skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Zipcar also has a dumb system in-place where you need to use the card first to start the reservation following which you're allowed to use the app to lock/unlock the car. The whole point of using the app is so that I don't have to carry a physical card with me.
Another study of 1:

I bought the Chilla 20lbs weighted blanket back in March and I don't use it anymore. I found it really unconfortable and I would get incredibly hot under them in the middle of the night.

The one I bought seemed to have great reviews, and I paid ~$160 for it, but it didn't seem worth it. It now collects dust in my closet.
my SGI Indy, 486dx pc, Motorola Starmax, iBook G3 Clamshell, and iMac G3 all run NetBSD and have no hardware accelerated AES.

I know active NetBSD developers who have no computers newer than about 2007, and have a core duo machine as their "build server".

Software AES is the only option for tons of folks who run NetBSD. Many of these folks run hardware on which their only real option is NetBSD - for them, and me, these platforms aren't legacy. They're just our computers.
Cookie + IP Address + Fingerprint + URL Referral + Social Media

It’s possible to be anonymous if you only log into websites with proper privacy policies, delete cookies & cache every day, and hide behind carrier NAT.

Adding a random font shouldn’t stop fingerprinting, people install new applications all the time. You make a lot of points, but ad tech can get around it.

Ideally ad corporations would be forced to delete records on people after 30 days.
This sounds like Crook's Algorithm (https://www.ams.org/notices/200904/tx090400460p.pdf), which is a perfectly reasonable thing to do, especially for pencil-and-paper puzzle solving since pigeonhole inferences are easy for people to spot. But this inference rule does not suffice on its own for many hard puzzles. Crook's algorithm still requires backtracking.
Hong Kong democracy protester 'detained' briefly by Border Force
I haven't used any of the services you mention, but an on-line rental service I have used has a simple system: they unlock the car remotely when you start your rental, and the key is in the glove compartment. You may run into issues starting your rental, but lack of connectivity won't stand you in the middle of nowhere.

Is there a particular reason these services can't just leave the keys in the car? Theft?
If this article is true, Zipcar in the US must work in a fundamentally different way from how it does here in Europe. Every Zipcar I've ever rented, once you've gained access with your card or the app the first time, you have the actual keys in your hand until the end of the rental. You don't need a mobile signal to lock and unlock the car wherever you go, the key fob does that.

Of course, in one of the scenarios the article addresses - car battery failure in the middle of a wilderness - it doesn't matter whether it's a Zipcar or not, that's a serious problem for any car.
I'm not sure "make graphs for us" is a legitimate reason to share personal information (and email is considered personal information under GDPR).

Error logs might be a bit different I suppose, if they are used to help resolve specific issues for your users, but even then I suppose one could argue that pseudo-anonymised data would be better than sharing an email address.

I'm no GDPR expert, but that's my understanding of it.
> Interestingly, the study found that most of the android phone apps seem to consume significantly more data in the silent rooms with many iOS apps using more in the audio-filled rooms.

Disturbing. The fact that there is a difference suggests that they are doing something with microphone input...
The "repeatedly lied to the American people about privacy," is a little rich coming from the Government in light of the Snowden revelations.
> The security specialists kept apps open for Facebook, Instagram, Chrome, SnapChat, YouTube, and Amazon with full permissions granted to each platform.
Sun of Schopenhauer: Transcendental Idealism for Insane Beginners
Well we lost by something like 1.5 million people. Overturning the referendum result because of campaign finance law seems somewhat excessive.
Daily Mail is a terrible source.
It can change your life...but it can also change your life.
This article is not about facebook’s database it’s about phone numbers scraped through search which ended up in a third party database
Sounds like a heatsink
But illegal transactions would still be possible without cash (people pay for drugs on Venmo all the time), just trickier and with a higher likelihood of getting caught. By your logic a cashless society would still be acceptable.
> The algo should obviously be public

Given that, at least in the US, people had to regularly sue corporations that defend the secrecy of their fancy algorithms^W^W Excel sheets as trade secrets... that's not as obvious as you might think.
What do you mean never? It has a name and is pretty common in Bitcoin exchange fraud: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIM_swap_scam
wouldn't this make digital services incostitutional? should provider in Austria like Netflix start accepting makes cash envelopes?
There are blankets with glass or steel beads.
Just to be prdantic: that's not Android, but Google Assistant. This would also show requests made through Google Home etc.
Not OP

Most people would agree that not allowing criminals to enjoy the spoils of their crime is a good thing.

If you think that your taxes are too high, and would like to be a law abiding citizen, you've got options:

ballot box (you might need your own party)

move to a different country
This is a great point. If we didn't host our own servers, we'd be on the line for thousands more than we currently pay.

