skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've had better success talking about hackers and foreign agents. Which are also a real threat. But if people are quoting Goebbels they probably don't think an evil person that would use these tools would rise to power. But when explaining how foreign governments and hackers can use the same tools (because NOTHING is unhackable), people get worried.

A simple example: recently there was the article about the DEA and ICE putting cameras in streetlights [0]. It is easy for the common person to understand how such a thing could be hacked and used to stalk someone. But the examples you use should target your audience and illustrate why they personally should be concerned. Because talking about turnkey tyranny is fairly abstract to most people.

[0] https://qz.com/1458475/the-dea-and-ice-are-hiding-surveillan...
The Shinkansen Story [video]
Various Czech websites, that do name squatting. (They create a web page with your name so that people searching for you get to their website loaded with ads). Some czech and EU based websites collecting information on "enterpreneurs" like infobel.com.

Every single one responded positively, or at least semi-positively. It's good to remember that there's requirement to accept GDPR requests delivered in any form. So for example infobel had a non-working contact form, and no e-mail contact on the website. So I just sent an e-mail to info@infobel.com and they had to respond, even if it looks like from their website you have to use website conctact/removal request form. The same goes for Facebook messages, or twitter DMs if the company has these communication channels.
> ETCH THE IMAGE

> Download the BerryLan flavoured Raspbian image and flash the SD Card. We recommend Etcher to do that.

I’m curious. Why would anyone recommend people download and run a multi-100mb electron app instead of just using dd?

Especially for projects like this aimed at medium technical people.
Two candidates for a position in the academia are not evaluated in terms of historical bias, they are evaluated looking at their CV, track record, publications, etc...

That’s meritocracy. And there’s no place for this “historical biases” in the decision making process in the academia. At least not in science.
How do you estimate the "consumption" of clean water and air? How much of the non extraction economy relies on the extraction happening?

I cant imagine how to estimate those numbers, but I do imagine they'd be significant.
That heat map of Boston is amusing to look at. All of Brookline and the single family homes of West Cambridge are bright red.
> What evidence is there for rising sea levels?

Google "evidence for rising sea levels". Do your own homework. It's reasonable to ask for sources for new or little-known claims; if you've somehow missed decades of well-established science, that's on you.

> Needs source: If humans can find ways to survive in antarctica, submarines, and outer space I doubt this true.

So it's no big deal to just build air-conditioned arcologies to house two billion-plus people? In some of the poorest places on Earth?

You're not being serious; this is knee-jerk contrarianism. Let us know if you want to discuss this in good faith.
That's quite unexpected. Thanks.
Ads are impossible to avoid when you have no control over your device. A rooted Android phone can easily block native ads.
Sunrise Commander is my favorite
https://github.com/escherdragon/sunrise-commander
When we're isolated and not shown the schematic of how money is distributed, incoming and outgoing - and it's planned complexity like planned obsolescence, a subtle yet powerful design - it is a purposeful state of chaos/confusion created that leads to something similar to, if not the same, as decision fatigue (and in most cases this would require a lot of individual research to understand the underlying structures); you either don't understand and buy into it out of necessity (you need a place to live, you need education), and you either can afford it or not (loan), or you don't understand and don't buy into it because you don't understand or can't afford it - but then you can't move forward in life, at least not in as comforting as a way the path that "everyone" is seemingly following, or at least that indoctrinated systems and structured paths, industrial complexes, and marketing/advertising tells us "everyone" is doing and are important to do/solves a problem for us.

Society needs to decide that we want transparency, accountability/accounting, and I believe we need to focus on promoting a unit cost structure, so people can see the full relative cost; what are the different models, what ecosystems/cities are using which model, and how can I "vote" for that system model by spending/buying into the model that I want to be perpetuated?
Theranos is exactly what I thought of as soon as I saw this.

They’re not claiming to do it with only a “nano-tainer“ of blood, or to do a bunch of the level sensing things (cholesterol, blood sugar, PSA, etc) that Theranos promised. It’s also not as small as a package of reagents.

But it looks like this works the way Theranos CLAIMED their tech worked, only in single use form without the machine to do some of the work for you.

Comparisons are 100% inevitable.
Is anyone else reminded of that SpongeBob episode where Squidward leaves to be free of leaf blowers?
In this context, "is this legal" refers to what actions with a key you know are permissible, depending on how you obtained that key. There may be things that you are physically able to do with it but are legally not allowed to, just as there may things you would be legally allowed to do, but may lack the capacity (if, for example, you've forgotten some passphrase). Control and ownership are two very different things in this regard.

Bitcoin users generally accept that if they lose sole access to their keys, they lose sole control of their funds, but not ownership.

