skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If that is the case, Slack should want to maximize features, even to the point of excess redundancy, so users can tailor their business product to the specific needs of their business. People don't work productively being boxed into one way of doing something, people work best if they are free to find their own ideal way of doing that thing or are able to tailor the product to the unique tasks they work on.

Think of all the different code editors developers use. Some are straightforward, some have a steep learning curve, yet the good ones are good because users can customize them toward their own personal preferences.
Mcfarland has been sentenced for wire fraud and his sentence includes restitution for Fyre festival; so it seems this complaint of hulu is nearly fungible (where Netflix seems to have offered direct restitution that may or may not have counted toward Mcfarland's debt)
> it almost certainly wouldn't be affordable for low-traffic blogs and the like

Very few low-traffic blogs that I see use (or need) CAPTCHAs. I know that the ones I run don't.

> I don't love the compromise of paying for things with my data or by training Google's AI, but it's hard to say users aren't getting anything out of it.

I don't think they are getting much, if anything out of it -- aside from being increasingly punished for defending themselves against being spied on by Google.
the reason we have judges is to distinguish between cases were scammers/commercial spammers blast millions of phones with robocalls and people accidentally dialing the wrong number or calling someone who doesn't have their contact saved
Although nothing malicious has happened yet, that change in the readme ("this package name is for sale") is spammy and concerning. Kudos on niftylettuce (love your blog!) for raising awareness.

This is yet another example of a (by now fairly known) vulnerability in the npm package ownership transfer process. Just a few months ago, there was a big drama with malicious code found in a popular package `event-stream`, placed by a new unknown owner.

I like one of the ideas in the GitHub issue, that a change in package ownership should be considered a major semver bump. At least that might reduce the reach of a bad actor who would buy a popular package for exploitation.
The "FuckJerry" people apparently had final cut.
I meant to say that you would use that scheme while you were working on your lessons, and at the end of it all, do a single pass of renumbering all the lessons with an appropriate number scheme.
I'd bet that the vast majority of botters/phishers which Facebook deals with are amateurs. That said, I meant using unusual user agent software, not really just having an unusual user agent string.
Yes I had guessed the policy is to prevent squatting. But it shouldn't apply to packages that actually have code sitting in them - anyone could have seen my package had a bunch of work gone into it, even if it hadn't been updated in a while. If it's a legit package, no matter how old it is, then the ownership should stick to the original author by default in perpetuity.
IBM/Softlayer value differential for dedicated servers disappeared years ago. Cloud VMs are now faster, cheaper, and more reliable (because of abstracted components and live migration), and they all have dedicated nodes if you need isolation.

IBM Cloud is a slowly sinking ship with the only brightspot being Watson, but nobody seems to be able to describe that clearly so there's that.
But I don't use those services, so that can't be my compensation.
Nah, just use scientific notation: 9e1 vs 9e3 days.
Or they could just use one of the many free CAPTCHA applications that are around.
Transfer of ownership can be done "unofficially" in many ways though, for instance adding a contributor to the organization which controls the package. Requiring a major bump could be problematic in many cases (I'm thinking, @microsoft adding a member to their team would require a major for all their packages). And one can always sell their entire npm account, and no-one would notice.
It definitely counts. The effect it has on exhaust velocity is maybe 5-10%, which is a big deal when you consider that has an exponential effect on your mass fraction, i.e the percentage of total lift-off mass that is fuel vs machinery and payload.
Why? My time is valuable. If they want such detailed feedback (i.e. free business advice) from me, they can compensate me for it. I would get nothing in return for spending my time explaining why I'm not going to give them any more of my money.
Another relation is that both Samsung Pr and Fuck Jerry minimized and deleted publicity (be it YouTube videos or instagram comments)
In the right context you'd have no reason to doubt some of the good ones from this set is a real person.
or we should all just start posting infringing content everywhere
The Plot Against the Principality of Sealand
Giuliani Calls for Regime Change in Iran as Netanyahu Raises the Specter of War
I mean, Im not sure the meta-deception could be anymore apropos given the topic and response. I think the backstory takes a good story and makes it an accidental masterpiece.
I was told the main problem is that google's view on things is not en par with gdpr. Google claims that "Data associated with Instance IDs is generally not personally-identifying" (see 2.) which our lawyers say they clearly are.
In that regard, google does not talk about instance ids or, worse, data processing in between APNs and the sending backend (see 1).

The current legal situation does not allow us to use firebase cloud messaging.
>So what if tax revenue has been flat as a percent of GDP?

Like with much data, it has to put in context with other data, but I am pretty sure most people don't know that fact.

As how that tax burden is allocated, do you think the rich paid more of a share of the taxes back when there were high rates?

