skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have to bang a drum here, because it's a really important drum for HNers to hear and internalize:

It is factually the case that AppAmaGooBookSoft pay mid-career professionals in the engineering track approximately that at whatever the local equivalent of Senior Engineer is, and Senior Engineer is a level that everyone in the engineering track who is not fired is expected to get to.
This is my all time favourite talk. So much of development complexities are covered in those simple ideas Cheng points out
It is about saying, "NO" and not creating this in the first place. That's the point. Until devs figure out they are responsible for this the quicker it will end. Would FB and Palantir be where they are today without people smarter than the founders enabling this?
Even if you are over 500€, there is no 'just buy a Mac' attitude.

Maybe it's because a computer is a significant expense, so people value price/performance more,

or maybe because schools have Windows PCs and nobody is used to OSX from young age.
"contact data" is already a pretty nebulous term. If my experience with European business websites is anything to go by, this is not the sort of requirement that the GP is talking about.
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The sad part is that it's not just authoritarian countries that are doing this, but also the democratic ones, in a foolish effort to stop "fake news" or "terrorism propaganda".

And the "better" AI is going to get, the easier it will be for them to call for such censorship, especially when people like Zuckerberg say they can already "stop 99% of the terrorist posts automatically".

Because that's most definitely misleading and wrong, unless we can actually review what that content was. Like I bet a large portion of those posts were not posts by terrorists, but posts about terrorists. I don't think the AIs we have today can distinguish between them very well. And at least a small portion probably had very little to do with terrorism, but maybe were posts from people in the same area as some terrorists, or stuff like that.

The AI will automatically block content that nobody will ever see. And we'll only depend on people who can somehow raise awareness that their content was blocked, produce a scandal, and then get the companies to unblock it (assuming the censorship will mostly be done by private companies in democratic countries). But this is not going to be a pretty future.
"a requirement that they give reasons for their decisions"

But this is mostly a sham. People lie about their reasons for doing things, even to themselves. Especially when they know what reasons are publicly acceptable.

Maybe the major difference is that it's much easier to run experiments on computers. I mean people try this on humans but it's very hard to do realistically: most of those studies where you submit 1000 CVs with varying details are garbage, because they can only access an unrealistic part of the process (I mean who ever got a job without networking? etc). Whereas on almost any computer system you feed it completely realistic fake data.
> relatively simple organic polymers

Sure, they contain carbon backbones. But structurally that's about the only thing they have in common.

Compare PU[0] and Teflon[1]. The former is marginally bio-degradeable. The latter boasts resistance to many otherwise extremely reactive substances.

[0] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ca/Polyuret...
[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/17/Teflon_s...
Use azure?
I really liked Paperspace Core.

Had to cancel my subscription because my daughter was born and I knew I won't have free nights to hack until 2019.
I've actually done a similar thing myself. When my wife was doing her Nursing degree she was downloading some documents she wanted to reference from an NHS web sites. The report for one year wasn't linked, so I checked the URL scheme, figured out what the URL for the report should be (only the date was different in the file names of reports for different years) and downloaded it directly.

It never occurred to me I might be committing a crime.
People who work in these types of industries _expect_ these work stoppages. Though obviously it's preferable to have a heads-up.

I have family members working on the new Vogtle Nuclear Power plants in Georgia. Week to week they never know for sure whether they'll be working 7 days, 3 days, or 0 days. Managers do try to plan work stoppages ahead of time, but it's not always practical or possible and workers know this. Except for the most junior guys everybody understands you need to prepare for stoppages, though that doesn't prevent many from crying foul. Wage workers do have it tough, but it's also true that poor planning skills exacerbate the situation, and all the overtime means you can't really compare the situation to a part-time, minimum wage worker who couldn't save money even if they tried.
Except it's (mis)representing itself as an insiders view. Kind of reminds me of The Circle, iirc the author made a point out of not researching how Google/Facebook works when writing it, instead preferring to indulge his fantasies.

At least The Circle didn't pretend not to be fiction, this seems like it wants to be journalism. And that's, frankly, a problem.
Maybe they just don't have enough balls to go after the biggest ones (WhatsApp and Viber). Plus, other IMs don't have public channels anyone can subscribe to. IIRC that was the original problem, "extremist" channels. Why did they ask for encryption keys instead of blocking channels? Who knows lol.

