skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The paper[1] says that they use "accounts known to be bots or trolls and identified in 7 publicly available lists of Twitter user IDs" such as this list ...

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/now-available-more...

A lot of what gets reported as "Russian trolls" is based on the data from this site ...

https://dashboard.securingdemocracy.org/

which monitors 600 twitter accounts that link content "relevant to Russian messaging themes." You can read more about their methodology here ...

https://securingdemocracy.gmfus.org/the-methodology-of-the-h...

[1] http://media1.s-nbcnews.com/i/today/z_creative/WeaponizedHea...
Yup, IBM begs employees to patent anything they can. They have entire patent groups to steward unfamiliar employees along the path, and they'll have presentations reminding employees about bonuses they get for successful filings and to try to get anything through because it's harmless to try.

Most people might say this is the defensive patent mindset we live in these days (IBM is not extremely offensive), but one wonders whether this deluge upon the USPTO exacerbates the problem. Granted it could be argued that unreasonable patents would be approved regardless of volume.
You're not alone, my mind went here immediately too. Although I think my word association game response to the word "patent" at this point is always going to be "troll".
An automated system reporting to my manager when I'm not looking cheerful?
Surprising to me but that's because it's written in Electron which is a notorious memory hog.
Amazing what you can learn when you read the article
Husqvarna and Saab are two good examples of weapons companies making motor vehicles. I'm not saying Kalashnikov Concern will or won't follow that path though.
Zee's "Quantum Field Theory in a Nutshell" is fairly light on the math IIRC. That doesn't mean it's an easy read, though.
Former Tesla Firmware Engineer Discusses the System
He got $5k for an arbitrary remote execution bug? What a rip-off.
The only difference being that there are more men in high seniority position than women

Even if that were the only difference, that's a really huge difference that de facto closes a lot of doors for women.
The real solution is probably hybrid (i.e. AI-assisted human moderation).

I've assisted with moderation for a bunch of communities over the years, and IMO the problem isn't that there's not enough humans — for every bad actor in a community there are many good ones — but that Facebook doesn't provide good actors and moderators with anything beyond the most basic tools imaginable. Had Facebook invested even 1% of their resources into this, I don't believe that Facebook would be the raging culture infection that it currently is.
As he said "given the pleasure presumably associated with moderate drinking" he isn't talking about practical needs such as getting to work. Some people drive for pleasure rather than (or, far more commonly, as well as) to serve practical needs.

The same could be said for any leisure activity: I run, study & practise medieval swordsmanship and other history martial arts (and more modern sports wrestling). Other people play football (UK/Europe/...) or hand-egg (US) or other competitive sports, there is horse riding in various forms (all potentially quite dangerous without adequate experience working with the horses), and dancing (the effects of which may be additive with the risks of alcohol!), and many other activities, all of which have no safe amount if you want to 100% remove risk (unless by some complex statistical analysis you prove that the increase in risk for injury/death due to the activity at the participants current age/health is less than the decrease due to the potential health benefits of the activity).
IBM is always chasing the latest hype, but their ability to execute is lacking. Just looking at how they are all over blockchain tech with so many talking heads. The same with drones I imagine. They truly believe with enough screen time people will start taking a notice of this Potyomkin village type company.
> Most Americans have spare bedrooms for when guests visit.

No, they don't. Some Americans do, but it's a minority; most that have a room that loosely serves this purpose have another non-bedroom function for the room that is not significantly impaired by occasional use as a guest bedroom, and a large number, probably a majority, have no guest bedroom at all, putting guests up on a couch (possibly convertible, but maybe not) or temporary cot, etc. in a common room (or displacing a resident, likely a child, to such an arrangement to free up a bed) when hosting overnight guests.
It was from good faith, I was just checking s3.amazonaws.com and censys pop me that here, bad reading...
They were running django 1.6 ....
Ssh and gpg sadly doesn't display what requests it, might be a protocol limitation. Same deal for FIDO
Why do we bother tagging recent articles with the year? Is there a reason that I need to know this was from 2017 instead of 2016 or 2018?
I hope google is not trying to destabilize america, which it sounds like you are arguing is a good thing.
How will they handle updates?
PostgreSQL and MySQL are the most popular database systems.
Yes, they can talk and share data using mysql_fdw
He should have gone to the black market, better yet sat on it. How long did it take Facebook to come forward with its user privacy violations?
And to be fair, the docs are littered with warnings about not using debug mode in production. Debug mode is open for.... debugging. not production.
Also, driving is for some not just a practical activity. Perhaps he was specifically referring to driving for pleasure.
I am experiencing similar problems with my parents in China right now... it is super stressful. Being a nerd throughout my life, I disdained people using each other for achieving anything - I didn't think it's real friendship. In a way, I was right, and in other ways, I couldn't be more wrong... I was just too stubborn and selfish to accept their social rules. Now I don't even know how to help my parents to do simple things like getting them a good doctor...
Ask HN: Looking for applications that create/manage lots of files
I am currently doing research on a new abstraction for files. For usecases, I am looking for applications that create/manage a lot of files (perhaps temporary files). I know that some mail servers store each email as a separate file. Going by a previous post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12209028), Angular development involves a lot of files being created. Compilers seem like another application that create temporary files.

