skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The part where the NRA filed a take-down request on something that used their logo in a way that was obviously satirical. Of course that would never stop an organization from getting rid of said satire if they thought they could get away with it and sadly DO proved them right in this respect.
For those interested, there are written records about these voyages dating back to the 13th and 14th century. The events took place some 300 years earlier, however.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saga_of_Erik_the_Red

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinland_sagas

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland_saga
> In general, politics is almost always off-topic here

This attitude is one of the most damaging flaws in tech culture. There is this idea that engineering, design, and sometimes even business are somehow outside of politics, which is absolutely incorrect.

Politics is simply how humans interact to negotiate the mechanics of society. Creating a good or service has political consequences. Often these consequences are small, but modern technology has had an amplifying affect on political consequences that has grown rapidly. Silicon Valley culture even has a word that recognizes this: "disruption".

As politics is increasingly important in technology, traditional powers have started to fight back. A good example is the current drama over encryption (Apple/FBI, WhatsApp/India, etc); giving people the ability to communicate without government (or other) eavesdropping is not only a political act, it's also a significant shift in power that upsets the traditional political equilibrium. Local tax law is merely the current battlefield.

When you create something that affects people - even in small ways - you are taking a political position. Pretending that your work is somehow outside of politics doesn't make technology and engineering politically neutral. Ignoring politics is still a political statement; you're saying you don't care about the political consequences, which is irresponsible.

> there are many other places to discuss politics

HN is exactly the place that the politics of technology should be discussed.

> reduce the quality ... of the discussion

While I agree that rudeness, personal attacks, and other low-quality rhetoric should be discouraged, remember that attempting to silence political discussion is itself a political statement. You aren't removing politics completely; you're de facto stating that any point of view outside the status quo shouldn't be heard.

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There is "no neutral ground in a burning world"[1]. Please consider and discuss (politely) the political consequences of technology as we integrate it into our lives. If you don't, someone else will.

[1] https://media.ccc.de/v/30C3_-_5491_-_en_-_saal_1_-_201312272... (transcript: http://opentranscripts.org/transcript/no-neutral-ground-burn... )
The app is rejected because Spotify tried to bypass the In-App Purchases system to obtain payment information form subscribers, thus bypassing the 30% cut Apple takes.

This isn't a new requirement at all. Spotify is free to remove signups all together from their App, requiring users already have signed up for an account on their website. This has always been an option.
The leverage to be used is to threaten to block remittances from Mexicans in the US back to their families. This makes up a large part of Mexico's economy. It could certainly work.

Guccifer 2.0 actually criticizes Trump on immigration in the very next line, though. So it's a pox on both the Clinton and the Trump houses.
No, sitting in meetings all day, essentially accomplishing nothing really is bullshit. Granted, there are some super productive management teams out there, but the majority of time is spent dealing with nonsense politics, and having meetings to schedule meetings. Stereotypes have basis in reality.
Fighting spam (solely) by analyzing its contents turns out to not really work that well. You also need to be very picky about which SMTP servers you will accept mail from.

In practice, this means that if you do not route your outbound mail through a reputable hosted mail provider, it is significantly likely that messages will not make it through to their recipients. Even if you do SPF/DKIM/etc correctly. SMTP servers are not interchangeable. They have reputations, and the IP address blocks they reside in have reputations.

That doesn't always mean Fastmail/GMail/Live, etc. Businesses do run their own Exchange servers successfully. They do so from high-quality IP address space which is closely guarded, not handed out to any idiot with a cable modem (most recipients blacklist all residential IP address space) or $5 (cheap hosting providers are similarly suspect).

>I can keep it offline

You are referring to POP, which predates IMAP - the server just gives you the new emails since last checkin, and then they are gone (from the server's perspective). If you use multiple computers, or a computer and a smartphone, this really sucks. Most people are not going to hack together Git and rsync; they want the same view of their email on whatever device. So we get IMAP.
How could you get rid of Medicare and Medicaid just by giving everyone $13k per year? What happens when someone with no other income needs life-saving medical treatment that costs more than $13k?
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> The DNC had NGP VAN software installed on their system so I used the 0-day exploit and then deployed my backdoor.

