skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This, unfortunately, is inevitable. Any communication provider that controls the keys (i.e. no client-side key management) will eventually be compelled, coerced, or bullied into sharing some details of the users' communications.
Based upon how narrow of a market they have left, this is probably a game ender for Blackberry branded devices.
I found that the show was totally off on most of the issues involved in the process of coding and in working as a coder. I put that on Judge having worked in SV as an engineer rather than a programmer; I don't even think he codes at all.
(not from the team) The matrix.org FAQ has a great overview of the protocol's strengths vs XMPP, IRC, etc: http://matrix.org/docs/guides/faq.html#what-is-the-differenc...
(and it doesn't mention XML at all!)
I really don't understand how RIM manages to consistently misunderstand their target market so badly.

Not that they have many (or any) fans left, but back when they were the bees knees, they were used by and often mandatory company phones for government departments and fortune 500 companies exactly because they were considered the apex of mobile security.

I know it's been a while since they were the apex of anything but jesus guys, at least pretend to try or something.
Schizophrenia Stole My Brother. This Is How I Got Him Back
Isn't this just normal satire? I thought satire generally refers to works which exaggerate with the intention of highlighting the true absurdities of some person or group of people.
I knew OS people from NeXT, Microsoft, and several other companies at the time. None of us took Linux too seriously - it was too unreliable and too immature. But by the time that Oracle got it fixed (and IBM "took over" Red Hat to roll out the "new" Linux), it was a real product.
laughed really hard :)
Should we really incentivize breeding?
I enjoyed Valley Boy: https://www.amazon.com/Valley-Boy-Education-Tom-Perkins/dp/1...
Developers often make assumptions about hardware in their code, and then will complain when the hardware they're given doesn't match what they anticipated.

Even if it doesn't actually matter for performance reasons, they expected things to be one way, and want the environment to adapt to match their expectations, even if they might be expecting a wholly un-maintainable environment.

And I'm sure it works exactly the other way, too. The developer doesn't understand why the environment isn't what they expect, or isn't like the lab, or whatever.
I could live with ads:

* If I was assured they didn't collect my private information or track my behavior

Ads very rarely offer me something I'm interested in. They disrupt my experience, but I could live with them under the above condition.
Thank you!

But, since these are Tor people, shouldn't statements be digitally signed?

Does a confirmation tweet from anything less than a celebrity mean anything?
Face Slim
Unofficial app built around the mobile Facebook site. Open Source.

https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=org.indywidualni...

Facebook Lite
Official

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.facebook.l...
My advisor put it like this: Any person with a doctorate should be able to, on their own, begin a department in the undergraduate basics of their subject if hired by a university that doesn't have one.
To a large extent, Dev has just had to deal with the fact that the they're coding for an AWS world and can't necessarily design for specific hardware. They're designing for a generic "cloud environment" with a few modifiable parameters, because they recognize the benefit in ease of deployment and scalability.

I'm sure it's solved some of their headaches while presenting other, new ones.
From what I get, tho I'm only very lightly skimming the news about Linux every once in a while, Red Hat is responsible for stuff like systemd, in which they try to shape the Unix-like ecosystem, breaking standards and conventions, single-handedly with as much democracy as you'd have in Iran. I guess the GP comment references that situation.
Podiversity.com - Netflix for Podcasts. Limited shows so far.

Every show or network shouldn't have an app. Users need a simple consistent user interface.
If you create a form to submit new searches I will definitively help you (Cómo votar a Trump si eres mexicano)
Right. Or even bare metal vs VMs. How many VMs on what hardware? Many small VMs, or fewer large ones?
Or I guess if you're familiar with the SV startup scene, not much should be a surprise :)
Do companies really MITM SSL traffic in order to watch employees surfing habits?
Windows 98 SE was still around when Windows ME was released, that doesn't mean ME was good.

