skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your memory may be due to this information being new as of 2011 for most brokers.

https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employe...
Story from March 2017 about this:

https://theintercept.com/2017/03/30/facebook-failed-to-prote...

>In late 2015, the turkers began reporting that the Global Science Research survey had abruptly shut down. The Guardian had published a report that exposed exactly who the turkers were working for. Their data was being collected by Aleksandr Kogan, a young lecturer at Cambridge University. Kogan founded Global Science Research in 2014, after the university’s psychology department refused to allow him to use its own pool of data for commercial purposes. The data collection that Kogan undertook independent of the university was done on behalf of a military contractor called Strategic Communication Laboratories, or SCL. The company’s election division claims to use “data-driven messaging” as part of “delivering electoral success.”

>Shortly after The Guardian published its 2015 article, Facebook contacted Global Science Research and requested that it delete the data it had taken from Facebook users. Facebook’s policies give Facebook the right to delete data gathered by any app deemed to be “negatively impacting the Platform.” The company believes that Kogan and SCL complied with the request, which was made during the Republican primary, before Cambridge Analytica switched over from Ted Cruz’s campaign to Donald Trump’s. It remains unclear what was ultimately done with the Facebook data, or whether any models or algorithms derived from it wound up being used by the Trump campaign.

>In public, Facebook continues to maintain that whatever happened during the run-up to the election was business as usual. “Our investigation to date has not uncovered anything that suggests wrongdoing,” a Facebook spokesperson told The Intercept.

>Facebook appears not to have considered Global Science Research’s data collection to have been a serious ethical lapse. Joseph Chancellor, Kogan’s main collaborator on the SCL project and a former co-owner of Global Science Research, is now employed by Facebook Research. “The work that he did previously has no bearing on the work that he does at Facebook,” a Facebook spokesperson told The Intercept.
It does cache, yes. But there's a TTL on the cache since we want to be able to make updates to the page if needed.
Both Apple and Google do this on their platforms. Hell Apple won't even allow other browsers on IOS.
This is so silly! Great idea!
> Another lesson is that it would be a lot more fair if the Fed had a way to boost the economy that involved giving money to normal people

Like Kevin Rudd's stimulus package in Australia?
However, it does mean that an iPhone’s security cannot be ensured if it falls into a third party’s hands.

That was and will always continue to be true. Even secure cryptoprocessors of the type used in smartcards and HSMs can be cracked with enough determination and time. There are companies in China who will read and clone them for surprisingly little money.

It has always amused me somewhat how scared (or the impression that articles like this give) some people are of governments, while at the same time completely accepting and trusting to being herded and controlled by the companies they purchase these locked-down computers from. Anything you truly want to keep secret should be encrypted by systems you have knowledge of, with a key that only you know, or even better --- not leaving your brain at all.

Unfortunately, the IP-Box 2 became widely available and was almost exclusively used illegitimately, rather than in law enforcement

If by "illegitimately" you mean third-party repair shops... I know Apple doesn't like that, but the whole *-box series are aimed at the mobile repair industry (a huge business in China), not law enforcement.
I don't know if it really is in fb's best interest to sue them. It might in fact be in their interest to allow the players to come back because that would benefit their bottom line.
Not quite. Multiple dispatch (as mentioned in sibling comments) is basically 'virtual on both object and argument types', so like:

class Vehicle {
virtual void Collide(Vehicle other);
}

class Car {
void Collide(Truck other) { /* hit a truck */ }
void Collide(Car other) { /* hit another car */ }
}

class Truck {
void Collide(Truck other) { /* hit another truck */ }
void Collide(Car other) { /* hit a car */ }
}

Vehicle c = Car();
Vehicle t = Truck();

c.Collide(t); // with multiple dispatch, calls Car::Collide(Truck)
After the midterms and even possibly 2020, the future isn't going to look great for these companies.
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> You do understand that laws which are selectively enforced against the marginalized shouldn't be laws, right?

What are you suggesting here, that we just shouldn't have traffic safety laws at all? Anyone can go at any speed, in any lane or direction, and ignore traffic signals at whim?

The solution is to stop selectively enforcing laws, not to get rid of them entirely. Traffic safety laws have very good purpose that is in the public's interest.
All my favorite comedians laugh at their own jokes... Dave Chappelle,
Chris D'elia, and Bill Burr.
God forbid they try to maintain their cultural distinctness...

