skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or they think it's an acceptable risk... $50 liability limit.
That sounds amazing. Love me t
roasties. Amazing in duck fat too.
Same as for the other fishing ports.

Fish in Whitby should be fresh off the boat. There may not be as many trawlers as in the past, but enough to get good fish.
It's not news that the Saudis are bad
I think the difference is that the Honeypot in the OP runs in an ESP8266; a small, single core chip that can be had for under $5.
The answer is that no, that request should not be filled, and certainly not in that way.

From a FOI POV, email is tough because it straddles a line between “record”, deliberative material and conversation. Everyone hates sharing email because it is always trouble.

In this case, they didn’t have a good process in place and nobody did a privilege or other review. The hint there is the police material — most police records are trivially made exempt from foi in most places.

But to your point, there are many categories of communication with government where there is literally no expectation of privacy. If you email the zoning board something, you should fully expect to see the entire email in a public record somewhere.
Next year maybe post it in the week before and with a direct link to the repair week (2019) instead of the more general repaircafe.org

It seems there is growing sentiment for keeping hardware repairable (while manufacturers more and more want to prevent that). Part of HN will certainly appreciate this initiative.
I'm not sure which studies have you so convinced that one overly simplistic thing can "solve" homelessness. This paper from 1991 does a great job of laying out the dozens of different factors which make homelessness such a complex and challenging issue to address: https://scholarship.law.umn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=...

A lack of affordable housing compounds the challenge, but to say housing is the only solution when it isn't even a good partial solution misses the entire problem.
FTA:

>Seattle's first response included a bit of gobsmackery that I’ve almost become used to

Brit here. I'm always amused that 'gobsmack' and its derived words are still used these days, more so across the Atlantic.

Roughly translated: lost for words, typically for a short time.
I was kind of surprised and a little disappointed when I got a router with IPS monitoring and 9 months on there hasn't been a blip in the logs.
Side note: it really pisses me off that Google picks language and tool names that have really poor SEO and are often names for existing CS concepts. Go and Dart have terrible SEO, and Chrome and Closure already mean something in their fields.

Drives me nuts.
McKinsey's official response here: https://twitter.com/McKinsey/status/1053838356826808320

If it was an internal report, how did it get into the hands of the government?
Take notes. That forces you to process what they are saying instead of thinking about your response. You’ll have plenty of time to talk when they stop.
How Python Was Shaped by Leaky Internals [video]
I'll have to visit my hometown. Apparently there's now a chippy that does just that. Choice of cod, haddock and plaice if I recall. Some old friends rave about it.
Might it be Google Maps has the added feature of all your search history, your (real time) location and all those other privacy-sensitive data?
I'm not an expert but I've read/seen here and there that even the whole "modernization" thing is overblown. The "women can drive!" thing was mostly for show, and is barely applied in practice.

It seems to even be the opposite : while former rulers were sharing power with their counselors, MBS looks like he wants to rule alone and unopposed.
How Monsanto Went After World Health Organization Glyphosate
I'll keep that in mind! That's obviously where I've been going wrong.

Ah I fancy a chippy now.
Personally, I regard the reflective and introspective capabilities of Emacs as extremely powerful tools for learning more about Elisp and the entire environment.

For example, every time you press a key (or key sequence) that results in any action, Emacs internally invokes a function (most of them written in Elisp, some of them in C) that achieves this action. So, when you want to automate a task and have a rough idea how to achieve it by pressing key sequences, you can inspect their associated functions and their source code, and study how they are called and even how they do it.

As a quick start, you can—using Emacs itself!—display a list of all functions that are bound to any key sequence. To get this, simply press:

C-h b

This gives a good first indication of which functions are important for editing, because functions that are very frequently needed are typically available via a predefined key sequence.

But then, your next question may be: What did C-h b actually do? That is, which function did this actually invoke? Of course, one straight-forward way is to simply search for "C-h b" in the buffer that shows all these key bindings, because you know it must appear there. Another way is to use C-h k C-h b.

But then, what did C-h k actually do?

To find out, we apply C-h k to its own key binding:

C-h k C-h k

and from this, you see that C-h k internally invokes the Elisp function "describe-key".

At this point, it is essential that you also have the (Elisp) source code installed. If you have it, then you can simply browse the Elisp definition of describe-key, and see how it achieves its task.

The same goes for every other function you may be interested in: You can browse its definition, copy it (for example) into the scratch buffer, change it, evaluate it and run it. You will find that not much is needed to get started with Elisp, because many tasks can simply be written as a sequence of standard commands of which C-h b provides a good first overview. You can also press C-h l to get a list of the last few input keystrokes and the invoked commands.

