skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder why this comment got so many downvotes. I also disagree with the description of the system being a GPS. Relating local positions to your surroundings might provide you with a relatively accurate position from a world-perspective depending on your mind, but it's not "hey - we've got these N external positioning inputs and we can calculate our position using them."
YouTube is doing more work than they need to, but probably because it costs them less effort and time to just side with copyright claim holders and act as a thorn to users who would use the content.

To put a fine point on it: there's a cultural attitude I've observed within Google[1] against doing anything that "won't scale." Both for better and worse, this manifests in a lot of Google products. A corollary of this guiding principle seems to be that having a real human being in the loop is anathema, even if the resulting end-user experience is terrible. Annoyingly, this approach seems to take precedence even when the need for scale is in some indeterminate future and when the current experience is poor.

As JWZ rightly calls out, this is him versus "the robots". This is probably exactly right, and completely fucked up w.r.t. any reasonable balance of fair use rights. It's kind of crazy that there's even a form that asks for input of the kind a human would read.

[1] From multiple discussions with Googlers, as well as various public articles by same.
Unfortunately, yes. Not even driving a Tesla will make a difference.

I wouldn't think of cuban culture/society as a primitive way of life. It's just different.
Learn how to read English fuckwit its a single fucking sentence just how fucking thick are you.
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This is an interesting model:

http://www.theissresearch.org/
Howdy, Hacker News. I’m the CISO of Yahoo and I wanted to clear up some misconceptions.

Earlier today, we reported that we isolated a handful of servers that were detected to have been impacted by a security flaw. After investigating the situation fully, it turns out that the servers were in fact not affected by Shellshock.

Three of our Sports API servers had malicious code executed on them this weekend by attackers looking for vulnerable Shellshock servers. These attackers had mutated their exploit, likely with the goal of bypassing IDS/IDP or WAF filters. This mutation happened to exactly fit a command injection bug in a monitoring script our Sports team was using at that moment to parse and debug their web logs.

Regardless of the cause our course of action remained the same: to isolate the servers at risk and protect our users' data. The affected API servers are used to provide live game streaming data to our Sports front-end and do not store user data. At this time we have found no evidence that the attackers compromised any other machines or that any user data was affected. This flaw was specific to a small number of machines and has been fixed, and we have added this pattern to our CI/CD code scanners to catch future issues.

As you can imagine this episode caused some confusion in our team, since the servers in question had been successfully patched (twice!!) immediately after the Bash issue became public. Once we ensured that the impacted servers were isolated from the network, we conducted a comprehensive trace of the attack code through our entire stack which revealed the root cause: not Shellshock. Let this be a lesson to defenders and attackers alike: just because exploit code works doesn’t mean it triggered the bug you expected!

I also want to address another issue: Yahoo takes external security reports seriously and we strive to respond immediately to credible tips. We monitor our Bug Bounty (bugbounty.yahoo.com) and security aliases (security@yahoo.com) 24x7, and our records show no attempt by this researcher to contact us using those means. Within an hour of our CEO being emailed directly we had isolated these systems and begun our investigation. We run one of the most successful Bug Bounty programs in the world and I hope everybody here will participate and help us keep our users safe.

We’re always looking for people who want to keep nearly a billion users safe at scale. paranoids-hiring@yahoo-inc.com
Don't worry. If agencies like NASA and Elon Musk manage to get anywhere with their Mars ventures, we can go back to praising America and free enterprise soon enough (since it apparently is a choice between that and communism/totalitarianism).
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Awesome read. I hope it's inspirational to others with non-profits or those wishing to start non-profits.
point taken; thank you
If he can smell it from outside my cellar, then why isn't he able to knock on my door? Or call the cops if I'm not home. Even for actual extremis (such as a fire) I'd generally expect people to call the fire department instead of breaking into my house to put a blanket over a kitchen fire.

With that said I'm sympathetic to this guy's intent. If I were Yahoo or the FBI and he can prove that innocuous access is all he was doing, let's just say I wouldn't go out of my way to throw the book at him.

Because (going back to IRL analogies again), the authorities writ large have the authority to do an exigent search of my home if there's probable cause of a disaster of some sort going on, but local and Federal LE don't exactly have the same right to go around pwning the entire Internet to look for sites that have already been rooted, so in a sense leaving this issue to the authorities is simply leaving it to no one except the criminals, which is also unsatisfactory.

If the right answer to widespread problems like these is supposed to be law enforcement "patrolling the Internet" in some fashion, then we'd need to have way different legal authorities to allow for that. Until then I'm not sure that "only the criminals can search for burning buildings on the Internet" is really the most pragmatic answer.

