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1. Open chrome settings

2. Go to content settings add domain encrypted.google.com

3. disable javascript & cookie on this domain.

4. Search exclusively on encrypted.google.com

5. Download adblocker and disable all google ads.

Google can't track no shit. I reviewed https://myactivity.google.com/item and all I can see is youtube browsing history.
You don't need NSA cash, you just need a place that will pay your X dollars to put in their advertising / monitoring malware on the device. The reincarnation of the browser bar.
> In 2012, I wrote an article for Bitch Magazine

Seems ironic.
On Android there is OSMand and Openstreetmap in general.
The only problem being that address search is not great and there is no context search.
You can get an app called AddresstoGPS, which anonymously queries Google's search and let's you output GPS coordinates to OSMand or similar.

As for Google Mail - There are many great E-Mail hosters like ProtonMail, coupled with your favorite E-Mail client it has no downsides, unless you miss tight Google Products integration.
Just like they overwrite Windows drivers with their own flashy ones for a "better experience".
Tesla's usual deposit scheme has an escape clause for everyone, you aren't committed until you actually configure the vehicle. Until then, you can get a deposit refund at any time.
There's a secondary common-knowledge/coordination effect here, though, it's not just “individuals being lazy”: if someone gets antsy about whether ey will look awkward in front of eir friends for making the assumption that they will be willing to spend on something, then that feeds into the feedback spiral of “I don't really believe it'll work and I feel reluctant and don't want to tell people about this in case it's uncool”.

A colleague of mine said that this suggested what was really necessary was to allow simple prosocial spending that wasn't too in-your-face, along the lines of how it's possible for one person to rent a game server for several people. Less individual anxiety over spending, since among other things there's enough of a social script for that.
I am sorry. TBQH you're kinda right that my tone is too acidic. That's what happens when you post on HN at 2am :) / :( My point, independent of its tone, still stands.

I do believe I made it clear I'm NOT referring to unintentional ignorance. I'm complaining about people who act like they know everything, not people who genuinely don't know some things and have the humility and common sense to not hide it.

I do have incredible contempt for people with this level of hubris and it hasn't been a problem for me so far and I don't intend to change. Since it has not been a problem in my career, I guess I come off pretty well in IRL social situations but we're just having a text-based misunderstanding or whatever.

I have absolutely no contempt for anyone who is willing to admit they don't know everything, and have spent plenty of time working on teams where everyone was great partly because they had that kind of humility.

FWIW, most people are decent like that. I'm just sick of even having to deal with that small egotistical minority. So is everyone else.

The specific thing I'm most sick of is people who think knowing how to program is some kind of genius level skill, so if you have it, you get to accordingly act like you are an expert at all manner of unrelated things too. News flash: programming is easy, it only seems hard for temporary social/historical reasons. Literacy also used to be a very, very special skill. Times change.
>which was a smart decision

And a lucky one. I'm boggled that they found a 4 bedroom in Cambridge MA for $460k in 2012. I was very actively looking for real-estate in Cambridge that same year, and decent 3 bedroom condos started at $500k. I don't think I saw a single 4 bedroom single family home under $1M. Maybe it was a wreck that were able to fix up for not to much $$.

Today their formula can't be replicated here. Any place in that area that can rent for $4400/mo. costs well over $1M so they had great luck AND great timing (interest rates were around 3% also) - on top of smarts and hard work I'm sure.
Okay sure but you don't get 1:1
Going to the list of supported devices and doing a stupid count (-> document.querySelectorAll("table.device tr") - I didn't see a count after a few seconds, so..), I'd say it's a bit more than a handful. :) 237 unless I messed up.

1: https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/
AI? You think it needs Facebook's AI?

Facebook literally did this study. Not, as an AI thing, as in Data Scientists actually did a study on the rates of depression when you changed people's news feed to show primarily positive and negative news. And then Facebook used that data to tune how negative they could make the feed and still drive engagement.

One of the signals they were getting from that study was suicide rate. I'm not certain how it was measured; I don't care. I saw that it was measured and decided that it was not a place I could stand to work.

Their standard operation is to preform studies that wouldn't even be laughed out of an ethical review committee. They don't blink an eye. They just don't begin to view their users as humans.

Facebook are war criminals. There's nothing more to it.
> they should do their jobs without any extra nudging I suppose?

Consider a U.S. Senator representing Arkansas considering a bill regulating nuclear energy. The Senator is no expert in nukes. How should he determine to whom to speak? If a renowned nuclear physicist in California wants to speak with the Senator, should that be banned?

