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Ask HN: Effectively blocking data siphons on Android and protecting user privacy
One method which I've been following to prevent unnecessary data logging from applications / system applications on a non-rooted Android devices is to install either the Netguard NoRoot Firewall from playstore:

Netguard NoRoot Firewall: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.faircode.netguard
Open Source: https://github.com/M66B/NetGuard/ and more trusted than the other app
NoRoot firewall: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.greyshirts.firewall

Both of them works by creating a local VPN and filters all the traffic including the system level apps. Though this guide might not serve non-technical users, it will serve as a good reference for technical users who wish to safeguard the data siphons from all mobile apps, operating system hooks, from all greedy ROM providers and apps. Please sure to read the FAQ section @ https://github.com/M66B/NetGuard/blob/master/FAQ.md for caveats.

Once either of the application is installed and started, the filters can be added to prevent data updates from almost all the apps on Android (including system ones). A little care should be taken to make sure that the filtering application is always running to ensure the automatic and background data updates from all the applications. Once a permanent filter is added, it will not annoy much and will drop all the requests silently. One is sure to be amazed as how much data is being sent from all the applications at intervals which could potentially be used for tracking every movement and profiling.

Please comment / update if you have any alternate methods of preventing automatic data leakage / background monitoring and data updates on non-rooted Android devices. Thanks for reading.
> It appears that Equifax is allowing him to be charged

Why would Equifax even have a say in that? It's not like he's a sacrificial lamb. There's evidence against him, it will be used. If evidence is discovered against other individuals, it will be used, regardless of the opinion of Equifax.
Any experience on how well these things run Linux?
I must say that your Unit 731 rebuttal did a great job of contrasting genuine bad behavior with the parent's claims of "worst thing I ever read".
I just started playing with spanner. The API is nice. Simple txs are a bit slow - seconds instead of milliseconds - ok for my use-case. I don't hear much about it though, few articles on HN, I was wondering how mature it was and how widely used it is. Is it common knowledge that it is used by a lot of orgs?
> The Chamber of Commerce could easily sue on the grounds that these regulations are overbroad

There are no regulations at issue, there is an initiative statute; and, while, yes it is easy to sue and claim a statute is overbroad, it is much harder to win such a suit: “overbroad” isn't just “covers more conduct than good policy judgement would permit”, but “exceeds any constitutionally permitted purpose to impose a chilling effect or outright prohibition on constitutionally protected conduct.”

In fact, as that claim would be a defense in any lawsuit under the act, if it was such an easy win, it would have been made in one of the cases—like the present one—under the act.
Enigma wasn't hard through obscurity. The Allies had the Enigma machine long before they were able to crack it. It was hard because with the equipment of the day, it was pretty much unbreakable in the same way that prime-number based cryptography is today. It was only A. Turing developing a completely novel kind of machine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombe) that enabled the decryption. In the same way that quantum computers could break the current cryptography easily. It's not obscurity, it's assuming that some (mathematical) task is hard.
What if they're "stealing" rainfall that otherwise hits oceans?
> GMO could be used maliciously.

Anything can be used maliciously.

> That is not likely to happen with random evolution.

That is happening all the time with evolution. Hundreds of types of plants produce poisons. In fact, producing various poisons is the plant's main weapon in the struggle for survivial - it has no claws and can not run, so it's either making itself completely indigestible (like trees) or making itself unfit or at least hard for eating. Like tomatoes, which were, like all nightshades (potatoes, tomatoes, etc.) originally highly toxic. Only we humans convinced tomatoes and potatoes not to kill us, by genetically modifying them since at least 500BC. Of course, we could develop ones that kill too. Or we could worry about grocers to just shooting you - if they'd be willing to kill you with tomatoes, why not with rifles? Of course, in reality nobody tries to kill anyone, so worrying about weaponized GMO is pointless - if you wanted to kill people, nobody would bother with GMO, there are much cheaper ways.
Apparently you are not supposed to say anything rude or even mildly sexually related on the PA, according to [0]

No idea about "box" tho, is that even remotely sexual (not an english native)?

[0](http://www.f-16.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4224)
Under Armour data breach affects 150M accounts
and .co, .om?
I think this boils down to, can your parents use it? My dad forgot his App Store credentials and never download an app. I couldn’t believe it!
one of the pair can tend to other things while the other is hammering out the “easy” parts... as for the “not enough time for more experienced person to work through the hard parts”, isn’t the point that it’s a partner activity? the idea being together, you’re going faster
California voters already know that, though of course they disagree over which voter-approced laws are stupid.
Try and add 2 ethereum amounts correctly without using a library.

