skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Might I suggest NixOS[0] or Nix[1] itself? It is still a little rough around the edges but serves the same purpose.

[0] https://nixos.org
[1] https://nixos.org/nix/
Has any novel useful insight on humans ever been deduced from all this data?
Which is why it would be reasonable to write an article about those things (with evidence). The article linked here is pointing to completely normal and desirable behavior and seems to hope readers won't notice.
Is the social media bubble about to burst?
Seriously too lazy to wikipedia 'cat' and depend on your biases?
Pmarca Guide to Personal Productivity
Tesla shares fall after Moody's downgrades credit rating
lol because logging into a website with google or facebook really does something valuable for them...
I wish them luck. In my undergraduate journalism days I learned page layout in Quark Express. Then MacOS X happened. Quark basically refused to build a version that wasn’t tied hopelessly to the old Mac system.

And I remember what a breath of fresh air InDesign was. Here was an upstart challenger building something that, while less featureful than Quark, had some niceties and trust built up from their work on Photoshop.

In the blink of an eye Quark was a footnote and InDesign was the juggernaut.
I provided an example in the comment already, and in a child comment, I've now linked to a Google source where they state the data they are getting. And of course, to connect the credit card data they are buying with the Google accounts they are showing ads to, they have to be able to associate a given credit card transaction with a given Google user account.
I try. I definitely have know-it-all tendencies but I'm trying to reform. :)
Very cool. I have had a suspicion that Google/Spotify has been sort of tracking these things for a while. The features that Google music and Spotify have for discovery seem to correlate with artists touring with other artists I like pretty consistently.
Can anybody share their experiences with running applications that use persistent volumes on bare metal kubernetes?

I mean without cloud services like Google cloud persistent disks.
I think banning handguns is absolutely on the table. Most gun deaths are from handguns, four times as many as from knives. The Dunblane massacre of 16 children and one teacher in the UK was carried out with handguns. The objective is not to ban this gun or that gun, it's to protect the public. Banning guns is simply a means to that end. If the gun lobby can come up with a better alternative _that_works_ I don't think anyone would have a problem with that. Banning guns will work.
It feels like only months (OK, it's been a few years) since we were being told that not having a social media presence may be considered suspicious.

http://business.time.com/2012/08/08/does-not-having-a-facebo...
* automate things in your daily life :- I spend sometime in office downloading many kinds of log file and analyzing it. So, I just built a small qt GUI that behaves like a MC clone in windows. It's not very nice looking, but improves day by day.

* hobby to useful apps :- like visitinh hackenews frequently, so make a GUI client for hn.

No matter what you do, if the requirement is not clear, you won't be able to finish it. If no one uses it, it will be useless and disapper into the crowd.
> where people underperforming to the point of negligence

Well (to play devil's advocate just a bit) - isn't the ultimate end-goal of an end-state robust process one in which people can not just underperform, but be replaced completely?
Trump hates Amazon, not Facebook
I totally subscribe to this novel idea. However, I hear rumblings about doing away with the USPS for various reasons. It's nice to know I'm not the only one still using some "analog" methods to communicate.
one of the dangers of the RTL entropy source project is not that it is predictable, but that it can be made to become predictable. By determining the frequency the device is listening on, you could inject a signal over the air that causes the entropy to conform to a known pattern. Even Lavarand users blend their entropy sources.

Ive used the RTL as a blended entropy source for my kubernetes pi cluster project, but blended it with signal data from the open source FST-01 from the flying stone project. this in turn gets randomly audited by dieharder. http://webhome.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/General/dieharder.php

My RTL entropy generator changes frequencies every 6 hours to a frequency determined by a script referencing /dev/urandom.
Hopefully this cannot be used to fingerprint clients!
BlackBerry beats profit estimates, shares jump
Sorry to answer to my own post. I joined Facebook last week. After eleven years of refusing to play Facebook's game.

