skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And, if you are interested in ethics rather than loopholes, things like k-anonymity are not properties of datasets but of datasets with respect to an assumed corpus of other information. You have to consider how this new data could be integrated with other previous or future data releases and what level of anonymity remains after that integration.

Eventually, if you work this analysis through sincerely enough, you will probably abandon all hope of maintaining k-anonymity in real data management practices. Then, you face your real ethical decision as you either drastically restrict the data or turn to lawyers and loopholes to assuage your guilt as you continue with the naive levels of protection demanded by your application and organization...
The last time I looked into power supplies they were somewhat cost prohibitive for my twice a year hardware project habit. Have things changed? Are there some good bang for your buck supplies that can be had for a couple hundred bucks or so?
Just found this http://www.htaccesstools.com/articles/password-protection/ and it reminded me of this post.
Its encouraging to be reminded that still not everyone who uses Apple hardware runs MacOS exclusively.

https://sivers.org/openbsd

http://www.sacrideo.us/openbsd-on-macbook/

However I have not heard any reports of anyone running an alternative OS on iPhone or iPad hardware.

With every passing year I continue to think it would be interesting to observe how users would choose if Apple hardware and Apple software were sold separately.

Would all users choose Apple software?

Expecting to take a little karma subtraction from the thought police for daring to entertain such a nonpermissible idea. Par for the course here and well worth it.
If you are specifically searching for child molesters, you can find that information in other databases without necessarily searching for specific names. If it really matters, e.g. for a job, you'd want to be checking their criminal record, not google.

If someone searches for your name, google has no way of determining if they are looking for your LinkedIn profile or reports of alleged criminal activity from you, nor does it have journalistic resources to determine if said reports are accurate or to edit them in light of new data.

It's already possible to game google into indexing fake testimonials for scam purposes, as well as push old results off with a barrage of recent activity. Bad actors can always find ways to misdirect and deleting is only but one way. Isn't it fine that delisting just remains astronomically more laborious to do as the volume of reports of badness increase?

Siding with google seems more like a passive aggressive way of getting an ego massage out of "punishing" things one does not like, but it kinda throws out the baby with the bath water.
Good luck, I'm behind seven proxies.
A Stroll Through the Minefields – Surviving the Startup ‘Ramp Up’
The TL;DR looks incorrect! It's Hugo that's beginner friendly, not Jekyll. I had tried Jekyll and Octopress in the past (many years ago) and gave up on static site generation after I couldn't get the Ruby dependency hell to get installed. With Hugo, I had my site running within an hour.

Along the same lines, I found the Go templating language very natural to pick up, probably because I am a Lisp afficionado.

And lastly, you have a typo in the list of markup languages supported for content; Mark -> MMark. And you missed out Org mode in that list.
There was an ISP called NetZero that used this business model to provide free dial up and I think later on, free DSL in the 2000s. So this isn't a new concept, except what everyone is saying they (the ISPs) are now doing it without any kind of exchange of value apparently.
I don't think Lehrer would be in bed with terrorists, the way Tim Minchin is.
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's a terrible leak of drone buyers' data
Actual page title: "Dietary trehalose enhances virulence of epidemic Clostridium difficile"

Submitting with a genericized title causes confusion with common consumer ASes like aspartame, sucralose, Ace-K, etc.

Submitted earlier with original title:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16778032
> I think 3 months is the expiration for unemployed meanderings to be fun.

I’ve spent longer periods of time doing fuck all earlier in life (college) and it was awesome. I could just hang around the house for the rest of my life and not get bored one bit.

