skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "You are not saying this galaxy behaves in such a way that MOND cannot explain"

No, that's exactly what's being stated. MOND doesn't predict this galaxy. This galaxy rotates slower than others of similar directly observable mass. In other words, it confirms the current model of gravity, which by definition is evidence against any modified model of gravity.
> They tried, and failed.

What are you thinking of -- iTunes Ping? That was never really intended as a general-purpose social network.
What if the entire system is configured to use Tor? Does the use of Tails mitigate this weakness?
There are indeed many reasonable dark matter candidates: sterile neutrinos, lightest supersymmetric partner, axions... These are particles which are theoretically motivated, but by their nature would be difficult to detect because they don't interact electromagnetically. If we exclude the existence of such particles it is more difficult to construct a coherent theory.

Dark matter is exciting in part because it intersects particle physics with cosmology, and has the potential to solve problems in both (e.g. rotation curves and neutrino masses). It's appealing in part because it's parsimonious.
The story isn’t that they used data obtained through the Facebook API to microtarget ads on Facebook? That’s the story I’ve read at every major media outlet.
Wow, this is really nice!
I think anyone that's looking for porn on Google is too lost to save. Polite society has moved on to better SERPs like Bing, Yandex, and thou that shalt not be shared.

And that more than 90% of all searches with "girl" are for porn. Google already killed most of its porn-lovin' demographic with the beheading of Google Videos in ~2009.

Also, I don't understand what you're trying to say here. I'm reading sentences, and I comprehend them, but there lacks an overarching idea to bring it all together.
Interesting how it's all about "sharing" and "community" when they want you to get on Facebook and all about "well you know you signed your privacy away" when you ask any questions. It's so disingenuous - I'm loving Facebook's self-created troubles.
> It has really nothing to do with being a GUI or not.

That screen is not limited to navigation commands. By using keys other than enter, I can copy, rename, delete, e-mail, pack, etc. that de-whatever directory. Each of the operations would take just a couple extra key presses.

Technically you can do the almost same with TUI (but not CLI) but still less efficient because sometimes file icons and especially previews deliver valuable information to the user.

> Well, of course; that's what aliases are for.

How easy is gonna be to write a command for that alias that does same as “{Alt}+(F7 r t) something {enter}” in the above GUI? The GUI supports zip, rar, tar.gz, cab, and many others out of the box, plus plugins for other archives (I only have 7-zip).

Another thing, a single alias is not enough to replace the GUI, because behind that not so complex looking GUI there’s a functionality with 20 parameters just on the first tab page. Even if you’ll create that alt-f7-r-t alias, next day you’ll need to do same but search for UTF16 and/or regexp and/or case sensitive. How you’ll deal with the exponential explosion of complexity? With equally complex CLI with arguments like -rwe2hoc18m? Not many people use advanced searches every day, so memorizing the switches is not worth it. Most users will have two choices, read manual each time, or write commands instead of using that search alias. Both options are significantly slower than using Alt+F7 GUI screen.
It's not just about keeping potentially embarrassing things off social media. Everyone has biases. If you post something political, religious, etc. that really isn't controversial, that may still lead a potential employee who sees it to pass you over, intentionally or not.
Would love to see more from this!
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Hi Sam,

How do you intend to prevent sybil attacks on seller ratings? Since there are no account sign ups and subsequent verifications, it would be theoretically possible to create a large number of accounts with fake reviews.
Well, I once interviewed a guy who claimed to have done iOS development since 2007 – basically since the iPhone launch. There was no iOS SDK that year, it only came later. Guy was a bit embarrassed when I pointed that out.
This could have been a honest mistake, but then I started looking for more "mistakes" and found a bunch more non-plausible stuff.

I then went ahead and hired another guy with literally zero job experience, but with interesting academic pursuits and who contributed to Compiz. Guy turned out to be amazing.

Don't lie. If a company won't listen to you because you don't have an arbitrary number of years of experience in your CV (what's this, the aviation industry?), then it is not a company you want to be talking to anyway.

EDIT: I should have said "Don't lie during the technical interview"
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Urban Airship Bug Bounties (“Full Disclosure Security Policy”)
From my personal experience in the entry level job market, I have never successfully gotten a job offer to anything I applied to. Only have my current job because a friend recommended me.
One reason I don't want my browser to become a fucking operating system.

We already have Emacs for that. ;-)
Absolutely, assuming you had some responsibility and worked on an interesting project or two during those summers.
If you're suggesting a law against hiring people who have not passed such an exam, the First Amendment would likely be an obstacle (just as the government cannot impose an licensure requirement on journalists), since source code is protected speech. However, in safety-critical systems (such as self-driving cars), the government probably can impose a regulation against using code developed by an unlicensed programmer in production.

