skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the contrary, I think Apple exited the home Wi-Fi market at the perfect time. They had a premium-priced product that didn't have the features that the new premium products were about to offer.

I bought the Eero during their 3-pack pre-order and have been using it since their first batch shipped to their first customers. It's a wonderful product and I tell everyone who asks how much I like it.

But... I can't help but get the feeling that they are having trouble building a sustainable business. They've kind of set themselves up as a service company that sells one-time-purchase hardware. I get sales emails from them all the time trying to get me to buy into their "subscription" service, which is offering things that I couldn't care less about. And at the same time, I have a nagging feeling that they are collecting data about me and will someday monetize it when they are desperate for cash.

If Apple is observing the market, they could sweep in with a product that offers everything that people want while respecting privacy and has a sustainable business model. Just because they left the market doesn't mean they have to stay out.
In San Diego the airport is right downtown. Many people are pretty much gauranteed to be dealing with airplane noise regardless of the routes taken to land.

Of course La Jolla is probably the most expensive area in San Diego. Should we route the airplanes around them? Lol.

I mean you can't move the airports and most people can't move their houses so it feels like this is mostly a structural issue. And to me more direct routing based on satellites seems safer than radar based.

I think the buttons are a great idea though. Hopefully they will make buttons for more practical complaints like muggings or burglary. Or just fix reporting processes to be more efficient in the first place. Although that may not be the best example because if you need a button to press everytime you get robbed you probably need to just move to a better neighborhood.

I feel like this demonstrates the gap between where technology is and where government is.
Like you said, you can't force friendship, your best bet is to make more casual friendships and then develop the ones that are a good match.

I recently began consciously developing my casual social skills (small talk). I make a point of smiling and greeting people at every opportunity.

Many of my coworkers are silent until spoken to, at which point they smile with delight and really open up to you.

Beyond that, I would say, clarify as best you can the type of friends you are looking for. What exactly do you mean by close friends? What kind of things would close friends do together, or do for each other? Figure out what that is, and then see if there are opportunities for doing those things in your existing relationships.

A friend once told me, years after the fact, that a favor I did for him was very meaningful to him. Nobody had done anything like that for him before, and it was instrumental to our lasting friendship.

tldr (1) social skills will improve with practice (2) to have a friend, be a friend

Best wishes
They perpetuated a fraud by selling something that doesn't exist. They might have invited criminal punishment and personal tort liability.
Trump has resumed preparing Yucca mountain asking for $120 million after Obama halted it in 2011 for political reasons (according to the GAO).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yucca_Mountain_nuclear_waste_r...
Kickstarter isn't selling, though. It's giving a company some money in the hopes that they'll be able to make the thing they want to make and give you one of them for free in return.
Hijacking this thread to say that blog post isn't about Microsoft as a whole, but only about Microsoft's Developer Division (Visual Studio, etc.). The rest of Microsoft still uses the standard whiteboard/Leetcodey approach.
The established name for this sort of "phishing" malware is "Trojan horse malware" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_horse_(computing) - a malicious computer program which is designed to appear non-suspicious and mislead users wrt. its malicious activity. The irony is that the complex "app-specific privileges and permissions" system featured on mobile OSs was specifically intended to prevent mobile "apps" being used as dangerous trojan-horses, as was - to a lesser extent - the model of centralized "app store" repositories. It's not working very well.

In this case, we're specifically dealing with spyware - a common sort of malware where the malicious activity is invading the user's privacy.
If you are interested in more examples on what virus payloads did on activation, danooct1 on YouTube has recorded lots of them (link goes to the MS-DOS playlist): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLi_KYBWS_E71ObQ8QpGj5...
One of my favourites was quite innocent. I’m in a mobile home, and I had interacted with the family before (they owned a local restaurant). I’m in their home office getting their DSL set up, and slowly it dawns on me that something really smells like shit. Like... it’s permeating the whole house. My eyes are starting to water up a bit.

