skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Funny, that was how I read it too. The book burning didnt seem to be the emphasis as much as the way everyone was being actively distracted away from more complex thought. Books were just the vessal.
Phone companies make money on CNAM (Caller ID Name) lookups. Even at a fraction of a cent per lookup, it adds up.
A landline phone, at $10 a month, is a pretty decent investment for anyone who spends a lot of time at home. I almost exclusively only take interviews, meetings, etc calls from my landline, solely because of call quality issues!
Devon had a great (but dated) idea for a company called "Rent-A-RAM" that had vans full of RAM which would drive around late at night, plugging into Lisp machines while their programmers were sleeping, paging in all their memory, garbage collecting, and paging it back to disk.
IBM i isn't a mainframe operating system, that would be Z/OS - there's a world of difference between the two and the hardware they run on.

That being said, both share some similar design choices in data storage, among other things.
My, what a broad brush you have. With of course no ‘time’ to back it up with facts.
They also do extensive code reviews, including of imported open source, yet their software is hardly bug free. Bugs can linger for years, often fixed only because someone stumbled upon odd behavior.

Spotting a tiny chip sitting on the SPI bus that looks identical to a bunch of other chips? That doesn't do anything unless it's tickled in just the right way? If you believe Amazon and Apple are even remotely capable of protecting against that....

The solution to these problems is to put critical code and critical secrets on discrete, simple SoCs where you actually have a chance of defending both hardware and software attacks. Apple and Amazon understand this because they already do it. The difficulty is building your software systems (firmware, kernel, etc) to make use of these secure elements, not to mention making them available for ad hoc application software. It's an extremely difficult integration problem, and even when you succeed you haven't.

For example, AFAIU Amazon's servers have secure elements to perform attestation of the box; it's utilized by their hypervisors to authenticate VMs for things like KMS. But it can't actually protect the data in the VM itself, such as the secrets obtained by dint of the attestation. It can't even prevent taking control of the hypervisor. All it does is help Amazon define a fixed security parameter--that you can't impersonate their hardware nodes on the network. That's extremely useful, but ultimately extremely limited.
> a surveillance technology that police and debt collectors use to track most of the United States’ 325 million inhabitants via their Social Security numbers, license plates, address histories, names and dates of birth. The mass-monitoring tech, called TLO, is a product of the Chicago-based credit reporting giant TransUnion, which last year had revenues of nearly $1.9 billion. One brochure for the service promises access to a startling amount of personal data drawn from myriad sources: more than 350 million Social Security numbers of dead and living Americans, 225 million employment histories and four billion address records. Add to that billions of vehicle registrations and call records and you have one of the largest commercial surveillance databases in existence.

> It’s used not just by cops but also by debt collectors and private companies carrying out background checks. Private investigators use it to track cheating spouses.

Honestly that this database exists at all is a serious problem in itself.
The cabin crew can clean them in flight.
the ol' ikea "Lack Rack"
https://wiki.eth0.nl/index.php/LackRack
MBS seems like the new Saddam. Funny that all these Middle Eastern rulers follow the same pattern of tyrannical rule and are undone by it when they are eventually taken down tyrannically by much bigger tyrants... supposedly for freedom but mostly for profit.
Sounds like you have a serious medical problem, you should see a doctor.
It’s not free. You will have to now spend time managing people.
Nah. It's just a requirement to study the issue from a safety perspective.[1]

"SEC. 577. Minimum dimensions for passenger seats.

(a) In general.—Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, and after providing notice and an opportunity for comment, the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration shall issue regulations that establish minimum dimensions for passenger seats on aircraft operated by air carriers in interstate air transportation or intrastate air transportation, including minimums for seat pitch, width, and length, and that are necessary for the safety of passengers."

That just means an aircraft with a tight seat pitch has to pass the aircraft evacuation time test.[1] Some of those tests may need to be rerun. Which is risky; people are injured in evacuation tests.

The standards need to be re-evaluated, though, because people are fatter.

[1] https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/302/...
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIaovi1JWyY
I use custom ringtones for groups. Anyone ringing with the default ringtone is immediately obvious as unknown, and I can easily decide to ignore/accept a caller. In practice, that means ignore. I should just drop a silent MP3 into my phone and use that as the default ringtone.
Bruce Schneier: “Click Here to Kill Everybody”
Yet another reason not to fly Air India, just in case you needed another beyond price, on-time performance, service, and cleanliness.
Mitchell and Web: identity theft

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CS9ptA3Ya9E

Another lie from the bankers that our advertising hungry media repeats.
That's what the Pelican case (with a serious padlock on it) is for.
Lisp is just such a powerfully concentrated language that it's doing 85% of the work even though it's just 6.3% of the mass. ;)

It's like Dr. Bronner's soap: Dilute! Dilute!
I live in Singapore, I love New York, I wanted to visit LA sometime next year too - I couldn’t be more excited for this!
Mr Number and automatic blocking of known spam has helped me significantly while still letting through numbers when I am expecting a call but don't know the number they will use.
Cool study. Ant hills don't have influencers. They are still able to run billion individual colonies. The more connected we get the more we resemble an ant hill imho in terms of info dispersion.

