skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If one single judge would not give them a free pass, I think we would see a sea change in how computer security is handled across the industry. Put one CEO in prison for criminal negligence after a breach when it is found that they hired cheap, inexperienced, tiny staffs, overloaded them with work, and then ignored absolutely every warning they gave about insecure practices. Every company does this. It's how IT works in the modern world. Hire "engineers" as inexperienced and cheap as possible, give an MBA all the actual say in scheduling and release dates, and constantly complain about the technology that makes their business possible is too expensive.

It's amazing the effect a CEO locked in a cage for a few years like an animal has on the population of CEOs as a whole. Treat digital infrastructure like we treat real infrastructure. If people built bridges the way we build software infrastructure, rafts of executives would be rotting in prison.
This was also my method, and the way that works best for me for learning things in general (i.e. a new programming language, etc).

I would also add fix stuff to that list. You can learn a ton by fixing broken electronics (or trying to) as it forces you to learn how they work.
I have similar experience with SanDisk and Samsung EVO+. 9 Pi's (not raspberry) running continuously for ~2 years. No kernel panics/PostgreSQL failures. I run with data checksuming enabled. I also disabled options in PostgreSQL that cause periodic and unnecessary write activity.

Frequent regular updates, periodic database activity (web scraping, environment monitoring, ...). Running on F2FS.

I have logical replication setup in PostgreSQL, because I don't trust the SD cards anyway, but I have had no issues so far.
+1 for EEVBlog, he's an ex-EE who brings a ton of experience to a bunch of interesting areas.

As someone who's self-taught I found that the Art of Electronics was fantastic once I had enough basics. It may require a couple reads as it's quite dense but everything in there is solid gold.
> s HN turning into an anti-Facebook echo chamber? I

I've been here 3-4 years, and Fb (and Uber) have a special level of hatred here. If my first job had been at facebook I'd have stayed off here because I'd have found the toxicity impossible to take.

On the other hand, people fall over themselves to defend Elon Musk for doing pretty much the same thing Uber did: Kill a person due to misleading marketing, enforced by a statement with more misleading stuff.
FCC approves SpaceX plan for satellite broadband network
Oh hi co-worker of my old friend Ken :)
It's like saying free/easy dollar reproduction would make the world better.
Here's a really nice entry-level soldering station that's not hundreds of dollars:
https://www.amazon.com/Hakko-FX888D-23BY-Digital-Soldering-S...

Also, get a Soldapullt.

This is a plenty good enough multimeter: https://www.amazon.com/Fluke-101-Multimeter-Equipment-Indust...

Most importantly: Your first oscilloscope should be analog.

You don't need fancy test equipment with a zillion features, but it's especially important for a beginner to have well-made and properly-functioning test equipment. You need to be able to trust the readings even if you do something silly with it.
Do you have any examples of such questions asked in the past... let’s say four years?

The problem with recommendation questions is that they are very time consuming to keep curated and useful. You’ll inevitably have 50 answers of which 20 are duplicates and difficult to delete because of up votes on them.

The community moderation for “just close them quickly” is much less than the community moderation necessary to curate them.

Anyways, https://www.slant.co is set up to do recommendations better than stack overflow could conceivably do. Not all questions are best asked on stack overflow.
> all of this information was on file, and accessible, and relatively well-known

But there is a big difference between having information at your fingertips in a searchable database, and having to go to a library and do the searching manually.

Perhaps google could provide the information after the user solved 1000 captchas :)
It's Not a ‘Mind-Reading Machine,’ but a New Neuroprosthesis Gets Pretty Close
You've highlighted one of the primary challenges with such a filesytem. Determining what files have been modified as a _meaningful user action by the user_ (determined by the user thinking it was meaningful) and _what changed_ would be a very hard, but incredibly valuable problem for the user.

