skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> Never once did I ever refer to any of
>> our customers or clients as "dumb fucks"

Did they ever send you their SSNs? I mean, I’m not going to whitewash what he said, but you gotta agree, sending your SSN to some random dude in a college dorm is pretty darn dumb.
The idea is to sidestep the need to access private information in order for researchers to do their work. So in this case, the artificial data is more useful, since the real data is inaccessible.
Obviously yes, if you have a higher probability of endangering someone (ie, school kids, construction sites), the punishment will be worse.
Is this akin at all to random sampling with replacement ie bootstrapping?
Building a reputation of helping both sides of major political campaigns and capturing a slice of their crazy spending seems completely sensible.

One thing that could become a mis-step though is if their staff supporting the Trump campaign knew enough from seeing their advertising submissions to realise the sort of data they must hold on their users.

We know from the Guardian report that Facebook have security protocols that trigger when you eg. download 50m user profiles as an app, and the response given was that it was academic. So Facebook should have been suspicious, if the campaign were running adverts in a way that showed a possession of that sort of data and nobody could explain where it came from. Of course, maybe Facebook's staff embedded in the campaign were kept in the dark and Cambridge Analytica managed those targeted ads themselves.

If they knew, and let it slide, and let senior Facebook leadership tell politicians that CA had no data though, that could be a huge mis-step.

According to the women who ran project Alamo, Cambridge Analytica were in house - and the Facebook etc. Representatives were too. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/magazine-40852227/the-digital-g...
Yeah... A lot of the places may not have consistent power supply. But They may have alternative such as a Generator or Solar Smart Inverter.
The user agent string they provide is probably irrelevant to what software they use.
I don't think your parent makes judgement on the value of any political position. Trolls here just refers to people who are shouting without contributing to the discussion.

What they're saying is that once any user has a sufficiently large following the replies to their tweets with any signal are lost in the noise of unrelated political rantings (both sides) and scam bots hoping to take advantage of the exposure that replying to big users has.

These groups both manipulate the rankings. Political ravings are upvoted by the similarly inclined politicals. The bots work in swarms to favourite their own posts and reply with "Wow, worked for me, thanks!"
”So say you want a 4kx2k display, well, that is 8 million LED's”

24 million, if you want RGB. On the positive side: OLEDs have the same number of LEDs, and we can manufacture them economically and at large sizes (LG showed a 88 inch 8k one in January (http://bgr.com/2018/01/01/lg-8k-oled-display-announced-88-in...)
I'd widen this to include search engines, forums, much of the rest of the internet, phone companies, cable companies, banks, and many other companies. Everyone seems to want to get in on the spying game these days, most every company wants to know as much as possible about their customers.

Of course, Facebook differs from most companies in the amount of data it manages to collect about its users. A cable company isn't going to know nearly as much about its typical customer as Facebook knows, but they can still probably infer a surprising amount from your viewing habits -- including political views based on which news programs you watch, for instance.

Web forums could know even more than cable companies, as many people are quite candid in discussing what they think and care about on them. Then there are communications companies like Skype, which have access to all sorts of confidential and sensitive communications.

The list goes on and on, and I'm really not sure how this runaway freight train of voluntary participation in surveillance can be stopped at this point, as for most people all these services are too damn convenient, and virtually none of them were built with strong privacy, much less anonymity in mind.
Yes sure, but those arent listed under "die from prescription opioid overdose".
If I have to explain it, it's already a lost cause. If you want any hope of PGP being widespread, or any cryptosystem for that matter, you need to have it being self-explanatory.

Someone at the age of 90 should be able to download the software, click a "yes" button and secure their mail.

Secure E-Mail must be as DAU-proof as possible.
"Its had a number of folk remedies, such as a cure for syphilis and a tincture to reduce boils, but none of these have succeeded in scientific testing."

There's scientific testing for tea tree oil that's not hard to find. I'll add my experience to what others are saying which supports it's both useful and probably toxic for same reason.

I got athletes foot a while back. Severe stuff with swelling and bleeding of the feet. They even glowed under a UV light. Trippy. I tried natural solutions like vinegar or baking soda first since that stuff solves lots of my problems. Didn't work. Then, the OTC medicines didn't work. If anything, it's like it went down slightly, then flamed up with more damage in response. It got a holy crap response from lots of people, even some with a version of it before. Like it was a living thing that wanted to pay back torture with torture. Got doctors to prescribe the standard stuff with it not working either. They also prescribed antibiotics in case of infections from the bleeding. Had to bleach and throw away lots of socks.

