skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's more complicated than what you are saying , what you witnessed is generally called behavioral targeting which is user specific generally . Sponsored search generally is a solution which shows ads which have your keywords in it . Behavioral targeting ideally should show you stuff you might interested in buying or buy on a regular basis , if it's showing stuff that you already bought , it probably indicates a stale feedback loop between two systems
Words change meaning over time. Firmware doesn't mean firmware any more, it means software. Also ROMs now mean software.
The issue that many of us are worried about is being tracked across the entire internet by a single entity who's site some of us don't even visit (definition of third party there). We don't care if this is done by what you call first party cookies, or what your call third party cookies, or measuring our mouse movements, or finger printing our browser, or just by watching us through our webcams/sending someone to our house to take notes we don't want it period. And we will block whatever means we can that these entities use to track us.
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It's the same mistake Microsoft made over and over and over again in their lost days from ~2000 to ~2010. It always seems to indicate lack of focus, weak leadership and a surplus of resources.

MSN, Bing, Live, MSN Messenger, Windows Messenger, IE, Edge, WinFX, .Net, Groove, Windows Phone, Windows Mobile, etc. There are a bunch of other examples.
Actually we see attempts to extend libpurple with many recent protocols. For instance telegram works on pidgin AFAIK, and I could recently see se a Tox plugin.

Clearly we cannot play a fair game with the closed whatsapp, but hacking cannot be stopped or forbidden.

After all, it was always like that. If you go back of 10 years al "regular people" had MSN and similar stuff, and we were IRCing. As a hacker, you migth feel sad, and think openness lost the war. IMHO the only difference is that nowadays we have much more "regular people" than before. They were simply sms-ing before they could access whatsapp.
Not really sure the point you're making, maybe you need some form of back pressure? How would that differ with varying I/O models? Fear of the operating system interfaces is a heuristic for me, especially an unwillingness to work on their implementation when the company has more than on order of 100 engineers.
That's true, but what I think they generally refer to is the price the market would pay (that is, the price/share where demand for a share will equal the supply).

You are correct that "X is not worth anything unless and until X is sold" - that is why they are saying that IPOs may be lower than expected for these huge valuations - because the equilibrium market price is believed to be lower than the current valuations, priced by a small market of investors. According to the efficient market hypothesis stocks on the stock market will trade at their fair value (that's pretty disputed, but a good amount of respected people agree with it).
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I guess I hate the idea of a "statistical philosophy." It's math for god's sake. Given these axioms, these other things are true.

The point about teaching relativistic versus newtonian mechanics is totally different because they're incompatible. One is more correct than the other, which is not the case here. In the stats case, both tools give correct answers to different questions.

Maybe I just get frustrated feeling like people want a data analysis silver bullet to teach.
> why is it an issue if the signal processing is done in firmware? Isn't the idea of firmware that it's factory set and read-only?

There are multiple levels to this, and it varies with chipsets. Take for example, a very basic crappy chipset like the TI WL127x transceiver series. This chipset would be the lowest level. It is what implements the lowest level of radio signal processing above the hardware. That chipset has its own firmware. That's very small. Typically, less than 128kbytes. But it is rarely factory set or read-only. Rather, it is a binary blob that is loaded on to that chipset by a linux kernel wifi driver. The driver is typically not a binary but source code that is part of the linux kernel. That blob, driver, kernel, and rest of the system are then part of a "firmware image" that is flashed on to your router/phone/embedded device. It is reasonably common to want to modify and customize that firmware image. Hence forums like xda, cyanogen, etc. The binary blob is the only part that isn't very common to modify, but even then, given the high rate of implementation defects in that blob, one wishes source were available for that as well so that it could be better controlled.
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I was ashamed of the naming of a product I worked on: Windows Live Mobile for Windows Mobile

ugh
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At first glance, it seems very logical. Why do you need a middle man, these companies will all die out. The problem with this argument is that he doesn't realize advertising is 600B globally. Each of the small boxes there is 1b-40b depending the bucket (from tag management to mobile (100b)). When you realize that there's only 15 companies serving a 1 billion dollar market, you realize that it's not that small.

Granted. There will be companies that will die in the ecosystem, but the logic is poor. It's like saying why do you need a CRM system, it's just a tool standing between the sales person and the customer.
Helps to be in a third world country. Sometimes I realize we have so much more freedom.

And yes, doesn't matter the company size. Ofc there are different situations but I always feel like people have a too broad definition of harassment.

