skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I'd be surprised if Bloomberg has any credibility in tech journalism

If the tech world turns their back on Bloomberg, I'll give them more credibility; not less.
Who their sources choose to speak to is not up to Bloomberg.
Which makes sense why this would be appealing to them. Totally reasonable. I imagine the TV industry is going through a similar crisis as competitive forms of media are not only playing their game, but able to access richer data about viewers. We've heard previously about "smart" TVs that spy on your viewing habits. However, like many things, it ain't my problem.

That is, until they make it my problem by surveilling me for their sole benefit.
Wish HN had a downvote button.
The combination somewhat makes sense, and I can imagine this leading to Mozilla acquiring ProtonVPN like they did Pocket, if this experiment turns out to be a success. (Though perhaps that's not really an option if being based in Switzerland is a relevant selling point. Come to think of it - how does Mozilla collecting payments in this case influence that?)

That said, I wonder what metrics they are using to evaluate whether this is a success. Obviously, number of people switching to a VPN. However, the screen shots in Mozilla's blog post [1] look pretty intrusive and distracting from the browsing experience. I wonder if they will be able to capture user annoyance, if applicable.

[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2018/10/22/testing-n...
X-series is always a safe bet if you want something a bit more portable than the T-series, but with the same build quality. I don't know about the newest (x280), but I'm rocking the previous X270 and I'm really happy with it.

I also never see people mention it, but the L-series feels a bit underrated. I handled some older ones the other day and was super impressed by the build quality. I think they go for like half the price of T-s too.
Also accessibility. But those are easy to solve problems worth solving considering how much of a garbage DOM is
Employee shrink consists of all sorts of stuff... theft, pilferage, spoilage, fraudulent transactions, etc.

It can be as minor as giving an employee two cups for hot coffee or as serious as fraudulent receiving or running two cash tills.
​Linus Torvalds is back in charge of Linux
GitHub also silently published a private repo of mine this week. I checked audit logs for both the owner user and the org and it didn’t show a permissions change anywhere.

Netlify has caused me to stop using GitHub Pages and between the clownshoes outage reports and the security issue I am now a GitLab user.

This is GitHub’s jump the shark episode. :(
Surely at least a few of these boards should be floating around, can't Bloomberg or others dig up a few physical examples? Unlike software 0 days or other more ephemeral issues this should be hard to conceal and easy to reproduce.
Silicon Valley tour over the weekend
Hello guys, I’ll be taking a small weekend trip to the valley over the weekend. If anyone working there would like to offer a tour of their company (or just hang out) I would be up for meeting up this weekend.

A little background about myself: I’m a software dev. in the DFW and looking to visit a couple hacker spaces and coffee shops/bars.
Question: does "getting rusty" mean you're getting better or worse at Rust?
1. As far as the fines - it is kind of silly to fine people for doing those things. It's what they might to AFTER that should put them in jail. I DO think that "accident" should be considered "malice" when intoxicated in both cases (and other forms of mind alterations knowingly applied to oneself).

2. That's what I was going to point out about probable cause, that it's kind of laughable. Thanks!

3. I did not know that, crazy.
iHeartRadio (formerly known as ClearChannel) already bought up a ton of radio stations. On the other hand, they also have a popular music streaming app, so they might survive the transition away from actual FM signals.
The cyberpunk media was all wrong- people won't be wearing masks and punk hairstyles to hide their faces; they'll be walking silly and wearing baggy pants to hide their gaits.
> Any country that can launch a satellite has a technology to destroy one

It's easier to put something in orbit than to knock something out of orbit.
Python, the "second best language for everything", has had a huge impact for teaching people programming. Beginners can do useful and interesting things and solve real problems after a few hours of learning.

And yet the number of times I've seen beginners completely discouraged or even give up programming forever because they have conda and pip and brew and pyenv installed and can't run a basic script after 4 hours of trying because environment mess-up is ridiculous.