I think fundamentally the success and adoption of a timeline-oriented filesystem leans on new user experiences that have yet to be designed.
Wow I had no idea to even look for different NAND geometries for SD cards! More expensive obviously but probably well worth it.
Thanks for the replies and the links. Makes sense. Cheers.
super rare. race organizers hate paying for anything they don't absolutely have to, and the national anti-doping organizations don't test amateurs. The rules packets for most amateur races say no doping allowed, and threaten random testing, but in reality it never happens.
>Why should people have the right to have things they don't like wiped from the historical record?

Because a judicial process made that determination. Random people don't decide anything, they petition.

As an aside, there absolutely nothing journalistic about an advertising company like Google.

>This "right to be forgotten" seems incredibly dangerous to me.

It doesn't seem like that to me at all. The purpose is also to protect victims of revenge porn, or victims of slanderous propaganda, who have no other recourse.
When I said "convenient to handle", I was thinking, small enough to sit on top of my desk, lightweight enough so I can carry it without breaking a sweat (the cheesegrater is really heavy!), that sort of thing.
Another similar situation where autopilot may fail. It sees a ball rolling across the street. Will it slow down, because a child maybe chasing the ball.
It's data breaches all the way down, and there's only so many hours in the day. I choose to worry about just two:

* The OPM breach: https://www.opm.gov/cybersecurity/cybersecurity-incidents

* Equifax: https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/blog/2017/09/equifax-data-breac...

In both cases the amount of data leaked per person is huge, way more than just an email address or credit card number. And in both cases there was no way for customers to opt out of their data being gathered. Those two characteristics seem related. The most valuable data isn't going to be somewhere that is subject to regulations like GDPR. And it's going to be running on the same insecure stacks and practices as everything else we see. If we want to plug holes, these are the sorts of places where we need to begin. Facebook is a child's bagatelle in comparison. MyFitnessPal doesn't even register.
You can see if they send anything via ajax... this would be easy to detect.
There's the 'American Weightlifting Federation' which was created primarily so the founder could slam barbells.
Sure, the cooling thing I suspected, only because of reading about space suits a long time ago. Are there no lasers that don't require cooling?

Of course this is all theory, doesn't every good solution start with a theory, then a poorly functioning prototype before you ever get something truly useful?
Yes. Indian constitution discriminates based on religion when it comes to running schools and other edu institutions.

Article 30 gives special rights to christians and muslims and subsequent amendment 93 also gives right to occupation to minorities but not to Hindus and Jews. RTE was deemed unconstitutional even in the light of Article 30 in TMA Pai vs State of Karnataka thus giving rise to 93rd ammendment.

> If I am not mistaken, Sindhis run their own colleges in Mumbai under these minority rights.

You are most certainly mistaken.

States can only declare linguistic minorities. Religious minorities are determined by a body called NCMEI. NCMEI by law can not have a Hindu as its member as a result a body that comprises of Muslims and Christians gets to decide if a Hindu school in Mizoram can start a school and avail minority benefits. They have categorically refused to do so in Kashmir, Nagaland and in Kerala so far.
Couple devil's advocate points on what ISPs can do to get encrypted traffic, since they are your network gateway there is more instilled trust:

- ISP offered 'apps'. Get people to agree to an install of some monitoring app for some [insert random marketing benefit] from ISP. Maybe if you install the app you get more data cap space etc and they can monitor browser access. Further, install this in known apps or as add-ons on setup for other apps.

- ISP offered 'VPN client' that again, gives some cheaper monetary benefit like more data cap space or more speed 'free', strips out other advertising or tracking as a benefit.

- ISP offered 'email client' that does all of the above.

- Check for subsequent request after page loads to known ad networks and replace with their own in HTTPS

- ISPs like you said may start throttling encrypted content down, or charging extra to allow it.

- ISP level proxy MITM, modem customization for 'fast lanes' that are actually slow lanes.

- DNS level data collection not to inject but to sell marketing profiles via metadata and correlate with other data from apps.

Since ISPs are your 'gateway' to the internet and you pay them, most people assume trust and privacy, most don't know they bribed their way into the tracking/ad business, many didn't know cable tv modems had mics either. With that assumption of trust since people are paying them, they'll more easily fall for any of the possible attack/tracking vectors listed and more probably.

