skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like six years ago a recruiter set me up with an interview with Sumo as a developer. Noah said after the interview “So the recruiter wants 45% on top of your salary. We aren’t going to pay that, but you’re a great candidate. Can you tell us how we could find more people LIKE you?”

That guy is a scumbag.
I would love to go to Spain and just program, actually, and I'm not a pensioner ... yet.
Here are multiple solutions to the problem explained pretty clearly: http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/55618.html

This was a fun one to work out on paper though.
How so many people are convinced the market will save them from the marker given the last 300 years oh history is beyond me.
I think you're a bit confused by what data Spokeo has. Most of it is generated on the fly when you do a query, by scraping other sources.
Also important to note this installs nicely as a mobile app and works completely offline!
A bit of topic, but one cannot simply renounce us citizenship. It is a costly and time consuming process. And if the process of renouncing ones citizenship is not done perfectly, then the us could rejected the request.
Almost none. Most people in the security industry don't use techniques like that which proved out in older evaluations. My own framework for looking at things was heavily based on those methods. Common Criteria got too political where people might try to dodge requirements with hand-waiving. So, I'll give you that plus the VAX Retrospective since the design, layering, and assurance sections show you what methods were in use in 1990's high-assurance security. Also, the covert channel analysis was how they found cache-based, timing channels in it in 1992. Mainstream security ignored that for a long time, too. Most still don't give them credit. It's a social or clique thing that I can tell.

http://lukemuehlhauser.com/wp-content/uploads/Karger-et-al-A...

https://pastebin.com/y3PufJ0V

For covert channels, you want to look up Kemmerer's Shared Resource Matrix for storage channels and Wray's method for timing channels. Those got early results. There's a lot of newer ones under banner of "information flow security." Google variations of those terms with "PDF" since they're PDF's to find lots of answers. Throw the word "survey" in with information flow since I think there was a survey paper.

Finally, I'll throw in below my summary of assurance techniques I found over time:

https://pastebin.com/uyNfvqcp
s/bogus/imperfect/

It's impossible to create perfect systems, so it always makes sense to give yourself an extra out to protect you from unanticipated defects (otherwise known as a "belt and suspenders" approach).
Read about legitimate interest, it's only a few sentences
It's definitely solvable. You pass laws that make it very costly for businesses to expose personal data. Businesses are rational actors (for the most part) and will adjust accordingly, for example by not collecting the data in the first place.
That early in your career I would go with where you would learn the most. That usually means whichever has the most challenging, complex, "buck rodgers" and most importantly interesting to you project(s). For me it was blood pumps and artificial hearts.
Class 2 steep staircase, he uses the handrail.
Does anyone know what went wrong there yet, exactly? Just insufficient pro and unexpected fall?
> If you want to be part of next future companies, where you can learn much more about the process of how company works and other information, start with smaller high growth company.

I think this is only true when the startup is really small, say, 5-20 people. I was once part of a startup that had ~100 developers and I hardly learned about its inner workings, was rarely part of any decision-making on business or customer-facing use cases etc.
It's coming to California in 2020:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17420849
Felonies and shotguns it is then. Can’t argue with simple.
Note that official Rust team position is that Edition is explicitly not LTS and should not be considered as such.

Actually there was a long thread on Rust internals forum where they worried people may mistake Edition as LTS, but conclusion was that confusion can be prevented by explicit messaging. Looking at your post, I think worry was justified.
Hmm? No, that‘s definitely not what I said. Geography is one factor that can influence population density and interconnectedness, among other things, but these parameters have different effects in different times. Rivers are much less important today than in the middle ages.

Geography is one historical factor in the multiparametric space shaping the wellbeing of a nation. Political culture is another one.
Government funded elections might solve most of our society’s spiraling issues but we can’t have any clue what the value would be until we try it.

And of course we can’t make honest claims to democracy until then either.
Yes, Portugal seems the more exciting for tech of the south eu countries. I think a big reason for that is also because in PT people speak (better) English; I live in Spain but have a company in PT for that reason. Our clients are not Spanish so English is a must, for everyone.
This is why the push to open science is so important. Making data sets and code accessible for more in depth peer review should be required. Maybe it is a side effect of our antiquated publishing industry though.
The rope makes it much easier. If you've never climbed you can't understand the psychological factor of "being protected" while climbing. If you climb "roped" at a certain grade, you might be capable of free soloing several levels below that, if
at all.

Similar to your mental state due to other things. If you're having a bad day or distracted, your climbing will be greatly affected, sometimes severely.
Even if we assume that everyone involved in processing your data is trustworthy (and that’s a very big if), there’s always the risk of an accidental data breach.

