skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> At least when it was semi-public coordinated police efforts could have tackled some of these prostitution rings.

It's generally accepted among researchers that the Internet makes life easier for people trafficking sex, and harder for law enforcement to investigate those crimes.

This is especially the case in something like Backpage, where they had a policy to not report to law enforcement, and to provide incomplete information to law enforcement.

Backpage was claiming to be a dumb pipe. They weren't. They were giving advice to advertisers about which words to use or avoid. They knew advertisers were selling rape of children, they told those advertisers how to do it. And so when they made reports to law enforcement they had to withold some information - the bits where they'd helped the pimps - because that showed they were not dumb pipes.
From what I remember, you had access to the data that would be visible to a users' friends by default: photos, posts, friends list, but not private messages.

None of that data is actually particularly scary by itself, although I wouldn't enjoy the thought of it all being out there.

What Cambridge Analytica was bragging about was their big data model promising to distill users' data to a psychographic profile.

There's this story about 30 "likes" (of books / artists/ movies/ etc) being enough to predict peoples' sexual orientation with higher accuracy than the coworkers sharing a desk with someone.

The large publicity for such "big data" methods in the last years may have contributed to the change in public opinion, and (part of) the reason Facebook is just now getting its 15 minutes of infamy.
There is also this theory that it's caused a Hepatis outbreak: http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/hepatitis-crisis/sd...

People who are homeless would often use plastic bags as a bathroom, and then throw it in the trash. No more plastic bags, so they can't do that...

Not sure what real evidence there is for it, but I always love an unintended consequences story.
Look, you can't both have a notion of "standing the test of time" and think all opinions are equal: passing a test by necessity defines a preferred opinion.

Your stated position is a logical contradiction: good job.
Well I think you were saying that, a few posts ago, if you go back and look. You defined it as going someplace without "objective practical need."

I don't see how amateur racing and attending a concert can meaningfully be distinguished from diversions.
Could it be that the teams are simply focused on adding K8s support and getting the Docker EE out of Beta?

Public statement on their blog after the K8s announcement in EU:

"But it’s equally important for us to note that Swarm orchestration is not going away. Swarm forms an integral cluster management component of the Docker EE platform; in addition, Swarm will operate side-by-side with Kubernetes in a Docker EE cluster, allowing customers to select, based on their needs, the most suitable orchestration tool at application deployment time."

https://blog.docker.com/2017/11/swarm-orchestration-in-docke...

There's still plenty of PR's and activity in the SwarmKit and Libnetwork repos:

https://github.com/docker/swarmkit/pulse/monthly
https://github.com/docker/libnetwork/pulse/monthly
I’m curious about what you’re saying here and I’ll certainly be thinking about it more, but here’s something I was thinking about: maybe a step in the right direction would be to require permissions to offer a user configurable time limit. I think that users should be able to set the permission they grant to expire after a term of their choice—if they want to grant perpetual permission, fine. I think it would be interesting to think about the implications of apps having to come back to get reauthorization. When permission expires, maybe that just means that no more data can be collected; maybe it means the vendor has to destroy those records. Either way, I don’t want large companies to be able to exploit people who click a button they don’t read. Maybe companies should be required by law to charge users some form of consideration just like other contracts so that we can do away with companies dangling their product as a free carrot in exchange for swaths of personal data, and then leaking it.
That solution requires that all computation is deterministic and the result of computation can be easily comparable. I think not all the computation is that simple.
Not a fair comparison because there's no sandbox for desktop apps.
Red of course.
It's funny that you link Jon Brodkin, because I was going to point out all of what gave you this erroneous impression was from a select handful of media properties which have incredibly close ties with Google...

You ignored that Google and Facebook are also the front door to the Internet, and that you cannot evade their privacy violations by just "not using them". You've also continued to not address that Google is a much larger monopoly than any company you're upset about. Adding all of the ISPs together would not even approach the scale of threat provided by Google, in money or reach.

