skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the shocking part is these regulations being generally pro-passenger and not another lobbyist authored money grab.

Maybe legislation like this is passed and signed all the time, but it seems shocking to me because all of the articles I read are about laws bought and paid for by one lobbying group or another.
It's funny that in a topic complaining about a company who spies on it's users someone brings up Last Pass which says right in it'a TOS they spy on all your browser traffic and share that info with marketing partners

https://www.logmeininc.com/legal/privacy

it basically says they collect everything possible to collect and will use it for anything they want including sharing with 3rd parties
- prohibits airlines from "bumping" passengers who've already boarded a plane;
- requires airlines to refund passengers for "services they paid for but did not receive";

It seems to me these points potentially balance out some of the power that flight attendants have, however.
I've noticed that undergrad international students pay a lot more in terms of tuition fees, usually 3x that of an average domestic student.
Jamal Khashoggi Was Bin Laden Pal, Mourned His Death, Vouched for Terror Funder
Southwest is a pretty great experience.

I wish I could use them more.
Xilinx Project Everest: Everest: A New Adaptive Compute Acceleration Stack
This is the classic 'emperor has no clothes' moment but some 'loyal subjects' still pointing to imaginary clothes.
I too never got Live bookmarks.

I'm using feedbro now.
Or gum, or even chew if you're desperate. There are almost as many smokeless tobacco options as there are smokeless cannabis options.
> It destroyed a lot of trust.

The thing is, Mozilla has always had the ability to put arbitrary things into firefox, and it's always had easter eggs in it. The way they did it was a big mistake but from my point of view only because it was scary-looking (and showed their extension pipeline had issues, I guess), not because of what it actually did.

> Those two are not mutually exclusive :-]

How about this: It wasn't there to advertise to anyone that didn't already know about it.
If your content is "evergreen", show me a "last updated" timestamp in the last year.

/grump
I concur with your point.
"Though it was designed to hunt child predators"

it is amazing that people still fall for that.
If I type my full name on google, I can find my home and cell phone number, age, all family members, home address, my last home address, and my google + (fb and LinkedIn I changed settings so not searchable).

And it’s a pain to ask them to delete the info. It’s obscure and time consuming and no guarantees. That in my mind is worse than anything here. I didn’t allow that info to be public, we need more privacy laws.
Forgive my ignorance, but what hardware does Amazon sell?
From Zero to $3.7B: Jyoti Bansal’s Textbook Case Study of Building AppDynamics
A lot of people confuse the pursuit of entrepreneurship woth just wanting a break. They are two different things. Entrepreneurship means killing yousrefl with more work than in a day job.

If you’re looking to take a break, then just do that like the OP. Take a break and do some light coding only if you want to.

If you want to do entrepreneurship Then you need to cut down the risk when you are going full time. So have some momentum for an idea - Ie you’ve vetted it, built it and charging at least 5 people for it. Something that lessens your risks.

Also make a commitment on a timeframe after which you would quit and start looking for a job. Eg: if I have 0 revenue after 1 year I will quit.
How many moons are discovered per-year on average? Is there something about these recent ones that made it difficult to discover earlier, eg size?
I don’t eat anything that casts a shadow.
We need somewhere for alien motherships to land and trade their wares. Roswell has too many tourists.
Cheating prevention is a serious issue at the highest level of Bridge. The basic tenet is to have screens that prevent a player from being able to see their partner's face and torso and rules that seriously limit speaking. The screens have just enough space at the bottom to be able to see cards played and nothing else. Eliminating voice, body language, hand and feet action reduces ability to pass signals.
To all those who replied saying they fast and do long distance running, I guess I stand corrected. But I'd be concerned about muscle catabolism, as if the body is asked to retrieve energy due to demands placed on it, surely after a prolonged fast the muscle tissue is a strong candidate.
All companies that deal with personal data should be required to display a list similar to the above as a warning: "In case of a security breach, your personal information will be made available, including but not limited to: ..."

