skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sounds like the same article about the same person could have been written the other way round: how being a startup founder hyper-focused on the future helped smooth over social awkwardness, because most of his social interactions were with people with strong financial incentives to get along with him, and his mind was far too occupied with other priorities to feel insecure about the possibility others might envy his material wealth or judge his lifestyle choices.
The authorities have access to that information anyway.
As far as I can tell from the article, this issue came up due to a change in the contact information. The changed involved an error that resulted in placeholder contact information being replaced by outdated personal contact information. This error was due to the registrant or registrar.

That left ICANN in a tricky situation. The registrar was pushing them this modified contact information, so they needed verification. Waiting until the next time the domain name is renewed is not a good option because that can be years down the road. That is especially true if this happened immediately after renewal. (The article was not clear whether the auto-renewal of the privacy service occurred during domain name renewal.) This opens up an opportunity to abuse the system.

Of course refusing to changed the DNS records until the updated contact information was verified is an option. It is probably a process error on ICANN's part, a process that is probably more a result of changes to policies than malice. Still, changing the policy does not change things all that much. In that case the registrar would have to take action because the privacy service was not renewed. They would probably end up doing the same thing as ICANN. If they didn't, the system would be ripe for abuse yet again.
No. There is a so called BND-law (BND := Federal Intelligence Service) that is aligned to the practices of the German intelligence service.[1]

[1] https://netzpolitik.org/2016/das-neue-bnd-gesetz-alles-was-d...
Most of the downvotes are probably coming from the civilized countries where calling someone an idiot happens to be legal.
The secret exchange is certainly on the wrong side of the connection, but it's either that or change the way email clients work. We are living in an IMAP4 world and if you choose to "trust the server", as they state it, this seems like a reasonable solution.
> they've only decreased in quality and increased prices.

Hey, at least they made up for it by backing out of their open IP promises!
Ha. I got off Facebook largely because employers seemed to suddenly want to use it to stalk potential employees. This will introduce incentive towards self censorship like never before.
In general, yes.

For example, there is currently a commission which investigates the "NSA Affair". Just yesterday, chancellor Merkel was questioned for hours.

Good german news about NSA-UA: https://netzpolitik.org/tag/nsa-ua/
Indeed, have there been any deaths yet recorded as related to Fukushima?
I attended a talk by a nuclear expert at the University of Cape Town right after the Fukushima incident.

He said that the risk of a Chernobyl given current high safety standards was 1 every 20 years.

At the end of his talk he remained bullish on nuclear, suggesting that doubling the number of nuclear plants would solve the coal problem.

In the Q&A that followed, I asked him to confirm whether the 1 in 20 years probability of a Chernobyl scale disaster was correct and he said yes.

I then asked him to confirm that his suggestion was to double the number of nuclear plants from around 250 to 500 and he said yes.

I then suggested that this would increase the risk of a Chernobyl to 1 every 10 years. He was stunned. He had never put two and two together.

A young nuclear engineer in the room quickly suggested that building more plants would increase safety...
So you think it is silly that people are worried about the impact of something because you are sure that technology will advance so fast that it will be able to take care of this.

Your assumption is wrong, though. Technology has not always advanced in the history of mankind. And it also hasn't advanced faster and faster.
Yup! And your project can be removed/banned from GitHub if you do something she disagrees with now. I forget which project it was that was lashed out at recently, but it's all rather insane.
Can you modify Max?
I agree that future tech can help with the cleanup (robots are a good example). However it's still reckless to leave this huge burden for future generations. The first nuclear reactor was built in 1942, 75 years ago. Our tech has advanced spectacularly. It's still an unsolved issue.

Using the same arguments we can just continue with the CO2 and say "future tech will reverse global warming".
but if the trucks pay more, then the price of goods will go up to compensate, so everyone would be paying.
Correct me if I am wrong, but I think this law only applies to legal entities.
This is how I feel, too.

I'm well able to be kind and reasonable to people and avoid making offensive jokes, but I am simply not okay with participating in an environment in which I can be ousted for having a different political opinion on another social network.

I have spent over 20 years using the internet. If somebody wants to hurt me socially or economically, they could probably do so with a little detective work. I am only human, and like most people I've probably at some point done or said things which are ignorant, offensive or unsettling.

Everything is a little political but I'm simply not the type of person that wishes to participate in a highly-politicised environment. I will leave that to the activists. I just want to write code and maybe help a few people out.

This doesn't mean I'm against all codes of conduct, but I am against the way some quite noxious ones have been thrust on communities without a full consensus.
> Don't just look at the name. The PvdD also has a lot of good policies in terms of privacy and other social issues.

