skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The post kind of dances around exactly what 'information' was exfiltrated from the targeted user, but it's pretty clear from a close reading that it has to have included his Chrome passwords.

unfortunately we could not be able to enter the registration-only web sites he was using to provide this information to other pirates.

We found ... that the particular cracker had used Chrome to contact our servers so we decided to capture his information directly

.. to dump that cracker's information needed for us to gain access to those illicit web sites

this method worked, in fact, and we were able to receive this information

This all followed by screenshots from the "registration-only web sites" they could not previously reach.

Also, at least one of the initial reddit reports which set off this whole thing was due to A/V software detecting an executable file included in the installer (which was dropped but not executed on all user installs) as "Chrome Password Dump" malware.

Edit: The earliest responses about this from FSLabs seem to confirm that they were running the password dumps on anyone who was using known pirated serials; it looks safe to say that the linked post is overstating how targeted their actions actually were.

This method has already successfully provided information that we're going to use in our ongoing legal battles against such criminals.

If they truly believe that they have any hope of using any information thus gathered to aid them in their 'legal battles' against crackers and pirates, this is one deeply confused company.
Points 1 and 3 depend heavily on your biological clock. Not everyone is a morning person.
Any successful Chinese business is or becomes a Chinese state-owned business. The only difference is that the Chinese govt is the rentier, versus multiple ones in the US.
Right but... was anybody unaware of that? There's plenty out there critiquing right-leaning beliefs that we didn't really need another. I think it was plenty fair in that it just presented a critical analysis of one side without necessarily supporting the other. You don't need to be fair to every side of an argument to point out a flaw.

I mostly got that there's parallels to draw between the idea of breaking down existing power structures while ignoring how you have to build new ones in their place. Instead of seeing a lack of critique of a side I already believe to be flawed, I see themes to be considered when I tell myself I've got the right of it.

Another way of seeing it: when attempting to knock someone else off their high horse, you don't need to be reassured that they deserved to be knocked off of their horse to be reminded not to climb up on your own afterwards.
It was like this for me when I tried to do a PhD. Since I'm working in software development it's hard for me to stop working in the evening.

What applied to me might not apply to you.

But changing my occupation to something I really want did definitely help.
> why wouldn't you just use some mundane blue-collar language

Because for something so mundane then it really doesn't matter what you use and you know the domain so well that you can recover from any hangups.

I certainly don't consider it self-evident that you always just use mundane solutions to mundane problems. Depends on your appetite for risk and how biz-critical the problem is.
why can't this be done with real images?
Similar to the demonization of Obama by the right.
The (R)evolution of China: Offshore Wind Diffusion
Ah, I guess that explains it. Although that does not require the engine to have under-the-hood layout respect that, does it? They could just as easily choose to keep the memory layout in the same order.

Although I suppose you're already required to have two separate hidden classes to distinguish these two kinds of objects anyway.

> with a bizarre exception for arrays

Wow, you weren't joking with how bizarre this gets:

var a = {};
var b = {};
a.a = 0;
a.b = 1;
a[0] = 0;
a[1] = 1;
b.b = 1;
b.a = 0;
b[1] = 1;
b[0] = 0;
Object.keys(a); // Array [ "0", "1", "a", "b" ]
Object.keys(b); // Array [ "0", "1", "b", "a" ]

PS: Thanks for making a great shell :)
Between all individuals? No, I don't see much of that. Between some groups though? Yes, there are many that are aiming for parity after you split people in to different bundles. I don't think they see themselves as being for equality of outcome though.

Some of those people don't see any reason for there to not be equality of outcome between groups other than discrimination. So to them, they aren't after equality of outcome, they're fighting discrimination. It just so happens that those things are one and the same for them.

For others, I think they recognise that their initiatives are focused on equality of outcome, but the long term goal is to achieve equality of opportunity. The idea being that seeing people like yourself do something is important in considering it an option, and that making yourself a minority isn't very attractive even if the other aspects of the position might be. The equality of outcome in the short term approach is a way to address the chicken and egg style problem of for example, not wanting to be the only woman in a 15 person development team.
I wish there was a guarantee that when you bought a legal eBook from Amazon that it would be well edited.

I bought the Kindle version of A Deepness In The Sky recently and it's full of what seem like OCR errors. Missing punctuation, spelling errors like "A1" instead of "AI", the word "hands" mysteriously in italics for a chunk of the book... There's no way anyone read it before putting it up for sale. I wrote to them in their formatting feedback form thing but that's just gone into the void.
I would argue that without Musk's PR Tesla would be worth not 10% of what it's worth today. So yeah, he probably earned his seat at the time. I wasn't there though, so can't make a final judgement.

