skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Say I am running a social network. I want to allow my users to give access to their own damn data to third parties.

You don't. There is no safe way to do this, but more to the point, this is not something that your users want to actually do. If people want to give their data to a "third party" they can just go directly to that party and give it their data. Your permission or participation is not required.

If you'd like to try it, start a social network and then start serving big dialogue boxes that say "Would you like to give all your personal data to a third party? Click here to get started." Note that Facebook worked very hard to do the exact opposite of serving that kind of clear dialogue.

> I want them to be able to use third party chat UIs.

Why? If you are running a chat system, why not just build the UI you want your chat system to have? This doesn't even make sense to me.

I think maybe what you mean is that you want your users to be able to interact with 3rd party services through your chat UI? In which case the answer is to build an API for that which properly handles data and privacy. "Let this 3rd party do everything with a user account that a user can do" is a shitty, lazy and/or deliberately permissive way to deliver that feature. Note that Apple and Whatsapp, among others, provide 3rd party chat integrations without letting the 3rd parties read every message in the user's archive.
A) and it works like insurance in that most of us don't ever need it, but it's there just in case. Also, it does not regulate prices, providers, etc.

B) Again, yes, we need health insurance for rare surprises just like we get fire insurance, auto collision insurance, etc. in case of those rare occurrences. We do not need insurance for medical treatments that everyone gets. We just need to plan ahead financially for those, just like we do for food, clothing, housing, etc. Preparing ahead of time for known expenses is not insurance. If everyone's house burned down a few times each year fire insurance would not work, you would instead just factor that in to the cost of living.
> That "connection" is easiest and more scalable when it's based on real names

Is it though? People I know refer to their pages with short urls and nicknames all the time because nobody wants to scroll through bazillion of John Doe profiles in Facebook search.
Yikes.

There's a story from Reuters with more detail and more balanced coverage than this press release from Qualcomm: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-qualcomm-court/germ...

Apparently, there have been rulings in the US that Apple and Qorvo (supplier of the modem chip in question) hadn't violated this same hardware patent, based on a detailed technical analysis. So there's a chance that this ruling could be overturned on similar grounds in Germany, hence the bond that Qualcomm has to pay against possible damages.

For anyone curious who isn't likely to need to avoid knowing infringement, I think this is the patent in question: https://patents.google.com/patent/EP2724461B1/en
To add on, FB was built on this core attitude, I can only think how it spread to this day:

Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard

Zuck: Just ask

Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS

[Redacted Friend's Name]: What? How'd you manage that one?

Zuck: People just submitted it.

Zuck: I don't know why.

Zuck: They "trust me"

Zuck: Dumb fucks

source: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mark_Zuckerberg#Quotes
I don't think most people have a belief about how continuous or erratic their consciousness is, because the only time words are used to describe things is when you are distinguishing between more than one thing.
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That's actually a pretty useful tip imo. A little HUMINT never hurt a job search!

edit: Well, it might be concerning for certain security-clearance-required facilities, lol.
As someone who developed parnosmia later in life (I can only smell certain things), I found this article very interesting. Living without the ability to smell is somewhat more isolating than one would think. That, and I have to really trust someone if I want an opinion of whether the milk's gone bad
Curious if anyone in the ATT orbit cares to weigh in on what the employees think about this.

Example: ATT got iPhone exclusivity, an iPhone launch was treated like a sort of 'dangerous Christmas' that was high risk if things went wrong (stock problems) but high rewards if things went right (iPhone was exclusive to ATT).
5 Things I Learned from One User Feedback
My old mother uses Facebook because it's extremely easy for her to upload photos, find people, and comment on other people's feed.

She's barely capable of managing logins. Granted there are millions of people just like her who don't really care about privacy (also due to ignorance) and will use a service simply because it's convenient and is good enough.

This is like saying people should do maintenance on their own cars because mechanics at the shop will be able to see your personal identifying information that you have in the car.

