skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s a raw quote. Is it inaccurate?

IMO it’s very apropos because it sums up the core attitude of the company. That 19 year grew up to become one of the richest and most powerful men on the planet, with unchecked power.
Have you ever considered the possibility that many people actually are shocked?

Why do “people love to pretend” that genuine outrage and the sincere desire to stop immoral practices doesn’t exist?

Many people sincerely care about what’s right, even if they fall prey to human flaws and cognitive biases from
time to time.

Perhaps those who talk about how “everyone” just “loves to act like” x and “virtue signal” y are merely projecting their own values on to the rest of us?
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What kind of data are we talking about here?

I'm sure there are all kinds of metrics and analytics available but I'm interested:

What are the "rawest" forms of user interaction that Facebook makes available to these companies?

I'm not in the business of using this data and neither I suspect are most of the Guardian readership so it would be nice to see this elucidated.
I agree with you that not everything is perfect in Germany with respect to data protection. Not even close. However, our data protection laws are uncontroversially stronger than elsewhere (specifically compared to the US), and I'm almost certain that the courts will find that Facebook violated them.
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Ask HN: which platform to buy BTC with a SEPA instant transfer?

SEPA instant transfers should be there within 10 seconds delay.
Exactly. What kind of controls could there possibly be?

Even doing an audit wouldn't necessarily reveal anything. If somebody has data that they want to hide I'm not sure how much can really be done to force them to reveal it.
This is really excellent advice. It was the first thing that jumped out at me when I read the language spec.

It's one of the reason why I think Go seems to draw more people from dynamic languages than static because the static folks have a tendency to shoehorn some old habits into it.
There is new fuel. Did you miss the video of the CEO of Cambridge Analytica bragging about how his company stole 200 elections around the world by lying and cheating and deceiving the public? With illegal methods abound?

Lots of new fuel.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/23/magazine/the-obama-campaig...

... the campaign literally knew every single wavering voter in the country that it needed to persuade to vote for Obama, by name, address, race, sex and income.

...the digital-analytics team, led by Rayid Ghani, a 35-year-old research scientist from Accenture Labs, developed an idea: Why not try sifting through self-described supporters’ Facebook pages in search of friends who might be on the campaign’s list of the most persuadable voters? Then the campaign could ask the self-identified supporters to bring their undecided friends along.

...They started with a list that grew to a million people who had signed into the campaign Web site through Facebook. When people opted to do so, they were met with a prompt asking to grant the campaign permission to scan their Facebook friends lists, their photos and other personal information.

So, they used Facebook data, including "Friends" lists and personal information that those "Friends" had never directly consented to providing to the campaign.
Regarding "they got the users’ permission initially" this is true for the users that signed up for it, not anybody in their social graph. GDPR treats data about a user as data belonging to this user. Those people have definitely not consented to having their data mined for this use case.

Next (as I understand) the consent was for research purposes, not for the CA targeting. So under GDPR Cambridge Analytica could be fined 4% of global revenue or €20M - whichever is HIGHER [1]

[1] https://www.gdpreu.org/compliance/fines-and-penalties/
> Is it natural for people to assume that these laws are broken at such a large scale? And that abuse goes completely unchallenged for years?

In Germany where data-leaks (which are a symptom of insufficient data protection) at telecommunication providers seem to happen on the regular, with no (reported) punishment as a result, yes I think that is a bit naive.
The underlying third-party bank was SolarisBank[0], for anyone who's interested.

[0]: https://www.solarisbank.com/de/
I am a lifetime choral singer and during a recent medical exam I was asked to take a series of deep breaths. So I took my usual singer's diaphragmatic breath and was complemented on my "yoga breathing"!
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Intel just open sourced Stephen Hawking’s speech system and it’s a .NET app
Right and I'm saying that the broader point is it's legal for these companies, Facebook and Equifax being two of the biggest, to have massive caches of highly invasive personal data and have 0 legal obligation to protect it (they can do anything they want with it). How invasive is it for a company like weatherbug to be selling your location data to the highest bidder simply because you want to check the weather on your phone?

The massive industry that has been built around advertising and personal data trading needs to be regulated.
The internet never forgets. You should know that Mark.
Hey thanks for notifying.
I just put up the license.
You can check it.
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What a surprise, a HN article slobbering all over PG Wodehouse again.
From the article:

> He said one Facebook executive advised him against looking too deeply at how the data was being used, warning him: “Do you really want to see what you’ll find?” Parakilas said he interpreted the comment to mean that “Facebook was in a stronger legal position if it didn’t know about the abuse that was happening”.

