skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
MHR is connected to mygov.

mygov, is [0] not [1] secure [2]. Therefore, MHR is not secure. I have no reason to believe the situation has changed (2FA is still SMS only for starters) - and I cannot see any reasonable effort being made by our government to change that same situation.

Their past response [3] has been to ignore security problems.

I don't care how much they're paying for this brand-new insecure service. I'm irritated that they're asking Australia to pay for something that wasn't requested (people asked for an easier way to transfer records - not for their records to be housed in a known, insecure facility), and I'm irritated that after complaints of insecurity began surfacing across the nation, they started a campaign on TV calling it secure.

So no, the bigger perspective isn't a nation paying a lot for a system that isn't getting used - the bigger perspective is the nation is paying the government to allow enterprising individuals to steal and sell their data.

[0] https://www.zdnet.com/article/mygov-health-records-breached-...

[1] https://www.smh.com.au/technology/revealed-serious-flaws-in-...

[2] https://www.smh.com.au/technology/australians-private-govern...

[3] http://www.scribd.com/doc/224260090/MyGov-Security-Gov-Respo...
> Valencia didn’t just rule out other possible explanations. He also established a few reasons that areas near the missions have tended to succeed at higher rates, even today.

It's known that these areas had four immigration phases, from 1820 to 1960. The monarchy (then the government) began to stimulate the arrival of Europeans because of the vast land and good climate. The monarchy even used agressive propaganda and megalomanic promises. Our recent elected president came from one of those european immigration waves, from Italian Veneto region in 1888.

There's a huge italian and german presence in this southern region (as well as in Argentina and neighbors), and also great natural resources that allowed agriculture and family farming to those european experienced farmers. This southern region today produces most of Brazil's grains, oilseeds (and exports).

So in a way, knowledge, higher incomes and education levels were imported. Brazil is full of curious phenomena, and it deserves more sociological study, being a young country.
None of the representations considered in the paper (log or linear posit or log posit) respect the IEEE standard, deliberately so :)
I don't know, I'd agree with the OP. I like OSX, have 3 macbooks, but damn if the new ones aren't a terrible compromise - especially the keyboards and being forced into the touchbar (which is a straight up gimmick like 3d tv)
There's a bunch of ASCII characters (28 - 31) specifically meant to be used as delimiters, but they never caught on.

But even if they did, you still always need to handle the case where one might legitimately want to use the delimiter character inside a field value.
It's weird how as they've added more SKUs to their product lineup, it's become harder to find the exact product I want.
Their product lineup used to be so simple and easy to navigate, but now it's a mess, and it's opinionated just enough to push users in a particular direction.

Want a fully-loaded 15 in. MBP without a touch bar? Too bad. I don't care that it shines when using Garage Band because I don't really use Garage Band.

They appeared to kill the Macbook Air when they dropped the latest iteration of the Macbook, only to bring back the Air last month.

Sure, these machines are all still well-built and should meet the demands of their users. But Apple's ability to communicate and ship their various product lines is getting noticeably worse, and that raises fears for the future (rightfully so.)

Because at the end of the day, we're not just buying laptops and phones, we're committing to the ecosystem that these devices grant us access to.
Why can manual screenshots be prevented by applications?

Automated screenshots - makes sense.

But manual? I've lost count of the number of times I've had to resort to stupid nonsense like taking a photo of my phone with another phone.

It provides zero security benefit whilst making the end user's life harder.
One of the amazing things about Chrome which is under rated is the ecosystem in Open Source tooling that it's created.

Specifically V8, Chromium, NodeJS, and Electron.

I've been working in an offline browser and documentation platform named Polar which is based on Electron.

https://getpolarized.io/

Obviously it heavily relies on Electron + Chrome internals but the fact that I can control the full browser is pretty amazing.

This is a hybrid desktop+browser app which allows me to some pretty awesome things.

For example, I can inject myself directly into the networking stack in Electron.

