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> Being unable to disable AGPS is not the same as "iOS spies even more".

True but I'd like to point out that different standards are being applied here when talking about Android's lack of privacy vs iPhone's privacy friendly policies. Namely there is a large post above on how Google Services Framework has access to everything in your phone so it is bad (and we need to do everything to get rid of it) simply because of what it _can_ do, rather than of what it actually does (because what it does largely depends on user settings, like for example if you want to backup your whole phone, obviously that's going to package and save all your phone's contents on Google servers).

Most of the privacy features you mention seem targeted to stop a certain type of information gathering (that of web based adtech, obviously those are Apple's competitors so it's not surprising) while it's not covering the biggest issue IMO with smartphones: information gathering by the system applications that you have no control over. Do we know how much information does Apple collect with their system software and store it associated with your AppleID and you have no control over that? I never used an iPhone so I'm curious, especially things like: location (nearby cell tower information, GPS and wifi networks), contacts, phone call log, SMS log, process list/applications running or installed, DNS logs, API calls logs.
I dunno, that sounds like the a good way to do it.

I kinda shake my head if people call for devs to handle all the infrastructure and everything in prod. Why should a developer concern himself with details of scaling and tuning postgres, elasticsearch or loadbalancers? If you don't outsource that, that's the job for the ops team. However, if that's the responsibility of the ops team, there's no reason for dev to have access to these systems beyond the application layer. That just seems like a good way to split the work of running and scaling an application.

Now if we're talking about applications, that's something different. In fact, it's the contrary. I am a big proponent of having developers manage and configure their own applications, including prod. It's fast and makes them develop better applications. However, doing this for critical systems in a responsible way requires automation to enforce best practices. At our place, devs don't have root access to productive application servers, but devs have permissions to configure and use the automation controlling the productive application servers. And it's safe and rather risk-free because the automation does the right thing.

And it's also a different thing if we're talking about test. By all means, deploy a 3 container database cluster to poke around with it. I like experimentation and volatility in test setups and PoCs. Sometimes its just faster to solve the problem with 3 candidate technologies and go from there. Just don't expect things to go into production just like that. We'll have to think about availability, scaling and automating that properly first.
How does it help when free will does not exist?
The amount of light falling on each sensor pixel is the only thing that matters in digital photography. The roof of my house also gathers a lot of light but it's not a good camera.
> "Workers also get less money when they're successful: $109,000 in arbitration compared to $575,000 in state court" (quotes pulled from a digg summary)

There is definitely a difference, but that has to be adjusted for the difference in expenses as well. For an employee who is successful, arbitration is also a lot cheaper than a court case.
It's like some people at Google realize that the company's image is messed up beyond repair. So they decided they might as well go full-on evil and make as much money as they can before the party's over.
no, use Firefox
Unfortunately, the fight goes even further than that when you go against the cloud.

Last week I was in an event with the CTOs of many of the hottest startups in America. It was shocking how much money is wasted on the cloud because inefficiencies and they simply don't care how much it costs.

I guess since they are not wasting their own money, they can always come up with the same excuse: developers are more expensive than infrastructure. Well... that argument starts to fall apart very quickly when a company spends six figures every month on AWS.

I'm on the other extreme. I run my company stuff on ten $300 servers I bought on eBay in 2012 and put inside a soundproof rack in my office in NJ, with a 300 Mb FIOS connection using Cloudflare as a proxy / CDN. The servers run Proxmox for private cloud and CEPH for storage. They all have SSDs and some have Optane storage. In 6 years, there were only 3 outages that weren't my fault. All at the cost of office rent ($1000) + FIOS ($359) + Cloudflare costs and S3 for images and backups.

With my infrastructure, I can run 6k requests per minute on the main Rails app (+ Scala backend) with a 40ms response time with plenty of resources to spare.
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I agree it's good to be skeptical, but that's hardly the first large-scale shady thing some of these places have been involved in:

https://www.businessinsider.com/r-us-judge-approves-415-mill...
> Frankly, if I was an investor I’d refuse to give my money to any ninny who wanted to set up shop in any of the overcrowded, overpriced tech hubs.

I've wondered about this, VC's aren't stupid, what's the disconnect?

If I were starting a company in CA I'd go to Davis. (FWIW)
Considering all of their 'Alexa what is [x]' information comes from wiki, this seems short-changed.
You can append a "delete" message and the clients won't display it going forward. The data is still there though.
It’s kinda gross how little the big tech players have donated considering how much of their and academia’s AI efforts leverage wikimedia data.
> strangely Eve has never seen the same enduring popularity as Adam

That's like saying Jesus has never seen the same enduring popularity as Mary. Chava is a pretty conventional name.
If that's true then presumably one doesn't need to point it out with snarky one-liners (which don't belong on Hacker News).

