skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nothing in this article is surprising. I mean, honestly, if you don't think the CIA is actively trying to gain access to your devices, WTF do you think they do all day?

I'd be more concerned if the intelligence agencies of the world WEREN'T doing this. It's their purpose. It's what we pay them for with our taxes.

Of course we should also always root for tech companies to stay one step ahead. But infosec is an arms race, and I sure hope my own country's intelligence agencies (CSIS and the CSE in Canada) are doing their best to stay ahead of, say, North Korea or Russia.

(Please note: I'm not saying violating our privacy is OK, any more than I'm saying it's cool to launch nuclear weapons. But if anyone's going to have the ability to hack my phone or launch a nuke, I want it to be the people on my own team. This seems like basic self-interest and survival strategy.)
The trade off is in relevancy. If the standards body doesn't force a confrontation it knows it can't win, then it retains some power that it can throw behind or against future proposals. If the major browsers have already decided to completely ignore them and create their own consensus, there's that much less reason to listen to them next time. Not only has a precedent been set, but coordination on features outside the control may have already been somewhat standardized behind the scenes (beyond what they already do), making it easier next time.

The downside is as you say that the browsers can point to the standard as for why they implemented it, but that's why it's a trade off, and not cut and dry (IMO)
I use calendar and textedit and just straight up folders for organization. Syncs to everything this way.
Maybe the core product won't go away, but you could still see the damage from this approach in features or services you depend on within GCP. Not to mention Google's love for mixing around interfaces every five seconds (with poor documentation of course).

Consistency and reliability matter more than flashy new tech. I wish the culture at Google would understand that.
Why do researchers publish with these companies that lock their papers behind paywalls? Do the researchers get a part of the paywall profits? Are there not any alternative publishers that have free academic journals or release papers for free?
> it's not my job

You're certainly under no obligation to comment at all. But if you are going to post a comment, especially one that implies some laziness of the person you're responding to ("It's literally in the first sentence"), you might want to take a few extra seconds to make sure you're providing useful and relevant information.
Lyapunov Orbits
I think I've got one of these in a planter on my back balcony. There is something alien and amazing about the flowering of succulents. If you're in Southern California (or planning a visit), I highly recommend the Huntington Library and Gardens (near Pasadena), where they have a magnificent collection.

On that topic, I'm going to take this opportunity to quote one of my favorite passages from Walter Pater, from the beginning of his essay on Michelangelo, since I don't know when I'll next have the opportunity to do so (at least here on Hacker News):

Critics of Michelangelo have sometimes spoken as if the only characteristic of his genius were a wonderful strength, verging, as in the things of the imagination great strength always does, on what is singular or strange. A certain strangeness, something of the blossoming of the aloe, is indeed an element in all true works of art; that they shall excite or surprise us is indispensable.

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2398/2398-h/2398-h.htm
Note to self -- don't go to San Diego.
Over 26,000 Kibana Instances Found Exposed on the Internet
Is this a late april fools joke?

"Metastream: Watch streaming media with friends."

He's complaining that they won't let him use DRM. But his project's purpose is to literally broadcast media to your friends.

DRM exists to prevent that.
The trap of brand extension (2016)
Indeed, they won't be allowed to fly until they are likely safer than the older planes in the air today. There was reason to be concerned when the US was hesitating to ground it, but there is no reason to be concerned now that it has been grounded.
https://www.indeed.com/salaries/Data-Scientist-Hedge-Fund-Sa...

(quantitative analysts do not differ much from this in salary, but youre being to vague with your job titles so im not sure what you mean)

Either way, you are ridiculous. Unless this magical position requires more advanced knowledge in which case your claim about it being a simple "finance" position is wrong. Not even true in machine learning either. At this point it's no longer a straightforward and safe career path like you said it would be. Maybe you misunderstood and thought we were talking about PhD graduates. My point still stands.

Please, please, do not mislead people down career paths.
Also buried in the article is that likely most of his growth came from doing the follow/unfollow gimmick that people have been doing on Instagram for years. You can pay online services to bot that for your account for $x a month.

It's frustrating on the receiving end, you think someone is following you because of genuine interest for what you have to share, but in reality it's a bot that's trying to scam you into following it back, only to unfollow you soon after. One of the worst aspects of the application, especially now that millions of accounts are all doing that at the same time. The signal to noise ratio is horrible.
Hell, not OP, but I'd CRISPR myself to get rid of a pimple.

Making myself smarter or healthier or stronger would be a no-brainer.
Tips for a Longer Life – Harvard Health
Just need an API for the filing of lawsuits, then he will be in business.
Feathers UI – Rebuilt on Haxe
The problem is that pretty much the only way to satisfy those obligations is to turn the internet into a huge walled garden (as is currently happening). So we'll either have to accept the consequences of that, decide that some of the rightsholders' claims described above are not in the public interest or find some kind of middle ground.
email address?
PWN2OWN Vancouver 2019: Results
>> Is this retraction and resulting modified study seen as an important victory for people promoting that there are no differences between the "male" and "female" brains?

