skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Totally agree. While they do get a few wins, I wonder what's the ROI when you take all the failures and waste of resources into account. My guesstimate is not much but like other useless government programs, it hires a lot of people so nobody dares questioning it.
This bill is linked from a prominent story on the front page of Wyden's website. It's hard to see how much easier he could have made it for you to read it. I found it in less than a minute.
It's the natural result of becoming a biped. I'm a healthy, fertile female, and the thought of having my baby grown inside a surrogate or outside of my body scares me. I don't have kids atm and may never do, but if I did I'd carry my children myself (assuming it's possible for my body to do so at the time).

I've heard all the horror stories, I've watched every video, and birth is completely terrifying-- but every mother describes it with an additional sense of gratitude. They're thankful their bodies can do it, that they have now a child they love, and also they feel so much stronger for it. There's a certain spiritual sense about going through so much pain and taking so much risk to give life to another human being. That feeling must be powerful.
It should be heavy per leaked datum fines like HIPAA. This would transform huge troves of personal data from assets to liabilities, which is what we need.
A real-world overview of developing and shipping a production-grade ÐApp
What books would you choose?
Thank you, the grandparent comment isn’t helpful and shows a lack of understanding.
Slap in the face of computerkind
No deep sh*t — blockchain/Ethereum powered applications don’t have to be complex

There’s a misconception that blockchain powered web applications (aka ÐApps) must run on some complicated, unordinary software stack. This isn’t the case. ÐApps don’t have to be complex or difficult to use. Rather, blockchain / smart contract functionality can be encapsulated into a single layer of your stack. This layer is decoupled and modular enough that you have the freedom (because of the great eco-system built around Ethereum, notably web3, MetaMask, and Infura) to integrate this layer into your stack of choice.

The future is now — a new class of applications has recently become feasible. No need to license expensive software and/or database(s) to build mission-critical, robust, and secure applications. A small team can ship this class of application on a tight budget and timeline. Both you (the developer/company) and your customer/user can benefit greatly from blockchain technology when applied appropriately.

Continue reading: https://medium.com/@waya.ai/a-real-world-overview-to-develop...

ÐApp: https://blockimmo.ch
> Either it's a pun on 'pert' (impossible to tell without context) or it was a typo in the original (seems more likely).

Haven't read the original, but it was probably meant to add character to the way the character speaks. Either to make fun of the character for not being able to pronounce words correctly, or to make them more pitiable, or just as a matter-of-fact detail.
Why did IBM's OS/2 project lose to Microsoft?
I don’t really buy this. If you build enough market-rate housing to satisfy demand, then the price of older, less nice, formerly for-the-wealthy housing stock will become considerably less expensive.
That's a strange statement. So as a human society who do we all hate collectively in secret but claim to love openly? My point is that the academia as a whole is not a cult but there are cults within academia.

Also that's not the only "measure" by which one can claim existence of cults within academia but it's still something you don't want in the research community. Numerous times I have heard statements like "this paper will never get past XYZ because XYZ doesn't like Thaler/Kahneman/[any behavioral researcher here]". That should never be acceptable in research that's claimed to be scientific. Yet, it's common in academia.
Thanks. Do you know of anyone using modern ML techniques to propose smarter search strategies?
Are you thinking that factories are currently employing local workers even though they could be outsourcing, that they are currently knowingly paying more than they need to, and that minimum wage increases outside the factory will tip the scales and cause them to change their minds?

I’d guess one problem with those assumptions is that you may be right about the impact diffusing. Most workers in Seattle are above the minimum wage, so the total increase in costs of a regional minimum wage increase to a factory that doesn’t employ many or any minimum wage employees is going to be marginal, if even detectable.

And if we want to take more things into account and be holistic, we also have to examine the increasing in spending power of the minimum wage workers too.

> If labor is costly, the country isn’t as competitive compared to others, so jobs are outsourced.

The US minimum wage has been declining in spending power, and is relatively low compared to many other developed countries.

