skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm posting my comment I made for the original article.

There should be a law stating that a service like Facebook which thrives on public data, should expose all of their data once they reach a critical mass like 10 Million people. Exposing may or may not be without people's consent, but getting the consent of users should not be a problem. This will make sure that a competitor or alternate entity can bootstrap their service with this data. You don't need to stay in facebook to stay in touch with your family. You can stay in your own service and you still will be able to communicate with people on facebook and similar other services.

This will give a level playing field and stop having monopolies of corporations which thrive on user behavioral data.

This idea was suggested by someone in a different form in a similar discussion here in HN, and I think it is terrific and it will solve most of the problems.

It is not even necessary to have the law act when reaching a 10M critical mass. If some service calls itself a social network or related service, then they are bound to submit the data collected by them which is owned by the content user and not the service. Sure, they can operate by declaring themselves not as an social service, but by the time people realizes then there should be a penalty and immediate surrendering of past collected data.

There are few concerns though IF this comes to fruition.

Security:

Right Now, all the FB related stuff are secured by some of the bright minds hired by Facebook. They have the financial muscle to protect the data they collect, even though that money might have flowed some unscrupulous advertising and tracking stuffs.
If all the user behavioural data ends up in a central entity/repository, then there should be some neutral agency like UN handling all this data. But on the other hand, hiring highly technical people to safeguard this public information might not be possible financially and logistically. For example, Facebook has its own personal interests to secure the user related data. A common entity might not do as efficiently as it should, and even a small leak will lead to catatostrophic results with all the user information across different services laid bare.

Accessibility:

If all the user information shared across the internet ends up in a single place, then ownership and accessiblity of that data should be more refined and robust. I should have the ability to choose to whom I can share all that information irrespective of where I posted the content. People should be able to grant access to all of their data to be used by people like Facebook, even though the content was originally posted in facebook.

Of course, there is Facebook in between if we have to realize anything remotely like this.
Yes, so often we're simply told that this character is the most brilliant person ever... but then they miss obvious things and simply jump to impossible conclusions or whatever.

Writing characters that are actually intelligent is really, really hard and I tend to remember the few characters that seem honestly clever that I really tend to remember those. I still remember my jaw dropping when L first told Kira he was coming after him in Death Note because of the clever way that was executed. Not to mention how both of those characters exhibited a very different sort of intelligence and you could follow their reasoning process most of the time.
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Yikes that is even worse. Hand counts have been shown to be off by 1-2%.
Nope - it is a fee for money that travels between PayPal users in different countries. It's about 1% for Canadian accounts, depending on the payment's source or destination [1].

[1] https://www.paypal.com/ca/webapps/mpp/merchant-fees
No Credit History? No Problem. Lenders Now Peering at Phone Data
>we need to solidify that freedom of privacy, rather than continue to consider it a privilege.

When I posted that, I actually saw it the other way around: privacy as a principle, and riches as privilege.

>I also think that we should allow the government some amount of freedom to protect us

I agree. I'm lean a little bit libertarian, but even a staunch libertarian holds this belief. Actually that's kind of the point, that government's main purpose is to protect the people and enforce the rule of law. There's some argument right now that government in America is not upholding that obligation (for example, laws are applied unequally depending on race and income, police overstepping their authority and police brutality, etc.).
> how do you get people to accept the existence of basic income without perceiving the beneficiaries as moochers.

Land value tax and Pigovian taxes. UBI would then be compensation for allowing others to monopolize our society's collective resources (eg. land). Every citizen is a shareholder, and UBI is a dividend.
It was the exploding suppository that finally did him in.
So, you're going to delete yourself from the internet by providing an unknown company with your sensitive details, including your login to the most privacy-invasive company in the world?

Tell me how this cannot possibly go wrong. Go on, I'm listening.
Money interacts with rent, starts unfairly allocated, and largely maintains is imbalanced allocation due to how it discourages helping those with little in favor of those with plenty. The evidence is in social mobility rates.

An allocated credit (for example), that could only be transferred once before going into artificial sinks, would function very differently, and encourage activities that help a much broader population.
Word of mouth has served me well, but you absolutely have to get your hands on a laptop you're eyeing, if only to test things like overall feel, keyboard, etc. No matter how much you read up on a machine, it doesn't compare to getting a feel in the flesh :)

Otherwise there are innumerable reputable sources for info on the internet -- wirecutter, HN, MobileTechReview just to name a few. Good luck!
Yes, you are right on this one. I actually wanted my pone itself to be rooted. But then again, I'd be demanding too much.

Also I want the mobile OSes to be root friendly, I know it goes against their corporate goals. Cyanogenmod is also as good as dead now.
The Boing Boing article basically quotes this Reuters article, so I think the Reuters one should be the one linked as it is the source and is more in-depth:

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-wellsfargo-accounts-lawsui...
There is an obvious legal gap at work here and it isnt just wells fargo exploiting it.

