skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That's exactly analogous to what's happening here. The data being tracked isn't you

If we're talking about using a unique identifier, then I disagree. This isn't analogous to getting a store receipt at all. With a store receipt, there is nothing that connects me to the transaction described in the receipt except that I am in physical possession of the receipt.

> If you visit the same doctor, even without a log of prior visits, he or she might remember you.

Indeed, but that's in no way similar to what we're talking about.

> I feel it's akin to looking at the ills that automobiles have brought about with pollution, and taking a stance against vehicles. When someone comes by to show you a bicycle, you say no-thanks

I think this analogy also misses the mark. If tracking is like a car, then the UUID tracking we're talking about is like a compact car. Not at all like a bicycle (Poettering's suggestion, which I'm OK with, is more like that).

> You're equating tracking, as being discussed here, with identity tracking, which is not really on the table as an option at all.

I view this as effectively identity tracking. Much like the "advertising IDs" that Android uses.

> And I would classify it as an overreaction to that problem.

Perhaps it is, but if so, it's because as a user it's impossible to determine which tracking is OK and which isn't, therefore it's wise to avoid it all.

> but does that mean we should attack real solutions which do not exhibit that problem just because it shares some easily identifiable similarities, such as a name?

Of course not, but I'm not sure that this is an example of that. Also, it's important that a company prove (I'm not sure how that would be done, admittedly) that their representations of the tracking system are accurate, and that future business decisions couldn't change that.

> That's what we already have, by nature of using IP transport.

It's not, really. For instance, I run about a dozen Linux machines at home. Each of those machines does not go to the distro's repository for updates -- I have an update server that caches them and the other machines get their updates from that. So, if you're looking at the repository's logs, it looks like only one machine is getting updates. And, if I wanted to be even safer, my update server could get the updates using a VPN and thus completely disconnecting my IP address from the IP address the repository is seeing.

Besides, as I said before, just because there's one data leak doesn't mean it's OK to introduce another one.

> All they are proposing is to get a finer grained view (but still not perfect) of how many systems there are and what version they are.

Yes, I understand.

> I can't reconcile your hard line in one instance and apparent blasé attitude in the other.

That might be because you're assuming I have a blasé attitude in an area where I don't.
Congress can override a Presidential veto.
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neither of them tries to touch commissions though.
I really like their last logo. It was recognizable.

If they really just wanted to change it, they could have just simplified the colors. Oh well, now they just look like every other generic company (it reminds me of bank logo but I can't remember which one).
That is weird. (And well-spotted.)

I wonder if it's maybe an artifact of a pre-written obituary being in their CMS and someone not pushing the right buttons to change the URL before publishing. (A lot of notable obits are pre-written.)
You mean the one that was deliberately designed to look like a swastika, and even used in black on a white disk in a red field in their flags to underline the “hey, these guys are like Nazis” vibe?
It's not a wall, and it's not seven layer everywhere. A wall is shooting yourself in the foot, seven layer is just the entry point. If you never went to gibraltar, please, please don't propagate false claims. Multiple videos exist that explain how the EU border there work, you can easely check if someone lied to you, so please do.
If bitcoin is to be the global currency, it needs more channels to propagate than just public internet. Public Internet is too censorship receptive for system like Bitcoin. Broadcasting the block and tx data to the world via satellite gets us one step closer. Great work Blockstream!
I agree, it's frustrating. However, considering you can share security groups, and even share VPC as a resource to different AWS accounts, and that "names" are non-unique, how would you solve the problem of allowing people to select a non-unique resource and know which one they actually mean.

It's a pain, sure, but there's no better solution... explicitness creates certainty in this case..
I just hope CockroachLabs doesn't come up with a dick move like the MongoDB SSPL license, it would really hurt me since I've been selling the thing and using it in all my new projects. I can't imagine the frustration of the Mongodb users right now.
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In what world is that in any way supporting your claim that:

"We chopped down most of the forests in the US [1] to make farmland. Literally. My home state of Indiana was _literally_ solid hardwood forest 250 years ago. Take a look at it on Google maps sometime."

So 25%
Yeah, totally depends on what you're using for a router/gateway/firewall.

I've got a mix of Ubiquiti gear and pfSense. Most of it was a matter of just setting up a static route(like in the article) where when I'm on the 192.x.x.x(192.0.0.0/24) network and want to talk to 10.0.0.0/24 I'd put in the gateway(10.0.0.1) as the next hop. Without knowing more about your setup it's hard to say.

r/homelab is also a pretty decent place with a lot of helpful people interested in networking and homelabs.
> many people think software freedom and commercial use are somehow exclusive

My understanding is that software "freedom" requires free commercial use. Allowing free personal use is not sufficient.

