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World is not black and white. You can always criticize Facebook for their brutal user information sharing practises, or lack of curation to try to avoid fake news. But at the same time its possible to recognize that not everything on FB is fake news. Or in this particular case, that letting people share and communicate is not reprehensible.
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It's like the old RIAA battles of the early-noughties, Napster et al.

Instead of spotting the market, buying up the company who built it and slapping a fee on "unlimited music for a month" (a la Spotify), they sought to legislate it out of existence and in turn had their lunch eaten for them.

Dinosaurs trying to avoid the asteroid.
>There’s no way they’d install overhead wire in Montreal for that much.

Yes, there is. Montreal runs $60k per km.

>I’m glad the city is forward thinking in some areas.

The city isn't forward thinking, it is exploiting ignorance to steal from people. Wasting tons of money on stupid nonsense like this is possible precisely because people think "oh its green so its ok" when it is the same corporate bribery to corrupt politicians to steal from the people as always. This is tremendously wasteful, and still burns tons of diesel. Tram buses would cost less and stop burning diesel period.
Not sure why you are downvoted at the bottom, because you are right. As long as media continuously and relentlessly post articles about how terrible facebook is (as a "news source"), the legacy organizations will stay relevant. They are fighting for survival and it's more obvious now than ever.
> It's starting to feel like a coordinated smear campaign, even if all of it is accurate.

I don't get it. If it's all accurate then what is the problem exactly? That all the anger is directed at FB? They are the largest social media company, and in the good times I have never heard them say "but other social media companies deserve some love too". Running a business is not supposed to be easy.
He brought down Bretton-Woods in the 70s. That system was simply ripe for the taking, had almost collapsed in 68 (because the German Mark being fixed to the Franc and Dollar just doesn’t work when growth diverges), and would have collapsed eventually, possibly with more damaging results.

The criticism of Soros in Eastern Europe is simply the fear of the local wannabe strongmen of opposition. Soros funds mostly journalism and other civil society institutions (debate clubs at universities etc).

That criticism is channeled through anti-semitism, which still has currency in Hungary. Do a google image search if you don’t believe me.

In the US, he’s just a welcome foil for the alt-right to counter the Koch narrative, even though Soros historically did not actually support candidates, only causes. The anti-semitism is more subdued there, because it’s not (yet) acceptable in polite company. But polite company is almost as bankrupt as a Trump casino now, so we’ll see.
That is very true, the AMA is not formally a union, but it does exert a significant level of control and influence in standardizing the practices of doctors.

As for patient outcomes, I'd love to see a study of them for the roughly 15% of residents that have a union and very modest work place improvements, compared to outcomes for the rest of residents. You're right, many doctors do seem to "feel" the traditional method is superior, but I'd like to see hard data.
It seems that this content source is only concerned about news about prominent tech companies, which matches their Palo Alto location. Facebook’s been going through the grinder because they’ve recently had a lot of evidence against them come out; of course technically interested people care about a leader in research and industry.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=mondaynote.com
My partner switched to a Pixel because she got tired of having to restore her old iPhone from backup every 6 months when it complained it was running out of space - inspite of the fact that she wasn't doing anything that should be gobbling up space.

I've been android forever, and my experience of Android phones has been they are solid for about 3 - 4 years, and then they start showing their wear. But I'm pretty hard on them. There are lots of significant drops that occur in that time. Drops that would shatter most iPhone screens.
The basic idea is that the will of the people may change at a whim, and that we therefore need safeguards to protect liberal parlamentarism and the basic order of society from changes that would otherwise be disruptive. This obviously protects the so-called elites from angry mobs, which is the main argument against this system, but it also make sure that our economies don't collapse due to various governments doing things like forced take-overs of international banks in times of financial unrest.

Alas, this order is often defended in the name of "democracy" when it's outright anti-democratic and patronizing.
>So you're agreeing with him: nginx and Apache don't do it by default and automatically, they need an external tool. Which is yet another step to add and monitor as an admin, which means fewer people will go through the hassle of doing it.

The vast majority of people using Let's Encrypt are going to be using an external tool such as Certbot to automatically generate and renew their certificates for them. It's the officially endorsed method for getting certificates [1]. It's more hassle to do it without such tools.

Proclaiming that existing solutions don't do key rotations is therefore misleading. The _web server_ in isolation might not be directly responsible for it, but then Apache and Nginx aren't responsible for injecting sponsor advertisements into your HTTP response headers either so there's perhaps some precedent for Caddy doing more than it should.

