skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think I've seen a presentation from CCC years ago where they demonstrated an "SMS of death" (similar to the "ping of death") where they rebooted various brands of phones. I don't have a link at hand, I recall they used a SMS modem and they didn't reveal a lot of details (I'm not even sure if they rebooted or bricked the receiving phones) for abuse concerns, but it should probably easy to find.

edit: it was easier than I thought, first hit on Google: https://media.ccc.de/v/27c3-4060-en-attacking_mobile_phones
> Now they're posting videos of static text.

The English Football Association has used a 2-minute Twitter video in order to announce the list of 23 players who made it to the World Cup (https://twitter.com/England/status/996737073418784770). I personally hate this trend.
It is special. The OP admits as such. His question is why.
I don't know whether it was deliberate, but I rather like that as a word: Flailure. (Although pronunciation and perception of it are not the easiest.)

A lot of flailing about, as the ship goes down.

(Speaking simply generally, about this "word". Not about the topic(s) in this thread.)
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Having the tab hiding API enabled by default means that Tab Group can finally come back and that we don't need to have a custom userChrome.css to hide the tab bar for Tree Style Tabs.
My "running on rough terrain" video from 1995.[1] On non-flat surfaces, traction control dominates the problem.[2][3] This was before Boston Dynamics. (There's much more that could be done in this area, but there's no market. BD still doesn't do speed changes fast. Their machines start by walking, running or trotting in place and then extend the gait. Humans start by falling forward, for a faster start, and go far off vertical for fast direction changes.)

As for interpreting body language, here's the code on Github.[4]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kc5n0iTw-NU
[2] http://animats.com/papers/leggedrun/leggedrun.html
[3] http://animats.com/papers/articulated/articulated.html
[4] https://github.com/shahqaan/kinect-body-language-analysis
Blog spam.

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If you sell hardware, you have to deal with CE/FCC/RoHS and -worst of all- WEEE compliance, to name just a few. In comparison, GPDR is a piece of cake. Just sayin.
You probably shouldn't insult Americans and then make statements you already know to be erroneous.

As you are apparently well aware, Skype is owned by Microsoft. It's an American product now (from the perspective of who pays any fines). Mojang sold to Microsoft. It and Minecraft are owned by the Americans now.

Asos is an online fashion and beauty retailer. Having a website doesn't make you a tech firm. Ditto for JustEat.

Raspberry Pi - as you note - isn't even a firm at all, let alone a tech firm.

Shazam is in the process of being bought by Apple, although the EU appear to be trying to block it.

You tried to name tech firms that are based inside the EU and mostly ended up listing firms that either aren't tech firms by any conventional definition, or are now owned by US companies. I think that proves the original point.
I was taught to not rinse, I just wash the outside of my lips & face to freshen you. I presume that lets it linger longer and also you'll swallow some so will be absorbed that way too.
Agree. It pretty much has the feeling of a sugar shock. You enjoy it first, get a bit of a rush, and then feel exhausted and gross afterwards. Better avoid it
Wouldn't the biggest issue still be that C modules either don't work or are slow? I'd imagine it's much better to be able to solve performance bottlenecks by using cython/c than to have overall faster runtime, but no option to go further.
I thought of like a version of cold emailing but more targetted. Just a little hack to get users. Not sure if this isn't ethical. But I am open to shutting it down if everyone thinks it's not ethical :) This isn't our primary product, just stumbled on the idea while I was exploring growth tactics.
It isn’t like they track the phone using the messages, instead you can more accurately track the phone if it is sending and receiving things; the network needs to know more to make the connection work.

So sending the phone things that don’t do anything puts it in a state where you can track it more accurately, and then you need to cooperate with the provider to actually track it.

They can track you the same way if they would just call you. That would be kind of conspicuous so that’s why they use silent messages instead. But it isn’t like you can send a message that tells the phone to reports its location.
JetBrains is a Russian company (albeit with subsidiaries and offices in various parts of the world). It isn't an "EU firm" by any stretch.
> Something I really like about vim is that it stuck closer to the unix philosophy of doing one thing well

You mean relative to Emacs. Because otherwise that belief makes no sense. It's an urban legend that was used as an excuse for Vim's limitations, it has no basis in reality. Zero.

Nor does the "do one thing" slogan match Bram's own goals for the project. Again, it was a rumor passed along and repeated without verification, just like the rumor that Vim supported DOS, OS/2, etc., even though no one had checked whether that was actually true.

Vim has its own blowfish implementation, an internal spellchecker, an 11k LOC plugin called netrw which doesn't follow Vim's own interface conventions. Vim also now has the "LogiPat" plugin which adds yet another way to build regular expressions, hiding Vim's own regex flavor. Vim has builtin NetBeans integration, Sun workshop integration.

