skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Companies don't want to police their own departments. This is how lots of modern companies deal with laws they don't like. They commit to obeying the law, tell everybody not to do anything illegal, but at the same time place requirements and expectations on the peons that force them to break the law. Then the peons get caught, they tell everybody how it's not their fault, they told everyone not to do that. The peons get fired or worse, the company hires replacements, tells them not to break the law, gives them unrealistic expectations, and the cycle repeats.
TheGuardian was also one of the publications allowed access to the unfettered and uncensored Snowden documents.
Or be very explicit in the verbiage:
"We are unable to contact our update server. If you use a network blocking tool, please allow access to 'update.example.com'. We guarantee that no personal data is collected.
The download page pretty explicitly states where it runs.
I disagree with the OP. There are many companies in India who are doing a great job (especially in SaaS). Companies such as Zoho, Freshdesk and many such others are homegrown. They are doing great globally as well. The only reason you don't hear about them is because sub-standard Indian startup blogs are more interested in publishing click-bait articles about Flipkart, Ola, OyoRooms, Housing.com etc. And it's not their fault entirely. Tech-savvy Indians love reading such articles and that's how these blogs make money.
Non-experts can't be expected to make an accurate evaluation of the UX trade-offs in handling buffered message delivery after a key change.

They trust that the Guardian, a highly reputable newspaper, has spoken to experts in the field, done the research, and made this evaluation, which it accurately reflected in the headline.

That trust is misplaced. That's why this is a fake story.
Nah it's just the casual gaming market moved to mobile phones.
> Extroverts are 'outwardly focused' - meaning 'present' - paying attention to others, the world around them. Introverts are 'inwardly focused', more in their heads. Obviously, people can do both - but extroverts have a lifetime of skills in 'relationship management'. They know how to do small talk, how to set the mood, how to change the subject, how to engage with a difficult subject.

This is a common misconception, but that's actually not how the words "introversion" and "extraversion"[sic] are used either by Jung or by contemporary psychology. It's hard to classify the distinction in a single sentence, but to generalize: introversion and extroversion have more to do with how a person 'receives' external stimuli, not in how they react or respond to it.

Extroverts are not inherently better at "relationship management" skills like small talk, how to change the subject, or how to engage with difficult subjects.
Also a billion dollar product for the indian customer looks nothing like a tech startup in the US. So enabling that to grow is key. This is a generational problem. Services and products are being built this generation to lay waste to that claim
> If we don't care about being secure against an attacker who controls Facebook then what was the point of end-to-end encryption in the first place?

As a user of WhatsApp, I'd prefer if it was fully robustly end-to-end encrypted, in an auditable App, if it was still usable enough I could talk to my family with it.
I think all the more privacy conscious folk on HN could agree with that ideal.
But I don't think we (yet) know how to achieve that ideal. [The hard part being getting family/friends on it reliably].

What is on offer is:
End-to-end encryption which has some usability tradeoffs, that leaves it vulnerable to[0]:

- A code backdoor of some form in the App

- [As in this issue] an attack where the server MITMs it in limited circumstances by switching recipient keys for undelivered messages.

First off, this secures against mass passive monitoring on the wire, or even in the internal data center infrastructure, which the non-e2e transport encryption you mention does not.

Second, exploiting either of these issues en masse would run the risk of FB/WhatsApp getting caught.
Maybe through a black-box audit of the App, or someone detects mass MITM'ing because they have key change notifications turned on. [Lets leave out the scenario of someone internal leaking what's happening.]

So my best judgement, as a user, is that these attacks are not likely to be happening en masse, because they would result in a large business risk to WhatsApp.

> If you're going to "compromise" that far you might as well just use any number of centralised messengers with transport encryption.

In that case [without e2e] the server would see all the messages in the clear. Absent a leak, there's no way they would be caught supporting a mass-monitoring program. They could allow their infrastructure to be passively monitored, giving plausible deniability while cooperating. That's clearly a different threat model.

I don't see why WhatsApp would have introduced this feature, and then compromised it in a way that risks getting caught. That would be a huge business risk for dubious benefit.

I could see they could be forced to do an attack on a limited number of individuals, risking getting caught. Again, I'm hoping that is an expensive enough business risk that it doesn't happen often, if ever.

But in this model, 1B peoples messages will be secure the vast majority of the time against pervasive monitoring.

[0] based on my understanding of these issues; obviously as a spectator I don't claim to have an exhaustive list of vulnerabilities/issues.
> Let's remember that he had problems with other people inside the team, not only with the PI.

