skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As an exception that’s not a counterargument: in the 90’s, the galvanized-to-copper repipe plumber (and helpers including a son) whom did the house I grew up in also did dozens of houses in a wealthy area around SJ/Los Gatos for several years, raking in $200k+ personally for that time and probably later. Mostly referrals. Amazing, prompt, proactive customer service, setting expectations, after support and cool guy.

Professionalism, negotiation skills and quality service encourage referrals in places where friends / neighbors know one-another. That is, towns where customers having fewer friends or acquaintances (like neighbors or social media connections) tend not to scale via referral network effects. Also, a lifestyle business can scale somewhat by adding good employees carefully and encouraging a decency culture with accountability.

TL;DR - better companies need better cultures; keep superconnector customers insanely happy
Their investors are too big to fail (to recoup their investments by IPO offloading to the sucker public).
Extend existing product liability/tort legislation to data privacy.

Product safety in the US is the world standard precisely because plaintiff attorneys extracted enough cash from manufacturers that shareholders, banks, investors, board members and insurers forced reform.

Make failure expensive. Limit liability for small business. Make officers personally liable in cases of gross negligence.

This and about 5 years will deliver results.
>I know I understood the blue collar hatred of illegals. I've been on the receiving end of that. Not that its right, mind you- but understanding others viewpoints is the start of fixing them.

Of course it's right to hate people who have no respect for your country's laws and have a meaningful negative impact on your quality of life. You're trying to make it into a racial issue to excuse people who make life worse for blue collar workers. It's also why they hate politicians: they aren't making decisions that benefit blue collar workers. (Starting with NAFTA.)

More than half of immigrants are on welfare: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/09/01/immigr...

Who knows how crazy the expense is for illegals.
This is another article about tinnitus:

> A Music Lover’s Guide to Tinnitus: https://www.residentadvisor.net/features/2985

It has great resources too:

> Hearing Wellneaa for Musicians: http://journals.lww.com/thehearingjournal/Fulltext/2017/0400...?

> American Tinnitus Association: https://www.ata.org/

(And warns about apps like this: Tinnitracks:

http://www.tinnitracks.com/en)

— UPDATE —

It was also posted to HN; here it is:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14618455
Do you cut the foods out of your diet and see an improvement? Which ones?
You are out of your mind. Please just stop and think about what you are saying before posting.

You essentially want to go to prison for something your co-worker overlooked.
Never underestimate the power of marketing. My mother for instance would use Uber over any ride-sharing system due to its insane exposure and the fact that these stories remain relatively unheard of in comparison.
I always preferred the SR-77 Blackbird, myself.
"In January 2016, the New York attorney general fined Uber $20,000 for failing to promptly disclose an earlier data breach in 2014."

Because you know...20k really really hurts for a company like Uber.
Real-Time Video Analytics: The Killer App for Edge Computing
That's true in much of the US as well.

Interestingly I looked into bus travel to Oxford, Mississippi (home of the University of Mississippi) a while back. I live in New Orleans without a car, and I figured it could be an interesting weekend trip and assumed it would be something like $30 round trip by bus.

There is no bus or rail service to Oxford. Greyhound and Megabus no longer stop there. The nearest airport is in Memphis, Tennessee. Taking a cab from the airport or from the nearest train or bus station is impractically expensive.

The only way to get there is by private car. I'll go there someday if I buy a car, or if a friend of mine with a car feels like going.
At the time of the incident, Uber was negotiating with U.S. regulators investigating separate claims of privacy violations. 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.
Good point, I also touched pango-level text rendering and can remember how long some layout calculations may take. Do things get better with DirectWrite/2D or is it just a facade to old techniques incompatible with game environments?

Edit: I also like how OSX go-fullscreen animation is done. They render new window once (with e.g. lots of text) completely in background and simply scale old window to fullscreen with alpha-transition between the two. First few frames give enough time for new window to be rendered and then it magically appears as being live-resized. I suspect few users actually notice the trick.
That's good to know. I guess if you're in the ROS community this stuff is apparent, but on the periphery it's not clear that ROS 2 is even a thing judging by the ROS website. I just thought in 3 years, I would have seen it mentioned more prominently on the ros.org domain, so I concluded it was stalled.
Credit Monitoring is the shittiest way to resolve these issues.

I've stopped using any credit card numbers for anything ditial. I can change paypal passwords weekly If I'm that paranoid.
Given the freedom to do so, some ISP is almost certain to try something along these lines. This gutting of regulations will open up a vast world of new monetization strategies, from selling speed packs, to "earning" speed by watching certain TV channels or even shows, to DNS monkey business, to "shoshkeles", to video pre-rolls, to "quick start" that throttles after a few minutes of high speed for a service like Netflix or MLB -- then prompts for an upgrade...each approach to be precisely wrought in the forge of the outrage marketplace (such outrage itself often mitigated by these same measures, and by coordinated control of national and local broadcast news and newspapers). An actual market response to customer-hostile strategies is of lesser concern since churn is not a risk in many areas.

