skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"screwed up privacy once again by sending data to some company" makes it sound like they're accidentally transmitting browsing history or something. It's stats on how often the app is opened and how may times three main UI elements are tapped.

> For a new install, the application sends an anonymous "attribution" request to the adjust servers. This request describes how the application was downloaded, for example, whether it was downloaded directly via the App Store or through a marketing campaign link. The data includes an advertising ID, IP address, timestamp, country, language/locale, operating system and app version.

> Firefox for iOS, Firefox Focus, Firefox Klar and Android will also occasionally send anonymous summaries about how often the application has been used. These summaries only include information regarding whether the app has been in active use recently and when.

> Additionally, Firefox Focus and Firefox Klar will also report what features of the application are being used. It will send an anonymous report containing the specific filters being selected and count how many times the search, browse and erase button is pressed.

(also from https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/send-anonymous-usage-da...)

Per the instructions at the bottom: "If you are in the browser you may have to hit the Erase button first" - did you do this when looking for the settings?
Microsoft puts so many things behind this flag that you pretty much have to display all system files if you are a power user.
< They should be well paid and receive aggressive financial < incentives to continue their education.

My buddy is a copy in a mid-size south florida town and is getting 6K retirement checks after 20 years of service and still working full time in the DROP program. I'd say he's fairly well paid for only high school education.
Let's fervently hope we won't see a demonstration of how to organize a devastating terrorist attack in the UK without using a single telephone or internet connection.
Or the subsidy's been applied to the vendor as pure profit, instead of reducing the market rate.
I looked at my data. It's all public data anyway. I'm not surprised or concerned. Perhaps I'm missing something obvious?
Venture Capitalists, Cognitive Bias, and the Danger of Learning from the Past
There's a push by the state to have communications providers enforce their truth for them going on today.

The above commenter is not speaking about something theoretical.
You got a friend in me: Building a .NET core back end “friend” for a React app
Actually, as a temporary fix its working if you go to F-Droid and then add our repo

"https://secfirst.org/fdroid/repo/umbrella.apk"
I used this:

awk '/pattern/' file

I could upload my JavaScript to Github if anyone is interested.
> Police have the hardest job in America

I'm sure there are a few professions that would disagree. Air Traffic Controller comes to mind immediately. And before you say something about cops having to face the threat of death, most cops never even come close to that. Conversely, every ATC is responsible for thousands of lives daily.
Bot Wars: a collateral gift of the automation revolution
Apple was in trouble for collusion.

In this instance Apple and the other publishers probably did so specifically because they didn't have a monopoly on ebooks.
We have a very good theory of gravity, general relativity, and actually for anything that was ever used to build anything including the Voyager probes, Newtonian gravity is enough. In a sense we even have a safety net.

As for dark matter, the reason we don't have a good idea what dark matter is, is that is has almost no effect on normal matter. So the reason why we can ignore dark matter everywhere except at the frontiers of physics is, that dark matter only matters when one spends awesome resources to try to detect it.
Yes. Rarely ever visit facebook.com . Unfollowed everyone before they released messenger.com but now use that primarily. The only other benefit of FB now is party invitations.
The North Pole is 36 degrees warmer than normal
No, you don't have to switch "Master" and "Device" mode (what does that even mean in PCIe?).

You might be surprised to hear that your networking card, the AHCI-SATA interface and even the sound-card soldered onto your computer's mainboard is allowed to, and does, read from and write to your computers memory whenever you are using it. {that's just where I had to dig in, in the past, almost any modern peripheral uses DMA}

If the operating system needs a block from your harddisk to be read, and stored in a certain memory location it will actually tell the physical memory location to the AHCI controller and tell it to write the contents into memory, on it's own. It will signal an interrupt when it has finished transfering the data.

Your networking card will have "ring descriptors" which tell the card a list of buffers (in RAM) into which to save new incoming packets. It will raise an interrupt after it has finished writing to the first buffer.

Your sound-card will likewise have a list of buffers from which it reads, and to which it writes just as you are listening to mp3s, or having a phone conversation with google hangouts.

The worst offender would probably be Firewire which, if not configured to block this (modern OSes do), allows these reads from/writes to memory triggered by any connected external device, and from/to addresses supplied by this external device. It can be a huge help for debugging, though.

On typical computers, there's no safeguard against this happening. But some have a IOMMU which can be used to limit DMA and redirect DMA accesses with respect to physical memory.
Ask HN: Isn't 'New Links' a Great Poor-Person's Twitter?
Punchbowl Is Hiring Ruby on Rails Developer – Framingham, MA
If you're the only developer, do what you want. If not, don't do what you want but what is best for the project. Which probably isn't what you want. ;-)
All around the world, nationalists are gaining ground. Why?
We don’t see any reason they would submit information that wasn’t truthful

This statement seems excessively naive for a Director of Regulatory Compliance.

