skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe part of the case here was that they would hash uploaded content, only storing unique files once but would create a new link to the content each time someone uploaded it. And when they received the DMCA requests they only took down the reported link rather than all of the links to that file.
Right, though I was thinking of other examples of functional match style and returning a value. As seen in in Haskell, F# Rust etc.

e.g. https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/second-edition/ch06-02-match....

So value_in_cents can return a value of 1, 5, 10 or 25.

Saying that it "does not have a return statement" might be truish - but the fact that the "return" keyword is not needed to return values is just syntax.

Saying that there's no early return / multiple exit points is not so much. To my eye there are 4 places where that function can return a value. And the cases might not be simple numbers making the whole thing an expression, later examples on that page show how the cases can differ in side-effects.
SAP is definitely large but I'm unaware of them being serious corporate criminals. Is there anything that I've missed?
This is quite stupid if you ask me; data is the gold of our times, we should have regulations in place that allow individuals to trade certain amounts of data with companies in exchange for money and/or a service - it shouldn't be one way only as it is now, they take everything a make a profit off of it.

Some Blockchain startups are coming up with ideas on how to solve a marketplace of data, but I fear it's not enough yet and it will die down with the ICO craze.
Don't forget to add a music festival... And a theme park for good measure.
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I don't think Belkin/Linksys operates in those market segments. It doesn't appear that they have any rackmount routers at the moment, just a tiny VPN router and some rackmount Ethernet switches. The rest is WiFi routers that are unlikely to have any significant hardware acceleration beyond a built-in Ethernet switch with basic NAT capability. There's not much separation between data plane and control plane in those products.
I have just installed OSMAnd to give it a try but well; there is a lot of features to cover :

- navigation

- address search (not the first time I hear it is awful in OSM)

- pictures of places

- live traffic data, both streets and public transportation

- great search (like gyms near me)

- colored points of interest on the map. Kind of an hidden feature but that's immensely useful when you know it is there and you don't know the city you are in.

- reviews

It might take 5 or 6 apps to replace it entirely.

As for inbox, their spam filter is top notch and I like the automatic tagging system.

edit : just started trying OSMAnd, wow it is extremely laggy on my high end phone.
Ok, what if the cardboard is flying over the road?
you may have all the data, if you have 'the' money
You don't even need to look at security vulnerabilities to wonder what happened to macOS development at Apple.

My wife recently bought a mighty mouse. It worked for a few days, but then macOS would fail to associate with it via Bluetooth unless it's plugged in via the lightning cable, in which case it's unusable, the connector being on the side that normally sits on the table.

Anyways, after a quick Google, I found a workaround that I couldn't believe would work, but I tried it anyways: open preferences, and check off "Allow Handoff between this Mac and your iCloud devices". ... and it worked instantly.

My wife doesn't even have an iCloud account...

The problem (and workaround) has been known for at least 4 years.
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Most western countries have legalized sex work in some way simply because it's pragmatic, realistic, and harm-reducing. Even the countries where buying sex is illegal, but selling isn't, recognize this. Although that's still a shitty, moral-driven standpoint IMO, at least such a policy acknowledges basic human decency at some level. In fact, most western countries strive for policies that don't actively cheapen human life, regardless of political alignment.
nothing can compare to saving a .bas file on a floppy to learn how to code.
Link to the news release on the Washington University site:

https://medicine.wustl.edu/news/antibody-removes-alzheimers-...
I never assumed democrats aren't conservative when it comes to social values.

Toxicity towards women taking control of their sexuality runs deep within our society.
Its interesting that University puts an emphasis on re usability, when in reality it often makes code a lot more difficult to understand.
> Several comments here making comparisons

On one hand, you are (reasonably) calling out comments for questionable comparisons, but on the other hand...

> What is the acceptable casualty rate of elevators?

...you've made one of your own.

I haven't yet formed an opinion on the underlying question (of what kind of risk aversion is appropriate in the face of automation), but I do notice that it evokes questionable comparisons from all sides.
I like the idea of personal data regulation, but I can't imagine it being easy to enforce, when data can be passed with complete ease and without any detection when compared to moving expensive physical goods.

The big problem right now is that Cambridge Analytica/Facebook are about to set a precedent for large-scale data misuse by receiving little to no punishment. In a fair world you'd be right, and regulation would exist to give Facebook and co a big enough fine for their breach of trust to ensure that no one ever does this again.
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I have heard a similar story that existed in my company before it joined. It was a system that raised and dispatched jobs to engineers, and unless the space bar was held down on the master terminal, it stopped sending jobs out.
No, but the "bare metal hosts" should be configured through configuration management and all logs sent "off site". I've been in the same boat and never had to log into a bare metal box. K8s and Ansible will do that for ya.
Worst website I've seen in a long time.
The argument really stands where senate votes nearly unanimously on a bill and then a court strikes it down for being too overreaching.

