skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We all know dozens if not hundreds of engineers were very well aware of the vulnerability and even brought it to management attention multiple times to basically he told to f-off since it wasn't costing the company any money.

Meanwhile those managers collect ludicrous bonuses.
Note that OpenBazar is not a website. It's open source software you download to your machine and it connects you directly to the network. There is no company or organization running a server that is hosting stores; it's completely distributed.
"Personally, the thought that no matter what steps I take there’s always going to be people who think my research will harm them is profoundly distressing, and feels really unfair."

Duh. That's the case of almost every very high professional job on this planet. Almost nobody cares. Almost everybody stays in their own little belief. Few try to learn. Even less will admit they were once wrong.

Tell people humanity has been modifying all kinds of life forms for thousands of years and they are flabbergasted. When you tell them it's about selecting plants and breeding dogs or cattle they tell you 'it's not the same', because it was a slower process.

They're scared we are going to mess up evolution and then tell us to stop playing god. Kinda paradoxal.
Admits it is vital research but "constantly confronting people who think my research will harm them is profoundly distressing." This is a very personal decision, but I'm glad for those who continue on despite the misguided activism. Imagine if vaccine researchers quit because of the unpleasantness caused by anti-vaccine activists.
I see no proof of that.
They also reported 11B in revenue and 2B in income, those numbers factor in more then just the balance sheet.
All great, but is there no money to be made? Did you guys build this out of the kindness of your heart?
Anyone else got that horrible pop up on the side asking to rate the article?
Consider galaxy 1, from visible matter, we might expect rotation curve A, but we see curve B.

Explanation 1: MOND -- modified gravity at that scale, just works differently than we guessed.

Explanation 2: Dark Matter

Now this is galaxy 2, and from visible matter, we expect rotation curve B, and we get rotation curve A!

So no, if it's just visible matter interacting w/ a modified version of gravity, it should predict consistent rotation curves. But we see two types. Thus it is directly problematic for MOND.
As other posters have pointed out, did the ads say 3 years’ experience in a similar job - or 3 years’ experience with a particular language, framework or platform?

Even if someone has a Bachelors in CS, I wouldn’t hire for an entry-level C++ gif without 3 years’ experience with the language: I expect them to pick it up during their time in academia - especially as many (of the best) start coding in high-school or earlier. So in fact, I’d be alarmed if an applicant with a CS degree didn’t claim at least 3 years experience with a common instructional language like Java.
I’ve looked, and I manage a relatively large Facebook ad budget so I know exactly what is and is not possible to do through it. I’ve also been both advertising and writing software that interacts with both the ad API and the graph API since the beginning of both. What is being claimed in the media simply isn’t possible to do today. I’ve seen the term “audience of one” thrown around so much it makes me sick.

So yes, the story is fraudulent. The (years old) data that Kogan scraped and sold to CA years after the fact could possibly be used in aggregate to formulate campaign strategy (although because of its age even that use wouldn’t have been very effective). It couldn’t be used to target specific individuals or anything resembling that. If you’re saying they were able to target zip codes heavily populated by people in a given political party sure, they could. But that’s not remotely close to what is being described in the articles.

Also, since you and your friends at the Guardian are implying that they used this data in other ways, see here:

https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/20/17138854/cambridge-analyt...

Even that part of your/their narrative is inaccurate.
Close, but it’s food producers who buy organic and non-gmo certifications which additionally makes them jump through a couple arbitrary hoops to make it seemingly mean something.
"1 vs l" distinction isn't very clear in the mono version --- wouldn't that be a deal-breaker for a code font?
> And that is why you never let such data off your premises in the first place.

I find it a much more defensible policy to not collect such data in the first place. Regardless of who you share it with, the fact that you have the data trove is dangerous enough.
Lots of F500 companies raid the infrastructure budget to fund application development because it drives revenue. It's rare to find one that funds infrastructure the way a software company would.

Crap like 10+ year old servers, operating systems, etc, is rampant.

Similar for desktops. There's pressure to hold back on Windows version upgrades because "we can't divert app team resources to test if the app runs okay on that..." Or just plain raiding the refresh budget altogether. Or, "the app/business team needs admin logins because reasons, so back off infrastructure guy".

