skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They did not sell information to Cambridge Analytica. As stated in the page you linked, the data was scraped using a 3rd party application requiring user opt-in. Now, there was a bug that allowed the app developer to also scrape data from the friends of the actual users but that has been patched and the developer's license has been revoked as the entire ordeal was against FB's licensing agreement.

I am not a fan of Facebook but this entire thread is just filled with misinformation.
Sure, and the majority of States in the US are themselves federations of yet smaller administrative subdivisions. 49 out of 50 US States have bicameral legislatures.

The point still stands, the US looks less like Austria or Germany or Denmark, and more like the EU, as a whole.
> If you need a Mac, consider a desktop version (with a SSD!)

SSD is undoubtedly the single biggest system performance upgrade in the past 10 years.

And we will soon past the halfway point of 2019, Apple is still selling an iMac with 1TB 5400 RPM HDD by default.

Apart from AirPod and Apple Watch, there is nothing on the current Apple's product line I am satisfy with.
> To put it in perspective, we had to deal with an individual that was verbally and mentally abusive to a number of our volunteer staff and security to the point where they were in tears.

It sounds like the proper response to this is to tell the individual to "fuck off and never come back", but looks like popularity mattered too much to the Derbycon organizers:

> Admittedly, we had no idea how to handle this person, and in fear of repercussion of removing this person, allowed them to stay at the conference in order to “not upset the masses”.

Guys, the response to adults acting like children is to completely ignore them and kick them out of your discussions. They do not deserve to be a part of your forum. Perhaps tell them why you're doing so, so they can improve themselves, but there is no need to deal with their shit.
> this is the 4th generation of these keyboards--and Apple promised that the 2nd and 3rd generation would fix these as well.

I don't think is true is it? I think this was just an assumption people made.
I have a friend who is (I guess) Japanese-American. Someone like his great-great-grandfather was Japanese and the family name has been passed down, but for all intents and purposes, he's a white American.

How would his name be written?
Linux on Macbooks is still crap though...
If they do that, there will be fewer drivers, so their prices will go up.
If you believe content is worth paying for at all, the price of a cup of coffee every month seems perfectly reasonable.

The NYT has a different business model, and is still partly supported by advertising in the print edition.

The digital content pricing race-to-the-bottom is really unfortunate. It's why we have shitty free-to-play mobile games, for example: people won't pay more than a few dollars for a phone game anymore, so a lot of devs have to find other business models to support development.
I think its a mix between exposure and affinity. People migrate to what they like or want to take advantage of then their mindset is reinforced by like minded people and conditions.
Amen. Ive is a hack without the firm hand of a Jobs to guide him and keep him on a tight leash.
I've refused my 3-year upgrade and fear the day I'll need a replacement for my late 2015 macbook. It's sad being stranded on hardware that is starting to show its age when the newer devices leave little to be desired from a usability standpoint. It also hurts that any replacement will be incompatible with my $150 dock.
That's a feature, not a bug - they could more easily compare the sound quality of the iPod to other devices.
It looks like it was exactly because of this.
Does the 6P have a replaceable battery?
This might be suitable.

I don't know about jlv2, but the Dutch frequently have a tussenvoegsel[1], an insertion between their names which is properly lowercased but is a part of the family name.

So the physicist who researched molecular stickiness is named Johannes Diderik van der Waals. His surname is "van der Waals" and a scientific reference should be cited as "van der Waals, JD", sorted alongside other surnames starting with W (either sorted at WAALS∅∅JD where ∅ is a symbol that evaluates less than any letter, or occasionally you will see them sorted at W∞VAN∅DER∅WAALS∅∅JD so that all of the tussenvoegsels end up at the end of their section, where ∞ is a symbol that evaluates greater than any letter).

It is considered formally incorrect to capitalize tussenvoegsels, except when they begin a sentence or when you precede them with an article like Mr. or Dr. You would probably want to write his name in this last-name-capitalized-first-no-commas convention as “van der KAMP Johannes Diderik;” writing ”VAN DER KAMP” looks wrong to me—but I am not sure what the French do.