We've had this happen with a lot of "child pornography" laws in the past.

I'm waiting for ACLU to take this to the courts.
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>> It's been known for decades on other Unix systems that you shouldn't pass passwords by command line parameter

> could you provide some references to the statement?

If you search the Usenet archives, you can find many discussions about this. It's one of those topics that came up frequently in the comp.unix newsgroup as early as 1991 that I see in some messages.

Usenet discussion from 1994:

"ps e gets you a processes environment. It is totally unsafe to store anything that should be secret. if there needs to be secret data, the best way to get it is with scanf(), once the program is running."[1]

And here is the Secure UNIX Programming FAQ from 1999:

"A security hole related to FreeBSD's 'ps' utility. The utility would allow users to view another process' environment variables. Consequently applications like pppd that accepted passwords via environment variables became vulnerable to unauthorized release of privileged information attacks. In fact, thehole was not related to 'ps' if you think about it critically. The application that places privileged information in the environment variable is at fault."[2]

[1]https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!search/ then search for "ps shows command line parameters" (for the exact message, search for "ps e gets you a processes environment")

[2]http://faqs.cs.uu.nl/na-dir/unix-faq/programmer/secure-progr...
Erm... I don’t think statistics work like this. You can‘t go and pick a confidence level that „confirms“ your desired outcome.

People with more knowledge about statistics than me might be able to explain why.
I don't apply the same logic other places. But banning places from having conversations about how to do it safely is a stupid idea and is going to end with more people hurt. This law benefits no one.

If someone is having to resort to prostitution they will, just without the support network they need.
Cool what's your address, bank account balance and your kids names?
2010. Ah, how young and foolish I was back then...
Secure Scuttlebutt (Patchwork application), I think, has its heart in the right place.

http://scuttlebot.io/
For simple, non-critical stuff this is the simplest solution I've come up with - if you don't need real-time aggregated logs (i.e. you only want to archive them) and you have log rotation configured, you can simply use cron with "aws s3 sync" or rsync for the logs folder.
I would not. I am 44, so I remember what life was like pre-internet. I have considered how I have kept in touch with people over the years, what my relationships were like, what made me happy, all these things... and I have come to the conclusion that Facebook has been an almost completely negative experience across the board.

I have claimed my name, simply because it is a common one, and I don't want to be denied some future job because of something a namesake posted. That that is even a concern is a large part of what makes Facebook awful.

Now, all that being said- I still think that something like what we call social media today could be a positive experience. I just don't think any of the current platforms are there.
OpenWRT is still trying to support devices with 8MB of storage, so they can't go overboard and start incorporating Docker or anything like that. But some services do run as separate users: on my routers, dnsmasq and avahi aren't running as root. What other services would you like to see isolated?
Check out papertrail.
That depends. Python's pep guidelines has an 80 char wide rule, but I personally find that a lot harder to read than one long line (most of the time).
For small stuff I still like the simple syslog. It’s usually built in and supports aggregating to a single server.

In the past have created a server just with syslog. Adjust all your servers syslog configs to point to that one. Then log in and use grep.

Not fancy. But gets the job done with a single line config change in your syslog configs.
That's kind of the curse of the consumer market. When it comes to that kind of appliance, consumers care about sticker price above all. It's a brutal race to the bottom.

I worked at Meraki, and institutionally we were deathly scared of dealing with that market; we were perfectly happy to stay in the enterprise market, where buyers were actually willing to pay for quality.
Maybe. It depends on what kinds of guarantees they'd give around use of my data. I don't really care about seeing ads per se, I care about invasive tracking and data harvesting.

I think I might pay $10/year to use Facebook without them looking over my shoulder.
Maybe a smaller army would be a good thing, at least in terms of API stability.
Firefox is certainly more than 1%
>Amazon doesn't want their tablets to have the Play Store

Sure, but their customers do. It will be a lot less attractive option for some people if Google comes out with its own tablet, since it will have Google and Amazon's apps (setting aside the possibility of price difference)

I also partly agree with what habura said.

I think Amazon does care about the Google Play at bit because the developer fees on the apps go to Amazon rather than Google.

On the other hand it is also more about the services ecosystem that Amazon and Google are offering.

