skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Walk into a store, and the salesclerks will know your name.

- they already do once you scan your store card

The store’s cameras and computers will have figured out your identity,

- store card

and looked you up in both their store database and a commercial marketing database they’ve subscribed to.

- store card again.

They’ll know your name,

- store card

salary,

- if you entered it and if you didn't lie when you filled out your store card form

interests,

- if you entered them and your didn't lie when you filled out your store card form

what sort of sales pitches you’re most vulnerable to,

- if the "deep data" / AI is actually correct

and how profitable a customer you are.

- store card

Maybe they’ll have read a profile based on your tweets and know what sort of mood you’re in.

- MAYBE. assuming the AI is anywhere near correct.

Maybe they’ll know your political affiliation or sexual identity,

- MAYBE, probably wrong.

both predictable by your social media activity.

- PROVE THIS.

And they’re going to engage with you accordingly, perhaps by making sure you’re well taken care of or possibly by trying to make you so uncomfortable that you’ll leave.
Let's say I'm offering you food. If someone else paid me to feed you horse manure, would you have an obligation to eat it? No, because it's not food. It doesn't become food just because some other party is paying me to feed it to you. You certainly aren't coming to me because you wanted horse manure. You don't have a deal with me regarding horse manure. I have a deal with the third party, and that has nothing to do with you.
They have always had CPUs. Just like most other types of ISO7816 cards, including any that have any kind of pin protection for the data stored within.
I hope Jack realizes that Twitter is not a great tool to chat with friends / neighborhood / family, but an incredible tool to reach people who are away from you, social and geographical.

They need to focus on how easy it is to approach a movie star, your favorite player and musician you like. How easy it is to show that you like a brand or you love a new TV show. And talk about some major events that are happening around you.

For people who have no idea what it is, they just see it as a tool to talk to someone. And most of the time, you do not have any feedback on what you wrote. In fact, you may not have any idea how many people have read what you have written.

So I think if they focused on showing how Twitter is great for expanding the boundaries of what you want to talk and make easy to see feedback from people about what you have spoken, they can attract more people.
My app does a lot of folder/label management on the user's behalf, and some of the issue I've run into are:

* UID MOVE not always being supported (meaning you need to copy and expunge), and weirdness around gmail's IMAP extensions. This could be abstracted away with a good high level library, but I haven't found any for Ruby that covers all the cases properly.

* Gmail offers OAuth, but for regular IMAP, needing to store user's email and password and the security risks that come with that.

* Needing to know when new messages arrive, so either polling regularly, or keeping a bunch of connections open and using IDLE.

Nothing unsurmountable, but using a service like Nylas means I can spend more time developing features instead.
It's actually mentioned in the article.
Node 4.1.2 released
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I'm pretty sure that you can already do all of this. I can't currently find the option to entirely de-list from search, but I thought I had it on before.
‘Yelp for People’ App Founder Says Peeple Won’t Be ‘Shamed into Submission’
Geez, tough crowd here. How about this:

Summary: because Google asked for it.
Just checked and it is not unique to each session :(
True. But the typical Norwegian words for he-who-shall-not-be-named may not carry the same connotations in an international context: "the terrorist", "the perpetrator", "the murderer", etc. So it may not be that simple to translate it. Plus, journalists in general aren't the most eloquent and precise of wordsmiths.
So this is all true, however it is surprising how often in development you find people spending more time and effort getting the 'pragmatic' hack to work acceptably than it would have taken to do it right.

People often underestimate the difficulties of getting a hack to work and overestimate how long doing something correctly will take. Even with short time horizons.
That's odd, I work in an auto company, our chief engineer is the head of all engieering, he reports to the GM, who reports to the board of directors.

Another odd thing though, is that VW apparently puts their compliance responsibilities under engineering management. Our compliance department, which I work in, is an independent department. That has its own difficulties with being less integrated with development, but we don't have any competing goals.
I don't consider those things to be work, though. I make things because I like to, and because making public domain work available improves the world.
Long-term census data reveal abundant wildlife populations at Chernobyl
The music reminds me Jethro Tull and King Crimson.
This is a typical HN response: write system code in a hip, modern language - this will solve all of the problems. Which language? I haven't seen a single successful, commercial OS written in something else than C or C++. Part of this is the amount of legacy code, part of it is compiler and stdlib maturity, performance and predictability. You can probably get maturity with some of the existing "safe" languages, but rarely would you get any of the other guarantees. If you can throw HW on the problem, you can probably get away with SMTP server in, say, Python. But you typically can't do just that.
The assassination stuff is disturbing, but it's not what he was sentenced for.
"Nosey Smurf is the 'hot mic' tool. For example if it's in your pocket, [GCHQ] can turn the microphone on and listen to everything that's going on around you - even if your phone is switched off because they've got the other tools for turning it on."