The warning should be displayed during registration and then repeated monthly as a reminder.
Was Tony the Tiger Driven Off Twitter by Unbelievably Horny Furries?
Sounds like a startup opportunity. For only $5, we'll file take down notices left and right for all the info that is available online about you.
AWS is far from a cheap provider. DigitalOcean (as well as many others) have 1GB instances with 25GB disks for $5/mo. Some allow additional IPs for a few dollars. Deploy a bunch of minimal instances that all they do is run a socks proxy and are firewalled off from everyone except your source IP address, and use them as the configured proxy for your actual scanning machine(s). For chrome, you can configure a proxy on the command line. Most quality http libraries in most languages support proxies (otherwise I wouldn't consider them quality libraries...).

For a business (which what I'm thinking in terms of), $500/mo for 100 IP addresses which you can trivially cycle by destroying and creating new virts is well within cost. For an individual, I assume you wouldn't be crawling 24/7, so bring up as many as needed for short bursts. At $0.007/hr, you could bring up 100 from a snapshot/template, use them for a few hours to crawl whatever you need, and it will cost you just over $2.[1] For longer term but smaller needs, just spin up 5-10 for $25-$50/mo cost.

1: 100 * $0.007/hr * 3 hours = $2.10
So in the metaphor of the story's title, Atlas, whose shrugging caused the collapse of society, is the looters? Not the successful entrepeneurial giants, Galt et al., who in their collective departure from the world leave it, figuratively speaking, unsupported?
That's a strawman argument, because an alternative was already offered in my post. Yes, you can upgrade your software to prevent it. I don't care what you personally prefer or choose to do, I'm just telling the facts and options with Windows.
What you describe can be accomplished on linux using mount namespaces. It gives a namespaced view of the filesystem which the parent process can control via picking its root location and what is bindmounted where.

You've basically described a container where the filesystem is virtualized to a safe location on disk.

Disallowing reading/writing data entirely is pretty easy with seccomp or ptrace, though that's not required with namespacing.
On the first google.com hit for "gmail add-on" [1]:

"Gmail add-ons examine incoming messages, then act on these messages in various ways, such as by:

- Displaying additional information for the user in the Gmail UI.

- Connecting to non-Google services, to retrieve information or take other actions."

So yeah, it looks like there's no security at all offered by Gmail add-ons.

[1]: https://developers.google.com/gmail/add-ons/
The headline reads exactly like the plotline of the last fast and furious movie
I think you'll be burning through a lot of VC money to pay anybody to do it for five bucks, hell, why not Fiverr?
As far as I can tell, the first openly networked pacemaker was implanted in ~2009 [0] (Probably earlier in not-announced mode, but not by much). A decade and a half ago, people pretty much only had a home PC connected to the internet in their house. Now they have everything from their lights to thermostats to home security systems connected. 15 years ago, there were probably some internet systems with large collections of personally identifying information on them, but western society as a whole hadn't yet decided to put all the data one could want to know about them in one place (multiple times over).

Everything might be more secure, as you say, but there are so many more ways a small hole could be exploited to do damage now.

[0] https://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2009-08/first-patient...
Right to be forgotten
I did this, and unfortunately your fears became reality for me. Like you said, I only had a vague idea of what I wanted to do (including traveling, starting my own company, continuing education, side projects, etc). Almost 2 years into it I ended up just barely dabbling in each. I traveled for a few months, worked on some side projects, and learned some new things, but didn't really do anything "big" or traditionally "worthwhile" with my sabbatical. I look at my friends and colleagues who in this time period have gotten promotions, new jobs, MBAs, etc and I start feel like my time has been wasted. People keep telling me that once I join the workforce again that I will look back fondly on this time, but right now I definitely don't.

