skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ProtonVPN provides the source code for their desktop and mobile clients in their GitHub organization [1]. Yes open source != safe; however this level of transparency is at least a step in the right direction.

They also have regularly been audited by independent organizations that are openly available for the public to see their compliance [2][3][4][5][6].

Do you have any evidence to suggest that they are honeypots?

[1] https://github.com/ProtonVPN

[2] https://protonvpn.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Proton...

[3] https://protonvpn.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Proton...

[4] https://protonvpn.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Proton...

[5] https://protonvpn.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Proton...

[6] https://protonvpn.com/blog/open-source/
T-Mobile US was definitely doing this at one point: silently rerouting popular third-party DNS services back to their servers
It only become Hypocrisy if Apple starts to argue google isn't allowed to require them to use google payment/isn't allowed to boot them from the play store for trying to circumvent rules. Without any action from google, it's impossible to say whether Apple is being hypocritical or not here.
"Falling Into the Pit of Success" by Jeff Atwood

https://blog.codinghorror.com/falling-into-the-pit-of-succes...

"I think this concept extends even farther, to applications of all kinds: big, small, web, GUIs, console applications, you name it. I've often said that a well-designed system makes it easy to do the right things and annoying (but not impossible) to do the wrong things. If we design our applications properly, our users should be inexorably drawn into the pit of success. Some may take longer than others, but they should all get there eventually.

If users aren't finding success on their own – or if they're not finding it within a reasonable amount of time – it's not their fault. It's our fault. We didn't make it easy enough for them to fall into the pit of success. Consider your project a Big Dig: your job is to constantly rearchitect your language, your API, or your application to make that pit of success ever deeper and wider."
Assuming Mozilla isn't compelled by law to share it's entire database of user information on a rolling basis without a warrant, I suspect (in the U.S.) it would be somewhat effective at shielding yourself from bulk metadata collection (government mass surveillance) of your online communications by obfuscating that metadata.

Compare this to your ISP and telecom providers. A subset of the larger providers willingly handed over the communication metadata of their users without warrant.
I wonder if his access to the internet prevents his computer from having a web browser at all. Even if he can't access a network the browser will still have a JS environment.

Outside of that - say it's an old Windows XP box. He could still program using windows shell script. I think most windows boxes going back to 98 have VBScript installed.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8746653/what-programming...
Not necessarily, many sites are hosted on the same VPS, or the IP could just be one of 5000 CloudFlare servers serving up the page you requested.
I'm not suggesting that Apple applies its policies uniformly, nor that Apple's economics are good nor bad. A company like Microsoft has leverage that Hey does not, and that may be a problem.
Keen, a Pintrest-like app by Google
Deep Dive into .NET Garbage Collection – Inoxoft
What is .Net Garbage collection, latency modes, GC phases, background GC, how it works and some performance tips explained by Inoxoft's Senior .Net Developer
Also impressive is the general incompetence shown by the Trump campaign here - some bozo alt-righter on their social media team probably decided to do this and no one in the chain of command noticed or cared. (Or, I suppose it's possible they assented too..)
Amazon “thwarts largest ever DDoS attack”
I think the issue is that there isn’t an agreement on your worth. If you’re willing to leave, your employer would pay you that higher salary if they truly believe that’s your worth. I also think it’s not correct to frame it in terms of what it’s worth to you (my coworkers, my knowledge, my job). That isn’t particularly relevant. What matters is how well you solve a particular set of problems and how important those are to the organization.

What I think is a more interesting question is why is there such wide discrepancies between companies regarding a specific employee’s worth?
Telegram by default does not utilize end-to-end encryption. You have to start a secret chat with another user. Both of you need to be online at the same time, and there's no support for secret group chats.

All of that to say, I guarantee the majority of Telegram users aren't utilizing E2E-encryption so the Gmail comparison is valid in that light.

