skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The same reason that airlines are now all renaming "Taiwan, sovereign country" to China. Google wants to be in China and they have proven today that they will do it at any costs.
The spiralling environmental cost of our lithium battery addiction
The UK's complex network of tiny airports is ideal for electric planes
If you operated a mall that costs money to enter, then you will put only the stores that give free samples at the front, to attract more customers. In that environment the stores will compete to give bigger and flashier free samples, and at the same time work on ways to monetize the customers.

If you had a store that just sold your product upfront you will be pushed far to the back. You don't attract customers to the mall, and everyone else is offering free samples.

Google and Apple's incentive to feature and promote free apps created what is a very toxic race to the bottom in their app stores. They put the platform ahead of the product. This is their doing rather than a natural occurrence. Nintendo has been selling game for full price for decades but even it couldn't do it on the app stores, and they had to resort to variations of gambling and f2p.
I've often thought that textbooks would be a productive place to focus excess energy among software freedom types. The way I see it, there are at least three ways in which most technology professionals could effectively contribute:

- Content production and editing

- Improving the design and branding of open textbook purveyors

- Advocating for the adoption of open source textbooks in your local K-12 system and community colleges (especially the more cash-strapped ones)

I know of no organization that attempts to organize community efforts in these directions, though. If there is one, I'd love to know about it and get involved. If not, maybe it's an idea whose time has come.
Did FireWire actually "explode" in popularity? It was standard on Macs, Sonys, and most business Dell's at the time but it never got widespread consumer use.

The "problem" with Thunderbolt is the same as with Firewire, it's overkill for most of the consumer market. I don't think that's a deal breaker, people who are willing and able to pay for computers with Thunderbolt and devices have plenty of options.
Preventing this damage without a speed limit was the function of Voyager's moving warp nacelles. I think they solved it without moving parts in later designs.
Everyone remembers decades ago, the fear of having a first/last name online.

That turned out to be significantly less dangerous than we anticipated.

What if our movements are similar? Everyone knows where you work and where your home.

Whatever the case, the next few years will decide if we value privacy or endless features.
Try Daemon and Freedom™ by Daniel Suarez.
On a quick pass of the Twitter datasets, they all seem to conform to Twitter's developer Terms.
Well of course russians will stick with putin, otherwise it will be way too big embarrassment to admit that your country has committed such crimes.

As for russian denials about their invasions - I don't care what those liars say. They are proven patented liars, majority of the population and 100% of their government. And you are correct, there is nothing to discuss.
I'm not sure there was a need for filler B-plot and C-plot. There's no particular reason it needed to be planned as 5 seasons if there wasn't enough A-plot to fill 5 seasons.

Hell, Severed Dreams felt like a season's worth of plot all on its own, and all the better for it.
Rick Dakan's "Geek Mafia" trilogy
Best book I have read on the subject ... https://www.amazon.com/Riemann-Hypothesis-Greatest-Unsolved-... ... previous discussion ... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15933893
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I used paredit before, then I switched to smartparens. I have also tried parinfer, but I didn’t like the way it behaves. I share the sentiments of this blog post https://github.com/noctuid/parinfer-notes
Which technology is better for cross-platform app development
I dont care what your fullname is, but mind telling me what your address is and when you're leaving home with that 50' plasma TV for 2 weeks holiday?
> Whatever the case, the next few years will decide if we value privacy or endless features.

Or if it's worth making cool new features that preserve the user's privacy. I don't see that there is an inherent tradeoff.
Critical Vulnerability Patched in Oracle Database – SecurityWeek.Com
As a customer of GE software products, I've seen their core products falter a bit while they attempted to prop up the Predix platform. Maybe it will be a breath of fresh air when/ if they sell Predix, hoping that they will focus more on their core products. It is difficult to sell a platform to industrial customers, as many of the ideas are too abstract to understand what it can do for you and how much money it will make for you.
Switching from Mac to Windows
Even with a strongly-typed system, not having named local variables introduces a lot of opportunities for error. E.g. consider the following program:

val (a,b): (Int, Int) = f();
g(b, a);

Now compare this to a concatenative program:
f swap g

It's too easy to pass the two variables in incorrect order (forgetting to use swap, for example) when you are not forced to assign them local names.
As a non-American, I find the idea that the right to bring weapons to a hotel room trumps your privacy within that room a very counter-intuitive proposition.
If you dont think having guns would change this situation, you are oblivious.
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I read it as a disdainful version of "instead of focusing on small-scale complaints about gender issues, why don't we focus on more important and large-scale issues like saving children's lives?"
> life is probably better too

What a fucked up assumption. Pay for skilled jobs is way higher in the US than almost anywhere else apart from maybe Switzerland or Norway, but quality of life is way more complicated than that.

