skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>if your company hasn't done anything on the checklist yet then what should come first, what is most important?

Security practitioners like to use the risk analysis matrix for this exact reason. One axis is likelihood of problem occurring (ranging from unlikely to almost certain) and the other is impact problem occurring will have on the business (ranging from embarrassing to bankrupting the business). As you can immediately see this is a very good tool to focus the efforts on the right remdiations.
I didn't realize Boost mobile still existed. Would be interesting to see Amazon build a google FI competitor which also rides on t-mobile spectrum in the US.
So does LG take a 30% rake of all app sales? It's not illegal to have a monopoly. It is illegal to take advantage of that fact with non-competitive pricing.
There's a lot of stuff listed on that site that didn't actually go away, just got rolled into something else or rebranded. It's not very picky about what it chooses to list as "killed".
There are many legitimate uses. Vendors have experimented with making canvas readback opt-in (with a popup) but I don't know if it'll ever ship because it simply breaks too many websites. Sometimes it's used at page load to generate variants of a single image to reduce file sizes, or used by games to prepare image assets before they start up.
Neither of those are news services, though. A closer analogy in the US would be NPR, which has a clickbait problem too.
This isn't a browser feature, it's an AdBlock Plus feature. You're just switching off the blocking for certain sites, not turning off the extension itself in any meaningful way.
I will tell my story.

I use Chrome for years, but recently a new update(I dunno the exact version) lags my laptop so much that it can not even used normally, everything delay several seconds, I spend several days and finally found out its the Chrome did this to my computer.Note: I am using an old laptop, but its still solid.

So I have to reinstall Chrome, I have no choice. Then I give firefox a try, to my surprise, with just a few of clicks, all my bookmarks and cookies are all ported to firefox seamlessly, very comfortable feature I'd say.

So yeah, if you are using old PC like me, u may feel lags when using new Chrome browser, and I suggest u to switch to Firefox, I DOES work!
Yea, my point exactly. All the recent IP covers improvements since 2G. Apple can try to sell a 2G network connected iPhone based on expired IP without the Qualcomm tax.

Free market pricing is based on demand of the feature not the cost to make it. Qualcomm should be pricing the part at the point where the phone without the qualcomm part is equal value per dollar.
We use tools for automatic continuous assessment against a bunch of standards. They're not perfect but they help separate the signal from the noise immensely.
I guess when someone says "it's terrible", I assume that includes the catalog and we're not just talking about the UI or something like that. You can't say Netflix is terrible, and then in the same breath praise their selection. The catalog is part of the product, especially with each service making originals now.
Wouldn't you just constantly (always) disable it instead of typing a time consuming answer?

I've had a couple false starts on doing a full write up answering this question but the quick answer is that it's not actually time consuming and that doing the puzzle feels like the easiest way to get to the page.

A lot of procrastination blocking apps take an abstinence based approach which predictably leads to just disabling them. Another approach - the approach my extension takes - is attacking the instant gratification that you can get to through unconscious action.

The unlock puzzle takes maybe 5-15 seconds to complete, I find that time switch of mental state is enough to cause a moment of pause and consideration for whether I want to continue browsing.

As you mentioned a bypass is necessary and I added that in the extensions option page. I find that since the puzzles themselves aren't actually hard I usually feel like it's easier to do them then navigate away from the page and back.

I think the important thing to note is this isn't intended to stop you from procrastinating when you want to procrastinate. The intent is to help you recognize when you're procrastinating unconsciously.

The idea was largely inspired by this xkcd blag post - https://blog.xkcd.com/2011/02/18/distraction-affliction-corr.... One thing I took out it was the idea that doing this action is part of a contract with myself that I don't have to feel bad about browsing as long as I do this step. That's not encoded into the extension and I'm not sure how important it is for how successful it has been for me.
Git-based or API-driven CMS (2017)
Can any FB user produce a service contract?
Sprint has been hemorrhaging money and customers for years. I have no idea why this merger is being fought. It’s not like Sprint is a real competitor.

