skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Alternatively, GoDaddy has failed to secure their work environment and are blaming the workers instead.

Think about why we care about phishing: it’s mostly about people giving credentials to an attacker. Drop $20/person on some FIDO tokens and the risk factor drops considerably. Repeat for the risk of malware - if someone in accounting can run arbitrary software, they aren’t the root cause.
Yep, this is what got me hooked as well. I've also played using a PS4 controller using my laptop, and phone. I don't think the PS4 controller would work playing from the Chromecast though.
Metadata-Private Communication for the 99% [pdf]
He's only 50. How 'few good work years' do you think he has left?
> If you work there, you're gross.

I think that's a touch harsh. What if you just make sandwiches in a canteen?
"I'm a doctor, not a computer security expert, Jim!"
Yeah, I have no doubt that search depth is better, but that is relative to the goal of winning more. I instead want to optimize for the metric of a chess Turing test: being indistinguishable by humans from a player of a given rating.
They fell victim to the common trap of "We have to do something, and this is something to do, therefore we have to do it"
It is actually even simpler, a commit is a complete file tree with some message, other metadata and hashs of its parent commits.
A commit without parent is the initial commit.

A merge commit is simply a commit that has more than one parent commits.

In reality, you can put whatever content on whatever commits as long as these rule don't break.

The git is just the program that you used to merge the file tree, while you can disgrace with it with '--no-commit' and modified the merged file tree as you want.
if they're still employed at godaddy why are they having hard times?

if they're greedy for an extra $650 windfall... thats what a real phish will dangle as well?
That's so petty it's actually hilarious.
So at this point it's just a normal Ransom. There's no 'wares' doing it. Someone stealing something does not make it ransomware.
I agree, but I do think its more nuanced. Both LeBron & Tiger Woods are examples of sportsman living up to the early hype but ultimately falling short of eclipsing some records people thought they could.

Lebron likely won't win as many rings as Jordan and Tiger won't win as many majors as Jack.
Examining Students' Thoughts: An Important Part of Teaching Science
I've always used ISO 8859-1 with VT terminals; there are only a few differences between it and the DEC character set.
GitHub Game Off 2020 Winners
What always amazes me is that credit card data is almost always safe since VISA/MasterCard and others have very stringent security requirements. (PCI DSS)

There are some regulations regarding medical data (Eg, HIPAA) but security seems like an afterthought in most hospitals at best.
You must have invested in other coins as well, how's the bull run? Could they offset your loss?
Apple from today is just similar to the Apple from 30 years ago, those that only know OS X post Apple are figuring it out now that they aren't in deep need of cash any longer.

For what is worth, I that that Apple.
Seriously, this has to be satire, right? It's straight out of National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. If true, then "what a cheap, lying, no-good, rotten, four-flushing, low-life, snake-licking, dirt-eating, inbred, overstuffed, ignorant, blood-sucking, dog-kissing, brainless, dickless, hopeless, heartless, fat-ass, bug-eyed, stiff-legged, spotty-lipped, worm-headed sack of monkey shit" company.
I would add Lord of The Rings, but it turns out that industrious old prof turned the whole trilogy out in one shot. It was his publisher who released it in stages. Interestingly he had a hard time convincing someone to print it at all:

> A dispute with his publisher, George Allen & Unwin, led to his offering the work to William Collins in 1950. Tolkien intended The Silmarillion (itself largely unrevised at this point) to be published along with The Lord of the Rings, but Allen & Unwin were unwilling to do this. After Milton Waldman, his contact at Collins, expressed the belief that The Lord of the Rings itself "urgently wanted cutting", Tolkien eventually demanded that they publish the book in 1952. Collins did not; and so Tolkien wrote to Allen and Unwin, saying, "I would gladly consider the publication of any part of the stuff", fearing his work would never see the light of day.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings#Receptio...
I am not sure it's whining. Apple is cutting costs while pretending it's for a larger cause.

