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Tell HN: In NSW, if Google doesn't track you, you can't pay Public School fees
I have recently enabled the "resistFingerprinting" option in Firefox[1], in order to prevent tracking based on browser fingerprinting. However I have found out that once I've done that, Google's reCAPTCHA becomes almost impossible to solve.

Normally I wouldn't care too much about Google, the problem is that in Australia, reCAPTCHA is used by Westpac bank, for processing payments on behalf of the Department of Education of New South Wales. In other words, you can't pay your child's public school fees online, unless you agree to Google tracking you.

How to test:

create a form with reCAPTCHA or just use a pre-existing one like [2], then try and solve the reCAPTCHA while resistFingerprinting is set to false (default setting)[1]. Now change it to true, and try to solve the reCAPTCHA once again.

[1] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-protection-agai...

[2] https://patrickhlauke.github.io/recaptcha/
@egfx what version of FF and Chrome are you using?
ugh. I'll never forgive the LIB's for what they did to the NBN project.

Now I'm being pushed to put the ALP on the same shelf.
If this shitshow of legislation passes the senate then Australia is no longer safe and can no longer export tech to places like Europe.

what a fucking joke.
XKCD has a comic for just this situation: https://xkcd.com/927/
It has become very tough to scrape crunchbase off late. I cant do any scripting around it using headless chrome. It instantly recognizes you are not a human
> Where I live almost nobody uses SMS for person to person

Isn't that recursive thinking? No one uses SMS because it's primitive and limited compared to regular messengers.

> I wouldn't want to use a mobile only protocol

I'm curious, but could RCS be interchangeably used both through provider and through a host such as Google? Could Google not host their own RCS backend?
Having been a foreigner in both countries, I felt more oppressed in China than by the USA, although only somewhat.
I recommend reading the book 'Ketotarian' by Dr. Will Cole. He is a ketogenic diet expert and combines ketogenic and vegetarian type foods
I'm hoping Canada puts her on a flight to Beijing instead of involving itself. She is acused of violating a trade embargo that Canada is not a party to.
For a similar reason is why google had move all of their employees out of Russia a few years back.

Yes, if you violate another country’s laws, you are subject to arrest. Whether or not they can actually arrest you depends if you are in their jurisdiction or a jurisdiction that does extradition.
`pip-compile --generate-hashes` is the best way to manage python dependencies.

https://github.com/jazzband/pip-tools
https://gist.github.com/hynek/5e85706cee589a204251b333595853...
Giuliani can’t figure out how URLs work, blames Twitter for liberal bias
FAQ: how start a video call using Google products?

Answer: Go to Gmail and send an email to the other party "can you Skype now?".

Literally. I had to schedule a video call recently by email. There is simply no formulation to schedule a video call using the name of one of google's products.

"Can you Hangout tomorrow?",
"Can you Duo tomorrow",
"Can you chat with Allo tomorrow?".

Nothing would work without confusing the other party with some probability. "Can you Skype tomorrow" always works, with everyone, no confusion.
The best way to manage python dependencies is with pip-compile

https://gist.github.com/hynek/5e85706cee589a204251b333595853...

update-deps:
pip-compile --upgrade --generate-hashes --output-file requirements/main.txt requirements/main.in
pip-compile --upgrade --generate-hashes --output-file requirements/dev.txt requirements/dev.in

init:
pip install --editable .
pip install --upgrade -r requirements/main.txt -r requirements/dev.txt
rm -rf .tox

update: update-deps init

.PHONY: update-deps init update
Does his theory explain the Bullet Cluster and baryon acoustic oscillations?
Allo is an awful product that should never have been greenlit. It was a huge step back on Google's core mission "to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessibleand useful." Not only could you not search your chat history from other devices, but you couldn't even use it from other devices at launch, and even when that was fixed, it was clunky.

Much better would have been to attach phone numbers to Hangouts, similar to how iMessage ties phone numbers to Apple IDs.
I think the main reason people use hangouts at all is because everyone has gmail open all the time, or at least everyone has a gmail account. It's just laziness for the most part. Not that chat is that hard a problem or that hangouts is so good. If you have to go to newshinymessenger.google.com at any point, the advantage will die.
I was really bummed out that they cut the feed from the booster to the live audience after it started spinning.
South Australia's big battery slashes $40m from grid control costs in first year
I got a notice in the mail from our county's assessor because they left three door tags at my house. I almost never open the front door. I go in and out of the garage, and let my cat out the back.
My late grandpa would wear his on his belt. Classy.
Remote work while traveling – lessons learned
Reaper's Save As dialog will let you collect all samples and convert them with the project file. I wish all DAWs had that.
A pt6a runs 190-225kg dry. But I have no idea how much the combined weight of all engine systems, fuel, etc weigh together.
https://github.com/munificent/vigil
If email and SMS was invented today, they wouldn't be open and decentralized. Everything is locked and centralized nowadays, since everything is tied to accounts at companies wanting to make money of of you. It's the current state of the Internet, a world wide open network with siloed incompatible services.

