skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You should ask reddit's /r/selfhosted. HN crowd is not much into self-hosting
Artificial Meteor Showers Will Soon Be Available
Windows 10 is basically free considering it comes on $100 tablets now, and you can easily buy OEM win10 home licenses on eBay for $6. And the fact that they upgraded all win7 users to win10 for "free". Microsoft expects to make money from office365 subscriptions, xbox game store purchases, azure, etc.
> If the ISPs charged more for content

Multiple problems here:

- The ISPs already charge too much and little of it is going towards innovations/network advancement, instead they want to be content creators and ad platforms instead of charging more to get to gigabit and beyond. ISPs need to get back to innovating on providing better/faster internet service, what they are.

- ISPs should not be involved in content/ads/selling private data as that leads to bias and throttling, we need to have a separation of power from ISPs, the network gateway to the internet, and content creators on top of the internet.

When is it a good idea to have content creators own the network outright? All that leads to is bias, preferential treatment and monopolies (furthering them).

We have made immense mistakes in 2017 allowing ISPs to sell your private data, remove privacy protections at the network level AND the removal of net neutrality.

Net neutrality makes the network provider neutral, simple as that.
I don't know about that. I've never screwed up identaton so much that I couldn't correct it simply by selecting everything I just pasted and hitting tab a couple times in my IDE (PyCharm).

Similarly, copying code from StackOverflow, Github and random blogs have all worked without any issues.

So it can't be as easy as you imply.
Why was this being tested at night? It looks like the nighttime visibility was less than 50 feet.
You didn't answer his question. Those are laws against promoting homosexuality - not being homosexual.
I have no problem with people pointing out errors and new ideas to me. It's how we learn. That's not what I was referring to.

It was more the calling me a "bad statistician", the "do not pass go", the "leave the details to the students", commenting on my understanding of statistics and probability, telling me to "do my homework" and telling me how to get the answer to a question I didn't pose.

I'm not upset and I don't hold it against you. I know the written word can sometimes be more difficult to interpret. I appreciate your retraction.
Fuck'em.
Katahdin: programming language where syntax and semantics are mutable at runtime
Your online privacy depends as much on your friends’ data habits as your own
Seems some people disagree but I think you are right.

All chats I've been in on Telegram and Whatsapp over the last few years could be stored in a few gigabytes of disk space.

How would I know? I've had a look at what Telegram and WhatsApp stores on my phone.
Here is the actual measure and explanation:
https://ballotpedia.org/California_Consumer_Personal_Informa...

And yes, I agree FB should keep their distance from opposing this initiative or lobbying against it. In fact, Equifax et al would probably be affected and I hope the initiative passes.

after the FOSTA/SESTA fiasco we need to carefuly figure out the implications of new laws and initiatives before deciding to support them.

And this is one that actually nails it.
The released video is suspiciously dark. That street has street lighting. Can it be edited?
Almost all are factory employees assembling iPhones and the like. Not sure if I would consider that IT employment like a lot of the others on that list (Amazon's is also inflated quite a bit with warehouse and retail/grocery staff).
Question: has Microsoft ever been second to the product party by more than 3 years, and won? What about on sever and tools?

Bing, windowsphone, Zune, ie, are all end-user facing failures—none of which were based initially on in-house innovation.

My concern is with Azure, and I want to believe 1) that cloud is not winner take all and 2) that microsoft won’t fatally trip over itself as it tries to learn what the market wants.

Please help me with fodder to form my own opinion on whether Azure can ever be more than a bundled tie-in (Azure sales ~= Azure utilization) like our old friend Sharepoint.
That page is impossible.
The world would be a drastically better place to live if Aaron Swartz were still in it.
Researchers at Fraunhofer monitor re-entry of Chinese space station Tiangong-1
A Deep Dive into Database Attacks [Part I]: SQL Obfuscation
It'll indent up to the most relevant valid block as possible, given your cursor at the moment. If you click within an if block, it'll indent into that if-block.

The indentation strategy also looks to produce syntactically valid code, so long as what you are pasting lacked indentation errors.
Sure, because as a responsible person you’re more interested in safety than training a neural net.
I associate Belkin with $30 cables from Staples/Best Buy that I can buy for $3 from Amazon.
they discontinued flip video because after the acquisition they didn’t really understand the consumer and then GoPro came and they got wreckt
If anyone wonders how we got to this point, I think that is understandable. Here are a few thoughts:

It’s easy to overlook how much advertising works. We each have a limited supply of bandwidth for perceiving the world we live in. The result is a high demand for undermining that perception and using it to manipulative ends.

