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How many people are aware that the list of interests directing Facebook ads are easily visible and editable?

Settings | Ads | Your Interests

It's really interesting to see the full scope of the interests FB has gathered over time. Some of them are pretty hilarious.

They have a seemingly huge ontology of every subject you could think of. If you methodically go through an remove every interest, the ads suddenly become very generic - stuff targeted to, say, age group and/or location. Since removing everything, and periodically clearing it all out, I generally only see stuff for things like real estate and car dealerships, which don't really mean much for me.
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When I was younger there was a popular line of thinking that the typical highschool job in customer service was where people learned to grow up into the kind of people that wouldn't yell at customer service. It sounded like the kind of thing that could be true, but was certainly the kind of thing you want to be true if you have one of those jobs. I've recently been thinking it has merit.

-Having someone directly in my face yelling at me over a couple of dollars made it a practical necessity to cultivate in myself an industrial-strength version of "you can't control other people, you can only control how you react to them." And that includes calibrating your level of fear to the actual level of risk. Even if all you are is a wimpy teen somehow made shift lead, ya gotta look a scary motherfucker in the eyes and tell them "No," when the only thing you've got to defend yourself is "Get out or we're calling the cops."

-My sense of how to treat others is based on concepts of shared humanity. When someone is screaming at you, there ain't time or good reason to try and empathize with them. But you can't stoop to their level, either. So peg a bare minimum for behavior as a personal standard, and then try to live up to the standard. -- Consequently, I don't understand the trendy ideas on empathizing that posit I have to cultivate a personal connection before I can determine "oh yeah, it turns out I shouldn't be a prick to this person, either."
I agree. The fine article is very poorly written.

I was not able to find out whether they used decision trees or something novel.
One does not give way to nihilism, one accepts it and carries on.
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Latin herba actually, rather than french herbe
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Kind of had the same issue with post/zip codes for Ireland as up until very recently we didn't have them. I remember it was annoying when companies with their European head quarters in Ireland and they had mandatory post code fields in their forms. I even knew some people that had some issues opening bank accounts in the UK because it was mandatory in the computer system that the teller was using and they had to get a manager to work around it for them.
It's a fork of X why couldn't it use X in it's name? OpenBSD should have BSD in it's name either?
Many U.S. retail establishments near* the Canadian border treat Canadian quarters as equivalent to U.S. quarters—accepting them at a 25¢ value, including them as change if they got into the till.

The US:CAD rate is only 4:5, not the 1:6 BTH:BCH ratio at the time of the article. Perhaps more importantly, one can only use Canadian coins this way in person, and therefore probably at very low volume. None the less, it’s interesting to see the parallel.

* And not that near, either. I’ve seen this in Massachusetts. I never saw this growing up in North Carolina, or when I moved to California, though.
The estate was intestate. How would Bitcoin have helped?
I like it so much that I can't help but dream with Focus for desktop. I realized most of the times the browser can be amnesic (maybe should?) and completely involve websites in private bubbles with mitigations.

The robust version of the browser ends up being the home of long therm, trustworthy pages.
I just did what I wanted to do since a very long time: deleted my Facebook company page and my personal profile and added all the facebook domains to my /etc/hosts sinkhole[¹]

I can finally breathe again.

[¹] https://github.com/jmdugan/blocklists/blob/master/corporatio...
I guess debugging is easier with named functions. Arrow functions don't have names

See here: https://github.com/yannickcr/eslint-plugin-react/issues/412
Yeah, thats the pun - sorry for not being clear with my intention! Same idea applies for many words or names where the cyrillic characters have close resemblance with some other latin characters ("Hatawa is a popular russian/slavic girl's name" - of course properly it should be translittered as Natasha...)
So sad, all this effort to make Firefox better, and they keep ruining everything with questionable marketing stunts.

Hard to recover from the add-on fiasco, IMHO.
I checked out the linked https://plus.codes/individuals

Steps for creating a Plus Code are:
1. Open the Google Maps app.
2. Touch and hold a place to drop a pin on Google Maps.
3. At the bottom, you’ll see an address or a plus code. Tap this section to find all details of the location and copy the plus code.

If the primary use case is creating an address for my current location - e.g. Home. Then, the instructions are too many.

A "click this button" to create a Plus Code for your current location would work wonder.

Or if they had an app, the single instruction above would equally apply.