If this is true – would this constitute willful blindness, and is that not illegal?
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>Ignoring problems costs nothing.

It's not even as simple as this. Sometimes, ignoring problems can actually be cheaper. Public perception, as well as government fines, will often treat companies nicer if they were ignorant to the full breadth of security issues than if they knew about them but did nothing.

It's a failing of our system to be sure. I've been asked to stop doing a security assessment halfway through, because once the client realized that the assessment wasn't going to just be "everything is 100% A-OK!", they didn't want it to be on record. If they were breached, they didn't want any paper trail of the executives knowing about the security vulnerabilities that could increase their liability in court. They preferred to be able to claim ignorance.
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On the other hand, iOS (and early Android) gets a pass as they never had the concept of "default browser" to begin with.

Windows had this concept for a while (and still has) and is just intentionally ignoring it - that's definitely hostile.
Core audience means people who know how to search and dig out the information they want to find. Not everybody using search knows how to do that, or search for keywords before they start their main search.
I actually know Sandy and he’s a conscientious guy who cares about this stuff. He’s a good dude who wants to make positive change by being in the conversation.
Given the incredibly small number of unmanned, autonomous vehicles on the road, and the fact that they stick to fairly uncomplicated urban and suburban terrains, the comparison would be meaningless. The numbers for autonomous vehicles would border on statistical insignificance.

You're being very tendentious rather than objective, rhetorical rather than dialectical.
For Facebook, an actual data breach would be better. They could button things up and make some statements and move on.

This appears to have been systemic and profitable for them because companies would turn around and pay them for highly targeted ads. They ignored it because of greed.
The Middle Eastern countries have long-simmering tensions, both internationally and internally, and those conflicts do not make possession of nuclear weapons a good idea. Allowing more countries in the Middle East to acquire nuclear weapons is probably strategically bad for the entire world. Therefore, the rest of the world, including the evil hegemonic United States, will use considerable political and economic means to try to prevent that. And military force, if it can be done with reasonable safety, given that it's not just the U.S. that doesn't want new members in the nuclear club, but the entire world, including NATO and the UN.

It's not a matter of "we're better than you, therefore we get nuclear weapons and you don't, ha ha." It's that our political system and domestic behavior, however dysfunctional, is still more stable, and we have some experience holding onto nukes without using them, having muddled our way (luckily) through the Cold War.
> For the fans who were complaining that they couldn't get tickets for low-seating high-interest events, well that's just too bad. You had the same chance as everyone else. I've sat in ticket queues (offline and online), I've furiously refreshed ticket pages for events with room for less than 100 people just to be sure to get a ticket, 5+ months in advance. I really like the system we have here, where a big wallet is not some kind of guarantee that you'll get a ticket.

These same arguments are / were used in favor of unpaid internships. Except, of course, that it takes a certain level of financial freedom or support to do things like wait in lines for concert tickets. Just because your paying time instead of money in these queues, does not mean that it doesn't carry a cost.
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Tizen basically limits development to web apps and the Samsung SDK agreement signs all your rights over to Samsung (unless something changed recently). Because of Samsung's strong-armed control over a "Linux foundation project", nobody wants to touch it (Meego was way better in that regard -- Intel and Nokia have much better corporate culture regarding open source projects).

FirefoxOS had some potential, but the Firefox guys killed it and it was often viewed as bad Android (probably due to only shipping on crappy devices).

A premium phone with webOS could be a device that has the benefit of web apps, with the fallback of native (a big feature for a lot of important apps) with a compelling UI.
Same questions. These would be good to know.
Calculating a position (and time) from the GPS data is basically a case of throwing it in a matrix and calculating the fix with the least squared error, and many receivers do just just. However, many (most?) actually use a Kalman filter, which takes into account the estimated error from the previous fix (and calculates a new estimated error to be taken into account for the next fix). So what you're suggesting is already done inside the receiver.

This is also the ideal place to add in additional data such as from an accelerometer. If you only have the calculated position (and speeds, which are useful for figuring out how far you're actually likely to have moved since the last fix) but not the error estimates to work on then you've thrown away much of the useful data.
From the article:

The San Francisco Chronicle late Monday reported that Tempe Police Chief Sylvia Moir said that from viewing videos taken from the vehicle “it’s very clear it would have been difficult to avoid this collision in any kind of mode (autonomous or human-driven) based on how she came from the shadows right into the roadway." (bit.ly/2IADRUF)

Moir told the Chronicle, “I suspect preliminarily it appears that the Uber would likely not be at fault in this accident,” but she did not rule out that charges could be filed against the operator in the Uber vehicle, the paper reported.
"Breach" specifically implies that defenses were penetrated. But as you said, Facebook is not trying to protect our data.

