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A few years back i used to work for a porn company and they are not.

There is an old protocol still creeping around smartphones known as WAP Payment (yes that WAP) which was/is used to buy stuff on the mobile web and the purchase shows up on your phone bill.

They buy all type of mobile ads (banner, text, popup, modal, etc.) and when you open the ad you get billed 4€, 5€, 6€ per week or month, without any confirmation whatsoever. Some phone carriers ask for user input (mostly the user has to click a button "I agree") but that's where click-jacking, CSRF and other kind of exploit comes in, very few ask for a confirmation code.

The sad thing is that they know, the carriers know but they don't care, until enough people complain about it then they shutdown the service to that website for a few days (in some cases they shut it down permanently) but they always come back online.

P.S. this is a throwaway account
But is it an option that will actually help? Or is it a red herring that will drive in app purchases and ad revenue while letting the problems it purports to help with fester?

Attention is a finite resource.
Your milage may vary but my experience of the GA community is that their concern is more based on being being 'busted' for any minor infraction of airspace rather than their neighbours knowing where they are flying too.

It's a bit like having a box in your car which automatically alerts the authorities every time you exceed the speed limit.
Came here to say this. I've seen this on my (2015 13 inch MBP), in both Chrome and Firefox.
> It's a funny one because it's potentially one of the most serious crimes.

No. How about serial killers, real theft etc.

> You're stealing from everybody

No, tax evasion is not theft. It is primarily your earned income where you pay taxes from. Tax evasion is tax evasion, no reason to confuse it with other crimes.

Think about it this way: easiest way to avoid taxes is not to work at all. Are all those who are slacking off with government benefits, or living off from savings or inheritance stealing from us? No, they are just not working.

> You're creating a non-level playing field.

The playing field will always be non-level, you gotta deal with it. What about those who have a job at the government and are not doing any work? Are those also stealing?

Trust in society is a complicated issue. Often the industries where tax evasion happens are low-income jobs. I'm not saying it is right thing to do, but I don't think it is as serious crime as many others.
Brendan, uh, wtf?

You're implicitly reading my comment as some sort attempt to diminish your involvement, and explicitly claiming that I'm the one twisting words. You're wrong about both.

"Part of the creation of Firefox" is the second iteration of the wording in play here, which means it's you and jannes who are twisting words here. I know that moving the goalposts is one of HN's favorite pastimes, but it's a stupid one.

The point where I joined this conversation was to correct someone who referred to you as "the creator of Firefox". I was right to do so. (More than that, it's something you should have been glad to see...) If you want to see this as an insult despite it not being one and then move in to attack me over it with ironic accusations of strawmanning, you can go piss up a flagpole.
According to the US government's definition[0, 1], affordable housing is less than 30% of income. Which type of income it is is up for debate but it seems the general consensus is gross income, though I can't find an authoritative source on that. If it is gross income, then it stands to reason that 77% of net income may actually be fairly close to 40% gross income. And, while 33% above the affordability limit (30% of gross income), it's not terribly outside "a little higher than sustainable levels" -- though that's a very subjective phrase.

[0] https://www.huduser.gov/portal/pdredge/pdr-edge-featd-articl...

[1] https://www.hud.gov/program_offices/comm_planning/affordable...
Years ago the Portuguese government encouraged consumers to submit their receipts in a portal and each submitted receipt was a entry to a raffle where the prizes were luxury cars.
This way they could match the receipts from consumers with the ones reported by the shops. It felt wrong to put citizens policing the shops but it worked.
In support of your comment:

"As Micfo amassed VPN clients using the illegitimately-obtained IP addresses, a lot of traffic — some being criminal — filed through its network without a trace, according to government subpoenas directed at Micfo and reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.

Golestan and Micfo are not charged with being part of or even aware of illegal activity transmitted via VPNs across Micfo’s servers. The DOJ charged him and the company with “defrauding the internet registry to obtain the IP addresses over a period of several years.”

Prosecutors said Golestan’s alleged scheme was valued at $14 million, which was based on the government’s estimated value of between $13 and $19 for each address in the secondary market, according to the court complaint.

Born in Iran, Golestan, 36, started Micfo in 1999 in the bedroom of his childhood home in Dubai before emigrating to the U.S."
https://www.pymnts.com/innovation/2020/secure-smart-cities-c...
The law is not behind or antiquated in this case. Bank cybersecurity has been regulated for quite some time now, and failing to adequately secure your digital assets is a compliance violation no different than failing to catch obvious fraud.

