skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do agree this is a conversation worth having - it's not hugely relevant to Western consumers (obviously there's no deal to give all data to China or something - they're still a US company), but it raises points about Apple's philosophy.

They got the iPhone on China Mobile, the world's biggest carrier that is also owned by the Chinese state. They're allegedly set to make China their biggest market, and are making enormous profit there. It doesn't seem particularly unlikely that that deal did more good for Apple than for China Mobile or that there might be conditions attached to it. It'd be fascinating to hear what those could be.

I have mentioned this before, and somebody mentioned there's a markup on iOS products from Hong Kong which could suggest there's something to the idea - and that people do know/suspect something too.

You only have to look at the state of Android - specifically Google's version - in China to see something's up. Google have been locked out of China, Apple have been embraced. Of course Google have way more data to demand than Apple do - and perhaps the demands were so ridiculous Apple would have balked at the same - but it's an interesting comparison. It's also potentially the driving force that will mean Apple continue to take substantially all the industry's profit.

Basically, it would be fascinating to have been in the room of Apple/China Mobile negotiations.
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just as with many other online media, a lot of content is artificially constructed. The work going into wordplay and ironic remarks with potential for virality are not unlike what we have seen in marketing and media for a while, just at different scale.
> So the only content there is, is the online stuff people and companies sell using PayPal as payment provider.

This deduction makes no sense because PayPal isn't publishing those things. Their checkout-with-PayPal service is not much more than a link on a website, in most cases.

But even if PayPal were trying to use that service to copyright the material on the originating website, it wouldn't fly in court.

If PayPal's legal boilerplate really bothers you, you'll have trouble browsing top few thousand websites at all (most popular sites have broad and vague agreements like this).

On a related note, PayPal is pretty easy to avoid these days, if one is so inclined. The behavior of Facebook and Google are much more worrisome, as they're totally impossible to avoid.
To put more flesh on the bone, there were apparently about 40,000 NeXT users in 1993, many highly loyal. https://books.google.ie/books?id=QDsEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA54&lpg=PA... So while the NeXT system certainly wasn't a mass-market hit and the company struggled financially, it wasn't quite as quirky and deeply obscure as it may seem nowadays.
While this simplification of tools is great, I'm a little disappointed that it's a system integrated app and it happened in OpenBSD fairly quietly. If it first happened in something like RH or Debian, the package would be separate from core and we would have the opportunity for the following:

- using language with more safety guarantees than C

- including seccomp (either bfp, or even just mode 1) by default

- in the announcement saying: tested with XXX, YYY, ZZZ; fuzzed with ABC, DEF

It would be a great opportunity to create a poster-child people could point to and say - this is the way we should be (re)writing secure software, these were the awesome tools used to help it. For OpenBSD the first two couldn't happen (part of base system so C; there's no seccomp support), the third could but didn't - at least not publicly (valgrind, clang-analyser, [am]san, afl, etc. could all be listed)

Maybe the next time something important is broken.
I would be surprised to see the UN or whoever go to war against the USA to enforce a point of law.
I don't understand, when Facebook sends a SMS for validation, can't they check from what country the number is?

If a person registers as an American while being in the Philippines , they could improve their security checks and ask for more details. For instance.

Seems to me ultimately Facebook needs these fake profiles so it can inflate its user base and its ads revenue. Isn't it what people call "growth hacking?"

Interesting article nevertheless. I don't condemn what these folks oversea are doing. It's not hacking, nor extortion , it's obviously some form of spam and against Facebook TOS but I prefer people working in these "digital sweatshops" rather than selling drugs , working in brick factories or prostitution.
Ghostery found one tracker (PiwikAnalytics) that PrivacyBadger didn't on the PrivacyBadger page itself.
It should be "all about Apple".

I admire the Apple design ethos, especially recently. It felt like they were trying to make the best product possible, whether I liked it or not. If you're telling me they chose gold just for Asia, that's pretty lame.

Personally I think the gold looks pretty tacky and a departure for Apple. I thought they made their own rules. Guess I was wrong. But what do I know, they'll still sell a quadrillion of everything. It's just a colour.

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A few women might get a gold MacBook, but I think it's the tackiest thing I've ever seen.

It also sucks that they picked gold for the keynote and as the main image on the website :-/
8 Questions You Should Ask Before Hiring Someone
Great article - and very long
long.. I certainly learned a lot.
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Yes, but you won't be tracked by the search. (Especially by Google/Bing who know a lot about you already)
Not like the tweet actually in reality matters, the value of stock is not related to what happens to a company.

