skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It might be this - https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/870u0a/t480s_linu...

TL;DR Booting Linux the throttling triggers at much lower temp than on Windows. Fixed by overwriting some MSRs I think.
Perhaps this could be solved by corrupting the supply chains with endangered animal parts enriched with lethal poisons?

Surely the demand for medically useless and deadly products would fall pretty fast.
An effort was started by Mudge to use static analysis and fuzzing to assess a range of software, https://34c3.cyber-itl.org & https://theintercept.com/2016/07/29/a-famed-hacker-is-gradin...

"... first-of-its-kind method for testing and scoring the security of software — a method inspired partly by Underwriters Laboratories, that century-old entity responsible for the familiar circled UL seal that tells you your toaster and hair dryer have been tested for safety and won’t burst into flames. Called the Cyber Independent Testing Lab, the Zatkos’ operation won’t tell you if your software is literally incendiary, but it will give you a way to comparison-shop browsers, applications, and antivirus products according to how hardened they are against attack. It may also push software makers to improve their code to avoid a low score and remain competitive."
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What many experienced journalists have learned, just because someone records and store data, doesn’t mean they actively query and audit it.
Not sure where you're getting this information from, but helicopters aren't allowed to fly over Manhattan. You can see the flight route of the doomed helicopter here: http://abc7ny.com/map-shows-exact-path-helicopter-took-over-...

It was over the river the entire time. It wasn't over Central Park, just far north enough to be near it. Trying to make it to Central Park from the river with no engine power could have had a worse outcome if he'd not been able to make it and ended up striking a building; then everyone on the copter would still be dead, including whoever was hit on land.
> “Ayurveda medicine is considered pseudoscientific” [1].

I'm sure it is. By whom and why?
And more to the point, is it right in this case, regardless of its scientific status.
Nikon pro bodies don't have a custom setting selector on the top but has five 'profiles' that you can select using the i button, each bank contains a full config.

I don't really use them except for having a 'basic' setup that reenables focus by half pressing the shutter button in case I hand my camera to someone who doesn't use back button focus.
10 years ago I joined college and didn't know a thing about English. Somebody pranked the whole class in the first day, by coming, writing their credentials on the board in Japanese and speaking in English. I thought to myself, I'm so behind.

Pirated a web design book some time later and tried very hard to learn it. I still remember learning the word "rather" from context instead of translating it.

After that, I made my 'world' in English. Movies, books, everything. Discovered HN by that time, and watched Two and A Half Men repeatedly with friends, over and over and over. I'm sure that repetition helped a lot.

Forcing yourself to speak in English can also help (xbox party chat for example), specially when I kept asking myself, do I really know English or am I just a fraud? Will I be able keep a conversation when the time for it comes?

I know a bunch of people that learned English but never passed that point where you can 'get' things in English. So, it's worth doing it by yourself. Being one of the very few in the theater getting the meaning of a joke, that subtitles did not translate well, is great.
You are right. Still with 41.000 github stars and thousands of users I wouldn't worry about it being discontinued if the main developer stops working on it.
It's worth mentioning that encrypted DNS is not just about privacy, but also integrity. It's more difficult to intercept or spoof in hostile networks.

ISP can still see the target IP address and SNI. The IP address is sometimes meaningful (single website), but not if it's a CDN or a multi-tenant server. The SNI is being worked on (encrypted SNI, ORIGIN frame, CERTIFICATE frame). The point is none of that matters without encrypted DNS.
“Ayurveda medicine is considered pseudoscientific.[12] Other researchers consider it a protoscience, or trans-science system instead.[13][14] In a 2008 study, close to 21% of Ayurveda U.S. and Indian-manufactured patent medicines sold through the Internet were found to contain toxic levels of heavy metals, specifically lead, mercury, and arsenic.[15] The public health implications of such metallic contaminants in India are unknown.[15]” [1]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayurveda
Unfortunately even if you're already handling personal data responsibly, the GDPR still also requires that you be able to provide various documented policies to your regulator on demand, still contains lots of ambiguity about how far subject rights can go in practice, still imposes obligations to include lots of extra detail in privacy policies or otherwise provide lots of information and active warnings to data subjects, etc.
Mimicking is the critical skill for spoken English.

I bet you have ugly flaws in your spoken English, although I also bet that your written English is better than many brought up speaking English.

I often deal with tourists, and I detect serious flaws in their speaking as a result of their learning to read and write first (transliteration is a problem too). Common ways of teaching English in schools are deeply flawed IMHO.

Babies and children learn by listening, talking, mimicking, and some correction.

The best late learners of speaking English that I have met, have been those that interact by talking and mimicking, with very little (if any) reading/writing. My favourite was a young Japanese guy that had worked in East London and Australia, and his accent would switch between perfect Cockney and perfect Ocker depending upon where he had learnt a phrase!

