skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They don’t claim end to end encryption by default though. You make it sound as if there is a revelation you made here.

Telegram has faults, I would even argue it has many, but it’s clear that only “secret” chats and voice/video calls are end to end encrypted.

Whatsapp, however, does allow you to download all of your messages from your device using WhatsApp web, and they were recently shown to have an exploit/backdoor in the applications themselves. So in that context they’re comparable in my opinion.
Add-ons can still be installed from outside addons.mozilla.org, as long as they're signed (an automated process), or you're using something other than an official stable-channel Firefox build and have unsigned add-on install enabled.

The announcement in question pertains to a specific method of silently force-installing unremovable add-ons to Firefox.
A lot of people only know about its use for literally killing a process. But as an example of where I find myself using it fairly often is:

kill -USR1 <dd>

where <dd> is the process ID (obtained from ps) for the dd command.

Instead of killing dd, it reports back how much has been read/copied so far. Especially useful for working with large files and you decide you want to guestimate how much longer the copy will take.
I’m going to bet they saw an established brand and audience but a company that needed to be turned around in a number of ways, and I bet it didn’t make money before.
> I like Comic Sans when I see super smart people, like physicists as an example, use it in presentations.

I still remember that very interesting presentation by Fabiola Gianotti when they presented the results that proved the existence of the Higgs Boson. In Comic Sans.
That's the way it is. If the US has a trade deficit and the companies and private households are net savers, then there is only one sector left who can make the required debt (without new debt, no new savings). Simple accounting.

If you don't want the government to make new debt (or at least not as much), you have to force one of the other 3 sectors to make it.

- Private households: You can't do that.

- Companies: Everywhere we see tax cuts, so why would a country increase taxes? Bad, but that's the way the world is these days.

- Foreign countries (trade deficit): Looks like the only way at the moment. Sorry, but Trump is on to something if he talks about fair trade.
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19 days before Snowden flew to Hong Kong, former FBI counter-terrorism agent Tim Clemente spilled the beans on CNN[0] (for context, informarion from a phonecall between one of the Boston Marathon bombers and his wife had been leaked to the media):

>BURNETT: Tim, is there any way, obviously, there is a voice mail they can try to get the phone companies to give that up at this point. It's not a voice mail. It's just a conversation. There's no way they actually can find out what happened, right, unless she tells them?

>CLEMENTE: No, there is a way. We certainly have ways in national security investigations to find out exactly what was said in that conversation. It's not necessarily something that the FBI is going to want to present in court, but it may help lead the investigation and/or lead to questioning of her. We certainly can find that out.

>BURNETT: So they can actually get that? People are saying, look, that is incredible.

>CLEMENTE: No, welcome to America. All of that stuff is being captured as we speak whether we know it or like it or not.

This could be coincidental timing, but I've always wondered if the Snowden leak was a way of controlling the national discussion around the issue and putting an agent in place (Snowden) who could be a relatively moderate voice that the pro-privacy crowd could group around, while also creating a dramatic story with the potential for international espionage that allows pro-surveillance voices to distract from the they're-spying-on-us narrative by accusing Snowden of being a Chinese/Russian pawn. I don't feel comfortable saying Snowden is still working for the US government, but I'm certainly suspicious of him.

[0]: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1305/01/ebo.01.html
So what. NSL.
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Maybe someone willing to get into a politically fraught internet argument over plainly true things will jump in for me. I'm already put off by the ease and comfort with which HN seems to disparage someone's character for his ideas and beliefs, actions not even entering the picture.
> If it is not from eminent domain, such as in this case

