skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most people are buying ads for people to see. Some others, however, are using the platform as access to user’s extensive 3P data, once they click and are shuffled through multiple shady ad exchanges gathering and selling data, including the social graph.

Some others, like CA and ilk, also get easy access to user’s psychometric data, by embedding the psychometrics into A/B tested ad content.

The adage “you are the product” has only become more true as FB has advanced, whether by their intended or explicit policies or not.
Nice one! There are probably caveats to the 5 year timing, or whatever mechanism is chosen, but at least its an idea to iterate on and try out.

Thanks for such a well thought out response.
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> ...but Yahoo! was never content with that. They wanted to be eBay, or Google, or Facebook, or YouTube or whoever else was a big player at the time, instead of focusing on the customer loyalty they had already generated.

This is far from unique about Yahoo! too. So many services I loved using have gone under because they were VC funded and, though successful, useful, etc., weren't able to "eat the world" and so were shuttered.

I keep waiting for Twitter to go under that way. I think the Trump White House may have bought them some time, but they're just too damn top heavy to stay afloat.
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For starters, they accessed 4X the number of profiles that CA did. I have edited my comment, however, because it appears that they did (just like CA) have an app that they used. Except they used it, as one Obama campaign manager put it, to "suck out the whole social graph" of voters in the US, and Facebook "was surprised, but didn't stop [them] once they realized they were doing it".

By the way, this is something that would have been stopped on any other app long before they ever accessed 190 million profiles. So Facebook essentially gave them the entire US social graph, that they wouldn't have allowed any other app with only 1 million users to have.
"They're not a product company, they're a distraction company."

Correction, they are a surveillance company. Need I remind everyone of Google and FB's In-Q-Tel CIA partners in crime? They just figured out a way for everyone to willingly report on themselves, but not just on themselves, on others too! FB is bad and should collapse like every other dotcom boom-bust that uses and abuses it's users... but the difference is the level of monopoly on non-technical users that didn't exist in the 90's. Back then the technical community could have dropped a product like hotcakes and watched it bust... but due to the increase of non-technical users who sign any EULA/TOS and don't give a crap about privacy... I expect nothing will happen until something really bad and at a massive scale happens.

For those who are younger, consider this the slashdot/digg/reddit cycle. Reddit will die next the closer it gets to IPO too.

It's the beauty of computing though. Every market is ripe for disruption if someone has a good vision and follow-through. The problem is that so many of them use the exact same model and a few years later are the ones dying due to lack of integrity.
Fire supression should be pretty easy in this configuration. Get a 55 gallon drum of deionised water, put it on top of you battery shack, feed a plastic hose from the bottom of the tank into the shed and seal the hose with a plastic that melts at, say, 150 F.
How do they get transaction history even for transactions involving non-Amazon-owned companies?
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Not to disparage your choices, but do you worry that limiting your news feed down to two objectively left-leaning sources is going to put you into a bit of a filter bubble?

On paper, one of the reasons I like aggregators is that they should be showing me news that I otherwise might miss. Unfortunately, Google News seems to be pretty bad about that and I think it's just reinforcing my own culture bubble.
It's not clear to me how much, if any, of the work was done in the United Kingdom or by British companies.

If the are companies in the UK, or people working in the UK, the sharing or retention of data may have been illegal under British law.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Protection_Act_1998
Why was the title of this submission changed?
https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/facebook-data-...

"Facebook was surprised we were able to suck out the whole social graph, but they didn't stop us once they realized that was what we were doing." - Carol Davidsen, Former Obama Campaign Director
I rightly hope that everyone is scared shitless about the possibility of any war - let alone nuclear war.
A bunch of racists who feel morally superior.
This depends on where you live. I only really read about ageism being a problem in the valley. Locally (US Northwest) I've never seen any sign of it.
It happens in all societies where people are forced to conform and markets are closed to people without a license. Japan is economically the mono-ethnic version of what US/EU are moving towards: a society where you must fill in the boxes given by the system or f* off.

On hacker news since most people are in CS/IT, a field that is almost free (but not for long), it may look like we still live under goverments that are business friendly. But that's not the case at all in other sectors, and many people aten't allowed to find a place in the market.

People today can't get their feet wet when trying to find a place in the market, they must immediately do a full dive. No wonder more and more are drowning.
No, I'm calling you intellectually disingenuous for reading a comment about internal corporate surveillance, and choosing to pontificate on word choice when the meaning is trivial to understand. Blatantly misquoting me also doesn't help.
What was ReactJS doing a few years ago that was wrong then but correct now? Since I don't know what that is, did the spec change during that time?