With the ISP privacy protections removed [1], my guess is most ISPs, due to lack of competition, end up more like hotel wifi where tracking/injection is the norm [2] as it is completely legal now. With the removal of privacy protections and net neutrality, we have killed the pristine, non tracked, private gateways to the internet we cherish.

[1] https://www.flake.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2017/3/flake-i...

[2] https://medium.com/@nicklum/my-hotel-wifi-injects-ads-does-y...
Permanence of data in an imperfect world where authority is interested in punishment and oppression is dangerous.
Yep it took Google/Waymo 8 years to get there but Musk and Uber just wants to move fast and crash into things. Musk wouldn't be selling self-driving since Oct'16 if it's not any day now or would he ?
I think I speak for everyone that we really appreciate what you did share here.

For how to use what you've shared if we trust you, can you throw us a bone more than:

>buy 'industrial' SD cards

For example can you name a specific card? Or give us enough clues that we can do so?

I for one take your advice very seriously but I don't know how to use what you've just shared. I've seen ATM-style Pi-based kiosks with corrupted SD cards that wouldn't boot. It looked expensive.
Announcing Tower – A library for writing robust network services with Rust
Nuclear weapons didn't stop wars, and they didn't stop major powers from fighting each other. It just moved to proxy wars. Proxy wars have been common for a long time. Maybe they've stopped world wars, but maybe the two World Wars were exceptions and not a guaranteed feature. I don't know how to quantify whether there are greater or fewer armed conflicts between states since the invention of nuclear weapons.
In other words an old ambiguous parsing problem.

It might be fixable in software. I'm a bit annoyed at Tesla for over reliance over painted lines. They fade, they can be covered, be outdated ..

That old fail video of a SDV stuck inside a circle is not funny anymore.
eventually we just need to accept that a much greater depth of history is index searchable and adjust our actions, attitudes & judgments accordingly. Enshrining the old ways in rigid laws and bureaucracy is not going to work.
Backpage.com seized by U.S. justice authorities
> how did this become a thing?

Google is a foreign corporation to Europeans so it sounds scarier and more sinister to the general public. Politicians take advantage of that to demagogue so they pass harsh laws to show that they are doing something against the scary foreigners.
How to have your best idea ever…before you even get out of bed
Like the "learn scrum by cleaning your apartment" example? Give me a real world example of this working please. If it's worthwhile there must be a case study to build from.
Redesigning the Uber Pickup Experience
I don't see how that would work on any kind of scale, but indeed you can use alternative keys if you really want to and know what you're doing.
I kept the money in kind. It was merely transferred from bank to bank.

FWIW I kept my BTC in kind as well.
I got my ham license because I loved electronics. I went to a local meeting, got a transceiver, and joined a local net. Then I realized I didn't really have anything to say over the radio to these people.

But the ARRL handbook is definitely a masterpiece.
Sure. You can print your own money for free and call it FakeDollar. Nobody will confuse it with the real thing
It's OK to burn yourself, just wear eye protection when you solder upside-down.
Yes, dqlite is currently used for clustering support in LXD 3.0: https://github.com/lxc/lxd
Thanks for answering!

I'm doing this tech side on my own, that's why Drupal 7 is a safe bet when starting out.

Your answer does point the way forward; let's see some real growth, then the team will make the tech choices!

Thanks again!
Google and Facebook both interact with Apple in a lot of ways. If Apple makes it an App Store policy they will have options in how to attack back.
Sorry, don't want to waste my time any further. Its obvious to me that you have zero actual evidence, and no knowledge of what was done, or what was overlooked. Goodbye.
Ancient Maya traded dogs for use in religious ceremonies, new study shows
I'm aware of this, however he specifically mentioned a weak sound in "sukiyaki" which is due to de-voicing the /i/.
I'm not intimately familiar with the various players in the storage market, but as an outsider I would guess that Western Digital must be doing alright. They could have, but didn't, break up the price-fixing ruling that market and taken it over handily if need be. Amazing that in 2018 it's still more expensive to get data storage on a dumb grid of NAND gates built out of common materials than it is to get it on hard drives infused with helium, sporting a high precision high speed motor, platters coated with rare materials, neodymium magnets, and, coming soon, lasers!
He just gave the whole gig up and adamantly refused to be pulled out of musical retirement. A couple of times a group I was involved with back in school (long time ago) got a professor who knew him very well to try to get him to do a concert but no dice.
We can call it FedBook.
Toyota would have a hard time driving their SUV to Area 51