It is related to what people think that other people think is related to the stock value.
Long but easy and pleasant to read so it reads fast. No bullshit, a real investigation, the kind of journalism that should be encouraged and rewarded.
The problem with your solution is that it requires cooperation; If I'm running a competitor of facebook, (and a dating site, in a way, is a competitor to facebook) I'm not going to want to just give them my content, you know?

You'd be better off with something like tineye or google image search; something that snarfs all the photos off the web, you know, does this regularly and timestamps where it saw the photo first. It wouldn't be 100% but would likely work better than the cooperative solution you propose, and it's something that is well within the capabilities of facebook.

Even then... yeah, I think this sort of thing is going to be pretty much impossible to completely stamp out as long as you can sell fake profiles for enough money that you can pay an actual human to create them.
CVSWeb is fare nicer than anything I've seen for Git, Mecurial or Subversion. I'm not sure that's going to make anyone to move back to cvs though :-)
This is interesting. I ran into a guy who uses another part of this ecosystem.

He says he's able to show ads that violate FB's terms of service by selectively showing a different ad to people from within FB's network, so that they don't cancel the account. If they do find out, everything is done via anonymous credit cards, so no big deal, just rinse and repeat.
I hope I'm proved wrong, but it does sound too good to be true.
How can there be a "best product possible" without taking the prospective user into account? A phone that was so thin it sliced my finger, or so small that I couldn't see it, wouldn't be a very good phone at all. What Apple does really well is design products that very large numbers of people want to buy, and if there are a very large number of people who want to buy a gold watch, Apple will make it for them.
Also interesting is the trend break in the US around the time Reagan took to the stage. Before that time, Americans' working hours gradually went down like those of the quoted Europeans. After that time, they more or less kept the same hours for years on end while their European colleagues kept on their downward trend.

Compare this graph to the one which shows that average income for the lower 90 percentile stagnated around that time, while income for the top 10 - and especially for the top of the top - exploded.

While correlation does not imply causation, I think it is likely that both these trends are related. Wage earners have to work longer hours due to stagnating wages and rising costs, while top earners rake in the extra profits generated by those longer working hours. According to economic theory this money is supposed to trickle down but that does not happen - the rich get richer.
I don't know. I've never thought of Apple as "luxury". I thought of them as "premium". Premium. As in pay premium for the best.

Positioning Apple as a luxury product isn't what I want or need as con/pro-sumer. I'm not sure where Apple are heading with this. Profit I guess.
That's a little bit like saying: "if there are a very large number of people who want to buy a grey-PC-looking-box running Windows, Apple will make it for them".

Sorry, you're missing my point.
What about something like "you can't be friends with these people unless you are pictured with at least some of them"? That would at least require a bunch of pictures to be taken.

Of course it's not fully thought out how it would work, maybe just for people who are new to FB? You also need some sensible image recognition algo, or you'll get a lot of chopped off head mashes. But I'm sure FB has staff for that sort of thing.
Gmail vs. Dropbox and the File Sharing Evolution
This is a great solution. For fun I had a go at golfing it a bit:

(-> "https://gist.githubusercontent.com/jorin-vogel/7f19ce95a9a842956358/raw/e319340c2f6691f9cc8d8cc57ed532b5093e3619/data.json"
client/get :body
(json/parse-string true)
(->> (remove (comp nil? :creditcard))
(map (comp (partial join ",") (juxt :name :creditcard)))
(join "\n")
(apply str "Name,Credit Card\n")
(spit (-> (java.text.SimpleDateFormat. "YYYYMMDD")
(.format (java.util.Date.))
(str ".csv")))))

edit: Shorter, requires `(require '[clojure.string :refer [join]])`
Your example is interesting, because car color and safety are related :) The effect isn't strong, but white cars seem to be involved in fewer injury incidents per mile driven. Standard disclaimer about correlation/causality...
OpenBSD != FreeBSD

This[0] is a good place to start. Other than than, just read the code.

[0] http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man9/...
Wow, very nice landing pages all around in these comments. Here is my attempt: http://www.auburnsounds.com/products/Psypan.html
> But the chief problem is simply that just about all of the above, under current laws, is legal

In the US maybe, but I would guess the business practices of most data brokers are already completely illegal in the EU. We have many laws and requirements for keeping and selling data on EU citizens. I would welcome stronger actions against these companies in the EU.

But somehow I fear that enforcing EU laws on US companies is not part of the TTIP trade agreement under negotiation between US and EU.
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>My concern is more about whether it is proper to do that with names. Specifically, Norwegian names.

Yes. This is common all over the place. Nobody really cares.

Source: I'm Norwegian.

EDIT:
>Secondly, we make a distinction between whether someone is named "Christian" or "Kristian", for example. According to your logic, it wouldn't matter since there is no difference except spelling between these two names. But it does.

