skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No one really tries to break encryption, when side channel attacks can capture a message during the process of encryption.

No one thinks in encrypted text. The plain text is always created and then translated over to the enciphered copy. The plain text will always exist in some way, so that a message may be proof-read before sending. Even if printed on the sceen of a secure display monitor.

If an environment is stifling enough, it might be painfully obvious that someone is stepping out of line to work on carefully disclosing secrets. Obviously laws don’t matter in China, and if there’s a scent of dishonesty in the wrong context, I’m sure it wouldn’t take much find a way to watch every second of someone’s humble existence, if they’re not above executing pregnant women to send a message about what not watching your husband gets you.
> What do we want these companies to do?

Stop giving out my data/access to anyone but me. Once you set a general company attitude towards distribution of data/access, you can't ask for pity when that attitude comes back to bite you. Collect less, lock it down, proliferate it less, etc. Then you'll get my sympathy when an employee at one of your stores gives away my data/access.

And no, restricting data/access and ease of use are not completely mutually exclusive. There is a harmonious middle of the venn diagram that is completely different to the way things are currently run. Nobody's asking to force 2FA on cell phones here (unless we opt-in), we're just asking for better identity verification and less apathy towards giving out my info (in all cases).
The guy who bought Milo Yiannopoulos 20,000 Twitter followers at the beginning of GamerGate predicted this entire scenario:

https://archive.fo/bRI7h#selection-567.0-573.417

> Silicon Valley work forces are made mostly of first-generations from other cultures that are mostly not progressive in the Western sense. China, Korea, and Vietnam spent the last half of the 20th century either running from or killing communists. Some have had family involved. These potential Silicon Valley defectors, especially from Google, are fucking gold mines. Devs always keep a copy of code/db dumps. As the defectors pile up, they will bring more and more evidence of cyber phrenology. Silicon Valley will have its Snowden moment.

> As these efforts go into full swing and the defectors pile up, Silicon Valley will have to institute Scientology-style restrictions of expression and behavior. These limitations will only create more defectors as internal reprimands become more reactionary. If you need help finding the psychology of Silicon Valley developers, mine HackerNews and IRC logs for sentiment analysis about their behaviors and allegiances.

He even said he was going "make Google censor protected classes.":

https://twitter.com/emblem21CEO/status/919673752480235520
I don't think it's a closely guarded secret. The movie theater business is a century old textbook example of a marginal cost loss leader for concession sales.
Relying on public outcry to defend free speech is by definition guaranteed not to work, because the only speech that needs protecting is unpopular speech.
The branding and packaging of the NES was actually intended to make it resemble a sophisticated piece of home audio/video equipment to avoid the "toy" label. It was called the Nintendo Entertainment System (80s "high tech" words), was done up in gray and black with red accents (as opposed to the Famicom's red and beige), and had a "front loader" cartridge slot akin to a VCR (which actually made the console-cartridge connection flakier and was the real reason we ritualistically blew on our cartridges).
I think about this a lot as the phone is a pretty obvious single point of failure for 2FA and telcos are easily pwned through basic social engineering. I struggle with removing it as an alternative though because losing your phone or 2FA device leaves you in a pretty nasty spot. Tough choice.
It's real, but if you'd like to emulate it, there's a TTF font floating around out there:

http://lucacardelli.name/indexartifacts.html (go to Artifacts > Fonts tab).

Or, https://www.google.com/search?q=dijkstra+ttf+font
Right, so the author is suggesting something is inaccurate about the word "natural"

Would it be more accurate if the title were - natural “birth control” app...?

Because it is “natural”, the argument is it actually “birth control” since it doesn’t work.
I love it when physicists teach. Concise and pedagogical. Gives us physicists a good name :)

Michael Hartl (Caltech Physicist) also does a killer job with Rails Tutorial. There's definitely a trend.
Link to reference: https://www.trumanlibrary.org/civilrights/srights2.htm#20
What to say when recruiters ask you to name the first number
>I can't help but point out that you're making this claim on a thread attached to a story about a violent rural rebellion against urbanites!

Exactly - Shay's rebellion occurred in large part because rural voters didn't feel that they were adequately represented in their government. The Federal government didn't have enough power to oversee what was happening and the State government was made up of people from other districts, who then proceeded to disenfranchise people in the rural areas in order to more completely concentrate voting power in the urban East.

>So to be clear, there's no reasonable justification for giving geographic minorities extra voting poewr that doesn't also justify giving other minorities extra voting power.

