skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is such a bad argument.

I don't suppose the author of this opinion piece wrote or controls any of the privacy policies they reported on. But they chose which privacy policies they were going to report on, and which ones they were willing to highlight in their article. Is it really an unreasonable ask of a reporter who is focused on privacy to also be willing to research the practices of the website that hosts them?

To be fair, of all the news organizations I have beefs with on privacy, the NYT has been doing a lot better in their reporting than their competition:

- They have a disclaimer at the bottom of this article linking to their own policy. They also include several news organizations (including themselves) in this dataset.

- Reporters have been willing to publish articles that talk about and link to (good) ad blockers like Ublock Origin, and acknowledge that they're an effective way to increase privacy.

- Their editorial staff has been (relatively) self aware about the NYT's privacy practices and appears to be talking about it internally.

Could they be better? Yes. Is it a weird omission that in an article that specifically calls out Google, the reporter doesn't mention that the current NYT privacy policy is both more complicated and longer than Google's current version? Yes. But comparatively, if I was going to call out any set of reporters on this, I wouldn't start with anyone working for the NYT. I think they're moving in the right direction here. This is a well written article.

In general though, it's not unreasonable to call out reporters for failing to look at or refusing to talk about the privacy policies of their employers in their articles. I don't expect them to force their tech teams to change things, I don't expect them to walk away from their jobs, and I don't expect them to lobby their bosses on my behalf. I just expect them not to ignore important, relevant parts of the stories they report on -- because shifts in privacy regulation are going to have huge impacts on things like news funding, and we need to talk about that.
> Symmetric NAT is just pointless.

Fair enough, I don't know enough about usage of different NAT types to debate such things (and never intended to).

Regarding tracking, I'm still not sure that we're talking about the same thing here. Are you saying that fingerprinting could be used to accurately extract per-device data from the aggregated stream? That is, if an entire network is hosted behind a single external address via NAT, are you suggesting that the carrier could reconstruct the separate fingerprints from the aggregate data stream that they have access to?

If so, that would be news to me. Obviously they can make some educated guesses (a single device probably isn't originating simultaneous Netflix and YouTube video streams), but I'm assuming that aggregated (TLS encrypted) data streams are going to be fairly difficult for an external observer to tease apart.
The pictures are of a replica.
I might consider upgrade my workstation. My quadcore i7-4770 CPU @ 3.40GHz isn't up to the task.

https://i.imgur.com/Iz0SMvR.png
And yet, this language is used to collect ad information on paid subscribers. So it’s 100% bullshit still.
Looks nice. How does this app authenticate with your various financial accounts?
Maybe it is just the ages of the references, but I think "Alfred" is a more general name that is less associated with the character. But more importantly he doesn't have the negative secondary traits associated with him that completely conflict with how you want people to think of your app. Using Lannister for a wealth management app is almost like naming your nutrition management app after a character with an eating disorder.
https://www.ecosia.org/ startpage, new tabs just blank.
My preferred privacy policy is as follows:

"Privacy Policy: We will not share your private information with anyone."
> Plus I can read a free copy at my local library, or at NYPL, anonymously.

Now that would be an innovation: libraries providing access to commercial streaming-media services, through your library membership. Much like they provide access to scientific-journal subscriptions, or e-book services.

With the proliferation of different streaming services, it almost seems like an inevitability.
Not surprised, but I am afraid regulators will implement rules that would harm small businesses and startups much more than they would hurt FB. On the other hand, the market seems to be pretty much finished anyway. Unless someone comes up with a real decentralized solution that is able to compete with them.
Thanks, this is a good take.

I would add: now it's everyone else's job to make those smaller, more focused libraries work together. The time wasted is unfathomable, but the blame for misconfiguration now falls on individual developers, rather than monolithic frameworks. Progress?
> When asked most developers say its because you can limit which fields you query

For me this is one of the biggest headaches I have with a new app I've been assigned to. By allowing all fields to be optional depending on the graphql query, there's no consistency in the objects floating around in your apps data store. When I reference a Person object in my view that I'm using, will phone number be there or not, who knows.

Maybe its better when every single page has to request it's own data, but when the model objects are cached to a data store in an app and shared between views, things get really dicey.
It was a valuable asset, 20 years ago, but the CPC has developed enough other cities to be large and rich. There are some excellent graphs if you search that show the relative % of the Chinese economy that HK was in 1980 vs now. Now it is a much smaller portion of the total economy. The CPC is now considering that HK might be sacrifice necessary to maintain their authoritarian control over China because they cannot allow the ideas of human rights to spread to the mainland china population.
"The EU is still allowing many dangerous toys[1][2] that are banned in U.S." /s

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinder_Surprise

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neodymium_magnet_toys#United_S...
Container ships have internet via satellite today but they use it only when absolutely necessary because it's very slow and expensive. If and when the cost and bandwidth of satellite internet fall to within parameters that make it competitive with fiber optic cable, perhaps.

