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There is no way to massively delete your past messages. In addition to that:

1. If you close a private message window and are not friends with the person or share a server with them, there is no way to open it again, so you've lost access to that chat history and can't delete your messages from there.

2. If you get banned from a server, you lose access to that server's history and can't delete your messages from it.

3. If you delete your account, your messages are not deleted and stay in all private conversations and servers forever.

Their data management is simply terrible. Personally, I would've deleted my account already, but I don't feel comfortable knowing I can't delete my past messages and that they may add that option later.
I also agree. If something cannot be explained in simple terms, then there is no way that it will be understood by enough people to actually trigger a change in collective behavior.

There needs to be some kind of marketing to give people an incentive to read the whole thing.

The marketing can be technical but it needs to be short and it needs to appeal to a common set of principles which people already have.
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All of the people you mentioned are working to further fascism and inflame hatred and division. Don't just believe what they say, do some actual digging.

Contrary to what you believe, we lefties do actually fact check, and it's not looking good for Jordan P. et al.
"Zachary Cohen", what would be your incentives to pretend a popular Internet platform has a neo Nazi problem when it doesn't?
I think it’s a battery joke.
Uh... Son I grew up poor and adjacent to some housing projects. There wasn’t a single household with kids that didn’t have a console. Even kids from the projects had a console of some kind. I remember being five and begging my older cousins to let me play their Nintendo in 1992. The only difference between now and then is that consoles have gone from being a toy you bought your kids to a media device that sits in your living room.

And I hate to be insulting but I can’t imagine you being an adult. I’m fairly certain every adult here knew who sonic and Mario were and none of us would be so ignorant as to say gaming only went mainstream in the last fifteen years.
You end up relying on the linker developer.
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The seed money?
You can, if you remember "the scientific principles of the convergence and refraction of light."

"The scientific principles of the convergence and refraction of light are very confusing, and quite frankly I can't make head or tail of them, even when my friend Dr. Lorenz explains them to me. But they made perfect sense to Violet."

Violet Baudelaire goes on to use the scientific principles of the convergence and refraction of light to set fire to a piece of sail cloth using only moonlight and the lens from a spying glass in "The Wide Window" by Lemony Snicket.

It's possible that this book is a work of fiction.
Just 5 years?

I suppose it’s good from a rehabilitation perspective but it’s kind of weak as a deterrent - where 10 years might be more appropriate.
> An estimated 4-6 billion male chicks are slaughtered globally every year because they serve no economic purpose.

Seems like a worthwhile goal to prevent this...
the new redesigned UI is at https://riot.im/experimental/

you can participate in the discussion at https://riot.im/experimental/#/room/#modular:matrix.org to understand more if you want.
I wonder how much of a problem that would actually cause? Surely they could announce the lack of GPS on ATC and the pilots could revert to ground based navaids. Of course it might be difficult to keep the effect localised considering how weak the competing signal from space is.
People have evey right to criticize Facebook and open sourcing some software won’t make the bad stuff go away, just like criminal charges are not deopped just because you donated some to a charity.
But won't two hard pushes in a row send you flying? I would have presumed you could find the mean and standard deviation of both the energy of the pushes and the frequency of the pushes and you could build a model to find the expected height.
I’ve been tinkering along that same path (for small utilities that wrap CLIs and file manipulation libraries) and have used ttk for a “native” look and feel that isn’t quite right.

I think an updated, nicer ttk would help considerably, as well as a bigger widget library, but there is little information on improvements to Tk as a whole (I can’t even find enough examples for asyncio...)

Anyone have good references for either?
Realtime PM2.5 monitoring in India can be seen here: http://atmos.urbansciences.in/dashboard

Many of these sensors are colocated with FEM/FRM grade BAM monitors.
Because these crypto exchanges already exist
I wish they spent the effort on making Python 2 faster and removing GIL instead.
Not true. You're just hearing a vocal minority of people complaining about bad experiences. Having bad neighborhods is not an airbnb specific problem.
>Truly they only harm the people of a country that have little to no say in what their government or country does.

That’s the whole point. It’s not an unintended side effect. You’re targeting an entire country’s economy to pressure the government regardless of whether or not it’s elected.

Disclaimer: This is not an endorsement of embargoes.
I take it GS will just walk away. It might not be worth to pay that much to operate in Malaysia.

Not to mention, people could just start a separate company if they absolutely need to do business in Malaysia.
I'm not sure if your comment is a response to mine.
Thanks. I had some fuzzy idea backwards in my mind: that part of the reason IP blocks are correlated to location had to do with address space constraints.

But that’s wrong. Having a massive address space makes it trivial to keep routable blocks contiguous no matter how many IPs they contain.
> I'm a little surprised that the bullet has left the barrel before the rifle recoils

Well not 100%.