The value in a programming environment that literally just works and can give you a functioning web app (the modern very basic I/O) in less than a minute is a huge value add for education.

I'm a complete convert. I've worked with Amasad to write tutorials[0] showing how easy repl is to use and these have become some of my most popular tutorials.

Absolutely incredible that repl.it has done so much in such a short time and with a very small team. All the best for the future!

[0] https://www.codementor.io/garethdwyer/posts
stickers to the rescue? Or as a protective measure. I've noticed I've been replacing older stickers that have been scratched badly on my MacBook. Goo Gone is what I use to remove the adhesive glue from the old stickers.
So, stay in your current job, set aside the 25% of your income you'd be losing by going to this startup, build up your savings, and find a company willing to hire you at or above your current salary.

Don't subsidize a startup by taking a pay cut, and especially don't do it by digging into your savings, unless you're going to be one of the founders and get a larger equity grant to begin with.
Agree that the term wasn't helpful overall (it unfortunately is politically loaded).

But looking at the original paper (already posted but re-linked here -- http://info.digitalshadows.com/rs/457-XEY-671/images/Digital...) I guess the author was trying to link a "current news event" with various other disinformation that is more relevant from a business perspective -- black hat SEO strategies, site / brand spoofing, social media spamming, and the like.

I'm not sure how helpful the high-level overview is either :) but from what I can tell the intended audience was non-technical. One that, say, might not even be familiar with any of the above terms in the first place, yet is vaguely familiar with the concept that cyber threats exist, and might be looking at purchasing something from a digital security company (like, um, Digital Shadows) to help this. Businesses absolutely would be concerned about brand protection and preventing any malice (digital or otherwise) that could damage the business.
So how should have Apple and Amazon acted if they were indeed truly innocent? Their behavior seems to be very consistent with what they are saying.
> So we have WhatsApp, Instagram, Oculus quickly in a row.

> FAANG

Well, all those you mentioned are all in Facebook.
Yeah, awesome stuff - I used some of Anand's ideas in my own research at the time.
I once did tech-type work for a lumber importer in the US. They were between #5 and #1 in terms of market share - ie they were big and all of us have likely bought lumber sourced from them at some point up the chain.

One of the more interesting aspects of the business I learned there involved customs, ports of origin, and bribes. The difference between sustainable and/or organically sourced lumber has nothing to do with the lumber itself: it's about the bribe to the harbormaster. Can't get customs to release your barges of Russian birch? No problem, pay him/her enough and it's stamped as whatever you like it to be. You mentioned it was hard to verify the vendor's claims about the identity and source of a given wood, and that old job came to mind. I imagine in the supply chain, once far enough down, the vendor might genuinely believe they are selling you wood XYZ, because the wholesaler told them it was XYZ...but in reality, it all goes back to whatever they paid the harbormaster to stamp the export as.

PS: It's not that the harbormaster is the kingpin in this corruption. They are more like pawns...it was always presented to me as "the way business is done, since way back, everywhere". Just seems to be an accepted bit of dishonesty that everyone involved participates in and tolerates to a degree.

edit: typos
Gitlab has had its own issues.
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True, but that's literally all there is.
Make your data accessible or you’re fired
You don't need to coin a phrase - they laser-etch this split right onto the product: https://i.imgur.com/lHMIz5N.jpg
I'd also like to hear what others do to learn languages. I like to write a little RPN calculator. The program's interface might vary depending on the language: to learn browser JS, you might do a DOM-based UI; for Rust it might be a CLI; for Go or Erlang maybe a line-oriented network service.

