skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You'd also see a special election to recall the Governor, I think - Central California trends heavily Republican and people there have convinced themselves that it's all the fault of the coastal cities for not building desalination plants. They're not sympathetic to the environmental arguments.

Gray Davis was recalled for less back in the early 2000s, although Arnold Schwarzenegger turned out to be a lot more moderate and forward-thinking than the Republican voters anticipated. Gov/ Brown is already in bad odor with the farming lobby, although the successful passage of the water infrastructure bond ballot proposal has given him more of a mandate than he might otherwise have had.
At this point in the evolution in technology, I find that Stallman is increasingly irrelevant when his commentary is basically stating every basic point of the site and then saying its bad. Don't want to use your real name? Don't join a site where the goal is to publicly connect with people you know. Don't want your privacy violated, post only what you feel comfortable with. With every new step in the advance of technology and the Internet of things, services such as, but not necessarily including Facebook will have access to an ever expanding array of information about our lives. This information can be used for good as well as bad, but this doesn't mean we shouldn't persue it.
Long shot. But if any engineers or developers from Balanced find themselves with time in their lives and are interested in working on a marketplace that optimizes prices discovery, I'd be excited for the opportunity to talk to them. Drop me a line, I'm in town and I'd love to take you out for beers.
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Yes, Facebook tracks you and complies with government requests in the countries it operates in. Is anything new or is the author just spreading FUD?
Would he be better off creating a minimal verified profile to de-legitimize other fake profiles? I know he would never do that but it's an interesting thing to consider in today's world.

Let's say you're not averse to social media/networking. Do you go ahead and claim your name so that someone with a list of compromised or usernames don't grab it before you do?
I know Kansas City won the Google Fiber race.
You can also run mapreduce in local mode on a single machine.
Almost none of his complaints strike at essential features of a social network. Real names, censorship, tracking un-submitted text, etc are all just evil and not part of any functionality users care about.
What are the limits of resolution based solely on the lens size that a satellite can carry?

And are they able to get higher resolution using some other tricks?

And are there limits on the size of civilian satellite payloads vs military payloads? Is there a theoretical limit to resolution that spy satellites have based on lens size?
>How is 7% close to a rounding error?

I didn't say 7% was a rounding error. I wrote "a quarter" of 7%, which is rather different.
> Algorithmic filtering can affect history, not just hide history. Facebook's filtering algorithm suppressed news about the thug riot in Ferguson until after it became national news.

Calling all of the protestors in Ferguson "thugs" seems pretty off base. I'm surprised he characterized everyone there like that when his previous few points seemed to be in favor of the ability to protest the government. I guess he only feels that way when it's not in the US?

It's interesting he drew that conclusion from the article he links to, given that they mention prior to things such as twitter it would only be characterized on the news as a place to avoid due to "looters, thugs, troublemakers" in a minor segment.
Yup - it has decreased dramatically. Its not much different from Duke now.

https://collegeadmissions.uchicago.edu/apply/class-profile
For weight loss/management, it's recommended to eat your daily calories over 6 meals throughout the day. But, the general idea isn't to keep you from feeling hungry, but rather to keep your blood sugar relatively constant, so the body doesn't enter "hoard energy" mode (where muscle is preferred as an energy source over fat) and you aren't spiking your bloodstream with huge surges of glucose (and thus insulin, which is what prompts the storage of glucose as fat) after binging.
A dissolvable wet wipe doesn't seem all that feasible as what is it supposed to take to make it dissolve? A dry wet wipe that you wet and then wipe with which then dissolves is...toilet paper.
Stiles is the most underrated joint in town. Glad to see them getting more and more respect lately.

Those Texas Frito Pies... Oh my
Could have potentially disastrous repercussions on alien ecosystems.
I didn't interpret it that way. There was a large riot that happened in Ferguson and I'd say it's fair to characterize looters and vandals as "thugs".
I didn't think that "Cu.import("resource://gre/modules/ctypes.jsm")" was allowed in a Firefox add-on.

This is bad. Add-ons should not be allowed that much power. Especially since Wips has been buying up add-ons and putting in adware and spyware.[1][2][3] It looks like if you have the right connections, you can get malware approved into Firefox.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/blocksite/
[2] http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=2737553
[3] http://www.howtogeek.com/180175/warning-your-browser-extensi...
man ls, on my various servers, doesn't have an AUTHOR section, just HISTORY which says:

An ls command appeared in Version 1 AT&T UNIX.
Being able to search and find people by their real name is actually a feature I value very highly in a social network.
> The root problem is not that people are undisciplined, but that the problem is undefined.
> If and when you find a real business idea then you can rewrite the code with the knowledge of what it needs to be genuinely useful.

