skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is Google not only intercepting people's smartphone traffic, but a lot more:

- Google will send you a router to intercept your entire household's internet traffic on all devices with a browser (https://support.google.com/audiencemeasurement/answer/757439...)

- Google will send you a device that listens 24/7 to audio in the room to figure out what you are watching on TV and listening to (https://support.google.com/audiencemeasurement/answer/757476...)

- Google's project includes tracking of desktop and laptop internet activity via a browser extension that can basically read literally anything you do online (https://support.google.com/audiencemeasurement/answer/757448...)

This isn't just trying to figure out what new up-and-coming apps are going to be the next big thing, this is Google building out very far-reaching profiles of your entire household, in return for some gift cards. This is signing away your family's entire digital life (and a significant part of anyone they interact with in a browser).
If I have to read a medium article the first thing I do is hide/block the elements for the annoying bottom bar (with ublock)
Does this offer anything unique that other content blockers cannot? From what I can see it would only be the forced encryption and I guess the letter grade.

I love DDG for search but not sure this browser competes with 1Blocker X Safari integration on iOS.
Actually, they didn't get it yet.

That said, yes, there are already millions in "sunk costs" that have already been borne by the people of Wisconsin. But at a time like this, it's probably best not to let the "Sunk Cost Fallacy" get the better of you.
Boston and NYC have special equipment to keep the trains running, including "Snowzilla," a railcar mounted with a Korean-war era jet engine: http://archive.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/...
I did set up the 301 redirect for main page. Every existing link was also updated to HTTPS.

If you navigate directly to the http url for an article, it does NOT redirect, but if you goto http://www.mysite.com, it redirects to https://www.mysite.com

I also see that when I Google my site's content, the links in google are https://, which means Google now knows that my website is running https.

What may I be missing here?
Seems like a nice idea, but still looks like a lot of manual work..
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Some countries have some haven't.

The top marginal tax rate in Denmark is over 60%

I've been there, it's awesome, everything works super great, and the country consistently ranks as the happiest population on the planet. They also have a great economy.

Meanwhile I've lived in the US for almost five decades and watched as the billionaire class has lobbied successfully for lower taxes, offshoring, financialization of everything, and criminalization of debt, leading to vast swaths of the country condemned to permanent economic misery, increased xenophobia and political instability, declining standards of healthcare, and an out of control problem of education debt for the next generation.
I suspect Apple's policy is "we're going to turn a blind eye on this until it becomes public". If it leaks, we'll act.
More or less my experience with Z80 assembly in the calculator programming scene, back in ~2009 ;)
Sweet! I love that, 30-odd-years-later, I'm actually programming for the NES and can flash my own carts. What a piece of hardware that console was. To be able to pass on this knowledge in an easy-to-digest format is really cool. Kudos to the authors!
This scares me.

It's easier because.. FB has access to millions of people that universities do not? Because fbook can manipulate the minds, emotions and money and politics of highly targeted groups without anyone knowing and the universities could never do that, or would never do that?

Is it because fbook has less ethics / laws / rules in place? Because universities need to answer to the community they are in and have the fear of pitchforks and loss of funding / donors / non-monopoly and need to think of their future and reputation and fbook does not?

What other reasons could there be?

This is something that indeed, unfortunately, we probably should have had regulators talking about long ago.
"We’re Victor and Tony, maintainers/developers of $PKG1 and $PKG2, and now founders of DevFlight."

might have made for a better introduction.
https://www.aculab.com/gateways-platforms-and-services/voice...
Yeah but the whole idea is that if Quid is seamlessly integrated (e.g., paypal integration is often quite nice and 'painless') -- then more people would pay.

FWIW i have no problem installing a micropayment plugin in Chrome that is connected to my credit card, and paying $.05 or something if I find an article I enjoy. I say this -- but I'm terrified of what future that will bring to the internet. Where now everything is behind a micro-paywall.
I imagine it's only legal up until a certain visibility is crossed. Usually tint is measured as VLT (visible light transfer), and the lower the percentage the more dark the tint. Most states allow tint down to 30/35% VLT, which is alright but nothing special.

My current car had really dark tint (maybe 5-15% VLT) when I bought it, and didn't really notice because I was interested in the vehicle. After I bought it, I realized that the tint isn't even legal. However, I've had the car for several years now and haven't been pulled over for it, and also haven't been broken into. Truthfully, I think tint is a detractor, because the purp can't see much, so they don't chance a B&E for nothing. I've become a fan of dark tint and I'm planning on putting it on all my vehicles.
You're contriving a situation where the seller doesn't have any other options AND you also don't have any ability to buy it to later sell at a profit (which would give the seller the ability to negotiate a better price than $100 with you while still allowing you a reasonable profit when you sell it).

