skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My knee-jerk reaction: So a place that benefits from government guaranteed student loans and ever-higher tuition rates is asking the lowest paid (other than the adjuncts i suppose) to take on the burden of not only providing the education that the university profits from but also the room and board?

The article is short on details but I can't see this as anything other than a sad joke. If Santa Cruz is anything like a typical college town then there are buildings on campus or nearby that could be repurposed for this problem. Certainly there is money somewhere that could be used to purchase space (even though real-estate is at a premium) for this problem. After all, the University will have far more access to funds or loans.

However, that would come at a cost of the profits.

How myopic for them to even consider professors housing students to be an option.
Darn, I was hoping my 20 years of musical experience would give me enough domain knowledge. If there are specific gaps in my understanding of music theory, please let me know; I'd love to learn.
Crypto Custody: What Is It and Why Does It Matter?
Have you ever considered a hobby farm?
But being logged into your personal Hangouts and using the work Chrome at the same time does not seem to work anymore.
Does Amazon really operate on a larger scale than Walmart?
Would you leave your car and house unlocked if you never had a burglar?
I actually did some freelance website development for a local newspaper website around 15 years ago. I can't speak for larger newspapers, this was my experience with a much smaller one. The biggest challenges I found were:

1. Lack of a real technical / engineering department. Having said that, their core business is news and they really just need a functioning website, not a full (and expensive) engineering department.

2. They wanted the website to "feel" more like a real newspaper, including things like incorporating custom layout, design and other elements on the website. Explaining the limitations of HTML, CSS and Javascript was a bit ... frustrating for both sides.

3. Too many opinions on what the website should look like. Ditto for even small features such as what the photo gallery and subscription pages should look like.

4. Too many feature requests, often contradicting each other. It wasn't clear who was in charge of making decisions on website changes.
Oh,how frustrated I was when finding out you can't just dd a windows disk image and expect it to work in the new environment. Makes me appreciate unix os design. I have been dd'ing *nix variants,having to change only the kernel and I will always get a bootable system.

<insert rant about uefi and tpm>
> You're making the argument that there is something inherent in professors that makes it more likely they will engage in sexual relations with people, which is problematic and strange.

We know for a fact that it happens, and there have been recent sex scandals at the UC Santa Cruz, the university mentioned in the article. This is not a weird or unsubstantiated concern. And I never said there was something inherent to professors that causes it.
So you're saying you disobeyed your doctor's recommendations in managing a common type of acute pain and you think that justifies demonizing other people who have had different experiences? That seems not only callous but also extraordinarily naive and self-absorbed. You can't know what other people's experiences were like, especially those with chronic or more severe pain.
Anecdata

I used Cabin late last year, and am 6ft 2. It was compact but I had enough space (would have liked more ceiling height but length was ok)

Didn't have any problems with the bus noise, or other people, and the bus was about 3/4 full.

Biggest issue for me was the bumps in the road, so the latest ideas sound like a good step forward.

Being able to go from Santa Monica in the late evening to San Francisco first thing the next morning worked out really well for me, I'd use them again.
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No, it's just true. You can take a fact and use it to support a larger racist worldview composed of other facts, many of which may be false, contributing to a poorly reasoned out illogical perspective, or one that is lacking key details.

Or you can simply take that fact and look at it in isolation, or in combination with true statements, and all the necessary key details, and form a conclusion that does not involve bigotry.

What you are talking about is what people take away from the story. If the media is trying to control what people take away from the story, by not publishing it, because it could potentially help racists further ratify an already flawed worldview, then that is actually having the opposite effect right now, and it is a poor, unethical strategy. The media should report the facts, and should report on important issues with a fair amount of coverage, the volume of which is unaffected by agenda.
I've posted this a few days ago, but I switched from Chrome to Chromium to Firefox to GNOME Web (aka Epiphany) and it's everything I wanted: a stable and mature WebKit browser for all users (not just tech workers) with Firefox sync integration and no Google bullshit.
It's not 'new' for middle-aged persons to begin doing things they have been meaning to do but never made time to do so far. It's the onset of age-related symptoms that remind us we're not getting any younger & our abilities are on the wane. Some definitely wig out, but most do something about it in constructive ways. I have logged 100 miles of rugged terrain & paddled more so in the last year. Because of a mid-life crisis? Nah, the possibility that within a decade or less I will not have the faculties to do these activities is what motivates me.
I think one thing that would help is to make sure the staff could still be affiliated with the more prestigious UC's so they can put that affiliation on articles. As asinine as that is, it would allow academics especially to be more willing to move.
Your meaning is unclear.
Ask HN: Switching off of gmail
Google’s pervasive tracking has become disgusting enough that I’m thinking about ditching gmail, maybe in favor of protonmail.

