skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The word "encrypt" appears 24 times.

But the following weasel words let Facebook shout "end-to-end encryption" from the rooftops while quietly undermining it with back doors.

> There are still many open questions here and we'll consult with safety experts, law enforcement and governments on the best ways to implement safety measures [in end-to-end encryption].

There is no way Facebook will make their services truly secure, end-to-end. They just want to clean their badly stained reputation by pretending to do so.
If we implemented a carbon pricing scheme and these panels allowed you to heat and cool your home with no or minimal draw off the grid, this would be an affordable option.
Before/after the 850k/650k hack there were numerous other hacks, the total number of stolen BTC is still not clear, new proof of other hacks is still being discovered.

Apparently Karpeles also found a 'forgotten' wallet of 200k BTC, which he still seems to own. It's a mess.
That seems odd. Why do they turn down paying customers?
Housing and food seem to have inflated about the rate of overall inflation. Tuition and healthcare more, while most consumer goods, software, white goods, home furnishings, and cars significantly less.

It should be no surprise that some categories have increased more than the average and others less.

Reference: http://2oqz471sa19h3vbwa53m33yj-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-c...
> ... adding new 4-star stores and more Amazon Go stores. . I guess the real takeaway is that those stores were performing better?

Not sure why they'd then terminate employment and offer severance to people working for them in those stores. The key takeaway could be that these pop-up stores didn't result in tangible benefit to their bottom-line?
This is a problem I've seen at every company I've ever worked at. Everyone starts off thinking they'll have independence, but it's only natural to build on what already exists and thus you end up with complex dependency topologies.

Large software companies like Google/Facebook home build their own opinionated frameworks for publishing services that include citing of dependencies via config files. Internal engines then scrape for these configs and manage the relationship topology across environments. As far as SWEs are concerned its like magic.

I'm working on trying to standardize such a framework, https://docs.architect.io, and would love preliminary feedback.
The headline is disingenuous. I suspect a lot of folks are taking away from the headline that Facebook the company is on the ropes, however looking into the primary source[1] indicates that they are only talking about Facebook the product. The press is not making that distinction here. A vast amount of people leaving "Facebook" are just going to Instagram.

[1] https://www.edisonresearch.com/infinite-dial-2019/
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If the keys are lost, the money is for all intents and purposes gone.
The Banality of Empathy
Thanks for this information, it helps. The issue for me is that the target audience is probably < 10k people globally. The tool would act as a serious productivity multiplier for those 10k people (and those people are very well paid). In Evans case his creation is not only awesome, it also has a large target audience.
Ok, tho I wasn't trying to say that as mean-spirited as it looks, just repurposing the acronym.
A similar thing happened to me, and I was lucky enough to get help from Namecheap's support (they actually escalated it fairly high in the command chain).

After that incident, I decided to move my critical email communication with just the barebones provider's domain to either Apple's iCloud (you get a free account when using iCloud) or Fastmail (paid but worth every $).

This way I don't need to worry about my own domain for critical stuff.
That's the whole point of the blockchain. Your money is sovereign. There is nobody to call when it gets stolen, but this also means that no government or bank or agency can take your money or prevent you from being paid (see Visa/Mastercard vs Wikileaks etc)
I have seen that idea popularized here on HN for sure - it seems almost every physical or mental health and diet related post gets a comment about "the gut microbiome" which either mentions or is replied to by a comment that claims diet soda "destroys" it. The frequency with which this is mentioned is definitely pretty high, but I've not come across any links to studies or further reading on the idea.

EDIT:
Here is what I believe to be a source of many such claims, a 2014 study suggesting that artificial sweeteners can alter gut flora in mice to lead them to being glucose intolerant: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4615743/

I'd be interested if there's anything more recent or conclusive about this - plenty of sensationalistic articles seem to be out there either extrapolating from or challenging this study, but I'm not able to deduce anything further.
Is there a link to the on-chain transaction showing the transfer of the funds?
I think it means there are a lot of jobs not worth doing but the worker doesn't know it's putting them in decline or the decline is better than the alternative. I do not think being paid below a living wage should be refered to as fair under any circumstances.
Same story from CNBC: http://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/06/amazon-to-close-all-of-its-po... .
Currently trying to debug some microservice based system: I read your text with red meat being the microservices.

Things are always perfect when reading a simple blog post presenting the happy path. How to check what services are down, how to react to the fact, how to come back? Nah. The fact your µs RAM access just became ms network access? Don't care. Someone just decided to change the interface of their microservice so 2 others are not compatible anymore? That's just "microservice done bad". Being able to see the flow of things and add breakpoint where you need it? Nope.

It is funny to see this kind of problem when you've already experienced them in the embedded world with software components in cars or just in distributed computing.

