skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except not quite: while the UK will have laws that effectively mirror the GDPR, the crucial difference is that it's now a UK law, not a European law, and there is no EU enforcement of that UK law.

UK citizens also won't be able to appeal all the way up the EU courts: it stops at the UK supreme court.

And most importantly: now that the UK is out of the EU, it is a tiny, barely relevant factor in multinational corporate online practice. Any business that gets told by the UK to follow their GDPR can quite comfortably go "lol, no" and barely affect their bottom line, as opposed to having the entire EU block go "obey our GDPR or we won't let you do business in any of these 27 nations, a large portion of which make up a substantial cut of your global revenue".

The biggest players won't, of course, but smaller companies?
You're surprised that people are interested in the next installment of an SV Twitter / YC world startup kerfuffle? Everyone's getting out their popcorn.
> people / societies have [...] other values in play beyond their incentives.

Isn't that basically just a non-monetary incentive?
These things are commodities, a bushel of corn is a bushel of corn is a bushel of corn. They're not more difficult to buy from elsewhere, the logistic just become marginally more expensive. There's not a buyer in the world that's going to buy the more expensive stuff first, but a marginal increase in logistics cost to buy corn from mexico instead of kansas is not going to result in california sinking into the ocean.

What state do you think is just full to the brim with people waiting to talk about how good things are?
I've been using SQLite for something like 20 years - how did I not know about `user_version` until now?!

I've always added a `schema_version` table with a single row containing a single column with the version, so thanks for letting me know about this!
> If you can't grasp the difference between 'casual sex hookups' and 'dating' then I'm sorry for you

I’m sorry but you can’t brush the point off that easily. The difference between a date and a hookup is BS. Hookup is just a judgmental description of a short sexual relationship.

E.g. Two people go on a ”date”. They have sex. They never see eachother again. Hookup, right?

Except maybe they both are seeking a long term relationship, but due to sexual incompatibility or random life events they don’t end up seeing each other again. Now it seems more like a failed attempt at dating, than a hookup.

Two people meet up for the purposes of a sexual encounter. They have a few drinks together, aren’t feeling it and go their separate ways without having sex. That sounds like a date. No other description fits, since they didn’t have sex.

Two people meet up for a ”hookup”. It goes well, they repeat it. Two years later they are married with a kid on the way. Was there a point where it was a hookup and then it turned into serious dating? Maybe but where?
This claim about Efail is essentially false. Efail was possible because PGP uses an archaic message authentication scheme, one designed more or less before the dawn of authenticated encryption, which can be stripped off messages, and which is in a real sense an "add-on" as far as the core of PGP is concerned. PGP will release unauthenticated plaintext to its callers and count on them to check out-of-band errors to see that the plaintext isn't safe; mailers failed to reliably perform this check.

There is a technical sense in which mailers are responsible for mitigating this vulnerability, but it's a vulnerability that can't exist in the first place in a well-designed cryptosystem.

In the context of this post, this is basically a nit; the point the post makes is that even if you replace PGP with something like Age, encrypted email is still too risky to use, and is intrinsically inferior to modern secure messengers. (Encrypted email is not a use case Age is pursuing, and I do like Age).
> That's why we have the browser platform (which shields programs (aka web apps) from the local file system) and advanced permission management in the popular app stores ("this app wants to access your local file system").

Don't tell browsers that. Javascript hooks for everything, from your clipboard (hope you don't use a password manager), to Bluetooth (oh you like screaming in your music?), and even your USB devices (is your $HOME mounted over USB?)...
From what I can tell, the official EU website (https://europa.eu) does not use third-party cookies or trackers. They have a pop-up.
I flown many long haul flights. The first time I heard Musk propose using rockets for international travel I thought it was insane. I still do. But if they are accident free for the next 10 years; would I then? Probably - if they could manage to keep my trip under ~3Gs.
This is a good start...

But I think it would be far better for them to focus on alerting webmasters if someone does manage to get a new certificate issued for a domain before the old one expires.