That's why it's important to hold a rifle in a position where it will kick back in a straight trajectory.
No. They benefit their customers and their investors. There investors usually one or two digits so its negligible.
Did you see the article about optical links for micro sats?

http://news.mit.edu/2018/laser-pointing-system-satellites-tr...

I wonder if you could communicate with a drone from orbit (obviously in clear conditions).
The tricky bit here is that this is a civilian airport. Jamming GPS could reasonably be expected to cause significant difficulties for civilian planes and pilots. And thus passengers.
If you've never hailed a taxi then I supposed you've never travelled abroad?
So I see downvotes. I think it's a pretty dangerous delusion to think that the side one politically sides with:

a) would not have authoritarians

b) hence could not implement authoritarian power structure if it became prominent

History has shown that authoritarianism can rise in what ever political ideology.

Pretending that ones political collaborators did not include at least some potential authoritarians (even if not vocal) is politically quite naive, despite what the common accepted mainstream position in ones party is.
Why would they? Medallions are a MLM
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One has to coat the material to be set on fire with something that has low infrared absorbance (and thus low cooling through heat radiation) but high absorbance for low wavelength (blue/ultraviolet). This is called selective coating.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_thermal_collector

Combined with the lens, this might work.
True but these approaches in both C++ and Java start to converge: Arena allocation vs Pooling/unsafe. The question is, how annoying is your performance insensitive code?
Taxis are terrible.
I recommend you start with the "Idiot" ... Crime and Punishment is his masterpiece but I believe it's not the best first book to read by him. After there are Brothers Karamazov a less known book but very beautiful. The rest you can find with simple Google search, Dostoyevsky is I believe unparalleled in the world's literature.
Why would you not believe that? Changing phones isn’t a big deal when upgrading.

Guess the iPhone X’s full screen design was a hit - seen quite a few people on the train here with them; I’m quite surprised given the pricing of the iPhone X line, guess there are more more with cash to spare than I thought.

Maybe even some people bought the iPhone X for the gaming performance.
Uber was banned in the UK. And they keep appealing. They're still in service. It's hilarious.
Whoa my friend!

People from the left have practiced extreme authoritarianism in the past (Stalin, Mao, Khmer Rouge).

There's no reason to think they won't in the future.

The extreme left and right behave exactly the same way, while saying different things.

Analysing left v right is less useful than analysing authoritarian v non-authoritarian.
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Came here to write this. Agree
2 days for people being locked out of their account, through no fault of their own, is a long time.

Slack is only apologizing due to the public uproar, as apparently many people were affected.

Our cofounder was also locked of his account. He's Irish and living in Romania, with nothing to do with the embargoed countries.

To make matters worse, he tried contacting support to prove his nationality and country of residence and 2 days later he's still locked out of Slack.
In not putting in cause the quality of the iPhone.

But the iPhone X didn't came in mid-2018 to cause such a crackdown.
Sanctions today are like someone committing a crime in your city and then you invoke martial law until that person gives themselves up without going after that person specifically, making everyone in the city suffer who are simply trying to survive and are powerless to resolve the situation.

It is a bit medieval and tribal if you ask me and doesn't work today.

Targeting individuals that actually cause the problems is a better strategy.

Ultimately, we live in a surveillance society now, blocking people with reckless abandon only limits access to individuals causing issues for all. Technology is being used by authoritarians in frightening ways, somehow this has to get fixed, companies/people need to stop falling in line.
That's the stupidest thing I've heard today.
As they note on the table, support is poor, but it exists
The explicit subsidies for coal are one of the reasons why renewable energy sources need subsidies to be able to compete in the market; another reason are the implicit subsidies for coal, i.e., the coal producers not having to price in the the consequences of air pollution and climate change.
Budget costumers don't buy Apple anyways.
Rubbish. It's just fundamentally difficult to track down a drone. There was nothing clever about this.
That seems about right. There doesn’t appear to be an armed threat against the airport. Lots more guns would seem like security theatre. (Not that that doesn’t happen ever).
I don't really know what the regulatory deal is, but on my block there's a 7-11 and a fancy organic store. The 7-11 sells CBD gummies (and kratom, and Soylent...), and the fancy organic store sells CBD coffee.

Has there been a problem with CBD toxicity? Is it likely that it'll be regulated out of corner-store availability?
I think that a big part of the problem is that HTTP was initially designed for transfering static files and static data over potentially unauthenticated connections. It wasn't designed to deal with application data that is complex and changes frequently with many concurrent users.

I think that HTTP has been popular for so long that many people just refuse to admit that it's not suitable for handling complex dynamic data. They will go to desperate extremes to try to make it work; e.g. GraphQL over HTTP or Introspected REST.

