skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's just assume there wasn't any abuse.. say a bug compromised my bank account, but no money was stolen (someone may have looked my balance and decided I was too poor to be robbed), do I expect to be made aware? yes of course and I feel data privacy deserves the same level of diligence because this is still a breach in trust, So ethically, they could and should have at least made a statement and apologized.

We should not equate "no evidence of abuse" to "evidence of zero abuse", that type of plausible deniability is not going to push improvement in protecting user privacy. Especially in this case, no evidence was really a lack of evidence (probably worse), because logs were only kept for a short period of time.

In the legal sense, or based on "industry practice", they might not be _required_ to disclose to the public. But can they, and should they? because we have all witnessed Google gone above and beyond, and done amazing things over the years. I'm a google fan, and I'm very disappointed by how this was handled.
How do I know the software is working correctly and hasn't been suppressed or spoofed by other agents.
It is much more likely in my opinion that people would become desensitized to data breaches and stop taking any of them seriously. Equifax or Cambridge Analytica would have been just another in a deluge of notifications.
Really? I am signed up now. But, I started to sign up in EU, so that might be why. I am now outside of EU and it keeps working. I assumed wrong then
1. Not built into the browser. Requires logging into yet more websites to get only a handful of newspaper websites.

2. They still track you. See, for instance, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18202382

3. Prices still too high. I don't a single story on https://www.washingtonpost.com/ that I would pay more than 2cents for.
Oh I definitely understand why sites do it this way. I simply wanted clarification on whether it was always the intention to do it that way, or if the content sites took the standard and crippled it in order to bring more ad revenue.
> If you have information to the contrary, i'm curious to hear it, though.

Providing such evidence was literally the main claim made in the top-level comment on this now very long thread...

Also, the fact that spending correlates well with other test-based performance metrics (see: the top-level comment on this now very long thread). And that the state rankings that result from the NAEP-based ranking are wildly inconsistent if you construct rankings based on other tests (e.g., state exams, college extract exam scores).
It doesn't help people not too familiar with the language.
I see, this makes sense. I'm sure there is something similar I can do with with Firefox. Thanks.
>My personal favorite WTF from CL was the :around methods from CLOS. These allowed you to wrap a function with other functions, possibly from a completely different place in your code base, and handle any setup/teardown as needed. We typically used them for database transactions, along with the ability to catch exceptions and trigger a DB rollback.

Sounds like a not-so-appropriate way of doing it.

I do this by wrapping my transactions... on a (with-transaction ) expression! Which is easily done using CLSQL (common lisp lib). This would do exactly what you want: exec the rollback, etc. Note that I speak from personal experience: this has worked perfectly on a commercial project.

>Lisp brings a lot of power to the table along with relatively weak code organization constructs. A great example of this is the concept of package privacy, something that can be ignored in CL by using a double colon instead of a single colon. Sure, ideally experienced engineers would not abuse this, but that sure is a dangerous tool to leave around when deadlines are looming.

CL is, mostly, for ideally experienced engineers. And i'm not being smug or elitist here. Ideally experienced engineers are able to leverage the full power of CL.

>when deadlines are looming.

And the reason to use CL is precisely to enable greater speed of development for complex stuff, so deadlines don't scare you so much (compared to using a lesser-featured language like Java for example)
I'm not okay with this. It is absolutely understandable that they want to remove the feed reader integrated into Firefox, that thing did not work well and I can understand that it was a lot of work. But the feed preview? If I understand correctly that's the proper display of the RSS/Atom feed itself when opened in Firefox, like https://www.pipes.digital/feed/14OE65qg, which should be properly parsed in your browser. That's the absolute core a browser has to deliver: Rendering web content properly and not just to show the source code. If Firefox can't deliver that, what else does it want to deliver on?

And removing this feature - like the missing feed detection in the UI - is what indeed can kills RSS, as it makes RSS inaccessible to users. Unlike the feed reader itself this can not be solved by webextensions.
OTOH people would scream bloody murder at a router that installed firmware updates and rebooted itself without asking. Just look at the reaction to how Windows 10 handles updates.
> This was not merely an American phenomenon. More recently, China has followed in America’s footsteps with increased snacking. Large-scale surveys show that from 1991 to 2009, the percentage of children and adults who regularly snack has skyrocketed. Among children aged 13 to 18, those who snacked went from 8.7% to 46.3% — a more than fivefold increase. Adults showed the a similar rise from 8.7% to 35.6%.

Even so obesity rates are still low in Asian countries. I guess Asians are enjoying eating throughout the day while still outperforming Americans.

https://www.oecd.org/els/health-systems/Obesity-Update-2017....
RPi3 is definitely faster. We also run on RPi 1/zero/etc.
How?