In any event we obviously can't rely on each and every single important web site's system administration teams. If even Yahoo can be caught, who can you trust?
http://hittail.com - Rob Walling
http://getdrip.com - also Rob Walling
http://bidsketch.com - Ruben Gamez
http://getmysky.com - Josh Isaak
http://snapinspect.com - Sam Ovens

All of them have interviews online for you to learn about their process.
What I wonder is why people are turning in their leases/selling their cars so soon?

What are the ratios of, gets a new car every couple years, more car than they could realistically afford, wasn't meeting their needs (range, passenger, luggage, person capacity), etc. etc.
I'm glad CI has a new home. For many in the PHP community is was their first MVC framework.

Although I wish BCIT all the best I'd wish it would have been picked up by WordPress instead. WordPress is great but it's really showing its age and it could do with a major overhaul. If WordPress would have adopted CI, bring it up to scratch with modern PHP development (Composer, PSR, component oriented, etc.) and build the next generation of WordPress (5.0?) on top of that, I think would have been beneficial to the greater community.

Edit: However, that might conflict with whatever Ellis labs is doing these days..
While it never hurts to have a good lawyer, if you are ever in a contemplating a deal where you say something like this to yourself: "they can't do that to us, we have a contract", you're already screwed. I have gotten screwed too many times on this, despite spending tons on lawyers ahead of time.

Bottom line, make a deal that is a WIN WIN and doesn't put you at huge risk w/o some offset you consider reasonable or don't do a deal at all.

You do not have an easy road ahead, but you can at least avoid a disaster. Remember, your BATNA is continuing your startup as if you'd never been approached!
I love that. From 1983 no less. It is basically the same sort of rant/argument you hear today. I will be sharing it with the undergrads I know.
You try going and running an "AMA" on your former employer's platform - if that time ever comes. Frankly, you mess with the bull, you get the horns.

Let's not kid ourselves, this guy knew why he was let go. If he didn't, then that is an even stronger case for why he was let go.

He made the conscious decision to do an AMA on reddit's platform fully knowing his position on his employment. I think reddit's CEO was completely on target with his post. It was concise and professional - and stated the facts.

If you want to throw rocks at a hornets nest, be prepared to get stung.
Where did I say or why did you get the impression that I was "complaining"?
I don't think the "above its weight" in the title refers to the quality of Cuban education, but the size of its economy.

So, if you look at the number of qualified personnel committed to the epidemic by country, and divide over their per capita GNP, indeed Cuba is punching way above its weight.
I created one: "MessageChecker" (MIT License)
https://github.com/hugs/message-checker

(It runs on Google App Engine)
"go with a balanced diet."
As much as I'd like to, it's next to impossible to even figure out what a "balanced diet" is these days. The information conflicts even on something that basic.
Assuming they are "getting worked" is probably a bit too cynical.

I've been though this also and would be more careful about massive time sink and distraction that is not serious inquiry.
While I do appreciate the benefits of a ketogenic diet, I don't think it's for everybody. This could work great for people who are "out of balance", i.e. if you have excess body fat, it might be beneficial to switch to a metabolism that uses your fat stores (rather than continuing to add to it). I don't think it's a good idea to put your kids on a ketogenic diet (unless they're epileptic and don't respond to treatment) because it is known to stunt growth in children.
Possibly a less offensive question is "how high would this deal have to go for final sign-off"
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Thank you -- I wish this was at the top. The fact that people are clamoring for this type of optimistic political correctness is completely mind-boggling, especially when the only arguments presented are 1) It was unprofessional (how? below comment) and 2) It's not backed by facts (unproven)

Ideas of professionalism relate to professions and as far as I'm concerned, if reddit is this man's profession, well, that's just par for the course, isn't it?

I might have the same demeanor in this regard as yishan and if that means people think I'm not CEO material, so be it -- but I believe there are many people out there who value this down-to-Earth, human-driven approach (Hard to find the right words for it; You know what I mean).
"Elon Musk previously guaranteed the resale value of the Model S. Announced in April 2013, those who financed a Model S are allowed to return the vehicle after three years for 43 to 50 percent of its sticker price — just in time to buy a new Tesla vehicle."

I wonder why those numbers are so low. For reference, I recently leased a 2015 Mercedes C400, and the residual (programmed into the lease) is 61% after 3 years. When you're looking at a $70,000+ car, the difference between 43% and 61% is pretty dramatic.

I'm wondering if Musk/Tesla believes that the technology will change so much that in 3 years no one will want the older Teslas, or just that people who want to buy a Tesla will not care about residual value. Perhaps both?
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I have some friends that only lease cars because they want a new one every two years. It doesn't matter if the car is perfectly OK and in great shape, they want a new car. They'll even lease the same car again.

