skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The app in question monitors all private communication that you have with others, who most certainly did not consent to have their own privacy taken away. So no, it's not okay to steal someone else's private information and put it on sale, however desperate you may be.

It's even more unethical to encourage people to do so, like FB did.
From the end-user perspective, you are likely correct. I was musing with my PL designer hat on. The difficulty is the huge amount of work that has gone into the entire unix way or developing software. That's the seductive local minimum.
You have misunderstood what I have written. Outsourcing was not what caused bankruptcy. It is the bad decisions/management, negligence, corruption etc which might have caused bankruptcy.

What I am trying to point out is how misguided the management is. Instead of looking inwards and fixing their issues they think that the lower rank and file people are the problem (i.e. the people who do not have a say in how the company is run) and lay them off and try to cut costs. Next they outsource their operations which will decrease their efficiency even more which will further exacerbate their problems.

The outsourcing companies had a big push to get into energy and utilities (in short ENU) sector and such companies provided a good revenue until they didn't.
Good point. I added that as an edit.
Is it built with Rails? I'm curious what tech stacks are used in one-person SaaS.
It’s time to pay serious attention to TikTok
So by obfuscating data from users - Google is salvaging Internet?
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UAE used cyber super-weapon to spy on iPhones of foes
China appears to be ensuring that their economy continues to grow rapidly with the Belt and Road initiative. By some measures they have already passed the United States.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2017-10-18/who-ha...

At some point soon, shouldn't the ability to grow the economy 6-10% a year become impossible?
Apple staff should copy/paste the information reported to them on Twitter to the relevant team for triage or investigation. The user is already helping enough by telling them on Twitter.
Huh? Can you describe what you experience as not pleasant here?

That being said, making the browser window less wide changes the design to a more readable variant.
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I've just noticed that while the thing you mentioned about branch prediction might well often work out, nevertheless the compiler needs to emit additional object code for the discrimation test whenever it cannot infer whether an access is "small" or "large". It might mean a significant increase in code size. Of course I didn't measure anything, either.
Yeah this is particularly the case at Google and Facebook. If you submit a security report to Google or Facebook through their bug bounty programs and escalate it with a critical severity tag (whether or not it's justified), someone on the application security team will review it within an hour. I can say that from experience (on both sides). If it's legitimate a sev:critical vulnerability, a workaround will usually be in production within 24 hours.

I think the intrinsic failure here is that Apple is - more than any other FAANG-like tech company - fundamentally disinterested in vulnerabilities that don't represent root-capable jailbreak vectors. Or rather, they ostensibly care, but every single process is systematically designed to encourage introspection on those vulnerabilities as a categorical imperative. Other types of vulnerabilities will be treated as second class citizens, so to speak. Apple does a lot of things right from a security perspective, but this really isn't one of them in my opinion.

This is very clear despite corporate messaging if you follow along with their bug bounty program. Consider that the bar for submitting a bug bounty to Apple requires the vulnerability to be something capable of compromising the device's sandbox or root privileges. This is explicit - a userland privacy bug is not sufficient. Furthermore, the bug bounty is strictly invite only, and even some of the most accomplished and talented vulnerability researchers in the world are closed out from it: https://twitter.com/i41nbeer/status/1027339893335154688

More generally speaking, a reliable formula for putting a vulnerability in front of someone who is both qualified and paid to urgently care is the following:

1. Look up the security team at the company. Not security contact information, the team.

2. Find out individuals on that team by going through blog posts, conference talks, etc.

3. Find those people on Twitter. Tweet at several of them with the broad strokes: you have a vulnerability in X product, you need to securely report it, you believe it's N severity, how should you do it?

But of course, you shouldn't need to do this. You should be able to fire something off to security@ or, better yet, a bug bounty program.
Reading that website you provided, the mother was correct to hit up twitter as they suggest that "Customers" contact Apple Support. Their twitter is an official channel to that end.

The only area in that document she would have followed to reach out Apple's security contact is under the heading of "Security and privacy researchers", of which I am doubting she thought herself or her 14 year old son as.
yeah, bad name choice. right now the default browser I use is Chrome, but people can still use PhantomJs if they want.

I'll make a more generic domain name sometime in the future (lots of stuff to do....)
It allows me to boot my kernel and initramfs directly from the SPI flash chip that stores my laptop's BIOS (coreboot), which is very useful.

My goal is to decrypt my disk from code stored on the motherboard (and physically write-protected) but I'm not there yet because fitting everything on 7.6MB is not easy. I may try using a bigger chip, or use the SPI-kernel to check the signatures of decryption code stored on the HDD.
This became [Flagged][Dead] pretty quickly, although vouching for it seems to have fixed it again. How does that happen?
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>>> We've reached the endgame - it's streaming

Good analysis. Implicit in this, is that the same fault that ultimately drew users from Napster, the lack of end user anonymity, is inherent in modern services.