Authoritarian dystopias from books and films usually illustrate force because force is more immediately graphic. It also reflects the dismal state of a dystopian existence. Manipulation would look a lot different. Fear of manipulation is a fear of knowing someone else is trying to manipulate you.

We don’t regularly notice evidence of brands and companies trying to manipulate us, but most of us understand they are incentivized to.

I have worked in advertising for almost a decade and the truth is much worse. Although individuals who work at companies may be on your side, they get paid to spend their days doin what the company tells them to. Even managers and CEOS may be great people but when they go work, they are an employee. They have a duty to the company. And, the more efficient and skilled we get at manipulating members of society into behaviors which direct money our way, the employees will remain working for the company.

Are the employees immoral? Not from the perspective of the family they support. And whose opinion is more important? The family’s. It’s pretty simple that we cannot expect individual decisions to compete with those of the profit-motivated companies they work for.
Good thing for Netgear
Don't recall right now for sure, but doesn't ps have an option to display the processes environment? I've done it by accident a few times and it does not take root.
Programmers Need to Learn Statistics or I Will Kill Them All
I was wondering why it is necessary for self driving tech to be tested in "live" mode, instead of having the software passively log all event data. Then analyze it to see what the software "would have done" compared to a human driver.

Then a lot more testing data could be gathered by outfitting random vehicles (taxis, etc) with the tech, and analyze (and further refine the software) around every event where the software and human driver differed in opinion (i.e., whenever the vehicle abruptly changes speed, did the software detect that it should have hit the brakes at / before the same time).
> bad actions of a few

What bad actions? If you mean an AI car killing a person - that's hardly "an action", that's an accident. Classic human-driven cars kill people every day yet are allowed to continue operation. Do people really expect self-driving cars to be not just more safe than classic but actually 100% safe?

By the way I myself don't drive at all and only use public transport (and a bicycle to ride the countryside). A major reason stopping me from driving is I can't logically understand how can I make sure I am not going to kill anybody if I drive at a speed considered normal (rather than something ridiculous like 15 km/h) and somebody may jump out right in front of my car suddenly (which is very very far from an impossible encounter).

I am totally car-phobic yet I really doubt suspending self-driving cars operation can make the roads more safe. I trust AIs much more than humans when it comes to subjects like this - they can fail occasionally (especially in guaranteed failure situations like when a pedestrian emerges right in front of you all of a sudden) but are seemingly less prone to fail than humans are.
I might suggest you pick up copies of the books in the Market Wizards series. A good library should have them (or could get them). It's a series of interviews with some of the best in the field, across all kinds of different types of finance. They're enjoyable reads, filled with insight, and give a good broad perspective from which you can dive deeper into areas that you think might be especially interesting to you.

[1] Market Wizards - https://www.amazon.com/Market-Wizards-Jack-D-Schwager/dp/088...

[2] The New Market Wizards - https://www.amazon.com/New-Market-Wizards-Conversations-Amer...

[3] Hedge Fund Market Wizards - https://www.amazon.com/Hedge-Fund-Market-Wizards-Winning/dp/...
In the US personal data generally has 0 protections with a handful of exceptions like medical information. As the FTC's statement reads, the only possible issue here is Facebook violating their own privacy policy (stated as a privacy 'promise') and the consequence there will be at worst a very gentle slap on the wrist.

If not for the media coverage of this, Facebook would be unable to care any less. The media coverage though is driving the stock prices down and effect the company many orders of magnitude more negatively than any legal enforcement will.
Facebook is pretty bad, but this is a general thing.

https://www.icloud.com/#contacts

http://contacts.google.com

Even many games collect this information. Even really, really popular ones.

https://techcrunch.com/2016/07/11/pokemon-go-wants-to-catch-...

And with graph theory this means that if they got, say 10% (more likely 1% or so) of people to do this, they can reconstruct 99% or more of the total graph easily.

Hence the constant astonishment by privacy advocates that actually watch their own usage. "I don't use a smartphone and yet they figure out the email addresses of people I only ever call" type of comments.

Meanwhile government organizations have become famous in recent years for subpoenaing this information at the drop of a hat ... especially for divorces, but even for commercial conflicts (e.g. non-payment).

Everybody's in on it and this fight has been fought ... and comprehensively lost. The justice system is not going to let this source of information go, and that means companies aren't going to let it go.

You just can't have applications in the cloud and privacy, because the cloud means that aggregating the information from many sources is easy. Not that it isn't theoretically possible, but it just doesn't work in practice.
This is shoddily written bunk. I would downvote if I could. Object detection from LIDAR/Radar data plus path planning is 'AI-based', and I guarantee you Waymo's systems (which are 'AI-based', though more old school and less ML based) would have done collision avoidance better than Uber.
Author cited a Wiki page as technical reference. Worth noting that VESA has made the EDID standard--including errata and other relevant standards--readily accessible to the general public[1]. Now if only they'd do the same for the latest revision of DisplayPort...

