skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Absolutely. Security and secrecy are not binary, though, it's a spectrum. There are many things where you would mostly want to avoid dragnet attacks and undetected intrusion but don't have concerns for targeted attacks like the one you are describing.

I think this fills the gap for when you want to share not-critically-secret stuff with non-technical people and would today likely send it over something like e-mail, Drive or Dropbox.
Personally I would say if you use the word expert, it should be an actual expert in the relevant field. Anything else blows straight past 'weasel words' and straight to misleading.

Plus in the article, they list a load of non absolute statements, (which as I tried to illustrate in my prior comment, pop-up a lot in normal conversation).

You couldn't have a 'normal' conversation without using 'weasel words'.

I feel its missing the wood for the trees to focus on examples divorced of context, when its the context that matters, not the actual words.

Nice article btw. Installing Vista now.
> To make sure his phone wasn’t keeping a record of everywhere he’d been — and potentially transmitting it to apps he was using — he turned off all its geolocation services.

... Of course, IMEI tracking (from tower registration) can get you pretty much all of this data anyway. This article is more about how to partially obfuscate your identity to private actors.

It would be interesting to know how fast a professional could unravel all of this. Minutes? Hours?
I think the best thing you could do is to find a therapist to discuss these feelings with and help you work out a plan for you. A lot of high "performers" regularly work on their mental health. Nobody talks about it but you see it with high performance athletes, CEOs etc...

Another idea is to focus on your unique skills and do those well. You may find that your skills have no use in one company but are invaluable in another. So it's a matter of context that defines high performing.

Just to note that health scares only briefly change behavior [1]. Some ways to help make a change permanent is to develop a support network and physically change your environment so that something negative is no longer accessible.

The last part of having a support network is huge. You may see someone who is a high performer at work and school and as a Dad but they have a spouse who shoulders at least half or more of the burden. In work they may have a team to rely on and in school a study group. We really should look at high performant teams instead of individuals. We like to assign success as a function of the individual but really it takes a village.

[1] http://www.nbcnews.com/id/35584798/ns/health-behavior/t/scar...
I gotta get better at CSS, I'm somewhat horrified by what I've done in JavaScript that it turns out I didn't need.

Does anyone know of a good book on intermediate/advanced CSS to help avoid excess JS usage/complexity?
This is totally true. We've recently started to discover this paradox ourselves: when styling and layout is all done via CSS, and JS + other assets are cached, HTML is just as light weight as JSON over the wire. As ashamed as I am to admit it, our newest innovation appears to be "multi-page apps"!
I've found the opposite is true. Ubuntu loves to make ubuntu specific things. They made Unity, which eventually failed and led them back to GNOME. They made Mir, which eventually failed and led them back to Wayland. They made Upstart, which eventually failed and led them back to systemd. Fedora always chooses what the majority of the community wants to use and then ships the most vanilla version possible.
Author here. We added fine grain locking to the redis codebase. The goal is to expand what’s concurrent over time.

Currently network IO and query parsing are multithreaded. Access to the core hash table is under lock. However network IO and query parsing take up most of the time in Redis queries. Hash tables are pretty fast. The goal is to add a reader/writer lock here in the future.

The lock itself is also interesting. We used a ticket lock which is a variant of a spin lock. This ensures fair locking and reduces the variance in latency dramatically. Standard POSIX locks are too slow.
I also use copy/paste between my Mac and iPhone quite a lot, which is a Handoff feature
I’ve been hearing from friends at GitHub and MS that things are on fire internally. The GitHub employees are in semi-revolt because they think Nat is integrating too fast with MS. Many people have quit or are being pushed out. It may actually be for the best because the post-founder/pre-buyout team was pretty mediocre. Nat is also trying to crack down on some of the more overt activism in the company. They do “eq” screenings for political fit during the interview process and he’s trying to get them to stop. They also have a brand new head of product and engineering. Product was taken from Jason Warner about two months ago and placed directly under Nat. Sounds really bad and I don’t expect much turn around.
if you put a gun to my head and asked me "Rich parents donated 2 million dollars to get their daughter into Harvard, what is her major?" I would say "Arts/Language/Social" every time. If it was a male, i would say "Business/political science" without fail.
i suspect a caching issue. I cleared my wordpress cache, so hopefully it will appear correct to others soon. ;)
The really crazy effect of insulin is how it interacts with aging. The link between insulin and aging is super well understood.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2906894/

If you're interested in the Ted talk version:

https://www.ted.com/talks/cynthia_kenyon_experiments_that_hi...

