skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These continued moves of desperation show a company terrified of losing its massive data-gathering surveillance machine.

Hoping Apple demonstrates its commitment to privacy by doing more than hurting internal functionality and speak to the only thing that matters to FB - its ability to surveil people.
I have a pretty nice stereo/production setup at home. I even did the work to get my desk positioned as best I could to avoid weird reflections (luckily the room isn't close to square).

My collection of music is all wav/aiff or 320kbps mp3. I'd love to say I can tell the difference, but I can't.
> and that indeed it seems some people did run the pool debugger in production (OpenBSD).

.. another remote exploit for OpenBSD ?
I think Apple is right here — they’ve detected a breach of term and shut it down.

But I still think they are wrong for blocking 3rd party apps. I understand they believe it is for my safety and security, but there needs to be a happy medium. They should have a way for experts to side load apps.
I just watched the talk "don't say 'simply'" the other day [1]. You're right, "simply" is wrong here.

[1]: https://jameshfisher.com/2018/09/13/dont-say-simply-writethe...
On AI Governance&Control
> maybe we should help make it as a better platform for publishers

This affinity both for caping up for corporate entities who'd sell you for your component atoms were it feasible to do so, and then for doing free work for them, is so weird. They're the ones making the money. Why isn't it incumbent upon them to do so?
If you play with dogs, you can't be surprised when you get fleas.
The venture funding doesn't really have anything to do with it, does it? Even if they were entirely self funded, they still need to generate enough revenue to cover their costs.

It feels like Medium is circling the drain.
A problem that bothers me is high prices of real-estate on the west-coast of Canada due to money laundering, tax avoidance, and governmental complacency. How can I address this using tech?
miniroot.fs is >4mb for 6.4 last time I checked...
I did something similar for myself nearly 20 years ago with Asterisk, and it was amazingly effective for my home phone. I'd whitelist numbers of friends and family, everyone else had to dial a number to get the phones in the house to ring.

I stopped doing it when I basically switched over to a cell phone as my only phone.

For a while 5 years ago I was getting a ton of spam calls, mostly the "Rachel from Credit Card Services" ones. One to two a day.

After trying the "Press 1 to be put on our do not call" and speaking to a person and asking to be put on their do not call, filing those FTC complaints, and still getting a few a day, I started using a "fake person generator" and just stringing them along. After a couple weeks of this I got one that went along with me for a few minutes and then said "Thank you for playing <my phone number>, you will continue to get calls." and hung up.

This was fantastic, because at the time I had 3 phone numbers associated with my cell phone, and I didn't know which one was getting the calls. I shortly after switched to Google Fi, and ditched the number that they had been calling, and the calls dropped way off.
Thanks! For now I use a mix of personal review and copyright mechanisms from soundcloud. Personal check is important to ensure quality.

Scaling will be supported by AI and more personell in future I assume. Thankyou
> Consequently, I’ve seen that younger people are more wary of hiring people too far removed from their own demographic like there’s a forethought a 40+ dev is going to be some burdensome fart from an AARP commercial.

Younger people often find it awkward and uncomfortable to manage someone who's closer to their dad than to them. I suspect in such cases they just filter them out if they have other candidates.
There is no way for you to verify whether the caller's phone number is actually the real source. Anyone can impersonate anyone. It's like the source address in an IP packet. You can put whatever you want in there.

This is mostly a US problem though. In Europe, the operators tend to be more strict on this, AFAIK.
If you pay Apple $99 a year you can install whatever you want on your own phone only. There are no restrictions on directly installing IPAs with Cydia Impactor or Xcode. You can actually do it for free, but only a few apps at a time and must renew every 7 days.
You can't just jump straight to the end state of the air being completely packed with compromised pollen. The gene would have to work its way through the seed distribution system, and that's where it would be stopped.

Here's how a country could control an attack: If a field contains the gene, burn it (don't bother discriminating between carriers and non-carriers). Don't plant seeds that came from fields that had the gene. As a result, the initial attack will last only for one generation, no worse than if the attacker killed the plants. This is practical because the initial attack will be limited to a small number of fields that the country will be able to afford to loose.
When on a 1Mbit/s WiFi connection in Greece, my vanilla app loaded in 4 seconds and started rendering after ~2 seconds, while the React/Redux app took 50 seconds to first render!

react + react-dom is 33.4Kb gzipped. That's not completely trivial obviously, and if your app isn't doing much DOM work it's probably unnecessary, but nor is it the reason why any app would take 50s to download on a 1Mbit/s connection. The problem was clearly something else.

I have nothing against people who choose to hate on frameworks, but if your maths is that far off it really undermines your argument.
Many landline handsets sold in the UK now have this as a feature.

