skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“Lust for ever increasing profit” is one way to put it. You could also say that private companies have requirements that are constantly moving as the market changes and must be discovered and adapted, rather than legal requirements that are roughly static and well-specified.
I doubt Apple would be able to complete that sale without antitrust laws kicking back hard. Qualcomm is an exclusive supplier to most of Apple’s phone competitors.
If a package is taken from a porch and there is no Ring camera to record it did it make a noise?
The idea is that the stress testing site dictates where the file must go, not the user. So for them to run the test, they may need to see a specific file at "subjectsite.com/secretguid"

The idea being that unless you have total domain control, you can't get that file where they want you to put it.
I mean yes, and the mugging industry's standard practice is to demand your wallet and phone. Just because something is a standard practice doesn't mean it's also not criminal.

I, and everybody else, have similar stories to you. We aren't talking about the occasional mis-keying here or there - the entirety of their systems are setup to bill in bad faith, IMHO rising to the level of deliberate fraud.

I'm stuck on this because I would like to know what is the exact legal mechanism by which someone could actually be on the hook for the fraudulent charges? Could a major newspaper publish a self-help guide tomorrow complete with form letters to help people repudiate the baseless debt, and it would be a big enough trend that the surveillance bureaus would have to pay attention, and the problem would be solved? Or are there state laws that create implicit liability to health providers (ostensibly so they can be compensated when someone is unconscious when admitted) that are now being openly abused? If it's the latter, that's really where we should directing our ire-focus - there would be no other legal basis for retrospectively charging someone $61 for an ibuprofen! The only way you can get away with that level of gouging is if you take cash on the spot during a disaster, or apparently if you're a hospital.

Your example at CVS is especially glaring, as our basic expectation is that going to the store involves paying before leaving, and being done with that transaction. When I go to the grocery store, do I have to worry that I'll be receiving a bill in the mail at a later date? Maybe that's the true function of those "loyalty cards".

(I'd also like to point out that the root cause of much of your anxiety is worrying about how the surveillance agencies are going to judge you. I understand that there are many who have no choice about being in that position. What I can't abide is how our society has slipped so far that the overwhelming expectation is for everybody to be continually worried about their "permanent record".)
Sure, it seems apple does listen even while screen is off.
While I was at IBM, I deployed an sshkey to the internal Bluemix staging environment, called "Dr Worm" (it's my title :) About 3 months later they froze my account and called my manager, freaking out. Apparently it was not allowed.

We were like, wait, if it's not allowed, they why was I able to? And why did it take 3 months?! They backed down and we laughed over beers.

I'd be surprised if IBM even has the visibility into the situation... because that's just one of the war stories.
I don't think it's even HDR. Just desaturated most of the colors, and hard pumped blue and purple.

To the GP: Search for cyberpunk / neon noir filters on google and tutorials on youtube. You'll find dozens to hundreds for both.
They'll find a taker, the job market in the sciences is lousy.
Interesting blog in general. For example, these "facts I learned this week" were cool[1], and there is this little gem in Weaknotes 14:

> Someone suggested we should be building ‘frictionless’ experiences the other day. I asked them to elaborate and they had a great point about sign up flows that I didn’t disagree with. But I loathe the word ‘frictionless’ in this context. Friction is what is keeping me on my chair right now. It stops us all from sliding all over the place like eels writhing across a canteen floor. Friction in services helps us make decisions. Amazon’s sign-up to Amazon Prime at the checkout is so frictionless I keep frigging doing it by accident and not realising. Friction is useful and important.

I like the style and brevity of the posts.

[1] http://alicebartlett.co.uk/blog/weaknotes-15
is it really such an overreach when the detail is so strongly associated with their brand that Louboutin shoes are often informally called "red bottoms"?
Right, but if all I do is accept obvious reality as it is, I'll be just like everyone else!

How will others know I'm intellectually superior to them, unless I express some edgy contrarian view?!
Does this compete with the Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (CNTK)? Seems odd that they would have two separate ML frameworks.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/cognitive-toolkit/
Ralph's =/= Kroger.

Ralph's is owned by Kroger, but it is not the same as a normal Kroger store. That would be like saying HEB's Central Market is comparable to a normal HEB store. The two things are wildly different as far as levels of quality are concerned.

I doubt there is a Ralph's in GP's area. Nobody is claiming that Whole Foods is the best grocery in the nation -- for many people it's just the best in their area.
This reminds me of Truecrypt Plausible Deniability feature, where you hide an encrypted volume and can claim it's unused space.

Truecrypt is discontinued now, I don't know what's a good alternative today.
That's not a perfect analogy -- these aren't people meeting one-by-one in private spaces, WhatsApp is providing them a shared space where they can meet and share images.