Posting content online and having sensitive private chats on a third party website is like leaving personal identifying information inside a locked car and expecting that it'll never get broken in to, either by hackers or by the manufacturer leaking the car keys.

Also many people with personal websites are starting to use Medium because it provides greater reach.

I'm all for decentralization and self-sovereignty and would love to see a world where everyone hosts their personal website but this idea is far-fetched because the masses are going to prefer free, fast, and convenient services that require little management and thinking.
Oh yeah, that Apple, the most ethical tech company in the universe according to Tim Cook. Maybe time to get off that high horse, Tim.
It’s All Data
Sounds like you can get the results of a premade and trained TF model, but you can't build your own model or train it.
Twitter falls on short-seller Citron Research's report
If civilization keeps increasing data production around ambivalent use cases, perhaps we can successfully hide >99% of the lethal data siting around out there until its utility expires.
What's a permanent injunction?
Agreed. And the rinky-dink QR scanners attached underneath the register display almost never pick up what I'm showing it. It's the most effort by far of any grocery rewards program I've ever used, for the least amount of discounts. I don't even bother with the Prime discounts anymore--if the cashier asks, I just say I'm not a member and not interested.
China hacked HPE, IBM and then attacked clients
I suppose that does raise a question of where you draw the line on a company's obligation to anonymize information. Is disassociating a user ID from the data enough? What about data that makes the user identifiable through patterns?

If I say "Alexa, my name is Bob Jones and I have chlamydia," they're not really helping me out by just not associating that audio clip with my username.
That is indeed a problem :-) I had to bump up the delay between characters and particularly slow connections or serial consoles still can bite me. Mostly I still consider it worth using though, since fixing a few small typos is less work than typing the whole thing by hand.
They've been releasing versions monthly, here are the last few release notes:

v0.7 = https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2018/11/08/announcin...

v0.6 = https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2018/10/08/announcin...

v0.5 = https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2018/09/12/announcin...
I get sick in 10 mins on an airplane. Sitting on the wings helps tremendously. Sat in the tail once, never again. The front is okay as well for me but i can orient myself better on the wings and there is a lot less movement.
I think society will eventually demand it, all it will take is a few fatalities, and even if society doesn't, I can't help but think that some company will win out _because_ they are open, like Red Hat.
NHS.UK frontend
A sad tale of hypocrisy and the little guy losing. It would be less upsetting if Igrit wasn't so sue happy herself
or as the saying goes - he who screams the loudest.
Right.

A post on my blog:

pip now installed with Python 2.7.9:

https://jugad2.blogspot.com/2015/03/pip-now-installed-with-p...

which mentions:

https://docs.python.org/2.7//installing/index.html

and::

https://pip.pypa.io/en/latest/installing/#pip-included-with-...

I've used Python versions before that, where you had to install pip separately, and it was not trivial (to find it / install it), although not very difficult either.
Yeah, I was going to say... the "-less" terms are pretty stupid. "Serverless" is interesting for the no implied context work packets approach that is also interesting in e.g. highly threaded game engines, but is not about not using servers to run the work. Who comes up with this shit?
Qualcomm presumably know Apple are intending to completely replace them soon then; I’m pretty sure this sort of action will prove to be very bad for Qualcomm - if you are willing to sue Apple no customer is safe!
Wouldn't that mean this video and the lack of prosecution also did the opposite and possibly encouraged people to do it more?
Per the article

> In fact, only completely uninstalling the antivirus was a proper fix – excluding only .NET assemblies was not enough.
I have mix feeling about comma.ai I like what they stand for and what they're trying to achieve. But after reading their Openpilot code, it seems completely irresponsible releasing the Eon dev kit they way it is especially after their NHTSA stunt (I only reviewed the code when it first came out so things may have changed). I also wonder why this code is not being ported to something like a Jetson TX2. Especially with the new 4GB version priced at $199, I cannot see the argument of cost savings to using an OnePlus 3.
Shortcuts is not quite the same as Siri.
Show HN: A combination of passwordstore.org and keybase.io
A better title:

RFC 6896 - SCS: KoanLogic's Secure Cookie Sessions for HTTP [2013]
Brings to mind the very multifacted interpretation quote from Nelson Mandella - "In my country we go to prison first and then become President."
The Secret Weapon Behind Self-Driving Cars? Everyday People
Primarily, its free. DO is excellent, but still charges a minimum of $10/mo (their minimum is a single node with 2gb / 1vcpu) and requires a credit card to get started.

We are aiming for absolute simplicity for beginners who otherwise wouldn't have tried Kubernetes; for example, people who are currently running a few personal projects on a single $5 droplet. Our app gets you set up with one click via github auth, and you should be able to deploy your personal projects on Kube for free now.
first thing i check are emails so i can see how many tasks/protects are awaiting me and can plan my day, does this mean i am some addict if i wanna know what awaits me especially when later i need to prepare breakfast for child, prepare and take him to kindergarten and then depending on the content of mailbox go home rush to work (i prefer to do tasks ASAP so they won't accumulate) or can go somewhere outside to do shopping or something else
It's not yet public apparently, but might eventually appear at either https://dejure.org/2018,42849 or https://dejure.org/2018,42797 or maybe both.
This press release doesn't mention that Qualcomm had to raise 674 million euro in case it's infringement case here ends up losing, money that is forfeited to Apple.
USDA outlines first-ever rule for GMO labeling, sees implementation in 2020
CI/CD tools for sysadmins
Holy cow is that thing terrible. It is a maze of dead ends with really slow paths between them. Zero chance that it wasn't deliberately designed that way.
Yes, they are: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/31/wages-and-salaries-jump-by-3...

3.1 percent wage increase in Q3 2018. I see fast food jobs in my city for $13 an hour.
Do you use a cell phone? You seem to be wearing a tin-foil hat living under a rock.
Wow, lots of great material in here. Certainly enough for screenplay research ;)

As a companion to the this I love this piece about George Sterling's art colony in Carmel at the turn of the century. Utopian bohemianism, whether based upon magic, spirit, or tech. Is a perpetuating driver of human mythos ;)

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/146051/bohemian-tr...
I remember a research paper about a GC which worked well even with swapping but it required hooks in the kernel memory manager and the researchers weren't able to make their patch of linux accepted.
Sorry, this is the same story as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18728952 .
The award for most obnoxious impossible to close invasive mobile ad experience goes to vice.
TLDR: anti-virus programs can negatively affect server performance.
Don't think the judgement is released yet. Here's the (obviously German) press release of the court: https://www.justiz.bayern.de/gerichte-und-behoerden/landgeri...
I'm not saying we should accept it all unquestioningly, but I feel like that ship has sailed a long time ago. As a society, we should be taking action yesterday, not still asking if it's real or not. The only reason why we are still doing it is because of malicious high-influence individuals holding everyone back, trying to squeeze every last drop out of society.

Scientists and academics indeed have their own biases, but when you look at the big picture of the distribution of peoples' motivations, very clear patterns emerge that scream out: there is a lot of bad-faith, deliberate disinformation out there, and we need to take that into account. As rational people, it's tempting to just take arguments at face value and focus on the information. But this is all taking place in a larger context where psychology and game theory play a role. Impartiality is exploitable - tying up people's judgement is just a victory for the status quo.
Presto chango, the poisonous fruit is magically judicially edible!
Same story from CNBC: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/20/qualcomm-reportedly-wins-inj...
Sounds like you are compelled to assist authorities in decrypting your messages if they ask you. “Failing to do (so) will invite seven-year imprisonment and fine.”
Thanks! I thought about this as well. One thing I would ask, how common is a company paying for travel/accomodations for an interview? I am capable financially of making trips for interviews, but I almost feel like I need a commitment from a company to show that they consider me a serious potential hire for me to spend my own money for just an interview.
If it makes you feel better, the “always on” recordings never leave your device. They’re not even that great at recognizing anything other than “this sounds like a ‘hey Siri’”.
A really important addition to this would be: it has to have been from the start.