This is how Polar implements offline browsing. It captures the traffic of a web page you're visiting and then keeps it in a cache for your usage forever. No worrying about the site vanishing or your network going offline.

Now I COULD do this with a PWA and service workers, possibly, but I think the main thing I'm worried about is Google's control over the extension install process.

I'm anticipating at some point that they might block service workers that essentially register for * ... that actually DOES make a lot of sense to prevent malware - but then I'm not malware.
Because your personal valuation is likely very off-the-mark because the consequences of that action may lie far into the future or may actually happen to others and not yourself.

Also, if the product is really "invaluable" to you (e.g. you have no choice but to use it) then your choice to give up privacy wouldn't be voluntary either.

(Edit: added first paragraph)
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This is how I cured my reddit-addiction. I also decided never to visit Facebook with my phone. Now I visit there once a day in the evening. These actions have increased my happiness significantly.
Incorrect. Only demand is determined by the consumers. Supply is determined by the willingness of those with resources to supply those resources at a given price.
If you want to move the attention to my choice of words I won't bite.

Are you seriously telling me the fear of terrorist attacks, something that is perpetrated by a tiny minority of Uighurs which has affected a few hundred Chinese, is greater than the fear the millions of Uighurs feel after hundreds of thousands, a sizeable share of their population, has been hauled of to prison without a trial solely based on ethnicity and religion?

And, yes, I agree that Chinese people deserve not to fear terrorist attacks which is why I think you should prosecute the indidual terrorists, it does not give you the right to punish the 99.9% other people who have never perpetrated a terrorist attack ever in their lives for having the same religion or ethnicity as the perpetrators. China has signed the declaration of human rights saying that everyone has the right to be tried for crimes as an individual and willfully breaking those rights is a human rights crime, perpetrated by the state. I hope you see a difference between the government abusing human rights and individuals abusing human rights?
I think George Carlin said it best — meatcake.
It should be clear that a non-zero percentage will do so, and those that do not will fall victim to the same diminishing population, therefore the trend holds.
I used to do this with a method kind of like Cleanroom with inspiration from formal specs and refinement, too. You have to be able to figure out the specifics ahead of time without explorative execution. From there, I used decomposition noting the inputs, outputs, and so on of each function. I used a subset of a programming language with predictable behavior that maps to that. I'd usually know what's going to happen before it happened by just walking through the program in my head. Main problem was third-party libraries, which I had to profile ahead of time. Or just use a friggin' computer since even that wasn't reliable for those in C.

Here's a write-up on Cleanroom:

http://infohost.nmt.edu/~al/cseet-paper.html

Here's a test of it by NASA around 1990 where the E.3 and E.4 sections highlight its benefits and requirements:

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/199100...
I agree that the SCOTUS case cited is not in itself the fatal blow against third party doctrine. But it's a major step in the courts recognizing that pre-digital doctrines need adaptations/concessions to apply to a digital society. Again, IANAL, but if the third party doctrine includes Alexa requests, then why have police (at least in other jurisdictions) needed search warrants to get account info and content and emails from Facebook/Google? [0] Though I'm probably naive in hoping that there's a conclusive distinction; the third party doctrine would seemingly apply for the U.S. mail, but doesn't seem to.

I definitely didn't mean to imply that the NSA is above doing illegal activities. But it seems self-evident that people were very surprised by the Snowden revelations, enough to demand reforms [1] (or at least "gestures", if we want to be cynical). And people would be just as surprised to find out the NSA doing something far more invasive today. Laws and regulations don't mean that illegal activity will cease to exist -- but it makes such activity much more difficult/cumbersome to do, especially on such a wide-scale, without the conspiratorial buy-in from agency managers, leaders, and high-ranking legislators. So I'm not surprised that the NSA has the capability to do massive 1984-like domestic surveillance, but I would be surprised that such a program was approved and implemented. The laws/regulations on paper are what make it possible for anyone to get punished when someone like Snowden whistleblows.

