skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Both the U.S. military and the U.S. Intelligence Community would undoubtedly love to have the ability to direct disconcerting or false messages out of thin air at the enemy or even a particular individual, such as a terrorist leader. They might mistake the experience for some sort of divine intervention or a deteriorating mental condition."

This is total BS. Successful terrorists leaders, even religious ones, are not clueless primitives - they've grown up with the usual array of technology (even if it's the cheap versions affordable in poor countries), and often make sophisticated user of it when planning and executing their missions. usually sophisticated users of technology, and . Once this project is common knowledge, they'll be reminded that the US knows where they are, but they won't jump to supernatural explanations.
It was pretty clumsy in its realization. There were like six or seven regions on the one sheet and it was hard to work with. So they kept that part of it.
When I lived near the airport I made an ACARS monitoring box with the B200 and GR. Had a bunch of fun analyzing engine performance data and the funny messages going back and forth. Travelling with my rtlsdr has saved my butt a few times. Always nice being the first to know that a flight has been cancelled.
Obama's Whitehouse? You mean the one that had the NSA spy on all of us?
Good point, and that’s definitely why early intervention and prevention is the preferred modality for treatment of psychosis. This is weaponizing the opposite of that, for “crowd control” I guess.
Using the Google Sheets API to store session history and metadata for a nightly backfill job instead of, you know, a database. The program broke after the creator left and no one could figure out how to bring it back up. The engineer assigned to fix it pulled their hair out looking for the database creds, local SQLite3 records, anything that would initialize the backfill. Finally realized it wasn't just printing out metadata to a Google Sheet but actually relying on that as a persistence layer. Root cause of the breakage was automatically adding every Hadoop counter from the job as its own column in the Sheet, which eventually exceeded the dimension limits.
Well he did put emphasis on sex. Social norms regarding pornography, sexuality, prostitution and nudity are still depressingly puritanical in the US.

I think the ripple effects from being raised to believe sexuality and nudity are shameful or obscene are much greater than we appreciate.
I worked at a place that had a large, distributed terminal network running on something like OSF or DEC Unix.

It was 2001 and the thing was on life support while PCs were being rolled out. I was helping to rack my new database servers, which was next to this big lab table/shelf combo with like 16 terminals on it. When pulling a cable I banged my head on the table, then this big book fell on my hand.

About 10 minutes later, a bunch of graybeards come around the corner yelling “WTF are you doing!”

Turns out that the dictionary that hit my hand was perched across two keyboards, holding down the “enter” keys of two terminals. Turns out that for reasons unknown, those terminals had to be repeatedly hitting the enter key in order for the logins and print jobs of about 40,000 people to work.
Waymo CEO says its tech would have handled Uber self-driving incident safely
And a NVIDIA GeForce 1080 TI is roughly $1000 USD right now (and should be $800 if cryptocurrency wasn't inflating the prices):

https://pcpartpicker.com/products/video-card/#c=390&sort=pri...

Cloud computing is so ridiculously expensive for GPUs.
Just tried it and it worked great.
Waymo CEO on Uber Crash: Our Self-Driving Car Would Have Avoided Pedestrian
Yeah, that's the only solution that will work.
I find myself doing the same thing. There is absolutely zero hope of me clicking "login with Facebook", and between my low likelihood of clicking, and the low likelihood of actually seeing "login with Twitter" - that also never happens.

However, I login with Google all the time.

I have my reasons for these choices and I'm sure many people here share those reasons, and I'm also sure many more don't share those reasons, but the reasons are not important in this discussion.

If you're going to offer social login, then offer at the very least all the major social logins - some really are more acceptable than others, the problem is, everyone's set is different.
5F3759DF a.k.a. fast inverse square root [1] in graphics programming.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_inverse_square_root
Webhost circa 2002. Lots of carrots from Microsoft for us to go big on ASP.NET hosting. Fat boss made a deal which involved us rewriting our customer interface in ASP.NET from the existing ColdFusion morass. His eyes popping at our estimates of how long this would take, he came up with a solution: rename our *.cfm files to .aspx, and map IIS to pass .aspx files to the CF server. Job done.
Meta comment: I have never seen a front page HN post go this long (4 hours) without a single comment before. Interesting. I wonder what the record is for longest time on the front page with no comments? Does anyone know?

And yes, I know I just broke the streak :/
Did Facebook try to block this company from interacting with affected users after this happened? or did they just let them target anyone with any ad?
> But you can also saw the profile manually.

That is something I've wondered; until what scale is that really feasible? Because fancy indexing lathes, gear cutters and CNCs bring in kinda high barrier to entry, but a jewelers saw (presumably?) and a vise are far more approachable for a hobbyist.
Exactly why you should never trust cloud storage.
You keep repeating this falsehood:

> Does the average person with an Android phone really know their location is being uploaded minute by minute to Google?

