skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the link! I didn't see that submission and there's a great string of comments about Venture vs Vulture Capitalists there.
Found:

https://www.salon.com/2018/03/22/another-terrible-privacy-la...

http://dailycaller.com/2018/03/22/supreme-court-emails-store...

Although neither source the support claim.
man man

man apropos

man proc (on Linux)

man builtin

man info

If you want to read high quality man pages, OpenBSD is best.
This is honestly the reason I do use Nightly. I'm volunteering to provide information that I understand could be very intimate in hopes it's useful to Mozilla in making Firefox better. Data drives better decisions, and I'd rather the technically savvy volunteer their privacy than it being extracted from the general populace.

So yes, kick me a bit, I'll let you know what breaks.
Definitely. Telegram wins all with their UX with a ways sometimes you wouldn't expect from an IM app. Light native apps everywhere is a very big plus too.

I'm aware it is not secure as I would like to but I'm gonna use whatever my friends use anyway.

Most people I know uses about 3 IM apps and they don't bother caring about privacy anyway (by using products of Facebook and Google, where Telegram, despite it's problems is still better choice for privacy).

I hope Telegram resolves issues everyone is concerned about.

Or all my friends switch to Signal.

Or something.
I'd call bullshit. Dennett's argument not that the brain is complex but that it's not obvious it is not reductible.
US actively helped to establish military dictatorships on Latinamerica. So yes, business as usual.
I can't imagine what severe mismanagement happened at the company to allow this.

...thy name is Bain.
WTF, aren't there consumer protection laws in Japan? In the EU any repair done comes with a warranty and if they screw it up they fix it on their own money.

Sure you might still need to threaten them with the law, mechanics being how they are.
Prepare for job Interview
Indian here.

I am not sure if you have any idea about the quality of STEM education in India but let me tell you it is far more pathetic than you can even imagine. Even I graduated from such an awful college and I know nothing about any area of CS. Nothing.

I am now 37 year old and working in non-software field but I now sorely miss the opportunity of getting good CS education and I wish I went through a decent college.

While your point may be a valid point (I have never been to US) but I do believe many enroll in those US college for good quality education, at least once. Hell, given a chance, I myself would enroll for such a course just for real education rather than H1B visa.
That's not really true.

Parts of the arctics are definitely deserts, but that is not true for all of the arctic regions.

Looking at the relevant parts of wikipedia [0] and [1], "annual precipitation averaged over the whole planet is about 1000 mm" while "parts of southeast Greenland [recieve] over 1200 mm". Antarctica has a lot less precipitation in general, but there are still large parts of it that are not classified as desert.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_the_Arctic#Precipit...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_Antarctica#Precipit...
I screwed up and accidentally chambered two 12ga shells in my Remington 870, it was a potential dangerous accident but found video to help me safely un-f the situation. Also I found a "bug" that allowed me to shoot, under a strange condition, my 9mm when the safety was on. Found out what not to do on youtube to avoid that situation. Also couldn't figure out what this knob was on my 10/22, turns out its a critical feature after finding it on youtube. This sucks I won't be able to find this type of information literally typing the gun model and the name of the problem to see a video to help me out as easily as yesterday.
A household with a single income? Laughs in Millennial
I'm ok as long as they make it up front and clear. It's not meant to have the "latest greatest" - it's meant to collect analytics to understand and respond to where changes in the nightly might have broken something critical.

That said, a large chunk of the web is getting very personal. So I'm not sure Mozilla's rights to do as they please matter if the venn-diagram between nightly-users and privacy-stalwarts is anywhere near 30% overlap.
Putin often does want the world to know Russia was behind some aggressive action while simultaneously denying it in order to avoid repercussions. In the last decade or two it has been their MO.

At the same time, sloppiness has come into play on multiple occasions. They want to project an image of strength but there is a vein of ineptness running through their military and sometimes their intelligence ops. This is why the West needs to slap Putin down rather than appease his aggression. He is a puffed up bully who is trying to push the envelope beyond what he is capable of backing up.
Great, like the trade is going to suddenly end. All they've achieved is 'out of sight, out of mind.' I'm quite annoyed about this, both because it affects numerous friends of mine who are sex workers and are now scrambling to find alternatives to working on the street, where they're far less safe, and on a more pedestrian level because I met my wife on a Craigslist date years ago.

Life is too short to make excuses for stupid behavior.
I don’t have any data... but I suspect that music piracy was more widespread and displacing more sales of music. Anecdotally, I do not recall the publishing industry crying “the sky is falling” over ebook piracy while the music industry certainly was.
Oh they told you about it, they were favorable to it:

[Feb 14 2018] "Don’t Let Criminals Hide Their Data Overseas"

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/14/opinion/data-overseas-leg...

