skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I mostly share your point of view - not every horrible event is necessarily preventable short of some extremely draconian measures - I don't think it's just a matter of throwing our hands up and acquiescing that "Anyone can drive their car across the centerline" for example (and indeed there are sometimes barriers or physical space between opposing traffic lanes).

So the question isn't, "how could we have prevented this particular tragedy from occurring, at any cost?", but more "can we reduce the likelihood of an event like this in the future, in a way we're comfortable with?"

For example, locking cockpit doors on airplanes is a pretty low-consequence action we now take as a result of 9/11. Not entirely without tradeoffs, sure, but a fairly effective action nonetheless.

Air travel in general is actually a pretty great example of making something relatively chaotic considerably safer over time.
Theoretically I could see how, but my impression was that there wasn't a single flight path change but multiple changes and possibly even active effort to avoid radar [1]. That seems more cognitively engaged than the routinous behavior described in the article.

[1]https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/malaysia/108...
Agree the pricing is way off, but at least you can use an object/table inside a secret to serve as a group of secrets. eg, not just key:"value", but key:{key:"value", key:"value", ...}
Looks like the equivalent of Vault? Anyone can compare the two?
ParameterStore lets you store String, StringList or SecureString. But there's no limit to SecureString.

A SecureString can be `postgres://admin:hunter2@localhost:5432/db`. It can also be `{"username": "admin", "password": "hunter2", "host": "localhost", "port": "5432"}`.
I got that every time I used the site for years. It wasn't until I deleted my profile and created a new one where I never opted in to the recognition in the first place (or allowed any tags of myself for it to build the face profile, perhaps) that I was able to make it go away.
Not at a large enough scale for either to be relevant.
For readers who are not familiar:

Armory is an open-source 3D game engine with full Blender integration. It is written in Haxe and based on the Kha multimedia APIs abstraction.
Otherwise known as steganography. It can be also done with images, text, sound, DNA and virtually anything that carries information.
I'm just making a point. Of course there is a middle ground that we should strive for. I would just caution that hindsight is 20/20. There's plenty of stuff on /r/deepintoyoutube that is made by perfectly sane individuals that, if you were told it was made by this shooter, we'd call it a clear warning sign.
I suspect conventional war is a thing of the past.

Cyber-warfare is going to be where it's at. You spend years infiltrating adversary networks, backdooring critical systems/infrastructure and exfiltrating intelligence so when the time comes for conflict, you already know what cards they're going to play, where all the pieces are on the map and you can shut it all down with a few commands. Then you start your blitzkrieg unopposed.

It's telling Russia, China and North Korea so heavily encourage cyber-espionage and malware development. Meanwhile in the US, we've got idiots passing laws criminalizing mere infosec research. We're handicapping ourselves against a threat our adversaries are all too eager to employ.
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A deprecation is, normally, a notification (not the same thing as actually turning something off).
Nothing stops you from storing JSON in ParameterStore.
Any mitigation to this as passengers? Given the security environment these days I'd hate to be they guy that starts yelling "I smell dirty socks - drop the oxygen masks!" when it was actually dirty socks. Given the odds / number of events does a rational person bring a basic respirator for themselves and their family?
I wish I could just pay a monthly fee to access Facebook but to be protected from advertising and from being the product.

I also wish I could client-side encrypt all of my content, share the keys with my friends who I want to have the ability to view my content, and somehow have this all be friction-less and transparent from my and contacts' perspective.
Even if you don't avail yourself of the U.S.S. Enterprise style command console allowing you to finely tune how and where your bum is washed, Japan just does toilet business better. Want a clean seat to park your ass on? The American way is to use a toilet seat shaped piece of what feels like thin wax paper, which is guaranteed to slide off the seat and stick to your skin. In Japan, you hold a piece of TP under a nozzle and it sprays a bit of sanitizer, which you then use to wipe the seat. Marvellous.
> The Supreme Court has ruled that the 2nd amendment only prohibits the federal government from "infringing" on your right to bear arms, and not the states.

This was true only between 2008 and 2010. In 2010, the Supreme Court clarified that it was incorporated against the states by the 14th Amendment.
> Critics and audiences have always been interested in the difference between an artist who seems to “mean” what they say, and one who is subverting that meaning. Does Cortright “mean” her videos, and if not, what makes them different from the “authentic” material created by Nasim Aghdam?

Jesus this article. It's grasping for some higher relevance beyond what we had here: a troubled, mentally unstable woman with an online aesthetic that didn't jive with what we in the West consider normal design standards.