Well, thats a strawman as i read it. You can't compare "normal" names and names with special letters in them. It does not really make sense. Some systems, that does not use Unicode as an example, would have no problems with "Kristian", but "Knausgård" might bring problems. Thus you write "Knausgaard". This also applies to street names, town and other words.

As i said, this is quite common in Norway. Nobody really minds it at all.
> It makes your feeling seem universal.

Rage comics, subordinate clauses, FML postings, tweets, anonymous comment threads, etc. The internet makes it easier to share the kind of tiny moments you'd never speak of. Then, suddenly, we all realized that we could all relate to them. Secret micro-shame revelation becomes a commonplace part of the modern human experience. Isn't the internet wonderful?
NoScript will prevent most of those evil trackings by default. e.g. cdc.gov displays fine without any JS, and google analytics or addthis on my untrusted list anyway.

Its still possible to browse without JS most of the time. Some pages are crippled by design, so disabling CSS might show the content. Others provide a escaped_fragment variant. But a stupid JS antipattern is sometimes used to display normal content with JS. One big problem are domains like ajax.google. This is often used to enhanced website, but google using it to track users.

When talking about evil Google, one needs to add YT. A friend of mine once claimed: You watch a stripper, if you visit YouPorn. But you strip your privacy, if you visit YouTube.
My distro of choice is Slackware. It is designed to be vanilla and it's pretty tinker-friendly if you want to tinker. It's made in such a way that it makes me feel at home, which is always nice about an operating system. Xfce is my DE of choice. It's very flexible and fast.
I think that's dead now. They haven't replied to my emails in weeks. And never charged me for my first project either. Shame.
Don't let the work of a few OpenBSD developers discourage you from creating your own file(1) implementation using your new favourite "secure" language of the week.
I'd be interested to know how many YC grads actually successfully exited and earned out within four years. I'd guess it's a pretty small fraction.
I think at this stage we need to consider this a part of how the internet works.

I'm far from an expert, but I do think that the majority of legislative efforts as well as many initiatives from browser makers are approaching this wrong. Privacy, as much transparency as possible and optional setting for anything that comes with a trade-off need to be built into the browser, and not as a request sent to websites.

Transacting, being logged in, and certainly browsing are not inherently hindered by privacy. It's up to users (or their browser really) to demand it, in the economic sense of demand.

For now, there is no cost to this kind of tracking so it happens almost by default. Moral or even legislative pressure will not have the same effect as economic pressure. The decision to protect users privacy or not needs to come with costs.
There's a Udemy course. Might be a way to start?

https://www.udemy.com/build-your-trading-robot/
I can't understand why any company that cares about privacy would use Google Analytics over Piwik.
Microsoft, Google, Apple are all NSA PRISM program participants! And nothing happened to them. Why should that be different with Dropbox? And isn't Dropbox using Amazon to store its data. It would probably be sufficient, if Amazon participates.
This is complete misdirection though. It has no relevance to a biotech company. If the test is cheap and easy, then charities and governments will carry it into Africa. There's no fiscal reason to pay people with foreign policy experience, because it has nothing to do with foreign policy. Its miles away from being relevant to the central technology, and African charity is not how one achieves a multi-billion valuation.
Repair your gadgets – Survey
Please be aware that with Ubuntu LTS, only the small number of packages in "main" gets support for the full LTS time-frame, while the majority of packages in "universe" gets no official support after the 18 months (?) of a regular release time-frame.

So in practice you don't get a larger number of supported packages than with RHEL/CentOS.
Show HN: Squatmon, a domain squatting monitoring system
How do the bots continuously monitor news feeds without being blocked?
Hey, thanks for sharing your experience! I will be graduating soon and I am wondering about travelling too and trying to figure out a budget. It would be great if you can share your spreadsheet with the around-the-world budget.
Very reminiscent of https://jamescun.github.io/iPG/
Hi HN.

(one of the) squatmon developer(s) here

this is squatmon, an application we built the last few month, with the goal of automagically detecting brand and domain squatting.

i'd love to read your comments.
Errr..... 6.5 million requests per second?
Norway's Killing Old-Fashioned FM Radio
One of my favorite things about XKCD is how willing Randall Munroe has been to share these kinds of trivial but intimate moments. I don’t think he would have been able to do it as a comic strip in any venue before the internet.

For instance, http://xkcd.com/245/
You aren't the target market for a gold watch.

The gold version has literally no benefit over the aluminium or steel versions other than being gold. If you discount the value of gold, it's actually worse because it's heavier.

