skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thing advertisers didn't like about iAd was the fact that Apple didn't share customer data with them as was the standard in the industry.

>Apple has a lot of knowledge regarding its users,but what it doesn’t do with that data is share it with advertisers very freely. That makes Madison Avenue very mad.

>rather than offering a cookie-based ad-tracking and targeting mechanism, it essentially requires partners to tell it what kind of audience it needs to reach, and then trust that Apple will handle the rest, AdAge says. And it’s well worth noting that Apple prioritizes customer privacy here over a big potential upside in ad revenue.

>what it doesn’t do is hand over the keys to all that data and let advertisers plug into it directly with their own data-mining and targeting software. That’s not standard for the ad industry and that’s likely the reason a few Madison Avenue feathers are ruffled over their approach.

https://techcrunch.com/2014/02/18/advertisers-not-thrilled-w...
Ask HN: What savings bank would you recommend?
Shocking such an upstanding company would let this happen /s
...to say nothing of wars on emotions that result in being stuck in afghanistan over a decade and a half later to the cumulative tune of roughly 5-7 trillion dollars in loans called appropriations that are still getting kicked down the road like a rusty can, but I digress...
I'm actually with you to a degree - but on the flip side, should we expect repercussions for something like this? Should we just be ok with it? As an industry we tend to play it pretty fast and loose compared to other engineering disciplines.
Shocking such an upstanding company would allow this to happen /s
I do something similar for my blog. I love orgs embedded code features
> But even then, the police are there. Just call them.

Uh, isn't that the exact problem? Once someone knows your address you're a voip call away from swatting.
Link seems to be live here now: https://www.ralfj.de/blog/2018/07/24/pointers-and-bytes.html
The thing I don’t understand is why Spotify has to be the label’s slave. The labels are taking a huge margin from both Spotify who is the distributor and the artist who is the creator.

Why can’t Spotify just remove the label as the middle man and give artists a bigger chunk? That would attract artists and Spotify gets to increase their share a bit as well.

Isn’t a label just a glorified pimp for an artist?
Wow, that web page is a labor of love. Very cool! I feel like making wallpaper from it when I return home next year and I will need to re-furnish my study.
Actual legal text on CA data breach law from the following link. Notification requirements are near the bottom, starting with the section labeled "(j) For purposes of this section, “notice” may be provided by one of the following methods:"

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio...

Email notice is an option if meeting the restrictions listed in the Federal law linked below. I think the relevant part is section (c), with the major restriction being "affirmative consent."

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/7001

Alternatively if the breach affects over half a million people, they can send notifications by email, but also have to plaster their homepage and send "Notification to major statewide media." The homepage banner would only affect people who pay electronically but not by autopay. There are ways to minimize the effect of news broadcast, e.g. send the press release at 4 o'clock on a Friday when no one watches the news.

So, it's not quite as easy as you think but Comcast does have options to minimize the impact of notification.
Ah, yeah, I completely forgot about swatting. Good point. The sooner that problem gets solved, the better.
Meanwhile, DirectTV still requires SSN to sign up. Until something changes, (create a liability?) this will keep happening.
Does it work well for a multiroom apartment?
Most retirees pay taxes, including on social security.
Why don't banks sell API access at a rate s/similar/lower than Google Maps API access? This is starting to feel like music and video piracy all over again.
I see how that term has that effect, but before you impute intentionality to it, bear in mind that transfer restrictions have been a standard, market term for employee equity for decades. Closely held private companies are itchy about who holds their stock.
Think of it this way: Two people are playing an online game, and one gets mad at the other. He or she then sends a link to an image or something else to the player they are mad at, effectively siphoning off their IP address. By using this flaw, it could make it trivial to find their real address if it was a comcast customer, and send the SWAT team to their house.
I looked at pfsense before going with Ubitquti/UniFi. Have to say I'm really happy with it, breeze to setup and does 99% if what you want to do out of the box.
The machines used in Georgia do not print receipts. Full stop.
It was a federal grant.
You pay tax when withdrawing funds from 401k. Worst case they'll remove the 401k and force everyone to migrate to a Roth IRA. Which is the same as the status quo...aka not that bad.

As for Roth IRA. I don't trust the government to honor their end of the deal. I can see them taxing withdrawals for the top 10% in the future.
That is exactly the plan. With renewables you have to deploy far more than you need due to capacity factor, so to average 100kW on solar you need to deploy between 300kW and 400kW of capacity. So during the course of the day you will be generating significantly more or significantly less power than required.

Batteries and hydro will help for short term storage of excess power (ie: overnight, during cloud passage) but for long term storage (eg for transport by sea) you need something with higher energy density. For export especially you need high energy density since shipping charged batteries across the planet is going to be extremely inefficient.

