skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At this point in facebook’s history, having a board captured by Zuckerberg is a disastrous mistake. If I were an active share holder in FB I would be furious at him.
>Though Google’s data cache is enormous, it doesn’t sweep up every phone, said Mr. Edens, the California intelligence analyst. And even if a location is recorded every few minutes, that may not coincide with a shooting or an assault.

>But despite the drawbacks, detectives noted how precise the data was and how it was collected even when people weren’t making calls or using apps — both improvements over tracking that relies on cell towers.

So if you use Android, there's absolutely no way to turn this type of tracking off? What exactly are they using? Anyone know? This doesn't seem like the IEMI cell tower tracking that carriers do.

And according to this sentence:

>Apple said it did not have the ability to perform those searches.

It appears that if you use iPhone and don't use Google's apps (Google Maps is the main culprit here?), Apple doesn't have a way of identifying your data and your data won't appear in Google's Sensorvault.. which appears to be massive:

>Sensorvault, according to Google employees, includes detailed location records involving at least hundreds of millions of devices worldwide and dating back nearly a decade.
This isn't a privacy issue it's a property issue. Just because the government is big doesn't mean it can't own (digital) property.
My bad. Sorry, it's CopperheadOS

https://copperhead.co/android/
> It somehow perpetuates an awareness that Global Warming is optional to believe in. The belief part is off the table.

This is a pretty odd take. Believing anything is optional. You may believe that the evidence is incontrovertible, but even that is an optional belief. The person you're responding to is just signaling that the questions are not based on climate change skepticism. In 100 years that signal may no longer be valuable, but today it probably is.
This again? It's the same argument against using JSON for configuration that everyone else posts. Even worse it says "Please don’t. Ever. Not even once. It’s a really bad idea." but gives you zero solutions that fits the criteria.

It's an effortless post just to rage against JSON. Why is this even on the front page of HN?
off topic question but how do board members get compensated at bigger companies like FB?
And most importantly it can consume JSON just fine. No need to learn yet another language.

Also fully convertible to json (without comments) if there is ever a need to change format or to interface with another system that can only understand json.
Birth rates could self-stabilize, or the population could organically shrink to 0. I don't see why you're dismissing it. For proof, look at Pandas. They simply don't have the will to reproduce any more, even under extreme coaxing and artificial aid by human caretakers with hundreds of millions of dollars poured into their perpetuation.
I mean you can be furious all you want but Zuck will control Facebook until the day he dies.
UK media, MPs unveil latest Assange deception
A board member is not an employee. The term is commonly used for board members, officers, and directors of a company.

Install(v): place (someone) in a new position of authority, especially with ceremony.
Cracking a hash is not illegal. That the hash is a password hash does not make it illegal.

Using the cracked hash to access a system you have no authorization to access is illegal.

Don't play the government's (and hollywood's, in case of DVD and Blueray) game. Cracking a hash is not a crime.
Thats a cool site I didn't know about, however I assumed the innocent suspect wasn't logged into google maps, and that the reporting was done by the device separately.
I always want to know where that's measured. Presumably it includes food that went bad in the fridge, and food that was thrown away from the plate. But does it also include apple cores, animal bones, coffee grounds, onion peels, citrus rinds, banana peels, and so on & so forth? In a perfect world we'd make more soup stock, zest, and marmalade but I think compost is a pretty reasonable path for carrot tops and potato eyes.
Any active shareholder should be expected to be aware of the risks that come with investing in an entity with a single controlling shareholder.
I'd massively prefer to live on the 25th floor of block apartments with public transit access for $100 a month than to have no such option and be forced to toil a quarter of my adult life to have way more space than I want or need.
> You understand the crux of a language by being expert at it not by "me too" novice at it.

Let's not pretend "knowing" a language well is akin to a 10-year-journey like some arcane samurai art.

