skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think a better summary would by "MIT professor collects 90,000 hours of video of his son's first words, gets tenure based on that, does nothing with the data. With tenure safe in hand, leaves his students in a lurch as he heads off to do a start-up."

It's a great corpus he collected. Wish he either had a longer attention span, or at least bothered to share the data.
The issue is though is that people think that a different level of privacy should be associated with their data than their friends data.

For various reasons for the last few months I've been considering disconnecting entirely. I lived before facebook/twitter and I'm sure I'll survive after them. I can't really think of anyway that facebook/twitter actually makes my life better in aggregate.

Why is it essential to my life that I see every stupid meme?

Why is it essential to my life that I heard about every political travesty in the world?

Does it really affect my life? What benefit do I gain from knowing these things?
The obvious mnemonic is "reading, 'riting, 'rithmetic, recursion". It's illustrative that they didn't go for that.
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Why? If you don't like it, don't use it.

Besides if somebody wanted to rape a chick he/she wouldn't need this app. They could simply wait outside close to where drunk girls would be likely to be.
to me all this stuff seems a bit overcoincidental, but i am tired of talking about. few months ago i joined the freedombox-project (http://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox) - now i vote by coding.
This is why it is critical to encrypt all communications using a trusted provider or doing it yourself with PGP, if you have the skills to do it.

Whether or not this interception is currently legal / illegal, this has been happening on a massive, global scale. The UK is just catching up to France / USA / Canada in this regard. The EU legislation on the books for Saas, ISPs to log all their traffic for an indeterminate time is also a huge cause for concern.

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one think there is some sort of conspiracy going on. It's simply intriguing how all these laws seem so similar.

i alway wonder what makers of james bond can do with these facts clearly some people are no more comfortable with the power of the web
> If you don't like this app and don't like the people behind it, stop making sure that every person who might be interested in it hears about it so they can add it to their phone.

It's not about free press for the devs as you make of it. I bet this app must have been doing rounds at anonynous image boards, porn sites and the like since the day it was launched. The Girls Around Me coverage is instead actually bringing to light the intense security threats such misuse of data can bring.

Merely 48 hours since these reports surfaced, the app has been yanked from the app store and its access to Foursquare data turned off. That says something about the need to bring these things to light. People who want it will find a way to get it anyway.
That's not controversial. The US uses its economic and (indirectly) its military power to persuade or coerce other nations into enacting laws similar to its own. To some extent this is desirable: it makes life simpler in a global economy. Like everything government does, it gets taken too far.

The ultimate example is drug policy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Commission_on_In...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonisation_of_law

The US federal government does the same thing to the states:

Under the Federal Aid Highway Act, a state with a minimum drinking age below 21 would be subjected to a ten percent decrease in its annual federal highway apportionment.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Minimum_Drinking_Age_A...

Again, this really isn't controversial. It's the essence of international politics...
Like Notch said... "you are an insane idiot!". What did the CEO of OMGPOP had to gain from making those remarks ? He surely didn't expect the world to take his side.. Even if Shay Pierce really was "the weakest link of the team", you just don't say that.

You just got bought for $200 million, now it's the time to show that you deserved to be the CEO of that company, by being diplomatic, respecting those around you (or who used to be around you) and now calculating your every move. Your opinion no longer just affects yourself, it affects your whole company, as well as (in a lesser extent), the company that just bought you.
The real question is whether the infamous App Store approval process was supposed to "catch" something like this in the first place?
Indeed, it is a very important thing to include a mature explanation of privacy and it's importance in education. What I meant was that this is not going to fix this problem. We need to figure out ways to stop the misuse of user data.
Here's a screenshot for those who can't see it:

http://i.imgur.com/HVux8.png
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How low.
Try changing the weather in your city to "Heavy Snow". Wait 45 minutes and you'll see the difference.
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Why shouldn't this kind of attitude be publicly questioned?
But any such app is just an UI for presenting the data available for everyone. What if this app is just a open source UI with instructions on how to fit your own API key ? Finding and penalizing such apps would serve nothing.