Most application will never see the kind of scale where adding the kind of code and tools overhead have any RoI. So you end with products released too late or products so brittle you may has well not have launched.
Nobody has been able to identify any cold wallets with any significant deposits.

This should have been easily found by analyzing user deposits and withdrawals, but so far, nada.
I'd be interesting in reading some papers on this if anyone has them
That sounds plenty serious to me.
gandi.net has a good track record, a promise to not engage in any ethical "grey" areas, and is based in France.
Original source:

https://www.edisonresearch.com/infinite-dial-2019/

> Regarding social media, the latest study finds the number of current users of Facebook continues to drop. The study shows an estimated 15 million fewer users of Facebook than in the 2017 report. The declines are heavily concentrated among younger people.

https://www.slideshare.net/webby2001/infinite-dial-2019

Slide 9-14 or so contain the relevant demographic and year-over-year breakout.
Happened the same exact thing to me, with Namecheap too. They didn't send me any reminders about my .li domain. I couldn't renew from 2 weeks before expiry. I wouldn't pay $200 to recover it in grace period, now they are selling it for $5k.

Switched to Cloudflare, never touching Namecheap again.
Gandi. Fairly low pricing, very FOSS friendly, often actually knowledgeable support that you don't have to hit with a baseball bat before they get a clue (unlike OVH).
Some history: http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/humor/ATT_Copyright_true.html
Makes more sense to have them in go stores, whole foods, etc...

I bought my parents an echo because they had them on sale at whole foods around christmas.
As somebody who just tried microservices in their latest project I especially agree to the points you made about deployment and testing. Testing can be quite hard, you have to essentially think about it from the start. Testing is much, much easier if you keep everything in one "monolith".

That doesn't mean microservices are bad. It is incredibly well to have a well defined border between services, if you manage to draw the border right. And the extra amount of planning that goes into thinking about where to draw the borders and how to design the interfaces is already a big win. They can really help you keeping a feeling of freedom when it comes to changes, because every service is just a box with a managable number of inputs and outputs. Or at least it should be..
I mean... for keyloggers and easier approach is just to distribute some sort of possession authentication device (like a dongle or codes via SMS) where a replayed password will fail to work or... insist that passwords meet some crazy entropy requirements (like 48 characters) and provide download links to password managers that can assist in generating/storing these along with some rudimentary education efforts on the site.
> The rule of law in western society is usually well respected by both individuals, government and companies.

Sure, but the law is flexible enough to be interpreted in one way for friends, and in another way for foreigners. When needed, you can amend the law, for the foreigners to be disadvantaged.

I have on my mind a recent change in EU, that amended the rules for truck drivers, in order to disadvantage the ones from Eastern members states.
Cloudflare!
the target audience is managers and bookkeepers who see the sophos invoice every month but have no idea what they do.

here is the blog post in meme form, for your convenience: https://memegenerator.net/img/instances/67508702/look-at-me-...
Microhousing would be just one development carbon taxing would bring about- if we began to price our food appropriately for example animal agriculture would largely come to an end except for luxuries, and that would do a great deal to cut emissions. Personal vehicles and flying would also become cost prohibitive. These are only a few of the ways taxing carbon could make our lifestyles more sustainable and shrink highly polluting sectors of our economy such that we reach a more sustainable amount of emissions per capita.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19291458
It has a better security track record than its competitors, and its faster too.
An amusing footnote I found in Tolstoy's Confession:

The context:

>In spite of the fact that during these fifteen years I regarded writing as a trivial endeavor, I continued to write.* I had already tasted the temptations of authorship, the temptations of enormous monetary rewards and applause for worthless work, and I gave myself up to it as a means of improving my material situation and as a way of stifling any questions in my soul concerning the meaning of my life and of life in general.

The footnote:

*It was during this period, when he "regarded writing as a trivial endeavor,"
that Tolstoy produced War and Peace (1869).
Facebook lied about their video engagement numbers for a long time while telling others measuring it that their methodologies were flawed.
There are actually whole cryptographic schemes people have written to prove you have control over the money you say you do.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7277865
> oddly vulgar

My initial reaction was 'linguistically disgusting', but I decided to hold off the opinion, just in case I am strangely illiterate.
We would have believed postgres, but that's just far-fetched.
A serf's cost of production has always been a wage just high enough to raise a family.

But today we have below replacement fertility in the West- finally some progress!
Most of my friends despise Facebook, but at the end of the day we're still using their other products like WhatsApp and Instagram.
Point: http://omniorthogonal.blogspot.com/2013/02/hostile-ai-youre-...

Counterpoint: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5pUA3LsEaw
What does your daughter use to connect with friends? Just curious.
That compatibility with different browsers is a big enough issue in 2019 to stop you from using Firefox is just a sad reminder of how far we’ve fallen. Used to be that we actually cared about stuff being usable across browsers, after what we experienced during IE’s dominance.

