skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This. I'm an independent consultant, too. There are things clients want me to do that I don't want to do and on terms that I don't want to do it on. However, if there's a real pinch and they have no other choice than hire me for that kind of gig: I'll do it, but you'll pay me my "I really don't want you to hire me for this" price. I'd rather they not hire me in those cases, but just telling them no is more alienating than telling them in advance here's my "don't hire me for this price".

(and with that... I better pick up the kid... ;-) )
“Grabbing” and “kissing” coworkers is more than “a little overly friendly.” Legally, it’s battery. (Fun fact: it was defined that way at common law, long before feminism.)
Generally your finance department needs approve purchases beyond a certain dollar amount. This is pretty standard stuff.

If they got it approved as such don't you think the CEO would have been informed that there was line item from Security for ransom?

The article states the CEO didn't find out about the hack until a month after.
Flat earther plans to launch himself into the air using steam powered rocket because the two 10 year old girls from Seattle who sent a helium balloon to 78,000 feet to capture video of the earth’s curvature [0] are obviously part of the conspiracy.

[0] https://www.geekwire.com/2015/two-seattle-girls-launched-a-b...
Am I missing something or is the next step going to be Intel making ME impossible to remove without bricking your CPU? If so, seems like these efforts are fairly futile if they'll only work for the current gen of processors.
>giving them money through tax

This number doesn't account for countless millions, if not the majority of Americans who drain more from the government in the form of services, subsidies, and assistance than they pay in taxes (and I'm not suggesting this is necessarily a bad thing).
> Bread is fungible

In what society?
Could you please improve your insight to provocation ratio? Hacker News is for thoughtful discussion and not political battle, and you've been doing too much of the latter.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Oh damn. Paywalled. It would be great if someone could throw their VHDL etc on Github
Java hate is unnecessary. S3Proxy has low memory usage and a similar image size.
> not being used for anything

That is a common misconception on HN, almost repeated on every Bitcoin thread. There is, in fact, evidence usage for payments is sharply increasing:

https://blog.bitpay.com/bitpay-growth-2017/
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20150528-00/?p=...
Same. Running Gentoo you learn a lot about how Linux works at a deep level. I'm glad I have that knowledge I gained running Gentoo and it's saved my bacon a few times over the years.

But after about the third time that upgrading my system made it unbootable because I had missed some crucial step buried in the changelog or release notes, I also developed a deep appreciation of all the things modern distros handle for you. I rarely fear a dist-upgrade the way I did an emerge world.
It is not the kind of caching that the post I'm replying to is advocating ("the entire app can live offline and even cache data in local storage"). I mentioned the caching I am doing to point out things aren't so simple. I do mean quite literally that none of my API HTTP responses have a caching header (assets are coming from CDN with very long cache life).

It might be more fruitful to try to explain why I go against that instead of simply saying I do without a rational argument that can be responded to. If anything, the thread pretty clearly revealed someone is extremely biased to server-side web frameworks and is unaware of the progression of client-side web APIs.
If someone will buy it he can.
Phishing is biggest threat to gmail accounts that don't use 2FA
I think the right phrase here might have passed out of our vocabulary during a long recent period of extreme permissiveness. It's ungentlemanlike to speak of such things.
I don't expect an Electron-style system to ever arise around Firefox while the engine continues to not support custom skinned scrollbars.

They've become such a fundamental element of modern web apps- that so many of them just fall over and break on Firefox is alarming.
Only reason I use them is because of Uber Green, otherwise I use Cabify and tell everyone to do the same.
Job: Systems Programmer/Developer I, Experience: Professinally? ~4 months, Salary: $37502. Bonus: ?, Location: Columbia, SC
Learn React Native in the right way in one week
Speaking of politics, media influence and tech, a fair number of average joes have a terrible opinion of Musk/Tesla/SpaceX; but these same people are unaware, or maybe vaguely aware the US Gov spent >10billion, just in direct financial losses, bailing out GM.

If everyone in the country was told "write a check to GM for $50 or go to jail," and conservative media wasn't berating Tesla/Musk, public opinion would be a lot different... Take it all with some healthy skepticism.
They aren't restrictions on users. They're restrictions on add-ons.

And the Firefox extension model does not implement Chrome's restrictions. It has APIs that Chrome does not support: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/Br...
Poisoned Google Search Results Deliver Banking Malware
Ask HN: What % of harassment claims are legitimate? This is reasonable, right?
There has been a huge increase in the proportion of sexual harassment news in the last few months. I believe it is objectively reasonable to "blow up" the spots of tech icons. What do you think? I am a male who can remember being an annoying 18 year old male who try to pressure girls into sex.
It's long been thought that a large percentage of studies on mice can not be replicated in humans because we are such different species but we use mice because it is cheap.

