skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's weird is that every time this story gets some traction, facebook apparently claim it's "not true", or admit there was a small "bug" that kept the app active.

This sounds pretty crazy to me. You really have to go out of your way to run in the background on iOS, particularly for more than a few seconds/minutes after being backgrounded, and especially when background processing is turned off. Yet, still I often see "time on screen 1.5hours; time in background 4hours". Even after the admitted "bugs" were "fixed".

It's hard to believe this is an accident.
MobTag Location Tracking
Would you consider it discrimination if, for example, consumers are more likely to be influenced by a white athlete spokesman than a black one? And so, the white ones gets paid more?
MobTags are a new way to find and be found at any moment, in real-time. You can create a MobTag using your smart phone or table so other people will be able to find you and track your movements. Your MobTag will be destroyed after use, preserving your privacy.

People can use MobTag for various purposes, such as finding friends in a previously arranged place, be it in a large space or in the middle of a crowd or even as a security and tracking measure, following the location and movements of your loved ones or anyone else.

You can also buy an Exclusive MobTag to have a permanent MobTag to call it your own, featuring more controls to filter who can find you and when, and to change your appearance on the map. The Exclusive MobTags are ideal for promotional and professional uses.
I wonder why they only ship to the US ... ?
Not an iPhone user here - do you mean that the Chrome app on iOS has Web Push notification support?
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Not only did it save me battery life, if also made me more productive. I found that Facebook has become just not rally relevant these days?
Do you think it is better to hamper the market forces even more?
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couldn't agree more
All the android phones I've used do not let you turn on gps (even the non assisted gps) option without making you agree to data collection. It does work without a data connection but I assume they store the data till the next time you get Internet.

Edit: I read a bit about this. There is something called Google location history. It's on by default and tracks and reports your location to Google. You can turn it off (it's a bit non-obvious but not very much so). The wording is "Places you go with your devices will stop being added to your Location History map". So there, "tracked by default".
> Sure I believe Amazon when they say they only send clips of the actual commands

I worked on speech parsing software at Audible, where much of the data was originally gathered to make Alexa and the Echo possible.

They are not telling the truth when they say that they only send clips of the actual commands.

EDIT:

This is not to say that they constantly stream audio data, either. But they send much more than just the voice extractions of the commands themselves. They have to in order to build a profile of the users' voices, habits, etc., which aid in the quick processing of incoming speech data.

The service is not selective enough to only pick up on voice information proceeded by a correct utterance of "Alexa." Amazon is "customer-obsessed" - and one of the product execs asked on a phone call:

> I am an Alexa user, and call out her name but stutter slightly. I still intended to say "Alexa," so why shouldn't she respond to me? That's a bad user experience. Customers want to be understood, not ignored.

This is paraphrased, but the consequences of this question were enormous. It basically ensured that Alexa users would not ever have privacy again.
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15% is a big enough difference that such a coarse methodology is fine to draw preliminary conclusions. Of course you could instrument better, but this is a writer at The Guardian, of whom I don't expect the technical prowess to do so, and the article (or what I skimmed of it) doesn't overstate his findings.
Google Closure compiler seems to already support this out of the box: https://github.com/google/closure-compiler/wiki/ECMAScript6

Edit: s/good/support/
I'm the same as you. When they started wanting (virtually) total control of my phone I axed the app and made a bookmark on my browser. It works amazingly well, arguably better than the app for my needs since I'm mostly a consumer, it has its issues occasionally when trying to make posts but that's pretty few and far between.
I definitely prefer the m.facebook.com over the actual app, I haven't used the app for a while, so it would be unfair for me to judge it now. But I have no need to download the official app.
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Have you heard about vulners.com?
If a panic is forced and used like an exception, that's just so wrong ...
I block all outbound traffic on several of my CentOS 7 boxes and have logging rules just before the reject rules. I get zero hits.

This includes 2 workstations. In fairness, my /etc/resolv.conf points to recursive cache servers on my vpn, but I do log all my DNS queries. The only log entries are for things I ask for and Firefox trying to dial home.
Note: if you had location services on for Facebook, and then uninstall the app, Facebook location services remains ON, because it is part of the iOS base install. I'm not sure whether it continues sending info to their servers, but to be certain make sure to disable it after uninstalling.
Definitely a step in the right direction, but there are plenty of ISPs who provide preferential treatment to Google by peering with their servers. YouTube HD videos stream without buffering on 512kbps connections.

https://www.quora.com/I-am-from-Mumbai-I-have-an-Internet-co...
It seems to me that is where they want to focus their attention at the moment.

