skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't we complain when china "de-ranks" western propaganda abot tianamen square stories or tibet? Don't we complain when russia "de-ranks" propaganda they don't like. Don't we complain when the iran, saudia arabia and the middle east "de-ranks" propaganda they don't like?

Gonna be hard whining about other nation's censorship and other nation banning google without coming off as a hypocrite.

It's amazing how the nytimes/WaPo working with the government/cia has completely taken down social media.

Reddit is now completely overrun with social media workers from WaPo, TIME, Nytimes, BBC, Independent, etc. Facebook is towing the official propaganda line. And google is "scrubbing" their search and of course youtube videos. Twitter is banning "alt-right" left and right.

Just 5 years ago, all these social media companies were proclaiming themselves the beacons of free speech and open/independent discourse. Now they are pretty much official propaganda outlets.

If google is going to "de-rank" RT and sputnik, they should de-rank a whole slew of other "news/propaganda" sites.
I woke up an Silicon Valley has really become an Evil place. What ever happened to our mantra (really Google's but it reflected the whole valley) "Don't be evil"?

We really need to change.
Staying with accountability. The source of the vast majority of these attacks are from China, Russia, and Eastern European countries. Why shouldn't the people commiting the crimes be punished? Currently those governments and crimals almost always get away with it. There is no punishment for bad behavior. As most of us being technical engineers on HN know it is nearly impossible to completely prevent a breach or attack if a savvy group wants to put in the effort and time.

I'm not saying that Equifax and equivalent companies were not grossly inept and incompetent, but eventually we have to start putting pressure on the criminals and reduce the incentives. Cyber crime currently does pay. Extremely well.
> This is true, but it's also potentially worthwhile to consider that Apple has positioned themselves as a hardware company (i.e. the majority of their money is based on selling units of hardware), whereas their main competitor here (Google) is an ad company (i.e. the majority of their money comes from selling their users' data). Apple has chosen to highlight their commitment to privacy partially because they feel it helps their market position, whereas for Google, it would hurt it.

But this is all just marketing, whereas the reality is that Apple could also be hoovering up location data and you may never know.

You may have good reasons to trust Apple more than Google, which is great. Others may reverse that position of trust (perhaps they had their iCloud account hacked into and photographs leaked on the internet).
How does it give the power to those companies you listed?
Because they can link you to certain sites? And they choose to host certain content?
> Uber said it will provide drivers whose licenses were compromised with free credit protection monitoring and identity theft protection

This got to be a running joke now. Companies lose the data and offer credit/theft protection than facing the consequences. If Equifax could get away with the giant breach, I am sure Uber will not even feel the heat. smh.
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Can you post a link to close my appleID? Yes, you can close a Google/ Microsoft account with few clicks
Unfortunately, we can't even entirely trust our phones then either. You can turn on airplane mode in the OS, but it could still choose to reactivate the radio for short bursts without you knowing. Or the the radio could be set to phone home on a regular basis on its own recognizance. This could potentially occur even if the phone is turned off.

There is no way to ever completely trust a cellular device.
Only $100k? They really should have tried for more... not that I support stealing PII.
When I deactivated my account it was a huge pain, I had to reply to 2 emails, and in the end it took 5 days to complete. That alone annoyed me enough to never go back.
Link to Intel's announcement isn't working. Might be a server-side issue ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Covering up data breaches should be straight-up illegal, as in prison time. If I am the employee who is about to cost my company $$$$, I'd much rather report it than risk going away.
Same here. That and that video from the driver that bought a black car to drive it for Uber and ended up in massive debt.
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She used uber because the service is fantastic.
If I remember right, Reuters has run a number of articles over the past few months. NPR hasn't mentioned much, at least from what I've heard on the radio. I don't read or watch other mainstream media though, so I can't compare.
I think we should not use terms like "common sense" when describing totally uncommon practices.

Wages aren't stagnant by accident -- far from it. The constantly repeated, default decision by boardrooms to unlink compensation from productivity and thereby suppress wages is in fact the overwhelming, prevailing "common sense" of the really existing world. This goes hand in hand with the systematic expropriation by ownership of the surplus value created by workers.

This situation persists because persons with your perspective cheerlead it on, in part by moralizing on worker compensation while totally ignoring the moral calculus of ownership's claim to the surplus value created by workers. That's what you did here:

>Yet no additional effort, creativity, or skill was required on the part of the cashier [...] [therefore they deserve no share of their expanded productivity]

Fact: if additional effort, creativity and skill was a bona fide prerequisite for receiving expanded compensation linked to productivity, then dividend compensation for nonworking stockholders would never flow -- let alone grow to the astronomic, middle-class-savaging intensity it has today.
Or maybe the employers should quit hiring them?
In 4 hours on HN, 70 points and 7 comments. Meanwhile, the entire rest of the internet regardless of political ranks (Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, CNN, NYTimes, Wall Street Journal, and Breitbart) this is top page news.