Note that the judge specifically said this:

"It does not appear to be disputed that at all relevant times the lab members were approximately 35 in number. Defendants submitted affidavits from five of those 35, two of whom included Muela and Grass, one of the three alleged to have knowingly participated with Rubin in the alleged scientific misconduct and her boyfriend. Plaintiff has submitted other affidavits and emails based on personal knowledge of others, all of which support that plaintiff then had no mental health issues or concerns."

So out of 35 people in the lab, only five submitted affidavits, and three of those were connected to the original complaint. German submitted (an unknown number of) affidavits and emails in support of his position.
> How many authorities would it take you to convince you that up is down and white is black?

One linguist armed with a very strong argument rooted in verifiable facts.
The Guardian is a big place. Note that this article was written by a freelancer. It's not a coded signal to the readership to beware; it's an egregious error of editorial judgement, followed by doubling down to avoid admitting error.
In my experience, computer-related B2B, that's pretty much spot on. I've never known a successful sales rep who didn't come across as an extrovert by any reasonable definition of the word. Did they all start out that way and it just came naturally? I have no idea.

But that doesn't mean they're all the frat boy stereotype, taking customers out wining and dining all the time, and then signing the deal on the golf course.

Rather they spend a lot of time and effort navigating large organizations, engaging technical people to talk with and work with the right people at the customer, and developing a relationship that will eventually lead to a sale.
The incredibly slick ease of use/user onboarding doesn't hurt either.
To the extent that it's displacing SMS, great - anything with transport encryption is better than SMS. To the extent that it's displacing Skype/Facebook Messenger/..., meh - if it's not actually secure against a hostile Facebook (and they have no intention of fixing the flaw) then it's not really any better than anything that uses SSL. To the extent that people using it assume it's secure against a hostile Facebook when it isn't, that is terrible. Fake security is worse than no security.
Program what? 4 GB is a little low these days, unless you're an Unix text editor and makefile person.

Also, the rigidity of the keyboard and connection to it will be super important. Most detachable keyboards will cause trouble (especially the cheap ones.)

I'd recommend going for more ram, as big a screen as you can stand, and solid keyboard.
Thanks for pointing this out, I missed it on my first read-through. The framing of this article implies that the Trump administration scrubbed the references first thing rather than roll out their new version which had no references to climate change.

I'm as ready as half the country to despise this administration but I'll save my outrage for things that are actually malicious.
Star Trek does kind of bring this up with the Borg.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13445555

All references to climate change have been deleted from the White House website...
I take the realist path too, but if this kind of negligent disinformation succeeds, people who do want to discredit secure apps will notice and remember.
> to see the higher authorities side with the person that started the problems just to look politically correct and go against the "installed power"

From the judge's opinion:

"I accept that at least Rubin, as PI for plaintiff and a number of grad students and because he is head of the Rubin Lab, brings in a lot of funding and has a lot of authority at Harvard. So much authority that Cardozo would likely be deferential and not interfere with Rubin's choice to dismiss a grad student."
It's not a fake story. Every piece of information they presented is accurate. The Guardian did speak to experts in the field. I won't bore you with my credentials, but I agree with their assessment as well. Taking issue with the advice they give on UX grounds is one thing, but attacking the factual basis of the article is misguided.
The Guardian recommends that if people do need to switch as a result of this, they switch to Signal: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jan/13/whatsapp-... As far as I can tell, this has been their recommendation ever since their first article about this was published.
I'm really confused on what to think about Uber. My personal thinking/logic is really bearish on them, similar to the post on the front page yesterday [1]. However, I keep seeing extremely smart/accomplished people joining it which makes me second guess my intuition.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13437414
There's an easy way to break it. Connect to random ports/IPs, so that the machine becomes unusable due to the amount of Little Snitch popups showing up. Until the user gives up and disables it.
My main hope with the Switch is that they can get a real virtual console off the ground that supports they're entire back catalog. Putting out the new Zelda for Wii U and the Switch gives me hope. But Nintendo's history with online services is pretty abysmal. They're were several Wii U games I wanted to play, but the console had zero appeal for me.
Can it be used to stop OS X Spotlight from putting DS_store in every directory it sees?

Edit based on gumby's response below: can it stop finder from littering in every directory it sees?
Using fossilized communications tech, while ignoring the conveniences embraced by nearly the entire rest of the FOSS community, optimizes for the comfort of the Current Developers, while making it less convenient for New Developers to contribute.

New contributions require a person to forego the conveniences which the fossilized tools don't support well, and that friction _might_ contribute to fewer smart people wanting to contribute to your project. Consider as the OSS world's equivalent of a sales funnel. The more I need to deviate from the way I normally work, the less likely I am to want to make that contribution.