Are they implying that all/most smartphones still communicate with cell towers when turned off? (obviously this isnt happening) - Or do they pwn the device before hand to have it fake that its turning off while remaining on?
Like many 'Show HN' posts lately, this site suffers from readability problems by using thin fonts. The text almost disappears into the background for me on Win7 Chrome: http://i.imgur.com/mDayCop.png
> Is the DMV gonna start giving away my license to Home Depot?

IIRC this already happens and businesses can buy DMV databases.

> Is facebook going to torpedo their business by selling this info?

Many businesses collect and sell this information. Where do all these online businesses, who charge users nothing, get their revenue? [EDIT: More simply said, that info arguably is the basis of the Internet economy]

> why would they want it?

To discriminate. They may offer different products or prices. They may discriminate because you are gay or transgender, because of your ethnic background, or because of your religious (e.g., Muslims) or political affiliation (e.g., communist, right-wing extremist, etc.). This can happen in more serious situations too, such as when dealing with government, law enforcement, or in employment situations.

Certainly such discrimination has been widespread for centuries and is today. Why would it be any different when they have new tools?
No way! I wish I saw this before! Could have saved so much time instead of burning my eye-balls on DOM hacking.

One question for you. Did you use guys Google OAuth API for user authentication? I'm using it but have found it starts going crazy with multiple sign-ins (usually 4+ sign-ins).
If there is no server side functionality, why not use one of the many react static site generators?
I really hope immutable collections get added to the standard library eventually (probably ES2017 at this rate). Proxies should allow them to be used with libraries which expect mutable objects and arrays, as long as they don't mutate them.

Having them built in to the language would open up some interesting new possibilities too. It should be possible to send immutable data between Worker threads without the overhead of serialization and deserialization, which is currently one of the main barriers to doing heavy computation in a web worker rather than on the UI thread. Of course, there would be some nasty internal implementation details to sort out, as it would require sharing heaps, but it should be possible.
I understand the significance of the poem, but if I'm going into Stride Rite to buy some new shoes for a baby, chances are I'm not going to want them to have been worn before.
The sentencing transcript disagrees with you; the judge goes on for several pages about it.

There's a really virulent meme that Ulbricht was never tried for the assassination scheme. But he was: the murder-for-hire scheme was a predicate on his "criminal conspiracy" charge. Not only was it brought up in trial, but it was brought up in a way that put the onus on the prosecution to prove it.
Good!

For those unfamiliar with Android, it has a system where you send off a named Intent (I don't know the real names off hand so lets say Intent.PHONE_CALL) and another app handles it.

You might have several apps that can handle such an intent, or you have a default one - and the intent triggers that app to open and depending on various things an action to take place.

As Ballista states, they're looking at editing documents etc.

The one place where this might be creating functionality that already exists is URIs. For example, mailto:someone@somewhere.tld. Although URI's are supposed to simply indicate a resource and not really act as a full blown intent system.

Either way, things such as this bring the web closer and closer to being able to do the sort of things we "just expect" from native apps. It should be worthwhile to watch.
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Awesome, I would never have tought that this is/was an actual product! We tried to do something like this as teenagers with an old (normal) LCD, but some ribbon-cables were in the way. Still, there are people building projectors themselves using that method.
(downvote utterly expected)
American Airlines pilot dies during flight
Regarding drug cost and development, I wonder what the drug market would look like without patent law? Right now, and for the foreseeable future, drug R&D is expensive. If companies could not patent their drugs they would not make enough money off their product to be profitable. What would this do to the market?

One possible way it would work is that all drug development would be done by non-profits and government sponsored labs. Then drug R&D would be paid for directly by the people who want the drugs upfront and anyone could produce them. The final cost of drugs would be just a markup on the manufacturing cost.

The alternative is that people would not develop drugs, but I find it hard to believe that this would be the case.
Seems like a massive amount of effort just to be a dick. They get all the info they could ever want from customer loyalty cards, this is a redundant and frankly useless waste of money.
For those interested, here's the voluntary petition ( https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5k5SQee7k5pcW0zUmlYdmFKc1k... )

Chapter 11 Voluntary Petition . Fee Amount $1717. Filed by American Apparel, Inc.. (Attachments: # 1Board Resolutions # 2Top Creditors with Certification # 3Creditor Matrix # 4Verification of Creditor Matrix # 5Corporate Ownership Statement) (Jones, Laura Davis) (Entered: 10/05/2015)

and the docket ( https://www.inforuptcy.com/filings/debke_160493-1-15-bk-1205... )
The problem with the idea of working all the time becomes far more real once you have kids. You are doing real damage to your kids if you are not there for them as much as you are for your work.

