skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Some are considered tech people who should know stuff like this could happen, but they just don't care or don't think it will happen to them.

It's this thing where you somehow believe that just by being an expert in some field, bad things in this very field can't happen to you, even if it's out of your control. Like a brain surgeon suddenly getting a tumor in his own brain.
There are a handful of videos where other pen-testers show the process from start to finish, and the space needed to get the wire through is not as much as you think.
So I just read through the article, it mentioned credit card companies knowing that, not the retail store.

I mentioned it in another comment, but the combination of PCI compliance and the use of chip+pin make it difficult for retailors to use credit cards to track an individual, but the credit card company can.

However, if the retailer then goes back and purchases the data from the credit card company, I agree, they will know who "Customer #12345" is with regards to the person.
Seconded. It's a fantastic museum. And oddly space aged building considering the antique contents...
Just because you aren't understanding doesn't mean most others aren't. He clearly said the other companies have an AND situation in regards to pay and publishing. He is saying Apple does not, as it does not allow proper publishing.

I.e. {'Pay' AND 'Publishing' > 'Pay'}
not {Apple 'Pay' < Other 'Pay'}
Are there any in-depth case studies aside from the single data point (Reason 10) that prove this is worthwhile? This article feels like it was put together very quickly without a call to action in mind.
It's black-box optimization. This means that we just have an objective function, without access to derivatives or whatever other information. This is not relevant for training weights in deep learning for image classification, or other things for which the gradient works well.
In other news, Oath is re-branding as Four Letter Word
/s
Most likely the human verification is not in real time but for quality improvements after the facts.

In case you weren’t joking.
Merchants can store the account holder's name and the card's last 4 digits, which is pretty much all that is needed to correlate transactions.
Apple is only hip and premium because they make quality products.

And that comes down to the culture and mindset of the company. Which given that they have Apple University and have an executive team which very much encapsulates the “Apple Way” isn’t going to change.

Yes there are plenty of failed companies but very few aggressively defend their culture like Apple does. And culture rot for me is such a big part of failure.
I remember when that was true, because MongoDB used to mmap files and skip fsync.

/dev/null is more efficient than just about anything at ingesting billions of records, but not very useful, is it?
Alfred-cdnjs: alfred workflow for searching and copying cdn.js script links
Corel bought my favorite photo editor ever. Never found a replacement (PhotoImpact). Just to discontinue it. I hate them!!
I have a theory that Complexity Worship is a product of boredom by CS degrees who would rather not spend their time implementing WYSIWYG editors or whatever anymore.
Was the data supposed to be stored in the first place according to the privacy policy/user consent? If not, it'd mean that Amazon stored highly sensitive data (audio recordings from people's bedrooms) illegally and in breach of user's trust.
You might want to read the article again. No part of it says that Amazon read private messages on Facebook.
> "No ice was left on Earth. Antarctica was the best place for mammals to live, and the rest of the world would not sustain human life, he said.

> Sir David warned that if the world did not curb its burning of fossil fuels "we will reach that level by 2100"."

[Emphasis mine]

He literally did say that, unless you think "would not sustain human life" is compatible with "habitable". That quote was an asinine statement to make and only serves to provide ammunition to those who want to convince people that climate change is not a real problem.
Why do people like to just make up stuff like this? What an absurd comment.
There are tons of phone systems that use speech recognition and warn you that you are being recorded for quality assurance purposes. I would assume those recordings come from that type of system. Google and Amazon have been clear that humans will not be listening to the recordings.
Hah I made it up! I do a bit of sci if writing though.

http://tlalexander.com/sanctuary/
My advice would be: don't hesitate to walk away. If they are unprofessional from the start, it's a huge red flag, and never works out. Don't put up with BS like 30 minute psyche profiles, or code tests before talking to anyone about the role or culture.

recruiters can be helpful - and frustrating. It's a mixed bag, but there have been a few good ones.

Be patient, do other things in the meantime. Anything you can get locally will have a better chance than remote.

Use something like resumasters.co to polish up your resume and linkedin.

Otherwise, don't get discouraged!
That machine will need to be an appliance, something like a Google Home or Amazon Echo style device, and your local router should transparently proxy www.facebook.com to it.

I'm only sorta kidding. HN is really good at creating solutions that seem totally reasonable to other HN readers but would fall on their face in the wider market of Uncle Bob, Aunt Lois, and Grandma Pearl. You know, the real customer base.
My last enterprise I worked at sent out an announcement that anyone with VirtualBox had to remove it.