Though my counterpoint would be that privacy advocates likely know how to use PGP and use it to securely communicate with fellow privacy advocates via email.
I see it as: If you've already shipped A, your user-base are using A. Your user-base are now requesting feature Z

You then need to balance Z with rewriting A to B. The workaround to that is to rewrite A to B while implementing Z but the caveat; is there a time-frame to where Z must be implemented? Because if you implement Z ahead of refactoring A to B you now got to rewrite A to B while not breaking Z while letting Z grow because they want feature Y. Not forgetting you need to recode Z because the old code is old code.
We need new and shiny things to challenge us, maintain established neural pathways and develop new ones. It's a physiological need for healthy brain functioning.

Yes, it is childlike, but there is no shame in that-- if anything, history is proving more and more that the generations who maintained that everything must be as repetitive and miserable as possible had no idea what they were talking about-- and are now dying with active diagnoses of dementia and Alzheimer's.
Researchers Unveil Sodium-Ion Battery That Rivals Commercial Lithium-Ion Models
While lithium-ion batteries are hugely important, they are also hugely expensive. Researchers have produced one of the best sets of results so far for a sodium-ion battery, one that holds as much energy as lithium-ion, and performs as well as some commercial lithium-ion batteries.
Maybe, but most ISPs are lazy/cheap and can't do a full-take packet capture of all customers data at the same time. The ones that I have seen usually have a custom or logging DNS server that associates each domain request with a customer account. So yes, in many cases, changing your DNS server is enough to avoid the larger DNS sniffing operations. You should also use an IP check query to make sure that you are really using the DNS server you think, and that you're not being DNATed back to your ISP's DNS server.
Or bait to fuel the potential moves by the DOJ and Barr against Section 230 that's received recent coverage.
Outside of electricity fundamentals, this book is a great intro on how the grid works: https://www.amazon.com/Electric-System-Nonelectrical-Profess...

Or a shorter alternative: https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/how-electricity-grid-works
Even at a 10% interest rate and 0% down, a $30k mortgage is only $263/mo. This person is basically admitting that they are extracting value off the backs of the working poor due to unequal access to the banking system. I cannot imagine admitting being a slumlord on a public forum. And people wonder why people hate landlords.
This should be a top comment in each Telegram privacy-related post or thread.
Everyone is ok, that Google may read their e-mails and has full access to search details, Facebook might read their messages, 3-rd party ad-companies profile them through pixels, but at the same time start complaining, that FSB may read their Telegram messages (not proven btw).
I don't feel like he's living in an exile.

For starters, the citizenship that was acquired for $ 250k something is from Saint Kitts and Nevis, known for it's abuse of human rights. To me it's a classical double standard behavior.

He's vocal on not being able to conduct business in Russia as he pleases and it's a clear violation in his purview. Never heard him being involved with fighting inequity of the new home country.

Second of all, Saudi Arabia, the unofficial Telegram HQ, is tax exempt for hi-tech, but don't quote me on it.
- The ad in question: https://imgur.com/NQuGvDo

- Nazi concentration camp symbols explained: https://imgur.com/8xo1Bv2

Associating leftist organizations with this fascist political symbol is almost guaranteed to be intentional.

Edit: Some people seem to be trying to defend this by saying it's similar, though not the same, to a symbol used by a small group in Utrecht, Netherlands. Do you think the president's campaign was really trying to mimic (rather than just use) an unknown Netherlands based symbol on a U.S. based ad campaign? Just a day after a National Security Advisor said the president supported the Chinese Muslim concentration camps?

Or the fact that they ran exactly 88 ads with the symbol?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/88_(number)#In_white_nationali...
Anyone and everyone. One of the reasons they don't have a single true ally.
This is a good question and I would like to discuss it.

If the government is able to passively collect metadata from your ISP, couldn’t they do the same thing with a VPN company?
Were any of those particular papers disproven, retracted or were not able to be reproduced?

