skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of the terms of the settlement deal with organizational changes, but when you look at the very specific privacy restrictions that Facebook agreed to, it's really, really problematic stuff:

* Facebook is prohibited from using telephone numbers obtained to enable a security feature (e.g., two-factor authentication) for advertising;

* Facebook must provide clear and conspicuous notice of its use of facial recognition technology, and obtain affirmative express user consent prior to any use that materially exceeds its prior disclosures to users;

* Facebook is prohibited from asking for email passwords to other services when consumers sign up for its services.

This might, at first blush, seem like a win for users, but consider it from a different perspective.

When a settlement involves promising not to do a bunch of really, really bad stuff, that typically means the settlement doesn't have much bite. It's comparatively easy for a company to agree not to do egregiously bad things, and comparatively harder for it to agree not to do things that are still problematic, but less egregious.

These things that Facebook has agreed to not do are way outside the boundaries of ethical privacy practices -- but there's still a ton of gray area that remains unaddressed.

So from Facebook's perspective, this is probably a big win. The settlement allows the company to give the appearance of taking concrete steps to respect users' privacy. But what it might actually mean is that there were many other less egregious privacy violations that it was able to slip past the FTC's judgment.
I only play single player games, and I have more games than I have time. I've completed Horizon Zero Dawn 5 times. Just finished Days Gone. My kid finished indie classic Celeste earlier this year and is grinding through Dead Cells. I didn't like Last of Us, personally (too depressing), but it did quite well, I'm told. I've got Monster Hunter and Sekiro downloaded and waiting for me to get bored of Days Gone.

I read that HZD has made a profit (after development and marketing costs) of over $300m, having sold 10m copies.

Finally played an Assassins Creed game this year. Microtransactioned to death. Never buying one of those again.
I have, and I live in the US and continue to do so. The small bin doesn't seem to smell, and is easy to tie the bag and toss it in the trash bin. I haven't had to unclog a toilet in years.
Meanwhile, also in France: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-49092653
Finally! CSI movies will make actual sense now with their once absurd zoom on blurry pictures ^_^ hahaha!
I worked at a security startup where installing Slack/email on our personal phones (BYOD policy) was possible via an MDM (but was optional, we weren't forced). I don't know every detail, but many of our engineers were naturally spooked and did lots of checking to make sure no packets flowed to the VPN from apps not within the MDMs control (just slack and mail).

I personally was fine with this as I don't want to carry two devices, I like being able to check in via Slack (especially if I was on call), and we had several folks who had our security/IT team under a lot of scrutiny proving this wasn't overly invasive.

It helped that we were a small startup, so our IT and security teams were 20 feet away :)
So just another 'violent videogames are bad' article from kotaku. Color me shocked. Can we get past this long disproven bs now? Couching your dislike for some styles of video game in an ethics argument is the bottom of the ethical barrel.
1. It has always been the case that younger people like more instant communication. Instant messaging is not new. As people grow up they tend to find utility in using a tool where you can communicate with more people.

2. Access to a potentially huge user base.

3. Basecamp, Slack and Trello all depend on emails to get users to re-engage. Slack less so that Basecamp and Trello
Futures in c++ are really meant for concurrency especially for IO. They currently are way too heavy weight for fine grained parallelism (although there is work ongoing on that). Also futures are about packaging tasks, all the stuff being discussed here is about optimal scheduling which is completely orthogonal.
>Facebook is prohibited from using telephone numbers obtained to enable a security feature (e.g., two-factor authentication) for advertising

Yeah, I'm honestly surprised that one wasn't already illegal.
Having work apps on your phone is not mutually exclusive to having work/life balance though.

I have work apps on my personal device primarily for when I'm away from my desk during work hours. I disable notifications etc. outside of work hours.

I wouldn't say I'm really happy with it, but it does permit me some freedom to be away from my desk without the risk of missing something important during the day. It's a trade-off I've decided I'm willing to make.

Work also provides guest wifi which is conveniently configured by the Android for Work profile, so data usage while at the office isn't really a concern.
>Facebook is prohibited from using telephone numbers obtained to enable a security feature

This is exactly what made me quit Facebook a while back. Started to spam me with notifications when I only wanted to add a backup number.
Moreover, the business model of Sourcetree is somehow clear: attract users to BitBucket, and, hence, to Atlassian.

The business model of Fork is unknown, so to me it's a clear no-no. Can't afford to put a tool in my workflow not knowing if in a few months it will become yet another service I must subscribe to
Support is actually an entirely different (and much more expensive) concept. Business Hours phone support starts at 8k, but 24/7 phone support costs as much as 85k/year.

https://sqlite.org/prosupport.html
It is customary to put the dirty side down or to fold the dirty paper in half.
That fine is a joke. They make like 5x that amount every month.
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It's not like they'll keep their forests any better though. Worse, in the boreal areas.
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The image stabilization seems to be what makes this possible..
That heavily depends on the people you are spending time with, doesn't it?
This is not a sustainable amount to be fined. I think they made a net income around 20 billion last year, this a quarter of that. A couple more of these fines and that's a really dangerous situation - companies at Facebook's stage are valued on multiples of earnings with growth, not revenues, and 75 to 50 percent reduction in earnings wiped a lot of shareholder value off the table, meaning the shareholders (basically just zuck) would need to think twice before committing these violations again.
Do we know the constant is irrational? I'd be surprised if we did.
I did the opposite. Put all my personal stuff on my work phone. No way am I going to carry around two of those bulky monsters. The only bad part is that a bunch of my online identities are now directly coupled to work, unless I can convince them to let me keep the phone if I ever leave.
So loading the text part of emails only. That's precisely the topic of discussion.
> I find that a very large percentage of the html email I receive is actually hurting readability by way of formatting.

This is exactly right. In principle, html is just as convenient, but in practice it regularly fails. Something I really hate is a message with big images that add nothing. If I have to scan a message to figure out what's being said, there's a high probability I will leave it for later, which means it never gets read at all.
Matt Levine provides a nice summary: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-07-23/facebo...
Article picture is an IBM iDataPlex system.
>I guess then the interesting question is how high does k have to be to call it anonymous vs pseudonymous.

I think that for any size k less than the total size of the database, it is not anonymous. In cases like this, an overly strict definition favoring privacy is the only way to protect people. Similar to how we call 17 year olds children and treat them as such under law even though a 17 year old is far closer to an 18 year old than they are to a 5 year old (yes, there are some exceptions, but these are all explicitly called out). Another example of such an extreme is concerning falsifying data or making false statements. Even a single such statement, regardless of the number of true statements, destroys credibility once found when trust is extremely important. This is why even a single such statement can get one found in contempt of court or destroy a scientist's entire career (and even cast doubt on peers who were innocent).

Overall it is quite messy because it is a mix of a technical problem with a people problem.
"refuse to use" email - good luck with that. The rest of us in the real world, using email on a daily basis, would love for it to be more than it is. At least more than a message sender. What's wrong with a tool that adds a few cool features on top of Gmail? Unless you particularly enjoy bouncing around and using different tools to get your job done...
My father just died, my mother is depressed. That's a natural, normal, healthy reaction to a traumatic externality.

Being depressed as a result of meeting people that you don't want to meet seems perfectly normal to me. Talking to someone when you don't want to talk to them seems like it would only get you more depressed.

IMO, bad advice, please rethink.
Maybe because Raspberry pi is not a mass market hardware. Also how many in that small population are using it to watch streaming videos?

Raspberry pi is for hardware enthusiasts and not for end consumers. Pi 3b costs 3000Rs. A Nokia 1 phone(android) costs 4000Rs. What are people gonna buy in these two?
> Having lived in sub $15k a year, it’s pretty easily doable.

Where?

Did you have any support networks (family, friends, etc)?

Were you on your parent's insurance at the time?
It is very useful for you, the sender. It is a nightmare for the receiver. Whenever I receive one of those forwarded top posted thirty mail long horrors I just ignore everything and hope I can guess context from whatever you wrote in the last email. The alternative is to spend an hour deciphering the blob of goo that is actual mail messages mixed with signatures, attachments, all being meaningless replies to questions I haven't yet read - because top posting.

Sending me such a thing is equivalent to telling me "Fuck you, your time is worth nothing to me."
The problem is that once you start to appreciate the immense complexity in a single, most basic cell, you realize how far away we are from understanding how life got started.

This article would be comparable to some future generation trying to figure out how our computers were made and then stumbling upon factory that could make the cases. The case is important, but relatively trivial part of the machinery. Similarly, the cell membrane is critical (not just important), but very simple compared the molecular machines (and more) involved in all cells.

Personally, I think if someone researches the physics/chemistry/biology deeply enough, he'll get to the conclusion that abiogenesis not possible naturally with the physical laws we have now. I believe this is an opening for a proof that this world is really a simulation.

Anyone else feel like that?
Fraud requires you to deceive people. If AA tell you to book under a fake name for the spare seat, you do it, and then they cheerfully watch you walk on with whoever, that's not fraud. They know exactly what's happening.
What goes around, comes around! hahahahah
I get that fines don’t always offset the benefit gained from shady practice, but frankly I don’t think Facebook got $5B from this. That’s ~25% of last year’s net income. That’s a punch in the jaw.
And here is the DOJ complaint: https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/documents/cases/182_3109_fa...
If you installed MDM, it’s probably been fairly clear. The iOS warning is kind of scary as I remember.

