skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are correct that parent is wrong (and horribly wrong, to the point of downright fabrication beyond anything Snowden has ever said), but actually you are also wrong. Under PRISM, data cannot be taken without participation. The simple reason for that is that “participation in PRISM” more or less means you respond to court orders.

You are confusing it with other programs. The one you are referring to was reported as a joint operation with GCHQ called MUSCULAR.

Google and Apple’s denials of PRISM participation are kind of semantic. One, they do not refer to it by any NSA codename, so they can truthfully say they don’t participate in something called PRISM, whatever PRISM supposedly is. Second, PRISM was incorrectly described as direct server access without approval. Both companies can truthfully claim that they do not participate in such a program, whether that program is PRISM or not. The truth is that they do “participate”, but that isn’t what PRISM actually enables.

That’s the best denial they can give due to the nature of the gag order.

From trumancenter.org:

If the NSA’s descriptions are accurate, the NSA’s PRISM program allows them to seek electronic data on non-U.S. Persons under FISA warrants applied to foreign electronic traffic travelling through U.S. servers with filters and controls to prohibit use of data of U.S. Persons that may get caught up in the dragnet. The expressly prohibits the use of FISA warrants toward U.S. Persons, but it is not as clear as to what happens to data on U.S. Persons that get picked up in large dragnets aimed at non-U.S. Persons. Much of the accuracy of claims depend on the certified disclosures to Congress by the Attorney General that such safeguards exist and are in place.

So, “participation” means you respond to FISA warrants, which isn’t optional.
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I'd suggest that this is a separate though related question.

My essay concerns the fact that propaganda (and other activities, often but not at all exclusively the domain of state actors) rely on and exploit monopoly structures.

One fairly obvious corollary is that "if you build it", where "it" os a communications or information network exhibiting monopoly control points, "they will come", they being propagandists, censors, and surveillors.

Which is pretty much what Shoshana Zuboff was writing in the 1980s, see her eponymous laws.

That states and other large organisations (see: Congregatio de Propaganda Fide, the IBM songbook, etc.) rely on propaganda, censorship, and surveillance (James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State), means that yes, they effectively operate in a competitive and selective landscaape in which if they don't develop such capabilities, or countermeasures against them, their adversaries will. This will happen through the most monopolistic communications structures available, whhich is my point.
> The hard truth that no one wants to give lip service is that early on, bootstrapping your company may be the best decision for you but it’s not the best decision for your customers.

I'm surprised this was highlighted in the article. It is one of the least compelling statements. VCs drive for high risk, fast growth plans, while what customers need is stability. If they have a service that works for them, at a solid price point, where the service meets their needs while delivering a profit for the business, then everyone wins. The last thing that a customer needs is for a working product to pivot into a high-growth plan that puts the business in the red in pursuit of even more profit.
Probably their threat model is black hats hacking into an account and requesting a delete.
This Udacity course. This is a graudate level course on OS but touches a lot of on Multi-threading and the implementation in OS. The projects are super-intersting.

https://www.udacity.com/course/introduction-to-operating-sys...
Tiktok is capturing a market that was huge and did exist on vine. Anyone could have seen that a vine competitor would have inevitably popped up after twitter killed it. It was a massively popular platform and probably the worst move twitter ever did as a business.
> For a limited time, you can redeem the code SPOTIFYSUCKS and get 42.069% off on all plans.

Nice
How recent are those accounts? AFAIK aggressive empty account banning started a relatively short time ago.
Can someone much smarter than me clarify if this is supportive of, or related to, the US Navy patent from several years ago for Piezoelectricity-induced Room Temperature Superconductor? [0][1]

[0] https://patents.google.com/patent/US20190058105A1/en
[1] https://eandt.theiet.org/content/articles/2019/02/us-navy-pa...
Yeah, I basically spend most of my working days troubleshooting weird WP issues... gutenberg can't find taxonomies because when the site was developed the devs didn't add the tax to the REST API, etc.

I really wanted to like Gutenberg. I learned how to build blocks (and the f- me, they totally changed a ton of stuff about how that works).

At this point, I have some pretty deep knowledge about WP and how to make it do all kinds of funky stuff it shouldn't do... but holy hell if I could get the sales folks to start selling about any other CMS I'd do that in a heart beat.

But I'd still have 600 or so legacy WP sites to support. I'm grateful to have work, and WP can be a real shit show when you look at that many sites.
> The hype has gotten ahead of its current abilities, but I simultaneously think that it will be one of the most impactful inventions we’ve ever created.

This statement is one of the things I find most fascinating about the current state of AI. Do I think deep learning is incredibly useful? Absolutely and I look forward to seeing more awesome stuff done with it in the future.