I might also have 7 chargers, but none of them are for USB-C - the type of the cable that they did include with the box. So I still have to buy a charging brick.
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> ... and are not equipped to be flying in dense airspace, especially thousands of feet in the air.

Isn't this just saying that you have no way to avoid being hit by an airplane, no transponder, maybe no radio, no flightpath, and are breaking about a million laws by doing so?

(I mean, doesn't address the "short range" problem, but "idiocy" seems sufficient to overcome all the rest.)
> This same link was posted 11 hours ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25513886 here and is not at all getting the same popularity.

HN allows reposts of an article when earlier submissions haven't gotten attention yet. This is our way of mitigating the randomness of what gets traction off /newest.

It makes for a something of a lottery in terms of which submission ends up with all the attention, but it's on our list to implement some kind of karma sharing across multiple submissions. It's been on our list for years, but we'll get to it eventually!

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
Oh, that's awesome. Exactly what I was thinking of.
It has been so long since I've used TW. But It makes me so happy that this project is still chugging along.
Are these photos really of interest to anyone? I think for most people you can tell if they’ve had work done. I guess the elephant in the room is breast augmentation, but I think it’s pretty easy to tell the difference between natural and bolt-on.
I see lots of TV/Movies but no music, so I’ll throw in Deadmau5.

He combines thoughtful chords and composition, innovative and quirky showmanship, and deep personal care in mixing, mastering, and general sound crafting. He’s about as original as they come in the electronic scene and probably a major inspiration to the last decade of new artists. His album titles are things like “while(1<2)” and “W:/2016Album/“ and he’s stuck to that theme for as long as I can remember.
lol so petty
Dudes rock
That's weird. Usually the person advocating extraordinary action ("at all costs" were your words) should be able to articulate a supporting argument for their position.

But OK, lazy Internet person, I'll go first. Targeted search results and advertisements are very valuable time savers in my life. I strong prefer local results, results in my language, results relevant to my age and marital status, results relevant to my past purchase and shopping habits, results related to my upcoming calendar appointments, and so forth. All of these are quite valuable to me. If Google were to target ads for me based on my resting heart rate and number of miles I run every week, that seems fine to me. God only knows what Garmin and Strava are already doing with that data.
I'm curious if GoDaddy is setting itself up for a lawsuit from employees.

IANAL, but I could imagine a court interpreting this as a promise for compensation.
I wonder what sociopath came up with this idea for a phishing test. It seems incredibly insensitive given the minute amount of difference it is likely to make - the way to tell a phishing email from a non-phishing email depends much more on the metadata than the actual contents, so there's no reason to play with people's emotions like this. Even the employees who immediately recognized it as phishing will have felt the disappointment.
I think it would be interesting to start an underground movement of engineers taking their inflated salaries and then doing a deliberately bad job while working there. I can do just about any job badly-- this could be my calling!
A little bit off topic, but as I understand it, Elephants are known to carry the bones of deceased elephants with them, and otherwise move them around.

They might not have graveyards, but they do appear to have some concept of mortality.

From this great article [1] on elephants:

> Even bare, bleached old elephant bones will stop a group if they have not seen them before. It is so predictable that filmmakers have been able to get shots of elephants inspecting skeletons by bringing the bones from one place and putting them in a new spot near an elephant pathway or a water hole. Inevitably the living elephants will feel and move the bones around, sometimes picking them up and carrying them away for quite some distance before dropping them. It is a haunting and touching sight and I have no idea why they do it.

[1]: https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/do-elephants-hav...
Worse than that. This is “I can use basic, uninformed reasoning to work through a complex, highly domain specific problem”. Usually people who think they know more are at least able to face the facts when it’s clear that they don’t. This group of people know that they don’t know as much, but believe their “superior” intellect can’t make up for it...
How do you figure? Do you think misogyny is not real?
>> What makes you think you deserve free unlimited service?

