skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> Typical members of modern society wouldn't assume that voices in their heads are being beamed in by the government.

> Of course they would, if a) it was common, factual knowledge that the government actively uses such technology, and b) if they were a target for such government. a) and b) will immediately be true for terrorists, if this tech gets deployed.

Governments use propaganda, sure, but "beaming voices into people's head", without their knowledge? I haven't heard of it, definitely not common knowledge. Do you have a source?
For the running subclass of pedestrians, it's a bit more than an annoyance. During my Silicon Valley trips (typically one week a month) I often run on the Stevens Creek trail, early enough that it's pitch black in places. I wear my own headlamp, which I'm careful to keep turned low in both senses. Some of the early Google commuters have their super-bright lights aimed so high that they're right in my face even though my head is even higher than theirs. The resulting blindness might not endanger my life, but it certainly increases the risk of a wrong step leading to a twisted ankle or knee.

The best solution safety-wise would be for the path itself to be lit, but of course there are cost and environment issues with that. So we're left with better lamp design. As others have pointed out, multiple LEDs would be better than just one. Reflectors and lenses to keep the light more focused forward and down would be even better.

Unfortunately, better lights are likely to cost more, so nobody would buy them. As with the SUV drivers and their super-bright blue/purple lights shining straight into car drivers' faces, danger to others is an externality the purchasers don't care about. People will buy the lights that give them the most lumens on the path/road per dollar, even if half the output is not helping them but is increasing danger for others.
digiKam 5.9.0 is released
User accounts. Add a question to the user account registration page only your friends would know the answer to. ;-)
Videos are static content. The big problem with decentralisation is computation. The blockchain can do this but it's still limited to the processing power of a single "virtual" computer.
But something more immersive, more discreet like this, works even better
The thing that never ceases to amaze me is just how easy it is to scrape Facebook profiles. Every other social network has strict usage quota but with FB you can scrape tens of thousands of profiles with a single ip. With a thousand proxies you could scrape all profile pages of any given country. I won't be surprised if there are companies out there doing exactly that as we speak. And FB allows it, probably because it enhances the ecosystem by providing useful insights to corporations.
Japanese Zoning
Exactly this.

Part of the reason is pre-emptive cost cutting by these companies to remove human review from these apps.

Google also played a massive part in this with their strategy for growing the Android app store. (as did Facebook)

Favouring quantity over quality puts users at risk.
Why the loop, vs setting the date once?
That's the one, indeed. Thanks!
Prostitution devalues the defacto-trade currency of relationships- thus every creature dependent for well-beeing on a relationship, will put agents into motion to harass the consumers and providers of the "free-drug-trade".

So, yes, your wife is secretly donating money to harass prostitutes.
I'm not sure about recent Android version, but on my 3~4 years old Alcatel with Android v4.3, there is already a rudimentary preference menu listing the last accesses of app to resources (eg "Instagram accessed contact list 3 hours ago"). The menu is not easily accessible, I found it by chance.
In a consumer app, I would say Snapchat's early camera hack on Android takes the cake.

To be brief, their app ran the Android native camera app in the background and took a screenshot of the resulting feed for the image, bypassing actual integration with Android's camera apps. Having worked on an Android smartphone from the ground up, I can understand their reluctance to commit dev time to having to support so many Android versions and other variations on all the devices out there, but still a lazy weird hack.

https://android.gadgethacks.com/how-to/fyi-why-androids-snap...

https://www.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/64xqv0/snapcha...
No. A dichotomy is mutually exclusive and jointly exhaustive. Since there is no suggestion of such a relationship between women's rights and nudity no dichotomy is presented. Which therefor can't be false.
Name one specific(!) regulation that has so far stopped you (or anyone else) from offering a Facebook competitor with better privacy.
موزه ی تاریخ یهود (jewish musem)
Compare ad tech that news websites use to what Cambridge Analytica did.

1. Ad tech:

As I browse, my interests are accumulated into basic interest groups, demographic data, and maybe recently visited websites that use tracking.

The result: when I visit a news website, I might see an ad for tennis racquets (because of interest), or a local bank (because of location), or DigitalOcean hosting, because I recently visited that site.

2. Facebook's platform, used by Cambridge Analytica:

I install a Facebook psychological quiz app (supposedly from the prestigious Cambridge university), and give it permission to access my data.

Through that, Republican campaigns also access my grandmother's account, with all of her photos, likes, and comments. They use that data to learn her deepest fears.

They hire designers and writers to create fake news websites, and get their propaganda stories to appear in her Facebook news feed, where they appear to be legitimate right next to the news about the local sports team.

