skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don't think ISPs inject ads/tracking into requests after the page is rendered on subsequent requests and override ad networks? [1]

> For years, Comcast and other large telecommunication companies around the world have injected javascript into your web browsing experience to serve advertisements and account notices. Their ability to do this stems from their upstream position as your Internet Service Provider (ISP). While Comcast is only currently using their javascript injection ability to serve customer account related information, the same message sending vector could be used to serve phishing expeditions, or other types of attacks. Not to mention that whoever your ISP is has access to your browsing history, your search history, your entire internet history unless you use a VPN. Some, like AT&T, even brazenly sold parts of this information for advertising profit unless you explicitly paid them not to – a pay-for-privacy scheme.

Why do you think ISPs like Comcast lobbied so hard to bribe their way into the ad/tracking market instead of winning it on the market with products people want? Do you think they did that so that to waste profits? Or to gain them?

We pay ISPs for secure and private internet access, not to also sell off our private data.

Google and Facebook are ad/marketing companies, you expect tracking and they use your data and give you a free service in exchange.

ISPs we pay for internet access and privacy, noone expects ISPs to be selling your data or would call them ad networks, though that is what they want to be and are building with this privacy law change.

[1] https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2016/12/comcast-s...
Right, that's what I've witnessed anecdotally: strong ability to sell, usually as part of a top-down "digital transformation" project with tons of agile development consulting and multi-year sales cycle; then a few years of abysmal results, covered up by the project sponsors, then eventually a purge once the sponsoring exec is replaced.
The many traditions of non-governmental money
You can, however, disable the location tracking across your device pretty easily, or even just disable location history if you want other tools to be able to use your location.

Yes, disabling core features of your device results in a worse user experience, this should not come as a surprise.
California’s quality of life is the worst in the country?
A nice quote and it sounds true - certainly robber barons are preferable to sjws - but doesn’t tell the whole story. The sjw tyrant he’s describing forms the “useful idiot” phalanx of the ones pulling the strings. Those kind of people (sjw types) simply aren’t clever enough to orchestrate the kind of long term plots needed to take control. The ones in charge are fully aware of what they’re doing, and they exhibit a cold calculating efficiency that seems inhuman.
> A lot of people seem to default to a really cynical view of tech businesses.

My response to this was that from 2005 to about 2015, most people defaulted to an overly rosy view of tech businesses. People like us may always have warned about privacy dangers and the like, but among ordinary people the "Google is my friend!" mentality was widespread and it seemed like no one ever grasped that these are businesses first and foremost.

The current trend is merely the pendulum swinging the other way, and perhaps it might overshoot or already have done so, but the rose-colored glasses were never going to last forever. If you are in a tech business and this bothers you, I would gently suggest that you may have gotten accustomed to the overly cushy treatment and are now overreacting.
It's a little awkward. Adacore drops a full GPL edition every year which turns gmgpl the next year while simultaneously there's a group that bug fixes the existing gmgpl libraries and integrates the new changes.
Lasers are strictly line-of-sight, and don’t go through walls. Laser would make a poor candidate, and wouldn’t cause brain damage.
I believe your parent is referring to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megaupload_legal_case
What's happening right now in anticipation of the legislative package is the very definition of a chilling effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilling_effect

Of course there haven't been any "unreasonable applications" of it at this point, it only just passed in the Senate several days ago.
It’s pitiful when someone is is so unable to argue for their own position that they have to resort to shotgunning logical fallacies in lieu of contributing any content whatsoever.
Yes. And like so many other behaviours in the web-stack, I feel like I'm in a constant fight with my client software to please choose privacy over convenience. So it's worth being aware of where these tradeoffs exist. Especially when I'm writing that client software.
I keep the wifi segregated from everything else on general principals, but I don't subdivide it below that.
Finance needed to do end-of-year stuff a couple of days past end-of-year. The system couldn't handle this, bad things would happen and data would change once end-of-year passes.

Solution? A bash script that does:

while true:
set date to 4pm end-of-year
sleep 1
If you're interested in learning Vue I can offer both my own course and book as recommendations.

The course demos three substantial Vue.js projects:

https://www.udemy.com/vuejs-2-essentials/

The book is about full-stack Vue & Laravel and includes one large project, an Airbnb clone:

https://www.packtpub.com/application-development/full-stack-...
South Bay Mulesoft meetup 4/4
Could GDPR change this?
Effectively, you will have it, because it applies to European residents, and it is difficult for companies to know for sure that you aren’t a European resident.
GPL makes it harder to charge people for spyware. It also makes it possible (at least theoretically) for users to fix bugs themselves, which breaks the bug-fix middleman monopoly that aspiring spyware vendors seek.
I’m reading the damn comments on TFA and replying to the horrible ones. And you think I am the one using ad hominems? Take your own advice and disengage.
How sure are we that this is really happening?