This seems more like blaming a hotel for letting one of their conference rooms be used for an illegal porn swap meet.
True, nothing is "unhackable" and it reminded me of Oracles corporations challenge about 10 years ago... they placed a billboards and marketed that they had an "Unbreakable" system...within hours they were "hacked" after doing this announcement.
What these companies can do is change their premise for guarding their customers information. Instead of putting a singular firewall around their information system, they "compartmentalize" their customers info so they may get one or two customers info not hundreds or thousands at a time. Further, the critical info of each customer can be further "compartmentalized" to make the information difficult to access.
This is how they approach Cardholder Information Security Program (CISP) with cardholder data.
This approach ASSUMES the information at some point will be compromised, so with this assumption, when there is a breach, the damage will be limited not massive as it was the case with IBM and the other companies involved.
They could have done something like that, however based on the media play they are doing now, I'm guessing there are hundreds if not thousands of companies involved.
There is no such thing as "standard patterns". There are a large number of different popular patterns which many developers have found useful for a broad range of uses.

Don't get too hung up on the implementation details in any particular language. A Python function that returns a class is just a factory by another name. The essential point is deferring the decision of which implementation class to instantiate until run time.

Inheritance is one way of handling abstract APIs, but not the only way (depending on language). And don't believe everything you read on the Internet. In some limited circumstances inheritance can be a great way to simply code and eliminate duplication, far outweighing any additional complexity it introduces.
It's really hard for great dev skills to be learned in a matter of months. Sales on the other hand, is a different story. People already have many of the core skills, they just need the tools and training to level up, and create a scalable process. A lot of that is learning to use sales enablement tools, and a lot of it is getting practice and personal coaching from experts.
Only a matter of time, we think
German chat site faces fine under GDPR after data breach
Like you I see very few climate-change deniers, here or elsewhere. I see instead most disagreement and heavy discussion on what to do and what is the most efficient way to go forward. I have gotten many downvotes in the past referencing the recent study that listed "the most effective individual steps to tackle climate change", since it lists car ownership as being worse than eating meat.

I would therefore say that the debate is on what action that both individually and as a society that needs to be done. Abolishing coal mining vs replacing coal power plants with nuclear power plants, car ownership vs vegetarianism, carbon tax vs bans, and so on. We are collectively so divided that even if we all mostly agree that climate-change exists and is directly caused by us humans we can still not agree on what to do next.
I've heard about the distro, but not a reason why it existed or why anybody would buy it. Apparently, it was marketed for desktop use, which I guess wasn't yet universally seen as ridiculous in '99.
Plot twist: it's actually 100% accurate. It knows everyone has committed at least one minor crime in their lifetimes due to a perfect mix or ambiguous legal wording, innumerable laws and ease of committing minor crimes. They'll need to tweak its tolerance level.
> It's helped me cut my time on that site down to almost nothing, which has improved my overall mood quite a bit.

Hallmark of something designed to be additive is generating short term euphoria and a depressed baseline mood.
In other words, "Guns don't kill people, people kill people"?
My favorite Brazilian phrase is “too much sand for your/my truck.”
For the rest of us, who is JG?
#2 true, but while it is complex, it isn't intractable.

My company enables direct to consumer beer and cider delivery. We mapped out the laws at the zip code level to avoid the legal issues and it works well.

The hard part is convincing the producers and consumers that it is even something they can do. And that shipping if actually worth it. Amazon has convinced the world that shopping is free.
Haha nvm made the connection... r/whoosh
You can, actually, by not having a free and open internet. Which is what we will eventually have. And it won't be because of some super shady and evil council of old men in suits, but because the public will beg for it.
> you should be able to do all API Management without having to pay us a penny.

I contacted Kong sales once about OpenID connect support, they basically dismissed us as too small. Needless to say we took Kong out of our stack and won't consider it again.
Development Seed has a project Urchn that was trying to do something like that: https://medium.com/devseed/make-sense-of-urban-change-fabb9f...

The idea was to take satellite imagery of the same location from different timestamps and I believe use deep learning to determine if anything in the imagery changed.

I don't think they've released any code for that project yet though.

But for determining whether or not the imagery could be used in a certain region, it might make more sense to just compare the timestamps of the vector data and the imagery. For instance, if the road doesn't appear in the imagery, but the vector data timestamp is after the imagery timestamp, then keep the road. And don't add a road if it was covered by a map segment that was deleted some time between the imagery timestamp and the current time.
Doesn't https://about.me (et al) fit on this list too?
Veracrypt is a maintained fork.
That's not even slightly a credible citation for usage/popularity stats. :/
And I've seen the Carlton in a couple of games much before Fornite was a thing.
This is Skechers' entire business model
Pretty sure that guy you are responding to didn't. There are countries other than America out there that also think crime is a bad thing and are happy to cooperate to stop it.
I don't think Moxie's right though; you can still do your own thing, and have it work best with your clients which support all the features, and then allow it to federate or optionally allow third party clients on your server with limited functionality. Naturally, you can also contribute back new extensions that you develop too so that other clients and services can adopt them if you want.

