skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem here is social engineering. If someone says "click these buttons in your phone's settings, sideload our app, and you'll be able to do X" (where X is "pirate movies," "mine bitcoin," etc), a surprising number of people would follow the instructions, ignore any big red warnings, and end up with their device pwned. You'd need a way to make the certificate trust settings accessible only to those who know what they're doing.
I don't think you can really describe their situation as "hoarding currency."
Do people still use savings accounts on any significant amount of money? I'll admit I live in a bubble and don't know how most Americans store wealth
Hey, are there any other developers experiencing this besides the one in the article?

We noticed a few weeks ago that Apple has changed their static analysis tool and has been more aggressive with rejections. Has anyone else actually seen their app retroactively pulled from the App Store?
It's not about what you call it, it's about the overhead having many services entails.
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The line from the old Hobbit movie of "you're the burglar, go in there and burgle something" was quaint enough that I still remember it from my childhood.

The minor fascination with noun-er & noun was probably why.
A client of mine had a designer on a retainer. They're a mail order business and would sometimes get very last minute offers on ad space just as magazines were going to press - and the designer had to be available to crank out a print ad with their very latest offers at very short notice. Unfortunately they stopped print advertising in the end and he was let go.

They do send a lot of marketing emails but employ someone in-house to design those nowadays (who also handles the limited print ads that they still run).
Oh my God, how did I not know this? This is extremely useful.
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> What makes you think deflation would be bad?

Literally economics 101. Investment grinds to a halt and progress along with it.
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This is a really pat analogy that needs a lot of justification.
Then the village chief said

>You fucking idiots stop burying the money in the ground and use it as a medium of exchange.

And lo, as everyone has more faith in the US treasury than the village tin roof hut a market was opened in the middle of the village and they exchanged the dollars for food grown by farmers less stupid then them.

The villagers then became wealth investment managers and charged fees to the farmers to invest their money, which involved holes in the ground.
And by installing a different launcher, the Google apps never run, which is the effect you wanted to achieve. You gain nothing by disabling the apps after that.

If you were able to disable the apps and then uninstall the the new launcher, your phone would be unusable until you did a factory reset from recovery.
I'm unclear what you are after - are you asking us to help justify charging them for nothing, just because you did work for them in the past? Like, a license fee for continuing to use your designs? Or are you asking what services could be provided on a monthly basis that don't require actual work?
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You can pair new devices with a company's active directory.
> having a combined buffer list of shells and editing windows just adds to the context switching overhead

Bind that to a key:

(defun my/list-shells ()
(interactive)
(ibuffer nil "*Ibuffer - shells*" '((or (derived-mode . shell-mode)
(derived-mode . eshell-mode)))))

Also, start using the built-in ibuffer instead of regular buffer list, if you aren't yet.

(global-set-key (kbd "C-x C-b") 'ibuffer)

> maybe something like separable workspaces that have independent saveable and restorable configurations

This probably could be handled with one of the couple windowing/"desktop configuration" management packages available on MELPA, but I haven't used any of them so I can't recommend any. Myself, I use a tiling WM, so I just place Emacs frames where I need them and keep them there.
> I've run Linux for years with no issues whatsoever.

So clearly no one else has issues, right? None of the people complaining about poor power management, insane application deployment model, poor support for high-end GPUs, general fragmentation, poor backwards and forwards compatibility, or any of the other innumerable problems have ever tried a Linux desktop.

This attitude of "it works for me, therefore it is good enough for everybody" is one of the biggest problems I have with Linux. It isn't so much that there are flaws, it's that the community refuses to recognize that there are flaws.
> According to its proponents, Bitcoin is digital gold.

According to its detractor, Bitcoin is digital comedy gold, so everybody agrees.
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And you think all the problems with banks would go away if they simply operated without any regulation at all?
I am curious, how were you doing any of these things 4 months ago when the average transaction fee was $40?
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Any downside to using a common SSID, https://www.wigle.net/stats#ssidstats?
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What will happen with your Startup if Google decide to increase prices for Firestore, just like they did with Google Maps last week (it's like 40x more expensive now than before). Google is very famous for increasing prices and deprecate their products - they deprecated more than 100 products now as you can see on Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_products#Discon...
I complain about low salaries for permanent positions all the time, but you can definitely do better than 45k. A programmer with a few years of experience should be able to get 60-75k without too much trouble.
I can’t be the only person who thinks that broadcasting with the intent of advertising our presence is at best, pointless, and at worse dangerous, right? Passive SETI is great, if unlikely to succeed, but this just seems like a bad idea.
The real application here is that duplex could order you takeout.
Alternatively, if things really go that sideways bitcoin will be the only valuable currency in the world.
But there's a huge difference. With old fashioned "savings", the money was in a bank, which in turn would use it to invest it elsewhere. In other words, the money would still circulate in the economy.
On the other hand, these bitcoins that are hoarded in a bunker are extracted from the economy as long as they are there.