Have you done this? How disruptive was it? Any advice?
They avaluate both security and privacy in this article. The comment above was about security alone.
Show HN: Get paid to talk about things you know
> It has always been that on android,using chrome browser or the youtube app meant that whatever google account was used in play store is also used to log you into google both on on chrome,yt,maps,etc...

That is setting up a system-global login, and having apps use it. That is very different, nearly opposite, from logging into a web page and having that intercepted and turned into a more global login.
Not just Gmail, but I got logged out from other websites as well! [chrome 69, linux, ubuntu 16.04]
>...it seemed natural to presume that American finance might be subsequently humbled. Not so. American investment banks today eclipse their European rivals in almost every sense… and the financial centres of New York and Chicago continue to swell"

If you're thrown off the horse, stand up, dust yourself off, and get back on that horse.
No, it didn't. Some separated services that way, but it was never any more necessary than it is now. Source: used to run an ISP through the early days of the web, and collocated services on the same host all the time.

The idea of the commenter I replied to that you 'had to' have a separate host or interface for each service is flat out false.

When people split it, it was over capacity or manageability concerns, but often we also set up separate hostnames for different services just because it was what people expected; often it pointed to the same hosts.
Recommendation algorithms don't "conclude" anything though, they are merely statistical tools to ensure you get somewhat relevant content, but they are never perfect because there is a lot of noise in what everyone watches.

A. Jeesh, there's no problem with informal anthropomorophizing in this situations. When humans have a goal and feedback towards reaching a goal. When a human gets positive feedback that X gets them towards the goal, human choose X.
The combined system Google-corp+developer+algorithm is also goal seeking and making choices so anthropomorphizing the system is appropriate.

B. The problem we're talking about isn't "noise" but "feedback" - a goal-seeking-system that muddies it's final result with it's initial state. Essentially, bias, a situation that's quite common in statical systems.
From that link you posted...

> Security: Google has always been known as a leader for browser security, and for good reason... All said, Google’s leading position in browser security is undisputed. 5/5
Did you write to your MP?

Did you meet with them?

These things only get fixed when people speak up.

I met with my MP over the weaponization of autonomous systems. I've put a ton of work into understanding where all this is headed. I spoke up[0] at the hearing on electoral reform about the cybersecurity risks of computerized elections, but I'm only one man. I've been able to get some things through, like pressuring the Liberal Government to put up more resources[1] but political will lags public outcry. If you want something changed you can't just complain online in your little bubble.

[0] I was one of only two people that spoke up about it and it was added to the final report. The world is changeable. What it takes is showing up and pushing hard.

[1] https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/budget-billion-cyber-securi...
Toying with the Toolbox: How Metaphysics Can Still Make a Contribution
This is the type of "research" Big Pharma often does that needs all of those billions of dollars and 4,000% price increases of life-saving drugs, according to some.
I'd like to see quantum gravity as a "commonly accepted theory". But it's not. It's a hypothesis.
>Now Google can (potentially)

They could do this earlier too. Just needed more recources and still with lesser precision.
The much broader and more general problem is anything that could stem from a lack of appropriate boundaries between faculty and students. Sexual assault is just a worst case scenario in that category of problems. You are of course correct that someone who would do such a thing shouldn’t be teaching, but it’s much more reliable and pragmatic to simply have reasonable rules and boundaries than it is to determine with 100% accuracy what people are capable of. Not just to prevent the possibility of sex scandals, but to prevent the entire category of problems from being more of an issue than it already is.
This is why it's handy to just use Firefox.
Pretty much any interrupt code, and lots of hardware drivers.
I'm very familiar with the tech, and I understand my comment about DAW being an instrument is a little metaphorical ... but the Engineering/Production is now where the material creativity happens.

Obviously it's not happening in 'real time' - but rather, by tuning each bar, each phrase, applying different effects etc. hence they are 'playing that instrument'.

Songwriting, melody, possibly musicianship and definitely lyrics are kind of secondary. You can say anything in a song these days it doesn't matter.
Priority Mail is usually two days for me.
> The correct response should have been for credit card holders to sue their credit card companies

Why? Why should it be the victims job to find and prosecute criminals?

Should victims also be responsible for breaking up monopolies? Or cleaning up oil spills? Or to keep hospital patient records private? How much time and money should victims be required to invest in lawsuits, to bring justice against illegal mistakes made by entities with thousands of people and million/billions of dollars?

