skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Some of the documents released as part of the lawsuit contradict the FBI’s claim that it does not police ideology and only targets individuals taking up violent action, said Michael German, a former FBI agent and now a fellow with the Brennan Center for Justice’s liberty and national security program.

I was upset but became much more upset and surprised when I read this part. The FBI lying about their own actions is very scary, and this sort of surveillance on a non-violent activist is very suspect.
You can get a free MIT education online, too. But of course that isn't good enough, either.
How is BEAST relevant to any of this? It might be to some theoretical encrypted DNS, but not to the signature my CA provides to my certificate ownership just as it is not to the signature my registrar provides to my domain ownership.
I would say that the alleged use of this information by foreign-funded groups has soured people on it more quickly. I think this kind of behavior would have eventually come to be seen in a negative light over the years, but the possibly-more-nefarious connections has accelerated the process.
It's not necessary to change the votes of those who have already made up their minds. If one can nudge fence-sitters and undecided votes to a particular side, that can contribute to a win. Likewise if a certain subset of voters can be persuaded not to vote, and/or people who planned to sit out the election can be convinced to go out and participate.
> In addition, some cars such as the Nissan Leaf have a feature that locks the brakes at full power when there is a sudden control shift from accelerator to brakes, meaning that if you stomp on the brakes and then reduce pressure, the car will continue to brake at maximum power.

Which is utterly stupid. Braking is the natural reflex, but not always the right one. I've been in more than one close call (think left turn on incoming traffic) where the correct response was not to floor the brake, but floor the gas.

> people being taught to pump brakes, which increases braking distance in cars with ABS.

Which is a mechanical turk version of what the ABS is doing under the hood.
how does it make sense for a company with 20m/yr revenues (messagebird) to give away the standard YC equity cut? did they strike a special deal? this is the first i’ve ever read of a company as late stage as this enter YC. sorry in advance if the messagebird story is well known and i’m a dodo
You've lost me.

Somehow, you claimed, DNSSEC's offline signing design had something to do with how hard it was to conduct pinpoint attacks against DNSSEC.

No, that's not true.

But also: DNSSEC isn't an offline-signing system anymore: the BCP mode of deployment requires online signing; otherwise, dumping all the hosts in a zone is about as hard as cracking a 1990s password file.

You've seen zones where not even that level of protection is employed. Ok? What does that have to do with whether it's easy to launch pinpoint attacks against DNSSEC?

Oh, but pinpoint attacks are possible against TLS. Yes? And? The premise of this subthread is your (false) claim that it's not straightforward to do that against DNSSEC too.

Again: not only is it straightforward to do that, but it's actually easier, because, once again, no end-user DNS resolver also functions as security telemetry surveilling the DNS PKI, unlike the Web PKI where that is in fact the case.
> Humans correctly gauge stopping distance and "activate appropriately"

Toyota has enough UX data that they added "brake assist", turns out that a lot of accidents happen when the user stomps the brake, but then releases, just never presses it hard enough to come to a complete stop, or was trained before anti lock brakes.

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

Another scary thing about braking is that most cars probably don't have their brake fluid changed often enough; most owners and even dealers treat it as a lifetime interval, when it may be closer to an annual thing interval.
> Perhaps these same people were not alive in the 90s to see how bad things were then.

I was alive, and my memory is quite different: web search was way more useful back then. Yes, sure, the search engines were simpler. They were more about searching exact text phrases, and less about "guessing" what you meant, or auto-correcting the spelling in your query. But the web itself was different too - a web search with the engines back then usually returned a list of sites relevant to what I was searching for. These days, so many google searches result in a long list of clickbait, crappy content farms, shopping sites, fake "review" sites, fake blogs, malware/crapware download sites, sketchy "best price search" sites, and so on and on. IMO web search just keeps getting more useless over time.
> "it’d be morally unacceptable to allow public deployment of software that has not been sufficiently tested"

Does "sufficiently tested" mean you get the end-product a year later? What if the end-product saves 10,000 lives a year? In that case what cost is morally acceptable to get there a year faster?
Every prosecutor loves it when the perps start rolling over on each other :-)
This doesn't answer your question specifically, but there's the possibility that FB wanted a heated political environment inside its platform so it could sell more ads for all parties involved in the race, keep people engaging with the platform, etc.
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I purposely avoided mentioning / implying blame in any way. I merely pointed out what appears to be a comprehensive list of POTENTIALLY SUSPICIOUS deaths of Russian diplomats etc.
You’re laying out a false dichotomy here. The outcome of the election can be divorced from the fact that these companies are a cancer on society.
The people who use the websites, really like wordpress. Nothing else is simpler and also does the job 99% of the time.
How strict? I've accidentally used my PayPal account whilst connected to a (out of country) VPN more than one and never had it raise any flags, and I've _never_ had phone verification for a purchase.
We're a decade past the webOS launch and it's still a better UI for everything.

