skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The account is somewhat farang biased. For example, there's no mention of the Thai navy seal doctor Dr. Pak who stayed with the boys.
Read the other apologists. They quote a 3% deviation from sentencing guidelines.

Sentencing guidelines for Aaron were 6-7 years. A single wire charge on max penalty could be 20. All you need is one judge who saw WarGames to want to make an example out of the kid.

I don't know what the probability is. You don't either. Likely no one did. But that probably has weight.

It's disturbing: the callous indifference to that weight by those who question the exact kilos from an arm chair expert point of view.

This whole thing has parallels to other situations:

A Powerful Group is responsible for a system that perpetrated an injustice.

Members of the powerful group are confronted with the injustice. Members have the following reactions:

Denial (high dissonance)

Disgust

Apologists

Apologists do the same thing: They minimize, deny, question and speculate.

What apologists of all kinds don't realize is that even if they are right, they are wrong.

The callous indifference shown, instead of the guttural understanding of something wrong being needed to be made right... is what is so hard to understand. Even if your argument that the official numbers are overblown by x%.
For those who didn’t learn CS formally and taking this guide seriously: it seems too heavy on math and completely missing in many important areas IMO. Like - no sections for OS or networking?
What is the tech stack used for the website/app? Looks great btw.
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You can try Manjaro. Simplicity like Ubuntu and power of Arch Linux. On one laptop i have Manjaro and Linux Lite on other one.
Direct quote from the article: In a particularly damning missive, one person claiming to be a former employee wrote in to describe the systematic refusal to pay small, women-owned businesses as they had fewer resources to fight back.
How does DenseMap compare to, say hashbrown (in Rust) or SwissTable (in C++) by Google?
Surprised you didn't use 4'33".
I've wanted a whitelist only setting for a very long time... and I have also resorted to using the iPhones DND feature but instead of favorites I just use contacts.

Havn't heard from the fake CRA, chinese immigration or duct cleaners for ages... I do still get text messages so I'm not sure what people are talking about by 'all or nothing' ...

As far as I can tell, the only downside is anyone in my contact list can wake me up at 4am...
Its all about control. They want to own you.
I think there's a lot of inefficiency in only operating coal plants during some times of day. That was one of the major complaints that utilities in California used for crediting users with residential solar for their power generation. It wasn't actually worth the market rate to the utility if they had to run the plant anyways. I don't have any independent data on this, unfortunately.

There are interesting initiatives around the country to curb peaks in usage, however. For example, my parents are signed up for a service where they collect bill credits as they minimize power usage during a pre-announced hour of the week which exceeds normal capacity and would require dirtier and more expensive power plants to operate.

https://www.ohmconnect.com/
I've been on Google Fi for a few years, and I don't believe I have received a single spam call, ever. I don't know if that's because Google is just good at filtering, because they operate over T-Mobile's networks, or just a coincidence.
> Facebook needs mobile, which means they need Apple more than Apple needs them.

Is that actually true? Last time I checked iPhone only had a 20% market share. People buy phones, including iPhones, to do stuff with them. What Facebook provides is the stuff a huge part of the users want to do with their phone.

Imagine iPhone users can no longer WhatsApp/FB-messanger with their Android using friends. How many people will think twice before buying an iPhone again? Facebook screws with privacy the users don't care about (yes, the average user doesn't give a shit, especially if he gets paid), while Apple would screw with the users apps, which they care about a lot! Apple is in the disadvantage here. Especially since their whole business model is a better user experience for overpriced hardware.
This visualization reliably crashes my mac. Anyone else having this problem? It happens within ~10 seconds of loading the model.
Perhaps a strong culture of not raising objections?
Fair point - as you say I was thinking more of the relative lengths of time before and after the events in the book happened (at least in my limited knowledge), but your interpretation of "early" is probably the one that most people would go with first.
I don’t trust any website, especially any that monetize the data you feed it.

