skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are right, no "normal" person would want to delete their google/facebook account, so they just "accept" the tracking.

I mean, if you already have a android phone, NEST and use google everyday, would you want to delete your account? You can live without facebook, but google makes a lot of hardware that is quite useful.

Let see how it all ends :D
Sure. And why couldn't they share the engine while being separate processes? It's the current browser model we have right now.
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>>To me, that sounds like gatekeeping - as in "it's only programming when it's insanely difficult".

The whole point of programming is power and flexibility. Else there would be no need to move beyond logic gates.

The problem is tools sold for newbies tend to take away too much power to make it easy for people to start, but then keep them, right there, all life.
I’m a developer, and I will say that the fact that the guy took 2 years to make an incomplete app to show different pieces of text, shows that the developer was not very serious either.
And Visa can do 7x that in a minute
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I guess people find them interesting.
The obvious solution is to download the entire internet onto the spacecraft.

Seriously though, they'll need to have some sort of non-work, non-research activities to last the months it will take to get anywhere. You can only have sex and play Monopoly so many times.
Quibbled: conventional transactions are cheaper, but not "orders of magnitude."

Also Bitcoin is one of the slower block chain coins.
The deletion doesn’t have to happen immediately, just in a reasonable time frame. A few weeks is okay, too.

So if it was just that, they wouldn’t shut down.
In the midwest, running compressed air through a home is called amish electricity. They do use it for many things. Ive seen air-powered blenders. (Air power is a big thing for woodworking and so its use in the home too is no suprise.)
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Thanks for sharing your story. People can be very judgemental even on HN at times.
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Duplicate here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17143452
In this particular article, "weaponise" doesn't mean private data as a weapon against the users (like Richard Stallman critiques of Facebook[1]). Instead, the journalists and the lawsuit are talking about desirable user data as a weapon against the API developers.

The article has interwoven 2 themes in a disjointed way and I had to read it several times to separate the components of the dispute.

The 1st theme is that the company Six4Three wrote an app to find photos of friends in bikinis using Facebook's platform API. Facebook later pulled the rug out from under them. In this sense, this is similar to other stories about platforms changing the terms/accessiblity of API usage (e.g. Facebook demoting Zynga games, or Twitter closing off 3rd-party clients, etc). If a platform entices programmers to use an API and then later restricts it (or kicks programmers off it), the claim is being made that it is "fraud". Facebook's counterclaim is that blocking programmers from using its API is exercising its editorial control and therefore "free speech".

The 2nd theme that's mentioned in passing is the Six4Three bikini API dispute as a forensic discovery into how the Cambridge Analytica abuse was deliberately engineered into the platform in 2011 and was approved by Facebook senior management. I think this is the more interesting angle that the Guardian writers should have focused more text on.

[1] https://stallman.org/facebook.html
> One or all of these may have forced Qualcomm to cut its losses.

Yeah, I think the LBO really scared Qualcomm. Their royalties fund a lot of the other work in the company and I think they've learned that it also makes them a target. A domestic LBO could happen and then there'd be no escape hatch. They pledged to cut costs when Broadcom announced their intentions, this may be a part of that.

I don't think of them selling the server chip business as "cutting its losses" -- instead I would call it narrowing its focus back to businesses closer to its core competency. The Centriq launch with Amberwing seemed to be relatively positive for a first design release. They didn't turn the industry upside-down but they probably achieved most of what they set out to do. It will take some time to convince server customers to switch, recompile their code and get their vendors to recompile their code.

> We need more than one Arm chip to compete in the space, otherwise Cavium's chip could also be seen as some kind of outlier and be ignored by the industry.

Agreed. There's momentum that's been built [1,2] and I'd hate to see it flub now.

[1] https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-introduces-arm-server...

[2] https://www.suse.com/c/news/suse-steps-up-to-support-innovat...
I agree, I think the human response to this stuff is instinctive and visceral. I consider myself a highly skeptical and disciplined mind but once in a while I catch myself believing stuff that doesn’t have much rigor behind it. And it takes me a while to catch myself. By then I might have already told a few people some “facts.”

It’s quite a mental load to question every source of data and have one’s guard up. Unless our own wiring evolves I can’t see the general population changing our data processing habits.
...just so you can block and ignore the ads, all the same.
The interplanetary net will probably look a lot like Usenet.
A benevolent dictatorship; there are many individual examples of dictators bettering everyone's lives. The problem is that they can't ever last more than one generation, and it takes only one self-centered dictator (which I would argue is the norm) to undo all the good.

