skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On Android that's version dependant.

Older Android versions only had the idea of the app declaring "I need to be able to use your Camera, read your Contacts, and make $$$ phone calls" and then you pick "No" and don't get the app or you pick "OK". This more or less railroads users into pressing "OK", except for the most security conscious, who go without the app.

A few releases back Google had an unofficial feature that let you switch off features an app had, and it would get some dummy replacement, e.g. if it had Contacts access but you switched that off, it would see no Contacts at all. If it had Camera access, but that was switched off, it would always be told your Camera was busy in another app. Once word about this hidden feature got out, Google disabled it.

Recent releases (Certainly on my Nexus 5X for example which is a while back) enable an app to ask at runtime. If you said "No" the app gets a second chance to explain itself, and then if you keep saying "No" the feature is just disabled and Android stops prompting you. The app might not work after that of course. Like the disabled older feature, the Settings pages for apps let you undo previous authorizations, again this may make certain apps malfunction - a map app with no GPS is merely crippled, but a "barcode scanner" with no Camera access is junk.

However of course apps for an older phone don't prompt, the older Android can't handle it, so for them you still have to make the decision at install time.
Note: my understanding of SGX is that this still requires trust of Intel. Still, far better than nothing
Throw away account.

If News Corp is the standard we're holding news companies to, we have a serious issue. It's totally disorganized, has no idea what it's trying to achieve and more focused on political outcomes than it is building actual value for shareholders. There is zero leadership, and that leadership there is gets sent to unrelated (but related) companies like Fox.

If it wasn't for a few golden gooses that News Corp acquired decades again, there is no way they could fund their cash burning newspapers.

NYT producing any positive revenue is amazing, i hope they continue to build upon this.
Academic kudos should be realigned better with scientific achievement.

Academic kudos translates directly to money (tenure, research funding) and power (gatekeeper positions) and that makes it microeconomics problem. Highly competitive person with high scientific achievement may not be the best person to judge and distribute kudos of others.

We should find a way to quantify kudos distribution to create good incentives. Researchers should get impact factor for mentoring, accepting papers to journals or giving voting for tenure to others who produce high impact studies after they get the tenure.
JuliaDB declares support for 0.6 not 1.0 - http://juliadb.org/latest/

Which package declared support for 1.0.0 and didn’t compile?
>but this is ridiculous clickbait written by hipster sysengs using fringe architectures to generalize about a gigantic range of complex systems

To be honest that can describe a lot of articles here
Last time I had it installed it scanned my contacts a half dozen times while I slept. I removed it in the AM.
Use evercookie and fingerprinting. It’s super important to track everything. Ask for camera permission and try to capture audio and video - understanding peoples facial expressions while reading is very important for measuring clickbait title performance and determine the perfect place in your article to display a pop up to get their email. Also with all the extra data you can find people to sell the data to that should help you continue to provide your blog content for free.

In a more serious note, maybe use server side log analysis tool like https://goaccess.io - it’s pretty easy to setup and I think it does just what you need.
It's not secure by definition, since encryption is forbidden in ham radio.
billboards - usually don't track you

With toll roads keeping a record of who travels on them when, it's only a matter of time until this revenue source gets tapped.
Too often the "spectrum" theory is used to humble-brag about one's own success in the face of self-diagnosed shortcomings. Vocal patients with mild cases of a disease can then receive more support and treatment than less-vocal patients with more severe cases.
Internet Tracking: Why It’s Bad and How to Avoid It
Their respective - which includes american as well.
A couple more details:

- The device is a D-Link DIR-825 running openwrt 18.06.0 with a pair of ports bridged so it can be dropped into place w/o having to reconfigure anything on the network.

- Cake[0] is being used for rate limiting.

- If you only care about the details of the setup without all the prefatory text skip to https://apenwarr.ca/log/?m=201808#openwrt

[0] https://www.bufferbloat.net/projects/codel/wiki/Cake/
They already disappeared save a few ones.
As a lifelong Parisian as well I will tell you that most of the bistros are not bistros anymore.