Depending on the interface, this tends to exercise language and runtime features like: string handling and parsing, event handling, conditionals / pattern matching, etc. "Calculator" is also a big enough problem space that you can come back to it to try out more interesting language features (e.g. using Rust enums to model your calculator's operations).
The output files are Markdown-formatted with YAML front-matter. The intent is for these files to be fed into a static site generator, like Jekyll. There are tags that require developers fill in the details, which the tool marks as missing. The tool handles all the structuring of the documentation, leaving the meaty details up to the library producers. Then, when combined with your site's static site layout, the output documentation looks however you'd like it to.
As of an hour ago he says he’s staying:

https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1054451469674598400
In British English, "guff" means either a fart, or "trivial, worthless talk". e.g. people might say "stop talking guff" or "if you filter out the guff, what did that politician's speech really mean?".

"filter out the guff" is itself a recognisably standard phrase.

This also works in the context of the article; considering the selector as a filter to "filter out the guff" impulses.
The Ad-Based Internet Is a Threat Against Human Rights and Democracy
Well I could make the point that pot isn't harmless. Heck smartphones aren't harmless and alcohol is responsible for 6% of all deaths. I see hundreds of kids every week at work where parents are disengaged with their kids and super engaged with their phone.

I think we have an issue with the questions we ask as humans. I am just making the point that we need to look past our individual lenses but that's really never going to happen to our community as a whole.

PS I am a life long abstainer of all vices minus my addiction to sugar.
Exactly. At the moment, the consumers benefit from the increased accuracy and coverage provided by multiple GNSS.

Sidenote: the ublox M8 chips are a pleasure to work with, and there are variants that have IMUs (gyros and accelerometers) on board for sensor fusion. All for <10$. What an exciting time we live in!
Rocket requires the nightly Rust compiler, which isn't something I find acceptable for production applications, and it's synchronous, so it's really slow. I have been rather disappointed by what I perceive as the author's unwillingness to work towards stable Rust. They have a GitHub issue where they track all of their dependencies on nightly, and kind of just say they aren't going to do anything about it -- it's up to the Rust core team to just make all the things stable that Rocket is using, or else it will stay on nightly forever.

Rocket's biggest feature is their flashy website, in my opinion. Their website is really nice looking and the self-assured marketing is convincing to readers.

Actix-Web seems like a more mature framework (I don't expect my application to randomly break), it's asynchronous (so it's really fast) and it works on stable Rust. Warp and Tower Web look like promising async frameworks, but they're not very mature yet. Rouille is a pretty stable option for a simple, synchronous web framework.
Vermont legalized but set up no tax structure. Legal to grow and gift, but not sell. There was a lot of pressure to get it legal, a veto from the governor, and apparently no consensus on how to tax/license it.
I know it's a brave new world, but there isn't a single working developer that isn't at least aware of the command line, right?
I personally see repl.it less as a replacement for a development environment (c9's aim) and more as a quick way to deploy, run, and illustrate a piece of code. It is perfect for school assignments, running quick trials, and general explatory-esque learning.
https://exercism.io
"Bayonet Neil-Conselman"! Huh, who knew?

Speaking of connectors, once upon a time there was the IBM PC RT, whose mouse and keyboard connected with these:

https://fjkraan.home.xs4all.nl/comp/ibm6150/IBM_RT_keyboard_...

Those are the only connectors I've ever been able to plug into the back of a box, from the front, without looking. They were wonderful (he says, tha remembering at the time he was the guy who got to crawl around under peoples' desks).

I was eventually told that, because the actual connectors were the same, they had to add the keyed moldings to prevent the hardware from being destroyed by being plugged into the wrong spot.
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I think things like this happen because managers need numbers to put into spreadsheets to show that they're ... doing something. But really, they are just throwing stuff at the wall and seeing what sticks. The sad thing is they don't understand the tech well enough to know how bad the privacy violations are.
Assuming the story is real it is quite obvious that there aren't that many compromised motherboards. It wouldn't make sense and it would make the attack easier to detect and to publicly incriminate the culprit.

As the attack is said to have been discovered 3 years ago it is also not surprising that housekeeping has already been done a long time ago.
Durian is banned in the Singapore metro (with a sign alerting to the prohibition that has gone viral) because of its smell.

