skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If he or she worked for Google why did they not bother exposing them when he got out. They could do it anonymously through a media outlet in the UK like the Guardian.

I mean I would guess it's pretty much yeah we have everything you have ever typed into Android, almost every site you have visited, a detailed dossier of your porn habits, all your Google Home conversations... All your e-mails. List of your friends. Your driving habits. And we've been pretty much trying to kill all our competition pretending like there are bugs in our software when often it's been intentional... oh and we've been sharing everything with the government so it's been looking the other way.
I disagree. I work in other settings where this requirement exists, and a focus on just what is needed to get a publication in a predatory journal is the source of a lot of the shoddy science.
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My point is that a lot (most?) educators wouldn’t consider “being an educator” as a fabulous achievement - it’s a job, and a pretty stressful and financially unrewarding one at that, particularly for people with a significant amount of academic qualifications. So the parent poster going “what is she complainin’ for, she’s an educator!”, imho, is pretty out of order by most objective parameters.
> The bill prohibits a provider

Nobody cares, what provider does. What matters is whether or not you sign a damn consent form.

Suppose, that there is a popular mobile App, written by Zhang Li Ltd. The App allows you to buy travel tickets, receive discounts in local stores and upload contents of your address book to it's servers. After a while you notice, that everyone uses it. Your local store no longer sells large amounts of grocery unless you make a reservation from The App. All train tickets must be booked by using The App. A bunch of local utilities stopped accepting payments unless you send them via The App. The thing is just so convenient!

One day you notice, that The App requires you to sign some "consent form" in order to use it's advanced features. A month later it threatens to delete your account if you don't "consent" (of course, it won't say so directly — "our ML algo detected, that you are Russian hacker! plz confirm your identity! account secuuuurity!" — that's how it will roll). The App is absolutely not connected to your ISP — it's authors just want to buy the data, that's all!

Reminds you of anything?
As a Googler, that's a sentiment I have never heard expressed, nor have I felt anything even remotely like it myself. My guess would be that most people would feel a lot better about the company if they could see how the sausage gets made. At least, judging by the reactions of my family members when they ask me concerned questions and I explain how things work, that's what would happen.

That being said, it will be interesting to see what comes out of this investigation. I'm curious to know what practices they are going to zero in on. No company should be immune to the law.
Dark patterns - I got signed up for audible, they never send you anything as long as your credit card charges keep going through, getting a refund required a lot of screaming and cursing.
The nomad used a 3.5” inch hard drive so was much bigger and used USB1.1 which was much slower than FireWire.
Why would this have any relevance to FB and Amazon? I realize a lot of people on HN don't like what these companies are doing with their data, but this lawsuit is not about privacy at all so I don't see how it relates to those 2 companies.
I think people here are interested in the Librem 5. Laptops are already easy enough to make your own with just a few compromises, and I don't think many people would choose PureOS over other Linux distros. But the phone space has 3 choices iOS, Google Android and open Android (e.g. LineageOS). The open Android options are forced to run on fairly locked down hardware made by companies that have no interest in open sourcing anything and don't want any hardware buttons, no matter how useful they might be. There's a desperate need for a mobile device made for general purpose computing.
I'd be more interested in Google/Amazon/FB paying taxes than in anti-trust actions.
That theory at least has the advantage of having solid neuroscience behind it, generally solid clinical data, and lots of positive cross correlation.
Engineers should write more science fiction, especially software engineers.

I’ve already died on this hill tho.
Ha, I’m working on this. It’s called Aether: http://getaether.net. You contribute bandwidth / cpu / storage by being a peer on the network. It’s less Medium and more Slashdot / Reddit though.
Agreed. I actually had to reread that a few times because I could not believe that someone actually approved of that text.

That text suggests larger organizational problems within the company.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_v._Texas is an example. But these constitutional decisions are about the validity of particular State laws; they don't create free-standing rights that can be enforced against companies that violate your privacy.
All you need to do is look at their respective stock price histories to see how they are related.
Something that made me scratch my head:

* The company quickly creates and starts 10 VMs and triggers an automated lock-down, with a message mentioning a sudden spike of activity.

* The company gets the account unlocked.

* The company again quickly creates and starts 10 VMs, and triggers the auto-lockdown again.