Android widgets like Vista widgets, OSX widgets, or KDE widgets failed at their vision because it's usually easier to open an application when you want one.

The webOS card interface scales to tablet beautifully (I think it was actually better on tablet) and with some additions would scale to desktop as well.

The UI was successful (IMO) because it wasn't actually different. Someone (at Nokia IIRC) once compared iOS navigation to having a house where every door faced outside and you have to go outside to go around to the room you want. Android made the same mistake. Both have taken step after step to deal with the effects without really addressing the cause.

On a desktop, opening apps is secondary. You have a few favorites in your dock for quick access. After that, you either open your start menu or launchpad and go hunting else you Cmd-SPC and type the name. Once you have everything open, switching and managing applications is the name of the game with lots of tools to make this happen.

The default paradigm in webOS is the same. A dock of favorites with an app drawer plus JustType to find less-used apps. Aside from that, managing apps is front-and-center. Compare groups of cards to OSX horizontal spaces. You go from group to group and managing apps is the default. Once again comparing to OSX, webOS has a consistent menu in the upper-left and a settings menu in the upper-right.

Android and iOS now try to mimic this, but it's always a secondary feature. Home is default with app switching being someplace you go to to see your list of 100 "open" apps. Both have decided that users who are perfectly capable of using a menu on their desktop are incapable of doing so on a phone.

Another not really mimicked feature of webOS was its service integration. Having all your different accounts working together in one central place seamlessly is an experience nothing comes close to.

Even comparing to the web they were ahead. EnyoJS was/is a component-based framework. You could compare it to React with manual view updating (which is actually more powerful if less easy on the developer). This was in the backbone, knockout, early angular days.

The flaws of webOS were blatant and fairly fixable. They used Qt for the GUI, but didn't allow native apps to be built using it (and didn't have a native SDK until way after they should have). They use Qt's version of v8 and webkit which were terribly out of date and (as a result) much slower than they should have been. The underlying Linux OS never had even basic optimizations put in place. The hardware was sub-par and memory was too restricted at the time. There were also rough edges in the UI, but nothing worse than iOS or Android at the time.

Today, loads of phones have more than enough memory. The processors are fast. Web standards now have things like wasm or webworkers that make apps much more powerful. This is the time when webOS really could shine.

In a day of 4+GB phones running the fast processors of today, much better web standards w a web phone really is more relevant than ever.
> I also expected, as a result, a correction in the price of housing to actually realistic levels.

Housing prices were realistic. We know this because most of the Anglophone world has had similar experiences with housing prices without the "bubble" bursting, and because prices have gone back to where we started back before everything blew up.

There were bad loans, and financial products that were fraudulently repackaging them. Regulators were asleep at the wheel. And the government has played a huge part in getting housing prices to high levels. But the value of the homes themselves was and is clearly real because people remain willing to pay for them.
I imagine there's a lot of value to be found in a dashboard, or generally in managing these canaries. Which canary was deployed where, how often are they triggered (with the ability to mark some instances as false alarm) etc.

But of course that heavily depends on the use case
lol he's still 100% responsible, as he chose the people who chose them, and is responsible for the culture.
If you don't trust your browser vendor, none of these protections matter.
Is there a difference in the means and ends?

I don’t think we have fully enough information yet, but if a political campaign is using analytics to clearly advertise their campaign, fine, that’s being straightforward.

If a political campaign is posting in ways that do not clearly label it as a political campaign, and is lying to people viewing the data it is paying to show, would you agree that’s kind of a different situation?

There’s not enough information yet I think to claim what was shown, but if political campaigns are not labeling their ads clearly, that is in violation of a variety of state - and some federal - laws.
The number you pull out is not telling. There are billions of miles driven in the US alone and people get killed on average after 100 mil miles driven. That is where the bar is, and I can tell you, that is a high bar. Even including all the idiots, teenagers, DUI's etc. it is still one fatality on 100 mln miles. So sure, it is a tragedy that those 40.000 people die, but that is not a simple problem to fix. In fact obesity and sugar caused disease is probably a much simpler problem to solve, that could likely save way more people.
When police are involved that's one of those 'get in line' situations. I suspect the UK authorities are far more worried about the potential for destruction of evidence that they are in hampering an 'investigation' by FB.
Sadly, that’s a common occurrence with big automakers.