Feels like its also why news/journalist hubs aren't required as they once were. Other than for attention mining which seems like a unsustainable temporary glitch in the system.
Finally a reason to get an Apple Watch! :)
Should be fixed now! (But I've been wrong with css before)
I do this as well. I don't know why it's not a simple tile in both Android and iOS, but you have to use a hacky app.
Yet another fantasy that won't come true
I appreciate that advise, it's something I've been trying to do more recently, and I've noticed it does help in conversation.

The funny thing is that, even though my original comment hints at how regretful I am now of being unemployed, it didn't use to be that way. I used to be very proud of having left my job and being unemployed! I thought I had made a great decision and it didn't even occur to me until months later that people would see "taking time off" as an "embarrassed euphemism" rather than something good.
The parties had agreed on a cipher suite using ECDHE, meaning the keypairs will be based on a selected Elliptic Curve, Diffie-Hellman will be used, and the keypairs will be Ephemeral rather than using the public/private key from the certificate.

I think it's important to mention that even with ephemeral cipher suites, the server's ephemeral public key is signed using the server's certificate private key and verified by the client, since otherwise one would be able to MITM the key exchange.
I would offer my opinion here that it has absolutey nothing to do with any genetic or ethnic traits belonging to Arabs or people from the Middle East.

Rather I would say that when power is in the hands of select few individuals who are supported militarily and financially (aka politically) by other rich and powerful entities (e,g the USA), those individuals just behave like despots.

It seems to be human nature more often than not to behave like this, under these specific circumstances.
> Is there some central clearinghouse where private security camera feeds are being aggregated? I can’t think of an upside for any business to participate in such a thing.

Given the current legal climate, the potential upsides are incredibly numerous and downsides few (for now at least). Which ones actually exist in practice will naturally vary based on information I don't have access to. A few that immediately come to mind:

* Direct compensation. Give us your data (which you already have to collect for security purposes) and we'll give you money.

* Access to a marketplace. Turn over your data, and you'll gain the privilege of purchasing other data that we have (or some variant on this).

* Access to generalized queries instead of raw data. Turn over your data, and we'll give you a discount or perhaps not even charge you for answers to various questions about the world that you might have.

The possible uses of (and thus temptation for) such data access are incredibly vast. I distinctly remember this being one of the business scenarios presented by a cubesat startup a few years ago. Consider:

* Information about your clients. What other interests do they appear to have, based on the other places they go? How much expendable income do you estimate them to have, based on the part of town they commute to for work every day? In light of such information, which new products should you consider stocking? What should you get rid of? What political stances on your part would be likely to please or offend them?

* Information about your competitors. Does the family that owns a particular vehicle also shop at your direct competitor? Do people who visit your competitor's storefronts spend more or less time there?

* Information about where to do business. Assume that you obtain a list of people (or cars, or other database entry) that utilize you or a competing business. Assume that you then query the routes these people typically travel to determine commonalities. Now you can make a very well educated guess about what future retail locations are most likely to be successful.

* Information critical to business strategy. Is your competitor struggling, or is their business booming? How full are their parking lots compared to yours? How is their supply chain doing - how frequently are deliveries being made to their stores? If your competitor is a middleman, who are their clients? That is to say, where are their vehicles regularly stopping off? If they're an online distributor, how many shipments do you estimate they're sending out each day?

This list could go on just about endlessly, so I'm going to get back to pretending to be productive now.
Just my 2 cents: I run a hardware side business that is ramen profitable. I started selling extra pcbs I had because I only needed one and the fab would only sell me 10. In the last 3 years it has gone from that to about 40k/yr in sales and continues to grow despite no marketing or sales efforts on my part. I simply focus on selling a good product in a really niche market.

That said, these 3 years have felt like the trenches. I hand assemble everything. It takes forever. I work full time at a successful SAAS company and it makes me ache when I see how little effort it takes to just rake in money. Everything I sell has a fixed amount of time and effort associated with it. My advice when people pitch me random hardware ideas is that hardware is hard and if it doesn't already exist you need to think long and hard about why.