However, there are still people in the world who want to show off their financial status, and have the means to do so by wearing gold watches, jewellery, diamonds, pearls, etc.

It is a fact that many asian cultures embrace these displays of personal wealth. It's common practice in Thailand for people to display their gold items when other relatives/close friends visit their house.

As I said to a friend recently - I fully expect to see a lot more authentic gold apple watches in Thailand than authentic steel or aluminium ones.
Oh sorry, I misunderstood... Yes that could work, but you'd have to rely on all the big companies using it too. Getting something like Match.com to use it sounds like quite a challenge :)
Sure, Hackers came out in 1995. That's 20 years ago. And after that movie came out, if not before, using 1337 speak online was already a joke.

But the article did make the distinction that this is about the "mainstream internet". I kind of agree, but not completely.

> For the first fifteen years of the mainstream Internet, the main way language changed was at the level of the individual word.

I guess the argument there is if the impact was solely on vocabulary at first, and is now starting to change grammar. I think an earlier example of internet grammar would be verbing a noun. It is certainly not unique to the internet, but I remember it being common online in the 90s. It struck me back then as a shift in language that was spreading more quickly online than offline.
> and I've seen people relocate across the globe and continue to live the same life they had back in their home countries.

I see what you're getting at but there are also four cost-prohibitive things in the US that are important to life. They are: Housing (cost of renting or buying), healthcare (free or cheap in a lot of countries), higher education (free or cheap in a lot of countries) and the ability to have a social life when you don't have a lot of extra funds. In the places I've lived, I've had all four of these things at all times and it's changed my lifestyle and my life.

When a 1 bedroom apt is a few hundred per month, university is a few thousand, a semi-serious trip to the hospital including ambulance & meds is $20, and a really fun night out (drinks included) costs $10...it can really change one's life. I should add transportation to that, too, since I've been to some amazing places (near cities I've lived in) for $2-3 round-trip.
I'm not sure there's much wrong with using Piwik, as long as it is self-hosted. If using Piwik is bad, then so is using Apache access logs.
"Why exactly?"

Solutions are one way to solve a problem. Providing an answer dissuades students finding novel answers for themselves.
It's unfortunate that you didn't get an answer from your posts in the mailing list but the package has been dropped because of those "grave/serious" bugs:

* https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=771484
* https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=756729

The main problem seems to be there is not enough manpower to keep those policies up-to-date. Once there are "grave/serious" bugs, a non-essential package is usually dropped from testing (hence from the next stable). If people care enough, this is usually a hint to fix those bugs.

If you want to help, you can help fixing thos bugs: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?src=refpolicy

Once the bugs are fixed, the package can be backported to Jessie.
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When hardware designers write code, the results are often ugly. Device drivers, firmware, embedded code, ...
Given what has occurred elsewhere in the economy in recent years, the fact that people have thrown lots of money at a compelling story means nothing without being able to look inside the box to see what is going on, Bernie Maddox managed to get a lot more money raised than these folk.
and when would c++ 17 come?
How about making the language more accessible to newcomers by providing a sane default way of doing package management and builds. Go is a great example of both things done reasonably well out of the box.
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... and a Google exec died [1] and thousands other died and there's much destruction and ...

[1] www.wsj.com/articles/BL-DGB-41479
Why cabbage, MS is doing great these days :) - glad to see them going Open Source with a lot of stuff! I saw you registered 26 days ago.

How's this PR different with how you did it before ( just wondering - i suppose it's a lot of action - reaction related - direct) ?
Everyone can write their own. Not everyone can substitute the implementation used by a large distribution and make a proper announcement people will care about. I don't understand why are you mocking language choice point though. Pretty much any language which doesn't manage memory directly would be a good choice. This utility doesn't even have big performance requirements.

Basically I'm saying that we can try very very hard to write secure code in languages which invite issues, or... try to eliminate whole classes or issues at a time. Is it such a terrible idea?
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More like 7 million at 26-ish cores. so ~270000 req/s per core, which is still a lot.

EDIT: here's the writeup https://github.com/cloudius-systems/seastar/wiki/HTTPD-bench...
When companies like Facebook send SMS they do it through a third party provider who talks to the operators (e.g. Twilio). To Facebook, all that is just a black box - if they are lucky they get a callback saying the message has been delivered, but that's usually about it. It's not possible unless you have cooperation with each of the telecom operators to find out where that number is currently registered (i.e. which base station).

Even then as with everything telecoms related, everyone does things slightly differently. They would need to reimplement it for every single operator - even then I doubt it would be 100% accurate, especially once you take roaming into account.
c++11 came in 2011. c++14 came in 2014. Seeing a pattern yet?
Somewhere in 2017.
Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9439691