skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be frank tech companies are a second order symptom of fucked up societal attitudes pushing the censorship.

The puritan mass market push towards "child friendly mass market" as a default which leaves no place for the ugliness of reality. They don't care about suffering - they just don't want to see it. It is narcissistic sociopathy as a norm - how dare they run out of a burning building in their underwear! Children might see them!

That it is the middle of the night is no concern - they don't want "inappropriate content" in a back alley. They want it gone.

The tech companies tend towards doing nothing until the masses of "think of the children" complaints about "objectionable" content. The absence of those masses of people is what I miss the most about the internet not being mainstream. I personally believe what we need is to offend those busybodies as much as possible until they fuck off into their own bubble.
I think your "issue" with the Shine animation is just what the Shine animation is supposed to look like.
My anecdote: Deprioritizing paypal directly leads to lost sales
Yes, that's exactly what I mean, they're part of the market whether you like it or not and so they created a market desire for DRM in browsers. DRM isn't inherently evil, it's an attempt to protect the property rights of the producers of downloadable content. Granted sometimes this attempt is disastrously bad (e.g: any attempts at DRM before steam in the realm of video games) but as far as I can tell this browser DRM hasn't caused issues and it hasn't certainly hasn't been intrusive for me.

That's not a reasonable effort for the average consumer but then the average consumer also probably doesn't care about DRM that much, the whole computer is a giant black blob of code to them with no clue what it's actually doing. The average consumer likely just wants to be able to access their content via the internet and the DRM facilitates that by giving the option to companies that would be unwilling to distribute their content without it.
Just think how this could have improved the writing of e.e. cummings or James Joyce.
"What if"-s and theoreticals don't help any discussion. It's very evident by now that people en masse don't push back. And there are no signs that this is changing as well.

Instead of being hung up "but if the people just do this...", how about we formulate a new strategy based on the facts observed so far?
It's common practice within the payment industry. When a refund is issued for a credit card transaction, the interchange fees are (or at least, should be) refunded to the merchant.

This will be particularly true for a large payment processor like PayPal, since they will have a lot of negotiating power when it comes to the transaction/interchange fees they pay.
Great reason to switch to cryptocurrency
> 5)Act in a manner that is defamatory, trade libelous, threatening or harassing;

Does that include criticism? Companies that try to ban criticism against them are irredeemably toxic.

In general, I'd like a payment provider to just be neutral infrastructure. With cash, I can just pay someone, and then they'll have the money, and nobody can freeze or ban that. Although if it's crime involved in some way, of course the police can still act against us. Similarly, if I've got a bank account and the other person has a bank account, we can transfer money. The bank may check for potential fraud, and if they think they detect it, I'd expect them to inform the police, rather than revoke my bank account without warning and on no real evidence.

PayPal wants way too much control over what we do with our money or even in our life outside of our financial transactions. That's not acceptable.

A few of these points are entirely reasonable, but others are not, or are things they should report to the police, rather than act on their own.
Bitcoin is not less legal than any fiat money btw.
For me as a customer, having PayPal as payment option increases the propability of purchase. Especially with one-time purchases from small vendors.

Reasons: No risk of credit card info misuse (by vendor), I only need username and password and I get certainly at least some kind of receipt for accounting.
Just a precision: all these regulations apply to consumers.

A business, whether a company or a sole-trader, is not a consumer.

GDPR applies if you are a sole-trader.
Esslingen too.
A Complete Guide to the Science of Self-Talk
Another question to ask is: did the fall of the Soviet Union led to democracy in Russia? This fellow [1] whom you might've heard of has been leading Russia in one way or another since 1999.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Putin
Their company is an Eastern European 'SaaS' company whose main product automates blog network deployments so marketers can run campaigns that spam Google's ranking algorithm. SMH. You got banned because you're a spamware company.
Yeah, I'll admit I missed that. /facepalm
I have trouble understanding why we should break up Facebook but not google. Is it because we think google is less evil than Facebook?
>To me it is becoming increasingly apparent that the issue here is that people aren’t voting for the issues the NYT and Chris want people to vote on.

While you're getting downvoted, there is likely an element of truth to this. The "old" media has seen entities like Twitter and Facebook as a threat to their business model, as well as their ability to be influencers. There are legitimate gripes that we should all have with Facebook and their ilk, but I am sure the NYT is motivated by more than just concern for the public good.
Interesting effort. I do think their Expected Ideas, perpetuate the presumptions that cause security issues in the first place.

"
Data and link security,
Ground and space equipment security,
Protection of classified information,
Keys management through full life cycle,
Monitoring, situational awareness and forensic analysis of cyber-attacks,
Technological enablers and transversal building blocks.
"

The most interesting thing I've found over the last 18 months is how few CISOs and secdevops people actually know what they are protecting, and from whom. Their worldview seems to end at, "the business!" which is a black box to them.

