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Why? If it doesn't work, the patent is worthless. And the patent office still gets their fees.
There is WebGL.

DOM access to WebAssembly will come.

https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/labels/Phase%201%3A%20...
Is it really that controversial though? I'm nearly 40 and I feel like had Jordan Peterson said a lot of what he says now when I was at University it would have been of almost no note whatsoever.

It feels more like his statements are elevated to controversy by how polarised, anti-contextual and narrow the margins of contemporary discourse have become rather than him being particularly controversial.

"Enforcing equality of outcomes though imbalanced policy is less desirable than giving equality of choice and letting other natural variables dictate the outcome" seems such an uncontroversial statement as to be almost self-evident, and yet...
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JavaScript ES6 is actually a very pleasant language to program in. JS already had good foundations with first class JSON, closures and event based asynchronous programming. Now it has a modern syntax with await, classes, destructuring, default parameters, the spread operator, etc. Add to that an incredible debugger and amazing performance. Frankly at this point JS can stand on its own as a great programming language.
I don’t understand your analogy. Why would the driver be unlicensed in this scenario?
That makes it sound like people are upset about an isolated incident, trying to play this off as an isolated incident is going to blow up very badly as people "discover" just how much of their data is everywhere, whether they gave permission or not this isn't about a single breach.
Having watched a lot of Peterson's lectures, there's a fact about him which I think might lead a lot of critics to say false things about his level of confidence or arrogance. He speaks in a very confident, impassioned tone, but his actual words are permeated by deep humility.
I thought HN had been fairly privacy-skeptical of Facebook for a while.

Often with these things it's not the same people switching from a view to its opposite, it's more that one group shuts up and the other speaks up. The collective appears to change its mind without any individual having crossed the floor.
It's evil because it's a systematic way of hurting large groups of vulnerable people.
The sun throws its energy at us all the time, but half the time there's a planet intercepting the catch.

Cheap storage that scales far enough to run civilization isn't really a solved problem. We may solve it, but it's a research problem just like fusion is.

Another possibility is to get the planet out of the way by putting our solar power stations in geosynchronous orbit. If SpaceX delivers on the extremely low launch cost they're promising for the BFR, this looks surprisingly economical with current solar power satellite designs; a good book about this is The Case for Space Solar Power: https://www.amazon.com/Case-Space-Solar-Power-ebook/dp/B00HN...
React is a great tool with a permissive license. Abandoning it would be a case of throwing out the baby with the bath water, IMO.
The problem with the "win-the-lottery-go-to-Fiji-and-never-look-back" as an example is it doesn't quite get the point across because they'll have time to gracefully transfer knowledge and after that they're just somewhere else in the world so I can still theoretically fly over there and beat them with a wrench until I get what I need.

Death is a real thing that really happens to people, and from an organizational perspective it is valuable to keep in mind that no one in your company is immune to that.
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Diet pills and male enhancement pills are generally scams.

There is increasing pressure to use Facebook in order to fit in and be included in things. For example many people are contacting only through facebook and ignoring other channels.

If I put a gun to your head and ask you nicely to take the pill or die, I'm essentially forcing you to take the pill as it's unreasonable for most to choose the die option.
Exploitation? I thought this was the miracle of an unregulated free market uplifting people from economic depravity.

Also the article does eventually make your point, but it's unfortunately buried in the conclusion:

> American economic philosophy has long centered on the idea that deregulation is good for businesses, whose growth will provide jobs and prosperity, which will make America strong. But that thinking was based on the assumption that we would always be holding the big end of the globalization stick.
Just thought this was such a wonderful and succinct Wikipedia article covering JWTs.
I guess we're slowing reaching a point where we're about to find out how much all that legalese is actually worth - every user agrees to share their data, but when companies use it in such horrendous ways, are we going to accept it as a society? Just like EULAs are worth pretty much nothing in EU, I wonder if these "I agree to Facebook scanning my texts/calls/pictures for all intentions and purposes" declarations can actually stand up to scrutiny.
Well, from the article

"The Berlin conference was hosted by an online forum called Stack That Money, but a newcomer could be forgiven for wondering if it was somehow sponsored by Facebook Inc. Saleswomen from the company held court onstage, introducing speakers and moderating panel discussions. After the show, Facebook representatives flew to Ibiza on a plane rented by Stack That Money to party with some of the top affiliates."

So Facebook sends representative to a conference of known scammers?

