skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I personally would not have any expectation that my work passwords are private. I would expect, say, Google to keep my password private, and have internal controls around not letting people see my password, or leak it to the outside. But I'd have no expectation that my boss or IT department didn't have the ability to find out what my password was if they wanted. For strength of security, I really hope they're hashing passwords, but it's well within their rights to try to crack that hash, or log my password as I send it to a webserver the company controls if they want/need to for any reason.

As an imperfect analogy, let's say I write something in a plaintext document, a big rant about how I'm pissed off at one of the executives, and in that rant I make a (not serious, but certainly worrisome) threat against the exec. I foolishly decide to store this document in my company-provided storage on their servers. (Or let's say I stick it in Google Docs in the company's GSuite account.)

Should I have a reasonable expectation of privacy there? I'd say no. I get that some might have the feeling that passwords are different because their entire function is to be private. From a security perspective, yes, I agree. But form a "what you do on company property/resources is visible to the company if they want it to be" perspective, I don't.
> Granted, it will be annoying and painful to find new ways to do things like search the web, manage files/emails

The best thing I did to reduce annoyance and pain in managing files and emails was to move off of hosted garbage like Gmail and Dropbox to offlineimap/mu4e and Unison/git/rsync.
A tidbit from the article:
> In an indication of how the basketball dispute may be galvanizing some sectors of Chinese society, police in the northeastern province of Jilin said they had arrested on Sunday a 25-year-old man accused of making online “remarks that insult the national flag.”

The man was identified by police only by his family name Wang and his online screen name on the messaging service Weibo. That account showed a photo of a man wearing a Houston Rockets jersey with a cover over his eye—imagery adopted by demonstrators in Hong Kong—and holding a lighter below an upside down Chinese flag.

“I live and die with the basketball team,” the posting said.
If they removed US access to Chinese supply chains, it'd be a pretty big deal for the US... that might even start a war.
The "private property" argument was always a bit iffy outside urban areas with ample centrally-located parkland or large public buildings with plenty of sidewalk space. Anywhere else, if you're protesting, you're protesting on somebody's property. Sure you can stand and march in the street, but there are issues with that too.

Ideally 1A protections would be seen as something of a bare minimum, rather than the highest level of protection people could ever dream of enjoying.
> No, I think changing license terms to "won't be used by a company which separates families or violates international human rights laws," and not renewing the contract is fine enough.

Good thing for ICE they can still use all FOSS.

> You don't have to know what ICE is doing with your software to know what they're doing more generally.

Yes, they're enforcing the laws currently on the books.

Those laws were created by our elected officials. The elected officials were selected by us, the people. In fact, if we want those laws changed we can elect new officials or compel our existing ones to make the changes we'd like to see.

There's plenty of people that disagree with our current immigration laws, our drug laws, our tax laws, our gun laws, our marriage laws, our healthcare laws, and just about any other part of our system. But if we as a society do not have a unified acceptance for the rule of law then things get ugly. Fast.

I'm convinced this whole "shaming" and "canceling" thing has become the public action method of choice not because the ideas being proposed are popular (they're not), but because they see bullying corporations and their potential customers as easier than trying to convince the public on the inherent value of their ideas. They're just loud voices in for another rude awakening after the public makes their picks next year behind the ballot curtain.
Only imports of raw material. Not finished goods. And don't forget all the resources embodied in the actual means of production! That's a lot of heavy machinery.
What're they going to do? Sell their stake?
It's more complicated than this, because there are known attacks against 3DES. It's at most 2^28 times more complex, AFAIK, but there are probably better attacks than the few I know.
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I clicked "Check for updates", saw that there is an update ready to install. Once installed I compared the version number and it wasn't the latest. I probably missed an update in the past.

Make sure that after reinstallation you're at v3.3.6+
Hey thanks for your reply. Why dont you post from your main account? It seems like youre hiding your views from the public?

