skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article claims otherwise.

> Google says that will prevent the company from remembering where you’ve been. Google’s support page on the subject states: “You can turn off Location History at any time. With Location History off, the places you go are no longer stored.”

> That isn’t true. Even with Location History paused, some Google apps automatically store time-stamped location data without asking.

> For example, Google stores a snapshot of where you are when you merely open its Maps app. Automatic daily weather updates on Android phones pinpoint roughly where you are. And some searches that have nothing to do with location, like “chocolate chip cookies,” or “kids science kits,” pinpoint your precise latitude and longitude — accurate to the square foot — and save it to your Google account.
how about we just figure out how to get as close as possible to 1C?
Title editorialized slight due to title character limit, dropped "assembly" after "solar module".
No, according to this map they track you with Location History off (it says so right in the title, actually), not with Location Services off.
What part of Android is not FLOSS that makes harder for us to look into the code and guess where there's spying ?

Is there competition in Android distribution with all the features needed by most people (replacing GGL Maps with OpenStreetMaps etc.) ?
9/11 wasn't caused by lockpicks in luggage. The Vegas shooting had guns in luggage as a key factor.
bash-based, looks good to me.
France approves 720MW of solar as price falls another 5%
Lock In by John Scalzi.

https://www.tor.com/2014/05/21/lock-in-john-scalzi-excerpt-c...

Wil Wheaton's narration is great too. I listened to the audiobook and think about it a lot.

It's a techno whodunit — hacking and cracking neural dust/lace, remotely renting and operating physical bodies and committing crimes while “occupying” them, and bio/techno ethics all play a role.

In Scalzi's future, locked-in patients receive so much government funding to improve their lives that they gain more abilities and advantages than those who aren't “locked in”, which makes for an interesting inversion.
Can you list a handful of the hundreds?
My $100,- Motorola Moto C plus is great but I can't remove the Google search box from my home screen for example.

This was one of the grounds for the EU's recent antitrust action. If Google don't want to face another multibillion dollar fine in the very near future, we should see far more choice over whether to use Google services on Android.

http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-18-4581_en.htm
Dynamic Secret Generation with Vault and Flask
Innocent people typically dont talk like this.

It does not mean that she did it, but it could indicate deception, like she knows more of what she is letting on.

I couldn’t find other similar suspicious declarations from others, that is why i thought it was worth pointing out.

The fact that the journalist chose to include these statements might indicate that the journalist thinks the same, that there is something wrong with this lady story.
Concealed means concealed. I have never seen a casino in Vegas signed in a way that bans concealed carry is off limits, either in a legally binding way or not.
Second this. Fantastic book about true events. If you like the story, there is also a movie which covers the same events as the book. The movie is called "23" and is available in German and English.
Years ago, I bought a cheap starter fountain pen, a journal, stamps, envelopes, and paper. Writing letters and journaling is definitely different than typing (the pace is different), and a fountain pen means I can write pages without the fatigue that comes from ballpoint pens.

I'm sitting here with that same pen and a tiny notebook for my thoughts in my pocket.

It's nice to look back and see what I was randomly thinking of on a given day, and go back and expand/elaborate or reflect on it.
> Short term profit seeking is a cancer upon us all, is there no way out of this hell?

Take your firm private with investors that are focused on long term goals, not short term profits.

Why bother with public markets if private markets provide sufficient capital to execute?
for embedded boxes golang is either unsupported there, or its binary is typical over-sized, a bash or C version of the same functionalities will be great there.

then you can have letsencrypt easily these days so probably we can use 'official certificate' even for local development these days?
And I don't know if someone helped him write the book, but the story is amazingly good. It is exactly what you look for in a hacking story, someone outwitting people combined will some phone phreaking. Very good book, I would recommend.
>I use the alternative fdroid repository and it works fine.

F-Droid doesn't have Signal, Whatsapp, Firefox and VLC. No one can seriously expect a normal user to do without Google Play Services (I checked F-Droid every week to, one day, hopefully, turn Google Play Service off. Forever).