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/the_mouse_t...

Some larger animals might be somewhat closer but a.) much more expensive b.) more ethically challenging to kill/drug something more intelligent at the scale at which we do mice

An acquaintance of mine did work in medical studies with mice and he quit after a few years because he said one handled the mice so much that he grew attached to them and could not bear to kill them at the end of the trials anymore.

On the other hand we eat pigs and octopus and those are pretty smart creatures.
Say there is no such thing as identity theft. Identity is not a material thing that can be stolen.

The issue is bank fraud. When someone uses stolen personally identifiable information to make fraudulent purchases/accounts/whatever it's the banks liability for allowing the wrong person to perform those actions.
You are confusing profit, earnings, and the amount of money laundered, each of which is distinct and very different.

If you give me a million dollars in counterfeit bills, and I launder them for you, I might get paid only $10,000. My laundering efforts might have cost me $9,000. In this case my profits are $1,000 even though my earnings were $10,000 and I laundered $1,000,000.

I'm not saying that HSBC laundered 19 trillion, but the earnings and/or profits of HSBC have absolutely no relation to the potential amount they laundered.
IIRC Uber has had a very large bug bounty program with substantial payouts. It seems possible this was billed under the guise of a bounty.
I _think_ the number you're talking about is the session key. The session key is agreed by both parties. Key Agreement is actually some pretty clever mathematics, but it goes like this (except the real numbers are enormous and I've used small ones):

You: "Let's pick a session key, let's use method A, with the magic numbers 15 and 29. I chose my random number, and with A, 15 and 29 the answer was 4."

www.google.com: "Cool yes, method A with numbers 15 and 29 is fine by me. I picked a random number and my answer was 3."

Now both you and Google can determine that the secret session key is 9, because each of you knows _your_ secret random number and the number the other person got by using _their_ secret random number with the special method. But even if the other person lied and always picks the same number, the _result_ is random, because you did you part of the trick properly.

Nobody else knows it's 9, even if they eavesdropped on this conversation taking place, because they need one of the secret random numbers to work it out OR they need to solve a mind-bogglingly hard mathematical problem to get the answer without knowing the secret.
TBF it depends on the weed, but yes, I agree that it can significantly impair you.

My point is that the test is testing the wrong thing. A sobriety test would be best.
Agreed but Arch isn't much work after the initial install. Well worth it for the rolling updates.

Arch mostly just works. The big issue I run into is that the upgrades are _almost_ flawless, which bites you once a year or so when you least expect it.
That's the beauty of fossil... you hardly need one! Most aspects (wiki, issues) those services offer can be in the local repo, always accessible.
Why do you suspect volume is faked? Bitfinex's volume is not even that high. It's only twice the volume of GDAX ($550M vs $250M in last 24h: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitcoin/#markets) and we know GDAX isn't faking volume or wash trading because of all exchanges in the world GDAX are the most law-abiding/professional, plus they have high taker fees (~0.25%) which make wash trading expensive/impossible.

So, with Bitfinex (1) trading 10 times more currency pairs than GDAX, (2) being older, and (3) having somewhat smaller fees, it's perfectly plausible they have manage to trade (only!) twice the volume of GDAX.
I live in Seattle. My wife is an animal lover and started feeding peanuts to the squirrels in the backyard. We have a Dutch door in the kitchen, and when she leans out, they will take peanuts out of her hand. It's pretty adorable. It's adorable and also kind of alarming when they squirrels leap onto the window frame of the door and stare at me when I'm making coffee in the morning.

Once you start pumping calories into the backyard, all sorts of stuff shows up, so we have a lot of crows now too. They have some sort of schedule they keep, so at specific times of day, there will be about a dozen of them on the power lines and deck railing, waiting for a handout. The poop is annoying, but the noise isn't. Crows have a lot of different vocalizations and they sounds they make when waiting for food tend to be pretty mild.
But, but, but... automation! Singularity! Boston Dynamics robot backflips!
Is conservative media berating Musk? I thought progressive media was souring on him?
https://reddit.com/r/mechanicalkeyboards

https://reddit.com/r/cringe

https://reddit.com/r/cringepics
There are many treasures in Charlie Rose’s archives because of the guests. Again, his show was often worth watching despite him. I’m not just cherry-picking examples though. He did that crap constantly. Almost every interview of his I’ve ever seen was at least mildly frustrating, and often I want to throw my shoe at the screen and tell him to SHUT UP AND LET THE GUEST TALK. Try watching a few of them now, and paying attention to the times that Rose interrupts the guest, makes some sycophantic flattering comment, or repeats his point multiple times after being told it is wrong.