Is there a Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Surnames yet? There’s famously one for names in general.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tussenvoegsel
My favorite of Stoppard's plays. (Which is a very high bar.)
The harm far outweighs the good in my opinion. There is no reason such communities can't exist without pushing their agenda on young minds.
Perhaps they're just looking at the file extensions, looks like they also check the source folder paths as well:

https://support.code42.com/CrashPlan/6/Troubleshooting/What_...

And the thing is it's not practical to encrypt every file such as VM images every time your backup is scheduled to run.

And also Crashplan's client already encrypts your data client side before squirting up to its cloud. I don't know if they store your encryption key(s) cloudside or not, would be pertinent for them not to.

That all said, I doubt I'd be inclined to use them, preferring Tarsnap instead I think.
> And, like the keyboards, this is a part that's pretty much guaranteed to fail (unless you basically never open your laptop.)

Despite the constant outrage on HN, I have a 2018 15" MBP and have had zero issues with the keyboard breaking or screen failing.
The key defining characteristic of technical debt though is our inability to accurately estimate its true cost. If we could frame the question like you present it the battle would be won
If you are seriously feeling lonely another approach might be therapy. There are many things that can manifest as a collection of feelings that might be descried as "loneliness" and a therapist can help you get to the bottom of it. It's worked wonders for many people I have known since high school.

I know that I subjectively feel lonely despite being objectively not alone. Your situation might be similar. Maybe your loneliness can be fixed by volunteering. Maybe it can be fixed by spending a session or to each week with someone who has devoted a significant portion of their time to helping people with problems like yours. They might even suggest volunteering if it will work for you, or they might refer you to a psychologist who can help you if they think that will benefit you the most.

I'm not disagreeing with the article, it's probably correct that being in close proximity to people makes some people feel less lonely, but if you try this and it doesn't help don't think there isn't a solution.
If anything, this would help my wife who is a doctor but often finds older patients assuming she is a nurse simply because she is woman. There are male nurses, and hopefully more men will join the field, as the same gender stereotype that assumes that women cannot be doctors is the one that assumes all nurses are women.
>The UI is totally schizoid

Kinda like how iTunes was brushed metal forever while the Finder was Aqua and some apps roll their own UI to mimic Aqua? It's not like either Apple or Microsoft produce consistent applications, let alone the lack of control they have over third party developers. There is also Carbon vs. Cocoa, where different programs get different services "for free" from the operating system (e.g. spell check). Apple is just as guilty as Microsoft.
I like PopOS but that first link is terrible.

It only reinforces the idea that PopOS is little more than a reskinned Ubuntu (which is not a bad thing!). The only non different default setting is the availability of a recovery partition, while the other features mentioned are basically just different defaults.
"This is unregulated capitalism, unbridled capitalism, capitalism run amok."

Um, what? California, and specifically San Francisco, has some of the most regulated and restricted development on the planet. This is not unregulated capitalism.
Roslyn? https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn
How hot will this thing be with 8 cores? Unless they've cut some ventilation holes in the bottom of the laptop. MBPs aren't exactly known for good thermal regulation (my previous one I had to actually undervolt the CPU so it wouldn't overheat while playing games for even < 30m).

Don't see anything re: keyboard so guessing that there aren't any changes there, unfortunately.
Yeah, Go is that way on purpose. You're not meant to use magic that works mysteriously, but to be a bit "step-by-step" in your code, so it's obvious what's being done.
Dozens of our developers are using these for a couple of years now - no problems yet.
Please do, this would be an interesting read. Cheers.
>> Several people who knew both of them confirmed that they had had problems with them.

Which people? Which problems? it might be an ex-boyfriend/girlfriend that is angry. Why you don't name those people?
Take a look here:

https://github.com/Haufe-Lexware/wicked.haufe.io

This goes into the right direction how I think a service mesh / microservice / micro gateway architecture should look / what the software needs to offer.
Social media’s enduring effect on adolescent life satisfaction – PNAS
Why does he care what the sponsors think? His problem would be solved if he stops paying attention to Twitter, his sponsors, money, friendships, etc... /s
I will agree and add a data point here. My 2017 MBP has had chronic keyboard issues, despite being in for repair twice and having had the entire top case replaced. Seriously disappointed in this computer considering the price I paid. I am planning my escape from this platform.
It's not about switching your name after you've made it. It's about western media taking the effort to print your name in the correct order because you've made it.
Keep profits up by externalizing cost of ownership.

If Apple is looking to be a totally integrated vertical, they would be wise to bring the fixit community into their stores and actually fix these things.

The status quo of push people to replace increases costs for folks today and the mess of disposable high tech gadgets onto the next generations.

Well, hopefully plural. But we seem keen to fuck that possibility right up while we fetishize our own feelings of unjustifiable entitlement.
Sounds interesting, name?
My time in the Peace Corps had a profound influence on my social skills/life. While I would not have said I was necessarily lonely, I was certainly rather anti-social and had a lot of trouble expressing myself to people.

Aside from the people I met and relationships I made with other volunteers during my service, I learned through necessity how to be a much more outgoing and social person. I imagine this had a lot to do with where I served (culturally, people were much more community oriented than here in the U.S.) but even the first few months spending time training with the other volunteers in country was hugely influential.

Peace Corps is pretty unique compared to more typical volunteer opportunities, but I suspect one could get a similar effect from sustained volunteering with a particular org/group.
Round here (which I can probably generalize as Europe) there are lots of small shops who repair mobile phones and computers.

Replacing a Macbook battery should be a routine task for any of them.
You're responding on a completely different level than what I actually said.

> If the USPS failed on its own, there might be a point to the argument that the government is inefficient. But when lawmakers destroy something and then claim that it destroyed itself and therefore we must destroy everything else, it doesn't quite seem right.

To be clear, I agree with this. I like the USPS, and think they do a great job.

The point is that grassroots support for "starve the beast" didn't start out focused on the USPS. The USPS was just one of the more vulnerable targets, plus some business stood to gain, so politicians directed the ire there. It's similar dynamic to how in these "government shutdowns", national parks close but the TSA keeps right on going. Or locally, how trying to keep real estate taxes down ends putting the screws on teachers and firefighters, rather than shrinking the town bureaucracy.

The larger point is to avoid simplistically ascribing the worst intent to the "other team". It's an easy answer, but prevents understanding that they actually have legitimate points. And it drives adherence to the agenda of your familiar team, which is also busy manufacturing consent for corporate agendas in a similar manner.
I think the OPs paradigm holds. If the Code Refactoring has a huge performance impact then it's Offensive work, if it has no impact, then it's defensive.
>that in anything serious these days (World War III?) it is either overrun or obliterated (would be either overrun or obliterated?)

yes

>I tried clicking on your link to help me understand but it's to an hour-and-a-half long film (and not, I think, a documentary...)

Prophetic satire then. Watch it anyway, you owe it to Spike Milligan.
There is terminal defense against ICBMs and there is midcourse defense against hypersonics.

The ballistic warhead has little more to do than absorb the heat of reentry in the terminal phase. The energy to destroy it would be a good fraction of the energy that was in the rocket to begin with.

The hypersonic weapon on the other hand has to have sensors, effectors, and be unable to complete it's mission after receiving less beamed energy.

The airborne laser was killed not because it wasn't powerful enough (for some mission) but because the chemical laser it used was dangerous, expensive and otherwise impractical. The air force knew the army was developing modular fiber lasers so they decided to wait for that before building another platform, which could also be used against everything from drones to small ballistic missiles.

Hypersonic is just the cherry on top.

The alternative for interception hypersonics would be the nuclear-tipped ABMs of old, since the maneuvering capability of hypersonics defeats "hit-to-kill".
I love my Dell Latitude 5491 - six cores is more than enough for my work at the moment, and the NVMe drive absolutely screams. Much lighter than a workstation notebook, too.
I wonder if that contributes to games being more conservative with the features they offer.

(I'm guessing the biggest factor is the massive investment required to make a game nowadays.)
Today was first day. Last day - May 24, 2019. Comment from orgs:

> At the moment we are editing the video report about the Conference first day, meanwhile we propose you to look through the photos at our Flickr[0]

[0] https://www.flickr.com/photos/yuzhnoye/albums
Web, and mobile, and many types of enterprise. That’s quite a bit more development than games.
I think this is the start of the hockey stick graph in the unicode-ification of the world

We are becoming a closer more integrated world and we will find it waaaaay easier to have common shared conventions and regulations - but that does not mean we all choose an existing one, (ie cultural hegemony) we just migrate to a new one, more complex perhaps but one that fits (more or less) everybody.

It's fascinating (been fighting unicode legacy issues today so it's top of mind)
Jack Ma seems like a counter example.
For running Adobe products, I use Virtualbox running Windows 10 on my Linux laptop. The speed of hypervisors has gotten so good recently I genuinely can't tell the difference over running Windows natively, even though this laptop is 8 years old now. Everything "just works" and so I don't see why which programs you need to run should determine what brand of computer you buy or what OS you run on it, any more.

I guess the one exception (other than gaming?) is if you need to run any MacOS only software. (I can't even name any, other than that written by Apple, off the top of my head.) I have Mojave running in Virtualbox, but it's noticeably slower than both Linux natively and Windows 10. That could be the 8 year old laptop thing again.
It might help to be more descriptive of your issue, so people can give better advice.

Is it that you're finding it difficult to decide to lay down and call it a day? Is it that you lay down, but can't fall sleep? Is it that you do fall sleep, but you don't feel rested on waking up? Is it that you're waking multiple times during the night and can't get into deep sleep? Do you feel physically or mentally tired? etc.
Agreed. Although alternatively, some ARM SoCs have relatively weak iGPUs, which make them great hobbyist headless machines.
I wouldn't trust 12-year old me with a knife or a frying pan. And 40+ year old me has cut and burnt himself enough times. And I know of enough terrifying accidents to be wary.

Also, yes, those of us living in apartments often have small kitchens.
I believe this is also an attempt to block fingerprinting.
> "On a somewhat disappointing correspondence" (original: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd10xx/EWD1009.PDF / transcript: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD10xx/E...), which incidentally is a good example of why they used to say that arrogance is measured in nano-Dijkstras

Yeah, when I stumbled onto that gem, it took my breath away. It is some of the absolute pettiest writing I've ever seen in a professional setting.

"I thought that by now professional programmers had learned to be more demanding on themselves and not to belittle the virtue of accuracy. I shall stick to the capital letters."

Jesus H. Christ dude.

The thing I find really ironic is that this is the same guy who invented "Guarded Command Language": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guarded_Command_Language.

Its looping structure contains a series of predicate guarded clauses. Each turn through the loop, all of the predicates are evaluated to decide which clause to pick. If more than one evaluate to true, a clause is picked non-deterministically!

Now try to define a way to characterize that process in a simple way. It's a non-deterministic multi-way goto. :-O
You've missed the point and are addressing some other topic entirely; I suspect because you just can't help indulging your pet obsessions on economics and politics. I suppose the clue is in your name.
This is the kind of stuff that convinces me we'll never see mass adoption of cryptocurrency -- or that if we do, it will be only by replicating the existing financial system and slapping a cryptocurrency label on it.

