skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am baffled that people like yourself are not concerned in the least.

I grew up in an Eastern Europe Communist State where this kind of personal surveillance was the norm. People went and wrote down all their interactions with others. You can see these documents now as the former secret police archives were published (what wasn't destroyed to protect the higher ups).

It's amazing how the most innocuous remarks can be used against yourself in an unbelivable twists. Just an example:
Person A criticized person C, which was his boss, as being incompetent, to person B, which was a secretly delator. Person B went and reported to the secret police this tension, as he was payed on the number of pages he would write.

The secret police compiled a weekly report of stuff that would happen, in each company, and send it up to the party for review. It just happened in the party that somebody who saw the report had frictions with that Boss, and he used that report to push the Boss around. The Boss thought that person A himself wrote the report, and used his connections to get person A fired, and banned, on the party line, from ever having a qualified-work position again - ie he could not be an engineer, teacher, or anything, leaving him with just construction work or janitorial jobs.

How often do you bitch about your boss? How would you like that your boss gets reports about what you bitch about him in your own home? How would you like that what you say, no matter how private you want it to be, is always recorded?

I'm astounded by the fact that people see nothing wrong having these devices always listening to them.
I'm not necessarily disagreeing with the thrust of your argument (do you really need to store all that?), but constraining your sample to people paid to talk to Alexa can create huge swathes of bias. You'd need to make sure the people you pay also reflect all the accents and languages of the people who use Alexa. On top of that, without some amount of voice data, how are you to even know what that accent breakdown looks like? That's a near-impossible task.
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Universal Quantum computers were barely started to be announced at that time by IBM and Google.
That assumes you have to put in valid data for that. In that case, you are just "Customer #12345" versus a person they can correlate against.
Oh this is good, this does room level localisation by the looks of it. From what I can see, with Anyplace you have give it a building plan and then walk along the and sample the APs RSSI for each position, more data points give a better approximation of where you are
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Really? So apple intended to ship non-flat tablets? What is the rational for intentionally making only some of these non-flat? What advantage or innovation does the non-flatness of a certain percentage of ipad's allow? I mean it totally seams plausible that they simply neglected to mention how non-flat tablets are the next big innovation when they were announced.

Or, perhaps this is just damage control because it is fucking embarrassing on a "premium" device.
> I am presuming here that everyone agrees that should be possible to make that work

But not on precisely how. I think what we’ve identified, nationally, is a need to legislate standards around digital privacy and information monopolies. Your confusion is reasonable. We, as a nation, never had these conversations. Democracy is, at the end of the day, a reactive system.
I would love to get my mother signed up for this as she has been wanting to transition into tech sales. What types of roles do you believe a graduate of the program would start out with? ADR/SDR? SMB AE? Other? And what about remote opportunities?
This is pretty easy to explain:

1. Whole Foods sucks. They have poor quality items (especially produce), are often out of stock of common things, they don't have name brand items, and the prices aren't great.

2. Amazon's delivery service sucks. The website and app are terrible compared to Instacart, and only deliver from Whole Foods or Amazon.

(I am not in love with Instacart either, its almost impossible to get a grocery delivery same-day if you decide to put in an order after 4pm in SF. Sometimes you'll fill up your cart because it says "2 hour delivery" and by the time you're done it says "Tomorrow Morning".)
They've already started doing this with cancer. The problem is the cancer evolves to stop producing the identifiers the immune system was using to determine what to kill.
try disabling Google Maps location access permission. For me it triggers an endless loop requesting Location permission, rendering the app unusable.

Google's always mining data behind the scenes and gapps are constantly phoning home, your "opt-out" preferences are meaningless.
We all moved to Macs for this very reason. Now I have a kernel thread that leaks ~1.7Gb over the course of 2 days if I 'watch' any assets but at least it's deterministic.
Not parent, but I'll answer.

1) The implementation of the wake word recognition is implemented in hardware that cannot be updated remotely.

2) The device is unable to transmit information without lighting up a TX light. Implemented in unmodifiable hardware.

3) Voice recordings are processed and then deleted within one month.

4) The device is run by a company that doesn't make money through marketing or data analysis.
I use mattermost at work. It's terrible. Coworkers don't seem particularly impressed with it either.

Can't compare it to Slack though, since I never used it.
I've gotten beer and wine delivered through Amazon from Whole Foods. They had to check my id at my door.

