skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the human trafficking angle is most likely. Someone was trying to introduce her to this Ms. Yang to get her in to her business, but wasn’t aware that the event was cancelled.
Title seems misleading. Per the article it seems they demand email confirmation, but merely offer to access your email for you in order to accomplish that.

(This is not a defense of Facebook's actions here)
Welcome to the Old Internet Again
But by and large people don't make mix tapes, or bootleg videos anymore. They torrent it from the one person with the time to break the DRM. They would likely still do this even if the content was DRM free since its easier.
> Why again did we decide that it's okay for our President to spend every weekend at his private, unsecured, for-profit clubs?

We elected him. Presidents get this purview. If this pisses you off, register to vote, volunteer for campaigns and join your local political club.
Or it could be that private companies are more likely to care more about profit for shareholders than the health of the market and their own workers, so they deploy unfair employment practices and anticompetitive market behavior to cut corners, destroy the competition, and monopolize for even more profit.
What about it? I made a substantial positive impact on Rust, largely because I strongly pushed my ideas and consistently and strongly argued against taking it in directions that I disagreed with. I wasn't happy with the level of control Mozilla had over the project and they weren't happy with someone always questioning their decisions and expecting them to do things fairly based on merit and fair honest discussions / debate. I ultimately ended up deciding to leave the project permanently and removed myself as a collaborator.

Someone followed that up by making a post trying to support me thinking that I had been pushed out which is not what happened. The people there were split between supporting me or supporting the Rust developers but they were all arguing about something which didn't actually happen.
I wonder if this is a good faith effort on part of the current administration to find new common ground with the Iranian gov't. Nevertheless, an incredible contribution.
I think one of the best way to shield her against threats would be to host thousands of sci-hub mirrors. How hard can this be done considering the size of the whole site?
I would say principal at most companies maps to l6 at google. In Mountain View that pays $560,000/year total comp on average according to levels.fyi

Non faang pay for principal engineers in Mountain View could be estimated roughly by using stack overflow’s salary calculator. Mountain View, react, typescript, aws, postgres, linux, 20 years experience, no degree lists $187,000 for the 50th percentile.

I think the discussion gets confusing because as an industry we suck at describing levels of the technical track in a portable way.

I do know senior engineers making 150k in the Bay Area. I also know some making 750k.
Ooh, ooh I got this one. Identifying and acquiring compelling public domain motion picture works and then creating copyright-eligible derivative works is my full-time job.

A derivative work is a work based on or derived from one or more already existing works. Common examples include translations, musical arrangements, motion picture versions of literary material or plays, art reproductions,
abridgments, and condensations of preexisting works. Another common type of derivative work is a “new edition” of a preexisting work in which the editorial revisions, annotations, elaborations, or other modifications represent, as a whole, an original work.

To be copyrightable, a derivative work must incorporate some or all of a preexisting “work” and add new original copyright-eligible authorship to that work.

The copyright in a derivative work covers ONLY the additions, changes, or other new material appearing for the first time in the work. Protection does not extend to any preexisting material, that is, previously published or previously registered works or works in the public domain or owned by a third party. As a result, it is not possible to extend the length of protection for a copyrighted work by creating a derivative work. A work that is, or has fallen into the public domain, that is, a work that was never or is no longer protected by copyright, is also an
underlying “work” from which derivative authorship may
be added, but the copyright in the derivative work will not
extend to the public domain material, and the use of the
public domain material in a derivative work will not prevent
anyone else from using the same public domain work for
another derivative work.
> Minimum wage laws are ultimately restrictions an individual's right to enter into a contract.

This, 100%. If I have some menial task that doesn't justify paying minimum wage, and I have a person interested in this contract, then the government's intervention is violating our rights.

We don't stand a chance bringing the homeless population back into the workforce with a high minimum wage, it's just not going to happen. People who support higher minimum wage don't seem to realize that it has negative side effects, like pushing lower-ranking employees out of the market.
That was actually pretty interesting. There's the old saying, that a person who stands for nothing will fall for anything. I think that, just because all is futile and there ultimately is nothing worth standing for, it's no license to fall for anything. Having no acceptable options shouldn't mean settling for the least offensive to our values, which I feel is something most people suffering the modern glut do even without thinking about it. We can create meaning, even if only in hindsight. The process can be an absolute pain in the ass but we can still build meaning where none exists.

So the gods don't exist. If you want a job done right...
Apparently they had no problems with Android devices.
This is a very half-baked idea, but perhaps a compromise would be to make the text content free to access and reserve PDF downloads for subscribers or paying customers. Ideally the content would be presented through something like eLife's Lens project. [1]

[1]: https://github.com/elifesciences/lens
They do that here in Seattle sometimes.
Quite a few. Due to underfunding they are under a lot of pressure to produce higher returns so they invest into VC and private equity.
Bradley discovers stellar aberration (1720s)
You could go from making $200k/yr to $400k/yr with one to two promotions.