It's only sheer force of keeping servers internal that we've had the expertise and knowhow to host our platform ourselves.
Now that we're the size that we are, the platform is crazily reliant on hosting it ourselves for administration and liability, so we'd need to have migrated anyway.
> For 30 minutes they played the sound of cat and dog food adverts on loop.

I feel like this could’ve been more similar to what was being suggested, adverts or background TV/radio isn’t what any ad-driven telemetry is going to be interested in. Definitely not discounting the research, just seems like this element could’ve been improved.
So speech is a very ineffective way to communicate?
PowerShell ForEach-Object Parallel Feature
Yes, carbon is probably the biggest one.
U.K. Police use of facial recognition ruled lawful
Here's an online version, I bet it sounds similar as the original program: https://eeejay.github.io/espeak/emscripten/espeak.html

There is a range slider that maxes as 450, which is the maximum speed according to the manual.

I tried listening to a Wikipedia article at 450, I am so amazed you can comprehend that. Perhaps that's equivalent of me visually scanning the text instead of reading, however when I do that, I tend to focus on interesting parts for long stretches of time. With espeak, how do you focus? Can you pause it at will?
I hear you. Overtime the gamification systems have been deemphasized as my assumptions in that area have been proven incorrect. The way users earn a badge currently is by completing virtual events thrown by various communities on the platform. The idea being, I wanted some kind of incentive for users who otherwise aren't interested in certain communities or topics to participate in them and to encourage each community to be inviting to the greater Confidist population. Those "rewards" will be changed from being based on completion to being granted by "any" participation in those events. I want to see how that iteration goes. I think without something along these lines the natural self selection around echo chambers is far too great. I think the next step will be to remove leaderboards but allow for these badges to be viewed possibly when interacting with individual users, but not shown globally. Thanks for sharing your thoughts, much appreciated.
VidAngel is fighting a legal battle that may change the face of media ownership.

https://blog.vidangel.com/2019/08/23/update-family-movie-act...

Note: I am a shareholder and have a substantial intetest the outcome of this battle.
well this would be the second time in a week where I would be asking to use the original meaning of a technical term, but if you asked me "is HN social media" I guess I would have to say yes, with the proviso that is has far fewer feedbacks than most social media to keep you hooked and as such is perhaps a net good.
FWIW audi does do this rather effectively in my 2011 audi A4 and it also comes with a huge battery compared to other cars I've owned. You can tell if your battery is near EOL by the fact that the entertainment system starts taking 30s to come on after starting the car, but it also shuts off most other electronics as the battery dips lower as well.

When a battery was on the edge of failure, I was also amazed at how many days it continued to be able to start for, driving a mere 3 miles per say and starting it twice. The voltage gauge on an accessory I had would show the battery under 10 volts, I'd push the ignition button and silence would follow, then seconds later the faintest sound of an engine would start. Every day, for nearly an entire month of winter.
People are buying consumer robots. We just call them drones.
Last year, we push-started my dads car where battery was so bad it could not be charged or jump started from another car. Push start worked the first time (car from 2009).
TensorFlow Inference for Estimator
I know someone who worked at Qualcomm with access to that baseband code, who had a personal project to scan it for backdoors. He came up empty. So if they are there, they are subtle. At least in Qualcomm basebands. Exploits probably provide all the backdoors the spooks need.
Your assertion is that the assumed social cost was overblown and that an entire nation failed to realize that - all the way up until the 1980s.

I think what is more likely is that millions of individuals who were were in terrible and desperate situations used the combined wisdom of their extended (& often wise) family and took an accurate read on their actual society.
Devops in a large enterprise means you can finally get some money for your CI/CD tooling. And some new plush positions for DevOps facilitators/evangelists.
If I understand correctly, the alligator can choose to either pump blood to quickly equalize with the surrounding temperature, or not pump blood to get more isolation.

In the morning when it wanted to heat up after the night it pumped blood. In the afternoon when it was already warm enough and the ambient temperature was too warm, it stopped pumping blood.
It's not the staff's fault. They're not working there because they display great independent thought.
In the UK the biggest banks have to offer a free basic current account.

Requirements basically boil down to acceptable ID
I skimmed the case [1] and it looks like most of this is correct, except that his flight was not diverted to NJ. He was scheduled to fly from Utah to MN to NJ to PA. The reason he had to recheck his bag is that he missed his NJ to PA connection, so his luggage was taken out and he had to recheck it. This wouldn't have happened if he'd made the connection in the first place.

This doesn't change the insanity of this story much, except that if you're going to fly with a firearm, you should probably check the gun laws in the states where you're planning to have layovers.

