skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recall a story (that I'll probably recount incorrectly) about a daycare business deciding that too many parents were arriving late to pick up their children (meaning that staff had to stay late with the kids), so they instituted a fine for late pickups.

The result was that more parents were late. The reason being that the parents effectively considered the fine a "late pickup fee", and one they were more than willing to pay. If the parents were fined a day's daycare fee for being ten minutes late you can bet their attitude would change.

I see company fines in the same light - they formalise the process of absolving responsibility and moving on. Just pay the toll and continue to handle your customer data cavalierly.
Funny coincidence to have two articles about women scientists studying the sun at one week interval.

Remember, the other was Japanese. Very interesting story too.
Working at another large tech company, this does not surprise me.

Edit: I mean it would surprise me if it wasn't recommended practice, but it would also surprise me if it was somehow strictly enforced.
We have higher rates of drug use and overdose in the US compared to Germany.
If companies hiring the "best and brightest" can't keep your data secure, what hope is there for the average non-tech company? Low tech lock-and-key solutions don't seem so bad now. If only they could scale...
Perhaps CEOs lie to both investors and their employees.
Haha yea I just learned that in the article.

Seems like it's really hard to get American citizens or companies to care about public transit. We only have outliers like Musk, and I'm not even sure that tunnel thing he's building can be considered "public" transit.
No, the employee contacts the ADA and EEOC. Please reread my comment.
Anyone can be alone at any location. If you live in the city, you can live alone. The article states that tourists were banned until sometime in the 90s.

Wifi is a recent thing he has acquired, not something he has had for 28 years. I doubt the 78 year old man browses reddit and hackernews. Probably more of a weather tool.
Being Multi-Cloud with Cloudflare
I did not know this. I agree that it was very misleading of The Atlantic to publish the quote in this fashion.

It doesn't seem to fully reverse my opinion of WikiLeaks although I wonder if I can really be objective now.
Is there a good illustration of this method? I have tried to interpret it several times over the years and never experienced any benefit.
Ceddit is a great tool to visualize censorship in any Subreddit
She was an MBB consultant turned manager turned startup CEO one-hit wonder. Although I do remember seeing the “supercar showroom” parking lot on the west side of Grelands Drive around the corner from where I lived everyday as one bookend of the dot-com era. To her credit she incubated the PayPal mafia and inflicted Teletubbies on America.
Apple has it's privacy details laid out, in both plain English and fairly in-depth, at https://www.apple.com/privacy/

They make it very clear that they are protecting data, to a far greater degree than Google offers if you use their ecosystem.

I don't think it's at all fair to resort to an "Everyone is the same" argument here.
Or get to management level
The security model of the browser includes robust support for DRM. Quantum broke add-ons. Their funcationality is not reproducible, e.g. reading and writing ordinary files on the file system, interacting with the javscript running on a webpage, providing an arbitrary keymapping, etc.

Quantum reflects a decision to remove user controlled functionality in support of general purpose computing and turn Firefox into a media consumption appliance controlled by Mozilla and fungible with Chrome.
Some people think she may be thinking about running against Trump in 2020 - https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/21/kevin-oleary-thinks-meg-whit...
They mentioned the SR-1 program again later in the article too. I even had to Google it to make sure it wasn't me with the misunderstanding.
Fair enough. You may not see the difference, but one is false and the other is true. My point is that many would disagree with your assessment if only they knew that there was a misquote to begin with. Many who want to put forth a false narrative use these kind of disinformation tactics. If only the mainstream media did not have to resort to such slimy tactics. Wikileaks has a far better record of journalistic integrity. You can rely on a quote as being true at least. How many false stories have been printed by Wikileaks as opposed to the Atlantic? How many retractions?
Also, note the Vanguard rocket. We lost the space race due to politics. We had the people who knew how to build it--who later built the Saturn V--and after they did, were promptly kicked out.

