skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Encryption has gotten much easier and more widespread in recent years, and is growing.

When you only have a handful of large ISPs where AT&T has been known to split your data to share with the NSA and authorities, that is dangerous thinking [1].

> Room 641A is a telecommunication interception facility operated by AT&T for the U.S. National Security Agency that commenced operations in 2003 and was exposed in 2006

That was over a decade ago, I am sure by now they have privilege to lots of that data and technology.

There was a #deletefacebook movement which proves that you can get rid of Facebook and people use it by choice. There cannot be a #deleteISP movement as that is the 'trusted' network gateway you can't route around.

All it takes is scaring people who use ISPs to allow in more monitoring 'for your safety' or 'more data cap space' or 'faster internet' or 'lower costs', they can legally sell that data now so there is an incentive to do these things. There is a reason they lobbied for this right and removal of net neutrality, it wasn't to play nice.

Hotel wifi like ISPs here we come.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A
VRchat is basically the same thing but better. Janus has its own kind of markup language which is pretty cool but nobody has done anything huge with it yet. If it was developed to fill in where VRchat doesn't, it may be better. the decentralized nature is pretty nice.
Following the branch down is obviously impossible, but simply detecting that there are new branches--perhaps a greater than expected number--could be useful information. For both the engineers and the operaters.
For the layman user (likely 99%+ of these ISP user populations), using an ISP essentially provides near-entire browser history to them, at least to the granularity of domain name.

A surprising number of sites (and/or assets, images, etc) still don't use TLS, and so for those it's also possible for an ISP to understand what the user was reading/accessing.

Even for sites which do support TLS, if the ISP hypothetically had a partnership with a single data broker / advertiser which was also on the page, it's likely not hard to have a pretty precise idea of their interests/viewing.

You're right that Google and Facebook will continue to have very narrow and precise information about people's daily lives; it's simultaneously true that ISPs will continue to have broad & ongoing profiling information across any touchpoints as people use the internet.
TBH I don't recall him making any political statements, or singing any songs during the class. Which was a real shame.
That is such a silly and intellectually dishonest argument. The value of tulips in Feb. 1637 in Amsterdam was also quite high, but that didn't last, neither will bitcoin's valuations.
Industrial is more than that. A big one for me was that the manufacturer will work with you and notify you when they change their BoM, letting you reverify and track internally.
Once I had a love and it was a gas

Soon turned out had a heart of glass
Oprah, Rupert Murdoch, Harvard: Saudi Prince’s U.S. Tour
Interesting, do you have more information to read about this?
Craigslist declined to be the testcase, it will be interesting to see how this goes with lawmakers specifically targeting the site. Is tinder or other e-dating forums next?
You and I don't, but it sure starts to seem like most people are fine with that...
Well, more accurately, they appear to have come for the pimps.
Zuckerberg: Most users should assume their data has been compromised
Facebook and Google are not repositories to which you entrust your data for private safekeeping. The point of Facebook is to communicate with other people. The point of Google is to interact with shared repository of knowledge that learns from its own utilization. There is inherently a multi-party interest in everything Google or Facebook has about you, except for maybe never-shared Google Docs.

Bank vault analogues for private data do exist: iCloud, Dropbox, Crashplan, etc. If “your data” needs to leave your physical possession, that’s the sort of service it should go to.
The mistake you, and most others that come to this conclusion, make is that bubble thinking existed long before FB and will exist long after FB. Hell the idea that you can interact with people outside of the hundred of so people that live in your small town is relatively new idea in most of the US.