What amazed me was when I first started there & asked if I could install it, most everyone was clueless what it even was. So Oracle had to have done some audit that found it, because I don't believe more than 1 or 2 other people would have been using it.
Yes.

https://www.doctorofcredit.com

Its one of the very few financial blogs that doesn't do credit card referrals, thus they don't try to steer their readers to any specific financial products or using any particular links that are less attractive than other ones available but earns them commission.

Bankrate (and others) shouldn't be used, because of the following (directly from their site):

>Bankrate.com is an independent, advertising-supported publisher and comparison service. Bankrate is compensated in exchange for featured placement of sponsored products and services, or your clicking on links posted on this website. This compensation may impact how, where and in what order products appear. Bankrate.com does not include all companies or all available products.
Actually, quite the contrary has been proven to point 1: both for Alexa (the spooky laugh episode) and Google Play (the "always pressed" button episode).

I almost think that the burden of proof that things aren't being sent is a valid expectation in this point. And that proof needs to be re-confirmed with each firmware update to ensure a bug hasn't caused the behavior to change.
Mitchell, Aurora have a PTAS for metric TSP that has a competitive factor something like O(1+1/c) and runtime O(N (logN)^O(c) ). For small factors, and c~=10 (Paper shows Amoeboid get about 90% of the best solution, apparently), I can see why it would look linear in the regime of N=[4,8].

I should mention, I don't think there's a working implementation of that PTAS however, and I only skimmed the article.

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=x*log(x)%5E2
Can someone with inside-knowledge (or just knows) explain how is Corel still in business?
His experience seems to be entirely focused on compilers. He's a talented engineer and leader, and his decision to join Google Brain indicates interest in AI, but wouldn't the chief AI/ML engineer have some demonstrable expertise in that particular field?
> it was happening only on one of the server clusters and no others

So did anyone figure out why the anti-virus was causing problems on a single box only and not the others?
Managers decide on the culture, composition and priorities of a team.

They are just as significant as individuals in the team.
I read the article. King does seem to be stating that. At least, he says the last time co2 was as high as it will be in 2100, then only antarctica was suitable for human life.

Now, there's a lag to warming, so it might only reach the full temperatures by 2150 or so, but King did explicitly seem to be saying we're likely to make the world uninhabitable. Or at least that the last time co2 was that high, the world was uninhabitable.

I haven't figured out why people don't take this more seriously. A child born today can expect to live past 2100. People have children and grandchildren, and yet....
To the best of my knowledge, Hyperopt is limited to random search and Parzen variants. We have more algorithms, and include test functions, deal with noise. On the other hand, in Hyperopt conditional variables are naturally handled, whereas for the moment Nevergrad needs user manual work on this.

Both frameworks are asynchronous.
Amazon's Alexa user accesses stranger's chats
We use smartphones for the same reason we don't avoid any non-free software like Stallman: a huge amount of additional possibilities. But what Alexa, Siri etc. offer is just a different way to use a limited set of existing features, in exchange for a much higher risk of a privacy breach.

Everyone needs to draw a line somewhere, I just don't see a reason to use voice assistants, definitely not with internet connectivity and where the company keeps all recordings for some reason.
What user testing taught me about writing news for young people
The Itsy-Bitsy, Teenie-Weenie, Very Litigious Bikini
Nitpick: I would absolutely believe a chronically late person who said they had a flat tire, unless they also had a history of lying.

If they consistently "lost track of time" or "got caught up doing X" but they one day get a flat, why wouldn't I believe them?

I don't know if or how this affects the analogy.
To the best of my knowledge, Hyperopt is limited to random search and Parzen variants. We have more algorithms, and include test functions, deal with noise. On the other hand, in Hyperopt conditional variables are naturally handled, whereas for the moment Nevergrad needs user manual work on this.
Both frameworks are asynchronous.
The stasi kept the data protected better than a lot of tech companies as well.
”The time complexity is O(n) because we iterate the array of numbers containing n elements only once.”

If only. That ignores the dictionary look ups.

Also, there’s the tiny problem that this code is buggy. It only works if, for every number in the array, target - number also is in the array. It doesn’t even work for the example given in the problem description, returning (9,0) as one of the answers.

I hope this was posted as a warning that not everything you google is correct since, otherwise, this would not be interesting at all.
You can have mixed provider vagrant files.
We have a wide range of experiments on plenty of objective functions in games, reinforcement learning, in real world design and machine learning hyperparameter tuning - these reports will come soon.
Interesting. I wonder if this is how a US president would be arrested as well.
Very possible and I would be sad in that case.
You, I like you. One thing I believe you missed is the the promise from G4S of a cushy 'director' role for said minister when politics has run its course, for said minister....
Maybe a major tech company messed up and no one wants to violate their NDA?
WhatsApp has an encrypted child porn problem
Since this is the second hit piece on Elon today added to the HN frontpage I am really curious about something.

