skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tracking movements of certain populations through mass surveillance is not the same thing as being photographed in public.

Facial recognition going mainstream will have large ramifications.
It also depends on what your business problem is.

If it's just doing simple ETL then it's probably OK, but if you need to do aggregations on the data, you're going to have a bad time, or end up implementing some sort of ersatz map-reduce framework in lambda.
Maybe they spent $101 billion up to 2015, i.e. it is the total sum of money spent for the last two decades. $5 billion a year for the last 20 years sounds too high still though (but feasible)
Sounds like a false flag to give authorities an excuse to regulate & ultimately centralize cryptos.
Building My Own Telemetry System for F1 (Game) Using Go, InfluxDB and Grafana
Funnily enough I was just reading, locust is apparently a reference to the evils of capitalism. From Bloomberg [1],

> Within hours of Heinrich Hiesinger stepping down as ThyssenKrupp AG chief executive last week amid pressure from activist investors, the talk turned to “locusts,” Germany’s catch-all term for the evils of Anglo-Saxon capitalism.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-07-10/hedge-fun...
I feel like there will be less social networks and more things that accidentally become social networks. Something like reddit. I'm sure there are more examples. Things more organic.
The distinction here is some further evidence of the actual mechanism through which this operates, and, critically, evidence that we can actively work to improve our ability to challenge immoral authority.

The $64 billion dollar question, though, is whether anyone in society will see it as reasonable to expect themselves or anyone else to abandon their intuition which tells them to follow without question, the 'natural' and 'automatic' response that they identify most strongly with their 'self', and train themselves to contradict and contravene that part of themselves. As is so often the case, you can't fix the flaws that your emotional and intuitive processing of the world brings about if you venerate intuition and emotion and denigrate any attempts to change it.
Nice summary. Talk about something *indistinguishable from magic"
Well TBH snap didn't offer a good user experience, hence when IG did it in a slightly more user friendly way they got most of snap's users

Same with vine and videos on ig
I'm on mobile, but do you have an example of bundling a node app somewhere?

I'm curious how it compares to using something like pkg [0].

[0] https://github.com/zeit/pkg
Mike Rowe has a short video on this: https://youtu.be/CVEuPmVAb8o

Just rewatched his TED talk and he brings it up around ~12 minutes in: https://youtu.be/IRVdiHu1VCc
Why Nudists Love Twitter
The american person in #44 is indeed likely to be Roger Stone. Here's what Mr. Stone wrote on March 10, 2017[1] regarding his contact with Guccifer 2.0:

> All contact I had with the entity known as Gufficer 2 came after I had written an article that was published on August 5th 2016 by Breitbart News and vetted by their lead investigative reporter Lee Stranahan. That article came after the DNC and DCCC material had been released and identified the role of a hacker going by the moniker Guccifer 2 based on our own sources.

> Therefore, any such “collaboration” would’ve also involved a time machine – something that I think Putin has not perfected yet.

> On August 14- some ten days- later I noted on my twitter feed that Guccifer 2.0 who had been suspended by Twitter had been reinstated. I did so because I abhor censorship. Then I did in fact have a short and innocuous Direct Message exchange with Guccifer 2.0. It was so perfunctory, brief and banal I had forgotten it. Not exactly 007 stuff even if Guccifer 2.0 was working for the Russkies.

These statements seem consistent with the information in the indictment.

[1] https://stonecoldtruth.com/roger-stone-the-smoking-gun-aims-...
The label is fine.

Nobody is confused as to what a "system administrator" is, even though technically the word "system" itself can have a much broader range of meaning.
It is by far one of the best tequilas available at any price. In particular their añejos and reposados.

Patron is still a great tequila. But if Siete Leguas is available, I'll choose it every time.
> Hypothetically, if a Russian agent became President of the USA, what would you expect him to do?