Btw putting in work to earn one's place is something completely different from letting someone else work and simply claim the success. At least from my perspective.
That's a red herring, what we'd call whataboutery in my home country.
China actively tortures thousands of homosexuals in an effort to cure them:

https://www.hrw.org/news/2017/11/14/china-end-conversion-the...

https://www.economist.com/news/china/21731405-quack-treatmen...
Similarly, do they get access to my data if I travel to China and connect to Apple servers from there? Does that trigger a 'replicate to China' job because I'm now a user in China?
I can guarantee that it's not. I first heard the term 'social justice warrior' as a label from people who were fighting human trafficking (freeing modern day slaves) and they were proud to label themselves 'social justice warriors'. This was around 2012, long before the 'alt right' was a group or label.

Over time the people who claim to be 'social justice warriors' and the people who get labelled SJW by others has changed, but the term didn't originate from the Alt Right, and it definitely didn't originate from something people called someone else. The first users who popularized the term applied it to themselves.
Excellent question! I am definitely not an expert in medical and food certification. I might be wrong in this case (and I'm often wrong anyway). Yet I believe the manufacturer has medical certification because I've seen the same NaCl solution bottles used in infusion therapy in hospitals, on the label is printed "medicine" at least twice and the manufacturer is one of the largest domestic producer and exporter of medicines in Serbia.
It's also ridiculously easy to DoS. I've heard stories of exchanges freezing funds that were two hops away from gambling sites. Now, buy something with a gambling withdrawal and watch exchanges freeze the merchant's account.
If a compelling economic reason arises, travel times under current technology aren't unreasonable. In the age of sail, whalers and merchants routinely went on even multiyear voyages. There are other life-support challenges to surmount, but then again, we'll probably end up with robotic spacecraft anyway doing long haul routes, and that becomes more moot.
Nobody is attempting to forcibly suppress pseudoscience. Speaking out against it is not "battling" it. I've read Randi's book, he's not trying to suppress misplaced beliefs. He's ridiculing them.

Carl Sagan's books ridiculed astrology. He made no attempt to suppress it.

Huge difference.

Mel Brooks once was asked why he wrote a comedy about Hitler (The Producers). He replied that ridicule was the best way to oppose bad ideas.

Not suppressing them.
Hi!

You may just score low on the contientiousness scale of the big five, do this test and see!

https://www.understandmyself.com/

If you score low on that dimension of personality, routine does not come easily to you by nature of your personality. It's not bad per-se but it means it will be harder for you to make and keep a schedule (which apparently is the advice for people low in that dimension).

I score low, and as a result I always have to keep on top of myself. I thought it was bad and carried a lot of guilt about it because I thought it should 'be easy'.

Send me an email if you want to discuss privately (ryan at 137 dot ms).
But libertarians and true believers of free speech support the right of people to discriminate with their speech. For example, from the article, "Anyone doing so would be met by a unified front of academics, journalists, and cultural figures expressing their moral outrage, wrapped up in sophisticated words and scientific-sounding terminology like xenophobia." A true Libertarian would support their right to do and say this. One can disagree with it, but it's them using their freedom of speech.
Brutal example of the impact of L3 cache misses on simple algorithm
APK devs should be checking to see if they have been granted permissions instead of crashing.
https://developer.android.com/reference/android/support/v4/c..., java.lang.String)

If an application won't work after I've turned off all the permissions that it shouldn't need, it simply gets uninstalled.
I feel pity for the older and more experienced founder who (allegedly) took advantage of the younger and naive one. But I also feel pity for the younger founder who was exploited and didn't know any better.

Maybe it is more pitiful than pathetic for the older and wiser businessman to (allegedly) take advantage of a younger and more naive person. But it is most certainly pathetic for somebody to give up 10% of their company for nothing, whether it is by being tricked or by being bullied or whatever.

That isn't a judgement on how common or uncommon this situation is, nor how intelligent either party is, nor on their value as a person. And perhaps we interpret the meaning of the word differently, but to me it means simply evoking pity.

The irony that this post itself might be interpreted as pathetic is not lost on me, but I think it is far more pedantic than pathetic so at least I have that going for me.
It actually is related to the halting problem. Rice's theorem is the directly relevant result though. Formal verification of more constrained systems is possible though.
Sorry, I missed this in some other discussion.

Fundamentally, I think you're just making a lot of this up to suit your ideological views.

For example: "Would 9 inches do? Obviously that'd be way more than enough, yet that'd be a violation of CalCode giving them sufficient cause to find and/or shut down your business. Some politician somewhere at some time decided all sinks must be at least 10 inches deep. Why? No good reason"

Do you have any data demonstrating this sink issue? I'm betting no. Having cooked commercially, though, I can tell you a deep sink is absolutely necessary to clean well. Is the numeric measurement possibly a little arbitrary? Sure. Most are, but that's better than just "have a pretty deep sink", because you want to install that sink once. You don't want to rip it out later when an inspector says, "Not deep enough, try again."