[0] https://www.reviewjournal.com/crime/shootings/unsealed-docum...

[1] https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/how-the-nsa-spyin...
No, the previous commenter was correct. You can run any WASM targeting language on Workers.
Does Alexa need Star Trek-style command codes.

"Alexa, unlock the door, command override Janeway alpha-two-phi."
Just recently moved to fastmail with my own domain, and I am slowly moving all my accounts to it.

It definitely has fewer features than gmail/calendar, and a less "slick" UI, but you know what? I don't even care. It's just a webmail! Do it, the experiment will cost you very little, if you don't already own your own domain (I'm going to take a stab and guess you already own your own domain...)

Next step: Android. Any suggestions?
I've used Linux as my primary OS for the better part of 5 years now (the Arch distro), and I thought the discussion the author gives here is at least a compelling one.

The idea of ports and how they compare to the pacman package manager is quite interesting to me. I don't know enough to make an informed comparison, but I do know that if I let my system sit longer than a year I risk having to reinstall from scratch (whereas the author states a ten year old install can be brought up to date with relative ease).

The author describes a lot that I find to be convincing; enough so that I may give a *BSD a shot for a year or two.

I don't have any particular bias for one platform or another as the only things I want from my OS at this point are a semblance of control and some privacy.
It’s the RESISTANCE Brenda Snipes Will Not Comply
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I am planning to write another article after the campaign is over with more data. Maybe we would have raised more money on KS and spend less on advertising but there is no way to prove that at this point regardless of what data I share.
This is not correct. If the willingness to pay does not correspond to a willingness to sell there is no transaction.

The actual selling price and quantity sold is determined by the interaction between supply and demand.

This concept is first day, first hour, of any discussion of economics.
Don't enable that feature then
How your privacy gets cooked by those restaurant waitlist apps
Instagram has a massive harassment problem
It seems to me that the web has split into two.

Developers that care are using browsers like Firefox and avoiding websites full of cruft (e.g. GDPR/Cookie/Newsletter/Advert/... popups).

The general public is using whatever's preinstalled on their phone to go to whatever websites are advertised to them.

There's some overlap (e.g. obviously these websites exist because there are developers that have no principles and design the GDPR banner stuff), of course.

I don't know how we break that. I'm not sure if we even should - I can tell my friends and family that they should boycott anti-user practices, but they don't care, and that's as far as it goes.

For the general public, computers are toasters. Whatever's marketed most will win. Google has a bigger budget (and greater control over services people use on the web in general) than Mozilla.
This is like saying a stone doesn’t really cause ripples because they fade away before the hit the far shore.
It's also built on Chrome but BAT will be supported on other browsers soon.
There are ergonomic mobile keyboards which can be used with laptops, e.g. GoldTouch.
> humans generally seem to be pretty bad at including more than the immediate here and now in their tradeoff calculations

I disagree with this assessment. What human beings are generally bad at is including the concerns of other people in their calculations. The probability that the information Google, Facebook, etc are gathering on them will ever be used to cause them significant harm is incredibly small. While one can imagine some future holocaust scenario enabled by it, no reasonable person would see that as likely from our current vantage point. The people affected by the way it is currently used, or the ways it is likely to be used in the future, are in a minuscule minority (and any competent authority wishing to abuse this information will no doubt endeavor to keep it that way).

> I'd see this as an argument why stuff like privacy can't be left to individual choice.

Is for your own good comrade!
Light Table is now an open source project:

https://github.com/LightTable/LightTable

It inspired Apple’s Swift Playgrounds. Hopefully, other tools will be inspired by Bret Victor‘s ideas.

By the way, I was an original Kickstarter supporter. I’d back another project like this.
The NVDA screen reader for Windows also reads these symbols. So it looks like they're not a problem.
To answer my own question, other outlets have some extra bits of info:

http://www.unionleader.com/news/crime/judge-orders-amazon-to...