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
A contract is a contract is a contract. You may, without a meeting of the minds, sign away your basic rights according to the courts.
microG is certainly not perfect and I wouldn't recommend it to the average user. Expect some things to not work or even certain apps to crash. It's a techie-solution for people who value their privacy highly.
Apparently they scooped DeepMind, creators of AlphaGo, who are also working on a bot for the game.
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Useless signaling. Wikipedia definitely doesn’t need any more money. This $1M will be burned on salaries of Wikimedia Foundation employees, majority of which do nothing useful. Look at their financial statements and see for yourself. Wikimedia has enough cash already to find operations for a decade or two, and they spend most of it on salaries of people running programs you never hear about, and which have no bearing on the way most people actually use Wikipedia and Commons.
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>"such as those in most of England and Wales"

Aren't Welsh dialects generally rhotic?
Google gave $2 million in 2010 from searches, and Brin gave $500k. I'm guessing they gave more at various times, but I think you're right, Wikipedia is a vital resource used by Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Amazon's AI agents, and they should be donating far more since it is arguably a significant value add for those products.
There's also the visibility thing. You can put fake news on FB without making it visible to everyone.
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Wikipedia definitely is not immune to the fake news effect. I can recall both reading about and directly seeing numerous instances of propaganda-esque edits. I'm guessing it probably just seems less prevalent because readership isn't concentrated on any one Wiki article the way that news/fake news is. I'm also under the impression that most wiki articles are closely watched by their authors as well as various wiki bots that alert to certain types of changes, so many/most malicious edits are probably noticed and reverted soon after they are made.
Presumably because, regardless of whether they are employees or independent contractors, they signed a contract agreeing to use arbitration.
I think Zuckerberg refused a 1B $ offer from yahoo.
No, use Vivaldi.
But how does the scale compare between the two? It would seem like tech work lifts much less people up the chain as factory work did. And in less proportion too: A factory in the industrial era could employ thousands at a time from a population of hundreds of thousands whereas now we live in a world of millions and tech comparatively employs a couple hundred.
I mean, arguably people make their choices because they assume they're the best given their conditions. It's not like it was totally random. Isn't it worth sharing the advice with people in similar conditions?
> No studio will survive after releasing ~12 bad to average games in a row over 4 years.

And Telltale was vastly more at risk than most studios because of their episodic games. They basically sold each game with a funnel, and one bad episode jeopardized sales for everything after it.

If some studio like Supergiant (or perhaps some more-prolific equivalent) released four years of bad-to-average games, I would still keep an eye on their output in hopes that any one new release might be great. But Telltale was putting out all of these big-license games and had everything past Episode 1 stymied by past weakness like a TV show with a bad opener. It was an almost uniquely vulnerable situation for a studio.
"but we try really hard to do the right thing regarding PII, privacy, ethics, etc."
- People don't care about what you are trying but about what you are _actually doing_ , you know, actions speak louder than words do.
Have you ever heard about the concept of the "joke?" Novelty thing, I tell you. Admittedly, it might be a bit too recent of a concept for the average person to be aware of, especially with how radical it is.

Here's a recent book of them, to help you get "in" on the "hip slang" of tomorrow:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philogelos
$400 million, ~December 2017
For what it's worth, I think it's neat that you shared that the knowledge necessary to build a Shazam-like thing is something an undergraduate might do as a homework assignment. I had thought it would be a lot more complicated. :)
There's three kinds of privacy that I can see: privacy against a hacker, privacy against Google et al, and privacy against the government.

The first kind I think you care about. You don't want your computer being part of a botnet. You don't want a hacker running the camera on your phone. You don't want a hacker watching as you type your password for your bank account.

The second kind, privacy against Google, I can't convince you that you care about. I might even be able to make a case that you don't. Let's say I'm on a business trip, and I need to eat dinner. I ask Google for restaurants. I'm going to get better answers if Google knows where I am (which is a privacy intrusion). I'm going to get even better answers if Google knows what kind of foods I like (which is also a privacy intrusion). Those privacy intrusions actually provide me value (at least in some situations). Maybe I don't want to stop them.

Privacy against the government... that ship has sailed. They have the capability to find out everything if they decide to. The battle is political, to keep them from deciding that they want to without adequate (that is, criminal) cause, and without due process.
No its not because the kinds of employment cases that can net $575k in court are typically taken on contingency by the plaintiff's lawyers.
Cost of servers to handle millions of TLS connection initialisations and HTTPS stream decryptions, versus simple plain-text streaming...
> few useful products (like mortgages).

... and personal loans, commercial loans, transactions and transfers, overdraft agreements, insurance brokerage, underwriting, and reinsurance.