Wouldn't it be better if we had government agencies draft and strictly enforce regulations to prevent this. Like say, an EPA for environment, or HIPAA for healthcare, or GDPR for consumer/business data?
I'm working on a project just like that. My MVP is going to be an entire course in an undergraduate college course. It will be the full course, nothing skipped or watered down like you see with most MOOCs these days. I am writing the textbook, study notes, practice problems (fully adaptive with analytics to help the student) and quizzes/exams. Everything is focused on the concept of "have you mastered this topic/skill/subject?". There is also going to be an interactive lecture system which basically works by the student watching some high-quality videos on the subject followed by doing practice problems or simulation exercises.

There is also more advanced stuff you can do with the concept like an intelligent tutoring system or adding in features to the lectures where students can ask the "teacher" questions in real time. I have already built a very basic prototype of it and it definitely works. Just imagine that. You're watching a lecture, learning some topic and then it just isn't clicking for you so you can ask a question immediately or ask for clarification on some subject. I am not talking about typing your question into some text box. I am talking about having a head set on where you can ask your question with your voice and then being able to get a response back that really solidifies the concept for you or makes it crystal clear.

This is all possible with existing technology. Nothing new needs to be invented, it simply needs to be built. Most MOOCs/online courses are heavily watered down because the workload required to build these types of systems is immense but I think the potential is huge in this area. From what I've seen, the young people definitely want to learn online, at their own pace and have access to high-quality learning platforms. I am also planning on offering the entire courses for free. Not really sure how I'll monetize it. Maybe donations?
Walking into changing rooms of teenage girls isn't indicative of moral character, or is being the focus of multiple sexual assault allegations.

And if that's just "fake news" given it has been reported in multiple sources, then I suppose I can just call any retort you make as "fake news" as well.
> Sounds like a conflict of interest, to get money from the government

There's a way to fix that. Until recently, it was common for certain announcements, requests for public comment, etc etc to go in the paper, which meant buying classified space. (Whether it's on physical paper or on your phone is sort of a moot point.)

This has no conflict of interest concerns. It doesn't solve the whole problem, but it gives you away to boost a public good without being a direct subsidy.
> That's exactly the same situation as any other TLS failure, not at all unique to HPKP in any way that I'm seeing.

Yup. But the feeling I'm getting is that browser vendors see this behavior as non-ideal since it trains users basically ignore the error. Yeah, in theory the user gets to make their own decision. My theory is that almost no user is actually equipped to make such a decision.

> admins of bricked sites can give them guidance that doesn't involve following convoluted instructions to navigate about:config or chrome://net-internals.

I see this as a worst case outcome - explicitly telling users its ok to bypass a security warning.

> All you need is to back up the spare key somewhere without throwing it out, which is a minor annoyance but not at all technically difficult.

Not technically hard, but still plenty of ways to mess it up. And once it's messed up, there isn't much of a good way to fix it.
I doubt very many professors at Santa Cruz would want to move unless they could work at a more prestigious university, and all of those are located in areas with high housing costs like Berkeley and Los Angeles. Actually, a lot of professors at UC Davis commute from the East Bay because they don't want to live in the Central Valley.

It's a pretty tall order to convince successful tenured professors living in a beachfront community, most of whom are homeowners and contribute to the NIMBYism of the area, to move somewhere else.
>I wonder what portion of AliExpress and Amazon is cross listed.

It wouldn't surprise me if it were close to 90%.
My equipment is hidden in walls and hard to reset. However, in this case, the problem was at the physical layer, not software configuration, so a reset would not have accomplished anything.

Since I do not use Windows, I had to emulate Winbox in Wine... pretty awful experience, but in the end it worked while everything else failed.

I would just prefer some sort of unix tool that ssh can use to connect to the equipment through layer 2.
Older sci-fi can be great until it starts being laughably anachronistic. I'm re-reading the Foundation series and there are some howlers. From a hologram continually insisting that his viewers can go ahead a smoke cigarettes (as he won't mind), to a breathless description of what is just an automatic train ticket kiosk, to a machine that 'types' by translating voice into neatly hand-written words on a page (where if you misspoke, you need to start from scratch again like a typewriter.)

I think it's hard for many modern readers to digest science fiction that was written before the transistor was invented. Some things just seem ridiculous.
This is great news. Anything to fight the opioid epidemic is a good thing.
Leonid Volkov's post:

https://www.facebook.com/leonid.m.volkov/posts/1935274903161...
Most people do want that, though. They literally want Google to sync everything for them. Makes sense to me, I don't see your POV to be super common, honestly, except maybe amongst the die hard tech people of hn and such.
There is a risk that professors can be exposed to allegations of impropriety as a result of housing students. The university does not bear this risk for that. Nobody is justifying assault or improper relationships, but the point is that the universities solution to the housing problem in Santa Cruz has a number of complications that seem not to have been addressed.