It’s also a testament to Chrome’s dominance -now-.
You may be an older person, but for anyone with teens an interesting aspect is that they hardly use it.

FB is turning into a "how to talk to grandma" network.
Yvonne Gando, Google Senior UX Writer on Portfolio Tips to Break into UX
I am using Gandi. You pay full price, but you get privacy inclunded
The space can be rented out to tenants to make the payments. Of course, their should be good contracts in place amongst the parties to make sure this can happen smoothly.
> But from €9.6 to €185 is an increase of 1827% or 19.27 times more. To me that's usury.

I don't think that word means what you think it means.
It seems they updated a couple of things in Notepad (Unix eol, text size, ..)
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=windows%20notepad&sort=byDate&...
My strategy was to have a kid. Really lights a fire under you and motivates you to finish before you rapidly go broke.
How violently? Well, 7.2 billion people will die. Is that violent enough?

Then there's the additional violence that all 8 billion will do, trying to be one of the 800 million rather than one of the 7.2 billion.

My own gut feel is that we will muddle through much better than that, with less than 500 million dead. On this subject, that seems to make me the crazy optimist...
But you can still track history of any coin existed.

If somebody know wallet ids of money before they were stolen, you can trace transactions to see what wallet ids they are in now.

If they say "stolen", it means that they found transactions when money were transferred from victim's wallet. And if they know transactions, then they know source and destination wallet ids.
https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
The SMILES trial ( http://foodandmoodcentre.com.au/media/smiles-trial/ ) had good resultat with their diet.

But in general many different kinds of plant based foods to promote biodiversity. According to ( https://youtu.be/-LUuqxQSaFQ )
If they're committed to the position that privacy is not valuable in it's own right, for it's own sake, then you might suggest to them that they put a webcam in front of their toilet.

"Nothing to hide" usually means they don't realize just how much can be known about a person from the trail they leave online.
The post reads more like an anti-Chrome post than about the exploit.
Mark Zuckerberg Says He’ll Shift Focus to Private Sharing
Yup, I will. Because the entire piece is disingenuous and self congratulatory.
Enron and Arthur Anderson weren't going to lie on their quarterly filings either. Not saying it's true or false, but there's also the possibility that user count methodologies can change to create the appearance of growth.
Not having a new toolkit every version would've been good. Allowing users of WP 7.* to update to 8, good too. Allowing all users of 8.1 to update to 10.

Also their own apps were poor. I remember Skype for WP 8 was absolutely unusable. MS is composed of many teams and many of them clearly didn't give a shit about WP.
Yeah, I'm late 20s overeducated and I never post nowadays and go to Facebook once a month or so. My feed is almost dead now and none of my friends post like they used to. Decent amount of activity on Instagram though but not like it used to be with Facebook when I was in college. Though probably because we graduated and grew up I don't know.
Then it's not "stolen", it's "never existed".
Which claim is "extraordinary"? That some humans pretend to die before their actual deaths? That some humans are greedy? I got a bridge I'll sell you real cheap...
Interesting point of view - reminds me of how Solange Knowles for a long time (not anymore) had a website that looked straight from the early 1990s. Maybe to focus on the music?
Far from it. However it seems seeing Soyuz is somewhat [1] complicated. One needs to travel to Kazachstan’s remote Baikonur, get a special tour and chances are you will be rejected for no little reason. Apparently there’s not much to do there if that happens. Now going to Florida from Europe is quite a trip as well. But at least you can go snorkeling in Key West after the launch.

[1] https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/21/-sp-kazakhstan...
Deal with it at the time? Key is to get your project up and running quickly. Worrying about problems that might happen down the road, the solution to which may hamper your speedy launch, is the heart of premature optimization. In many cases, a single node database will take you a loonnng way.
A pretty classic non-denial denial. "No hard evidence" and "pure rumor" is not technically a denial- he's not saying the story is false.
Where is the argument in this write up? The only thing I got was the OP asserted that Netflix hates movies because it interrupts the credits, skips intros, and advertises other shows/movies. How about impact to the industry? Any takes on that outside of the conveniences state above?
Do you think you would still be friends if instead of buying 5+ years ago, you bought 1 year ago, and you lost 20% on the house already -- wiping out your down payment?
The author seems to have missed out on the fact that information theory is a part of physics now. Not only are human brains computers. The entire universe is a computer. The author seems to think that a computer must use bus lines, clock signals and silicon in order to be a computer. In actual fact, a computer doesn't even need to have software. You can make a computer with just analog components, without any digital chips in sight.
That doesn't really work for Apple products because they require unique components (like the SoC) that can't be bought anywhere and presumably the inventory is tracked carefully (e.g. 10,000 A12s go into the factory and ~10,000 iPhones go out).
I’ve commented on this several times, but Walmart’s online grocery pickup app is coming along nicely. They’re doing a push to hire developers and the improvements show in the app.