She now works at Calico, Google's longevity play. If there was one area I was going to do something besides agriculture this is what I would work on.
I am suggesting it works both ways. I also believe it's a relatively healthy dynamic.
Phrasing comes into play here. Instead of:

> "Hey, 3 months ago you asked for the forecast according to the ECMWF weather model, and I couldn't answer you. But now I can, so go ahead and try!".

What might work more effectively is

"We've been improving our weather forecasting and you can now get the forecast in your area according to a range of new models, including the often requested ECMWF weather model! Give it a try now!"
I'm sure some of it is, but given the multiple this company is trading at compared to its peers, a drop in sales of over 60% month over month should cause investors to panic.
That's actually a feature if you want to know whether you've done it well!
This definition kind of punts the question on to the definition of "compete." Microsoft in the 1990s was probably the most clear-cut monopoly in most of our lifetimes, and they still had multiple competitors (e.g. the then-beleaguered Apple), which they did try to use as a defense. I think the key factor is more about whether you believe the competitors are a credible threat. If it doesn't seem like a company is realistically beatable under the current circumstances, that's sort of what we're looking for when we talk about monopolies.
> Such a functionality would mean that they stored your failed request in some sort of database, a database that they later used to send you a personalized marketing email.

I don't think this kind of thing would need (or even benefit from) actual voice recordings when it comes to the "new functionality" part of things. I would expect something more like a running tally of the X most common failed interactions after running the transcript through a fuzzy-match filter, and a long list of accounts associated with each.
The problem with Alexa is that Amazon runs their R&D team like a consumer research organization.

I mean, you gotta listen to every word that comes out of the customer's mouth right?

Their Principles are too reductive to even guarantee that copies of other people's ideas are successful. For as much of a genius as he may be, Jeff Bezos has created an organization of automatons.
Don't take my word for it. Here's one of the Durdens:

https://www.newyorker.com/news/benjamin-wallace-wells/is-the...
It’s Raining Brand-New Commodore 64s
By keeping prices “artificially low” it’s keeping competition from forming.

Yes this argument is silly. But it’s no sillier than the other arguments being discussed.
>Why do I need to show you my representation to convince you I possess human understanding of language?

Why not? What makes you special? You're giving humans a double standard here. It's not like we have a particularly clear understanding of the human model of cognition.

And since we're venturing further into the philosophical, I feel safe making the assertion that no, I, a priori, have no reason to believe that you have more understanding of language than a model. I'm only interacting with you online. For all I know, you are a computer program. Why should I trust you and hold you to a different standard than I would any other model?
Remember that AWS pays the Open Source Initiative, and that their members often post on Open Source related topics here without disclosing their conflict of interest.

Remember that AWS takes from developers, but doesn't give back anywhere near what they have made from the communities work.

Rather than supporting Elastic... they decide to make a hostile fork. AWS are a bunch of jerks.
> I can see the argument that maybe society would be better served by a bunch of independent charities that all take voluntary donations. I'm not sure everybody buys that

I think this is mostly just the argument about what should be considered a charity again. If people are donating money to the Foundation for the Preservation of High Housing Costs, that is almost certainly not better than what the government would have done with it (or, for that matter, than setting the money on fire and doing nothing), but then why should that be considered a charity?

Meanwhile the idea that the Gates Foundation isn't making better use of a dollar than the mean government expenditure is pretty ridiculous.

At that point the argument would have to be that you still need money for government services that wouldn't be provided by charities -- assuming that the roads being in disrepair wouldn't cause anyone to donate money to a road-improving charity (and that having one of those wouldn't, as is the case now, be proscribed by law). But that's only a problem if almost everyone prefers to give more of their money to charity than to give less of it to the government, otherwise there are still many people paying taxes to fund government services. And given the size of government revenues despite the existence of the charitable deduction, that is clearly not the problem.

> or that these are donations that wouldn't otherwise be made if there were no tax deduction.

It still works even if it goes the other way. If you were inclined donate $100K of your income regardless but it wasn't deductible then you'd have lost about a third of that to taxes (or more than half if you also take into account state and local taxes in California), leaving that much less for the charity.
> He reported that heterosexual females faced a Gini coefficient of 0.324, while heterosexual males faced a much higher Gini coefficient of 0.542. So neither sex has complete equality: in both cases, there are some “wealthy” people with access to more romantic experiences and some “poor” who have access to few or none. But while the situation for women is something like an economy with some poor, some middle class, and some millionaires, the situation for men is closer to a world with a small number of super-billionaires surrounded by huge masses who possess almost nothing.

My god. What the PUA and MRA communities have been saying all along...
For proper formatting of code snippets, indent the entire snippet with two spaces.
It's supposedly UI agnostic and just requires QT5. Probably you can build it from source, and it will open as a normal app, in its own tile.
How are they useless in terms of "if US decides to cut Russia from DNS national services including government sites should continue to function"

What TLD are these sites hosted on?
Oddly, it doesn't work for me (FF 65.0.2, windows 7) -- I just get an inert white rectangle in the middle of the screen. I tried turning off ublock origin and DNT settings, but it still is just a rectangle.

