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He's not "in exile", it was bluff/PR piece. He regularly visits St-Petersburg, and the main development office was also in St-Petersburg as of a year back right next door to the Vkontakte one.

Durov is a very shady person, I wouldn't trust him with anything that you may want to keep private. Check out how a story by ex-employee of his [1], it gives a lot of backstage info.

[1] https://medium.com/@anton.rozenberg/pavel-durov-sued-senior-...
And you need to count in something else, the actual changes in living standards.

Nowadays the cost (for a new house) for "utilities" (water, electricity, heating, A/C, etc.) plants/hardware is a considerable factor, as a rough estimate 20-30% of the construction costs, and a large house in the 40's would probably have had one single bathroom/WC (if any[1]) for a 3 bedrooms home.

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[1] In rural parts it was not so unusual to have an external loo
It's a losing proposition whatever they say. It's unsurprising there are no comments.
Okay, so what is to be done about it?
Do you use disposable cookware?
medallions may have had sense but as a state regulated monopoly should never have had been transferable in the first place and should have had a (reasonably long) time limit on top of it.
Krita (https://krita.org) is 12 years old, and just released version 4.0 last week. HN comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16647445
Yes, that was my point. Driving tests for humans are awful, mostly because we expect humans to only become better with experience. But with a self driving system such an expectation would be misplaced.

You'd need a driving test that has sufficiently many difficult situations, hopefully somewhat randomized (so that the cars aren't just trained for this cycle), and in various weather/environmental/situational conditions (snow, ice, rain, desert, dark/light, partially broken street lighting, oncoming traffic with broken headlights, etc.)
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> And there is no problem in expressing an unpopular opinion on HN as you can sign-up anonymously at any time and just share whatever thoughts you want.

People are social creatures, programmed to respond to approval and disapproval from others. This includes replies as well as votes. It's irrational, but that's who we are.

Now, try registering an alternative account on HN and write political comments, polite, articulated, and reasonable, from a conservative point of view. What do you think the response will be like? Will you feel encouraged to proceed, or will you feel (emphasis on "feel", as these things are emotional and not rational) that you'd rather not continue with your point of view?
I don't pretend to be an expert, but generally adding multiple layers of control on the same axis adds its own failure points. Having a human that can override the automatic system is not an argument for leaving that enabled - it's an argument against it!

Personally, I think Uber simply shouldn't have tested it on public roads at this point.
I got the impression that Waymo has a ton of actual, human written, software on top of the ML core, "manually" handling a lot of edge cases.

I doubt Uber has this
People already did that for years only to be completely ignored (or worse) by the GIMP developers.
Close to a decade ago. But I haven't noticed any usability improvements. I feel like the time spent with GIMP was time wasted compared to other software where I could easily get what I needed done yet progressively gained aptitude for productivity and creativity. vim for example supports this. This is not to completely slam GIMP, it can be fine for software to demand users learn it deeply before doing simple things (draw a filled shape, draw over layers, consistently remove backgrounds, all typical things a user wants to do that are far from straightforward in GIMP), and to be appreciated by some people for its scripting ability and filters, but it's not a good go-to graphics software and more user friendly software should be promoted. Its name should be the first clue to this status.
> transparent whiteboards

You mean glass?
I use "get hit by a bus" as a euphemism for vacation
I don't get it. You call this a character assassination, but don't elaborate on which part of the article is demonstrably false. The fact that Adtech companies such as Facebook do almost no vetting of the ad content they distribute is absolutely true and part of the problem with the ad economy.

Facebook has accrued great power, but when faced with taking responsibility for any of that power has simply shrugged its shoulders. The same goes for Google.
It's not all the way to what you're proposing, but CPAN has a very nice means of testing packages for system compatibility. By default, users installing new packages run the tests for those packages. Most CPAN clients can be configured to report those test results back to central locations. This isn't the same as running the tests for the consuming project, but it demonstrates the feasibility of "crowdsourcing" tests for system/language-runtime-version/other-package-version incompatibilities.
In a (normal/typical) shell, hit "<Tab><Tab>y" and be amazed.
> However, you can easily extrapolate from their parent company's goals and backgrounds and take your answer from there.

Yes, you can, but if your goal is reaching correct conclusions, that's not a great strategy (although it's an extremely popular one nowadays, even on HN).

> The Epoch Times, New Tang Media, and China Uncensored are all clearly biased in one direction. I really don't know how you can say they aren't

Neither can I, but I'm not sure why we're discussing this because I have said no such thing. What I did say is that I disagree with your broad classification of them as "fake news", and I offered you the opportunity to cite some specific examples of things they've said that aren't true, which you've now passed on twice. To me that is interesting, because I am increasingly curious about how the human mind works. Is it interesting to you?