The issue is that so many projects have not been designed with these ideas from the outset, that it indeed usually does take a mammoth amount of re-engineering and dev time to make these kinds of changes and optimizations after the fact.
Thank you, I missed that one. Another is Dr. Jordan Peterson. I found this very interesting as well, and is another piece of this puzzle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQCTeGKHsVc
Yup, the first iPhone to introduce this was iPhone 6s.
And because Parsons' life intersected in the late '40s with that of L. Ron Hubbard, he features prominently in Lawrence Wright's excellent history of Scientology Going Clear (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Going_Clear_(book)) as well.

Wikipedia summarizes Parsons' and Hubbard's sex-magic collaboration here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Parsons_(rocket_engineer)...
I haven't used Amazon / Whole Foods' grocery delivery (always lived within walking distance), but I have tried other services like Peapod by Giant and Instacart. On the whole, it's been a terrible experience. Lots of orders botched. I once ordered two pounds of shrimp and received...two shrimp. I've had shoppers who can't tell green onions from leeks or zucchini from cucumber. For my last office birthday party (we do it for everyone) we ordered a cheesecake from Instacart, and it arrived moldy. So I'm not at all surprised that people, after having tried grocery delivery, are backing off.

As to Amazon and Whole Foods' retail experience, I feel like quality has declined, shortages are more frequent, and using the app's QR code for deals is painful, frustrating, and insufficiently rewarding to bother with it.
The PC wording is "Finds a reason..."
I'm not sure if you're aware, but "denier" is a loaded term that is used to equate the questioning of climate science with Holocaust denial. It has no place in a civilized discussion.

As for Climate Audit, the Wegman Report, and Judith Curry: Maybe try reading one of them sometime. I think you'll find that they are nothing like their detractors try to portray them to be.
> Most advertisers would pay big money to Apple to know who those people are and what they want; that information is like gold.

I think its laughable that this money would be tempting to Apple when they have a business that almost sees customers buying 700-1000 dollar plus devices on an annual or bi-annual subscription, especially when the privacy stance is one of the core pillars of the marketing message.

There is likely no commercially viable business model Apple could adopt to sell that data that would be remotely worth risking a 60-70 billion dollar a quarter in revenue money printing machine. That information is practically worthless in the context of iPhone revenue.

Should iPhone sales start to falter, this is absolutely something I would consider a concern, but the iPhone has a long way to fall.
basically saying that Apple has to refrain from certain activities: in this case, selling certain iPhones in GER
The most recent Eon isn't a OnePlus 3 it's a LeEco LePro 3.

I don't see how it's really irresponsible also, it is a relatively complicated set up ( getting easier all the time ), but people definitely are aware this isn't a fully fledged product and that they should be keeping an eye at all times.
It isn't slow, nor click-driven.

On the contrary, because I know my users are on a desktop, most actions can be done with keyboard shortcuts.

This means you haven't tried it. Which means you're talking about something you don't know.
The bikini style is probably unique enough that it could be considered "trade dress", which is protected by IP law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dress

The article mentions trade dress being an aspect of their lawsuit against Neiman Marcus and some other companies.
Single-purpose or embedded systems. Eliminating disks means one less thing to go wrong. Many persistent security threats cannot occur. If you want to deploy a software update, reboot the machine. No need to worry about remote updates/reboots/fails. Disk state is irrelevant if there are no disks.

I shipped a system like this many years ago (scoreboard displays). Most netboot schemes require the network to be up for the client machine to operate. If you run from RAM, like this system, you only need the network to boot the machine. It can then tolerate outages or run disconnected.
Yep, especially on the more "public" forums like HF.