I have seen several start ups - invested in a few, contracted for several more - of the nature that you describe.

With the benefit of hindsight, what is there so very laudable (thanks Jane Austen) about a culture that does not have a `real business idea', but `rushes to take some investment money and build something'? When you start without a clue of what sustainable value you can provide, most of your problems are invented problems.

Another thing while we are on this topic: it is exceedingly rarely that a start up really loses out because another beat it by a few weeks. Yet, shoddy work is encouraged or condoned in the name of the necessity to move at `Internet speed'.

The `real business idea's of most start ups offer little incremental or differentiating value. The ratio of successful start ups to the unsuccessful ones speaks volumes!
My favorite is when Jaime Sin (a Cardinal) visited Rome and the headline was, "Cardinal Sin in Rome!"
I have both Chrome and Chrome Canary (beta version of Chrome) installed. On Chrome I install only a few extensions I trust (e.g. LastPass, Chromecast) and use that for personal browsing. Canary is overloaded with lots of useful developer extensions that tend to have the scary "read and change all your data on the websites you visit" permission and use that for development only so I don't need to trust those extensions.
lmao You can't do that if you are an individual though, you can build a startup company and protect that idea with international protection backed by investors.
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This can be an optional disclosure made by people who wish to be found by their real name.
I'd like to give him the benefit of the doubt in that the link where he writes "thug" is to an article that has this line:

"We" hear it only through official statements, often dismissing local concerns, painting them as looters, thugs, troublemakers.

So I don't think he was speaking from his point of view but from how it might have been presented to a common person.
One of the annoying things about Orkut was that most people used to change their name to something hippie and it became very hard to identify them when they messaged (scrap?) me.
You can exploit this psychological trick when bargaining
Being able to search and find people by the names they actually use on a day to day basis is actually a feature I value very highly in a social network. Being able to hide from abusive people in one's past is actually a feature I value very highly in a social network. I know a number of people -- transpeople, people from other countries, people who just don't like their given name -- who don't use their "real" name in "real" life. Why should facebook require one's legal name when no in person congregation requires you to wear a name badge that identifies you with a name you may not be comfortable with?
I'm not Asian, but the first thing I do whenever I move into a new living situation for any duration greater than one month is to install a bidet.
Unless you're at work, where you usually don't get the luxury of having a sink inside the stall.
As part of the first time tutorial, how about inviting new users to a fictitious event to help acclimate them? Also, it's feels so lonely after installing the app and seeing the message that there's no activity, so even a training event would help users feel loved. ;)
> Don't want your privacy violated, post only what you feel comfortable with.

That sounds nice and simple, but it's sadly not enough. You also have to worry about other random people in your life uploading your info (even unknowingly):

http://www.jwz.org/blog/2013/06/facebook-shadow-profiles/

http://www.zdnet.com/article/firm-facebooks-shadow-profiles-...

I shudder to think about what info they've amassed about me even though I've never had an account.
I think you're firstly mischaracterising what Stallman is saying, and secondly forgetting exactly who Stallman is.

This isn't just a list of attributes with "NO" written next to it, Stallman's outlaying precisely why those attributes are detrimental to privacy and how they erode the freedoms he believes in. He even gives specific examples and links to source articles.

Someone who hasn't ever really considered the implications of using Facebook, like a teenager who's come of age in a world where sharing everything about yourself is the norm, reading this article might make them think a bit more about what they share and why, and what the implications might be. For that reason alone there's value in what Stallman has to say.

And in any case, this is who he is. It's not like he doesn't understand the evolution of technology - hell, he helped more than most to evolve it - and it's not like he doesn't understand why you and I use Facebook. He just doesn't agree with our motivations, doesn't feel it's worth the corresponding privacy trade-offs, and has made it the work of his lifetime to be an advocate for the privacy we're so eager to give away.
Anecdotally speaking, cell phones have appeared to be pretty saturated in all the developing countries I've been in.

I bought my current phone for about $55. It's got a quadcore 1.3ghz processor, 512MB of RAM, a decent screen but a mediocre front and back camera. It might have some backdoors in it though, as it's got some software I can't uninstall without rooting.

The plans, minutes, and internet bandwidth in developing countries have been far cheaper than say Verizon's (perhaps no longer available) plan for 1GB of data for $40. The plans range from about $2 for 1GB in some countries to $16 for 1GB plus a chunk of talk and messaging time.
And if that sounds like too much, Amazon has super well-rated bidets for around $25-$30 that have served me well.
A friend of mine was turned off of a potentially new employee the other day because the candidate exclaimed that they recognized a customer from their instagram profile and that they followed it, loved it, etc.