The result: when I visit for Christmas, I have to try to calm her down, that Hillary Clinton isn't actually running a late term abortion clinic out of a pizza parlor. And she won't believe me.
Facebook always required the initial user to give permissions including access to friends. But for many years once that was granted all public/friend shared friend data was available that others shared with their friends by design. They closed that off with OpenGraph v2 where they even changed friend ids/invites to be unique to the app so that data was not able to be correlated easily across apps. They did it for privacy but mainly because other groups were pulling in the social graph and maybe it became a competitive threat.

People that weren't developers or in marketing probably had the expectation Facebook was a private walled garden where they were only sharing with their friends but once one friend gave those permissions, many bad apps started to see how they could pull down the entire social graph. This has since changed with OpenGraph v2 in 2013-14 but it was exploited by nefarious groups for a time.

I think most of the permissions model was fine before the bad apps and shady groups that are using your data for targeting purposes beyond games, apps and ads. Once it started to be used for aims beyond harmless fun like games that is where people got angry especially in targeted politics.
OOP paradigm made my soul cry, I had zero understanding of superclass etc. Most of what I did was poking around until the compiler didn't complain.
Depending on your speed, you need more than a few meters. That said, I always manually dip my headlight when approaching someone.
I don't think it's deliberate. They just don't care enough to expend effort on aiming the light correctly. Maybe they don't care because they don't realize the effect it has on others. They get lights that are actually twice as bright as they need to be, adjust them so that half the light goes forward and down like it should, and they're happy. Never mind that the rest of the light is blinding others.
When a User uses a Facebook app and the app developer gets not only a bunch of data about the User but also about everyone in the User's social graph, that should be illegal; the User's friends did not give consent.
> Chinese state's many sordid actions in Nepal,

> China's destruction of Nepal

Do you mean Tibet?
Really, for me most of my analysis knowledge is based on counter-examples. The counter-examples motivate the theorems and definitions, help check intuitions, and sometimes even help me remember the theorems and definitions.
It isn't so weird when you remember that is how evolution works with biological creatures as well. If we all got together and tried to agree on the next singular mutation to our DNA, the whole thing just wouldn't work.
P– persuasion:The a to z of mindful presenting
Thank you. Hacker News works because adults make their points succinctly and without personal attacks. The exchange above this is the kind of "you don't understand" "no, you don't understand" time-wasting that killed Slashdot.
NTP would resync it, and obviously after X hours it would no longer be end of year even if you set the date in the past.

It needed to be end of year day for 2 or 3 days.
Does FOSTA apply to VPS providers?

Do VPS providers have to be wary of what sort of tenants they host?

Edit:

What if I rent a VPS and host a porn site?
What if the whole world including the US Adopted/Converged to IFRS?
Guys, seriously. Why is this a surprise for people? Facebook is a corporation that literally lives from analysing and selling data about everyone, even people who have not signed up for Facebook, WhatsUp or Instagram accounts.

Facebook android application asks you for the following permissions when you install it:

This app has access to:
Device & app history

retrieve running apps

Identity

find accounts on the device
add or remove accounts
read your own contact card

Calendar

read calendar events plus confidential information
add or modify calendar events and send email to guests without owners' knowledge

Contacts

find accounts on the device
read your contacts
modify your contacts

Location

approximate location (network-based)
precise location (GPS and network-based)

SMS

read your text messages (SMS or MMS)

Phone

directly call phone numbers
read call log
read phone status and identity
write call log

Photos/Media/Files

read the contents of your USB storage
modify or delete the contents of your USB storage

Storage

read the contents of your USB storage
modify or delete the contents of your USB storage

Camera

take pictures and videos

Microphone

record audio

Wi-Fi connection information

view Wi-Fi connections

Device ID & call information

read phone status and identity

Other

download files without notification
adjust your wallpaper size
receive data from Internet
view network connections
create accounts and set passwords
read battery statistics
send sticky broadcast
change network connectivity
connect and disconnect from Wi-Fi
expand/collapse status bar
full network access
change your audio settings
read sync settings
run at startup
reorder running apps
set wallpaper
draw over other apps
control vibration
prevent device from sleeping
toggle sync on and off
install shortcuts
read Google service configuration

It does literally ask you to grant access to your text messages and call logs. Why would anyone expect Facebook NOT to use that data? You all cant be such native, right?
are there cases when this really happened?
Lights get brighter, irises narrow letting less light in, so your own headlights are less effective and you miss details in the shadows. So get brighter lights. Repeat.
Facebook and Cambridge Analytica: A Psychographic Fairy Story
same. is there a shorter version too?
Gas boiler in an old building with a safety mechanism that would trip and latch/lockout sometimes in high wind conditions, requiring a manual power cycle to restore heat.

Solution: Arduino and a relay in-line to cut the power for 1 minute every 120 minutes.

Planned to add a DS1820 to only cut power when required, but never got around to it.
Didn't Ubuntu just switch back to Xorg from Wayland?