I wrote the following comment on a net neutrality thread here about nine months ago, and some of the feedback was that it's unlikely, dystopian, a little hyperbolic:

"The ISP then starts selling premium bundles on the customer side -- Platinum Service will include Youtube, Netflix, Amazon, Apple (and get our bonus in-house streaming service at no extra charge!). Platinum-Plus, for another $14.95 per month plus fees, adds priority streams from your choice of up to three major sports content sources. And Platinum-Pro adds non-degraded VPN so you can work from home. Choice!"

This is going to happen.
Decentralize: Uber
If I remember correctly she said at her last HPE earnings call, "I am not going anywhere". She also stated she had much more work to do at HPE.

Now that was in response to Uber's courtship but this was so sudden you have to wonder what prompted it?
This tends to happen with striking regularity in societies when wealth begins to consolidate in the hands of a few and the middle class' buying power declines year after year.

Like a fever, it's a sign that our country is sick. If we let the fever take over it will kill us. If we treat the underlying problem we can survive. We MUST solve the problem of wealth disparity or mark my words - it will be our undoing.
If you were familiar the severity of the opioid crisis in many working class areas you wouldn't be surprised by the testing or the results.
Job: Associate Engineer,
Experience: 2 years,
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Location: CA
Agreed. As a child, I read up on technology/computers as well as history (still a big hobby of mine), archeology, and random subjects found in the encyclopedias my parents bought me. I went through a bunch of phases (dinosaurs, Egyptian history, computer stuff, art, taking care of fish, etc.). My parents supported all of these with books and museums trips.

I understand the appeal of introducing your child to your passion, particularly if it's an employable skill, but IMO at 7 years old... just buy them whatever books or encyclopedias for children they find interesting. It's not going to hurt them! Though definitely share technology with them.
Yup, Berlin-Hamburg was the route I took most often.
10mbps isn't really useful nowadays. That's 10000kbps not including overhead. That's an absolute max of 1.25MiB per second, realistically if you get 1MiB you're doing well. Back that down a little bit to account for the inability to always reach peak bandwidth, say to 896kiB, and you start to see how you're very limited for common usage. Even web browsing is quite heavy nowadays.
I never understood why she ever was.
Credit card numbers are a bug.
Randall Munroe (of XKCD fame) wrote "Thing Explainer", a book that attempts to explain things using only the most popular 1,000 words in the English language: https://blog.xkcd.com/2015/05/13/new-book-thing-explainer/

I also remember having a book similar to this around that age (maybe a couple of years older): https://www.dk.com/us/9781465414175-knowledge-encyclopedia/

The nice thing about the latter one is that the pictures will be enthralling now, and as your child grows they'll be able to understand more and more of the book :)
I'm really pleased you like it - thanks for the nice comment. And generally I'm not one to turn down money but we're not looking at a B2C business model at this stage so hoping to keep the form filling side of it always free.

Feel free to drop us an email at support@form.ac and if we ever have to turn off the service I'd be happy to show you how you can set up your own for free on Heroku (or on a local machine if you're familiar with rails).
So, get one second hand and it will be even cheaper. The point was it is not $700 for security.
Where's Torx? Hex head?
You may be interested in this one as well then.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1874815/

It's about a guy that walked the entire length of the Amazon river. Took 2 1/2 years.
Would you be testing this with a high refresh rate monitor (120hz+) ? Would that matter?
Google knows the GPS location of almost every Wifi router, even if nobody has ever (successfully) connected to it with location services. By design, Android will search all Wifi SSID's and send the GPS coordinates back to Google, so that if another phone not using location services connects to that router, Google knows their location by cross-referencing with the stored GPS coordinates.
> 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.

Don't check secrets into VCS, folks!
HP Enterprise CEO Meg Whitman to Step Down
What happened to the girl? Did you marry her? That was a good, thoughtful gift.
I wish I was a fly on the wall at Transport for London. Or to be at that meeting TfL will be having with Uber, when Uber are going to magically prove themselves to be a 'fit and proper' company. At some point after some British chat about the weather someone on the TfL side of the table might ask: 'So, that data breach...'
Thanks very much for the heads up. Tested it with Edge on W10 but not Chrome (sorry), will get that sorted.
Would it be any different than YC promoting its companies here.
I had a non-technical friend whose fatalistic impression was that "these things happen and there's nothing that can be done given a determined attacker." Well, look, I said, these hackers aren't going in like Mission: Impossible. Equifax was incompetent, and there's zero penalty for utter incompetence. There must be.