The only solution to this is awareness on the users part and nothing else.
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I suspect that the ceo might actually be the weakest employee on the team.
It was closed as off topic. <rimshot/>
> The app doesn't even work and people are still talking about it? That's insane.

I disagree.

The app has raised awareness of some serious issues which already existed before the app was created and still exist after it stopped working. We should absolutely be discussing them. The fact that another app just like it can, and probably will, be created tomorrow is exactly why this is getting so much attention.

Rightly so, in my opinion.
For as big as Google is, I doubt these all came from the same singular department.
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I agree. The way people evaluate the importance of other people's information is so damn skewed. It's a social problem and it has nothing to do with just privacy.

> Does it really affect my life? What benefit do I gain from knowing these things?

For instance, what harm is there otherwise? In fact if you come to think of it, a main reason why you would want to disconnect is the prevalence of people ready to take you for granted. This cannot be avoided entirely but we can atleast make sure things like Girls Around Me don't thrive.
Reading the headline, I instantly thought of George Orwell's 1984.
Looks like he would fit very well with Zynga.
I don't get how they are perceived as victims in this case. It would require some harm to come to them and in that case it didn't matter is some app was involved or not.

The harm would matter and guess what, we already have laws for that. It doesn't matter whether you killed a guy with your car, a gun, a bow, an axe, a piece of wood or you computer. What you will be punished for is killing him.

And there is no blame here. Only consequences. If you share your information it may be used by third-parties for purposes that you don't much like. If you jump out of a 3th floor window, you may die. We don't have a problem with telling people that they shouldn't jump out of buildings.

Stating that there is likely to be some consequence for a particular action -- whether it is going down to the shady side of town, running in an old abandoned building or eating twenty pizzas a week -- doesn't mean blaming the people involved. A rape victim doesn't deserve being raped, but the chances are higher if she is in a particular place.
We know by now that the approval process doesn't catch everything that later turns out to be a problem.

Apple makes no secret of this.
We had this kind of conflict here in the US once. It didn't end well.
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Forum thread with many more combinations of User-agent, location, and time:

http://forums.xkcd.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=82442&sid...
Like the author, I have been writing Android software for a while (nov 2009). However, I completely disagree with his conclusion.

When I think "fragmentation", device sizes and configurations are the least of my worries, although the tooling around this area is very poor and needs improvement. The real fragmentation issues are things involving bugs which are hard to work around, like

* Froyo having a number of NIO bugs (ByteBuffer.AllocateDirect & selectors) (which were fixed later on)
* Samsung GPS driver not filling in Location.getTime()
* HTC Desire and others having broken Bluetooth stacks

Or advice from Google like:

"Apache HTTP client has fewer bugs on Eclair and Froyo. It is the best choice for these releases. For Gingerbread and better, HttpURLConnection is the best choice."

I have always found Android and its tools to be extremely buggy. Then take into account you are going to have to maneuver around all of these bugs not for one version of the OS, but essentially every version put out for the past 2 years. Many bugs are from Apache Harmony, a huge pile of turd, which is defunct.

Also, fragmentation comes in other forms entirely, like the Kindle Fire, which does not pass CTS and does not have all of the android APIs (I see the possibility of Google subsidizing a low cost ASUS tablet as a move against this existential threat).

Additionally, the newly published design guidelines are for ICS and above, but most developers will target Froyo-ICS. Its quite a challenge making an app which follows these guidelines if you are also targeting pre-ICS devices. So even the guidelines are "fragmented".

I'm really looking closely at how Windows Phone does. Its becoming more difficult to write non-trivial apps for Android unless you can afford a bunch of phones to test on, or use one of the testing services like Perfecto.

But there is potentially a startup opportunity here. Perhaps someone could create a database that lets you drill down, by API, to see which phones have issues. It would be great if lint hooked into this database and gave me a list of phones to exclude in the market, if I didn't feel like working around them.
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This is a very cool, and interesting way of engaging your audience, and conducting market research.
I agree in regards to a better software update process. I don't know how much the abstraction could be improved, since the diversity makes some things impossible to abstract. I should clarify I'm talking from a perspective of developing apps, not games (simple apps at that, as I started learning Android slightly more than half a year ago), so I haven't encountered the really difficult development issues that games developers stumble upon so often. What I have learned so far, however, has helped me plan out each project better. What in the beginning seemed an issue that will double the amount of work (and maybe even was so on the first project), ended up being solved with maybe 5 to 10% more effort and thought on the second project.