A friend told me some "folk" story about tea tree oil. Skepticism up. He handed me a study comparing it to a common treatment for my condition with it working in the study. Studies get BS'd a lot I thought. Told me several people he knew had skin conditions treated that way. Placebos or something else not that product? Said I wouldn't figure out what he was giving me. Anyone knowing me or my posts here probably guessed I figured it out before that day was over: a furniture cleaner with tea tree oil as a main ingredient. Lol. So, big container of water for my feet, a few capfuls in it, soak 30 min, and repeat for certain amount of time (can't recall). What to loose...?

Unlike the other treatments, my feet soaking in this stuff felt fairly good. After the time period, it was... gone. Recall I tried acids, alkaline solutions, OTC medicines, and prescription medicines. Then, this furniture cleaner based on tea tree oil killed it in a shorter time than the meds were supposed to with no negative effects. Hell, my feet were even shiny. :) I mean, it did worry me where I wanted to wash it off but they said leave it on. I also kept it up a week or so after the symptoms disappeared just in case. No long term effects that I can see.

"No real purpose." "Folk remedies." "Toxic to humans." These are good replies to all the shit the drug companies and doctors told me to use. None of it worked. It was all damaging in some small or big way. The big being enough that it took more drugs to prevent major problems. The tea tree oil handled the job well fast and with no effects. I'm not saying I trust it in general, think it's a miracle drug past killing the fungi kingdom on my feet, etc. I'm just saying it provably did it's job on living organisms that resisted 8+ months of doctor-prescribed treatments with no sign of weakness until the tea tree oil. I recommend more research be done on applying blends to stuff like that.
The bigger problem is unwillingly sending them even more private information than participating on their sites. Sending a referer and a cookie with every ad (or like button) delivered is far more intrusive. Or isn't that how it works?
Toolflows for Mapping Convolutional Neural Networks on FPGAs
I was reading an article earlier today about hunters in Australia and the fact that more and more women are taking up the practice. The interesting thing is that they are hunting deer which is considered a feral animal here.

So, as a benefit to removing the feral animal problem, should they not then get a tax reduction for eating meat as they are removing a feral animal from the environment?
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Doesn't most mogas STC's cover only alcohol-free gas, which AFAIK is increasingly hard to acquire in many places?

It seems that longer term, in many places of the world, particularly outside the US, the answer is diesel aero engines, which can run on jet fuel.
Ah cool, thanks for the link.

It sounds like it may actually come in handy - I've ended up creating a number of solutions which came pretty close to being fully fledged domain specific languages. Sadly, despite nominally passing a CS compilers course about 20 years ago, my implementations have been horrifically incorrect. Maybe it's time to refresh my memory of how to actually do this.
Surprisingly, by going to directly tell a CEO that his website was deeply flawed and that I managed to access root credentials in a few minutes. Two weeks later, I had a job, the job I'm currently at, and I have this CEO in my list of good friends.
Does it matter if it is the first reason, or the second, or the nth if it allows surveillance on its platform because it benefits them.

Even the fact that they allow it, by not doing enough to prevent it is enough reason for me to believe Snowden's statement.
Twitter is the only social network that I tolerate.

And all the people in the software industry that I want to follow are on it.
I use to apply that to get ideas: Avoid learning how something works at first. Study outside factors. E.g. look at screenshots of an application. Try to imagine how it works. Only learn how it actually works after that.

I started doing that after realizing that I used to do this with software I saw in magazines as a child, and then get disappointed when I got the actual software: When you just look at the surface, it's easy to infer a lot of qualities that are not there, and be entirely unaware of the shortcomings.
It's mildly ironic that the number 1 criticism against Facebook privacy concerns comes from a leaked anonymous source of the CEO's private texts.

Of course you could say that Zuckerberg is getting a taste of his own medicine, but I dunno, it still seems a bit hypocritical to me.

Maybe someone can come up with a good argument of whose private data we're allowed to post publicly, and whose we aren't?
On mastodon I use boosts (similar to retweet) when I want everyone who follows me to see a specific post. Like is when I find the specific toot interesting but not something I want to bother other people with.
I am use FSNotes, it’s free and with iOS client in beta. https://github.com/glushchenko/fsnotes
> For more than six years this computer teacher has been drawing interfaces on blackboard for his students as the school did not have the resources.

This is a nice story, but doesn't having a computer teachers in communities that can't afford computers seem like a waste of resources?
> HN is a news aggregator

I cannot filter HN's feed to only get content from the people I want to follow. And don't tell me about shitty apps.

Therefore it does not qualify as an RSS reader.
Some secrets are hidden in plain sight. They're there, but because most people get information from news outlets, and they don't cover these topics, it's like public information becomes a secret, buried underneath a mountain of noise.
I applaud the effort to hate on "smart" middleware proxies!