But the point of my comment is that is _is_ technically possible to build a profitable hardware business without a significant amount of capital. I borrowed $50 from my checking account to order those first boards and components and since then it's been bootstrapped and profitable. I signed up for their mailing list because I'm at the point where I think this could be my full time thing, but I don't know exactly how to get there. I truly feel that 1 year runway would give me the time I need to really see how far I can take this. Additionally the mentorship and community would be absolutely critical as I have none of that now.

Totally open to answer any questions!
The onus is not on the customer to perform QA, nice try.
Nice writeup. It's very valuable that you took the time to share a unique experience with everyone.

I've also done a 1.5 year sabbatical, and I can relate. It's both very challenging (to pull off successfully) but also can be very rewarding.
> I believe that if given a chance, most companies would gladly send you their webpages as opaque .exe files.

This is exactly why "mobile app" versions of webpages (facebook, reddit, you name it) are so prevalent. Of course it's also why I would never use them under any circumstance.

I like the way you put it, "war over control over presentation". It hits the nail on the head and it describes something that has been happening for a long, long time.
Just wait ‘til you hear about the rest of the world.
Hey, does MNT Reform run coreboot?
In what world would that cost the company "next to nothing"??? That person isn't going to be working for a year. The company either needs to hire someone else to replace them, which is an expensive process, or lose the productivity for that position for a year.
By household income any couple with google type jobs should be 1%. It is obviously going to be high. What is the interest for there?
unless I misread the post, the logistical problem is that there aren't enough new heroin addicts to justify keeping so many centers open. not sure what that has to do with paying for the unemployed and elderly.
Normally HN is not a place for memes, but I feel this is appropriate

https://m.imgur.com/JxH0lUT?r
That's cool! Do you know how RenrakuOS compares to Singularity and Midori? (IIRC they were also managed and ran .NET stuff)
Long before I ported out my AT&T landline, I started using a prepaid VoIP provider in Canada for outgoing long distance. One bonus was that they provided a free number in Winnipeg.

So far, I've never received an actual spam call on the Winnipeg number, only a very rare legitimate wrong number.

Hmmm... next time a store wants my phone number, I should give them that 204-xxx-xxxx number. I don't actually live in Canada. :)
We give our employees time to take sabbaticals. One person took 6 weeks and hiked the El Camino trail in Spain. We actually have to encourage people to take time off :)
Can someone explain what are the (technical) challenges to solving this? I feel like it shouldn't be too hard, and should go hand in hand with modernizing the phone system.
Don’t go too far down the rabbit hole.

I’ve had a large number of conversations over the years with people over the decision whether or not to pursue a diagnosis for a mental disorder. Naming something doesn’t give you a ticket to understand something, but it does give you something to find in the card catalog or Google. If you have both eyes open, you can answer “Do I have an anxiety disorder?” or “Do I have bipolar disorder?” and understand some of the consequences, both negative and positive, of labeling yourself that way. It’s not a truly binary choice, but when you apply these labels to yourself it both exposes you to the effects of stigma and makes treatment and support available, depending on circumstances. I say “choice” because for many, the diagnosis is a choice… a capable adult who is not a danger to themself has a lot of latitude here.

If you think that “we” speak of naming things as akin to understanding them, then there are very, very few people I know who are in this group “we”.

A name is just a substitute for the infinite complexity of the universe. We can’t understand the universe, so we have to name things, create models, and understand the models as a proxy.
I think I've said this before here but this sucks for individuals (I get these) but this is also dangerous for certain sectors as well. I work at a hospital and we will have consecutive robocalls tie up all the ER lines, ringing at the same time, for anywhere from 5-15 minute periods. I don't work on the telecom side of things but they say all they can do is report it to the FBI. This has been going on since I've worked there (6 months or so) and occurs at least once a month across the entire hospital.
It’s the worst solution, except for all the rest.
The usual explanation is that resource-extraction-dependent societies have an entirely different set of incentives from productivity-dependent societies. Whoever sits at the top of an industrial economy needs to invest in human capital and high-quality institutions to keep the tax revenue flowing. Whoever sits at the top of an oil economy only needs to keep its population out of the way of drilling operations.
They are in places. So what? That's not really the issue.

I don't need any help personally. For me, I'm in a good place, few worries.

Others may need help, and they may even make that known too. Posing that question isn't really how to get at the matter of help. For that to actually happen and be germane, understanding needs to come first.

I put what I did here to that end. Same with this comment.
Try a browser plugin for reading feeds. The plugin aggregates your new links and you read it like anything else on the internet. It's a great way to play to RSS' strength while avoiding the myriad of ways folks bungle feeds.

