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>If she's happy with this level of privacy though, what's the problem?

The problem is that it's not just her privacy she's violating, but the privacy of everyone else, including OP, whose photos get shared by said cousin.

When I got back from a trip I took abroad with my family earlier this year, my friends mentioned that they'd seen the photos that "I" had posted to Facebook. Except... I hadn't posted any photos to Facebook. I have a Facebook account, but I deliberately have a very minimal presence on it. What my friends were seeing was the photos that my mother had posted, and which I had been tagged in. My privacy was violated by someone else's inability to understand Facebook's privacy settings.
Please don't promote conspiracy theories insulting a dead man with no evidence whatsoever.
Life hack: If you poop more often, like every time you take a piss, the consistency will be harder, smaller and non-sticky, so you wont have to use the paper.
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God is a point in an uncertain future. The more uncertain the future the bigger God wil be. This also explains the friction between science and religion,because science makes the future less uncertain and thus god smaller.
If a bird pooped the human way (same diet and result) the solution would be a piece of dry paper or leaf
So if developers are not (a part of) the target audience for a "Pro" branded device, then who are?
The flip side is better targeting should result in less collateral deaths
You run malware as a user that's able to subvert some other component of your distribution (such as beep on Debian) to gain root and it does that?
But what amazes me is that Tesla autopilot apparently won't swerve or stop when it sees an unmoving object straight ahead.

It won't even brake unless the thing in front looks like the back end of a car or truck. Even then, if it's stationary, it may still get hit. It won't swerve, ever; it has no logic for that. Four times that we know of, a Tesla has plowed into a vehicle partly blocking a lane.

Putting something on the road which pretends to self-drive and can't detect solid obstacles is criminal.
> This seamless interoperabiity with Java/JVM is a fairly subtle selling point especially since every JVM language will say they do it. It's only when you try to use them in complex projects and see them fall down that you realise that groovy is the only language that is philosophically trying to be close to Java (I'm fairly keen to try Kotlin to see how that holds up on this count).

Interesting - can you say anything more concrete/specific? E.g. with Scala I've gradually drifted away from a Java-like style over the years, but I found it was very possible to write in a close-to-Java style (e.g. using the Java collections rather than Scala ones, using mutable vars and null and subclasses) when that was what I wanted.
Or in all western countries.
There's a builtin toggle to map the capslock key to escape.

Not that that makes the touchbar good, but at least you can remove a useless key in favor of a useful one.
Adoption? And, there are abortion clinics in Tampa Bay, where this story took place.
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I am pretty certain most of the current younger smokers had a very good idea of the health implications.

Anything that changed from a medical perspective since I am smoking is that we know by now that a 'smokers lung' is not actually that and most never get it. Otherwise all the risks are well known for 15+ years.

Tldr: I don't think people actually care about dying earlier (or more cruel), at least in countries with working or cheap health care.
1. local-root exploits exist and are quite common. It is possible for an unknown kernel bug to get root access. Remote code execution exploits are also common in browsers and also just all across the Linux desktop in general.

2. apt packages can run arbitrary bash scripts as root as part of their install and update process. Hopefully your third-party apt repo hygiene is good.

3. Just because you only explicitly run apt as root, does not mean no program runs as root. setuid executables exist and are unfortunately quite common in Debian.
Look. I thought it was funny too, but at least put a link so you're not just stealing the joke.

https://xkcd.com/1172/
At the moment Tesla haven't shown that auto-pilot does lower the death rate. They've only released statistics about auto-pilot enabled cars rather than statistics for when auto-pilot was in control.

Any statistics released by Tesla should be compared against similar statistics from say modern Audis with lane-assist and collision detection.
I'd say that tt's more like a drug

It is literally like a drug, former FB execs have explained how they trigger dopamine responses in your brain
Don't you need resources (in the case of plastic, oil) PLUS WATER to create anything?

Sawdust is the only alternative in my opinion
Do you trust PluPrivacy?
> And also the idea that an automatic driver is easier to improve over time (skewing the trade-off better and better) than human drivers. Which of course will snowball when reliance on automation keeps making drivers worse than better, and at some point you're past the point of no return.

