skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Every time I've shown people stuff like that, they shrugged: "so what ?"

Some of this is genuine indifference to the problem, yes. But I think some of it is a lack of perspective.

After years of sweating tech privacy issues, it's very easy for me to say "oh, they track app usage, which means they track app opening times, which means they can probably tell when you go to bed every night based on the last time you open Twitter." Or construct a hundred other scary (and accurate) stories about how this sort of data can be used to build whole-life profiles of people.

Outside of tech, it's not so obvious. "They track which apps I open when, and said it's to help improve battery usage. What's the big deal?" And of course that's also true, this is useful data for innocent purposes like "predicting what you'll reopen next to expire that from memory last".

But my concern is that there's an enormous gulf between showing people what's been collected, and how it's used. This article makes a bit of an effort, but it's still far short of the sort of example narrative that actually catches people's attention.

Back during the Snowden stuff, there was a lot of talk about three-hop collection. And I think basically no one cared, because it's such an arcane description. But somebody made a tool (which, damn it all, I can no longer find) showing how location + call data at three hops could create a false-but-convincing narrative that someone was a terrorist. I showed that to a couple of family members, and suddenly they were way more concerned with the topic.

It's not easy, I think this is a losing battle and I'm not sure how to change that, but I think people do care when they have useful context to work with.
Maybe it's better in the states, but where I live the papers don't come close to being a complete listing. They will have the major stuff, and some of the smaller shows too - but a large part is still missing. And it's not a small city - 2 mln people, capital, and quite an active music and culture scene.
In Illinois, there have been austerity measures taken that have put more burden on younger residents:

* Pensions for new employees fall under a tiered system where the benefits are far far lower than the old plans.

* Funding to services (eg higher education) have been cut to divert money to pay for the short falls.

* Almost every new tax is earmarked to pay for old pensions.

So not only do we have to pay more for today's services (tollways, rising transit fees, property taxes, sales tax, college), we have to pay for yesterday's underfunded promises.
Ships in SW have pretty regularly gotten close to each other, definitely closer than they were in that scene. Not to mention the fact that either Death Star could have been destroyed by a single x-wing jumping into it.
It's called counterparty risk: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_risk#Counterparty_risk
> Taking away that pension now would be theft from these people.

The trick here is there's nothing to "take away". These benefits exist only as promises - there's no funding for them. If I promise to you if you work for me for a decade I will give you a trillion dollars, and then turns out I don't actually have the trillion dollars, the theft - or, more precisely, the fraud - doesn't happen when the lack of the trillion dollars is revealed. It happened when I promised you the trillion dollars without having it. The theft from these people has already happened - that's what people fail to realize.
huh. My impression was that strip malls are almost entirely parking. they are usually single story and relatively small, compared to their parking lots. Silicon valley also lacks food places (which is what most new things in those strip malls are) - I mean, going from one story to three or five, with the ground floor remaining food service sounds great to me, but there's not much of the existing structure you would want to keep.
There was the weird thing with the cat, and then this, and it really turned me off from downloading.
I noticed a while back AV1 flag was added to Chrome Canary, but I can't find any videos on the web to test it on.

Firefox Nighly can play https://demo.bitmovin.com/public/firefox/av1/
Code is a liability
The social graph of the world is too important to put in the hands of a company trying to monetize it. It needs to be decentralized and open source. Diaspora looks interesting in that regard, but I think the solution is a least a few iterations away from that.
> I just wish the industry could step a little further away from LinkedIn.

Are there any open-source and federated alternatives to LinkedIn? (Other than just posting your resume as a HTML page)
> There's a proof somewhere that the maximal probability of the expected future lifetime of a given organization like a country or a company is its current lifespan, projected into the future

Sounds more like the good, old https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_argument than any sort of an actual proof...
I have tried Affinity. It's not quite there yet in UX. For example vector editing via the pen tool is abysmal and infuriating. At least 8 months ago when I tried it.
I have mixed feelings about it, it seems to me giving away your code for no return indicates you don't really value it that much. Whether it will have an affect on the industry I don't know.