Fortunately, cloud seems to be a good solution to the mess. You're forced to deal with (at least some basic) tech debt.
My ratio for applications to offers, over 20 years and 7 jobs, is less than two. My last job search lasted 12 hours, from start of search, to signing a contract. I've explained to people in the past that I'm extremely selective about applying. I only apply to jobs I think I would love, where I can clearly communicate why I'd be a great hire. I'm sensitive to early red flags, and avoid job descriptions that don't make sense or have contradictory reqs. I also have only worked in Boston and Seattle, two of the very hottest markets.
Well, then you encounter problems with things like the triangulum Galaxy. Which has dark matter, but no supermassive black hole.
If the buyer leaves a review after making a purchase, that's effectively a small proof of work in and of itself, and you can only leave one review per purchase.

We haven't seen review bombing attempted yet, but if someone were willing to pay a bunch of fees then I suppose it is possible to do.
Interesting religion you belong to there...
I used to work on email archival. Anyone who says they’re passionate about that is either lying or doped up on barbiturates.
In theory, yes. In practice...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/bethhoffman/2013/07/02/gmo-crop...
What's the difference between the two things you described?

To my understanding, the two options you gave are the same: Dark matter is a hypothesized form of matter which does not interact with normal matter or light (i.e. It can't be seen).
Their statements aren’t unique to tech. 3+ years of experience were not restricted to three years -with a technology-. I saw the same shit back when I was doing healthcare QI, and there is no tech to speak of there.

In fact, they stated nothing to suggest they were looking at tech firms specifically. You seem to be reading into this what you want to see.
This is a meaningless distinction. It's like saying two files with idential content and checksum are different because one file was written by Vim and the other by Emacs.
I think you fail to understand how a typical special counsel investigation works.

So the fact that there are no indictments regarding to collusion to Russia at this point in time means absolutely nothing. But if there still are no such indictments when it is all over it would be safe to conclude there was no such thing.
Please keep in mind when using Qube OS is that it does NOT protect you if your hardware is compromised. The NSA and other clandestine agencies have an easy backdoor to your computer even when running this.
I think it's more the case that typical e.g. VPS setups introduce state where you shouldn't have state at all.

Web servers for example should typically have minimal state for scalability and robustness but for most VPS setups this is not the case. If the VPS got wiped it could take days of work to get up and running again, and if you wanted to scale horizontally you'll have some reengineering to do. You could try and replicate something like Heroku yourself to minimise state on your web servers but it'll take you a lot of time and won't be as robust.
Looks like a really neat approach to an uncensored social network.
You'd be hard pressed to find anyone who's immediate reaction to that story is not "what the hell did you expect was going to happen, that's on you", regardless of where the blame philosophically lies.

Thievery happens, it's happened since the dawn of time and will happen up until the end. To not be aware of this is your fault. In my opinion arguing otherwise is like arguing the sea is to blame for destroying your house, when you built it unprotected on a beach.
We've accepted trusted computing as a society, many phones have a secure element now, and I think this can migrate down to that level.

That's the real trade-off: we reclaim ownership of our data with knowledge of where it goes and who's using it for what, but that means a full embrace of DRM (something our community has typically been against.)
Unless they really want to play chicken over something that is clearly an unreasonable interpretation of the rules, I doubt it.

Using the GDPR to go after one big player that seriously screwed up is one thing. I certainly wouldn't be comfortable if I held Facebook stock right now.

But going after all the big players, just for not complying with something that is probably impractical for any of them to comply with, is something else entirely. How long do you think public sentiment is going to support government regulators and the GDPR if the likes of Facebook, Google Mail, WhatsApp, Instagram and SnapChat all go dark across the EU for an hour, or a day, or a week?
I don't know if my music profile is somehow... weird, but i get a lot of random movies and audio books, mostly long (1-3 hours) and old (~1900-1940s). Not what i expected, but i actually found some interesting stuff. Thanks!
Id say most didn't have any years listed. They just ask for a degree + experience in pretty basic stuff.

A couple asked for 1+

One said 0-3 years
>ultimately I strongly believe the benefits of free trade significantly outweigh the few people who abuse it.

Why?
The "occupation". There are 1.8+ billion muslims in the world. Who is occupying whom.
No money to be made via the protocol itself, true.

But we obviously hope that OpenBazaar becomes widely adopted and we then have a large group of people to sell (optional!) services to.

We (the company I co-founded, OB1) already have a search engine for the network and a verified moderators service that helps people know who to trust on the network. As the network grows there will be other services to offer.
Falsehoods Programmers Believe (2015)
> "collusion with Russians to interfere wit US elections."

