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retention rules, access rules, and verification of both, are what secure us from abuse. violations should be defined as criminal violation subject to prosecution.

except that where we have this three strikes for civilian criminal activities we should have a one strike and your out for public officials
I'm sure morale is fine. They've hired for this type of culture.
Seems like the real problem is that there is no defense against spam with an open, decentralized Usenet. NNTP was designed for a more innocent era.
If the person who walks by did something memorable and unique then we do own that experience and it very much translates into meaningful data. If I was a witness to a crime happening on the street I can convey that information to the police or media as a witness. Even if it was something silly I witnessed it might make a good story to tell friends about. I own the decision to tell others or not.
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As dfranke said, it isn’t trivial to filter out the noise of having other code running in parallel to your code from that. Counting clock cycles, not wall clock time isn’t even enough as some attacks use wall clock time.

And it’s worse: that your code is constant-time in the absence of an adversary doesn’t guarantee that it is so in the presence of one. You will have to stress test your code with code running in other CPU threads that flush various caches, switch CPU modes, do DMA, etc.

Having said that, running with random inputs isn’t a bad idea, if only because you have to get confidence that the CPU manufacturer’s timing data is correct.
the process of wild growth fueling the need for organization which in turns causes sclerosis is .. as mundane as strange.
Genuine Question: Does this thought process of summarizing the shenanigans we see in the world from entities like FB not serve to drive home a quick idea, without having to read pages and pages of text to get the point across not have a place.

I have been on HN for more than a decade. I tire of the higher-than-thou bullshit where a dialog of context for various subjects is shunned from some taboo on delivery of the premise.

So I reject your position.

Would you like me to cite things that I know personally about FB, or cite every single compacted reference made in that comment at great length so you can feel superior in your understanding that you may not have?

I mean -- FFS - understand that there are people who want to make a condensed comment on shit that happens in the tech field but I don't want to write a diatribe wit ha bibliography on why "because screw, them, that's why" is a salient summary.

(See: on HN "google deep-sixes usenet" on FP today)
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I'm guessing that ultimately it will be shown to be "hacker-resistant" and not "hacker-proof". Big difference.
He was detained, not arrested. Miranda was unnecessary in this case.
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mark_Zuckerberg#Quotes
Good points. Military technology isn't that important, therefore the US continues to be the best country because it has the best military technology. Also, it's okay that the US didn't defend Europe from Communism because it was allied with the Communists.
I'm glad they don't.

Philanthropy is a great way to undermine democracy and is often the way real, govt lead development projects stall.

It's a nice facade for those who want to get things done without being an elected official.

Even if the outcome is good, it is still undermining the democratic process.
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The CEO has fiduciary duties related to not making any decision that would hurt the corporation. That's really all you should need to know about Zuck and the regulations he proposed.
Ask HN: What's the best way to reach out to Angel/pre-seed investors in the US?
Hello HN, I'm currently working on technical product for developers and am thinking of raising an angel/pre-seed round from US investors to help me get to the first users.

I'm currently based in Berlin, Germany. Here, it's hard to find investors, who are interested in developer-related products, especially at this early stage (1 founder + MVP).

I'm already talking to local investors but am curious about other options.

I was advised to create a US-company via Stripe Atlas. Will this help?

Anyone went through similar challenges? Curious to know!

Thank you!
Of course they didn't; the damage to the airline's reputation would be terrible. The customers didn't make this choice; they were deceived by Boeing, who sold them on the idea that they didn't need any significant new training for this disaster of an aircraft. The customers didn't design this thing, they just bought it after listening to Boeing's promises.
So does Venmo, to get around it, you need to tell them your bank is not on the list and cofirm the old fasioned you mention.
"and there are fewer magic variables/idiomatic usages of magic variables"

...although that seems to be heading in Perl's direction, with the positional block argument variables convention.
I appreciate your comment, even if you didn't mine.

Thanks.
Also, social media sites can recommend disturbing content to people based on their history. I think it goes something like: you’re following accounts related to to depression, suicide and moody black and white photos? You might also like… this page glorifying self harm! The automatically generated, opaquely curated pages like Instagrams’s ‘explore’ can present disturbing videos and themes as if they’re normal or appealing (e.g. the case with Molly Russell).

