skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some other items that get synced through iCloud are phone numbers and emails of people you text, or send email to, even if they are not in your address book. Searches you put into Maps are also synced this way as far as I know.

Most of this data can be viewed on a macOS if you are signed in with the same iCloud account. It is stored in plist-files in a special folder called "SyncedPreferences".

~/Library/SyncedPreferences
~/Library/Containers/com.apple.corerecents.recentsd/Data/Library/SyncedPreferences

It has bothered me for a long time that there is no way to disable call log, text and email recipients syncing in preferences. While I can see how users might find this feature useful, it should be made more obvious what is actually happening when you sign into iCloud.

And by the way, disabling iCloud Drive does not disable the syncing of "SyncedPreferences".
In a suitcase? The woman says she wanted a helmet while traveling.
If you want better type information for Python, you could use the new typing hints and the typing module(https://docs.python.org/3/library/typing.html).

You could also use mypy(https://mypy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html) which is a static type checker for Python.
Thanks, I've fixed that :)
I setup ZohoCRM for one or my clients and it's been great, but by default their "game" was on. I have it turned off but have debating if it would be beneficial to have the employees using it. Not sure if it would produce better results or shift their focus into getting badges in the game as fast as possible (reducing quality of their updates to the crm or worse impacting how they interact with contacts/clients)
Life before bundled browsers and Google:

"Sue, how do I get that browser thingie?"

"Erm, Jane wrote it down for me... here's the Post-It"

"Thanks."

We survived OK.
For sustaining the basic income the owners of the automation and resources should pay taxes. At least a bit. How much tax do the big players pay?
There is no single method of protecting privacy; VPNs are privacy against commercial-level actors.

Tor has its own bounds, but people should use that, too. I generally think the internet is barely usable over TOR, but I don't need state-level privacy.

My point being is that these are valid tools with valid uses, and people should understand and use them, NOT that VPNs are anything other than a way of encrypting and proxying traffic.
For all interested, there is a really nice thread on reddit for showing off your desktop configuration [1]. There really are some master-pieces there.

1: https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/
I guess generic-ware like Microsoft Dynamics CRM is putting this to the test. Written once, configured for whatever domain you wish.
Tip: Before you start selling web design, make sure your own website is designed well.

In particular the white text on grey background in the form here is unreadable: https://sitezen.co/designer.html
Seems that light brake pressure could be translated to CVT downshifting. Any disadvantages? Or the cruise control of the car could control CVT.
fyi you can get most sites to honor your font with a combination of the browser's default monospace font and extensions like Stylish.

even this comment box respects Fira Code, see[1]

[1]: https://imgur.com/a/LjbS3
Note that there are already laws that punish false information in some contexts, such as perjury, fraud and libel.
Note that this is not the WHATWG standard that all browsers follow.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12848419
I own amazin.horse using this very concept with the "my" subdomain as my professional email address. Closest I could get. :)
Me too. However I don't have proximity detection. I don't think this would be useful. Say you have traffic then the proximity detector will stall your engine.

I am using cruise control to stay exactly at the speed limit. In Switzerland there are sometimes long and boring stretches with low speed limits, and nasty traffic enforcement cams.
Maybe him making it 5 years is a statement that he plans to be in office for a second term, but you're right someone needs to be there to enforce the contract.

I think a law would be ideal, but I have little hopes of that being passed (similar to Trumps plan to add term limits), the lobbyists don't like it and they control the purses and the purses control the congressmen/women.
However, there is a registration involved when going through the revolving doors, both ways?

Is that public information? Sounds like a good service to American society?
Violating the Constitution is not a criminal offense but breaking down someone's door and entering their house without their permission is. Back in the early 19th century this would have meant that the law officers were criminally liable for what they did.
"Normalized" is spin control. "Screaming dive" is more like it. From $6000 to $92 in a month, and dropping about 10% per day. Zcash is on its way to joining the other 700 dead and dying altcoins. Right now, it's the 43rd most valuable altcoin, and dropping in rank.

Mining is generating Zcash way too fast for the market to absorb. The "market cap" has been holding steady as the priced dropped over 99%.
Journey from 0 to 5k per month for SAAS business with no outside funding
Been using these guys for a few years now, best use of $40/yr. You'll occasionally get blocked on certain sites (which you can often fix by simply changing location), but their infrastructure is definitely impressive. I get to use the full speed of my connection, which ironically is not always the case when I'm not connected through PIA (there's definitely some selective throttling going on, even though my ISP pretends there isn't).

So sure, I'm probably on a bunch of watch lists, but at this point it's hard to care anymore, it feels like everybody is in one way or another, everybody will be found guilty should someone decide so... I actually have legitimate reasons for using VPNs, but moves like this from governments around the world just give me even more of an incentive to use VPNs.