But I do tend to agree in general that we need fewer features and less complexity and to push more for basic profiles that everything should implement and that have a clear compliance label.
So why does encryption have anything to do with this?
I don't believe you. Some companies may not have the capabilities to defend against state-sponsored attacks today, but that's only because their executives have chosen to be willfully ignorant and not devote sufficient resources to the problem. There's a whole industry of consultants and outsourcing services which provide exactly this capability. All you have to do is write a check.
The thing is, it's not a debate against people who are well informed and honestly think the above (or outright denial). It's against lobbyists who will say anything to prevent regulation, and the uninformed who repeat whatever they heard last from those lobbyists (or some false middle ground between science and lobbyists).

Whatever actual argument is stated (geologic, sun cycles, not happening, no big deal), the end objective is the same: we shouldn't do anything about it.
I live in the USA. I'd like to put my software (https://github.com/bediger4000) in the public domain. What actions do I need to take to do this? I mean, pre-1976 you just didn't put a copyright notice on it. That was enough, it defaulted into public domain. Post-1976, it defaults to copyrighted, notice or not. What otherworldly ritual do I need to perform, or notice to put on my code, to ensure it's in the public domain? I presume it's not as easy as just telling a few people, "all that's in the public domain".
Ok — French guy who lives in California — tell me — a guy from London — what life in London is like.

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What's noteworthy is that the IPCC forecast for sea level rise is not accepted anymore by many, for some reason. The IPCC used to be gold standard, now it's not alarmist enough. From the report:

> Subsequent to the 2013 IPCC AR5, there has been a focus on the possible worst-case scenario for global sea level rise. Estimates of the maximum possible global sea level rise by the end of the 21st century range from 1.6 to 3 meters [5-10 feet], and even higher. These extreme values of possible sea level rise are regarded as extremely unlikely or so unlikely that we cannot even assign a probability. Nevertheless, these extreme, barely possible values of sea level rise are now becoming anchored as outcomes that are driving local adaptation plans
The simple fact I can call people while my hands are on the wheel is a non-trivial improvement in my life.
Apparently (per the article) there's actually a GEOINT App Store: https://apps.nga.mil/Home/Store

Some interesting examples:

- An app that reports pirate activity: https://apps.nga.mil/Home/Store/Detail/Android/ASAM--Android...

- An app about edible/medicinal plants: https://apps.nga.mil/Home/Store/Detail/Android/Edible-and-Me...

- An app to tell you when you should put on your tinfoil hat: https://apps.nga.mil/Home/Store/Detail/Android/SpyMeSatGov-/...
Decentralization, Freedom and Privacy are taken from the Diaspora homepage.

Also you’re conflating Privacy with Security.
I agree to a certain extent, but I don't think you need to support everything, just the subset of features that a particular user cares about. We should have some form of baseline that's more than the basic protocol, and the Compliance Suites will hopefully help there, but in general as long as basic chat works it should be fine. The first party clients can support everything and give you the best experience, the third party ones are juts in case you can't run the first party clients or need eg. better accessibility support or similar.

For example, I used to use Mcabber with HipChat at work. Mcabber doesn't support even basic modern XMPP things (history, for example), but it was plenty good enough for me to chat with my coworkers.
Because once you become aware of a crime you let law enforcement handle it? Neither these NGOs nor Facebook are Batman.
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I think it's important to note that all 3 of the major cases about this (Backpack Boy, 2 Milly, Alfonso) all are represented by the same law firm.
> TJ's tends to have a singular product for many items, where WF will have a selection

That's also a feature of TJ (and Costco, for that matter).
Organs aren't very useful when people die outside of a hospital. They're harvested from brain dead patients or those that have just undergone cardiac death.

edit: I was responding to "harvesting their organs when they die in incarceration" -- this sounds like it's a natural death.
Having done a lot of work in both spaces, trust me -- there's nothing luxury about getting this work done in the public space.

Also, extensively planning and specifying requirements ahead of time is exactly the opposite of how you pull off delivering well-designed public UX like this.

In the public space you inherently never have a single person who can call all the shots, because organizationally you're accountable to all of the public. Orgs have to be set up to carry on operations resiliently outside having a controlled lineage of management. How you do things is far more directly and heavily influenced by legislation, and that landscape is constantly shifting over the course of your project.