[1] https://letsencrypt.org/getting-started/
It's monetisation of the little rush of chemicals your body injects when you feel outraged. Apparently its quite addictive!
Google should stop trying to compete in big existing markets and should focus on creating new things.
>Australia is a Western nation where freedom is taken seriously.

Oh, you sweet summer child.
Isn't her New York building a complete counterexample to your argument? It's built along Manhattan's elevated walking trail, the Highline and enjoyed by thousands of people [0]. Until the Vessel is completed, it's likely the main attraction on the walking path.

[0] https://goo.gl/images/e1XZ4v
The only way to know this is by not providing companies with your data in the first place. Unfortunately auditing this is kind of difficult to do today with most operating systems being closed-source and hard to inspect, but it’s still possible to do general checks on what they are sending out.
From the information given the reason why is likely money laundering.
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I think the author eventually came up with what libdispatch already does using queues.
Protesting is very democratic. South Korea showed that to the world.

Sure, South Koreans could wait one more year and solve the problem at the election booth, but protesting solved the problem faster.
Because there is no moral equivalence between the despotisms of the middle east and the elected government of a secular democratic republic. Overturning tyrany is good. Attempting to overturn democracies in favor of mob rule is bad.
Former employees? So you can't even resign? WTF?
Go look in the mirror, you'll see much greater freedoms in western countries than any you've mentioned. The west doesn't actively persecute homosexuals, protects women's rights and supports a free press. The list goes on.
Genuine question: Is it just me or the whole 'fake-news' concept seems like an excuse for ~old~ traditional (failing?) media to continue to act as gatekeepers of information ? I've seen an increasing number of alternative / independent journalists and websites being given the label of "fake-news site" recently and I'm a bit worried to see that trend continue.
"Theory for this is less stress due to finances"

Believe I included this in my original comment. It's likely a big contributor in these types of survey. It's a little easier on your health to not be living paycheck to paycheck.
Of they don't get pulled, well, that tells you something too.
They also use "better together" in a lot of marketing, but don't seem to have officially rebranded.
Bad news naturally tends to snowball. Scrutiny results in further scrutiny, insiders decide to leak or whistleblow, other media organizations start taking a look, etc.

"Others are just as bad" may be true, but they largely (barring Google/Amazon/etc.) don't have the power Facebook does.
Afaik the Democrats had done the same thing in 2012 with their micro-targeting "strategy" and they were praised for doing that (even here on this website). From here[1]:

> They used classic micro-targeting online advertising to reach those groups. Obama's team's use of Facebook this time was also very clever, tapping into Facebook's individual profile data. A million users downloaded the Obama 2012 app on Facebook. The app was able to identify their Facebook friends that fit favorable profiles located in key swing states, encouraging them to contact these friends to remind them to vote. Sources say one in five of those contacted this way were influenced positively by this contact.

If it matters I'm not a US citizen and I've never set foot in the States so I had almost no direct stake in the 2012 and the 2016 US elections.

[1] https://www.mediavillage.com/article/how-data-and-micro-targ...
Protesting is one thing. Vandalism, looting, and firebombing are not legal protests.
You're confusing democracy with freedom / progress my friend.
> Having to lock your door just means you're living in a terrible neighborhood.

Interesting. Is that an American thing? I do recall that most of my American friends don't lock their doors, whereas I can only think of a handful of people not locking their doors in Europe - and those live in remote outposts, where people are scarce and deer are unlikely to use the door handle.
doesn't explain why there are at least 2 similar stories at any time in HN frontpage

I mean, from an entrepreneurial standpoint,maybe "antifacebook as a service" is a valid idea?
>And this isn’t a courtroom so the whole innocent until guilty concept makes no sense.

In fact, if anything, the opposite principle should apply in the context of systems security.
I agree, I was pretty pissed when I received this. I really want to support firefox, I really do...
> I don't get it. If it's all accurate then what is the problem exactly?

Selective reporting is a huge problem. You can distort almost any topic by selectively reporting only truthful things.
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Meter fees are annoying not because of the nominal value of the coins you put in them, but because of the fines you can accumulate if you forget to feed it the quarters and dimes it needs. Parking enforcement is typically very strict in most cities and downtowns, and its common to hear someone complain about receiving a fine because they lost track of time while shopping or something. I would say it has a chilling effect on businesses that thrive on browsing type of behaviour.
They employ a lot of programmers, I imagine at least some of them are here.
"Fake news" is sometimes a real photo/video falsely attached to the wrong event. Here's why the Spanish protest pics were "fake news": https://elpais.com/elpais/2017/10/06/inenglish/1507278297_70...

