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Ask HN: How do I hide my private information to apps?
Hey,

I was out with someone I met. So after we had a coffee etc we said lets exchange numbers.

I am doing a misscall to him and he had an app that literally spitted out my email address on his phone...

I feel very unsafe after that.
I am using gmail and I understand the implications on my privacy using google as my provider but thats just too much...

Why would a random app be able to connect my mobile number and my email together, and how?

How do I take it off?

Any help is much appreciated.

(I've no idea what the app is called, he was using an android phone)
Update: I think this is the app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.truecaller&hl=en_GB
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When I was a lad, I had to port ed in order to have a console-based editor.

(True story - A5000 with RISCOS back in about 1993)
> remember, ikea is expanding globally

And they're expanding mainly with their own money. They're a family-owned company without outside investors. Ingvar Kamprad is pretty economically conservative.
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It seems like the idea is that if you pass a very large number of arguments to the process you can force the size of the initial stack to be sufficiently large as to trigger this bug with extremely high probability even on binaries where you otherwise would not have expected the issue; like: it isn't a bug that is being exploited by a weird executable file, it is a true bug in the kernel that can be coaxed to mess with random PIE binaries to gain access to their setuid user access of special capability bits.
Yes, in Portuguese (my native language) it is the same.

For instance, "amigos" means "friends" with at least one male (the example of 50 women in a room and 1 man). "amigas" would be "friends" with only women/females.

There is in Brazilian Portuguese (probably in other pt speaking countries as well) a movement of people pushing for the usage of letter-tokens to turn gender-specific words into gender-neutral. In this case, they would use "amigxs" or "amig@s".
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short answer: not really. longer answer: depending on how old the systems are, they're likely not useful for learning modern distributed computing.

For example, a friend of mine had four 4 core, 8GB machines and tried to configure a hortonworks cluster, but the system spent so much time just running the cluster state, that you could only do trivial computing on top of the cluster before the nodes started timing out.

He then spent ages disabling unnecessary services, re configuring components to be more memory efficient - and spent so long doing all of this maintenance he never actually learnt how to compute on top of the cluster, which was his original goal.

So it's best just to pay a few hundred a month to amazon and run your own small cluster that you can spin up and down as you need
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Actually, even the entire JVM is below 60MB without Jigsaw, with Jigsaw it can go as low as 10MB
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The phenomenon has actually been the subject of a couple of studies, it has been dubbed "The Ikea effect"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IKEA_effect
I'd rather he put his time into building and designing than rehearsing speeches.
I dont understand how a potential exploit would work.

>he loader could allow part of that application's data segment to map over the memory area reserved for its stack, potentially resulting in memory corruption

do they expect an attacker to redirect code execution to an address on the stack which they previously wrote when loading the binary, so they can make use of suid to escalate priveliges ?
It turns the BFR from an aspirational battlestar into the DC-3 of space: go anywhere and earn a buck doing it.
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Australian Securities and Investment Commission has done a good job how and when ICOs should be used:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15357549
It is a bit fun how some think they can track if I open emails from them or not. I have several times got email with something like "we see you are not reading the emails you get from us, so we will remove you from our list". I did read the emails using Thunderbird, so was only their tracking that didn't work.

But this is maybe what we get when most read emails in web apps from companies that want to track everything everyone do and think so they can show the adds that are least relevant
> In Poland, and I believe it's an EU regulation, every seller is obligated to take your old appliances when you buy new ones in the same category. For example when you buy a freezer you can drop your old one for recycling free of charge (so the cost is included in the retail price).

In Italy is the same. Keep in mind that the retail price includes a tax to cover the costs of recycling, so it is not really free :-). The amount depends on the type of appliance. This too should come from an EU directive.
> Never in my life have I remotely opened a config with nano and thought to myself "oh damn I wish it was vi".

Adding to the pile of anecdata: I wish this every time I forget that our vagrants spin up without `EDITOR` or `VISUAL` configured which means I get nano for my first edit and, frankly, fuck that noise.
Your view, accurately portrays the deeply problematic issue that is inherently intertwined with education - namely real life.

Human beings are not studying machines.

Fail a course, and the response is not "re-booting, preparing trial N+1", the response is usually discouragement.

With free courses, good material, always on, and self selected motivated students - MOOCs were supposed to change the way we studied.

They had % completion rates in the single digits.