The difference now is that outsiders can observe the tribal thinking. Sure it's sad the Internet didn't deliver on the revolution of the 90s interms of bringing us all together; however, I think the idea of being connected to people is only going to increase in importance as the global workforce becomes more and more mobile and bonds become decoupled from geography. I don't think it'll be Facebook (at least in the model that exists today), but it's difficult to deny the massive demand for that kind of product that has been the fire driving the company forward.
On the whole, this looks like a positive step in the right direction. What I wonder is how much effort did the US Justice dept / local authorities put into getting backpage.com to pull these kinds of listings? Craigslist seems to have cleaned itself up well.
AvE is so great! completely changed how i see tools! plus his gift of gab is amazing
Then, they came for the murderers, and I said nothing, because slippery slope is a stupid argument.
Thanks, I guess. Only accelerating the blockchain+ipfs combo.
Could you be thinking of Mark Russell?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Russell
How is coming for the webpage that acts as a marketplace coming for the pimps?
I, too, use encrypted VPN, but we are just a minority. Many people use the services provided as-is without taking any extra measures, and I think that those are the people more likely to be influenced by the influencers anyway.

We, the ones that they'll have to spend undue effort to sniff out a profile about, are not targets to them. We are much too resistant to it that we have gone all through the effort of setting up a private VPN with good encryption.
Outside Magazine had a great article where an amateur athlete experimented on himself by doping and reporting on the effects.

https://www.outsideonline.com/1908791/i-couldnt-be-more-posi...
Is raspberry pi trapped in its own architecture? The Broadcom SOC chosen 5 years ago may have seemed like a good choice then, but the raspberry pi foundation is now facing an uphill battle since Broadcom doesn’t seem to be providing any significant updates to the raspberry pi, other than clock increases. You have the whole codebase based around this one chip, and I worry that this will mean painful migrations if raspberry pi ever switches to a new architecture
Holy clickbait
Ah, yes... you have convinced me - though humans can apply generalized intelligence to the problem, which I imagine is particularly useful in lots of special cases.
These "right to be forgotten" laws are already being abused:

* German murderers sue for Wikipedia to remove their names from the page about their victim. https://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/13/us/13wiki.html?_r=0

* Russian oligarch sues Google and Yandex for linking to investigation about investigations of him and his businesses. https://themoscowtimes.com/articles/putins-personal-chef-sue...

* A doctor sues to remove negative patient reviews. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/10833894/Polit...

These laws will tip the balance of information away from the people and towards the wealthy who will have the means to conduct extensive background checks/research.
I mostly agree with you. From my perspective the data that Facebook has on me is far better than anything my ISP could have collected thus-far. I am in an area where I have more than one option for high speed internet and it is a pain to change but not even close to the amount of pain I would experience by deleting Facebook and Instagram. Doing that would cause fundamental changes to my social life. None of my friends are even aware that I switched ISPs last year.

I think if the article was written in the spirit of "watch out for the ISPs too" instead of "the ISPs are so much worse" I would have been more onboard.

I think it's a bit apples and oranges: all my traffic with low resolution or just my social traffic in high resolution. I don't clearly see one being far more dangerous/valuable than the other.
One the huuuugely under-appreciated benefits of Apple Pay is that it is immune to these retailer hacks.

It never transmits your card number or name to the retailer. Instead it uses a token (substitute number) that is tied to iPhone-based authentication. Even if stolen, it's useless.

So I don't think we should give retailers a pass, but the bigger issue here is the whole PCI compliance architecture was a security nightmare to begin with. We should usher in modern methods like Apple and Samsung Pay ASAP that remove that retailer vulnerability altogether.
Haha, I ended up tapping all read and writes to the card, intending to catch our crappy FAT driver in the act of corrupting.

Turns out the card itself was shit and replaying the trace would just kill arbitrary cards.
I you are into immutable and c++ you should really have a look at Immer by Arximboldi (who is a user here on HN). Really amazing stuff: https://github.com/arximboldi/immer
Their plan is to free the sex workers from bondage then? No pun intended..
Both sex worker anecdotes, and some larger studies, suggest the availability of such online services actually reduce violence, homicide, and sex trafficking. See for example:

https://thinkprogress.org/craigslist-erotic-services-platfor...
I vacillate on this.

On the one hand, I don't think prostitution should be illegal.