I'm actually contemplating ICQ, it's still around and looks no worse than any other service. Matrix might be a better solution though, it's federated and open. https://matrix.org/blog/home/
The bank would be lying to you and possibly cause real financial damage e.g. mislead customer sells car to pay rent b/c thought they were now broke. An equivalent to FB would be experimenting with different interior designs to make people less likely to come into the branch vs use ATM's. FB is a content delivery platform and it should be free to experiment with different content delivery algorithms. FB has no duty to show specific things to specific users like a bank has to provide accurate account information. If FB had such a duty, it could never change it's algorithm. That would be ridiculous.
Why do people ever switch chat apps? Besides shutdowns, it's because the new app does something the old one doesn't. Signal's pitch was easy encrypted messaging, but now there are apps that fill that slot, even Facebook Messenger has e2e encrypted chat, so there's not a lot of reason for Google to invest there.

Google Duo has succeeded as an app known for making video calls, which is as much a marketing/positioning achievement as it is a technical one.

There are lots of people declaring they will use a Google product in this thread, but of course no one is going to use a nonexistent product that people imagine as a clone of what already exists. Unless Google finds an "in", they're not going to get anywhere, even with whatever perfect app HN imagines.
24 Amazon workers sent to hospital after robot accidentally unleashes bear spray
Hahaha I had that in my copy clipboard while typing the post :)

For real though, has any sort of movement or organization tried to alleviate these problems without financial motivation?
> Right to work laws say you have to a right to work or not work.

No, they mean employees have a choice to join a union or not (ie. pay union dues or not.)

In other words, they're a legal tool to weaken unions by reducing their membership and revenue.
there is always a simple economic reply to every proposal —- neat, plausible, and wrong
A while ago I downloaded my user data from Facebook, and it had a better backup of numbers I've had contact with than anywhere else.
I have no idea if this actually covers it or not, but the website[1] claims "Range + IFR reserve: 650 miles".

[1]: https://www.eviation.co/alice/
any cloud company is spying for you? google, amazon, microsoft, apple...? you might want to give up hacker news too then...
I fully agree with you. It was a product I actually used and enjoyed, then suddenly... puff
My question was significantly higher level than that. The United States exists to further the objectives of the United States. You made the statement 'The US govt must not be able to...'.

What does that statement mean given that (1) the United States is most certainly able to, (2) the United States merely looks after its own interests, and (3) there is no (earthly at least) authority which can actually judge the United states's actions in this case.

Thus, what does it mean to say '<insert country here> must not'? By what standard?
People like to wave a constitutional bill of rights (or lack of it) as an issue for Australia.

Whilst that is true, our rights are just spread out within Australia's common law.

This can actually be a good thing, as the laws are in theory easier to get changed for the times. Such as the right to bear arms[1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpeUznIhgLU
加拿大还是一个主权国家吗？
https://philosopher.life/
I can’t help but think that Tim Cook would do an amazing job handling operations for Tesla. But imagine Elon Musk running apple. The next HomePod would probably also be a nuclear reactor to power your Tesla Apple power wall.
To which many would reply, "Yes, I can Skype with you. I am at work, so I'll be using my Skype for Business program which recently replaced Lync. My Skype will talk to yours, right? Oh it says here that Skype for Business (which used to be Lync (which used to be Office Communicator)), is now Teams, so uhh can you just call me on my phone instead. Thanks
Toyota Prius does that. (Or at least the 2007 version did) You have the key fob (with emergency key inside). You have to insert the whole fob into a port on the dashboard for it to start.
My childhood home’s door didn’t have a lock too. The loan sharks put superglue in the keyholes.

Because of that, we had an additional safety feature, you couldn’t open the door from outside!
650 miles is a wishing number with a full passenger load based on current battery technology. When the unexpected weight increases that impact every new aircraft design inevitably hit, that theoretical range will drop significantly.
Your response shows a good example of not interpreting the strongest, or possibly the only intent, of the message.

Your explanation is flawed because it’s derived from how you think of the speaker with no good faith.
> Because the Computers are the property of HK company at that time, so the question is do US has any further rights on what is being done with them.