The breakthrough this membrane represents is an increase in the “well to wheels” efficiency of the hydrogen economy (which is lower overall than the “pure electric” economy involving BEVs). Having said that, the “well to wheels” efficiency of H2 using Ammonia as a transport medium is under 20%, so it’s really only useful when there is plentiful cheap energy which nobody else has a better use for.

Other uses for plentiful cheap electricity could be (for example) chilling or heating large volumes of water or other thermal mass for air conditioning and industrial processes. If you have large tanks of water you can spend energy chilling (or heating) them when electricity is cheap, then use the chilled water to cool whatever it is you have that is getting too hot (and vice versa for hot water storage).

But if people are willing to pay enough for hydrogen at point of use, there will be an economic case for producing ammonia in Australia to be converted to hydrogen in Japan resulting in 1kWh in Japan costing about the same as 4kWh in Australia.
If I want to make my financial life difficult in the sake of security, that should be my choice. I'm sick of banks saying, either implicitly or outright, "we don't want to ratchet up security measures because people will find it inconvenient. You can say that because it's not your money on the line.

Why can't I ask for chip-and-pin or nothing? No chip-and-signature, no swipe-and-pin, no swipe-and-signature,no it's-less-than-$50-so-nobody-cares-and-we-don't-even-ask-that.

Why can't I have a card inactive by default-- if not used in a week, you have to press a button in the app to re-activate it before it works again? Then you could potentially add "the next charge will be $120 +/- 10. Those would make for a smaller target for spray-and-pray fraud.

Conversely, when they do try to protect you, they do a terrible job of it. My bank (one of the largest in the county) has a particular hard-on for the website of a large regional electronics retailer. In person, fine, but if you order from their site, odds are 50:50 it will fail and your card will get fraud locked. I am significantly less likely to order from them because I know it's going to be a hassle, even when I see an offer I want. If I could white-list the merchant, problem solved. If many customers whitelist them, it might provide better information for their automated anti-fraud systems.
A deeply red/Republican and relatively low-density state might seem like a strange place to find a functional public transit system. Utah is an interesting place. The geography of the Wasatch Front lends itself to public transit in ways that less geographically-constrained places do not. The region is mostly a north-south corridor, with occasional off-shoots to the side, which is how the transit network has developed. There is a significant tech culture, from 'little silicon slopes' in Lehi to the significant student population. The valley has seasonal pollution problems caused by mountains to the east and west. This is made worse by the lake effect, which means energy solutions helpful elsewhere are less effective, like natural gas plants. What would otherwise be transient pollutants instead react with ammonia from the lake and persist in the atmosphere, further trapped by the mountains. Utah has a significant need for public transit, and getting students connected and using it is a great way for generational change to occur. Car culture still rules, and will for a long time, but this is a good thing to hear. Hopefully a Trax expansion or equivalent in Utah county will happen eventually. Until then, this seems the next best policy.
When I buy I intentionally buy well below what I can afford, so being underwater has not been an issue for me.

As far as abandoning a metro area, it took quite a bit for my wife and I to finally uproot. That we owned our house was relatively low on the friction list. Hell, my wife wants to delay buying again (we rent) because she finds the act of moving so stressful.
"Also the USA is still using cheques. They haven't even got to chip and pin yet. We are pretty much past that and onto contactless."

I'm not sure what you're talking about. All my cards have chips, and I'm in the US. And for several years, I've been living in an apartment which takes direct bank transfers for rent rather than paper checks. Landlords in my experience have been the last holdouts that don't want to stop using checks. Contactless payment I don't use, but I know it exists in the US because I see signs when I check out.
Who Gets a New 20% Tax Break? The Treasury Dept. Speaks, and Trump May Save
davidw guide to equity compensation: it's probably worth jack shit.

That said, this looks like a great guide if you're going to go that route.
Hey hauxir! Yes, latest Lubuntu, Chrome / Firefox, Wireshark. Chat is working. But emulators dont seem to sync. Intro just plays in endless loop without responding to control events. If I just select single player in a single window, it starts. But performance is greatly degraded over typical jsnes experience, which is typically quite smooth. Sorry ;(
Changing the employee stock agreement after the A round for an individual hire probably requires a board meeting about that hire.

Don't take a job whose comp terms are incompatible with your goals; of course not. But again: be careful imputing intentionality. It's not a "red flag".
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Setting Up a Static Site with Hugo and Push to Deploy
Apple doesn't care about Tesla. Apple will buy Juul.

It's a drop-in team of industrial designers, QA testers, and fabricators that's identified the next viable physical platform.
I’ve heard that Type 1 diabetes is due to lack of insulin (malfunctioning pancreas) while Type 2 diabetes is caused by too much insulin (leading to insulin resistance.)