Yes, either way you look at it, it is more work, but with experience it has become more or less marginal for me. Although it could also be that once you accept something as unchangeable fact, you adapt expectations and it no longer represents a source of frustration :). Who knows!

Edit: Reading my post, I realised how ridiculous my claim of experience is based on working on Android for less than a year, especially without any other previous programming experience, but I hope it's still clear what I mean.
It is real: http://www.apple.com/uk/legal/statutory-warranty/

Interestingly the EU mandated warranty is much less significant than you might think. It seems to cover only manufacturing defects that were present on delivery.
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The only way I would find this acceptable was if the government applied this to themselves. I want to be able to hear all their conversations, to know where they are, who they meet and talk to, who pays them money, how many bank accounts and properties they own. I'd like that accepting a job as a politician involved full transparency. If they were an example themselves then it might be easier to convince people about approving a law like this one.
I know this might sound shallow but the first time I meet someone, I actually judge that person based on the way he or she dresses (if I suspect that he could afford dressing properly). It tells me whether they care about themselves, whether they have a good taste. Ultimately yes, in my experience, there's a correlation between "spiffy clothing" and "trustworthiness".

And I'm convinced that most people do the same, whether they admit it or not.
Unless I am mistaken SOPA would not have given the government access to your browser history without a warrant.
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Its awful that an institution of questionable democratic legitimation (EU commission) is forcing a democratic government to implement laws, that are against their constitution.

You used the word "democratic" twice. But I don't see what democracy has to do with it. The whole point of a democracy is to allow the majority to bully the minority. The protections you need are Constitutional limitations.
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Just a UI? Maybe.

But every application has a specific action. See data is just well, data. What you do with it defines your application. Take something non-intrusive for a change, say the books a bookstore sells most. There's a wealth of information there. We could predict locally trending topics or the most common problems students face. But you could also predict what kind of audience the bookstore receives. It may not sound that creepy unless you find that the store gets a lot of depression related sales. That could get creepy very fast.

> The only solution to this is awareness on the users part and nothing else.

Awareness is extremely important even vital. But that is not it. Thousands of Girls Around Me apps probably exist and it is fairly possible though tough to find them. All I am saying is that efforts should be made in that regard as well.
He got thoroughly debunked by Danny Sullivan:

http://marketingland.com/debunking-senator-al-franken-on-goo...

Grandstanding and pandering is what politicians do best. Franken is no exception.
> If you read the article, you'll see that the new legislation "would not allow GCHQ to access the content of emails, calls or messages without a warrant".

Note that this talks about the content of emails, calls or messages. The police will still be able to see the metadata without a warrant.
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As far as I know, Googles own redirector allows forwarding only to front-page. I have tried it and it caused some problems. Therefore I opted for more customizable redirection option.
I can confirm we use the secure execution environment of the HSM, we say VMs in a general sense because of the limited knowledge of HSMs, makes it easier for people to understand. But it is actually compiled C code running in the tamper proof / tamper resistant part of the module doing the share issuance and the multiparty computation protocols.
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Well, I had ignored the whole Draw Something phenomenon until a few days ago. I downloaded the game, and for the last 3-4 days have been finding myself enjoying it quite a bit and anxiously refreshing the app to see if my game partners had updated their drawings.

Needless to say, having just read this I deleted the app a couple minutes ago. They can keep my dollar, for all the good it will do them.

Remember that if you choose to uninstall the app, also go into Facebook and remove the app from their as well.
To get the list of emails easily save the spreadsheet as a tsv and then run the following command on a UNIX system (replace hn.tsv with the name of the file that you just saved):

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> They could simply wait outside close to where drunk girls would be likely to be.

Hold on. What do you mean by that?

This is clearly a horrible violation of people's integrity and privacy. It's not about "chicks" getting raped. Would you wait for a Nerds around me and see people getting bashed by goons just like that?

