skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to the filing, this change reduced the cash deficit by 35%. That's very different from saying that it reduced overall expenses, or the number of tickets purchased, by 35%.

It's not possible to draw conclusions about how many people were "abusing" the service without a lot more information.
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IMHO ARM64 server chips are suited for the cloud and cloud native applications. Containers and microservices can make better use of the high number of cores and greater mem bandwidth than old monolithic apps. Openstack, Kubernetes and Docker all work and are available with support. Virtualization with KVM also works fine.
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If you can't roll out a feature without violating EU privacy laws, you're not employing a "privacy-conscious approach."
sure, that's a trivial response that doesn't really address my point. I am suggesting that the authors could expend the same energy and find or create something that's much more interesting to many more people.
I find this distinction increasingly odd as time goes on. Or, at the very least, the use of the phrase "real life", as if interactions over the Internet are somehow cleanly separated from the rest of one's interactions.
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I don't think you need to worry about toolbox going anywhere as it's already Fedora based, haha!
I'd be very interested in Button2.
Their choices are to either be GDPR-complient, or to completely bar all EU users from accessing Facebook. They cannot use tracking opt-in as a requirement for access.
> This isn't binary, it's octal

Potato, potahto.
I ran into this with GitHub. I ordered a YubiKey, got it all set up with GitHub, and… never use it. Because it's not supported on mobile or in Safari.

If anything, the web needs technology that allows browsers to present secure third-party auth to web services (e.g. through TouchID, the way that Apple Pay works on Safari and Mobile Safari).
Yeah, that's why I set the "extensions.pocket.enabled" to "false" in my about:config. It's such a weird feature in an otherwise pleasant browser.
uBlock + uMatrix is such a powerful combo that I don't need any other ad- or script-related extensions on top of them. No Ghostery, no NoScript, none of that.
Since you can buy tickets in advance, people were buying tickets on different days for a future showing.
Understood, and thank you for the reply. I look forward to seeing some use cases published. Definitely bookmarking the site now.

Best of luck with this. Exciting stuff!
Living in the UK, I've not really seen any invasive security, beyond a ticket turnstile at train stations, or anywhere in Europe. Is this a thing in the US?
The purpose of the suggested VPN was to send your traffic to FB from outside the EU. That would then make it so FB didn't prompt you with new EU TOS, so you could click through (since you wouldn't be governed by GDPR). But the catch is that the traffic outside the EU wouldn't be governed by GDPR there is also no recourse if they don't hard delete( of course it would be hard to verfiy if they did like you pointed out).
Government knows what’s best for you. Grown adults ought to be allowed to decide for themselves. But that can’t be allowed because there are fines to collect and people to control.

Go ahead and downvote. We will never reconcile the opinion that adults need a government parent vs those of us that believe that informed consent should be enough.
I am working putting a form together to target learning activities. I guess this would be more focused on learning and not parenting in general. My sister-in-law is an OT and she always gives us great learning techniques and I figured it would be helpful to put this all together in one place.
Interesting. At the same time we get Android Studio on Chromebooks
That'd be even less efficient; the gas giants have much deeper gravity wells than Earth, and it's correspondingly much harder to bring material up from them. Jupiter's exhaust velocity is 60 km/s, Saturn's is 35 - compared to a measly 11 km/s for Earth. And as the rocket equation tells us, the fuel required goes up exponentially the greater the change in velocity you need.
Am I the only one still using a #2 pencil and a piece of paper for my 'to do' lists???
You're conflating properties of a payment processor like Visa, with properties of a currency. What's the equivalent of a charge back if I pay in cash for services that aren't rendered? It's called a "lawsuit", and there's no reason you couldn't use it if you paid with Bitcoin.

With Bitcoin, unlike cash, there is also a public record that you did in fact pay, so the defendant couldn't lie and say you never paid when they just hid the cash under their mattress.

Likewise, there's no reason a payment processor like Visa couldn't process payments in Bitcoin and provide fraud protection if that is something people want. Bitcoin isn't there yet, but neither was cash until about 50 years ago, out of thousands of years of usage.
What about memes pages? Memes pages seem like the best reason to delete Facebook.
That's the iPhone's rendering of their <figure> blocks. If you look at the HTML source, there is so little going on I can't see how it wouldn't be your mobile browser's fault.
That only prevents people from going to see the movie with their friends after buying their ticket. People oculd still buy tickets for their friends to go separately.
You've only ever been able to buy tickets for showtimes on the same day they were bought.
You could make an argument that the malware that encrypted your /home folder is also "just a way to pay the bills".