Going a bit off topic, I know that's not the popular view in the western world, but I think you should fend for yourself in society and we are over reliant on rules and regulations, and then people complain about lacking freedom.
I said nothing about cookies. I said "third-party tracking". If I don't visit google's website and if they are tracking me on someone else's website then they are a third party. And I will block them if I can.
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> In May, we launched Google Photos as the home for all your photos and videos. ... In an effort to ensure everyone has the best photos experience we can deliver, on August 1st we’ll start to shut down Google+ Photos

I just don't trust Google and their 5-second attention span any more. Seems like every day brings another change in direction, or outright abandonment of a service I had relied upon. I'm self-hosting email and just won't touch the rest of their offerings, because there's no guarantee of continuity or even continuation.
Exactly. I recently bought a pair of bluetooth headphones form Amazon, and for weeks after I was getting stalked by ads for bluetooth headphones from Amazon. For a product I'd just bought. From Amazon.
> In addition, it doesn't help understand why some factors are used to define 'similar people' while others are not. Men are far more likely to be involved in crime in the US, including domestic terrorism to white collar crime, but aren't universally discriminated against for being a member of that class.

You should check out the sentences women get for criminal convictions compared to men. You might also want to look at car insurance rates for 16-20 year olds. I've seen someone advocating that instead of teaching your small children "if you need help, go to the police", you should teach them "if you need help, go to a woman".

Men are routinely discriminated against for their higher criminality; people don't avoid women on the street or freak out if one shows up at a park without a child in tow. I was asked to leave the public library once because they thought it was weird that I was reading under the stairs.
You may not believe it, but people can actually talk about other things than work. We all have private lives.
The irony is that DD-WRT never touched anything within FCC legislation – it still uses the vendors' proprietary WiFi firmwares for the actual radios. It just makes everything around that suck less.

The worst you can do with DD-WRT is intentionally set a wrong country code.
You can't renounce your U.S. citizenship from inside the country anyway.
> My point is a conjecture that the purpose of the OP was to remind enemies of Israel

Wait, you think aburan28 posted this on Hacker News to remind enemies of Israel? What exactly makes you think enemies of Israel read hacker news?

> Again, have had to know the old story, which I assumed nearly everyone at HN would, to understand my first post.

You do realize that the entire point of this article is to tell people the story? Your post added exactly zero.

> I just tried to make an interesting post. I hurt no one. But I've been attacked -- lost about 30 points here.

You did not make an interesting post. You used a lot of words to say the same thing as the article, only in an impossible to understand way.

> Got to write for the highly sensitive HN audience or will be attacked.

You were not attacked. Your post just made so little sense people downvoted it as essentially the ravings of a madman.

Your post STILL makes no sense. You are repeating the story, without adding anything except to claim aburan28 has some obscure reason for posting it. It's far more likely aburan28 simply found it interesting, and that's it.

> Never tell anyone anything.

Yah. You didn't.

Next time you want to say something, just say it. Don't write "If you have to ask, you won't really understand it!" because quite frankly writing that makes you sound like a nutcase. It does not make you sound like "someone in the know" it makes you sound like a lunatic.

No one has any desire whatsoever to try to decipher obscure writings, there are so very many things to read online, no one will spend more than a microsecond on your post if you deliberately make it hard to read. Your writings are not some important historical work that people will study.

To quote Isaac Asimov: “I made up my mind long ago to follow one cardinal rule in all my writing—to be clear. I have given up all thought of writing poetically or symbolically or experimentally, or in any of the other modes that might (if I were good enough) get me a Pulitzer prize. I would write merely clearly and in this way establish a warm relationship between myself and my readers, and the professional critics—Well, they can do whatever they wish.”
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The fear is that they'll use it to blackmail you. "Give us $X or we will send your wife all the texts you sent to person Z." or perhaps more realistic, "Give us $X or we will publish that embarrassingly bad love letter you sent to person Z" or even "Give us $x and we will reveal your alternate handle"

The first bit of comfort is that the details you would want if you were to blackmail someone are not the details that advertisers want when trying to get you to click on an ad, so the people who end up with this private data might find it less useful for blackmail than we think. They probably don't have my embarrassingly bad poetry.

but... they probably do have all my alternate handles, and that's embarrassing enough.

I think one of the major saving graces here is the unreliability of the data; especially once it has been sold a few times, it's gonna have a lot of mistakes. Because for advertising? a few mistakes don't really matter. This is gonna make the "deny everything" defense a lot stronger.

Of course, the big thing about blackmail is that it mostly only makes sense when going after the big fish; there is a lot of hard to automate work in finding the victim's weak spot, and then actually extracting the money (or whatever)

Most of us probably don't have to worry about being blackmailed unless we get rich or someone rich wants something from us... but it's still pretty bad for us if a giant cache of data that can be used for blackmail ends up in desperate hands.
Great results on relighting 2d images using neural nets here as well: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/yuedong/projec...
I wish they would give the Picasa OSX app more love. It doesn't even support retina displays!

