skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't disagree with your first point, but I disagree with the second. Encouraging everyone to "just buy an iPhone" is a false dilemma of its own.

No. The "obvious" solution here is to regulate companies and give huge fines for doing stuff like this, without explicit user permission. Google went through hell in Germany over its "error" in collecting user data from their Wi-Fi hotspots. Why can't the U.S. do the same in this case?

It's not just an absolute privacy outrage, but also an outrage because Google will drain my phone's battery life without permission, just to serve its own interests.
No, the kernel definitely encourages submitting patch series instead of large changes. That's why git has the "git am" (apply mbox) command.

Patches that are submitted by external contributors are never squashed by maintainers (except to occasionally fix a bug that was discovered after the submission).
Treat it like HIPPA. You will will be banned from doing business if you fail to secure data properly.
I wouldn't accuse them of being "brogrammers" though either. This just sounds like an appreciation for obscure references, play on words, maybe a bit of mild mischief? Not at all what I picture when I hear "bro culture". I'd call it "nerd humour" maybe (being a nerd myself, I feel like I can get away with the insult)?
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I'd love to see a discussion around data breaches with the use of public records laws. There's a huge lack of responsibility and auditing around it, which lead to large batches of information being wrongly released to the public. This is a systemic problem whose fix likely sits somewhere within a strongly enforced legal process and accountability framework.

For example, when Seattle accidentally gave me millions of emails: http://crosscut.com/2017/10/seattle-information-technology-d...
> Competition surely can help, but currently there is no competition in a lot of places.

Places with a lot of people? People who have been harmed by what NN is intending to fix?

> Monopolists also created a lot of blockers that prevent increasing competition.

Facilitated by government. If government was responsible in the first place, why not just undo what they did?
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While LTSB looks good (fewer bundled apps, that's great), it is very dissimilar from Arch or Debian.

Regarding hardware compatibility, please be aware of the fact that Debian supports many more processor architectures than Windows.

Maybe Windows will support some peripherals better, but Linux has improved a lot in this respect. Chances are out of the box support for hardware is better in Linux than it is on Windows these days.
what a bizarre, disproportionate response over an article that's basically a lighthearted character-sketch

i can't imagine what the relationship between Scott and the startup founders is like right now
Ah fair enough. How easy then would it be for a Firefox fork to drop the chrome the way Electron does?
I usually end up watching that documentary every few years because I find it extremely relaxing. Highly recommended.
Point 2 becomes meaningless if a company can just move their operations off shore while fully operating in your country.
As I understand it practice the rules can be fairly flexible.

I have also heard they mostly stopped drug testing people as they where having difficulty finding enough competent, honest, non-drug users in technical fields. Or possibly more importantly they did not want discrete drug use to be a means of blackmailing someone.

PS: I can only recommend someone either answers all questions accurately and only those specific questions asked, or discreetly declines an investigation and looks for another line of work.
I'm pretty excited about that but I doubt it will lead to new alternative browser UIs anytime soon.
I mean, that's the thing, it's a hypothetical. The non-existence of workers with clean drug tests in the real applicant pool doesn't mean that a failing drug test is less of a risk signal in real applicants.

Remember, new hires are not guaranteed to add value - even if they worked for free, there is always a risk that some will reduce value. If a new hire's inability to show up on time holds up a production line, or a new hire's irresponsibility damages equipment, then you're better off not making the hire, even if you desire, in the abstract, to hire more people and expand your business.
I had a coworker once who claimed that he got a ride on one before it was declassified. Apparently he was waiting at an air station to go home on leave and was constantly being bumped from flights by higher ranks. A "special" fight came in that he could get on, though, after signing some paperwork to keep quiet about it.
Because it's explaining why the ads aren't in violation of the rule and the intuition for why this situation isn't covered.
What the OP forgets to mention is that the 71 was not intended initially as a surveillance aircraft. It was meant as an interceptor. The phoenix missile system, of f14 fame, was initially meant for an SR71/Oxcart-type airframe. This thing was mean to shoot down valkyrie-class bombers. That image of mach3/4 aircraft chasing each other down never really happened.
The Saewol used a tactic of overloading with cargo and compensating by emptying ballast tanks so that the hull depth would be the same for inspection. There's already a need to overcome malicious actors.
nah, 4 year olds are bad at learning.
in this kernel's case the caller passed in the output so the bug would not be caught in rust if the same pattern was used. though, possibly this pattern would not be used in a rust kernel.
Yep, one of the costs of living in society is that you have to follow some rules. If you don't like it, feel free to find somewhere else to live... although sadly, every spot of land is already taken. Sorry about that.
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> You suggest a bet on ROI, have you previously done this research?