In many jurisdictions that's illegal. EU is saying FB's approach is also illegal unless they make some key changes.

Personally, I hope FB just quits Europe.
Tangentially, I've usually seen “multicloud" for that and “hybrid cloud” for combining remote cloud services with on-premises resources in a blended system.
> I want an Airflow that runs and scales in the cloud

I'd encourage you to look at Reflow [1] which takes a different approach: it's entirely self-managing: you run Reflow like you would a normal programming language interpreter ("reflow run myjob.rf") and Reflow creates ephemeral nodes that scale elastically and that tear themselves down, only for the purpose of running the program.

> has extensive observability (monitoring, tracing)

Reflow includes a good amount of observability tools out of the box; we're also working on integrating tracing facilities (e.g., reporting progress to Amazon x-ray).

> has a full API, and maybe some clear way to test workflows.

Reflow's approach to testing is exactly like any other programming language: you write modules that can either be used in a "main" program, or else be used in tests.

[1] https://github.com/grailbio/reflow
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A restaurant that doesn't do this is not going to setup a phone answering bot.
There's an important selection effect: these are people who bought MoviePass, which means they expected to watch more than one movie a month. That means people who do rewatch movies (like me, or my wife) are going to be wildly over-represented. And people are much more like to re-watch when the marginal cost is ~$0 instead of ~$20
Probably because you can do the laundering step through a web of anonymous servers sitting on the darknet rather than through fraudulent incorporations which have a lot more surface area for detection and also leave immutable paper trails.
If you have a full dd image of the disk, you can just do losetup -Pf /path/to/your/image.img and that will pick a loopback device and perform the partprobe on it automatically.
Were you aware that Mechner released an ebook that was basically a compilation of his journals while he developed Karateka? Considering it's one of your favorite Apple II games, you might find it interesting. I did just as a game developer. I never even heard of the game, I think I ran into it because he did the same with Prince of Persia.

It's called "The Making of Karateka". You can find it on Amazon. (Also "The Making of Prince of Persia")
Look at the HTML source - I don't see anywhere that scroll behavior is overridden.

Hell, there isn't any javascript at all for Safari.
Another option is rendering images of charts created with Chartwell and publishing those
False equivalence. Lead paint has the ability to harm others beyond the person making the purchase. Comparing Facebook to lead paint regulations is ridiculous.

This is nothing more than a digital drug law: “You can’t choose what services you consume because we are determined to protect you from yourself, like it or not.”
Abuse and incompetence can be perfectly "rational" depending on what you value in life.

And the point was about existing infrastructure. The drug existed, and made money, at $13, using paid for infrastructure that did other things, made other drugs as well, run by an existing staff that had other tasks.

You don't buy a car to drive 1 mile or start a restaurant to serve 1 meal.

Instead, an existing company should make a competitor, say Imprimis Pharmaceuticals, which did so in 2015 for $1.00 each.

This is fundamentally about abusing power and position for profit and saying others should get the same power and position to stop the abuse.

My only contention is that isn't reality and the world doesn't work that way.
I would've liked a better segregation of how it was a year ago and how it is now, along with some kind of bullet list showing the salient points that the author wants to highlight.

I've tried Riot briefly, and am very much interested to see such a decentralized solution becoming mature. I really can't wait for it to become something that can be "sold" to people who aren't into technology but care about the user experience and ease of use.
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Yes, I upgraded to a fountain pen a while ago!
There are laws against such "lying" but the burden of proof is on the victim as a practical matter [+], so of course creditors don't care when they make mistakes.

[+] Technically the burden of proof is on the creditor but victim has to continue to reach out to insist on such proof. If they do not expend extraordinary efforts to do so the record is against them.
kpartx is an older tool that was used with 2.6.xx-era Linux systems. partprobe/losetup are the newer mechanisms for doing this.

A lot of StackOverflow questions have answers that use kpartx, and those answers are out of date.
The script's default message says that you are very sorry, twice.
But you're not really sorry are you? You just install the script rather than address the problem of data privacy.
It's an acknowledgement of the issue in itself.

Sure, I don't think it's actually effective but that paves the road to improvements, rather than flat out denial / don't ask don't tell.
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> GDPR doesn't cover enough of the population using Facebook to warrant such a change to their business model where you can use the service without them using your data.

The real question isn't population, it's revenue per user. An typical American or a European will draw a lot more revenue to Facebook than a typical person from a 3rd world country accessing Facebook through "Free Basics."

