skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So this is about data processing of video feeds used to target.

If you think about it, we (including Google employees) have known Google has been doing this in a different way to assist in waging war ever since Snowden showed us those slides. Google processes data for the government that allows them to know who to target for war.
It's definitely not cheaper than KMS and DynamoDB via Credstash, though.
Youtube videos are getting demonetized based on advertisers not wanting to be associated with certain things.

However, watching online and TV coverage of the shooting where people were actually severely injured and someone died, there didn't seem to be a dearth of advertising. If advertisers don't mind being associated with death and destruction, I think that when push comes to shove advertisers care more about reaching people with ads than the content they are associated with.
Just out of curiosity how much leverage do advertising companies actually have?
India and Pakistan aren't really powerful nations in the nuclear sense that the US and Russia are. I assume the person you are replying means powerful nation as "nation with a lot of nukes", which is pretty much only the US and Russia.

US Nukes: 7300

Russia Nukes: 8000

India Nukes: 90-100

Pakistan nukes: 100-120

Everyone except the US and Russia nukes: ~1100

(source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/nine-nations-have-n...)
Holy cow do I feel bad for the people that grow up with education system of your country. Look up Lend Lease.
I was going to buy the RPLidar when they did a fire sale on the first generation. But I read there was some refresh rate error so I didn't pull the trigger. Do you know if the Sweep (by Scanse) is comparable to the RPLidar (Dev version)?
99.9% of people obtaining a weapon legally don't use it to commit atrocities, but for entertainment. Why should the majority suffer the consequences from the tiny minority of unstable individuals?
If the unfairness over YouTube's policies resulted in this kind of outcome, I wonder what the majority of people will do once they realize[0] that the world is stacked against them. Tax breaks for the rich, "too big to fail" organizations, with tax payers footing the bill, etc.

I won't say the "end is nigh", but if there were a "Revolution Clock", akin to the Doomsday Clock, I think it's slowly nearing midnight.

I've read some stuff that also says that inequality and perceived unfairness also can hinder your mental health, which no doubt also contributed here.

[0] When I say realize, I mean realize. The gap between the poor and the rich, and the middle-class and the rich is far larger than most realize.

[1] https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/the-british-journal-...

EDIT:

I should add that I don't think the world is turning to garbage. Rather, said Revolution Clock simply is getting closer to midnight, as opposed to away from it. I'd say we're like at maybe 10:00pm.
Very nice, starred! You might want to add the ESP32 MCU as well.
You will laugh, but yes, USSR also had troubles with toilet paper from time to time (while launching satellites i guess) - https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&pr...
You don't have a right, but if a platform owner creates an expectation and then undermines it, people are going to get upset. People are animals, and animals like consistency. Mess with that and they will mess with you back.

This is one of those things where just because it's legal doesn't mean it's right. It's same thing with Facebook saying "we value your privacy" and then when it turns out they didn't, saying "yeah but did you read the toS it was right there in paragraph 73(n) lol", or governmental organizations passing laws and regulations that are virtually impossible to ever be in full compliance with.
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Damn. That was intense. Thanks for posting this.
That's an away match.
A fish rots from the head down
not sure about Prolog, but afaik compiler writers are usually very good about following the standards (and they reference the standards consistently when discussing (potentially) semantic bugs). In general I think its safe to trust that any given compiler (tries to) follows the standards strictly; and then implement extensions on top.

And extensions are fine. They might be syntactic sugar, or specific hacks, or strange DSLs or whatever. Convenient, if you know you're targetting a single compiler. But you can still write standards-compliant code, when necessary.

But if the compiler doesn't make it explicitly clear, and the standards aren't easily available, then you now have people using extensions without realizing it, and if you tell them you're using an extension, there's nowhere to point to as proof. If you're trying to write code successfully against two different compilers, and get different results, there's nowhere to point to to show that compiler A has the incorrect response. Instead you file against both and assume they have access to the standard.

Also afaik C# only really runs against a single compiler (mono, i think?), doesn't it? So it makes sense that community doesn't bother with the standard; you're not writing cross-compiler-compatible code, so whatever works on mono is the standard (in practice).

The same is true for python, ruby, haskell, etc. There's practically only one compiler in existence (that you care about); those implementations are the standard, regardless of any ISO standard.