Smthg[i++] and smthg[++i] have two different behaviors. If you tell me that this is clear I probably don't want to read your code.
Most of this devices are provided by ISPs so it's they who are negligent. :)
I read initial email and it hit all the issues I might have with YC. YC is fantastic program, if I was younger, I would totally go for it.

BTW I am enrolled in StartupSchool and it helped me push the product development and clarify what it should do. I think TinySeed would be ideal for us.

What I specifically like is that it addresses real problems founders have,

* provide runway for a year (more then enough in my view).

* remote, you can be anywhere, yet I assume they would be fairly involved in mentoring

That is all I need atm. I have full time job, that pays the bills, also it is not draining I can't work on my idea. I am slowly assembling elements to be successful and feel that I am making genuine progress thanks to StarupSchool.
This is anti-user.
Fasting, in particular prolonged fasting (up to 40 days of water fasting or 8 days of dry fasting) is the best gift you can give to your body.
Researchers design AI system to assess pain levels in sheep
Engineering is about solving real world problems.

In order to be able to so you need to be able to communicate, as in "listen and ask good questions". Good engineering starts with accurately assessing requirements.

Design and design skills are vital, too. As an engineer you shouldn't just consider specific technical solutions but also take into account how those fit into the bigger picture and benefit the customer or - more generally - the user of the thing you're building.
I've seen that prompt twice since I updated and one time I could figure out why it was happening, the other time I couldn't. I'm not sure what to tell my friends who ask me about Mac stuff to do when they see that prompt.
I believe the full text was the goal, as IIRC it includes a separate tag for a summary.
NPM and the future of JavaScript
This is why I am skeptical. I will not presume to know how Supermicro and Elemental operate but I find it unlikely that this would go unnoticed by both of them. The guys I work with raise hell if CRCs on firmware images don't match, much less a BOM change. There are a lot of QA breakdowns that have to happen after manufacturing for this sort of attack to be successful. Could it happen? Sure, but there should be some sort of available evidence. What about the rest of Elemental's customers? Did the government manage to quietly take all of their servers as well?
Goolnik Gets Google to Forget Story About Him Getting Google to Forget About Him
Rand's legacy fits how she died: penniless and dependent on the institutions she viewed as failures of the human spirit. What a misguided wreak. Too bad she was influential, because much of the idiots stinking up the planet are her ideological children.
udc also supplies phosphorescent emitter materials manufactured by ppg.
RawGit is now in a sunset phase and will soon shut down
> We haven't mastered these systems and anyone who thinks they have is just waiting to get bit in the ass.

We've absolutely mastered these systems.

We just prioritize rapid development time and ease of use over security.

People make fun of DoD / space price tags (and admittedly, there's still a lot of crap sold there), but it's a trade off.

If we wanted computers to cost $x0,000 and OSes to cost $x,000, and the pace of progress to be glacial, we could have completely secure systems today.

It's a choice, not an impossibility.
Support that?
Variable output is not a problem, it's exactly what's needed. The days of standard paper formats are over, old man: in a decade people will have documents delivered straight to their retinas, or read into their ears—but everyone will still have to scroll PDFs back and forth with no possibility of reformatting, because lots of papers are published in it.

If you want to have your document printed nicely, just prepare it for printing along with other methods of output. The best way to do it is to not use some crazy layout: have a single column with images between paragraphs, and your documents will look fine on any device. All problems of reformatting documents stem from the rigid two-dimensional layout mentality, while the flexible approach requires stepping back to the one-dimensional semantic flow.

(Actually, standard paper formats were never around, because—surprise—my country doesn't use US paper formats.)
Well, right. A binary classification system must assign a 0 or 1. But cross validation or other methods may reveal that it isn't a good fit, just a fit.

As mlthoughts pointed out in a different comment, any kind of regression technique faces issues about goodness of fit. The thing is, there are techniques to show you that the fit isn't very good. A simple linear regression will fit randomized noise, but there are outputs that can show you that the fit isn't good and the regression may not be reliable.

The question I have here is whether ML techniques are failing in a different way, that it is fitting to randomized noise while appearing by various tests to be a very strong fit. If they're failing the same way that regression would (i.e.., someone applies it and fails to do basic tests for goodness of fit), that's a problem I suppose, but is it really a unique failing of ML or neural nets? It sounds like more like a standard misapplication of predictive modeling...
I think it it's more like someone locking your front door.
To me, the interesting thing is that this iceteroid (love the term!) is definitively extra-solar and that means that it is likely that other systems have both asteroids and comets. Though we've seen asteroids in other systems like Fomalhaut [0], we've not been up close and personal with the compositions of extra-solar material.