Last time someone accused Google of deleting stuff on their drive it turned out not to be the case.
Buy some spinning rust.
That post seems anti-Facebook and Google, not pro-ISP.
How to Start an Amazon FBA Store on a Tight Budget
lol. so your answer is you have no proof. people exaggerate all the time when they say things like "entire social graph". Do you have any data that in 2012, 200 million unique americans were using facebook? And that obama had specific permission to bypass facebook's limit and get the 200:1 ratio?
Right after WinXP came out, I was a sys/win admin at a manufacturing co. Their ERP system was an old VB app that sat on a share drive and everyone opened the same .exe from their respective workstations.

The app required a ton of scheduled database and ERP tasks (it used a legacy flat-file db), so the vendor wrapped them all up in a secondary executable that was effectively a non-headless (headful?) daemon (this was expensive, niche industry software btw). The first instance of the application that opened would also trigger the daemon to open too, on whichever PC it was executed on (it was supposed to be opened on the server 1st). It was provided by the vendor this way, as part of the COTS application.

As a result of this daemon hack, every couple days (after the application crashed on the server, as it did frequently) I would run around the building to dozens and dozens of workstations until I found the user’s workstation that had been the first to run the ERP after the server process crashed, and thus had the daemon running on their workstation. Then I would kill it, and sprint back to the server closet to reopen the daemon before any other users would run the ERP and grab the daemon (later would just RDP after we got off NT).

It was awesome.
The US has made negative progress on sexual liberation on the whole of history. Prostitution was common and generally legal in the late 1700's and 1800's. The temperance movements in the late 1800's and early 1900's (yes, the same movement that caused the 18th amendment) led to the illegalization of sex work and other vices. America has not yet recovered from this criminalization, despite being one hundred years in the past.
The thing that gets me is how people who drafted and supported these bills probably did it with the best of intentions. Most people who support these laws want to help individuals who are sex workers. However, it seems none of them actually talked to any actual sex workers here and some are even actively ignoring their voices.
Facebook, twitter, google Both violates my privacy and sell my information to unkown sources. Yes all they are same
I just wrote a second draft of my essay on this exact topic:

http://yuhongbao.blogspot.ca/2018/03/google-doubleclick-mozi...

Among other things, I wrote about the sharing of remarketing lists.
Care to post links? I'm planning to use Ada in my next embedded project.
Once youtube "cracks down" on one set of free speech, it isn't much of a step to do another set. And another, and another, and eventually the only content left will be Mr. Rogers.
The problem is that once you walked over the line into psychosis, it is extremely difficult to come back to “normal reality”. Human’s psycho is very fragile thing. The weaponry basically creates an army of people who lost the boundaries of normalcy. It is not good....
All the things that you did before you had kids :)
I have 6 mailboxes I prefer to keep separate, and my email client history goes from Thunderbird to Postbox, then Thunderbird again, and then Spark.

Thunderbird was a good mail client, but the search is seriously broken. It's almost impossible to search Chinese at all, and when it searches Russian, some weird hits get mixed in, and some proper hits get ignored.

Postbox was very good overall, but every once in a while it would lose the whole cache, index, and sometimes even the whole downloaded history, and would spend a day chugging at downloading everything over again.

So for the last half a year I've been using Spark, and I'm pleasantly surprised by speed, search, and the feel of the app. Admittedly, there is no Windows version so it's not truly cross-platform.
The scandal is that third party companies like Cambridge Analytica harvested the whole social graph and used it to manipulate people.

People know that Google and Facebook track as they are ultimately ad companies, and if you get a free service people know that your data is the product.

We pay for ISPs to protect privacy, not sell it off, that is the big difference.

Many people have seen Facebook tracking from the marketing/business or even small group/page side with their analytics and Facebook is known for their ads and sponsored content. Facebook is a marketing platform, everyone knows they use your data. ISPs are what you use to get online, not known as marketing companies that have ad networks, though they want to be.
Thank you for the image! There are actually a lot of screenshots on the original page, as I know realize. Thankfully the site seems to have recovered more or less (still very slow to load here, but it does load eventually)
In some countries, bribery is just how the system works. I see no reason why it should be illegal. The US has no jurisdiction whatsoever over your actions in another state.
> "module" (I don't know how to translate it)

fyi, it is called module in English too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gear#Standard_pitches_and_the_...
You could write a pseudo-explanation even longer than the comment you are purporting to describe, or you could simply read the words that I wrote and not try to put words in my mouth.
The entire billing system at my first job was written as a console exe by a (brilliant) guy in during one-day session, working almost completely from live debugging breakpoints (against the production database). The result was less than beautiful, but there were rarely any problems with it. Needless to say anytime a billing inquiry came up it was his problem (which he was okay with since he owned the place).
I like Mastodon as well but I really wish it was more than just twitteresque content. I want to be able to have photo albums and such on there as well.
s/statue/statute/ :)
When upper management see you are 10 times more effective, doing the same job as 10 other people, they might become interested. But if there's not enough job and you get paid for just sitting there, then use that free time to contribute on open source or something. Or maybe there's someone else there who has a pet project you can work on. If this is the case you should consider yourself lucky. At most jobs there's never a shortage of work. Eg. there are always more tasks that you can possible do and pressure from management that it needs to be done today, if not yesterday.

