skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The main reason I chose this UI approach because of time (I'm a student with so many exams), so the time for making the basics would take longer. But I do have plans of making the UI better and unique in the nearby future.
The Facebook app itself is the real issue as both the Facebook app and Facebook Messenger require everything including READ_PHONE_STATE and contact permissions and pretty much everything[1][2].

> Where's the reference that you needed READ_PHONE_STATE to suspend your app? Shouldn't the app be automatically suspended when the caller app goes into the foreground?

Mostly for analytics and social platforms to access unique identifier for analytics you needed it such as in Unity up to 2015 [3][4].

> The Android build enforces READ_PHONE_STATE if the code has references to SystemInfo.deviceUniqueIdentifier. INTERNET is added when any network classes are referenced. ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE is added when calling Application.internetReachability

Also, early on it was required for saving state and or ensuring the app didn't crash. Mobile OSes were moving fast and without it the apps didn't auto suspend which they mostly do now. You can see some of this discussion in the links I included above. Anything older than Android Ice Cream required it as well.

It is added in by many plugins as well such as Google Game Play Services or other Analytics packages that most people didn't check. There was a reason the market was and is flooded with analytics packages.

It seems to re-pop up in analytics packages quite a bit and many aren't checking close enough per this example 2016 [4][5][6][7].

Largely it is due to people just building and shipping fast, there are other things that trigger it but the most common are doing things on suspend when a call comes in or to help allow the music to play in your game/app and turn off when a call comes in or analytics packages.

For the most part it is not needed now but up to 2016 it still was in many areas since Android started.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.facebook.k...

[2] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.facebook.o...

[3] https://answers.unity.com/questions/987433/read-phone-state-...

[4] https://forum.unity.com/threads/unity-5-1-adds-android-permi...

[5] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39668549/why-has-the-rea...

[6] https://github.com/facebook/facebook-sdk-for-unity/issues/58

[7] https://forum.unity.com/threads/read_phone_state-permission-...
It's a cognitive bias that kicks in when your monthly salary is involved, as succinctly noted in 1935 by Upton Sinclair:

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!"
The problem is not that they took it. There are always bad actors.

The problem is that very few people cared.

So even if people start leaving facebook in mass, it will just start all over again with another bad actor.
> Even though legally they are in the right

Even that is dubious. Law is interpreted by judges for this exact reason: people pushing it to extremes.
Signal has a desktop app nowadays and Telegram still requires a phone number to use.

While Signal's QR code pairing method is more awkward than Telegram's SMS one, it also prevents your account from getting hacked remotely in Iran by stealing your SMS messages: https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/49976/intelligence/tele...
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Awesome, I think the world would be a better place if more people sought enlightenment.
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Yes, I see there is an issue with small devices and will repair them ASAP.
Securing a distributor has nothing to do with the Cannes film festival main sections, only with the Cannes market.

But an admissible film has to be distributable in a french cinema. The Semaine and Quinzaine even allow Sundance premieres. Let's see what the Quinzaine director says on the Netflix decision, because their profile and selection was superior in the last decade over the official selection. I could see them honoring Bong.

Comparing it The Last Jedi or Black Panther is not equivalent at all, because Cannes cares about artistic qualities only, and Marvel and ‎Lucasfilm Ltd. are not respected for that.
You have to keep it up to date because of all the security issues in other apps that are installed.

If the system only contains the Linux kernel and your software you only have to worry about your security issues (unavoidable) and Linux security issues (also difficult to avoid - too much work to write a new kernel too, plus remote Linux vulnerabilities are quite rare).
number of uploads, obviously. Hacking the human lazyness.
From the comment section to the article:

"The whole point of this is increasing the barrier to entry. For legit readers, the barrier is low: it's asking questions about the article they just read. For trolls, the barrier is much higher, they have to go back and read the article. So, while not perfect, is a pretty clever solution to making it much harder for the undesirables than it is for your regular readers."
I highly recommend Telegram. The issue with having to install yet another app is still present, but me and my close friends have made the switch and haven't looked back since.
I am not sure about the wording of the law. But imho no, this would not be illegal to offer. It would be illegal to use, unless you have permission from everybody.
A few months ago I won about $200 worth of Amazon gift card codes. Since nothing from Amazon delivers to my country I decided to give them to an American friend of mine. I remember it was late for him when I sent him the codes over Facebook so he only used up one right away and then went to sleep.

The next morning, however, the other coupons were all used up. He claims nobody else has access to his FB messages and I never bothered to actually check the validity of the codes on Amazon, so there is enough room for plausible deniability, but this coincided in time with this reddit post https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/79x7u3/facebook_em... and now there's that nagging feeling in the back of my mind that some underpaid 3rd world facebook employee read through the messages and decided to use the codes themselves.