It's not that we shouldn't be examining material like hers for patterns that could potentially prevent future tragedies like this. But this is just feels amateur and needlessly judgmental.
Don't forget the Revolutionary war, when we were the Guerrilla force.
I just implemented it in a Meteor site using React for the frontend, and it worked beautifully, smoothly, and with perfect React orthodoxy. I was seriously impressed.
Considering my comment below was downvoted to -3, I don't have a lot of hope.
Facebook is still moving fast and breaking things, just not their things. The morality of an organisation reflects that of its senior management. Zuckerberg doesn't care about breaching privacy so why should Facebook? He only cares that he was caught.
I just hope people, including a lot of people reading this, remember this for longer than two or three news cycles. Just because Not-Trump gets into power someday doesn't mean that he or she won't be followed by Not-Not-Trump. In fact, I guarantee the eventual rise to power of Not-Not-Trump, because the only thing that would stop it is if Not-Trump successfully institutes totalitarianism, hardly a win. Our vigilance on this matter can't depend on how much we collectively do or do not like the people currently in power. That was a big mistake Silicon Valley made over the past decade and the bill is coming due in a big way.
What Motivated the YouTube Shooter?
If you like this article, I recommend finding his other pieces particularly about airplane crashes.

He writes in a gripping manner and normally seems to have done pretty thorough background research, as well as personal experience.
Why must an intruder, who may be there just to steal something and not harm others, immediately have to pay for their actions with their life?

Do gun owners truly believe that they can band together and stop the entirety of the United States military anymore? The same people who are large proponents of the 2nd Amendment also seem to encourage a massive defense budget which seems backwards to me.
Are there any companies that rely on Facebook data that are going to face a rough patch (or cease to exist) because of the API changes?
I am partial to approach 2, although i live in the city and agree that it is rather backwards and impractical. I have a third approach that I use, I go on adventures. Whether its backpacking in the wilderness for a week, summiting a mountain or swimming down a river and riding rapids with friends, the point is to expose yoursef to the dangers of the world, to have to rely on yourself to not make mistakes and to be hardy enough to overcome. Coming into camp after dark, freezing, tired and wet, setting up camp and sleeping through the night only to wake up at dawn, put on cold wet shoes and pack it all up and get to walking puts in perspective, for me at least, how powerful of a driver the will to live is. Experiencing the raw primal power that a life-or-death situation has on you, when your life is in your own hands(vs driving a car which is a team effort and much more controlled) really puts in perspective how dangerous society isn't.
People also seem to forget that the Google self driving car was initially developed by the team that one the DARPA challenge. Government, especially the military have been funding all the risky tech that Google profits from. Even google itself was funded by a government grant. Google's logo has been on the side of rockets launching spy satellites for years. Google Maps was originally a government contractor. Google the company knows who butters their bread.

What the google employees need to do is push for a civilian government research and science funding effort, like ARPA was back in the day. Unfortunately that sort of funding is politically dead, while military funding is always in style.
The Federalist Papers don't matter much in 2017. The doctrinal position of the courts today is the 2nd Amendment is not wide open. It's for defense of self and family IN THE HOME or defense of state.

It doesn't restrict states from legalizing further concessions, though.

Been reading about it with the Parkland stories.

Antonin Scalia wrote that the 2nd is not unlimited, it doesn't allow possession of any type of weapon for any use case, just a couple years before he died.

I can't find the article he was quoted in, but around the time of the last SCOTUS case related to 2nd, an NRA exec was on record, I'm paraphrasing, something like "the 2nd amendment has nothing to do with hunting."

The right side of the argument allows the romanticized notions to flourish as political ammo.
The TC article is unfortunately misleading.

As I posted elsewhere already. GDRP is more then just some rules around what you need to ask users for permission for. It's much bigger and very specific to the EU legal apparatus.

It hence makes no sense to ship globally. What you want is for the underlying privacy controls to be available for everyone...which according to Reuters is what FB is doing!
The national guard is NOT the militia.
I have programmed in a language I did not like, because it was the language used for the project I was hired to work on.

But concerning "if it has the features you need", let me rant for a bit. Most projects have their "yak shaving" aspects. If you have the choice of language for that project, it is reasonable to choose the language that handles the biggest amount of the yak shaving. (As you say, libraries are part of that.) In doing so, that means you're using a tool more suited to the task than other tools are. I (usually) find that more enjoyable than using a tool that is ill-suited to the task, no matter how much I like the ill-suited tool.
I find it funny that here on HN in one thread we complain about Facebook scanning all of our messages while in the next thread we praise a product that tracks JavaScript events, keystrokes and mouse movements...
So instead of making a “thought experiment”, why don’t you actually cite a case similar to what’s happening to Laura Ingraham?