The customer was obviously embarrased, exclaimed that he had not used instagram in over a year, and promptly left the store.

This left an uneasy feeling in my friend (the store owner). Which confused me to be honest. What did that customer expect when they placed their picture and basically entire lives on a public website with geotagged images? The new employee was told to be talkative with all clients as they worked in customer service, and so they attempted to strike up a conversation or at least a similar interest in the customer's publicly viewable leisure activities.

That was how the candidate discovered him on instagram in the first place by the way. It was because he only posted pictures of the local area.
the togetherness of search weighting.
That blocksite looks pretty annoying, but according to our Add-on Dev Relations Lead (jorgev), since the tracking in blocksite is "opt in", it doesn't actually violate any of the AMO policies.

Note that I haven't actually installed the add-on or looked at the source[1], but just echoing what I'm reading in this bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=903799

"Add-ons should not be allowed that much power" - this is tricky. We want add-ons to be powerful enough that users can customize Firefox to their liking down to the tiniest detail. And yet, we want to make sure that the add-ons are not doing completely evil things to your machine.

Our solution to that problem is code review and static analysis of add-ons that are submitted to AMO. For add-ons that you install outside of AMO... well, you're on your own there.

It's tricky. We do very much want to make the browser safer for our users, and eliminating evil add-ons is high on our list of priorities, but there's a lot of stop energy put against our solutions[2].

I'm not in charge of add-ons, but I the predicament is clear. Add-on authors want the power to make the browser do amazing things. Users want add-ons to do amazing things. Bad actors want add-ons to do evil things. We want to protect the user, but we also want to respect the user's right to do or install whatever they'd like on their machines.

It's a fine balance.

[1]: Which is something our AMO editors do - they review the source of all add-ons that go up to AMO.

[2]: https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2015/02/10/extension-signing... is one solution we're going after. Check out the comments for some of the fors and againsts.
Because it's your legal name?
Considering that Zuckerberg is a great admire of China and apparently socialism[0], it doesn't come to me as a huge surprise that these "ethics" are guidelines for Facebook.

“I’ve also bought copies of this book for my colleagues,” Zuckerberg was quoted as saying by a Chinese news website. “I want them to understand socialism with Chinese characteristics.”

[0]: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/12/08...
Yes, there is a theoretical limit -- the "Rayleigh criterion".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imagery_intelligence#Satellite

"This means that it would be impossible to take photographs showing objects smaller than 16 cm with such a telescope at such an altitude. Modern U.S. IMINT satellites are believed to have around 10 cm resolution; contrary to references in popular culture, this is sufficient to detect any type of vehicle, but not to read the headlines of a newspaper."
You're probably on a Mac, which comes from the BSD heritage.

Try "man diff".
I only have a test account through my company that does not even have my name and that I used only once. The suggestions they mail are eery - e.g. they suggested my girlfriend from 12 years ago which I haven't spoken to for ~6 years to that account.
What is so important about displaying the legal name, especially in cases (like the GP explained) where nearly no-one in ones social environment knows it? If Facebook had legal reasons to know it they still could make displaying it optional.
Heart disease, commonly caused by tobacco use and overeating, is the number one cause of death in the US, and probably has excessive health bills associated with it.

If a person is injured in any way due to their consumption of alcohol (wreck, twisting an ankle, liver damage) they should likely have to foot the bill.
Lets go to the source:
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/tree/src/ls.c...
>At this point in the evolution in technology, I find that Stallman is increasingly irrelevant

Funny, because after all the NSA/Snowden/Confirmed-backdooring-everywhere hooplah I feel as if his view points--especially those having to do with machine ownership and the need for free software to get to that point--are increasingly relevant.
No, you value an environment safe enough that people can use their common name -- the one that you would likely know them by.

You do not care about government recognized names. And declaring a network safe for personally identifying information does not necessarily make it so.
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Ugh. There should be no reason why there is a copy of passwords (encrypted or not) in the cloud.

At the expense of not being integrated, I use BT Sync for this purpose instead. Works fine for me.
I’m no fan of Zuckerberg or the CCP, but that’s ridiculous. Hosting a Chinese official at the Facebook office and telling a Chinese news site that he gave some copies of the Chinese president’s new book to his colleagues isn’t any kind of useful evidence about Zuckerberg’s personal political beliefs or Facebook’s governing principles.
It's been tried over and over again. Throwing developers at a project has negative returns at some point.

