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Sacha Baron Cohen proposed this in his widely seen/read keynote speech at the ADL's annual summit:

https://www.adl.org/news/article/sacha-baron-cohens-keynote-...

If you haven't seen it before, I would highly recommend it -- regardless of whether you agree with him or not.
Took a quick look. All that it seems to say is a version of "19, therefore {deity}didit". Not clear, smells like numerological nonsense, so no thank you, moving on.
Won't they need to have even more low-paid workers to make sure they don't publish something that violates the law?
I wonder if anyone's tried to write a language primarily for manipulating the DOM that's less... "quirky" than JavaScript? With WebAssembly being fairly well supported these days I suppose someone with a background in language design could write an interpreter in C for such a domain-specific language and target WASM.

Of course, people would say "what's the point" when JS is a thing and widely supported. I wonder if there'd be a) a compelling improvement in performance and b) a compelling improvement in reliability if we just wholesale replaced it based on lessons learned? I reckon even just keeping JS and eliminating implicit coercions would be a huge improvement (as well as maybe automatic semicolon insertion) and reduce the debugging times considerably.
This is about private equity vs public equity, no?
so I can't work on multiple pages in parallel?
why don't you move closer to your current work ?
Thanks, appreciate the compliment, but there's not much to it really. Do version A, use it, change what's off or annoying, rinse and repeat. At some point it always converges to a stable point.

Pretty much the only criteria is to remove friction from fast paths and add some where safeguards are needed.
UK citzens are still EU residents for now, the UK hasn't actually left yet.
> These changes to our Terms and privacy policy don’t affect your privacy settings or the way that we treat your information.

This is such a blatant lie what the hell. The only reason for this move is specifically to treat your information in ways that are not legal now.
I hear that argument a lot as well. It's a very strange argument because publishers don't have a legal requirement to be "unbiased".
This article doesn't say much of substance. It isn't about the new FINCEN requirements Mnuchin hinted at a week ago. It's basically about how much energy mining uses.
that would still exist, you just wouldnt see it from the UI/dashboard that you interact with day to day. There would be risk parameters, not dissimilar to the "find your risk tolerance" type wizards today.

the important part being to eliminate too many choices. the more choices people have, the more chances they choose a suboptimal one or panic and choose nothing. (paradox of choice.)
School's in particular are horrible.

The knowledge level on those staff's is often near 0, they operate with wonky budgets (here is a gazillion dollars for ipads... no money to maintain them or the rest fo the systems), and are just making do the best they can.

The IT staff at one complained to me the librarian at one elementary school kept changing things on them. In reality she had a clue and they couldn't even operate rudimentary role based access type system to stop her.
In health care AI there is some tendency to use generated data for training. Idea might be that org A has real patient data but for privacy reason cannot share data, but if they create a sufficiently strong generator they can share that and org B can train their classifier without ever accessing sensitive data. Alternatively, it can be also used if you simply have too little data and need augmentation.
BTW this would probably include reddit and HN as well.
> According to the rest of the discussion on this page, Visa and other payment networks refund the interchange fee to payment processors (including Stripe) on refunded transactions.

So far said that the refund fees on the brand side specifically increased or came into existence. I don't know if they did or not. I imagine though that transaction fees rising (which people do mention in the discussion) has an effect here. If you were able to make a given margin before while still allowing refund fees to be returned. Now transaction fees increase. As a PSP you can either choose to increase your processing fees or find other ways to make even. If you can achieve that by not returning fees on refunds (and make a bit more money along the way) that makes sense to me.

My main point is that rising fees in general can be a reason here even if the card brands didn't specifically add a new cost to refunds per se.
I grew up across the street from the Sutherlands in the 1960's and early 70's. Bert Sutherland gave me and my brother our Novice Class Amateur Radio exams, and set us up with some old antennas of his (including a rather nice tri-bander beam antenna with rotator, which he helped my father strap to our chimney). Later, in high school, when I was interested in computers, he let me log into his account at BB&N from the terminal in his garage. He showed me a few things, including "wheel mode" (essentially root access) to the systems, and then left me alone with it, saying only, "Now, I expect you to be a good citizen." When I was in college, he helped get me a part-time programming job at BB&N.

This was huge. In hindsight, I'm amazed he trusted me as a teenager that way, but having been given that trust I never abused it. I'm forever grateful for the way he helped me get started on a path that I've followed my whole life.
Yeah, the UK didn't fell out of the EU. There's a transition period that just started and right now, there's basically no change yet.
For use cases where one wants to track calls, length or connection, the better way to do this is the click-to-call approach.

Have a button that says, "Call Me". If you have the user's number place a call to them and connect it to the destination number. If you don't have the user's number then collect it before placing the call.