My point is that this _is_ eminent domain, because eminent domain should be defined by the action (government taking control of private property) not the purported intention.
A couple journalists fairly easily find these listing on public platforms - and you're telling me the platforms could not do easily a lot more to capture and report these folks?
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There have been fradulent certificates in the wild in the past but the CAs doing it usually get kicked out pretty quickly. That's what Google's certificate transparency project is for. And they are increasing requirements further and further. Hopefully one day we'll get to a state where the infrastructure of multiple independent companies in different countries needs to be compromised in order for one successful forgery. But even now certificate transparency has greatly reduced the number of entities able to forge certificates.
I've seen this done in the wild. It's possible to defeat, but only if users are vigilant. Which not all are.
For those unaware, Leinenkugel's is made in Cray's home town of Chippewa Falls.
FWIW I've had the version of these that doesn't come with bluetooth (R1280T) for three years and I'm still happy with how they sound.
"unless you ask us to" - it's defined in the privacy policy and clearly says it's due to the user taking an explicit action.
The first sentence in this comment seems to have nothing to do with the second.
Most treasuries were held by the U.S. government itself, particularly the Social Security Trust Fund. But the trust fund has now switched to net withdrawal of its savings, which means the total outstanding debt will increasingly be held by commercial and foreign ownership, rates may increase, and, worse, become more volatile as the Trust Fund won't be there as a cushion.

The upshot is that the ability of the U.S. to fund and service debt will become increasingly vulnerable to the global economy. One reason why demand for U.S. treasuries are so high is because it was cushioned from global economic forces. The U.S. was a safe haven. Debt-to-GDP ratio is important as an indicator of your ability to weather global slowdowns and remain in control of domestic budgeting.

So what the future brings is accelerating volatility as the forces which conspired to keep rates stable and low will begin to conspire to do the opposite. Whether rates become burdensome long-term depends on many factors, but the increased volatility alone could be hugely disruptive and costly.
there became certain conditions that must be met for management to delete writers stories after they had been posted

It would be very unusual for a CBA to specify such a thing. Is the CBA public anywhere?
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CircleCI's change to pricing for Docker Layer Caching is a disaster
The house of representatives is directly elected, same with the senate. While the laws are not directly voted on by the people, they are indirectly voted on by the people by their choice of representative. After all if direct democracy was the only valid form of democracy it wouldn't need the qualifier "direct". The constitution is an important part of limiting abuse and channeling everything, it can be changed with a two-thirds majority. So the citizens can change the constitution by choosing representatives who want to do so, and we still have democracy.

Similarly when electing the president people vote for a person who will vote for the president. While it is a weird system, in essence the leader is chosen by the people.

Calling only direct democracy a democracy would be weird, by that standard a country pretty much can't be democratic for purely practical reasons (though Switzerland comes close)
> But of course it does penetrate, it goes through walls.

Are your walls conductive, eg, largely made of water with various electrolytes? Because otherwise the comparison is senseless. Imagine putting an 8mm or so layer of of skin/fat/bone across each wall. By what factor would that reduce received power on the other side of the wall.

The max power out of a wifi router is 100 mW, that is a tenth of a watt. The amount of power impinging on your body from any reasonable distance will reduce that power quadratically. The amount of power which makes it through your skin and bone to get to your brain, considering it is 2.2 GHz or 5 GHz, is another factor lower.
Discord's search feature is beautifully from what I've experienced. I can search and get snippets from months and months ago almost instantly.

Good search can be done with chat, it just tends to be hard.
We use Stripe Standard over Stripe Express, only because it was only available in the USA at the time.

We'll switch over at some point, make the sign-up a little easier.
Not really. I just graduated and got a job, and I've never traveled out of my state before. Just got my first passport recently.

ninja edit: graduated from* college
We need to find a way to live with negative growth in such things, because we'll quickly meet the limits of this planet if we try to continue exponential growth in people and resource usage.
> Meanwhile, their only action in this article is apparently banning a hashtag

