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> When inspecting the utility/privacy frontier, the current model of requiring users to grant permission to an app makes the most sense to me. The problem in this case is that the permissions modal may not have been clear enough.

Requiring permissions is a good step, but an auditable history would be a huge gain for users world-wide.

In other words, I would like to make an api call or visit a facebook page and see what data was requested by and sent to every third party with which I have shared data. I could then use that data to see if I'm comfortable sharing that information. Automation could also be undertaken by facebook to weed out obviously malicious actors.
Obligatory xkcd:

https://xkcd.com/505/
Except that FB is actually tragically awful at these things because the way the algorithm is a black box that always changes, you don't have anything reliable about who sees what… and to really promote something so people see it, you PAY for it to be boosted, so it's no better in that sense than the old newspaper analogy!

Let me tell you a personal story: My sister is one of those people who just throws stuff up on FB like anyone else. People not on FB miss it. A couple years ago, someone inspired her to send a personal email to close family just sharing updates about what's happening with her and inviting others to reply the same way. It immediately felt more personal and meaningful and brought out different context and closer relationships compared to anything that happens on Facebook. It died away after a little bit because we failed to keep up a routine… but I predict that if your cousin sent you vacation pictures not in a just "email everyone" sense but in actually thinking of YOU, it would actually feel good and bring you together in a more meaningful way… but I don't know you or your cousin, of course.
Love it. I've been in tech sales for 20 years and even started a company that provides sales services for tech companies. I truly believe that a number of great tech companies die because they dont "figure out" sales early enough. Lead gen...pipeline management...pitches...these things matter. I've helped crappy products destroy competitors just by paying attention to the sales process. TLDR: a better mousetrap is worthless without a sales strategy.

If I can offer my time or experience to help you drive this forward I would be excited to do so. I tell people often "I wanted to be in tech but I'm an awful engineer. So sales was my way to enter this sector."

My contact info is in my profile. Good luck to you.
Any links/sources you could point towards, even unofficial rumors?
The article does not say ancient literature does not contain feelings.
Ehh, wordpress is a mis-step along our path of digital expression. There's this new thing called flat HTML files that are very easy to maintain and much more flexible (and secure). If you don't mind a complete mess, like me :P
So ai is not a problem in your eyes?
> I don't understand the link between price and resistance to damage.

People expect tablets to be somewhat durable, and they expect the best tablets to be especially so.
It's exceptionally good in my experience in English. It helps when you train it on your voice. Also, it wants me to say "hey Google" these days, if you like that any better than ok Google.
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I'm pretty sure you can say "Hey Google" as well.
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> Is it? Is the $30 puck better than the Home assistant or does it just suck that much more in French than it does in English? (Not being snarky, genuinely asking)

Absolutely it is. In general, my Siri usage is limited to opening Google Assistant, that's how bad it is. Also, "Hey Google" works as a command on most devices.
> Ethnicity is defined primary through shared history and social grouping.

Agreed. But I feel ethnicity is "used" in a way like "race".

> Race is defined through genetics.

Sure? I thought genetically race had a very weak basis, and that it was basically some aspects of bodily looks and location of genetical/blood origination? The main reason we needed ethnicity as a term, because race was "simply not there in the genes" and thus "mostly about looks" which gave it very little use in proper science.
Looks like Corel’s PE owner Vector Capital doing another tangentially related acquisition (jasc, winzip, intervideo, and Roxio are Corel’s other acquisitions under Vector) to bolster revenues, would be surprised if there was another more nefarious angle

https://www.vectorcapital.com/investments/case-study/corel
XMPP on mobile was always a disaster for data use and battery life - back when gtalk was still XMPP the mobile clients used a proprietary protocol to talk to a google server that unwrapped it into XMPP.

Pure-XMPP simply would not have worked.

(I have my issues with the matrix protocol, mind, but they had good reasons to create a protocol even so)

Edit: I also wouldn't be surprised if this is why facebook messenger switched from XMPP to a custom MQTT-based system.
No, but I don't think the latter individual should starve, or be unable to afford healthcare, or be forced to work in unsafe work conditions, or be forced to work multiple jobs because any single on that this person can get doesn't pay enough. I think the minimum that both individuals should expect to get from various levels of government should be the same, and that minimum should be of sufficient level so that the least fortunate can work towards something better when the time and situation permit without being forced to subsist in poverty and the mindset that poverty locks people into.
The sagas also contain direct expressions of feelings. For example some characters are wont to burst into song to express their emotions. But the point is this is a form of direct speech, which the article contrast to an internal monologue.
The Dollop podcast has an amusing take on Jack Parsons too. NSFW and probably less historically accurate than Unexplained, but amusing at least.

http://thedollop.libsyn.com/jack-parson
They won the Best Paper CVPR prize in 2017.

