skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it might already be. A bunch of companies are realizing that Long Term Care insurance is way more expensive than they planned for: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-16/ge-to-tak.... I wouldn't be surprised if it disappears over the next decade as later-life health care costs continue to spiral upward.
I turned it on recently, mostly just to experiment and see how annoying the difference would be. It was subtle enough that I just left the filter on.
For the curious, the posts Microsoft are flagging are listed here: https://twitter.com/bam_boo_88/status/1027593499166826496

Transcribed should that get taken down:

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Patrick Little (@Patrick_Little): Count down to a live stream of me taking a sledge hammer to a holohoax memorial in twelve months.

Will someone take this cross from me?

> Patrick Little (@Patrick_Little): I will see the destruction of at least one US holocaust memorial in the next 12 months, or I will take a sledge hammer to one myself.

This is a campaign vow for 2020.

Either a holohoax memorial is revised in the next 12 months in the US

or I will revise one.
Staying on the (startup) rollercoaster gets easier over time
If signal was somehow federated(without a central server) and open source(which it is) then there's not much to not to trust.

When they figure out a way to make signal serverless, then the only thing you would have to worry about is the OS of the phone and its underlying architecture...

I have no doubt we will reach that point but I wish we get there sooner rather than later.
I'm not sure there really is a market....

School districts are local so bad schools / poor areas will just suck more, good ones might do ok. Nobody will fill the gap where education is needed but there is no money....
It's tricky, though, since most LED bulbs use a single wavelength of blue LEDs which get downshifted by phosphors, even in high CRI bulbs, you can have an unnaturally large spike in the blue (often around 450nm).
I don't advise you start paying someone to help. I had the advantage of spinning technology out from a university, so I had IP and some connections into 'angel investor' groups. Some angels will offer mentoring to people pursuing promising ideas a) for fun and b) for a chance to be offered some shares later. There are quite a lot of angel syndicates in the UK which you could pitch to. I'm based in Glasgow, but in Edinburgh there are quite a few - Equity Gap and Par Equity are pretty active. You could try approaching them. A smaller one in Glasgow is Gabriel Investment Syndicate. Do you have an idea of how much you need?
> Why are California teachers paying into a separate pension system rather than Social Security like everyone else?

Lots of state and local public employees nationally don't pay into Social Security (and consequently don't qualify for SS benefits for the earnings while in public employment; these workers also get reduced Social Security benefits if they did qualify based on either other work of their own or as a surviving spouse.)

Nationally, this is true of the majority of police, firefighters, and other emergency workers, and a large minority of teachers, and smaller minorities of other public employees.

Many public employees, OTOH, pay into both SS and a public employee pension.

Public employers were originally completely excluded from Social Security, but were permitted (but not required) to participate after 1950.
They acknowledge that in literally the next paragraph, and the entire post is about how they improved on that old state of things. How is that "smoke and mirrors"?
Reading early '60s Marvel comics, I'm struck (and irritated) by their house style of using 'thru' everywhere, instead of 'through'.
Oh I see, transactions do cost.
$0.004 per 10,000 for Class B and C, which seems to boil down to delete and upload calls being free but the rest are paid.

In this case their bill would have had $115.89 for the 290 million requests.

Glad to see it's not a free lunch, I'm sorry for assuming otherwise.

And thanks for b2, it's a great service :)
I disagree, I personally have had dangerous people in my life, and the concerns for being targeted are real. Not for monetary reasons, but personal ones.
Are you talking about the coating opticians are pushing for "computer glasses" now in the US?

I have that, and while it is subtle, I definitely can tell it is there. It doesn't ruin general color perception, unlike many obviously yellow/brown lenses. But, it definitely alters the world to have a slight yellow tinge, a bit like you can get from the haze caused by a distant dust storm or wild fire.

It doesn't bother me, but I am aware of it. I actually prefer brown sunglasses and photochromatics because what is marketed as "gray" often looks sickly purple to me.
For the f.lux Mac users here, do you prefer that to Mac's Night Shift?