As far as I know right now, custom attributes goes against the html standard.
This general problem discussed in this article, a technological change affecting the perceived nuclear arsenal balance, is a reminder of the existential peril of nuclear weapons that we have seemingly forgotten since the fall of the Soviet Union. In some ways this peril has never been greater than it is today with unpredictable leaders of nuclear powers and ever-decreasing barriers to entry for nuclear weapons (e.g. North Korea).

As Einstein said in 1955, when the existential threat was both new and real, “You may reasonably expect a man to walk a tightrope safely for ten minutes; it would be unreasonable to do so without accident for two hundred years.”

We are complacent at our species’ peril. How many intelligent civilizations in the universe have ended shortly after the dawning of their nuclear age? That’s one possible explanation for the Fermi Paradox.

Thus far, humans have been unable to resist use of a technology to gain power and the abstention from use of nuclear power seems only as strong as the current world power structure, which will inevitably fail. There are no easy solutions to this problem but it’s one we must solve to survive. Perhaps we even need to change ourselves biologically, as a species. To engineer ourselves off the paleolithic savannah into one fit to survive in the modern world of nuclear powers and interconnection.
An example would be helpful so here is one https://github.com/moritz/json/blob/master/lib/JSON/Tiny/Gra...
Am I the only one who finds New Yorker cartoons dreadfully unfunny? I used to have a subscription, and found myself wishing I could get a discount by subscribing to a cartoon-less version.
:) Nice I am contemplating
> No sense turning this battery example into an insurance thread.

aww
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> I don't know, they should have done it when Obama committed even worse Facebook privacy violations back in 2008/2012.

I know a lot of folks have been desperate to make a false equivalence with the Obama campaign's social media use, but it doesn't pass the sniff test:

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2018/03/21/no-obama-didnt-empl...
Yes, especially because I read the comments when the title was more accurate and came back thinking this was a new submission.

This is a completely irrelevant title.
So, if an acknowledgement is needed... It's needed because there might be an implication of privacy, right?
Wow. I have no idea why they would do this, it's so much worse!

Seems to work fine in Chrome on Android though?
While we're on the subject of questionably-relevant comparisons, remember that bacon contains 500% more vitamin C, and 100% less sugar than Coca Cola.
This was why I was assuming the Russians brought back the nuclear torpedo. Not needing the B part of a ICBM greatly decreases fuel and thus size requirement.
Sure, but home cooked food is fairly likely to include a sauce (e.g. vegetables in a tomato sauce) and thus not require as many condiments.
I agree there is definitely a bias towards such results - but I fear that completely free-for-all open access reviewing will make the effect even greater.
I'm not talking about anything shady here. We're told that they're going to update our desktop SSL certificates for this reason. Partially CYA, partially compliance/legal. I'd probably quit if someone were keylogging or screengrabbing my work machine without my knowledge, but I'm not talking about employers being sneaky.

And this is exactly end-to-end encryption that the original thread responder mentioned; I know it's in place so I won't connect to my personal accounts from the work machine. That's what my phone is for (and I won't use their wifi for my phone, either).
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Is it technically possible to add an image/link like "Find us on Twitter" without embedding anything that ultimately requests a Twitter-hosted asset?
> Beatles solo careers are prime victims of this unfortunate standard.

Quite true. Each Beatle's solo albums always had 2-3 good to great songs. This is pretty much what each would bring to a Beatles album too, but collectively, that would give them 6-10 really great tracks per album. They never could possibly deliver entire albums of greatness (or even "really good"ness) year after year individually.

Put another way, each Beatles album could be looked at as a 'best of' each member at that point in time. A "greatest hits" collection every 6 months or so, really. But no one person would be able to keep that pace (even they couldn't, eventually).
We use G Suite and even though it provides identity services, our master is still Active Directory. I'm not in charge of these systems, but I'm wondering how viable it would be to use this as the master source and have AD retrive identity data from it instead.
The amount of energy isn't the most interesting thing to consider: a stack of logs contains way more energy than such a powerwall. What matters is “how stable” is that energy storage, and batteries are way less stable than wood ;)
guys; let me know what you think. any feedback or suggestions would be greatly helpful!
I guess, but plenty of the people I’m thinking of such as Marco Arment, John Gruber, and other tech folks certainly do.