Lastly, the guy spent only a few days in jail before making bail (still crazy to spend any time whatsoever), and it took years for him to get his gun/ammo back.

1: https://www.leagle.com/decision/infco20100322054
> Why don't doctors [...] have people coming along with a methodologies for doing their jobs?

They do. You're not involved in healthcare so you don't read healthcare specific websites.

Here's some stuff aimed at the English NHS, but there is lots more.

http://horizonsnhs.com/

https://fabnhsstuff.net/

https://q.health.org.uk/about/

This tends to be the NHS learning about something and implementing it themselves, rather than hiring a management consultant. That's because they want to protect public money and there has been a lot of bad experience of management consultants for this kind of work in NHS organisations.
No, not really. I don't apply for jobs, book flights or vote with my Facebook account. I'm not concerned with what kind of insights that Facebook can infer from a fake Mickey Mouse account. I'm concerned about the possibility of being discriminated against in the real world based upon data gleamed from my online interactions.
After doing speed reading exercises a few years ago I initially also started to use the techniques for novels, but that was a bad mistake in my opinion.

While I could get my comprehension percentage quite high with a bit of training, I lost all connection to the characters and story, stopped imagining the scenes and felt like the reading the book was a waste of time.

Novels should be read at a natural pace to give room to your imagination and dive into the story. You can still quickly scan over boring/repetitive filler text, but I did that without caring about WPM already.

With other things like textbooks / articles / reports cranking up your WPM and applying your attention more selectively by focusing on or re-reading critical parts is a very helpful skill though.
The problem is that autopilot might make people even more complacent.
Early on when Information Theory was emerging, there were attempts to measure the bandwidth of consciousness. They reckoned about 18 bits per second or less, which sounds very low.

Tor Norretranders book, The User Illusion, mentions some of the research:

W R Garner and Harold W Lake "The Amount of Information in Absolute Judgements" - Psychological Review 58 (1951) - they attempted to measure people's ability to distinguish stimuli (such as light and sound) in bits. Result: 2.2 to 3.2 bits per second.

W E Hick "On the Rate of Gain of Information" - Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 4 (1952) - this experiment measured how much information a person could pass on if they acted as a link in a communication channel. That is, faced with a series of flashing lights, subjects had to press the right keys. Result: 5.5 bits per second.

Henry Quastler "Studies of Human Channel Capacity" - Information Theory, Proceedings of the Third London Symposium (1956). Measured how many bits of information are expressed by a pianist while pressing keys on a piano. Result: 25 bits per second.

J R Pierce "Symbols, Signals and Noise" (Harper 1961) - used experiments involving letters and symbols. Result: 44 bits per second.

Discussion of the research, Tor Norretranders book, and what the research may have missed here:

http://memebake.blogspot.com/2008/08/straw-dogs-and-bandwidt...
In the US the keys that are in the car are physically tied to the car with a string. You are expected to use the card to lock and unlock during your reservation
I'm not convinced that's the right metric though.

A more fair comparison would be: other drivers of similar demography driving other vehicles of similar age and specifications.
There is no debate about cashless honestly, it's like debating if raping children should be legal or not, except that without cash you easily get to a society where powerful people rule the world (see Epstein).
Those who argue against cash should be seen with suspicion and removed from their positions of power if they have any. I'd say even jail time should be considered when it comes to anti-cash lobbying, using the same penalty currently used by enslaved but multiplied by the total population.

Sounds absurd? Sounds like too much? It's the only way to keep those tyrannical maniacs in check.
Answer from the article to the headline question: Because certain shells 33 years ago did not yet have the variable $@.
Not exactly...

"In consideration of this contribution and in lieu of paying cash, the Company issued to WE Holdings LLC partnership interests in the We Company Partnership with a fair market value of approximately $5.9 million, which was determined pursuant to a third-party appraisal."

(Quoted by Matt Levine, I assume from the original statement)
Fixed headline: synthetic study that did not even try to reproduce normal phone usage patterns fails to find evidence of audio tracking.

Wasn’t it just last year that a wide network of android apps using inaudible cues for ad tracking was uncovered? What are they trying to prove here?
Most highway pile ups are a result of drivers following too closely and therefore being unable to stop without hitting the brand-new stationary obstacle where the car they were following used to be.
they used to have an open platform so you could bring your own flight controller. the most recent gen of their platforms locks you into their flight controllers (and their shitty api).
Scikit learn – Python library for machine learning
It is modern military and weapons that are not made. Not weapons per se
They have 180 in the world and about 80 are in the United States. 160 more almost doubles their worldwide footprint.
something closer to Disneyland than Walmart

You must have had a different Toys R Us to the UK then because they were dismal places over here.
Sounds like a goldmine!
It's not a myth though. After GDPR and Google added the new privacy tools to their accounts I was able to hear the audio files it had "accidentally" recorded of me.

