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Edit: seems HN filters out emojis. There is indeed a devil emoji, however.
I don't know... I used to think this, then I talked to 'regular' people (well, as 'regular' as people are that I meet). I know, I know, 'anecdata', but views I tend to get are either split between "Facebook is the worst, can't wait for it to get shut down" vs "It's creepy what all these companies do, but what can I do?".
I remember coming to SE Asia a couple of years ago, and finding it amazing how I could order an Uber with the same app / account that I do in the West (albeit only from major, supported cities).

However, returning recently, for me (at leat anecdotally) it’s almost infeasible to order an Uber here now due to their low driver rates. Grab seems to be everywhere, but with rates similar to Uber, I do wonder what went wrong. I was thinking only the other day that it feels like Uber let this opportunity slip through their fingers.

Both platforms are vastly cheaper than their western services ($1 for over a mile). They also both offer ‘moto’/motorcycle hire for one-person rides which is extremely convenient... I’m wondering why we don’t have similar services in the built-up western cities such as London or New York.
How many modern insurgents have been citizen owners of legal weapons and how many have been armed after they decided to fight?

I think the example isn't instructive as to the importance of widespread ownership. If there is a large group that wants to raise hell for a government, they will be able to obtain weapons.
The jury can be overruled, but the facts of the case cannot be changed. New evidence cannot be introduced, new arguments are generally limited. Basically,the appeals courts in the US exist to remedy wrongs done by lower courts (failure to follow rules, bad interpretation of the law, etc). They do not rehear the case in its entirety.

Appeals courts can word their decisions broadly or narrowly, in an attempt to control how much their decision can be applied to future cares.
Google edits its search results to achieve political agenda. This is worse than Facebook, which is just used by other political actors. Google does it without a profit incentive, and if its own accord.

Evidence: Search “European History” or “American Inventors” in google.com. Now go to www.google.es and search “gente europea historia” or “inventor americano”.
I have been maintaining a nextcloud instance for some time (migrated from owncloud).
It initially was for my personal usage, but over time I created accounts for relatives, friends, university and work colleagues (free Dropbox !!).

I’d have never thought it’s so customizable:
in the store there is an app for xmpp chat with a fb-like ui (very popular amongst my younger friends) and the social aspect can be managed by Circles [https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/circles], control over visibility and permissions is included.

Of course, it does not scale to millions of users, but that’s the point. The approach is a middle ground between “delete social media” and “own your own domain”.
What’s Behind Japan’s Enduring Love of Emily Bronte’s ‘Wuthering Heights’?
Animals constantly 'work out'. If you've ever had an indoor cat they seen as generally one of the lazier creatures but they will every once in a while just spaz out and start bouncing off the walls. It's not just for fun - it's an instinct that helps keep them in shape. It's the same for all animals. They will constantly work out. It looks like play, but it serves a valuable purpose -- somewhat like how young predators will regularly play fight with each other. That's not just for fun.

Evolution and life is primarily an optimization game. And our bodies are product of that. When we do things, we tend to become better at them. When we don't do things, we tend to lose our ability to do them well, hopefully in lieu of new focuses. Even the brain works this way - as becomes readily apparent when you age and can see in your acquaintances who continues to work with their brain, and who instead spends their time watching television and imbibing.
dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16670291 with active discussion (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16670291 was a dupe as well but first post didn't gain traction)
> I just haven't fooled myself into thinking that prostitution isn't a victimless crime

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> SoftBank Group Corp., a major backer of Grab’s and Uber’s as well as China’s Didi Chuxing, has pushed consolidation to improve the profitability of a global ride-hailing business that bleeds billions of dollars a year

The anticompetitive effects of common ownership [1] have been hypothesized in respect of the public markets:

