skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the denominator of that 12% number includes adult websites, which presumably know you don’t want to share to facebook, then this number may mean something a little different than many will assume it does
US Weighs New Trade Action Against China, Over Curbs on US Tech Companies
(added: the link to evandentremont.com elsewhere in the comments discusses how this was supposedly discovered, and other details of interest.)

that would make its own interesting information request. you probably couldn't directly ask "how'd you find him out?" at this point, but you could ask for maybe IT costs per month over the last X months broken out by organization the money was paid out to.

also possible (probable, even, in my mind) he just crawled too hard, the machine was slow, and the folks in the office working on it complained. (god only knows how much processing the service does behind the scenes when a PDF is requested. for all we know it is being reassembled from tiffs of individual pages every time.)
Exactly. Why did this kid admit that? How astronomcally low are the odds there's nothing illegal to possess in there?
I'm not sure. As a guess, it's probably a bit easier to get a higher salary as ops than dev. This doesn't have much to do with value, since corps usually cannot perceive your value. Rather, it's more that you're closer to where the rubber hits the road. And unlike a dev, often ops will be expected to pull nearly infinite hours if something awful happens.
> - Ketamine seems to have a much larger effect size (-~0.99 [1] vs -~0.35 for typical antidepressants [2]) [If anyone spots an error, please let me know]

I've heard that 35% figure bandied about for awhile now. Does this take into account multiple SSRI's? If one took Welbutrin and it didn't work, for example, and then one decides to try Paxil, is there still a 35% chance that Paxil will work? (both Paxil and Welbutrin are SSRI's)

Or is the 35% figure meaning that if one tried all the SSRI's out there, there is only a 35% chance that any of them at all will help you?

I tried reading your reference, but it doesn't seem to mention this.
This article is from November.

His launch took place a few weeks ago.
I took their product management course as part of our corporate development. I felt that GA did a very good job in highlighting frameworks and methodologies that made me a sufficiently better product manager to justify the investment.
Under current administration? No.
What is this supposed to do, is it like a blocking thing?
Odd ... why put your own money at risk when you have access to unlimited blank checks? Some kind of weird personal asset defense play?
I like reading and writing dockerfiles, not so much with most other tools.
In the UK and most of Europe, you cannot request the personal information of anyone else via a freedom of information request, since it is likely to contain sensitive information to that person.

For the UK, you can find out more information about the specifics of this from the data protection act, which includes clauses about FOI requests.
Non-paywalled link: http://archive.is/xbcSB
Just a few billion users. I think they're doing ok.
It’s easier to prosecute than to fix. More than that, the kid pointed out the service is broken. Pretty humiliating. It’s not at all unusual to prosecute to save face, especially rather than admit that your org gave the info to a teenager when that’s illegal.
Many UUIDs aren't secure either and can be trivially enumerated. A better approach might be a long number generated using a secure random number generator and converted to a BASE-64 string.
That actually seems like a good idea to me. I wonder if there isn't already one? It'd be a good symbolic source of authority on issues like this.

There could also be other RFCs covering our usage of the internet, and our expectations of what our rights are as internet users. Or perhaps stick that all in one "definitive" RFC.
> So only tens of millions of people whose browsing history is being siphoned off without their consent?

Tens of millions of people are asking Facebook for the Share button in case they want to share the content they're looking at.

Fixed that for you.
A bus can carry about 100 people max. A subway train can carry 1,000.

About 5.7 million people ride the NYC subways every day, buses aren't going to cut it.

For a real-world NYC example, check out the planning for buses to temporarily replace the L train: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/03/nyregion/l-train-shutdown...
> I'm guessing this is similar in Sweden. It sounds like specific areas have increasing violence, and that this looks even worse, given the country's historical low rates of violence.

No, Swedish violence has been accelerating past what even Americans would consider acceptable. Unless there's been a spat of grenade attacks in the US that the media hasn't been covering.

http://www.informationliberation.com/files/grenade-attacks-s...

PS: That number is even higher for 2017 and 2018.
Looks like that exploit will not work on x64 builds (the only thing anyone should be running in 2018) due to DEP
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Microsoft built its own custom Linux kernel for its new IoT service
Instead of effectively designing and administrating their systems, "the powers that be" are taking the "rubber hose, lead pipe" approach. Creating in "law", what they are too distracted and incompetent and egotistical and tight-fisted (tech is a "cost center") to create in fact and systems.

They are, in essence, trying to redesign the nature of the Internet by fiat.

Historically, accessible resources are accessible. Public by their very nature. If you don't want them publicly accessible, implement (effective) authentication.

But this is far too much "trouble" for self-important, "do it my way" lawyers and executives.

So, they "define", or redefine -- in a pure fiction of language -- what is "public" and "private".

