skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But also according to the article, he’s not a very effective manager and difficult to work both for and with. That’s consistent with what I’ve heard in security circles outside of his infosec microcelebrity friends. You do need exceptional people and political skills to be effective in these jobs, and arrogance is a really bad attribute if your job is to influence.
What you are trying to do is called "content negotiation", afaik (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_negotiation). Perhaps you find more information about it, when you use this term.

I like the header approach, because it is nice and clean and it can be applied easily to an xhr abstraction in JavaScript, without much change.

But to make a resource absolutely idempotent in a more expressive way (which would be nice), you could also use a file-extension-like apporach:

http://host:port/database/document.json

or use a parameter-based one:

http://host:port/database/document?format=json
Thank you, will explore that asap :)
The study explores the possible way to sustain a bigger brain well before invention of tools, and controlled fire. It's also absolutely not about hunting.

It's always hit or miss when one tries to comment after reading just a headline ;-)
The more interesting questions are (a) how did the National Enquirer get the text messages and if it was from the US government as Bezos’ PI believed then (b) did Trump know about it.

I would expect House Committees and the DOJ to be all over this in the coming months.
The article lists a few ways this might not be considered blackmail. Mainly, when you negotiate a legal matter that is not extortion, even though it often seems as such. The fact that some of the emails come from a lawyer could shield AMI from liability, even if what the lawyer did was unethical. I'm not completely clear on this point, of course you can't let your lawyer do anything, and wash your hands of it, but they're the ones with the professional obligation to act ethically (one of many reasons to retain lawyers). Finally, there might be a free speech case. More importantly, the above reasons might make prosecutors reluctant to bring charges or toss out their immunity deal. A party can do something probably illegal in the USA, and prosecutors may be unwilling to bring charges, for a variety of reasons. Who says the photos are stolen by the way? Do we know how they obtained them? It's copyright infringement at a minimum, which is a civil matter, so he can sue for that at least. I'm basing my information on the article, and only posting, because some people will refuse to read it (even though it's quite short).
I don't think that the technical challenges of notifying people are relevant here. The very fact that you would have to update your own research because something you referenced changed is kind of insane to consider. You now not only have the burden of maintaining your own research, but also staying up to date with changing prior research, and all of this work is not recognised by the institution that employs you.
The syntax seems a bit old school for my liking but otherwise seems nice. Interesting to see where this goes.
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For those wanting a TL;DR: The main suggestions by the author are in section 2. Essentially, it says that modularity allows any errors to be contained, conserved design-by-contract interfaces allows for system expansion, and encapsulation allows for new layers to evolve more freely while older systems stay conserved.
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We use Redux at work for larger projects, React setState/Context for smaller ones, and I'm personally a huge fan of mobx-state-tree which I think is the best solution, and can be plugged into Redux if needed.

I think Redux should not be used for everything (there are libraries like Redux-Form which I think are an anti-pattern as ephemeral state like that should never go through the root reducer on every key change)
Your most important job is to come up with recommendations that are tenable for the business and to sell the business on them. It’s not easy, but that is the job. Shouting that other people are idiots because you told them to unplug the internet and then blaming them for ignoring you demonstrates a lack of maturity required at that level.
Sure! I want to build a wristband that need a flexible rechargeable power source and to be programmed by bluetooth
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Thanks, but one of my specific goals is to get a screen that is at least 15" in size. Funnily enough I just realised that the LCD panel I bought didn't come with an eDP cable... so now I need to find that as well :(
This is a crazy idea. A disaster area is EXACTLY where you want to throttle and prioritize traffic. Are the legislators really saying that during a natural disaster one's ability to watch Netflix should be on the same level of priority as First Responders communicating/coordinating on rescue and recovery efforts?
The project started 9.5 years ago.
The compensation for these roles is VP+ level, way more than rockstar developers.
You're saying that Google would be nationalized if they backed out of France? Notwithstanding that it would be illegal, how is choosing which countries to transact business in a breach of national security?
I created my own library for it.

Compared to redux it's far more simple and requires none of the boilerplate. It also allows perfect type support with typescript.

https://github.com/gunn/pure-store
I did not think about that :( That's sound advice!
Is "identity theft" a thing in Kenya? I mean the US meaning is tied up with easy credit, someone else borrows money in your name, and the lender asks few questions until too late for them. I had the impression that places like Kenya there was very little such consumer credit available.

