skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly tired of Europe pretending like they are so high and mighty for flagging tech companies for "privacy violations." Frankly it's insulting to say that adults cannot decide for themselves how they want their data used. At this point, users know if you turn on Google tracks you. It is worth it to many for the convenience of quality results Google delivers. If it isn't turn it off. But to say it is Google's fault is nonsense.
> from the earliest days of the Soviet regime they faced foreign interventions

Well, to show the world that they were peaceful, they've started... to invade and occupy their neighbors, trying to incite revolutions around and generally behaving like a huge threat to world peace.

Even directly after WW2 they've tried to annex part of Iran/Persia and wrangle Bosphor Straits from Turkey.
The pill also help if you are prone to ear infections. They thin everything out up there.
No way to download all? Going through one by one, it might be too late already
They appear to have fixed this in the past year. I had the same issue.
This is very good.
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This is what I had always heard, that the price of the paper just covered the printing and shipping. It seems like all these papers already have advertiser contacts and should have been able to easily transition into an online advertiser only model.

and as far as paying for ads, I find it absurd that anyone pays for cable tv anymore.
So I take it the author is well-read in high-energy particle physics to make this claim?
So then it IS apparently possible to have a free trade zone without freedom of movement.
I'm not sure where you shop but if you shop like a local it's unlikely you will use your card anywhere but the supermarket. It's getting better but they are way behind. When I first moved to Berlin in 2011 I barely ever used cash and once I landed in Berlin I felt like I had taken a time machine back 20 years.
"shift of the earth's crust"

So the movie 2012 was based on existing daft ideas or did they get those ideas from the movie?
The NYT in particular is so flagrant with this. Endless profiles of Trump voters in diners, who are always the same bewildered, inarticulate hicks. We don't need to hear any more from these people.
humans do research to learn.

learning is when our belief system changes in the face of evidence.

how should we hypothetically (in a thought experiment) measure this education of humanity?

strawman proposal: lets measure learning by voting on predictions, and then after measurement we can observe the discrepancy between collective prediction and actual measurement results.

problem with the straw man proposal: most of humanity will make wrong predictions, because most of humanity has not been trained in most disciplines.

so we want the "prediction of humanity" to somehow give most weight to the experts. obviously it will be contentious to define "expertness". Instead of trying to define "expertness" we could weigh the human predictions by the individual's success rate at previous predictions. Now we get a modified prediction distribution of humanity.

Nothing currently forces falsified predictions to go away, look at chapter 28 of Feynman lectures vol 2 on ElectroMagnetic mass. There's known inconsistencies in our theories, virtually no one highlights these, because everyone is trying to underscore their understanding and never lack of understanding of the universe...
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What I mean by 'Apple can do what they want' was in the limits of the law, if EU or US laws will find Apple guilty I will be happy but I am not sure this will happen since we have the consoles that are also locked.

I also don't like good hardware becoming just bricks because you can't repair it or you can't install a different OS but mentioning this opinion here will cause it getting downvoted (yeah all my post about Apple and right to repair and publishing schematics got downvoted)
Yes that would be even more devious!
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Full-system dynamic tracing on Linux using eBPF and bpftrace
or a military selection of psychos... because ability to limit or completely switch off the empathy is one of the characteristics of psychopathic criminals
As of last month it still wasn't the case for me. In the end, I turned back search history on, I decided to pay the 'price' for the features.
This attitude makes me so off the charts angry, I struggle to put it into words. I think Jews in Germany in the 1920s didn't think they were doing anything wrong, or feel a need to actively hide it.
I have a NYT digital sub and I never see any ads or anything. I think uBlock Origin is required, when using any website, even for websites you pay for.
Finally a piece of good news in global politics
I for one are happy to be tracked so that my experience is optimal.

Edit: I understand the potential issues and especially with someone like Google using it for other things. But I am more concerned about the backlash against using data to improve our world.

There are many different areas which would be improved greatly from more data and would be to everyone's benefit.

Personally I have always shared as much as I can as I believe that the more we share the more the problem corrects itself. But each to their own.
Basically useless is pretty hyperbolic. Saying "Navigate to 12 John Street, Bullocks NY" is very simple. The main features work quite well without search history.

Though I'd agree setting a home address shouldn't be tied to search history, if that's the case.
My favorite Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_to_hide_argument
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Of course it is. The EU isn’t that, though.

The withdrawal agreement negotiated by May does fulfill those criteria, but Brexiters still don’t like it — fancy that.
This also feeds into arguments about giving people 'best choice' defaults and the role of government.

Government, in an ideal scenario, takes care of situations where the individual person is likely to make a bad choice and screw themselves over because the ability to understand the problem domain is so much work that they are unlikely to make the effort.