This paper , "Genome-wide association studies: the good, the bad and the ugly" : https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4952840/ claims "the vast majority of associations identified by GWASs are extremely robust statistically and are reproducible in additional studies.".
Hello! I am the creator of this project.

Thanks for the feedback! I'd love to make the look of the GUI more configurable in the future. As of right now, the only things that are configurable are:

* panel labels

* contact colors

I'm using https://github.com/rivo/tview for the UI, and am using (largely) default options for most widgets.
IF you're the only one, maybe the talking points are correct...

Care to explain why you dislike it?
Trump managed to go from guaranteed win, to most likely loosing.

And he doesn't seem to care anymore. I don't mean he doesn't care about these symbols, I mean he doesn't seem to care if he wins anymore.
Mechatronics text books tend to be useful. They are written for mechanical engineers who intend to build circuits and software for mechanic-electronic systems. So they tend to have practical information for those who want to start building electronic circuits now, but have no electrical background.
POTUS campaign absolutely knows its history. They intentionally walk right up to the line of outright white supremacy, and go over it to test the boundaries like right now. When the response isn't that strong it emboldens them that they can go further. This is boiling the frog so they can get fascism into the mainstream.

That Facebook policymakers still try to pretend a neutral both-sides-ism exists and that people aren't bad actors (just like reddit with /r/the_donald) makes me think they're either idiots or in league with them.
Given that ~90% of native Americans were killed over the first decades of European contact by smallpox, measles, and war, it's entirely possible that there had been a worse year for them.
Tell Siri you're getting pulled over
> It was so forceful, that it was effectively bloodless and an overwhelming portion of the "annexed" populace has actively supported it.

That seems like an unusual perspective.

If by "bloodless" you mean "lots of people died, but nowhere near as many as a world war" though, then sure.

For the "actively supported", where are you getting that information? My impression (from friends in Kiev) is that it's universally condemned.
Umarell
D614G mutation in SARS-CoV-2 increases transduction of multiple human cell types
Facebook removes Trump ads containing symbols used by Nazis
When you connect to a VPN you advertise the fact that you are connected to a VPN to your local network, and hide your tunneled traffic. The tunneled traffic emerges elsewhere, with the extra encryption removed and proceeds as normal. Basically all a VPN provides is a mechanism to pretend that your butt is in a different seat. You hide your traffic from one network and expose it on another.

If you are on public wifi somewhere and are concerned about traffic that isn't otherwise encrypted (DNS comes to mind), or if your connection is in some way restricted (govt, shitty isp, etc), then a VPN can address these issues. But you have to keep in mind that your new network is similarly untrustworthy.

You might argue that by hiding behind your VPN provider, you are gaining anonymity. This might be true under the best circumstances, but this can _very_ easily break down. For example, the moment you load tracking_pixel.png then you are de-anonymized. That is saying nothing about the shady practices of the VPN providers themselves, or the governments that regulate them.

When people connect to a VPN, especially lay-people, there is this feeling that the VPN is providing security, and privacy. This is largely marketing BS designed to sell more subscriptions. When I connect to a VPN I might be able to obscure my activity from state actors, or avoid some coffee shops bogus DNS server. What I can't do with a VPN is avoid literally every other form of tracking. And of course if I connect to a VPN, then I should be ok with those same bad-actors knowing I am connecting to a VPN. And I should be OK with the VPN provider being able to monitor my unencrypted traffic. And I should be ok aggregating all of my encrypted traffic into one easy to watch place.

So what is a VPN providing the average consumer? If you want privacy install ad block software, https everywhere, enable DoH, don't log into social media sites, and clear your browser's cache frequently. If you want to avoid a state actor, then your best hope is probably something like Tor Browser.
Nice, can you wait for a ping that someone joined and then join, rather than having to sit on video all day (for the case: queue length is 0)?
The queueing idea is interesting (if I'm understanding that you let parties in 1 by 1 as you finish chatting with previous party), I wonder if this could be branded as a customer support tool for B2B companies?
Oh we use GitLab for work. Was wondering if there's an equivalent for that or similar.
Yup, and that it would work is because Facebook doesn't actually fight back, they just steadily move back their line in the sand because they're afraid of the backlash.
With a 'generic' interface declaration we could remove the (type T) annotations. The compiler would still know what type parameters are needed (because they are used in the function prototype.)