I agree you can contrive a situation where the best ethical option is to pay the seller $100 for the phone but you really have to work on it (and the situation is pretty contrived to begin with)
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Sigh. I'm starting to half-seriously long for a bank that doesn't use computers at all. Maybe just for encrypted communication between bank staff. I don't really think Canadian banks are all that much safer either.
It works incredibly well even on my Android cellphone... I am surprised.
All you square ass clean freak type A morning people can FIND YA OWN DAMN STUDY YA HEAR?
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Except when they are. I was just implementing an endpoint that returns Reddit like comment data (replies nested in replies) and I quickly realized you can't pull this off in graphql because the return structure has to be predefined and static.

Ended up implementing it in REST.
Almost categorically no.

My wife and I eat vegan at home, we don't buy specifically organic but we buy pretty much always high quality, and we indulge plenty, and our grocery budget in a MCOL city only hits $500 for 2. And that's with plenty of fresh fruit and veg, and buying things that are non-necessities, and including a couple of supplements for when we're not able to get enough of certain nutrients because of our dietary restrictions.
We shop at a mix of Costco, Whole Foods, Aldi's, the local Farmer's Market, and the nearby chains like Food Lion or Wal-mart Neighborhood Market.
I feel like with a little bit of sacrifice and a little bit of effort, we could easily cut that by $1-200, and if we went for the all out low end (different beans/legumes, nuts, rice, potatoes, and veggies) for all our calories, we could easily live on even less.

I'd consider myself an intermediate home cook at this point, but these numbers were still accurate when I first started cooking in college.
It's kind of ironic that firefox's reader mode can't render the page and it still honestly produces more readable output than the authors.
So how does this fit into it?
> Google's project includes tracking of desktop and laptop internet activity via a browser extension that can basically read literally anything you do online

What browser extension is this?
When I read your comment, it gave me the impression that these voice prints were being collected during normal telephone use by the inmates. After reading the article, this wasn't the case, so I left my comment in an attempt to help other readers avoid my misunderstanding.
"Putting the not-insignificant issues of privacy aside — in short, many people lured by financial rewards may not fully take in what it means to have a company fully monitoring all your screen-based activity..."

Not putting those issues aside, it's oddly paternalistic of us to assume people selling their data aren't making a rational trade. Uninformed data collection is one thing, but when we start looking down our noses at folks who are willing to get compensated for letting a big company spy on them consensually? That starts to look a bit "We know what's best for you, and it's not to let megacorporations have your data" elitist.

What if people look at the sum total of what companies have done with big data and like what they see?
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Even a 1950s era transmission will still be very hard to force into a gear if the speed difference is too great. Likewise you'll have a very difficult time shifting into reverse or 1st at speed. That's just how syncros work. You might be able to overcome it by double clutching but it would require conscious effort. Even just shifting to reverse while rolling is difficult.
With FB, propaganda campaigns are cheap, and the advertising, while small scale, doesn't really deal with the entire issue. Modern social tooling allows for broad propaganda with minimal interruption, and companies are happy to allow it because it brings additional advertising dollars. This can be seen in the various groups created by Russia and internal groups during the campaign, and the reach of them, many spreading falsehoods and propaganda... and yes, to both sides. The goal is to divide, not necessarily a full take over.

I admit that these groups pushed both Black Lives Matter and Blue Lives Matter, Anti-Vaxx and Pro-Vaxx groups, etc., etc. I'm suggesting that the problem is that we have corporations that are apparently 'US' corporations that make money from the process and have a perverse incentive to push it, as it creates increased activity from certain users. It's this 'sharing' economy in propaganda that groups during the election took advantage of, and once set up it's almost free and self-expanding.

I agree: Israel, China, SA, Europe, and other groups and nations have a lot more impact here. My anger is not towards them for what they are doing here in this country. My anger is directed towards the regulatory and corporate structures in the United States that make propagandizing the populace possible in the first place, while also being legal and producing profit.
I don’t know who the author of this proposal is, but I believe this should not be pursued and that his idea is uninformed.

Content blockers try their best do block and remove specific parts of the web page, surgically identifying them. You can’t just randomly block stuff and therefore break an insane amount of websites and call it a day.

What about web apps? Should there be a «this application wants to exceed the xMB quota» confirmation messages? Oh please no.
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To this point, here is the 2nd last sentence in the article:

> So, if you enjoy your swears, and being awake really late, and have a messy room, don't worry. You have a higher IQ than most!
I don't know if it's available to all Android users, but the automatic spam detection and manual call screening has been extremely effective at reducing the amount of robocalls I answer.

edit: pixel 2
I work with US FIs and security isn't great there either(some don't even have a legit HTTPS cert). Even private Indian banks don't have secured sites, you could still get your details leaked there as well. As for Aadhar, it's no longer necessary for opening an account.
"Android certainly satisfies the user-facing requirement, but not the cross-platform."

