skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Safari websites have to ask permission before it can send you notifications. They can't just 'spam' you. You can also completely disable them so you're never asked for permission. I don't use Chrome so I don't know what the norm is there.
Gay Talese doesn't really write fiction. He may have never written a fiction piece in his life, it would be an odd time in his career to start.
There may be hope for Twitter yet. Sounds like a very smart move. Twitter-style commentary is a natural fit with sports games.
> That's something that's at least somewhat true of OTR and PGP too

Well, OTR is just the protocol, implementations vary in how well they make you authenticate your conversation partner. And PGP will whine at you a lot if you haven't marked a key as trusted.
But somewhat agreed. A bad UI can ruin the security of otherwise solid crypto.

I just don't see how the security of Signal and WhatsApp are different. Assuming for a moment (very optimistically) that the user verifies the fingerprint and enables the alert for changed keys, they are using the same protocol with the same guarantees.

Are you factoring in some level of trust in their ability to write a secure client or run secure servers?
This probably isn't wrong, the FBI is the largest holder of CP in the world, last time it was reported on.
Wait I was under the impression that Uber and Lyft eliminated the ability to scam someone by driving around simply by making it a fixed rate to the destination once you're in the vehicle. Whats the reasoning for allowing someone to go off course?
You might be trying to connect two things that I wasn't. A bot is impersonal no matter what task you're doing so the perceived value of a bot would have to be speed or maybe accuracy of certain details. Speed is something I would want during troubleshooting.
Those are basically the semantics of SMTP delivery. Come to think of it, that protocol could make more sense than HTTP for asynchronously messaging entities. I love the simplicity of webhooks, but sometimes it's nice to abstract away the redelivery mechanism without having to set up one's own broker.

FWIW, that's the underlying protocol used in BlueButtonPlus[0], the proposed method for exchanging healthcare information.

[0] http://bluebuttonplus.org/transmit-using-direct.html
>I read/heard something that David Mamet said, that he learned from the study of Jewish law (but it would apply everywhere) that in order for you to have the basis to discuss an argument with the other side, you need to be able to state the other side's argument in a way that the other side would not disagree with, then you get to make your point.

>I thought that was a nice idea.

Its a truly terrible idea, and not surprising that it stems from someone who found religion worth studying. There is no need to delve into the depths of minutia to dismiss baseless arguments. If you argue that Spiderman is real, and he lives at the Justice League, I don't need to study canon of Marvel comics in order to deal with your argument.
Make sure it's good long-form content, not just articles that are long. Gay Talese's other articles are a good place to start.
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Because words coming from Nahuatl are cool! (coyotl, mesquitl, tomatl, ahuacatl, etc.) See more from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_from_ind...

They’re distinctively spelled, don’t collide with existing search terms, often have available domains, etc. Most importantly, they anticipated the web 2.0 trend of ending words with two consonants in a row. ;)

Finally, just look at this guy: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f6/AxolotlB...
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Most car magazines seem to like the Fiesta ST even more than the Focus ST so that's probably worth checking out as well
Basically that's the new school of thought. Look at the Wikipedia page on Racism, for instance.

It's a tactic that's been around for a long time. Redefine words. Then pretend everyone's using your new, made-up definitions, and claim you've won the argument.

Maybe I'm just starting to notice it, but the level of doublespeak is really astounding these days.
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Just commented that this was a surprisingly smart move for Twitter. Spoke too soon. Sounds like it was really the NFL who saw the opportunity.
> Phabricator is nice, but it's more of a full-featured replacement for GitHub as a whole. Some people want to keep most of GitHub and just improve on the code review aspects.

That's the nice thing about Phabricator, you can switch off all features you don't need, and it integrates with GitHub. You can definitely use it just for code reviews, with users logging in using their GitHub accounts and the repositories being hosted by GitHub.

> You can also deploy Review Ninja (and soon Reviewable) on-premises, though of course that means you're on the hook for administrating the system again.

That would work! Third party SaaS probably includes Github.
It could have a language picker. It's not like you're stuck with just one language; the underlying fingerprint could be converted into any language that has an appropriate dictionary constructed for it, so all you would have to do is ensure both parties have picked the same language and you can then compare the fingerprint easily.
I'm not sure about this. If they can change what QR code you are seeing they can change the words as well.
You'd think so, but 'building operations' just buys their own internet line and off they go. These large organizations are all silo'd. I suspect we're blaming IT for a lot of things they have no jurisdiction over.