Ireland was poor and undeveloped economy during 1966–76 bank strikes. Irish pound had one-to-one link to pound sterling, so Ireland didn't even have monetary policy. Companies were able to operate with their accounts in UK banks. Today it would be total chaos.
Don't they have anybody from the legal department to oversee the decisions of developers? A wrong decision could cost them millions in fines in these days.
I hate SV politics too. The upside is: the kind of conversations you can have behind closed doors is very different from what you hear on the public place :)
> What decisions do you make differently with your knowledge that free will is an illusion? What choices do you make differently?

Interestingly, my belief in the illusory nature of free will has had a huge impact on my life. I'm a much more laid-back person than I used to be. I don't stress out so much over making mistakes. It has also helped me in a lot of practical aspects of my life. For example, it has helped me lose weight. I think about my desire to eat as my brain playing a sort of a trick on me, and that makes it easier for me to "decide" not to give in to the craving. I treat the part of me that wants to eat the cookie as a separate entity from "me" that just happens to reside in the same brain, and I interact with it through internal dialogs like I would a small child. It sounds weird, but it works, at least for me. I'm almost down to the same weight I was in college (and I'm 54).
> Someone responsible for that decision, which effectively left that new branch to its own devices, is probably having a bit of a bad taste in their mouth right about now.

Why? Their reasoning then was that it would cost them to much to transfer the bank, “discover” the laundering and paying fines, instead they left it so they could earn more money by the time it was eventually “discovered”.

These aren’t kindergartners running these banks and systems, they knew what was going on. They likely did make the right choice, the fines will be the same since now as they would have been then, and now they have a large profit to pay them from.
Wikipedia is very well cited. You can easily find counterexamples too, but pretty much all "long" articles that's been reviewed by editors are well cited. Facebook is never cited, I've literally never seen anyone citing source on facebook. Polar opposites.
Honestly, everybody knows what the game is. The left should get their shit together and play the game that counts (winning elections), rather than the one that doesn't (% of popular vote).
I've just finished the Enigma part in the code book by Simon Singh (https://simonsingh.net/books/the-code-book/) and the Polish contribution to decrypting the Enigma communication (based off French intelligence work) is correctly attributed.

There's also a part on how the secret on Enigma's breaking has been kept for decades after the war, supposedly because Enigma machines had been distributed to British colonies (and ex-colonies) and British intelligence wanted to be able to decrypt their communication.

The only problem I have is that the part regarding current encryption are a little outdated. But the rest of the content is good, I've found.
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> it's opened the gates to people working well below a living wage because there's nothing else

Haven't you just walked into an argument for abolishing the minimum wage here?

(I'm not arguing for or against minimum wage. I'm just observing that the tone of your comment seems to suggest you don't like the idea, but this sentence seemed to be a good argument for it.)
Please do not post uncivilly here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Your solution is to turn off the Internet?
Qualcomm doesn’t have any sort of record of good corporate citizenship. When they come out saying things like this my first suspicion is that they are projecting.
> Can't believe I'm being drawn into this,

I know, right?

> but in my view knowing an outcome doesn't mean controlling it. It simply means knowing it.

Turns out knowing is enough to negate free will. Take a look at the proof.
Sounds more like the Clinton/Obama administration and Democrat loyalists in the FBI like Strzok, Page, et al thinking it's their civic duty to stop Trump from being elected. But I suppose when you've spent several decades interfering with other countries' elections like the FBI & CIA have, it's only natural that you believe it's right to interfere at home too.
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As a DJ constantly looking for tracks to add to the collection. I listen to streaming music pretty constantly. For individual tracks with all of the metadata, the artist/track name info is provided. For listening to other DJ mixes, you just get the DJ name and mix name. Shazam tells me the specific track.

I also use My Shazams as a potential mix list. If I have an item in My Shazams, it caught my attention for some reason. Just putting those tracks together into a set has worked out pretty well. It gets tricky if I'm using my phone as the streaming source. At that point, I usually just take a screen grab. If it's an individual track, I have artist/track name, and if it's a mix, I can use the playhead position to narrow down which track it was later.
I appreciate your feedback. The law review article in the original post analyzed the Socratic Method using Intersectionality. Most people aren't familiar with this political ideology, so I critiqued it. I would not describe this as an "ideological rant". As a litigator, my writing style tends to be direct and forceful. But, I have read the guidelines again and will keep your comments in mind for future posts.
> Being sent "home" when you've been living and working in another country for possibly years at a time doesn't really make it any better.