But back on topic: Boost is just an MVNO running on Sprint’s CDMA network. What worse combination of technology can you have than being on Sprint’s network and CDMA?
I did something similar but you really should get some randomness in there. If an attacker is brute forcing solutions, it's conceivable, even likely, that attackers are going to smash together datasets like song lyrics or anything that comes up high in a google search to prioritize the search space. You could search millions of permutations of song lyrics for the 50% most popular songs on Spotify. You could do the same with text previews for books on Amazon. It probably wouldn't take that long for a targeted attacker.

If 2fa is involved it's a different story, but if you're talking about something liiiike the pass key of a private key that you can't guarantee is secret? Or if it's the private key used to do things like sign certificates? Please add randomness.
New released:Detect last seen proxy in IP2Proxy Proxy Database package PX5-PX8
This makes me ponder: The human brain is wired to be interested in novel, relatively unusual things. So, almost by definition, this implies humans are wired to be relatively disinterested in truth. :/
Apple Watch design alternatives not in the final product
This is a great idea, thanks for it! I've done similar things with using fzf to git add, git diff, and so on, but I hadn't thought of using it to pick a commit to rebase from.

I made a few changes so I figured I'd post them back here in case you're interested:

pick-commit = # equivalent to your git log... cut...
rif = "!f() { rev=$(git pick-commit); [[ $rev ]] && git ri $rev~; }; f"

"rif" = "rebase interactive fzf/fuzzyfind". The function and test just makes it exit cleanly if you escape out of the filter instead of giving "fatal: invalid upstream '~'" (and I changed it from ^ to ~ because I think ~ is usually what one should use over ^, but I'm willing to be corrected). And obviously I already have 'ri' aliased to 'rebase -i'.

While I'm here, here are my similar git aliases for adding, diffing, etc. files using fzf:

pick-status-files = "!f() { git status -z | xargs -0n1 | cut -c4- | fzi --print0 | xargs -0to git "$@"; }; f"
af = !git pick-status-files add
# and so on for diff, difftool, checkout, etc.

Oh, and 'fzi' (fuzzy-inline) is a small shell script that just calls:

fzf --height 30% --reverse --multi "$@"
There's diminishing returns on quality of K-12 education. There are A school districts everywhere. Between parenting your child right and giving them an above average education, combined with natural talent, they would have no trouble getting into state university (assuming they don't want to do perfectly acceptable blue collar work like plumbing, carpentry, firefighting, etc) I never took AP classes, for example, but make much more than many of my HS peers that did.
> It's a known fact in the military if it ever comes out that you've smoked weed at any time in your life you will hit a firm ceiling on your career and never rank up

I was in the US Navy for 10 years, and this 100% false. I don't know if this was just a setup for your punchline, but it is absurd. If you test positive on urinalysis, the navy has a 0 tolerance policy so you will be discharged. If it "comes out" that you smoked, almost no one cares.
Qualcomm charges the same 4-5% patents price to license to EVERY manufacturer. You have no idea what you are talking about. They did a 3%(domestic sales) - 7%(exports) deal in China because it was a poor country in the early 2000's and they demanded it but Chinese makers later switched back to the 4-5% deal.
There is nothing about how charities work under US Federal tax law that would produce this result.

Tax-exempt charities (which must by definition be non-profit, but not all non-profits are charities, and not all charities are tax exempt!) must spend money in a way that's aligned with their mission, and there are rules on how much they can spend outside that. (The really big no-no has to do with political lobbying and the endorsement of candidates for public office -- a relic of a more civilized age when apparently we thought that should be left up to individuals. But I digress.)

The Mozilla Foundation is a California corporation with tax-exempt status under US Internal Revenue Code 501(c)(3), which covers "public charities, private foundations or private operating foundations". There are slightly different rules for each category.