This insistence that they need to open the gates strikes me as a sort of weird form of outsourced imperialism. It’s the same rhetoric it’s always been, where their primitive ways are morally repugnant and they’re in dire need of civilizing. The proposed mechanism of “civilization” is just very different.
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I would love to be able to write tickets on cars illegally parked in bike lanes. Give me a ticket book and I'll work for free. I'll even document every ticket with unimpeachable timestamped video footage.
Again, anecdotally, but I have a lot of female coworkers who are in their 30s. Their biological clocks are ticking hard (they talk about babies and children all the time). As far as I can tell, the problem is none of them can find a guy that is willing to settle down and start a family. Not because the guys they date can't afford it, but they don't want to give up their single lifestyle (and let's face it, they don't need to get married to have sex, which is what used to convince guys to settle down decades ago).

One of my coworkers was so desperate when she hit her late 30s that she stopped taking birth control and had unprotected sex with any guy that was willing until she got pregnant. Whoever the guy was, he has no idea he fathered a child. She just wanted him for his sperm. The kid is basically being raised by child care centers while she continues on her career path. The other female coworkers think she is smart and are planning on doing the same thing if they find themselves in a similar situation when they reach their late 30s.
Would making the offer be considered conspiracy to commit crime, or some such?
If you're at a company where you can't find a place to sit in the cafeteria because you're being rejected by cliques, holy shit. Get out of there this instant. To be honest, I'm so surprised by this statement that I can't help but feel skeptical about it, but if it's true, then you must've found one of the worst places to work in the entire world.

In my darker moments, I feel like a social cancer sometimes, and am no doubt really abrasive and unfun to hang around with some days. But even so, in the 2 decades I've been in the tech workforce, I have never felt like my coworkers were cliques of snotty teenagers looking down on me to such a degree that they wouldn't let me sit with them in the cafeteria. If this is your environment, it's not you, it's them, and you need to get out of that company ASAP. Basic adult respect should be a precondition for working at any professional workplace.
This may be a very naive question, but why is Microsoft so invested in getting people to use Edge/IE? What's the big deal for Microsoft if people just prefer to use Safari/Firefox/Chrome/Opera/etc? Their browser share is already very low, what do they stand to lose?
I'm betting murder.
Agree, but we're on the right path.

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-03-16/decline-i...
True, but neither of them pump the level of money into convincing academics to covertly promote their political agendas as your employer does.

Whereas Apple and Microsoft will settle for a trade organization that openly represents them to state their views on the topic, Google's got professors who aren't disclosing their financial interests involved.

(Also, this is known as "whataboutism", it doesn't change the fact that Google is supporting this legislation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism)
I don't agree with the parent comment, but you make it sound as if the required licensing is ordained by God or something.

Licenses are setup for a purpose, yes, but they are not immutable.

Once the Japanese government reaches a point where the local labor pool is not sufficient for these tasks, they will at the very least ease the licensing requirements, or even remove them altogether.
>How do you square the two things?

Very simple. For everything that could be produced in China or, say, Vietnam, you have, essentially, a deflationary backstop. No matter how many mp3 players you want to buy, chinese will deliver without rising prices, since they have a capacity and happy to utilize it.

For stuff like real estate, or stocks... bloomerg reported yesterday that "FANG Rally Is Outpacing the Heyday of the Tech Frenzy" [0]. Stock market was and still is a good place to be for last 9 years, and while economic recovery was slowest since Great Depression [1], stock market roared for some reason. Hmmmmm..

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-15/looking-l...
[1] http://money.cnn.com/2016/10/05/news/economy/us-recovery-slo...
I urge everyone to watch this video from Cambridge Analytica about their techniques with big data and psychographic profiling leading up to the 2016 election. Very dystopian, it almost feels like a seminar with a Bond villain. Quote from the video:

> "we were able to form a model to predict the personality of every single adult in the United States of America."

https://youtu.be/n8Dd5aVXLCc

Edit: also this article is a good read about how they used Facebook likes to build up profiles. Also contains a summary of the video: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/mg9vvn/how-our-li...
Ship of Theseus still in use after hundreds of years!

With long-lived sofware like this, I often wonder what fraction of the old source stays untouched for that long. At my day job, we have the distant descendant of a 35+ year old software package, but I can't believe there are many files which haven't had significant maintenance within the last 5 years. On the other hand, when I go looking I can typically find source files that have become totally unused and nobody seems to have noticed...

Notable events in its history involve a semiautomatic translation from structured BASIC to to C in the late 80s, and finally getting under version control in the mid 90s.

Also, I was somehow unaware of Macsyma being available on modern Linux systems under the name of Maxima so thanks very much for that!
Perhaps double-replying is bad form but this is still bothering me. Soviets may have deployed the issue cynically, but black people really were being lynched, it really did compromise America's moral leadership on human rights, and embarrassment over the issue was a significant part of what spurred the federal government to begin to intervene. To the extent that you, as I do, view the creation of a relatively pluralistic and multicultural society as one of America's crowning achievements, perhaps we owe the Soviet "what-aboutists" a debt of gratitude.

