skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To clarify for anybody who may not know, "Aaron" in this blog post is Aaron Swartz. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz
I don't think user intopieces was taking a stance on whether it was intentional or an accident. Crying wolf is crying wolf either way.
A very moving story. To pick up your life and start living again is not easy.

Importantly, to become relaxed and happy again without the feeling to have to become more and more productive or create legacy for ourselves or the ones we love is yet another even more difficult step.

There are very few self-help methods that do not have as Target to "improve yourself". Take your time and remember the good times of the past. These times are never wasted.
US Debt vs GDP peaked higher than it is today then dropped to ~20% GDP in 1980 before shooting up again.
Only if you created a 'safe API' on top of the unsafe code otherwise the bug could be everywhere..
I remember a SSL bug which was really an API bug: it isn't always easy to create a 'safe' API..
No, Golerka's biggest concern should be that some independent researcher or Romanian hacker will discover the back door, and they will use it to steal money directly out of their bank or brokerage accounts.

In other words: I think that the odds are >0 that there is a systemic weakness in Apple's security, either accidental (like the meltdown and spectre issues almost certainly are) or deliberately introduced by a mole, or by Apple's management in service of some higher cause. I think that the odds are further >0 that this weakness could be discovered by a malicious party, and that will end up leading to major problems, not all of which will necessarily be immediately obvious.
I'm not quite sure how to interpret your last comment. You prefer the IE box model? Or you're saying they did it right from the get go? Because quirks mode was abandoned and everyone uses the Moz/W3C model now.

A better example would be file line endings, where Microsoft did get it right (\r\n) and all the other OS's screwed up using just \r or \n.
I didn't say otherwise. I implied that if pranksters can pull off a hack it is likely that Russia also can.
How Google refused to let Alexa dominate CES 2018
They’re the only commercial OS vendor that doesn’t rely on monetizing customer information to turn a profit. (I’m not sure why MS voluntarily pulled itself out of that camp).

This is why I switched away from Windows and Android. Open source phones don’t really exist, and out of the box usable desktop Linux laptops are rare, so most people in my boat land on Apple products.
Chelsea Manning eyes U.S. Senate seat for Maryland
> Much harder to throw money at luxuries when you're saving a lot.

I think this misses the larger point that Indians overall don't have that much money in hand to spend on luxuries.

I believe GNI per capita ppp [1] is the right comparison. (someone please correct if I'm wrong.) For india thats ~ $6K whereas for the US its ~ $57.5K, almost 10 times. (Also while the savings rate is more, the actual amount saved looks greater for the US.)

I think the parent is right, grand parent just proves the point of the article.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GNI_(PPP)...
Ok, I hope that the people who got scared shitless by this emergency start doing something against nuclear weapons. It's ludicrous: We can all die any day and ICAN, the people who helped to pass the ban on nuclear weapons and got Nobel prize for it are raising money at a rate of $50 a day.
When not running they take up space on the device and also request updates.
Private user information isn't proof that valid credentials were published on GitHub. It would be faster and easier to ask for actual proof in the form of a link to a valid credential published on GitHub, and that would actually prove that they were published.
Crypto Exchange Kraken Back Online After Extended Down – News – Cointelegraph
Or maybe the Apple way?

[Send and cause panic]
[Details]
What Do Patients Ask Chatbots in the Healthcare Industry?
Maybe you should develop a new hobby called management, hiring and mentoring - and read some books about it.
Fifteen years ago, the BBC reported that a double-blind, placebo-controlled study found that adding vitamins to the diets of inmates at a maximum security institution cut offences by 25%. The greatest reduction was for serious offences, including violence which fell by 40%.

This in no way surprises me. I had this thought a year or so ago that we ought to provide better nutrition in prison as a primary means of rehabilitation. I think I tried to blog about it and it didn't go well. I eventually moved on.