But you look at the C and C++ community, and half the SO answers directly reference the standard, despite presumably being mere "users" of the language. Because when many compiler implementations exist (and used), then extensions are much less viable, and the standards are extremely important

And afaik, CL is one of those languages with multiple major compilers, and thus an easily available standard is important.
Well said. Whenever I bring this up to friends, they seem weirded out by bidets, sometimes even grossed out. How can it be grosser than trying to smear poop off with a paper towel!?
Odin works really well but but only because it integrates so tightly with with the rest of the internal tooling. Without Apollo (another internal tool) to manage and orchestrate the deployment of packages that need Odin's secrets, it's a lot clumsier to use.
There's a difference between "gambling" in the sense of willfully taking a risk (that perhaps someone else thinks you should not take) and "gambling" in the sense of being a sucker who doesn't understand the rules sufficiently to avoid losing when it's not necessary.
I just use sink at home. Being tall has its benefits. When I come around to buying my own apartment I will definitely get a bidet.
Overcoming Gravity

For most of my life never really had an interest in working out but learning more about calisthenics and body weight fitness in general has really changed things for me in a positive way, and this book really shows how to progress without access to weights or a gym.
There's no "gun control" question, she was already in the most restrictive anti gun state.
after removing insulting remarks, ataturk's comments looks like this (which i personally agree with):

Globalism == lack of agency, the end of voting and elections.

Universal education == total indoctrination and ideological consistency of the collectivistic variety.

Universal healthcare == the end of individual choice, individual responsibility, all new extensive taxing regimes, the destruction of the individual on many levels.

Gun Control == People control. Then total domination by the state and a monopoly on the use of force. Which, by the way, has never worked out well for any citizen anywhere.
I made the mistake of learning flash in 2007 and developing a terrible 50,000 line monster project with it. Unfortunately I think I put in every anti-pattern you can think of in it. And I'm the only one that knows how it works. Funny thing though, it makes me some decent coin.
It seems like - the deprecation has been announced as part of the overall effort of locking users' data - https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/04/restricting-data-access...
Go find the nearest street corner to preach off of and bump the last guy off
Facebook tracks us through our friends' SMS history, contacts, and invites.

It also tracks us through its widgets on other sites.

It requires a lot of effort to fully opt out.
I predict sign-up dialogs where you will have to unequivocally state if you're a EU resident or not - because there is next to no algorithmic way of making sure you're dealing with a EU resident.
Here's a direct link to the PDF:

http://www.benning.army.mil/armor/316thCav/ASA/content/pdf/A...
Ask HN: What are some books/sites/techniques for developing social skills?
My technical skills have gotten me nice jobs that I like, but my social skills are sub-par. I'm not completely out there, but I know that people see me as distant, a little shy, and maybe a little quirky.

I'm in my 30s and I've come to believe that social skills and networking are the complete game. Technical skills mean very little.

What are some good resources or techniques for developing better social skills?
Oh yeah, I agree - and I have no beef with the per-request pricing. It's the per-secret pricing that's weird. If I understand this announcement correctly, you're still paying for KMS separately as well, so that's not where the price spike comes from...
Is it really a "hasty drawing of conclusions" when it's based on a simple reading of what was written?

[secret rotation,] that's not something that most of the time makes sense to use.
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Losing your own money can affect other people, if you are an adult with dependents, for instance.
> You need a tool like this to monitor run-time browser errors. When browsers support a language that catches 100% of errors at compile time then you won't need tools like this.

Eh, I don't think that logging runtime-in-the browser is the value added here. I can wrap my codebase in a try-catch that catches exceptions and calls home with the stack trace in < 100 lines of code. Avoiding that < 100 lines of code isn't the value added.
Mesh Networking Grows for ICs
the fact that she can get a gun from any other state makes it a question. gun control laws work when you can't just super easily go to another state to get a gun, the proof being in the much lower number if gun crimes in every other industrialized country where the gun laws are tight in the whole country. That's pretty much every single other industrialized country.
if (shooter == muslim)

return "terrorist";

else

return "mental problem";
The woman in question is neither a woman, Iranian, nor vegan. The digital persona has been manufactured to incite a response. Open your eyes.
And for the most part non family friendly advertising is already disallowed.

And now we're seeing an unintended consequence of that.
Those are good reasons. What determines when you use Kotlin over Java?
Not sure about that. Wasn't the Doomsday Clock just moved back to an all-time dangerous spot?
Those were my thoughts as well. I’d be willing to bet that nothing would happen if Google were to call their bluff.

Can’t blame them for not wanting to take the risk.
Do people care to explain their downvotes, or is it just people getting offended because I criticized their language?
>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?

They have the option of wearing a bullet proof vest or use trained monkeys to do their bidding.
You can learn a lot about an American city by who's leaving it
generalized Pythagorean theorem
Facebook also gives me a fake notification on messenger every time I use the app or website. Sorry Facebook I don't want to use your incredibly subpar message app.
Fallen Angels: Birds of Paradise in Early Modern Europe
I don't know that the causal link between the West's scientific output and the West's enlightenment values is that clear. It's certainly correlated.