For small amounts of data, it also probably isn't price competitive with the devices that are available elsewhere.
I agree. CNN may be? http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-1170073
I've noticed that when I hit play on the example mp3 and then go back to the homepage (via the icon in the upper left corner), the music still plays and I'm unable to stop it. I can even have the same track playing multiple times simultaneously. Great concept though... What stack are you using?
There's more to world than your little corner.

Last year I worked on development project with youth in Bolivia. It was common for them to use Facebook's website instead of app because it saved battery and data, both of which are extremely important to you if you are a poor teenager in a country with fairly expensive internet using a low-spec smartphone with generally poor battery life.

This way they could get a bit more out of it than they would otherwise which is a perfectly rational choice that doesn't deserve to be mocked.
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What I don't understand is that neither in the privacy/location services or in the facebook app setting can I find a setting to disable access to the gps for the facebook app. I am not naive enough to assume facebook doesn't log gps locations. Does the app have a behind the scene access in iOS?
We had SAM for our Commodore128/64 and once you loaded the program, you could write BASIC programs that used it to include speech. Pretty sure I spent way too much time figuring out just the right combination of phonemes and numbers (used to denote accented syllables among other things) to make it swear convincingly.
You ever noticed that these "secure" forks of browsers put out by antivirus companies are usually security trainwrecks?

cf: "Chromodo" and the vulnerabilities disclosed by this same researcher[0]

[0] https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/de...

EDIT: And let's not forget TrendMicro's recent blunder with the enabled-by-default HTTP server for "Password Manager" that is installed as part of their antivirus program.[1]

[1] https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/de...
Socrates wasn't wrong. The adoption of new media should reflect a rational analysis of its benefits and drawbacks.

Writing enables us to store, transmit, and reflect upon information in ways that surpass speech. One negative consequence is that we get less practice in exercising memory, and we encounter more information than we could commit to memory in any case.

Social media enables us to get current information on the doings of people whose lives interest us. One negative consequence is that the information users encounter is subject to manipulation by those who dictate the content of the website, with the result that most users have reduced intellectual autonomy. What's more, much of the information presented is not relevant to users, which wastes much of the finite attention they possess. Data collected about users can be and is used to advance interests contrary to their own. Some of these issues are intrinsic to social media as a concept, others specific to the platforms that currently dominate.

Either way, it cannot reasonably be presumed that those opposed to the use of social media are simply Luddites.
Very nice optimizations. But you should reconsider the AIR name, since it will get confused with the other AIR framework.
Look into the Kinect - it has open APIs and good microphones
> Who wants to have a black box in their home (or bedroom!) that listens to every sound, connects to the internet and over which you have no control?

To be fair your phone has the same capabilities and it even follows you around from room to room!
That page says there are a number of features they aren't interested in supporting. Is there an actual list somewhere? I don't want to start using this then discover things I wanted to use just aren't supported.
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Load averages are complex and also quite different between different *nix operating systems. This old post on undeadly is pretty good.

http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20090715034920&mo...
It's one of the shittiest apps anyway. 111MB size? I mean honestly. What exactly does THAT mobile app need 111 Megabytes for?
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Same here, switched for python and app development and it just feels right. The trackpad is amazing.

Still have a windows machine for .net development.
Really? The whole thing used to be about fun. Like, "hey look at this!". Do you really need press secretary and events coordinator? If you were running a business, yes. That was the entire concept of enterprises like Red Hat and Canonical, even parts of Intel and IBM. That is, repackage and support semi-organized hackery.

Again, we don't want to devolve into the bureaucracies F/OSS usurped. (Ideas + fun + seeking prestige + curiosity) * tenacity = occasional glory.
Really? I think every drill press I've operated has had that kind of chuck key. It's fantastic.
Which all have the same background monitoring feature (e.g. Hey Siri or OK Google).
You can get single machined parts with a free automated quote from Proto Labs (www.protolabs.com)

They have manufacturing facilities in the UK that ship to Germany.
They loaned under higher interest rates, and then deflation hits, that's bad.

If nobody will refinance (often more true for poor people), this puts them in a double bind.
I do not believe you. Please elaborate.
The "Buy from our store" link opens an email and the title of the book is mentioned nowhere in the article (although the subtitle is)

So here's the authors page http://www.davidsabraham.com/

where he has a link to purchase the book.
People remove guards. The mistake is the design of the key that allows it to be left inserted in the first place.
The proposal to regulate VoIP apps is before TRAI only because of lobbying by telcos who are still in denial over the world moving towards data and want to hold onto their voice call revenues.