Also, I think theres substantive evidence everywhere online except in the great firewall of china that can be used to conclude that dictatorship and communism is bad. Am I really debating this right now?
I'm not surprised to hear that the Chinese population supports Beijing's opposition to "rich special people" trying to drag China down. It's easy to get people to take your side of made up stories.
Facebook used to do it well, with fuzzy time displayed but absolute time in the alt-text, visible on hover.
The raw ingredients required for junk food require massive amounts of fertilizer (soy, corn, wheat, sugarcane).
That's easy. Video recording of accident.
A desktop from a decade ago can still run productivity software, especially if you run Linux or another operating system that doesn't cut off support for non-technical reasons. It is true that some physical resources are going to be required e.g. electricity - but in general we are wasting tons of precious resources building "disposable" devices like cell phones that are used for only 2 years to do tasks that have little economic value. If we actually used hardware for more of its usable lifetime, we could greatly reduce long-term environmental costs.
Counter-point: I haven't seen any uptick in such comments. (Also note that meta comments comparing HN to Reddit generally garner downvotes, for good reason, as they too don't contribute meaningfully to discussion)
Well, on most other news sites it would devolve in a conversation on Trump / Brexit / Trudeau... at least on the technical minutiae we can talk about things we know something about.
Well... we also don't know what HAS happened already, behind closed doors. Maybe there has already been an "order" from Tencent regarding this case. And maybe Tim already stood up, but couldn't say anything - this would have been the right moment, so maybe he just used it.
Hong Kong is currently about as much a separate country from China as Puerto Rico is a separate country from the US.

Taiwan is another thing.
Oh come on, as a consumer you do have to choose a bit between "I want it...cheap!" and "I want to sue you to rebuild when you giving me what I want inevitably causes a fire."

We should expect fires. We should expect more if we run spark generating machines through the forest. That's fine. Just raise the rates to cover the insurance cost.
You made me wonder -- what happened to ulv.no and sau.no?
Thanks for iTerm2. I've used it every day for years.

I'm running 3.0.15 and it reports no updates available.

On MacOS 10.9 (upgrading isn't really an option right now, it would break too many things).

Is iTerm2 3.0.15 vulnerable?

Thanks!
It's confusing to me that this isn't proffered at all in the article or most of the comments here. Without understanding this factor, how can "dematerialization" be taken seriously?
Some people will inevitably accuse them of doing it for the money, and this is their way of demonstrating that it's not that. There are policy issues.

Which, indirectly, do involve money, but that's true of everything.
China doesn’t really care what non Chinese citizens think. The government is more afraid of its own citizens starting an uprising.

The riots in Hong Kong saved the CPC. The people in Mainland China were already starting to get upset at the government because of how the trade war was affecting the economy. The implicit contract being the people won’t rebel if the economy is good.

Luckily for the CPC, the Hong Kong riots came along and now the government is able to use that as an excuse to bolster patriotism.

So naturally they need to be “tough” on the NBA, Blizzard and any other company so as to not lose the people’s support.
IANAL, but “evade law enforcement” seems inaccurate.

> HKMAP helps residents comply with the wishes of law enforcement (who communicate their demands by colored flags quickly raised in the dark).

> …[the app] doesn't contravene any Hong Kong law that I am aware of. This app helps answer questions like "will I get shot with a bean bag round if I come out of this MTR station, because the police raised a colored flag I can't see".

—Maciej Ceglowski, the American who runs the Pinboard bookmarking service, who has been in Hong Kong for a while now, to follow the protests.

Thread about how the app works, and how it keeps non-protesters safe: https://twitter.com/pinboard/status/1179233936582565888

About the use of tear gas and bean bag rounds: https://twitter.com/pinboard/status/1181790019943452675
Economic Mutually Assured Destruction?
If that's real, that's a surprisingly bad PR move from Blizzard. I understand this was targeted at a Chinese audience (since Weibo) but they must have known this would get back to their English speaking audience almost immediately.

There has to be a better balance then "We will always respect and defend the pride of our country" (even if that is a slight mistranslation).
I feel like the real problem is the technology not the law. The technology is kept by the intelligence agencies who then ask the courts to give them permission to use their own systems.

Here's my fix: put the systems under the control of the Judicial branch. This way, Intelligence is not asking for permission, they are asking for access. The tech who does the search is going to answer to the branch of government that cares about the law rather than the branch of government that has the conflicts which create the rush to misuse the systems.
Most videogame companies are like that. It is definitely horrible, but the company's attitude toward its employees' work hours is unrelated to its attitude toward China.
Hm, HN seems to show the exact year for me, see https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2018-10-08 and this submission https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18169243

Or the top voted story on Oct 8, 2007 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=64795
> I'll give you another video about Hong Kong protesters for a different perspective

The video shows one person being frustrated that a road is blocked by protesters: "if you kill people, set fires, I don't care. But you're blocking the road."