There is a broader ethical issue at play as well. Can you fund and develop technology that is in the present moment operating in a legal grey area. Betting that in some possible future, culture and the laws will change?
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I'm using an app on my iPhone called RoboKiller, and HOLY CRAP has it cut my spam calls to virtually nil.

It's worth looking into for sure.
I'm pretty sure they could afford to hire a composer for an original silent composition and a recording session to go along with it.
Phonon is only an abstraction layer with API and ABI guarantees so every time a new technology comes and goes, all app developers wouldn't have to port their existing codebases.

Funny story:

During KDE 4.0 development, KDE introduced Solid library. Which abstracted HAL.

HAL was Linux'es "Hardware Abstraction Layer".

So HAL developers mocked KDE and got some tshirts that said "KDE Abstracted my abstraction layer".

1-2 years later HAL was deprecated. And Solid got a new upower/udev backend and no KDE developer had to port away their code from HAL to anything else.

Phonon's situation is similar. Xine, gstream, vlc, these technologies come and go. KDE apps don't care.

Also Phonon can get a QuickTime backend when it's built for Mac or something else for Windows.
Perfect and beautiful are two different things.

100% agree that HN's UI is great, but I'm not sure anyone would look at it and say, "oh that's gorgeous." Or at least I wouldn't

After all, the purpose of UI is not to be beautiful, but too many people still think it is
Hi there, I'm the maintainer of faker.

I made a simple library in Golang to help Golang engineers to create dummy data based on given struct.

Current version: v2.0.1

Features:

- Generate dummy data based on defined structs

- Generate based on given tags

- Add custom generator functions and custom tags
TFA says they need to send the target a text message.

The exploit must be something like a buffer overflow in iMessage. Which we know bugs like this have been fixed. Remember the text of death which could crash any iPhone from a couple years ago?
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>And I think everyone should do everything in their power to lower their taxable income (Anything else, in my opinion, is irresponsible.)

Somehow how we don't apply the same logic to other things that we laws for, but that we can bypass (either because its difficult to catch us or because we only violate the spirit of the law).

E.g. "I absolutely think that people should continue to throw waste to the countryside if they can be sure nobody's watching and they wont be caught.".
That Medium article presents the quotation as though it's literally something that Apple wrote. It doesn't actually appear to on the page it supposedly came from, nor anything like it, as far as I can see.

https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/

[EDIT: Apple indeed literally write that in a previous version of the page. Wow.]
It's not controversial, it's dastardly.

Facebook will shut down its c̶o̶n̶t̶r̶o̶v̶e̶r̶s̶i̶a̶l̶ dastardly market research app for iOS
Why do Facebook's competitors get a say in it? Facebook is only getting access to user-visible data; if the users decide to give that away (in exchange for compensation), it's their right. Amazon users aren't Amazon employees—they didn't sign an NDA and are free to share what they know.
This is one of the many existential risk vectors we face as a species.

It's also disturbing that the same people who brought us widespread hormone-like chemicals leeching into our food are arguing that this, too, is good for us.

Scientists are definitely batting low on responsible R+D and not causing society-wide or global damage through their amoral-to-immoral, ego-stroking work.

But sure. It's about mosquitoes and not some post-doc trying to be alpha nerd to the point they're willing to endanger the species.

> Yet what first drew the developmental biologist Kimberly Cooper to dabble in gene drive technology for mice was not conservation but evolution. In her laboratory at UCSD, she and her colleagues study the evolution of the jerboa, a long-legged rodent with a jumping, bipedal gait, which diverged from the mouse lineage tens of millions of years ago. Cooper and her colleagues are trying to find the unknown combination of genetic changes responsible for that evolutionary transformation by making lab mice carry incrementally more jerboa traits.
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Ironic to read all the negativity here when on the day after the OP Microsoft will announce quarterly earnings which will undoubtedly be driven by continued "Enterprise buy in to Microsoft Cloud Solutions".
I probably wouldn't use it for desktops. The AUR (and all the packages it offers) is one if the best features of arch and very convenient for desktop users. Not something I'd like to give up on my desktop, and it's dependent on gnu stuff to work.

However, it's great for small servers. I use raspberry pis and old computers to serve applications at home, and I just switched them all to Alpine. Perfect for that use case; orders of magnitude better than something like ubuntu server. I would highly recommend it for server.

Quick edit before anyone gets all offended: yeah it could be used for desktop, I just wouldn't recommend it. Especially coming from arch, the AUR represents a massive repository of software. It will likely be a while befire Alpine is in a similar position, especially if they want to stick to their musl static-link ethos. It's a lot easier to deal with compiling and possibly minor porting yourself for a single-porpose server box (only needs a few apps) vs a multi-purpose general box (needs many).
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Hi, the message on mobile has two errors:

"Appologies
AiFiddle currently does not support mobile device.