Also found under Settings -> General -> Device Management.
Can't manage to download the file though my flimsy mobile connection, but I'm starting to understand the difference.
I've also used exchained but I find that I have to constantly restart it for my emails to work.
Airtel also has Airtel TV but offers one year of free Amazon Prime membership. There might some overlap between TV channels and content that Amazon/Netflix provide but both can co-exist and infact might be a competitive offering.
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I had a similar question: can't these regulations be generalized? Or are we going to have these same problems in 10 years with a company other than Facebook?
You can use markdown with https://markdown-here.com/. It allows composing emails in markdown and sending email as multipart message with plain text markdown plus rendered html. Discussed in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15646425
To address insect infestations, I'd guess it will be key to not plant huge monocultures. That should make the new forests much more resilient to bugs and such as a whole, and allow for more rapid re-growth if/when trees do get bitten by the bug.

The overall dryness might be more of a problem.
Communicating just fine is not the same as communicating at optimum.

In the analog world, you could just hand over a white, plaintext birthday card. Or you could give one with a motive, color, some doodles and maybe a memorable photograph attached.

Which one is more memorable?

"It's used by marketing." is not an arguments against it. We have sophisticated spam filters. Update your rules then.
Just different risk tolerances I guess. If I had spent $500k on something that could be worth $10+ million, I wouldn't take a risk based on the word of a front-desk person.

My belief is that this guy truly knew he was in the wrong and did it anyway because he thought he could get away with it. Classic rich guy move that came back to bite him.
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Do you know something that FTC does not? From the article itself:

> Facebook monetizes user information through targeted advertising, which generated most of the company’s $55.8 billion in revenues in 2018
This generally is a reasonable advice, but companies change policies. Even if MDM policy today sounds benign (although IT departments make mistakes, too) it can morph into something much more invasive in the near future, "because cyber". MDM on my personal phone is the line I personally would not cross. My 2c.
> being reachable 24/7

Email and phone are in the same boat, or none of them if you simply turn off the alerts.

> another medium for communication when email works just fine

When the topic at hand can only be resolved by many round trips, chat is faster because you don't bounce through different interfaces to read vs type.

> talk to one person only to be spammed by everyone else in the room

Direct message, not a room.

> walking over and talking or making a phone/video call

That is much more likely (perhaps even guaranteed) to be an interrupt, while chat allows the recipient to choose precisely what things interrupt them.
The stack I suggested is opinionated for an MVP. I won't defend something so specific to my personal case.

However there's more than that at play. Let's just assume bootstrapping the basics, with a requirement there's a backend and it has to be deployed:

1. If there's a requirement to have a backend connection and deploy the mvp, that rules out create-react-app / @vue/cli in most cases since it'd be too custom. The app would need to be ejected. But even further, the ejected app is overengineered.

The byproduct of create-react-app's ejected output is so bad I wrote https://github.com/tony/react-typescript-vanilla-starter, https://github.com/tony/vue-typescript-vanilla-starter simply for the sake of getting a minimalist webpack+typescript+hotreload+prod build config working.

I found it challenging to patch together webpack + ts + react/vue from scratch.

2. Going to a stack outside of our usual stack takes time to relearn. Not necessarily a bad thing, but people are going to be rusty.
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But the arbitrage is settled physically.

When oil-storage was filling up, oil-futures drop in response (because the market knows that physical space was running out).

That's the thing about the world: people exist in it, and can change the world. Increasing the number of warehouses (to make more money) is a good strategy, and the futures contracts provide a means for allocating these investments more efficiently.
Go and visit a forum where embedded images are allowed and tell me that there is any sort of "optimum" discussion over there.

In the end what happens is people use text overlays in the IMAGES in order to reply to each other.

Since you edited your response to mention the birthday card:

Yea - on the one hand you can leave a boring "Happy Birthday" message with lots of glitter to make it memorable.

Or you can make the message memorable.
Aren’t plug-in hybrids basically an EV with an on-board generator?
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>Rs. 200 is not a big amount.
sorry thats really ignorant. It is not a big amount for the privileged people.
The reason it's 72 characters is to allow for quoted text, which gets indented relative to the new text. That would allow a line in an email that's 72 characters long to still fit within 80 characters if it's prefixed with 8 quote characters. For example:

>>>>>>>>This line was 72 characters long, but is now 80 characters long instead.
Old farts being afraid of young women with power. I think I’ve seen that before.
>Facebook must exercise greater oversight over third-party apps, including by terminating app developers that fail to certify that they are in compliance with Facebook’s platform policies or fail to justify their need for specific user data;

>Facebook is prohibited from using telephone numbers obtained to enable a security feature (e.g., two-factor authentication) for advertising;

>Facebook must provide clear and conspicuous notice of its use of facial recognition technology, and obtain affirmative express user consent prior to any use that materially exceeds its prior disclosures to users;

>Facebook must establish, implement, and maintain a comprehensive data security program;

>Facebook must encrypt user passwords and regularly scan to detect whether any passwords are stored in plaintext; and

>Facebook is prohibited from asking for email passwords to other services when consumers sign up for its services.

