skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Also, it adds up (no pun intended). You're right that add() vs. + for a simple case when you only do it a few times is no big deal. But it is a bigger deal when you do it a lot, and the arithmetic can be a little more complicated.

We could by analogy apply this argument to adding integers and floats together. It's more convenient to use the + operator for that, but someone could argue that an add() function is just a minor inconvenience, so why bother overloading the + operator?

That is until you have to use it hundreds of times.
Re: Columbus' voyage as a VC investment - it made me reread an old blog post and chuckle : http://www.mikadosoftware.com/articles/columbus
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+1

It's well known that folks who start a low-carb diet can expect to lose about 5lbs in water weight within the first week.
Don't be evil. Well that's been thrown out the window...
Considering iBeacons can be used for even more precise tracking (though restricted to areas where beacons are around) I very much hope they would.
Really, the only reason it's creepy is because it actualizes the difference between what a user thinks the location services know, and what they actually know. Your phone pretty much always knows roughly where you are, it usually just doesn't brag about it.
It's weird that the writer is suggesting it's mysterious why Google Play would even need access to GPS, when at least one reason is obvious from the example in the article itself: to prompt people to download certain apps when they enter various locations.
I was describing the problem as "turtles all the way down, except the turtles are eating all the errors, and the rabbits can't find them"
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Hyperlapse is included in this app!
LOL. That would be classic. Perfect security. :-)
1min here, 10min there, 5min over there and before you know it, that's a whole extra hour of browsing the internet every week!
You bought a phone with an OS developed by (and using services provided by) an Ad company. What did you expect.
Seems like it's time to host it on a DVCS service so the problem won't be so disruptive again.
The data is not even worth that much. Estimates are that it's less than $1 / user / month.

But Google does it anyway, because it costs them less than that to implement.

edit: For instance, Facebook says each user is worth about $0.73 / user / month. [1]

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jan/28/how-much-...
One example is when doing a dma operation to memory. That often bypasses the cache. If the new data is to 'stick' the cache needs to be convinced it doesn't know what's in that buffer any more. This is an ARM thing; Intel architectures integrate DMA with the cache.
I like how you try to growth hack the Growth Hacking Slack with referral viral engine to get in. Nice try.
> Not exactly sure why this is a Hacker News thing but...

Second only to "HN is becoming Reddit", or possibly "Go ahead and downvote me, but..." as the most boring comment to read on HN (I plead guilty to polluting the comments with the last one on more than one occasion).
This is great, original and desirable. I would like to see a meter maid App/Software As A Service for me to avoid parking tickets in my city too!
sql.query is a function that will receive two arrays, one is the strings part, the other is the injected values... the template processor takes those arrays and turns it into a parameterized query to the database.
None of the comparison images have been altered via Photoshop. All comparisons were shot simultaneously on a side-by-side rig, using a trigger that prompted the shutter press for both apps (Apple Camera and Microsoft Pix) at the same time, so conditions would be as equivalent as possible. See a photo of the rig in action here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/product/microsoftpi.... We did crop the edges of some photos to fit into the available space, but otherwise the images are the unaltered files that were produced by each app.
If you look at PARC and Bell Labs, the innovations from those teams didn't necessarily become ubiquitous while within those companies. They started there, but left before they found their market and adoption success. I get the feeling we may see that with Google's green field projects as well. Google R&D may identify important areas of the future but be unable to monetize and grow them in ways that make sense in the current business.

Otto (and Uber's acquisition of it) might end up being an example of that in the self-driving car side. Google incubates that vision, unable or unwilling to release it as the founders of Otto wanted; they leave and eventually find commercial success elsewhere.
Is whonix all about privacy or is it privacy and security? I'm going to read it but just wondering your take on that.
I wonder if there's a more sinister reason for this than simply, "we want more data for ads." It always freaks me out that Google asks me to review places where I eat, drink, and hang out.
Relevant:

https://www.reddit.com/r/blackberry/comments/3s26ym/priv_own...

Google Play Services probably does it so that all Android in-app ads can use the location as well through it.

I doubt this is very legal in the EU, as the user hasn't given "explicit consent" for this. It might be worth mentioning it to @vestager on Twitter, who's already been lining up official antitrust charges against Google.
$1 for a billion+ users? Long as it costs them less, should add up to nice sum per month.
As does google: https://developers.google.com/beacons/

My guess the prompt to install an app was a BTLE beacon.
Individually its not worth much. But the collection from everyone is worth a lot.
Same here. I love sweets (though I don't eat that much lately because you know, health reasons, I'm not 18 anymore - but from time to time I indulge) but it is not easy to find good ones in US (I wasn't born in the US). Practically all mass-produces ones are unbearable once you have shed the sugar addiction and the built tolerance (which I did, see above). Custom-produced are also hit or miss - many of them are terribly over-sugared to my taste. Finding a good dessert is not easy for me now, though in some places they still know how to do it tastefully. Hopefully as more people become aware of how careful one has to be with sugar, the situation improves.