The quintessential experience that you can have in a parisian bistrot can only be lived in a very few places and to some people it will look like pedant.

One example of a real parisian bistrot would be La Rotonde in Montparnasse, waiters are coming from schools where they learn their art (they re not some tatooed hipsters with man buns serving natural wines), real chiefs are cooking the food and the pastries, prices are still affordable for the middle class. this is for me the real parisian experience.
Working with Asynchronous Celery Tasks – Lessons Learned
How is a user supposed to know which sites are slow in a search results lists? Mental list of bad domains to not go to?
Because due to UNIX's adoption every programming language needed to be like C.

Until then Fortran, Lisp, Algol, Pascal, Basic never had any big issue with indexes.
Want to lose all faith in signal, try filing a bug fix as pull request

- It probably will be ignored forever or shouted down
- wanna notify the mailing list. Guess what you have to join rise up! Aka if you wanna file a patch to signal I hope you are ok with Joining an “anarchist” mailing list
- Then when you are approved to make noises on the mailing list, it still gets ignored, no explainatiob

1 year later I removed the obvious bugs in the base64 implementation of signal
What I mean is that is how Facebook wants it to work.
I think the time will come for it when we prove ourselves useful on Metal/D3D12 and get those developer partnerships in the first place.
Facebook launches Mentorshipse each other
The article does obliquely reference the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA), but then says it can be changed. This law was passed in 2008, for the most part before the rise of consumer ancestry tests. It seems unlikely to me that a major rollback of protections on these data is going to be easy to pass.
Is there anything wrong with recommending 0.7?
Most things seem to work by now.
> for a computer and how it functions

And what about for a human and how it functions? Are humans here to make computers' lives easier or vice versa?

Humans think from 1...N inclusive and this is the source of a litany of bugs when users first learn a language.

And what you described in asm is just one implementation. In fact, the array documentation says Julia doesn't guarantee tight packing so it doesn't even apply. The next element could be anywhere, and in fact wont be in the case of heterogeneous arrays. Asm is also not straightforward. For instance zeroing a register isn't done with the mov instruction but xor
I don't think so, no. If I know for a fact that someone has a 40% chance of dying tomorrow, it still makes sense for me to sell them insurance valid tomorrow only, charging 40% of payout plus some margin. It also probably makes sense for them to buy it, to guarantee the higher payout for their family if they die.
Good point. I did watch it when it originally aired. Even then I remember preferring the episodes that connected back to a slightly deeper story.

TNG characters also seemed to “perfect”. I didn’t watch too much of the the original trek but I did watch the movies.
If that is in fact true, and these bugs have been reported and fixed. All I expect in response from Tim is just a simple, "Done!".
Risk of increased food insecurity under global climate change mitigation policy
I agree - I see a lot of small business, even individuals from music/art circles what don't want to spend an inordinate amount of time keeping "followers" up to date...

If they can create and share once but have the computers syndicate that to the places that matter, they've found a happy balance.

The issue with the current model is that it's easily abused by bad actors (pun intended) to cram content down people's eye sockets.
I've never used Julia but why would a language make breaking changes on each release? It doesn't have backwards compatibility? That sounds like a nightmare to work with. Is it because it was pre-1.0?
Since there is someone above claiming that getting a phone number in some countries "requires" biometric identification, I'd say yes.
But they did deny possessing any of that information in the subpoena reply, so if you trust that they are replying truthfully it is exactly 2.
I also reacted to this line, because there is no security without trust, would it be only trust in the security system.
I don’t see how that in anyway refutes that the issue was contentious.

It seems that you’re misunderstanding current politics… An article with actual facts in a mainstream publication doesn’t change whether other people disagree with it, in modern United States politics. You mean you haven’t noticed that?

So, by contentious, I mean that it is something that makes people emotional about which some have differing views, like politics in general. Which is why we sort of avoid discussing them an HN, I thought.
What is a "hob"?