If a Russian agent became President of the USA, I would expect him to disarm american citizens and to reduce the power of the U.S. military.

e: if you're downvoting please explain why.
One could argue that Trump is a bipartisan issue
I once warned a friend of mine who was buying a business that he was actually buying a job. That turned out to be more correct than either one of us expected.
Build your own style transfer mirror in the browser
Reminds me of a promotion I saw a few years ago where some pizza chain had paired up with a video rental place. You ordered a DVD with your pizza and they were delivered together.
I'm always astounded by the pictures that are associated with black holes. Absolutely none of them are representative of what we've actually seen...because we've never directly imaged a black hole.

I'm not even sure if we can image it, because theoretically, we're imaging the stuff around them aka the event horizon or other matter which is being acted on by the black hole.

I mention this because it's one of the best examples Along with the electron) where we have such a strong desire to create visual representation of something we can't actually perceive because our minds require visual representation to understand the concept.
Garbage, nonsense.

And when their choice was American $100 bills what should we take from that? Criminals will always go outside of traditional systems.
Yes to the Wild Turkey - good taste and great value. Best drunk in the woods from a metal cup with a bit of ice.
From the homepage:

> I teach at Santa Clara University in the Law School. This spring I am teaching Economic Analysis of Law, and a seminar on Legal Systems Very Different From Ours.
Cue in the "cashless society".
Longest semifinal in Wimbledon history just concluded
Making an animated slider control
> XAR is pronounced like "czar" (/t͡ʂar/). The 'X' in XAR is meant to be a placeholder for all other letters as at Facebook this format was originally designed to replace ZIP-based PAR (Python archives), JSAR (JavaScript archives), LAR (Lua archives), and so on.

https://pypi.org/project/xar/
I've had Pulteney in bars but never bought a bottle. But all the Pulteney I've had (and the 12yo expression) is bourbon casked. That doesn't make it bad, just less interesting to me.

The annoying way I look at it is that if I'm going to pay 3x as much as I pay for VOB to get a scotch, I want something more interesting than a nicely balanced whiskey with some spice and some caramel notes. That's all well and good, but I can get that from Four Roses.

But one thing I cannot get from American whiskey is nicely balanced whiskey with powerful wine notes. As a rule, American whiskeys are aged for a relatively short time in new oak, and Scotch is aged for a long time in used barrels. So Scotch distillers are experts at imparting flavors from different casks, and that's kind of what I'm paying for.

That, or I'm paying for smoke and phenols and brine, which I'm sometimes in the mood for, but mostly I avoid.
Author here: You might be interested in this post on safety guarantees:

https://github.com/dhall-lang/dhall-lang/wiki/Safety-guarant...

The main risks in executing potentially malicious Dhall code that is not protected by a semantic integrity check are:

* Using more computer resources than you expected (i.e. network/CPU/RAM)

* Unintentional DDos (as you mentioned)

* The malicious import returning a value which changes the behavior of your program

If you protect the import with a semantic integrity check then the malicious import can no longer return an unexpected value, which eliminates the third issue (changing program behavior). Also, upcoming versions will cache imports based on the semantic integrity check, which would mitigate the second issue (DDos) for all but the first time you interpret the program. There is also a `dhall freeze` subcommand which takes a program and automatically pins imports to their most recent value using semantic integrity check.

Regarding exfiltration, the import system guarantees that only local imports can access sensitive information such as file contents or environment variables. See:

https://github.com/dhall-lang/dhall-lang/wiki/Safety-guarant...

The only way that a remote import can obtain that information is if a local import supplied that information via Dhall's support for custom headers. In fact, this is actually an intended use of that feature (i.e. a local import fetching a Dhall expression from a private GitHub repository using an access token retrieved from an environment variable).