Finally, I’m getting close to finishing up. Through the door I hear their 4-year-old girl yell “grandma!!! I think I stepped in dog poo outside!!!”

Followed by: “oh honey you got it all over the carpet!”

Sure enough, as I’m leaving I notice an epic trail of tiny dog shit shoe prints spanning from one end of the house to the other. 10/10!

When I went to the restaurant for breakfast the following Saturday, the mom apologized and told me all about how many times they had to run the carpet cleaner through the house to get it cleaned up.
> Why are basic services so special they should use competition to drive efficiency?

Because America has proven what happens when you let competition dictate - the quality of services goes to crap. Look at your public schooling, healthcare, roads and rail. They are seriously below standard.

> And as for OECD countries not being satisfied with the US govt services who cares? The only opinion that matters is US citizens

I once read a report that said "If Americans knew what Europeans get for their tax money Americans would riot in the streets". I don't think you can ask US citizens, because they have no idea what the rest of the world is doing. It's not in their culture to look or compare themselves to other countries.

> Should Sweden care if the US complains about their system?

I've lived and worked in Australia, Canada, USA. My sister lives in the UK. In my experience, it's extremely common for Australia/Canada/UK to compare itself to other countries, and point out where Australia/Canada/UK is lacking. As one example it made massive headlines across Australia when it came out that school kids in Kazakhstan had higher Maths results than Australian kids. So in answer, yes, other developed countries do care and notice and use that comparison to improve their own country.
That's one interpretation. Another is a company is selling a product they don't have yet, but they will sell it to you when they have it. It's not your problem if they can't make or deliver what they sold, it's their problem. Up to a court depending on the amount at stake.
Needing to dispatch local field engineers is telling because it shows they do not have/prioritise remote login capabilities in their access layer switching infrastructure. A single interface shutdown command would have been all that was needed if they had remote access.
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> You want to build up a body of complaints to give your congressional rep something to make noise about.

Congressional reps tend to care more about evidence that either donors they rely on or voters in their district care enough to take substantive action than numerical volume of complaints or even substance of the complaints (ease of complaints degrades value more for Congressional reps than even for aviation officials, as the latter are more likely to have some concern for the subject matter and rather than merely the political calculus.)
Right, they're just going to filter that stuff out as noise. If not today very soon. Unless actual means are taken to address the issues and the nature of the complaints changes/abates. Sorta like having overly verbose log messages replete with far too many warnings no one addresses, it becomes less useful as a tool.

”It’s highly, highly therapeutic. It makes you feel like you can make a difference.”

And that's the business model for something like this in a nutshell.
Sats have wild accuracy shifts and depend heavily on the plane being fully operational. Ultimately what you end up with sats anyway is list of waypoints, not anything dynamic, and it can be done with radar as well.
> The existence proof is both Windows and Android and all of the spyware, malware, ransomware, and privacy invasion apps.

But... the existence proof is also Windows and Android and the massive market share and staggering amount of innovation that's happened on those platforms.

You're forgetting that many of the capabilities that Apple eventually caved on and added to iOS came directly as a result of Android's "we'll let you do that" default motto. There was a period of time where you couldn't have custom keyboards on iOS. There was a period of time where 3rd party apps on iOS couldn't even multitask.

Don't get me wrong, Android's permission model needs serious work at this point. But the coin you're holding up has two sides on it. You're writing off a huge amount of innovation that has benefited everyone, Apple users included.

Platform power is a continuum -- there's no single right or wrong answer for everyone buying a device, which is why it's good to have multiple platforms with multiple philosophies.