Certbot should reference the old certificate when doing a renewal. If someone registers a new certificate while an old one is valid and without referencing the old one, the owner of the old certificate should be notified loudly (sms, different-domain email, etc). Same if they register a certificate through a different provider.

Today all of the above is possible with certificate transparency logs, but nobody looks in them, so they're useless.
I think they just made a typo and meant to say the opposite statement.
I think this screenshot from the video explains what they're talking about: https://i.imgur.com/F8ISnSq.png

So, what are the odds that this is or isn't a coincidence? Could the ancient Egyptians have measured the two circumferences of the Earth that accurately at that point in history?
I don't know how it's done in the US, but in Europe financial calculations are done with four digits after the dot.
> It's aligned to true north within 3/60 of one degree (making it, I believe, the most accurately aligned structure on the planet)

3/60 of a degree is mildly impressive (Wikipedia says 4 minutes of arc rather than 3), but I seriously doubt that it's the most accurately aligned structure on the planet. With modern technology, surely we could align something much more closely than that given a good reason to do so.
That's not what's being "reported" though. What's being reported is that "Trump promised a pardon if Assange says it's not from Russia". Notice how Russia or promise of a pardon does not come up in your Rohrabacher quote (which, BTW, I'd need to verify as well before I believe it). It's like I said "I'll call on Jeff Bezos to give you a million dollars if you vote in this election", without even specifying who I want you to vote for.
You can equip a Taycan 4S quite nicely for $130K US, but what you probably want is the electric Macan next year. Taycan is priced (and roughly sized) around Panamara, which sells for 90K to well north of 200K. Macan starts much lower at 50K. The BEV version will likely start higher than that, I'm betting even well equipped ones will be under 100K.
True north meaning the fixed point we call the north pole. It doesn't change because it's geographic; nothing to do with the pole star.
> one of the things that makes PGP so pernicious is that it's a spec, a de facto implementation, an ecosystem used in different contexts (e.g. enterprise file transfer, but also e-mail)

Just like SSL/TLS and SSH? They're both specs via RFCs, they both have de facto implementations (openssl and openssh), and they're both used in different contexts (ssh can be used for file transfers, besides remote shells; TLS's applications are very broad like PGP's).
I assume this is why the FBI is mentioned so often in these stories. A lot of companies probably keep hacking incidents quiet, but acknowledge it once the FBI is involved.
Is Austen Allred the Elizabeth Holmes of coding bootcamps?
In a the-cold-warriors-would-never-believe-this moment, Romania scores better than the United States.

But then, a lot of countries score better than the United States. 47 of them, in fact...
> American citizens are now well-informed enough to know that some of the folks they talk to online are paid

I'm curious: How do you think that Americans can be well informed in a system that actively attempts to feed them disinformation by a series of interested parties that have down to a science how to switch public opinion and humungous budgets?

I'm not claiming that it's impossible for a single person to be well informed, mind you; I'm simply saying that it's pretty clear that the efforts to keep people misinformed are giant, becoming stronger by the day as technology advances and with no significant opposing force. I can't see how anyone can see that trend and think it's not going to have a harmful effect on society.
> a witness statement by former U.S. Republican congressman Dana Rohrabacher who had visited Assange in 2017, saying that he had been sent by the president to offer a pardon.

> The pardon would come on the condition that Assange complied with the U.S. by saying that the Russians were not involved in the email leak which hurt Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign in 2016, Rohrabacher’s statement said.

Rohrabacher's witness statement says that he made this offer on Trump's behalf with a condition attached. Rohrabacher's own statement in August 2017 says that Assange met that condition in that same 3 hour meeting:

https://web.archive.org/web/20170817205448/https://rohrabach...

> Assange, said Rohrabacher, “emphatically stated that the Russians were not involved in the hacking or disclosure of those emails.” Rohrabacher, who chairs the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia, and Emerging Threats, is the only U.S. congressman to have visited the controversial figure.