The Soviets had childish, despicable politics of their own going on, with important rocket engineers like Korolev being accused by his colleague Glushko of treason, sending Korolev to the gulag for Glushko's professional advantage.[1]

Korolev went on to help design to Tupolev tu-2, a formidable bomber in WWII, from prison. Later he was Chief Designer of the Soviet's rocket program before dying of cancer (had he not, his plan to go to the Moon may have been realized).

Maybe the reason we see no signs of life in the universe is that all life evolves to conquer itself.

1 -https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Korolev#Imprisonment
They have zero context for an American, but the parent poster was Australian. If I had used American analogies, the point would have been lost.

You're right that anyone else should be mystified.
Buyer beware and you get what you pay for. Didn't your parents teach you that? No? How about your school? Hmmm... What did they teach?

Are they going to be able to filter facebook posts/ads "that conflict with Comcast's business or political interests" too? Out of youtube videos? Developing and maintaining that technology starts to get very expensive. If their political interests are really that nefarious, then I highly doubt they will be able to stay in business for very long. Why not address the real-world "nefarity" which is lobbying governments for special favors at the expense of the competition?
> It broke web experience for me. I write userscripts / extensions for most websites I frequent

Sorry to hear this; but I think it's arguably more important for Mozilla to improve the web experience for a hundred million users who may never "write userscripts / extensions" for any website than to hamstring their development in order to avoid inconvenience to a single user who feels the need to customize every point of their web experience.
It's surprising how little of a lift TSLA got after Elon pulled out all the stops to pump the stock ahead of the inevitable secondary sales. It's going to be increasingly dilutive if investors aren't buying the Elon magic anymore.
This is so gob-smackingly uncommon I started asking "do you require 2fa for your github accounts" as part of my interview questions when I was looking for jobs (i.e. I'd ask my interviewers).

I don't know how to feel knowing that there is even one software-focused company out there that doesn't enforce 2fa on its github accounts. Like... how?! Why?!
Ill watch this later. They talk about testing the Bradley in the book and how they pretty much fudged all the tests to get it into service even though people knew it would be a tomb for soldiers if they ever went to war in it.
If there was ever a company that I'd like to watch die in a fire, it would be Uber.
Doing it as a full life change would scare most people off, but even getting yourself to a very remote place for a shorter period of time can be liberating. US national parks have pretty incredible backcountry options and you don't have to stray far from the popular trails to end up largely on your own.
To take a different perspective from the others here:

I think it is fundamentally problematic to try to regulate the sending / receiving of information. That's why the movie and music industries have had so much trouble, that's why classified info leaks are more common, and that's why cryptocurrencies haven't been squashed (yet). Trying to regulate this will have far-reaching bad side effects for all parties.

I also think the vast, silent majority is not actually as concerned about this stuff as perceived. They'll say so in polls, but if they're allowed to choose between the status quo or paying (even a little) to use Facebook, Google, etc. without data collection, they'll choose the free option almost every time. People don't like that their data is collected, but they like not paying for things more.

That said: I think the fundamental issue that needs to be addressed is that the data needs to be valueless.

The Experian hack is a problem because the data leaked has value. Some of it is public record stuff (effectively valueless), but SSNs follow you forever and cannot be changed. If it could be changed (or destroyed for a replacement), then the SSN would hold little value.

Mailing addresses are similar. In 2017, we should have a way of giving anonymous (perhaps even re-assignable) addresses to the organizations we interact with so we're not explicitly telling each of them where we live. If I could generate a new "pseudo mailing address" for each of these companies, I could then destroy it if it is ever compromised--and as a bonus, I'd be able to see how it's being shared (since I'd see other companies using the same one). At that point, having someone's "mailing address" becomes nearly valueless.

