skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well since WWDC has been in Moscone for ages, and San Francisco isn't Cupertino, yes?
How opposed would you be to creating a shell fb account with zero personal info and a fake name, in order to log in to products? I realize you shouldn't have to take this extra step, but so many wonderful products DO require an fb login...
It is also possible to care deeply about privacy, to be frustrated to no end by this area of policy under the Obama administration, and to still have voted for Hillary, say.

The problem with a two party system dominated by a president is that many important issues bundled together. Democrats let me down on privacy, but the new Vice President's signature policy focus is persecuting gay families like mine.

I just want to say that we can vote even while agitating within our own parties and social groups for improvements on privacy.
OP here: I Started a to record some videos while adding test to a cool Micro ORM I found on Github. I do this both for practicing at explaining my thought process and for, hopefully, helping those that whould like to start testing their code but don't know where to do so
It seems uBlock Origin has a setting (right on the main settings page) that can prevent the local IP to be leaked: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Prevent-WebRTC-from-l...

You can test it here: https://browserleaks.com/webrtc

I tried that test page with the mentioned setting 1) enabled and 2) disabled. I did not see my local IP on 1), I did get see it reported with 2) - so it seems the block works. NOTE: Whether uBlock Origin was enabled for the specific page did not matter, the WebRTC block setting seems to be global and independent of whether the extension blocks anything else on the site.
Didn't USV invest in Twitter? Did they cash out after IPO?
Oh, so I am without the ability to reason? Hardly.
To me, this seems like more of consultancy type business than a SaaS. The reason being the logistics of moving meaningful data sets to the location of the compute are much more difficult than moving compute to the location of the data as data set size becomes more interesting.

The other thing is that the competition for ML SaaS is Google and Microsoft and maybe Amazon. They're able to apply ML to the logistics of ML SaaS and are competing on pricing in a commodity model. That's probably not an ideal market for a small company to pursue.

Good luck.
Many governments are good at spying on their citizens, but are you implying the USG forced/compelled/convinced WhatsApp to intentionally weaken their security?
One circumstance is when you put your sim card in a different phone. The new phone recognises that you already have a WhatsApp account, as it's tied to your phone number, but it doesn't have your private key, so it will generate a new pair and start exchanging the public part.
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It would indeed, but the costs wouldn't make it viable. Spend that same money funding every other effort planetary scientists want to do for years to come. They'll learn far more from those efforts than from the one very expensive probe.
There's a PCB teardown here

http://www.2x4logic.com/mazdaconnect.html

It was designed by Johnson Controls (JCI) but the IVI group was recently sold to Visteon, which probably explains the sudden lack of momentum from Mazda on new features (like, cough, Carplay...which was announced 2 years ago and never showed up).

Most of the people hacking on the unit hang out at mazda3revolution.com. Here's a page indexing their work so far:

http://mazda3revolution.com/forums/2014-mazda-3-skyactiv-aud...
> The other cold reality is that, for all the horror, terrorism isn't a threat to civilization

That's only because we fight against it so hard. If we stopped it would be like Syria or Iraq.

> it doesn't make sense to spend so much

So it's a "victim" of its own success.

All that money we spend is able to reduce it to this level, don't confuse that with it being at this level in the first place.
People are starting to realize (en masse now), this is the downside of permitting group identity-based "discussions" to flourish. Whatever you say, people are going to try interpreting it against the group you are perceived to belong to, eagerly pouncing on things that are in "conflict" with their own group identity. I put conflict in quotes here because this ultimately empty conflict is what actually drives both sides. Facts and open discussion are utterly irrelevant in this process, instead your words just get parsed for trigger phrases.

There is an argument to be made that internet discussions have always been at risk, and I think it's indeed a known pathology. However, subjectively, it seems to me this has escalated in a massive way within the last two years - to the point that important issues have effectively been taken off the discussion table because the participant pool is entirely made up of people fighting content-free meme wars.

In my opinion, the only way to combat this is to violate the rules of these meme wars and start talking about content again. But I wouldn't recommend it for high profile personalities whose job entails getting along with as many people as possible, because the fears of backlash are absolutely justified even if you might garner more respect this way in the long term. Worse yet, once a discussion has been taken over by mindless reactions like this, it becomes very difficult to form your own opinion rationally because it involves separating what the memes want of you from whatever the facts and your internal thoughts say.

As a rule of thumb: if both parties are angry at you, you're on the right track.