There are much better tracking benefits and data collection for phone numbers.

If one is doing marketing and wants a person to call, there usually isn't much of a difference in conversion rate between a call to action like "Call 800-555-1212" and a form that will call you.

Source: An employer powered a metric shit-ton of advocacy call campaigns - like the STOP SOPA & PIPA stuff that took over the internet a few years ago.
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I think this is a great idea. Perhaps the "Github for data" copy could use some work, but the concept of obfuscating real data for use in building systems without the overhead or concern of operating on real customer data is valuable. Of course, the degree to which the obfuscated data represents real data is important to ensuring the systems built like this are robust, but this seems possible.
It's not that publishers have to be unbiased, it's that publishers are legally responsible for what is published.
Maybe they use something unusual, like homomorphic encryption?
I had done some of the AWS courses and was just about to move onto their Kubernetes stuff -- is there another resource you'd recommend instead?
It seems very early to be making changes like this.

Google must really benefit somehow from the change, otherwise they could leave it until much later in the year, and see what (if any) changes Parliament makes to privacy and data protection law in the UK.
He was in jail (holding in Essex County jail in NJ) for the second ~half of the trial as well, as even before he was convicted, he was stripped of many rights and due to FBI harassment of all potential employers was unable to support himself to their standards.
> escape punishment for harboring misinformation and extremist content

its so bananas that statements like this are glossed over and unqualified. this is not a solved problem, and its not even being treated like its a problem at all.

this perception that there are a set of correct facts and incorrect facts is just so meaingless. what does it even mean to be true? $Person is on $Video saying $Statement. True or false? Well, it depends. It ALWAYS depends. are you asking if $Video.Words = $Statement.Words? almost never. You are not investigating $Video.Soundwaves and $Person.VocalCords, you are making a case for $Person.Beliefs. What if $Person.Beliefs @ $Video.TimeStamp != $Person.Beliefs @ $Today? Is it true but meaningless, or are you trying to imply conclusions contextually - but guess what, different people interpret the same context differently!

an example suitable for HN is talking about security. Is your company secure? You cant answer the question because _the question is bad_. the answer to security is ALWAYS it depends. Are you talking about physically secure against a wandering drunk trying to pee on your server, or physically secure against a disgruntled employee building a killdozer and driving through your building? Are you talking about secure from some kid who finds LOIC and tries to DoS you or from a long term campaign from a nation-state APT? The discussion _requires_ framing, and so does discussing "misinformation and extremist content"
I’ve met several ex-NSAers that used their time there to build their brand successfully.

At the end of the day, the dragnet surveillance decisions came from the highest levels of the Bush and Obama administrations, not the boots on the ground.
The protections designed for phone companies, etc., make perfect sense: the phone company is just facilitating communication in a content-neutral way. Phone companies should not be responsible for knowing or caring what content is shared, even if it's some kind of slander or treasonous plot being discussed.

But does that apply to web platforms that aren't content-neutral? I think probably not. There is such a huge volume of communication that they should have some protections built in, but not blanket protection.
Larry sounds like the kind of guy I'd want to know. Also, I didn't know Newton was written in Lisp, that's so cool.
I think a Gitlab for data is a much better proposition . See https://quiltdata.com/

It is also open source and written in python. https://github.com/quiltdata/quilt
Imagine the vibration and ventilation problems. I was thinking "how long to unpack and set up once parked?" ... That number will be longer once this vehicle ages and travels a bit. If one wanted to make a thing like this operational while mobile that would be an even more exciting challenge.
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In finance, equity is ownership of assets that may have debts or other liabilities attached to them. Publicly owned assets are going to further the goals of said owning public entity (just as if it was a private owner) and of its parents in the hierarchy.
I have never heard of a software company that offers commissions like this before, personally. I've also never heard of companies that expect devs to leverage personal contacts on behalf of the sales team.
Why not use GitHub?
I ask again, and? Unionization is collective action by a group of workers. It will provide them the ability to negotiate future issues (i.e. not wanting to host Nazi kickstarters). Of course they have everything to lose if kickstarter loses money, the first people laid off aren't CEOs.

No workers = No Kickstarter. That's it.
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Will every post need to be pre-moderated to ensure that nothing objectionable is published? I wonder how this would affect sites like Hacker News and Reddit, or any forum sites really.
In the US, freedom of the press is explicily stated in the 1st. amendment to the constitution. It does not depend on any legal theory of publishing corporations being people.
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NO for offers, YES for tracking sales.