> The conversation ranged over many topics, said Rohrabacher, including the status of Wikileaks, which Assange maintains is vital to keeping Americans informed on matters hidden by their traditional media. The congressman plans to divulge more of what he found directly to President Trump.
Which is why I've also heard developers that either assumed the 'g' was silent or a transposition problem and you get "poster SQL", "postreg SQL", or worst of all "posgret SQL".

Somewhere, I believe in an HN comment, I saw a Postgres developer say that one of the biggest regrets of the project naming was capitalizing that "shared S".
Something like that will eventually happen, because lots of people want a good desktop mail-like experience for secure messaging. And there's nothing wrong with that, as long as the backplane for such a system isn't SMTP email.

It's not the core email UX that's the problem; it's SMTP email that's the problem.
The author is presenting a binary view of email security.

It's true that email as a protocol has inherent insecurities ; and it's also true that dedicated, rich spies are probably able to exploit many of them even with encrypted message bodies.

But most of us are facing the problem of MASS SURVEILLANCE, which statistically is more serious.

So:

1. Stop using spied-upon email servers:

1.1 Drop your Gmail, Yahoo mail, Microsoft etc. mail accounts, in favor of non-US and/or non-huge-corporation mail service providers.

1.2 Try to get your friends and family to drop theirs. Yes, I know this is extremely hard...

1.3 Try to get your workplace / NGOs you volunteer in to drop use of those servers (and also of Google Apps, Office 365, Skype etc. which have strong tie-ins with the email services).

2. Use mail clients which auto-encrypt messages to recipients with known keys - like EnigMail for Thunderbird.

The more of that is normalized, the harder
Now I find that I often come to my computer and it has been turned off for me, due to frequent updates.

20 years ago, I would turn off the monitor to avoid burn-in, but typically just kept the computer on.
It's oder-sensitive under X11 but many of the the default combinations are duplicated with the reverse order.
Google Maps seems to show an indent on one side: https://www.google.com/maps/place/The+Great+Pyramid+of+Giza/...

https://i.imgur.com/sGGvSPn.png
Yes, this is part of how Western imperialism pressures developing countries into changing their economies for the good of first-world capitalism.
True, but just about anyone I meet has a claim for my respect, by virtue of being a human being. I am not morally obliged to love in the same way.
yeh, I hate it when people edit my hand written SVG images in a program that makes them 100x larger and unreadable. Where all they had to do was to copy one line of xml and edit coordinates.
Great business concept. I loved the write up, made me think of my own trials and tribulations as an ex-entrepreneur.

As a marketing guy though, I saw a few points I'll mention in case you want to implement. I'm sure the editing will improve your conversion rate:

1- Authority logos - I'm pretty sure the average renter won't recognize them. Find more recognizable logos to use, or don't use them. The whole purpose of authority logos is to leach off the goodwill people might have to brands they know and love. If they can't recognize the authority logos, that defeats the point of having them.

2- I'd change from "TV Famous Insurers" to "Geiko" or whatever specific one you are talking about (lemonade uses specific names on their landing pages for a real good reason)

3- Clarify the meaning of "Free Insurance" - I'd use the Get 1 Month Give 1 Month of FREE Insurance" or simply "One Month of Free Insurance". I'd then make the text under the headline much clearer. Why you do something isn't as important as what the end user gets, avoid getting bogged down in too many details.

4- Testimonials need to look more like testimonials. Use pictures or something that shouts 'this is a testimonial'. The colored boxes look cool, but I believe design should always follow function.

5- I'd avoid mentioning the packages on the lander/home. Just mention the highlights "From as Little as $5 for insurance of up to $500,000". Moving people through the funnel before you get into details.

6- Avoid the word 'ruthlessly'.

7- I'd include a hero shot or something a little more human. The page is a little dry.

