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> I have a young relative who was tracked into special education from early years. Finally, his educators gave him a standardized intelligence test.

It stuns me that people are tracked into special education without an assessment that included, at a minimum, an intelligence test. (I had public school teachers raise concerns that I should be in special ed in early years, was given an assessment that identified a speech impediment and a high IQ, was subsequently given a performance assessment that wasn't limited to be grade-level skills, and it was realized that I was performing well beyond grade level. So I was skipped ahead a grade and moved into the gifted program.

And this was back in 1980. I thought that virtually as long as gifted education has existed it was widely recognized that gifted students frequently underperform other students when not challenged, and, similarly, I thought it was a fundamental concept of special education that it required individualized assessment of the particular needs and abilities of the student.
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This underscores the importance of independently reproducing experimental results of others. It's not done often enough.
Have you ever seen a stage magician? It’s one thing to know that it’s not real, but when you’re presented with something that seems impossible, it’s easy to buy in. Maybe you don’t 100% believe it, but if you’re already stressed and demoralized, you’re going to be more likely to do something stupid that gets you captured or killed.
No. You only get into trouble if your weapons are specifically designed to blind.

Eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol_on_Blinding_Laser_Wea...
What's your goal? What do you actually want to accomplish in the end? I'm asking in all seriousness. And following up, how do you plan to accomplish that goal?

In the case of working for user data privacy, we're working against companies that are benefiting from the data they collect and their lobbyists, as well as people who aren't aware of the situation and often only see the benefits of the apps they're using. And those people cross many demographic and political lines. I don't think user privacy is a partisan issue. It's going to be an uphill battle. You think pointing out all of the differences and disagreements of those who don't agree with you, all of the inconsistencies you see in their positions is going to help? I sincerely don't think so.

The point isn't that pointing out hypocrisy is wrong, it's that it gets in the way of your goals.

If it's more important to you to point out those inconsistencies than improve the user privacy situation, I think you have your priorities wrong. If you think you can only remedy the user privacy situation by first correcting their inconsistencies, I think that's wrong-headed and doomed to failure on both counts. But you're certainly entitled to your opinion and free to disregard mine.
I'm from Australia. My theory is that of the subset of people that are interested in both computer science and math, a significant portion use linux and if you use linux, then emacs is the best LaTeX editor (auctex and reftex are amazing). And "doing everything in emacs" is just what naturally happens when you use emacs long enough.
YouTube, Facebook, Google search, et al have become de facto monopolies of their respective service areas. Being censored on any of those platforms has enormous impact on the censoree.

People should be cautious about flouting the "they're private businesses and can do what they want" argument. It actually makes a compelling case for nationalizing these services and treating them as public utilities, a line of thinking that is rapidly picking up steam in various political groups.
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Unless another social network comes along and FB will die out loud like Friendster and MySpace did.

If you think solid $ numbers are everything to keep "printing money" then see what happened to Kodak or Sony.
The app permissions should have been a red flag, except some users probably never even saw them since Facebook was pre-installed on their phones.
It's actually surprisingly easy to slip back and forth between psychosis and not. Which is the problem as you can't subjectivity tell one from the other.
Not at all obvious. It is a very open question whether prime gaps are bounded by ~(log N)^2... AFAIK, even assuming the GRH, the best upper bound is roughly N^(1/2).
> "questionable" court cases until they find where the line is.

Until this law actually gets tested in the courts, it is basically impossible to tell what the long-term impact will be. My suspicion is that Reddit et al want to do everything possible to keep a low profile while Facebook is occupying the spotlight. After that has run its course, I would bet there would be a challenge in some form, whether via PR or directly.
Use w3m to view HTML email. Does a great job even with tables.
If someone is religious enough to attribute a voice with a god and obey it, just because they can't identify the source of the voice, surely they are just as likely to think it is a demon and disobey it?
Blinding can't be the primary objective - so make sure your laser weapons are strong enough to burn a hole in your military target's head to abide by my non lawyer reading of this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_on_Certain_Conventi...
You are giving Google way too much credit here.

Google collects your location by default. I know so because I bought an Android phone just this month. Here is the setup screen, shown with default settings. [1]

Google encourages developers to use the Play Services SDK for location services. This means that it is impossible to provide your location to just one app (say, Lyft) without also providing it to Google. [2]

You can disable location services and Google will still find ways to monitor your location. For example, if you use gmail, Google will read any flight and hotel confirmations emails. It does this by default. [3] Install Google Trips and it will show you a list of every city you've been in.

They collect your location so much they even find ways to do it by accident. [4]

> I can't think of any other company that goes to such great lengths to protect user data as much as Goog does

Better protection is to not collect it in the first place.

For example, Apple Maps doesn't have a sign-in, and its server requests are associated with randomized rotating IDs, not your user account. Directions are broken up into multiple segments with different identifiers so that Apple can't reconstruct your trip.

> Certainly you'll never see anything like private employees tracking their spouses using Google's data

Old but it happened. [5]

[1] https://imgur.com/a/XOY7g

[2] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/09/12/turn_off_location_se...

[3] https://imgur.com/a/c7xeF

[4] https://qz.com/1131515/google-collects-android-users-locatio...

[5] http://gawker.com/5637234/gcreep-google-engineer-stalked-tee...
Me, I tend to use super glue, some duct tape to reinforce, and finally heat-shrink tubing for neatness and durability.
The older generations that have owned houses for 20+ years are the problem. Seen Lafayette or Orinda lately? They oppose all development, call affordable housing "the ghetto", and are of course protected themselves by prop 13. Heck they even elected a Republican assemblyperson.
San Francisco had 3,146 sheltered and 4,353 unsheltered homelesss people in 2017 [0]. Chicago had 4,096 sheltered and 1,561 unsheltered. [1] Despite having 3x our population and a more centrist political climate, Chicago has fewer homeless people but provides shelter to both a greater proportion and a greater absolute number of them.

Your comment is illustrative of why accelerationism doesn't work here: San Franciscans are much more interested in the social climate and ideological purity than material conditions and effects. Worsening blight only makes us congratulate each other more vigorously for tolerating it. People then opt out quietly when they can (see: private transit) or more openly when they can frame it as selfless concern for their children (see: the near-universal social norm of leaving the city, if not the region, to start a family) or their neighborhood community (see: NIMBYs). Everyone agrees that something should be done, unless it involves any tradeoffs or taxpayer money.

Lack of federal funds is not an excuse. California cities would have some of the most enviable property tax revenues in the world (also less insane housing markets) if California voters would allow Prop 13 reform.

[0] http://hsh.sfgov.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/2017-SF-Poin...

[1] https://www.cityofchicago.org/content/dam/city/depts/fss/sup...
Makes sense. And so did your explanation for liking Rudin above (or wherever it's positioned now).
I wonder if there's a reasonable CFAA case here...
The U.S. has a somewhat different take from much of the world on several civil liberties issues, including freedom of speech and freedom of religion. As an American I'm quite proud of that fact.
How so? It can already be done with anything, like a firecracker. Cops at protests are use to it loud noises. I'm not saying cops are good or bad, just that I don't see how this in particular is all that troubling. Cops aren't generally (in the West) going to fire live ammunition into an open crowd. Generally they will use rubber bullets or things that disperse the crowd.
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"Allow once" is different from "Allow just this one picture". With "Allow once", they can still scrape all your pictures, they just have to do it in one go.

Custom ROMs unfortunately can't really do much to implement the latter, they'd have to break compatibility with the whole Android ecosystem, which Google knowingly built this way.
I think that people who go out of their way to present what they believe are alpha male characteristics are essentially hanging a neon sign above themselves. That sign is begging for someone with those characteristics to come along and fix the worlds problems in the way that the stereotypical Clint Eastwood or Arnold Schwarzenegger character solved his problems. In other words, an alpha male exerting his will, delivering satisfying one liners, and saving the world.

Why else would nearly every single popular conservative media "character" be so uncannily similar? Why did nearly all of those characters triple down on this machismo roughly 18 months ago? Could it be that they got back the results of their latest A/B test?

I think this all drives at the most interesting, world changing possibility that could come out of this reckoning with Facebook. What will happen when it becomes conventional wisdom that the true power of collecting all of this data is not the ability to predict what you will do, but the ability to direct what you will do? What will happen when it truly registers with people that this necessarily removes their agency? What will prevent that critical mass from making the trivial jump in logic that advertisers and public relations firms have been progressively improving on these same skills to the same general ends for a century?
He is not describing SJWs, which is a fairly modern concept and usually used idiotically by people who don't have the brain power to understand issue X.
He's talking about those that might describe themselves as moral majority. People that get described as SJWs are usually arguing against oppression. By contrast, oppressors will happily force their morals on others (but not always themselves) and tell you that it's for your own good. Usually backed by some religious doctrine.
https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5ab2d675a042511...

Link to email snapshot.
The preferable term to "SJW" is regressive-left. These are the people who blindly espouse an idea without understanding.
> Again, let’s make other video services more popular rather than pretend YouTube is somehow the only way on the entire internet to serve videos.

That ship has already sailed I'm afraid. Nearly every common internet service now has a single provider that dwarfs the few competitors it has, both in actual usage and mindshare.

Oftentimes that mind-boggling success was fueled by easy treatment from regulators/the government as well as fate and circumstance, not from any groundbreaking ingenuity from the company that made it.

It may sound strange today to think of social media, internet search, etc as a public utility, but within a decade or two it will seem like common sense. Google, Facebook, YouTube and others are censoring their way towards nationalization.
Torrents are fine behind NAT. Heck, I don't know anybody not behind a router doing NAT (ex. 192.168/16 to public IP).
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Yeah, the Web was so much better before Google made search and email radically better. Just loved that Excite search and Hotmail in 2001 where I could store dozens of photos in my couple of megabytes.

It was better before Wikipedia (a legitimate giant) existed and Google sent them vast traffic to help them build out their service.

It was better before Yahoo gave me access to free, rapidly updated stock quotes.

It was better before Netflix carved up the old TV content monopolies. Those awesome days when old media held me entirely hostage.

It was better when classified ads were spread across the entire country in localized newspapers and you couldn't easily access them in a centralized giant service like Craigslist.

It was better when real estate pricing and information was a black book.

It was better before Spotify, Pandora, Apple, Amazon, YouTube gave me easy, low cost access to all the music I could ever possibly consume.

It was better before Amazon made shopping online easy, with a vast selection, relatively inexpensive for shipping, and very consumer friendly customer service.

It was better before I could easily and inexpensively send money to other people using PayPal or Venmo or 37 other solutions.

It was better before I could take ten minutes, plug in a few things, and accept payments via Stripe or Square.

It was better when I had to use a janky static Mapquest, or spend money on cumbersome physical maps just so I could navigate a new city. Back in those amazing days when hunting for stores or locations was so much fun.

It was better when I had to go through hell to operate my own hosted infrastructure. This whole insta-infrastructure AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, DigitalOcean, Linode, stuff must stop. And who the hell wants a free CDN, down with Cloudflare!

Those old glorious days.
It's not hard to foresee wanting "everything" with the goal of sorting it out later, but Messenger is a no-brainer for FB if they want to continue having access to message content.
My wife and I spent seven years going to school and working in Omaha. It's a nice little city, but if someone valued the benefits of urban life (restaurants, sports, social events, public transit, etc.), I think they would eventually be disappointed. We left Omaha feeling like we'd basically finished the city, like it was a level in a game - in the 3ish years after broke-college-student status, we had tried pretty much every interesting restaurant, checked out the social events that were available to people in the post-college, pre-kids bracket, and there just wasn't much novelty left. We moved to Chicago for work a few years back and we still haven't scraped the surface of life here. Are there problems with Chicago? Of course. But the quality of life is dramatically improved for this sample size of two.
No, much more like the iris in our eye. Turn on a bright light inside a car and see how hard it is to see outside on a dark night. Modern HDR cameras have a much higher dynamic range than the human eye. Hence the surreal HDR photos you see.
At least on iOS I think you can do this from the Photos app itself using the share sheet -> Messenger rather than using Messenger’s send photo button (which requires the app to get photo permissions).

I do agree it would be nice to have “Just once” on pretty much every permission dialog. Apple’s change to mandate an “Only while using the app” on location info after Uber’s location tracking fiasco was a good step in this direction.
That's an interesting point about social environment and engagement. As a native Californian, I struggled socially when I was living in the DC metro area for 5 years. Simply put, it was the weather. If there was rain (which was nothing like the light sprinkle I was used to) or a slight dusting of snow, I did not want to go out. I slipped on icy sidewalks (breaking my tailbone); got regularly drenched while walking to the metro; and had my fair share of heart-stopping moments driving in inclement weather. As someone who's already introverted, it became very easy for me to just hole up in my apartment.
Facebook Tries to Calm Advertisers After Cambridge Analytica Crisis
Completely agree. Well, tf.contrib I am usually happy with the docs and a glance through GitHub issues, but, yes, code found elsewhere for very new, or even just recent papers can be really hit or miss, and not always obviously so. There is a lot of great stuff out there, but sometimes even popular papers over a year old can still be a challenge to find good code for. finding 3 separate implementations, all stlighty wrong or unusable is not uncommon.
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I really don't get why people use the fb app. It drains your battery and privacy, not to mention the notifications.
I use web app only.
Preferred by whom?
My understanding of the problem is that you click agree or ok or whatever and then... well, we don’t really know what happens after that.

Unless you can audit the code, or someone you trust has, who knows what our devices are doing.
"battlefield weapons like the AR-15"

The AR-15 is only popular among enthusiasts because it is basically a Lego set of the firearm world. Historically every style of weapon that gun owners have has been used extensively on the battlefield. If the AR-15 is banned then another rifle/pistol building platform will be popularized and replace it. Attempting to ban a weapon on certain visual features or other features that do not affect its firing operation are meaningless.
Are you sure that Farmville didn't have a 200:1 ratio?

It certainly looks suspicious, but I don't think you can rule out the profit motive. Perhaps in 2012 Facebook's position was, "If you pay us enough money we'll remove the API limits"
I think the problem with this is that the censorship is invoked by companies against individuals, in the broad strokes, not by the government. It's hard to convince the public that corporations have power approaching or surpassing governments nowadays...
It's happening because the USA has declared it illegal for any website to knowingly host any content that might be illegal.

As such they're pulling down anything and everything that might be even possibly illegal.
There's also this [1] I found when I had to opt out of a crazy work-enforced screen lock timer. (like 3m)

[1] https://archive.codeplex.com/?p=mousejiggler
I've written up a number of these issues. Here's one where you can use Likes to determine quite a bit with minimal effort: https://caseysoftware.com/blog/social-apis-for-social-evil
This is already possible, some apps launch a file picker app (what you're supposed to do).

Instead, apps that want to steal your pictures request access to all of them.
If you had a contract that was contingent on your ability to dump your waste in the river, and then a law was passed forbidding the dumping of waste, you would of course have to stop polluting, but your contract would be null and void as well.

Non-bankruptable student loans aren't "regulations" they are specific contracts between students, lenders, and the US government.
What a bunch of populist clap trap. The people owned the web, but tech giants stole it? Please. Tech giants gave people what they wanted. Google, Facebook, Amazon: they gave people what they wanted and are compensated richly for that.
Na, a stranger gained your trust (nobody like to admit they they were fooled), asked your permission for access to something, and copied it. You found out later, and felt betrayed, but it's your fault. Outlawing your own ability to make that mistake again is a even worse outcome. Why should I need to follow more laws because you got tricked?

Nobody wants to talk about the real issue, this _is_ an attack on memory. Letting the gov decide what people can remember (corps are made of people) is an awful result.
Thoughts on Embracing the Social Internet Over Social Media
If you're in the business of collecting HN upvotes, you had best subscribe to the hive-mind.

The very existence of this article and its prominence on a news aggregator site refutes it.
If the student defaults, the lender still gets paid. The government steps in and pays them. The debt is then essentially owed to the government rather than the lender.
You mean Donna Brazile's book? Can you be specific about what claims she made in this regard?
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> In my personal opinion pushing students to do different things is a good way to introduce new ideas and skills to people. I totally disagree with those who say things like cursive or literature are useless...

There's a difference between challenging a child and loading that child up with busy work. My "college prep" school was mostly busy work; I spent more time on schoolwork in high school than college.

For example, exposure to history is important, but do you really need to push all the smart kids to the dry, dense history books? Do all the smart kids need to take only advanced classes in foriegn languages? I stumbled on anything that required wrote memorization.

By my senior year I started taking the "dumb" courses for fun. Ironically, I learned more in those courses than "college prep" because there was less busy work.

The best lesson from the advanced courses is when to run away from someone wasting my time on their ego trip.

Part of challenging a child is finding the right challenges.
I wonder why he didn't counter sue for damages. At least the article didn't mention if he did or not.
does anybody remember the whitehouse.com porn site?

https://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=whi...
It takes a special kind of “intellect” to pigeonhole women into the computer role, with math degrees. That must have been one of the most difficult jobs and generally not in line with the sexist mindset. It really was a different time.
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Welcome to HN. Could have just asked here.

It's under FAQ https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
> And it’s that hope that Cambridge Analytica has shattered.

Seems more accurate to say, that hope was shattered when people gave up on decentralized infrastructure like RSS and email in favor of Facebook's walled garden. Now there's an opportunity to go back (to the future!) and do it right.
""Can I post a job ad?

Please don't post job ads as submissions to HN.

A regular "Who Is Hiring?" thread appears on the first weekday of each month. Most job ads are welcome there. But only an account called whoishiring is allowed to submit the thread itself. This prevents a race to post it first.

The other kind of job ad is reserved for YC-funded startups. These appear on the front page, but are not stories: they have no vote arrows, points, or comments. They begin part-way down, then fall steadily, and only one should be on the front page at a time.

""

The post in question falls under the last paragraph. Scale API is a yc (S16) funded startup.

From the hn faq

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