In the case of the NRA’s sponsors being boycotted, you must be fucking kidding or forgot what happened to Delta, or that the NRA is still doing fine. It seems you are just as low-information as the mobs you deride.
I have one of these: https://hellotushy.com/ - it works really well.
What do you propose as an alternative? This isn't govt mandated censorship, it's a private company not wanting to become a CP sharing portal.
Random thought: when you created the new account you accepted their right to do this in the ToS and so they didn't need to explicitly ask?
The missing "boundaries" and blurred processes definitely play a major role. When I led teams at a larger tech company, the thicker processes were part of the buffer/liaison. In contrast, the lack of/lean amount of processes here for the sake of agility makes this less of a white and black issue.
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Isn't it just an indicator that the business isn't making any money?
Yep, I should've been more explicit, but I was counting "be cheap" as part of "mostly the same things".

Recently bought a Nest camera since it seemed like a DIY approach was going to be harder than I thought. Might end up returning it if I can get this to work how I want.
This is totally Norman Spinrad's "Little Heroes" [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Heroes_(novel)
MS lost a shit ton of money pushing Xbox before it became profitable. Don't think valve has the will or even the resources to do the same honestly.
I agree. Except I cant rule out a possibility that it may be possible to develop or evolve seemingly deeply intelligent virtual agents, and if/when I ever encounter such a thing I will not be able to be completely confident in treating its communications (perhaps it has requests) with no common respect for the living.

I've thought about what difference it could make whether such a program employs a PRNG or else reads a physically based entropy source - so it would be 'replayable' or else it would be to some degree unique and unrecoverable. That would seem to be a big philosophical difference yet there can be no noticeable difference between the performance of a PRNG and a real entropy source.

So I am partial to that step along the simulation thought experiment, but it requires a mysterious quality to be attachable to simulations which is not present in the popular account, where reality may be 'just a simulation'.

Only if simulations may somehow be a reality - the experiment becomes as mysterious as life when that issue is examined. But it almost never is examined, instead I see credence given to the idea that other people may be husks in the selfs own limited process, along with little awareness of how degenerate it would be to truly accept that -stepping stone in a sci-fi thought experiment.
Has there been a discussion if it wouldn't be easier/cheaper to apply the GDPR rules for everyone?

I mean, if you keep the logs in the same place you will still need to scrub IP addresses from them and every other thing that comes with it, so wouldn't it be easier to treat everyone with the most strict privacy standard?
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I'm stranded with a MacBook Pro with a totaled screen a MacBook with an account where my iCloud is not enabled, no phone 'conveniently' left at flat by one of the I would say aggressors aka crazy ex-girlfriend. So entering the password for iCloud falters at 2 factor auth.

The MacBook also has a cracked screen and coincidentally? it seems to be getting worse as are the keys, many of which don't click well.

I need to get access to some of my contacts, how do I do it in this circumstance?

On the other hand access to my data might be what the crazy ex and gang wants so maybe it's better as is.

Thoughts?
I'll reserve judgment until senorjazz clarifies.

"2 1/2" is 2.5, even by a generous reading. If it is not 2.5, that is an easily avoidable mistake in technical writing. A few more minutes proofreading the user manual could have saved you many half-days in support, señor.

It wouldn't be all on one day a week, because that would be "one day a week" rather than "two half-days a week". Again, presuming good technical writing. So a four-hour stint on support, twice per week. That's only 40% as bad as five half-day shifts per week.

I presume four hours. Obviously, "1/2 day" could also plausibly be 6 hours or 12 hours, or half of a work day of unspecified length, or a time equivalent to half of a work day, occurring at a time other than during ordinary business hours. He has previously mentioned he is available at any time, for paid customers, so somebody is checking the messages on weekends.

With respect to your anecdote, if you didn't write it down, it didn't happen. You still need to write up (and immediately close) the defect report, and attach the customer interaction reports. You don't work for the customer; you work for your company, who works for the customer. And the company needs to know what you did, and why it was necessary, because when you are gone, so is the portion of institutional knowledge that lived only in your head. Your story tells me that this everyone-on-support practice enables workers to cut corners in the development process. It's only more efficient until reaching a certain scale, at which point it becomes a liability.

Your story might also give a corporate attorney some stress. As a company employee, you should never apologize on behalf of the company in a way that even suggests the company might have been at fault for anything. That type of says-nothing, customer-placating apology is an acquired skill.

Would the apparent advantages remain if each person were required to go on a "ride-along" with a dedicated customer support person? Silently listen in on their interactions? Like pair programming, except the support person always does all the driving? That might also be useful with sales staff, to improve requirements definitions. Or with management, to smooth out inefficiencies in process and status monitoring. Why not just make the whole company developers, doing other people's jobs? Because even though developers might be objectively better at customer support than a customer support representative, the work done on customer support does not generate enough additional revenue to pay them a developer's wage while they are doing it. Economic specialization separates the jobs, and pays at different rates. People do what they are best at individually, and exchange the results via trade and communication. Cross-trained generalists only work at small scales.

