skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 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.

What makes you think having content standards has anything to do with whether or not a content company would be nationalized?

Wouldn’t the first thing to happen under a heavy regulation be something close to television licensing? They have far far stricter standards of what can be shared than any relevant social media platform.
I largely agree with you but I think there needs to be some balance here. The fact remains that twitter, facebook, and google make many subtle decisions to store up content in silos and to get people to click on their ads.

IMO, the internet was in many ways better around 2006-2010. I liked the web better when there was google reader, a google blogsearch, and google forum/discussion search and not everything was completely centered on twitter and facebook.
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`women are no longer being raped by their husbands` -> `state censorship is justified`

Amazing mental gymnastics.
But they don't have to ask for access to all your pictures. You can ask Android to show the standard picker, get the one picture you've selected and that's it.

Or you can do it the way FB does it, by asking for permission to access all your pictures and build your own non-standard picker...
This comment is pretty wide of the mark. The article points out that consumers made a mistake in trusting Facebook and rejecting a decentralized Internet. It's valid to make that criticism without inferring that all software of the past 15 years has been a mistake.
Well, I'm not 100% sure I understand what you are saying, but I believe you are saying that "they're rapists" makes sense if you assume that the verb is dropped. If that's the case then yes, it could be:

"They're [sending their] rapists."

Which is essentially the same meaning as ", their rapists".

But the ridiculous interpretation that many people have extrapolated from "they're rapists". Is, "They [are all] rapists. Which is absurd, even for Trump.
a "True Threat" is not deemed a free speech violation because one is not preventing speech, but are preventing action.

a "True Threat" is a threat of ACTION not a speech.

I.e. if a person is in their garage, they have bomb making materials all around them, and make a threat to bomb a location at a specific time, date, they have now made a threat of ACTION thus it becomes an ACTIONABLE item for law enforcement

This is often used by people that advocate for censorship as a "limit on free speech" but it is not, it is a limit on actions, we have always had limits on actions
This makes me sad. I never actually responded to any of the personals on Craigslist, but looking through them back in 2008 and seeing what I felt attraction to helped me understand and come to terms with the fact that I really am bisexual. Fast forward ten years and next month I'm marrying my same-sex partner. Not saying I wouldn't have figured that out without Craigslist personals, but I do feel strongly that there's value in having a space for people to broadcast their desire without moderation.
The app store is front and center on Mac. All apps are sandboxed by default. Steam is another sandbox. A browser is a sandbox.

The problem is that it's hard to write an interesting Mac desktop application that runs in a sandbox. The kind of complexities that require a full blown desktop application just don't fit in a sandbox. (As opposed to a game, mobile, or web app.) Whatever runs in a sandbox turns out to be just a prettier version of a web app, or a self-contained game.
Yeah, all hail to the removal of every tiny bit of friction on your way. Nice shortlist of crap that consumers have elevated into holy gospel.

Yes, I just called Google crap. And Apple, and Amazon, and Clouflare, and Netflix, and Spotify. Yahoo!, Hotmail, do I need to mention Facebook? Centralised, monopolising, giant corporate crap. I avoid them whenever I can.

The web most definitely was better before they got their grasping claws on every aspect of it.
No, you missed the point. They are sending drugs, crime, rapists; does not imply that everyone is a rapist. All it implies is that at least more than 1 rapist has come across the border illegally. Which is probably true.
Textbook false dichotomy. Freedom of expression is about as related to rape as it is to the right to a trial.
That should be something that doesn't allow the app to get onto the Play store, but Google apparently allows it.
Busting the cherry on these comments.
from [0]:
The court ordered NMC to pay $58,000 as cost under rule 68, this is less than 2% of what the cost was to defend this case.

[0] http://www.digest.com/Big_Story.php
I don't have the script on hand at the moment. But essentially I take two 180 degree fisheye photos one pointing straight up and one pointing straight down. (for this, I used a homebrew cardboard box and two mobotix cameras)

I then use OP's script to "unroll" each fisheye photo. I then stick them together top to bottom with looks like this:

https://faa-aviation-data-portal.github.io/routeDemo/camera/...

Which I feed into this:

https://github.com/googlevr/vrview

voila

took a couple hours start to finish.
Wrong. It only means that at the very least, more than 1 rapist has come across the border illegally from Mexico. I'll wager that's probably true.
LineageOS supports this.
> how fast new companies(mainly U.S.) moved so quickly.

I've worked in startup/mid size companies outside U.S and from what i've seen its totally inaccurate to say that startups outside U.S move slowly because they take privacy/security more seriously.
Applying this to contacts, too, would also make it somewhat less impossible to use WhatsApp and similar messengers legally.

