skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't buy the "jumping in front of the car" part. Pedestrians pushing bicycles laden with bags are not known for being especially nimble. Crossing without looking, sure, but assuming the pedestrian was crossing the road, she'd be standing about where the bicycle seat is. That gives half a bike's worth of space before she's actually in front of the car - let's say a quarter of a second if she's going particularly quickly.

I'll forgive a human driver for not noticing a pedestrian and reacting in a quarter of a second. But all the marketing videos have trained us to hold an autonomous car to a higher standard. Certainly a lack of lighting isn't an excuse. The car should have known she was there, identified her as a potential hazard, and been prepared to take appropriate action should her course change. Speeding, along with the fact that the car made no attempt to stop before the collision, is a "back to the drawing board" level of failure.
Quantum Computing limited private beta
Killing embryos is more akin to abortion (before the 12th week, that's pretty much the definition of abortion). The topic of abortion is still widely debated (especially in the US), and your comment isn't doing it any more justice than your parent comment.
Thanks Michael! For teams that start out this way, what is your advice for iterating on this initial seed of an idea and finding product-market fit (and making sure that you find an idea you can be passionate about for the long haul)?
Can you expand on the privacy use case? I don't understand how applying a word vector model on the client improves privacy.
The definition from the Wikipedia article certainly does match this incident.

The comments on this thread aren't generally dealing with the question of the applicability of that definition so brining that up doesn't help you.

I guess you're really trying to get at is that you disagree with that definition. That's fine. But it's a very weak argument to appeal to an authority and then disregard the authority where it contradicts your position.

Maybe you need to edit the Wikipedia article ;)

BTW, not sure if this is the part you don't like, but the distinction between intentional and unintentional is tricky. For one, we'd have to pin down whose intentions we're talking about (the people controlling the data store that has been breached, or the people's whose private information has been taken). Then, peer into the minds of people we don't know or, worse, try to determine intention for a corporate entity. If intent is part of the definition of a breach then it would demand a lot of assumptions to be applied (or some kind of long, expensive process like an investigation and trial).

In the end, the impact on the people's whose private information was taken is the same: their private information has been taken, en mass, without their permission, by someone they don't know, for purposes they don't know.
Well the BBC does not advertise, so this isn't really unexpected.
Did Obama acquire the data under false pretense, use it to lie and mislead people, or downright coerce candidates through bribes and sex?
> There is no such thing as fake news, there is only inaccurate news.

I'd be the first to agree that "fake news" is a term thrown around too loosely, and that fake news is one of the hardest problems for algorithms to attempt to solve, because it's just as hard for humans. For instance, pushing the story that Bill Cosby has been accused of rape would've been considered by many journalists to be "fake news", either because they didn't think it was true or because they thought it was old news that was settled. Cosby's biographer was a well-regarded CNN senior editor but chose to omit rape details because he thought they were all old allegations [0].

But to say that there is literally no "fake news" is ignorant of what we've already seen come to pass. One of the better known examples was the "El Chapo escapes (again)" story that was created by a site deliberately designed to look like ABC News by stealing its trademarks and mimicking its domain: abcnews.com.co [1]. You don't think there's a distinction between "inaccurate news" and outright intentional fakery? Seriously?

[0] https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-agony-of-cosbys-biographer...

[1] https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/No-...
Can you or someone else explain to me why a firm would buy a company, and then "load them with debt"?

Was the debt intended to help them grow?
Trezor is better.
Okay, I didn't ask clearly enough. The following function is supposed to take x and return x + 1:

increment x = x + 11;

How would you catch this bug via a reasonable usage of the type system? Noting that a unit test catches this bug trivially.
Someone has repeatedly commented on /r/rust/ that differences are due not so much to SIMD but iirc to not triggering the same LLVM loop unrolling.
The checksum in a 12-word seed is only 4 bits. This means you could absolutely pick 12 random words using nothing but a dice. When importing the seed on a hardware wallet, if it complains that the seed is invalid (because the checksum is invalid) just change the 12th word by picking the next one in the BIP39 list (https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0039/english...). If it complains again, tries the next one. And so on. At most you may have to try 2⁴ = 16 different words. One of them will pass the checksum. And there you go, you have a valid seed that was generated with a simple dice roll, without the need for custom code running on an MCU or offline computer.

Edit: BTW your method of calling MicroPython uos.urandom() to generate the seed is not necessarily safe! The MicroPython API does not guarantee the entropy always comes from a secure hardware RNG. Just "when possible". This means depending on your MicroPython version, how the framework was compiled, what exact revision of the ESP8266, entropy may or may not come from a secure hardware RNG. As a former InfoSec professional reviewing hardware/firmware/software security-related code, I often found flaws at many levels in this area.