If you

- could build an interpreter for a minimal version of the language

- can expand most syntactic sugar into more minimal constructs of the language

- can reason about the language in usual PL terms (call-by-value/call-by-name, pure/not-pure, strictly/dynamically typed, ...)

- know the 5-10 most important milestones in the history of that language

- know the standard libraries so that you don't repeat code that is written there,

then what use is there to master a language further? If someone is experienced in language learning, the above can be accomplished for nearly any language in idk, a year? At that point of mastery, it makes much sense to learn another way of thinking instead of memorizing the official language specification verbatim.

A programmer with 3 completely different paradigms to think in will be much more effective than one with just one paradigm to think in. Time is much better spent learning new paradigm than to gain that last bit of mastery.
I think it's more analogous to the following than publishing:

If someone steals a safe, and then brings it to me to unlock and I know they stole it originally, I am in violation of the law and clearly committing a criminal act.
I find HOCON to be a nice minimal extension to JSON - allows config values to reference each other, with some basic string and array functions included, and allows successive files to append to or override existing config values. Fills 90% of what I see people asking for in terms of programmability.

https://github.com/lightbend/config/blob/master/HOCON.md#goa...
free tier is only for the vps I think.
Not OP but:

https://phptherightway.com/pages/Functional-Programming.html

https://github.com/mtdowling/transducers.php

Don't forget putting a function into a function, gives you behaviour polymorphism at runtime, without inheritance or class based dependency injection
You’re still not describing a stack; you are describing the normal three-step client→resolver→auth_server procedure. Your “non recursive client” is the client, the ISP has the resolver, and that resolver performs many queries to many authoritative servers, which is the final step. There is still only one resolver, not a stack of them.

A common variation, which might have been what you meant to describe, is that a home router is announcing itself as a resolver to the local network, but is, in reality, merely acting as a proxy to the actual resolver, either at the ISP or some other resolver provider. But a DNS proxy is not a resolver, and might not even have a cache. A DNS proxy is made to be transparent, i.e. invisible to both sides; the local network sees the proxy as the resolver, and the real resolver sees the proxy as the client. There are even more complex setups possible on the authoritative server side, but none of these proxy possibilities alter the fundamental DNS model of client→resolver→auth_servers.

The possibility of transparent proxies in any client-server protocol should not alter the description of that protocol from “client-server” to “client-proxy-proxy-proxy-…-server”, especially not when the protocol does not itself account for proxies. The DNS protocol has, inherently, one component between client and server: the resolver. There is no chain-of-resolvers model in the DNS protocol. The possibility of any number of transparent proxies at any point in the chain should not alter the description or explanation of any protocol.
EXACTLY ^^. If population worldwide were to drop 90%, global warming and mass extinctions would end. In the 1970s we all worried about world overpopulation. ZPG - Zero Population Growth was desirable. Today that disaster is here! 90% of the world's population is not changing anything about mankind's future they are just hanging out ... we should focus on a smaller world by population and more productivity for the future of humanity...

I'll tell you why you see these alarmist articles! Greedy business interests! They are programming our minds to think this is a crisis! To these misers it is a crisis because 1% of business growth every year in places like the USA comes from business sitting on its ass - just from population growth!
Think this ought to be public info for any traded company.
It’s more like the general cost of living, especially housing, has risen faster than the price of a restaurant meal.
"Zuckerberg ousts critical board members, installs loyalist, at Facebook"

Please don't editorialize titles on HN.
Most vacant jobs in Japan are the kind of thing that's quite difficult to automate: farm worker, health care, construction, sole person running a convenience store, etc. The comparatively easy stuff like repetitive factory work has generally been automated already.
> this criticism, while accurate, is...

Forgive me, but doesn't your response boil down to "this criticism is accurate" and then, accuracy be damned, railing against it? If the answer is "it's really fucking rare", then that's exactly what the OP is asking for. If the answer isn't that, well...
Increasing density is optimal for everyone and the environment. The more spread out we are, the more inefficiencies there are in our infrastructure, in our environmental footprint, and in the inconvenience of getting places when they are further apart.