Do I think the singularity or "true" AI will be based on deep learning? Not really. I strongly suspect anything capable of reaching scifi levels of intelligence (which a lot of hype says or strongly implies is imminent) will have to be a difference of kind, not of degree.

I could be wrong, of course, but it will be interesting to wait and see.
> But if there was a profitable model where they offer great customer service wouldn't they? Or at least a competitor would come in who did.

They wouldn't offer great customer service, they'll offer what they feel they can get away with. And there were competitors but they were pushed out (remember RDIO?, good times).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24779491
A family member has a large home with in-floor radiant heating supplied by a boiler. There are some really nice things about it: Many individual zones, no forced-air, put your towel on the floor before getting in the shower, and have a nice warm towel when you get out :)

But, all of those lines feeding different zones end up heating other zones along the way. I feel that it is often too hot in many parts of the house. The boiler is in a separate room in the basement. And that room gets very hot and ultimately the entire basement is too warm.

Its a neat system, but ultimately, and for all of its promises and nice parts, it doesn't actually seem like the most effective system.

I'm not sure what the answer is, but I know that I would love to have multiple, separately-controlled zones in my house. Even if the method is not the most advanced or efficient, it seems better than needlessly heating parts of a home that don't need it or overheating some parts to ensure others get warm enough.
How did you validate that applicants that use your resume advice get more interviews and responses? What success metrics can you share?
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Thanks for this!

I'm from Sozialhelden / Wheelmap.org (Germany), we'll explore if/how we can integrate this.

We also have a running web app to let passengers subscribe to elevator/escalator service changes via QR code. Feel free to get in touch (Email: sebastian@sozialhelden.de) if you're interested :)
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Since I live in LA I can answer your last question: whatever the plan was it is not working. The homelessness situation here is continuing to accelerate out of control.

This dovetails nicely with the “tiny home” movement. Regardless of how you feel about affluent people taking up tiny homes, there is something deeply off putting about municipalities in the midst of a housing crisis putting up minimum housing size laws that require tiny homes to be built via loophole on top of a trailer.
I think there is a parallel here with the old saying, "you have your whole life to write your first record and then six months to write your second.” Similar to the Showtime shows you mentioned, I would apply this to the first season of HBO's "True Detective." Spectacular first season in which I got the sense the writer put in everything he had collected in his head his whole life, and then a rushed second season due to its success.
Yep, I got myself mixed up. It's been 15 years since I worked in thebrail industry, so I'm a bit rusty.
Many things appear to be a valuable asset, right up until the moment they aren't. In mid-2000, Enron stock was a 'valuable asset.'
So you know that the tech to get were we are today, despite doing almost the same as a early 2000's tool, had to overcome a lot of obstacles to become available to all platforms in a open way, with a open 3d api, where you dont need to be forced on having Windows and buy a super expensive(as it was back in the day) license a closed source software.

Giving your presented credentials, you should now how and why this is not exactly the same.

Software is constant automation and improvement, and if the things we suffer to do today, that can make someone be considered special and be well payed, will be achieved easily by children in the future, its just because of the hard work of the pioneers that suffered but persisted in the beginning.

The Unix was there in the 70's, and yet we celebrate "the same" old thing today, because its open, its available and even kids can change and compile it in its Linux incarnation.

So while it maybe looks the same under the surface, its definitely not the same, and we should be glad every time technology gets popular and easy, because its not easy to get there.

Edit: Sorry for the way i've started my first commentary, it was rude and unnecessary, rather you knew or not anything about the matter.
>1. intentional backdoors

With all of the previously disclosed security fiascos of Zoom decisions, this would be my concern. Whether it was for debugging purposes later, it just makes something down the road easier, or it was done to satisfy an external request.

I do not trust Zoom to get this right
So does it intercept all connections on that port (from the client app) and pass them along? Or do I need to reconfigure my client application to talk to localhost:whatever? Your only example is that curl using a hostname, it's not really clear.
The masses should probably be buying PlayStation VR anyway. The VR market might honestly be better off without Facebook's image attached to it.
When the richest died from disease in numbers unheard of today we still had slavery. It's not a great equalizer if you think about it.
> license operates as a defense against a claim of infringement

It works like that in fully assignable IP jurisdictions (like USA), but it works like a contract of adhesion in the author's compulsory rights jurisdictions (like Germany and Czechia).

What I meant by inseparable contribution was a significant contribution, when eliminated, that would make entire work not resemble the current state of the work; i.e. the line that tells derivative work versus near-equal co-authorship apart (which are treated similarly in fully assignable IP jurisdictions, yet have entirely different regimes in the compulsory rights jurisdictions). Not the entirety of the work indeed.

