skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Is there any reason besides incompetence why the apps developers would do this?

Well... cheap shot maybe, but it's Android. People are always hating on Apple for having security checks and rules. Android, on the other hand... how did Sundar Pichai put it? "We prioritize openness over security," something like that.

Openness does sound good but positioning it as a tradeoff with security bothers me. Having both would be good.

I'm wondering how this is or will be handled on the Apple platform. When that information comes out, I'm not expecting it will make Apple look good, since they have said they will follow the law (no matter how bad the law is!) wherever they sell their devices. If following the law means allowing a spyware app into the App Store, and they do this, I'll have to reevaluate my expectations of privacy for using Apple devices.
>Google can't put you into an internment camp, strip you of all human rights, effectively torture and or oppress your family and everyone you know, as China is doing to 13 million Muslims in Xinjiang

The entire population of Xinjiang is 23 million, you're several orders of magnitude off there.
It's only an anti-trust issue if we have a failed, monopoly market.

In the case of Apple for example they are buying these machines to prevent a whole range of competitors e.g. Samsung, Microsoft, Lenovo from using aluminium in their products.
I have to ask, why is it his responsibility? If his childhood is so bad that he has no connection to her why should he work to improve her life rather than the life of any other homeless or mentally ill people?

It's like a double whammy. Not only is your childhood destroyed, you now are somehow considered by society responsible for her just because she is your biological mother.
Never is a pretty bad rule. If you want to get ahead in life and advance your career, sometimes working more is the only way to do it. Everyone should decide at the end of the day how much they want to balance work vs. life, but for many people, working hard is the right choice.
How.

For me or anyone to believe this, is a huge ask.

Any attempt to algorithmically shape perspectives is crude with today’s state of the art.

How precisely would such an algorithm work, while not creating obvious artifacts and errors throughout the search results for all people using the service.

And how would it work for people only in the us and not elsewhere?
> Completion should be specified in the binary, and compatible with all shells

This is somewhat like the approach that DEC took with VAX/VMS in the late 1970's.

The command line and arguments/parameters were declared external to the executable and known to the the shell (in this case, DCL) via the SET COMMAND command. It had its own little data description language. The shell did the parsing user interaction (recall, completion, etc) and provided utility functions to the binary to call to obtain params. So while the completion was not technically in the binary, a standard api was used to obtain it and the definitions were created side by side.

Worked very nicely and was extensible by 3rd parties and could be used to incorporate "foreign" binaries as well.
It's very clock-bait. While the what the article says is true for tech, the same is true for most major industries: The continue to invest in order to remain competitive, from Petrochemicals, to Heavy Industry, to Car MFGs, to Pharmaceuticals. It's nothing new. the only thing "new" is that tech is such large piece if that investment pie.
The constraints of the problem seem to have been poorly specified:

"...the algorithm would eventually propose — shifting school start times at some elementary schools by as much as two hours. Even more.

Hundreds of families were facing a 9:30 to 7:15 a.m. shift. And for many, that was intolerable. They’d have to make major changes to work schedules or even quit their jobs. And because their kids would have to go to bed so early, they’d miss out on valuable family time in the evening."
Agreed.

The way it works is this: You need to have a construction of someone (or something) to have empathy for it. The way you generate that construction is by shared experience. The experiences that you have are what you use, the building blocks, to construct that abstract person.

Biological Terry has no building blocks by which the empathizer generates empathy; only super diffuse academic terms. Psychosocial Terry, on the other hand, is an abstraction filled with facts which the empathizer (in almost all cases) shares. The extent to which the empathizer has loss of a close family member, a critical parent, a breakup, and issues at work will be the extent to which they can generate abstract Terry and thus the extent to which they can empathize.

That's the mechanism they are running into in this study, I think.
The comparison with GM does not hold much water. GM has been spending a lot more cumulatively over the years. They are in a mature industry and the ongoing capital spending is going to remain at lower levels compared to internet giants suddenly investing from scratch in manufacturing.
I increasingly find myself looking at pledge...

https://man.openbsd.org/pledge.2

It's objectively the right model, if my assumptions are wrong, the program fails. I like that.

Maybe it could be taken further... to lie to the app and report back about it's sandbox... or halt and log it's image.
What a manipulative title. Have you no shame.

In other news: McDonald's buys beef to make sure no one else can compete.
As a counterpoint: in the 1990s the US government was convinced that Microsoft was an unassailable monopoly dominating all areas of technology. Competition could not defeat it; only government action could defeat it. All of the arguments you made in your post, about size and market domination, were made about Microsoft in the late 1990s.