*
I think Plus Codes would fail most Zip Code validation tests.
> they don't have any meaning or intention prescribed by Unicode, only a form

For instance, some of the actual-use semantics of U+1F346 AUBERGINE and U+1F4A6 SPLASHING SWEAT SYMBOL definitely have gone beyond what the Unicode committee probably initially thought of.
Yes I vaguely recall having to enter a bunch of 0's in fields (when they were permissive enough to accept that).
How does mail carriers deliver packages? what do they use?
Back in the mid 90s, we already had scripts for ircII that used cowsay or figlet to generate annoying ASCII art, taking up too many of your terminal's 24 lines. In some ways, things never change...
Good job it's legal then, that means it can be regulated.
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If they corrupted a live database and are not able to recover it they are in a world of hurt. While it is bad form, many people keep their coins on the exchanges and even if the bulk of an individuals coins are offline, they still likely have at least a small amount on their for trading.

If a table that connects user accounts to kraken owned wallets is corrupted and not recoverable people will be out millions. For some that would be the equivalent of your 401k issuing a post mortem for losing all of your retirement.

If this worst case scenario happened they are likely in severe damage control.

Most likely explanation though is that things are just taking longer than expected to upgrade what is by all measures likely a very technical and convoluted system.
I don't know if they intended to or not, but "radical" is not a direct synonym of "progressive", and isn't always positive. Here's a more complete definition:

-- advocating or based on thorough or complete political or social change; representing or supporting an extreme or progressive section of a political party.
> No one knows how this collapse occurs, but a conscious observer is usually assumed to be involved

No it's not. Only fringe interpretations like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann%E2%80%93Wigner_int...

involve conciousness at all. And i'ts not strange that people don't like the idea of undefined, possibly non-existing stuff (conciousness) to be involved in physics. It's like defining laws of motion basing on "walking". Walking is what some configurations of atoms do, you don't put special cases in your theory for these things.

Also:

> A poll was conducted at a quantum mechanics conference in 2011 using 33 participants (including physicists, mathematicians, and philosophers). Researchers found that 6% of participants (2 of the 33) indicated that they believed the observer "plays a distinguished physical role (e.g., wave-function collapse by consciousness)". They also mention that "Popular accounts have sometimes suggested that the Copenhagen interpretation attributes such a role to consciousness. In our view, this is to misunderstand the Copenhagen interpretation."
It's funny, even in the Netherlands we feel a (tiny, tiny) bit of this: all foreign websites have address entry systems that always ask for a state/province (and even faithfully produce a list of all our provinces). We indeed have them but locals ignore them entirely, city, street, number and postal code are all we, and domestic companies, use.
Sure. I would nevertheless bet a few satoshis that at least some of the attendees bought their tickets because they thought it would be about "coins" by mistake ;)
First world problems, 6700 putters and 900 bottles of fine wine.

That said, the bank behaved in a terrible way, but the most important takeaway is that if you have any wealth at all make sure you leave a properly signed and witnessed will.
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That’s also the problem because Unicode specifies what the emoji show but not how they show it and not exactly.

For instance, there may be an emoji for ‘finger pointing’ and Apple or another party may show that with a finger pointing left. Users do not know the emoji has no specified direction so they use it in situations where it looks wrong if the finger points right.
Boardroom gender quotas are being adopted by more and more countries. There's little evidence that this has proved harmful, modest evidence that it has helped company performance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_representation_on_corpo...
this is surprising to me. my experience with the Canadian border guard is that they are super chill
The problem there being ? Apart from the (sofar unbeknownst to me) existence of a "wrong" candidate ?
"no-brainer... innovative"

These are opposites. Which is it? Pick one.
It is a shortening of "Concierge", which is, in short, the person overseeing an apartment or hotel lobby.
Might be this one.

https://www.google.com/patents/US8584031
IIRC clojure also allows , as discarded separators
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That sounds like absolute nonsense.
Both are commonly used, although "end-to-end" is correct as it indicates a compound adjective - a phrase acting as a single adjective affecting the noun ("encryption") that follows it.
I still write 'none' in any postcode fields, and am refusing to learn my eircode. I've never had a problem getting things delivered
I never thought of it as a 'hug' either, somehow I always saw it as a person with really tiny hands :-o
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In France (don’t know how it works elsewhere) shops can be a shipping point. It creates a network for transporters and it’s a must have for any online shop.

If the transporter ships directly to your home, you have to be here when he comes (and in France you never really know...).

If you haven’t bought large furniture or fridge or whatever, it’s simpler to go to a shop, it’s open on a wide range of hours.

