skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm sure a few people would be pay $5.99 - $9.99 for ad-free Facebook

It's not about the ads, it's about the tracking, profiling, and sharing/selling our data.

If I could pay a few dollars a month (I guess Facebook would be worth $3-5/mo to me, and Google $5-10/mo) and get out of the whole tracking/voter-manipulation/profiling/sharing data/etc. thing, that'd be worth it. That would have to include that any non-essential data is not recorded or (if I previously was on the free tier and am now paying for a year or so) permanently deleted. Of course many personal things fall in the 'necessary for functionality' category, like chat history and which pages I liked, but part of the deal is not using that data for anything other than the service itself. And if I decide to go to a competitor, I don't want to be blackmailed into paying to keep it private, so I'd want to have an option to permanently take out and delete my data once I leave.

Sounds like a tough bargain, given all the restrictions I'm putting on it, but the alternative is the current state where I'm not making them any money at all. Not using it is worth it to me, despite missing out on a few things. And I don't think the requirements are unfair, I'm just asking them to provide service X for price Y without anything else, but apparently in 2018 we have to mention that we don't want anything else, like having our data misused or shadow profiles being recorded.
The fact that you think executives make decisions based on what they hate is a little naive, I think. YouTube removing these videos is a business decision, probably for political PR based on how the winds are blowing.
sds? https://github.com/antirez/sds
Mr. Zuckerberg, Here's How You Should Be Regulated
From the article you link:

"But thousands of other developers, including the makers of games such as FarmVille and the dating app Tinder, as well as political consultants from President Barack Obama’s 2012 presidential campaign, also siphoned huge amounts of data about users and their friends, developing deep understandings of people’s relationships and preferences."

Last I checked, Farmville was not associated with OFA. So you need to back up your assertion "All the rest of them were subject to relatively strict controls, requiring months or years to collect even a small fraction of the data that the Obama app was allowed to collect. " and explain why this also renders the entire dataset collected by CA to be completely harmless, in contrast to the current narrative. Because it's not that interesting if a relatively benign political organization got a little more data than another which used it to impose the will of a foreign enemy upon the US electorate.
available in PyTorch master via: https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/pull/5968
I wish we were combating child porn by offering anonymous therapy for those who are attracted to minors.
FarmVille had the benefit of being owned by an early Facebook investor, Mark
Pincus. It was favoritism all around.
The area you described is fucking scary. It's a carpool lane, sure, but several drivers like to use it to get a little bit ahead and go back to non-carpool lanes, and sometimes they don't pay attention. It's also common for drivers to realize only one lane goes to 85 and jump in at the last moment, including driving over the triangular section just before the barrier.

Also scary is entering 85 (either direction) from El Camino near Bernardo.

Very sorry for the driver and their family :(
I avoid Google, Facebook and all other "social media" like the plague due to privacy issues. I don't have any social media accounts and therefore wouldn't be able to log into any of your projects.
That actually sheds a lot of light in the process. Thank you for the explanation.
I'd compare this to the whole Microsoft anti-trust issue. All the big behemoths (Google/FB) are doing precisely the type of thing that Microsoft got hit with a stick for doing. They're using their defacto "majority" monopoly to promote/enforce behavior and products onto users. And in this case, arguably policing acceptable opinion.

Like the other responder said. Youtube isn't just "someone's site". It is a full half of the bloody internet. The other half being split between Google and FB. I exaggerate for dramatic effect of course. But, most of the video content consumed online is currently on Youtube. And most of the internet is solely accessible through Google. Not to mention that a full 1/8th or 1/10th of the World has Facebook accounts. Funnily, I just Googled it, and according to the first hit Facebook has 2.2 Billion accounts.

At some point we have to admit/define/state that these entities and the products/platforms they provide are utilities for lack of a better word. Once they get to that point, they should rightly lose all ability to take sides. They must be hit with a giant stick if they so much as think of using their platforms to do anything other than make a profit. Imagine if telephone companies started dropping calls or disconnecting users that were saying "naughty" things.
I strongly object to the name of the university.
> The same principle that justifies censoring "hate speech" also justifies censoring firearms content, pornography, and anything else that the censorious crowd considers "harmful".

Harm isn't this subjective, there are objective criteria for classifying harm. Hate speech has no upside and causes much harm. That's not true of the others in your list.
The trick about "backdoors" is that it is hidden. 0-RTT has very explicit guarantees about what it can and cannot do. By its very nature, and as written in the spec, it allows for a replay attack (which is in many cases entirely harmless, but is a concern regardless).