For a project where the overloading of maintainers is an issue, it might be worth considering the value of making it easier for other people to contribute. Sure, smart people who want to contribute _can_ adapt to the way your project wants them to work, but not all of them will want to jump through that extra hoop.
Guaranteed? What makes you so sure? And then you need to find a power socket you can use (not difficult in a school, but could be elsewhere), and wait for the minimum charge level, and then wait for it to boot.

But if you know the number, you can use your friend's phone in a few seconds.
Yeah, but for every Einstein there are 10^8 cranks.
Polluting is the American way.
Sometimes I think people forget we are talking about toys.

I didn't know people that played with toys could be "delusional". My daughter just got old enough to discover and dust off the WiiU. She's playing the copy of Kart 8 that my older son abandoned. She's having a blast.
So you're saying that because you took what you wanted now no one else is allowed any? That is called pulling up the ladder behind you. It is extremely selfish.

I also wouldn't group the Maori with Aboriginies or the Indigenous peoples of America, sure European settlement was bad for them and we as a society are still struggling with the fallout of that, but Maori were always equal under law and could vote from the first elections. Where land was taken by force the government has now redressed the damage and either returned the land, equivalent land, or money and assets of equivalent value.

The American government on the other hand took trillions of dollars worth of assets from the Native American tribes and forced them to live in sub-par reservations, some are still living in third world conditions, they couldn't vote until the 1960s in some states. That is not the way for a civilised society to run.
I'm sure the NSA and GCHQ are super-interested in spying on the inane texts that kids send each other while sitting in high school math class.
This statement -- “Those computer science challenges for a computer science geek are just intriguing – you give a geek a puzzle, they can’t drop it; they need to solve the puzzle. That’s how it felt to me.”

When I've been asked what keeps me going this is it, I really like interesting puzzles and I'm sitting there stuck trying to solve it.

It also says a bit about what Uber thinks their big problems are (or where their value add will be). I was expecting them to go with someone more operations focused like Urs Hoezle.
So an entire console for a free game that was included? How much time did she spend on it after the first month?
that's called initramfs.
But applying the same logic to other professions does not work in my opinion.

For example, if a pilot screws up, people die, lots of people die.

Unfortunately, there are a whole bunch of professions where it's not really ok to be "Oops, my bad". And those are the professions that I would say need the most rigor (yet with enough flexibility to catch unknown corner cases) in general.

So it's not really debug but more likely post-mortem. =(
Thanks for this. It'd be great to see instances/examples/anecdotes of each item on the list.

Something along the lines of: "They called bullshit instantly: [example(s) of situations where managers called bullshit instantly, and how it had positive results/avoided negative results.. And an example of situations where bad managers didn't call bullshit instantly and what it led to].
It is a hoax.
The guy I was talking to swore that by putting one on their landing pages conversion increased by like 30%.

Yeah, they all say that. The question is: if that's true, then why aren't more sites using "survey popups'?
Bad network connectivity:
1) is not permanent
2) does not block connections to localhost
And it's probably not coming back. But it's a little dishonest to say that, as the white house page is pretty spartan right now and almost everything that was on it before has disappeared.
ZFS storage layers built on OmniOS/OpenSolaris/Illumos enjoy more years of maturity (and thus demonstrated stability) than upcoming versions for Linux/Ubuntu. If you have to build large storage in-house, stability is a high priority.
Sadly, it's directly mentioned on this page.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/america-first-energy
I think you're mistaking the success of TLS for inefficacy.
Never bought one, but if Nintendo's 20/20 hindsight claim that the ~Wii U confused consumers~ was the reason for its relative miss, then that's an incredible lesson learned.
Sure, but you could also just call on your cellphone like everyone else does all the time. What is the point of complicating it? It's totally reasonable to ask your kid to memorize your number in case of an emergency (or their cellphone actually breaks). That's entirely different from saying it's reasonable that kids can't use their cellphones and need to rely on pay phones.
Resources to learn Android app development
Creating an app for school senior design project. Please recommend resources for relative newbies who have experience with a scripting language like Python and Ruby. Thank you.
that is, if you're on mac, of course. ;)
I would say it's not that he's incorrect more that he's off-topic. The changing of truth doesn't really have anything at all to do with an appeal to authority fallacy because said fallacy is based on the thoughts of the time. We can't possibly know how scientists are going to think 150 years from now, so we can't appeal to their authority.