If you think Equifax was bad enough, think for a second what would be the consequences of a breach at Google or Facebook who literally have your entire online history, private messages (Facebook Messenger, Google Hangouts, etc) and a good overview of your offline life (Google Calendar, emails, Android device location history, etc).
In America, they simply do not know the last 300 years of history.
They can increase both transparency and censorship at the same time.
I am interested. Email me at RoneyThomas@users.noreply.github.com
First there was nvlink, rather.
DuckDuckGo is now good enough that I only use Google services a few times a day as a fallback.

Not saying I’m happy with that (I wish I could just pay Google a fair price and trust them not to stalk me) but I don’t have much choice I’m afraid.
'Music of speech' linked to brain area unique to humans
I had a molecular biology research background before switching to bioinformatics via a Masters degree some time ago. The degree involved subjects that teach tools, and other subjects that teach programming fundamentals (with the undergrad CS and engineering students).

By far the most helpful for me were the software engineering subjects. I could immediately see where I could apply pretty much everything I was learning each day to a biological problem I was trying to solve. Learning individual tools was trivial in comparison, and with programming fundamentals I could wrangle large datasets and thus string tools together into workflows and pipelines.

What was beneficial for me may not of course be broadly applicable, and I suspect different students will appreciate different approaches.
Boeing's planned hypersonic airliner could fly from NYC to London in two hours
With private keys please.
i wish there was something like `jbuilder new`, but alas. my current impression is that everything in ocaml-land wants you to spend time writing cryptic configuration files and inventing bespoke project structures.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17420849
What makes you think an ideal world would involve no humans after the doctor writes a prescription? There’s a very good reason we have pharmacists. Doctors can and do make mistakes, and they may not know every medication that a patient is taking. Somebody has to catch these mistakes and potentially lethal interactions.

Doctors are typically not experts in medications. Specialists probably know a lot about medications pertaining to their specialty, but asking GPs to know so much about a vast array of diseases AND the medications to treat them all, AND all interactions between medications is unreasonable. Doctors education is primarily in diagnosing disease. Pharmacists go to school just as long as doctors do (I think the major difference is pharmacists don’t typically do a residency after they graduate unless they are not planning to work in a community pharmacy), but their entire education is based around medications. Pharmacists are the medication experts. It’s a good thing that we have both looking after the healthcare of patients.
It's building the communications infrastructure you need for glasses to "just work."

You can't just come out with glasses because there is too much you don't know about how multi-user and persistent content AR interface and communications work from a standing start.
I'd love to see private data as personal property, but in practice that's likely to run into a lot of contradictions.

The biggest problem is that most of the interesting private data is actually about relationships between multiple private individuals. If you're having a conversation with a friend on Whatsapp, is that conversation property of you, your friend, or do you each own your own messages? If it's a group conversation, is the whole conversation owned by all of the participants, or only parts of it? What if some people in the group chat aren't actually participating, but are just lurking? If you mention a company's product, does that mention belong to the company or the person mentioning it? What if instead of a product, you mention another person? What if you're quoting gossip they told you in person?

This is why Hacker News doesn't let you delete or edit posts after 2 hours, BTW. Once people have read them and replied and referenced them elsewhere, it's not really fair to other participants in the conversation to remove the words they were replying to.

Other social networks have run into real problems where people have edited their posts after many replies have been added to take the replies out of context and make them mean something totally the opposite of what their authors intended. If you own your own words, this is your right, but it's also a dickish and disruptive thing to do.

The same applies to many other types of personal data. A credit report is a list of transactions between you and various creditors. The credit bureau didn't just snoop on everything you do, that information was reported to them by the other party of the transaction. If they own the data about them, this is within their rights, but it certainly doesn't feel about it when it's used to deny the borrower further credit.

I think the current situation, where data is owned by the company or individual that collects it, is the most absurd alternative possible. But that's because our legal system is poorly structured to handle property rights where the "property" is owned by multiple firms, can be transferred easily (and surreptitiously) without the original owner losing rights, and may eventually come to harm one of the original owners.
Was the original law 20 years ago also a conspiracy against America?
> Trains are much more pleasant to ride compared to Melbourne.

Sydneysider here. I didn't realise the trains were bad in Melbourne. I travel to Melbourne regularly but rely on cabs when my legs won't suffice i.e. to/from the domestic airport. The MEL CBD is very walkable thanks to being a grid.

Do you think trains are more affordable in Melbourne, thus a good option for the homeless? I can't figure out what the difference might be, but I imagine the Opal card system here might be a barrier to people with little money.

> Ferry is the best option though.

Being able to enjoy a beer/wine/cider on the ferry is great. That you can tap your credit card to pay the fare is cool too.

> Perhaps it's because of the sunshine?

