skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not only that, the violence is largely concentrated in a number of areas where the homicide rate is markedly higher. Both the number of these areas as well as their size are increasing, as does the intensity of the violence.

Possibly the biggest problem in Sweden is that it is still taboo to discuss the facts around this increased crime rate, even though those facts are well known and have been confirmed many times. As long as this taboo persists it will be impossible for Sweden to do anything about these problems as any action which goes counter the narrative of those who prefer to look away will be branded: racist, xenophobe, islamophobe, 'against our ethical foundation'[1], hostile to strangers ('främlingsfientligt').

Good examples of this can be seen in the recent spat at KTH (a technical university) where a student was about to be sacked because he'd made a document summarising the results of different studies on the subject of the relationship between rising crime and the number of immigrants from the Middle-East and Africa. The document itself did nothing more than summarise the results of these studies but this was deemed unacceptable because it was said to violate the institute's 'värdegrund'[1]. KTH directly violated the Swedish constitution which guarantees freedom of expression [2] but it was only when the subject was taken up in several alternative media that KTH backed down. Regular Swedish media did not publish anything on this subject until much later.

A similar case just surfaced where a school rector actually reported some students to the security police (SÄPO) and regular police for publishing a similar document, again just a summary of conclusions of official reports [3]. It is highly unlikely that the police will do anything, let alone the security police but the mere fact that publishing statistics can be ground for removal from an institution or reporting to the authorities shows how deep the taboo goes in certain areas.

[1] The Swedish concept of 'värdegrund' and 'allas lika värde', a form of non-religious dogma which trumps law and common sense in that violating it directly raises a black flag. It can be summed up as 'moral relativism'.

[2] http://academicrightswatch.se/?p=3226

[3] http://www.friatider.se/gymnasieungdomar-skrev-faktablad-om-...
Their own distro? And what would they really gain?
The beginning ot the end of Windows?
https://www.systutorials.com/linux-kernels/13170/patch-updat...
Double strength coffee. I was taking three or four times the level that starts causing noticeable anxiety.
More fragmentation.. awesome!
Perhaps the internet must know, but must it remember?
Another Step in Building the HPC Ecosystem for Arm
Is there a Canadian version of the EFF, or does the EFF have an Canadian branch?
Maybe he no longer has access to unlimited blank checks...
With a custom access policy, it would be pretty easy to specify the IP address allowed for a specific signed URL[0]. This would help to mitigate the risk factor mentioned in point 5 above.

[0] http://improve.dk/how-to-set-up-and-serve-private-content-us...
I can't wait until I get to use Microsoft Linux Windows 10 Home Edition! It will be the most advanced, easy to use, and comprehensive version of Linux ever! Plus, it will have the most spyware, call home features, and random slowdowns yet!

Before I forget... Microsoft Linux Windows 10 Home Edition Extended with the included Open Source Power Pack will have Bob and Clippy. MiLiWi 10 Home will be especially augmented by the customer friendly features you've come to expect. The removal of Elf, dwarf, and other nonsensical needless bloat!
A better approach would be to not put private data in the public domain.
Isn't this basically what PWAs will hopefully solve?

Rather than Spotify, Slack, Discord, ... all coming with their own Electron bundle they can be packaged up as a PWA and use the browser as the runtime environment along with all the nice offline stuff, safe OS integration for notifications, sandboxed file system access, ability to still do some work in S0i3 (aka Modern Standy on Windows), etc.

Or am I totally wrong about this? I am not a web developer so I could be :)

Bonus question: how would this work for things like Atom and VS Code that are electron based. Could they become a PWA?
> What controls do I have?