So while, yes, he is accurate that our knowledge of the world around us and of Science changes over time, that has nothing to do with the fallacies we're discussing.
Yeah but I read that chart and what it really says to me is that you can spend about $100 more to get a 10% single-thread uptick but other than that it pretty much doesn't matter (on that benchmark).
Perhaps MySQL too as it would be one more major database product under their control.
I downvoted your comment because I don't feel like it has anything to do with the linked story or adds anything to the thread.

Rather than complain from the top of the "I told you so" pedestal to people that generally agree with you, I urge you to approach the Trump presidency with rationalism. This isn't a situation where the Trump administration did anything inappropriate, by treating it as if it were you appear dogmatic.
How much traffic do you get per day usually?
Hold your loved ones a little tighter. Tell your friends you care about them. Strive to do the best that you can for yourself and those around you.

They can take away our human rights, but only we can absolve ourselves of our own humanity.
I disagree, we're so used to reading i that the (actually less phonetic) idx is really slightly harder to read.

I take my bikesheds green, thank you.
There isn't any console fanboyism, I have a PS4 because it's good blu-ray player, and covers a few exclusives that PC will never get. If they were all on PC, then I wouldn't bother with any underpowered/overpriced console.
The USC Dornsife/LA Times Daybreak Election Poll

http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-usc-latimes-poll-2...

did a significantly better job than Nate Silver and 538 in estimating the level of Donald Trump support.
It should be enabled on Linux, so you could build some WebKit-based browser to try it.
The problem doesn't seem to be related only to web. These dark interstitial patterns are present in every platform.

Recently used Ola's (Uber's main competitor in India) native app on android, and right when you're about to book a pool ride, at times, they'll show you a full page interstitial advertising pool rides. And if that wasn't ridiculous already, they provide no way to cancel the popup. The only way to proceed is by clicking "Try share".

And when you do so, it throws a generic "Uh Oh, Something went wrong error", and you're basically stuck without a ride.
Yes? That's exactly what I said.
it's a web page folks. that's all. Panic Merchants if you think it means something. live life! don't worry about a web page.
Looks like you got downvoted also. I wonder if downvoters run in packs. I expect them to downvote this and not reply with any reason to either post.

EDIT: I was right :)
Everything has been archived here:

https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov

All pages about president Obama's policies have been removed.
Just like how white house website from during the Bush administration is archived here:

https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov

Trump might be a climate change denier, but removing all policy related webpages is business as usual.
So you're saying that the majority of the world's deserts only exist due to human activity?
SC-wise, It's easy to stay away from the drama, especially if one notes that they spun up a team from 0 and have been at it for four years, compared to the 8+ years of other major MMOS. But yeah, it's pretty taxing - it takes a gtx 1080 to play @ 4k with mostly 60fps.

[Hellion](https://www.playhellion.com/) looks promising as well - it should be out for prerelease soon. I expect that to take up my time while I wait for SC.
I really don't think it was the name. Look at GameCube. Fine name, also very crappy sales. Nintendo first party titles rocks, but overall Sony and Microsoft have been eating them for lunch for years. The first Wii was a lucky break before iPhones became commonplace.
The post is written/formatted in a confusing way for those not already versed in garbage collection. In particular, the important but idiosyncratic term "draining" is not given a reference link, but is instead given a different font that makes it fade into the background.
I'm not sure what you're talking about here. I don't have commit access to their repository; I just have my local clone. In normal usage, should I want to try fixing a bug or making some other improvement, I'd simply hack on the local repository until I felt satisfied with the change, then mail the diff to some maintainer for review. What "cruft" is there for anyone to see?

With the pull-request model, there's a lot of Github-specific folderol necessary to accomplish the same task. Perhaps the pull request process offers some significant benefit for the maintainers, which I haven't been able to see, but whatever it is, it must be weighed against the fact that the complexity of the pull-request process creates a barrier to entry. I can think of two situations where I had enough interest in contributing to a project that I downloaded the code and diagnosed the issue that was bugging me, but gave up when it started to look like it was going to take an hour of extra github hoop-jumping and potentially days of review and testing process just to share my one-line fix.

If I'd already been a participant in those projects, dealing with the process might not have been such an issue; but as an outsider, the pull request work flow is a pretty clear "get serious about joining our project, or go away" message. So, I went away. Perhaps those projects will fix those bugs themselves, eventually.
I have to come back to the vaccine analogy. Running a story headlined "Common Vaccine Can Kill Your Children" would be factually accurate, too. Experts in the field would confirm that that can happen.

This is not a "well, actually" nerdfight. This is about putting real people in danger through egregiously irresponsible reporting.