I just found this article, which details why f.lux is better than Night Shift. But it's written by f.lux, so it's a bit biased.

https://9to5mac.com/2017/03/28/flux-developer-says-apples-ne...

I'm guessing both are better than nothing, but is one actually better than the other?
Is 282.45 PPI really too low? I am pretty sure that at this size I can't see single pixels anymore.
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You basically want to take a Postel's law type position, where you're quick to accept others' feedback and make the changes they request, while being conservative in the feedback and requests for changes you emit. Keep in mind that you're trying to get stuff done, not win debates with developers, who can be unbelievably persnickety and shortsighted.

If a reviewer asks you to change something and you believe your version is just as good as what they suggest, change it. If they suggest something they claim is "totally optional", do it. Remember, we're getting stuff done. This is faster than arguing (over stupid shit that isn't going to matter anyway).

On the other side, if you ask for something in a review and they're not gonna do it, bias toward letting that slide unless it's a real problem. If you think a piece of feedback will seem embarrassing, mention it in a private chat or something first so they have an opportunity to address it.

Code-style issues should not come up in reviews. Set up a linter, fail builds on lint errors, and forget about it.

Maybe it is difficult for introverts, but you know, a lot of things are going to be difficult. Sorry about it.
You just have to look at the most popular programming languages on 2018.

They're all 0-based (with maybe R as an exception, but R is a niche language. If that's what Julia aims to remain -- their loss).

The folks who designed these languages knew how not to alienate their future market.
One particularly strong datum in favor of 3/4 is the "November policy". On November 5th 2015 the church released a new policy:

* Claimed it is from God

* If you are gay then you are declared apostate and excommunicated (the strongest punishment that can be applied by the church, with extreme social repercussions)

* If your parents are gay, you're not allowed to be baptized at age 8 like other children, even given parent permission. Instead you must wait until age 21 and submit a signed affidavit disavowing your parents' relationship

* If your parents are gay you cannot get a baby blessing

Along with this policy came a strong increase in the anti-gay rhetoric from the prophets and apostles at the bi-annual general conference that all members attend.

Try putting that data point on a chart that shows the suicide rate and the correlation gets eerie.
I think he's referring to cases like the Times of London, which went totally paywalled and became profitable in 2014 for the first time since 2001:

https://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2014/dec/02/tim...

(gotta link to the Guardian for that story because, of course, the Times' own coverage is paywalled)
> “What an odd coincidence that ‘science’ always, without exception, supports the liberal worldview,” Confas observed.

I’ll buy that there may be some bias, but this is just incorrect, and this article is garbage.
For day-to-day use, sure. But, a common way that many teams/squads/groups/guilds move to Discord is that they find that _all of the random pick up groups_, or servers, etc, are having people use Discord (instead of Mumble or TS or Ventrilo..etc).
One solution I use is a 1/8" thick sheet of amber transparent rigid plastic/acrylic. It is designed to cut UV, but it also cuts blue light. I bought a 2'x4' sheet from an online site (since ads are probably not permitted, I will not mention the name of the company), and they cut it to size specifications for me. Out of that I got filters for my 14", 15" and 17" laptops, and a 30" LED TV.

I find it easier on my eyes at night (both laptop and TV), and it has its place since the TV can't run f.lux and redshift.
Sure but I think that is a given. The fact that it's "at least as [secure]" as something that stores chats in plaintext on their servers (Telegram) is not exactly news...
Holy cow. I can't believe this is a thing and that municipalities would agree to this. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau should start creating laws to protect the government from making decisions like this.
That’s true, but if I saw someone stooping down to smear their dog’s droppings on a scooter I wouldn’t expect that someone with such a petty mentality would be a productive member of society.
I'm quoted in the article as one of the engineers fired for unionizing and as an advocate of experimenting with a hiring hall model of organization. Happy to discuss either here.
I am confused by the title of this submission. The link goes to a story about the Neutis N5 Allwinner H5 CPU Module and Development Kit which has a quad core SoC based on the Arm Cortex-A53 processor @ up to 1.3 GHz with Arm Mali-450MP4 GPU.