It's one thing to suggest that in general, the companies are believed to be honest. That's a fairly reasonable statement.

It's another thing to be blind to the benefits of giving untruthful information. If all companies were honest and compliant, there would be no need for a Director of Regulatory Compliance.
And, you know, you'd only really need one of them to actually police civilians; in fact it's probably better that way. And then you could split up rulemaking and dispute resolution responsibilities between the other two since they will suddenly have more free time. This is a really good idea; why have we never tried this before?!

/s
Tell HN: The .io TLD has a traumatic history
The .io domain name is from the British Indian Ocean Territory.

The native population were forcibly evicted by the Vogons, urr, I mean the British to make way for a HyperSpace Bypass ... urr... I mean a US military base.

The Chagossian people have been trying to return ever since.

Given the fact that so many people use the .io domain name, surely there is some positive influence the tech community can have in helping the Chagossian people return to their homeland.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chagossians
Well in the end capitalism determines everyone's personal incomes. As long as the rich keep getting relatively richer and the population bigger the economy has to grow in order to leave at least near as much income for people in general as before.
After I heard this was likely to get passed, I set up a VPN on my server based in France. I now funnel my traffic through this VPN, so now all web connections are end-to-end encrypted and not subject to UK ISP logging. I suggest to everyone who is capable of setting up and running a server to do something like this.
If the cops put out an alert for a Hispanic, or a black person I'm pretty sure you'd be able to identify them. Is it genetically scientific? Of course not! But other people will also categorise that person the same way, thus allowing their "racial" group to be targeted. Race might be a bullshit term, but we clearly assign people to such groups so it's just as valid as any other construction we've come up with (like the difference between a Canadian and an American).
Oh, maybe but I don't see what any of that has to do with the topic at hand.

These patents aren't being used passively. They are being used for royalties. And Samsung wouldn't pay the royalty unless there was a strong legal case.
There's been so much open questioning of experts and authorities that often people no longer trust someone who claims to be an expert.

Think of controversial topics such as tobacco, climate change, anti-vaccination, GMOs. Skepticism is great, healthy, and necessary. When those who are honest about the role of skepticism, what "theory" means, and the limits of what they're able to show meet with those who are willing to politicize the debate and speak in absolutes, or at least disingenuously widen the gaps of doubt beyond what's reasonable, who's likely to win that argument in a television sound bite?

Couple this with false balance in reporting, and you have a culture of people who don't know who to believe, and understandably may default to believing evidence that confirms what they already do.

This of course is not a criticism of your comment. This is a situation that I see playing out every day, and it honestly scares me. I don't know how we come back from this.
I'm a huge believer in the power of the individual, and under today's conditions I wouldn't support a universal basic income. But in a possible future where AI is sufficiently advanced to handle the majority of 'jobs' and where corporations dont employ people at the scale they do today, I would support a universal basic income. What would your solution be?
I don't think I've ever received a recruitment email due to my email being public on GitHub. They probably get caught in the spam filter.

Also, people using GitHub should know better than to call this a leak. If it was public on GitHub, it's public on the internet.
I can't remember off-hand, but scoped styles shouldn't have made it into 5.0's Recommendation (one of the requirements for CR to PR advancement is showing each feature has implementation experience), though if it did it wouldn't be the only one that made it through into HTML 5.0 despite the W3C process.

As for the WHATWG, I don't believe that any feature without implementer support has landed in the WHATWG HTML spec in several years now, and I think there's a clear intention to keep it that way, so there shouldn't be featured that never get implemented in the spec.
I question the decision to format this entire post as <h2> but I like the jokes :)
In this case, Nature is the game. Nature is far more powerful in science than any individual scientist, or any individual research institution.
WSL is not the NT POSIX subsystem, which was a completely different thing that died a while ago.
It's grounded in reality, not bound by it. If you familiarize yourself with MD you'll realize the edge cases you tried to come up with have been covered and explained; it's not a contradiction.
VPN will not protect your privacy, as VPN providers are monitored by state police and VPN protocols have been broken and backdoored by intelligence agencies (as disclosed in the Snowden Documents).
For starters, I'd consider Windows 10's telemetry systems to be a significant regression in security.
I use a straight razor, and would love a man tran. But I can't really afford a car and I got this 20-year-old automatic for free so it's what I live with.
Not to mention that Oil and Coal are sources of energy where western corporations directly profit. Not so much with solar and nuclear.
Note that I'm using the term "state" in the abstract sense, not as shorthand for states' rights in the US-specific sense.