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hob

Definition of hob

1 dialectal, England : hobgoblin, elf

2 : mischief, trouble —used with play and raise always raising hob

But your context describes some sort of appliance.
Legendary journalist Seymour Hersh on novichok, Russian links to Trump and 9/11
I didn't see it explained, is this saying that Apple owes this person 2.5 million in bug bounties? Did they refuse to pay, did he decline payment, or what?
Nintendo isn't doing C&D anymore. They're going straight to copyright infringement lawsuits.
> The squabble is about them being caught in the crossfire. Their message: "make peace with USA for as long as we make money." Now the talk is over them being thrown under the train. Naturally, they are frustrated by that.

The similarity in outlook with Western business interests in that respect is striking, and much obscured by the lack of Chinese democracy and the resulting difficulty in news-gathering.
The only real rot I see in the PhD track is the dangerous imbalance of degrees to jobs in certain areas (not STEM usually, although STEM is pretty uncompromising for tenure track). IMHO in the humanities the PhD is some kind of sick ponzi scheme, where advanced degrees serve to subsidize tenured faculty's careers with little to no hope of going on to anything of their own. (I know STEM isn't much better, but it's a little better, especially with industry being willing to assume some risk.) But I've got friends $100K in debt for an art history PhD, and that's craaaaaaaaaazy given what awaits on the other side.
Yes, this kills buffer's ability to post to profiles, however pages and groups are still allowed.
https://faq.buffer.com/article/985-publish-facebook-api-chan...
Sure. Fair. But reason can resolve a bit more detail here if we try. Particularly, I am struck that there is such little complaint over the status quo of citation dependence. Popularly speaking, of course there is, but researching PhDs just make their days of it with barely a fuss. Shouldn’t that be particularly concerning? In recognition of the congruency this has with what the authorities demanded of me when I argued with my teachers over subject matter in high school, it is infuriating. When this is what you were asking for all along, how can you be so surprised that it’s what you got?

It does raise a question of how the grass is green, and why it’s on the other side.

Fun fact: The grass on the hillsides in the opening sequence of The Sound Of Music was actually painted by hand. It was worth it for the altitude and the Austrian mountain backdrop.
Is it possible for the Julia team to make a short tutorial that does not depend on any external packages? Just show the new features in a fresh installation on a clean machine downloaded from https://julialang.org/downloads/ .

That would help a lot of people get started.
Tcl in NASA (2011)
Very well put. Systematizing the algorithm, we have:

1) Get tested

2) Use the test results to determine the actuarial value of your hypothetical life insurance

3) If the price is less than the value, buy the insurance. If not, don't buy.
Yak Tack – remember words with spaced repetition
Looking more closely at this corner of online my sense of it is that Wu doesn't really care about the "political" stances she's taking, she's more a careerist political-chameleon donning and shunning values to suit her purpose. And my sense of this little episode currently in play is it's more about Wu conjuring a narrative about how bad the Western media is and using the mere color of a few choice political stances to rope a group along with her. Rabble-rousing, pot stirring, chaos creation, in the service of narratives that try to undermine the West I think is what she enjoys, as well as tech. So despite paying lip service to being "anti-China" (more hooks for her fans, much like Ai Wei Wei), she is of course pro-China. It's not hard to go into LiberalLaLaLand and stir the pot and create chaos and outrage. Once created that energy can be directed toward a purpose. Which is what I see Wu working hard and skillfully doing here. I think we will see more and more of this in future, as China takes advantage of the structural "narrative vulnerabilities" of the fake liberal ideology to damage and create chaos in the West (much as CIA likes to do in places like HK, W Africa, S America, I think). The irony, perhaps, is these fake-liberal values (identity politics, etc) were actually created to contain / delude and disempower activist movements by the IC, and now it's used against them by the Chinese. It's always the way with weapons, when you create something powerful it can end up being used against you.
The Video Wars of 2027
It is true that people chase citations, but only because they are a surrogate for impact. If you are doing research, the goal is to do research that matters and citations are one way to measure that people cared about the work (of course, once something becomes a measure people start optimizing for that instead of the original objective).

