skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Misremembering is one of those things that can get you crucified by the FBI or other police. And they often try to make you do it. https://www.popehat.com/2017/12/04/everybody-lies-fbi-editio...
Nicolas Sarkozy, Ex-President of France, Is Held for Questioning on Libyan Cash
Every engineer that accepted a nice paycheck to build trash software at facebook -- naïve? No. Selfish and short-sighted? Yes.
Sincere question: It appears that it's crystal clear to everyone where the distinction between fake and real news lies, or who should be allowed to post (mis)information (serve ads, if you prefer) on the interwebs, or how to identify the culprits exhaustively. I fail to see a way in practice to draw the boundary and identify/persecute the offenders. Imho virtually all ads spread misinformation (push someone's agenda) to my detriment. My only means of resistance is inherent in my duty (civic, but also self-serving -- to keep my sanity) to consciously make the effort to seek/filter through multiple viewpoints.
Russians hacked his bid for POTUS 2020 already.
Western Digital moves away from the HGST branding
> The police officers involved are entitled to a jury trial just like everyone else.

Having a special prosecutor handle police misconduct cases, instead of the DA, does not in any way preclude the right to a jury. These cases would still go to trial like any other. The difference here is that the incentives would be flipped: DAs are incentivized to go as soft as possible on cops- either by instructing the grand jury not to indict or presenting the weakest case possible at the actual trial, because if they don't it harms their ability to work with the police for regular cases. Special prosecutors would not have that issue.

> I don't think a law like this would be a panacea, or would even meaningfully impact the problem.

I'm not claiming it's a silver bullet. But it would help, if only because cops would then know that they don't automatically have a friend in the prosecutor if they break the law. And unlike a lot of the other steps that need to be taken to fix the American justice system, this one could be done instantly just by passing a law.
Remember that OpenBSD also represents OpenSSH, which so many of us use every day.
Silicon Valley is like 30% Chinese dude. If there isn't Chinese influence that would be even more problematic.
Am I correct in understanding that the exploit would most likely be cleared by re-flashing the firmware to a known good image before you use it? Especially if you did so using JTAG it seems like it'd be very difficult (albeit probably not impossible) for the firmware modifications described in the article to persist through a reflash as long as you're reasonably confident that the hardware itself hasn't been altered. That doesn't get rid of the evil maid scenario, but it does get rid of the supply chain attack, which is IMO the more concerning one. Evil maid attacks can be mitigated by physical security, but the supply chain attack is out of your control.
Using NPS data with machine learning to improve your marketing – /r/marketing
Exactly. I think there's a lot of things to consider around it all, for-profit prisons have a LOT of problems. But if we found that microwaving food for prisoners saved a lot of time cooking and thus also the amount of time we had to pay for people to cook for prisons that would be a good thing...at least it would be if that money gets funneled back to the point that a taxpayer is paying less. As it is I assume it just goes into the pocket of whoever runs the for-profit prison.
When a police officer does face charges, uniformed cops will show up en masse as a "show of solidarity" with the defendant but in reality they're trying to intimidate and influence the jury.
You're extrapolating from the winners and applying that to the masses. Read up on their history; Airbnb and Twitch almost died multiple times and that's not a good model for any startup. Even startups that actually start with a good idea fail frequently.
Thank you. Upvoting and replying so I can find this again.
I really like flyway. It’s lightweight and the best thing I can say about it is that I rarely have to bother with it. It just works.

I too find it useful to keep the migrations small and succinct. For Oracle do migrations where the DDL cannot be rolledback I choose to separate these from straight data manipulation.

A downside to the project that I see is that although it’s quite mature the author is very very slow to engage with open source modifications.

I’d still make it my first choice because of its simplicity.
They likely can, we learn only about the cases where it blows up.
That looks like part of it. :-)
Assuming they are independent contractors, what is Uber's responsibility for discriminatory behavior by its contractors? Would those sames responsibility apply to home owners who hire independent contractors?
Salesforce buying MuleSoft for $6.5B
Are you saying the injustice is that some people can afford to bail out and some cannot? Or is the injustice that the bail concept exists in the first place?