That being said, author gets no points for namedropping random distributed systems algorithms and using tcp keepalives (2 hours minimum!) as an argument against TLS terminating proxies.

Is there a reason to (as he says) "fully implement the protocol" in the proxy? I battled with websockets through Pound last week, and it simply doesn't work because the author took a non-postel stand on protocol specifics.

Having a protocol agnostic proxy like hitch (previously stud) fixed that without losing functionality, and I expect it to age better as well.
Oracle haters keep bringing this up, it doesn't make any sense.

SQL is an international standard, that one needs to pay for, it isn't available for free.

Oracle already pays for SQL certifications, unlike Google does for Java.
Zuck now uses FB to help Pakistan enforce blasphemy laws. Would you be okay helping sentence someone to death for "blasphemy"? Zuck has.

And now he finds the value in religion as he grooms his political career. The dude is a complete snake.
Begging the question: what's the point of instagram and snapchat.

Explain this as though I'm a luddite who thinks command line email is better than bbs, irc, and everything else.
> Iowa didn't look much like a desert the last time I was there.

I don't know the specifics of Iowa, but European soil can only keep up with the rising yields thanks to the dung of a rising headcount of livestock that is fed with imported feed that is at least in part from slash-and-burn farming or from depopulating the oceans. If those animals consume more than the local yields could supply, the farming is still unsustainable despite local soils not depleting.

I'm not saying that there are no improvements (three certainly are), but that they might be much smaller than we think.
Not to mention Tuberculosis is transmissible when Ari's ailment presumably was not.
>> Apple employees with that level of information don't have ....

How can you say so? Can you back your statement up with some evidence or are you just saying what you've heard in folklore stories??
There is such a big hoohaa over CO2 emission. We have much more pressing concerns and about things that we cannot control. Yet there are no mitigation efforts even being discussed.

The problem area is the changing magnetic fields of this planet. If any of the scenarios play, even the least problematic, then we are going to be in more trouble, more quickly than we will ever be with CO2 emissions.

The Van Allen belts are a highly protective shield for this planet from highly energetic radiation (solar and cosmic). If these belts ever get destabilised then we (most life will be affected) will being facing more serious health and well-being problems than what we would ever have from CO2 emissions.

All that the CO2 debate is about is distracting the general populous of this planet from more immediate problems. The beneficiaries of any carbon trading or taxation regime are not the general population.
If you have hard drive access you can replace the logon.scr screensaver executable with the command prompt executable, then a few minutes after boot up a command prompt with system privileges will appear by magic.
I couldn't figure out why they couldn't marry. Choose not to, maybe, but "couldn't"?
The Deathbed Fallacy
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Surveillance and privacy... these are terms that typical "social media" users don't really care about. We can brag about it, we can delete our accounts, block them, do whatever we want and nothing will change because brainless mass will still use it to post hundreds of private information daily. They are addicted to this and if you take this "toy" away from them they will start behaving like hungry junkies.

Addiction is the power of Facebook and nothing more.

To fight with Facebook you have to set up another social media addiction that will dominate the market and expect that after a few years it will not be the same again...
I don't think the scheme under discussion requires a one to one relationship between accounts and pieces of ID. Just that, to get the blue badge or whatever, any account should have an identified 'real person' (or company etc) behind it.
I don't buy any of that. The population of Apple customers that hang on leaks like this is relatively tiny and if they're that much of a fan they're hooked anyway. Minor leaks are going to happen whatever Apple does, so manufacturing them just isn't worthwhile.

Then there's the problem that it's impossible to control the narrative on off the record leaks, and once you leak a supposedly 'desirable' amount of information on a secret project, that's like blood in the water to the media sharks that will then savage the subject to death trying to get 'undesirable' amounts of information on it. The risks from that IMHO would massively outweigh the minuscule and highly arguable benefits from a minor leak. Small leaks have a tendency to turn into big leaks and Apple definitely doesn't want that to happen.
oh nice, yea it's coming along (the book is not complete yet, like before, it's written and each chapter put up when complete). There's a github repo as well.

I'd say it's worth the fun of writing your own alongside or after!
Given that Google helped sink Sun by ripping them off, and Sun wasn't in the position to pay for lawyers, to apply the same medicine that they did to Microsoft....

James Gosling interview, at 57:42

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYw3X4RZv6Y

"unwilling to help us pays the bills", so nice for the Do No Evil company.