What on Earth did Elon do to attract the ire of the far left? Because obviously both articles were written by people who are evidently into far left ideology according to their Twitter feeds.

I suppose everybody else either don't really give a crap about his experiments or think they are useless but pretty cool (hello, personal flamethrower), across these circles SpaceX is considered to be pretty rad, and while Tesla might not be perfect I'm pretty sure they are one of the trailblazers towards a future of self driving electric cars.

So can anyone explain to me - and I mean this genuinely - why the raging hate from this particular part of the ideological spectrum?

Thanks.
Strictly speaking, I agree. The defining difference to me, though, is that things like "using Facebook" are voluntary. I can choose to just not use Facebook at all. I can't really opt out of being spied on by the US government.

And even though I'm a radical libertarian, EFF supporter, etc., exactly the kind of person you would normally expect to be very worked up over these kind of privacy issues, I have a different take when it comes to sites like Facebook. That is, I've always assumed that anything I post on Facebook is effectively public, and so anything that I don't want seen, I just don't post to begin with. And I don't use Facebook Messenger for sensitive conversations... to me, that's mainly for "hey what you doing this weekend", "wanna catch a movie" chit-chat.

Of course I understand that other people are operating from different base assumptions, and so they are going to react differently. Still, the USG worries me more than Facebook, Twitter, Google, and their ilk.
Huge floating device isn't trapping plastic in Pacific Ocean
Correct. Plenty of Debian Developers work full time on other software projects. Very often with synergies with Debian.

Yet there's no obvious way for people to realize to what extent Debian influences other projects and companies.
What I would rather see is something that works pretty much exactly like Facebook, but paid for, no advertisements, and total privacy. Aside from convincing people it's worth paying $25/year for the same functionality they currently get for "free" I think that's the closest to a viable option.

If Facebook hadn't lost so much trust already, they could try to jump ahead in that game by offering this service themselves. Pay us what we typically would earn off you from ads, and we'll turn off the ads and disable the tracking.
An easy way to solve this is to have a permanent data explorer that shows you your own FB data, but through the lens of each entity you've shared it with, and a one click opt out.

Maybe a list of entities, and when you click on one, you see what they would see.

If you care, you opt out. If you don't, you do not opt out. Either way, it makes it hard to plead ignorance or vagueness of permission dialog text.
I pay a lot of attention to my car's maintenance and tire wear, but that wouldn't be true for everyone in the tunnels. High speeds are also more stressful on wheels and ancillary parts. The idea of skates seems like it would help normalize capabilities/limits of cars in the tunnels.
Implantable device aids weight loss
Wow , is .NET that popular in startups ?

I always assumed it was used heavily in enterprise but never that much it's would somehow , it's also a popular stack in the Silicon Valley and NY. That said London and UK are well know to be MS Stack users.

Can some Engineers from SF or NY or voice their opinions on this ?
I'm certainly convinced at this point that climate change is a real thing that we should be concerned about, but that's only because I have (to the best of my ability as a cs person) critically examined the position taken by the climate scientists.

no one is immune to bias and misaligned incentives, especially on contentious political issues, and especially in fields where your entire job depends on government funding. in general, I am quite skeptical of academics.
I do agree that it feels like some silly "gamification". Open the app and see what's on sale, then deal with the chaos of shoppers everywhere as you navigate the store looking for your list of items, as well as the impulse discounted items you just added.
No in French, from what I can tell. (Pronounced the same)
Also the number well maintained packages is much higher.
Completely OT, but is the woman supposed to look that goofy/deformed?

https://imgur.com/a/DFgvNMt
sorry for the lack of clarity , plan on moving to nyc, but I do not currently live there. The main reason I bring it up is I have heard HR/companies will potentially ignore people with non local addresses, as well as there are clear logistical issues associated to not being less then an hour away from an interview.
"Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say."

What's baffling is how many times this same conversation has played out and people like you still don't get it.
I'd rather go with the database that has never blatantly lied, especially about keeping my data safe.
Google Lens now recognizes over 1B products
Debian bug report: “Gratuitous sexual references”
> I am baffled by how many people have no problems adding always listening and recording Google and Facebook devices to their living rooms.

To be less baffled, think about how many of us have those devices under a different name: Our phone.

Functionally I do not see the decides any differently. Yet, I think everyone I know has an Ok Google, Hey Siri, or Ok Bigsbi (however you spell it lol).

I'm not going to lie, for some reason Alexa makes me more concerned than my phone. Yet, the logical part of me fails to see a meaningful difference between my phone and an Alexa.