The nature of interview shows is that often topics are inherently political (e.g. interviewing a politician, a journalist, an economist, or a political biographer), but Terry Gross is one of the least political interviewers in the media (apart from maybe some late-night comedy hosts who do 5-minute bits), and frequently gets her guests to talk deeply about their lives and families and hobbies even when they originally came to discuss some political topic or shill their latest book or whatever.

She approaches her interviews with careful preparation every time (e.g. she actually reads the books), universal politeness, and close listening, and responds to what her guests are saying with interesting topical follow-up questions rather than sticking with a canned script.

You might be misinterpreting knowing something about the topic (as Rose typically does not) as “political activism”.
Why on Earth would Netflix have to pay for content served from inside their network. Netflix literally has red cache boxes inside all the ISP networks. If people stop streaming they won't go back to cable. The ISPs will all just move to metered internet.
Tell them to look no further for a solution than Europe's GDPR. The GDPR gives individuals the right to the privacy and security of their personal data. Companies that collect this data do so at their own risk, and have an obligation to secure and not proliferate that data.

This legislation has huge, sharp teeth. It comes into full-effect in May 2018, and every single multinational is running around in a "pants-of-fire" panic trying to figure out how to comply.

If Equifax had to pay 4% of their global annual turnover per day of non-compliance, would they act? Yes, of course.

---

> How is the fine calculated?

> Article 58 of the GDPR provides the supervisory authority with the power to impose administrative fines under Article 83 based on several factors, including:

> The nature, gravity and duration of the infringement (e.g., how many people were affected and how much damage was suffered by them)

> Whether the infringement was intentional or negligent

> Whether the controller or processor took any steps to mitigate the damage

> Technical and organizational measures that had been implemented by the controller or processor

> Prior infringements by the controller or processor

> The degree of cooperation with the regulator

> The types of personal data involved

> The way the regulator found out about the infringement

> The greater of €10 million or 2% of global annual turnover

> If it is determined that non-compliance was related to technical measures such as impact assessments, breach notifications and certifications, then the fine may be up to an amount that is the GREATER of €10 million or 2% of global annual turnover (revenue) from the prior year.

> The greater of €20 million or 4% of global annual turnover

> In the case of non-compliance with key provisions of the GDPR, regulators have the authority to levy a fine in an amount that is up to the GREATER of €20 million or 4% of global annual turnover in the prior year. Examples that fall under this category are non-adherence to the core principles of processing personal data, infringement of the rights of data subjects and the transfer of personal data to third countries or international organizations that do not ensure an adequate level of data protection.
> She and Gould suspect that the antidepressant effect is the result of a specific interaction between ketamine and the male odour in the mouse brain.

Wow, this is a really fascinating study, and goes to show how evaluating psychoactive drugs can be so difficult. There are so many confounding variables that it's very difficult to know what is causing an effect.
Don't forget that someone has been using Tether to wash trade bitcoin on bitfinex...

https://medium.com/@bitfinexed/are-fraudulent-tethers-being-...

https://medium.com/@bitfinexed/wash-trading-bitcoin-part-ii-...

It was widely believed that the tethers being "sold" weren't really backed by anything and were being used to inflate BTC prices. Now they are claiming 30M were stolen? I'm betting it's going to end up being a lot higher. They are using 30M to soften the blow of the higher number. I believe this tactic has been using by Yahoo and others in announcing the number of stolen accounts as well.
This is interesting. What's the difference between a lootbox earned in game, vs the act of killing a mob or raid boss and having the RNG determine what drop you get? You
can't pay for the latter with real money, but you do need to put in more gaming hours (and thus pay more real money for a subscription) in order to get good drops. So in effect you still have to indirectly pay for the chance to get loot. Would this make all forms of random drops gambling?
> I don't know if they were using GHE.

They don't use GHE, they use Phabricator.
Amazon's access control and authorization system is the current most important broken thing in the industry.

The Joe Sullivan details are the lurid stuff that propels news story copy, but the important takeaway is that almost nobody, including companies with serious investments in security, can safely get a large-scale dev team deploying onto AWS.

This story keeps getting re-told, and has been for something like 5 years now. It's a problem, and it needs to get fixed, decisively.
The problem with suppressing speech in general is 'who decides?'

Yes corporations currently have a lot of power and it is difficult for the average person to filter. However the alternative is effectively censorship.

It's easy to say 'ban the fake news', 'ban the corporate money', but who decides what qualifies as fake news, or which companies / groups / associations / qualify as corporations? Whoever decides gains a huge amount of power.