Can someone tell me why this is? Are founders okay with having to sign license agreements with Comcast to give 20% of profits of their video startup? Whats going on on HN?

Edit: I'm honestly not trying to be hyperbolic here, but I'm also getting down-arrowed quite a bit. This is an honest question

Edit 2: Okay, is see other thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15749150 with title "FCC plan would give Internet providers power to choose the sites customers see"
wait, what's the ATA warning about tinnitracks? On the surface seems like a good idea to me... but couldn't find reference to it good or bad on the ATA site.
Nice. Would be cool to see a Vue.js tailored version of the library, similar to their React add on.
Rhetorically? You are convinced she is less famous only because she is a woman? Maybe she should have gotten the nobel prize instead of him, and she was actually the ghostwriter of his books?
It’s not publicly known who owns how much of FlixBus. It has been reported that General Atlantic holds 35%, but Daimler, Holtzbrinck and the founders most likely hold a significant amount as well.
I would love a potential employer/recruiter to woo me with, "Your choice of non-backdoor-ed laptop that respects your privacy." I would at least give them a phone call for that line.
More likely Senate. Feinstein is up in 2018 and the tides are turning against her. It would be a tough slog but doable. Oh and she'd have to run as a Democrat. I don't think a Republican could get elected in California in 2018.
Even larger fines seem to draw weak behavior change. The U.S. corporate structure is remarkable in that sense. It shields employees (especially executives who often don't carry out orders) from criminal and financial responsibility for their actions.
"Here’s how the hack went down: Two attackers accessed a private GitHub coding site used by Uber software engineers and then used login credentials they obtained there to access data stored on an Amazon Web Services account that handled computing tasks for the company. From there, the hackers discovered an archive of rider and driver information. Later, they emailed Uber asking for money, according to the company."

Seems to suggest they committed AWS credentials into source control?
This event is so comical that makes me wonder why there isn't already a movie about it.
Don’t know why you’re getting downvoted. Getting huge slow downs with tree style tabs. Firefox is unusable for me now :/
The ISPs definitely did do this up until the point they were classified as regulated. They just did it in subtle ways, seeing how far they could push it without causing a backlash. Like limiting Netflix and BitTorrent. Despite being careful, they got classified.

Now, they explicitly are going to be unclassified, and we, the consumers, will be unprotected.
He is comparing to traditional wiring.

> 7 days, $50-$100 in fees.

So it's still faster.
The discussion is a valuable one but the only buttons congress has are "regulation" and "funding". Some regulations might not make much sense, although I think the accountability one is a good place to start.

But the bar for gathering my data is so low! Read a few tutorials on how to write software with Your Favorite New Web Framework and off you go on making a new site that will happily leak data once discovered. The core competencies of my power company and my local cinema are definitely not IT -- nor security. Can we expect good results here? (I hope the answer is 'yes' but I think it's unlikely).

So to take a different tack -- could funding help here? What if there were funding and/or accreditation of some libraries or frameworks? These would use best practices regarding minimizing data loss (salt e.g), regular auditing of actual deployments of this technology, fuzzing of the underlying software, etc. A marketing/branding effort regarding the accreditation could also be helped w/funding. It needn't be a US-local solution, nor even a US-local agency. Though that would certainly minimize the bureaucracy to "only" the level of US Congress.

Instead of "Stop, Drop, and Roll" or "Only You Can Prevent Forest Fires", it could be "Never Roll Your Own User Account Database" (and OMG please help us if you rolled your own crypto).
Never forget. If you are not the customer, then you are the product!
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They choose what gets buried through their search and suggestion algorithms.
Quote>"Uber now says it had a legal obligation to report the hack to regulators and to drivers whose license numbers were taken. Instead, the company paid hackers $100,000 to delete the data and keep the breach quiet. Uber said it believes the information was never used but declined to disclose the identities of the attackers."

So they paid a hundred grand to hackers to delete the info and they know the data was never used because the hacker's said the wouldn't...ok sounds legit.
You are just proving the point that opensource wont protect against security bugs because most of the software engineers cannot spot a security bug in code?
The first photo of her, she looks so much like him! Even the gesture (fingertips together) is something he also used to do. It was great reading about her.
I meant squashing before sending upstream, not all kernel development happens in public.

Still, i think squashing still happens in the public trees:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...

EDIT: Actually, thats indeed a merge, but the diff is still showed with it, which confused me (because conflict-less merges are usually +0/-0).
thanks for pointing out that.
Not even a single company should have our private data. Probably this.
It's not impossible to do. You could weave a lightweight signal-blocking mesh into a pocket without impacting wearability.
I'm surprised Uber doesn't have their engineers set up 2FA for GitHub. Super simple to implement and require organization-wide[1] and would have prevented this. Then again, not storing credentials in GitHub would also have prevented this . . .