Are there other such applications/scenarios that I am missing?
I remember 2 houses distinctly - a rich Asian immigrant's house, and a rich Caucasian's house. The Caucasian's was filled with relics of community - pictures of their involvement on sports teams, pictures of grandparents leading town hall meetings - it felt like they were rooted into the city and were an integral part of the community there. In contrast, the Asian immigrant's house was filled with relics of achievement - the doctorate was posted on the wall, lots of trophies and awards for their kids. The imagery offers a lot of insight into family and community development lagging behind income development in immigrant families.

Nicely written but I somewhat cringe because it's just an anecdote feeding a narrative about immigrants and we always have to be aware of it.
I disagree. We have dictionaries, URLs, Wikipedia categories and concept taxonomies. There is a lot of structured data. It's just that "external" structures don't seem to be all that useful when analyzing internal structure of a text.
The background:

“The particular Dicke phenomenon that's relevant to our work is related to superradiance, which he introduced in 1954.”

Now:

“"The way the coupling strength increased matches in an excellent manner with Dicke's early predictions” “But here, light is out of the picture and the coupling is matter-matter in nature."”
To the HN meteorologist/physicists: Do hail cannons even work ? It really seems strange that producing shockwaves prevent hail from falling. I have experienced hailstorms with lots of thunder and lightning.
API REST Boilerplate Using Spring Boot and Redis as Database
Agreed, if they do it right. The big risk is that many knock-off electronics use questionable components and methodologies that can lead to fires when you mix that with the level of current needed for an electric car.
Sorry about the initial title, I was tricked by the result https://censys.io/certificates?q=s3.amazonaws.com&page=6
The US economy is now something like 80% service.
Poverty isn't caused by mental illness though it may be correlated with it. How many were mentally ill before becoming homeless? At what rate would wealthy people develop mental illness if you force them into the same situation?
Just run a browser in your WASM Debian to hit the same page.
Personally, I'm investing in fertility companies/pharmaceuticals.
I love it, finish aside. Contemporary car design leaves me cold. I'd much prefer a return to the boxy style of the 80s, or this slightly curved box style of the 70s (yes yes I know, safety regs etc prevent it...)
Note you don't have to develop the prototype to get the patent; you just have to dream this up while waiting for your coffee.
Got the same experience with Scaleway. Suddently unresponsive instances which had to be rebooted manually. That's a no-go!
It's as absurd as patenting one-click buying. Are drones the new website, in so far as the patenting of obvious use cases and meaningless marketing terms?
Can you elaborate on this, because this is what I understand (from the point of view of someone who knows nothing about Apple's review process):

You can't provide your app at no cost on the App Store.
You can't provide your app for a cost on the App Store, if you don't include in-app payments.

Or is it the case that you want to allow your customers to make nominal purchases through the app, and Apple say these must be processed through in-app payments?
There's a lot of valid arguments for a single school system - better teachers from private, people with private wealth and influence pushing the public sector forward, etc.

But the title is naive. This will do nothing for the class divide. Wealthy parents will still hire private tutors for their children for 1 on 1 time and expose them to a wider variety of extra curricular activities.

It's the concept of schooling itself that's the problem. You can't absentmindedly send your kids off to school to be taught how to be a drone. IMO the parents attitude and nurturing at home is 2x as important, and this is especially problematic for either too-young parent or low income families that don't have the time to nurture their kids because they're working 12 hour days with 3 hours of commuting.
Because the job of the press is disseminating this proof to the public. Shouting into a void doesn't actually get you anywhere.
I'm in absolute agreement. Nerd-culture has been on autopilot for decades and needs to find its next level.
I'm curious why you are so worried about those scratches (which probably will easily buff out). If you don't think cars should have such a finish, why are you so worried about maintaining it as such?
When the US Government Tried to Replace Migrant Farmworkers with High Schoolers
Thanks. I ask because while feeling like your job is useless is sad, the really provocative claim is that most people are sitting around doing nothing of value to anyone.