Here's the information I gathered from 20 minutes on Facebook - a powerful platform indeed.

The author (Sarah Frier) seems to be on good terms with the CXOs of Facebook:

CPO Chris Cox
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-facebook-reactions-c...

COO Sheryl Sandberg
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-04-27/how-shery...

CEO Mark Zuckerberg
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-facebook-virtual-rea...

To drive it all home:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-22/how-fake-...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-09-21/mark-zuck...
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-11/facebook-s...
I believe that lack of compatibility between IPv4 and IPv6 was more relevant than middleboxes meddling with packets.
Soul-Searching from Ad Group That Lauded Cambridge Analytica
Interesting but I'm pained by drivers taping themselves with their phone on a stretch of road that has already claimed one life.
I often compare open source projects based on what's visible on the github page.

Drama around a volunteer team in the open is a bad smell.

Edit: I'd like to explain why.

* Open source projects with lots of drama often don't attract new talented developers, and if talent happens to depend on that codebase they are more likely to fork and start a new community, or fork and not submit pull requests.

* If I need to interact with the team for pull requests or bug/support tickets I'd like to feel assured we can do so respectfully and professionally.

* If a community has drama in it I am less likely to recommend the software to a friend or blog about the software because I won't want to be associated with it. I'm more likely to stop using it and switch to a different solution.
You could never do this on an Apple II. The Apple II hardware was limited to a one-bit click of the speaker (in part due to a dispute between Apple Computer and Apple Records?).

But there was a modem for the Apple II, the Novation Apple-Cat II that contained a tone synthesizer and could be used to play music out over the line. To this day, I think that modem is one of the neatest peripherals ever made:

http://www.jammed.com/~jwa/Machines/cat/
I don't have any evidence whatsoever but I speculate that between the options of:

1. collecting data and hiding it during times it was paused

2. checking if data collection is paused during collection time and keeping it/throwing it away

Option (2) is the easiest and most foolproof. For (1), all it takes is a single tiny bug in any code that handles your data history and their whole privacy stance is shot.
Cool - I will definitely go actually figure out what Suspense does in detail. Thanks for the link!

Now you've got me thinking, and you're right. Even in a client-only case, the simple spinner-until-data-loaded pattern works for a solo component just fine, but doesn't at all account for waiting for children, etc, without implicit dependencies between parent and child. If you've got stuff like that going on, then yes this is a pretty complex problem.

It does definitely seem like Suspense is going to remove most of the complexity involved in the 'synchronous' server render problem, especially with regards to manual promise collection. This is awesome work :-)
Tesla stock falls 12% after NTSB announces fatal crash investigation
This person stored their PGP private key on Google Drive, which they use "to encrypt" emails. I'm glad the author is security-conscious enough to know what PGP is, I guess. And that they deleted it from Drive (didn't say why, hopefully they came to their senses about the more-than-usual amount of trust they were placing in Google).

Is there a valid use case for "encrypting" email with a private key? I guess signing a message is technically encryption, but it's not typically called that, right? I'm hoping their use of "encrypt" in this context is just an error, and that tech reporters at the Guardian understand how key pairs work...
so cool, would be even cooler at 1.20
They already have a 'black box' which contains their logs. This is how they have been able to investigate the previous reported crashes.
Silver Lake Buys $500M Stake in Credit Karma
My beef with tesla, is that is is their black box to access, and not yours. I think you should own your data. That is to say nothing of their toxic assult on right to repair.
Star Wars is not sci fi. It’s set in space and in a different time period, but has little to do with science, and much to do with fiction.
If you have a super expensive condition, they will simply deny you. It's not legally called insurance for a reason
Checking for Bad Passwords in Drupal to Avoid Site Compromise
Not a big fan of running, prefer sports overall, but damn I enjoy running on cold weather. Cold air is so refreshing and it gives me some kind of a super-human feeling.
Illinois pension benefits have grown six times faster than state revenues
This is self-promotional, but also highly relevant!