What I've found is that whist it does stop a lot of spam calls they now fake local numbers. Worse they fake them with a missing digit. The phone companies could definitely spot that. I've wondered previously if international telecoms treaties stop the phone companies from acting to block these calls.
I'm on rural (satellite) internet sometimes, with decent bandwidth but terrible ping times (500+ ms). Certain JS-heavy pages just don't load! It's like the dev set a timeout on AJAX of 400ms, and when it doesn't return, I just see empty boxes everywhere.

If you build websites, come spend some time in rural Idaho - it'll change how you develop!
there are multiple install options, floppy64.fs is 1.4MB
Ok, I'll subscribe now to get my foot on the top of the ladder, but eventually I hope to work my way down to Org Chart Designer.
It depends on the implementation. Using a discriminant plus branch is one way to do it, but another implementation is to just always use a data pointer, which points into the embedded array in the small vector case.

Now there is no branch and in fact the element access code is identical to std::vector case. Only a few, less frequently called paths need to be aware of the small vs large cases, such as the resize code (which needs to not free the embedded buffer).

The main downsides are that you have added back the indirection in the small vector case (indirection is unconditional), and that you "waste" the 8 bytes for the data pointer in the small case, as the discriminant version can reuse that for vector data.

IMO the observed performance improvements are basically 100% due to the avoidance of malloc and in the real world (but not this benchmark) due to better cache friendliness of on-stack data, but not because any vector functions such as element access are substantially sped up. That explains why the benefits disappear (in a relative sense) pretty quickly as the element size increases, even for the large-embedded-buffer case where all of the elements are still on the stack: the malloc benefit is (roughly) a one-time benefit per vector, not a "per access" or "per element" benefit so as the vector grows, the relative benefit diminishes and the non-malloc operation costs come to dominate.
Ironically, had they been even more operationally inept and hit the iceberg head on the ship might not have sank.
The answer for most developers, myself included, is that we don’t.

Reading hacker news and r/programming makes it seem like everybody is out there putting 60 hours a week in at a tech giant or sufficiently trendy startup and then spending another 40 on cutting edge side projects.

The only side project I did in 2018 was to solve a very specific need I had. It was about 30 lines of poorly written python that I’ll probably never go back and update because it works well enough, but I use it every day because it solved a real problem for me.

I guess my advice is to look for a problem and don’t worry if you don’t find anything. There is more too life than side projects.

If you’re just looking for something to improve your skills or show off to potential employers, you should just clone something that already exists. I believe twitter clones, Reddit clones, and basic games (pong through super Mario bros) are common choices.
The default plan selected is $0. Leave it as is.

Notice that if you pick $12, a billing section appears, but if you click the $0 such that the $0 button is greyed, it is replaced with captcha

This is a great default ... but weird in terms of colour / selection choice being misleading?
Using VR to Explore Semantic Similarities Across 14 of My Favorite Books
Facebook Research VPN Pays Teens $20 to Get Root Access to Devices
Why using claimed data in general to understand your audience can be misleading
Reminds me a little bit of Battle.net...
Function as a service in Nginx module
I wasn't saying that everyone at facebook knew.
But if you were one of the people in charge of the data tracking app, wouldn't you at least know that apple revoking the licence could be a possibility since you are explicitly breaching the agreement?

Not even trying to defend them. Just curious how much it will actually affect facebook.
The original article proves the Laffer curve, no? People take action to avoid paying less tax when tax rates become extortionate.
COPPA doesn't require foolproof age verification IIRC, otherwise the regular Facebook app and nearly every app on the planet that just asks for a birth data with no verification would be illegal.
This is a setting. Go to settings and search for "repeat" and disable "Allow repeat callers".
Projects that don't make money: Find any need that you have as a developer, hack the solution and make it open source.

Projects that make money: Observe people around you (especially specialists of other domains) and figure out what tools they could actually buy.
I think you're missing the point. Experts do have a way to side load apps, through enterprise certificates and developer certificates. Facebook was distributing an app to consumers using the enterprise certificates, to collect data, in somewhat malicious terms, which is a direct policy violation of using an enterprise certificate.
You yourself implied a relationship between CVD and the tweet when you said that a tweet isn’t a valid step in a CVD process.
You probably can’t. It’s not really a tech problem.

You should be looking for something significantly smaller in scope, too.
I did some googling and it looks like you can see at least some of this stuff online: http://www.documentarytube.com/videos/chemistry-a-volatile-h...
I'm not surprised you don't think you've seen any evidence...because women AREN'T AT THE HIGHEST LEVELS OF BUSINESS IN ANYWHERE NEAR A NUMBER THAT IS REPRESENTATIONAL OF THE POPULATION!!!!!

This is like Trump saying climate change isn't happening because it's really cold in the United States.