If the former, then what are we going to do about it? Enforced income equality programs have been quite disastrous in human history. If the latter, well, yes, it's a weird way to get around the fact that the state technically cannot be locking people up that aren't convicted of a crime yet. And for the poor, it very well may be that the choice is between jail and something like Promise.
> Common freaking sense. It's a goldmine for future elections, they would be fools not to share it with the DNC.

Well, no. They'd be people who are violating their Facebook contract if they did.

When you live in the swamp, it's easy to assume everyone is dirty. The Obama campaign certainly used data in a way I personally find uncomfortable, which makes it even easier to leap to conclusions. However, there's no value in this conversation as long as you don't understand the difference between evidence and the things you want to be true.
> "Kevin Richardson, the Police Department’s top internal prosecutor, said he believed so-called testilying was nearing its end. “I think it’s a problem that’s very much largely on its way out,” he said."

Very much largely?

Now, without wanting to cast aspersions on a prosecutor, is this guy lying about lying?
I tried signal once, and it refused to even start without me allowing it to steal my address book.
> Please correct any mistaken assumptions I might have about their business model.

Facebook's business model is curious. They took $200 million in Russian money (Yuri Milner) and that came with an enthralled messaging from Zuckerberg, about how they (the Russian investors) had a "unique perspective" on monetizing social networks.

I'm not sure anyone outside of those circles knows what Facebook's actual business model really is.

Citations: https://qz.com/1121238/who-is-yuri-milner-the-russian-billio...

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/05/world/yuri-milner-faceboo...
That is not correct. WhatsApp syncs messages between devices (mobile client must be connected to the internet to use WhatsApp web on the desktop).

They store undelivered, encrypted messages on the server.
GDPR applies to people located in the EU. Citizenship does not matter.
God knows - it was a very old machine that I was taking pictures of. Caused a reboot (and was reproducable).
Good to see in that third link that they're still interested in fact checking. I wasn't sure if this was going to be abandoned: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15528824
*was a presidential hopeful is likely more accurate. This breaking caught our attention but the FTC probing, UK parliament etc raising awareness will dent mainstream.
Yeah, the lid was blown wide open and if Facebook has to answer to why it turned a blind eye to this Cambridge Analytica scandal they should also have to answer to how their platform was used by the Democrats in 2008 and 2012.

It's well known that the Obama campaign used big data to gain an advantage in those elections. It's looking like they were just doing the same thing with Facebook's data too.
It's a good name, though, I hope it sticks.

Perjury can remain the term for the crime in general, and testilying can refer to the specific form of police officers systematically perjuring themselves for corrupt or otherwise dubious purposes.
The maintainers of major DL frameworks like TF and PyTorch intentionally target an ever-wider set of use-cases beyond deep learning, and would not chop out non-DL functionality.

There's many cool non-DL projects using these libraries for fast computation like Pyro (PyTorch) & Greta (TensorFlow), and the community is starting to shift away from DL-specific vocabulary towards terms like "differentiable programming". Deep learning is just one use of this broader paradigm.
His team has been reassigned in december already:

"By December 2017, Mr. Stamos, who reports to Facebook’s general counsel, proposed that he report directly to higher-ups. Facebook executives rejected that proposal and instead reassigned Mr. Stamos’s team"

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/03/19/technology/facebook-al...
To me this looks like a for-profit parole system. It's essentially the same thing as various state and county level governments' parole systems are already intended to do, but implemented by a private contractor. Much the same way that private prisons accomplish the same function as state-owned prisons.