I'm sure if you look at any protest throughout history, you could find an anecdote of someone being inconvenienced by it.
I'm a total cynic, and do not care about video games or sports, but this does seem like he's taking on a legitimate financial risk in lieu of all the articles bubbling up about the situation
Presumably because that's something she clearly has an opinion about.
This feels right to me. At the peak material usage highlighted in the graphs, around 2000, consumer products seemed to built considerably more ruggedly than they are today - possibly over-built, really, in some cases. If you shave off 1 or 2% of the material going into a product year over year, that really amounts to something after two decades.
That's presuming that the drivers for management have product/customer reality as a high priority. In big companies, "managing up" and corporate politics strongly dominate. Those are the fundamental drivers of whiplash management.
Nice typeface. Myself, I am Microsoft-stack consultant. (SharePoint, Dynamics, Office 365, Azure, .NET, etc.)
They have a big shared codebase between iOS and macOS, so them adding GPLv3 tools can end badly with the anti-tivoization clauses.
They were advertising products via facebook posts. They did check in on the account periodically to see if posts were being made.
With separation of power between law enforcement and legislative branches of government, it is indeed the job of the law enforcement officers to enforce laws even they do not agree with. Of course, there is a threshold beyond which anyone in deep moral disagreement with a policy can and should protest in a variety of civil ways (including quitting such law enforcement jobs), and this is a normal part of how the checks-and-balances of power works.

But you must acknowledge that there are many who do not fundamentally disagree with the underlying laws, at least not to a magnitude such that they believe it is worth protesting. And as such, we have officers who enforce those laws, who have not (at this time) quit their roles.

Therefore, to the extent that one believes this form of government with checks and balances yields more humane results (on average, over time) than one which merges legislative/judiciary/executive power, and to the extent that you acknowledge legitimate moral opinions exist that are different from your own, it definitely can be argued that it's moral to continue enforcing laws you do not personally agree with -- up to a point.

The question is, what is the breaking point where a law enforcement officer protests against a horrible law by refusing to enforce it, quits, or otherwise?

Take almost any politically divisive issue, and you will find there's not a very easy answer here -- especially because each person will have a slightly different moral opinion on the matter.
Clearly the disruptive startup idea here is yoga pants for cows. Well, yoga body suits. /s

I love the result. Given the farm automation for feeding, perhaps an automatic paint job could be added to that system as well.
“but”? how about “and”… these are all positives
Yes, "1. d4!" and "1. e4!" are a sort of a Grandmaster joke in chess, showing their strong preference for one the classic competing openings.
That’s about right. Window doesn’t need to be in the foreground.
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> there is an attack that effectively limits it to twice the effective bits of DES

* Meet-in-the-Middle attack.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meet-in-the-middle_attack

This attack is surprisingly simple, if you encrypt the message twice by

ciphertext = encrypt(encrypt(message, key1), key2)

Then,

decrypt(ciphertext, key2) == encrypt(message, key1)

An important security property all symmetric ciphers should offer is immunity to chosen-plaintext attack, if the attacker controls "message", it shouldn't make the cipher more easy to crack.

But in this case, the attacker can obtain all the 2^56 possible encryption of message by enumerating key1, put it in a lookup table (assume the table-lookup time is O(1)) , then we can try all possible decryption of ciphertext by enumerating key2. Then compare it with the lookup-table for a match, bingo!

If key is 56-bit, the attacker gets 2^56 outputs for the left side, 2^56 outputs for the right side, total number of operations is 2 x 2^56 == 2^57, not 2^112.

To increase the security claim to 2^112, we need triple encryption, not double encryption, thus 2DES is never used.

The idea that simple double-encryption doesn't work because of such a simple attack shocked a lot of newcomers.
The headline does not match the article. It says they looked into it, not that they did it. Here's the original interview: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/06/meet-the-former-prosecutor-w...
> Americans started a war that killed nearly 5 thousand American soldiers and hundreds of thousands of civilians for absolutely nothing. We're all pretty much complicit.

Not all of us lied to get Congressional authority to use force with explicit conditions, and not all of us declared those conditions to be met and applied the force so authorized in knowing bad faith.

In fact, exactly one of us did that, and his name is George W. Bush.

Whatever guilt anyone else has in that matter is far less.
"Last year, China severely punished Marriott after an employee in Omaha, Neb., “liked” a pro-Tibet tweet. Marriott profusely apologized and fired the employee." -- https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/10/07/nba-is-on...

I guess this employee also acted like a piece of crap and deserved it. Or does that comic only apply when he agrees with the censorship?
Why is this on the Stack Overflow blog?

When I replied to their survey that I wanted "tech articles written by other developers", I was imagining a platform for Stack Overflow authors to contribute longer-form work -- an idea that's been floated by staff for most of the life of the site! I wasn't expecting random cross-promotional content.
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Consumer boycott is the problem here. If buying Apple is unpatriotic, that would be a bigger issue for Apple.
US really doesn't give a shit about human rights violations. I think all the grown ups know what these bans are for. It's the trade war, stupid!