The implications are big: with the current trend of concentrating wealth to only a small fraction of the population, at least all that money is not 'gone'. Even though the rich probably don't pay much taxes over it, their banks will invest it in other companies.
If this bitcoin hoarding ever becomes a trend, the consequences for the economy will be disastrous.
I think most people who go out to those places do so with friends, not as an alternative to dating. The question is, do you think people only go out to bars and clubs to find a partner or one night stand?
Yeah, but what would an anarchist think of the design of Signal?

What would an anarchist think of Len Sassaman's idea for doing a scalable remailer that had a centralized component (if I remember correctly)?

What would an anarchist say about the design of the directory servers in Tor?

What would an anarchist say about using DNS to host a git repo on a website?

If the answer is that an anarchist would reflexively focus mindshare on the centralization because it is a priori unethical, then anarchism as an institution is a hindrance to software development.
Alright, fair enough. I can see that too. Thank you.
The thing is that on Windows it isn't really possible to make a terminal/console app which talks directly to the shell (cmd.exe etc) running in it. What everyone is doing is opening a hidden 'console' component which runs cmd.exe/powershell.exe and then screen-scraping the contents out of it and rendering it elsewhere. Most emulators on Windows which support cmd.exe and friends are using a little bit of software which handles the hidden console, monitors its contents and then outputs a VT style stream of the updates. It is not pretty. MS have been working to improve the situation though: https://github.com/Microsoft/console/issues/57

The bizarre twist to this story is that it is going to be easier to add shell integration features to PowerShell Core running on every platform which ISN'T Windows.
> By describing Qualcomm as a patent troll, you dilute the meaning of this term.

Limiting the term 'patent troll' just to non-practicing entities is a fairly recent development. The earliest cite for the term in the media is describing Stac Electronics as a troll in 1993, who were very much a legitimate business, if failing.

https://wordspy.com/index.php?word=patent-troll
They're storing $10b... wait, sorry, $20b... sorry, no, it's $5b now.
>Why would talent leave elsewhere to go to eastern Europe and earn significantly less?

I hope that whatever emerges in Europe is nothing but unattractive to Americans. The idea of Americans, particularly Bay Area techies who've already ruined a number of cities in that area, up and moving to Europe is utterly horrendous, as a European.
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This is another article that talks about how they actually do what the parent comment talks about.

> When someone checks in to a place on Swarm, Foursquare's newer app, the company records the user's coordinates, helping it determine all the different coordinates associated with a single business or other place.

> Foursquare says it can't disclose who its partners are, or how many different smartphone users' data it has acquired. But Rosenblatt says the company could, for example, create a list of "millions" of smartphone owners who frequently visit fast food restaurants by taking a pool of location data collected by its partners and comparing that to its database of fast food restaurant coordinates.

> Advertisers could then use that data to show those users ads for fast food chains, or perhaps healthier alternatives or gym memberships—all without those people ever having to install a Foursquare app.

[1](https://www.wired.com/2016/01/foursquares-plan-to-use-your-d...)
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Coinbase transactions are done 'off-chain'.
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In the Czech Republic, people are certainly more reserved and less outwardly cheerful than in the US, but it's got nothing to do with xenophobia. You won't have any issues making friends as a foreigner, just because people smile less and strangers don't instantly treat you as their best friend does not mean they hate you.
This happened to Google Translate. They were scouring the web looking for bilingual corpuses to ingest and they found… texts translated by Google Translate. Things got funky and they had to stop.
The police officers and judges can put you in jail, which is generally worse than having your assets confiscated. I’m not sure how Bitcoin helps.

What I’m trying to understand is how Bitcoin advocates’ promise of it being a store of value independent from governments can be valid when the system depends on extremely sophisticated infrastructure that was built and enabled by governments.
> Any downside to using a common SSID, https://www.wigle.net/stats#ssidstats?

From the documentation, it's not clear to me if apps have permission to see either other nearby SSIDs or the names of other networks that the device has previously connected to.

If the app has access to either one of those, it's equivalent to being given location data.