Yes - of that you can be certain. Was the retraction and modification done to satisfy those people? That's an important question that will probably go unanswered.
Not everything is copyrightable. You certainly can't draw a circle and claim copyright infringement to any other circle.
So it depends on the Font. Is it really copyrightable if you take a public domain typewriter font and convert it to a sans serif font. I don't think it is enough.
I inlined this text into the rest of your post above. In the future, you can get around the word limit by posting half, and then using 'edit' to add the rest.
Interview with Lorinda Cherry
What.cd hosted, among other things, three unpublished Salinger stories. They were swiftly taken down by the site hosts over demands from his estate, but narrowly made it onto BitTorrent and other sites, and are still available today.

Meanwhile, a lot of unique live-concert recordings (often made with the band's permission, unlike the Salinger tapes) vanished with the demise of What.CD. Presumably some people still have them, if bit rot hasn't caught up, but they simply ceased to be available.

I'm not sure these ever landed on torrent sites, but the first album from Godspeed You! Black Emperor is considered lost, and Eminem's debut EP was unavailable for more than a decade. Both are (early-)digital-era works, which raises interesting questions about the fragility of even modern content. The archive-less disappearance of quite a few online short stories, flash games, and Soundcloud tracks makes me suspect that in a few decades, quite a few more "first works" of notable creators will be unavailable.
He's an FCC Commissioner, whose term lasts until June 30th, 2022, and can only be removed before then via impeachment, and making public statements on policy matters is perfectly normal for FCC Commissioner, even if those statements disagree with the policy positions of whatever party controls the FCC.

Indeed, the structure of the Commission is designed for that. Although Commissioners are appointed by the President and approved by the Senate, by law no more than 3 of the 5 can be from the same party. Traditionally for the two Commissioners not of his party the President nominates whoever the Senate leader of the other party recommends, and traditionally if that party is the minority party in the Senate the senators from the majority party pretty much rubber stamp it, so in practice the party that controls the White House gets a pretty free choice for three of the seats, and the other party gets a pretty free choice for the other two seats.
So if JIT involves compiling into native machine code, can we expect that in the future JIT capability would help PHP devs implement compiling whole PHP project into native (like a single .exe binary for Windows)?
Lego launches the Education Spike STEAM system for grades 6-8
This is not my experience with a TP Carbon X1 6th gen + Fedora 29. I have no issues... You really have to choose your hardware wisely. I have found the Thinkpads the best with Dell XPS series following.
cough A12 cough
> Jobs are not easily replaceable for them to be able to take a stand.

I don't think this is true. Jobs are plentiful and easy to get in most of the nation for skilled software engineers.
How does an OKR not orient and account for effort if each level’s objectives are the higher level’s key results? If my boss has an objective that will be met with measured output from my department, and my boss sets my OKRs with me, how can I escape making that output an objective and measuring contributions to it? What is your assertion specifically based on?
Interesting. It's been a long time for me, but I don't recall those sorts of effects.

What I meant was that the importance of concentration (or really any drug-enhanced something) varies a lot by activity. You might be add-as-hell, but in your daily life that's fine. OTOH, you might be "neurotypical" but up to something where any enhancement is felt.
Coal was similar.

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

When people learned how to use coal more efficiently in 19th century England, that didn't result in less coal being used. It meant that it became economical to do more things with coal, and overall coal consumption increased.
It's past December 11th 2018, so some workaround/hack is being used for this workflow.
How does a diagnosis benefit someone with autism?
this is a reasonable point. we know exercise does lots of things. we don't know that about homeopathy. hence it is more reasonable to suspect that exercise has an effect on depression than it would be for crystals and homeopathy.
Don't see anything but my main problem is finding a good open source graph engine (NEO4J level maturity or close) that I can install locally and develop my application on and that allows me to spin up multiple graphs on the same machine easily.
“Autism-identity” could be considered an idiological movement.
The elephant is that so many bright people from the "best" schools continue to work for such an evil company.
Any particular Garmin device you recommend?
I prefer permissive licenses, but doesn't AGPL address the distribution "problems" of GPL? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Affero_General_Public_Lice...
or a feature
No second battery. The T490 is basically an improvement on the T480s, not the T480 (which makes having a T490s kinda weird). Lenovo has these weird cycles of gutting their own products before they put them back, so it'll eventually come back, but for now...ick.

I am literally buying an extra T480 to put away until I need it.
I have considered getting a Linux laptop replacement. I run Linux on multiple desktops for various reasons. I pretty much only buy desktops to run Linux, I don’t have a desktop Mac.

