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> They could easily configure it to be malicious one time out of a million (say); what are the odds that they would be caught?

How could they do that easily? Their source code is public, and many third parties work on it and produce their own compiled versions - plus every security people tracking unexpected connections would catch it.
Last time I tried to use keybase it required me to paste my private key into a browser before using any of the advanced features like chat. This seems unnecessary and doesn't make any sense from a security perspective. Has the situation changed? I won't use their service until this is fixed.
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> Lithuania has also halved their homicide rate over the past ten years.

The homicide rate in the US has also fallen considerably over the last 15 years.

https://knoema.com/atlas/United-States-of-America/Homicide-r...
The thing with any 'recommendation' system like Discover Weekly is that while it recommends based on past preferences, the recommendations have the effect of influencing and reinforcing the musical tastes and at some point one will notice that one's taste in music has been entirely manufactured by the algorithm, week by week.

This is not just in music, the filtering 'according to preferences' is ubiquitous in today's applications - so I wonder -
were does the recommendation end and influence start ?

For example, Google maps routes you to avoid high traffic, but by doing this, it is also generating traffic and the more people use it, the more influence the app has in the real world traffic.

I for one use it sporadically; my music tastes are so state-dependent - sometimes I want ambient music, sometimes I want heavy metal, sometimes I want lyrics and sometimes I want a hard electronic beat. The algorithm does not know my current state, wether I want to keep or change it - even I don't always understand exactly what and how I feel.

Also, I've had it happen lots of times - sometimes I listen to a track or album which I don't immediately like, but then it grows on me and I discover something beautiful hidden in it. There's value in listening to things that don't follow the usual pattern and that's very hard for an algorithm to do.
Can we avoid articles with clickbait headlines like this? Perhaps HN can use the Techmeme approach and re-write the headlines to be informative rather than begging for a click.

I don't know about anyone else but at this point I refuse to click anything with garbage headlines.
I don't agree with you; almost at all.

This is not a death threat.
Any suggestion a good tools (good source one) on mac that can scan and detect this kind of malware?
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Would you rather have had a child in the 19th century, when job options for your potential child would have been limited to a) difficult farm labor, with long days, low pay, and poor working conditions, or b) difficult factory labor, with long days, low pay, and poor working conditions?
"A lot of phones already listen to audio nonstop."

I think you have to be careful about what it is you care about. Listening isn't it. To the extent that modern phones "listen non-stop" you're just one step away from saying that all microphones are non-stop-listeners.

What matters is what data is available, where it goes, and who can get access to it. If my phone truly only has a small ring buffer with specialized hardware purpose-built to listen for "OK Google", which it is reasonably accurate at, then it's not a privacy issue. The problem is that by visual inspection I can't distinguish that from a system that is listening for "OK Google" and also other politically interesting keywords, or a phone that is just sending all my audio up, etc.

Now, I am a very technically aware person compared to the general population, and I have good reason at the moment to still believe that phones aren't actually spying on the audio level as much as people believe on the grounds that it is technically impossible due to both battery and mobile data consumption. However, it is not entirely comforting that those are the only reasons I believe it is not happening, and improvements in battery technology, CPU efficiency, and/or mobile bandwidth are going to eliminate those assurances for me.

(By contrast, location spying, activity spying, and abundant marketing-based tracking clearly does happen.)
I always get a bit annoyed when someone tries to explain ECC with an image of an elliptic curve over the reals. The whole point of ECs over finite fields in cryptography is that they don't have any regular structure like that!
According to Google they have both, and based on the descriptions they probably follow the same model as the Windows one. That said, it would be kind of ironic if the original comment actually meant, "Use Mac or Linux for sensitive stuff because there's a good chance Kaspersky doesn't exist (or work very well) on them."
>There is no solution for these suburbs

Despite how trite universal basic income is to bring up in threads these days, UBI could do a lot to help failing communities throughout the US. Much of the demand for housing in urban areas comes from people who may choose to live a less prosperous/expensive life elsewhere, if it were an option. This could change the dynamic of urban/suburban/rural life in the US. Whether or not that's a good thing is debatable, but I think with UBI a lot of people would leave expensive CoL areas.
Started playing with it, need to find a good use case.
Maybe something like:

- when a trello card is due send me a message on Facebook to tell me to stop watching memes.

- when someone opens an issue on GitHub with a specific keyword send me a slack notification.

- when i get an email from someone (like a client) requesting a quote, open a new card in Trello in the prospective clients board

Any chance to get LinkedIn support?
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Indefinite Pessimism. China and to a large extent Russia are Definite Pessimists.