They have 18 decimal places.
This needs to be a Show HN, not just a reply to my buried comment.
The last two apartments I lived in had the same crappy machine. It’s the cheapest and it works like crap, but it seems the investors/property managers don’t care.
True, but the super efficient ones must burn more cleanly, and realistically, they are trying to reduce CO2.

And that is all dependent on how much fuel you burn. NOx emissions as well will differ as well but for the most part, a 20 mpg car will be much dirtier than a 50 mpg car.
Sounds like your ego is talking. This is called confirmation bias. When you firmly believe in something, you'll find the search results for it.

Name any "initiative" and I'll find you at least 10 articles on it
Have you personally dealt with receiving commodities like gold from CME group or something? My understanding is it is not simple at all. But would love to hear a person's first hand experience.
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Because it is Panasonic's manufacturing, probably?
> Damascus steel

Damascus steel was good for its time, but there are quite a few modern steels that are better suited for producing bladed weapons.
MC68000 assembly language was so much fun on the great Commodore Amiga. It gave you the opportunity not only to code quickly nice video effects, but also to learn a lot about what is the architecture of a computer, how the CPU works with other coprocesseors (there were many on the Amiga, among which the Blitter to copy data blocks / draw lines / fill shapes, and the amazing Copper to control the video).

I recently decided to code again some stuff because I wanted to write some articles for the retro section of a magazine, and it was so pleasant that I coded some more and documented it (here for those interested, in french at this time, but there are pictures: http://www.stashofcode.fr/category/retrocoding/).

I hope people still have the opportunity to have a look at assembly language at school. The article is interesting. It reminds me also that I always heard that coding in assembly language was hard. Well, I would not have say that back in 1996. x86 was a pain in the ass because of the lack of registers and the way memory was managed, but Mx68x00 was very simple indeed. IMO, what was a bit difficult was that if you wanted to code assembly, you had to learn about how what was around the CPU did work.
I wish they would drop the Trackpoint and the physical mouse buttons and make the touchpad bigger. I carry a usb trackball for that.

My beater laptop that I carry everywhere is a Thinkpad 11e. I deal with the terrible screen so I can have the wonderful keyboard and trackpad. A faster cpu and a 1920x1200 IPS screen would make the little 11e my perfect laptop...
> "I stopped having a career vision for myself for the last year or so of my tenure at Facebook, for no particular reason."

Author cites "career vision" as motivation for leaving, but why no moral qualms about working at Facebook?
An SDK is of no use if the hardware doesn’t live up.

The Apple Newton had a really nice software stack too.
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OP didn't say there's no difference between wines or violins. Of course there is, but at some point those differences stop being noticeable to most and eventually to everyone. Research shows that at some point the story you are being told or tell yourself makes more of a difference than the product.

And while I am not a wine aficionado, I say this as someone who spends substantial amounts of money on up-market chocolates, port etc. which are not exceptions to this either.
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I have a 5th gen (previous) Thinkpad. Everything works out of the box. Don’t know how the latest fares, though. They’ve jacked up the price a lot. At that price point MBP becomes more attractive IMO.
Hmm, you make a good point. I assumed they wouldn't have standing to bring it up if they weren't litigating against the state itself, and that they were limited to arguing on the facts about the acrylamide.
dribbble.com and behance.net. That's more idea generation than asset generation but you can then mashup the ideas to generate your own assets
MyFitnessPal hacked
I would consider the Enigma to be a very good counterexample to security by obscurity. Even after capturing a few of the apparatuses, it took a lot of mathematicians and engineers a lot of time and effort to build something that could decipher messages before the key became obsolete.
They don’t have to. The EPA has final word and CA has been filing an exemption that the EPA has said yes to until this bozo came into office.

My dislike of the guy in Washington has been very high the last ~1.2 years.
http://urbandictionary.com is often helpful if you suspect there's something you might be missing. Even as a native speaker, I find it useful. I'm not always hip to the yout patois.
I have tried youpon tea at a cafe before and even purchased it here: https://lostpinesyaupontea.com. I like Yerba Mate quite well, so I wouldn’t say youpon in better, but I would say I like it equally well. It’s definitely worth a try.
Why keep it in court forever? CA made up its own rules that were more strict than what the EPA had. Car makers followed the state instead of the fed. There is a small reason for the saying "As California does, eventually so does the rest of the country."
Your toilet is definitely broken. This is not a regulation problem.

