skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Public EBS snapshots are great, and thankfully a design other clouds didn't copy. I've found all kinds of stuff in there, including a 900GB Oracle backup of a publicly traded manufacturer's accounting system. It doesn't require much imagination to understand how this kind of data could be profited from, given relatively low effort

It seems unlikely a lot of people didn't already know about this, it's hard to miss even if you only spend a few days with the EC2 API, and it's also quite surprising AWS have yet to correct the design. 90% chance it is mostly a UI problem -- there are no warning labels around snapshotting in the EC2 UI
There is a reason people look into infidelity when doing background checks for sensitive positions. :-)

That said, the conclusion is not surprising. One measure of personal integrity is whether or not a person will do (or not do) what they "promise." This is typically referred to as "keeping your word" in English, the concept is fairly universal in my experience but different cultures refer to it in different ways. From what I have read it is a particularly strong characteristic value in "honor" cultures.

Of course there are 'levels' to these sorts of promises, like "I will be home for dinner tonight" is a much less "serious" vow than "I will forsake all others."[1] And again, in my experience, people I have known have a sort of 'internal measure' of what promises they are willing to break and which ones they aren't. Ethics classes are all over these sort of discussions.

As the marriage vow of fidelity is considered a fairly "strong" vow (high consequence for violating it), it seems reasonable to extrapolate that if someone was willing to violate that promise then mere 'business' promises would be similarly fair game.

Always a good thing to know where your boss stands on such things.

[1] A typical marriage vow promising monogamy.
Google still isn't the seller of record, though.

> Note: All bookings are made with the relevant airline or online travel agency.
It's possible. The counts (like/view/click/retweet/upvote etc) effect what content creators produce. It's the Control Variable in a Feedback Process.

Just like the news shows, radio/podcasters and comedians decide what gets the largest audience by looking at specific metrics. But in this case Twitter/Youtube/Insta etc have control over When, What and How they show metrics to content producers. Turning these knobs changes behavior. It is still early days and the big tech firms are just waking up to the possibilities.
Algeria blocks YouTube and Google services after publication of political video
New York requires that you get a license from the Taxi and Limousine Commission in order to drive for Uber.

https://www.uber.com/drive/new-york/resources/
https://www.uber.com/drive/new-york/get-a-license/
The issue isn't about who's fault it is. The issue is that you can call Expedia when things go wrong but there's nobody at Google you can call.
My own humble suggestions - although the books are hardly forgotten. But I think people focus a lot on technical / engineering books, and very little on design / user experience / human behavior, which arguably contribute much more to the overall impressions end users have of programmers' work.

First, the greatest book of all time, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin - an amazingly introspective and insightful look into how to live an examined life and improve oneself.

And then if you want to learn lower-case "design thinking", my top 10 books

* Design for Everyday Things - duh. I re-read chunks of it all the time.

* Tufte - hard to pick one, I might actually be iconoclastic and go with Visual Explanations which I think has more to offer programmers over pure data visualization. Again, just grab one every day, flip through 3-4 pages, rinse, repeat.

* User Story Mapping - Extremely memorable book - it gives you a pretty clear field guide on prioritization, empathy, communication ... just a great book.

* Badass by Kathy Sierra - I flip through this book again and again. It is gospel truth about what motivates humans.

* The Field Guide to Human-Centered Design - IDEO's most practical book. (Close second: Designing Interactions.)

* Universal Methods of Design - another deeply practical book, lots of good tips and examples.

* Universal Principles of Design - Sister book to the Universal Methods. Again, straightforward, flip to any page and get an idea when you're brainstorming.

* Thinking in Systems - I recommend you skim this book through, but come back to it a lot, it grows with you.

* Inspired by Marty Cagan - again, love nuts and bolts process books.

* Don't Make Me Think! - still a classic, still see these mistakes being made all the time in modern app dev.
Gmail add-ons pretty much don't exist anymore. The Gmail API has been locked down to people able to pay for a ~$100k security audit. The Facebook API is rather crippled too. API's used to let you share all your data, and act on your behalf, but now typically they do Auth and access already-public data.
Usually the materials to get higher efficiency are prohibitively expensive or dangerous to use at scale.
But the town police colluded with the vigilantes!

How can it be certain that the record isn't a post hoc fabrication. Or if not entirely, then at least embellished.
A quick search gave me the information that death by suicide is going down. If there is an increase in anxiety and depression, I see no reason to blame social media. If used in a good way, social media make us feel well.
This should be fun for 2020...
Oh god, how much I hate articles that don‘t list their sources. Where are the slides from?