> and being highly compatible with the rest of the OS environment for more features through the universal interface of text.

You mean because it pipes stdio streams?
Why not just reserve .home permanently so that it won't be allocated and tell people to use it? Does that somehow result in more bogus traffic to root and other DNS servers?

Between the lines, I read that ICANN doesn't give a f- about home users. Home users are not on the ICANN board (they've never heard of ICANN), don't give presentations at conferences or write papers, don't talk shop over lunch with ICANN members ... home users are invisible and have no voice. 'So here's this kludge that requires zero effort from us, is probably a little confusing for you[0] - we hope you like it because we're not doing anything more.'
There's no "UK Interpretation", this is the whole point of the EU. The rules apply across the block.
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Addresses are public data.
Is address data without a name/email or phone number to link it to really personal data?
Not rinsing at all. It just stays on there, bit weird to begin with but you get used to it.
The value of gulp / webpack et al are the plugins.

I've had success in several JS projects using make in combination with the shell version of a lot of these plugins and npm scripts.

There is value in both approaches.
So this is sort of like metatables in lua?
It's not censorship if it's a community flag+downvote. Maybe people just don't want to talk about "it" or the article doesn't interest them (for me the latter).

Also it's not really HN related.
That's a great way to end up on espionage charges.
It's well known that the Obama administration felt the EU was using anti-trust law to implement protectionism:

https://www.wired.com/story/google-big-eu-fine/

For his part, President Barack Obama called the EU's actions protectionism. "[Americans] have owned the Internet. Our companies have created it, expanded it, perfected it in ways that [European companies] can’t compete," Obama said in an interview with Recode in 2015. "And oftentimes what is portrayed as high-minded positions on issues sometimes is just designed to carve out some of their commercial interests."
When pressing your tongue against the top of your mouth, do you keep your teeth close together or with a slight opening?
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What's incredible is that the author actually had to modify an XSS test so that it read:

> const expected: string = "Hello<br><script>alert('evil');</script>World!";

(Meaning they actually changed a line that had "<script>alert('evil')</script>" and didn't notice.)

I have seen this before though, with some folks removing path sanitisation code I added several years prior to fix a CVE. So it's not uncommon (it also got merged, so when I found out and fixed it I added a very large and scary comment to stop people from doing it again).
How does this affect people who aren't based in Europe?
Most of the time the publishers just forward the abstract or sample to peers and then make their decision based on that.

Imagine HN where you are only allowed to publish your own content and random users would be selected to evaluate your work.
Skip Intel, puck only good ARM manufacturers, say Marvell.

Still very hard to pull off.
Because otherwise they can’t sell it there. Their country, their rules. A French cheese maker doesn’t get to dictate the rules abroad. Take it or leave it.
A long but worthwhile read. I find the dignity culture most appealing, the honor culture most traditional, and the victim culture most segregating. If I had to cast my lot between the three, I’d go with the first, but I’m unaware of other alternatives, the weaknesses of dignity, or whether the system could be considered multidimensional. This field is obviously not my area of expertise.

I wonder if there is a philosophy similar to dignity culture but where order is earned and not granted - a mix of libertarianism (no obligation to participate) but credit on behalf of productive engagement.

Alas, I do feel that social media enables tribalism and thus identity conflict. And, I think that’s why I’m not on Facebook anymore. At least, I didn’t find participation to be productive, but rather ranking by popularity, momentum, and signals of the newsfeed’s algorithm.

Complex stuff, but I hope that’s a statement others can engage with as I’m genuinely curious about understanding the landscape by looking through other lenses.
I'm really starting to get tired of all these bloated JavaScript desktop apps. I get that it's more convenient for developing cross-platform apps with modern looking UIs, but I really wish there would be an increased focus on reducing the overall bloat and resource use, both among app and framework devs.

Speaking as a Windows user, I would vastly prefer a well-designed native application (WinForms/WPF) over a JS monstrosity any day.
Ask HN: How do you use metrics reported by your products?
It is common these days for companies to gather usage metrics for their products, it helps to make informed decisions on the next steps.

There are lots of tools available to collect metrics, such as Google Analytics, Amplitude or Mixpanel, but what I am curious about is how those tools are used within companies.

Does everybody have access to the tools output? For example, as a developer, can I look at the usage ratio of a particular feature, or is this information restricted to the marketing team, or whichever team is operating the metric tool?

Do you use these metrics to contact customers and sell them other products, based on their current usage of the product?
There's actually a publisher in the humanities that operates like this! Knowledge Unlatched funds monographs (i.e. books), then academic libraries pay a fee not to access those books, but to have them made available as Open Acess. It's actually been really successful in obtaining funds for open access publishing while circumventing the problem of people not paying for it because others might be: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_Unlatched
But how would you handle logins without cookies? How would you know that a customer has already agreed not to allow cookies without a cookie?
> * We've known about the GDPR for around 2 years.