Also if you are that much more effective you could start your own business, hire people and train them, then have 10x bigger margins then your old employer.
Coming back to this, I was wrong about the details of Arizona law. They require pedestrians to yield to drivers outside of crosswalks, marked or unmarked.

https://www.azleg.gov/ars/28/00793.htm

However, I still think Uber violated 28-794.1 and .3.

Notwithstanding the provisions of this chapter every driver of a vehicle shall:

1. Exercise due care to avoid colliding with any pedestrian on any roadway.
2. Give warning by sounding the horn when necessary.
3. Exercise proper precaution on observing a child or a confused or incapacitated person on a roadway.

https://www.azleg.gov/ars/28/00794.htm
Check out https://github.com/lcherone/lxd-ui if you want a UI for your local LXD instance.
Do you trust the EFF?

> The number one creepiest thing on our list of privacy-invasive practices comes courtesy of Verizon (and AT&T, which quickly killed a similar program after Verizon started getting blowback).

> Snooping through your traffic and inserting ads Which ISPs did it before? AT&T, Charter, CMA

> Hijacking your searches Which ISPs did it before? Charter, Cogent, DirecPC, Frontier, Wide Open West

All of these areas are going to be tried again by the ISPs with this law.

[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/03/five-creepy-things-you...
Would the two of you ('jonathanyc and 'kimdcmason) please stop engaging uncharitably with each other? There might be common ground there somewhere, but you're not even trying to listen to each other. It doesn't matter at this point who's right or who's wrong or who started it or who's at fault. You're both contributing to continuing it. As one HN member to another, please help increase civility and substantive discourse.
So pretty soon it will be cheap and easy to shoot voices into people's heads... what could go wrong!
Bringing back Skype emojis to my fingertips
Sorry, smoke signals were the first social network. Plus you couldn't even opt out of them.
I think you aren't cynical enough. The US government is jealous of China's clampdown on unmoderated forums and some how just "stumbled" on the perfect alibi to do the same here.
Are you seriously saying that prostitution having become mostly illegal is a greater setback to sexual liberation than all the other advances we have made with regards to women’s rights? (For example, women being able to legally resist having sex with their husbands?)
You have to be 17, so I guess we still have a couple months, my bad.
my dad put a rubberband on an ibm mainframe printer in 75 to make it work while ibm showed up to fix it.
They came in and didn't get it to work. So my dad as he needed to print millions of water bills on time put the rubberband back in and ran his job.
Yes, this is completely ridiculous; they’re local client-side software, which optionally can integrate with e.g. a Dropbox account.

In that case Dropbox would be the ones holding data.
Wow! That's the worst ICO distribution ratio I've seen in a while.

20% will be sold immediately / 30% to fund immediate development / 50% released over time to fund development

I thought hilariously imbalanced/overvalued ICOs were going to be so 2017, but with Woolf's 20/80 split, it looks like we're just getting started!
I'd been going to and organizing hackathons since late high school, and I definitely agree with this sentiment.

I was lucky enough to go to the Pennapps that was hosted in the huge Wells Fargo stadium in Philly, and even though there were tons of sponsors, it felt genuine.

I think that was around the time that things seemed to go downhill.

Nowadays, I don't recommend friends to go to hackathons. Even though there was a time where I went to (and often placed/won a sponsor prize in) most hackathons I applied to.

You can see the attitude shift in everything from the focus (sponsor prizes are insane, "swag" is hyped), to the attitude of the attendees (less about making a project, more about winning). And maybe nothing makes the point hit home more than when Google leaves a bag full of prizes on the table, and lets everyone duke it out over the crumbs.

The entry forms and emphasis on prize value make it clear: these are events that focus on recruiting and idea pumping. I literally won a sponsor prize, that had a requirement along the lines of giving up IP to claim a $1k prize.

