skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That guy should've been more scared about getting it wrong. Every single piece of evidence pointed to his supposed secret communications channel with a Russian bank (and a random American health clinic for some reason) being the simple result of run-of-the-mill mass marketing emails for Trump hotels sent by a company that had been subcontracted to do so for years. The Intercept even managed to obtain copies of some of the emails they'd sent. A DNS covert channel of the sort being suggested would require the secret co-operation of the technical staff at a company the Trump Organization didn't even have a direct contractual relationship with - why take that risk to set up a really terrible communications channel? Multiple outlets had apparently already passed on the story because it didn't hold up - but that didn't matter, because the moment he published it went viral on social media, with the Clinton camp's tweets alone getting tens of thousands of retweets.

It would be no exaggeration to say that his decision to ignore the pesky technical objections he didn't understand and run the story anyway did permanent damage to the US political and news climate, that it made everyone's beliefs about the world a little more wrong forevermore. When Clinton's campaign tweeted to demand the FBI investigate, only one outlet - the New York Times - dared stand up and report that the FBI had already investigated and concluded all the evidence was consistent with it being exactly the boring junk email server it looked like, and people are still pointing to that article to drag the Times' reputation through the mud to this day. (Their own public editor even criticized them for questioning and not believing!)

He created a world where not believing junk emails were secret Russian communications was, to quote the recent New Yorker article, the equivalent of believing "that space aliens did this".
I personally wish folks would make phone upgrade decisions with battery replacements in mind. (I am guilty of this too, of course!)

If you're happy with your phone two years on, you probably get much more bang for your buck paying $79 for a new battery than $749 or $999 or whatever for a new device.
> In my estimation there is a 20–30% chance we could have “an event” in the near term (the next two years), and since there is never a bad time to make long-term plans you should read this email twice, and discuss it with your senior team.
Oh yeah good catch, we’ll get that added
If we're worried about one country using a tech corporation's hardware to spy on another, there is in some sense where we're denying the potentially neutral or amoral nature of what it means to be a multinational corporation that needs to consider the costs of operation in many different business environments. We might be unwarranted in our complaints in this regard.

At the other extreme, there is the possibility of legitimizing the company that operates in international markets to be aligned with a particular nation's values, and that this alignment is baked into the core of its business operations.

This option will probably leave a bad taste in the mouths of some hackers here who resent a consolidation of government power over companies, given that this smells a lot like some other rulerships in history that we frown upon.

But I'm unsure if there is a middle ground here. That's my fault if I'm missing it. Can we really hold a global company accountable to our ethical standards, which would not allow them to engage in the moral relativism necessary to access all markets?
I would be interested, that is the exact reason why I'm not putting any stickers on my laptop.
Pretty clear from my comment I know what `finger` is.
I absolutely hate edge to edge screens. It makes for a terrible user experience when you accidentally hit something with your palm. I also hate the super thin fad. Now I just have to buy a think bumper case so I can actually hold the phone.
My apologies for the accusatory tone but aren't you kind-of proving the point of the article? Keeping your Facebook account because of the events calendar means you place more value in convenience than you do privacy, Facebook knows it, and they're not going to change.
Indeed! The good systems I see are the result of tuning and adjusting over time based on domain experience and experience with the stack. Good stacks take elbow grease to tune for a given environment: incremental factoring and cleaning based on actual experience with it. Development efficiency and productive reuse does NOT come in a box. Barring a huge AI breakthrough, the latest buzzword won't do your hard thinking and analyzing for you.
My QC25 bought new for 120$ are damn awesome. Half of my office tried them over last year and the conclusion was unanimous - they are great. Office noise is cut completely including most of the normal talking. Airplane noise is cut especially effectively, it seems they are optimized for it. Old subway and old trams are very high frequency and are cut only partially but still noticeably. As for build, soft materials look flimsy but neither band nor earpads are torn or degraded after 1 year of usage (office and rare travel), cord is good too. And wires in the moving part of headset looks very well implemented.

I think up to 200$ ANC headphones are a very good buy, 350$ is debatable.
Fantastic, quick website. Kudos. I'll be checking out Netlify, too.
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> what makes iMessage better than Facebook Messenger or Snapchat or Whatsapp?

That it is already set up when you buy the device. This can't be understated. Among my friends and family, some have FB messenger, some have Snapchat and some have Whatsapp. The only one they all have is iMessage. And even Android users can participate in group messages by (automatically) downgrading to MMS.
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No. It's mostly green :P
Never mind. I found the answer. The prevailing advice now is: call them valued employees, but pay them as contingent/contract workers. Some companies have "perks" that include reimbursement for accounting/tax preparation in the "employee's" host country -- they deal with the income reporting, health care, and tax issues.
Google would probabbly just prefer you sign in to all your services just using their account.