The reasonable justification, beyond infrastructure spending, differences in industry and geographical considerations is that other minorities don't have a history of rebellion. In a centralized power structure, rural areas DO have a history of rebellion, successful rebellion, especially when they feel their interests are not served by the central government.
US: Life sentence. If a judge orders you to unlock your laptop/phone and you don't -- it could be a life sentence. IMHO, they go around the constitution with "Contempt of court".

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/03/man-jailed-indef...
The line I'd draw is application logic (how the WM acts, how it reacts to user inputs, how it feels to the end user, the unique things which make it different to any other WM) vs library logic (the necessary groundwork which every WM is forced to implement in exactly the same way because of the protocol spec)

tinywl is 500 lines of application logic + 40,000 lines of library logic; compared to your example which is two lines, but doesn't include the application logic, which I think makes it an apples-to-oranges comparison.
No that's wrong, authy backs up your TOTP seed to their server and will give them out to anyone who gains access to your authy account and can verify that they can receive sms messages sent to the number associated with the authy account. (Though they are encrypted and authy does not store the encryption keys).
Of course the answer is N1 - 3 N2 + 3 N3, since that naturally completes the cubic interpolating polynomial.
It's interesting that this free exchange of ideas, and group dissent, inside of Google is exactly the power that the Chinese people lack over their own government. It really shows why the Chinese government is so afraid of it. And why it's so necessary as a tool for maintaining the ethics of a massive organization.
>Stop giving out my data/access to anyone but me

But the problem is the company doesn't know who "you" are.
"NYU raised more than $450 million of the roughly $600 million it estimates it will need to fund the tuition package in perpetuity, including $100 million from Home Depot founder Kenneth Langone and his wife, Elaine."

Sounds largely private.
Not sure why you're being downvoted. This seems like an extremely reasonable statement to me. Ethics seem to not really be valued in many large tech companies anymore, as long as employee's can make large sums of money.
I love these! Will there be more? Do you ship to the US? Can I buy all of them as a pack?
I would barely feel anything at that dose and it would be incredibly short-spanned; more like cocaine. It's literally 75% of the dose for ~20% of the effects.

Besides, if you would have read the article - they are mentioning dosages of 125mg.

I would also be confident enough to say that MDMA is not as linear in dosages against body weight and _almost_surely_ it depends way more on your digestive than your body mass.

PS: to be clear, I did this with people who were multiples of my own weight (68kg) and incredibly petite ladies who were smaller than me. Dosage has little correlation with the effects they would get.
Maybe Google has some plan how to actually undermine the censorship long term, but it seems that it must be quite a long shot.
I think this has more to do with ML advances putting radiologists out of a job.
I'm not clear on the precise history, but I get the sense that Wayland was largely originated out of the Gnome/GTK/mobile side of things, where client side decorations are considered the way to go and the standardization comes from assuming everyone will be using the same set of UI libraries.

It seems to fit that specific use pretty well, and there's a lot of things I like, but it's certainly got some catching up to do when it comes to the mix-and-match flexibility of the X-server/compositor/window manager/client stack.
They're going to fuck up console like they fucked up the Registery, COM+, WPF, DirectDraw, Silverlight, WCF, etc...

It will be a clusterfuck of weird syntax that no doubt will embrace and extend what a console can do but then become proprietary as fuck.

Watch.

Cycle repeat.
Democracy with personal freedoms = good

Repressive dictatorship that regularly jails political dissidents = bad
Yep, the trick here is that Pixelblaze doesn't store or stream pixel data, the patterns are small fast programs that generate pixel data on the fly.

One benefit of this approach is that Wifi can drop or be unreliable without impacting animations.

This also lets them react to inputs e.g. using some of the IO or ADC, or using the sensor expansion board for audio, light, or movement (accelerometer). Each pattern is typically 5-15K (this includes compressed source, compiled, and preview animation), and there's plenty of flash to store hundreds of different patterns.
And meaningless. Who cares about a stupid UI that 3 users are going to ever see and will be deleted at the next rewrite? To be productive, work has to be rewarding and for it to be rewarding, it has to have meaning.
The "S" in SCI stands for Sensitive, not Special. You might be thinking of Special Access Programs.
DNS Tunneling – Plight at the end of the tunnel
So it seems trivial to then maintain high approval ratings during the term (no one knows what you’re really up to, before during and after the term)

Presidency sees a lot of marketing from each side, so high approval ratings might be more difficult to maintain, but congress should be far less of a battleground.