These concepts are not only not exclusive but one implies the other.
I don't know what you mean by "middle points" but I think you are too quick to dismiss this as unbuildable. To my eye, it's buildable if you don't consider every joint as a pin that digs into the paper.

It's presumably intended as a reminder that there are mechanisms that can trisect an angle, some of them very beautiful and entirely symmetrical. Dare I say it, the message is that math is pluralistic–so don't go too hard on those trisectors and visual thinkers who are working with different assumptions from the symbol-shufflers embedded in mainstream academic mathematical culture.

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/NeusisConstruction.html etc.
Not as bad as "Jetpack" :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18819708
I've bought and sold on separate occasions through Redfin and saw no difference between their service for 1% and my previous transactions with a traditional realtor for 5%. They both took me around to see properties, provided neighborhood and property insights, acted as my negotiating proxy, and guided the closing process. I don't understand how Redfin can charge so little, but as it stands today I wouldn't dream of paying 5% again.
And the Redhat service license restricts redistribution of the binaries and modifications or you get blacklisted and cannot get any updates
It sounds like you're being hit with a retargeting ads (you look at a fridge, and then suddenly the entire internet showing you fridges from that, or related, retailers).

Retargeting is considered to be a pretty efficient ad spend. Though sometimes I do wonder if the numbers are inflated by people like me: I'll tend to look at an item, throw it in the back of my mind, and purchase weeks/months later after some consideration. It's a longstanding habit, and I block the very vast majority of ads -- so retargeting doesn't factor in as far as I'm aware.
I tried to incorporate using clerky, but not sure if I can set the owner of entity a california LLC instead of a person

can you or someone answer this?
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Not as strong as this:

"We chopped down most of the forests in the US [1] to make farmland. Literally. My home state of Indiana was _literally_ solid hardwood forest 250 years ago. Take a look at it on Google maps sometime."

25% ish. Hardly most of the forrest in the US.
Antennas for sending data back need a large area parabolic dish. Solar panels also need a large area. Large area seems like a likely feature of any probe.
Exactly what J Harlen Bretz (the Missoula Floods guy) said when other geologists said he needed to figure out where all that vast volume of water came from. 'Not my problem.'

Secondly, science doesn't prove. It creates models, and finds the ones that stand up to close scrutiny. Bretz provided massive evidence for his flood model. Those who chose to ignore him chose to ignore the evidence ... whatever their names were.
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He is known for his articles about the financial industry, written with clarity and humor.
Virtualizing macOS on a macOS host is allowed, and I think QEMU will let you do this.
>you shouldn't blame the state for your errors

And what's the technological reason behind there being a four week lag in the data being available? I can't think of a good one. I'm sure there's cell signal where the ANPR cameras are based.

If I was cynical, I'd go as far as to suggest the system is _engineered_ to encourage users to forget to check back at the correct time, even if they had attempted to pay at the first opportunity.

It's exactly the same as financial technology. Is there any technological reason why transactions shouldn't appear as soon as the authorisation takes place? No. It's poor because the incumbents can get away with it being poor.
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Or channel names prefixed with double ##'s.
Is it a fiasco or is it just "shady business" but still successful?

Really just asking because I never heard about that company but saw a few days ago a post about its split into different sectors all having their names starting with "We..." and did not dig further (and I did not find anything useful today using my keywords).
Cryptostorm.is are totally secure.
Their servers are housed in a former missile silo.
No ordinary VPN and trusted by the trustless.
Well something like 50% of the country (I don't have the actual stats in front of me but I recall its more than half) lives paycheck to paycheck and has no savings. I remember what that was like before I got lucky enough to find a career in software development. Back then $100 was at TON of money (honestly I still think of it that way but I digress) and missing a paycheck would have been a disaster. One time my car broke down in the desert for instance and I had to leave it there for months so I could save up enough money to get it towed and repaired. It was an unexpected expense of a few hundred dollars but I remember breaking down in tears about it because I knew how much of a blow to my bottom line it was. I nearly lost my job because I had no way to get there, I had to pay parking fines for my stranded vehicle, I had to borrow money with no real way of paying it back. It was an unmitigated disaster that took me a long time to recover from. My point being, a lot of people live their days on a financial tight rope and an unexpected expense like missing a paycheck starts a cycle of debt that gets harder and harder to recover from. These furloughed workers deserve better.
Across their team, sure. In the Reddit thread, the OP said he has employees.
There's a reason that NAR has their logo on a nice building a few blocks down from the US Capitol (500 New Jersey Ave NW). :-)
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Yea. It's technically deprecated, but it is also super useful so I don't see any reason not to use it.
It ain't a new cool Javascript library. Databases are hard. Many tried, many failed. Don't play around.
I'm wondering if the designer was Indian, because it does actually look rather close to the original Hindu swastika with it's dots:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:HinduSwastika.svg
The title of this article really doesn't do it justice. (And honestly, the article itself really buries the lede.) Some interesting passages:

He launched a “Night for Women” and asked the city’s men to
stay home in the evening and care for the children;
700,000 women went out on the first of three nights that
Mockus dedicated to them.

