skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is the exact opposite approach to take, it is a cat and mouse game to avoid being tracked, and you will always be the mouse.

If anything, go out of your way to ruin the creepy tracking, analytics and bullshit metrics. Add as much noise as possible to their databases.
Something to note as you listen is that people convinced they're being spied on are mostly amused by it. They don't sound outraged or frightened at all.
I'd blame this on confirmation bias - there must be dozens if not hundreds of times you use or mention a product every day that you don't notice ads for, but the rare time you do, it reinforces the belief that they are reacting to what you said.
I didn't get that impression at all, though. If people want to contribute they only need (1) the source code, and (2) a way to contact the authors. Both conditions are met, so there's really no need for redundant lip service, especially on a minimalist, straight-to-the-point website like that.
It's an unfortunate feature of reality.

From the point of view of software, it's impossible in principle to tell whether or not the code being executed does what the user wants it to, and only what the user wants it to. Half of that is the halting problem, the other half is that "what user wants" is an General-AI-complete problem. Moreover, the software can't even tell the difference between "the user" and "a malicious third party".

In meatspace we solve this problem with rules and laws. Software, for better or worse, moves around too fast.
Then don't use an exchange?

Lots of people do person to person transactions.
If I heard any of the last five replies, i'd tell the CTO to go fuck himself and quit.
>If you feed a bunch of images into a CNN, it doesn't just learn flower, cat, etc. It learns more fundamental things such as edges, textures, patterns.

Inputting a bunch of pictures is telling it to find patterns in those pictures. And though some of those patterns are fundamental things, at some point it will need to be told what patterns are useful.
On jailbroken devices such an effort would be about as trivial.
What exactly do all of these engineers do at single-focus companies like Snap? I guess I don't understand where you could find enough work for hundreds of engineers on a product like that?
That's only a problem if you choose to make it one. I buy my phones unlocked from retailers and ignore the carriers.
Based on what friends from South India tell me, it looks like South India in particular is embracing English. Even poor people are sending their children to schools where they can learn English. Most of the people I know, when they text on a phone use the Latin alphabet. India has fully embraced the global system which is based on English. I would guess that within 20 years, more people will speak English on a regular basis than Hindi.
Not really. These have hardware dsp support. The drain is minimum.
The more technical disciplines of climbing are usually welcoming to introverts. However, it can be a dangerous sport, and it's certainly not for everyone. Assuming, you're able to judge risk and look out for your safety, there is nothing else like soloing to a location where few have ever stepped foot, at a view that few have ever seen, and in complete isolation. At high altitudes, there aren't even other animals. It's just you, and nature.

At the same time, team endeavors allow you to achieve goals you can't achieve by yourself, and require teamwork at a level not found in any other sport I can think of. You must trust your teammates completely, or else you'll never achieve your potential. Your closest friends will always be those you can trust your life with.

When I'm out alone for long periods of time, people always ask what I do. I must bring tv shows to watch, or books to read at the very least, and sometimes I do bring a book, but often I'm just enjoying being where I am. The odd part, is that I used to get questioned about being an introvert all the time before climbing. Now, unless people know we well, they'll just assume that I'm an extreme extrovert for performing a dangerous activity.
Tell HN: Slack decides to close down IRC and XMPP gateways
11:14 -!- Message of the day

Hello! We have news to share — we've decided it's
time to close down the IRC and XMPP gateways to Slack.

After years of evolving, Slack is at the point where
the gateways can no longer handle all of our features
or security needs.

If you've been using the gateways for accessibility
reasons, we're glad to let you know that it's now
possible to navigate Slack by keyboard and with a
screen reader — and we're making more improvements
on a continual basis.

Still, we know this is a disruptive change, and we
want to help with this transition in any way we can.
Please follow this link to learn more about the
upcoming changes:

slack.com/account/gateways

11:14 -!- End of MOTD command
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The 15 free best Android emulators for PC and Mac (2018)
Ghostery found 39 trackers on that article. The irony is strong today.
Probably the Glasses and everything related to that? I don't think those were profitable so maybe it could be their hardware division.
Good to know before publishing a content in Arabic
In comparison, Valve has 360 people (2016) and they do a lot. [0]

[0] https://www.pcgamer.com/valve-misses-deadline-to-respond-to-...
> do you think Peter Thiel would assert that life would improve if large swathes of the populace were disenfranchised

Yes! He literally says so:

Thiel: I no longer believe that freedom [meaning capitalism] and democracy are compatible.