Lobbying, i.e. people--individually or in assembly--expressing their political views to elected leaders, is an inherent side effect of the First Amendment. (And, I'd argue, of democracy.)
I'd be interested to hear how eg fastmail is or isn't an alternative for someone who feel locked-in to Gmail.

In my mind it's mostly a creepy and half-assed webmail provider with crappy imap support. But I've never really used Gmail all that much (because: creepy evil ad company and email is an obvious bad combination).
If you go to "Other Google activity" via the sidebar you can find Location History, Device Information, Google Play Sound Search History and some other stuff.
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They also use Clojure (2017): https://tech.grammarly.com/blog/building-etl-pipelines-with-...
quit reading when he dropped “retarded.”

he should know better.
I'm not surprised. But then again does Google give that data to some shady app a friend of me has installed? I don't think so.
Stop using sites that collect and/or sell your data. Good email replacement is TutaNota or ProtonMail. Good search engine replacement is DuckDuckGo.
Yes, it is hard to explain. Something about those companies employee shareholders individually having free speech rights via the company that they own. It was a recent change.

I don't really mind companies lobbying for things, I suspect that it has more good than bad from open lines of communication of needs from the business community. But the balance has to be right. It shouldn't be one company drowning out a million people.

The NRA is at least made up of real human members. Who shockingly donated $85M to them in since 2005. I may dislike their point of view, but they certainly deserve to be able to lobby.
I see Google have a business case for turning Google.com into an SPA...
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Hopefully it'll become more common with GDPR...
Using something like pip-compile, or literally `pip freeze > requirements.txt`?
Reminds me of this passage from Homo Deus

One popular scenario imagines a corporation designing the first artificial super-intelligence, and giving it an innocent test such as calculating pi.

Before anyone realises what is happening, the AI takes over the planet, eliminates the human race, launches a conquest campaign to the end of the galaxy, and transforms the entire known universe into a giant super-computer that for billions upon billions of years calculates pi ever more accurately.

After all, this is the divine mission its creator gave it.
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> It’s easy to overlook how much advertising works.

It works at a deeper level than you appear to describe. Agricultural society is a machine for converting increasing proportions of the Earth's biomass into larger numbers of biological humans. Culture is a set of practises for creating persons from that raw human material. Marketing is a means for business to capture culture for the purpose of creating persons with values overwhelmingly tilted towards goods-acquisition. The consequent positive feedback loop makes a marketing-driven culture incompatible with the continued existence of a healthy living planet. Marketing's victory over a sustainable culture was well-entrenched before the internet, which is essentially a (powerful) accelerant. We will slide faster into self-destruction with the internet than otherwise, but it's the same destination.

A population of self-abnegating saints may have saved us from this, but beyond such fantasies, concentrating on the 'morality' of individuals in advertising is a misdirection. Once the machine was set in motion, the dismal result was probably inevitable.
If learning statistics means hanging around your kind of personality, then no thank you. Hope you understand this with your giant brain. :)
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His title is threatening murder. I honestly can't comprehend why you would think he would know better than to use that word when he doesn't know better than to flippantly threaten (mass) murder in the title.
Achieved a local optimum, not global optimum. One technique to avoid getting stuck in such local optimums is to have some children which have extreme mutations.
I don't think the general doctrine applies in this case, given that the law is written to require specific form for no apparent reason, and there is precedent that otherwise meeting the requirement but not following the prescribed form does not result in the desired outcome.

I would put more weight on the possibility of considering it a 1031 like-kind exchange, than a tax free merger/reorganization . Although I don't have a lot of exposure to the 1031 rules to know if there's a clear objection there.
And not only companies, probably your government too
This is fine, but I want to be an informed voter. My vote, political and environmental donations, and my investment all are related to news. Wouldn't I be abdicating my duty to be an informed citizen by tuning out? How could a democracy function if the majority of voters did this?
Because normal users are not techies. They just use whatever they want and not getting into their company information, privacy or other things.

World is about money. You have to realize that that best money come form people who don't give a f$#k. They click on ads, they give their personal data, they buy the most, etc. We can rant as much as we want that Apple does not give us PRO hardware that Microsoft does the same but most of their income is from ordinary people who just use their hardware/software.
But the excel replacement is a 3 year IT project with a 60% chance to fail and an enormous budget. By the time it is done, the user will have forgotten what this project was even for.