The incentives on the business’ side are nowhere near aligned with my side as a user.
I've found the Google Call Screening feature to do a much better job at this than anything more malicious.

I tap a button, and the call screener takes its time to explain that I've enabled that call screening service, while I continue on my day. No spam I've ever gotten has waited for the voice to finish its 3rd word.
Munchery could have done much better here on at least two counts.

1) Letting their vendors know that they are shutting down (Munchery didn't even send an email to their vendors, but they did to their customers as mentioned in the article).

2) As part of 1), cancelling existing orders with existing vendors.
Israeli scientists claim to have found cure for cancer
To the average user, this would look Apple was exerting control over devices that are rightfully owned by the user, in the same way it looked to people in the free software community during the advent of the app store and the locked down iPhone that needs to be jailbroken in order to do what you want with it. They would still want facebook, an app they'd been using for lots of minutes a day, and they'd be denied it.

It might actually get ordinary users interested in making it so Apple doesn't have total control of what can be installed on the phones they purchased. They won't see all the philosophy behind it that people in the free software community do, but it would point them in the right direction.
More powerful than the time during which it allowed people to legally own other human beings?

Or when it forcibly relocated people to reservations across the country?

Or when it put people into concentration camps because of a war we were fighting at the time?
Maximizing the tax rate on the most productive investments isn't good incentive engineering. But that's exactly what those high marginal tax rates are aimed at.

Another way to look at it is look at the extremes. Nobody is going to spend much effort avoiding a 1% tax. They'll expend a heluva lot of effort avoiding a 99% tax.
Malware Bytes is highly regarded. I use it on some of my systems, and compared to BitDefender, it seems to protect my systems equally well, but with much lower operational impact. It’s not uncommon for BitDefender to turn my machine into a jet engine for certain periods of the day, while it’s doing COU intensive stuff.

I’ll be switching all of my machines to Malware Bytes, when it comes time for subscription renewal.
A lot of that music is really really good. Want to contribute but man, they set the bar high!
There were plenty of organizational failures in the design and conduct of the (failed) experiment which triggered the Chernobyl disaster.
Cryptopia Hack Continues, Hackers Syphon Off Funds Worth USD 180K Again
Speaking from experience and having seen a few of these data points personally (possibly over-indexed on a small amount of data), often this comes down to making a choice of 220 with a 50% utilization vs 165 with 70%. Pretty much the same revenue for the company in the end, but with enough slack to put some extra short term gigs in there. Alternatively, in a situation where the company is confident of higher utilization, getting long term work, locking in a higher rate later, or being able to add extra bodies to the contract this is about $130 at 90% utilization (52 weeks - 4 weeks leave - 2 weeks public holidays). All these are common in .au govt contracts.

The mentioned 80-120 range seems like a feasible answer to this. Push for more (or strong bonuses) if utilization is generally high. Obviously the 140% depends a bunch on location / taxes / cost of doing business etc., find out what these are in your neck of the woods and exploit it to negotiate your salary.
While Google is certainly not monolithic we have previous evidence of really bad ideas being pushed across the entire product line (Google+, for one)
I doubt anyone wanted to try out the abort procedures with their own bodies atop a tank of burning rocket fuel shaking itself to pieces :-)
>...Comparing what the top 10% paid vs bottom 50% is silly.

That isn't what was done. The comparison is over time. The claim is often made that the rich paid far more of a share of the taxes until Reagan lowered the rates. The data shows otherwise.

>...Clearly the top earners are paying much more in tax from a clear dollar to dollar perspective. They own all the wealth.

That is a somewhat simplistic and misleading way of describing the income tax system. Income is not the same as wealth, etc. but also the US has a more progressive tax system than just about any of the OECD countries. The top 10% in the US make about 33% of the market income and pay 45% of the income taxes:

https://taxfoundation.org/news-obama-oecd-says-united-states...