Some of this responsibility falls on the consumer, too. Obviously companies are still going to stockpile data to cross-reference and provide value, but that's reality. We've got ad / tracking blockers, anonymizers, and VPNs for the people who truly care, which help to make their own collected data valueless. But the way I see it is that the government needs to ensure they're not creating a system where citizens' data must have value, which is what has been done with immutable SSNs and mailing addresses.
Ah, OK. I checked, and while transport is fine, it didn't seem to support cameras or other hardware.

I'd prefer it to be Windows-native, rather than WSL.
Why is he owed that? Let him fail. I loved Vine and was excited about HQ. I knew nothing about Rus until today. People like this are toxic to our culture and industry.
>Just pay the toll

especially when the cost of doing the right thing is higher.

i mean look at HSBC - laundered trillions of dollars of mega-organized-crime money. for a decade. 400m dollar fine probably isnt even .01% of what they made off that endeavor
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Why do you assume that this is the case? China itself is a great example that absolute human rights are not really a requirement for a great economy, growth, and profits for those involved.
Doing business on the blockchain: Cryptocurrency grows up
Show HN: Add S3 Capabilities to Azure Blob Storage Using Minio
I feel like 2018 is going to boil down to only whether you have an (R) or (D) next to your name, if the election in Alabama is any indication.

When people will vote for a pedophile to avoid putting a checkmark next to a (D), that's when you can give up faith in the average citizen's regard for the details of an election.
This is a good point. The higher the penalty, the more incentive we provide for sweeping things under the rug. We have to have a sane balance.
Active discussion of same story => https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15752022
So we should have a one-size-fits-all law? You're not that unimaginative, are you?
A language with copy constructors hides user defined code inside seemingly innocuous expressions, for great hilarity when they have side effects or other unexpected semantics.
So the policy change is a good idea because it won't affect you personally. In which case, why are you wasting our time since it doesn't affect you personally?
Yep.

About that time my Uber account was 'hacked' and someone kept requesting rides in Florida and I had to cancel them as fast as they made them.

I emailed Uber support and they got back to my 3 days later.

Then someone proceeded to try to gain access to every account I had with that email and password (yeah, yeah, I know). The next worse was someone getting into my DigitalOcean account and launching an instance.

It has finally settled down, I occasionally get alerts from people trying to break into something but lots of 2FA and no shared passwords anymore.

I am not sure if this was Uber's fault or another site's but the timeframe of Oct 2016 lines up.
I read another diary online from a man who lived alone on one of the pacific islands. I want to to say that it was in the 1970s but I can't be sure. I think he was originally a New Zealander.

It was fascinating reading, describing how the wild pigs on the island would eat his freshly planted vegetable garden and how he hid up a tree at night until they showed up before leaping down to kill one of them. Also the regret he felt after killing the animal.

At one point he pulled a muscle in his back and just by chance someone landed on the island a day later and helped nurse him back to health.

I've Googled for it now and again but never been able to find the original side (I read the story around 2008).
My hypothesis is that they had an agreement where Scott couldn't talk to the press, but he did anyways. Since it happened the CEO just didn't know how to handle it well and was probably somewhat serious that the repercussions would be firing Scott (as the only option), something he probably didn't want to do.
Is there a download link so I can watch them offline?
It does not. But protecting Net Neutrality in the current context that it exists creates other problems. Right now Google, FB, amazon can spike content as needed. Without NN ISPs have that power as well and are the only ones rich enough to fight against GFA.

The "little" guys are screwed either way.

A comprehensive legislative solution is the only way we don't accidentally grant someone a monopoly.
AIUI the basic argument against net neutrality is "government regulation is bad, capitalism is good, let the ISPs do what they want and have the free market sort it out". And of course this is worth a lot of money to the ISPs. But the big problem here is there is no free market for ISPs.
> Especially as the guy's a contractor, he can do whatever the hell he wants.

