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NoScript lets you whitelist sites. Chrome's built in Javascript blocking is about as usable.

Settings -> Privacy and Security -> Content Settings -> Javascript and then change "Allowed" to off.

You can white list a domain by clicking on the padlock or the thing that says "Not Secure" in the URL bar on the left and clicking "Site settings" and changing Javascript to Allowed.

In my opinion, the only real effect JS blocking has is you start complaining in HN comments about sites not working.
If people will learn that (example) to view videos they must use Firefox, they'll use Firefox. Than Google and Apple will fix their browsers.
China doesn't have anyone in the board of Hollywood production houses either and yet I learnt right here from HN that there are no Chinese villains or bad portrayal of China anymore. Irrespective of the money they received if they plan to bring Reddit to China, Reddit will be washed clean to Chinese specifications.
Parallelization is easy if you have a botnet of millions of machines owned by others to draw on.
> GTK

GTK hasn't been well maintained or developed for ages and has always had poor docs. I wouldn't feel confident trying it on any platform which isn't its home (i.e. Linux).

> Qt

Qt is probably the best option in the list but it's language support is poor, only C++ and Python are practical. It is a big fully featured and mature library, but developing with QML is a poor experience compared to the tooling available on Chrome/Electron. Packaging and distributing Python and/or C++ Qt apps is a huge PITA too.

> WPF for Windows

not cross platform

> JavaFX

JavaFX looked interesting but just didn't seem to take off and develop a reasonable ecosystem around it. Certainly nothing that could rival the web ecosystem. I do love the language support that the JVM delivers. Regarding deployment size it isn't likely to be much better than Electron as most apps have to ship the whole JVM anyway. The stench of Oracle does taint it these days too.

> Tk

be serious

> LibUI

This isn't mature yet and it looks like another optimistic adventure in "write once, debug everywhere" like WxWidgets.

None of the options here can compete with Electron in terms of ecosystem or developer experience (often Chrome's dev tools). Nor are they built on open standards. Also JS is up there with the JVM and .Net platform in terms of languages which target and can run on it.
> By no means am I suggesting there's anything wrong with your worldview, just pointing out that in this industry, you are leaving serious comp behind by not shopping around. Your work after moving would probably be more enjoyable and interesting, too.

You may be right, at least about the money, but I think you're missing the other side of it that I tried to express: I don't need more money. I don't even, really, want more money. What I do want is to do something mostly interesting--I don't have to optimize for interest--in the least amount of time. I like what I do for work, even if some days I don't love it, but I adore what my salary allows me to do outside of work.

Switching employers, looking for a new one, making those decisions...they all take time that I don't have to spend right now because my needs are quite nicely met where I am and, so far as I can tell, will continue to be met for a long time. I do side projects outside of work to keep practice in some skills that don't directly relate to my work and I have friends who are at other companies and are also my professional network if I ever do need another job.

tl;dr: I'm optimizing for contentedness, not income or interest, and that's the big reason why I've stayed at the same employer for almost two decades. My employer treats me well and pays me enough so I am content.
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If that is true that is a huge breach of trust. Are these practices ever audited?
I think recaptcha and captcha in general are very overused today, as they cause way too much inconvenience for the user. Why discriminate against robots so much?

What's so wrong about crawling or using automated tools?
With today's networks and hardware performance most websites shouldn't concern themselves with denial-of-service type of attacks, unless they're past a certain threshold of popularity.
Counter anecdote: I was actually never rejected though I’ve been subjected to the picture test multiple times. Most of the time I just get through, though it is hard not to sigh and roll your eyes when presented with one.

Annoying as they are, I don’t really see a better alternative. They’re also pretty easily circumvented with cheap labour like mechanical turk and similar services.
Interesting idea :)

I don't think spambots are currently using Chromium or even running JavaScript. Using simple spamfilters in JavaScript still works fine on my setups.
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Yes and unlikely :-) The protocols are all documented but the ability to receive signals from the rover requires a pretty sensitive receiver and antenna combination. If you have the resources to build a 10m or 15m steerable radio antenna parabolic dish then you could probably manage it.
> I don't know what it is about labor issues that makes some people so hysterical that they lose all ability at reading comprehension and pattern-match to their closest hobbyhorse rant. Go soapbox about irrelevant things somewhere else, adults are trying to talk.

Including stuff like this will get your account banned. Just please leave it out and comment civilly and substantively.
That's not quite correct. SLS is still slated to launch June of next year. It may get delayed to 2021 if problems are found. Also, Orion already flown in 2014, and will undergo an abort test in April.
The "hills" category is the worst.

