skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Certainly not arguing that it's difficult. It's extremely trivial.

It just makes no business sense for the camera manufacturer. The CCD is a generic chip that spews clocked image data over some serial connection. Keep it simple and generic, and ship to any business who wants it.

You can have a camera controller IC/ASIC/FPGA/µcontroller one step up from the CCD that manages the CCD and LEDs. That would have either firmware or hardware support for LEDs, but you'd still imagine that it would be configurable for cases where there is no LED installed.

It's absolutely possible, and I don't know all the options out there, but I can't imagine a manufacturer shipping an off-the-shelf IC that _always_ ties an LED to CCD operation.
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Ostensibly yes, though I suppose it depends on the make/model of the laptop and webcam. Someone with pretty solid reversing skills would need to figure it out for that specific laptop or line or laptops.
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Surveillance works better as a saying though.
I tried to get into angular, but it seemed to hard beyond the tutorials. Aren't frameworks supposed to make things easier?
I've seen this analogy a few times, that an encryption password is the same as a safe combination. The counter argument is: if a safe contains papers with information that the police can't interpret (either it is in code words, or written in a language for which they don't have an interpreter), can a suspect be compelled to interpret the documents for them?

If not, then to me it would seem that the only password that could be compelled is something like a hard drive firmware boot password, where the contents may not be encrypted but can't be accessed (through normal means) without the password.
I've read that it can be possible on some makes and models although most of them employ a system where when the camera is active then electricity passes to it, it passes through the LED first so to even reach the camera the LED has to be illuminated therefore making it not possible.
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I'm sure there is some interesting and valid material here, but the overall project of doing philosophy via mathematics is nonsense.

As a sidenote, you acutally need philosophy to validate mathematics, not the other way around.
Seriously, this incredibly misleading headline should get this post removed from HN.

Ever since the NSA story broke there seems to be a constant effort to post overly alarming headlines in the style of "look how much worse things are in places outside the US".
There are people that demand libraries and schools remove books they find inappropriate. This is nothing new and will continue forever.
Hmmm...not sure about "majority of European countries." Moreover, since the namedays are descended from Roman Catholic calendar of saints, I'm pretty sure there would be uproar over Facebook having an overt religious preference (regardless of reality).

Anyway, a short search has brought forth a plethora of FB apps providing just this functionality; not sure why it should be implemented in "core" FB.

(And the obligatory disclaimer: even all European FB users wouldn't even be a simple majority of all FB users; building in such a feature for a fraction of users would inevitably lead to other factions crying for their own specialized metadata, leading to fragmented FB experience)
It's unfortunate but it's true - China has the advantage that without those pesky elections to worry about it can take a longer term view of things and be planning over a 10 year period, not a 5 year period with re-election and all the populist stuff that requires.

Obviously that's only part of the story but the discussion certainly becomes more "interesting" than it did in the 80s when democracy seemed to give better results across the board having the moral and economic high ground.

Not for a moment endorsing the Chinese approach, just saying that there is a more interesting debate than there used to be.
So now we have the Uber for housecleaning, laundry/dry cleaning, cooking, shopping, babysitting(?), and at some point everything else under the sun that falls into the consumer home services umbrella. These business use technology and economics of scale to deliver convenient on-demand services at a reasonable price, with the thesis that the price becomes increasingly more reasonable with continued local density and national scale.

Is there a path to this where a large home services company is formed as a roll up of all of these types of services? Once the actual services and logistics models are proven and ironed out, it would at least on the surface appear to be many major benefits to a roll up: additional scale economies from logistics / transportation, cross-training and utilization of the service workforce, single platform for payment, cross selling services, and of course your run of the mill shared services among legal, HR, accounting, etc. I think to me the point on cross training and utilization of the service workforce is especially poignant, as these services see a lot of demand volatility, so having multiple service lines help smooth out labor productivity.
Several red flags popped up for me while I read this blog. First, $90/hour to "learn Google Go"? For that kind of money I'd expect them to hire an expert, not a newbie.

And 100% remote? Sweet! A little too sweet, actually. Something sounds fishy about this.

When a job offer sounds too good to be true, it often is, in my experience. Without a signed contract, words are just words. Yes, it's annoying and humiliating, but it happens all the time in business. Welcome to the real world.