In 1980 the highest federal marginal rate was 70%. The top 10% paid 49% of federal income taxes in 1980 and the bottom 50% paid 7% of federal income taxes. In 2015, the top 10% paid paid 70% of federal incomes taxes and the bottom 50% paid 3% of federal income taxes. (http://www.ntu.org/foundation/page/who-pays-income-taxes)
1. A bunch of people may bought "Credit Protection" from these companies to protect against criminals - who never had access to the data

2. Equifax, and other CIOs, will use this as an excuse for the piss poor security practice and data collection by crying "It was done by a super sophisticated nation state, there's nothing we could have done", while leaving logins on the equivalent of admin:admin

3. Who knows who has this information and what they could be doing to weaponize it.
Well, for immediate refresh materialized views, how do you keep your non-sql solution up to date?

For manual refresh, I agree, either non-sql or just plain temp tables is a decent alternative. In our case the views do a lot of joins and subqueries, so we've mostly used temp tables.
You could send a message. The source code is available[1], but you would need to build or have access to a large antenna, which would be extremely difficult and/or expensive.

[1]: https://sourceforge.net/projects/ion-dtn/files/ion-3.6.2.tar...
yes, the problem is prevalent and (small) forum operators bear the pain acutely. i'm not so dogmatic that i can't sympathize with your need for a working, if imperfect, solution, or as a user, needing to jump through the captcha hoops occasionally.

this is a subtle externality borne from scale combined with zero marginal cost. we need to find a way to make the bad actors bear the cost of that externality rather than the rest of us.

it's a hard problem that resists simple solutions like captchas, certificate signing, delivery fees, taxes, or even just outlawing the practice. as a lowly consumer, one of the few levers i have is curtailing my use of services employing (google) captchas.
Yep, he didn't truly seem remorseful either. He was more interested in protecting himself from any further legal issues. I don't think it was ethical to pay for his interview whatsoever.
Hope this momentum stays forever beyond being anti-Trump.
Nothing there matters unless you work at Google. They are a general dumping ground of feature requests and bug reports with many being several years old.
The basic theory behind that checkbox is to attach an unmovable cookie to your browser.

The majority the client side reCAPTCHA is fingerprinting to make it impossible for spammers to steal cookies from legitimate users.

Once you have the immovable cookie, is easy to do regular reCAPTCHA challenges until you are sure that browser is being used by a regular human.

You will notice that if you ever move to fresh OS install, or a different browser that reCAPTCHA suddenly starts showing you image challenges again, which last for several weeks.

Keyboard/mouse biometics is a nice theory. But that's all it is. It doesn't work as a general CAPTCHA solution because it's so easy for bots to fake human looking input.
What are you talking about? Reddit is a collection of smaller forums. If the subs you frequent have gotten too large/diluted, look for smaller ones or create your own.
You can't create a subfacebook and moderate just that piece, and nothing on the internet comes even close to being as brainless as YouTube comments.
Nor is that why he was found guilty. Read the judgement if you are interested, it's fully and reasonably addressed.
The cost of failure is even higher.
True. AWS enterprise support varies based not on how much money you spent on the account but rather how much money you opt-in on the support tier - the top tier support contract is expensive but AWS really treats you like a partner with prompt updates on the issue resolution, sometimes live support over the phone to tell you how to debug and identify issues.

What about Google support? Nada. They don't even have a direct phone number to reach (requests are sent via email). There are issues that they completely dropped the ball on and provide no updates whatsoever or reluctant to look into or to put a closure on. Day and night difference. (We weren't a $1MM account in terms of total annual GCP spending just yet, we very well could be in the next years I hope.)
This is why there should be criminal charges. They can eat cash penalties but people generally prefer to stay out of prison.
It might feel like this, but if you boot up an old Windows XP machine and edit some text, it's still going to feel slow as hell in comparison to Atom on a modern machine. We get used to what's "fast" to do on our computers, and anything significantly slower than that feels "slow". And sure, the software is much less efficient. But compare it on hardware from the time it was developed, and it's not as bad as it seems.

And it's not just about money. With Discord as an example, they are able to quickly develop and deliver a great product, iterate on new features and integrations, and support all major platforms including web browsers. Their choice to use a web based stack helps A LOT with this.
Your own link states that there used to be a 70% marginal rate.
This actually could potentially pass the Senate, since the Senate voted in favor of a similar (albeit non-binding) resolution in December. Of course, Trump is nearly certain to veto it if it gets to his desk. Veto override is pretty unlikely; 67 Senate votes is a bit much to expect, and the current bill passed the House with only a simple majority of 58%.