// generic works like an interface
type T generic {
comparable // generic allows additional constraints
}

// we know the type parameters by the use of T
// (because T is generic type)
func Same(a, b T) T { ... }

// calls may still need to include the type parameters,
// but type inference will generally make them unnecessary
s := Same(type string)("hi","howdy")
s := Same("hi","howdy")
Our goal is long term sustainability of privacy-focused analytics. We're achieving that. We tried to do it with the OS codebase, and the original tech guy left the project. The MRR was around $1,300 between 2 people after many months.

When we focused on building a business, we were able to become a much more viable competitor to Google Analytics.

The reason we haven't written off Fathom Lite is because we've always had plans to come back to it this year and put out an update. Will we be launching new features? No. Will we be fixing bugs and ensuring it's a solid product for individuals? Absolutely.
"Our policy prohibits using a banned hate group's symbol to identify political prisoners without the context that condemns or discusses the symbol," Andy Stone, a Facebook spokesperson, told CNN Business.

The "banned hate group" here is Nazis. This symbol was used in concentration camps. Don't let the corporate speak whitewash that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_concentration_camp_badge

Edit: Not sure why I'm being downvoted. I'm merely pointing out that the Facebook spokesperson is clearly identifying the violation "a banned hate group's symbol to identify political prisoners." Since the Facebook spokesperson was being vague, I brought context in case anyone was curious, "What banned hate group?" or "which political prisoners?"
I have a similar story. I let myself steer pretty far in the startup direction before I ultimately dropped those plans.

7 years later, I'm on a M&A team evaluating startups in the exact space I would have been in. There are many of them and few of us (companies looking to acquire). Most of them have failed or will fail and get nothing (beyond investment). The winner will get a mediocre payout that, for the founder, will merely compare to the salary I've earned in the meantime, if my back-of-the-envelope is correct. The stress, of course, will not compare. That's the reward for the winner.

I don't envy the people across the table.
If it’s terminating at a host you don’t control it ain’t private.
Still no luck, this is the URL https://app.usefathom.com/share/lsqyv/pjrvs. Did not load in Chrome either.
I developed RSI around 1996, when I was doing lots of fine mask work in Photoshop. I tried lots of things to reduce the pain, including one of the early “vertical” mouses. But the only strategy that worked was switching to my left hand (more effectively distributing the workload), something that works for me to this day. I’ve had zero flare-ups since ~1997, though I can still occasionally feel wrist stress in my dominant hand when it’s in a non-resting position for too long. For that I wish I’d been more mindful, and used my non-dominant hand earlier, before I was forced to. I just thought I could push my way through.
If that is the game they want to play, you could refactor comments to get the highest value/effort ratio.
This is common practice. There are many salary surveyors that will collect, anonymize / aggregate and sell back the data to companies. At Levels.fyi we're trying solve issues that typically plague these salary surveys (ex. data staleness, leveling / title normalization, etc). We do this by flipping the model and collecting data directly from employees. We've also mapped levels to a fluid range rather than rigid step-wise increases. Crowdsourcing has it's own challenges (validity, normalization, etc). That said we've had several high-profile employers sign up for our new data subscription: https://www.levels.fyi/offerings/
> Firejail is a SUID program that reduces the risk of security breaches by restricting the running environment of untrusted applications using Linux namespaces and seccomp-bpf. It allows a process and all its descendants to have their own private view of the globally shared kernel resources, such as the network stack, process table, mount table.

https://firejail.wordpress.com/
Yes it does - https://github.com/zgoat/goatcounter/blob/master/docs/sessio...
Isn't that one of the reasons for Five Eyes? The NSA isn't supposed to spy domestically but thankfully MI6 can do it for them and vice versa. Problem solved!
There are multiple things retail does. Discovery and sales is one of it, but no one does what Apple wants to do with IAP.