It doesn't seem like you have any idea how Google actually captures user's location data. Not only does Google give you the full ability to control and delete your location data [1] but the data collection is not on by default (though applications like Maps will prompt for it) and the data is always anonymized when used and most importantly the data is never shared with commercial third parties (though I believe Google may make anonymized data available to researchers whose projects pass certain ethical checks).

This data is used to drive projects like Maps and 'Popular Times' and real-time directions that people really, really like.

So while you seem to want to paint Google as manipulating people to harvest their data and sell it to the highest bidder (what Facebook basically does) nothing could be further from the truth. Facts matter.

I would personally say when it comes to handling user data Google is probably the most ethical and rigorous company in the world. I can't think of any other company that goes to such great lengths to protect user data as much as Goog does. It's been remarked many times that your data stored in Google's network is more secure than your data stored in NSA's network. Certainly you'll never see anything like private employees tracking their spouses using Google's data [2].

And here's the thing: Facebook is also pretty damn secure when it comes to user's data. Obviously they fucked up with their API but again I think a sober review of most American tech companies will show Facebook doing more to protect user data. You should be much more concerned with many of the fly-by-night websites that pump out fake news or sell cheap Chinese goods to people who don't know better. In fact it's these websites whose sole purpose is to suck up user data for profit.

The real point here of course is that while it may feel good to bash Google and Facebook it is not the best use of energy. What the US needs is what the EU is doing: real privacy regulation with real teeth that applies to any organization whose site serves American citizens.

But somehow I don't see that happening any time soon, right?

[1] https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/3118687?hl=en

[2] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-surveillance-watchdog...
Having worked at nyt I worked on nyt_cookie.so an Apache module for parsing and forwarding some of the early tracking systems . So back on the topic over hacks . The source for it was in a cvs repo hosted on this guys second office laptop , running FreeBSD 3.2-STABLE . So one it was 2009 and 3.2 was incredibly old ; as was the laptop . One day the laptops disk dies and no one had backups of the repo . Nyt_cookie.so was kept on the prod web servers for another 4 or 5 years before it was abandoned. We used to binpatch the binary to fix it up .
Welcome to the new “normal”. I got burnt years ago trying to use Airbnb and I learnt my lesson.
On the other hand, the already disturbed could be far more resilient to this actually being used as they already knew that this was going on and were hearing voices anyway.
Announcement Jan 2018: https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/6785

W3C Recommendation: https://www.w3.org/TR/2018/REC-activitypub-20180123/
By market cap. I'm a bit curious of your founding dates. Alphabet was formed from a restructuring of Google. Google was founded in 1998, not 1988.
Tried that — it kept choking on the 80k or so emails in my inbox. Apparently mu4e users just have tidy folder organization schemes from what I was told on mail list. I got spoiled by gmail and never sort my mail. In fact my dependence on search is why I turned to mu4e in the first place. I just assumed a unixy toolkit would scale just fine (bad assumption!).
It’s funny how back when sites like StackOverflow were starting up, “social” logins like OpenID and, later, OpenID Connect were going to replace passwords. Now it’s “just use a password manager”.

Of the two, I strongly prefer a federated login system like OpenID that lets the user pick an identity provider
This reminds me of a car hack I once had to do:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Cartalk/comments/10cwhb/til_how_to_...
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Mostly only relevant for convnets it seems
There is a summary page of what all the scripts do [0].

0. http://www.fmwconcepts.com/imagemagick/script_list.txt
You might be right. In fact, the person who I'm replying to is saying it's their explicit goal.

I don't know but I wouldn't be surprised if for some of them it was. For those who tacked on the bill as well as some groups and celebrities (I think Amy Schumer and Seth Myers) some of them might have jumped on with the best of intentions.
Well for one the analogy is more like a New Yorker taking offense at the prospect of California (or Texas) joining Mexico. That puts it in a different light, although it’s stull not comparable to he forced displacement and ethnic inequalities that has happened and is happening in Tibet.

I don’t think PG really knows what he is talking about with respect to Tibet China relations if he thinks that analogy holds...
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Every Living Specie*

I'm sure we'd run out of names, unless we just re-use Dan a million times.
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The way to get support is to make it about catching child pornographers and "human traffickers". Nobody wants to be against that, and there's bipartisan support.

The reason to fear this, of course, is if there's a backdoor, hackers will find it. Period.
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This. To me, the major problem with FB isn't even privacy. It's the fact that FB relies on, and encourages its users to behave like addicts.

HN has noprocrast because YC has a financial interest in their founders not wasting their time, or becoming addicts. Can you imagine FB implementing noprocrast? It goes against everything they do.
I remember around 2004 walking around NYC subway you'd see the usual guy talking to himself -- but wait, no -- he was on a cellphone!

