skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can someone answer me this? How much of hacking is actual coding of scripts, brute forcing passwords, and somehow infecting networks and how much is social engineering?

What’s my real risk profile?

For example, if I have long and unique passwords, use a trustworthy password manager, seldom click on random links, and manage my own servers, am I essentially home safe because there’s an easier target for hackers?
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Quantifying Graph Paper Quality
That's incorrect. Economics is not a zero sum game; in fact the better others do, the better off you are: You are much better off running a business, working, or just living unemployed in a neighborhood, city, country, or world full of wealthy, free people than you are where the others are poor and oppressed.

And that's only if you are a completely selfish sociopath and care nothing for the welfare of others. If you are a healthy person who does care about others (which is a foundation of democracy - the belief that others should get a vote equal to your own), all the more reason for them to be free and prosperous too.

U.S. foreign policy has long supported the freedom and prosperity of others, in large part for that reason. (Yes, there are many exceptions to that policy; I'm just talking about economics. EDIT: And yes, there are many exceptions to the economic policy too.)
Really worried about what the authorities might find in his 30TB of 4chan backups. Hoping for the best outcome for them.
http://archive.org/stream/The_Conscience_of_a_Hacker/hackers...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_Manifesto
Just everyone with power
Actually, you absolutely can on https://www.facebook.com/ads/preferences/

- Advertisers you've interacted with

- - Who have added their contact list to Facebook

Hover over those you don’t know about; the X let you “Remove” those, i.e. ask Facebook to exclude you from those advertisers’ targeting.

If you are in Europe, you should be able, starting next month, to leverage that list to ask those advertisers how they got your data, and expose data brokers. Facebook is simply (finally) offering you the ability to track data brokers.
My biggest problem with the homepod is that my 5 year old has learned that he can turn on _any song he wants_ whenever he wants by yelling "hey siri." He loves it! He yells at the dinner table, when his little sister is asleep, and when we are on the phone. His favorite phrase is "Hey Siri, set volume to 100%." His favorite song is the PJ Masks song, which Siri dutifully plays when called upon. Every. Single. Time.

I'd love it if HomePod recognized who was speaking, but I'd settle for Siri just recognizing "this is a kids voice" and ignoring it!
The build quality and design of this early Japanese computer hardware has stood the test of time really well. If you saw this Epson 'device' in somewhere unusual, e.g. a factory or a courtroom, it would not look out of place and dated.
To ban Telegram Russian regulator blocked two million ip adresses(translated)
Stagnant wages are the cause of multiple effects, many of them that are extremely localized. The US has had this effect, but the world has had it go extremely upwards in the last 5 decades. And along lower wages, have come increased value. The internet, for example, is super cheap and might not count as much into the budget of a person todaY: but tv and entertainment was a much higher cost between cable, newspapers, etc etc.

Smartphones, safer cars, cheaper travelling. Have to be very careful to look only at nominal bills to make economic judgement.

And maybe the most problematic and expensive things americans suffer generationally, 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.

Also inequality has always been a topic of conversation, what is new is income inequality, and its still an open problem, not something there is economic consensus about. There are other things that have economic consensus, for example, getting rid of corporate taxes. But you dont hear that coming from "high inequality and stagnant wages" guys.
Not the kind of response I would expect as a Canadian. Can't they send someone undercover ahead of time to find out it's just some kid at his family house and then take the appropriate response? There are better ways to handle this, and there are certainly better ways to secure government files!

If it's publicly accessible, it's public information. Obfuscation doesn't count!
I wonder how they noticed.

Perhaps the lowest-bid contract company that made the site decided to use something like amazon glacier for storage of boring documents nobody will ever need. Then along comes someone that causes them all to be extracted at great cost, some middle manager receives a bill for $millions and wants to blame the kid rather than his own failings.
I think you pretty much nailed it. Whilst I look back with a certain - undoubtedly rose-tinted - fondness on the days of chaotic and garish Geocities sites, and personal homepages with endless "under construction" images, the fact is that the people who built that sort of thing were very much in the minority relative to the general population.