I also used to drink a lot of soda in my 20s, but once I stopped and my taste recovered, I can't drink the stuff anymore - too sweet.
At least from a technical standpoint, yes, my phone knows - but it's not necessary that any google apps know or that the information is sent back to any kind of server.
The dismissive mention of "gender-studies rants" as canonically not fit for Hacker News disappoints, but does not surprise, me.
That's what limits on reimbursements are for...
LOL. Downvoted you.

I don't agree with you that thievery should be legal.
North americans are worth over 4 dollars a month according to that.
Doesn't brag about it is a bit mild of a way of putting it. I'd phrase it more as "specifically chooses not to educate users that capability is present because everyone in the industry knows it would scare the hell out of normal users."
Come on - evil? It's not like they're selling your location history to kidnapping gangs. It's just advertising - it helps keep the economy churning.
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When people ask me why I want my next phone to be an Ubuntu device, I point them at articles like these.
You became conditioned to the state of the system. You would save before known problematic operations; you would have comprehensive backups. You adapted to the misfeatures of the underlying software. It's not much different, from a UX perspective, than when I was learning Unix and "rm -rf . [A-Z]*" was infuriatingly chalked up as "a learning experience".
http://www.infowars.com/googles-deep-cia-and-nsa-connections...
An friend of mine had a similar thing, where desktop-box-turned-server essentially locked up after just over 24h of uptime. Solution: Outlet/timer-thing which cycled power around 2am when nobody were looking.

Similarly - there were some minor issues with the cooling for my compute cluster at my previous job, where it weren't really designed to function in climates which had temperatures that varied too much. Notably, it'd turn off the compressors on hot summer days and cold winter days. While waiting for the tech, tiny rocks found on the roof were used in conjunction with some tape to force the mechanical relays on while waiting for the techs.

http://www.pvv.ntnu.no/~kjetijor/images/tape_rocks.jpg
The Cardinal Richelieu quote's chilling. That's got to be one of the most evil sentences uttered by humans.
Sun shining through a window in London? Everything else in the story is believable, but... ;-)
While an official statement would be nice, I suspect at least one reason is right in the article:

"Security researcher Mustafa Al-Bassam reported on Twitter that he "almost had a heart attack" when he walked into a McDonald's and was prompted on his phone to download the fast food restaurant's app."

Google makes most of its money selling your attention to marketers. This could easily be used to tailor ads.

Within 100 yards of Barnes and Noble? "Ding! Get 10% off your purchase when you present this QR code!"
For the record, this is what the guidelines say:

"On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."

So while most mundane political stories (ie, the election cycle, politician gaffs, etc.) are pretty clearly off-topic, there are some stories with political, social and economic ramifications that I'd count as being highly on-topic, such as stories relating to universal basic income. As evidence, I'd submit the fact that YCombinator itself is sponsoring research into basic income.

More to the point for this particular post, the topic of translation, both human and machine, is intellectually gratifying to many hackers, including ones as illustrious as Douglas Hofstadter. Are you prepared to argue otherwise?
No it won't. Xwayland does not use SIGIO or threads for input, it gets its input events directly from the poll loop of the Wayland socket.
That's what I'd call a good abstraction. You can write in c, debug in c and very rarely (if ever) be forced to know what the lower layers are doing.

All these javascript and css transpilers however, they force you to know the higher level, the lower level and many of the intricacies of how one translates to the other.
That's been true for as long as there's been cellular to some extent. It's not hard to triangulate with multiple towers.
4 dollars per 3 months:

> If you happen to live in Europe, including the UK, you’re only worth one-third of a North American to Facebook, at $4.50 every three months, while the “rest of the world”, which includes most developing nations are only worth $1.22 per user.

That's about $1.50 / user / month... which is higher than I thought. brb, going to start social network
Thank you. I'm no troll looking for an argument as that's a strong case you make. I figured those who responded would be those who know something about this topic. I appreciate it.
My defunct extension did exactly that. So, yes, chrome extension can access history.
I've probably seen like 40 "boil water with sunlight" inventions over the last decade, each of which is claiming to revolutionize the lifestyle of poor Africans. ...Which is great, I guess, but nobody with money is buying them. And the fact that I've seen so many of these tells me more that people are really trying to sell something to me: the idea that I can feel good about myself by donating money to Joe Rando USA with a pot and some bubble wrap.
Re < C, Google's project to make renewable electricity cheaper than coal was abandoned.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/williampentland/2014/11/30/why-g...
There is a lot of overlap with macbook, macbook air and ipad pro. I don't see macbook pro's going anywhere.
I'm mystified by how many comments in this thread are of this form, unable to imagine that technology in the future might differ from what we currently employ.