One can only hope that politicians will be done in by the very same rules they're blissfully pushing through.
Really? Three of my last five jobs came from Linked-in.

I find it very convenient to have offers come-in out of the blue, only having to pay the cost of tweaking my profile once a year, and occasionally skimming/deleting random recruiter messages.

I see it as being open to opportunities. Usually, I would only look for a job when: 1) Unemployed, or 2) Unsatisfied at my current position. In both cases I would be motivated to solve the problem ASAP.

But being approached when happily employed gives you the upper hand during negotiations, allowing you to make demands that you would usually not be so confident to make. Not to mention becoming aware of good opportunities when your "job radar" is turned off.
And it's pretty easy. I have a few accounts on Thunderbird and I can drag and drop e-mail directly from one account to another, I think they are .eml files. You can also have local accounts just for storage.
It still blows my mind that people are on linkedin. If you are not a recruiter/hiring manager it's only real purpose (that I can see) is to be a boasting board for achievements and a easy to ignore place to receive recruiting emails.

Does anyone get any other value out of it?
When I was first building m.reddit.com, I put it under `reddit.horse`, mostly because I found it hilarious that `.horse` existed.
I've been thinking a lot about my personal dependencies, and how I can mitigate points of failure. The mental exercise I've been going through is basically imagining Netflix's Chaos Monkey [1] running loose on my life.

How can I be resiliant to data loss? Job loss? Cognitive loss? There are ways I can mitigate these risks, and some ways I can test to see if my mitigation strategies will work in practice. But how do I do that without devoting my life to it?

It's nice to dream of some kind of antifragile existance going forward, but for now the easy conclusions tend to come down to the 'two is one and one is none' variety. Backup everything I can, including but certainly not limited to my data and services.

[1]: http://techblog.netflix.com/2012/07/chaos-monkey-released-in...
We would not have this conversation..if Excel supported big data :D :D :D
AFAIK, you can buy mail.ru databases[1]. Quote:

«A vendor going by the online handle of “saul_berenson” is selling 57 million Mail.ru accounts on darknet in BTC 1.0000 (628.78 US Dollar).

The sold data includes emails and MD5 passwords of Mail.ru users. According to the seller, “these passwords are very easy to crack.” Remember Mail.ru was hacked twice, one in July and August 2016 when 27 million accounts were stolen and before that in May 2016 when 57 million accounts were stolen. We suspect that the stolen data is from May 2016 breach.

Yandex is another Russian Internet giant serving as the country’s largest search engine and like Mail.ru the corporation has been under attack by hackers numerous times. However, now, a vendor is selling 6.5 million Yandex accounts containing emails and passwords. The total number of sold accounts is 659,5756 with both hashed and clear-text passwords.»

The whole idea of an government operation, like that, is to put finger first, then whole hand. When data will be in Russia, government will demand 24x7 access to it. Then data will be copied somewhere, then sold.

[1] https://www.hackread.com/utorrent-forum-mailru-yandex-data-d...
Wash. State Senator wants felony prosecution of protests as “economic terrorism”
Some people still want their phone to (1) make phone calls (2) make phone calls. For them a phone that makes phone calls and the battery lasts a week is far more full featured.
Actually, in democracies, people do get out and vote and change rulers when they can be made to care sufficiently.

In India where I live, I've seen time and again how state politicians who seemingly have the administration locked up, voters intimidated through outright thuggery, bribed with cash & liqor etc nevertheless go out and vote them out if only the opposition puts up a credible and trustworthy alternative who holds out a vision of improvement. Given the amount of voting booth capturing and thuggery going on, I used to be skeptical about the democratic process but have seen time amd again that in such situations when the opposition is able to put up a credible leader, nothing the incumbents can do can save them.

Kind of like Obama did in the US 8 years back.
> There's too much of it, it's too new, and it's too interesting (e.g. a lot of aspiring undergrads and grads are looking to make their mark on the world, and breaking Zcash would be a great way to do that). I believe that your privacy will be compromised retroactively, and not due to bugs but due to actual cryptographic breaks. And then you're back to the Bitcoin network where everyone can see everything, and you're vulnerable.

Which component do you think is most likely to break?
Interesting. I'll have too look up what the Swiss road law says about this.
Douglas Engelbart: Father of Modern Computing
It's still possible to come up with vanity domains using common TLDs. You just need to have some wiggle room (: I replaced a single letter in the shortened version of my own name and got a .net for it just a few months ago.
If you're on an icy road (or other low traction surface like oiled stone or gravel) and your car starts pointing/moving/spinning to the left, you want to turn left to keep the front wheels moving and regain control and dump as much speed as possible without locking the wheels. Don't touch the brakes until you have traction!

