skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>"There is no valid counterargument to the abstract idea. The fact is that if a company had better data and analyzed it more completely, they could obviously produce better experiences for their users."

There is a simple counterargument to the phrasing: could does not imply would.

When you have relatively little information about your users, the two goals "make the user happy" and "make the user engage more with the product" are approximately the same goal. So making the user happy = engagement, with little data.

But when you have a lot of data about your users' emotions and behavior, the two goals become separate. A typical business is going to pursue the second goal, not the first. They're not charities.

It's sort of like an archer shooting at two neighboring targets. With fuzzy vision, they look like the same target, but with clearer vision, the archer sees them separately. The users want the archer to hit one target, but the archer will aim for the other. So, the users may be better off if the archer's vision is a little fuzzy, to make the targets blend together.
Yup, most of my gains have been realized with eating less. I drink a soylent for breakfast, eat like a super small salad for lunch (300 cal), and basically eat whatever i want for dinner in moderation. On the weekends, i try to keep this diet but i might fail, no harm done though. Never felt better. These days if i were to go an extreme route i'm rooting more for OMAD or IM than keto but again, it is hard to keep up extreme diets for most people, keeping it simple is really the way to go.
I think that this is misleading, they didn't really "move" anything, they just used a current key that was locking 1.26B to lock the funds with a different key. So the network only processed this small amount of cryptographic computation. For the Bitcoin network, the size of the transfer (i.e., fee) can be the same for sending 1 BTC as 1000000 BTC
Why does the quality of the repo matter? Trying to understand the reasoning.
You could start by clicking on the actual links and seeing that there are photos of the magazine in question in the tweets.
All incorrect:

- Prius Prime does qualify for HOV lanes
- Prius Prime is much quieter than previous generation Prius
- Prius Prime acceleration in my experience is just fine.

Also, I regularly see 62 MPG on highway driving at 65 MPH.
AdNauseam is an extension that clicks ads at random in the background, thus polluting your user data. It was useful enough to get banned from the Chrome web store.
OP here. This idea was from looking at this map. https://www.wearedorothy.com/collections/music/products/u-s-...
>> Because it may cause some websites to break and they're aiming to provide a good user-experience for the majority of the population. If they turn this on by default without users knowing the risks of sites not working correctly, they'll unfairly blame Firefox, bad mouth it, and switch to Chrome/Edge/Safari/etc.

> That's the stated reason but it's pretty weak to me. Safari hasn't had to make similar compromises.

Safari's the only browser engine available on iPhones, and its users can't easily switch to another. That means more websites test compatibility with it, and its users are locked in even if they don't.

Apple more market power than Mozilla, so it doesn't need to compromise as much (and get get away with being a bit of a bully). Firefox is forced to tread lightly in comparison.
Sure but those 150 million people choose to subscribe to Netflix. Presumably they like it, otherwise why would they spend money on it every month? The people who use Comcast have no choice, because for nearly all of them, the alternative is no Internet access at home other than via cellular.

The original statement was like saying, "nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded."
> Unpopular opinion, but: I think too much privacy is bad for society.

Not unpopular in general, just unpopular among specific groups (including HN).

I agree with you, generally. We give up certain freedoms in order to live in a civilized society as opposed to living in the woods as hermits, and I would rather err on the side of more safety / less privacy than vice versa. But there’s no right or wrong; it’s just your personal philosophy. Some people believe that without absolute privacy, the government will start imposing surveillance on everything and we will live in a dystopian, Minority Report, social credit score future. It’s the same reason a lot of people want the right to bear arms; they want the (perceived) ability to balance against a slippery slope scenario with the government or other large organizations exerting too much control.
Impressive work! How hard was porting over Flappy Bird over to the VMU? Did you just hand-design the graphics?
I use a Mac because they come with a bunch of tools that I need out of the box and are easy to use. The interface is nice and I am comfortable with it. On top of that, I have had the same MBP for 7 years. I have never been able to make a computer last 7 years before buying a MBP.
> They will just that use your own habits to give you more personalized ads or recommendations

That's one reason I care so much right there. I 100% don't want "personalized" ads. But I don't for a minute believe that's the only thing they do with that data.

More generally, it's simply none of their business unless I choose to share it with them, and it makes me very angry that they don't have a basic level of human respect about that. (To be clear, I don't single Google out on this -- I have this objection to the entire internet advertising industry.)