I used to run a lot of social media ads, and I would bet the same thing. Little stuff like this usually makes a huge difference in click-through rates.
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I've never mentioned that to be a dealbreaker for anyone, least not for me. Just wanted to make it clear that any organizational form can be shady, not just corporations.

It's just a statement, with no emotion added to it from my side.
That said, whether hundreds of ms delays in OS are tolerable or not is a question on topic itself.
It depends on the ad, but broadly speaking yes - -people respond to people who look like them.

Source: been doing online marketing for the last 7 year. Managed spend for multiple fortune 500 companies.

If you have a budget and would like to run a test, I'd be happy to show you ;)
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Produce that list with a note next to each piece of info for which company lost it...
As others have pointed out, wages for these job openings that cannot get people to show up are frequently so low that its not worth showing up for them in the first place. Many of these No-Shows have to prove that they are "actively seeking a job" to continue getting whatever benefit they currently receive. And these people are doing the (short term) math, the wages from the job + a full work week < money they get for free from the government. Brutal problem, but paying wages that are market for the kind of employee you want _should_ change that
Well put and a great analogy. I hope Troy uses it. Politicians pay attention to soundbites like that because they realize how those soundbites could be used against them if more people hear about them, too, and then find out their representatives did nothing to stop the companies from "harming the data environment."
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> Given that they’re illegal, how could we ever know if the number is down or if they just found some other way to cross the border?

There are surrogate measures that we can use.

Traffic numbers are a good one in Southern California. When there are crackdowns/bad economy, the traffic decreases markedly. Gasoline sales drop. Those are hard numbers that the state collects.

Money transfer services have to report. Those numbers are recorded.

Just because someone is illegal does not mean they have no impact. This cuts both directions: positive and negative.
So a lad knows a guy who says he is a fascist and also a Trump supporter, which means Trump is a fascist.

But what does that have to do with the FCC saying they will not use their authority on Internet service providers?
"Apple provides a black box with iOS, they have full control. Maybe the next iOS update comes with privacy intrusion because it's more lucrative."

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.

Certainly it doesn't mean that Apple is infallible, just that I think it makes it easier to accept that Apple is more likely to protect privacy more than Google.

I'm pretty biased towards Apple, so obviously this may not work for everyone; if you need source code to feel secure, then by all means, go for it. For people who are looking for less work but some of the benefits, I think that Apple is a decent way to go.
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Congress staffers also give more weight to written, mailed communication.
I am pretty sure those two companies don't have their entire business model revolving around housing, so I am not sure where you think the logical end of this is going to be.
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> Plus, when I finish my remodel, I know I can get most of my money back

Just to make sure I understand you correctly, you mean by selling the equipment you bought, right?
Norwegian too. Though other numbers than 5 but rarely more than 5 tends to be acceptable. E.g. "tre på halv fire" (15:27) works, but it's rare to use it to be more precise than with five. If you want to be that precise people are more likely to resort to saying the specific minute of the hour ("tre tjuesju" or "tre syv og tyve"; the latter is "old fashioned" and from Danish but still frequently used), alternatively with 15 instead of 3 if even remotely ambiguous.
That fully answers my question, thanks. I wondered if there was a relevant term in taxation. It's not my strong point, so this is really helpful.
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Google was a huge company that lost a lot of money trying to improve internet access through competition. Last I heard they decided to stop expanding, and access to anything comparable to Google Fiber is extremely limited.
> It's difficult to accept that they truly have the best interest of their constituents in mind.

Then ... don't. If someone's actions contradict their words, don't believe their words.
He appears to interact with tourists, so although the island doesn't have any other permanent inhabitants he does interact with other people, so not alone for 28 years.
You'd hope so, but I distinctly remember when Deep Throat died in 2008, there were a lot of people who came out of the woodwork to re-eulogize Nixon, and specifically re-condemn Deep Throat as either someone who should have worked within the system, or even an outright traitor.

It's pretty clear from more recent history that whistleblowers are not treated well.
I find these stories about people like this exhilarating. I think we all yearn to do this, and yet few of us do.
Where is Minix OS mentioned? How many preemptive processes are running? Which orgs - internal or external to Intel have review-power or signoff on the code running ?
But the rule is only about housing, so I am not sure what the hygiene products have to do with it. Are there special houses that cater only to women? Or to black people? What is different about the house that makes it only appealing to those groups?
WAP, Now that's a term I've not heard in a long time, a long time [1].