It's one of the best ways to manage photos for us who like to keep photos as .jpegs inside actual folders, instead of inside some opaque package of sqlite and hidden hashed filenames (like Photos.app and the older iPhoto.app).

But I guess supporting vendor-neutral, lock-in-less file repositories like that is out of fashion these days :-/
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As a photo editor developer, it has been difficult to see how the uploading/dowloading/creating API call via old Picasa Web Data API will evolve overtime. Right now the Google Drive API seems to be the most robust and if you are looking for extra editing functionality, we built something for Google Drive like https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/polarr-photo-edito...
That's exactly the problem, though.
There are so many extensions that it's about as much work finding out which ones are even needed and how they interact for your case (in this case the replay) as is implementing, say, a good chunk of IRC.

And no, I'm not exaggerating, I've done both and decided that writing XMPP clients is not for me a long time ago.

Addendum: I really love XMPP, but I do think the many many extensions have hurt it more than one defined spec. And yes, I know it supports many use cases, but I simply only care for 1:1 and multi user chat.
Which reminds me of (emphasis mine):

Gunnery Chief: This, recruits, is a 20-kilo ferrous slug. Feel the weight. Every five seconds, the main gun of an Everest-class dreadnought accelerates one to 1.3 percent of light speed. It impacts with the force of a 38-kilotomb bomb. That is three times the yield of the city buster dropped on Hiroshima back on Earth. That means Sir Isaac Newton is the deadliest son-of-a-bitch in space. Now! Serviceman Burnside! What is Newton's First Law?

First Recruit: Sir! A object in motion stays in motion, sir!

Gunnery Chief: No credit for partial answers, maggot!

First Recruit: Sir! Unless acted on by an outside force, sir!

Gunnery Chief: Damn straight! I dare to assume you ignorant jackasses know that space is empty. Once you fire this husk of metal, it keeps going till it hits something. That can be a ship, or the planet behind that ship. It might go off into deep space and hit somebody else in ten thousand years. If you pull the trigger on this, you're ruining someone's day, somewhere and sometime. That is why you check your damn targets! That is why you wait for the computer to give you a damn firing solution! That is why, Serviceman Chung, we do not "eyeball it!" This is a weapon of mass destruction. You are not a cowboy shooting from the hip!

Second Recruit: Sir, yes sir!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLpgxry542M
That logo is a total ripoff of freelancer.coms logo isn't it?
I found Chi while exploring trending repositories in Github. I share it because it looks good and it reminded me of my own take on HTTP routing tree with Medeina: https://github.com/imdario/medeina

Although, Medeina is based on httprouter, so it should faster than Chi or at least on par.
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Well, in this instance at least there's the continuation. The seem pretty set on Photos, and it's a strategic product for them (combined with Android). Google Photos is the successor to Google+ Photos and it surprised me they had both in the market at the same time for as long as they did.
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There's an inverted Ponzi dynamic to this. In a Ponzi scheme, the earlier gain the most and the later the least. In this dynamic, the later are guaranteeing their returns at the expense of the earlier.

It makes sense because of the necessity of these companies to raise capital, but it also has a somewhat ironic tinge.
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Personally, I avoided it specifically because of all the "you must use this" shenanigans around YouTube and other services, as well as the Real Names policy brokenness. They could have had much more loyal users if they didn't pull stunts like that.
You are right. The XMPP Standards Foundation is currently preparing to create a list of "must-have" client and server XEPs for certain use cases, like Instant Messaging or IoT. This will hopefully make the path easier for future application developers.
> The worst you can do with DD-WRT is intentionally set a wrong country code.

Which lets you transmit on unauthorized frequencies, such as channel 14.

But you can hardly do that by accident.
Url changed from http://nypost.com/2014/06/10/the-dolphin-that-fell-in-love-w..., which points to this. Although unduly sensational, it contains new information about a historically significant experiment. We can change the URL to a better source if anybody finds one.
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Me too, and this applies to almost anything I put into my body like caffeine or sugar. When I hear people talk about what it does to them I really wonder if I just have a lowered sense of my own body or if I just react less than most.
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Not really. Peasants who owned their farm during the pre-industrial era were rare. The bulk of "work from home" then were household chores - which meant e.g. house-wifes spinning wool into yarn or sewing clothes.
I sympathize with you and I think you should do it. But you should come up with a "real" reason other than "because I can". For example, I imagine the military requires a different service level agreement than the average company. That would be your price differentiation right there.
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Yes, I uploaded some photos to Picasa like 10 years ago and those are still available in this "new" service. But even if this is just a re-branding to get away from the G+ fiasco, it's still very confusing.
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I don't have time to give an extensive and exhaustive answer here - I should blog about this. The same question comes up again and again. Here are some quick comments.