The most frustrating thing I have experienced is that society in general is still not accepting of people taking "sabbatical" in their 20s. While about 10% of people think it's cool that I quit my job and am flying by the seat of my pants, the other 90% hear that I'm unemployed and treat me like a pariah. It's been very eye opening to me just how linked your personal identity is to your job. And I don't mean job as in "I am a programmer", but specifically the actual name of the company you are employed by. I've had people be very interested in conversation with me at social events when I talk about work-related things, but when I actually say the words "I don't currently work anywhere and am taking some time off", those same people have literally picked up their drinks and walked away.

It's particularly bad with recruiters now that I'm ready to start looking for a new job again. Even though I left my company on extremely good terms (they literally begged me to stay!), recruiters seem to see that I left [insert major well respected company here] and assume that I must been have fired. Most still seem to think Google et al are some extremely coveted workplaces and can't imagine that someone would willingly leave them. It is a very tough hurdle to get over.
Trading feed lists is handy. I'm in. Mine covers all the sciences/tech/etc plus a little politics/entertainment. Everything is sorted into categories. http://superkuh.com/feedlist.opml (93KB)

As long as Firefox can still render feeds I don't care if they take out the bits to manage subscriptions to third party services. That seems like fluff to me.

I think most people who use RSS use native readers or, at the least, some 'cloud' reader. Not too many people need their browser to handle it explicitly.
OpenVMS', BeOS', IBM's ISAM's, and Reliant Nitro'sfilesystems were database-like:

http://neilrieck.net/docs/openvms_notes_rms_rdb.html

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_File_System

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISAM

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datalight#Reliance_Nitro
I don't transpile my NodeJS code. I don't feel that makes me asinine.
> Seems like market forces are working just fine.

Are they though? How come the US doesn't have the equivalent of a Emirates/Singapore quality level airline? You can't tell me there is no demand for that level of service by business folk?

Laymen's explanation - there are a limited number of routes that can physically be established and those who have the routes exhibit rent seeking behavior with only just a small amount of competition. In other words an oligopoly.
So I don't know what this is doing. But I know that microsoft is developing WPF to run in a fulled contained .NET Core binary. Meaning that there is no requirement of having any preinstalled software when running it. I would assume this technology to be translated into most any .NET core app.
On-device voice control engine powered by deep learning
Spot on. Another comment here sounds like it may be suggesting mandatory bounties -- at first glance that sounds very bad for small players, but some thresholds and/or percentages of revenue make the concept more palatable. The users themselves should be able to receive some kind of equitable relief too, but it's difficult when a single user's data is worth <$100 yet the cost to the user is potentially a much larger sum.

Regardless, I completely agree - that's almost surely where this is headed.
Robert Strandh's LispOS proposal [1] has a single-level object store as an alternative to a conventional file system. See especially [2] and [3]

[1] https://github.com/robert-strandh/LispOS

[2] https://github.com/robert-strandh/LispOS/blob/master/Documen...

[3] https://github.com/robert-strandh/LispOS/blob/master/Documen...
I really enjoyed doing some of the problems in this book. I worked on a team at Microsoft that used the inbox clutter algorithm in production and it was illuminating to see a real life application of graphical models.
I've found lack of direction to be my biggest issue. I've got a job that, thankfully, gives me a decent work-life balance (if not a great pay to go along with it), but I just can't bring myself to do anything during my time off because I don't know what to do.

Though, that's not to say discipline isn't an issue as well. I've had several ideas, and never really followed through because of lack of discipline/not seeing how it's going to help me earn money, etc.
I did some brief work in a hedge fund on special situations, which I think is just a synonym for event-driven? It's been awhile and I'm no longer in finance, wonder if any experts have insight to share here.
Perhaps my reading was less sophisticated, but it seemed to me that she argued that we are not morally obliged to draw our circle of loyalty, or responsibility to others, any wider than we choose.

Welp I guess if we're talking about Ayn, I'll crack a beer and go start the popcorn now....
I'm wondering which two regulations that will presumably be revoked so that this one could get signed.