I don't need to show any kind of imminent harm in order to object to that. I'd also object to someone coming into my house and photographing everything in it without my permission, even if they never did anything with the photographs.
If soil indeed has anti-inflammatory properties, that would make a whole lot of sense.
Case in point: does anyone honestly think pay-to-play games are "better" products for the user? Charging easily hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars for what used to be a single purchase, on doing so in such a cookie cutter fashion that the games are basically all the same game with different graphics?
It is so clear to me that we need to support and promote mozilla and Firefox. They're not perfect, but they, wikipedia, eff, archive.org (who else?) are such an important part of the Internet guardianship in the face of the monopolies, that it's our duty to support them.
Doesn't hurt that Firefox is actually a great product.
They are totally different things. The first is influenced solely by Wikipedia users in the city in question. The second is influenced by a combination of all Wikipedia users and Wikipedia's association of people with the city in question.
>Why did fail? He himself says social media bans were the reason.

Politician blames everything but his own politics for his failure to get elected. News at 11.

>For decades US Nazis and other loons were justifiably obscure. But the rise of the Internet, which enabled all sorts of connection, also enabled our country's worst to more easily connect, network, and recruit.

And yet the number of race riots and violent crime has fallen drastically since the 1980s, even with the rise of the Internet. LA hasn't had a repeat of 1992 yet. There is no Unabomber trying to spread their manifesto and the number of terror attacks in the Western world has subsided dramatically (there are no Troubles in Ireland, terrorists aren't taking over the Olympics, etc.), even though the knowledge to make explosives and sorts of manuals to commit those crimes are more available than ever before. OWS never got off the ground, even with Internet support; it's no surprise that more unpopular groups with far smaller membership aren't getting a huge benefit from it either.

Even if hate crimes are on the rise because the Internet exists, the correlation is small enough to be trivial because the factors contributing to the massive decline in crime utterly dominate them. Maybe we should be focused on keeping those going rather than jumping to conclusions.

Besides, if the Nazis come, they'll be voted in overwhelmingly due to an utter failure of economic conditions. Limits on what such a government can do that can't be easily sold by a society, like freedom of speech, are the best protection against such a thing should it ever actually happen.
What is the equivalent for one tab? It is technically simple enough that I could develop one one my own, except I remember firefox extensions to be an unbelievable pain to install back in the day.
I am honestly surprised that Beyonce isn't the top hit for Houston.
I had to turn it off in Firefox. It was breaking stuff like image uploaders on ebay.
Well, Gell-Mann just died, so it could be one of those "whoever is in the news more recently gets the most pageviews" effects.

Sort of like how any mildly funny post on a growing subreddit will become top/all time simply because a lot of people looked at it that day. The next day, there will be even more people to look at it, etc.
Rails Are a Cult
I'm seeing the same issue. I've deleted all mail from my gmail account a few months ago, but I still have purchases showing up. Clicking on `remove purchase` takes me into my old empty gmail account. It's one thing to store this data, it's another to prevent users from deleting it.
This problem will always reduce to what the definition of discrimination is.
Then why did it work before?

I'd been using YouTube's new layout just fine on Edge Chromium for at least a week before getting the "not supported" message.
Youtube, Coursera videos.
Absolutely. In fact, that was my last project, which I worked on for almost a decade. Unfortunately, it's a tough market. At the low end, everyone thinks they can do it themselves. At the high end, you're up against either the "POSIX is dead let's use an object store" crowd or the enterprise EMC/NetApp/Isilon crowd. On the other side of the ledger, development costs are high. Developers are harder to find, more equipment is necessary, and the testing bar is higher, compared to other kinds of software. Low revenue + high cost = life sucks. That's why I work on a bespoke not-quite-filesystem now.
Flipboard Has Been Hacked
It's like Google found developer goodwill burdensome, and decided to pack it all up into container trucks and ship it all to Microsoft.
I'm definitely no GUI framework expert, but I didn't necessarily mean to imply an immediate mode architecture. Personally I've been writing a lot of code that way in retained mode frameworks. There's some duplication of data but it's not a huge deal when a widget's state is just single variant, which covers just about all I need.
Scio 0.7: A Deep Dive
> I genuinely thought "wow, when he squints his eyes he really looks like Arnold". The transitions between Bill's own face and Arnold's were totally seemless to me.

my experience, exactly
> Ha! Tell that to their 150 million subscribers. :)

I'm watching 2 million flies enjoying a dog turd right now. I'm still not convinced...
Safari has been leading on the privacy front for more than a decade. They were first to block third-party cookies by default (which led to the FTC collecting a scalp from Google when they bypassed it), blocking trackers with ITP by default, and blocking fingerprinting by default [1].