Another Mockus inspiration was to ask people to call his
office if they found a kind and honest taxi driver; 150
people called and the mayor organized a meeting with all
those good taxi drivers, who advised him about how to
improve the behavior of mean taxi drivers.

Initially 20 professional mimes shadowed pedestrians who
didn’t follow crossing rules: A pedestrian running across
the road would be tracked by a mime who mocked his every
move. Mimes also poked fun at reckless drivers.

It really strikes me how the "academic" in question, Antanas Mockus, was able to inject some whimsy and levity into the dour field of politics / civil service. Other politicians are so obsessed with how they come across that they sand off anything resembling humor.
Well hopefully integrating technology deeply into the rest of the economy to bring up productivity and share prosperity rather than trying to hijack people's attention with surface level consumer products.

There is a very interesting generational rift between the pre-web companies like Microsoft and Apple and the Google/Facebook generation.
So... I've also been looking for the exits from the Mac, and have been trying the WSL route (I've got a 13" XPS that I'm experimenting with) and while the mac hasn't been a super smooth experience building from source for a while, WSL just seems all kinds of wonky. For example, previous to a recent update, Postgresql wouldn't build from source at all, and then after the update it would build successfully but quickly crash out on IO errors that I don't recognize.

I don't understand how people are having experiences with WSL that'd lead them to believe it's comparable with Macs. What's the secret sauce? Is one of the "distributions" better than another?
You deal with it as it happens. It's not like it will happen one day. It will also happen over time and yes create tensions. But the solution is not as some ex want to stop the moderns world and growth. On the contrary it's to make those countries richer so they can deal with the other consequences of a changing climate like the resto of us.

Again we are discussing the difference between accepting there are some consequences of the climate changing and then these catastrophist claims that the world is going to end and we can't deal with it.
Cryptostorm.is are totally secure.
No ordinary VPN and trusted by the trustless.
Our lab has been collecting an ecological time series every January for 35 years. Continuity is critical for monitoring change and the health of the population (under hunting, so there's an economic incentive). Now we have a permanent, unfillable gap. There are many such examples.
I thought the DoD caught on to the fact that "agile" is, in fact, BS. Apparently not. It'll take them another decade of "sprinting" to nowhere to figure this out.
it violates the fiduciary duties that corporate employees, as agents, owe to their principals, the shareholders

Insider trading regs, as currently enforced in USA, get this exactly backwards. Senior C-suiters are not prohibited from trading their firm's stock. They only have to carefully choreograph that trading with respect to other events. They get as much advance time as they need to do this, and as much professional help as they (or the firm) can afford. They get all this time to scheme and pre-arrange, precisely because insider trading laws exist to hammer the lowly middle managers who would like to do their own trading on inside information.

The sooner trading based on information occurs, the sooner that information is public. The effect of these regulations is to keep secrets and make misguided investment more likely. All executives of a public corporation are in a conspiracy against the investing public. Insider trading laws function precisely to punish defectors from that conspiracy. This defection should rather be encouraged, so these are yet another set of laws the effect of which is entirely backwards from their supposed justification.
A certain segment of the tech community considers cyberstalking a crime made up by women and „sjw‘s“ to emasculate those they can‘t get at with fake allegations of rape.

(Edit: from a sibling comment: ““cyberharassment" sounds more like being mean to people online”)

More generally, there is a sense that anything happening online is by definition harmless, and/or constitutionally protected speech.
> What do you do if everyone on the sell side of the market uses telemetry? Just stop using computers?

Well, that's not going to happen. I doubt Slackware would go down that road, for example.

But lets say that what you assert happens -- all that means is that I won't use distros. It doesn't mean that I won't use computers.

It's entirely possible to install Linux without using a distro or prebuilt binaries at all. It's also possible to keep using an older version of the operating system.

But, being essentially lazy, what I'd most likely do is an extension of what I do with with most applications these days: firewall off the servers that the OS is trying to communicate with.
He is considered to be one of the most insightful (and humorous) finance writers today. He was formerly a Goldman Banker, and prior to this, a corporate lawyer at Wachtell, both firms having the reputation of residing at the summit of their industries.

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> This is what the push message API in iOS is for. It wakes up the app when messages come in.

IRC isn't reliant on a proprietary push message API, though (be that provided by Apple or Google).

