skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Russians were better at spying during the cold war. Why wouldn’t they still be?

Also, the issue isn’t just if there was ‘collusion.’ It was what they tried to do. The Trump campaign tried to work with the Russians but failed because they had no idea what they were doing. They were doing stuff like sending people’s emails to the wrong place.
There seem to be ample comments discussing the "viability" of crypto trading/tokens, but if I'm Etrade, all I care about are the commissions - to hell with the underlying tech or what it can/can't do. Not even just for BTC, ETH, EOS, etc now, but for the coins to come in the future. Sure, they can have prolonged periods of low volume (even manipulated volume), but when there's a frenzy (e.g., 2016-2018), I imagine that the profit potential on commissions would do wonders for "shareholder value". Combine that with Etrade's namebrand (as mentioned in other comments) experience, and infrastructure, and you've got a gang of traders that would gladly do away with the sketchy/lesser-known exchanges for Etrade (my opinion).
Yeah for sure, I think that lobbying having infiltrated our politics is the issue here. Corporate influence/greed is what keeps these concerns from being addressed.

Also Philip Morris (at least the parent company) is now called Altria
Nothing changes until people start to go to jail.
I’d get rid of X11 if there were something better. But the only alternative that I know of means gigabytes of crap from projects like gnome or kde and provides less functionality.
Kind of OT, status page works with JS only :D
Be aware that in some (most?) cases the MDM blocks, at least the very restrictive ones, are only achieved on devices shipped by the employer strictly for work purposes, not on private ones. To get full, total and utter control, you need to wipe your device through Apple Configurator (a Mac program) and set it up with the MDM profile from the start. Just installing the enterprise profile, like you normally do, won't give you access to everything.
Xennials
A subset of business schools are considered “quant” schools. These schools tend to be pretty high up in the rankings as their faculty often end up winning Nobel prizes.
I don't understand your argument at all. You seem to be arguing that making taxes difficult is a good thing because it's educational? I disagree. All it does is increase the time and expense of doing taxes.

> People with money/educated about taxes would actually take the time to fill out the forms and benefit from deductions.

I don't think this is universally true. People will do a cost/benefit on this stuff. For some people, it will be worth the tradeoff required to maximally reduce taxes. For others, it absolutely is not. Why penalize the latter group?

> I really don't think we benefit society by catering to an uneducated/indifferent populace.

It's not catering to a specific group, it's avoiding penalizing that group. From my point of view, intentionally making taxes complex really amounts to an additional unwarranted tax on people.
That's a single-quote, so yes.
Please stop calling these undocumented and private APIs. I know you feel that there is no difference, but continuing to spread flawed information even after being told that it’s incorrect is not arguing in good faith.
Amiga Development System Found (1 of 6 known to exist)
They didn’t “lose” because of bundling. They lost because they forced exclusive third party OEMs not to bundle Netscape. Do you notice that MS never stopped bundling IE?

Have any of the console makers or smart TV makers been told what they can and can’t put on their own devices? Has any physical store been fined for limiting what they sell in their own store?

And that’s not how monopolies are defined.
It's a 4.4 sigma detection, so not a discovery by particle physics standards. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1124-4

I've heard suggestions that the result is more of a curiosity than of fundamental importance, and that this is why they get to publish a uncertain result in nature.
This is an archived copy of a teardown that Samsung asked iFixit to remove. The teardown suggests that the tradeoffs necessary to support the range of motion across the hinge led to increased ingress points for particulates along the edge of the screen and the spine.
It literally is not. They'll just terminate you and thats it.
It may be worth mentioning that this sort of thing isn't just a problem for whoever is running it, because it may have a bad effect on other users if you hammer the metadata server(s). It's necessary to have monitoring which can identify the jobs responsible and take action. The Lustre system here was clobbered for several days because the admins had no means of doing that, despite all the facilities provided for and by Lustre.
Once all the chat systems without persistence have disappeared, some new hip company will come along touting “no persistence” as a feature, maybe even a privacy feature.

But seriously, I don’t understand why persistence is such a huge deal to people. Chat is for transient chat - it is meant to be non-persistent just like verbal communication.

There are so many mechanisms for persistent messaging (forums, text messages, emaills, and everything in between), I don’t understand how an entire industry spawned from a concept we already had?
Reminded me of this XKCD:

https://xkcd.com/505/
Privacy idealist hat on.

I believe there's a lot of potential for CDNs and major sites to offer anti-censorship pass through traffic with HTTP/2 via CONNECT. By having a multiplexed protocol with multiple streams that spans "normal" traffic and tunneled traffic, it should be harder to identify. This would allow major sites or CDN providers to provide service to those people behind such bans and possibly require governments to break a significant portion of the web in order to institute those blocks. I think it's valuable to increase the damage done by government blocking so we can ensure that mainstream persons are sufficiently upset by this conduct. I also think CloudFlare and other major CDN providers should be the ones to provide this type of VPN access either as a product or as a special case offering for people in countries who censor the web.