Edit #2: In fact, after more looking into it, the current version of MicroPython relies on an undocumented register (https://web.archive.org/web/20160417080207/http://esp8266-re...) that "seems" to be a hardware RNG however it has never been determined if it is suitable to use for cryptographic purposes. It would be a lot safer to generate your seed on an offline Linux laptop booted of a Live USB or equivalent (with no storage device), using the good old cryptographically-secure getrandom(2) syscall than blindly trusting an undocumented sketchy ESP8266 register whose implementation is completely unknown. If I were you I would discard any wallet created using your ESP8266 code.
In the other HN discussions, people have talked about how this type of Data Sharing has been known about in our community for years.

Hell, I've seen product demos from 2012 that showed big players offering private FB/Twitter post analytics for targeting ads/marketing. It's been going on for a long time.

So that does raise this serious concern: why are we making such a big deal of it now? One whistle blower?

A hundred other people groups discovered the continents we call The Americas long before Columbus. His timing was right to gain the popularity he did.

So it could be coincidence, or it could be intentional. That 2nd thing should be thought of as a crazy conspiracy theory. Our media/TV is tightly manipulated and controlled. I mean if anything, this leak should make that more obvious than anything! So it's not so far out there as you might think.
To be fair, the OO example you give just sounds like bad design. It should be entirely possible to avoid having to pass giant bundles of state between different layers of your application, and even if you can't you should be able to define interface conformances on your DomainClass objects to make it clear which of their members are actually relevant in a given case.
This is the internet where vast troves of historical data are stored and shared but everyone decides to rely on their recent memory instead.
It's not mom and pop lenders that put up 6 billion. It's grownups that have a contract with a specific set of things/entities they can collect from. Don't waste tears over them.
Right of center news sources? They've been openly hiding them from the feed through their partnership with Snopes and Politifact.

Your uncle sharing InfoWars doesn't count.
Quality whataboutism that doesn't change the overall debate about these practices. You do realize they talked about exactly this in the linked article right?
I bet you they are going to push AMP plus their Newstand App which sucks. The Newstand app is great for finding news., but not great for reading cause AMP butchers the content so often I ended up clicking on "view in browser" all the time. and dare you try to copy and paste text!
The type language's expressiveness is definitely more limited than the term language, but "very inexpressive" is overstating the case. You end up grouping C, for which your claim is absolutely true, along with Agda for which your claim is not really true.

Regardless, even with Java's limited expressiveness you can encode some powerful propsitions, as the paper I linked shows.
Would you not consider HN Social Media? I personally don't think it's the same as FB, but there are some strong similarities. Maybe "Social News" is a better term?

Where do you draw the line for Social Media?
If the rocket can be used without limit this almost makes perfect sense.
Get the MVP in the hands of users early and try to learn from them how to make something that they want. Be open to the idea that while you might have figured out a good problem to work on - your solution is just a hypothesis to be tested and refined over time.
When millions of Americans get their news from Facebook, it's doubtful that many current users will find out what is happening. It is certainly similar to the Fox News effect.
That's possibly a fair description of the kind of as-late-as-possible de-biasing that I find insufficient.

I think there is not nearly enough research into de-biasing at training time, perhaps because it would be discouraged by the reward structure of our field.

("You mean I can make my model more complex and my paper longer, and in return I lose the 0.15% accuracy gain that's the entire reason I could call the result 'state of the art'? Sure, I'll get right on that!")
They're not going to get to 200 unless:

- Better enterprise marketing.
- Increase depth of existing integrations.
- Add additional Zapier-hosted zaps.

I'm a very happy Zapier user and fan, but my sense is they need to hire a few seasoned senior people to level up. I may be wrong, just my sense.
Those were never actually private in the first place.
When corporations and governments are in bed together they learn the best practices from each other.
Virus fished from pond cures man’s deadly antibiotic-resistant infection
Even static typing very rarely gets in the way (it makes a few programs harder to express; but I find this relevant much less frequently than people think; and even then I’d argue that expressing the types still adds value). What gets in the way, as the video argues, is excessive explicit typing. But languages can get around this with type inference.
Turning a Software Project into a BSc Dissertation [pdf]
Invest spare change into crypto
Nice set of pictures.

I was surprised not to see two things about Common Lisp: Symbolics's Genera UI for software engineering, and the modern Paredit editor methodology for Lisps.
One year after their IPO? I don't get this. Why didn't they buy it last year paying a premium over the 17 USD a share of their public offering instead of paying a premium over the current 33 USD (or 40 USD I guess)?
I don't understand the rationale behind these deals.
> It's trivial in the sense that it's low technical risk.

The problem is not in the risk, but simply in the cost itself. It's an extra tax to pay. However quality can also suffer, see below.