Note to self: when something damaging happens as a result of a seemingly normal action, avoid doing that same seemingly normal action immediately again, lest the damaging consequences hit again.
Both of these companies are very good at extinguishing competition.
You may underestimate the exponential function :)

We where doubling our performance every year or two. For decades.
That is not a likely scenario. There are so many ways through which purposeful anti-competitive behavior masked as accident would get exposed for what it is that it wouldn't work in practice (just look at how many internal posts got leaked around Demore).
However, Uber drivers accept or decline the rate offered to them for each trip.
Hello Subgrid
For everyone here squealing with glee: This will be just another Tuesday for the legal team at Big G ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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You forgot the humblebrag alert at the top.
Thanks. I think I now understand what your point was/is.

> The grapheme is the smallest semantic unit of human-readable text.

Fwiw, quoting wikipedia: "An individual grapheme may or may not carry meaning".

> Any code that parses any kind of machine-readable format does not want to use grapheme clusters.

I agree that formats defined in terms of codepoints need to be tokenized and parsed in terms of codepoints.

And one wouldn't expect there to be (m)any formats defined in terms of GCs as the fundamental token unit, partly because of the problem of defining and implementing suitable behavior for dealing with accidentally or maliciously misplaced combining characters.
Ant-competitive practices? Facebook buying up any and all rivals like WhatsApp and Instagram? They are a juggernaut and shouldn’t be able to own all social media.
Uber and Lyft can claim that they only provide an online marketplace where drivers are free to join and leave as they please. In terms of setting their own price, Uber can make pricing an opt in "smart pricing" suggestion and drivers are free to set their own price. And also most drivers offer their services in multiple platforms. In essence, they are eBay
I think every definition of better is bound to be ego and ideology driven or extremely modest (exactly like their parents except not a Tay Sachs carrier or similar).

Also tyrannical in the long term, I believe future generations have a right to a genome that was made of only their ancestors (and retroviruses I guess). Maybe in 100 years it will be different but not yet.
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Any of you guys know any non C++ MCPE addon makers? Comment if you know one give me a link or something
On one hand I feel APIs are an important asset for any business. Platforms and programs can literally succeed or fail because of how their APIs are designed. Personally, I've spent as much as 1/3rd of my time on some projects in just thinking about APIs and go through dozens of iterations. If someone then copies verbatim, I would certainly feel getting robbed. On the other hand, APIs has to be public and copiable for people to do things like mocks or wrappers. Also, re-implementation is what allows progress and competition. It doesn't seem like a good thing for society for APIs as uncopiable without royalty. It looks like we are literally here on the edge of reasoning trying to argue if the border of your house is also your property. These are the kind of philosophy-heavy cases SC should definitely spend time on.
Most of the time, if performance is a top priority, you'll choose a different language to begin with.

It's nice to have the option to speed up python in certain cases though.
I can concur from a company that is not DO we hire workers in locations around the glove specifically to have people awake in their normal time zones, not because it's cheaper because it's not always cheaper. There are many countries that have a large portion of very intelligent and multi lingual people, especially when it comes to English. Just because someone isn't a native English speaker, or speaks in different dialect doesn't mean that they are any less capable.
Yeah I was browsing for a LONG time
They also tried to buy Snapchat but their bid was rejected.
My cheap lightning cables are not commutative. If it doesn't work, flip it over and it might work.
Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt.

Insured families pay $1200-1500/m for premiums with thousands of dollars of deductibles and annual limit on spending. And the. Have to fight for every cent the insurance companies do their damn best to not pay.

How will we pay for single payer? We take all the money that goes for healthcare right now, burn half of it and use the other half. Or less.
FWIW that social standard, and the mindset behind it can really penalize some fields. FWIW, in some fields of neuroscience it is common even for very successful phds to not publish before defense, and a single paper requires massive amounts of work, while other neuro fields churn out short paper after short paper because the culture is focused that way, and the experiments less time consuming.

It puts some students at a severe disadvantage for hiring because they get screened out because they chose a field that publishes 50 page papers instead of 2 page papers.
As an ex-Googler: good. Google has done a lot of good in the past, and that continues today, but it's pretty clear nobody should have as much control over "making information universally accessible and useful" as Google does. Especially after they give up any pretense of "don't be evil".

I also very much hope FB is next.
Will you consider interviewing should the case ultimately turn out in Google's favor?
This is fantastic!! I'm going to give it a try before long--thanks for making it! Also love the gif.
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I have never heard anyone working at Google say that. I'm not sure what your old friend was up to though.
I've found it easier to just not die.
Doesn't change anything but I think he's referring to this twitter account: https://www.twitter.com/justsaysinmice
Unprivileged Container Runtime in Bash
It's not the false positive that is the issue here. The issue is that a. it took way too long to get the business back up and running, and b. the second response gave no explanation and no recourse for the business to become operational again.