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

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

In the long term, all of our outsourcing is temporary anyway. The economies of the places we’re outsourcing to, like China and India, experience more growth and prices increase the more we outsource. The discrepancy between costs there and costs here is shrinking, and eventually when labor costs catch up, the overseas transportation costs, extra management and quality control costs, turnaround times, time zone offsets and communication and language difficulties, will make outsourcing more expensive than local sourcing. It might take some time, but ultimately outsourcing won’t be much of an economic threat.
Lessons I learned from training with special forces that I use in software dev
I'm still affected by this. We checked our build of the Linux kernel into our version control server. A couple of legacy drivers have files named aux.h, which now screws up any Windows user that tries to check out that branch.
For those not familiar with CP/M and Gary Kildall's pioneering role in PC history, this Youtube video is educational:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVqBokd3l2E
My experience in the military was: Momentum, or as we called it in the Army “violence of action”. We may make a mess of everything we (the government) touch but we’re big and we still move really fast (comparatively). I saw first hand how many nations militaries (I assume their intelligence services are similar) are way more fucked up and incapable of moving to action. It’s not that we’re so good, it’s just that we have a, relative, bias for action. In battle at least, momentum makes up for a lot, including terrible plans.
Should We Stop Listening to Podcasts?
How come this is called a privacy sensitive aplication while this is happening "and it has anonymous metrics in. Stable versions are going to ask in the onboarding if you want to join the anonymous metrics program (like Firefox)." ?

The dev should be upfront about it even when the prerelease versions are being used.

Tell us what those "anonymous metrics" are for instance.

Is the communication between nodes encrypted or transported over SSL?
Sorry, I haven't heard of anyone doing something like that. What do you have in mind?
You'd have to modify and recompile the old programs, which may not be possible.
What were these communication channels the CIA was using that was being indexed by Google? Some public forum or something?
Why don't you just pass different pipes for stdout and stderr? Then you can treat the two differently, you can do whatever tricks you want to prevent interleaving, you don't have to inject anything...
> The question is, why did they need an informal communication channel? What made this easy, and why was using a correct channel considered too difficult?

My understanding is that this channel was used for "un-vetted" sources, which I take to mean sources the CIA didn't yet fully trust with their main communications systems. I'm sure they're constantly approached by double-agents looking for information about how they communicate with their sources, so they need more "throwaway" systems for people who potentially could be double agents to use.

The original reporting is better than this Register summary: https://www.yahoo.com/news/cias-communications-suffered-cata.... I think Ars Technica had a better summary: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/11/how-did-iran-fin....
'Good guys' in superhero films more violent than villains
Try to have a debate in any moderately left forum about topics like feminism or economics without having some people come out of the woodwork with character assassination and insults, disregarding your opinion as a priviliged cis white male. It's a real thing and it's ridiculous. I get told all the time I'm not allowed to participate in conversations based on my sex, sexual orientation, and skin color.
This reiterated a lot of my own personal feelings these days. The irony of Apple 1984 ad, the challenge of actually "owning" technology these days, so on... all right on point.

For me personally the issue is more of a hardware issue (firmware too) though, I'll be pretty happy just getting bare metal Linux (or something I can modify myself) running on my phones and laptops.

As for the issue of accounts and lock in, I believe this is where the government could actually do citizens a service, but will require careful thought... so we might be better off waiting on that for a while :/
This. Leaving databases exposed to the net. Leaving S3 buckets open to the public.

All of these sorts of things needs to carry punishments not for the people who are told to set the stuff up.

It needs punishment for the management who doesnt allow time to set things up properly
"I'm not sure what you disagree with."

I disagree with the usual notion that the problem of planning is somehow (algorithmically) difficult, once you know the objective function.

Instead, I argue there is a tradeoff in the objective function, which is hard to estimate in theory without experimentation. This experimentation goes against the goal of efficiency (you need redundancy).

So even if you knew all the demands of all the consumers, and could calculate what to produce (which e.g. von Mises argues is impossible), I argue you would still have a problem with central planning, because the resulting optimal plan would not be robust enough to execute. I also don't think the former is a big issue with computers, to be honest. There are examples of top-down logistical planning operations in the world which are comparable to an economy of a small country.

"Do you have any evidence that this is a universal statement?"

Well, in optimization problems, usually as you get closer to the possible optimum, the number of acceptable solutions decreases. So the closer the solution to the optimum, the less leeway there is to adapt the solution to some unforeseen circumstances.

Addendum: I think many economists try to paint free market as being efficient, and that's why they argue the optimization problem is impossible to solve. However, I don't think free markets actually are efficient, but rather, make a different trade-off, which works better in practice (it also has downsides).
> around four to five mbps

Or, my only non-satellite option in rural Colorado.
> SELECT * WHERE CIA FROM EMBASSY_EMPLOYEES

Although I personally don't find this type of humour funny
I can understand why beginners use it. However, if you are going to use it, please make an effort and get it right. In your attempt to showing off, you're just showing you don't know basic SQL.
> I strongly suspect the only people criminally prosecuted under such a bill will be patsies

The only people that can be prosecuted under it are the chief executive officer, the chief privacy officer, and the chief information security officer.

The thing that is criminal under this bill and thus can subject them to prosecution is, despite what most news stories imply, not violating privacy.

