skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The email address in question was an unequivocal white-power slogan (https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2017/10/10/when-white-na...) on a poster that called for white-power violence and repeated the same slogan. ProtonMail was quite specific about all of those things together being the cause of the ban.

Unless you're a perfectly innocent citizen who happens to use BloodAndSoil@protonmail.com for completely non-Nazi-related reasons, I don't think you have anything to worry about.
It's not well publicised but, if you know anyone who's moved away from iOS they can remove their phone number from iMessage here;

https://selfsolve.apple.com/deregister-imessage/
The trilogy as a whole is simply mind-blowing. This is high up on my list also.
>this admin.

Please do not make the mistake of conflating the ruling party with the machinery of the Government of India.

Aadhar is a child of the GoI. It has enjoyed support by both parties, and was the brainchild of the previous Majority member in the coalition.

I assure you, that any and all hopes vis-a-vis aadhar, placed on the ruling party are in vain.

This is exactly the kind of scenario that Americans would be afraid of - a shadowy government organization, which runs constantly, despite any person or party who is in or is not in, power.

That is what the Aadhar authority is, and always has been.

They have a product they can offer all successive governments, which will ensure its continued survival.

The party in power is irrelevant.

I know how partisan political discussions get, which is why I am highlighting this point. IT doesn't matter who is in power.
Supreme Court to decide on the future of warrantless phone tracking
Even if this is so, could you think of a better alternative for some modicum of consumer protection?
I disagree. On a congested road, If you can't see two cars ahead of you and react to the actions of that second car, you're not driving safely.

On a non-congested road, there's no excuse for putting sufficient distance between you and the car in front.
Another vote for Posteo.
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You can turn that argument on its head: you've never worked in consumer/media/ads because it's an abusive industry which self-selects for certain types of individuals that don't care about the privacy of others.

Nowadays they notice the public's displeasure and feel obliged to pay some lip-service, right before going back to abusing the trust of their customers.

I understand it's hard for marketing professionals to resist with so much pressure coming at them. That's why I think they should be supported by laws forbidding their abusive practices.
Then it should be much easier to say no. Bonus: shostack wouldn't be bothered by all that cognitive dissonance.
Maybe it started out as a parody when setup of websites and internet usage still had a difficulty barrier, and then after some time started to attract real loonies. Might indeed be fun when all you wanted was a parody and then random people come and start discussing seriously about flat earth.
My ex will be in that one.
Please see my other post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15814530
Facebook's market share has declined by 7.2% in the last six months
With regard to point 3, the disclosure of aadhar data can result in prosecution, but the prosecution can only be done by the Aadhar agency.

The agency itself disclosed Aadhar data at some point, so it remains to be seen if they will take themselves (or anyone at this point) to court.
> If it’s easy to track every single place you go and every rupee you spend

How so? How can it make it easy to trace the ₹13 cash I used to buy a cig?

> I might have dabbled in substances, for example. Maybe I might not have done that if I had known that the eye of Big Brother was watching.

How does having a UID help the government in tracking your weed smoking habits?

> With the tracking ability they’ll have in a couple of years, that might no longer be possible.

This is the point we go off the rails. You're delusional.
It's easy to have a good attitude when it's not your main line of work.
Most institutions in the UK demand a passport or driving license.

You need a birth certificate to get a passport [1]

You need a passport to get a driving license [2]

In order to vote you need a national insurance number [3], which is issued to you on your 16th birthday, via your guardian's/parent's electoral registration information.

Ergo a birth certificate is a de-facto national ID (or immigration documents)

[1] https://www.gov.uk/apply-first-adult-passport/photos-and-doc...

[2] https://www.gov.uk/id-for-driving-licence

[3] https://www.gov.uk/national-insurance/your-national-insuranc...
These types of posts and the ensuing comments drive me crazy because they have mentions of very high salaries (for example people talking about 400k total compensation, etc) but sparse info on what type of developer positions actually pay this. Grouping all software developers as if they are the same makes no sense to me. It's been my assumption that developers working in machine learning, and other related areas, tend to command the highest pay? I can't imagine that people are building basic CRUD apps and making $300k a year, for example?
To be fair, a loop spinning and some malloc / free functions in a library are enough to call something a RTOS.
One of the best things about Ethereum is how Vitalik focuses mostly on important technical solutions to difficult problems, notably scaling the network to millions/billions of tx/s - crucial to Ethereum's future success. He rises above the noise, it's really impressive given his young age.

https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin/status/931323377008046080
What about a hybrid PoS/PoW system? In reality, bitcoin as PoW is also near monopoly, more like oligopoly, still requiring trust.
I keep seeing how recent graduates of top schools command very high salaries, and I wonder, has any company done a large scale study comparing the performance of graduates from different 'tier' schools? What about the performance after a number of years?