If you don't know why it's illegal: WhatsApp uploads all of your contacts to their server. Granted that their ToS are not themselves ruled illegal at some point, it is on you to get a written permission from all of your contacts that they are okay with you uploading their data to WhatsApp's servers.

So, unless you block access to all of your contacts or actually ask every single one of your contacts for written permission, it's illegal. With selective contact access, you could at least attempt to only grant access to contacts that you actually did get written permission from, or I don't know, of which you know for sure that they are using WhatsApp, too.

And yes, I do love the thought of hitting on someone in a bar and then pulling out this massive form sheet to ask for their written permission, just so you can ask for their number afterwards.
DNSMasq can and does accomplish the first two items on your list, largely in hosts-file format.

Mind, I use both hosts and uMatrix. Each has its place.
Couldn't agree more. Not to mention the fact that you're still perfectly able to do all the things that you've always been able to do. Anyone can still put up a website whenever they want. Now they just feel entitled to all the views and ad revenue that the big platforms will drive to them.
You sound like you have an immense chip on your shoulder over this incident.

All kids would likely benefit from a better form of teaching than the conventional school methods. However if you get a classroom of gifted children and you add a non-gifted child, the non-gifted child likely won’t be able to keep up at the same pace. There’s something to be said about segregating children with similar learning abilities so that the pace of the classes are at good levels for everyone in the class.
In the western states (Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Nebraska, Kansas, etc), the time from a 911 call to a cop may be 30 minutes. It may also be hours depending upon the circumstance.

So there is some consideration needed for ranchers and others that do have a livelihood out there and can't wait for the police to show up.
Don't forget that Blumenthal pounded a bunch of nails into Usenet's coffin while he was Connecticut AG.
How I Invaded the Sections of Other Users Through WhatsApp
You need that permission for a photo viewer, but I guess you're right that apps asking for overly broad permissions should be banned.
No it doesn't (at least on the desktop version of the site). You can leave the phone number field blank on the 'Create your Google Account' form. For 2 factor authentication you do need it.
We had Geocities!

We had IRC/ICQ/AIM/MSN Messenger!

We had Newsgroups & Mailinglists!

We had millions of PHPbb Forums for any thinkable niche, running on 50$/Month Shared Hosting!

We had Websites lovingly created with Frontpage!

We had Gameserver Browsers that ran as Desktop Software, without Ad placements!

We had "underground filesharing" websites that took 700MB Games and split them in 300 parts and uploaded them to 20 different "free hosting" providers so you could be as much of a pirate as you wanted!

We had Toplists of Websites (and Toplists) where communities and content providers fought over the highest rank which more often than not were completely arbitrarily awarded!

We had Online Shopping where we could send a wire transfer before the items were sent!

We had a world where the general public didn't want or need the Internet!
The comment seems to reply to the headline.

Is it surprising that when authors use clickbait, people ignore the substance and reply to the most egregious part? Especially if an awful title gives no desire to read the content.
Memory management under PL/I.

It was a highly optimised sorting algorithm for client names, and used everywhere. It occasionally dropped a name, and I was asked to fix it.

PL/I allows you to free part of allocated memory. In this case, two names would be pulled out of the array, that part of the array would be freed, and turned into a new array instance. Pair got sorted and reinserted. Repeat until array becomes array of single arrays, then bitshift edge of array allocations to recreate array in place.
You can at least disable it (which I always do)
It’s basically using JavaScript for extensions/automations/web apps/whatever built around Google docs, sheets, gmail.

I’m a writer for a marketing agency at my day job. So I mostly do it for fun and a little variety.
You are right. Once technology is known, people don't see magic. Nobody interprets airstrikes as fire from the gods.
You don't need a static IP with Plex, only a Plex account with granted access
This is one of the things that led me to stop using Facebook last year. In order to use the app you have to give it all manner of permissions. And of course, if Facebook can access your data they’re going to suck in as much as they can. They don’t respect you, they want to use you.

So put me in the “not surprised” category, but I’m really glad there’s more discussion of this.
Farmville had a massive install base. So they weren’t accessing that much data relative to the number of people that had directly authorized their app. The difference between it and the Obama app was the leverage that was allowed: less than 1 million people gave them access to their data, and they were able to use that to get deep profile data on nearly every US Facebook user - ~200 million accounts. Their attempts to do this set off all kinds of alarms, but Facebook went in and manually shut those alarms off and opened the floodgates to the data. Our data.

Considering that at least half of them - ~100 million people - would have consciously objected to helping Obama do anything, much less get elected, that should have been earth shatteringly scandalous and probably should have buried Facebook right then and there. But instead, the press celebrated this technique, right up until it helped create a result other than the one it wanted.
Scam number two: 'starter cartridges.'
Your laborious sarcasm completely misses the point of the article. Nobody is wishing for "old technology" or yesterday's methods. That is not the subject.