The Equifax hack was the equivalent of data malpractice. It's like a hospital mixing up the labels on saline and hydrogen cyanide and then saying, "Whoops. Sorry about that." The cavalier attitude that companies have about data security infuriates me. Americans will be dealing with the repercussions of this for the rest of their lives.

Meanwhile, Equifax keeps making money.

Equifax's entire business was trading off of our data, but protecting that data was evidently not a priority for them. They should be fined into oblivion.
I use this bit of javascript I found via HN. Just bookmark it. (paste in as the url)
You can always add your own salt/tweaks too.

javascript:(function () { var pw = ''; var array = new Uint8Array(12); window.crypto.getRandomValues(array); for (var i = 0; i < 12; i++) { pw += ('0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ-_')[array[i]&63]; } prompt('Random password:', pw); })()
It is most likely in the "I need to make up something outrageous" part of the country. I have used Greyhound to go out of downtown LA and SF which are both situated in some of the worst places of their respective cities which are still accessible and saw nothing of the sort. The LA one was definitely very sketchy, but the Greyhound experience for me wasn't much different than the experience using long haul bus travel here in Europe. Yea the facilities are more run down, but the bus rides are much more fun since people actually talk to each other.
I trust form.ac would have been an easier option that that?
You can use both NoScript and UMatrix at the same time.

Allow first-party scripts in NoScript. Then you control scripts in UMatrix and use NoScript to block "embeddings".

BTW Raymond Hill ("gorhill") has a terrible attitude.
The dishwasher is missing the thinking part... It only ever does the exact thing ordered to it.
XUL could have been replaced without implementing Chrome's restrictions on the user. They are orthogonal.
Agreed. Common carrier just gives power to Google, Amazon, FB instead of the ISPs.
I had it for a couple months earlier this year and it was terribly annoying. My ENT took all sorts of images (CAT, MRI) and in the end just gave me some strong antibiotics in the ear. After a few days I was like, what is wrong, and realized it was gone. Of course there are many reasons but in my case it was some oddball bacterium.
There might be an argument for Net Neutrality, but this article is so bad it's "not even wrong" as we say.

Most relevant corporate share prices didn’t much react to these events, which suggests that the net neutrality decisions weren’t so important for the sector.

The author doesn't demonstrate that share prices of current major players reflect the impact of net neutrality. One of the big arguments, of course, is that it actually favors incumbents over new players. He tries to demonstrate it, though, with this argument:

To put these share price movements in context, stocks for businesses that would clearly benefit from tax reform rose in value immediately after President Donald Trump’s election. When clear costs and benefits are on the line, share prices seem to reflect this.

He argues that stock movement will be accurate when clear costs and benefits are on the line. However, Trump did not have a tax plan when he was first elected. The costs and benefits were anything but clear.

Have you ever used your Kindle to connect to wireless to download new books from your Amazon account? That too is a kind of nonneutrality. You can download the books, but you can’t use that same wireless connection for more general purposes.

Wrong. You can browse the web with that connection. I can do it on my early model Kindle. If you can't do it on later models, it's because of the Kindle, not the web. And that's the whole point.

Options for access, however, are improving. Cellphone service is falling in price, smartphones are growing in size and quality, and Wi-Fi connections are all over the place.

This is someone who clearly doesn't understand how the internet works. Wi-Fi, of course, is just a means of connecting to the local ISP (comcast, etc.). It has nothing to do with going around the provider, it simply means you don't have to plug a physical wire into your computer.

Cellphone service is a competitor, at least in principle. But the prices need to come down quite a bit before it's competitive enough to put downward pressure on the prices.
I find it funny how they have completely shed the notion that the Internet is an "information superhighway". What they wish to do is akin to having a middleman that charges you a different toll to use the same piece of road depending on your destination. Going to Walmart? That'll be $5. Going to the bar? That'll be $50. Going to the strip bar? That'll be $500.
This would have been interesting if GDPR was applied.

https://www.gdpr.associates/data-breach-penalties/

"There will be two levels of fines based on the GDPR. The first is up to €10 million or 2% of the company’s global annual turnover of the previous financial year, whichever is higher. The second is up to €20 million or 4% of the company’s global annual turnover of the previous financial year, whichever is higher.

The Parliament had requested for fines to reach €100 million or 5% of the company’s global annual turnover. The agreed fines are the compromise that was reached."
John Lasseter taking a leave of absence amid reports of inappropriate behavior
Mandating specific practices with regard to technologies is probably not possible, but we can certainly come up with a general framework for deciding the degree of recklessness. For example, the penalty for allowing data to be stolen via an exploit for which a security fix was issued months prior should be more severe than via a zero-day.
If the government instead stored the deed transfers in a database with digital signatures and exposed a read-only API to it, wouldn’t that solve this problem better?