Personally I think the current state of things is either unsustainable, meaning the group identity thing is going to burn itself out over time, or it's a new low-energy state as far as human thought process goes which means it's going to be permanent. Either way, at least some influential people need to fight this, even if it means you'll be perceived as having rough edges.
I'd be curious to hear HN's thoughts on what messaging apps they use/trust.

I've tried in the past to get friends to switch over to Telegram, but there are issues since they rolled their own encyption protocol.

I've looked into using Mumble for voice, it seems quite secure because you host it yourself, and it's open source.

There's also a good list from the EFF: https://www.eff.org/node/82654
Yep, it's a reference to homosapiens. We have been talking to each other for a while now, spreading our knowledge. It's the stories we pass on, logic, math, physics and medicine that predicated inhabiting nearly everywhere and becoming so many. We are on a higher-order mutation now, many thoughts live and die in a generation. The advantageous ones stick around (eg. Newton's). We pass them on from generation to generation. Now we are more connected, and it's moving faster. Stay cool and and enjoy the ride cousin.
B is a key exchange here and you have to trust that B isn't lying about C's key when it tells A.
The problem is who gets to set the questions on the quiz. This inevitably ends up being discriminatory.
"Silence" is in the title, and she is put into that state because of how other people react. There's nothing wrong with using the verb form of the word. Doing so does not imply fear.

I don't understand why you made that post after, in another thread, saying jmduke shouldn't have interpreted "silenced" that way.
> subtle backdoor (with limited exploitation)

oh, please.
Ask HN: How do you visualize your business data?
There are top market players like Tableau, and then there is a big gap filled with all kind of half-done platforms. What I'd like to see is:

- A strong visualization dashboard, with permissions to show to all the company or only management.
- Data connectors, or ability to quickly write a plugin for Google Analytics, MySQL, ...
- Basic workflow for data, e.g. join, group-by.

So far I have found Domo.com, but they have put me in a waiting list to allow me on the platform. So, the question is how do you visualize your data without investing weeks on it?
I think the shock here is that FB considers this a usability feature rather than a vuln. I can see both sides. If you want real security use something else. If you want privacy but not from state actors or companies, use WhatsApp.
On a completely unconnected note, what was the name of that technique that GCHQ uses to disrupt online forums and subtly undermine peoples reputations?
Thanks! I wasn't sure since it says that there's no window decorations.
First, it wasn’t an insult, second, just flagging a discussion down is even worse manners, and third,

I wasn’t questioning the availability of the speed itself (that might be quite good now), but the availability of choice.

And a sentence like "in some areas you can even choose between two options" is a sentence that you’d expect to hear in Soviet Russia. Or in North Korea. Or China. Or East Germany.

Not in the country that used to stand for competition, free market capitalism, and choice: the US.

And going from "'Even the Politburo doesn’t have this choice. Not even Mr. Gorbachev,' [Yeltsin] said.", to "some areas are served by two cable providers" is definitely a fall.
It's probably the 'last few years' part that is what gets someone accused of racism. Pushing the boundaries of presidential power is not unique to Obama and indeed has no party affiliation.
> people in power are organizing, all together, a dystopian reality a la 1984

I'm not sure anyone believes that, really. And it isn't required in order to explain the explosion in surveillance.

In my view, it seems that increased surveillance throughout the world is a natural consequence of increased technology. If it's your job to stop crime, why wouldn't you digitize and automate?

The law is the last obstacle, and that is slowly being dismantled.
Do they support DNSCrypt? If not, what would be the main draw to use this over, say, 8.8.8.8?
you pretty much nailed down apple culture with that.
If a user loses their phone, I think they have a lot more to worry about than a few missed WhatsApp messages anyway. I don't think this is a "common sense" compromise that WhatsApp made here, especially in the context of them promising end-to-end encryption.

It's kind of like that other nonsense tech companies are doing these days, by supporting U2F auth, but then requiring you also set-up SMS auth in parallel, so that "if you lose your U2F key you can go back in with the SMS"

Yeah, except that completely eliminates the point of using a U2F key in the first place, since your security would be no better than when you're just using SMS auth.

Or we can go back to "security questions", which I think most agree now are just not worth it, despite the fact that they can help users "recover their passwords".

If end-to-end encrypted messages can be intercepted through this, then WhatsApp shouldn't be offering this feature. The downside is much greater than the upside.
I was pretty surprised to see I aligned with Trump on most issues, but I am also skeptical that Trump really holds all of those stances.
While I think that is admirable goal, I think it is hard.

