skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tried writing a bytecode optimizer a few months ago, and actually got some basic inlining and constant propagation and other such optimizations working, but then realized it's gonna be fairly useless since bytecode changes between Python versions and isn't necessarily even going to be consistent across different Python implementations. So I abandoned that project and started working on an AST-based optimizer. Sadly I actually deleted that project (which is otherwise not something I normally do) as a means to get myself to stop sinking more time into it, but now that means I still have to mentally figure out some of the techniques I came up with again if I want the AST-based version to go anywhere...
What specifically is wrong with one-size-fits-all?
OK, fair point.
Which agencies don't require a drug test for a Secret clearance?
It's financial capitalist ideology. They're actually investing in capital to actually do things in real three-dimensional reality. That's bad business. You're supposed to liquidate, outsource, arbitrage, make money off credit schemes, and otherwise just move money around.
Why? What does a CEO know about InfoSec? Why make CEO's punching bags for fields they aren't experts in?
She fundraised for and endorsed HRC fwiw.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-clinton-whit...
I don't understand how you claim that these actions are exclusive. More alternatives for the consumer are good. Regulations preventing unnecessary charges for the consumer, directly or indirectly are also good. If you are happy with your Internet service under the current system, then why do you want to change anything?

More to the point, the people writing the regulations need to consider everyone in the U.S. not just the happiest Internet users. There already is a fairly large divide between people who can and can not access decent Internet service and this policy will only make that worse.
The CSO was able to arrange for $100K to be paid out without any oversight of what that money was for?

If it was paid to hackers it's unlikely that finance cut a check. I'm imagining this was paid in bitcoin or similar. How was this able to be approved?

I'm guessing someone created a fake invoice? Wouldn't that constitute fraud?
I just want my scroll wheel switches tabs add-on back :(
> I want the most up to date data possible so no caching

This seriously doesn't mean "no caching" and shows a real lack of understanding about caching.

You state that people should so what is appropriate for use case, though your other comments here go completely against that and are cargo cultist in the extreme. I think perhaps, when you say "should do what is appropriate for your use case" you actually just mean "what I think you should do".
To give you my own anecdote, both my grandparents lived under fascism and both happily voted for Trump. It was the first time my grandfather voted in 40 years. I'd never seen him so excited to go to the voting booth before.
IANAL but I did some basic visualization work as part of a story on US state data breach regulations. What may be Uber's undoing is that they must have the drivers license numbers for all of their drivers on file and that is considered PII by 45 states (nevermind that they also missed their reporting deadline).

And if you're interested, a gif of the data:

https://imgur.com/Rm32MeC
Then there are outright broken sentences like this:

>The 1980s saw an increase in threats capable to countering the SR-71, including improved enemy air defenses and the introduction of the MiG-31, which was armed with the R-33 air-to-air missile could intercept the Blackbird.

This just breaks my mental parsing, since there are so many ways to fix this:

1. ..MiG, which, being armed with the R-33 missile, could intercept the Blackbird;

2. ..MiG, which was armed with the R-33 missile, and could intercept the Blackbird;

3. ..MiG, which was armed with the R-33 air-to-air missile, and therefore could intercept the Blackbird.

(and so on)
> Luckily a majority of us over time have voted against you

Luckily, since we're a majority, we can force anything on you with impunity. But that's not enough for us - we'd also like to feel morally superior when we're doing it!
You don't need an extension for that. Go to about:config and set media.autoplay.enabled to false.
In the disclosure it says that the attack included names, email addresses and phone numbers. It did not contain any passwords or social security numbers, so your passwords must have been compromised in some other way.
I've heard "quarter of" but I always felt like it sounded ambiguous.
Shameless plug: I hate visiting my various favorite subreddits manually, so I built a service that automatically emails their top content to you everyday.

https://gitlab.com/whacks/daily-reddit/blob/master/README.md
I can not believe Joe Sullivan would just sit there during this. There has to be so much more to this story.

