skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Consider:
- A landlord holding incorrect data on rental payments.
- A company holding personal financial data.

In both of these cases if the information is misused it has consequences for the individual, and (relatively) higher cost for the individual on minimum wage.

In the former, this can affect your future ability to find housing. This potentially leads to extraordinary stress.

In the latter the consequences again affect both wealthy and poor, but the person living hand to mouth faces much more serious consequences if their wages are adminstratively docked to pay for costs fraudulently registered in their name. Further, they're unlikely to be able to pay an expert to resolve this or take time out of work to do this themselves.
Sure, but the parent's point is that even if you got rid of the fake news, you'd still be able to spread plenty of propaganda and sway people. Going after the easy target of "fake news" might feel good, and even do something to help make propaganda less effective, but isn't going to make a huge dent in the problem.
It's actually amazing how I can predict this exceedingly well just from watching students grades compared to the average.

Did a test with it using my website: https://easy-a.net

I basically can predict students future semester grades, hours spent and what not.
From the article:

> Many of the tools were made from a black volcanic rock called obsidian, which was brought to the site and processed there. But from where? There aren’t any obsidian outcrops near Olorgesailie. The chemistry of the tools suggests that they came from sources up to 100 kilometers away. But “these are straight-line distances that, in some cases, go over the top of a mountain,” says Alison Brooks from George Washington University.

> “There’s an occasional piece in the Acheulean that gets transported these distances,” says Brooks. “But we have thousands of pieces in this one site that’s smaller than most people’s kitchens. There has been a really major import of raw materials.”
I am sorry you are taking this so extremely personally. I wish you had stated that up front. I regret engaging you. You are wildly misconstruing my remarks in a very hostile fashion.
list of such job boards: https://github.com/raynesio/remotelist
> science is about what we can reasonably believe to be true

No, science is about what we can formulate testable predictions. It can be completely unreasonable, yet still be science. Many major breakthroughs have been from unreasonable ideas.
Leadership Sabotage of Millennials in Corporate America
This wasn’t the case for Graph API v1.0, which I‘d suspect was used to gather the data. It was active until 2015...
How do you know if someone is a conspiracy theorist? Don't worry, they'll tell you.
I don't have bookmarks but to find my favorite articles, I generally like to search things like "lessons year"[1], "wish i knew"[2], etc on hn search (algolia).

It really turns up some very nice insightful articles. Try it :)

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=lessons%20year&sort=byPopulari...

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=wish%20i%20knew&sort=byPopular...
I grew up with the knowledge that everything I did was monitored, given the nature of my parents employment.

All it led to was a lifetime of learning how to improve my opsec and now I work in the field myself.

Continuous improvement!
Here's what helps me cope:

- Having some constant amount of structure in my life. Always having some activity schedule for 945 am and attending it without exception has forced discipline on my day as early as possible. In college, I chose one class to attend per quarter and always showed up. If I can fixate on one thing to center a schedule around, I find keeping plans much easier.

- Exercising for 30 minutes or more everyday, as early in the day as possible. This is key to calming me down and also gives me measurable goals that I can pursue and achieve

- Medication. As much as I hate admitting to myself that I need to be medicated, I think staying on my prescription has served me well

- Automating as many important things as possible. Credit card payments are the biggest thing here for me, I don't trust myself to remember recurring events on a horizon longer than a week so being able to automate utility bill pay (could backfire, but better than slipping up) and credit card balance pay off has been a relief

- If you're a developer, pair program as much as possible. The pressure of needing to show someone else that you're competent gets to you. You have someone else to call you out when you're going on a tangent that you'd walk back a few hours later.
Companies make millions and billions off data naively or knowingly given up for free. So, I weep. /s

And if this becomes more than the odd request, build it into your processes. If you can identify me "as me" to your advertisers and other data customers, you can certainly do that for me.

Or just do what other businesses do: pay off a few legislators to change the law, or a lobbying firm or association. If you have the money, pay to make this a patriotic move. That's how democracy works. /s
I agree with this sentiment.

One thing that has been a godsend for me was a scan tool for my car. Not a lot goes wrong with my car, even though it's 10 years old, but being able to ask the car what's wrong when the check engine light comes on is a good way to save some money.

The first time the check engine light came on the car was still under warranty, so I let the dealer take care of it. I didn't own a scan tool at this time.

The second time it happened, many years later, my scan tool told me that it was an oxygen sensor. I know that is beyond my skill level, so off it goes to a mechanic. Since the scan tool told me what was wrong, I knew what to expect and could tell if they were trying to screw me over.