This whole conversation in this thread is basically about the nanny-state vs freedom to make your own choices, even if they're more than likely to end up in a bad situation for the end user.

I think everyone is constantly trying to thread the needle on that tension in a way that is acceptable to the broader culture.
Chat rooms are used as a way to communicate with clients. Clients can inquire about prices and submit orders through chat. They're also used to share market commentary within banks. It's not allowed to have chats between traders at different banks now.
Yeah, I agree it was a bit strong, I edited to "downgraded".
I don't, but it was 2, a fake malware scanner and a browser hijack (changed search, hompage, etc and would reset itself automatically, also stuck a toolbar in at least Chrome, not sure about Safari).
Perhaps you should instead be wondering how much earlier you could have benefitted from this if the UK wasn't tied to a bureaucratic, lethargic customs union that restricts free trade.
The guy who marches in all the Nazi rallies under the guise of being a "journalist," cool.
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might also be the time difference. You'd have to wake up pretty early to catch 5pm.
I was speaking in specifically about native applications and not Web Browser based applications. Taking what I said out of context to get on your soap box and expose the dangers native applications is disingenuous and doesn't add credence to your opinion.

You're setting your argument up for failure before you even present it when it's foundation is a clear and intentional misinterpretation of someone else's words.
> A boycott. Don't buy the stuff.

> But a literary agent doing the same at lightning speed is deferring moral judgement to the amorphous crowd

Is that not the same thing? Boycotts affect distributors, producers, agents, etc. Who wants to hire an agent that represents X, Y, or Z? That public radio station could leave his recordings online, and suffer the consequences of donors not donating. I can not-watch a show on Netflix that I don't like, or I can cancel my subscription.

These are the effects of a boycott.
Google Maps works just fine with the GPS from my phone's sensors, but _every single time_ I bring up the app, it asks me to enable device location and Google Location Services.

I stubbornly (and maybe foolishly) keep opting out of every Google tracking option, it's crazy how annoying they are if you do this.
One way of having a sensible discussion is to junk hand-waving generalizations of the kind you've made.
Google either do or used to automatically detect your home and work based on your history. While I agree it should be settable without it, that may be the reason why they were tied.
https://wikileaks.org/google-is-not-what-it-seems/

A good read on Google and Eric Schmidt's relationship with the State Department and federal government in general

"There was nothing politically hapless about Eric Schmidt. I had been too eager to see a politically unambitious Silicon Valley engineer, a relic of the good old days of computer science graduate culture on the West Coast"
The NY Times piece is advocating against itself: http://www.nytimes.com/newsgraphics/2016/10/18/presidential-...
Ugh, same problem as all the other "open phone" designs, absolute garbage tier hardware.

At least they're pricing it somewhat reasonably, but come on, give us some actual performance.

2.4GHz-only WiFi shouldn't even be a thing anymore. The 2.4G spectrum is a wasteland for anyone living in a densely populated area and if it weren't for a few old IoT devices I'd have it entirely turned off on my home network.
Yes ofc it is possible. the freedom of movement is just a way to dump bluecollar workforce into richer economies so that wages don't go up. educated workforce most of the time has legal ways to get a visa and has freedom of movement regardless of europe "freedom of movement"
I don't know, it might work. For me as an individual, my costs go up $6 per year. For a domain squatter, their costs go up hundreds of thousands.

It makes sense to me, like a property tax. You are basically renting a valuable natural resource from everybody else, so you pay a little bit to repay them and prove you're getting some use out of it.
Jobbing is alive and well, especially on the mid-card, but not as prevalent as it used to be.
Are there any downsides to this that were perhaps left out of the article?
I’ve noticed that there seems to be a correlation between tracking and advertising, so I get a better experience and less tracking if I avoid both.
I have yet to meet a climatologist who says this. Usually it is the other way around, they are exasperated that people don't take climate change as seriously as they should.
You first: give me the passwords to your bank account.
> What's particularly off-base about this analysis is that Cosby was always creepy.

Don't mistake this as complete agreement with the article, but I'd like to make the point that I grew up with the Cosby show and really enjoyed it. I didn't think Bill Cosby was creepy at all. I was deeply saddened to hear about his crimes when they were exposed.

I think it's important to internalize that point because it shows we can be fallible in our assessments of people. I can't truthfully say I always knew Cosby was creepy after the fact. While you're saying it as though it was obvious, I didn't think about it whatsoever.

The same thing happened with Kevin Spacey for me. I was actually distraught at the fact that one of my favorite actors could do these things. And if I'm being very honest, it upsets me that House of Cards (US) was essentially ruined by his removal. I don't disagree with his removal, but I can sympathize with competing perspectives on the broader phenomenon.
> I think developers should be able to distribute their apps outside of the App Store if they want, just like on macOS and Android, but Apple is allowed to have this much control because the iPhone doesn't represent the majority of the market, so they aren't as subject to monopoly/antitrust stuff.