A few moths ago after reading Cal Newport's book "Deep Work", I decided to try to improve my social media usage by writing an app that could block HN/Twitter/Google News (the big 3 digital distractions for me) by default, and force me to go to an extra step to temporarily unblock them when I wanted to use them. It seems like a small thing, but that extra friction of having to open my app, unblock, and then go on to the service in question has really cut down my casual browsing. I feel much more productive and just... at peace with my internet usage since I've adopted this pattern.

If you have iOS and would like to give the app a try, I'd appreciate it! It's totally free for now. https://timeguard.io
Per the article, it sounds like the fusion reactor itself could indeed be the thing producing the tritium by way of a lithium blanket. Of course, that means it'd need to have some way of generating the neutrons (the design seems to include two spots for "neutral beams", but I missed any mention of what's supplying those beams).
Getting in shape is an excellent reason to go to the gym, but it has surprisingly little to do with losing weight. The two are correlated, and weight is easy to measure, but your fitness can improve much faster than your weight can come down.

In my case, I was better off paying attention to how my tennis game was progressing than anything else — winning a point I wouldn’t have been able to touch a month ago is much more motivating than the 1% weight change over the same period.
AIUI, the police can pull a fair amount of data from the onboard OBD port on cars. I'm sure the manufacturers can get even more out of it.
Well, I know what I'm doing once I get home tonight. I actually found my CDs for both D1 and Hellfire last weekend.
I knowingly and happily give my information to Google, and I trust that they do not overstep their bounds when I tell them not to collect something.

If Google ever gives me a reason to not trust them I won't. But thus far they have been okay in my mind and I'm happy with the services I received and the tradeoffs made with regard to my information.

I fully expect more nastygrams and threats from people for saying this, because it happens every time I say I trust a company.
The thing is, Pr0gramm users are not the people that add Coinhive scripts to hacked websites.

Before Coinhive was launched, users on Pr0gramm were able to activate mining and be rewarded with a premium account on the site. They weren't even forced to do so but were able to opt-in voluntarily.

So the relation between Coinhive and Pr0gramm merely is, that the people behind each website know each other and used Pr0gramm as a testbed for Coinhive before it became publicly available.
They had Blue Jeans on and where moving a pink bike that had reflective surfaces. The dash cam was very deceptive, a normal driver would have easily seen this a long way off if the driver had been paying attention. On top of that Uber disabled the cars built in safety system that likely would have also worked.
Woah... so most of the people who donated were (from your post) clicking around on the site at the same time? That sounds like a slashdotting-DDOS. Was "the raid" coordinated, because (according to you) it sounds like it?

I'd have to know that the charity was real, that all of those clicks were real, the donations were real, and that they weren't coordinated in loading particularly heavy pages with the intent to bring it down. Cui bono from the publicity?

A side question:
Who is Dr. Matthias Moench (now I really want to know) and what murder was he convicted of? that seems almost as relevant.
Cal Newport is the author of Deep Work. So at least what he is saying is consistent.
Full Disclosure: I work for Red Hat in the Container and PaaS Practice in Consulting.

As others here have said, it’s a Container Orchestration Platform and is a largely pluggable architecture that also manages at varying extents Clustered Computing Resources, Application Resource Management, SDN Networking, DNS, Service Discovery, Load Balancing, and other concerns of “Cloud Native Application Development and Deployment“.

You can try it out at http://kubernetesbyexample.com/ .
as a millennial its almost impossible to apply for a job that doesnt quietly scan through social media trying to find you. My last job sent a linkedin request from the HR director, but after my first week he lamented that I "didnt seem very social" on the internet.

