skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is exactly what I suspected Google to be like but I always assumed I was just stereotyping. A bunch of competing teams and internal politics frustrating the ability to have coherence and "synergy".

I once worked at a startup that made the mistake of hiring an entire remote product team from silicon valley. All they did in the year before they mass resigned was inject drama and politics into everything and force some really bad design decisions that will quite possibly kill the company in a year or so. Got me thinking what it must be like at scale.
"anticipate" is right. The computer security community is a good example.
Actually, he never says that he does not think iOS needs a menu bar. He just says "I’m not arguing that iOS should have a Mac-style menu bar." which makes sense, because doing so would distract from the core of his criticism -- adding a menu bar is only one possible way to address it. And there is a footnote on that sentence, too, which suggests that in a sense, Apple is already having a (bad) fake menu in their iWorks apps...
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No it does not, as we fall solely under Swiss jurisdiction since we don't have a presence in Australia.
Nothing bad about GDPR, since it's actually made to protect citizens.
In the novel of course this was the public view exposed to a society subject to total information control. "We have always been at war with eastasia".
I'd say there is nothing bad about having additional shortcuts for often used functions, as long as the standard ones still work (and of course as long as there is a standard...)
Too much advertising that mimic as search results. Sometimes even with the same title as the page you know you are looking for.
>>But arresting foreign nationals in other countries for violating US sanctions?*

You steal a car in Belgium. Belgium investigates, charges you and issues an arrest warrant. In some cases it goes to Interpol or EU-wide systems. You go to Germany for a vacation and your name is flagged. Yes, you are arrested by Germany for violating Belgian laws and the extradition process starts.

You can challenge the arrest on a few basis (such as "Iran wants to jail me for criticizing Mullahs") but other than that, countries do help each other catch criminals. "Violating US sanctions" is apparently a crime in USA and Canada more or less has the same view on major international relations so he is likely screwed. (I think the arrest is almost automatic everywhere, but then courts and justice dept decide on whether to extradite.)
There are a lot of startups trying. Hopefully one of them will reach critical mass. I would be happy to leave Facebook but being involved in politics makes it a prerequisite to reach my audience.
Ask HN: Which product are you working on?
What technologies does it use?

What's that's biggest difficulty you faced while developing it.
>Tempted to say a little more history and psychology instead of fiscal fixation would make a difference. Tempted, but no. It's not how humans work. //

I don't think profit motive is innate, we're not Ferengi!

However, things can't go on growing forever, and the rich need growth to get richer, and need churn to maintain fashion as the societal norm that feeds growth, and feeds purchases of stuff in order to fit in ...

Things that work well enough and stably and are liked are prime for exploitation for [more] profit. It's really only very few people driving that exploitation -- though perhaps many more would if given the chance.
No, it doesn't effect git repositories maintained by Australians. They have already been created.

However, it almost certainly does affect them.
Even if there wasn't. The news would still report on this (and their other mistakes) and it would still be mostly negative.
Commandeering Australian citizens to become spies
Exactly. The neoconservative ethos does not concern itself with those sorts of side effects.

What the US is doing is a form of terrorism. It completely nullifies any inspiring or positive influence that the narratives about the US founding principles might evoke in those abroad, and it is only possible due to the idea of American Exceptionalism, which is patently false to anyone who observes without bias US actions.
Pretty much, though the problem isn't that the permissions weren't granular - reading the call log has been its own permission since Android 4.1, and apps targetting that version have to request it separately even if they support older versions - but that there simply wasn't any way for users to grant only some permissions. So Facebook had to request all the permissions they might want to use from every single user, regardless of whether those users ever opted into the features that required them.

The first official version of Android that allowed users to turn individual permissions off was Marshmallow, released in October 2015 with the first beta in May 2015 - the email in question is dated the start of February 2015 and says they planned to ship it by the end of the month.
It is a scheduler, but it is different from a typical OS scheduler. On most OSs, when a thread locks a mutex it keeps running on its original CPU, it is not suspended and resumed in the CPU that last locked that mutex (which would be an approximation for the behaviour of this architecture).
It is fun comparing the key sequences to a modern emacs.

I looked through the section for "Basic Buffer Editing Info" and every one of the key commands mentioned there would work in a modern emacs!

You can now use fancy cursor keys rather than CTRL-P, CTRL-N but if an emacs user from 1978 was stuck in front of an emacs today then they could get straight to work :-)

The meta keys look a bit different though. You type two alt-modes (whatever they are) to get into the mini-buffer and then enter "MM-commands". In modern emacs you type Meta-x (Alt-x on most keyboards) to get into the same mode.
AFAIK in the last 2 decades it was Europeans supporting American wars not the other way around...

But I guess the war in Iraq was too long ago to be remembered today by Americans.
If the business is registered in Australia then you're under Australian laws, regardless of where it's hosted.