The rest of your comment is less sensible than the first. Everyone will implement it, and it's up to the user to decide whether they feel that they need the feature and know that their application is unaffected by replay attacks.
Nice! I just started hosting a GNU social instance for myself. Like it so far.
I don't understand why Facebook ever shared friend data. It's one thing for a user to opt in to sharing things like their likes. But as soon as you share friend lists, you are sharing stuff about other people.
What about drunk driving? Do you think DUI should be restricted even in victimless cases with no criminal intent?
Notice how the ecosystem of parasitic subverters thrives on the company driven siloing and goverment wished for backdoors in monocultured software.

The centralization and monolithic architecture is the source of insecurity - an thus its creator of its own downfall and demise.

The Centralization is the root-cause of the rampant security issues in recent years.
Read what I wrote carefully, I misread it as "I've been stuck 31.7 years" ;)
Comey wasn't appointed until Obama's fifth year in office, his predecessor (Mueller) held the same position on this issue, served for longer, and was of course a Bush appointee.

And of course his Trump-appointed successor shares the same opinion.

Why are you making this a partisan issue when it's clearly not.
What behavior do you think constitutes "treating children with high expectation"? I have high expectations for my teenage son, but it doesn't seem to matter as he often does not meet those expectations. I actually do not fault him for "failing" my expectations because I understand that he isn't yet properly motivated. If I were him, without the understanding I now have regarding the importance of habit, the need for deep learning, or the compounding interest of knowledge, etc., I wouldn't be motivated to meet those expectations either.

It seems to me that the key to nurturing success is building motivation, rather than having high expectation. The former is much harder than the latter.

Or perhaps I'm "having high expectation" in a wrong way, and would love to learn how to do it right.
Searching around a little bit...

http://medicine.jrank.org/pages/2465/Intelligence-Family-Twi...

"In twin studies of over 10,000 pairs of twins, monozygotic (genetically identical) twins averaged an 0.85 correlation of "g," whereas for dizygotic (fraternal, like brothers or sisters) same-sex twins the "g" correlations were 0.60. These twin studies suggest that the heritability (genetic effect) accounts for about half of the variance in "g" scores."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritability_of_IQ

Cites this particular twin study: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7945151

"The powerful quantitative genetic design of identical and fraternal twins reared apart (112 pairs) and matched twins reared together (111 pairs) was employed to assess the extent of genetic influence on individual differences in cognitive abilities during the last half of the life span. General cognitive ability yielded a heritability estimate of about .80 in two assessments 3 years apart as part of the Swedish Adoption/Twin Study of Aging. This is one of the highest heritabilities reported for a behavioral trait. Across the two ages, average heritabilities are about .60 for verbal tests, .50 for spatial and speed-of-processing tests, and .40 for memory tests."
I'm not entirely comfortable sharing my rate but I started from near it and just moved it up. I haven't had any trouble with my much higher than regional rate since I truly believed I could make it work at that rate.. and I did

I don't know their internal rates process at all but I always thought regional rates were meant to be guidelines. To be honest, living costs for India or (in my case) Pakistan are much lower than the US so I'm certain I still come out with more income after living expenses
Why do we need this? If this has been such a huge problem for them over the last decade shouldn’t we have seen a rise in crime rates because criminals are having an easier time getting away? Seems like it’s been the opposite.
I purchased a $50 laser printer about a year ago as well. The stock toner cart is at most half used after printing multiple reams of paper. Inkjet's can suck it.
>For students google log in is essential. Having to create an account, then click a link in an email, then use a site is too hard.

A truly withering indictment on these students. When even the simplest, most straightforward of tasks is "too hard" for students, the future is very bleak.

>So 99% of comp sci teachers are choosing sites with social logins.

An equally withering indictment of Computer Science teachers. I would certainly protest loudly if I was forced hand over my personal information to an intrusive, third-party corporation to participate in a class.
I Wonder if the NRA's very tough, no compromises stances has led to the other side having no choice but to do the same.

If you act reasonably around others who are willing to be unreasonable, you lose.
And Peter Thiel, who was a funder of Cambridge Analytica [1], sits on the board of Facebook, and he also worked directly on the Trump campaign. So there's some extremely fertile ground for favoritism there as well.

[1] https://mashable.com/2018/03/22/facebook-peter-thiel-cambrid...
If we’re talking about privacy of tor vs VPN, I want my entire network protected at the gateway, so not sure how the tor network keeps up with streaming video etc?