>...One solution is to just jack up the rates. If 90% marginal rate on paper only actually results in 45% being collected, then that's still better than 39% marginal rate on paper vs. 15-20% truly collected.

There are reasons NO countries institute such policies for long. It isn't because high rates haven't been tried, it is because it ends up hurting the country. You need only look at France's experiment with a 75% marginal rate and a wealth tax in 2012 and was dropped in 2015.

>...French economist Eric Pichet in a recent academic paper has found evidence of capital flight as a consequence of the French wealth tax, namely, that it has cut French GDP growth by 0.2% per year.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonhartley/2015/02/02/frances-7...

>...But there needs to be a constant effort to reduce wealth centralization.

This probably isn't the only criteria that people should be concerned about. If the top 50 tech companies in the US had been started in Europe instead of the US, that would have measurably lowered the wealth inequality in the US but most people would say the US is better off being a tech leader.
The city knows who the criminals are. The district attorney drops the cases, you can have your open air drug bazaar or stolen bike shanty town in broad daylight.
I am of the opinion that the reality behind AMP is much more insidious than security and dumb user mitigation.

I believe that AMP is the mortar that builds the solid connection between users and ALL their activities and views and logins and accounts and handles across their browsing behavior.

Which links you clicked, not matter what site you are on or who you are logged in as. It seems to completely dissolve any anonymity, period.
Kindly convey my thanks too. You're the actual guys who are making web secure. Browsers just say, your site is not secure, but that doesnt help at all. Having cheap and easy way to solve problem, can only make it work.

Interestingly, many CAs are charging lot for certs. And lot of them don't know how to validate user's info. Many business guys just burn cash on certs told by CA's support team for 'security'.
Of course, that’s just for mainstream anti-malware. For Mac-specific tools, I also use Little Snitch, BlockBlock, and other tools from https://www.obdev.at/products/index.html and https://www.objective-see.com/products.html
You are not getting old. In the past SV solved the "hard" problems for the military. Now it's solving perceived first world problems
I still like IDEs, but here's an example of the kind of thing you're talking about: in ~/.vimrc, I put

nnoremap <F5> :w<cr>:!printf "\033c";python %<cr>

and now I can execute a Python script I'm editing with one keystroke instead of "save, exit, ./myscript, vi myscript".
Seems to be a US problem. I als never get unsolicited calls in my country.
Fast, static D3 maps built with Turf.js and the command-line
In many ways, this is an update of the Titanic story of technological hubris, with the twist that the man who was right, who fought hard to prevent what he foresaw, who was briefly relieved when his dire predictions seemed to be wrong, was still dogged by the event for the rest of his life.

We don't know how those who were on the wrong side of the issue coped, and they should not be pressured to make public anything beyond what the inquiry required, but it seems plausible to me that those who could persuade themselves that they made the right decision, given the circumstances and despite the outcome, probably fared best. That is usually the case.

Edward Tufte tried to suggest that Boisjoly could have presented his case more effectively. Tufte may have been thinking purely pedagogically, but regardless, the implied criticism was unjustified, as Boisjoly's point should have been clear to anyone familiar with the issue, and in fact it was clear to quite a few, though unfortunately not to the few who mattered, and I doubt that, for them, a different presentation would have made a difference.

We can't always be right, and we can't all be heroes, but I hope we can all avoid being the person who said to Boisjoly, when it appeared that Boisjoly's testimony might be fatal to Morton Thiokol, that he would leave his children for Boisjoly to raise if he lost his job.
I have had a LOT of conversations with non technical people about this recently.

“My phone is listening to my conversations” is how it goes - people know this tracking is happening, they hate it and find it intensely creepy, they just don’t know the mechanism being used.
Well clearly. That's the bug.
yup. makes sense. Thanks for the feedback (y)
John Glenn had something similar happen on his orbital flight, and his reaction (since he survived to hear about it) was outrage. He said even if there was nothing he could do, he wanted to know what was going on in case there was a communication issue.