Now, a much larger portion of the general population is online and, whaddya know?, the internet is dominated by a few big players great at exploiting a large market who have catered their offerings towards that very large non-technical majority. The web has been ruined only in the sense that everything is ultimately ruined by over-popularity.

It's certainly a shame, but is it really a surprise?

What I am quite enjoying nowadays is the resurgence of a more creative side to the web amongst people beginning to react against the dominance of social media sites. The pendulum always swings the other way eventually.
Anker just launched a wireless security cam with 365-day battery life and A.I
Its hypothetically possible to recreate this approach in any language. Grab the item in the map at that key -> check that it exists -> check that the type is what you expect.

Its not idiomatic in most mainstream languages. Except, that's how most JSON libraries which validate against a static structure are implemented, they just abstract the reflection away via some interface.
Right, it's just like transparency for visible light.

But many of the fission products in neutron-exposed uranium emit high-energy gammas. And even lead is somewhat transparent.

Also, from what Google tells me, those "infinity rooms" at Hanford are probably contaminated with plutonium-239. That's an alpha emitter, and alphas (helium-4 nuclei) are pretty easy to stop.
"This post is not publicly viewable - please join to see it."

No, thanks. Does anyone have a copy?
Seems like a move by the provincial government to shift blame from its poor security to an imaginary bad actor; this article also from the CBC goes into more detail and asserts that fraudulent intent is necessary for a conviction, so hopefully this goes nowhere.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/concerns-teen-bein...
The non-cynical viewpoint would be that "Hey Siri" is an easy phrase to detect because of how it's said, which isn't really that similar to many other phrases.
> If you have an issue with this, disable javascript and cookies on your browser - take some personal responsibility

This is a problematic attitude. It's the car dealer telling the lemon [1] buyer to "take personal responsibility" for being sold junk.

The point of government is we don't stand alone. Facebook is a menace, and I block them. But I shouldn't have to. And neither should my mother.

> it’s hypocritical to only have a problem with Facebook when Google is doing it on a scale that Facebook can only imagine

Whatabout whatabout [2]? "You can't arrest me because there is another arsonist in town" isn't a valid excuse.

(In any case, third parties calling out some, but not all, bad actors in a category isn't hypocrisy. It's prioritization. Hypocrisy would be Google calling out Facebook's advertising model, or an Enron executive criticising Facebook employees' complicity.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemon_%28automobile%29

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
Does GA share data outside of GA? Last I looked into it, I came away thinking that data is kept to privacy standards equivalent to e.g. Google Sheets.
Yes but take Enron for example or any other value trap an index fund must buy those.

And the Massive buying of indexes bids up the price of shares like FANG's beyond the shares real value.
> I bought a CO2 monitor.

We did the same, it's very noticeable, what we sometimes do is cover it and if people are feeling drowsy only then reveal it so we could be sure it wasn't a placebo (it wasn't).

I hacked up (I'm not a programmer!) some code to log the data to CSV, which I then presented to the business as a case to change our aircon system: https://github.com/sammcj/airqualitylogger
That feature is not blocked by technical but by arbitrary limits. Whether it is a family iPad, Apple TV or HomePod, Apple strongly believes in 1:1 device-person (or more accurate, device-iCloud account) mapping.
The higher level solutions already exist, they're just use kubernetes as a service from one of the providers. Largely, anything simpler would probably just be hiding complexity from you, which probably isn't better.

@OP, I'd probably use GKE.
I’m not sure about this.

As an Adobe customer, the software I use has become more “affordable” because it is easier for me to turn up $45 a month for software than the $X000 that it would cost up front. On the other hand, I am paying for software I don’t use, because to get the few programs I need I have to get the “everything” bundle.