I would advise the applicant to put this behind him and move on. Nothing good can come of going public with a rant like this. You'd be surprised at how such actions can come back to haunt you.
Really enjoyed the article, thanks!
You forget to pretend we add a middlemen into a business where it is completely unnecessary. Now pretend that this middlemen will take a big cut, can drop you anytime they like since I guess there will be little or less strings attached/contract, or close their business because the founding hipster has another 'brilliant' idea of disrupting something that does not need to be disrupted.
No. It depends on the number of rounds.
PRISM Break has more free cloud storage options for your perusal:

https://prism-break.org/#cloud-storage

I'm using rsync for backup and Seafile for file sync myself.
Most of those are pretty obscure or minor issues compared to the lack of support for Linux. At least people on Windows or OS X can use this new version of Opera, even if it is broken in many ways. Linux users don't even have that option.
it is basically crazy to "out" your methods like this, this is grey hat at best and you're just asking to get banned. If you find an unethical tactic that works for you, milk it, don't shout to the whole world about it, you just expose how unethical you are.
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Must be great fun to be a start-up in the UK.
If you happen to be a few sessions deep, ~~ will send ~ to the next session along. A casual ~~~~~~~~~~~. or so later and everything is wonderful again!
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You're asking the wrong question. They don't need this data, but they can acquire it. Why can they? Because nobody has said otherwise.

I don't expect a quick resolution to this problem and others. Political philosophy and legal theory have not kept up with technical advancements in society.
For software developers, I feel this career thing works a bit differently. Going up the ladder means managing people or projects, but that is not necessarily more fun than writing code.

I don't know where I see myself in 5 years, but it might actually be still just coding, no actual change in title or function. It's fun and challenging and I imagine it can be like that for a long time.

Instead, a dead end job for me would be caused by projects that are boring, or that the process has become overly bureaucratic, or that the company interests or culture have become too corporate or political.
I'd rather try to make their idea more scalable. Prim is super unscalable, it takes ages until they have critical mass in another city and before they can scale there are already a dozen competitors --> Not a billion dollar company.
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Sometimes companies try to act in their customer's best interest. Or at least in such a way that they don't risk customers turning away. I noticed this story on HN quite recently: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9241003

Perhaps not as often as one might wish.
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All you need to be on the front page these days is to mention the NSA or PRISM.
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I'll always choose an enthusiastic candidate over an ambivalent one. If its a good match you don't need or want a week to compare alternatives. Sounds like it's just another job; you shouldn't be so upset.
Huawei is a UK registered company isn't it, certainly appears to be on Companies House WebCheck database. It also used to be called Huawei Symantec FWIW.

It's not a Chinese system, it's using Chinese technology, but then the PM uses Chinese technology, along with the entire government, every day. As do the US President and government presumably.

Yes there should be due diligence to ensure that data is not being collected and off-shored. The BBC seem to be going to pains to suggest that this is a massive Chinese espionage coup without actually stating as much.

What're the facts here. Chinese made technology is part of the UK internet. ZOMG! If the tech was from Cisco would it really make a difference.

>both Huawei and TalkTalk employees are able to add or remove sites independently //

Right so TT employ a UK company whose UK employees are able to do their job.

I'm not saying oversight isn't necessary but this seems so overplayed unless the BBC have more facts they're choosing not to disclose.
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> Think about it -- if somebody told you 10 years ago that the United Kingdom will outsource country-wide Internet traffic monitoring, policing and censoring to Chinese companies, you'd call them a nutjob.

And today we call them Prime Minister. Fuck.
I have run Arch for two years on a tiny personal server. It is fun but depending on how you use it and what Alan is currently breaking, it can be a lot of fiddling.

Just as one example, sysvinit - systemd migration took some careful file editing not to botch things remotely. At one point, merging all binaries in /usr/bin incentivized me to move from the no longer supported GRUB-legacy to GRUB2. GRUB2 installer failed leaving a zombie process that prevented anything from touching the mbr...

I wiped it, installed Wheezy and I can tell you that it requires far less maintenance and you can still pull bits and pieces from testing if you really want to.
You might not always get what you want, but the converse is more frequently true. For example, positions of power and authority tend to be occupied by the sort of person who actively seeks out greater power and authority. In contrast, those with no real desire to dominate and control others neither seek nor achieve power. As a result, our elite political and law enforcement institutions are inevitably dominated by an authoritarian culture and mindset.