Aside from all else, these... "errors in the system" should be routed around. Denied use of the system.

Unfortunately, in this regard, tech has ended up in the position of working for them, rather than vise versa.

Personally, I won't work for them, anymore. Every thing I do for them, is against my own interests and, I've come to believe, the common good.
Did your business change its aircon off the back of your research?
Yes, it routes requests for those hostnames to your local computer.
Step 3: Extinguish.
That's one thing I hadn't considered. Pretty clever, almost like an oracle attack.

What I'm saying is much simpler. Cheaters are a very interesting crowd. In first person shooter games it's absolutely possible to dominate cheaters (because cheats only help with raw mechanical skill, not strategy or tactics) and the cheaters will often be the first to complain about cheaters when you kill them. Despite their unfair advantage, they lash out when things don't go their way - which seems to be happening here: they truly believe that they are above reprimand and that Anet must be punished for reprimanding them. The threat of GDPR is being used for this. In the broad category of shifting blame, it's very very consistent behavior and would probably make for a fascinating study.

There is always a chance that the author is being honest (having cheated in other games, but never GW2) but it's slim. I have my doubts as to whether GDPR would cover this (as it cannot be used to identify a natural person), but IANAL.
This is fantastic!

A couple of years ago I wanted to start a "summary" service for Hacker News submissions (and comments!), but I never found enough time to build something meaningful.

At least, the podcast is some (better?) version of what I wanted to build. I'm so happy someone is doing it.
Obv. feel the same way, which is why I started being the trivial patch monkey which Linus refers to.

That's long ago been handed over, but I like to think that it did expand the developer base. Not just for Linux, but for FOSS generally.
I wonder how a combination of aggressive immunotherapy and "sickness" counteracting effects of cannabis (for the nausea, fever, sweating) would do in making the immunothrerapy more effective and tolerable.
I'm always amazed at how clean the Path train and stations are especially when transferring onto them from the subway. It's a completely different experience
It's not. I had offers from multiple companies at sde 2. Amazon's was so bad that the recruiter was embarrassed to tell me they couldn't up the offer. I'm sure there are huge variances but the last comp survey on hn showed Amazon is a bit behind.
How AR and VR Could Help Get Humans to Mars
I feel like this is a big missing piece for voice activated things. I've got an Echo device ~10ft from my TV, and it gets activated from Netflix (Parks & Rec mostly... I blame Rob Lowe) all the time. I should be able to go into the app and label it as a false activation so it can ignore it in the future
Lets just make a flavor of postmarket for endusers
The cops? Cops aren't capital. They are State.
Perl 6 is watching you already https://p6weekly.wordpress.com/2018/04/16/2018-16-so-that/
I don't think you can get from glacier in "real time", you need to prefetch it first
That’s why I said “something like”, it’s not quite parallel construction but something like I already know it was you, and I can see part of your fingerprint in this photo

The article is light on details about how the fingerprint was actually used so one can only speculate. My assumption here though is that whatever they recovered wouldn’t stand up on its own but used in conjunction with other evidence it might have added to the case against the parties.

It’s hardly as impressive as the article title makes it out to be.
This is incorrect

And yet this is precisely what I do on my sites, and I have seen it done this way on many, many other sites as well.
> When I looked around the room during the height of this exchange, most everyone seemed indifferent and only a few seemed to acknowledge or validate my arguments

It was the same thing, pre-crisis, in finance. "Of course I screwed him on pricing! He isn't my customer, he's a counterparty. He should have expected I'd screw him."

When an industry is making money to society's detriment, it will not fix itself.
This reminds me of a purported "hack" back in the Governor Schwarzenegger days. An employee from a rival campaign found a public-accessible FTP directory full of audio files, which they then leaked to the press. IIRC, the California Highway Patrol opened up an investigation but ended up not pursuing charges.

https://www.dailynews.com/2006/09/13/arnolds-audio-open-to-p...

edit: the other parallel, IIRC, was that part of the web site was kept private. But the user found the audio by navigating to a parent directory which was apparently open to the public:

https://www.dailynews.com/2007/02/02/chp-clears-angelides-ca...