And having read your description of the useless jobs, I'll reiterate that while I'd entertain the idea that 40% of people think their jobs are bullshit, I don't think those 5 categories possibly contain 40% of workers.
Maybe it's Herobrine.
I reported this to Cloudflare's Trust and Safety team and it has been taken care of.
I co-maintain CellProfiler. Contributions are always welcome!

https://github.com/CellProfiler/CellProfiler
Would the patent system be better and less trolly if you were legally required to produce whatever you patent?
edit: --clipped for correction--
LoL... yeah.. sure.
A Microsoft DevSecOps Static Application Security Testing (SAST) Exercise
He received $5,000 for remote code execution on a server in a separate VLAN and containing no user data. Barring another vulnerability to commit something like server-side request forgery across the VLAN, that significantly reduces the actual severity of the vulnerability. You wouldn't be able to chain this execution to impact user accounts or other Facebook servers. You also wouldn't be able to exfiltrate sensitive user data. Realistically, what you'd have is a very privileged server for phishing attacks.

The severity of security vulnerabilities should be judged on their context, not on their classification or category.
Thanks for the excellent clarification, well put.
> NLP (or specifically NLP using deep learning) seems to be having a breakout moment in the last year or so where there have been large advancements back to back.

I don't know about that. Everything with deep learning seems to attract so much hype that it's hard to measure the actual progress without being a researcher.

On the other hand, "classic" AI projects seem to get no recognition, even when they deliver astounding results.

For example, how many people here heard about MIT's Genesis project?

(http://groups.csail.mit.edu/genesis/)

If you don't know your past, everything seems like progress.
OneDrive Leaves a Lot to be Desired
New Logo and Identity for Library of Congress
> My car have scratches from my fingernails near the door handles

Are you sure it's from fingernails and not keys?
I benchmarked this recently. It comes in at 4-10x slower than cpython for random typical use cases on my machine, which is not too shabby at all. The author also states that numpy is slower than it should be due to lack of support for BLAS at this time.

The real impressive feat to me isn't hosting jupyter in the browser. It's access to a reasonably fast implementation of numpy in the browser which smokes native JS code for homogeneous array operations. I would love to see a minimalistic WASM implementation of numpy that can seamlessly interop with normal JS. Such a library would open up all sorts of possibilities that aren't currently feasible due to perf reasons.
Well, Saab still at least makes military equipment.

Husqvarna? TIL that their logo is a gun sight. :-)
Thanks for sharing your comment. Whenever I read this kind of thing I'm reminded of the 1561 celestial event over Nuremburg[0] and I hope we can a) see more of these kinds of events and b) really start digging into their nature.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1561_celestial_phenomenon_over...
The problem with this study is that all nutritional studies are unreliable, and the problem is getting worse.

> These implausible estimates of benefits or risks associated with diet probably reflect almost exclusively the magnitude of the cumulative biases in this type of research, with extensive residual confounding and selective reporting.3 Almost all nutritional variables are correlated with one another; thus, if one variable is causally related to health outcomes, many other variables will also yield significant associations in large enough data sets. With more research involving big data, almost all nutritional variables will be associated with almost all outcomes. Moreover, given the complicated associations of eating behaviors and patterns with many time-varying social and behavioral factors that also affect health, no currently available cohort includes sufficient information to address confounding in nutritional associations.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2698337?ut...

Someone will come out two weeks from now and say booze makes you immortal.
2008 financial collapse showed how important it is to have a career and also showed how important it is for women to get educated and move forward as contributors in household finances. There are lot of other factors at play here like student loans, financial independence and 4-6 year time frame to get college degree.
“The markets have spoken, and they've chosen wind.”
This was my exact thought -- I'm stunned by how earnest the comments are here when my troll-dar is going off heavily right now. I guess I should be glad they didn't find some harebrained way to include the blockchain. There's nothing wrong with drone delivery, but the "innovation" of trying to address a people ops problem with coffee is so woefully wrongheaded that it really begs the question of whether it was intended seriously.
> The harsh reality of 1st or 2nd generation Chinese is that while many of us went to the top universities and grew up with a modern, 1st world mindset, we can't escape the fact that our financial and family background is from the developing world