[1] https://www.vesa.org/vesa-standards/

Asks for name, country, and e-mail address, but otherwise immediately redirects to downloadable content directory.
To be fair, does linux/unix system also has similar thing? If the cmd tool supports passing the password as argument, it is supposed to be logged in whatever logging facility in the system. I am not aware of a feature to sanitize the password argument.

The usual way is the cmd tool supports supplying password as password prompt, and the user should always supply the password in the prompt except testing purpose.

So, I think it is more like a UI problem then a vulnerability.
Just tried that---typing like mad in a wordpad, with 12 spaces of indentation, then copying into PyCharm and it worked.

Mixed spaces and tabs as a next go, and it worked too---converting the pasted tabs into spaces of my style.

Smart-tabbing is pretty smart.

Granted, I knew that so long as the indents were proper (i.e it compiles), that pasting at that point would give valid code but... I can't see how using braces would have been different. Just because it compiles, doesn't mean it works. I've pasted javascript incorrectly multiple time to produce valid, but incorrect for my needs code.
I remember reading an article (somewhere) years ago that criticized Silicon Valley for spending so much money to hire bright people to design a better way to click on ads. I thought that was a real dystopian future.

Now Facebook is finally dying... I haven't been on it in ~6 months. People are paying for more and more subscriptions. Nextcloud is becoming a better and better replacement for Gapps. DuckDuckGo is good enough I can 'google' for 95% of my stuff on it. Firefox is now competitive with Chrome. I think we are better off now then we were a few years ago.
I'd be very interested in seeing the math if you have the time later.
China’s spiraling space station will plunge to Earth in about a week
So, I think it is more like a UI problem then a vulnerability

It's both, it's a vulnerability in how the UI calls the CLI command. Passing the password on the command line is bad for a number of reasons, not just because it can end up in a log file.
that’s how you know it’s heavily inflated by manual labor / factory staff
1. There are other markets than US. Europe probably not follow suit even if US allowed it's utilities more rent seeking

2. Market for adds and ISP:s operate on different levels. Just because the downstream utility offering the datastream becomes more expensive, it does not mean content providers would echew ads. Sure, the ISP might want a cut of the third party add but that does not translate to any consumer benefit
Facebook has no serious competition at the moment

The competition is “socialising the pre-Facebook way”
Same order of magnitudes as all of the UK NHS. Wow!
Yes - you really seem to be talking about Machine Learning (a subset of AI). And as another comment says 'This makes me want to pull my hair out. No reasonable system relies on AI [or ML] from top to bottom. Take this article with a grain of salt, it is attacking a straw-man.'
I am not saying that they are buying them for just that, but the PR value of this operation is probably worth a big percentage of the cost of the trucks.
Your comment was all fine up until the very last word, citizen. You used the name of a particular vegetable that's also a name of a particular subversive technology. You're now on a list.
> Is it a MITM attack if you choose to use that platform?

They also build 'shadow profiles' of people who don't, though.
Yeah, it always made me frown when at the time people were using the hidden API to remove permissions manually after install .. (and complain when Google removed that testing tool before shipping proper incremental permissions in the next release). That's just not how it works.

Thankfully now that permissions are incremental, this issue is solved.

Except some apps still target an old API in order to keep install time permissions .. like SnapChat.

This will soon no longer be possible since Google will force apps to target the last API level.

Still, people don't seem to realize what giving an app access to 'contacts' or 'SMS' means.

I am not sure how to solve that tbh :/
Just What Were Donald Trump's Ties to the Mob? (2016)
On my iPad, I just get a completely blank page when visiting this link.
I think that in aggregate we are not, considering the rapid rate of growth of Facebook in the developing world, where for many low income people, Facebook and FB messenger ARE THE INTERNET. Walled garden achieved. Example:

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/01/the-f...
It has an option (e) to attempt to display environment variables, but ps is just a program that reads from /proc, and the kernel enforces isolation of environment variables by breaking reads to /proc/pid/environ for processes you don't own (or more precisely, can't ptrace), so `ps e` can't show anything for those processes.

λ whoami
cjb
λ cat /proc/1/cmdline
/sbin/init%
λ cat /proc/1/environ
cat: /proc/1/environ: Permission denied
GM says South Korean unit will file for bankruptcy if no union concessions
I don't have a solution, I'm just ranting here. Sorry.