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"Make something people want" only works if people know you exist. I'll reach out to follow up.
Pittsburgh (120) seems to be beating Pittsburg (6) as well, so theres a lot of data cleanup to be done.
Just terrible UX in general, and a very bloated & power hungry client. Search is borderline useless, and it's difficult for me to find anything that was talked about a couple weeks ago (meanwhile I can easily grep IRC logs for things that were said years ago). People at work turned off mobile notifications because they sometimes work, but usually not when you want them to work. I wish we'd just switch to IRC.
Yeah the statistics and machine learning applications are a bit hard to get away from. But I would still replace the calculus sequence with discrete math, assuming the number of math credits had to stay the same. At my school (University of Maryland, College Park) most CS majors just took calculus 1-3, statistics, and one basic discrete math course from the computer science department. The size of calculus seems massive (3/5 of the total math load) compared to the benefit. That precious time could be spent digging deep into linear algebra or combinatorics or graph theory etc, and that's useful for all developers who write algorithms, not just in specific applications' niches.
Crowley had a mischievous streak and delighted being in the spotlight. His writing style was infused by sarcasm and was all over the spectrum of using poetic and sexual language to both offend and veil.

I do not think you are correct in your assessment as clearly he couldn't care less about offending people. An example is when he refers to masturbation as "child sacrifice":

“For the highest spiritual working one must accordingly choose that victim which contains the greatest and purest force. A male child of perfect innocence and high intelligence is the most satisfactory and suitable victim.”

His sense of humor wouldn't be out of place today. Crowley was a visionary genius who tapped into the 21st century and one could say helped bring it into existence. To portray him as nothing more than a sexual deviant or charlatan does not do the man justice.
I've never seen a demographic breakdown of HN, but I'm 37 years old. I'm definitely not the oldest guy here, but I see history repeat itself regularly. I remember when people used location tracking as a reason to not own a cell phone. I'm talking about flip phones, mind you, not even iPhones with GPS receivers. I recall the bulk of complaints in that vein died down around the time Google Maps for phones came out.

If this happened today but with Verizon and someone's location via cell tower records, no one would use that as evidence that no one should own a cell phone. That probably tells you what you need to know about the trajectory of voice assistants.
How do you get security updates for your fingers??
> Still holding out for someone to care about Equifax

No tangible harm can be traced to the Equidate breach. (At least not yet.) That makes it politically useless. If you want the Congress to build the legal tools with which to prosecute Equifax the next time around, Facebook is the lens through which to do it.

Remember, the United States doesn’t really have a statorury codification of digital privacy rights. We’re still in the process of distilling popular senses into law.
They didn't figure out anyone's ethnicity, according to their press statement they banned all accounts which were accessed via Iranian IP's. While seemingly a little heavy handed IMO, they are trying to comply with US laws. They also provided a way for people to send an email to address their specific accounts if they feel they were terminated improperly.

Slack is protecting their multi-billion dollar business and their investors which are both based in the U.S. If they do not, they could run into trouble and put far more at risk. This does not only affect Iran, it affects other countries too which the U.S. has active sanctions against.
My big complaint from HelloFresh was that while you can sign up online, you have to call them to cancel, which makes it hard to suspend for extended trips. Consequently I just cancelled once and never went back.

Having a more involved mechanism for cancellation than sign up is one of more nefarious "dark patterns" which I cannot stand.
Many phones work the same way, the phone is always listening for you to say ok siri.
The alternative, now that network bandwidth isn't in the 56Kbps range and sometimes on and sometimes off, is doable.

If you look at the "end" game, imagine that everyone has a machine at their house that they can access locally in their web browser. It has easy tools for posting updates and pictures. When you create a "profile" on it, you can choose to upload that profile to a well known repository of profiles. There is a widget to search the repository for people you might know, and if you "friend" them then your local machine gets a link to their RSS equivalent feed. Friend graphs become distributed, content is always local, and the only cost is to maintain the machine holding the profile repository.