Not least because of the decent healthcare, paid time off, and social protections in France.
darknet is exciting and well grounded technically. also cyberstorm by same author.
Are there any succesful examples of digital transformation ? I know digital transformation is the thing to do if you're in strategy or management consulting, so I hope to get some input from practitioners, or anyone who witnessed one.

Derisively, my impression is that an organisation like GE will have to go through garbage collection while one (or why not more) digital native organisations take its place, in order for the new organisation to be a digital native. But I have no idea if being a digital native is even necessary. Most GE business units seem to be doing just fine with their accumulated capital of all kinds and their economies of scale.
Ghost in the Wire by Kevin Mitnick.

I can't believe no one recommended this. The guy literally evaded the FBI using technology.
> Instead of OAuth flows there are flawed hardware specs

That sounds... a lot like a Zachtronics game. How feasible do you think it is for a gluing web developer with a full-time job already to move into embedded?
The thing is that they both target similar applications. Zipkin has been around for years, and as both support sending data to it, surely there's enough common ground. I understand what you mean regarding infra, but I think the parties could work towards unity in future.

gRPC supports OpenCensus for example, I recall that OpenTracing has been working on an RPC for reporting traces. gRPC by being the RPC framework, it would make sense if it could self-report to OT in addition to OC.
Citing Wikipedia: "Blackout: Tomorrow Will Be Too Late" is a disaster thriller book by the Austrian author Marc Elsberg, described by Penguin Books as "a 21st-century high-concept disaster thriller".

The novel is about a European power outage due to a cyberattack. For realism the book is written on the basis of interviews with intelligence and computer security officials.
A Catalyst to Build End-To-End Ecosystems and Improve QA Process
Taxing pollution would be very easy to implement by taxing oil and coal extraction and would help realign ecology and economy but it's not going to happen in the current political climate.
I will vote for a minimum wage. I will vote for a minimum wage with an automatic update based on any reasonable measure of inflation. I will vote for a basic income. I will vote for much higher and much more progressive income taxes. I will vote for a wealth tax. I will vote for stronger unions. I will vote for better anti-corruption measures across the board, for companies and unions and governments.

And I will not vote to remove recycling deposits because you think that it's somehow exploiting poor people to let them get a little money.
Bruce Sterling's The Hacker Crackdown (nonfiction, now freeware). Lots of important early hacker history and run-ins with the authorities, plus the origin story of the EFF.
I just assumed that a lot of them would be novels. If you have any recommendations for real-life stuff I’d love that too.
I think his point is that when morality gets co-opted and redefined to be a mind-control tactic of the wealthy to get the poor to do relatively meaningless things for the agenda of the wealthy, the poor stop caring about morality. That would go quite well with the point of the article about cretinism being a disregard of morality in political process; though it would also turn part of the blame from the poor to the rich.

I don't necessarily agree with him, but it is a valid point connected to the article.
Barrels overheat. The number of guns he brought probably was excessive, but he did shoot 1,100 rounds over a period of about 10 minutes.
This. Cliff Stoll is better known for his other book, where he got a bunch of predictions about the internet wrong, but Cuckoo’s Nest is a lot better read. Based on a true story, how a few cent $ difference led him to discover a massive hack going on, and how he was chasing the hacker.
I switched to being a data engineer and have found it remarkably refreshing. Sure, it’s “just” a combination of DBA, ETL engineer, devops, and glue coding, but the data world is 15-20 years behind programming practices and it’s fun to see unit testing and version control being applied to data, as well as the rusty tooling getting some new love. Especially with dbt, a data transform tool that’s fun to use. I generally agree with your downbeat view on things, but data engineering has its own problems that have given me a renewed interest in tech. For now!
Why is PULSE such a steaming pile?
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AI for cybersecurity is a dangerous gamble
That turned out to be significantly less dangerous than we anticipated.

...where "we" is limited to people in Western democracies with governments that don't oppress their citizens. People in countries that have less enlightened governments have often had a pretty bad time after posting things online in ways that security services have been able to monitor, track, and use as the basis for imprisonment and worse.

I don't believe that Google is passing data about people to oppressive regimes, but there are damn good reasons why people think privacy is important for all internet users.
Real names has led to people being fired people being fired. The fear around social media and guarding your profile is to prevent future employers, family and people you know in life from finding out things you do not wish to share. Being tracked with a real name attached creates these privacy issues.

The advertisers demanded but it lessens the experience ij many ways.
This could very well be an electricity like situation.