So in other words the threat model is that as long as you can trust local imports then you can transitively trust remote imports because they cannot access your local filesystem or environment variables unless you explicitly opt into that via a local import. I think that's a reasonable threat model because if can't trust the contents of your local filesystem then you can't even trust the Dhall interpreter that you are using :)

Imports are not computed and the set of imports that you retrieve is static (i.e. does not change in response to program state or input), so the set of imports or their paths cannot be used as an exfiltration vector.
For people who don't understand what happened here:

In Debian ecosystem, "docker" is a system tray application: https://icculus.org/openbox/2/docker/

Docker, the container software, is packaged as "docker.io".
It's probably because economics relates to every adult's life experiences. These experiences give people a reason to form theories about how economics works.
This is pretty scandalous, and could lead to some legitimate security problems, how severe depends on some details.

I'm pretty sure that if this practice was widely known, there would be some tangible ire directed toward github, at least in the hacker/dev community.

> Although according to the customer service response, they would have done the exact same thing even if it had copious early activity.

Are you comfortable pasting that response in here? Thanks!
Are those really the people you fear the most?
Another HN hater is jwz.

Perhaps partly because Peter Thield is a "fascist"?

https://refererhider.com/?https://www.jwz.org/blog/2017/02/n...

(An argument that holds very little water. Fascism/national socialism promotes mixed economies and is very far from libertarianism, which is Thiel's actual political ideology.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism#Definitions )
> A really interesting counterfactual would be a world were Facebook, Instagram & Snapchat are all competing.

Obviously, antitrust laws are among the many things I know nothing about, but it still difficult for me to understand how they can allow facebook, instagram and whatsapp to be one corporation.
Interesting results (thanks for the SciHub link), but also a call for more research. Not enough info yet to rule out a likely explanation: that those who seek therapy were already in a negative situation, and thus the therapy is a symptom of a problem rather than the cause of one. They discuss additional interesting angles about it near the end, re therapists who don't follow standard protocols, patients who don't stay with therapy, etc.
How Russian intelligence officers used Bitcoin to hack the DNC
It sounds like you were doing another form of startup. Perhaps some writers bang out the prose and have an editor help to trim the fat rather than trying to wear all of the hats required to launch a new novelist.
Also:

> Beta readers telling me there are big holes here, there, everywhere, This character sucks, this character doesn't make sense, etc etc etc.

I think what makes a great story, and novelist for that matter, are some of those rough edges and you should ignore the critics just like an opinionated CEO might be advised to do. Those people may be looking out for you, but you're the artist and can use your vision to create your world with your unique voice!
> "Scala's mistake is ostensibly that it is an academic language trying to pitch itself as a language for building business applications."

It's a bit subtler than that. Scala is an industry programming language perfectly suited to business applications, but with a big academic and research input (remember that Odersky, its creator, was a big contributor to Java, an industry language) and with an initial emphasis on research. The mentioned talk is criticizing Scala's marketing blurb because it was written almost entirely from a research angle, and doesn't accurately and convincingly portray Scala's benefits for business. See the revised blurb at the end of the talk [1]. It's a question of being clever about marketing.

----

[1] revised blurb: "Scala is an open source programming language that helps you write correct code and modify code safely, while seamlessly reusing existing JVM libraries."
> If I left bad rating to carpooling drivers who drive unsafely... I’d do it every time.

Um, maybe... maybe you should? I don't understand this hesitation to accurately rate people who are bad at their job, to a level where someone can be seriously injured.

What exactly does it take some of y'all to give someone less than 5 stars? "Hit a child in a crosswalk, 4 stars"
They won’t do that until they have a different app supporting E2E. Why would they voluntarily lose all E2E users to a competitor?
My point, above, is that this isn't necessarily a good abstraction. The edges could be directed (A considers B a friend, B does not consider A a friend). The graph may not actually be complete (maybe absence of friendship is different from non-friendship), and so on.