> Are you really sure about that? China uncensored doesn't go into high journalism and most of the time just dips their foot into news articles with clickbaity headlines and overly sarcastic monologues. I would much prefer something done by the FT, Economist, or NYT.

No, not overly sure. I've never encountered anything very negative on China elsewhere, but then I haven't really been looking for it. If you could point me to any particular China-critical articles from any of those publications I'd certainly read them.

> As to why I consider them fake news. I really don't trust news at face value from China Uncensored the same way I don't trust articles from places like Breitbart. They have a way of over-exaggerating the news and twisting it into an anti-China stance. I always go find extra sources and never dwell on their one single source.

In that sense I would agree that they're "fake news" (with quotes); I reserve the term fake news without quotes for actual lies rather than bias, or bias while claiming impartiality, like mainstream news in most Western nations.
> Where did that 25% come from? Did you just make that up?

Yes they did, it was an example

> My SaaS product is subject to US HIPAA and the HITECH act which directly conflict with this European law.

Law is not trumped by the GDPR. "I can't, it's the law" is a valid reason for not being able to comply
to me that sounds like a standard Uber driver
You are wrong, there is a conclusion we can make, the conclusion is not absolute but fuzzy so maybe fuzzy logic is not your thing.

Also you have a mistake in your comment, I would still have to do 999990 km of driving. If I killed a person in my first 10 km what is the probability that I won't kill anyone in my next 999990?

Your point is that I can't be 100% sure and that is true but we can compute the probability, so the probability that I had bad luck is very small, if the probability of killing 1 person in 1 mil km is 1 or 100% what is the probability of killing this person in my first 10km? ( you are correct is not 0 )
I'm not so sure that /s is necessary here.
ICQ still exists, doesn’t it?
Can you elaborate for me? Curious what you'd like to see in respect to a design system...

Side note, this is what I'm looking to solve at https://cleverbeagle.com.
The auto-brake systems in all cars will activate the same brake-is-on switch as the human operator. Often, it's just a switch on the brake pedal assembly. Trivial to tap into it.

If the switch state changes from closed to open, [driver|AEB] have intervened and Uber's system should relinquish control of that sub-system.
Cambridge Analytica / SCL donated their services to the pro-leave campaign. There are accusations that (a) these services involved committing crimes, (b) the donated services weren't counted towards the election spending limit and (c) this is an example of foreign billionaires interfering with elections.

In other words, this is embarrassing for the pro-brexit side.

A person who was pro-brexit may be inclined to downplay this, while a person who was pro-remain is less likely to sweep it under the rug.
>If tracking the activity of an app's users would amount to spying, then I guess entire fleet of third-party SaaS services would need to go

If you were to explain this current behaviour to people from around 25 years or so ago, the vast majority of them would view what is these days euphemistically described as analytics, as definitely being a form of spying. The fact that it has been turned into a large commercial industry does not change what the behaviour actually is. That the NKVD was a routine part of Soviet society didn't excuse them and the same reasoning will not excuse modern marketing culture either.
> Ironically, the calls for regulation might actually end up helping Facebook in the end as they will make the barriers to entry higher.

The barrier will only be higher for potential services that want to avoid those regulations. If the market moves in a 'wants more privacy' direction, barrier to entry shouldn't be a problem.
immutability of redux state is convention, but not enforced within redux.
This example is react state, but the same problems arise with redux: https://twitter.com/brayoh_k/status/978539881243774976
Serfdom is not a good comparison. Serfs were essentially slaves required to work the land, they did not choose to do so at hours that suited them, which is a key "feature" of the gig economy. They also were required to work mines, logging, or whatever service the lord of the manor wished.

Let's say you worked for ride-shaes the same hours as a serf, something like sunrise to sunset. If you drove an Uber in my city for that long, you'd probably make at least $100 pre-tax, and your overall income would be enough to support yourself in a far higher quality of life than even the greatest kings who ruled over the serfs.
It's correct and not archaic, it's just something very localized in Germany, which I wouldn't necessarily expect a mixed immigrant community to adopt.
Isn't it relatively simple to create a new wallet tho?
I never cared about Facebook using data collected from their platforms, but the whole "Collecting phone data because you agreed to the very wide permission system implemented in Android systems", is a bit sketchy.
I actually think this is absolutely the wrong move for him if he already came clean. In my estimate, he is being legally advised not to show up to these hearings for reasons unclear to us at the moment. Perhaps there's more to the story than what has been revealed thus far.
> Travis Kalanick, the former CEO of Uber and one of the founders, has a net worth of $4.8 billion.

I agree that the working conditions of workers should improve but I never understand the comparison to the value of CEOs. Travis Kalanick isn't sleeping on $4.8 billion, it's in the economy.
It is most certainly a new feature.