It's a serious threat to people's security if it makes it easier to stalk unsuspecting people. Maybe I just misunderstood you but wouldn't the threat of just a single incident facilitated by such an app be enough to reconsider the importance of privacy?
How would you value it? One way would be to look at the revenue generated each year...

It turns out they already tax that, though.
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I like that. I been saying to hippy mates of mine for a while that while they have been trying to change the world through the application of drum circles and yurt building classes, the geeks have quietly been building in the open source movement, the only successful communist (with a very small c) system to successfully compete with capital on its own terms, and many are now setting their sights on using it for actual manufacture.

If you don't like the world you see around you, at this point in history one of your best chances for empowerment is to learn some form of engineering and then apply it.
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Footnotes 1 and 2:

In most EU member states, consumers may only claim for
defects that were present on delivery. There are some
exceptions including Czech Republic and Romania. The
burden to prove that the defect existed on delivery
generally shifts to the consumer after the expiry of a
period of 6 months from date of delivery. Examples of
countries where the burden of proof does not shift
include Czech Republic, Portugal and Romania. Please
contact your local European Consumer Centre for details
of the position in your country.

During the claim period (see above), consumers may
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where a product does not correspond to the contract.
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Netherlands and Sweden, have a claim period that is
longer than 2 years from date of delivery. Please
contact your local European Consumer Centre for details
of the position in your country.
You obviously haven't worked in a real business. You would NEVER disclose your internal processes or architecture, that's nuts, it's like drawing out your whole attack surface for your adversary.

Nevertheless, someone asked a follow on question with these exact same points back on the thread; we have posted answers.

It also seems you are being a bit disingenuous. You've studied under Dan Boneh, the founder of our competitor. You know very well what these acronyms mean.

Also, who said this is only going to be "browser based"? Browser's are a good start though....
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From the comments I guess you guys don't recognize the name. Chris Heillmann, AKA, @codepo8, has been a long time evangelist. First at Yahoo and now at Firefox. I don't think he really meant to fool anyone, but I can see how you would take it if you weren't aware of his background.
The egg, which was genetically defective and laid by an almost-chicken.
Fragmentation is not the same thing as support for different hardware capabilities. Fragmentation itself doesn't serve anyone better.
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1. He was hellbanned. It's an anti troll mechanism, which used to be quite effective, but now has a lot of false positives, esp since it can be triggered by an unpopular comment by a user with a low karma score.

2.[Dead] appears before a post if the item has been flagged by a lot of people or has been killed by moderators. Also occurs when a hellbanned user posts anything.

3. Usernames in green is to indicate that the user is new - or atleast that's what I think it is for.
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So instead of writing
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Polymorphism doesn't need to be tied to the first argument's type, it can depend on any number of properties of any number of arguments (see CL's and Clojure's multimethods).
No and I never will. Facebook cannot do anything to change that because I simply don't trust Facebook enough to use their messaging system as my primary email system.

Having said that, I also feel that Facebook messaging is greatly inferior to real email, especially modern clients like gmail. Besides the lack of bcc and a terrible interface (certainly in comparison to eg, gmail), in the past year, Facebook has failed to deliver/lost messages from people I know on multiple occasions.
I was trying to convine someone just the other day that if they were serious about wanting to get a video game made to their own design, then the first thing they should do before hiring programmers is to learn the basics of programming themselves, which I also offered to show them. I said that they should do this so they have at least some fundamental understanding of the issues involved.

Their answer is that they dont need to do this because they will be hiring programmers.

I suspect that they will not get their game made.
Consider, for example, this very site.

This is where I think design is misunderstood. The minimalist design of this site is likely a huge component of keeping the debate at the level that it is. In my book, that is great design - not creating an eye pleasing knockoff of a 37Signals landing page.
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I completely agree with the people who say that old versions of android not getting upgraded is bad.

But this screen size and hardware is different between devices is fragmentation and is bad is a bit bullshit. If that was so bad where are all the articles says OSX is fragmented and hard to develop for, it support a large range of screen sizes (11 -> 27 inch) and both semislow and super fast cpus (and now we are not even talking windows...).
I believe that accepting a portion of a $200 million payout from public investors subjects you to a certain amount of criticism.