Intel Edison is dead, right?
U.S. targets 2020 for the creation of a Space Force
Launch HN: MAC'D (YC S18) – Fast-Casual, Build-Your-own Mac and Cheese
Hi HN!

We’re Chen-Chen and Antony from MAC’D, a fast-casual, build-your-own mac & cheese restaurant. Pick one of our six cheese sauces, a pasta base, add unlimited toppings like roasted broccoli and mushrooms, and top it off with anything from truffle oil to hot cheetos. We’re currently in San Francisco and Portland.

MAC’D was inspired by a mac & cheese restaurant called Homeroom, which Chen-Chen frequented while at Cal. Fast-casual has consistently been the fastest growing segment in the food and bev industry, so it made sense to apply that spin to an old-school comfort food like mac & cheese. It’s a social, nostalgic, late-night meal that’s both familiar in taste and unique in experience.

After graduating from Berkeley, Chen-Chen was a management consultant, but quickly realized that consulting wasn’t the career for him. Together with a part-time partner, he began drafting up ideas for a restaurant concept. The one that struck a chord was mac & cheese. After confirming high demand through several pop-ups in early 2017, Chen-Chen and his partner opened MAC’D’s first brick & mortar in SF’s Marina District. About 6 months in, Chen-Chen’s partner made a decision to pursue business school, and Chen-Chen ran the restaurant solo until opening up a second location. Antony was a friend of Chen-Chen’s and had been following MAC’D’s progress while a software engineer at AWS. He worked in restaurants throughout his life and after a brief stint as a chef in Milan, knew he wanted a career in the food industry. Chen-Chen had been pretty spread thin running two locations with eyes on a third, and good timing on both ends led to our partnership.

In a little over a year, we’ve successfully bootstrapped two locations in SF and have served over 75,000 meals. We’re profitable and have a validated concept in a city with among the highest costs in the US. We want to continue to grow and expand to other cities.

In Portland, we’re using low capital commissary kitchens to explore new food markets through catering and delivery. Commissaries give a low managerial overhead and remove front of house staffing / building costs. It’s a way of getting into new markets quickly and intelligently, with the goal of proving a market and getting our name out before investing in brick & mortar spaces.

We’ve identified roughly thirty cities across the US as potential locations for MAC’D. Our customers range from families looking for a predictable meal to more boisterous late night crowds. Our target markets are college towns, cities in the south and midwest, and ones with progressive food scenes, both in and outside the United States. We’re also ramping up on catering, so if you’re in SF and Portland, reach out! Our catering form is on www.getmacd.com. We’re also on instagram @getmacd.
> I'm passionate about this work because I'm the benefactor of a similar system.

Perhaps I misunderstand, but I think you mean "beneficiary".
Psiphon looks interesting, but if it's a network of thousands of proxy servers, then it will be trivial for the GFW to block those servers, no?
unfortunately, I'm not sure I really buy this.

Twitter was basically about to allow Nuclear war to start on its platform. Alex Jones is kinda a foot note comparatively.

Anyways, unfortunately I think a president that gas lights everyone via twitter is what has saved twitter...
Baltimore police will pay consultant $176k to maintain Lotus Notes system
> although TLS _can_ authenticate both parties, on the Web today we rarely do that. Instead the web server is authenticated using TLS but the client (a Facebook user) has some crummy HTTP layer authentication, maybe a password like "1LvUrDog" filled into an HTML form field.

I would love to see more use of client certificates, but assuming good password practice is there a real security difference? Either way both parties authenticate themselves to the other.

> Next, Facebook is authenticated to you by its proof of possession of a Private Key corresponding to the Public Key in a certificate from a Trusted Third Party CA. An adversary could corrupt this CA, but hopefully that's difficult.