What makes YouTube think they deserve free unlimited content, and unlimited ad revenue?
What I’m reading here is feminine good, masculine bad. Seems fair since we need to balance it against the title which implies masculine more, feminine less.
Completely agree. That title is so stupid that I wish I could "killfile" that author from all my web news feeds.
Sure, however if it still fulfills its primary function, even with a little bit of "personality", it's still fit for purpose.

Obviously, if a washing machine doesn't complete the washing cycle or a toaster doesn't toast right, it does need to be fixed or possibly replaced.
Please, do share!
Well, it's not perfect but there are tens of thousands of jobs in places like London that rely on being able to freely offer professional services throughout the single market and to freely travel.

Passporting for banking is critical, too.
Let It Snow in Emacs
Are there any indications that the email is even a phishing email? The email is from an internal address. Do they mean to say that their internal email system can’t detect fake emails purporting to be from an internal address? This is cruel in multiple ways. Promising a non existent bonus and then blaming employees for failing a phishing test (which is not even a real phishing email or exposes deep seated IT inadequacies). Presumably this goes on their performance report too.
> facebook removed the blue verified tick from apple official page on facebook.

How incredibly absurd and petty.
Related, but the push to subscriptions coupled with my reaction has devalued my phone substantially.

I just do not subscribe to many things. I don't like assigning myself future financial tasks, and I don't like dealing with recurring payments[1].

As a result, I've stopped using a bunch of things that went sub-only. There are more I'll be dropping.

And this has moved a lot of things I did on my phone elsewhere. This, combined with the fact that the Iphone X (I have no need to upgrade it) is a bit too big, and the Screentime thing tells me I use it an average of 17 minutes a day, which is going to mainly be 2FA and texting with family.

I mean, I kinda welcome this - I don't like phone dependency. And I expect I'm not the median case. But Apple's strategy has backfired with me.

[1] I realize this is not strictly rational, and I have paid more for one-time-purchase software that I used once than a sub would have been. It doesn't matter.
It would not. But it would work with a pc involved that had the controller paired.
The Manhattan Project.
What gets me is companies sending out legit emails that look like phishing attacks. I got one from one of the big banks, asking me to click on a link to get some benefit. I assumed it was a phish, but after a close look at the headers, it really was from the bank's usual server.

I sent a note to the security incident report address for the bank, telling them they're training their users to click on phishing emails. They sent back some noncommittal answer.
'Verified' ticks in general are so bizarrely mismanaged. See also Twitter removing the status of controversial political figures. I feel like they should be totally open access to anyone who can provide irrefutable proof of identity, rather than these odd status symbols.
Working for Facebook doesn't have quit the social capital it used to. Besides there's a such thing as enjoying my and believing the work you do is valuable. If ultimately you can only trave your effort back to ad clicks, that's not very enticing.
Easy conversion to a VirtualBox image (.vdi)

Had previously been testing in a Docker image [1], but this is a bit more convenient. OpenSuSE has a number of useful options I was previously unaware of.

[1] https://github.com/schuellerf/xfce-test
A reasonable case can be made that (if we employ the "is evenly divisible by 2/has 2 as a factor" definition) zero is not composite, so has no factors and therefore can't be even. I happen to disagree, but it's not clearly right or wrong. This is why when mathematicians from different subdisciplines/communities spend a fair bit of time on "when you use the term ... what do you mean?" Outside a shared definition of exactly what "even" means, the question is meaningless, and within one, it's trivial---the least interesting possible questions in mathematics, but we seem to spend a lot of time on them.
I am, Denis Villeneuve has been pretty outstanding and it looks like the Dune reboot is going to be really good too.

Arrival is another well done flick by him.
“...who carefully monitor what everybody does on their macs”

People keep making statements like this, but I have so far never seen anyone actually show any evidence for it.