On the other hand, it's not clear whether marketplaces like backpage bring the black-market closer to the light of day & make things safer for sex workers, or if they amplify demand to the point where suppliers have incentive to find new sex workers using more and more coercive methods.
> Alas, the fastest [dispatching] solutions require either non-standard extensions to C, or hand-written assembly code.

I assume gcc's label addresses[0].

I've been planning to try those out the next time I get around to playing with minischeme to see just how much of a speed difference they make -- I'd imagine quite a bit since it could just hop around from opcode to opcode instead of having to go through the loop (which I believe is outside the dispatching function).

It's funny, searched the google to see if clang supported this and the top result (from stackoverflow) has the comment "This is terrible coding style. Why don't you use a switch or a function table. If you really want such code, you should goto 70ies/80ies BASIC."

[0]https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Labels-as-Values.html
Good read, if you are the author I am not sure if feedly is lying that you have rss but despite saying you do I can not subscribe.
Peter Thiel on “Founder as Victim, Founder as God” (2012)
Backpage was a major example of why SESTA/FOSTA was "necessary". It seems convenient that it wasn't taken down until after the passage of SESTA (despite the fact that the takedown did not leverage any of the new provisions, AFAICT (EDIT: as cft points out, the bill has not yet been signed by the President, so clearly it was not necessary))
I didn't realize there were issues with it—it's been forever since I looked at it. I added it as an afterthought, rather than seriously citing it, but that was laziness on my part and I am ashamed of myself and do humbly apologize. However, I take issue with somebody completely ignoring anybody for any arbitrary heuristic—that is also intellectual laziness.

I do appreciate your well-reasoned response, and respect the amount of nutritional research you have done. I merely recommend trying Dr. Greger's nutritional advice for yourself for a month, to see if it personally works for you. Following it plus reintroducing exercise to my life each played a large part in breaking out of a major depressive episode.

In the end, what matters is finding what works for us personally. I have no vested interest in convincing anybody to follow my nutritional advice, other than wanting them to flourish. I'm sorry for accidentally butting heads, I seem to have rubbed you the wrong way. Hope you have a wonderful day.
Taxpayers actually subsidize almost every industry. States and various local governments give tons of incentives and loans of different kinds to projects / startups and companies for different reasons. (one popular reason is generally to get companies to create jobs in their area), but the US federal government will also fund private enterprise which could create new and emerging industries. The government usually does this for it's own self interest. The government wants to take on these projects to boost the economy or industries. Using perfect economics... it's not optimal not to pick winners in a market but the world has a funny way of making things more complex than basic economic models (ex the energy industry, where overtime it is not advantageous to allow the market to pick non renewable resources but the market still might until everything is gone :) )

It seems like crony capitalism refers to a scenario where the money from government investment goes directly to the pockets of players in the industry. (this is what is believed to have happened in Russia over the last 2 decades..one example being multi billion dollar construction projects for olympics with nothing to show for it).

That doesn't seem to be what happens in the United States (in most cases). Most major innovation still needs the government to chip in. Google's alphabet (so far) has show that this kind of innovation system is really hard for a private company to drive ever when they have almost unlimited resources. So if we have clear evidence (and we do... Moon landing , internet, electric cars, new space race, self driving ) government investment drives us forward (in aggregate) what is morally wrong about the US government participating the economy?

And not to nit pick but are you sure the dollar figure really doesn't matter? There's a profound difference between ~500 million (the loan Tesla actually got) and 4.9 billion dollars (fake number pushed by media w/ agenda)....
This is an interesting point, but note that the scheme you are suggesting is "stateful" (you need to remember the last ciphertext to be able to generate the next one). The standard definition of an encryption scheme (and the one used in this paper) is stateless (once you have generated the key, you can produce ciphertexts without keeping track of any state). Stateful encryption schemes lead to all kind of complications and for this reason tend to be studied way less from the theoretical perspective. But it would be an interesting question to see if the results from this paper extend to the stateful setting (and I agree that because of the example you provide, some adaptation would have to be made).
Hmm, How effective is this? I recently watched ICARUS and I have been reading a lot about doping and how athletes circumvent the tests done by WADA labs ( World Anti Doping Agency). I have a couple of questions regarding this and in no particular order of importance

(1) Should a state decide to implement something like this, isn't this some sort of privacy violation by the state? People could have been prescribed these Anabolics by a physician too, don't they also come under the scanner?

