light on what's happening?
Wait, what? How do you get abolishing prisons out of that?

Back to the subject, what if a law is bad, but the mere act of saying publicly that the law is bad is, in itself, breaking the law? That's where this is all heading.

It starts with prohibiting the utterance of specific words because they hurt someone's feelings, but hidden under "consumer safety" or "public order." No one speaks against it because "of course we shouldn't hurt the feelings of others with mean words."
I don't think it makes sense to separate those two... if that data is collected by a third party and made available for sale, the government can buy it too.
Ripio Token Investment Report Sheds Light on Viability
How loot crates and unlocks really work in Star Wars Battlefront 2
That doesn't necessarily prevent them from infecting each other and other people/devices on the internet, or being used in attacks.

It's sort of like living in a neighborhood and having a rock pile you enjoy the aesthetics of, but know it's prone to having rattlesnakes move in, and instead of fixing the rattlesnake problem either as it happens or at the root, just putting a wall around your property excluding the pile. Sure, you're mostly safe, but when animals/children get bit, your solution starts to look quite a bit worse.
The secret of a tech millionaire
Ask HN: Any data scraping project ideas you can share?
I've done a good amount of scraping over the years, but haven't done much recently. Getting an itch to do some side projects in this area as well, so interested if anyone has a need for data that they can't currently get, or can't get in a clean structured way.

One example I've thought of recently (because of my own 9-5 job needs) is to scrape all the heavy duty truck company's sites and expose make model data (and images) via an API paired with a VIN decoder. Each OEM obfuscates their vehicle data in one way or another (JS widgets, only in PDFs, etc) and as far as I can tell, there aren't any API-based data sources for heavy duty/commercial vehicles.

Any other ideas?
> And your desktop computer is a far, far more valuable target in terms of computing power and network connectivity.

It’s also FAR more secure. IoT devices are often easy to hack. And while they may not have much horsepower they have a network connection. You won’t mine many Bitcoins but it doesn’t take a lot power to be part of a DDoS.

And I have one computer, one tablet, one phone. I may have 5 smart lightbulbs, a DVR, a security camera or two, a indoor/outdoor thermometer....
You can say that, but you're wrong.

A newborn child takes no actions and makes no statements. It is utterly dependent, contributing nothing. Is that you?

It's perfectly reasonable to say that you are happy enough with the status quo to support it. It's also reasonable to be afraid enough of the status quo to refuse to be in visible opposition to it. What's unreasonable is to be a beneficiary of and contributor to an intricate system of economy and authority and then act like it has nothing to do with you.
Are you interested in building a Facebook competitor? If so, I'd love to hear when it launches.

I know many friends/family members who use Facebook despite my repeated attempts to explain Facebook's business model.

If your competitor respects user privacy, I'll certainly look into it.
It's true for the primary residence.

For secondary properties most people are just going to move in for 2 years to meet the requirement.
That's correct. If something like "six" would have been provided as part of 3.0, things would have went more smoothly. There could have been some language changes in 3.0 to make single-codebase easier. It was only later that the core developers realised that would be the normal way for libraries to support Python 3 (e.g allowing u prefix on strings in 3.x). Quite a bit of time was wasted while this got sorted out. Things are a lot better now. Soon, I think most people will stop worrying about 2.x backwards compatibility.
Since everybody upthread is plugging books let me recommend

Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane
But again, these two things are connected. IBM is in the tech industry, wouldn't you say? It had ties with the Nazi regime during the Holocaust [0], taking advantage of the crimes of Germany for profit. There were many companies at the time which did so.

Your work is directly linked with exploitation and oppression of people around the world, in almost every industry. The tech industry is directly linked to child slavery in the Congo, mining Cobalt for hardware. And tech players have a big role in worker's rights in the US too, think about Uber drivers. There's every reason why tech workers should use their united power to do something about these issues.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
What if you weren't born yet?
Move Slowly and Fix Thing
Torture may be used to find out the user has bitcoin, but you can never be sure you got it all. If they give you access to n wallets, how do you know they don't have n+1?

A foreign currency account is not as easy to setup as a brain wallet.
I guess there's TeX. Knuth released version 3.0 in 1989, and it's currently on ‎3.14159265.
Air traffic control audio. I have absolutely nothing to do with aerospace or flying.
What I'm interested in is whether Live Code Share is a free service.... feels like it might be a paid service. Or limited free then pay? Not sure. It's also for visual studio.

Also be interesting if someone makes a teletype plugin for VSCode :)
Always love Mr. Schneier, but I think torts would be a better way of handling this.

There are several problems with regulation: a) Whack-a-mole, new ideas and business models arise faster than the speed of government. b) Regulatory capture, like what happened to our banking regulations. c) More often than not, penalties are captured by the regulator, but compensation is not made to the injured parties. d) International law / trade agreement complications. I'm sure there are many more.