You've seemed to decide that violating your privacy and security is okay for some companies and not others without really a reasonable distinction how. Especially given that Google and Facebook are both media companies (and ISPs), and so are Comcast and Verizon.
First, Facebook didn’t allow CA to do anything. That’s because CA didn’t ever have an app on Facebook. The app in question was a personality quiz created by an independent developer. It accessed a small fraction of the number of profiles that OFA did, and it was only able to do so over a much longer period of time. The data from the app was then sold to CA years after the fact. It was a normal app that operated within the normal parameters imposed by Facebook on all other applications.

That’s far different than the Obama situation. They accessed ~4 times the number of profiles, and were allowed to keep the data current because Facebook voluntarily removed the API limits for them. Why would you question Obama’s own campaign director? As if it were a secret that Facebook is left leaning and wanted to help Obama.
Thats BS.
You mean to tell me, the people who walk up to store to buy groceries cannot carry a reusable empty bag?
The mile-long list of app permissions requested by Facebook's app should have been a red flag for most.

There are alternatives, such as using the mobile web interface, or any of the various apps that wrap the site, such as https://f-droid.org/en/packages/it.rignanese.leo.slimfaceboo...
Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Connecticut), a cosponsor of the bill, derided Craigslist's announcement. “If Craigslist is really telling us that they can’t run a page on their website without knowingly facilitating sex trafficking, that would certainly be a damning admission,” he said in a statement

https://www.wired.com/story/craigslist-shuts-personal-ads-fo...
Where are those screenshots from?

Why is Zuckerberg's nick 02? Who is 01?
Issue 90 – GraphQL-Weekly
You can see already the huge failure of this policy, before it has even become law. The clearly unconstitutional aspects of the law, and the chilling effect is tremendous.

The wrong thing to do is to run and hide.

The best response is to find ways to weaponize the law against more powerful groups to create a backlash.
Here: https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/06/07/us/sam-brownback-kansa...

Brownback’s tax plan was so awful for the state that Republicans called him out on his bullshit and overrode his veto of a tax increase bill. Article has more details and links.
Look, just such a simple fact women who are raped by their husbands can actually call and expect to be defended is to me obviously much more important than the fact that the tits on some statues are censored when shown on tv.
I hate that I can't send a photo to a friend without giving facebook access to all of my photos. Where's the "just this one" option?
That's weird - I think Rudin is great and do everything through a terminal through emacs...
That’s an absurd statement. First the conflation of sex trafficking and prostitution, and second, second the hazy definition of “facilitating”, third the shocking criminal penalties.

Yeah, Craigslist was scared. And so are a lot of people. Laughing that off is what’s damning.
The Android permission scheme is slowly becoming more granular. I'm not sure what the reason was from the beginning to have such generic permissions.
When you saw large lists of permissions on apps before marshmallow, you had to accept them all, now it requests for each on first use but I'm still not a fan of apps that want everything.
CS110: Principles of Computer Systems
I just did this search, and at least the first page only had results perfectly matching the query.

Try yourself: https://www.google.com/search?q=Stockholm+Syndrome+Research
I love Merlin, too.
The best deal for budget users is to get the AC1900 but as the T-Mobile version. It can be found for about $60 and and you'll need a few hours to flash the Merlin software over the TMobile firmware.

Best router I've ever had, and I run it with a PiHole on a Pi 3.
Principles of Computer Systems(2002)
DIY rocket scientist blasts off
Improving Gson JsonReader with Reusable Buffers
While I don’t have kids, a friend of mine in San Francisco does. She’s good friends with the neighbors who have a son the same age as hers. If she had to leave suddenly, I’m certain they’d do anything they could to help.

Outside of Silicon Valley where I grew up, in the Santa Cruz mountains, we also had neighbors we could trust who would help us if they could.

