skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> At some point even low-end smartphones will be "good enough" for the vast majority of users

I think we are more or less already there, maybe not the lowest of all ends but buying high end already feels like buying that more shiny expensive car with more horsepower which is hardly more useful because you are unable to leverage it.
If only there were any technology available to you, a software developer, that could render that text in a different color. Alas, your genuine desire to read it must go unfulfilled.
How do they afford it?!
A security breach allows to use the victim's resources: from CPU and bandwidth to money directly on your bank account.

A privacy breach allows... what? Where's a direct threat?

A privacy breach can be a first step to a security breach, though. Social engineering is all about it. Social networks can be, too.
Oh wow, thanks. I feel like Apple is a step behind in pretty much all things AI.
Rich versus King: Strategic Choice and the Entrepreneur
Google does have a profit motive to open sourcing things though: keeping positive developer mindshare.
This app uses artificial intelligence to turn design mockups into source code
The biggest point you missed is that I am talking about non traditional schooling. Of course things are easier when you previously learned them. You're also missing that I'm talking about encouraging what someone already wants to learn. I didn't learn computer science until I was 24, but now I'm employed as a software engineer. I only needed my own internal motivation to study. There's no reason you couldn't be a mathematician later in life without previously having studied mathematics. It's just an excuse to think you couldn't do it without having been forced to earlier.
A YEAR OF GOOGLE and APPLE MAPS
Very glad I took a pass on interviewing and working with Tilt, shame they couldn't keep it together.
Ask HN: How Is the Startup Tech Scene in Nova Scotia?
I'm immigrating to Nova Scotia (Halifax) in July this year under Provincial Nominee Program and doing some scouting. I have reached out to a few engineers living and working there through my network and they have been very helpful in general but could not provide much info on startups (they are consultants and/or working on enterprises).

I am trying to find:

1. What are some startups in Nova Scotia that are doing interesting work? (I've found out about GoInstant, later acquired by Salesforce. Any other such success stories?)

2. What are the tech events (meet ups, conferences or un-conferences) that take place on a regular/semi-regular basis?

3. Any advice on how to network with people working in startups?

Or, any general information that you believe to be helpful, I'll appreciate it!

My background: I'm an engineer with 7+ years of experience, have been working with an NYC-based marketing startup for the most part of my career[0].

Thank you HN.

[0] My LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rubayeet/
"Why does new technology always come with people hoping it fails just because they personally don't want to use it?"

From the parent's parent:
"Second - [snip] We'll also eliminate one of the biggest sources of employment in our society."

From [1]: "The trucking industry is the lifeblood of the U.S. economy. [snip] To move 10.5 billion tons of freight annually requires over 3.4 million heavy-duty Class 8 trucks and over _3.5_million_truck_drivers_."
(This is the American Trucking Industry's website so they may be biased; I've heard numbers similar to this cited elsewhere)

The parent parent poster can very well decide not to use it (and clear they're going to do just that). Despite that individual's choices the technology can still change the world substantially. It's reasonable to fear the effects of reducing and/or eliminating employment options for millions of people.

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1:http://www.trucking.org/News_and_Information_Reports_Industr...
You mean "punished"?
Whether Orwell or Tolstoy is right about Shakespeare's genius, it's impossible to reliably quantify, or even qualify, genius outside of contributions to the hard sciences.

Orwell himself actually talked about this in Politics and the English Language. He discussed the debate about that lasted unnecessarily long about the nautical screw, showing how even a relatively easily provable concept can be difficult to prove.
I would love if someone made a Chrome extension that encrypted all the posts and messages you put on Facebook. That is, any post you made would be made as a ciphertext, the extension would swap keys with all your friends in the background, and would decrypt their posts when displaying them to you.

Sure Marky Mark still sees when you post, who you send messages to, etc. but it's a much better situation than what's going on now. Plus it would probably put a dent in their bottom line, and so send them the message that privacy matters to people.
Having seen what they can do with it and the speed with which they can do it, you are wrong. It's neither useless nor vaporware.
I must admit that my first thought was corpse-looting. Also a lifetime supply of free food.
> You also assume that every kid will be interested in everything, if only the teacher and environment did everything perfectly. Neither is true.

No, I'm saying that the teacher/school environment is contaminated and we don't need it. It's imperfect, so let's get rid of it. It can't be made perfect.

I'm saying that everyone has something they are naturally interested in. Even if that's just being on Facebook. Eventually you'll learn to read if you want to browse Facebook.

> It is possible to learn things you are not particularly excited about. It is also possible to become later on interested in something you was not excited about initially.

Yes, that's true. But it doesn't mean that's the only way.

> I prefer teachers who can make kids interested in math itself and physics itself and history itself and writing itself even if it is not immediately useful.

Uhm, why? There's no real reason.

> But starting with assumption that it is not possible for them so lets not even try sound like definition of low expectations.

I didn't say it's not possible. I said it doesn't work well. There are countless examples of being taught something we don't like and yet we're good at it.

Yes, you're grateful for being encouraged to learn English in school, but you could have just as well learned it through your own motivation.
What is your basis for this? Am curious.
Are you presuming they won't drop a robot in the self-driving car to bring you your food?
How to Earn Money Fast as a 13-Year-Old
Exploit code from original bug report [1]:

CreateFileW(L”c:\\$mft\\<anything>”, FILE_READ_ATTRIBUTES, 0, NULL, OPEN_EXISTING, 0, NULL);

[1] https://habrahabr.ru/company/aladdinrd/blog/329166/
I can see how it could be easily misinterpreted, but I think if you read what I said, I was pointing my finger at Microsoft the company.

But then again, if we refer back to the original article and assume the author is being mostly honest (I believe he is), then are employees working in support who disingenuously transfer people around to "more appropriate" support personnel in a system designed (by management, yes) to get people to give up beyond any criticism, because "it's just their job"? I think that's a valid question.

Point taken I am excessively rude, but good god how will anything get better with quasi-monopolies? My intent, to be honest, is to invoke a feeling of shame to employees who watch this happening and do nothing. I think there's even a famous saying to that effect.
> I can't claim it's wrong because I'm not a good ethicist.

Even the best ethics expert in the world would just be one who knows how to describe a bunch of ethical systems and ideas that exist currently and historically. Other than that, they can help you exactly zilch with such decisions. I'm not a psychologist, but I'll claim if it makes you feel upset and disgusted, that means you did decide you consider it wrong. And if it helps, I agree.

As for how to change things, well, ask the EFF for example? There's things you can do which, apart from being a real help, also help you with the dread of this free floating vague blob of worries that you sometimes look at but as you said feel you can't do anything about.

One thing you can always do, is that not giving in. It just takes one person to prove the claim that everybody accepts or wants X wrong. When being that person seems scary, personally, when looking around, I'm not convinced at all that the people who fight no or trivial battles are less scared. It's not actually safer on the side of thugs, generally speaking, and life isn't more fun at mindless parties either, only those who don't have the comparison would think that. I'd rather say that's all built on sand, on holes that have to be temporarily filled with more and more material.

So keep on hanging on, because there might come a point where you feel less upset, more grounded, and the people who drift along will become more and more confused. Real things can hurt, sometimes badly, but real things also have longevity, they bring their own means and nutrients for growth.

At least, that's how I answer these questions for myself, that's how it ended up working out, and while I know that can't be generalized, sometimes it does get darkest before dawn. Don't let it drag you down (Sophie Scholl's outlook = best outlook).. but what you can shoulder, do shoulder. The only way out really is through, ultimately.

If worst comes to worst, don't get crushed when the screeching narcissism machine attempting to eat the planet drives itself and billions of people against the wall and implodes. Easier said than done, but change will come one way or the other. I'm not convinced it would leave spots of unscorched Earth, but that hope dies last, anyway.
Internet users are much too quick to interpret disagreement by others as nefarious bad faith. Please don't comment in that spirit here, unless you have evidence of abuse (in which case please send it to us at hn@ycombinator.com, so we can look into it). The overwhelming majority of the time, it's just other users who have different views than you do.
I do not use any Facebook mobile app (may track my microphone, location, etc...terrible!). I use Facebook's site in a browser (usually Chromium) in which I don't otherwise browse the net or do anything else except email. For browsing, I use the Epic Privacy Browser.
There is so much written in 2017, the least the author can do is make it readable if they actually want people to read it.
what commands do you regularly use on your phone?
Re-Writing BSD shell commands like it's 1994: chmod [video]
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14408068 and marked it off-topic.
The "Reader View" available in at least Firefox and Safari fixed this for me.
Yes. You've proven my point exactly. Those kids don't have something that's interesting for them outside of Minecraft, snapchat etc. that you describe.

It's not the teachers job to find something interesting for children. I'm advocating for the abandoning of schooling as it is, so you're seeing it backwards to think that what I'm saying means to find this motivation in the current setting. It won't be found there.

> Look, the super-crunchy idea of kids that are naturally curious is really just ... rich and white. Like, kids in an inner city/dense urban environment have waaaaaay more serous shit to deal with.

Yes, and if they didn't have that shit to deal with, then they WOULD be more curious about life. Duh. It's only white because whites often don't have to face that shit. But no, you're wrong here. Every child is naturally curious about SOMETHING. Even playing Minecraft or watching porn involves a curiosity, however un/healthy.

Take those kids out of that environment (which school actually contributes a major part) and yes, they'd discover their own natural interests. Even if that's still Minecraft, that's fine.

Again, I'm advocating abandoning schooling as it is. I don't mean that we should find what motivates kids in the current school setting, but that letting go of the current school setting will allow the space for children to find their own interests.
I don't know why people are so reflexively bitter when anyone mentions the market. No one in this conversation is claiming that the market solves all problems. Capitalism isn't perfect, but it's a whole lot better than the alternatives, and we can admit as much without committing ourselves to any ideological platform.
I doubt that he doesn't understand what "unethical" means. The question is how does what Facebook is doing qualify? You've said it is because it violates the freedom of people Facebook is making inferences about who are not users of Facebook's services.

That just shifts the question to how does it violate their freedom? That is not at all obvious to me. (NOTE: this does not mean that I'm saying it is OK...just that I don't see how it is a freedom violation).

My computer desk at home is near a large window, which I often look out while I am using the computer. From this window I can see people from my street walking dogs. I can see kids going to and from school. I see cars coming and going. My street is a dead end street about 1 km long, and I'm about 200 meters in. The street bends a little way past my place, so the last 700 meters or so are not visible from my place.

By casually observing people walk by, I've gathered data to make several inferences about people who live beyond the bend. I've figured out when some people are having house guests (by seeing people I've never seen before walking dogs that I recognize).

I've inferred sibling relationships among some of the children who walk by (by noticing dress and equipment patterns that clearly indicate that the same person is shopping for both).

I've figured out what kind of cars the parents of the some of the children drive (by seeing those cars stop when passing the children on the way home, and the children getting in, or seeing a strong correlation between days when particular children who walked by to school in the morning do not walk by in the afternoon and days when particular cars drive by in the afternoon).

Am I violating these people's freedom by making these inferences from what I see out my window?

If not, what is the fundamental difference between what I'm doing by observing people that walk or drive by on my street and what Facebook does by observing what its users do on its site?
duplicate, the original source already has been submitted https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14416530
I'm not convinced that Shakespeare's genius is nonsense. The nonsense poets like Ionesco while really good are not comparable to Shakespeare precisely because there is sense in Shakespeare, even in Shakespeare's "nonsense".
Buyers have access to a detailed audit trail of their ads and campaign activities. They see where ads they bought ran, the number of people who were able to see their ads, and clicks and other interactions with their ads.

If "these ads are working" is defined as "these ads are accomplishing what they were intended to when purchased," peoples' spend is founded more in data than belief.

Buyers have access to ~2BN people and tools to target them by age, interest, and geography -- much of that demographic and psychographic data is explicitly and freely given by those people themselves; tons more are derived and inferred. Buyers repeat their buys because these ads accomplish what they intended at purchase -- they can effectively drive traffic or commerce or whatever else.

This real power to generate revenue makes the issues around privacy, security, transparency, awareness, responsibility, ethics, laws, oversight more important than if it was created by ignorant beliefs. The latter would be temporary; the former generally strengthens as more data gets into the system.
Do you think that hackers as a market aren't, by near definition, early adopters and want new technology? I don't know who else a 10 year old phone would appeal to but parts of the mass market?
> Termux always pubished me for them so I learned to be precise.

I don't think it worked.
I was more hoping for a PC coomposed up multiple pis or something
Americans are paying $38 to collect $1 of student debt
Personal attacks are a bannable offense on HN. Please don't post like this again.
Eh, your head is in the right place, but honestly if you have all the meta data, the message content almost isn't needed.
Employer insurance. This cost would be passed to the customer necessarily.
I know some folks for whom it was the gateway drug to actually cooking for themselves, but it doesn't make a ton of sense once you've gotten past that. Parting things out of a Peapod order is not a big ask.
Great, now we can sue them. Oh wait, there's that whole sovereign immunity and standing problem
finally some vr ppl who aren't bros
Perhaps its just the ex-sysadmin in me, but I've done it pretty frequently over the years. Pop open a terminal, host -t mx example.com, done. Mostly I do this when I think there's any chance that my email will get routed to a server in China (pipe the result of the host query through nslookup and eventually to a whois against ARIN to see whether the IP is allocated by APNIC), since I'd prefer to avoid that.

