skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just one more thing. Since our product is self-hosted by our customers under their own domain, white listing just our development domain is unlikely to help our cause.
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I deleted my Facebook account a few years ago. The whole deal - waited the requisite month or so to ensure that it was gone, and any further login attempts wouldn't re-instate the account.

Six months later I signed up with a different email address, and Facebook forced me to confirm my account with my phone number. Javascript Error - that phone number is associated with another Facebook account. I click OK, and I'm redirected to my "new" account with all my old Facebook friends (on the opposite side of the country) showing up as "people I may know."

Nothing is deleted from Facebook, ever.
> Nit: this article is really criticizing a UI change which makes local results more prominent [...] The local results at the top of the page when you search for "Italian restaurants" are all still organic.

I have yet to experience the Google carousel for myself, but aren't these results all coming from Zagat or G+? So these may not be paid (or pay-for-prominence) results, but they're not the results of a Web search; instead they're the results of a search of a proprietary, Google-controlled database. That's not just giving local results more prominence, that's moving a large part of the page to a whole different kind of search: from Web-crawling to searching a Google-owned and -"curated" database. And in many ways that's more important than whether the results are 'organic' in the narrow sense of 'not play-to-play'.
No, they'd end up getting hit again and again. School was designed by women for girls, and so it plays to typical behavior of young females.
The other hidden use case: College students / Travelers that just want to keep their mailing address at a 'home base' (e.g. their parents house or a close friend).

This is way cheaper of an option than using earth class mail, and allows for any super-important stuff to still get home quickly.
The Direct Mail Association has an opt-out (which is volutary, but many mailers abide by it): https://www.dmachoice.org/

The FTC runs a opt-out program for credit card and insurance offers which is mandated by law: https://www.optoutprescreen.com/
I don't think he's suggesting that, just making the observation. You're right in that anonymity is key.
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Google what are you doing!!..

Now youtube is down in india.

Are youfacing this issue?
you're complaining that it has evolved out of its initial neologism?
The DPRK isn't going to stick to principles. They'll sell him off or use him as a bargaining token whenever they need, without thinking twice.
Yup, well aware of "Silk Road", although not in my power to change that provider. I'll take this as a reminded to double check HR is aware though. Thanks.
it definetly applies to Firefox,which is worse than IE now.
Can't wait till Slashdot wakes up and puts the borg icon on Sergey for Google stories instead of BillG for Microsoft stories.

Google has finally become what Microsoft wanted to be.
No. According to http://www.latimes.com/news/world/worldnow/la-fg-wn-putin-sn...:

The official didn't name the countries, but said that Russia was among them.
He should appeal to the US for political asylum, for completeness.
I understand this is not good. I do.

But I'm surprised people think entity like Facebook, Google and any other web businesses delete records permanently. It's not worth it on so many level:

- People that actually want to retrieve their stuff,

- It's harder to implement a full delete than it is to add a flag,

- They would have to give up on data-mining assets.

I don't endorse, but I understand.
one is standard the other is not.
Actually deleting content would be a very expensive operation at Facebook's scale. Flagging it as deleted is the most optimal way. What's troubling is that this content somehow got undeleted on its own. Not once, but twice.
All of this is true. But when the Pidgin devs state things like "there's no way" and "it's just as secure" (as they do on the wiki), that's just incorrect. An intellectually honest description would note that many platforms offer protection, but it's not standardized across Linux (I'm assuming).

The logs of the conversation can be protected in the same way, so I'm not sure what that has to do with anything. (Although you might wish to keep logs as plaintext, to facilitate backups, if you're not backing up the user's keychain info.)
FB has, over the years, gradually lost my trust until I deleted my account in November 2010 after having been a member since late 2004 when FB was college-only.

As a 20-something living in SF, it's a daily thing now: I don't get invited to parties, I don't know about birthdays, I don't see my friends' photos, I don't have any contact with anyone from high school or college anymore.

There is a real social cost for someone in my situation to not be on FB. I struggle to quantify the harm, but it's there. I struggle too to explain to my friends why I'm not on FB. And yet I still think I'm better off without it.

The whole situation contributes to the isolation I already experience as an introvert and someone who doesn't much care for bars, clubs, or alcohol -- though I suppose I don't need to remind this audience that being alone != loneliness.

I guess it doesn't matter much anyway, since FB is still collecting information on me (and other 'shadow profiles' of users not on FB).
Not terribly surprising.