Imagine that you buy a DVD player at Best Buy. That's cool. Best Buy decides the markup, where it puts it, how much it puts in promoting it, etc. That's also cool. You are OK with giving the with 30 % of your DVD player sales. After all, shelf space, promotion, etc. isn't free.

Now, imagine Best Buy hears that you sell DVDs by mail. People are already buying your DVDs and you are shipping it to their door, so you don't feel that it's worth your time and effort to "sell" them through Best Buy.

Best Buy is not happy with this. They say that for ANY DVD for the DVD player in their store, NEED to offered in their store AND you need to pay the same fee for which you get placement, promotion, etc.

You don't want to sell your "Mail in DVDs" in Best Buys, you don't want or need them promoting your DVD, they will never touch, manage, offer support, etc. for these "Mail in DVDs", but you HAVE to sell them in Best Buy because if you don't, then they will just stop selling your DVD player.

In short, they are in the business of selling DVD players, but want a cut of all "Mail in DVDs" because your customers bought the DVD player through them.

This is what Apple wants to do for any app that offers digital content / experiences that might not want to use their services. How is that OK?
There aren't legal requirements for many (most?) pieces of software. You can release a piece of software without any terms of use at all--that's perfectly legal. So I don't buy the idea that complexity is driven by legal requirements.
The Supreme Court Put DACA’s Fate in the Hands of Voters
Firstly, assume positive intent, I am not undermining the topic of racism and rather like that we are giving the issue the proper attention and hope to see real change.

That said, has anyone seen stats that say what is the right balance of POC based on market realities? I work in finance, not VC, but still as a hiring manager it’s every difficult to force diversity when the overwhelming majority of candidates are white males. It’s a similar issue as women in tech, you have to take a step back and look at the university systems and how a more diverse set can be encouraged to take a finance track. Likely, there is an issue with college in general and we need focus on why white have higher attendance rate (no data, pure assumption). And so on. It’s a systemic issue that needs to be addressed. You can’t always just rebalance the current diversity mix because the inventory of qualifying candidates may not support it.

I read recently that 13% of America is black. I googled that the average BOD is 9.2 members. To me, 1 black person in the room is about right. Granted there are probably high number of boards with 0 blacks. But I’d be interested to know if this is due to the above mentioned market realities. There are certainly racism impacting the micro but maybe the macro is better than we think?
I’m not sure. Leaf pulling could be reflexive, there’s no thought involved in my hand flinching in response to a sudden pain. The fact that the worms ignored lights when busy with some activity is interesting, but if that is always the case then is there early any judgement involved?

We know now that highly complex behaviours can arise from fixed rules. Is there any evidence of learning, judgement or adaptation? If not is there really any thought? I’m not really very much persuaded on either side of the question.
How would you improve Man in the High Castle? Like many PKD books it presents a premise which seems, naively, like a veritable paper mill that you could churn out endless books from--and then barely goes anywhere with it. That's part of PKD's style. Yes, the High Castle universe could be made to churn out whole series of formulaic literature, but it would be just that, formulaic. Go write it yourself--you don't need PKD to write it for you, once he's given you the premise.

It's like Kafka said. If you try to make a river too large, it will overflow and you'll end up with mud. There's a certain size at which a river is just right, and any more just detracts from it.
IME parcel has been much easier to use than webpack for medium-complexity projects.
Would you please read and follow the site guidelines? I appreciate the positive intention behind your comments, but the way you're going about it is both against the rules here and guaranteed to make the discussion worse. That's no coincidence; the rules are the way they are because of what we've learned about discussion dynamics on the internet.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html