There was an interesting paper linked on HN a couple of years ago that indicated a lot of the money is disappearing from software sales. The inference was the availability of mysql depresses the revenue from MSSQL, the availability of Linux depresses the revenue from Windows and so on.
Basic Authentication over HTTP – The Evil
Haha I know I was thinking the same thing. "Long term" I wager Microsoft won't exist anymore! :)
What is a GDPR?
This is something that you find through code review, not testing. Apart from regression testing, but that presupposes that you encountered the issue before.
I am COMPLETELY aware of the difference and I was deliberate in writing that. We need the kind of love, hard and excellent work on AV1 software (encoder is the harder, being open ended) that brought us the x264 encoder. AV1 decoders will come aplenty I have no doubt and I'm hoping for a good FPGA implementation.
Except the Tempe police don’t report to the governor, and the mayor of Tempe is a Democrat, and an opponent of the governor. There could have been as much pressure to make it look bad as to minimize it. But more likely there was mo pressure either way, and the police just blame pedestrians by default.
Being the top language and being the goto might be different though.. although I'm not sure how to properly word the two, but what I mean is:

A goto language is the language that most people are going to use because of the benefits for the problem domain. Eg, you're not going to write an embedded device application with a GC language like JS/Py/Go/etc. You're far better off with a low level, low memory and predictable language.

Right now, JS is the goto for the web. It's actually not the only "choice", transpilers exist for many languages to JS, but it slows the app down, increases size, etc. So while people have options, the disadvantages of other Langs on the web make JS the goto.

Saying that JS will no longer be the goto (or however you want to word it) doesn't mean people will stop using JS any more than embedded systems not using Python hurts Python. But it does mean people have options, and JS is a language of choice now, not requirement. At least, that's my dream - hopefully WASM provides that.
Letter of Resignation
It did not work well, and those factors contributed to the creation of social security.

The only solution is beefing up social security while ensuring transparency and long term (centuries) stability.

But people have to vote and care for this to work.
I think what the author describes about a tipping point in receiving offers/intros is true. I also think he is right about social media (FB, Instagram, Twitter) for someone like him. This is also in-line with the author's writing on 'Deep Work' so his stance is not a surprise. However, I see a great great counter-example--Patrick McKenzie (Patio11).

I just checked and he has over 42k Twitter followers and is regularly brought up on HN.

Yet, here's the third paragraph on his personal website:

"I love talking to other small businesses at any time, for any reason: please, drop me an email. I respond to as many as I can, time permitting. Nothing makes me happier than helping people out. See the Standing Invitation for details."
https://www.kalzumeus.com/

I wonder if the way Patrick portrays himself and his openness to connecting, ends up with him having a higher quality of inbound than the author. I realize that's a conjecture wrapped up as a question.
I never talk to strangers in the grocery store. Do you?
It's great to see all these companies working together on this.
But is open source less or more of a liability?
Twitter Demetricator: A browser extension that hides all the metrics on Twitter
> Get bent

I understand this adds nothing to this conversation, I understand HN doesn't like this type of comment.

But this made my day
Robots and humans alike are due for unemployment with our move towards pre-fab and additive manufacturing.
Also depends on whether particles are being freshly generated by the target. An aircraft could "smoke" itself - i.e. emit a particulate cloud from a grid of pores in its skin - in response to being targeted or fired upon by directed energy weapons.
Facebook Container add-on for Firefox
The allure of race science:  America’s most ancient justification for bigotry
Yep at the moment (AFAIK) support is essentially for 9 months from release (current release + 2 previous) so without an LTS process, everyone has to upgrade at least that often to keep getting security patches...
I still believe there is simply no need for that ultimate social graph.

I believe it will die down in order to make place for more decentralised approaches for connections are not a visible public reference.

Any social graph could be the religion registers back i the nazi days all over again.

Privacy is getting more important even for the non it individuals.
This incident, presumably, was back in the days where that wasn't true.
That's just, like, your opinion man.
Similarly: "the public is increasingly focused on this topic", says person authoring scary stories about this topic for a major news source.
Depends if all service discovery sources and targets are all within k8s. If so, k8s works well, if not, not so much.
Was going to post this link, how bad does this sound?

For snapchat which is entirely pictures, unless they are scanning pictures for products or location, I am not sure what data they are gathering.
It seems it has the same meaning in Japanese as well.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%B1%8E#Kanji
It's the amendment that protects the rest. Specifically, you'll be vaporized by it if you try to grab it out of the display.
Retargeting campaigns: 25 tips from marketing experts
Companies default on bonds all the time. That's one of the reasons bonds carry interest - partially to compensate the bondholder for the opportunity costs of not having the money spent on bond and partially to compensate for the risk of the default. Would you buy a bond from a company that is consistently increasing spending 6x their revenue? Would you do it if their plan for covering the difference is "we'll just take more money from you when we need to"?
In some cases that may be true - in Illinois it is the other way around.

Illinois has shown that it will willingly take from the people in order to pay current as well as deferred payments to government workers. Below is a link to an article and research that shows that Illinois was far above normal government pay.

From the article below, I quote, "Not only do state workers in Illinois make more than the private-sector workers who pay their salaries, the average pay for state workers in Illinois is out of step with their peers in the other 49 state."