There has got to be a better solution than censorship.
Perhaps a better response would be outlining how much memory it actually takes? This way people can decide (i.e. if they care deeply about the memory footprint)
In college we used to joke that animal behavior should be called animal misbehavior. We literally had one member of our lab group that could work with the mice and get sensible results. Neither of the guys could get any data that made sense, one of the women owned a cat and none of the results she had made any sense, and the fourth person (a woman) had no problem.

I'm not sure if anybody suspected that rats reacted differently to how men and women smell, but only women were allowed to work as rodent caretakers or be in the rodent room at my school. Our professor showed the guys the room once, but we weren't allowed to talk, since she thought it was men's voices that set the rodents on edge.

In case anybody is wondering what our experiment was, we were measuring whether caffeine affected the VO2 of mice. Their oxygen consumption pegged anytime any of the guys handled them.
If the attack was conducted using login credentials found on github how does this prove that 2FA/SSO are not enough? Wouldn't 2FA have prevented easy use of these credentials?
If you disclose a breach you might lose your job as the company might go down (financial liability for the company for losing personal data). But if you try to cover up the breach (pretend you never saw it) then you risk going to jail (personal criminal liability).

You get the idea. If the legal system was setup like that, you would be better off disclosing the breach and losing your job rather then risking prison time. You can always find another job.
They want to bring back the halcyon days of AT&T.

Big players get to control eyeballs and information dissemination. They’ll charge for the value generated by online services and reduce the chaos coming out of the Valley.

Read the Bellhead vs Nethead article from 90s wired.
> I wouldn't mind a USB-A port.

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but this is a non-issue because of the existence of USB wires that have USB-C on one end and USB-A on the other, isn't that right?

Basically, any device which is USB-A works just fine if you simply use a USB-C<->USB-A wire.
I don’t know why oracle would want it. Since buying sun the share and recognition of sun hardware is even less than the lowest point since sun owned sun. I haven’t seen a sun box in over a decade. Except eBay.
I guess oracle has the cash to just buy it to lessen competition? IBM I thought was focused on power like they always are but never do anything with it. It’s still damn near impossible to find a power 8 vendor.

So I guess I just don’t see any reason for oracle or ibm to buy them.
From article:

> This allows, for example, a Fossil-NG user to clone and use a repository out of GitHub while continuing to use the superior Fossil user interface.

I totally disagree here; I don't think Fossil user interface is superior at all!
You will probably want to stick on a LTS kernel... unless you like unpatched kernel vulnerabilities.
I'd be happy with just complete API docs. As of at least two days ago the API docs contained a single link to the same page.
That would be an international scandal. Heck, it's not like we're unfriendly with the Australians anyway.
Gambling is always bad, should ban them everywhere.
Yeah, people believe conspiracies because it's more interesting, more drama than the truth...

The thing about flat Earth though is that it's so easy to prove. Just get in an airplane and fly to the edge :)
I wonder why no amatuer pilots have done that, how hard can it be to find the edge? Hehe
The issue is that once there is evidence there is a bank run. Mt Gox wasn't supposed to, but they did. And there are others out there that I hear rumours about having 5 or 10% of their reserves stolen from hot wallets. Sure it's fine if there is never a run, but it's worth pointing out that this is a real threat vector.
Google's Upcoming 'Fuchsia' OS to Support Apple's Swift Language
Ask HN: Is Amazon (US) taking online market share from other online retailers?
> 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.

Hypotheticals can be checked by referring to other countries with different market structures.

Australia has a broader mix of ISPs and Telcos than the US, despite until the 90s being under the control of a single public system (Telecom), with a plurality of the current infrastructure owned by its privatised successor (Telstra).

They seem to do fine with net neutrality. Regular competition.

> The other main argument against it is that it's not fair that Grandma, who only wants to read email once a day and look at the kids on Facebook, pays the same as the kid next door who is watching Netflix while playing an RTS while torrenting three movies.

Charging by bandwidth and usage is well settled.

The point is that the ISPs don't want to segment the consumer market. Too hard: there's competition, which as we know is unamerican because it makes business haaaard.

Instead they want to segment the provider market. Far fewer of them to negotiate and there's zero competition. You, the ISP, have at any point in time monopoly control over the consumer who is using your infrastructure. Providers have no other way to route traffic over the last mile.

Nobody mounts this kind of lobbying effort from the goodness of their hearts. They see a gigabuck in it.
I mean, it depends on where you live I guess. Out here, you can probably live well on $50k
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/23/technology/travis-kalanic...

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/03/technology/uber-greyball-...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2017/02/2...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jun/06/uber-fire...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-02-28/in-video-...

https://www.engadget.com/2017/09/08/uber-federal-investigati...

http://abcnews.go.com/US/uber-allowed-workers-spy-users-empl...

http://www.zdnet.com/article/uber-app-can-silently-record-ip...