Personally, my Spanish only really improved when I had a Spanish speaking girlfriend that didn't want to speak English with me.

Obviously if you mostly interact in English by writing, it doesn't matter.

But if you want to work in a country, you will usually be judged quite negatively if you have a strong accent.

Also clearly not everyone can find a way to talk with native speakers.

Learning by listening to movies and mimicking songs including accent of the singer helps a lot and is fun. (e.g. in my experience Spaniards typically have horrific English due to dubbing films into Spanish, while Portuguese often are way better at English).

Ideally limit reading and limit learning grammar/spelling until after you have a good grasp of the language. That's how all native speakers have done it.
I think a contributor is that some people believe that underfunding will somehow address our higher costs.

But often the problems are structural and underfunding just erodes efficiency further.
I've had to deal with this at work (anticipatory only so far), but what I can't seem to figure out is what the inquiring European needs to provide to us to prove that the data we have is actually theirs. We don't capture pii data in most instances, so if someone requests their info under GDPR and provide us an IP and a time do we take them at their word?
Or rape an unconscious girl behind a dumpster and get three months in jail.

#BrockTurner
Given the political momentum I could see SOME law getting passed. But if you look at the industry they're too different. The US has many significant players that'd suffer. Europe has few, hurting an already insignificant tech industry won't matter. It's another opportunity for them to ransom American corporations. And in fact, you could argue it's going to help local startups in a protectionist China-like way.

The point is - incentives are very different.
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> To understand why this is the case, let’s work from the practical to the theoretical. For example, let’s consider a widely-proposed use case for blockchain: buying an e-book with a “smart” contract. The goal of the blockchain is, you don’t trust an e-book vendor and they don’t trust you (because you’re just two individuals on the internet), but, because it’s on blockchain, you’ll be able to trust the transaction.

No. Nobody trusts an exchange because it's on the blockchain. The idea of a smart contract is to decentralize high-friction transactions such as insurance (which is essentially what Amazon or PayPal is providing). The whole point is to not have to trust anybody to ensure a transaction is carried out, which it does accomplish to a reasonable extent.

The author also confuses peer-to-peer trustworthiness such as making a purchase, with trustworthiness that data or transaction executions will not be tampered with. The blockchain backs up the latter with mining, whereas it does not back up the former.
Yeah, the primary benefit I see is if one fully audits the code and any future updates. Otherwise, self-hosting doesn't confer much in the way of guarantees for security or privacy.
Exactly - really wanted to like and see it since Musk was promoting it.
How does it compare to hammerspoon?
It's interesting how the euphemism used differs by country. The Dutch railway companies use "collision with a person".
> Facebook, however, disputed the implication that it can't exercise proper oversight over these types of apps, telling CNBC that it can't control information that companies mislabel.

What does that mean? That’s utter nonsense. I work in an industry where data is just as, if not more, sensitive (health and finance data) and they somehow manage to do this correctly (well, at least not have an embarrassing mistake that makes the Zuck look like the irresponsible unmatured kid he still is). But what they don’t do is willy nilly let people, without human oversight, access data. Who is that dumb? This is criminal negligence in not even guarding against the possibility of misuse.
For the video, you'd probably want to do a stream copy, which will retain the original quality and save you from having to potentially wait a long time for it to encode:

$ ffmpeg -i input-file.mov -c copy output-file.mp4

This works if the output container format supports the codecs used by the input file, which should be the case for most mov->mp4 conversions.
I think GDPR intends to protect businesses from "denial of service attacks" through sending many repetitive or bogus requests. A single, legitimate request is definitely not excessive.
I take the CIA at their word because the alternatives are even more absurd.
Friendly reminder that Lenovo made a deliberate choice to ship malware payloads to its customers from the factory [0] by preinstalling an SSL MITM proxy configuration from an adware vendor. This is not some suspicious technology with legitimate uses like Intel Management Engine. This is not concerns about the second-order implications of your voluntary uploads to Facebook and Google. It's not even an agency with a real national-security mission overstepping its bounds. It's honest-to-goodness we're-going-to-fuck-you-because-we-can pwnage officially authorized at the highest levels of the company to make a few bucks. When you ask your Lenovo machine to browse the web, you're not seeing the web, you're seeing a version edited by Lenovo's advertising partners. Sure, anyone here can beat it, but where else in the stack have they subverted your machine?

If you're even slightly concerned about data privacy and user freedom, please do not be complicit in Lenovo's continued existence.