It would have been better if I'd referred to "the rights of the individual over the powers of the state," since the original intent behind the Constitution and its amendments was to enumerate the latter but not the former. Once again, though, this has nothing to do with the dichotomy between federal powers and those reserved to the individual US states.
Didn't you know jobs are more important than regulations?
Those are not the exact same statements at all, they are talking about two (similar sounding) different things.
I would love to see some examples of how the service works, in particular the session video feature. I couldn't easily find any examples on the home page or the Docs page.
You can find some github profiles with old information in the waybackmachine. Not troyhunt (unfortunately as that would have been nice to show off my point!) but I found some others.
thank you for your feedback. I also question myself this.
https://api.github.com/users/1 This isn't hard to do. All they did was iterate the user ids from 1-n. It is the Rails way to assign ids incrementally.
Uh... You can't send a national security letter to a foreign company that has no presence in the US. Well, you can probably send it, but since the foreign company is not bound by US laws, they can ignore it and even publish it (this is my understanding, IANAL).

The whole point of this Russian law is to remove this limitation.
Even like a, "Trust but verify" attitude here would be more appropriate.

Like, sure, I get it, it's easier to work with companies if you demonstrate a trusting relationship, but you're in an adversarial position by the nature of your job, the companies should feel a little uncomfortable around you.
There's something minimalistic and artful in trying to come up with the smallest packaging possible, which will probably appeal to the same people who enjoy Japanese candy, and Japanese culture in general.

And it doubles up as a 3D puzzle for the user! Take everything out and try to put them all back in. And if you can't, just eat some of the candies to make it easier to solve.
I needed to get to the Northeast for a summer job. One of my professors had a Beetle and a locked U-Haul that she wanted moved to Boston. Now that I look back I probably should have asked to see the contents of the trailer!8-))

It was a fun trip with only a minute or so of harrowing possible death-down-the-mountainside. I'd recommend it to anyone!
China pretty much destroyed the US solar panel manufacturing market. If the US wants to "lead the renewables industry," ironically for you, the only way to do it is probably Trump-style protectionism. Otherwise China will continue to wipe out the next crop of Solyndras with its subsidies and other dirty tricks.

Of course, we can always put solar panels on top of things. That's a thing. They're doing that in Africa too. But the profits mostly go to solar panel manufacturers in China. And solar panels can't sustain a heavy industrial base... you need coal or nuclear for that, as other industrial nations know very well.
There are only ~11 states that require all-party consent to record, and most of the states state that the law only applies to telephone/wire recordings. On top of that, the states who are all-party consent generally specify that public conversations are not protected under the law.
I also find prices of gasoline highly inflated as well as price of dry fruits and beef.
How can diet be patented to begin with? Can anyone patent human behaviors? It doesn't make any sense.
This doesn't read as very convincing to me. Do you have experience of the justice system?

There's no way the CPS in the UK would take a "well he was probably in the general area based on his number-plate, and he reads the Toadygraph newspaper and is in the 52% who are for Brexit", even along with matching a general profile for criminals, and seek a prosecution on that basis. Not to mention it would be a huge miscarriage of justice to convict. And that the courts don't have time for arsing around with people who may have a tenuous link to an area where a crime may have been committed; we don't have time, seemingly, for the "certain" cases.

But what about the people who don't support racism/xenophobia, read a mix of news sources, aren't male (and so don't match with crime profiling). Are you saying their argument for not needing strong encryption is valid? That would seem to be a corollary of your hypothetical situation, you've cherry picked long-shot situations compounded together that would lead to a case laughed out of court - no motive, no evidence, no credible witnesses.

>Still think you have nothing to hide? //

Seems like ~99% of people reading that who weren't convinced before hand would say "yes".

Also, if they're savvy they know that the store where you went has your MAC address logged for customer tracking and corroborates your story (due to "privacy violation"), the car-park away from the scene on their number-plate cam shows you stayed in the area long after the alleged crime and so weren't fleeing, another shop has you on their instore tapes at the time the police say the crime was committed.

Now the Toadygraph has picked up your story and someone leaked that you wouldn't have been picked up if you weren't a reader; the Barclay brothers are threatening to pull their Tory party funding and so the PM is putting pressure on the presiding Chief of Police to make an example of the department responsible.

Lawyers are starting to contact you (they got your info because you left your friend list open on Facebook) and are offering to lodge a case for unlawful arrest for you and the compensation they're suggesting looks promising ...