David neglected to mention that one can easily mark facebook.com as untrusted in NoScript. Ditto for linkedin.com, google-analytics.com, etc.
I wonder how many years I've taken off my life ingesting copious amounts of dirt at the ORV park just a few miles away from the Hanford site
That's how it goes in other countries: if the construction work lasts longer than N days and affects a business, there is a compensation.
It appears that they do. From [1]:

When you visit a website that uses our advertising products (like AdSense), social products (like the +1 button), or analytics tools (Google Analytics), your web browser automatically sends certain information to Google....we may use the information we receive to, for example:

Make ads more effective....

[1] https://policies.google.com/privacy/partners
Yes absolutely, how do you think you prevent people from ddosing and how do you think we prevent spam if not with logs?

Also I'm surprised how nobody has mentioned how important this data is for AB testing.
But it's infuriating when you don't want to use the phrase and/or want to have a secret phrase.
Better would be to allow customers to choose their own phrase and give immediate feedback, during setup, on how good it's likely to be.
The truth is even sadder than you might expect (the rest of this post is a quote from this article[0]):

Conrad said the breach was detected by a provincial employee, but it was a fluke.

“The employee was involved in doing some research on the site and inadvertently made an entry to a line on the site — made a typing error and identified that they were seeing documents they should not have seen,” Conrad told a technical briefing.

[0]: http://toronto.citynews.ca/2018/04/11/halifax-police-probing...
> The present text treats the usual topics expected in a second course in high school algebra.

Looking at that table of contents, high school algebra classes were badass in the 70s!
If the information is supposed to be private wouldn't you want to use token based auth or something similar? I wouldn't feel comfortable exposing information publicly even if it was behind a UUID.
ahh, thats the trick isnt it -- blockchain provides universal currency. No need for local currency handing, banks, cc processors, forex transfer providers, and all the things associated with local payment processors. While i dont think this is the first or is it truely useful, but yes, blockchain (specifically bitcoin) is providing a decentralized universal currency for use in decentralized systems like email. Its a valid point.
no one is forcing anyone to buy shit. i'm on the internet all day browsing all sorts of sites and all of these companies are completely powerless wrt to me. you know why? because i haven't bought anything except underwear from amazon and groceries from my local supermarket in about 9 months.
I think a cryptographic hash is fine.

If you know the hash, you likely already know the file.
I think I read that Google had, in fact, indexed all of these pages.
what if damage occurs not part of actual intercourse and you expose wiring to delicate sexual parts
I see this kind of thing from time-to-time, and it baffles me. Surely, I know how to restore access. Why not ... just not go there? And if it's a problem (again, this baffles me, but no judgement - I binge drink on weekends which is surely worse), delete your accounts there?
The global GDP per capita is about $10k/yr. Depending on what you mean by "adequate" housing, medical care, safe work, and humane conditions... it might not actually be possible. I think if you use first world standards, you'd have a hard time achieving that even if you could magically redistribute all of the globe's economic productivity.
Amazon warehouse workers pee into bottles as they are scared of taking a break
I’m responding to their comment...

> /u/ythn is the worst CEO ever, he gluts himself off of the labors of the socioeconomicly desperate!"
yeah i guess they have a pessimistic view of security or just do not care if the weapons kill innocents. ?
Could someone please update the url to the non-AMP link: https://www.businessinsider.in/For-the-first-time-ever-Micro...
In contrast, it didn't kill the downtown businesses on Granville St. While any long term construction is probably going to negatively impact adjacent businesses that doesn't mean cut and cover is going to be the wrong decision to make in every case.
Lot's of people are mentioning the well-known phase 'Embrace, extend, and extinguish', but what if it ends up being Linux that does the extinguishing? Linux has always been a pain for the average user to run on a laptop or desktop, but these days Windows isn't that much better and I don't think it'll get much better. I'm sure lots of you will think I'm crazy, but I figured it would be an interesting discussion topic.
Are you sure everybody who clicked "ok" was aware of the distinction?