IPV6 addressing and more than 500Kbps of upload bandwidth makes this possible. The current long pole in the tent are ISPs who specifically disallow (and interfere with!) long live server processes in their consumer internet accounts. I've written the FCC and my representatives suggesting that this is a place where some good rulemaking would enable Facebook alternatives that protected civil liberties.
It is unbelieveable that a company which employs such tactics against their users can survive. I know I avoid their products like plague, Java and DB included.
Related project

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_in_Morocco
There is obviously more to this story than Amazon is telling. https://www.heise.de/downloads/18/2/5/6/5/3/9/6/ct.0119.016-... says that this was a "one-time error" and that "Amazon also claimed that they had discovered the error themselves". It is highly unlikely that either of these are true. The one time they made this error just happens to involve someone who is savvy enough to contact the right journalists to investigate it? And Amazon coincidently discovered the error themselves after being contacted by c't? Amazon is flat out lying.

If there is ever a case for the max GDPR fine to be imposed, this is it.
I'm going to guess that the religion in question is Islam, which forbids alcohol. Her being okay with the kind of Muslim who isn't religious enough to follow this proscription doesn't disprove her being a bigot. "Doesn't look like they have shared a drink with a woman late at night anytime during their life" is a poor basis for being afraid of someone. Many don't choose that lifestyle. Some will judge you for choosing it. Fewer will physically attack you for choosing it...

If they're leering at her (she said she can "feel" their looks, which could mean looks of moral judgement or of objectification/lust), I can start to understand why she'd be afraid. But there is a subjective element to interpreting others' body language, and bringing religion into the complaint makes me think prejudice might be coloring that.
It was sarcasm. Lowering taxes is often touted by right wing leaning economic politicians as a way of boosting the economy and making it more competitive. But that 1) only works in certain types of economic landscapes 2) has a dubious track record, and 3) leaves out of the picture that often tax cuts often come at the expense of social programs (in its most extreme, right-wing form, see Starve the Beast)

Since, in America, the party that most strongly advocates tax cuts, tends to do so to the benefit of the rich, and at the expense of labor and labor-helping social and enforcement programs, I was trying to make a joke to point out how absurd an argument OP was making.
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>If you don't think information that subjects an entity to massive legal liability is sensitive, then I really don't understand where you're coming from.

The employees were already subjecting their company to legal liability when they were using unlicensed software.

>The entire point of these emails is to bypass established channels by getting random employees to leak information. If they want licensing information, there's an IT point of contact for that. Or Contracts. Or Legal. They are literally fishing for information leakage that would give them grounds to sue.

So if I'm Oracle and I'm trying to find unlicensed enterprise users, what am I supposed to do? Call up their IT/legal department and hope that they'll investigate for me, and respond with a truthful response? Is Oracle not allowed to investigate on their own for licensing infractions? I feel like the only reason people are up in arms about this is because Oracle is doing it. If some startup was doing this to discover that some big corp was not paying their licensing fees, no one would blink an eye.

>They wouldn't. At this stage the point is to convey a false sense of authority without being outright fraud. You have to wrap everything in vague but threatening insinuations-- "help us or you could face fines of up to a bazillion dollars, and/or you might go to JAIL."

Sure, but cops do the same thing (if not more). I'm not saying either is okay, but both are not "phishing".
That's relatively rare on routine domestic flights compared to Amtrak outside the NEC. To pick a completely random data point: there were 5 trains between Seattle and Portland yesterday. 501 Cascades left 2 hours and 48 minutes late. 517 Cascades left 1 hour and 18 minutes late.

Day before yesterday was better. The 501 was only 22 minutes late, but arrived 44 minutes late. The 517 left 10 minutes late and arrived 34 minutes late. The 507 left 10 minutes late and arrived 28 minutes late.

But Monday was worse again. The 501 left 26 minutes late, arriving 21 minutes late. The 11 Coast Starlight left 58 minutes late, arriving an hour and 20 minutes late. And the 517 Cascades left 39 minutes late, arriving 56 minutes late.

I can't remember the last time I had a routine flight between nearby cities delayed.
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The Buildbox UI is very similar to Magicavoxel
> What I don't understand is why they have to store voice recordings instead of deleting them once they understand the vocal command. There could be a number of reasons and I don't like any of them.