> Humans are social creatures

While that may be true for the majority of people, it doesn’t apply to me. Being around humans makes me miserable. I like the idea of socializing, I see people having fun at social activities and that makes me want to spend time around people. But every time I do it’s just soooo boring. All I can think of is how I’d rather be at home, alone.
Is It Time to Give Up on Fish Oil?
Are your phone camera and microphone spying on you?
To keep things clear: the notation you'd typically want to use with IPA when taking about sounds (phones) is [e], as in this case, and use /e/ (with forward slashes) when taking about phonemes. Not to nitpick on you specifically, I see a lot of ad-hoc notations in these comments.
Dave Jones' EEvblog:

https://www.eevblog.com

Lots of really useful stuff, entertaining too. You'll have to pick through the videos, but it's all there.
It wouldn't be difficult to build a downloadable tool that kept your data on your own machine. RSS/Atom feeds + machine learning based on your own votes. You could integrate things like your email inbox and chats if you wanted to have a private timeline of what was going on in your life.

It would be a good Free software project.
This is far broader. No where in the Subscription Agreement[0] is the scope or the uses defined or limited. From what's written here, any form of information sent to Comcast in any way will can be stored and monitored for any purposes.

IANAL, but this seems like clever lawyering to make consumers think they're only referring to customer service calls.

[0]: https://www.xfinity.com/corporate/customers/policies/subscri...
...and if pre-1965 blacks wanted civil rights, they could get on the first flight to Africa.

Sometimes the law is just shit.
Agreed. The feds just destroyed what could have been their biggest ally against sex trafficking. Even if BackPage itself was not cooperative, the fact that the feds didn't have some sort of automated system that would scrape phone numbers/emails from this site, get warrants to monitor them, and then send humans to assist the girls and arrest the pimps, is unreal to me. They literally had a directory of sex trafficking victims and victimizers that has now been destroyed and pushed underground. This in no way fixed the problem, it just spread it out and made it orders of magnitude harder to deal with.

The larger issues surround freedom of speech and the protections that online service providers have. I would have expected this kind of thing to happen after FOSTA was officially signed into law, which hasn't happened yet. Apparently Michael Lacey, a cofounder of Backpage, has been criminally charged [1]. I don't know all the issues involved, but overall it's a scary day if you own a website that has anything to do with personal ads.

[1] https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-investiga...
I've got dozens of P/S from old computers that put out plenty of 5VDC as well as +/-12VDC. One good bench supply should be enough these days.
Steam in 2017
Take a deep breath and read the article.

The DOJ Child Exploitation department is driving this shutdown so lets see the charges and evidence before proclaiming overreach. If the shutdown is unlawful the owner will be able to sue for damages so I'm guessing the authorities likely have something more damning than a vetted escort service.
A girl I had a crush on talked about it because she was a psych major. Also, my iWatch does breathing exercises I use for meditation. I tried to use headspace but it didn't work.
Add an anti-static mat and wrist strap to that list!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16776932

200+ comments
stopped reading after the intro. this is a guy who is a self-proclaimed luddite and who likes to hear the sound of his own prophetic voice. i love how he emphasized his own words in a “callout”, immediately after the inline text. magazine style. sensible in magazine format. but in a blog? puh-leez.

his opinion is not worth debating, even if there is a kernel of truth there.
It was a joke. Great life coaching though.
Indeed. These satellites move which means the antenna dishes have to do so as well. Or they'll use phased arrays, and phased arrays are not consumer-cheap (yet).
Why AlphaGo Zero Is Not a Big Step Towards AGI
The earth loses mass in the form of leaked hydrogen and helium. Upwards of 100,000 tonnes each year just from that.
As much as I don't like this, a lot of people don't know how to acquire information online outside of google and Facebook.
Like it or not - this is how the slippery slope starts... With fanfare.
This is also one of the reasons I refuse to use Reddit’s mobile site, and instead choose to zoom and pan the desktop site on my phone. I’d imagine mobile is more profitable, seeing as users cannot use an ad-blocker within the native apps.
Bad QA :(.
Maybe so, but please don't post unsubstantive comments to HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The Tale of a 1986 Experiment That Proved Einstein Wrong
I got into electronics because I was too poor to afford the guitar effects pedals I wanted, so I set out to build my own. My intro book was Craig Anderton's "Electronics Projects for Musicians".

