skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The state actors who have the serious requirements to break into Telegram have zero care about the bug bounty.

Moreover it is in their interest that the vulnerabilities remain in the wild.

Meanwhile, the bug bounty contests are limited time, several times. Good for publicity, but hard for individual actors to capitalize upon (more likely to take on-and-off work over a long period).
The only good quality of a hedge fund is promoting "market efficiency." I can understand how most people don't buy that as an excuse for the havoc they can wreak.
All these criticisms apply to Gmail, Slack, Hangouts, Skype, whatever.
Nowhere is anyone complaining that Apple hasn’t upset everything in a single year. Nice straw man though.

At one point, the iPhone itself was science fiction. The iPhone X was science fiction when the iPhone came out.

Even after the iPhone came out people continued to be dismissive of its potential.

By all means be like them and believe that pocket computers are now done.

My point is twofold - one is that I think there is a huge room for continued progress in this field.

And the other is that the path of progress of the iPhone has involved delivering significant capabilities that enabled people to interact with it in new ways, and this has driven demand.

The rate of delivering those new ways of interacting has slowed.

We both agree on that.

But you think that’s because there is no more progress to be made and that pocket computers will not gain meaningful new features.

I don’t believe that.
YOU are not going to decide; individuals in positions of screening power are going to evaluate you in contrast to their immediate needs, your education, and more importantly "your fit" into their social / professional / political framework. The only thing you can do is be the best version of you, you can be and hope the individuals in their screening positions of power are like-minded. This is the reality of careers.
Great study that must be, no records from before, no control group.
The fact that it's dynamically typed is also often overlooked, while it's at the top of my deal breaker list.

The programming world is strongly moving toward statically typed languages, because today, there's pretty much zero reasons to use a dynamically typed language.
I keep checking out Wire every once in a while because I _want_ to use it, but as far as I'm concerned, it's not truly multi-device in a useful way because new devices will not be see conversation history: https://support.wire.com/hc/en-us/articles/206998259-Why-can...

I was excited to hear they introduced history backup & restore a while ago, but to my dismay it doesn't work across platforms: https://support.wire.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000775549-How-...

> History can only be restored from a backup of the same platform. You will need a fresh login to restore your history from a backup.

So you can't for instance make a backup of your history on web and restore it on Android, or vice versa. Nor does it support automatically making encrypted backups to cloud storage, which makes the history backup & restore feature rather useless for my purposes.

In addition, just now, when I logged back into my wire account, I see the message "You haven’t used this device for a while. Some messages may not appear here." in place of where my actual messages should have been displayed, which is absolutely maddening, and there doesn't seem to be any interest in addressing the issue: https://github.com/wireapp/wire-desktop/issues/655

TL;DR: Wire is simply unable to handle message history in a sane manner. And that's a shame because I love pretty much every other aspect of Wire, but broken message history is a complete deal breaker as far as I'm concerned.
I would think poor ground strength makes cut-and-cover even more attractive relative to the alternative (drilling). For tunnels drilled under streets, the street is supported by rock/soil. For cut-and-cover, the street is supported by concrete and steel.

Maybe you're thinking that it's just impossible to have shallow tunnels at all with the type of soil? I don't think that's how things work, but I'd love to hear from an expert.
Isn't Telegram open source strictly superior than WhatsApp open source? WhatsApp has neither client side nor server side code available(server side doesn't mean much anyways, as Good luck verifying if that is the code which runs on some server).
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> Edward Snowden may return to the United States whenever he wants. He will face great legal risk. That is not the same as exile,

Ah yes, the “I’m swinging my arms and if you get too close and I punch you it’s your own fault” big brother defense.
> I can't decide whether I should be working on what I want to work on (Energy, AI) or whether I should work on what I believe should be worked on (Healthcare).

It's my opinion that picking based on idealisms alone is bad for everyone, _unless_ you have the luxury of choice! ... what I mean by "luxury of choice" is: of the things you are both _good_ at and _enjoy_.

If you excel at and enjoy working in both healthcare and energy, then pick the idealism and be the humanitarian... if you don't enjoy healthcare or are not good at it, don't bother, you will support humanity as a whole and thus healthcare indirectly by working on the problems you _can_ efficiently solve, all while not torturing yourself.