Doesn't sound like character assassination for me.
Its not a propaganda machine. In the newspaper business its called seeing if the story has 'got legs' - you've run the original story, what are the questions that that story naturally raises? can we progress the story from here? Does it "have legs"?
I'd assume they keep every ping from the tracker but simply class it as "their" data instead of "your" data.
If I make a new bitcoin wallet, and transfer money from my 'main' wallet into that one, would that be traceable by anyone who deal with my new wallet? Would I need to use/trust some kind of 'washing' service to hide my transaction among several others?
Lobbyist dinners are low on a politician's list, particularly because at the federal level ethics rules have become so ridiculous about what elected officials and staff can accept as gifts.

Much more interesting to a politician is supporting the policies of well-organized trade/association groups that have the power, through their PACs or membership, to invest the resources necessary to make a difference in a campaign.
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I was already aware of that one, but sure, that's another example of the opposite of what I asked for. Rather than someone killed by conflicting or over-cautious safety systems, that's an example of someone killed by a single ineffective safety system, just like the pedestrian in Arizona.

This further reinforces my point, I think. :)
Well arguably facebook the product has been the problem, not facebook the coorporation. Those other products you mention don't have the same "put all information about yourself on here" design, and nowhere near the amount of news/politics on them.
There are many good reasons to licence taxi(driver)s, and cap their number. For example:

- to keep traffic down

- to ensure a minimum standard of vehicle

- to ensure safe, well-trained and responsible taxi drivers.

- to ensure a fair level of income

- etc.

However the main problem with the medallion system is that they can be traded, speculated on, and used to extract "rent" from workers further down the chain. This benefits nobody.

Surely there could be a happy middle way between the libertarian nightmare, banned-in-half-of-Europe Uber model; and the old-skool union cartel medallion model.
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> it's purely based on artificial scarcity. Which historical never lasts.

Never? Money are based on artificial scarcity as well.
> Multiple independent systems with the ability to sound an alarm and slam on the brakes if they detect an imminent pedestrian collision...seem like they probably would be safer overall?

While yes - it would also force Uber to permanently partner with Volvo on technology they can't control. 'Uhuh, my Ubers a Chevy not a Ford - it could kill me because the Chevies don't built-in X is worse!'.

You do not want an arbitrary third party system controlling the car while the Uber system is in unknown ways; if the systems conflicted things could go out of control and be more dangerous.
It's hard to develop the effects, not move buttons around.

Speak for yourself. As someone who's tried to write a simple image editor on a few occasions, writing the image effect was by far the easiest (and most fun) part. Almost all the core algorithms are published and well understood and beyond that it's mostly simple linear algebra. There are also plenty of objective measures to judge how good your implementation is.

Deciding where to "move the buttons" to took up almost all of my development time, was incredibly hard, dreadfully boring and what kept killing my interest in the project.

Given the choice between spending 20 hours trying to make the sharpening filters 5% faster or 20 hours trying to make the sharpening filters more intuitive and easy to use I'd choose the former every time and, unfortunately, it seems far too many developers feel the same.
Yes exactly. And rural areas have lots in common -- education levels, availability of labor, economic and political incentives for development, etc. The only things that really vary are availability/reliability of power & natural resources, and regulations that may help (e.g. ability to legally enforce contracts with vendors) / hinder (environmental, labor, etc) business.
Perhaps not but there is a big difference between going on TV and taking out an apology ad vs. appearing in sworn-in hearings. Recall this is a part of an ongoing issue that they have been carefully trying to manage for the past few years. Unfortunately for Facebook, they are very much in the public space by design. If they cannot withstand this level of public scrutiny, then they are effectively conceding that they "don't deserve" to serve the public.
Web developers, probably not so much. Frameworks tend to be more important.

However, "Built a transaction system in FORTRAN, C, and Scheme that is currently running at ~100 billion transactions a second at a major bank" is weighty despite the languages used.

Similarly, "Built a conveyor belt controller on an Xtensa with Scheme, deployed at 40 million sites" isn't going to matter that Scheme was used.
> My wife is a teacher and has started to encounter that attitude more frequently. "He gets angry because he is ${diagnosis}, you can't punish him for it". But when it disrupts the class, and encourages others to behave similarly, then some response is needed to mitigate the situation.

Who says this mitigation has to be a punishment? I am also skeptical concerning punishments for neurotypicals in similar situations.
Trust me, the journalists on Bloomberg aren't running this story because they think Facebook threaten's Bloomberg's business. They are running it because they think it is a juicy story.
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Probably because he was paying it off, one monthly payment at a time?
Hacker News downvotes on emotion every second of every day. It is far worse than reddit. Do not complain about downvotes here, that is against the rules. It is not against the rules here to downvote a comment because you disagree with it, unlike reddit. That's normal here and how HN is meant to work.
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Perhaps, but also most of technological progress in recent centuries. It's a shame humans have a bias for negativity.
The same goes for Google.

