skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Google News made it quite obvious how redundant a lot of content is. Often articles are just exact copies of Reuters, AP, ... texts.

Reuters and AP are newswire services which is meant to be used by multiple pubs because local pubs don't have reporters all around the world. The local papers' reporters are busy telling you what your local schoolboard is up to and whatnot.

But I agree more pubs will likely disappear or be merged into larger media conglomerates, and that leads into issues like Sinclair forcing all their pubs to push certain agendas.
Private Internet Access is a common one but there are many. Torrent Freak always has the latest and any encroachments as torrent users are usually the most adamant about privacy.

https://torrentfreak.com/vpn-services-keep-anonymous-2018/
I've often seen this permission rationalised as "Well apps need to suspend when a call is incoming", but why is ability to know if there is a call the same permissions as knowing every call made and for how long?

Facebook may have been "given permission" but as people are discovering, it wasn't really actually given permission. This is why there is such a notion as informed consent, because giving permission isn't always as simple as agreeing to something.
A private company surely has the right to decide not to host such content

And a company can absolutely do that, but paying that much attention to the content of the media changes their responsibilities under the DMCA and Section 230 of the CDA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Copyright_Infringement_...
This problem lead to the development of General Relativity.

It was a bit of a problem for newtonian mechanics ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucket_argument ) which Einstein was able to solve: https://books.google.com/books?id=qszDAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA114 (unfortunately I don't know how to select or copy/paste from google book; read the two paragraphs that begin "Does this permit..."
Who could be against saving the forests and decreasing harmful sugar consumption?
With respect, I think that you're just writing what you suppose they did with out bothering to read what I've written because it's too long for you.

I didn't write it out carefully for you. I wrote it for the OP.
How much safer is my data on these networks compared to Facebook? E.g. is my friends list safe from people outside my network? And also from people running federated servers?
Super fascinating! What are your future plans after this?
I started working on active vs passive voice at the request of a therapist who recognized I was taking a very passive approach to life and thought the language shift might help with a mental shift. I found it helped me realize the ways I could change my behavior. Simply the act of monitoring and correcting my language was a practice in taking a more active role in my life.

I dropped most words with opposites as a practice in nonjudgment. I kept a few around, like "love" and "can" because they're useful. "Can't" implies a belief that something's impossible. Believing that can keep us from imagining ways things CAN happen. It's therefore not useful to adopt the belief of "can't" if we want to explore possibilities. Having an exploratory mindset is really helpful while trying to learn how to meet one's needs.

This approach is about seeing a way through things by learning to let go of how I judge something in order to see a way through it. Everything is a learning opportunity, so I'm working to enable/configure myself to learn more frequently. I do experience deep optimism. As for positivity, I prefer to acknowledge both sides of the coin.

Does that answer your questions?
DuckDuckGo shows misleading Twitter account of Assange, first
I agree with a lot of what you said, however:

a) Kids are finding they don't want to join what their parents are on. Heck, I don't want to stay on what parents (whom I knew from before they were parents) are on.

b) Elon Musk just said: "Looks lame anyway" - don't get "clean" and not-lame mixed up - most of Facebook does look lame in 2018 once people see past the window dressing; I actually think nearly every single company/personal page out there is a potential liability, often with not that much to gain (depends on the social media manager employed of course).

c) And university people are realising that Eternal September has arrived.

I have one simple answer to your last line (reflecting from my personal experience of being on Facebook for longer than I should have): For me, it was the straw that broke the camel's back.
Facebook has a decade on these projects as well though. Also larger financial backing. These projects protocol (forget which ones) are based on an official w3c spec as well. So unlike Facebook these types of networks will be an official part of the web. Facebook can disappear one day but these sites will not go anywhere.
I think I get more work done on the weekends then I do the rest of the normal 5 day work week.
Yes it is. Fortunately laser printers are a decent alternative. The color laser I'm using still has its original toner carts from the day I got it a year or so ago. I wonder how long it takes Goodwill to sell or turn over their isle of inkjets.
The encrypted image would theoretically work. Practically, I'm pretty sure iCloud cannot do differential backups and any change to any file in the image would require a complete re-upload.

I actually wouldn't have a problem trusting Apple's promises on data privacy. Unfortunately, iCloud Drive is not yet encrypted end-to-end, unlike messages, keychain, photos and some other content. They're supposed to be working on it.
Disk can be faster than memory
I would like to mention that I find it extremely irritating that despite paying for a subscription, the NYT still collects data on me and serves me ads. That's the worst of both worlds.
Cheers for that - I wasn't before aware of NewsDiffs. I'll definitely be making use of it again.
> I agree that GIMP is a Linux's Photoshop, not a Linux's MS Paint

Photoshop had massive, productivity boosting features like Adjustment Layers, since the 4th release, in 1996!! simple non destructive effects were added to the list with 5.0 in 1998. That's 20 years ago. In 20 years, almost every single serious tool for image manipulation has understood that non destructive editing is at the core of productivity. Krita has it. Photoshop almost always had it. Lightroom has it. Affinity Photos has it. Pixelmator has it. The venerable shareware Paintshop Pro, one of the first popular Photoshop clone, grew that feature. Picasa, a free (as in beer, not as in freedom) photo library management and quick photo editing tool that was immensely popular on Windows before Google dropped it, had fast non destructive image editing.