I am really curious to see the difference in performance between two fresh graduates of different schools, and the difference after 2,5,10 years experience.
Pakistan blocks social media sites and news TV
You're talking about an animated avatar that just happens to be of an actual person? And only in 2D?
> SSN for services is par for the course in the US.

Aadhar is not the same as SSN.

https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/aadhaar-vs-so...

https://scroll.in/article/823570/despite-the-comparisons-ind...
For me, one of the key quotations and take-aways is this:

> In almost all software-related aerospace accidents, it turns out that the software is behaving as designed, but the designed behaviour was not safe from a system viewpoint.

There is more that is of value. For people - like me - who have designed safety-critical systems, and for people who want to do stuff that potentially has deeper consequences when it goes wrong, this is an interesting article.

But it's not a tutorial. You need to study it to find the lessons, you need to read with attention and extract the value. As with learning to program, learning to dance, learning math, learning to juggle, it's not a spectator sport.

If you want to get into anything that has a safety aspect, this article isn't a bad place to start.
Dunno about other games, but Lichess[0] has a correspondence gameplay mechanism[1]

[0] https://lichess.org/

[1] https://i.imgur.com/nYgMjuB.png
In case anyone hasn't heard the periodicity of pulsar signals, here are a few examples: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gb0P6x_xDEU

Very difficult to imagine something of n solar masses rotating that quickly, or how long they will continue to rotate at an appreciable percentage of their current speed.

I wish someone would put together an updated version of this with higher quality audio.
> I disagree that it's a differentiator between juniors and seniors though.

Whole heartedly disagree. For myself, whether it's in the context of software engineering, sales, management, graphic design, etc, _the_ key differentiator outside of skill in weighing a mid-level or senior candidate is their ability to share their knowledge and inspire other members of their team through mentorship and knowledge transfer.

I think you're looking at this from a more selfish angle, with thinking that hiring someone who's good at "teaching" is a benefit only to the company because they get a free trainer.

It should also be noted, there is a big difference in "teaching" and mentoring. And it's also the human element of giving back...i guarantee when you were starting your career there was a more senior person who trained and mentored you.
The State of European Tech 2017
It isn't. https://protonmail.com/support/knowledge-base/protonmail-isr...
Their mistake was obviously that they openly justified the ban with human judgement and gave insight into their evidence used for the ban.

They should have simply said "our algorithms determined the likelihood of this account being used to incite violence sufficiently high" and everything had been fine...

/s
Bittrex emite una advertencia sobre los “Pump and Dumps” de las criptomonedas
Stories are coming to YouTube next
Drawing fractal Droste images: spirals inside Mandelbrots
Azure is doing a lot of address this but creating repeatable infrastructure with Hashicorp tools like Packer and Terraform just required way too many steps. However, they are much closer to competing with AWS than GCP.
One cannot follow their moral compass in an abusive industry - they cannot change their environment, the environment changes them.

The only thing OP can do is quit, but let's be honest here... they've been in the industry for a while and they're ok with what's happening.

How do I know that? Tomorrow they'll go to work and they will work on ads and tracking. Always follow what people do, not what they say. Posting on HN is cheap.
Yeah I would definitely say electronic dance music, at least how it exists in Europe, is a definite counter example. A dance track will always have a intro and a outro for mixing purposes and will probably be between 5-7 minutes in length, regardless of weather its uploaded on Soundcloud or a limited press on vinyl.

As far as pop music goes, it seems only natural that music which was for decades made for radio will change once the primary medium changes. The main purpose of intros seems to be for the radio DJ to talk over it.
I agree with you, but I'm also curious if the techniques that are making progress in other areas (e.g. machine learning) could be used to extract meaningful data from these forums. Most bugs won't be as obvious as "login as root without password" but I imagine there is substantial signal within the noise.
It seems there were/are a couple of workarounds for setting third party cookies in Safari.

One was to send a POST request in a hidden iframe using javascript. This was supposedly what Google used to bypass Safari's blocking of third party cookies[1].

Another is (was?) to redirect to the third party domain, and then back again[2]. This would supposedly work since the restriction on third party cookies doesn't apply to already visited domains.

1: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9930671/safari-3rd-party...

2: http://www.mendoweb.be/blog/internet-explorer-safari-third-p...
> They're not just asking for the number - they're asking for a scan of the entire card including all other details such as gender, age, and address.

Name, UID, gender, age, address these are not biometric info. In fact they are part of your ID.

> What was this desperate need you talk of?

I explained it in my comment.

> Its original vision was to plug leakages and pilferage in governmental social welfare and subsidy programmes, and not as a mandatory national unique ID. It was targeted at only people who wanted to participate in those welfare and subsidy programmes, and not for every citizen.

