skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Darknet diaries has a great episode on this period and the fight to allow people to use unbreakable encryption:

https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/12/
Download XCode, compile the app yourself, load it onto your phone. Now you have apps on your phone that do not need Apple approval.
I’d love to see a meaningful argument to the contrary. Near as I can tell atheism implies nihilism and the extent an atheist disagrees is decided entirely by how convincingly they can lie to themselves.
Geez, we are lucky the Koch brothers build their empire before the social media was a thing, otherwise they will be also considered "influencers and trend setters"
Honestly I'm surprised that a military ordinance page is so clean and straight forward. It also feels a little strange to see marketing material for military weapons.
That was a typo on my part, which I've fixed; thanks for pointing it out. They're tungsten spheres.
Yes, kodi is good for the use cases it covers. It doesn't cover some of Plex's functionality though (mainly transcoding and the client server model)
It appears you can still watch your Ultraviolet movies ,just not through Vudu.
You have to link your account to another service.
Germany is currently going through with NordStream 2, a plan that gives billions to Russia. Simultaneously, the US is expected to spend billions protecting Germany and the EU from Russia via NATO. If Russia is really a threat why is Germany helping to subsidize their military and government?

Who is unreliable here? Why isn't Germany getting their natural gas from the US?

Of course the EU doesn't like Trump. If somebody has been giving you free money for decades and all of a sudden somebody wants to put a stop to it or at least get something in return, of course they aren't going to like the new guy
They sell computers, and computers are used to surveil, therefore they enable it. Not sure I agree on this one
If Harambe's life was valued he would never have been in that situation in the first place.
Seems to distill down to this one line:

"Apple didn’t take a position on Facebook’s creation of a paid “research” program to extract data from users. It enforced the terms of a licensing agreement; appearing to fight for user privacy is just a side effect."

Expecting a stronger argument against Apple given the title of the article.
Happened* this is from last week
I'm not sure seatbelts/smoking are the best examples, because the negative consequences are quite clear and understood by most of society. I've never met a smoker that continued to smoke under the assumption it was good for them.

The consequences of privacy violations are much more nuanced; most people don't understand how data they enter onto a website will be used. And it's clear a lot of those companies want to continue to keep people in the dark about it, because it would likely freak them out.
Newport is on a 3-book contract[1] on more or less the same subject with slightly different framing. So he's obliged to drum-up attention about it. Also as someone else pointed out in a different thread, Newport places too much attention on "quantity"; it doesn't sit quite well with me.

Yes, his bigger point is entirely valid (and I appreciate him bringing it to our attention), but no—there is not enough material to write three damn books. Take inspiration from Kahneman, he condensed his 40-year work (in collaboration with Tversky) into one book.

As I've noted on HN before, I'd much rather recommend the book by the Hungarian psychologist, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's (or Prof. C): Flow—the psychology of optimal experience

Prof. C has defined the idea of "flow" (he discusses it in various contexts, including human well-being), and dedicated his entire life to studying it. IMHO, the signal-to-noise ratio is extremely high in this book—no wonder, it was Prof. C's seminal work.

[1] http://calnewport.com/about/
I agree in principle, but you are unfairly painting every person on HN as if they agree with such behavior.
> Never heard of China/Russia having anything to do with the situation in Venezuela

Russian PMCs are now acting as the personal guard of Venezuelan President Maduro. This article also states that Russia is investing billions of dollars to back the country. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-politics-russia...
Ask HN: Millionaires of HN, how did you go from $0 to $1m. How long did it take?
Freud is far from 'vindicated'. At least over here (The Netherlands, and probably most of Western Europe/US), Freud is seen as an important figure historically, but (most of?) his work is not considered valid.

EDIT: I mean in academia; I suppose his ideas are still quite popular culturally.
The issue with Apple regulating apps that abuse data is that this now encompasses a significant portion of the App Store. So while Apple can and does slowly lock down the amount of data you can pull off a device, if they decided to pull every app that sent data off the phone they'd have very few apps left…
As I read it, their argument is that Apple doesn't do enough. And they cite the fact that Apple still associates with privacy offenders as their proof of Apple's hypocrisy.

So yeah, virtue-signaling click-bait.
You'll probably want 2 (or more) drives since even if you have the original discs the time needed to rip them again will justify the investment. On top of that you will most likely want a NAS to make the setup practical.

