skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are wrong. They won't pay to watch an individual video, and they won't pay to watch Latest Gigacorp Product Placement Hour, but they will pay the creators they care about. Many are making a living supported by their audience via Patreon while posting their videos to YouTube. Which is really the worst case apocalyptic scenario for YouTube... Kinda surprised they haven't made more overt moves to try to destroy that setup. Especially given Eric Schmidt's book 'The New Digital Age' and his views that since Google are rich they can and should take direct control of human culture to save the poor from themselves.
> what does that say about society when people will give up something just to punish or deprive others.

I also believe in a police force and laws. Giving up my ability to rob without legal consequences in order punish and deprive others.

I'm not to convinced that says many bad things about me though.

Nobody invested in a competitive game is going to want cheaters running rampant.
Google seems to have a habit of dumping directly to spam emails from any domain they do not recognize.

Or at least i have seen some complaints bouncing around certain mailing lists in that regard.
> PWA is not that easy, but the UX friction involved with downloading and installing native mobile apps is abysmal.

Searching on the app store and hitting "install" is an abysmal amount of friction?
> The browser shares your IP address so the website knows where on the internet to send the site content.

Huh?!?
There are elevated trains in the New York subway system as well. For example...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9-nA0DNvqg
leadership that don't have the interest of the workers at heart

workers organizing together and using collective bargaining

So what you're saying is we need decentralized unions on the blockchain?
If it works, don't fix it.
It's like having a camera pointed at your neighbor's house, but a company's neighbor is the whole internet.
I have no idea what your motivations are, I just know that what you wrote is nonsensical on its face, "European country" or no, which makes me wonder what's going on. China is notoriously difficult for foreign businesses to operate in, European or American, due not only to the restrictions I mentioned above but the opaque and arbitrary control of the government.

The idea that anyone would call this environment "open for business" is simply laughable and shows a total ignorance on the topic.
Wheel of Time the best book is around a 7/10. With some dropping as low as 3/10. There are much better examples of more immersive Fantasy out there. WoT, is a great example of a massive but mediocre series.

EDIT: The ratings are my opinion, but the downturn can be seen on goodreads ratings and is discussed in the WoT community. While not all agree there was a downturn, it being a point of contention in this series is an indicator there was one for most people.
> If Facebook doesn't sell data, what is the purpose of shadow profiles?

Presumably to sell you ads, which Facebook doesn't consider selling your data--it's just selling access to you, which is only valuable because of the data. Does it really matter if they didn't sell your information if they just used it to show you the same ad they would have showed if they had sold your data? It seems they're relying on the idea that advertisements are somehow an OK form of privacy violation.
Liking the wrong thing might not get you persecuted or killed in your current time and place, but there's no guarantee that those opinions which are safe to hold here and now will continue to be safe.

Social media creates a semi-public record for bad actors to identify targets to persecute for whatever they've decided to retroactively declare to be a crime. That may be a small risk in a stable democracy, but it's still worth considering due to the magnitude of the potential consequences.
> Ad Measurement. An advertiser can choose to add the Facebook Pixel, some computer code, to their site. This allows us to give advertisers stats about how many people are responding to their ads — even if they saw the ad on a different device — without us sharing anyone’s personal information.

So I can look at an ad in Mobile Safari, and go to the advertiser's website in Chrome on my mac, and Facebook counts that as a referral, because I'm logged into FB on both browsers. Makes sense, but sort of creepy.
By retail it means online. I’m not sure that’s true. Certainly in the for profit market, but there is something to be said for going to a classroom, interacting with others, and being at an academic institute. In person. It seems “online school is the future” mantra has been repeated since we got online, but we’re still no where close.
From an economic perspective, cures (or, even, long-term durable remissions) are definitely disruptive to the current models of care.
Not OP, but thanks for the link to that app. It's quite amazing.
How can they show me an ad if I don't have a Facebook account?
With #2, they don't sell the data because they don't need to, and because it would threaten their profits.

They use the data themselves to categorize people and sell advertisers access to the categories. As an advertiser, I don't get a list of people - Facebook keeps that hidden. What I get is the knowledge that my ad is shown to the people I want in the category I want, because Facebook does that part for me. Shadow profiles enable them to do this in a much broader way, and also allows them to build growth engines into their system so if you do decide to join facebook, you see hundreds of suggestions that make you more likely to get addicted.
> We don’t sell people’s data. Period.

You just share it for a fee?
> What controls do I have?

> As Mark said last week, we believe everyone deserves good privacy controls. We require websites and apps who use our tools to tell you they’re collecting and sharing your information with us, and to get your permission to do so.

Bullshit.