Depends on how you define "platform". Android apps certainly run on multiple architectures (mostly ARM, but also x86 and MIPS). They also run on non-Android operating systems (namely: ChromeOS; theoretically-speaking, other operating systems could run Android apps, too, so long as Dalvik runs on those operating systems, though unfortunately this is not the case for most operating systems).

And sure, we can provably claim that Java didn't "catch on" compared to the sheer volume of user-facing programs written in C or C++, but by that logic macOS didn't "catch on" compared to the sheer volume of user-facing computers running Windows (which might indeed be true depending on how you define "catch on").
Always wanted to try these. I think it's possible to fetch an image online.
Can somebody explain the technical specifics of what was installed and what is revoked ? I'm not familiar with with iOS. My assumptions are: The original app, which was distributed by fb, installed a systemwide CA to MITM traffic after prompting the user. Is this not available to regular apps distributed on the store ? This app was not on the app store but distributed out of band. In order to sideload apps on iOS, they still need to be approved by Apple ? So Apple maintains a whitelist of developer certificates who can side load apps. Now, Apple has blacklisted this signing cert. However, this doesn't do anything to the CA, right ? However, the article says, "Revoking a certificate not only stops apps from being distributed on iOS, but it also stops apps from working." How does this work exactly ? Apple triggers all the clients in the world to freeze/remove these apps ?
That sounds like the nuclear cruise missile they worked on that was powered by an unshielded reactor and could fly around for weeks spewing radioactive byproducts across the land.

As a species some of us are really fucked up.
But theres also

"I know many things and people claim I'm smart, but I insist on feeling stupid anyways, and part of the rationale for that is because I do X....oh you say smart people do X? Maybe I'm pretty okay then"
Wow, this is making me realize how much power Apple holds as the arbiter of enterprise certs. They hold more power to quickly punish other corporations than even the government does, in a certain respect. I hope they continue to leverage that power for good--iOS has tremendous market share and Apple can entirely force other companies to play by their rules.
I definitely had a noticeably improved mood after simply uninstalling the app from my phone.

I ended up deactivating Facebook altogether shortly after that.
If you're only counting number, sure. But there's not a single regulation we have now that impacts lives more than the ones we used to have that said other people could literally own you.
That requires 2 other projects though

edit: I didnt mean this as a snark. I personally do not have 2 public projects where I'd feel comfortable to say "I'm developer/maintainer of X"
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Hi. I'm an Indian saddled with an Aadhaar account. Am I allowed to be a critic?
Good initiative, how does sales work - what part of it is automated and what is run by sales team ?
That is a naive thing to say. Open-source work doesn’t become purer when underpaid. Making open-source pay better for everyone, not just a privileged few, will allow more people to join the open-source movement, raising the standard of software quality for everyone.

Helping open-source maintainers get paid is better for open-source. I think what the Devflight people are trying to do is admirable. I hope they succeed.
No, it isn't. GDPR only affects EU citizens living in the EU. It's possible for companies to maintain entirely different practices for their users in the EU verses out of the EU.
The quiz shows you a scenario and asks you whether you think it's legitimate or not.

That link is legitimate, so no, you fail ;)
Adhoc querying of multiple resources and REST are not incompatible, see e.g. oData. It basically offers the same functionality as GraphQL, but also follows all the Restfull http best practices.

You can see some oData examples here: https://www.odata.org/getting-started/basic-tutorial/#reques...
> Today's JavaScript developer is acting like they have a 100 GHz CPU with terabytes of memory. And being lazy and uninspired as a result.

Not sure how I feel about a statement this broad. I work mostly with front end code and I try neat things and tricks to reduce resource use all the time. I also always push for the lightest way of doing things in PRs. I’m certain I’m not the only engineer who thinks like this.
I "love" how the reward are gift cards, not actual money. How much more insulting can they be: your privacy is not even worth liquid currency. Some people probably need the gift cards, but it's as upsetting as people selling blood for gift cards.
Would you even believe them? Haha
You are chastising Techcrunch for reporting the truth? There are some things we just don't need to worry our little heads about?
> I think it's time we start looking at the problem differently. It's resource abuse that's the root cause, so why aren't there limits on those resources?

This is a flawed assumption, I think. Sure, maybe _some_ people are blocking ads because all that JS and network IO eats up battery but I bet more people block ads either because they dislike advertisements generally or they dislike advertisements based on surveillance. Whether you manage to cram your ad serving code into 1Mb or 1Kb is irrelevant for the later two groups of people.
You have to make a career out of it!

Charge by the month and rotate in different companies to be hired and fired yearly!
Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me
Your slides on SVG, Canvas and WebGl were very interesting and informative. I learnt quite a bit! Thanks.
The internet of 2006 was not fun. We saw what we could do - but could not do it because of creating workarounds for IE6.