Perhaps a better solution would be to reduce the student population and university size to what the local housing market and community could support, given opposition to construction of student housing. Obviously they’d need to eat humble pie for that to happen, which is why it’s not being discussed.
My desk lamp gives me anxiety [Suggestions]
I'm a software engineer and part time grad student. I spend as much as time studying at my home desk as I do working. I currently have the following lamp
https://www.amazon.com/V-LIGHT-Magnifying-Lamp-Black-VS103B5/dp/B0713ZLFDM/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1536438728&sr=8-7&keywords=desk+lamp+magnifying+glass

This lamp is too bright and gives me anxiety. I'm having a tough time find a similar type of "overhanging" desk lamp that has a warmer color to it. Has anyone been in a similar situation and perhaps have found the optimal solution? These bright LED lamps just give me too much anxiety.
I run Firefox and NoScript and don't allow Javascript from Bloomberg. I've never had a problem viewing their articles.

I'll guess it has more to do with the originating IP address (e.g. perhaps lots of requests from a single IP behind a firewall) or maybe something to do with cookies (I allow all but delete all at least once daily, so I never have old cookies lingering around). I'm in the USA so geolocation might enter into it as well.
> In a ~3% margin business the difference between 1$ and 1.05$ is huge. But, nobody is going to be selling canned tuna out of their basement for under 10 cents profit on the can.

The margins are only ~3% because the barrier to entry is low. Imagine what their margins would be if they had an actual monopoly on food.

> Which is the real power of monopoly pricing, it's not obvious that spending 1.05$ is vastly worse than 1$ but it makes a huge difference to a companies bottom line.

It's not obvious that spending $1.05 is vastly worse than $1 because it isn't. It's not even clear that the hypothetical five cents even exists -- if Walmart is charging $1.05 because their cost is $1, and they have no competitors because the next most efficient retailer has a cost of $1.07, Walmart is charging you less than the competitor(s) they put out of business, not more.

And that would still be true if they reduced their own cost to $.25 without lowering prices further, when no competitor could reduce costs in the same way, though that rarely actually happens. Squeezing 5% more out of a supplier is a lot more realistic than squeezing 75% more out of them.
The problem with your argument is you're conflating sexual misbehaviour (what OP said) with sexual assault. These are two fundamentally different things. If you take the time to consider some hypotheticals of a situation where beautiful young people are shacking up with someone (a significant level of closeness) I think you can see the problem.
The point was that this was always a choice - there has never been a point where it was required. My first ISP back in '93 ran mail, web, ftp and shell accounts on a single pc. So did the ISP I cofounded in 95. It isn't and never has been a technical limitation, but a choice down to what worked for you. Especially as address rewriting firewalls also existed back then, so multiple services pointing to the same external IP in no way implied they had to be the same physical host.
Very interesting,but should have eliminated most of the secretaries. They oversee departments of usgov,even though they are wh appointees,they don't have a lot of oval office exposure.

They may have accounted for writing style analysis before posting the article. NYT has a superb team of security experts.

Anyways,I agree with OP,it's likely the VP.
Need to bookmark that post.
I went coast to coast on a lie down bus in the US about 30 years ago, similar to the first one pictured here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Tortoise

Not over comfortable but was quite a fun way to travel.
Skiing is dangerous to oneself (and a few others) ... programming can be dangerous to the entire world.
You are home, sleeping after another boring day at work.
You wake up being beaten back unconscious, extremities broken, ribs kicked in. They dial 911 and leave.

When you get back from the hospital they will come take your drugs.

Why? Nothing personal,
just that unlike many of your rural brethren, you have insurance.

People deliberately created your guests and are profiting even now from your pain, should they be shut down?
> I would assume that if the cables themselves were applying compressive force to the concrete, then their use as stays releases some of this force since the stays are in tension. Since concrete itself performs poorly in tension, it's going to provide a negligible counter to reinforce the cables even if it is still compressed, since the compression forces are provided by the cables. It seems to me that putting pre-stressed concrete into tension via its reinforcements is defeating the purpose of having pre-stressed concrete in the first place.

Not quite. High resistance steel is used in prestress applications, which provides a considerable headroom to determine what cables are used (number of strands per cable group and number of cable groups per cable) and how to design a structure (target prestress values, dynamic/vibration properties, load variation/fatigue design, etc). Therefore, just because a designer selects a specific prestress cable that doesn't mean the cable will be designed to be stressed closed o yield or even fatigue limits. The designer can pretty much design a structure that uses prestress cables loaded at a fraction of their design limits but subjected to higher loads at construction to be able to unload the initial prestress load as compression. This strategy is often used in bridges, as is designing a bridge to e intentionally heavier so that variable loads are a fraction of the dead load to increase fatigue life.