If manufacturers knew they'd be on the hook for damages in a dollar-to-dollar way, they'd put more engineering into their work, they would price it accordingly, and personally I'd be fine with that.
> Consider the ice delivery man: refrigeration destroyed his industry, but created so many more possibilities that there was a net gain in blue collar work.

these sorts of events aren't directly comparable to what approaches. future automation includes analysis, decision-making and adaptability such that most if not all conceivable 'new work' will be automated and a human labor market will not form.

essentially, the robots will build, design and maintain themselves.

> If you think we're on the precipice of AI/automation being able to solve complex problems without human aid I think you're overestimating the capacity of the capabilities of current generation tech.

i don't think anyone supposes it'll happen tomorrow, but it's something we should be well prepared for rather than reacting to.
Seems like you might need a better indexing system -- table of contents in the start of notebooks, and perhaps a directory consisting of copies of those ToCs in a loose-leaf binder for the entire set?
ikea costs 12 to 40 bucks
TLDR (from article)

But now that we are seeing these slightly bigger blocks, claims are being made that segwit’s method of increasing capacity is actually very inefficient.

In comparing some numbers the 1.6MB block had:

Block size: 1602023
Number of transactions: 833
Input count + Output count: 11073
Bytes per IO address: 144

While a random non-segwit block (483,182) had:

Block size: 999931
Number of transactions: 2110
Input count + Output count: 10574
Bytes per IO address: 95

The segwit block, therefore, which is near the practical limit of bitcoin’s current blocksize rules, was able to handle only 500 more inputs and outputs out of some 11,000. Making it an increase of just 5%, instead of 50% as would be the case for a non-segwit 1.6MB block.
The product is adequate, because people are paying for it. It could be better, hence the feature requests.
The most important thing I always want to know is how they found me — unfortunately, for all of them it was via a search for a specific phrase. That doesn't help me at all: I am prominently featured for that search phrase.
No viral potential, this is a niche B2B product.
So, 2 weeks of wage income is a fair price to pay before you even face your accuser?
How do you plan on allowing multiple people to have partial control over a client side wallet?
I worry about funding for gene therapies. Pharma companies like recurring revenue and a successful gene therapy would likely be a single treatment.
Most C++ code wont compile for multiple reasons. For example using namespace std will result in errors if your code calls a function which is now part of std.
I was surprised to see someone who cared what style of javascript a program is written in, especially if they aren't an active contributor. Maybe you are?
Disease and famine were also good controls on population growth that are now obsolete.

"Over the past century humankind has managed to do the impossible and rein in famine, plague, and war. This may seem hard to accept, but, as Harari explains in his trademark style—thorough, yet riveting—famine, plague and war have been transformed from incomprehensible and uncontrollable forces of nature into manageable challenges. For the first time ever, more people die from eating too much than from eating too little; more people die from old age than from infectious diseases; and more people commit suicide than are killed by soldiers, terrorists and criminals put together."

https://www.amazon.com/Homo-Deus-Brief-History-Tomorrow/dp/1...
> The direction is monodirectional

The obvious tautology aside, I wouldn't agree with this in case of the EU (the US, probably.) To me, the EU feels more like two steps forward, one step back - this being the step back but, for example, the GDPR being the two steps (or leaps) forward.

In any case, this regulation seems more misguided rather than malicious. It's targeting real problems that have to be tackled but it does have the fault of granting overly broad powers to the respective institutions.
What's disruptive about this? It's the same product, it's less money than some 'competitors' but it seems like comparable products at a comparable price are already available.

What makes this special?
That only needs a local wireless (or whatever) connection between the reader and the light. X10 et al did this over power lines over 20 years ago. Communicating over 802.11 - with or without the internet - adds complexity and exposes the device to the world.
>That required judicial authorisation.

I can't find a source on this. Do you have one?
You’re right, it’s not easy. But even specifying hilariously trivial stuff like HTTPS, certificate pinning, no hardocded backdoors, and per-device random initial passwords would probably be a huge boon. Simple security without even talking about the problems on the service servers.

I imagine a market would appear for some of the basic software (Linux diaries, etc) to help make things easy for small companies that do want to do it all themselves.

I like the government idea because frankly I can’t think of anything else that would work (outside a rediculously improbable change in consumer behavior).
Reinstate the Internal Revenue Act of 1954, had it right back then, no reason to tinker with it any longer.
Agreed, it's definitely not full-proof by any stretch. But it's amazing how many people enter their WiFi password into devices they really have no control over that can then for example sniff your network, slowly but steadily crack your passwords, possibilities are endless.
Nope. it is about including stuff that you really need.
I saw apps that where shipping angular + jquery just to provide a single interactive icon.