Pointing the finger at their contractors is an easy way for Facebook to shift blame. They knew what was going on. And they eagerly participated on their side of the deal.
Schedule your todo list on your calendar. Identify the tasks you want to complete for the day or week, and block out time on your calendar for each task.
I would have given good money to sit in on the pitch meeting. I think we are moving well past the absurd.
Or maybe the .com one: http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-azure-sphere-is-pow...
1:20 is relatively good odds. A random molecule is something like 0.000000001%.
He's a 19 year old kid, not a criminal mastermind
As far as I can remember none of the London Underground is elevated.

Because London's transport is all integrated under control of the local government (an option which is prohibited in most UK cities to facilitate "competition" ie price-gouging by foreign owned corporations) you might not have realised that you weren't using the Underground but one of the other modes, almost all of which are covered by the same ticketing system (the "Dangleway" isn't and neither are the boats).

If you travelled on ordinary seeming trains above ground, those weren't the Underground but instead ordinary "heavy rail" trains on National Rail infrastructure within London. Many of those lines are indeed far above the ground in parts of central London, but those are just called viaducts and aren't usually considered an "elevated railway" per se.

If you travelled on small trains in East London that didn't have a driver (you can sit at the front like a roller coaster), that's the Docklands Light Railway, almost all of which is elevated, it was built towards the end of last century during regeneration of the "Docklands" area.

If the trains seemed to be sharing a road with cars at street level, in South London, that's the Tramlink.

If the trains were smaller and red, that's a bus.
Far from the first Microsoft Unix, however

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenix
I was apparently in the process of editing out the “hypocritical” statement when you replied - I actually didn’t even mean for that to get posted but accidentally hit post before the final post was ready. Anyway I was mainly advising that you block Facebook since you so vehemently dislike them.
While that may or may not be lucrative, it wouldnt help them in future rounds when they are showing their track record bc the track record cant include non-fee paying accounts.
Not if RMS has anything to say about it.
Reading the text, it seems they just use Bluetooth to transfer data to your phone... although I wonder if it would just be stored on the phone or backed up on the cloud for "safety".

I think it's more like some people sitting around and wondering "What thing have they not made 'smart'/IoTfied?" and someone thought "Cock rings!".

Oh wait,

> What does i.Con do with its data? Can I use it anonymously?

> Absolutely! All data will be kept anonymous but users will have the option to share their recent data with friends, or, indeed the world. You will be able to anonymously access stats that you can compare with i.Con users worldwide.

So they will definitely upload it straight to their cloud...
Ever use replace all in Notepad, where it then begins slowly iterating, repainting at every step?
We redacted that link. Please don't post private keys and passwords here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Possibly https://cippic.ca/

They helped Geocoder.ca with their 4 year lawsuit: https://geocoder.ca/?sued=1
I was working on a heavily government regulated horseracing/gambling mobile website/webapp maybe 7-8 years ago, and we had to prove every intermediate step of any calculation was done in 1/10,000ths of a cent (or perhaps dollar? It was quite some time ago), and any rounding only ever happened once at the very end. (Where by "prove",they meant "submit the source code" - the "easy" way to get this past the regulators was to have "ten thousandths of a cent" be the base unit of a "custom currency", and only ever convert to dollars/cents in the display code. (Nobody ever questioned the ajax/javascript interaction with the resulting "integer" currency numbers... shudder...)

I get the impression back then they everybody in the gaming/gambling industry did this all the time - to the extent that they knew how to organise source code and name variables and functions so the regulators auditing the code would just rubber stamp it.

(I was not "in the gaming industry", we were just doing a mobile friendly front end, in jQuery Mobile, to run on the hot new Samsung Galaxy S2... Now I think I need to go curl up in a dark corner and cry myself to sleep again... Project. From. Hell...)
Pretzel: Mac app that shows/search keyboard shortcuts based on your current app
It's worth noting that the behavior is totally different if you pass higher dimensional matrices. The Fortran, Python, Haskell, etc. code will all break or fail to typecheck, whereas the APL/J/K implicitly maps over them. Understanding this topic ("rank") is a major source of confusion for new users and power for existing users, as lots of different mapping regimes can be obtained without a lot of additional operators.