So yes, if kids' friendships form a complete undirected graph, then sure, your result is not at all surprising. But maybe they don't.
bloomberg tries everything to bring down bitcoin price for a reason
Active discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17524575
I don't pretend to know a lot about linking files, but I just checked an old static ffmbc binary I had lying around

:/tmp$ file ffmbc
ffmbc: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV),
statically linked, for GNU/Linux 2.6.15, BuildID[sha1]=...., stripped
:/tmp$ ldd ffmbc
not a dynamic executable

It runs on the following libc versions:

ldd (GNU libc) 2.12 (Centos 6.9)
ldd (Ubuntu EGLIBC 2.19-0ubuntu6.14) 2.19 (ubuntu 14.04)
ldd (Ubuntu GLIBC 2.23-0ubuntu10) 2.23 (Ubuntu 16.04)

I'm fairly sure it ran on distributions as old as ubuntu 8.04
Ask HN: How to raise 10M for a SaaS product?
The market structure an obsolete leader (lead time for highly requested features literally 6-10 years)owns close to 50% of the market. There is a large number of competitors literally none offer capabilities that would allow F500 company to switch from market leader to their offering. Building up a competitive offering would take a few years and a 10M round. This does not fit normal VC deal structure. How could one look for capital? (market size is about 6 billion)
I like Lisps but I still don't like this. This is like the Perl of Lisps. To my eye, this is not a parse tree, it's syntax vomit on top of a parse tree.
Seems like it.

Exhibit A:
https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/16/facebook-acquires-anonymou...

Exhibit B:
https://www.engadget.com/2018/07/02/facebook-shuts-down-tbh-...
I don't know if you will lose money, but here is why I suspect you might:

https://www.amazon.com/Where-Are-Customers-Yachts-Street/dp/...
This is really cool. I admire your bravery.

I noticed that certain options are hardcoded (such as the port number). As someone with very little experience in assembly, how difficult would it be to make this dynamic via environment variables?
> try to combine your skills with your interests

This is 100x more grounded, clear-cut, and actionable than "follow your passion".
I stopped drinking Van Winkle a while ago when the price to quality ratio when sideways. That said, claiming it isn't good is a stretch. Its very good whiskey. Just not much better than a load of other very good whiskey. That said, when I was drinking it, I preferred the 12 year to all the other expressions.

The sweet spot for bourbon seems to be in that 8-12 year market. Unfortunately that stuff is basically the hardest to sell these days. It used to be that a 6 year bourbon was fairly easy to find (VOB for instance used to do that at bottom shelf prices). But now thats treated like an antique. While if you have 12 year old barrels sitting around it makes sense to hold them until they are into ridiculous ages for the collector market.
I find most meetings to be superfluous opportunities for the biggest egos to exercise their vocal cords as everyone else writes emails or sends messages...

I have suggested that one gets a weekly word budget and if one exceeds it, one loses a dollar of compensation per word.
I got sold a Glenfarclas as a better Macallan and wasn't blown away by it. I think I'd always take a Dronach over it, and pay 40% less to boot.

Aberlour is basically pin compatible with Macallan, and the two whiskies are distilled walking distance away from each other. Aberlour has the one NAS scotch --- A'bunadh --- that I've really liked; it's a bargain sherry bomb that I'd take over Macallan any day.
My wording wasn't quite right. GDPR refers to "personal data". I don't think all data about a person is "personal data" to be controlled by that person according to GDPR.

* are my interview notes during the hiring process "personal data" subject to GDPR provisions (disclosure, destruction, etc).
* are my business meeting notes with a contractor subject to GDPR?
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For me, once I was able to find a project I was able to make a small amount of money off of, it started the spark for doing tons of other projects. Only now the projects tend to contribute to the original project usually by enhancements in efficiency.

Some of my other hobbies have taken a back seat, but being able to tie in soldering projects with woodworking and website building all while being able to fund it through some other means than my day job is pretty glorious. It also makes it easier to put a value on things.
Not only that, but not wearing a seatbelt (even as a passenger) can get you fired on the spot!

