skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When we start evoking the Stasi in a discussion about this surveillance, it always feels a bit like a Godwin point. But the reality is that all of this surveillance is exactly what the Stasi used to do and what the west was fighting the communist block for. If I had told people in the 80s that shortly in all western countries, all communications will be monitored, it will have become illegal to have any discussion that the government cannot eardrop on, the state will be compiling a file on every of its citizens and want to have a list of every book and article every citizen reads, they would have thought that the russians invaded us.
Are you claiming that good teams with a good culture actually exist at Uber? What's your evidence?
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As long as it's deterministic it'd be super great -- otherwise some devious programmer is just going to average out the random fuzz factor :)
Or just complete the yellow dot pattern to make it a full grid.
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Cool! EMR takes minutes, though, to spin up a cluster, and the billing seems to be different and less convenient than GCP.
No, I'm not advocating for anything like that. But if you want to deliberately make fun or piss off your interviewer, remember that that may have later consequences on your career. Nothing you do is in vacuum and there's no such thing as "just business" when insulting behaviour is involved.

(Obviously, this goes both ways, shitty companies tend to have trouble getting good people to interview.)
> Porting Apple Music to Android was a step in the right direction but they have a long way to go in the new world where services are more important than devices.

Are they though? There's still a huge amount of people buying phones and computers, which cost a lot of money, periodically. There's paid services, sure, like Apple Music, which might become self-sustaining businesses, but a lot of these other "services" by the big tech companies are operated at a loss, like email, maps, cloud-storage, messaging, vide-calling, AI assistants, etc.

The only reason to make free services like all those at a loss is to bring value to a platform so users will stick to it, and Apple keeping its services platform-specific makes its platform even more sticky. Apple benefits from this directly, because it makes money selling its platform. To use iOS you need a device from which Apple makes loads of cash.

Google on the other hand is still essentially just an ads company with hobbies, and its profit from the platform its building is much less murky, indirect, and IMHO flimsy. The only way their platform brings them substantial profits is by collecting data to better target ads, which is concerning too.

The lifetime of devices is growing, so in the long term we have to see if Apple can keep selling as many devices as it does; their main source of income is not entirely future-proof. If you ask me, however, Google might be in a more delicate position, especially considering the growing issues with internet ads (concerning privacy, tracking, obnoxiousness etc) and that so many players are in the ads business nowadays. Some, like Facebook, are moving in deep-- challenging Google in user data analytics and engagement time.

tl;dr: Only some services (like Music) make money. All the rest are more valuable if they serve your core business, and Apple is very much doing that.
The trial only lasted for 1 week each way and contained a sample of 20. I wouldn't be making any strong conclusions based on this.
I think it'll be more like 1..3 MB for something like the .NET mscorlib, but yes, the runtime overhead cost is definitely there. The more "managed" the language is the worse this will be. That's why it makes a lot of sense to use 'bare metal' languages which have a very small, or even completely optional runtime for WebAssembly, and use an 'embedded platform' programming style, that way you can get useful WebAssembly modules down to a few dozen kilobytes.
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I think the founder lived in Montclair, which is where they had their first office. As soon as they could move, they hiked over to Hoboken.

That helped them considerably as it allowed them to recruit people who lived in the city as it's just a few blocks from the Path station.

Had they set up shop anywhere else in NJ, it would have been difficult for them to hire as quickly as they did.
Hmmm, looks like not many people on HN care about DigitalOcean nowadays. I guess most people use AWS EC2 (or Lightsail), Linode or Vultr instead.

I've been a long time DO user, 4.5 years. So far so good, especially happy about the uptime (not like AWS they force you to reboot or start if it is scheduled for retire). DO has a track record of keeping VM uptime (in my uprecords I have the following top 5: 555 days, 401 days, 226 days, 170 days), all reboots were manual due to kernel upgrade (with Ksplice one still needs to reboot at some stage).

DO keeps delivering new features (load balancer, block storage, monitoring, firewall etc), although the pace is a bit slow. The competition has never been so tough, in fact for $5/m DO has the least memory but I am not going to migrate the existing droplets at this stage.

Back to business: this cloud firewalls - it's an extra layer in front of the VM's OS level firewall (iptables, pf/ipfw or Windows Firewall?) (similar to AWS VPC security group) offloads the packet filtering to DO's network infrastructure, it comes in handy in terms of protecting the VM from DDoS. Thumb up for it.
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Email spam also has ROI, for products even less serious than the worst you find on Pintrest. It only takes a very few to make it worthwhile.
But the users that don't buy might be more inclined to leave the platform if ads are too invasive and low quality.
This (monica) is so manual that I signed up and got put off. I don't feel the tool giving me a leverage. It increases my effort. I want more value for same effort that I already put in (or better, for lesser effort).

Case in point, 1) offer to import my contacts from my phone, email, FB, linkedin, etc. I'm not typing that sh*t in.

2) Pull call logs from my phone, I'm not manually entering that either. Are you crazy?

3) Birthdays from FB

4) activities from other apps. Like movie together from bookmyshow (a popular app where I live), etc
> PPPoEv6

There is no such thing, it's still PPPoE and PPP, just that there is IPV6CP and IPv6 on top of PPP. And that, in principle, can run through the same PPP session as IPCP and IPv4, though a weird ISP might not support that, obviously.
I've free soloed easy routes (long 5.4-5.6 routes in tahquitz -- I regularly climb in the 5.12s). Soloing something that you are comfortable with is enjoyable precisely because you _dont_ feel like you are cheating death. It feels like a fun romp -- quickly up and down -- you move faster, you don't have to stop and deal with belays, and often you can downclimb the route and avoid a lengthy walk-off. To the extent that you feel like you accomplished something -- you only really have that feeling if the climbing felt easy and smooth. If it felt hard and scary -- it was probably a _not_ fun experience, and certainly its something you would feel less "proud" about because a "better" climber wouldn't have felt the need to experience the discomfort.

If you listen to Alex talk -- he climbs a huge amount of "easier" terrain and he often describes those experiences in similar terms. It's just for him "easy" is waaaaaaay harder. I can indeed imagine how cool it would be to run up 5.11 (or in honnolds case more like 5.12) with the same fun casualness that I have experienced when running up 5.4 -- and it really does sound like it feels that way for him often.

Pushing the difficulty of his soloing as he has is partially about the specific challenge of doing a harder route and partially about moving up his comfort zone so that he increases the range of "easy" terrain that he can go casually solo. His expanding comfort over time has given him access to a huge range of terrain that he could comfortably free solo - which is a huge part of the reason why Caldwell asserts that Honnold has probably climbed more technical rock mileage than anyone else ever.

I think one thing that's interesting (mystifying?) about the way Honnold treats risk -- he doesn't really acknowledge that the longer he solos the more likely he is to have an accident. Instead he focuses on how fear in some of the situations he pursues can only ever have a detrimental effect on performance -- and that setting aside that fear is actually a required part of the task of minimizing the risk involved for what he wants to pursue. I think this is probably true though the mathematician in me still struggles with the first part -- and actually if you look at Alex talk, it sounds like he's starting to change his tune a bit too. Free rider was one of his top life goals related to soloing -- and it sounds from his interview that his next goal at least is more focused on climbing harder routes than on pursuing harder soloing.
I have been pondering something like this for ages, as most solutions seem to be insanely expensive. Found this though recently fwiw http://activereports.grapecity.com/server/
I found something more in my work bookmarks: http://www.atmel.com/Images/Atmel-42233-Using-the-lwIP-Netwo...

Maybe it also has some extra information which can help.
That's for the developers to figure out! Which is why it's an SDK and not some app with an API for extensions.
I used to install Arch by hand, then I discovered ArchFI and ArchDI scripts. They do every basic step of the install wiki, and if you need you can do some things manually from another console.
With those, I go from an empty machine to a fully functional system with total control/feedback on what is installed (Arch way) in about one hour (most of the time is waiting for packages to download and install).

https://github.com/MatMoul/archfi
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> Most cellphone providers use IPv6.

I don't think that's right at all. It might be true in the USA, but that's only like 3 providers, isn't it?

I'm in the UK and I don't have IPv6 on my mobile or at home. I travel to ROI often and my phone has never picked up on IPv6 address. I was in Italy a couple weeks ago and I never got an IPv6 address. I know I checked because a friend of mine keeps telling me bullshit like this about how real IPv6 is, and I've never had an IPv6 address.

I was in Spain at the beginning of the year and didn't get one; and Germany late last year: No IPv6.
Yes, because they did not want to pay. This is not some complex issue.

Incidentally, I'll be shopping later. May I give you $5 for you to drive to London and take me there? I was going to steal your car, but then I figured I'd be a good citizen and demand you provide it to me at your own, prohibitive, loss.
Look into making hacks for games or rotation bots using C#. Or go into advance HP/UI scanning for FPS. Bunch of teenage hackers charge $30-$60 a month for those services. Use http://selly.gg for setting up digital shops
You are assuming Uber could/would look out for potential sexual harassers, but suddenly starting to care isn't as easy and obvious as you make it; their idea of "bad actors" is likely to be different, including potential complainers, whistleblowers, union leaders, etc.
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Do you honestly think anyone who BASE jumps gives a fuck what you think? Why even waste your time saying it? They're obviously not here to obey the rules. Like, really obviously.
> they had the courtesy to play a message "calls are monitored"

Probably meant they didn't actually have the resources to monitor all calls, so they were requesting people to not plot rebellions on the phone.