This is far worse than if the data were taken from them unwillingly, because it vastly increases the number of entities with unfettered access to it.
Two things can result in the same outcome without being the same thing.
Wait until you see the video of these guys:

https://www.sentiance.com/

(via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16626752)
Yes, this is news. However, it really shouldn't surprise any users of facebook that facebook would find ways to monetize their data, being carelessly abusive in the process.
I thought it was fairly well know those Facebook "like" and "share" buttons you find places were also trackers. At least I recall reading that several years ago, things may have changed.
Likely it happened a bunch of times and only two of them survived to present.
Your zeal for covering up Iranian actions betrays an extreme bias or hired mission.

The only countries even somewhat denying Iranian involvement in Yemen are its allies in the UN Security Council, and Russia isn't even really denying it, just blocking resolutions. Iranian soldiers have been killed or captured non-stop over the last 20 years in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan and Lebanon. They have directly supplied every Shia militant group in the Middle East for decades.

The fact that you deny this makes me believe you've been told to.
Wow, TIL. 65% of electricity production is from oil. How incredibly wasteful.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_Saudi_Arabia#Electri...
I would be optimistic if most Americans actually read the BBC ( or read, for that matter). I would venture to say most however, do not. For example, a popular right wing propaganda news source that most Americans watch has had a handful of articles this year, and skimpy coverage on air.
I've seen smart TV's with annoyingly long startup times, more similar to a low end cell phone than a television, but I haven't investigated enough to know if that's a consistent issue across manufacturers.
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"The saddest words of tongue or pen are not 'It might have been', they are "joint checking account'."

(One of the Uncle Fred novels, read long ago.)
I was about to call bullshit about that 1990 claim as well. Not just people hanging out, but there were (and still are) restaurant critiques writer for every newspaper with a decent coverage. News about a new good restaurant always spread.
The context is he was 19 and the quote's from an instant message conversation.

I've never seen an "explanation." It seems self-explanatory. I haven't seen an apology either, but this was in the New Yorker:

When I asked Zuckerberg about the IMs that have already been published online, and that I have also obtained and confirmed, he said that he “absolutely” regretted them ... Zuckerberg’s sophomoric former self, he insists, shouldn’t define who he is now.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/09/20/the-face-of-fa...
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See, the thing about international relations is this: All those carrier battle groups, and ballistic missiles, and submarines, and main battle tanks, and commandos, and spy satellites, and long range strategic bombers, etc, etc, constitute a country's "right" to XYZ, where XYZ is anything related to international relations. That's why they are created and maintained.
Where do I read about the outdoor air conditioning? This sounds somewhat viable to me, if we are talking about some semi-enclosed spaces, and there is no wind at all.
We're adults here but that doesn't mean we should pursue a higher level of discourse.

If you want cursing or other low content, there's always Reddit.
One thing I can't quite find a straight answer to: is there any suggestion that either FB or CA broke the law here?

Note that I'm not saying that any of this is ok just because there was no illegality.
AFAIK Facebook shared data of non-consenting individuals ("friends") of consenting individuals. In light of the GDPR this would be at least borderline to illegal. As well data from consenting parties was used in a manner not consented to (that would cross the line) and handed over to a fourth party. Finally FB did not ensure proper data handling (crossing the line again). At least when regulators would be willing they'd had a leg to stand on.
>Why can America get Npower and nukes but SA can't?

Mostly cause America got Nukes first
> Who teaches developers that it's okay to work for anyone as long as the tech is cool and the salary is great?

Who teaches them otherwise?

Absent parental/primary-school-instilled ethics, rather a lot of engineers operate in a bubble of like-minded (and similarly-employed) people, making large amounts of money, and are often insulated (voluntarily, deliberately, or accidentally) from the impact of their work.

What could be changed to improve on that situation? I've heard simplistic suggestions to "sue the C-class until they learn/abandon the incredibly lucrative profit motive", "fire/imprison engineers whose changes harm people", and "make the bridge-builder stand under bridge they built" (whatever that means in a software context). Those seem utopian. What tangible, plausible changes can be made to improve on developer accountability (for their work) and discernment (about prospective employers)?
For the executives, it is better not to know. As soon as they know they are liable and must disclose it. As long as they don't know they can claim ignorance.
The very same thing, not even with multiple copies of a giant Excel spreadsheet.
RTK stands for Real Time Kinematics, for those who (like me) wondered.
I think the trust is a new thing though, new to the social media age. I remember growing up with computers in the 90's and people I knew wouldn't even consider entering a credit card number on a website. Now we give them freely. People used anonymous handles on AIM. At some point this changed and people decided they could be themselves on the internet, which is a fine idea, but the trust just went too far.
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> It's that our political system and domestic behavior, however dysfunctional, is still more stable, and we have some experience holding onto nukes without using them, having muddled our way (luckily) through the Cold War

Isnt US the only country to have used multiple nuclear bombs in a real war, but still allowed to keep them?
No, they're not.