Either way, I'm highly dubious that some of the world's most competent scientists, engineers and military people couldn't work this problem and find a solution. NASA finding damage and having a few days to figure out how to fix it sets the stage for another Finest Hour. Instead, we have tragedy and disgrace.
I believe this is incorrect, at least according to this source I found: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EG.FEC.RNEW.ZS?year_hig...

You may be mistaking energy production with energy consumption. However, I'm not entirely sure what qualifies as "energy" in the list that I found. If we mean only electricity, then I believe some of these countries are still less than 100% run on renewables.
This is really well done.

I've got to mention two missing features that I find important:

1 - help popups: it will be nice if terms had a small help icon that can display a little context on hover/press (that's a quick win, makes unknown things usable, much easier to implement than a full manual/interactive tutorial)

2 - social login / email-only login: you are missing sign-ups (I hate having more passwords).
Interestingly enough, the jackets also went away in 2016 in the latter half of the year, just before holiday gifts.
Check out https://www.owasp.org. you can also use metasploitable and DVWAfor practicing
As a side story to your wonderful comment I had a colleague recommend I use a different IDE at work because their favorite code beautification tool was only available in one editor at the time. They didn't realize I am a contributor on the project they were promoting or that one of the code beautifiers in that project was mine. The team on this tool were actively working on diversifying to various IDEs but just hadn't gotten there quite yet. That was an awkward moment.
Look at AutoMapper for .Net
There are thousands of important mathematicians, electrical engineers, computer scientists, etc. languishing in obscurity who don’t get the credit they deserve.

Shannon, as one of the best known and most celebrated scholars (in any field) of the 20th century, and by any reasonable standard a scientific superstar, is not one of them.

It’s like saying “Le Corbusier doesn’t get the credit he deserves. Nobody outside architecture has heard of him. Everyone knows Frank Lloyd Wright, but what about Le Corbusier?!” Or “Carl Jung doesn’t get the credit he deserves. Nobody outside of psychiatry has heard of him. Everyone knows Sigmund Freud, but what about Jung?!”

Pick whatever field you want, and I’m sure you can find a list of seminal figures who are well known to anyone with basic knowledge of the field (say, anyone who took an intro course in college) and familiar to anyone with broad cultural education, but not as recognizable to the man on the street as top athletes or rock stars. Claiming that these people are unrecognized or unheard of is absurd.
Exposing Bootkits with BIOS Emulation
Really awesome and will be super helpful as a teaching aide for ML/Deep learning classes!
Do you have an android phone? It would literally take you 1m30s to verify this.
Ultra-Thin Device Turns Wi-Fi into Electricity
Could the EU break up Facebook’s monopoly?
Was communist-era Poland considered 3rd world? Because I'm pretty sure it was, and camping was the most popular mode of staying away from home.
The headline appears to be based on the first and last sentences of the intro paragraph. The latter concludes with the description:

> Google's first steps toward more robust website identity

(Headlines, in case anyone hasn't heard, are usually written by an editor rather than the author of the article.)

If the title is to be changed, I suppose that quote from the article's original language may be more accurate and less clickbaity.
MicroSprint – Inspired by Agile Manifesto and Pomodoro Technique
In the past I paid for adverts on /r/sysadmin, and similar sites. These days I mostly bring it up in discussions like this, and each time I do so I get a couple of new signups.

In short I don't do marketing, but if I started losing users that would probably kickstart me into doing so.
Things like this might be increasingly important going forward.
In the long run AI needs to become more intelligent so that it doesn’t need big data to learn. Using large data sets tend to introduce biases more easily.
Hey Tones411, I actually created an app that does this for Android called RoboStop. Check it out! Unfortunately Google will be removing the app from the Play Store on March 9th due to increased restrictions regarding access to user's data (call logs), but I plan on moving the app over to RoboStop.org in about a month from now.
Actually, you totally have a point. Consider the case of China and its Great Firewall. If you can control the URL and separate it from the content, then you can control what people see on yet another level e.g. we aren't blocking what Wikipedia says about the Tienanmen Square massacre this is what that URL actually says. tl;dr gaslighting / rewriting history on a mass scale if you can't use the URL to get to particular server.
>Preying on either group is disgusting and wrong.