Also re: being contradictory...I am beyond asking for equality. The fact that that was even a debate at one point speaks to how fucked up things truly were.

What I am yelling about is that people like you need to stop for a second and consider that even though the world has slowly awoken over the past 30-40 years to the idea that women can be smart and have careers and might want to do things beyond take care of your home/kids, we still have nowhere near the number of women achieving at the highest levels of business. A good scientist would wonder why that is.

If you just think it's because women aren't smart enough or aren't trying hard enough...you are being lazy.

Lastly on the topic of femininity and intrinsic value, please take that up with Thomas Jefferson:

“We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness….”
Don't start by thinking what languages you know. Most projects are not limited y language. Start by thinking about what problems you (or someone else) has.
The issue is memory reclamation in node based data structures with multiple concurrent lock free writers. With GC it is a non issue. Otherwise you have
resort to reference counting (or GC by another name), hazard pointers, RCU or similar.
> There is also a false dichotomy presented here, because the alternative to nuclear is not limited to just fossil fuel. There are numerous forms of clean energy that doesn't have the failure possibility of nuclear.

On the other hand, if you look at actual fatality statistics, you can make a fairly strong case for wind and solar being far deadlier than nuclear (hydro is pretty close though). Just because solar and wind often involve installing things high up and people fall.
Jennifer Buscemi is the deepfake that should seriously frighten you
That is neat, I'd never noticed that. Although in the context i've heard it discussed, it was more in the vein of "can't generate textual diffs/patch with them, as you can with C++".
For one, as professionals and engineers, SEs should absolutely be attuned to and deeply reflective of ethics. That said, we can and should expect everyone to consider ethics in their daily lives and work.

Someone likely will do nearly every unethical thing, but that doesn't mean it is right for anyone to do it.
Chilling isn't my takeaway. It's that Apple take the threat of surreptitious data gathering seriously and enforces its rules for other companies to that effect.
priPrinter 6.5.0.2457 Full Version with Crack and Keygen
Doesn't responsive UI just mean it works on different screen sizes and devices?
They have, for the last few years: http://osxdaily.com/2016/01/12/howto-sideload-apps-iphone-ip...
nginx link function a 3rd party module which compatible for dynamic linking your application.
I think Progressive Web Apps should help with this. The architecture there designates that you have an app shell that's only downloaded once - this should be your SPA framework and all the layout bits and blobs. Those get cached at the service worker layer. Everything else (i.e. the actual data that gets displayed) can be cached as needed or retrieved as needed, without having to redownload all the "app shell" bits.
This is hilarious. The other day people were patting Apple on the back, surmising it would take Apple mere hours to fix, only now it's revealed that Apple failed to act on the report when they got it. And yet people still think major tech companies will fix any anything within a week, but here we have a months old example where facebook decided to bury their head in the sand and it's gotten hardly any attention.

The biases in this community are out of control sometimes..
Usually works well, but when you get caught in a cycle of always missing each other it sucks. Usually this is a business or similar where they call and are making a bunch of calls, so by the time I call back they are on the line with someone else.
The only integration you can trust is one with a contract in place, and probably one you are paying for access to. I think the days of monetizing a cobbling of free services are limited.
It is actually crazy that this is not discussed more often.

How they heck is this fair?
Yes, this is the optimal measured response from Apple. They're treating Facebook the way they'd treat any other company that did this.

It's also a step up from the warning they gave with the whole Onovo thing. Strike two...
Easy.

sudo ./join_a_party.sh && sudo ./get_elected.rb && sudo ./change_law.sh
I legitimately want to read the articles--they have a lot of interesting ones.

The curious thing is that often enough you can't even click through--they insist that it's "Medium Exclusive" content and you can only view 3 a month. (Browser Private mode helps, but is not a panacea) But... If I search the 'net for the title of the supposed Exclusive article, I can frequently find it elsewhere with no nagging or paywall.

I don't really believe Medium has the exclusive content that gives it an advantage over anything else, but it's useful as curated, indexed content that you can find elsewhere. This is probably not what they are going for, though.
FOSS Project Spotlight: Mender.io, an Open-Source OTA Update Manager for IoT
Investors and governments pumped billions into FB in the last 5-10 years seemingly under the impression that it was too big to fail. One can definitely see the panic starting to trickle in now that it's clear the platform's days are numbered. I wonder if they will be able to shift to a less predatory/ad-based business model before it's too late or go all-out with the data harvesting.. It'll be interesting to watch it play out either way!
I disagree with the conclusion of absolute security — it won’t happen, and only encourages subversion by people who both need and have a right to access the content.

Instead of pontificating, the tech industry should innovate.