Not that I have any insider information but a while back someone made a post on reddit about what baffles them about their work and they had a job where they basically listened to very short voice clips and saw something on the screen and they had to decide whether it was the right word on the screen or not.
Yes, hyper-empirical is exactly right. I totally don't know what caused the bigger creek in Big Bend or how that relates to the larger climate. I was hoping Hacker News would chime in with exactly this kind of analysis.
"/cgi-bin/ with javascript instead of perl" doesn't make me want to buy it, either.
>except the Play store

Workaround:

1)Install F-Droid (f-droid.org)
2) Install Yalp Store from F-Droid
It seems to still be a viable solution in countries with a high percentage of sunny days throughout the year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_in_Morocco
Not common in San Diego either... the sunshine tax is real.
Yes, but is that behavior changeable with only a software update?
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I'm starting to think there must be something seriously wrong with me, or that I should just give up on this industry entirely. I've just gone through my fourth round of "everything going great, take home project looks good, then a three sentence rejection letter saying something about 'many qualified candidates' two days later".

Is anyone else experiencing this? I feel like I've never gone through this level of flakiness before. If anyone from the hiring side of things could shed light on this, that would be amazing. For reference, this is seeking a mid-level front end position in the bay area as a self taught developer with 4 years experience at various startups.
Why? I’d like to be corrected if so.
Kong's K8s Ingress Controller lets you configure and run plugins (custom code) on your proxy traffic. This gives you a lot of power on how you’d like to route, authenticate, shape your traffic.

Nginx gives you the ability to tweak functionality, but it's not as dynamic or as easy out of the box.
Probably you had one of those ‘winmodem’ monstrosities that were prevalent at the time. I experienced similar problems.
Yeah, it took me a few weak brews to figure that out since I usually go as fine as possible for Aeropress/Mokapot coffee. Coarse makes it way stronger and filtering doesn't take as long.
I vaguely remember rumors (or maybe it was used in a few court cases by the FBI), where carriers would turn on the microphones of 2G dumb phones remotely and silently. So your dumb phone probably has the same issue.

Carriers also keep records of where subscriber devices have been, so even if your phone doesn't have GPS, the carrier has cell tower triangulation logs of the device too.

ISPs such as comcast also save your browsing history to run their advertising networks, so that is also recorded somewhere too. And if/when net neutrality goes away completely, they might just sell that info too:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/03/comcast-we-wont-...

Whats even worse about ISPs doing it is how you usually have no other choices and it's your complete traffic stream!
You know, if nobody cares about this, then why are people constantly up in arms whenever yet-another-Facebook-privacy-scandal surfaces?

Why people object to have e.g. their financial or medical information disclosed?

Yes, there are people who are "sheep" in the sense that they would do anything if there is some voucher or discount for it. But most people would also object to a camera in their bedroom or photos of their kids being posted publicly online for everyone to see.

You are right that most of the stuff is absolutely mundane, especially in isolation. However, with a bit of analysis one could suddenly learn things about you that you would likely want to keep private - e.g. your sexual fetishes, whether or not you have some illness (insurers and some employers would kill for such info!), your political views, ton of data about your interests, which TV shows you are watching, etc. That's an absolute bonanza of data that makes any marketer salivate and see dollar signs. And a gold mine for all sorts of stalkers and creeps too.
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Sunamp is missing the “cold portion” of the system that Malta has set up, drastically decreasing energy efficiency by not being able to maximize the advantage of heat differentials in the Carnot process.
Thanks for this link. It explains what just happened to me last night -- I went to Amazon looking for Heinlein's "Have Spacesuit, Will Travel" for an xmas present for my son. It's simply not available anywhere new.
This is amazing! You inspired me to get Dotsies on my Kindle. I've been wanting to read Cixin's "The Three-Body Problem", so this is the perfect opportunity.

I'm also packaging the fonts up for Void Linux but was unable to find any licensing information. Do you have dotsies under Creative Commons? Did I just miss something?
I'd suggest using a service like Segment or MetaRouter.io to collect the event data, then use Airflow to prep it.
I beg to differ.

Unreliable keyboards and security chips that frequently crash the computer are feature regressions.
Well, they made an active decision to buy a device specifically meant to record them and provide responses to said recording. It would be another thing to find out a phone records every conversation passively, but these devices are literally made for the purposes of recording you.

That kind of sounds like a self inflicted wound if they actually cared about privacy.

This is all said with the presumption that the devices actually are surreptitiously recording. Which is far from proven but already addressed by other comments here.
Please explain what is cube.js doing in this? I mean, what exactly cubejs does.
"there is no better way to pressure a country than to pressure its people to force a change"

So you would make people suffer and think that they would blame their own government for that and not the US?

Don't you think that makes you and your country evil?
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