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> It's older than that. I remember 40 years ago it was possible that rather obvious facts (such as "you need to queue a long time to get basic consumer goods in the USRR") were dismissed simply because they could be labeled "CIA propaganda".

This was even scarier before that. Check out the following biography review[0]; it's worth the time to read. Some quotes:

"although it is clear to him that the Soviet economy is struggling, every dispatch they are given to send home declares that things are better than ever, that the Workers’ Paradise is even more paradisiacal than previously believed, that the evidence is in and Stalinism is the winner. It doesn’t matter what he makes of this, because anything he writes which deviates from the script is rejected by the censors, who ban him from sending it home. He is reduced to sending secret messages at the bottoms of people’s suitcases, only to find to his horror that even when they successfully reach the Guardian offices back in Britain, his bosses have no interest in publishing them because they offend the prejudices of its progressive readership.

(...)

His final break with the rest of the enlightened progressive world comes when he decides to do something that perhaps no other journalist in the entire Soviet Union had dared – to go off the reservation, so to speak, leave Moscow undercover, and see if he can actually get into the regions where rumors say some kind of famine might be happening. The plan goes without a hitch, he passes himself off as a generic middle-class Soviet, and he ends up in Ukraine right in the middle of Stalin’s Great Famine. He describes the scene – famished skeletons begging for crumbs, secret police herding entire towns into railway cars never to be seen again. At great risk to himself, he smuggles notes about the genocide out of the country, only to be met – once again – with total lack of interest. Guardian readers don’t look at the newspapers to hear bad things about the Soviet Union! Guardian readers want to hear about how the Glorious Future is already on its way! He is quickly sidelined in favor of the true stars of Soviet journalism, people like Walter Duranty, the New York Times‘s Russia correspondent, who wrote story after story about how prosperous and happy and well-fed the Soviets were under Stalin, and who later won the Pulitzer Prize for his troubles."

Guessing from the review, the book paints a scary picture of how West intellectualists basically fooled themselves and self-spun propaganda about the Soviet Union for decades.

[0] - http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/08/11/book-review-chronicles-...
A clipboard manager, if you have one, is a separate X application. The password manager could deny it access, if that's what you'd prefer.
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That seems a bit short-sighted though, no?

Even if you cannot put an accounting profit line with them, they facilitate the profit of the other departments.
The calculation isn't that simple to calculate, it really requires a spreadsheet or calculus, you can't in general calculate it in your head. A simple heuristic is "is my runway going down or up", it is conservative.
Sharetribe (https://www.sharetribe.com/) allows you to create your own marketplace (also supports rentals). Anyway their product is open-sourced https://github.com/sharetribe/sharetribe. Haven't worked on it though.
From the article:

"Such groups can be more nimble than government bureaucracies. They also have more credibility -- something that the intelligence agencies of some Western democracies have squandered with skewed findings, serial violations of privacy and repeated evasions of oversight. For one thing, because the material Higgins and others draw on is publicly available, anyone can check their findings."
Why the convention is that constituents have the same privacy they would with their lawyer / doctor.

Would you raise issues with your representative if the tabloid press could harvest it and selectively quote you to monster you.
Sounds like a great idea, although I fear people may stockpile points in order to promote their own material later.
For a moment I though this was about https://tox.chat/
I think it's time to find a new job. Most of the people I work with are outsourced IT or contractors.
Facebook App copies your phone book.

Facebook App copies your matches phone book.

Facebook finds that your phone book contains your matches number and vice-versa.

Facebook suggests your match as a friend and vice-versa.

Nice and simple.
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>But the full versions of the sites are often horrible for mobile.

I've never found that to be the case. Or if I did, it was far less often than being annoyed with the lacking, scaled down, "horizontally enhanced" mobile layout.
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Can we use distributed computing to crowdsource the computation of more/better primes? Can OpenSSL look to this pool for its primes?
Are the "underserved communities" ex-Twitter employees ?
Yeah, looking at the Google maps location of chicken shops in Peckham brings up only about half the shops that are actually there.
Yeah, it bridges to C so you need to build another bridge to have nice Objective-C API. Not mentioning, you will have hard times calling Objective-C API from Rust.