Thus you wouldn't need a password manager if everything was Google Identity Platform....

That aside chrome has a password manager. I'm not saying it is the perfect solution, but it is there.
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The Google execs who had big enough balls to walk away from the mountain of cash that the Chinese market represents are all long gone or retired.

Larry and Sergei in particular are nowhere to be seen in these discussions.

The people left in charge are nowhere near having the kind of backbone and ethics-driven decision making style the top management team had 8-10 years ago.

What Google has become in the last 10 years just another boring evil faceless corporation.
I was looking for a 8Gb Ram and a SD card slot for pretty much infinite storage... Oh well.
If they can crack that nut, they’ll have a crazy moat for a coupl years. And if they scale like hell in that moment, they might have a real brand on their hands.

And there’s no guarantee at all that the incremental approach will lead to the same place in a reasonable timeframe.

So, risks all around. And people playing to their strengths.
How is an "Application Delivery Network" different from a CDN (which AFAIK is what Netlify currently is)? Netlify still only handles static content, right?
I suppose you get a cdn and easier configuration (?) of ssl.

Now the question is do I need a cdn to host my blog made of static files? No. But I will take it if it is free.
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Duckduckgo is an advertisement company.
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Patterns to be discovered will become readily apparent, and hopefully help many of those less fortunate souls to become whole again.
This part has always kind of worried me. It feels like indentured servitude a bit. People will end up paying too much or be on the hook for more than they can afford because they are desperate now
Adobe[0] has an entire analytics/tracking platform.

Microsoft is likely about the telemetry stuff happening in Windows 10. They're not supported by ads, but the tracking baking into the OS is a non-starter for a lot of tech folks.

[0]:https://www.adobe.com/analytics/adobe-analytics.html
>when they hired ruth porat

Don't forget Diane Greene. She is the exact anti-thesis of the original Google culture.
>I mean, I’m sure there were also people who hang on to their investments back in 1930 or 1931 thinking that the worse was over

C'mon, you just had to wait a few years: https://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/26/your-money/stocks-and-bon... (note when that was published! Near the low point of the 2008 stock market; Mar 5 2009 was the low point for the Dow.)
I think being able to set FB messenger AS my SMS app is more powerful.

The entire point I am making is that we increasingly access MANY services. Content is a great example, with Netflix, ATT, Disney, National Amusement, Sony, Amazon, and Comcast getting into a pretty nasty battle. Service agnostic hardware is very very attractive, whether that service is messaging/calling, backups, or content consumption. Shells treating all services equally, is a value upon itself. They can still ship from the factory with an in house default. Roku being able to surface and categorize content from many apps, and being able to deep link directly to movies is a much more pleasant experience. Or searching for a movie and being asked which ecosystem/service I want to view it from.

It SUCKS when a company like Apple says "you need Apple hardware to watch our original series" or when "you need ATT wireless to watch this HBO show" becomes a thing.

It SUCKS that I need an Amazon Echo Show 2, Google Home Hub, Facebook Portal Plus and an iPad all set up in my kitchen to answer Video Calls!!..!.. verbally when my hands have egg on them. https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/how-smart-... (at least Facebook is considering Alexa and Google Assistant. At least Amazon Echo may allow Android texting and Skype, while also supporting Zigbee.)
Heh. Your comment made me just realize that my Pixel 2 doesn't have a headphone jack. I've had this phone for months (a year?) And never noticed.
Not the OP, but my personal experience has been that it was a mistake to rely on SendGrid. This is based on a 2016 incident [1] where SendGrid made unannounced changes to IP pools, resulting in sent emails being delayed for several hours or more while the new IPs warmed up. For many kinds of transactional email, several hours' delayed delivery quickly turns into multiple end users opening support cases. ("Where's my password reset?")

If this had been a simple mistake, fine (all ESPs have occasional issues), but to my knowledge SendGrid has never acknowledged this as an operational error. In fact, at the time SendGrid representatives repeatedly insisted the change was made intentionally for its (paying) customers' benefit.

(That said, SendGrid had some really nice tracking and segmentation dashboards, which I do miss at my new ESP.)

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12142728
Note that Netflix does not just use your data for making suggestions, but also for optimizing the content they create and buy.
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Is it all that different from hosting on S3 or Firebase or GitHub pages?
.. and now I need to re-watch the series again. Or at least the opener.
The $40 includes all future upgrades.
You cannot sign in to your bank using your Google account.
What happens in some cases is that new intermediate CAs are introduced and older client's certificate stores are not updated. In this case it is a TLS server error as the TLS server should be sending you all the intermediate certs to chain you to "DoD Root CA 2" (the root of DOD PKI -- which is also where smartcards are issued from, via different intermediate certificate authorities, prior to FPKI).
Before #BigHack, Bloomberg published these five incorrect stories about Apple
> But Bloomberg is a serious news organization and they are holding strong on this story as well. So what to think?