I'd also argue that capitalism is on a downward trend when it comes to lifting people out of poverty. One doesn't have to look much further than Wallmart or McDonalds to see the cracks in the "uplifting from poverty" walls (paying salaries that must be supplemented by federal aid or second/third jobs).
I looked at the Ares 'team page' and I personally know the CEO of that company, but I didn't know he was working with that company. super random.

Your refrigeration example is interesting - now I'm curious if there's any refrigerators on the market that can power the compressor via compressed air intake (so it would still use closed-loop refrigerant, but the compressor would use air instead of electricity)
"Six4Three lodged its original case in 2015 shortly after Facebook removed developers’ access to friends’ data. The company said it had invested $250,000 in developing an app called Pikinis that filtered users’ friends photos to find any of them in swimwear. Its launch was met with controversy."

So basically this company tried to do something creepy and invasive with users' data, were stopped by Facebook, and now they're taking advantage of the fact that the press is pissed off at Facebook and will uncritically regurgitate any negative claim about them in headlines as leverage in their court case against them, likely in the expectation that it'll be cheaper for Facebook to settle than deal with the PR fallout.
We are the Defense Media Activity. You can check us out here: https://www.dma.mil/Services/DOD-Public-Web/. We have worked with the DDS, the DoD incarnation of USDS, on several initiatives.
If the definition of personal data includes IP addresses then I'd be surprised there are any internet-connected products that don't process personal data in some way.
By the standards of this article, I'm not wealthy, but I feel like you have to be cursed with a pretty poor imagination to not have any idea what you'd do with $25mm. Or even $100mm.

A conservative safe withdrawal rate is about 3-4% per year. So that's $750,000 to $1mm per year of income in perpetuity on $25mm. On the one hand, $1mm per year is a ridiculous amount of money, and it's an order of magnitude above what any normal person would need for their lifestyle.

On the other hand, it's pretty easy to ratchet your lifestyle up to that level. Here's an easy way to spend $1mm per year: you live in a really nice place in a HCOL area, have a fancy vacation home elsewhere, employ a few staff (housekeeper, nanny, personal trainer, etc), have 2-3 kids in top private school, do several luxury vacations per year where you stay in 5-star hotels and fly international first class, etc.

That doesn't cover the kind of crazy lifestyle where you're chartering super yachts or owning a private jet or renting out Necker Island or having Beyonce perform at your birthday party. That's nine or ten figure wealth territory.

It also doesn't leave a huge pile of money left over for the really fun stuff, like philanthropy, buying and selling businesses, doing large real estate investment or development, angel / venture investing, etc.

I personally think that I'd have a harder time finding interesting things to do with anything more than $100mm, but I suspect that's due to my inexperience and lack of imagination, more than an actual dearth of opportunities that billionaires have to do interesting things :)
If you know something about me why is it my right to make you forget about it?
Not a chance. Look at what is happening in China.
> Yes, but if someone has managed to convince the internet to route a packet addressed to 10.10.10.0/24 to your subnet then you've got bigger issues.

It's not necessarily the whole internet. If someone wants to compromise you, they only need to gain access to a router at your ISP. Also, ISPs do misconfigure stuff and allow direct layer 2 communication from neighbours, or accept routing protocol advertisements from customer-facing ports. Whether you like it or not, those things just happen, and a well-secured network has a firewall that makes sure it is completely inconsequential to you, so, no, you actually don't have "bigger issues", you have an absolute non-issue.

> Also, every competently designed router has a rule that blocks that address range on the external interface.

So, like those with hard-coded default passwords and shell injection vulnerabilities in the web admin interface? Is that the kind of competently designed router that you are talking about?

Noone claims that a properly configured firewall isn't part of a "competently designed router". The question is how many of the routers out there are competently designed. If anything, this idea of "NAT implies a firewall" is one reason why border gateways end up "incompetently designed", because it doesn't, but if you believe that when designing such a device (be it for mass production or as an individual manual configuration), chances are you'll end up with a completely unprotected network.

> The whole NAT isn't a firewall meme is pendantry at its finest since NAT is implemented as part of the firewall.

That is like saying that saying "Word isn't Excel" is pedantry because Word is implemented as part of Excel. It's just nonsense. Both share some common technical foundation, and even code for common functionality. That doesn't make one "implemented as part of the other".
I had no idea these existed, I want these when I move back off-grid. https://www.cottagecraftworks.com/kitchen-food-prep/non-elec...
That's not how GDPR works. You're not allowed to make use of your product / service require acceptance of collection of data. You must either offer it without data collection as an option, or simply refuse service.
I agree, that's a good point.
I'm not against dependencies, I'm against the idea that you have to install every single one you see. I'm against poorly coded and untested dependencies. I'm against the idea that a "batteries included" platform is inherently different or better than one with a widespread ecosystem of small packages.