"A lot of the way we traditionally think about corporate governance does not fully account for the fact that most investors are diversified. This comes up a lot in mergers and acquisitions. Company A wants to buy Company B. If they combine, they will have cost savings worth $X, and the question is how much of $X goes to Company B shareholders in the form of merger premium and how much of it goes to Company A shareholders. If you are a diversified investor holding a proportional amount of both companies' shares, you don't care at all. You just want the deal done. But because corporate law, at least in the M&A context, gives directors a duty to maximize value for their shareholders, Company B will negotiate hard to get as much of the premium as possible. Money will be spent on bankers and lawyers. Company A might be pushed to raise a lot of debt to pay more, making the benefits of the deal riskier (for Company A). And Company B might ultimately just say no to a deal because it doesn't like how the benefits are split, denying those benefits to diversified shareholders. By maximizing value for its shareholders, considered as its shareholders, Company B might actually be hurting those same shareholders, considering their entire portfolios." [2]

One doesn't find Fidelity going out and saying "you two should merge so you can raise prices on consumers." But I guess that's okay if you're Softbank?

[1] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2427345

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2015-04-16/should-mu...
Clean, simple UI that fits the purpose...read top stories in one look. Maybe some sort of filter button to sort stories based on each sites ranking attribute (e.g. hackernews/reddit sort by votes or comments)
A function called dig(key) that iterated over a map to find the value. It even had a comment above it that complained about the slowness of the function, and that C version was available to improve the performance. Facepalm.
Living rural it's amazing how many urban drivers leave their high beams on the moment they get on a rural road, not understanding the right protocol for turning them on and off depending on oncoming traffic, etc. I don't know how you get through a driver's test like that, but it happens.

That, and it's getting hard to differentiate between high beams and regular lights on trucks and SUVs. On a dark rural road it can be downright dangerous.
> endless summer

Do you mean the eternal September [0]? Going back to the Internet being only for governments and universities is a bad idea, a bad thing to want.

I think the complaint at the moment is not the that masses are controlling the shape of the Internet but that a few corporations are both directly shaping it and, intentionally or not, shaping the masses.

RSS could maybe make a comeback. Podcasts are RSS and are more popular than ever. Subscribing to YouTube channels, following people on Twitter, these are actions people understand and do, it could be extended, "hey, why not use this thing that lets you subscribe and follow your favorite stuff not on individual web sites but everywhere?" The problem is, it makes it harder to make money off those eyeballs than to keep them in your walled garden.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
Indeed, progressive supremacists and feminist supremacists that seek to cleanse the world of "oppression" and "correct" past oppression are just puritans of a different flavor.

Decrying rape and helping actual victims is one thing, attacking all heterosexual males as privileged oppressors is something else.
Honda “Paper”
Are you saying that Uber charges about the same as Grab, but in Grab drivers get paid more? Even though Uber is burning a shitload of investors cash..
Yeah, let's outlaw public, centralized, easy to track and target forms of communication about sex work! If we don't let people talk about it where we can see it, it must mean people aren't doing it!

No way they'll just move to loosely structured, encrypted p2p networks.

"Sponsored by Senators Portman, Blumenthal, McCain, McCaskill, Cornyn, and Heitkamp"

Luddites.
Is there one that you recommend?
There are comments in this thread suggesting that FB made the OpenGraph changes to preserve their competitive advantage. If they lock down their APIs even more, I wouldn’t be surprised to see more accusations of these.
All of h3h3's videos are silly. That's his style of comedy.

You can't see that a video shaped entirely by left-wing identity politics that blames all men for the crimes of a few, that ignores practical realities contributing to the issue, has a left-wing bias? Are you serious?
KDE4 was also terribly bug ridden. I used to advocate for KDE heavily but after suffering through bugs in KWin and KMail/Akonadi that went unresolved for years I gave up and moved to Gnome.

There was a KWin bug that filled the task bar with graphical artifacts over time so that you couldn't tell anymore which taskbar "button" was for which window. They kept blaming the video drivers until someone proved to them that they had a resource leak in KWin.