This adds up to a few hundred dollars that you wouldn't need to spend if the DRMs implemented were sane and reasonable with legal owners. And I don't even factor in the cost of the time, electrical power, or computing power involved to make it happen.
I'm not sure that I agree. I guess it depends on what you mean by "win". If you mean win that particular engagement, sure. But if by "win" you mean accomplish the objective, which in this case included not having the local population hate you for obliterating their city, then I don't think it's a luxury nor do I think you can win without such considerations. And really, I'm not sure that it's fair to say that the US has "won" either of the two major asymmetric wars it's been engaged in for the last 17 years, even with all of the political constraints they've ostensibly tried to follow.
Resulting pieces are over a thousand tungsten balls that just wipe out everything in front of the tank up to a 500m.
Without that honk I'd still be stuck in a parking garage in Atlantic City wandering around looking for my car.
Life of a Sql Query
Oh of course. Even the original iteration of Facebook's is still on the Play store. I was more commenting on how scared Apple had about sharing Facebook's fate.
Interesting facet of the policy - even wanted Nazi party members were allowed to migrate to Argentina after the war, and oftentimes extradition requests were refused. Combine that with close relations with Israel, and that is why Argentina became famous for international Nazi-hunting intrigue both historically and in fiction.

https://www.jweekly.com/1995/09/01/argentine-court-blocks-to...
Great comment! One thing I'd add:

> until we minimize our personal and systemic biases and disparities, we can't hope to use our fancy mathematical models to minimize them for us.

And as long as technologists are in denial about the extent to which personal and systemic biases influence reality (as we're seeing in this thread), tech will continue to reinforce and magnify these biases.
You'd be surprised how much stuff you can find. Google just about any weapons system using the right terminology and you'll be greeted with brochures and high level datasheets galore.
>My point is that it is 100% unfeasible for the computer to model these probabilities

I would agree.

But my point is that making the decision, and then trying to say we're not making a decision, is disingenuous. So the question becomes: disingenuous to what end? We are making statements about what is or isn't permissible. In the case of the standard human laws, we (generally) find it impermissible for someone in such a situation to save their own life by ending someone else's, in the same way that if A puts a gun to B's head and says shoot C or die, for B to shoot C would be regarded in most jurisdictions as murder, regardless of any part A plays in the scenario. And replicating these laws in machines is perfectly fine. They, like us, have no chance of fully understanding any of the consequences of anything either of us experience, so we can probably only operate in a pragmatic functional fashion. However, in building a machine that replicates what is permissible in this way, as already applied to humans, we must also admit that we are instantiating in hardware a set of rules to, in certain circumstances, kill and or injure people, one way or the other. But we're doing this for the purpose of, also, preventing such where impermissible (and perhaps, even, reducing such overall). Yet, it still remains that we must construct what will do that; we must enact in a very precalculated fashion a predefined, concrete expression of what is permissible, and therefore, what is not permissible. But we, and this is the whole reason, I will contend, at the heart of the argument, and why the debate is a contentious as it is, that is that we very much do not want to admit to the expression. And only by saying the question can't be answered, therefore, here's an answer, can we do that.
I don't think cell phones cause lung cancer or emphysema. The better comparison is to caffeine. Yeah, it's pretty addictive. But it doesn't kill you. That's about where the cell phone is for some people. (And hey, the blue light even screws up your sleep cycle supposedly. As a long-time drinker of caffeine, I don't even HAVE a sleep cycle! Take that, cell phones.)

Also, I am guessing that most doctors would not recommend smoking a pipe a couple times a week. I doubt it's harmless.
Linux server with Samba share. I used this setup with XBMC/Kodi for many years. Recently switched to Infuse on the AppleTV 4K without changing a single thing with the Samba setup.
Yeah, you're thinking of the XM29 "Objective Individual Combat Weapon," which was an assault rifle with the 20mm programmable grenade launcher on top. H&K essentially removed the smart grenade system to create the XM8. They also made the XM25, which was just the smart grenade launcher bit. All of those weapons never got past prototype, though all of this research eventually produced the M320, which is a non-smart under-barrel 40mm grenade launcher.

There's also South Korea's K11, which is the same concept as the XM29, and seems to actually be used, though I can't find much info about its effectiveness.