Microsoft and others are also testing miniature undersea data centers, and using seawater for cooling could help address air conditioning costs: https://news.microsoft.com/features/under-the-sea-microsoft-...
Firstly it might be more complicated than that, they may have a contract in place with intel where they need to stick with them for X amount of years in return for cheaper stock or better deals elsewhere (Apple and intel work together on other things). That’s hypothetical, but it’s certainly not as simple as “they should just switch”.

Secondly Apple might be waiting for their own chips to reach a point where they can be used in their laptops/desktops and jump on to that. It would be overkill to use ryzen as an interim.
It isn't though. For children under 13, COPPA [0] imposes additional requirements,so most sites have similar terms in their policies. From Instagram's terms of use [1], "You must be at least 13 years old".

[0] https://www.socalinternetlawyer.com/legal-requirements-socia...

[1]https://help.instagram.com/478745558852511/
They accurately report what the claimed reason for the bill is. The next section contrasts it with the views of those opposed to the bill. That's not parroting, it's just an attempt to give an overview of different stakeholder's opinions on the issue.

If a Beijing-controlled propaganda outlet writes stuff like

In practice, however, given the political nature of mainland China’s legal system, the protesters took to the street in part because they simply did not trust the Hong Kong government or Beijing.

People in support of the law exist, but they’re in the minority. According to a recent survey by Hong Kong University, 17% of the 1,002 respondents were supportive of extraditing Hong Kong people to mainland China for trials. (66% of them were opposed.)

On the Chinese internet, messages about the demonstrations were heavily censored. Mostly posts by state-run media outlets were allowed.

then they're playing a very long game.
The problem with iCloud Photos is that you can't share albums with non-Apple users.
The real measuring stick of readability should be The Silmarillion :)

There are plenty of ways privacy policies are bad, but I think the reading scores NYT is using from Lexile are a bogus criticism. From a reading length and vocabulary perspective, I don't see anything in the Facebook privacy policy that I wouldn't expect a high school student to be able to comprehend.

My main criticism of privacy policies is that, after reading them, you realize that there is practically no upper bound on how your data can actually be used. You give the company a key to your house, and it is up to them to decide if they want to trash the place.
Shouldn't be deal breaker anymore since thunderbolt became a part of USB
"But instead of ignoring the BGP leak, China Telecom re-announced Safe Host's routes as its own, and by doing so, interposed itself as one of the shortest ways to reach Safe Host's network and other nearby European telcos and ISPs."

This is not 'good faith'.

This is the Swiss leaving their doors unlocked by accident and China walking in and taking a few pictures, purposefully.
Introduction to C program proof with Frama-C and its WP plugin [pdf]
Cost of financing is also a big one.

Poor countries have less capital. Thus the cost of money is high. For example in Uganda a bank loan costs 20% interest. At such rates only the most effective investments are viable.

Many countries in Africa have such large room for improvement through investment. Data centers are not the biggest need. For example in Uganda they grow avocado's, but lack the cold chain distribution network to sell into the international market.

Thus you have avocado's selling for peanuts at local markets instead of earning big money selling to the west.

Building up a nation's capital stock takes time and long term stability. Thankfully Africa has the stability but time is slow.
I sync from my phone to Google Photos, OneDrive, and iCloud. OneDrive and iCloud syncs to my computer. Then I have BackBlaze backing up from my computer.

I think I have enough backups.
Ask HN: Where did the GQ altered photo article go?
Disappeared from the front page and those that follow.

Regardless of the publication's intent the discussion is warranted, topical, and had engagement from this community.

1. https://www.businessinsider.in/a-photo-of-silicon-valley-executives-visiting-an-italian-designer-is-getting-slammed-for-photoshopping-in-the-female-executives/articleshow/69762163.cms
They're still getting uploaded to cloud storage on Google Photos. What's the difference? Is Google Photos somehow more private?
> It's a valid counterpoint.

It's not at all. It is a valid attack on the NYT, but it's not a counterpoint. I.e. ad hominem.
Well that just means the current system needs some changes. Just because that's the way it currently is doesn't mean that's the way it always has to be or always was. Some laws and policies may need to change, but treating this like an immutable fact is like being content with a super inefficient piece of code that's bottlenecking your application.
God I love competition
Intro to Optimization in Deep Learning: Momentum, RMSProp and Adam
> "no one could understand this, so it doesn't count" as a way to side-step technical loopholes.

In fact, the GDPR explicitly says any declaration that isn't intelligible and using clear and plain language "shall not be binding". Which means the service doesn't actually have consent.
I disagree with this sentiment.

If you do not track any user activity on your site, then perhaps there is not need to have a pop-up warning in your face.