In fact, have you seen some of these automation sites? They're geared towards tradespeople and not towards IT. They know who their customers are.
As counter-evidence, I point out that neither reddit nor hackernews is anywhere near as bad as 4chan.
"All computers have issues, ho hum what's so great about Apple"

"All cars have issues, ho hum what's so great about Tesla"
Manual authentication via QR (or comparing the digits) works on top of the server-side authentication. It does what iMessage does, but you also have the option to actually compare the fingerprints if you are so inclined.
Downgrade attacks should be difficult. As the article mentions once a client has communicated with another once using encryption all future communications to that client will be encrypted. So a downgrade attack would require either spoofing a new client for a user (eg a phone they didn't have before) which is likely noticeable.

The whitepaper (https://www.whatsapp.com/security/WhatsApp-Security-Whitepap...) goes into more detail.

That said, they could push out an update that changes the UI to disable E2EE without notifying the user, and that would be difficult to notice since the app is closed source. For this reason Signal is more secure, despite using the exact same protocol.
Well, as a cohort, this group (to which I belong) seems extremely willing to let employers infantilize them and happy to be seen that way.

- They agree to work in open-plan surveillance offices with maybe 2 lateral feet of personal space and no privacy.

- They seem to care more about office trendiness, amenities like roof deck, climbing wall, ping pong tables, than about adequate working conditions.

- They allow paternalistic ideas like "unlimited vacation" [0] instead of demanding such things as stated, negotiated, and protected parts of an employment agreements.

- They are willing to devalue their labor to accept start-up wages and worthless equity to obtain the above items, mostly so they can pursue social status, particularly tied to living in certain special places.

I don't think this is necessarily my generation's fault as much as it has been a concerted effort on the part of organizations like YC to actively influence naive young people to believe they must value these things.

But whatever the cause may be, I think it's quite reasonable for people outside of my generation to view us as hilariously infantile for essentially trading away all possible negotiation power for a craft beer at work and the chance to buy $7 coffee.

[0] < http://suitdummy.blogspot.com/2016/02/unlimited-vacation-onl... >
I know this from experience. I am still experiencing it and I can't see it improving any time soon. Or ever. :-/
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Well since this has seemly turned into a forum for build tool gripes, I'd like to note that no build tool is the best build tool. It simply comes down to what's maintainable for you and your team.
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I think it was an A16Z podcast that touched on this recently.

Basically the issue is banks have a ton of data and would love to reap the rewards of the data of all the other banks for risk modeling, selling it, and other fun things, but nobody wants to give up their data asset.

Enter a middleman and suddenly all of these companies can provide anonymized data and wipe their hands of it while reaping the rewards of the output.

Something similar happened in the ad space with regards to cookie onboarding services like Liveramp.
Disclosure: I became a member days ago, and did not want to mention it. Reading this article made me super proud to have chosen to fork the cash over before reading this crap as it gets worse all the time.

At the end of the day, I want a hardliner in this space pushing that line because I know, practically, he cannot win. But if consensus is drawn between him and the other extremes I find distasteful, I want him to pull the resolutions and positions as far left as possible, even if that is slightly left of center.

I worry, as current events show, anything less means that counter-forces to the free software movement will wear you down with abject greed by slowly going right of center and taking as much time as it takes to restore the balance back to their proprietary interests after the initial battle has gone to free software advocates. And that is how I see it. Very few of my friends understand the value of highly technical manuals, and that is what open source is about. My brother recently saw my side with automative hacking and experimentation countermeasures on the rise, as reported today on HN. But when I tell non-technical people these manufacturers hide secrets in their faulty designs and let you pay for their ineptitude, even if you want to fix it for yourself on your individual unit without harm or influence on them, they do not get the argument and ask why I think I know better than the compant. They only get the argument when they are locked out of a system they need for their very personal context.

Oh well. This is a very personal choice. I love GPL, I love MIT, and I smile when I think how all these hippies made a world for me in the 60s and 70s I could not live without today.
This app gets stuck on Step 4, "Leave Your Mark", when I start up it for the first time in OS/X El Capitan.
I hope that it is not the most honest, but I do agree that it is the best.

If you like The Thick Of It, you may also like the film 'In The Loop' and 'Veep' (both also 'created' by Armando Iannucci) as well as the Australian 'The Hollowmen'. 'Utopia', the sort-of follow on to The Hollowmen (which is excellent), is quite good too. There is also the 'Armando Iannucci show', which is very good, but also very different.

There is also supposed to be the Afghan version of the 'Thick Of It' too, although I have not found a source for that with translation.
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Unless your child lives close to a power plant, or a mining operation, or a fracking operation, or somewhere vulnerable to sea level rise....
Well, most people no, but states yes (and I don't consider the "respectable" states any more trustable in this regard -- they are the ones that used biological weapons first, in WWI, they burned 5 million jews in WWII, they dropped nukes in WWII, they sprayed whole populations with Agent Orange, etc, and loads more besides).