Even if you don't care about that though, and you personally enjoy staying closer to the secure side of things, permissive platforms still benefit you as a user because they're testing grounds to find out which capabilities are beneficial enough to end-users to be worth back-porting to the more closed gardens. That's something we've seen repeatedly throughout the years with Android and iOS: both platforms feed on each other in different ways.
What are they supposed to do? They can't move the airport and if they change the routing then someone else will complain.
Maybe I knew those people well enough to adjust for that?
The Mathematicians Who Ended the Kidnapping of an N.Y.U. Computer (2015)
IMO the plaintext part isn't a real issue. With the recent dramatic increase in https usage it won't have much impact.

I'd also consider that segment "comprimised" anyway, from a security perspective anything past my modem could be MITM'ing my connecting.
For so.e of the problems that is the case. Some of fheproblems were that no other municipality joined them in the effort, which leaves them a sole fighter in a world where they have to use software provided by other authorities. One example is ordering a passport was initially setup by running the software provided by the federal administration via terminal server, however the. Finger prints were added to passports so the setup didn't work anymore and even being "the largest municipality in Germany" (cities of Berlin and Hamburg are larger, but they delegated more municipality tasks to the districts and are also states) doesn't give them much leverage.

They way the decision came into play is crazy however. Just around the elections Microsoft moved their German headquarters from outside the city into the city and the next elected deputy mayor from the conservative party was disappointed that it took much time to get an official mobile phone from the IT department and setting up mail on that device was complicated ... not idea how that's related to desktops, but that triggered the debate ...
Ask HN: How to inform a hijacked website?
I've never had luck with this. Even when I get communication back, the respondent gives reasons why they will ignore it. When I don't hear back, the problem persists (at least for as far as I have even attempted to follow up).

Latest example: Three of several dozen visitors were sent to a malicious unrelated site when attempting to visit https://cspinet.org/eating-healthy/ingredients-of-concern/caffeine-chart

Before contacting the Center for Science in the Public Interest, I looked into it a bit.

Since one of the simplest forms of page hijacking involves altering a webpage to contain a malicious inline frame which can allow an exploit kit to load, I checked for that.

No dice, but I did see a frame-like content object labeled "not indexed" at some past saves of that page (e.g. https://archive.org/search.php?query=https%3A%2F%2Fcspinet.org%2Feating-healthy%2Fingredients-of-concern%2Fcaffeine-chart )

As I always do, I contacted the site (via a couple of their contact emails), but I wondered if anyone had a best practice or idea beyond including webmaster@ admin@ plus any emails on their contact page?
Infinitesimals forever! :-)
Off balance "single limb" exercises will work your entire body quickly with great effect. Ex. one arm overhead lift while on one leg, amazing. Single leg squats, romanian squats, holding a weight on one arm...jump rope. You can make up a ton of these and they will force your core to engage for balance. They are tiring (you sleep well) but are amazing and once mastered you have a deep strength.
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Sorry for the delayed reply. We did find crunchgen well after the final version of the paper was turned in, so we weren’t able to compare with it.

One key part of allmux does replicate what you did in crunchgen: combine multiple binaries into one, and dispatching on argv[0]. There are also some important differences (and I wish we had known about the tool in time to discusss these in the paper):

-- crunchgen works on binary code, whereas allmux works on compiler IR (LLVM). Compiler IR enables much more sophisticated compiler optimizations to be applied to the mux’ed (or crunched) program. For example, we are able to apply link-time optimizations (LTO) across the application-library boundary for both static and dynamic libraries. In fact, we’re able to get more than 45% code size reductions even for a single application and its libraries using LTO (e.g., see the top chart in Fig. 9 – Single Programs).

-- Judging from the man page online, crunchgen works by parsing Makefiles to understand dependences and by using the DSL to specify libs, libs.so, etc. allmux works by adding passes to the compiler (Clang) and relying on the build process to invoke clang for all compile/link steps for all relevant components. This does limit allmux to needing source.