The idea that the Russians invented rejecting someone's argument on the grounds that the person making the argument is a hypocrite strikes me as rather unlikely. I also see problems with the idea that we can simply dismiss complaints about racism as textbook Russian propaganda.
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> Whoever the guy was, he has no idea he fathered a child.

That's just unethical. I feel sorry for the child already...
I have a hunch that this is how the Russians are using Twitter and Facebook to mess with the American people
> PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/local/meme'

:'(
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Where do you live? People use bike lanes in NYC all the time.

And the total number of people is absolutely the right denominator here, as publicly owned land should be allocated for the greatest possible good of all. You're assuming your conclusion by claiming that vast swaths of public land should be dedicated to drivers alone, and not to the rest of the majority of people who do not drive.

You know what every single person who takes the subway also does? Walks. On average, many blocks, on both ends of their trip. You know what these people will benefit from? More sidewalk space in congested areas. More traffic calming measures, slower vehicles, and safer crossings.
Where I ride it's usually taxi or other TLC vehicles just parked there, doing nothing. Usually on break or waiting for a pickup.
well, you need to have it in order to protect it
I bet they realize the lifespan of this device is very short and are trying to maximize ROI short-term.
Well if that's not a humblebrag then I don't know what is. Learning any natural language (especially an ancient, complicated, and dead one) takes tremendous effort. It's not some trivial thing to do like going to med school or climbing Mt. Everest or something.
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Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood is produced by the Fred Rogers Company. I haven't watched much of it, but it seems kinda like Mr. Roger's Neighborhood crossed with a more contemporary style.
To repurpose your old stereo with a raspberry today, just run https://github.com/mikebrady/shairport-sync on it :-)

This way you can send any audio from laptop/phone to the stereo over lan.

Not sure why you would want to limit yourself to the service of a single provider. (What value does Spotify Connect add, if any?)
That is a bad comparison. My weight is under my control, and I don't want the government to interfere. Preventing terrorists from getting in the country and committing attacks is something I expect the government to do.
I get on a bus right before a time stop. It's only about 30 blocks after the previous time stop (Northgate TC) but has arrived as soon as 5 minutes before the posted time. That's always fun when combined with a 10 minute late bus following it.

It always stings to see the bus approach early such that I have to run for it, only to then have it wait for 5 minutes at the time stop 2 stops later.
Some people argue whether morality is totally subjective which I do not think is true. There is definitely a core set of values and actions that are objectively good. Helping others, being truthful to yourself and society, being kind and polite. I always think about Mr. Rogers when I visualize a "good person" he definitely was a huge positive influence in the world and an amazing role model. Perhaps one day there will be a Mr. Rogers religion and I'm fine with that.
Whoa, more details? That’s wild.
They can routinely keep you at the border for a few hours though.
It might count as theft of trade secrets.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1832
That was my thought, too. Other than this report, has there been verifiable evidence the device even works?

The photo stagings remind me of ones I’d use on a pre-release marketing site for a vapor-ware product to test demand and a price point.
> Many skilled young people have realised that things are getting worse in the British workplace, and have decided to head for more attractive places such as Australia – which also happens to have one of the world’s best pensions systems.

This is poorly phrased. Australia's pension scheme is fairly strict. Payments are adjusted for both non-pension income and assets, with low thresholds for sharp reductions.

This is in part because Australia has a compulsory retirement savings scheme, the superannuation guarantee (aka "super"). These do not provide defined benefits, but do enforce a minimum amount of savings taken from income and placed into superannuation funds.

Almost none of the skilled young people who the author projects moving to Australia are going to benefit from the pension. And quite frankly, I don't see "a pension in 50-something years, maybe" being as compelling to a depressed pom as "sunny weather and better food".
Civ 2 is better, it's got a bit less detail (i.e. less endless managing of cities...), and got the more aged graphics to boot. Then again, it's already got the the isometric perspective.
I recently listened to the audiobook of The Simple Faith of Mr. Rogers. It's good:

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-simple-faith-of-mister-...
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If this actually works there has to be some huge, embarrassing vuln in Apple's Secure Enclave Processor on par with the "CTS Labs" AMD secure coprocessor hoopla that hit the news just this week.[1][2]

The SEP is supposed to enforce a time delay between passcode attempts to prevent this sort of brute forcing. The timer could be defeated in older models by cutting power at just the right time, but Apple's whitepaper says it's supposed to survive restarts now.[3]

Based on the screenshots it looks like it can load custom firmware on the iPhone. That's bad.

[1] https://www.anandtech.com/show/12525/security-researchers-pu...

[2] HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16597626

[3] p15: https://images.apple.com/business/docs/iOS_Security_Guide.pd...
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I would settle for something to force users to set a unique avatar.