My above assertions are based on the assumption that you already know you are good at and enjoy one of your choices, if not, you need to explore, otherwise you are choosing based on an even worse aspect (speculation). i.e kids say they want to be a fireman or spaceman but unless you are really stubborn you should choose based on the _processes_ those things involve. End results are just a single moment in time.
There are other ways to get chunks of memory separate from the stack - static uninitialized byte arrays.
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You are clearly arguing by appeal to authority. The staff at The University of Pennsylvania Center for Brain Injury and Repair is not infallible. Sometimes bad science is produced by even renowned institutions. This is what the study says about the MRI scans:

"MRI neuroimaging was obtained in all 21 patients. Most patients had conventional imaging findings, which were within normal limits, at most showing a few small nonspecific T2-bright foci in the white matter (n =9, 43%). There were 3 patients with multiple T2-bright white matter foci, which were more than expected for age, 2 mild in degree, and 1 with moderate changes. The pattern of conventional imaging findings in these cases was nonspecific with regard to the exposure/insult experienced, and the findings could perhaps be attributed to other preexisting disease processes or risk factors."

Translated to English: Only a few minor brain abnormalities were found. Those could all have been the result of prior, more natural causes. The MRI scans themselves aren't available, presumably because of "security" reasons.

Personally, I don't see why the crickets theory would be implausible at all. Listening at their sound for just 20 seconds was enough to give me shivers and ringing ears. I'd easily go insane if I had to hear them every night for several months straight.
1) Take the dev market seriously again. Ship with stock Linux containers out of the box. Stop breaking Mach linker ABIs etc.

2) Durable version of the MacBook. Like you can pour sand over the keyboard, swap a cracked display by hand. Comes with a backup hard drive appliance.

3) Apple cloud. Wordpress/Shopify product, AWS S3 clone, AWS Lambda clone, AWS SQS clone, AWS RDS clone, Siri API. Make it all run on localhost too for edge and testing. Cross compile out of the box to Apple hosted GCP/Azure/AWS instances. Extend and embrace :)
Hierarchy starts in Documents. $name is employer name

- .{$name}

- {$name} Administrative = my personal corporate footprint. W-2s, onboarding, perf reviews, etc

- {name} Projects

- PMO Projects

- Leadership Projects

- Team Projects = internal initiatives

- Administrative Projects = stuff like, we need to update our service catalog portfolio or create a new RACI

- Application Projects = stuff like, “migrate the Fruitbasket database’s nonclustered indexes and staging tables to new filegroups”. Small technical projects, surfaced by our team

- {$name} Troubleshooting

- YYYYMMDD-$app-problem-desc = all the documents and data for a specific issue. Log dumps, AARs, executive summaries

- {$name} Management

- Vendors

- Budgeting + Forecasting

- Expenses

- Technical Portfolio

- Team Members

- SLAs / OLAs

- Audits

- Onboarding

- {$name} Documentation

- {$name} Forms and Templates

- {$name} Meetings = all meeting agendas and write ups. Each is a txt file named as YYYYMMDD-stakeholder/app-topic. Can be a tossup whether a meeting write up goes here or in a project folder.

- {$name} Change Management = docs and data for each change I’m either submitting or implementing. Each sub folder named by the Servicenow ID and a description.

- {$name} Operations = heat maps, log dumps, baselines, WIP documentation. Much of this is getting moved to github.
> When registering an account with Telegram, the app helpfully uploads the entire Contacts database to Telegram's servers (optional on iOS).

The Telegram iOS client has started pushing dark patterns to get me to upload my contacts: it now shows a perpetual “badge” in the app’s main tab view (so that I can’t ever miss it), as if it has an error or alert it needs to tell me about. If I tap on it Telegram will helpfully tell me, on a visually broken page, that I should please allow Telegram to access and upload all my contacts to “seamlessly find all my friends” (like I needed this).
It's just a different set of skills and you create value/feel rewarded in a different manner. It's not better or worse, it's just different and appeals to different kind of people. Take some other example from video games:

- Why would anyone pick a healer in an MMO group ? What's so great about becoming a healer ? How's that better than playing a DPS, actually contributing to killing the boss and letting someone else worry about your health bar ?

- What is fun about plying support in DOTA ? I mean the fun is being the carry and killing everyone on the other team to win games ? How can anyone willingly waste his gold to buy visibility wards, that is really not fun at all.

The healer/support/manager (="helper") position appeals to people who like to focus less on the pure "productive" task at hand. They like to focus on getting a full picture of everything that is happening, anticipating potential issues, fixing them, and allowing the DPS/carry/engineer (="producers") to be in the best possible position so they can perform their job. This can be fun for some people even if you don't see it that way. This often is really not an easy task. This often is critical for the success of the team.

And just like there are good and bad "producers" there are good and bad "helpers". The skillset is different, the measure of value creation is different, and the fun is different.
Anybody knows if something like this is possible in Chrome?
> It’d serve more people and would be more convenient than Caltrain's right-of-way.

Does it? They parallel each other with less than a mile between down most of the peninsula.

