skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Okay. I have an idea to float.

Currently one can obtain a private investigator licence. Getting such a licence requires a minimum amount of training, mandatory firearm training, and is prohibited to criminals and such.

How about instigating a 'cyber investigator' licence. Applicants would have to prove a minimum level of proficiency with pen testing, gaining entry to systems without damaging anything or causing data loss, hacking software, etc., and would also be vetted for a criminal record.

Those who gained a licence would be expected to follow a code of conduct. Benefits would include immunity from DMCA laws and the like that get used to prevent ethical hackers from reporting vulnerabilities.

Companies that suffered a breach and wanted to find out who did it would be required to hire only a licenced cyber investigator. It might cost them a bit more but they would at least have the confidence that the hired person had the required skillset. It could be that a requirement of hiring someone for such a task would be to pay them to report on the vulnerabilities that allowed the breach to happen in the first place.

Labs that wanted to carry out vulnerability testing of software could apply for licences for staff so they would then be immune from companies informed of vulnerabilities trying to get them prosecuted.

Thoughts anyone?
Presence of a fulfillment center doesn't mean much, though. I've been on site at an Amazon fulfillment center and they primarily provide unskilled labor opportunities with a handful of shipped in corporate roles to oversee operations, manage supply chain, etc. Doesn't quite resemble the vision of the fund.
> Old age these days is 3-4 decades

As a 44+ year-old software engineer who is still gainfully employed, and who doesn't see that changing any time soon, I'm not sure what to make of your assertion...?

Are you seriously saying being older than 30 years of age is considered "old"?
> the value in stock comes from profit

You haven't been following Wall Street very long, have you?

The stock price gain is something like 8-9x the profit gain for Aetna. This money would not have paid a single claim, ever.
I have used gin / libpq / sqlx for my food side project.

At my day job I use the standard library.
That’s not what’s meant by fungibility[1]:

In economics, fungibility is the property of a good or a commodity whose individual units are essentially interchangeable

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fungibility
I have no problem with ditching webpack for another tool if it's faster and of similar or better quality. Is anyone using this in production and want to share their experiences?
Why are markets inherently "smart?" And why is a crash not the market being "wrong?"

What even is the market? If it's the people in it, and they're smart, why did they buy subprime loan investment instruments and nuke the housing market and lose all their money?
big thanks to @pksunkara, @manp and @ondrejmusil for responding and getting this fixed
If there had not been identity theft, would a law have been broken by foreign nationals submitting comments to the FCC? Under what conditions is it illegal for foreign nationals to buy political ads on US-based websites or TV?

Net neutrality within the US is likely to affect the content available to people around the world, so it's reasonable for them to have an opinion. How should foreign nationals legally advocate for their positions in such a debate?
>what do we do about that? Leave them to die? Really?

What do we do now? Why does that have to change?
That punishes everyone who took out private loans or worked to put themselves through college. Not to mention it hurts those who worked to pay down their loans earlier.

There are a lot of ways of socializing the cost of education, doing it retroactively opens up a whole can of worms.
Even if Windows 10 still supported non-SSE2 CPUs, few software packages would. Most software is compiled to use SSE for floats now.

Interestingly, disabling compositing doesn't mean increasing system requirements, because Windows 8 can do it in software. A GPU will improve your experience, however.
> - Fastmail can immediately cancel your account for any reason: "The Service Provider may terminate your access to any part or all of the Service and any related service(s) at any time, with or without cause, with or without notice, effective immediately, for any reason whatsoever, with or without providing any refund of any payments."

Other than the last clause about "without providing any refund", I would expect this from any service provider, and I'd certainly never want to run a service that didn't have this in its terms.

I do agree that the disclosure terms are more permissive than they should be.
Really happy that besides being fast they made a priority to keep the configuration simple.

I love webpack to death but there are just so many parts that I keep getting confused, esp with things like "!" in in require, always copy-pasting the same boilerplate code over and over to for sass, es6, etc. I know it may be more flexible but sometimes you just want things to work and can't be bothered with too many details. Laravel did this with elixir where it wrote a wrapper just to do it (which lets you just get on with your work without having to learn another tool). This too seems to be focused on that. Great job!
I would create something for early learning and creativity for young kids if I was in a situation where my income was taken care of.
Sure, its shifting complexity around, but its hard to argue that the API for this is more complex than the bloated boilerplate you're talking about. For some people the simplified API is worth the 77 extra MB.
> Ada has always had integer ranges. Dependent types include integer ranges, but integer ranges aren't necessarily dependent types.

I was under the impression that Adas integer ranges were checked at runtime, like contracts. Is that not the case?
To all the people who say they knew it all along.
Congrats.

