skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It feels like the reduction of a nuanced problem into a simple one with a single victim and a single perpetrator, and only one acceptable narrative.

"It's not my fault I left my window open and you took advantage of it. I shouldn't have to keep my windows locked."

"If you see an unlocked window it's not an opportunity for you to take advantage of."

That's admittedly fairly obtuse, but you can see elements of this play out even in this thread, where it becomes a debate about the accuracy of the metaphor and not a discussion of the actual problem. It is so much easier to attack the language than it is to dig out the real concerns and talk about those, so you get a pro and anti situation or semantic nitpicking.

If you agree that the older generation can only think in the metaphorical sense and are practically stuck in the 50s with how they describe it, you also have to accept that it is so far out of whack with reality that it causes continual debate about what actually does reflect the situation and completely detracts from the problem at hand. It is beyond idiotic and it's symbolic of an unhealthy resistance to change.

As an aside, this happens in places like HN and Reddit all the time. A metaphor is introduced into a discussion and it totally derails it, and you're not talking about the source material any more, you're talking about the metaphor and how it can be more accurate. It's like the metaphor is more important than the problem itself sometimes and it's intensely sociopathic, because the linguistics take priority over the humanity.
It's like the Zune of Linux Distros!
If people aren't responsible for who has access to their data who should be?

The Facebook permissions when granting a third party app access to your data couldn't be more clear
BuckleScript 3.0 is released
CEO of $20M startup could lose his visa and his business
Well, then make a new editor and give it a different name. Leave the old one in for compatibility. It's not hard.
Home Assistant joins Ubiquiti Networks
You can find some documents from https://foipop.novascotia.ca in Google cache, so should Google be sued too?
I mean, the coal ash calculations are "normal" numbers as well.
Wow, this is really well designed and the article is a pleasure to read.

I wonder if it might be even better for the ExchangeRate constructor to take two different Dense values, something like:

exchangeRate (1 :: Dense "EUR") (12 % 10 Dense "USD")

Then the type system could automatically prevent you from making an error by accidentally entering the reciprocal exchange rate from what is expected.
This is a clever idea. The name is great too!
Is it open source?
Yep. Lot's of people refuse to take "yes" for an answer. Open Source won.
There are parts of the Underground that are, in fact, above ground and elevated (especially farther out like Ealing and Stratford). Then there’s also the Overground, which I think counts as light rail, but is generally on ground level.
Embrace, extend...

You know what comes next.

P.S. Maybe it will be different, this time. However, there's some significant history to overcome, if some of us are to come to believe this.
^^^^^^^
[edit] clarifying to point out that I fully agree and have nothing more to add
Truckers have time frames and distance to worry about. Only X distance and or time on the road before being off for Y time.

Say you reach your quota 20 miles away from home. Either you have to wait Y time or have a family member come and pick you up and take you back to the truck. YOU CANNOT DRIVE HOME that 20 miles.
Medieval door believed to be the inspiration for Tolkien's entrance to Moria
More like finding a classified FBI interrogation manual in the Library of Congress...

Ok, not actually a metaphor -- https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/12/fbi-copyrighted...
This seems more like a failure to develop proper social norms with regard to Internet information.

> If the information is not supposed to be public, it should not be reachable without authorization or authentication.

I don't lock my car, and often not my house either. I don't think that means you should be able to snoop around and see what interests you. Websites are private property. It is obvious what parts you're supposed to see and what parts you're not supposed to see. You should be able to prosecute snoops as an alternative to locking things down, as you would with any other private property.
Couldn't it be argued that clicking links on a web page are no different from changing an ID in the URL?

Web pages contain loads of URLs. You can't tell if you have the right to access the content behind it. The URL itself is simply an address to something - or nothing (404).

Having an ID in the URL is a compact way of signaling a huge list of URLs.

Thus, the kid simply followed links published on the website.
> I was mainly advising that you block Facebook since you so vehemently dislike them

Yours is a technical solution to a human problem. If we care about democracy and the future of the Internet, we will dismantle Facebook. (I expect we will, though in typical democratic fashion, after years of quibbling.)
One thing missing from this entire conversation: I personally signed up for Facebook at the age of 14. In fact, my friend made it for me and I took it over after he successfully harangued me into using it. I never, as an adult, consented to this statutory data rape.
> "That analogy assumes a lot about how hard/hidden obvious id numbers in URLs are"

Well, I did give 2 different analogies, and without knowing more specifics, I'm not taking a stand on which analogy better fits this case. Depending on the specific design the government used, and the steps the teenager took to access the content, either analogy could be applicable.

> "Rather than scapegoat the kid, the government should be investigating themselves for criminal negligence."