APFS is copy-on-write, so when you duplicate a folder, it happens instantly regardless of how big it is because it doesn't have to make a copy until you start modifying the files. Moreover, because of COW, duplicate folders don't take up any extra hard-drive space. I literally just duplicated a 100 gigabyte folder to test, it completed instantly and I'm not using any more drive space than I was before. It will only start using drive space if i start modifying the files.

APFS is seriously cool (there are many other features besides this). It's not revolutionary (ZFS and Btrfs did all this before), but it's miles past HFS+. Apple has needed a new filesystem for more than a decade, and I'm glad it has finally happened, even if the OS update that brought it sucks pretty badly.
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I live in Western Europe and I'd say 99.9999% of owners of smartphones have either a FB, WA or IG account and use it every day. Everybody uses WA, older people use FB, younger people use IG. If you refuse to use WA you are an outcast, and many people got a smartphone just for WA.

The media likes to drives us with rage because that attracts clicks, and once a new big thing happens this will be forgotten by everybody forever.
Did you skip the part where one of the system detects hitting a wall? Why is not the normal thing to slow down and stop? You will trust the experimental system that is in testing over a safer system?
That's been happening for a while now: https://www.theverge.com/2017/3/17/14956540/microsoft-window...
The wallet UI should do that for you automatically. Wallets which reuse addresses have been a constant source of privacy breaches and even lost coins (is it iota where you can lose coins if you use the same address as few a two different times?)
Slapping those in the face who make the laws your company needs to abide to is never a good idea.
baselessly lumped in with violators of privacy

It's not a baseless assumption that fitness trackers abuse access to people's private data. Maybe your particular fitness tracker doesn't today. That doesn't mean others don't.

And I am - for argument's sake - agreeing with the notion that privacy violation happens when the online service does something "wrong" with the data, not when the online service demands to keep their own copy, for their own uses, as a precondition to using the software.

History has shown that software that sends as much data home as possible can simply not be trusted with that data. Fitbit is one "innovation" or management team change away from further abusing the access to their user's data. I don't mean to coldly disregard the fact you trust your employer. But if I want an accurate assessment I can't care. Facebook employees trust Facebook.
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imagine i'm considering buying 24,000 nice cars from you, but i need to be able to disable certain systems. i feel like you would help me out.
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The parent is saying it's not Government. It's BJP run.
This is pretty much them giving up and accepting they're a big corporate baddy at this point.
I can only assume he didn't buy it for 1.1 million dollars. If you bought a truck for say $100k, but after few years its value rose to $1.1M, I'd also recommend selling the truck instead of relying on the idea that the truck will retain its value and support retirement.
> from the video it seems quite obvious a human driver would have failed to see the woman in time even with full alertness

The video is massively - and I'll wager intentionally - misleading. There's no chance the car was making decisions from a $20 dashcam.

Here's what a better camera (looks like a smartphone camera) sees in the same spot (at about 33 seconds - you can see the signs, lights, and terrain match the Uber video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XOVxSCG8u0
It is not official. Modi promotes it on his own, non-official capacity. This has gotten blurred over time, but the app is not a government application.
As a sysadmin I object to the notion that old to new conversions are a "fringe" use-case. Pretty much all my coding (I'm a "devops" sysadmin-type) is exclusively "I need to wrangle all versions of thing 1 into a type of thing 2 or between several versions of thing 1".

If backwards compatibility is important, then letting me use multiple versions side-by-side in the same modules easily is damn important.
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I'm sure it might have been, but her kids took the "bail and never have to deal with it again" option, and she honestly had trouble just staying focused enough to have something of a day job, let alone remember to make appointments and keep them.

Not so much heart breaking, but hard to watch from the outside, she meant to live well and tried but her brain chemistry gave her random minuses to intelligence wisdom and charisma.
That's why the standard advice on any cryptocurrency is to use a different address per transaction.
It's just... people are lazy, and more technically (in the past anyway) change addresses became an issue.
Which right-wing pundits have had aneurysms? Is there a scoreboard web site?
> Do you genuinely think that the GIMP developers don't want or don't try to make it usable or to improve it as much as they can?

Ten years ago they made a call to artists to find out what they could improve, then didn't like the feedback they got and told the artists they were wrong. I guess that's how they got such a user hostile reputation.
Absolutely. One of the big issues with GDPR is going to be how to practically use the right to port your data. Export functionality is one thing. It's the import bit that's often not there or isn't practical. Some standards would help.
It's hard to imagine such a luxury as being the same sort of monopoly as the other two things. The other two are basically necessary in order to find and go to work.
Yes you consented, but it's not an informed consent.
Facebook will do anything to keep you as uninformed as possible (unreadable legalese, dark UX patterns, opt-outs, ...)
> Nothing resembling Moore’s law style advancement

As you say, batteries have been around for a long time. The rapid growth/improvement part of the battery curve happened back in the late 1800s/early 1900s.