While others may make that claim, and it would be included in the scope of the investigation, that's not its only remit. Nor, from my reading, does 'jacquesm make that claim. But he can argue his case better than I.
There is a dichotomy in real cost/benefit ratio for PoW systems as spam control between real users and attackers. Attackers have more to gain from accepting the PoW penalty than users do. There is no difficulty of PoW that would both deter attackers with a financial motive and be reasonable for average users.
> How about "contains genetic modifications that are strictly Copyright (C) Mother Nature"

Plants have been patentable since 1930 [1]. In 1970, the Congress gave breeders "up to 25 years of exclusive control over new, distinct, uniform, and stable sexually reproduced or tuber propagated plant varieties" [2]. IP concerns and GMO are orthogonal issues, as non-GMO varieties have been patented.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant_Patent_Act_of_1930

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant_Variety_Protection_Act_o...
Ok, let’s look at an example of illegal and immoral. What will you do when people sell child porn on your platform?
I find the whole GMO debate to be depressingly asinine.

There's a very good concern, which is seldom raised clearly -- if Monsanto patents the genomes that we need to feed the planet, then that is likely to be very harmful for the development of the poorer half of the world.

But there's simply no credible concern at this point about "genes escaping from one plant to another". There are mechanisms by which gene transfer can occur between bacteria and viruses, but there is no mechanism by which a gene could get from maize to a weed.

I hear complaints mostly about the latter, and seldom about the former -- but note that the former concern could be ameliorated by having governments or other public institutions do the research, and either hold the patents or just make them available for all.
Really leading the way with their compensation. You can tell they take security seriously.
Thanks! Good luck
How does the recent FOSTA legislation square with this distributed network?

I presume that it works similar to the BitTorrent network where there are nodes and supernodes? I also assume that if someone creates a listing, it gets distributed automatically to many different nodes on the network.

So if that's the case, and an illegal sex trafficking listing gets created, how do you ensure that innocent nodes or supernodes on the network don't become liable for the criminal listings that may inevitably popup?
They all do. I have Canadian friends I know from all the parties working on campaigns. They're basically Americans, just looking for career opportunities. They are not foreign agents with a foreign agenda, and this is not the scandal you are making it out to be.
I believe the "octane" of normal vs. dark matter explains in part the difference shape / sizes of galaxies.
Is it wrong that I feel glad they failed?
Yes, but since there is no public evidence, and no indictments, why is the mainstream media pumping this russia fear narrative non-stop for the last 18 months? That's the topic of this thread. Why is everyone so damn sure of the truth when there is no evidence or charges?

You said in this thread:

> You're aware that a whole bunch of people have already been indicted and have admitted guilt?

No they haven't.
Not to mention there is a whole class signalling aspect to interships. I remember a getting an internship in college with a large defense contractor and them not seeming to understand I needed to know what the exact pay was. As much as I would have liked to play that “cool” I still needed to pay my own rent.
> Plant patents predate GMO (like 50 years)

Huh, didn't know--thank you. Plants have apparently been patentable since 1930 [1]. In 1970, the Congress gave breeders "up to 25 years of exclusive control over new, distinct, uniform, and stable sexually reproduced or tuber propagated plant varieties" [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant_Patent_Act_of_1930

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant_Variety_Protection_Act_o...
You don't consider it at all possible that "because privacy" is the PR spin on it?

When iAd launched, it required mid six digit buys for ads. Users complained that they only would see the same half-dozen ads. Over the course of the next two years, that was steadily reduced, low six digits, fifty thousand, and the complaints stayed the same.

Before iAd shut its doors, you could get ad buys for a minimum of _fifty dollars_.

I tend to be a bit skeptical that instead of the platform being a failure, Apple realized after a few years of cutting buy prices that "hey, privacy is important".

That sounds a lot more like a PR soundbite.
> Microsoft is coming back in a big way though.

Really? They still have corporate desktops and cheap skanky laptops (for some reason), but azure is not a challange to AWS, they aren't in the media business, the home market is being chipped away, where are they doing better now then they were 12 months ago?
It's possible, but I think it's worthwhile to examine the intuitions that so many people have that leads them to dismiss the notion of dark matter, or at least the more "exotic" sounding theories like WIMPs.

We know that every particle we've been able to track down and verify the existence of responds to the gravitational force. We also know that some particles (like neutrinos) have virtually no interaction with anything other than gravitational force, to the point where the vast majority of them will pass through the entire earth undetected and having virtually no effect on anything or anyone.

The notion of particles that are even harder to detect than neutrinos doesn't seem that absurd. It's kind of anthropocentric to assume that most of the mass in the universe is going to be the same kind of mass that we are, or that we are at least capable of easily observing.