Bart lacks tracks for passing (though this could be added in new construction), and the Daly City route is a detour for most commuters looking to go to Downtown SF, so it's slower than most Caltrain trains.

Caltrain's also been able to handle capacity issues better because they buy off-the-shelf cars.

It seems more cost-effective to grade-separate and electrify Caltrain and run the extension to the Transbay Terminal. And fix the Transbay Terminal.
Thx, well I got many other projects, but this is the priority no 1.
Two scenarios but both related to having kids.

My brother in law works at Deloitte in Australia and is taking Fridays off for most of the rest of the year using his paternity leave. Sounded like they were pretty supportive but may have to keep an eye on email during that day...

My sister is at a big bank and does 4 days a week but as she describes it "instead of doing 5 days a week and 60 hours, I do 4 days a week and 40 hours". She's still on calls and definitely on email on that "day off".
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The whole article is based on the fact that secret chats are not enabled by default. But i dont understand why that's a critical point, if you are so worried about privacy just start a secret chat. Also from what i can understand its a design decision telegram took. If the secret chats are always on then the private key needs to be transfered from device to device and on new devices,which is a security risk.

The points about the contacts is right though. Also i am a strict no for closed-source privacy app. Even though telegrams code is open, the repo is handedly very badly. With squashed commits pushed once in few months, issues disabled.
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I printed this comment out and will frame it (once the frame is delivered).
I'd be enormously hesitant in relying on a B2B product for such an important part of my life. Forget the security concerns, my concern is the company cutting off access for spurious reasons.

If they could sell me access at a price less than $500+ a month, I'd be more inclined to trust them.
For context: from 0.4% of PC gamers surveyed to 0.8%.
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Do you object to companies advertising to you based on the magazines you buy, or tv you watch, or roads you travel to work on?

If you are against advertising full stop then fine. This article, and peoples claimed grievances are with tracking, rather than advertising per se.

Edit: Missed your first post. Ignore me.
> I would prefer the FOSS version to be 1:1 what is in the repo (or, even the upstream of the non-free version), but I see the situation as more chrome/chromium.

Chrome is not GPL.
> It's a short life, so I want to be careful with this decision, to avoid any future regrets. Because I can't decide on this, I end up not getting anything done. Time continues to march on, while I'm still stuck with not knowing what to do.

I loved most of the advice other people have given you. Follow the advice that you think is the best, but remember, You are more than the work you do.

You are being too hard on yourself - take care of your mental health as well. Talk to someone you trust.

Your life goals and priorities will change throughout your life. In the end, everyone will have some regrets (for different reasons). You just get to choose your own.
On most chips released to date, AVX-512 always causes a lower frequency (the so-called L1 license) as soon as any instruction uses it: basically the chip needs to drop from the L0 (fastest) license to L1 (middle) before it even starts any AVX-512 (probably to power up the upper lanes of the ALUs, register file, etc).

Below L1, there is an even lower frequency tier, L2, which behaves as you say: it doesn't drop to L2 unless there is a sustained use of heavy AVX-512 instructions.

On the Cannonlake chip you used, however, the i3-8121U, I don't measure any AVX-512 throttling at all - regardless of what instructions are running, up to and including dense 512-bit FMAs, the chip is running at the full 3.2 GHz (1 active core) or 3.1 GHz (2 active cores) turbo speed at all times.

This behavior was common in the past on client parts: e.g., most Skylake client parts run at full speed when using 256-bit AVX/AVX2 operations, but server parts and some higher-end desktop parts based on them had varying speed tiers. All of the initially released SKX (Skylake X) parts were based on the Skylake-SP server part and had the speed tiers (downclocking) for AVX-512, but maybe many or most future client parts won't if CNL is any indication.
> uMatrix+disabling Javascript explicitly will help prevent tracking for those who know how.

For added privacy, combine DDG with Tor Browser Bundle, because remember that although DDG is 'privacy first'; it doesn't stop some intel agency attributing search queries to specific users inside the Internet (which happen to have unique useragent strings and surf with unique IP addresses)
I agree with you however as I explained in my reply to hedora there are important reasons why AMD should have a card in this performance class.
I think we should always remember that users want usability too and most of the times aren't willing to surrender features for the extra gain in security. If users preferred security, a lot more people would be using PGP.
Apple took out a CES ad to troll its competitors over privacy
Yea, it would have been nice to have more author information up top so I knew who I was listening to, but I never was put under the impression it was an official Caltrain blog.
I hope you all consider accessibility important too. A large portion of potential users have visual and hearing impairments, tremors and other motor skills impairments, and of course about 4.5% of the world is colorblind. If you can't do it because of compassion for others, do it for selfishness that someday it could be you.

Hopefully the story around Android accessibility has improved since 2014.