Than slavery? Yes it does make it better. Much better.
Low deductible healthcare? Where do you live? Europe?
Look at the prices for hardware certified for permanent installation into an aircraft?
> Maybe Apple managed to survive (thrive!) despite of the jerk

Perhaps Apple survived because the jerk was doing a good job where he was, despite being a jerk?
I think this will be a good thing, it shows SiriusXM is going to extend their online presence which currently runs for $10 a month. If this price point starts to includes Pandora it's pretty compelling. Nice channels that are curated with a dj if you like or a well developed algorithmic playlist.
As a business it's good they realize groth won't be coming much from their satellite network.
Farms, small businesses and real estate examples are examples of concentration to make wealth and not diversification.

So it sounds like you agree with me.

What am I missing?
I like that subscription is email verification only, I didn't have to create a "Mozilla Account" with a password or anything like that. If Google or MS offered this, I'm sure you'd need an account that would also sign you into their entire ecosystem.
My data point: I often go to parties where they play African and world music. Shazam fails more often than not ...

The interesting thing is: most of these songs are on YouTube, so in theory Google could build a better Shazam.
hi fareesh, as with real-life, you can't take back what you said, you can only apologize (in a new post). :)

there's talk of moving message content out of the sigchain so you could "delete" (ask your peers to delete) a post: %QJEpN8LN1t3BrIkUQ3WoOMWRsMArbVUZCpTeBYcuqfw=.sha256
They have had the fake news problem for much longer and have multiple editors who have pet topics that they will maintain to their liking.
"Fake news" only exists as a function of the design of those websites, all social media relies upon feeding the ad beast, which means more usage. Since it is fundamentally different in creation it does not have the same issues but has different issues.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Wikipedia#Exposur...
>You may, without a meeting of the minds, sign away your basic rights according to the courts.

You actually cannot sign away your basic rights as contract cannot supersede state or federal law. You may argue that one's right to litgation _should_ be considered a basic right, but currently it's not.
It seems that it is just an UI over the haveibeenpwned.com service
Fair point. Still, a gentleman's agreement between frienemy titans of industry (though illegal) is understandable: "Don't take my guys, and I won't take yours".

I have a hard time believing someone at Apple said "let's engage in a multi-year conspiracy to siphon Qualcomm trade secrets to Intel."
You asked for suggestions, I offered one.
A contract doesn't have to be an employment contract.
Well, that’s why I feel pretty ok getting into a MRI.

I think consumers will want regulation when they see what it fixes.
> No its not because the kinds of employment cases that can net $575k in court are typically taken on contingency by the plaintiff's lawyers.

"Contingency" doesn't mean it's free. If the case is won (which is the situation we're talking about), the lawyer gets paid out of the net recovery.
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> matter is just a bunch of atoms

Well, it is.

> Our understanding of the fundamental nature of reality (physics) and consciousness (neuroscience/psychology) is still highly theoretical.

It's much more than that. No experiment has ever been done that contradicts either GR or the Standard Model. So unless the operation of the brain depends on new, undiscovered physics, we do in fact have all the information we need in order to completely understand the operation of the brain, at least in principle.
Yes, that’s a more precise description. For a given resolution and ISO, a larger sensor has larger pixels, which generally produce less noise than smaller ones.
That was a product decision, not a business decision. They did what is preached by HN - they built something people wanted, then listened to them when their users told them they didn't care about the rest of it.
> Lower noise levels at high ISO are an advantage of FF.

You are correct, except I don't like the way you said it. I think it is more accurate to say that full frame has lower noise levels because they tend to be able to achieve the equivalent of lower ISO.

In order to get equivalent ISO, you need to multiply it by the crop factor squared. (Squared because the sensor area is two dimensions.) So for MFT 2x crop factor, that means 4x. Which means a MFT sensor at 800 ISO has the same theoretical noise level across the frame as a FF sensor at 200 ISO.

This is another area where the way we describe crop factor does a huge disservice to practical application. By pretending that smaller sensors are just cropped versions of larger sensors, we have to do a pile of stupid math in order to find equivalence. And it causes no end of pointless internet arguments.

https://petapixel.com/2017/03/29/dispelling-myths-around-dep...
Got it, so a meshnet using ISM bands is limited by the radio horizon, meaning that unless the equipment is produced in very high numbers, the links won't be close enough to connect at all, outside urban areas or perhaps a few towns.
Another title might be: "U.S. appeals court: Contracts with an arbitration clause are enforceable."

Uber isn't "forcing" anybody to do anything. The court is saying the contract is valid and the parties must work within the context of that contract.
I've always imagined it was because the VCs bought the buildings they rent out to the startups, and probably the apartments as well. That makes the bay area a big money laundering machine where cash is guaranteed to flow from the investors through the VCs to the startups and back to the VCs again. Cha-ching!
How long did it take for you to finish the book?
Anime is real: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetes