skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a practical matter, there are lots of applications that use GET for user submitted search data. Since GET requests encode user entered information into the URL and since the URL is typically found in web server logs and other tracking/history mechanisms, it is unwise to use GET for user-submitted data in applications that are concerned with privacy. However, it was not always considered unwise: REST advocates recommend GET when the underlying information representation doesn't change as a side effect of the request. Therefore, one might just as well say that logging of URL query parameters is the technical problem.

That said, when a "breach" has occurred is a legal distinction involving the control of information -- when protected data moves beyond those who have a duty to protect it. Saying that a particular technical approach creates breach is inaccurate.
More specifically, this appears to be aimed exclusively at gathering stats from penetrative sex between a biological man and woman (judging from the app's mock-ups). Like a running or cycling app that measures distance and speed — will this thing quantify thrusts-per-minute?

I doubt an app and a silicone gadget with a limited focus like that will improve someone's sex life. This looks like just another 'smart' sex toy.

I'd love to see their privacy policy for the data collected¹.

Simply talking about sex with your sexual partner(s), listening to each other's desires, and exploring sex beyond the act of penetrative intercourse seems a more sensible approach to me.

1: https://www.engadget.com/2016/08/10/sex-toy-sends-intimate-d...
Well Bitcoin has been doomed since 2011, so I guess if you just keep saying that, it will eventually be true. Until then, it looks like it'll be around for a while.
"it’s the only station that will go on mile after mile and I can pick it up again"

Captive audience. In my experience, when I've lived in very rural areas (and a lot of large metro areas), the only TV stations I could ever get over antenna were PBS, but more often than that I could only get FOX.
It does rather cement in people's mind the association that Twitter is now mostly a haven for bullying, trolling and harassment. Something POTUS uses twitter for regularly.

Twitter had been trying to shake off the negative image it had acquired, but Trump's unchecked behaviour is rather putting paid to those hopes.

Question is if there's sustainable business in being the largest interpersonal abuse platform on the net.
Honeywell does have a number of opensource projects, with tuxdeo touch being one of them http://www.security.honeywell.com/opensource/
All those things are funded for at least some subset of the population, and heavily subsidised for the rest, by the Government. Also, I think it's pretty obvious that "voluntary payment" for healthcare didn't work for many, many people, and has resulted in thousands of deaths and significant needless pain and suffering every year.
Is having Project Fi (Google as the carrier) safer?
I attended both of these talks and found them very enlightening. My team hired a CSS expert to do some part time implementation work and evaluate our practices. I was pleasantly surprised when his analysis of our codebase was very positive.

To me, the key is to think of everything in your app as a component. You should be able to drop the component into more or less any context and it should 'just work'. Following the ideas in the videos will help you accomplish that on the CSS side.

CSS is a Mess - Jonathan Snooks (ex-Lead Frontend Developer Shopify)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAcW-wOFYjw

CSS for Engineers - Keith J Grant (NYSE Engineer, author of CSS in Depth)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-9Tn6AetYA
Couldn't Google use an immutable HAL as a way to make updates themselves? Let users drop manufacturer customizations and get stock android on an older phone.
bitcoin is probably doomed in US because it is taxed as asset and isn't considered a "money" by the IRS. Hence to actually legally use it as a money is a huge pain tax-wise (imagine having to calculate holding periods and capital gains each time you buy a coffee)
But US isn't entire world.
I still mind paying taxes and always will--anyone who doesn't is a doormat. It's just that I also no that a certain amount of expropriation is going to happen no matter what. I still don't support in collectivism or collectivist solutions, though. I think those things are the big lie told to people--that no other system can do what government does. The US government is mainly involved in theft from the middle class via taxation and inflation.
The most effective Roman emperors were very good at playing frontier tribes against each other, and the plebeian, equestrian, and senatorial classes against each other. This is not a new tactic. :)
Most enterprise firewalls these days do some level of layer 7 packet inspection which requires going beyond looking at fixed offsets. The silicon to support this already exists. Even the $50 Ubiquiti ER-X router I use at home can do deep packet inspection assisted by silicon.
We've seen the replacement of a globally fragmented sector with a well funded and executed global technology-heavy upstart before. What did airbnb bring that was new to the party? UX and a marketing budget.
I think you are making an assumption that seems common sense but might not actually hold: that cryptocurrency will fail if it is prone to fraud, speculation, theft, etc.

I think it's interesting that cryptocurrency has achieved its current level of success despite those things being widely known and publicized. Users accept the risk to gain the benefits of the platform.
The whole thing is a struggle. Building a product, revenue, marketing, investors. Being stuck in a shitty situation, with no money, no food, no clear way out, only choosing between one risk or another.

It's no surprise the topic makes for good HBO drama.