Its purely cultural, but its burning trillions of dollars a year in maintenance, wasted time, and wasted potential.
Ever edit a 200 line yaml file? There are worse options than JSON.
I was simply stating I have trouble with this issue because of the media aspect not the general scientific consensus.

The article makes no mention of how local people, businesses, etc. are affected by the temperature change. The intended article takeaway is clearly about climate change and how this fits into the current state of climate change. Yet, the chance that one specific area is +/- a certain average over a flexible and short amount of time has nothing to do global warming.

It paints an inaccurate picture for those who don't read academic papers on their own. It reminds me of articles that talk about how a stock is down 5% when it is up 100% in a few years and make it sound like the company is imploding. By not framing it with a general sense of regular variation the article itself is confusing.
A journalist giving someone else a document that explain how a particular brand of safe can be cracked is not illegal. Handing someone knowledge is not illegal.

Actually cracking the safe is illegal. We've been over this for decades. Once it was about simply encrypting. Others about documents on bomb making. Or safe cracking. Or lock picking.

The information is legal. Putting it in practice to gain unauthorized access is illegal.
There is 100% loss of what's sent to the landfill, while consuming energy to move it there.

On my property in particular, runoff is not an issue (desert). From what I've seen there's mostly increased insect activity in the compost area. I view it as more generally increasing the fertility of the area from waste using minimal effort.

Most of it is consumed by other lifeforms before I grow anything there. But those lifeforms are residents of my land and will continue to multiply (and die) here. Their increased activity effectively locks up the resources and I can leverage that with a large garden when time permits.
If someone steals your safe, you don't have the safe any more, do you ? Does the person from whom you steal a file still have the file ? See why analogies don't work ?
Microsoft webmail breach exposed email addresses and subject lines
ok, but ... you originally said "harm" and now you're saying "legally actionable harm"
Can you provide details? Mozilla doesn't do much inbound ipv6 on their own AS, its mostly outbound to other things on the interwebz.
> For programmers, JSON works fine in my experience.

Programmers will maybe cope better but just being a programmer doesn't make you magically immune to poor readability and lack of comments.

Most of the points in that article apply to programmers as much as non-programmers.

(I agree there is a reasonable debate to be had about programmability - I'm on the fence about this one)
For anyone considering the above, this is a failing battle. The only way to stop this sort of tracking is if we have a cultural shift, start putting laws in place, and actually enforce them.

For example, did you know that many shopping malls track you with license plate readers? Did you know that your credit card transactions are up for sale? Or that your cell phone provider will give up your location to a third party with a flimsy consent?
> If some piece of software requires some complex configuration I have to refer to some external documentation anyway.

Except something seemingly simple which doesn't attract your attention might have a weird reason for existing - for instance you might have dependency which has to be pinned to a certain version due to compatibility issue or an existing bug. Would you rather spend 2 hours troubleshooting that or maybe put a comment there so that the next person can easily understand the core issue and evaluate it in 5 minutes?
Could you grow high shade cultures, like forrest strawberrys?
This is relentless from Facebook. Consider the fact that they own WhatsApp, it is pretty much "no where to hide" scenario here even for folks who have no Facebook account. Jaque y mate.

Oh, how I wish WhatsApp was an independent company. I am sure Jan Koum and Brian Acton think so too [0], despite making billions off its sale.

[0] https://www.businessinsider.in/Heres-The-Inspirational-Note-...
I feel similarly about incomes; employers ought to write a single check all at once. You get paid on Jan 1st and that's it. Perhaps as a stretch goal we can aim for decennial paychecks.

In seriousness, a steady flow instead of a lump sum has benefits for both sides of the transaction.

For example, I shudder to imagine what shopping sprees politicians might engage in, were they bequeathed with the nation's entire yearly budget in one day!
Also sorry if I came of as rude, did not mean to!
> Most people simply say "I can spend until my bank account is empty".