(2) Also, I don't clearly understand the sampling here, tons of gallons get pumped into the wastewater system. How much quantity of samples would be collected for testing purposes? and what is the frequency of these samples being collected?

(3) Please totally excuse my ignorance here, the major banned substances for which athletes have been banned are "Methylhexaneamine", "Methenolone","Oxandrolone", and a lot of "Stanozolol" and "Turinabol" ( I m getting all this from this wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doping_at_the_Olympic_Games#Di...). The table in the paper doesn't seem to mention any of these substances. Are they mentioned under a different name?

(4) Also, in the light of new information (ie) state-sponsored doping, Lance Armstrong escaping some 500 Lab tests & going completing uncaught by WADA and so many other labs around the world, as a spectator I already know that a ton of Olympic athletes are doping. Isn't the actual problem trying to prove that "individual" athletes are doping? A collective evidence is probably not as useful anymore since all watchdogs, sports committees and spectators are more skeptical from the get go.
>Craigslist seems to have cleaned itself up well.

Removing everything is cleaning up well? By the same analogy you should remove your toilet, permanently, from your house to flush it.
User Authentication Best Practices Checklist
Modern JS frameworks haven't abandoned accessibility. Developers (by choice or by ignorance) are simply not using accessibility features, which is not much different than before JS frameworks. If you're looking for the actual cause and not a cheap scapegoat, it's lack of training and/or MVP culture. Businesses are pushing more and more for getting a prototype out the door and less and less for a quality product.
http://partners.exelate.com/media/1/_orig/1426866843-8791.pd...

http://adage.com/article/digital/facebook-partner-acxiom-eps...

https://adexchanger.com/ecommerce-2/purchase-data-playbook-m...
Yes! My suggestion: SoToSe
self-organising team-oriented software-engineering
Then they came for the misogynists, and I said nothing because I didn’t understand how low the bar was for being misogynistic. Then I understood it covers everything that is not cheering women, and all men were a target. But they tagged me as misogynistic.
To speak English "correctly" you have to be able to pluralize the Latin, Greek, French, and Germanic way:

* octopi
* phenomena
* tableaux
* oxen

Mostly this is just used for people to show off their erudition, since it would be easier to understand if everybody used the plural suffix rather than these weird declensions.

* octopuses
* phenomenons
* tableaus
* oxes

Also, honorable mention for _childs_.
Volvo calls it Pilot Assist when you actually have the feature on your car
This is amazing! I love that they're adding the ability to see:

1) which campaign or PAC bought the ad

2) all other ads by that buyer

3) how much that buyer spent on this ad and all other ads

Seriously, what other platform provides this level of transparency into political ads? It's unprecedented.

Also, it doesn't matter if you use or like Facebook--literally tens of millions do in the US, and they all have a vote. This is a win for democracy.
I was using 'pimps' as short-hand for the people brokering sex worker transactions, be they platform admins or some guy named Icepick.

My sense is that, in most cases, sex workers do not act as their own agents, so I see backpage as a platform catering to pimps et al.

Though I guess there's an argument to be made that sites like backpage make it easier for sex workers to disintermediate pimps, which I imagine would be a good thing.
As someone whose first memories start after computers existed:

This is ridiculous. People need to fix themselves. They need to adjust their values judgements, understand the purpose of 'last modified time', and adapt to the new world.