I was the tech director for Bernie 2016, and this part tripped my bullshit meter as well. The VAN is a SaaS, not an on-premise solution. The DNC has some servers that have tight integrations with VAN (e.g. direct db access as opposed to using the API) but saying they had "NGP VAN software installed on their system" is a stretch at best, and those certainly aren't the same servers that the DNC uses to store their oppo research and such.

NGP-VAN does run on Azure though, FWIW. I don't know what OS the DNC's servers run on, but it wouldn't shock me if it was Windows as well.

If I had to guess, this whole part is a red herring. I'm sure either guccifer social-engineered folks at the DNC and/or the DNC was storing their oppo research on old servers with shitty security. The NGP VAN was an easy name to throw out and divert attention since their own security issues have been well-publicized in the past.
Do you have a source for your statement that professional athletes are pretty close to average in "physical metrics"? By most accounts, there's been a recent Cambrian explosion in college and professional sports where larger pools of participants has resulted in a higher frequency of genetic outliers gravitating towards the sport for which their body is best suited.

David Epstein's "The Sports Gene" covers this topic with some depth.

Many people are brilliant, talented, and have a strong desire to win but lack the physical aptitude to support that at elite levels of play.
I have a friend with a similar problem, and she eats a lot of fish as a result. She recently found out she has a very high mercury level. Be careful if you eat a lot of tuna. She switched to chicken. I wish more research was being done on problems like you and my friend have.
I was puzzled by that as well. It sounds like what they mean is that they tried to replicate the construction methods, not merely the exterior form of a Viking ship, or replicate a specific Viking ship.
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You are free to overpay on your taxes as well. I assume based on your reasoning that you give the government your entire income minus expenses.

Governments have the ability to levy taxes. If they need money they should levy a tax. It's that simple. There is no 'right amount' that a company should be paying that is more than the law requires them to pay.
It looks like I don't fully understand the system. I suspect there is a need based system that supplements Social Security benefits if the recipient is below the poverty line?
Well of course people impress their own values on the situation. Yes, if you step back and put on your impartial glasses, there's no difference. But people aren't robots, and it's difficult to be impartial, even when you don't have a horse in the race. I find it completely natural, in our society, for people to be rather gleeful about the whole Ashley Madison thing—having cheaters (which goes against a large portion of the population's send of morality) be "punished" for their crimes feels just and karmic. It isn't really, but it feels that way. It rubs that high ground moral compass part of your brain (or maybe it's just schadenfreude). Either way, it's not necessarily wrong or unexpected—it's just the way people's brains tend to work.

I can guarantee you there are some rabidly anti-muslim folk out there that feel gleeful about this hack, but that segment of the population is far, far smaller than the segment that feels adultery is wrong.
More likely someone said "The French are raiding them, why aren't you!?" at a dinner party.
We block one or two ad networks on our local network because of spyware payloads and we get these boxes too from time to time. So, it might be upstream of you.
Well in that case it would be a rotten deal. Why would anyone want this crap instead of a normal pension?
You're entitled to your opinion (even if expressed in an insulting way, as you did here), and I'm certain that there are ways for you to maximize your personal tax bill to help satisfy the social responsibility that you feel others have. Lead by doing. However, I don't think you'll find tax maximization strategies in use at any major corporation, now or at any time in the future, and I'd expect shareholder lawsuits if they were ever utilized.
right, but if you are using Face-time or Skype the latency need to be < 500ms to not be annoying
And this would be fine, except that Apple Music has an advantage here, because they don't get the 30% fee (or allow the user to sign up through the app)

Spotify chose to fight this fight and I guess it's good for them
Did you get it to work? What was the sensation like?
Yeap, bringing Apple Music to this discussion is disingenuous.

The article is pretty light on details, but it seems Apple is simply asking Spotify to follow the rules all developers have to follow.
> However, I think this could be replaced with the simpler: If you have met one person, you have met one person.

But that's exactly the point. The quote is pointing out that people with Asperger's or autism differ just as much as people without; the latter is commonly accepted and expected, the former less so.
A clear one would be that the integrity of UK democracy would be severely damaged. If I understand correctly, the only way of leaving is using that article so not using it would be to not hear what the people said in the referendum.
It'll be interesting to see Surge's response to having had 5 days notice.
>Your argument essentially invalidates that and supports a world where legal corruption is moral.