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/6/16261988/lenovo-adware-sup...
Difference between GDPR and ePrivacy regulation
The pronunciation of the Greek name of the letter changed to “ipsilon” recently, less than a thousand years ago; perhaps the Balkan languages adopted the name after that. The original pronunciation was “hupsilon”, but that has been obsolete for over 2500 years. In between, it was pronounced in an in-between way involving the phoneme [y], which doesn't exist in English or Latin.
I completely disagree with this. Firstly, the media currently are too lucrative for my taste and thats why we have everyone being a journalist and publisher. By cutting down on the easy money, only those worth surviving will probably stand. This will seriously cut down on more than just ads, ie fake news and unverified sources. An alternative I'd love to see is sponsored articles as the main source of income for these. Let the corporations have to pay bigger bucks to have their posts published. This will hopefully reduce the clutter, force the media outlets to provide quality content to keep a certain level of trust and quality to attract businesses as well as a good targeted audience.

Personally I'd live to have most media completely in the dark about visitors to solely speculate on the quality of their own content. Only metric they need is daily visitor count. Everything else can be shaped by type and quality of content. A great example is HN where we have a very targeted audience due to the content it serves. It obviously also has some sponsored articles but also the indirect benefits it has on new startups and so on. Just treat it as TV marketing and not a per person customized monetization strategy.
Not sure why you're being downvoted; as tescos says here in the UK, every little helps :)
It seems to me that GDPR restricts economic growth.

For example, I'd be quite happy to let my local supermarket sell my personal data to Google in exchange for a 3% discount on my grocery prices. Everone would benefit: (1) The supermarket gets an additional source of revenue; (2) Google can charge more for ads; (3) The toothpaste company gets better return on it's advertising; (4) I pay less for my groceries.

GDPR prohibits this kind of win-win agreement, doesn't it?
Thanks EU, we'll have more popups than ever that everyone's going to agree out of habit.

It's not fun seeing a popup on every site you visit. This should have been a brower-based implementation globally that every site must adhere to.

Even worse for me, I browse exclusively in private/incognito mode and this is going to make that unusable with consent popups on sites on every visit.
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I'm English. A couple of years ago I started learning Italian by listening to podcasts (Coffee Break Italian) and reading children's books. I then travelled to Assisi to try it out for the first time. The locals were fantastic, they slowed down and spoke very clearly. It's a beautiful place.

I agree though, travelling and learning about new places in another language is awesome, it unlocks so much, and really encourages you to learn.
I still shoot with interchangeable lens cameras (both Fujifilm and Canon) but I do use my iPhone more and more of the time. On a recent trip to Europe, I had both my Fujifilm with a couple of lenses and my iPhone X. Looking through my photos on Flickr, there are some that I obviously took with the XE-3 given the low light conditions. But for many of the rest of my edited/curated photos, I couldn't have told you which camera I used without looking at the metadata. Probably if I blew things up big enough and really examined the fine detail, but not with casual viewing at normal sizes.
Consider your use cases - how often do you really need the computer to be portable? Do you work in more than 2 locations? Would a powerful (and cheap) desktop and a skinny (and cheap) laptop, perhaps with a great screen, work for when not at your desk?
Laptops command a premium price for portability and desirability, so if you can reduce your need for those then you can get a lot more value for your hard-earned money.
The decade immediately after you’re teens is a time period with a lot of change. Many people find career paths, spouses, and have children. Also worth considering is that FB is a much different company — structure-wise — than when it was just a social media site servicing Harvard students.
Crashplan still works fine, you just have to get the business-branded version.
I’m not from the US and don’t really notice this.
Projects get killed in production pretty often. Also, if you go through releases on steam, there is a lot of stuff that is unlikely to earn enough money.

A lot of bad publicity and public fights is not only way to fail, often simply nobody cares.
A narrator doesn't tell you "what to feel or think", they piece together what you're looking at and go deeper into concepts, whereas this quote after quote stream doesn't go very deep into anything.

In fact, I'd say it is currently telling you what to feel and nothing more, because most of the quotes in the first 10 minutes are derivations of "technology is scary, you should be scared".
I'm in the same boat. My ISP's DNS servers tend to be very slow and often unresponsive. As a result I've used googles (a bad idea, in retrospect) for the last 10 years or so.
I agree that we shouldn't necessarily judge people based on something from a decade and a half ago.

But I'm all for judging people based on their attitude toward their past misdeeds. If someone fucks up and then years later they go, "Yeah, I fucked up, I'm sorry, I learned X, Y, and Z from the experience and now I'm a better person," then by all means, let's move on. But if their attitude is to smear the victims and essentially claim that the fact that they're now filthy rich excuses them from any past misbehavior (as is the case here), then let's criticize the crap out of them.
Fares, tolls and regional taxes make up the bulk of the budget:

http://interactive.nydailynews.com/project/mta-funding/
I'm confused about the part with the teacher. Where I went to school ALL the teachers arrived 15-60 minutes earlier and went into their dedicated room. I don't remember exactly, but one of them coming in late was a "once every few years" thing.

