skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Only if every package and letter I sent was securely sealed so they couldn't get in.
If hes a citizen of the UK, he certainly wont need a visa to stay.
Interesting perspective!
> Also I seriously don't think of the Brexit that the UK leaves Europe. I think the UK and the EU will strive for the closest relationship possible. The only thing that I see changing is that the UK withdraws from a formal contract with the EU with the hope to negotiate a better deal.

It's against the EU's best interests to give the UK a good deal in Article 50 negotiations. This has been said over and over again and the arguments are still just as valid as they were right after the vote: giving the UK a good deal sets a precedent.

Likewise it was obvious that the UK would trigger Article 50 and wouldn't hold another referendum because it would have been against their best interests to do anything else.

Cameron played an international game of chicken, risking the UK's special privileges in the EU and the 51% called his bluff. Not following through would have meant losing the only trump card the UK had available in EU negotiations: threatening to leave if the UK can't have it "their way".

It's basically a scenario of Mutually Assured Destruction but the UK actually pulled the trigger. The UK had no other choice than to follow through and file for Article 50. The EU has no other choice than to give the UK the worst deal both sides can agree on. The incentives are simply stacked against a mutually beneficial agreement because either side backing off would lose their face.

Of course there are still open questions: will the UK accept a shoddy deal or just let the negotiations default to a complete exit, will Scotland force a Scottish referendum (and what happens if Britain tries to prevent it, what happens if the referendum succeeds, will the EU accept an independent Scotland back into the EU or will they punish it to appease EU members fearing similar fragmentation), will UK-based international companies pivot to adjust to the new situation or will they relocate to stay in the EU, etc etc.

These are all detailed questions with answers that are very difficult to predict. But the two predictions that have been evident from the start are: 1. Brexit will happen and 2. it's in the EU's best interests to make the experience as unpleasant as possible.
Because why the push to undo something if they weren't planning to do it, or weren't already? I know Verizon has an opt in program for it where they gave you deals and free data.
Start with not using their DNS servers (OpenDNS https://www.opendns.com)

Install HTTPS Everywhere (https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere)

Install uBlock Origin (Chrome - https://chrome.google.com/.../ublock-origin / Firefox https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/ublock-origin/)
Cool, wonder if these guys ever talk to the folks behind http://witheve.com/
Not of the total electorate almost 30% did not vote passing major constitutional changes on such a small majority is counter to all custom and practice - A local Allotment society would not pass a rule change like this.
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Higher capacity you mean (for a given volume), that and also very low leakage current so if you want to make a very efficient device then tantalum might pay off. Another reason is that electrolytic caps are usually wound aluminum sheets which act as a coil. If you don't want any parasitic inductance tantalum is better in that application (better frequency response).
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1.5 million visitors seems like a lot. Shouldn't that be able to provide a living?
> Why are EU countries allowed to have borders but the USA cannot?

The USA has always had borders, and absolutely is allowed to have them.

> On this side of the pond its double plus ungood badthink to support borders of any sort

No, it's not. It's just one set of extremists as to what the rules should be at the border portrays any disagreement with them as being opposed to borders (the same group does the same kind of generalization on other issues as well) to avoid engaging in debate about the substance of their proposals on the rules. There's a very small minority of actual open borders supporters, and except for the one group that rhetoricallt conflates that small group with their larger opponents, they basically are irrelevant in policy debate.
My theory on brexit has been for a long time now that, after entangling the EU with the Euro, and globalization actually hurting the first-world EU, the UK is simply attempting to isolate it's vulnerabilities to the coming impacts of globalization.

If my theory is true, it means essentially that brexit is designed not to create wealth in the UK, but to make the losses less than the rest of the world by comparison.

With such a large surveillance state though, and a massive propaganda operation wing, the UK has done a good job confusing it's people into the core reasons because to admit them would be to admit the weaknesses of the global monetary system it has had a large part in fostering on the world through the IMF, the World Bank, and fiat, fractional reserve central banking systems not tied to gold or oil (bretton woods without the key things that made bretton woods good).
> "It looks to me like this guy has taken his suburban upper class experience (he called his living situation "Huxtable-esque") and assumed that all black people who are living above the poverty line are somehow doing just as well as he is."

That's exactly the point. He hasn't. He's pointedly trying to avoid generalizations, and he's frustrated by the fact that the media only trafficks in anecdotes and stories that fit the prevailing generalization.

And these generalizations aren't even reflective of the vast majority of black experiences. We can quibble over numbers all day, but even with the numbers you cited, the majority of Blacks aren't living in poverty. The majority of Blacks don't have "zero or negative net worth." The Author's life and experience is just as reflective of the "Black experience", as that of someone who grows up poor in the inner-city.