[1] https://help.github.com/articles/requiring-two-factor-authen...
Careful there with Kool Aid.
It never fucking ends with this company, does it?
It's a running gag on some websites now (apparently including hacker news) that whenever there's a mention of the sr71, that story gets posted.

I still read it every time too.
It's already way more common to use "Uber" as a verb, or even a noun, that doesn't necessarily even mean Uber the company itself.

People have asked me before if I'm about "to uber" or "take an uber" someplace and they say it in an obvious way that implies "any ridesharing company" (or lyft in my case since most people know I only lyft nowadays).

Uber just as a word for ride-sharing has become ingrained and won't be easy to get rid of, IMO.
She was hired as a hatchet man. A role she served well.
Or he's subtly pointing out that Netflix wouldn't have been started if it wasn't for net neutrality.

> It's an issue that would have been more important to "the Netflix of 10 years ago," he said.
It's really not all that sudden. HPE appointed Neri as president back in June. From https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/hpe-appoints-first-... :

The move positions Neri to become HPE’s next CEO, CRN reports.

“This clearly lines up Neri to be the next in line to take the reins of HPE, there is no question about it,” Bob Venero, CEO Future Tech told CRN. “This looks like it is Whitman staying true to her statement that the next CEO of HPE would be born and bred in the HPE family.”
There are other HN pages linking to different news stories on the same subject, which have many more comments; for example:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15749150
Laws & strong enforcement, with an informed population.

While money gives power, the concern is that it's concentrated in a small number of people. Voting is not, and can result in controls of essentially any level.
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You should probably try tree style tabs. Although its not working that well anymore
Do you know why this works? Because it jostles the sternocleidomastoid muscle which connects to the base of your skull behind your ears.

If this technique cures/helps your tinnitus its because you probably sit/stand with bad posture. You can attain more lasting results by regularly stretching that muscle (massage/pull on it). This will not cure hearing-loss related tinnitus.

Personal experience: this not only cured my tinnitus, but also cured a pattern of headaches I was experiencing as well as pain from my eyes that I thought was due to eye strain (from being latched onto a computer screen).
+1... also don't think that we would wait long for that.
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The difference is that the bitcoin wastes more energy to accomplish that.
It's a huge problem that requires enforcement at all levels.

People should stop abusing opioids, but we should also make sure they don't cross the border into our country.
It all started when Google banned all software that can not be used for Evil: http://wonko.com/post/jsmin-isnt-welcome-on-google-code
> the armed forces will completely ignore data on flight characteristics due to politics

There's a comedy/dramatized-history called "The Pentagon Wars" starring Cary Elwes, following the development of the Bradley Fighting Vehicle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXQ2lO3ieBA
From what I hear it's pretty common...
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The pointer return pattern is mostly due to C limitations. Rust is smart enough to automatically output into a pointer when a structure is big enough (this is invisible in source code, this should be rather optimizer's decision really whether to do it) and supports multiple return arguments by use of tuples.

Also, even if somebody did insist on explicit mut-output pattern in Rust anyway, they would quickly realize that they need to initialize the value before getting a mutable reference to it - Rust NEVER allows access to uninitialized memory (other than unsafe blocks where you can trick Rust into accesing uninitialized memory and cause undefined behavior by using `std::mem::uninitialized`). The noise related to it should hint that this is not the intended way to do it. Here is a code example to clarify what I mean.

fn write2(out: &mut i32) {
*out = 2;
}

fn main() {
let mut two;
write2(&mut two);
}

And error message:

error[E0381]: use of possibly uninitialized variable: `two`
--> src/main.rs:7:17
|
7 | write2(&mut two);
| ^^^ use of possibly uninitialized `two`

Fixing that requires explicitly writing a value into `two`, for instance with `let mut two = 0`, which for complex structs... yeah, you may as well return a struct directly instead of bothering with pointer output.

[std::mem::uninitialized]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/mem/fn.uninitialized.html
I think its time that Uber starts paying a real and deathly penalty for their pattern of behaviors.
>>>I disagree. "You can't use the collected data anymore" is a million times harder to enforce than "pay us ten billion dollars."

Not especially hard; you send in auditors to delete the collected data from all servers. Oh, that kills the company? Too bad.
Common carrier / net neutrality doesn't do anything about that one way or the other. Certainly, repealing net neutrality doesn't fix that problem.
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If you're on desktop like me and were looking for the non-amp version:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-21/uber-conc...
If the employee knows that at the time the offer is made, then why would they accept it?