I can not imagine he would be on board with negotiating with the hacker, and cannot imagine him sitting idly for a year after the cover up.
The “obvious” solution takes time to implement and with the current administration in power upon the US, there is little hope they will do the right thing here.
I... don't really think that's the point of the story. Certainly not in any way that involves keeping this conversation on the topic of Uber being fined.
That was it. The site that I read the story on was here:

http://www.janesoceania.com/suvarov_tom_neale/index.htm

If you can look past the garish design of the site, it's great reading.
Green Manhattan (2004)
Senior software engineer. 10+ years experience.
Startup. Series C. Bay Area.

200k base. 20k signing bonus. 30-50k yearly bonus target.
Silicon Valley is trending for like-ability about where Wall Street was in 2008. But of course she should run, as should Zuckerberg, Thiel, Altman etc because it would be a hoot watching them go down in flames.
If HSBC was making profits of $4 trillion, they were also lying on their financial statements.
I frankly don't see the point in allowing the creation of companies who's sole purpose it is to break net neutrality.
User experience design for APIs
>I hate to sound alarmist, but is this going to be as terrible as I fear it will be?

Have a look at how Portugal's ISPs have structured their pricing tiers:

http://www.businessinsider.com/net-neutrality-portugal-how-a...

Various cell telcos here in the US have already given preferential data-cost treatment to services like Netflix and Spotify.
Disappointed to hear this after I just finished reading Creativity, Inc. by Ed Catmull (Pixar's main founder and graphics pioneer) which attributes Pixar's continued success mostly to a culture of extreme candor and honesty... Considering how long this was an issue I guess some things are too good to be true.
> Yep, one of the costs of living in society is that you have to follow some rules.

Another bad argument. Nobody argues agains having some rules. But that does not make every rule necessary. Especially ones that are justified by "since we have these rules that force you to use our services, you also owe us to abide by other rules". That's not a good justification, that's just circular logic.
They can't filter the posts, but they can make it so that the data coming from those sites end up coming in at such a slow speed that they're pretty much unusable. And that would be just fine under the new regulations.

> Why not address the real-world "nefarity" which is lobbying governments for special favors at the expense of the competition?

Exactly who is lobbying for special favors here? From what I can tell, it's the big telco companies and not anyone else. The only people that stand to gain from this are the shareholders of AT&T, Time-Warner, etc. It's like people forget the BS that Ma Bell pulled at the end of the last century so we gotta relive it again.
Moon in Scorpio – astroligion.com
Ask HN: Which iOS apps help you run your startup?
You'll find that thinking like that will only lead to misery at worst and hypocrisy at best. For example, if you live in the United States (though this logic applies to any country, really), you'll be interested to know that the US holds the world record for the amount innocent civilians killed [1].

[1] https://www.globalresearch.ca/u-s-holds-the-world-record-of-...

EDIT: I realize I sound far more judge-y than intended in these posts. My overall point is that people should just do whatever makes 'em happy while doing the best you can (w.r.t. everything else). Trying to emphasize the morality in your actions is just wrong, imo.
US voters need to have the option of calling a snap no-confidence referendum on all elected and appointed officials, such as Ajit Pai, Trump, William Jefferson, etc.
I've seen it mentioned below, but I feel this is deserving of its own comment.

If security researchers could report vulnerabilities with impunity it would drastically reduce the incentive to sell vulnerabilities to black market buyers.

This is a full-blown national security issue. If security researchers could work with our three letter agencies in defending our infrastructure it would go a long way towards securing the US against increasingly advanced opponents.