MSDN subscriptions are still around and a good option for anyone who makes a living on via MS software.
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I disagree with this common trope. The benefits of mass literacy are extremely obvious; consider that countries where agriculture was and is more important than industry also adopted universal education.
The only reason I use Apple software products versus open source ones is because of their incredibly well-executed integration of hardware and software.

If you switch away from Apple hardware or Apple software, you lose that - and at that point, the huge benefits of open source software (if only from the security side) outweigh any potential benefits of Microsoft value-adds.

I might argue in favor of Microsoft software if they'd switched gears years ago, and now Windows 8 was simultaneously released coupled with a laptop as polished as a Macbook Air from a few generations back. Unfortunately, PC hardware has spent the last few years playing catch-up with Apple hardware (c.f. "ultrabook" silliness) and, even were that race to be nearing an end (it's not), there'd be the non-trivial task of appropriately coupling software to the optimized hardware.

It just ain't gonna happen. It's enough of a win to get me to eschew open-source crypto for medium-value stuff (e.g. I still PGP confidential stuff, but use FileVault for disk).

I honestly wish that someone else made a laptop as high quality as the MBAir, and that Ubuntu (or any other open source option, but Canonical is the only contender really) spent the time and resources to make a truly polished release specifically for it.

The Chromebook Pixel comes to mind (excellent hardware and near-perfectly aligned software (though it is missing pinch-to-zoom)), but having to trust the vendor to that extent (signed OS, etc) undermines the benefits of an open-source stack anyway.

It may well come to pass that the ideal machine for a hacker is something like a Pixel in developer mode to allow for a toolchain. I'd have probably bought one instead of the rMBP I use now if it had come with more local storage and could run real apps (I edit video in FCP and have a 250GB photo library in Aperture).

Google needs to stop touting "the cloud" so much and make ChromeOS a serious contender. It's almost there, and the MBAir knock—err, ultrabooks are really catching up. I love the idea of a thin client but until commonplace WAN connections are two+ orders of magnitude faster, I'm not going to be able to relocate my HD video NLE's execution environment to the Googleplex. We're getting closer to that day for photos and audio.

There's no place for closed-source stuff in that world, though.

Apple's only winning the handset war with the closed-source model right now because of their hardware advantage. Microsoft doesn't have that angle.
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>Destructuring references is not yet supported on Chrome

Eh. Yea, Firefox got support for that (and `let` and generators/iterators), because they added it in 2006 (Firefox 2.0) as an experimental feature.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/New_...
This is the dumb move by Microsoft.

Why don't they just limit activations or increase the price.
No Google already know too much about all of us.
Siberia is in the north of Russia. Are you thinking of Mongolia? There is also a direct china-Russia border on the east.
Agreed. In college, the kids who were home educated before just seem . . . off. And I say that as a slightly off person myself.
When people recognize/approach me on the street, they often qualify it with "B-but I don't use 4chan [anymore]."

There's certainly a stigma.
As a fellow 20-something in SF, I feel your pain. I recently made a FB account that I keep absolutely bare except for my friends to invite me to things. It still results in 'leak' that I'm not fond of, but the alternate choice is to continue to be left in the dust.
It's like publicly admitting you spend your spare time in a crack house: much of what goes on there is illegal, and a substantial portion is immoral or malicious.
AFAIK, Radeons should be much better for password cracking than Parallella.
Big dog's gotta eat.
I suspect there is an economy of scale in that if the same piece of junk mail is delivered to 100 house it only really needs to be scanned once unless it has some kind of unique code as it wouldn't matter whose piece of junk mail you got a picture of. Otherwise I'm with you in thinking this is absurdly cheap.
That actually makes sense. Developers developers developers in no longer the MS mantra. Visual Studio is stagnating, Servers are very cheap for evaluation on Azure and with the majority of the toolchains being open source there is non trivial amount of developers using mainly linux.

So the world now is not the world technet was created.
Perhaps FB automatically decided that the deletions were in fact unauthorized tampering with the account and nicely restored the "damage?"
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Back when they the Halloween documents leaked, they were found guilty of violating antitrust laws, made up studies to undermine Linux and took out full page ads?

Like pg mentioned in an article, it's easy today to forget how powerful and dominant Microsoft was just a few years ago.
Or the United States, Canada, China, etc.