What makes you think this is true?
Interesting fact: there’s actually a specific phenomenon in modern-day elephants that explains the idea of males being more reckless. Modern elephant males periodically go through a process called musth . It’s sort of like the male version of going into heat. Their testosterone goes up like 60x and they become aggressive and even violent. They’ll even attack humans and other animals with little warning. A guide at Kruger national park in South Africa mentioned that they once had a spree of young bull elephants going into musth and attacking and breaking the spines of rhinoceros. I imagine if mammoths also went through musth they wouldn’t be particularly cautious about terrain hazards and the like
What does a meme that are jokes have to do with anything?
Hmm, I liked BR 2049 as a film; but it didn't really do it for me as any relation to the original.
Sounds like a great way to get disgruntled employees leaking credentials on purpose.
I don't believe this for a second. Apple's largest revenue growth has been in services, and they are sitting on a trove of data. They have a million bad incentives.

Honestly I can't believe we're even having this discussion. It's like Google all over again.

Apple says "trust us" but gives us no way to verify the trust. Trust without verification is a long-term recipe for disaster.
Apple is the biggest company in the world by a pretty significant margin[0]. The clout they wield is absolutely insane and they could kill many things if they were so inclined.

[0] -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_public_corporations_by...
What is apple getting a ‘pass’ from?
People rightfully discuss the wonderful themes, the memorable characters, the tragic arcs in The Wire, but one area they underrate is the form. I recently watched some of the HD restoration and the use of sound and image is really wonderful.

I suspect a lot of it flies under the radar because The Wire purposefully used a style that wasn't overly pretty, was closer to verite than visually stunning. But there's some great ideas there. The utter commitment to diagetic sound (barring one scene in the first season). The use of complex camera movements and an Altman-esque zoom to provide a documentary or even voyeuristic perspective.

You could make an argument that The Wire is more innovative in filmmaking than a lot of the typical prestige TV, who simply mimicked Hollywood big budget artistry.
They can collect the money and leak the information anyways.
this is wisdom
I know everyone loves to hate Facebook and articles that confirm that bias are very popular right now, but this lawsuit doesn't seem to have smoking gun evidence like the headline suggests. Have you ever written an e-mail or Slack message to a peer complaining that something at your company might not be working well? Or that something is totally broken and you think it should be prioritized in the ticket queue? Imagine those statements being cherry-picked and used to argue that your entire company is a fraud. That's essentially what's happening here.

The quoted e-mail is from 2016, and includes questions like this:

> That manager proceeded to suggest further examination of top targeting criteria to “see if we are giving advertiser [sic] false hope.”

You'd think that if they concluded that they were giving advertisers false hope, the lawyers would have simply quoted that discussion, rather than an earlier discussion where a manager was asking for further investigation to make sure they weren't giving advertisers false hope. That is, doing their job to check that the ad targeting was proper.

The originators of the lawsuit are angry that their ads were shown to people who didn't have college degrees and did not make over $250,000 per year:

> Investor Village said in court filings that it decided to buy narrowly targeted Facebook ads because it hoped to reach “highly compensated and educated investors” but “had limited resources to spend on advertising.” But nearly 40 percent of the people who saw Investor Village’s ad either lacked a college degree, did not make $250,000 per year, or both, the company claims. In fact, not a single Facebook user it surveyed met all the targeting criteria it had set for Facebook ads, it says.

It's not clear if Facebook explicitly knew at the time that the ad targets didn't meet the criteria, or if Facebook's targeting data was simply incorrect for those who were targeted. Again, if they had evidence that Facebook was deliberately showing ads to people who they knew didn't meet the criteria, you'd think the lawyers would have led with that evidence instead of digging deep into old e-mails where managers proposed investigating the ad performance.

I know Facebook is the quintessential evil tech company in the 2020 zeitgeist, but it looks to me that these lawyers are trying to use that to their advantage to win a court case, not that they've stumbled upon some smoking gun.
Just gave JetBrains mono a spin. I like the design; a bit plain but pretty readable. I had to go in to FontForge and fix what I felt were some issues with the font:

* I prefer a stroke instead of a dot in to 0 (zero)

* While JetBrains mono has an alternate form with a 0 stroke, the stroke is too thin.