The bill requires the company to file an annual privacy report with the FTC. The aforementioned three offices are required to provide a written certification to accompany that filing certifying that the report follows the rules of the bill.

The crime is certifying a report that they know does not follow the rules.

Draft text of bill: https://www.wyden.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Wyden%20Privacy%2...
Please send to bugreport.apple.com
The closer the company, the more likely the local ecosystem will adopt its solutions over competitors from afar. Customers get better access to top hackers and top management, and the network of users can reach critical mass and influence others: why choose GTK when everyone that could help you in Oslo knows Qt so well? And the same, vice-versa, in other places.

It’s one of the reason the SF / Portland / NY / Boston / Berlin / London clusters are so valuable for companies of all sorts: the network effects are real.

This was even more critical back then, 20 years ago: the internet was in its infancy (and slow), and flying was much more expensive than it is today.
https://sci-hub.tw/10.1038/s41550-018-0583-0
It might be both! Also it might be location. A bit remote here (Welsh borders), another reason I'm relocating.
Well, strictly speaking not a bug. Its by design. :)
Interesting... I would prefer my doctors have all the required data to make informed choices.

Create a motivating factor for them to delete my records and you impact this.
This implies that the critism was honest.

(Disclaimer, haven't read the article)
I will be studying all day, thank you =)

http://thedemoat50.org < anyone else going?
Bit of a mis-leading headline considering the article states:
"After a double agent showed Iran's government one of the sites, they were then able to use Google to identify other sites the intel agency was using and began to intercept communications."
FYI sometime's its not the company itself (I have no idea with Uber) but rather a third party's ineptitude. I just had a series of phone interviews scheduled with candidates through an external vendor and multiple times they forgot to provide the candidate's contact information before the interview. I'm sure that's not what they told the candidate when I wasn't able to call them.
Given that truly decentralized mass-market application/data hosting is not on the immediate horizon, the Sandstorm model is IMO really the best answer to how the average person can control their data. It brings the security and permissions model of mobile apps to the server side and makes it about a safe/hassle free to host web apps as it is to obtain and install mobile apps.

In return it places some restrictions on how developers build apps, which unfortunately means that it can't take advantage of all of the existing open source apps out there without extra work. But hopefully as people start to prioritize having control over their data, the app ecosystem will pick up steam.
Clean version at Outline.com;

https://outline.com/cmMBJX
I thought the dots didn’t make a difference for gmail

You should be able to receive emails at last.nam.e.fir.stn.ame@gmail.com too

Try it
> A huge jump? Versus the tsar regime, probably - it was a catastrophe in itself. But compared to the Western world, GDP growth was miserable and clearly behind all "modern" countries in comparison.

I'm curious, how useful is a GDP measurement in a "communist" country where there are no monetary transactions to obtain the most important human needs -- housing, education, daycare, leisure, vacations, etc?
Most housing construction is done largely by unskilled / semi-skilled workers with a few skilled tradesmen to supervise and do the complicated parts.
And this is eight years after the largest HIPAA violation ever (at the time) at NY Presbyterian suffered because a physician programmer was allowed to take down a firewall and Google started indexing patient records.
https://www.businessinsider.com/new-york-presbyterian-columb...
Indeed that was intended as a provocation to further thought
I also thought this is what they meant. It sounds like someone was trying to ask something from a behavioral question bank and just didn't have the wording memorized well enough.
Off Topic: Astronaut, "Well, what i see, has two poles, an electrified 'face'... and...sure a mass smiles" (Kardashev scale) (-;
>So why did it last so long? What did it offer that the more official channels did not? What kept the agency from developing technology that might have allowed better protected communication channels that might have also been easy to use?

It hadn't been broken, so why bother? Sure one of our employees is telling us that it's dangerously insecure, but if its so bad why hasn't it been compromised?
> That makes very little sense for software jobs, where it's the workers that are scarce.

The thing that is not scarce from the recruiters' view is applicants or maybe even resumes. This is because anyone looking for a job can easily, due to the magic of the internet, apply at dozens or even hundreds of jobs. And applicants don't even have to apply for jobs any more. If you're on LinkedIn, they can come looking for you, and again, due to the magic of the internet, there are plenty of possible people to consider for a job.

So instead of artificial scarcity we have artificial abundance.

This problem seems to be analogous to the online dating problem. Technology has made one part of the problem far too easy and this causes big problems in other parts of the pipeline.
> "... to replace the dying batch, ..."

> I would speculate that longer lifespans may well have a lot to do with at least some of the shifts.