But the reason the US was able to do so much fundamental research in the 20th century is not (just) because the US culturally valued fundamental research - it's because the US was able to get popular support for taxing people and spending it on the war effort (both the World Wars and the Cold War) and decided that fundamental research was necessary for the war effort.

The politicians today who are cutting NASA's budget, talking about shutting down DoE, etc. aren't simply victims of Koch propaganda or disbelievers in the enlightenment - they just no longer have political cover for publicly funding research to the same extent that it was funded previously. Nobody believes that the US is at a technical disadvantage against the people we're currently at war against. They still have the political cover to fund the military itself, which continues to get large amounts of funding from political parties that generally want to lower taxes, but that base won't let them fund basic research as much as it did in the past.
Does anyone know if the investigators checked to see if the captain may have had reasons to sink the ship? Beyond that, given the captain's body was never recovered, were investigators able to confirm that communications were coming from the positions reported by the captain?

RELATED: Here is the US Coast Guard Marine Board of Investigation final report on El Faro[1] -- in which the investigators had stated that if Davidson had survived the storm, his actions would have been grounds for the Coast Guard to revoke his captain's license.

What I am not seeing in the report is any reference to if the investigators checked to see if there were any reasons in his personal life that may have caused the captain to intention sink the ship; for example, recent suicide attempt, recent diagnosis of terminal illness, financial issue, employer or family issues, etc.

[1] https://media.defense.gov/2017/Oct/01/2001820187/-1/-1/0/FIN...
There are some larger businesses that do right by their customers and employees, because the leadership has a strong sense ethics and of responsibility for the ethics of their whole company.
The Blackwater of the Middle Ages. Still providing mercenaries to guard Europe's last absolute monarch.
No. It's not. Learn logic.
Why then is there such an obsession with determining the motive. Or classifying the act as terrorism or something else.

Honestly I can’t figure out why anyone even cares what the motive was. Doesn’t undo the harm done. The attempt to “understand” is too close to “excusing”. Which then further motivates others to use the same methods.
Facebook: "We have no fucking clue how much data they took from us. We're not a company that specializes in data."

(shamelessly stolen from reddit)
I’ve always just used their private APIs, has that been broken now??
Here are PoC exploits against various editors:

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/03/05/2

Even pasting to cat(1) might be insecure. The paste can contain ^D, which will make cat quit; then the rest of the paste will be interpeted by shell.
As if pedophiles would send their stuff in the clear...
Why do you refer to them as extra-judicial killings?
There's still a bootstrap issue with AWS Secrets Manager - you have to set up enough tooling to be able to call the API.

The killer-app of odin imho was/is the on-machine http server that let all manner of applications very easily get credentials.

You could just do something like

MY_API_KEY="$(curl http://localhost:5000?key=my-api)"

and boom your shell script or whatever was very easily using secrets.

The fact that Amazon systems bootstrapped EC2 instances meant they could easily enable this org-wide. The odin back-end then owned all the lifecycles around those secrets including what kinds of hosts they would go to, if/how they would rotate, etc etc. It has its annoyances including the fact you have to use http to localhost which can get saturated if you're not doing things right, but overall it really made secrets-management a non-issue.
The El Faro sinking has also been covered extensively from a professional mariner perspective on gCaptain.

http://gcaptain.com/tag/el-faro-investigation/
>Incidentally, today is MLK's birthday.

Death anniversary, not birthday. His (and my!) birthday is 1/15 which is why we celebrate MLK day on the most convenient Monday near that.
You superimpose inequality on the national mindscape and out comes a radical extremist on the mentally unstable subset of the map, and you infer that that is a signal that the rest will cascade into an occupy style phase shift? Alarmist much?
I'd rather my browser did the right thing slowly than the wrong thing fast.
Not every shooter is mentally ill. In fact, most mentally ill people are more likely to be victims of violence than the perpetrators. Most shooters are just shitheads, not mentally ill, and to constantly conflate the two is to add additional stigma to mental illness.

In addition, if this truly was a mental health problem, Congress could increase funding for mental health treatment by the end of the week, Trump could sign it by the middle of next week, and we could see an increase in people getting treatment by the end of next month. The fact that we're not seeing that leads me to believe that most know this isn't as much of a mental health problem as people think.
It’s already on. They’re just asking if you want to see it.
The design is extremely simple. The hard part is aligning things. That's actually the hard part about most optics. If you're really OCD you need to be even more.