Here in the Sol system, we have a pretty strange arrangement of planets [1], with big ones all in the outer system and smaller ones in the inner system. So looking at just our system is not very indicative of 'typical' system evolution, in terms of iceteroids. Once we figure out where Oumuamua came from, that'll give us some idea of the compositions and evolutions of other systems (data point of 1 is better than 0), like the frost line. Oumuamua should be viewed as awesome and exciting, but as the tip of the ... iceberg ... when it comes to the real questions of stellar evolution and all the awesome stuff happening there.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fomalhaut

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nice_model
> The relevant courts had repeatedly found that an offer of initial employment counted as consideration, but an offer of continued employment did not.

Interesting. Couldn't you construct a similar argument against the "we've updated our ToS! You can accept it or leave our service and lose access to all your documents/games/devices/friends/etc" malpractice? Or is that a different legal basis?
> r/all was a place to check the pulse of the online community. News rose to the top FAST.

A pulse that has always depended on upvotes and downvotes, and thus has always been susceptible to being gamed. The reason subs like r/t_d were blocked from r/all was because they did this exact thing; their posts would receives thousands of upvotes within minutes of posting, yet the upvotes-to-comments ratio was always very low, meaning real people weren't engaging with the content as much as the bots were.

> The general consensus has shifted to be much less like the pragmatic tech community (value in free speech and rights along with being a good person) to a virtue signaling group that values feelings over anything else.

I hear this a lot, without much in the way of concrete examples. Each time the free speech issue gets raised, it results in angry redditors creating their own "virtue signaling" offshoot subs like "r/uncensored_news". Unsurprisingly, it attracts the most toxic members of the community until it consists almost entirely of hate speech, and the site admins are forced to ban it.

And I say 'forced' because that's what it is; just because r/whiterights and other subs have been banned doesn't mean there aren't hate subs on Reddit still operating freely. The admins to this day still allow for a live and let live approach UNTIL a real-world event forces them to take action. r/incels was a growing community until the Toronto van attack for example.
They are really great chips for power consumption and price. I have used them in several products and the team behind them really knows what they are doing.
>for me the "rope" was the ridiculous complexity of things like the "loop" macro.

You are not forced to use it. I like the LOOP macro, but there are many alternatives, which you can easily load and use.

>Instead of small focused functions that were really self explanatory, but limited in capability, you have things that are way too ... i dunno "configurable"?

So, for example, it looks like you would have liked to use the ITERATE lib instead of the LOOP macro.
Boosters don't really "explode". When ruptured they burn really fast, but (assuming engine shutdown and non-malfunctioning capsule separation) at such high altitude there is not that much danger from simple conflagration.

Sure, in _very_ rare case engines might not shut down or something else might get broken, but "If the booster had exploded, the crew would have been in extreme danger." seems too over the top. Launch escape tower is jettisoned for a reason ...
GraphQL Schema Directives as ORM
The obsession with measuring is hilarious. There are plenty of things in life (and jobs) that aren't measurable and are worth doing. Probably all of the important things are actually unmeasurable. Think about it this way, if its so easy you can measure it, it probably isn't very important in the grand scheme of things.
The fact that we have not (at least, not yet) observed evidence of abuse is little comfort, from an ethical perspective.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_luck#The_problem_of_mora...
So sick of the 11.2 oz. 16oz. box! Just adds to the waste stream.

Ice cream was half gallon size package for most of my lifetime. Starting around 2008, the fuckers made them 1.5 quarts and fucked us over and nobody complained!

Apples by the pound? GTFO!

If you put your thumb on the scale in a medieval market, you'd get your ass stabbed. But we oh-so-evolved descendants put up with the most ridiculous bullshit humanity has ever known.
Automatic security updates should be the default, all other updates should absolutely not. In case of patching routers there isn't much crapware to be upsold, but in general, if we're ever going to develop some code of ethics in this industry, I wish a part of it would be a rule of hard separation between security patches and feature updates, and another rule that the latter should never be done automatically without explicit opt-in.

Yes, it's extra work for developers, but the result of not doing that is the present situation - a lot of users, including a surprisingly large population of non-tech-savvy people, will go out of their way to shut down automatic updates, to avoid having to deal with broken workflows, upselling, ads sneaking in, and forced reboots in the middle of a business presentation or a game (or a surgery).
How emotions shape our work life
Sorry, when I said 'school', I was referring to what Americans call K-12, and not to universities.

The comment to which I replied referred to a high school's need for custom software, and that is what I find odd.

A typical high school has probably a tenth as many people (staff+students) as a typical university.
True Tales of High Adventure with Boobs (2009)
Intermittent fasting seems like it'd wreck your body if you do moderate to intense exercise. So I just fasted, and now I want to do intense cardio.... but I might run out of glycogen or blood sugar. Or I may do a set of weight lifting, but not if I can't eat protein after. So if I do intermittent fasting, I have to come up with a complex schedule to follow in order to get any performance gains.

The whole point of a diet is to be healthy. You don't need intermittent fasting to be healthy. It seems to just introduce complication for a menial improvement in a few measures of health. I'm sure they work, if you can actually stick to them, but there's a lot simpler diets that will also work.