Edit: I guess the other meaning is things like getting a duplicate SIM card to defeat 2FA. I'd imagine that's a problem. Can anyone comment whether such information would make this easier?
What's the best way to inform owner of unsecured device about vulnerabilities and simple ways to fix them? On printers one could just print out a message, but what about webcams or home automation systems?
Yes. People have issues with it because of Thiel's far right politics, but keep in mind what Gawker did. Publishing a sex tape is a sex crime, or damn close. Imagine if Hogan were a woman and its obvious. Imagine if they published a sex tape of an actress or outed a community activist in a conservative area as gay. In some cases outing people as gay can put them in danger.

BTW I also think it was fine for Alex Jones to get deplatformed and sued for encouraging people to harass school shooting victims. Free speech doesn't mean libel, slander, blackmail, targeted harassment, sex abuse, etc. won't get you sued.

What is alleged with the National Enquirer here is much worse. It looks a lot like they are acting as blackmail enforcers for Trump and/or the Saudis. Like I said others are now coming forward.
Could you set up an SSH tunnel and use the client through that?
I'm missing a nice open-source self-hosted alternative to Intercom and alikes.
For early startups and small projects it's not realistic to pay such a monthly amount when you have few users and no funding.
In my case I don't need all that sales and CRM stuff. A good support solution would be a great start.
Then the Googlers go to jail or they bomb Google's headquarters. Google is not a nation state and wouldn't last long in a fight. More seriously, check out Huawei to see how a huge company pissing off a large country is doing.
Trillion even. At least when using the short scale.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales
Why not call a spade a spade. Better title would be "We need to talk about systematic fraud in China"

It's hardly a secret. Any grad student in America already knows this - about the blatant/incredulous cheating and plagiarism that goes on between Chinese students. But oh no, can't talk about it. 'Coz it's racist y'know.
Is it fraud or disinformation?
I used to check the discussion groups every now and then.

They were a bit more lively.
Thanks for the feedback. My product will be even simplier, in that I don't need sensors, but it has to programmable somehow
Yes this is correct. The resulting ciphertext from Enigma was sent by manual Morse transmission. Morse operators can identify others by thier “hand” which is the Morse equivalent of the sound of your voice in speech.

Earlier in the war the Germans typically sent their call signs in plaintext. Many of the intercept operators in the “Y stations” in the UK became familiar with the “hands” of various German operators. Later in the war the Germans started encrypting their call signs, but Bletchley was generally able to distinguish them by the intercept operator’s familiarity with the “hands” of the German Morse operators.
I hope Bezos makes life harder for publications which deal in sleeze, be it the enquirer, the verge, tmz, buzzfeed, etc. Not only do journalists from these orgs play sleazy but even journos from regular magazines and daylies blackmail people into doing things for them: “give me dirt on so anc so of I’ll publish this big of news you won’t like”.
Ah yes Jeff Bezos really has it tough compared to... a homeless person.
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they do. I'm a paying user in the specific region mentioned. The thing they do not offer is the first month free. Quebec law forbids companies from "offering one month free" and then auto-billing you whether you consent or not at that point.

What companies frequently do instead is offer "pay N months, get N+1 months", such as getting 13 months for a yearly subscription. Spotify just never felt like modifying their offer for local laws, but I've nevertheless been a premium member for years now.
Is someone cutting onions? What a beautiful story. RIP Mats. My condolences to your IRL and online family.
For some use cases, a Beaglebone black can allow for "real" real time while running Linux. It has two microcontrollers (PRU) that share memory with the main ARM cores. So if the real time part can be satisfied by the PRU, it's a neat solution.
Fair point, although my editor (Sublime Text) is apparently to stupid to recognize those as block comments…
This is also what I do. I like UML-ish diagrams to help communicate the ideas with my cow-workers although I use it loosely, not following the formal specs or even doing it electronically, just on paper, to diagram the interactions and from there design my structures, state transitions, and message sequences.

The most serious problem I run into is keeping the documentation synchronized with the project. For everything non-trivial it seems I always get to a point where the project is so far from the docs that it's not worth going back to update. Do you discard the documentation when you've built the thing?
Will check this out! Thanks for the link
I'm surprised they're taking the billionaire angle. The more significant one to me is the technologist angle.

I like to think I'm not a complete idiot around computers. I know a bit about networks and security and risk management -- probably well above the average person on this planet. Yet I'm realistic enough to realize that Bezos likely knows a lot more than me in these areas. And even he can slip up, or get taken, apparently.

I used to think that being knowledgeable about technology and careful in how I use it was enough. I'm gradually coming around to realize that it's more like radiation: there is no completely safe level of exposure.