I don't find the guardian article very interesting, it has it's own problems with a click-baity title. But your response simply loops over an irrelevant shopping list of "my favourite things about the internet".
They'd do fine, because for the most part, the students who were placed in TAG math were the same students whose parents were on PTA or whose parents had the time and self entitlement to go to the school and not so politely request their child be placed in the program.

The notion that gifted students need a special environment to learn is comical. If they're actually talented and gifted, they should certainly be able to learn effectively in the same environment as "normal" students.

Learning to read and do arithmetic is important in the 3rd grade, but it isn't as important as learning social and communication skills. I don't deny that there are gifted individuals among us, I'm advocating that we wait on trying to identify the gifted ones at least until puberty.
I'm ex-FB and have it on good authority that this is indeed used to improve the relevance of friend suggestions (i.e. distinguish between your best friends and the plumber in your contacts). I'm also told it's opt-in, and the app dialog (not just the system dialog) does say call logs will be scraped.

But still, IMO it's an incredibly invasive, incredibly dumb thing to be doing in the current context for the small benefit it brings. I hope they wake the f* up to just how bad it makes FB look like to the outside world, and kill this feature with fire.
Thanks, I didn't know about "burstable" instances or TLBs before. It's interesting that CPU throttling could affect you differently depending on whether you're mostly reading from disk or memory.
Exactly. I may need to be a bit more explicit with a /s tag next time.
I doubt all fault lies with Zuckerberg here. Because he is doing what the system rewards, maximizing investor wealth. And that means companies will do everything to profit, and only apologize if caught. Facebook won't have cared till 2025 if they were not caught. Same with Google may be what they are doing, and they are more careful than Google in getting caught.
Check out how Dropbox does it: https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2016/08/fast-and-accurate-doc...
This is a very powerful quote. It is too bad that it was first published[1] 12 years after Erlichman told it to Baum and after Erlichman died. It sure fits with what I think Nixon was capable of, but I wonder how embellished the actual quote given by Baum so many years after Ehrlichman said it. Would have been nice to have Ehrlichman confirm it but he was already dead when this quote was published.

[1]https://harpers.org/archive/2016/04/legalize-it-all/
Jonathan Blow, Thekla – Making Game Programming Less Terrible [video]
Google Groups was always terrible. It almost immediately started ruining Usenet.
Firefox, DNS Over HTTPS and a Controversial Shield Study
Ansible 2.5 released
This is the most fitting quote I've seen for all the things that irk me most today in politics and business. Thanks, will reuse a lot.
Thank you, I remember using this at some point but forgot it. I'm still probably going to trash my account but this does make it much more tolerable. This and i.reddit.com make life on mobile a bit more pleasant.
Even without encrypted DNS lookups, HTTPS leaks the FQDN (i.e. exact subdomain) of what you are connecting to through Server Name Indication.

SNI was added to allow servers to know which SSL certificate to send to the browser, previously you would need to have one IP address per SSL certificate.
Examine the present embroglio over Facebook, Cambridge Analytica, weaponised viral clickbait, fake news, radicalisation, etc., etc.

Media are the information sourcing and feedback loop for societies. The print media went through its crisis of awareness in the early 20th century. See especially Lippmann's Public Policy.
As well as SNI
It was not passed for that reason.

https://www.thecut.com/2018/03/sesta-anti-sex-trafficking-bi...
Sadly limited to US English - other English inputs don’t have it.
Not too surprisingly. Ignoring the fact that Ada presents OO ideas very clearly and neatly, just learning different OO systems has done wonders for my understanding of it. Whereas I would previouly say "Just put it in a class" to everything, I can now distinguish cases where that actually helps from where it doesnt.
Hosts syntax doesn't allow for that.

DNSMasq would, however, allow you to only specify each TLD.
https://www.slashgeek.net/2017/10/23/online-privacy-doesnt-e...
As someone who has rallied against FB for years, there's always some justification:

"It'd be too risky to their business for them to do something like that!"

"Someone would have leaked the secret by now!"

"There's no way a company that big could get by doing something that blatant!"

I think people just don't like uncomfortable truths, even when staring them in the face.
I hope the current controversy will inspire Samsung to take Facebook out of the mandatory bloatware set for all models.
I'm not so sure that's a cautionary tale about unintended consequences as much as an illustration of the lack of public toilets. Do we really want people doing their business in plastic bags?
I hope it is getting to the point that having Facebook on your resume should be considered a huge red flag
0.0.0.0 is no host. 127.0.0.1 is localhost, and will still generate a query.

If you've a webserver there, its logs might get busy with the blocked traffic requests.
https://www.thecut.com/2018/03/sesta-anti-sex-trafficking-bi...

Please read that instead of pretending this is some academic debate that won't result in women being abused as a result.