I didn't, and seeing it presented like this is horrifying.
It really begs the questions do we even have a legitimate media, and not a mercenary media that kneels to the highest bidder.
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Probably just timing. Nginx had support for things like ssl termination, http/2 earlier than haproxy.
Great, another OSS project with a name that’s a commonly used word. Let’s hope they’ve checked there’s no existing projects with that name. (Spoilers: they haven’t.)
> Or stick to something that works for you and keep using the same tool over and over again.

(in JS ecosystem)

1. It's really hard to find something that works

2. It's really hard to figure out all the dependencies, and configs, and plugins, and conventions, and ..., and ... for something that works

3. Once you have it figured out, each and every moving part, including the tool itself, will get updated with deprecations and breaking changes.
Try working on your positioning so that you are not hitched to the <JS framework of the year>. You will forever be competing with the low end of the market if you cannot market yourself.
I agree mostly, but they also increased the time frame that is HOV only. People would use the road very early or very late when traffic isn't bad. Now there is a toll. Since it's demand based, I'd imagine it's not anywhere near 35 bucks, but its probably 2 bucks for a road that is wide open.
Comments are often more interesting than the post itself. Pretty much all of Reddit is based on that notion.
I've had to dump Fastmail. I was getting 10-15 very (sexually) explicit spam emails daily slipping through the filter daily even after 100's of training emails being identified. Queue weird looks at work if I left my mail client visible.

Moving back to G Suite was painful. I had to manually do it after the G Suite 'Migration' tool missed 1000's of messages. But so happy to have decent search back!
Seems like an appropriate punishment.

Russia's state-enabled cheating at the Sochi games was extraordinary. It's the kind of cheating that the monitoring agencies are not equipped to fight. You can't go up against a state with all its resources. So banning Russia from participating is the correct response.
I use FastMail for exactly that reason.

And, secondarily, because I set up a GMail account for both of my kids when they were born, and I would occasionally email things to those accounts that I wanted them to have a record of. Nothing earth-shattering, just stuff I thought they might like to read when they were older. Then, one day without warning, Google shut my daughter's account down, for being under-age. I had no ability to retrieve all of those emails, and there was literally no one I could contact. Google has NO customer support, because you aren't the customer. So I decided I would be willing to pay $30 a year just to know that I could get an actual person on the phone.
Because DC politicians definitely don't drive on those highways.
If you tie the bonuses of the people measuring the lung capacity to that lung capacity, then you will make that metric less accurate.
If horses taught you high level (not horse-specific) military strategy that tanks didn't, then yes there might be an issue at hand.
> That regardless of what you're interested in or seemingly good at, that there will always be hundreds or thousands better than you at it.

When I come across these people, rather than feeling inferior to them, I try to learn what I can from them so that I can do and be better the next time.

Feeling inferior is nothing more than an (likely false) acknowledgement that you don't want to be a lifelong learner.
The article mentions "loose student loan underwriting standards." Here's what's going on:

The people originating the loans have no skin in the game. So, they don't call NYU or even Northern Essex Community College and say, "look, here's a student who wants to be a social worker, asking for 100K in loans to get the degree. We don't think they'll be able to repay that debt on a social worker's wages. So, no loan."

If the lenders WERE calling the colleges saying that, the colleges would not be escalating tuition as radically as they are.

It's not realistic to expect the kid who just got in to NYU or a community college to play that kind of hardball in negotiating tuition rates. But when the lenders don't play that hardball, it leaves higher-education executives trucking to the bank on the proceeds of those loans.
> Someone is capturing full audio from your device even though it allegedly only transmits when certain phrases are used (e.g., "Alexa..."). They've tunneled through your modem, router and AP and are capturing directly from your device.

That's a ridiculous scenario.

How about, "Alexa itself transmits to the cloud. 10 years from now, a scanning service post-processes recordings using sentiment analysis and emotional state tracking now required by the new administration. State regulators have determined that parents should not talk to children in tones that fall into $this_band$. Regulations make Amazon responsible to report this to the authorities or face financial penalties."

Today, folks are being deported from this country after living here for a decade under the Dream Act. So, no, I don't put much stock in your assertion that things won't be applied retroactively or used to "forecast outcomes".
Hello Mr. Schneiderman,

Thank you for doing this AMA, for your investigation, and for your well spoken remarks at yesterday's press conference.

Will you also pursue whether the FCC legitimately experienced a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack?

Personally, I think that one of these two scenarios is likely:

1. The signs of the reported DDoS are natural artifacts of heavy traffic load on the FCC's web application. Large groups may have submitted through mechanisms unintended by the FCC, and users may have created malformed requests. When large groups of people use your system, it can be in ways you didn't anticipate when the system was designed. If this is the case, the FCC falsely claimed there was a DDoS -- this could be due to incompetence (poorly written application) or malevolence (willfully ignoring authentic human input that overwhelmingly supported net neutrality). Either of these outcomes are contrary to the FCCs mission.