NO, because all content is regularly scraped by an in-house crawling engine specially crafted to deal with all kinds of crawling shortcomings! Typically, we crawl hundreds of thousands of courses in 4 days. The offers available through affiliate marketing networks would never work out, they just look like ads

Yes, we currently use affiliate networks to track sales (soon to be changed). This metric ensures that our product works end-to-end.
At this very moment we are growing at 30% MoM and we really don’t care about revenue. We know that the e-learning landscape is completely overloaded and we’re trying to solve this problem on a global scale.
Whoever wants to solve this problem, will have to think big from day one
The optics of this might look bad, but I cannot really fault Google for this move (and I frequently fault Google).

They're facing a dilemma of regulatory uncertainty, and this move resolves this dilemma for them (at least, they seem to believe that).

Anyone who has ever dealt with powerful regulatory agencies will probably agree that this resolution is the right move for the company, a move important enough that eating some bad PR is probably totally worth it.

(The point about powerful regulatory agencies is not that it's hard to stay compliant; it's that the costs, overhead, bureaucracy etc. of demonstrating this compliance is immense, even if you are doing everything 100% right.)
No. Full stop.
All these kinds of HN comments share the same flaw: they unnecessarily detract from the work the OP has done by attacking use cases that the project never claimed to solve.

DSL's, for all their problems, do simplify complex programming logic, and people use them every day to do great things. DSL's like Ansible and Chef save people an order of magnitude of time for server provisioning hence why they are wildly popular.

It seems reasonable to me that someone would build a DSL with the same goals for web browser automation. The screen recording example gif they have looks so intuitive even a non-programmer could do it.

I don't look at this project and expect that it solved every problem with web scraping and reading the README it doesn't look like they are claiming it does either.
GDPR compliance is expensive; every account not in the regime saves Google costs.
It seems that way.
There's a big difference whether the company is in EU or not.

If your company is in EU, then according to Article 3.1 the GDPR applies to all your procesing of personal data, period - with no exceptions depending on citizenship. So if you're a DPO in a EU company, then that's what's true for you, you definitely have to apply GDPR protections to EU citizens (and also noncitizens) wherever they are.

If your company is not in EU, then according to Article 3.2. the GDPR applies only to people located in the EU - "This Regulation applies to the processing of personal data of data subjects who are in the Union by a controller or processor not established in the Union"; no qualification on citizenship, but a qualification based on location.
While I do agree with you on the IBM truck remarks, I find myself heavily disagreeing with the "PGP / SMTP over TLS" is LARPing" gentleman.

For one, he makes the argument that it's all a theater. Is it broken ? Yes. Does it provide some non-negligeable level of confidentiality ? Absolutely. Is it "broken" in some way or another ? Yes. But that doesn't mean we should just fall back to regular plain unencrypted email when PGP MAKES MORE SENSE. I myself don't use PGP when it doesn't really make sense. But when sending a security vulnerability, I'd say it's pretty safe to assume you're not LARPing at that point. Sure, maybe they know you're sending a PoC. But that will at least delay them for a couple of days (or hours if you're a high value target).

A comment on that thread expressed exactly what I feel and what I assume what most of security minded people feel: Sure, it is not perfect. But if I want perfect-secrect (as perfect as it theoretically gets anyway), I'm going to use Signal. But when your company has e-mail as the main communication form, it doesn't make much sense to use another form of communication, it will hinder productivity and obstruct your company's processes.

All in all, LARPing is a strong word. If anything, we should applaud the effort confidentiality-minded people put up, and push for better protocols.
The waiter is John Lennon. TIL.
Is it possible for the HN staff to put a rollover on the black bar or link it to threads like this. I see an uptick in the "why is there a black bar?" threads every time it goes up and it would be nice to acknowledge the people that have contributed to technology and spread awareness of what they've done for people that might not know.
Let’s be clear. The “conservative” voices that have been moderated out not because of the PC police, but because of obvious reasons that violate ToS (spreading racism, inciting violence, etc). Look over [1] and show me this consistent “abuse of power”.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter_suspensions
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Agreed. It is one of those phrases that raises my hair each time right along with lawful intercept and hate speech.

It is disheartening to see it unquestioned and in mainstream.
> GDPR applies to EU citizens globally. It's just not enforced globally.

Do American speed limits apply to American drivers in Europe? Or do the European speed limits apply?

Essentially you are absolutely incorrect. The EU has no legal jurisdiction outside of EU borders.
I lead the team who built one of the public documentation sites mentioned in this article (https://polaris-icons.shopify.com/), ask me anything!
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For comparison, Instagram sends ~200 byte base64 thumbnails in its API responses. It's a low-res JPEG with a fixed header to save a bit more space. This is also used to blur sensitive images. You can get even better results with webp.

It requires minimal javascript support-- just enough to build an img tag with the appropriate data url, and renders just as fast as any other tiny image. Upscaling blurs away the imperfections.

https://stackoverflow.com/q/49625771
My thought as well. Also just got an email yesterday that my investments at USAA are moving to Schwab.
Didn’t Assange already make claims that that data trove did not come from Russia?
Censorship on Facebook and YouTube also goes beyond simply removing content.

If the almighty algorithm decides your stuff shouldn't be seen, it won't appear in peoples feeds, drastically reducing your reach. That's another huge problem.
Exactly. They act as publishers but do the have any liability like publishers in other areas have. They shouldn't have it both ways.
If you're asking how to create a municipal fiber ISP, take inspiration and guidance from existing success stories. It'll vary depending on the state and culture and require multiple steps. If telecoms have already bribed the state govt to ban municipal Internet, collect signatures for a ballot question on whether to allow municipalities to decide for themselves. Next, start a local campaign to promote municipal FTTH. There, keep your messaging simple, consistent, and on-point (see below).

Meanwhile, collect signatures for a small, non-threatening initiative like whether the city should explore the possibility of creating FTTH. Be involved in that process. Be helpful, positive, and patient. Contact other cities that have done this and get advice from them. Get the study/plan published. If the city govt is against it, vote them out and continue. Otherwise, encourage local govt to promote the plan. Then have a ballot question on whether to build the municipal fiber ISP.

Reasons to build a municipal fiber ISP:

* lower cost Internet and money stays here
* superior service
* net neutrality and consumer protection
* jobs, jobs, jobs
* increased property values
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I can tell you that two FAANGs implement GDPR compliance for everyone because they didn’t want to risk getting a user’s EU status wrong.
It's the same Barr who wages war on encryption.
While you are correct about Adobe Type 1 fonts, you are incorrect on display fonts. Apple System 7 had vector display fonts. There were issues on windows which is why Microsoft (and likely Adobe) improved TrueType. Adobe later responded with Adobe Font Manager which is likely what you are referencing.
I'm currently refactoring a legacy codebase which has many of the attributes of big ball of mud. It seems to have started with a misguided amateur attempt at an architecture, which turned into "the most complicated thing which could possibly work", then imploded. I've been in the "trench warfare" stage ever since I inherited it after the original developers had all gone.
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“They are burning books and destroying value: art, teaching, literature. It’s not okay.”

What are you referring to, specifically?

“ their behavior needs to change before it hurts our society even more.”

What specific harm to society occurs when using a toy gun for an emoji?
And you don't have to present criticism by calling a group of people you don't know idiots.
Ask HN: How do you prevent users from certain countries from using your web app?
I am trying to open a US company from India using Stripe Atlas. They keep stonewalling me with this question ...

How will you screen for and prevent people in comprehensively sanctioned jurisdictions, namely Cuba, North Korea, Syria, the Crimea region of Ukraine, or Iran from using your app?

My typical answer is ...

Our app is only available to people who have a Gmail or Facebook or Github or Twitter account. We believe Gmail/Facebook/Github/Twitter accounts are not available in the above countries. So we cannot have customers from these countries.

Their reply goes ...

Thank you. We will update you in a few business days, or possibly up to a week due to a surge in interest.

And then it's back to the same question ... how will you prevent people from certain countries from using your app? This has been going on for two months now.

How do you prevent users from certain countries from using your web app?
DRM doesn't have to require ownership. See Amazon's ebooks or Netflix. Not owned, but still under DRM.
Would be too cool!
Common carriers (like a telephone company) are content-neutral (unbiased) and have no legal responsibility for what is said. If someone mails you a threatening letter, you can't sue USPS.

Publishers can publish (or decline to publish) whatever they want, but they do have some responsibility for what they say. Libel, copyright infringement, and threats all carry consequences even if the publisher is not the author. Publishers can be as biased as they want.

Is FB a publisher or a common carrier? What about Google? Youtube? Instagram? Twitter?

(The answer is that they are kind of either depending on the exact part of the organization. And they are having it both ways: control without responsibility.)
Wouldn't you be the one choosing the IRC server? I thought the point of this was if you wanted to run your own IRC bouncer with a web client, similar to a self hosted IRCCloud.
You're probably aware, but the obvious counterargument people make to what you've said is that for some people such as activists under repressive regimes they would rather not be able to email than email under the mistaken belief what they were sending is highly secure. TFA on that article said the risk is non-technical users seeing technical users use PGP and assuming it's a good option when there are high stakes.
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Are containers really the best abstraction for providing application isolation / portability? What about snaps/nix/guix instead?
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