I realize there are many businesses who wouldn't damage their primary offerings to provide such a secondary service. But it only takes one or two companies to increase the collateral damage of the bans, and thus make them much more costly for the governments imposing them.
Exceptions have a setup cost. You pay that setup cost every time an exception frame is created.
I’m pretty sure the APIs to get the device’s phone number, along with most other identifying characteristics, are gated behind entitlements that Apple will not grant third party developers.
If you’re building something and you lift up a rock and find a lot of weird solutions to a problem you’d never really thought through crawling under it, what would you do?

1) Ban them immediately, no matter how necessary to parents, as the risk of tracking/stalking of all iPhone users is unacceptable

2) Build a safer solution that can’t be harnessed for tracking/stalking, and then ban all solutions that can be used for tracking/stalking

Seems like they chose the latter. It’s easy to construct a case for why it is technically inappropriate to allow third-party apps in this space, that I personally boil down primarily to “a frequently-abused chance for corporate entities to monetize the user data of minors”.

Apple took years to implement content filtering, and did so in a way that prohibits applications from knowing whether their filters are ever exercised, as otherwise Facebook and other malicious entities would long ago have added a filter for ^(.*)$ to transmit every request to third-party servers. Is their refusal to permit otherwise anti-competitive, security-forward, or both?

Apple, if I understand correctly, prohibits third-party keyboards in certain password-type dialogs on iOS because keyboard apps are allowed to send network requests. (They are allowed to do so because e.g. GIF search.) Is this prohibition anti-competitive, security-forward, or both?

We as a community need to become a lot more careful with use of the phrase “anti-competitive”, as many industry-standard security practices that we would demand of any product we build and use are then labeled “anti-competitive” solely when they interfere with us doing anything we like, or when they’re done by an organization that doesn’t share its internal discussions with us when making decisions on our behalf.

Is it appropriate to stifle the competition for my personal data, even if that is, in a literalistic interpretation, anti-competitive?

I sure hope so.
Author here. This post is a rewrite of the previous Unit Testing [1] and Integration Tests [2] posts. It creates a custom test framework that runs test functions inside QEMU, so that they run in a realistic environment (compared to running on the host system).

[1]: https://os.phil-opp.com/unit-testing/
[2]: https://os.phil-opp.com/integration-tests/

The new test framework directly works with `cargo xtest`, which brings the project closer to using standard cargo programs for building, testing, and running. The last remaining step is the `std` Aware Cargo RFC [3]. When the RFC is merged and implemented, cargo-xbuild will no longer be needed and the familiar cargo build, cargo run, and cargo test commands will just work, including IDE integration.

[3]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/2663
Friend of mine told me a story that he has set up a Windows computer for someone, and one week later that same person goes back and is like "oh, my computer is broken". The guy asks what happened, and the person explains that she was trying to get that new game for her daughter, but it's so expensive so she wanted a crack. The antivirus complained, like it always does, so she just turned it off and installed anyway. The guy immediately recommended to stay far away from Windows and get an iPad. She did and never came back.
> these apps don't abuse undocumented APIs or look for loopholes in Apple's review guidelines

Many of these apps do exactly this.
Its on my website (in profile).

Its also on a bunch of lists because I signed a petition.
The misunderstood role of the product development coach
By definition a third party company that can control your apps remotely and can intercept traffic from all of your apps is spyware.

You personally can install MDM software on your device where you control the traffic and the profile.
Show HN: On-Demand AWS Serverless Functions
MS did have to stop bundling IE in the EU.
Yeah, I can see how they'd be used like that and I don't condone it. At the same time, the optimist in me hopes they're trying to make it less obvious to the employees that the phone is being tracked. Like when you don't necessarily need a glowing red camera to remind workers that big brother is watching.

But I certainly see your point. I'm
just hoping they're a legitimate vehicle tracking solution that's letting you add an accompanying hard-to-remove client app on a spare phone to use as a easy vehicle tracker.
UN official visits Julian Assange, investigating Ecuador’s illegal surveillance
Layer 2 is not decentralized.

POS is not decentralized

Sharding has a unstoppable risk of a 51% attack.

Ethereum has failed.
Scientific journal snubs professor for ‘offensive’ Sleeping Beauty metaphor
The argument is they want you to use less effective anti-addiction tools so you stay on your phone more.
Back when I was writing my PhD thesis (in English, as a non-native English speaker) I remember looking for a more efficient way to find synonyms for certain word.