Take the following:

1. Cloud storage - Google Drive vs Amazon Drive

2. Digital content stores(books, movies, etc)

3. Music Subscription. (this came later, but still helps my point)

Amazon might've weighted the above and thought that if it has a monopoly of these services, people would go with Amazon rather than Google's services, since it will be available on more devices.

Note: This is all speculation, and even maybe as another user called it, a 'baseless conspiracy theory' so take it with a grain of salt. Longterm corporate decisions are hard to decode with confidence.
Just confirmed with my relative who works ta Belkin, Dubai. They just finished call with them.. and news is already leaked.
A US citizen consultant working for weeks abroad, buying a local sim card. That doesn't make sense to you?

Niche maybe, but certainly useful enough to be included.
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The problem is that the standard, "dumb", security system is still more effective that "self"-driving solution from Uber.

How is a "self"-driving solution allowed to drive in real traffic when it can't break in a simple situation where relatively simple, existing systems can already reliably break.
If my assumpton here is valid, it was HN specifically who did this.

Some previous mentions of similar changes (or not, with regrets):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11500234#11511521

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9793358#9794491

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10640478#10642264

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14190764#14196106

And more:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=dang%20changed%20title%20discu...
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I fail to see how your analogy maps to the current situation.
I don't know what the options are on Android, but you aren't required to use iCloud on iOS for Contacts (or at all, for that matter, though there are likely feature limitations such as some syncing between devices if you don't have it enabled).
Some more pictures from the article itself: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-03218-8/figures/4
According to ICO guidelines:
"Where requests are manifestly unfounded or excessive, in particular because they are repetitive, you can:

charge a reasonable fee taking into account the administrative costs of providing the information; or
refuse to respond."

I wonder if that would apply to the letter?

[0]: https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-the-general-da...

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Probably still safer not to hit it, or at least not to hit it at full speed.
Hypertalk looks like it's being spoken by Buffalo Bill.
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Rachel’s starting point here is a fair few steps ahead of ”it’s called chef”. For one, chef only fixes the things that you explicitly tell it to. When you have enough machines and enough people poking at them, you’re more or less guaranteed that someone somewhere will have gotten a machine or three in a state chef can’t recover from — hence her suggestion of reimaging.
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Yet Python has never claimed to be a templating language itself, let alone "the easiest, simplest, most direct way to generate html".

My point is that PHP pretends to be a templating language, then falls flat on its face, so people end up implementing much worse (Smarty, MediaWiki) or sometimes even better (Twig) templating languages on top of it.

In other words, it's simply not true that PHP's "declarative "templating" is the easiest, simplest, most direct way to generate html", or there wouldn't be a need for Smarty, the MediaWiki abomination (which is 17 years old but still widely used on 29 million pages), or Twig.

I'd say "to hack together something half-assed that barely works, but does provide the feature" perfectly describes the PHP development process itself.
Agree. Well, ideally you would want to give a path for non technical users to do more than spreadsheets. That was the promise of hyper-card, VBA, etc. But that's not the direction of the world anymore, quite the opposite.
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Fair judgment but where did you get those figures from?
Given that he's been doing so for years, I'm skeptical.
Or if Google comes out and starts restricting more things, it just might result in users choosing other Android options. Samsung tablets are an option.
Looks like wizardforhire was talking about something like distributed encrypted backups. The simple version is, others store your stuff for you (and you store theirs), but they can't read it, because only you have the key.

Add to that a way to authorise people to decrypt your stuff (and, ideally, ways to revoke those rights), and you get the the whole thing.
On online platforms, It's a stigma to compare current events with things that Nazis did because you'll be ridiculed if you do.

According to the Godwin's law, the longer the conversation goes likelier it is that someone will mention Hitler. People know this, so it is very uncool to co-relate current events with Nazi Germany. You'll be called out even if you're talking about literal Nazis doing literal Nazi stuff. Memes are powerful, people don't like to be ridiculed.

But it feels like this is wearing out.

In Turkey, you can't show concern for privacy without being ridiculed because a very popular comedian made a joke about CIA targeting you personally while you're barbecuing. You'll be slapped with that joke the moment you mention about your personal data being collected.

Jokes are powerful.
That would be 'illusory'.
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How much does it cost to build an app like Uber?
I'm completely against sexual exploitation as well. But prostitution, i.e., sex between consenting adults in exchange for money, has nothing whatsoever to do with sexual exploitation or slavery.

Sexwork is work, just like any other type of work.
It's not true that you can always choose whether to tell others or not. There are certain drugs that make you more talkative and even consuming too much alcohol makes you unable to control what you tell others. And it likely won't be long until a device is discovered that allows you to see others thoughts.
They were also hiding money robbed by the nazis and helping organized crime in money laundering.
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It would be baseless if ROMs aren't allowed to have them. But they do, hence my conspiracy theory isn't asinine.