In addition to that, to automate simple tasks in Elisp, you often only need a few simple commands that let you fetch text from any position in the buffer and to insert it (see for example the functions buffer-substring-no-properties and insert), the ability to launch external processes (the "Processes" chapter in the Elisp info documentation is great) and a way to perform editing operations in a temporary buffer (see with-temp-buffer). To find out more about these functions, simply use C-h f.

And, of course, you can simply use C-h k C-h f to see what C-h f does!

One essential point: To make Emacs keybindings more convenient, I recommend to turn Caps Lock into an additional Ctrl key.
Haha can tell you're northern. Shared appreciation for chippy tea. Chips rice and curry. Ah I'm hungry.
At least with the CIA, arguably, the intentions were good. There are success stories, too - Japan, West Germany, South Korea.

As far as I am aware, the Saudi establishment is only out for themselves.
I did wrote a text here with a link to the video, I don't know where it went.
United States used to at least credibly pretend that it cared about human rights. It is squandering its superpower soft power that it used to use to influence the world towards democratic ideals. I blame the Democratic party neoliberals for buying into the free market religious myth that capitalism will magically fix dictatorships.
Not surprising, the concept in itself is gross. As far as I understand, french fries are horribly unhealthy to begin with, and they're topping it up with fried fish. Why not sprinkle it with sugar that's been soaking in oil overnight, don't just stop there, come on!

I understand this article conveys the historical aspect of the dish, which I respect.
Commercial organizations at least are known to implement maximum allowed retention strategies, such as having their staff not keep archived email beyond three months, presumably so it doesn't embarrassingly show up when it's legally unfavorable. Not quite the same, but along the same lines.
Counterpoint: Emacs lisp is effective because it’s in Emacs. Within the editor space, Elisp is an absolute star, since the nearest competitor is vimscript...

As a stand-alone language it’s pretty weak, even compared to other lisps. Default dynamic scoping comes to mind.
You don't suck. You are doing good by them by staying out of the way. Most people are not children and don't need scheduled pampering after initially. There are other ways of making oneself available which is all that is needed. The other people here who have endless meetings are doing nothing but looking out for themselves (see example where they don't want their reports to leave, therefore must keep tabs on their feelings for themselves). Can't blame them but let's also not kid ourselves that that is being a "good manager" for reports.
Seems like it only works with http redirects, not meta refresh or js redirects.
Assuming the authors version of events to be true, I think he was being as reasonable as possible when confronted with obvious incompetence and hostility from public servants. This probably happens a lot in the world of FOIA.

I do want to recognize that not all local governments behave the way described. When I was recently called for jury duty, I discovered a vulnerability in the city's jury duty online portal that would've let anyone get the PII of anyone ever called for jury duty via that system. I immediately called the county IT department, and they took me very seriously and thanked me for the report. They later emailed me back to tell me they worked with the vendor to close the vulnerability. I was extremely impressed with their professionalism and wish that all local governments could be so responsive.
I'm not sure I could disagree with you more. At least in the US there is a very strong expectation that communications between governmental employees is non-private except in very special circumstances. You'll note Matt says that the Police and Human Services departments have not responded, I'd guess thats not an accident because police records and personnel/medical records are largely exempt from FOIA requests.

Further, the idea that sleuths (amateur seems pejorative in this case) are working with city governments to battle corruption does not hold up to Matt's (or other journalists) experience. By and large the governments only provide the data because they are required to, and we have made sure they are required to by representative legislative action.

Had the IT dept. in Seattle not made an obvious mistake this would likely have not been a story at all and the data would have been an interesting data set for informed democratic functions.
That's because Google knows where you live.
Search is never easy and Google has raised the bars in a lot of small ways so high that you have to be a search company to match the level. Apple is not a search company, it's not in their DNA as they say. Look at App Store search (and recommendations) for example, or the same Maps.

Similarly Google can't build hardware products and good UIs. Sure they can copy and be moderately successful, but they never matched Apple in terms of knowing how to build gadgets as art/fashion items, and not just gadgets. Again, it's just not in the company's DNA.

Wish there was a company with all that in one package... but no, nothing on the horizon yet.
seems like a suspiciously specific denial to me.
In one sense it is a big deal - we don't want precedent that it's okay to kill your citizens in other countries (cf Skripal), but you're right that in another sense this seems to be how the world has always worked. I remember when Obama killed a US citizen overseas in a targeted airstrike (al-Awlaki) I was pretty upset about that and worried about the precedent it would set but it didn't catch on in the same way. Obviously "journalist" is more sympathetic than "accused terrorist" but the principle is the same, to me.
While I mostly agree that Elisp is fairly weak compared to other lisps, I should point out that it does support lexical scoping (and that is the recommend usage)
Cloud Computing Security Issues and How to Meet Them Head On
Interesting survey but it doesn't really separate cause and effect - you could be rubbish on a treadmill because you are ill rather than via versa.
Since it sounds like you might be a new tech manager, you should sign up for the Rands in Repose Leadership Slack channel [1]. There's a ton of sub-groups, with 1-on-1s being one of them with tons of great advice. There's channels for every other sub-domain of technical leadership you can think of, like interviewing, compensation, performance management, culture, etc..