We are in the middle of a project, right now, to make natural gas and coal obsolete. This shouldn't even require any imagination to conceive. Yet, still, you chastise me for doing so?

Recall, we're imagining the future, not regurgitating the present.
windows!

same thing with XPS support in printers.

most windows xps printer drivers just convert the xps into the printers native language. And maxing out one core for the exe that initiated the printing.
This can be done entirely client side.
Now, I'm treated to piece of "help thousands with your photo!" bullshit every time I take a picture.

Fuck you google
I really want to know how to be better in noticing the problem. I do get annoy by some regular task, however I will easily adapt to it and lost the incentive for solving the problem.
Is this a big deal? I almost always turn GPS off anyway. I turn GPS on when I am travelling, and very occasionally for a minute if I use Google Map. GPS runs the battery down. Is GPS something most users leave turned on?

I thought the article would be about tracking via wifi use, which they probably do.
And to add insult to injury, even the Noodle shop can stumble with your data: http://www.scmagazine.com/class-action-lawsuit-filed-against...
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When you say you don't eat sugar, what does that mean? Do you eat fruit? Bread? Things that metabolize to sugar -- potatoes, squash, tomatoes, grapes, watermelon, barbecue sauce etc. Do you ever indulge in chocolate cake? What about wine or beer?

I just find the term "sugar" to be extremely vague when 50% of foods metabolize to sugar...
Do you have any data to back that up? Because automobile sales in the US are at near all-time highs.
Wifi gives pretty good location data, and most Mcdonalds provide wifi.

By default, Android 5 lollipop constantly scans wifi (draining battery), and the toggle-off is hidden in some menus.
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This whole article is just a plug for the author's open source software business.

Downvoted for being another shameless profit-grab from the front pages of HN.

Embarrassing.
The code is now being hosted at http://www.simplesystems.org/libtiff/ with a mirror site at http://libtiff.maptools.org/ .
Most likely pop. If you eat out a lot, cheap restaurants will shame you into buying huge unhealthy drinks, unless you want to drink water from a tiny dixie cup.

It's pretty easy to get a lot of sugar in your entre if you eat at Chili's or Panda Express or anywhere else that uses excessive BBQ sauce.

And then there's the fact that Snickers would like you to think it will satisfy your hunger. At least it has peanuts in it...
So that is basically an end run around blocking location services on an individual app basis?
There are more credible sources on this kind of thing. It would be better to link to one of those instead of to Alex Jones' fear porn for profit rag.

If anything, sites like his help bury information like this by associating it with crackpot trash.
A bubble's not good no. I think my obliviousness to this issue was a sort of bubble.
Tangent: "When designing a security system, regardless of purpose or protocol, you need to think of authentication and authorization separately. Authentication securely verifies that the client is who it claims to be, but does not grant any permissions. After the successful authentication, authorization decides whether or not the client can perform a specific action."

These two operations are often abbreviated "authn" (for autheNtication) and "authz" (for authoriZation) in security frameworks.
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My friend, San Francisco photographer Adrian Mendoza[1], keeps a couple PowerMacs around to run graphics software that never made the OS X transition[2]. It's interesting that certain kinds of art production[3] is becoming harder and harder because the tools are obsolete.

[1] https://www.flickr.com/photos/amenfoto/

[2] Predominantly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kai%27s_Power_Tools

[3] https://twitter.com/Amenfoto/status/765045151852924928
+ A framework to make the web app framework more suitable for API development (eg Django Rest Framework)
Thanks for the tip - TreeStyleTab is great!
Why take it offline?
GPS is always on. "Off" is just slower updates to conserve power.
Yes, evil. It also keeps some folks' stomachs churning.

There is a certain segment of society who knows exactly what's being done with this massive surveillance network. That segment generally does not contain the people who are under surveillance. The fact that Google knows it has to be coy about it knows that it's unsavory. And exactly what assurances do we have that Google is properly vetting access to this information, given their complete lack of customer service and their historical inability to properly run adsense, their core business?
As an employer I would be negatively surprised if a candidate for FE never heard of react, angular, etc. But I also see a red flag of the candidate were to assure me to be knowing all of them bottom up. That would mean a lot of toy projects and unstable personality, if not plain lies. I'd be looking for someone able to work for some years on a code base, grasp its stack, improve the overall structure, quickly find and fix bugs in a sustainable way, etc.
The sinister reason for this is that Google wants better data about places (so the service is more useful, so more people use it, so more ads are served, and so on).
Maybe not directly. But I am quite sure the worlds' mafias have access to LexisNexis, or Facebook...