The KMail/Akonadi bug that I still remember vividly as it was very annoying and long lived was one where you would get messages duplicated.
Try 'info bash', it's a lot easier to browse. 'info' by itself gives you a menu of installed info documentation. 'C-h i' in Emacs.
Wasnt there this spot on the planet with constant thunderstorms?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYVWb_QgQwU
Yes, of course I can be manipulated. By the way, "manipulation" is a very loosely defined term: you're trying to change my mind right now, which is also a form of manipulation. It doesn't contradict the fact that my decisions are still my responsibility.
Yep, liberals are so full of themselves and surround themselves with other liberals only, so the thought of someone actually voting differently is hard to fathom for them, be it Trump, Brexit, Le Pen. They are trying to rationalize it somehow that the poor people are being manipulated by Russia/fake news/Facebook/CA/insert the next week's boogeyman.
So is this a twitter bot or why should we write to you on twitter? The bot could be interesting, but if this means having to have a twitter profile it negates (for me) the positive impact it could have (I find twitter more of a nuisance and distraction).
I think you just are not capable of understanding religious thinking if you have to ask these questions. Try to put yourself in the shoes of someone premodern for whom God is every bit as real and present as the natural world. Even the most religious today are, in some respects, not on the same level as medieval people in this way.
iOS asks for a permission only when an application actually tries to use protected data. It is very clear to user and was like that since forever. You simply tap “deny” at runtime and never care that it will access something you don’t want.

Android has similar behavior, but only for new-style apps (starting with 6.x, as someone corrected me in last year’s thread). Trillions of old-style apps still enjoy TOS-like god permissions, afaik.
I'm always updating to latest greatest KDE since 3.5 and I think you mean KDE4 instead (which actually was more of a PR fiasco than anything technical).
Computer science has an ethics crisis. The Cambridge Analytica scandal proves it
Know Your Customer (KYC) Using Face Recognition
You turn a T-shirt inside out the same way you do a plastic bag. The fact that there are a few extra holes makes no difference. I suppose someone could bring a whole lot of fancy mathematical thinking to this, but why?
And now grab vs gojek
That gains nothing, since the attacker can simple connect to the service, replaying your hash, and see which certificate comes back. Take a look at https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-tls-sni-encryption-02 which on its section 2 has a long list of requirements a solution should meet; hashing the SNI fails at least the first two (Mitigate Replay Attacks and Avoid Widely Shared Secrets).
Wordpress being used in a regulated software project.
Can hashgraph succeed blockchain as the technology of choice cryptocurrencies
Behind the Facebook data scandal: The drive to censor the Internet
Cyclists aim their lights up so that cars can see them. The lights on a bicycle exist more so the cyclist can be seen than for the cyclist to see.
The stench of urine and feces is dominating, the random exposure to homeless folks mental problems is a daily occurrence, drug paraphernalia (eg: heroin needles) and trash are scattered throughout. SF downtown is an absolute dump.

Go ahead, take a 30 minute walk just north of The Mission. Turn a corner and you'll find a homeless dude standing with a vacant look on his face and pants around his ankles, letting his penis sway in the morning sun.

Turn another corner and you'll find someone shooting up with reckless abandon.

Turn another and you'll be an uninvited witness to a homeless dude verbally and physically assaulting someone for no reason.

LA, NYC, Boston, Chicago, Seattle, etc -- at least these have their size to distribute the problem, SF on the other hand is so small and its city council so progressive that there is a critical mass of it all.
An external vendor delivered a new static marketing site written in PHP. Info sec team wouldn't let us install mod_php on the publicly facing servers and the vendor needed more time/money than the budget and timeline allowed to change it. A coworker stood up a local server and wrote a script to periodically crawl it and push changes out to the publicly facing apache servers. It might still be there for all I know.
but... you were forced, basically, to have access to more than was needed in the first place. just to implement fb login, you had to ask for permission for friends list. you couldn't not ask for it, regardless of whether you used it or even wanted it.
At what costs wrt ressource usage & startup time do you get these features? IIRC KDE comes last in all tests about DE performance. I could become potentially interested in KDE if this had changed over the years.
How to Fall Asleep in Two Minutes or Less
We did something a lot like this recently when marketing demanded a wordpress instance.
Thanks for the tip! I'm currently okay with not syncing everything, and for backups I'm quite happy with Tarsnap. But there might be a time where I do need to sort this out.
Currently my website does not activate miners if mobile browser is being used, still trying to reliably identify the laptop crowd though.