-- crunchgen does not change the behavior of shared libraries, judging by the man page at least. In contrast, allmux also includes shared libraries (linking them in statically in the mix'ed binary) and deduplicates them across applications. This has two benefits: (1) It speeds up program startup, which can be a valuable win in some scenarios, e.g., using a Mux’ed compiler to build a large system with 1000s of source files (see Fig. 1). (2) It achieves large disk and memory reductions compared with static linking, and even some reductions compared with dynamically shared libraries because of the added benefits of LTO (note that LTO is essentially not applicable to dynamically loaded libraries). The combination of BOTH memory reductions and speed improvements compared with either static or dynamic linking is a key benefit of allmux that the crunchgen approach doesn’t aim to get. Of course, this is limited to predetermined sets of applications and libraries.

Thanks very much for the note, and responses / comments welcome.

--Vikram (on behalf of the authors)
Very cool blast from the past! I remember stealth_c as being extremely aggravating. It would infect the MBR and spread to all disks and pretty much grenade your PC.
Just wondering if these devices are only issued to people who had houses in that area before the airport was built. IMO if you knowingly purchase a residence under a flight path, you lose any privilege of complaining about the noise.

Modern aviation is already far quieter, and there are plenty of regulations in place to minimise the noise footprint (e.g. modern fanjet engines are far quieter than the older turbojets, most airports have curfew hours to prevent late night/early morning noise, plus I know at our local airport, aircraft cannot use reverse thrust braking when landing in the early morning hours etc.).
You'll need to explain it more than that.

How was the Apple Airport slow? What kind of diagnostics did you do? What does the Google WiFi do different that makes it work so much better?
It's a bit of a Kamikaze effort, really. Enough NIMBY automation and future complaints will be as effective as no complaints at all.
Ha, wonderful expression, thanks.

Given that many people report that their best thinking is done while walking or taking a jog, it might not be too wild to try out interviews which allow the candidate to take a walk before they give an answer.
For what it's worth I deal with race conditions on a daily basis with multi-threaded programming. What I don’t understand is the point you’re trying to make and how it relates to real digital audio systems. Can you please explain it.
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What???
A small part of my job (air force) is taking noise complaints. I find their rate has absolutely nothing to do with actual noise. It is all about time of day. A rainy tuesday afternoon: we can land on a roof without complaint from the owners. But on a sunny saturday evening, suddenly the same flight pattern we have flown for years without issue starts my phone ringing.

Standard, honest, responses:

1) Civilian air traffic control dictate our airport approach. If our helicopter was flying low it was probably because a 737 was on approach above it.

2) Helicopters have to land. They cannot hover down from 5000 feet directly onto the pad. They have to fly over someone's house somewhere to come home.

3) Sorry ma'am, but there was this boat on fire and a man was hurt. The strait line between the boat and hospital was directly over your house. Our bad. Ill ask the pilots to take the long way next time.

What AF personnel want to say:

4) Big helicopter? Did you see a big red star on the side of it? No? You're welcome. click
Do you also complain about thunder and lightning to the NWS?
“It's Charisma, Stupid” by Paul Garaham.

http://www.paulgraham.com/charisma.html
Amazing: they appear to have asserted to clients that 35% of the ticket amount would be held in escrow by a third party trustee. Meanwhile, the trustee appears to be stating that the trust agreement doesn't reach this level of protections. If true, this would elevate the matter from mismanagement into fraud.
Yes, Facebook and Google were sued almost immediately by activists after GDPR went into effect [1][2]. Those test cases will take time to play out.

[1] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/25/schrems_is_back_fac...