Besides, all it might take when it comes to individual people is a wacko/paid operator at one of these companies.

Or, maybe not even that, the sibling comment says that "There are even relatively cheap consumer kits made by the diy bio community".
Of course. My point was that the seating arrangement is not the relevant part of the setting.
Don't get me wrong; I'm an advocate for all labor, not just underpaid office workers.
> it is typical market disruption: "make something better than others for lower price"

That is the opposite of a disruptive technology, as defined by Christensen. Disruptive technologies are making something worse and typically more expensive but which has a key advantage which can't be replicated in the old paradigm. The newcomer establishes themselves in the niche for whom that key advantage is most important, and over time achieves cost and feature parity with the incumbent, at which point the new technology is better and cheaper in every way and they become the new incumbent.

OP's article describes "obsoletive" technology as the counterpart to "disruptive" technology, and defines it as technology which is simply better or cheaper than the old generation, rendering it obsolete. That's a closer fit to what you're describing.
This is actually what I was thinking of when I read the emails with the prior kik (on npm) developer. An interface for people to write javascript chat bots or integrate it into websites. They'd, of course, want to be able to use their own product (and company) name when releasing this code.
It probably does, but not as effectively as a marine-grade watermaker.

http://www.westmarine.com/watermakers
Or the transmission settings. Most luxury cars default in a "comfort" mode which introduces some lag in the down shift until revs build up more, so that the shift is smoother. A C63 is usually left in the sport transmission setting, of which the whole purpose is to jolt you as hard as possible every time you mash the pedal, to remind you what you're paying for :) Also, 4 or 5 speed cars this lag is much more ponounced than say a 7 or 8 speed, especially the newer ones with double clutch.

Turbo lag is a real issue too, although newer cars deal much better with it. Many newer model Audi's for example, it's hard to even identify the lag (not so true 10 or even 5 years ago).
> It's a shame to see key words be killed off by internationalisation concerns.

I think it's actually a solid decision from WhatsApp since the majority of their users are from non English speaking countries[0].

[0]: http://www.statista.com/statistics/291540/mobile-internet-us...
> there are two possibilities.

Oh no!

> The other possibility is that the system really is tilted in the favor of certain groups, and that has affected the distribution of power and wealth that you see in America today

Wrong.

There is another possibility, which is that once upon a time the system was severely tilted, and for various complex reasons there is a _massive_ multi-generational delay between leveling the system seeing the results of leveling the system.

Consider how difficult and unlikely it is for a low income white male living in a trailer with, say, alcoholic anti-intellectual parents to, say, become one of the wealthiest people in the country.

If we eliminated racism, we would not eliminate all of the factors that work against black children who are born into poverty.
and get poor brakes and mediocre engines?
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Are you suggesting that nobody (companies or individuals) in the US or five eyes countries should run TOR nodes since the government can slap them with a court order?
Kik's bot platform is live
Do you have a theory for Jews winning a disproportionate amount of Nobel prizes? Is "the system" rigged in their favour?
Who are these people and where are they getting that kind of cash?
A lot of that has to do with them sending the Jags again and again
LOL, the software on the 2016 Cadillacs, absolutely shameful. I'd be so embarrassed if I worked on that team. Apple Car Play is the only good thing about the software in those cars.
I don't even have a working Windows image to try the new bashy goodness, but this was my first thought when it was announced: what about the slash/backslash difference? But even twenty years ago, bouncing back and forth between DOS/Windows and some flavor of Unix, I wished MSFT would get with the program and ditch the hard-to-reach backslash.
Perhaps it is the illusion of communication with a human (if the bots can handle variable expressions for the same concept - e.g. people can say the same thing many different ways) that makes this appealing. I don't have to click, which would mean I construct a concept in mind and I then convert that to the correct expression provided by the service. Integration of simple bot support is a first step as AI/ML + NLP evolves to support greater complexity.
Well, often they really think nothing will change because they were promised nothing will change.
Makings poor decisions that lead to illegal acts make you a criminal.
>it's a choice, after all.

What about religion. It is an interesting intersection of 'is a choice' and 'protected demographic'. And why should it be any more acceptable to harass someone for what they choose? Is it more acceptable to discriminate against a Hispanic individual for choosing to identify with their heritage (a choice) than to discriminate against them for being Hispanic (not a choice)? Both seem wrong to me.

>that's not something I chose. I was born that way.

What about those who are of a different gender/sex than they were born? What about people who choose to change their gender?

Even your response itself can be an issue, as there is an implication that others are born a given gender and cannot change it.
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Yahoo did surprisingly well last season.