The Union-Leader quotes the district attorney's request, which seems to have cognizance of how Echo works:

> On Oct. 30, Senior Assistant Attorney General Geoffrey Ward asked Houran to direct Amazon.com to produce any recordings made between Jan. 27 and Jan. 29, 2017, suggesting evidence of the crime of murder and/or hindering apprehension of prosecution could be found on the device.

> “As part of the normal functioning of an Echo electronic device activated either intentionally or accidentally by ‘wake up words,’ audio recordings are made of the moment when the device is activated,” Ward wrote.

> “Specifically, when the Echo detects a ‘wake up word(s),’ the device begins audio recording through its integrated microphones, including recording the fraction of a second of audio before the ‘wake up word(s),’” Ward continued.

> The motion, which was made in lieu of an application for a search warrant, also asks for information identifying cellular devices that were paired to that smart speaker in that time period.

If there's one thing these kinds of stories have effected in me, it's the knowledge that I should scream "Alexa!" (or maybe Siri/OK Google depending on which room) right before I get murdered in my own home.
Cloudflare Workers execution time is counted a little differently. When you call fetch() in a Worker and are waiting for remote data, Cloudflare doesn’t count that waiting towards the “execution time” limit. Other providers do.

Note: I work at Cloudflare
Fake it until you make it. Keep hustling.
As an ex smoker also, 100% agree!
Your article does a pretty good job of showing what I meant. The Perl 5 example is more verbose, but easy to follow how OO is implemented. Perl 6 hides it. Not arguing Perl 5's approach as better. Just that it makes OO easy to understand for a procedural developer.
OH. I never even considered that possibly this was intended to be an obfuscated representation. Is it compiled from some other, more direct representation?
I agree with your observation that in this case A was ultimately the cause of C. But as shinryuu noted above, other missions did not focus on B and did not achieve C. Because of that, it is reasonable to conclude that something else leading to B would also lead to C. So while A was ultimately the cause of C in this case, B is the cause which matters most if you want to reproduce C, because it means you can reach C with or without A.

Your statement now that B probably does not lead to C puzzles me. If that is true, then the A -> B -> C chain is broken, and your original statement that A is the cause of C (based on that chain) is invalidated. So I don't know where you are going with this.
Looks like it's only available to some countries in Asia [0].
I've been using Firefox Focus on my phone (uses Webkit under the hood), since regular Firefox is too slow.

[0]: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/get-started-firefox-lit...
I manage online communities, and I saw many people behaving terribly on Facebook. Some people who were polite and well behaved under a pseudonym on my communities would become very unpleasant people when posting under their real names on Facebook. Many Facebook groups are toxic.

Communities aren't well behaved based on real names -- they are well behaved based on the culture that is created by the moderators.
Run Firefox on Cyanogenmod. Sites will still work.

> Fact of the matter is that Google controls its development, which means that whatever they push in Chrome becomes a de facto standard.

Which is why webp, webm, Amp has dominated over other standards?

> Want to bet it will happen

Weak speculation.

The context under discussion was "fully taken over yet", and "dominant".
That what many miss about social networks (and long-distance communication overall, i.e. IRC, ICQ, etc) - it is not always about looking at other people fancy moments (which is probably some type of social networks promote today) but it is to have a connection with people, which otherwise you would not get locally.
The first couple of weeks of my STATS 101 course was my professor showing examples where “your eyes” were wrong.
Google how the human eye works. The rods and cones. Colour and harmony between colours is rooted in our biology. Your iphone screen looks very unnatural, unattractive, to a dog or a goose. They see very different colours than we.

Our affinity to bright red is tied to how we used it to identify ripe fruit. Notifications, things they want you to click/grab/poke work best in red. You dont see many brown buttons on websites. We dont like touching brown the way we do red.
Show HN: Simple Paste Bin with view history
Illegal to manufacture is not the same as illegal to posess.
I came across this beauty a couple of days ago> Not seen it in the flesh but is does seem to fit your use case.

https://remarkable.com/

Specs

https://support.remarkable.com/hc/en-us/articles/11500455428...