Often, the sophistication and complexity of security technologies subtly moves risk out of the domain of business owners, and onto operations staff who aren't equipped to hold or meaningfully mitigate it, and the effect is that we're left with transferring risk to empty compliance rituals, or a company security troll who can be periodically scape-goated.

I've got a horse in this race, but the solution is not for techs to educate business partners on security, but for owners to align their teams around the business risks that actually matter and let techs do what they do best, which is solve problems.

ESA would benefit most from a tool that educated all their engineers and product owners on the things the agency and projects value, and the risks to them it perceives.
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I do not know how it is in your jurisdiction but where I live a collector needs to inform you in timely manner of these kind of discrepancies if they want to enforce fines or overcharge fees. The means different kind of channels of communication than the regular ones (e.g. postal instead of login to the site, or at least show some effort). Note: this is only if they overcharge without you being able to do so normally, if are allowed to have a negative balance you pay regular fees and you signed a contract to do so.
I bet paypal is running some ML based service that flags accounts so the rep could not explain the reason even if the rep wanted to.
Ubiquitys cheapest router that can do 10 G is the edgerouter infinity which cost a lot more than 400 usd.
> Uber charged $1500 to my debut card a few months ago. There's literally nobody you can call about it.

Your bank. You call your bank.
His site mentions 3 months of freeze dried food
Yes, or hire a good designer who's aware of the medium. Otherwise, you're hiring a stylist/artist.
How Does Gentics Mesh Integrate Elasticsearch?
In my experience GC makes programmers sloppy in their resource usage. Just allocate a bunch of memory annnd... whatever, the GC will take care of that. But there are a lot of other resources besides memory that aren't automatically cleaned up like that. So what happens is people forget to close network sockets, forget to unsubscribe event handlers, forget to set certain references to null to actually allow the GC to do its work, etcetera... The existence and over-reliance on GCs has led to a mindset where many programmers are just not aware that what you create must also be destroyed at some point.
Manual transmissions are the default in most of Europe. They're cheaper, they're more efficient and they make the most of small engines with limited torque.
I said china is a multi-ethnic nation unlike south korea, didn't I. I highly doubt tibetans or ugyhurs would celebrate going through 90s russian life.

Tibet and Xinjiang ( and to a limited degree hong kong ) are interesting because europe in particular wants to use them to break china. And interestingly enough, the both tibet and xinjiang were invaded by foreign powers ( britain and soviet union ) in order to destabilize china. Both times, most tibetans and uyghurs sided with china.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_invasion_of_Xinjiang

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_expedition_to_Tibet

My point is that most people just care about their well being. As long as they are getting wealthier, they don't care. If china's economic situation worsens dramatically, then I suspect things might be different. But I doubt any chinese citizens of any ethnicity wants their family to experience 90s russia or 1800s china. Just like no one here wants to go through a great depression ( which was mild compared to what 90s russia and 1800s china experienced ).
It should be obvious from the context though. "crypto" is also shortened from cryptography, why should it be exclusive to that?
That is a common belief, and a regular Google PR talking point, but it’s incorrect. Kubernetes is only vaguely inspired by Borg, and was created by different people, using different technology, endeavoring to solve a different problem.

In fact you could say Kubernetes was evolved from Docker, much more than it was evolved from Borg.
I love how the code font is really crisp even on top of the visuals. Excellent work!
This article mentions "illegal sex activity", but I have no idea what that means. Is it prostitution? Some sort of trafficking deal?
That should be an ideal application. Usually the trouble with 3rd-party garbage collection is that it has to discern pointer vs. any other machine word. That's more of a problem with C; this is why the Boehm GC library calls itself "conservative". A runtime like V8 can follow a spec when it allocates memory so everything is properly marked.
From a quick glance, it has some feature that ShaderToy really lacks, like choosing the rendering resolution and being more mobile-friendly.
On the other hand, there is also a lot of thing lacking that ShaderToy has, like multiple stage shader.

It look more like a web version of Bonzomatic than a clone of ShaderToy :) .
The Orange Book or Old School Security
so? most apps are by nature going to be computationally expensive if they want to compete/successfully use all phone features. i made a simple(according to them) corporate data sync app recently and the company wanted a laundry list of features - background sync, smooth scrolling of extremely large datasets, photographic analysis of images taken at tolls(extracting license plate information/classifying vehicles automatically for tracking).