You don't have this problem with Swift.
That only works if outdoor jogging is strong in the culture. I've spent time in France and jogging through the neighborhood I was in (mid class) was quite out of place.
This makes me question Bellingcat's work somewhat: http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/expert-criticizes-...
We wouldn't need to do this. One computer would suffice to generate primes at a pace making cracking computation infeasible. Though, even if we switch primes every few seconds, if somebody wanted to put a few hundred million dollars into cracking a few seconds of messages, they could do it.
I guess I have a narrower definition of hacking, specifically that it is using technology in a way it wasn't intended. If you ask someone for their credentials and they give them to you, I don't see that as being "a hack," although I guess modern parlance would say the victim "was hacked."
right, but then so does support - by making sure that your customers are happy and therefore recommend your brand and become repeat customers. so do your cleaners - by making the workplace a tidier building so that your other staff are more productive. every team ultimately is there to "facilitate" another team to work better and make more money.

where do you draw the line?
We have a joke in Poland, about Russia's head of intelligence getting scolded by Putin for creating a mess.

- "Mówiłem, żeby mu dać tylko parę 'rad'!" ("I told you to only give him some 'advice'!")

- "Rad, polon, co za różnica towarzyszu?" ("Radium, polonium, what's the difference comrade?")
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I've had this happen to me several times with guys I met on Scruff. It be nice if there was an across the web ghosting tool for bad dates.
Russian/rebel social media also played a role in all this, in a way that's not mentioned in this article.

There are some official and close-to-official social media accounts that are used by the Russian rebels to announce progress (Twitter, Facebook, VK) usually straight from the mouths of commanders and higher ups.

When MH-17 was downed they boasted about shooting down a Ukrainian plane only to find themselves quickly deleting all mention of it several hours later.

Those same accounts also boasted about acquiring a Buk missile launcher weeks earlier, but those status updates were also deleted.
Recently I got a full screen video ad on my phone which told me to turn the phone sideways because otherwise it would not work. wtf?!
Well it is not like Russian state is not known for hiring paid trolls and having a well oiled propaganda machine + control of media whose main duties include seeding doubt, spreading fud, and fueling conspiracy.
Bars on the windows and doors.
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Stripe is ruining our business
We set up our Stripe account about a month ago and things were going rather smoothly then, all of a sudden I get an email saying they are closing our account.

This has put our whole business on hold and I've tried to contact Stripe for an explanation and no one will respond.

I have seen in the past that sometimes companies will pay attention to you if you post on hacker news. So if you work at Stripe and you see this please help us!
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I use this always to speak off with me friends. It works very good!
Is this true? The general stereotype when I lived in the UK is that the poor were mostly non-workers who subsisted based on public assistance. If true, then they have plenty of time.

In the US this is certainly true. The lowest earning category has 30 minutes/day more leisure time than the highest.

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/atus.t11.htm

Anyone know where to find the UK equivalent of the ATUS?
The organization performing the investigation is responsible for investigating air crashes. It has to do that in an unbiased way. Now that they made their conclusions, it is up to another organization to actually find who is responsible.

It's actually quite logical to split these two types out. One is about who is responsible, another is pure about what happened.
Nothing in that disclosure would dissuade (or even give pause to) any of the people I know who use Facebook.

"keep a permanent record of the messages you send to your friends"
"keep a permanent record of the photos you have shared on Facebook"

That's great! A free backup.

"keep a log of all the websites you have visited that contain a "like" button."

That's great! So I'll get feeds that better reflect my interests.

I haven't used Facebook since the EFF experimental app that showed all the actual, real information (real names in the graph) FB leaked to any game you clicked 'OK' to. But noone else cares, FB is still growing, and that's OK.

I'm OK with the way Google handles my personal information (doing the match making with advertisers and keeping my details private), and enjoy the benefits this enables.
Not necessarily true with smartphones.

I just tried it out. The site acknowledges it tested out ~6M devices so far. It's not that big of a number actually. My browser turned out to be unique even though I'm using a pretty common method (basically just run Chrome on an Android).

I've sent the version of Android (which was falsely detected because I upgraded to a newer version, but I'm still sending the info about the older version, so I'm assuming this is a bug), my Android model (and build) and my timezone. Anyone who bought the same model from my country (and possibly even the surrounding countries) would probably get the same fingerprint (unless he's using a different browser).
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I don't quite understand. Are you saying that the interview in Der Spiegel is Russian propaganda?
It's hard for cleaners to make a company more competitive and profitable by cleaning harder but it's not hard to see how better software can do so.
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> I wonder if I should Ask HN if this would be a good idea.