That's why small, niche companies can run circles around established behemoths within their niche. But they can't scale bigger until they squeeze the reliance on robust individuals that apparently makes them so agile out of their system, and replace that with robust processes.
Yeah, I don't think too many people have tens of thousands of secrets, generally. The addition of key rotation is a great benefit.
I'm planning on getting a few Xenon from Particle to do something similar.

https://www.particle.io/mesh
Sorry for the late reply, but I suppose I need to elaborate more.

At least as I remember it, when Google+ launched I was in my second year of university studying Computer Science. I remember all of my fellow CS students were excited about it and sharing beta invites. Once Google+ became available to the general public, it quickly lost its appeal. Then Google forced it upon everyone and it never recovered.
>That's your lack of imagination speaking.

More probably it is more my roughly 35 years experience on building sites and construction projects speaking (as someone noted before the construction field is usually rather "conservative").

I surely would like more robots making more useful (and risky for humans) things, simply, specifically, there are not many construction site that need aerial survey at all.

The example posted you referred to is not in the construction field, but rather in the utilities maintenance and has nothing to do with the original article that is about "accurate" aerial survey via drones:

>In construction, the technology is particularly valuable for uses such as monitoring site progress and tracking material quantities.
Rust isn't the only player here. Kotlin I think does webasm already. And I think Java and C# will also jump on the bandwagon eventually.
It’s true absolute security is impossible, but mass shooting is much more prevalent in the UD than anywhere else not at war, so there is likely a chance to provide much more security by figuring out what goes wrong in the US that is less so in other places.
I am thinking of a bidet, possibly this one: https://www.amazon.com/Luxe-Bidet-Neo-120-Non-Electric/dp/B0...

We poop almost every day, so it makes sense to try to make the experience pleasant. Some day when I own a place, I'll probably get one of those amazing Japanese toilets. Or at least an $800 seat: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B009IJ2NBI?ref=emc_b_5_t
Good point - thank you!
Google Music has superior UI? SMH.

In any case, I switched to GPMAA when it was launched and had the $7.99 a month rate locked in.

Then, GPMAA started adding tracks to my playlist, etc. at random. No, Google, I don't want your suggestions to be auto-added to my collection. I simply want to listen to what I want to listen.

I want to get away from Spotify but there are no better options. Amazon Music seemed promising for a bit but their catalog isn't as comprehensive and their app is just wonky. E.g.: the app won't sync / display song time when streaming over Bluetooth to my car audio. Deal breaker for me.
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This book has helped me recognize various cognitive biases and heuristics that I or the people around me are demonstrating. Sometimes people say things that just "feel" wrong and this book has helped me identify and name why it feels wrong. It can get a little dry at times, but for the most part the research and examples are memorable. I also find the framework of the "two systems" to be a simple reminder to slow down and think about things that surprise/frustrate me before arriving at conclusions (or responding to that frustrating coworker :P).
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I’m really talking about the mechanism of enforcement. Your point about the legal aspects are well taken. But, once those aspects have been resolved, as in Europe, I think there needs to be a better resolution than breaking search. Think about it, looking to Google as the solution assumes they have a monopoly on search.
That seems scary to me, because even if it normally works, if it fails, it's presumably not something customer service can "make ok" especially because they aren't charging you commissions and you are, as they say, the product not the customer.

At this point, customer service of the major discount broker I've used for many years is so abysmal that the last thing I want is a free alternative that promises to do more for me. It makes me think of how impossible it is to deal with Google when something goes wrong with their free offerings.

I think social media has become a societal problem because there is so much revenue available from exploiting addictive behavior, and the logic has to lead to brokers trying to catch up. If you are sensible with investing, the system doesn't need or want you.
I just used JavaFX. It looks native everywhere, the tooling was good, and it works on Linux. I recommend taking a look.

I've written almost no Java before this project, and I had never used JavaFX before. It took about 2 weeks to go from beginning to end on the project, which I was happy with.
Why would this be happening? This seems to make their platform even more useless.
I think targeted ads are worse than generic ads, yes. There is a great article about it here:

http://zgp.org/targeted-advertising-considered-harmful/
If you're so worried about the world destroying itself with its own weapons, how are you going to enforce your weapons ban without using weapons?
One of the bigger issues I have with this that Google is only doing this kind of work for the US military, which for me as a non-US Googler makes me a bit uncomfortable. Because some relatives have been fighting the US military not even that long ago.
Interesting. Almost identical experience here. Coding for a health industry organization, I'm required to experience certain parts of the company as one of our customers would. Even if it's happening in a language I don't speak.
Are you saying that literally fighting fire with fire is a thing?

I may have missed my calling . . . .