But the fact that you willingly do NOT track user activity IS your privacy policy. The policy does not go away. As a user visiting a site, I would much rather have the policy accessible, even if it says that the website does not have any tracking enabled.

Edit:

And I'm surprised that a legal advisor would recommend to remove the policy entirely. Isn't it generally better to be explicit and forthcoming, rather than say nothing at all?
Or microwaves https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/01/science/sonic-attack-cuba...
Ultimately, after that $5/month plus storage costs, you still have to handle security patching, DR, and everything an infrastructure engineer does all on your own.

Not to knock it, I think it's a great option. It's just not for everyone, not for the dentist next door or anything.
Sometimes the trial itself is an ethical dilemma. Sometimes it's impossible to control because a placebo that effectively mimics side effects of the subject are not feasible.
Even assuming the New York Times or the author are hypocrites, that does not diminish their point.

I follow the news to get informed, not to measure the moral virtue of the media (except as it relates to the accuracy and representativeness of their reporting).
It stores your credentials locally. The whole situation should improve with PSD2 (EU perspective).
>Older strangers here mostly want to talk about...how much they hate The Gays and trans people,

Do your part and engage these hateful people. Show them love. Tell them you're queer and support LGBTQ people. We won't squash hate by ignoring the problem.
Some things, like the passage of the sun in the sky, should be universal. Literally every civilization on Earth is familiar with the concept of a day. Death is a universal concept too.

Of course there is no helping if the future people are especially dismissive of your warnings, but they should suffer from debilitating radiation sickness before they get too far away, so at least the leak would be somewhat contained.

Interesting story idea for a post-apocalyptic agrarian society where some guy wipes out his rival's towns by lightly burying preapocalyptic nuclear waste in the town square to kill off the inhabitants while preaching about curses and gods smiting the inhabitants for their sins.
I'm in Hong Kong and went to the protests today. This feels like a continuation of the '14 umbrella movement, which was ended by police force, and which left up pent-up anger in the whole population. It's the biggest protest since the march in '97 when HK was handed over to China from British rule.

When I was there, the protests were peaceful, but you could certainly feel a tension building up, with the crowds gathering metal poles and bricks. I spoke to the police a few times and they were nice and friendly, but were doing their job. There is absolutely zero question that almost the entire HK population opposes the extradition bill which sparked this whole mess. Unfortunately, there's little that can be done… "one country two system" hasn't been abided to by China for a long time, and there's nothing the population or the Brits can do about it.

(My perspective is that of a foreigner who recently moved here, not a life-long hongkonger. Feel free to ask me anything.)
No, that's not what that means. An ad hominem attack is invalid because the target is simply being insulted or called evil in some way. "You can't believe Bill Smith: all the Smiths are no-good iron-pounding dummkopfs."

If the NYT calls other organizations out on their privacy policies without pointing out that their own is terrible, the term for that is a hypocritical omission.
Isn't that a more efficient use of time? The terms aren't negotiable other than walking away.
Thats a valid concern. But lets hope that they take input from the tech community when and if they do it
I think if you are a businessman/woman that have significant assets in China, you must be aware that the current Chinese government is fighting 4 wars right now:

1.) political conflict between xi jing Ping the new guards, and the old guards that control the state owned firms

2.) internal conflicts in xinjiang, Tibet, and Hong Kong

3.) near neighbor conflicts with Vietnam, Philippines, Taiwan, Indonesia, and Australia

4.) trade war with US and its allies (Japan, EU, Canada, Mexico, etc)

And the Chinese government doesn’t have the financial or the political assets to fight any of these wars, let alone all 4 at once. IMO it is losing all of them right now.

So if you were a businessman, it is probably safe to move out of such a risky place for your assets
Political correctness is sometimes modern doublespeak. Not always but a large percentage of the diction.
>...plus medical support staff that provide them with cheap and safe sources to feed their addiction.

These systems are already in place. Maybe I'm being presumptuous but they have pharmacies where you come from, right?
It's a halo product for their am4 platform. I've heard people recommend midrange Intel cpus over equivalent Amd parts because you could upgrade to a top-of-the-line cpu later on that platform, but you couldn't go higher on Ryzen.
I looked at the tutorial and noticed that you were using Clujure. Why did you choose to go with that?

Also, awesome work! Also, I really enjoyed the Goto Nights meetup you presented at in Chicago last summer.
Self signed certs are absolutely secure and more secure than non-self signed assuming you are using proper key management.

Now, whether or not that works for your users...
Not due to gambling, though. Kids these days go for the clubbing.
Computer manufacturers realized that 100% PC compatibility was possible. But before 1985, 100% PC compatibility was not the sine qua non it would be just a few short years later.