There's no shortcut. Just stay calm in the chaos. Focus on one thing after another, especially when it's tempting to do many things. Don't outsource core stuff early on; it's tempting when time is always short, but it often makes things worse.

Be honest, completely, brutally honest to yourself. Startups are the last place to lie to yourself. You don't have 'hope', you have plans and hypotheses.

Startups are this long march. You either die or you make it rich. If you can simply avoid dying, you will be rich.
So in the near future we might dump our trash into our cars for fuel [1].

[1] http://backtothefuture.wikia.com/wiki/Mr._Fusion
Can any app access Wi-Fi BSSID? Why isn't this restricted under location or another permission? Presumably apps can also use IP address for geolocation.
Maybe that is also the reason why Trump's account was not banned for violating the terms of service yet?

https://twitter.com/kalpenn/status/896013769410740224?ref_sr...
>>This is a difficult compromise to make,

Sorry I do not accept this compromise. Mozilla seems to have lost its way of late. Sad to see a company that was at the fore front of Privacy, and Security abandon that in name of market share and performance.

I would rather sacrifice performance for privacy, not the other way around.

From EME, to the adoption of Browser Extensions as the only customization option, now this.... Mozilla and FF is changing in ways that are harmful to the open, secure, and private web. Following the trends and policies of MS and Google is not the correct path.
I still use Firefox specifically because of Chrome's privacy concerns and was under the impression after dropping FirefoxOS Mozilla was headed in the right direction.

It seems they've convinced themselves that the only way to improve the product is to collect data on their users, rather than continuing to push the idea of privacy - which, in my opinion, if marketed correctly, could win over a lot of users. The browser is still fundamentally awesome.

This seems like the kind of thing they could push through their TestPilot program and just market it, rather than pushing it to everyone by default. But I imagine they want to push it to everyone specifically so they can take advantage of those who are ignorant to the ability to opt-out.
Better title: "Dubset advances the major labels' goal of utterly obliterating the concept of transformative fair use"

Next we need "Wordset", a service that allows authors to monetize any time people use three words together that have previously appeared in a published work. Not even satire - see "Bridgeport Music, Inc. et. al. vs. Dimension Films et. al.".
Yes, which is why their use has been debated and controlled by treaty for decades.
I have some sympathy for the "don't support exclusives" argument. It's up there with taking money from Dell to release games that will only run on Dell displays.

If there were significant differences between the platforms' capabilities I'd be more sympathetic, but they're basically interchangeable.
Has Trump ever doxxed anyone? Encouraged others to dox or harass? I hate him but AFAICT most of his Tweets are simply disliking public figures, which isn't generally considered harassment.
Why would there be? There’s not a sufficient market for it. Hoping for the day when everyone magically supports Linux hasn’t worked for 20 years. Maybe it’s time for a different plan?
Company A does bad thing which benefits them massively, allowing them to have a better product. Some people dislike that approach and flock to company B which promises not to do the bad thing. Now company B start doing the same thing 'for better good' but promises to 'keep it moderate'.

At this point why would anyone stay with the company B which broke its promise once, just in the hope that it won't break the promise again? It has already lost the trustworthiness and it also has the worse product. Might as well use products from company A.
Which makes your options 'roll it yourself' or 'do without'. Just because somebody chose door #3 doesn't mean they should be expected to get shafted at every opportunity.
If that is the same Relic that made the Company of Heroes series, then they do got quite a bit of track record: the series is extremely well made, and stands amongs the greatest of strategy games. They weren't too popular for several reasons, biggest one the decline of strategy games in general. But it seems like AoE is in good hands
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Existing telemetry in Firefox already works on an opt-out basis. This changes nothing.
Then don't send the correct source IP address, with simple statistics gathering like this I hardly expect they require a response. It would mean there would be no personal data whatsoever.
Bad news.
This is a great business, but typically game companies don't make good startups. They are typically about cultivating teams that can create compelling content, and not defensible technology. They typically don't need capital as much as they need talent.
He brings a lot of attention, Trump switching to another platform would be a real blow for Twitter. If it is to a platform more friendly to free speech, it could be real competition for Twitter.
You also have the release of the PSVR, which is outselling both of them at ~$400.
Not sure how you can say Relic has no track record... Homeworld, Dawn of War, and Company of Heroes were all very successful games.
They've been trying to shake it off? How exactly? All I see is complete inaction from Twitter.
> People will even have lockers to store personal stuff...