They used to be student-organized hackathons. Now I'm not so sure it's the students doing the organizing, so much as the corporate sponsors that provide the funding.
Law+Math degree is definitely on the weirder side of things I've heard (and I endorsed Oxford's joint CS and Philosophy). But in that case I may allow myself to make an equally far stretch connecting something lawyerly with real analysis (that isn't about RA utility in data science for law enforcement). About how model theory shapes logic. It is advanced (practically algebraic geometry now) and not really related any more, but the basic issue came from set theory and analysis: models of infinitesimals, like in Keisler books. Since then it came to encompass and classify all logic-based mathematics (not every creative reasoning in mathematics is logical! though papers always are) and more exotic logics such as the „default logic” sometimes employed by lawyers.

It's Bressoud BTW, I endorse that too. Along with TW Körner „Companion to Analysis: A First Second and Second First Course” with Lang or Zorich as base. I wouldn't be as insistent on pencil at all times if it were to prevent broader reading or just expanded skimming.
Awesome paper - any more?
You cannot be honest if you are asking this question. You are comparing MapQuest with Google Maps and are asking me, in all earnest, what is that I find better in GMaps?

Similarly with Protonmail and GMail. How about email spam to start with? Or maybe email search? What about automatic filters? Or what about the fact the Protonmail is a subscription service if you want to use their advanced features.
101 is pretty scary pretty much everywhere between Gilroy and SF (doesn't help that locals can barely drive even in perfect conditions; add two drops of rain, and the whole thing stops) but the title is clickbaity -- so far it doesn't look like it being a Tesla necessarily had anything to do with the accident.
Robinhood new web platform raises questions about the strength of its user base
So if Google starts taking it's ToS seriously and starts removing items that are flagged... how long until we start seeing people flagging items that they don't like as "hate speech" (which is also included in the list[0] provided in an another comment).

I mean, at least with porn there really isn't much of a question about whether a piece of content is sexual or not. But hate speech? Depending on the person you talk to, one piece of content that is totally acceptable to a wide group of people might be considered "hate speech" by a some minority or other group of people who take a hardline view against someone else. Who gets to decide what is or is not hate speech? That is, who gets to determine which ideas are or are not acceptable?

Does that not scare anyone else just as much (or more)?

[0]: https://support.google.com/docs/answer/148505?hl=en
I think end of support is a pretty good metric. If Microsoft won’t keep the underlying platform safe, one could argue it’s ethically problematic but to continue to encourage people to use it.
There's no intentional partisanship in my post. My only point was that the issue receded because a key advocate was sidelined (and not because of any particular position by trump).

Mueller certainly was pro-backdoors... but he started out advocating for a backdoor into encrypted communications.. and didn't widen that idea into a backdoor into phones and other devices until his last year in office. Comey picked up where he left off. It's certainly true the FBI and DOJ have produced many people who are pro-backdoors.

This clearly isn't a partisan issue, since there are democrats and republicans that support backdoors.. and democrats and republicans that don't support backdoors. You really do have to pay attention to the names, and support Republicans and Democrats that are against this issue.
I mentioned how you can block Facebook and Google.

The pro-ISP part was more about the thread and that ISPs are paid for internet access for privacy, without an expectation of tracking.

Google and Facebook are free and have an expectation of tracking because they make their money from ads/tracking.
Speaking of which, how long until the Internet Archive becomes a target due to illegal content? That's when the book burning allegories will start hitting close to home...
Of course they're burning books. They're burning all manner of "indecent" content, not just this "porn" but also content about guns and other subjects they consider too taboo.
> It's not your right to have access to YouTube's audience.

This raises an interesting question: who built that audience? YouTube or its users?
I feel obligated to listen to and respect people who disagree with me on the issue of whether Google and Facebook are evil. But I can get and have gotten intelligent and reasoned perspective from people who aren’t spouting the names of logical fallacies as if they were hexes and caltrops.

As much as I feel obligated to engage with others constructively, I feel obliged to discourage and make others aware of nonconstructive behavior. I take your point that this thread is going nowhere, though, and I will stop. I acknowledge I may have gone too far.
Also hacker news.
> You just download the Tor Browser. Already pre-configured.

Isn't Tor Browser fairly bad due to it being a target? I'm not sure if that changed recently, but I recall seeing lots of "don't use the Tor Browser bundle".

Tor also relies on exit nodes to exist, yet it's considered very dangerous to run one.
Nextcloud isn't a terrible option if you can roll your own server. I think there are third party providers for nextcloud. I use yunohost to serve my nextcloud instance. Wasn't too hard to do.
Reminds me of this brilliant The Daily WTF submission. [0]

[0] https://thedailywtf.com/articles/ITAPPMONROBOT
> But we're certainly not at the point where it's even approaching the accuracy of a human being.

You say that like it's an end of the world show stopping bug. There's no reason a company can't have a process for handling those mistakes.

> False positives and false negatives abound. When that means the service I pay for as a backup starts deleting my innocent content because it thought it was porn, that's when I leave that tool and never come back.

And go where? If everybody has to filter content then they'll all have those issues.