> ...it is important that for every one new regulation issued, at least two prior regulations be identified for elimination...

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/presidential...
To offset it though, everything here(jpn) is packaged. Banana? Yup, wrap it in plastic.

Rubbish days were interested the first few years though, (5 days a week, something different every day where I live. Luckily there are multiple books describing what and how, in English haha).
While about 10% of people think it's cool that I quit my job and am just flying by the seat of my pants, the other 90% hear that I'm unemployed and treat me like a pariah.

The trick for getting around this is to form an LLC and say that you were freelancing. No one will ask questions.

And, after all, it's true. You would have taken money in exchange for services rendered, had a sufficiently-enticing opportunity presented itself. So it's not even a lie.
Cigarettes kill 50% of long term users. Being safer than that is not a big accomplishment.
I'd go a bit further about why it was a big mistake - basically I always knew they could put anything they wanted into Firefox but thought they'd never do such a childish thing in such a scary way.

- but it seems we mostly agree on this.
Someone in Facebook's PR department is reading this part of the thread and saying "it's working!"
> Also for some reason people who say this never mention that they're happy with a 1080p screen.

Sorry what?

Let's look at my work laptop from the year before last. It's a macbook pro with a retina screen from 2013. The CPU is a 2.4GHz dual-core i5 processor. (I'm specifically looking at the ME864LL/A).

Currently they're selling for 500£, second hand.

A quick look on thinkwiki.org shows the equivalent is an X201 or X230.

A quick gander on Ebay shows an X230 with better specs: This one has an i7 with a 3.6GHz processor, an SSD already fitted, and 8GB of ram (2x more than the macbook in question). It comes in pristine condition with the charger and dock included.

It costs $310.00, plus $20 shipping (There are others in good nick with roughly equivalent specs (~2.9Ghz) for $40 cheaper)

The default screen is kind of crap, but for an extra $80 - $130 and a spare hour you can upgrade it. This specific redditor[0][1] bought a 2k screen (2560x1440 IPS) mod kit from China and it worked

So that makes it, what, $400?

It's $100 cheaper, for a better laptop with an equal or better screen.

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/8c009g/thinkpad_x...

[1]: https://forum.51nb.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=1831613&... (you might need google translate)
I think the idea of taking a month-3 month vacation is a better goal, or perhaps a year to do a masters. I've seen people quit to learn and experiment with stuff but its difficult - better to get a job where you can learn stuff.
> authorizes $1.68 billion for relief for Hurricane Florence, which hit the Carolinas last month;

The fuck does this have to do with any of the other regulations in this law?
I’m with you on people bringing bags onboard that are far too large for overhead storage, but the solution to that problem is airlines actually enforcing size restrictions.
I agree completely. I don't mean to suggests that vaping is a good idea, only that it apparently doesn't have PICs in it.
The world or south east Asia? Even Eastern Europe is going to be tough on $5/day.
published timestamps. another vestige of the earlier blog web.

You can thank SEO for that. Something about older content being less "relevant"
I think this represents a fundamental (and rather annoying) difference between Linux and Windows.

On Windows, the only platform-supported global library format is COM, and that requires a very specific programming style--HRESULTs and all the rest. True, registered COM DLLs can be linked to without separate header/symbol files, and installing new programs/libraries never requires local compilation, but the extra overhead of COM itself, and the fact that it's a walled garden code-wise, makes it rather unpopular. It's also nigh on impossible to port COM code to other apps without resorting to something like WINE (which can't compete performance-wise when running highly parallel COM apps/services). Not to mention how ugly C++ COM source files are.