Imagine if a Swedish newspaper decides one day that they want their readers to better understand "how Americans think". And so they start following, interviewing and publishing stories featuring a number of Americans. They approach you one day, you agree to go along, and then after a few months, you're told that your story is getting dropped because you don't resemble the "archetypical American". You do some digging around and find that every single one of their stories feature White Trump voters living in Middle-America, struggling financially. And the only reason you weren't featured was because you were a Democrat who didn't fit the above labels. How would that make you feel? Yes, the middle-America Trump voter is indeed an American, but that doesn't make Democrats any less American either.

Ultimately, we need our media and news sources to tell the story of all individuals and perspectives. Because the only way we can better understand the world, and each other, is if we are exposed to a wide variety of perspectives and experiences. There is a very real danger of people only being exposed to a single story, and starting to stereotype everyone they meet to fit into the mold of that one single story.

https://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_adichie_the_danger_of_a...
Whilst you're perhaps correct, it's still not clear what triggering Article 50 actually means in practice. It's never been done and it's clear that the process was never really designed with a view to ever be invoked.
How difficult would be to create a DuckDuckGo of the ISPs? Both at national or local levels.
Three problems here. First being that the ISP is a permanent MITM. Second is that TLS will not protect the hostnames, which are sent in the clear so that servers can identify the correct certificate for a given connection. Likewise, DNS is not encrypted (though companies like OpenDNS do provide alternatives here).
I know for me personally I already assume anything over a non-HTTPS or non-secured protocol will be received and possibly read by anyone and everyone.
Almost every part has the same issue except for the most basic, so that's not the reason.
I'm happy to learn more about the English language -- thanks for the link!
I've been an avid Construct 2 user for a long time now and I am really impressed with Construct 3 thus far (in its limited form). The performance is fantastic, literally feels like a desktop application running in the browser. I couldn't see use of any framework or library, is this all custom? What platforms will Construct 3 support exporting to, plans for supporting the Nintendo Switch? Really nice work, this must have taken a long time to build.
Yeah, the closer analogy would be FedEx selling information about content of your packages unless they are shipped in some kind of locked strong box.
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Is there TLS connections to DNS servers available for the major operating systems?

edit: You're still broadcasting the IP you're connecting to, but it's still nice to close up this DNS lookup leak.
Surely this is a victory for Poland?
Look at Cyprus. Bit more expensive in setting up. Stupidly cost effective at running and taxation, especially when not tax resident.
I agree, though I find it likely the person you're responding to quoted their own earliest known reference :)
Ummm.....

http://psearch.en.murata.com/capacitor/product/GRM219R61A106...

Try below 0.01 Ohms, between the frequencies of 100Hz to 1MHz, in the 0805 form factor. 10uF and 10V as requested.

Ceramics are extremely good at low ESR / low ESL / decoupling applications. I mean, so are Tantalum caps, so they're both good for this purpose. If anything, Ceramics might have better ESR.
I am not so sure. For me at least, it was much more difficult to be in the unstructured university environment than having a job. Routines make life easier for me, I like having micro-accomplishments every day in working life etc... I know many people are probably different, but still, a life of creative work is not so easy. The tortured writer or the procrastinating PhD student is basically a cultural cliché at this point, as well as the 3rd generation killing all the rich family wealth. If you gave me 100 million dollars right now, I have a real fear I would just waste my life doing nothing but hedonistic pleasure, while telling myself I'm still working on my next novel or political theory of justice or ...
Yes, but that's just one body of the EU. The "lack direct elections" argument usually applies to how the EU is full of sub-groups that aren't directly elected. But like I said, I don't think that's necessarily bad.
How ultracapacitors work (and why they fall short)

https://gigaom.com/2011/07/12/how-ultracapacitors-work-and-w...
Can't argue with that, but again, the status quo for many, many years was that your ISP could have done this, but didn't. And the next time there's a changing of the guard the protections will be put back in place, so I can't see how ISPs are going to bet on selling this information as a viable long-term business strategy.
To be explored for their skills? You mean entering into voluntary paid employment, in a civilized western democracy with some of the highest standards of living in the world?
Where is the chorus project hosted? Was browsing around on github for related devs and YC but couldn't find it. Have these tools been officially released yet?
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im conflicted about this. hate to hand over millions to ISP's just to prove a point. I'd rather put the money towards starting a competing anonymized ISP.
CyberFlare looks interesting, thank you for sharing. If anyone knows of similar tools or a guide on using CyberFlare I would greatly appreciate the information.
Can you spot the vulnerability?
There were some ISPs which were selling people's data prior to this order (Verizon was one, IIRC, and a few others were actively injecting ads and JS into non-TLS traffic), and many more were considering it.