I'm not sure what category Mozilla Foundation is; my suspicion is they are either a public charity or a private operating foundation. In either case, there's nothing that would prohibit them from funding software development, as long as it doesn't unfairly benefit someone involved in the organization's governance.

Their 2016 financial statements (I couldn't find anything newer) are available:

https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2016/2016_Mozilla_Au...

tl;dr: In 2016 they spent over $250k on software development as a line-item, out of about $500k in revenue total. It's by far their biggest budget item.
Intel could probably do it if they had the luxury of redesigning their instruction set. They're stuck with supporting an overly CISC-based instruction set whose roots date back to the early 1970s. ARM didn't have that problem and designed a much more modern RISC-like instruction set which requires a lot less power.
If you cannot write a simple test for your code, it is a good indication that you need to change the code, not the test.
I would personally disagree with you, Murdoch has pretty clearly defined playbook which includes propaganda to further his own ends/political world view - FOX news is a part of that. He does the same with his papers in Australia in order to get the Liberal party voted in.

I'm going off the definition of propaganda being information of a biased/misleading/untrue nature, spread to further a political agenda/view.

It's intentionally misleading, and incorrect, in order to lead people down a particular political path.

In my view, this is still different to papers that present a cleaner view of the evidence/facts/situation.

Of course you can always omit/include details to present a story in a different light, but the degree of which makes a big difference. In the case of FOX, it is clearly so over the line that it becomes propaganda (in my view).

Can't comment on CNN though, never watched it.
Solid milk chocolate! ;-)
Yea. Apple can build its own. There is nothing wrong with them spending their 200b+ in cash on integrated modem tech.
Seems like you're just reasserting it doesn't make sense, without giving a reason. But it does make sense in Go.
While it's easy to pick holes in specific areas of this, overall I really like the layout and presentation of the advice.
For patterns like this I like to reach for request coalescing. Here's an example of a package that does it in the golang standard lib https://godoc.org/golang.org/x/sync/singleflight
\Smart Transportation Systems Pose ‘Profound’ Privacy Risks
This is a good take, well phrased.

To add another example:

In the abstract, the fact is that a government with absolute monitoring and enforcement power over its citizens could obviously move faster to improve society and address injustices.

However, like you said, could does not imply would, and most people would say that giving governments absolute power to monitor and enforce their whims on citizens is a terrible idea.
>We do not sell your personal information to anyone.

That's a technically true and practically meaningless statement. No lying required.

Google's business model relies on giving advertisers a way to target you based on that data and to track you to other activities down the line. Advertisers might never see the data itself, but all that means is Google is selling the product that lets advertisers do the things they were going to do if they actually did have the data, just without being able to see your specific info.

Whether you consider that equivalent to selling your data is a separate question. You'll find a lot of disagreement here about it.
I was not a fan until I recently re-read all his work - but I dont think he ever would have claimed to be a shakespeare or a Henry James. I would say a more apt comparitive group would probably be Rabelais, Swift,Verne, Vonnegut, Voltaire, Wells, Wilde and Woodehouse - all of which he certainly is an equal writer to and his overall body of work sits well with.
How often does one purchase clothing that necessitates living within 10 minutes of a major shopping district? As others have said, it's perfectly reasonable to find satellite cities within an hour's commute of a major city that you can have your cake and eat it too.
The correct entry URL appears to be https://www.sqreen.com/scanner .
Not one thing in that article, is terrible. El Reg is a tabloid and they love to stir up the muck with evocative language, I don't treat them as a serious new source these days (and I've been reading The Register since 1998 when there was some semblance of respectability - such as upsetting Apple :) ).

Right...so they dropped in Nat Friedman....a Mr Opensource... as CEO. I don't think you can get a bigger statement of their commitment to F/OSS than that.

And um ok MS need to make some cash from their acquisition maybe by pushing Azure as a platform for open source projects - hell what did you expect? If Google or Amazon Acquired Github I'd expect the same, and they'd do the same.