Software development in large corporates is just too slow, costly and unreliable.
To me what changed with Facebook was that the local address book that I had on my phone became a tree in a central graph owned by a company and I was fine giving out that information. Today who could muster up the trust needed for me to let them know about everyone I know? I think no such company exists or ever will.

I have no social internet accounts left except for this one. I even recently deleted my Linkedin account even though that is bad for my career (?). I just don't want to feel raped all the time. I keep getting Linkedin-ish head-hunting emails though but I'm sure that'll clear up in a year or so.

If I'm ever socializing again on the internet, give me something that doesn't rape me in the *. Otherwise I'm fine just socializing IRL.

I hope we are a void and that something new is about to happen.
I felt like that when I heard the UK was going to vote on leaving the EU. I’d not followed UK news for a while and was so out of the loop that the vote was even happening surprised me.

I didn’t get round to renewing my postal vote as I thought it didn’t really effect me anymore anyway - my new life in the Netherlands was what mattered.

Then Leave won, and Brexit was going to happen. I remember waking up to the news and feeling horrified. Then in the coming days I felt a sense of shock: actually Brexit did effect me, of course. I would lose my right to work and stay freely here in the Netherlands, my home of 8 years. Where I had a family with 4 kids.

The point is I now believe every citizen should remain at least minimally informed and involved on politics “back home” and locally. I vote every chance I get now. And I still regret not voting in Brexit.
Ok, we've done that. (Submitted title was "I Hate the News by Aaron Shwartz (2006)".)

We tend to take author names out of titles because HN works better when the focus is on content rather than personalities. It stays on personalities anyhow when a famous person is in the mix, but this tactic compensates a bit.

Plus in Aaron's case the author name is already encoded in the domain name.
I actually think they deserve some credit for putting this page together. It helps you understand what they’re collecting and gives you an easy way to turn the tracking off.
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People get killed in thousands because of them. I'm not sure if they should enjoy this kind of a freedom!
> The point is that your b2b customer is itself a b2c business that holds customer data in the product you sold them.

This is not true of most SaaS products I use on daily basis e.g. calendar, gmail, Slack, GitHub, code review tools, CI server, etc.
Empirically we buy a company, tell the accounting team that we are changing to gsuite and see if the CTO gets fired, or the accounting team quits, or the company gets a hit.

IF neither, Gsuite is ok.
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Why is money involved, though?
I'll just leave this here (mentioned in the middle of a list in the article):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_C-5_Galaxy

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EDIT: I'm surprised at the downvote. Anyway I'll explain my thinking for sharing that link. I was surprised at the importance of being "container-sized" size since within limits who cares how big a fusion reactor's building is. On land. In the sea or air is a different matter - and when you see the word "Lockheed Martin" most people do think of planes.

This is mentioned in the article, in this sentence:

>According to the company website on the CFR, the reactor could be powerful enough to run an aircraft carrier, power a plane the size of a C-5 Galaxy airlifter, provide electricity to cities with anywhere from 50 to 100,000 people, and maybe even speed up a trip to Mars.

So Lockheed Martin already has planes of a large enough size that such a power plant could make sense.

That's pretty amazing if you imagine it. I mean, nuclear submarines already have reactors - why not a plane?

A quick google "airplane nuclear reactor" returns:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear-powered_aircraft

and

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_Nuclear_Propulsion

but no practical models. (The first of these two links starts with the words "A nuclear-powered aircraft is a concept for an aircraft intended to be powered by nuclear energy." and goes on to say none have been produced.)

So if Lockheed Martin already makes planes that big, then it might be natural and amazing for them to explore containerization of the power plant for that reason.

After all, what other space or size/weight constraints are there for nuclear power plants? Where else does it bother anyone whether it's container-size or the size of a two or three or six story building?

So, this is the reason for my leaving the link to the specific airplane mentioned in the article.
Trump won, let it go.
Most news media seems optimised for power users, people who want to read 100 stories a day and have all the context to place them correctly. These are the power users, but, by definition, there are a few. This is the equivalent of everyone who wants to do photography being forced to use an SLR because phones don't have cameras. Or sports cars being the only type of car that exists, when most people just want to get to the office or the supermarket.

How might we optimise a newspaper for the majority rather than the power-users?

- Reduce it to one page, printing only the most important stories. In today's hurried times, that's all many people have time for. Or keep it the same length as today's newspapers, but publish it only weekly. Or a mobile app where each story fits in one screen. Condense it down to the most important facts.