Sure it sucks if you're early but I suppose they could also just get some take-home work (like grading tests) that's not due that day or prepare some stuff. Sure, some of them probably killed the time with morning newspaper and coffee... but still.
We just ask the guy/gal at the desk. It's not that crazy, though I will admit, my last trip there added some stress because of this uncertainty.
This seems like a really easy-to-fix problem on Netflix end: require the user to log into their account (or be logged in) prior to entering their payment information. This would completely eliminate the attack-vector the author mentioned.

I can understand wanting to minimize user-friction, but if you're asking someone to enter their payment information, it's very reasonable to have them log in first.

Email aliasing (dots/plus) in gmail is very useful to many people, and it seems overkill to blame Google for having introduced it. Besides, getting rid of it at this point would break backwards compatibility for a huge number of users, so the author's idea is completely infeasible.
and you really think that they will?
you pretty sure will get the following response:

ok
-- hidden in their database --
(date_deleted = now())
fixed.
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If I was buying a new laptop now, it would be a Surface, no question. Even better than a ThinkPad in my reckoning.

Great hinges too.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/surface
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Mass Effect Andromeda isn't even in the discussion when it comes to the largest commercial flops. It probably sold 2-3 million copies in the launch window. (But yes, bad enough that they thought it best to suspend the franchise and even kill the DLC).

From last year, Agents of Mayhem was really in a league of it's own for AAA games. It had Steam sales numbers of ~20k a month after launch, so <100k across all the platforms combined. From the year before that the most high profile flops would probably be Battleborn or Evolve.
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and here I want a smaller car.

I'd actually like a small SUV for the practicality, but I just don't really like them.
> News outlets existed before the web, so they're not going to be threatened by breaking the ad-supported website model. If anything, the traditional newspapers will be saved by this, because if free online news disappears, people will start buying newspaper subscriptions again.

We're also seeing very concerning trends in the readerships and profitability of print media (because of the Web, many think). So I don't think you can use the "News outlets existed before the web" line, without much more justification.
Smart contracts rely on Block chain but Block chain is not smart contracts
Toyota has awful interiors.

I actually like the interior of my mustang.
Since no one has mentioned it yet, this is a wonderful book on the evolution of index cards:

Paper Machines: About Cards & Catalogs, 1548 – 1929 (History and Foundations of Information Science) (https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/paper-machines)
I'm throwing darts at the wall here, but I think part of the problem is our sprawl and geographic size/car culture. In the typical US city you have the wealthier suburbanites living in separate towns/counties than the city they work in. This segregates the local funding because no one wants to pay for someone else's projects. And state funding doesn't benefit you as directly (e.g. state highway projects) and probably suffers the same problem.

Public transit doesn't get funded because it only works in dense urban areas and the wealthier folks drive anyway. European and Asian countries with the better public transit systems seem to be smaller geographically and connect cities to cities with federal funding. To illustrate we've got the Bos-Wash corridor connected via Amtrak but there would be backlash if we tried to fund a super awesome high speed rail there with federal funds because nobody else outside that area would benefit.

For comparison the size of Japan is basically our Eastern Seaboard or California and the UK would be the Northeast Corridor.
I think that may be an exxageration. I study maths at a much lower level and the teacher regarily points out links between these domains.

I believe number theory is already strongly linked with analysis.
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VPN is just a remote ISP.

Of course you have more options, but it's not TOR.

Edit: I mean TOR only figuratively.
It's not facebook's fault people are uninterested and uneducated. Every company has one responsibility and one responsibility only - to make money for investors.

People who use facebook make a choice, consciously or not. They are all making a choice to sell their data in exchange for the platform.

Its not a hard sell - people sell a lot more for a lot less all the time.

Keep in mind this is not new. Companies like Sears, Walmart, Honeywell have customer data dating back 60 years. I've seen some of it. They never delete any of it - every credit card swipe, every zip code you've lived at, every product you've bought or returned.

This is the future. If you care about the uneducated or uninterested public then join a group educating people about the value of their data and what big business does with it.

Government will never be able to fix this.
I hope we can differentiate "I want the New York Times to remove an article about me" from "I want Equifax to remove its business records about me because I don't consent to them collecting my data for commercial purposes."

The former would clearly run into 1st Amendment concerns, but I'm hopeful the latter can be allowed without the same concerns. Does the EFF oppose the latter type?
Publically funded TV is prone to become a propaganda tube of the government. In some cases it already has (in Poland for example). Relying on it as the only news source would be silly (relying on a single news source in general is usually silly, but even more if the government directly handles the staffing).