If you were recruiting new staff positions for this startup I don't see how the job functions for the persons interacting with the "clients" are much different from a parole officer. Just with more "web 2.0" technology, IoT tech for ankle tracking bracelets, etc.
I'm curious what benefit this actually offers to devs.
I had so hoped that at one point Fry's would buy out all the Radio Shack locations and make them out to be Frontier Fry's Locations that was more tuned to hyper local Maker Scenes.
I personally don't mention my military service at all on resumes or when interviewing. I have no problem talking about it otherwise, but it's simply too easy to be flagged by someone's bias in the hiring process.
It's not true.
Stellar has a perfect architecture for their intended use case: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16544704

I would argue that the SCP is more decentralised than Bitcoin, where a few companies hold almost all the hash power.
This is easy to control; while trials are required to be public, there is no reason a jurisdiction could not prohibit law enforcement officers wearing a uniform in court unless present in an official law enforcement capacity (e.g., acting as a bailiff.)
you must not understand how deeply tied the oil companies in Russia are to their government. They are essentially the same entity.
I think that your heart is in the right place, but objecting to something like Promise just because they have a profit motive is letting perfect be the enemy of good. As I said above, if this system means a single person is able to be working and taking care of their family rather than sitting in a cold concrete box, a great justice has been done to the world, regardless of the motivations of those responsible.
Remember this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtvjbmoDx-I

Can you imagine the company that made this getting into bed with IBM!?
GEF – GDB Enhanced Features for exploit devs and reversers
The one thing that drives me away is that while I feel like I am improving one's quality of life, much of my experience in medicine has been seeing my mentors and role models save one's life. It's probably the one thing I will miss most if I choose ophthalmology.
Tim Cook was with IBM for 12 years before Apple.
The reasons why I use them for my credit card (and only for that):

- No transaction fees and fair exchange rates as far as I know
- Free
- The instant (really instant, <5 sec) push notifications are nice
> The driver has the right to refuse letting anyone in their vehicle

Whilst complying with the law. Self employment does not exempt you.

A disabled passenger would have grounds for a case against the "self employed" driver if that driver refused carriage, or did not stop when they saw a service animal.

> The vehicle is owned/leased by the driver not Uber

As are many (most?) taxis and private hire vehicles.
these things, if anyone hasn't seen them yet:

https://mentalhealth.openpathcollective.org/shoplifting/

http://offendersolutions.com/theft_class.htm

https://qz.com/1076348/a-shoplifting-solution-billed-as-enli...

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/crime/2015/0...

"pay $320, or we call the cops"
Well, the difference is that it was not unauthorized access. It was allowed by Facebook on purpose, because this is their business model.

It is WORSE than a breach, because FB is complicit.
Well now we're getting to the real issue with any of this stuff. It's not a great career move for a politician to make moves against the police unions, so trying to get more oversight laws is pretty hard. The unions are strong, their supporters are many, and who in their right mind would want to fight "law and order" that the cops represent.
Sure, but this is the type of product where trust is not what you want to rely on at all.

Edit: I mean: if it's possible for the manufacturer to compromise their customers, then in the case of crypto wallets, you have to assume that they will screw their customers over. The potential profits for a company like Ledger, running a long scam, waiting for the moment their take hits a high enough sum to be worth doing a runner and relocating to some island paradise under a fake name, are just too great to allow for trust.

Until now, I assumed the whole point of HW wallets was a 100% assurance of trustlessness. Now, it seems maybe that isn't the case.
Not at all unsubstantiated.

The very title of the 2nd article I linked specifies that Russians have admitted that he is an asset, and there were FSB people cooperating with him.

From the article:
"In a remarkable interview this week, Franz Klintsevich, a senior Russian security official, explained the case matter-of-factly: “Let’s be frank. Snowden did share intelligence. This is what security services do. If there’s a possibility to get information, they will get it.”

With this, Klintsevich simply said what all intelligence professionals already knew – that Snowden is a collaborator with the FSB. That he really had no choice in the matter once he set foot in Russia does not change the facts."