I was extremely impressed with the safety-first culture when I interned at Schlumberger a few years back. Your coworkers will yell at you if you simply step into a work area with proper PPE (hardhat, safety boots, etc.).
Hibiki is available without an age statement. It's quite popular despite this.
The store which had it only had one bottle and just sold it. Looks like your post triggered many calls to the store. The clerk knew exactly what I was calling for, haha.
Instagram Stories is one of the most addictive application I have ever used.

It obviously replaced Snapchat but also Facebook, Tinder, even WhatsApp. What are you friends up to? Check your friends' stories. Wanna see some beautiful stories? Check some influencers' stories. Wanna tease a party or share fun pictures during a party, only with your friends? Use Instagram Stories. This app is a dream for people in their twenties.

The number of use cases this app created and the engagement it causes (the delay between posting a story and when it is seen by friends is rarely more than a few minutes) is really astonishing. Facebook will likely not die anytime soon, but Instagram is now the app and its acquisition was one of the smartest moves in the history of Facebook. If you want to learn more about the acquisition, I strongly recommend this article: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/business/2013/06/kara-swishe...
Not in my experience. You still have to win a case or have compelling evidence to force a settlement for slip and fall stuff, plus insurance is involved in that. Cars being stolen isn't a merchants problem unless they're selling secure storage for your car, which a parking lot isn't.

What does come up in hotels is people trying to get sneak extra people in, pets, claiming bugs, making too much noise and disturbing other guests, etc.
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Ask HN: Million Dollar Idea
Hi. I am looking for million dollar (GBP ( PLN worst case scenario)) idea.

I need money. I am 29, I am originally from Poland, but I have lived last 10 yrs in UK ( where I studied AI and electronics ). Now Im back to Poland (I moved here because of my beloved woman).

I am trying my best to live and work here and also pay the student loan in UK... but it goes bad. Interests are rising and the rope on my neck is getting tighter. I need to think about future, having 4 kids, lovely dogs and mid size house.

I am not genius, nor super smart. Average I would say. I am very curious about a world and try to thing by myself.

and I am wondering... what to do ? I know people getting money just for nothing to be honest, like for example selling abstraction paintings for millions... or some stupid stones instead of animals.

I do not want to have money just because of it itself. I will not but a Ferrari. I do not need it, its not practical. Maybe.... some comfortable little family SUV. But I will donate a lot of money to homeless dogs and poor kids. I promise. Really. I feel bad when I see a bird with a wound.

I know that if you had some million dollar idea, you would probably materialized it yourself. But....
Maybe.... there is something you could share ?

I will appropriate any advice, idea, anything. I need to move on but I do not know in which direction.

Thank you !
There’s now just one Blockbuster remaining in the US
Why does my neighbor hear the score in the big game before I do?
You are generalizing too much. Even harsh critics of government regulation are rarely if ever willing to say there should be NO regulations or that ALL regulations are "bad".
> The sudden commodification of facial recognition means most of the companies racing to fill business needs are startups.

I know it's a common phrase, but to be rhetorical, when is facial recognition actually a "business need"?
They flooded the local (Chicago) distributors recently. That stuff has shown up all over the place. If someone can sell you on it, let me know cause I couldn't get into it either.
Another good sherry Irish is Yellow Spot (~$100) and its cheaper non-sherry sibling Green Spot (~$50). Irishes drown very easily, so be careful with the water!
The Coffey Grain just smelled too much like rubbing alcohol to me. I couldn't stand it. Is the Coffey Malt better?
> They won’t do that until they have a different app supporting E2E. Why would they voluntarily lose all E2E users to a competitor?

I would like to be optimistic, but the realist in me thinks the number of users for which end-to-end encryption is a vital feature is vanishingly small.

And maybe all FB needs to do to keep those users is to make end-to-end encryption on WhatsApp opt-in, so they can provide ~~"wonderful new features to you"~~ if you keep it off.
That's probably not a good model to fit in assembly code. It's easier to have a wrapper in another language as the launcher and have it set the variables in the assembly code and build the binary.