I always thought Melbournians were more artsy (for lack of a better word) because of the cooler weather. Just as in Europe the colder climates encourage quieter pursuits (philosophers, poets and thinkers) while the Mediterranean caters to hedonistic pleasures.
Would be good to get a copy of this database to search the details of top executives involved in privacy-violating companies and publish them.
Libertarianism may be a serious economic philosophy but it's a poor political philosophy. It completely ignores issues like path dependency, importance of culture and socialization, etc.

Don't you find it odd that societies that exemplify the sort of globally optimal yet individually rational choices such as in Japan or Nordic countries have laws and norms more often than not in direct contradiction to Western Libertarian thinking? Libertarianism can only work if people have already strongly internalized a communitarian ethos. Without that ethos (internalized directly by the people or indirectly through its institutions) civilization cannot exist; basic game theory proves that. Pervasive non-kin selflessness is the defining characteristic that uniquely separates humans from every other species in existence.[1]

The paradox is that we can get rid of coercive economic policies only once the Koch Brothers and Paul Ryans are replaced by hippies, or at least people substantially less motivated by bald self-interest.

[1] We still don't understand how it arose, and so IMO all modern economic theories (libertarian or otherwise) are fundamentally handicapped unless and until we can throughly answer that question.
That is what I know the acronym as too.
Well, a 5-frame image was already encoded into DNA about 12 months ago. [0] But this method could probably increase information density, if I'm reading it correctly.

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-40585299
I still can't understand why leaking SSN should do me harms.
These are primary key, not crediential. But everybody is treating them as crediential.
Distrust in mainstream media is spilling over to fact-checking
They took hold because of education standardization and active governmental campaigns to suppress variant dialects.
> what's the alternative?

Absolute liability for data losses. Exactis lost 360 million peoples' data. They should be able to (a) form a class and (b) extract money damages from Exactis without having to prove specific harm, which is difficult to do with data loss.

A good model is Illinois' Biometric Information Privacy Act [1]. Broaden the the definition from "biometric identifier" to a longer--but still specific--list. If you want to get fancy, create a regulator who can add things to the list after a public hearing. (The specificity avoids GDPR's "what's personal data?" mess. The public input mitigates the risk of unintended consequences and corruption.)

[1] http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/ilcs/ilcs3.asp?ActID=3004
> When the top folks in the US government are personally affected

The OPM breach covered a lot of powerful senior people.
Yes, that's unfortunately true as well. Poor people tend to find housing in hazardous areas, and the developmental damage from some things, like lead poisoning, are permanent. Chronic stress also hampers physical development. To see how extreme just the psychosocial effects can be, I encourage everyone to read up on these two concepts:

http://www.driscollchildrens.org/patient-education/food-nutr...
Children with severe enough emotional stressors can cease to grow despite adequate nutrition and no physical ailment.

https://hub.jhu.edu/magazine/2013/winter/adverse-childhood-e...
Adverse childhood experiences appear to set people up for increased likelihood of chronic illness for life.
> You can't even opt out

I scratched that, and other lines, out of my rental agreement when I rented my New York apartment. The landlord agreed.
Yep, I think I would feel the same as you do if my work laptop was a 2017. Work gave me an old laptop, and I was happy with that because I don't have to deal with the touch bar or USB C.

I also share your sense of value about the machines. The 2012 is the last MacBook pro I've paid for myself.

EDIT: I just checked and my work laptop is a mid 2015. It's still much lighter than my personal MBP, but I think this was the last generation before USB c charging and the elimination of ports.
Wow, I spent so much time on this game. The minecraft of its era.
Same flawed logic as in online piracy.

No one lost your data, they still have it, but someone else made a copy.
ReasonML has only very superficial changes to ML using the ppx AST extension framework. Multicore GCs are not really what Facebook planned on contributing, or at least has shown signs of contributing yet. It is also a bit outside of the scope of their project since they (mainly) market reason for compiling to JS VMs.
Funny story: at a, let's say, Fortune 50 tech company there was an investigation into why performance for a certain database query had become atrocious. The problem was that the query was against a table that started out quite small and then grew very large. And the database had been configured to use "query plan stability" to improve predictability of performance. However, the query plan that the db originally came up with for that nearly empty table was a full table scan, which was actually the fastest method under those conditions. Yet it continued to use a full table scan even as the table grew to many tens of millions of rows. It was a simple matter to switch the query to actually make use of the indexes that already existed.
What kind of person deliberately goes out of their way to discard that supposed intelligence and reasonability and replace it with such poisonous, hateful vitriol?
Possibly not, but I did notice carrying my personal laptop around versus my work laptop. It made a fairly big difference in fatigue whether I was going to the cafe or to another country.
Apparently, yes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare_and_Company_(books...
This Variety piece doesn't do him justice in the least. For instance, the paragraph about his marriages is snarky and I suspect that the writer was unaware that, per Wikipedia, his final marriage ran ~32 years until death did them part. I expect that more knowledgeable pieces will be forthcoming.