6 years, it's a 2012 directive.
I, for one, am actively trying to limit my FB usage. I started actively limiting my FB usage last summer, so way before the Cambridge Analytica news. I do use it still for some groups, and Messenger from time to time, but I try hard to stay away from the main FB service.

I am also slowly but surely deleting content from my account. Deleting old content, deleting likes and whatnot.
I think many (most?) companies will implement these privacy policies across all of their users as it can be hard to determine whether a user is in the EU or not... so indirectly, this law might mean that everybody will finally have strong privacy guarantees (at least when it comes to companies of a meaningful size).
Right, it's not the actual evaluation part that's the publisher's value (as in: they do provide value there, but others can do that just as well), but in the brand name that acts as the credential, i.e. its the recognition that publishing in a certain journal gets you that leads to the high prices.
Time to ditch Wikipedia?
I personally avoid all the classis PHP-based forums because they've been outdated for 10yr now. Discourse is much more usable, especially on mobile.
Three difference is that you can replace the system library with a recompile. (And sometimes without.) This is exactly why FSF had to put in the exception to get people to even use their implementations. Despite that, BSD and Android did not. They are even avoiding GCC now...

You absolutely cannot do that with firmware without detailed device specification and potentially signing keys. More so if certification like FCC is involved.
Variations of this story are repeated again and again, and that's just the ones we know about. Institutional racism doesn't quite cover it, institutionalised murder does.
A bit naive to believe that the soft power button or airplane mode disables periodic tower pings. A removable battery and shielded bag would be the minimum precaution.
This is just an author wishlist and not the reality. I especially find the "clearing house" fantasy amusing. How he thinks this house of bureaucrats will be able to judge that John Does complaint has any merit?
From the researcher who found it:

we were able to compile a list of strategic defense-in-depth recommendations for Signal Desktop which we’ve sent to the Signal security team per their request. At the end of the day there will always be new “hot” vulnerabilities, but the “vendor” response is generally what separates the wheat from the chaff. The Signal team’s quick patch time along with a strong interest in mitigating vulnerabilities of this type in the future was encouraging to see. I’ll remain a Signal user for the foreseeable future :)

https://thehackerblog.com/i-too-like-to-live-dangerously-acc...
video recording of the Gardener demo at the Kubernetes community meeting 2018-05-17: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpFTcTnBxbM&t=27m0s
Exactly. People try to explain to me how it is impossible to comply and usually it turns out that it would be easy. I think the problem most of time that people misunderstanding the requirements or not reading GDPR (not even TLDR versions).
Unless those have been disabled.
It can't compile arbitrary Python, it's only a subset of Python (removing some of the dynamic features that might be used in the standard library).
> my private data

> we're better off not using

Just pointing out that some people may want to choose how they want their data treated case-by-case, instead of having no option to use the website because its blocked
How do you check if someone is an EU resident?
Hi! Does anybody find it easier to concentrate to calling with old phone? Still many things work with calling and hopefully will work on future. It is a sort of doing mode for me, not chatting. This goes to psychology and I am an engineer. Put so many many distractions to face on phone before getting to calling? Distractions can be and are at least for me very hard to resist. People are different. I need to turn off distractions, I cannot resist.
Wayland, the xdg-apps sandboxing (now FlatPak), containers in general, etc.
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Article 7 doesn't seem to mean anything does it?

Spain just crushed a political movement trying to organise a referendum through force. It arrested the leaders and the rest of the EU is helping them catch the ones that fled. They call it a rebellion and state that Catalonia can never be independent.

Not an Article 7 violation, apparently. According to the EU it's merely an internal matter.

Hungary elects a government by a wide margin, it's a popular government, and the government reflects its people's disagreement with EU policies that aren't in any treaties and weren't in anything Hungary previously agreed to. This is apparently a violation of "rule of law" and "not democracy".

The EU's definition of democracy is anything that helps the EU, simple as that.
I agree that they can't track native app use but think their data might not be too far off. I just compared a few pages where I have access to traffic data and similarweb estimates aren't too far off, more exact than I had expected. But that could be different for very popular sites.
Hear hear...
Question, is Rust inherently faster than C?

I thought the main benefits were safer code. Is it just the fact that you looked at what needed optimized and put some effort in or did the language choice help?
Personally, I'll activate anonymization of ip addresses in my logs coming next week. There are various solutions for that available.

I think you can also log the ip, you just have to get your user's explicit consent.