Is there a reason they can't? To the best of my knowledge compiled apps can be shipped as ipa files and side loaded without much difficulty nowadays.
Hmmm. If you are needing down to the minute accurate timing of when rain is going to start & stop, sure nobody can predict that, for every location in the USA, all the time. I have to question where you are getting your weather forecast information??? I am a bachelor degree meteorologist, I dont use any apps that try to be 'hyper local' (omg i hate that word, it is the weather version of AI/ML hype). Just go to the government site www.weather.gov

We can't predict exactly when it will rain, but we can get daily trends pretty good for 3-5 days out. This means you are five days ahead of the weather. You cant know "it will rain from 5:00am to 9:30am on february 4th, 2019". But you can know if we have a synoptic scale system that is moving through your area on that day, and know if there is a probability of rain.

Where do you work everyday outside? i would be happy to give you a 5 - 10 day forecast right now actually and can tell you it will be good. I am supposed to be writing some tests and documentation but i can drop some WX knowledge if you need.
And if you have sore throat and / or cough, boil a cup of milk with a quarter teaspoon of turmeric powder, pour it into a cup, add half a teaspoon of pepper powder, stir and let it cool down. You can also add honey or sugar to improve the taste. Drink it warm / hot before you sleep and when you wake up, and be amazed at the quick relief you will feel.
Well, I just turn my location services off. I can't stand the Apple ecosystem even if I have to give them a huge props that they take integrity way more seriously than Google.

Maybe I should invest in a dumb phone.
I find it interesting how Fake News has two definitions depending on which of the two culture bubbles it comes from. On one side it refers to all out fabrication by a source that exists purely to spam social media feeds. The other side refers to more of a lugenpresse - legitimate news organizations that technically use facts, but cherry pick them in a way that presents a pre-determined narrative. Ironically, to this side, the NYT is one of the top poster children of their definition of Fake News.
The result of this A/B testing amounts to a dark patterns.

A/B testing a user choice by manipulating him/her like that seems like a no-no.
Asphalt is a type of plastic, and it's already recycled many times over.
> so it won't let you (...) set a home address

That's a feature for me.
A person who bought a lot of bitcoin and now looks down on everyone who didn't buy early and HODL as an inferior.
All I see are three spinning circles....
iPhone/Safari Private mode.
What got me about Spacey and Louis CK is that these were open secrets. Everyone in the industry apparently knew about it.
GDPR/etc. absolutely deliver on this:

> Frankly it's insulting to say that adults cannot decide for themselves how they want their data used

All those laws really push is you have to actually let people know what you're using the data for, ask if you can (so that they're able to decide) and make sure you take care of it.

It doesn't say you can't decide for yourself, it just makes it an actual decision.
They also dont even reference any USA models in the article. The GFS was also showing this big cold snap, not just the euro!
Those headlines are very biased in my opinion, in a subtle way to influence the reader to start each article with a bad view of Trump.

>> Trump says he's on same page as intel chiefs after insulting them

after "insulting them"? The choices of words here makes us already take a stance even before opening the article.

>> Erin Burnett: Tapes don't lie, but Trump ...

Seriously? The title already takes a stance on the view that Trump is lying all around.

>> Even some Republicans balk as Trump targets US spy chiefs

The choice of the word "Even" to make it look like it is absolutely extreme.

Those are the headlines on Fox News:

Trump Jr. calls out Schiff after report shows mystery calls weren't to dad

Trump dismisses border wall negotiations as 'waste of time'

Those are the same type of headlines with bias on the other side.
>The product here is all about function, not form.

Why do you believe a better designed API would not be about function over form?

Was the bug that caused links to "time out" if you didn't click on them fast enough also a preference for function over form?

Is being able to change the color of the top banner function, not form?

Are the colors chosen for the site function, not form?

Are folding threads or reversible votes or vouching form over function?

No, the product here is as much about form as function. The design of Hacker News is as aesthetic expression. It's meant to be appealing and attractive to a certain demographic, what PG considered a "good hacker."

The site would function better with an updated layout. It would load faster without complex, nested tables, and it would work better on mobile. It would be more readable with better typography, and more usable with features like new comment prompts. People don't want that, not because they wouldn't be a functional improvement, but because they believe such things would violate the site's anti-modernist aesthetic, and people don't want Hacker News to look and feel like a modern forum.