I can't stop thinking about that journalist butchered and Trump praising the arms deals with SA. Human rights and international law are brought up only when they serve US's interests so let's try to cut that bullshit on HN at least. US wouldn't mind if all the HK residents would be sent to concentration camps as long as it gets a "beautiful" trade deal with China.
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All of this is still just an online echo chamber doing its thing.
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That really isn’t how emergency auto breaking works though, it’s a last minute thing that you are already screwed on if t activates. Seat belts, blind spot detectors, lane keep assist, and auto cruise (with back off) inspire much more false confidence than something many people are never going to be able to experience directly.
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Privacy policies generally applies to individuals, not corporations. Unless there's an NDA in place that Github can't speak about a particular customer, nothing apart from good will is preventing them.
In 2016, I was presented with a terraform deployment. The leaky abstraction,
the bugs, and the missing implementations of newer AWS features were brutal.
I can't comment on TF in 2019, but that experience turned me off to non-native
languages (saltstack was another source of "why, g*d, why?") forever.
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I'd recommend finding a mailing list conversation about a topic you know and then hitting all the buttons (there are only a few). you should be able to figure out the links from context
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I don't doubt that you can learn Elm quickly. But how many good developers want to use what might be an obscure technology in a few years.

From the Study of Programming Languages Not to Learn in 2019: "the five languages not to learn in 2019 are Elm, CoffeeScript, Erlang, Lua, and Perl."
In Sweden, many sites have made use of the .nu domain ('nu' means 'now' in swedish) which has led to a lot of short domain names.
These kind of decisions are made by a 5th level middle manager, not by the CEO or the PR department.

Just like when the Delta flight crew forcefully removed that doctor from the airplane. Or a Starbucks employee calling the police on black people waiting there.

By the time PR get's involved, it's too late.

This is one crucial vulnerability of many companies in today's world, any low level employee can generate a huge PR disaster by just not being smart enough to see the bigger picture.

So basically today you need every employee to be trained like a world class PR agent.
Yes - was speaking to a co-worker about this in August - this happened only a generation ago (he knows people who remember this happening as children - his age), and the hurts, harm and overall levels mistrust that it caused as still rippling through communities and families.
Microsoft does a lot of biz in China, they might be affected by this, though they have worked harder than most to maintain a good relationship with the government.
Your comment is not true in all cases. S3 is limited to 5,000 get/put requests per prefix. So while it's possible to achieve what you've said, it's also possible to stumble upon this limit in a fashion similar to the original comment.
Nonsense. I did not say I think his statements in the video were innocuous. I (and others) pointed out that you misrepresented his statements. I've said basically nothing else with this account and all of the handful of comments I've made with it are about this one issue of you misrepresenting your video.
Because the European Union lacks a spine and is too busy infighting among themselves.
First hand accounts are evidence. That you dislike or disbelieve them doesn't make them libelous, it just means you don't want to believe firsthand accounts of bad actions by a person you admire.
GNU Project developers object to Richard M Stallman's continued leadership
> I'm not against RMS, I just don't think he should lead GNU.

The second half of that sentence pits you directly against RMS, who has made clear he does not intend to leave his position with GNU.
Certainly screen real estate is important, but somewhat irrelevant to my question. I already have the monitor situation covered, so it's not like I'm having to make a trade-off between pixels and performance.

Just to clarify: I'm not asking whether a workstation desktop is necessary. I understand that it's not. I'm asking to whether it is a good investment, and how people have made that work with their employer's IT policies.
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In my opinion this was a pretty crappy thing to do. Password could contain personal and potentially embarrassing information, even if that wasn't the case here.
The LBO model inherently makes operational flexibility difficult.

The whole idea that shareholders are the only ones that matter is both recent and poisonous to the long-term health of the economy.
Because none of the villains would support a popular uprising if it gave them the chance to take power in the aftermath, of course...
The comment I quoted mirrors a very common sentiment a segment of the population uses to defend their shitty behavior, and I was pointing out that this sentiment only truly makes sense to those who have nothing inoffensive to say.

Whether that applies to the poster in question or not, I couldn't tell you.
Also sad - I had no idea this was happening - heck, it was only last week that someone showed me how my name is spelled in syllabic.
There will be no perfect safety. Period.

There will be no perfect surveillance. Period.

Humans are humans, and inherently imperfect.

Until all humans are eliminated, there will be no perfect ... anything.