I wasn’t aware of the attack surface reduction, I’ll take a look at that, thanks for the recommendation.

My ground truth for this is usually to ask full-time exploit dev friends which is a harder target, although that’s probably flawed in that if you’re targeted by someone determined it probably doesn’t matter the cost.
The Hidden Economic Rationale of China-Europe Rail
Yep. I'm not anti-advertising, but I am anti-tracking. Serve me ads, but please don't personalize them.
I had a user request account deletion last month. It's the first time we've had that.

I simply overwrote all their details with nonsense, and marked the account as deleted. The account exists, but is about as useful as the fake accounts spammers sometimes make.
I read your post, and am still trying to wrap my head around the content.

The best metaphor I could come up with, given my potentially erroneous understanding of your thesis is thus:

The purpose of life is a dance competition, the more novel the performance the better.

The beautiful mating dances of exotic jungle birds comes to mind:

https://youtu.be/W7QZnwKqopo
They violated the use policy that they agreed when signing up. I do not understand why this needs an article.
Storing files on any drive that is not permitted will result in the same if not termination of the contract.
If the DNS/cert leakage problem can be solved, the ISPs won't be able to see or inject anything with HTTPS usage rising:

https://netmarketshare.com/report.aspx?id=https

LetsEncrypt.org now has wildcard certs. No site should be using HTTP anymore.
I'm not sure why a gifted 8-year-old or 14-year old should have more homework. After all, they are still kids. If you have more difficult subject matter that is suitable for their intellect, the homework shouldn't be an issue.

I got poor grades when the homework started kicking in. I had a little bit of homework in 5th grade. 6th grade I had a few hours per night. In 8th grade, they put me into regular classes and I had zero homework simply because they were so much easier. I was bored all day, but made great grades. I made Ok grades the next year or two, depending on the class. my sophmore year, we moved again. This school had a more balanced gifted program, and my grades stayed up.

Now, I realize I have my own sort of issues with some of this stuff and maybe others word differently: I have a lot of symptoms of mild dyslexia, which would have been easily overlooked in the 80's and 90's (I moved countries as an adult, learned a second language, and made friends with a psychologist with a dyslexic brother. She spotted it with my spelling problems, but I've not been tested). But the point more is that 8 year olds, even intelligent ones, are still 8-year olds and often have the maturity of 8-year olds. 14 year olds still have a normal 14-year old's hormones.
It's not really a private could period.

You don't even own the hardware that you buy.

All you do is reduce the attack surface the further down the stack you go.
Only if the facebook account gets compromised. If some random site you use facebook to log into gets compromised, your facebook account and every other site you log into with it is still safe.

This is not exactly worse than web sites that allow you to sign up with an email address and request password resets: if your email address is compromised, then so are all your accounts. Actually, this situation is a bit worse, because there's also the chance that the user will choose the same password as they use with their email address or other accounts, so if the site they're logging into gets compromised, then their other accounts and email may be able to be compromised too.
If you were going to point fingers (probably unfairly) at people whose agenda seems compatible with agencies that don't like BCP#188 (the IETF policy document "Pervasive Monitoring Is an Attack") then the best candidates would be those asking for the "transparency" features, some of which claimed at different times to represent data centre operators, financial institutions, and IoT manufacturers.

None of that made it into this draft, indeed the Monday meeting (this link is about the Wednesday meeting although practically speaking I think this was a done deal by Monday) of the TLS working group at IETF 101 basically killed all those plans, at least in so far as they impact TLS 1.3 itself. The IETF operates on "rough consensus" and there wasn't any way forward on "transparency" (aka snooping) that had consensus, so it was either publish this or stall forever.
How true this story!!!
A project I am working on praising the power of small scripts and some discussion about it.

https://github.com/qdoop/fuze

https://github.com/fsharp/FAKE/issues/1825
If you put a frog in cold water and gradually heat the water, the frog will jump out (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog). The premise of that analogy is widely considered to be completely false.
It becomes a mess to track where you are logged into what. And cross domain tracking.
This hypothesis does not survive comparison with even the most well known copyright cases, such as George Harrison's "My Sweet Lord", which was found to infringe on The Chiffon's "He's so fine". Also, The Verve's "Bittersweet Symphony" is literally a case of sampling the symphonic performance of The Rolling Stones "The Last Time". Someone else had already stripped away the lyrics before The Verve infringed.