The talk description is here:
https://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-27/dc-27-speakers.html#Mo...
It’s still true that most security issues are caused by human ineptitude, not clever vulnerability-hunting or burning sophisticated zero-days.
> 'At what possible point does the manufacturing and physical goods

> lose their signaling status due to a more service based economy?

There was a comic about (sorry, no translation this time...cos -there was another comic about translation P-: )

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Upper management is more likely to cheat in general according to the book Freakonomics.

The section about bagels and that that management where more likely not to pay for their bagels in the honesty basket.

“
Feldman’s bagel business is a great example of the decency and goodness of mankind. After years of delivering bagels, Paul Feldman noticed certain trends, and he gathered data on his bagel sales. This data showed that the smaller offices that he delivered to practiced honesty more often than the bigger offices.”
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Who has a better track record?
~30-40 W would be my guess, given both Camera, and WiFi are active. (PiZero-W is rated 1.2A max)
If you sort of just chill there and don't engage substantively with the barber's conversation, they should pick up on it.
Midwesterner here: grew up in or near Kirksville, MO, about 165 miles east of Skidmore. I hereby swear or affirm that Skidmore is in the Midwest, geographically and culturally, although northern Missouri/southern Iowa have their own version of "midwest". That part of the world is definitely not plains geographically or biologically: it's oak/hickory forest growing on dissected glacial till. You don't get to "plains" geographically until you're well into Kansas at that latitude, and even then, Kansas and Nebraska are culturally midwestern, despite their pretensions to cowboy.
If GDPR created new vectors of attack which didn't exist before - there's a problem with GDPR even if there are also problems with organizations. Otherwise, you have just created a perfect excuse for any lawmaker: "my law written with good intentions, so not my problem if there are unintended consequences".
That's not how I read it.

"Field calibration equations were then produced from the calibration dataset [...]" (emphasis mine).

Table 3 shows the calibration dataset for tVOC, which at least to me looks rather ok except for the outlier E.
The bag hasn't been passed yet.

That's going to happen when the funds go through a sell-off. They know it too, which is why they're trading despite the indicators, because they're more plugged into the market info that will let them get off right before the cliff.

Unless you're day trading, individuals should be trimming right now and increasing cash holdings, because the indicators available point to the sell off coming. You're welcome to try to run with the fund herd but they're better equipped and do it full time, meaning you'll be struggling to keep up with them. Better to get in front of the funds than chase them.
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Why shouldn't someone be able to place these on their own property? Sure it creates a coyote vacuum but by definition said vacuum has less coyotes in it than the surrounding area. You then only have to deal with the ones that show up rather than an entire population. These seem useful for people who raise chickens and other small livestock that would be very attractive to coyotes. Obviously they need to be used carefully, like anything else that's designed specifically to be poisonous but these seem safer and more targeted than leaving out a dead varmint that's been laced with poison.
This accurately describes what I observed

This is more in line with currently existing high crime areas where nobody talks to the police as part of the culture. The demographics of this reality have no commonality with lynching statistics.

Its more closely related to anti snitching culture than us debating novelty of white people being lynched.

It is a total red herring to what this story even brings to the table.
It's fairly well cited all over the internet that the EU commission and other European institutions claim they are exempt from the GDPR, after they were found to be in breach of the legislation it created.
Except it might be 30 seconds before the plane departs...
This is among the critical differences between MtGox and Coinbase.
How is the topology discovered without tracing? The article mentions that metrics are used. Could you elaborate on how you go from metrics to the topology?
Yo that twitter account is gold I haven't cringed and laughed this hard in weeks
I think this issue is also often coupled with another problem: a good portion of people seem to harbor an assumption that one can simply comprehend any philosophical work (or really, any work of the liberal arts, be it philosophy, history, or literature) without perquisite knowledge.

Hand the average person a highly specialized work on mathematics, biology, or computer science and they'll quickly explain to you that they lack the prerequisite training or reading to understand it. Hand them a philosophical tract or a novel of literary merit and they seem more likely to either attempt to struggle through it, ignoring things they don't 'get' to come up with a impoverished sense of the work, or they'll claim the language is too (and unnecessarily) foreboding and dense, but not necessarily the subject matter--there's no sense that the difficulty lies in lack of training, but rather in something inherit in the work (conceived as a flaw or virtue). The onus is on the work to be comprehensible, rather than on the reader to comprehend--yet the obverse relation is oft upheld for texts in the sciences (in the rooms of average opinion. Specialists, of course, feel quite differently).