As it stands right now, if I found a critical vulnerability in a government system I think I would just drop it and tell nobody. I think it's more likely that I would be punished rather than rewarded, which destroys any incentive I would have to help.
$2.8B Worth of Transactions Were Sent Over Bitcoin Network on 11/16
Ignoring the appeal to conjectured authority, the notion that a completely closed box device, by a company that has many revenue streams, solves this problem is absolutely ludicrous. That this ridiculous claim gets posted on an otherwise reasonable site regularly is outrageous.
> laundered trillions of dollars of mega-organized-crime money

While I agree with your sentiment, there is no need to use such inflated and hilarious numbers.
Same as `googling` will long remain the synonym for `searching the internet`.
Would you say, for example, your painting is good as a professionals (e.g., paint lines are straight with respect to adjacent walls / ceiling, etc)? As someone who anticipates being a homeowner in a few years, I wonder if it's possible the first time you learn how to do something (without having the best technique for the skill) to get the best outcome.

I wouldn't want my home improvement projects to look half-assed just because I wasn't experienced or knew the "best practices" for the given home improvement task.
Because those more money may not be enough to pay for more people that would need to be hired? While existing stuff may be wiling to stay 30 minutes more occasionally, they might not like the idea of having even longer shifts all the time.
> But the big problem here is there is no free market for ISPs.

What is the average number of ISPs available to a home? I have no data, but I'm guessing it's not very many. Not enough that there is effectively a free market.
...and the company is now taking steps to end the practice after being contacted by Quartz.

Classic example of Google's "ask for forgiveness, not permission" mode of operation.
No, it does not. Tough luck if you are a drive, btw. You'll be made redundant to self-driving cars soon.
I understand your tongue in cheek jest about the typical MBA strategy for pumping and dumping the value in a business so that they can get their quarterly performance bonuses or cash of future equity today (and then exit the stage before the business crashes in to a fireball of liquidation)...

Long term strategy used to be what //investing// was actually about.
Unless 2fa was bypassed with the token you get from GitHub in order to use the git client via https.
But you have tons of concrete reports from the Snowden leaks and prior leaks. Dual_EC RNG is the worst example anyone can think of, something that has been red-flagged since 2007.

Assuming a supposedly* adversarial agency has unlimited resources and ability will only cause you to focus on that threat instead of more immediate ones. Or worse, make you needlessly complacent when there is so much that can be done to harden against APTs and other, more immediate threats.

* supposedly because if you're a U.S. citizen, the government works for you. If you're outside of FVEY (AU,CA,UK,US,NZ) and are a government official, military member, have interesting technical infrastructure, or operate an interesting company, then yes you should include NSA in your threat model.
Decentralized Ethereum-Based AirBnB Records 300 Listings Within Its First Month
Well, WSJ and Wall St are interesting in bubbles of all kinds, so, of course, just like ever before, they would do anything possible to separate stupid people from their money...
Ha, right. All those left wing billionaire media moguls running around.
The Oxford English Dictionary [1, university/library subscription needed] gives the definition "In stating the time of day, etc. = half an hour past the hour named." and a quotation from 1791:

> "a1791 F. Grose Olio (1796) 107 C. Pray what's o' clock? W. It will be half ten."

But until looking this up myself, I hadn't realised Americans and Australians always included the "past". Was your teacher British?

--

Assuming you have some familiarity with Danish numbers, you might like another definition: "half, preceded or followed by an ordinal numeral, was formerly used to express a half-unit less than the corresponding cardinal numeral; thus Old English þridda healf, Middle English thridde half or half thrid = two and a half. Obsolete."

Example (c1200 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 13777) "Þatt sahh. & herrde daȝȝwhammliȝ. Hallf ferþe ȝer þe laferrd" so hallf ferþe means 3½, "halvfjerde".

[1] http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/83402
Fixed <3 (at least hopefully)
Uber concealed huge data breach that affected 57M customers and drivers
It's just so sad to read this. I don't care much for any of the other names that have come up lately, but John Lasseter is my hero :(
GDPR is coming
It's because potentially the ISPs could try and force both the tech companies and the consumer to pay more or have their service downgraded. They already tried that with Netflix before these regulations were added in the first place.