If you’re correct, then theres no reason for them to have 15% approval except out of sheer laziness; just as no one questions them during the election process, no one should be questioning during the term too
This Lancet study [0] rated the 'harm to self' of ecstacy much lower than alcohol:

https://www.thelancet.com/cms/attachment/b3a9c7d1-bb08-42f3-...

Two points to note: (a) The study looked at the effect of the 'street' drug Ecstacy - ie. cut with other harmful drugs - not pure MDMA; (b) Perhaps the low 'harm to self' rating is an indirect product of the fact that it is illegal - if it was more widely available people would abuse it much more than alcohol and it would get a higher 'self harm' rating

[0] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
Complicated. 5th amendment protections against self-incrimination prevents the court from using the fact that you can unlock your phone with a password you know from being used against you. Court opinion has been mixed as to whether you can have an obligation to reveal a password. Even then, the government requires a warrant to search the phone, and that requires a reasonable belief that they would find evidence on it. They can't just go fishing and make you help them.

There's less protection for fingerprint based unlock mechanisms and the like. It's not "something you know", so they're free to compel you to provide it.
no it's not! it references a retracted paper https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retracted_article_on_dopaminer... where he used methamphetamines instead of MDMA.
Are you in the Bay Area? Would love to learn more about your experience.
So... the guy who bought Milo Yiannopoulos 20,000 Twitter followers at the beginning of GamerGate predicted this entire scenario:

https://archive.fo/bRI7h#selection-567.0-573.417

> Silicon Valley work forces are made mostly of first-generations from other cultures that are mostly not progressive in the Western sense. China, Korea, and Vietnam spent the last half of the 20th century either running from or killing communists. Some have had family involved. These potential Silicon Valley defectors, especially from Google, are fucking gold mines. Devs always keep a copy of code/db dumps. As the defectors pile up, they will bring more and more evidence of cyber phrenology. Silicon Valley will have its Snowden moment.

> As these efforts go into full swing and the defectors pile up, Silicon Valley will have to institute Scientology-style restrictions of expression and behavior. These limitations will only create more defectors as internal reprimands become more reactionary. If you need help finding the psychology of Silicon Valley developers, mine HackerNews and IRC logs for sentiment analysis about their behaviors and allegiances.

He even said he was going "make Google censor protected classes.":

https://twitter.com/emblem21CEO/status/919673752480235520
> Slightly pedantic, I could be wrong, but no serious attempts were ever made to conquer south

Florida and Texas?
If we are playing semantics, too little salt will kill you, sodium is vital for life.

Some studies have found that the people who have the lowest salt consumption have increased risk of death, so combined with sodium being essential for life, and no increase in the salt consumption over the last half century, I'm not confident that we should, as a population, be artificially moderating our salt intake, the evidence is just not there.
I have a friend who is a resident and is the mother of 2 young children. That’s way more work than being a software developer. You find a way.
Thanks a lot for the feedback!

Yes, using our web platform you are able to create campaigns and attach stations to it. Everything is automatic and just informs the team that a new station need to be placed on point X for Y duration. Once placed and activated the stations need to further watching.

Yes, Raspberry + WiFi + Batteries. :)

We are experimenting with a lot of things. Hitting, high-fiveing, jumping on the buzzer and many more. They all have there pro and cons. Haha
Sono Motors unveils its solar and battery-powered electric car – Electrek
If the world needs to be more transparent, then I think it should start with the Australian politicians. Give us access to their phones and computers, give us CCTV in their offices. Then we can be sure that no crimes are being committed, that no corruption takes place. They are, after all, working for us.
Unless you're a politician, then you can just "have no recollection."
Wasn't it a color theme? If that's it, it lives on in many different implementations of it and will continue to do so.
Google planning store in Chicago
I'm a software developer and would love to do medical school, but have too much student debt and the risk is too great. Want to trade places?
>Most pens get thrown out or forgotten about long before they’re anywhere near their expiration date.