> I can't speak for Epic, they are making an engine for every possible game and every possible rendering scene which is a harder problem than what we were doing. But the rendering backend isn't the hard part.

The story of Everspace illustrates my point. They were bitten by multiple issues in OpenGL backend of UE4, and it took Epic a long time to fix some of them. Their resources are limited, and they are more focused on more widespread backends obviously. Which is exactly the result lock-in proponents are trying to achieve.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16628976
archive.is banned in Russia. Haha, the Irony.
A.C. Grayling: Cambridge Analytica's Influence on Trump and Brexit Voters (2017)
Amrock ordered to pay $706M for stealing trade secrets from HouseCanary
Sadly, Google is also sitting on a HUGE amount of archival newspaper in a completely unsearchable state.

They've OCR'd thousands of historical papers but the search is completely broken.

https://news.google.com/newspapers

It's a pretty incredible resource if you know the date/place of an event but if you wanted to research a little more broad it's a tool with incredibly untapped potential.

I wish they would spend more time providing tools for people to consume information in powerful ways rather than trying to 'tailor' experiences.
I know what you asked, and I answered as best I could without further information. The solution ultimately depends on the specific type system. Like I said, with Haskell I'd use type-level naturals to ensure the output type is 1+input type.

In C, my first thought would be to define a static value representing ONE, checked via static_assert, and then the increment function becomes input + ONE.
It is the same with ionizing radiation.

However, the question is about how much it matters compared to global intake.

We get lead from many sources, some of them hard to avoid while still living a normal life. "Safe" doses are doses that represent only a small fraction of that unavoidable part. The standards may change as the unavoidable become avoidable.

For radiation, the baseline is clear, that's background level, I don't know the equivalent for lead but it's clear that we can't keep away every single lead atom.
I guess it's time to remind people that you are not a customer of Facebook, you are the product being sold
No, Americans will continue to give zero fucks. A few more people will be outraged, but business as usual will continue. Maybe Facebook will claim they "fixed" the problem that created this "breach" (as it's being called), but nothing will change
Between reading the link title and the page loading, I had a little fun guessing which studio it was going to be about. EA? Konami? Ubisoft? Nope, I was wrong. But there are just so many possibilities…

Thank goodness we're in something of a golden age of indie gaming. If you want to vote with your wallet against all these toxic AAA charnel houses, you have plenty of other quality choices to waste your time with.

By the way, no gamers take game awards shows seriously.
>an entity they dont even know or have a relationship with

That's the important point. Google and Facebook don't give a shit about me. I'm one of many data points, in a vat with hundreds of millions of other people.

How many people will search Google for porn, sometimes really embarrassing stuff? And no one cares. Google certainly doesn't care. But you'd find less people asking their friends for porn or sharing their porn preferences with their friends, because my friend can and likely will judge me for it. But Google doesn't give a shit. Google's not going to tell my other friends how weird I am.
How so? Trezor had a vulnerability where you could extract the private keys by measuring power draw.
Ask HN: Seasonal uptick in recruiter efforts?
I've recently seen a huge increase in LinkedIN messages and direct email contacts from recruiters. Is anyone else experiencing this?
I'm curious if recruiters are more active certain times of the year, or if there's a sudden hiring trend .
"The processor is, in fact, operating as it is designed"

- Steve Smith (Vice President, Intel)
The problem with that is that inputting this in a Ledger, for example, is very cumbersome, and trying sixteen times could take an hour.
> This is similar to a HIPAA "breach" where the word doesn't imply that a security system was compromised, but that protected data was accessed by folks who shouldn't have had it. In this context, framing it as a breach is perfectly accurate.

Data breach is a compound noun with a very specific meaning in information security. It means that the data was protected, and a malicious entity defeated the protections.

Breach of contract, breach of trust, physical breaching of the hull of a ship, etc. are all different usages of the word breach, but it's not a data breach unless someone accessed a protected system without or exceeding authorization as defined by the CFAA.
I think all of google search results are increasingly becoming more and more "filter bubbly" too, I have to anonymize completely or I know I'm just going to get bullshit results.

This announcement is hilarious, their products harm journalism bigly. It's like McDonald's putting a nice little leaf drawing about the environment on their cups.
From talking with my friends the developer compensation and job availability is reversed from that (but not a 2x factor in pay difference; that's crazy!). Also, DBAs seem to do well everywhere in the Midwest (The only person I know who is doing really well in the KS/MO area is a DBA).
Reminds me of the story of Disneyland:

"The concept for Disneyland began when Walt Disney was visiting Griffith Park in Los Angeles with his daughters Diane and Sharon. While watching them ride the merry-go-round, he came up with the idea of a place where adults and their children could go and have fun together, though his dream lay dormant for many years"

It seems like in this experience economy when we all have enough basic material goods, there should be a market for something like what your describing.
Masato Yamaguchi Hacked a Cleaning Robot to Create an Autonomous Robotic Painter
I'm not sure if you are aware, but there are several efforts out there to give Python a more data-pipeline-friendly (composable pipe) syntax:

1) Coconut: http://coconut-lang.org/

2) https://github.com/JulienPalard/Pipe

3) Pandas also has a new dataframe pipe method. https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/generated/panda...