If you're suggesting a de facto industry-standard exam, I think there just isn't enough wide agreement about what should be on the exam.
Top of Hacker News probably doesn't help much!

We're in process of changing the website over so it wasn't a great time for a big hug. But the website is mostly a marketing tool and a place to download the installer packages. Which you can find here as well:

https://github.com/OpenBazaar/openbazaar-desktop/releases
> Sorry, just to clarify, I (and I believe the GP did as well) meant "mirror" in terms of reflecting reality and the state of things -- not "mirror" as it's commonly thought of in content/data online distribution.

Yes, I did. But I don't want to see the parasitic SEO-driven copypasta linkfarms. Or perhaps have them, but including such flags.
Yes a product although the term "two axes" works as well. It's a pretty common way of quantifying "risk" into something that you can tabulate and form a todo list. You list your risks and give each one a score from 0-9 that is made up of "chance of happening" x "business impact or importance or whatever". You could score either as zero as well which will obviously cause the total score to be zero.

I'll be changing our Risk Reg soon to become a Risks and Opportunities Register after a discussion in our last ISO 9001 audit. Not sure how the scoring scheme will work for that yet.

This may look like a bit of a silly pseudo formal exercise but it really does help with decision making. There's nothing wrong with bending the scores either, if you are open about it. It is simply a way of prioritising a list of things to do in the end.

I have to be a PHB sometimes as well as a sysadmin 8)
I agree, they managed to capture some IBMness there. But if they were doing it to enhance their branding, why did they make it open source?
Reminds me of the plumbis “How is it made”.
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How do you moderate the search engine? In other words, people post illegal items on your platform; how do you prevent those items from showing up on the various search engines?
My "theory" is just a hunch. Flat rotation curves IS the primary foundation for the existence of dark matter:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_rotation_curve

I'm simply saying its more likely an unknown effect of the black hole at the center. Possibly some sort of gravitational modification effect that only occures in the presents of singularities. The fact that a sparse galaxy with possible no black hole center (I assume) shows no sign of dark matter is compelling. It may not prove the specific equations/explanations set forth in MOND, but it may hint to some other alternative gravitational theory that has yet to be flushed out, rather than relying on some invisible particles which may not exist.
Apple operated iAd before shutting it down. One of the former iAd execs said this to the WSJ [1]:

>“I don’t believe they are interested in this capability because they have a strict policy around what they do with user data,” Crawford said. “IAd has great assets and great capabilities, but they are going to follow Apple’s policy to the letter of the law.”

So they crippled a potential new revenue stream because of their privacy policy.

[1] https://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/07/13/drawbridge-hires-app...
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Facebook already has that base covered with Oculus.
I don’t think we do have a working theory that explains all the observed evidence. We know the theory without dark matter is wrong, because the vast majority of galaxies don’t agree with it. But we don’t have a new theory that holds together that does explain the observations, with or without dark matter.

Basically “dark matter” just means “something that makes the observations work” and the choice of words “dark matter” is because it would work to have some kind of yet-unexplained matter that doesn’t interact with the matter we know about. It looked like it might also work to change the theory of gravity, in which case that was a bad choice of placeholder name — but now this is a counterexample to that idea.
If I got such a reaction from someone like Linus, I’d probably print it out and frame it on my wall.
The key issue (at least for me) is whether they've tried to benefit from marketing user-specific data. I can't recall any such effort, but will gladly to defer to someone more knowledgable. I'm not sure specifically why their multiple ad and social network efforts have failed, but it might be because they haven't been willing to do just that.

On a general note, I find it frustrating that a lot of the discussions around this area end up with people talking past each other. Some people are concerned about advertising, others about privacy, others about using user data, others about open source software/hardware, others about encryption. They've got some overlap when it comes to specific features, but often get conflated, making the discussion even more difficult. One thing I've appreciated about reading your comments is that you often are able to cut through that quite decisively. Thanks!
Not sure if this headline is 100% accurate. oAuth for apps that have already passed Login Submission is still functioning. For example, new users to an app that is already in the FB app ecosystem can still create accounts via oAuth.

However, apps that request scopes like "user_friends" or "pages_messaging" [1] may error out during authentication.

[1] https://messenger.fb.com/newsroom/messenger-platform-changes...
The membership revocation is key - the fact that you could lose your professional license for ethics violations is enough to keep everything above board. Also, the NSPE would provide support for an individual engineer in the dissident/whistleblower case.

As an Electrical Engineer, we went over this in school, as ethics is one of the cornerstones of the Professional Engineer license. (Though, personally I am not professionally licensed.)