The government did not break up Microsoft, but then Google came along, and nobody saw it coming. And Apple became a major player after nearly going out of business in the 90s, and Facebook dominated a market category called "social media" that nobody was thinking about in the late 1990s.

It turned out that government action was not necessary, because competition actually did work, and it worked by creating new technologies that nobody expected.

I doubt the people who are concerned about market dominance in 2018 know more than the people who were concerned about it in the late 1990s, and they are probably just as wrong.
I had the same tin ear problem. Then I returned to Myst as an adult and I realized that the position on the spaceship slider corresponded to the position of the key on the piano and I solved the puzzle by counting!
I can’t be the only one who thought this would be an internet of things article.
>This is usually followed up by a request to ignore the entire line, which is one of the worst habits you can have as a developer.
That really bugged me when I learned Java at University. I was also unaware how the compiler built the code and ran it, it was all hidden by the IDE. I felt a bit satisfied by my data structures course which had a pretty decent book that explained a bit of this in the first chapter. I then decided to just switch to using vim and Make to build and run my school assignments.
Ask HN: How did Spotify acquire music rights to stream songs in their early days
I will like to know how they solved this problem when they were just starting out.
Unsigned updates? Sounds like it would be relatively easy to disable (in addition to being a vector for malware)
To be fair, almost no one can (or should) write java without an IDE. IntelliJ + ideaVIM has been a great compromise for me as a long long time VIM user. I know I am not responding to your main point (of which I am sympathetic) but I figured I'd throw it out there anyway
Of course! That's why Law is suppressed and replaced by legislation
It is a conspiracy, if there’s proof of a conspiracy.

Put a finger on the scales, show us how it’s done.

Modeling this behavior, without tilting the scales completely is perhaps impossible.

I’m interested in seeing how such code could work, while scaling and not creating artifacts. I can’t think of anyway for such code to be deployed without breaking search and letting attackers gain even more
It is response like yours that make me so angry. Your argument applied to everything new - let's not do it because we don't understand all the potential consequences.

The irony is we know exactly what the consequences are in this case because we have already done the experiement of removing the malaria carrying mosquitos from various ecosystems and we discovered it has no effect other than people stopped dying of malaria.

Everyone opposed to getting rid of these Mosquitos has the blood of millions of children on their hands.
Here's an offtopic observation. This article (from the New York Times) denoted the names of the Instagram founders as "Mr. Systrom and Mr. Krieger..."

The Wall Street Journal has a corresponding article about this story. In that article, the Instagram founders' names are written, "Messrs. Systrom and Krieger..."

Despite frequently reading both papers, I can't recall ever seeing "Messrs" before. I thought it was a typo at first; turns out it's a formal way to refer to two or more men instead of saying Mr. several times. This isn't germane to the story at hand at all, but I found it to be an interesting and educational part of reading both articles about the same story.
Good article, and these are exciting changes that will be really helpful for a lot of commuter and even non-commuter residents of the area.

It would be nice to see an updated version of this article that also knocks down the fallacy of the long tailpipe with an explanation of why it is wrong.
The Scunthorpe problem
Yeh I am trying to avoid naming the company just in case...financials are definitely not looking good but that is part of the business...good points though!
I haven’t tried my hand at any machine learning, but I’m impressed that it could work with only 60 hours of training data. Perhaps the input clips were fairly short, which would increase the total number of videos.
Meta-whataboutism - use "whataboutism" in a discussion to block others from pointing hypocrisy :-) It's a nifty trick, I use it once in a while as well.

But to be serious, I don't see how China is irrelevant to the average Westerner.

They manufacture a lot of the products consumed in the West. They are also responsible for a lot of the plastic floating in the water http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-tons-of-...

From a US perspective:

They are responsible for the most damaging intelligence breach in US history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Personnel_Management....

Google, a US company, is starting to head toward China and play in that market after getting tired of not being evil.

US senator heading the Intelligence Committee had a Chinese spy right under her nose for almost 2 decades: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/explain-the-chinese-...

Even for the rest of the world with China and US clashing over spheres of influence and doing their power-play everyone is affected.
lol this slideshow thing is pretty cool
True. Bad advice on my part. For ref that gets you:

www-client/ungoogled-chromium-55.0.2883.75.1::alinefr

Really, I wish gentoo would just -9999 most everything not in the core tree. Practically every custom ebuild in my own overlay does.
Ohh... that's what Equifax does! I could never figure it out from the news articles. Thanks for the link, I'll listen to it.

You're right, I don't think I want to go looking into my own reports, until (if ever) I need to.

“Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise.”
A namespace freeze option for halting app process might be a helpful feature in these cases.

However this still doesn't solve the Zombie process problem where something has blocked on IO/another resource. Failure should absolutely always be an option.
This is a follow-on news story as people slowly try and digest the content of the new bill.