The conclusions from the failure of the XM29 I believe was that it isn't trivial to operate a smart grenade launcher, and the 20mm grenade doesn't have as much lethality as you would like. But perhaps the K11 was able to rectify these issues. I personally think this need for precise, powerful fires could be filled by a crew-serviced weapon mounted on an APC/IFV. Doesn't even have to be a smart grenade, could be a special autocannon or something.
Gell-Mann and Crichton are friends (acquaintances?) who have different expertises and notice different wrong stories in the paper. The parent quote is missing the reference to Gell-Mann, it goes "You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray’s case, physics. In mine, show business." I think the name is pretty good as is?
Good thing that countries never secretly break treaties.
So I have to pay yearly rent to write and install my own apps onto my phone? And if I do not pay that rent it stops functioning? What if I want to install an app someone else wrote onto my phone but doesn't want to put it in the App Store? I get what you are saying but I don't want my mom approving what I install onto the device I paid for.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19046468
I'm not so sure Arabs hate Israel anymore. Saudi Arabia for instance has been working on improving relations. Could be "enemy of my enemy is my friend" though.
It's very likely one of two things - either the RFID Anti-Theft device the store has, or an automatic door opener, both can cause spurious emissions in the band that keyfobs use.
Agreed.

I think everyone should have a broad understanding of the purpose of programming and what it can achieve.

Not everyone needs to learn to program. Some people just don't like it and won't have the knack for it.
To be accurate, the guys discussing the process they've been working on did not claim they had a "single cure".

What they said is "treatment will eventually be personalized" which is exactly the opposite of a single cure.
Or the person is not 15 years old, and doesn't believe there are "good persons" in politics, or that the alternatives (in GOP or Dems) were better people.

Or the person goes even further, and doesn't believe the puritan tenet that "good person == good politician". There were excellent politicians that were bad in their behavior, and vice versa.

E.g. the person might care more about not encouraging a hawkish member of the establishment, that continued to beat the drum of American supremacy and threatened even more wars and tension coming on (e.g. with Iran) -- compared to merely voting someone who is e.g. sexist (as if that matters for the kind of decisions a President takes).
no but the fact that something is not deterministic would preclude the idea that 'basic physics says there is no free will'
About twelve years, spanning my first two startups. Would have taken longer, but the sale of #2 coincided with the end of the dotcom era. (We were definitely not a dotcom company, but we rode the wave.)
There's no gray area there, Google Play Services is just as much of a lock as the Apple App Store.
https://outline.com/Ts4ZUj
If it’s a harmonic of a lower frequency, one could try dialing in 105MHz into an analog-tuned FM radio and seeing if there’s anything odd coming through.

I’ve used this for assessing some harmonics of 4-5 MHz clock lines causing issues.
The Spread of Lethal Drones Is Unstoppable
Show HN: Salesforce CSV Export Chrome Extension
Atheism isn't nihilism. Values are subjective. Morality is relative.
> Does Tim Cook pray at nights to slow down other peoples code on iPhone?

No, but the security team tries their best to keep unsigned, dynamically generated code (such as what might come out of your browser's JIT JavaScript engine) from running.
I came here to say this. I loved the idea of Circles, it makes so much more sense than whatever Facebook is doing. I'm just sad it was attached to Google+.
It is as soon as several must-have apps (say, the ones all your friends and family use to communicate) are side-load only. If they allow other channels to install apps and make them easy enough that non-nerds can do it, network effects will quickly make it de facto necessary to run at least some apps from outside the app store.
I am not a member of this organization (yet?) - but they are fighting (right now mostly focus in CA in regards to Amazon's third party sellers) for straightforward legislations around sales taxes - https://onlinemerchantsguild.org/
I have been saying for a long time that out industry needs an ethical code of conduct. And employees who willingly work for companies acting unethically should be shunned throughout the industry.

Imagine a world where people knew that having Facebook or SCO or Palantir on your resume meant automatic rejection by any company subscribing to the code of conduct. Unethical companies would face huge pressure from their own workforce to clean up their act.
I feel like the exclusion of the US is the norm in a lot of these rankings just to have that shock factor.
The whole point of the 3 laws is not to define the exact laws that need to be followed, instead it is a comment on the fact that we must have some laws governing the operation of devices that have the capability for autonomous actions.

The fact that it is still discussed in regards to Robotics means the 3 laws are not harmful, in actuality they gave sparked discussion and thought. That is powerful, not harmful.
I love how that platform puts SQL into s expressions, with all the capabilities this implies.

