skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if the mixed reviews of iOS 11 have led them to do such major overhaul. Say if iOS was responsibility of one software dev team, and they recently hired a new project manager to overlook iOS 11 development and release then I would definitely transfer that PM somewhere else in the corp along with QA guys.

For example that bug "typing the letter 'I' autocorrects to an 'A; with a unicode [?] symbol instead" might not be that big of a deal, but as we all noticed how such minute change had drastic ripple effect in entire Apple's ecosystem.
No different than today.
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You still can't overwrite files created by privileged users unless explicitly allowed to do so by the creator of the file. If you could, a lot more things would be broken in Windows.
That's funny, we couldn't deploy H2 because there were problems with HAProxy/Apache and Safari. And it looks like a very similar issue:

http://www.wiktorzychla.com/2017/06/http2-keep-alive-and-saf...
> Yet, most of today's populus have barely enough to eat.

But today, this is a political problem, not a scientific one. After all, the world produces more than enough food for everyone.
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This extends beyond public wifis -- people put way too much trust in LANs. When I connect to a foreign LAN, I treat it as if I had connected straight to the internet.
You're right,

And essentially the only way to achieve the optimum (maximum price discrimination?) is to know that specific consumer's demand curve -- which is also the whole idea behind "contact us" pricing pages.

I also think there is a limit to how complicated you can make the payment system before the user just gets confused. So that definitely should be considered. But two-part seems to be a familiar model for most people.
Zelle doesn't even come close. It looks fine until you use it.

Then you discover that:

1)You need an app to use it (because websites are so passe!) - an app that may or may not work, and will likely crash;

2)You will hit an arbitrary, hidden limit when you try to use it - as insultingly low as $300/week for an out-of-network bank.

These limits are not posted anywhere, and it takes 2 levels of computer service just to find out what they are.

3)The ClearXChange network (aka Chase QuickPay, etc) that didn't have these drawbacks has been shut down and replaced by Zelle.

After going through this, I am still mailing actual paper checks to pay my rent. It is simply easier for everyone involved, and there are no fees.
I'm curious to see what the decompiler would show if it were run over binaries produced by Go or Rust. This might be an invaluable tool to help programmers in higher level languages than C understand what really goes on under the hood.
But sniffing probe requests doesn't get you much. You get a list of SSIDs they've seen, which could be potentially bad, but not nearly as bad as insecure sites not being marked as such.
For those people citing anecdotal accounts of "well the employees were okay with it," it's probably worthwhile to read what someone who was a professional woman in the 1970s has to say about what things were like back then: http://wgntv.com/2018/01/22/ruth-bader-ginsburg-describes-fa....

> “Every woman of my vintage knows what sexual harassment is, although we didn’t have a name for it,” she told the session’s moderator, Nina Totenberg, before detailing an incident when she was a student at Cornell in the 1950s and preparing for a chemistry test.

> “My instructor said … ‘I’ll give you a practice exam,'” Ginsburg said. The next day she discovered that the practice exam was, in fact, the real test. “And I knew exactly what he wanted in return,” she said. “And that’s just one of many examples.”

> Ginsburg said there was nothing a young woman could do about harassment at the time. The general attitude of the day, she said, was “get past it” and “boys will be boys.”
You're making the zero sum economic fallacy. More demand for solar panels finances more panels growing, increasing economies of scale reducing panel costs, and also, quite literally growing the total capacity of panels available in the world.
The one thing I've learned from our pricing inquiries over the last year, is that customers will often pay far more than you suspect, provided the product is packaged correctly.

I'll do a write-up once we are more settled in our pricing about our pricing journey, but in a nutshell.

1) early 'customers' said they wouldn't pay anything, or maybe $50/year - we have no business

2) giving them pricing < $100/year for x number users where they would likely spend $200 / year was a no go.

3) giving them pricing of $800/year with more users than they would likely ever have was interesting to them

4) telling them it was $800/year without limitations on the number of users, and they think it's too cheap.

5) tell them that it's $800 per x number of users so they would need to spend $5000 per year where they are currently spending $3000 on their alternative, and they are still interested.

This is one of our customer segments, the thing is, many of these customers would likely only have paid $150 on a per-use plan. But they want to pay more, and not have to think about per use.

The challenge for us, is our cost for each of their users is high, and as this is a new market, it is very difficult for any of us to forecast usage. We're learning.

Don't undersell yourself, and I've learned that focusing on the packaging is as important as the actual $$.

Also, how many people are charging the same amount in $ and €? We give the same dollar amount to both groups, don't undersell on exchange rate either (I don't think).
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People can buy them from carriers, at least Verizon I know.