The US and the UK are Indefinite Optimists while many in US tech are Definite Optimists (such as Elon Musk.)

Cultural attitudes about the future of our world has a huge influence on the type and velocity of innovation.

Those are generalizations, but just compare investment philosophies of various countries. EU: with a few exceptions that prove the rule, very conservative, less likely to back 100x technology innovations, more likely to back 2x innovations that have low risk and low reward (but enough reward to make a return.)

Russia and China: more likely to invest in keep-up technology (me-too stuff) that promotes domestic stability — much more defensive investing to promote Juche ideas. North Korean “tech” is the extreme example.

US: willing to bet huge on low percentage, future changing tech (speaking of the Valley specifically,) while much of the rest of the US tends to be closer to the EU in terms of risk tolerance, with notable exceptions.

You won’t have an EU investor funding self-driving cars generally and you won’t have a Valley investor funding incremental 2x tech (generally.)

All countries have visionaries and innovators, but due to who controls the finances (and tax policy,) most of those future Elon Musk types are shot down before they even get off the runway.

Exceptions abound of course, but that’s my general take.
I think Allentown was affected more by the closure of steel mills than the construction of I-78- why live in the city center if there aren't any more jobs there than elsewhere.
thanks for sharing this - very cool.
Not very intellectual or mathy but my friends and I used to play this "paper arcade game" back in elementary school after Star Wars came out. We'd draw figures and then take turns sliding the pencil to move or shoot.

https://imgur.com/sJMwze9

It started out as "UFOs" (circles with a line through them) and mutated into X-Wings v TIE Fighters. Soon we were drawing asteroid fields, opposing planets with gun emplacements, etc, etc. Wish I could go back and look at some of those old drawings.
If you are paying the farmers, the food isn't free. Its just that the people using the food aren't the ones paying for it.

Whether or not that's good thing, food is still scarce in the economic sense.
It's a bit of a nuisance, but you could go into Private Mode[0] when listening to stuff that you don't want to be part of your recommendations.

[0] -
https://support.spotify.com/cz/using_spotify/the_basics/how-...
I'm curious about your statement that you're using keybase, but not GPG. If you're only interacting with others that are using keybase, I assume that's possible, but if you're interacting with others, you're going to have to use GPG, right? Keybase can handle public keys, but your private key is yours. Or am I missing something?
If the US was doing the same thing on a global scale, how would we know? We'd probably be entirely under its influence. We would see certain falsehoods as self-evident facts, because every source we try to read or research, more or less confirms the propaganda.
Never use the built in user. Always start a project with a custom user extending abstract user.

At some point you'll want to customize the user in some way (like making the username case insensitive), and you don't want to be dealing with migration dependency conflicts when you do.

For some reason the Django team is really against any attempt to fix that. They're almost hostile in their discussion of it.
Here's one I really like:

https://community.blockspring.com/t/starlet-collector-create...

Click to update all the repo star counts in a README.md, and push a new commit.
I don't think we should be creating menial jobs just to take up people's time because we think they are untalented.

If people want to live on the bare minimum and hunt and fish with the rest of their time, more power to them. They value their time doing those activities more than the money they can trade for it. But when they get tired of it or want something more they'll have the freedom to pull themselves out. There might be a bright line, but it will be easy for anyone that wants to step over whenever they feel like it.
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I prefer how Google Play Music does suggestions and wish Spotify could adopt some elements of the same.

Eg. GPM does suggests things like:
1) Looks like you are at work, here's some music without lyrics for concentration.
2) Looks like you are at home, here's some relaxing music.

.. and so on.

Also Spotify sometimes gets things too right, and it stops me from discovering new music. GPM does a better job introducing noise into the suggestions.

However, the catalog of GPM is smaller than Spotify. Cannot find famous songs like "Hotel California" on GPM for instance.
Google Music has location-based recommendations. Not sure why Spotify couldn't incorporate something similar.
You end up in a echo chamber and quickly exhaust your recommendations.
I don't think of it this way. While engineering is certainly required I think of engineering as overhead and the more engineering you have to do is indicative of a problem somewhere else.

Take javascript: Javascript is probably the technology with the most engineering overhead in the world. Javascript is so bad that all practitioners of front end engineering have a huge amount of engineering overhead to deal with whether that's through automated testing or manual tests. This all comes down to : Lack of type checking, browser fragmentation. Would you write airplane controller software or airbag deployment software in javascript? No.

There would be significantly smaller engineering overhead if someone say wrote a backend application in Go. Needless to say the original author is a javascript/front end dude.

>If someone does not understand the problem, they should not be allowed to program a solution for it.