For the shop owner, it can be a good deal as, well, you are in his/her shop.
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I brought this up in passing and was summarily ejected into oblivion.
Thank you for posting in detail what I didn't have the patience and energy to. (shrug)
Seems like a problem that What3Words is trying to solve.

https://what3words.com/partner/nipost/
I do agree that 4th grade is too young for such a topic, but perhaps precisely your reaction is what the parent commenter was speaking about. He made a meaningful observation, yet people were quick to jump on a passing example entirely of incidental importance to the point.
Bitcoin in the name is the only thing that holds the value. Other currencies have noticed and are quickly naming themselves after Bitcoin, like ZClassic renaming to Bitcoin Private.
I have also encountered web forms which must validate my address. Turns out, the backing database did not contain my address. I could not order at the store. After contacting the store, they told me that their data was always accurate and therefore I must be a fraud.
Well they did bring it down 4% in all of China. Looking at the investments they are doing in solar and wind they are moving in the right direction is it fast enough is debatable though. But I do think because they are autocratic country once they decided to go for renewables they are moving a lot faster than most other countries.
Does anyone have a twitter timeline archiving tool? I get some major FoMO when it comes to not checking twitter.
I definitely think it looks like a bit of a mixture of both. From what I remember in reading Brave New World, the focus wasn't so much on the authoritarian tendencies of the government itself. The government was authoritarian in the sense that it determined what people would be like through genetic engineering but seemed to basically leave them alone otherwise. Since they were perfectly suited for the tasks that their caste was bred for. Including being perfectly happy in them. For instance the "Betas" didn't want to be "Alphas", and in their mind it was certainly a lot better than being an "Epsilon". They didn't mind being in a lower caste because they didn't think they could handle the responsibilities of being an "Alpha". It is kind of interesting that most of the book deals with the world of the top rung of society and kind of glosses over the world of the lower castes.

Really though we don't need to go to fiction to see what is happening in society. We just need to go to Ancient Rome. "Bread and circuses" was a tactic used by the patricians (elites) to keep the plebeians (masses) appeased. Give people a minimum standard of living so they can continue to live, and distract them from injustices and corruption through entertainment.
The plus code is basically encoded GPS coordinates. The carrier can use a GPS device to determine the delivery location.
This is where an exchange like Coinbase could provide a payment service, paying directly but doing the actual BTC transfer under wate.r
A very clickbait title. There's a difference between "Facebook Knows" and "Facebook might have the possibility to know"
Doesn't what 3 words already solve this problem, and seems to have commercial momentum? http://what3words.com
That's the most shocking thing for me. A bank will try to screw you every way possible. I guess, they want year-end-bonuses and by the time lawsuits are filed no one will care.

>>First world problems, 6700 putters and 900 bottles of fine wine.

First world problems until the bank got involved and took away the "first world problem" thing from them.
I belive the tab generation constraints are a feature! They are meant to avoid the clutter most browsers become. Seriously, tabs are extremely overrated. Focus on something, delete it or archive it (Pocket, Instapaper, org, etc) and tag it, move on with a clean slate. This way you are always 100% focused on the task at hand. You leave archiving to archiving tools and not to tabs.

I agree on your last point though. Mozilla's heavy dependence on user data (and aggressive decisions like opt-out telemetry) goes against their speech. I choose to share with Mozilla if I trust them. But they understand "collected with permission" to be "poweruser data" and they want to suck information from the "other users". And that drug is a dangerous one when you point fingers all the time at others addicted to the same thing. In Focus it is plain wrong. "Here, we help you block tracking by everyone, since it is evil, except from us, cause sugar".
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In my part of the world (Nova Scotia, Canada), "dinner" often means either lunch or the largest meal of the day. When planning for Christmas dinner I've found myself asking, "Lunch dinner or supper dinner?"
> The point of a password AND an email is that will essentially make it “two factor”. With email only you are no longer two factor.

Please don't confuse things. This is only one factor (email or email+password doesn't matter). Two-factor is only if you have one factor on top of this, e.g. U2F, OATH, etc.
I think the prequels tried to tell a good story. Apart from a few glaring mistakes(like the idea that Anakin built C-3PO) the story and plot ideas were good enough. But scene to scene, it was poorly executed, with stilted dialog, bad direction (which often shows up as bad acting and unlikable characters), and uneven pacing. There's legitimate character development. The problem is, execution of those character arcs are clumsy or forced and lack the dramatic impact they should have. Certain plotlines are tedious, but you could make an argument that better editing could have fixed those flaws.