So 99.9% of Android users are forced to feed Google with all their location data. And the .1% who resists have very little influence on the surveillance state. That's infuriating.
Depends on what do you mean by "not allowing Google from accessing it"?

Setting location mode to GPS only and disabling Location permissions / Location History for Google apps in your app settings should probably do what you want.
Only technically so. The parts they send you are open source because of the GPL. A substantial portion of the parts in the cloud (which are 100% required to use the platform in any manner) are not open source. They've been suggesting that they will open source enough of the backend to actually run resin.io on your own (without several features) for 3 years now, most recent target release was 2017.

Here's the latest update I could find on the topic: https://resin.io/blog/open-source-resin-io-progress-and-next...
Powerful as the copyright lobby may be, they haven't yet managed to make it a copyright violation to criticise copyright law or the copyright lobby itself.
Halting State by Charlie Stross
> Bayesian probability is emphatically not about an experiment being repeated in the future. That's the frequentist interpretation of probability.

As I mentioned elsethread, you misunderstand what I am saying. But, just to help you reason this out, answer me this: Where do you think the data to update your beliefs come from?
Isn't Netflix a prime example? Or am I misunderstanding the meaning of "digital transformation"? Netflix used to be a DVD rental service, and in fact that service still exists: https://dvd.netflix.com/.
I work on Jaeger at Uber. In short, OC is not a standard, OT is a standard. It's like asking what is the difference between HTML5 and a web browser. HTML5 is a standard for developers to use when developing web pages, allowing rendering on a number of different web browsers, whereas a single browser constitutes a single implementation. At the moment, OpenCensus is like a web browser not accepting HTML5 and demanding web developers adopt a custom markup language. If they would adopt the OpenTracing API, developers could instrument an application once, and switch between Jaeger and OpenCensus with no changes in the code. Clearly, I am biased against this approach as I have spent considerable time working with the OpenTracing project to make it the de-facto tracing API and OpenCensus is kind of breaking that.

About OpenCensus, "Open" seems to mean open source and census was the original name internally at Google (there is evidence for this in gRPC git history where it was just census). Anyway, we are waiting on OC to adopt OT, but they don't seem to be interested at the moment.
In Sydney, Australia, they slapped on a tax to uber, to compensate the taxis. I can't remember the details, possibly time bound.
Slightly unrelated but something amazing and terrifying happened two days ago. I moved about 6 months ago and I keep a separate OS (Windows) for mainly gaming.

When I was waiting for some updates to finish, I was browsing HN and came across a Show HN that shows you food places etc (https://www.justgetmefood.com/ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17746497). Since I was on my gaming OS, I was not logged in to Google or any of my accounts, only Steam and some other non-important things.

I tried out the app, and it promptly showed me restaurants that were 20 minutes of walking distance, from my old place! Down to the street-number. Even though I never gave away the address on that operating system (also installed after the move actually). Somewhere along the pipes, Google picked up that this was me (IP probably?) but somehow mapped me to the old address.
What is this bullshit
"Daemon" or "Kill Decision" by Daniel Suarez

"Snow Crash" by Neil Stephenson
You're never too old to learn.
Many international hotels outside the USA search bags on entry. I just went to such a hotel in Africa, and they required the valet to bring bags to the room. I'm assuming they x-rayed the bags behind closed doors to keep it discrete. Perhaps this approach would be more tolerable in the states. (We still had to go through a metal detector on the way in)
Bicycle tyres
Ideally I would get an iPhone, but they are just way over my budget and I don't do contracts.
I'll second Daemon. It's a really good novel.
Out of the Inner Circle (1985) - the autobiographical true story of "The Cracker" Bill Landreth.
How FinTechs could stop Blockchain innovation
Ehh this seems rather light on details. Was this simply an "Inspect Element" "hack" and this "replica" I'm going to bet money it wasn't provided by Florida. All of it just doesn't really add up or make much sense. I'm not saying that our election infrastructure isn't riddled with holes but this don't prove anything except that DEFCON wanted a click-baity headline IMHO...