[Mar 5 2018] "A promising solution is the Cloud (Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data) Act, introduced by a bipartisan coalition in the Senate last month."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-global-game-of-wha...
Don't forget the constant obstruction, the refusal to enact any policy that isn't good for Russia, and literally meeting with the Russians in Trump tower, lying about it, and then tweeting confirmation of it.

At this point, if you don't want to see to the myriad of evidence that the Trump campaign was either working with or willfully used by Russia its just because you don't want to see it.
Preferably in tweet length, as anything longer can't hold his attention apparently.
While the hunter-gatherer had been romanticized, basing your data on currently living groups is also flawed. They have all been in contact with modern society, which probably has influenced them in multiple ways. From taking over customs to limiting the area they can move in to the impact on the climate from factories, which all might be factors influencing their entire way of living. So the only way to actually study then is through archeological records from before the birth of cities, which are unfortunately limited in what they can say.
”there was an average weight loss of 3.6 percent. Additionally, all of the participants' BMI numbers came down about 13.9 percent.”

BMI is weight divided by length squared, so if length is constant, a x% weight loss means a x% decrease in BMI. There’s about 10% excess here, and √0.9 is about 0.95

So, they gained about 5% in length? Seems fishy to me.
> What do you see changing?

As the internet becomes a resource that is completely boring and out of touch to 15-40 year olds people will flock to a less restrictive system. As eyeballs move over people will invest time and effort into making those systems usable.

This happened with the internet and can happen again with decentralized systems.
Nobody listens to sex workers.
The technique described sounds similar to how desiccant dehumidifiers work, where you capture moisture in a desiccant then remove the moisture by heating the desiccant. The energy required is similar to the chiller based technology due to the laws of thermodynamics.

I have a one that has a descant drum, and it slowly rotates as it blows air through it. A small section of the drum is heated to release water into a separate air stream and that air is then ran through a radiator to cool it, releasing water into a storage container. It costs $0.5-1/L to generate water with it, since the heat comes from electricity. Heat could easily come from solar, leaving ~20w for a fan.
The article criticizes American work culture for very good reasons. Of course we should work and have jobs, but that doesn't mean work needs to be like it is in America.

Do you guys in America even know how it is in Sweden for example? We don't have this competitive culture, and companies are trying hard to make their employees feel good at work. Nobody really works full 8 hours at big companies and nobody is stressed very much. Bosses never blame anyone directly for anything since it's not allowed, culture wise. People are very relaxed.

When I read about American culture, it seems insane.
> This is key. I strongly believe that legalization is the only answer to the problem.

Why do we have to "believe"? There are many examples to learn from, to see what works and what doesn't.

For example, this study [0].

"This paper suggests it’s the latter. Using trafficking data from 150 countries, the authors find that "countries where prostitution is legal experience a larger reported incidence of human trafficking inflows."

As an example, they discuss Germany, which legalized prostitution in 2002. The minimum estimate of sex trafficking victims in the country increased from 9,870 in 2001 to 11,080 in 2002, to 12,350 in 2003."

As an anecdotal example: Sweden has one of the harshest stances on prostitution, and it's working just fine [1].

[0] http://foreignpolicy.com/2013/06/17/study-legalizing-prostit...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution_in_Sweden#Researc...
True, Nevada doesn't, but neither do any of the other 49 states.
Would be great if their site was at least readable without js.

There's a few groups working in this field and none seem to have a decent offering, the SAFE network has been at it for over a decade with limited success.
Take the challenge from their side. If they leave the bb-gun sub active, how do they ensure that people aren't going to the bb-gun sub, and trading real guns there? They'd have to have humans police each post, or develop ML algorithms that can reliably identify when someone is hiding a real gun sale as a bb-gun sale. The former doesn't scale reliably (sure, the mods of the bb-gun sub could probably do it voluntarily, but I doubt reddit wants to bet the corporation on their continuing to do so), and the latter doesn't yet exist.

Banning both subs definitely stops the illegal transactions at the (relatively minor) cost of not letting people trade bb-guns on their site.
It's a misleading simplification. Profit motive (or "private sector") is not equal to efficiency. But it's a strong motivator for it. Not perfect though, and the further you are from getting outcompeted and dying, the more space you have for inefficiencies to creep in.

One of the big sources of inefficiency affects governments and companies the same - the difficulty of keeping an organization functioning grows superlinearly with the number of people in it. That's why in a small company, if your computer breaks, you can just borrow the company card and go to the nearest store to buy a new one, while in a large company, you'd be dealing with procurement and five layers of management approvals. A large company looks not quite unlike a government organization.

(Also worth mentioning that absolute efficiency is not a good thing either, when it comes to dealing with people.)
Federated (ActivityPub) video streaming platform using BitTorrent in browser
There is no downtime anymore. You can never truly get away from work in an age of 4g connectivity everywhere.

