skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pretty soon with the GDPR kicking in it will be more expensive to not protect the data than it is to protect it.

All companies processing the personal data of people residing in the EU regardless of the company’s location who have a breach of data where the organization has been shown to violate basic privacy design concepts can be fined 4% of annual global turnover or €20 million, whichever is greater.

It goes into enforcment in May 2018:

https://www.eugdpr.org/

If Macie saves you just once from that giant fine it probably just paid for itself for years!
From the personal growth perspective;

Bigco can mean being constantly surrounded by experts and having to compete with more experienced coworkers to get the fun projects or extra responsibility that make a job rewarding. It can also mean lots of easy learning from well experienced coworkers.

Smallco can mean less expert coworkers to learn from but lots of room to grow and lots of experience gained from extra responsibility.
Binary docker image, with no (public) reproducible build system? No thanks.
Actually e-passports have (in 2017) a pretty competent public-key based issuing scheme behind them. You can read them with NFC and cryptographically authenticate the contents.
I think this is an interesting collection because most proposals acknowledge that statistics cannot be fixed by means of statistics alone but rather by taking into account the human factor. Bayesian statistics won't keep humans, who want to achieve something that's not primarily about statistics, from doing stupid things.
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The challenges I've had with outsourcing been due to outsourcing prematurely. Similar to premature optimization. Until I've spent significant time in a role, outsourcing it tends to create more work than it saves.
This is true, but including code like this should make it easier to know you should rewrite if you are going to use it in something important. I have been bitten more often by quick hack code that looks OK on the surface than code that is full of clever code like this.
The problem with that is that these companies may fail for all sorts of reasons that have nothing to do with the scarcity or demand for the commodity itself.
What specifically are you referring to in that paper?
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Does that encumber free speech? Maybe. Is it illegal? I don't think so.

If the government can't communicate because it only uses Twitter, then I think the answer is "don't do that". The government can always use its own means of communication.
> As you’ve probably heard, one of the ways Republicans intend to pay for their tax
> giveaway, is to change the tax code so that graduate students will now need to
> pay taxes on “tuition”—a large sum of money (as much as $50,000/year) that
> PhD students never actually see, that can easily exceed the stipends they do
> see, and that’s basically just an accounting trick that serves the internal needs
> of universities and granting agencies.

If I'm working for a company, the company decides "it is required for you to have X. We will provide it to you as part of your compensation." That X is part of my compensation for working there. I don't see why it shouldn't be taxed. "It will cost me more money" is not an excuse to not be taxed. "The students never get the money" is invalid because colleges have deemed their "X" to be worth 50k.

Let me phrase this situation a different way. Assume I start working for Bloomberg's HF trading group. They want me to live closer to my office and buy my a penthouse apartment half a block down. They pay for it (made the contract, own the building, pay the staff, etc) but it's in my name. It's my apartment. Is that part of my income? Shouldn't I be taxed for this apartment? I never actually see the money! I never actually get to spend the money! It's just something that has to happen for me to be on Bloomberg's HF trading team!

I think that should be taxable. What do you think?
> I'd rather have a language which is not specific to the browser, and browsers offering a compilation target, like LLVM / CLR / JVM. A simpler compilation target would hopefully lack semantic subtleties.

I would rather claim that all common VM targets, such as LLVM, CLR, JVM etc. are so full of semantic subtleties that the subtile parts of JavaScript are quite harmless against them.
yeah, i believe you need 2 good years of experience to get into a top mba program
Much of Julius O. Smith III's work is done in Faust, if you're interested in seeing how Faust is used in research: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=Dx1EblMAAAAJ
> First, you may not be aware of yourself sufficiently, but you are being a real asshole.

Uh huh.

> Second, you are correct that I didn't consider that design. This may be because it is a little stupid, or at least impractical without the right target population.

It's neither stupid nor impractical, and I gave several examples, many of which could or have been done in the US. Even healthcare can be randomized in the US this way - consider the Oregon Medicaid or the RAND healthcare experiment. (Both of them, BTW, deliver the profoundly surprising result that correlation!=causation and additional healthcare does little for health.) As it is a priori unlikely that all US children are above some hypothetical threshold for cuddling - in which case OP would be even more dead on arrival that it looks - the design would be perfectly adequate to investigate the causal effects of cuddling. One can screen for low cuddling levels if need be to increase power.