---

In every education system, there will be an issue.

The american system did very well - as long as there were jobs for high school students.

The fact is that most people are not cut out for college.

AS your (or any) society, starts forcing more and more people into higher education, because it becomes an unoffical pre-req for employment, you end up with many third order problems.

Firstly - testing.

In a class of 5 students, a teacher can test a students knowledge with detail.

With a class of 50 students, a teacher who has to grade submissions cannot afford the time to grade all of them.

This results in a drive for uniformity of answers - the removal of subjective answers from students, in favor of multiple choice.

The other way to enforce uniformity is to have a set of acceptable answers, so any deviation from it can just be identified and removed.

Since more students are now entering higher ed because its a pre-req for a job, they don't care about the subject. They care about the cert.

That means they will cheat, or memmorize the answers, and get on their merry way. Not everyone understand the humor in chemicals, or math. Nor do they care.

This is a process - and once started it grates at the old education system, till all of its higher purpose is eroded, and it streamlines itself to become a certification system. Buy your degree, or memmorize your way to do it.

This brings us to the next problem - not enough work even for degree holders.

The creation of more degree holders doesn't resolve the inherent jobs problem.

It just creates more supply, which drives certificate inflation, and wage stagnation.

Higher degrees are meant to indicate a level of mastery and capability on a topic. After a few cycles of degradataion, it just means that the end product is someone with the capability of passing an exam. Not necessarily that they can create new and novel works in their field.

And all the while, life goes on. These students are usually young human beings, who have varying levels of motivation, maturity and experience - they will go on holidays, take breaks, fail, succeed gloriously, do stupid things and so on.

TLDR: What you have described are epi-phenomena. The issue is jobs. The input cost of production from blue collar labor has been going down over years.

Unless there is meaningful work, for people who were never meant to be ... data scientists, or comp sci engineers - you will always have a problem.
And 1600x worse by kinetic energy.
The fact that many "battles" weren't as heated as today sounds like you are implying that they aren't as important or worth fighting.

At some point the "battle" for slavery abolition wasn't very heated either.

p.s.: I'm NOT, in any way, putting both causes at the same level but they both sound legit to me.
I totally agree
"Earth-That-Was was used up" is fiction.
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I guess you don't have anything CPU intensive running.

General good practice for sysadmins is to affine CPU cores/threads so that you don't end up flushing the CPU cache too aggressively and you don't split your VM's over NUMA zones because memory locality is important.
Compiled Go is great, as long as it makes its way into the repositories at some point.
For a CEO, he's an insanely bad public speaker, yes. I'm always surprised by that. Then again, he's doing this without notes, or even just a preview of the next slide coming up, it seems, which is pretty difficult at the best of times in my experience.
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What Is Immutable Infrastructure?
I think in Belgium they specify how much the recycling premium is when buying something new.
The average user enables them otherwise, newsletters or other mails are unreadable. Smarter would be if Apple can IMAP store certain content.
The kicker for Earth is that it's a lot easier and cheaper to make CH4 from biological sources (fossil fuels, fermenters, etc), so nobody does it at scale. All the solutions (IIRC) need high temperature and a catalyst, which isn't surprising as we're un-burning rocket fuel. With cheap plentiful solar energy it's more practical; as Mars has no bio-sources of scale it's essential.
Trump calls Facebook “anti-Trump” so it goes soft on him
Notice that the executable itself contains less than 100 bytes of instructions, but the file is still 736 bytes. Even without optimising the Asm itself (I can see at least 2-3 bytes improvement at a glance), that could probably be reduced even further:

http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/teensy.htm...

736B may seem tiny to most people, but if you're working in Asm that's a lot --- there's plenty of interesting things (beyond "call the OS a few times") the demoscene has done with smaller binaries; here's an assortment of 512B ones:

http://www.pouet.net/prodlist.php?type[]=512b
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So, how do you suggest to replace DNSSEC then, assuming that your enemy is a nation state intercepting your DNS queries and responding with NSA QUANTUM before the legitimate server does?
Blockchains are the future, aka merkel trees are the future, aka git is the future. Put the world in source control. Distributed, trustless, decentralised source control.
Early airlines are the closest comparison, and as design flaws and bad practice killed off crews and destroyed vehicles, they were regulated to heck and back and are better for it.
I suspect the ambitious timelines are political. Musk has repeatedly stated that others would need to work on a lot of the Mars colony infrastructure. SpaceX only appear to be working on the supporting infrastructure for flights (e.g. propellant plant).