These are just the kinds of folks prepdisposed to like Instagram over Facebook.
> Even the idea that developers were supposed to delete the information they had before was just a civil agreement between the company and themselves - it wasn't illegal. Facebook can certainly sue them over it, but there are no violations of the law occurring here

Perhaps not in the US, but I'd like to point out that it's not the same way everywhere: I think the EU is moving towards another direction. There's a whole thing around whether a company has a responsibility to do due diligence around preserving the personal information of its users. Just because you gave them your data doesn't always mean that they can now do whatever they want with it (e.g. give access to detailed information in large amounts to third parties). Even if you sign an agreement, in many jurisdictions there are certain rights a company can't just make you sign away.
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No mention of the word "sorry"
I am out of the loop. What's with Theranos ?
I hope you're kidding. Not sure what the rule on repeating myself is but since this is currently the top comment in this chain, I'll post it here anyway:

https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/facebook-data-....

"Facebook was surprised we were able to suck out the whole social graph, but they didn't stop us once they realized that was what we were doing." - Carol Davidsen, Former Obama Campaign Director

They used the exact same technique to access data from 190 million profiles - and about 189 million of those were without explicit authorization. Exactly the same technique, just with 4X the reach that CA had.
This assumes that the profiles are the most valuable data they have, which I tend to doubt. It seems like the real money is in the interactions between users, the engagement with the feed (what gets eyeballs) and the third-party sources like their tracking pixels and referrer data.
Like others, I also like the novel service workers solution (mitigation might be more accurate) to client side code integrity.

I’m more interested in how you handle the encryption keys. Specifically, how does a user share a document with another? You mentioned that the “share group” has its own private key; where is this stored?
Eye contact is another thing that doesn't apply in some Asian countries where by default everyone has dark tinted windows making it virtually impossible to see inside other vehicles.
Or nitrogen fixing, the oceans aren't great for nitrogen, being made of water rather than air. Oxygen isn't that scarce at the surface levels, normal waves help with that.

Around 40 million years ago when grasses started to take over there was a big resultant change of what went on in the ocean, more nutrients, i.e. fixed nitrogen. This was former 'soil' blown off continents that had gone through a bit of climate change. River sediment too.

What happened at the big bang for life 500 million years ago to resolve the nitrogen problem is beyond my wikipedia skills.

Also what was the original atmosphere made of, before the oxygen takeover?

What I think is amazing is that every rusted or oxidised thing had to get its oxygen from somewhere, i.e. the waste product from micro-organisms getting their carbon. The atmosphere only came about when everything that could be oxidised was oxidised.
Facebook has cut down more and more on that as they've decided to be an advertising company instead of a platform. The vast majority of their data issues come from pre-2015 when they were still experimenting with their business model.

Honestly, at the moment, Facebook has huge economic incentives to keep as much data to itself as possible. Facebook being the only place where you can microtarget to such an extent is a huge moat around their business.
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Your strings could get REALLY long.

Suppose you have 3 items:

id pos name
1 'a' apple
2 'm' banana
3 'z' cherry

You move cherry to the middle of the list. Now, you have:

id pos name
1 'a' apple
3 'g' cherry
2 'm' banana

Now you move banana back to the middle of the list, which gives you this:

id pos name
1 'a' apple
2 'd' banana
3 'g' cherry

Keep doing this, and the gap keeps shrinking. You need to make pos longer to be more precise to fit in the gap. Eventually you run out of space in your string field.
What are you basing the assertion about Rich Hickey's haskell experience on? His github doesn't have any haskell code, for instance.
> In particular, Russia is now in the process of testing a 40-ton nuclear-powered underwater unmanned vehicle (UUV) that could robotically deliver, across thousands of kilometers, a 100-megaton nuclear warhead against the coastal cities and ports of the United States.

Interesting. What kind of damage would that do. Maybe a few of those blowing up at the same time would cause a tsunami wave? It sounds like something out of Dr. Strangelove. Water is also good at dampening explosions, I'd think.

Aha, there is XKCD for this already: https://what-if.xkcd.com/15 . It turns out the wave created by one won't be like a tsunami wave as it will break too quickly. So maybe they'd need to stagger a few devices in a row.

Linked from there is a very thorough paper "Evaluation of Various Theoretical Models For Underwater Explosion" http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/737271.pdf
Why should he come up with a solution to help you get paid? If you're making a living unethically it's not up to me to figure out a way for you to do it ethically. In any case, there are plenty of other people who have figured out how to do that and there isn't the slightest reason to believe that all software being free means nobody would get paid to write it.
Funny you mention adblocker. You'd think it's the biggest concern for publishers, but they're not scared of what they don't know. News publishers don't exactly have nimble cutting edge engineering departments dedicated to min/maxing advertising revenue. Adblockers also block many general purpose analytics scripts that would inform the publisher that the adblocker is a threat.