I downloaded Facebook's data on me and found about 40 websites they said they had shared my profile with. I didn't authorize that. FB doesn't give me the ability to "revoke" permission to have my info shared with them, either. Nor does it allow me to request that the information on me given to those third parties be deleted.
"If you simply told a different story, it would be a different length."
Homicides in total yes, but they also disclose that the gun violence is higher than it's neighbours.

"We have a big problem with gang-related violence"
http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=2054&art...

And based on these numbers http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=2054&art... it seems that from 2014 to 2017 the number of shootings increased by about 50%, and the number of fatalities have also increased considerably.

And while I don't think that Sweden is as dangerous as Mexico or even the US I do think there is a growing problem there and what scares me even more is the response you often get which what the GP posted above is the most "vanilla" version of it, he or she simply dismissed it and asked if HN is becoming Fox News more often than not you'll simply be stamped as a "trump supporter/nazi/alt-righter" regardless of the context by simply trying to discuss the issue.

The last Jewish friend of mine that lived Malmo left in February this year with her family to Denmark the cause was this: http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=96&artik...

A "demonstration" with 200-300 people proclaiming that they will go and kill Jews and reminding them that the army of Muhammed is returning.

And as far as I know not a single arrest has been made despite the event being promoted on social media and live footage of it available.
It translates to the big screen too. I remember being highly distracted during the first LOTR movie, when the adventurers pile in and raid Bilbo's pantry for an on the spot feast - I was thinking "How come a tiny, friendless Hobbit who lives a typical bachelor lifestyle would have such vast quantities of perishable food in his pantry? Enough to feed a horde of hungry humans like that?".

I look back to my own bachelor life in the past, and I barely had a sandwich in my fridge!
ePacket subsidizes shipping to the USA from China:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/wadeshepard/2017/11/05/how-the-...
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I propose a long bet, Lambda vs HR: winner is the first to cross 90% on one CIRR reporting period with >300 students.

PS yall are awesome <3 love the material you keep putting out.
How about "laying down seats", or bunks, rather than this abomination?
It's not your data because your browser fingerprint hypothetically coincides with somebody else's. Deleting the data would delete somebody else's data too.
There's a difference between "$9.99/mo for no ads" and "skip this ad for 2c". I'm not aware of any popular video sites offering the latter.
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Wow. And what about https://beta.observablehq.com/ by Mike Bostock?
1. how can I delete

Why should the burden be on the non-user?
But isn't the point of making a static (.md or html based) site not having to deal with JavaScript in the first place?
> Social plugins, such as our Like and Share buttons, which make other sites more social and help you share content on Facebook;

It's very disengenuous of them to mention that they collect data on you whether you click the button or not.
Well my dad was called a conspiracy theorist and worse for advocating that GM bought up Detroit's trolley line. I am just glad that he lived long enough to see the truth come out and be proven right.
technically, browsers can break the monetization incentives.

For example, Google found it a wise investment to sponsor an entire browser just to keep referrer header and 3rd party cookie enabled.

If all browsers disabled this (apple already got rid of 3rd party cookies) then the cost to monetize the web as it is being monetized today, would be too high to be effective.
T-Mobile to pay $40M over false ring tones on rural U.S. calls
Yes, making random agreements is not an alliance.
We should have a sub-thread of these comments devoted just to the silly things people use NirSoft stuff to do. I'll start.

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I have a HTPC hooked up to a projector that I use to play movies, and the projector has native support for 24 FPS, so I use this:

http://nircmd.nirsoft.net/setdisplay.html

to quickly set framerate. Make batch files for 24 Hz, 60 Hz, etc. bind them to keys, and then you don't have to bother going into a display settings GUI.
Eh. The only thing I really miss in Notepad is the ability to easily view text files that have Linux line endings. That's really all I care about. For anything else I'll probably use Notepad++ or VS Code.

The reality is that Windows isn't a text-based operating system, so a text editor with features isn't a vital component.
What would compatible mean? Why is compatability needed?
This is "internet is a series of pipes" logic, but it's technically true - it's used for TCP routing. Why is it bubbled up the layers? Why does facebook store it? Well, it's not as if you can do anything with it. It's not even a great identifier, due to mobile networks, carrier-grade NAT, dynamic IPs... But it certainly shouldn't be treated as private, any more than your home address.
> In addition, you can opt out of these types of ads entirely — so you never see ads on Facebook based on information we have received from other websites and apps.