[1] https://www.cnet.com/news/new-safari-privacy-features-on-mac...
I use the Strict blocking setting and have no need for a separate adblocker.
> but before now, I've never heard about GQ and I've no way to acquire it.

https://www.crazyaboutmagazines.com/ourshop/cat_56713-GQ-UK-...
5G: The Next Big Public Health Experiment
Even at an unready state it is better than human drivers. People literally text and drive while going 80 mph on a highway.
Does this just turn on the privacy.resistFingerprinting flag? I liked that flag but it set all sites to UTC time which caused me random issues..
It touched on that. It said everyone worked overtime when that first happened.
It was done to less than 1% of users so it's okay? Obviously Chrome is worse but this still sounds bad to me.
> quality of the repo (as measured by forks/stars/pagerank...)

These two seem unrelated. Quality is not measured by popularity. There is plenty of popular stuff that's junk, and good stuff that nobody uses.
If you do such a search right now on Github you mostly get copies of example projects and other fairly useless repos.
Sorry. If I want my data somewhere else I can stay with Chrome.

I switched years ago because of performance reasons. Whenever I tried to switch back I felt stabbed in the back shortly thereafter by Mozilla.
Who said anything about production ? Haven't You seen requirements changing even before first prototype is ready? I had a meeting literally today where client's CFO and head accountant throw out my team's week of work because they forgot about key requirements (and this have happened third time this year)
> I would have funded Tor and 4chan had I the opportunity many years ago.

> Not too long ago this was a classical liberal position.

I'm not sure who or what you're thinking of, but the classical liberal position would be to support something like the Cambridge Union, Cleveland City Club, or some other free speech and debate forum where social norms exist.
Possibly to avoid the kind of cat-and-mouse dynamics that played out when MS enabled Do Not Track by default in IE10:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Not_Track#Internet_Explorer...
https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/74vt08/psa_huber_b...

> "PSA: Huber Burda Media, the majority owner of Cliqz, which owns many media and digital brands, owns the computer magazine "Chip", its online platform offers "secure installers" which are used to distribute malware (adware)."

and

> "One interesting thing I've found on the Cliqz about page, is that they call themselves a "small startup". This is a lie since they're a sub division of Burda Media which is one of the biggest media companies in Europe. How can you trust a company if they even lie on their about page?"

and the Booking.com snippet https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/abfdym/mozilla_on_...

> "I skimmed the source code of the Cliqz extension back during the scandal and as far as I could tell it sent back enough information for it to be possible to identify and create profiles for quite many of the users. Now it is perfectly possible that Cliqz were honest and handled the sensitive data carefully (e.g. by throwing away IPs), but we have no way of knowing that."

Remember 2006 when AOL search data was deliberately anonymized and made public, and then de-anonymized? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_search_data_leak

Even if Cliqz do "throw away IPs" that's not enough for it to no longer be personally identifying. It says nothing about Cliqz throwing away the data. How long before Cliqz realizes they're sitting on a trove of "valuable" data and changes their policy so they do retrospectively build profiles of users, or sell out to Facebook?

That's not responsible stewardship of data, and disclosing it on a blog page nobody read, just saying "it might happen to you, quietly and opt-out" is not responsible disclosure.
Error handling – categorization and best practices
Invisible watermarking can be encoded into video frames.

https://inis.iaea.org/collection/NCLCollectionStore/_Public/...

I remember visiting the MIT media lab when I was in college, they described the audio version of "invisible watermarking" - manipulating the source audio with a generated acoustic effect, similar to a doppler shift. The effect is not detected by the human ear, but signal analysis can translate it into binary metadata, such as a DRM signature.
First of all, I commend the author for publicly acknowledging their mistakes here. Though I admit I still struggle to understand the mindset that allowed the author to make those wrong-headed conclusions on this topic in the first place. The best I can figure is that this person bought into the great neoliberal lie of our time - the claim that most corporations will value long-term societal stability and well-being over short-term profits + market capture opportunities.

When the author writes the following, I wonder if he is still struggling today to make that connection:

> The building of tools to aggregate private information in order to ostensibly improve user experience has in fact, at scale, caused strange and negative things to happen. Some of these things are threatening totally unrelated social constructs like democracy, addiction, and human decency.

Those constructs are absolutely all related private information in a predictable way. They're related by the fact that the disruption of those fields can be very profitable. Disrupting democracies at scale is profitable to governments. Addiction has been profitable for all of human history. Training people to believe that human decency can be something expressed through which brands of products they buy or do not buy is incredibly profitable for certain brands that sell a certain "ethos", while simultaneously convincing buyers that any other sort of direct action (protests, legislation) are not necessary because the market can make meaningful change if people would only choose to buy from more ethical companies.

The problems we're currently facing as a society, due to the the motivations of powerful corporations being misaligned with the best interests of the general public is not unique to tech either. It's long past time to acknowledge that these outcomes are neither strange nor unpredictable.
Google had said they wanted revise the way advertising and tracking is done on the web to address the many issues with the current train wreck. I would be more open to sticking with Chrome if they had done that first before breaking ad blockers.