ARTICLE: https://www.illinoispolicy.org/press-releases/state-governme...

RESEARCH PAPER: https://d2dv7hze646xr.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2016...

My best guess is that Illinois will default (in some manner) on these pensions. The next recession, combined with net population drop, will doom the state's finances beyond repair if they aren't already too far gone.

I'd also recommend looking through this to see how negligent their political leaders have been over the years:

http://www.pewtrusts.org/en/search?q=illinois%20pension
imo it would be best to just not have these benefits. just increase salaries by the amount that would have been added to the pension fund, let them choose between a Roth or traditional IRA and increase the tax deductible contribution limit. then they are free to allocate the funds at an appropriate level of risk and choose low-fee institutions.

idk why you wouldn't want to be able to do that. if you really can't understand the basics of personal finance, then maybe you could pay into a third party pension service. but in general, i think it is fair to expect guaranteed benefits to be less than the expected value of market appreciation if you just invested that money yourself. if that were not the case, it would be too risky to offer the benefit!
No tinfoil necessary when it's a well-documented fact.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-tru...
Siren raises $3.4M for smart socks that track diabetic health
I don't know the exact number, but I believe you get downvotes around 500. It may have changed.
> Democratic voting is always manipulated, every media source and conversation and political speech you see is "manipulation".

I don't like this kind of slippery slope whataboutism because shades of difference do matter, often profoundly. If I pat you on the back, slap you in the face, or kick you in the genitals, they're all "hitting you", so what's the difference, right? But those are different things, and discarding information by tossing them all in the same bucket makes for a less sophisticated analysis.

There are real differences between:

* A trusted friend telling you they like candidate X because Y.

* A reputable news organization writing a factual article about something candidate X did.

* A biased media source writing a clickbait opinion piece that presents itself as "news" when it's really pushing an agenda funded by its backers.

* A political advertisement paid for and from a candidate.

* A political advertisement paid for and acknowledging itself to be from some corporate super PAC.

* A political advertisement that is paid for by a corporate interest but deliberately obscures that fact.

* A political advertisement stating things that are factually untrue.

* A political advertisement that claims to be from group A but is actually from group B.

Etc.

In order to correctly process the information we're receiving, we need to know the context around it. The way that context is presented or obscured, relative to our own expectations for that context, matters hugely.

> Why is social media any different?

Because it was hyper-targeted to individuals based on psychological profiles of what those people are predisposed to believe and accept. The manipulation was expressly designed to undermine our ability to reason critically and correctly understand the intent and accuracy of the presented information.
Looked through all 14,227 Apollo photos… and made animated GIFs
I'll try that out, thanks!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regula...
I just spent 5 minutes hunting for these new capabilities and figured it was only a change made in the mobile app, which I never install. Figures. It will be interesting to see how/if they surface this via browsers vs. apps

"It’s Time to Make Our Privacy Tools Easier to Find" (just not quite yet!)
Meanwhile, SV enterpreneurs take daily microdoses of LSD.
This is a misleading title. The driver died due to injuries sustained by crashing into a barrier then getting run into multiple times, not because of the fire.
> I've never been worried about my employer seeing my social media profiles. If I wouldn't do something in public, I wouldn't post it to social media. Maybe I'm unique in being able to restrain myself.

Me either, but maybe there's a chilling effect going on here.

EDIT:

> I always hear stories about how people are "so much happier" after they quit Facebook. What is happening on your Facebook that's making you unhappy?

I personally believe this is because it's orders of magnitude easier to be negative than positive. Negativity breeds more negativity and drama. So, when people quit Facebook they get a boost from not being around so much negativity.
Ask HN: Why does Google force country redirects?
In the old days, you could use the google.com/ncr "trick" to avoid being redirected to a local version of Google. That stopped working long ago.

Why do companies insist on redirecting to local versions of sites based on IP address geolocation? If a user wanted google.fr, shouldn't that be what they type? If they want google.com, shouldn't that be respected?

Why does "the web" (meaning a large number of websites) attempt to infer both your location as well as what you want? google.com reflects a user's intent of going to google.com, while google.fr respects a users intent to go to the French "version" of Google.

For example, searching for "4x4 mountain lodges California" from google.com, while located in France, provides a tripadvisor.fr result at the top. Even though I might physically be in France, that's irrelevant to my search query -- unless my search query were in French, then it would be more relevant than a tripadvisor.com result.