That's counter-intuitive for many people as typically you want to actually go right.

If you have a manual transmission and you know what you're doing, in some situations you can downshift and use the engine to slow you down more. But in my experience, it's a "nice to have" vs a must for passenger vehicles. (different story for big trucks)
The thing with C++ is that it's a hard language. I understand the power for low level stuff, and it is available already. But for 99% of apps, a higher level language like java or c# is really what we need.

Even C# is starting to show its age. Perhaps it's the occasion to reboot it. Start from scratch based on modern concepts with a truly cross-platform language.

With support from Microsoft + Google + Apple, and cross platform across Windows, MacOS, Linux, iOS and Android, adoption would go to 100% (or 11!) on month 1.
Screeps – MMO strategy sandbox game for (JavaScript) programmers
yeah.. but, theyll introduce a more exclusive, effective version for the elite insiders
"Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say."

- Edward Snowden
I just switched because I simply couldn't get the vehicle I needed (2016 Toyota Tacoma, 4 doors, 6' bed) with a manual transmission. I love the truck, but I still wish I could have had it with a manual. When my girls are old enough to drive, I hope I can still find a manual that's safe for them to learn on, just so they'll know what to do if they ever need to use one.
Right on. While I said "I appreciate a good name", I'm truly a sucker for a good name. Branding is huge, even when it's a personal brand.

So yes, a one-time fee of $250-$1,000 feels ok to me, especially considering what Automattic paid for the TLD.
I don't know. I don't think nested hierarchies is a thing. I mean, I guess you have the "Go Network" go.com example (disney.go.com). But I think the ship has sailed for deeper hierarchies. I really don't want an email address that is: taftster@foo.bar.baz.example.com
Seems like the badges were not aligned to the results you wanted. Good badges would be related to the company goal (selling products) instead of housekeeping the CRM. Some early badges can be related to keeping the CRM updated to create some habits, but long-term objective is definitely different.

Besides that gamifying sales is promoting individual achievements and creating a competitive environment, whereas in IT it should be oriented to building a reliable and happy team.
I wish one of the major Linux distributions would double down on design as a core priority (as in, bring in designers and give them serious pull). I'd kill for a beautiful, opinionated, and novel Linux desktop environment.
I had this happen to me as well. I registered a domain directly with get.blog on the day that they first started accepting pre-registrations. I got an email a couple of days ago saying that I would be getting my money back, nothing about an auction. I asked for details because I too was expecting an auction. My response also came from the same guy ("Ran") who said that it wasn't available when my "application" was processed.

The twist in this case? The domain I applied for is now pointing directly towards WordPress.com. So get.blog, owned by parent company Automattic, took the domain which had been made available for the public, and gave it to WordPress.com. I wonder what ICANN will have to say?

SHADY AF.
Ask HN: Software for writing a diary that will be around in 20 years from now
I guess this is a bit of an unusual question. Yesterday, my first child was born and I decided to start writing a diary. The twist is that in this diary I want to write about our experiences together as a family and include pictures and other digital material there. By age of 18, my gift to him will be to give him access to the diary.

So far I've considered opening an email account and sending mails to it so that it keeps everything in place. The other would be to keep stuff as files and use some software to manage it. Backup would be spread across my own devices and the cloud.

Is there anything the HN crowd can recommend that for sure will be there in 20 years? The email option sounds good, but I won't ever trust Google to keep a service running, and other paid options are not better. A self-hosted email-server is too much of a hastle.

Maybe there is someone who has been writing a diary / journal for a long time and wants to share how they do it?
If we are to take the idiom seriously, the good cops (the rest of the barrel) are spoiled by the rare bad apples.
There are so many start up podcasts that focus on the origin of the founders/company and how awesome they are and they all blur into one. Rocketship, Tim Ferris etc. Please don't do a podcast like that.

You guys have the clout to do something a bit more special and unique than just cool interviews with successful founders. And you probably don't have time to do all of the narrative shaping that Gimlet and other media companies do to find all the "quirky" stories that fill time. That's why something based around office hours makes so much sense. Y Combinator's office hours on youtube are amazing. You've even expanded office hours to non YC companies because you see how valuable they are to the start up community. This is another way of realizing that value.
But Apple had 90% of profits, isnt that a better metric of monopoly?
I'm guessing this includes the initial design, which would make it ridiculously cheap.