The same thing is happening in the French protests: https://observers.france24.com/en/20181129-debunked-videos-y...
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As another datapoint, iMessage is probably the least useful thing to me in the whole ecosystem. Apple has nowhere enough market penetration around here (N Euro) for it to be useful as anything more than an SMS app.
Since people were treated separately based on their race (slavery, no right to vote, no civil rights, redlining, segregated schools), it's not a surprise you can still measure the impacts of that decades later, based on race.

It takes a long time to undo damage like that.
>I've never understood why Soros is such a bogeyman to so many people.

Because he is openly, actively and deliberately engaged in their genocide.

>I get why despots like Viktor Orban hate Soros

How is he a despot? He is an elected leader, doing what the people who elected him want. But because he doesn't cave to the EU agenda to replace native Europeans in their own homeland, he is evil?

Edit: Ironically, HN shows exactly how this works. The left asks a question, a centrist answers, and gets censored. The message is clear, you don't want to hear the answer, you just want to plaintively wail about the evil people who disagree with you being so terrible and impossible to understand. The more you ignore the majority, the more extreme they become in opposition to you. Look at the rise of national socialist groups in Europe right now. You are creating the boogeyman you fear by your refusal to engage in dialogue.
People getting their ass beat for trying to set fire to a McDonalds while protesting the high cost of living deserve no tears, I'm sorry.

Also, if you're going to pick a fight with a crew in full riot gear it's best to not get cornered by them.
I love LuaKit. Zero chrome/bezel on the browser windows - turn off window decoration and the web content is just a (fully) resizeable rect in your desktop layout. The vim-style keyboard controls are a plus (for me, anyway).
Whoever at google greenlighted this should have to read this entire thread out loud. Twice.
Lets put it this way, Google already made most of the work with Treble and yet it isn't being adopted as they thought it would, making them finally take a stance regarding updates.

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2018/11/an-update-...
These dinosaurs are not even trying to avoid the asteroid, they just keep yelling "bad asteroid, go away!" at it.
Is there any evidence that this is connected to other political issues?

I mean, the open-access movement is widely hailed as an important progressive step in improving the academic world, regardless of nationality. Hopefully it's just a matter of time before the US's own agencies join in similar demands, assuming that there isn't already such a plan.
Hasn't the majority of the criticism of Facebook been about enabling communication? Indeed, hasn't that been the cause of most of the Left's pearl-clutching about social media's influence on politics over the last few years? Many, if not most, of the complaints about Russian "interference" in the US election and Brexit that I've seen the Left being so distressed about consisted primarily of Russians saying things about politics on Twitter.

Advocating for outright bans on voicing disfavoured viewpoints is so obviously illiberal and thuggish as to be politically unpopular, which is why it is always platforms targeted rather than individual speakers, and why there is always some rationalisation for the complaint other than the viewpoint being expressed (Russian bots! Fake news! Algorithms optimising for rage! Harassment!) but in the end the root cause of the complaint is always that someone said something that progressives didn't like.
These are very astute observations and ones that I've seen as well after many years of work in tech. In a sense it's a case of "you get what you measure" where what we're trying to measure is how effective a manager is at deriving and delivering value from a team. However, a lot have found a way to "hack" how this value is communicated to their superiors.

A lot of poor managers I've worked with have a knack for taking work that is actually quite easy and communicating it as very challenging such that they (or their team) receive a lot of credit for it. As you stated in the other post, they may also be good at making their employees feel that there is great value in work that is also fairly trivial or non important. In a micro scale, this looks like a good thing (people are happy), but in a macro scale, it may not actually move the business forward very much.

At the end of the day, it often sadly boils down to "it's not what you did but what people think you did" that matters.
"The Director-General of Security, the Director-General of the Australian Secret Intelligence Service, the Director-General of the Australian Signals Directorate or the chief officer of an interception agency may give a technical assistance request to a designated communications provider.
• A technical assistance request may ask the provider to do acts or things on a voluntary basis..."

Note that an interception agency also includes "the Police Force" p9

It later states that if a provider willingly complies:

"an officer, employee or agent of the provider is not subject to any civil liability for, or in relation to, an act or thing done by the officer, employee or agent in connection with the act or thing mentioned in paragraph (b)" p17

Meaning, you're up for civil charges if you fail to respond to a non-warrant request.
Democracy is not the perfect system that some people purport it to be.

You get someone elected, someone who is far from perfect but he's the only likely candidate to win, so what can you do. And then that person has 4 years to screw you over. That's not just.
And you lack reading comprehension.

I didn't say professionals don't care about latency. I said that professionals don't ask for latency for hard drives, they go straight to SSDs when latency is important.
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I worked in telecoms when 4G was at about this stage. A lot of radio engineers I knew were highly sceptical about it, but that was in relation to the vendor and network company hype. They were right for the time, but eventually the technology and expectations converged and it became a big leap forward.