Also the choices sites make based on your profile sometimes offend or puzzle people as they can seem personal or even offensive. For instance if someone gets ads or suggested content for acne control or weight loss, it could be seen as hurtful or offensive.
It's somewhat hard to calculate the correlation because VC is so illiquid, but for sure it provides diversity and has historically been an excellent investment. The variance across VCs is also huge relative to other types of asset managers, so you have the potentially for really obscene returns. If you have enough money that you don't need to be liquid it is a good investment.
I love YouTube's recommendation system. It's the only platform that can truly continue to deliver me a variety of things to suit my varied interests, and is the only mainstream platform online that I can reliably find liberal political positions represented. The entire rest of the primary internet hubs are basically just collectivizism: conservativism vs identitarian leftism.

I love YouTube.
I think it depends a whole lot on what exactly you are market making and how you're trying to profit. Of course many desks take views as well, but mixing in prop positions doesn't change the essence of it: the MM is trying to make money off being available for other participants.

You can of course also learn some things about where to market is going in the course of this business, and many desks are able to piggy back on some flow information for their advantage.
Another anecdotal point, in the past few years I've entered the US a dozen times, China, SA, Australia, Canada and some European countries outside my native France, and I've never been asked to unlock my phone once. I always get the fingerprint treatment at LAX though.
The short answer is that libraries do not get a magical exemption to make copies of copyrighted works although they have some limited exemptions (that seem to have mostly been written with physical artifacts in mind). For example, a library cannot rip a DVD and make it available to the public with no usage restrictions.

IANAL but there is maybe an argument to be made that the IA can mirror web sites for preservation purposes but then could only make it available to one researcher at a time.
> But never decrypt. If this results in you missing your flight, so be it.

Why? Is that more important to stay locked than miss granma's funeral, or more positively, 75th birthday?
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You can't forget about the marching ants too!
Correct, gcc can generate "setc" but not "adc", AFAIK.
> the message it sends to me is, never visit America

Message? So you read one story and a bunch of HN comments and that is how you decide?
Considering nearly a third of incidents [0] were from insiders, this seems about right regarding internal threats. They also include security folks in internal threats, it is users doing their job and trying to get things done that can inadvertently comprising security.

Not sure what the point of this rambling, barely coherent rant was though. Is he saying that internal people should not be protected? Security is useless? I seriously cannot parse his logic and argument.

[0]- https://www.tripwire.com/state-of-security/security-data-pro...
I know exactly the sort of person who would send me a video instead of a text message, and I am glad that (right now) they can't.
I say repeal the law that exempts them from liability. It has had an un-intended consequence of allowing large pseudo monopolies to emerge. It has also given them an un-fair advantage over TV and newspapers who are liable for their content.
Ok this actually makes a lot of sense. My company has been working on some Lambda functions but coldstart is always a struggle. Yes you pay for it, but having the option for some of our customer facing APIs to be functions without cold start is big
I think it got a valid thought across. It works as a sort of shorthand. Would have been 3x longer in essay form.
Hey! I'm working on exactly this same problem for an undergraduate Computer Vision course right now. It's not going well! Chess piece recognition is hard. I definitely think the electronics approach described in the other comment is a much more reliable way to go.
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> If any state is going to proactively curb law enforcement's capability to build a dragnet it's gonna be NH.

License plate collection used to be outright prohibited there (with toll both exception) before they caved on Real ID.
Yes, until the government passes new laws which reduce those protections and allow the use of this data for other things. It's really great you built in decent protections, but that doesn't mean they'll always be in place. Us techies seem to think technology exists in a static environment, but it doesn't.

Always ask yourself before working on stuff, if the USA were to turn to fascism tomorrow, would your work be helping us fight it or helping it subjugate us?
I agree, that's a very useful and necessary distinction that I neglected to include in my original comment.

Without those spontaneous user-composed opinions and anecdotes, the platform would quickly become (or perhaps already has become) plastic and artificial. As anyone having to relate information through a bureaucratic communications department has certainly experienced, even the most unique, interesting and useful story in the world stands little chance against an eager team of copy editors and PR representatives.
Because it's someone else's hardware, someone else's software, and someone else's firmware.
> "the media" is not a monolithic entity

Nor is FB, in the context of this discussion. Those 2.3 billion people are not 'subscribers', they are content creators and distributors.