See here for what it covers:
https://www.nspe.org/resources/ethics/code-ethics
There seems to be much more "dark matter" in our own galaxy than "normal matter", so "no dark matter at all" is an extremely surprising discovery.
Tech work is like sex work: you don't need to feel the passion, but you do need to be able to fake it.
I somehow feel you're not going to divest an astrologer of their belief in the power of Jupiter by comparing it with standing within touching distance of a massive cow.
Heads 0.4 released
Server’s down. Here’s the archive.org snapshot:

https://web.archive.org/web/20180326210403/https://www.openb...
What's the point of this article, to try to discredit him? He's already discredited. The whistleblowing doesn't require his trust, it's true or it's not. We already know he's not trustworthy, and surprise, he did it (at least) twice.
Unfriend Me:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/unfriend-me/id1290475944...

http://feeds.frogpants.com/unfriendme_feed.xml

Touchy topics civily discussed.
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These days there's a WebAssembly build of libwebp which enables WebP support in browsers which don't support it natively:

https://webmproject.github.io/libwebp-demo/webp_wasm/index.h...

I think it's an ideal use case for WebAssembly. It'd be a good way to roll out any future AV1-based image format until native support arrived in all browsers.
Since there's no censorship, it sounds like if OpenBazaar is successful it will be used to buy and sell illegal things.

How do you feel about that?

:)
The doubts about CA's real-world effectiveness are actually well-represented in the media, as your example or [0] show. This actually closely follows the a similar news cycle right after the election. I distinctly remember reading several articles casting doubt on CA's effectiveness in The New York Times and The Atlantic.

I also don't think many reports actually assert that CA was responsible for, say, a 10% swing. Why people are taking this serious is, I believe, because we now know that it's possible to get such data and we have seen the sort of feats that machine learning can do today. It's doubtful that CA was the company to successfully combine those two ingredients. But without changes it's all but guaranteed that someone will soon will.

Plus there is the fact that the election just happened to be incredibly close. You can make a list with about ten possible reasons for the result, from people being tired of Hillary, to the FBI's strange moves regarding the e-mail investigation, third-party candidates, russian trolls, the free media Trump got, Cambridge Analytica, and probably the weather in eastern Ohio. It's possible that the absence of any two or three of these would have changed the outcome.

[0]: example: https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/3/23/17152564/ca...
Going to try this out tonight
You've got a weird definition of participation.
Why can’t we legislate access so that aggregate collection of public personal data requires _consent_?

If you can get enough people to agree with you, then great - go for it. But that’s not the point of my comment. It’s that even if they did collect the data, it couldn’t have been used to microtarget you through Facebook ads, even though that is exactly what all of these articles have said happened here.
With 8Gb of RAM I have been happily using Qubes 4 in my work workstation since rc2. I suggest to use the mirage firewall image [1] to save aound a Gb of RAM

The fedora 27 images can easily reach 5Gb of use under heavy load, but in gneneral I have pretty good performances and I usually have a couple of throwaway VMs and the main work VM running and dealing with web, co pilations of various sort and editing.

[1]: https://github.com/talex5/qubes-mirage-firewall
What frustrates me endlessly about the GMO debate is that "GMO" tells you about as much about safety as "chemical." You could certainly GM something into being dangerous or more dangerous, for example transplanting allergens or increasing the production of natural pest control toxins. You could also modify a protein into an equivalent protein, changing nothing.

The only real answer to fears about GMOs is to point people towards longitudinal studies that show that the specific modification in question isn't causing any problems. Sadly, this really isn't possible in our current system, as I have no idea which changes were made to the organisms that get put in the consumer products I buy. In an ideal world, I could read NGK-028181 off the tin of baked beans in my pantry and realize that I needed to throw it out because they discovered something wrong with that one specific genome (or because I know I'm allergic).

As a consumer, if I ever get suspicious about one specific change made to one specific breed, my only option is to buy non-GMO everything. That doesn't make any sense!
Thanks! I will check it out!

It just hasn't been a priority. I have no need for RBAC at this point, as I am the only cluster admin, and the whole network is fairly well isolated.

I couldn't really think of a good reason to not upgrade when it came time to kubeadm init again, but then I realized I could probably save ten minutes by not upgrading, it was down, and I didn't know what the immediate consequences of adding RBAC would be for my existing Jenkins deployment and jobs.

Chances are it would have worked.
Why don't you take fees to support further development?
Seems like the right answer here is analyzing usage of the API and looking for malicious patterns
That's not part of the ES module spec. That's something transpilers (like Babel + a plugin) support.
Hey, this is neat! Unfortunately, after skimming the changelog, it still seems they're trotting along with Xen, and any "intermediate IT" person would still be using a bespoke solution.
No he is correct -- it is spelled like so: Free Palestine.
Indeed. Which department of 'management level' deserves this is another question, but somewhere, someone (probably C-level) decided that it wasn't important enough and now got bit by it.