By the standards of the United states of America, yes the government of the United States of America has every right to do so.
Yeah it seems to be pushing reforestation for the wrong reasons. "Just plant more trees" as a carbon solution was long mocked as ignorance and even their boasts are damning with faint praise - a small country for /a year's/ emission? Don't get me wrong - forestation is a worthy cause but more for they are for local climate interactions like preventing soil erosion/building soil quality, and helping to be a buffer against flooding instead global systemic issues.
also Bloomberg[1] mentions this:

> The company plans to fly a prototype of the “Alice” design at the Paris Air Show in June ...

So yea, seems premature, since they're getting close to a prototype.

[1]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-12/pioneerin...
that "ten percent less" of a payment is no longer being paid by particular patients, it's being paid by everyone.

that's like saying, "chris wasn't sick, but don't worry, though 50% of his salary is now gone so everyone has healthcare, he's paying 10% less."
Just FYI, calling the Big 5 a system for categorizing personalities would be like calling the coordinate plane a system for categorizing positions.
I'm fairly confident this issue has existed since pretty much the beginning of k8s. It is possible it doesn't go back that far because SPDY used to be used and not websockets. The basic Upgrade logic still applies so I assume it was there. This flaw is actually in quite a few open source projects, it's a common approach and mistake. For most projects it results in a functional bug, not a security issue.

I personally found this issue and highly doubt anybody previously exploited it. This bug was discovered from the perspective of a functional bug and only later realized it had a security impact. So it wasn't like somebody was first hacked, and also a security researcher didn't find it either. Basically this issue is very nuanced and I don't think many would be looking for it (although people will now).

Although plenty of people are saying the sky is failing, this is mostly a privileged escalation issue which means you first need valid access to do something harmful. So it's not a fabulous attack vector because hard multitenant clusters are extremely rare. Searching for anonymous auth on kubelets is a better use of your time.
a search for your question "all the floating point operations that can produce NaN" gave useful results for me.
I really found her modesty refreshing. If you’d like to hear more, she’s also on the Humans of Ultrarunning Poscast episode 1.
One thing that stands out is her absence of formal structure and training plan. She just really enjoys running and does what her body is up for at any given day for in training.
http://humansofultrarunning.com/episode-1-courtney-dauwalter...
New study suggests Alzheimer's is not one disease but six different conditions
I also lock that door in case a second garage door is left unlocked. Then again, I lock doors during the day when I'm home out of habit. Did this before a recent break-in attempt, so hardly discouraged by that.
The amount of silicon we're talking about here is only a couple of cents per device
2019's UX Designer Salary and Contractor Forecast
Pyflakes analyzes programs and detects various errors
The format of setup.cfg is whatever configparser accepts, which is different in different versions of Python.
The Chinese buy real estate in Vancouver to avoid the Chinese government, not the US. Canada does not have an extradition treaty with China.
Just to clarify: Double pressing the close button on the key, not the one on the door handle. I was a bit unclear, sorry!

And it‘s only disabled temporarily. As soon as you press any button on the key again (e.g. open the car), keyless-go will be activated again.
Just for reference Luxembourg is about the same population as Minneapolis.
> Heck the Nordstorm rack in that Condo accepts WePay.

To be fair, I think all Nordsrom's in Canada accept WePay now. WePay is accepted in Nordrsom's Ottawa as well
From the title, I assumed you go to med school to eventually become a doctor. I suppose HR employees might make the same assumption. If it's just a fun hobby, why include it at all in an employment-related CV?
Download Yosemite
mind sharing how you use these calls to filter companies?
It’s a 2032. Just snag one from an ewaste computer motherboard. Dollar stores usually have 3 for $1.
Really. How valid is that? If an American tourist uses 20USD to pay for a meal in Montreal or Toronto (which happens a lot), what's the logic that this falls under US jurisdiction.

If it's true, I'd avoid USD like plague
> GWT is 12 years old now

And Google hasn't maintained it for five years now, which is the point.
If two surfaces are flat enough and moving fast enough, the tiny amount of air (or helium these days) causes them to act hydrodynamically and float across each other which is great cause there's zero friction which means they never wear out.

The spindle in a hard drive is also an air bearing.
I'm also concerned about the possibility of extradition. Say the Australian government decides to ask someone like Werner (Github/dd9jn) to backdoor GnuPG over the internet, and he doesn't comply. Disregarding five eyes, could he now be extradited from the US because he broke an Australian law?

This question is in light of Huwaei's CFO being extradited from Canada. I know this law isn't something like the Iran sanctions, but I imagine extradition would still be a possibility.
J-invariant
People use sbt for Java? Thats’s...surprising.

Most shops I know use one of maven or gradle. I can’t think of any other serious contenders in Java (if you still use ant: please consider alternatives).
This was a "should" question.
I asked this in another Facebook related post but was flagged... think would make more sense here: why do we keep using facebook stuff if they steal our data?
Isn't that the point? Endurance vs strength/speed. Endurance includes not needing to rest as much as the rest of the field.
What you see as throwing shit at the wall, looks like testing market hypothesis to me.