Meanwhile people are wondering why the police didn't catch the perp; the police say it's because they don't have access to all the data they need due to public privacy concerns ...
Fear. Put yourself in the shoes of a 50-year-old coal miner who's had the same job since he was age 18. You lose your job, and the town in which you live is starting to decline because the major source of money is gone. You have no idea how your going to pay for your bills and food.

Do you really think such a person is going to be enthusiastic for retraining for a new, competing with younger people, and moving? Or do you think this person would rather support politicians who promise to restore the coal mining industry?
Even if the Paris Agreement has its problems, do you really think it's worse than no climate agreement?
Who is "we"?

I think the US is about equalized because industries like the the US paper industry plant about as many trees as we cut.

If "we" is the world the lots of poor countries are unsustainably slash and burning. Starving people want to not die today so they make places to plant crops.

If we is people afraid of the expanding growth of the Sahara southward then things like the great green wall are interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Green_Wall
That's exactly my point. They can probably work in places not densely populated or point-to-point between $brand warehouses.

Having tried some drones I can't imagine a drone knocking at my window precise enough to not damage itself or my property (or at worse, myself)
I'm not sure that's true - in the UK at least. Brits just seem to have a general aversion to anything other than breast meat as the other parts are considered "yucky" etc
I don't think it's fair to blame people for thinking they could edit simple text files under that folder, well-hidden as it is. How many people already knew there would be any issues beyond line endings (not counting those who learned by breaking things)? I sure didn't. It's pure luck that I hadn't tried it yet.
I have left my parents and many friends and colleagues in Russia. They all are kind and smart and good people.
They just can't leave the country as I did: they don't want to, they are bound to their family, they have business there, they don't work in IT, they don't know English etc.

The fact that you've left Russia is not making you `special` or `elite`.
There are bad and stupid people everywhere, as well as good and smart and awesome people. World is not black and white.
Not in Amsterdam, where straight legalization has led to a great increase in trafficking; so much so that they are reeling in the red light district.
I think you are being a bit too harsh here, there is a way in which it does work, all of your files are on the "windows" side. For those of us who have lived in both camps (windows and Linux) the difference in file meta-data is extreme, it isn't an "easy" problem at all. Windows has metadata bits for all sorts of things that Linux doesn't which gives it much greater flexibility but means that the equivalent of your umask on Windows doesn't translate. It does however do everything Linux / POSIX needs so the inverse is doable.
Musk's 4.4k strong array of communications satellites in LEO becomes a weapon (think Lex Luthor) if you can point the full transmit power of a bunch of them at a single point (think MIMO).

How much microwave energy do you need to put on a watermelon to make it pop?
Init protocol 0: wipe everything, airgap with tails
>Sheldon Adelson, who has made billions from gambling addiction, has spent millions fighting online gambling. Why? Here's a direct quote

I would venture that the main reason he fights against online gambling is so that people that wish to gamble legally need to come to his physical casinos instead.

It's the same reason that online poker is specifically outlined in Washington State - the native American casinos in the state (especially Puyallup) donated a LOT of money to candidates to make that happen.
The problem is when are you zooming and when are you rotating? Google Maps on the phone is a great example. I find myself using "tap then flick up or down" or just the +- buttons much more useful because they don't require my second hand and won't accidentally rotate the map.
Having a higher CO2 or methan level for 100 years is on a geological timescale a rounding error. There were times in earth history (vulcano eruptions, meteor impacts) where life had to face a rapid and drastic climate change. And we are still here.
I don't think allowing the public at large to vote on cabinet members would be a good idea. The whole point of representative democracy is you elect a representative who seems reasonable and delegate specialized decisions — like who is the best climate authority — to your rep. (No, this obviously doesn't always work.)
Markforged announces a cheaper 3D printer that can spit out end-use parts
I disagree that Linux's macros would be considered "bad style" in other projects. Perhaps we have been contributing to different projeects :)

I do agree that there are some object-oriented-like features in Linux, like the use of tables of function pointers as VTables.
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Not OP but (some) white people are openly talking about how great Hitler is. It used to be just reserved to neo-Nazi gatherings and their occasional protests. I'm assuming that's what's meant by the mask.
What makes you think that would go over any better though? It's not like any of his cabinet picks have been surprising to anyone paying attention to his rhetoric and stances during the election.
When I tell people that aren't really interested in technology that I work in the industry and get asked if I can fix their computer.

If it's friends or family, and there is actually something wrong and it's hindering their own work, I'll help.

For most others, it comes down to either:

A: Google it

B: Back important things up, reinstall Windows (followed by A: Google it).
Well, from my point of view this is the main difference between EEUU and Europe. To understand the difference and the 3% you need to read about volkswagen scandal.
Better or worse, probably in few years there will not be more cars with manual transmissions on U.S.