And hopefully Certificate Transparency would catch them if they did.

> Signal doesn't use passwords. Your device has randomly picked a Private Key, but unlike Facebook you don't have a certificate from a CA, instead you can compare the associated Public Key on your device with that shown for another participant on their phone, if they don't match there's a Man in the Middle. So immediately that's an improvement, no password guessing.

Well, depends what you're trying to verify. Verifying that someone is always using the same device is one choice with its own set of tradeoffs (e.g. many people change devices quite often). Verifying that someone always knows a given password is another. I think tied-to-device keys lose you more than you gain, though I appreciate there's room for disagreement here.

> Signal also has Forward Secrecy. In fact each message sent and received changes the keys used for future messages. As a result an adversary can only eavesdrop by actively impersonating one of the participants. In a two person conversation that's often likely to become obvious pretty quickly whereas passive eavesdropping is undetectable.

You don't have to actively participate as such - you can just forward messages between the two. And Signal's servers are already sitting in the right place to do that.

In theory PFS is a valuable benefit. But the level of compromise needed to incorporate it into a practical system where people want to be able to send offline messages and messages to new contacts who they haven't exchanged keys with beforehand... IMO the resulting level of protocol complexity compromises your security more than the fairly weak guarantees you get out of it in practice are worth. Certainly not when the cost is no federation and identity-tied-to-phone-number.
Again assuming: that may be true in the place where you were educated.
Inside of a container (with user namespacing enabled), you won't have the full 32-bit range, and this must all work inside of containers; I'm not sure about other container managers off the top of my head, but systemd-npawn only gives containers a 16-bit subrange.
You are aware that you can completely ignore these features and not use them in any way that you don't want to, yes?

In what way would any of this be distracting to you?
Rules are set after consideration of values.

I am with Jack on this one. You don't just change rules because everyone else is doing it. What Kara and a lot of other groupthinkers don't realize is how prejudgemental they actually are.
I always give people the "Who Uses Tor?" page when they wonder about various threats we're addressing with privacy technology. It has a lot of examples that laypeople will understand. It also counters the "only used by criminals" myth that some believe. It also has examples of law enforcement depending on these technologies. That counters the follow-up claim that encryption or privacy tech is just a negative for law enforcement. So, I suggest just giving people the link telling them they'll see many of the benefits. It's worked so far for me.

https://www.torproject.org/about/torusers.html.en
Recommendations of products are fine. Paid promotions or kickbacks are frowned on though.
Ranking: 69th/100 University in the world

https://www.topuniversities.com/student-info/choosing-univer...

Weird, I assumed this was some degree mill.

Edit: I see that the pre-reqs don't list anything beyond a Bachelor's degree. Is there a recommended list of pre-reqs?
CAPTCHAs are easily gamed too. Just throw whatever CAPTCHA you're trying to solve on a porn website and once someone fills it out simply have the bot copy over the response. This has been done for some time now.
> not even every state actor has access to an NSA

This is a massively undervalued point. As far as I can tell, most of the people relying on Signal/WhatsApp/Firechat/etc for life-or-death issues are neither hiding from exes nor fleeing the US government. The bulk of use seems to be journalists and protestors in places like Turkey or Bangladesh who have reason to fear state monitoring of communications, but are unlikely to face deep or targeted attacks like having been served a compromised APK from day one.

That Turkey example is seriously relevant. In 2013, the Turkish government created a fraudulent certificate allowing it to intercept traffic to all Google domains, potentially viewing things like gchat and gmail communications. This offered a whole bunch of lessons:

- That the CA web-of-trust model is seriously broken, as we've seen repeatedly.

- That even if companies secure their data and respect your privacy, non-E2E data transfer can still be unsafe.

- That any software or data obtained under a hostile network without a prior signed session is unsafe. Play Store Signal installs in that time could theoretically have been compromised, but "app store versus dedicated download site" and "checksum vs. signature" were irrelevant; all four paths could have been compromised via the same attack vector.