I'm sure there are long-lived bouncer plugins that will integrate with said APIs, but the core IRC protocol is not suited to or designed for devices that aren't capable of a long-lived connection.
Webstorm by itself is $129.00 yr for commercial use. Im replying to myself to make this more specific edit to my above comment in response to dude below that found it worthwhile to find me on twitter to tell me I'm wrong there as well in a Tweet because $129.00 != hundreds, geez! Dang, ban this user again!

https://twitter.com/FraSteiner/status/1085479110774804480?s=...
I'm confused, I would be perfectly happy to stop people from making a livelihood out of writing a "interest-group paid authoritatively-toned opinion-piece" if there were a safe way to do so without damaging other rights.
Up there with Scott Kim's original SGI logo!

http://xahlee.info/UnixResource_dir/sgi_logo.html

Sun and SGI used to be such rivals, with their headquarters around the corner from each other, and their logos were always bombastically facing each other off and posing together in the trade rags and trade show floors.

I like to imagine them both spinning and swooping around playfully with each other in Logo Heaven.
That asterisk is more just to clairify that using "we" makes my comment imply that you're a Democrat. Which may or may not be the case, hence the asterisk acknowledging that.
There was a long form article in the New Yorker two years ago about the Sackler family and Oxycotin. Quite a good read, in depth history of the drug, well researched:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/10/30/the-family-tha...

At this point there is not doubt in my mind that deceit is part of the "company culture" of Purdue/Sackler, their MO. They should be held accountable. They should be publicly held accountable.

Everyone should realise that the Sacklers that sponsors this museum, or that library, or that park, have been for the last decades willingly pushing this drug while knowing full well that something was wrong. They patented a slow-release opioid but knew it was impossible to make sure that patient wouldn't crush the pills; they never reached out to the authorities when small town doctor ordered more drugs than could ever be needed. I mean, they literally have just patented a drug (September 2018) that let you go through the withdrawal of Oxycoting more easily.

They created the problem, leaving tens of thousand dead in their track while profiting immensely from it, now they want to profit from the recovery as well? Despicable business practice, despicable business.
Another option is SWT and the Eclipse RCP.
Criminalizing it would lead to proceedings in a court of law, which might actually help in definitively establishing a narrative of truth. Unfortunately, I am not confident that even courts can be relied upon to be unbiased.

Comments echoing the author's sentiment here are all over the NYT story concerning the fake "Russian Disinfo Campaign" for Roy Moore orchestrated by the friendly-sounding "Democracy Integrity Project" which broke 1 month ago:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/19/us/alabama-senate-roy-jon...
when I buy a property, I would preferably buy land directly from a third party or state government. Never really understood the use of realtors. Specially in rental heavy markets. In New York Realtors or Brokers are straight leeches.
Digital Ocean is growing up. K8saaS today, probably DBaaS tomorrow.
Yes - search "mini phone" on AliExpress or similar.
30 electron apps is $4.5 by that metric. HD space is a red herring here.
On the contrary with surveillance there is a 'chilling effect' and people will be constantly wary and not speak their mind. These societal experiences have already happened, are heavily documented and thus we do not have to speculate, we know.

The only reason you don't live in a police state and in a democracy is because someone 'cared' about it. Its perfectly valid not to care about these things but its quite another to try to make a virtue out of personal passivity or indifference.

Since there is no reference to 'static' in the original comment that is a meaningless straw man, its like telling people fighting against surveillance, anti-democratic or fascist forces not to bother as 'change is inevitable'.
Seller's contracts are so weird in that they specify a 2x difference in fee depending on whether the buyer has an agent or not. SO WEIRD.
You just said, in paraphrase using cryptocurrency software "[to bypass the legal system is a] fantastic use case", which is anarchocapitalism in its purest form.

You can't pretend cryptocurrency is made to bypass only unjust laws and regulations.
To show the ad to the consumer? I'd say yes. To sell the ad, when google is selling hyper informative profiles down the road. Maybe not. Not that people who buy ads or keywords or whatever have the best idea of who they should sell it to
50-75% of Apple’s App Store revenue is gaming. That’s a lot. Apple expands the gaming market with their products, so they don’t need to be as big as Microsoft and Sony because they aren’t fighting “the console wars.” Besides, comparing Apple’s software revenue to Microsoft’s hardware plus software doesn’t make sense. Surely some fraction of iPads, Macs, Apple TVs and potential new hardware should count as gaming purchases.
In IRL when I bought my house I factored in 3% to the buyer’s agent. I had offers from normal agents who get 3%, all manner of “kickback” agents who collect 3% and give some back to the buyer, and one agent less buyer that included an explicit 3% calculation in their offer.

While, sure, I would love to get more and pay less commission, I don’t care how that 3% is distributed. It’s fixed part of the transaction and is in the MLS listing because I was afraid of missing some buyers.

When I bought a house, my contract with my buying agent said that 50% of the buying commission came back to me at closing as a prepaid closing cost.
I think Uber is a weird edge case in this comparison because of how fundamentally awful traditional taxi services are in many places.