The people I've met who work on regulatory issues are smart, sincere, and often really want to make things work for users. That's especially true for business regulation, as business owners have the political clout to complain.

I note also that you're energetically conflating restaurants, prepackaged food facilities, and food trucks. Those are all pretty different businesses.

Another example: "This is all an enormous burden on individuals starting businesses"

I doubt it. I know people who have started restaurants, catering companies, and a premade food company. None of them ever have mention this as a particularly big burden. They complain about all sorts of other things. Staff, customers, competitors, and definitely prices from suppliers and landlords. Never one grumble about safety regulations.

As an aside, the reason that many regulations don't seem "common sense" is generally that some asshole found a way to do something bothersome, so they had to add another regulation. For example, in LA people started to effectively run dodgy used-car lots out of public parking on major streets, inconveniencing both people who wanted to park and merchants who wanted customers to park. Last I heard they were looking at a variety of regulatory solutions, none of which would seem "common sense" unless you know the problem. It's the same deal with building codes; many regulations don't make sense until an expert tells you what's up.

And the same applies with software, really. Look at all the things people have to do to make secure software. Many of the rules make no sense unless you have an attacker in mind.

So given that your basic take seems to be, "I, an internet random, think some regulations I know nothing about are dumb," I guess my answer is, "Ok, buddy. Thanks for sharing."
I was over a project and part of releasing the next feature, I decided that it was best to tackle some technical debt based on my now knowing a better way than I did when I first implemented the system - basically bringing it up to our current standards that involved a lot more automation and other features that would make my life easier.

I wrote down in detail all of the tasks involved just to help me estimate like I always did. By this time we were transitioning company wide to scrum.

Every task I put in was scrutinized by the contract “scrum master” as it wasn’t part of the MVP even though I knew it wouldn’t affect the schedule since I had prior work I could base it on.

The rest of the dev team had the same issue. I got tired of fighting and the scrum master was getting in our way. I told them to do what they thought was right and run it by me first if it was anything major. None of the things we were trying to do were customer facing, they were all backend architectural things.

I tried to fight the good fight but then had the epiphany - I didn’t have to. I’m the dev lead, I do the code reviews and no one higher than me will be looking at the code. I told them not to be detailed in the how within our project tracking system.
Yeah exactly. James Damore wasn't fired for his opinions, he was fired for the bad PR Google got from his opinions.
This approach suffers from several different problems:

1) governments, banks, regulatory authorities can seize the contents of your deposit box at their discretion and often without due process

2) if the bank burns down, your funds are toast

3) not quickly accessible

There are much, much better options for bitcoin security that don't involve depending on steel bank vaults to keep numbers safe/secret.
A minimal service to check whether a site is 🆙 or broken
The voices in my head may or may not agree with the voices in your head.
Or is this all based on SJWs you know in real life?

This is based on what I've seen online and what has happened to me, personally.
This sounds awesome. I’ve been using a spaced repetition app within my reading process for a while now. But your process looks intriguing! For for the curious here’s my current process: http://www.opensourced.me/2018/02/11/how-i-remember-what-i-r...

Can your app be made publicly? I’d love to experiment with your setup.
If someone advocates for violence on Twitter, as themselves, and they aren't trolling or making a joke, is that person not real, or are the words not their own? If I see a violent protest on YouTube, did it not also happen IRL?
Cortez did treat the first nation he encountered respectfully, agreeing to help them in their war with a far more powerful nation. (Similar dynamic in North America, before King Philip's War, which happened because the mutual respect didn't last.) If the Europeans had decided to treat everyone with respect - "Just looking!", they would have been the only group there with any interest in doing that.
Brings back memories of Plus team all being close to leadership at Google... this is more of an ego thing for leadership and the lucky few deemed to be the most important.

If the "most important" were really seated next to leadership at Google it should be Adwords team.
I have a slightly different perspective on thoughts. To me, they are by-products of what’s going on in the very vast sub conscious mind, and an indicator of what is going on down there. They are information, but not a means to an end. It’s like listening to noises at night - it can be beautiful at times, but at some time I just want to concentrate on other things that matter to me. I find them too volatile to provide deep self reflection on their own (so just listening to thoughts is not of much use), and it’s hard to have an inner dialogue because auditive memory is not available, so you get stuck debating with yourself in circles. (Might be just me, of course)

When I work, or talk to other people, I don’t hear any thoughts, and I think this is because the speech-building parts of the brain are preoccupied with the task at hand.

And if I talk to people, I often hear myself saying things I had not thought of before. I’m not in therapy, but I’m sure it would work way better for me than just thinking. Real talk definitely beats thoughts by a wide margin in clarity and expressiveness.