It works on chrome, and does not work on IE 11 (win 7 doesn't support edge)
CoreOS was based on ChromeOS/Gentoo. With the Red Hat acquisition of CoreOS, it will be merged with Atomic and based on Fedora/RHEL.

I think GKE's 'cos' is based on the ChromeOS/Gentoo version of CoreOS.
> there is literally nothing inherently illegal (in the US, at least) about building a monopoly in any case.

This is not true, despite being repeated extremely often. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Alcoa
This is a great comment, and really a key here.

If you have a nail (environmental problem) hit it with a hammer (environmental regulation or tort liability deregulation).

You can hit it with back end of a plastic screwdriver (regulate supply and demand), but you'll never do as good of a job (flush nail with no external damage) as you will using the right tools.

And, to stretch the metaphor, the handle of the screwdriver might shatter and and cause a bunch of new problems without ever hammering the nail.
Existing connections using the config when they were initiated is intended to prevent inconsistencies when changes are being made, these inconsistencies could lead to connections being dropped en mass after a config change.
Do keep in mind that having 300ns L3 latencies comes with it's own set of problems. Even at 10Gbit 300ns is not enough to get a packet through an electrical connection. Plus they also have some 90ns latency products.

That means that these switches, while fast, cannot check the packets for correctness (they don't have the full packet). That they will have "aborted" packets. That in some important ways these networks have the problems of the "half-duplex" networks of old.

Broadcom focuses on features for packet transmission. That means these Mellanox switches are pretty much restricted to situations where you want to have a set of servers on a single network segment and nothing else (not even an upstream connection). If that's exactly what you need, great. But mostly you're going to need more.
I bought an echo on an Amazon sale to explore making "skills" for it.

But (at least then) there was no real way to monetize anything using it. Making an interesting skill that people use will just cost you money.

BigCos or VCCos can use skills for generating good will I guess. But independent developers, not so much.
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920012726.do

I haven't used it personally BUT it seems to cover most things I'd use these days, including "new" topics like grid, filters, etc. CSS is relatively simple so something of a reference with some examples would be great.
2015 study finds that the glycemic index varies widely depending on the individual:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2015/1...
It took a month mainly because the redis codebase is so well organized. So kudos to Antirez for that. I can’t deny adding locking makes the code a bit more complicated - but there are more users than developers.
Traditionally the fly-by-wire systems have at least 3 AoA sensors, which each "vote" on the output value.

That way, if you have one faulty sensor, it gets outvoted.

The MCAS system in the new 737-MAX's only have 2 AoA sensors, which means a single faulty sensor can cause bad things to happen.
Just because it’s legal doesn’t mean it’s not corrupt.
You understand that pretty much anyone could relay random bits of technical news and produce banal op-eds about market conditions, calibrating the amount of jargon to sound just a level or two above Bloomberg, and then mix insane conspiracy theories into that feed, right? Like, it'd be a 9-5 job to keep it going, but not an especially difficult one.

Back in the mid-late 1990s I ran technical operations for what was then Chicago's most popular ISP (it was eventually acquired, through multiple hops, by RCN). Our arch-competitor was a very strange guy named Karl Denninger, about whom I would relate stories here but I'm pretty sure he'll have a Google search set up on his name and I'd rather not pay to have bogus lawsuits against me dismissed. Anyways: he runs one of these sites, a sort of Zero-Hedge Jr, at Market-Ticker.org.

Maybe switch to Market-Ticker. It's just as batshit as Zero Hedge, but I'm pretty sure Karl isn't trying to influence low-information American voters about Syria.
Marriott CEO shares post-mortem on last year's hack
No, that's not what happened.
I never eat any animal products when travelling in the US.

They are of much lower quality, and full of hormones and additives.
I was taking with a friend who said ,"people use Alexa like a toaster, we haven't found what this interface will be really good at"

But what if it /is/ just a toaster? Tech people tend to have high hopes for technology but technology must serve a purpose and it will go the way of the dodo if the purpose of not strong or clear. For me, having a voice interface for music and calls is enough justification for such a device, and I assume this is true for others as well. It's a classic case of over-engineering and then shopping around for a use case for the 25-use Swiss army knife that no one asked for.
Why not adopt
Herb Sutter's metaclasses proposal is basically that - the feature to replace macros.

https://herbsutter.com/2017/07/26/metaclasses-thoughts-on-ge...
The brick and mortar stores could have easily started another company that was only online.