> but only if my sample contained a number of malnourished kids. If I took my sample from middle class America, and I assigned them to food and food+plusmorefood conditions (via force feed I guess?), I'd be studying obesity more likely than malnutrition.

This is a bad example as middle class American kids are not 100% micronutrient replete. Iron deficiency/anemia is common, and even iodine deficiency is actually quite common according to the urinary surveys. (If you look, you'll find at least two iodine RCTs claiming noticeable cognitive benefits in New Zealand college students, a country typically considered better off than the US on public health.) Vitamin D is another question mark - the official RDAs are very low but they're heavily criticized and if you accept some of the higher recommendations, then middle class American kids are quite likely to be deficient (all that time indoors).

> The effect between some and more affection, is probably qualitatively different than none and some affection.

That would be very unfortunate for OP, then, as I doubt any of the kids in their study had literally zero affection, as they were not recruiting from Cold War Romanian orphanages.
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Just stop buying Intel.
Given the Python versioning effective convention, it would be strange for the developers to go from 3.9 -> 4.0 because they've run out of digits. Probably better to go to 3.10 to avoid confusion and stay on 3.X while there's no backwards-compatible breaks.
I similarly have a Pi in a cupboard doing the backups. In my case though, it uses wake-on-lan to wake the computers up in the middle of the night to run the backups, then lets them go back to sleep after.

I use rsnapshot to a encrypted external usb disk.
Maybe! You'd have to look at the numbers. I remember the last time someone showed me numbers, actually most of the money went into core operations cost to offset money that the state used to contribute.

Though I think in this particular case, for my particular institution, the University could totally mitigate all financial cost to graduate students by cutting the subsidy the University gives to the athletics programs (about 15% of the athletics budget is paid for by the students in the form of fees the students are assessed on top of their tuition).
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Then I think it's fair to ask if it's really OK to subsidize that compensation delivered in terms of valuable education.

You can argue that graduate students and universities are just another special interest lobbying the government for a tax exemption that benefits them. There is nothing special about graduate education when you're conferring something that's inherently valuable (namely MS and PhD degrees) to a lucky few.

You could further argue that it's unfair to ask blue-collar workers in fly-over states to pay higher taxes because of the impact of such a subsidy.

There is a lot to like in the tax bill: interest on second homes isn't going to be subsidized nor are new mortgage interest on homes over $1M. Frankly, I think it should have been applied to ALL homes over $1M since many economists have argued vociferously that such an exemption is a huge subsidy to the high-cost states.

I'd also like to see a revisitation of the taxation of carried-interest for hedge funds. There is no reason to consider performance bonuses as a return on capital if they don't have any basis in the investment/capital at risk.

But arguing that graduate students (LUCKY graduate students) are worthy of some kind of exemption is just lobbying. You could easily make the same argument for active-duty armed service members. Frankly, I'd support a tax reduction on those people. They've suffered from our national follies to a disproportionate degree.
> An uneducated society is easy to manipulate

This is nonsense. There’s no Illuminati out to make the population dumber. There _is_ a bunch of identity politics ignoramouses out the gut colleges that “corrupt our values” and it’s an easy thing to point to as a win when your base (who keep you in power) are mouth breathing retards who see higher education (and intelligence in general) as nuisances.

Make no mistake: their goal is more money for companies, and this is merely a way to keep their base happy so they can keep their shareholders happy.
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I think if you view this through the lens of identity politics it makes a bit more sense why you're seeing such an attack on education and universities.

That's true, and when non-progressives are regularly called Nazis, threatened, and assaulted on campuses I can't blame the right too much for wanting to stick it to them.

When climate denial and the rejection of basic science is one of the pillars of the party then this is a logical extension.

Basic science like the relative safety of nuclear power and GMOs? The left is just as happy as the right to ignore the scientific consensus when it conflicts with their ideology. Specifically on climate change, if the left had been willing to focus on actually solving the problem we probably could have had a revenue-neutral carbon tax by now. Instead they've used it as a vehicle to attack businesses and demand more government control of the economy, and the inevitable result is that it makes the right interpret the question "does human activity cause climate change?" as "are you a socialist hippie?"
What.

