skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand your objection. The Politifact assessment of "pants on fire" is not for the public official, it's for the conspiracy websites that are peddling the public official's mistake to intentionally mislead people. Read the end of the article ("Our ruling"):

> A website pushing conspiracy theories claimed that the March For Our Lives permit was actually prepared months in advance.

> We contacted the police officer referred to in the story who confirmed that the story is inaccurate and the permit was actually issued 11 days prior to the march.

> We rate this story Pants on Fire.

The police officer said they made an honest mistake. The websites that are spreading the mistake have ostensibly ignored the correction. How is that not intentional?
Awesome! I've had it in my backlog for a while to migrate our Postgres RDS setup to Aurora
So a thinkpad.
Open Source Students
No, they're not, unless you also have a valid TLS certificate for the domain.

If I link you to https://foo.com/login?token=123, you need a valid TLS certificate to foo.com in order for my browser to actually send that token to it or for me to reach that page.

Even if you MITM DNS to give an ip address you control, it doesn't matter since you won't have a valid TLS certificate for foo.com, and so you gain no information.
Ask HN: How much can a really good front-end developer make?
I'm at a cross roads in my career and I'm wondering if being a REALLY good front-end dev is a good position to be in. Is it practical to bill myself out at $500/hr at some point being a front-end dev? Are good front-end devs actually hard to find or are they kind of a dime a dozen?
Still reading the comments, but is anyone actually saying passwords are more secure in general? I think most people are saying that they get locked out of their account if they lose the token. How do you validate your account is your account if the only secret you have is lost? If you 100% require a hardware token, you need at least two and/or a method to auth that is not a hardware token so you can recover in a mode where you lost one.

But on the security note. There are several types of security. Security from the people directly around you and security from everyone on the internet.

Without any malware, I could pickup my friends keys and log into their account on my computer in seconds and without their knowledge. This is harder to do with a password. At the same time a password is much easier for someone who doesn't even know who I am to attack.

It's why 2FA is so necessary, it helps defend against both methods of attack.
> It's suprising to see circuitboards dumped in ordinary oil and working away, no short circuits.

That will make a datacenter fire into something else entirely.
As a security person, would I be happier if everyone switched from password+email to FIDO+email? Certainly.

But FIDO has more competition than that. Since it's not backwards compatible with most existing systems, we have to choose which new protocols to support: passwordless, ssh-like keys, certificates, SQRL, etc. There's limited trust and resources to go around.
Happy to chat custom pricing, I work at Mapbox with many of the solo / independent developers. I'm @EqMapbox on twitter.
I care because assuming the cost of a single TPUv3 is roughly similar to the cost of a single TPUv2 (at launch), then paying for a "pod" of 256 or 512 (whatever a pod is this year) will be nowhere near the cost of 64 TPUv2 "pod".

So I care because I want to know if I will actually see this 8x speed improvement or if this is just marketing BS.

If NVIDIA tells me a 2080 is 8x time faster than a 1080, I know that a 2080 when released will be roughly the same price as the 1080 when it was released, and so I can expect to actually see a 8x cost/perf ratio improvement (if we put aside the fact that this are always best case scenarios)
Hands On: Android P Already Beats iPhone X in Beta
My comment does not implicate that you as a single person necessary have to succumb to this, at least immediately, or that you are not a good person in any way. By you, I implied every person using that technology over time, including me, you, and everyone else. Short-term, we might control this, but over time it is inevitable. Something that is done over and over again becomes automatic. That's called training and conditioning :)
True, but you can assess its side effects.
I am the first person to admire the solution to Byzantine Generals but to wonder what Blockchain can do that a centralised system can. However, Marcus knows that very well -- so I suspect the move corresponds to a core strategic shift for the company. Some use cases that would make sense:

- allow Facebook users to pay each other using BitCoin & Co.(certainly the key feature as Messenger killer and under-utilised feature is its payment option, and Markus’ past at PayPal)

- allow Ethereum & Co. to leverage Facebook Identity (for instance, define “someone” as an active Facebook account with at least 50 active friends, the way I believe Tinder does) for their contracts;

- find a way to run a Facebook-compatible version of Mastodon/Diaspora/etc. off Smart contracts, allowing privacy-conscious individuals to host their social media-like experience on a platform compatible with Facebook but without a identifiable central repository or hard to maintain decentralised structure.