One of the main issues with this is it's being tried to push through as quickly and quietly as possible.

The original draft bill was open for public submissions for less than a month (Aug 15 - Sept 10).

* http://web.archive.org/web/20180814010356/https://www.homeaf...

The draft was 176 pages of legislation and quite complex in it's language so required a lot of time to comprehend - which is quite difficult to do effectively in a 3 week time period.

Quite a few large organisations put forward submissions (a couple of them are linked here):

* https://internet.org.au/news/209-submission-internet-austral...

Submissions included a few internet bodies, EFF and privacy organisations, major ISPs and Telcos, the Law Council, Human Rights Commission, device makers (Apple/Sumsung/Google) as well as others.

The bill was then submitted into parliament 10 days later.

There is no way possible that they have reviewed and considered all public submissions in 10 days. The government also stated that they had "widely consulted industry" to which the major IPSs denied.

It's basically a shambles.

What the cynic in me thinks is this is basically being made in collaboration with the five-eyes countries (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom and the United States).

As agencies in those 5 countries share information, the spyware/encryption keys/backdoors gained will be openly shared amongst all.

I think they all believe Australia is the easiest place to try and get the legislation through.
I dunno what you are going for - processes function pretty differently on those systems, so, no, there is not a cross-platform way to handle that case since process handling is inherently system specific.

If you are asking if there is some library to do this type of thing - maybe? I dunno. But, even if there is, the articles is talking about how such functionality can be implemented on Linux - which, if such a library existed, would be something that said library would implement.
The internet is not a market, stop putting a dollar sign on everything please -_-
"my April story" - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-04-10/instagram...
I think you're wrong to link the implant to the lung infection on the basis that the vagus nerve "innervates the lungs" - which is a best an oversimplification. It's a very unlikely route for infection compared to standard hospital acquired or ventilator associated pneumonia.

I'm a student doctor.
You should probably change the favicon from the default Vue favicon.
why on earth would they owe anything to the company?
To be fair, there are many people nowadays that would argue that Microsoft is at or reaching monopoly-levels of dominance. Linux might as well not exist outside of software fields and developers. We see them exert that control every now and then too (such as their rampant ads and attempts to control browsers).

Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Apple all tend to control different but large spheres of the internet. In those spheres they exert almost ironclad control over everything and we see them slowly creep more and more into our personal lives or gathering our personal data.

I'm not sure how to say competition really worked in this case because we've seen new fields pop up followed by complete dominance by one company over that field.
True but then aquihire and aquisition were not that prevalent in the 90s.

The problem is not really even the lack of competitors so to say but mainly the fact that little startups that look like they might be good fits for the business model of big cooperations are acquired right off the bat.
> Once you reach a certain size you can continue to squash competition through sheer momentum.

While this may be true, the main reason people use Google more than DDG is that it's a better search engine. It's not just about mindshare.
> I believe you're conflating a lot of different groups under the label "alt-right" here.

I posted my writeup on reddit and there were a number of people in the comments who crystal clear never saw an open source project in their lives OTOH they had post history on places like /r/the_donald and /r/kotakuinaction . I will not even try to separate GamerGaters from Trump supporters, the alt-right as an umbrella will do.

I have not said everyone is such but -- much more than there should be (which is zero).
> The cluster is actually a great study in UX design.

Agreed. But it's UX design for power users clearly.

But I was talking about the way to combine 'a regular users UX' with a ton of options you need for power users. The vast majority of the people who have Ubuntu on their laptops never recompile the kernel or even know about sysfs, the vast majority of the Windows and Office users never touch the registry editor - but removing them would be a huge mistake.
And then you end up with people complaining about bloat because the browser contains code for every possible state of all these settings.
Instagram founders resign from Facebook
Off topic: I feel like a fireproof document safe is something that I should own, but every time I shop for one I find myself going down a rabbit hole of unfamiliar terminology and certifications. As with many things, it seems like the marketing for such safes doesn't always match the fine print.

(And sometime the fine print just seems impractical: I'm unlikely to actually air out my safe for 30 minutes each week, but could replace a desiccant a few times a year.)

Does anyone have a recommendation for a safe that can protect paper documents and digital media from both fire and water in realistic conditions?
The grain of sandpaper you guys scrub titles with is exceedingly fine.

We nixed 'prehistoric'.
I've started deliberately getting them wrong - probably won't make a difference, but makes me feel a little better about it (I drew the line when I started getting CAPTCHAs on services I have paid for).
I understand the general concern, but a bit confused about the details. Could someone do me a favor and write down a simple example of how this can violate privacy?