What’s the concern? That the government makes you not the owner of your house anymore? And if your government does that, what’s the difference between fighting for a government that respects the rule of law versus fighting for a government that puts house deeds on bitcoin?

Thanks!
If the FTC doesn't act on this they are toothless. Uber's blatant disregard to anything accountable or respectable is astounding:

"In January 2016, the New York attorney general fined Uber $20,000 for failing to promptly disclose an earlier data breach in 2014. After last year’s cyberattack, the company was negotiating with the FTC on a privacy settlement even as it haggled with the hackers on containing the breach, Uber said. The company finally agreed to the FTC settlement three months ago, without admitting wrongdoing and before telling the agency about last year’s attack."
And he has wifi.
My family and friends outside the tech industry have almost no clue about nearly all these scandals - especially the data breaches and the former CEO's indiscretions. About the only thing they hear is that some Uber drivers have assaulted passengers in the past, but they write that off against the fact that a lot of Taxi drivers have done the same in the past.

It is a telling example that the pain point of a bad taxi service in a city is usually enough for them to conformance rationalise that Uber is still a better alternative, despite any of these issues.
Good point. These networks have mostly avoided covering the issue up until now, when it is too late. This seems intentional to me.
Tell them you have their private browser history.
Start communities that use solar/wind energy, grow their own food (maybe using this in urban areas: https://www.media.mit.edu/groups/open-agriculture-openag/ove...), use WiFi mesh networking, maybe launch their own satellites (for inter-community links: https://newatlas.com/tubesat-personal-satellite/22211/), build their own things with multi-material 3D printers (maybe even print semiconductor components, who knows...) and employ barter rather than artificially scarce magical paper or e-coins. Also, employ "DIY Bio" in ethical life enhancing way, open production (open source everything etc) The technology and paradigms exist today or will fully exist soon.
Ask HN: I eat too much. What to do?
Hey Hn’ers. I eat too much.

I’ve struggled with my weight for years and I’ve been trying to find solutions. What in 2017 could help?

I have a smartwatch counting my steps. I have calories counting apps. I cook and I’m signed up to a gym. Only problem is that I eat too much.
Is she planning to run for Governor again?
Don't allow the inadequacies of others to get in your way towards Christ whom you yourself recognise love and humility in. We Christians always fall short of Christ.

New man in Christ indeed, but that's not a magical transformation that happened some time in the past, a time where I can say "I was saved". The transformation is a life-long journey. The new man vs old is a daily struggle, a life-long struggle...

This is not something that can be observed and tested, it is something that can be lived and tested.
Freedom and Persuasion in the Attention Economy [video]
I hate to sound alarmist, but is this going to be as terrible as I fear it will be?

We can we reasonably expect Comcast et al to implement new measures? Will this allow them to e.g. throttle bittorrent?

Can a future administration overturn this (via an FCC chairman/congressional bill)?

Will the suits that are bound to be filed have grounds?

Will someone have a heart to heart with Pai and ask him if he wants to be remembered as one of the United States' sincerest villains?
Having technical knowledge and entering a room of less technical policy-makers, it can be particularly important to leverage existing industry messaging rather than winging-it.

I would focus on the CIA triad + Accountability + Assurance. It's helpful to use standard terminology that is understood by existing privacy practitioners.

Personal information should be Confidential from unwanted disclosure.

Personal information should have Integrity with the creation, modification, and deletion of personal information only as authorized and intended.

Personal information should be accessible readily by authorized parties.

Personal information should have Accountability, with traceable ownership to a party responsible for Confidentiality, Integrity and Access.

Personal information should have Assurance, with appropriate audit of Confidentiality, Integrity, Access and Accountability; including the right to inspect.

Just as the Amendments to the Constitution form a latticework of protection for each other -- e.g. that freedom of press helps ensure other rights are not eroded -- the elements of CIA+A+A do the same.

Recommendations can then be framed for direct implementation:

* Confidentiality: Requirements for timely breach notice

* Access: The right of the consumer to be aware of and to have access to access data about them

* Integrity: The right of the consumer to repudiate data about them and demand removal

* Accountability: Direct ownership and legal teeth (fines, jail, and barring of eligibility from data or business management roles, etc.) to compel the presence and adherence of an appropriate privacy management program

* Assurance: Standardized audit reporting, guaranteed consumer right to inspect, etc.

Folks noting "accountability" often mean the entire CIA Triad + A + A, not the technical term "Accountability". This is likely the gap to bridge -- turning a sentiment that businesses are not operating appropriate privacy management programs in to an actionable path to compel existence, adherence, reporting and audit of such programs.