The key advantages of a Pebble over other watches were always battery life and minimal-but-useful functionality. Take away the battery life and cram more fruit into it and you just have an underpowered copy of the mainstream smartwatches.
Would it be legal for a landlord to require an applicant to supply social logins? Wouldn't it just lead to people having double lives online?
I have a really, really hard time understanding how anyone can watch the show and be offended.

OTOH, maybe it's just because I'm neither rich nor important.
So the stack - we're using Node on MySQL, hosted on AWS instead of GCP. This is funny given that our first product is a Chrome Extension, but our initial product was an iOS app. But based on customer feedback, we pivoted to doing the Chrome Extension first.

We ended up just doing it all in house instead of using the Streak stuff. It helped us prototype faster. Maybe we'll switch in the future!
As someone that works in enterprise storage, the last season has hit very close to home.
So Blackberry supposedly sells "secure devices" and "secure messaging" and other services, only to brag behind customers' backs about how they "kicked ass" in betraying their customers' trust and handing their data over to the police? Guilty or not, that's ultimately for a judge to decide, not the police, or Blackberry. The point is, it shouldn't be Blackberry's job to betray its customers like this, certainly not while selling them "high security".

From my point of view, good riddance Blackberry. You will not be missed.
The+SBC+Power+Team
This article makes me wonder about the interview[1] where Lazaridis walked out after being asked about BlackBerry security. Perhaps he was feeling defensive about these practices?

[1]: http://youtube.com/watch?v=Q6iGe7vuGeQ
It certainly wasn't my intent to criticize any Linux contributor. I think that there are a lot of people doing the right things for the right reasons. They do that work in a social context, though. And I think that we need to understand how our society really works in order to make the right decisions moving forward.
I'm 'ruined'!
wechat has a weird issue? design decision? where chat histories aren't synced between devices.
I'm pretty shocked it can be used to make payments and appointments yet has such a weird failing.
> RIM

They are now called Blackberry Limited, not RIM.
Everyone is on some kind of list. That's the beauty of automated mass surveillance.
I've always wanted to play a space mmo with some nice low poly graphics like this for example:
http://kennethfejer.deviantart.com/art/lowpoly-spaceship-450...

looks cute
"But the testing issues across all android devices is still an issue that the web should not have to contend with."

And yet, it is.

"And the Apple store issue is hard to quantify. You just don't know if they are going to let you in."

Yeah, you do. It's pretty easy to read the rules. And things being flat out denied, rather than told they need to fix something, is really rare.
How to reverse the damages:

1) Go to https://history.google.com/history/

2) Select the offending searches

3) Click delete on the top right (then click delete again)
That's interesting, but it makes sense -- SF is a city of primarily renters. In more suburban/residential areas, rents went up because people lose their houses and needed somewhere to live. Supply went down, because there was more demand for rental stock but the foreclosed houses largely sat vacant for months or years.

(I actually did 'negotiate' a rent decrease in ~2008 in Santa Clara; they wanted $150/mo MORE, so I pointed to a unit on their website that was $120/mo LESS, and said I wanted to rent that one instead. Needless to say, they made me an offer to stay put, thank god.. having to move across a parking lot would have been miserable. But of course rents in general took off despite this small blip)
I don't like the dramatic at all.

It allways has been the case, that if you used the most bleeding-edge features, you will bleed getting it to work everywhere. Very painful indeed, but I won't suspect, that this is going to change in the future, with so many people and companys involved.

So if you need to ship products now, you have to use, what's stable enough, if you want to target everyone.
The Changelog: A Protocol for Dying with Pieter Hintjens
Warcraft II for us!

Also, right when Doom came out, I remember my dad setting it up on work computers after work, and he would play deathmatches against his coworkers Dave and Mike, and they'd let an 8-year-old me play! Such fun times.
> but it seems like the part about learning the mechanics of research and publishing should be something so well documented it shouldn't be that big of a deal.

No.

I think you're thinking: "how to format/structure a paper/grant, how to conduct an experiment, how to write a proof, how to write a bibliography, how to conduct a literature search, how to submit a paper to a conference, ..."