My suspicion is that Adobe software is cheaper now because a) it has that new feeling of “affordability” (which could also be done through an instalment plan) and b) demand has gone up more than production costs have, which was already happening before they went SAAS (iirc PS CS6 was hundreds, not thousands).

Not to say that SAAS doesn’t sometimes work out the way you suggest—I don’t know enough to venture an opinion on that—but as an Adobe customer I definitely don’t feel like Creative Cloud is giving me a good deal. It feels like I am getting slowly soaked, according to some careful calculation of just how much adobe can get from me before they push me away entirely. Their CC software manager also gets a lot more cursing from me than it does appreciation.

Maybe my opinion is wrong, but if it is, I think it is a real marketing failure on their part...
perhaps we need an RFC that defines this type of approach (pages "secured" behind easily guessable urls) as public information.
The teenager was downloading publicly available records on a Freedom-Of-Information portal. Why law enforcement is involved, or why this is even remotely a criminal act, completely baffles me.
Sounds an awful lot like the computer fraud and abuse act
png would be huge (since it is lossless) and jpg would incur double compression (source jpg and re-compressed from canvas) losing quality.
I recently started learning about how powerful Blender’s python API is. I have a YouTube channel that people support through donations, and every month I send out little 3D printed objects as a thank you gift. I wanted to include a 3D printed little thank you card with each person’s name on it, but obviously I can’t take the time to model a unique card for each person.

After just a few hours of playing around I was able to set up a python script that reads people’s names out of a CSV file, launches Blender as a background process, generates a model of a little plate with text on it thanking a person by name, exports that model as an STL, calls up Slic3r (which can also be run headlessly) to generate the gcode for the printer, and then finally uploads that file to my 3D printer.

Previously I was writing people little notes by hand. Not only is this much cooler, it takes considerably less work from me. I just run a single command to execute the script and then walk over to my printer and hit “print”. A couple hours later I have a pile of little thank you cards.

I really think Blender is the crown jewel of open source software.
Funnily enough, we have enough food and shelter in the U.K. that this shouldn’t need to be a choice people have to make - the issue is one of inefficient resource allocation. Instead of noticing this and solving the problem, our Government have decided that if you desire any sense of dignity, you deserve to die.

Have some fucking empathy.
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Owning stock is really a very messy proxy for wealth. What do you think would happen if they all sold their stock? They would plummet their paper networth..

And its also not given that such a money, well gotten, has been produced by giving something in exchange, so it has removed tat money from less inefficient hands. It was still owned by someone, just changed hands.

Bastiat was right about something, using money as a measure of economics is just an invitation to confusion.
He is no George "Ugandan Discussions" Brown is he
Yes, exactly. But, I don't hear arguments to fix the system. And, the system must be fixed before dam plugs can be removed.

Another note, I think it's dangerous to simply conflate "law abiding" with "honest." The system that creates and upholds the laws is simply too flawed to allow it to be considered 1:1 with the country's moral code. See: rich people getting away with sexual assault for ages, the useless "war on drugs," illegal and immoral activity by federal agency followed by the persecution of whistle blowers exposing that activity, etc etc etc.

A system of laws is necessary, but not necessarily good. It should always be questioned and evolving.
> European countries pay much lower prices

To be fair, European big pharma also lives off the US market to plump their margins. That subsidizes their ability to charge lower prices in Europe and elsewhere. They also constantly poach cutting edge biotech & pharma companies out of the US to keep their stables full, such as AveXis, Genzyme, Genentech, etc. Without constantly buying up elite US biotech, Europe would have practically no biotech industry at all.

The US is by far the world's largest drug market. It's heaven for Sanofi, GlaxoSmithKline, Novartis, Roche, AstraZeneca, et al. The US drug market is twice the size of the EU drug market, with ~37% fewer people.
Here are some numbers [1]:

> Over the last week ... the Like button appeared on 8.4M websites covering 2.6B webpages, the Share button on 931K websites covering 275M webpages, and there were 2.2M Facebook pixels installed on websites

[1] https://twitter.com/facebook/status/985999292862152708
You would not trust a cryptographic system to manage your cryptographic keys?