Have come to the conclusion it really means any patch of grass.
Coincidentally, I was just testing an actual perfect hash function generator https://github.com/rizkg/BBHash. It requires 2-3 bits per entry irrespective of key or table size. They show that they can build the table for 10^12 entries.

One problem is that identifying keys that aren't in the table can be as expensive as storing all the keys. I was thinking that it would be interesting to build two tables with different hash functions for the same set of keys and then record the mapping between them. This would double the table size and add n log n bits to record the relationship, but it would let you make probabilistic (but pretty confident) estimates of what keys weren't in the table, all with a fixed number of bits per key.

To clarify, if you map a key into the table with both functions, by construction it will map to a position in each table that are linked together. If a key maps to unlinked positions in each table then we know with probability ~(1-1/n) that the key isn't in the input to the table. When keys are big and n is big you could be very confident in this estimate and save a huge amount of space over typical structures to do this.
I mean, this has been exactly the situation since recaptcha was invented.
That seems odd. They're usually classified in the 'Documentary' genre (Amazon Prime Video, IMDB, etc).

The "Super Size Me" WikiPedia even begins "Super Size Me is a 2004 American documentary film". The entries for Moore's films in Wikipedia begin similarly.
If the "UX collective" thinks that site is what user experience should be, then I think it's time for a military coup. It's really hard to read.
The limit is only between a single client and server ip, since there can only be up to 65k source port/ip pairs (assuming the destination port is a single port, which it seems to be in the code examples). So if there are multiple client ips it seems like it's not an issue.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/2332756
It's physically possible but I'd have to imagine there's a security key required for the Rover to accept a message and there's no way in hell NASA would give you that key.
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just preemtively say no and leave the site. this is just another tracking vector for google and it should be discouraged.

i'm generally against this type of gating, where the people doing the right thing get punished disproportionately (even small slices of time add up to wasting thousands of human-years over the population) just to combat the tiny number of bad actors. target the bad actors directly.

it's the same for tsa security theater. let's put all those humans to work training dogs of all sorts and filtering them through people at the airport. the money for those privacy invading scanners can be put toward training and housing the dogs. our collective time is not wasted on silliness and standing in line, and we'd probably save a lot of tax dollars that way.
They are marvelous beasts. The bright side is that they are hard to catch outside of spawning grounds, and not commonly targeted by fishermen, not commonly caught accidentally, and not commonly eaten even if so.

The bad news is is that their chief competitor for food is Asian Carp. From my reading this is a much larger issue than Russian poachers.

(If you were wondering, I was looking into Asian carp snagging and got to reading up on Paddlefish since they inhabit the same waters near me)
It's a social media marketing agency [1] (the article mentions they are trying to rebrand though as "Jerry Media" [2]) that lead all the social media marketing for the festival. They also mainly known for having a very popular Instagram account [3] where they have been in trouble in the past for reposting memes or content without giving credit to the creators. Basically people pay them to post content or spread content through their social media "influencer" network.

[1] http://fuckjerry.com/
[2] http://jerrystudios.com/
[3] https://www.instagram.com/fuckjerry
It's often the website provider redirecting users to a captcha based on certain conditions.
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In the financial industry, there are rules that require you to explain how the algorithm works. That is hard to due with neural networks.
Sure, but how is that different than other investments such as stocks or bonds?

Claiming personal expenses as business expenses is slippery, we are in illegal territory here.
>I've never seen a Michael Moore movie toted as a documentary, supersize me either. So I'm not sure where that comes from.

All Michael Moore movies and Supersize Me are considered documentaries, categorized as such, labeled as such in screenings, participate in the documentary festival circuit, and so on. Moore even won an Oscar for "Documentary Feature". His wikipedia page reads "Michael Francis Moore is an American documentary filmmaker".

"Supersize Me" genre in IMBD is "Documentary". It was also a nominee for "Best Documentary" in the Oscars. Netflix marks it a documentary.

So, "if you're not sure where this [calling Moore's movies and Supersize Me documentaries] comes from", I can't even begin to understand where this doubt comes from. It's like a question from a parallel universe where those are not casually considered documentaries...
So basically they do very advanced browser fingerprinting? I wonder if they keep that data around, as that would tell them who uses which third party services (not that they would have trouble working this out by other means) and would make a nice addition to their tracking efforts.

It’s quite depressing to see that almost all sites now require sending data to Google just to log in to them. Not to mention that they help to turn billions of users into clickworkers for annotating AI data. Tell me what you want but I’m pretty sure they show image captchas to users that they are absolutely sure are no bots. I use Chromium on Linux and I’m logged into a Google account, still I have to solve three or four image captures at times to use a login.
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One thing is account creation. It's usually a bad idea that user accounts are created by non-humans. In general, anything that writes to a database may have concerns about robot/automation/abuse.