It has nothing to do with the validity of the article. This is a "character assassination" because of singling Facebook out. I understand putting Facebook in the headline will get you clicks right now, but why not paint a more full picture?
i think you forget how locked in people thought blackberry was.
People without smartphones and without Facebook who made phone calls to other people also got their calls logged. This was done 100% without their consent.
"Limitless" energy would mean the ability to grow crops and meat and everything with very little worry about efficiency.
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And when we decide this is an inconvenient arrangement and no longer in the national interest, we'll just steal the asset back from China against their will with minimum or no compensation, like they routinely do to Western corporations (see: Yahoo & Ant Financial). That's how it works, right?
I agree the medallion system is stupid, however the reason for them to exist makes sense. They are used to control the supply of Taxis so streets aren't flooded, however cities should be auctioning the licenses rather than selling off one-time rights. If that were the case Taxi startups like Uber may have started their business with compliance by simply bidding for licenses (in theory if they operate more efficiently they could outbid), but instead because of the rent-seeking medallion system a 1.1 million dollar medallion per car would simply be prohibitive to new entrants.
> 3.2% pre tax won’t ler you live that well

It also means the medallion yields a paltry 0.11 percentage points more than a 30-year Treasury [1]. Which means one is judging it to be just a tad bit riskier than the U.S. government. And safer than Apple [2]. And Stanford [3]. And MIT [4].

[1] https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/i...

[2] http://finra-markets.morningstar.com/BondCenter/BondDetail.j...

[3] http://finra-markets.morningstar.com/BondCenter/BondDetail.j...

[4] http://finra-markets.morningstar.com/BondCenter/BondDetail.j...
I agree with you about the dysfunction of the medallion system, but it reveals a bigger problem with the article.

The medallion is meant to artificially constrain supply. NYCTLC tried and failed to block Uber in order to protect their value, i.e., enforce a closed shop, and this was what the cabbie was upset about - losing his exclusionary license to do business. His complaint could hardly be more ANTI "gig-economy" against Uber's drivers flooding the market, which is what tanked his asset's value.
Is there anything open source like this?

I consider myself a strong privacy advocate but I just get so much benefit out of my Google location timeline that I cant bear to pull the plug.

It's my version of the pin up world map with everywhere I've been.
So it should be able to screw people not holding them? Or those who cant get a $1 Million dollar loan or pay 3k to drive a car? Car leases are easy at $150.
Can Pavegen really become the 'Tesla of smart cities'?
Sure the gig economy sucks for Rhineland model countries.

But for the US nothing changes much, no? Healthcare plan, retirement fund, not having to sleep in your car if you lose your job- can't lose entitlements you never had.
So having to reset my git config, either globally impacting everything I do, or manually for every project I use go get in...

Got it.
>"Now we see the propaganda machine at work."

No, it's called public interest journalism. In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal it's quite logical that the public has an interest in knowing more about the inner working of of an opaque and powerful entity.

>"the news media must turn each cycle into a full on character assassination."

A "character assassination " by its very definition is an attack on a singular individual. You can not have a character assassination on a corporation.

>"Regardless of how I feel about FB, I'm more disturbed by the media pattern."

I'm more disturbed by your labeling something as "propaganda" simply because you yourself didn't feel it merited reporting on.
The "why now?" question has a simple answer: "because Trump".

The public basically believes that Facebook enabled to Putin to get Trump elected. So suddenly the issue of all that data we've been sharing has gone from "I've got nothing to hide" to "This got that guy I hate elected"

Whether or not that's accurate or informed is beside the point.
Seems like you're arguing whataboutism.

Yes, the old media are being hypocrites and are seemingly dragging their big rivals down with them.

For the standpoint of the average person with no financial investments in these companies, why is this so problematic?
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FYI, Zuckerberg's _not_ referring to the EULA or TOS. He's talking about this dialog box in the app itself:

https://i.imgur.com/zGUdifB.png

Specifically, the very first sentence of the dialog box, which says:

> Continuously upload info about your contacts like phone numbers and nicknames, and your call and text history.

The article's not entirely clear on that point, so I thought I'd mention it here.
I researched this story previously, and it really is fascinating--especially as counterpoint to the stories of Marco Polo, a lot of which are, if not actually fabricated by the man himself and his colleagues[1], definitely "stretched" for truth to the extreme.

On the other hand, the documentation on Ibn Battuta's travels, even accounting for a large amount of historical skew, is informed by a lot more primary source material and other parties' accounts than Marco Polo's.