Are they? The authors of this story published an unverified and in corroborated story about Heartbleed a few years ago, claiming that the NSA knew about it and was exploiting it (https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2014/04/...).
My cynical answer would be: it never really mattered, so this is a way to allow new tech without scraping the whole idea. Especially given the number of possible radio bands and nobody publishing what the protested ranges were supposed to be.
Tangential, I know I need to get myself a better laptop but come on Google. I use Chrome. This page should load in 1/2 seconds max, images included. It froze for a minute and I just hit the back button because whatever was happening wasn't worth the wait.

Or I'm not just the target since whatever computer I'm running "can' t take" whatever is happening on that page.

For the sake of it I went to https://www.apple.com/lae/iphone-xs/ which I never visited before to compare loading speed on my computer. The latter loaded instantly, although the scrolling is a bit choppy, it does scroll, while Google landing page is completely frozen, trying to play a video and what not.

Google, your UX is a complete disaster. How can you hire the best people and end up something horrible such as that landing page?
Unfortunately, you are correct. Even in the US, the privacy discussion has recently picked up steam. These companies and their success is a testament to how they milked the US/Europe market already in past 10-15 years. And they have more to go where India and China are massive targets for expansion.

However, I do think that the narrative is already being talked about in the US/Europe with GDPR, congressional testimony of CEOs and major focus on privacy leaks. Hopefully there will be government action.

I don't know about China, India, Africa/etc. It is absolutely sickening what Facebook tried to do in India with "Free" internet for all. Thankfully, it was shot down at the government level.

I would argue that my viewpoint is missing the extra expansion in APEC, but looking at the revenue numbers and big companies like Apple promoting privacy is an evidence of where the world is going to go.
That seems like a lot of work. What would be the point of that?

If Amazon is being spied on by foreign intelligence, wouldn't the NSA want Amazon to know about it? Particularly since government data is hosted on Amazon's servers.
It's low cost for people who don't want to mess with AWS / SES, Apache + PHP server setup, etc..
Imagine that I set up/rent a server with apache or nginx pre-configured for mass virtual hosting.

For instance, servicea.org and service.org are placed into two separate directories with the same names, respectively. As soon as web pages are uploaded the pages are served.

What is the difference between that method and Netlify, aside from the forms function?
The chance of salmonella in a dozen eggs is quite low. The chance of it in 300+ eggs is quite a bit more - even with impeccable personal cleanliness. Likewise, if I got a bit of salmonella in something I made, it would affect me and my wife - which would be unfortunate but, that's it.

If a commercial kitchen making food for 73 people gets an egg contaminated with salmonella and then spreads that to all the other dishes it's making... well, that's quite a different problem.

I also know that I wash my hands, and I sanitize every cooking surface in my kitchen daily (or more often). A kitchen with 6+ full time cooks and 70 some people helping themselves to snacks is liable to much more tracked in dirt, unwashed hands, and badly washed dishes.

One of the things I do is infuse alcohols, often in bulk for gifts. When I do this, my sanitation protocol actually changes - I pre-sanitize every vessel using bleach, and I often times do wear gloves if I'm touching anything directly.

Consider this: If you had a small cut on your hand, would you wear gloves before making yourself lunch? What if it was a stranger with a cough making your lunch, would you want them to wear gloves?
If anything, the fog of war here shows the costs that have been incurred alongside the massive efficiency gains from outsourcing/subcontracting in the global economy.
Appreciate the in-depth reply. I've also practiced intermittent fasting and it was the best way to crush my snacking/candy habits, which can add up $$ incredibly quickly.
SM boards with dedi and shared phy for ipmi are usually defaulted to auto mode. I think first interface it can arp for the gateway on wins (or maybe dedi then shared).
A technology/security/defense product that the DoD is, should be more product focused rather than just metrics, metrics are important, but product, usability, security is more important. The wrong metrics can lead you astray[1].

The amount we pay for security, it is appalling some of the data in OP's report just to hit some arbitrary number over security and understanding of a defense product.

> The modern DoD is based around the Asst Sec Defs and business processes put in place by Robert McNamara

Robert McNamara, a Harvard Business School MBA, 'epitomizes the hyper-rational executive led astray by numbers' [1]

[1] https://www.technologyreview.com/s/514591/the-dictatorship-o...
Google probabbly wishes you would...