If he was a contract employee, how would that be different?
Kind of. The manager in my team (hpe) hasn't been replaced for a few months after quitting, then the project was killed / people let go. Meanwhile, all the communication from the top was pretty much "this is an important project for us". And that's one of the reasons I'm unlikely to work in a big corp in the future.
I'm not saying a computer can't fly the U2, but I do think it'd be more complex than a conventional aircraft. It has some pretty unique flight characteristics. From Wikipedia:

"...To maintain their operational ceiling of 70,000 feet (21,000 m), the early U-2A and U-2C models had to fly very near their never-exceed speed (VNE). The margin between that maximum speed and the stall speed at that altitude was only 10 knots (12 mph; 19 km/h). This narrow window is called the "coffin corner", because breaching either limit would likely cause airflow separation at the wings or tail. For most of the time on a typical mission the U-2 was flying less than five knots above stall speed. A stall would cause a loss of altitude, possibly leading to detection and overstress of the airframe."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_U-2
Yes and yes. My son has a 144Hz gaming monitor, and my main monitor for coding is a Dell 4k. We'll test both.
"Blackbird" was the moniker for the SR-71. I've never heard of the SR-77. Either you have information on a super secret skunk works project, or else I suspect you might be taking the mickey out of the editors of the article for their SR-1 typo?
One wonders what other stuff is in there that we do not know about, and would get a similar reaction. That is the first thing I though off.
"For $100K we will delete the information, Scouts honor!"

...
> The reason being that the parents effectively considered the fine a "late pickup fee", and one they were more than willing to pay.

The real question in this story is this: If you find that you have customers who are willing to pay you more for providing more service ... why not provide that service? You get more money, your staff gets paid overtime, parents get peace of mind, everyone's happy.
I all for the free market at the ISP level if and only if the last mile is run by neutral third party with equal access to all ISPs.

As for corporate control is so acceptable and government control isn't is because the corps control the media and the government. Anytime someone in the government tries to control the corps there's a big media backlash against it.
Also, a Japanese guy has lived on an island “alone” for roughly the same time:

Japan’s Naked Island Hermit: VICE INTL (2014) https://youtu.be/ZBtBePnUOZU

The thing is there are varying degrees of hermitage and a true hermit obviously doesn’t give interviews. ;)
This article has more details: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/john-lasseters-patter...
Those are both on the list, but they are not "priorities". https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebExtensions/Future

https://github.com/vimperator/vimperator-labs/issues/705#iss... "The WebExtension APIs offered by Firefox already contain many features that chrome lacks and I am working constructively with them to add the APIs we need to make something a lot like vimperator in Firefox."
Ah, should've grouped things better: the linked Resident Advisor article warns.

"Notch therapy has been around for a while and, as with many tinnitus therapies, its efficacy is disputed. Various online resources can help you explore it for free, but it has also been repackaged and marketed as a (paid-for) app by the likes of Tinnitracks. It's worth treating their miracle-cure claims with scepticism."

(The "Various online resources" is a link to: http://www.notchtherapy.com/)
At this rate, Uber may be the first company to have a generic name and go out of business so soon afterward.
I moved to the US in April was and shocked by the Equifax breach, but more surprised to hear from a coworker how often these “free credit/identity monitoring for a year” situations occur.

One co-worker is covered by no less than four groups who failed to look out for him earlier, all for trusting companies to not screw up PII or remember that data is a liability.
An interesting collection of research papers on Tinnitus: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/4725/towards-an-...
Maybe I'm just being cynical, but I can't imagine a previously successful founder doing something so stupid. Is this a "any PR is good PR" stunt? I've certainly never heard of HQ before this, and this story is crazy enough to go viral and reach millions of people.
more than 100% of their profits?
Define expensive? https://www.cheapsslshop.com/ sells wildcards for $56 with easily to find discount code CMDWCXM25.

If you need wildcard most likely your have some sort of production platform and probably make some profits, at least $5 a month for a cert.

Full disclaimer: have nothing to do with cheapsslshop but been their happy client for few years now.
> Do these lobbysist have any influence on the FBI, CIA, NSA, etc., either directly or remotely through the government? I don't think so.