But I am glad to see this article. I hope this idea gets acted upon, the sooner, the better.
Looking at the screenshot of the alert [0], it appears to be using the alert system adopted in 2006 in response to the Warning, Alert, and Response Network (WARN) Act[1]. How is this system for a missile attack different, and in what way is it being revisited for the first time in a generation? Text messages are just now 1 generation old (SMS first implemented 1992[2]; generation is about 25.5 years[3].)And of course the alert system itself is only 11 years old.

[0]https://static01.nyt.com/images/2018/01/14/us/14xp-hawaii-su...

[1]https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/house-bill/5785...

[2]http://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2017-12-03/after-25-years...

[3]https://isogg.org/wiki/How_long_is_a_generation%3F_Science_p...
Justice Department Secures First Denaturalization as a Result of Operation Janus
CES 2018: Behind-The-Scenes Photo Essay – The Verge
The descriptions are so vague, the high ranking beneficiaries of the system are stating so little so long over and over (sounds like using the same bullshit generator with the same parameters) that there must be very very little and uncertain benefits for the users.
If they, the insiders of the system, are unable to explain it in plain and simple facts then it must have very little about clients.
What I hear?
More parties could access (including manipulation!?) your account. More potential source of errors and problems - and possibly malicious actions. If something goes wrong it will be more complex to figure out where the problem was.
Tracking who can do what is an added complexity to managing bank matters.
All above means lower security.
There is a potential that if more work on the same money they will charge more - assuming not doing it for charity but for fee. There must be hell of a heck benefits, increased efficiency to balance that, eventually leaving more at the clients on the disadvantage of he money industry.... doesn't seem a realistic scenario from a money industry initiative.
I see better ways to improve banking, especially UK banking - compared to Scandinavia it is in the stone age -, but not through opening up banking secrets to a lot of parties. To me it goes in the other direction.
Let me be wrong eventually.
Maybe it is a typo: ENER (Energy) vs ENGI (Engineering)? Is there anyone with a Science Direct API key to check what the actual numbers look like?
Nuclear is unpopular but is still extremely important to a low-carbon future. I recently wrote a fairly extensive primer on the current energy situation [1]. Key points are that battery backup of renewables is extremely challenging (even Stanford's 100% renewable superstar Jacobsen does not include them in his plan) and that the standard go-to plan with pumped hydro is potentially very flawed due to only-recently-understood biogenic methane emissions from reservoirs [2].

Also, this past December, the entire Pacific Northwest experienced a 10-day total wind lull and the 4GWe of capacity in the Bonneville Power Administration generated ~0 kWh. Backing that up alone would require a battery facility covering a football field 100 stories high and costing $90B that has to be replaced every dozen years. Now scale that by a few thousand and see how it looks. Baseload carbon-free energy from nukes is very valuable.

[1] https://partofthething.com/thoughts/a-medium-length-primer-o...

[2] http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....
We have a big bucket of cash to do exactly that in the Mars2020 rover and other similar initiatives from other countries. It'll culminate with a cache of samples of martian soil returned to earth for experiments. I sincerely doubt anybody, regardless of money, could get a rover there sooner to find soil samples.

Under works: Cliff climbing robots to look at ice and water flows, quads to survey large areas up close and quickly, and man more.

It's progressing as fast as it can, but is often sidetracks by the whims of new administrations (moon! no, Mars! no, Moon!).
The lack of sirens going off in Honolulu this morning tipped me off that it wasn't a real alert, but it took way too long (officially) to find out it was a mistake. Twitter was the first line of defense in getting information (within 10 minutes of the alert): https://twitter.com/wfh1901/status/952242062304227328
> The official needed being in a meeting or tending to something of greater importance

I'm struggling to think what meeting or item would have an importance higher than "incoming ballistic nuclear missiles".
Wouldn’t that likely end up as a sawtooth pattern at the speaker and thus introduce a number of harmonics?
Interesting that McArdle sees Google as vulnerable because conservative small businesses will choose to advertise elsewhere. Such as? Though I'm generally in agreement that the situation she described was a fiasco, her read on the consequences feels naive, to say the least.
You have to do more than insert a backdoor. You have to keep it secret as well, and that is almost impossible to do.
Human error or crying wolf aside, it's an interesting exercise from which residents can learn what is truly lacking in the case of such an emergency.