A typical case of retroactive romantecism. picking one aspect, romantecising it, ignoring everything else.
The paper this is describing is from 2015. Perhaps it was "new" when this article was written, but not any more.
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I don't know, I suspect software resiliency is one of those "gets exponentially more expensive as you approach perfect" situations and a robot could bash inputs at speeds a human couldn't in thousands of orders, it would certainly let you test those weird code paths that blow up when they are never exercised until they are.
> even if a company decides to build their own binaries.

Huh? It's Apache 2, how are you prevented from using your own binaries?
Thanks for bringing more precision to the conversation (really).

What would you like to call the factor? 3? Call me a weasel, but I was hoping "roughly speaking an order of magnitude" would go down to 3. I suspected it was comfortably above 2. Am I right about that?
>Under modern law, everyone is guilty of something.

This is a really dangerous (and unfortunately oft-repeated) mindset that basically boils down to advocating the position of "current laws are so complex that if we give law enforcement better tools [to combat law breaking], we'd implicate ourselves also".

This ignores two huge problems:

1. No, not everyone is guilty of something. I doubt a majority are guilty of anything, and I'd be surprised to hear even like 10-15% are guilty of anything.

2. The people that _are_ guilty of some minor infraction (e.g. jaywalking, speeding, or pick your own obscure state law) are still guilty of much less than the major crimes these kinds of systems are targeted at (terrorism, violent crime, robbery, etc). Comparing the two is like saying "we shouldn't put cameras at bank entrances because what if it catches someone jaywalking outside?"

On a more hard-line note, the people that are guilty of even the smallest things are still guilty of those things. People speed because they think they won't get caught, but it's still against the law. People jaywalk because they think they'll be safe crossing the street, but it's still illegal. People litter because they think it's not a big deal, but it's still illegal. Who gets to decide what people should get away with? Why would anyone be able to get away with breaking any law? (To wit, the obvious response is that some laws are obscure and outdated and that people aren't even aware of them, but feel free to refer back to #2 above until we've fixed those laws. Perhaps actually enforcing them is the nudge we need to push lawmakers into saying, "You know those crazy laws that are still in the books that we've ignored for a hundred years? Yeah, maybe we should get rid of those.")

>That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer

This maxim encourages a false dichotomy that is embraced by the "we're all guilty of something" mindset, and forgets that "suffering" is a spectrum.

The people who are guilty of gotcha laws _aren't_ innocent, and _should_ suffer proportionately to the law they broke (see: fines, warnings, etc that you'd expect for silly laws that people think shouldn't be enforced, yet are still laws). I'd much rather see that "innocent" person get their $50 fine so 100 people guilty of violent crime don't escape.

"It is better 100 guilty [murderers] should escape than that one innocent [jaywalker] should suffer." Sounds silly, doesn't it?
Seems to me the crux of the fuckin' cursing argument is this:

> People who use taboo words understand their general expressive content as well as nuanced distinctions that must be drawn out to use slurs appropriately. The ability to make nuanced distinctions indicates the presence of more rather than less linguistic knowledge, as implied by the POV [Poverty of Vocabulary] view.

So the way I read that bit of "research" (frequency and correlation are likely to be pure horseshit on the path to causality here but that's another story)... It's not that people with high IQ swear more, but they're likely more able to swear in a nuanced manner without offending those around them because of their higher IQ. It's like a perk, or a symptom, not a cause-- because why the fuck not, eh?

The only really notable thing from the article; which, I liked was calling out profanity isn't a coverup for deficiencies in one's vocabulary. Don't like my vernacular? Go fuck yourself :)
"Be Less Evil" didn't have quite the same ring.

Also: yes.
I'm not sure upfront per-article micropayment is really that great. Comparing to traditional newspapers, the difference is that with the newspaper, you pay for a collection of articles, perhaps because you trust the paper to be interesting because of its reputation, perhaps because a headline caught your attention. Having paid, you also get added value from any number of articles you wouldn't have paid for on their own, and might not have even read if they were presented to you by themselves, for free. And yet you'd often find some of these articles the most interesting.

This doesn't happen if you're paying per article, based on a preview.
Vanilla is fine for small projects (and I tend to prefer it for static websites), but if you try to develop a large web app using vanilla JS you'll just end up making your own half-baked framework.

A kind of variation on Greenspun's Tenth Rule might be in order:

"Any sufficiently complicated web application contains an ad-hoc, informally specified, slow, bug-ridden version of half of React".
NPM lists known vulnerabilities during installation, but I don't think other package managers work the same way. AFAIK, you have to download the OSS and scan with tools like BlackDuck, Synk. I see you follow a number of steps to confidently import an OSS. Have you tried automating your checklist?