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/01/xorg-will-default-displa...
Ask HN: I'm looking for beta users for a mental health and motivational bot
I have built a bot version of a daily gratitude checkin which will expand to cover all areas of life that you want to work on. It works on noticing opportunities instead of setting goals.

If you have goals or habits you want to develop, this bot could help. I've found it hugely useful in keeping my mood up and keeping me focused on long term objectives even when stressed and distracted.

It would work for sports, career, education, family or anything else you want to improve.

Ping me on twitter - https://twitter.com/danfrost - if you're interested in being a beta user for this, and help me make a truly useful bot mentor.

[Edit] The bot is current a facebook messenger bot but will be a native app soon, when the details of the chat content are worked out.
I have one thing to add.
Whenever you meet a new example, check that example against your intuitions. When they mismatch, that is a great learning moment.

These also help in finding 'counter-examples' which tend to be very constructive.
Userland PCI drivers
> I'm sure a lot of people who personally use these lights are also annoyed by other users of them.

I'm sure a few are, but there's probably also a lot of selective perception going on. They're hyper-aware of others causing problems, maybe they even stop to look at their own lights but don't even realize that this alignment could cause that problem they saw. Also, a lot of the worst offenders are bike commuters, who are all going the same way at the same times, so they're not even likely to notice very many goofballs shining light in their faces.
You mean, instead of fixing _just_ the atoi() crash, that developer fixed all crashes with his patch? Quite the clever bastard!
This seems to be a very common problem as evinced by the many solutions below. A friend of mine asked me solve the problem for him because he was remotely accessing a database and the company-issued laptop, VPN client, remote server and database server all had aggressive timeouts. Getting a cup of coffee meant logging in to everything again using long and complex company-issued passwords.

We used one of the common Raspberry PI Human Interface Device (HID) Python packages to send a harmless keyboard or mouse event once every 5 minutes.
@singularity2001 yes, Kim dotcom with MegaUpload
I'm not aware of the meaning of the three letter acronym and I'm not planning to learn it. willfullingly ignorant if you will
I lost interest after this unsubstantiated statement:

These divergent philosophies could account for why French children are generally better-behaved than their American counterparts.
I would guess the system was probably running ntpd or some other time sync service that they were unwilling or unable to turn off.
Black bears aren't as violent as many people think. They kill less than one person per year.

I'll grant you, encountering a mother bear near her cubs is not a good scenario. I certainly wouldn't volunteer to be in that situation, but statistically speaking, you were unlikely to be harmed.
Refactorings can safe future heat losses by enabling easier maintainance and extensibility.
Welcome to how the internet used to be. It's amazing that people's memories are so short on this subject, if you have enough smart people pushing corporate experience X or Y then everyone assumes that's the only option.

The first step is rejecting the aggressive attempts at corporations to ensure you live in their "garden" as much as possible. It's bizarre that people are doing gymnastics about how if you just restrict yourself to this certain 3% of the food in that garden everything will be ok.

How about setting out on your own instead? How about starting from: "I don't need youtube, I don't need amazon, I don't need google analytics" and figuring it out?

That's what everyone used to do.
I can't find the links right now, maybe later.
Even thought I prefer geeqie [0] I always look forward to the new digiKam release.
Managing your photos in linux is tedious to be frank, I run my lightweight system and mostly manage it through shell scripts.
If digiKam was more lightweight I would certainly use it again, but using this full blown kde app gave me more than one headache (not to say that digikam is not great if someone asks me what program he/she should use for managing photos I wouldn't think twice)

I tried every alternative I could find f-spot [1], shotwell [2], gthumb [3] and some more. Some alternatives without packages or updates in the last 5 years like mapivi and jbrout I didn't even try.
Digikam was unstable at times and sometimes a bit on the slow side, but functions wise it went above and beyond anything the other programs had to offer (the only feature that was missing was sorting images by orientation and ratio). If at any point in time I'll be looking for an alternative to my current solution the first thing I will take a look at will be digiKam.

[0] http://geeqie.org/

[1] http://f-spot.org/ (last update 2010)

[2] https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Shotwell/

[3] https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Gthumb
Talk starts at 2:57, the introduction was dragging on and dragging on some more...
The problem is that there's an equal and opposite reaction. American police are far more likely to shoot people. I can't prove it, but it seems plausible that it's scarier to police a highly armed populace.

In an effort to protect ourselves from police, we've made the police much more violent towards us.
I thought it was also about delay, because the main camera API in some cases imposes a considerable delay (1 second or more), but screenshots are almost instant.
Part of the light is supposed to be going up and to the right (for right hand drive countries) to illuminate road signs that are higher than the light centerline.
In Germany a friend asked the ISP's "data protection commissioner" (Datenschutzbeauftragter;) if he could regularly get a new IP address for privacy reasons. He did received answer saying: "this will not help you"
Calling the US "a functioning market" is a bit rich.