Editing anything in GIMP feels like a painful process that allows no mistake and every single process, even just drawing a damn circle (one that doesn't have heavy artifacts by the way), takes more clicks or keyboard shortcut presses than it ever should. I know it's free software developed on some hobby developer's free time but that does not make it immune from criticism. Just because something is free doesn't make it good or worth considering.
As a tool for producing content, the GIMP really is more linux's MS paint than photoshop. That's because Photoshop stopped being an overgrown paint-with-layers program since the 1996 release.
I still remember how it felt to use the 5.0 release of Photoshop as if it was yesterday's. If I had no choice but to use 20 years old Photoshop vs 2018 GIMP, I'd pick the 20 years old software.
Maybe, maybe not. But, it would be a wasted opportunity not to kill Facebook right now because the political will of the resist-trump crowd makes the attempt more likely to succeed.
I recently installed it and synced up 5 imap accounts, some with as many as 10 years of mail and its bloody fast. I recall trying it a few years back and was very frustrated that archiving a message seem to block the UI. That is no longer the case and now I’m very fast with it when using keyboard shortcuts.
> As a developer or web designer what provides the most value?

The question is: who is likely to pay?

Individuals really don't like to pay.

Companies don't mind paying.

Therefore charge per user because multi-user is almost certainly a company.

Most SaaS companies that have a product that can be used by both individuals and companies try to charge for features that are important for companies.

For example on GitHub you can have as many free public repos as you want because public repo strongly implies an individual.

If you want even a single private repo, you pay, because private strongly implies a company.
> Learning new things can be exhilarating, but it can get tough, and unpleasant, too. Explanations can be dumbed down, but the effort involved to grow further is unavoidable.

Anything rewarding demands something from you, otherwise it wouldn't be rewarding. Pain, discomfort, and adversity are good for the soul. If you want instantaneous gratification without sweat, do heroin or play video games.
Really hard to read blog, because the context is often missing. But through reading a few articles it gets more clear.

(probably from another article than the one linked above)

> First thing, do not stick your neck out.

This advise always frustrates me. I know it's true, but feel it's really, really hard to implement.

a) What do you do if you don't get any direct command from your manager? If you then choose to do nothing you get the negative feedback that you didn't do enough. If you go left, you get the feedback that you should go right. If you go right, you get the feedback that you should go left. If you go straight, you get the feedback that you are too direct. With everything you do, there's automatically, intrinsically something you don't do, and that will be used as negative feedback.

b) I don't know about other people, but becoming more successful is really a necessity for me. If you always get negative feedback, how could you progress? So I start hinting at the left and when the negative feedback to go right is incoming I show that I actually moved right. You can believe me, I speak from expeirence, that's when the real shit starts to hit you. Suddenly you are not just a stupid employee, you are also disloyal and an intriguing schemer. You are dangerous and need to get rid off. So apparently that's sticking the neck out.

But then, what else to do? If (a) and (b) both is not acceptable, then what is (c)?

PS: Also this article. Feels so much like my current situation: http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2012/01/09/rigor/
Apparently they serve your archive up on some dialup link or something. I just noticed my archive is available (no email received though), and it's going to take an hour to download 255 MB. On a 1G fiber link.

I guess this kind of complies with the GDPR. Seems like FB probably has fast internet links somewhere.
That's not right — melodies are also subject to copyright, independent of the lyrics.
Others here have offered some great suggestions already, so I will offer one a little off the beaten path:

Foundations of Mathematics
https://www.amazon.com/Foundations-Mathematics-Ian-Stewart/d...

This book is meant to help one transition from performing math in an algorithmic manner to generating proofs based on logic and also set theory.
The species through its official bodies has a right to take action against self-harm.

The revolutionary war was a reaction to what were then perceived to be unjust theft.

An entire war over expropriation of economic effort.

Tighter enforcement and policing of content and weapons that pose a real threat to family stability (come on things go nuts when you lose someone, now lose them in a ridiculous mass shooting?)

Regardless of the stats, I am not swayed by rigorous math -- nothing in science says we have to abide it, just as much as nothing in science says we have to reach for a Bible to solve problems.
I just like working, so on weekends, I either work on a side projet or I work for a startup.