For example, if I (for whatever reason) put a private key on a sheet of paper on my desk, and somebody sees that key, then I have lost effective control of that cryptocurrency, but not ownership; if that person would use that knowledge to deprive me of that currency, I would be entitled to have the court send angry armed men to extract compensation for that. It's quite comparable to the scenario where I have gold coins on my desk, and someone manages to take them - they have gained control of the coins, the physical reality enforces a rule where whoever holds the coins can hand them to others in exchange for goods and services (just as mathematical reality enforces a rule where whoever knows the private key can authorize Bitcoin transactions), but gaining control does not necessarily imply gaining ownership. Just as if a rich man gives their accountant the access codes to their electronic banking, and the keys to their safe, it does not mean that the accountant is legally free to do whatever they want with that money (even in the absence of a specific contract) - they have been given control, but not the ownership.

And, of course, simply using Bitcoin does not constitute opting out of the common property rights. You could opt out by a specific contract, but simply being aware "that if they lose sole access to their keys, they lose sole access to their funds" does not mean waiving your legal rights for redress if your funds get taken (though it might be difficult to find the culprit), just as being aware of all the risks involved by drunkenly waving around a bag with gold coins in a seedy alley does not mean waiving your rights for redress if these coins get taken.
Most of the OS is proprietary, you can't say it isn't uploaded.
Lebanese Government
Let me tell you what I am facing because of my nationality.
So as everyday I'm going to work, there is a checkpoint for military police, and it is a restricted area for non Lebanese people; but I have an entry permit. The problem happened when I wanted to go to work couple of days ago, the man there told me to wait a little bit, so I stood waiting for other people to finish. Then out of nowhere, he asked: "Are you #Lebanese?", I replied that I'm #Palestinian. And here where he started yelling at me: "Palestinian and you're talking!! Go stand in the corner dumbhead!!". Finally I stood in the corner as he said and waited for the rest to finish and then I passed after he checked my permission to pass. Please let me know what should I do in such a case and thank you.
<Edit: Please ignore this post. Others made the same point earlier.>

If they align with the Democrats on social issues, but Republicans on regulatory issues, they would seem to lean Libertarian. (Right?)
Sign me up for the blower hater brigade. I can almost forgive these during leaf season. I hate them being used in place of brooms for landscaping.

A ton of noise to move a very small mass of clippings, etc, creating a cloud for 30 minutes to do a less complete job, often just blowing it all into the street without concentrating it and picking it up. Maddening.
Apple is the lesser evil when you choose between privacy and modern smartphone “amenities”. Not to speak of experience (worth every penny).

When you choose google over Apple, you never even think about the ACTUAL price you are paying. Not worth it. Think about what you are getting (giving, in case with google).
He called me out at least once, too. But the time he did, well, I pretty much deserved it...
> ...want you to spend every penny you can. Everyone benefits from higher prices except the buyer. Even if you're immune to it, there is enough pressure that the market as a whole tends toward the highest prices people can afford.

This is definitely an American cultural phenomenon. Taking on massive debt is no trivial matter, and I can't imagine people buckling to peer pressure on something that will affect them so significantly.

It's dumb, financially unsound, and irresponsible. I know for a fact that South Asian/Indian heritage will (generally) never allow themselves to financially shafted like this. (The Indian people I know are usually very shrewd, extremely careful, deliberative, and reflective when it comes to major decisions like this.)

What this sort of poor decision making and buckling to external pressure amounts to is a lack of diligence, and a serious failure to look out for your own self-interest.

Why and how this lack of self-care has become a part of American culture is puzzling/baffling to me, and is probably a good topic for sociological or anthropological study and research.

Perhaps the overflowing abundance of wealth in United States (and other similarly wealthy countries) has made people less careful and more reckless with their money? I'm reminded of an article that appeared on The Atlantic which talked about how many people love paycheck to paycheck (and have very little saved up, even for emergency expenses): https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/05/my-secr...

But as counter-examples, Germany and Japan are first-world countries where people have a habit of saving quite a lot. So this culture of poor financial decision-making (and generally poor self-care) is seeming more and more like a uniquely American thing.
The hell.js is funny as hell. Pair-programming is the worst practice I’ve seen in my life. The lyrics says so.
tldr; Thanksgiving was traditionally celebrated in the north, with "northern" food, and after it was made a national holiday by Lincoln the confederate states refused to acknowledge it.

I'm curious about Native Americans though. A lot of their culture and resistance has been lost today, but back around the birth of the holiday I can imagine them finding it offensive and being vocal about it, if not due to politics and tradition, due to the hypocrisy of it.
I wonder how the author feels about leaf vacuums like this, which is what I use: http://a.co/d/dGh7M4R

Its electric, so no fumes, and since it sucks instead of blows I don't have to worry as much about annoying passers-by with dust. Sadly it still makes noise, of course, though its far quieter than the backpack blowers the author is talking about.
Time is another dimension here, you'd have to indefinitely monitor the device to make sure there's nothing sent out. There's also the possibility of stenography and remote-activation.