It's very likely that your bank is based and regulated by New York State, even if it isn't physically based there. Contact the NY State attorney general's office, they should take you seriously.
Tell your manager. Wait four weeks for effect. You may ask for progress reports if there is no improvement. Leave.
This is really cool stuff! I was wondering what cool technology is behind this demo, and then it turned out to be so elegant and simple :).
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14542595 if you're seriously interested in this.
We are in a thread about the claim that "As long as annual compensation doesn't let you own a house outright in 5 years in the same area as your place of work, then there is more work to do."

That is what I was referring to.

I think companies are already trying to alleviate the housing issues. But their influence is not as high as you think. Google buses were attacked by locals, for example - they would have enable Google employees to live farther away, alleviating pressure on prices in the immediate neighborhood.
> that governments often tolerate because they don't see a threat to their power.

You think for example the North Korean government happily tolerates the black markets there? No way. If it would be easy for them to control them they would close them down. The black/grey markets happening in totalitarian countries are more like compromises - it would be too difficult to stop the activity without murdering half of the population or so.
> Was...

Is it over yet? From how i read it, no:

'[The internet society] will vote this month on whether to approve a formal recommendation that the society “not proceed [with the sale] unless a number of conditions are met.”'
I was under the assumption that the passengers were quarantined in their private quarters onboard.
To look forward, to hope for the best for everyone and to overcome the unforeseen.

Idk who this guy is, but it is clear from the text that he is a startup entrepreneur.
> Tell your manager. Wait four weeks for effect. You may ask for progress reports if there is no improvement. Leave.

That's a fine plan, but a simpler one is just to leave. It's exceedingly rare that someone in a toxic work environment speaks with their manager and then everything becomes okay.
GitHub mentions are good—in the pull request thread you open on GitHub. In commit messages, not so much. The same rule applies for issue references; URLs should be preferred (or at least something like GH-XXXX) to simple hashtag numbers in commit messages, the improvement matters a lot when it does, but you can only get it if you do it from the beginning (Git commits being immutable).
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> It’s a different kind of chat app, named after the Greek island where a close-knit community helps extend people’s lifespans.

As someone who actually has family on several Greek islands including Icaria, this is fucking disgusting and insulting marketing.

Nearly _every_ village on any island and nearly _every_ village on the mainland have an extremely tight-knit community that care about one another. To claim this is exclusive to one island, or that it somehow extends lifespans in a description of a fucking app?

Are you Gwyneth Paltrow? Are you that fucking dishonest?

Who the fuck are these people you've hired? Who the fuck advised them to say this? This is legitimately insulting and disgusting.

The marketing team for this app are morons, and should (and probably will) be fired. How could any competent team make such a basic fucking mistake?
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Maybe it also depends on the stationery and mobile access you have. In Germany streaming music wasn't feasible a decade ago since you had pretty limited data plans and arguably it still isn't really all that feasible on mobile internet still unless you download for offline on WiFi.

Meanwhile in Denmark or Poland there is very little in terms of data limits.
My solution is to have a specific job for independent people to sign off on all changes and you can sorta trust them before you pull. As opposed to just the developer. And everyone should have a reputation.
Or just move on. There are some situations or people where “smart” approach doesn’t solve anything. The article has good points. If we understand others, we can handle things easier, but also can be lost in the dark. It takes time and energy, some cases doesn’t worth the quest.
We have mechanisms to deal with stuff like this. You write a treaty where each member country pledges to implement this scheme, and then member countries refuse to let commercial ships from countries outside the treaty to dock.
Take a look here, for me this is "the" reference: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Guid...
The main argument is that NIMBYs are outnumbered at the state level. They "win" at the local level because older, richer homeowners are overrepresented at community meetings.
It's possible to like living somewhere and be comfortable with permanent residency, but to have compelling reasons to retain the citizenship of your birth country. Many countries require that you give up the old citizenship when you get a new one.

In my case, Germany requires citizenship applicants to show proof that they have attempted to give up their original citizenship, unless it's another EU country, and that's only because the EU high court ruled that they have to let EU citizens retain their EU citizenships.

I love living in Germany, have learned the language, contribute a lot to it and will probably live here the rest of my life, but I'm an American and have no intention of giving that up.
> “Since I left Secret I feel alive and aligned with my values and my purpose again.”
> I wonder what his values and purpose are.

Few people know the founder and whether he's actually a good person or a fraud, but we do know that: he was the recipient of huge VC largess, created an app with shaky moral foundation that caused actual harm, and then shut it down after lots of bad publicity.

Not reasons to totally discount a person, but good reasons to be skeptical.
Seriously? I did my post-graduate in my late 30s and it was a stellar move. Some of the most brilliant people I know were just busy doing other things and having families before they knew what they wanted to focus their post-grad studies on. I am strongly in favour of returning to academic life at any stage of a person's career, especially when the study is in the field you are already working in as it elevates you to a new level of expertise.
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>Blocking TSMC from selling to Huawei, might very well kill TSMC.