Overall though, I love the concept and will likely sign up soon (my wife generally handles that, but I'll bring it up to her) - The website is also super well done, my comments aren't trying to detract from that in any way. Just trying to give feedback to make it even better.
Acceptability of using lottery to allocate research funding:survey of applicants
The indention is where the tube used to sit that was used to carry grain to the top back when the pyramid was used as a grain silo.

(Yes, I'm joking)
CoronaVirus free speech category (open sourced)
It makes the UK like the rest of the world. Are you mocking the rest of the world (including USA) for not wanting to copy EU laws?
I've seen a comic story in which Gyro Gearloose invents a machine which he puts on an island. He turns it on and is distracted. On return, much of the island has been turned into ice cream (frappe, I think). So this concept goes back a ways.
On the other hand, the Rockefeller family had a very long record of spending enormous sums on elections, whether by running themselves, or through an own candidate, and loosing every single time.

It will be a good read for everybody deifying "a realpolitik grandmaster" Henry Kissinger how badly he failed in the role of Rockefeller's political adviser. His ineptitude in politics was borderline tragicomedic. This the best proof to me that a "professional politician" is really an oxymoron.

The rich are bad at politics more often than not, and their money can compensate for that only partially.

Georgie Washington was however a spectacular politician on his own, without a doubt.
China resumes space launch activity amid coronavirus outbreak
No that’s not true at all but sure.

The problem with Analytica is it was done without your knowledge as a user. If you had volunteered to share tour data with CA how is that is that different from sharing it with Google or Instagram or any other service? We pick services to use in exchange for data everyday.

Why is it different if Facebook has access to your data from any other service? You just pick one.

Anyway this is the only solution and it will eventually be implemented. Either that or the Warren plan.
For some reason, say the words Founding Fathers and too many Americans' brains seize up, even though they were a motley assembly of, among other things, tax cheats, drunks, and racists. Nor were they particularly great political scientists: all of their main goals (no political parties! Congress acting on a check on the President!) fell by the wayside, and the rickety mess that is the Constitution has only survived because of a lack of threatening national competitors within a couple thousand miles of our borders.
Watch the interview, you won't regret it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nb2tebYAaOA
Air transportation only makes up 10% of emissions caused by the transportation industry, and that industry as a whole makes up 26% of total global emissions. In other words, air transportation makes up 2.6% of global emissions, which is not even remotely close to being a "major contributor to CO2 emissions".

As for your last sentence, if we can find ways to travel the world faster, why the hell not? Once we start having this attitude of "good enough", we stagnate as a society.

The biggest sources of pollution are passenger cars, energy production, and agriculture. Rather than stagnate our aviation technology in order to tackle something that makes up 2.6% of pollution, let's make those other industries green.
Not to mention many filesystems are implemented as B-trees.
How precisely does Google determine which of its users are UK users?

For example, I lived in the UK when I opened my Google account(s), but now I live in Portugal. Do I need to inform Google of this somehow. Do they look at my payment information, or at my recent logins? I certainly cannot see any 'what country do you live in' options in my account settings.

I'd certainly prefer to keep any EU data protections should I have the choice.
I'm not sure what you mean by escapes, but you can use parentheses as block delimiters, "and" and "or" as a semicolon, and ternary operator for conditionals

>>> f = lambda x: (
... (
... print('a') or
... print('b')
... ) if x % 2
... else (
... print('c') or
... print('d')
... )
... )
>>> f(42)
c
d
>>> f(43)
a
b
If you're going to do 1.2 and 1.3 and get everyone to make massive changes to how they operate, why not just use a secure messenger instead of trying to shoehorn privacy onto a protocol designed for when the Internet had like five computers on it and all the people knew each other?
https://github.com/profullstack/reddit-clone-svelte

https://github.com/profullstack/reddit-clone-api-js

I found this old project using svelte and mongoose on github, but the OP was unresponsive so I forked it and added categories. I plan on adding some more features and making it easily brandable.
User-Friendly Privacy Is Better Than Perfect Privacy
I guess I don’t understand why you would think that the following wouldn’t work:
- use random email addresses
- encrypt the content with something more secure than PGP (on the client)
- receive the email and decrypt it (on the client)