Hopefully instead of seeking to cast blame or personnel firings, etc., folks will learn what it is they lack in emergency response.
I don't think that people understand what they are buying. There is an expectation that Walmart wouldn't sell something that cannot work at all, but they do.

Don't buy 5 years old hardware second hands, it's poor investment and I speak from experience. Hardware has a limited lifespan then it just dies. The hard drive, the motherboard or the screen fail without notice and you're screwed.
Sickle-Cell Patients See Hope in CRISPR
What do you want to do about it? Go to war with North Korea?
The decision to replace some but only about half of the system configuration dialogs with "Metro" ones (which are worse on desktop) is baffling. It makes it completely inconsistent.
That's fantastic. I believe Men's Warehouse's founder (who has been ousted) also advocated for something similar. I wonder how well those "second chance" hires end up working out compared to typical hires. I have to imagine those that have reformed themselves appreciate the opportunity and may end up being more loyal employees longterm, but I also have to assume there are some who don't turn it around.
The Telecom Industry Lobbied Against Testing for Emergency Alert System
Just watched an interview on CNN with the Governor of Hawaii and their director of emergency management. Pretty impressed that the director didn't throw anybody under the bus. He basically said "An employee pushed the wrong button. It's my responsibility, so this is my fault. We're going to make procedure and technical changes to make sure this doesn't happen again."
The cost of keeping someone in prison is way more than most prisoners could earn at similar menial jobs.

Of course, that doesn't mean that costs can be sent to the taxpayer while profits are routed to somebody else.

But that is how many things are. Once again, lobbyists manipulate lawmakers into doing things they would not do if voters had their interests more faithfully represented.
do you think she'll have a fighting chance or is this just publicity?
Well they tested the nuclear/missle attack warning sirens in Hawain cities for the first time in a very long time last month. Just because the sirens were installed during the cold war doesnt make the new attention and urgency being given to them is any less new. Same with the underlying infrastructure behind cell phone alerts being old while the systems on top are being newly revised and tested.

Clearly there is a whole bunch of new attention being paid towards this.

And rightfully so given the provocations from NK and the general decline in maintenance/quality of the US nuclear and ICBM weapon systems.
The W3C box model became standard and IE was criticized for its quirky noncompliant behavior [1], but then many years later 'box-sizing: border-box' was introduced and widely praised and adopted by frameworks [2][3]; it's funny how things change.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_box_model_bu... [2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/box-sizing [3] https://css-tricks.com/international-box-sizing-awareness-da...
The classification as "developing" depends on what is being tracked. If measuring human development is a criteria to be evaluated, the UNDP tracks and computes since 1990 [0] the Human Development Index (HDI)[1] for several countries including India. India's HDI [2] is low relative to a country like Brazil [3].

[0] http://hdr.undp.org/en/data

[1] http://hdr.undp.org/en/content/human-development-index-hdi

[2] http://hdr.undp.org/en/countries/profiles/IND

[3] http://hdr.undp.org/en/countries/profiles/BRA
Now, just ~1000 other commands to go
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But at the same time, better we learn about these problems now than later.
When they reinstated the alert system, they also put out a bunch of campaigns about how you should take shelter. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/hawaii-reinstates...
Instead giving access to EVERYTHING seems a little overdrive then....
Events specifically related to an incoming ICBM? Context matters. People will react differently depending on the circumstances, which means there are things to learn there.

