skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
S/he gave you a source. If you don't think it's adequate you should say why. PBS has a good reputation for veracity.
Project Sauron Has Been Spying on Governments for 5 Years
They're secure by default on S3. You have to go out of your way to make it public, or grant anyone else access.
The senate version keeps the mortgage deduction at 1MM

Remains to be seen which one will win.
Thanks for the book recommendation. :)
There is no concept of 'society' and 'community' in the country. As long as things are good there is no problem, but when things start falling apart you need robust social and community structures and these simply don't exist.

Because people who are down need more than just tokenism, they need real human structures that can provide psychological human support, that sense of family, and then social and community structures that show the society is human and has empathy for its fellow members to get them back on their feet.

People who are wealthy already have this. People who are not need to think about down times, not just for themselves, but their family, friends, community and children down the line. If everyone thinks they are strictly individuals on the verge of becoming rich and these silly things don't matter you are going to have serious social problems.
I found this online calculator: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-new-trump-tax-calculat...

My income is in the range you're asking about, and it says my taxes will fall slightly in the short run, on the assumption that I stop itemizing deductions. I live in Silicon Valley.

Despite that, I am opposed to the bill. I think it's astounding that after all the discussions the world has been having about inequality over the last few years, the Republicans enact a tax plan that is designed to enrich the .1% even more, and balloon the deficit in the process. They are trying to take this country back to 1890.
In my own work, reporters of my research off end up bending thing to say something kind of stupid, and definitely not what I had said.
As someone who was worked both in and with an outsourcing firm here's my take on it - An outsourcing company wants to have a steady stream of income. So, they give you the best pricing for your project.

During the negotiations they also see if you have some form of in-house expertise. If yes, they will provide us the best available people. If no, they try hard to sell you few duds - people with bloated resumes but not enough knowledge. You end up paying for their training.

Then it comes to actual implementations. If you hired duds, good luck with that. You will be constantly be on the hook for some unreasonable demands. If your hires are good, then everything should be smooth sailing.

Once the project is over the outsourcing firm, wanting a steady stream, will try negotiate a support contract. If you do then the best guys in the outsourcing team will start leaving. Then you end up paying for a lot of duds.

My take is as a technology company, never outsource some new technology. Need someone to work on say Airflow? Build your team and train them. Yes there is a training cost required but would you rather train FTEs or pay an outsourcing cost and training fees as well.
so you're executing ansible with:

python3 /usr/bin/ansible $cmd

if you're using plain `ansible` from the repos or pip, you're using python2.

/edit: there is actually a source for that, go figure:
http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/python_3_support.html
If you are learning python, I would stick with Django. It'll get the basics up and running for you and you can focus on python specific code. If you go with flask you'll need to be piecing everything together on your own, and then you're not just learning python, you're learning web application components and flask as well.
A lot of church parking lots let car dwellers sleep there. LA has fairly loose rules about parking and sleeping (I get that impression walking around north of Hollywood Blvd). I suppose it depends on where you are. You can't park in Beverly Hills, I'm sure.

EDIT to add: Rent in Los Angeles can be quite reasonable, though out of reach of the single minimum wage worker. With a dual income, it's possible. The problem is good credit and proof of long-term employment. The move-in costs is absurd.
Academia in stem fields has devolved in most cases to a backdoor for immigration into the United States. Students serve as cheap labor for tenured professors, where they produce no real new scientific understanding. Schools use the students, students use them to immigrate to the United States. Modern academia is a farce except for the very upper echelons of the top institutions. Whether you agree with leftist thinking or not, academia is heavily politically biased to the left, therefore divorcing itself from the objectivity that rigorous academic study makes claims to espouse.
With Anti-Privacy Law, What Options Are There to Retain Cyber Anonymity?
Agreed. So it sounds like Amazon is making efforts to reduce configuration failures, but users don't necessarily take the time to properly learn the tools and configure them correctly because the risk of error doesn't seem to motivate them appropriately. What can be done to change that? Naming and shaming like this?

I'm also not a devops person, so I'm definitely not debating in my wheelhouse here. It's just crazy to keep reading about a seemingly preventable problem that has the potential to do major damage in regards to data exposure.
If you make one, post it here! I'll join
Zoning has its uses, but the core of your argument seem to rest on a belief that cities should not rezone because it violates some agreement. I am not aware of any such agreement in law or moral codes, although I do appreciate the sentimental attachment to what was when things inevitably change.

Quite to the contrary rezoning is a normal way for cities to respond to changes in needs. You do however have a right to decide over your own land and to negotiate with other interests on changes to zoning rules, and I wholeheartedly support that.