I'm doing a bit of consulting with a startup at the moment, and one of our team members recently disappeared off on vacation. Good for him, I thought. Two days later, he popped back up on the company slack, working away from his tropical beach.

To be clear, this is not a case of digital nomadding. This is 10 days of vacation time that they somehow guilted him into throwing away after he had actually flown halfway around the world.

20 years ago, there was an expectation that when you left the office, you were unreachable except in an emergency. I don't see any hint of that expectation anymore. It's a combination of employers with serious boundary issues, and empoloyees fearing the ramifications of pushing back.

You really need to stand up for yourself these days. But at least I've found that if you do so, it generally works.
There's actually surprisingly little overtime claimed in Korea for all the >40 hour weeks being worked.

The simple answer is that Korea (and Japan) have a cultural norm where showing dedication to your job/company by working long hours is vastly more important for career advancement (or even continued employment!) than the actual work you get done.
And soon mother Russia might have access to almost everyones conversations. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-20/telegram-...

If that is not already the case...
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How much do you make from Toptal? A year ago I started the process with them, and they told me that they generally have regional rates. They corrected that programmers are free to choose their own hourly rates, but hinted that you won't get projects if your hourly rate is higher than average (They did not openly tell this, but the implication was clear).

They mentioned that the average hourly rate for India was $20 -- something which is way below what I make in the day-job in India. Also, I have worked at much higher rates as a freelancer.

At $20, I just decided that going through their arduous interview process was simply not worth it.

What has been your experience?
Fair enough. As a child I could never remember if it was 50 or 60 that had "halv" (50 is halvtreds, 60 is treds, neither word have any resemblance to 5, 6 or 10, but 50 sounds a bit like it ought to be half of 60), but my point is that the number system has nothing to do with base 20 except a few etymological roots of some names, that for all intents and purposes might as well be random.

But you are right: they are worse than random, since they are named close enough to other entities to be confuseaable.
Sure, the United States has a lot of blood on it's hands in Latin America.

Doesn't change the fact that it is very much not business as usual for Russia to attempt to subvert the US Govt like this. They've crossed several lines in the sand, which is why expulsions, Interpol warrants, and sanctions have been levied against Russia and individuals involved.

One can make the argument that this is just Cold War stuff again, but the tactics being employed are in several ways a step above the old Cold War in aggressiveness.
Opt-out privacy violations are not new for Mozilla, did worse than this to German users last year, discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15421708
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> First, this particular crash is an egregious counter-example. The car doesn't even seem to slow down when it first sees the pedestrian's foot. Nor does it try to swerve. This is basic stuff for a human driver, never mind more complex avoidance and risk mitigation a human driver can perform.

I'm not sure which side of this I fall on just yet, but something strikes me here: you're assuming a human driver with no impairment (e.g. eyesight or fatigue) paying complete attention to what they're doing. We know that this isn's always the case (and could even be a minority!), so this doesn't seem to be a great argument.
> Pretty much anywhere people meet face to face counts.

But that's the problem, right? People used to do their banking in a bank, get their books in a library, their toothpaste in a drug store, their music in a record store, etc.

Now they do all of that online without leaving home. So they need to meet people online too.
No. Machine learning is not magic. Machine learning has nothing to say when the objective function is not well understood.
Yeah, I definitely have that same fear of saying the wrong thing. But all the specifics aside, maybe the author is really saying, try to behave as you would in other situations: Be kind, be inclusive, and don't worry too much about unintentionally offending the parents, who (alas) have probably seen and heard it all before.
I understand the desire for statistics, but they should make it more obvious that nightly isn't just daily builds from master. I've run Nightly from time to time and had no idea it was automatically opting in to Shield studies.

Both this and the Mr. Robot extension issue a few months ago erode my trust in Mozilla a little. Counterpoint: only god knows what Google is sending itself from Chrome!
It is in fact governments doing most of the malicious things to the Internet. China firewall, Russia, US espionage & data abuse, Turkey or Brazil censorship, British hate crimes on YouTube or Twitter, anti-porn legislation in Britain or Australia, and so on.

I can relatively easily block Facebook if I want to, on every site I visit. Try figuring out a way to eliminate all of the NSA's data hoovering of you. Tell the TSA you're not giving them your device, etc.

The Cloud Act is government legislation, that was not initially promoted by private industry. Private industry gave in over time because the alternative the government would pursue instead is far scarier. It was a compromise to keep the politicians in DC from doing something even more draconian. I don't agree with that compromise, however, just try saying no to them (see the Yahoo fines).
The Observer fought off legal threats from Facebook and Cambridge Analytica
> And it still requires your phone to be present and on battery to chat.