Um. NO. They either continue to sell Smartphone using chips from TSMC, or they retreat the Smartphone market where other maker will continue to use TSMC's chip.
To be honest this rings pretty true. My wife studied anthropology and it was remarkable that _every single one_ of the people she knew working in the field were either desperate starving debt-ridden recent grads who hadn't given up yet, or people with rich partners or parents who could fund their hobby.

Hell, I ended up supporting her through her master's but we finally had a good "forcing us to stay in a high COL area so you can make $28,000 a year at a job with no security is not helping the family" chat.

She doesn't work in the field anymore.
I read through around 75% of the TechCrunch article and I am yet to figure out what exactly this app is supposed to be. Seemed like a lot of feel good jargon but it couldn’t tell me how exactly it will make my life better or improve upon other social media (if that’s what this app is??)
IMP4GT: Impersonation Attacks in 4G Networks
I love how simple the solution is, I tend to over-engineer stuff like this by trying to actually make it clickable and so on, but this just works great - good example of doing the simplest thing that works!
Suspicious app.

This might be another clever way to harvest private user information. Are you lonely? Hey, how about some therapy? Here’s a list of some good therapists. (Your name was auctioned off to the highest bidders.)

Or how about some Zoloft? It cures everything. Buy now, for a 25% discount. (Your name and demographic was auctioned off to the highest bidder.)

If I was a lunatic, then, I don’t think I want to be in some random company’s insecure database, just waiting to be hacked.
But The Times does, sorta. Though this is a lot less serious in topic than the BBC article https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/coronavirus-james-bo...
The easy way would've been to output a fixed fraction precision rather than a floating point number directly, but that doesn't mean the underlying data or checked algebraic operations are any good.

There are several things that could've prevented this, but apparently they become forgotten every few decades or so. Here's one that could help:

A fixed-point math library using a 64-bit word format like Q1:49:14. That would be a signed, 49-bit whole number with a 14-bit fraction (4 digits for nominal storage / 2 digits for settlement rounded in-place). With a ~$562 trillion limit, it would have an effective range of -562,949,953,421,311.9999 to +562,949,953,421,311.9999. This would work for almost all banking operations but could break down in hyperinflation and the distant future, where reserve and government banking would likely hit "Y2K" issues with it first. Considering 128-bit types exist (although at double the storage cost), it might be worth creating a Q:1:60+:14 format with built-in Hamming code (or similar) ECC for protection beyond that which exists at the hardware level (RAM, possibly CPU caches & IO backplane, probably storage.. but ECC and integrity isn't universal nor always possible).
> the NHS and the education system will basically implode over the next 10 years

Feature, not bug.
> You think for example the North Korean government happily tolerates the black markets there? No way.

They most certainly do. There are tons of articles based on satellite based cameras that track the rise and fall of small black markets in North Korea. Some markets lasted years, before being abruptly shut down for unknown reasons.
I agree, and I am not trying to judge him here (who am i!).
All you can do is try to understand them through the things they have written.

I understand one can hold conflicting ideas knowingly or without realizing the contradiction between them. Or may be you don't have an option because it is the only game in town.

We see this analogue in our own times, people support freedom yet work on mass surveillance technologies/companies willingly. Do they not understand where it leads ? or just ignore it, or shrug helplessly.
My favourite resource that I discovered a few years ago in a similar Ask HN thread: http://eloquentjavascript.net

> Where do I go?

You don't really need to go anywhere else (especially not into the vortex of looking for the best resource) to learn and be confident with vanilla javascript.

> ... and how hard is this actually going to be?

Well that depends more on you and your preference for learning materials. I studied a chapter a day (like 3 hours concentrated per day) and was done in 3 weeks.
Hah, I live with two kids in 517 square feet (gigantic yard though). We're going to extend the house, and everything you say is true otherwise, but you can totally raise a couple kids in 1200 square feet.
Put them in comments on the commit on github. It's better to keep github stuff inside github. Your source code with your git history may move off github one day.
Thanks Matijash. Yeah, we spent ages trying to find a good solution for this, then thought, 'let's see if we can build it ourselves' ;)

Feel free to fork if you need something similar for your site.
"Really? You guess? You can't imagine any other reasons folks might be reluctant to allow unrestricted construction of multiple new residences on existing lots?"

Sure, usually they bitch and moan that someone else will take their taxpayer-funded free storage for private property (so long as it has an engine) on a public street.
Thanks Martinsos. Yeah, we originally wanted to embed our platform somehow in the page (i-frame or similar), but pretty happy with this solution.
I thought you wrote the article, but now I think I was wrong.

I'm never sure about how to submit articles in other languages, when there is no good alternative in English. Probably the best method is to submit the article but translate the title and add the language.