And Facebook (to use an example) is already under alot of heat for the stuff the Russians pulled in the last election. They gotta deal with the current administration for at least the next few years regardless of what happens with the FCC. So they can be vocal about this in some ways, but not in others.
A common view in these discussions is that people are happy for Google to collect data about them, and other users, because they have an excellent track record in security.

You can't have privacy without security, but security by itself does not equal privacy.

The best security in the world doesn't mean that you have privacy if everything you do online is tracked. And no company arguably tracks you more than Google. The volume of tracking data they collect about users is mind-bogglingly gargantuan in scale.

It's baffling how Google escapes scrutiny on their data collection practices, particularly from the tech community who seem happy to give Google a free pass on matters of privacy and online tracking.
> The main argument is that small ISPs can't compete if Net Neutrality exists, because they can't build a network big enough for every customer to stream Netflix and YouTube. If they could have most of their customers blocked from those services, they could afford to offer it to the few that want to pay extra for it.

I find it hard to believe that the electrical grid, water, sewer, and natural gas systems all are able to make due but the poor ISPs rolling in cash can't.

Meanwhile, these same ISPs are working to make competition illegal or impossible.

This isn't an issue of providing better service. This is an issue of making more money by squeezing the customer every way they can while making recourse impossible.
Let's say that Party A collected private data as in your step 1. Then Party B stole that data as in your step 3.

Do you punish at step 3?

Party A's step 3 is Party B's step 1.

I don't much see the difference between them.

What if Party A willfully gave the data to Party B? No punishment? Equifax is a good example of Party B in this case. Can't we punish all the Parties A?
Going to airshows with engineers who work in aerospace/defense industry is great. They point out all the cool stuff.

"just imagine the objections people would have raised to this feature, more parts, it looks funny"

"we wanted to throw a clambshell on it for shits and giggles but the powers that be decided that being able to back up a 2% grade was enough"

"both sets of wheels steer so it's one of the nicest planes to land in a near-hurricane cross wind because it can just crab sideways though the sky and keep the wheels lines up perfectly with the runway"
Do you have a source for this? It seems dubious that tapping a muscle 50 times would be an effective treatment for muscle strain.
they replace this tiny bone with titanium now? unbelievable!
A good way to deal with tinnitus is by trying to find sounds/background noise to tone it down or drown it out (and by drowning out I mean not loud, more like a gentle distraction).
This can be anything from the sound of the rain, a shower, car with windscreen wipers on, the tumbling and rumbling of a dryer, a train, the winds, birds chirping, waves etc..

There are plenty of white noise generator apps available, just experiment and if you find something that seems to help set a timer. It will help getting to sleep. Rest is so important.
Releasing the new Roadster was a mistake I believe, when they are having a hard time with the Model 3. It's not a sign of strength that the company is not focusing 100% on the car that is going to (supposedly) make them profitable.
Interactive book game (highly addictive)
Don’t let hypocrisy stop you from doing the right thing. Sometimes you need to climb one tree to cut down another.[1] That’s ok.

[1] tbh I don’t think you do, but I like the analogy so I’m keeping it.
I just found out about this recently: https://www.reddit.com/r/ilikthebred/

The premise is poems written in intentionally misspelled and simple English to mimic animals' inner thoughts. I find them quite whimsical. I wonder if this would be done the same way in other languages?
The funny thing is that there is no technical reason at all for compositing to have worse latency, even for games.

Think about the actual operations that are involved. You certainly never want to render directly into the front-buffer (you'd end up scanning out partially rendered scenes). So you render to a back buffer. Which you then blit to the front buffer (assuming you're in windowed mode; in full-screen mode the compositor goes out of the way anyway and lets you just flip).

The only difference between the various modes of operation is who does that final blit. In plain X, it's the X server. In Wayland, it's the Wayland compositor. In X with a compositor, it's the compositor.

Now granted, some compositors might be silly and re-composite the whole screen each frame, but clearly that can be avoided in most cases.