Disclaimer: I own an iPhone, I do not own an Alex/HomePod/etc.
I wonder at what point the pay becomes just a number. I am hoping people at Chris’s position are where they are because of the role, organization and the opportunity and not just because of money
> Do people act this way because stuff doesn't cost enough?

Cars cost 5-20x+ the price, not to mention fuel and insurance, and people get into car accidents all the time. Cost has nothing to do with it. People aren't robots, they make mistakes.

Good mass-market design is life-proof where possible. People will drop their phones, they will forget their phones in the pockets of the pants they just put in the laundry. Designers can either design for humanity as it is, or humanity as they wish it was, and the latter do all of us a disservice.
I don't dispute that the current status quo emerged as a direct result of government intervention. Again, I agree with you that it can be traced back to WWII era wage controls.

My claim is that, once established, the resulting equilibrium is economically stable. Your claim, as I understand it, is that it's not.

Given that the price controls that we agree created the current status quo were replaced by significantly less coercive tax incentives decades ago and to the best of my knowledge the industry hasn't attempted to realign away from employer-provided insurance since then, I don't see a reason to privilege your hypothesis over mine.
FBI kicks some of the worst ‘DDoS for hire’ sites off the internet
DynamoDB key diagnostics library for understanding application traffic patterns
When there's water under the bridge, it would literally be a decision between putting the past behind and fixing the issue vs trying to point fingers and pin the blame on who was wrong. We'll bite the bullet and pay for all the necessary upgrades necessary. Businesses know it. Govt knows it. People will forget and move on as well. Human memory is short.
I worked for a company, which is still in business, 80% of whose work involves "cleaning/normalizing" data, basically everything that isn't sales and client services.

Market research is all about getting different kinds of data and massaging it into queryable and productizable form (reports).
For the most part, Corel seems to acquire software that are near their end of life and/or relevance.

IIRC, they kept Kai's Power Tools alive well past its usefulness.
That's kind of reductive. The medium matters for any activity or information. You can't just discount the medium.

Whether for good or bad, the existence of phones has changed the human condition. Perhaps irreversibly. It's not just how we consume news or work. It's a very personal change. Remember in the nineties how we'd all have to plan ahead of time to meet up with friends or family or go on a date or whatever? You had to wait until evening, call when they would be home or leave a message, set up a time and place, and stick to it because once you left the house you couldn't coordinate further.

So whether or not that's good or bad is beside the point. It is a profoundly different method of socializing. Communication was sparse and delayed and you couldn't change plans or cancel 30 minutes ahead of time without looking like a dick. We are different for this. In some ways good, in some ways bad, but we have such a poor understanding of how it's working for us in the greater scheme of things that this fact alone should be somewhat alarming. And no, you can't just choose not to participate. Not having a smartphone on your person at all times and being always connected, always reachable, and always able to be obliged to work or respond or go do something at another's command is now tantamount to not participating in society.

Before this existed, we did a lot of the same activities in other ways as you said, but the restrictions of the medium we had available truly did change how it all worked in a tangible way. Yes, a similar thing happened with radio and land lines and other forms of technology before, but the extent of the change was lesser. The developments of the past ten or twenty years are so much more efficient and powerful and difficult to evade that they deserve unique consideration.
Anti-drone drones with nets to tangle the propellers, that’s what you need
Facebook is now many things, but when it started it was about identity: this is who I am, this is who I know, this is what I care about.

As Facebook has expanded, it's become a mostly passive experience. This is a byproduct of Facebook's business model, which is to sell other people's time. Like any business, it's incentivized to maximized its inventory, which in this case is time spent on Facebook properties.

People are waking up to the fact that Facebook doesn't add value to your life, it extracts value by consuming your time.

There is another way. You don't need to be the product.

This is why I created Universe (YC W'18), a new kind of tool that allows everyone to build their place on the internet—their own website, with their own domain, and their own design.

The internet should look more like a bustling, erratic metropolis and less like a centrally-planned suburb. To do that, it needs to be built by everyone.

Check out Universe and let me know what you think:
http://apple.co/Universe

----

Some sites made on Universe:
http://showcase.onuniverse.com

More about our story:
http://fastcompany.com/90174165/the-future-of-web-design-doe...
So everything has to be on constitution or American companies who don't have any ethics by the way, will abuse as much as possible for profit. Actually that's the message we are getting from silicon valley for some years.
It's tempting to believe that it's not your fault and the world is out to get you but the best thing to do is figure out where you're falling short and try to fix it. Most companies will not give honest and specific feedback because doing so can be a liability. Look at your take home projects. What could you have done better? How long did it take you finish? Review whatever you remember from code challenges, technical questions, etc. What might you have missed?
kb or kB?