I definitely need silence for downtime though, I love staying up late alone for that reason.
To everyone saying these answers are bad because they don't delve into the history, equal temperament, and how D# and Eb weren't always harmonically equivalent:

You're answering the wrong question. Yes, the question was "why are there sharps and flats" but read the rest of the question and it becomes clear, he/she isn't looking for the origin of sharps and flats. They are asking why it's practical to have both sharps and flats.

The answer is: Because it's easier to write in F if you call them "A and Bb" rather than "A and A#"
I was thinking that any solid -- such as a planet -- can be replaced by a point at its center with equal mass, and its neighbors -- such as a moon -- wouldn't notice. But that's not entirely true.... For instance, replace the earth with an equal size ball of styrofoam, and place two super-dense basketball-sized masses, one in Californis and the other in Africa (I.e. on the opposite sides of the globe.) And, assume, the entire system is the same mass as our earth, assume the 'center of mass' is at the core of the styrofoam planet, and assume the styrofoam is magically able to keep our two Neutron-star-dense basketballs in place. Phew....

Now, the moon probably wouldn't notice s thing. From its point of view, it will 'feel' the same attraction as it would from our planet. But, something much closer -- such as a mile or two of water -- would definitely bunch up around the basketballs and would not form a sphere around the center of our imagine planet.

Is that right?
Where do I trade in this piece of paper in my pocket for gold?
Agreed. Assuming you're talking about phone apps (as opposed to baseband or sensor control etc); software for phones has much more in common with desktop software than it does with the embedded world, you just have to be a little bit more conscious about your power and data usage.

In my embedded work I pushed a few years back to upgrade the microcontrollers we used from 2kB to 16kB RAM and 16kB to 128kB flash devices (at a grand total extra cost of $2) so I could stop worrying about how we would fit all the new features in.

My personal line for "embedded" at the point where you take responsibility for the OS functionality too. IMHO that's currently somewhere around Raspberry Pi etc devices, which on one level have computing power in line with the smartphone world, but on the other you're still mucking around with the OS yourself. I know it's pure snobbery on my behalf, but I still cringe to think about Node.js running on them... (even though I'm doing it myself for hobbyist level stuff).
I sort of appreciate the creativity here, though it's blatantly creepy and uncomfortable for a software vendor to be pushing updates with single-user-targeting functionality, in particular, to say nothing of the spyware issue itself.
Soundcloud went bankrupt in real terms. Spotify is actively attempting to go bankrupt, given the extreme rate of red ink burn and their failure to produce a sustainable business (they're going to end up getting acquired, the licensing business will never produce profit margins).

Skype was sold off to two different US technology giants.

ARM was swallowed up by Japan.

King was eaten by a US company. As was Mojang.

These are all smaller success stories however. They're equivalent to fourth tier US successes, far below the second tier US companies like Adobe, Cisco, Texas Instruments, Airbnb, Priceline.com, Uber, etc.

The parent comment was correct. Europe nearly entirely missed the Internet/Web software business, the mobile software business, the cloud business, and now they're being left far behind in artificial intelligence (save for a few bright spots, such as in Britain, none of which has yielded commercial outcomes of large consequence).

Germany is almost single handedly keeping Europe competitive in the robotics field. And the largest tech company in Europe for the last decade, has been SAP.

Look at this list and compare it to companies like King and Soundcloud:

Apple, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Amazon, Intel, Cisco, Adobe, Qualcomm, Broadcom, Oracle, Activision Blizzard, Salesforce, Priceline, nVidia, Dell, IBM, VMWare, Texas Instruments, Micron, Analog Devices, Applied Materials, HP Inc, HP Enterprise, Intuit, Uber, Airbnb, Twitter, Snapchat, Pinterest, eBay, PayPal, Stripe, Square, Workday, Western Digital, Electronic Arts, Palantir, AMD, Autodesk, Lam Research, ServiceNow, WeWork, Lyft, Dropbox, Splunk, Marvell Technology, Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet, Microchip Technology Inc, NetApp, Juniper, Seagate, Symantec, VeriSign, Slack, Grubhub

And that's ignoring dozens of other companies in the US tech sector with market caps between $2 billion and $20 billion.
Sorry but no.

(a) If you did even 75% of what you just described you did more than many founders do.

(b) just because one is a founder one doesn't have magically more energy than other humans.

(c) just because one is a founder doesn't magically mean one earns a bigger share of the success. An early employee shares most of the cost (time spent, fears, real danger of having no money next month, possible conflicts with the law) but doesn't get that much of a share when getting rich. Idolizing this economically unreasonable situation doesn't make it better.

(d) I'd say the best enterpreneurs enjoy the thrill. So they actually go through a lot less negative stress than their employees.
Just had a nasty though. Don't tell the tax office about this. They'll could tax you as income on the "New Coin" a.k.a. Ethereum you got for free, and you claim a capital loss on the drop in price of the old coin (Etherium Price - Classic Price). Yikes!