Seriously, that is not normal behavior for a new toilet.
Is the code available on github ?
The difference is obviously that those people break the law, so it's already regulated against.
This is actually fine for something like healthcare.

We get into this sacred idea that you _must_ have the best healthcare and treatment. Once you declare something as a _must have_, it becomes extremely expensive. Think education, healthcare, automobiles.

In reality, you don't need the best treatment, just very low cost "pretty good" treatment. Taking an IV shouldn't cost $900 using some advanced equipment. It should cost $50 with a cheap plastic bag hanging from a wall hanger.

We also need to scale medical malpractice lawsuits wayyyyy down. IMO doctors aren't out to get or harm you. Most of them want to help. It's impossible not to make mistakes as human beings. You should be able to take that risk, give that you're ok with driving on the road which is one of the riskiest things you have accepted
I worked for the company that powered most of the world's (legitimate) online gambling companies.

We had a C application server and used TCL as a business logic language. It was a great fit for writing code fast and ease of maintenance.

You can hear me get a laugh when I say we use TCL in a talk I did here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVUPmmUU3yY
Glad you added the literally, otherwise I might think that 2 was an exaggeration.
I LOVE paw paws. I used to eat them all the time as a kid when I’d visit Kentucky. You can buy saplings online, but I’ve never had any success growing them in my area.
I'm generally in favor of emissions regulations, but I think the devil's advocate is that:

* raising the costs across the board for transportation may be neutral for competitors in that industry, but not for people who are consumers of transportation or employees in industries that rely on it

* the rural poor spend a far larger percentage of their income on transportation than anyone else, and,

* the rural poor are far more likely to hold jobs that are dominated by transportation costs

So emissions regs could be seen as regressive.

Of course we could counter that environmental harms are pretty regressive too--the health consequences are going to be the most extreme for the poor, especially given disparities in end of life care in the US.

But improved health outcomes over decades are a tough consolation to someone on the edge of losing their home.

Maybe the risk of lost jobs is incredibly small, but if someone's on the bubble, they are going to be more risk averse than you or me, and might push for policymakers to set the bar back a few steps just to be sure.

What's the answer? I don't know. We want both clean air and good jobs, even in distressed areas. Programs that explicitly work towards both at the same time are going to be more hardened, more resilient against politicization.
Full sleep state is currently a bit of an issue apparently:

https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Linux-Discussion/X1-Carbon-Gen-...

There are work-arounds by building IASL with a patch to restore S3 state.
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Bubble removal. That's a new one.
You'll have to take the trackpoint from my cold dead hands... I find it superior to a trackpad, as I don't have to take my hands off the keyboard.
I don't find it clickbait-ey at all. The whole point of the article is that the drink is forgotten - ergo putting its name in the headline wouldn't convey any information.

Clickbait would be if the article was about a drink we're all familiar with, and the title refused to tell us which one.
Ha - I'd prefer the opposite! - get rid of the trackpad :)
The answer is to give rural poor free bus tickets to join civilizations
they use sand and gravel in Edmonton. Which is below barely freezing.
AFAIK the problem with the old context is that values in context were not used to determine whether or not the component tree should update. So if a context value in A changed, but no props/local state changed, it would not redraw the tree below it (B -> C). If C's render depended on the context value, it would not be redrawn to reflect the change.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel%E2%80%93Qatar_relatio...

Qatar seems to have good diplomatic relations with that country, since the 90s
Extremely well. Everything works except for the fingerprint sensor.
After projecting their monthly cost of living, the Rooses determined they’d need $300,000 in investments to be able to live off the dividends

This number seems impossibly low to me. At an - optimistic - 5% return that’s $15k/year between 2 people without allowing for inflation eroding the capital. A lifestyle of traveling means buying airline tickets etc even if they stick to locations with a very low cost of living. And presumably one day they would want to return to the West.
It’s not as black and white as it seems: the CIO was not directly told that Equifax itself had suffered a breach, simply that one of their clients had been.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-03-15/is-inside...

[2] page 6 of https://www.sec.gov/litigation/complaints/2018/comp-pr2018-4...
This is a horrifying proposition. Are you seriously suggesting suspending the presumption of innocence and substituting mob rule?
They tried that a few generations ago with the X240 etc. It was a complete disaster. The buttons are critical. Many people, myself included, find every aspect of the Mac poor ergonomics, including the touchpad. The trackpoint buttons work great along the top. Especially to easily hit middle button. I'd have to see someone in action to understand why they need even more space.
Much appreciation for this feedback. I definitely need to dig further, but your comments are painting quite a discernable image of what the system means from an end user POV. We still got almost 5 years to its realization but something worth keeping tabs on.
"The New York City study also showed that listeners' preferences correlated with their assessment of projection, suggesting the loudness of an instrument may be a primary factor in the quality of its sound."