The third time it happened my scan tool told me that the battery voltage was low. That made a lot of sense for a 10 year old car, that had been sitting outside in -27C weather for a while, that still had the factory battery. Fixing that involved a trip to Costco and 15 minutes tinkering in the driveway. I'm sure a mechanic would have marked up the battery and charged an hour of labour, so the scan tool probably paid for itself with this one use.
Do you remember the name of the Larry Niven novel?

Sounds interesting
It's refreshing to see such responsible approach.

What you suggest is (as far as I understand you) orthogonal to automated data discovery / inventory mapping, though.
Try Freeciv. It's inspired by the original game and it's open source too :)

http://www.freeciv.org/
DC wants DuVernay to direct the 'New Gods' movie
One presumes that Spectre/Meltdown-level bugs are each worth substantially more to the computer industry than $250k.
Yes, because I can request it and ask for deletion.
Its issued for the purpose of doing schoolwork. What do you care if some Russian hackers gets their hands on your child's science fair project?

That said, do put electrical tape over the webcam and microphone.
Point one: Sure it is. Those offices you describe? Look at how many of them are focused on things that require creativity and out-of-the-box thinking. A functioning ADHD individual could be a good writer or ad exec, or any number of other high-paying jobs, based more on their talents or portfolio. Though as you say, likely with accommodations - but what industry doesn't have its share of those.

Point two: you made it a point to use the wrong word - A person with ADD sure as shooting can finish a book. Might they skim some boring sections, find later that it seems like they jumped around and missed something, use bookmarks often when bored, or reread sections to 'catch up' and remember what they've forgotten? Sure - but that doesn't preclude finishing a book if it's good.

Point three: from a brief skim I probably agree, plus I'm bored now ;)
I'm not consulting on the GDPR, and my clients range from 2-person companies to 2000 people with most of them being much closer to the low end than the high, so while it certainly will be a biased selection in other respects (e.g. they're companies with a certain degree of technical complexity) I don't think it says much about awareness (other than already having more tech staff) or scale.

Additionally, most companies without much technical infrastructure are less likely to be affected much in the first place.
Mostly because there is no evidence it happened infact most evidence refutes it and if anything says it happened the other way round

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rajiv-malhotra/how-europeans-m...
You don't like conversational narrative?
It also works for performance, reliability, UX quality, etc. What GDPR does is forcing business to make privacy their core concern. Since time & budgets are inherently limited, this will come at the expense of something else.
There are plenty of cities for software developers where the salary/cost of living equation makes more sense than the west coast.
You would think. But if you don't buy Microsoft, Apple, Intel, AMD what do you buy? There is no alternative.
I’m glad to understand that, though it doesn’t make me any more inclined to add any extra metadata to my web traffic.
That's exactly what I thought before.
I was starting to think that it was shared as a kind of joke or sarcasm towards web development in general.
The government of that state has to adopt them to be really "it". Otherwise Google can adopt X solution, Here.com Y solution, Bing Maps Z and so on. Does it matter that Google has a "solution" when the government sends me the bill at another address?
Most people do not know the exact transliterations for many emoji, so aural transmission becomes difficult.
Also see ‘draft’ from Microsoft which was released last year and this is patterned off of.

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/streamlining-kubernet...
I think this is an important point.

And I believe what we observe supports that: In 2008, we not only had a financial crisis but even before that an extreme peak in oil prices which caused a drastic reduction in the demand on cars and a crisis in the car industry.

Also, the policy of "cheap money" makes fossil energy production and especially expensive modes of oil extraction cheaper, because these are extremely capital-intensive enterprises.

There is also a gap in effectiveness of resource allocation cased by the glossing over the importance of energy: Our society makes labour expensive, by putting taxes on it, while energy is made cheap. If you think about is, human labour contributes to society, it is desirable so it should be taxed as little as possible - ideally, no tax on labour at all. Contrarily, using fossil energy sources takes away from humanity, both the fossil resources itself and the dwindling capacity of the planet's atmosphere to absorb CO2. Consequently, one should shift taxes from labour to energy usage. That would of course require to levy import taxes on energy-intensive goods like steel or aluminium. But that's totally doable. The result of such a tax system would be a dramatic acceleration of energy-saving technology and renewable energy usage. Exactly what we need to slow down global warning.
> index.html

You win.
Even the public libraries started disclosing checkout history to agencies with the advent of the PATRIOT act.
Allow me to generalise a little, but from experience, people with those views (or who are very strongly opinionated), always seem to be able to bring those topics up.
So, retention rates improved by not even 3pp and they take that as proof that the program worked? Isn’t it much more likely that the increase is driven by the bigger attention the retention topic got by the administration as well as the increase in counseling, etc.? And how much damage is done by approaching students and telling them that their recent behavior indicates they might drop out soon?
So, in your opinion, this justifies the false headline of the article, and is reason to turn a blind eye to the same potential data abuse when committed by the other party?