IME, our (non-Western) off-shore staff never, ever sets one and it's a UX nightmare of plaid. I literally never focus on the project development channels unless I'm @ mentioned (I'm OpsEng).
Facebook employees worked with the campaign to help with their digital strategy. Directly.

https://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/26/facebook-google-tw...

I guess there would still be advantage to targeting adds even more directly (using RNC voter data combined with the FB profiles).
Ha. With my friends, if we have one of these "we don't know" scenarios, and my friend tries to take out their phone to look it up, I tell them to put that goddamned thing away. Knowing is not fun. Reasoning is fun, asking around is fun, guessing is fun, bullshitting is fun. If you don't need to know, don't look it up!

Would you rather get to know someone through many conversations and shared experiences, or by reading a (hypothetical, futuristic) brain scan? And so with the world.
Twitter even came around and added a feat to allow muting of accounts with the default ("egg") avatar. /* C'mon, Slack, you can't get whipped by Twitter!*/
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no kid is going to drive an hour+ and pay $100 fee to go race they will set up on some street that's closer and free. also, the street races gather huge crowds of other younger people (girls) so nobody wants to go pay to race where none of their friends are watching.
So no considering the crime when deciding how to direct resources? Only pursue investigations of some murders?

(murder is the extreme example, but that's the argument you've just made, that devoting resources to prosecuting some particular crime is a slippery slope to abusing the homeless)
I served in the Pitt Mission from 89-91. He had the missionaries for dinner every few months.

I had the honor of being one of those missionaries, though at the time I thought he was condescending. I've come to realize he was, but not the negative kind. He was a genuinely kind and compassionate man.

The only thing I remember about that dinner was his opinion on our missionary service, which was that even though we were misguided, our hearts were good and God counted that. He sincerely prayed for our success as well as our conversion. I left a very humbled young man.
Missing the forest for the trees.
> Whatever you think the West is doing is not even close to this.

That is indeed true. But then, cultures of China and the West are very different. Judging either by the standards of the other is bound to be contentious.

Also, there's arguably some observer bias in the West's pride. Changes in the US after 9/11 were dramatic! What if radical Islamic fundamentalists had done a better job? More waves of attacks, soon after the first?
Herbivore men - I had to look it up:

Herbivore men or grass-eater men (草食(系)男子 Sōshoku(-kei) danshi) is a term used in Japan to describe men who have no interest in getting married or finding a girlfriend. The term herbivore men was also a term that is described as young men who had lost their "manliness". The term was coined by the author Maki Fukasawa in an article published on 13 October 2006.

Surveys of single Japanese men conducted in 2010 found that 61% of men in their 20s and 70% of men in their 30s considered themselves to be herbivores. Japan's government views the phenomenon as one possible cause of the nation's declining birth rate.

According to Fukasawa, herbivore men are "not without romantic relationships, but have a non-assertive, indifferent attitude toward desires of flesh". The philosopher Masahiro Morioka defines herbivore men as "kind and gentle men who, without being bound by manliness, do not pursue romantic relationships voraciously and have no aptitude for being hurt or hurting others."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbivore_men
That may be the case in the US, but FWIW it is not necessarily true across jurisdictions. In the UK, for instance:

> A person who views an image on a device which is then automatically cached onto its memory would not be in possession of that image unless it can be proved that he / she knew of the cache [...but...] the person would also have "made" the image in question. Subject to there being evidence of the act which constituted the making and the necessary mental element, an offence contrary to section 1 of the PCA 1978 is preferable and in most cases would suffice. [...] The charge of 'making' [has been] widely interpreted to cover such activities as opening attachments to emails and downloading or simply viewing images on the internet.

Further note:

> So, for example, in a "pop-up" case, it would have be to be proved [for the act of making] that suspect knew that accessing a website would generate "pop-ups" and that those "pop-ups" would depict, or be likely to depict, indecent images of children

That is far shakier legal ground than I would like to be on, especially for readers of this thread who would presumably be aware of the cache and where it has been hinted that the images may contain at best questionable content.

https://www.cps.gov.uk/legal-guidance/indecent-images-childr...
That's good to know but Seattle is in Washington. Unless you're trying to be funny and we're all wooshing due to Vancouver WA vs Vancouver BC
My guess is Apple gets a pass because they are not a monopoly ... yet.
Apropos of nothing, I don't believe they filled in ALL the holes down there. When I briefly worked for Dart Container, purveyors of the classic styrene foam J Cup, I learned they had just opened a MASSIVE new warehouse down in Texas, built in part of the tunnel system meant to become the home of the SSC.

I got to see part of their warehousing up near Lansing, MI. Imagine a building the size of a jumbo jet hangar, packed to the rafters with NOTHING but boxes on boxes of J Cups. Now imagine another. I'm pretty sure the Lansing facility had at least two, and that still wasn't enough for the millions of cups they move each year.

We use a lot of cups.