You ever done agile? You'd never engineer a bridge using agile. Agile is indicative of lack of understanding of a problem which is typical of 99% of software engineering. We simply do not fully understand business requirements until a product is deployed. So we deploy a project first and iterate and deploy again. Iteration is continuous and indefinite because real understanding of the business "problem" is never complete.
Do they have anything to do with Tolkien's ainus?
> inexpensive apartments in the city

New York City resident here. There aren't that many inexpensive apartments. To put things in perspective, one new apartment building in my neighborhood came with about 100 affordable units that ranged in price from $500 to $900 per month.

I'm sure that many people living in dying suburbs would love to move into the city and live in one of those apartments. But more than 80,000 people signed up for the lottery to get one of those 100 apartments.

If you don't have money it is really, really hard to move to the city, and inexpensive apartments are hard to get.
City governments are accountable to their residents, who almost never want to be gentrified and displaced by their suburban counterparts. If anything, they’re trying to do the opposite of what you propose.

No city views the existence of its suburbs as a serious problem. Most cities are in crisis re: gentrification and affordability in the urban core, a problem that suburbs directly solve by providing substitutes for urban apartments.
Even a "small" eruption of a super volcano will change the climate significantly for decades. This helps motivates Elon Musk's desire to be a multi-planetary species.

It is also why I advocate additional investment in engineering solutions to surviving climate change rather than focusing entirely on CO2 mitigation. We cannot prevent a super volcano from erupting.

One of the more interesting conjectures I've heard about climate change was the relationship of sea level to magma mobility. A paper looking at the effect of the Mediterranean ocean drying out and its impact on volcanic activity[1] describes a fairly local connection.

Such a mechanism could be used to explain a systemic recovery response of the planet from periods of high average temperature. Specifically the planet has gone through periods where it has been really warm and then really cold (ice ages) and back again to warm.

[1] http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/v10/n10/full/ngeo3032.htm...
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this will give some nasty people ideas whether or not this case was legit.
It's not appropriate to say that "Google never intended for it to happen" without proof that that is the case, something which is almost impossible from outside Google. Yahoo and Equifax didn't intend for their breaches to happen either, but at least they do not benefit from them. Companies like Google and Facebook, which are in the advertising/datamining business, have an incentive for "accidental" slippages like road-mapping cars collecting wifi data, "we didn't know" sharing of virtually all user data sent over the internet without encryption with the NSA, over-complicated "privacy" settings, services for which user data "will be kept separate" morphing into "we now share user data across services...," and on and on.

These are the most powerful non-governmental agencies in the world (and more powerful than almost all governments). Developers have to stop giving in particular Google a free pass on virtually everything. We need to stop setting Google DNS servers to be the default in software or in example code. We need to stop pretending that turning separate URL and search boxes into a single omnibox is a great convenience or efficiency of space and recognize that it's just more comprehensive collection of user data. We need to stop turning that ever-smaller remaining free space on the internet, the Web, into another massive spiderweb of signals sent to Google and Facebook, with as many as ten or twenty requests sent to Google from a typical webpage, many of which no longer function when these requests are blocked, because the functionality of the site, and not just the advertising, now comes from Google servers.

Acquiescence to this status quo is easy and probably good for one's career, but it's also dangerous for democracy, dangerous for innovation, dangerous for independence of thought...
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I like solving puzzles and problems because I enjoy the process of going from unknown to known. From picking apart each individual thread in the knot, breaking down the problem into smaller and smaller problems until we can start to see the big picture.

In a way, it kind of feels like exploring.
Why not press send then?
I don't know how to make this any clearer, as you seem to have a vested interest in maintaining that the clips indicate nothing untoward about the competition.

A clip of ANY duration showing those behaviors bid competition is unnaceptable.

> Come off it. I could record your next presentation and edit out all but the parts where you said "umm" and you'd look like a moron. Even more so if I then creatively cut that in with video of you explaining to your boss how you'd done a great job in the meeting. (I have no idea what you do; I am sure you can understand the analogy).

Or, you could generate a single clip where I say "nigga" during a meeting and scream non-sequiturs as quickly as I could in order to get a point across, and I would be rightly fired for behaving like an animal. Regardless of whether the clip is 5 or 20 seconds long

The fact that something is selectively edited does not alone imply that it is biased or incorrect. The clips were more than enough to highlight the state to which modern debate has devolved. There are other, unedited examples of this inane style of "debate".

My point is that this style of debate activity itself is not in any way conducive to the exchange of ideas or advancement of understanding; the fact that they were given a trophy after spending ANY time debating in such a manner is an extremely poor reflection on the state of "debate" in our schools.
>I've also discovered that it's having a negative effect on my ability to focus. I used to read a book a week. I haven't read a book since I got a smartphone. I can't.