Telegram still works without (manually adding) proxies :D

EC2 Ireland (at least the subnets where my servers are) also works.
That's what's going to happen. Various localities will shut off encrypted passageways altogether because they control the pipes. They will create a corporate-like intranet where they monitor everything.
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I really don't see why DNS records should be in the purview of the GDPR. I also think they are not public enough. It can be hard to contact people. Information is outdated, false or just hidden. Usually being able to call the person responsible for a domain and say hey your email server has relaying enabled and pushing out a lot spam gets them to fix it.

I can understand person not wanting to put their address, but I say phone, email, name and points contact should be necessary. It is a public system after all.

Spam can be a problem as well, but these records do serve a purpose. They also are important for ownership of a domain if a dispute was to arise.
I love NirSoft utilities as much as anyone, but this isnot right

> Anonymous Information Collected on this Website: Anonymous data is recorded on this Web site. Most of the information collected from this website is anonymous information, such as the pages you visit. Other anonymous data I may collect might include the name of your internet service provider, the website that you used to link to my site, the websites that you visit from our site, and your IP address. The data is only used for statistical purposes, but you, as the individual user, remain anonymous.

IP address is not anonymous!
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> Conway's Law validates a decision to move to a service-oriented and/or microservice architecture. Each service ~= a business unit or department.

I wouldn't say Conway's Law validates a decision to move to an SOA, so much as further enshrines it in code. There is something to be said for forcing different business units or departments to work together.
Like digging tunnels under populated areas to make new rights-of-way?
In France, we had a similar case, a computer guy with the pseudonym Bluetouff[0].

He downloaded loads of national agencies confidential documents, because they were available on Google.

However, he was sentenced (3,000€ fine), because when he explored the website, he arrived on a connection page, thus realizing he should not have accessed these files, but continued anyway.

I just hope for the teenager that he did not encounter any login page in his search (which seems unlikely because he used a script).

[0] (in french): http://www.maitre-eolas.fr/post/2014/02/07/NON%2C-on-ne-peut...
I think we should start a HN clone that only displays HN's flagged articles.
Yup. Expected! :)
My first job out of university was about $30k and that’s in the South East of England.
It may indicate where telegram is getting this 2 billion from in their ico, it may be intimatley connected to western establishment, specifically the Americans as we know their Jihadis/subversives are using the platform to coordinate their activities and soon wil have a way of sending funds across borders intergrated with their app of choice.

China and Russia have clamped down on cryptos because of capital flight somthing that the west has used as a weapon to weaken Russia and China but which has largley been stamped out now.

In my mind this now begs the question of Bitcoin, how exactly did it come around, who were the cypher punks working for, were they independent and their creation was coopted or were they 'guided' in their approach to a decentralised mechanism of capital flight, food for thought certainly....
Right. And note that those banks who got bailed out weren't free-floating rational agents before the crash either. Because it was deemed politically desirable to increase minority home-ownership, they were given pressure / incentives to make AA loans.
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FWIW, this 'doomsday scenario' is roughly the plot of a 1979 Judge Dredd episode (which I remember fondly) - featuring a world in which support bridges were made of 'plasteen' under attack from a novel bacterium: SOMETHING'S EATING IT AWAY

The Great Plasteen Disaster
https://dreddalert.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/judge-dredd-great-...
There the govt builds the controls. Here Twitter, YouTube and Facebook do. No big difference in my book. In terms of outcomes, only clowns get propped up either way.
You've obviously never been threatened, harassed or stalked simply for running a blog with real contact information in the whois records.
I was under the idea that possession is still punishable, even if it is not given the same severity as infringeme

Edit: I mean not the act of listening, but the act of storing unlicensed material
Edit: you both are right
Great. So maybe the bar for support is set too high? Someone making $50 / month on YouTube is meaningless to Google but may spend an enormous amount of time on that content in the hope of a breakout. Those are probably the people whose mental health is most at risk.

It’s Alphabet’s community, they own it. Extending more support to dedicated members may not make direct business sense but it could be the right thing for long-term community health.
I mean, it's in the name, web server. It serves things to people when people asks:

- Hey, can I GET this drink?

- 200 OK, here it is pal.
- 204 Uh, the bottle appears to be empty
- 206 I have only half the ingredients for the mix
- 300 Stirred or shaken?
- 301 That drink is now called this, but here it is!
- 400 I can't understand what you say buddy, are you drunk?
- 403 I'm sorry, but I must refuse to serve you that drink
- 404 Oops, I can't seem to find the bottle
- 411 How much do you want?
- 413 That's too much drink!
- 418 I'm actually a teapot
- 503 Too busy right now!
It's just that Telegram is the most used one in Russia so they proceed by targeting this one first but don't worry they will target the other ones after.
WhoisGuard is not usually free, except for the first year in some cases.
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Sure, and the fact that HN has a note to that effect on its website is evidence that all of these items are intended to be publicly accessible. It's also obvious in any case that stories, comments, jobs, ask HNs and polls are intended to be public. In the case we're talking about here, it was far less obvious that the relevant documents were intended to be publicly available.
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My bad, didn't see the link in the article.
The other thing that I find really odd about American working conditions is that it seems quite routine for leave requests to be cancelled. What if you've already booked a holiday, or promised family you'll go somewhere?