Depending on the setup, there can also be some issues with the scheduling of the game's jobs vs. the compositor's jobs on the GPU. Valve are working on this currently for VR, since the problem is much more noticeable there -- clearly it can be fixed one way or another (on Radeon GPUs you could do a blit via asynchronous compute if need be, for example), but note that compositing actually doesn't change this issue (since the X server's jobs also need to compete with the game's jobs for scheduling time).

So if compositing has worse latency, it's because nobody has cared enough to polish the critical paths. Conversely, compositing clearly does have advantages in overall image quality. So why not fix the (entirely fixable) technical problems with compositing?
Alternately:

When people will vote to decriminalize child prostitution and felonious sexual activity to avoid putting a checkmark next to a (R), that's when you can give up faith in the average citizen's regard for the details of an election.

http://www.latimes.com/politics/essential/la-pol-ca-essentia...

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...

both parties are atrocious, along with anyone who votes along party lines thank you very much...

but perhaps that was your point..
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Who needs to approve it? How would you know they didn't?
I mean they don't say how they accessed the GitHub repo or whether there was a vulnerability in Github itself that allowed access
Doesn’t matter. The age of the internet boom is over anyways. It’s all about AI and robotics.
No, I don't think so. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycenaean_Greece#Collapse_.28c...

The Minoan civilization disappeared (possibly being partially incorporated into the Mycenaeans') about 300 years before the disappearance of Mycenaean culture along with the other late Bronze age hullaballoo. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Bronze_Age_collapse
> During all his years on the island, Morandi says he has never gotten sick, a quality he attributes to "good genes."

I bet reduced contact with other humans helped as well!
Food for thought, every single day we see more accusations and finger pointing. It's crossing political, but somehow not weath lines. I'm not saying these things did not happen or that they are not horrible. I'm just saying the frenzy of outrage has reached witch hunt territory.

I'm making a point that innocent until proven guilty does not hold true anymore. Once the media or social media writes a story, in the eyes of the "general" public... You're done.
This is the most common argument FOR Net Neutrality, but I don't think there is any evidence to believe that this is exactly what ISPs will do if Net Neutrality ends.
No good RSS extension yet, no mousewheel scrolling through tabs, no 'Add "run" option to download dialog'...

I suddenly lost so much with Quantum, I wish they had held onto killing the old add-ons until the WebExtensions API was complete.
And they say we need less regulation of corporate behavior.
Uber hid a hack that exposed data of 57M users and drivers for a year
but just imagine all the jingly-jangly campaign videos featuring $candidate doing yoga in the california sun and doing meet and greats while eating farm-to-table food in faux-rustic casual eateries!
The current deletion process is smooth and can be completed in-app.
Haha, this is going into my copypasta list.
This is true, but they issued all forms of debt already - shares, bonds, you name it.
Any further delays and they can literally go bankrupt.
And this is physical manufacturing do you can't ship beta and fix later for most things.
Also many have vested interests to see them fail - short traders, other car manufacturers, oil industry. I wouldn't rule out a simple sabotage - seems fairly low risk if it means oil industry can keep extracting profits for 10 years longer.
In this case the memory isn't uninitialised - it's been initialised by bio_init(), which sets bi_partno to 0.
OR all these high level hollywood types just keep raping people.
Anti-trust laws are pretty much universal and we already have them. A lot of NN related abuse could be prevented if our legal system would have actually applied them, but it often doesn't.
For a few years I paid extra for a DSL connection simply to not use Comcast. I truly hate them.
Nitpicks:

- This is just an frontend for haveibeenpwned

- Its not in bash, but standard sh
The fact that there are a lot of things coming out doesn't necessarily mean it's a witch hunt. Are you thinking of any accusations in particular?
It's very common, but there are lots of ways of addressing it.
This is mentioned in Dan Ariely's Predictably Irrational.
HSBC did not make trillions from those transactions and they were fined $1.9bn in 2012.