And you think regulations are set in stone with no room for innovation?

Empty, politically motivated arguments.
Add "help avoid sending teenagers to prison" to the list of reasons why you should prefer UUIDs over integers in your Internet-facing REST API.

This API was supposed to be private and yet supported trivial enumeration?
Started to replace coffee after lunch for a short (from 15 to 30 minutes) nap. I usually would have good energy levels just with coffee, however napping brings me more clarity of mind and focus.
Dell Gaming Laptops Are Perfect for Cheating in PUBG
Defining the Warehouse Robotics Market
Crossrail (the project which is to be branded "Elizabeth Line" although all the other "lines" are lines within some larger modal network, so arguably this branding makes no sense) was a huge project. From funding to today it's ten years and the basic idea (East-West tunnels through central London) is from the mid-20th century.

It's taken so long that projected peak system congestion _with_ the extra line is predicted to be worse than it was without the line when it was funded, even though its capacity is about 10 passengers per second through the core. The lines it's "relieving" are hopelessly over-capacity, so it will fill immediately when it opens AND it's expected to increase total usage because hey, there's this line from outside London right into the core, why not live there and commute...

But certainly it's a comparable problem, in the sense that e.g. Crossrail had to "thread the needle" fitting the new tunnels between existing escalators and the Northern Line underground rail tunnel that both remained in use during construction.
Netflix subscriber count hits 125M
I mostly agree that the scale of a system like FB makes its impact far greater.

But on the other hand, any company that can admit to controlling (at least in part) a person's interests, choices of purchases, etc. control a significant more of a person than you'd think.

Said person thinks they're making the decision themselves, but in reality they're being prodded in a certain direction. When they make a purchase and use the item, others see, and they might also be influenced as a third party, and so on.

I'd say it's pretty dangerous, but it tends to be overlooked.
Everyone slices the numbers differently, but it's pretty hard to say the suburbs are dying out based on the data. https://www.vox.com/2015/1/22/7871687/death-suburbs-myth

"This shows that at almost every age level, the country continued to de-urbanize from 2000 to 2013. Various trend pieces about empty nesters moving to the big city simply aren't reflected in the data."

My experience is that people are overall more willing to trade space for urban convenience than they used to be, but still not so willing/able to trade both space and affordability for it. In places where the suburbs are also stupidly expensive - NY and CA - you don't see it as much. Everywhere else in the US - where property in the suburbs gets dramatically cheaper once you're five, ten, fifteen miles outside the city center - that's hard to resist.
Anyone using this in practice?
Treating infertility through technological means is not necessarily wrong. For example, taking a safe medication that corrects for some defect of the reproductive system is fine. But this, and IVF, are no such medication.

"Yet a funny thing happened, or didn’t, in the decades that followed: Millions of babies were conceived using IVF."

This doesn't address everything. Certainly, the health of the baby is important, but that's not the only problem. Another problem is the destruction of fertilized human embryos that IVF currently entails. However, even if we assume that we can perfect the technology to such a degree that none of this is an issue. We still have to contend with things like the commodification of human beings and the transformation of human beings into products to be made and sold, and made the subjects of economic transactions. Our acceptance and aggressive defense of such reproductive technologies may be another example of consumerism's hold on our values.

[0] https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/1d8d/eb87bcc3e610b8ff51b9f1...
Is there an possibility of a smarter above ground (read: bus) system? What would be the effect of small buses running more often? Perhaps with a technology component that allows them to effect the timing of the traffic lights?