Usually when you are looking for synonyms, you know you already know the word but you just cannot find it. So the Idea I had was to make some kind of "graph" representation of Word relationships given their meaning.

I remember finding a huge list of words with scores related to their meaning like:

Fly 1, Soar 0.9, Float 0.8.

Think, Ponder 0.9, Muse 0.8.

Which really helped, however given the different "directions" of the meaning that a word can have, this is better represented as a graph.

I finished my PhD writing with the use of said list (saddly I could never find it again), and the graph meaning idea just "went away" (lacking a better word) as I finished my degree. But the need for an efficient and quickly way to find that replacement word is still active.
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Tesla is in the best position to win in this arena. As the article points out it's cutthroat so the one with the lowest costs, acquisition and operation will win.

Telsa makes it's own cars, the cars have super low operating costs: built for 1m miles, almost no ongoing maintenance, powered by electricity that is already much cheaper than gas and will continue to get cheaper. And finally no driver with self driving software.

No one else has this combination attributes for the lowest cost operation. Though it could be Tesla after it's bought by Google.
Apple’s competitive product (namely, Screen Time) has no API. It’s a system level feature that no third-party app has access to.
> It's a bit anti competitive, yes, it limits what app makers can do, but it makes iOs secure. There's no other way to do it, and that's what many people don't understand.

They could compensate the app makers, at least.
Genuinely intriguing stuff:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Librem
Ahh. That helps. Sounds like Apple is partially at fault here for ignoring this set of needs. So, both good and bad apps appear to fill that gap.
> regulate the usage of such data so that it doesn’t get siphoned off to who-knows-where

How would you do this?
Complete surveillance and indefinite recording of Internet traffic.

Mind you I realise that a lot of people believe parents have absolute right to deny their children privacy. I don't, I have friends with CPTSD.
Chernobyl comes back to life in Ukrainian computer game
Maybe Google like to increase the total number of actual search results without increasing the amount of useful content? They also fake the total number of search results, not sure why they would want to do both though...

But either way, it looks like a Google employee have seen your comment and fixed this particular search query.
And since they aren’t an advertising supported business, what financial motivation do they have by keeping you on your phone more?
“On Bullshit” – Harry Frankfurt [pdf]
I don't know if OP would agree with that phrasing, but I would. The oft quothed Zuck line about dumb fucks trusting him with their info for reasons he didn't understand dropped nine years ago; if you still trust the devil that called you a dumb fuck for trusting him, that's certainly a reflection of your own flaws. We have a more general Zuck-agnostic flaw of sharing information with entities that could misuse it, whether or not they've called us dumb fucks yet. I feel like engineering solutions to this would be more clever and secure than legislative ones. It's not that I want a company that shares my private information to be fined, it's that I don't want them to have my private information in the first place.
> - the ability to delete one's own message, and have that deletion propagated
> - the ability to delete other peoples' messages, and have that deletion propagated

That means you are asking for control over other people's computers and what information they are allowed to display, i.e. DRM. It is also a falsification of history.

> - the ability for all participants in the community to see messages in the same format, including code blocks with syntax highlighting, images, video links, and web embeds

That excludes people with text interfaces.
TinyLetter is a perfect platform, and it is probably not dying (2018)
This of course depends on what you mean by 'information'. Lets say we have data points

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP

But depending on the URL you follow to get there you can get a page containing only some of the elements.

index.html?ACD

or

index.html?AP

or

index.html?GI

All different combinations return a page that could be weighted differently by an algormith and represent valid informational return data. To a person looking for the information set DE in one place, this is a valid web page. More so you can abstract the URL query variable away to www.webpage.com/DE. You can quickly run into a combinatorial explosion where even attempting to figure out if a small portion of returns is different would consume most of the energy in the visible universe.
Excellent! Good companion to this is Richard Fitzpatrick's Computational Physics notes

http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/teaching/329/329.html
Not for over a half a decade....

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/196170-microsoft-is-fi...
Add another zero? Or maybe two?

I mean, here's the thing. If you spit on the sidewalk or look funny at a cop, you can spend months in jail. Facebook is doing some bad stuff to a whole lot of people, all the time, flaunting the law, without remorse and repeatedly. There is absolutely no reason why considerations like "we must make sure Facebook survives as a going, profitable entity" should enter into punishment considerations, any more than "we should make sure this guy's life isn't harmed" enters into our punishment considerations for some guy walking down the street with two joints in his pocket.
Saying that $5 billion is "chump change" is silly in any context and on a related note I keep hearing newscasters and prodcasters bemoaning the fact that Facebook is thriving and it disturbs me to no end that these people are publicly and loudly advocating for an important and unique company to be killed off, and I'm not sure about the psychology or the motives behind it.