Tandy, in particular, knew they could clone the PC in 1983, and had it on the table as an option for their next big TRS-80 machine. They opted instead to go beyond the PC's capabilities with the x86-based, PC-incompatible Tandy 2000. But they were Tandy -- one of the big players in the USA home computer market, and in their hubris they thought they had the clout to change the standard. IBM was a latecomer to the market where Tandy was already dominant.

Well, you know how that story goes. The Tandy 2000 was favored by a few power users but flopped in the general market. Tandy dusted off its plans to build a PC clone and released it the very next year as the Tandy 1000.

Note that both the Tandy 2000 and the Mindset were both based on the 80186 CPU. It was impossible to build a 100% IBM-compatible 80186 machine because the 80186 was a system-on-chip with timers, a memory controller, and such that were mapped to I/O port addresses that conflicted with the standard PC port addresses.
FastMail certainly isn't the only alternative, but it's a really good one. I don't blame FastMail for criticizing the law, and it does impact them negatively: Despite not affecting their service at all from a technical standpoint, it is scaring people away from their service.

For the most part, any paid email service which has custom domain support and isn't owned by an adtech company should be, as far as privacy concerns go, likely pretty solid. You just tend to see FastMail brought up a lot because a lot of us have switched to it and are enthusiastic fans of it. ;)
Free will being an illusion is denoting free will isn't real and in the sense that you don't have any control of your life outcomes or actions you take. Research with how the brain functions shows we're unaware of making a decision few seconds before we think of making one. Similar there are cases where brain tumors have made persons act/desire in ways unwanted by society and the tumor removed the act/desire went away and only reoccurred when the tumor developed again. Understanding determinism with how cause & effect is fundamental in nature. Even being a programmer should help the mind resolve the difficult philosophy for someone who has thought all their life they had free will.
> a scorched earth policy like Switzerland has

I'm not sure what this refers to, and I'm having trouble finding anything about it. Could you clarify?
A lot of this population can’t be stabilized at poverty line costs. Mental health treatment, rehab and life skills training, are costly. In addition housing can’t be provided at market rate due to property damage costs and risks.
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Take a look at https://tagidea.net Here is a tool for writing text notes, you can organize notes into stories. It will sync with the app (iphone/android) available on the app stores. It's all using couchDB + node + cordova + vuejs.

Let me know what you think
I should've been more clear about what I meant, I find Billions and Succession to be in a similar vein of narratives about the upper echelons of society complaining about 1pcer 1st world problems was thinking HBO has egregiously continued footing the bill for the same content, albeit entertaining for some but woefully boring for me. But my entire point is deflated because HBO is clearly not producing both shows. In short, I'm a reactionary keyboard warrior talking about my ass about something subjective. My apologies.
To be great, be good repeatably
I still use it with btrfs with the aid of this fix: https://github.com/dark/dropbox-filesystem-fix
Tell me more about Switzerland's scorched earth policy
Saudi Arabia tracks runaway women by cellphone IMEI
Running things like wireshark or certain debuggers without admin rights is often difficult.

Also, lots of stuff simply cannot be installed as a regular user, especially stuff that needs unfettered access to network cards or memory.
All sides use some of the captured spies for exchanges, it's good business. And I'm sure all of them also kill some to send a message, also good business sometimes (in this case 18-20 killed or imprisoned). My point wasn't to single out one agency - FBI, CIA, etc. Is your honest belief that no foreign spies were executed on US soil, or no spy networks were dismantled like this?

"Combatants" (in quotes because the meaning tended to change over time) that take no issues with killing (collateral victims included), torturing, holding people for decades with no due process, or even something as plain and legal as the death penalty for crimes committed by their own citizens, etc. will draw the line at executing a foreign spy that ostensibly deserves it according to most countries' laws and rules of engagement? Why would spies be treated any better than any enemy or even the citizens?

There's no point in singling out one country for something like this unless you're specifically looking to deceive yourself straight up the moral high ground. In this "business" expect things that are lowest of the low on any moral scale. From all sides.
As an EU citizen I am quite skeptical regarding that one. But I have high hopes that US regulators won't make the same mistakes.
How can an article behind a paywall collect so many votes that quickly? Now I'm wondering if any of the upvoters have actually read the article.
I'm from the US but I've spent a deal of time outside the US, primarily in Eastern Europe. In my experience, it is extremely uncommon to strike up conversations with strangers in Eastern European countries.

My wife, having spent a great deal of time in Eastern Europe as well, described it best to me - Americans are extremely good at having a surface-level chat with just about anyone. However, it is neigh impossible for people to get beyond the surface-level friendship. Deep, true, and lasting friendships are hard to come by. Eastern Europeans, conversely are extremely distant and cold at the onset, but with a little persistence, you break through that cold exterior and become almost family.

I could not hide my American-ness abroad and I often was the recipient of stares and mouths agape, but I love chatting with strangers. Everyone has a story to tell and many of those stories are downright fascinating and humanizing.