The least nefarious reason for a 3 letter agency to do this would be to dry-run a reaction plan to such an event, and take what they learn from reactions & apply what they learn to improve said plan

Then again, it could be a dry-run to measure peoples sentiments toward a war with NK. Less likely, but still possible.
I'd argue it makes sense to have test drills simply because the system exists: much like backups need testing, so do emergency systems. I'm not sure that the current state of the world should influence whether or not the systems are tested.
"Then the team showed the worms with the regrown heads where to find food, essentially a refresher course of their light training before decapitation."

Uh...
That's the current model, the Brainport. The original was indeed a chair, back in the late '60s, and there were several users. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Bach-y-Rita
NTFS and APFS support sparse files, HFS+ does not.
You can't make them hold the image in their head for you to pick it out, though.
> Absolutely not. Once you say “fire” you need official confirmation to say “no fire”.

Whether they had or needed "official confirmation" the Hawaii EMA still tweeted "NO missile threat to Hawaii" ~13 min after the false alert https://twitter.com/Hawaii_EMA/status/952243912415985664

Would be nice if they could stick to the same medium and ensure timely delivery for this type of correction.
For reference, a 32GB SD card is $10 and a TB disk is $40.
There you again: it is useful to have a testing environment.

https://nwschat.weather.gov/p.php?pid=201801131825-PHFO-NOHW...
Not to sound crude but if a nuclear bomb what can people on an island really do?
I'd suggest trying baclofen if you haven't. It doesn't work for everyone but it does work in some cases for both narcolepsy and circiadian issues and if it does work for you it is one of the better sleep drugs available (even if not usually considered as a sleep drug).
But if you're not even going to pretend 3rd parties (and 4th, 5th, etc) are even a remote possibility, you may as well give up pretending your democracy actually has the sort of good qualities that makes people prefer it over other types of government... (a hair's breadth away from calling it "not a democracy" because technically you still got to choose Kang over Kodos)
As an insider: Windows developers hated the full-screen start menu and were vocal about it. We were the first ones to experience it and generally thought, "They're not going to ship this... right?" At some point, we were told that the design was set and no amount of complaining would change it.

Windows 8 was designed before the iPad was announced, but that 3 year ship cycle this article discusses came back to bite Microsoft. Their vision was a hybrid system but then Apple came out and solidified themselves as the standard tablet. Microsoft lost their ability to define the market and the market liked Apple's definition better.
Yeah, if there's one thing I've learned, my life and the people in it have value beyond the paycheck I can earn by forgoing it and working 90-hour weeks. In my mind it's foolish to arrange your life around how big your paycheck is. You need money to live and make plans, but your paycheck isn't some great accomplishment in itself. It's everything else the paycheck enables that matters. And it's quite an accomplishment to know when it's enough.
Generally I wouldn't post an image link, but I found this on reddit and found it useful. Lot of designers and entrepreneurs here so decided to share it. Hope that doesn't break the rules.
Hyper-concise history of Western Civ, centuries XVIII-XXI ...
How did he spread misinformation?
Learning from physician suicides: “Assembly-line medicine kills doctors.”
Ask HN: How to survive a malware discovery? (part 1)
Throwaway account for obvious reasons.

TL;DR: I need the HN community’s advice. How do I play my cards right in order to license my anti-malware technology without going broke or dying of old age first?

------------

I discovered a form of cross-platform malware that I believe to be extremely dangerous, potentially affecting just about all macOS, Windows, and iOS devices, as well as some Linux ones. Please, just for the sake of this discussion, take my word that it could be 10x worse, in terms of number of devices infected, than the worst malware pandemic to date.

After agonizing with what to do with this information, given that I don’t want anyone to get hurt from it, someone else is eventually going to figure it out, and I would like to profit, legally, through its responsible disclosure, I considered participating in bug bounty programs, but decided against it.

Although bounties have historically gone up, I believe they’re still very much on the low side, due to an asymmetry of negotiating power. Big software firms get wind of dozens of zero-days every year, and once they hear about them, they can (usually) quietly patch their code without paying anything at all. What’s the little guy gonna do about it?