Something like "User logs into Chrome, this automatically logs the user into ???. The user then visits ???. As a result Google learns ??? about the user. This was impossible before this Chrome change, and this sharing of information isn't clearly agreed to by the user."

If there are several materially different scenarios that can result in privacy violation, would be great to know.
Your life now may be better than the one where you accepted Kevin’s offer.
This is must-have handbook for advanced LEGO® MOC creators!

As I'm AFOL[0] & IT geek, I not use proprietary physical bricks anymore ;-)

Instead I use FOSS tools — LeoCAD[1] with LDraw[2] parts library for design virtual Lego models, such as my MOC "Micropolis Locomotive"[3,4].

[0] http://www.brickwiki.info/wiki/Adult_Fan_Of_LEGO

[1] http://leocad.org

[2] http://ldraw.org

[3] http://twitter.com/app4soft/status/1041133890344247297

[4] http://old.reddit.com/r/lego/comments/9g6ifv
Really? Looks like they buy out anyone that ever had a chance to compete.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisit...
Yet ms dominance was beaten only by linux and firefox...open source efforts, not competing companies, and those cracks allowed for google and others to come in.

Prior to that you had crap like "ie6 will be the last ie, and we dont see a need for tabs in the browser".
Please do not take HN threads into generic national flamewar. This is off topic and never ends well.
The idea is not to replace an emotional appeal with reason, but to wake people out of their complacency and have them face the reality of delay. Every day we wait we see another 3000 children die.

On the science side we already know the ecological consequences of removing these mosquitos - nothing. They play no important role in any ecosystem. More fundamentally ecosystems are not this sensitive to the removal of a single species, they are incredibly robust because unstable ecosystems don't survive. Species come and go, but ecosystems are near immovable.

The question comes down to a known massive bad outcome on one side (millions of kids dying) and a hypothetically and unmeasurably low risk on the other. What is the rational argument for delay?
> and it worked by creating new technologies that nobody expected.

Where "new technologies nobody expected" means "built new user-friendly products on top of a technology that had been in development for 30 years, funded by the government." First past the post onto the results of a commercialized ARPA research program, and making $10+ million every hour as result.

It's not clear what the next government-incubated platform for innovation will be.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18062476 and marked it off-topic.
Please keep the tedious cliché that 'whataboutism' has turned into off HN. I don't know how it started but it's now nothing but a flamewar trope.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18061698 and marked it off-topic.
Yes, I am planning to add the save feature. Also would love to know what you think about the recommendation aspect of it
Doing it right now :)
You're damn right. Look at the defense budget. Even under a Democrat it increased.
So it is

But will it be there forever?

Some other post on HN on this topic implied these options tend to vanish over time. (I'm not sure if they so or don't)
I worked for a direct report of Steve Jobs and later a direct report of Bill Gates. They routinely met in secret to divide up the market and agreed kill each others competitors - as well as divide up the market so they could all get rich. (Ever wonder why Apple had schools or why Apple & Windows networking was always broken or why only the UNIX vendors had working networking? Those were all by agreement, so that each of them could get insanely rich.) So monopoly is real, though it is really what is sometimes called "effective monopoly", which is created by product differentiation and much harder to detect. So forgive me if I consider people who believe in "free market" to be fools. They just haven't seen the things I've seen.
Yes. Acting evil is what makes you evil.
The developers of gone home have another game, Tacoma, that has the same walking simulator style. Excellent feel as well.
This happened to us (Weebly) years ago when we had godaddy as our registrar. I highly suggest you transfer your domain to someone competent like Safenames or MarkMonitor.
Good points 1,2 & 3 has not happened yet.
We can both be correct. There can be a catalyzing event that caused their departure (your follow up post mentioned product disputes), and that they also want to follow other pursuits (eg. have fun).

My point was that it was quite a stretch for the Times to equate this situation with Jan Koum's departure and this narrative around Facebook's moral dilemma. These guys stuck around for nearly a decade, which is frankly the story that should be written about given how infrequently that happens.
https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/cgroup-v1/freezer-s...
I've gotten severance (just like, 4 weeks or so?) from the last 3 or 4 companies I've worked for. Just as a datapoint.
I've lately seen myself using the !g flag for a lot of my searches because it seems inevitable when DDG results don't match up.
> Openness does sound good but positioning it as a tradeoff with security bothers me. Having both would be good.

Letting people write and install whatever program they want necessarily includes letting them write and install shitty programs.
I’d expect a perceived medical problem to garner more empathy than a perceived weakness/lack of grit.
Counter-counter point: Apple would probably not exist without an investment by Microsoft essentially forced by the US government.
And would Google have ever emerged as a dominant player if Microsoft were free to compete with them by restricting access to their website at the operating system level?