skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Brexit, without the whole concept of targeted ads and the data collection that goes with it would have not been possible.

However nobody mentioned all the people that didn't bother voting because they were at Glastonbury which was on at the same time.

I very much doubt that is true. The UK has been a bad fit in the EU and there has been a sentiment for years that we don't want any EU interference. For example many don't want "The EU monopoly money" (not my words mind you) and generally the public is Euro-sceptic.

The papers and politicians were trying to find a scapegoat because quite frankly it didn't go the way they wanted. Much like Trump's victory claiming that Russia hacked the election (there were like a few thousand placed on facebook, which paled in comparison to the Democrat's budget).

Many of the people that voted out were of older generations that don't pay attention to tech. So I find it dubious how much influence the likes of Cambridge analytical really had.

> Actually I disagree here. When you look at the consequences of the technology in countries like Myanmar, The Philippines, Brazil, Cambodia and others and the likes of Mr. Zuckerberg and his ilk giving exactly zero fucks (unless it becomes bad PR) I'm afraid you're definitely wrong on that one.

Like exactly what? You haven't qualified anything here. You just claimed I am wrong because of what? What adverts, what is happening? This is a very vague claim.

I suspect much like the vote to leave the UK it will be very spurious evidence.
Probably a condition for getting that discount is to promise to not make it public.
I don't see how this answers the point.

I'm of the opinion that privacy regulation is a good idea, but it's trivially true that it's an additional burden for start-ups. The Is it worth it? question is a legitimate one.
They didn't exactly hack Marriott. They hacked Starwood, which had been bought by Marriott. I don't mean to nitpick but there are far more Marriott guests than Starwood guests.
I disagree with that assessment. Sophisticated open source, IaaS, and SaaS offerings greatly lower the barrier of entry in this industry and ought to have a negative effect on wages as dictated by supply and demand.

Your argument undermines itself by highlighting that a single open-source-equipped person can do the job of 3 grey beards of old. That automation of labor runs counter to rising wages.

As another data point, some of the highest paid engineers in the industry - those manning in the private battlements of the FAANG citadels - are specialist steeped in closed source arcana. I myself have been such an acolyte for many years.

My own take on the situation is that the distribution of skillets will further take on a bimodal distribution: the specialists and the generalists.

For now both the supply of sophisticated tools and capable practitioners has not kept pace with the demand from modernizing business. When the demand is met and equilibrium reached, I expect salaries to normalize back to what other technical professionals command (e.g. aerospace and civil engineers).
My entire working life (>20 years) I've always been forced to sign an agreement that I was an employee "at will" and either myself or the company could terminate employment at any time for any reason or no reason at all.

Absent membership in a union, I assume she signed a similar agreement, because it's totally standard in the US.
I've been considering and pondering similar things for my own career. I think there are two things going on.

First off, there are assumptions that full stack developers are 100% amazing at all points in the stack. That's not the case. I consider myself more of an operator this day an age, but I still could take AWS or an empty linux box and build and deploy a java/go backend with a VueJS frontend for something. It won't be pretty, I can promise that. At the same time, that's why I have a great time with the other full stack developer who is much stronger on the frontend/backend side and kinda doesn't want to deal with the infrastructure and deployment.

And from that follows something that has taken a lot of stress from me. If the company is small, it's fine to have a full stack developer deliver something. There will be deficiencies in the stack somewhere, but who cares, there will be a minimally viable product.

Once the company scales however, people can start specializing into the areas they are good at. Why should I struggle too much with a JS frontend if I can make the entire application faster by thinking about the database? Why should the mentioned other dev struggle with one of the many ways to deploy the application if they could spend their time on features?
I suspect you're not very familiar with modern fuzzing research because improvements in this area are definitely not simply a manifestation of Moore's law. Many clever and rather fundamental advancements have been invented and implemented here; for instance, the combination of symbolic execution with concrete execution known as concolic testing.
Must have been a nice rim!

As you experienced, spending $500 to keep a $1500 car from becoming a brick is a great value.

If/when I have the time, my plan is to take cars like this and part them out. Lots of people out there willing to pay for a working OEM part to de-Brick their car.

If you’re patient enough; selling rims one by one would pay off. Nobody really wants to replace all 4 when they really needed one.
Baltimore is one of the poorest and most dysfunctional cities in the US. I don't know the details but it seems logical that a place like this would be where the servers wind-up not updated.

The critique I'd make of the NSA isn't that they developed this tool but that they spent time constructed the tool instead of time spent actually securing American infrastructure.
Prior to air conditioning, many American buildings were similarly designed for natural cooling. Air conditioning has allowed for a style of architecture that's inherently inefficient.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/07/keepi...
Yeah, let's go back to the stone age. Problem solved.
If we used solar power, AC could be close to carbon neutral, because the peak intensity almost perfectly coincides with temperature. Higher temperatures mitigate the big downside of solar to a greater extent.

Compare with heating, which always peaks in the evening hours.
> In the other direction, you don’t have any option if you feel it’s too hot after you’ve taken off your sweater/jacket.

A ceiling or pedestal fan could work and would require far less energy to operate.
With a data protection law, the government can put you in jail and confiscate your property. Companies cannot spy on you.

What you call spying, others would call a preferable alternative to directly paying for services.
agree. read a lot. especially other people's source code.
This comes up sufficiently often in the excellent /r/AskHistorians sub that it made their VFAQ [1] list twice. Both linked answers are worth reading.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/wiki/vfaq#wiki_ancien...
Something about this seems wrong...like this is a very poor argument to even make.
> Prisons do not rehabilitate criminals; they just restrain them.

I think it's worth pointing out that, while that's certainly true of most if not all of the US prison system, it's not necessarily the case that incarceration is never rehabilitative.
3D positioning was added to 1.0, described in RP-049 dated 2009-07-23. The parameters' MSB is 61 (0x3D, nice)

It bears some resemblance to OpenAL source parameters which is little surprise as Creative seems to have written it. Some obvious differences:

- sources' positions are sent in azimuth/elevation/distance, i.e. spherical coordinates instead of rectangular

- the positions are always relative to the listener instead of often having a listener that moves around in a stationary 3D world

- the source is now allowed to be both spatialized and stereo with extra parameters for angular distance between the "speakers", the roll angle of the pair, etc.

I located the PDF maybe on Google, maybe by accident more than a few years ago. (I think it was from MIDI.org even then) I had to make an account at MIDI.org in January just to look through the specs, and it was there. Now I can't find a link so I'm afraid it disappeared behind the MMA member paywall. <sigh> Here's to progress.
I like your thinking. I've always thought mean, median and mode should be thought of as different possible "average" definitions. But common usage always seems to have average == mean, and the other two as slightly less important ideas. This Wikipedia article pleasingly implies my (and your) preferred model is actually the correct one.
Other metals like the ones you named have an oxidation problem over time.
Gold does not have that problem and contacts will wear thru thier plating by mechanical usage .
Gold does not oxidize in the normal earth atmosphere.
That's why you can see ancient gold in for instance : Egyptian relics that still shine - no oxidation..
It's nearly a perfect electrical conductor.
There are better ( for the pedantic chemists here)
But gold plated connectors are used by industry for reliability
China knocks out low quality junk because that is what they are instructed to produce in a lot of case by those putting in the order. If you want everything cheap, for rock bottom cost, corners need to be cut, lower quality materials used etc etc.

They are equally capable of producing high quality products, if the order states as such
> as long as you do your best to stop the bad thing, limit the breach, notify users, and be a good steward for their data, then it's all good

If that regulator happens to like you. There is no schedule of offenses and penalties and due process, only an absurdly high maximum for selective enforcement.
Books influence us and shape us.
We are what we are because we are formed by our experiences throughout our life.
Reading a good book is like living someone else’s life.
Purely anecdotal, but I've had many debates over the last year on HN with people who claim that GDPR is just protectionism - rather than being a sincere effort to improve human rights online, they argue that it's just a sour-grapes effort to cripple American tech companies.
> the fact that it was US military is more coincidence than real problem

No, that's the entire point of my example. The military's primary job is to defend us. It's a major failure when their weapons are used against US citizens.
I served in the Air Force, not the Army.

My service is what paid for college, and led to a satisfying life. I had a large family, and without the USAF I'm not sure I would've been able to afford school. It also gave me time to mature between high school and college.

It worked very well for me.
I wonder if it's some kind of scam for obtaining free hotel stays from major chains.

The mattress company's motivation is obvious enough, but I don't understand why the hotels would be OK with people abusing their furniture, or why they would give away rooms to help facilitate such an activity. But I'm probably just out of touch.
I lived in the Mission 20 years ago and I've seen people get shot in the face in the middle of the day on 24th and it wasn't a big deal. By (my) historical standards the neighborhood is only mildly sketchy these days, I'd be happy to walk anywhere at 3am.
I did this recently and it kept autocapitalizing/correcting things, and I kept wasting time reflexively changing them. There's probably a code syntax option buried somewhere in there but heck if I know where it is.
Perth (and Darwin) are essentally islands of their own.

Perth-Adelaide (nearest major metro) is 2,131km air mles, over the Great Austrailian Bight (ocean). Land route is 2,695 km (1,675 mi).

Darwin-Brisbane is even further: 2,848 km by air, 3,425 km by ground (2,128 mi).

By 300 kph HSR, those are 7+ hour trips, vs about 3 by air. And those are nearest-nighbour trips.

There is effectively no population between either location -- unless somehow induced (a possibility), a high-speed rail service would have tpo rely on endpoint-traffic only. Climate, economy, and ag productivity (low) make development unlikely.

https://www.distancecalculator.net/from-perth-to-adelaide

https://www.distancecalculator.net/from-brisbane-to-darwin

By contrast, the southeastern zone of Adelaide-Melbourne-Canberra-Sydny-Brisbane, is compact with five major metros over 1,601 km (air), though the ground route is still 2,005 km (1,246 mi).

https://www.distancecalculator.net/from-adelaide-to-brisbane

And still, the only HSR corridor that's been seriously considered is SydneyMelbourne. Quite validly.

Australia is almost wholly empty space.

https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=5/-24.921/134.272

Populations:

Perth: 2m

Adelaide: 1.7m

Melbourne: 5m

Canberra: 0.4m

Sydney: 5.2m

Brisbane: 3.6m (metro area)

Darwin: 0.1m
Libertarianism is toxic.
We did. We shut down our SaaS product in the EU and have no plans to reinstate it.
Soul of a New Machine and Masters of Doom are both outstanding. They're at the top of my list.
I wouldn't say so. There is a spectrum of eco-friendliness. Not existing is probably on the high end of eco-friendliness, although someday perhaps an Elon Musk of fixing the environment will be born who will have a net positive impact. Then there are people who travel around the world via airplanes who will probably go to eco-hell. If you're alive and living in a first world country, you have some amount of detrimental effect on the environment. So it is sensible to compare relative levels of harmfulness.
Then by your own logic developers salaries are low. If you're replacing three people and not being paid three salaries then the company has just found a way to squeeze more blood for less.
What type of people are doing the cat-calling? Homeless people or construction workers or.....?
I tested it and even I am not a fan of mark down I am amazed
fast speed,simply customizing colors, nice templates and git pull I replaced Wordpress for this system..
- for the SEO part looks like it beats Wordpress -JSON is in there also Great job....used on http://www.werken.nu/blog
Yall may enjoy this https://youtu.be/g5XWNwBJWeY another way of doing 4D rotation (using VR)
Personally, yes. I'm sitting around 50% right now, but have no reservations upgrading if/when I reach the need to. It's something you'll have to play with yourself to see if you can get it working in a way that makes sense for you - I know a few people who felt it didn't provide enough structure for them.
Your car won't last forever. You will need to buy another car sometime. Money you spend on repairing your current car could be put toward purchasing the next one.

Let's say a transmission replacement costs $1000 for your car (that's low, by the way). You could sell your car now for $1500 and buy a another one, or you can spend $1000 keeping it on the road for a few more years, sell it for less than it is worth now, and then buy another one. That $1000 was wasted since you had to buy another car anyway -- you would have saved that $1000 if you bought the replacement car sooner.
Because of the "crazy" license (I would say it's quite reasonable, essentially it disallows using it for anything else than development or in the context of non-commercial personal projects), the user interface [1], the support... I don't use Mathematica myself, I don't know what functionality is missing.

[1] the free wolfram engine is a command line (or API) application and the Jupyter interface is much more primitive than the real thing: https://github.com/WolframResearch/WolframLanguageForJupyter
'[clamav-users] Possible problem with daily.cld 25460 / CVE-2019-0903' – MARC
I don't believe this feature is specific to macOS and the zip format. I'm reasonably certain it's possible to `tar` a symbolic link in Windows, Linux, or macOS.
That's part of the effect, but I don't think you can reasonably claim it's most of it - demand for rental housing is still high.
Left wingers are very much in support of housing. It seems like you've come here to grind a political axe. In general it's better to make good arguments in your first comment rather than reveal them in striptease fashion.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Why? I don’t have depth in the specifics, but what’s the critical issue with the argument?
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celestial_Emporium_of_Benevole...

(Which I also discovered via Scott, as it happens.)
Unattended problems tend to get worse over time. So, it's rational to take care of them now vs putting it off for later.
In an open office?
ProcessWire 3.0.132 adds WEBP image support
> I think you should quit your job

> We’re in a much more precarious place financially now

Hmm...
yes -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_antenna
Reversing effects of evolutionary prey naiveté with controlled predator exposure
The author almost certainly agrees with you, he was mocking that stance.
I have to deal with compliance on daily basis. Cookie warning is a usually misunderstood idea of having user consent for storing and retrieving information from his device. The law applies to the local storage and other similar solutions too, and it is the intention to use this data that has to be explained if it’s not one of legitimate purposes for which consent is not required (e.g. session id cookies and auth. tokens). Since it is mandatory, it becomes an UX topic, not a legal one - how exactly to integrate the collection of consent to all possible landing pages of your website so, that user will be informed about it prior to any data processing.
I find one of the responses pretty compelling:

> This is a distinction without meaning. Infosec frequently uses the same name to refer to a vulnerability and a corresponding exploit. I don't agree with the framing of the story either, but calling it "fake news" is a serious accusation that goes too far.

https://twitter.com/mehaase/status/1132366433491533824
Intel are consistently the assholes of the silicon market.
Handling other people's personal data is a serious responsibility. GDPR imposes regulatory costs, in the same way that health and safety or environmental protection legislation imposes regulatory costs. It's not creating any new costs, it's just properly pricing an externality.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/03/data_is_a_tox...
How much do these problems actually affect normal users tho? AFAIK not a single exploit has been created using meltdown or spectre, and why would there be?
> Air conditioning has allowed for a style of architecture that's inherently inefficient.

While this is true, it's also true that air conditioning has allowed for settlement in places that were basically unlivable before, like much of the American South. You can only go so far with clever architecture.
I didn't say it could be done "on a slow day". I said it could be done "out of petty cash", in the context of a SIGINT agency. Google employs dozens of people who do this stuff as a hobby.

We don't have to wonder whether this is some space alien technology that only the NSA can develop; it's a reliable Windows remote in pre-Win8 SMB servers. Read a writeup on it; it's less complicated than most type confusion browser RCEs.
> In their decision, the AWG scientists are implicitly recognizing that nuclear energy is a permanent feature of human civilization

How do we know what they implicitly recognize. They simply voted to "declare the invention and testing of nuclear weapons as the beginning of the Anthropocene"
Of course, most energy efficient would be to live in a warmer climate and just live with the warmth, or live in a colder climate and dress appropriately, as mankind has for ages.
Re: DJing- I recently got into this. Do you DJ private/house parties or at nightclubs? From the forums I’ve read, people say it takes a lot of networking to get a gig/slot at a nightclub. I guess you make friends along the way too?
Comparison of the Electric Car Market in China and the United States [PDF]
Also, title should be fixed to say "Neal" instead of "Neil".
>>> fix all the bugs that are upsetting customers and causing them to flee.

Well yes. I am just posting that it is possible to take a top level metric and build a backlog that represents sensible solutions to that metric.

But you first need

- a top level metric (preferably that measures what will make or break your business)
- a way to determine what things under your control drive that metric.

But yes, the things you do in the trenches will probably not move the needle far. That is for two reasons

- at some point the code base is so big that doing "one thing" won't make impact (i think this is around the 100k SLOC) level which is still fairly small

- and even if you can affect the whole code base, the code is at the bottom
of an inverted pyramid of "leverage to affect the business" - the CEO can chnage the business far far more be deciding to triple the price tomorrow than any bugs you fix.

But yes - in the end, if you have a working product right now the best thing to do is to go
find real customers, work out why they are upset (either with clever telemetry analysis or just fricking ask) and go fix that bug / missing feature.

If you don't have a working product there is no telemetry so ... fricking ask.

But find what's not working and fix it is a good plan. If what's not working however is "the business model" we are in interesting territory

I think a non working business model
is exactly the purview of software. I think that we shall
replace all non-coding business people
with coders who can business in a generation. But that this generation will see real opportunities
I sweat at very low temperatures when the humidity is high, 20C is fine, 24C my arms will begin sweat up a bit, 26C then I'm thinking I should just quit for the day. Then I'm writing code, so that sweat sticks down to whatever desk I'm using, especially if I'm wearing short sleeves.

So you can tell me (a) my arms shouldn't rest on the desk while I'm typing. Maybe, but it's not like I'm a "typist", I'm a programmer. And (b) maybe I should sweat at such low temperatures. Honestly, a lot has to do with the airflow and it seems difficult for buildings to circulate air without cooling things down unless they are throwing heat into it.

> Besides...forcing lots of people to carry sweatshirts around during summertime, just so they have some additional layers of clothing ready to be put on when they enter a home doesn't sound like "make everyone happy"

You really don't have to carry it around. Many people keep light sweaters at work. Bottom line, they are thinking about the difference between a programmer working at 100% and one working at 50%.

And we are splitting hairs here: 22C is pretty ideal. 26C is not ideal at all. But people are all over the map on this. OSHA claims that anywhere from 68F (20C) to 76F (24.5C) works well. But you also need to consider humidity, and oftentimes the only thing that can take humidity out of the air is...the HVAC.
It is a failure of the government to properly deal with the NIMBY movement. There are NIMBY's everywhere but somehow it's only SF where new apartments don't get built. Also isn't "look how bad $FOO are at government!" a perfectly fair argument for against voting for $FOO?
Good point that I’d never considered—though I honestly didn’t notice and adjusted to it pretty easily. Could see how it would bother some people, though.
Did Cooking in HotSprings Make Human's Brainy?
Hopefully you'll agree that there is a world of difference between an electromagnetic side-channel and something that can be achieved by simply running some JS.

In particular, disabling JS would be pretty disabling for an average modern web user, so an easy, practical attack through this vector is especially relevant.