I don't know, this is all probably a stretch, but that moment reached a new low for Facebook in my mind (not that my opinion of them was high before).
It's ridiculously amazing that you're getting downvoted for your general point. Wishful thinking won't change market incentives, although it will help make some profiteers rich.

The young (and healthy) paying for the old (and sick) is a function that can only be provided by government, or bona fide charity. It's impossible for this to be provided by private companies because, in line with the denial behavior we're seeing, it's rational for any company to take on the overpaying low-cost customers, tell the underpaying high-cost customers to go elsewhere, and then pocket the surplus.

Having said that, I'm not personally a believer in single payer fixing everything. It certainly should be possible for routine care for financially able people to be provided completely on the open market. Immediate common-sense based reforms would go a long way. For example, hospitals/providers should be required to have one and only one price list for all payers, published months in advance. And the bundling of "insurance" with employment should be outright prohibited
You can rent a dedicated server for less than $10/month that has enough resources for an estimated 100+ users.
Heavy users that upload a large amount of data (videos, pictures) may be willing to pay more than casual users.
Allowing politicians so heavily regulate business owners has put the EU where it is: in big trouble. It's going to continue to break up. Poland and Hungry are probably next.
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Honestly, I am not very worried about rouge data analytic companies or Russian trolls on facebook.

I am worried that questionable semi-private German entity can block me (e.g. 30 days ban) on facebook at will. I am an US citizen and don't live in Germany. This is outrageous.
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one thing that might make it easier to sell the idea of using signal is that you can also use it to send regular sms messages as well as private ones. that means you only have to switch between two apps, which is what you would be doing anyway
Maybe you should look at TockOS[1].

[1]: https://www.tockos.org/
I think Cocos2d-x is a perfectly suited alternative, especially when you target mobile. However I remember that e.g. render targets were experimental, and in general Desktop is not the main platform. That being said if you hook up an input library even for desktop you can achieve remarkable results [1].

I haven't used the editor much so I won't make any claims here, but if you want to use code, C++ or one of the bindings is your favorite why not Cocos2D-x.

I hope my initial comment did not sound to biased, but to clean this up:

Use whatever feels right to you. I felt very productive with Godot for the type of game I am doing and I just wanted to share my experience :)

[1] Cocos2D-x desktop game "Songbringer" http://store.steampowered.com/app/367080/Songbringer/
You could simply plot recommended sizes for clickable items over time.

Windows 9x used 125% text height of 10pt as clickable item height, that's around 0.441mm.

Android 4.0 recommends a clickable item height of 48dp, "roughly one centimeter".

Android 5.0 uses 56dp (1.17cm), and on Phablets and Tablets even 64dp (1.33cm).

For items in lists, a second effect was seen, as it became recommend to show more info earlier, the number of list items visible at the same time was reduced. A multi line list item has a minimum height of 72dp (1.5cm), average is more around 96dp (2cm).

A similar effect can be seen on Windows, in UWP, the average item height also went to almost exactly 1cm in lists or menus.

This all fits well, as the smalest reliably clickable element in a UI is ~1cm on its smallest dimension.

This is also a common issue with HN, where voting buttons are 0.3 by 0.3cm, even on mobile, and as result I misclick ~2/3rds of the time, but no one seems willing to fix this.
I know this might come across as a nitpick, but A/B testing and similar techniques aren't at all about what users choose. They are about constructing a statistically correct test between two alternatives measured in some predetermined way (eg. transactions/users but equally well consenting users/total users) with the least amount of bias.

The bit about minimizing bias means that you couldn't possibly give users the A/B variants to choose from but instead must assert the best you can that no user is exposed to different variants of the same experiment. You would typically do this by giving the client a cookie with a random seed which you can then hash with a secret and the id of the experiment to get a randomly distributed but sticky/consistent variant assignment that doesn't scale client storage with the number of experiments. Where things get more interesting is how to change behavior when a user logs into a new device. Do you switch to the users set of variant assignments or keep the experience on this device consistent?

This being said, yeah, I'm pretty sure this is the result of optimization on "what fraction of users give consent" while keeping an eye on uninstall rate as a health metric.