The story is not that a rich person was gotten -- all else being equal, that's bound to happen just by pure chance. The story is that Bezos understands computer/network security as well as we should expect from anyone on the planet, and he was still gotten.
From a political standpoint, I don't understand how the world is still tolerating such thing, and why it's not part of the public debate. I can understand why it exists, but I'm a little worried to see how widespread and out of control this has become.

I just fear this has the potential to influence and topple governments (even the "solid" ones). People complain about money in politics, but when I see this, I see unchecked capitalism slowly obsoleting governments, because financial power is not under the control of institutions anymore. Money flies, there and there, and governments seem to be completely clueless and unable to work on fighting it.

Worse, citizens don't even seem to pay attention. Money is truly invisible.
It's just as easy to find legal experts who believe that this is chargeable[0]. Yes, it's not very clear-cut, but there's absolutely a case to be made that this amounted to extortion since AMI clearly insinuated that embarrassing images would be released if Bezos didn't play along.

As for the the value of the request, couldn't Bezos & co. argue that discovering the process and methods of how these private messages were obtained cause damage to AMI? Especially if the security expert he hired believed that a "government entity" may have been behind it.

[0]: https://twitter.com/eliehonig/status/1093868928345038848
Re: Cost. Here is one attempt to describe how to pay for it without raising any income taxes: https://medium.com/economicsecproj/how-to-reform-welfare-and...

My personal preference, very different from the above article, would be for a wealth tax that helps keep capital flowing, sort of like a company's dividend going back to investors. We the people are the investors in the wealthy's endeavors that led to that wealth. They keep the bulk, but they pay back some to all of us. If they don't make productive use of the wealth, something that benefits others, then their wealth slowly falls until they are like the rest of us.

By some measures of the wealth of the US, we have 100 trillion dollars in wealth and so 4% wealth tax would fund a 13k per person (including children) UBI.
I assume the idea is that you need to produce a number of these for a new card. I hope IDs would be cryptography signed by gov officer (so fake ID generators are caught over time), and revokable if lost or stolen (one valid id at a time).
If you look at what ex-prosecutors say, many of them think it's clearly enough to bring charges, but it's not clear cut case in the court.

The blackmail attempt happened during ongoing negotiations with over potential legal claims against one another. The defense will argue that they were playing hardball and using dirty and distasteful tactics that is still legal. Prosecutors will argue that this goes far beyond it.

It's weird that Pecker and the company lawyers choose take the risk. They are in no-prosecution agreement with federal prosecutors under conditions that the firm can't do any crimes in next two years or the deal is off.
Here's a case where the previously submitted title, which included something like "in less than 50 lines of literate C++", was more indicative/compelling and I think more useful for news.yc.

I don't think of that as click-bait in the same way as "you won't believe #7", but rather as additional information which truthfully and transparently makes it more likely that I'll accurately gauge my interest in the linked article.

"Don't editorialize" in this case is a negative, but perhaps is globally optimal.
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In germany the federal bureau of security in IT actually does that. They send the admins an email: https://www.bsi.bund.de/EN/Topics/IT-Crisis-Management/CERT-...
Yes, and that’s why you’ve got to push for the intitutions to change.
Pick any aspect of said subject and dig in. If possible, have a project to study said subject. Do not look at other aspects of the same subject. Focus. Less thought is more at this point.

The minute you start thinking "oh no the subjects so big, where do I start", you start tying yourself up in mental knots.

Also, have another subject, so when you get fed up, you can take a break and switch subject (maybe forever). You can "find your spot" like that.

To learn is to live!
Good luck!
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I'm not British, but that site does seem pretty nice. I don't know anything about the history of it, but I highly doubt it was developed in house.

I don't think it's the case that the government is simply unable to do something like this, I just think they don't provide the right incentives like competitive pay and bonuses.

In the private sector, say in finance, if you're good and you work for the firm for awhile you could get promoted to managing director and make anywhere from a million to ten million in bonuses for the year. If you're a productive manager in government, you don't really get paid much more than anyone else.

The main benefit that government provides its employees is good benefits (healthcare, pensions) and job stability. It's unlikely that you will ever get fired unless for some very gross misconduct.

I think this incentive system attracts the wrong kind of people into government: those who just want a stable paycheck instead of those driven to produce value.

If we just raised government salaries or if the government gave out significant performance bonuses, the government would work a lot better and be much more efficient.
Why would it be different ? Both doesn't respect private life of people to make money. If both case are on opposite side of the political spectrum, it's better : it means that the law is applied correctly to everybody.
> Any advices welcome!