I imagine car companies love them :).
But does this mean you are storing passwords in cleartext?
The force vectors on a skateboard during an Ollie
Right. Now compare that list to the list of stuff that can go wrong with an ICE or hybrid car. You'll quickly find that it is significantly shorter.
By 'retrieve all the data' do you mean I'll have to write a script that goes through the API, iterates over things, and dumps it into a format I would like? Or is there a single 'dump' API endpoint that gives me all the data?
Social justice clickbait.
To me, "unprofessional" means "human", "professional" means "dishonest sociopath".

These are not semantic nitpicks. They have much deeper meaning. I cannot stop you from dismissing them, but I hope you will consider them more than you have.
Before that time, ‘computing’ was considered largely ‘women's work’, along with other clerical tasks like filing and word processing. I'm fond of this photo of a room full of computers, taken sometime between between 1909 and 1932: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/90710989/
It's definitely not as simple as that. To get an idea of some complexities, just read the double taxation avoidance treaties between the two EU countries involved to start, and have a look at the EU posted workers directive http://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?catId=471 .

Those should convince you that you need good fiscal advice and a somewhat conservative attitude when it comes to fiscal grey areas.

If you want to avoid paying a lot of taxes, build a multinational and set up tax avoidance schemes like the Double Irish with a Dutch sandwich. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Irish_arrangement . But hurry, because some of this might actually become a bit more difficult starting from next year...
Lawyer up. It's worth the $10k it will probably take you to paper this correctly. Since it will be difficult to estimate damages should this not work out, consider writing a liquidated damages clause with clearly spelled out triggers.
It's really hard for a standardized test to measure how you subtracted. (Yes, I am aware that it could be done.) But what it really measures is, can you subtract? Do you get the right answers?

Personally, I don't like this approach, because to do one subtraction, you have to do four additions. That's kind of inefficient, in my view. But as sp332 pointed out, the kids should already know how to subtract numbers by this point. If a kid didn't get it before, this curriculum throws a new method at them, hoping that this one will make sense to them. I'm not sure that I have a problem with the approach (though it wouldn't hurt tweak it so as to not confuse the kids who already know how to subtract).
It's spot on: http://www.lhup.edu/~DSIMANEK/cargocul.htm

I'm calling up hokum and bad science, nothing more.
If you've never tried Georgian "suluguni" cheese, it is an amazing replacement for slabs of fresh mozzarella. I just wish it was easier to come by. I've had some success making it, but that has been inconsistent. I am not cut out to be a cheese maker.
I've long had experience with: exploits working for the wrong reason, and also the reverse, failing for the wrong reason.

For example, way back in the day before ISS bought my company, somebody claimed their IDS was vulnerable to an IMAP evasion. They actually weren't, but that specific test triggered a wholly separate (and much worse) bug that made it look like it was evadable. I laughed and laughed.
Can you elaborate on why exactly that would be a problem?
I can't believe this is true, given that the FSF was able to get Apple to release it's Objective-C implementation without even a lawsuit. (For some background, search objective-c on this page: http://clisp.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/clisp/clisp/doc/Why-...)
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Firstly, thank you for responding.

I've also been affected by this. Any course of action that I could take? I've been using the forwarding feature for a while, my setup is simply Cloudflare DNS -> Mailgun -> Gmail. Would be happy to provide my domain name if you need it!
Sounds too clever by half. How can the mailing list software know that the direct reply actually got through to the people in the To: and CC: list?

Didn't the intended recipients occasionally miss replies to their messages, and wasn't it a bad idea to put the responsibility of re-sending bounced (or un-routable) email to the person you're replying to in the hands of the person writing the reply, not the mailing list itself? I doubt it would have worked very reliably with usenet addresses or the early internet with all those relays.

Remember when all the UK's host names were backwards, and you'd route mail through nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk (or uk.ac.ucl.cs.nss, depending which side of the pond you were on), which would swap the host names around on the way through?

The Brits drive on the wrong side of the road too, so I suppose backward domain names made sense to them.
Another symptom of feelings-over-results: quick and effort-free attacks like downvoting take the place of elaboration and reasoned debate.
This seems like an exercise in apologetics for a regime of constant layoffs.

Notice that no direct evidence is provided that stress is actually good for you - one study they cite merely shows that the suggestion that stress could be beneficial seems to make a person perform better under stress (demonstrating the power of suggestion rather than the benefits of stress) while another study shows that boredom can also be bad for you. Elsewhere, they cite how a study showing the ills of stress was misused. Nothing here seems to back the conclusion that stress is beneficial.

Work, of course, is not war, but this Paul Fussell[1] quote comes to mind as a demonstration that everyone has a finite tolerance for stress: "In war it is not just the weak soldiers, or the sensitive ones, or the highly imaginative or cowardly ones, who will break down. All will break down if in combat long enough. "Long enough" is now defined by physicians and psychiatrists as between 200 and 240 days."