Not that I’ve actually touched any Lisp since the 80s.

Back to work in Java / Hibernate hell...
Integrating Public Transportation into the Uber App
Olivia Bland's Web Applications UK Interview 'humiliating'
I think the tools still exist. Probably not for 4K, but up to 1080p should be doable. However, unless you find something really rare on itunes that you can't get elsewhere, it's quite pointless.
Don't forget IKEA...
Clear example why one should never to buy DRMed media.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19037608
Take a photo of your cars location and parking level info with your phone.
Not a doctor, but it was explained to me thus:

The peripheral nervous system can regrow nerve tissue but only if it has an intact pathway. So when they sew on a finger, if they can repair the myelin sheath, new nerves will grow down the old conduit at a rate of about an inch a month.

So they sew your finger on and you have to wait a few weeks to see if you're going to get any feeling back. That waiting would drive me nuts.
You also can't put your own code on it without a developer key, and Apple is the gatekeeper for getting a developer key.

Theoretically you could bypass everything by replacing the OS, except that you can't replace the OS without yet another key that Apple isn't sharing with anyone.
Yes it seems like they haven't gone far enough afield to deal with this; electricians aren't really equipped to deal with RF problems and if the 'Ministry of Innovation, Science and Economic Development' actually employ any token technicians among all their lawyers it will probably still be a long wait unless someone in Carstairs has pull.

Carstairs is 60 km north of Calgary where you find the Calgary Amateur Radio Association (mission: "Have Fun and Serve our Community"), University of Calgary Amateur Radio Club and other organizations, all of whom would be thrilled to break out their spectrum analyzers and nail this to the wall for free.
OPEC (which Venezuela is a member of) opted to open the taps in 2014 to counter rising competition from US fracking[1]. The drop in oil price was at least in part of their own creation!

Additionally, the Venezuelan policy choices since Chavez have significantly reduced economic diversity and increased reliance on Oil, and the population's reliance on the state oil companies.[2]

1: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/dec/07/opec-plan-k...
2: (warning pdf) https://web.archive.org/web/20131021050303/http://larc.ucalg...
By the time Venezuela stability is restored, oil will be worthless if not banned.
For a subscription based Chrome extension (https://www.checkbot.io/), I use Firestore, Firebase and Cloud Functions to handle subscription activation and login/authentication. I use Paddle for payments which fires a web hook to a Cloud Function when a purchase is made.

Works great so far for no cost and it hasn't required a single bug fix or any maintenance since launch. Firestore definitely has a lot of surprising caveats though and you need to design your app and data around this to avoid trouble later.

Does anyone have any stories to share about when they outgrew Firestore, what they migrated to and how? I wouldn't be keen to use NoSQL if my data became more complex.
Neither do cigarettes.

Smoking a lot of cigarettes increase the risk of contracting those diseases.

One cigarette a day is irrelevant.
I actually like this video better than the one we're all discussing. He does a fantastic job of safely illustrating the problem of kickback: how fast it happens, how little movement it takes to trigger, and how to prevent it all together.
I mean per site that displays ads, not the ads themselves.

Right now, most people I know who use adblockers will "whitelist" websites they want to support, and/or who display ads they find nonintrusive.

I really think the default should be switched, so websites can display ads by default but a user can whitelist domains they dislike. At minimum, it should be possible to switch to this functionality.
I never signed up for an account...* writing on the wall for this was clear from the get-go, it's only in the last 18 months that the sit has started hitting the fan in the media. Took a long time.

Though FB creates "ghost" accounts for users who never formally registered...
>We, the people, are pretty powerless here. Lobbyists and elected officials have too much power and election cycles are too far apart.

Trump didn't get elected due to support from lobbyists and elected officials. The Russian interference was mostly noise.
that part was from friends who have immigrated here, so personal reference, ha. you may be able to find something if you speak Spanish but i have not looked. as the other reply said, it may fluctuate somewhat.
Two things to consider:

1) it's possible to hide private contributions from public profile

2) weekend coding is a vague info; one shall check what commits have been added, maybe the person is doing side projects, contributing to OSS, not related to work? Maybe the person actually enjoys coding and the amount of time spent during the weekend is "their healthy balance"?
Riffle: An Efficient Communication System With Strong Anonymity (2015)
I've never heard about that theory. Even if it is debunked (or a joke) it sounds intriguing. Do you have any links or names to read up on it?