What's clear is that they are blaming facebook for political outcomes that are divergent from the mainstream and are conflating that with all that is negative and upsetting in the zeitgeist
> Second, anonymous telemetry is not spyware.

I think there is plenty of room for legitimate disagreement on this point so long as it's not optional and/or fully disclosed.
> IRC isn't persistent (i.e. you can't read messages delivered while you were offline)

It’s chat, not email.

That’s a natural feature of the medium.

In the age of Google, why on earth would you want to record everything?
I'm unaware of any options to export, that would be a security issue.

To store the seed values, simply store the text provided for use if you can't use the qr code.
Blackhole their ad servers.
Parents have the legal right to do basically whatever they want with regards to their children’s privacy. That doesn’t mean that I agree that they should do this, but if they would like to do this there’s not much that can stop them.
I agree, it wasn't a good example. More was (attempting) to make a point when inside a complex file, what I've seen. With long interface names mixed in with long variable names, contributing to larger files sizes than necessary. It varies depending on project/company. It's lowercase `boolean`.
It's not complicated:

Overly-broad rules + selective enforcement = yes, targeted crackdown
If you like Webster's, Garner's Modern American Usage will blow your head off.
I do think there should be a "death penalty" for companies, but you don't need to punish the company (and many innocent employees) to prevent unethical behavior.

Instead, you need to:

1) hold the C-suite and the Board accountable for the crime(s)

2) eliminate all their compensation from the years they were committing the crime

3) force the company to replace the entire C-suite

Fining someone like Zuckerberg and letting him retain control is like finding out your babysitter is giving your child alcohol, fining them, and then letting them continue watching your child. It makes no sense in any other context.
The "(1969-2018)" designation is similar to that used for the lifetime of a deceased person. So I too thought this was some kind of RIP post.
The unexpectedness of it was a lot of how it got to me.
As I mentioned, in our community we have some deal with Slack so that we are paid (up to a point) and have full message history retention. Search can also go through all of those messages too. This is extremely valuable, and is a selling point for Slack if you can somehow get on to a paid plan without breaking the bank.

But in my experience, many don't use the search anyhow. :P

I'll admit, I don't know the full details of the relationship we have with Slack as I'm just an admin and not an owner. It is paid for by someone, but I don't know how much we're paying per head or of it's a flat rate.
That is true to a large extent, but this isn't really a legal question, no?
Lots of smoke and no fire. The only way apps could accomplish “parental controls” would be though MDM or maybe through something a bit more heavy handed like a VPN. Neither are great solutions (MDM being slightly better) AND the privacy concerns are very high (see: Facebook VPN/“Study”). There exist no API’s to natively do what these apps said they could do and so they took the MDM/VPN heavy-handed route.

I am 100% ok with Apple requesting changes from or straight up blocking apps that do shit like this. It’s deceptive IMHO and users don’t understand what they are really signing away when they stuff like this. I doubt parents fully understand that while they get some level of control over the phone they are ceding full control over every packet the goes over the VPN to some random company. That’s another thing, let’s not pretend these companies are well know/reputable. I’ve never heard of them before and I assume that’s because they didn’t really do anything novel and instead used a sledgehammer to kill a fly. Granted it’s because a fly-swatter didn’t exist (and still doesn’t) but they exist in the same category for me as ad-blocker apps that use a VPN to accomplish their goals. I’m not interested in giving up 100% of my internet traffic to get something like filtered ads. Also I have a legitimate use for VPN’s for home and work and I don’t like halfway solutions (am I supposed to be fine with ads when I need to use a real VPN?).

In summary I question the usefulness of these apps and strongly feel that they create way more problems than they fix. Also Apple is LOSING money by removing/neutering these apps. This isn’t a case of Spotify vs Apple Music and I’ve got nothing but crocodile tears for these “businesses” that have gone up in smoke because from my perspective they were all smoke and mirrors to begin with.
Debian 9.9 Released
It's starting to feel like human attention is being squeezed like a turnip. Extract that last little tiny bit we have left.

All we have is focused on work or a device. Where are our loved ones? Exercise? Hobbies? Safe driving?

We even have to automate DRIVING because we can't keep out eyes off the phone.

When this cracked screen phone finally dies on me, hopefully soon, I'm done with the whole industry.

We are destroying the planet and our minds and our relationships and out lives with these things.

and here I sit. Ranting to people I don't know and who will have entirely no impact on my life with one.

It's time to be done with it.

What a waste.
Remember when VW did all that computer magic with emissions controls.
Only a mid level engineering manager went to jail.
The diesel emissions will probably cause cancer in people in the streets. CEO's need to start going to the gaol long term , and we need to start banning those involved from being able to run, own, or hold shares in corporations outside of blind trusts ever again.
Don't you think it's far fetched to say that every single developer at the company is useless because they didn't look into ant build settings?