It isn't realistic that you are going to develop a product from nothing in your spare time. If you don't know anything about hardware, chances are your idea isn't even any good. You didn't even ask a proper question, presumably because that would ruin the fantasy. Are you telling me you can't google how to make a prototype?

Yes, that sounds pessimistic. So I will give you the real advice. If you actually want to bootstrap a hardware project in you spare time, do something that is realistic. Do an add-on board for an arduino or a raspberry pi, or something with an esp8266 that you design yourself and sell in small quantity on e.g. tindie.

How long is that going to take you? Depending on your software experience, maybe a hundred active hours. How many hours would be realistic on average every week your spare time, maybe five? So around six months if you include holidays. Now you can imagine how long your original idea would take.
A moving article. I had a similar experience, although on a different scale, as I had lost most of my hearing at age 12. It was liberating for me to converse with people by writing in the chat in World of Warcraft, whereas I dreaded conversations in person, as they made me feel stupid and like a burden. I can only imagine how liberating it must've been for Mats. Rest in peace, Mats, I'm sure your friends will remember you for the rest of their lives.
What an odd choice, for a terse language with modern syntactic sugar to use "end func Sum_Of_Squares"
Your comment illustrates another reason literate programming never took off :-) Until a reader has spent enough time reading and getting familiar with the conventions, how to navigate, etc (in my case it was several dozen hours), they experience a lot of resistance against simply reading the literate program, and keep wanting to read “the real code”.

Ultimately a program is a set of instructions to a computer, and when we as humans look at a program we're trying to conceptualize how these instructions are organized. (Essentially, “translate” them into a mental map.) We have so much more experience doing this with “real” code, knowing what we can ignore and when, and being able to do this at well — e.g. with things like function docstrings or public/private declarations, we're able to read them once and then have them basically fade away from our consciousness so we don't read them again. When faced with unfamiliar conventions, it takes a while to get that ability again.
It also only really impacts shareholders.

Sarbanes Oxley demonstrated with clarity how to fix this: pierce the corporate veil and send executives who commit crimes (or allow crimes to be committed under them) to jail.

It's a matter of political will and power, nothing more.
Unless I missed it here or elsewhere, GA is the only option that integrates event tracking. That's really important, especially in js-powered UIs. I so want to ditch GA, but I so need (integrated) event tracking.
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Why do animals have the inate urge to reproduce? Smart and rich doesen't cancel out evolution? Someone touching your bits, and even the chase is satisfying? Color me shocked. /s
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It's not Anti-Conservative, it's Anti-Mor@n, which is valid.

It's the mor@ns complaining about this stuff without the horsepower to back their complaints up, so they just call it Anti-Conservative and hope it sounds legit enough for the media to run with it ... which they then inevitably do.
Often I discover a problem in my everyday life. Last time i did not find a tool to rename and transfer files, that fitted my needs (on Windows!!), so i did some research, what language would be the right tool for the job. Thats how i learned golang.

The most important things for me, learning a technology are:

- Having fun, learning it

- Solve a concrete problem in my life

- First success in a short time (<= 1 week)

- It should improve my skills in general

- Best case: It is something i never did before or it improves something, i already did

Currently I'm learning Rust, to improve my copy tool written in golang ;)
> ... many of them think it's clearly enough to bring charges, but it's not clear cut case in the court.

> They are in no-prosecution agreement with federal prosecutors under conditions that the firm can't do any crimes in next two years or the deal is off

These two facts are crazy to me, because the prosecution doesn't have to win in court to tear up the deal. The prosecution generally just has to show that they made a determination in good faith that a crime was committed.

So there is a _much_ lower bar to tear up the deal if the prosecution thinks something smells criminal.

I just don't get why you would possibly risk the immunity deal for this. The reward doesn't seem worth the risk at all.
Okay, stop. Stop. This is called statistics. People have been using it to analyze the human genome for decades, since we first had the sequence. I wrote my thesis on such work a decade ago. This is not "artificial intelligence". Enough already you clods.
If you reference something that turns out to be incorrect due to poor data or whatever, and it gets corrected surely you would want to update your paper?
Not sure why you got down votes for this because you speak the truth. It reminds me of a time when I was in a lower division Physics class and the professor announced to the class that calculators would not be allowed during the test. Since most of the class was made up of engineering students there was much wailing and gnashing of teeth. But the professor explained that calculators wouldn't be needed because if there was any numbers at all in the answers they'd be trivial to calculate. This came as quite a shock to a lot of students who'd been equating math with numerical operations.