I agree with you, for "read only" content, let the robots crawl.
Interesting to imagine this as an npc generator in a vr video game. I could imagine that feeling pretty lifelike
Well, it's useful on places where genuine human interaction is important, like Craiglist or Reddit.

(in reality though reddit has a huge bot / astroturfing problem anyway, so perhaps the value of captchas really is overstated)
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It wasn't actually expected to last much longer than 90 days, that it did was essentially a miracle, not just good engineering.

At the time the MER vehicles were built we knew enough about Martian dust to know that it would be a severe limiting factor on solar powered vehicles, but we didn't have enough experience with long lived solar powered vehicles to know all the details. We didn't know about "cleaning events" which were too irregular to fully plan for anyway. Ultimately, we got lucky, and we were able to take advantage of that luck on the fly. For example, we found that even with heavy dust accumulation the rovers could survive with careful power management during Summer, and during Winter we could conveniently park them on a South facing incline to maximize power.

Nevertheless, it is telling that for both rovers the thing that did them in was the thing that was always expected to limit their longevity: solar power generation. Spirit had a wheel get stuck and then couldn't park at a good angle during winter, and the absence of cleaning events during that time resulted in power generation falling below a critical threshold at that time. Opportunity got done in by an epic planet wide dust storm, which blocked sunlight long enough for the batteries to run out and for the vehicle to get dangerously cold (likely resulting in critical equipment failures).

Before we had that experience we had no idea that these things were possible, and nobody in their right mind would have bet money that the rovers would have been able to survive for years on Mars.
If you click on the asterisk between the domain name and the on/off button, it switches to global rule mode. Any allows/denies you save will be used across all sites.
You make the excellent point that Billy McFarland presents as a sociopath. In his mind, he simply didn't believe it was possible for the Fyre Festival to fail.

Did anyone notice how dilated his pupils were in the Hulu documentary? Eerie...
I don't see what's odd about the comment. For core philosophy, Google has always about using an algorithm instead of manual labor whenever possible. The mindset they push to developers is always to "think at Google scale". Customer service has 100% been crappy with Google from day 1, and on purpose. This GDPR situation is political and messy and hits them very much in their weak spot.

Microsoft came from (and continued to focus on) the business market, which is all about big deals and playing ball. The entire concept of Windows was meant to bridge the business market with the home market and they've had split business/home pricing for most of their products forever.

Yes, Microsoft also sucks at privacy and has been evil forever like all of these amorphous businesses that reach their tendrils as far and wide as profitable. But selling ads (and privacy) is just another revenue stream for Microsoft, not their core product. And don't forget that Hacker News' favorite search engine, DDG, is based on Bing. Microsoft doesn't really care about privacy but also doesn't really care about ads - they just want money.
>For "frameworks", there's Silverlight, Adobe Air, Haxe, and—strangely enough—Flash itself...

With the exception of Haxe (and maybe Air), these are all dead or dying technologies.

Options 2 (Python/QT) works great, but is certainly more development hours and still requires platform-specific code.

>It worked well enough for Minecraft!

Minecraft was rewritten in C++ for mobile. It doesn't use Java.
I hardly ever get to just check the box. I think uBlock Origin and Safari's intelligent cookie blocking removes a lot of identifying details, and ReCAPTCHA relies a lot on browsing history and cookies.
Yeah... but I really want to buy that <whatever>, so meh, I'll put up with it. There are only so many hills I'm willing to die on.
Hooks + Context seems like a win, as does xstate https://github.com/davidkpiano/xstate
Ask HN: Is there any video from Mars? And if not why?
I wanna see more photos, more videos etc.
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Reminds me of the time, well a long time ago, when I worked at a tech startup during the early 2000 bubble. Talent war was intense. We had recruiters cold calling people's desk to try to lure people away.

At that office, like every desk (many unoccupied) had a normal phone, with an extension #.

In one instance, a recruiter called and it was answered and he/she was told not interested. After that call, every phone on each of the row of desks started ringing one at a time.

After about 3 - 5 such ringings, someone picked up and told them to knock it off.
Most modern credential stuffers use headless browsers with all the bells and whistles, html5, javascript, etc.

Login attempts are usually spread over a massive botnet of residential IPs as well, where they'll only use each IP for one or two login attempts before moving on to the next.