If security engineers at cryptocurrency firms are getting hacked, what hope do mom & pop user have? And once your money is stolen, you have basically zero recourse and no way to reverse the transaction. I know many proponents consider that a feature, but I'm telling you for the average user, it is absolutely a bug.
I know about this case. I can say the following:

Most of the facts stated on this post are lies, or lies by omissions. This guy has an harassment lawsuit against him and hes trying to protect himself. He harassed the girl in front of many witnesses in another conference IN WHICH HE WAS NOT INVITED AND THE GIRL WAS A SPEAKER, and was promptly removed from said conference because of that. She filed a police report against him for this. The conference is FLISOL CABA 2019, ask the organizers about what happened there to Federico Carrone (unabalancedparens) the organizer of buzzconf. Here people are doxing and attacking a couple, dont you realize he's posting this all over internet to cause harm, to smear them, while the couple is silent? Doesn't that ring a bell?

He might be the harasser! Many things in his story don't match. This is a he-said she-said situation. The only thing sure is this: He really believe somebody is attacking him using a Signal messenger cyber-attack that is worth maybe millions on the black market? that detail alone can show you that we are talking about a highly paranoid guy.
Interesting bit: during a press event recently, Warren Buffett was asked whether increasing climate-related catastrophes would hurt the insurance companies in his portfolio. The answer was, to paraphrase, that they would help the companies more than hurt them. Even in a particular year that has unforeseen high levels of disaster, the companies will quickly update their risk models and increase their premiums, essentially bringing in the same margins as before on a larger risk pool = more profit.
The people who designed it have now passed on so it has met its designed lifetime.
we make things. we make fullstack websites, we make payment processing widgets. we hook them together. a product no one wants, so it doesn't get purchased.

imagine if other hobbyists could so easily duct tape a virtual point-of-sale to their display cases. imagine if a gearhead could put a card reader on their front door, try to get the public to wander in for 5 bucks and watch, ask questions. if she could do that as easily as us web geeks could, she'd try it too.

but we're the ones with the free access to try it, so we're pioneering this model of a hobbyist product that few will pay for.
I agree. The docs from that time period were wonderful. I'm shocked at how far its fallen.
A bit off-topic, but I've kind of struggled mentally since finishing The Dark Forest. Even though it's science fiction, it actually seems hard to argue with the theory in the book -- that civilizations must act to eliminate each other or they are overwhelmingly likely to be eliminated themselves. I'd like to believe it's not true, but so long as any two civilizations are likely to have dramatically different rates of technological advancement and so long as crossing the gaps in space between civilizations takes sufficiently long due to the laws of physics, it seems hard to deny that there might be strong reasons for civilizations to fear each other.
Yes, get a job in finance and learn off your colleagues. Sorry but that seems to be what most people I know who ate good at Excel did. In reality it is just like programming, practice solving real problems with a team of experienced people.
And no touch bar please
Not while volunteering (though some are aware of it).

But I believe they aren't building long lasting relationships that will outlive their time in volunteering and form a good social structure to rely on later on.

As soon as they are out of volunteering, most won't see other volunteers anymore.

Unless they actively worked to nurture that relationship outside of the volunteering environment, with unrelated activities.

For example, a friend of mine is hardcore into board games. Sure, he has a good time playing at the club. But seeing people of the club outside of the club, for different activities (supper, helping with moving furniture, sharing a conversation, going to a movie or concert, etc.) is how he's building longer lasting relationships.
It won't work.

Most hypersonic weapons already require ablative materials to transit the atmosphere without disintegrating. Ablative shielding is the norm. Even then, a lot of engineering goes into ensuring that ablative loading is carefully controlled during flight -- any significant deviation from the designed ablative loading will cause catastrophic failure. It took decades of research to get to the point where a (non-ballistic) hypersonic missile under normal flight conditions could reliably manage the ablative loading long enough to reach its target. They are literally testing the theoretical limits of material physics.

Massively increasing the external thermal loading of those materials during flight is a great way to kill a hypersonic vehicle. It directly attacks one of their most vulnerable design constraints.
Chaos theory was the 90s machine learning.