Once a business has your info on file they can effectively open additional accounts or services for you at will. It can be difficult to seek any sort of remedy because it would be hard to prove damages except in extreme cases.
This would be a disaster for me. Whenever my wife and I are traveling in the US she is the driver and I am the navigator. My phone will be connected and I have to "translate"/enhance Waze directions for her and take care of the music. So none of that would be possible anymore. Would be the same BS as some cars that won't allow me to pair my phone while my wife is driving. I guess we would just have to use the phone speakers then.
> Imagine if we had to pay for Windows [...] to run our containers

https://aws.amazon.com/windows/resources/licensing/
> According to Snopes, the story is False.

But according to the content page, Snopes does't know. It's probably or most likely false but CNN and RCN are still investigating, so we don't know for certain.

But just as some news are keen to run with any rumour as news, Snopes seems keen to mark rumours as False as quickly as possible for the same reason; put content online that gets clicks.
excellent video explanation!!!
I've been trying for a while to try to download this video... can't seem to grab the raw video file. Anyone have any ideas?
Random brainstorm: Disable every phone in motion, the only way to enable it is to pair with the car. If everyone has to register with a single database and car manufactures have control over it then the car can detect if the person paired with Bluetooth is allowed to be on their phone or not. This wouldn't work if driver wanted the passenger to use their phone. Just thinking out loud, seeing as this is a idea I don't like
Castro's death changes nothing, he has been away from leading Cuba and decision making for about 8 years. The current president (his own brother) has his very same ideals
it could have been last week
Steve Jobs killed Apple (Lisa, Macintosh, Apple2) and NEXT with the death marches; yet he is renowned because he did it better the last time.
Fidel should have made it to the Guinness World Records, he survived more assassination attempts than we can count. I don't think there had been another man that had stood up to an empire for so long and had live to tell the story.
Only if it goes both ways. The ability to purchase in-game currency with fiat currency actually makes inflation worse by introducing even more money to the in-game economy. Most games currently do not allow in-game currency to be "legally" converted back to real world money directly. Their solution is the ability to convert large amount of in-game currency to meaningful metagame items. In Eve, you can use in-game currency to pay for your subscription. In GW2, you can use in-game currency to pay for "gems", which are used for microtransactions such as server transfers, rare skins, additional bank storage, etc. These gold sinks serve as an important valve to control inflation of the economy by permanently removing that currency from the game.
I have a hardware/software checklist that I won't compromise on. I have a more complete list at home, but off the top of my head:

* No adaptive brightness on displays (or at least the ability to disable this abomination)

* Only Atheros/Intel communications chips

* Ability to completely disable Secure Boot, or any other UEFI/BIOS bullshit

* Standard keyboard layout without any custom/missing keys
It's not terrible. It is an important factor when considering the pool of devs that know said technology. It's the reason why I've chosen PHP for some projects in spite of my abject hatred for it (for purely aesthetic reasons mind you.)...lots of devs are very familiar with C-like languages.
No, more people means more employees and customers.
This feels like one more end of an era. Though I wonder if the opening of relations between the US and Cuba might have been the end of that era.

In any case, Fidel lived long enough to see the American overreaction through most of it's shelf life.
> How can you be bound by things you never agreed to?

Wells Fargo didn't open accounts for random people; they opened accounts for their customers. Who agreed to resolve future disputes via binding arbitration. And one of those future disputes is over the fake accounts Wells Fargo opened later.

Whatever you think of arbitration agreements, it would make no sense to have one which terminated the moment you have a dispute.
... and nothing of value was lost.

http://www.paulbogdanor.com/left/cuba/dictatorship.html

The man was an evil murderous dictator, and the world - and his subjects - are better off without him.
same ideals, and close to the same age.
Fidel Castro Dies at 90
Are you kidding? 10 minutes @ $260 K / minute would pay for everyone's salary in that room.
Is there anyway way that castro could have done his revolution that wasn't opposed to the us? suppose you lived in a country that was ruled by a dictator that was supported by foreign powers, and you wanted to end that dictatorship so the people got freedom? that part seems okay. castro was a communist, that was unforgivable. but think about how the us treated chile and pinochet and other south american leaders. Like most revolutions, there were good and bad things. I don't know enough about castro and cuba to draw conclusions. after he took power, did he become a new dictator himself? what did he do more than be a communist leader?
A book celebrating the advance of civilization is only sold in a physical format :( ?

Or maybe it's coming later, or I am being punished for living in Japan.
Not all software engineers make that kind of cash. In fact I'd say over 90% don't even come within 10% of that range.
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That's not a big change. Don't you already reach way down below the windows so other drivers and police can't see you are using your phone?
I guess death by old age is definitely an "unnatural" death for a dictator.