Considering that land value has generally risen with density in western society and the economic drivers denser cities have become, I do not think your argument that higher density reduces monetary land value holds up to scrutiny.
>Maybe if you house sensitive information you should have a person or multiple people enforce security across your organization?

They probably didn't care, and should suffer consequences as a result.

This looks like a really small company who contracted this stuff out to a WordPress shop. There's almost no tech employees or positions on job boards for them.
How do I create a highly leveraged long position in scandium commodities?
A uniform.
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Is there a way I can triple check my S3 bucket is secure?

I know I've not enabled public access that I know of - but given the recent focus on this; what are the exact steps that I need to follow so I can sleep at night and show a level of diligence on the issue?
Not really. The scale we operate at is significantly higher than anything the current AI can handle.

Just to give you an idea, there is almost 4M videos with over 1M views with combined 30,351,700.97 minutes of content. This dataset represent only 0.4% of our current dataset but almost 2x of Veritones.
> Handily dismissed by a hypothesis conceived in a moment with zero effort.

Not at all. What I am saying is a standard criticism of overhyped epigenetics studies which follows from the lazy design which does not control for very large known confounds (pretty much all effects are smaller in a within-family comparison) or actually demonstrate it's not reverse causation, which as in OP results in such wild overhyping of causal implications. This is as much 'zero effort' as noting, of the latest nutrition study claiming that fat (or carbs, or red meat, or protein, or milk, or eggs, or...) will definitely kill you, that the methods simply do not work for what they are claimed to prove. If you find the criticisms tiresomely cliche & predictable, that's an indictment of the researchers or funders, not the criticisms. (I know I find it tiresome to point out the same problems every time and respond to comments shocked that correlation!=causation, or that most human traits are heritable, or that p-values mean nothing interesting, estimates are inflated by publication bias, one shouldn't control for intermediate variables, gains fade out etc. I suppose I do it out of stubborn perversity. I keep resolving not to get into arguments about these things, and keep failing.)

It has been demonstrated many times that epigenetics are heritable, affected by gene-environment correlations, and are not themselves causal for many outcomes they have been claimed to be but passive indicators of environment; so OP is, at best, possible but not probable and the speculation that the epigenetics changes will have any causal effects later on to be taken with considerable skepticism... (as they are more likely to simply indicate the manifestation of the childrens' genes as inherited from their parents). Epigenetics is of tremendous biological interest as it is often how genetics exerts its effects, but unfortunately, that's not what people want epigenetics to be. You may remember the scientific reaction to Siddhartha Mukherjee's New Yorker article on epigenetics last year which similarly took likely-confounded & reverse causation epigenetics claims at face value.
We should use public key cryptography to prove our identity.
It hits all ages full-force. The person serving you coffee, cooking your food, ringing up your groceries, are all part-time and can't get full-time.

Yeah, a lot of them are homeless. At the end of the day, no one is going to help them.
Yes - the original Usenet definition of the word, before it was genericised to just be a synonym for “griefer”.
I've ever understood this argument. Any library you can pick and mix into your Flask app you could just as easily pick and mix into your Django app. It's all just Python.
Ditto, y’all were a good crowd
Trump admitted that he blocked people because he disagreed with their viewpoint. That is a clear-cut violation of the First Amendment. Time, place and manner restrictions are okay; viewpoint based restrictions are not.

Twitter is also not being restricted at all. They can block anyone that they want. The government, however, must choose a platform that is compatible with people's First Amendment rights, so if Twitter starts being overly restrictive the government must choose a different platform to use.
China’s dark matter space probe detects tantalizing signal
Iterating a long array twice to do two simple things can often be faster than iterating once to do a more complicated thing. See for example https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8547778/why-are-elementw... .

The wonders of modern processors and compilers.
Enable Amazon Macie. It automatically classifies your data in S3 buckets, detects situations where data is more open than it should be, and warns you if access patterns for data change in a way that may indicate that you have been hacked or someone is misusing their level of access to the data.

https://aws.amazon.com/macie/
I wish they'd skip-jumped their version to "Django 3.0". That would have allowed a simpler message about the Python dependency: "Django 3.x requires Python 3.x".
>"A good question is, will independent contractors flourish?"

Can you elaborate on this? How would the proposed tax regime be more attractive to contracting?
> A stable population works fine.

That is far from clear. No human civilization has ever had a stable population.

> the whole "enrich myself off property values" thing only works if those values are continually increasing.

That's true, but that's not what I was talking about. What I was talking about is people's reasonable desire for a stable environment. Rising housing costs is just a side-effect of that plus population growth.