I really hope it does get to the point were all drivers are automatic and interconnected. Cars could cooperate to a much higher extent and traffic could potentially be much more efficient and safe.
What is propelling this? Am I missing some kind of wind-up spring in the mechanism?
Diaspora is actually worse for privacy, because of its distributed nature. Diaspora is about distributed ownership. If you value privacy in a social network, check out https://github.com/ssbc/patchwork
This, I'm currently in the market for a new macbook and considering the tb model. I tried it in the store, it doesn't bother me as much as it should considering i'm a vim user and it does offer some nice contextual features. But I use my laptop mostly docked. So in order to benefit from the touchbar and incorporate it into my workflow I really need a external keyboard with the same feature. Otherwise I'm just adjusting my workflow all the time in relation to where I sit and I'd then rather just ignore the touchbar and stick with shortcuts.
You're missing the entire field of remote exploits. Meltdown, for example, could be exploited by JavaScript code running as non-root.

It's not about what you explicitly choose to run as root at the command line. That's a tiny fraction of the code that executes as root on your machine. It's about what software can do to somehow gain access to root's privilege level via exploits.
The value you represent to Facebook is also dependent on your location. People in the US are worth the most, around $60 per year: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jan/28/how-much-...

For heavy Facebook users $60 isn't much, but for everyone else it seems a little much.
I don't want to digress into why 3D touch is bad design. But you are sort of pointing it out right there. Everything has to be learned. There is no natural metaphor or "affordance" that guides how it is supposed to be used. It changes from device to device, from application to application.

I am pretty sure that Apple had plenty of design people (or just people with common sense) pointing out the flaws of the touch bar and 3D touch. Yet these big expensive projects are put forward. What drives that?
Their claim is that all the sensing capability is there for the car equivalent of the proverbial sufficiently smart compiler to achieve full self-driving capability. But said sufficiently smart software running sufficiently smart algorithms capable of sufficiently speedy processing of the senser data doesn't exist at the moment.

The claim is falsifiable if and only if one can prove the minimum sensor capability required for full self-driving exceeds what they have. But even proving the falseness at a later date doesn't prove malice or fraud unless Tesla knows right now that their claim is not true.
> Mass intentional killing is wrong, pretty much everyone agrees with that.

In shooting war, both sides have already ceded that killing people is morally justified.

And now you're in the unenviable position arguing about how much death is too much, and what are the proper ways to kill people in a war setting.

And then you get asked moral dilemmas if killing 100,000 people is okay if it saves 1,000,000 people from dying further. This is the Hiroshima/Nagasaki question in a nutshell.

I don't know that answer, but then I didn't fight a brutal war for four years, watching my friends, family, and countrymen die at the hands of a brutal regime.
Yup. It is basically a user story.
I don’t know recently but in my experience it’s absolutely false.
In the ERPs or other enterprisy software they HAD to press the F-keys to do anything.
If they could do it 20 years ago I simply can’t believe that suddenly humanity has devolved and it’s unable to use function keys today.
Maybe not a native speaker or maybe someone who has difficulty comprehending written words.
The way US homes are designed it's hard to add a bidet to an existing bathroom, but doing away with toilet paper must be a goal. Unless you wash, you cannot feel "good" down there. That's the truth.
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Come to think of it, whatever happened to Tesla's self-driving effort? They claimed to be shipping Model 3 cars with all the hardware needed for self driving (not including a LIDAR). They produced videos. Most of this was 1-2 years ago. But they never got to deployment, or even to the point of demoing it for car magazine writers.
Indeed, having lockdown on by default would be reasonable.

There is an argument that "it's useless" [1] without SecureBoot but so what? Separation of concerns is a good principle and allows external people to reason about the behaviour much more easily.

There is no point implementing logic like "if x == 0 then y = 0; return x * y" when a simple "return x * y" will suffice. In fact it's actively harmful as it raises the complexity.

[1] http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1804.0/01621.html
Once I had a very serious conversation about this, bussiness conversation
I chose Pharo for a project recently (http://github.com/studio/studio/). I am enjoying using it in production. The Glamorous Toolkit framework (Inspector and Spotter) is saving me a huge amount of work.

I see Pharo as two universes: the stable (now Pharo 6) and the development (now Pharo 7.) I work on the stable one and I don't concern myself at all with what is happening on the development one. The yearly release cycle of development-to-stable feels about right to me.

I have had to spend some time working out how to fit Pharo into my wider project build system, and how to store Smalltalk source code on Github as part of a larger repository such that you can handle merges etc. This made me curse a lot. It worked out fine in the end though.

I have been working on this for one year now and I haven't had problems with Pharo bugs or instability.
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> OT: To my eyes - there is a big difference in a sign "WILL WORK FOR FOOD/MONEY/ETC" and "PLEASE GIVE ME 100$ I NEED IT". Should the USA be like Mother Theresa, lend their helping hand to everyone in need?