From there, an indespensible resource in my education was diystompboxes.com/smfforum (DIY electronics forum). Focus is on guitar effects, but there are people making amps, guitars, hi-fi, and digital gear as well. The community there has an excellent core of helpful veteran DIYers and engineers, and a strong culture of sharing and teaching.

The humble Fuzz Face is generally a "beginner" level project which you can get working in an afternoon, yet if you drill down into why it works you've got enough to chew on to fill 2 or 3 college courses (at least 1 of those being a "weed out" level course). This pedal was a staple of Jimi Hendrix, but he had a good ear and legend says he'd sort through boxes of them to find the good ones, because they varied a lot.
The reason they varied is because they were built around germanium transistors, which were low tolerance parts. And the circuit itself is really high gain and temperature sensitive and has all sorts of caveats around it.

So if you covet that Jimi Hendrix-quality Fuzz Face sound, you need to deep dive into things like measuring hFE and keeping wiring clean around high-gain circuits to keep from turning it into an oscillator (or a radio). There are numerous rabbit holes to explore, like "do old school resistors sound better?" or "what if I want to power it from a normal +9V power supply instead of a battery?"

Then you realize that turning the guitar's volume knob down causes the Fuzz Face to totally change character from racous fuzz into something like a Brian May-esque treble boost, and why the heck does that happen? It's because the input to the Fuzz is a low impedance relative to the guitar, and causes the (mostly inductive) guitar pickup to be heavily loaded at high frequencies, making the distortion smoother than it would otherwise be. So the guitar itself is part of the circuit, and inserting an active circuit (like another pedal) between the guitar and the Fuzz Face ruins everything!

So I guess my point is don't go into it with the generic goal of "learn electronics", instead have a specific goal like "make the best Hi-Fi system possible for my living room, for under $2000" or "make a quadcopter from scratch". Eventually you'll accumulate a ton of depth in a specific domain that you really care about, and you'll pick up general concepts along the way.
If you are on a shoestring budget, you can get many things for free/cheap.

Eg ask component manufacturers to send you samples, recycle electronics from things you or others throw away, etc.
I don't know if it's an issue with the rpi or not, but I know that SD cards can draw current in short spikes during writes and need a good supply with good decoupling capacitors so there's not voltage drops, as these can cause corruption. In an embedded device I've designed (with careful capacitor selection), I've very rarely had any SD card issues (3 corruption cases in ~1000 devices over a couple years). I'm using Sandisk and Samsung class 4, 6 or 10 (depending on availability).
Why does anyone need permission to deploy satellites? Governments want to regulate outer-space?
My first job was demo'ing VIC-20s at Macy's stores in the SF Bay Area when I was 13 (there was a group of us spread around to different malls). One of the features of the marketing package was to demonstrate CompuServe, The Source, and Dow Jones News Retrieval dialup services.

After the summer gig ended, the accounts still worked and that's how I got online for the first time, before BBSes.
No there isn’t. Where in the world can you select your ISP? in a meaningful way.
I spent quite a few years as an wide-band RF engineer and I still think it's black magic. If you're not being snobby, you can learn a lot from an experienced bench technician. If you want to get into RF electronics, you need specific features in your spectrum analyzer along with a very good return loss bridge at your target impedance.

I'm another fan of Horowitz and Hill's _The Art of Electronics_ - it's my go-to reference after 35 years in the business.
Who wants to bet that the names of critics have been put in a different database?
The link is to the report from permanent subcommittee on investigations, and is very illuminating.