Again, this is just the tip of the iceberg. And, again, I used to think Snowdon was great, but I've since read a lot more data which has changed my mind.
> Your best chance of seeing interesting things as well as interesting buildings seems to be to look for privately-owned/smaller castles that are open to the public.

Some very nice ones are the Chateau d'Abbadia (https://www.google.fr/search?q=chateau+d'abbadia+intérieur&t...) ; Dampierre-sur-Boutonne has some original stuff preserved too (https://www.google.fr/search?tbm=isch&q=dampierre+sur+bouton...)
You can use a character RNN that reads the fragmented input char by char, and feed its output to your NN.
>It's scary that civil society understands so little of the military now that it's so small and professional.

I'd say overall it's a good thing. It's a very good thing that 99% of people will never be able to remotely comprehend what we went through.
This is happening in the U.S. too. Some of the counties are under court mandates around overcrowding in the jails. The goal is to have individuals in their communities but without any support, they often miss court dates or other obligations and then they get a warrant and end up back in jail in a worse position. Also, in this situation, the root cause of the arrest is never being addressed.
Here’s why I made Storyrake:

-I’m a fan of email newsletters, and use my inbox to curate/manage a good deal of content

-I subscribe to too many subreddits, so some of my favorites rarely make the front page due to lower traffic (and upvote) volumes.

-I wanted a snapshot summary covering top content from my favorite subreddits, without having to visit each individual subreddit or be bombarded with a stream of content through an RSS feed

Long-term, I’m planning to add ability to subscribe to summaries covering ‘topics’ on reddit (agnostic of the subreddit they are posted in), as well as a few additional sites (Hackernews, ProductHunt, etc).

Would love any feedback/suggestions!
This is all speculation:

1. While the data is valuable, you still need a medium for your ads. One without the other is way less valuable. If you had user data for 50M users, today, how would you monetize it? Facebook had the News Feed and Instagram giving you a stage to operate on that data.

2. Following 1.), a lot of that "stolen" data was used to buy more effective FB Ads. Cambridge Analytica didn't "steal" the user data to sell to blackhats. They used it to craft messaging on Facebook.

All in all, user data is relatively worthless to most advertisers unless its actionable. Even if facebook gave you the data, the fastest way of monetizing it was to buy more facebook ads. It's relatively more difficult to extract user data from FB and then use that data to buy Twitter ads.
The real trick is that making skinner boxes look like turtles makes them an easier sell to parents.
Why does everything have to be US based?

For instance, before this, some of the most ethically questionable censorship stories I have heard from Facebook have had to do with minority groups or various activists in more repressive regimes around the world being blocked or censored.

Likewise, with Cambridge Analytica claiming to have worked with more than 200 elections around the world [1], and Channel 4 not painting an exactly flattering picture of their ethics, it's very possible that some of the most disturbing details that will emerge from this scandal have zilch to do with Donald Trump.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/cambridge-analytica-secretly-...
What I've said: They "crowdsourced" making an end-run around existing regulations.

Regulatory authorities were/are not staffed to handle mass, individual violations.

And the Fed's continued to turn a blind eye. Ra-ra, "tech economy".

Like the people made miserable by their new AirBnB "neighbors". (Another "crowdsourcing" effort.) These services have victims. Often the same people regulation was designed, negotiated, and put into place over years and decades, to protect.

--

P.S. Like some unfortunate souls get larger payouts from insurance -- because of misfortune they'd rather have avoided. We pay a bit more for rides and hotel rooms, to make sure those with physical challenges have equal access.

And to make sure those who want to live in peace and safety, aren't victimized by unfettered opportunism.

Regulation goes wrong, sure. But ultimately, it's a process of governance -- here in the U.S., democratic governance. So, govern.

If you pass your governance off onto private entities, well, then that's who will own your government.

Today's election day, in my state. Primaries, here. Turnout will be abysmal. And then, people will complain about what they get. "Government doesn't work!"