Those are all very easy and formulaic by comparison.

What your parent actually probably meant: "how to pick a research problem, how to develop a multi-year research program that addresses that problem along with other related problems, how to find collaborators and succeed in working with other researchers, how to write a convincing paper, how to write a winning grant proposal, how to find funding, how to present your work in a compelling way at meetings/conferences, ..."

Those things all have a million particularities and can't be taught from a text book or lecture. You have to just do them and experience the millions of little things that come up and see a pro handle each situation.

It's like the difference between knowing how to incorporate a Delaware C and put together a passable pitch deck vs. actually running a particular type of business through every stage. Like a start-up focused on X, where X is your research field and there are maybe only a few other labs (companies) doing X in the world.
> In terms of Real Soon Now stuff: - End to end encryption will be landing in a couple of weeks

Will this be based on Axolotl? If so, and you want to avoid the Signal problem of there being a log of messages being passed between users, how are you dealing with that? Or is the idea that to make that type of security guarantee you have to self-host conversations? If so, surely there's still a log of messages being sent there. Maybe you could employ a rubberhose-like setup where you send fake messages that mask the real ones?
Welcome to the real world of building cars. Some problems just don't appear until cars have been in the hands of owners and out in the wild for a while.

And hopefully this should temper some of the enthusiasts claims that because they are electric, the cars are "maintenance free."

We'll likely all be driving electric cars at some point. But Tesla and the other automakers will have to go through a lot of growing pains before we get there.
Weird. Read the New Yorker article about HBO's Silicon Valley with this bit about Tom Perkins. Then googled him to find out who he is and learned he'd just died...

>In 2014, the Wall Street Journal published a letter by Tom Perkins, a billionaire venture capitalist: “Writing from the epicenter of progressive thought, San Francisco, I would call attention to the parallels of fascist Nazi Germany to its war on its ‘one percent,’ namely its Jews, to the progressive war on the American one percent, namely the ‘rich.’”
Looks like this scene in Silicon Valley was based off of him: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qC9D-paXcHU
Now do this for facebook profiles
They actually alternative between being profitable and not being profitable. See this graph:

https://ycharts.com/companies/AMZN/net_income

Growth is their priority. Yet, they make sure they have plenty money coming in to keep everyone paid, invest back in business, and have a pile of profit on occasion. Years ago, I did a research report on them. Back then, they were making a significant profit with just $200 mil in debt or so. They could've paid off total debt in just a few years if they paused to maintain the profit. They killed the profit on purpose to expand the then-new AWS. Smart decision. :)
you already were in a list.
Related: https://www.reddit.com/r/AmazonWTF/ (NSFW!!)

I've heard people complain after being subscribed to that subreddit that Amazon's relevance engine becomes unusable for them (and while unsaid, I imagine they can't browse Amazon with anyone else at their computer).

OP, take note. :P
10 Good Reasons to Buy Bitcoin Now
they're done worse with the hardware - in the garage with the GPU rigs there were a few brief shots of a cisco 6500 chassis with totally the wrong linecards for what they would be doing. actually a 6500 would be the wrong platform entirely.
Machine classification and analysis of suicide-related communication on Twitter
> I don't know the primary industry that crashed...

It depends upon who you ask, but mainstream consensus [1] is financial industry, specifically via the then-newly-common program trading. The supposed resultant market crash is usually identified in mainstream analysis as the incipient early 1990s recession.

US residents at the time possibly more commonly associated the market crash and recession with the savings and loan (aka "S&L") crisis. [3] Significant portions of the Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate (FIRE) industries [4] were adversely affected at the time, though IMHO the resultant regulatory response only acted as a perverse incentive to further financialize the US economy.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Monday_%281987%29#Causes

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_1990s_recession

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savings_and_loan_crisis

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIRE_economy
Lets not forget we got the Mean Jerk Time because of a technical obstacle.