My educated guess is that Europe is Facebook's #2 market behind the US, and there's enough revenue there for them to change their business model.
HN has always been humourless, and we like it that way!
Weird. I only got the facial recognition screen and the "accept ToS or delete your account" one.
> Who are these people seeing the same movie multiple times during its initial theater run?

I just logged into MP last weekend and there was a pop-up reminding us that accounts were not to be shared in addition to the new, "you can only see a movie once" rule. Total speculation, but my guess is that a good chunk of that was people sharing accounts.
Tulips and jewelry at least look pretty.
And you're trusting, at least, the implementation and the underlying math. Personally the risk of recourse-less outweighs the value of trust-less.
Yet, you are required to agree to the TOS without seeing the TOS. I wouldn’t have thought this was enforceable
Performance of the contract does not mean whatever they want it to mean. Here's the ICO FAQ on the GDPR (emphasis mine):

"The processing must be necessary to deliver your side of the contract with this particular person. If the processing is only necessary to maintain your business model more generally, this lawful basis will not apply and you should consider another lawful basis, such as legitimate interests."

https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-the-general-da...

> Funding by targeted ads isn't illegal last time I checked.

It is if you don't get consent. And you can't make that consent required to provide a service, since then it won't be "freely given", as per Article 7.
When they announced the policy change last week, I saw some tweets along the lines of: "I love contributing 15$ to Black Panther's global box office total every time I want to use the slightly nicer bathroom at the mall."
It is not essential that they sort my feed, though. Everything still works perfectly fine with a simple chronological feed.

None of the tracking they do is essential to the service they ostensibly provide to their users, namely as a microblogging/discussion/sharing platform.
"Better schools for your kids"

You have better schools in the US if you live in the right neighborhood. Also, getting called "pig eater" is likely not tolerated in the US.

"safer cities"
Europe is trying hard to catch up.

"better public transport"
The only good thing. Yet, nothing beats public transport in NYC.

"more and better maintained parks"
Not sure about this.

"better local produce"
If you can afford to buy at Whole Paycheck, you get everything.

"There are a lot of potential reasons for a decision like that."
The bottom line is: if you have money, life is better in the states. If you are poor, go to Germany.
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the difference between saving and hoarding: https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-saving-...
Interesting... the "necessity" test was what I was referring to for "necessary to work". However, I wasn't aware of the "balancing" test.

Also, does Facebook's ad network really constitute "direct marketing"? I had imagined that to be more of an email blast about a new FB feature, rather than collect-your-usage-data-and-sell-marketing-slots-to-you.

Now that I type that out, I guess it does make more sense. However, I really am not a big fan of the common-law approach to the "balancing" test. Basically, whoever has the most money and faces the most lenient judge wins. Everyone else is left guessing what the hell is legal and what isn't, when a clear set of rules would be much easier to fairly apply to everyone.
Everything about this company has seemed such a disaster. Cheap movie tickets are great and all, but I prefer simple things. I just want to get a ticket and watch a movie. Making that "experience" more "interesting" does not appeal to me.
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Sorry if it wasn't clear, but yes, that is my thinking too.
I created an animation of the Arecibo message in less than 1kb of Javascript: https://js1k.com/2017-magic/demo/2843

Here's a video of the animation playing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMzwmdaloXc

It was a lot of fun to put together, and I know where was a lot of human thought put into the message, but after working with the data of this message for dozens (hundreds?) of hours finessing it and making it as small as possible, the longer I looked at it the less I believe any alien receiving it would be able to decode the meaning we communicated in it. I imagine it's evidence of terrestrial intelligence for aliens who might wonder if they're alone, but I'm not sure how well the intended meaning of the message itself will come through to a non-human being if it's not even obvious to a human being that already knows what it is.
If you need Cc processing PP is one of better, but have high commission fee. Google and you can find a lot of CC processors for India too.
In manifest.json it requests the following permissions:

"permissions": [
"tabs",
"https://www.googleapis.com/",
"identity",
"notifications"
]

"tabs" is just needed to check if Kanbanly is already open in another tab. If yes, activate that tab instead of opening a new tab.

The side effect of this permission is that Chrome claims the extensions has access to browsing history (which is incorrect since that would require "history" permission). So it's really a Chrome bug and the WebExtension does not access your history or any content in tabs whatsoever.
You need to tell MoviePass that you're buying a ticket for that day, and they load the money onto a debit card. You can then use that money to buy whatever ticket you want.