I have a Mac laptop because: 1) the battery life is outstanding, this is OS and hardware, 2) it just works from the standpoint of roaming between networks and connecting periferals (all be it through limited port options), 3) the experience is generally one of it just works with zero thought.

Now I won’t lie, I’ve considered Lenovo, it’s definitely on my list of what I would choose to replace my Mac laptop with, but I have plenty of experience with Windows, don’t like it. I have plenty of experience with Linux, don’t want to deal with issues when I’m disconnected and remote. So while Apple has hit a stumbling block here, for me it’s still the best experience that I’ve had using a computer.
Wow. Already banned.

Everyone does this, but IG never cares unless you somehow draw attention to yourself.
>Sure, any employer can always choose to lower their standards, but wouldn't you argue then, that the quality of their output is also likely to suffer?

No. As I previously stated Google puts people through enormous hoops to work there. That has no bearing on the quality of the worker.

For example, it's been noted that past a certain IQ, there is diminishing returns - eg, past ~130 IQ you're no more likely to win a Nobel Prize.

I think the real threat is that Google "lowers" it's standards and output remains the same. This would threaten the business models of "elite" schools who pretend to have a monopoly on talent.
Because that would still prevent Metastream from working with Netflix ;)
Ask HN: If a bug in YouTube lets skip Ads, should it be disclosed to the public?
Yep. What stopped that learning curve was the availability of coal, not demand.
> It's not getting in shape what lifts depression, it is physical activity in itself. You generally feel better after exercise.

Although being in shape can make the physical activity itself less miserable, and the sense of accomplishment is often deeply fulfilling to people.

> Often there are more issues other than lack of exercise. If you are socially isolated, if you are under constant stress, if your home situation is dire, exercise will help you cope with it but it's not getting at the root cause. Identify and work on the cause too.

It's a process. It's always a process. Tackling the simpler things (e.g. exercising, cleaning your room, getting up in the morning instead of throwing off your circadian rhythms, going to bed at night instead of throwing off your circadian rhythms, grooming yourself) makes you better at addressing these other problems. You need a foundation where you have at least some discipline and order and routine in your life to have the mental energy to cope with the harder parts of life.
What would a good resource for good scripting practices?
Airplanes are not gliders. There is no reason to not correct aerodynamics via powered systems since that is how virtually any airplane even flies, with the caveat being - as long as it is done well. In other words, I have no problem with the principle of their design choice, just its execution which lacked typical redundancy, and transparency to the industry.
We're aware of meteorites from Mars coming to Earth (a quick search brings up [0]) - who says they can't go the other way!

[0] https://www.space.com/14268-rare-mars-meteorite-rocks-tissin...
>You seem to think that technical ability and ethics are somehow related. That's a sad misconception which leads to all kinds of bad results.

Sure, but I also think if you have enough money to retire early, you're less likely to do something you don't agree with. Many people don't have that luxury.
Mind helping me understand this a bit better?

The link mentions that to produce a HDCP-compatible device (eg one that has an HDMI port) it needs to be licensed, pay an annual fee, and make promises to frustrate DRM-mitigation efforts.

If I wanted to make my own monitor with a VGA input (or, more practically, pipe the signals coming from VGA into a program that does something with the feed) I would just have to find a suitable adapter and receive the serial data.

Does this mean that doing so with HDMI (either the real-world DIY monitor, or the in-software feed-ingestion program) would be:

A) Difficult/time-consuming to write due to a lack of open drivers
B) Run afoul of IP laws pertaining to the HDMI standard and get me sued
C) Prevented by the cryptographic handshake that happens between an approved display and the output drivers
D) All of the above?
I'm pretty sure that in economics, physical reality is not all there is. Economics is about people assigning value to things. The things, by themselves, have no economic value.
>Was the retraction and modification done to satisfy those people?

They're saying that it was a methodological error, so probably not.
Yes, me too. Interestingly enough, I have solid reasons to believe that sticking to my principles as made me more employable, not less.
Yeah, that's super annoying. As someone with an insta, and as someone who kinda would like to be able to figure out how to get some visibility- surfacing my own content seems to be obscure.
I agree with most of what you’ve said, but I’m curious about whether or not YouTube actually makes money. I was under the impression that on a good day it just about breaks even, but has that changed?
I spoke a bit too strongly in that sentence, it should have said one of the reasons.

Funny enough, I tried to submit a patch to make a while back, and got one reply where the maintainer misunderstood me, I tried to provide clarification, and then radio silence for the past few years. Whereas I've gotten thousands upon thousands of patches through on Github. I agree with you that I care most about impact, but I've had much more impact via GitHub than via Savannah.
Leadership Advice from a Neural Network
> I wrote code that finds these pictures or videos

ah, so you don't even make the content, you just wrote a content-reposting bot and then set it to automatically catfish restaurants. Behavior like this is why more and more people hate the tech industry every day.
How do we get widespread adoption of a uncensorable DNS alternative?
Like an answer to the question posed?
followup to https://billwadge.wordpress.com/2019/03/24/laws-of-the-unive... -- previously on HN here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19478384
This assumes criminals are thinking their actions through.