It is fun to watch uppity personnel of the SV companies to realize the companies would gladly treat them as the blue collar throw away technicians.
No, that difference (between /dev/random and /dev/urandom) does not exist, has never existed and will never exist. Please don't spread those myths.
The ICO concept is fundamentally solid and is more efficient then traditional funding sources.
What currently lack is the implementation. Both technological and legal frameworks need lots of work, but I bet it'll happen
Runescape runs in the browser so its anti cheat mechanisms are very limited I imagine. I'm pretty sure most MMOs (which run as installed applications) have more involved cheat detection going on.
Small, localized governance. True representative government (no career politicians like the sleaze John McCain and Nancy Pelosi). Strong adherence to property rights. Government not picking winners and losers. Government not accepting bribes (campaign contributions via big-money lobbyists). No corporate welfare--if a bank fucks up, they go out of business and shitbirds like Jamie Dimon get to live under a bridge the rest of their lives and (hopefully) die drunk while OD'ing on heroin.

ETA: End to the drug war, non-interventionist foreign policy.
Good points. But to be fair I feel this way about 99% of the games being developed over the past few years. Huge marketing budgets, big flashy announcement trailers, followed by repetitive delays, pay-walled content, and broken games at launch.

As much as I love the AoE franchise, I doubt this is the comeback everyone thinks it is.

Game studios don't make good games anymore, they create and sell hype, and we keep buying into it.
Everyone is putting fingers on Electron, but I must say that the worst part of Oni is Neovim plugins.
Even simple things like typescript syntax highlight don't work as expected.

VSCode is maybe slower and less configurable, but it is years ahead in terms of language support at least for tsx.
Given that the enterprise ETL space is crowded, how do you pick and choose topics that are relevant while still unique to your company?
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That would be a public relations suicide!

Greed and monetization of user's data - this is the only real business model which brings profit. There is, probably, already a long queue of customers willing to pay for the data.

And, of course, "anonymity" is nonsense. The whole point of collecting data is to classify users into target groups and model user's behavior. In other words - to collect the data for machine learning algorithms and sell access to the datasets and other services.
Oh, it’s simple. Just comply with EU law, and it’s all okay.

That includes:

1. You can not collect anything without explicit opt-in

2. You can not transmit any data to a third party

3. If a user requests it, you have to provide all data stored about them, and have to provide a way for them to delete all of that. (And you have to provide this at least once every 12 months via letter, fax or email for free) (compare §34 BDSG)
I was wondering why OP stopped at DOCX without taking it from there to PDF. The suggestion of a template document is a very practical tip; thanks!
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The Clintons, as far as I can tell, are some kind of crime family masquerading as career public servants.
This is probably indicative of need for a way of better wording a ToS, which probably don't mean to stop the judicial system, police or military from doing their jobs, or for that matter boxers or MMArtists.
I love that this is truly batteries-included! I've had such a bad time in the past setting up reliable omni-completion in vim. I don't know why there's so much hate for Electron, personally I think this project is great! I was waiting for something like VSCode with proper vim mode to come along.
I also love playing RTS's like that, and the one I have found which delivers big time is Planetary Annihilation. The AI is fantastic ( without cheating ), you can load up to 12 AI's, and you can make massive maps that allow multiple play styles. It has a bit of a learning curve, but I have had lots of fun playing large scale battles against massive numbers of AI.
What iOS update only included security updates based on hardware features?
Twitter has changed a lot, particularly throughout this past election cycle.

Once twitter made the change to showcase News in the "Moments" section of their platform a few years ago, Twitter content started getting very politicized and more news-centric.

I really like twitter, and ultimately what you see on your TL is directly who/what you follow, however Twitter's change to try to be a "live news conversation" has really changed the feeling of Twitter and politics are really dominating most of the conversations on Twitter at this moment.
AoE2 works with WINE. What else could you wish for? ;)

And then there's always http://openage.sft.mx/.
"The customer can choose to acknowledge the policy, or can accept that over time their product may cease to function" (emphasize mine).
DoW3: Dawn of War 3

CoH2: Company of Heroes 2

bots: Robots / Automated game play

RTS: Real Time Strategy

DotA: Good explanation provided at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dota_2

... and just in case anyone is confused by your abbreviation:

FYI: For Your Information

:P
Their early track record was fantastic, but recently they have shifted to less then great strategy games chasing after the professional gaming market.
This was raised by Kraken back in November 2016. Shortly afterwards I removed mobile phone as 2FA from all my accounts.

The simple fact is that I don't own my mobile number; the mobile operator does. As such I should not use it as 2fa.

https://blog.kraken.com/post/219/security-advisory-mobile-ph...
MOBA is a bad genre label used to distinguish games like Dota and League of Legends from RTSs like Starcraft. It's a concept that is completely orthogonal from providing a matchmaking service with your game.
How would you do that, though? The browser has to open a socket to something to do this, after all. And that already is a violation.
I think he's saying that not having an opt-in/out feature would show FF's dedication towards privacy, but if they are going to have an Opt-feature, Opt-in is better than opt-out.
Idea, pay people for their anonymized data. It's opt-in with an incentive.
Can you tell me the URL of the page containing the form where I can submit my feedback?
maybe they'll build it in electron
For context, 5 years ago people were still using the iPhone 4S, as the iPhone 5 wouldn't be announced for another 2 months.
Yes but we also have to live in the real world. It's on the air so you might as well take advantage of that.
Early on you don't know the distribution of work. If it turns out that your workload doesn't split 50/50 front end/back end then half your team will be overworked and half your team will be waiting for stuff to do. Once you get going it might turn out that the back end wasn't that hard after all and that your true USP is your world class front end (or vice versa).