There might be a difference between those two signs, but I'm not sure it's as profound as you make it. People change and learn as they grow. Someone holding a "Need $$ for beer" sign today may be holding a "Will work for food" sign tommorow, and who knows, perhaps "Now hiring" the next. Should we make sure the man starves to death in the first or second phase before he has a chance to mature and contribute to society? What percentage of humans are irredeemably intolerable? Can we not afford to help them out anyway just to make sure we don't miss the others?

I agree that people ought not have babies they cannot afford, but given that the entry bar is low and, ya'know, it does happen, is it fair for society to leave the child adrift in the wind to... punish its parents? Does society work better when it's comprised of adults who were such children?
Will it brake for pedestrians?
I think I'd prefer the Japanese version, they know how to do trains: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/09/what-its-like-to-ride-on-lux...
This personality test is interesting. I can see why YC would want this data.
It sounds interesting, can you give a concrete example?
> I would much rather have people like me pay more taxes

Then pay more taxes if you will, or donate to some charity, just don't force other people to do so.
They've started faking 3D Touch on iPads - see e.g. the new control center, which will respond mostly the same as it does on a modern iPhone if you use a similar "force touch" action (even though you're really just holding it for n milliseconds).

I'm betting on a force-sensitive iPad sooner than later, probably the next-gen iPad Pro.
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> What baffles me is it took so much evidence from the medical community to convince people about smoking.

That isn't really the issue, smokers have been aware of the negative consequences for quite a while. Many are okay with it due to the relief the smoking brings them from stress and other issues, it's a trade-off. Just like alcohol ain't that healthy for you but many people still chose to drink it.

But on the other hand you have massive companies who've spent decades and billions of $ in making tobacco as addictive, and easy to smoke, as possible. So once the customers are hooked it's extremely difficult for them to kick the habit and even when they manage to kick it, many will still get cravings for years, if not decades, to come.

Which could be explained by this: https://slatestarcodex.com/2016/01/11/schizophrenia-no-smoki...
Sigh.

If you want to be closed minded, and not accept that you are choosing your axioms in the same way as someone else exposed to different upbringings is - as per my examples, then I guess I have no chance of convincing you otherwise.
Birth control fails. Approximately 8% of women still end up pregnant during their first year on birth control, and even after the first year the percentage doesn't fall to 0.

There are many reasons that it fails, although missing a dose is the largest reason. Other reasons can be improper storage, using certain drugs (prescription or otherwise), or even consuming an unusual amount of some foods or supplements. Even if you do everything right there's a small chance that it will happen anyway.

Now, people like to claim that if you skip a dose or mess up taking it at the wrong time of the day it's your fault, but it can be complicated due to the different types of pills available, and if you get switched to a different brand, it can be easy to mess up. Typically pills come in a 28 pack. The first 21 or 24 of those will have the hormones used to prevent pregnancy, and then either 7 or 4 will be placebos. But some schemes only give you 21 pills and then you go a week without taking any before starting up the next set. There's also now larger packages and the hormone concentrations and days without taking them vary as well.

Condoms have certain advantages, but they break. And other forms of birth control tend to be more expensive and out of the reach of people living in poverty.
If Tesla were to respond in a similar vein - that is turn off auto-pilot each time there was a fatal crash until the cause was fully investigated and fixed then I'd feel a lot more comfortable.

From the videos in the article it's clear that auto-pilot should be disabled when there is bright low-light sunshine. Tesla should be prepared to tell customers there's certain times of the day when the reliability of the software is not high enough and turn it off.

These are all 'beta' testers after all so they shouldn't complain too much.
Schama who the article discusses produced a similar series that's on prime:

https://www.amazon.com/In-the-Beginning/dp/B00J97O91Q/
They had a falling out with their software supplier Mobileye which set them back a year or more.
Likely force of wine poured in. In other words, gravity. (Much like springless counterweight clocks.)

The top part is a ratchet.
Kotlin specifically has a "native mode" where it doesn't use the JVM and ships its own small runtime with a ref-counting cycle detecting gc, C interop and not much else.

The binaries aren't 100 bytes but I suppose with more optimisation they could be. And although Kotlin/Native isn't actually exactly the same language as Kotlin/JVM it's got very good usability and IDE support already. So I think it can be quite a strong competitor for Rust in many areas.
> 1. I run a malware as root which modifies my image. I don't run anything as root except apt. So this is impossible.

1. What if apt is compromised?

2. What if apt installs something which is compromised?

3. What if you run something which is compromised and escalates privilege?
I send out a newsletter to customers about once per quarter. All recipients have opted in by actively checking a checkbox.