I have a big problem with this FOSTA law been passed in the dark with provisions such as retroactive effect which is clearly unconstitutional and indicates shoddy workmanship. But there looks to have been a very serious problem at Backpage.
The same basic technique was used to study the prevalence of cocaine use in several European cities. They analyzed the level of drug metabolites in sewer water.

http://www.emcdda.europa.eu/topics/pods/waste-water-analysis...
That 2.5K limit is what inspired me to learn assembly and also the mindset of writing compact code.
A major difference is Iridium's 2.4kps which is nowhere near broadband, and no even dialup speed in the 90's.
I am not sure if I believe this, but the author had an interesting point:

"This dynamic seriously limits the pool of individuals who can successfully start companies to those who have higher risk profiles, can defer immediate financial gratification, and who are resourceful enough to make something with scant resources."

I think a lot of good entrepreneurs are risk averse. Meaning they find a good idea and validate it before going headlong into it.
I follow you on twitter and get excited whenever there is an update. but man you are very perfectionist

Thank you for the great work and can't wait for the next
Even if there is perfect enforcement of constraint criteria at deployment, code has been known to be changed after deployment. Sometimes.
Those are geostationary, these are not. So that's 'easy' as in 'a mere matter of engineering'. You will either have to track the satellite mechanically or by 'beam steering' aka phased arrays. Neither of those are trivial technology wise.
Nasim Aghdam, the YouTube Shooting, and the Anxiety of Demonetization
That link doesn’t support your contention Trump was personally responsible, in fact it says:

>It’s not fair to put all the blame on Trump for the four bankruptcies because he’s acting as any investor would. Investors often own many non-integrated companies, which they fund by taking on debt, and some of them inevitably file for bankruptcy, said Adam Levitin, a law professor at Georgetown University.

And basically supports what what I suggest:

>He added that people typically wouldn’t personally blame former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney or investor Warren Buffett for individual failures within their investment companies, Bain Capital and Berkshire Hathaway, respectively.

Despite the fact the guy pretends to be self-made (he isn’t), there is something to be said for someone who took a $10M loan from his father and turned it into a $1B+ Business empire. Sure there have been some individual business failures along the way (which his ego barely allows him to acknowledge), but it pretty funny SV with its ethos of not being afraid to fail and iterating, is so petty they extend 4 business bankruptcies (which were all chapter 11 reorganization’s) onto the man personally, but would never dare put that type of standard on SV investors (just as the article you linked suggests).
It's not shutting down backpage that is the critical issue. As an operating business there's zero question it should be shut down for the egregious trafficking crimes they commited and its executives prosecuted aggressively where possible.

The question is: whether adult sex worker sites in general should be legal. I think the answer to that is very clearly yes. If you allow the market for adult sex worker sites to exist, backpage becomes trivial to replace, the market will take care of that overnight.
First, this is somewhat ambitious...

Second, what's the purpose of this? I can imagine it'll be quite useful to BBG properties like Voice of America, RadioFreeEurope and generally US government PR/propaganda, but how am I supposed to not worry that this will be used for censorship via US-based companies and some future law combating "fake news" and/or "hate speech"?
> it's really hard to find reliable information as to what actually happens since the internet is filled with FUD websites claiming aspartame gave their brother/grandma/cat/chair cancer.

The burden of proof should probably be on the side of those asserting safety of novel food components, and if that means waiting a full generation for the data to come in, so be it (note that animal tests don't really tell us enough, because metabolism doesn't seem that well conserved between species; there are plenty of things that humans can eat safely that animals can't and vice versa)

Human metabolism and our food has coevolved over thousands of years, and we have evidence in the fossil record that shifts in diet (e.g. agriculture, pastoralism) had negative impacts on human health (worse teeth, shorter, weaker bones) until either our genomes or microbiomes adjusted.

If you decide to consume large quantities of novel ingredients in combinations that no humans have ever eaten before in our evolutionary history, then sure, it may turn out just fine—but metabolism is an intricate dance and there are a lot of ways to screw it up.

"Eat food, not too much, mostly plants." and "Don't eat anything your great grandmother wouldn't recognize as food." seem like sensible advice for people who can afford to follow it [1].