Edit: I just got notified on my phone of a reddit thread for this same article and the consensus [0] there is "Inspect Element" was used. What a stupid article that only detracts from real threats.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/96xszu/an_11yea...
"Stealing the network" series by Ryan Russel is awesome.

- Stealing the Network: How to Own the Box
- Stealing the Network: How to Own a Continent
- Stealing the Network: How to Own an Identity
- Stealing the Network: How to Own a Shadow
I did some assignments for what I believe was ACNielsen when I was in college. I'd get paid about €10 an hour to stand outside an Aldi store asking every customer that came out for their receipt. (Aldi also doesn't share its sales figures.) I'd also have to note every customer that didn't give their receipt. This gave ACNielsen information on the sales for that particular store. They, of course, did this at multiple locations and sold the gathered data to interested parties.
Completely agree. Everything is possible in it. If there was indeed someone who had a far surpassed genius level of IQ and tech know how, and dedicated hours of their time to developing the stuff with an unlimited budget (which basically is what Matthew Sobol supposedly has)
then I could easily understand how a lot of things in that book could become reality.

Either way - a fun read and a good book to re-visit. One of the few that I read every few years or so...
Because the vast majority of the target market of social networks doesn’t care (or even know) if it’s decentralized.

Next question.
I read it some weeks ago and can definitely recommend it. It was a departing gift from my university, a very fitting one for computer science students if you ask me.
I switched to Lawnchair. It feels close to Google Launcher, but with just enough customization to be super easy to setup yet flexible enough.
Out of the frying pan, into the fire. You'll be trading the focus on reasonable but short-term returns for a focus on 10x mid-time returns.
There is no mention of the most recent editor that is being developed - Second Climacs, by Robert Strandh. https://github.com/robert-strandh/Second-Climacs

It has multiple novel ideas, such as generating a syntax tree of typed Lisp code as it is being typed in on the keyboard, which allows it to automatically check and validate symbol spelling and indent code based not on regexes, but on the actual Lisp code that is being edited.
Couldn't agree more, it had me going back to the Algorithms book to refresh on most of part VI (Graph Algorithms). For those interested, Bellman-Ford is 24.1, and Dijkstra's algo is 24.3 in CLRS. Reviewing those helped step through the VisuAlgo link in the article: https://visualgo.net/en/sssp
"Old Brass Brains," a better personification for an analog computer I have not seen.
That's why the few which are not owned by these two ... are by far better. Tropicana, Treasure Island, Venetian are recommended.
Sanger's Confront and Conceal has a great chapter on Stuxnet / Olympic Games as well.
Two books come to mind (while excluding the obvious absolute classics like Neuromancer (William Gibson) and Snow Crash (Neal Stephenson):

"Cryptonomicon" by Neal Stephenson. It goes from WW2 to modern time.

"Cyberpunk" by Katie Hafner - Read it aeons ago so working from long term memory. 3 real world stories of famous hackers and their "crimes" (Kevin Mitnick, Pengo, Robert Morris).
Update on Taking Tesla Private
If you really feel like your software job is just routine sticking bits together, maybe start to look for another job. The one thing I like about my dev job is it's always something new and interesting, and the stuff I am building is overall not interesting at all, but I enjoy what I do within it. After 15+ years of front end development I still get a kick out of plugging together features and seeing the results.

I hate routine and repetitive tasks and I would quit if I was bored every day (there are certainly some boring days).

I read somewhere once that new developers coming into the industry just for the money are in for a shock. Software is boring to a lot of people, you have to be the right kind of person to actually enjoy the tedium of reloading, recompiling, debugging, just for that one short lived smirk to yourself when it all works and you check it in.
> F-Droid doesn't have Signal, Whatsapp, Firefox and VLC. No one can seriously expect a normal user to do without Google Play Services

Not sure about the other 3, but I use firefox just fine on my phone without google play services. I use aptoide as my appstore in the absence of google play, and while it does have stuff in there that don't work without GPS anyway (Uber, for instance), it's been a decent replacement for me for quite a while, containing most of the stuff that f-droid doesn't have (because they're not open source) without forcing me to taint my phone with google's crap.