Obviously not a 3 week debugging issue, but still at least some notion of a technical obstacle...
Is Facebook making end-to-end encryption on Messenger opt-in only?
Media & mob justice at it's finest, requiring people to prove their innocence instead of the other way around.

Disgusting.
being fully consistent when it comes to living philosophically altruistic is only possible if you're prepared to die for it (quickly).

Imagine you're the only skilled baker in town. Does your community benefit more from you when you starve yourself to death, or when you keep producing food for them?
I think the first-person stories of @hypatiadotca [0] and @violetblue [1] suggest more than that.

[0] https://hypatia.ca/2016/06/07/he-said-they-said/

[1] https://twitter.com/violetblue/status/740446500891860992 / https://twitter.com/violetblue/status/740446782505779200 / etc. (argh twitter)
SmartDust – in-house mobile device cloud
Reddit has kind of a cool discussion about it there: https://www.reddit.com/r/InternetIsBeautiful/comments/4nc763...
That one is owned by HBO still, you must be thinking of http://abc.xyz, which does contain a hidden link to http://hooli.xyz :)
Digging through developers.facebook.com, it appears that their link scraper creates Objects in their Social Graph. Because these resources are accessible by URL, they are considered self-hosted objects, and they're always public [1].
Their Link Sharing FAQ mentions that Messenger is one of the ways link previews are created, further confirming this behavior [2].

Really the problem is that several situations coincide which make the result surprising:

- It's not so bad that posting URLs to Facebook generates a link preview and saves that as a public resource in their Object Graph.

- It's not so bad that you can find the Object's object-instance-id by the URL.

- It's not so bad that Facebook correlates a bunch of information about that Object's relationship with other nodes in their graph.

- For data they believe is all-public, it's not so bad that object-instance-ids are not cryptographically secure and are trivially crawlable.

But when taken together, it -is- surprising that URLs shared through Messenger (a setting that most users would assume to be "private") can be trivially crawlable.

[1] https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/opengraph/objec...
[2] https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/webmasters/faq
>Something feels very off about the whole coordinated effort. This is not a normal way to accuse someone of terrible criminal behavior, by mixing those stories in with mere jerkitude.

The "murder, rape, and jaywalking" language used by the original complainants really raised red flags for me, as well. The fact that all of the accusers mention plagiarism, of all things, suggests they have an axe to grind and see this as a legitimate move in that fight.
Code bootcamps have become the modern ITT and Phoenix Universities. Seriously, you DO NOT need to go to a bootcamp. When I hire and someone tells me they're from some "prestigious" bootcamp, do they expect me to believe they've become awesome by going through one?

What did you do until bootcamp? Show me you had initiative on personal projects. Show me non-trivial projects on Github. Show me pull requests that you can read and understand other people's code. Show me submitted issues that you diagnosed a bug and gave enough information for another developer to reproduce it. Github tells me a lot more about you than graduating from a bootcamp.
Yep. In the middle of taking care of that now. Thank you for the heads up.
You bet they do! In the past I have had to manually install my company's certificates as a root CA. The annoying thing was that the certs they use are expired and use SHA-1, so I also had to explicitly tell my browser to trust expired/unsafe certificates as well. All in the name of increased security!
I agree with others that this is a great write-up on the situation that could be revised into a great, blog post or something. One specific thing that jumps out at me is that both you and Jessica write that there's problems but people often write about the wrong ones. Usually due to no industry experience at that level or some bias.

Do you have links to any write-ups that you find more accurate?
Not everyone involved in Tor and the surrounding community is a cryptographer who uses PGP regularly, or even at all; AFAIK Jill Baeh is not.