I think it's fine for group #1. If the $20 is that important to them then I'd rather not deny them the opportunity.
http://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org/countries/italy/

Less (immediate?) satisfaction but people seem to live longer.
I have this app installed on my phone and I have chosen to have it installed by choice. I am getting paid $20 amazon per month to have it installed.

Why do I do this? Because I enjoy making side hustle money with my phones. This research app in particular is very useful to me because it is 100% passive. If you are concerned with privacy you can always just use a crap side phone to run the app.
I've started dipping my toes in Rust and Elixir. Rust because of the concepts like borrow checker, highly strict compiler, traits etc. Elixir because it is based on Erlang and is highly concurrent due to Actors, and overall a very clean language syntactically. Both of these are very different from the traditional OOP language that I'm using at work (C#).

Actually this is something I wanted to do last year but didn't get enough motivation/energy to actually pursue it. Now I've forced myself to actually do stuff with Rust for the first quarter of 2019 and have made some progress. If things go as per my timelines, I'll focus on Elixir & Rust in alternate quarters. I've found this to be much better than tackling both in parallel which I was doing last year.

As an aside, in the last month of 2018 I dabbled with Pharo/Smalltalk just to investigate its highly dynamic nature, improvement to dev productivity & how things really were supposed to work in real OOP. It was very impressive, especially considering we had something like in 80s & 90s.
iloveastroturfing
There are browsers for Android that have ad-blockers (e.g. Firefox for Android). You can use Twitter's mobile website in one of these browsers.
You might be interested in the Rogers report (the commissioned report on the causes of the Challenger disaster; the committee included notable luminaries such as Feynman). At the end of each chapter it summarizes the findings of the committee. It lays a lot of blame on (among other things) managers accepting escalating risk with each successive launch because "it was OK last time", managerial structures and reporting procedures that failed to communicate critical information upward, and lack of organizational separation between engineering and QA. PDF linked here: https://spaceflight.nasa.gov/outreach/SignificantIncidents/a...

The Challenger disaster is a commonly used case study in engineering classes, especially when discussing engineering ethics or communication with clients/managers.
Can you please provide a link to the courseware?
Apple blames revenue loss on China censoring video games
AMP isn't "run openly" because everything key to Google's business is non-negotiable, and at the end of the day, Google will do what Google wants. This is what I found out when a few of us tried to talk about AMP4Email, where before threatening us with the code of conduct (for bringing up valid security concerns), Malte Ubl admitted that AMP4Email would be implemented however the Gmail team wanted to implement it, and that no amount of community concerns on the GitHub were going to have any say in the matter.

The reality is the "open governance" AMP spec means nothing, because as a monopoly, the only AMP cache which actually matters is Google's. And it's implementation is Google's proprietary business, not part of what they allegedly allow open governance of.
Workers are a cost factor. From an accounting perspective the belief is that eliminating that cost would put more numbers on the other side of the balance sheet. The financial and economic reality is that those people either performed a necessary task the business needs or they didn't and if they were needed it will cost more to eliminate them. These kinds of strategic failures are likely present in more than just labor.
I agree that it is a perception of prestige. It just seems that those companies are doing the best kind of tech.
I have the app installed on my phone. I have it installed because I want the $20 amazon. I don't know if I really "need" the $20 amazon but it is 100% passive once it is installed. You literally need to do nothing. Every month they send you $20. I would not uninstall it even given the privacy concerns.

If you guys are so concerned about it then create something that puts cash in my pocket. I'll gladly run whatever app you want on my phone if you pay me.