All my hosting is done in the US, but that doesn't mean any of my businesses are necessarily American.
You're building a bit of a straw man. If you have 400 tests that fail with a single behavioural change, why are you testing the same thing 400 times? And you don't need an in depth investigation unless you didn't expect the test to break. And if you did expect the test to break, then you ensure that the test broke in the correct place. If a cursory glance is all you need in order to confirm that, then that's all you need. Tests are there to tell you exactly what actually changed in behaviour. The only time this should be a surprise is if you don't have a functional mental model of your code, in which case it's doubly important that you be made aware of what your changes are actually doing.

In your Google example, would their tests fail if their algorithm regressed in behaviour? If it doesn't fail on minor improvements, I don't see how they would fail on minor regressions either.
To me, it feel that the AI bubble is about to vent, at lest in China. Amazon's price to revenue ratio is peanuts in comparison to some Chinese "AI" companies with 10 digit valuations and nothing more than a fancy website.

Chinese stock markets are sagging hard, and the state will not jump to its rescue this time, moreover saving the obviously overvalued companies. That's pretty clear.

They had gigantic loans signed with their stock as collateral, and now, you see how that ended.
Yes, but if it is as all possible to say that there is a specific reason, I'm suggesting that one will probably be found. The NSA wants to be as liberal as possible with the sharpie, because even if something is of marginal importantance and will almost certainly never matter, why not redact it anyway on the off chance the analysis wasn't being paranoid enough?
1. Iran had an election shortly after JCPOA. If that election would have led to a change in government, and under the new president, Iran had decided to abrogate from the agreement, would the argument then be "hey, fair enough, it was not a a treaty"?

2. The senate passing it makes no difference. The Republicans, controlling the House and the Senate, may well have been successfully in passing legislation withdrawing from the treaty. Except - that isn't even necessary. Trump can withdraw from any treaty he likes whenever it pleases him: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2018/05/0...

All of these are simply internal American processes, and it is up to the Americans to consider wether they want their politicians to run a foreign policy that projects stability, where the decisions of previous presidents are maintained because, being legitimately elected it was their decision to make, and American's word should stand for something - or whether they want their country to be perceived as erratic - which is in fact the case now, whether or not it causes allies such as the EU to ultimately make real changes in the relationship.
I met my wife at work. Best thing that has ever happened to me. We met for drinks and now we've been married for 12 years and have 4 children.

But we were 20 and single at the time, so it depends on your circumstances, not much background from OP. Having a fling with a married co-worker probably ain't going to end well.
That's where a menu bar shines: it allows you to browse for and discover new functions. Sure, most people still won't use most of those. But at least you have a realistic chance of finding them.

Of course this is not unique to menu bars, they just happen to be one established way to squeeze a lot of functions into a tight places. For a touch interface, we may want different ways to do that; but I'd argue that it's still crucial to provide non-hidden, discoverable ways to access all functions of your app.
Not many public sources, but this is a good reference [1]. Vulnerability in a specific piece of network kit is typically easier to find (and therefore cheaper) than a vulnerability in something like nginx, since many vulnerabilities are in the custom configs, wrapper scripts, and lower quality OEM code used for the software on a specific device rather than the software itself.

[1]: https://zerodium.com/program.html (scroll down)
While I'm not well informed enough to have a strong opinion on the matter, the bad things I've heard are mostly related to his profits from currency speculation and similar, which many people feel were immoral actions taken by Mr. Soros and untimately harmful to the nations who's currency he profited off by shorting. That's plenty of information regarding his past financial dealings if you are interested.
The problem is that you are reading it as though the words mean what a technical person means by "systemic weakness" (such as weakening the crypto in an app in order to target a user). This is not what the words mean (and this entire bill and discussion around it is full of Orwellian doublespeak -- they redefine the word "backdoor" to mean 0-day for instance).

The words aren't defined at all in the bill (which should be a massive red flag), but even the amendments that include definitions completely miss the point and basically imply that only something like Dual_EC_DRBG is considered a "systemic weakness".

There is a lot of doomsaying because it is very seriously, no-kidding bad. Not to mention that denying such a request should almost certainly be done with some very serious (and expensive) legal advice.
Sadly, it doesn't apply to NCAs signed before the new law.
An article this long, and no mention of who it is? Feels strange to read this detailed investigation into the identity of “he who must not be named”, when the whole point of the article is the identity of the person.
ARM1 Gate-level Simulation
I could substitute "the business" for "lemons" above and describe many (most?) companies. In that case, what effect are these lemons really having?
Platform for the world’s largest events producer on AWS
His book, with extra goodies, will ship in a few days. https://typesetinthefuture.com/book/
Is china still holding those Americans hostage? Victor and Cynthia Liu?
But that usually only helps for text editing (it's even in the article ;-)
> The problem is that Huawei kit does not have GCHQ/NSA backdoor capabilities. Hence it has to be banished.