I don't know about Starbucks or the USA but many places here with open WiFi have, well, open WiFi (no encryption on connection) and they have abysmal speed. I mean we are talking about multiple customers, on 2,4 GHz WiFi, in the neighborhood (city) with dense 2,4 GHz coverage. What could possibly go wrong?

Plus, indeed here that type of business is just on cable or DSL themselves. Who'd be under the scrutiny of the same QoS shenanigans. Then again, we got net neutrality. For the time being. I really hope the USA keeps net neutrality. The feeling that such a civilized, rich, advanced country would lose such an important right fills my eyes with tears.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_Application_Protocol
> Personal liability for every person involved in gathering and protecting the data

I think it should only be the business that incurs the penalty. That way it is the business that is motivated to sufficiently train and oversee the employees.

Otherwise, you have employees on the hook, with employers incentivized to make them take shortcuts.
I think he's referring to the Open Compute Project.
Were you... born yesterday?
I fully believe that the asymmetry that exists is due nearly entirely to government. It's hard to have big business without big government. And many of the regulations and barriers to entry are created at the hands of government. I take issue with that entity before private business in most cases.

Let's also not forget that the government has effectively stolen a large portion of the additional wealth/productivity generated over the past several decades via deficit spending. Mathematically, that's no different than a tax in the end. The only difference is that the tax is not felt immediately.

FWIW - I worked for a union once due to a peculiarity in one of my employer's older business units to which I was lumped purely due to legacy reasons. It was awful. And I wasn't the only one who thought so. It was one of the rare instances that people actually voted out their union. It happened only when we separated from the older business unit and were split into a separate LLC as part of a new business venture. 74% voted the union out. It was glorious.
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And Dang was nowhere to be found.
That's closer to an oxymoron than a tautology. But I guess a wing with a back swept leading edge and a forward swept trailing edge (which the SR-71 has) could have a triangular shape and a 0° sweep as typically measured (the SR-71 doesn't, of course), making it an “unswept delta”.
I'm happy to see that the context for this testimony is related to ID verification. The bank example Troy gives is a simple & understandable problem that we all can wrap our heads around (Congress too!), which provides a concrete scenario to explore.

The way I always approach this problem is one of ownership. Congress, implicitly, assumes that individuals own their data. That is why it used to be possible to ask individuals to prove their identity by asking them to verify data they own, and presumably, haven't shared too broadly.

Identity theft is really a robbery then, because data which belongs to you is stollen. The government's opening position then needs to be that data belongs to consumers.

What isn't clear is the physical metaphor for what happens when you give your data to a third party, explicitly or implicitly. Am I 'leasing' my data to Facebook? Am I granting them shared ownership? Or is it more like a Bank... I'm allowing Facebook to "re-invest" my asset, they can make money off of it while they have it, but in exchange, they have to keep it safe.

I personally really like the Bank metaphor, and like banks, you can get certified as safe by the government to be a Bank, and have that certification taken away... We already have data protection rules like this in BTW, called HIPPA
The content provider gets to define the entire javascript context before any code can be injected. The content providers code can monitor the DOM and prevent other code from changing it. It can effectively whitelist/blacklist URL's. It can redefine everything from object.prototype on down. The logical structure is that user side code can only do what the content provider does not prevent.

content scripts have some limitations. They cannot:

+ Use chrome.* APIs, with the exception of:
extension ( getURL , inIncognitoContext , lastError , onRequest , sendRequest )
i18n
runtime ( connect , getManifest , getURL , id , onConnect , onMessage , sendMessage )
storage
+ Use variables or functions defined by their extension's pages
+ Use variables or functions defined by web pages or by other content scripts

https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/content_scripts
http://cve.circl.lu/cve/CVE-2017-5712

Summary: Buffer overflow in Active Management Technology (AMT) in Intel Manageability Engine Firmware 8.x/9.x/10.x/11.0/11.5/11.6/11.7/11.10/11.20 allows attacker with remote Admin access to the system to execute arbitrary code with AMT execution privilege

EDIT: I'm not sure this was the one the GP referring to
What's wrong with that? You get the socially optimal amount of data collection.
Because ISPs are cable companies, and are the ones who are practicing that failing model, and are working very hard to prop it up and extend it.
Related: https://github.com/Microsoft/Pyjion
could you make a more worthless, over-dramatic comment?