Analysis:

* Why is your app different?

* Is it a vitamin or pain-killer?

* What does it do? Not from your point of view, but from a customer's point of view.

Pitch:

* This will save you time ...

* This will let you do stuff you really want to do, but can't ...

* This will improve what you already do ...

Approach:

* Blog

* Get feedback

* Approach a few individuals and pique their curiosity

* Reduce friction.

I haven't been to look at your app, because you've made me do work to do so. There's no link I can click - why are you making me make that extra step?

So, what have you done?
The current claimed size of the market is irrelevant to the argument. The argument is that there is more money being made from advertising than actual advertisers are paying and that this isn't sustainable.
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Eh, I think recruiters already usually have a pretty good idea of how long you've been unemployed, and they already use that information against you; the big problem isn't so much that they low-ball you (it's easy enough to get another job once you have one) but that usually they won't give you a chance at all if you've been unemployed for too long.
This is much better! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIXfgB-cWiY
Ask HN: Is it still too hard to allow “back” buttons on a banking website?
Its really frustrating not being to go back using the back button, it hampers the general flow by which I use most of the websites. Its already 2015 here, why does bank websites not allow back buttons?

Bank I used was: ICICI bank.
I used PIA while in China with no issues.
There's lots of misery and soul searching about the failure of federated chat on here, but all the slack-likes that are gaining usage are proof that the opportunity to fix this is still open.

A federated chat that had a good user experience and ideally a feature that appeals to a niche (e.g. easy voice chat for gamers like discord app) could still make headway.

In fact, the proliferation of new niche clients with relatively easy integrations is the kind of situation in which a federation standard could thrive.
It has got ridiculous. I have thousands of photos there and appreciate the service, but almost every time i log in something has changed. I'd love to know who is making these choices, it is descending into Microsoft levels of program mgmt stupidity. Also I couldn't even map out the interconnectedness of Google's product offerings.
Certainly. This why I wrote 'universally discriminated', by which I meant in the sense that black people and women have historically been discriminated against. (Or Chinese, or Japanese, or Native American, or ...)

Otherwise it's easy to point out historic biases against hiring men as, for example, nurses. Just like it's easy to find cases in the US where white people were discriminated against on the basis of their skin color ( http://edition.cnn.com/2013/09/08/justice/new-york-hate-crim... ) or discriminated against for being having only US citizenship (http://consumerist.com/2013/06/24/welsh-pub-fined-for-discri... ).
The HN community has an outspoken minority that believes: a) ads do not make money, b) ads do not work, and c) ads (targeting) are morally wrong. My sense is that the silent majority recognizes just how massive the advertising business is (its demand generation, nothing more complicated) and how important it can be to all types of businesses across every sector of the economy.

Global advertising spend (est. 2015): $592B

Global digital ad spend (est. 2015): $170B

Global VC investment (est. 2014): >$48B

[1] http://www.emarketer.com/Article/Advertisers-Will-Spend-Near...

[2] http://www.pwc.com/us/en/press-releases/2015/annual-venture-...
police are allowed to shoot people in the back even if they (aren't an) imminent threat

and he heads the opinion desk for Der Spiegel?
I am extremely skeptical of the accuracy of the adtech-over-time chart. I looked for companies I knew revenue numbers for, and I saw revenue flat and them suddenly appearing in the last box despite existing for years before his timeline even starts, for instance. [This is a bit hard to write compellingly, because you can figure out precisely who I am if I say the exact companies, and I'd prefer not to have LinkedIn be the sidechannel resource for people to violate my non-disclosures about revenue.]
Definitely try Nepal next, though I think you'd totally need to change your tyres, the Nepalese country roads are brutal...
it's not just about the notes that are being played, but also the specific sound of that recording. AFAIK no one has been able to reproduce that exact sound , with the exact timing. That beat launched an entire kind of music (90's UK hardcore techno, then jungle/drum'n'bass)
> Why does this need any kind of new change in the first place?

The same reason as other FCC regulations, so you don't inadvertently pollute part of the spectrum with either transmissions or noise? One device might not be a problem, but it's potentially a slippery slope with more and more software defined devices. It really shouldn't be that hard to come up with a solution either, even if it's just slightly more resilience.

The other solution might be to certify the firmware, so for instance it doesn't default to noncompliant settings when you flash, but that seem like a bigger mess.
Scary Green Dragon or Face Mask for baby soft skin? :P