Also, I bet this will do nothing to the Chinese tablets side-loading Google's Apps.
GDPR seems to be on the right track, but I still fear that misuse will not be fined enough; if I remember correctly, it should be 20M or 4% of your gross profit worldwide, whichever is higher, and that'd be a joke to a company like Facebook.

The other problem to consider with GDPR is that it might set a barrier to entry too high for potential competitors to Facebook to emerge, which on the other hand has enough money to comply/pay the fines right away.
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I can send text, email, call someone.

Travel apps, say, Ryanair, Easyjet, Booking, are working without a single glitch, including push notifications.

Version 8 of Google Maps and version 3 of translate (the one with the 200+MB language packs that people actually understood, unlike the AI-powered 30MB ones in the new versions) don't need Google Services Framework, neither does Osmand.

Netflix, Spotify, amazon videos work fine, amazon anything works fine.

Even whatapps (which I sadly had to install due to the lack of other channels with a few groups) functions as expected.

The only app I'm using and has problems is Monzo: most of the push notifications don't come through, only sometimes one of them, and you have to - gasp! - manually refresh by pulling the screen down.

I'm really curious about your "guarantee".
Why not, I have 2 different systems that detect an imminent impact in a wall, then if the systems do not agree you stop, if your main system is experimental then having the backup system that is using different tech then it seems obvious that is safer to stop, then analyze the cause of the conflict.
This can be horrible in JavaScript. It can make code really ugly. I have had to deal with code that looks like this recently:

if (condition){
doSomething()
doSomethingElse()
}
else
doSomethingDifferent()
doSomethingConfusing() // is this part of the else or not??

Perl got many things right. Its a shame it seems to have fallen away as a language.
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Even the word "small" is quite relative. One of my clients is big enough that you've probably heard of them, and their website/app (which is the company's only thing) is one LAMP server. That was only last year upgraded from a Windows 2003 WAMP server on a desktop. I tell friends what I did there and they say "wow you must be really good at Puppet at scale" based on assumptions.
Is 4 % of worldwide turnover enough?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regu...
The cool "starving artist" types putting up their events/content on Facebook is what makes it valuable to the rich people they want to advertise to. So it's not as simple as just keeping the people who can afford to pay.
What reference model do you align the RNAseq against? That would seem to have a huge effect on results no?
Facebook is also Oculus, React, Onavo, Facebook Live and their video platform is trying to compete with Youtube, and they have bought and consumed lots of technology, developers and data from companies that do analytics, deep learning, tracking, location, development tools (even some good ones they EOL'd like Parse) and more.

If the Facebook site/app goes the way of AOL/MySpace, which it won't for a long time, they have already prepared for that.
Have you looked into ZeroNet? https://zeronet.io/

Seems to do what you need.
Volvo is also manufacturing a car with a pedestrian airbag, the V40: https://support.volvocars.com/uk/cars/Pages/owners-manual.as...

Both Volvo and Uber could have opted to use this car instead. Even choosing a SUV is question-worthy, as they're known to be more dangerous for pedestrians due to higher bumper heights: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_sport_utility_veh...

IMO there is at least some negligence on their part for not choosing a car that is more likely to protect pedestrians.
By ads free I meant their core business would be about not tracking you and only providing services of showing you content your friends publish.

Like you said it depends on what kinds of guarantees they'd give around use of data. How guarantees can you give?
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I'm glad that you have found success, however I would like it if you could explain further because this is exactly why LibreOffice is considered unusable (large data).

I have 32g of memory and a SSD on this machine. If I attempt to open a 1,000,000 .csv file, add a filter at the top, and attempt to filter by a column, my computer is done. LibreOffice will go gray and never recover no matter how long it is left. Eventually it will crash. Do the same in Excel and it will successfully search the column and return just the line items with said column.

That example is egregious as well. LibreOffice can not handle 500,000 line items files with 30 text heavy columns. It crashes on numerous basic spreadsheet operations, however Excel handles them (and quickly).

I am not a Microsoft shill, I'm running open source from Linux to Ruby/Rust and all the way down to Postgres. I would love nothing more than to stop having to keep a second windows machine setup next to me just to handle large csv files.
> If I came to you, as a friend, and did to you what half of the adtech companies do to people at large, I'd get - rightfully - punched in the face. And yet we tolerate that happening at scale.

What, specifically, are you talking about? "Hey, have you heard about x, it seems like your kind of thing" from friends is entirely welcome.
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