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Every subsystem is tested differently. Because of the wide variety of subsystems and workflows in the kernel, it's pretty much impossible to have a single test suite you can run and call good. For example, some subsystems have unit tests that run in the kernel at boot time if you compiled the kernel with a specific config option (e.g., Btrfs [1] and ftrace [2]). Additionally, some subsystems have integration tests where we set stuff up and run from userspace. Filesystems use xfstests [3] and the block layer has something similar [4]. For the most part, developers and maintainers run these before sending patches or pull requests. Additionally, Intel operates an automated system [5] which runs several test suites and reports the results to developers.

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

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

3: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfstests-dev.git/

4: https://github.com/osandov/blktests

5: https://01.org/lkp/documentation/0-day-test-service
I don't know of fb's direct involvement in any ME related stuff, but they do develop openbmc which is a replacement for proprietary bmc firmware. BMC isn't quite as nefarious as ME though, and is optional anyway.
> Completely avoiding bias in advertisement is an exercise in futility.

That's not the point of the ad system. The point is to optimize inventory + bidding. So you can bid on all of those -sure, but if you have the capability to break down children toy ads to children + to adults - you do it and have different strategies for both (broad based appeal to kids and buy-action to parents). You can be more precise with the ads + the spend so it makes sense to do it.
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Google...stop being that guy
It's a pretty big misattribution. Throttling traffic makes a lot more sense on a cellular network.
OK, since net neutrality is dead, let's make the best of a bad situation. Verizon, Comcast, AT&T -- why do these companies continue to carry traffic for The Daily Stormer, Breitbart, etc.? Once the shackles are off maybe they can block websites that promote fascism, racism, fake news, and so forth. After all, they will no longer be able to point to regulatory requirements as an excuse. I am looking forward to the opportunity to laugh in the face of all those "free market conservatives" who think this is a good idea once they start whining about how they are all being silenced (see the reaction to e.g. Youtube, Twitter).

Jokes aside, net neutrality is not a partisan issue. It is very unfortunate that we live in an age where everything has "two sides" and where anything liberals support is automatically rejected by conservatives (and, to be fair, vice versa)...
Strict control over the number of training positions and medical school spots appears to keep salaries high.
To expand on this a little bit, they have their own interests in mind. Which go getting re-elected > getting rich. They'll take the bribe money as long as they think they can get re-elected. Sometimes because they can't get re-elected without it.

Call your reps and let them know how you feel. If they think they won't get re-elected all the bribe money in the world doesn't really matter.
This technique fails if chmod is compiled statically.
The financial penalty needs to be in two parts.

1. a cost for losing personal data.

2. a cost per person's data that was stolen.

That ensures there is a minimum penalty. Enough to make it CHEAPER to take a lot of security measures, even if you don't have many people's data yet. But also a gigantic penalty for the next Equifax.
First time I hear he had a sister who is also a scientist. I've not read any of his books or seen any of his lectures but I've heard plenty about his work and insights, just nothing about his sister, who is also a brilliant mind... I wonder why (rhetorically)
If you don't believe him just google it!
You can also set your phone to airplane mode with WiFi and Bluetooth enabled most of the time unless you need 4g for something like driving directions.

Google has much better security than the phone companies anyway, so letting the phone companies know where you are is bad enough.

I had the idea to "red team" myself and find out if there's a way of finding out my location history from shady online data broker and then take countermeasures.
Can't tell if most epic PR stunt ever or just plain stupid [0].

[0]: https://imgur.com/a/mUe6T
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Coercion isn't immoral any more than breathing is immoral. It's been a part of the human condition since before we were human.

Living in groups--and people are very much social creatures--means there are rules you follow that you didn't necessarily decide on, or ultimately you get kicked out of the group and probably don't continue your genetic line.

Left unqualified, that's kind of a silly claim to make--it sounds good to some but doesn't really get us anywhere.
I think I also agree with @nathan_long's point, in that perhaps the government shouldn't be concerned with the how data is kept safe, but rather than track breaches and complaints... that would be what leads to a revocation of status.
Add new features in the backend first...then the clients can add the new features over time. The feature toggle is that the web client just hasn't added the feature yet!

I usually put integration tests in the client repo but it doesn't matter. The key is that you put in a trigger so they get run by changes to any of the projects.
> Men are far more likely to commit violent crimes than women. Should employers and landlords be able to blanket deny access to men?

No, but they're more likely to get in more car wrecks, and I have to pay a higher insurance premium because guys on average are worse drivers.