The rank operator in J (and probably Dyalog APL) allows you to treat a 3D matrix as an array of 2D matrices, a 2D matrix of arrays, a single item or a bunch of unit-sized boxes. This concept generalizes to higher dimensions. I don't think this aspect of array programming has gotten as much airtime as it deserves, probably because it is complex, but this is where the semantics of array languages and conventional languages really differ.
It's more than just licenses, though. With this program, Microsoft is going to be providing a service in addition to simply putting out their build of the Linux kernel: the userspace, libraries in it, and associated cloud services. They can put as little or as much they want in these service layers, and these service layers are free from copyleft license restrictions (little embedded Linux software is AGPL, and their cloud services are almost certainly not going to be AGPL).

Now, I'm not saying they're going to do this, but, if they wanted to, everything above the kernel is very easy to "extend" in a capturing effort.

Indeed, Ubuntu and systemd have successfully extended layers above the kernel to great success. It's a good thing that both are open source (and that systemd is LGPL), but that was not a very neccessary requirement to the extensions they have built.
I suspect that once we have switched fully to autonomous cars on the road, the subway will cease to exist.
Shift blame? Facebook created an API that would allow people to create genuinely useful apps provided that users allowed them to access their data. I can think of a thousand interesting use cases for the data Facebook provided through their api.

One bad actor screwed everyone.

I'm surprised at how few people on hackernews have ever built or worked with apis.

Facebook essentially built an open platform and now they are being punished for it because people are too stupid to understand what they are signing up for.
The OLPC XO-1 was very effective for extremely destructive uses.

When the US military was trying to put Iraq and Afghanistan back together, someone there approached OLPC about supplying the XO-1 to the kids. A huge concern was that it could be turned into a really effective IED trigger. There is a camera to detect motion, a DC-capable audio jack for wiring in arbitrary parts, the speakers and microphone for range-finding, the resistive touchpad as a pressure sensor, and of course the WiFi for sending commands. To initiate the explosion there was an audio output jack, USB ports that could be powered on or off, and a screen backlight.
Oops, this is much better - I've no idea how I got .in, thanks for catching that!
i can see how the older generation is thinking though, they see it like leaving a window unlocked doesn’t mean you can

the laws are interpreted and applied by powerful people in a way that suits the way they think - that much i think could have been predicted (but not by a teenager)

did the weev ruling surprise anybody other than hackers?
The police won't report on the violence for fear of being called racist, which is a crime that comes with jail time. Ditto for journalists. That is why the 1st amendment is so important. When it becomes illegal to tell the truth, nobody knows what the hell is going on.
Anker is a real company. So why are they doing crowdfunding? I like their stuff, but this doesn't give me confidence in their ability to deliver.
Better URL: https://amp.businessinsider.com/microsoft-azure-sphere-is-po...

Honestly, amp-businessinsider-com.cdn.ampproject.org is the kind of url you try to teach grandma not to click on so she doesn't enter her bank details on halifax-online-co-uk-personal-logon-login.jsp.secure.tk when they send her an email
A while back I set a goal to have a happy, fulfilling life, and then asked what five elements were individually necessary and collectively sufficient to produce that. Then I went one level deeper, taking care to be strict with the boolean logic. I eventually got to actionable items.

The surprising part was the amount of priorities I had in my life that weren't in that life graph. Stuff that was urgent but not important, and counterintuitively unnecessary when subjected to first-principle analysis. As I started letting those things go, I started to feel more productive since I had more confidence that my actions were aligned with my purpose.