If you have a factory moving on a pre-electricity prime-mover (probably a coal engine) and distribution system (probably axes and belts everywhere) and some one comes and pitches you electricity, you don't see the advantages. You see the costs of putting electric motors in all your machines, hiring all these expensive electric engineers and technicians, and basically rebuilding your factory for electricity. I see a similar dilemma here. Most industrial units will have to be rebuilt to take advantage of industrial IoT.
Older, but easy reads -

The Hacker Crackdown Bruce Sterling 1992 (freeware)

Underground: Tales of Hacking, Madness and Obsession on the Electronic Frontier Suelette Dreyfus 1997 (Free version available)
Except that many profs write their own textbooks and then market them to a captive audience. I had a chemistry professor in undergrad who had the #1 textbook for the 101/102 level courses. He was a super nice guy, but one could not overlook the business angle there. He saw a niche and filled it with something of very high quality.

We have to keep in mind that not every professor is independently wealthy, in fact, most are not. If they can find success marketing their textbooks, they should. Where I draw the line is the insidious behavior of the publishers. Often the authors are as big a victims as the students.

So all I ask is that you "everything free" types keep in mind that people should be paid for their hard work. That it doesn't automatically mean someone else is being exploited and it certainly doesn't mean that the result can't still be open source. I am highly skeptical that anything high quality and worthwhile will come from uncompensated authors, editors, and publishers. Nothing ever works like that.

And yes, I was in higher ed as an undergrad and graduate student 2x and then as a professor for awhile. I have seen the best and worst of higher ed.
A jury of his peers? Seems like they did and found him innocent.
if you like books that combine fiction and technical detail, I can thoroughly recommend the "stealing the network" series. It has an intriguing overarching plot and the details are all accurate and technical-minded - the best comparison I can give is it's like "The Martian" but for cybersecurity.
I would also have done that, but I don't see how.

How do you perform a credit card charge back yourself?
Spam Nation by Brian Krebs is excellent. It delves deep into the email spam scene, and covers some big events and the people around it. He talks to users which buy stuff they are advertised in spam emails, and looks into the quality of the products advertised (are the viagra pills safe?).

The book is not very technical, and he never digs deeper into the details than what is necessary.
> Or this example you point out, men are typically the ones being drafted into war or at least the ones serving on the front lines. I think that raises a lot of interesting questions too. Is that fair? Should women more often be included in drafts or mandatory service? Should women be included in the decisions to go to war? Would we have less wars if that were the case?

I'd question - aside from medical needs, when should men and women not be treated the same?

Which is a round about way of saying, of course women should be drafted into war.
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Has having your SSN online become less dangerous since the Equifax leak?
They've learned some lessons. Just look at what happened to Myspace, nobody wants to be that again.
share-alike is a reference to a CC license, for example https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode
I freely admit I'm bad at keeping notes - I've tried various systems over the years (from wikis to nvalt to evernote etc) and hated them all for one reason or another. And there is a limit to the usefulness of scripting it all, because I'll soon forget what the script was for, the inevitable pitfalls, what to change if I'm on another machine and so on. So this sort of very simple and natural interface can be appealing to me. Mind, I'll probably forget I've installed it and in 6 months time I'll have the same problem and I'll google openssl again...
Kill Process by William Hertling
There are many protests every day in China, so people do want to protest, but many people don't, because they are afraid of repercussions.

If peaceful protests were allowed then much more people would go to the streets to protest.
Yet at the same time, GE Digital was given a P&L and had to make quarterly commitments on performance. The revenue was tied to the work it was doing with internal GE business units and one-off partnerships with outside software companies. So when Predix integrated with a new partner, the focus was usually on generating short-term revenue and not long-term value to GE's end customers.

Short term profit seeking is a cancer upon us all, is there no way out of this hell?
Link to the "Web & App Activity" control panel:
https://myaccount.google.com/activitycontrols/search?pli=1
Daemon was virtually unreadable.

It's a hacker-themed fairtale for computer illiterate, basically. I had a non-techy friend borrow the book and they too couldn't finish it, because it was just way over acceptable believability limits even for them.
You don't need it but it's useful.

Normal convective cooling (think your computers CPU or your phone's backside) or evaporative cooling (sweat on your skin, discardable heatsinks) work by transferring heat to some medium. In case of CPUs you do it twice, once from CPU to metal and then from metal to Air to get a larger cooling surface.

In space you don't get that, or atleast not without having it be expensive af. The only way to loose heat energy is by radiating it away naturally (infrared light that our bodies like to emit carries heat away from our body).

This is very slow and requires a very different cooler design and some design metrics overall (if your CPU points it's heat surface at some other components of the craft, that component might overheat due to that).
Companies with the interesting jobs are not as profitable as those with glue-things-together jobs, and aren't hiring. In fact, I hear they're looking to get out of that business entirely. It'll soon be glue, all the way down, with university partnerships so kids can pay tuition to invent new stuff before they graduate to glue land.
I disagree with your premise that specialization is much more efficient. In many cases, it is, but in the sort of services that have historically been in-sourced to the domestic sphere, it isn't. Once you account for capital investment, labor, overhead, profit margin, taxes paid by the customer, and taxes paid by the business, services such as these are priced high enough to be luxuries. If they were efficient, the price would be so low that they would be considered commodities, and they would be the default choice for most families just from a pragmatic perspective.