Google offers only one or two (differing in size not features) phones every year or so.

A huge number of phone sales are not flagship phones, but <$300 ones.
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fast.ai courses are the best I've taken. You start with implementing things immediately then get into the details later. It makes it less like a grind to learn everything beforehand.
Because people found it interesting.

Also it's against HN policy to moan / comment about why non-tech / VC news features on the front page.
> He asks me to go to Live.com (the Microsoft email site) and enter a random username and password. A few seconds later, the information I just typed appears on his screen.

This was interesting - how? Shouldn't only the hash of the PW be sent over the network?
Hmm...I bet the owners beg to do differ with the valuation.
Nokia phones have two years of Android updates guaranteed.
> Facebook is a $100 billion social media giant, trusted by billions of people.

I think you are confused. "Used" and "trusted" mean very different things, and you seem to be using the latter where only the former is justifiable.
Same same.

I block ads with great prejudice and I'll block miners with equal prejudice.

Both are a waste of my bandwidth, my battery power and my attention.
First off: consent is, by definition, simply an agreement. To have consent is to have an agreement. A lot of things in this world don't have a formal or even informal agreement, but happen anyway, and aren't immediately considered bad due to the lack of a prearranged agreement. Consent can become complicated because human interactions are often complicated. So it's not a good idea to generalize about consent, because it varies dramatically depending on circumstances.

> The thing that separates rape from sex is consent.

That's not true, but I'm sure a lot of people are trying to make that seem true.

> Arguably, the thing that determines whether any behavior that involves more than one person is okay or isn't is whether all parties consent.

What determines whether behavior is okay or isn't is society's moral standards. Consent is a part of this in some circumstances. You could argue that there are unwritten societal rules that we implicitly consent to as members of a society, but certainly not everything we do in society involves consent.

For example, according to law, I do not need your consent to talk to you. But it would appear that saying hello to a stranger is not considered bad behavior. Perhaps I have implicit consent to say hello to strangers? Or perhaps we just didn't need consent?

> Why should a third party come in and decide for them whether behavior they consent to is acceptable?

A lot of reasons, again, depending on the circumstance. The concept of 'informed consent' in medicine requires that a person be fully informed of the risks and consequences of a procedure before they can legally be said to have consented. This is to protect the patient as well as the surgeon. There is no consenting for assault according to federal law, which is designed to prevent difficult legal situations where someone might be said to have invited an assault. And there is the concept of 'implicit consent' when you obtain a driver's license that you will submit yourself to a chemical test for driving under the influence if a police officer has cause.

You don't really have human rights. You have human privileges.
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This is obviously wrong on so many levels, but just to point out the most glaring flaw: How is ethics only relevant when people's survival is at stake?
This has gotten a bit better since then with HSTS (and I didn't understand whether the attacker was doing SSL stripping, but it's also gotten a lot better against a passive attacker with much greater HTTPS adoption). But a significant fraction of these attacks would certainly still reveal sensitive information.
Just not one provided by say, facebook https://9to5mac.com/2018/02/13/facebook-protect-spyware-ios/
I'm guessing you're referring to this quote from the OP:

> “There was a certain amount of sexism as far as ogling,” she said. “But that went both ways.” [emphasis mine]

You'd make a shitty historian because you can't seem to help but impose your modern POV onto historical events. These people clearly had a very different perspective than you on all of this, and their perspective is, frankly, the more important one.
Sometimes. If it's dual citizenship between two NATO countries you're probably okay. But I'm not the expert on this so YMMV.
I hope she wins because that requisite is dumb. You can endorse a $50 check but you can't endorse a multimillion lottery ticket?
The result is the reaction to a given text; it won't fully be the same as a sentiment analysis, unfortunately.

Additionally, as I put in the README notes, keep in mind that the network is trained on modern (2016-2017) language. As a result, inputting rhetorical/ironic statements will often yield love/wow responses and not sad/angry. That type of systemic bias in text analysis is currently unsolved and there isn't an easy way to account for it.

"I am so angry" and "I'm going to go home and listen to emo music and cry" are phrases that would likely be posted on Facebook ironically, and therefore classifying it tricky.

For the other examples, yes, that result might be overfitting on characters and while setting up the model I had difficulty accounting for that while still getting the model to converge.

I'll admit it's not a perfect model (it was a side project while I was frustrated during a job hunt), but it's a great proof of concept. Unfortunately, since Facebook crippled their /posts endpoint, I can't get more data to improve the model...
I would go with Stripe over Paypal. Paypal is just too problematic in many respects. They have perhaps improved their behavior over the years, but I always try to discourage people from using Paypal because... well, after all the e-commerce work I've done, I just don't like Paypal as a company. Strictly my opinion, based on my experiences and reading about others' hassles.