Still, it's good to see Congress actually opposing Trump for a change, as a majority. It's only symbolic, yes, but sending a message does have some value.
On Not Being Yourself
I think that Google is more than happy to punish people for protecting their privacy. That may or may not be the main goal, but it doesn't appear to be something Google considers a downside.
I'm... not so much, I'd prefer that they be required to register with an organization that can bop them on the head if they abuse it.

I wouldn't want to see statistical surveys, polling and other grey area items here impacted.
Sounds like the conventional wisdom of a post-communist society. The kind of society where bike mechanics don't invent flying machines.
If you consider the 15 W TDP of this CPU we assume that Slack is using no more than .075 Watts of power.

I'll accept that. You've conceded that it's a "tax" of about a tenth of a watt from the entire user base. It's not about saving the planet. It's about the fact that one kind of expense is being saved while another kind of expense is being shifted to the user base. Some people might well find it a worthwhile tradeoff. The market certainly has spoken on this matter.

How much extra energy does allocated RAM use vs. unallocated RAM?

That's the wrong question with regards to RAM. With regards to RAM, it's more about about a kind of opportunity cost. (Capacity cost?) It's not relevant to casual users who have a top of the line machine just to run their web browser and email. However, it is very relevant for someone with any kind of intensive use case. "Ounces add up to pounds, which add up to pain." It's just much more convenient for the user if their machine stays responsive even when you're doing something intensive.

Turning your screen brightness down, banning Electron, or running Lynx instead of Chrome isn't going to save the planet, even if all 7 billion people in the world did it.

It's not about saving the planet. It's about following the "money," even if the amounts are minuscule. That said, if the Electron community got together and put together some technology that reduced their collective footprint, that could only benefit them and their users.
Most of the structural and integration tests are already complete though. We're far into the "beta testing" phase as it were. Also, the BFR isn't anywhere near the state that the SLS is in right now.
It’s the niche subreddits that keep me using it for now.

The trend is towards worse though with pretty much everything they do lately.
in theory. eu parliament elections are no different than national elections: they are partisan and considered a gauge of the general elections and usually it becomes a dumping place for former national politicians. there is a huge disconnect between MEPs and citizens of their country. practically only lobby groups can be bothered and have the opportunity to lobby their causes. i have not heard (or told) a single word about gdpr or this new regulation from our MEPs. i very much doubt most of them know what they are voting for
“Effective marginal rate” is a nonsense phrase. We can discuss marginal rates or effective rates but you can’t combine the two.

I assume the other commenter is doing the standard, “that rate doesn’t really count because nobody really paid it.” Which is a perfectly good point, but it’s not accurately expressed by pretending that marginal rates weren’t that high.
It does not. With how the US senate works, the senate leader can just prevent a vote unless a large number of senators force it. If the other party than the one that put the House to the vote just never forces the issue, they will not have to declare a side.

The exact tactic was done repeatedly during the US's partial government shutdown. The senate leader blocked bills from a vote. A sufficient number of senators could've called for said vote, but the leader's party actually did not want to be found voting against the government reopening, so the bills to fully reopen the government were stalled for a long time.
For some great fun and learning I recommend Googles beginner CTF.
https://capturetheflag.withgoogle.com/#beginners/

The last thing that glued me to my seat like this was maybe 10 years ago.
Good to have had that feeling again. Hope they make a 2019 version! :)
And the car
Seriously, to the FyreMedia staff, ~"We didn't know when we'd get paid, or in what amount, and often it was just in a bag of cash."

I can't think of many better reasons to leave a company, especially when you include their doubts about the festival.

In sum; I might not get paid, I'm getting paid sketchily in all cash, and I think my company/CEO is failing.
This case is different from that. In the Chinese case, they are complying with the legal request of a government. They are required by local law to answer that request.

But Apple is not required to distribute an app just because it's legal under local laws. There are all kinds of legal things you can't make an app for in the US. Apple is within its legal rights to say, "you can't distribute that app on our platform."

Do you see the difference?
Yeah, the extreme comments that we see whenever the topic of ReCaptcha comes up are especially amusing because HN uses it on its own register/login page.
Who said it's a bad thing to do? I've literally been paid to advocate for VM managed languages starting in the late 90's.
What's his number?
Vulnerability research & exploit dev. To break a system you must first know how it works.

There are also things like anti-cheat which requires reversing the cheats that are used and reversing the os to figure out methods you can use for detection.

Somewhat related to that, there's antimalware which is based upon the same principles.

Competitive analysis, reversing someone else's product so you can determine how they do stuff compares to how you do stuff. Some companies will even analyze a competitors product and then reimplement parts of it, you just have to be careful with copyrights and patents.