Furthermore, last I checked, both iOS and Android broadcast the list of previously-connected SSIDs to nearby routers when connecting. That enables companies which track people's physical location over time without them having to download an app (yes, these companies exist[0]).

[0] e.g. http://axper.com/
Having microservices doesn't really solve this problem, though, because you still have all those lines of code, plus all the extra code to make it all talk to each other. If the problem is one of organization, that can probably also be solved in large codebases without breaking into multiple systems.
Very impressive quality, but dear goodness I hope devs stick to using it in cases where native scrollbars are unsuitable for some sort of complicated UI. Styling a scrollbar "just because" is a terrible experience -- I expect all scrollbars I encounter to work in the consistent fashion my OS + web browser provides.
Time trader. you trade time with others. eventually skill levels, geography, task types with project plans would be added.
So...not a lot? It’s a surprisingly small number. Tiny fraction of their wealth and of aggregate crypto market cap.
I like the style of your blog.
A few years ago, the FTC fined InMobi for doing precisely this: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/blogs/business-blog/2016/06/...
Wouldn't प्लवयानम् be sufficient (literally translates to hover-vehicle)? Full sentence would be मम प्लवयानं जलव्यालैः सम्मर्दम्।
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> What makes you think that agreement was broken?

Rulings from the South Korean court system for one, and preliminary decisions in its court battle with Apple, for another.
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Are you willing to say here, or is there another way I can contact you?
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So what you are saying that Apple's core beliefs are location-dependent.

Personally, I think it is totally cool to have location-dependent core beliefs. I just think it is a total fan-boism not to acknowledge it.
“Smart” shopping website!
Take a look at https://firebase.google.com/docs/auth/
MLM but for junk in your closest.
Amazon may not be able to stop it, but they could surely mitigate it significantly. They choose not to, because in the end, having lots of reviews for lots of products is better for them than having a few reviews for a few products, even if a significant number of the reviews are fake.
So the decentralized solution to a centralized banking system needs a centralized totally not a banking system to work?
A simple argument is as follows.

Without inflation, i.e. fixed money supply, it would be impossible for a majority of loans to be repaid with interest, or give a positive return to investments.
Note that this fact is independent of how well the borrower or business performs. (This is like a zero-sum game).

So, it would be irrational for investors or lenders to part with their deflationary money, as the net profit is always zero (or negative because of other costs).

I am very interested to know if there is a way around this problem.
This is actually a really big debate within the scientific community.
Megan McArdle neatly summarizes the tension between liberalism and society you're talking about:

https://twitter.com/asymmetricinfo/status/992463509534453760...
Isn't that called geofencing? It's been around for years. I always felt that the main reason e.g. Facebook wants you to use their app is to be able to supply data for conversions of geofencing ad campaigns, e.g. someone saw an ad for a promotion at some burger place and then actually came to close proximity of their wlan.
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I am sure someone is going to talk about banks and how they steal money so I will leave it here for anyone who wants to learn more:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/francescoppola/2018/04/21/bitco...
Tagging everything in a city so people can create an resource issue for a city counsel and track how long it takes for a city to fix it.
Olive oil is oil from olives, with marketing playing up differences between brands for the sake of price stratification.

Truffle Oil is olive oil with synthetic flavor and perfume added, to make people think it's somehow related to truffles. Real truffle oil isn't a thing: truffles are consumed shaved into food like a hard cheese, generally, and their flavors don't infuse oil well at all. Marketing here isn't about making some truffle oil look better than others; it plays the role of making people believe that truffle oil is a thing at all.
Here it is: https://www.dropbox.com/s/9zv0xjmf4bz602a/thesis_web.pdf?dl=...

We did a some basic research on that for a seminar, and I wanted to figure out how far this can be pushed for a more "real life"-setting with the four roles mentioned in the introduction.
I ran into slight time problems since the implementation was more difficult than I expected & due to some out-of-university-related stuff.

Anyway, maybe things changed in the past 6 years and my conclusion from back than doesn't hold anymore. So this could be more feasible now. Let me know what you think ;-)
I'm not disagreeing with you on the distinction between an investment and a speculative position, but know that the value is in the confirmations of old transactions piled up which make it extremely difficult to retroactively mutate the ledger. Lots of people don't understand that well yet.
And that is why Bitcoin is designed against these kinds of events. It's very unlikely that everything would be wiped out or everything would be under military control. There's always strong economic incentives to keep it running and secure.
No, not recruiters.

If you'll take a look at those reviews, people bitch and moan about real problems they are having at work.