Indeed, they do! That's why it's such a shame they're called PvdD because I don't have any particular affiliation with animals. I'm fine with them being treated well, but if that is so leading that they had to name their party like that, I am not sure it's a party I should vote for.
I am also interested in this!

It would also be great to see some audio latency numbers for ubuntu vs the rest on common hardware
Yeah it's getting investigated, but it's not looking like there will be any consequences.
I was watching the DVD commentary of The IT Crowd recently (which is really fantastic). Graham Linehan in an episode talked about this at length in an episode where Douglas says "Fuck off". He talked about the decision behind making him swear in what's a family show, where to draw the limits, how to make it have the most impact etc. It was great.

He also mentioned that "then again, probably nobody cares". It is a UK TV show. In the US, it would've had to be bleeped and everybody would have gasped if it hadn't.

I saw a news article a few weeks ago during the Women's March about how Madonna said fuck "not once, but twice!" on CNN. I'm familiar with US TV censorship rules and it still took me a solid minute until I connected the dots and realized what was "so shocking".

It's pretty f*ing ridiculous.
How do you think Facebook's move to reactions has affected online discourse?
I saw someone give a meta commentary on Facebook that they, and their friends, were "using the angry reaction more often recently."

It occurred to me that "reactions" were not even possible until 1-2 years ago. I recall many arguments against their introduction. One argument was that they would promote reductive discourse.

The current state of discourse on social media certainly appears quite reductive.

It's worth asking, then, how do you think Facebook's move to reactions has affected online discourse?
In case you really wonder:

Because 1. some ageing is good for beef and 2. often beef isn't aged enough when it enter the shelves.
Focusing on deaths is one of the favorite moves by nuclear proponents. It works because nuclear creates long term problems that aren't people getting crushed in a coal mine or drowned when they fall off a dam, and both coal and hydro have been around a lot longer than nuclear and as a result have some really major disasters in their history.

Additionally dams are fairly simple to build and construction of them is not as well regulated during its history as nuclear has been for most of its life because of its very obvious risks. If anything the mortality statistic is an argument for more regulation of mining and dam construction practices, not for more nuclear power.

The reality is that while not that many people died in Chernobyl, Fukushima and other nuclear disasters relative to other disasters we have had, they are still some of the worst disasters in human history and downplaying that to push nuclear is either being very cynical or naive.
I can already see the reaction of parents...Alexa/Siri how can I destroy a Cayla doll...let me search the internet for destroy Cayla doll...thank you Alexa/Siri
Yeah. But I cannot change these policies. I am not even a US citizen. So I have to wipe all my devices clean before crossing the border. Or risk confiscation. Because there is no way (except torture) they will get any of my passwords.

I wonder if it would help if an equal amount of US citizens have to hand over their passwords at EU borders. Maybe that would help as a wake up call?
Fully agree with you.

My first UNIX was Xenix and I got introduced to GNU/Linux with Slackware 2.0.

Ubuntu is the only reason I still have a netbook with GNU/Linux. All other my computers at home run Windows nowadays.

At the office our computers are a mix of Windows and Mac OS X, GNU/Linux installations only exist as VM instances.
Boost your wifi/broadband internet speed 400mbps
Electric cars are set to arrive far more speedily than anticipated
From my experience, vmware is what breaks vmware under linux.
That's WhatsApp, but I doubt it applies to Facebook Messenger.
There are non-abusive uses of this kind of data, e.g. security researchers, or IT departments outsourcing credential leak scanning, etc..

Also, notifying via a GitHub issue is, in my opinion, a terrible idea. GitHub has no concept of a security issue viewable only to the repo maintainers, so filing a public issue might make things worse (by calling public attention to it). A paid search engine without any notification is probably worse, but maybe they are emailing the repo's committers? They may even be embargoing the search results for a period of time.
More reasons to look at GitLab, cloud or self hosted. You should be the only one who decides who works with you on your project.

I have cancelled all my private repos with GitHub as I just don't like their ethics.
Does it matter at all when one doesn't want to?
I do agree with you that spam is a problem. I'm not sure how good filters are, nowadays, if you create a rule to store emails from @icann, @whoisguard or so on, in a specific folder, whether this will or will not be mixed up with spam (I don't know if whoisguard, for example, always send some specific wording that could be filtered in to mark as "not spam").

My only point is that ICANN specifies that you should have a contact. Almost every site that I know don't have public information anymore, all information is hidden behind some service like whoisguard.

In general it's a paid service. If don't pay/renew/etc, each one will have a procedure. In the case of whoisguard, it's to provide the information he had about the real owner. Good, that's what whoisguard did.