IIRC they didn't make you sign up to watch
I have no idea why people use these programs over straight up SMS.
> get it wrong every time the user doesn't identify with the normative gender for that given name

While I'm not really buying your root argument, this statement is spot on.

Case in point - I'm a man named Lyndsy.
I wonder how much Anthony Noto (current Twitter CFO, former NFL CFO) was able to influence the decision. Smart hire for Twitter folks.
Better to ignore the writing of somebody who is blindly hoping that iPhone SE will solve Apple's problem and capture indian marketshare.
Depending on the specific nature of the content (news content comes to mind) you could even just grant access for 24 hours and revoke it if fraud detection fails. This solution wouldn't work well for all types of content where the feature could be abused to harvest static content.
When determining who made this deal happen and at such a good price for Twitter, it's worth noting that Anthony Noto (Twitter's current CFO) used to be the CFO of the NFL -- I think he might have had a bit of influence.
You did not understand. Nothing about the GP's position states that you should make your opponent's case for him. In fact, you already met the criteria if your opponent does not disagree with your assessment that he "argues that Spiderman is real, and lives at the Justice League".
> Purchased from where?

Most famously, because they were recently hacked themselves, the Milan based company Hacking Team. The intercept has a good breakdown of their software manual here: https://theintercept.com/2014/10/30/hacking-team/#manuals

There are many others out there, this cell phone related catalogue is really interesting: https://theintercept.com/2015/12/17/a-secret-catalogue-of-go...

Any company considered a "defense contractor" will probably offer tools along these lines. They are in high demand.

Of course the FBI, Homeland security and the NSA have their own tools as well. And they share with local law enforcement (probably not the latest and greatest ones).

> Do you think that they came up with this in their emergency war room, as they planned out the sneak attack on the Tor node,

I don't really have any idea what the Seattle PD methods or procedures would be, but they knew what TOR was and tracked the traffic to his exit node. I doubt it was the same cops who did that part ... so how likely was it that this briefing didn't include anything like "Just plug the CriminalBuster(tm) box into the computer until the light turns green, then coordinate with Bob to get access to the information you want later. You can get things like X, Y and Z from the CriminalBuster. To requisition a unit fill out form TPS-01 and give it to John."

The entire reason to commoditize these things is to make it easy to use within an inefficient bureaucracy that doesn't have a lot of tech training or a "war room". Just like they have done with phone taps or gps car trackers for years.

> this was just one of the first times they got to practice it?

Why assume this was the first time? It's standard practice for all sorts of infosec workers, journalists, etc to assume this was done to their laptop if it was out of their hands. You can literally download one of these and put it on a usb stick yourself (for your own personal use of course, anything else would be very illegal).
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I am fine with that as well. Making health insurance the province of employers as a way to incentivize hires is a relic of the New Deal era. Divorcing health care mandates from employment is a good idea.
Linguistic tangent: the common suffix on those words is interesting. Is it required for Nahuatl nouns, like the Latin -t suffix? I notice that not all the other example words on the linked page-section have it, but a large majority do.
>Not only does GitLab copy GitHub, it does so by relying on a lot of Open Source sofware written by GitHub and/or GitHub employees.

That seems like a bizarre complaint, considering git itself is FOSS, initially written by Linus, and that GitHub's entire business is effectively built around hosting git repositories.
They didn't seize the house either
Service Workers are a pain in the ass
I know some BMWs have Navigation systems that begin to boot as soon as you unlock the car. It's a clever solution -- although my dad ran into battery discharge issues because of it; if you don't drive much (retired) so the car sits a lot, and then all of your trips are short trips... sooner or later you might kill the battery.
The options seem to be "trial by media" or "gets away scot free" in this case. Politicians weren't prosecuting this, in some cases they were a party to it! Also, the whole point of these companies is to hide from the government, so if it were easy for the government to prosecute they wouldn't be used.

Leaks like this are about the only way it was realistically going to come to light.
Try Phabricator (http://phabricator.org/), you can point it at a remote repository without hosting it.
Southern india is also taking their time. There is no such thing as a too deep well.
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CORS headers, yeah. But I'll probably move to serving the api from a sub-uri.
I only have anecdotal evidence; a friend who owns a Tesla. He said the fit and finish issues on his Tesla are real but that he plans to trade it for a newer model and his wife's Lexus will be replaced be a Tesla as well.

He's basing that on his perception that Tesla is working out the quality control issues. I'm not in the market for a Chevy or a Tesla - key switch recalls come to mind for one and fit, finish versus price for the other.
> I can't reply to your other comment for some reason...

Try clicking on the timestamp for the comment when you have this trouble. A reply box should appear.
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