skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That's what they all say but once the systems exists the temptation is there to use it and each successive bunch of authoritarians will use it a little bit more.

Couldn't agree more. Just look at the Aadhaar system of India. As an Indian we are witnessing exact what you just said. It was created to stop leakage in Public Distribution System. But over the years it is made (not literally but still)mandatory for everywhere. If one google, they will find plenty of news where resident were denied access to basic services such as school/college admission, Hospital etc.
Perhaps they are two completely different dimensions, imagine the x-axis being the "toolness" of something and the y-axis being the "toyness" of something.

A nuclear reactor is something that would have a very low "toyness" score, i.e. you wouldn't "play" with it.

A plastic toy car would have a very high "toyness" score, as it is literally designed to play with (by kids).

I kind of fear my analogy of two different dimensions breaks down here because I'm left wondering what things would have a low "toolness" score ...
I work indirectly with health care companies making front facing websites in Australia and I know what HIPPAA is
Can we give french citizens the benefit of the doubt here. Living there I can tell you the resident are much quicker to point out these new systems as fascist than, say, Americans.

Even in Paris, the number of surveillance cameras was dramatically lower than London. The police would tout the crime fighting advantages of having these cameras in certain areas, someone would write an opinion on Nazi occupied Paris, the camera talk would go dormant for a few more years. New director arrives and wants to install cameras in certain areas...
(Please) correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that... what this whole protest is about? HK staying under independent rule instead of (forcefully) adopting Chinese rule?
I would say quite a few sci-fi authors have done a good job on this ...
I write Haskell commercially, and none of the problems you list are problems my team actually has in reality.
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It's so sad that we are living in an age where you cannot trust any sort of telemetry in fear of having your data exploited.
Slack is also not making a profit and is still losing out to Microsoft in the enterprise. I can’t speak to the rest of them.
TIL. I thought they were entirely bootstrapped.
It generally surprises people to learn that the number of bank tellers in the US is up, substantially, since the introduction of ATMs. It is also up since 2000.

(This information is abundantly available from the Bureau of Labor Statistics or you can Google the obvious keywords if anyone wants to keep me honest.)
99% of those "apps" are still just documents with client-side rendering, though. And the web was designed with the intent of running code practically from the beginning, albeit with support envisioned for multiple languages, so programmatic elements in a website aren't really a perversion of the original intent.
But iraq is quite a big country. So do you think some jammers are enough for the country, or would you have to deploy them on every big hill/mountain?
>I'd also be quite interested in knowing which queries are detected and whether different tools have any effect

For that, I wrote Blockcheck utility to check whether censorship circumvention techniques could be applied on this ISP or not.

https://github.com/ValdikSS/blockcheck
The app was not taken down. It never made it through the initial review process to get to the store in the first place.
> Schools in many cities are highly racially and economically segregated in the US because of the country’s broader history of redlining and corresponding deprivation

But also because of the public school system that ties zip codes to affluence and introduces artificial geographical barriers to integration. Something teachers unions have a vested interest in, at least indirectly.

> ...most people tend to live in the regions they’re actually from...

One can switch schools and districts without switching regions. But it should be much easier than that, even.

> Applying some sort of rational actor economic heuristic to civil servants in a service profession seems a foolhardy endeavor.

I'm just saying it's counterintuitive that teachers unions in particular are for teachers without being especially for empowering individual teachers to have leverage with respect to their employment agreements and conditions.
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That is just awful. I'm glad you got out and got something better.

When someone tells you to do something that's both impossible and utterly unreasonable, just stick to telling them it's impossible.

If he tells you you're incapable, tell him he needs to use a realistic planning for these things, and if he can't do that, then he's incapable.

There's no angle from which this is even remotely acceptable. Even more so because it involves financial transactions: writing anything related to that in such a hurry is a recipe for disaster.