That's like saying how do you map a bitcoin to a person.
Public Private key cryptography and the blockchain.
Works great for bitcoins, would work great for identity.
It's frustrating that whatever I do to protect my own identity/data, no amount of 2FA or password generators or my own good practice mitigates the loss/theft of data/identify in this way.

I'm as good at it as anyone I know (and unsurprisingly I work in tech) and it's still a complete crapshoot.
> PayPal hasn't integrated TIO with its platform, so PayPal users aren't affected by the security vulnerabilities at TIO.

Most relevant line considering the title. PayPal wasn’t compromised.
they also awarded {more to} female students with the same need as male students. how does your "crunchy progressive" side feel about that if that was reversed?
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Oh Apple :(
> And there's no way I'd trust them to be competent enough to handle the task with the level of security that it would entail.

Why? Obviously it would be a big undertaking, but the post office already issues US Passports. I'm not sure what you mean by "verifying mailing addresses" because the USPS does provide a way to do verify the correctness and deliverability of an address [1].

The point is that the USPS would be in a good position to become the government body that implements a national identity service.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Address_Management_System
Thanks for sharing your feedback, Yes I'm agree on some degrees hopefully I'll add some debugging features into the project. However ClarifyJs is not intended to wrap your whole code but just endpoints that you want to be called more fluently or want to put a layer of abstract over calling functions and passing arguments.
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Architecture & project management. I was promoted from contractor to employee and was told basically not to spend any time on the project anymore because there are new (bright, capable) contractors to work on it.

But it's never in a contractor's best interest to take responsibility for the big picture. So I spend lots of time testing contributions (okay but not much fun/reward) and being a project manager (detestable and a black mark on my resume afaic).

Why I took responsibility when I was a contractor? Clearly I do not always act in my own best interest.
The threat for http to https transactions is that man in the middle can rewrite, drop, or add data before the user reaches the https site. See sslstrip[0] for an example of this attack.

[0] https://moxie.org/software/sslstrip/
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It is that hard to install Ubuntu and dual boot? It's really handy to have that extra windows license from the factory
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None of these changes punishes anyone. Each of these changes removes some form of favoritism.

Right now, people in states with high tax rates, people with mortgages, and graduate students pay lower federal tax rates than other people who don't share those favored statuses. One could more credibly argue that the current system punishes people who don't receive these tax breaks.

(Graduate students are favored if you count free tuition as compensation in the same way benefits like cars or apartments given to employees by other employers count as taxable compensation.)
You can't judge all Android phones the same. One Plus has pushed Android 8 a few weeks ago and their beta channel is on the November security patch.

Stop buying Samsung.
It's not really like the apartment example. When I was in grad school the tuition number was kind of an imaginary number. It was 60k or something like that, no idea. I never signed anything with that, was never billed for that, nothing. The only way I could know what that number was somewhere on my online account, where I saw:

>> Charge: +$60,000 from Graduate School Division

>> Payment: -$60,000 from Graduate Department of XYZ

And that was not the value of the education either. Even in quarters where you are not physically in the school, with no classes, library access, etc. you would still be "charged" that magic number. It's just a way to allocate expenses between each department and the graduate school.

In most cases they will just change the accounting to something even weirder, and the government will get nothing. Some schools, with arcane rules from donors (such as that their money can only be used for education and not infrastructure) will have problems. But for the most part it's just a stupid thing to do from the govt side, that will just complicate things even more.
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Well, you'd be wrong by a mile! On my machine, the .map(..) way is almost twice as slow. It ain't even close.

But you're right, I failed to consider that it's "probably optimized". And "C++". /s
It's a terrible idea. One shouldn't need to provide a personal identity to use the Internet.
By your logic, city councils should not host any public Q&A sessions if even a single citizen in the city says they will refuse to attend.

That's clearly an absurd position.
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What will happen to this corporation? Any punishment at all? It didn't say in the article.
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It's sad that there seems to be little internal critique coming from within universities of the complete takeover of schools by administrators. When it does happen it's almost entirely the result of some external rumblings or a direct affront like this being twisted.

I guess it's because these same administrators ultimately control the narratives (and budgets, jobs, etc) coming from the schools, creating a self-protecting cycle which only generates more administrative power.

So when attempts to curtail their power happen they can twist it to make it seem like it's an attack on teachers, students, and research - instead of the separate group of people who consume the greatest amount of resources within the school, who don't generate the positive research and economic utility for which universities are typically known.