You might as well blame the situation on people who have babies as on people who want to limit growth in their communities.
Agreed. Largely I am protected from the worst impacts of the 2018 tax plan, but I'm not an island - the tax plan does my community no favors.

It not only favors the wealthy over those who really could benefit from tax relief, but it steals from the future by increasing the national debt to pay for it (I have no problem increasing the national debt for services and infrastructure, but giving the wealthy tax relief is neither). What a catastrophe.
Agreed. This whole thread is abusive and vile, maybe the worst thing I've seen on HN.

jsmthrowaway - if you ever read this, you have my empathy and support. Ignore these a-holes; they are just ignorant and loud. Unfortunately there are many sick people in the world who don't understand mental illness, but remember that there are many people who do understand.
The main question - What all these cash rich companies and individuals will spent they new money on?

World is already awash of capital, and we have everything bubble now.

I bet next move by this administration will be drastic rate increases! This will mean they can starve everybody else from cash, and then swoop in and buy on the cheap.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hack_(programming_language)

> Hack allows programmers to use both dynamic typing and static typing. This kind of a type system is called gradual typing...

I wasn't aware of such a type system, and there're many languages which use both:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gradual_typing
America has historically been unusual in that it was explicitly founded on commonly shared ideas rather than ethnic, religious, or regional identities. Obviously it has fallen short of that ideal many times throughout its history, but for the most part it resembles a country trying to asymptotically approach that ideal, decade after decade.

In that sense it lacks some inherent culture because it's a collection of different people who came here from all over the world. Japan (and most other older nations) has a shared ethnic and religious identity that goes back centuries or millennia, whereas America by definition doesn't really have that. Instead it's an amalgamation of all of the different people who live here. To me, "American culture" means going to downtown Mountain View, CA for dinner and getting to choose from dozens of amazing cuisines from all over the world (with varying degrees of authenticity, but still).

Even food/cultural artifacts/etc. which are strongly associated with America tend to be things brought here from other places and cultures and adapted to local tastes.

The "blood and soil" people are especially alarming to me because what they're most passionate about is attempting to retcon America into being based on religious/ethnic/geographic identity politics rather than what actually makes America somewhat unique and successful, which is simply the fact that it's based on ideas rather than tribalism, and was designed as a haven from tribalism in other countries.

I'm sure someone will read this and get all up in arms about the gazillion times America has done horrible things that went against the very ideals that I just described. Trust me, I know. I'm not trying to idealize everything and sweep that stuff under the rug. Every country has always and will always deviate from its own principles, but it falls on patriots (as opposed to nationalists) to do whatever they can to help steer it back in the right direction. Patriotism should be about fixing things when they go wrong, not "my country right or wrong".
One person per household working did not really worked for lower class. That is origin of kindergaden - four years old alone whole day because both parents work 12 hours a day (in Germany). Meanwhile rich had kids with nannies whole day, because women needed to "represent familly" (read look good and spend time at parties) else husbands career could suffer for social reasons.

Women are not really struturaly limited to have more children. Most families could afford one more child if they wanted to. Not being at home is preferable then to be at home for women. There is a reason fight for female right to have career happened when large part of population was able to have one person at home - that situation largely sux for too many personality types and on top of it, you are fully aware of your lesser status.

It would be the same with man at home. He would become restless and unhappy too.

And sex has nothing to do with anything. Contraception made it so.
It's a common rat/mouse poison. Cheap to manufacture.
> Is there a way I can triple check my S3 bucket is secure?

Amazon Trusted Advisor will automatically send you a weekly email if any of your buckets are misconfigured to allow public access. The catch is that this feature is only available if you pay for a premium support contract, which is hundreds or thousands of dollars per month.

If you have Trusted Advisor enabled but aren't paying for premium support, then you will still get the weekly email saying that there is a security vulnerability somewhere in your system, but when you click to see what it is you will just get prompted to hand over your credit card to signup for an annual support contract.
Its worth noting that 2 and 3 are mutually exclusive. You can claim one or the other.
Perhaps it's not the biggest factor, but it is likely to reduce employee benefits like education stipends, relocation stipends and dependent care FSAs.

Previously, employers were able to deduct the costs of these benefits from their tax bill, saving them money. The new tax plan eliminates these benefits (https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/hr-topics/benefits/pa...).

Now that these benefits are much more expensive, you can except these benefits to reduced or eliminated, and the remaining costs to be take from your future salary.
Why wouldn't the obvious solution work? Raise graduate student stipends to cover the tax.
Pass through and corporate rates are going to drop dramatically. Independent contractors can set up their income as business profit and pay much smaller amount of taxes at higher levels of income.
Lol... german potatoes... autocorrect? Thanks, that's actually hilarious.
> Why doesn't Amazon say "hey, this is publicly available, you wanna fix it?"