It's a big jump and for people who live in an area where homes are regularly $2-4m (they're not even nice homes), you have to make big money in order to afford one.
VCs are not investing their own money.
The future of user authentication is continuous authentication. Pilots wanted
At Pinterest we have a graph db developed internally called Zen. If you just search on google you’ll find a lot of docs and presentations. It’s used all over the places, if you search in our engineering blog you’ll see it mentioned constantly.

In terms of applications using graph, my favorite one is our recommendation engine:
https://medium.com/pinterest-engineering/an-update-on-pixie-...

Another very interesting (and very recent) application of graphs in security is Cartography by Lyft:
https://github.com/lyft/cartography

(I’m on the go, please excuse the lack of links for Zen)
I didn't understand that it'd be out there for the rest of my life.

Neither did anyone else, which means it isn't going to matter in the long run for anyone who is just starting out today. If everybody has skeletons in their closet, no one does. And everybody pretty much does.

Remember that one of the two major parties in the US has willfully abandoned any pretense at moral authority by supporting Trump. The only threat Beto faces in that regard comes from his own party. The correct reaction would be for him to own his juvenile fiction, not apologize for it.
Linux Mint 19.2 Tina on the way, but the developers seem defeated and depressed
Lyft earns $3.75 from each ride now. What happens when cars don't need drivers?
Widevine Support

To be honest, I'd rather not browse locked content. Please ship the browser so that it displays a disparaging message about the entities that host the locked content, in a marked <div/> tag that explains what assholes they are.
That is terrifying
"When you're holding a hammer, everything looks like a nail."

There is a tendency for mgmt to sign up engineers to a vision quest with pre-established non-negotiable requirements whereby the customer expects what would be tantamount to solving all the world's problems in one easy to use, intuitive SPA that 'just works, always'. This is a big factor in the endless new framework releases, mutually-exclusive complexities and vulnerabilities.
>How is pen testing of iPhones stealing Apple's secrets?

Did you read the article? The CIA -- in addition to pentesting -- is trying to exfiltrate GID keys of Apple devices. That is quite literally, trying to steal Apple's secrets -- not checking which systems have vulnerabilities.
Around 10 grand.
He could be right. The complexity of these front end frameworks decouples modules increases complexity by a significant amount. There is no way to prove that your current designs are the best possible way of solving your problem as designs by definition aren't proveable solutions.

To listen to him blindly is ignorant but to ignore him is just as perilous.
It's very accurate now. I don't know when your experience with it was.

It pulls from the same source that Google Maps currently does, so feel free to use whichever you prefer.
If the idea of stellar aberration -- celestial objects making small ellipses in the sky over the course of a year -- you might want to start with Carl. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXXekZA_vZg#t=02m25s
But why bother with jQuery? Vanilla is pretty decent.

Prefer React/Vue for the big stuff. But you can't beat vanilla when you need perf and control.
There is some psychology to this. I mean someone that is already healthy is more likely to do a greater amount of sexual things. If you're sick you're not going to be as sexual. Also, being sickly more common or unwell should already put you on unsteady ground when carrying a baby.

Additionally, a woman who has had more intimate exposure to her husband is probably less likely to have negative reactions to a fetus which they have created, judging from basic adaptive immunology.
> CTO having zero regard for his customers and having the gall to tell us to install a new OS ourselves for our own safety after we paid him to offload the trouble of handling security for us, you get no more of my business.

I continued development of the OS under the AndroidHardening name and it's available entirely for free as a permissively licensed open source project:

https://github.com/GrapheneOS

It's not a product, and you don't have to pay anything for the replacement. If you have a 1st generation Pixel, that support isn't quite ready yet, but if it's a 2nd generation Pixel the successor has been around since December.

I had no way to reach out to the users and customers once James had taken over, especially after he locked me out of my email account and stole the open source project's Twitter account by rolling back the email from danielmicay@gmail.com to daniel.micay@copperhead.co. He covered up what had happened and heavily misrepresented it. You seem to believe a bit too much of what you were told by them.

If you wanted help installing another OS, you just had to contact me. I often walk people through stuff like this. I'm perfectly willing to do that. It took time to rebuild things, so there wasn't immediately a direct replacement. The infrastructure was all taken over, donations to the project were stolen and this all happened right before Android Pie was released which required a major migration to get it done within a week or so of release to continue releasing full security updates for Pixels.