Thiel wants to save capitalism, and therefore rejects democracy because in his view you can't have both. That means he wants to disenfranchise everybody except the monied.
That's only a way to get shiny new Google stuff over the supplier's extremely crappy base that will be even less likely to ever get upgraded. The fact that people point it out every time I mention the mess we're really in shows how it's a step back because it takes weight off the issue.
A good point. Conversely, central banks and governments fight recessions with expansionary monetary policy. Thus, as a recession hits government may reduce the cost of capital to VCs, and improve R+D (at least in defense spending and government research).
The drama between Commodore and Atari in the 1980s is really interesting. I wonder what kind of computing world we'd be living in today if Atari had gotten the Amiga technology, rather than Commodore. I suppose with Tramiel still at the helm at Atari it wouldn't have been so different. I do wish could just spin-up a scratch universe to see what another company would have done w/ Amiga, though...
Binance hack: Changpeng Zhao assures users funds are safe
Not really, it would a real attempt if it was actually enforced, but given that Nougat updates to Oreo don't require Treble certification, and the OEMs are the ones expected to deliver any kind of updates, it is pretty useless to change the current state of affairs.
Which code ? Server side code is unreasonable to expect. For client code, you can just use the browser. It may not be as convenient or full featured as the app, but it'll do the job if you absolutely must use FB. The situation is much better with stuff like FB which is not that essential. It's more problematic with Google Maps, where you can't get turn by turn navigation unless you use the app.
Well, sure. But there's a higher level motive there. Like prepping for a takeover, pivot, etc. Reducing engineer capacity also means reducing pace of innovation.
> Is this actually possible for Android users?

Not even close. Android security is a joke. I don't even like to login to my email from it.
How devastating would it be, really?

It would likely be a blip in the news, and then people would move on, as usual.

Remember the Sony rootkit fiasco? People still buy Sony, and most people probably either never heard of that incident, don't remember, or don't care. Buying whatever the new Sony gizmo of the day is is more important to them.

Microsoft has had endless spyware fiascos, and people still routinely buy Windows, as long as they can play their games or run Office, that's all that matters to most of them.

Then there have been scandals like Enron, where the execs knew that they were doing something that was clearly illegal, and that their company really would be devastated if what they did was ever revealed. These "smartest people in the room" did it anyway.

Corporate history is full of just such deceptive and destructive practices. I'm not sure I'd put Facebook above that sort of thing, a priori.
> I think the current strategy of guiding ultra-high density residential developers towards the Central Waterfront (i.e. the Dogpatch and the flat but underutilized industrial parts north of the Bayview) makes more sense than trying to up zone existing Victorian neighborhoods.

Mandatory low-density neighborhoods are de facto gated communities. There's no reason for government to enforce such by rule of law. If anything, the government should be encouraging mixed-income communities, not fighting them.
China does have very diverse dialects. But Mandarin is taught in all schools in mainland China and we treat it as standard. Also it is the unified way people from different area communicate.

For younger generation this is not a problem, back in my college life where people in the same class came from different areas, from Xinjiang to Canton to the northeast corner. We have no problem understanding each other though sometimes funny with unique words or accents.

It seems that the problem is not as severe in China as in India.
I think that one should consider the possibility of FB group indirectly accessing this data.

They don't have to collect information only directly from their FB/Instagram/WhatsApp apps: what they can do is buy information from other companies that publish thousands of "free" apps on appstores.

You have to wonder how so many of these free apps seem to sustain themselves since GDN advertising does not seem to be profitable enough.

FB group should be obligated to disclose whether they are buying information from these kinds of third parties.

More importantly they should disclose whether the price they pay is illogical, effectively making them silent partners in an indirect scheme to access your camera/mic information, while at the same time maintaining the allegation that "we do not access your mic through our apps".
Lots of people in venezuela are using it right now for the purpose of escaping their extremely inflationary currency.

It is trivial to prove the value, as people are using right now for this purpose.
That is a simple problem to solve.

You encrypt all data stored on the blockchain. You have the private key to your encrypted personal data on the blockchain. You can share this key with private corporations who want to use your data. In order to invoke your "right to be forgotten", you just ask the 3rd party to delete any record of your private key. Now they can't access your data. Simple.
Uber broke almost every moral rule and still everybody's using it.
I see what you're saying - that having a common HAL interface will allow Google to ship newer Android over the same broken kernels. However, the base requirements for the Treble kernel and certification require a level of quality beyond what most manufacturer kernels currently offer, so I think it's at least a step forward before it's a step back.
Researchers unlock decades-old mystery of how magnetic waves heat the sun
Reminds me of this story:

https://reason.com/blog/2018/02/21/san-francisco-man-has-spe...
I find it hard to take this article without a truckload of salt, given the Wall Street Journal is owned by News Corp.

Murdoch has money to make by gaining leverage over FB.