I'm pretty sure these mail services already monitor unsubscribe rates and spam flags. But there will always be false positives, i. e. legitimate recipients flagging a newsletter because they no longer want to receive it, or because they forgot they agreed.

Spam recipients, on the other hand, may not report these messages often enough. Some just don't bother, others rely on their mail client or company's filters.

That could make it difficult to find a reliable cut-off separating legitimate and spam mail.

The only real solution to this would be for the mail services to handle opt-in procedures. That, however, would effectively lock you in to a single provider, because it'd be suicide to change providers and ask for confirmation from every recipient again.
Transparent use of library packages optimized for Intel architecture
android doesn’t however do the drag selection like ios does:

hard press keyboard to get a cursor ->

drag around keyboard to place cursor ->

hard press on word to start selection ->

drag around keyboard to place end of selection

it’s a phenomenal way to select text, and everyone i know that i show it to uses it every day from them on. it’s not discoverable, but DAMN it’s handy
But it could be destroyed. I’ll settle for that.
It was not about privacy, it still isn't about privacy.

It's about usability, and the flocking to Mastodon when there are better options around is the proof of this theory of mine.
Thanks for sharing! Just plugged it in for a feature I've been sitting on for a while.

It worked right off the bat for me while react-sortable-hoc did not.
It's not really an issue. It sprays from an angle below that should minimize sprayback (no idea whether that is a word), plus you just clean it when doing the normal toilet cleaning. For sure is better than those overfull American toilets that welcome your butt with splash toilet water everytime you drop something.
One related fact that I love is that the Congo and the Amazon used to be the same river - the Amazon reversing flow when the Andes rose up:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rivers_by_age
And what are the advantages of a bidet over a cocktail? Not as sticky, I imagine.
I bought a 15" MacBook Pro without the Touch Bar today. It doesn't have any usb c ports but neither did my old MacBook Air, so I don't care. Maybe I am a dinosaur.
Of course, and I don't think anyone would or should get reprimanded for it. That said, I still think it's poor form and should be avoided unless absolutely necessary.
I am thinking things like Wechat, Telegram (also Whatsapp to some degree but that's behind in functionality) but also things like discord and slack.

So without a direct social graph, specialised interest groups, more direct connections, more 'privacy' at least in terms of how public the data is available.
>Obviously, in a purely hypothetical landscape, even with cameras you should be able to emulate what humans can do and have 100% attentiveness. That is to say, humans don't have lidar and radar, yet humans do drive.

Which camera has the same dynamic range as the human eye?
Blockchain technology isn't really a viable option for something like social media any more. With the new GDPR rules in Europe and the right to be forgotten, using blockchain just isn't an option, because you can't delete specific parts.
There's an argument that it's harmful without a verified boot chain - it doesn't add that much security in that case, but it does limit functionality. If you have enough underlying infrastructure to mean that it does add a meaningful amount of security, then the loss of functionality is a worthwhile tradeoff, but otherwise it's likely to cause justifiable user anger.
the same argument has been applied to voice assistants, but that doesn’t stop them being incredibly handy
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It would bebizarre If you would be billionaire and your brother don't have enough money for diapers. A month of diapers would cost the same than Whole Foods fancy meal.

That's how bizarre this things looks.

I live in Argentina, not first world by any means, and we have a lots welfare programs.
Everytime you say, hear or read the word "Facebook" replace it with either "mom and dad" or "the creep".
Works great.
> It's a question of convenience for the parents to not use another cheap alternative -- cloth diapers.

I wouldn't mind a subsidy on cloth diapers to be honest. The landfill waste from disposables is insane.
My parents used cloth nappies with my oldest brother in 1990, we weren't poor, and we lived in a developed nation.

Disposable nappies are horrible for the environment.
It's really amazing how little insight Apple showed with their latest moves.

They removed all ports, replaced keyboard with a noisy one that stops working unless you clean it daily, reduced battery life to make the thing a few millimeters thinner.

The touchbar is the worst part: a solution in search for a problem.

So sad.
I want to get rid of income qualifications for any and all government program. In fact, I want to make it illegal to ask for income information when providing government services. If Bill Gates or Jeff Bezos want their kids to get free lunch at school, the school shouldn't be able to say you make too much money to qualify.

It is disgusting that we create these perverse incentives and demonize people for dancing to our tune.
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Is this thread like Stephen Hawkings party for time travellers? :)

Serious question though, how do you know when you come across women in the HN comments?
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"Terra Incognita takes place in 2454" I'd be surprised if humans ran any computer systems by then