What exactly was I supposed to do when there was an attempt to take over the project? It was not going to be possible to ever release a non-compromised update again due to loss of the infrastructure, and a complete betrayal by the company that had agreed to support the project while agreeing that I would own and control it. The project would never have had any use for the signing keys again. They were entirely a liability. They obviously weren't going to be turned over to the corrupt company and you see for yourself that they did have not even provided full security updates for almost an entire year and misrepresented that fact to their users. It's a scam now, without any actual work on privacy / security and is simply based on stolen legacy code under a license they don't have permission to use.
25 Years Later: Interview with Linus Torvalds
Monetary policy is everything. Read financial history.

VCs aren't some unique species that have cracked investing. Human nature is the same as always: people will do stupid stuff. If someone turns up with a check for $100m, you don't check to see whether you can invest it safely. You become a true believer, you gather assets, and if you weren't a true believer at the start you will be after you make enough...it always ends badly but this is why cycles happen.

In fact, the last cycle has been particularly unusual because we have actually see the bad firms driving out the good ones (I don't know about VC but it is happening everywhere else). And this is definitely due to monetary policy.

You are right. At the level of the investment, people aren't saying we should seed this company because of monetary policy...but no-one says this in any bubble. Rather what happens is that the demand for securities goes up and finance finds ways to fill this demand. Human nature being what it is, this always ends badly.

To say this another way: people will find endless ways to rationalise a bad decision. And if someone is paying you to make bad decisions sound good...well then, what do you think will happen?

Btw, just generally, I think VCs are less sophisticated than the average investor. The current environment has just been very forgiving. I don't think we will see anything like this again (if central bankers lose control which seems inevitable), literally firms with billions in cumulative losses trading for $10bn+. These IPOed firms will probably destroy hundreds of billions in capital alone.
No, honestly then we would’ve just had more plugins like Silverlight/Flash. Widevine helped, in part, to get rid of all of that.
We've been considering it, but taking a more active role in rehabbing it by planting trees me helping them grow. There's loooots of land around that was previously used for farming or forestry that's pretty cheap.
Could be an interesting place to train for free diving.
Is this really that common? Can you name a (general) example?
The head Librarian of Congress is appointed for 10 year terms. The present one, Carla Hayden, was appointed by Barack Obama in 2016.
A few examples I can think of off the top of my head:

- AirBnB uses a model to recommend a daily price for a new listing. They have to base this off the area and how other similar listings are priced.

- Uber has an entire team (maybe teams) dedicated to forecasting demand at a location/time, they distribute this information to divers so they can plan to be certain places at certain times to get more fares.

- Uber collects your location 5 minutes before/after your ride. They use this (at least in part) to figure out where people normally go when they request to be dropped off at an address, and then they can optimize the drop-off location using that information.

Really though, the trick is to find a problem that can be solved with machine learning, and where profit of the solution is multiple times the cost of developing it. The only way to spot these opportunities reliably is to have a lot of machine learning experience, and quite a bit of domain knowledge. It may be worth following some tech company ML engineering blogs to get a better grasp of how they leverage ML.

[1]: https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/aerosolve-machine-lear...

[2]: https://eng.uber.com/forecasting-introduction/

[3]: https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/12/01/50...
Seeking fame and notoriety is a norm. Our minds are so attached to media these days that most people lose touch with those around them and live in a world of popular personalities. So I'm not sure if this is true, because it's almost like fighting for existence these days when our communities and interpersonal relationships are so weak.
So how much should my 16 year old and his friends get paid for making pizza?
Show HN: Plutus-yesod-starter-app: a tool for researching Plutus User Interfaces
Hi everyone, I want to share with you a small tool I have been constructing in the past weeks. It's designed to kickstart you into developing Plutus Smart Contracts.

https://github.com/javcasas/plutus-yesod-starter-app

http://www.javiercasas.com/articles/plutus-yesod-starter-app
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The professional economists who've actually researched this matter disagree with you.
Microsoft closes their Windows 10 Bookstore
Quoting the last section of the article:

"""The reason why purple and violet look similar to us is because they stimulate our cones in a similar way, but most other animals don’t share the same types of cones and “post-processing”. This means that to other animals, purple and violet may look completely different!"""

Emphasis theirs. This is the part I'm calling out. Stimulation of the cones is not relevant!

(Of course the cones are relevant but the difference is very much larger and of a different nature than they make it out to be. Most mammals have only two color cones.)
It's similar for Icelandic, 1000 year old books can be read if you know the modern language. It probably just has to do with which books are read in elementary school. I imagine that in Iran they read Rumi and Hafez a lot in elementary and high school.
I don't see how this can be anything but a bubble unless fully-autonomous cars come around, which it's seeming more and more likely that they're further off than expected, if they're possible at all. From what I've read the economics simply don't work otherwise.
Tax-payers are surely already subscribers/paying customers.
You forgot about taxes.