That was a funny transition.
Please do explain this. I would love to understand what is the modus operandi.
nice article, although I think the title is a bit dismissive... An Incomplete History of Women at LANL would have been better
Not sure if this is still the case, but back when I was at Apple the program that triggered when you pressed a button on an Apple remote pointed at a Macintosh was just a giant AppleScript file that, at the top level, was a giant `if...else if...` statement to try and determine which application had the foreground so that the appropriate action (e.g. next track for iTunes, next slide for Keynote, next chapter marker for QuickTime, etc.) could be triggered.
Did "gifted and talented" for two years in the government program in Sydney, Australia, and it was awesome. Ages 10-11. This co-incided with my introduction to programming and electronics (I now run a robotics startup in China, after a successful software career). Almost no homework. Focus on collaboration and discussion, creativity and inter-domain reasoning. On the whole perhaps a big part of the benefit was being in the same school as others who weren't in the program and realising it's OK to be different/introspective.
The issue is UX: I’d much prefer a widget that had three or four common providers and then an advanced mode that lets me pick an alternative
Porn isn't illegal, though. This porn didn't even seem to be infringing on copyright, which is probably more than you can say for a lot of content stored on Google Drive.

Google avoiding making itself an accomplice to illegal activities would be far easier to swallow than Google appointing itself the arbiter of some puritanical ideas of morality.
Here's a freebie that I wrote in like 15 minutes and use in multiple prod situations. Treat any Google Sheet like a JSON data source. https://gist.github.com/chrsstrm/3fb0ce6820acecf62c5490d220d...

Yes, the App Script API is kind of limited, but also extremely powerful for simple services or to glue services together.
In the case of Blurred Lines, wasn't Pharrell forced to admit that he was listening to the Marvin Gaye song, around the time of the recording of Blurred Lines?

That doesn't prove causation on it's own, but it does seem to blur the lines of such absolutist statements as those you have made.
running a 3rd party program called PTFB (press the fckn button) as a background process on a farm of 20 Prod web servers to automatically press "OK" on a dialog window that would pop up as a result of unhanded exception in one of our hacky conversion processes that the company didn't allow us to fix.
What the Alt-Right and Regressive Left Have in Common
Linux has never been hacked. By gosh, you're right!
Also California - while some rural counties are effectively "shall issue" the most populous counties are "may issue."
"Move carefully - lots of people are depending on us."
This makes no sense.

The vast majority of the youtube videos I see, I do not see on youtube, but as embedded content.
Haha, literally writing a multicurrency accounting system from scratch at the moment. Same deal: my company, my rules. Trying to be a bit forward-looking though[0], and already tonnes of features you can't buy. Live third party market platform scraping, machine translation, github integration, beginnings of live mainland Chinese bank API integration, etc.

[0]
https://github.com/globalcitizen/ifex-protocol/
In the US..
non-lethal, but it can burn your retina or even your shirt...
I looked them up on Wikipedia. Good catch! Typo. And if I were consistent, I would have made a note on the restructuring as I did in a couple of other cases. The commenter apologizes for the error. ;)
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It doesn’t, but why would they delete it? Google don’t have a policy to delete data they can’t read, as far as I know anyway.
Fair enough, it's not a monolithic block of supporters. I do think though that the main drivers of the bill are authoritarian.
I know this isn't reddit, but this needs a reaction gif when you're in the meeting and someone is explaining the solution...
https://thumbs.gfycat.com/MisguidedNimbleAtlanticspadefish-s...
It's on the honor, ethics system. If you did the work, no worries.
Is it time to ditch the term “full-stack”?
So ammend NATO to add a trade component, then boost tariffs.

NAFTA is already excluded from MFN as far as I know, so it's not without precedent.
LANL has the best science museum I have ever been to.
Not only that, there are a few really well made gun safety and responsibility series that are threatened by Youtube's (Google's) stance. I'd go so far as to say these particular channels may have saved lives, but they get swept up with the rest of the gun-related videos and shoved out the door.

Maybe one day the big corps will realize they can't cave to every single blip on the political radar and try to please everyone at once, especially when to this day they ignore calls to remove actual violent and disturbing content, some of which is blatant recruitment material for extremist groups.
I heard of a very Boring company which specializes in making vacuum tunnels.
Ohh Goody... This will not be abused at all. No No...
I'm a remote coder who lives in a rural county where the population density is 0.5 people per square mile. Today I made an infrequent visit to a big city with a density of over 2,000 people per square mile.

It kinda freaked me out, an effect that has grown over the years. It would be psychologically traumatic to me to be forced to live in a city, to the point where if forced by poor health or poverty I may prefer to die in place. City life is deficient in peace and joy by comparison. I pity the bunnies living in our great rabbit warrens. What a cruel thing to do to humanity, to force them there.