BY FAR the private sector is where engineers can enjoy far more luxury.
The team is aware of the website outage and it should be back online soon.
I mean, this isn't really a new phenomenon. See the United Fruit Company (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Fruit_Company#Guatemala)
Companies can defend against that through layered defense in depth and limiting the attack surface area.
It's the main national news in the UK. Whether it is developing into mass hysteria or an agitant is really using industrial sized drones to cause chaos is impossible to know. As one of the main hubs in and out of europe a lot of people are getting very worried for holiday gatherings.
> What action do you believe the Canadian government should take in order to reform telecoms?

Easy, allow in foreign competitors like we have here in Australia such as Vodafone (UK) and Optus (Singapore) that compete fiercely w/ the former domestic monopoly Telstra.

> There could be multiple plausible explanations for their high prices...

The industry justification for high prices is that Canada is a large, sparsely populated country. But that's also true of Australia and Russia which have much lower telecoms pricing (and the US to some extent). Personally I believe the real reason prices are so high in Canada is that the CRTC (the Canadian regulator) has been captured by the industry. Which is a polite way of saying plain old corruption.
> Some sites shoot themselves in the foot with dark patterns.

I was thinking this when trying to navigate altium.com.

Hint: we have a license for their software which we spend about $5-10 grand a year on and it's behaving like an ad sponsored clickbait site, throwing one pop up after another. Click on video, pop up shows up with a tiny ill placed dismiss button.
Because it prevents automated mass monitoring and filtering of content in general. Someone has to know there is this group, be allowed to join it, monitor the content, etc. It's much more costly.
So you don't understand what cross entropy loss is and have no technical knowledge of AI.

But you also claim all the recent advancements in AI don't improve AGI in anyway at all.

And somehow recent advances in AI are so dangerous that AGI is impending and AI research should be stopped.

Personal question - How do you manage to hold so many mutually contradictory ideas in your head simultaneously?
One takes disproportionately from those hurting the environment, providing incentives to cease and desist destructive behavior, while the other assumes that everyone and everything hurts the climate equally.
This is Oskari from Aiven - wanted to mention that we posted a brief blog post about the licensing changes in the Kafka ecosystem at https://aiven.io/blog/aiven-statement-on-kafka-license/

The summary is that we're committed to open source software and this change won't affect our users. We'll follow-up with a more details about our plans in early January.
You're right. There are plenty of legitimate companies that offer security services whether it's pentesting or DOS attacks. The dark web/malicious providers normally say something like: "this can only be used on machines you have permission to test" while doing absolutely no verification that the services are owned by the purchaser.
I feel like this is a problem easily solvable with a shotgun and an experienced skeet-shooter.
Intellectual property is a racket. I don’t see how it will ever get better too. Acquiring a valuable piece of IP is like finding a golden ticket.
About that time every company and its dog was trying to push in the commercial Linux distribution space, trying to get a piece of the sweet pie that Redhat was eating.

They were also bundling/selling Wordperfect Office for Linux at that time, since the only real competitor on Linux was StarOffice which later purchased by Sun and open sourced - and later because of the acquisition by Oracle, was forked into LibreOffice. Hard to believe that was all nearly 20 years ago now.
Groovy's business case has become less compelling as a result.

By a small margin, yes. Personally, I still find Groovy far more compelling than plain Java, especially when I'm using Grails for "web stuff". For pure backend REST services, I do sometimes go with plain Java and Spring Boot. As the old saying goes "use the right tool for the job". Hell, I'd use COBOL if there was a compelling reason. :-)
I've had the opposite experience; at my last job (a medium sized tech company that you've heard of and probably use tangentially on a daily basis) they wouldn't hear of using anything cloud based because then someone else could potentially leak their data.
> All you have to do is write a check.

"I don't believe you." You can't just change the organization, culture, and procedures of a company just by throwing money at consultants.

That's like saying a big family can solve their feuds and mental illnesses just by writing a check to team of group therapists and lawyers.
If the news is to be believed, people on the Dark Web screw their privacy up so frequently that law enforcement probably wants them to be there so it's all contained and easier to investigate.
The author is also the person responsible for a lot of the polyglot files from the PoC||GTFO series: https://www.alchemistowl.org/pocorgtfo/
The primary purpose of an Efho device is not to record you. You brought up a silly argument.
I'd be more wary of the low-profile sites. Those will be more difficult to take down.
>If anything we need more industry-specific reporting to try to show companies how ignoring climate change will impact their bottom line.

The life span of the average business is about 10 years. The median employment tenure (years that wage and salary workers had been with their current employer) in 4.2 years. It's awefully tough to get anyone today to care about the bottom line in Q3 2068.
Where in the logic of my argument have I made a mistake?
I don't think the purpose of the conversation matters. It's about if/how you fake your identity and what information/access you collect.

That's why I bring up phishing personal info to send a gift basket. Despite flipping the purpose on its head, it's still phishing.
What protocol does Mattermost use? I was under the impression that it was XMPP, but I can't find anything that says that now that I'm glancing at it. Did they invent their own as well?