(side note: was the OP checking his e-mail about informations sent from whoisguard, since it was a very old e-mail? Did he missed something by not checking it?)

ICANN tried to confirm this change by sending e-mail to the e-mail they had. No luck.

Officially, whoisguard wasn't in the circuit anymore, I don't know if ICANN should have contact them, and given that whoisguard had exactly the same address that they provided to ICANN whois (that old e-mail), don't think it would have made difference.

Namecheap should have stepped in? Don't know. Perhaps, if they were diligent enough, they could know that whoisguard was expiring and be in contact with the OP. OTOH, they are separated companies, probably there wasn't any legal obligation in doing so, and I don't know if it suits their business model to be kind to their costumers.

ICANN should have contacted namecheap? Don't think so. They had an e-mail address. They contacted it, as I understood. The OP didn't check it because.... it was an old e-mail and "who uses e-mails anyway".

Yes, it had impact in one of his sites. Yes, nobody likes that. Yes, probably the OP is in anger right know, and might or might not read all these comments in a different mood in the future.

I read this thread as lessons learnt: if you depend on something for your business, like ICANN, I'd take some steps to be sure that a bad "configuration" (the miss of auto-renew) doesn't add up with another problem (having an old e-mail as a contact) and with another one (don't checking that e-mail, don't having a forward rule, don't trying to filter it out outside spams)... to have such a problem.

Even a kind of heartbeat if the site was alive or not seems to be important: weren't for some costumers complaining, how long would the site be out before the OP noticed?
I hear it's got even better write performance than /dev/null ;)
As a dev, I've been going through the same process for several months now. Honestly, for each of the concepts I've come across (ufw, let's encrypt, etc), you might bang your head for a few days with each one but you will eventually get it. I don't know why people make it out to be so difficult.
I have no doubt that you can work efficiently in such an environment and I firmly believe that audio related works these days are rarely limited by the available tools, but knowing how to use them in-depth.
However you're giving up a lot of third party instrument and effect options, aren't you? Again, those are not essential in any way, but there are really worthwhile options I wouldn't want to miss. Do you rely on internal plugins only?

And have you tried Bitwig yet? With its similarities to Ableton Live, I'm sure it has the potential to push audio production on Linux to some degree.
You're completely right. Every tech has its problems. Fossil fuel power station emissions cause cancer.
The difference is that nuclear power's risk has proven to be incalculable.
Germans are well read and most are aware of state hypocrisy. The ccc, general public and governmental watchdogs keep a good watch over things. There is some restrained discontent regarding state cooperation with various agencies, and the government is well aware. So they don't push it.
It makes me think "It's happening!". It's designed to make the player more excited to finish the next step of setup. This is a very interesting reward mechanism.
WE THE BRITISH NEED a STRONG LEADER TO FIGHT IMMIGRATION, I DIDN,T VOTE
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I agree. However, can you imagine that the US president having to sit down and answer questions for hours? The situation in Germany is better than in the US and probably most other countries.

It is also depressing that they were unable to invite Snowden.
That "civilized" country has too many feelings.

Already covered what you said here :https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13667840
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That was my point, in a massive IoT deployment devices are maybe safer when they stay off LAN.
Have you ever hunted wild boar in Germany? The global impact of "one Chernobyl a decade" is enormous. Each event takes thousands of years to recover from. After a century or two, most countries would be significantly uninhabitable, with indirect consequences affecting entire continents.
> They (CoCs) serve a very good purpose and have helped numerous online communities keep the environment civil and friendly.

That's a grand claim, and grand claims requires grand proof.

Do you have any to deliver?
You're reducing the argument here. qualitative arguments (true/false) over quantitative (to what degree).

Your argument is similar to: "Hitler is bad, but no one if perfect" - does that mean than anyone not perfect is equivalent to Hitler?

Moving on; to focus on python it's not difficult to know the handful of changes between, say, python 2.5 and 2.7, nor to understand them. py3 is different, and the fork caused a lot of controversy, there is still resistance to py3. There is a python-2-to-python-3 tool (could any such thing practically exist between C++ versions?), but it's not perfect.

A language like Java almost suffers from trying to remain backwards compatible, yes a) the feature is nonetheless appreciated, and java is heavily used and praised in 'enterprise' b) Java tends to make breaking changes rarely, and only when necessary - can the changes between C++ specs be described the same?
No I think that if the problem reaches a certain scale, more incentives will be there to solve it and on a long enough time scale it will get solved one way or another.