The lead-acid grid lattice design, still the...errr...gold standard when it comes to the most amount of joules stored per buck, was invented in 1881.

(modern technologies like the various lithium battery chemistries win when it come to storage for a given mass -- thus their use in things like portable devices and cars, but lead-acid still wins when it comes to storage for a given cost).
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I fail to get an answer about, "How a founder of a company would fail to think that what would happen to this humongous data which his company is collecting if landed in wrong hands?" Maybe he is noble soul leading his company now and tomorrow he would be shown door and someone creepy comes to lead.

I think Fb would be known in history as a major data provider to AI bullshit acts.
I think the point is we are heading in the direction of more inequality where people feel like slaves to the economy.
I've been using glances for about a month and am still getting a hang if different UI layouts. It's great for almost any box I'm checking on.
Everything you've said is utterly accurate and yet I still think this is a terrible decision. We'll have to witness some hapless middle-manager undergo the same circus, but with every new person to speak we'll have a customary "I simply cannot believe Mr. Zuckerberg did not think it was important for him to be here in person!".

Having a fall guy give terrible answers looks worse than him giving terrible answers. At the very least send Sheryl Sandberg - the message they're sending out right now is that they aren't taking it seriously.
Except for all of the non-user user tracking they do with shadow profiles and their omnipresence on the web. Like too many things nowadays with tech and finance you don't have to have done anything to be affected by what these companies do. "TOS" doesn't even apply in most cases since many people don't even use the darn service.
I run a business where I hire remote people to do fairly basic tasks. I can pay them cheaply, replace them easily when they don't fit anymore. I am the "platform" and I extract the surplus.

So I feel the article has very valid points... and I am on the "ruling capitalists" side of my little world.

In order to sleep at night, I am just trying not to be an asshole, and to be decent in the way I pay and behave. But as a society, we cannot rely just on goodwill.

In the age of globalization, and as a firm believer in the efficiency of market economy and capitalism, I think it is still time to reintroduce a new sort of new, rebranded "International Socialism" where "workers/people of the world, unite!" for everyone's good.

The goal would be that people can have access to enough food, decent accommodation, healthcare, and retirement, so that on top of this base, we can use the efficiency of a globalized market economy.

Not sure where to start...
Facebook doesn't have to anything you didn't deliberately agree to surrender. That isn't very sketchy.
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No this is not specific to the "gig" economy. Too much concentration of ownership in any kind of business is serfdom for non owners.
Price is a proxy for "how much resources would it take to roll this out at scale." That's important regardless of how your economy works.

Price also tells us whether the new energy source would require government support, or require less resources than building and fueling a new fossil plant, or (if extremely cheap) would prompt people to shut down even brand-new fossil plants because the new energy source is cheaper than the cost of fuel.
Statements like "you agreed to this" are disingenuous at best. Probably a more truthful statement would be, "you had to know we were getting SOMETHING out of this." While yes, the terms and conditions were completely forthright about what Facebook could do with collected data, they were counting on an a very small percentage of their users actually reading (or caring) about those terms. I can agree that no one has the right to be outraged though. The only sticky part here is that if I violate Facebook's Terms and Services, they'll terminate my account. They'll most likely still use my data after the termination of our agreement though.
"And sure, we were as misleading as possible about it and tried our best to trick you into clicking that Next button, but that doesn't count, right?"

This reminds me of Steve Jobs' "You're holding it wrong." Tone deaf. Platforms always share the most responsibility. This applies to any UX thing. You can argue that the users are "idiots" for not doing what you think they're supposed to do, or you can fix your UX to make it as easy to understand as possible.

Alternatively, you can design your UX with dark patterns to ensure that users do a lot of stuff that are not good for them and aren't supposed to do, but you convince them or trick them into doing anyway, because that's good for you.

I also think that by using this strategy Facebook may win the battle, but it's going to lose the war. Eventually people will go "Well, then, if it's my fault, then maybe I shouldn't be accepting all of that stuff Facebook is pushing into my face in their apps." And then Facebook will slowly but surely die as people use it less and less as "Facebook intended" them to use it.
I don't think it's that simple. When I was 15 without a doubt I would have said today.

And now at 30 I'm pretty convinced that I would have liked 1950 better. Why ? Because the space and that I know that for 30+ years my life would consistently improve, maybe even 50+ or 60+, including an actual pension etc, even if I was born black. The basic standard would be different, but the constant improvement wouldn't. I mean I'd miss my PS4 and iPad, except of course I wouldn't, not really.

Maybe I'll change my mind again.
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