I do feel that Silicon Valley is less friendly than nearby Santa Cruz, but anecdotally we do have neighbors who will help.
A time limit would be a good idea, but putting that into law is not. This is the point of open source, we don't want to be required to do things, you let the consumers choose. If they can examine the code (and this is only going to get more important), then they, or the people they trust to look at it, can make informed decisions.
Since the WikiPedia article dosn't say much about the effects of this compound, here's a summary on Erowid:

https://www.erowid.org/chemicals/bz/bz_article1.shtml

It's the height of shame that the US government has considered dosing people (and perhaps has dosed people) with this compound.
I can run a Streisand server for about $3-4 / month on a EC2 / Azure instance. I take it offline when I don't use it and can get even cheaper.
I agree and think that these sorts of laws create hassle without much benefit. There are probably a hundred more impactful things that could make a measurable impact in the earth without pushing cost and hassle on people dealing with enough of both.

In my county, (not in California) a former fat guy turned crossfitter on the legislature pushed bans on all sorts of stuff, including transfat. Counties only control regulation for food places less than 20,000 square feet, so mr. healthy food put every bakery in county out of business (literally) and left us with factory manufactured crap in supermarkets, etc.

The point is, flashy nonsense doesn’t help when you have real problems.
Having seen how places like Chicago treat the homeless in the interests of keeping the things you're pointing out hidden from sight - I appreciate SF's more tolerant, somewhat live-and-let-live methods, in lieu of better, more compassionate solutions.

Hopefully having all this on display in SF will eventually provide enough impetus for the better solutions to emerge. Until then, I hope they don't decide to start being agressive and violent towards what is a largely mentally ill and incredibly vulnerable homeless population.

My admittedly limited understanding is that much of this problem is the result of mental institutions being closed across the state in the face of federal funding vanishing in the 80s. [1]

I've also heard numerous anecdotes about mentally ill patients and the homeless being forcefully bussed to San Francisco from not just other parts of California but other states, precisely because of the city's tolerance. If there's a shred of truth to this, it's a trivial to see why it's such a persistent problem.

[1] http://sfist.com/2016/06/27/san_francisco_homeless_history_1...
Only in the US can actions regarding firearms be considered a political move. (Most of) Rest of the world sees it as a safety issue and is happy to give away their firearms.
Rudin is a good reference book. It's not good to learn from, but if you're looking for the authoritatively _best_ proof, that cuts right to the heart of the problem, then Rudin is great.

It's not good for self study, but I used it as a supplement to a real analysis course I was taking at the time, and I appreciated the terseness and dryness. My lecturer went into the details, so it was good to have a terse book to remind me of lecture content when doing assignments and studying for exams.
- Do you want your ISP tracking you and selling your private data? Do you think that is the place of an ISP?

- Does it bother you you are PAYING your ISP and they are reselling your data as well?

- Do you trust Comcast and Verizon and like that you are paying them to sell your data when you just want to use them to get online and are ok with this?

It is funny you keep evading those important questions and flipping back to Facebook/Google. Just want to get you on record on the ISP question. I have already stated all are powerful and there is an expectation of tracking from advertising companies like Google/Facebook, that was not possible until the ISP privacy bill that removed privacy protections.

Also that data from broadband numbers is DIRECTLY from the FCC report the FCC created, it is just summarized on ars, does the FCC have a Google bias?[1].

The fact that you supposedly know the guys bias and associate it with Google is probably a hint of bias on your side. Maybe you just like ISPs selling your private data while paying for the service.

> You've seemed to decide that violating your privacy and security is okay for some companies and not others without really a reasonable distinction how.

I believe I explained this clearly multiple times. ISPs are literally the definitely of a 'gateway' or doorway to the internet. Facebook/Google are built on top of it and yes you can route around them or block them easily with host loopback or at firewall/routers etc, there are competitors to those apps, not so much with network gateways/ISPs [1]. Is the EFF also in Google's bias? [2]

You've seemed to decide that violating your privacy and security is okay for ISPs who previously were not able to but lobbied to have those privacy protections removed without answering whether you think that they should.