Just like most court cases where the losers frame a ruling against them the worst case scenario of a problem existing on a singular axis, there are extenuating circumstances in each of these that add far more complexity to an issue than the infringers want you to believe. In the case of sampling "The Last Time", there was an agreement in place where The Verve had gone through all of the proper channels to secure the rights to use samples. However, it was ruled they used too much of the sample, as the iconic string section playing the four root notes of the melody in the song is that sample. I don't have the actual agreement to reference, but suffice to say, the ruling took into consideration that the agreement described a far more limited use of the sample, instead of looping through the entire duration of the song, which is what happened.

Then, just to wave the whole complexity of it in your face as something that is impossible to nail down to any simple rules, there are the cases in the far opposite direction that seemingly should be infringing, but for whatever reason haven't found to be, or at least are specious enough given previous litigation by the offenders.

Neil Young sings in "Borrowed Tune": "I'm singing this borrowed tune, I took from the Rolling Stones. Alone in this empty room, too wasted too write my own"

Huey Lewis successfully argued that "I want a new drug" was infringed upon by the theme to "The Ghostbusters". I don't know the order of operations in regards to his suit, but Huey Lewis also released "Do You Believe in Love?", which is strikingly similar in musical nature, AND has nearly identical lyrics to Electric Light Orchestra's "Sweet Talking Woman":

ELO: "I was searching on a one way street, I was hoping for a chance to meet..."

HL&TN: " "I was walking down a one way street. Just a lookin' for someone to meet"

Most damningly, one would think, is that at various times in each song, there are three part harmonies that echo the verb of each stanza.

For any Godel Escher Bach fans out there, the application of copyright law seems to adhere to Godel's Incompleteness Theorem.
The poor girl can't use Google to send her friend a video of her sucking a penis. Tragic.

We should create a system where, for less than $0.50, you can have a DVD of your blowjob video hand-delivered to whomever you wish. Just imagine... that would be revolutionary. You could even have every person have their own personal little box where such blow-job videos could be delivered.

It's just a fantasy, I guess. Such a thing is far beyond our current state of technology.
Wow- one step closer - two Laser interacting generate Plasma.
Now you can print 3dimensional plasma into mid air- now all you need is a lightning, and you printed a space-gun coil-gun/launchloop into mid air.

Who cares about crowdcontroll if we can go to space for cheap.
Facebook scraped call, text message data for years from Android phones
There’s a massive difference between Farmville et al and the OFA app. Facebook had limits in place that constrained the ratio between the number of friend profiles that were allowed to be accessed and the number of people that had explicitly authorized the app. They were a black box on this issue, but for example I had apps that were stopped from accessing deep profile information of friends (likes, occupation, etc.) when I reached 10:1. OFA’s ratio was in the 200:1 neighborhood.

It was somewhat possible to overcome this by spreading the collection out of a number of months or years, which is what
I believe the Kogan app did. But even in that case, with the data collection spread out over a long period of time, they had nowhere near the data that the Obama campaign was allowed access to. Finally, the CA data was years old, while the Obama data was allowed to stay fresh right up to election day because they had no API limits.

So these apps with much larger install bases than Obama could have ever dreamed of had access to less data than OFA did because their ratio was not allowed to be as ridiculously asymmetric as Obama’s was. They still had access to large amounts of data, but only because of their massive authorized install bases (which in all of the cases you mention were far larger than the OFA install base). But none had the entire US social graph - with the exception of OFA.
I'm offended that you're so easily offended
What if the story with megaupload repeats
> comparing it to print advertising is disingenuous at best.

Right. First, print advertising could only target the entire subscriber base. Second, they had a limited amount of data on you based on voluntary surveys and census tracts, not a list of every single thing you read, and where you are every minute of every day. Finally, print publications actually cared about reuse/misuse of their address lists. The list they sold you would include some addresses they controlled, so if you resold or reused it, they would catch you.

There are ways to deliver effective ads with a whole lot less surveillance.
And how long do you think that neat partitioning of keys by country of sale would last?

My money is on "until about the next Tuesday after the scheme is first deployed", and then every phone is open to every sufficiently-motivated country's intelligence agencies and law enforcement, and that's the end of business, law-enforcement and possibly even military security for anyone stuck using one of those devices.
> I want my entire network protected at the gateway, so not sure how the tor network keeps up with streaming video etc?

With Qubes you can have a Whonix-ws VM have all its traffic go through Tor, and have another VM with all its traffic through some VPN to use with streaming.
so funny, my daughter's monthly gifted class spent the entire day last week futzing with the Fibonacci sequence.

Meanwhile we are struggling to teach her basic fractions.