They do. It's clearly warned about in the interface both at the time you make it so and with a big "PUBLIC" sticker label afterwards. What's more, I've received warning emails from AWS notifying of (intentionally) public buckets.

Public buckets for private data are a deliberate and wilful choice by lazy, reckless administrators.
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Neat! Didn't know about that service, hopefully businesses accept that hefty price tag though. It's obvious they don't want to invest too heavily in sec-orgs as it stands it seems.
To be pedantic you just named a name.
None of that is true. We have a long history of epigenetics studies which let us known this is almost certainly yet another failure. Random assignment is not unethical under many designs (exercise for the reader: think of one. Hint: draw inspiration from economics), is not necessary to improve over what they did, and longitudinal designs at their simplest merely require two sampling periods. It is also untrue that you 'usually' have to have demonstrated it in animals or cross-sectionally because many longitudinal studies are convenience samples, record-based or population registries, or collect large numbers of measurements to see what comes out in later analyses of things they hadn't thought of before.
> Yes, and it was BAD that those people were jailed.

In absolute terms, it was bad that those people were jailed, but with respect to the system, it was good that those people were jailed because it served to highlight the clear disconnect between the laws and what was right and wrong to society. It's unrealistic to expect institutions to make changes without going through the process. If Rosa Parks never went to jail there would have never been the protests which brought about change.

If you think the actions by Shkreli should have strong punishment, it's a bad thing if Shkreli gets the book thrown at him artificially. You're not setting precedent and you're not fixing the system. Someone in the future will do something similar and, depending on the court, they'll get off with a slap on the wrist. You should root for things to be done by the book so that everyone can realize, "hey, this book sucks!" and it gets changed through legislation.
The money doesn't exist to do that. Graduate student stipends are paid out of government grants, and the amount of money issued by the government as grants is going down.
Seems to be a horrible week for Apple devs... I just got bit by this bug, which was infuriating as hell:

https://twitter.com/jeremybank/status/936775452097626113
Listening to a tape and writing down what you hear is entry level work. You’re wasting more money sitting on the fence about this than you would by just hiring a college student at $15/hr.
According to their README[1], supervisor does not yet work correctly on Python 3 and has a list of issues [2].

[1] https://github.com/Supervisor/supervisor/blob/master/README....

[2] https://github.com/Supervisor/supervisor/labels/python%203
How about monitoring via polling? I'm imagining something like this...

- Set up application with your AWS/S3 credentials

- Poll S3 to get list of all your buckets on a regular interval (once a day, every 5 minutes, whatever)

- Get a list of some files in those buckets

- Try to access those files directly w/ no authentication or authorization

- Set up some rules about how to interpret the results (look for any public files, look for specific private buckets, look any buckets that are public & haven't been whitelisted, whatever)

There's probably a ton of ways to do this. For simple use cases, it shouldn't be too tough. That'd be a fun hack for a day project, and I'd be happy to pair with you on it if interested. It's probably spending a little time looking around for an off the shelf solution first.
Is 40 hours a week some kind of natural upper limit? People long ago worked more hours than that for sustenance.

I talk to a lot of people hustling and making a living working a trade or a service job and then doing something else on the side. I agree that $15K per year is a meager existence. What I'm not as sure about is whether one earner working only 2000 hours at minimum wage is something we need to make sustainable for a family of four.

(Side note: I'm in favor of UBI around $500-800/adult/month and half that for teens as supplemental income for most.)
You've always had to make it public deliberately. The new console UI makes setting a bucket to public a very deliberate effort.
This writeup makes the excellent point that the weight of the new tax structure falls heavily not only on the high-population coastal states but also on the younger demographic within those states.
Surely you mean Uninterruptible Power Supply. I would indeed be interested in an unlimited one myself.
One upon a time web developers had to wait for browsers to support new features. Using Babel does not automatically mean that this no longer true.
When some of endowments for many universities are in the millions and Harvard has an endowment of 37.5 billion, I find it hard to have sympathy towards this.

The colleges and universities have become corporations that run on student loans and graduate student slave labor.
This has to change, and it will be a painful process no matter what happens.

https://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/the-short-lis...
In last few years, Python 3 has got momentum. Frankly, for me it feels great to follow this progress.
Are there any examples of class-action lawsuits or legal consequences against companies that expose sensitive data like this in the U.S.?
It falls heavily on the demographic that supported Trump the least.
For example with certificates on a national card, like spain or estonia.