>They are all the same” isn’t just cynical and useless. It’s also wrong.

Please do not put words in my mouth. All I am asking for is journalistic integrity. Media in the U.S. has proven repeatedly to be partisan, which, to a rational person, makes it very difficult to separate fact from propaganda. This article is a case in my point.

Unethical politicking is not an excuse for spread of misinformation.
I haven't made friends at my job. I don't have the same interests as any of the other developers.

On the other hand, I have a group of five friends that I made at my previous job that I keep in touch with in a private Slack group and we meet for lunch once or twice a month.

I knew I was going to be a short timer at this job for various reasons and never bothered.

I do keep in touch with one former coworker at a job I had in 2011. I married her....
Size and complexity shouldn't be confused. Often large size necessitates simpler policies and procedures.

I happen to be rereading Gibbon right now. He doesn't focus in on complexity, he contradicts it - pinpointing Constantine's crude-but-effective solution to constant rebellions and civil wars as the cause of the slow collapse: namely stationing perhaps two-thirds of Rome's military permanently in the cities with independent commands (the "palantines".) This prevented the regular barbarian-fighting armies (the "Borderers") and their commanders from rebelling successfully because they were now a relatively small military minority that would have to fight city after city - even in their own area - just to usurp power locally. But, with one hand tied behind its back, Rome's fall was inevitable from that point on. This "prepared the ruin of the Empire" in Gibbon's words. (But it was, arguably necessary, rebellion and civil war were incredibly frequent before that decision was taken.)

Size (and inequality) had undermined solidarity across the empire, not complexity. Diversity isn't exactly complexity. Keeping large groups together is hard, and the traditional pagan religion had lost most of its force well before Christianity came along; soldiers were no longer too afraid of the Gods to break a solemn oath in order to join a local rebellion under their particular commander. Most people's religion, particularly in the upper classes, had become much simpler - they really didn't have any.

It's possible to see this inexorable tendency toward rebellion as a result of Augustus' previous simplification long before; when drafting soldiers became too complex and unpopular, he ended conscription. This set up the situation in which soldiers became more loyal to their commanders, and themselves, than to the official emperor in Rome.

Looking at other societies, from other books, local chiefs and individuals slowly learned how to undercut central authority, in particular, slowly starving the center of revenues. Deviousness and a growing culture of tax-cheating and avoidance. It ain't that hard to keep things together if you have the money.
"It's already broken, you can't break it any more" are words to live by.
In a slightly similar way, Nudie Jeans [1] have free repairs for life in their many repair shops around the world. They also have some posts on DIY repairs [2]. It's not that their jeans are low-quality either, that they offer this. I've had jeans repaired in Australia, UK, and Norwray.

[1] https://www.nudiejeans.com/
[2] https://www.nudiejeans.com/blog/28-friday-january-25-2013
Nice tool, thank you for releasing it.

Unfortunately, in my experience it's a pretty normal strategy to over provision EBS gp2 volumes to get the IOPS since they scale linearly up to ~10k. I think that's the break-even point where it's actually cheaper to switch over to provisioned IOPS volumes.

So we'd have a number of little-utilized (in terms of data actually stored) 3TB drives just to avoid paying for provisioned IOPS.
> this particular set of bug bounty rules is exclusive to vulnerabilities that surround speculative execution bugs

I wonder what the rationale is for that narrow scope. Is it just that there aren't that many potential sources of side-channels?
Actually, the article says the materials were from up to 100 km away, and that was as the crow flies.
Deep Quaternion Networks (2017) [pdf]
The misery comes from zero documentation, no code commenting, very short variable names, and having to trace backwards from the subclass to the superclass to the ancient frameworks and libraries being used.

Especially tracing backwards from a subclass and it's undocumented! :)
It's not baking security/privacy in from the start that's the problem, it's the need to have a "compliance officer" and have to handle these requests. Small companies don't have time or resources for this.

Look at the American Disabilities Act, an act that has done enormous good in many ways, but that has also lead to an entire industry of lawyers hassling tiny businesses over insignificant infractions. (e.g. https://www.mercurynews.com/2016/04/10/serial-ada-lawsuit-fi...)

Startups in the US won't have this hassle. You don't have to serve EU customers to reach mid size/product market fit, you can concentrate on iterating on your core product. When it's time to scale, then you can look at GDPR. So limited resources stretch further.

But if the lawyers in Europe start becoming a nuisance to startups there, it's just going to force more and more services to be located overseas, and more and more government complaining about the dominance of overseas tech, a problem they're probably going to make worse.
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I wish, but I still have no idea what I’m doing, so not really. All I’ve repaired so far is a couple pairs of Levi’s that I keep tearing on my desks at school.