Well, that's because you didn't.
Your country was already shit to begin with.
It was the first result on Google. Regardless of what you think of the site as a whole, their statements in this specific article hold up well enough in a vacuum and they provide enough evidence and give good justification for their reasoning. The examples given are particularly damning.
What is your plan to address the large sums of money that private correctional institutions, and correctional officers' unions can use to lobby and influence state governments?
The difference is that at some point in your Uber "career" you will be expected to transport someone with a service animal and you can't legally refuse to transport them. The way the law is written you can't even ask to see proof it's a service animal, if someone tells you it's a service animal then it legally is a service animal to explicitly prevent this form of discrimination.

If you can't perform all the legal requirements of a job then there's a case to be made that you probably shouldn't be doing that job.
> It is WORSE than a breach, because FB is complicit.

A breach in which the custodian is complicit is still a breach, not something worse. Obviously, the its worse from the perspective of the custodians degree of responsibility if they are actively malicious rather than negligent or innocent, but this is still within the usual definition of a breach of private data. A breach is about the subject’s privacy being violated, which can happen with or without the complicity of the custodian of the data.
This distorts the usual meaning of end-to-end encryption, which is that data over the wire is encrypted and can't be MITMed, even by the "service provider" (Telegram in this case).

You are bringing up a good but different point, which is that the application environment on a mobile device may not be protecting you from certain privacy violations. I'm no fan of Telegram, but that's not really within their control.

Put another way, if unbeknownst to Telegram someone had installed a keylogger on my device, would you consider that to be broken end-to-end encryption?
Recursion: It Is What It Is (And Nothing Else) (2016)
Viber and WhatsApp are integrated into Russian lawful intercept (I know, right) since November 2016. Skype since 2013.
I call this corruption. The police and the DA are both corrupt in that case.
> In practice, though, the GPL has mostly just managed to scare companies into using the Apache license for stuff they want to release.

So? I see this as a good thing.

It's not like there is a shortage of BSD, MIT, Apache, et al., licensed code.

GPL code should be treated like radioactive or toxic material--you need a permit, legal approval, and you had better have a REALLY good reason. There are reasons why you might need to use it, but they should be few and very far between.
This is an Android version of a Chrome extension that did extraordinarily well on here back in May of last year.

It occurred to me afterward that I should've titled this post

> Show HN: 100 Million Books for Android – An Anti-App (Not Addictive, Not Social)

in light of all the attention smartphone addiction, digital privacy, etc. have been getting recently.

It was built from the ground-up to be unlike most apps...I posted about that here:

https://medium.com/@100millionbooks/100-million-books-now-ha...
On Capitol Hill, Zuckerberg is expected to meet Thursday with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Senate Republican leaders, Senate Commerce panel Chairman Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) and other committee members, and the top four House Republican leaders. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is also hosting a meeting with Zuckerberg Thursday focused on immigration, according to a Democratic aide. Democratic Reps. Steny Hoyer of Maryland, Jim Clyburn of South Carolina, Xavier Becerra and Zoe Lofgren of California, Joe Crowley and Steve Israel of New York, Luis Gutierrez of Illinois and John Yarmuth of Kentucky have been invited to the gathering. A House Republican aide said that while immigration may come up with Speaker John Boehner and other Republicans, it is not the sole purpose of their session.
https://www.politico.com/story/2013/09/mark-zuckerberg-dc-09...

And in other countries too:

Facebook's Zuckerberg meets propaganda czar in China charm drive: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-facebook-idUSKCN0WL...

Facebook's German Charm Offensive: https://global.handelsblatt.com/companies/facebooks-german-c...
It's not so easy to control because judges have to be re-elected or aspire to sit on higher benches and having police unions oppose you can make that more difficult.

There's a reason why there are more former prosecutors on the bench than former defense attorneys.
Cambridge Analytica Execs Caught Discussing Extortion and Fake News
> Democrats would have been wary about going with a billionaire in 45's wake

Given that the dems seem to do anything they can to avoid actually winning elections, I'd have to agree