Why do companies like Google ignore the user's intent -- and why we tolerate that? For Apple's iTunes Store, as a counter example, I can switch to whatever store matches a billing credit card address, which is fair enough. But with Google, it seems that you are being actively blocked from searching how you might want to search. "Use in English" or "Use Google.com" doesn't solve the issue, because the search results are still using location. Even Duck Duck Go infers your location from your IP. "The search engine that doesn't track you." That might be true, but it's still using geolocation, which, to me still feels like an violation of both user intent as well as privacy. Just as a street address represents a specific, exact place, shouldn't web addresses? If I call the US phone number for Marriott, they don't answer the phone in French because I might be calling from there. So why the hell do websites do that?

Why did we let the web get so broken?
> “You design one thing and can email it to someone else… and you’re helping people all over,” Robbie says. “That’s the power of engineering.”

Damn. I really wish he would have included the ability for those people to make their own improvements and share them back to make the whole ecosystem better. That's one of the major tenets of free software licenses and this is a perfect opportunity to make sure that right gets included in this mindset.

Not to take away from anything else in the piece or his work, but definitely a missed opportunity.
You should add a search bar at the top that will filter based on similar colors.

I usually know in general what color scheme I want when building something, but need to search online to find the exact colors that look good.
How we built a Mac app and threw it away
I think LTS type of implementations are down to container services providers and things like OpenShift.
'The Three-Body Problem' could be Amazon's next global blockbuster
Possibly they were in this users Trash folder, otherwise it's worrisome.
+1 - this article makes me think of my journey into emacs
My point was exactly that the size is irrelevant - because the data being measured is irrelevant to the story.
I've seen some nasty political TV ads aired between shows, especially for local elections. The issue of critical thinking and not just buying into whatever hitpiece/campaign sign one last saw transcends facebook and social media.
> Why is it public-sector retirees in particular who must pay that price?

Because they have voted in the politicians who perpetrated the fraud, and gladly bought into it. Public sector unions are one of the largest political donors.
> Now as investigations and leaks show, it is much to the contrary.

So far, these investigations have only proved what people were trying to do. I would imagine that these things had some effect, but I don't think that anything that's come out so far has proved that conclusively shown that they swayed the US election one way or the other.
If you're looking for a better "out of the box" experience, I'd recommend having a look at OpenShift.

You can use either their free tier in cloud or use the Open source OpenShift Origin for trials (there's also MiniShift, which is similar to MiniKube).

From my looking at it OpenShift comes with some of the parts that base Kubernetes leaves to plugins, so things like ingress, networking etc are installed as part of the base.
So the prefab parts are just going to put themselves together in the factories? Then walk themselves to the job site? And erect and inspect themselves?
Social media is very scary if you don't look only at the relatively educated western populations. Easy way to spread and amplify plausible sounding lies with little correction or oversight in third world countries, where people don't understand the context of what social media is or how it is different from normal media, how it all works, how easy is to photoshop stuff for pretty much anyone... It's troublesome.

Even some officials in UN are fearful of Facebook inspired genocide these days. Rwanda was radio telling people to go killing the Other. Now it is Facebook in some countries. Myanmar, Sri Lanka, India,...

The difference compared to radio is that it should be possible to prevent incitement to kill/hurt people for Facebook operators even if it would mean shutting it down in particular country, so there's culpability of the Facebook co. Facebook is not just a dumb pipe, they clearly police the content.

One day we may wake up to a reality of tens of thousands massacred muslims (or whoever) after people take it to the streets after some particularly successful hate week going viral on Facebook. As of today the riots are so far localised.
I'm still wondering about going with plain kubernetes, or investing time in OpenShift. Any insights from people that have tried both ways ?
I don't have much content on CoreDNS. But from the description in the README, https://github.com/coredns/coredns/blob/master/README.md, I guess it acts as a flexible and programmable entry service for underlying services and can do many applications such as Load Balance, depending on plugins.
It would be fantastic if we had a reliable viable way to convert large marine vessels to clean electric, but there also a ton of other applications for diesel such as portable generators, stoves, lamps, heaters that would be hard press to switch to electric.
I think we will see a federal bail out, plus benefit cuts, plus Illinois privatizing some government assets. I would bet Puetro Rico's pension recipients get their benefits cut also.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/puerto-rico-re...

We will all pay in the end though, via the reduced value of the US dollar. Just have to make sure we stay ahead of inflation, and try not to live in the jurisdictions with the worst finances, because they're quality of life will probably steadily erode.
I have not had this experience. Please post the field you are in.
Au Revoir
>It would also if equipped with image recognition help protect the tank against enemy infantry - might not be to popular with you own grunts though.

Eh, they're pretty used to it by now thanks to reactive explosive armor and similar active defense systems. Don't stand by tanks, bad idea.
I am working for an American company in France connecting to the internet through a London proxy and I always got the local Polish page.