No argument on your 2nd point though, it's the unfortunate truth. Which is why it infuriates me a bit when the technical .1% who could actually do it the other way still don't bother and just follow the herd. I know not every hill is worth dying on, but still.
Maybe CK-12 Foundation[0]? Also CK-12 have FlexBook's[1].

[0] https://www.ck12.org/
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FlexBook
I really can't see how someone would live with 33k in Paris (before taxes).

According to you what is a good salaries grid ?
Not a film (though there is one too) but: Twin Peaks.
If the Haven phone is stolen - I think it's hard to recover the recorded video. So, I opt for Alfred, which is more of a managed Dropcam-style service.
I teach mathematics at a community college and use free materials in my courses or use materials that I’ve created. I never use paid materials in my courses. The reason I can do this is because math doesn’t change from year to year. I’m in a subject whose content is static. Even so most open textbooks are quite bad. I’ve only found a few that were really good.

Writing a good book even in a field whose content doesn’t change much is hard. There’s a need for publishers but just not a need for one that charges hundreds of dollars for a textbook. It might not be economically feasible to have a publisher put out quality textbooks for less money but I can’t justify forcing my students to spend $200 to $300 per semester on a math textbook.
Google can also your location on your iPhone, you aren't free if you use any google service with location data.
On the other hand, if this is simply standard procedure at any hotel you could use, what choice do you have?
My worry with a turbine on a bushplane would be the potential for it to ingest gravel / sand / rocks etc.

Surely a prop is better suited for this? You could even carry a spare "just in case".
GBPUSD: Vulnerable, Retains Downside Pressure
Well, the core of Android is open source (as part of the AOSP), but Google's launcher, the Google Play Services which most apps rely on, lots of the apps which are installed by default, all driver code, etc. is all closed source.
Saudi Arabia wants to privatize Tesla, report says
So in the US police doesn't need a warrant to storm hotel rooms? Terrifying indeed.
The US is losing the high-stakes global battery war
My intuition wants to say, "If a town can spring up around a company, can't the town wind down if the company shuts down?"

Two reasons why that's wrong come to mind (maybe one reason, they're closely related):

- The people who made the town chose to move there. The people who close up shop are "forced" to leave.

- The kinds of people who move to a town are "special" -- they probably take more initiative than most, they probably have smaller direct families, they're younger. Existing town occupants better reflect wider society.

That second point makes me think about cults :-). I can't remember where I heard it, but someone told me that cults have a lot of trouble with the second generation. Their parents are obviously the sorts of people who join cults, but their kids revert back to the mean and have some common sense.

If one in ten is the sort of person who might pick up and settle elsewhere, well, you can make a town with that if there's something to draw people there. If that draw dies down, though, maybe one in ten will have no trouble leaving and the rest will have more difficulty.

I wonder, though -- US internal migration is trending downward pretty steadily. You'd think it'd go up as barriers to moving have come down... Maybe this is America slowly reverting to the global mean after being a bunch of adventurous immigrants who picked up and left somewhere else.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but these rulings would only hold power in the EU though, no? That's great for the EU, but that means we've still got to fix the problem everywhere else.
For me it was Youtube Red and Roku. As a kid I had some tolerance for advertisements and they weren't that bad. But after spending some time without them I've lost that tolerance. I can't watch network television anymore because they are so obnoxious.
There is also Concurrency Kit, which uses RCU-like mechanisms in a BSD licensed library:
https://github.com/concurrencykit/ck
Aviation controlls the operator class.

Automotive does not.
Some specific services (namely Data Pipeline) aren’t supported in Terraform. However, some parameters like Enhanced VPC routing in Redshift clusters is supported by Terraform but not CloudFormation.