All of this had to be made in a performant way so as to run on phones with 1 gig of ram as the company was giving phones to everyone specifically for just this purpose(and general communication ofc).However it also needed to work on iphones/windows phones(old ones the execs purchased en masse)

Xamarin was the only choice att as react just doesn't work stably on windows phones but i'm excited to see the future
How a deprecated 35-yo NSA document has guided this security pro's career
Yes, reflection voids many JIT paths in PyPy, AFAIK. Maybe it was worth rewriting the Python code to get rid of the reflection?
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> Only recently in hacker news have they become all merged

This is demonstrably not true. The Garbage Collection book by Jones is the key text in this area, and it covers reference counting under that term. It was published in 1996, before Hacker News existed.

There is also Bacon's Unified Theory of Garbage Collection, 2004, which said the two are on a spectrum that meets in the middle.

> all high-performance collectors (for example, deferred reference counting and generational collection) are in fact hybrids of tracing and reference counting
> You are not forced to be software developer.

Do you really not see the problem with suggesting people switch careers every time an overbearing corporation starts exerting excessive control over their industry?
It's the advertising market that drives all of this.

As you rightly point out, history is proof that the ad dollars don't care what the platform or who the messenger is, as long as they are easy to use and effectiveness can be measured.
Very cool. It does something weird to my back button though - I had to use the tab history to get back to HN.
I’m always surprised as to why people are concerned about card details misuse.

You are not responsible for card-not-present fraud (without 3D Secure). You can dispute any fraudulent charge with your bank, and I’d bet good money the bank has actually better customer service in that regard compared to PayPal.
>For me as a customer, having PayPal as payment option increases the propability of purchase.

For me, Paypal looks disgusting. Like it's stuck in 2002. I'd much rather buy if there's Apple Pay via Safari or Gumroad or literally anything else.
> You are right. I have not seen any evidence of this yet either.

Then again, since Google controls so much of what you see, would you ever be exposed to this evidence?
True. That's why I used "decentralized solutions".
https://www.reddit.com/r/Firearms/comments/avml94/i_cannot_s...

Since these are not my words but I agree with them I'll leave a link to the original post here
There are many cultural differences at play though. The only difference between Denver and Amsterdam is not height. The point I was trying to make in my post was there are many factors at play, but I believe gateway drug effect will be one of them.
Sure. But it still doesn't necessarily mean "PP bans them, they will still be out of business". It may. But I disagree with the jumping to conclusions unless it's been tested (and it doesn't sound like OP did)
you know what alpine linux is for right?
Java esque OO is often tauted as a way to reuse code, but incredibly does the opposite by dictating a tree design and then actively disallowing reuse between arbitrary leaves of the tree

I think the worse part is this plague has descended into other languages, if you want different behaviour for different things (but common in someway) just accept a function into your function & invoke it, tada more efficient dependency injection
You might want to read my comment in the other subthread over here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19867467

Also, thanks a lot for the reference, strangely the first time I hear of this book! However, I have to most strongly disagree with the claim of "three layers is enough.", and you'll hopefully come to understand why, after checking the above comment. Which, by the way, DOESN'T speak in favor of OSI AT ALL - nor in favor of IP, for that matter. Two brief quotes from over there:

"[…]

This does not mean that we should be doing OSI. Good grief, no. …

[…]

————

[…]

[22] Someone will ask, What about IPv6? It does nothing for these problems but make them worse and the problem it does solve is not a problem.

[…]"
I would guess that a clientele with spammers and black hat SEO's could have something to do with it. Paypal network graphs probably think they're top of some scheme.
You're right of course. It's just as someone who struggles with naming projects, I often get annoyed when I see comments on HN focusing on naming things rather than the cool work that has been shared and donated to the community. However on reflection, on this occasion my comment was unfair.
I have to ignore numbers not in my contact list, I get 10+ scam calls a day.

I kind of worry about those situations but I'm just as likely to miss a call being on the phone to these arseholes anyway.

I really want the ability to block certain country codes on my phone, 99% of the scam calls are from outside of NZ.
It is weird, I do not feel restricted when I write non-GC code. Btw. you still need to pay attention with GCd languages no to leak references that cannot be GCd. Java has this sort of problems. Rust made it easy and simple to deal with memory in a non-malloc level while not having GC. Erlang on the other hand has a VM that makes GC much faster than in other languages. I can live with that because if you do it right it does not impact end user latency. For me both Rust and Erlang gives the cake + eat it feeling.
> There being no password also does not matter, as you are by default already running everything as root. Who cares if root can become root?

Best practice would have you switch to a non root user before running whatever it is inside the container. Although if you haven’t added any suid binaries by accident then there’s no way to go back.

E.g. the node alpine image adds a “node:node” user and group for the process to run as instead of root. https://github.com/nodejs/docker-node/blob/master/10/alpine/...
Granted, but what’s being implied and not said outright is that those people are somehow influencing entire organizations of strong-willed career professionals and not just given their own post to say what they want alongside the rest.

I’m asserting the latter is usually what’s happening.