Their only announced action. It would be nice to know more, but it's really common to not announce your strategy so people can't easily avoid it. I hope they're doing more and it's just not public.
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This is what makes the situation special. It's in the contract.
Spot on, it is also the reason I shut down two websites that I ran for years. You really need to be on the ball, preferably 24/7 so many things that would be nice side projects simply can't be left up and running without oversight. It's a rotten world.
Thanks @makomk and @coolspot. I didn't know what these type of drugs typically cost, what kind of dosage that $300k bought you, or who usually pays (insurers vs. government aid vs. private). Was genuinely wondering.
To add to this, foreign students coming to do math in the US have a huge advance compared to other students (due to their educating system being more advanced), and are thus prone to continue over achieving.
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WW2 where most of Europe was destroyed. Contrary to what mainstream media will say is that a large part of it was Germany unable to pay war reparations from WW1 and entering stages of hyper inflation during Weimar Republic. This of course led to a certain party that was really against international bankers. After the resulting chaos we have Pax Americana.
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well, the statistics for men's mental health are being acknowledged. By you and me.

and for those who aren't carers, perhaps look to being carers.

All categories are filled with subsets. There are always folks left behind. Let's look to them.

What are the struggles and needs that you would like us to focus on and meet?
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Without any ID why would they let you in to the embassy?
I am currently attending a school at which GSuite and Gaggle are both used. I agree that Gaggle is extreme, especially the "three strikes" system.

On the other hand, I also try to avoid tying my school online identity to my personal online identity, and leave my school account for school. That also means not doing anything personal on district provided chromebooks. However, I only really know to do this due to knowledge in technology focused areas, not something most students have.

My main issue with this sort of tracking is that the students are very loosely told what it is tracked and how; at our school, students were told that the chromebooks used gaggle and not much more than that.

Overall, students and parents should definitely be better taught as to what occurs with surveillance, and in my opinion the current level of surveillance is extremely excessive.
If you look at GDP per working age person it doesn’t look so bad, their ageing population skews the figures.
My suspicion is that the GOP strategy, if there is one, is to run large deficits when they have power so that when Democrats get power they feel that they are unable to spend on social welfare . Reagan, W, and Trump increased the deficits while Clinton and Obama, after the stimulus, reduced it.
Ah thank you very much.
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You say you are their citizen and you obviously speak the language. I know people who did this.

The embassy will then confirm your identity (there are various ways).
Nice!

It is interesting how Chudnovsky is still faster (112sec on my machine, with parameters 706 10000) than Gauss-Legendre (176s with parameters 15 10005) despite the slower convergence.

I found it too bad that they still were that much slower than bc’s Machin (40s) considering how much longer the code was.

I tried it with Unbounded Spigot (Jeremy Gibbons) and got 42s, similar to bc’s performance, and 2.6× faster than Chudnovsky:

# dc -f spigot.dc -e '10000 lPx'
1sq180sr60st2si
[27li*12-lq*5lr*+5lt*/sylyn]sY
[3li*1+3*3li*2+*su]sU
[5li*2-lq*lr+lylt*-lu*10*sr]sR
[2li*1-li*lq*10*sq]sQ
[lult*st]sT [1li+si]sI
[lYxlUxlRxlQxlTxlIxlj1-sj0lj!<L]sL
[sjlLx[]p]sP

Now it is competitive with bc (on performance, not on code size). However, compared to Node.js (2.7s), it gets crushed:

const pi = s => {
let y = (s.q*(27n*s.i-12n)+5n*s.r)/(5n*s.t);
let u = 3n*(3n*s.i+1n)*(3n*s.i+2n);
s.r = 10n*u*(s.q*(5n*s.i-2n)+s.r-y*s.t);
s.q = 10n*s.q*s.i*(2n*s.i-1n);
s.t = s.t*u;
s.i = s.i+1n;
return y;
};

let s = {q:1n, r:180n, t:60n, i:2n};
for (let i = 0; i < 1e4 + 1; i++) {
process.stdout.write(''+pi(s));
}
console.log();
Not in the UAE. The embassies are very aware but helpless. The women (maids) and men (builders) are told they'll go to prison or worse if they try to run.

There are girls that were raped being publicly lashed for having sex or in some cases even for getting pregnant outside of marriage. Easy to draw scenarios to keep them.