GCHQ/NSA don't need to add their own backdoor capabilities. Huawei gear ships with support for what is refered to as Lawful Interception.[0]

I agree with the rest of your comment and I said something similar myself a few days ago[1]. But the idea of Huawei being barred by a British carrier because of GCHQ not being able to snoop on it is absurd.

Full disclosure: I am a Huawei employee.

0: http://support.huawei.com/enterprise/en/doc/EDOC0100412586?s...

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18514607
1. OpenGL makes good predictions. Why not to switch to OpenGL terms when talking about physics?
What's the downside? It's not like they removed artwork from the subway wall in order to cover it with ads.

I get that some people don't like seeing ads but there's all sorts of public infrastructure that people would rather not look at.
There's LinkedIn, there's social media, there's actually keeping a record of who enters and leaves a company's premises. There's heading down to the bar after work on Friday. There's community events and meetups.
Oh I see, thanks for pointing that out.
Hardly - they let the entire leave.eu campaign alone, and there are plenty of far-right organisations on there. I believe that eventually, after much public pressure, they banned Infowars? That's about it.
Out of curiosity (I haven't used Android in quite some time, and even then only cursory): does Android (resp. Google) have a good solution for uniform Undo in phone apps? How does it work?
How my failed startup made me reach the healthiest version of myself
See also https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/a3kk7u/austral...

https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Bills_Legislat...

and for a laugh at the sad state of affairs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eW-OMR-iWOE
I think you are over simplifying the situation in assuming that if iMessage was open there would be a mass exodus from the iOS platform. The people looking for the cheapest phone solution have already switched to Android (or were always Android). iMessage may serve as some lock-in, but there are many other reasons that people prefer iOS and Apple devices.
> They may be but US is on the right side of history on this one. And I say this as an European.

As anopther European, the US is most certainly on the wrong side of history with this shit. They're still salty that their pet dictator got ousted all those years ago.
I heard over the grape vine that wave was killed in political maneuvers of management (as they deliberately did not build integrations into email for wave, thus causing adoption issues).

The tech is incredibly good! It had so much potential, and yet...
I've used this account for several months now. It's not exactly single use.

You are entitled to your opinion. I am entitled to ask you for the arguments behind your opinion. You are of course entitled to respond angrily. However, it doesn't make for great discussion and you won't persuade many people with this approach.
What is the advantage of running automated tests as lambda ?
Typically when automation tests are run, they are long running processes and lambda execution may not be suitable.
The cold start times of lambda is another challenge.
What is a good practice/model for running suites ? One test per lambda or, one spec per lambda ? Still inclined to have ec2 instances created and destroyed via devops tools like terraform to run automation.
Thoughts please.
The people in coal country are certainly voting Republican because their number one concern is the wall...

Seriously the narrow world view of some people is staggering. You're being no better than the racists you claim to fight by prejudicing an ENTIRE group of people. Please just talk to someone with a different point of view. If they are coming from a hateful place you absolutely condemn it, but you don't prejudice the entire group. There are communists/socialists in the Democratic party, but I don't think that means ALL democrats are socialist/communist. There's quite a lot of hypocrisy in your comment.
Sorry, perhaps I should've put my commment higher up. I was referring to the general problem of the article, which I understood to be enabled (among other things) by the possibility of unlocking, turning on, and driving a car without the car having a means of verifying the key is inside/very close to the car.
"google" will pay? or google will take their fat share from all their advertising clients who will pay the extra price since the floor price suddenly jumped to $20 across the board?

seems like an elaborated scam within google to bump q4 revenue. someone really wanted their bonus I guess.
Also, you can't ask anyone else on the team for help implementing it.

These backdoors are going to be the worst code possible. What kind of crap quality code do you think a single dev under threat of jail time and the pressure of not being able to communicate with his co-workers or legal representation is going to pump out?
Effectively Developing Swift Apps Before the Back End/Design Is Ready
It should be "Land of the Free"

- terms and conditions apply
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2NI6t2r_Hs among other things.

These were places where old-school (with classical understanding, if we follow Robert M. Pirsig) people tried to reduce grounded in reality concepts to optimal (as humanly possible) implementations, as opposed to the modern tendency to pile up more and more crap.
The only trust risk is that the guy you bought it from also told someone else, and they're just waiting for you to use the exploit so they can 'spy on your spying'.

That risk can be mitigated by just hiring someone in-house to find exploits. Security services employ lots of exploit finders for that reason.
I’m not saying they shouldn’t fix it. But using a workaround until they do is probably not a bad idea. I wouldn’t hold my breath for a quick fix seeing how this is less than ideal for 10 years already.
GitHub Desktop RCE (OS X) – André Baptista
> The dinosaurs, as we all know, were killed off by [...]