I'm not saying nuclear doesn't have problems, I'm just saying 50-100 year long impact is impossible to asses realistically and should not really be the deciding factor.
madExcept is better for this purpose
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You might enjoy this "static" bookmark presentation tool, since you mention shared file via dropbox:

https://github.com/skx/bookmarks.public

I wrote it to host my own bookmarks, with tagging, and searching. As it is just a simple HTML file, and some support media, it's trivial to handle with git and allows me to keep my bookmarks up to data across browsers and hosts.
Do you know Max? It's basically a toolkit for building audio, video and other applications/plugins. Creating and modifying is its main purpose.

https://cycling74.com/products/max/
"Why didn't any of ICANN's 340 employees who manage 6.5 million domains (~18571/person) call me personally to discuss how I would like to work through my fuck up? The monsters."
Because it was missing due process?
Try the tutorial and see if you like it.

The book is much more polished. You follow along with this repo [1]. Every chapter you simply `$ git checkout chapter-n` and you're ready to go. It's amazing.

[1] https://github.com/miguelgrinberg/flasky
Yes, some people could choose that. Not everyone will, obviously, and maybe not even a majority of people will choose that.
resources of multiple kinds are either split, or otherwise there is only the latest version gets it.
> I don't understand why Ubuntu is receiving so much bad comments from Linux community.

That's a complex topic, but over the years, a couple of reasons come to mind; Outdated packages and broken PPAs giving a bad impression to new users, slow and bloated in many respects, aggressive community behavior, CLAs, passive-aggressive blog posts and stances by the project leads towards alternative distros like Mint or any criticism whatsoever, Mir when everyone standardizes on Wayland, Unity is very hard to get working properly on non-Ubuntu distros, aggressive push for Snaps, reluctant to adopt systemd, not really part of the community, unless they want to push their own tech, (a bit like Apple), lack of kernel contributions compared to ie RedHat, distancing from the term Linux, using only Ubuntu as much as possible.
Yeah I don't get why they're marketing to Mongo users, weird choice. This is a DB for companies trying to moved to a query-less architecture - something no one should be doing with mongo
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> Yes. In Greece I can sue you over that. If that's worth my time or not is a different issue, but if I can somehow prove it, you're in trouble and I can ask for restitution for the psychological effect it had on me.

Interesting. Does it happen often in practice?

> I bet it's the same for all civilized countries.

The US doesn't have such laws. Whether you consider the US civilised, is another matter. :) Do you want to exclude contributors from uncivilised countries?

> CoCs have nothing to do with the rest of the things you're saying. They are not enforceable by law, they won't get you any kind of conviction. Best case scenario, you shun the person that didn't adhere by it. Which guess what? You can do that anyways, without any CoC in place.

The goal of a CoC is to have a set of rules that the community agrees upon and to foster a certain culture. E.g. no personal attacks, constructive criticism only, be civil in your interaction with others on the project. The consequences of violating the CoC can be to ban the violator from the project.

Wether you agree with those goals or not, it is the right of a community to decide which culture they like. And different communities will attract different kinds of people. Quite a few people choose not to contribute to the Linux kernel because of the abrasive leadership style of Linus. You might choose to not contribute to the Golang project.

You argued that you don't need a CoC because the laws already cover the same ground. If your goal is to foster a certain culture, it is simply not feasible to use the law to enforce it.

Hacker News has guidelines which are not dissimilar to a CoC, but less formalised: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. Are they useless too in your opinion?
Why Cloud Automation is the future
There is an easy to prove that they do read private messages. Send a private message with a link that points to your private website. Wait a few minutes and you should see in your server's logs that Facebook's bot is trying to crawl that url.
Really good read. Now, I am going to refresh the profile page until part 3 appears.
>future tech will reverse global warming

Or - more simply - will allow us to live with the consequences of global warming. Global warming doesn't mean that the planet will implode. It will have huge impact on the ecosystem but we already have the technology to isolate ourselves from the adverse effects of that - it's just a matter of scaling and perfecting it.

Instead of dealing with manure you create cars. Instead of saving agriculture, climate, etc. you create controlled livable environments that aren't be impacted by the environmental changes.
If I remember correctly, the thing that killed Fukushima was the wave of water from the ocean killing the water pumps at the ocean's edge. And there was no backup water supply. So it isn't necessarily true that nuclear power is not safe, it is it's relationship to the environment and how it is constructed. I guess there was no anticipation of such a significant event. Which I suppose is an indicator of the failure mode. It isn't the technology itself, it is unforseen accidents. Which is how any technology evolves: newer generations improve due to observations of past mistakes.
Household debt is dangerously close to 2008 levels