5G next year simply isn't going to be relevant to most people. It will start as a gimmick, and then a few years later it will start getting interesting, and soon after that it will be everywhere and we'll all be loving it.
I also think they would normally approach this top-down. The provision to target individuals might have been added just for the odd case were the normal approach is not feasible.

I still wonder how this law doesn't go against individual rights provided by the Constitution or other fundamental laws.

Either way this law is hilariously clueless and extremely worrying at the same time.
It's strange that owners would let the homes go vacant rather than rent them via a property manager. While the article seemed well-researched, one missing bit was who purchased the mansions they kept mentioning. They knew the builder, so perhaps they could have asked.
I just saw news that millions of mobile users in UK and Japan got kicked off the net by those high quality carrier-grade Ericsson carrier equipments.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/6/18128720/o2-down-softbank...

> They're able to compete below price precisely because they are heavily government funded.

so you are arguing that rather than funding carefully selected new businesses with good potentials, or those state owned established companies with full government control in the same area such as ZTE, Chinese government is heavily funding the most profitable private high tech company Huawei?

sounds like the Chinese government is on a self destruction mission to me.
It’s odd because they pick and choose which “violence” is right and wrong. When Arab spring (in the end a very destabilizing movement) was facilitated by FB and Twitter it was great. When it facilitates caravan protests it’s great. When it facilitates anti-tax movements that threaten viability of an unpopular (vis a vis locals) but popular internationally (ie elites) then it’s seen as facilitating “bad” protests. Obviously media like to pick their narrative and winners and losers, deserving of freedom and those who don’t rather than let the masses decide for themselves.

That’s manipulation by traditional media upset their worldview and power to project it is slipping away from them.
Never any articles on how social media has fueled the sjw rage...
> To be honest I think the average person outside of tech isn't bothered enough by data misuse stories to lose access to their friends' list and shared photos.

If you were being dishonest, what would you think differently.

I think most people are vaguely aware their data on Facebook is being misappropriated, but they don't understand the implications of that, especially in the long term.

The challenge, and it seems most of the informed are stuck on how to resolve this, is explaining why this is a horrendously bad situation.

Just today at lunch with a phd mathematician (ie someone way smarter than me), I was struggling to get past his 'I've nothing to hide, why does it matter' attitude about fb and messenger android apps.
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A little OT but this notion that the observer is not you can be a great revelation for many people who are suffering from depression.

Because sometimes it's easy to confuse the voice in your head to be actually you and since it's you, it must be right! But when you disassociate it as a third person and maybe give it a name and treat it as a seperate entity that though lives inside you (or your head) but it is not you, you can start giving it the same treatment as you would give a negative or positive comment made by a third person about you and actually apply rational logic to what is being said by it (your observer) and even defend your position instead of just taking everything on face value or trust.
>Soros’ love of free speech and fair elections

Why do you think he wants either of those things? He funds campaigns to end free speech and put in place laws to restrict speech to only those views he considers acceptable. He funds organizations specifically to interfere in fair elections and attempt to maintain a far left hegemony across Europe.
Children from financially unstable families do worse in school. Hungry children do worse in school.

If you want studies, here's discussion of one I just saw the other day:

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-12-04/verdic...
Reading a book with someone. One chapter each, you read out loud, then you listen.
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It's really not about jealousy.

Facebook is indeed a huge distribution model, one that's defective and one that's become a vector for disinformation. That is newsworthy, it's one of the biggest and most interesting media stories of the past half century.

Facebook's reach is why it's newsworthy, but Facebook's actions (and inactions) are why you hear more about them than Google, etc.
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First I think you mean insubstantial and second Facebook has a clear history of data misuse don't they? Just a day or two after this comment the article about their seizing MP files was out. Would you still call this insubstantial? And I am not raging, merely curious.
I bet I’ve lost 5% of my friends list to people sick of Facebook’s constant bickering over politics and social posturing.
I would subscribe to that service.
> the worse civil unrest ever seen in France

It's major, but quite far from the worst we've ever had.
>People buy them because they are cheap, not because they are good.

This is quite the overarching generalization. Especially on a site like HN where there are tons of financially well off people choosing to use Android. Do some people buy Androids because they are a cheaper alternative to iPhones, sure. Do some people buy Androids because they don't like things like Apple intentionally slowing devices down, like having access to things like Termux, the ability to flash their own ROMs and root, etc? Absolutely. I don't even want to make this an Apple vs Android thing, but please don't reduce a valid choice down to people's financial situation.