No it doesn't. It implies that the correct fix is to eliminate tax loopholes, not attempting to guilt a corporation into paying more, which is about as effective as guilting the sun into cooling down.
Not only is it defamatory, but in many states it's actually a crime.

For example, here's the law in Texas:

> A person commits an offense if, with intent to injure a candidate or influence the result of an election, the person enters into a contract or other agreement to print, publish, or broadcast political advertising that purports to emanate from a source other than its true source.

Source: http://www.statutes.legis.state.tx.us/Docs/EL/htm/EL.255.htm
Your average cost only drops over a relatively narrow range: from where N towers is enough to support your users to where N+1 towers are necessary. After N is big enough to cover your area, cost still goes up basically linearly with the number of users (just in a saw-tooth fashion rather than a straight line).

It's totally unlike the costs of any service with real economics of scale, such as software.
Good luck to them.

After helping make a slack-style client-side encrypted productivity app (https://balboa.io) that has been on life-support for the last 2 months, I have a lot of respect for people that attempt to make this space more secure.

It's not easy.

A few lessons learned that may be useful to others:

1. Most businesses and consumers are ok with their data being available to companies like Slack and Google because they trust these companies. They feel that regardless of reality, their data is safer with Google or Slack because those companies have a lot more to lose if they fail.

2. The SME space for productivity apps is pretty much the same as the consumer space. You're going to be competing with Google. SMEs are actually really cheap and scrappy: they don’t spend money on non-bottom line affecting stuff. If you want to sell security to them, it has to be essentially free

3. Reputation is more important than (or at least AS important as) your technical chops. You're asking people to trust you. You can show that you are competent by demonstrating a mastery of the technology, but that may not be enough to show that you are also trustworthy.
I assume it's very analogous to Destin's "backwards bicycle" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFzDaBzBlL0

Later on in the video, he mentions that having gotten used to the backwards bike, a regular bike was nearly impossible to ride until he adjusted to it again.
Yes I've seen more open and DIY solutions. I was just hoping for a commercial version that I could buy off the shelf.
From reading the other replies here, I don't know that it's a given that the NRA wouldn't prevail in court. In other words, they might have a case. So there's no bad faith for defending their trademarks if it's debatable, is there?
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Sure it is. Taxes can be levied for very specific purposes. Even ignoring that category of taxes, if you find that a whole country is operating immorally, then funding that company is immoral.
Is this part of a more general attack on Internet infrastructure today in the U.S.? http://downdetector.com/ has been showing many sites with issues (Google, Outlook, etc.)
Please see the FAQ (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html) regarding job posts.
It didn't sound to me like spotify is directly signing up people through the app, rather that they are requesting them to sign up via the website.
They are speaking for themselves. They want protectionism that will make us all less wealthy, and won't address the reality that automation is the real competitor. Someone has to come up with a good solution that makes everyone happier, or we'll get popular "solutions" that are harmful.
That's not how the rule works.

You can sign people up. They can upgrade on your own site. As long as you don't tell them they can do that in the app.

Spotify don't. They were communicating the promotion via email, outside the app, where Apple has no jurisdiction.

A tonne of companies aren't paying Apple 30%. It's basically on a case by case basis -- if Apple likes you or not. They don't like Spotify.
One wonders if this will suddenly make embedded companies non-incompetent or if they will just not use Brillo.
Some of do not agree with the generally accepted view.

https://medium.com/@jeffreycarr/the-dnc-breach-and-the-hijac...

I have this conversation with people often. They think I am an obnoxious IT guy, but I think we love reaching for convenient answers.

Both sides, lone wolf or Russian state sponsorship, I don't seem off. Both extremes are easy win for easily placated minds, so I worry when I feel myself just gravitating to them.

That being siad, it saddens me when reputable infosec people (by their own measure) use Medium. Haha.
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Urbit seems to try to provide a centralized, personalized model for application services. I don't think centralizing is the way to go, mainly because my entire digital life is dependent on de-centralizing all my services. They try to make it out to be like some kind of container you can put anywhere, but that's like saying we should all use one kind of bag for everything we ever need to carry in our daily lives. There's good reasons I have 10 different kinds of bags at home.
Is it really true that that many people are bigots?