Sure, it’s plaintext, but I don’t see the downside?
The view from Google maps is far less convincing to me.
plays worlds tiniest violin

I am truly speechless. Later HN, its been good.
Isn't that his younger brother Ivan?
First hand account of situation on Diamond Princess
A simple password or a pin code does mitigate quick attacks of opportunity using lost or stolen physical factor; and adds non-repudiation if someone uses someone else's token - you can't just say "oh we must have accidentally swapped our cards at lunch" if you had to enter their pin as well.
They are not doing anything wrong so I'm not sure why anyone is "accusing" them of something.

I've read this post, what they do is clear and makes sense to me.

Most of all it preservers "if the student doesn't get the job, LambdaSchool fails" property. This alignment of incentives is really the only thing that matters and it lacks in traditional colleges (which is why Lamda will either fail or, in the long term, will kill traditional colleges or force them to change).

Comparing what they do to CDO is done to make a negative association. "CDO are bad, this shares some similarity of CDO, this is bad".

The bad aspect of CDO was that it was used to hide bad investments by packaging them together and re-selling as a better investment.

What Lambda is doing is more like pooling of risk used in insurance: if you (as an investor) bet on ISA of a single student, you have a high-risk, binary outcome (loose all your money or get some reward).

If you bet on 1000 students as a group, you significantly de-risk the whole thing while only reducing potential reward a little bit.
It's absolutely intuitive for people used to programming languages that aren't strongly typed, like Python.
Well, you could sacrifice one of your (precious) currently-running shells by doing:

exec mv /bin/sh /bin/sh.old
One scenario missed in the list of causes is a corrupted runtime image.

An advanced topic is enabling support for the watchdog in your bootloader and having a defined recovery path when the system fails to load or, worse, the application falls into a boot loop.

If you have the space, you can fall back to a recovery image or duplicate of the application. If you don’t have the space, falling into a DFU mode is a good plan.
I definitely agree that we could, given a good reason to. I took a cursory look and couldn't find anything to dispute its precision relative to other structures on Earth.
> Operating multiple shell companies is perfectly legal

Sure, what's not is:

Having the registered principals of those shell companies be fictitious (as in this case).

Having agents of your company who have received a warrant addressed to your company pretend that your company has not received it, whether the purpose is to evade the warrant or to avoid drawing attention to your fraudulent front companiest (as, again, in this case.)

> Responding to a subpoena as the entity it was sent to isn't lying.

A subpoena or warrant is a command. Receiving it and not obeying the command fully is a crime.

> It says there was one occasion where the subpoena had both Micfo and a channel partners' info on

No, it says a warrant was addressed to Micfo but received by Micfo employees at the “Channel Partner”. It does not say it has both companies info on it. Even if it did, directing employees to pretend your firm has not received a court order naming your firm when in fact your firm has received it is not legal.

> Regardless, it's not an act "in furtherance of a crime" - the crime was committed at the point they obtained the IP addresses.

If the intent was to preserve the illusion of the distinct identity of the channel partners tonorent discovery of the fraud, it absolutely was an act in furtherance of the crime, and a knowing participant (that is, knowing of the purpose, not just the act itself) in it would, even if they had no other connection to the concealed crime, be an accessory after the fact.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say that Trump's actions that you imagine to be constitutional violations are probably actions that you personally disagree with, but are not actually constitutional violations.

Republicans as a group care deeply about the Constitution, and the Constitution is clear about when the term of the presidency ends. He would not have the support of the Republicans in the Senate if he chose to remain in office past the expiration of his term.
https://missiveapp.com/features/whatsapp-twitter-facebook-an... support a couple of channels. So does https://frontapp.com/integrations?filter=Channel and Intercom can be connected to other channels (https://zapier.com/apps/intercom/integrations/linkedin)

I'm not saying you couldn't also build one. But if your main goal is to do sales then you might not have to start a new company.