Yes, we've "essentially" just gone back in time, but it's not a positive regression.
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You can install Tomato (http://www.polarcloud.com/tomato) on a compatible router. It has a bunch of options for routing all/some/groups of devices through various VPN's. This might be a feature in newer stock router firmware too.
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This and the move to dismantle the Clean Power Plan. Sad.
Wasn't much of a precedent:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/06/nsa-phone-reco...
Well, once that's done as far as I understand it there is no way back, agreement or not, the clock ticks and after 2 years are up the separation is a fact. If people are hoping for a collapse of the Brexit after that point they are delusional, the only way this would reverse after that is by a new application, and I really don't see that ending up with the UK being in a better position after such a process than they have today. All kinds of exceptions were made to keep the UK in the EU, those are extremely unlikely to be granted a second time, especially not if the UK falls apart and Scotland ends up remaining.

The British prime minister is now making a strong play to pull Scotland out of the EU against their wishes, we'll likely see a race between the 'brexit' negotiators on the UK side and the Scottish 'remain' camp who will try to stay in without first exiting.

This is understandable from all points of view, the British government would rather like to negotiate from a slightly stronger position and the for the Scots because they were told they had to renegotiate their access to the single market if they seceded from the UK. Now that the British wish to exit that point has become moot which will most likely swing the referendum towards the Scots exiting the union. They probably feel quite cheated in Scotland.
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Hi Jonathan, "Subtext 3 and 4 were successive experiments in a new semantics of mutable state I describe as synchronously updateable views." What does this mean? Is Chorus a database?

edit: the answer from his paper: "Typical applications are built from at least three distinct technology stacks: a database, a programming language, and a UI framework. Each of these technologies has its own semantics, and much of the complexity of application programming stems from the need to glue them together. Chorus instead provides a single unified model built upon our prior work on Subtext (Edwards 2004-2014). Our statically typed tree structures are effectively databases: the types are schemas, collections serve as tables, and references serve as relationships. All data is persistent, and all execution is performed in concurrent transactions."
Like setting up an unsecure email server in a basement?
Sure. I don't see what that changes though - my point is that counterfeiting is profitable for the (criminal) counterfeiters, so it's not the case that it "doesn't really matter".
Lots of people really love Ford.

And with an EV, there won't be that awkward moment when their friends ask how their transmission is doing...
How did u stumble on ahimsa ?

edit: rephrased
My wages, the value of my home, are now worth 20% less. If you're ok with that, good for you. I'm not.

My access to the EU faces being curtailed (not just travel inconvenience, but the permanent movement of my family). If you're ok with that, good for you. I'm not.

I could go on. You say: "maybe I'm just chilled". How about, maybe you're forgetting to put yourself in other peoples shoes, or grasping why it matters to them. If you're ok with that, good for you. I'm not.
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If the roles they are leaving are truly "in demand", the market will make up for it.

For perspective, that feeling of, "Wow! This place is different now" is what some of these same people were imposing on the locals.

This article seems like it was solely written to make Leave voters feel guilty and further shame them in the eyes of those who voted Stay. What else could be the point?
Internet Provisers -- that's Google and Facebook, right?

On a more serious note, people need to understand that every domain you visit, every query you search, every digital conversation you have, every number you call, every movie you watch or book you read, everything you buy, unless you take active measures to mask your identity that record is being retained by as many different people that can get their hands on it as possible.

Let's be clear about what this bill is potentially changing -- not who is collecting the data but who can monetize it.

Frankly, a bill that allows monetization of data already collected is not about privacy it's about deregulation. As long as the data is retained, privacy is already lost.

I actually really like this bill because it exposes, well, how exposed we all are online. The more people understand how much tracking is going on, the more likely we can garner the will, the market, the demand for technological solutions which actually protect privacy rather than regulating monetization.
Because, as it was also seen in the US election, it wasn't possible for them to win.

It will be interesting to watch, nothing has been negotiated, that's the irony, nobody even knows what they voted for. I can't imagine Europe making it easy though.
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https://searchinternethistory.com/ (currently 500 errors)

source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13985684
Very unlikely but not impossible. It reminds me of "Yes California"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes_California
That's because we are early in the asparagus season, and Mexico is a warmer country. Wait a couple of weeks and you will see mostly Spanish asparagus. A couple of more weeks and it will be British.
Concur with your recommendations. Would throw some caution on the OpenDNS recommendation, though. They're U.S. based and owned by Cisco. Depending on your threat model, this may or may not be desirable.
I think it's just cultural. British Airways has the same reputation for tinkering with oem stuff and generally making it worse or at least harder to maintain requiring specialist in house engineering.
I don't get your point, even if no one does do it, why repeal the protection? It's effort and time wasted just to create a potential for something bad to happen.