Which is a shame, because there are probably no better people to stand up for this than the professors and researchers. Plenty of research has shown these people and their work aren't responsible for the massive increase in tuition and costs associated with schools. Yet the problem is perpetually the amount of revenue and income the school can make, not how it's being used.
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When i have to define so much, that i could do it myself, i don't save anything much.

Defining only works when you outsource it to someone who knows the task better than you.
Tangential fact: The author of this article is Isaac Asimov's niece.
Your analysis is suffering from the "lump of labor" fallacy.
Thanks for proving most of the objections to a national ID card are mostly fallacies instead of actual arguments

"I don't want to pay" is not a valid reason. I would not like to pay taxes but that's not how things work
Jeebus.

I love Apple but Tim has got to tighten that ship.
Regarding the issue of supply chain risk in cloud-based products
Ah yes, I'm probably too focused on just x86 desktop/server with my everyday work that this didn't even occur to me, so I assumed you were meaning to refer to maintainability/security.
> But it isn't so clear to me that Twitter can act like a public forum

Then perhaps our elected and appointed officials should not use Twitter when conducting government business.

But more importantly, this is a related but different issue from the one discussed in the brief. There are two questions:

1. Should officials have the right to block users for their political speech

2. Should officials be allowed to use platforms that block users for their political speech, or prefer some political speech over other speech.

IMO the answer to both questions should be "no". But this is case is really about the first question.
I'm guess I will have to look up the alternative definition, but to me, a helm is the facility full of the controls from which you drive a ship
Windows isn't perfect (as we all know) but at least rolling back to a previous version is a lot easier than how macOS does it.
That's not diversity preference, that's disadvantaged preference.
> In my experience, all-white, all-Indian, all-Asian, etc. teams were always inferior in terms of the experience of working there to diverse teams.

I feel like I'm missing some kind of obvious universal common-sense knowledge in having to ask this, but by what mechanism could this possibly come about?
The problem is that IE11 is not eol until the end of 2020, and management can be loathe to drop support for it while it still makes a blip in the traffic, even a tiny one.

It's one thing to wait for the actually supported browsers to all catch up on a new feature, but IE11 is abandonware that can't be abandoned, and the situation just keeps getting worse.
It's becoming the underlying datastore for everything from static websites to databases (see Athena)
What data do you think windows sends to microsoft that macOS doesn’t send to apple? Why do you think windows has worse privacy than macOS?
> That's why most of Harvard's black students are first or second generation African immigrants.

citation?
Say my marginal dollar is taxed at 40%, and I buy a house valued at $500,000. That value includes not just the house, but the value of the tax deductions. Over the first 10 years at 4% interest, I pay about $17,500 in mortgage interest, which make the value of the tax deductions about $7,000 per year, or $580 per month. If you get rid of the stream of tax deductions, you're lowering how much the house is worth to any buyer who has labor income and will be financing the house (i.e. almost everyone).

Indeed, for almost all houses (even in the Bay Area), people count on the tax deductions to determine how much house they can buy. If you can afford to pay a net $1,800 per month, for example, you can buy a $500,000 house (with a $2,400 monthly payment) given the roughly $600 per month in tax breaks. If you get rid of the tax deduction, you can no longer afford a $500,000 house, and neither can all the other people who previously had a $1,800/month budget. In the long run, that drives the value of the house down by the amount of the lost tax deduction.
Muting is a filter. Blocking imposes restrictions on the actual speech, and on the reception of Tweets.
Regulation itself is not always "socially useful" for most people
Our minds our faliable, it’s definitely a risk owning a gun - to yourself, coworkers, and family. Sure, you’re fine today, but get overworked for a few months or laid off, a bit of mania sets in, and then all of a sudden you’re on the evening news. The Las Vegas shooter had just won a huge jackpot before he committed his crime, people can snap in the weirdest of ways.

Given that workplace violence is a thing that happens, and the high emotions business sometimes gets us in, you definitely made a mistake telling coworkers you own a gun.
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I wonder if that has to do with the scar tissue that arise around the interactions of a given system. Sometimes, abrupt change is the answer not because the people are the issue ("too expensive") but rather because the system doesn't work as a whole.
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