Source: Redesigned/rewrote A/B testing (and general optimization) framework for large e-commerce company many years ago.
Is there a version of that with remotely audible audio?
Because uBlock° is an annoying-crap blocker, not just an ad blocker.
It would help if the datasets were categorized by data type. Timeseries, multilabel, etc...
But with Signal you still need a smartphone (i.e: very bad for privacy); while with telegram you don't. Also, with Telegram you can protect the account with a password, so you can use a burner phone, literally once, and then forget about it.
I don't understand how using Facebook for political brainwashing is scarier than using it for brand awareness, product marketing etc. It's the same. If Trump used it for his gain then I must say he was just better at marketing. Hilary should have done a better job at selling herself. If Pepsi markets it's product better than Coke to me then I'll choose Pepsi :)

Yes, the data was mined and illegaly sold to Cambridge Analytica, but there are so many other entities who did the same. It's safe to assume that vast majoritybif not all of member data is out there being used/sold unless nobody in your friend list gave permissions to these apps or you have no friends.
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Try using G search "Tools/All results/Verbatim" option for your 'marco polo doctors' query. Maybe throw in a "-who" as well. These tricks help a little. Of course, one may also ask whether the page that you envision exists on the searchable web. It should, but maybe not.
If you keep your phone in flight mode regularly, why not?
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And that is why I use rails and JQuery for my side projects. It is boring but I can pull it off on my own. If I run into some problems there are thousand already who have had same problem.
Different tools for different jobs.

Choose the best tool for the job
In 88 (I was 19) I was a 'professional mac developer' and wrote a stack in hypercard to convert huge list of points to polygons, and split them with other polygons.

The project was to split the parcels of land from Lille to Paris with the track of the TGV (high speed train) to calculate the expropriation the state was doing to the poor guys who'd end up getting their huge field cut in two, and would have to drive 20 miles to go from one side to the other :-)

Seriously. Hypercard was pretty cool to throw together something quickly, with a UI and more importantly it gave the client the impression they could go an tinker with it afterward.

It was also excellent to mockup UIs and 'processes' and other bits of Mac apps before committing to making them, so even internally at apple, Hypercard (and Supercard) were used a lot for mockups.

There was a huge ecosystem around hypercard, and it lasted for a very long time.

Oh, and Atkinson is still my hero!
Should we talk about Google's shoveling of Google Now, err feed, err Assistant, by constantly asking for us to pay with our position, search and vocal history ?

And this is pre-installed on the phone, with the same dark patterns that would push any non-privacy conscious person to activate it, even by mistake.
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From when Zuckerberg was 19:

According to SAI sources, the following exchange is between a 19-year-old Mark Zuckerberg and a friend shortly after Mark launched The Facebook in his dorm room:

Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard

Zuck: Just ask.

Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS

[Redacted Friend's Name]: What? How'd you manage that one?

Zuck: People just submitted it.

Zuck: I don't know why.

Zuck: They "trust me"

Zuck: Dumb fucks.
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not so true.

"Users can grant or deny access to contact data on a per-app basis. Any call to CNContactStore will block the app while the user is being asked to grant or deny access. Note that the user is prompted only the first time access is requested; any subsequent CNContactStore calls use the existing permissions."

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/contacts#1773385
My knowledge in this area is limited, so maybe others can pipe in, but assuming massive amounts of data on millions (or most?) Facebook users is out in the wild, which cannot be 'put back':

1. how well can this be actually used currently to create a proper psychosocial(?) profile of an individual? What's the current state of the art? Any suggestions for books or papers to read on the matter?

2. do we have any idea of how much our ability to do 1 will improve over time, given the same data? I often find it difficult to separate the Derren Brown style 'profiling' bullshit from what's actually possible. And I also keep reading that 'big data' is not quite as easy to use as it's often made out to.

3. how valuable does this 'stale' data remain? Personality is by definition supposed to remain stable, but I recall learning that even things like friendships, political/world views, other non-personality characteristics are relatively unchanging for most people after somewhere (early?) in their twenties. This could mean that even if Facebook does privacy 'properly', or somehow disappears, there's a rich dataset of individuals that, even if only in the future, be shockingly powerful to manipulate. And we're already scarily susceptible to manipulation using 'conventional' means.
Not all the datasets are ML specific, but hopefully this helps:

- https://www.kaggle.com/tags

- https://www.kaggle.com/tags/linguistics

- https://www.kaggle.com/tags/multiclass-classification

- https://www.kaggle.com/tags/text-data
In law school we were always taught that there are no rights. Rights, in practice are nothing but duties, and should be looked at like that.

You have no right to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness", you have a duty to not interfere with other people's life, liberty or their pursuit of their happiness. But even that is a negative duty. Positive duties, like paying tax, are more like the right to healthcare.

So this should be looked on in similar fashion. Do you have a right to healthcare ? Well, answer the question : do you have the duty to take care of others' health problems, completely irrespective of how it affects you personally (for instance, what if it takes up 90% of your time, while still not doing much more than slightly prolonging a miserable short life for them ?).