I think it's pretty clear that xenophobic resistance to Remain was whipped up by various politicians. Are the people that voted based on this bigots? Many of them, yes, but some are just exhibiting fear of "them" (taking jobs, etc).
> 'Isn't all implementations of AI a combination of "a simple xyz"?'

Not really, unless you count mathematical techniques such as gradient descent optimization or convex optimization as simple. In this case a finite state machine sounds very simple in comparison.
For a wider prospective of how this whole tax haven thing got setup [0] is a nice read.

0: http://michael-hudson.com/2016/04/laundering-havens-for-war-...
This is actually pretty neat. In Sweden our "BankID" digital signature system is really popular (using digital signature files or 2FA to do your taxes, log into your bank or apply for credit cards), and it's always kinda odd when I notice the kind of backwards half-assed solutions used in other countries. Having it all work intra-nationally would be really cool!
The problem is the math don't add up. To give 13k per adult(242M) you need 3.2T. The total us Budget in 2015 was 3.8T so you need to increase taxes by 81%. If you subtract out all the welfare benefits you(615B(16%)) you still need to raise taxes buy 65%.
If you have the friends that companies like Google do, then I don't think you have any problems with representation.
In the SF Bay Area, MBPs are the standard.

You're almost certainly correct about the wider world.
Very interesting and I'm glad you brought that up.

I'm curious, though, in which way does this infuriate you? Are you infuriated that people are unaware of the potential infanticide in the AM case? Or are you infuriated that people are aware of the potential for death in this case? The former I can totally understand, but I'm guessing it's the latter and that seems like misdirected rage to me.
It's not unheard of to have people in your extended network who you would rather not have alerted to your whereabouts. Examples: abusive ex, clingy co-worker, mother in law, etc. "Enemy" is a rather melodramatic term but you get the idea.
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I agree.

That’s why I usually consider government monopolies as better than for profit companies, as better than private monopolies.

(Considering the correlation between government monopolies being usually regulated better).

Sadly, in the past decades, we haven’t seen those in many places anymore.

The UK has mismanaged the NHS for many years, and is now considering to privatize it into a private monopoly.

Look at Comcast, TWC, etc, who have regional monopolies, and how well they work.

And considering how easy politicians are to bribe, I am not sure we can get properly regulated monopolies at all anymore.

Until we can ensure the proper regulation, we might want to prevent monopolies from even occuring.
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Not only that, but as a shareholder, if acting "unethically" (for which there's no formal definition, just flimsy human opinions) but legally is in my best interest, I expect them to do it.
Because they aren't a monopoly, they have like 15-20% of the smartphone market. Only Google would have to worry about anti-trust cases
> And you're assuming that T-Mobile and Sprint are incapable of hiring accountants capable of minimizing their profits for tax reasons.

I'm assuming their accountants aren't any better than AT&T's and Verizon's, which show substantial profits from wireless.

> Let's turn this around: if the market is so thin why are they still pursuing it?

To get a bigger piece of a large market and hopefully profit in the future, just like 90% of the companies we talk about here on HN. But that's precisely why they have no incentive to collude to maintain the status quo.
Wikipidia says it is partially true.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everything_which_is_not_forbid...
I guess this had to be recent. I had not noticed all day, but it seems to be the last few hours?
Except free speech protections preempt state law and satire / parody is absolutely a protected form of speech.
Last I checked, it does. I'm pretty sure for instance the Nexus 5X relies on standard LUKS for FDE.

What may be protected through other means is the key used to encrypt that filesystem. The user enters a pin or a pattern to unlock said key on boot, and that key is used to initiate LUKS.

Maybe that's what they have cracked here?
Ignoring Apple Music is disingenuous
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I'm not a judge, and I understand that it is very well possible to sue even if you know up front you have a lost case if you have deeper pockets than your opponent.

But let's look at what trade-mark law is all about: it's about avoiding confusion. Do you honestly believe that there is a ground for consumer confusion here, that consumers would believe that the NRA would actually put out these statements? Given the context of the publication as well as the content of the material itself?

Or could it be that the NRA figured out a way to shut down a viewpoint that clashes with their own through abuse of the law?
Fraud and defamation have never been protected speech.