I think it varies by state law.
“Amazon seems to actually care about privacy “

Not according to the NY Times this week. Amazon have been reading your private messages on Facebook.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/18/technology/facebook-priva...
This appears to be the state of play. User is accused of doing violating TOS and gets auto banned. No appeal, no recourse, no way of getting their info. Imagine kicked out of somewhere, like a hotel, based on an accusation and then not even being able to get your stuff. While property law allows us opportunity to have our possessions returned, requiring the other party to return it to us, in cases like these however, who owns the text messages, emails, photos? How can we retrieve them?
Which is a good argument for cutting down reliance on American companies.
I tried explaining this interesting connection to a group of friends in college, but they looked at me like I was crazy.
https://outlookzen.com/2014/01/21/democracy-by-jury/
Dear Congress:

We don't need a law to protect our privacy from Facebook; we need one to protect us from the US government.
Steve Gibson did a wireshark investigation of an Alexa, it is NOT always transmitting.

Your assertion that "nobody can prove that" is rather absurd.
>When i try to think of what my ideal social media would look like, it always ends up sounding similar to an RSS feed, with the ability to lookup and requiring the other user's approval to get the actual content, you could use different clients, some could give you recommendations for events,etc based on your subscriptions if you so choose, or just run your own locally. life would be so simple

Up until you get to "different clients" you're basically describing classic Google Reader.
Great overview. Do you plan to open source the DAG dependency graph tool?
I said I could see the argument, not necessarily agree with it. I mean, in this day and age insurance companies also consider a severe cleft palate a cosmetic surgery and not a necessity. I certainly would not leave it up to them. I think it should be left up to the consult doctor, to be honest. If you don't agree, consult another =/
That's the point:

The situation for social networks would be strictly better if you could easily migrate accounts between FB, Google, etc and subscribe to feeds from multiple networks.

The situation you're calling out is exactly the point.
Out of curiosity, is that property specific to mice, or are most small mammals similar in that regard, and we use mice instead of, say, cats, just because they are more convenient?
MARC is also routinely late because they have to sit behind Amtrak trains that are running late. And an Amtrak train that is 15 minutes late will get to D.C. in the same total time as a MARC train that's on time. Also, MARC is sometimes delayed leaving DC, while the 188 Amtrak always leaves D.C. on time. (Even the one that derailed and killed a bunch of people after I got off at Baltimore, left D.C. at 7:10 on the nose.)
It's reasonable to embed motive into these suspicions. My confidence in iPhone not listening to me is linked to the fact that Apple's ad network is a fraction of the size of Amazon's and Google's, and that to the best of our knowledge, it doesn't require extensive access to personal data to run effectively. Same with GE appliances and countertop makers. One of the most reliable ways for me to believe a company will not harvest my data surreptitiously, now or with TOS updates in the future, is for me to be convinced it's not in their best interest to do so.
But then the data is tied up in their proprietary service. Like, I appreciate the attempt to contribute this kind of thing back, even if it was a bit ham-fisted.
Going to throw our hat in the ring here. We built Universe (http://apple.co/Universe) for precisely this reason: to enable everyone to build their place on the internet, without touching code, all from a phone.

You can see some of the sites created with it here: http://showcase.onuniverse.com

Here's more about us: http://fastcompany.com/90174165/the-future-of-web-design-doe...
Ah, so you make it to the "culture fit" round of the interview... It's probably some personal issue. Make sure your hygiene is on point.

Keep applying, this industry is hot!
Perhaps the source of your confusion lies in your misunderstanding of the actual risks involved.

A good indicator of that is your reference of the Stasi.
Humans can handle 150 friends and around 1000 acquintances maximum.
and Apple is still profitable on a product line they introduced in 1984.
Not everyone can be a good salesperson. But those that can be good can be trained to be GREAT. Sales isnt the last refuge of people that cant do anything else. It is a profession with actual skills that can be developed through training, process, and experience.

I love the idea of someone saying "oh yeah...sales MATTERS" in a world that screams "tech tech tech tech." If you are a non-technical person wanting to work for an exciting tech company then sales is a great place to gravitate. And if you are a tech company that ignores investing yourself in sales then you are fighting with 9ne hand tied behind your back.
It's to train their speech recognition and intent recognition systems. They probably also use the data to prioritise which queries they add support for.
PCF works best with the VMware stack (vSphere + vROPs) hence the sell to Operations. It is an absolute beast to install. You can do a PoC with PCF Dev to see what using it as a developer will be like, but the actual implementation of it will absolutely require Pivotal consultants to get going.

PCF itself is also very expensive. I'm not sure if they charge per node or per app; they've changed it over the last few years. I would get the skinny on that before committing to anything and do a TCO/ROI analysis.

If you are going to go this route, I would also consider doing a PoC with OpenShift or Rancher. These are managed Kubernetes offerings, both on prem. Both have free open-source editions that mostly mirror what you'll get in the Enterprise offering at smaller scale. Rancher is also less "enterprisey" in that they aren't as aggressive about enterprise support or upsells, at least from what I've heard.