(The usual disclaimer: I work for Google, I don't work on Android.)
I think this is a question of relative popularity, they could hold a local arts performance at Centurylink and even if it were free, the stadium would still be mostly empty.

The 5th Avenue Theater holds a little more than 2,000 people, it’s not a giant logistical problem to fit an extra 2,000 people into downtown Seattle.

And I’m not trying to defend people’s preference for sports. I’m one of those people who wishes there was more of the arts around, but the demand for sports is enormous compared to the demand for local arts.
> they are in roles where more time put in equals more work done

This is partially true if:

1) you only hire young folks
2) you don't care about long term health of your team

Based on this philosophy I could work 90h/week and get even more done i.e. there is always work to be done but IMHO this way of working is unhealthy and not sustainable.

Personally for me it takes more time than the average to recharge so having a shorter working week helps with recharging and do well next week and be productive. And by that I mean being equally productive to a "full time".

> if you aren't paying 100% attention, that doesn't cost money

I'd argue it can cost you money, in different ways.
You need a certain population density to make mass transit really work (think NYC subways). Having a bay in the middle of the Bay Area makes the math not work. That, and cities' unwillingness to grow.
There are a couple appearance options (Vertigo and Sidebar) which don't have the button outlines, may be closer to what you are after. They also don't have the dotted branch lines that some tree controls have. There is also a "No Decoration" option where you can add your own style rules in the Advanced section.
The benchmark allocates a new ReadHandle on every get(key) operation, whose constructor performs work under a shared lock. This is a design flaw of the benchmark, not the library.
I don't know if it was deliberate American propaganda campaign. The US is always looking for an enemy even if they have to invent one.

Its telling that none of the media even once asked themselves WHY someone would want to attack embassy staff in such a bizarre way. At least the US State Department kept its cool. Saving America from Americans is their mission.
This is similar to /tmp/ on Linux (well, Debian at least). On each reboot it gets emptied which means I put there everything that I will probably not use after this session. Suspend / wake cycle doesn't empty /tmp/ directory, but just knowing it will get emptied sooner or later is enough.
It looks like they also insert affiliate codes into search result URLs for sites like Amazon and eBay.

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Maxwell did not use vector calculus, which actually makes it pisser to understand because it bypasses having to convert the vectors to coordinates. I find short hand notion more confusing than writing it all out even if the latter takes more room. I did not understand general relativity at all until I saw an example where everything was written out and then it made much more sense
I've been hosting my own wiki based on Use Mod Wiki since the late 90's. I'm still using it everyday.
This depresses me too. I think we got off into walled gardens where it's easy to use time wasting things we don't need like candy crush and Facebook.

A computer on my wrist that ran something like Linux and gave the user control and had peripherals would be geeky but nice. You can do a lot of this with various droids, but it is a bit of a shallow experience and not too many enhancements can be made.

I think the main problem is that hacker news is an echo chamber and few others could even use such devices. Smart phones are simply made for the least common denominator.
How can they say all this unless they had made brain scans before the specific incident to compare against?
I'm the one talking about trade-offs, you are of the position that any algorithmic feature designed to weaken anonymity in certain well defined scenarios is tantamount to "cameras in people's homes".

Well, Bitcoin is more traceable than Monero or Grin so there you go, a handy example of an (unintentional) trade-off that seems to work without the sky falling. It's absolutely reasonable that an intentionally designed system could achieve a more favorable trade-off, with better privacy for regular folk and less for well defined, exceptional circumstances.
Yeah, I'm not sure about it. I'm not a security expert that can look at the protocol for some weeks and come to a conclusion. Believing them after they did things wrong is not very convincing. Given some years and many eyes, and I might believe it. But until then?
No, you've misread.
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Hmmm... interesting use of language:

..ab origine
..de novo
..fait accompli
..ipso facto
..ergo

Not sure if this is satire or genuine but he comes across as a complete idiot.

$170/month in mobile data - how???

I'm guessing that is DOA
Obviously, the term is a straightforward appeal to authority.
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I'd like to work with my 12-year-old to improve his coding skills so that he can actually build something interesting. He's comfortable with Scratch and the simple levels from Code.org (which is Python). I'd like to figure out an intermediate level curriculum that would move him forward to being able to build his own projects, such as a website for rating games that he and his friends could use.

A lot of the options seem either too academic (for example, code.org's AP CS curriculum <https://code.org/educate/csp>), too basic, or too advanced.

I'm considering Code Academy's Web Development path: https://www.codecademy.com/learn/paths/web-development

I've had a good personal experience with Michael Hartl's Rails Tutorial and so was also considering his Learn Enough series: https://www.learnenough.com/story

What have you used?
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