That's a false dichotomy. Investigating government officials for negligence shouldn't preclude prosecuting a (hypothetical) malicious hacker.
At what point does should web-browsers start to interfere with this data collection? I'm aware of extensions that do this, but the average user isn't going to install one (or remember to reinstall it after they've got a new computer). The Do-Not-Track header seems to be dead in the water - should browsers make a more aggressive move against this? It's obviously a conflict of interest for Google (since they both have a competing product to FB, and like to do a heap of similar data collection themselves) as well as a possible Anti-trust concern; but Mozilla, Apple and Microsoft could be stepping in here.
TL;DR: Bitcoin is good. Society is mature enough to use Bitcoin compared to fiat currency. People should stop trusting the government.
I'm head-down in writing NuCypher as we speak, but it's obvious to me how to do what we're doing without a distributed consensus mechanism, and I do think that the real world use cases will be pretty rad.

Our system allows an actor (Alice) to select any number of recipients (Bob) in a Policy. Alice can disappear from the network forever, and subsequently, any DataSource can encrypt data, using Alice's public key, which can then be decrypted by all of the Bobs.

That's pretty cool to me. I do think that medical devices / IoT are an obvious use case. I also hope that our tech is used to build selected consortiums of journalists, whom whistle-blowers can then encrypt for only by knowing the policy key.

Another interesting use case is for distributed ops: if you have a number of streams of operational data that you want to share only with a certain number of watchers, presently you need to trust a centralized service to do that.

I'll admit: I'm not really the use case guy. But I am waist-deep in the python over here, and I can tell you we have a good thing going.
It is not quite like that though.

More like, All items on this table are free.

So far, so good.

Then someone included a couple that aren't free.

Writing a line of code to fetch a batch of info is ordinary to a literate user.

Putting some burden on him to understand that has happened is a very hard sell to me.
All good questions and some things will probably be well addressed by PWA or whatever we decide to call JavaScript rich webpages by then.

But some UI issues, like the lack of a proper menu, browser's chrome and address bar will still be a turn off. Besides, having unrestriced access to the user's drive is not something a web page should be able to do and is a must for something like a text editor.
You can't just tell your non-exempt workforce to stay home without pay for a week. That's a layoff, and there are laws for that, even in America.
Didn't he die while writing the final volume...
This sort of thing ain't my bag, baby!
Someone has been predicting that Microsoft would in the future produce their own Linux Distro on Slashdot for the last 5 years. I remember thinking it sounded impossible for for the first few years. Seems prophetic now.
Well, in Linux the home directory is read from /etc/passwd at login and $HOME is set from that, and $HOME is presumably and environment variable like any other. It's up to each bit of software whether it cares about such things. That's how I understand it. On Windows I get confused with "administrator" vs "all users" vs "current user" vs "some other user" that an organisation is using for some reason. It seems like stuff can end up in different places.

Sorry if I gave the impression that I don't care about the software the user installed themselves. Well, actually I don't, but the user themselves may care.
A couple years ago, I asked Michael Geist[1] a similar question.

Me: I am a Canadian citizen and am rather concerned by what appears to be increasing online censorship and erosion of privacy rights in Australia and the UK. If it can happen there, it can happen here. I'd like to do my part to ensure that we can effectively oppose bad public policy when it's proposed in Canada. I deeply respect both the EFF and the ACLU for their work in the United States, but I'm not familiar with equivalent organizations for Canada. Do you have any suggestions as to where should I be sending my holiday donations?

Michael Geist: Thanks for your note. There are several groups in Canada that do great work on these issues:

1. CIPPIC - the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (cippic.ca). I founded this tech law clinic at the University of Ottawa, the only one of its kind in Canada.

2. Open Media - based in Vancouver

3. CCLA - the Canadian Civil Liberties Association

4. CJFE - Canadian Journalists for Freedom of Expression

5. BCCLA - BC Civil Liberties Association

All do great work with limited resources.

[1]: http://www.michaelgeist.ca/
>Many UUIDs aren't secure either and can be trivially enumerated.

uuidv4
Didn't say that. I said that lure of the suburbs is waning. Skyrocketing costs in cities are a symptom of that and the Vox article concedes as much.
Interesting to hear of someone using Geany for coding on Linux. I used it briefly maybe a decade ago when I was still a vim noob. Glad to hear it's still around and used by at least one person :-)
>I don't lock my car, and often not my house either. I don't think that means you should be able to snoop around and see what interests you. Websites are private property

Here's a better analogy; you put up a "yard sale" sign in your front yard, fill the driveway with property, and then call the police on the first person who shows up claiming they are trespassing.
See: the Inclosure Act.
I've recently started using http://www.beeminder.com

I'm finding it very helpful for sticking to my goals. Their blog is a wonderland of productivity research and knowledge, as well. I highly recommend checking it out.
I started with less than $100 18 years ago, now Im in the 0.1%.