E.g. one immediate signal would be "cramped office space". Other problems that come to mind are communication or management issues.

You can also take the pulse of a company by how happy or disgruntled the employees are. You can basically predict upscaling or downscaling of a company by such signals.
In defense of DMARC
The BSSID can be read too, so I don't think it's worth trying to figure out ways to add some obscurity to the SSID (no matter what downsides would come with that).
So, you're actually trusting coinbase, just like I trust my bank.
Trade box. for craigslist where you could trade tickets, other things. but it takes a picture inside the box and you use an app to unlock it.
Office Addins, why do you need to host an app?
I was initially pretty keen on hearing about using Office apis with JavaScript but I'm pretty confused; Why do they need to be hosted? I could see this being interesting if you had some external machine learning or other resource intensive application that you wanted to run in the cloud. But for apps not of this nature, and even simple extensions, it seems over kill.

Doesn't this mean that you always have to be online for any of your Add-ins to work?

I guess I'm not seeing a huge difference between embedding a webpage in an excel file or using nodejs to use an api.
I think this is very advanced theoretical book as per hacker news standard.
There is being honest with integrity and there is being above reproach. Being above reproach is better.
(I work at Mapbox)

We'll keep your maps on and send you a note letting you know you're over the limit. At the end of your billing cycle we'll invoice you for anything you use beyond the limit and, once the invoice is out, you'll have a ten day grace period to add your card.
>the rules are completely different now because magic.

Currency that isnt controlled by any government is different. Previously that was limited to gold only. Gold was hard to move and expensive to keep safe. Bitcoin can be sent for free using exchanges or on a piece of paper or about 1000 other ways.

Easy to move gold is almost magic.
That sounds like the current to me. Too much is locked up

I wonder if you can trace parallels between this observed circumstance, and our current low interest rates & low levels of inflation.
When did I say that?

I think at the highest levels they already do operate without any regulation. When you get to write your own regulations and there's a revolving door between the regulatory agencies and the companies they're suppose to regulate, there is no meaningful regulation.

Bitcoin and other digital currencies are a threat to them because there is no central agency in charge of it that they can infiltrate and control the way the have with government-run currencies. At least, they haven't found a way to control and manipulate it, yet.
Not in the short term - again, the lead time of beef is years. And so on.
The speculation is this is GDPR motivates, hopefully it will cause a crackdown on that stuff too.

The fact Apple added a framework to help with analytics (IIRC) may be the first step towards REQUIRING people to only use that framework instead of 3rd party stuff so they can be sure it’s compliant with laws/Apple’s policies as well.
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68.15% global support, don't get too excited yet. Definitely still need to leverage compilation tools (Webpack, Rollup, Parcel, etc...).
Is it also possible to repartition the image with conventional tools?

How about setting a boot flag and writing it back to e.g. an USB stick?
I would say much of today’s micro services are mainly s function of current front end fashion of fat clients (mobile and SPAs) consuming JSON-formatted data. Less driven by the SOA qualities of a microservices architecture.
Awesome. What more can i do ?
The question answers itself: they weren't. It also beggars belief that they were regularly spending bitcoins that was shifting in value by hundreds of USD in a matter of hours. The would be irrational to the point of lunacy if true, but I don't believe it is.
i have one question: why expend some much energy on unearthing obscure stuff that has relevance only to a very small subset of a very small industry and literally nobody else? seems like a waste of effort.
> Unfortunately it's a poor store of value since it requires a constant stream of electricity to maintain.

"Earth is a poor store of life because it requires a constant stream of light to maintain."
Hm no, that doesn't work...
Im glad you were able to quit!

My only comment is that most stuff ive read claims hookah is a lot worse than having a few cigs.

(I dont think you were claiming it was healthy, i just wanted to clarify since you had compared the experience of puffing a vape to hookah)

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How's that going for us so far? Its a hard sell, convincing people to change their behavior now (pointlessly; in fact to the detriment of the ecology short-term) for some theoretical good later.
A person has 250 units of food sitting in a room, earns them at 2 units per day, and can consume them at 1 unit per day. They have saved 250 units such that if they stopped earning, they'll be alright.

Another person has 2,500,000,000 units of food sitting in a room, earns them at 200,000 units per day, and can consume them at 100 units per day (not as filling but tastier let's say). They are... also only saving? C'mon.
What do you mean by 'database instance'? Is the the instance of the 'class' that represents the database and its records or something else?
something that logs into email, facebook, banks and downloads the data to database so I can manage the data locally.