[2] https://www.ft.com/content/86d1ce50-3799-11e8-8eee-e06bde01c...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18788658
iOS doesn’t provide a system-wide unique ID however there is still more than enough data (WiFi network names, device name, device type, IP address, etc) that Shitbook can uniquely fingerprint a device and identify a user.
That's just a new spin on a trick question and is quite frankly bullshit. You are right away telling the person you are going to be deceptive and they need to catch your lie. It's a terrible tactic.
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"Homosexuality, says Analyst Bergler, is neither a "biologically determined destiny, nor incomprehensible ill luck." In Freudian terms he traces a complicated pattern of the development of homosexuality from infantile frustrations, through "pleasure in displeasure." to unconscious psychic masochism. The full-grown homosexual, as Bergler sees him, wallows in self-pity and continually provokes hostility to ensure himself more opportunities for self pity he "collects" injustices—sometimes real, often fancied; he is full of defensive malice and flippancy, covering his depression and guilt with extreme narcissism and superciliousness. He refuses to acknowledge accepted standards even in nonsexual matters, assuming that homosexuals have a right to cut moral corners as compensation for their "suffering." He is generally unreliable, in an essentially psychopathic way."
I probably screwed something up, but here's a 16 line attempt in Python, where the regex specials are limited to .?:

def matches(pattern, s):
if len(pattern) == 0:
return True
c = pattern[0]
assert c not in ("*", "?")
if len(pattern) > 1:
if pattern[1] == "?":
return (
len(s) > 0 and c in (".", s[0]) and matches(pattern[2:], s[1:])
) or matches(pattern[2:], s)
elif pattern[1] == "*":
for i, d in enumerate(s):
if c not in (".", d):
break
return any(matches(pattern[2:], s[j:]) for j in range(i, -1, -1))
return len(s) > 0 and c in (".", s[0])
Doesn’t solve the issue of device fingerprinting. There are a lot of data points that can be used to create a near-unique fingerprint of a device.
Be yourself, have a strong belief in something, be courageous. Most real charismatic people have lived a rich life with lots of experience in success and failures; They always have strong fundamental beliefs, an ethos about the world that they try to carry out. There is no "risk free charisma for dummies" kinda thing. Instead of trying to chase a mythical charisma, try to find out what you really believe in, what kind of dreams you have based on those beliefs, and try to gain experience by doing things.
As you probably know, the intelligence community (which is partly military) is not supposed to target U.S. citizens, but there is a fair argument that so-called “incidental collection” of communications between a foreign target and someone in the US still amounts to “domestic spying”. However, for things like a spy drone where there’s no ambiguity in which jurisdiction is being targeted, I do think that no branch of the US military subject to the Posse Comitatus Act (all but the Coast Guard and, when called in, the National Guard) does or will use them on US soil. That said, civilian law enforcement agencies including the FBI, Border Patrol, DEA, and state police may do so. They all already use normal drones for various purposes.
Where can hobbyists purchase hackable/programmable internet buttons such as this for a reasonable price? I've seen a few around the place but the costs are exorbitant for what they are, and hacking the Amazon buttons is too much effort (and they're hard to get outside the US)
or as i like to call it, how Google Maps finds the most obscure/sceneic route with most turns and narrow streets to save 0.5 miles when a more obvious 2-turn route can be had for the extra 0.5mi.

not having a "prefer simple routes" option is often very aggravating
In the UK Gatwick and Heathrow airports have been there for a generation. By this I mean that the vast majority of people moved to their noise-affected houses knowing the airport was there already.

Do these people deserve our sympathy? Initially i find it hard to be charitable towards them.

In my local town there is a pub that has been there for around 600 years. A particularly pushy person moved in next door, complained about the noise and successfully got the licensing people to add a condition that the beer garden must be closed after a certain time. Same question again, surely they knew what to expect when they moved in?
Having had a 45 minute walk to work ( no car ), and now a 2 minute drive (lazy and it's winter). I'd say the 2 minute drive is most desirable. I can decompress at home however I want and I'll take the extra 250 hours of leisure a year please and thank you. I don't have kids or a family tho.
The article appears to be a gross oversimplification. As is stands, it's a lot of words to convey the fact that "Google uses Dijkstra's algorithm to calculate the shortest distance"
I once decided to add some ammonia to bleach water while mopping a walk in produce cooler. Bad idea but didn’t put me in the hospital luckily.