2. There was legitimate DDoS activity. In this case, we must find out who committed this DDoS. Furthermore, we need to analyze whether there is any correlation between the faked identities and the DDoS activity. For example, let's say there is a clever ISP against net neutrality. They conduct this DDoS against the FCCs commenting system to drown out the voices of real US citizens. However, they know the DDoS might be analyzed, so they conduct the DDoS with pro net neutrality comments -- the content of the comments doesn't matter to them, so much as the ability to point the finger elsewhere while knowingly suppressing authentic comments. If there is extreme overlap between IP addresses used for such a scheme and other anti net neutrality comments, the true intention is revealed. Again, this is just an example. For your investigation, you would likely be interested in this angle in order to rule out whether the entity that conducted the DDoS was also responsible for the massive case of identity theft you are pursuing.

Either way, if the state of New York could compel the FCC to release anonymized logs, our entire country would benefit.

Thank you! Remain steadfast.
I expected a scare piece on privacy but I got an in depth technical break down of an alexa security bug.
Well, we don't know. It might go wrong in many ways, and it's only up to ISPs to figure out how much pressure they can put on users and business. As a rule of thumb I'd expect business to suffer less, because they're more likely to go in court and win, and thus more dangerous.
Diversity Survey: Non-profit tech outpaces big tech, but not by much
"All statements about Smalltalk are false" - http://wiki.c2.com/?AllStatementsAboutSmalltalkAreFalse :)

That also contains the statement "As it happens, my Smalltalk is DolphinSmalltalk, and its compiler is not written in Smalltalk and the source is not available for hacking.", which is a counter-example to the top-level comment here "All of the source code for all of the system libraries, compiler, and environment was available for editing."
This little comment about Mongo really bothers me... I disagree that it's a flaw. It's obviously the fault of the tech team for not securing the DB

"One flaw is that the default settings of a MongoDB database would allow anyone with an internet connection to browse the databases, download them, or even worst case scenario to even delete the data stored on them"
I imagine that construction costs in such a remote area are astronomical. Under the Soviet system, the buildings were simply built regardless of cost because the economy was centralized. Now, most Norilsk residents probably don't want to shoulder the costs of construction there. After all, the salaries are high for unskilled Russian labor but still not high (2,500 USD/year in 2011 [0]).

Apparently, apartments are dirt cheap too, and other prices are quite high [0]. So maybe Norilsk residents don't have the disposable income to replace the blocks even if they would like to.

[0]http://siberianwonders.com/2011/03/norilsk-nickel-siberian-c...
Look at Tezos Github commits: https://github.com/tezos/

Most of them are shallow changes or "busy work" to show activity. I have been watching FileCoin and Tezos Github, and I wouldn't expect much from either one of them.
We're using these services too, and we can say whatever we like about American politicians or policy. No problem. On WeChat we better watch what we say about the Chinese government or any of the issues it deems sensitive.

I don't like isolationism either, but in this case I believe it's justified.
Finding your way in a market
A crash is a market realizing it had been wrong about something, yes.

Or, a "crash" as defined a dramatic plunge rather than a downturn over time is usually some kind of feedback loop where prices falling creates expectations that prices will drop even further and so on, often if the market is mostly driven by greater-fool-theory herd behavior.
These sorts of things happen far too often in my experience. Not just by big enterprises, but by hot new startups and everyone in between.

And frankly, when I see something like this fail, it makes me seriously question the quality of the product I'm buying.
If you are wondering why there is another shortage of RX Vegas...
> The first amendment only applies to Americans.

No, the first amendment (like the bill of rights generally) applies to the actions of the US government; it does not apply only when those actions effect US citizens.
yeah, part of the reason is so popular its one of the few platforms not banned in PR China because the state maintains full control over censorship...
IMHO, for the best strategy is to roll your own mail. It is pretty trivial.
Mi A1 was released in September
http://www.mi.com/in/mi-a1/
The risk that the increased supply of money lowers the value of that money. Not that this is the straw that's gonna break the camels back, but it's not like there aren't consequences to the taxpayer for allowing the government to allocate funds in a sub optimal manner.
Well, let's ask just that question. How do you help Russia?

The drug testing and general doping corruption is seemingly top-down, not bottom-up. I don't see the Kremlin saying "sorry we got caught everyone, we'll play fair with everyone else from now on."
This article feels like a puff piece for Monero, as opposed to a true discussion on the merits of anonymous cryptocurrency, which would minimally mention a subset of what you have listed above.
Last time [1] we speculated, some saying it's a straight tit for tat [2], others, like me [3], saying it can be because Amazon half-assed the implementation after getting no help from Google.