Here's a little animation of one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UA1qG7Fjc2A
There was definitely a reference to scientific advancement: "As an engineer ... After all, I would not be here, and my job would not exist, and the freedom I have to do this work would not exist ... this quite nifty Liberty bubble that these few generations get to play in."

That is why I interpreted the "quite nifty Liberty bubble" as referring to the ability to participate in technical / scientific endeavors - the "freedom I have to do this work" - not about liberty in the abstract.

('criley2, if I'm misreading you, please let me know.)
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Facebook may have leaked private data on ALL its users
What's not being said is that the Russians likely had the data too for use in the 2016 elections.

See https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/mar/21/facebook-row... and the testimony Christopher Wylie gave before the UK House of Commons Select Committee. He's the CA whistleblower. It's a very illuminating watch - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5g6IJm7YJQ

So to recap:

[1] Kogan writes a FB app for CA to create psychographic profiles of users. This data allows people to be targeted by how naturally susceptible you are to rumors and fake news.

[2] Kogan then accepts a position at St. Petersburg State University (so essentially Russian money) and moves there

[3] Russians subsequently magically gain a new superpower they didn't have before - the ability to target users on FB who are susceptible to manipulation towards extreme viewpoints.
be lucky I'm not your colleague, I'd have lifted your desk faster than a monk's Om
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There are no signs of that at all. I see the opposite. Someone who is brave and stands up for his opinion about the psychology profession.

In an insane world, sane people are said to be insane. There is a huge amount of truth in that statement.
"Maybe your team is bad at estimating."

To a first approximation, everyone is bad at estimating software development times.

See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12149515 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4328660 and http://www.romenrg.com/blog/2015/09/28/why-asking-developers...

and The Mythical Man-Month, too.
Explorations into Embodied Knowledge and AR/VR – Stanford Seminar
Interview people working in the industry. Ask them what their day to day looks like. Interview enough people and you'll start to spot patterns.
Working link https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/detect-zero-width-...
How would you analyse content that's asynchronously loaded and inserted into the DOM?

I think DOM mutation observers would be a huge hit on performance.
That may be. It's hard to say from this account alone; some people are not very sensitive to the underlying emotional state of others and take their presentations at face value.

It is rare in NPD for people to actually display their genuine emotional state and its typically a situational slip-up (eg. Kanye).

It might be, actually, Cruise has some other issue. Clearly however there is an issue at-hand. His emotional state has been all over the place; and he often displays an intensity that is contextually inappropriate.

Could be that he has hypomanic/manic episodes. But he seems to have always been this way, ie., this isnt episodic.
...the Lusitania was two decades before Hitler even came to power.
Advertisers don't mind having their ads shown next to all violent content, only to some violent (and some "controversial" content).

Most advertisers won't mind being shown next to a major news channel, but they might mind being shown next to a gore channel, or a channel run by some more radical news organizations.

It isn't the content, it's the message. And that's a hard problem.

There's one episode of Mad Man that addresses the same problem. An employee of the ad agency ends up having to read the scripts of all TV shows in advance to select the ones that a certain advertiser wouldn't want to be associated with, for example, those referencing abortion.
Each of us is free to classify this act however we wish. The obsession with how the states chooses to classify something unnecessarily gives the government too much credibility, control, etc.
It's comments like these that make me wonder why I still read Hacker News.
I just had a quick glance at my own app. The majority of the secrets in it are generated outside of AWS and (unless I'm misunderstanding the announcement) can't be rotated by this service without custom logic to rotate them; at which point, as I said in a separate post, I might as well write that custom logic on top of ParameterStore and cron it.
Actually, seeing the diagonal stripes in the examples [1], maybe it'd be useful to have a mode that lets you rescale the axes to line the stripes up? If you're using this to inspect patterns, it seems to me that the most useful time scale would not be a nice round human number, it'd be one that matches well with the patterns you're trying to inspect - one period, not one second.

Way out in the distance, maybe even a variable-interval mode, where you can click-select blocks and each one is given its own column, so you can directly compare them without the dead space in the middle and starting from the same baseline?

[1] Particularly striking: https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/2000/1*EypUnkPtayeKr9bJu...
I'm not sure there's a definitive answer right now as to whether drone strikes or more conventional options have higher civilian casualty rates.
The kind of injustice that has more or less always been there (e.g. the financial system favoring the rich over the poor) seems less likely to provoke this kind of sudden and violent response. The shooter’s anger was over a sudden change in policy that she perceived as unfair. Loss and loss aversion are powerful psychological drivers. If her videos had always been handled the way they are now, she probably never would have shot up their office because she never would have had the opportunity to feel she lost something she was previously entitled to.
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