Apple rumour sites always giddily report cancelled leave requests. I find it bizarre.
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As an intern nearly done with work in the Bay Area I find the whole idea of permanently immigrating to Silicon Valley repugnant. Housing prices are in the millions, terrible healthcare, earthquakes every other week, dire state public transportation, apathetic attitude towards its homeless and, lots of groupthink. I suggest any YUPPIE (in a developed nation) with offers from a big four here reconsider their local offices imho. It is depressing to think this is the best place for STEM careers in the world.
I suspect Twitch has/will have the same problems as more creators move over to live shows to fill the gap left by Youtube.
Also there's the Vulkan port by an id employee: https://github.com/DustinHLand/vkDOOM3
How long does it take to make an app?
Yes, the house analogy is not accurate.

It would be logical to assume that as the files have specifically been made public via HTTP then no laws are being broken by viewing them unless a warning message appears saying otherwise.
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Much of this comment seems like apologism to me. "Hey, it's bad, but I like Microsoft, so it's all good?"

Why would only people who pay $200 for a windows edition get (some) privacy?

Remember the days when the products you bought didn't spy on you? It seems like now companies are double-dipping or triple-dipping with this spying and selling of your data after you've already purchased the product/service.

And we're getting reconditioned to live with it and agree to it, especially from comments like yours.
pattern recognition devices, not scientific tools

Isn't science all about pattern recognition? If the pattern exists, in the real world, then a good theory is one which encodes this.

What you're asking for in a "moral" way of applying the model is that our actions should abide by your moral preferences. Perhaps even universal preferences. But it seems useful to me to keep logically separate these ideas about how we ought to do things. They don't flow naturally from observations of how things are.

The example of adjusting drug & dosage based on race is a good one. The science backing this is exactly the same kind of statistical correlation as backs the rental decision. The training input is what race some test patients ticked on a form, and their tick mark sure as hell isn't the causal factor... that's some gene which is correlated, maybe, or some diet difference, or what's on TV, who knows. Nevertheless the correlation is there, as far as we can tell: the peer-reviewed science process isn't infallible. The reason we're OK with using this information is, I guess, that it aims to improve things for the patient. (Not every single patient, only statistically.) We make a moral judgement that this is more important than a landlord's wish to avoid bad tenants (again statistically).
> 99% of websites do user-hostile things, like track users.

99% of apps as well, most apps embed tracking code.
Showing me my favorite style clothing in my favorite color is manipulating me?

This seems to be news to so many people but marketing and advertising has been tracking and advertising to you this way for centuries including sharing of data.
And here is another yet problem with walled gardens. It creates a single failure point because Apple and Google are forced to comply with local law, regardless of how absurd it is, if they want to continue doing business there.

In an open environment, you would simply change the mirror urls and run apt-get update.
Yeah, randomly generated IDs are fine for most use cases IMO, and perhaps more importantly they’re easy to implement well enough—grabbing 256 bits from /dev/urandom isn’t bad.

With a hash it’s more expensive to compute the ID, but you get advantages such as content-addressability, data integrity without trust, and easily mergeable databases. It’s a good amount of bang for not much more buck.

At the cost of leaking more metadata in the ID, by including a checksum/namespace, you can recognise a valid ID or determine the type of object it refers to without fetching anything from storage, mitigating some DOS attacks.

IDs are a subtle thing, and in my experience, often overlooked as a design issue. A lot of times it ends up as something like “id integer primary key autoincrement” without any thought.
Stalking really? Threats and harassment. Just tell them to gtfo!

I would be more worried about swatting with the address component. I can see that for corporations/businesses.
He's saying there are more important things in the world to worry about. In what way did you read it?
> To build an app at all he requires at least one computer

It does not just require a computer, they require an Apple computer, big difference.
Well the "diverse" part is mostly choosing one or the other of the two mainstream views.
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But...you would have left the diamond ring by accident.

Files don't "accidentally" become publicly accessible via HTTP. i.e. you don't return to your computer one day to find everything is public.