People will suffer long term consequences.
Blender 2.8 Highlights
I've seen no noticeable impact to 100k+ lines.
Imagine you’re moving to my town. I say “you’re welcome to stay with me as long as you need to while you look for a job.”

2 years later, you’re still unemployed and sleeping on my couch.

I kick you out.

Am I the asshole or are you?
Or blackberry or Nokia.
ASNs, kinda, maybe.
https://www.thecut.com/2018/03/sesta-anti-sex-trafficking-bi...

Go read that.
People are strange. My family all have iPhones, we all use iMessage, yet for some reason we have a group chat on WhatsApp which is where my sister and mam share photos of my nieces.

The functionality is no different to iMessage. I don’t know why this happens. It just does.
Did you expand “Hate Speech”? Their definition is pretty clear,

“But we do not support content that promotes or condones violence against individuals or groups based on race or ethnic origin, religion, disability, gender, age, nationality, veteran status, or sexual orientation/gender identity, or whose primary purpose is inciting hatred on the basis of these core characteristics. This can be a delicate balancing act, but if the primary purpose is to attack a protected group, the content crosses the line.
What are you going to do when decentralization/encryption/etc itself become illegal ?
It would need to be automatically collated by an AI with access to the Internet Archive that is probably quite a bit more sophisticated than what we currently have. DMOZ is the closest curated thing I can think of.
If I’m friends with anybody who gave it to them, they also have my private txt messages with them and phone call metadata.

I have to think that violates phone tapping laws in certain states.
> UNIX

What UNIX? Only one I can think of macOS? What other UNIX is a dominant platform? Linux is not a UNIX, but rather UNIX like.

I'm all for UNIX, love the design, love the history, but it is not dominant. To be honest UNIX seems dead, and only live on in *nix-like OS.
YES THIS PLEASE.

I learned programming through the web, so I lack a lot of knowledge in basic systems / bash / *nix / I'm not even sure how to call that.

I've googled so many time "learn bash" etc but it's never really what I'm looking for.

I regularly discover tools that are so basic yet so powerful (all things you mention) yet I feel there is a lack of (great) resources online to "learn the basic tools of your CL".
Anyone have information on the financial arrangement (if any) between Samsung and Facebook to include the Facebook app in the bundle?
I wish I lived in a world where the opinions of actual sex workers (and similar advocates) had the most sway regarding legislation intended to protect them.

Though I am tempted to say nominally intended to protect them. In this case, I suspect that actually protecting them is not the goal. The actual goal appears to be expressing weird puritan guilt or something. Geez.
Typical members of modern society wouldn't assume that voices in their heads are being beamed in by the government. It's much more rational to think you have a deteriorating mental condition. If you believe in a personal god that communicates directly with people, that's also a viable option. That's a very common belief in the US.
Amorality and impact in venture capital
The problem is that a lot of people are relying too much on Facebook/Twitter/YouTube/etc and not contributing to the web in other more direct ways.
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This rhymes with "Evil is created by those who think themselves are so righteous."
I have two objections to this post:

1. No numbers provided, in terms of actual impacts on poor people. Just a vague angry waving of fists and calling drafters of bag bans "assholes".

2. Carbon footprint isn't the only thing that's cut down with bag bans. Plastic waste itself is a massive problem - plastic is forever and it's getting everywhere, including our water. In my home city of Mumbai, India, plastic bags choke up drains and sewers, and contribute to monsoon flooding every year - and it's definitely not the rich that suffer most when the city floods. Reducing the amount of plastic that's produced might even be worth a slight increase in carbon emissions in the long run. That is if we can find emissions savings elsewhere, which luckily, we can by cutting out the McMansions and SUVs mentioned in the post.

In mostly poor communities, I'd support even free paper bags along with a plastic bag ban. In richer communities, yeah a plastic bag ban + non-free paper bags can be construed as "anti-poor" but virtually everything else in those communities already is anti-poor anyway (minimum plot size zoning, walkability, public transit availability etc).

It just makes my blood boil to see the way groceries are bagged in communities with no bag bans - it feels like they use a new bag per item.
Ah, ya then I agree. The euro is a terrible mistake. You can't have a universal currency without a universal regulatory scheme, as Europe is discovering, and countries like Britain are resisting.
Within this context of this discussion, what are the distinctions between Unix and Linux that are important to you?
On the iPhone this was actually fixed in iOS 11. The standard image picker (UIImagePickerController) now runs out of process, and no longer pops up a permission dialog, but instead just gives the app access to only the photo(s) the user selected.

Source: https://stackoverflow.com/a/46594741
Many have tried to take a slice of FB’s pie - almost all failed to make a serious dent, and the main social media alternatives are also generally struggling (or have serious fundamental issues of their own).

At this point, I’m very skeptical another company will unseat FB’s dominance for quite a while, if ever.