To deal with complex, fast changing data, we need to step away from HTTP and look towards simpler bidirectional connections as a starting point (e.g. WebSockets).
They kind of did when the best universities in the West have depended at some stage of their life on the host countries doing some bad things to countries like China (think the opium war in the mid-1800s). The reason that countries like China or India don't have their Harvards and Oxbridges is not because the people in there were more stupid and didn't know how to run a higher place of learning, it's because the adversarial socio-economic conditions of that time (many of them imposed by the host countries of the Harvards and the Oxbridges) forbade them to.
More malicious than shutting down a major airport? The only example I can think of is bombing a crowd but fortunately nobody has tried that yet.
Zurich, via init7: https://www.init7.net/en
Why didn't they do that in the first place then?

This wasn't a bug, but a management level decision.
To cause disruption, show how fragile the infrastructure is to asymmetric attacks. Possibly also with an eco activist motivation, to ground hundreds of planes. Possibly also to make an anti-capitalist statement.

I think it's extremely fascinating, and I bet this won't be the last we've seen of this sort of thing happening. The impact is so huge for a relatively small cost and effort.
If the system is up front about what the inputs are then I think most of the problems evaporate. The user doesn't need to understand the math behind how 0-5 star ratings get translated into movie suggestions, if the user understands that the star rating is the input and not dumb implicit stuff like dwell time, then the user will have a more agreeable experience with the system.

I've recently created a system for assigning tags to files. The system recommends tags that might be applicable to a file given what the file is already tagged with and what other files are tagged with. There are no other inputs, I'm not trying to extract information from the filename or running image recognition on images or anything like that. It's straight forward multi-label classification similar to a naive bayes spam filter. Straight forward but effective; the relevant tags are often at the very top of the suggestions list.

I've had a few non-technical users try it out and so far the response has been very positive. They don't know how the tag suggester works. All I told them is that when they enter a tag, the suggestions for other tags are refined. If all they know about the algorithm is what inputs it takes, they're comfortable with it. If the inputs are well defined, then the whole thing becomes "just a machine". Similar to how a non-technical user doesn't need to understand how magnetrons work to be comfortable with microwaving some popcorn, a user doesn't need to know how machine learning works to be comfortable with a program employing it. Just make sure they understand the general relationship between the buttons on the front and what the outcome is going to be.

Don't make a microwave that tries to be clever by turning up the power if the user is standing impatiently in front of it. If you do that, the users will start to get paranoid/superstitious about the microwave (and rightfully so!)
This is really really cool, but seems a little buggy in Firefox on my mac. Took quite a while for the clusters to show up, and then they went away after clicking on one and zooming back out. Would be great to see some more informative UI controls as well. Without existing knowledge, I'm not too sure what the drop box on the right hand side is for example.
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Is it possible to light a fire using sunlight during an eclipse?

If not, at what percent totality does it become impossible?
I've used both Discord and Slack heavily and have to say that Discord is light years ahead of Slack.
This, our systems that power the modern world are incredibly fragile.
Christmas, when Europeans argue with their familes about Europe
The airport was already disrupted because of the drones, disrupted to the point of shut down. thus the article.
Confidentiality and principle of least authority. Sensitive information should only be disclosed to people who actually need to know it.
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No, whatsapp is not open source. You have to trust facebook on whatever they tell you. Nobody can say for sure that there are no backdoors inside it. If someone says that than they are lying.
I wonder, does that mean loss of precision or complete failure?
Not at all. Try reading what I wrote. Hint: look for the parts where it says:

> I've either gotten in one at a rank (i.e. at an airport) or called for one in advance (i.e. at a hotel)

But even when I have traveled, I generally don't use taxis much. I've only ever been to a few countries where I didn't end up driving - Hong Kong and Singapore, where public transport is beyond amazing, and a wedding (and thus spent the whole time at a resort) in Fiji years ago.
That's a good distinction; those systems are fundamentally adversarial and I think a lot of users pick up on that, at least unconsciously. Many of the ways users interact with these systems could be described as defensive.
Yeah because there are loads of CCTV cameras pointing at the sky...

The "UK camera network" is a bit of a myth by the way. Yes there are cameras, but not a gazillion per person as normally claimed, and the vast majority of them a privately owned cameras that the police do not have easy access to.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_surveillance_in_the_Uni...
Fair point, stalinists are authoritarian.

They're also a relatively tiny group of ridiculous LARPers that no one takes seriously.
You can bet that they save every audio sample you generate.
Wouldn't a directional antenna aimed at it minimize such collateral interference?
Finding it doesn't seem hard, it really seemed to try to get as much attention as possible.