Only the last one is something that would make Marcus excited enough to leave Messenger. The first one is a Hackathon idea, the second probably a project that makes sense once Ethereum (for all its merits) has more compelling use case than a cat-collectibles to its name.
Boy, the gesture based task switcher sure looks familar. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2tkX_zJp-8
HTTPS usually is implied by any security-aware website and HTTPS will mitigate this attack.
My wife is Chinese and we go there quite often. Regulation of consumer goods and services is very light and easily circumvented, and as a result the consumer market is a cesspit of shoddy, dangerous products and deceptive practices. Its so bad one of the most prized gifts you can take there is baby formula powder, because the local versions have frequently been found to be cut with dangerous chemicals. I’ve seen and have family with experience of a deregulated market and it’s not at all pretty. Individual consumers just don’t have the resources to deal equally with big companies that have no reason to care about consumer interests, without the ability to exercise their collective power - which is what a representative government is.
Well, that's just as much something that can be learned through CBT or other means, and it's worth keeping in mind that negative effects are not unheard of [1].

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/aug/25/mental-healt...
I saw a neat app idea that lets you crowdsource response time. I bet there are a lot of people that would gladly pay, say $10k, but personally $20k is too steep.

I also don't know where this sits in relation to power and efficiency. Just because it costs Nvidia a small fortune doesn't mean someone else can't do it cheaper.

Especially if the chip is laser focused to a specific instruction set (vs being a general purpose video card GPU -- which I'm not sure if the Nvidia one is).

I assume from your response (and your disclosure) that is not the case though.
But the fact that some have more non-coding DNA doesn't really fit that idea. Unless you think amoebas are secret masters of the world. The simplest explanation is still that it is neutral baggage of neither benefit nor hindrance and organisms can gain or lose it by chance.
FWIW I've never experienced those issues using Google News on iOS.
Click all the boxes in this picture that contain a sign.
Anyone in SF or East Bay organizing together for this? I see a pin on the map in SF but can't tell how legit that gathering is. Is there anything happening at the Mozilla office?
Treble requires SoC vendors to provide drivers with explicit support. SoCs from Nexus devices aren't supported by Qualcomm so they simply can't be upgraded.
I'd compare it to a physical workout: it's not necessarily a good treatment for a specific disease or injury and may even be harmful to a person who isn't well. Being in shape, however makes a person generally more resilient to disease and injury.
Hi Boulth,

We chose to disable all server logs because we feel that it's the right thing to do.

We felt that our website should reflect the same mantra that we carry along with our products: we don't want your data.

We do not wish to track you. We wholeheartedly believe that our users have a right to a strong degree of digital privacy.

GDPR increases that, but we wanted to go a step beyond for this digital security component of our site.
> Google maps should be answering two questions: Where is it, and how do I get there. "What's cool and new in my city" seems like a feature that's being shoehorned on because it's a possible revenue channel.

No, Google Maps should be answering the questions users are asking. And, apparently, users are asking those questions.
I love this thread. I have not one but two tickets asking we elevate the actual maps - I'm going to tap it again! Stay tuned for a nice redesign shortly that hopefully pulls them front and center.

Note - I work at Mapbox.
Probably the single most important characteristic of love is an empathy-driven willingness to make sacrifices (existential or material) in the name of helping another person or preserving your relationship with them. Pretty much all betrayals of love ultimately stem from an unwillingness or inability to do so. That's at least true of all the reasonably clear examples of "not loving" that I can think of. Loving someone doesn't necessarily require that you make sacrifices but it does require that you would. That may be one reason it often takes a while for people to realize that they don't love or that they aren't loved. You never really know until it's put to the test. Maybe it's a single thing that's so significant, a loving person would obviously do or not do it. But it's probably more often a series of smaller things over time that individually seem ambiguous or minor but amount to a pattern.
Give me a Thinkpad with a full aluminium body, a touchpad with a size that's actually usable and we'll talk. Sorry but I have developed a real dislike for small touchpads incapable of reliable gestures and full plastic bodies.
There's also:

The Abortion hypothesis: kids who would've otherwise turned out to be violent criminals were aborted:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legalized_abortion_and_crime_e...

The Broken Windows hypothesis, that cracking down on minor petty crime reduces major violent crime:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory

The Economic Development hypothesis, that tough times create crime:

https://www.citylab.com/life/2013/09/puzzling-relationship-b...

And probably a bunch that I haven't heard of.

Really, I doubt we'll ever figure out what causes an increase or decrease in the crime rate, because there's likely more than one cause. Because of that, I don't think it's good evidence on either side for a debate on spanking. (Which, BTW, has just validated the point everyone's been making that any collaboratively-built parenting encyclopedia is likely to generate more heat than light.)
FWIW, I have an Acer ChromeBook I bought for $99 brand new on Black Friday a couple of years ago. I have about 20 laptops at my disposal (including ThinkPads and MacBook Pros) but I use this one the most. The build quality is surprisingly good and the battery lasts forever. I installed Linux on it after replacing the firmware, but I'm excited that Crostini might make this unnecessary on other ChromeBooks (and maybe even this model). A very important bonus of Crostini is that it will not be necessary to put the machine in developer mode.
I felt the same and had mentally prepared for a factory reset, and all the pains that accompany having to re-setup a phone from scratch.