A PhD is a degree in doing research. When students start, it is true that many think they want careers in academia. Many then realize that academia isn't what they want after a few years in and seeing how their advisors live, realizing salaries are lower, and realizing how competitive it is. There are plenty of amazing career doors that open with a PhD besides being an academic... any career that requires the ability to conduct, interpret, and/or communicate research.

The comments about meeting practitioners are pretty foreign to my experiences doing a PhD (in AI) and being a scientist. If anything, when I meet people in industry they often think non-practical research isn't worth doing even if it might have long-term value.
I always found the leaked reports on Xi were fascinating [1]

> Xi is apparently painted by US officials as an elitist ‘who believes that the offspring of Maoist revolutionaries are the rightful rulers of China.’

> On the question of human rights, the cables apparently have little to say on Xi’s views, but they do note that his father was critical of the crackdown on the Tiananmen Square protesters and also that the Dalai Lama apparently had ‘great affection’ for Xi’s father.

> There’s also mention of Xi’s now notorious (and not very diplomatic) outburst during his trip to Mexico a couple of years ago, when he complained to some overseas Chinese that: ‘There are some well-fed foreigners with nothing to do, who point to China and make unnecessary accusations.’

1. https://thediplomat.com/2011/02/wikileaks-on-xi-jinping/
Jayson Werth rails against 'super nerds' that are 'killing the game'
It's not any harder to get used to than using whitespace for blocks in Python, or having to end every damn statement with a semicolon in the C inspired languages.
Also, professors are so often in no position to offer genuine advice. They often have massive conflicts of interest which they do not disclose: funding sources, requirements, and plans.
On each packages GitHub page, there should be unit test info, including badges that link to Travis and/or Appveyor, indicating where they were treated and whether they passed.
If the tests haven't run in a while, they wouldn't have been tested on 1.0.
Waiting a month may be a good bet.
> The user is automatically allocated from the UID range 61184–65519, by looking for a so far unused UID.

WAT. That's not OK. The UID (and GID) namespace is not that big (32-bit), but it's big enough to avoid conflicts with existing uses: just use a range within the larger range between (uid_t)(1UL<<31) and (uid_t)(-2).

Solaris 11+ and Illumos do this for dynamically assigning UIDs and GIDs to SIDs that are not mapped by name to Unix users/groups.
> I'd like to see Signal replace WhatsApp

And one day we realise it was indeed something nefarious, let's assume something of this sort happened in the future, and then we rue that we didn't act when people used to say something was amiss.

There is one line in the article that says it well:

> Truly secure systems don’t require trust.

edit:

I have supported Matrix and Firefox among others (both in code as an Android dev and with modest donations - stopped using Firefox after Pocket). But no, not Signal. I'd wait for federation (if at all).
Yes. Thanks!
Really want to see an answer on this
Daniel Yergin's The Prize gets futher into the development of the oil industry, and some of what spawned from it (industry, monopoly, antitrust, war, cartels, commodity regulation, policy (foreign, domestic, military, ...), monetary, and more.

Manfred Weissenbacher's Sources of Power is a difficult-to-find and somewhat uneven book, but builds largely on Smil's premise (from his earlier Energy and World History) to include political and social consequences.

I've been finding institutional and media consequences and dynamics also of interest. Some reading of interest:

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/7k7l4m/media_a...

More recently: Paul Baran and Norbert Wiener.
Google launches Cameos, a video Q&A app aimed at celebs
"Apple’s iPhone is one of the most—if not the most—secure consumer device on the planet."