It would be so nice for us all if Windows shipped with compilers, straight-up C libraries with headers, a package manager, a better shell, ...
Yes, you can. You have to submit safety information, but you're not barred from entering the market. From an article about a supplement that was essentially an unregulated drug because it was an unknown drug:

> Under a 1994 federal law, supplement makers must submit some kind of safety data to the F.D.A. if they plan to introduce new ingredients to the market. And manufacturing-practice rules require them to make sure their products contain only the ingredients listed on the labels, with no hidden substances. But, unlike drug makers, supplement makers are not required to prove that their products are safe and effective on humans. Nor do they have to get federal approval before selling their products. That means it is up to the F.D.A. to identify any risky supplements from among the estimated 85,000 on the market, and to prove that they are adulterated or present health hazards.

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/17/business/a-soldiers-paren...

Again, the onus is on the FDA to find supplements that are previously unknown, regulated drugs. If we flipped the requirements, supplement makers would be barred from selling their supplements without clearing them with the FDA first. The active drug in that story has since been banned by the FDA: https://www.fda.gov/food/dietarysupplements/productsingredie...

You're not allowed to make specific medical claims. But you are also not required to show any efficacy for what you do claim, and the supplement industry regularly gets as close as they can to "specific medial claim." And sometimes they cross it! And, again, the onus is on the FDA to find such cases.
Doesn't parse it in Chrome
The opposite of "monopoly" is not "disruption" but instead "competition." Disruption moves a market equilibrium, usually due to a fundamental change in technology. But even a market in a steady-state equilibrium are subject to market forces so long as they are sufficiently competitive.

E.g. Amazon is disrupting retail. But even before Amazon existed, retail was highly competitive, with market forces driving down prices. (Indeed, there is a good argument that Amazon is decreasing competition even as it disrupts the market.)
There was an NHL player who recently got suspended that made this argument. I wonder if that was actually the case. Certainly, this evidence would help his case or at least cast reasonable doubt.
"Watching light propogate"

Gave me shivers.
This is an ad for coffee pods, disgised as investment news.
Emirates is a state-owned enterprise and there are a lot of accusations that it's subsidized by the state through below-market borrowing.

Your question is also kind of like asking why HP laptops are lower quality than Apple laptops. Emirates uses its Dubai base to serve primarily lucrative international flights, just like Apple targets the premium end of the market. That doesn't mean that HP is in a market segment without competition, however. Rather, it targets a cost-sensitive portion of the market where people aren't willing to pay extra for quality.
Is that a problem?

"Our logs don't show evidence of any data compromise" is not stronger evidence of anything than "our logs for the last two weeks don't show evidence of any data compromise" if you don't have logs that go back more than two weeks. How much evidence do you think that is? How do you think it might play in the press if the denial was accompanied by the two-week qualifier?
> In any case, her brand of optimism is so rare, and that sells.

You're saying Ayn Rand is popular because of the optimism in her works?
Right, I get that. I just think, or would hope, rather, that access tokens are locked down appropriately or never "over-granted" access to unnecessary data. In this case, my phone number which isn't on my profile.

If that means different API tokens for different services, then maybe that's a better way to do it. I'm not Facebook, though.
I am participating right now in one of these studies (Stanford University).

Amazingly, you really don’t get hungry at night after a breaking in period. I eat between 9am and 6pm, so not quite the same time period as in the article.
it's not really a loop, but there are really two categories of users :

* those who want applications that take the least space on the drive, and share most of their data / libraries across themselves - shared electron runtime, steam runtime shared with the os
* those who want applications to conform exactly to what the developper used since the developer can guarantee a "working" configuration

Ideally it should be up to the user to choose what configuration he wants, but the problem is that it's up to the developer to make that choice. Thus, the eternal loop :

applications released as a blob -> this takes too much disk space, we should use shared libraries ! -> applications released as shared libraries -> DLL hell -> applications released as a blob -> ...
It became more rare because the cost to fly people (plus one free checked bag) began to exceed what people were willing to pay, so airlines pulled a lever. If this were regulated, the cost of plane tickets would go up for everyone plus overhead for compliance. Maybe that's a better deal for you, but only because the government is effectively forcing other flyers to pay your way.
these are great! thanks
He's just tearing down the PR speak.