If this is true, insulin pumps for Type 2 diabetes don’t help, because they can only add more insulin, when the fundamental problem isn’t lack of insulin, but lack of response to insulin.
Same thing for rainy weather -- cabs would disappear. That was legitimate because the cost of driving is indeed higher in rain (fewer rides per hour) and thus deserves more compensation.

I think you have this backwards. The traditional explanation is that it's harder to get a cab when it rains because demand goes up, not down, because no one wants to walk in the rain. The more complex modern explanation[1] is that the higher demand but slower traffic offset, so cab drivers make the same amount in the rain as at other times. In either case, I don't think the cabs actually "disappear", rather they are all occupied. Or maybe this is what you meant?

[1] http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/11/why-you-cant-ge...
Reversing a Japanese Wireless SD Card – From Zero to Code Execution
Getting Alexa to Respond to Sign Language Using Your Webcam and TensorFlow.js
Testing web applications with Selenium
The information you obtain from vulnerabilities like these are used to obtain “original” social media accounts, and are then sold for a lot of money. To define what “original” is, take for instance “@shawn” on Instagram or Twitter. When these people target celebrities, they are mainly looking for a laugh and believe their “method” is about to be patched.

For example, T-Mobile and Verizon vulnerabilities are used to SIM swap and get around 2FA on instagram or twitter. Usually, they first try to find an employee who works at the store and has access to the database, before going through all the trouble of finding a vuln.

This has been an “underground” space for quite some time, but is slowly coming to light.

Source: I use to be in this space and made so much money off original usernames. To give you an idea of what a username goes for, I sold the Instagram @b*ss for $20,000.
As long as it doesn't have autoplay which plays other people's random stuff right after your track, I'm game.

I used to be a fan of Soundcloud until I realized that someone I send a link to my track (or album) to would end up listening to a lot of other stuff unless they pay attention to what's written in small font in the corner of the screen.

Ditto for listening to other people's albums. I catch myself thinking "The album has been great, but this track feels odd, actually, it kind of sucks, a lot", only to see that Soundcloud has happily jumped to some random auto-play item from a different artist.

I get it, they want to be Youtube of audio (instead of being Dropbox for audio with social features, which is what the users actually want). But even Youtube is far less obnoxious with its agrresive auto-play and other crap.

The most consistent audio community for me over the past 10 years turned out to be Newgrounds, out of all things.
No, the financial services industry needs some serious disruption. Banks need to be MORE conservative. Not less. "Disruption" in banking is whats caused previous financial crisis.

Managing user interfaces to sell financial products is not the same as running a bank. This is why API's are so important. They allow innovation in the sale of financial products while keeping the actual risk calculations on deposits and loans heavily regulated.

Of course, banks don't like them. In the same way internet providers don't like net neutrality. Nobody wants to be commoditised. But this segregating of responsibility is the only way you can ensure positive change for consumers/businesses without introducing a bunch of risk into a critical piece of the economy.
Yes, bought a Newton also. Gave up using given the Beta level software. Couldn't ship one from the states those days. Apple didn't allow shipping overseas and eBay price was way too high.
Utah is something like 60% Mormon, and Mormons are really big on community, helping others and many other "socialist" ideas. They are conservative in many ways but progressive in some.
In many jurisdictions, the police will do little or nothing until a crime is committed. It's possible to experience a life-altering amount of harassment before the police will intervene in any meaningful way.
Thanks for the link. I hope that catches on in more places.
With our air quality here, eventually can't come soon enough. I'd love to have a single family car and use public transit daily, but for right now I sacrificed that to live out in the middle of nowhere but still be able to find software jobs easily.
Pretty Cool Concept!
First image that popped into my mind seeing the title was this:

https://leaksource.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/nsa-ant-cotto...
GitHub: https://github.com/shekit/alexa-sign-language-translator

Web Demo: https://shekit.github.io/alexa-sign-language-translator/
It depends on what your goals are. I'm a C#/Javascript developer myself and I have tried to start a few side projects using new technologies in the past, but I noticed that I spent a lot of time fighting with the new framework/platform instead of solving whatever problem I was trying to solve. So I decided to double down on C#/Javascript and put my efforts into building products using what I already knew. I'm glad I did because one of these side projects turned into a healthy business, which will likely enable me to "retire" in a couple of years.

I think that if your goal is to solve problems, leverage what you already know. If your goal is to be more employable and improve at your craft, learning new languages should help you.
What would be so horrifying about buying selling votes? (other than the fact that it is punishable by up to 5 years in prison :-)

Political campaigns could be run more efficiently (directly paying voters instead of a barrage of ads on radio, tv, youtube, billboard, every yard sign). Citizens may even pay more attention to important issues as they decide from whom they wish the accept payment. There would be a strong economic incentive to ensure that all votes are reliably cast and accurately counted. Depending on how voter incentives are taxed, local jurisdictions may even have an economic incentive to discourage (or encourage) gerrymandering.
Heat isn't high enough yet. Average global temperature is 14C degrees. Cambrian Expansion data shows it was 22C degrees.