I can’t say anything about GM‘s rep in the US, but here in Europe they are not doing so well. Chevrolet was killed in 2015, and Vauxhall/Opel are doing only ok-ish. Chevy had SO many recalls in the years before they killed it.
It's fascinating that so many brilliant people in this thread can talk so casually about any single loss of life for the tech built by the very same people in this thread. I would be devastated if I learned my code ended even one person's life.

Generally speaking, it is easier to pinpoint X thing led to Y tragedy than to quantify the tragedies that would have happened without X. It is incredibly hard to show what did not happen but "should" have. Even if you can get it straight in your own mind, good luck proving it to the world.

People are living longer and child mortality is down. We don't really celebrate that. We just complain about overpopulation and how we are destroying the environment.

When Iraq lit oil wells on fire on its way out of Kuwait, they were expected to burn for months and be a global environmental disaster. When crack teams from around the world converged and put them out far faster than expected, it was not celebrated with the same degree of fervor that it had originally been decried as a disaster.

Y2K was also predicted to be a global catastrophe. It was quietly prevented and gets remembered as "Those fools who ever thought this was a big deal!"

If self driving cars could reduce mortality compared to current rates and we were confident of that, waiting until it is perfected before releasing it means accepting ongoing deaths that don't have to happen. It's not uncommon for people to feel that new tech needs to be perfected while missing the fact that it may be a big improvement over the current status quo without being perfected.

I don't really know anything about self driving cars. I have mixed feelings about replying to your comment because I don't actually know how I feel about this particular issue. But the thought process you are putting forth is both common and not very pragmatic.

I guess a pithy rebuttal would quote some saying about the perfect being the enemy of the good. But I think that leaves out a lot of important points.
Yes, I did leave that out, as I think it's still an issue. A synthetic model performing better is a little dubious, since the modeled distribution has less information than the original one. Overall, the discrepancy seems more important to notice than the actual performance.
> Would, for testing purposes, two or three of the same capacitance in series do?

nope; put two of three of what you've got in there already in, in parallel, that's how you sum capacitance. (internally they're huge plates held apart from each just the tiniest little bit, with capacitance =~ surface area. more caps in parallel makes more surface area, so more capacitance).

if we were using ideal capacitors, nicwilson's suggestion would be be fine. non-ideal caps have ESR, though, which will burn up some of the power we want to feed into the microcontroller if/when it tries to draw too much. paralleling caps lowers the effective ESR of the lump of capacitors capacitor.

> I'll see if I can find another motherboard with a PS/2 port.

there are also actual ps/2 to usb converters available as well. (not the little dongles that came with keyboards; those were just for keyboards that knew both protocols and needed physical conversion.)

something like
https://www.amazon.com/TRENDnet-Converter-Universal-10-4-10-... is probably just smart enough to perform the conversion, but not smart enough to limit the power going to the keyboard, so i bet you can pull 500mA through it, a fair bit more than the 275mA guaranteed to ps/2 keyboards.
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> With regard to entering the industry, it's pretty hierarchical, and can be siloed: techies do tech, traders do trading, and there's not much crossover.

Not really true. It's true that there are software roles that don't interact with strategy much, and often traders/quants that don't do much proper software. But in many places the line can be very blurry.

> The most reliable way of entering the industry is to get on a graduate program and work your way up. Failing that, a quantitative PhD might get a hedge fund or HFT interested.

HFTs and hedge funds all hire of plenty of new grads and experienced-but-not-PhDs doing quant/trading style work - Hudson River, Jane Street, Two Sigma, Tower, I think Citadel all will.
What we can't do as the creators of the future of autonomous vehicles is give in for emotional appeals when the relevant thing is statistics about car accidents. If the media does it, bash the media (and hope for decent publications to support the appeal of relevant people in the field). If politicians do it, bash politicians, though nothing really helps when it comes to politics. But don't be nice to bureaucrats and their oblivious supporters who are actually preventing thousands of lives being saved every year by slowing down development and deployment.
Propaganda works, which is why we have laws that require the source of messages in other mediums be identified, and why we regulate it in a variety of other ways.