It would probably not go over well if James Cameron broadcasted from directly under an American aircraft carrier, or next to a nuclear submarine

SpaceX put a camera up in orbit against the law. I suspect that NOAA was willing to look the other way when they did something borderline (2nd stage cameras), but now that they've pushed it too far they're not willing to cut them as much slack
thanks, what is the benefit of no caching then? seems fairly wasteful if you have an engine capable of rendering at frame rate already.
>Because ease of access makes all the difference,

But every inconvenience presents a business opportunity that will inevitably be seized upon so long as the information being sought after is still considered part of the public record. The public record consists of all information that the public has a right to know. A more honest solution would actually declare certain information privileged and make it illegal for websites to publicize it.
dead and gone my friend. deprecated.
It looks like you rewrote the tutorial to editorialize. That's against the site guidelines:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Hey, we got Wink, Hug, High Five, and Hello, in addition to Poke, didn't we? ;)
You have control over your data: you can choose whether GasBuddy has access to your location always, never, or only during use.

This is one case where iOS widgets can impact your privacy: setting it to 'only during use' also qualifies the widget to refresh your location when it displays. It's not obvious to me whether any access of the widget screen is sufficient or whether you have to scroll past/to the GasBuddy widget to explicitly trigger that.

Anyway, Apple has been a loud advocate for privacy, and its CEO has strong personal reasons for valuing it.
> If I sign in on my main account and reverse the mystery downvotes, I'm usually good from that point on.

That’s the type of thing that will get that account deleted for vote fraud and sock puppetry. At that point, all of the votes it cast will be invalidated and all of the people you’ve tried to help by casting upvotes on their questions in the effort to be nice will lose those votes and that rep.

That will leave a sour taste for many developers and will probably turn many of them away.
You _really_ control this. If you don't like Gas Buddy's privacy policy just don't install it.
Good call. Those are the most devastating by far because the first is effectively a bad mail database while the second destroys most forms of identity proofing for all time.

Though it's unfair calling the OPM incident a "breach" as management of the database was outsourced to an outsourcer to an outsourcer so the final party had full read/write access over it for potentially years. As I noted at the time, every clearance granted or denied during that period must be reviewed.[0]

0 - http://caseysoftware.com/blog/opm-background-check-hack-a-di... (I had a clearance previously so I was included in this one.)
Take a look at the 35mm section, that's explicitly not the conclusion of the article.

"The results are very impressive and from our comparisons we think scanned color slide film has a digital equivalent resolution of between 12MP and 24MP depending on what aspect you look at (12MP for overall sharpness appearance, 14-16MP for luminosity resolution, and 24MP for color resolution). These figures are estimates based on a good Imacon or Drum scan and would be even higher for projected or enlarged images."

So you're basically reading that and going, well I think I'm right anyway.
Interactive Git rebase with non-interactive editing
Why wouldn't you trust him?
Yes, SD cards are garbage. eMMC is far, far superior.
It is more of a problem if you want to run the VPN on your router upstream of your devices, which simplifies management and ensures all devices are protected from ISP snooping, including devices where I don't control the software like a Chromecast.

I had to disable router-level vpn for exactly this reason, which is frustrating.

Amusingly enough, when I did have it on, my Chromecast showed weather data for the vpn endpoint so it's using IP-based geolocation for weather. It could be smarter.
SBFT: A Scalable Decentralized Trust Infrastructure for Blockchains
This is incorrect. As soon as you place your deposit, you're in the queue. The queue tool didn't exist until roughly Summer 2017, but deposits started March 2016. There was a period of more than a year where everything was opaque.
http://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2018/02/01/in-r... is an interesting look at how Rust's ownership system lets you treat the standard collections as values.
Volvo's tech hasn't killed anyone yet.
Tsk, tsk!