The US society and politics are way too heavily tilted towards the employers, the people who already wield an disproportionate amount of power over their employees.

If you actually take the time to voice your displeasure over situations like this, you are an extreme outlier. Most people don't give a shit, and even fewer will even hear of stuff like this happening. Even if they do hear about it, they'll forget in a week or two.

In the end, nothing will actually change. Employers will still exploit the employees for profit, and fire people for absolutely no reason at all, while making potential new employees jump through ever more hoops in the desperate hope for a job.
Actually, IIS automatically restarts the worker thread once a day by default; meaning most developers are unaware of memory/resource leaks that don't end up causing a crash within 24 hours. Got called in to look at quite a few "random" issues that turned out to be resource leaks that only showed when the site was under enough stress for it to hit the brick wall within the 24 hour recycle period.
3M Avagard D Instant Hand Antiseptic Sanitizer with Moisturizers – 3M Avagard D
At least CJEU has ruled that austrian company running uk-hosted website is liable for damages due to copyright infringements occuring in france [1].

http://copyrightblog.kluweriplaw.com/2015/02/11/cjeu-mere-ac...
Whenever I enter @danfrost, I get a "Dan Frost" with the handle @danfrostgolf. Is that you?
> I fully expect all the non-professionals involved to be duped into supporting it

It's also not a coincidence that this passed right after Facebook shat on, at least temporarily, tech companies' influence in D.C. One takeaway is we need a broader base who will fight for digital freedoms than big tech companies. Betting on a single point of failure is a losing political strategy.
I would like the option to write code that answers my phone or downloads call information or operates a switchboard etc. I don't have a current application but when faxes existed I might have wanted to automate things with an app of my own devising.

I am not a fan of operating systems that deliberately obfuscate things that could technically be done. If I was developing my mobile customer service app then I would like to develop it in such a way that it would not mysteriously fail due to some overly complicated access keys. Or to require a 'rooted' device.

I would not expect my app to be fit for the Google store though. Or any other online app store. Maybe rather than permissions it is the store and what is allowed in the store that is a problem.
New VPN by Alphabet
Good luck adding that directory to your PATH :)
Same for me. Same goes for Infiniti. I was going to get a G35 a few years back, but because of this, I didn't.

Won't make any difference to Nissan but that's about the best I can do.
GNOME Shell on Ubuntu 17.10 is eating >1Gb RAM, I think it might be a good time to try KDE (unfortunately, it didn't work to just apt install kubuntu-desktop, so I'll have to do that via clean install sometime later).
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Facebook has been collecting call history, sms data
Imaginary cities down to the square inch
No its location of server that did it for Megaupload.

https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2015/12/28/extradition-juris...

In short, much of Megaupload’s servers were located in the U.S. This, for the purpose of jurisdiction, means two things. First, much of the alleged crimes took place physically in the United States. The infringements, the payments, etc. took place, at least in large part, in Virginia even if the people orchestrating it were scattered all over the world.

More importantly though, courts in both the U.S. and now New Zealand have ruled that these servers provide sufficient contact with the U.S. to give it jurisdiction over the criminal case. While jurisdiction alone doesn’t mean a person can be extradited, it’s a crucial step and this also explains why a man who never set foot in the U.S. can be extradited to it for a crime committed online.

However, this isn’t the first time the U.S. has used the server argument it’s been using it for years to combat securities fraud in the country.
The Original IBM Think Pad
I can't think of a better gift to truly-uncensorable platforms.
One of my old bosses had a company named United Healthcare registered in my state. Guess who had to just accept it, yeah the big UHC. He spun it down decades ago as he sold it and all the associated businesses off to another large healthcare company.
And objc_msgsend is implemented in Assembler. ObjC does NOT get compiled to C first.
Facebook is too big to fail
No - this is me: https://twitter.com/danfrost
It’s interesting to think of the interplay of carbon taxes and economic standing. I think high gasoline taxes would, on balance, benefit society. It would at the same time disproportionately affect the working and commuting poor.
I believe many people reading this thread would have already seen first-hand the capability of new technologies to disrupt existing power structures and they'd have no problem extrapolating to present-future scenarios.

As powerful as the four-horsemen might now have become, they'll surely become past-their-prime IBMs or Microsofts in subsequent generations.

In this context, a responsibility of technologists is to provide another round of disruption - sooner than the last - in order to prevent incumbents from getting too entrenched.
What happens when it's your Mother or Father?
I don't think it's ok for a company to decide to target a specific content. Pornography is no different than any content. Next day they decide to ban firearms, nature, space photos etc.
That's pathetic.