Vision and purpose can change. Nothing to worry about. Originally the purpose of cellphones was to talk and text. Now you watch Netflix on it.

> It hasn't replaced any of the other IDs

It will. Eventually there will be no need to link it to other cards because UID will be enough for everything.
I consider this to be a very valuable advice no matter you work with software engineering or not; it's useful for any slightly complicated business from a costumer POV.
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You wanna be careful with your usage of quotation marks in context of woman. You make it sound like she slept her way to a startup.

This is 2017, the year of Harvey Weinstein.
Where are the pre-trained models?
As I stated elsewhere in this thread -

Treating the Aadhar authority as a partisan object is to make a mistake.

It was conceived by the Congress, and as an agency, it is designed to survive all normal parties which come to power.

It is more an arm of the Government of India, its bureaucracy and underlying machinery - than a political function of whoever is the ruling party at the time.

To discuss of it in terms of parties, is to pretty much fall into one of its defensive design patterns - because this agency is designed to appeal to any party in power.

A significant amount of design and political thought has gone into this agency, and in the way it has strategically expanded its remit and powers.

In short - UIDAI was designed from to avoid the political pitfalls of modern India and exist forever.

Its only real weakness is scrutiny of its results and methods, and its eventual necessity to handle actual crisis.

Do note, that this has already been planned for, because the Agency is designed to push responsibility away from itself, - instead it gives people the ability to use their APIs and take the responsibility on themselves.
> although the sky does really look like that if it's dark enough

I agree. Additionally, I assume most people here on HN live on a place that is heavily light-polluted, see https://www.lightpollutionmap.info .

If OP happen to pass by a place with low light pollution, I encourage him/her to stay and watch the sky for a while (30 minutes ?) so that the eyes can adapt to darkness. It's really a neat experience.
I wish researchers showed a random mix of results, not just their best results ...
> I would like an option to purge my details from database.

You can't. Just like you can't delete info from the RTO databases.
The internet has not been like this for two decades.

It has been like this since Google and Facebook became ubiquitous, which didn't start until the mid 2000's.

Before then, the internet was still the internet, only without most of the data hoovering.

I am totally in support of legislation that curtails this kind of thing. This isn't a case of the internet being made worse, it's a case of consumer protections catching up to technology.
> It'll be realistically impossible to accomplish for smaller entities, so start-ups will be stuck even more than they already are in struggling to reach beyond their local audiences.

Wasn't this always the case for businesses? If you are a physical company selling physical things then logistics, legal etc was always a huge barrier to expansion beyond your local market.

I think the misconception is that the "normal" state is that the internet is a single normalized market where anyone can grow from zero to global in a way that a physcal company can't. I don't think that's realistic. What happened was simply that regulators couldn't keep up, as is always the case in the beginning of something.

> This process destroys the Internet as it has been known the last two decades and it appears nothing is likely to stop it from getting dramatically worse in the next 10-15 years.

But wasn't the internet in the past decades just a wild west where things like privacy etc always took a back seat? Is this development really such a bad thing (for consumers, I mean)?
If someone is dangerously tailgating me, I will very lightly brake-check them (barely slowing down) because the vast majority of tailgaters seem to be mediocre drivers who aren't thinking deeply about their actions. If they persist, I'll slow down and let them overtake.

When I'm driving, I'm constantly scanning for bad (i.e. unsafe or unpredictable) drivers in all directions. Once spotted, the choice is either to be well past them or well behind them. Usually the choice is easy.
Sure, but it'll never happen.

North America, the EU+Eurozone, Australia/New Zealand, Japan, and as much of Latin America & Africa as possible, should come up with a common framework that gets you an extremely high degree of compliance out of the gate if you follow it (with some expected smaller issues that are likely to be unavoidable on a nation to nation basis).

WTO for the Internet. It's probably an inevitable outcome in some manner. The difficulty (cost, compliance and just plain frustration) will get great enough such that this will happen. The primary question is what form it'll take, what authority body/bodies it falls under, who initiates it, who the stragglers are, and so on.

China would never sign on to it, and several dozen other nations also would likely lag or refuse. In China's case, they've always operated their own Internet, so they're irrelevant to the context that's occurring.
> IT doesn't matter who is in power.

Agree 100%. Adhaar is good for the people no matter who is in power.
Its I believe highly illegal when I worked for BT in the UK misuse of NI numbers was a very serious gross misconduct offence - we go read the riot act over this it was almost as bad as corruptly looking up data on individuals info - say the queens private number ;-)
Thanks for that! I really didn't know they had a response to these claims. However it's not hard to see this can just be a PR shield anyway.
> so learning how to compile a C++ library or program is _part_ of C++.