Calling for keeping marijuana strictly illegal based on its smell is silly. Still, the smell is just as noxious as cigarette smoke to many people. I found walking around downtown Montevideo annoying. Legalization should come with some measures against smoking in public, just like those being applied to tobacco in many places around the world.
That would make sense as they would not only have a bidirectional pipe to end users, they own the data. I can only imagine that cable TV providers are more than willing to sell viewership data (likely because many are also ISPs) and are likely using it for their own benefit as they get into content creation themselves.
Ask HN: Introducing my wife to programming
I am experienced Java developer but I'm not sure whether it's something I should start with or teach her python. She have knowledge about what programing is and she would like to do career change so if you have any tips to share in which direction I should go, it would be helpful.
At the end of the day either web or mobile development is fine as long as she is able to have steady learning curve and less "huh?" moments, until she feel comfortable with whatever hack the programming is :).

My plan is to

1. Tackle OOP fundamentals

2. Introduction in one of the frameworks

3. Build simple apps
Thanks for writing about your experience with GitLab.

Can you tell us which are the basic features that are missing? And what could make your experience more convenient? Actually, could you please open a feature proposal about that over at https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues? We'd love to follow up on it.
>stop playing the top 4 songs (of any genre) over and over and use some real music innovation and variety.

If this model could make money, they'd be doing it.

Terrestrial radio economics are such that when you tune-in (which far fewer people do nowadays) you want to hear "that new song you like".
The article you linked states, Bloomberg says:

> Joe FitzPatrick was not one of these 17 individual primary sources that included company insiders and government officials,
As a press outlet they have a pretty solid defense in the first amendment
...capitalism?
Depends if you measure against asm.js or handwritten Javascript, and on which browser.

For my emulator stuff (mostly bit twiddling on integers: https://floooh.github.io/tiny8bit/), I saw a very slight improvement of WASM vs asm.js on browsers that have special handling for asm.js (in the meantime I have dropped asm.js, and only compile to WASM, since all browsers support it).

On iOS Safari (which I guess doesn't have special asm.js handling) WASM is a whopping 3x..5x faster than running the same code compiled to asm.js.

The question now is how much slower 'idiomatic, handwritten Javascript' is on iOS Safari versus the same code written in C compiled to asm.js, but I think another 3x..5x slower is realistic.
How much of the floor did you have to replace though?
Put a small pebble in your shoe. Alternate shoes regularly.
I wouldn't want to be navigating critical transportation during a dispute between China and the United States with this track record (would you?):

http://fortune.com/2018/08/28/china-has-been-withholding-bir...

https://www.wired.com/story/australias-ban-on-huawei-is-just...

https://nypost.com/2018/09/19/chinas-social-credit-system-is...

http://fortune.com/2016/05/20/chinese-social-manipulation/
This does not seem like satire in the least. The rules seem more like common sense than anything humorous.
if you're interested in having one I can send you a repl tee, my email is haya@repl.it
> which isn't something I find acceptable for production applications

For what it's worth, at least some of the largest rust adopters just pin to a nightly version, and don't have a ton of issues upgrading.
It's been pretty pervasive in certain niches for a long time. Homeopathic health products, for example. You can find lots of ads disguised as news reports that are more than a decade old. Dr Oz has been slinging crap for a similar time period.
Study: Antipsychotic Drugs Don't Ease ICU Delirium or Dementia
Update:

https://imgur.com/thklGAL

WTF.
I get extremely paranoid on marijuana, and if I don't it just makes me feel lazy and tired. Not sure if it's genetic or what but have never been able to enjoy it.
To get to those labor efficiency numbers we've made a lot of food quality and environmental sacrifices. TFA specifically mentions automated laser weeding instead of herbicide/GMO. Fertilizer microdosing is also mentioned which would greatly help fertilizer runoff pollution. I'm sure you've heard of other problems with factory farming, many of which are labor saving practices.