The authoritarian mind is characterised by a desire to dominate and control others. The more invasive, disruptive and widespread the control, the more satisfying it is to the authoritarian, and the greater the validation of their elite status.

Sex; particularly issues of sexual morality; is a tremendously intimate and personal factor. It is this very intimacy that makes the exertion of control over sexual behaviour so very compelling: Control over sexual behaviour is like crack cocaine to the authoritarian mind.

Time and time again throughout history, those in power have sought to control the sexual behaviour of their subjects, a motive that is exactly equivalent to the alpha male in the pack controlling access to the harem, and reminding all the beta males of their status by rubbing their noses in their inability to mate.

Technology is a lever - it gives increased power to those who wield it. Modern technology is already enabling those in power to gain greater control over their subjects. It is inevitable that technology will embed itself ever more intimately in our lives, and it is inevitable that this technology will be used by the alpha males in our society to exert their domination and suppression over the rest of the population - to mock, to belittle and to abuse those who are not in power.

This is a sad, but inevitable truth.
At this point I think it's not entirely unreasonable to assume that your company might be forced to incorporate hidden backdoors into your software should the NSA ever decide that your customer's data is of value to them.

Not your fault, sure. But that's the reality.
a very clever use of animated favicon ;) i think more sites should implement this.
Thanks for clarification. I thought that since MIT/BSD does not enforce source disclosure, users don't have the "freedom to change the software" according to GPL parlance.
> spam lists are kind of easy to get onto and hard to come off of.

I have been hosting my own email since somewhere around the 1998 time frame, across four different links and three ISP's, and it still just works. Never been put on any spam lists that I know about.
Looks interesting. I'm currently using: http://www.organizetube.com
Huawei is a UK registered company isn't it

Yes but that doesn't make them a UK company. Facebook & Google are UK registered companies but you'd never class them as a UK company.
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Because if the company is spending that potential profit on something that will increase its future value - you as an investor will get a piece of that increase in the future
Huge relief to see that this page has a horrible design. Wouldn't feel legit otherwise.
Nonsense. Users can very likely block Google Analytics on your site with ease, and without impacting the rest of your site's functionality. That's not necessarily the case when more critical content is served from Google's servers.

Regardless of what your privacy policy states, the responsible thing to do is to at least give your users the option of opting out of such tracking by third-parties, all while still leaving your site usable.
The banner has even a close button, so it will not stay on top forever. It's extremely polite.
I assumed the work he was doing was at a higher level than that - i.e. creating the software which allows the end user to see these annotations. In this case, it would need ongoing maintenance, which would be done best by a full time team who understand the code.

Either way, if he's good at what he does, it would make sense for the company to keep him on even if they move him to another project.
"Create and automate retweets and tweets from 25 fake accounts"?

This is definitely a hacky approach, not true digital marketing.
Valid criticism. I'd prefer to see them as full time, but I think most large companies today use contacted companies for cleaning staff, etc. It's what it is, and that whole problem is bigger than just one company.
This would have to be a removable sticker in order to be a serious solution.
They're blacklisting sites but you don't have to have the filter on your connection. Doesn't censorship require that someone prevent you, or indeed impede you from seeing something.

TalkTalk just ask you [ie the person who pays the ISP] if you want to be filtered or not. Perhaps they also filter illegal sites, use of a list from the IWF was mentioned, but who's going to know.
I played with how to phrase that. You don't need to actually use a CMOV, just write code that allows your compiler to use one if supported.

int tmp = real;
if (foo == bar) {
tmp = newval;
}
real = tmp;

I've seen it referred to as a 'hammock'[1], and at least for GCC and ICC it usually is a strong enough hint.

[1] http://people.engr.ncsu.edu/ericro/publications/conference_M...
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one of the most annoying things in history kinda sorta relieved
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if you are looking at "something like new relic" than https://errormator.com is an interesting solution - doing some things differently and shifting focus on differnt aspects.