I use a refurbished 1st gen sony xperia 10.1 tablet that I bought for £100 on ebay. It is very light and has good resolution but the screen could be a bit bigger. The big plus is it takes an sd card and also a portable s/hdd can be attached so storage is no problem.
Ask HN: Where to find someone to review my code?
Exists some place like this? A place where experienced people help a young padawan to evolve his crafts? Just by providong feedback and direction.

How i find one?
I have been reading Marshall Rosenberg's Non-Violent Communication and according to that book - seeing people happy or seeing peoples interesting thoughts or seeing their appearance etc etc can all lead to comparative/judgemental thinking which leads to all kinds of unintended side effects. He references Dan Greenberg's book How To Make Yourself Miserable.

Yet to be seen if sites can somehow employ mechanics to reduce comparative/judgemental thinking...but its something they all intentionally/unintentionally fuel currently imho.
What will you do if a friend who does care and does not want the privacy intrusion comes over to visit? Do you at least give people the courtesy to inform them and ask their permission to have recordings of their voice sent to a third party service?

If enough of these devices are installed, having every utterance recorded will become a fact of life. You might not care, but when people believe they are being recorded they become less willing to challenge authority. That might be something society is willing to accept, but according to your individualistic view, society will not be asked -- it would only take a minority of people installing these devices to create a world of widespread surveillance, and the majority of people would never have been asked for their consent.
In what way?

Hedge funds have a long history now, and the core of their business model is (simplifying) to arbitrage such differences. So what's left? Whose currency is irrationally treated? Which lenders make a borrower more/less secure?
The Kulisch accumulator and entropy coding of the floating point words (tapering) address this particular issue.

They allow you to get away with much smaller word sizes while preserving dynamic range (and precision!) than would otherwise be the case. This is what the "word size"/tapering discussion in the blog. This is the thing that makes 8 bit floating point work in this case with just a drop in replacement via round to nearest even. You have to change significantly more to get 8 bit FP to work without either the Kulisch accumulator or entropy coding, as you have to make much different tradeoffs between precision and dynamic range.

"Users of floating point are seldom concerned simultaneously with with loss of accuracy and with overflow" (or underflow for that matter) [1]

The paper and blog post consider 4-5 different things/techniques, not all of which need be combined and some of which can be considered completely independently. The paper is a little bit gimmicky in that I combine all of them together, but that need not be the case.

(log significand fraction map (LNS), posit/Huffman/other entropy encoding, Kulisch accumulation, ELMA hybrid log/linear multiply-add as a replacement for pure log domain)

[1] Morris, Tapered floating point: a new floating point representation (1971) https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/1671767
I'm making a point to use FF because of privacy concerns, but the experience is poor. It hangs/crashes at least once a week, and the Reddit infinite scroll thing doesn't work for some reason.
Yes, it's not like China is implementing a social credid system right now that shows how you can use that information to fundamentally restrict individual freedom.
I wouldn't call experience handling hundreds of patients in in a major metro area such as NY City "anecdotal".

None of this smelled of alt-med ranting. It's the true accounts of a therapist who saw the deficiencies of the system from the inside.
My experience has been that the vast majority of papers on data-structures are at best misleading, and at worst deliberately biased.

For example:

> The hash table used by the authors of ART in their study was a chained hash table, but this kind of hash tables can be suboptimal in terms of space and performance due to their potentially high use of pointers.

> Our experiments strongly indicate that neither ART nor Judy are competitive to the aforementioned hashing schemes in terms of performance, and, in the case of ART, sometimes not even in terms of space.

https://www.victoralvarez.net/papers/A%20Comparison%20of%20A...
Isn't this what people here refer to as "growth hacking"?