I upgraded anyway.

I have literally had nothing break or change for the worse, and moreover, the phone (Pixel XL) is noticeably more responsive. I was such a ludicrously smooth upgrade I have been actively looking for colleagues to compliment on the work.
It's worth pointing out that CR-LF is the original ascii standard behavior, from electro-mechanical teletype. It took two characters worth of time to return the print carriage to the left of the paper. Rather than implement buffering (expensive at the time) the designers split the operation into two characters (Carriage Return and Line Feed).
Sending me robot-generated messages is quite antisocial!
Business, Mortgage, Wife, Kids, family, friends and the various lovely moments/things that life has to offer. Thats what keeps me going at the moment.
As the PM can I beg you to look again at Python built in to replace VBA?
That's a bit like the dousing rod instruction manual:

Walk with dousing rod until it twitches down, then start digging. If you don't reach water: dig deeper until you do.
Travelers spent $4.6B checking their bags with US airlines last year
Why bother? FB is too much of a mess.
Nokia 6?
I noticed that they ask the seller first, before making the question publicly available.

I got my first question yesterday and I really appreciated being able to give an in-depth answer before everyone else.
It does. Check out all of the non-Google phones that can install the beta -today-. No waiting. That's only possible due to Treble.
So they indicate that they are aware of the problem - and instead of doing a straight-forward "hey, I'm a bot", their suggested strategies are "being clear about the intent of the call" and "experiment with the right approach over the coming months"?

To me that quote sounds more like a polite way of saying they definitely won't reveal to callers that they are talking with a bot than them taking the concern seriously.

Some of the conversation examples on the blog page where they invent a sort of story for the caller ("I'm calling for a client") would fit that theory.
Bitmain already announced TPUs (cue "they'll only sell them after they're finished training Skynet").
The Pixelbuds were supposed to be something similar, but did not live up to the hype....and I've experienced the same things with my home automation with Google Home, and don't get me started on using it so control Spotify etc..
> I got an email from Twitter just a few days ago stating that they'd leaked my password

Clearly you didn't read the email.

The password was potentially logged to twitter's servers in plaintext.

They have no evidence anyone collected those passwords, but various employees could, in theory, have seen those logs.

Presumably those logs are now all deleted.

Even if you didn't reset your twitter password, it's very likely you'd be fine since it's not "leaked" (to the wider internet), but could have been seen by some employees who, for fear of being fired, no doubt did not save it (and in all likelyhood didn't see it in the first place).
The reason why this is annoying for law enforcement is because it effectively shuts down many forms of brute-force password cracking attacks, which take time to perform.
Donald Trump is not a news source, he's a moron.
Check out https://developer.sony.com/develop/open-devices/
Funny how "machine learning at the core" is a selling point. ML is a technique not a feature...
I find more people are sick of PC than are a fan of it. You might have different peers though.
> But that in itself is not even true across the industry, some(most) phone bookings are very complex

Citation needed for that "(most)". I work for a company with a call center and a large part of calls are simple ones that could be easily answered by just reading the FAQ page on our website.

> otherwise they would just use a web interface.

I think the problem is more about resources. My local hairdresser use his phone and a notebook to take bookings. It takes a bit of his time and could easily be replaced by a Web interface but he doesn’t have any resource for that (and some people still prefer using their phones).
There are certainly some diminishing returns with high speed air travel. If it takes you, say, at least an hour to travel to/from the airport in the best case (e.g. no security wait or using TSA precheck) then the difference between a Mach 0.8 and Mach 2 flight isn't that huge percentage wise, especially when you factor in the time it takes to get to cruising altitude. On extremely long flights it would make a bigger difference which might result in a more comfortable flight but it doesn't fundamentally change whether or not the flight takes up most of an entire day or not.

That doesn't change until you get into extremely fast travel such as ballistic point-to-point transport. When you have flight travel times that are on the order of an hour or two (including overhead like vehicle loading and unloading) then it becomes possible to integrate them into a day where they are just a part, which opens up a lot more possibilities and might justify the expense.
Shame the only point of reference is as paid service rather than meditation you do yourself. Most people could do well to do anything that peels them away from the media stream (including hackernews) or libertarian news sites, etc.
This could be great for GOTV efforts and general canvassing.

Imagine a system designed in the voice of the candidate that can call you and answer most any questions you have about the platform (or log when you don’t have an answer to be updated later), remind you when to vote, send you a Facebook friend request, etc.
> I don't think that juries decide what's true and what's not

That's literally what determining facts means.

> They decide whether the evidence presented to them is sufficient to show that an event or events happened

Yes, they determine the facts—what is true and not—by weighing the evidence.

> My understanding is that even in defamation suits they are mostly trying to prove that person A said thing X about person C and then prove that person C was harmed because of it.