I think the Disney movies don't even try to tell a good story. The plots barely make sense and frequently violate established rules and conventions for no apparent reason. Apart from perhaps Kylo Ren, the new characters are static and uninteresting. Rey is likeable but has no growth. Finn is likable but isn't believable as an ex-stormtrooper. The relationship between The First Order and the Resistance/Rebellion is muddled and confusing at best. Where the prequels dwelt too much on tedious political details, the sequels go the other direction fail to establish a compelling galactic context for the war. As for Rogue One, I enjoyed that in the way I enjoy a dumb, mindless action movie. The characters were bland and uninteresting and the plot was just barely good enough to keep me interested.

The original trilogy had a good well-focused story, a good plot, a simple but sufficiently compelling political context, likable characters that experienced legitimate growth and character arcs. It had exceptional editing, great pacing--albeit slower than any blockbuster you'd see today-- and amazing sound design and music. There are some flaws, and some internal inconsistencies. But it's easy to argue that the major ones, such as Vader being revealed as Luke's father, enhance the story more than detract from it. It makes Obi-Wan's character seem less virtuous, for example-- but he's a fairly minor character and a minor flaw isn't a problem anyway, it makes him seem more human.

The original Lucas trilogy wasn't perfect, but it's far superior to either the prequels or the Disney sequels.
The US border sounds so much like the Chinese one! :(
The authors of this review and the books reviewed are not proposing a return to that sort of literal anthropomorphism; they are calling for a less dogmatic, more realistic look at the evidence.

It would be something of a problem for evolutionary theory if every scrap of conscious and intelligent behavior was exhibited by Homo Sapiens alone. The current situation is probably a contingency of history: between now and the last common ancestor of us and chimpanzees, many species have come and gone, with some of them leaving evidence of intermediate cognitive abilities.
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Sorry, j_4, reply was to parent.
You made me realize I’ve been in interviews like that too. This is frustrating to think about. I’m gonna try the “no clue” method with these people, the interview’s a wash at that point.
Probably a design patent, which is a completely different thing than a patent you get for an invention. It grants someone an exclusive right to an ornamental design.
I think all three of you raise good points and am delighted to see such a thoughtful and civil conversation on hn.
I don't know how many sites I have seen that require state, and some even have a list of counties to select from. Last time I checked only USA, Australia, Canada, China, Mexico and Malaysia use state in address. The other ~200 countries don't use it
Note to self: the academic world is not real.
Generally people only consider ads that “don’t mean much to me” as ads. If they do mean something to someone they suddenly cease being ads to that person. It’s a weird thing.
Google vetting ?
Oh please, google just could stop delete people's accounts for bogus reasons.

Google do not want to give anybody freedom of speech, that's the fact.

Same goes twitter and Facebook.. useless media sites if try to say anything else than "look me" "follo me" "support hillary" "clinton is innocent" all fake news!!
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The bank got involved at their joint invitation. That doesn't excuse anything the bank did but they really should have been able to work this out amongst themselves. Just to see the 'children' (well, they behave like children anyway) bicker over the perceived use of airmiles without any proof whatsoever in an estate of this magnitude sets the tone nicely.
Yes I know about that, but that kind of defeats the purpose, right? If I have to type 'pizza' to get a symbol for pizza, I can just use the word itself. Or do people use them to communicate with illiterates or people who speak a different language? ;-)

It used to be that emoji were just to express some feeling that would otherwise take a lot of words, or to disambiguate statements that could mean different things in different context (sarcasm/irony, jokes, etc). Emoji are are very useful for that. Like the parent I replied to I don't understand the use case for almost all of the other emoji.
exactly that but less so "extremist" more so "common".
We've managed to forget about what the "common" sort of opinion is like. An opinion poll about the death penalty or immigration is a quick way of seeing that society at large is somewhat detached from what people assume is the "norm" from the world of edited media circa 1990 - 2010.

When the internet exploded that "average" was still glued to the TV and nerdy wasn't cool. Even in the 2000s you still had to run a PC to attach which is still a bar to hurdle.
Today though we now have a generation that has grown up with internet enabled devices as a default feature in their phones, consoles, TVs or other formally "dumb" boxes. Now _everyone_ is online and perhaps that is just what we're seeing here as the bar for internet access has completely vanished.
Tea is also used in the same way in the West for example Rooibos, mint, and chamomile are all popular “herbal teas” that don’t contain any tea leaves.
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