If you could cut back on car traffic - which is a positive regardless - then buses are going to benefit.
And this is why I'm going to route all my kids traffic through an offshore VPN by default and whitelist low latency stuff.
This is great! Can you give any insight into your charts? I have similar data sets that I would love to represent like this. It sounds like you already mentioned using chart.js. Anything else that you use, specifically for the first few charts with the time slider? Anything crazy that you needed to do?
Step 1: sudo nano /etc/hosts

Step 2:
Type at bottom:

127.0.0.1 facebook.com

127.0.0.1 youtube.com

127.0.0.1 twitter.com

127.0.0.1 instagram.com

Step 3: ctrl+"O"
I’m curious what the historical significance of this is. I’ve seen a lot of cool math resources here lately.
Mark said he didn't have details about how data is collected outside of Facebook (and it is very likely that he expected to say something false or irrelevant -- and he did: data collection for security purposes is not personal) but that he will come back to it, and he delivers, under a week.
Interesting - I have recently started doing my 20 min meditation roughly after lunch, and that has helped my energy a lot in a way that is slightly akin to napping.
By what, magic?

Most businesses sign long-term leases, often 10 years. Landlords are under no legal obligation to offer rent breaks while construction is underway.

In fact, landlords would probably prefer the businesses go under so they can sign more lucrative deals post-subway construction -- see the current NYC store vacancy problem: http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/change-math-keeping-nyc-s...

You're assuming the area will become undesirable during construction and landlords will be forced to offer cheaper rates to lure tenants, but as we see above more likely they'd prefer to wait. Especially if a subway is about to be built there.
If you can see the data by iterating a single number in a URL, and there's zero authentication or verification of credentials, there's no possible way to call it malicious. The fact this family's home was raided was already a colossal mistake. The fact charges are even _suggested_ is such a joke I don't even have words to describe it.
Hopefully, this starts a meaningful conversation about what other people are also doing. I am not a fan of Facebook but this might get the ball rolling on broader legislation similar to GDPR in US.
I already play with urls that have possible id's in them out of habit. The only difference here is the poor kid was on a gov website and they did not want the information he found to be public. ( Or like in the USA he might have to pay for each document accessed. But I feel that should not result in a raid to his house.) It is a shame the kid was their target and not a google bot like you said.
Is this the end of the "embrace" stage or the beginning of the "extend" stage?

The "MS-designed chip" bit might actually be the most interesting part of the eventual story, though.
Information accessible here was SUPPOSED to be all public, with sensitive information located elsewhere, however a handful of improperly redacted documents were also published to the site. Here's a more technical article:
https://evandentremont.com/some-information-on-the-freedom-o...
Cut and cover worked back in Sherlock homes days as there was very little buried plant at that time.
Okay? 8:15am is the start of _a school day_, not the point at which a student wakes up. That's significantly earlier than the average work day, and nobody suggested the average worker woke at 9am.

Are we just assuming students don't have commute times here? That isn't true for a _lot_ of people.
On average, one company in the portfolio going bankrupt isn't going to make much of a difference assuming the portfolio is large enough. Most index funds have a large enough portfolio.
Definitely a great one! You can't buy your way to productivity with fancy tech. Though a nice ergonomic keyboard, standing desk, and eye-level monitor certainly doesn't hurt.

For list making I've found Eisenhower matrixes[0] to be incredibly useful. That eventually morphed into me using a trello board with four columns that line up with the four quadrants, here's an example:

https://trello.com/b/pfcMyml7/eisenhower-matrix-inspired-tod...

[0]: http://www.eisenhower.me/eisenhower-matrix/
Dingus it April 16th . You are 15 days late !
Just know that no matter how hard you try to prevent it, if someone wants to "steal" your videos bad enough, well, they will.

In fact, attempting to make it as difficult as possible (which might lead to usability issues for the "honest" folks) might be seen as a "challenge". In other words, you may inadvertantly cause some people to try to acquire and/or distribute your videos just to see if they can.

Finally, after a certain point, you are likely just wasting time and effort (and possibly money). If your videos are of any value at all, they will be "stolen".