They also decide whether X is true, and, if so, whether Person A claimed it with knoweldge of it's falsity or reckless disregard of the truth. But the other determinations are also decisions about what is true.
Why does the Chrome OS team do anything the Chrome OS team does? They decided the best idea for low-end hardware is to run everything as a web app. They decided to make it practically useless without an Internet connection because clearly no one will use an ultraportable somewhere without Internet access. They decided to develop their own distro mostly from scratch because contributing to an existing project would be too easy, to useful, and would get them too much goodwill. They decided the best way to make the system easy to use was to split your files between local storage and the cloud so you don't know where anything is.

It's a stupid idea from start to finish. You shouldn't try to make sense of it.

And it depresses me. Its success demonstrates that Linux desktops could catch on in the mainstream market just fine if they had the marketing budget, brand recognition, and vendor support of Google. This team of idiots could have ended the hegemony of Microsoft and Apple for good.
Not a parent (yet), but there's a great book for dealing with kids (aged 2-99) by Faber & Mazlish titled, “How To Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk” that I would strongly recommend.
nit: I think the apple naming convention has been (name)kit and core(name).
Lots of slick UI stuff, but no meaningful updates to things that are well overdue:
- Encryption of specific secrets for each app.
- Fine grained control of what information is shared with apps.
- Ability to selectively deny particular data (and have the app keep working, e.g by giving it an empty contacts list, fake phone ID, etc).
- Ad and js blocking capable browser.

Why should installing e.g. the facebook app, allow it to track my position at all times? Just freaky.
Are there ThinkPads with touchpads as nice as MacBooks? The touchpad on my T470s is not even close.
There's a difference between a spam robocall to your personal number and a robot calling a business line to inquire about legitimate business. I imagine if my job were answering phones I'd much prefer talking to a robot that speaks clear English over actual people who could have difficult accents or who might just be rude on the phone.
i find the phenomenon of gizmodo bloggists impersonating journalists to be much scarier. what a horrible headline
It seems a very obvious pattern that Google would be able to detect.
> And if you want to support your favorite news sources, we’ve made it simple to subscribe with your Google account. This means no more forms, credit card numbers, or new passwords. And soon, thanks to the new Subscribe with Google platform (launched as a part of the Google News Initiative), you’ll get access to your paid content everywhere—on all platforms and devices, on Google News, Google Search, and on publishers’ own websites.

The upside is that it's a desperately needed solution to funding journalism. Hopefully people can pay per article, making quality journalism better funded and far more available (many people who can afford one article can't afford a year subscription, I assume).

But the cost is far too high: Google knows everything you read, and becomes the gatekeeper for journalism. Yikes. For those not worried, imagine the day when Google ownership/management shifts from the current well-intentioned people to someone else. That day will come.
Algorithmic accountability: a primer
The Japanese navy operates the US-2 for search and rescue. Its wingspan is smaller and its maximum range is less than the Pan Am Clippers, but can carry more weight and is much faster.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ShinMaywa_US-2
Btw, I love the Buckaroo Banzai reference in your name
How Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Is Rethinking Windows
It's hard to take an article seriously when the title is so full of hyperbole. This person needs to experience what scary as hell is before using that line next time.
When I see mindfulness mentioned, I am often reminded of my eastern philosophy classes. Mindfulness is not a 'moment of the day', it's a way of living your life.

The idea was that in the west, we would take these ideas and try to fit them into a western world which is a world where time == money. So you get these things like 'mindfulness classes' where, for one hour, you practice being in a state of mindfulness whilst the rest of the week you go through your life as usual.

I guess that when we took the idea of mindfulness and put it in a package that fit our society, it might have gotten hyped and more distant from its essence. This just to state that mindfulness might still be worth your time - just not the 'prepackaged' version.

* Small disclaimer: I do not practice it, I'm just being a parrot of some philosophy classes that I thought were interesting.
Deconstructing the “Unix philosophy”
You can't install old Android with Nexus?
You can abstract Facebook away and consider any other social media or product that you "pay" by viewing ads
People are jumping through whole sets of flaming hoops to eliminate passwords when the 'Password Manager' has already eliminated the _hassle_ of passwords while maintaining their unparalleled security.

100% of "passwordless" solutions look and feel inferior to a password manager and one or two strong passphrases, to my educated mind.

This seems like a problem to me, because we should be spending 200% effort on switching everyone to using password managers as a matter of habit. These other efforts are distractions from a functional working solution for authentication, of which there is no reason, beyond simple optimism, to believe we'll ever find a superior.
You obviously are more trusting than I am. Also, my point was that if Twitter messed up, so has every other website. Do you trust them all as much as you trust the Twitter employees?
Open source software is mostly written under well funded projects. Users shouldn't feel like they "owe".
Thinkpads have magnesium chassis (X1 is carbon fiber).