But as far as being uncompetitive because of a previous business model is the entire premise of the “Innovator’s Dilemma”. It’s not the governments responsibility to protect old business models.
Elizabeth Warren Wants to Bring the EU Copyright Directive Stateside
The bigger engines are more economically, that's the reason why airlines want it in the first place. But they had to move them forward to fit under the plane which brings the plane out of balance. The alternative would have been changing the height of the plane, which probably also results in other problems.
Isn't it tied to someone via the corporation's ownership, still?
In this specific case, they do test for the ApoE gene which can you a 20x higher chance of getting Alzheimer's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apolipoprotein_E#Alzheimer's_d...

20x more is not a sure thing, but for a disease like Alzheimer's that is already pretty common (e.g. we're not talking about risk increasing from 0.01% to 0.2%) it's more meaningful than just for entertainment purposes.

I agree with your wife that for most people their 23andme results will be nothing more than entertainment, but there are a handful of truly meaningful things it can find.
Bird plans to blanket the world with electric scooters without going bankrupt
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10030863 for a good discussion
If you're trying to get up and don't feel like it.. flex one muscle really hard like your abs.. then a few seconds later your brain will let u get up
Please don't cross into incivility on Hacker News.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Many people "collect" the commemorative 50p coins, possibly in the same way people collected the state quarters in the USA. There are one or two released every year[1], and the number varies.

People seem to avoid spending them for a little while, show someone if it's one they've not seen before, and perhaps put them aside at home, but eventually spend them again.

[1] https://www.royalmint.com/discover/uk-coins/coin-design-and-...
I've used firefox send many times since its introduction as a pilot. I applaud its simplicity. The workflow is basically upload, send message/email containing the link, download.
I've written 15-20 Alexa apps, some public, most for running parts of my life / house.

A big part of the problem for a long time with developing Alexa skills is that if you needed to know where the user was, having them enable location permissions was insane. It required the user to have the Alexa app installed (which almost no one does), then navigate 3-4 fairly technical looking screens and finally flip a switch.

I recently wrote a demo app for a friend's company that needed to know where the user was, and I jumped through a bunch of hoops for an otherwise simple task to avoid the app-permissions-dance. The app I wrote was demoed to the Alexa team by my friend (his company was doing a deal for the company's data to be supplied to Amazon), and the feedback he got from the Alexa execs was they know the location permissions process was a big issue.

I think it's gotten better recently with the redesign of the Alexa app, but I haven't checked it out yet - I don't have any desire to release a public Alexa app. I just to keep my stuff in developer mode and customized to my needs.
Thanks for the suggestion Pedro, I'm testing the waters for now, there is the possibility that I might add curation in the future.
Two bytes per pixel for, say, a single 640x256 pixel screen would already use more RAM than available on a 256k Amiga 1000.

RAM size only ha to double a few times for this to become an entirely outdated concern, but that's what they had to work with at the time they designed the chipset. Still no excuse for AGA!
TV actresses among 40 people charged in college exam cheating plot
Let’s change Europe from the ground up
I love the concept, but I would appreciate if they provided some more color around the WCAG standard it uses.

I also don't understand how #EB8521 or #00BBC9 could outright fail even the Headlines test when they're so clearly legible, which makes me think maybe this WCAG standard is not what I really want to optimize for, thank you very much.
Precisely, I welcome having 20 little Mini-Googles and the return of independent local news stations and papers.
UMS (USB Mass Storage) is a protocol. MTP is a different protocol.

Android devices don't support UMS anymore.
How do you know other native-born Americans wouldn't have started these businesses? The business conditions and technological readiness were ripe for talented and driven individuals, it just happened to be these fellas.
How to successfully submit an app to the App Store for review
Because Debian is not owned by a corporation. Who knows what IBM will do with Red Hat. We all know that massive corps that buy smaller ones usually don't treat the smaller corps very well. They often buy them for the patent portfolio or tech, merge it in or kill it outright after a time.

While Red Hat has determined (sadly) the overall direction of Linux development with things like systemd (don't get anyone started on this one), PulseAudio, et al, does anyone not think this will not end up tragically?

Independent distros like Debian (who sadly adopted systemd) and Slackware (now the oldest continually developed distro, and thankfully not using systemd) need to exist. Linux hackers, both pro and amateur, need a place to tinker that is not always being broken. Both Debian and Slackware are fairly conservative distros that have a long development time. I for one favor this long development time for things I need to be rock solid.

Look at the development space as well as PaaS, Web hosting, etc. Ubuntu dominates this space. With one exception: people that need CPanel. Ubuntu is generally faster, all things considered, and definitely easier to use, upgrade, and maintain.
One of the most inspiring web-related posts I've read in a long time...