So Israel's getting tense. Wants one in self-defense.

"The Lord's our shepherd," says the psalm, but just in case, we'd better get a bomb!
The difference between this drive and Optane isn't huge. It is faster on a lot of benchmarks, competitive on others, and only is behind on two latency tests.
> help evil people hide their true nature

I doubt there's anyone who decides "Imma be evil" or realizes it of themselves to such an extent. If you believed you were evil, wouldn't you want to change it? Even terrorists don't think they're evil.
Changelog (latest changes on top):

* fix issue where "Marvin" autopilot keeps complaining (rip out voicebox)

* Boost intelligence of "Marvin" autopilot. This car now has the brain the size of a planet.

* test new smarter "Marvin" autopilot
Speaking of rhyme, I mutilated it, didn’t I? It should be «So Israel’s getting tense, wants one for self defense...»

I haven’t listened to that song in months; think I’ll put it on now. (My absolute Lehrer favourite, together with Wernher von Braun, National Brotherhood Week and New Math)
I've actually always rather liked "oldies" (which I guess is still a specific genre category). The better Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, etc. is still good music.
Socioeconomic sorting at the metropolitan level is making America more polarized
Could you cite a source on that, please? The only articles I can find talking about it start in Summer 2017.
We've never met, but I believe you owe me about $17,000 in quarters, with interest. :)

Now if I can only hunt down those bastards who made Tempest, Qix, and Galaga...
The developer doesn't get to choose not to support 'Never' and with iOS 11 doesn't get to choose not to support 'While using' either. It maybe though that the app can't work without knowing your location, which sounds likely for an app that is supposed to tell you something related to your location.
IIRC, red laser light can cause some glow in the dark materials to lose charge more rapidly, so you could potentially build a wiping mechanism that would allow you to display information faster on the barrel.
Alternative?

What makes you think they don't already do both?
Install, Configure PyFilter to Control Illegitimate SSH Login Attempts
ATP Inc. has treated us very well, both their products and their support.

But in general 'industrial' is the keyword to get the good shit from manufacturers who'll treat you like an adult.
SpaceX applied for these licenses in the past, so someone knew about them. Either they lost some institutional knowledge due to attrition or miscommunication, they didn't think the law applied to these particular cameras, or someone thought they could get away with it.
The location is the end of some tidal flow lanes rejoining the main freeway lanes with an unusual configuration of lane markings and barriers. I drive past the spot all the time and can totally see a computer messing up here.
It's pretty amazing. 4 albums that are 50 to 60 years old at this point.
Why wouldn't they be deleted? They were stuffed with bot complaints, FCC could remove any and say it was a bot.
No, not really. SpaceX's usage is obviously far too trivial to trigger any of the concerns motivating the regulation.

BUT: Exhaustively specifying all possibilities in law is rather impossible, and any attempt would make legal texts even more verbose. Giving an agency the leeway to waive regulations on a case-by-case basis may however appear (or be) arbitrary. Although I suspect the latter may still happen once the agency has had more than three days to think about it.

Otherwise, it may just be preferable for SpaceX to spend a few hours submitting the application. It's really not rocket science.
Maybe Facebook knows. That's the problem with God Mode.
Your getting downvoted, but you can do this without advocating actual piracy.

The Saleae hardware doubles as a license for the software. Using a "knock off" with open source free software is perfectly fine.

https://sigrok.org/ Is a great tool that works with a great selection of hardware. Including most of the knockoffs.
Twtter: Backpage.com  has been seized
On a thread yesterday, I saw someone post a link to convox. I could have sworn I saw a Heroku migration guide on their site, I even see one linked from their blog. But it just goes to the getting started section.

At any rate, convox looks to be pretty decent and perhaps might be nice for Heroku looking to migrate to something like AWS

Edit: link is convox.com