Working let me build things, and be creative, I can't manage to stop working. If I don't work I feel like my time is lost
> I don't have a problem with the illegal porn ban; people are actually being victimized there.

This is where you are wrong. It is either all or it is not. You can't draw the line. Either information can free flow through your router or it can't.

I can't really see it another way.
You might want to try digiKam[1], it has a fuzzy search feature for finding similar images[2].

1: https://www.digikam.org/

2: https://docs.kde.org/trunk5/en/extragear-graphics/digikam/us...
I never implied it was useful, just that people are more likely to take cpp and coat it with tools to feel getting things done by juggling masses of files.
For the nontechnical, what does 0rtt do?
That Simpsons clip leaves out the punch line, where Smithers attributes the decrease in the accident rate to the promotion of Homer.
I noticed some weird behavior of DDG search results lately. Maybe is just in my head, I thought. So I looked for an easy subject, a celebrity. Then I archived the result.
That makes sense. I will do it as well if advertising wasn't a model. In some ways, YouTube already allows that with Red.

I wonder how many people are like you though outside the tech forums and especially in developing countries (where a lot of the users for US based tech companies come from).
> But those questions remained safely in the realm of the HN servers as some binary pattern in a Hard disk platter. They didn't get out it the real world.

If no one would bother to read them sure. But I fail to see how the fact that information is stored in a 'binary pattern in a hard disk platter' makes it less relevant than it being stored on a slice of fallen tree... Especially in our day and age I would argue for the opposite, the virtual medium has become more important - because more people are using it to get their information.
100 years ago they were made on a hand crank hobbing tool, or wheel engine.

I don't know about these days.
Is the slow memory actual memory or it is fake memory paged to disk?
The majority of cases are settled by plea bargains, which don’t have a jury and minimal involvement by a judge. Many proposed reforms of the criminal justice system try to address this exact fact.
You may be right. And while we may not have the freedom from money enshrined in current laws, money is not a human need, so we have an inalienable right to choose whatever strategy we want, as long as it doesn't harm others.

Ultimately, for the time being, we can only seek to minimize how we interact with money until the law catches up with human understanding. It's really hard to dump capitalism altogether and/or overnight, so it's about progressively stepping down/back.
Not at all; Google is every bit as scary. Together the two companies have sucked all the profit out of publishing.
If you have decent network VLAN his equipment on its own subnet.

It is sad we have to secure our networks from equipment straight from the vendor.
What does Facebook have on me?
I’m like you, I’m in the UK anyway but even in the US I wouldn’t be into guns, but find the more technical and historically oriented channels like Forgotten Weapons fascinating. If it gets shut down it will be a real shame.

But the pro-gun lobby in the US are bringing all of this on themselves. The level of gun violence in the US is appalling, and is clearly becomming unacceptable to many and possibly a majority of Americans. Every attempt to mitigate it is actively opposed by the gun lobby, often with patently ridiculous measures designed to be ineffective. So I have no sympathy for the gun lobby. If they want to own guns and preserve an armed culture I think its entirely reasonable for the rest of America to expect them to do so safely. If they can’t come up with an effective regulatory system they can live with and which protects the public from gun violence, then I think they won’t have a moral leg to stand on when the rest of the country takes their toys away from them. Guns with effective and safe regulation, or no guns at all and the responsibility for coming up with what that safe and effective regulation is sholod fall on gun owners. Here in the UK we went with pretty much no guns at all. I hope America keeps its traditions and culture, but not at any price when that price is paid in blood.
I sleep and read a lot. Unless it's going out with friends, or some event. Occasionally partake in marijuana.
But you've now shifted the "how" question. (Or I misunderstood the original.)

It is not a question of how there is emergence, why there is magic. The answer to that is is because systematic interactions at a low level can create higher level playing fields.

So the "how" is now a technical question, what is this system, how complex is it, and at which levels can we understand it. And since this system has been learning how to avoid erasure by entropy or by competition for 3.5 billion years, it has searched quite a possibility space, namely 2^1277500000000, if we assume making a copy every day.
That’s normally an option for your manifest file (e.g., a Gemfile or package.json), but most production applications also (sensibly) use a lockfile. Updating the versions in that lockfile is what Dependabot is great for.
A lot of people seem to default to a really cynical view of tech businesses. I share this same same sentiment with the parent comment where I feel like Google "has my back" and I know for certain there products do make my life easier. This guilty until proven innocent attitude that many people hold is getting kinda old.

Giving them your data is the price you pay for their service. If this doesn't seem fair to you then find an alternative. Enough of this scary business.