By telling the world that they'll be ready to fly in five years, they're making a statement that other organisations/companies that want to get involved with this effort need to start working on developing the other parts right now.

If the schedule ends up being more like 2028 for the first flight, they stand a much better chance at flying the right stuff there.
If people don't know how to use vi/m I highly recommend running the vimtutor command. I've been doing it in some boring tutorials and after a week I feel almost component at it.
It's the default Mac background that I assume they were running the presentation off of.
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There is no "the goal". There are goals, plural. One goal is to have a clean house, and another goal is not to think about cleaning the house.

You can achieve the second goal by deciding not to clean the house. But that doesn't satisfy the first goal.
The movie idiocracy comes to mind. Apparently the flynn effect slowed down. Some people hypothesize that the wellfare state has a dysgenic effect by redistributing income from high IQ (high income) people to low IQ (low income or wellfare recipients)... It effectively creates disproportionate economic incentives for having children, and some indications put heritability of IQ above 0.7
I think a more toned down, and a more accurate view would be that progress of science and technology is what causes social changes, and not the other way around. As in, the social dynamics move within the space created by existing level of technology.

As an example, consider reformation: many attempts have been made at reforming the church, but the first successful one happened only after the printing press got widespread enough that the reformational thesis could spread around the Europe very quickly.

Or you could reasonably argue that the end of feudalism happened because of gunpowder and accessible firearms. Where previously a person had to train half of their life to be able to fight with an armoured knight, suddenly with firearms, anyone could become effective in the field in pretty much no time. This shifted power away from the local lords in a significant way.

There are plenty of similar examples you can find in all of history. You can probably shoot plenty of holes through them, too, but still, this for me sounds like a most plausible theory of social changes of the ones I heard.
This isn't quite right. To stick with the casino example, a large number of Bitcoin speculators are "letting it ride." They've won a bunch of times, and they continue to bet more and more money.

Your example only works if you are regularly selling BTC as its worth increases. If you're just holding onto it, your gains are never realized.
Forgive an uninformed comment, but isn't DNSSEC the only viable route away from globally trusted CAs? And the CA model is just fundamentally wrong in many ways (still better than nothing or trust on first use though).
A stutter is a disability not a sign of lack of intelligence/education.
Compiling vim? Where do you not have Vim by default? Or could not install it with the default systems package manager?

I seriously did not ever login into a system that does not had vim installed, excluding windows obviously, but how many of us have windows servers to manage..
Fair point, but it might be better, so without comparing nano to micro yourself, it's hard to judge them, but it's true that 'better' is very subjective.
Whether the product is needed or not is irrelevant to my assertion.
It seems like with just a bit more effort the authors could have made a stronger case for their theory that aging is significantly impacting IQ scores by comparing IQ scores among people of the same age (e.g. 20-30 year olds) from decade to decade. They could also look at how IQ changes over a lifespan; there must be some within-subject data available where the same people took an IQ test when they were <30 then again when >60.
I thought the iPhone 5 had a pretty good iFixit score. The Teardown was a 7 out of 10 [0], which is one of the highest scores they've given.

[0]: https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/iPhone+5+Teardown/10525
And, in typical american fashion, 90% of the complains are specific to US users.

If you use a TLD that is operated by a cooperative, such as .ee or .de, that entire problem is gone. You can even become member of them yourself, so anyone can become registrar — and you can switch in seconds to another if you need to.

Trust agility is perfectly flexible with these models. Far better than with the CA model.
I am an EU citizen, but live in a non-EU country. Does the GDPR regulation apply to data about me?
My desktop is 7 years old, admittedly that is a 3.3GHz Phenom II X6 with 16GB RAM, the highest available configuration on that socket/motherboard. It's still going strong, though of course it struggles with some newer games, which isn't as relevant to me as it used to be.

My laptop is a refurb T420, around 5-6 years old. Runs Linux Mint and all the apps I need with no issues at all, still gets 5+ hours on battery.