Here's an alternative plan. Wealth appears to depress population growth. The wealthiest countries are generally those bending toward depopulation the fastest. So instead let's get so wealthy that population falls enough that a much larger fraction of us can have the great privilege of a rural life.
You may not like to look too closely at the book industry then. It is full of such boxes.
Working from home, so few minutes to my office and listening to sports radio usually...
Are you seriously suggesting that Bing doesn't track users? Who are you trying to kid.

Microsoft is able to recognize the same user across devices by using an anonymous identifier (MSID). The MSID is used to describe a persistent unique identifier used by Microsoft Advertising to deliver targeted ads and recognize the same user across devices and Microsoft services. Customers have a choice to opt out of targeted advertisements that use the MSID by visiting http://choice.microsoft.com/en-us/opt-outand turning off the control that says “Personalized Ads Wherever I use my Microsoft Account”

https://searchengineland.com/bing-ads-launches-universal-eve...
"Don't delete this comment or the production server will crash." Tried it, did as advertised. Apparently the website went through a proxy that reflected over the code, using that comment as a hook to inject some sort of functionality.
I agree regulations are the best long-term solution. I think we probably agree on a lot of things regarding this issue. But I am disappointed to see the same equivocation regarding Google’s data collection.

> So while you seem to want to paint Google as manipulating people to harvest their data and sell it to the highest bidder (what Facebook basically does) nothing could be further from the truth. Facts matter.

The fact is that last winter, when reinstalling Android, I realized my phone was uploading location data to Google constantly as soon as I had clicked the misleadingly labeled “help make Android/Google Maps better” button. Curious, I decided to ask my friends and family if they knew about this—none did.

Google does ask for “permission” in the sense that it shows a misleading dialog box where the default option (visually indicated—see the Dark Patterns website for examples of this tactic) is to share everything. This is not a good faith effort to ask for consent: that is the empirical, objective truth, no matter what good intentions you might hope to ascribe to Google. Again, I invite you to see if a majority of normal people know what they are agreeing to when they set up their Android phones.

> Not only does Google give you the full ability to control and delete your location data [1] but the data collection is not on by default (though applications like Maps will prompt for it) and the data is always anonymized when used and most importantly the data is never shared with commercial third parties (though I believe Google may make anonymized data available to researchers whose projects pass certain ethical checks)

Whether data is shared with third parties is a good point, but this isn’t really meaningful when “Google” encompasses search, maps, phones, video, office software, etc. But it’s noteworth my friends at Facebook told me the exact same things about Facebook’s policies towards data—researchers need to go through approved processes there, too—it’s just that here those processes approved someone who was actually not ethical at all.

Facts matter, and to paraphrase you, although it may feel good to think that Facebook is worse than Google (and correspondingly that it’s ok to work at one but not the other), we need to look at what companies actually do, not what we think they believe they are doing.

Also, it seems you think that my claim about the average person not being aware of the extent of Google’s data collection is false. This is what I concluded after asking the people close to me, most who are not in technology. I invite you to actually go out and ask people before claiming otherwise about the results of what is well-acknowledged as a dark pattern.
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That analogy is flawed. YouTube and Facebook are like the local privately-owned shopping mall, not the street corner.

They've both always had the equivalent of the security guard in the golf cart, who kicks people out for violating the mall's rules, and is often wrong.
Any big company has to lobby a bit but the ISPs only do that and do have local monopolies with false competition so you can't really choose another competitor in many places. ISPs haven't built any market products people want to use that they will willingly give up their data for.

Google and Facebook are ad networks that tracking is inherent because they are free and they make their money from ads.

ISPs are for internet access and privacy, you pay them so they don't sell your data. Now they want to be Google/Facebook without building a search engine or social network. They bought their monopoly with bribes so they could become ad networks/tracking networks. People have the expectation that their data isn't being sold by their ISP currently, but they are and it is fully legal now.

Google and Facebook aside, do you want your ISP tracking you and selling your private data?
This is an extremely niche post, lol
Using a Remote Access Object to proxy calls between 32-bit and 64-bit code. Instead of rewriting any of the original ASP code, the lead architect made a DLL that would provide .NET 2.0 functionality to the ASP code. This was in 2014. The DLL was 32-bit and predictably ran out of memory every 30 hours. We created a scheduled task to restart the service every 24 hours, what a band-aid.
Hmm ... that completely makes sense when they reminded me that amphibians have to regulate their temperatures via ambient conditions. Unfortunately it also completely ruins my analogy (though not my point).

Perhaps the analogy should be a free citizen of a democratic society gradually allows corporations to (after being deemed a living entity) slowly distribute all wealth creation to the plutocrats as they go from being solid middle class to a virtual slave in another corporation's giant warehouses.
If this is what "freedom of speech" earns us then we're better off without it, it's completely useless or even worse, it seems to set us back.