3. Ask HN ask HN: Should I ask HN if a Palm Pilot keyboard would be a good password manager?
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official welfare state might have become a thing just recently but the concept behind like redistribution of wealth and creating opportunities for class mobility predates it by a couple millenia

http://www.britannica.com/topic/alimenta
http://www.britannica.com/topic/civitas
Funny, I'm in Beijing right now and there are coffee shops everywhere. You can pick a random street corner, close your eyes, throw a rock, and it will probably shatter the window of a coffee joint. And chicken dishes take at least a bit of effort to find, with pork being the king of meats, and beef a distant second. Aside from KFC, of course, which is all over.
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They ordered the downing? That's probably not right is it? I thought the rebels didn't realise it was a passenger plane. I don't get why Russia just doesn't say "yep, we supplied it, but we didn't fire it, too bad so sad". Russia aren't alone in supplying rebel forces with weapons.
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True. I think it's a size problem. It would be interesting to have a bigger vocabulary and play with the distribution to allow rarer words in it. Without grammar, though, a random selection of words would look like in libraryofwords.com, i.e. most of the time non-sensical
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Most folks do not know the history of the sovereign state, but the version that we have today is a descendent of the Westphalian State (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westphalian_sovereignty). Even fewer people know why it came about in this form, yet the reason it came about may be quite important in this discussion.

After the Thirty Years and Eighty Years Wars came the Westphalian Peace of 1648 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_of_Westphalia). A primary objective of the Peace was to recognize sovereignty because during the war and in the time leading up to it integrated economies were wracked by shocks and corruption.

Some argue, and I am mindful that, the only proven bulwark against such shocks and corruption may be sovereignty of the sort that the Westphalian Peace created.

The notion of sovereignty has stood the test of time – it seems reasonably compatible with how collectives of humans perceive and react with their world – but through the modern globalization of capital we may be re-learning a 360 year old lesson.

So while the globalization of human labour has yet to catch up to freedom of international capital flows – a failure that creates tremendous unfairness, and this analysis is admittedly brief and glossy, it is worth keeping in mind that we may be unlocking the same doors that created unfathomable multi-generational wars now long forgotten.
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Pretty surprising, given the existing research on this: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2015/07/2...

> Research that Stanford has done shows that drivers resuming control from Level 3 vehicles functioning in autonomous mode take 10 seconds just to attain the level of ability that a drunk driverpossesses. And to get back to full driving competence takes 60 seconds.
This was the day when you learned how a huge portion of serious "hacking" is done. Taking advantage of the right older women is a very time efficient way of gaining access to systems you shouldn't have access to.

If you want to know more, I can recommend The Art of Deception by Kevin Mitnick.
I could be that often coffee shops take over old chicken shops given the size and locations.

In London I have observed that gentrification often stems from students living in a cheap area, they make it cool with lots of bars, pubs, events etc.

This attracts graduates, who are typically DINKYs, they then add to the available cash in the area and start buying property. Eventually they have kids and the area becomes more mature and expensive.

The area next on the tube/train line is typically next to get gentrified by the graduates: Clapham -> Balham/Clapham Junction, East Dulwich -> Peckham/Brockley/Forest Hill, Shorditch -> Dalston/Hakney, whilst new students pick new areas, influenced by cheap rent.
yup, as ideal as a single world government can be, none of our system scale that well to cope with a government with global power
Same here and got all excited...
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Greetings from Shenzhen. Lots of coffee shops here too, but chicken you can get absolutely everywhere. Pork is ubiquitous too. Beef, as far as I can tell, much less so.

Also, the longer I'm staying here the more I'm getting cured out of obsessing over my energy use. The amount of propane a street vendor uses to prepare a single meal is greater than what I use up in an entire day.
The page is also reloading every couple of seconds for me. I guess it has to do with some cookie being blocked.
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Social engineering and brute force attacks aren't "hacking"? Come on.
We do not know if "German image forensics expert Jens Kriese" who is interviewed by Spiegel was paid off or threatened in one form or another, especially if he happened to come from East Germany where the Soviet backed regime had files on everyone back before reunification.