They have this listed as a privacy control, but it doesn't provide any way to tell them to not compile a list of the other sites you visit outside of Facebook.
Ethereum is still essentially in its "live demo" phase. The release of dApps and user-friendly-ish products in the blockchain space has had about 2 years of traction. Your application of skepticism is appropriate, the burden of proof is on the developers to show the value of these projects, but it typically takes a decade or so for disintermediating technology to reach the point of ready adoption. We are in the single prop plane phase not too far from kitty hawk.
Most sources I believe. Pew Research: http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2015/12/09/the-american-middl...
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We didn't invent alcohol, it happens all the time in nature, by itself. We just improved the process a bit.

Alcohol has served countless extremely useful purposes through history, not least making questionable water sources potable, in the form of beer and wine.
> 5. If Linux users didn't have web apps, they'd have no apps at all.

Well, I mean, besides the 10s of thousands in the software repos, sure. The amount of time I spend in web apps on Linux is minuscule.
> at least not until now.

They have it to finish before the GDPR enforcement date (25 May 2018) - at which time those organizations in non-compliance may face heavy fines.

So, all companies big and small need to have a good data governance that allows to delete data on demand. And, better than that, stop collecting any data that they don’t have been authorized to get.

https://www.eugdpr.org
I'm saying the technology is derivative of the economics and politics of our culture, and it is unlikely that this relationship will invert itself. Tons of political science and economic thought has gone into designing systems where behaviors that are beneficial to the network are also economically rewarding, you're basically describing market economics. Nothing about cryptocurrency is novel from a political or economic theory standpoint.
to be fair, I think it is worth educating people that facebook definitely isn't the only actor doing this. It is pervasive.
It has an express, and it still counts.

Although it really sucks when someone misses the correct train and you have to drive to Winthrop Harbor to pick them up.
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Well, it is about time we got some diversity in the world of actors, it wasn't that long ago when all actors targeting network infrastructure devices seemed to come from a host of well-known three-letter agencies. Finally globalisation has arrived on our home routers and printers.
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I think a system should come with a decent editor out of the box. I sometimes have to deal with locked down systems where I can't install Notepad++. So I have to choose between two bad options like notepad or Wordpad. Both at least 20 years old and unchanged since then.
I hadn't considered it until that parent post. Compared to what I've seen out of Wall Street banks during the great recession, Equifax, shady lenders, mortgage scumbags, politicians, big tobacco, big oil, big sugar, GE & PCBs, CIA/Bush & torture, various Iraq war scandals, NSA spying scandal, Yahoo, Target, and about 407 other data, consumer, privacy breaches or abuses I've seen the last 20-30 years - Facebook gets high marks in this round for being very public about responding and tackling it head-on, but only after prior delay & evade maneuvers in the past. Most likely they recognized they were staring down a serious Congressional legislative/regulatory problem that could severely damage their business, and had no choice.
Also, all Android apps are Linux apps (when we want to avoocate Linux as having lots of apps) and none of them are really Linux apps (when we want to advocate freedom).
> If they were a Chinese entity, why would they have to follow US issued sanctions?

Because they are a Chinese entity that buys U.S. made components in the U.S., and violated associated controls on the export of those components.
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As per their LP agreement, the fund itself might only have been allowed to invest in equities / companies, such as this one. The company itself could then perhaps invest directly into cryptocurrencies without restrictions.
I'm not a gamer at all, so this would normally escape my view, and I don't know if what you say is true and I can't evaluate yet.

But, to me, it sounds like you are saying this potential bad actor is intending to use the GDPR to determine the 'secret sauce' used to detect bad actors?

In other words, "Be transparent in your evaluation methods!" with the subtext of, "then I can subvert them."
And similarly, another other SF trope, the superhuman AI with a sole goal of benefiting itself, already exists too -- that's what a corporation is.
Are you implying that Sun had a larger impact than Microsoft? Of course "larger" is not well-defined if the dimension isn't specified, but in the financial context it is used, I would say that is a fair assessment.
I'm sorry I was unclear but the reason Amazon is purported to have low profits is due to the massive capital expenditure that they do year over year. Hypothetically they could turn a profit when they want to.
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It depends on how you define "success". I define a "successful" business as one that is profitable.

Is Slack good enough that enough people will pay for it to make it a sustainable long term business?

https://www.recode.net/2017/6/15/15810088/slack-deal-funding...
Keep in mind they don't say they won't collect and store the information. They just won't use it to customize your ads. They are still collecting the information and will find other ways to use it.
We know the answers to these, don't we?

1. There is no way to delete it. Facebook owns it forever.

2. Owning more data is better, for selling ads, for studying trends and behavior, for purposes as-yet ill-defined, and just cuz. And they don't sell data, they give it away.
The Boring Company raises $112M from Musk, early employees
Thats gnarly
You could have said the same thing about IBM or Enron at some point. Things can change.
Would you be so kind as to show a few of those technologies in some practical use where they're sufficiently better than existing technologies that they are displacing existing businesses?