It's not like Zuck and his staff personally come up with nefarious stories to put on FB and indoctrinate the masses.
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> So if you live near the any ocean, Great Lakes, the Mexican border or Canadian border, you live under a different set of rights than the rest of America.

Interesting. You'd think that "real America" was just a turn of phrase - turns out that it isn't, that there is a Real America and that it does care far more about protecting individual rights.
Exactly! More quality time for people. And with an aging population and shortage of service workers, robots will help improve our lives.
The deconstruction of an American identity into fragmented identitarian politics by socialists has been devastating to the world, and particularly American well-being.

This poster is right.
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If demand increases, and there's no real technological advance to combat scarcity, cheap can suddenly turn into expensive, right?

What did we do to get here? Hidden cost in price inflation of everything? Misallocation of scarce resources which are needed for other things, and hold back real technological advancement?

Is it a true price comparison? I remember reading about OPEC countries where gasoline is free, and mineral rights payouts to people out West.

Most importantly, are we really do everything not to have a scarcity crisis in the first place? Are we circling empty airplanes, not docking full oil tankers in the ocean and driving 500 miles each weekend for real value or profiteering for vanity's sake? Are ERs filled with people who really need it, or the consequences of bad habits?
I recommend that you make the app available for beta testing with some users. Maybe even releasing a beta version to the public, do not make the mistake of waiting until you have the perfect product.

Other request/suggestion is to make it open source or at least free for personal use, it will bring a lot of users that will want to have the same tooling at their workplaces. Then you can have commercial licenses that you make corporations pay for.

Keep the great work!
>The irony is that the media is doing this now, with respect to anything related to Facebook.

You could have stopped at the comma. How many people out there regularly watch Fox News and MSNBC? Or read The Rolling Stone and the WSJ? We've had partisan bubbles for as long as we've had any sort of mass media.
I’m happy to explain or defend my dietary choices, but it gets tiresome. Often it’s not positive socially, depending on the environment. Currently I have severe medical dietary restrictions (celiac, food allergies) and even that is difficult to explain to some people who question my decisions and want to debate my needs.
Can we keep personal attacks off of HN?
Fair point. But surely somewhere out there is some metric that can calculate a students likelihood of succeeding at University but also isn't easy to cheat at.
Rules 1 and 2 only apply during raids (on another site), and no-one is raiding this comment section, so no, they did not break the rules.
Yes, it's imperfect for sure, but I'm trying to get people who don't think about these things to understand how the thefts is analogous to physical items we value. Data has its own unique properties so any physical metaphor or analogy is going to fail pretty quick. Tried to keep it simple to make the point.
Facebook makes its money from selling ads. You can see this in its revenue report, https://investor.fb.com/investor-news/press-release-details/...

Of course, these ads are highly targeted using all sorts of personal data, but they aren't actually selling the data, as that's also just less profitable.
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> What we need is a digital locker that encrypts all our data and stores it for us.

Or, alternatively, we we need to simply do what people did for ages before us: buy a couple of hard drives and store this stuff offline. If people want to come see our photos, we can either grab them and email them over or they can come review them at our house.

People keep talking the fix for technologies problems is more technology—but sometimes it's actually _less_ technology.
When I think about Facebook, who they are, and what they do, I try to remember that Facebook's version of The Internet is like what music was like during the summer of 1999.

As a corollary for The Internet, they're about that talented and tasteful themselves, and they appeal to the same audience, owing to their success.

To put that into perspective, look through the following list, and let it sink in:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_in_music

If you like that list, great. Kepp using Facebook. If you don't, fight it tooth and nail.
I think “decorum” around here is to strive for some kind of unified voice similar to The Economist. I’ve tried some humor or exaggerated voice and it is rarely appreciated with upvotes.

One thing I have learned is HN readers like Weekend at Bernie’s—-where my tongue in cheek defense of the film garnered the most comment upvotes I’ve ever received.
Thanks for being so concise. Getting license to sell estates (life insurance), hope to make $$$, worm my way into FINRA to take series 7, then try operate under reg crowdfunding to raise $1 million capital for new biz. What you do now?
Take it with a grain of salt since I did not see the actual source and the article is paywalled. They are probably just releasing the tooling, not actual strategies.
With FB in particular, many HN denizens owe much of their wealth to the company either directly or indirectly (through acquisitions, seed capital from former employees, etc), so many of the criticisms that point to Zuckerberg in specific are frowned upon.