Also not born in a first-world country (though immigrated to one at a very young age).

Also nobody funded me until much later in my life, by which time I was already a millionaire.
Many of the state's powerful lobbyists work from one Olympia neighborhood
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I guess calling it "email" instead of a task makes it sound new, but they do have competitors, Mechanical Turk probably being the most prominent.

Mechanical Turk pays out using Amazon payments or Amazon gift cards.

Google Opinion Awards pays out as either Google Play credit on Android. It looks like you can convert this to a gift card, at least in the U.S. They use Paypal on iOS.
If you can share, what kind of variation in F1 score were you seeing between different trigger words? I'd expect even within a single product family (i.e. Alexa/Echo/Amazon/Computer) there's probably significant variation.

I'd also be interested in the differences between a collectively-optimized wake word (without personal training) and one which the user personally trains against their voice à la the parent article. To what extent does that personal training supplement/supplant (or fail to do so) the "good enough for everyone" wake word kernels?
Seems like they're trying to fix the problem of vendors not releasing security updates after 2-3 years of the product's launch by taking on the responsibility themselves.

They'd be looking at long term gains here
Is the intended audience supposed to be humanities professors or the layman? Hypocritical how the article appears to be talking about humanities alienating the wider population, and a few paragraphs in I’m already lost on context.
I once asked in a WebEx interview if the candidate had paired programming experience. The response I received was the Google definition of paired programming. After clarifying that I wanted the candidate to talk about their experience, and they continued reciting the Google definition, and the interview ended there.
Show HN: Landing page test for all-you-can-print subscription photo book service
I assume you also don't park your car in an area where millions of people can access it in the same second with no cost to them.

It's really not a reasonable comparison.
> "Tivoization" is the entire value-add here.

In the context of the GPL, "Tivoization" refers specifically to the practice of blocking modifications to the running software without breaking the copyleft requirements of GPLv2 (and similar) licenses. Sure, Microsoft could that here, but hasn't so far. And while I'm not inclined to believe they'll do the right thing, I don't see or suspect them doing the wrong thing yet.

> Microsoft's model here is to tack on those bits and charge. It's not some secret ploy, it's in the article.

I did not allege any secret ploy. And from what I read, there's no mention of any charges (yet).

> published by Microsoft

Which distros exactly? As I recalled (and just verified), Ubuntu, OpenSuSE, and Debian are published by Canonical, SuSE, and Debian, respectively.

> Windows provides drivers and boot

Not adequately enough, one could argue. No graphics, no raw devices, last I checked.
If a URL responds to any unauthorized HTTP request with data, how is the requester supposed to know that the data they received is supposed to be private or sensitive?
Please keep us informed on the outcome. I have written a letter to my MP and MLA as well as the MP for Halifax.
UUID are easily shared, and there is no way of knowing who shared it. Good for Xmas photos, not so good for sensitive documents.
But the difference is that a website is built to be publicly accessible on the public internet.

Your car, presumably, is not offered as a public resource.
There is much ink spilled about how people aren't bayesian educated, but I don't really believe it and therefore don't agree with you.

We're actually pretty good at identifying uncertainty and certainty within the physical world. It's only when we get into very large or very small numbers that we start to lose the plot.
The "older generation" does not use metaphors because they are limited in their thinking. They do it to illustrate the principles underlying law. A basic principle of private property is that you don't have to secure it. The burden is on the would-be trespasser to figure out what rights she has with respect to the property and act accordingly. Snooping around private property out of "curiosity" is illegal, whether or not there are locks preventing you from doing so. (This is an idea teenagers have had trouble with long before the Internet, but we manage to beat it out of them every generation).

Those principles apply equally well to the Internet. Ordinary law-abiding people don't go fiddling with URLs, just like law-abiding people don't jiggle door handles or peak into windows to satisfy their curiosity.
I really hope nothing remotely similar to gdpr is written into legislation in the US. I do not even know how I would get started writing a website that would adhere to GDPR requirements
I've helped a few students with their homework, despite never taking a course there. They were utterly lost.
Still cannot understand the IoT mentality. It is actually the CoT Communication of Things. Internet shouldn't be required to turn your lights on or off nor be the device communication backbone in an industrial enviornment. Internet should always be the last resort for communicating because of the distance.
Just a simple test to see whether there's any general interest in such a service. Realized we rarely print photo books due to the high cost per book (typically $50-$100 for a high quality, hardback book)...
> something other than the proprietary lock-in.