Very few publishers are willing to implement a hard paywall that could only be passed via confirmed payment. Especially when it relies on some 3rd party integration working. When there's a chance that that micropayment API doesn't work, no one thinks it's the payers fault, the blame always lies with the publisher in the user's eye, even when it's almost always the payer's fault. And there's nothing worse than pissing off a paying user.

And hard paywalls require engineering investment, which newspapers tend to not have. It's practically effortless pushing static content up to a CDN with some ad serving scripts. It's a lot of work accepting micropayments on every request.
Yes, you can. But if your message is that social media networks are "privacy villians" then you shouldn't have a Twitter or a link to it in the first place.
I was fortunate enough to be in a situation where I could pursue it full time. I started part time, really liked it, and decided to complete it full time.
Yes, this is especially true at larger companies. In my case, a small company picked me up.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theranos#Controversy

Most recently, in particular:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theranos#SEC_fraud_charge
a mirror :)
Yea - found you actually and can share meta details privately if you liked. Fortunately wasn't the DB port.

On that front we automatically just don't touch any of the unsubs for the new system, so was worried that was messed up. Doesn't look like it though. Not a lawyer either, but from my understanding it's the same list even if you change marketing automation/email products. GDPR is making this fun, too. :)
Hah, interesting. His old site is still up https://sites.google.com/site/ericsachs2/ but at least his LinkedIn page is up to date. Thanks!
In the video Mark prefaces the joke explaining that his girlfriend thinks her pug is the cutest thing in the world, and he’s clearly miffed by this (you can imagine the arguments between them) as his personal opinion is that pugs are the perfect example of why humans shouldn’t be trying to breed animals. So he set off to train the pug to do the most decidedly least cute thing possible, which was to raise its paw on the command of “Sieg Heil”. [1]

The concerning thing here is that the hate crime statute in the UK is based not on the intent of the speaker or the state of mind of the speaker, but how anyone hearing the speech decides that they feel about it. In fact, even lacking an actual complainant is no burden, the state merely claims that is could be offensive and concerns some community afforded special protection therefore it is hate speech.

You can argue about the comedic quality or value, but it’s pretty clear watching the video it’s highly sarcastic and dark humor and a hell of a prank, but not hate speech under any reasonable definition.

And this of course is exactly the problem with so-called “hate speech” and various laws (untested by the Supreme Court in the US as far as I’m aware) that have come up against it.

In the USA thank god we still have the right to offend, but clearly this is something which has been lost to the UK and appears to becoming weaponized to surpress political activism as well (see recent stories of Tommy Robinson at Speakers Corner).

This comes on the heels, earlier this week, the London Police had to amend their website after claiming that people can be “charged” with an “offence” if their actions are within the law but their “reasons for doing it” are perceived as illegal hate by others. Thankfully that’s not actually true under statute. But as we see here, the thought police is still alive and well.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYslEzHbpus (NSFW - Viewer discretion advised)
Did you read the link at all? Or did you just see the title and decide you needed to vomit your opinion?
If this was about tracking and informed consent, then the illegal ity is there https://amp.theguardian.com/technology/2015/mar/31/facebook-...

There was no consent because tracking was not opt-in but opt out.

More recently regarding user personal details and lack of consent, again deemed illegal in Germany https://amp.theguardian.com/technology/2018/feb/12/facebook-...

The pattern I see is that europe considers facebook's methods to commoditize users' data to be unreasonable and will be regulated.
That is equivalent to the "Arbitrary Precision" section under Approach 2.
That's the easy case. In a typical enterprise environment a software developer may be faced with several roundtrips to the centralized/outsourced it support to get their build folders white listed in the company approved (and forcibly installed) AV software to make a simple CMake run take less than 10 minutes (something that takes about 5 seconds on a stock Linux machine).
Yes, but assuming partial good faith (this does sound like an oxymoron, but humor me) - how would I go about checking for cert misuses?
Same here (I'm in the UK).

It really depends on the age of what you know.
Yeah this is one of the worst part about this whole situation. Everyone screaming ILLEGAL!! and also somehow acting like Facebook is the only one doing this?

Almost EVERY free site is trying their damn best to collect as much info and link everything together to sell it so they can- you know.. make money.

I guess those people are instead willing to pay for virtually every site they use on the internet, right? Right? crickets
I disagree, because Facebook's incentive is to keep all their information to themselves in an advertising business. If their the only ones who have it, then in order to get the same form of targeting you have to pay them.
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You're not alone. I personally think they're a multi-decade instance of the "soap, no radio!" experiment: if you fashion yourself a NY socialite, you'll nervously laugh.
Well if that’s why, it’s ironic because I’m a huge fan of privatizing space travel and competition which has ensued.
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