I am not saying this from a position of moral superiority, I have been guilty of this myself during a time when, for many years, if I was awake I was working.

Ultimately a business failure forcefully knocked me out of that mode of operation. Being around a 3 and a 4 year old all day was, well, very weird. I eventually adjusted. Over time I came to understand just how valuable it is to have quality interactions with you kids. Life can't just be about work once you have kids. It doesn't matter if you enjoy the heck out of your work, you had kids and that is a responsibility you cannot outsource.

After that experience my approach to work was far different. My businesses are very important to me but my family is always first.
Completely different experience from me. I went to a public university, maybe that's why? Although, my friends who went to private schools seemed to be aware of the limits of the salary of their chosen salary and borrowed accordingly. Note that the stafford loan pamphlet had warnings to this effect and still does[1].

Is it too harsh to say that this sounds a lot like people not taking responsibility for their own financial mistake?

[1] https://studentaid.ed.gov/sa/sites/default/files/federal-loa...
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Not yet. I expect that after the TPP becomes available to read, people from various political, news and law-related subreddits will pool up and revive /r/TPP or start something new. A sticked post will likely emerge, that will be linked to from various subreddits, which will serve as an entry point to the analysis of the topic. It'll be easy to find.
Derp...I do. Typing to fast. Thanks.
Babies go through shoes extremely quickly. You can save a lot of money by re-using them. Obviously there are sanitation and wear concerns, but dress shoes (for instance) are going to be easy to find used, cheap, and in good shape.
I think that it has to get worse before it gets better. In the UK there is so much apathy and general fear of the nebulous 'terrorists' that surveillance is broadly supported. I hope that our children's generation will be able to free themselves from the terrible world we are building them.
I think he means a link to an external website.
At least in Chrome, you can add a custom devtools formatter so you can inspect Immutable.js datastructures just like native ones: https://gist.github.com/jsdf/e27e0e467dc8db3fb1e1
More like "Do they know that it's MY dick?"
Interesting how the judge is outraged by the recommendation of 'Doctor X' to the person to discontinue their antidepressants before taking MDMA. Surely she must know the highly elevated risk of mixing anti-depressants and a drug like MDMA can cause Serotonin Syndrome and lead to death....
I've been using an app called "Twilight" to help with my circadian rhythm. I cannot recommend it enough (no root required): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.urbandroid...
The prosecution was outstandingly successful in demonstrating that Ross Ulbricht is a violent, dangerous criminal. It is not surprising he was sentenced as such.

This is what it looks like when the system works. Society is safer with Ross behind bars.
this infuriates me whenever I see this "justification". Watch Deep Web Documentary (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3312868/) . The corrupt FBI agents were the ones responsible for the fake hits, not Ross.

I get that you're coming from ignorance and probably not malice, and I remember seeing the Article headlines too when it came out; but bro, it's Oct 2015 and we now know those charges are bullshit.
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Ah, good to know. Sorry about that.
Well in a recapitalization the board votes to issue all new shares in the company, sometimes previous shares are "converted" and sometimes simply new options/grants are handed out. Under the auspices of a bankruptcy proceeding you're basically out of business so it's a matter of everyone agreeing on what the right course of action is to move forward. If you are ever bored and want to see how convoluted these things can get, look at some of the GM filings when they were bailed out by the government :-)
A big point of the article is that what we have now is 'good enough' for most people, since they're not paying for more. If they were paying a bunch more, they'd get better stuff. But they don't want to. So the hand-wringing and finger pointing is useless: it's best to figure out how to get the most from what we do have.

If you really want to work on super high quality stuff, there are fields where that is valuable.
That's right, it's expensive and ultimately fruitless, but defense spending still grows year by year. Unlike most other industries, the defense industry is totally dependent on government spending in order to make money and therefore considers campaign donations to be an investment.

Notice Hillary's answer this morning to a question about her ties to the military industrial complex (Spoiler--there wasn't one):

http://www.today.com/video/hillary-clinton-on-war-diplomacy-...
One could say Alan Kay is still around, much like one could say giant redwood and sequoia trees are 'still around'.

Always glad to see someone discover one of the greats. :)

(edit) Oh wait, you probably already knew he existed. Tried to read too much into your post.
On a slightly unrelated note:

Would it be possible to make a webapp like Meteor in Clojure pretty easily, using CSP go-style channels ang go-threads.

I imagine a function would "broadcast" or "listen to" websocket connections. If the app uses channels for communicating between different go-blocks, server/client contact could use an identical interface. Sending things server-side would be no different than sending things client-side.