I don't believe any ISP should have access to your private data nor sell it, especially because you are paying for it. I say the same for Google Fiber and and Facebook ISP overseas if they have them. ISPs SHOULD NOT be accessing private data and selling it, they are the gateway to the internet and that is TOO MUCH POWER. If ISPs want advertising networks or tracking, build a search engine or a social network or like Comcast has in Hulu, or buy one. Only track on a destination site that I can CHOOSE NOT to use that doesn't double as my entry to the web, that has way more monopolistic tendencies in terms of control of your data.

[1] https://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/201...

[2] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/03/five-creepy-things-you...
An optimist I see.

I think there is something of a threshold for "liar", i.e. the implication is that it's habitual, or that the consequences are serious (sometimes, but not always both of those). And there is a huge variation in the trustworthiness or lie-frequency of individuals, that I think would be fairly consistent if you watch the same person over time, then compare them to others. A reasonable person has probably spotted high frequency liars at various points of daily life and made mental notes not to trust them, or the opposite for the opposite traits, and made these determinations correctly.

So I think the point is a little facetious.
Can't we agree that both are scary? You can live without both.
It doesn't seem too unreasonable that states with lower populations would rank so favorably given the criteria described.

Less people could mean less air pollution and fewer contaminants in municipal water supplies from runoff. This would theoretically decrease the occurrence of pollution related illness. I would imagine that fracking in ND, though a huge business, only occurs in a few key areas of the state, thus limiting it's negative affects on quality of life.

Smaller communities are also known for their close social circles. When there are only a handful of people in a town, it is not uncommon to interact with the same individuals regularly. If you look at the rankings, Alaska ranks number one in the "Social Environment" category. Only in a large city can one feel alone despite being surrounded by people everywhere they go.

I do agree with your point though. The criteria is very narrow and doesn't discuss many of the aspects of what "quality of life" is in the minds of most people. What about entertainment? Employment? Poverty levels? Prices? These things are important to people and I think fall under the umbrella of "quality of life" in general.
"We also asked why Facebook users should trust Zuckerberg’s claim, also made in the CNN interview, that it’s now ‘open to being regulated’ — when its historical playbook is packed with examples of the polar opposite behavior, "

It's like when Trump said he could shoot someone on the street and still win... It's when your supporters start to back off that you start giving in to demands, not before.
The worst part is that (cough) at least one company has completely misunderstood the relationship implied by "Move fast and break things".

As the story goes, Travis Kalanik was furious when Tesla's not-really-autonomous driving mode led to the first casualty, screaming that he had wanted to be the first to kill someone with self-driving technology.

It's almost as if he thought of breaking things (/people) as a cause for progress, and not an intended consequence.
I think one of the key points that has come out of the discussions in the last year or so is that the general public cannot trust Google or Facebook or any organization to keep its best interest at heart. Their needs to be better targeted government regulation that is designed by a impartial third-party and serves the best interests of general public. The worst thing we could get out of the computer revolution is the majority of the world becoming scapegoats for a few people living in Bay Area.
Combine this with tech that can mimic your own voice and it gets really weird.

https://www.technologyreview.com/the-download/610386/a-new-a...
Correct. It is not a monolithic block of supporters and that is _precisely_ why they had to wrap it up as they did. The goal was to find a way to do this that would win enough popular support to pass.

I fully expect all the non-professionals involved to be duped into supporting it.

The politicians, the wealthy, and the lobbyists involved, however, wanted this exact response. They now have the tools to leverage any platform that allows UGC to obey since none of them can fully evade the "knowingly" standard if they have employees.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/03/how-congress-censored-...