The very fact that this can happen from an automated script with no oversight should give every one of your customers pause as to whether they continue with your service.
Please report back after actually knocking on 10 doors and selling one t-shirt.
One interesting data point (though I really don't care where this all leads):

18 of the 79 named engineers worked for Apple.

https://www.docdroid.net/uf3z/typec.pdf

My sense is the spec was designed by a consortium and no one company owns it, but I would bet Apple did contribute lessons from lightning to it.
Hot plate, slow cooker, electric grill, and toaster oven can cover a multitude of sins.
That's fine, I'll continue to disagree and understand that we'll never work together since we move fast and don't break things where I work.
I think Joe Haldeman beat you to it with The Forever War
The photo below "Micro USB" is not Micro USB. The connector shown there looks more like a USB Mini-A socket.

A real USB Micro socket looks like this: https://cf.ydcdn.net/latest/images/computer/_MICUSB.GIF
While I think an antitrust suit against Google would be a waste of time, they really need to stop recommending Chrome every time you do a Google search with a different browser. Just stop, that will not play well to a jury.
> If DO genuinely believed that you were doing something malicious and that data was harmful or evil for you to own (e.g. other people's SSN, etc) then they are in the "right" to deny access to it.

The observant will note the particular corner you're backing into here -- that a business might be justified in denying access to code/data being used in literally criminal behavior -- is notably distinct from the general and likely much more common case.

> they can do whatever they want with their own hard drives.

Sure. But to the extent they take that approach, Digital Ocean or any other service is publicly declaring that however affordable they may be for prototyping, they're unsuitable for reliable applications.

Businesses that can be relied on generally instead offer terms of service and processes that don't really allow them to act arbitrarily.
The Samsung Galaxy series has a higher water resistance rating than iPhones. SP 68 vs 67.
I worked for that AI group for a little while 20 years ago. It was one of my favorite jobs, but did not pay competitively (maybe it would've if I'd had a degree) and you're right that my code never flew (though others had better luck there).

Oh, to continue the theme I also interviewed for a couple of startups spun off by JPL people. The one that got to an offer offered way less money than the big internet company I was also interviewing with then.
The article misses quite a bit of the real story. Codes came to telegraphy both for reasons of privacy and for reasons of economy. The story in the US is about like this: The price of a telegraph message was based on the number of words, mostly a certain number of cents per word. For businesses that communicated regularly with a regular set of sales and purchasing agents (either traveling or fixed) in remote cities, the telegraph expense was sufficient for them to adopt communication by code words that could shorten their messages considerably. Two implications of this were obvious. First, the telegraph customers realized that because they were encoding and decoding their messages anyway, they could obtain privacy with little extra expense by going to 100% ciphered messages and securing their codebooks. Second, the telegraph companies realized that they were losing revenues and worked out a new rate structure for coded messages. The use of 5-letter groups as code words developed in this period because the telegraph companies figured that a word was (on average) five letters, and they did not want to would lose revenue if they charged per word for messages with longer code words. The hackers still found ways to hack the system. For example, before the age of government-issued IDs, a stranger (from out of town) could go into a telegraph office and send a telegram over the signature of any other similarly unknown out-of-towner.
It does solve the problem, I've done it, but the $800 tax totally killed it in years that I wasn't as active freelancing. California was just a terrible place to do business, and I'm much happier since I moved out of state.
Questions from someone who doesn't know a lot about antitrust law, in case someone knowledgeable cares to chime in:

To what extent does antitrust law require specific intentional or knowing conduct? Is there some "knew or should have known" standard that would require Google to explain why they didn't anticipate or investigate some suspiciously favorable placement of Google products/services/affiliates? Or can Google basically shrug and say "algorithm" a lot and the Justice Department would have an uphill battle to prove intent?
While I'm all for increased scrutiny of tech companies that have such a large presence in the public sphere, the current administration has been off-and-on pretty hostile towards Google for reasons rather unrelated to antitrust. Given the DoJ's actions in the AT&T/Time Warner merger, it wouldn't be a stretch to suspect a politically motivated ploy here.