I get that it's not common or simple, but "absolutely no way" doesn't mean absolutely no way that's common and simple. It's doable and, if you want to avoid it, there's plenty of ways to ensure that you never send directly to a Google server.
Yes, things like these remind me to take our Product and Marketing guys more seriously, because, left alone in a cellar, I too probably would call things DiddleBugs and IntelliBoogers.
This from the P.P.P.S:

> "Do you really think I don't know when you're playing with your toys? On the rare occasion when you are doing real work, you slouch. When you are playing with your hobby project you get all intense. You know you can't fool me. Never forget that."

Bear that in mind with your own pet projects and make sure that in your pet projects you are getting intense. Slouching in work is one thing, slouching in pet projects, now that is serious! We all start things and don't finish them, or buy all the gear and get no further, I think there is a lot to learn from how this guy runs his project.
Would you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to HN? We're hoping for a higher quality level here.
We are both.

Yes, we are some of the people who line up for new stuff.

Yes, we are also some of the people who keep old stuff running.
There are only so many words in the language.
Magnetic switch turns strange quantum property on and off
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14423015 and marked it off-topic.
Deconstructing the evidence-based discourse in health sciences [pdf]
Personal attacks aren't allowed on HN. Please don't post like this.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14380157
Personal attacks aren't ok on HN. Even if it's a bad article (which it may be), that's both a non sequitur and a nasty swipe. Please don't post like that here.
Suppose there's a business where you pay a fixed fee to experience some sort of exhilaration. So far this could describe lots of things: a movie theater, a roller coaster, bungee jumping, prostitution, kayak rental, and yes, a casino slot machine.

In all these cases, part of the exhilaration comes from not being completely sure what comes next. Kayak might tip, movie protagonist might take a wrong turn, etc.

In the slot machine case, the exhilaration is the 5-10 seconds wondering whether you might be the one person this month/year who hits the big jackpot. In that one case, you get an extra bonus. In the other 99.99...% cases, you merely get the exhilaration you paid for.

If you unilaterally change the transaction so it's no longer about the entertainment experience but rather increasing your chances to get the rare thing that causes the exhilaration for everyone, you're stealing -- because the rare thing wasn't actually for sale; only the entertainment value of the chance to get it was for sale.

I personally don't like house-advantage casino games (i.e., not poker) because I don't attach a lot of value to the entertainment part of it, and I understand the math doesn't make it a wise financial transaction. Otherwise I have no problem with a business making a profit from providing a good or service that its customers enjoy. That includes casinos, and that's why I think it's odd to single them out as deserving to be a target of theft.
Doctors Once Thought Bananas Cured Celiac Disease. Kids' Lives Saved – At a Cost
2016 was a bad year and comparable to the 90s, but prior years murder was down 50% from decades earlier in Chicago.
It sounds like you know a lot about things many of us know little about, which is great, but on HN it's necessary to express those things civilly and not to respond to provocation by flaming people. If you can't do that, please don't post here until you can. This site values civility and substantiveness in discussion and is trying (not always successfully) for a higher-than-internet-median quality level.

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Why would someone reading this assume that they will do something illegal? Why is that the conclusion that _anyone_ jumps to?

Considered, if possible, that if money isn't out by the deadline that they will do… some other legal and responsible thing with the money. Hand it over the the governing jurisdiction as "unclaimed property"? More pro-actively reach out to people?

Nothing in this statement says they are going to do something illegal. There is no "…or we'll keep it". That line isn't in there. Your mind had to fabricate it.

I don't understand the desire to actively interpret things in the worst possible way. When I read stuff like this my entire emotional reaction is "…okay". My mental model for the state of the world has been mutated, fine. Some people seem to read stuff and want to fight with whoever wrote it. It's a press release. It was a mildly important three hours of two people's day. They do not have time to deal with people who set out to misinterpret their intentions. How does anyone have time for this? Why am I still typing!
This reminded me of an article a couple of years back showing how deaf people would come up with signs for internet slang. It'd be neat to see it updated.

http://www.hopesandfears.com/hopes/now/internet/168477-inter...
Oh man... The screen took me back to the days on creating .COM file from Debug.com..