I'm not sure what purpose licensing will serve from a law enforcement perspective. Banning VoIP apps that refuse to apply for a license will be like playing whack-a-mole as people can easily add a VPN to get around it or the service can intelligently route traffic to get around the ban.
I'm having trouble parsing this article through all the propaganda speak. Clearly whoever wrote it is happy that a victory has been scored and that the Internet is no longer broken (and has possibly even been saved) with the help of some agency that did something important that we should know about.

But it's so thick with its own team's code language that I can't actually parse out what happened.

Anybody know what's going on?
That's a fairly common practice around major metros. I know in Edmonton they eat up surrounding areas as they grow.
I just tried that, apparently it doesn't work for messages, which is the only thing I need from Facebook (for the two people who message me there). I guess I'll just keep relying on the twenty-minute-late email notification for messaging.
I recommend Malcolm Muggeridge's autobiography for a compelling look at the circle of Western journalists in Moscow in the '20s and '30s, of which Muggeridge was a part. Scott Alexander has a good review:

http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/08/11/book-review-chronicles-...

You either stayed in that circle or dropped out; there was no in-between. Of the reporters listed in the link, W.H. Chamberlin is the only other one who defected. Duranty (whose Pulitzer the NYT still refuses to return) was the norm, not the exception.

Also note that Thompson was part of the most bloodthirsty wing of New Dealists (eg, Rex Stout, also seen in the link) who supported prewar and postwar anti-German atrocities. It was certainly Nazi policy from 1941-45 to kill as many Jews as physically possible, but it was also Allied policy from 1941-45 to kill as many Germans as physically possible -- and that policy by no means stopped on a dime in May 1945:

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

A real and complete moral reckoning for the period has yet to come, and will be more interested in our crimes than those of our defeated enemies.
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Frankly, those animations are so simple that they could be replaced with static images (the first one would need a split in two). This way I can choose which one to watch simply by moving my eyeballs or maybe scrolling in case of small screens. Two simple, widely know and efficient interfaces.

Maybe I shouldn't be too harsh, after all it was me who as a teenager hacked this panel displaying information about currently selected file in Windows 98 Explorer to slide in/out during navigation like menus in StarCraft, but c'mon - it's one thing to create such stuff and another to actually really use it. Even I couldn't bear those sliding panels for long :)
Not entirely welcomed:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Dennis#Sedition_trial
It's valued at 14 billion dollars. Hardly distressed or inept.
Context:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8493849

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11011343
Javascript is kinda messy. So many things needed to get stuff working right. Uglyfy, browserify, babel.

Will there ever be an alternative language that can allow me to just: write, compile, run in browser?
Have they figured out a solution to the string/property access problem preventing us from passing all js through Closure compiler? (To those who aren't aware, Closure compiler is already an excellent compiler stack, but it requires you write a specific subset of javascript[1], so real-world js written without specifically targetting Closure are generally not compatible. Closure compiler is not currently useful to a javascript developer who depends on the npm ecosystem)

[1] e.g. write foo.bar instead of foo['bar'], so Closure compiler can do name mangling and dead code elimination.

edit since i currently sit at zero points: my point being that you can't dead-code eliminate your dependencies, which is the whole point of using closure compiler instead of whatever other toolchain.
For the millions of classes it needs due to the developers adding classes for every feature rather than adding it to pre-existing classes: http://quellish.tumblr.com/post/126712999812/how-on-earth-th...
I can be missing some of the finer differences between meteor and meteorite but would not the case from 1900 be comparable?

Ludvig Lundgren was killed by the impact of the Kvavisträsk-meteor on May 20 1900. This is probably the only documented case of a fatal injury connected with a meteor impact. The impact crater is still fully visible. Source: Liszka, L. (2008) Listening To Meteors. Infrasonic Observations of Meteors in Northern Sweden. Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Kiruna/Umeå. IRF Scientific Report 295, ISSN 0284-1703. 66p.
Why Finding Gravitational Waves Would Be Such a Big Deal
Went through the same process about 3 or 4 months ago. I was uninstalling from an android phone (so not exactly the same experience) but I was pleasantly surprised by how usable the mobile web app was. Also, how much happier I became when I wasn't killing time looking at inane "content".

If you're at all curious, try uninstalling Facebook from your phone and doing your best not to visit it on your computer for a a few days, maybe a week. It started out (embarassingly, still is) harder than I thought it would be, even though I don't maintain much of a profile on there – it's made me realize exactly how addicting that behavior can be. I do keep the messenger app on my phone so that I can stay in touch with my friends, but in my mind Facebook vs. Messenger are two totally separate products and experiences.
The abstract of this paper provides a good summary: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26504236
German crosswords use the same 26 letters. But the points of umlauts are not simply dropped, but have to be transcribed:

ä -> ae
ö -> oe
ü -> ue

So simply dropping the points shows a clear lack of knowledge of German.
Gravitational wave detection might be announced Feb. 11
Great quote on a different article covering the same story:
http://money.cnn.com/2016/02/08/technology/india-facebook-fr...