Could also be a simple 2-function library.
There's been a few articles about people buying albuterol inhalers online because the FDA prohibits the good, cheap ones in the states.
RMS has been advocating against using store cards for years. I guess in-store facial recognition could thwart the privacy efforts of people like him? (To some degree?)
> not sure if a work environment can do this to somebody or if I just have my own problems?

Think of your current job as a personal research lab-- can you devise and build-in all the work elements you miss? Professional challenges, Deadlines, Development, Collaboration?

Ultimately, leaving is easy. It's quite hard to connect with a job that truly 'gives' you everything you need to stay engaged.
Who fights for the User?
Unfortunately many employers require a degree to even be considered. They are basically expecting you to come in the door with skills that they used to have to train employees in. In highly technical / safety critical fields I can understand this, but it has gotten out of control.
Your comment is ill informed. As an example search radioshack and look what happened to the user data during the bankruptcy proceedings. Now ask yourself what happens if Facebook ends up in the position Myspace is in? For another example do some research into wifi tracking in shops.
The problem is they didn't have to prove anything here. It's very common in federal court to plead and be convicted of one thing, and then they bring in all this other shit at sentencing. The burden at trial is "beyond a reasonable doubt", but the bar at sentencing is "preponderance of the evidence" I believe. And I don't buy it for a second that the judge thought about this sentence for 100 hours. Federal judges sentence people to life in prison every single week, and they are appointed for life - do the math. I wish there were a tally of stats of how many life sentences each judge has handed out to defendants.

In my case, I was convicted of a crime that was for the physical theft and sale of circuit boards, had nothing to do with the Internet or hacking, and yet I was banned from the Internet upon my release from prison. This part of the sentence was out of the blue, and we had no opportunity to even prepare a defense for it (and in 1995, no one in the court room really knew what the Internet was except me and a few of my friends who attended the hearing). It's really fucked but it's their modus operandi.
Many US employers have employment agreements in which they claim default ownership of business-related intellectual property that their employees create, such as software, even when it is written on the employee's own time. Every tech company I have worked for has had one of these clauses.

I think this is what the authors are (somewhat clumsily) alluding to.

Here's some more information (it's not an ideal source, but I wasn't able to find a better one; maybe someone else will): http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/14/opinion/my-ideas-my-bosss-...
"we didn't know" is curiously not an excuse you can use in any other facet of human life except to exculpate rich people
I used to use his scheduler patches. This was many years ago. He seemed reasonable and he knew what he was doing. I only knew him through email (never met him in person), but I hated to see him go. I think others continued/improved upon his initial work.

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

Also, Alan Cox left kernel development in 2009 for similar reasons.

http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/07/29/1925224/Alan-Cox-Qu...
Yes they do.
Sounds prone to bugs and very slow to me.
I know several people online by pseudonyms only. If I wanted to add them on facebook I'd add their pseudonym. I also know people who don't go by their real name in real life. I know John's that go by Sean. I know Richard's that go by Dick. I know another Richard that goes by Greg. I suspect that 95% of his friends don't know his "real" name is Richard. I also know 2 Cyrils that go by Rocky and I suspect only their very closest friends and family know their real names are Cyril the 3rd and Cyril the 4th.

I honestly don't understand why this matters to facebook. In the best case people make multiple accounts. One for friends and family, one for business, one for their sexy side, one for their hacker side, whatever. Now facebook gets to claim 4x the people and advertisers can better target ads to each account for each situation.
wow, I see now that you "actually" DO have some issue with Ross and want to paint the picture of him as a murderer. There is no point arguing the details with you, you'll never change your stance regardless of facts.

I just hope one day you face your karma. To be on the receiving end of your hatred/ignorance.
In my opinion, this is going to get far worse for VW. People bought cars expecting the stated fuel economy - if they submit their cars to the recall, there's likely to be a class-action suit aiming to recoup enough cost to pay for the difference in fuel costs over the life of the car.

Cars that don't go through the recall process will continue to pollute at a greater rate and will earn the ire of the EPA (here in the US).

It's going to cost them a huge amount of money to satisfy both the EPA and their customers.
As someone with prosopagnosia (neurological inability to recognize faces) I find this incredibly frustrating. My everyday life would be immensely easier with assistive tech that told me the names of everyone I see. And now that the technology exists to develop such a useful device, what do we get instead? Mass societal surveillance.
I was told by an Uber driver recently, that surge rates appear, when demand outgrows supply in certain area. So those, who will to pay more, will receive their car much faster. No big deal (-:
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Good stuff. Sorry if I came across as overly critical.