Really?
Yes. v1.0 is literally the release so that all future 1.x releases are backwards compatible. That's why it's such a big deal.
Do you actually expect that? I expect them to just ignore it or respond with some excuse or reason why they won't pay.
Amazon launches an Alexa Auto SDK to bring its voice assistant to more cars
Instead of 50 professional reports, we'll have millions of independent journalists that aren't tangled in a web of multi-national conglomerate corporations.

We'll develop consensus systems that will be better than the old system.

Trust in humanity's ability to adapt.
Guessing as a Google employee paid salary to do this, his deal precludes him from collecting from Apple.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10689126
The article isn't about bad encryption though. It's not about a flaw in the signal protocol or something like that. It's stuff like Moxie doesn't like F-Droid. Which is not an invalid criticism but I'm not gonna stop recommending Signal over Facebook Messenger because of that.

Regarding false sense of security...eh. I can't speak for endangered activists but everyday people write stupid things whether it's on SMS or Signal. But might as well be on Signal.
The biggest being one large risk pool that all citizens are a part of.
fwiw, I did a little investigation. Total California offshore resources are estimated 4-6B bbls, mostly heavy oil. Contrast this with the 71B bbls estimated remaining in Saudi Arabia's Ghawar field (after almost 70 years of production!). There are dozens of fields in production throughout the world that are larger, many an order of magnitude larger, with better quality oil and far less risk.
I work in a large academic research lab and I'm with you on the lack of creativity and conformism. Most people here don't have ambitious ideas. They always think in terms of basic improvements to ideas that were recently published about. They seem to automatically think that progress can only be made in the direction of the latest cool papers from well-established authors in the field. Me, I'm with Peter Thiel... Don't compete. Differentiate yourself. Try to find a niche that everyone isn't already trying to fill.

People here are also seemingly very conformist. For the most part, they work extremely long hours, are in hetero-normative relationships, with similar life goals (get a high paying job, buy a house, have kids), they don't do drugs or rarely even drink. If they have any hobbies, it's going to be your typical going hiking and camping sort of deal.

I'm surprised that STEM research doesn't attract more "freaks" and free-thinking people. People who want to challenge assumptions and do things differently, explore new possibilities. Unfortunately, I guess where I am, the main draw is prestige and the possibility of getting a high paying job when you finish.
> and it's a success?

Compared to going out of business in a changing landscape, absolutely it's a success. The music industry went through something similar. The book industry (textbooks in particular) are about to go through it also.
The Rigetti 128-qubit chip and what it means for quantum
Context: I am a type 1 diabetic.

As far as doctors are concerned I am an exemplary patient who has shown blood glucose controls as good as they come (A1C of less than 6.5 for more than a decade now for those that know what it means).

I regularly hear from "concerned" people how they know someone else who's blood control isn't as good and they should do better, etc..., etc...

I have personally used some of these DIY products and so I want to be very clear; the difference between "somewhat poorly controlled blood sugar" and just one really bad mistake in "tightly/ best-controlled blood sugar" is this

1) Poorly controlled - in a decade I will start to have some additional health problems (vision impairment/neuropathy/etc)

2) Tightly controlled w/dosing mistake - Coma/Brain Dead/Dead

There is a good reason to test this equipment and take a conservative approach.

Physical activity level and how much active or "on board" insulin you need when you are being active vs inactive can vary by 10x. As an example of this; before I do cardio workouts I intentionally do a carb load and let my blood sugar raise before starting to counter the effect the exercise will have on my blood sugar. Despite this on two occasions during running I have experienced double drops (super fast blood sugar drop to unsafe levels) to levels so low I started to black out.

Nightscout/OpenAps/Dexcom/Medtronic, it doesn't matter open source or closed source none of these devices can handle these scenarios so at the end of the day it is still on me to intervene and make decisions based on what I am going to do. Until something better than pump systems come along (and these "artificial pancreas" systems as they are calling them to day are still just pump systems; I will have to intervene no matter how sophisticated the algorithms.

In summary; just because you care about someone with diabetes, do not presume you know what is best for us.
How? What mechanism?

Does it access the plain text from the keyboard before the app encrypts it?