What government is not chasing their own interests (not necessarily the interests of their people, but the bureaucratic body itself).
Just because blackhat SEO ranked it doesn't mean it's not a page people will use or stay on. That would also require every site to have Google analytical installed. Google is a big company for sure, but not quite that ubiquitous.
Unsubscribe from the subreddits that are for the sort of content that you are not interested in.
Can someone explain what makes these different from "normal" ads?
A nice alternative to gitolite is gitosis[0]. I've found it much easier to use (in terms of adding users to repos) and faster to spin up new repos.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Gitosis
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That's like saying, 'why is email spam filtering a thing, it only takes seconds to delete all my spam!'

Perhaps if you're young and single you may only get a couple of pieces of mail. Try having some kids, owning a house, etc, and you'll see the amount of crap that get's stuffed into your mailbox skyrocket. Then you've got to deal with shredding huge amounts of credit card and other offers, and trying to sift through piles of junk everyday just to see if there might be one important piece of mail out of the dozens.

I would rather the post office did this for me (i'm suprised they're still not riding around on ponies), but I would most certainly pay for this service if it were available here.

P.S. If you do the math, a median software developer salary is 90K, which is about $40 an hour. I could spend at least 10 minutes a day going through and shredding snail mail. That works out to 4 hours a month or $160 of your valuable time. $4.99 is definitely worth it.
Freedom is not only the selling point to customers but also and more importantly to the telephone companies.
It seems that they appreciate that freedom a lot.
They have the marketing power to make the phones a success in the mass market.
I have to second this. For instance, everyone in education and policy circles these days is talking about Finnish education. Besides the fact that Finnish schools make sure every student eats enough and teachers have a lot of autonomy to shape lessons to student needs, students get something like 50 minutes of recess at lunch and less formal breaks every hour or so during the day. The school days are often shorter, too.

(How I envied my Finnish cousins when I saw that they got to take an hour or two of nature class every week and sometimes they went home at 1 pm and sometimes they went home at 2:30... depending on the class schedule, which repeated weekly but was different every day!)

The article's suggestions for instructional activities that benefit boys outline projects that also benefit girls. The reason boys are disciplined more than girls when both are bored half to death is that many boys hit each other and run around while many girls are "nice" and just write notes, doodle, or sleep, staying in their seats as required. I say this as a woman who brought a pillow to class in high school and was seen as a stellar student.
Yes, but unfortunately our microelectrodes are nowhere near good enough for this kind of thing. The bleeding edge is the arrays being implanted in retinas and visual cortex for prosthetic vision, and they're like a couple orders of magnitude too bulky and imprecise to be effective.
What differentiates Outbox from https://www.earthclassmail.com/ or http://www.virtualpostmail.com/ (besides the price) that warrants a $5 million series A round?
Given that the Internet grows exponentially year by year, while the cost to store a bit of information drops in a similar fashion, I doubt there is any money to be saved by deleting old data. The save in system complexity is likely to handily outweigh the additional cost of storage, not to mention it isn't worth one iota of frustration and bad reviews if data an analyst wants is not available.
Understand that every country spies on every other. Germany moaning about us spying is highly hypocritical because they do the same exact thing to every ally. So does France to Germany, the UK to France, so on and so forth. Hell, Israel spies on us and we spy on them. Spying is core to our safety in the modern age, and has been core to the safety of every country since the days of the roman empire.

At the risk of being proven wrong in the (near) future I challenge your statement. I doubt the German government or an intelligence agency would dare to bug an US embassy, the headquarter of one of your parties or whatever comes closest to the EU buildings supposed to be bugged. Equally I doubt they are in the business of mass surveillance.

There is a huge difference between USA and Germany (and probably many other European countries) - we don't have this paranoia that everyone is against us (justified or not). People don't care about terrorism. Admittedly I have never been to the USA and can not judge how much a concern this really is in the general population but the impression that arrives on this side of the ocean is that there is a widespread fear. There are of course people dealing with terrorism - we don't simply ignore the problem - but the general population really does not care. I am also not old enough to judge if this was different when Germany experienced terror attacks, for example by the RAF from the 1970s to the 1990s.

I think the USA was a very different place before 9/11. I read the recently leaked NSA IG Report and what it says about the time before 9/11 is very different from what the current situation seems to be - they are talking about what they can not do and what court orders they need and so on. But then 9/11 happens and they go completely nuts.
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Because some help desk told them to. The other day chase manhattan was down with a full on 500 server fucked up. Their twitter account responded to me telling me to clear my cache and delete my cookies. Classic.