I got a smartphone recently. I put a lot of ebooks that I read in my commute with inverted colors (white text on black background).

I charge the phone every 3 or 4 days: I don't listen to music on it, I don't take pictures, I rarely if ever go online using it. The home screen is black (took a picture with finger on the lens because I was too lazy to download a "black" image).
1 download limit looks really problematic to me.
Some times download just do not start or get aborted and then everything need to be done again.

Something like 3 downloads limit would make this more usable!
It isn't stupidity.

Europe has been destroyed in WWII only to be liberated by the USA and the USSR (China is also among the winners). The USSR collapsed and withdrew from Eastern Europe, on condition that it remains a buffer zone (think about Ukraine in this context).

The EU is therefore essentially a peace project, subject to the peace treaties ending WWII (this hasn't happened in N. Korea, think about it in this context).

Those treaties are still in force today, including the stationing of liberating forces. This pretty much sets the boundaries, including the defense (read supervision) of strategic resources, such as gas pipelines, energy grids, and yes, communication lines and information technology. Obviously, these restrictions hardly reflect current German economic strength (just like after WWI), which inevitably leads to tensions (‘The Germans Are Bad, Very Bad’, as the POTUS puts it).
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All right, to spell it out: Merriam-Webster is not a dictionary of "correct" forms. The usage of "literally" in my post is documented in Merriam-Webster as "used in an exaggerated way to emphasize a statement or description that is not literally true or possible." It would be inappropriate to use "literally" in that way in a science article in the New York Times, because the standards for writing in the New York Times are different from the standards for inclusion in the Merriam-Webster dictionary.
Drug addiction + elderly family members is a terrible combination.
I suspect that the more successful recommendation algorithms do encourage variation. If I were doing this, I may want to suggest some songs that we're confident that the user will like along with some songs that the user may like based on one musical attribute and not the rest (e.g. ambient, but a different genre).
Terrible, Terrible advice.

Here's an actual quote from the article:

"...unless you are operating at the size of Reddit, you will not need 'stateless sessions'." So for the rest of 99% of the technology world, you don't need stateless session because TFA says so.
I took a genetic algorithms course in college. I was undergrad and the prof needed to "make" the grad course. I recall the idea that when writing these algos, you had to inject mutations into your adjustments, in order not to hit a local maximum.

I think the same of Spotify. Several comments here discuss how it gets too focused, or you're unable to reset preferences, etc. I too wish I could "reset" my daily mixes, or else change it up a bit. Wouldn't even be great if you could have some sort of advanced option to adjust the "genre variability" of your stations?
Thanks! I really appreciate it!
It adds an excellent packaging system and developer experience in the form of cargo, which is also a package manager for external modules. "The bar", I think, is taken to mean the combination of all of these features and their execution, not the idea of modules.
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>Most guns anyway. I have a shotgun but you can have rifles

I would argue that rifles are more a tool for hunting than a shotgun. Germany wanted to ban shotguns (trench guns) the allies used in WWI because of their devastating effects.

Shotguns are also a good tool for hunting birds and whatnot. There are many places in the US where people hunt for cheap food.

Pistols aren't ideal for any kind of hunting though. They're almost exclusively for self defense (and the majority of guns used in homicides).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_violence_in_the_United_Sta...
It's not the technology so much as the tone of the video that was off-putting, I think. The Times also did some 360 video of PR devastation and nobody was shocked.
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I once deleted the entire contents of /bin and /sbin on an HPUX box ~2004 with the HPUX servers origin circa 1996. Live ssh session: non-standard location. scp from a convenient near-replica and voila. Without the near-peer I would have quit and never went back to IT.
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So, I just tested, and the race-condition method does work. I was able to download a 200M the encrypted file three times, and they match. You could imagine a site operator with hundreds of users uploading a file once every hour or so and lots of synchronized users downloading it for each generated link.
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This seems like such a strange comment, since generally it's the cities that are failing in the US while the suburbs do pretty well.

Suburbs, by definition, are already medium density, by the way.
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More FUD from apple.

There's existing tech out there that does a reasonable job.
It's gaining popularity.
We don't have anything to deliver, so let's shit on the market until we can cobble something together.

Yep, standard apple ploy.
The author is just trying to prove that C++ modules cannot be like Java or Python modules, which apparently some people don't get. My view is that C++ programmers already know this, since the language will not change suddenly just because modules have been introduced. The idea that the build system will take care of that is perfectly fine for normal C++ users.