> Essentially, aides opened the Web address, or URL, from one of Schwarzenegger’s speeches and lopped a few characters from the end of the address. That yielded a directory of audio recordings.
And asking to drop Linux support.
I'm sorry, this warmed my heart and terrified me at the same time. A hilariously adorable and obnoxious use of technology.
You forgot:

127.0.0.1 news.ycombinator.com
Do you not understand how platform apis work? If you sign up for a third party app using Facebook and give them permission to access all your data you should expect them to capture all of your data
Slaves are held against their will. Workers submit voluntarily.
This is a bit misleading to be called a condom. But, I suppose a "smart cock ring" might come across as vulgar and less easy to market.
Just spent 20 valuable minutes blocking ads from all the random companies, political campaigns, and celebrities who've somehow gotten hold of my contact information and added me to their list. Americans for Prosperity had me on their list for ~30 states, and that's just one of scores of organizations that I've absolutely never dealt with or wanted to provide my information. What I want to know is WHO sold/shared my information to these organizations in the first place. I'd also love for FB to give me to option to hide all their ads without clicking on every.single.one (again, there were hundreds of them...)!
But, the data is ultimately only useful (legally) in order to spur clicking that you get a cut of, or to deliver a prominent message/ad. Does it really matter that it’s facebook that gets the cut rather than some faceless broker? I am still assaulted with ads targeted on my personal data, and with political ads that are obviously manipulative. That (political part) is the part that ultimately unnerved people, and that part isn’t going anywhere while ads form the basis of facebook’s business.

Data collection as a whole is certainly a booming market, but it allows facebook to bypass the very reasons they were called into congress: mass manipulation. Facebook is a platform of mass manipulation. Ads are just the polite name. All of us realize that CA is a small fish compared to the other data warehousing companies out there. Does congress?
Yes, that forum is utterly useless. The trick with google is to use only open source google products. If you find a bug in chromium, AOSP, or any of their other open projects, you can report them on their respective trackers.
Because why would I be?

What possible good would ever come from demanding nobody know anything about me without asking me every single time? From having other people threaten me with weapons adn throw me into cages for DARING to remember something about other people or having a company that remembers things about its customers or potential customers, or offering information services.

Sounds like a fascist nightmare.
This is appalling. The operators of the site should be charged for criminal negligence. You don't get to call it stealing if all it took was 3 keystrokes in the address bar of a browser. Backspace. Number. Return. Hacked!!
Generally you generate a random UUID which is quite difficult to enumerate.
Though (as the article states) not an actual condom.
> other interesting things on the map: the 5-digit telephone number.

It's not 5 digits, it's 7: MAin 5-6200. The first two digits are 6 (M) and 2 (A): 625-6200. Telephone exchanges used to be named, this particular one was called MAin.

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_exchange_names
It’s actually a smart cock ring, and still a breatakingly bad idea. It’s like a group of people sat around a table and one of them said, “What’s the worst thing about cock rings today?” The response must have been, “Well I hate how no one can hack them.”
It doesn't work though. All of those sites have backup domains that easily allow you to access them. To properly block all of facebook, you have to block something like 30 domains.
Reading this article brings back memories. There have been "watch ads for coins" businesses before. They all failed for reasons that were clear to everybody except their investors. Looks like there is a fresh batch of naive investors. These days you need to throw in a blockchain to get the investments though.
To... what?
Uh... it has a hole in it. Is that smart?
There's "noprocrast: yes" for that
Microsoft is a different company now from the one you probably think it is, the latest podcast of Exponent
http://exponent.fm/episode-147-there-always-a-bigger-fish/
was very enlightening
Don't multitask.

I work a task until blocked, then switch. Work the next one until blocked, then switch again.

You'll be surprised at how much you can deliver when you focus on delivering one thing at a time!
So "stagnant wages" was what you called an inaccurate catchphrase?

>housing and healthcare, are the defacto most intervened and regulated markets of all. It is the state, in its magnificent regulatory capture, that its pushing poverty unto people.

I won't defend much of anything about the state of housing or healthcare in the US. The government is certainly a huge part of the problem, I have no issue accepting that.

Here's the thing: I don't think that all government programs are good. Some are designed to push poverty unto people like you said. But the solution isn't to get rid of all regulation or the idea that government can be used as a tool for the masses.

We need to have a government that is much more aligned with the interests of the people than the interests of large corporations and capital. To me the way to do that is to expand the limits of democracy to include how the economy is run, how natural resources are used, and what the relationship between capital and workers should be.
Shameless plug, I have a little open-source social sharing icons project that doesn't allow FB or any other services to track your website's users unless they choose to share something:

https://github.com/QuadrupleA/private-secure-sharing-buttons
What is it about the climate change weather patterns that's pushing the line East? It's not like the Rockies have gotten taller. That is, a storm moving east is depleted when it hits the Rockies. That leaves a desert to the East. Are there less storms? Faster moving storms? Both?
Embrace
Extend
Extinguish
They sell your data to Tinder, and suddenly everyone has access to your stamina?
uuidv4 is random assuming your rng source is random
Any chance they'll call it XENIX?
Can anyone tell me what the background music in the video is?
>That said, other tech companies have gotten off light. Whether it’s because Apple and Google aren’t CEO’d by their founders any more, or we’ve grown to see iOS and Android as such underlying platforms that they aren’t responsible for what third-party developers do, scrutiny has focused on Zuckerberg and Facebook.