Harlan Ellison was one of a kind, and although I never had any contact with him[1] I really feel this loss. Even though his works are still with us (I have a bunch of his books, and so many of the stories are etched into my brain), he won't be challenging us the way he did.

[1] Unless you count the time when in a crowded corridor I heard someone behind me saying "Wheelchair. Wheelchair." and moved out of the way – and it turned out to be Ellison walking with a young woman who was horribly embarrassed.
Huh? 5.12 is elite amateur climber. Some people aren't able to do that after years of consistent climbing.
New RAMpage attack affects all Android phones released since 2012
Patent offers closer look at Magic Leap
How long does a 10x Programmer remain a 10x Programmer?
Mastercard and Visa [1] sell this data in aggregate to firms via brokers like Bluekai, to allow for ad-targeting.

I don't believe it'll be feasible to purchase just one person's purchase data [easily], but if you knew who you wanted to get to, it should be possible to narrow the targeting to get to them

[1] http://www.oracle.com/us/solutions/cloud/data-directory-2810... [ctrl+F + mastercard]
From the Slate article:

"When Teri Perl described the project to legendary computer scientist Alan Kay, he said, “You’re wasting your time. It can’t be done.” That is, the basic idea was simply too complex to run on an Apple home computer. When Robot Odyssey shipped, the company gave Wallace a plaque that said, “It can’t be done. —Alan Kay.”"

That's an awesome story.
http://outline.com

http://archive.is

http://web.archive.org
The problem isn’t that these people are incompetent at network security (they are), the problem is that these people had your data to begin with. Data security is impossible because there is a massive shadow market for your entire life history and no amount of privacy setting theater will make up for the fact that your personal data is currently the target of an insatiable feeding frenzy.
> We are all nominally market economies

"Nominally"? What planet do you live on?

The definition of a market economy, in case you're unfamiliar with it, is an economic system in which decisions regarding resource allocation (including investment, production, and distribution) are determined by price signals created by supply and demand. In particular, the factors of production (land, labour, and capital) are guided by production markets, not government diktat. In other words, this is the bulk (greater part, vast majority) of all economic activity.

> Typical medicare recipient blows through his entire lifetime contribution in two years.

If this is true (I don't have a source for this claim), where do you think this money is coming from?

> It is propped up through progressive taxation and gobs of public debt.

Precisely... debt and taxes. Mostly taxes.

> Medicare spending for 2017 was around $700B[0]. US healthcare spending for 2017 was $3.5T[1]. That's roughly 20% of the market. It is totally a socialist program.

You seem to be confused about what socialism is. An economy with a social safety net is not the same as a socialist economy. The fact that Medicare comprises 20% of healthcare spending doesn't make the United States a socialist economy. (This is not even addressing the question of whether it would be better to have a less authoritarian system.)

> As for post-secondary ed, when the whole thing is propped up through state and federal monies, what would happen to that market if it were limited to earned money, and cut off from other peoples' money?

What do you think would happen?

> This was Argentina's economic policy prior to the crash: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Menem#Economic_policy

You're dodging the question, so I'll repeat it: Can you point to the relevant liberalization policy which you think made the situation worse?

> Most of these economic theories and belief systems are just cover for raw power.

Quite the contrary. Economic policies have real-world consequences. There are strong theoretical and empirical reasons to believe that some economic policies are better than others. One would have to engage in some intense self-deception to believe that all economic policies are equally effective.
Funny you mention that. I don't know about you, but I feel much more spritely and alive after doing those few pounds in the morning.
This is seriously an interesting idea.

At the least it's good for visitors that come to my desk to help solve a problem!
I have some experience with iText, so possibly I can answer. iText never released a version 4.2.0 for Java. The original forker misunderstood iText versioning and used the number of the C# version. At the time, iText versions for Java were 2.x, and C# were 4.x The code in the forked version is actually the last release of the Java version of iText 2.x, which was the last Java release under the LGPL/Mozilla license.

Thankfully, iText later coordinated release numbers for both platforms to 5.x numbering when they changed the license to AGPL.

So, you should be safe using this version of iText under LGPL or Mozilla, but it's a fairly old release of the library. If you're just using iText for your hacking projects, you're probably better off going with a more recent version.
I'm suggesting that the alternative is a modification of the GDPR. It has a lot of great aspects, and some aspects that are kinda terrible.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17419118