Viewing anything but the status quo as mere cosmetics, as if the site in its current state had somehow already achieved perfection, is a preference for form over function.
True, I have no problem with past works being pulled because they are income. In the clearest sense, companies are supporting these people when they carry their works. If they don't want to, that's totally fair.
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You can turn of "Location History" and "Web & App History", for your google account from https://myaccount.google.com/data-and-personalization

Before you deactivate them, I suggest looking through the data Google has saved in them for a while so you grok the full scale of how horrible those settings truly are.
It sounds like they're just going with a somewhat more incremental approach, which makes a lot of sense for a system full of so many new things.
Installing LineageOS without any Google apps (including Google Play Services) might be the only way to continue using Android minus the tracking. You lose quite a bit of convenience for this, though. And of course, you’re still being tracked by virtue of it being a cell phone with a baseband processor (see my comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18821444).
it is absolutely on purpose. a workaround is you can set pins on the map. instead of a list, you have to zoom out of the map, but then you can click a pin, for example for quick directions to your home address.
My parents are conservation biologists who study sea turtles. As sea turtles are relatively charismatic animals that everyone knows, they get a lot of press requests. From as early as I could read the ensuing articles, I could see the divergence between what my parents could have ever possibly said and what made it to print. Even in the complete absence of political bias, journalists are a pretty noisy channel.

One huge leap forward was the rise of Wikipedia. Now the journalists recite Wikipedia facts for background, so I see fewer sentences like "Sea turtles, like other mammals,..."
Similar to it, but not as strict. TDD implies that you write tests first, which also leads the designing of your application code. What I'm describing is more general, where testing happens alternatingly with writing domain code, "roughly" at the same time.
I remember years ago I was at the gym with a work buddy and we decided to try one of the drinks offered there, since we forgot our water bottles. We had the most amazing workout. We both executed personal bests, and after the workout we felt great. Much less tired than normal. At that point, I turned to the empty bottles and found it was chocked full of pseudoephedrine. It was a little scary to us, so we never did that again.

Yes, it is a powerful drug.
I am constantly glued to my kindle. I LOVE the idea of being to have almost any title I want instantly. The kindle basically changed my life since I moved to an area without a local bookstore. I read all. the. time. And I'm not an outlier. Not everyone has amazing bookstores near them.
I see. And as soon as someone says something you don't like you're able to tell that they've been pulling this act right? Like, your spidey sense starts tingling or something? That's a neat skill!
Yeah. Tying setting the home address to search history is pretty sleazy and there is no good explanation for this other than bullying people into turning on tracking. I am really getting tired of companies that want to suck up every piece of data.
To clarify, under the scheme being proposed, they actually do have to sell. Otherwise you would just declare your domain has zero value, you'd pay no tax, and then if anyone offered to buy it, you'd say the offer sucks and refuse to sell. So declaring a value is a commitment to sell and pay the tax.
> I can have a vote, but government will still force me to pay tributes at gunpoint

No, at most you'll get a letter in a mail and a lien if you aren't actively trying to evade taxes. No reason to engage in hyperbole.
You do not really need a study for that, just a few minutes of browsing with the uMatrix extension.
This is not a comparison of theory or attributes, just a comparison of syntax, so don't go looking for any type theory
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I hope you never suffer bad consequences of giving up your privacy.
That’s what they want and I am sure it’s very successful. Still very sleazy.
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I've not really been a fan of iOS, but for the holidays this year, I got a cheap 10" iPad 6, and and add-on Brydge keyboard for it. It makes for a small 10" laptop and I'm finding myself using it for 90% of my home computing tasks.

My favorite computer of all time was my 11" MacBook Air. I almost wish that apple would make a clam-shell iPad. I find the clamshell design makes for a superior stand, that works better in angles, and I almost always prefer to use a keyboard, except when I'm reading a book on the iPad. I also wish for some more software, like maybe native Emacs and some other system-level tools. I'd be open to even newer android clamshell designs....

Anyway, for the other 10% of my tasks, I still reach for my 11" MBAir.
Which is almost uncomfortably ironic, because Kevin Spacey was in a leading role in American Beauty.
Well, if you are not a member state of the EU or Japan it will be harder to sell your products, if EU or Japan can import them cheaper from their partners. But next to that: Probably not.
oh man - you want to know something funny. At my startup we had a guy hacker in a random weather generator to use in our models. I was like WTF Man!

The numbers you are getting are not random. Sure the models are chaotic and non-linear, but still it's giving you hints at potential patterns, especially at long range time scales. People need to understand that wx forecasts, especially 3+ days out, should be read as guidelines for what is LIKELY to happen. Say that GFS predicts two inches of rain for your city over the next week as a wave comes through. What if the next model run shifts that blob of rainfall 25miles north? In the model terms, global terms, 25miles is nothing. But for you that is the difference between dry & soaked , and you think the model sucks.
In my experience it's almost always better than cable, which has horrendous compression rates.