In short, "don't bite the hand that feeds you"
Or an international airport. Sorry Denver!
I'll come to the defense of &. - for better or worse Ruby is mostly used for building database backed web applications where nils are simply unavoidable without some extreme over engineering or awkward idioms. `user&.address&.street` is at least safer than `try` - `user.try(:adress).try(:street)` - will not raise an error that `adress` is not a method. You could try and apply the null object pattern, but then `user.address.present?` is quite a rabbit hole - and frankly nil is the right return value for a user with no address on file.
By "reasonably well" I don't mean "solves every crime." I mean well enough to keep society running smoothly, with affordable property insurance and the average person having low risk of violent injury or death.
Am I the only one who thinks they want to push the market into applying strategies that they can then trade against? This is classic Wall Street, persuading the masses to take the wrong side of bets.
>This is where Boeing messed up big time. According to the article they only had 2 AoA sensor, completely missing the fact that what happens if one sensor fails and which is correct.

No, you missed something really critical in all this. There are 2 AoA sensors, however only 1 of them is used as input for the MCAS system. There was no redundancy whatsoever!

The proposed software patch will use both AoA sensors, and light an indicator light if they disagree. They don't want to retrofit the planes with 3 sensors like Airbus, because obviously Boeing cares more about profits than safety and good engineering.
Hold fast for now, and watch for when the trends of our enforcement change.
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In general, a random stranger - or even someone I knew from school, folks working for the parks department, and so on have little or no power over me.

The police or other law enforcement, however? These are folks that not only can abuse the power, but use it to factually or falsely accuse me of a crime. That's enough to ruin a life. You don't even need to be convicted for it to cause serious life issues, sometimes for years. These are the very people that I should be able to turn to when someone abuses it, and I am under the impression they would cover up their own abuses ... much like they do now.

The same really goes for politicians, but the scenario is different.
Probably just the topics of the article, but I think this is the first of the recent glut of fluff pieces that I enjoyed almost every bit of.
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There are types of situations where I think it gets really blurry and complicated, but I think we need to start with things that we intuitively feel like we own, like DNA, or the 3D map of our face. Then as we move out into grayer territory we can rely on precedent, social norms, or consensus to draw lines where needed.
That and difficulty introducing new developers to Ruby projects. When so much metaprogramming and abstraction is used, and everyone creating their own DSLs, developers often have to learn new languages every time they are brought on board to a Ruby project. It basically defeats the point of "convention over configuration" in Rails. Rails is fine on its own, but what Ruby allows people to do creates these "elegant" messes that end up being more difficult to learn, requiring people to become "experts". (which I suppose creates job security)

Don't even get me started on how lots of Ruby developers don't believe in documentation because the expressiveness of the language makes their code "self-documenting". (i.e. their shit doesn't stink)

I actually love Ruby, but I've learned to avoid the advanced features unless they make perfect sense for the task at hand. The Ruby culture, however, is what caused me to appreciate JavaScript; the fact that it contains a simpler set of tools makes the language more readable IMO, despite it being less English-like, and I find today's JS projects much easier to understand than almost any Ruby or Rails project of even modest scale.
>What is going to interesting is to see how quickly the FAA certifies the new software changes this second time around.

With a Trump lackey running the FAA, I'm sure they'll rubber-stamp whatever Boeing puts out there.

What I want to see is if any of the foreign regulators refuse to certify it. I'd love to see a show-down in international aviation between the Trump administration and better-run nations.
I also wouldn't answer any questions. If you're being detained and questioned by law enforcement, you have a right to have an attorney present. And to be charged with a crime within a certain timeframe, for that matter. If there's none of that, hey by golly you must not be under arrest and this isn't a legal proceeding. Answer every question by reminding them you're a US citizen. Maybe repeat your social security number dramatically as if you're a POW in the hands of a foreign power. (Certainly you're in the hands of some traitors against the USA, so it's not a huge stretch.)
What an embarrassment.
I'm really surprised that he and Dennet are so positive on the idea. In the humans running around today we can do experiments on we can clearly see that it's the same process that allows us to serialize experiences for to speak about them and serialize them to remember them. But I suppose before fMRI that work might not have been as convincing.

And I suppose, as someone who does a lot of thinking without an internal narrative I feel a bit attacked by the whole idea.
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