I don't think this comes down to just individual discipline/budgeting either. If you rejiggled things to that people who live paycheck to paycheck suddenly have non-zero amounts of money in their accounts for most of the year, I bet you'd suddenly see cost-of-living prices/rent adjust upwards so that they're living paycheck to paycheck again, except then they're fucked when taxes are due. Landlords etc aren't gonna leave money on the table.
Your link shows nested data structures working? But regardless TOML is a configuration file format (like INI), not a general purpose data structure format (like JSON is).
Well, I'd argue, it's because they can afford to. Most people don't throw away relatively more expensive items. If a pound of meat cost $30, would people be so careless with it?
Zuck does whatever the hell he wants to. He knows his baby is too big to fail now. It's like he owns the only cigarette company in the world where people are addicted to it by design. Facebook, a 500 billion dollar company, is nothing actually but a spam website pretending to be a social network. I recently installed a browser extension that hides sponsored posts and found my feed literally empty!
Why would google keep this data indefinitely? It should be routinely deleted after a month or so.
I thought I had seen this article before. The discussion is much more lively this time around, but for reference here is a previous HN post from 2017:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14771533
only if you have that feature turned on. Google also records data outside of maps and timeline, IIRC. I imagine you can always access your complete location history by exporting it from Google's take out feature.
A production company is essentially a staffing firm.
> Dictatorship and high GDP per capita is contradictory.

Material wealth equals freedom?
IIRC, each get ~$100K per meeting. I'm not sure if there's stock compensation; there should be though.
ahh, thanks! I should've known that.
The fact that you concede the title can be read that way - even if it is begrudgingly - means your post is entirely made up of nitpicking and mental gymnastics (as you put it). Which means you’re being just as deceptive as the title you’re complaining about
The whole point of negotiating is to be willing to walk away if the other side doesn't agree.
At this point network effect is on Zuckerberg's side, the only disruption that I hope is coming is a decentralized Facebook, but it's too early for that right now.
My old CTO used to say “I don’t care if they have the source code, let them try and actually run the damn thing”
It isn't a simple matter of "paying people" to get them out of their homes. You have to force them out via eminent domain. And not only that, rewrite your laws to extend the powers of eminent domain well beyond their current scope -- which in most jurisdictions almost certainly do not cover the scale of forced redevelopment and mass evictions you are imagining.

You'd want to put them in kind of nondescript areas

These neighborhoods aren't "nondescript" to people who have been living there for generations. And your apparent obliviousness to this central fact goes to the heart of the matter of why redevelopment politics are so contentious in many cities.
Can Emacs.app act as emacsclient?
Being a locksmith isn't a crime, but knowingly trying to assist someone with breaking into a house that isn't their's very much is.
There is an important difference between Assange and Ellsberg so your comparison of the two isn’t a good one:

Assange did not steal and leak the materials, he was the outside party publishing them.

On the other hand Ellsberg was the person working for the government who copied and leaked all the materials and knew he might face charges for that reason.

In this comparison Manning would be compared to Ellsberg. And Assange would be the reporter at The NY Times or WaPo (I’m brain farting here) who published them.
That’s my point. Believing in anything is optional - except for hard scientific facts that have been proven experimentally to a “believable” level relative to the other side which is presenting anecdotal evidence.