A naive user would then open settings in an emotional and annoyed state and would turn off anything that caused an emotional response of fear. JavaScript, Ive heard of that and I don't like it so kill it stupid thing computers are so frustrating they never work. Click

And now your browser is broken.
They actually said that Snowden was free to leave as long as he could buy a ticket. You can't buy a ticket from an airline without a passport but a private diplomatic airplane is another thing...
Post Danmark (Danish Postal Services) offer a similar service called e-Boks.[0] The main drawback is that e-Boks is only available for senders that are registered as e-Boks senders. Fortunately, these include all government services (both local and national), as well as several private companies.

[0] https://www.postdanmark.dk/da/Privat/Modtag%20Post/Sider/e-b...
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You've got to admit that 2 and 3 are pretty glaringly bad in this case. My fold ends halfway through 5. Half of the top 4 links are for the data structure, half for some irrelevant company, so DDG is effectively placing this company on par with the data structure. If you didn't know quite what you were looking for in advance, this could lead to serious confusion.
I agree, TechNet had already been gutted. It's worth noting that BizSpark appears to be very, very easy to qualify for and includes free MSDN + $150/mo of azure credits for three years.
Snowden nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
"...Several MPs said they would nominate Snowden for a Nobel peace prize.

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And you stop abusing Javascript when it is not necessary because you want to show off.

When CSS is switched off content is still readable.

And dont worry , people will turn off javascript more and more like they turned off flash because of all the stupid stunts developpers pull.
If that's what Snowden cares about he's not doing much to make that point.
People that don't understand that I do not like FB are not my friends.
Link aggregating sites and social media are rampant with abuse and shilling. It's the name of the game. From celebrities trying to pass off obviously paid tweets as legitimate to every traffic driven/ad driven site engaging in shilling and upvote scamming.

It's pretty obivous to spot if you're a normal user of these types of sites.

But administrators usually have no incentive whatsoever to stop it unless the users actually get out the torches and pitchforks, and the administrators themselves are in danger of being called out as supporting this behavior. But in reality it's trivially easy for them to watch for it and stop it if they're interested in it.

I was in charge of a small, niche hobby forum that garnered about 20k visitors per day. Peanuts compared to anything larger, but even we had shills. I would spot it and stop it because I cared about the quality of the discussion far more than the number of posts or visitors.

Digg lost the number one spot because in its revision previously rather than stomping out shilling and vote scamming, Digg attempted to legitimize it and mainstream the sites that previously had engaged in nefarious acts to try to garner traffic.

Users are not innocent in this whole situation either; if they paid attention and reacted appropriately to shills and obvious voting abuse, the administrators would be forced to act responsibly. But users are apathetic most of the time, and often complicit in it.
It's like the Twitter version of Angellist. You can do text filtering on whatever keywords you are looking for. Unlike Angellist, you don't have to wade through lots of links and documents.
Permanently deleting flagged data from all sites on monthly timescales seems like it ought to be possible.
Measuring the usefulness of a page by percentage of screen real estate only seems useful if the user is looking or clicking randomly around the screen. The structure, layout, and clarity of communication are far more important.

> 7% is all that’s left for the entrepreneurs and restaurantuers who believed Google over the years when they were told that good business with well structured pages would be able to get in front of potential customers searching the internet.

I'm really curious how the author would propose to fix this. Even with all of the other stuff cut away, there are only still 10 blue links to give.
Thanks. I guess this isn't news so much as the promise that news is happening somewhere.
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Sounds like an incredible problem not only for bringing new drugs to market, but also for all of the medication that's currently prescribed.
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I agree. that's lame. Also, I wonder how one goes about having one's own neocities site deleted.
You can find a use case for just about everything. There's a use case for PRISM but that doesn't make it a good idea.

The problem is, for added convenience (which might, like if you have to drive down a mountain, be more than minor) you're giving a startup complete control over your identity and just trusting them not to exploit that.

If Outbox decides one day to censor the content, or sell your data, or if a third party pays them to get copies of your mail, what can you do if they acquiesce? If the US Postal Service announced it was going to pre-screen and digitize all outgoing mail, and only send people digital copies of everything but the 'spam', everyone would be screaming bloody tyranny.

Admittedly, though, i've never had to drive down a mountain to get my mail and I might just be too paranoid.