There seems to be less general acknowledgement of the fact that dedication to the tradition and assimilation of historical concepts is just as requisite in the humanities as it is in the sciences.

It's odd how certain subjects are victim to the full fury of uninformed opinion while others are immune. Ask anyone of his politics and he'll (usually) soon explain his view and why its correct, all the while finding the fact that he hasn't studied any political history, political science, political economy, or political philosophy totally irrelevant. Ask the same fellow his thoughts on a mathematical conjecture and he'll quickly scramble his way out of the conversation. It probably comes back to the mild religiosity our culture maintains about the sciences--its seems a profane thing for mere laymen to opine on the word from on high. Meanwhile the things of men are open to all cant and blasphemy.
Pan-Africanism – Infrastructure must be the first priority
You've stated this multiple times in this thread now.

Maybe consider that not everyone has the same use case as you: some people are running larger chunks of computation per node or even stateful applications. Even when they could be killed and are redundant, running a bit slower for a moment until they recover may be preferable to restarting the node (which also takes time).
"Selling for cash" - accepting credit cards and wire transfers (paying by check isn't really a thing in most of EU) doesn't necessarily require you to store PII.

How are you going to identify the source of a wire transfer if you don't have a customer to match it against?

Also, if you're selling online then anything service-like is already caught by the EU VAT place-of-supply rules (which require verification of the buyer's location and keeping adequate evidence for up to 7 years) and there have been proposals to extend that to sales of physical goods for some time.

If you're delivering pizza, then you don't need to store every order's phone number and address forever; and if you don't store the delivery data beyond the delivery, then if someone requests all the data you have on them, then you can honestly say "nothing".

And that's exactly what you'll have to tell everyone's credit card company when they start disputing charges as product-not-delivered and you have nothing to counter with.

I'm afraid you're being extremely optimistic about how much personal data processing can be avoided in even these everyday situations. And this is before you do anything like marketing, customer relations, logging use of your electronic systems, having any employees, paying any suppliers, etc. I don't doubt that some cases where companies currently have your data could be avoided, but I suspect 50% is a gross exaggeration.
I discovered this book by looking for more information on state charts vs state machines. Harel writing also got me interested in Topology:

"Topological features are a lot more fundamental than geometric ones, in that topology is a more basic branch of mathematics than geometry in terms of symmetries and mappings. One thing being inside another is more basic than it being smaller or larger than the other, or than one being a rectangle and the other a circle. Being connected to something is more basic than being green or yellow or being drawn with a thick line or with a thin line." [1]

1: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/2342
This isn’t someone else grooming you!
He was convicted of attempted murder while he was very well alive. He was also charged for many other crimes for two decades, the charges just never stuck because he intimidated the witnesses. Plenty of information about his deeds was recorded prior to his killing.
Given the published corporate policy on leaking I think it’s safe to conclude they would be fired, and most likely prosecuted when possible.

“The Cupertino, California-based company said in a lengthy memo posted to its internal blog that it "caught 29 leakers," last year and noted that 12 of those were arrested. "These people not only lose their jobs, they can face extreme difficulty finding employment elsewhere," Apple added.”

https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2018-04-13/apple...
The Glasgow effect is notable because it’s not explained by the usual factors of poverty. If you graph life expectancy vs poverty, Glasgow is an outlier, an anomaly from the trend line.
"We're not run by idiots"?
Yup. The synchronous speed of a motor is directly proportional to the frequency and number of poles in the motor. The formula RPM = 120f/p is used to solve for speed given f in Hz and p is the number of poles. Poles being one of the N-S halves in a magnetic pole pair. So the minimal number of poles in an AC induction motor is 2 and increases by 2. Typically, most AC induction motors are of the 2 and 4 pole variety as well as the less common but usually available 6 pole. The same goes for generators. The more poles, the slower it turns but torque increases proportionally. In ye olde days frequency was converted using motor generators. A 50<->60 hz system matches up at 600 RPM so a 10 pole on the 50Hz side and 12 on the 60Hz side (complex and expensive designs).

Using that formula, a 2 pole generator running at a synchronous speed of 3000 RPM will produce 50Hz. Using that 50Hz to power a 4 pole squirrel cage motor will cause it to run at just under synchronous speed, usually 4-5% below synchronous speed at full load (it will spin slightly faster, towards synch under no load). So about 1450 RPM. The reduction in speed is called slip and is what generates torque as the rotor has no magnetic field of its own, it depends on slip to generate the counter field to push the rotor along.