I entirely disagree. This is only for historical reasons, the language itself does not care at all about the compilation model. This mindset is what is keeping C++ back, both for the industry AND in students' minds.

> I feel like it hindered my ability to eventually understand what a real C++ program was.

The moment you have a .o file it's not a C++ program anymore, but a platform-specific object file. You aren't learning C++ but windows / mac / linux's native binary production toolchain.
The Instant Pot Is Now an Entire Economy and Religion
I’ve wondered lately how far away we are from automated air travel especially with the impending advent of self-driving cars. I understand that it’s a technological hurdle to get to the level of reliability and robustness required to trust hundreds of lives to a machine. But I wonder if self-driving cars will change people’s perspective on it. I also don’t know what the unsolved problems in the area are.
Oh wow. Is there any other explanation for this other than this having been exploited in the wild for almost three weeks? Or maybe someone just tried to log in over SSH to exploit some other weakness (something like predictable SSH passwords on jailbroken iOS devices), and happened to create the root user on your machine?

Did you also have sshd running, and do you know what kind of network you were using at the time?
I think it can be a good way to size up a person too, I once was in talks with an entrepreneur who was working on a business and wanted to eventually hire me as a technical lead. He would keep mentioning how he wanted to make the company into a billion dollar company (at the time I think it had like $30k in revenue), of course it didn't work out. Setting realistic goals is very important.
I guess you'll have to wait for the next part.
Absolutely it has mostly always been the norm, throughout business history. The last 20 some odd years with regards to the Internet have been a freak of history; in that sense it's not at all surprising to see that abnormality end, barriers go up, complexity and cost go up, and so on. It's a shame, it was an extraordinary experiment.
It's edge devices man!
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Ask HN: How to deal with a domain impersonating my company, stealing accounts
Let's say I've got a company with the name and domain great-software.com, and someone started running a scam domain called greatsoftware.tech. This website tries to trick users into providing their account details and stealing their funds. The scam domain is registered with a Russian domain registrar.

Have should I go about this, and what options do I have?

Thanks a lot.
Well, this reminds me of the following article I just read: "Please build websites for the web, not just Google Chrome." — https://thenextweb.com/dd/2017/11/28/please-build-websites-w...
Everyone? Only estadounidenses.
> 1. This Govt. has, in a recent affidavit to the Supreme Court, claimed the Aadhaar database has never been hacked.

> 2. Other government agencies — including state governments and the National Informatics Centre have made Aadhaar details and data public, or accessible publicly.

So that means the government has been truthful? As soon as they start lying we'll have the recourse of suing. Don't worry.

Ineptness of government agencies is there in everything. Trains run late and the bathrooms smell. Doesn't mean we need to shut it all down. We carry on and try our best to improve things. Laws will slowly but surely catch up. Enforcement will catch up. This is the only way we can progress.
Recommended reads on the native vs non-native topic:

* https://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/a-letter-regarding-native-... (tldr; there is no such thing as a native graph database)

* https://neo4j.com/blog/note-native-graph-databases/ (tldr; native graph databases do exist)

Regarding Cypher vs Gremlin: serialization could be a thing but what matters among other things are efficient query optimizations, algorithm and (physical) data model. Ultimately, databases are all reading from 1-dimensional spaces (RAM or disk), either randomly or (best) sequentially. If you can colocate vertices with their respective edges, you're fine: this is trivial for graphs with no edges or graphs that form a linear chain. If not, then things start to become fun, especially in a distributed way. This will impact performance; the language, not so much.
PSA:

It's about this "KVM":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KVM_switch

Not this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel-based_Virtual_Machine
Could you please tell me which airport this was and if you remember the location and the ad?

Thanks a lot
Main thing was security... DO now offers F/W now though.
Synergy (https://symless.com/synergy) may have had something to do with it.
I don't know what you're talking about.

The Internet has been globally widely open since the mid 1990s (except for a few countries like China), when it comes to commerce. That has only begun to slowly change in the last ten years.

Even now, the Internet is still widely globally open. Compliance challenges are still relatively modest. The point is, that's beginning to change at an accelerating rate.
Mt. Graham, east of Tucson. Worth it.

http://www.darksky.org/
Finance centric:

Finra (Financial Industry Regulatory Authority) requires <50ms

MiFID II (EU centric) HFT requirement can be as low as 100 microseconds accuracy, or 0.1ms.
Because most of them can't. Only so many of senior engineers can become managers (because of obvious mathematics, management is a much smaller fraction of overall jobs available). Most of them get to a point their salaries flatten out and there isn't any advancement they can do. At that point that usually have paid off mortgage and kids so they are content just having better work life balance, doing 9-5 work & collecting their paycheck, not caring too much about advancing from that sweet spot.