* The smart quotes, such as “” look too much like each other. I edited them to give the font Verdana-style smart quotes (where “ and ‘ point to the left)

* The “c” looks too much like “o”. I have opened up the bowl in c so it’s distinct from “o”.

* I aggressively subsetted the font to have only English, Spanish, and some basic typography (smart quotes, em dash, bullet, right arrow). This reduces the size, which means I could make it a webfont in the future.

* The changes are over at https://github.com/samboy/CaulixtlaFonts/tree/master/MiscFon... (AnnaTerm is modified Fira Mono; ElsaTerm is modified Jetbrains Mono)

These are issues I could quickly patch up in Fontforge, and I do like the font.
Identifying Authorial Quirks: Poor Man's Forensic Linguistics
Submitters: it's against the HN guidelines to rewrite titles to make them more sensational, so please don't.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

(Submitted title was "Brave Hijacks Twitter, Reddit and GitHub with Advertisements")
Yes, I know. Not what I asked.

It doesn't matter anyway.
A good copy can be better than the original.
Wouldn't a cable that's thousands of feet long be prohibitively heavy?
I don't know the details, but do you have certainty that they are not planning to anonymize the data before transferring it to Google?

That's what pharmaceutical or medical ventures usually do, so that seems the sensible way to go.

Anyway this is probably not decided yet because it is very early, but Google would surely go the sane and rational way. Alphabet is already quite used to medical projects through Deepmind, and they do not breach accepted good practice guidelines.
You are probably seeing early LED fixtures with terrible electronics put in luxury buildings as the hip new thing years ago. All it takes is a capacitor above 170 volts after the rectifier to smooth out the AC.
while it's down https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:wazH1F...
Yeezy 350 v1/v2, never owned a pair but they were definitely extremely coveted when they released and have certainly made a lasting impact on public perception of Adidas as a brand, trimmer sneaker profiles, and men’s fashion.
The Iphone. Nuff said
What Domain did the email lead to? If the domain was suspicious they failed the test. Full stop.
I wasn't aware of that paper, but it seems we came to a similar conclusion. From the paper:

> Across all sports, scoring tempo - when scoring events occur - is remarkably well-described by a Poisson process, in which scoring events occur independently with a sport-specific rate at each second on the game clock.

So, yes, basically that was my concept. Estimate its parameters and then you'll have the "real" odds. Any difference with the market ones is a potential of profit (considering the house fees).

I couldn't backtest it since I couldn't find free historical data for all types of markets (then again, maybe I didn't look hard enough). I forward tested it, though, and it seemed to work.

My code is here [1], which also links to a blog post describing the method. Feel free to take a look and contact me to discuss these ideas.

Also, if you're interested in mathematically modelling probabilities, we are looking for team members to develop a product to estimate the risk of default in loans. After all, a loan is another kind of bet, that takes place in a slightly harder to model environment.

[1] https://github.com/ghgr/BetFair_Arbitrer
There's a one-time purchase of bigger/more disks. Figure 1GB (50 20MB pictures) per customer. Just add another 2TB, then 4TB, now 8TB or bigger drive. That's about $250 or $300 each time. Double that for a sync'd drive somewhere in the office.

Now they should be doing 3-2-1 backups. With S3 they'd be paying $160/month (for storage, not counting other costs) for 8TB or $40/month for BackBlaze B2. That's 8,000 customers.

They're in England so some variance in pricing. But it would be relatively inexpensive to buy big drives, sync them to a set in the office, and back them up online. Where the doctors or whoever is running the clinics can SEE the data is still there whenever they want.

I agree that there should be increasing worry about keeping information that you don't need, whether it's intimate pictures of your surgical clients or people who bought from you 5 years ago and not since. But it seems like keeping things handy will be an impulse that's hard to overcome.