There is now sufficient data to show concrete as being the #1 CO2 producer, much greater than manufacturing, or the meat industry.
As shown by the rock mark on the Isle of the Dead and sea data, the ocean level rose during a period of sustained cooling (doesn't make logical sense, does it?).

We are very far away from actually predicting weather. If Goldman Sachs cannot predict winners of the 2018 FIFA World Cup and they have the best statisticians and modelers that money can buy, why can't we have accurate weather reports?
If your employee stock agreement has market terms, this is a bad way to look at things. The reality is that there is no set of terms you'll obtain from any competently run company that will give you the legal upper hand in extracting the maximum possible value from your work, or eliminating the possibility that you'll be treated ruthlessly. For instance: no matter how things shake out, you're going to get a cliff and a vesting period, and you're probably going to get transfer restrictions.

The questions, I think, have to come down to:

* Do you trust the team? Did you check references? That includes that of their investors.

* How tolerant are you of risk? The biggest risk with startups is, of course, that equity will be worth zero. The contract risk you're talking about is comparatively marginal. People get screwed by contracts, yes, of course. It's worth being wary. But for every startup engineer screwed by contracts, 20 have been screwed by investing years of their lives into companies that fell over and died. Keep perspective.

I am very sympathetic to employees minding their rights in these equity transactions. I don't think equity is a particularly good deal for employees most of the time. But I've noticed a pathology with some people who are super microscope-and-tweezers about these kinds of contract terms. It's not always a great look. Better instead to be someone who can look at the total package (maybe with input from your lawyer) and make a snap decision: do I believe in this opportunity, for me, or not? Obviously, the bigger problem in our field is that people want to believe way too much.
>That norm [young family with one breadwinner] is quickly going out of style at least

Not convinced: "Among married-couple families with children, 96.8 percent had at least one employed parent, and 61.1 percent had both parents employed" -- https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2017/employment-in-families-wit...
"I'm sick of banks saying, either implicitly or outright, "we don't want to ratchet up security measures because people will find it inconvenient. You can say that because it's not your money on the line."

But my money is not on the line. That's what a credit card is - I'm using the bank's money, and I am not charged for fraud. If the bank was seeing excessive amounts of fraud, they would ratchet up security measures.

However, any security measures should be treated with skepticism - do they measurably increase security, or do they serve merely to transfer responsibility away from the banks?

"Why can't I have a card inactive by default-"

You can get single use numbers on many cards, which I think would solve your use case.
Finding a location by IP address is not always reliable. The first result when googling my IP address yields a city 1,000 miles away (other results have the correct city). Then, knowing the first digit of a street address gets you a range of addresses that can represent anywhere from 1 to hundreds of homes. It's theoretically possible to get a specific address from this method but it's unlikely and not reliable.
Report: Feds investigating whether Musk’s buyout tweet broke the law
Do you have a bunch of this particular model, or do you have a range of these types of watches. I'd love to hear what other watches like this there are!
First off... iAds is something completely different from what you've just posted about. iAds was a platform available to developers. It has nothing to do with Apple providing advertisements to you.

Second, did you read that page at all, then? That's not at all the same as advertising based on your personal data. That's Apple showing you App Store promotions based on the searches you're typing in from the App Store and is completely localized to the App Store and App Store search. It's what allows you to go to the App Store and have the McDonald's sponsored ad show up when you visit a McDonald's. The only information being sent is your search term, anonymously, and the location-based ads are served based on iBeacons. None of your personal info is ever sent outgoing from your phone.
It's not that formalized or that well thought out of a process overall. How voting is conducted is fairly federated, and CES had a huge unsecured dump of voting data from all over the state open to anyone who knew about it. The guy at the Black Hat conference covered it pretty completely, I think.

Just assume that the people involved in the voting process don't understand data management and storage practices or things like access control or asset value and have no budget to train or retain, and it makes sense. The upload interface was depracated, unpatched Drupal of that's any indication of their IT effort. Set it and forget it.

From what I was told, the FBI already had copies of the data, and I'm sure a college who gave the state some space and services to run things didn't want to be responsible any more than a datacenter would want to be for hoating a MEGA storage node after the Dotcom raid. Get the hot potato out of there, let the law enforcement handle it.

This means no data was lost or rendered unavailable, just that it would be the FBI's responsibility to furnish that evidence in event of any further lawsuits.