In fact isn't the first thing ISIS does with kidnappees is pull up their LinkedIn account, so they can see who they just kidnapped and who they can ransom?

This data should never be collected. At all. Screw advertisers.
Perfect example. Ruined the guy's life.
The project I'm working on has evolved over the years into something I can no longer feasibly accomplish alone. I truly believe the idea is solid, but that's worthless without being able to go from zero to one.

The best I can do is hack together tiny glimpses of the final vision. As a solo founder with no track record, pitching a concept for a product that has high funding requirements with no hope of revenue until late-stage is virtually impossible.

Years ago I reasoned the only way I'd get off the ground is to launch something and get organic traction. Despite my best efforts to delude myself into believing the contrary, that seems to have proven correct.

If anything, thinking too big for your own good is tantamount to a mental prison of sorts. You just become obsessed with an idea that has a significantly lower chance of being realized. Hence why your snowball advice is on point. :)
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I'd seriously wonder if the infrastructure to support putting that into drivers, deployments, testing of different versions, etc exceeds all the RAM savings cost at this point.
GPS is nice to add exif info to photos. Also, who wants to turn GPS on and off, every time you're using maps?
Does leaving GPS on in location services, but not using an app that requests my location in its permissions drain the battery?
I don't know about you but I don't hit the reserve until I'm actually slightly past E.
I'm not sure if it's nodejs or the various npm packages are to blame, but a problem with the ecosystem node lives in is a node problem.
From the readme

"pageAccelerator is a very light version of turbolinks and pjax (our minify file has 2.2KB!)"
Don't forget sushi! It's named after the sour taste of sugar-seasoned vinegar.

Sodas use other types of acid in vinegar's place.
Recording studios with Harrison Series 12s are still stuck on very old 030s for their automation...
Well, it can be quite entertaining to show the Google Location History page to people who never heard of it before...
> That's got to be one of the most evil sentences uttered by humans.

Its a fairly matter-of-fact description of the state of law at the time. (Note that that statement itself -- though Richelieu himself was in a privileged enough position to have no concern -- could easily have been an example of the effect it described, as it suggested both that the King's law was evil in condemning the honest, and that the King's law was capriciously enforced, either of which could be lèse-majesté.)
It's painful enough using XCode with a Macbook Pro.
lemme just slap a ball point pen into the printer, use that things ink. ill buy that printer. ill pay top dollar for that.
Please don't post stuff like this on HN. You are a shameful, self-obsessed liar. The world needs fewer people like you.
Yeah. It's still on CVS. May as well throw it up on GitHub like every other open source project. That doesn't have to be its only home on the web, but at least it would always be available there. The main open source project I work on (Pywikibot) isn't primarily hosted on GitHub, but it is mirrored there.
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Two confirmation dialogs (one from the app and one from iOS) for deleting an image seems kind of overkill. Can you make it just one?
This is a nerd community. The word "evil" was watered down to meaninglessness in this context decades ago.
No one is arguing that the code should be secret and unavailable to certain people. The only debate is how the creation of these sorts of things should be funded. Should they be funded out of the general tax base, or should they be funded by access fees for the people that use them the most?

The latter doesn't seem like a horrible model to me. It's not unlike how road construction is largely funded by a gas tax.
For me I struggle with why, like science spending, there is not more, a lot more, VC funding. It's hardly like there are too few people hanging out shingles.

YC was trying to change the game but I may be missing where the VC industry is throwing money out the windows - except possibly I one small part of a city on the west coast. Or am I looking in the wrong place. The article claims 28bn in new funds, but 3 trillion in hedge funds and world GDP is what 13 trillion? That's about 0.2%. Seems low
Me. It's like two clicks. It used to be one when I kept a widget for that purpose on my home screen. I also turn off bluetooth and wifi if I'm not using them.
Your phone knows your location, of course, but doesn't have to communicate your location to a third party.
This short paper should be of interest to many for the simple fact that it describes what is not uncommon today, but was written 20 years ago when it was quite uncommon.
Cached credentials only save the day if the cache has been populated. Engineers should be logging in infrequently enough that cache is rarely populated.
because @libtiff is already taken on Github, I think libtiff.gitlab.io is okay enough
My phone aside, none of my sound sources or speakers take either Lighting or USB-C. I would be in wired dongle hell either way. But all of my devices take bluetooth and I already use it for everything but my headphones...
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I do. I thought everyone did.
I wrote an extension that did this as well. I used indexedDb. Before I implemented encryption on the DB, it scaled well. I had an algorithm that got the size of the largest pages down to ~2-3kb and I only stored diffs on subsequent visits to the same pages.

After encryption, things got unruly because the text had to be stored in fixed length chunks.
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