This is great! What do we need to do to get this to apply to other data harvesting companies like Google and Microsoft?
>Traditional stores are not going to send each other your transaction history to build a profile of interest and personality, and each store won't have a complete enough history or even the expertise to mine it.

"Traditional" as in "before the age of Amazon"? They do, through store rewards cards. Harris Teeter knows what I have bought and has figured out what I only buy on sale, Target can identify pregnant women with stunning accuracy, and I'd be surprised if other retailers didn't do similar stuff. You're probably thinking of independent/mom and pop shops.
You're right. That was too strongly said. Some people are naive or make a mistake. However, nobody I know lacks for emphatic instruction to never, ever click a link on an email. If your bank wants you to login, use your own bookmark.
It works very well for Microsoft Edge too (latest DEV version of it) - https://github.com/GoogleChrome/puppeteer/issues/4185#issuec...
Thank you for bringing our "failing out", which has an impact on the Personal Data leak itself, so I really hope people will look into it.

As for "with the general matrix community", I believe the amount of projects and people we talk to, and still are in rooms with (which are public) will be the proof of that.

I hope you'll enjoy the read, since we believe this is not the first data leak of this kind and that your personal data might very well have been leaked if you're a Matrix user.
Ignore what he says, but pay attention to what he does. If the article is truthful, some employers are lowering their operating costs by either cutting hours or terminating employees; others are raising prices of their products. The former is bad for employment, the latter for customers. As prices elevate, they approach the marginal value of eating out. Eating out is very elastic, so if the prices rise too high, the companies could fail, causing more unemployment.

It's a fine line. My personal opinion is that minimum wage was never meant to be a living wage, but more for entry level, part time jobs for teenagers etc. If we raise the minimum wage to a level that provides a living wage (assuming 40 hour work week), then it becomes complicated since a lot of jobs are part time. To earn a living wage, someone would have to have multiple jobs, which generally sucks if you work in the food industry. It's a complicated problem, with lots of legacy baggage and viewpoints. Providing a living wage sounds great, but I think there's lots of issues when you're dealing with transient employees who don't want to work full time, don't have many skills, etc.
Excel is probably the most widely used programming environment on the planet.
Things you could do alone back then were kind of boring, while you can do really engaging stuff alone nowadays. Like talking to other people over the Internet.
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I'm willing to bet that even if farm subsidies went away, the price would at most double. Milk is really popular, and there's no way that supermarkets would let one of their highest volume products soar up in price like that.
Considering their stock rose significantly after this fine was announced, I don't think the people making money from Facebook agree with you.
Who does this page cater to though? The recommended tools are programs that are packaged for Linux or need compiling[1]. If they want to convince anybody who already does not prefer plaintext then they should be targeting the Windows and macOS crowd.

[1]: Later some tools such as thunderbird or configuration for Apple Mail and Gmail are mentioned. They should be top and center.
Thanks, this confirms my impression - the distributions are prone to think "we want to organize the software, but keeping up-to-date upstream software is too much work, so we'll use shared libraries and freeze everything to older versions".

Which I understand as a pragmatic solution, but it is far from clear that this gives users more security.
I didn't expect you to deliver a crash course that would allow even non-technical readers to understand all details, so I realize that you had to leave out a lot. That puts you in an awkward spot where your explanation probably creates more new questions than it answers.

Some news websites hesitate to put external links in their articles because they lead readers off the site, but I think they can be helpful to provide jumping-off points for the interested reader. For example, the git repository could be linked somewhere in the article, or as part of the "about the project" section at the end.

PS: The top-level comment of this thread was flagged and hidden, so most users won't see your replies here. You might want to post another top-level comment with the additional information you provided here, or maybe ask the mods via hn@ycombinator.com to make your replies visible.
Imagine had a lot of other problems at the time, like “not actually having any money”.
Still will be difficult for them to catch up, with Amazon prime working out to be rs85 per month, and hotstar having a massive multilingual catalogue+live sports including most cricket and EPL, Netflix limited catalogue is not exactly value at rs 199.

Only they do have some robust infrastructure like Amazon, hotstar service seems somewhat struggling under the load of millions of people watching at prime times.