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Mahesh Murthy, a prominent Indian venture capitalist, last year described the program as "imperialism and the East India Company all over again," carried out under the guise of "digital equality."

"What Facebook wants is our less fortunate brothers and sisters should be able to poke each other and play Candy Crush, but not be able to look up a fact on Google, or learn something on Khan Academy or sell their produce on a commodity market or even search for a job," he said.
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Yes, but isn't that basically letting the fox guard the hen house? If you already don't trust Microsoft based on articles like this, depending on Microsoft's firewall is not really a logical choice.

For what it's worth, I have Windows 10 Home and Pro as well as Windows 7 on several machines, and according to my router Windows 10 is only slightly more talkative than 7. I think that is mostly the Windows Store and Cortana stuff. The dreaded telemetry from 10 has already been backported to 7 and 8/8.1, so it's better to say "Windows tracks you" rather than "Windows 10 tracks you".
> So why is it bad for companies to charge more to certain demographics?

Because that's poor allocation of resources and discriminatory (people are being treated differently for the same products). Paying more than the market value for a product means money is not being allocated elsewhere.
I wrote up a "let's get this straight" message earlier, may be that will appeal to you more: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10932166
Looking at my phone, a few make me wonder how we got here today.

Skype 149MB, Chrome 134MB, Sheets 122MB, Slides 115MB, Docs 101MB, Outlook 101MB, HSBC 73.97MB, Uber 60.98, Fitbit 79.77 ...

Skpye, HSBC, Uber & Fitbit all seem way larger than they should be

I've never knowingly used the Slides app.
Interesting transformation. I'm finalizing a documentary on long term expats here in Kunming, southwest China. One interviewee, when questioned about the city's future, confidently stated it - like Ljubljana - would be car free. I wish this were true, but find it hard to believe as most areas have very high, recently built skyscraper residential blocks with cavernous multi-level underground carparks. Residents will not take kindly to being told they can no longer own or freely use their shiny new cars!
Just outside Portland.

Generally, I sit in the right lane and cruise along. I don't sit in the passing lane, and I keep my distance from other cars (which is easy, because they're usually going faster than me). If I can, I sit 200 yards behind a tractor trailer and cruise at their speed. I'm in no hurry.

On residential roads, I give zero fucks about who's behind me. I'm going the speed limit, so they are too. They won't be paying my speeding ticket, so I couldn't care less.

I do know that this strategy can be unsafe, though - when I was in the Marine Corps, I had to drive into San Diego to pick up Marines from Balboa in a government van. It had a GPS that would go off if you went above the speed limit at any point, meaning that your command would get a nastygram if you went 2 miles an hour over the speed limit. I went 5 miles under the speed limit at all points, and it was hilariously unsafe. People were mad.

Yet again, though, they weren't going to pay the half salary and reduced rank that I would've gotten from getting busted down, and they definitely wouldn't have been doing restriction time with me. So fuck 'em.
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The Role:

To guide the development of the front end web application for Placeavote. To add new features, enhancements and functionality to the web interface. Be aware of trends in web technologies and apply them applicably where necessary to our product. To continually want to develop your own skills within the team and engineer a good dependable solution for a social platform focussed upon politics. To be able to work within a multinational team to deliver and understand the Placeavote application.

Requirements:

You are more than familiar with Angular. You should be comfortable with creating new directives, services, and controllers (and know when to use which one).
Be able to demonstrate/explain an understanding of the S.O.L.I.D. principles.
Give an explanation on the importance of testing and the benefits of having well tested code.
Have an understanding of TDD, Continuous Delivery and Continuous Integration.
Have experience with development tools, including but not limited to Gulp, Browserify, Git and Npm.
Be comfortable working in a team setting using Slack, Skype, and project management tools like Trello.
Be willing to learn and adapt to changing technologies to progress the project in the most suitable and beneficial way.
This is a remote position, and we’re looking ideally for someone within the EU timezone.
You have solid communication skills, both written and spoken and the ability to work closely in tandem with other developers.

Benefits:

A Macbook Pro (or equivalent) to do your work on from anywhere you choose in the world (preferably EU for the first 6 months).
A flexible policy on vacation time, just clear it with senior staff.
Join us on planned trips to Lisbon & California this year, stay for as little time or as long as you want.

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Ah OK, my bad. In the end, it all comes down to "Damn, the human body is a fantastic machine".
I assume your comment is sarcastic, because Javascript is obviously the only language which you can just write and immediately run.