I wrote an open source one for Firefox here:
http://github.com/adamsanderson/brook

It's certainly not the only option though, so try a few things.
INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE in Cloud Spanner
From Media to Meaning: Classic Machine Learning [video]
/r/beetlejuicing
The probability of a particular seven bytes occurring by chance is less than one in a billion billion billion billion.
You can easily eliminate every gap up to 12 months and some gaps up to 23 months simply by omitting months on your resume. Quit job A in January and joined job B in December of the next year? 2011-2013 at Job A, 2014-Present at Job B! Solved!
Where does it say it was good for his career?
Fraud? So the suggestion is the old state of law was preferable, from a public policy perspective? Before "identity theft" was created? Created by a process that was described, if I'm remembering the right bill correctly, as industry lobbyists standing in the hallway outside the Congressional committee room on their phones - stepping into the hall to call their clients back to ask what else they would like, and then cycling back through the room to add it? Hmm... could be. ;)

In other news, it seems the NYTimes has managed to use the phrase "regulatory capture" three whole times so far in 2018![1] Woo hoo! We'll be addressing this in no time at all. Right after rolling back copyright extension. And tech innovating better fora support for constructive public discussion. RSN. Maybe next week? :/ Sigh.
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/search?endDate=20181031&query=%22reg... But yes, it is possible to push on these things. History is contingent. And no one ever promised bootstrapping a civilization was quick or easy or monotonic.
That seems mildly irresponsible. "Eh, I don't need to pull up, it's a Boeing."
Simply seeding a few more people at random avoids the challenge of mapping a network’s contours and can spread information in a way that is essentially indistinguishable from cases involving careful analysis; seeding seven people randomly may result in roughly the same reach as seeding five people optimally.

Interesting and I like it, though it conflicts some with previous studies I have seen where introducing new concepts through someone low in pecking order results in dramatically slower spread than if it starts with someone high in pecking order.

Also, there is a lot more to the article than that one point.
They can't block it because it costs them nothing; there's no incentive to get them to build the capability. Currently it works like old school (physical, postal) mail -- the sender writes something on the envelope that says who they are.

If every robocall received gets you five cents off your phone bill, it'll be solved within a year.
I wonder if she was able to see his heart rate while he was being murdered. That some grim dark dystopian future stuff right there.
...but what on earth is it?

The post says nothing about what it is.

The linked page says nothing about what it is.

I work full time in the Ruby ecosystem and I have no idea what your project is.

How can people forget to say what their project is at all?
This seems to be a fake story that the Turkish secret service is making up to obfuscate the fact that they had listening devices planted within the consulate office. The Apple watch can't possibly sync with his iPhone being carried by his fiancee who was probably out of the usual Bluetooth range (30 to 50 ft), there are no LTE support for Apple Watch in Turkey, and highly doubtful that there were public wifi that he could have used.
6 weeks isnt a sabbatical. Thats a normal vacation in europe.
A short description about the purpose of the gem would be appreciated. Couldn’t find it neither on the website, nor in this post.
Interesting side note (for me anyway, or for any aviation or geography nerds or budding "Action" Jack Barkers out there): If they adhere to the shortest Great Circle distance, they'll be going north almost directly over the pole. (Because the two cities are almost 180º of longitude apart.) The flight will likely track north across SE Asia, China, Mongolia, Siberia, the Arctic Ocean, then south through Greenland, Canada, Upstate New York and finally New Jersey.
Why not just a standard aluminum Chatsworth Rack?
This Week in Enterprise Tech,Googles Privacy Controls and AI for Organizations
The standard excuse is "Wharrgarbl! My PBX needs to be able to send the extension making the call!"

F*ck your PBX. Phone companies a) won't insure that companies only send Caller ID data that actually belongs to them, and b) won't cut off providers that don't do likewise.
Apple iOS
>Funny that all these Middle Eastern rulers follow the same pattern of tyrannical rule and are undone by it when they are eventually taken down tyrannically by much bigger tyrants

You mean Funny that all these Middle Eastern rulers are propped up by the West and only replaced when its politically expedient.
Oh, I happen to know a bit about this issue. It's very much not recommended to have long lines of text, as you may already know—because that way the eye has trouble finding the next line when returning from the end of the previous one, and the entire reading endeavor becomes rather janky experience. That's one of the primary reasons that we have book pages in portrait orientation and that newspaper articles are stretched in vertical columns. With this limitation, it would be quite pointless to try “utilizing” the screen area with other elements, since they can't just be arbitrarily hanging around the text.

If you're doing a lot of reading, you would do better by having your screen in portrait orientation. Wide screens are better suited for other tasks.

I'm tempted to note, however, that HTML with a simple layout, again, can technically be hammered into displaying in several columns on a wide screen. You'd probably want/need site-specific solutions if you want to keep the site's navigation. But if you need only the main content, you could use an extension akin to the “reading mode” of Firefox/Safari/Pocket, and override the CSS to break content into columns. (There might also be such extensions around that already have columns built in.)