And yeah errormator is not a tracing solution at all.
Thank you chewxy! Was wondering what was going on :)
Hi, what day-to-day tools did you uses to create these? I wish I did something like this too instead of just playing all day :(
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Ugh, I know, it bugged me for ages as well. Setting those two headers resolved it, and now I no longer need to maintain my own server.
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That's what they're trying to make it look like - in practice it seems more likely that Huawei are just providing a managed service in TT's server farms that filters a given list of sites.

Could Huawei maliciously use that data? Yes, like how the French/Russians can cut off our power. Or USA can poison all our coffee drinkers and fast-food eaters.
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Very clean design. Will look great on iOS 7.
Because they get no immediate return from profit (from dividends), but the value of the stock still increases (hopefully moreso if they are reinvesting more of their profit into future growth).
Thanks for the tip! I don't tend to nest sessions more than two deep but this could be useful for those who have deep nestings.
Exactly. Let's all remember that we often call politicans sleeazy corrupt ineffective busybodies who'll appear for the opening of an envelope, and who make statements and press releases to manipulate the press & public. However when something like this comes along, suddely politicans are disciplined, determined, principled fighters of smut who can get their way....
Funny images and pic - really LOL
And Cartesian dualism is still alive with some philosophers... ideas don't die easily.
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I read that first paragraph "Are you sitting at the same desk, working for the same manager, doing the same work, and earning the same salary as you are right now?" and thought, if I've still got all of this in 5 years time, I'm going to count myself very fortunate.
In case anyone is having difficulty with the font used on the page, the escape sequence is: newline followed by tilde (~) and then period (.).
Conversely when people in China (or elsewhere) campaign for more liberty and freedom, the Chinese government can point to the USA/UK/EU/etc and say "Look they block things too!". Likewise when UK/EU/USA/etc. tell China to stop blocking things, China turns around and says "But you block things!"
Sure, I'd definitely consider this.
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> Other readers here: If you don't like it, vote with your dollars (or whatever currency). It's the only way, in today's world.

If you see shitty management as abuse, I hope you're ready to boycott 90% of everything else in addition to the 90% of manufactured goods you must already be boycotting.
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I often wonder how much more advanced our space program would have been by now had Mars or Venus been habitable.
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The Pirate Bay ban has extended to most of the big ISPs, BT, TalkTalk, Virgin, etc. British.
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I would too, but I've worked in plenty of situations, as much as two decades ago, where there was a contract, and the potential for future employment. Once you get on site, you start asking the actual employees how serious the potential is, but the contract length is known full well ahead of time.

Again though, I just don't see anything odd or unusual in this setup. It's pretty much the exact same setup that companies like Manpower and Adecco have used for decades. I don't know anything about the wages at Amazon, but I'm far more laissez faire on that than I suspect much of the rest of HN, and that's fine, but clearly Amazon isn't breaking the law here.
The default escape character ~ does not work if the tilde key in your keyboard layout is a dead key [1], like it is in many European layouts. It can be changed via the EscapeChar config option or the -e command line parameter. It seems, though, that not just any old character is accepted - I tried to use §, which, in the Finnish layout, is in the same physical position as ~ is in the US version, but ssh complains about "bad escape character".

EDIT - I suppose it must be an ASCII character, which is not an entirely unreasonable requirement.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_key
Ha! Funny. Actually Amazon makes plenty of money, they're just recording their income in other countries as a tax dodge, like every other megacorp nowadays.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/apr/04/amazon-brit...
Well, the UK did have a country wide ban on "promoting homosexuality" in schools ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_28 ). They don't believe in parental supervision for some things.
Hi HN, OP here, this is a site I have built with one of the
great hackers I met here on HN. Starter uses Angular in the FE
and nodejs / mongo at the backed. We tried optimizing everything to load as fast as possible.

Background images, some are public domain and some I got from good friends who are also great photographers, if you think your photos are a good fit, let me know via twitter would be happy to add you.

Would love your feedback and comments and answer any questions you may have.
That's intriguing.

Could you please elaborate on that? Does this mean that Twitter sees no danger in exposing these? Which parts of the infrastructure would be considered secret sauce and not open source? Or does it not matter when the company is as big as Twitter, since the core strength lies in user base, not technical infrastructure? What does Twitter primarily seek to achieve when it open sources its stuff? Talent acquisition or brand image or other benefits of open source such as collaboration?
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