I am inclined to display a popup upon entry, telling user to disable script if they are on battery or unwilling to participate in mining. There really aren't a best practice for browser mining for now, but this is my approach for the time being.
Not surprising at all, with GNOME 3 being what it is. Configuring, getting help, discussing and contributing to Plasma is a breeze. In contrast, GNOME camp feels like a bunch of very opinionated people that just know better how their users (and other DEs too, when it comes to interoperability) should behave.
Nice and efficient. There’s an elegance to this solution that’s hard to grasp unless you’ve been in a similar situation before.
Easy and Simple Paper Flower for Room Decoration
I find Uber tends to be a bit cheaper than Grab in Vietnam (give or take the weekly discounts).

My one trip to Malaysia, I found Grab to be the cheaper choice.

source: living in Vietnam for ~1 year.
They're a scrappy startup, and don't have much legal firepower. They're having hard time find people, so I agreed to help them. But after reading the comments here, I think it's better to back out instead of having potential future legal troubles.
It's a facebook messenger bot at the moment but it'll be native app eventually when the details of the chat content are ironed out. I hope to continue the FB bot being free forever, but it depends how it pans out..
Sure, just ignore that sex wasn't something consenting adults could do unless they where married, whenever that was.
I know what I'm about to say is totally uncalled for and frowned upon on HN but I really just can't help it right now:

Fight, fight, fight!
Open tabs are cognitive spaces
(I live in SE Asia.)

Grab did a better job of having an offering that fit the local markets, whereas Uber tried to fit its US model here. It has since adapted but Grab has always executed faster and better.

Grab showed up front pricing first. Grab allowed paying by cash. GrabPay has been (somewhat) adopted by other companies.
Map escape key to it. Especially if you use vim.
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C'mon... Google maps will ask me turn my GPS every damn time I use it; no way "to remember this choice", but if I activated it, it is super happy to remember it.

Still don't see anything wrong?
That's how I learned a lot of things; by literally scanning through everything it had to offer and googling what I didn't understand. I did that for linux utils, language references, most programs I use and most codebases I had to work on.

One notable example is the time I had to learn C# 4 years ago. It took an entire morning to scan through the entire language reference and then later I found out I already knew a lot more than "advanced" devs who would just look up stuff as they needed it, without knowing what actually is available in the first place.

I feel its the only sensible advice if you want to learn a lot on your own with limited time.
yeah like kim dotcom? being located in one country is no defense against committing a crime another country.
GBOSHOP – LPG equipments for cars
Whilst this isn't really in production. I was porting AOSP to an Android TV I owned. However, I wanted to use the latest version of Android, but I had some closed-source graphics composition binary blobs to interface with; they were for an older Android API. Naturally, this meant writing a wrapper from the new API back to the old API.

For some reason, every so often (sporadically) I'd get a segfault inside the closed-source binary blob. To get things "working", in my wrapper, I captured the stack before calling the occasionally segfaulting function, and setup a segfault handler that would simply restore the stack to its state prior to the crash.

Unfortunately, after restoring the stack, a subsequent call to the closed-source function would hang. I did some preliminary reverse engineering of the binary blobs and found that it was segfaulting whilst having retained a mutex. So I did, ah... the obvious thing(?) and just grabbed the raw memory address of the mutex, and released it myself when a segfault was encountered.