I think you'll be locked into big contracts with either option, but Pivotal's lock-in is tighter, at least from what I can tell. This could change after IBM fully moves in, however.
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Hey I’m right there with you. I keep voice assistant disabled on my phone FWIW and my girlfriend and I both refuse to have voice assistant devices in our studio. Our upstairs roommates have the whole top floor of the house bugged. They mostly use it to turn on and off the lights. Downstairs we also have Hue lights but we use the app. I’d love a locally hosted assistant but I’m busy with so many projects and it’s low on my list.
I was not, it was a personal choice.
I'm guessing they get a lot of speculative remote applications, so are trying to prevent that.
Seattle, but I guess I had some perks. I didn't itemize it. That was for everything. They did not take me to the closest hospital, either, for some reason.
I think in this case they are selling you the prefab house, not owning it. Building a second "house" in your garden is illegal in many places, so before doing this please consult whoever is in charge to authorize it. (You can call it "disrupting" the home construction market.)
We'd love to help. Ton of ageism in tech, and we're looking to help fix this (we have many students from those backgrounds). We focus on ADR/SDRs now, with the goal being that with our training, they get promoted 6-9mo faster than peers to AEs. We're doing some SMB AE work as well.

Email us at hello@flockjay.com and I'd be happy to personally share more. We're focused on fulltime, on-site positions for now, but over time will do more with remote.
>What Happens When Facebook Goes the Way of Myspace?

The world will be a better place.
Or, you know, you could try going outside and joining society. 5mph over on the highway is completely normal, and the only reason the smalltown cop, those OP claims to be nice guys, gave me a ticket is because I was transiting through. $350 for 5mph over on the highway is normal in your world? Again, I urge you to go outside and join society, oh mighty keyboard warrior.
People expect tablets to be somewhat durable, and they expect the best tablets to be especially so.

Then why is there a massive market for protective cases and screen protectors?
Relevant example in the news today:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/maryland-father-accused...
1.) It's not actually scalable to pay enough people to talk to Alexa to train these models.

2.) That data would not be representative of what real users are doing so it would bias the models.
I don't necessarily think that is technically feasible. At least in the US, they have to be PCI compliant, and I think of that is they cannot store a credit card number. In addition, Chip and pin works differently than a credit card number, as the purchase is tokenized versus to an account number, making cross purchase correlation more difficult.
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When I use the internet am I doing computerless computing?
I think it is worth a mention that Simplenote (https://simplenote.com) is a simple note taking application available, at no cost, on all of the platforms mentioned. I use it because it syncs better than notes on my iPhone.
> I think the difference is that Peapod doesn't have stores, so the "shoppers" can pick from an entire warehouse of produce. So if a head of broccoli looks "off," there are far more alternatives than someone "shopping" from an individual store's selection.

This is the experience I've had with freshdirect. But I thought peapod actually was shopped from individual Stop & Shops?
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Fair enough, but I feel like I've learned more about actual atoms by reading Arstechnica as an adult than I did during high school chemistry class - I may be remembering incorrectly, but my recollection is that we learned antiquated models of the atom as a history lesson / collection of historical and no longer true facts. I'm sure that the science was mentioned, but we didn't focus on any more generalizeable scientific skills.

In my own field (statistics), I think that this is quite common. We commonly teach ANOVA and linear regression separately because it's always been taught that way, despite the fact that a good appreciation of linear models is far more general, useful, and intuitive.
Laws generally follow the calls for moral condemnation or the relaxation of those calls. And those calls are part of the debate on what should or shouldn't be law. Asking for moral judgment to be removed from discussions because those things are legal, is putting the cart before the horse.
I think Hyper-V is Windows 8+ (or similar generations of Windows Server), isn't it?

Much of the Windows world is still on Windows 7, and it would be rather ironic if they were updating because of concerns about software phoning home...
This is a myth (or one of those things that may have been true at one point but is now repeated as lore even though it was solved 15+ years ago); XMPP is actually pretty good on mobile. Between the persistent TLS connection which can let the radio go to sleep when no data is being sent (without the tail time of creating a new TCP connection constantly) and TLS style stream management it's very battery efficient when you're using a server that's optimized for mobile.
It's rock and roll. You don't get it, but somebody does.
There likely will not be a cryptanalytic capable quantum computer for over a few decades.
Spitballing a bit here. Why do they have to be websites? That is to say, why do they have to be on the "web", HTML over HTTP, at all? This seems like the default way to do things to us now, but if you think about it, what most of us fundamentally want with a social media site like Facebook (not Twitter, that's different) is just to communicate and keep up with our friends and family. That's why people flock to any app that gets mindshare: Facebook, Whatsapp, Instagram, that allows them to do these things.