Has anyone ever actually run a pen out of ink before losing it? I came close (like ~3/4" of ink left) a few times in college but those pens are probably lost in a desk drawer somewhere.
Silicon Valley needs to get into labor agitation if these protests are gonna go anywhere.
This is one of the most influential papers I have read in my life. I have found Meadows to be insightful and forward thinking. I hope we can learn to apply these teachings to the world around us.
There's no single bogeyman behind rising medical costs but it's ridiculous to say that provider compensation has nothing to do with it. The single biggest driver, IMHO, is fee for service and medical supplies, but every aspect of the medical industry plays some role.
I believe what will happen is what happens continuously with technology, a new layer of abstraction will evolve and thats it. Most devs want to use some abstraction layer (or build one themselves) and thats it. That's how computers work, just layers of abstractions stacked on top of each other. The underlying details, complexity but also power (eg features, security issues,..) only very few understand.
Isn't there quite a bit of selection bias involved in who is willing to walk up and vote at a kiosk?
> We are not in a Democracy. We live in a Republic.

We live in both these things.

Well actually I live in Germany at the moment, but I'll be coming back someday!

> Geography doesn't have anything to do with personal characteristics.

Don't be ridiculous, where you choose to live doesn't count as a personal characteristic? You can find endless examples of people who disagree, just ask.

> If you own land, you are tied to it. It's not easy to move, and we don't usually want people to move because if you stay in a place, you tend to improve it.

There are both upsides and downsides to people being tied down. You're right, people who own in a place are more invested in it. On the other hand, we want a certain amount of labor fluidity as different metros and industries rise and fall. There are people who insist on staying in their hometown even though the jobs have all left and aren't coming back anytime soon, and often that's not great for them or the government.

> I'm not sure why you brought up that most people arguing about something tend to pick the side that benefits them. I live in New York City. This does not benefit me.

I'm talking about what I've usually seen. I'm not saying it applies 100% of the time.

> When I referred to rural vs urban population distribution, balanced meant an even distribution. What else would it have meant?

That's absurd. If I talk about "people who live in a major city vs people who don't", then suddenly it's the people living in major cities (proper, not metro area) who are a "minority". The lines here are completely arbitrary.

Or take farmers vs not-farmers. Oh no, it's imbalanced because only like 2% of people are employed in farm work!

> The point is that we have a system that works pretty well

It works reasonably well, but it would still work well, and likely better, if representation was simply one person, one vote, without any special handouts based on where you live or who you are or what you do for a living.
What you're seeing there is actually validation :), the lat/lng type is not magically inferred but instead explicitly requested by the code - if it were not valid it would generate a user-friendly, localized error message. Also the underlying document hierarchy that holds the data is validated. So on the contrary it is actually hard not to validate content in eno.

The quirky looking syntax you mention is probably familiar to you from YAML or paper forms ("Name: Joe"), and Markdown ("# Section"), likewise if you have two levels you use "## Subsection".

There's quite a few things that eno solves (there's only so much space on a frontpage, sorry), but if you want one of the more prominent ones: It's considerably hard to win over users without technical background to switch to secure, statically generated content solutions when the most prominent format works like this: http://yaml.org/spec/1.2/spec.html I've explained eno in 5mins to a non-technical intern who is now managing content at a client of mine and in months I haven't heard a single question about how eno works! User empowerment. <3
My pleasure! Another link from EPI explains it better than I can.

>The Economic Policy Institute’s earlier paper, Raising America’s Pay: Why It’s Our Central Economic Policy Challenge, presented a thorough analysis of income and wage trends, documented rising wage inequality, and provided strong evidence that wage stagnation is largely the result of policy choices that boosted the bargaining power of those with the most wealth and power (Bivens et al. 2014). As we argued, better policy choices, made with low- and moderate-wage earners in mind, can lead to more widespread wage growth and strengthen and expand the middle class.

https://www.epi.org/publication/understanding-the-historic-d...
We’ll see if the free exchange ideas results in an ethic that reflects the people who built google.
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Taking on a Patent Troll: Caveat Troglodytarum
> and the new Atari CEO (a guy from the tobacco firm Philip Morris -- I forget his name -- who spent the whole meeting chain smoking).

Is this the guy?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_J._Morgan
Look at all the dancing going on here!
Too Big to Fail Banks' Regulatory Alchemy
Needs a (2007). Dates might have gone out of fashion again in the interim.

:P
They're not giving it up—it's being paid by the interest on a rather large endowment.
Requiring customers to come to a store would basically exclude anyone from accessing their account outside the retail footprint of the company. That isn't realistic for companies that are trying to provide you a global service like most telecoms.

It also introduces plenty of other problems. For example, if you are mugged on the street and lose your phone and wallet are you just frozen out of your mobile account until you can get to the DMV and wait the month until you get a new ID?

It is a hard problem that can't just be fixed by "taking it seriously".