Now we're richer than that.
The idea isn't that everyone needs this privacy every day. The problem is that someone will need this privacy one day and this monitoring will have made it impossible. Think whistle-blowing, anonymous tipping. Think challenging the power in place.

I heard that quote in a Snowden interview though perhaps he was quoting someone else: it's not because one has nothing controversial to say that one shouldn't support free speech.
Because, given the gender balance when it comes to people on positions of power (eg company CEOs), this would drastically reduce the career prospects of women, minorities, etc, since cultures decided on by white males are often hostile to those groups. And we have, as a society, decided to use the law to prevent such outcomes.
SLAAC on ethernet requires a /64. A provider assigning you anything but at least a /48 is pure incompetence, if it's explicitly for 20 companies, they really should be giving out a /43.
The banner for apps using location while in background seems like an iOS bug...

If it isn’t, Apple should give an option to turn the banner off.
Start with minimum wage for your first project. You're likely going to suck, and you don't want to piss off your family friend or have an awkward money discussion.

That's for strangers for business relationships. You should up your rate every 2-3 months to begin with as you build up your portfolio.
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I think the parent was saying that there's no point in really asking this question because the answer is that it obviously came from senior leadership, clearly including but probably not exclusively limited to the CEO.

This isn't the sort of stuff that I could single handedly prove in a court of law, but frankly none of this comes as much of a surprise. Anyone who's come within shouting distance of that company knows how it operates : heavy on kool-aid & low on self-restraint - an MO that comes straight from the very top.
Ask HN: Can i make a Android app for Hacker News?
Hi,
This is Shekhar and I am trying to make a Native Android App for Hacker news the app is still under work and definitely needs a lot of work but When i tried to upload it to the play store I got a email saying So.

Hi Developers at ShekharGH,

After review, Hacker News Alpha 0.1, com.iamshekhargh.hackernews, has been suspended and removed from Google Play as a policy strike because it violates the impersonation policy.

So I am kinda in a fix as i really want to make it but then ill have to call it something else . Can I officially make a Hacker news app ? or is there a way to get permission from HackerNews to make an app for them.
https://github.com/iamShekharGH/HackerNewsAndroidApp

Thanks
ShekharGH
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Jesus. They are still people. You want to ostracize them from all society and prevent them from earning a living in their chosen career?

No one has an absolute right to work in the industry of their choice. If you join a company that makes your future career more difficult then that's bad luck, but maybe it's also a lesson for us all: speak up for your coworkers when you see bad behaviour, and don't let things escalate to the point where other companies might see you as a bad hire for something you didn't do.
Interesting from the chart that weekends seem to have noticeably higher IP6 than weekdays.
Nothing you've pointed at is a failure, it's simply the process. How can you call up in two hours, rapidly tested and brought to 100% shortly thereafter, a failure? How can using the software you want to use immediately after its release ever be called a failure? Success is waiting for two months for a release window? No thank you.
Can only speak of 10-15 years ago - but if you know anyone who knows anyone at a (probably smaller) company in your area, that might work - an introduction can be enough to get a shot. I do think smaller companies are better for this than big ones, but ymmv.
Also, meetups. But I guess they've in general changed a lot and I don't really too many really young people (who are not studying in college or similar already).
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I personally disagree. Give me some good AR maps app, or just something that will put wikipedia on top the real world and I'll have to buy battery packs to make for all the extra time I'll be on my phone.
> multiple mobile Coca-Cola bottling plants

seriously?
QR codes support multiple devices at the same time, and have much larger range for reading (limited by the physical display size). Unique ID's can be built into the app reading the QR code for things like payment transactions. If I control the app reading the QR code (like WeChat), I can easily add state and add some "ping-back" behaviour to ID who/what/where the scan happened.
That text is a bit misleading. WebAssembly currently can't access the DOM directly, but it's definitely a goal to let it do so in the future:

https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/GC.md
It was an absolutely stunning film. Love the sheer amount of design effort that went into it, it really paid off. So much polish at every level.
While iOS upgrades are usually free these days, it hasn't always been like this. According to wikipedia, iOS 1.1.3 was a paid upgrade on iPod Touches (while being a free upgrade for iPhones).
This was reply to the grand-parent comment, mistakenly posted to parent comment.
Nice idea overall, something fresh and that some people will find really useful (I can manage alright myself :) )

It seems to me that all advice is given by your experts, which is nice but also time consuming. Since you're gathering all this data, have you considered using machine learning instead?
Waze uses that info to let you know when you have to leave for your appointment, including regular appointments you have but did not tell it about (if you drive to "5 Mcdonald Road" every day, around 4pm, then after a while, it will start suggesting it).