What does an alternative look like? Something like a shared Discord for friends and family to use, divided into groups or "servers". (That was the key insight of Google+, that people don't have one online presence for their family, close friends, coworkers, acquaintances, etc. It failed for other reasons.) The extra feature you need is just a shared searchable history to find media, albums of photos, etc.

I think the points the article makes are valid, but better understood as a criticism of Twitter. It effectively asks, if what we want is to post stuff online for other people to read, why not use the open web for that rather than [centralized service]. Thing is, people are already working on alternatives to this and not everyone needs to use the same thing for it to be successful. ActivityPub, websites using RSS for synchronization, Neocities, etc etc. So my response is that there are two sorts of things we use social media for, and there's no reason to try to do them both with one site.

I think I'm going to look into open Discord alternatives, and try to get some family and friends interested. Worst case, it will be an interesting experiment I'll learn something from.
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Your per unit cost of item tracked would be quite high, but there's a version of the client of https://www.internalpositioning.com/ that you can run on ESP32 boards. You'd need to figure out a power solution for the device too.

I've had success putting 18650 cells and then 3d printing cases for these: https://www.amazon.com/Makerfocus-Battery-Shield-Raspberry-A... Battery last long enough for peronal tracking around my house, but likely wouldn't be long enough to track the thing for multiple days in a row without a recharge.
Last two people this happened to got $1.6M settlements courtesy of us, the taxpayers [1][2].

[1] https://reason.com/blog/2016/07/27/woman-kidnapped-and-sexua...

[2] http://reason.com/blog/2014/01/14/victim-of-dog-authorized-a...
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Are you trying to say these home assistants are basically mechanical Turks?
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Since multiple people asked this, I started a write up. I'll try to post it soon.
I'm not saying it's as easy as Facebook, but it's not "you need to be a developer"-hard either.

Tangent:

I've now talked four friends who wanted to start blogging out of spending money on AWS instances and VPS providers because they were convinced this was the path they absolutely had to take just to start writing things using WordPress. These are not technical people.

Which makes me wonder where that impression is coming from. Surely it couldn't have been Wordpress.com because the site goes out of their way to show how easy it is to sign up and start blogging on their platform, but I've long wondered why they were all so eager to avoid taking the simplest path to their goals since none of them were above spending money to realize their goals of having a blog.
Well I use Ruby also for Chef. I use it to keep my servers perfectly perfect documented and tested in code. Since I am a solo founder I can stay away for weeks from the actual configuration. When I forget something or something breaks I look at my Chef recipe. It takes a little longer to get setup

I also use Chef to setup my local environment which is wonderful. When you are learning how to really dig deep into your text editor and writing your own custom snippets (and commands, and keybindings) for react. You don't how important it is to have your local env, your dotfiles and atom config automated and can be synced up with a single command no matter what computer you are on.

This, with private git repos and syncthing is a wonderful thing.
It is apparent by now, that the army's inability to stop those drones means only one thing.. those are not drones. It is UFOs.
I apparently did not appreciate this when I was in high school.
Why not both? Seems like my data should be protected from anyone that isn't me until I decide to allow those in either the public or private sector to access it.
I'd happily buy a "Facebook Free" button/shirt/gear.
Gpg can use a lot of different crypto primitives. Some do have problems, some are kinda broken but still good enough for use, some are too easy to make mistakes so gpg is probably bugged, and some are top of the line.

Gpg email also leak some more metadata than signal does. But it leaks to different parties, so this is not clear-cut.
The first thing that came to my mind was how some people with kidney stones are treated with shock waves that breaks them up.
I wouldn't be shocked at all. Internal tools are never as streamlined as you would think. On top of that, the tools for doing this are probably not that mature given that GDPR hasn't been around that long, nor do a majority of users take advantage of it.
Well, it's not easy to set up your own "pod", but it's easy to join someone else's pod. You could set one up for your family or company or at whatever level you want.
I feel for average, clueless Joe that has limited knowledge, but anyone that has average and above average knowledge of tech, deserves what he /she gets in these cases. How stupid or tech ignorant would you have to be to add a device that records you in your home?

Imagine, fights /sex with wife, lover, arguments with kids, talk about drug deals, tax evasion, leaving job, stealing neighbors home, cheating on husband /wife...WTF would you want to take the chance that a recording device is even within 10 000 feet of your home?
Aren't Mac sales insignificant compared to iPhone sales?

You're saying that having two successful products is only good when they have equal sales figures?

I don't know of a single company on the planet that would turn its nose up at a product doing $25 BILLION in sales.
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Would you go into more detail with using Python for db intrusion analysis?
To us clicklist is a good balance between price and convenience. And if you have kids you save money because they aren't adding things to the cart when your not looking. Not to mention begging for toys etc.

we also use shipt when there's no time(or its too cold) to go to the store.