I've used (and still use!) several systems that are "batteries included". There are upsides and downsides, but the major downside is that in a "batteries included" system, it's more often than not "their way or the highway". Don't like their API for traversing XML? Well there aren't any other options. Do you need to trade off speed for correctness for something? Well you'd better hope that your blessed implementation provides the options to do that.
Netflix is now worth more than Comcast
An early design for the automobile ran on compressed (liquid!) air.

http://www.didik.com/ev_hist.htm

It might work for some applications, but in 120 years we haven't been able to make it work for cars, at least.
You're off by at least 2 orders of magnitude. You don't need to measure your annual income in the dozens-of-millions to be "financially independent".
The Endomondo app is a doozy. They require opt-in to two items to carry on using the app, but then also say that by clicking continue, you're agreeing to their privacy policy, which indemnifies them against GDPR. It's slightly clever misdirection, in my opinion. I clicked 'OK' in the end because the EULA appears to be invalid anyway; by borking the consent process they have no legal basis for processing my data.
Maybe, maybe not. If it's not I assume they'll be forced to lower their prices and go out of business. I don't have a problem with a company charging money for their product though.

The GDPR appears to be doing its job here because it's forcing a company out of a business model that is unethical and into one that's better for society, regardless of it's better or not for the company and some of its customers
Am I misunderstanding you here? Instapaper's email literally starts with:

> Starting tomorrow May 24, 2018, access to the Instapaper service will be temporarily unavailable for residents in Europe
> you need lidar and a fully mapped road

To play devil's advocate - somehow I drove myself to work today, and the hardware I'm running is just two moderate resolution limited field of view cameras. Not an expert, but from first principles it should be possible to pilot a self-driving car with cameras only, given enough processing power and a smart enough agent. Maybe those last two aren't there in 2018 though.
Stop, you're making a comment that is not unequivocally anti-Facebook, therefore it is incorrect
Well, right on tether.to they say, and I quote:

> Our reserve holdings are published daily and subject to frequent professional audits. All tethers in circulation always match our reserves.

They've been around for years and the grand total of independents audits is 0 (zero).

Sure, assumptions don't make rumors true but them flat-out lying about audits and transparency speaks louder than anything else and we're not even getting into how it took the Panama papers leak for the public to find out that several of the people in charge of Tether and the people in charge of Bitfinex being the same.
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I didn’t know Perl was capable of filling the same niche as awk, and I think awk is absolutely wonderful. How does Perl improve on it?
Sallie Mae is a publicly traded company. Loans have not been federally backed since the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010. The loans it makes do exist on the private market because it makes them all on the private market.
Since that argument cuts exactly as well both ways, why bring it up at all? We're talking about information content here more than metaphysics.
Does GDPR distinguish between "identifiable" data and "non-identifiable"? If so, how do you decide which is which? A list of credit card transactions is pretty easy to de-identify...
No, that is just the cost of compliance.
This is a silly framing. The real story seems to be that below $25 million, it’s not that you aren’t rich, just that you don’t really need customized, private asset management these days. Wonder if that’s due simply to inflation, compared to what absolute values we used to consider rich 50 years ago, or improvement in money management options that are available to everyone, or both. It seems like it could be part of the same trend of etfs growing in popularity over active money managers these days.

And I’m completely speculating here but I imagine over that much wealth and you start having some new lucrative (but perhaps ethically dubious) options available that you need a private wealth manager for. Things like being able to exert control on asset prices, getting in on deals that involve some sort of insider info or successful lobbying of the government for special favors, other transactions involving shell corporations and offshore accounts, etc. Or maybe I just watch too many movies.
I think Apple wants to sell more than a few thousand cars.
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Corporations do operate primarily based on profits (not entirely, but mostly).

You seem to be ignoring the fact that "profits" doesn't just mean how much money they can get today. It also means how much money they can get tomorrow, the next day, the next decade, the next century.

Things like consumer trust and confidence in the brand are extremely important to a company's long term profits. Yes, corporations are amoral, but you're not painting a very accurate picture when you compare them to psychopaths.