There are lots of e-commerce related companies you could use beside Stripe/Paypal, but they are the big ones in terms of global reach, I think. They key thing for you is to make donating easy as possible, so said donator does not reconsider their impulse to donate in the midst of the process. Assuming you know how to program, Stripe is dead easy to set up (Paypal is a headache).

Patreon and Bitcoin/alt-coins are solutions as well - no reason to limit yourself to only one thing. The recent kerfuffle over Patreon changing the way they deal with patrons and 'artists' is something you should look into.

Another possibility is, if you can spin what you do somehow in the right way, the outfits that support donating to charitable orgs and such might provide some functionality you find useful. There is a lot of them and they'd take a cut, but then you don't have to do much like set up your own e-commerce infrastructure.

And Brave (a new browser) is doing something with micropayments, but I do not know what the status of that is.
When our first son was three years old we would stick his high chair in front of the TV at lunch time, give him food, and turn on a Leap Frog phonics DVD. We had three: 1) Letter Factory, 2) Talking Words Factory, and 3) Talking Words Factory II. Our son absolutely loved these and wanted to watch them over and over again every day. Within about four months he started spontaneously reading things like the sign in a business window that says "open". Within a year or so he could read whole children's books. I couldn't believe it. With our next son, we waited patiently until he was three and tried it again: same result. The only other thing we did (which took much more effort) was read them bedtime stories every night before bed. With that, we had two boys reading before they started school. I can't recommend these DVDs enough.
Usually no.
Your comparisons are rather odd, given that most universities do have ethics requirements for the sciences, focused on examples from the field in question.

Biology: Do not repeat the Tuskegee experiements. Do not be the next Andrew Wakefield.

Physics: Do not falsify data. Do not plagiarize results. Do not play fast and loose with statistics.

I can definitely see corresponding examples being made for issues that affect CS.

CS: Do not collect customer information that is not needed for the task at hand. Do not describe your machine-learning model as being free of bias based on race/sex, if you was trained with real-world data that may be biased.
I notice there are apparently still rolling releases coming out for it?

I've run the latest ones and for a quick and dirty live desktop from a super small image, it still seems to be a good option.

I tried looking around for what happened to SliTaz, is there an article/detail anywhere on that (the transition/rewrite/zombification)?
Not sure why there's a hard-no on working overtime. Not everyone finds value or fulfillment in the same way or has the same goals.

My cousin just went from being an intern at Tesla to a FTE. This group change entailed going from 11-12 hour days to 9-10 hour days. It's crazy and maybe not for everyone but he's happy there.

I work at a more chill company, but sometimes there's something I want to do on the company code base that is not asked for by any stakeholders. I'm happy to occasionally put in an extra 10% to do something that scratches my own itch. I don't see much difference between this and someone who goes home and works in their garden or plays with Arduino or tinkers on an old car.
> Is something a problem, let alone a serious one, if it doesn't bother those who are affected by it?

Do you think people in 1850 were "bothered" by the fact that they couldn't take regular showers?
> I do see a study showing that the average amount spent per person in the US is around $200ish (https://lendedu.com/blog/lottery-study-report/), which doesn't sound completely terrible.

i feel like that's pretty bad, next to an article like:

https://www.fool.com/investing/2017/10/01/why-half-of-americ...
The American media landscape is being reshaped by the whims of the ultra-rich
I think the operator of a lottery-style gambling game has an obligation to publish its list of winners. It does not have an obligation to say how much they won.

This prevents the operator from simply saying someone has won and never paying out. In theory, you could go around to everyone on the list and ask them if they won a lottery prize. If anyone denies it, the operator might be pocketing prize money.

It is clear from the available evidence that publishing the amount that someone has won does harm to the winners. It becomes feedstock for a "people to rob or defraud" list. The same principle is applied to the secret ballot, wherein anyone can find out if you voted in an election or not, but they cannot know whom you voted for unless you tell them yourself. You can, of course, lie to them if you desire.

Q: Ma'am, did you win the lottery this week?
A: Yes. My name is on the list, isn't it?
Q: How much did you win?
A: A dollar.
Q: You didn't win the jackpot?
That's a new car, isn't it?
A: Of course not.
I got a good deal on the financing, that's all.
Q: And the 12-foot bronze statue of
David Hasselhoff's Baywatch character?
A: I found it at a dump.
Q: Clearly, you also hired Peter Dinklage
to dress up as Tyrion for your birthday party.
A: That's just an enthusiastic cosplayer.