> But I just don't see how anybody can think that these are uninteresting times for this tech.

Really? For me it's the almost-a-decade of hype but seeing very little in practical utility beyond speculation, ransomware, and some light crime. As an example a New York Times writer just tried to spend the weekend living on Bitcoin and failed egregiously: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/16/nyregion/new-york-today-l...

I'm happy to admit that there's more activity in the space than I could possibly keep track of, so there could definitely be a pony in there somewhere. [1] But it shouldn't be any surprise that after so much hype resulting in no apparent useful effect on the rest of the world many people are skeptical that the cryptocurrency world will ever produce anything more than dubious claims, Ponzi schemes, and million-dollar thefts.

[1] https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/12/13/pony-somewhere/
>Who’s behind the $112.5 Million In fundraising for The Boring Company?

>Over 90% came from Elon Musk, with the rest from early employees. No venture capitalists or outside investors are involved according to the company.

https://twitter.com/Lebeaucarnews/status/985994145805238273
The closest example I can imagine is, the same way medical professionals care about you, or maybe surgeons more than others, or maybe pre-clinical bio-scientists: most of the time, not really. They have their own paperwork, debt, office rivalries, etc.

They do when you are ‘interesting’ (you very much not want to be ‘interesting’) but they actually care about fixing your problem. They probably care more when they see you, just like Amazon employees care after they have been at a warehouse. It drives them to work on their project that will address one small pain-point -- but they can’t care too much, just because their fix takes so much time, if they cared, it would crush them. Both product managers and medical professional have to respect proper, long, tedious testing procedure to make sure their solution works as intended.

I think few people measure explicitly the amount of that bureaucratic detachment (Chaplin, Kafka, Ionesco did) and even less see how it is necessary to progress.
Bruce Schneier has also written on this with Blizzard: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/10/blizzard_ente...

It's not a new topic, and not one with great answers. On the one hand, any PC gamer knows cheaters ruin multiplayer games, and developers need to participate in the cheat/anti-cheat arms race to ensure the integrity of competitive play. On the other, it's the definition of spyware.

Unfortunately, the state of the art answer is "if you don't like it, you don't have to play the game." It will be interesting to see how this plays into the inevitable changes to law that will happen.
Excellent post, pretty much exactly what I was thinking of

> Of course, it still raises questions about how it’d be financed or supported. No investor would back a service that couldn’t be controlled at all and could lose most of its userbase overnight.

I think the WordPress/WooCommerce model works for this. So you handle forum set up for businesses, or have paid for plugins. You can also still have a centralised system like basically reddit/wordpress.com , but allow subdomains just to be redirected to someones own domain (all for a minor cost).
I suspect that the comment he replied to had some typos. It basically says "You aren't making it better for the users, you aren't making it better for you". Taken at face value, it doesn't make much sense.
"Surveillance capitalism"
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/03/facebook_and_...

Bruce Schneier's article on this is well worth reading - he takes a broad view of issues both with Facebook but also with the wider industry. And he discusses it from a perspective of societal benefit and harm, which I think is useful.

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But for every article about Facebook's creepy stalker behavior, thousands of other companies are breathing a collective sigh of relief that it's Facebook and not them in the spotlight. Because while Facebook is one of the biggest players in this space, there are thousands of other companies that spy on and manipulate us for profit.

Harvard Business School professor Shoshana Zuboff calls it "surveillance capitalism." And as creepy as Facebook is turning out to be, the entire industry is far creepier. It has existed in secret far too long, and it's up to lawmakers to force these companies into the public spotlight, where we can all decide if this is how we want society to operate and -- if not -- what to do about it.

There are 2,500 to 4,000 data brokers in the United States whose business is buying and selling our personal data. Last year, Equifax was in the news when hackers stole personal information on 150 million people, including Social Security numbers, birth dates, addresses, and driver's license numbers.

You certainly didn't give it permission to collect any of that information. Equifax is one of those thousands of data brokers, most of them you've never heard of, selling your personal information without your knowledge or consent to pretty much anyone who will pay for it.

Surveillance capitalism takes this one step further. Companies like Facebook and Google offer you free services in exchange for your data. Google's surveillance isn't in the news, but it's startlingly intimate. We never lie to our search engines. Our interests and curiosities, hopes and fears, desires and sexual proclivities, are all collected and saved. Add to that the websites we visit that Google tracks through its advertising network, our Gmail accounts, our movements via Google Maps, and what it can collect from our smartphones.
The two control panels thing is maddening. It's just embarrassing they've let this mess escape beta. It should be one or the other, not an unevenly applied mixture. The lack of cohesiveness makes the whole system look amateurish.
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