Fixing compatibility issues is also a thing. For example, GOG hires reverse engineers to get old games running on modern versions of windows.

Reverse engineers are also sometimes hired to make two pieces of software interoperate. Take for example, an oscilloscope that saves traces in a proprietary format, and a data visualization tool that uses a different proprietary format. A reverse engineer could reverse the details of the two formats and make a tool that converts in-between.
No, read the actual text, there's an explicit exception for online encyclopedias and other non-profit websites
Yeah, it's unfortunate that the entire Javascript ecosystem is inextricably wedded to a single company's registry and package manager but what can you do? We all just have to put up with it, I guess.
Could anyone please translate this part to a normal technical description?:

> Google’s invented language is decoded with a key that is changed by the process of reading the language, and the language also changes as it is read.

I feel like that's either some everyday cryptothing that I'm too tired to realize right now (ahem hashing cough?), or some clever stuff that I want to know quite a lot. Or Google cracked the secret of writing Malbolge.
Isn't there a good OSS alternative for ReCaptcha?
How well does the .NET stuff work across platforms nowadays? Can I conceivably have a "write once, compile anywhere" mentality?

Conceivably if it is any good, you could get programmers to hate you a little more or less by using F#.
My personal blog has a spam filter for comments.. it's either that or captcha.. or sign in with Google/Facebook.
The main reason we have often assumed that animals lack consciousness is that animals appear to lack language. And language is an integral part of how humans think. How would you "think" without language? It's not clear.

Perhaps animals think without language and experience a state that could be termed consciousness despite not having language. Sure, why not? But my point is that there is at least some grounds for this "high-horse proposition" because there is at least one important dimension along which humans differ from all other known animals.
Would they not leave a voicemail for something as pressing as a kidney transplant? The vast majority of these calls don't go to my voicemail, and the two a month that do are easily picked up by voicemail transcription.
Most programmers are closer to skilled tradesmen, which doesn't fit into the author's dichotomy of mindless blue-collar workers and university-educated engineers. And the trades' apprenticeship model would probably work better for most programmers than the alternatives.
I think the discussion is a bit myopic. Yes, this is horrible news for the new aggregators of content. What about the creators of content? What if authors hodl their copyright (or else be filtered)[1]

Who keeps google, facebook and others to share the original content instead of hiding it in favor of the same or worse content taken from big media or publishers? I don't stand by this extremely stupid legislation but before it the net turned into TV.

[1] https://chorasimilarity.wordpress.com/2018/09/12/authors-hod...
Too broad meaning if I find your lost dog, I can't technically call the number on the dog tag because I don't have consent.
Cattle raised on small boutique farms represent a tiny fraction of the livestock raised for beef, most of which endure some truly horrific treatment.

Watch the film Earthlings if you're interested in knowing the truth.

https://vimeo.com/209647801
I tend to err toward agreeing, except, and hulu covered this better, the keys to the Villas "went missing" and some towards the lack of a sufficient production company.
Yeah, clearly. It showed me a boy with widespread stubble.
Let's not, because it's a pointless exercise. I'm not a federal prosecutor with the powers to investigate the malfeasance of white collar criminals.

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/04/magazine/only-one-top-ban...
I really like this comment. I think it's a great demonstration, with actually historical example in how society undervalues some areas of the economy and certain jobs, and that inventiveness comes from everywhere.

I know some car mechanics that can take apart an engine in their sleep, and definitely have a knack for mechanics that many mechanical engineers would envy, even with their lack of mathematical training.
People can use texts for emergency messages. If they want to voice call, this usually mean situation is not so urgent in a first place.
Write. Less. Code
I don't think so. When I was traveling in Malaysia a few months ago I was always signed into my Google account, but constantly needed to fill in captchas and even got suspended from Google Scholar for a few hours for "suspicious traffic".
Io_uring, SCM_RIGHTS, and reference-count cycles
True. But mostly due to anti-americanism.

I was strongly against ACTA because it was kind of a black box, I supported one of the biggest events in Germany against it.

But I had hopes that we could change the way such big contracts are getting designed and agreed upon. How naively I was...
I think the argument boils down to "how do you fill out the captcha if you use a screen reader"?
Yes, especially when they show you about 15 sets of images in a row taking 2 minutes to complete, clearly going beyond demonstrating you're human.
To clarify. Are you asking for videos that have been saved or do you mean realtime (ie, now)?
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Presumably they'll already make you waste time talking to a human when you close your account. Might as well mention the captcha to make public the distaste for recaptcha as we are now on this forum.
That would require cost sunk into innovative engineering, while the business model of telecoms is stasis at best and anticonsumer practices at worse.