It's also difficult to enjoy being rich without making it glaringly obvious that you have money, so I'm not seeing any pressing need for the judge to anonymize this particular winner after the fact. It might be warranted for the state to look into legislation that places greater weight on the financial privacy of future winners.
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It isn't a particularly long or difficult read.
Yes, but the article takes a focus on this too. But it's more useful for tracking people, for example in a large building.
Your point three doesn't seem very accurate.

First, the withholding rate is immaterial, it's clearly not enough to meet the tax obligations, you'll owe much more, and should start paying quarterly estimated taxes right away.

Because the annuity is pre-tax, the annuity payments will be taxable. There is some positive tax benefit of spreading the income over many years, because you have a lower marginal tax rate on the bottom of the bracket, but if the annual payments are $2-3 million, there's still a large amount taxed at the maximum rates.

In addition, if you take the lump sum, and invest it, your gains will likely be in the form of qualified dividends, and long term capital gains, which have more favorable tax treatment. If you invest in tax-exempt bonds, you won't pay any tax on the bond payments (but can still have taxable capital gains or losses on the bonds themselves).

The behavioral factors are much more compelling.

I would also take issue with 2; you can take the lump sum and dump it in a Target Date 2030 fund, and be done with it. It's not tax optimized, but whatever, it's easy and done. Yes, you need an estate attorney to help you draw up wills and/or living trusts, but that's not a big deal either. Also, get a big umbrella insurance policy to cover whatever. Because there's no way to shelter the lump sum (or annuity) payments from taxes, and because future capital gains will have preferential treatment, there's not much reason to spend a lot of effort on heroic tax avoidance. You probably need to spend a little bit more on legal advice when you take up new ventures than you would otherwise, but that's only needed when you take up the new venture.
Web applications normally receive the real password on each login, but only store the hash in their long-term databases.

In this case the attacker might have also been doing SSL stripping, which (1) would typically work even if it were an HTTPS site, but not if it had HSTS or an HSTS preload; (2) would also allow him to change the site's user interface so that it asked for or received information in a different way from usual. So even if a site didn't normally solicit or transmit some specific kind of information, the tampered-with version might do so, assuming the attacker had thought to prepare a modified version of that particular site.
What does learning have to do with consciousness? These are orthogonal issues. That's the whole point of Chalmers argument.
I'm not an expert on the history of the feminist movement, but I do think the more sex-negative forms of feminism are more prominent today. A NYT op-ed advocating for the banning of pornography was just published a few days ago. It seems like to me, the sex wars were never won, they just were forgotten, with sex-negative feminists today latching on to #metoo and trying to use it to share their perspective, and it feels like they are more visible for the most part.
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Autonomous drones are a technology that will be more dangerous than nuclear weapons and need to be regulated and controlled like nuclear technology.
mostly sublime text. I occasionally use vim.
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Perhaps what you are perceiving is backlash against a growing culture. These "activists" behave fairly consistently, after all.

I'm not interested in making personal attacks. I'm only highlighting two of the more prominent scammers that hide behind this facade of tolerance and inclusiveness, a behavior which I find particularly abhorrent, especially when combined with life ruinous doxxing and trial by twitter, which these women specifically and hypocritically complain about.

There are two sides to every story, after all. It isn't fair to simply dismiss any inconvenient argument as an ad hominem. Perhaps you should make an open minded attempt to understand why there are millions of successful, rational, adjusted people who feel as I do, but only in secret. Ask yourself, why is it taboo to critically analyze anything associated with these women or modern feminism?
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In other words, what computers in particular are they accused of hacking, and why would said computers be exposed in such a way to allow anyone to access them as easily as they say they were?
What office you worked in? I used to meet a lot of Nokia refugees in Vancouver and Seattle. Almost all retell the same story: C-Levels spending more time flying than on the ground, complete sturpor with platform development, internal sabotage in between internal symbian teams
Hey! Sorry, slight typo on our end, the notebook should still work fine, but the manual download didn't work for a bit.

It's fixed now though! Thanks for the heads up and I hope you've found it useful! Happy to hear any other feedback as well :)
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Aside of the history, an O'Reilly-like cover generator https://dev.to/rly
I'm genuinely curious, why would that help? Would that change the way you viewed the tool?
There are many elements of ethics unique to software developers, that should be taught outside of a basic ethics course
> and now Australia

I'd argue the system this sort of replaces, bank numbers + account numbers, was still better than the US. It provided next day transfer between banks and intra day transfers between the same bank. All for free.