The cross section of farming, public health and environmental impact can't be reduced to a commodity spot price, at least not in our current economic system.
> The previous generation of online IDEs -- C9, Nitrous, Koding -- were awesome, yet most pivoted or shutdown. It's good to ask why that is? We think it might be that they were not "web native."

Maybe it's because giving away cloud services for free is not a sustainable business model.
You could have said the same thing about gay marriage or marijuana legalization in 2001. It's not like political change is impossible. In fact this change would be easier because it benefits the majority, unlike gay marriage or legal marijuana which were both minority issues.
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That's a remarkably confident statement that's completely unprovable.

I could just as easily posit easy international travel, world trade, mass media, democracy, and many other things as more effective than h-bombs for bringing about the relative peace of the late 20th/early 21st century.

Those particular things have the added benefit that they generally don't risk the side-effect of world annihilation.
This seems a bit confusing - in the context of agriculture, when I hear "damage to the soil", then that implies (to me) that we're talking about the difference between the long-term soil erosion caused by plowing/tilling/cultivation versus growing different cultures for which the process requires less of such invasive activities and so doesn't erode the soil as much.

The effect of large tires vs small tires vs tracks vs feet is insignificant and irrelevant, it's a rounding error compared to the effect of whether those tires/tracks will be pulling a plow/till or not.
Oh, he was one of the named sources. Good catch, though that doesn't change the point.
You underestimate how important bread still is in French cuisine. I was just in Paris and complained to the concierge at our high end hotel about a bad restaurant recommendation. He said he didn't need to hear anymore about how bad the meal was after I said the bread was bad (and stale). In other simple French food news, Joel Robouchon is known for saying his last meal would be a good potato with good butter.
Maybe we should ban public use of tobacco.
8 years ago I used NLP to generate fake user profile bios for a social media company (not one you've heard of). The SEO/marketing guys went nuts over it and started using it for everything. It was super effective and they had the money to scale it. Eventually Panda came out and hosed the rankings on the blogs/domains they used it for.

Around the same time I discovered https://narrativescience.com/ and read about how they accomplished the same task. It was essentially similar to what I had done - write tons of templates, like Mad Libs, and then algorithmically fill in the blanks. Mine sometimes generated nonsense (e.g. "I love Mozart! I saw him in concert last year."). But for our purposes, or rather the purposes the marketing people came up with, it didn't matter much.

I saw the list of Narrative Science's investors and noted that In-Q-Tel was on there. Then I asked myself why the CIA's R&D funding arm would want that. The answer was obvious - to generate misinformation to spread to adversary orgs/states. Drown the real message in a sea of lies and your foes will waste more resources trying to find the truth.
> they had to go with anonymous sources as opposed to any physical evidence

What do you mean by the second part of this? Bloomberg should have received examples of comprised boards?
Only if you are looking for it. I imagine most adults can translate through time and culture without much issue. Literalists tend to be evangelical christians, who probably wouldn’t mind.
> There's a lot more to marketing than getting on the front page of HN.

I'm aware but getting on the front page of HN is still good marketing.
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I have been learning Rust on and off this year. I have been writing mostly GO for the past few years, but am moving to coding almost primarily in Rust for any new project, and porting over some older ones. Microservices, Data Layer, etc... Honestly, while not perfect, its one of the most beautiful languages I have ever come across. Plus, I have not enjoyed coding in a language this much in a while.
>> can camera installers just add an additional infrared filter to their setup?

Yes - your smartphone camera already has one unless it's old and/or cheap.

Also, your LED baseball cap draws much more attention to you than anything else. That screams "look at me, I have something to hide". If you weren't on their radar before being seen in it, you almost certainly are afterwards.

That type of behavior can also trouble you in unrelated matters. EG, evidence of you wearing that to foil security cameras could be circumstantially presented to make you appear deceptive or conniving.

tldr; don't do anything to stand out if privacy is your goal.