If you're planning on keeping the average customer for 2 years and pay $10 for the hosting itself, that leaves just $960 for the initial design and setup (not to mention 'ongoing updates').
But everything on the iCloud can be obtained by the government and the law enforcement agencies. Right? (I don't care much, but apparently one of the reasons many people use iPhones instead of Android phones is that their data is perceived to be protected from the government, so might be important for them - and Apple does have a history of giving the iCloud data to them).
Last month I had to spend an hour making sure someone hadn't opened a LinkedIn account under my 8 year olds name after his aunt asked us why LinkedIn is suggesting she connect with him. Turned out she had his iCloud email in her contacts because she FaceTimes with him. LinkedIn thought it was OK to use her contact list to make it appear like he had an account there. The bastards found a way to waste my time even though I have no account with them. Humanity would be generally better off without LinkedIn.
When living in Rome I often would spend my lunch walking to Santa Maria degli Angeli to watch the solar transit across the meridian line. A precise scientific instrument, in a Catholic church, built inside a Roman bath (by Michelangelo no less) is one of my favorite examples of the layers of history in that city. The wikipedia article is quite good:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Maria_degli_Angeli_e_dei...
I hope you don't take my comment as too much of an insult to your work. I consider the hallmarks of the current generation of frameworks to be component composition, framework based change synchronization (KVO, diffing, dirty checking), and the avoidance of DOM interaction (jsx, templates). Not being on the newest trend doesn't automatically make something bad and it's clear that you and your team put significant effort into your framework so I'll have to do a much more thorough investigation before I have a real opinion on it.
That's my understanding of it, also. Just the other day I was discussing with a work colleague about what would have happened had FB not been blocked in China almost from the very beginning. Imagine all the Chinese' people data sitting on a server a couple of keystrokes away from entities like the NSA. Our example, made half-jokingly, was something along the lines of: "Imagine how much information you can gain just by tracking the GPS positions of the personal secretaries attached to important Chinese Communist Party power figures".
If Firefox Focus is a privacy browser, it should bundle something like HTTPS Everywhere.
Ah have looked into those in the past, haven't stuck for some reason. Probably things have changed in my head, we'll see
While I agree with you personally, I also get why people do it. For some the tinkering with the DE is working, or at least having fun. It might be a form of procrastination or a genuine interest. It's not terribly different than reading productivity blogs or looking at other people's vacation photos.
Wirehair is a hybrid LDPC code which can be used like a Fountain code. It has astonishingly low overhead for one.

https://github.com/catid/wirehair/
DNS is a rotten system. From censorship, to ddos attacks, to squatting, to privacy issues with whois, to messed up financial incentives. It's a shame that DNS is a critical part of the internet infrastructure. We should work on getting rid of it.
The whole Galileo thing is funny in retrospect because it was Galileo who was accused of being unscientific! He was so unscientific about meteorology (even proposing wild theories like inertia) that the church forbade him to keep postulating physical reality of the absurd Copernican model.

Galileo got off easy even after having violated the ban and insulting the pope.

If you have a few hours to spare, read "The Great Ptolemaic Smackdown" for an entertaining trip into that period.

http://tofspot.blogspot.ch/2013/08/the-great-ptolemaic-smack...
Err, thats what both KDE and Gnome has already done...
Unlocking the Power of Parallelism with Rust
CGP Grey: Why the UK Election Results are the Worst in History:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9rGX91rq5I
Addictive ones only, basically.

There's two things restraining other businesses from profiting like this.

First, lots are basically fixed-consumption - if you buy a vacuum cleaner, there's effectively no chance of selling you another one next week. Across all your customers, you have an effectively flat purchase rate. So all you can do there is improve margins and reach unserved customers (and maybe pursue planned obsolescence).

Second, most unbounded-consumption businesses have normal distributions of consumption. People who buy string cheese maybe eat an average of five a week, with a low-SD normal distribution around that. So you market your cheese sticks to your prototypical customer to maximize profit.

Any power-law business sells to whales. That means drugs and gambling, but I should also observe that enterprise sales count. If Proctor and Gamble will pay 10,000X as much for your security consulting as a local pizza shop, you're selling to whales.
Because that would be unfair.

Apple should be able to sell iPhones the way they want.
Could you give a specific example of how this makes you safer? I really don't understand how braking could cause an appreciable weight transfer at speeds I consider appropriate for "bad bumpy roads".
Npm for Front-end Libraries
Which doesn't discredit the equivalence, it discredits social scientists, since any layman can look at the two statements and see that they are facially the same.
Don't give these scum your money, moral of the story is.
As a designer, this is what I've waited for for a very long time. I've already created tons of SVG photos and have started animating them in css. Super cool effect!

Now some of you nerds need to tell me how I can animate the dash-array/dash-offset animation with 2000 paths without it being so slow! :D
Blogger's Manifesto: Your blog deserves more
In my case, my surname TLD exists like XXX.{surname}. So I bought it w/ my first name ==> firstname.surname . It's cool and I will keep it as long as I can.

I agree with the OP. They seems to gather the popularity info by accepting pre-register requests.

Is there any policy to ban this behavior? Shouldn't the TLD be publicly opened?