And you know, you as a project maintainer still have a choice. You can still deploy anywhere you like.

Microsoft aren't stupid, they've for the past ten years and more promoted the open sourcing of some of their key web dev tech (initiated by Scott Guthrie, Hanselman, Rob [thingy], and another few folks I can't remember off of the top of my head). And it's a different company now.

I hate to do the "appeal to authority" thing, but I'm 52 and lived through the "knife the baby" times. Microsoft for developers and open source are a hugely different company under Satya Nadella compared to the days of Ballmer and Gates.
Why does it need refactoring? Because you think you can write it better or because you can actually improve its efficiency?

If it’s the former, don’t. If it’s the latter turn it into a task and have it prioritised.
Cory Doctorow was right... it wasn't copyright that brought out the big guns in the War On General Purpose Computing. The real battles started when people utilizing the full power of heir computing devices started to threaten currently-profitable business models.

The media companies saw media piracy and asked[2]:

> "Can't you just make us a general-purpose computer that runs all the programs, except the ones that scare and anger us?"

Google (and advertisers in general) is now asking ""Can't you just make us a general-purpose browser that runs all the programs, except the ones that programs that interfere with our business model?"

[1] https://boingboing.net/2012/01/10/lockdown.html

[2] Ibid.
It's different people. You might as well complain about the human race this way.
Could you share details on how did you setup this. This sounds super useful
No, handoff design is more difficult than picking and tuning ALU designs from the 70 years of CPU design history, then generating the control circuitry.

A lack of design-for-handoff OF ANY SORT is why Intel failed with 802.16. Qualcomm invented soft handoff which made frequency reuse 3x more efficient, and it made CDMA possible. People are pretty ignorant that due to shadow fading you have to keep 3 or more MACIDs active on different base stations and use high speed feedback control to hand off roughly every 1.6 seconds. I statistically analyzed drive testing logs for 1x-EV-DO at Qualcomm to produce one of the world's first handoff markov models, as part of OFDMA handoff design for Qualcomm.

A lot of practical experimentation goes into cellular system design in the most challenging handOff locales on Earth - San Diego and Hong Kong.
The extensions that want to do blocking would then not need to request permission to read and modify pages.

As users we could pick adblockers that didn't require permission to ready all our activity.

How is reducing the required permissions (significantly) not an enhancement to user safety.

Your argument that we always must give extension authors full permissions to get anything done is a pathetic one frankly.
My bet is that Apple buys Intel's modem parents and hires most of the staff from Intel that was doing modem chips. Apple already has a team that is likely working on this.

https://9to5mac.com/2019/04/03/apple-modem-iphone-intel/
freakin' done converted!
I have a copy of The Handbook of Mathematics, which is kind of a similar idea done commercially. It's genuinely useful, but the thing is that it's HUGE, well over 1000 pages. The main reason for this is that it is organized and fairly comprehensive, it's more of a reference than a cheat sheet. It has enough detail and depth that you can actually count on it to remind you of a subject you haven't had to use in a while.

The post here is really more like a true cheat sheet. Random topics and formulas thrown together without much organization or depth. You need to remember quite a lot already to be able to actually make use of any of this information, which to me kinda defeats the purpose. Another big problem is consistent and well-defined notation. This looks like it's copied and pasted from a lot of different sources, so you are going to have a bunch of different notational conventions that you will need to be conscious of.
Polls App, Similar to Doodle or Dudle, for Nextcloud (PHP and JavaScript/JQuery)
Right, iOS also historically had a finer grained / more on point permission model than android, and I've liked that approach. Apps can request permissions that reasonably connect with their activity. The pop ups to provide that permission usually make sense (I generally say no to access all my contacts etc).
SAASPASS can do most of the items covered.
2FA
Computer Protection with 2FA
Enterprise Password Manager
Single Sign On
Directory Services
Venezuela gun violence plummets because bullets and weapons are too expensive
Well, yes. Basic daily activities, maintaining your internal body heat, and keeping your organs functioning all require energy. The only way humans can get that energy is through food or burning fat. So to keep living without food, you need to be burning fat
The Science and History of Tornado Predictions
It's certainly using your data, but I don't think anybody reasonable would argue it's selling your data.
You went way overboard into incivility in your comments in this thread. In fact, although I'm sure you didn't mean to be, you were repeatedly a jerk. That's sad, because you obviously know some things.