Because of that, MoviePass recently began requiring people to take photos of the tickets they buy. This introduced a new step to the process: now, you need to buy a ticket, take a photo for MoviePass, and then exchange it for the ticket you actually want.
People are going to install shit like this even if they are already protecting user data. Or not even collecting any in the first place.
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I have built block-level bootable system images for the TS-7800 using this mechanism.

https://www.embeddedarm.com/products/TS-7800

That was before I found multistrap.
"They got ripped off after the cold war/ the wall fell "
Also the buildings and land they stole from the Germans? It is a dog eats dog world man!
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Without user consent, it will be in soon in the EU.
I've used Technical Director and I use "owner" as I trade via my own company. I know some bolder people who elevate themselves to CTO, even if they are the only employee - to me that's a bit BS so I stopped at owner. In any case if "Founder" leaves it up to interpretation and leads to a conversation, they you've got your foot in the door already.
Your account has been suspended for the foreseeable future for breaking the terms of service.

No we will not tell you what you did. You already know what you did.

Our automated systems found your policy violation and acted appropriately. They are beyond your comprehension or refutation.

You may not talk to a person regarding your dismissal. It is against policy to discuss active or closed issues.

You have no recourse other than social media or tech websites, and beg. And we still will likely not care.

--Care of US tech companies.

....So, you want to live with rules for companies that allow this kind of egregious and arbitrary actions? I sure as hell don't. Want to see what this stuff devolves to? Look no further than Comcast and ilk.
I believe the GDPR only forbids denying access to users' data if they don't opt-in (Art. 15), and that's why Facebook has the options to either

- accept ToS and use Facebook, or

- deny ToS, download user data and delete account (under 'More options').

https://gdpr-info.eu/art-15-gdpr/
remote working is another answer.
I shall wait a couple of weeks until GDPR is in force before logging in again. That will be interesting
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Why is it that GCP can provide an internal IP address for Cloud Memorystore but not for Google Cloud SQL? It would be beneficial for these teams to work together, no internal IP in cloud SQL makes it much less appealing then AWS RDS.
I've seen 3 movies in theaters in the past year - Star Wars, Greatest Showman, and Avengers.

My wife, a Moviepass subscriber, has been to the movies some 60 times since December. She typically goes 30-40 times a year, it's one of her and her friends' favorite hobbies. You might go to coffee or the bar, I might go to the park or the gym, she and her friends love going to the movies. It's just a thing to do for a couple hours on a weeknight.

There was no 'abuse' in the sense of sharing her pass among friends, or buying tickets and not going to the movie. She does like a frozen coke sith her movie, and she buys the $35 free refill popcorn bucket 3 times a year, so there was quite a bit of profit for the theater, but she was not profitable to Moviepass and they might feel that normal use for her was abuse.

She would not be profitable unless (a) Moviepass can negotiate <50-cent tickets with the theater with kickbacks for concessions, or (b) she convinced enough people close to her (like me) to buy a moviepass and buy fewer tickets than the subscription costs.

The problem is, it's super easy to do the math on whether or not you would have spent more on tickets than moviepass.
Right. Public key cryptography essentially automates this process that you just described, and makes the security even stronger (because your random "password", AKA private key, stays with you and you only ever share the public key).
The intention was for the core "unlimited movies for a monthly fee" to break even (which was plausible based on spiked usage up front that tails off ala gym memberships and things like bulk ticket buying). In addition to collecting analytics data and selling it to movie theaters and studios, the service also makes money by promoting movies within the app (paid placement).

https://www.recode.net/2018/2/18/17025372/transcript-moviepa...
Has it? I seriously doubt this.
They aren't trying to sell you anything. They are selling you to others.

They are selling you to not just advertisers but selling your profile to companies that are able to use your profiled information to make their own decisions about things.

It's not just about advertisements. Imagine if you didn't serve a single advertisement and instead bought profiling information about people. You could use that profile information to make business or political decisions regardless of whether an advertisement was sold.

You could influence politics because you "know" your target audience.

Say, for example, the US presidential election or Brexit. Those are just the most high profile places for your profile to be used without ever having presenting advertisement to you.

Net neutrality is another one.
Yes.

Firefox is basically adware now.
That's true, but Bitcoin has been marketed as a replacement for both traditional currency and traditional payment processors, and certainly encourages people to keep way larger amounts in "cash" than they'd otherwise be comfortable with.
Intuitive UIs and walled-garden closed-source ecosystems have, counterintuitively, made the public generally /less/ technically literate although popularity of computers in the form of smartphones has increased. Look at the Google Trends results for any PC component.