When he was very old but still in power, I always wondered if he would just suddenly die one day and his country would descend into chaos. At least that has not happened, what, if you like or dislike him, you should probably still credit him. I hope Cuba will develop into a freer society over time.
Excerpt from the article on CNN (probably edited by the time you read this): http://edition.cnn.com/2016/11/26/americas/fidel-castro-obit...

"One Castro or another has ruled Cuba over a period that spans seven decades and 11 U.S. presidents. Fidel Castro outlived six of those presidents,[[[NOTE: change to seven if George H.W. Bush dies before Castro]]] including Cold War warriors John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan."
First, no, contracts do not generally become void just because one party committed a crime.

Not that it really matters because, second:

>when the bank willfully and egregiously commits criminal acts

Wells Fargo has not been found guilty of committing criminals acts at all, much less willfully and egregiously. There are some ongoing criminal investigations, and they were hit by some civil penalties. But there have been no criminal convictions.
I'm not going to be on call for other's people's garbage they call a production system.
Finally , that As was a tyrant and son of the devil, I'm happy he is gone forever
It never made sense to me that "contribution to society" would be measured by money earned; it functions more as if your vote was proportional to the money you had in your bank account (and of course, the rich vote to get more rich). It ends up being some kind of distorted limit instead of actually reflecting anything resembling the real will of society.
Why do you think `reduce` was moved to functools?

As far as I know, it was simply because few people used it correctly and Guido thought it would help to tuck it out of the way in a module. That doesn't feel like a massive chasm to me. Most of the 2/3 moves and renames were cosmetic.
https://archive.fo/BzXdt and https://web.archive.org/web/20161126060559/http://edition.cn... for when they edit it out.
Not that I'm a Trump supporter by a long shot, but I really hope that Castro heard the news that Trump had been elected before he popped his clogs.
Fascinating. Thank you for your detailed response as well!

Indeed, this interested me so much that I just spent the last hour reading up and learning about the comorbidity of TS, OCD, and ADHD. (I have the latter two.) Funny because ADHD doesn't seem related in the way TS and OCD do. I hate to admit, but I was rather ignorant and assumed TS tics were involuntary until your post.

> Same thing with my work - if I am in vim writing code, I can go hours without tics.

Interesting. For me, doing the things I love the most, like coding, are when my OCD is the most intrusive. That wasn't always the case. It was on 24/7 from around 16-22 years of age. But these days, triggers tend to only produce unwanted anger (misophonia) rather than obsessions or compulsions. I ... don't know if that's an improvement or not :/

OCD is an intensely adaptive disorder. Like playing whack-a-mole. Everything about it is constantly changing.

> This can end up deriving similarly intense levels of anger, frustration, and sometimes even physical outbursts (punching the wall, biting my fists) if allowed to go on long enough.

Hmm ... mine mostly just stays in as a non-stop obsession that can last days, weeks, months ... I eventually managed to cope a bit on my side by just telling myself, "if I obsess over this new thing, then I won't be obsessing over that last thing anymore. Either way, there'll be something to obsess over." WAY easier said than done, and I'm close to 20 years into my fight, but yeah.

I certainly get angry, depressed, humiliated, feel helpless, etc whenever I lose to this condition. Have done things in the past like punch myself in the head in frustration, angry at my brain for being so damaged. Which obviously doesn't help at all :P

...

Anyway, thanks for sharing, and for educating me more on TS. I don't mean to sound like I'm throwing out empty platitudes, but I do genuinely hope things will improve for you in the future. Anxiety is hell =(
This is more than just a dispute. This is criminal activity and fraud.

Consumer Financial Services Agreements: As of May 5th, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has proposed a rule that would prohibit mandatory arbitration clauses in financial services agreements that limit access to class action lawsuits. Once formalized, this rule would apply to all contracts, including those already signed. Although such a rule would not necessarily prohibit mandatory arbitration for single-plaintiff claims, arbitration clauses that do not specifically exclude class action lawsuits from their reach may be invalid regardless.[1]

Consumer Contracts: Although generally upheld, mandatory arbitration clauses in consumer contracts are non-binding when there is evidence of fraud. The Theranos lawsuits have recently brought this reality back to the attention of corporate lawyers. Because Theranos and Walgreens face accusations of widespread fraud, otherwise enforceable arbitration clauses are thrown out, allowing for class-action claims regardless. It’s important to note that these cases demonstrate that the fraud must merely be investigated, not conclusively proven, for the courts to now invalidate arbitration clauses.[1]

I think it's safe to say that fraud in this case has been conclusively proven.