Oracle does pay for their ANSI/ISO SQL certifications.
What's the modern version of something like Counterspy? Covert Action Quarterly seems to be defunct (although they claim to be relaunching in 2018) and something like Wikileaks is too much raw info and not enough informed analysis.
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There's a big webpack 4 documentation update PR in the pipeline: https://github.com/webpack/webpack.js.org/pull/1856
> the creator of Webpack, "Sokra," made $44,164 off of Webpack development in 2017

While I certainly welcome this new trend I wouldn't exactly call sub-45k "hefty". That's far below what the author could presumably make working for one of the big shops, and doesn't exactly leave much to "divert" if the author has any plans to pay rent, buy food, etc.

As stated it's a great and promising trend, but I wouldn't be too hasty in calling for the author to start redistributing a fairly minimal income. That's barely enough for one person, let alone "staff".
If more software would take an apostel stand, I feel we would have net fewer interoperability problems.
A better negotiation position would have been my first guess, too.

> The screens are far more difficult to produce than OLED displays, and the company almost killed the project a year or so ago [...] consumers will probably have to wait a few years before seeing the results.

So the best-case scenario is that Apple finishes developing this technology in a few years, and the worst-case scenario is that they kill this development, which almost happened already.

This could go either way both for Apple and for screen manufacturers. It only makes sense to explore an option without all this uncertainty, by seeking a new middle ground.
I put an Ad in newspaper. I got a lot of calls. I picked one of them up and to my great surprise it was exactly what I was looking for?
Wouldn't a customizable version of http://devdocs.io/ have been a better sell?
Met through a mutual friend at a party at the bar where I used to work. We got along like a house on fire, so figured it was worth a shot.
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I miss the simplicity of the NT / 2003 era of servers. You could make setup as simple or as complex as you now. Now you have to have a BSA to configure so many arbitrary standards just to connect to a NAS.
I don't think that's a good standard for a general rule.

Why did you use the pornographic picture for this work related task?

Well the people in the picture don't mind. In fact they're quite happy about the exposure.

Oh well, carry on then.
> people use WhatsApp and Telegram (and even dare to speak about them in terms of "privacy", which is mind boggling)

I don't know about WhatsApp, but from what I recall about Telegram, its main criticism is the fact that it isn't using secret chats (i.e. private conversations) by default. However when using secret chats, the communication is end-to-end encrypted. Is there anything else wrong with it?
Great story!!!
I also got a chance to meet my first hire in a fairly similar situation. Turned out that he was one of the first customers of my Indie Game.
He pointed out a lot of good things, we got into discussion and next thing you know .. I offered him a partnership ...
Ask HN: Could I get a job as a programmer having an 8 year gap?
After graduation from a CS degree I decided to work on my disability. It took be 8 years to get myself in shape. Now I am 31 and have never felt so good.

Over the years I have kept up with the new tech. I started with PHP, WordPress and laravel. The moved to Node.js, react and their ecosystem. I also have some projects to prove I know what I am doing (I also of course have css and html)

I've read a lot about this topic but nothing specific to our field. From research I conclude that the best thing to do would be to state that I've been working on my disability but not be apologetic about it.

First of all though, is it true that if my personal projects (demos create for myself) are good enough I'd be able to get a job - and a job one at that?

Thanks
> Webpack 4 has been in beta for a while

Perhaps the naming is sending the wrong message? "Beta" sounds incomplete and subject to change; I certainly don't make a habit of introducing betas to serious projects unless there's something in them I'm desperate for.

An extended period of Release Candidate versions could give end users more confidence in adoption. This naming implies that the product is finalised and will be released as-is barring serious bugs. It's a small thing, but maybe giving end users the feeling of being early adopters rather than beta testers could increase uptake in this final critical stage.
Doesn’t it stain?
YouTube Kids suggesting conspiracy theory videos to kids?
I remember a local college loved them because you could teach 3d modeling. They really weren't used for the actual modelling but rather as cheap render farms that could run at night.
Just because substance Y does X doesn't mean it should be used to achieve X in a medical situation. There is usually a substance Z which achieves it more effectively (unless Y was designed to be more effective than Z)
there was hardly any software compiled for Alpha even when it was a current product

I ran SQL Server on NT on Alpha in the 90s, it was actually very good, but you had to treat it as a dedicated appliance rather than a general-purpose computer because as you say, there was very little software available.

Then the industry took a weird meander through DEC StrongARM and now Microsoft is looking at Windows on ARM seriously again...
Experimental proof of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks [pdf]
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Inheritance does allow you to avoid implementing part of the interface.
[RUBY] Difference Between Procs and Lambdas
I am hooked on blockchain, sorry
Is this an Electron app? If so, can it be ported to Windows and Linux?
Since Quiver is only usable on Apple platforms, I've instead started using Boostnote. It doesn't quite have the same featureset, but it's still a great way of collecting formatted notes and storing them on Dropbox/GDrive.
Need a legitimate reason to call off work?
Why is Agile the most overused word in software business?