> An alternative explanation is that they were killed off by [...]

Sounds like we don't 'all know' after all.
“accidentally”
Exa – a modern replacement for ls
"Tell HN" is kind of implied in every post and comment.
It doesn't need a warrant, and the requirements are varied. None of them require judicial review.

* TARs and TANs both generally require that an agency be investigating a serious crime (one that takes). There are some toy protections against abuse but they're basically meaningless (the AG or chief officer needs to be "satisfied" that it's reasonable and a few other token requirements -- need I remind you that we imprison refugees in sub-human conditions without the right to a trial, so "reasonable" is a stretch).

* TCNs are even more general. They can be done purely "in the interests of national security".
O2 outage: 31m mobile customers unable to get online
Dear Tumblr: Banning “Adult Content” Will Harm Sex-Positive Communities
Somebody over on Reddit [1] went through all the submissions (there was a consultation period) and summarised and tallied them [2]. Fully 99%+ of submissions were against the bill. A sad day for democracy indeed. A church in Tasmania was in favour, because child pornography.

1. https://www.reddit.com/r/australia/comments/a3j466/assistanc...

2. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dowpZ_Xtr1N_DgkHJN8i...
By doing business in the UK, Facebook has agreed to UK's Privacy Policy.
I suppose you wouldn't notice great things so much, as they wouldn't stand out from the crowd.
No it's due to their 5G network equipment success. Their tech is on par with Nokia & Ericsson and the price is very competitive.
[Vimium](https://vimium.github.io/) is nice.
think what Facebook is very very good at is tracking the market and identifying potential competitors

Well, they did that with Onavo didn’t they? Snooping VPN traffic to see who else their users were using. It remains to be seen if they can be as astute without that backdoor.
Warrant canaries are illegal in Australia, at least in the case of other kinds of secret warrants. I would be very surprised that a judge would (given the existing laws that have similar properties) consider a warrant canary legal.

(For those wondering how they can be illegal, in Australia it's illegal to state the existence or non-existence of certain kinds of secret warrants. So a statement of a canary is, itself, illegal.)
Not sure I entirely buy your argument here without more information.

The ability to wiretap does not depend on every bit of kit on the chain being wire-tap-able. From what I understand Huawei provide the radio access network components that work with existing 'Cisco/Ericsson' core infrastructure, with the core bit being where the wire tap happens and not the radio access bit.
I used to install tools using --user, but now I install all tools using my package manager (emerge) so I don't have to worry about maintaining a ~/bin etc. So I basically never run pip outside of a virtualenv.

Portage is written in python, yes, so you can't just change your system python at will, but that's not a problem really.
Please don't be mad as I'm not trying to provoke, but I believe 'who' goes here, not 'whom', as from what I understand, whom is used when something is being done/given to something. Perhaps I'm simplifying, but it's just like nouns etc. in the accusative case work in languages which have grammatical cases.
> This misses the point, because whilst nginx/Apache don't handle this for you - the automated ACME clients like Certbot (and e.g. Lego) do and will ensure you get a fresh keypair used for renewals.

So you're agreeing with him: nginx and Apache don't do it by default and automatically, they need an external tool. Which is yet another step to add and monitor as an admin, which means fewer people will go through the hassle of doing it.
Really the problem is the laws themselves are basically embezzling. The government is paying to make society worse for the benefit of wealthy actors. In no world does that make sense - it is corruption plain and simple.

Like other such laws the beneficiaries should be told to go fuck themselves as a matter of good management alone.
Vehicular communications' spectrum and protocols: standalone or shared?
-Norwegian here - the Scandinavian countries in general have _very_ strong laws protecting the privacy of all citizens.

A consequence of this is that defendants in criminal cases are very rarely named by the media until convicted, if even then.
Ukraine's SBU: Russia Carried Out a Cyberattack on Judiciary Systems
They could repel each other gravitationally too. Seems like that’s how antigravity would would work. I don’t even think we know that about antimatter yet.
Good point. We've got a new (year old) Kia Ceed, and a 15 year old Ford Focus. I'd imagine if somebody needed a ride they'd just take the Focus. Either way we've got the cameras outside which, along with the fact we don't have a Jaguar or a BMW outside probably makes us less likely to be turned over.
Hey there

Really sorry to hear this. We respond to every application we receive, so I'm not sure what happened in this case. All I can think is that your email got lost in the system somewhere. If you'd like to pop it through to us again on careers@gambitresearch.com, we'll give it top priority. And thanks for flagging that you had a problem. It gives us a chance to solve it for you.
They've worked with others (CA) to hand the UK over to the right wing.

Do you have specific examples?