This is just an extension of conservatism being scared of sex and women going their own way.

Like it or not, prostitution has helped many people rise out of poverty and even make societies (the "west" back in the early US days) around their business.

Laws like this are very hard to vote against because of TV ads opponents of politicians could run demonizing them.
I take your point. Yummy pizza definitely snaps me out of existentialism.
If the events on the news are outside your sphere of influence, it seems like you'd be better off getting the news once a month. Or a year after things happen. At least the facts will be more sorted.
*to make bots click ads
Foxconn is Taiwanese, not Chinese.
“We are about to launch an actual tropical Island with an erc20 token and this would be good news.”

Super interesting comment. How can I learn more about your project?Are you doing this as a reg D offering? (With Securitize or polymath?)

Definitely one of the most interesting thing I have heard in a while :-) therefore curious to learn more...

(I have been thinking of a similar project, but didn’t move beyond research)
This is normal. Libertarians would prefer that labor simply surrender and knuckle under to capital -- power is only something to be exercised by owners, not workers. Under such circumstances, brinksmanship is the only way capital and labor can negotiate.
Uber Disabled Volvo SUV's Safety System Before Fatality
Is that a new feature? Isn't that just a performance improvement?
Here's the thing. Encryption only allows you to protect the channel of information between two parties. Once the other party has the information you shared, they can in turn share it with whomever they wish. You can establish a private network amongst your selected peers.

But you cannot prevent your peers from violating the network's privacy, either purposefully or accidentally. No amount of encryption can do that.
I am not asking to stop it for all time.

Just device proper tests that deem a self driving vehicle to be worthy/competent enough to be on the road with a normal average human being behind the wheel.

And then have every single self driving vehicle to pass before it can be put on the road. Is that too much to ask?

I am just asking for a driving test for self driving tech. Humans undergo driving tests. Why give machines a free pass? As we have seen here, having a human on stand by just won't cut it..
You rock, thank you very much.

Shame on Apple for the "control click on a hidden control" design pattern in order to stop the update messages. After not seeing an option to hide it, my morning ritual lately had consisted of clicking "Details" button and then quickly CMD+Q'ing out of the MAS dialog that popped up. Glad it's finally disabled, but really kind of ridiculous that it was literally a hidden option.
You can see an open source version of "big iron" networking gear, both hardware [1] and software [2]. They also use ASICs for most of the work and run Linux on the host CPU (so they can be managed like normal servers).

[1] https://code.facebook.com/posts/843620439027582/facebook-ope...
[2] https://github.com/facebook/fboss
Facebook is most certainly not dying. This is a short term blip that it will almost certainly recover from. Even if it ends up being more closely regulated (which I'd support) it could still be a very successful business.
>What bad actions?

Uber disabled the safety systems included with the car that was involved in the incident. They relied solely on their own, half-baked tech when these systems could have saved the life of person who was killed:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-26/uber-disa...
Xbox maybe?
With subsequent visits I get “one in 339162.0 browsers have the same fingerprint as yours” and so forth, with the number decreasing each time.

Clearing cookies makes no difference - the hash of WebGL and Canvas fingerprints stay the same.
Berkeley Lab Scientists Print All-Liquid 3-D Structures
> Is lobbying really helpful for the people in the US?

The EFF [1] and ACLU [2] are lobbyists. We have a problem in the U.S. with money and politics, but lobbying per se is a natural consequence of the First Amendmenr.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Frontier_Foundati...

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_Liberties_Uni...
I love knowing what’s going on.

It gives me a sense of the meanderings and movements of large scale entities like corporations and governments and the side effects their decisions.

Wars in Syria tell me about the relations between countries. The Flint water crisis tells me about the failures of small government or even worse the economic state of Michigan.

Data breaches and environmental disaster tell me of the negligence and leadership decisions of large corporations.

The news is endlessly intriguing.
This is low-entropy, but you sound like a really great manager.
This would have been awesome one week ago, when Pinboard's tagging subsystem blew up.

Instead, I got a lesson in coding more defensively.
If the bug were entirely process, that might be true. But the bug is largely ignorance. Education, and even more simply communication, have a long way to go. Not to mention technological solutions like sharing a knowledge graph[1].

A genius Haskell programmer and good friend of mine in the south recently said something to the effect of "liberals should give up this effort to ban all guns". The news he watches had characterized liberals that way, and he believed them. I pointed out that almost nobody on the left is gunning for that outcome, as it were, the "bug" disappeared.

[1] https://github.com/synchrony/smsn/wiki
As predicted, more branch prediction processor attacks are discovered
Anna: A KVS for any scale
Lockheed Martin has obtained a patent for a compact fusion reactor