- That "secure download environment, insecure usage environment" is a major, meaningful category of use. That describes a journalist installing Signal in the US and flying to Turkey; an activist installing it prior to a regime change; or a protestor copying it from a trusted friend's installation.

So you're exactly right: Signal isn't a complete solution for an adversary with unlimited resources and direct access to every layer of a network, but it's still massively important even for dealing with most state actors.
Don't know about you, but I loved the summer off as a child/teen.
This user seems to have a long history of IRL trolling as well: https://twitter.com/tristanmf/status/1027601520404189184
AlmostTotallyNewthon would be better, correct. Would shift discussion from 'upgrade' to 'migration' without all the usual cries. Other than that it's understandable that some architecture decisions from 1991 haven't aged well.
SketchySeaBeast responded eloquently, and I appreciate both of your posts. I'd also like to add that for me there's an aspect of scientific humility: mental health is complex enough that it's often unclear which conditions are more akin to kidney disease and which are more akin to high blood pressure. In that context, the labels "sick" and "normal" are too absolute.

How differently should we treat "sick" people? Do they milk their diagnoses extra sympathy as alluded to by stephengillie elsethread? Honestly I don't care too much about that. A much bigger concern is that labeling people "sick" justifies the creation of a self-sustaining industry dedicated to their "treatment". Even if nearly all of the researchers and physicians are well-meaning (which I believe), we need to be skeptical.

Most of all I resist the othering of the "mentally ill". What we regard as "normal" entails quite a range of irrational and strange behavior. I personally believe the best model is that nobody's "normal", yet medical intervention is rarely justified and ostracism is never justified.
The best description I've heard of twitter is that it's a mirror disguised as a window. Twitter can be great for getting a diverse perspective that most people wouldn't otherwise have access to. It can also turn into an echo chamber that only reinforces and amplifies your existing biases. If what you see on twitter is hate, vitriol, and groupthink then maybe what's ugly is you, not the world you think you're observing.

I am not sure what good banning people from the service does. I don't think it stops people from thinking outrageous and hurtful things. It just moves them elsewhere and makes them less likely to encounter people who could help them be more civil and less sensational.
Alexa Auto SDK is for automotive OEMs to integrate Alexa directly into vehicles
If their "universal library" functions well, it seems like you might be jut about their ideal target audience - if they can significantly reduce the hassle of managing launchers, it could be quite convenient.
The article starts out about hypocognition but ends up being about availability of vocabulary to express certain concepts.

I would argue that many people can still fluidly intuit a concept even if they don't have a convenient shortcut to express it. Of course, the unavailability of a linguistic shortcut can also point to a poor and unformalized understanding of that concept.
Complete aside here, but this concept of Amae and hypocognition hit really close to home. My girlfriend is white and I am an E. Asian guy, we have completely different concepts of love and I suspect our unwillingness to compromise to the other's perspective is a kind of unwillingness to concede our cultural preference to the other.

For example, if I don't express enough words of affirmation or desire over a given period of time, she begins to worry that I no longer care for her and have lost interest. In fact, the opposite is true! In my culture, maintaining control of your own emotional expressions is considered polite and civil, emotional stability is the marker of a mature individual, especially when that stability is expressed in times where it is inconvenient for the individual to do so.

However, from her perspective, that approach is repressive, "befuddling and Machiavellian to a Western mind". Perhaps cultural perspectives, combined with hypocognition, inevitably cause different cultures to be inclined towards conflict toward one another?
Do you wear glasses? Have you tried an iPad Pro with 120Hz refresh + Night Shift? How much ambient light do you have when using the computer? Is the ambient light natural or artificial? If artificial, what spectrum/type?
Bounding data races in space and time
This post imagines a future where patented video codecs drive up costs for web video streaming -- and Netflix costs $4,500 a month.