Over the past 100 years there have been many times where North American governments have attempted to rule over the press. That never went well for them (save the inception of Fox News).

OP seemed to suggest the large number of contradictory articles was the result of a larger unified conspiracy. I’m suggesting that is highly unlikely.

For what it’s worth- people don’t get into working for the media because it pays really well. Not usually anyway. So in that way I’d rule out wealth as a primary motivating factor to sacrificing one’s principles in that business.
That is much more apt, thank you!
Whereas I, as a consumer never use them because they are scammy.
I think "surveillance capitalism" better reflects the underlying incentives, and is less likely to be confused with some other nefarious phenomena, such as surveillance of employees, or surveillance of other corporations by their competitors.
I wasn't saying that Gab has "good" content. I was just pointing out that press, and regular joes, associate Gab with terrorism because of 2/3 terrorism cases, In those cases the terrorists used other social media sites with a greater impact.

This association with terrorism isn't a fair representation of the truth.
Don't know if it is the reason for the ban, but Niteos main product seems to be a service for creating spam networks. https://www.easyblognetworks.com, https://niteo.co/projects
You get banned from Uber if you do that, no?
I laughed years ago.

It was less popular than Counter-Strike (which was acronymized as CS) in China when I was young. And I didn’t bothered with the translation for years before I realized the correct one.
PayPal blocked us after 10 years due to a a Kafkaesque problem, where they decided that our Hong Kong company was both a Chinese company and not a Chinese company: https://www.cogini.com/blog/paypal-know-your-customer-failur...
If all children initially lie equally, and girls are invariably believed over boys, wouldn't all parties rapidly learn this? We should expect girls to lie much more if this is the case, because they know they can get away with it.
WhatsApp certainly does not target younger demographics. Its goal is to be a messenger app for everybody.
They're changing their stance on that gradually, just recently they started tracking their options for natively implementing multithreading in the background using dart(the current advice is to use platform specific plugins which isn't robust for services that run without a visible app). You're also wrong about xamarin- you do have direct access to android sdks(if you know enough C# to correctly translate the API usage into Xamarin android - which is a bit of a headache admittedly)

i really like the flutter dev community btw, very agile and open to newer ideas for plugins. havent seen this in react(fb controls all and devs usually just talk about js patterns all the time) or xamarin(community is nonexistent at this point, even questions barely get answered unless you post an interesting one on the gitter monitored by core xamarin devs)
I was getting what I think was Chinese calls a while ago, I'm guessing their dialler was accidentally calling the wrong country for a while.
In a way, it is less evil.

It has not been caught selling user data the same way FB has.
It does not have the same reach / social control, since it's never managed to create a social network with enough traction.

Still, some control is needed, but I think we should all agree that Facebook should be top priority?
The Nix package manager can help keeping packages that are not available for your distribution updated and customised (https://nixos.org/nix/).

In the past I used to install newer, or customised, versions of e.g. `git` than were available on my Ubuntu into my home directory using e.g. `./configure --prefix=$HOME/opt`. That got me the features I wanted, but of course made me miss out on security updates, and I would have to remember each software I installed this way.

With nix, I can update them all in one go with `nix-env --upgrade`.

Nix also allows to declaratively apply custom patches to "whatever the latest version is".

That way I can have things like you mentioned (e.g. hardcoded accept backlock for Apache, hardening compile flags) without the mentioned "expense of ease of keeping things patched and up-to-date". I found that very hard to do with .deb packages.

It's not as good as just using unattended-upgrades from your main distro, because you still have to run the one `nix-env --ugprade` command every now and then, but that can be easily automated.
> “what if Kruschiev had not been deposed”

if Khruschev had not been deposed by Brezhnev, he would've been deposed by somebody else.

Yes, the West erred judging Khruschev's character as a "typical communist," but it was not wrong in judging the innate characteristics of a social construct like a communist party.

For single party system, electing somebody like Brezhnev or Xi is pretty much like for a thermodynamic system to reach its equilibrium state. For a communist party not doing that will mean to stop being a communist party.

The goal of such system is a pursuit of an ultimate status quo and rejection of all change — a good analogy here will also be thermodynamics: the heat death of the universe.

The principal point on which Brezhnev or Xi were put in power was the need for "reliable men to keep things as they are"

Some people ask me when I state that point "How this stands when Xi totally decimating the same establishment that brought him in while doing so?" I say that it is perfectly consistent with the stated goal: Xi purged people who rocked the boat, risking bringing "the dreaded change."

It is a collective interest of party members to preserve CCP's power, as it is needed for preserving their own personal power, but preservation of individual party member's power is not necessarily a part of that overarching collective interest.

Thought some people who wanted that were purged along the way, in overall, the CCP as a political institute benefited.