Because it actually is the prevailing market rate for their role and they know that. Also, let's not forget that there is always a large risk when hiring someone, especially as in the OPs case where they are recently graduated. The value can't be certain, so businesses are conservative until it can be proven to be higher. This is logical and expected.
> Covering up data breaches should be straight-up illegal, as in prison time.

Is it also illegal to cause a breach? Do you understand the backwards motivations you are giving people?

He can disclose the breach, cause himself (or his co-workers) to risk prison, and cost his company $$$$, which is likely to get people fired.

Or,

Cover the whole thing up (i.e. quietly fix the bug), and no one will ever know.

And if they do find out, he can say "I didn't know anything about a breach, I proactively fixed a bug, I didn't realize someone had taken advantage of the bug" - i.e. he's safe either way.
It'd be nice if I could register for 2FA with all the various agencies. Commenters have suggested paying a fee to 'freeze' credit activities but the process to 'unfreeze' them requires no new information than what's already in most of these leaks...
"The big problem with latency is that it accumulates. Once some component introduces delay somewhere in the input chain you aren’t going to get it back. That’s why it’s really important to eliminate latency where you can." - a lesson that applies to many things besides the narrow case of Windows 10.
> If Comcast is going to try to charge me more to be able to access Netflix, I'm gone.

This is what I don't understand. All of these businesses seem to be missing that point. Or, I am over-valuing it. Or something else that I don't understand or see. But, I have the exact same perspective and stance as you.

If I have to pay more to watch streaming video or play video games with my friends or download my Steam library or my Kindle titles, well, I'm very likely to just opt out of all of that. I am 36 years old and I have never once paid for a cable television subscription in the last 18 years that I've been on my own for _exactly_ this same reason. I am not going to pay for 3 separate and/or premium packages just to get access to the one piece of content that I actually want (sports programming).
This is not true. Back when JPM was being fined billions of dollars when the Southern District of NY was after them, they were quaking in their boots internally while at the same time redlining PR efforts to project external calmness.

Huge fines do exactly what they’re intended to do. JPM for instance responded by making legitimate operational changes to detect all manner of financial malfeasance within their organization.
Indeed I had already linked to your really cool project at the end. Perhaps I should have made it stand out more. The AST approach is more stable, as the Python bytecode can change between any release while the AST changes in a slower, evolutionary pace.
The smart move would be to say she's switching parties because of Trump, run as a conservative Democrat left of Trump but right of the progressive wing.
I agree that I think the collaboration was limited, but from what I read they helped broker his planned escape to Latin America and later settling in Russia.
Penalties would need to be based on the size of the company or breach, otherwise this would result in smaller companies being unable to risk competing, right? If effective features or revenue require user data collection, but smaller companies are terrified of data loss, they're less likely to compete.

Admittedly, smaller companies will have minuscule teams and probably an increased risk of slipping up, but also smaller databases to lose or target. But I don't like the idea of only the largest companies having the ability/confidence to power on.

If Uber is getting a $20k fine, I doubt that's a deterrence for them, but it would be for a tiny startup.
"The landing gear situation is something only crazy cold war people would approve of."

oh gee whiz. this is such a great comment. I almost spilled coffee laughing on my keyboard. A+.
I also believe that is true.

My reason being, I had adjusted the screen brightness using software - but the mouse cursor is still brighter than white anywhere else. When I dragged a window, the cursor turns dim.
Someone who doesn't give a f* about the FBI?
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LOL!

First: I'm pretty sure what you meant to say was I employed a logical fallacy called appeal to ignorance to make my case, not the DK effect -- which is more about lack of self-awareness. Having studied econ and math in college, I kinda know what I don't know. I don't go around making boldly, unsubstantiated claims hoping others won't notice it, like your comments have shown.

Second: if you have to cite a Wiki article to demonstrate your knowledge of economic history in general, you probably don't know jack squat about monopolies, much less AT&T's corporate history. There are actually few good borderline cases that could at least help start an intelligent debate on your unsubstantiated claims about monopolies in unregulated space, but you have clearly no idea what they are. And I highly suspect that you are competent enough to have such a debate. AT&T is probably the worst case study to demonstrate (or destroy) your point.

thx for playing, but it's never advisable to wrestle with pigs. we both get dirty, the pigz like it.
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One thing that could limit the exposure would be to allow for individuals to limit and set controls on the information about them that is being collected. Less information collected and stored means less of a liability for both parties.
> It subjects the internet to content regulation at the whims of the FCC.

I'm curious about your understanding of the title II neutrality regulation -- I don't see a clear line from "all packets must be treated equally" (which is what common carrier means) to "subjects the internet to content regulation at the whims of the FCC" (I'm not clear what you even mean by "content regulation", or what it has to do with common carrier.)
A republican wouldn't even make the final ballot.