I mentioned sweaters from CVS because I bought one for ~$9 and the seams are coming apart after about 8 months, but it seems like it will be easy to fix because it was made in such a simple way.
From my post, again:

>But it is unethical to exaggerate and hold only part of the political system accountable

Please consider what I wrote in sum. Partisanship and exaggeration are antithetical to trust.
The mitigation and litigation costs to the large players, even in the case of a successful defense, are surely larger than $250k.
Not referring to Graham Hancock per se (I hadn't heard of him before this post) but when it comes to articles about people with even a hint of controversy around them, I would trust Wikipedia about as far as I could throw one of their server racks. It is always a good idea to at least check the talk page in addition to whatever is on the initial page.
Why does he/she have .gitignore files in subdirectories? That seems to make those subdirectories linger for no reason.
So your source is from tabloid news?

I look forward to a rebuttal from the Daily Mail.
So virtual function overloading?

Can you give a small bit of sample code to demonstrate what you mean?
Tutorials and libraries for data structures in C
>>However it's also under selection in places like the Ethiopian highlands, where sun exposure is presumably not an issue.

The Ethiopian highlands have been historically productive in agriculture. Agricultural diets contain less Vitamin D, increasing the selective pressure for lighter skin tones.

The highlands are also cooler than other regions of Africa at similar latitudes, resulting in more clothing being required on average. More clothing necessitates more UVB absorption per unit of skin exposed, which would further select for lighten skin tones.
Like many words in the English language, the term "reasonable" has more than one meaning. I think the OP was using it for a meaning that fits your explanation of science.
If the Korean War restarts (which is less likely than people think, but still more likely than simultaneous terrorist attacks), the world is likely to lose most South Korean export products for a period.
Fighting Linkrot
In this day and age though, who would want to?

Everybody has skeletons in their closet. Lots of people have tried to dig up dirt on Mr. Rogers' saintly image, but failed.

Meanwhile, Melanie Martinez, the host on PBS' "The Good Night Show" for children got canned when some "offensive" humor video she had made prior to her position surfaced. Her on-air personality was perfectly congenial.

Mr. Rogers only worked because he was less human than the rest of us. He never slipped up. We never caught him picking up hookers by the docks. We could never find a reason to take him down.
Well, they may not officially permit it in public, however they clearly allow it, otherwise we wouldn't be here.
Exactly. Based on their track record, IBM clearly knew what was going to happen and even anticipated the extra income as the project spiralled around the drain.
Is it possible for a novice to build their own smartphone?
Hey guys-

I was wondering if anyone had any guides for a novice to build their own smartphone. I used to build my own desktop computers as a kid and I'm willing to do some basic soldering. I just am looking for some instructable guides with part lists and what hooks up to what. Seems like a fun side project that shouldn't be too difficult considering where the tech is at these days.

Thanks!
Well, there was a time some rando flipped out after overhearing a conversation I was having regarding my tritium key fob.

Frankly, I've found the overall environments in these sorts of cafes/hackerspaces to be frustratingly anti-social. And I am someone who would be considered fairly left-leaning overall. But good lord were my hopes dashed when it came to thinking I would meet other folks that would be fun to talk to, just because not 100% of my views line up with the accepted SV zeitgeist.
I am not an expert in this area, but what I got from the later part of the article is that the anatomy changed to modern after the new cultural behavior.
What about backups? And isn't it good practice for them to be immutable? Or is that outside of scope?
Let's say you double your revenue via your blog. Do you feel like the time you'd spend writing content is worth more or less than $14k? (Obviously you can hope you'd more than 2x your revenue, but unless you already have a massive following, I think you have to be conservative)
You can't engineer this sort of thing away. A business that gets 1000 of these letters will have to hire someone to handle it, regardless of how good a job they did designing things.
The amount of things people/companies just throw away in the UK (and I reckon the rest of the world) is insane. Working for a e-waste company, I've seen everything from (perfectly working) curved 3D TVs, to hundreds of normal LED TVs, hundreds of ex-corporate laptops (mint condition, can't resell, must scrap) and of course, thousands of smartphones, tablets and home appliances, most of which were still in perfect working condition. That's all in a month's time across the poorer half of the UK! I will never understand this insane consumerism.
Meet the data war whistleblower
These bugs are probably most valuable against cloud providers (Where else do you get arbitrary code execution on a machine with other's valuable data on it?). Most cloud providers run Linux, not Microsoft (except Microsoft) and definitely not Apple.
Problem with Hancock's theories is that there isn't tangible evidence to back it up. At this point its all imagination.
Glad you like it! We're mobile first at this point, so the only way to subscribe is on our iOS/Android app. (They're also a much better experience altogether).
There is a list towards the bottom of this page.

http://worldwidewebworks.blogspot.com/p/work.html
Microsoft also runs the second largest cloud provider in the world.