Article focus on very specific cases of the mobile web application. In most SPA it is not a big deal to ship a 1mb of JS.
Psychological targeting as an effective approach to digital mass persuasion
I'd argue otherwise, but have no source to support my claims. Maybe someone can help. Here's my 2 cents:

By being open source and allowing people to run it on their own servers, they can potentially convert a massive amount of people to their platform that otherwise wouldn't make the switch. Now the next time these people don't want to run gitlab on their own servers for whatever reason, they'll use their service. And pay for it. because they know the tools, the logic, the UI etc.

The reason I'm arguing for this is because that's exactly what's happening with me. I'm a very happy github user, but I might need to run something similar on my own servers. If I do, I'll host a gitlab. And then, for my other projects where i don't need to run my own instance, I'll probably just use their webplatform. Because it takes me less time to navigate it now that I've run it.

So i can see myself paying for gitlab some day because they've open sourced it and got me 'hooked' on their product as a result.
How a university student racked up travel rewards points for free
If you use the Stelliferous Era [From 10^6 (1 million) years to 10^14 (100 trillion) years after the Big Bang. --wikipedia] as a meaningful period we are still at the very beginning, less than 0.0138% through.
Here is the source code:

https://github.com/google/souper

The paper mentions that Souper links against LLVM 3.9, but a recent commit on GitHub states that dependencies have been bumped to LLVM 5.0, the most recent version.
Maybe it's you who is doing Silicon Valley thinking, ranting at length about something you are wholly uninformed about.

https://brooklynbailfund.org/
That could be a good idea, even though we don't really know the impact it will have on inflation. Imho, the impact would be close to zero in nowadays economy where the lack of demand is much more of a problem than an hypothetical shortage of goods. In the long run though, the demand would catch up and the supply could be the limit, like it was after the first oil crisis.

Personnally, I'd rather give the money to the governement like we did in the keynesian golden age, because it fuels the development of infrastructures, housing and social security. And at our point in history, it could be used to transition to a sustainable society. But that's because I don't trust the market on this, I'm kind of a socialist.

> am sure it would do more for the economy than just pushing banks to lend more money.

This is such a failure (esp. in the EU) I don't see how I could disagree with you on this.
The real question is are they all runix minix(Intel ME)
I shot with the Holga quite extensively over 10 years ago. I must say it's strange to say that the “Holga look” inspired the creators of Instagram—because the result looks nothing like it.

Instagram did not attempt to create faux light leaks or to emulate the imperfections of the plastic lens (which is what I associate with the Holga look). If anything, some of the Instagram filters come closer to a well exposed instant film.
I think you're making a false equivalence, to a degree. No one has said that you're "with us or against us". The point is more that "if you remain silent, you stand on the side of the oppressor"

Here's an MLK quote better to that effect:

"First, I must confess that over the last few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Council-er or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I can't agree with your methods of direct action;" who paternalistically feels he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by the myth of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait until a "more convenient season."
First, I'd like to point out that this concern is completely orthogonal to a hosted service, and has no connection to it.

Second, with the inability to check that a given binary came from a given source tree, open source does not help us audit what gets executed. If we're supposing that Agilebits' build process has been compromised, then we're in the same realm as considering a compromised build process for .deb or .rpm.
As if the ICANN compliance department don't already have enough on their plate squaring the circle over the WHOIS / GDPR / RA / RAA imbroglio. 'in with the good' 'out with the bad'
No one's interested in hearing why their real-world solutions aren't as good as your theoretical non-solution.
You're right that they should be liable, but pragmatically it's maybe too much of a risk for smaller companies to face some potentially frivolous lawsuit for millions of damages supposedly caused by a ddos originating from some of their devices or something.

Surely the right idea in principle, though. I'm just not sure how realistic is it to implement in a smart manner.
We're required to take 3 semesters of language (has to be the same one). I fell behind somewhere last semester, and now I'm more in "get a good grade" mode than "learn it for life" mode.

The way sentences are structured is fascinating though, so I would recommend it for that. But learning it to speak it would probably be a huge time-sink.
I'm having a really hard time making sense of that analogy...
> I can't recommend developing your own color film, but black and white is fun to play with if you want to get a better understanding of the process. If you're just doing a few rolls occasionally though then development is probably the best option.

Yea B&W only, from my research that was what I gathered too. I wasn't aware the chemicals expired though, I assumed you bought some and just processed whenever and you were good to go
AP spreads 'Russia hacked DNC' claim as though it is gospel truth
> How would a large company (or community project) be able to recruit hundreds of programmers well versed in these languages? The problem is s/w is built on existing knowledge and in the system programming domain that is C/C++ for the most part, and that's where you'll get man-power to the extent needed to build gargantuan OSes like Windows, MacOS, Linux and so on.

- Put some cool code riddles on the company website that lots of hackers will like so that they will discuss them on Hacker News.

- Pay a more than sufficient salary.
Giant Game and Watch Game at Maker Faire Adelaide [video]
That was a temptation, but I held off as my Show HN didn't get much traction both times I posted it, so figured it is best not to come across as trying to force it.

It is however in my profile, if anyone feels so inclined..