My current job went so far as to browse the TLD for my email address for clues to any seditious or non-conforming behaviors.
"It's time to <blah blah blah dishonest projection of fake sincerity bullsh*t>"

Whenever I read marketing sentences like this, I can remember sitting in meetings deciding how we were going to lie, but discussing the topic using words to make it seem even to ourselves that deceit wasn't our goal. I often wonder what my life would be like if I'd happened to end up on some sort of a blue collar path where I just did an honest day's work for an honest day's pay, my guess is that I'd be much happier, and most likely better off financially as well.
I scrolled through the list of artists, and I was perplexed that there weren't any Japanese nationals or companies. NEC, Sony, Nintendo and others all made substantial contributions to the craft of computing design in the specified 30 year range, so I found it to be odd they weren't recognized.
Read Ed Thorp's 'A Man for All Markets'. Fantastic biography of an extraordinary mind. Godfather of stat arb/market neutral.

It is also very helpful to understand how corporate finance works. Read 10-Ks from a few company you're interested in. These can be found on the company's investor relations page or in the Edgar database. (Ideally a consumer driven company that makes stuff for people vs a bank, energy co, etc). Learn how the various financial statements interact. While you're looking at this study DCF valuation.

Get an idea of how non-quants evaluate investments. Particularly good are Howard Mark's Chairman's Letters and David Einhorn's 'Fooling Some of the People'.

Read Taleb's 'Fooled by Randomness.'

Read more Taleb.

Completely ignore financial media (eg CNBC).
If I want to send a private message, I'd use Signal since the cellphone company has logs of your text messages. I really like that there's an option to delete your messages after a certain amount of time. Though I only use it over WiFi.

There's also Tor, which I use in combination with an obscure e-mail service that allows you to create accounts and login over Tor.

If you want to encrypt the actual email message, then I use GPG, but it isn't always practical.
Beware the smart toaster: 18 tips for surviving the surveillance age
Very interesting tricks!

The first one probably has an equivalent in Bash with Ctrl-R and typing (and Ctrl+R again to cycle through matching lines)

The second one is new to me. Cool!
One thing I like to do is just leave them all on, but minimize my contact with Google's services. Then I check in every few months just to confirm they haven't collected anything on me.
Looks pretty useful.

Does the app snooze notifications, but also keep messages/notifications unread?
I couldn't care less about cats or vegetarianism, so no worries my friend the excuse is in your reality exclusively
Do you think they actually delete your history when you turn those features off? I assumed they just stopped displaying it to you.
As long as it's implemented in an open-source browser and I get some fine grained control over my processor time dedicated to each site, I'd consider it a pretty killer feature.
This is where a legit issue start to turn into clickbait weak journalism.
I'm a big fan of live music, and even flew to Japan to go to the PunkSpring festival. If you'd like data for Taiwan, please get in touch!

There's also a large, free dataset from Apple with the whole iTunes Store database. Search "iTunes EPF" for more info. It's 55 GB uncompressed. Perhaps you could use this to generate affiliate links and earn money if people buy the songs in your playlist.

https://affiliate.itunes.apple.com/resources/documentation/i...
If there’s some specific use case we’re missing in the blog post please let us know!

`componentWillMount` is technically equivalent to the constructor so there's nothing you could do on the server you couldn't do in the constructor instead.

https://reactjs.org/blog/2018/03/27/update-on-async-renderin...
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or don't have an account.
I know it is a rhetorical question. But there is a practical answer. The article said that it was designed to play video games. So he would use that one for that purpose and the other one for general use. The gist is that now we are able to design affordable things for specific purposes.
Cool, but one question: did you send a feature-request to Spotify before you decided to make this?
Can you? Does that actually delete data from Google's database? Or does it just flip a switch so the won't serve you "personalized" ads based on that data?
Air Force Risks Losing Third of F-35s If Upkeep Costs Aren't Cut
1. Find a real life non-work thing you care about. For instance, Dungeons & Dragons. Or alternatively, PTSD. It can be silly or serious, just has to be something you care about.

2. Find a way to apply programming to help. Make an open database of data from the game, or volunteer to make websites to connect those struggling with PTSD with support animals.