The same approach is used with malware crypters or RATs (remote administration tools, heh).
why not use watch? i bought Amazfit Bip which i wear 24/7 (ok take away few minutes for shower since i don't feel comfortable taking shower work watch despite being waterproof) and can only praise it, 6 weeks battery life with 24/7 Bluetooth notifications, measuring heart rate every ten minutes (every minute seem excessive and poetically world reduce battery life a bit) and pedometer
Ah, good spot. They do allude to this:

> The injunction is effective as soon as Qualcomm posts the required bonds

Makes more sense, but still not sure what advantages this approach brings. I guess Apple could then come to some agreement with Qualcomm to lift the injunction, but it's still a brutal penalty unless Qualcomm has to license the patent at a reasonable price
Hey, your product looks super cool but I’m a bit stumped as to why you’re trying to force a token into it. It looks like it’s a simple payments token, which doesn’t usually turn out to be a great idea if you look at the remnants of blockchain projects that did the same in 2018.

Is this just a way to fundraise or do you have other ideas to make your product ‘decentralized’ aside from using a cryptocurrency?

For the record, everything else about the product looks amazing and I’m really excited to see an open and privacy conscience alternative in this space :)
True, but that's subtly different than the point I'm trying to make.

Imagine your hypothetical were reversed. Imagine we already had a network toll roads priced at an average of $5/100 miles, and that we had a plan to build and maintain public roads at an expected cost of $1/100 miles. There might be plenty of good reasons not to prefer the more efficient public plan, but the fact that it would put toll road vendors out of business isn't one of them.

Capitalists don't mindlessly prefer private things just because they're private. We like them because they tend to self-optimize for efficiency more effectively than a centrally managed system can. Usually. There are a whole thread's worth of reasons to believe health care is one of the exceptions, both in theory and in practice. If that's the case, then refusing to implement a superior public system solely because it would decimate the inferior private one is just another flavor of the same anticompetitive protectionist bullshit that makes tarrifs and professional licensing and restrictive zoning and a dozen other types of cronyism distasteful.
They both stop in Union Station?
Two APT10 Member Charged for Hacking US Navy, NASA and Cloud Services
This is horseshit.
And then there was the internal app I saw that had a fixed width of 1400 px. Because, hey, everyone is on a desktop with that size monitor.
Chris Lattner works on Swift for TensorFlow, so it’s not hard to see why he was picked for this role.
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find myself paying an extraordinary amount and was wanted to ask the HN community for literature/advice on personal taxes and also a small C corp that is more of a placeholder than generating much income at this point (is generating losses)

are there worthwhile people I should reach out to? I've caught my CPA not recommended what I consider common sense things twice now and he seems to feel like he is in the right even though I increased my refund...
And for the most part when the prices differ 9 out of 10 times it's more expensive outside the US (and sometimes significantly so).

Whenever I go to the US it's shopping time. Pretty much everything is cheaper. And many items you just can't get elsewhere (which is another aspect many ignore).

I know this is going to be controversial, but healthcare-wise high earners might be better-off in the US too. Generally it would seem to me, the more money you make the better US is in comparison.
>Do people really use voice commands for, well, anything?

Yes, daily.

I use it when cooking to get instructions on how long to bake a specific vegetable and at what temp. While I'm out driving to get directions hands free. When I want to do a search but can't be bothered to type the whole thing out on my mobile keyboard. When I'm at home and want to listen to radio on my speakers. I use a Pixel 2, so when I make a call I just squeeze it and say 'call {contact}', rather than find-and-open the phone app.

Don't look at voice commands as a interface replacement for keyboards. Instead, look at voice commands as a new interface for situations where using a keyboard or touch screen is a hassle.
This is oracle v google all over again.
There is an alternative to the spying devices of Amazon, Apple, Google and Microsoft:

https://snips.ai/technology/

"Our technology runs on-device, works offline and guarantees Privacy by Design"