Computers aren't going to become better at forgetting because a legislature or a court has decided they should.
Is it possible for the rPi to boot from a USB device? One solution would be to hook it up to a $20 32GB SSD drive instead of relying on an SD card.
Pietro Giannelli fa scatenare la primavera italiana
Try driving near a place with a lot of roads that are close together, like an airport. You’ll quickly see that snapping doesn’t really work, especially if you deviate from the route the GPS is trying to take you on.
Are you thinking of Mark Russell (http://markrussell.net)?
I'm curious if this only made possible by the recent SESTA/FOSTA law that was passed. It's not like Backpage is anything new, so why take it down now?

If it is related to those laws, this is significant precedent for websites being responsible for user posted content. I'm afraid of what it's going to do to communities like Reddit and HN.

If I post a zero-day in the comments section here, YC could be responsible for the damages it causes.
If you're interested in Digital Logic / FPGA / VHDL then I'd recommend this book [1] and this collection of Youtube videos [2]

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Logic-Circuits-Design-VH...
[2]: http://www.montana.edu/blameres/book_content_vhdl.html
> Reinforcement Learning.. DNN... the mechanisms behind autonomous cars... are they able to do this??

Sorta. There are ways to extract kinds of uncertainty and confidence from NNs: for example, Gal's dropout trick where you train with dropout and then at runtime you use an 'ensemble' of multiple dropout-ed versions of your model, and the set of predictions gives a quasi-Bayesian posterior distribution for the predictions. NNs can be trained directly via HMC for small NNs, and there are arguments that constant-learning-rate SGD 'really' implements Bayesian inference and an ensemble of checkpoints yields an approximation of the posterior, etc. You can also train RL NNs which have an action of shortcutting computation and kicking the problem out to an oracle in exchange for a penalty, which trains them to specialize and 'know what they don't know' so they choose to call the oracle when they're insufficiently sure (this can be done for computational savings if the main NN is a small fast simple one and the oracle is a much bigger slower NN, or for safety if you imagine the oracle is a human or some fallback mechanism like halting).

I have some cites on these sorts of things in https://www.gwern.net/Tool-AI and you could also look at the relevant tags https://www.reddit.com/r/reinforcementlearning/search?q=flai... and https://www.reddit.com/r/reinforcementlearning/search?q=flai...
Ajalt/fuckitpy: The Python error steamroller
Flights to Europe for less than 300
This is a Cervantes short story:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_licenciado_Vidriera
Company I work for was recently acquired. Day 1: Everybody except the Sales team is on 90-days notice. This included the software development team. They have a whole process in place, with a catchy name: "Lift & Shift." During the next 90 days, they are doing "knowledge transfer" with their team, and I checked out individuals on github. Bangladesh, rural Russia, Vietnam, and Isreal, just to name a few of the various publicly stated locations. Does that count as Outsourcing?
Weller. Though I have a Aoyue hot air station and it is great.
If you want to learn how to design circuits in a structured, analytical way (i.e., without heuristics and black magic), I can recommend this course: [1]. Note that this is really a more advanced course.

[1] https://ocw.tudelft.nl/course-lectures/sed-l1-intro/?course_...
I wonder how much of it is caused by having the freedom to decide how to spend your own time.

I had the opportunity to spend a couple of months off between jobs a few years back and I’ve never been happier. It was gone within a day of starting my new job. I like what I do for a living, but not nearly as much as I like freedom. Spending most of your life in dayprison sucks the joy out of your life.
> My sense is that, in most cases, sex workers do not act as their own agents

Your sense is totally wrong. Sites like craigslist and backpage make it easier for sex workers to pre screen johns. Cold street approaches are nearly impossible to screen and very dangerous, hence pimps. This shutdown further entrenches the dominance of pimps over sex workers and makes sex work significantly more dangerous.
Hakko
TweetBot – among others – is apparently in trouble:

'After June 19th, 2018, streaming services at Twitter will be removed. This means two things for third-party apps:

Push notifications will no longer arrive
Timelines won’t refresh automatically'

http://apps-of-a-feather.com/
I am surprised this doesn't get brought up more.

I also would pay $24 a year for a 'premium Facebook' ad free experience.