[1] http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/unbound/bookauth/battle...
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The biggest issue I take with this article and the study it references is that they insist on calling the shredded abomination we consume in the US "mozzarella" without so much as a nod to the real thing [1]. I can say fairly confidently that Buffalo Mozzarella melts much more nicely than it's cow-milk counterpart. The cheese they refer to here is not, in fact, the "perfect pizza cheese".

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozzarella
Surveillance drives South Koreans to encrypted messaging apps
Well, you go on about tires and then you say

Personally I would never keep a luxury or high performance car past warranty.

Which suggests you mean, because of the tires which is an odd thing to say.

Now maybe you didn't mean because of the tires, but then (to me) your post reads like a jumble of unrelated thoughts.
I am troubled by the ISIS example given in the article. The rise of ISIS is not due to the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, though having a weakened, divided Iraq does not help. The mistake that allowed the rise of ISIS was failing to support the protestors in Syria. The long term civil war and the chaos that has ensued because of it is what allowed ISIS room to grow. Actually, to be fair, even though I personally find it an appalling suggestion, supporting Bashar al Assad against the protestors would probably have done even more to ensure the stability of the region. In this case, I really think that inaction was the problem and now the Syrian and Iraqi people are paying for it.
What's that supposed to mean? A lot of us want more women in the field whether it's to benefit our daughters or to simply to enjoy the diversity. Research has shown a key way to make this happen is modeling and examples.
The piece mentions CHM's Oral History interview with Jean Bartik, which is available here: http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102658322

There are a lot of other interesting interviews —​ http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/oralhistories/
I have a few ello invites left.

Update 5:02 PST: All out, sorry.
Life of an HTTP request, as seen by my toy web server
They are mechanically far more simple. We can quibble about the electronics until the cows come home, but ICE powered cars have electronics, too; so they aren't immune from problems.
Sorry just saw this comment. Work your way through the 6.828 course because the presentation of concepts in that course is as fundamental and bite-size as it gets. Then when you get to real operating systems (which are much uglier than xv6), don't be intimidated by the complexity. For any difficult subject, there's always a point along the learning curve where things seem hopeless but if you push through you'll start to gain glimpses of understanding. These glimpses provide motivation which in turn lets you understand more... eventually process of learning becomes self sustaining.
I actually upvoted you, because all your bullets are technically true and are worth meditating on.

But I guess in this case, the most relevant conclusion would be that people whining about unprofessionalism and people whining about professionalism are two different groups; usually one speaks up and the other stays silent.
No prob at all, the best way is to submit us a ticket, so we can get in contact with you and update when this issue is resolved.
Can we have a publication named "The Forgotten Male Programmers Who Created Modern Tech" now?
You're not interpreting it correctly. Go read it again and my other comments. In summary, perhaps a little more concisely:

I'm an outlier. I'm well built but thanks to BMI, I'm classified as obese. I eat a lot of crap as well, probably more than most. That doesn't affect my general health at all.

I'm referring to scientific integrity and application of the scientific method which this entire thread is devoid of. One poster posted with citations from known crackpots and a reddit group of obsessive religious dieters.

Nutrition is complicated. Everyone has an answer. I'm saying there isn't one. Life is a race to the finish line. Whoever gets there last with the most bits still attached wins.
> is just a simplistic attempt to de-legitimize feminism

Please refrain from making assumptions about my motives. You don't know where I stand on this issue, I merely said it was complex and I was not attempting to solve it in a single comment.

I just wanted to comment on the idea itself and personally congratulate the author. I chose to not make your preferred topic the focus of my comment. I think you can live with that without making this kind of assumption about me, or making personal attacks.
But other places might have tried to bake flat bread, sauce, vegetables with cheese on it, and only the one which used mozza ended up spreading around.
I wonder if this puts them in a position to be purchased... for cheap. Like by a company that has an exclusive deal with them. :)
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Thanks! If it wasn't for this I would have given up on this site for being unreadable.
The real question is, can Mailgun assist with contacting Google re: affected domains and helping clear the penalty that has been imposed.
In Q3 last year they were third, and that's including all PC sales (including desktops). I'd say that's pretty close.

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/10/lenovo-is-top-suppl...

But still, I said they have most popular line of laptops. So, once you filter out desktops, macbooks outsells all other notebook lines from competitors. If you add all of the lines together from competitors then that might not be the case (I can't find data that granular), but of any one line, macbooks sell the most.
Totally agree with you. Second language statistics are a bit harder to track down. It's something I'll look into. English as a second language is probably your biggest help. I'm not sure of any countries that consistently teach Spanish as a second language outside of the Americas.