Someone specifically took the steps to make this data public. The fact they didn't realize what they were doing isn't the fault of people that then view the data.
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In this context, indeed it isn't. It would be just as wrong to write "US law mandates..." when the law in question is in fact only Texas state law. I.e. "European law" != "a law somewhere in Europe".
They only provide inferior user experience because Safari mobile is crap.
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Absolute brainfart by me. Need more coffee.
I can't remember ever being honest when entering WHOIS data, and I own hundreds of domains.
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I beg to disagree. GDPR doesnt stop the tracking but forces the one doing the tracking to get your opt-in, FREELY given consent for each and every use of private data. And if you require consent, this is then not freely given and in such case invalid (forget about trackwalls).

(I am not talking about criminals here, they wont care)

Effectively this means that if user doesnt want to be tracked you wont track it. And that you cant load facebook button on your page if you dont get consent (or you are liable for lawsuit, by user and, the more interesting part, by facebook as you are providing them with illegal data.

Please read this, you are taking GDPR much too shallow... it is not and quite a few companies will have problems as they were too lazy to read the GDPR but were rather relying on messed up opinions on the internet.

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Regarding:

* I also have flexibility to start/end my day when I want within reason

* I never have to take time off for doctors visits

* I don't have a micro manager for a boss, so if I work 35 hours one week and 45 the next, nobody cares.

I don't see how any of that is relevant to whether one has salary or not?
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There's a bit of wiggle-room between "is it even possible to get rich" and "average salary".
>How is this any different than music playing on say Google Play Music on my iPhone?

Because when I'm browsing the internet, random websites don't use Google Play Music as an attack vector for some autoplaying video that I never asked to see.
The Telegram client is available on F-Droid, so you can still use it even if you opt-out of the walled garden.
Depends on the other IMs, but as far as I know, at least Signal and WhatsApp have no keys they can give the government. WhatsApp could potentially sneak a backdoor in their closed-source code, but I don't think that's something they'd have incentive enough to do.
>(* well, German law, but there is likely something similar in other countries)

Nah there is not. Don't lie.
I'm saying that writing "European law mandates that you have an "impressum"" is a lie.
Because the Russian government can read all non-E2EE conversations (so 99% of them) on Telegram and is hoping to drive adoption overseas with this PR stunt.

None of the other messengers you mentioned are designed to work like this (not 100% sure about Viber), the ability of operators to read most of the conversations on the platform is very much unique to Telegram.

It's really not a coincidence that the Russian government is choosing to ban the worst "encrypted messenger" on the market.
> It's also obvious in any case that stories, comments, jobs, ask HNs and polls are intended to be public.

> it was far less obvious that the relevant documents were intended to be publicly available

My browser and the respective HTTP servers consider them equally obvious publicly available.
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Sorry, it will not work.

If your government can pass laws to allow themselves to block any Internet services, it may as well go ahead pass laws to prevent people from circumventing that block.

So, the only defense you have, is to prevent your government from issuing the first law.
Let specialists specialize. No reason not to let
big daddy Microsoft handle the messy bits.

If you're planning to make a product that will last 20 years - a residential thermostat, for example - using a third-party service as the foundation of your product seems naïve to me.

I mean, Microsoft or AWS is at least better than a startup, in that they're less likely to go bankrupt - but even Windows XP, one of most long-lived products out there, was only supported for 12 years even with 'extended support'.

Not to mention the fact whoever provides the cloud services will likely be looking to make recurring revenue over those 20 years.
Most of the whois hiding services cost money, so if I get this “service” for free now, I don’t have much sympathy with the whois guys.

If it’s about contacting people, they could make the abuse@ or webmaster@ address mandatory, then you can separate it from your normal email accounts, because the majority will be spam anyway.
Isn’t that just editor settings? It’s not actually code that would execute or be compiled into the kernel.
> the Register is a well regarded technology site

No, it really isn't. They're a shitty tabloid with all the problems that shitty tabloids have. They're well known for being inaccurate, inflamatory, click-baity, etc.
It's mainly only the address you should worried about, but really a domain should have an owner associated with it. Do you complain about public records for who owns a plot of land?
> Conway's Law validates a decision to move to a service-oriented and/or microservice architecture. Each service ~= a business unit or department.

Organising the business units around the desired deployables is also know as "the Inverse Conway Maneuver"

https://www.thoughtworks.com/radar/techniques/inverse-conway...

http://betica.com/blog/2016/06/17/transform-your-organizatio...
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Correct, they updated it 40 minutes ago.