33% tax on 30K leaves about 20.1K leftover which, after 1K rent, comes to $675 per month, less health insurance, utilities, transportation costs, etc.

$15 per hour is barely livable in NYC with 1K rent per month.
I don't know about the history of English. But for Persian, it's not that the language has not changed since 10th century, it is that the last revolution occurred between 7th and 10th century and all changes since then have been evolutionary. A modern reader equipped with a dictionary can read any text written in 10th century and later, but anything before that requires essentially learning a new language.

The reason for the revolutionary change in Persian language was the Muslim conquest of Persia in 633 CE and the introduction of Arabic language and culture to Iran. Anything before the conquest was in a language unlike the modern Persian. For two centuries following the conquest, there is little written Persian available, so we don't know how exactly the transformation occurred. What emerged after the two centuries of silence was a language based on Old Persian but with many Arabic loan words and written in a modified Arabic alphabet. This language is comprehensible by modern readers.

It should be noted that comprehensible does not mean easy. Reading old poems for modern Persian speakers is as difficult as reading Shakespeare is for modern anglophones, but it is a far cry from reading Beowulf.
I think Persian and a handful of other languages are the outliers. The main difference between old, middle, and modern Persian is the writing system.

Old Persian is quite hard to read and understand for a modern Persian speaker, but if one spends a few weeks learning the writing system of middle Persian (called Pahlavi), they will be able to understand a lot of texts written before 500 AD.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pahlavi_scripts
> after the recent occupation

???

Taiwan citizens can get two flavors of PRC passport-equivalents for travel to the PRC:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Travel_Document

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainland_Travel_Permit_for_Tai...

PRC nationals going to Taiwan need an almost-visa, but can use their PRC passport:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exit_%26_Entry_Permit
Was Jeff Bezos's Phone Hacked by the Saudis? Experts Have Questions
Can we stop grouping React, Redux and Sagas when discussing complexity/bloat? They all have totally different complexity profiles. For example React adds tons of software complexity but very little development complexity, whereas Redux is the polar opposite. And Saga is just a clusterfuck. I don't even understand how people can use it with a straight face.
If I have a billion of them to hash, it's still worth it to think about how to do the hashing more efficiently. Just because it's not something I need to do to a large dataset constantly doesn't mean that it's not worth thinking about how to do it efficiently because I only have to do it once.
Isn't this how Facebook uses React most of the time as well?
one possibility is to use hierarchical-state-machines (HSM), which allow (encourage even ?) the decomposition of state-machine into common behavior for reuse across states.

HSM have been there for a while, being proposed in '84 (!) by David Harel under the name 'statecharts'
Edge and Safari have the appropriate tools to deal with DRM, so significantly different. The built in browsers already just work.
> ...way over used where they aren't needed...

Bingo! Engineers love to change things like Scotty said, but they also blather on about if it aint broke, dont fix it?
My point is more -- Why this President?

It would never been acceptable at any point in prior history. Jimmy Carter famously had to sell his family's peanut farm to avoid any perception of a conflict of interest. In the same election that Trump won, it was a huge campaign issue that people seeking influence donated to The Clinton Foundation -- a Foundation that the Clinton's did not, and could not financially benefit from. Yet it's okay that unelected Mar-a-Lago members that are currently putting money in the President's pocket can run a hundred billion dollar government organization from the shadows and steer its funds?[1]

What changed in the American psyche? Why did we collectively assent to let this President break all of the norms that constrained previous administrations?

[1] - https://www.politico.com/story/2018/11/26/mar-a-lago-trump-i...
I can't help but think the term "narcissism" is being used in the article as a provocative substitution for the work ego or egoism. The way the article uses the work its almost as if the work egoism would be more accurate.
That depends a lot on the animals. Plenty of fat in a whale, for example, and societies that depend on whaling (or hunting other cetaceans) usually consume it in large quantities.

Conversely, rabbit is one of the most lean game animals out there.
"All those evil hedge funds and “Uber-for-X” tech startups can go pound sand."

Why are "Uber-for-X" startups and hedge funds lumped into the same category? Is the "Uber-for-X" business model unethical or does it bring no value to consumers?
This is not an airframe issue. It has never been an airframe issue.
This is amazing. I've taken daylong trains between Narvik and Copenhagen.
Yeah - I'm with you. This is alarming. I've been reading and thinking about it for months. Some of the books and thinkers mentioned (especially Nicholas Carr) have really changed the way I see our current situation. It's quite dire, I'm afraid!!