Look, I'm a developer, I'm somewhat privacy-conscious, and I quit Facebook years ago because they're slimy.

But "doesn't keep up with technology and privacy news" is not the same as "dumb". For any product as big as Facebook, there are people of all kinds using it, including many who are brilliant.

Is it wise to trust Facebook with your data? No. But not having come to that conclusion doesn't make someone dumb. Please don't be so condescending. I'm sure many of those "dumb" people could be condescending about some of your life decisions based on their own expertise. But it's not helpful.
Not by me. IDGAF about Trump or American politics. I hate all marketing and advertising equally whether you're selling a politician or cars.

The real story is that there is an entire industry that needs to be reined in, starting with Facebook. Sadly I'm not too optimistic. But whatever: I will just continue to use ublock origin.
Yes. Yes. Lukoil gas stations.
So then why are you on HN instead of Reddit?
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In my opinion, Bush should be tried in the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity.

Hundreds of thousands Iraqs were kill in and after the war, and nobody is responsible for it, only because the invaders are the most powerful and wealthiest countries in the world.
A CEO Mark Zuckerberg who started (or so) the whole thing to get data on his study buddies.
Why can't you slow down when driving past tall parked vehicles that you can't see through? If you are going slower you will have a chance to see them in advance, select a speed where your stopping distance is less than the length of the obstruction and be prepared to brake. You will have no chance of striking all but the most willfully suicidal of pedestrians.

Near my house there is an arterial I often cross where a large bush on the corner of the intersection obscures the view to the left from the stop sign roughly 10 feet back. I don't just stop at the sign then YOLO through the intersection, I stop, then creep forward, first looking for pedestrians or bicyclist that might step out from the bushes, then at the edge of bushes I stop again and look again both left and right for cars and bikes or pedestrians in the far lane before proceeding across. I often have to stop another time between the sign and the bushes for the pedestrian or bicyclist that just emerged, if I was focusing on getting across the arterial and beating cross traffic I would have killed every one of them.
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There were many people working on the Manhattan project who then later became nonproliferation advocates. I personally would rather that people feel like they can work for companies that have made mistakes and voice their opinions about where things should go. It would be pretty hard to find out what is happening at companies if there weren't former employees talking about it.
> It's interesting to see how many people make excuses for still using Facebook because it makes event organizing and the like easier.

One of my favourite tweets, from Mike Monteiro:

https://twitter.com/monteiro/status/321048448889663488

> I’ve heard excuses from people who want to quit Facebook but can’t that would make heroin addicts blush.
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It sure is, as well as it's powerful brother, Borland/Inprise C++ Builder, two IDEs that definitely deserve a spot on this list.
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Please explain how raising the price of a large pizza increases money in the driver's pocket.
I work for a company that has to provision hosted products for customers across all the clouds and the one that has been impressing me the most lately is Azure. The load balancers are also the gateways (sound network topology), so there is no need for elastic IPs, NAT Gateways, or proxy protocol. The other thing I like about Azure is they have storage classes that automatically cross region replicate. The automatic storage encryption is a bit of an issue, but I know they were working on it, last I checked.

You can’t beat the offerings of AWS, but there are definitely some compliance scenarios that are easier to fulfill on Azure.

We rarely get customer requests for Google Cloud. Seems like it’s mostly Azure and AWS (at least at the enterprise level).
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Unrelated but:

Surprise graphene discovery could unlock secrets of superconductivity
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16627914
I'm pretty sure google (and some of the more obnoxious CDNs) just give more rounds of the captchas to networks they despise (including tor and vpn users), if you try to be anonymous at all they want to punish you for it. Understandable I suppose since it destroys their business model, especially on mobile.

The backlash against tracking is going to be fast and furious, hopefully this wave has crested and will fall back a bit.
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> Some of my friends willingly opt into streaming their position in real time continuously through their smartphones

How do you avoid this? I have a GPS in my car with stored routing information, but if I need to navigate for someone else or get walking/biking directions, I am forced to do this. Printing out directions beforehand is something I did only a few years ago, but these days I don't always have a chance to do that.