> the condition and "preferred form" definition would only be considered in relation to the plaintiff's code; the owner/defendant's code wouldn't be relevant.

It would, in a compulsory rights jurisdiction, because all copyright assignments are either void or revocable at will in such jurisdictions.
That's what's incredible to me. For me and many others, Yahoo was like a proto-facebook. You could go to Yahoo and spend your whole browsing session there, between checking your email, the news, looking at your friends' Geocities blogs, then playing some Chess over at Yahoo Games. Later on they became one of the bigger names in fantasy football.

It's amazing how quickly they lost it all though, and I can't for the life of me understand it. None of what they did was new, they just did it better (or well enough) and had the marketshare to keep people there.

What happened? And how do you decide that stripping away products people use is the way forward? What's the point of the Yahoo name, if everything that made it Yahoo is gone?
I was always wondering - virtually all money being electronic now, what the heck they are doing with all those branch addresses? I don't even have "branch address" - my account is just numbers, and if I need some live human service, I just walk into any random branch and they are happy to help me.
It’s quite misleading to emphasize the cheapness of renewable generators themselves and not take into account the price of the storage they require and where it would go if there was demand for enough to keep the whole world running when the wind has lulls (and when electricity use peaks as the sun goes down).

I’m glad Europe has scouted ahead, I hope we can learn from France’s 75% nuclear grid and nuclear “waste” recycling and comparing them to Germany’s much more expensive renewable path.
Couple of pop psych thoughts:

People on HN are not really strangers, we are part of a community. By helping one of us, they help one of their in groups. Not helping might devalue their investment in this place.

HN users are the early adopters that small group of users who have much more influence early on in projects. Care of early adopters makes sense.
>"It's star wars Content"

Like Walking Dead with top-notch production value.

I don't watch Disney content much but I own their stock because they really know how to milk every drop from the franchise. When they can't milk no more, they wait few years and they restart. With young audience it's just endless source of new minds to corrupt. It's like junk food for the mind.
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One if them isn't what you'd likely call a "satellite" in the first place (though it certainly is, from a technical perspective).

CZ-4C is the upper stage of a Chinese Long March rocket that was used to launch a reconnaissance satellite in 2009.
Tahoe, SLC, Portland, Austin, Minneapolis. It is only in part about moving somewhere awesome. A lot of people I know are just moving home to where their parents live. So lots of places.

For us, a lot of our family actually is in SF or Seattle. We're a skiing/biking family and I need to be in SF pretty regularly (but not daily) so SLC was the obvious choice. Portland was a candidate because it also has short flights to SF but I figured if we were going to move I wanted world class skiing and biking, in my backdoor, not just decent skiing 1.5hrs away.
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Well, I'm tired of this tape, but: Cut some heads and wages in the upper management, focus strictly on Firefox and one or two other projects and don't do bullshit that burns money. All of a sudden you'll have a great product, a clear mission and people will start liking and supporting you.

Anything is better than getting into bed with these "game studios".
Do you doubt that they commit espionage against Russia, or just their technical capability? If the former, then this article might surprise you: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/28/world/europe/norwegian-sp...
If only we had some sort of bureau of protecting consumers - the tech companies are bad but the people I really want to see fines for bad UI are credit companies. Trying to un-enrolled from once free-of-charge credit reporting is insanely difficult.
I agree that banning bathroom breaks is stupid. But it's not as easy as "punishing disruption"

a. Because turns out the constantly suspending students is actually not that effective if our goal is to educate those students

b. Because suspending students goes on a school's record and the central office in urban areas wants to keep suspensions low.

c. Because the way they punish the disruption is oftentimes more problematic for ordinary students

ie. My school implemented hall sweeps where all of the teachers would lock the doors to their classroom and security would come through the halls and collect students for detention, but it would oftentimes catch students who were doing things like going from their classroom to the library or something.

It was also pretty clearly racially biased. I remember vividly a black student arriving maybe 10 seconds after the bell for class, getting into the class, and having security guards come into the classroom to take her out of the class because she was late. The security guards knew that the affluent, white student's parents were more likely to throw a fit if their child was treated like that.

This was honestly the most valuable lesson from that school: well-meaning discussion about how to enforce/stop certain behavior in a meeting translates into super unreasonable enforcement actions by school security. I doubt this principle is unique to schools, but I am lucky to be wealthy enough to be shielded from the brunt of the law.
You should look up what happened at Cern when they had a superconductor meltdown. And that one wasn't even a burst of power it was a continuous current (admittedly one with enough to power a small city).

Of course anything with that much energy is possibly violent, but at least a flywheel is easy to control. I haven't the faintest idea what that amount of electromagnetic energy would do, I'm not sure I want to find out.