You originally had to call a phone number but now you say you’re on your way and it notifies the workers to come out and put your groceries in the trunk. My wife hates going inside Walmart’s so we’d use the smaller more expensive grocery stores, but with online pickup she stores her favorite items, adds them to a cart with a $30 minimum, and picks them up the next morning. It’s super convenient and we love it. I’d be hard pressed to see how Amazon could improve upon it, honestly.
I think they already did or its coming in an update, I think. Also, Good luck trying to block auto-play videos in Chrome.
It really depends on your family. Plenty of people have friends that they trust far more than they trust family. I know plenty of people that have had their parents steal from and/or defraud them.
Not literally, but the intended meaning seems clear to me here?

Though ripoff would also have worked.
> If you don’t trust partial-password.github.io consider to save the page locally and run it from there

This doesn’t really make it safe per se, there still can be a script running that triggers an AJAX call in the background, sending the password to some web URL.
Personally I do feel that there is a huge and urgent need for something like this to support and share the stories of the Indian subcontinent and its diaspora in the US and elsewhere. So, in one respect I wish the founder all the success.

However, a quick glance unfortunately leads me to believe that it is going to tow the same blatantly anti-Indian bias that most, if not all, of the Western media such as NYTimes, WaPo, Economist and others possess.

For example, while the little blurb in the inkmango newsletter on Pulwama and subsequent events (https://mailchi.mp/inkmango/our-weekly-roundup-pulwama-crisi...) seems perfectly neutral and acceptable, I was rather disheartened when I saw that while CNBC and Economist were linked by their brands, "Arundhati Roy", and her vitriolic anti-Indian article was referred to by name in the link to HuffPo.

While the editor is free to take whatever approach they want to take, they will need to decide who the target audience is and whose voice does the Juggernaut wants to be.
I used one of the pop-ups to trade in my old broken Kindle, and it was a relatively pleasant experience. I think really the most negative part about the whole process was that the city I live in had AMZN pop-ups and book-stores, but only a few select locations would do a trade in.
My brother is in that age group and he uses discord and normal text message groups.
I’m not asking for sympathy!

I just checked to be sure and my email address on Namecheap is correct. I did not receive a notification email however.
That's a fair point. And I totally agree on that second statement. :D
If it is 15M US users, that's 4.5% of the US population.
And still vulnerable to this?
Definitely still a conspiracy theory. But I think that all the circumstances bring it out if range of "crackpot".

A will being created right before the trip also adds to the suspicions.
I deleted my Facebook more than a year ago and never missed it but I had to go back on Facebook multiple times this week because I created a page for my new business and I was surprised how repelling the whole thing was. I was confused why am I disgusted by it but it was really pushing me away.
> The social network hasn't had any interesting feature added to it in the last couple of years.

I actually found some great rugs (owners did not know what they had!) and furniture on the FB marketplace. Much better finds than on craigslist, and easier to verify that the seller is a human.
POW for status is so difficult it’s practically nonexistent. Utility hasn’t been increased to compensate for inability to earn social capital.

https://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2019/2/19/status-as-a-service
Grounded: The great art treasures that no longer go out on the road (2014)
Some people are calling those "minotaurs" now, apparently: https://www.axios.com/minotaurs-companies-raised-more-than-1...
Probably less of a suite of tech like FB and more a bunch of small single-purpose apps like snapchat and instagram.
Handtrack.js: Hand Tracking Interactions Tensorflow.js and 3 Lines of Code
Not really, I have seen a lot of unneeded abbreviations. Thankfully we are (almost) out of the age of 140c messages and 40c editor lines.

But more to the point, 'vulns' seems like a very unnatural abbreviation. I would go with v11n (similar to i18n).
Are we seeing the same thing?

IndentationError: unindent does not match any outer indentation level

The very first thing I would look at is the indentation if I got an error like that. You hardly need to "spend an hour trying to debug a nonsensical error" when you see an error like that.
The weird thing about this line of thinking is that if you take it to its logical conclusions, you quickly conclude that nothing really matters anymore, because all we do is exist on this earth.

One of my early projects at Google involved latency optimization - incredibly boring, invisible stuff. At the end of the project, we'd saved maybe 20ms/search, and my boss was like "20ms/search * 3 billion searches/day = 60M seconds/day = 16K hours/day. Every day, you've saved humanity 16,000 hours of their lives."

And then I 20%'d on the PacMan doodle, which had an estimated 400 million hours of total playing time. Well, shit. There goes the next 68 years of latency optimizations.

(As an aside, this feels a lot like what Silicon Valley does. Save time on your job so you can waste it on social media, crypto gambling, or computer games. You just can't win, because there is no win condition - we'll continue to exist regardless of what we choose to do in the meantime.)