The harsh reality of a large number of people (1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th generation and beyond) living in Los Angeles is that they did not go to any universities, don't have any family or friends in Bel Air / Santa Monica, eke out an existence in a series of apartments (sometimes with their extended family, or in a car, or in some sort of civic transition shelter or on the street), and have a close relative with a chronic drug abuse problem or a chronic disease.
> Even with a 10% GDP increase per year, it would take China another 15 years to get to US level standard of living

..as of now. Who's to say the US' standard of living won't fall in years to come? Certainly wealth inequality seems to be growing, if anything.
They lease you land.

But I really can't think of anything produced in Russia besides weapons, rockets, and nuclear powerplants.
Ah, I see what you mean, and yes, Apple has better permissions control.

As it turns out, giving the user ultimate control is really the best way to handle these types of things.
I've shifted my work desktop and work laptop to Void, partially for similar reasons. Home desktop is on Arch still though, for various reasons.
Ask HN: What do you do when you are bored outside work?
I have a decent job. I have fun at work. It is after the working hours that I can't bear. I am bored constantly. I don't like to engage in mindless crap like Netflix or anything on internet TBH. And I don't like to engage in anything too intellectually exhausting like reading novels.

The long term effects of this are showing up. I go to bed unrelaxed, so don't have a great sleep. What do you folks do which is enriching and relaxing at the same time to kill off boredom?
"That leverage only exists in non-competitive labor markets, which are almost exclusively low-skilled"

That is flat out not true.
"The short story is wind is doing well in the markets, has been doing well, and looks like it will continue to do well," said Michael Webber, deputy director of the energy institute at the University of Texas at Austin, who was not involved with the reports.

"It's despite a lot of these policy shifts that have happened under the Trump administration," he said, referring to proposed rules aimed at boosting fossil fuels. "It's as if the markets have spoken, and they've chosen wind."
I didn’t downvote you. I think this is a relevant comment. What companies have you invested in and aren’t you worried about overpopulation?
Couldn’t get this to work for large tuples
Sorta wacky they want to deliver mostly hot water by air rather than caffeine.

Far smaller, lighter package would do wonders for flight time and reloading.
> An income based system would mean we all get screwed.

You forget that the people who have "made it" hold disproportionate political influence. If you think a 0.1% fine on your annual income is too high because it is $100+, then you would fight to reverse this policy.

Meanwhile the people who are living paycheck to paycheck and have very little influence don't have to worry. 1% is very little for them, maybe $20 or so.
IBM pays employees a $500 bonus if their patent proposal gets past an internal review board, and another $500 if the patent office actually awards the patent. The internal review board's only concern is if the patent application is likely to be successful. They don't care if the idea is silly or has no bearing on the company's business.

A small subset of employees file the vast majority of IBM's patents. These are awarded the title "Master Inventor". Many Master Inventors earn more from the patent bonuses than they do in actual salary. In theory the title is an accolade but in practice Master Inventors are sometimes shunned because they spend all their time thinking up silly patent ideas instead of doing "real work".

Source: I used to work for IBM and collected a handful of those bonuses before I realized how silly it was.
Apple pulls Facebook's Onavo VPN app that is used for analytics
That's not your call to make, however.
Any legitimate grievance can sound like "propaganda placed by hostile foreign agents to undermine domestic morale" to the right ears.
Earning $1500 USD for developing a digital trinket for Amazon while attending one of the most expensive schools on the planet is not life-changing.
As someone who attends open source conferences, thank you for your efforts to keep talk titles meaningful :)

(My pet peeve being "$thing 2: electric boogaloo", which just seems to be filling up space with nonsense words - at least "for fun and profit" makes gramatical sense...)
I can't believe I'm saying this but it would be neat to have a browser native BLAS, or absent that perhaps cross-compiled to WASM from a RUST implementation or something! Makes me think of all the demos like the tensorflow playground (dunno if all that happens in the browser or not).
I guess it's makes the front-end a whole lot easier to implement.

To fetch all the data that the app needs to render on a single view, the code would only need to make a single API call to a graphql endpoint and you only have to deal with a single, neatly formatted response.

As opposed to the traditional way of making multiple calls to different REST endpoints, you had to write quite a bit of code to transform & merge the data from each response before using them to render your views.
Top 5 Mobile App Security Failures and How to Prevent Them