I will also remove Google Analytics, and switch AdSense to contextual ads. I am a bit worried about the latter step, but if the losses are too great I can still try to get consent from my visitors and switch to personalized ads again. As for Google Analytics, I never did get that much out of it, but perhaps I should have used it more. I never activated the "deep personalization" options in GA to begin with.

It bothers me to pester my visitors with consent popups. On the other hand, looking at what Google proposes for compliant AdSense, it also bothers me that apparently multiple companies get to track my users if I enable personalized ads. I wasn't really aware of that, and just accepted Google as tracking because they know everything anyway.

So much as I dislike the new privacy laws, at least the made me reconsider my AdSense settings.
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> Even though, counter intuitively, the long hump has less drag.

Not directly related but readers may be interested in the Area Rule. This is more aimed at trans and super sonic flight so I don't think that applicable to the 747. Basically the whole area cross sections down the length of the plane needs to be smooth so when it's punching a hole in the air the compression ( volume displacement ) around it is even and this reduces drag. The generally do this by narrowing the fuselage at the places the wings and external engines are.

The Blackburn Buccaneer is a good example. https://modelingmadness.com/review/viet/gb/cjabuc2b.jpg

This looks like a decent starting point,
http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/aerodynamics/q0104.shtm...
PayPal acquires Stockholm-based mobile payments company iZettle for $2.2B
Yeah playing The Climb sets off my fear of heights pretty well. I’ve climbed a lot in the real world and I think the lack of input from my feet actually heightens that fact as they are pretty integral to having the strength to hold yourself on.
"Data Protection Officer

I do not have the resources to hire a Data Protection Officer (DPO) or EU Representative as required by GDPR. I do not have designated EU contacts."

What? Where does it say in the law that:

a, you need one

b, it cannot be you

I mean come on, this is just a very ignorant post from the author.
If a law can be so easily circumvented, does not provide an alternate solution and fails to effect any change at all, then it's a failed law and a bad law, regardless of good intentions.
I think it can simply be GDPR compliant if you inform your users that you are saving that data in your database, and they give you the explicit OK to do to. Explicit consent meaning they tick a checkbox saying "I understand that page x is saving the data y in a database and I am OK with it".

If you have a site where users can make posts, I'd say they pretty much give you consent by signing up. IANAL, though.
This is another feature that goes into bucket "I'll never use" along generators
It is easy if they believe particular person's interpretation. But that doesn't mean they are right. People have huge problems with interpreting written word if it is not written without a room for interpretation and if you add to the mix bureaucrats that have targets to meet you'll see it will not be easy at all.
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> If you’re Mark Zuckerberg however I would definitely advise not to ignore this, however the chances of Mark reading this blog post are nil.

As this is top of HN, perhaps there is a good chance he will read this because of the his FB staff who read this and can't resist telling him? :)
The new one is even more sweet and rich than the eggs (more like a dessert than a snack) and harder to eat for a young child, so not surprising.
There's currently no case law surrounding GDPR. Moreover, some elements of the GDPR are up for interpretation. People are rightfully concerned.

> "This post is an attempt to calm the nerves of those that feel that the(ir) world is about to come to an end"

This post is actually a single person's viewpoint, a mere speculation of how things may or may not turn out to be. Your mileage may vary.
I was hoping for a nice respite to the anti-GDPR stuff we've seen recently, but this is just naked propaganda. In particular, the sentence:

"the GDPR has the potential to escalate to those levels but in the spirit of the good natured enforcers ..."

The author seems to have the idea that bureaucratic EU systems are inherently "good" and that even if things look bad on paper, it will be fine because they are "good" people. This is not how the legal system or legal compliance works.
What targets? Where have you heard something about targets?
The conversation was about whether the response was proportionate to (what the commenter felt was) a small imposition. You can't just change the degree of imposition from a small one to a really severe one and then claim it's 'the same'. It's only the same if you possess the enviable mental quickness to find not-the-same things the same. You're right that I don't.

If you cancel an appointment because you stubbed your toe, many people will consider that response unreasonable. If you did it because a pterodactyl flew in and bit off your head, lightning thought process and all, fewer people would.
Same. It's interesting but the people scammed themselves say that they don't care about the money - they're all multi-millionaires. Does't inspire pity or anger on the readers part.
Ready Player One was a warning, not a manual!
I think the biggest complaint I've heard so far is that there is too much room for interepration at the moment, we currently lack any case law.
Inside of a faraday cage, there is no GPS reception.
Thanks for this article.
I wholeheartedly support your stance of:
> In that case please shut down or do not serve EU customers
I recognized your user name from the other thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17095217), it looks like you've made up your mind (to the point where your comments where ridiculous enough to be deleted) and no amount of argument will even get you to consider any other options.

Why don't you tell us how you really feel?
On what experiences with EU bureaucracy do you base your statement?