I dislike this feature intensely, so I actually have my location services turned off, and I only turn it on before using Waze or Maps.

(Oh, and it seems that the Apple "Use location to set timezone and GPS to set time" will use the GPS even if you turned that specific feature off - unless all location servies have been turned off. Or at least, that's my experience, but it might just mean my phone is bugged).
Not the least is probably that a lot of Android phones are underpowered, cheap phones, or the kind of phones people who don't case about games buy.
I have a Jio SIM card, will try test and report back.
Very nice. Thanks for the link.
Thanks for the detailed response. I just don't know myself. I'm sure me looking at the issue through the lens of my old ass perceptions (yea I'm old) is a factor. I read the guide in the article and other stuff online about Arch and it seems to involve a significant amount of manual work. I came from an era when there was no other option. You just had to do it. It seems to me that much of setting up Arch involves reading guides and copypasta. Things that other distros just do. If your into the whole old school thing, to me, there's better options. If you want to put in work and do some cool stuff to learn, there's better options. I'm not hating on Arch, I just don't exactly get it. If Arch is what got you into the whole Linux/open-source thing than more power to you. Don't take it as an a attack. :)
Google-image Ghost in the Shell cityscape: there is not a single ad hologram in the original (do correct me if I'm wrong though). The holograms shown are not as futuristic, they are green luminescent and pixelated, such as in the helicopter tactical view and the making of cyborg opening scene.
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it was a response to "nobody actually does it".
Covert intelligence is important, because it is a channel of information which cannot be seen or controlled as easily by adversaries as open source information does.

But the very covertness also means these intelligence services are highly intransparent and poorly supervised. And poor supervision usually leads to poor results, as viewed by those who should be doing the supervision.
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How about medicine? Force patients to compound it themselves?

(And just wait for the intersection, smart medicine, when the NSA inserts nanobots into tylenol to better spy on the population. I don't think that would be too far fetched after the technology gets sufficiently advanced).
> making IPv6 compatible with IPv4.

This gets suggested and rehashed on every single IPv6 comment section. There is no way to make IPv6 compatible with IPv4: by the Pigeonhole principle, there is simply no way to reference 2 ^ 128 objects using only 32-bits. The next usual hack is to "add an option" or something; but all the routing hardware would need to understand that option, which entails upgrading the entire Internet, which is exactly what IPv6 is doing/has done, except that adding an option ends up with a worse design.

Any suggestion needs to fulfill a. any machine should be reachable and b. you can't upgrade everything, or you may as well just go with what we've got.
> It was an absolutely stunning film.

Except for the storyline, which is way less interesting than the original.
Unlike Android which have precise and coarse location. If Google wanted, they could limit precise to GPS and similar apps and force everyone else to use coarse location or geo fencing.

Unfortunately Google doesn't care about your privacy. In fact, it's only a matter of time before they remove coarse locations and/or give every app full access to location data (the same way they did with internet access).
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Think Reflected XSS: weaponized string hidden in map data (road name even) in advance, is unwittingly integrated into offline map, triggers when a self-driving car tries to parse the data for that road segment, using a vulnerable library. Antyhing that uses network-contributed data is network-connected, even if the link is currently inactive (Case in point: Stuxnet).
Finally, tabletop gaming gets the multi-billion dollar backing it deserves!
boom, qt, gtk, even xlib (or a win32 clone) would be better than html/css/js bullshit
> <128-bit whining>

So what? Didn't you notice that the 128 bits are split in half: {network|host}? Anything that needs to route things around is only concerned about the first 64 bits. Once you're hitting on the local scope the last 64 bits is what matters ~99.9% of the time. So you can have your efficient 64-bit comparison right there for most of the traffic.
I think this might be an interesting read for webscrapers,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sui_generis_database_right
Loved every minute of it until the last 5 minutes, where they went so far away from the original story line, it would be like remaking Star Wars and having Luke turning to the darkside.
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Except you are mixing individuals with groups. The NSA is not an individual. It's an entity that has no moral, composed of thousand of people with their own agenda, and nothing to check what's going on.
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