I'm pretty sure someone else will get the blame for it, for about 6 months 'improvements' will be made, and next year, we're going to see something like this just repeat itself.
The Science Citation Index and LexisNexis already do most of the filtering for you by not including absolute unmitigated garbage that happens to be perfectly optimised for your search keywords. You might find the odd David Irving article in there, but you haven't got Stormfront trying to citation-bomb all holocaust related terms for the lolz, never mind commercial blogspam. And Google also works on the assumption most users won't do their own filtering.
Very IBMish. Brutalist designers will love it. I kinda like it.
The honest answer is that we haven't solved the decentralized reputation problem and reviews can't entirely be trusted.

There are a few factors that still make reviews somewhat useful though. People can choose to attach their name, and if they are reputable then their review matters more than an anon account. Reviews also can only be left when there is a full record of trade having occurred, and funds have moved (verified on the blockchain), so at the very least an attacker is paying cryptocurrency fees for each false rating.

But ultimately there's a lot of work to be done in decentralized reputation. The work of projects like Trust is Risk seems promising (we've supported their efforts):

https://github.com/OrfeasLitos/TrustIsRisk
I'm a physics teacher, and we just did Universal Gravitation last week. I whimsically explained it as "the longing of everything for everything". (They liked it, but devolved into a giggle fest about being attracted to each other.)

Other easily romantic notions in physics:

* we are all born of star stuff

* every breath we take has elements of the same breath as every human who ever lived (excluding some currently living ones, due to diffusion rates, but eventually...)

* (The current grav force between my partner and me is 1.9159965e-15 N)
Hey guys, we're working on a platform that literally collects wishes from any touchpoint and it has quite some traction, especially in the gaming industry. Could you send me an email to hn{@}stomt.com? Would love to catch up on this. We also do a lot of research in the fields of NLP and clustering.
$230M means about 45k Model 3 sales assuming no other income. Or about 25k Model S/X sales assuming no other income. Or two dozen big battery installations assuming no other income.

But since Tesla is manufacturing Model S, Model X, Model 3, Powerpack and Powerwall, it’s a safe bet that $230M will be covered with expected sales even if Model 3 production stalls at this week’s peak.

$920M next year means Tesla have to reach 50k Model 3 a month with no other income.

If they start rolling out Solar Roof before then, and sell any Model S or X, or raise the rate of big battery installations, they will make that payment too.

Tesla doesn’t only sell cars.
Yes, there is a dual use, keeping information a trade secret, as well as good communication across legal or medical fraternities.
The trade and craft secrecy was mainly to mulct clients and restrict trade competition.
https://www.google.ca/search?q=mediaeval+trade+monopolies&oq...
Very cool! I did something similar for the Game Boy Color recently - playing 18kHz ~7bit audio while also updating the screen at 60fps, using "hi-color" techniques where you change the color palette before each line is drawn.
It was a ton of fun with a lot of problems like "aha, if I use this register for this value, it saves 2 extra cycles!".

My code's here: https://github.com/ekimekim/gb_music_video, and you can get a finished demo rom (which doesn't actually use any of the graphics stuff due to lack of assets) here: https://ekimekim.itch.io/steamed-hams-but-it-plays-on-a-game...

I should note that the technique I used for audio on the Gameboy was taken from this excellent video: http://tasvideos.org/5384S.html
Then the focus should be on making it harder for liars to win.
With full snark intended: "Yeah, just ask Kalanick."
You claimed that you could prove that drivers couldn't choose their own hours. I didn't see anything in your links that indicated this was the case. Please point me to it if it exists.

The only data point I have is a sample of about 200 drivers in the US. I have not heard a single one say that they can't choose their own hours and everyone that has said anything about choosing their hours has said they like their ability to choose when they work. (One did say that he has to be careful not to be lazy since he can decide if he goes to work that day or not.)
Just curious, was the word pronounced the same way as today when they picked the planet's name? Or was it picked by non-English speaking people?
Yes, serving warrants and raiding gang houses is what the STG normally do in their jobs as Armed Offenders Squad officers. They're the same officers. The equipment is exactly the same. It just means it's the top few officers who get to train with the SAS.

We don't have a separate military police force in New Zealand.
> local Universe

What? What's the alternative of non-local universe that Hubble could possibly see?
Currently we have federated search, like BitTorrent, except we have a public standard[1] for allowing anybody to create a search engine that plugs into the client. Every search engine has their own policies and methods for moderation. It's similar to choosing between Google and DDG in your browser.

[1] https://github.com/OpenBazaar/obips/blob/master/obip-0002.md
Ask any Daewoo owner.