I haven’t had a Facebook account in almost 4 years and I block their traffic on my router, so I have no love for them. But I seriously doubt this story’s motives.
Agreed. Baffling for an app that makes substantial iteration maybe once or twice a year. My theory is these companies like to hoard Dev talent in prime locations.
If we lived in a market economy, the market would find the most efficient use for each parcel. We don't. We live in a centrally planned economy with respect to real estate, and the central planners have got their priorities backwards.

Your framing of the residents of high-density housing as not "stakeholders" or "the community" is a common NIMBY talking point, but the condo/apartment dwellers whose humanity you choose to deny are not less deserving of space than you. If the "well-capitalized developers" want to help people like me (who were born too late to own city land) fight for the right to occupy space, I'll take it.
I think this applies to YC-type incubators and VC investment as well. Often times pedigree seems to outweigh fundamentals regarding execution in VC funding
Git history can be modified, as can email headers, but yeah - the law is more about e.g. disciplinary records, stuff stored on your section of the company file server, and other things which the company really has no legitimate use for once you’ve left.

In practice, the best solution to this is for companies to check over their data retention policies and making sure they’re not holding on to data for longer than they need to - which may involve creating processes to take information out of emails and put it somewhere more structured/permanent - rather than being blindsided with a request without the infrastructure to handle it. The best response, after all, is “we deleted/modified that data so as to comply with your request already”, rather than “we’ll be back to you once we’ve read through your 50,000 emails and decided which ones we need to keep”.
All great feature requests and will be implemented one day (if I don't get hit by a bus). Linking up the board preview with the parts list, to help soldering and debugging, has been on the roadmap for Kitspace for quite a while. Here is a badly collaged concept drawing of that idea: https://github.com/monostable/kitspace/blob/bf017e245ed92066...

If you click on the "repo" link for most (not all) projects you will be able to download schematics (the majority are done in KiCad).
Very insightful. Glad to have your commentary here.
Unless that package/binary is signed - which Android ones are.
There are so many features in the Snapchat app. If you really dig in, there are teams dedicated to each portion of the app. I'm not sure if that means a bunch of separate PMs as well, but it is a big complex app once you account for all the features... DMs, group messages, Discover, Memories, Stories, the map, filters/lenses, integrations like Bitmoji, ...
I think the transfer of the domain as a heritable use is arguably stronger than licenced IPR. but you're right to question the assumption. Worst case my heirs can use my keystore to open the registry account, unlock the domain and transfer it to themselves for fee if need be.
From our perspective, they have to.

From their perspective they don't and never will.
Not sure what you mean? This is about dealing with competing property rights.. in California, the coastline itself is owned by the public, so this is about how these two property claims are resolved. This is similar to if you had a piece of property, and then someone else bought all the property around yours and cut off access to your property. Are they required to give you access or not? What sort of access?
1. Encrypt your personal data with a private key that you control.

2. Put encrypted personal data on a blockchain.

3. When a 3rd party wants to use your data, give them your private key. They can store this in their own database so that they can access your blockchain data whenever they wish.

4. To invoke your "right to be forgotten", simply ask the 3rd party to delete your private key.

Am I missing something?
Did you consider the possibility that they were running ads for a car that most people hadn't heard of yet (i.e. it was newly released)?
Just .. no. Is this really happening?

Come on people, this can't be real. We need to step back.
That they are limmited to seeing things that they see is trivially true of all things that see.
Android P is available for developer testing
InstallingDebianOn/Microsoft/Windows/SubsystemForLinux
This is what people said about Theranos and uBeam.

When the upside is high enough, it makes sense to just throw money on it. The risk is almost infinitely high, but the reward is almost infinitely high. Or, at least in the cases of Theranos and uBeam, that was true.

Just because investors throw money at something doesn't mean that it's legit. They're gambling, they like the odds, and they have nothing to lose because they get paid either way (and this is only a tiny fraction of what they need to invest anyway).
The IRC gateway was the only thing that made slack even barely usable for me.
How does viewing the code give you confidence that the app is running the code you saw?
^ actually, IMHO the fact that you assume that "The idea that Facebook is doing this is just ridiculous." is what is ridiculous.

Some companies do "highly illegal" things all of the time. It all comes down to the fact that whoever is in charge:

1) doesn't hold to a moral system that restrains them from doing said illegal things (or at least doesn't hold to one consistently)

and

2) thinks they can do said illegal things without getting caught, or if they are caught, thinks they'll be able to recover reasonably well from any punishment (if there is any) that is handed down.

Personally, I do not know whether Facebook is recording/transmitting data like this, but I guess if I found out they were, I would not be surprised -- given the things the company has done in the past, and the things their leadership has said and done in the past.
American rails are decidedly low quality. [The accident record is much worse](https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/21/world/europe/railroads-ar...), and the freight networks spent many years dismantling tracks and electrification to improve the bottom line.
Surprising absolutely nobody, private company closes access via open protocols with 3rd party clients.
Rain isn't distilled water, as fumes from things like cars or other forms of pollution can cause the water to contain harmful components that can be removed using distillation (think acid rain). While the water cycle looks (at first glance) like a distillation process, it occurs in an environment that is quite unlike a laboratory, resulting in contamination.