Longer lifespan only indirectly implies higher retirement age.
My understanding is that official cover is more a matter of politeness than secrecy. An embassy employee is obviously a foreign agent in some capacity. The real game is preventing the host country from discovering links between official-cover and non-official-cover agents, since the latter group’s affiliation is actually secret.
I'm not sure what you're getting at, but from my understanding ball lightning floats. What I saw wasn't floating. It was moving with force and propulsion. Plus it was a very clear day with no weather disturbance of any kind.

And what I have to show for it is a personal account from myself at 15 and two other members of my family. In retrospect, I went half-way to my parents room to grab the camera but ran back fearing I would miss it entirely. I'm glad, because I'm sure I would have missed it had I looked for the camera. And this phenomenon seems ubiquitous enough that I'm sure there is plenty of footage depicting the exact same thing at least in the private archive. I'm actually pretty disappointed because the footage in the public sphere is much more mild then what I saw. This object wasn't stationary, it was a white ball that moved like a zigzagging rocket; though it didn't look at all like it was out of control. It seemed to move very purposefully.
You could be right about that. I'm not really here to defend Alex Jones' position. I honestly don't know enough about the dude and what he wants. However I will defend his right to a platform as long as he is operating within legal bounds.

Right now we are having a national conversation about the right of an ISP to hold a monopoly over its customers. We don't think it's fair that the only worthwhile ISP in an area can charge tiered amounts for different levels of internet access.

The same conversation is just beginning with regard to platform rights. It's one thing to secure your right to connect to the internet. But we need to secure the right for people to connect to you.
Financial Freedom for Health and Fitness Professionals Review, Work or a Scam?
Your argument makes sense. I wonder what the carrying capacity for California is. The once excellent drinking water in San Francisco is now foul as the pristine Hetch Hetchy source is diluted with ground water to compensate for diversion to neighboring towns.
>Sounds like a form of discrimination

Yes, it is, because no one wants to work with jerks and weirdos. It is jerk and weirdo discrimination, which is fine.
No it’s not. People should be jailed for messing with other people’s lives. Don’t gather data if you can’t protect it.
Stopped reading at:

>In certain cases, Russians were very well-incentivized by things like “We will kill you unless you meet the production target”.

Come on. Outside of POWs during the war (and that's not what were talking about) no factory workers are getting dragged out back and shot. The story of collectivization on farms is more complicated but it still didn't involve on the spot murder.

It's like people watched that movie where the Russians are at stalingrad, and the commisar gives every two men a rifle and shouts "first man shoots the rifle, if the first man dies, the second man picks up and shoots the rifle." -- And then everyone collectively thought "oh, not only is this true but this absolves me of any responsibility to actually learn about the USSR."

Read some books, talk to some older Russians. There was some extremely dark times in the history of the USSR. But for a lot of it's history, it was just a normal western-ish country. It wasn't like war time Nazi Germany 24/7. You weren't getting shot for not making enough hinges one day.
It has nothing to do with technical debt or typing but that input data could violate assumptions of the algorithm.

Duck typing and Python large ecosystem does tend to exacerbate that though
I would argue that most scientists in general pursue their field of study in the pursuit of sexy knowledge itself. If there's no wonder to motivate, what are people working towards?

I also would like to argue that it doesn't have to "garner attention rapidly on a large scale" to be recognized by the masses, but rather just spark their imaginations in general.
Fine, 'scuse my imprecision: it's JIT interpreted.

The point is that you can do bottom-up programming at the command line (a.k.a. the "listener" in Prolog).
I will add that zoning is the first thing that needs to go in San Fransisco.One of the most liberal cities in United States is not so liberal when it comes to housing.Why? Because it affects their bottom line.

Did you know that it is illegal to build apartments in over 73% of San Francisco neighborhoods?[0]

That's why I don't support this ideal of tax proposition to cater for homeless as it is being introduced. The proponents are just chasing shadow while leaving the substance.
Instead I suggest proposition to dismantle zoning as the first step in the right direction.

[0]https://sfzoning.deapthoughts.com/
Some thought or past experience has gone into that I'd say. Using the two boots in series to give a longer pull is pretty clever.
Being at work doesn't preclude bullying, harassment, assault, etc.
How many heavy web apps that would need it actually run on an iOS device?
Bill Gates: 'Why the %$#$% you need to use 64K of Ram?'
I mean you could just get the data from the client that the lookup needs and then send that data to your server for your server to do the lookup and then return the result to the client

but maybe it’s a static site
Sadly, not even supported anymore.
> whatever tricks you want to prevent interleaving

What tricks do you suggest to prevent interleaving? It's not clear it's possible at all.
The vast majority of homeless in California lived here before they became homeless.