These agencies have their budgets set by the U.S. Congress. I think you're unfamiliar with the composition of the United States government.

> I consider him a credible source, since I have no reason not to.

What makes him a credible source? His claim to fame is THINTHREAD, not cash deals with companies. Are you saying that if a man says something that aligns with your world view, but is outside of his expertise, you'll still believe the statement? That doesn't sound honest.

> Yes, I think they don't take sufficient and adequate action

Then why claim that the EU won't take any action when you admit they do in the next reply?

This is the problem with discourse on most of the internet. People make extreme claims to make a point. But that's not a reasoned argument. You're venting, not arguing. That belongs on Reddit and 4chan, not here.
It should be available, at least in the EU, by May, if it isn’t already. I think it is a requirement of GDPR.
Nothing is less competitive than a government monopoly.
>74% voted the union out. It was glorious.

http://www.industryweek.com/sites/industryweek.com/files/upl...

Take a close look at what you are cheerleading: Crushing student debt. Opioid abuse. Medical bankruptcy. Social immobility. Poverty.

No, really.
r/Productivity

r/GetStudying

r/Nootropics

r/getdisciplined

I remember this job interview once where they asked me my passion and I told them it was, "Productivity." The interviewers replied, "Bullshit," both at the same time. I guess they should have showed them my Reddit.
That's not nearly as much fun as reimplementing the functionality yourself.
I'm getting a little tired of these "burning through money" reports. Of course they're burning through money. They're setting up a factory that is planned to produce 5000 cars a week. This costs a lot of capex money up-front, and is a standard thing for any car manufacturer to do. They have to buy tens of thousands of expensive parts, resources, robots, pay all the staff, all while not selling very many cars while the ramp up is ongoing.

"By this calculation, Tesla would exhaust cash on Aug. 6". This is assuming they keep on selling any or negligible amount of Model 3's. Even if they only sell 100k Model 3 cars next year, their revenue will increase by $3.4B. Their aim is to sell 250k cars next year. They're a couple of months late. Shouldn't be a big deal though..

Bottom line: You have to spend money to make money. This is totally normal and expected. No need to worry unless the ramp up totally shuts down.
Here's an article about that: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/15/books/chapters/freakonomic...
You could argue that ending net neutrality enables more precise pricing models that would reflect the underlying cost of provision, so that people who aren’t consuming substantial bandwidth with services like Netflix, Spotify, BitTorrent, et al won’t be penalized by an implicitly higher plan price (because plan prices are likely currently modeled on consumption behavior near the median/mean).

For the record, I highly doubt the ISPs would pass any savings along to customers but you did ask for the other side :)
Why is being “on hold” on the telephone not made less annoying?
I'm just one data point but I have absolutely zero desire to do something like this.
You are probably thinking of this guy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Neale
FYI, noscript is working again since today.
I like your approach, so let's take a look at this from the perspective of a traffic lane, which is how it is often described.

What if your local roads had two lanes, a fast lane and a slow lane. Anybody who pays to drive in the fast lane gets to go faster, anybody who doesn't pay is forced into the slow lane.

All the busses and other gov't vehicles get to drive in the fast lane. Uber makes a deal with the gov't which lets them drive in the fast lane.

The slow lane is set to an arbitrary 30km/h. You want to get to work, but it's 80km away. You could be there in an hour in the fast lane, but it's more than 2 in the slow lane. What do you do?

The gov't will tell you that the fast lane is great for prioritising traffic. Which may be true, but they've decided on the priority based on who has paid the most. Does that actually help you? They say, with the new system, we have all sorts of data on who travels on which roads and we can sell that data to pay for the system.

Ok, how do you benefit from that payment of a system which is actively preventing you from getting to work?

I don't know. Maybe I'm too close to the issue to see what the "other side" may be, other than $$$.
For me it's alcohol.