Even if you think this will never be abused, I don't see how it's being blown out of proportion, this is still bad.
Sounds like it's time for an "AdNauseam" for browser history obfuscation. Does anyone know if such a tool already exists?
You forgot "and changed". Injected ads, injected JavaScript, replaced ads... This has been occurring, and without protections against it, it will continue to occur.
I want a privacy first router. Does such a product exist?

Key features:

- I pay a subscription for maintenance (so I'm not the product) say $10/mo

- Automatically routes all traffic over a VPN.

- Smart VPN bypass for performance-sensitive traffic like streaming video and gaming

- Provides non-logging DNS service

- Automatic advertisement blocking

For VPN, DNS, and adblock I want the option to use servers & block lists maintained by the paid service, augment them with my own, or use my own exclusively. Bonus points for rotating requests between providers.

Does such a product exist? I think I could hack together something similar using DD-WRT[1], but I'm confident the maintenance hassle will eventually outweigh my desire for privacy. #shutupandtakemymoney

[1] http://www.dd-wrt.com/site/index
Note that Norway and Switzerland accept freedom of movement. Switzerland tried to introduce immigration quotas for EU workers, but that got scrapped a couple of months ago.
More likely people will, without ever understanding any of this, become agitated and then over time... nothing they recognize will happen, nothing they can see will change. It will be even harder to get their attention next time...
I'm in a similar position: I've recently left (to Spain, working remotely) originally temporarily, but the further this goes the less tempted I am to ever head home.

That said, this is all anecdotal. Still, while anecdotes aren't data, they do suggest that there could be some interesting data hidden nearby... Is there any hard research or even just large surveys that are actually looking at this?
Legibility? Yes, more recognizable. Definitely cannot communicate as many different things about what is going on in the game though.
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was the random black man literally black or just black?
> They believe the FTC, not the FCC, should be the main privacy regulator as it has in the past.

If they believed that, they would pass legislation to correct the law on which the court relied striking down FTC regulatory authority in this area and allow the FTC to actually do that; not doing that when reversing the FCC rules which mirrored the FTC rules which were struck down demonstrates that that is a pretext, not a genuine motivation.
"We shouldn't blame the Republican's for repealing this protection pointlessly, because the Democrats will put it back when they get in power."

Seriously? Free pass to do bad stuff because "it won't last". Come on.
The fact that this law has passed raises an interesting question: can a private citizen request and receive any and all information from a government entity about the users of that government's various assets? For instance:

1. Detailed data on the number, character, weight, etc. of every car that passes on a government road. (cameras record license plates, traffic videos exist, weigh stations are sometimes required for trucks, etc.)

2. Power companies bill the owning address for every power meter connected to the grid - therefore it should be possible to compile detailed historical data on power use. (watt-hours used, at least in monthly time-slices, possibly with geo-locating data, etc.)

3. Same as above for water use.

It seems to me that if the government is going to make it legal for a provider of services that run on government owned property (telephone/internet lines, which if not in all cases outright owned by the federal government, ARE deeply regulated by it), then why not all the databases concerning all gov. property?
> We have police, laws, community rules, all of these things to protect our houses and personal security. If you leave the door unlocked, robbing it is still a crime. Likewise, if you walk around on an unsafe neighbourhood and get robbed, it would be ludicrous to hear "well, the city warned you that part is unsafe, so the police isn't going to investigate"

The irony of this statement is that this actually happens quite often in certain east of the track neighborhoods, especially when the victim is a minority. It goes to show that this attitude, while I don't agree with it, isn't so far from the reality as you might think.

Coming from out west, this is one of the cultural reasons I am pro-gun. The police are just there to draw the chalk line around your body, it is your responsibility to defend yourself, your loved ones, and your home.

Always remember that the constitution was created to protect, not establish rights, rights that you have independent of the constitution itself, and of these rights, the right to self defense is one. The second amendment is simply about defense against tyranny. Even if you got rid of the second amendment I still have the right to bear arms.

Which makes me wonder, how well could the right to self defense argument be applied to encryption?

It's almost like everyone forgot about the 90's crypto wars, but it makes me think of something Eben Moglen said about the 90's crypto wars being just a temporary setback to TPTB;

https://youtu.be/sKOk4Y4inVY?t=580