Exercise three times a week. Eat lots of plants. Keep your fat, protein, and simple carb levels within reasonable limits for your age, height and sex. That's not super complicated to follow, and it can fit into basically any schedule.
>So what do you say about the idea that it creates a disincentive to find security issues, because you'll be hit for them one way or the other?

But is that really what would happen? Vulnerabilities are frequently found and publicly reported. The reaction depends on the type of vulnerability (how stupid it sounds) and on whether or not the vulnerability resulted in a breach. You don't get hit equally hard for all security issues.

I think both users and developers have to be mature enough to deal with this sort of thing without resorting to secrecy. Secrecy creates distrust as the reaction to this particular Google+ issue shows.
Helping police make custody decisions using artificial intelligence
I use Keepass and still manually paste and autosave my passwords.

Have browsers extensions improved for this? When I last checked 5 and 10 years ago, it didn't seem to work.
They also said that the features are used by less than 0.01% of users. I assume this is based on their own telemetry. So they're really not forcing very many users to change at all.
> Advertising worked fine before internet tracking was a thing. Everything from Coca-Cola and the New York Times down to Fred's Corner Dry Cleaner and The Podunk Tribune survived and thrived on the old, low-tracking model.

Completely agree with this. I actually preferred ads that would be directly related to what I was viewing at the time. For instance, if I'm viewing a local bicycle club, I'd much rather see ads for a bicycle repair shop than for the Airbnb I glanced at last night. The current ad model is hugely distracting in that way, and I find it really annoying.
If they don't care enough to do a quick search and learn about it, then it doesn't matter that much.
I've purchased a rack-mounted RB2011 and wAP ac, more commonly known as RBwAPG-5HacT2HnD (lol these model names), within the last 3 years that did not have firewall enabled and contained no firewall rules by default. If I had to guess it was around ROS 6.32 or 6.33 release for 2011 and recently for the wAP.
Every thing about every person (living or dead) is being tracked in near real-time.

I've commented here many times about Seisent (bought by Lexis/Nexus). In the mid 2000s they had uniquely identified everyone in North America, Caribbean, and making in roads into Central & South America. Just from public records. One of their customers was the NSA, which also tied in money and phone.

(My employer was prototyping using Seisent to help uniquely identify patients across heterogenous orgs. It worked great, but cost too much for our use case.)

Seisent was (is) just one of many "independents" (third party). Today, FAANG and all the little dragons are doing the same.

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The ridiculous part of the controversy is pretending we don't know who everyone is. Our voter registration database could trivially be near perfect in real-time. Every immigrant. Every homeless person. Every missing person (not yet dead).

Etc.

"dropping off the grid" is not possible.
Ask HN: Turning 40. 50+, what would you tell a 40+ you?
Want to know what 50+ would advise to 40 to stay relevant and beat autism and grow further.

You can suggest Books, ritual, habit, mindset, skills etc

My little background - I am turning 40 and working as engineering manager in Indian IT company. I also code in python and .NET.
I agree with you - I've been a fan of PG since he started writing articles back in 2001? 2002? Bought Hackers and Painters when it first came out and devoured it. And have a ton of respect for YC and the enormous value it's generated.

When YC launched I wasn't in a place to take advantage of what they had to offer (already had a spouse and child + house and couldn't relocate). And I haven't seen anything else step in to do for the rest of us what YC did for VC-backed startups.

So far it seems to be resonating, so fingers crossed.
Hey, this is pretty cool. Just watched your videos. You certainly have a tool which is natural for average person's use, but you may have a barrier in natural use. The page marks is not a natural activity, but scrolling is. So if the system remembers where you are in the document as you scroll while reading, then that's a winner. In addition, a bookmarklet/icon in the browser itself could be better (but you most likely know this already).

In any case, many people have tried creating such a tool. I once used to believe that such functionalities should be part of the browser itself. But there's always been a disconnect between local files and browser. Now in the mobile world, it is even difficult to stay in sync.
I would love browsers to split document-mode (think static content) and application mode (think single-page web app).

When browsing documents, I don't want application cruft (I probably don't want JavaScript). I really don't want "application" features getting abused by adverts.

For our SPA we have needs that are not related to documents (restricting the viewport zoom, fixed toolbars at top and bottom, preferably hide browser URL and toolbars). Heaps of modern browser functionality such as WebWorkers and notifications is only really relevant to web apps.
This phys.org "article" is simply a copy of the INRS press release you can find here: http://www.inrs.ca/english/actualites/worlds-fastest-camera-...

Actual paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41377-018-0044-7

Website for the INRS lab's project on this: http://coilab.caltech.edu/research_6.html (includes PDF of the above paper and others)

As almost always, the phys.org "article" adds nothing of value to the press release it reproduces.
“How an Anonymous Accusation Derailed My Life”