[1] https://www.webmd.com/food-recipes/news/20090323/7-rules-for...
The permission is for providing broadband services, which uses the regulated local radio spectrum.
Exact block size is not necessary, big safe choice is fine too. But I suspect it's trivial to detect it with benchmarks, as writing even a byte over a block size would require overwriting two physical blocks instead of one, which is much slower.
Pretty sure your teeth can rebuild the top layers fine. I think it's really far from decidedly bad for you? By that token plain water is also bad if not taken in moderation because it can kill you.
Yes - both a secular Zionist Jew in Tel Aviv and a Satmar Jew in the US (both are, by the way, most likely Ashkenazi) would see themselves as belonging to the same broad group of people with shared customs, culture and history - the Jews. This is why we refer to both groups as "Jews".

This doesn't of course mean that their "subjective sense of identity" is identical in its entirety, but that's pretty much the case with every ethnicity.
Perhaps those who wish to be 'forgotten' should obtain permission from those that they have injured.
I worked with the defense department on tracking human trafficking for several years. Backpage was literally the front door to so much trafficking. There are many steps the site could have taken to stop trafficking but it didn’t. The consensual sex worker should not rely on a marketplace that allows the abuse of children and enslaved persons.
I agree with this: "For an early stage company, the longer you can put off expanding your head count and endure the financial pain of not paying yourself anything close to a market rate salary, the more runway and resources you’ll have to invest in actually growing the company."
This isn't true though, Facebook has special filters to remain friends with people and just block any posts from them. This means there is no negative feedback loop when you're posting trash because everyone who disagrees will eventually unfollow you.

In real life, social interactions expose you to people with different viewpoints and social decorum forces you to listen/engage for at least some modicum of time. You couldn't selectively ignore people when they were talking to you. If you behave like an asshole, people who disagree eventually stop interacting with you and you quickly notice that (negative feedback).
There are a million possible reasons, some cultural but very many economic or historical accident. In principle it would be possible to try and infer something about culture from this, but it's overwhelmingly obvious that this excercise is indulged in so people can gleefully confirm their existing beliefs.
In terms of energy, it'd take about a week's worth of the sun's total power output to disassemble the Earth. So on one hand yeah, it'd be very doable for an advanced civilization to deplete the Earth's resources that way, but on the other we're pretty far from that level.
I agree completely. My aunt, well my great aunt actually, is 93. She is literally more active than me! She goes bowling, still, drives, volunteers, goes to church, and visits family and friends often. She is still very with it mentally, but I will admit after 90 she has declined mentally a bit.

My point is, this woman has touched a lot of people's lives within her 'old' age. She helped my family out a lot at one point. She's spent decades volunteering. She's been there for a lot of people and IMO helped to make the world a slightly better place in her own way.

It's never too late.
Yes as normal relationships break down under the stress of social inequality sex becomes not a human right but something only for the wealthy. This has a huge impact on health. They're pushing the limit, once they cut off food stamps for many even food will be something only for the wealthy. But DC may have many enemies but none take more hatred from them than the very citizens they are supposedly tasked to protect and serve.
Yep. And this layered encryption is great because it allows — for example — your phone to boot up before you enter a passphrase.

Making this technology more convenient is just as important for making people secure as the algorithms themselves, because otherwise, almost no one will use them (PGP-encrypted email being the classic example).
My guess is that most companies decide to cut the cost of maintaining responsive web apps since they are already paying developers to maintain native mobile and desktop web. Because, in their minds "who wouldn't just use the app"?

To get around it, there are a few lesser known mobile browsers that allow you to modify the "User-Agent" header, in which case you can bypass by masking yourself as viewing on a desktop browser. Sleipnir is one.
I was referring to a bench supply, although maybe I should have looked before asking. The number of DC bench supplies available in the $100 range is huge. This seems like a big price shift over the past couple years.
> Google CANNOT become our only source of truth.

Agreed. That said, should we give Trump the right for his bankruptcies to be deleted from Google?