Or the typical Eastern European or African slave: they get a simple message: "if you complain we kill your little sister (or send her over to take your place!!)".
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CircleCI recently announced a change to their pricing model for Docker Layer Caching, which, for teams that heavily use Docker and CI/CD, is pretty important.

In my current project, our DLC costs have gone from tens of dollars per month to thousands of dollars per month.

Worse, the configuration language doesn't easily allow for the targeting of branches where DLC should be enabled.

I would guess that as customers start getting their October bills, they are going to be quite choked.
The logging works ok while off bluetooth...but be aware that _any_ changes are basically impossible in that state. Even basic watch functionality like changing the time or setting an alarm require a bluetooth link, the software, and an internet connection back to the fitbit servers.
OK - Let me respond to your original comment:

LanceH said:

> there is a bit about her contribution which is over inflated

to which you said:

> Why do you diminish this woman contributions to mathematics?

LanceH didn't. He acknowledges her contributions elsewhere in the comment. He is saying that characterizing it as "reshaping mathematics" is likely an exaggeration. At the very least, the BBC article doesn't give an indication of how she did this, and doesn't back the stance. Even a great contribution to the theory of plasticity is not one that reshapes mathematics. It's an extraordinary claim. While in academia, I worked with people who made incredible contributions to a sub-sub discipline of physics. Within the sub-sub discipline they are recognized as the leaders/pioneers of the field. Yet they are unknown to most physicists, and no one (including they themselves) would dare make a claim that they "reshaped physics". Mathematics is a broader discipline and it takes even more to reshape it than it does physics.

LanceH said:

> to make a trite statement about equality of opportunity

To which you responded:

> Are you saying equal opportunity is trite?

LanceH wasn't. What was being said is that writing an article pointing out how few opportunities women had at the time is trite (definition: "boring from much use : not fresh or original"). If they want to write yet another article documenting this, that is fine. But they should title the article to reflect it.

A famous blind programmer once complained of the same phenomenon: That articles written about him focus more on his blindness than on his achievements. I don't know how Hilda would feel about this article, but I would not be happy if I made an achievement and all that is written about me is related to my gender/race/disability and not the work I've done.
That’s really not how it works at all. Total dollar value of debt is irrelevant, only thing that matters is ratio to GDP. It will also never (and should never) be paid down. Because growing the GDP is the same thing as paying down debt. The GDP will continue to grow, so even if its 50T by the time kids today are grown up, that’s fine as long as the GDP has kept up. Unlike people, governments don’t have a fixed lifespan, so it’s not like the current generation is going to be on the hook for it when they’re older. It would be a problem if debt was $0, because that would mean the government had paid an enormous opportunity cost at the expense of growing the economy.
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Negative growth and debt don’t go well together.
The problem is not that we can't repay the debt. The problem is that we are so dependent on increasing our debt with deficit spending. If we inflate our currency to get out, then new debt will be at a higher interest rate and so will all debt we roll over into new debt.

Then, all of a sudden we are in a spiral of high interest rates.

It's like we are hooked on debt, and that's fine as long as it's free and keeps coming. But when the party is over it will be very painful to see that federal spending has to fall by a third overnight.
This article is great. I particularly liked this part:

> Some management experts advocate strict limits to the number of people reporting to a common superior—generally five to seven. But if one has capable people who require but a few moments of his time during the day, there is no reason to set such arbitrary constraints. Some forty key people report frequently and directly to me. This enables me to keep up with what is going on and makes it possible for them to get fast action.

It’s interesting to know that at least one successful manager of a large organisation found that limit of 5 or so direct reports to be unnecessary. The article was written in 1982. I would have thought the increased use of technology in the workplace would make it easier to manage many people these days – but the trend seems to be the reverse.
People were using Fitbit, not Google, and now their data is in Google's hands without their consent. Even if they stop using their devices immediately, Google still has the data Fitbit collected previously.

It's a good lesson about being willing to share data: even if you trust the company you're sharing with, a company you don't trust may end up buying that company and getting your data after all.

If you're privacy-minded, the only safe option is to treat all companies as untrustworthy.