Usually I just heard ambiant noise like computer, media, some distant talking. My naive assumption was that it had misfired on "OK google" and recorded for a few seconds to see if I'd give it a command.

I've never opted-in for any OK google type service or device but I did own two vanilla Pixel devices.

I've since opted-out of such recordings and it appears that Google has made no more recordings of me since then.
Yahoo.com DNS servers are currently timing out all requests from where I am (for the last 15mins at least).
Hacker-Powered Security Report [pdf]
http://thumbpress.com/lego-girl-then-and-now/

I don't think that they used to be gender specific however with the Lego friends and elves sets they have definitely gone that way
But also Aol, Huffington Post, Engadget, Techcrunch...
I'm hearing it's because their DNS is down, and I think all of Oath's online properties.
Social media is also tied to your identity. Sites like HN let you be anonymous and in any case your name and face isn't plastered on every post.
In other words, not a myth at all. "It's not the phones listening, it's apps on the phones. And maybe also the phones, when somebody cares to snoop."

Likely snooping happens more when phones are moving, and not lying about in a room with recognizable recordings playing, and that belong to people somebody cares to snoop on.

But it is true that readily available metadata being deliberately sent by users, via clickstream, is much easier to extract usable detail from.
> “We need to have a very precise measurement of what autism is, and discover the essence of autism,” Schultz says.

I don't think ASD has an "essence", because it isn't a single condition, it is a large number of distinct conditions, with distinct causes–grouping them all together as "ASD" is a sign of how poorly we understand them. As we improve our understanding of those distinct underlying conditions and causes, I think ASD as a diagnosis is going to disappear, to be replaced with multiple more specific diagnoses.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-30/drone-bub...
The electric motors used can change the speed of 4+ independent propellers extremely quickly.

This is hard to do with petrol engines, without costing a lot of extra weight or mechanical complexity, in a system where any single failure means a crash
Basic bank accounts are not always available to people with a fraud marker against them.

https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/saving/article-6367319/C...
The time of validity and how hard it might be to build a profile are not factors in whether or not this is legal under GDPR. Here's the actual text from GDPR on pseudonyms and synthetic keys of this type[1]

> The principles of data protection should apply to any information concerning an identified or identifiable natural person. Personal data which have undergone pseudonymisation, which could be attributed to a natural person by the use of additional information should be considered to be information on an identifiable natural person

So PII that has been pseudonymized (mapped to a gid in this case) is protected in exactly the same way as if it had not been if the pseudonymized data could be mapped to a natural person by the use of additional data. The pseudonym (gid) is itself also considered PII under gdpr.
[1] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL...
Maybe your comment is based on thinking about a recent conversation instead of replying to my comment.

You make a few good points, but keep in mind that software development is both a centralization and planning problem. And exercising planning requires having accurate feedbacks.
In England many landlords would rent to someone who provides the entire 6 months + deposit or 1 year + deposit in advance in cash, if there was an explanation.
> Non-violent protest often wins because the powers that be want to avoid antagonising the violent arm of the movement.

Not really a non-violent protest wins because majority move away from a violent group to a non-violent group.

So it makes a violent person who already has fear, more scared of being left alone. Non-violent protests need to be planned and require strategy in such a way, it helps those non-violent protestors to self-defend with the use of non-violent means, i.e. using deterrents which create fear in aggressors mind on use of violence.
Or that the author of the article and his infosec company has connection to the Chinese government, so he asked the Chinese security service to do an inside job, and he would expose it later to increase the sales of grsecurity, which in turns support the secret service...

It is one of the only few logical conclusions one can draw if one insists on OP's opinion that the Chinese attackers are playing 4D chess. The chance is non-zero, but doesn't make much sense.
Which is also a typical example of privacy violations in the name of alleged security.

Some newer linux kernels (>2016) use random tcp timestamps offsets to prevent clock skew profiling.

That is a security feature, not the shit big tech is offering here.

But of course the mechanisms in question are suddenly implemented for fraud protection instead of user security. Yeah, bullshit.
I doubt that includes family, co-workers or neighbors, right? Here in germany WhatsApp is so ubiquitous that beside various friends circles you'll likely have groups for family, work, (sports) clubs, or your fellow kindergarten parents, etc.

It's the default form of mobile communication here.
Secushare: A decentralized, secure social network built on GNUnet
My wife and I were watching John Wick and got to talking about owning a handgun. The next morning my facebook feed was showing me marketplace listings for holsters.