Once things settle down into familiar pattern and you actually have a good idea of what your workload will look like down the road and what specialists you actually need (as oppose to imagine that you might need), then you can start hiring specialists.

Edit: That being said you should have someone responsible for each part and you can split your team into primary front-end and primary back-end based on their relative strength and preferences. However it's important that everybody has the necessary skills to work on all parts of the product in the beginning.
What has trump done that violated their ToS?
I don't have time to give a fuller answer right now, but if I were to write an ebook as you suggested, the recurring theme would be "design for collaboration." Make your project easy for others to use and contribute to. And, contrary to what many people have stated in this thread, I think this aligns with the incentives of academic research. If someone else can easily extend your project with some new ideas, then you've just co-authored another paper. In addition, projects that gain traction beyond your own research group are more likely to get funding.

1) test suite - this shouldn't require explanation

2) documentation - both top level docs with examples and well-commented code. keep track of units

3) one-step build - I should be able to download the project, type 'make' (or something equivalent), and start using it
I'm surprised somebody like Steve Bannon hasn't tried to launch an alternative and move Trump to it.
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> Tons of amazing indie games make a pitiful amount of money. Mostly because of lack of exposure.

Is it lack of exposure, or extreme excess of supply vs demand? As a lifelong gamer, what I've seen is a ton of high quality content being released that I simply don't have time to enjoy. There are several orders of magnitude more decent games than anyone has time to play, and frequently very little differentiation between whole swathes of indie releases.

Yes, they lack exposure, but that's because the indie game market is unbelievably competitive, and as a result their game isn't worth that much. These game bundles are great for increasing numbers of sales, but at $0.50/sale - fees, they're still not going to be making much money, and they're still competing with 600 games this year for your attention.

This is just an extension of the many existing game bundles that are available, but with higher density and a lower price.
The comments here praising NPR are not suspicious; they just reflect the echo chamber of rich educated coastal liberals.
I wonder which kind of data it actually applies to though.
Then they should make the possibility to opt-in more prominent, instead of switching to opt-out with the option tucked away in some menu where only techies/power users will disable it.
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I did this for a few years when I lived in San Mateo and worked in Mill Valley. It's not healthy, nor is it pleasant. I was robbed in my sleep more than once.
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For fun I ported the C++ to Python and Cython without any kind of mathematical or programmatic optimizations. C++ was 0.5 seconds, then Python was 5.0 seconds. Cython, which was the same exact code as Python except sprinkled with "cdef long" to declare C types, was just 0.7 seconds.
Mods, please append " and Electron" to the post title. Should save lots of people a click.
As a long time fan of the AoE who thought that the series was dead, this news is rejuvenating. I've found the chess-like gameplay of turn based strategy games to be frustrating, and there are hardly any new games being made in the RTS genre anymore.
> Money only works when you have a powerful state actor enforcing the legality of the transaction.

Fiat currencies work this way. Gold and cryptocurrencies do not, but they still work all the same, though gold is not very convenient in the modern world.

> failure, fraud and speculation.

These ICO hacks are separate from the fact that cryptocurrencies do work and are working right now. Preventing fraud is not a feature of any currency. Speculation is something that happens with any investment, I'm not sure why you think that there is or should be efforts to prevent it.
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I hear that MattDamonCoin is huge in China. Buckle up, Paul.
This might finally prompt me to start compiling Firefox for all my devices, or at least evaluate some of the high profile forks.

It's not just about the data, it's about the lack of consent. If you just ask people for permission on the initial startup, I'm sure most people will be fine with enabling it. Last time I installed Firefox, it just showed a tiny bar at the bottom of the window, which is pretty easy to miss. I'd expect fewer dark patterns from Mozilla, that's the kind of shady behavior you see coming from Microsoft. I always try my best to disable or block anything which phones home without explicitly asking for consent.

Tunnelblick [0] is a good example of this being done well. On the initial run they ask if you want to enable automatic updates. It includes the option to disable sending anonymous system information, as well as including a disclosure widget with a brief explanation and a table showing the information that would be sent. [1]

[0] https://www.tunnelblick.net

[1] http://i.imgur.com/tWQX5aB.png