IANAL but these ads are not covered by the regulation because they were not written in the internet era, and the law likely needs a refresh or at least some case law examples to figure out how to apply it.
Bonuses are a significant slice of actual profits - it's how unionisation should work :-)
It was posted March 19, 2018, no?
Obstructing justice or going against a legal order takes precedence over contract law. But pretty much all laws take precedent over contract when the contract is in conflict.

Facebook at CA isn’t illegal in and of itself. The important factor will be what they were doing.
The US is not purely capitalist and has not been for a long time (if ever). There are many laws and regulations to limit the influence of capitalism and to reign back it's (in a pure form) detrimental effects on society. You might not agree with that, but that is the system as it is.
Uber must have a full video of this - just in case. I can hardly think they did not have a full record of this, as well as all miles traveled? It may be in these 1366+ comments, but I have not read them all to see.
> . Is just having a co.uk web address a reason to pay taxes there?

That wasn't your example - your example was selling using the amazon.co.uk market.

You can't even keep your own examples straight, no wonder you're confused.
I certainly do, but I don't recall anyone seriously alleging that they were extralegal or covert.
As I understand it, pubmed (and medline) only index a subset of medical research, and excludes most non-medical science research. As Cutler was a chemist, I'm not sure any articles of his would be indexed by pubmed.

Scopus, which seems to be run by Elsevier, lists some abstracts and letters here (I have no idea how extensive this is) [1]

[1] https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=7103370042
Absolutely they were, and many comparisons were made to the Romney campaign's ineptitude in this area.
I'm confused: do you get 0.75% or 1.5% per transaction? Your website says the former.
ok I'm like 8 pages into the configuration wiki and still have no idea how to set this up
Again: individual site owners can reliably enable modern curve crypto in TLS. Nobody can do that with DNSSEC; all DNSSEC crypto is lowest-common-denominator, where the lcd is 1024 bit or even 512(!) bit RSA.
good luck finding wife with same attitude
You can use Coherence. It's basically Devise for Elixir:

https://github.com/smpallen99/coherence
And probably the legal department too. He was inadvertently delivering ammunition to anyone who might want to come after the company for this, which seems like something that might very well happen.
> It's deliberately lying to seed fear, distrust, division, and hate between citizens. It's deliberate manipulation to create distrust of government institutions. It's the destruction of civil society and civil discourse for the purpose of winning an election.

So...politics?
i360 Themis have been far more invasive for far longer in influencing US elections. Why aren't they being investigated and outed by a pitchfork and flaming pikes mob?
Ding ding ding ding!
> I have yet to see how blockchain is supposed to solve problems with elections that can't be solved with good process. And if process isn't fixed, I don't see how blockchain alone will get around the process shortcomings.

Blockchains provide a verifiably immutable log. This is the exact primitive you want for elections - tamper-proof logging. It is genuinely a good technological solution to the problems of election legitimacy and validation. That isn't a defense of this article, or of any of the current blockchain/election projects, but in principle, the idea makes sense.
Apparently 25% of Tesla’s cash on hand is reservation deposits for model 3 cars.
I'm just going to point out that nearly every time someone gets their learners permit, or graduated from a learners permit to a full license, an insufficiently tested driver is allowed on the road in order to develop more skills and become a better driver. Often they kill people in the process of learning. Should we require years of private training for every human driver as well?

They can't even share what they learn with each other effectively.
RFCs are never anything other than proposed standards, or informational documents. There is no point at which an RFC becomes a “recommended standard” or some such thing.

All internet standards, from IP to HTTP, are proposed standards, it doesn’t actually mean anything about whether they’re generally implemented or not.
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if you really can't be fired, you surely won't be doing any actual work ever, even if you still get paid.
>and the companies get sued for every pill they sold at that wrong price. //

They should instead lose all profits, and the C-grades lose all that years compensation and be barred temporarily from starting any new companies.

Only if misdeeds jeopardise their other profits will they take notice, otherwise it's always worth trying the fraud because they can do some business without fraudulently presenting prices and so maintain the business.

These sorts of deleterious actions should lead to punishment that risks putting the company in to receivership.
> Why are you so sure?

Because we have the driving records of all self-driving vehicles. Based on the evidence, their accidents per 100,000 miles driven is far superior to the average driver. The law of large numbers tells us this is highly unlikely to be the result of luck.
No, that's massively different. Engaging in passive observation and reselling that data, while sleazy, is not the same as actively setting someone up.
A number of genre names are only meaningful because people already know what they refer to. Probably the best example is RPG, which ostensibly applies to effectively every game where the player controls a character with a persona.