Do you want to get notified on futur updates ?"

'Apologies' and 'future'.

Looks promising though, will check back when on desktop.
Handling and ignoring SIGHUP is the explicit way to indicate that a program should not be terminated. That systemd invented a new category and then ex post facto declared that everybody else was wrong for not using it is ridiculous. Systemd changing behavior such that I must "Simon says nohup" is completely asinine.
I'm happy this community is coming to its senses. When I voiced this concerns ten months ago the downvotes were in the double digit.

I noticed that of all the controversial stuff I say on here, it's the stuff that criticizes Google that gets downvoted. The obvious conclusion is that there's a heavy number of Google employees here who feel, I suppose you can call it "passion."

However it's obvious to me that there's an authoritarian posturing that Google is pursuing. Surely the stopping of disabling of video autoplay should have been a big red fucking flag to stop using Chrome if you value your privacy and control over your equipment. You don't need to be Richard Stallman to understand that Google is a core ad-tech company, and they're doing everything possible to facilitate that industry and its dubious profits.
I would jump in, to make this company transparent and share the numbers with the world, hopefully enough co-CEOs will vote for the same.
> Finally, less than 5 percent of the people who chose to participate in this market research program were teens. All of them with signed parental consent forms.

"Your honor, I swear! He clicked on the button saying he was over 18!!! How was my porn site supposed to know he was lying?"

If Facebook wanted to do something useful, it could devote some of that $400 billion empire into identity verification and ways to prevent deceptive practices online. Something that goes beyond the Stone Age practices like SSN and Captchas that we rely on today.
Thin and light text also merges with the background when a red filter is enabled―which are becoming more popular and are now included in OSes.
The real growth rate is never the same as the official published rate. It was said last year China only grew less than 2%.
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> They probably took it down because as the original app it violated the App Store’s guidelines on data collection.

Or maybe Apple took it down because - as you said - it violated the store guidelines. Or Apple just encouraged them to do it by themselves (for a better PR). So effectively, they were forced.
Won't you still have to pay minimum wage to all Co-ceos in California?

This sounds like a major liability
Anyone who is messing around with convolutional networks is almost guaranteed to have anaconda installed. The convenience of a few less clicks in exchange for platform lock-in is exactly the devi's deal that the 3 major cloud providers have started doing.

Think really hard about the implications of enabling them. Do you want a future where Google® Colab™ is the primary way to work with data, where personal computing is dead and replaced by cloud? That's what they are striving for with this strategy.
I found it interesting that Amazon offers a 'Kindle blog subscription service'[1] where blogs and newspapers are offered for wireless delivery, formatted for quick consumption.

99 cents a month (of which Amazon no doubt takes a cut) still seems like an unsustainable model for supporting every blogger you want to read. Still its an interesting way to try to solve the larger problem.

[1](https://www.amazon.com/Blogs-Kindle-Sports-Internet-Technolo...)
"a glimpse at the wild life of America’s most polarizing tech superstar, underscoring the chaos of a year in which he savaged his enemies as idiots and pedophiles, smoked weed during a live interview and got sued by federal authorities accusing him of misleading investors"

makes popcorn

watches fanboys' heads explode
TEDx Talks have more words in them and better visuals too.
Hi guys, finally found some more use cases for Google Home besides being an over-engineered kitchen timer! :)
Google Voice offers this as an option; they're fairly big.
We can't get coconut milk in the EU since it can't be called milk. So sad.
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Thank you! This is my new killer feature!
> I struggle to see how software developers can willingly do work on a project that goes against all values and morales!

Personally, this doesn't really go against my morals or values. They installed the app. No one forced them to. Not everyone has the same set of morals and values you do. If it's not illegal and no one is harmed. I don't care so much.
The guidelines have since been updated.

https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/has-apple-been-plain-creepy-by-war...

http://www.elischiff.com/blog/2015/3/24/fear-of-apple
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You can open links directly in reader view with the Open In Reader View addon for Firefox/Chrome/Opera:

https://add0n.com/reader-view.html

It's great for these situations.
I think more that they manage to find these exploits and rapidly build infrastructure around it to make it useful.
Or to sell themselves. Or worse, writing a subpar programming tutorial to have "online presence".
I'm not convinced MAD actually works. Once you see the bombs flying, the only logical thing to do is to give up your pre-war resolve of retaliation and completely submit - start printing Soviet flags so to speak. Of course, pre-war you'll try to convince the enemy that it isn't so, but they are not stupid.