Keeping a cow for milk is not usually economical, and that is why most people dont do that. Doing your own laundry, cooking, and cleaning are economical. Some things are more marginal- tasks such as doing your own car maintenance and taxes require enough investment of tools and skills that many people should not do them themselves, but many people should, too.

The special case where it is in your best interest to outsource everything other than your own career best applies to people that have a high income, are very busy, and can easily adjust their working hours per week. These folks are relatively rare.

Cost is king.
Silicon Valley’s Unicorn Elite Are Sitting on $60B in Untapped Wealth
History of the ISA: Digital Equipment Corporation
Uhh, I thought it was an over-the-top comedy film...
Linux Kernel 4.18 Is Out
I've been using minica [0] as recommended by letsencrypt [1] and am fairly happy with how easy it was to run and setup. I also like how small it is; I just embedded it in the development scripts of the project.

[0] https://github.com/jsha/minica

[1] https://letsencrypt.org/docs/certificates-for-localhost/
I think he means he would call the credit card company and get them to refund the charges.
But they should be aware that the bulk of the damage that smokers, drinkers and the obese do is to themselves, and not to others.

Erm... really?

"Alcohol 'more harmful than heroin' says Prof David Nutt" [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11660210] based on his research available here: http://www.ias.org.uk/uploads/pdf/News%20stories/dnutt-lance...
Who said that was the case? This hasn't gone to court yet.
So are you saying that the "overclock profile" on my Mobo is not the one I should use?
Robots: The Future of Elderly Care
Soft multi-functional robots get really small
LightCrafter Evaluation Kit for BeagleBoard Black from Texas Instruments
A killer drone would have a much easier time eliminating someone knowing their location compared to just knowing their name.
https://github.com/DogLooksGood/parinfer-mode ?
What is driving me away from Google's Android is that they keep asking me to turn stuff on I don't want to turn on.

I know that "when it's free I am the product" but the problem is that this is not very obvious when you buy a device.

My $100,- Motorola Moto C plus is great but I can't remove the Google search box from my home screen for example.

What would be great is that producers would tell how much I am the product because Google sponsored X, Y and Z to make the phone cheaper. Then a consumer can make the choice to buy a more expensive one or just accept that "you are the product".
As someone who worked for a branch of GE, I'm surprised it took this long for people to realize that it wasn't all sunshine and roses. This is the key quote in the article for me:

>Then, one year later, in 2014, GE released a press release that said it was generating more than $1 billion in revenue from productivity solutions, highlighting Predix.

Like the article says, the vast majority of this $1 billion came from counting the revenue from any product that utilized Predix/GE Digital resources, no matter how much they contributed. I also never heard of any outside company that utilized GE Digital resources, but that doesn't mean that it didn't happen.
One of the 2017 competitors took off in a little over a tenth of the distance DRACO took[1]. Of course, a stripped down Cub is probably much less useful overall, but taking seeing it take off in ~14 feet is fun.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo7-BuNiP6Y
That’s a pretty sad excuse.

Even after 9/11, I didn’t have goons busting into my N.Y. hotel rooms just in case I had lockpicks in my luggage.

If these people are a security threat, call the real cops. The only time I’ve seen this sort of behavior is in circumstances when rent-a-cops are given police/peace officer status.
I think that cool features that protects user privacy is hard to come by because this is not the type of feature that brings money.

Protecting the user is (in most of the cases) fighting ads.
Actually, I emailed back and forth to them about getting ePUB versions a few months ago and they repeatedly refused to offer them. I think they were unhappy with how ePUBs can be rendered on different devices and it was making their render quality lower. Not a great justification for me. Pulling the data out of CNX or whatever and trying to compile into ePUB was fairly difficulty.
Venture capital?
The question is, though, does it make that ramping up squeal/whine sound when you click them on. That would be cool.
I’m an American and your logic is flawed. Try actually visiting the place and learning about/from the people.
The article appears to describe only Google’s controls over your account, ignoring the iOS restrictions that allow iPhone and iPad users to prevent Google from seeing the data in the first place.

Unfortunate that they don’t make that clear.
Any books about data structure and algorithm for scalable systems / big data?
I am a Java backend developer and I've resigned from my company recently, and I want to get well prepared for interview and refresh my lost knowledge as well.
However, I found that companies start asking questions for scalable systems and big data. I don't know where I can find more materials on those topics.
Thanks.
For people who think this is BS: better not use Google products in Pakistan for example.
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