Everything can be wrong. Even theory of gravitation. That’s besides the point.
So much of the arguments over housing contain some sort of slippery slope statement of "I don't want my city to become Hong Kong or Dubai." But imagine if SF/SV started building housing that looked a lot like Amsterdam https://www.jetsetter.com/uploads/sites/7/2018/04/lVBcs3gf-1..., Paris https://c8.alamy.com/comp/RR1A0X/elegant-parisian-apartment-..., or even New York https://static01.nyt.com/images/2014/05/11/realestate/201405.... Those 5-10 story town houses are far nicer than anything that exists in SF and would provide a huge boost in density. Sure, it would be hugely expensive to recreate something that nice today, but the point is that you can create a beautiful, dense city without going really tall.
Hold on - you say public good, but who gets to decide what that is? Assange and Manning took it upon themselves to decide that leaking thousands of diplomatic cables - which are kept secret by the laws of the United States because they are sensitive documents that govern our diplomatic relationships with and strategy towards other countries around the world, both friendly and adversarial - was in the public good. But those laws are there for a reason. We live in a world of continuously vying sovereign powers who spy on each other and sometimes even attack each other militarily. Not all of these countries are good countries to live in, not all of them respect human rights, not all of them are democracies, and many in fact are run by corrupt, untrustworthy people. There are good reasons for these laws to exist, but Manning and Assange decided - by themselves - that there aren't.

So - what if your ethics are wrong? What if you haven't done the work to understand why the laws are the way they are? Are you still being conscientious?

Laws are public and the result of a massive concensus-building process that we've built known as representative democracy, by which, if we choose to actually participate, we all have a say in which laws exist and which don't. 'Ethics' on the other hand are personal and subjective and are not written down anywhere and do not govern others' actions and while they might well be right they may just as easily be wrong.

I'm not saying that there are no cases of justified civil disobedience. Certainly civil rights protests and the leaking of the Pentagon Papers come to mind. But that doesn't necessarily mean that the laws are always wrong and the whistleblowers always right. Each case needs to be discussed on its own merits, through public debate. And sometimes that means that it turned out the laws were right, and the whistleblowers were mistaken.
I honestly cannot tell if Poe's law is applicable here or not.
You worked on both the Aegis and the S400? That seems a bit implausible.

Or do you mean you worked on one of them and therefore can compare them (without experience of the other)?
But wouldn't we all be more free, really, if we just gave everyone enough rope to hang themselves & then locked up the left-hand side of the bell curve in debtor's prison?
> According to Eurostat, although French households pay 41% less than German households

Because they don't pay the real price. The whole show is government owned (EDF, Areva (or what they are called today)). and thus a lot of money is coming from the government - like financing for acquiring Areva parts. The government keeps nuclear power afloat with huge amounts of money.

Example: http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Europe-checks-Fre...

EDF is 56bn€ in debt and can't pay for the maintenance/replacement of its aging reactors. The new Flamanville reactor is now at 11bn€ cost...
I do not think imperative languages are better, because they suck at parallelization. And creating infrastructure elements in parallel is crucial.

What I see as optimal is tool like make, which calls other command line tools. Resolves dependencies, processes errors. But not make, something with sane syntax and error handling.

All these new fancy all-Go tools creep me out. Infrastructure tooling should not live in domain of one programming language. Extensibility should be language agnostic. If I want to write some Perl/Python/Bash script to support some very non standard part of my infrastructure, I should be able to. If I want to plug vendor specific utility execution into deployment pipeline, I should be able to. And it should be easy.
Can you post a link to this extension?
$ dig AAAA +short irc.mozilla.org
2620:101:8030:74::1:1b
$ whois 2620:101:8030:74::1:1b
NetRange: 2620:101:8000:: - 2620:101:80FF:FFFF:FFFF:FFFF:FFFF:FFFF
CIDR: 2620:101:8000::/40
NetName: MOZILLA-V6-1
$ ping -6 irc.mozilla.org
PING irc.mozilla.org(2620:101:8030:74::1:1b (2620:101:8030:74::1:1b)) 56 data bytes
From 2003:0:8a05:b000::1 (2003:0:8a05:b000::1): icmp_seq=1 Destination unreachable: No route

ISP's looking glass: https://f-lga1.f.de.net.dtag.de/index.php?pageid=lg&query=ip...
Agreed. And to address the grandparent comment. Its entirely possible that he is approaching his coding with a professional mindset and wasting time on things like maintainability, scalability, or similar just out of habit.