It's also not a generally accepted conclusion that the American drone program is unethical so I wouldn't use that as evidence of Google being unethical.
When compressing air, a lot of heat is generated, and in most cases wasted.
When the air is released, it cools down, and has to take heat from the surroundings. Which doesn't work very fast without additional heat exchangers, and especially not in cold environments.
Compressed air storage is only efficient with additional heat storage, which is something that promoters of compressed air storage often "forget" to tell you.
Wow - got a screenshot of that one?
You don't need the withdrawal step in the current market

I buy BTC w/ USD
Bitfinex prints USDT
Bitfinex uses USDT to get BTC

In the end of this operation bitfinex has the USD and everyone else is satisfied. Normally Bitfinex needs to hold onto it to settle USDT claims, but so long as there's a USDT-usable market this might not be necessary

Even if USDT is at 50 cents to the dollar it's still a license to print money
Same here - I use Feedly less often than I used Twitter when my media feeds were housed there. I also find this same behavior after we recently ditched cable TV. Those TV shows and networks that were "important" to me before are not nearly as much now that I've broken free.
Of course, but the result will propably be like an american who has never used a credit card: You can't get credit anywhere.
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I was careful not to.

God forbid someone be told they're wrong on HN.
I just want to point out that if you live in NYC, that $30k vacation will cost you about $50k in pre-tax income. And no one I know in NYC who makes $250k is going to spend 20% of their annual income on a vacation. And ironically, those who could are disciplined and frugal enough that they probably never would.
This is a ridiculous statement, Tesla accounts for less than 10% of global EV sales.

January-March 2018: 304K EV sales, 25K Tesla sales

https://insideevs.com/monthly-plug-in-sales-scorecard/
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The watch was pure jony ives and it’s the best selling watch in the world.
USD,EURO,BTC

One of these is not like the others
I've heard it put simply: they do whatever they want to. When money isn't a concern anymore (at those levels of wealth, it effectively makes more money on its own), you view going to a restaurant with a $200 a plate fee as equally fulfilling as a burger joint that's under $10.

Want to go on vacation? Do it. Want to take a year to pursue painting? Would you prefer to try Oils or Acrylics? Want a personal tutor to help you become that better painter? No problem. Want to see how hard it is to make another $10M? Go for it. Want to start a business? No? Buy an established business and be its CEO? Go for it.

When money doesn't matter, you can do whatever you want. All that stress you face trying to make that $25k a year is completely gone. All that brain- and willpower it takes to be frugal can be applied to whatever you want it to be applied to.

[EDIT] This is why I view UBI as a good goal. Get rid of the need to put so much brainpower into merely surviving, and let's see what comes out the other side. I feel that we're at a point in society where the struggle to survive could be put behind us for everyone, not just the ultra wealthy.
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>"The Justice Department has opened a criminal probe into whether traders are manipulating the price of Bitcoin and other digital currencies, dramatically ratcheting up U.S. scrutiny of red-hot markets that critics say are rife with misconduct, according to four people familiar with the matter.
[...]
Federal prosecutors are working with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, a financial regulator that oversees derivatives tied to Bitcoin, the people said."

Why isn't there a better source for this than "four people"? I didn't see anything on the DOJ site. Perhaps they are talking about this: https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/7731-18

However, that doesn't mention the DOJ so maybe not. Is it normal for the DOJ to anonymously report its activities to journalists like this?
That sounds pretty great.
This is where the analogy to books breaks down. If you have a book you care about you can take care of it. If you care about some website where the owner is long dead, there is probably nothing you can do to maintain it, except keep using a backwards compatible browser.
This assumes the entity wants Bitcoin to survive. The Chinease government has zero intrest in keeping Bitcoin alive and would happily kill it off.

Forks don't help with 51% attacks as the attacker can continue to use their hardware on the fork. Further, you can use a proxy to hid the origin of a block, so Bitcoin would need to move to a new hash which would take a long time and prevent any obvious successor.
250k?????

I bet their engineer to manager ratio was quite low.
Yeah, like that. But if code like that is permitted, is there anything that stops me writing a method that stashes a MyTransaction.() in a variable and then using it in another method long after the transaction it's supposed to represent has been closed?
Did it exist ten years ago?

Of course not.

But new libraries don't solve the underlying language infrastructure.
> The Yahoo! one [1] is definitely in violation of GDPR, right?

I don't see any obvious reason why it would be. Yahoo! is being transparent about their data sub-processors, and letting you control how and with whom your data is shared. That's what GDPR says on the tin.

If there's an argument to be made, it's around the Principle of Data Minimization. But that's one of those subjective things. And, considering the size and scope of Yahoo!, it's not inconceivable they have legitimate (scare-quotes optional) uses for all those sub-processors.
There are people here who invented ARPANet.
Yup, it anti-scales. If anything its scale resistant. Its a red queens race.
Personally I somewhat lean towards the side of breaking the library in question, which could be ok if enough warning is given. They mentioned being worried that not everyone would fix their unmaintained sites but I don't think unmaintained sites make a lot of long term promises anyway. Space Jams aside of course.

So while I don't necessarily agree with the decision I completely understand it, their motivation is very noble. And again, it's not that big of a deal as a one off decision.