Spiegel.de != Jens Kriese
I honestly skimmed the article and didn't read it deeply because I have to run in a bit. But the fact that GUIX is a language-agnostic package manager sounds very neat. I write Go code and one of the things I had to cope with in the beginning was not having a really good package management system. Go still gets criticized for this (although we can always vendor our apps/packages to make sure all dependencies are included). It seems as though GUIX could be used as a package management solution in Go. It might be worthwhile for someone to write a tutorial on GUIX + Go dev.
Ah, go on then - The Jinx is also incredible :-)
I think the intent of that comment is genuine. There are poor working multiple jobs to make ends meet and their are unemployed or underemployed poor that have tons of free time. There are middle and upper class people that work 100 hours a week and their are middle class people that sneak by on barely 40 hours a week. I do genuinely notice a spike in joggers in more well to do areas.

It may be that people with more money get to spend their time a bit higher on Maslow's hierarchy of needs, but I don't think it's strictly that all poor are busier than all middle or upper class.
Some additional details:
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It's plenty 'racist' here in the UK (at least under the left-wing redefinition of the word racist as any mention of race at all). Chicken shops and jerk chicken are associated with the African-Caribbean population.

All he's done with his analysis is used two thinly disguised proxy variables to hide his true hypothesis, which may very well be a good hypothesis but is unpalatable to discuss in public.
Its not, but I understand your concern.
General masses in Sweden are way better off than those in the US, I'd call that a better approach!
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Years ago a friend's house was burgled. They took blank checks and statements, among other things, and spent her money. It took a long time to unwind that.

Physically breaking in is a real threat. Now break-ins risk digital breaches as well as the old standards. Just because it involves being onsite doesn't mean it isn't a meaningful threat, and now it's not limited to just the artifacts that are stolen.

In fact, "standard" protocol in response to a physical home breakin should probably include a digital "audit."
I wonder if the choice of meats is a regional thing. I would definitely not peg chicken as characteristic of China, but I've never been anywhere near Shenzhen.
I haven't encountered these problems with tox. But I'm all for having more explicit environment definitions while testing.
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Naming collision... https://tox.chat
Well, adults ultimately manage violence with lethal force, which is essentially what you're saying.

However, I submit to you that all this is a vital and psychologically essential lesson for kids to learn: recognizing standard issue bullies and dealing with them per the above, and, ideally not too young, recognizing those for whom this won't work. Bullying won't stop after e.g. K-12, I myself had to use a credible threat of lethal force to stop an attempt to feloniously bully me in college, and while it ought to move out of the physical realm once you enter the "real world", bullies abound there as well.

Come to think of it, there was a dangerous, held back some so he was bigger than almost all of us, retarded boy who attended my school in 3rd grade plus or minus, who I treated as a potentially lethal threat, and never even thought to applied the treatment for normal bullies. Instead, that provided a lesson in gathering allies and all that.
You're suggesting that MPs should be able to conduct business in secret in case the tabloid press lie about someone. Have you ever heard the phrase '2 wrongs don't make a right'?
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I've worked with the author before. A lot of projects handed to us are toxic from the beginning and while start-ups fail often, the definite default for projects from our customerbase was decidedly dead-by-default even with bright, effective developers that articulate their points to stakeholders well like you're saying is a responsibility.

There's a lot of hate in the replies but I think the context of that experience would make his inflammatory arguments perfectly rational.
This sounds great. For projects that use lxml/numpy/scipy/pandas this could be a real help for getting set up on different machines especially if there is some kind of caching that can be done for the built packages.

It's a shame it can't use all of PyPI though.
Why barber shops? Don't well-to-do people also go to the barber to get their hair cut?
If you have a phone at all, there are cards you can buy to make cheap international calls by bouncing through a local number. If you don't have a phone, well, you're stuck, but that's hardly characteristic of being abroad, and you'd have the same trouble from a shack in the mountains in the US.

As for caring about your opinion, why would they care any less about you compared to any other voter?
You are quite naive to think every human being in the world must learn how to code in order to earn income.
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Yes, I'm sure the high tier engineers living in SF are very undeserved.
What is the nature of your business? Do you have a website?
Have you tried other payment service companies?
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Exactly. This article basically just talks about how you gave the permission to an app to use your address book and then complains that it's using your address book to identify who you should add as a friend. It's your fault for agreeing to install an app that requests these permissions without understanding why it needs those privileges from your smartphone.
Maybe it can be useful to someone. I'm using it for months on some production servers to make and upload to Amazon S3 ciphered backups of the databases.
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