And think about what it would imply if there were no dark matter. It would almost imply that, as of the late 20th century, humanity finally had a basic comprehension of all of material existence.

The universe that humanity understood before Copernicus and Galileo is less than 1% of what we can see now. If our math is right and there really is enough dark matter and dark energy to throw off our models, then the universe we can see now is about 5% of everything that exists. That seems pretty plausible for a civilization that can barely get out of its own atmosphere.
I think that's likely. But the people tasked to solve these problems aren't always given the right priorities. Detecting/classifying the faces of dark-skinned humans is inextricably more complicated than it is with light-skinned humans. It requires significantly more training data, more computational power, and more testing time to reach the same accuracy as a light-skin-only camera and classifier.

We would deride Uber's self-driving vehicles if it turns out their systems can't tell the difference between harmless (plastic bags) and dangerous (jaywalkers, wildlife) objects on the road. Likewise, we can judge a company for releasing a general consumer webcam that fails to fully function for 10-15% of the American population.
Hopefully your downvote is some due to automated mechanism.

Complete shot in the dark-time.

Since many say that Russia is behind Wikileaks and Russia said they would respond to the diplomat expulsion.. Russia somehow pressured Ecuador into cutting his internet to trigger Assange's dead mans switch?
You are missing the point. The article is not referring specifically to tech jobs.
Monsanto released Roundup-Ready Soybean in 1996 to INCREASE herbicide use, without affecting crop yield [1]

Programs like Bt-corn reduce pesticide use... by making the plant produce the herbicide in the fruit. So, instead of being able to peel or rinse fruit (with varying results), you're eating corn kernels that have pesticide on the inside.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetically_modified_soybean
RequireJS has this too.
Or just use Qubes on Tor
This is a sad result of people's rightful and fully earned suspicion of large corporations and the food industry. How many times have new products been introduced, people assured they're safe, and later we find they cause cancer, or men to grow breasts, or children to lose IQ points? The number of these stories that implicate the chemical industry are nearly countless.

Thus, when new techniques are introduced to agriculture, people become immediately suspicious that they are going to be poisoned so that someone can make a few extra bucks. The difference here is that most of the tweaks GMO scientists are making have well understood results as they produce well studied biological components. However, the protestors are not wrong that the same techniques can be used for good or ill. Science suffers as a result of the incentives of our economic system that prioritize profit over health and safety. Unfortunately, this comes at the expense of the world wide poor over the middle class of the rich world.

If a different system of research and production was instituted that focused on non-profit incentives, I imagine the reaction would be different. The criticism these scientists are facing is not necessarily scientifically grounded, but it is rationally based on a long history of consumers being exploited.

EDIT: A point was made in another comment that malnutrition is not primarily a technological problem these days, it's one of distribution. However, I don't see anything wrong with increasing yields from existing agriculture. Under a non-capitalist system, it would allow us to reclaim part of the environment for nature. Under a capitalist system, it means additional overproduction.
> Nevertheless, my time in GMO research creating virus-resistant plants has meant dealing with the overwhelming negative responses the topic evokes in so many people. These range from daily conversations halting into awkward silence when the subject of my work crops up, to hateful Twitter trolls, and even the occasional fear that public protesters might destroy our research.

Do any folks working at social media or adtech firms feel the same way, out of interest? Curious if the recent CA scandals have caused an uptick in confrontational behavior.
How does one searching for an entry level job do this?
The law can and does make this sort of distinction.

http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23
I think there are lots of problems with GM stuff. It all starts with 'We have only one earth'. The vacuum of space combined with the stickiness of matter isolates biological systems very well. So if someone would start a genetically modified plant series on some space station or distant planet I would have much less of a problem with that.

Second, I have got the feeling that many people who experiment with genetic manipulation don't know what they are actually doing. Yes, they might know it on a high-level perspective and for experiments that is fine, but as long as we can't simulate even single cells its is hard to tell that we know what we are doing.

As a computer scientist it feels to me like someone is patching the binaries of 'grep' and 'cp' together and hopes to use the resulting binaries to build autonomous drones. It is just irresponsible to use the results are long as the have only one petri dish which is actually the one we are living in.

So don't get me wrong, I am completely pro research, but also completely against usage outside of laboratories. There might be exceptions to that rule when it comes to 'specific modification' as you call it, but for me it ends where you could not achieve the same result with a handful of normal breeding cycles.