Maybe Zuckerberg should do the same thing Larry Page did. Create a parent company for Facebook (maybe call it Library), of which Zuckerberg becomes the CEO. Then find someone else to be the CEO of Facebook. In addition, just like Alphabet and other "Bets", Library could have other "Books".

Then, instead of Zuckerberg CEO of Facebook, you have Zuckerberg CEO of Library.
https://twitter.com/wdormann/status/955802146045353985

DEP would be nice, wouldn't it?

IIRC, Igor finally added DEP a few months ago (NXCOMPAT if you need to google the Internet Drama). But the fact that he was running this code without lol DEP until January of THIS YEAR makes me suspect his coding practices.

As per this other page:

https://landave.io/2018/01/7-zip-multiple-memory-corruptions...

> I have discussed this issue with Igor Pavlov and tried to convince him to enable all three flags. However, he refused to enable /DYNAMICBASE because he prefers to ship the binaries without relocation table to achieve a minimal binary size. Moreover, he doesn’t want to enable /GS, because it could affect the runtime as well as the binary size. At least he will try to enable /NXCOMPAT for the next release. Apparently, it is currently not enabled because 7-Zip is linked with an obsolete linker that doesn’t support the flag.

This is bad. Very very bad. This should not have been happening in 2018. He wants to save literally ~kilobytes of .exe space instead of use ASLR. Igor is not someone who seems to take security seriously.

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In any case, there are ways around DEP. Which is why ASLR exists, and other such flags. Enabling DEP brings 7-zip into the year 2003 (when x86-64 was first released by AMD) level of security, but there are other security threats that are addressed with these other compiler flags.
Yes, it's really not clear that any crime was committed. The relevant section of the Canadian Criminal Code[1] requires either fraudulent intent or some actual manipulation/destruction of the server - not simply downloading data. It seems like overreach by the police to distract from the fact that the government failed to secure private data.

[1] http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/C-46/section-342.1.h...
More like step 0 -- the cycle begins again.
Cases like this make me want to attend law school. I am well versed in technology, have acted as CISO and other capacities. I bet I could decimate many prosecuting attorneys trying to make their weak cases.
Is it a brand/PR thing that having a bug tracker means admitting that there are bugs ? Microsoft tends to use github issues as a tracker for some projects even though they don't put code on github (WSL for example). So why not do it for windows ?
Yes. In this case, the selection of a wake word ("Alexa") or phrase ("Hey Siri" or "OK Google") is driven primarily by performance (i.e., reduction of false accepts & false rejects). The folks designing these products know that, even though customers say that they'd like to customize the wake word or phrase, if the actual performance is significantly worse, those customers will not be happy.

We experimented with this extensively.
I would guess that it would take at least a generation to see the fruits of initiatives to encourage integration.

We are decades into this horrible experiment gone awry in much of western Europe. The second and third generations are integrating to a lesser extent than their parents in part due to rising numbers of their compatriots and their inherently anti-integration ideology. Much of the Islamic violence is carried out by second and third generations.

There are about 3 million Turks in Germany stemming from a Gastarbeiter (guest worker) program starting in the 50s and 60s, being "guest workers," the idea was they would return to Turkey, most never did and today still live in their own neighborhoods and enclaves largely separate from the rest of Germany.

Regarding this history and other problems, Angela Merkel herself said what everyone can see, https://www.google.com/search?q=merkel+multiculturalism+fail...
There a lot more people who would buy all the (normally private) details in Facebook profiles than you are guessing. Imagine if political advertising companies could purchase just one bit of it - say, your email address - from Facebook.

Targeting ads is the tip of the iceberg in terms of what could be done with the data if Facebook/Google/whoever gets more desperate for revenue.
I wonder if that was the problem at my old office. I felt drowsy all the time there. Just figured I wasn't sleeping right or something. Two-three cups of coffee every day. Right now I'm working remotely from my parent's living room. Most days I'm the only one here and it's a decently big, drafty house. There are many things I don't like about it, but I'm always wide awake.
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Changed my eating habits to something I never, ever thought I'd do--
- black coffee for breakfast.
- no simple carbs for lunch.
I feel great and get more done in the morning, and then I also feel great and don't want to fall asleep in the afternoon.
I don't know what it stands for.
Pomodoro, for sure.
Work and play do not mix but are both important.
Unless you spoof your stamina metrics and KPIs!
>Middle and lower classes are getting poorer in rich parts of the world.

This is true, but at the same time, I forget the exact number, but something like 100k people achieve food security across the globe every day. 200 years ago 90% of the world lacked food security, now only 10% does.
Microsoft must still abide by all the applicable FOSS licenses; not only that, Ubuntu and the systemd crew already tried the EEE tactic and it largely blew up in their faces.