Because his writings are (in translation at least) incredibly accessible as stories, I've always hoped to see them getting assigned as reading to young primary school kids. A long time ago, I lobbied for that at some private/public schools in Colorado (and offered to help formulate curricula or engage with the material in after school history clubs), but because of some pretty blatant Islamophobia, nothing came of it. Ah well, boring, unengaging textbooks it is, then.

[1] http://www.davidmeyercreations.com/mysteries-of-history/was-...
I mean....I would still recognize it as the correct business decision, even though I would personally dislike it. Those two are not mutually exclusive.
Yeah, so maybe then the writer of the article shouldn't have used that as the title for it.
> I'm more disturbed by the media pattern.

I agree. But I think this should go on for a while. Not out of hate for Facebook. But it ll help more people to realize the kind of thing, the kind of exploitation and manipulations and they might be subjected to, both online and offline..

And I think that is about time people had a good taste of the reality that is going on with these things..
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I am still waiting for an update on Coupland's "Microserfs" for this generation.
Let me mention a case I know of at second hand: penthouse apartment facing Central Park. Assume that the owners decide that it is the socially responsible thing to sell the apartment. Now, clearly, the next occupants will not be formerly homeless: the homeless can't afford it, and the coop board wouldn't have them. What are the odds that the sale causes an effect all the way down from the 5th Avenue world to the sort-of affordable world?
What has effectively happened is that VC-backed startups have discovered a weakness in the US legal system. Basically, if you have enough funding and gain enough traction, you can ignore the law with little consequence. There may be pushback eventually but once the startup is big enough they can implore customers to fight the law on their behalf.

Established big businesses flout the law in service of profit too, but often they're using lobbyists to get the law bent to their benefit.

Whoever has the gold makes the rules as it were.
Any "wallet" is not single address, but set of addresses. Each address is just cryptographic private key and you might have as many as you want. Though as soon as you sent any transaction public key of your wallet become known.

This is why by default each time you make transaction for any amount bitcoin client send specified amount of coins to target address and all that remain to some new address that you own. While you not announce that you have access to that new address it's fairly easy to track your money.

> Would I need to use/trust some kind of 'washing' service to hide my transaction among several others?

So answer is yes.
A similar issue as with the "-n" flag for netcat exists for "ls": Frequently "ls" is aliased by default in users home directories:

$ type ls
ls is aliased to `ls --color=auto'

On slow file systems (for instance, think of shared machines with large directories, NFS and heavy load) this can take ages to give output. Instead, if you just call /bin/ls, this call only calls http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/readdir.3.html and thus gives output promptly.
This isn't really true. Zcash isn't private by default, which weakens the concept for anyone who wants to use the privacy features. If not many people are using them then analysis of the transactions that are meant to be private becomes easier.

Zcash is also not trustless because it requires the trusted setup. You have to trust that the developers completely deleted the "toxic waste" during the setup, and that their machines were not compromised (which is totally possible given Meltdown, etc). Recovery of this toxic waste can lead to unlimited coin minting. Another problem with this is that future changes to some properties of the currency require another trusted setup.
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> is it evil just because they are better at it than others?

It really depends on scale and proportions. In this case the exact boundary when something becomes recognized as evil doesn't really exist. The more efficient you will become on finding out weaknesses of other humans and using them, the more people will consider your actions to be evil. Displaying a picture of happy family drinking coke won't shock anybody, but suggesting discount on alcohol to alcoholic might come as wrong to many people.

> No one is forced to use FB as far as I know.

With facebook actively scraping phones for contacts, calls and messages, embedding widgets on third party sites and what-not. in a way we all really are forced to be facebook users.
No offense but if you have an NDA that can be broken by using your personal phone you probably shouldn't use your personal phone to make those communications.
Its taking advantage of the plebs.
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There are reportedly about 14,000 medallions. At $1,000,000 a pop, it would not be too terrible to have a one-time buyout paid over several years as a compromise to ending the system.
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> If the switch state changes from closed to open, [driver|AEB] have intervened and Uber's system should relinquish control of that sub-system.

No, both cases are fundamentally different. If a human driver has intervened, the system should expect the human wants to take over all subsystems: braking, steering, accelerating. If the AEB has intervened, the system should expect it will take over only the braking, and only for a limited amount of time; it shouldn't relinquish control (and doesn't have to, since a properly-designed AEB will be an override of the braking control), and should be ready to take over immediately after it releases (and probably bring the car to a safe stop as soon as it has control back).

That is, the self-driving system must know whether the command came from the human driver, or from another system.
And if you complain that Krita lacks photo manipulation features, you're told "Of course, because Krita is only targeted at illustrators!" The open source evangelists always have a dodge.