I would look at those before rolling out a custom solution.
Healthy, full breathing involves significant expansion of the rib cage in all directions. I wish people would remember this before spreading the advice, “breathe into your belly, not into your chest.” Your lungs are in your chest. (And contrary to the article, by the way, the “lower part of your lungs” is not “just above your belly button.”) Most importantly, do not lock your chest or inhibit its movement.

If you have poor posture and core support and a tight chest, I would say experiment with filling your lungs completely, and with engaging your abs very slightly on the _inhale_, to feel some of the sensations of full, supported breathing. Your core muscles create pressure that helps fully inflate your lungs.

Don’t listen to any admonishments about “breathing wrong” as your body will use them to create additional tension and restriction rather than relaxation and freedom.
> Stamos was chief security officer at Yahoo from March 2014 > to July 2015. One of his first moves was to enforce HTTPS > encryption for Yahoo Mail and other Yahoo online services.

Yahoo Mail wasn't running over HTTPS until sometime in 2014?
Seriously?
"In a letter to Mr Zuckerberg, Mr Collins accused Facebook of giving answers "misleading to the Committee" at a previous hearing which asked whether information had been taken without users' consent.

He said it was "now time to hear from a senior Facebook executive with the sufficient authority to give an accurate account of this catastrophic failure of process".

Requesting a response to the letter by 26 March, the MP added: "Given your commitment at the start of the New Year to "fixing" Facebook, I hope that this representative will be you.""

At a previous hearing, Facebook mislead a parliamentary committee.

Committee chairman now requesting accurate account from "senior Facebook executive" with proper authority.

Chairman "hopes" that will be Zuckerberg.

Poll: Do you think Facebook will have Zuckerberg give this account, or will they assign this task to some other Facebook employee? Feel free to explain your answer.
You’re very wrong, but it’s also unpleasant that you are being downvoted so forcibly.

The House of Commons is the highest authority in the UK and one of the most powerful and sovereign bodies in the world.

I think you were thinking of the House of Lords.
I just went and read the linked article -- it's definitely worth a look. Personally I hadn't seen media coverage of the evolving relationship between Russia and DPRK, so I learned something new.
Here's the bookmarklet version: https://gist.github.com/kinduff/efa7b48e43ba2fceb7a7ad62672b...

Create a bookmark and edit it out to add the content of the gist as the URL.
Nothing good has come from cryptocurrencies, and boat loads of bad has, is, and will continue to come out of it.

Investors ignoring or rationalising all the bad because of their greed is, in my opinion, disgusting.
The CLOUD Act, Bridging the Gap Between Technology and the Law
Generally ABS does mean anti-lock braking system, but my guess is that they meant "Automatic Braking System"?
Facebook is a net negative force in our society. Particularly for the startup ecosystem.
I had the same thought initially but I don't think that in matters of execution, ownership should or is brought in. At some point, sure. But not when we're "having a talk".
This assumes they occur post bankruptcy. Looting a company involves dept then dividends from selling off assets to the point a company can't make debt payments. The money is already gone by the time the company can't pay, so they don't care what happens to the shell at that point.
I have to disagree, and hopefully can make a better job at convincing you than the other comments. In terms of search "google" is a verb for a reason, but I actually do think you could use other search engines, true, I agree.

What worries me is Android however. Perhaps not in the US, but in a lot of other places around the world Android is the only operating system accessible to people and a large majority of the market, since iPhones are an impossible purchase. Phone manufacturers depend on Android like computer manufacturers once depended on Windows.

Apple is raking in the profits because it controls the vertical and sells expensive phones in premium markets, but in terms of raw market share things seem to be shaping towards a Mircosoft/Windows like situation. Android is close to passing the 75% mark [1] and judging by sales it probably will [2].

Maybe we're still not quite there, but it's shaping up in that direction. Facebook def has the lion's share on social networking, and messaging, but I can't help but believe that when it comes to Facebook it's mostly network effects keeping people in, since there are plenty of other (and sometimes better) messaging apps, lots of photo-sharing apps, and alternatives for event planning, getting your news, posting updates, etc.

Idk if "Google should be hauled in first", but it should def be hauled in too (alongside Amazon, but that's a whole other story).

[1]: http://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/worldwide/#...

[2]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/266136/global-market-sha...