> (I sure have and am glad to have a full understanding of everything going out).

That's impossible.
Let me guess... Pivotal?
This seems like it would be super useful prior to Raspbian Stretch for developers using Apple products.

Prior to stretch the wpa_supplicant.conf file needed to be modified in the main Raspbian partition which is inaccessible on the unix machine without setting up a virtual linux box and creating a vb disk image linked to the sd card. It was a bit of a pain.

With Stretch you can just add a wpa_supplicant.conf file and an empty ssh file to the boot partition which is accessible and you should be ready to go.

This still solves the pain point of there being lots of outdated headless instructions out there telling you to modify wpa_supplicant.conf in /etc/wpa_supplicant on the main partition. Would have saved me a ton of time that's for sure!

Looks nice and clean as well, design wise.
> for a large tech company in San Francisco

The company is easily identifiable just by searching for the text you quoted, so you're not really hiding which company you're working for (if that's your intention).

As to whether this kind of discrimination is legal: I'd assume a company that size has a huge legal department, and any corporate program they run has been vetted by their lawyers. So there's probably some loophole in the law that makes it legal.

By the way, offering the internship only to second-year students would be age discrimination (it effectively excludes almost everyone older than 40, who are a protected class under federal law), and offering it only to full-time college students would be discriminating against people who can't afford to attend college full-time (e.g., because they have families they need to support).
I would like to see the results of a double blind test - if we look for trauma we can find it; or create it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_memory_syndrome

From the article:

"in his 40s and 50s, he began to unravel the root cause – and that took him all the way back to Budapest, where he was born in January 1944. Two months later, [snip] “Right now,” the doctor replied, “all the Jewish babies are crying.” This is because, explains Maté, what happens to the parent happens to the child: the mothers were terrified, the babies were suffering,

Later, Maté’s mother, fearing for his survival, left him for a month in the care of a stranger. All this, he explains, gave him a lifelong sense of abandonment and loss which had an impact on his psychological health. [snip] To compensate for his buried trauma, he had buried himself in work and neglected his family."

I get that is a truth for him, but it sounds contrived as only a psychologist can do (without more context)
TalkTalk Hacking Due Jailed for 2015 Data Breach That Cost £77M
it's text, with images interspersed. it's a perfectly usable way to present information. to read it, you just keep reading - all the information is there on the page. or are you not seeing something that looks like this:

https://imgur.com/bba37wW
"you SAY that none of those Apple devices are secretly spying, but maybe that just means Apple devices are spying just that good"

Are you saying that Apple can be proven a company that can be trusted to keep user data secure?
> Indeed, large sections of the site's privacy policy were updated overnight.

So basically you get caught, so you change the rules. Companies shouldn't be able to violate their own privacy policy, or say they can change it at any time without any warning, especially retroactively - which usually these things are covered in the privacy policy. What use is that?! Why bother having a policy at all?
Let me qualify that: every single case I have personally encountered, which is on the order of a dozen, can be traced to trauma. I’m making an educated guess about the wider prevalence. Getting societal scale data is practically impossible for many reasons including privacy.
However, for those looking for some data points, I’m sure Gabor Mate’s book mentioned in the original article is full of examples. The most convincing academic references I am aware of at this time is are Dr. Bessel van der Kolk (“The Body Keeps the Score”, focused on PTSD) and Christine Courtois’s books including “Treatment of Complex Trauma“ and “Healing the Incest Wound”, both of which cite a large amount of research literature.
The parent to your comment said patients should:

“... use the free, safe, and natural solution (eating less)”

Your comment said:

“you should be incentivized to lose weight and do so”

I’m not sure where the nuance is that my paraphrasing failed to capture.

It’s not as if people don’t already have huge incentives to lose weight. Those that have not lost weight are likely unable to for complex physiological or psychological reasons. Telling people to “eat less” amounts to trolling.

If you or the parent commenter have insights on what methods of weight loss could work for people who have yet to find an effective solution, then there might be an interesting discussion. I do have some insights on this, for what it’s worth.

The parent commenter signaled that they have no such interest, hence the downvoting and the ban after their blatant troll comment downthread.
Oh please. Take your tinfoil hat off. Hell, take your tinfoil suit off.

Apple's biggest claim to fame in the last few years has been defending users' privacy. It is in their best interest to be as transparent about this as possible because any revelation that they are publicly saying X and privately doing the opposite is going to completely tank them as a company. They're not about to jeopardize their entire company by going so far as concealing tracking information in other information that is transmitted from the device. Especially while at the same time going so far as implementing many security and privacy features like FileVault, E2E encryption, and the Secure Enclave. Everything they have said and done, and analysis of the data that leaves their devices points to them not doing it.