Computers have been "fast enough" for a long time.
I know people have valid reasons to be skeptical about such projects. But maybe after 50 years or so when this kind of transport will be very common we will remember this day as one of the most historic events in the course of humanity.
Doesn't Google immediately download any external images/assets in an email and cache them to prevent exactly this?
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The article also explains this. It seems to be possible to get a much smaller distance if you eat up a lot of stack space using large execve arguments for example (this might be wrong, I haven't 100% understood all details yet). But the article has a POC for ping.
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I did once, on my last phone (a Samsung Note 2), because I wanted to record a specific event I knew about beforehand. I was actually impressed by how well that worked. From the whole "headphones as antenna" setup I'd always assumed FM radio to be rather dodgy...
It's different. The article I linked has its own purpose and merits/demerits.
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Given his aspiration to sell it for prices comparable to economy airline tickets, I feel like the outlay of building the facilities at each end will eat up a lot of the profits. It's a neat idea, but I don't see this funding the Mars colony ambitions, at least not in the short term.

If they can get that infrastructure heavily subsidised, then perhaps it's a different story. That said, I can't see many cities that would be willing to invest in this, except perhaps the ultra-rich ones, like Dubai.

Imagine getting this built for New York or London. I can't.

Edit: I don't mean to sound so negative; I actually think the rest of the talk was super positive in that it feels realistic - it's just the inter-continental travel bit that gave me pause.
First of all I'm not american. Second, the US was not created democratically.

With a corporation I can just not use their product, they don't get my money and beyond that I don't really care what goals they have in space.

> If you don't want the space agency to be controlled by corporations not owned by Musk you can do something about it via the many channels that exist for that explicit purpose.

Like what channels? Writing a congressmen?

You vote every couple of years on a small group of people and those people are responsible for lots of things, not just space. So when you vote space is a small priority and most people care more about other issues.

NASA needs to given more independence and change the process of NASA budgeting. ESA does a lot better in many ways because they have a longer planning cycles. NASA should use more competitive contracting like they did for Commercial Crew and Commercial Cargo.

These changes require evolutionary and sometimes revolutionary change and this is happening a little in NASA now. The Shuttle group has already lost out, the SLS is defensive effort.

The best thing we can do is point out how bad the current system is and oppose the pork projects. Moral outrage compared with workable efficient solutions that save money have the ability to potentially form alternative coalition.
as a user? some milliseconds of latency maybe?
Yeah, the US Thomas & Friends books you kinda have to translate on the fly as you're reading them. There are various differences.
>If you want to actually understand what the Bible was trying to communicate

Why try to whitewash the bible? The old testament Jehovah was a vile sociopath. Jesus is a cool guy with a dad that has some screws loose. I grew up in a fundie family, the hoops fundies jump through to justify old testament idiot God are ridiculous and I have no time for that.
I used to be interested in such things, but then I found a really nice Funk/Acid Jazz/House/Soul playlist on Youtube (50 videos). Some of them I don't like, but overall - very enjoyable and puts me in a good mood when programming. It helps I'm new to Funk.

I think Funk and related genres are particularly suited for tasks that demand concentration. Funk de-emphasises melody in favor of rhythm. Melody calls for "active" listening. Funk is at the same time predictable and varied. I spend very little time clicking "next track". For me it's very stimulating listening.

So, a problem that could potentially be solved by neuroscience research and programmers (I understand this is interesting in itself) has been solved by good old playlists for me. And experimentation (trying new music).
I didn't notice any issue with RNN at the lower levels of background noise, but as the background got noisier, I too heard what sounded like speaker distortion which seemed more distracting than the background noise.

I was slightly confused by the text that claimed that it was expected for the intelligibility to go down though, so maybe that's all working as intended.
It also significantly changes how you experience them.
At my home, now. There is no mobile phone reception here at all, not even 2G.
But Amazon usually produces pilots for shows before deciding on a full season order. Or has this changed?
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I think you may be overestimating the lead time to establish a self-sustaining colony. With the will, resources, expertise, and some luck, I think it could theoretically be done inside of 40 years. More likely it'll take quite a bit longer. But we don't need to be talking centuries.
On the same note I did a mariadb container that is ~12mb: https://hub.docker.com/r/jbergstroem/mariadb-alpine/

If you're into go, it's not too hard to get very small (<5mb) shippables by statically compiling against musl and using upx. Here's a somewhat scrubbed Dockerfile for a gRPC/rest service I use at work: https://gist.github.com/jbergstroem/680cb7db6f90319dcd7666f3...