This manager needs to be fired hard, or he's going to bring that company down.
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Thats why they would be probably based on military bases etc.
They will more than make up the difference by increasing the rent for the public IPv4 addresses they got when they were still available.
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the big g man. g for a face. and his many minions.
Have you ever known Apple to “burn cash”? They have this crazy idea that products should be sold at a profit.
so… https://github.com/google/ktsan/wiki/KCSAN ?
I'm glad to see this site making progress and gaining attention. I remember it used to be "GNOD":

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7465980

Also similar, and by another HN user:

https://diskprices.com/

https://battprices.com/
I feel like this and the motivation for golang are vaguely similar. Hear me out. The intention of golang in its language is to make complex things hard to do and make it easy to understand the language in any piece of code because there isn't much syntax. But sometimes you want to code more expressively and having some nice syntax would be nice. Its not a big deal if its local and limited to what this exact problem is. That's tough to get from a general purpose language.
INTANG should work
https://github.com/seclab-ucr/INTANG

I have plans to implement INTANG methods in GoodbyeDPI, but it requires some architectural changes first.

Modern DPIs in Russia also perform stream reassembly or at least have proper state machine, so they can't be circumvented that easily anymore, unfortunately.
Teachers on the whole aren't particularly threatened by the funding model of a school. Unions, school boards, and administration certainly are.
Yes, some 375 billion in total. I don't see the exact number anywhere but the chart near the top of the page shows 2018 as somewhere between "350mld" and "400mld" (miljard; billion).

The tables are a little confusing at first, dividing the amounts by 1000 and still having 8 figures, but I got used to it after a bit.
I never claimed that writing your own engine is the most important problem an indie developer would have. If there is a "most important problem" that would be getting exposure for your game when gamers are drowned by multimillion-funded advertisements for multimillion-funded games (and more often than not, negative news about those multimillion-funded games - visit a gaming forum like /r/games or similar and you will see a lot of posts, videos and comments of how bad games are nowadays, how developers are screwing everyone, etc while everyone making those ignores all the smaller developers who are not doing that, mainly because they are simply invisible to most people).

My comment was about responses that compare custom engines with middleware engines-as-products like Unreal and Unity that imply that a custom engine has to provide at least as much as unreal and unity which is certainly not the case.

And my comment wasn't even about indies, this is the case with non-indie studios too - even AAA ones. In fact the previous AAA game i worked at used a custom engine that had zero networking support (outside of some debugging stuff) - because the games that the studio built were single player titles and thus they didn't need such a feature. This is something that an engine-as-a-product like Unreal or Unity cannot do, they have to care about multi player support even if many of the games they'll be used for are single player only, because some of their customers will also need to create multi player games.
Using Behavioral Programming you can write UIs mainly using event traces. The state of the app is not really contained and managed in the usual way: it's based off of the state of many concurrent threads running at the same time. Here's a TicTacToe example: https://lmatteis.github.io/react-behavioral/
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Ask HN: How do you protect your privacy?
I'm curious what practices you have in place to protect your privacy. What tools do you use? What resources do you recommend for learning about and keeping up to date with best practices for privacy? Since privacy is a team sport, how do you convince others around you to care about privacy or at least respect yours by communicating with you securely, etc?
Hmm, just noticed my gitlab pages hosted site is demanding a gitlab login before you view it, which doesn't seem right...

edit working again now - apparently gitlab had rolled out a new feature and made my site private!
Then Haskell failed. To quote from Haskell 2010 Language Report, the primary goal of Haskell was: "It should be suitable for teaching, research, and applications, including building large systems".

Applications and building large systems are explicitly goals of Haskell. Haskell was never intended to be a research language.
I don't know what their actual budget looks like, but I do know that they're huge and have been making significant changes around digital transformation. That would result in high spending followed by later savings.
Is this a joke, or a true objection to improving the kernel?
I'm surprised no one has created a VAAS Volume as a Service
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Yeah, I don't doubt I can disable most of that crap by this time, I just don't really see anything to gain from the upgrade, except for the official security fixes. I use Win10 on my work laptop, and I read a few reviews, and I'm left quite indifferent to it.
Kicking Horse is another decent decaf brand. Dark roast, Swiss (water) process, available on Amazon.
I can second this. You don't read the full names of suspects (!) in a newspaper in Germany. I believe this is actually due to the law here (e.g. if they're innocent, their name is not ruined). That is somewhat relaxed, as long as they're not a public figure (e.g. no one would say "Angela M. is suspected to be a physicist" if it's about the German Chancellor) and as long as it's clear from the article that they're not (yet) convicted.

Can't speak for the rest of Europe of course.
Thanks - bu I don't get the "never leave the home row" point. My fingers constantly leave the home row- to press backspace, to press Alt-tab, to press Fn and a function key to turn volume or brightness up or down on my laptop, to scratch my nose, to grab my coffee cup etc etc.