3. Start small and work up, but always build to finish. One of my greatest projects by stars is a tiny JSON file of the open spells from a game. Avoid being mired down in building "the perfect solution", because any solution is an improvement over no solution. "Perfect is the enemy of good."
Again, maybe gather context before making accusations?

The assertion is that a cat which chooses vegetarian cat food is probably fine because it's getting the necessary nutrients from hunting while the caretaker isn't watching. Could you quote anything from the Wikipedia page which refutes this assertion?

Linked for your convenience: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat#Nutrition

I'm guessing you don't actually intend to propose force-feeding meat to a cat that doesn't want it, but in context that's what you're arguing for.
Where Do Great Ideas Come From? (Hint: Not Where You Think)
Right. Is the codebase spaghetti? Did anybody take the time to help Charlie understand the system? Were there unit tests that should've been broken by Charlie's commit? Were there unit tests but no continuous integration, so he didn't know to run those particular tests? Was there no code review where somebody could've caught the bug? Was there a code review but nobody else caught the bug? Was there QA testing performed where the bug could've been caught?

Etc. etc.
The Activity one is a bit scary though. How many Android users are aware that Android tracks their app use and whatnot in this fashion?

I think that's a point to take home. Users know that Google looks at their "location information". In their minds, it's to provide relevant weather info and whatnot. Seeing it aggregated in this way makes you realise that you actually are sending your entire life to Google servers.
Reddit has enhanced their tracking – API tracks everything you do on Reddit
Spotify does give you gigs in your area. You go to browse, and then the "concerts" tab.

You can't change the location though, it's based off device location.
I'm asking for evidence that "being a white man causes you to have greater opportunities". If you can't provide that but you're only going to provide additional outrage, you're not really adding to the discussion.
Using Supercomputers to Create Simulation of Galaxy Formation
In other professions some mistakes cost the professional real money (doctor malpractice) or cause them to lose their license (drinking and driving with a commercial vehicle license).

As an industry we don't have a response to a truly neglectful mistake yet.
"What you searched for will no longer be stored with your account...We keep this data as long as it's relevant to meet uses like those above. If you delete your account, we remove this data from it."

I'm still not absolutely certain it is deleted from disk.
> The GG-people that donated to charity are not the same people that threatened women.

I think this is just an assertion without evidence.
This seems like folk-remedies for issues rather than getting into encryption, time-deleting messages and ad-blockers (well, I suppose the last one would probably be bad for their business model).

The issue being that despite all the coverage of data collection with Cambridge Analytica, the public still doesn't really understand this. Especially considering The Guardian was one of the publications that broke that story.
Considering the author showed fundamental misunderstanding wrong right at the start, why would you assume they got the rest right?

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/65213-briefly-stated-the-ge...
So glad I only used FB for a few years before deleting my account. I could see this stuff coming from miles away.

It just never ends with FB though. I can't tell what's worse though. Them continually telling their users they care about privacy and then going right back to taking and using people's data for nefarious reasons; or the users who continue to put up with it year after year, scandal after scandal and willing give up their privacy.
That sounds time-consuming
What the #$%&? Microsoft bans swearing on Skype, in email, Bing, Office 365 docs
I wouldn't be so fast to dismiss it as clickbait. Do you really think non-tech people are aware of the amount of aggregated data these companies have on them?
Yes, that makes it so beautiful, IMO.

And since the server crashed, they donated to other charities, as well. DKMS saw many donations, as well.
It Looks Like You Are Trying to Use a Framework
First those 2600 miles are not absolutely safe, so it is a higher risk than an average trip.

And if you qualify the airline deaths based on journey type then you also need to qualify the car trip by journey type. As he is presumably sober, not tired, using a seat belt, not speeding 30+ MPH over speed limit etc his risks of dying over 10 miles is less than half that of the average 10 miles driven.

So, his risk of death per trip is actually higher when flying.
In 538 the odds were 70% for Clinton. I think the result was spot on.