That's a cheap price to pay for E2EE only.
It looks like this is why Craigslist deleted their personals section. I wonder if some dating sites are going to go down completely?
How do you define efficiency?

Germany, Switzerland have higher per capital costs than France Britain and Canada.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_hea...
Week 12 in Information Security, 2018
We have legal prostitution now. Every time you take your “gf to dinner, you buy her gifts as her sugar daddy u get her a ring as a fiancée .

It’s perception . If you spend days flirting and spending money and call them your date or gf. Then it’s legal but to fast track the date is illegal - everything is a game and control.

Illegal drugs are illegal - legal drugs that kill and addicts are addicted to are legal . Again it’s all a game. If it’s anti bible or u can’t tax it, it won’t be legal.
Craigslist, due to its success, became the target that all the activists complained about.

If the dating sites are next probably depends on what new target those same activists pick, because it seems unlikely they'll ever be content with their legislative victories.
Everything you say proves your privilege. If you work a minimum wage job there is no way you can put aside 20k in a few years. Taking on student loans is necessary for many to even get a degree to have a chance at a decent job. And poor people usually are excellent at managing resources, yet you go "poor people just lack character", while what they lack is money, which is stolen by a small group of people at the top because they are a bunch of vampires sucking the life out of everything.
The rest of the quote is much more powerful. It's pretty irresponsible to ship 1000 self driving cars onto public roads at this point. (Regardless of who is shipping them)

On the other hand, redundant steering and braking seem like probable overengineering. Brakes are already somewhat redudnant (dual section master cylinders were common in the 70s and are almost certainly in any modern vehicle), and better software could periodically verify they're working and if not, coast to a stop. Steering failure could be handled by engaging the brakes. Simultaneous failure is likely rare and catastrophic anyway -- losing a wheel and having the brakes pressure go with it can happen, and when it does, you put on your blinkers and hope you come to rest in a safe manner.
I had several weird hookups from Craiglist. This is probably good for my health.
NewsDiffs is buggy.. but you still get the idea of what changed there http://newsdiffs.org/article-history/https%3A/www.nytimes.co...
Possible games during a party:

Pin the tail on the donkey

Piñata

Make sure the sighted friend wears the blindfold too to make it a shared experience, and so other children who don't understand know the friend isn't cheating.
Past societies had classes, so conditions were very different depending on the class you belonged to. If you were a Roman patriarch you were expected not to work at all. Same if you were a 17th century French aristocrat.

The promise of the modern society was that everyone being "equal", we would all become aristocrats. In fact we all became slaves.

(And of course, hunters gatherers lived, to the best of our knowledge, in classless groups where each individual worked very little each day).
My masters was a waste of time and money - except that it’s been a job requirement for multiple jobs.

None of which asked for proof.

I think my bachelors was too besides the social experience of college (I’m from a small town).

Most of what I learned was already familiar to me from developing as a hobby and I learned way more from studying stuff I was interested in than bubble-sorting and SAP case studying my way into boredom for an extra year.
Because what is called tiny house is a status symbol of the middle class. If a poor person lives in a small house or trailer it's called a slum.
> Each country has a duty to protect its own interests; they also have a duty to promote and support its own intersts

There are very few countries on the Earth that can withstand the pressure (political, economic, intelligence, military) of the hegemon which, again, under the guise of "free trade" pushes his own imperial interests. And those countries are immediately called an "enemy" to the "free world" (euphemism for "US and its vasals NATO and EU"). So, the "international community" (another euphemism for "US and its vasals NATO and EU") has to sanction such a country - applying political and economic pressure. If it's militarly weak, to bomb it - applying intelligence and military pressure, as well. In case you don't know which countries I am talking about, just open your warmongering media - warmongering, as they didn't oppose any war of the empire.

Because of all of this, countries cave in and accept being exploited just to avoid the worst. No matter if is is a mobile phone or gas pipeline.

I'll end with a quote from a former free thinking German politician about how USA enforces its interests: "The manner of thought that takes into regard solely its own interests can only be referred to as totalitarian."
Thank you. Long time ago, someone informed me that their career site is merely an eyewash.
Maybe there's a reason. But I don't think you will ever be able to "prove" it. In any kind of formal way that would be satisfying to mathematicians.

Solomonoff induction is the best attempt to try to formalize machine learning. And in theory any machine learning algorithm that works, works because it approximates Solomonoff induction somehow. But proving anything approximates Solomonoff induction is absurdly difficult or impossible. Because it's incomputable and involves the search space of all possible computer programs.
Zuckerberg states in his facebook post that "they learned from the Guardian" about the CA issue. It's more like "they threatened to sue"
SSD types: for the machines that are identical, they are the same

Linux filesystem: stock ext4