The only thing that saved us IMO was the power of the political elites (in East and West), that despite all saber-rattling rhetorics, never wanted a war. Now that that power is waning, I'm not sure what will save us this time around. Maybe religious elites can instill a taboo against using this kind of technology for harm?
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19035256
I remember looking at the site a few (maybe five?) years ago and everything was a bit of a mess. They've really pulled it together since then. It's really great.
Singapore is highly multicultural but the depth is shallow. Strong national conformity tampers down the extremes of individualism.
I struggle to see how software developers can willingly do work on a project that goes against all values and morales!

A $200k/year graduate starting salary is enough to get a lot of people to set their values to one side for a while.
Firefox has become increasingly usable. I've transitioned to it and DuckDuckGo, using Chrome only for the Google business apps. On mobile on Android it gets mad and freez-y if you open too many tabs, and on desktop it gets angry and pause-y if you're behind a proxy, but otherwise it's pretty decent.
I think the right question is, what is a fair amount to pay to fund servers etc?

$1/mo? $5/mo? $25/mo?
I hope medium dies soon
I have not, but I'm including gltf 2.0 support in an upcoming version, so it should be possible to start exporting visualizations created with rayshader to more traditional 3D graphics workflows where you could take advantage of those features.
I wish Mesh Networks were a bigger thing. I wish that casual P2P over them was a thing. Music. Books. Pictures. News. All spread by just walking around, gathering content that matches tags you subscribe to.
>The right to have your legally earned income is one given to you by society. It's not something that arose out of natural order, or given by God if you are a believer.

NO!

The right to the fruit of one's labor is a basic human right! The form the fruit of one's labor takes is irrelevant.

It basically boils down to the right to private property or to be able to have ownership of things. What you legally own is yours. If you grow a tomato in your garden it's your tomato. If you trade that tomato for a dollar it's your dollar. If you help someone grow tow tomatoes and they give you one it's your tomato. If you help someone grow a ton of tomatoes and they give you money it's your money.

We just so happen to tolerate society (via the government) skimming some off the top because the benefits (i.e. everything taxes pay for) far outweigh the cost.

Pretty much every society ever recognizes the right to private property. Taxes in various forms are an exception to that rule.

To proclaim that it is the other way around and that society owns everything by default and one may only keep what society lets them is basically the same as medieval Europe where the land and everything on it (people included) and all wealth generated by it are property of the lord by default and he/she can do with them as he/she pleases (only the lord is replaced with "society").

Taxes are an important part of a functioning modern society but people would do well to remember that private property is the rule and a forced contribution to the group fund is the exception not the other way around.
I struggle to realize why we expect Software engineers to be bellwethers of morality and ethics. They are flesh and blood, and like any other profession, if there's money in something, there will be someone to do it
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Perhaps this will lead to less blogs-for-profit, and more blogs-out-of-interest. The internet was just fine before money arrived and took most of it hostage, I'm sure it will be just as good when it all goes bust and money leaves.
AOL wasnt the internet. It was a private network that eventually allowed you access to the internet as its popularity increased. Once dialup died they made a broadband client.

If Google is trying to make their own private internet on top of the public internet I'm sure a few antitrust regulators will start asking about their hold on search and ad markets.
There's some powerful dissonance going on. I once interviewed an engineer. We spent a good 15m of the hour-long interview talking about the moral implications of social networking, the potential for powerful technology to cause harm, and what a developer's imperatives were. He was completely on the "side of right" - must use powers for good, data harvesting is bad, Facebook is an immoral business etc.

He turned down our offer to take a job building a data analytics platform at Facebook. "Oh it was just too exciting tech not to work on."
The song.link links are broken for me, some redirecting to Kleinstadt from JNGS, other to other files. Seems pretty random.
Currently, I use Telegram. I believe that it doesn't read my messages.
Aren't these things a job for Electron?
They have a "Press 1 to be connected" option? Where?
Quora also started out as an awesome service just like Medium. Eventually though, the VC's need the promises they've heard during fundraising to be fulfilled. That's when the platforms start with the dark patterns.

Non-VC companies are a longer and less glamorous slog to get off the ground but also don't come under pressure to compromise on their morals.
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."

-- Upton Sinclair (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upton_Sinclair)
They could have fixed the overflowing fixed-width blocks on mobile, to be honest :) But I agree with you in every sense.
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."
you have to click on "DOWNLOAD" to get the song
below you find the artists which provided the songs e.g. JNGS...
Sure; that's not really any good for comparing rates of tax avoidance though.
If the US government gives itself the right to install backdoors / exploit vulnerable software (as opposed to notifying companies about vulnerabilities) then I feel pretty uncomfortable about ex-government hackers just becoming freelance mercenaries using knowledge they may have gleaned from those ops once they move onto their next gig.

I can't think of a great solution to this problem.