We ban accounts that do that. Would you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here? That means being scrupulously respectful others, no matter how ignorant they are or you feel they are. If you know more, the thing to do is not to put down those who know less, but to explain some of what you know, so we can all learn.
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It's not exactly sporting to plug the product you work on without disclaiming that you do[0].

It also seems half-baked, to be frank, and really doesn't seem like it does "most of the items covered". The badly-written marketing all over your website immediately makes me think you're borderline scammers, too--I've got my beefs with Okta but they aren't trying to scare me about "man-in-the-mobile" attacks just because they use push notifications rather than SMS.

If you're serious about putting forward your product as a serious option in this space, can you tell us why we should trust you and how you're demonstrating that you deserve it?

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19714999
Arguably the whole health/fitness/diet genre should count as coverage of death due to age and lifestyle factors.
> Should media coverage accurately reflect what we die from?

People need to be aware that media coverage is disproportionately focused on certain causes of death.
The road death category is wrong. What is being reported is "accidents", of which CDC says there were 161,374 out of 2,744,248 deaths in 2016. But even this only gets you 5.88%, under their 7.68% reported in the interactive graph when hovering over 2016.

From [0]

Total Deaths 2016: 2,744,248

Unintended Injuries 2016: 161,374

From [1], a breakdown of those unintended 161,374 injuries above:

Accidental Poisoning and exposure to noxious substances: 58,335

Motor Vehicle: 40,327

Fall: 34,673

Accidental hanging, strangulation, and suffocation: 6,610

Accidental drowning and submersion: 3,786

Accidental exposure to smoke, fire and flames: 2,730

Dividing the 40,327 motor vehicle from the 2,744,248 deaths gets you 1.47%, way less than the 7.68 shown in the interactive chart.

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hus/2017/019.pdf
page 1

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr67/nvsr67_05.pdf
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If a monopolist (or dominant oligopolist) charges too much, it would encourage competitors, at least if they don't have a stranglehold through patents. There may be a sweet spot where the "free market" allows them to remain a monopolist.
Hmm, that sounds like an interesting problem in itself, a torrent client that handles versioning and updates behind the scenes.
There's so much fingerprinting that can't really be disabled. Think about it:

Performance

- Single-threaded CPU performance

- Multi-threaded CPU performance

- WebGL performance

- Video performance

- Network performance (how long does it take to transfer data to various locations, what's the lag, is the lag consistent, etc.)

- (Maybe) Time it takes to execute certain JavaScript functions

User behavior

- How does the user use their mouse when navigating web pages?

- Not at all?

- Jerky movements?

- Smooth movements?

- If the user uses the keyboard, do they appear to be advanced keyboard users, do they have an IME, etc.

- Does the user press X buttons on tiny annoying popups that wouldn't interfere with the page's browsing experience?

- Does the user appear to block access to certain resources? (ad blocker)

- Does the user's workplace/country/etc. appear to block anything?
Unpopular tyrants would be overthrown regardless of their immortality. I'm more worried about increased demand for resources as population goes up.
It’s all about playing the odds, and statistically, there’s not many better bets than picking a high achieving school district (for achieving economic security).
Please note: the fingerprinting protection in this blog post is different from the resistFingerprinting about:config pref which would affect your entropy bits on panopticlick.
We've already asked you not to do personal attacks here. Regardless of how misinformed someone else is, please post civilly and substantively, or not at all.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html