Sure, it's theoretically possible. But it's about as far from probable as Pluto is from Earth.
There are pure python alternative implementations of these protocols and of mysql, anything pure python works well, but of course there are modest CPU costs. Then there are workarounds if you must use C libraries with blocking IO, like using a pool of sub-processes. But using C libraries for IO is pretty low level stuff, and making them concurrent is beyond the scope of python.
I just agreed to buy a house. It's very cheap. It's very small and strange, so thankfully banks wouldn't give a mortgage on it.

It was built around 1800, most likely when several people nearby got together and gathered a lot of stones to erect walls, and peat from a nearby bog and oat straw (which was grown locally) to make a roof. Over the subsequent hundred years it had a couple rooms added until it reached its current form.

The original owner almost certainly had no mortgage. How did they do it? Why can't I just gather materials and build my own house? Is it because of the inclosure acts? I'm not sure. It's also possible the house was owned by a wealthy local and used as housing for farm labour.

I suspect a lot of people _need_ mortgages purely because mortgages exist, so you're going to be competing against others who have them. It's slightly reminiscent of the two income trap. When a household wanted a home in the 1950's, they usually were competing with other single-income households. Once two-income households became normal, it was much more difficult for single-income households to compete.

Though this all still seems to relate to there being fewer houses than people would like to own.
Right. Having a lawn small enough to manage yourself or without overpowered gear is key.
If your idea is good then presenting that idea doesn't seem to be a problem. The issue is when you want to horde it to make a business out of it yourself.
I searched for a car model and my bank called me an hour later to talk about car loans!

That was my wake up moment.
An arms race like that would be a help for privacy, there is no way of filtering out enough bots without a relatively high false positive rate.
In no particular order: breath meditation, bullet chess, exercise, sauna, Netflix, pizza, friendship, and deep house. Mostly bullet and deep house, if I’m being honest.
That is completely and utterly peripheral to if the medication works for humans. It is a sanitation and environmental issue period until someone can come up with an alternative that can be absorbed fully or pass into a degraded non-effective state which is a tall order given that even penicillin couldn't. That is also an issue for birth control medication but it is accepted as generally 'environmentally worth it' compared to the costs of increased r-strategy population growth.

Although there are certain parties interested in badmouthing psychiatry at every turn out of dogma and self interest - from the obvious of Scientology and their means of control to the fundamentalist and homophobe contingent angry over their role in destigmatization and having to look for new targets. They're pissed off that gay marriage is widely accepted - saying someone was for gay marriage in the 80's doesn't make them look wacko fringe like it did then but visionary from how utterly vindicated they were. They are angry that science "didn't stay in its lane". And psychiatry is science. Even in its bad old days of abuse of electroshock and lobotomies considered a valid treatment and despite qualitative aspects keeping it from hard equations and laws the fact that they let the evidence speak and draw the conclusions - 'no society is clearly wrong here - homosexuality is not a mental illness' is profoundly science in a 'and yet it moves' way.

So the next target for their otherphobic garbage of strawmen that I sadly am not making up is that psychiatrists and liberal parents want to reassign gender and provide hormone treatments and surgical treatments at will and everyone trans is a bathroom sexual predator.

Meanwhile back in the /bad old days/ of the past when gay-bashing was relatively accepted a trans Bond girl was treated as mere trivia with perhaps a few tasteless jokes that were still better than the horrific 80's AIDS 'jokes' instead of a 'franchise ruined forever' reaction.

This wasn't meant as snapping at you but at a clear frustrating trend that I have noticed.
This is really evident in Canada right now with the mortgage “stress test”.

Basically, new regulations were created that require home buyers to qualify at prime + 2%, even though mortgage rates might be prime + 0.5%.

This was done because the govt was concerned about how much risk the banks were taking on.

Since it was enacted (earlier this year I think), the brakes were slammed on housing prices and now major markets are starting to see price drops. Of course the stress test wasn’t the only factor.
> I can almost forgive these during leaf season.

Sure, almost. But in the middle of summer? Or winter? Come on now. I lived at an apartment complex that started up leaf-blowers year round at 10am every single Tuesday. What's worse, I worked from home. Even now, having left several years ago, the sound of a leaf blower causes my blood pressure to spike. Destroy them all!
Study finds half of most popular VPN apps linked to China
Is your org more of a last resort for these guardians so they go to psychiatrists first or is it a discoverability problem in general?

Since you're all volunteering, I'm curious if the simple removal of the profit motive is enough to change the way all parties involved approach treatment or if its a matter of just having more time to devote per person (because the limit becomes your time and patience instead of their checkbook).
Parliament seizes cache of Facebook internal papers