[1] http://randsinrepose.com/welcome-to-rands-leadership-slack/
It's not offline, but the Microsoft Seeing AI app for iOS uses ML to cover a lot of basic use cases like recognizing text, products, currency, describing scenes, etc: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/seeing-ai
Two real possibilities.

First, a lot of companies in the US loved to deal with Saudi money, and are now shocked to discover that the Saudi’s are up to some shady shit.

Second, there are rumors that the Saudi government has either planted or groomed moles at tech companies for the express purpose of identifying dissidents. There was some talk about there being one on Twitter with access to user IP addresses, but I’m not sure if that’s been substantiated.
One Saturday morning Apple Maps displayed a message on my locked phone’s display saying something like: “You’re XXX meters away from [coffee place]”, where [coffee place] is the location where I usually drink my coffees (especially during the weekend) and where I have never checked-in at or searched online. Meaning Apple is as privacy intrusive as Google and FB, but apparently they’rs still lagging in location search.
His strips don't seem to contain much politics, though?
Apple also knows where I live and where I drink my morning coffee (pls sea the other comment I made reguarding this).
Geth isn't the only software out there..
I had never heard of this before, this sounds crazy impressive.
Just a few years ago there was nothing really useable, everything still had their bugs and there were no guides to making a compositor or shell plug-in. This seems to have changed. Finally!

The dream of Wayland ("soon!") has been out for many years, but it seems to finally become real.
What definition? The presentation of results (and opinions) can certainly be one-sided and opinionated. There are zillions of super-famous, oft-quoted, endlessly referenced papers, essays, articles, you name it that are one-sided and opinionated. That's a really silly criticism.
Perhaps. Or, here's a counterpoint. After a month or two they all learned that they should humor your weekly make-work for them by spending extra time to "come prepared" and "fill the meeting".
They kept it with the bone saws.. /s

Technically, it is of course possible that they where infiltrated/hacked whatever. But it might as well be that they do do business with the saudi's and gave them access to this 'internal report'. I mean, why else would you have a report on the top three critics of a regime?
In practice, the bad guys are not getting credit card numbers by monitoring unencrypted plain text email connections. They're doing it by getting the information in bulk straight out of databases at the destination (either by hacking or by getting unscrupulous employees to sell them data dumps). My opinion is that the risk factor in sending a CC number over email is much smaller than the risk of giving it to the destination organisation in the first place. And even if you do get unlucky, as a consumer you don't usually end up out of pocket for fraudulent transactions on your card.
I've been a volunteer for a couple of years now. It's so rare to get the ping for volunteers (maybe once every few months?) and you really have to be very quick to accept the call before another volunteer does, but when you're able to connect and help it's such an rush of joy. The project such a simple, elegant application of smartphones and real-time crowdsourcing.
You can disable that in the privacy settings on your iPhone though, and that data never leaves your iPhone according to Apple. Google doesn't make the same promise.
Why are you so eager to buy into the modernization narrative? Killing an innocent journalist is not very modernizing, and I can't pretend to believe even for a second that MBS didn't know about this.

It's clearly only for PR so they can make more money and continue to commit atrocities. There won't be real progress.

When I hear "anti-corruption purge" I think "get rid of my political enemies".
Compared to heating oil, which is the other viable option in the Northeast US, natural gas is cheaper, generally more efficient, and largely idiot-proof. With heating oil, a big, very common problem is people not scheduling deliveries appropriately, so the tank runs dry, and sucks up sludge that has settled to the bottom, and then you have to do expensive maintenance to clean the system, bleed the lines, etc. Worse, if you lose heat in a cold snap in February or March, you have to worry about water pipes freezing up and bursting, which cause even more damage. Piped in natural gas is always on.
This could have been an extremely valuable dataset for the legal community. The Enron data is currently guiding much of our machine learning validation, simply because it's available.
I'm certain multiple mice is (or at least, was) supported on Windows, i remember some of Reflexive Entertainment's games from around mid-2000s having what they called "Mouse Party" which was basically a local multiplayer mode with multiple mice connected to the same PC (their games were casual indie games with simple control schemes that often supported something like that).