Most probably haven't, yet we treat them as though they have when we apply a punishment..
> On a linear scale the cone responses look like this

Regardless of whether or not the article's description of the specific mechanism is correct, it's true that humans perceive violet (~400nm) light in a way that can be simulated on a monitor using a mixture of red and blue light.

Using "violet" and "purple" interchangeably in a lot of contexts is probably fine, but it's extremely frustrating when someone uses "violet" to mean "purple" (or vice-versa) in a technical context. E.g. if I buy a "violet" photo filter, I will be extremely disappointed if it turns out to be dark magenta/purple.

> “Cyan” is just the Greek word for “blue”, and is a technical term for the type of greenish blue ink used in 4-color printing.

My understanding is that hundreds of years ago, "blue" was used to refer to what we would now think of as "cyan", and "indigo" was used to refer to what we would now think of as "blue" (0x0000FF on a computer monitor).

> Also it’s a crying shame that the RGB display color made of mixing yellowish green and purplish blue is called “cyan”, since it bears almost no resemblance to the printing color.

The colour people typically refer to as "cyan" in RGB colourspace (0x00FFFF) is the same colour referred to as "cyan" in the CMYK colourspace used for printing. I have several cyan glass photo filters (intended to cut out all longer wavelengths like red, but let shorter wavelengths pass), and they also look the same.

If you perceive 0x00FF00 on a computer monitor as "yellowish green" and 0x0000FF as "purplish blue", and especially if 0x00FFFF doesn't look like cyan printing ink to you, have you considered having the spectral sensitivity of your eyes tested? It sounds like either that's different than usual, or you grew up with a different set of perceptual colour definitions than most people.
Everything is affected by government policy. Fossil fuels too get massive subsidies from governments the world over including the USA.
too much tomato juice probably.
>Lots of people do all sorts of theatrical security things without having any real savvy for the real threats they face.

For example, switching to a dumbphone makes them likely to be more insecure, since they usually operate on 2 or 3g and offer zero encryption.
I've been using Linux desktop for a decade, I've configured KDE just the way I liked it a while ago and now I just move that config between the machines.

* Libre Office is good enough

* Google docs are really good for collaboration.

* Google keep is really good for synching notes between phone and desktop.

* There are cloud-based implementation of libre office that I'm looking at to replace google services

* I really like konsole and yakuake as terminal application, and for me Terminal.app always felt ancient.
https://packages.debian.org/sid/konsole
https://packages.debian.org/sid/yakuake

* Okular is an amazing pdf viewer (there was a thread about it recently on HN) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19478623

* Firefox might not be as battery optimized as safari on Mac, but I believe all Mozilla's respect for user privacy makes up for the lost battery life.
TP Carbon X1 has the best non-Mac trackpad I have used. But honestly I don't think any trackpad is as good as the mac. It is however better than most PC trackpads
This would be an authoritarian action, compared to just opting out of supporting something. There's a huge difference and I think these organizations' supposed interest in ethics precludes that sort of move.

DRM is not illegitimate. It just sucks and operates in a way that is immune to free market competition - the reasons for that immunity are the true thing to fix. Users should have alternatives as there is a clear market there. If DRM is so bad, then that's what should kill it.
It allows them to request accomodation under the ADA for one.
Is that useful? You already get date created/modified in every OS. Shouldn't be hard to figure out when you were in ibiza and sort your notes folder by date.
>WTF do you think they do all day?

One would hope that they were trying to gain access to someone else's devices, as opposed to turning the guns towards their own citizens and economy. If a soldier showed up at my door and pointed their gun at me, my reaction wouldn't be "of course you're doing that, your job is to point guns."
I guess the real answer is "a folder of text files you sync." You don't have to use Orgmode or emacs at all to get a good chunk of the benefit here.

True, you can't do rich text or media, but it turns out I almost never even WANT to do that.

Anyway, I was doing sync'd text with a Mac tool called Notational Velocity for years before I got sucked into OrgMode (emacs' Deft mode is a workalike). Point any iOS or Android editor at a Dropbox folder and you've got mobile sync on the cheap with versioned backup and more or less ever present and completely open data that works on any platform.

OneNote and EN may have some shiny features, but NOTHING they do is worth locking your data up.
Another thing in OneNote’s favor is you know it’s going to stick around because they sell it to businesses. With Evernote it seems like they could run out of money and with Google they could just get bored.
> I'm pretty sure that in economics, physical reality is not all there is.

Yes, it is.

> Economics is about people assigning value to things.

People are not outside of physical reality, nor is their experience of utility.