Other than a handful of cases that they're not focused on I'm thinking they're still focused on their identity platform.
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I think this is a great question, and it has some precedent in other professions. Non-lawyers are not allowed to supervise a lawyer's work in law, as I understand it. There's always complications dealing with the law.

When I worked in aerospace, there were various assertions about structural engineers getting into management over more specialized engineers because of their "whole vehicle" orientation or some such.
> In the end, the results of my work are in the rinimp3 crate, because I suck at naming things.

Why not minimp3-rs -- thus people familiar with the original C library will be sure where it is coming form...
> I don't think Facebook will add them

Facebook already has them...
I use Github pages. I'm not a professional web developer so my take is pretty non technical.

The main difference for me seems to be netlify let's you have input forms and do POST requests whereas github pages is more static and only serves static pages via GET.
They run the buildprocess for your static content for you, and have a functions as a service thing integrated, which I think wraps Amazon Lambda.
Why is Adobe in there? Are they really an ad company?
Early? Read The Big Short and you'll change your opinion about when that crisis started.
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Taken from the "Cellular Communications" Wikipedia page is the following diagram: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/44/GSM_Arch...

Along with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_switching_subsystem it should provide a general guide.
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Intolerant minorities have a lot of power to effect change.

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The median age in the US is 38. Half of the population is older than that, since 27% of the population is under 18 that means nearly 70% of the adult population is over 38, about 45% is over 50, and about a quarter is over 60. Those older folks had the benefit of higher wage jobs in their early careers, and were able to build their careers, job experience histories, and income levels much faster than later generations. Additionally, because of the much lower costs of housing they were able to build their wealth at a much faster rate.

Someone who is 60 years old or older today (which again makes up fully 1/4 of the adults in the US) would have seen average (nominal) wages of about 12k/yr and would have been able to jump into a mortgage only a few years after entering the job market, on a home price of just 60-100k. With a 30 year mortgage they would today be living with a fully paid off house worth easily half a million dollars, and would have had one to two decades of being able to plow their former mortgage payments into investments. Those people have no problem paying for housing, healthcare, children, etc.

It's folks who were born after 1980 who face lower wage jobs with higher requirements, higher costs of education, higher housing costs, higher medical costs, etc. And face an uphill battle in terms of building their careers, increasing their income, and building their wealth.

As to your point about college educations, it is much more difficult to obtain a high paying job without college. And study after study show that college educations result in higher incomes. You might claim that colleges select for the most successful people, which skews the results, but that doesn't change the fact that most desirable and well paying jobs still list college educations as requirements.
Regardless of it mattering or not it is simply not true that that you cannot use them on flights, airlines actually announce that you can use them during safety announcements.
Well then listen to the original source, the podcast, linked in the article?
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Yes... but. OnePlus prices are rising at pace. I think my 3T was £309 some 2 years ago in the UK, where the 6 is £519 and the 6T is expected to be more again.

Also, where the Nexus phones were supported for at least 3 years the 3T wasn't going to get Android Pie just 2 years after release, but it seems it now will (eventually).

I agree it's been filling the segment, but I'm not sure it's continuing to, sadly. Don't get me wrong, they still seem to be beating Apple and Google in terms of bang for buck, but they're definitely chasing up the ladder after them.
Strong second for Art of Prolog (assuming that's the Shapiro text you're recommending?)
How is this 'reinventing' home ownership? Rent=to=own isn't a new idea.
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An LRAD "Voice of God" would certainly get their attention.

https://www.wired.com/2007/12/the-voice-of-go/
I know about that 1936 rebound (that was followed by a mini-recession soon after, if I’m not mistaken) but I think a lot of wealth had “evaporated” in the preceding 6-7 years and a lot of former wealthy people had become bankrupt, it was not that easy to just “hold on” for a few more years.

Later edit: You can also make the case that the 1929 crash paved the way for an entire class of investors to be physically wiped out about 10 years later, I’m talking about how that economic crisis helped Hitler come to power and about the subsequent physical elimination of most of the European Jews. All I’m saying is that sometimes the apocalyptic estimations really do become true.
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I'm not sure I get the point you're trying to make. What exactly am I trying to impose on others? And how does having an office canting (either paid or free) limit choice? No one is forcing anyone to eat there. Obviously I would love nothing more than to have an amazing choice of awesome lunches within walking distance of my office, but given that the realities of urban planning and economics preclude that from happening I'd much rather have my company offer decent food in office as opposed to the current situation of no decent food.
Laws are irrelevant when you’re a multi-billion dollar corporation with lobbyists. Besides, they don’t need to, when they can just sell targetted advertising.