There’s no reason that hashchains can’t be used to timelock the key, and the enclave export it in response to a signed request. Then we can at least force the compromises through the legal system and require effort to reverse the hashchain. That kind of court authorized targeted access removes the incentive (and justification) for other actors to more deeply compromise the system. In turn, this let’s us provide more security, in practice.

What’s not going to sell, and what the tech industry needs to get over is “lulz, it’ll impossible to intercept military or terrorist information because I need absolute privacy for my saucy emails”. I think it’s been empirically demonstrated that won’t happen.

Be part of the solution.
> but it doesn't have to be that way

Of course, as I mentioned it's a really extreme example used to demonstrate that, even being frugal on 9/10 of those, you still hit the amount mentioned in the article.

> same pair for over 2 years and haven't worn them out yet

I think it's important to understand that "needs replacement" is not the same as "falling apart". It's essentially an industry-wide recommendation to replace running shoes between 500km-800km.

At that point, my shoes always look functional, and I have pairs I've continued to use for years for other, non-running activities, but they without a doubt feel "dead" and aren't providing proper support for long runs. The shoes might work fine, and at 10mi a week you might not even ever notice a problem until they start actually falling apart, but you are increasing your risk of injury.
Price or features trump brand value most of the time. Just ask Spirit Airlines, Facebook, or Uber.
so, why is he wrong again?
It would be a dramatic change of decades of ideological, political and popular sentiment to start breaking up companies or tightly regulating them. I doubt it would happen.
Nice! Glad Apple caused them some massive chaos. I'd forgotten about that roots thing, it's actually really nice albeit a little annoying for debugging/reverse engineering.
Actually, in some states, to record conversations, two-party consent is necessary. 11 states, including California, require two-party consent. It’s a fair assumption that an app that is vacuuming up everything someone does on a phone is potentially gathering data that would fall under two-party consent laws. Also eavesdropping is also a potential crime under common law. It’s a murky legal area in this case, but one that certainly has some merit.
I keep going back and forth regarding whether Onvaro is just "opposition research" or a sign that while Facebook is still as powerful as ever, that they are running out of product ideas. Of course it could be both, but the use of Onvaro and 'Facebook research' have a hint of desperation.
I could be wrong but I believe the Blueprint assets are stored in a binary representation. So that rules out vanilla tools like patch/diff for the most part.

See the sibling poster, they did actually add a visual diff/merge tool in a much earlier version and I missed that.
You're assuming they knew that was a breach of the agreement... And I doubt the devs in question have ever read the agreement.

This is a company that had the motto "move fast and break things". They prefer to "fail forward" and push things live sooner rather than safer.

It doesn't surprise me at all that someone just saw that something was possible and did it without considering the consequences.
In this case, would the only use of BAT (or something similar) be avoiding transaction fees as a high percentage of small transctions? For example, Visa charges 1.5% of the transaction + $0.10. The transaction fee on a $0.25 micropayment would be $0.10375 - a hair above 40% of the transaction. Otherwise, what is the value add of BAT compared to storing payment information with a vendor or someone like Stripe?
To be honest, while there has been loads of bad press against FB over the past year, I had been leaning toward giving them the benefit of the doubt for the main following reason: a lot of the bad press had come about because society's views on privacy had changed (especially with the realization of how social media could be used to impact a US election), not just Facebook's. After all, when FB originally released their developer APIs that let developers gain access to friend data without the friend's explicit permission, there was barely a peep about that (among security/privacy researchers, sure, but among the general populace, no). It was only after Trump got elected that people had an "oh shit" moment about what was really possible with social media data.

This "data research" app has hardened my views, though: I now believe Facebook is rotten to the core. After all, as a security researcher pointed out, that "market research" app was basically just the previously removed Onavo app, reskinned (https://twitter.com/chronic/status/1090394419902197761). Facebook knew they got caught, and they tried to workaround by using their enterprise cert so the app wouldn't go through App Store review. Screw them, I hope this forces the heavy hand of government regulation on them. They have proved the cannot manage themselves.
Facebook recruiters seem more aggressive lately, perhaps they're starting to actually have trouble attracting top talent?
Yeah, Apple have to step in here - otherwise they risk Enterprise certificates being used widely to violate Apple's AppStore restriction (which is what FB was doing), which is clearly not in Apple's best interest.
There is a solution: all sites (above a scale of say 1m users) must offer a zero advertising, zero tracking account option at a yearly fee of exactly advertising revenue per user per year.

Most people would not take this; but rich people would. The top 1%? Top 5%? This would cripple the monopoly model and open the market.
can I borrow your copy? I will pay shipping to and fro' :)
distinction is former implies it can only be used for gh pages, later implies that is one possible use amongst others
Apple Music Takes Flight on American Airlines
We use the shit out of the Python port, and I can see how people might think this is boring/mundane stuff, but this is the best solution to the problem out there.

This has saved me days of work, at least.