Do the ends justify the means? Maybe. Is this causing an unfortunate precedent to be set? Maybe, too.
Unfortunately I don't have much time to spare currently for being a guinea pig, as much as I would like to help. But if you're able to create something that's really as efficient as a keyboard for coding (and can demonstrate that in a video), I'll be a customer. dane@envkey.com
That’s odd because I swear mine does. I don’t use that feature but I’ve definitely had it connect to multiple at once as I rotate through then I change again to get the single device I want.
> Your account has been temporarily locked pending the result of an ongoing investigation.

You lock down the image, and let law enforcement do their thing. If law enforcement clear them, you then give the customer access to their data, perhaps for a short time before you cut them off as they seem to be a risky customer to have.

You don't unilaterally make the decision, you offload your responsibility onto the legal process.
At least in my opinion, no. Many reasons but the underlying ones that make me not want to interview with or work for, Google are the same as for Microsoft. I can't trust them. I can already hear the argument, 'who can you trust'. That's subjective depending on your criteria. For me, I won't work for a company I do not trust to keep their promises, be it to the community or its employees.
They are justifying it just fine, author and others seem to only want to believe critics.
I don't really have a low budget alternative. I know that for our service we're evaluating both google and amazon cloud offerings, but only for our high availability services. I figure DO is in the same boat if not worse.
Zoning restrictions are far more restrictive in the United States than in a city like Tokyo, where the government has largely only enacted laws preventing specific cases that would be considered very harmful (opening a heavy industrial businesses in a residential neighborhood for instance).

In most of the US most land in smaller cities are zoned for single family housing only. This often means you can only build a house for one family (no duplexes) with arbitrary restrictions on a variety of other things (minimum lot sizes, maximum house sizes relative to lot size, required setbacks from property lines to the house, etc).

In the event you are able to build a du/triplex it's rare you'd be able to convert any part of it for business use unless the land was already zoned for multi-use, where they allow mixing of residential and commercial uses.
If you are renting to a roommate and the guy knocks over a candle or falls asleep smoking in his bedroom you notice straightaway and can escape or try and put out the fire. But if you live next to a studio apartment and the fellow sets his kitchen on fire you may not notice until it's too late for you. Proper fireproofing is absolutely essential in multitenant units. There is nothing wrong with Oakland insisting on proper code, especially after that warehouse fire a few years back.

NYC seems a bit more permissive towards not-so-legal landlords, and every few months the NY Post reports a building fire with really avoidable casualties. From circumstances you suspect out-of-code rentals.
This could actually turn out to be terrible for we the consumers. It's unlikely that Google would be found to be a monopoly. So we can forget about that. But the anti-competitive nature of their business practices could be targeted successfully I think. (Keep in mind, "I think" means jack in court. The government could very well be laughed out of court. But I think Google does still have some questionable practices.) Google made some superficial changes around 2013-14 time frame, but I don't know if that would be enough for them to get out of hot water.

But the thing we should be concerned with is how the government goes about solving this anti-competitive issue. A breakup is not in the cards since Google is not a monopoly. So the fact that the justice dept has jurisdiction here does not bode well for us. It likely means any remedies will be within the parameters of the current regulatory regime. But what we as consumers really need is a new regulatory regime. What do I mean by that? Well, like the Microsoft case, they may "solve" this whole issue of anti-competitive practices by simply obliging google to allow everyone access to their 'OS', so to speak.

But in this case the 'OS' would effectively be their data.

Which is our data.

Which would be very bad news for us.

All of a sudden, hundreds of companies, all with guaranteed access to our data. Basically, imagine the privacy equivalent of a 9mm round being turned into a shotgun blast for everyone not fortunate enough to be born an EU citizen. (GDPR)

What we really need is a GDPR, not really sanctions against Google. But DOJ can only give us sanctions. I'm starting to believe that somewhere deep in the bowels of the government, there is an extreme aversion to any potential action that might lead to making commerce based privacy infractions illegal.
It's not struggling to justify, it's struggling to spin it in a way that doesn't sound completely evil...

Fortunately I think the "it's for your security" argument is getting tired now, and people are starting to see through it. What Google is really trying to secure is its control and profits.

Although as someone who regularly uses several different browsers (but never Chrome, only Chromium), I prefer using a filtering proxy to stop stuff from even getting to the browser(s). Unless they start ignoring proxy settings or refusing to use the proxy's certificate (sadly, that might be the next thing they try to "secure"...), I can still control how I consume Web content.
You have an interesting handle, but regardless, I'd love to get more details
Rape dropped by 75-80% between 1970 and 2015.
I use a small slice of rigid, clear plastic packaging that you usually discard. It's probably less than a half a millimeter thick.