Surprisingly this all "worked". In the end I had a TV that thought it was a 65" phone, lock screen and all. Umm, yay!

Here's the code:

https://gist.github.com/Benjamin-Dobell/bb13f6169aaa48625453...
You are saying that they don't have girlfriends because they are ugly and therefore we should limit access to porn (which is mostly targeted on men instead of on women)? How will his low access to paid or causual tinder sex make her consider him more attractive?

Also I am very strongly agains paradigm where "everybody can get sex in commited relationship". It is wrong, because it would punish good people who end up with abusive, cruel, overly controlling, violent ot simply very difficult people. (Of both genders of course).

There is no and should not be entitlement to have partner.
There's dozens of us!
Pornography has a special status, to say it is no different is just disingenuous.
Papers we love
This is not how we do it. Constraints, columns, etc are removed using a post-deployment migration. This means you can't end up with NULL values and the likes.
Not looking forward to this being combined with targeted advertising.
This is hilarious as Snap Inc. bills itself as a "Camera Company"
I find that rapidly flashing bike lights screw with my visual system. I can't concentrate properly if they're in my field of view. They must be a safety hazard unless I'm alone in this respect.
Zuckerberg says sorry in full-page newspaper ads
SJWs protest free speech events, advocate for hate-speech bans, advocate for compelled speech patterns in Canada, prevent conservative speakers for giving lectures on college campuses, among a litany of other such behaviors. They are largely moral authoritarians.

Of course the Evangelical conservatives are no different, but this quote is absolutely applicable to the American left.
> just take another domain name

So an already small company should change their domain, and potentially lose customers as a result, just because a larger company wants to use it?

> beat them to the punch in the early domain-name grab

That is to say he owns the domain. A third-party have a better use for it doesn't define ownership.

> He could have just as easily taken uzinissan.com

It was initially registered due to company names that contained "Nissan" -- registering using a full personal name doesn't make much sense in that case.
That's when you see through the grand illusion and achieve total masterful ascendency. But not before committing a number of felonies.
I, personally, don’t see why it’s necessary to coddle those who are unable to remember a time before garbage “social media” sites, by adopting the term “social internet.”

It’s just The Internet.

None of these sites or apps have done anything new, with the technology we have. It’s the same shit that existed in 1999, but scaled up to more bandwidth, faster client-side hardware, and warehouses full of servers.

Facebook really isn’t an improvement on AOL. Snapchat is just a means of forcing people to delete the lewd emails you’d like to send. Twitter is SMS text messaging, plus a mailing list web UI.

Since maybe 2004, people got sold on the idea of turning their address book into a home page, exposing their contact list as content. But it wasn’t anything new or incredible, it was just user behavior that changed.

Only now, when everyone is desperate for a political scapegoat, are we claiming that it was used to rig elections. But the only difference between the time before “social media” up until now, is that when we just had 900 page paper phone books, the phone book never drew lines to graph connections between phone numbers.

We have smart phones now, and smart phones have been the real game changer. In 1999, an ad campaign would have conflated these devices as supercomputers banned by export treaties, pointing to Game Boys getting used as missile guidance computers or military grade cryptographic hardware. But again, it’s just scaled up network bandwidth and more computing power packed into smaller packages. The real game changing aspect of smart phones is the cameras, hot microphones and uniquely identifiable, trackable radio tags we’ve been brainwashed into carrying.

Insisting on calling it a “social internet” simply treats people like children.

Platform monopolies are not The Internet. The Internet does not require a prefix or qualifier. It’s not the “social” internet.

It’s just The Internet.
As someone who recently had a bad experience with Didi in China, I really wish there would be at least two competitors for each industry at any given point.
>"you two should merge so you can raise prices on consumers."

This is pretty much it. A generic strategy for most of "megafunds"
DTEK by Blackberry app can track/notify on foreground and background permissions usage (but there's no data from before you install it). To log how requested data is actually being used by an app doesn't sound possible to me.