In theory multiple mice and keyboards are possible on X too since late 80s/90s, at least assuming the XInput extension is available on the server since the core events do not provide any way to differentiate between devices. But like everything with X, the feature might be there, but it is up to the clients to actually use it and use it properly (which isn't always the case and a lot of "X cannot do <thing>" you hear really means "due to the way we use X, we cannot do <thing>"). And even if the feature is there, if it is a niche case, it may be so buggy that it isn't practically usable (of course this applies to almost every open source project that is older than a couple of years, especially those that are big and have a small number of contributors).

An example of this would be multiple focused windows (one per keyboard) - despite XInput allowing for such a thing, i doubt many window managers and toolkits would be able to handle it (and to be frank, neither does my own toolkit and most likely will never have support for it - it is so niche of a feature, it isn't worth the time and increase in complexity and potential future maintenance).

No idea about macOS.
De-escalation? Sure.

Allow a third-party forensics company hired and beholden to a presumed-hostile counterparty unfettered access to your hard drives because of their own lack of care or incompetence? Hell no!
Apple keeps location logs, but AFAIK they never leave your device. These suggestions are made locally.
I'm not sure anyone could be shocked at what happens in Saudi Arabia, their dealings have been well known for ages by Amnesty International, US Dept of State etc.

I think a more plausible explanation is your first point that they love Saudi money and they can ignore the human rights abuses as long as they stay suitably low-key and rumour-based. As soon as they go onto the worldwide news, these same people suddenly feign ignorance and walk slowly backwards from their deals.
We use 15five for pre 1:1 input / status updates. It pretty much asks employees the questions you are talking about. I reviews these before our 1:1 so we don’t need to talk status and I can jump right into the blockers and questions. The remaining time we talk about growth, vision, set improvement, philosophies, etc.
They've been violently suppressing religious groups for years, so it's not like that is a hypothetical scenario, rather close to being the status quo.

Is it fair that the murder of just one columnist gets this sort of attention?
Windows Remote Desktop is essentially a perfect remote desktop experience. Being able to walk away from my desktop, login remotely and get fast, properly scaled desktops, and then walk back to that machine and log back in to the same environment is something that can't be efficiently replicated on Linux with X, as far as I know.

Like, you can get "near" the concept - but definitely not there.
I truly believe every word that I post here. How can that be trolling?

(Or are you using "trollish" as a shorthand for "things that disagree with the virtues that SV claims to espouse"?)
sorry to hear that,
I did the last 4-5 ubuntu updates on a dual boot (win + ununtu) box, and it went smooth most of the time. but it takes about an hour. if apt finished it always rebooted. (nvidia drivers requres some manual work initially, but it was basically setting up the right repository and installing newer packages from time to time)

and on servers (20+ VMs and a few hypervisors, some LTS some not) I had even fewer problems. for me things got especially smooth sailing after ubuntu switched to systemd.
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Eterrnal sunshine of a ‘selfless’ mind
Very exited. Will install this on a Void VM and try it out.
Private / Group Messaging System Version 7.0
Will Flutter end up supplanting React Native?
React Native very much took things by storm when it came out and as it gained popularity very much supplanting previously leading hybrid mobile development solutions like Phonegap, Ionic, Xamarin, etc. It is currently the top cross platform development option but not everything seems to be going smoothly for it. As of late it would seem that there is a shift going on towards Google's Flutter and even previously big React Native backers like Airbnb and Udacity have turned their back on React Native opting instead to go with native solutions while others deciding to go with Flutter (For example: https://medium.com/reflectly-engineering/reflectly-from-react-native-to-flutter-2e3dffced2ea)

The React Native development team seems to have planned a re-architecture of it as an answer to the issues these groups have found and which lead them to turn away from it.

One big pain point for React Native seems to be the so called "dependency hell", where every project has to rely on a plethora of third party npm dependencies which constantly break even with the smallest updates. The whole tooling and setup of the framework seems very fragile and as a result developers are constantly having to spend time "fixing" stuff to get their projects working. Several posts in the React Native subreddit have expressed frustration over these issues. From what I gather Flutter does not suffers from this particular problem and it's setup/tooling is rather painless. And in term of app performance Flutter appears to do better as it doesn't relies on a javascript bridge like React Native does (which seems to be the reason for slow performance at times).

Could all these be signs that it is the beginning of the end (so to speak) for React Native as the "latest and greatest" and could Flutter end up supplanting it as the framework of choice to develop for both platforms?
Bain and McKinsey have been implicated in enabling the massive looting of state resources unde former President Jacob Zuma in South Africa. These consultancies aren’t covering themselves with glory.
https://martinfowler.com/articles/lmax.html

Yes, yes it can.