And without being able to command it or GPS it shouldn't be hard to track it either.
Would that be the customers whose private data is surreptitiously gathered and analysed and re-analysed, to show some kind of 'value' to investors, or would it be the customers who use a service, and then find it's cancelled with one months notice, because it turns out you can't just keep spending someone else's money and hope for it to become profitable by magic?
Of course it's sarcasm. It was cancelled, if you don't remember: https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/ne...

> development team: Some of the best in the world

Well, messaging isn't exactly rocket science.

And they did a lot right (open source clients, bots, channels, proxies). But their secret chat implementation is weird (literally every crypto expert has the same question: "why did you pick these extremely unpopular barely known primitives to reinvent your wheel?")
Probably not a bad thing for Malaysia if GS didn't operate in their country.
That's why radar was invented.
They are rerouting a highway(A2) to dig new lignite mines..
It can still do dead reckoning using optical flow and the barometer.
As always it depends. There was defcon talk[1] about messing with drones and one part of speekers research involved jamming gps signal.

[1] https://youtu.be/5CzURm7OpAA
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Every escrow I've ever come across had the agreement of both parties. This one does not.
Also, I read somewhere once "If no-one's told you lately that your ideas are crazy, you aren't being creative enough."
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MP5: is literally a gun :D
All flights were grounded anyway
Then the drones fly visually. ANY drone activity will shut down the airport. I think the crucial point to make here is the attacker is inherently in a better position then the defender.

There is a buffer zone around the airport anyway. I would aim to mercilessly shoot down detected drones in that buffer zone.
Berlin is actually not very open-minded, after 8 years of living across the world its probably least I would say. The reason for that is, because if you don't fit into a "hipster, dj, art" culture, you will be constantly reminded. Try getting to a bar as a foreigner and wearing a shirt sometime...
It uses a vector draggable openstreeetmap map... Never knew that was a thing!
Is Bitwarden a native app on mac?
Or it's an electron app?
Can we use it with dropbox sync instead of their web sync?
For some reason the web gl map was failing to load and the alternative map was super laggy on my desktop.
Or "3.5G", but Android without any vendor crap (i.e. LineageOS or any other AOSP based build) doesn't use the "G" above 3G: "H", "H+", "LTE" and "LTE+"
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> The agent said Tan handed the flash drive over to the US company, and the firm found that the deleted files would have allowed his new employers to recreate the product in question. The files had been deleted from the flash drive the day before Tan resigned, the affidavit said.

Call me confused, but I don't really see a crime here? The defendant turned over the data before his resignation and is not accused of actually making an attempt to transfer or sell the data to another party, or conspiring to do so. The only accusation is that he had some files that weren't part of his job to have, apparently. But presumably the internal corporate system allowed him access to it and thus he obtained it without breaching any computer system. Perhaps his workplace policy barred him from downloading files onto a USB drive. But is that considered theft?
Jamming GPS at an around an airport is not that great idea given that the airliners rely on it for navigation.

Granted, they have other means of navigating when the GPS isn't available but in the extremely busy airspace around London this would be just asking for a big problem.
It works. Fast and response. Filtering and searching could use a bit of work

8/10
Careers may be meaningless and illusory, but I work a crappy blue-collar job and it'd be really nice to be able to afford vacations.
Could it depend if the car was following a truck at the time?

On my bicycle on London, I really notice the difference between busses with the tailpipe on the left or right side of the vehicle even.
Who exactly? US government had a program for this after WWII.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip
> The internet has allowed him and his ilk a bigger voice, platforms to more efficiently spread their ideology and organize.

And that's parent commenter's point: for all the "efficiency" of modern social media, these groups are still as fringe as they always were. And "identity and heritage" were always a part of the appeal too, so there's nothing new in that either - but let's not pretend that there aren't plenty of genuinely "softer" ideologies that appeal to the exact same things.
That logic still holds if you believe his explanation. He didn't know the thieves were fake either. He didn't actually deceive anyone because he was as in the dark as we were.
This is increasingly untrue. RNAV/PNAV approaches are increasingly being flown - which are exclusively satellite-based navigation, and, at smaller airports, “traditional” approaches based on ground instrumentation are being phased out due to cost and inflexibility... potentially leaving pilots stranded in bad weather conditions if GPS fails.
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Then it's probably in decimal form. The binary representation should compress much better :)
They don't get to walk away from criminal prosecution.
Tedious post beating around the bush (suicide). Typical HN post about the bright side of life.
Not really, whatever you are jamming you can just make sure it doesn't make it 10 km up in the air where most of the planes are (especially given the GPS patch antenna pointing up from the plane), and I don't believe they need GPS signal on takeoff/landing, they use older tech for that.
Interesting, I have seen more startups going down because of bad management (100% US born and raised managers) than because of Chinese agents.
I have my popcorn out, do it! Just don’t start with VW.