At the very least I suspect you'll find that electromagnetic current also has angular momentum at those scales.
It's a different story now, but they had to offer that 10 year warranty because the quality was actually that bad at the time.
You’re awesome. Thanks for updating the site!

P.S. I plan to buy this book when the student version goes live, as I’m a bit away from graduating still.
Really? Any source for this claim?
Over in another thread this was compared to Google's BeyondCorp. Can you comment and compare/contrast Boundary with the concepts of BeyondCorp?
The US already has gone down that route.

Most of the Islamist terrorist plots federal authorities have 'broken up' over the past twenty years have involved undercover agents leading on people who are too dysfunctional to be dangerous to do things for which they can be convicted.
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Note: 59 degrees Fahrenheit is 15 degrees Celsius
Out of curiosity, what is your bootstrapped saas?
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I've bought things with BTC (I believe I am rare insofar as I have never bought BTC but have spent them...) and having frequently used cash, I can assure you that spending BTC is not even remotely as easy as spending cash.
On which point I've just begun following HoB: https://thehistoryofbyzantium.com
Of course not. Its primary purpose is to identify whistleblowers.
I observed something similar that began earlier this year. I wrote about it on the Tenable blog. They impersonate many of the people following Trump and engaging with his tweets, irrespective of party affiliation.

https://www.tenable.com/blog/cryptocurrency-scams-fake-givea...
My guess is that "life-support systems" is what immediately came to mind when their legal council was contemplating potential realms of excessive liability.
> As you say, parents taking interest in their children's education is far more important than money spent.

I have first hand visibility on this (though obviously on limited data) when looking at the classes my children go to.

I live in a cozy neighborhood but the classes are mixed. Primary school is mixed because of social mixture and one can see that the children who are good are the ones pushed for that. Teachers clearly pass the message of "it is your work that is going to help you" (they do not even talk about money because it is mostly irrelevant in France with out education system, at least in terms of paying for school (the other costs like housing etc. is another story)).

Then you move to high school, we have several of them in my city. One is in the very top of best schools in France and the students population is not that different: you have people from all wealth and the common denominator is that they work (hard). It is not possible to buy your way into that school.

What I see is that the children care and their parents care. They either give an example (because they are well educated) or push the children to get off the social caste.

Unfortunately there is also a mass factor: a few people significantly off in a class will not be a problem. When nobody in your neighborhood cares about education (despite having access to it) then it is much more difficult for the ones who want to work.

Finally, there is often a perception in socially lower neighborhoods that the best schools are "not for them". It is not a matter of money, but of perception. I followed two high school students (a boy and a girl) for a few years - they were brilliant and I pushed them to try. They did and succeeded in ivy league schools (grandes écoles in French). They told me that they would have not even tried, again because of perception. Now they are "giving back" to their community by passing the right message.
Not really, No. Not even WOLED from LG can say that on their TV.

On mobile phone it is mostly dodged simply because you dont have the same screen for a long time and your screen time tends to be a lot lower than on PC.

But you can, definitely get burn-in on all modern OLED. And likely an unsolvable problem in the foreseeable future.
I think this is one of those "rule of cool" things.

Though I will say, sure IG-88 may have been better at shooting accurately, but his response to being surrounded in the first episode was to initiate a self-destruct. Whereas you have Mando showing some higher-level thinking and turns an "unwinnable" fight into a winnable one.
3rd story in Steve Jobs' commencement speech on death:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hd_ptbiPoXM&t=982
I can't opt out. Chrome on android doesn't allow extensions/toolbars
If you get one before they added too much electronic bullshit they are great cars. The E30 series is a tank and can go probably a half million miles if you did routine maintenance.
If you upgrade your packages during a build then inadvertently if 2 people build your Dockerfile at two distinct times they can end up with 2 different images. So rather than focusing on "we're using base-image:1.0.2" you need to start asking questions like "list all packages and versions and start comparing those".

If there's a security issue you need to rebuild your images anyway and optimally you have a system in place that represents images and their dependencies as some sort of dependency graph structure, so when you upgrade your base image all dependent images get rebuilt automatically.
Eh, I feel like the Mandalorian can be objectively "good" though. Just in terms of, you can tell the people are talented who were assembled to work on it. There are lapses from time to time though, for sure.
This isn't about renting vs buying, its about living big and private or small and public.

Renting/buying a small home and using public spaces like parks and transit/walking, or renting/buying a large home with your own yard, buying your own car, etc.

The large home will serve you much better in a pandemic, cause many of those public options will be closed, but is that worth paying for when a pandemic will happen maybe once or twice in your lifetime?