Something like ... freedom lock-in? I'm not sure I see how EEE can be without some form of lock-in. A trap is necessarily required for the "Extinguish" step to work.
There is BrowserFS https://github.com/jvilk/BrowserFS
Not exactly, but the University of Toronto Citizen Lab is pretty close: https://citizenlab.ca/

It's not all domestic oriented, they do a lot of research on internet censorship internationally, and other things that fall into the category of "government interference with the internet".

https://citizenlab.ca/about/

"The Citizen Lab is an interdisciplinary laboratory based at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto, focusing on research, development, and high-level strategic policy and legal engagement at the intersection of information and communication technologies, human rights, and global security.

We use a “mixed methods” approach to research combining practices from political science, law, computer science, and area studies. Our research includes: investigating digital espionage against civil society, documenting Internet filtering and other technologies and practices that impact freedom of expression online, analyzing privacy, security, and information controls of popular applications, and examining transparency and accountability mechanisms relevant to the relationship between corporations and state agencies regarding personal data and other surveillance activities."
This is very sad. Any information that is not secured, and thus CAN be accessed, should be considered publicly available. If that rule or precedent were in place (a law would never happen) it might force system owners to be more cautious.
Except this data was obviously not intended to be publicly accessible, or else it would have been reachable from some public-facing portion of the site.
Of course... Star Trek's economy didn't run on robots, it ran on magic wish boxes that would defy the laws of physics in the real world.

Which is why I suspect when it comes to Star Trek's future, we'll get to the dystopia, but not the utopia.
A quick Google search return some (cached) results: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:4N3wSV...
Microsoft could use similar techniques to the way they ported SQL Server to let all Windows software run on Linux. I don't think they will, but it's always something that could happen.

They have said multiple times that they are open to open sourcing Windows. It could happen...stranger things have.

This is really just them giving their customers what they want. They are a business after all.
This is especially true for medical and insurance problems. You don't pay the individual/customer, and you have no incentive to help them (other than they might go somewhere else a little less bad). For people that haven't had to go through this yet, such as a claim gone wrong, everything seems fine. One example of this has been life insurance companies verifying eligibility only after the person has died and someone has made a claim. It seems part of the business model to make life so miserable for customers that they give up trying to get what they were promised.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/60-minutes-life-insurance-inves...
It's good to hear these opinions, and I think that its important work. I've come across a couple 'huh, that doesnt seem right' things in the kernel, but always shied away from trying to contribute because I didn't want to waste people's time
> I think they want to disentangle the user's installed software from the OS, rather than disentangling the software from the data.

Huh? /home on Linux contains user software now? That's literally the example he gave for this on Linux...
Instead of being cryptic and beating around the bush, why not suggest a system if you've already racked your brain and figured something out?
and what would that achieve? all it's going to do is force companies to add legal boilerplate (eg. those "this message is intended for the recipient only..." that you see in email signatures) to every imaginable place to cover their ass, meanwhile doing nothing to improve security.
Using Education to Make Japan Great Again?
Bad reporting - fails to explain what Immunotherapy actually is, jargons all over. Can anyone explain in simple terms?
in Amsterdam they used a drill. Very soft soil, no elevation soever. But underneath a lot of buildings and not always following the streets so Cut and Cover would not have been an option. Most interesting thing: freezing the area (with often wooden foundation poles in it) before drilling through it for stabilization.

http://www.urban-hub.com/landmarks/amsterdam-subway-line-now...
You missed my point. I’m suggesting that the 75th percentile of traffic goes to sites that probably have Facebook integrated via like button, ads, auth. (Way that fb can track you.)

Therefore most traffic on internet is traceable. Key being traffic not count of sites in my analysis.
Would be ironic if TaskRabbit was a platform for hiring cybersecurity specialists.
I think this is an interesting market shift for MSFT.
I worked there in the late 90's and was there for the introduction of Windows2000. Hillariously most of their big acquisitions ran FreeBSD and/or Solaris and I don't ever recall anyone considering Linux much of a threat since it never really worked for the workloads we were seeing.

Even today I rarely see anyone using Linux as a desktop (MSFTs primary market) so 20 something years later its still not really a threat.

MSFT is smart enough to offer what people want, maybe this will get more people to try it, not a bad thing.
I can't monitor you or turn your light switch into a "service" that involves reoccurring payments if we don't use the internet to connect.... /s
I don't like or agree with it either, but it is unfortunately necessary for the preservation of digital evidence.

Many nonviolent actors involved in cybercrimes have prepared killswitches or some other manner of instantly burning everything to the ground if you give them enough time to react when you show up with a warrant.
Around 2000, I had a laptop with 5g of harddisk and 64mb of ram, now I'm at ~1tb and 16gb ram. Roughly a 200x increase in raw numbers, though lots of other things since then make the actual increase larger, so it sounds like we're using net-smaller apps :)
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