At least this time, we know the real reason.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15348063 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15348063#15349384 [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15348063#15349084
Ask HN: When do we give up on net neutrality and build a decentralized internet?
Seems like the more effective longer term solution to freeing the Internet from political influence and telecom monopoly would be to embrace the trend of the times and build a decentralized internet, bypassing the telecoms altogether. There are already many localized mesh networks / municipal broadband projects / decentralized communication platform PoCs. Isn't this the obvious path forward to usher in an era of digital libertarianism? Are the communities' efforts not better spent on this front rather than continuing the perpetually inane political battle? Is this a naive consideration to think we could take back the internet, forever, by innovating around ISPs? Why or why not?
Of course it can. It just does not want to.
Get banned from future unveilings unless you write nicely about current products?
My mistake. I thought fungibility=spendability.

Am I thinking about liquidity?
This is why you're an introvert
Hopefully this partnership will allow Qualcomm to bring the Snapdragon performance on par with the Apple CPUs.
4. Perhaps more competition would be a better option, but as the failure of Google Fiber has shown, competition is not allowed to exist. The ISPs own the infrastructure, and they will do everything in their power to prevent outsiders from threatening their regional duopolies.

Personally, I think our bits and bytes should be treated as our other methods of private communication are (theoretically, anyway)--allowed to pass back and forth between two parties, unimpeded, without having been tampered with or spied upon. But that requires regulation.
Can't wait to see windows on a RPi soon... If windows even can run on 512 megs.
It's just an extra block header every few blocks, which is a minuscule amount of data compared to the transaction records. And it's not actually valueless since the uncles are part of the block selection algorithm and therefore contribute to security.
Ask HN: Are personal assistants like Echo/Home are anti Net Neutrality?
Boycott means they are not letting any of their athletes participate, including the ones who can do so under a neutral flag.
I just forwarded this comment to their customer support. Let’s see what would be their comment.
Net neutrality nonsense: Can we, please, just not all lose our minds?
"It’s designed for teams that need to ideate, iterate, and work together both in person and remotely, and across multiple devices." So long as all those devices are running Windows 10.

I'm sorry - in this day and age any software billing itself as a collaboration tool had better be able to run on Windows, Mac OS, Linux, Android and iOS. Those are the platforms people use, those are the people with whom I need to collaborate.
Is there a doubt? You don't think more than 50% of women want to experience being pregnant?

Why do you think wealthy women like marissa meyer and angelina jolie choose to become pregnant?

It's as core a natural imperative as any human can have. Every woman I've known wanted to become pregnant and birth their own children.

I assume most women do as well. Why do you think women go to such lengths as to implant uteri and go through fertility treatments rather than adopting or hiring a surrogate?

Certainly not every woman wants to experience pregnancy but I don't think it is farfetched to say that most women want to experience a core female natural/evolutionary imperative. That's what women are built/designed to do. Think about it?
Neurophysiological evidence of efference copies to inner speech
Lets talk guns, and how can Tech make a system both pro 2A yet sensible for all?
Exactly. The lenders don't have enough skin in the game to make it worth negotiating with the colleges / universities to keep tuition down. The article mentions "loose student loan underwriting standards". That means the underwriters don't call the colleges on the carpet about grossly overpriced degree programs. So tuition spirals.
When I was moving away from Fastmail, I noticed that Rainloop[1] is a pretty slick, Gmail-inspired webclient, and it's FOSS, but I couldn't find any provider who was actually using it. Can anyone comment?

1. https://www.rainloop.net/
>> Another solution is to let you go to school for free and then pay a percent of all your future earnings back to your college, or at least into a pool that pays for the next generation's college.

PBSNewsHour did a piece on this concept:

Purdue invests in students’ futures with new model of financing
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/purdue-invests-students-fu...

"Unlike student debt, it shifts the burden — or the risk, I should say — entirely from the student to the investor."

"That’s because the terms of the agreement, called an ISA, are made well before students launch their careers. So, even if a student ends up in a low-paying job, the pay-back percentage stays the same."
True, but Old, Super, and Hyper together represent a deep and productively adversarial exploration of the problem space -- each trying to best its predecessor. The overall problem space benefits, even as each package individually ages into senescent complexity.
Always Connected PCs enable a new culture of work
Graphene Loophole Could Provide “Clean and Limitless” Energy in the Future
There’s been a trimmed down “IoT” version on RPi for a few years https://www.techrepublic.com/article/windows-10-on-the-raspb...
built in 4G LTE2/Gigabit LTE and week long battery life
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