Ad-driven content should be a viable business model, but the way it's currently done is simply unacceptable, and Google shouldn't crack down on people's conscientious objections via ad-blockers without providing a viable alternative.
It just redirects to a Google Support article ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Data science in 6 hours [video]
Nvidia Hits Back at Apple, Launches Macbook Competitors
I see a lot of people in my feed from bsd.moe and liberdon.com, I'm on layer8.space at the moment but am considering hosting an instance just for myself.

I feel like a burden being on someone else's server, using their bandwidth.
What about training an adversarial neural net to make faked videos pass that neural net?

See the problem?
No it isn't, there isn't any specified threat model anyway.

What we're talking about is whether malicious extensions are something attackers want to use. Having to package an entire browser is a win - it's super noisy and means there's a huge binary to lug around.
I love it, but having tried to build the same thing myself in the past I realized a horrible truth: you can't make comics, even ones that strictly informative, without being able to draw.

If you look at "Understanding Comics" try to picture what parts could be made procedurally. It's a tiny percentage. It looks neat and is eye-catching, but it's hard to add information using comics. When done well, it's amazing - just really hard.
In their roadmap it's scheduled for june 2019 https://github.com/orgs/FirefoxGraphics/projects/1
Cloudflare folks. Please don’t do this. I don’t know if Mr.Cumming is serious.

As a user of CF, I hope you folks go a lot deeper than broader. Example: Better cache management – compete with Fastly, my tickets on load balancer bugs were open for almost 6 months, etc.
> Less fearful?

That is going to be a mixed bag, at best.
Sure, but many of those Xfinity customers don't have any reasonable alternatives, whereas there are now a handful of players in the video streaming space. If someone doesn't like Netflix, they can easily cancel their subscription and switch to another service. So even though you're partially right, the subscriber count in this case is a pretty good proxy of how good the service is.
I don't know what I just read but it comes across as a delusion of grandeur.

There is nothing about the original article that makes it a 'thesis', or a 'piece', or even an 'essay' by any standard. I was scrolling up and down wondering if I'd missed something, expecting some seriously detailed research. It is being given an inflated opinion of itself.

'Privacy vs. User Experience' is a 500 word long opinion. It starts off like this:

> Apple is going to realize very soon that it has made a grave mistake by positioning itself as a bastion of privacy against Google, the evil invader of everyone’s secrets. The truth is that collecting information about people allows you to make significantly better products, and the more information you collect, the better products you can build.

There is no thesis or structure here, it's a fucking blog post. There are no references, there is no research. It's opinion.

In my personal opinion this follow up is even more dumb than the earlier post it criticises.

Edit: if I was to offer something more constructive, this follow up post should be called 'Famous Last Words'.
The choice is so easy. Mozilla's main problem is manufactured outrage over some risky/mediocre product management, some bugs (never shipped a bug before?). Google's main problem is trying to remake the entire internet in their image, end-to-end, from optic nerve to server silicon. I'll choose the lesser of two evils, please.
I agree. It is truly unbelievable. Same with user goodwill.

Microsoft is vaccuuming it all up. Meanwhile Microsoft is making tons of great moves to get devs and users back on their side.
> I think the problem also is that Google scans incoming emails sent by non-google users who haven't agreed to such scanning.

This is precisely why I avoid sending emails to gmail accounts. Fortunately, almost nobody that I personally know uses gmail.
3) Live for more than a few days, with bacterial fauna of that time being so different, your immune system, completely unpolished for those type of bugs, would probably hold out for only a very short time.
I'm old school... I prefer paging.
Please take the following with a grain of salt. I am not a legal expert, but we have competent US lawyers assessing this for us right now.

The main issue we see with the GPL is that your app has to be effectively licensed under the GPL too, which makes your app's license incompatible with the iOS App Store's terms of service.

This is apparently not the case with the LGPL. Yes, you will have to provide a way for users to relink your application to another version of Boden. As far as I can see (I am not a lawyer), this can happen outside of the iOS App Store.

Our US lawyers are currently investigating this. As soon as we get a reliable assessment from the legal experts, we'll add an LGPL option to Boden.
I got a new MacBook Pro after my last job change and it’s been a major pain point. I used the pre-2016 MacBook pros for the last few years with no problems, but the usb-c ones have trouble with external monitors, logging in, etc.
A pattern I noticed is that media coverage is biased towards the things that kill us that we don't have as much control over.

I imagine people know heart disease is a huge killer but they also know they can make lifestyle changes to prevent it and they know what those changes need to be.
Wrong! Google deliberately blocked Edge, see the tweet here for proof: https://twitter.com/sinclairinator/status/113344983464663859...