It was tedious and time-consuming, and the closer you get to the leaves, the easier it is for the graph to feel "out of date" as your priorities and circumstances change. But the root of the graph (or the top... for me the actionable stuff was at the bottom) has hardly changed at all since those were my core principles. So I'm still not sure it is worth the time to keep it "accurate", but it was a good exercise to do at least once.
Keep in mind that this governmental function, producing nuclear weapons, was started during WWII, when it had to be done now and it didn't really matter if anyone got hurt because the alternative was getting shot in France or on some Pacific island. After that, it was buried in incredible secrecy and has never had to produce visible results. In that sort of environment, dysfunction breeds unchecked.
From Wiktionary[1]:

>(Received Pronunciation, General Australian, UK) IPA(key): /ˈskwɪɹl̩/, /ˈskwɪɹəl/

>(Canada, US) IPA(key): /ˈskwɝl/, /ˈskwɝl̩/, /ˈskwɝəl/

I haven't really thought about this word before, I think I use the UK pronunciation /ˈskwɪɹəl/, and this word didn't come across as hard to pronounce.

[1]: https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=squirrel&oldid=4...
Good thing he’s in Canada and only got raided. If he were in the USA, they would have tossed flashbangs and tear gas into his house, vaulted in through the windows, shot the family dog, and held the whole family at gun point, boots on their necks.

It’s a shame that police departments think these “shock and awe” tactics are even remotely appropriate for dealing with non-violent suspects.
"How astronomcally low are the odds there's nothing illegal to possess in there?"

That is a haunting reflection of the state of affairs with regards to information and laws regarding information. Criminalizing the mere possession of information should be a tool only of the despotic and/or idiotic.

Of course, these clowns left "private" information accessible by public urls without identification, so we know that they're at least idiots.
Social network plan – request for comments
I've always just removed the file extension before uploading.
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16853361 [16 comments, 6 minutes older].
HIPAA has IP addresses listed as one of the unique identifiers you must protect in your dataset.
So Facebook is going with the tu quoque fallacy.

Perhaps the others will be in trouble in future too, but sorry Facebook, it's your turn now.
You're right, method (OOP) notation lets you compose/pipeline functions. Pipes enable the same thing. So does F#'s pipeline (|>) operator, Haskell's composition (.) operator, Clojure's threading macro, concatenation in stack-based languages like Forth, etc... It's not a concept unique to OOP, which is why GP referred to 'point-free programming', which describes the general idea.
If things should be secure, they should be behind authentication and authorization for that content. To argue about what is the best ID to be used is just trying to fix what is not broken, IMHO.
Multimodal Unsupervised Image-To-Image Translation
Yes, it is difficult to understand a spoken phrase. That's why speakers rely on shared context: physical place, relationship between speaker and listener, previous interaction/s between speaker and listener.... none of which is present in a book or newspaper article that's being plucked out of the context-ether.
> You have it exactly backwards. The healthy people are in fact paying for the ill people (who typically don't come even remotely close to ever paying for the cost of their treatment/care). The real cost to cover healthy people is extremely low, they pay artificially inflated prices for their insurance that subsidizes care & coverage for other sick people.

Agree - that's indeed how insurance works. :)

I was referring to high co-pays on vastly expensive new drugs, and was also being slightly facetious.
It isn't a breach if the administrators of the repository failed to secure the information. Regardless of the likelihood of conviction it is reprehensible to terrify some kid with the threat of losing his freedom as a means of saving face, which is what this appears to be. I certainly hope he gets out of this.
Curious -- how many here, knowing what they know now, have gone through the trouble of deleting their FB accounts?
Simultaneously, BART construction had a similar detrimental effect in downtown Oakland. Arguably, it is only now recovering.
The difference is this: a website tracking you while you're there is just using their own data.

FB, Google, twitter get data from all the websites which make the error of using their scripts: be it analytics, social buttons or "login with whatever". Everytime you use assets hosted by a third party they get free data about your users. Every time you use a third party service you're giving data about your users.
The article states it's called "Azure Stack OS."
I don't see that coming in the foreseeable future, unless they make a Linux desktop that is as user-friendly as Windows.