The reason is that it is hard enough to ensure that changes in one subsystem of Three.JS doesn't break another part and it has a large set of test/examples and its all in one repository.

I think the only scaleable production robust solution is to have a lot of unit tests that ensure integrations work between tools, but then you need to tie these tools together in some fashion for testing purposes. Thus while having lots of separate tools is nice, the likelihood that you can combine them into a robust whole without additional work/testing is exceedingly small unless there is some type of large scale collaboration and testing between these tools.

Right now baseline Three.JS under MrDoob's leadership serves this purpose (collaboration around a robust integration-tested core) for us at ThreeKit.com and Clara.io.
Your windows will never overlap. If you always have your windows maximized, then you can definitively benefit from a tiling window manager since it will always open new windows maximized.

I also have my windows maximized and have each window assigned to a different workspace. Switching is as easy as pressing alt + 1, alt + 2, etc ... (in i3wm)
People complain about leaks, but in reality the only things that leak from apple are products that are shipping immediately after announcement. New MacBook Pro, one model shipped day of. iPhone 7 - two weeks later (And pretty much every iPhone before it.) Apple Watch was announced months in advance of its actual release. Same with the original iPhone (And iPad as well IIRC.)

It is pretty much impossible to control leaks when you are manufacturing at that scale, there are just too many low wage workers in the chain that have no stake in the product. The Mac Pro also had the advantage of being a really small run in comparison to the iPhone.
Grants like this are basically negotiated, between the PI (principle investigator, who carries out the work) and the PM (program manager who provides the funding). They already know each other and talk about what kind of research is going to be done. I've tracked NIDA-funded MJ studies for at least a decade, and it's pretty clear they're vetting for scientists who publish conclusions consistent with the mission of their agency.

I'm sure a sufficiently motivated scientist could get funding, publish something that disproved the NIDA (it's not hard), and then they would probably not get their funding renewed; it's basically career suicide unless you have other sources of funding.
> Every other ad for 6 months was asking me to cheat on my wife. We all know how that went.

You cheated on your wife?
Maybe a friend limit ? That would make people think more about who they have. I wonder what sort of effect that would have.
It makes WhatsApp effectively not E2E encrypted. All messages can be recovered by Facebook. How is that NOT a backdoor?
The JVM is also under Googles control, so they could similarly access it there? Or is that open and audited? How to verify which JVM my device runs?

EDIT: of course the fewer attack vectors the better
Actually, funding is usually given after the scientist shows some preliminary data suggesting the study will be "successful".
Are there some landmark issues around this assertion? We know Yahoo backdoored email, and their head of security resigned as it happened behind his back. This doesn't mean agencies are successful at coercing every company by default.
If I understand you correctly, you interpret her post as saying: a powerful person is not afraid of others silencing them, but the cost/benefit analysis of sharing ideas out in the open tends towards the negative. For ideas she feels strongly about, she is not afraid to speak up; but for useful information shared in the spirit of openness, why invite the hassle?

I've seen this sentiment expressed often by prominent maintainers of open source projects, where they feel that their effort often leads to too much stress and negativity. Why bother with that, if you can just as well find a regular job that doesn't impact your personal life in a negative way? At some point, the passion of conviction gives way to the banality of everyday comfort.
The UI is simple, there's nothing swipable by design and animations are minimal. It works quite well.

I don't have the navigation enabled, so I can't speak to how responsive the map display it.
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the report stated pretty definitively there is no evidence showing that MJ leads to lung cancer, or other cancers in a statistically significant way, with the exception of a single type of prostate cancer which is easily cured.
They actually manage your windows.

The tiling part of it isn't the important bit: what's important is that they keep your windows placed in a useful manner for the task you're performing, tiling in various ways being one of the ways in which they achieve that.

Normal window managers are akin to a desk where everything is tossed around, whereas tiling window managers are like desks that automatically organise whatever is on them.
Firefox is not even looked at pwn2own competition because it's too easy to hack and not using good OS or sandbox protection https://it.slashdot.org/story/16/02/12/034206/pwn2own-2016-w...
In mainland China try 114.114.114.114 + 114.114.115.115...

114.114.114.114 = 52ms

80.80.80.80 = 240ms

8.8.8.8 = 416ms

Just sayin'...
>It would succeed no better than showing up with a barrel at a burger shop and start filling it from the free ketchup dispenser.