[1]: https://www.priorilegal.com/blog/the-limits-of-mandatory-arb...
State elections do go to automatic recount in 20 states - http://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/automat...
Currently #1 on front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13041886
Criminal charges proceed separately from the civil case which this article is talking about.
As an African, I'd say the world has lost one of the most influential leaders of the past century.

To pretend here, for me, as if he was cruel to our continent would be both ungrateful and untrue. The man offered free training and medical school for most of our African doctors, he harbored, trained and armed many a guerilla group in our pursuit of independence from colonization. Up until today, Cuba still sends significant numbers of doctors to remote African areas and provide expensive medical procedures for free.

The truth is, if as a continent we are to point at individual world leaders who did the most for African nations, Fidel Castro is very high up that list, if not at the top.

He had his fights and ills, but not with us.

With that, rest in peace Fidel Castro. Your legend lives on.
He has certainly led one of the most exciting lives of our times...

And despite his flaws (and/or crimes against humanity) I can't help but wonder how Cuba would have faired under different leadership. Looking at the next-island neighbors in Haiti, or any number of comparable African countries, it seems the Cubans got the better deal. Just one example: life expectancy is 15 years higher than Haiti, and actually even a bit higher than in the US.

Organizing the necessities for life on this island, with a superpower fixated on killing you (and ruining you economy) next door, and keeping it peaceful for 50 years must be some sort of high score.

I know there'll be many Americans dancing on his grave (once the Trump International Hotel Havanna has opened). They may not even be wrong in an absolute sense. But there have been dozens of leaders in South America, Africa and Asia in the last 50 years much worse than Castro who don't seem to trigger the reflexes of righteousness. Actual mass-murdering sadists like Manuel Noriega, throwing living people into the ocean, from airplanes paid for by the CIA.

Let's hope for a bright future for Cuba – I met many people there who felt paralyzed by the stagnation, the constant scarcity. The beginning of the end of the embargo may turn out to be one of the most significant legacies of President Obama.
I don't think this article adds anything to the discussion. It repeats Halderman's earlier point.

the important point is that all elections should be audited, and not only if you have statistics suggesting that something might be fishy.

And repeats other conclusions which say that there are no signs of something fishy in the currently available data, at least based on initial statistical analyses.
He was also an evil dictator who silenced any and all opposition. And you can't argue that his political philosophy works either---just look at Cuba today.
If standing up to an empire means subjecting your country to half a century's worth of squalor and poverty, then...yeah, he really showed us what's what.
This is frankly worrying, as I suspect authorties are underestimating the complexity of an issue, or just chose to ignore it, mostly for populist motives.

It seems to me that food nowadays is ridiculously cheap, and I'm pretty sure everyone would agree this is a good thing. Now, I'm no expert but the only way I can explain it, is that we produce a lot of food, so much that we can't sell it all.

People who work in food distribution are pretty smart, and they must have good reasons to destroy food before throwing it away (bleach is not free after all).

As often, I fear this measure is an other attempt from a government to fiddle with an industry it does not understand.

And again, this strikes me as populist. Because frankly, in France poor people don't starve.
initramfs isn't (and wasn't) at all about keeping your boot files below the 2gb mark on a disk. It's about actually mounting your root filesystem, either on a fully-modularized kernel where all of your (hundreds of) block drivers are in modules, or where root is coming over a network block device, or a USB disk, or a SAN, or a complex RAID, or an encrypted disk where you need to enter a password or use a hardware token or whatever.

Basically, rather than encoding tons and tons of crazy special-purpose logic into the kernel to mount every insane iteration of root filesystem, you just get the bootloader to stick a CPIO image in RAM for the kernel to get at and then use the normal userland tools to do what you want.

IMHO, initramfs is the opposite of an ugly hack.
Not sure why this is being downvoted, it adds to the conversation, there is merit to the viewpoint that you can be both terrible to your own people while being generous to the people of other countries. I might not have liked the man but the reasoning behind his interventions in Africa were just as sound as the US interventions.
Whether the market is easy to jump into doesn't matter. Ecommerce is easy to jump into, but you don't see anyone threatening Amazon's position, right? It's all about your ability to execute competitively. Also, payments in particular is a regulation-heavy industry and PCI compliance is a headache all on its own.
UPDATE: if some traveler stumble upon this thread

As super cool alternative to Jira see ClubHouse [1]

[1] https://clubhouse.io/
Well personally I'm near obsessed with truffles and for me it's all about the taste. It's such a unique and complex taste and I think that's the real product.
I might not agree with his methods but he did seem like a leader that legitimately cared about Cubas citizens.
It may more or less boil down to lots of movies and television shows being set in New York.
The Cuban Revolution lives on. Rest in power, comrade Fidel.
It's already been that way since safety belts became mandatory - the number of organs for available for transplant plummeted.
i dont see why you would not want to be an organ donor, body is just a rental anyway?
I feel very very bad that I signed up for this now