> While we can’t speculate on the agendas of the groups behind SESTA, we can study those same groups’ past advocacy work. Given that history, one could be forgiven for thinking that some of these groups see SESTA as a mere stepping stone to banning pornography from the Internet or blurring the legal distinctions between sex work and trafficking.

The EFF basically called those groups out that are doing this out of social conservatism (rather than legitimate desire to render aid). They alone would not have been enough to push this bill through, just as they have repeatedly failed in the past.

So they needed new wrapping paper and a group of friendly lobbyists who wanted a tool to lean on people with.
I've lived in both places and NYC is far more tolerant.
I have lived in extremely rural areas, and driven to destinations deep in North Dakota to buy pickup trucks.

I do not associate any part of North Dakota with midwestern neighborliness. Perhaps you do?
wrt edits, you had it right the first time: to bear the cost (ie, to carry the load, shoulder the burden) not to "bare" it (ie, reveal it)
Cambridge Analytica, in about three weeks.
There is some truth to that, but it's not that hard of a problem. Start by making a dependency tree, and only displaying the top nodes. "Do you want to share anything with app X?" yes/no and go from there.

Often the "it's too complicated" excuse is really a cover for "we make out money off your data and fund the development of this software to harvest it".
I could be wrong, but I don't think the OP is asking for more high-density (and low income) housing.
That bugs me too. I've resorted to placing the photo on the clipboard, then paste it. A workaround, but well worth preserving your sanity.
I hope apple can make this happen
Heller v <Whoever was the Mayor of Washington DC at the time>
I grew up on the East Coast actually. I vastly prefer the weather, the culture and the economic opportunity of the Bay Area. I know its got huge problems, and how people like me exacerbate them, and I can’t afford a house here, but there is no where I’d rather be right now.
Pretty sure Paypal is cooler and more beneficial for humanity than FB.
I think it's "This helps us orient both ad- and non-ad- content on Facebook to fit you optimally and keep you on Facebook and also figure out why people keep texting instead of using FB Messenger."
Nearly All Binary Searches and Mergesorts Are Broken(2006)
For all of you who are misty-eyed pondering those wonderful, probably-lost-forever Usenet posts from the 90s, I dare you to read Kibo's .signature (last updated 5/5/94 4:52AM <-- CINCO DE MAY-O !!!!) at http://archive.birdhouse.org/etc/kibosig.txt to cure yourselves of misplaced misty-eyed nostalgia for those long-ago times when the Internet was something else.

Kibo for President!
This is nice to see. I work on Hyperledger; we run a chat server if you'd like to get involved (or have questions!): https://chat.hyperledger.org/
There was no explicit setting to turn this off until somewhat recently, and is addressed at the start of the article:

> This screen in the Messenger application offers to conveniently track all your calls and messages. But Facebook was already doing this surreptitiously on some Android devices until October 2017, exploiting the way an older Android API handled permissions.
I've been trying to delete the Apple ID associated with my email address for years, but Apple can't be bothered to handle account deletion, even after I paid them.
I prefer the PHP version of ImageMagick as PHP is a better scripting tool than 'cli'. The manual is a bit hard to follow as things are essentially undocumented. However, if you want to carefully prepare a batch of images, going to PHP is taking it to the next level.

Particularly interesting are features such as being able to save images in different colour spaces, e.g. 4:2:0, going lo-res on the chroma for a lower ultimate file size in jpg.

If I had a lifetime spare I would complete the PHP Imagick documentation and write a version of Fred's scripts in PHP, so they can be chained together in a nifty object oriented way...
They are puritanical yes, but they've hardly become more so in the last 200 years. I think it is merely that the law has become more prevalent across the country.
Strongly agree. For those who disagree and see it as personal and temporary thing rather than an inevitable incentive for these institutions, I would like to remind you of the clipper chip debacle of the 90s. Doesn't matter who's in power, it is very tempting to all of em, presenting immediate advantages for governments with only, seemingly, vague longer term disadvantages. The perfect drug.

Constant vigilance, yall