The truth is that individual engineer skill is the only good bet, and only if within a culture that works.
Ahh, sorry, I missed that (in a display of very poor reading skills). That does make more sense.

But if commercial landscaping isn't included in that 7%, this number becomes larger. And if the drought is very serious, why wouldn't it be theoretically possible to cut landscaping usage down to near 0%? A 25% reduction seems like it would be very easy. (Although, I admit I don't have any idea what the breakdown of landscaping water usage looks like.)
You may not be aware that in some jurisdictions (Quebec is an example), marriage is not a sufficient legal reason to change your legal name, yet most people informally identify with a spousal name change. It would seem like an overstep for Facebook to regulate against this by policy. That's only one of many, many examples where people shouldn't be forced into using their legal name simply BECAUSE it's their legal name.
It's not uncommon for wet wipes to contain a bit of rubbing alcohol for anti-microbial purposes.
I don't see that in my copy: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/releng/10.1/bin/ls/ls.1?revis...
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It wasn't presented as evidence for any claim. "Apparently" isn't a claim.

The correlations between the ideology and what happens with Facebook is synonymous though, so it's neither far fetched. But I guess you need to have some historic understanding to see that (and that's a little too broad to present in a comment field).

(edit: for admin: I up-voted this post and got an "user mismatch" error as response page - perhaps something the devs want to look into).
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Search for high integrity software.

For example, with MISRA it may be C, but feels like Ada.

http://www.misra.org.uk/

Or Spark similarly for Ada

http://www.spark-2014.org/
The UK, for one, does not have the concept of a 'legal name'. Your name is whatever you choose to call yourself.

Even a deed poll has no official weight, it's just a statement of a name you have chosen. Hence 'poll' instead of 'certificate'.
Since I am not affiliated to a big corp I guess 'power' dynamics skew against me more than 'financial' criteria.

I think if I can't make money, I should consider being famous.

It is something like you had invented a car shield wiper. You can't write a paper about it. I think I'll just make a blogpost and hope it gets some reputation.
When I had a Google Nexus and I used Google Voice as my phone number, most of the things I could do in my phone I could do in my computer as well. Recently I had my phone stolen and I decided to try the iPhone, mostly because the latest Nexus is way too big for my pocket, and it turns out that I can do way less things in my computer than I could with the Nexus. That said, still there are a few apps that I can only use from a phone which is very annoying. I look forward to the first phone or laptop that solves that problem. To me a phone is a poor man's computer that you have to use when you are on the road, but if you are in front of your desk, there is no reason you should be forced to use an inferior input interface to interact with your accounts when you have a keyboard and a trackpad in front of you.
It's hard to say, for Go there is e.g. bleve FTS and there are ports of Java Lucene to Go (e.g. https://github.com/balzaczyy/golucene). Such ports are either semi-automatic or automatic, only automatic ports. It's hard for Lucene ports to keep up, as Lucene is moving fast and most ports stalled.

One could also use a service oriented architecture and use e.g. ElasticSearch Rest API or C++ based Sphinx Search, both need litttle configuration and no custom code.
As a customer I hope someone will start working on a native iOS app. Right now the Fidor app isn't updated very often and lacks a bit usability, even comparing it to a simple website wrapper like the Deutsche Bank app which actually works quite nicely and offers convenient features like TouchID sign in.
Sure. At a minimum, the people running Balanced are preserving their personal reputation by doing this.

I like to take the pragmatic view about such things. Motivations aside, at the end of the day & in similar situations, Google decided to screw customers whilst Balanced decided to offer a smoother migration path. Even if Balanced's customers don't like Stripe, Stripe has a free data portability clause that will allow them to continue on to the payment processor of their choosing. (https://support.stripe.com/questions/what-if-i-decide-to-lea...)
Would like to see the effect of different time window sizes. Is there an optimum? Does a 3 hour window work even better?
My problem with essays like this is that they don't address the more critical underlying point: most people don't recognize privacy as a human right, and most people don't realize why privacy is important and worth protecting.

To most people, "if you've done nothing wrong, you have nothing to hide" sounds reasonable.

That's the deeper problem at work here. With more people on board to why privacy matters, articles like this will be more of an "oh, yeah!" instead of a "so what?" kind of thing.
No, it isn't. Because my main point, which you missed, was "don't take these arguments too seriously, because they are not". They are basically child's play. You don't think children fighting each other are going to grow up criminals, do you? This is the same thing.

But everything I wrote was honest. I, being a leftist anarchist, am probably more for equal and harmonic society than the author is. For instance, I wish there was no authority from power, and the companies were run democratically.