- Give users the context. If a minister was accused of taking money from companies X and Y and he says that he didn't take money from X, say, "The minister didn't respond to allegations that he took money from Y". The majority of readers wouldn't know that unless it's pointed out to them.

- Don't report news that's likely to be irrelevant a quarter from now, like the stock market going up 0.5%, or that Apple is going to launch cheaper iPads tomorrow.

- Report hyperlocal news, like your neighbor 50m away being burgled, not a politician two states away choosing to side with someone else. We all care more about our neighborhood. Tell me air pollution levels in my neighborhood, or a few km away, not 2000 km away in Delhi. We all care about our immediate environment more. In a way, this is the only kind of news people got before technology like the press, telephone or radio was invented. It's odd that in today's world, I'm more connected to what's happening far away than in my neighborhood.

- Quality over quantity: Don't print rumors, unconfirmed news, news without fact-checking it and waiting for the dust to settle. Write well so that readers feel that the writer cares, rather than filler to write 100 words by 11AM, and who gives a damn what those words are.
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Why are you surprised that others don't know things or haven't made the connections you've made?
You're absolutely right. Come election time, I'll have to reacquaint myself with the politics of my home country, because I might move back there one day and don't want to find it's fallen to pieces in my absence.

I also do keep minimally informed right now, I check the news maybe once a week to see if anything major has happened back home.
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Accidents in complex systems usually happen because multiple safeguards have failed.

We can agree the pedestrian had some degree of negligence by walking across the road in a less than perfectly safe manner.

But the same assessment also applies for Uber, for not reacting to an obstacle that probably should have been detected.

The question right now is what degree of negligence does Uber bear...
If even 1% of all FB accounts were deleted, I would be amazed and call it a staggeringly successful campaign.
But there are well-functioning Democracies in Europe without any sort of lobbying right? Bringing in money automatically removes a ton of people right? The people needing reforms most are the poor and the money makes it impossible for them to have a voice!
Google is not blocking third-party apps from running on its platform. It's blocking its own proprietary apps from running on third-party platforms which happen to share the same base. A more appropriate analogy might be MS not releasing Internet Explorer for the Mac... which they haven't since IE5.
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And if you can see /proc/*/environ, you can probably attach to the process via gdb and read the secret from the process memory. At that point, it's not relevant how the secret was passed to the process.

Unless the secret is some kind of one-time token, or time based token, but then it's also not relevant how the secret was passed to the process. It's invalidated soon.
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I'm getting downvoted for this. That's how far HN has fallen, folks.
Or teleporters. Might as well mention those if you're speculating about unknown future breakthroughs.
I wonder why Facebook doesn't make deals with supermarkets to collect data on every single purchase. There's no doubt that Facebook advertising would be far more effective if it knew when John Smith last purchased toothpaste.
The truth is that Excel is easier to learn than programming. Call it 'graphical programming' if you will, but Microsoft did build a very powerful piece of software that performs fantastically great for many data tasks. And many many 3rd parties built extensions (data import, cleanup/statistics, formulas and logical programs) that Just Work.

I live mostly in a land of Unix pipes and vim, but I get it. Excel is a low-abstraction (everything is visualized!) graphical programming environment that the business world loves.
Google tracking users down to this level is beyond creepy.

Google being careful with user data, may be true now. But what happens one day when Google goes bankrupt? And they have to sell all their information about their users at firesale prices.

Yahoo went bankrupt, and sold off its data about their users.

Imagine the treasure trove of information that can be gleamed from every single American's online activities. Imagine all the "innocent" people that can be blackmailed, and have their lives destroyed.

Imagine a company like no other in human history, that is amassing information on every single American, on every single person in the world, and on a scale that has never been done before. Imagine.. Google.

Google needs to be regulated. The public needs to know what they are doing. And we need restrictions on what can be done with that data. If they go bankrupt one day, then they cannot sell it. It must be destroyed. It is too dangerous to be sold off to the highest bidder.
Jesus, yall are the damn reason the unfortunate phrase "political correctness" was invented. Nobody above the age of -16 fails to understand that Zed (and I, FWIW, in this very sentence, of course) is engaging in hyperbole intended for the purpose of entertaining, with entertaining being intended for the purpose of engaging the reader better so they will enjoy and consume the meaningful points made therein.
How exactly is it a natural consequence of the first amendment?
AOL and MySpace are still around. One possibility is that Facebook could experience a similar asymptotically slow death, gradually losing more DAUs than they gain, but never quite dying.