Synchronous motors avoid slip by having their own magnetic field from permanent magnets or a wound armature on the rotor fed DC from slip rings or rotary transformer. Coincidently, a synchronous motor and AC generator or alternator are almost the same machine. The basic idea is a magnetic field mechanically spun around pushes electrons around in the stator windings. Sort of like a propeller pushing through water, the magnetic field lines push and pull electrons along the wires. If the field is too weak the voltage will sag as load increases. You can visualize this as weak field = propeller made of rubber, flopping about and can't push much, full strength = made of steel. If the mechanical power source is weak or overloaded, the shaft speed will drop as well as voltage.

You are literally transmitting the generators rotational speed along the wires and motors follow. Adding generators means they have to be in phase so must be brought up to speed AND phased in before being connected to the grid. This is called synchronizing. So thanks to my long winded motor/generator post you can see how a large load can drag down frequency.
Not if the robot has a conversational bot built in.

This way they could make the haircut free by having the bot slip product endorsements into the conversation.
Your comment forced me to think. People are all imperfect. People in competitive environments are unforgiving. That means covering your shortcoming or mistakes is important, and that's inherently deceptive.
Man... I do about 2-3 screening interviews a week. Always fun when you hear them furiously typing on a mechanical keyboard when they are trying to answer how they did something on their last project. I've had people cheat by printing off common answers on the wall behind the camera. Last week had someone try having someone else respond to the questions while they were on video. Good times. Interviewing is a skill (for both sides) For something as important as hiring, I'll include my new dev leads/potential s as part of the hiring process to see how you suss out if a person might be a solid inclusion to your team. Tell me your greatest weakness or O notation gotcha isn't it...
Not to veer too far off topic here but Michael Jackson died innocent because he was innocent. He was greatly misunderstood and a fire of experienced racism that was fed by the media. Here's an article you might find interesting:

https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_610258
If we have to count the exploits in every new thing against some grand total of allowable exploits then there will never be new things. The question was not whether k8s added to the universe of exploits, but whether the exploits make it unready for production. Personally I was more bothered by some of the code quality issues than the list of specific high severity exploits. It's a large project and issues like this will be found.
Well, sure, I suppose that's step zero. But there's a lot more work required beyond that in order to survive continuous attacks.
What “Privacy Policies” Should Say
GDPR requires the user to identify themselves to request data.

If a password and username is the only possible way of identification then that is enough. And if one can not provide that then tough luck it is.
I used to love Emacs + Intero but now I use VSCode with the Haskell plugins for syntax hilighting, code completion, and syntax error flagging.
The primary issue with everything in this category is that plenty of things are possible in the lab or in theory which just isn't possible when applied in reality and at scale.

Blame journalists for hyping this because of the climate change focus.

I am involved in actively looking for better materials and better sources of energy. The reality is that there are no fundamental breakthroughs since oil and nuclear.

No matter what you hear we just haven't had anything that fundamentally changes the game.

So instead of actual breakthroughs in the fundamentals, we get marketing, branding, and communication. But this is not something that can be fixed with that, it's physics, not product innovation

We will most likely get fusion (far out) fuel cells (even further out) before we get any fundamental breakthroughs here.
> I'm still trying to figure out how exactly to survive the collapse of civilisation.

You're listening too much to alarmist stuff. Things may get bad. It's not likely to be the collapse of civilization. Make sure you're able to survive the continuation of civilization, since that's the much more likely scenario.
What about drones?
>and also consume too much dairy (adults don't need to drink any milk and many don't digest it well, by the way)

How much is "too much"?

We don't need to drink tea or coffee either; do you propose getting rid of those too?

For those of us who have no problems digesting it, what exactly is the problem with eating yogurt or drinking milk? Sure, consuming too much of those probably isn't good, but you can say that about literally any food.

For people who don't digest it well, then of course I'd suggest not drinking it. The same goes for any other food: if you're allergic to peanuts, don't eat them. If you're allergic to shellfish, don't eat them. If you're allergic to bananas, don't eat them. If you're lactose-intolerant, don't drink milk unless you really like the taste and want to add lactase enzyme.

I do agree that Americans in particular eat way too much red meat, but I think some people give dairy a hard time when I don't think it's that much of a problem compared to many other things. Most adults don't drink a lot of milk anyway; usually "dairy" for adults means eggs, cheese, yogurt, etc. I don't see the health problems with dairy the way I see with red meat either. For improving public health, we should instead be reducing how much red meat people eat, plus also reducing or eliminating stuff like HFCS, refined sugars, refined flour, alcohol, etc.

>One solution would be measures to increase prices but that is a political minefield.

What they should do is just eliminate the tax breaks that unhealthy industries enjoy.