It's a very fascinating problem space
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It's the lemma I challenge, not the common case on certain of today's architectures. The use of the word "must" implies ∀, which is plainly not the case.
I wonder how nobody talks about ill fate of N-1 with 30 engines on the first stage with the idea that the number of engines was the reason for breakdowns.
The teeth seem to be the give-away. There seems to be a bias of having the two top front incisors facing the camera, even when the head is turned.
I remember yelling at the screen during Fyre "Then you should have cancelled it!" everytime someone said something would have gone wrong. The fact that they waited until people were already on the island before the staff revolted speaks just as ill of the staff. They could have done that the entire time!

One of the thing that screamed out to me was how collectively lacking the entire organization was in business experience. Everyone was so young and only knew one or two jobs before this one - of course they would blindly follow. This is where people with a few more failures under their belt should have been able to stomp the breaks a lot sooner.
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No documentary in history has "just presented the facts of what happened". Footage is edited. Even documentaries that are exclusively interview footage are edited down from huge surpluses of material. When you choose the 1% of material to present, it is not possible to just present facts.
I think that you probably cut pretty close to the crux of the matter right there at the end.

It's a popular viewpoint because, from an ethical perspective, it's extremely convenient to hold. It limits your exposure to the sorts of tricky and uncomfortable questions that got me kicked out of Sunday school at a young age.
Deep down, the key for a connection is the concatenation of SA DA SP DP. DA and DP are constant for a given service in the simple case and the others are 4 octets [although not all of it usable] for IPv4 and 2 octets (for port).
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Using highly trusted users thinking that they are just proving their honesty.
God I hate articles that start with five pages of fluff. I don't care what the weather was like. I don't care what you did with your shoes. I don't care what the expression on your contacts face was when he greeted you.
I'm getting closer to doing that. Lately, I check the box, and if I'm presented with images, I leave.

I have also trained myself to wait a few seconds before clicking the box, which seems to help assert my humanity.
I didn't. Are you saying they're not simple containers?
At this point, it might just be easier to report on sites that -haven't- been exposed. (If there are any.)
Excellent, thank you. There's a parallel between Sergei Korolev and Elon Musk, I believe.
Subaru is rusted badly. Toyotas didn't have any. Caravan problems are terrible and mostly electrical...window motors have all failed, door locks are failed, weird problems with the car not starting even though battery has charge (starter is fine but the computer refuses to allow the starter to try to work if voltage reading isn't correct). Weather stripping that covers the seams on the roof is all coming off. Anything that is not the engine is falling apart.
Too bad the public could not help direct this policy rather than have it fall to one person's biases
To be fair though, Billy basically didn't answer any questions during that interview (at least that were put into the final cut). Nearly every question asked of him was met with awkward silence and pursed lips, or canned "I have no knowledge.." or "I can't comment on.." responses. I don't know that his interview added any bias in terms of what was shown in the film.
Not necessarily. Any X vs. Y there would be differences. I'm a techie, but was speaking from a user perspective, in which case one does not care about whether same code is used or not, only about UX.
Sure, and I appreciate you recognizing the miscommunication.

My point is actually quite well illustrated by your examples. Amazon lobbied its heart out to avoid state taxes on goods sold, and failed. Now in the article you linked, it was spun as some big win for Amazon, but if that's the case, why were they lobbying (unsuccessfully) against it for so long?

Lobbying doesn't work, not nearly as well as people think it does. It's easy to assume money makes laws happen, but if you look at the actual quantities involved, it's a relative pittance compared to individual contributions to campaigns, and as much as we pretend like voters are complete sheep, the reality is more complicated.

Is corporate lobbying a problem? Definitely. Is is this singular driving force in politics? No.
I remember seeing a talk on the 2m websocket Elixir example and one of the keys to it was that the sockets were actually being used and processing messages intermittently during the test. Important thing to keep in mind vs simply opening.

The other thing I'd be interested to see Elixir demonstrate would be doing a hot deployment to avoid triggering all 2m connections to try reconnect at the same time.

The other important note with the Phoenix example was that they were starting 3 processes for each socket (to supervisor, handle failures/reconnects) if I remember correctly.
fake-users-as-a-service business op?

I can see it being possible - racks of "robot arms" that move mice based on whatever criteria is needed (in this case, reCaptcha).

It works for 3D printing, as well as device testing - so in theory, this could be done too...
This seems like it's using Palintir and Oracle to tar all of Silicon Valley. Aren't Google, Apple, MS, Facebook, etc. leaders on diversity transparency across the entire business community, tech and non-tech?

>The vast majority of companies on the list that report their full diversity numbers are in the tech sector. Companies like Google, Facebook, and Apple have released reports on the demographics of their workforce in recent years, so it may be unsurprising that 75% of Fortune 500 firms publishing their numbers are in the tech space.

http://fortune.com/2017/06/07/fortune-500-diversity/
Or flax, which is cheaper and has a longer shelf life.