As for electrolytes, usually you need to intake specific foods or liquids that are high in electrolytes (electrolytes are just chemicals that increase electrical conductivity of a solution when dissolved). So while a litre of tap water has more electrolytes than a litre of distilled water, a litre of fruit juice has more (though drinking a litre of fruit juice probably isn't great for you).

As for whether lack of electrolytes is harmful, the answer is yes. Electrolytes are required for your body's electro-chemistry to operate properly and maintain the proper function of your heart, brain, body's fluid-balance, and pH buffer system. When you lose electrolytes (such as through heavy sweating, diarrhea or vomiting) those processes may not work as well.

I would note that when you are dehydrated, hospitals will generally provide you with liquid electrolytes (intravenously if the situation is dire), implying that there is some medical benefit of liquid sources over solid ones (but I might be mistaken). But there are several solid sources of electrolytes.
That's not of any use for testing apps before P is out. It will be months after the official release before non-Google phones get P.
If you're born somewhere, have family and roots in a place, and then can't afford to live there because of people coming in and jacking up the rent and property prices, that's definitely injustice.

Is it injustice that a new CS grad who got a job at Facebook can't afford a place in San Francisco? Not really, plenty of other places to work.
TYVM, I almost missed that gem.
Buffer extension that writes the posts for you. Seriously. SendPilot
I put my Caffè Nero loyalty card in the same pocket as my phone (which runs the Facebook app).

I have no way of proving this but I'm pretty sure they used my camera to read the card because the next thing I knew I was seeing ads for Starbucks (a competing coffee chain). I have never said Starbucks out loud and suddenly I am seeing ads.
Minor nit—a generator is likely to not be rotating 50 times each second. Each rotation of the shaft could be generating multiple cycles depending on the wiring of the generator.
You are right about the covered wickets, although when I started watching cricket in the 1990's they were already universal in the elite game. I should correct my statement and say that heavy bats have been the most significant thing in the last 20 years of the elite game with regards to big hitting.

I also agree about protection, being hit by a cricket ball is something you don't forget, and can indeed be lethal[0]

[0]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillip_Hughes
I can't tell if this is a reverse troll or a regular troll. But please don't do this, comment civilly and substantively instead.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> being caught red handed would be devastating from a public opinion perspective

For what it's worth, this public opinion backlash has not appeared with other companies: "Of course we're not working on leaked project [x]". "Look at project [x] we're working on!"

Even Facebook's own under-disclosed psychological experiments have been largely forgotten; Facebook has suffered few if any long-term ill effects from it.
None of those devices get the developer preview. All Android One devices get updates from the manufacturer, usually several weeks after release.

A developer with a Pixel can test their app on P in spring. A developer on a Moto X4 or a Nokia can test their device in late autumn.

That's 6 months extra time to fix bugs and adjust to new APIs.
I mean, Google are requiring it for all Oreo launch devices, which they all must be after the P release (you can't get certification for Nougat after P releases).

It's at least something that'll work long term.
Defense Distributed V. United States Department of State
South India in particular has a higher literacy rate than the rest of the country, so it might take a while for this to spread.
> I'm honestly curious if the massive headcount of some of these companies is even necessary.

Patrick Collison (Stripe) talks about this in Blitzscaling and how this is often severely underestimated. He says it takes a lot less engineering to build the original product/service than to maintain it and operate it at scale. There is value in running a lean operation and there is probably some level of bloat in human resources across organizations; but dismissing the reality of necessity within these organizations should only be done carefully. I think the context PC was talking about was speed of feature creation/product shipping but conceptually the same thing holds for the size of the company.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrDZhAxpKrQ
My point is that if it's indeed a small step forward, which is highly debatable, it's a huge step back from actually solving the underlying issue. Lenovo doesn't ship a half broken Linux kernel every time they release a new model. New stuff just gets rolled into upstream and then hardware gets support for close to forever. I bought an Android phone 4 months ago, selected specifically to be supported by LineageOS and in the top 20 in terms of usage. As it turns out support will not be added to the next Android version because specific kernel support would be needed and there's just no reasonable way of achieving it.
Eh, that might be true today, but I doubt we'll see flagships shipping with Nougat still by the end of the year. I certainly won't be buying any like that primarily for this reason. OEMs will catch up sooner or later. It's a slow process, but don't write off the long game for the short one.

Once P is released they won't even certify Nougat devices anymore.