Do the timbres of these instruments vary? It may be that "manufactured" instruments sound plain, boring, or untextured. Basically the same reason that modern production techniques make songs sound "better" but also worse in the sense that it sounds artificial.
It reduces the traffic, when everything Kodi’s doing is completely legal.
Pro tip: Assemble the cpu/heatsink/ram/nve on the table surface then put the whole thing in the case. No flexing :)
Modern efficient washing machines are front loaders, so gravity does the work of water distribution.
Haven't had a Thinkpad in over a decade and I'm still mourning the loss of the trackpoint.
"The expectation is that fighter combat will continue to evolve to become ever more information dominant."

Is fighter combat a thing ?

What was the last air to air ("dogfight") the US was involved in ? How frequent are they ?

I am in favor of optimization and looking ahead to future use but when you use wording like "fighter combat will continue to evolve" that makes it sound like a thing that is happening in the world and that we are getting feedback from ... is it ?
I have to agree. He literally knew about the breach and then sold them. He's definitely got to go down, I'm sure he knew that what insider trading is.
can you elaborate on colors (Groove)? Why does the landing page has orange, green + two shades of blue? Blue is in their logo, but red is missing. Instead there are orange and green.
I have little to no experience in visual design. But intuitivelly I would expect fewer colors and better adjusted to match brand colors.
In USA "liberal" means both "progressive" and "libertarian", because we are dumb at politics. Sorry.
Never played around with Lisp, so excuse the ignorance. Is this typical to construct HTML in Lisp? This feels incredibly verbose and error prone, not to mention confusing and hard to grok. Good luck having a designer mockup/write HTML.

(defun login-panel ()
(pbox "login/register"
(:form :id "logform" :class "nomargin"
(:table :style "border-collapse: collapse"
(:tr (:td :colspan "2" "username:"))
(:tr (:td :colspan "2" (:input :id "loguser" :class "txt" :name "user" :type "text" :size 15)))
(:tr (:td :colspan "2" "password:"))
(:tr (:td :colspan "2" (:input :id "logpass" :class "txt" :name "pass" :type "password" :size 15)))
(:tr (:td :colspan "2" (:input :id "logmem" :type "checkbox" :name "mem" "remember me")))
(:tr (:td :colspan "2" (:span :id "logerror" :class "error" "")))
(:tr (:td (:input :id "logbtn" :class "btn" :type "submit" :value "Login" :onclick "login(); return false"))
(:td (:input :class "btn" :type "submit" :value "Register" :onclick "register(); return false")))
(:tr (:td :nowrap t :colspan "2" :align "center" :class "little" (:a :href "/password" "what's my password?")))))))
Would it make sense to link to a Github or Gitlab repo so people can view the source code before downloading?
I had a T440s for a while. It had a very thin LCD cover, I don't think it would have liked being sat on, the screen would be crushed down onto the trackpoint. Didn't feel confident with it, went back to a X230, and still keep a rigid plate in my laptop sleeve on the screen side. Some of the older thinkpads had very robust screen covers (at least they looked that way), the T500 in particular, with some kind of honeycomb 'rollcage' in the screen.

This machine might also have a funny SSD connector, that makes it difficult to upgrade. Maybe not.

Wish they would make a machine with a 3:2 screen.
Hah, I am definitely aware of the danger of ESD. I just don't have a place near my desk to mount my anti-ESD wristband.

What I did instead was touching a radiator every once in a while. Is this sufficient?
In the SEC briefing, it is noted that there were two teams deployed: Project Sierra and Project Sparta. Only Sierra had knowledge that Equifax itself was breached and thus a blackout period was instituted. But not for Sparta where the CIO was assigned.
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Very true. What caught my attention as a graphics dev is how legit their SDK design was: https://rawgit.com/shawwn/magic-leap-docs/master/v0.11.1/api...

i.e. If you imagine writing an SDK for a bag of hot air, it seems like it would turn out very different from what you see there.

It's also small and tasteful. That caught me too. I didn't expect a big company to put out something elegant, but they seem to know what they're doing.

You're right though -- it all comes down to the hardware. We'll found out later this year.
If he guessed based on being told to drop everything... then he still knew there was something seriously wrong before everyone else. That's insider trading.