Anyway if you've bound your arrow keys to switching windows (and if you're anything like me you have a two or three windows per tab, and a bazillion of tabs, open at any one time) then your fingers do leave the home row to go to the arrow keys anyway. So what's the point?

So, sorry but I don't agree that most users would save any significant time with disabling their arrow keys. Perhaps some users would - but that should be left to each individual user. Me, I'm used to navigating around lines with the arrow keys, I abhor hkjl navigation (I even use the arrow keys on my numpad in Nethack) and I'm perfectly comfortable using vim as my only text editor since 2011 or thereabouts, when I first picked it up.
> If one doesn't want them, that's perfectly fine, find your own drive. But raising kids ain't some ancient, obsolete un-cool goal/achievement, in contrary.

Nobody said that you shouldn't want a kid, just that it is fine to not want one. Telling people who don't want kids that they are missing out on unconditional love is disingenuous.
How are you gonna ensure the binary uploaded to the app store has the exact same code that is on the public repo?

OSS is not the solution.

The only solution is that your OS protects you, giving you tools to see what apps are doing what, and allowing you to finely adjust permissions and access.

You could completely trust this app if you could ban it from accessing the internet.
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The sanitizer code is being hosted on GitHub.

How is this a sufficient point of confusion to lead to this comment chain? It’s a link. Click on it and see.
In reality, credit card companies will already settle for a fraction of owed principal if they believe you're seriously considering bankruptcy --- I've personally watched them come down to less than 20%, and my understanding is that people who are good at these negotiations can get them much lower still.
I wondered if this piece was from an institute of higher learning.
Start interviewing for other jobs just in case. Also, if you want to stay, try to find a way to compensate for not being on call. Provide an extra value to them beyond what everyone else is doing and beyond what is in your job description. That worked for people at my previous employer who didn't want to be on call.
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I like the 3rd definition of this word: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trump
You mention Steam, which is a steaming pile of poo, along with chaos and devs preying on users. Do have any semblance of the amount of shovelware & asset flips published on Steam daily?
I don't know much about infosec but I know enough to see that this tool is not ready. It's really scary.
Also the fact that it's not discussed much, here in France. It's the first time I've heard of it. From a country that has had a government agency for protecting digital liberties since 1978 (which made laws about what data you can and cannot keep as a software provider) it's a big change of direction.
This points to another problem with toxic management : pathological duplicity which makes it impossible to take them at face value because everything is done under pretenses and leaves not only them but the whole market crying wolf when they ask for something that they are actually saying. Human Resources to help with disputes? Everyone knows they are all about ass covering. Team player means they want unpaid overtime, etc.

It may be harsh but fair to attribute to being infested with sociopaths or their culture.
Maybe this is a stupid/naive question but why doesn’t Samsung make their phones in Korea?
Cool site / fun list. But -- and I realize this is pedantic, though if ever there were a time/place for it, it's commentary on a grammar site -- I feel "resign" doesn't quite belong on it. Resign (to sign again) is pronounced with a soft "ess", while (to quit) uses a "z" sound; they're different words w/ different pronunciations that happen to share the same spelling. Doesn't that make them homographs? Is there a special term for this case, perhaps homographic antonym, or anto-homograph?
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Wow, this idea brings me back to one of the moments that first inspired me to start down the path of web development. In 2007 I took a semester off and got a job as a teaching assistant for a special education classroom and was 1:1 with a child that LOVED computers but would get overwhelmed by the information density of your typical website - too many decisions would frustrate him.

One week, we were learning about farms which I was really excited for because his love for the computer was matched only by his obsession with animals. Sadly, his outbursts would require me to separate him from the group time where we would show them pictures of animals and learn about their sounds, functions, etc. This made me think of creating and interactive PowerPoint where I made a slide with options for “petting zoo”, “animals with jobs”, “wild cats”, etc. each choice would lead to a new slide with a set of photos, icons that played their sounds, and even tried creating a set of quizzes where I recorded an animal sound and he had to select a photo that matched.

I worked until 3 AM making this PowerPoint and was deliriously tired the next day, but man the joy this kid experienced while he got to play on the computer AND learn about animals without getting worked up over a multitude of decisions sparked something in me that made me decide I wanted to do something with IT.