Something like Autotranslation of the title: "Using HTTPS Mirrors To Avoid Injected Cellular Operator Ads [Indonesian]". I changed Injecting -> Injected because I think it makes more sense.

PS: Hi from Argentina!
Yes, but recent evidence indicates that the cruise ships are not safe for quarantine. It’s like they were all in the same cesspool, just waiting to get infected.
"I was not aware of one low-rent housing development being built. "

And were the tech companies the ones making it illegal to build homes?
On the other hand there are lots of people happily receiving all their money from government, and also using all the public services as well. For example those having a job* at government or receiving benefits from government.

Note that it is still pretty much impossible to run a business without paying any taxes, in the end you have to pay some but you might be able to evade some. In the end it is just endless debate about what level of taxes is felt fair. Changes from individual to other. When people don't feel their taxes are fair, they start to evade those. They might be also just greedy bastards, but I don't think that's necessarily commonly the case.

(* Having a job doesn't necessarily mean doing beneficial work, just receiving the salary.)
What is the most widely used database? Microsoft Excel.
I was blown when i first learnt this fact.
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This app harvests everybody's phone contents (Cakendar, Contacts, and much, much more). That's a profit center right there.
By now, tt seems pretty obvious that (1) there exist craft that are propelled by some physics that we are not aware of and (2) someone in the government or defense industry knows far more about it than the general public.
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Yeah, many red states have made it illegal to strike. And of course, this eliminates any possible leverage that employees have over employers to force better treatment and that is precisely the reason why Republicans have done this.
Also, if you are going to mention the opportunity cost of defense spending, then I think we should also carefully assess the opportunity cost of not securing the world with american power and returning to a world without a dominant unipolar power, as a multipolar world seems much more prone to conflict.

America had military teams operating in 134 different countries in 2014[1]. Does that really indicates a unipolar power that's less prone to conflict?

https://www.pri.org/stories/2014-09-16/us-now-involved-134-w...
Isn't dendrochronology prone to mismatches. Surely there's some variance in growth rates and masses, even in the same region, and the chances of a false match must get relatively high as you go back further. Like if your tree is at the sunward end of the glade, the trees shading it are felled and it taps a nearby ground water vein then surely it grows better that year and the growth ring then won't match the rest of the trees there so closely.

What's a bit more incredible to me is that they have 7000 years of unbroken samples of wood from that one area? I know you can corroborate with other dating methods but the headline here is that this is pure dendro?

Also, with dendrochronology, surely we have to have other artefacts (wooden pieces at least) that are dated only just later from the same area (ie planted before these timbers were cut) -- be interesting to know what they are?
Government tracking (Prism etc) are generally not about tracking actions taken by dentists, doctors, skydivers, or whatever. The interest is in things like catching terrorists and criminals.

As you can see the same argument can be applied to any form of mass surveillance.
Maybe it depends on whether the US is actually securing the world or just creating a pipeline of fresh enemies to continue giving it a reason to be.
The point was happily. North Korean regime is at the point where they don't have any other sensible option than to tolerate the black markets.
That's excellent advice.

Here's less reasonable advice that I've also found works well: bait toxic people into bad behavior.

Figure out what gets the biggest response out of them while looking super reasonable yourself. Try to get them fired up as much as possible so they're annoying everyone, especially their manager, and not just you. The more people angry with the toxic person, the shorter their lifespan.

Give them enough rope to hang themselves.

Trolling is a art.
But "extreme prepping" is the answer. If most households just had 20 lbs of rice and 10 lbs of beans, 2 gallons of fuel for a portable stove at home as backup, a logistics meltdown would be so much less dangerous for society. Those supplies are very cheap for like 95% of the population in developed countries and would give valuable time untill any mess is sorted out, hopefully.

As it is now there are like no margin for country wide disasters at all with these JIT food deliveries. The government can't handle this very good as any central warehouses they would put food in would be involved in the logistic meltdown. Maybe on a county level.
Want to admire your fancy After Dark win 3.1 screensaver? Just emulate the whole environment! We don't want to keep suporting the broken architectures and leaky abstractions of past, they drag us down. Microsoft's dedication to backwards compatibility is admirable but IMO misguided and unsustainable in the long run. The IT industry has huge problem with complexity. We need to simplify the whole computing stack in interest of reliability, security and future innovations.

The proposed improvement as I understood it would be future proof. It seems trivial to build a rock-solid YAML/XML/JSON/EDN parser on OS level, and since it would be so crucial part of OS the mistakes would be caught and fixed quickly. It shouldn't even matter if structured data syntax is replaced or expanded in future, as long as it is versioned and never redacted. Rich Hickey's talk "Spec-ulation" has much wisdom about future-proofing the data structure.
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