Maybe with the Equifax and Cambridge analytica incidents the broader public will start thinking about privacy more seriously. And in turn companies may start pushing privacy assurances as selling points. (Just reaching for a bit of optimism in these unnerving circumstances, I don't like it either)
I wonder how many google employees are actively watching porn, 75% 55% 25% ? it's anyway hypocrite to censure something as much as widely used by everyone just for the sake of american puritanism
Then why are companies like P&G cutting digital ad spend significantly? And why is this actually having a positive impact on their bottom line?
Has anyone made or found an implementation yet?
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11 minutes, I'm riding a bike.

I don't understand why so many people listening to music all the time, what is really the benefit of it? And how are you able to do taht ? Everytime I listen to music for 1 hour I'm exhausted
There is a big difference between "all X should be killed" and "hey guys here is an inanimate object that goes boom."
Why is it oppresive? Web storage is a service, not a human right. What do you think people did before Google Drive? Apparently the location where school children put their homeworks might not be the right storage location for porn.

Why not pay a storage service that is focussing on the adult industry?
We need a license that excludes use by user data harvesting companies, such as Google and Facebook. Even if not legally enforceable, it could make a difference, by clearly dividing between good and bad.
Some replies say that the user should take a second look at what permissions they give, but in the case of Android apps the permission to use the Account Manager (used to register a service account like Facebook, Google, Twitter or any other things that need to synchronize in the background) is displayed as a "Contacts" permission to the user.

So some apps like Facebook might synchronize or make other uses of contacts with their service accounts, but many other service don't do anything with contacts and doesn't EVEN request the actual contacts permission but their permission request is still displayed as "Contacts".

How can the user be able to do responsible choices in giving apps permissions when the permissions layer of the OS make no sense?
It's really a shame. These channels (+ Cody's) produce awesome content that I'm sure inspire a lot of kids and teens to study STEM.
Nice! Some thoughts:

- I’d rank them on a combination of size and score.
- perhaps a link to relevant delete / info page
- automatic vs manual (ie do you need to ask support)
- whether they have precise info on which information is deleted, and what is kept
- a column for claimed gdpr compliance
A New Way to Design Programming Languages?
Looking at the great circle route, it's 9009 miles, taking the flight over Iran, Turkey, etc. Wouldn't want to divert to some of the areas its flying over in case of a problem.
Why would you trust a VPN provider more than your ISP?
Any backdoor would probably be per-country so you have to pay attention to what country your phone is registered in.
Navalism – Quotes and Perceptions by Naval Ravikant
For most large tech companies EU is their biggest or second biggest market. The fines are large, so it will be in their interest to comply.
>In short, I predict they will fail.

I guess that's why we're sitting in different camps.

One advantage that the Golem team has over a centralized, proprietary solution is the open nature of the project:

https://github.com/golemfactory/golem

The Golem team doesn't necessarily need to solve every problem. Being built on top of the Ethereum Network is advantageous. If they make an appealing, open platform with potential, maybe other developers will pick up the ball and run with it to power their own ends.

In short, I predict that they will succeed.
No? That doesn't follow.
It could be similar to DropBox's sharing copyrighted material ban, from what I vaguely recall reading somewhere, it merely compares the hash with what's known to be pirated like torrent trackers, though if I'm wrong would be happy to be corrected.
Facebook login is all we have on Wishy.gift, which considering I really care about privacy, might seem weird.

We use the login to auth, seed display name, and for the unique Facebook ID that we only store hashed. There's no analytics of any kind on the site, and except for the display name (which I'm planning on making editable) there's nothing to identify a user if somebody gets access to the database.

One of the things we want to achieve with the service, is to make it hard or very inconvenient to peek at what's been checked off in your own wishlist, and therefore we only use 1 service for login.

It was and still is a really difficult compromise between simplicity, the functionality of the service, and the privacy of our users - which includes my entire family, SO, SO's family, several friends, and many others.

Having reached 200+ users as well, I'm not really sure how we'd go about replacing it with something else as well.
This was OpenID, which lets you choose your third-party provider at will, or even self-host.

It's mostly dead now. People wanted the convenience of FB/GOOG/TWIT over the freedom of self-hosting.
I don't understand why were some of the tech added to the list. The title says "Tech Companies That Won't Delete Your Information
Services with the highest scores have the worst policies"

Tox is listed among them. But ToX does not need any information from you. You can create a random id without any of your personal information whatsoever, and share this id with your friends, who will also have a random id.

Tox is not a company.

A clarification is much needed.

In the communication lists it says that security wise is "Bad". Why?

In fact, it would be beneficial for all of us if these lists had some information on why were some of the stuff added to the list. Precisely why is Tox added to the list.

Similar to this discussion we can see that Retroshare is too listed. Again, why?

Please share some URL with reading material why are some of the companies and tech listed at all.
I've had the FB app on my iPhone for years and I just checked the FB zip file download of user data, and my contact info html file is empty.