In any case, basically you'd be saying that Twitter and/or her Twitter acount is compromised, as a few others are interacting with that account, and have been following her since well before the tweet (I personally know many of the people in the conversation around Jill's tweet). In the unlikely event this is true, I think we'll find out soon enough. edit: I personally am a Bitcoin dev who uses PGP regularly, and in a similar situation even I can see myself being lazy and not signing my statement.

tl;dr: I'd be happy to bet a beer that the Tweet is authentic. :)
One of the popular self-help advice for aspiring entrepreneurs is to read obituaries and decide for yourself how your's should be. This guy deserves a great one. Nytimes, don't F this up.
> people should know this is NSFW for anyone with a company that monitors your web usage

All the more reason to do it IMHO :)
Or were free of malware. Also, if the ad servers didn't bog down the web site loading.
I'm pretty sure Google won't actually delete any of them from their internal profile of you though.
I don't understand your terminology. What do you mean "mix 1000 coins together", and what is the use-case there?
Universe’s first life might have been born on diamond planets
" Do you want to get laid? Do you often base your decision on the looks of a potential mate? Would you be OK with requesting consensual sex without having to fill out a form?"

Seek help.
In Quantum Field Theory, the concept of "the same water molecule" is not a well-defined concept, because of wave-function symmetry. (The only water molecules that are fully distinguishable are those where the isotopes of hydrogen or oxygen are different.)
Agreed, but for me his satire is always somehow even more perfect.
>I measure efficiency by less code not more

Really? So if I produce no code at all or just delete code, I'm being the most efficient, even if the goal is to add new features?

If you're going to pick on semantics, you shouldn't do it with a statement that's blatantly false on the face of it.

By "correct code" I mean code that is:

* Properly designed, refactored if necessary

* DRY

* Robust

You can't add features to "correct code" while strictly removing line count. No one is just counting lines of code here; your point is specious.
The Illustrated Children's Guide to Kubernetes
Well, for what it's worth we are actually doing the best use case of this (AR home furnishings design) with inside out 6DOF markerless tracking on iPhone and iPad without needing the Tango system.

Monocular visual odometry is becoming good enough that depth cameras aren't worth the overhead. Samsung even asked me about a year ago if it was worth doing and I told them no.
When I read all the complainers stories my initial reaction was I noticed a fairly consistent style of "spinning" each account in a way to smear Applebaum. They each seemed designed to imply he did evil things, without truly saying it.

Today we get this account, from one of Applebaum's supposed "victims" and, surprise surprise, her tale is pretty innocent and de-spun and totally oppositely aligned from the anti-Applebaum portayals we heard initially.

I bet more of the anti-Applebaum tales will start to get debunked. It sounded way too fishy and too much like a coordinated smear. Even the symmetry with how Assange (another big Wikileaks guy) was smeared by his Swedish sex thing seemed like a suspicious coincidence.

There may or may not be some kernal of truth in those anti-Applebaum statements. But there also smells like a lot of poorly disguised bullshit spin wrapped around it.

Keep in mind this space involves the NSA, Wikileaks, state actors, billion dollar budgets, multi-billion dollar empires at stake. False flag ops, bribery and propaganda are a real thing that govs do. Established historical reality.

Also... Rape is a real thing, and when it happens, thats bad. Lying and spinning and smearing are also real things that happen. So much of the skepticism we sometimes see about the former, unfortunately, is because of the latter. Truth is sometimes murky and often nuanced, or he-said/she-said.
> MySpace died (again, another zombie) because of the rise of Facebook, which again, is another huge company.

Well... now it's a huge company. It's not like Facebook was a pre-existing massive corporation that decided to pivot and 'do this social media thing'.
Yes, and I do donate to some of the podcasts that allow me to.
My LAN career started with StarCraft and ended with Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory. Anyone play that?
We still get together to play a variety of games from AOE2 to CS to BFBC2. The last time we got together we had way too much fun with Blockstorm which is like Minecraft meets Quake.

I remember Doom, Decent, and Aces of the Pacific were popular too.
Then thank you for agreeing with me?
W:ET was a ridiculous amount of fun.
Couldn't agree more.

We are building a product that runs on iOS, Android, Web, Desktop (using Electron) and Chrome OS, with Firebase, React, and React Native. A lot of code is shared among all platforms.