The rule of thumb that you should generally stick to CloudFormation if you are full bore invested into AWS has some truth.

My issues with CloudFormation are lack of control over rollbacks, missing features for existing and mature services like the above, and forcing me to use custom resources to do anything that vaguely resembles coding that Terraform does just fine like IP address math functions.
As long as it's more expensive for these companies to maintain 2 frameworks then it will be beneficial for everyone. This of course might not be the case.
AMD Threadripper 2990WX 32-Core and 2950X 16-Core Review
These are not police. These are private security for the owners of the property.

Generally speaking police do require a warrant to search hotels in the states but it is an area with nuance.
One nice thing I've seen in my city were free curbside self-serve libraries.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/little-library-hintonb...

Of course, they were taken down..
But doesn't this end up sending the message that you shouldn't share your OS and software with other companies? Keep everything proprietary like Apple and make your own phones.

Because Apple seems to get away with everything. They basically removed the ability to have other browsers on iOS by restricting the performance of other browsers, so all the other browsers became reskins of Safari. And nothing happened to them.
Its a fun book, and a good intro to Stephenson (it was my first book I read of his, and now I've read four others). But if you've read his other stuff first or are a more hardcore sci-fi nerd, its easy to think that its a little closer to a blockbuster thriller than science fiction.
I like that didyougogo isn't in the index! Added!
Looks like it was a SQL injection after learning how to do it. The 11 year old did it in 10 minutes. Also the password was stored in plain text on the device. As for the replica bit. This was in the article.

“It would be extremely difficult to replicate these systems since many states utilize unique networks and custom-built databases with new and updated security protocols,” it read. “While it is undeniable websites are vulnerable to hackers, election night reporting websites are only used to publish preliminary, unofficial results for the public and the media. The sites are not connected to vote counting equipment and could never change actual election results.”’

But Sell said the exercise the children took part in demonstrates the level of security vulnerabilities found in the U.S. election system.

https://twitter.com/VotingVillageDC/status/10281031708646973...

Here is also a link to the article in case it didn't work for you. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/an-11-year-old-changed-e...
Playing devil's advocate, I do wonder if attendee's are being well behaved or trying to exploit hotel systems and other guests as typical hackers do trying to show off and prove their mental superiority. If I happened to be in Vegas at the same time as the conference, I'd think to myself, welp, can't use my laptop here.
This does happen now in car culture where people will tune it “chip[1]” their car to increase performance. In practice, it’s difficult enough (you can’t just do it through the car’s infotainment system) that your average driver won’t do it and it’s probably not to big of an empact on the environment[2] and people’s health[3].

[1]”Chipping” used to enclose physically replacing a car’s ECU but now it usually just means the control software has been chnaged digitally.
[2]Unfortunately, some awful people will and do “roll coal” to purposefully increase emissions and smoke. It’s illegal in many places but difficult to enforce.

[3]Your car still has to pass emissions and sometimes people do bring the ECU back to stock firmware before annual inspections just to pass. Difficult to enforce but tuning usually sacrifices fuel economy for performance and its not simple to do. Most people who just want a grocery-getter won’t be trying it.
Private markets is also the route that Elon Musk is considering with Tesla, similar to how SpaceX is structured where employees and sophisticated investors can sell shares every six months [0]. This will also solve his constant antagonism towards short sellers.

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-09/how-elon-...
I wouldn't say I have impressive smartparens skills, but I do definitely use sp bindings all the time. What helped (or made it possible at all?) is I made my super key (right alt for me) the smartparens key. So say s-n is sp-forward-symbol, s-c is sp-clone-sexp and so on. From there on it mostly just takes time. Some will stick, some won't. I remember thinking "barf, slurp sexp, WHAT?". Now I think "too bad barfing is broken in js2...".
As a 41 yr old I am glad I am too old for this.
The 10:1 rule of writing and programming