Your idea really hit home for me and helped me remember one of the reasons I do what I do today - frontend and app development. Lowering boundaries and making technological concepts more accessible can inspire unexpected interest and adoption.
Luckily, none of it is true. Or at least a gross exaggeration. As one example, yes, many untouchables didn't support him (there were 300 million people living in India then), but many more did.
They are all the same thing, remove my business presence in any fashion because Chinese government has human right issue ABC == not doing business with Chinese people. This approach has also great potential to grow into racism or nationalisms war ground (“sorry you are Chinese not doing business with you because you government did ABC). It’s not a conflation but the fact is they are intertwined under the unified culture of China. You might think China should be pretty divided as US does, no it’s not, its majority mainland population are quite unionized at scale. Its overseas presence were more critical before but Honestly what Western media is doing is pushing them back into supporting the government
"Good design is as little design as possible."
- some German motherfucker
>> The idea is that by picking a random real number C, there is a chance it will fall between A and B over time, no matter how the other person picks their numbers A and B.

But for any two finite numbers, A and B, the chance that C will fall between them if selected from an infinite range is 1/infinity (or 0).
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It's nice and all, but I'll be over here using LuaJIT.
I think that the title should be qualified with "American English" since the colloquial uses of the word "ass" are not really a thing in British English.
Wrong interpretation: the linked chart shows client-side adoption among Google users

In practice today IPv6 is a kind of high functionality NAT for consumer devices.

A more interesting statistic would be server-side adoption.
Even more, I blame non-existent sandboxing. Anything could practically be root for a long time.

With proper permission control and isolated storage for apps, installing anything does not equal cesspit of virus-laden software.
LP Harley wrote "The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.” at the beginning of his novel 'The Go-Between' with a brilliant film version in 1971.
Seriously...?

“Google is uncovering millions of gender preference in literature...” /sarcasm
> I kind of fear my analogy of two different dimensions breaks down here because I'm left wondering what things would have a low "toolness" score ...

Haute couture fashion?
You forgot that the proposed use case for both TestFlight & HockeyApp is against the ToS of both those services and Apple, and will be immediately flagged if you use it for large scale distribution. Also TestFlight afaik only allows 1000 users, which is not that much.
$3000 is definitely a hill, but wouldn't they need to at least climb that hill to put away a safety buffer /before/ putting any post-tax money into equities??
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Much more likely that it's keeping them from leaving.
That unfortunately depends on people being rational. There are those stupid enough to not want to hire the unemployed because of their own prejudices.
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I wouldn't call the high-end Android market saturated. There are a number of players, but it's a market of compromises. If you want a stock Android experience, you go away from Samsung. If you want a headphone jack, you go away from Google and OnePlus, etc.

The Surface range is good because it packs so much functionality into a nicely designed package. The same design principles, with a full feature set, would sell like wild-fire, and would put a lot of other phone manufacturers on notice.
There's this thing called Macromedia Flash...
Do you recognize that this comment doesn’t expose anything contradictory in the OP? The British system can be far from ideal, and yet it still wouldn’t be better to overlay an even less accountable, more centralized government on top of it.
Voted Leave in support of the agenda of Brexit politicians due to doubts about European politicians’ pay, when pro-Brexit MEPs make 4x the compensation compared to average MEPs [1]. I wonder who is paying them this extra money? This argument confirms my general impression of the reasoning powers of Brexiteers.

[1] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-party-...
Most of my contractors (house) charge 2% more for visa/mc so I give them checks. I pay my car insurance by check in person because my bank and insurance company routinely lose automated payments of any kind. In person I usually pay with ApplePay or a chip CC, and routinely refuse to shop at places (looking at you Pei Wei) who refuse to accept Apple Pay or chip cards. The cash in my wallet sits there for months.
I second this, and would stress to evaluate the PI, their personal reputation, published works, and ongoing projects. My experience was fantastic- I have a great admiration for both my undergrad PIs and they opened doors for me because I worked hard and had genuine interest. But some people have nightmare experiences depending on who they work for.
At this point, anyone who's still a Brexiteer has engaged in some extremely selective listening. There's no point in having a discussion with someone who won't seriously address the entirely likely problems of Brexit, both as a concept and how it is currently being done.

(I mean, Brexiting to the status of Norway might at least have been feasible, but that's now a long way in the rear view mirror.)
I kinda agree and kinda don't. Free as in "you're free to install any software you choose on windows and android" is sufficient in this case.