These questions are not so simple and knee-jerk statements like "right to healthcare, period" are not helpful and will do nothing but get us into a lot of trouble.

No country has "right to healthcare, period". That does not exist. For the obvious reason that it simply isn't feasible. Providing a named (but finite) list of treatments and medicine free of charge if diagnosed by a licensed physician is the furthest any country goes. In some cases that list is pretty short.
I have used pgModeler(https://pgmodeler.io) some time ago for this and mysql workbench for mysql.
It was still a bit unstable the last time I tried it but it's pretty nice when it works.
"its connected straight to the prod db"

I can't believe what I am reading. Why is that? Why use customer data for dev purposes. Why not work on some mock data?
And as always with this idea, people have no idea how IT and app development works. I also want an app that does my dishes but that’s not how it works..
> So even if people start leaving facebook in mass, it will just start all over again with another bad actor.

unless they want to prevent this from happening in the long run?
I think there was a recent paper that explored this.

Essentially, the AI was showing how it came to a conclusion by, for example, highlighting parts of the image based on how much they contributed to a conclusion (and showed that a husky was mistaken for a wolf because of surrounding snow) or words which lead to context (showing that an AI to identify atheist vs theist texts was using email headers instead of the body).

This doesn't of course explain the entire process but it means a doctor for example can see that the AI concluded it's not the flu because while symptoms A an B were present, C wasn't there was a symptom X that is in the "Not flu" category and the doctor can then easily apply human intuition to say it's the flu after all because the patient is according to the medical record prone to X anyway.
Film art, good or bad, has no place at a sales event if it's already sold. It simply isn't a quality statement. It would be like a wholly owned alphabet subsidiary that doesn't need or take any investors trying to get into ycombinator, or like an NFL team crying foul for not being allowed to compete in the NCAA.
> something like "grep for the Web" would be ideal

A couple of these (e.g., Blekko) popped up 5-10 years ago. I don't think any made it far.
Commands in the article:

git clone https://github.com/ianmiell/cookbook-openshift3-frozen
cd cookbook-openshift3-frozen
git log
git log --oneline
git log --oneline --decorate
git log --oneline --decorate --all
git log --oneline --decorate --all --graph
git log --oneline --decorate --all --graph --simplify-by-decoration
git log --oneline --decorate --all --graph --stat
git log -G 'chef-client' --graph --oneline --stat
git log -G 'chef-client' --graph --oneline --stat --pickaxe-all
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Many apps grabbed contact lists. Path for instance even had an issue with the FTC due to it [1]. Apple implemented better permissions pretty quickly. I recall other apps doing the same up to 2013.

[1] https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2013/02/path-...
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I hate to play devil's advocate against something i agree with here, but there's a lot of subjective ideas here, most obviously determining which button is "most prominent."
An app for planning holidays with 1 click

What's the closest to this? Is there an app where you can specify a destination/price/date and have a 1 click checkout with your bookings and tickets?
I would recommend tig for anyone looking for a cli git repo browser: https://jonas.github.io/tig/ Then there's no need to mess with git log and all its options.
Well, on one point, AMD does have fully open source drivers for Linux at this point so there is atleast that.

Nvidia still deploys a binary blob (which might work with your kernel or not)
> new user growth

That sounds like you are inflating your user counts with garbage accounts.
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The worst part is that they probably suggested these various customers to befriend themselves, just because they all had you in their contact list. Scenarios like these have been reported with unrelated patients of medical professionals.
Just to set things straight - you can use intercom without the popup. And on a more poetic level, a product can be annoying and useful simultaneously. Like a washing machine.
Thanks a lot! We try to make it as easy and enjoyable as possible.
>We would never have newspapers in that case. Very few have ever been able to support themselves on the price the user pays.

Well, if there are no buyers, then why have a product?
Have you tried just putting one leg out? Never fails for me.
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“Mobile and tablet are not yet supported”

Well, heck. Now I can’t even see what is causing so much commentary on the memories of HyperCard.
So how do we solve this? What is the general framework we use to agree to transactions of this kind where users allow access for some data in return for something?
> "I don't understand how using Facebook for political brainwashing is scarier than using it for brand awareness, product marketing etc. It's the same."

Setting aside the partisanship for a moment (because I think it's something people should be concerned about regardless of their politics), I think influencing the electorate or the government (or sowing distrust amongst different segments of society) is more likely going to have an effect on my life than influencing which brand of cola sells more unit sales (to use your example). So, yeah, I think it's potentially scarier to use it for "political brainwashing" (again, your words).