Not to mention the mechanics of converting the ketchup in the barrel to usable energy would be inefficient and convoluted at best. Better to find some other way to power one's Bitcoin mining rig. :)

Though, you could likely dodge any criminal charges by way of insanity in that scenario!
There used to be a social network called Audioboo that did just this. It was really cool, and in the early days of smartphones it was really novel to hear from people.

Now it's just a podcasting platform, but I'll definitely be trying this out because I miss the old days...

EDIT: The 'boos' are still online, you just need to know the URLs http://boos.audioboo.fm/attachments/1543/Recording.mp3
As mido22 said, the alternative right now is a closed plugin (Flash) or installing software on your computer completely outside of the sandbox. Putting these features in the browser in a controllable way is a step forward. If you don't need them, Firefox is open source and I'm not just saying that to be glib. You can easily grab the source https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Developer_g... and compile it with --disable-webrtc https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Developer_g...
> We have started rolling out automatic encryption for the WAN traversal hop of customer VM to VM traffic. ... all control plane WAN traffic within the infrastructure is already encrypted. In the future we plan to ... also encrypt inter-VM LAN traffic within the data center.

It would be nice if this was more explicit. For example, is traffic that is TLS-terminated at their LB reencrypted all the way to the back end VM? At what point is it decrypted again? Are those keys unique to us or are they used for whatever traffic happens to traverse the same network paths? (I assume shared but with software-defined networking maybe it's practical for them to be unique.) What does the "control plane" encompass?

In any case, I'm curious what people think about trusting the service provider for inter-service and inter-VM encryption. Do you use the LB's TLS termination? Do you still enable encryption for your DB connections even if it is (or will soon be) redundant with their network encryption?
I've more or less come to believe that voting - at least on the national scale - doesn't really function the way most like to think - that its some noble expression of the will of the people (even presuming that the will of the people is rational in the first place - more than likely it isn't).

Voting, combined with checks and balances, term limits - is more of a hamster wheel for power seekers. The combination of those things makes power really difficult and costly to attain, transient, and limited (hopefully). And it helps ensure that power transitions peacefully, more or less. Its less about the actual candidate, and more about churn.
> Climate science is a religion, there's no mistaking the behaviors of the people involved in it.

The only religion is your view.

You're wrong in the claim that there are no conservative voices, you are wrong in your claim that consensus only exists in climate science, you are wrong in your claim about models .

> They even want to pass laws now to limit anyone asking questions!

And now you're just plainly lying.

Ps, a secret, there is a world outside of USA.
>> That's only because we fight against it so hard. If we stopped it would be like Syria or Iraq.

Any sources?
I'd like to propose "Abstract Jumping" as the term here. We see it a lot when journalists just read the abstract of a scientific paper or the overview of a project and then draw conclusions.
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But the Safari browser is? And Tor Browser uses Firefox?
I followed what you were doing at app.net with great interest when it launched. We were also building an app platform, but with a very different focus. https://qbix.com/platform . All our business models are NOT ad supported. Ads are "begging" the user to spend their time and maybe spend money. There are many ways to make money if you make apps for local communities.

We sort of took the tortoise approach to development, and this seems to have helped solve the chicken and egg problem with the userbase.

I will email you about it.
thatwebdude is always telling him it doesn't work like that! grrr.
https://twitter.com/Viss/status/819686452002861056
Second Amendment supporters are often interested in the Fourth as well; I think you would find a very solid group of them (particularly those who concealed-carry, rather than just hunters) are strongly opposed to this sort of thing.
> "Physics seems to us a promising thing to work on, and alchemy and theology obvious wastes of time."
I'm not sure which "us" pg is referring to, but the essay gives me the impression that he meant something like "most people" (I could be reading him wrong, but that was my impression).

I think "us" refers to the readers. Ie the kind of person likely to be reading an essay of his
Using 8.8.8.8 gives google even more insight into your internet habits, even if you're using e.g. firefox on a webpage that includes no google assets at all (no web fonts, no google analytics etc), google will still know you've been there. Whether that matters to you or not depends on you.
Ancient vulnerabilities on Giuliani's security website
Actually found what I was looking for (via http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23082512/coreos-systemd-j...): https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-jou...
From T&C:

> Freenom is a registered trademark of OpenTLD B.V. [...] a Netherlands company.
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I know they aren't. But they pretend to be for the most part (except the social issues and religious issues).

Also, I disagree with "pure libertarianism" myself. I think fair baseline standards are needed to establish a level playing field. But what the U.S. has now is far from a "free market" anymore. It's much closer to a "pay to play" market.
Meditation and yoga practice.