They throw the community a bone now and again to minimize costs, but the fact is the discoverers don’t have a good-guy leg to stand on, even though the discoverers have the power to mobilize their discoveries for evil and cost software manufacturers billions (and many do).

Even worse, many bug bounty programs explicitly rule out certain characteristics of some malware exploits, which this one would arguably fall into, even though it would be no less dangerous.
>most tech companies of scale have optimized their hiring process to pass as few low-quality workers as possible

And look at the results! Those companies never have outages or push out defective code into production or allow security vulnerabilities through speculative execution say.

I'm being a bit sarcastic but glass houses, etc.
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He died so young.
I don't think "politically incorrect" is necessarily correlated with "unpopular" - see, for instance, the number of news articles about how countless people are thrilled with Trump for saying out loud the "politically incorrect" things that they were just thinking.
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Or you could not drive out and just pack your lunch from home.
Surprising but I guess it makes sense since we know of "muscle memory" as storing information outside of the brain.

Same with decapitated chickens who are clearly still experiencing panic and attempting to flee until they die.
It's good to see people react. There are lots of stories of people dying in disasters because they didn't take it seriously. E.g. sirens blaring for a tornado alert, and people are just continue mowing their lawns. Or people continue eating their meal when the building is on fire, who ended up dying.
From what CNN is saying, it doesn't sound like it was a drill. The gov. of Hawaii said that the emergency management people were going through their normal shift-change procedures and somebody did the equivalent of:

'rm -rf $HOME/ foo' vs 'rm -rf $HOME/foo'
Would also like to read this.
Since this is behind a paywall, here's a description of the problems being encountered: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baden-Württemberg-class_frigat...
If you're engaged in a drill that's a completely predictable failure mode which you should have a standby plan for.

This happened on a week-end. The coders could have very well been at home.

Again, why would you perform a drill involving mass emergency mobilization and not manage that risk? What if this had happened during a morning commute or in some part of the country where people are more easily panicked?

With great power comes great responsibility, remember?
Study: An automated training paradigm reveals long-term memory in planaria and its persistence through head regeneration

Citation: Tal Shomrat, Michael Levin. Journal of Experimental Biology 2013. Published July 2, 2013

Link: http://jeb.biologists.org/lookup/doi/10.1242/jeb.087809

DOI: 10.1242/jeb.087809

Summary: Planarian flatworms are a popular system for research into the molecular mechanisms that enable these complex organisms to regenerate their entire body, including the brain. Classical data suggest that they may also be capable of long-term memory. Thus, the planarian system may offer the unique opportunity to study brain regeneration and memory in the same animal. To establish a system for the investigation of the dynamics of memory in a regenerating brain, we developed a computerized training and testing paradigm that avoided the many issues that confounded previous, manual attempts to train planarians. We then used this new system to train flatworms in an environmental familiarization protocol. We show that worms exhibit environmental familiarization, and that this memory persists for at least 14 days – long enough for the brain to regenerate. We further show that trained, decapitated planarians exhibit evidence of memory retrieval in a savings paradigm after regenerating a new head. Our work establishes a foundation for objective, high-throughput assays in this molecularly tractable model system that will shed light on the fundamental interface between body patterning and stored memories. We propose planarians as key emerging model species for mechanistic investigations of the encoding of specific memories in biological tissues. Moreover, this system is lik ely to have important implications for the biomedicine of stem-cell-derived treatments of degenerative brain disorders in human adults.
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What makes you think the new OS won't waste more than 2% of your time?
I would think someone who committed murder had a better chance than someone who committed any significant property theft.
You've got some fake news in your citations, "bro."

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/01/the-v...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kalevleetaru/2017/01/01/fake-ne...
Keeping emoji consistent across platforms was seriously a great move by WhatsApp (and others like Facebook Messenger, who use their own emoji set). This way, users don't have to worry about how the emoji they send might appear on the recipient's device.