Google isn't going to win the messaging space by building a kitchen sink messaging app that is compatible with everything, so they need to look for opportunities in the market that they can capitalize on.

Particularly since Google has regulators breathing down their neck, and carriers unwilling to allow an iMessage equivalent on Android.
Love this, so many languages represented
Every other nation has trade embargo's as well. And when they want to arrest someone in the US for violating those, the US will do just that. People are a little overly obsessed with the US being behind it.
> USA will go to a foreign country and topple their government for violating US business interests (not laws).

I, too remember the cold war. I don't see this happening today.
38.8.0 was the last one. https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnuzilla/38.8.0/
It is that simple, though. Your management structure needs a better on-call strategy. Or needs to both compensate you for, and indemnify you for the use of, your personal gear.
>Every country has things the culture is sensitive of. That might be child pornography for the USA, or drugs for Malaysia, or comments about the king for Thailand.

That doesn't make them morally equivalent. You can't defend 30 years in prison for being mean.
Would LOVE to see this as a summer Olympic sport. Talk about testing the absolute limits of human ability.
That would violate US-Canadian reciprocation agreements and could dramatically hinder relations between the countries. What your suggesting is a very small-picture POV that will only result in hurting both countries.
> Are you suggesting this exact model be the in-memory model?

The data model, yes, though not the visual model. Sanity [1], which uses this specification, uses it for its rich text content.

Sanity is a document store with a collaborative, real-time editing UI similar to Airtable, but self-hosted and open source. When you're editing some text in the rich-text editor (which uses ProseMirror internally, last I checked), the editor is working directly on this data model, and produces patches against this data model that get synced with other clients. Similar to OT, except it uses a simpler git-like approach to rebase patches and converge the state.

There's another, less obvious reason it's JSON. In Sanity's document store, every document is a structured object that is read and written as JSON. Inside each document, Portable Text fields are also stored as JSON, not as a string or a binary blob. This content also is indexed and queryable. For example, let's say you're creating a wiki app; each wiki page is a document, with a title, body, and so on. The body is a Portable Text field. With this, you can find all wiki pages that link to another wiki page by running a query such as *[references("richard-feynman")]. You can do things like extract images, get the first paragraph, etc., all using the query language.

All technically possible with XML, of course, though I personally wouldn't want to go there.

(Disclosure: I work on Sanity's content store tech, but I don't work on Sanity itself.)

[1] https://www.sanity.io
This is massively cynical but I do see your point. I think a more viable solution is probably for the government to build low cost high rise public housing (NOT targeted at the homeless) near major cities, to reduce transportation word.
"yeah we realize our messenger offer is confusing, but we are too big of a mess internally so we will keep it confusing. sorry!"
Does it work from within a browser yet? Last time I tried, installing Skype was a surprising hassle on my Windows machine; there were at least two versions being offered through various Microsoft channels, and they appeared to have different feature sets, and I couldn't tell which one of them I ought to be using or if one was deprecated. Discord has spoiled me with chat that Just Works on the web.
Interesting topic. Terrible reporting. Conclusion is contradicted by the data:

http://www.iau-ultramarathon.org/images/file/Records/2017_20...
The only way you'll be getting more sleep is by doing less non-sleep. You can't add hours to the day. What you can do is to arrange the sleeping hours so that they're the ones that come more naturally to more of the people in that age group.

The total lack of unscheduled time is an independent problem.
Ah, I can see what you mean. I had good luck with making actually resume screening part if inter process for hiring recruiters.

Here's basically how I did it:

- pick one job to focus on, where it's near impossible for a non-technical person to tell if someone is likely to be a fit, such as a full stack web developer with experience in a JavaScript and a backend language

- get 5 resumes, 1 obvious fit, 3 maybes, and 1 obvious no, all of which look great based on keyword soup, so an automated QA person and webmaster might look like a full stack developer, and the waiter who took a programming course 10 years ago has no shot

- provide any additional filtering criteria

- in a verbal conversation, ask the recruiters to rate, and explain, each rating

Try that. It's not perfect, and it's better for positions you can describe discrete hiring criteria. The bar for the recruiter is not filtering out the no and maybes, it's screening in the maybes and yesses into a guesstimate sorted list. You can focus in 3 & 4 list. Then you can start with obvious matches, keep going until the list starts feeling pretty thin, and draw a line based on your judgement call & supply of applicants.
How to run a solid, basic technical interview: https://slides.com/scottconnerly/2questioncodequiz
Bluecoat was the vendor in this case. They sold software to an intermediary that then sold it to Syria. The intermediary was fined for the exchange.