skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, if they sell your data, the recipient can user it for many purposes, including redistributing. If they use your days to target adds, the external customer can't do anything else with it.

They aren't very similar.
Great, looks a lot better!
No, it's very different. If I'm concerned about my privacy, I'm concerned about who knows stuff about me.

Google knows a bunch of stuff about their customers inherently (because their customers have all their email on Google servers, do Google searches, etc.), so Google customers have already decided they trust Google with that information.

If Google were selling it, they'd be passing it along to other organizations that users haven't explicitly trusted. That'd be bad. But they don't do that -- they use their information to show you things based on what they know, with targeted ads; that might bother you from an aesthetic/anti-capitalist perspective, but isn't an extra concern from a privacy perspective.

(Interesting fun fact: You know who does actively sell your information? Your bank, for just about any big bank.)
Tim, if we're dumb enough to join your autocratic platform, then we're certainly dumb enough to not care about our personal data.
Cynically, and hypocritically. Just checked, the Facebook app is still in the store. Apple has been happy to take the search payments from Google from the first iPhone. Astonishing how Cook's "morality" has no practical implications that require his company to do anything.
I would like to see that happen.

In an ideal world, I believe, we would be able to pay for search, cloud storage, email, etc. with strong privacy and security guarantees.
Especially given that Google has yet to catch up with most of these, including the "beleaguered" Maps App.
I think most CS courses teach imperative style first because it was developed first and there are more practitioners and teaching materials.
Caveat being how Apple looks at privacy isn't necessary how Facebook or Google views privacy because Apple is a store while Google and Facebook are clubs.

It's in a store's best interest to keep their customer records private.

A club's best interest is to broadcast how much fun it is to join them. That's not to say a club doesn't and wouldn't want to keep their member records private as well.

In fact, clubs work hard to do so, just ask how Meerkat is doing, or any other third parties looking to build on top of a platform they don't own.

Additionally a club like Google or Facebook doesn't sell sell your information. They do the same song and dance as all mass communication companies in the past do, they merely sell hints of it.

To compare a store's motive with a club's motive is interesting, it's almost like comparing apples and oranges. It might also speak to why the core DNA of Apple isn't in creating web services, why Google's core DNA isn't in creating physical products, and why I much prefer speaking to Google Now on my iPhone.

They both see the world differently.

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The real interesting question is this.

Apple's service agreement states they store and encrypt iMessages. There have been 300 billion messages thus far. Apple has a centralized system for managing those messages while others use a decentralized peer-to-peer system.

So a positive is that the government can't hack into it.

The negative being that if the government justifies in asking for it instead Apple has no recourse but to give it up.

When push comes to shove, will Apple, the largest company in the world, step up to the plate and spend money to fight the United States in court?

Otherwise this is just a sales pitch that Don Draper pulled when he told a fictional cigarette company to start claiming their tobacco is sun-dried so that every other cigarette company looks weaker in comparison.
Why You Should Start a Profitable Blog
Doesn't it seem simpler and clearer to specify the cap as a share price, instead of a valuation, in the capped note?
Instagram starting to monetize
> there was no point under Gates or he at which Microsoft felt like a pro-developer company.

That hasn't been my experience. Microsoft has always been supportive of my compiler company, even providing Microsoft tools to be bundled with it. In fact, a huge reason MSDOS was so enormously successful was the ease with which anyone could (and did) write and ship software for it. Microsoft was well aware of this and supported it.
"tying yourself down in heavy debt for most of your working life"

Considering the typical adult entering the workforce today is going to have a career on the order of 40-50 years until retirement I don't think the typical 10 year repayment period of a typical college loan qualifies as 'most' of your working life.
Great to hear from you again, Mr. Crawford!

https://k0nsl.org/blog/crawfords-calling/
I actually really wish there was a way for me to more directly tell google what targeted advertising to send me.
I think that's possibly the case, but what I wonder is why they don't just buy DuckDuckGo.

I've built a search engine, from scratch (Eg: before Lucene and Solr existed) it's not a trivial endeavor, and due to VC interference we lost to google... these days not only do you need the infrastructure technology (something that google, notably, is not open sourcing) but you need a decades worth of historical info from past crawls to train your systems.

EDIT: Ah, I see all of my comments are being downvoted, in a vindictive fashion.

I guess I should expect nothing less.

This site needs to reform itself. I'm signing off for awhile.
But it's still mostly bullshit, though, especially coming from a company using closed source software for most of its products. Nobody can really tell what they are collecting, what they do with it and how much of it they share with third parties (including governments).

If you google a bit, I bet you will find similar speeches from every single big company CEO these past years: "Privacy is our number one priority, blah blah blah".

If you think Apple is different just because Tim Cook has great speech writers, you're being naive.

All these companies are in it to win your private information, and we are all prepared to give them some of our private information if what we get in return is worth it. That's the game, simple.
TL;DR: Targeted ads streamed straight to your eyeballs.
Author is making biased observations, probably based on his experience. Parental pressure, peer pressure, shame are all wrong reasons for going to college to get a degree. The lectures I watched on Khan Academy, Coursera or EdX beat almost all lectures I attended at college. For me there isn't a "big difference between watching a video online and actually being there". Many times I learned more from watching Youtube videos than attending lectures at universities/colleges. Hands-on learning courses on codecademy or codeschool are much better than in-person corporate trainings I attended, that companies I worked with spent thousands of dollars on.
> Most flight patterns occurred in counter-clockwise orbits up to several miles wide and roughly one mile above the ground at slow speeds. A 2003 newsletter from the company FLIR Systems Inc, which makes camera technology such as seen on the planes, described flying slowly in left-handed patterns.

The way they mentioned counter-clockwise orbits and then talk about FLIR's newsletter mentioning left-handed patterns seems to be trying to use the left/counter-clockwise aspects to connect the two.

That seems rather a stretch. Pilots have better visibility to the left in most small planes, and so left turns are preferred. Also, propellers usually rotate clockwise, which causes some biases toward the left I believe, which may make it slightly easier to do left turns.
I don't know why people seem to think that you need to use a modulus operator to do fizzbuzz. There are several other ways to tell if one integer is divisible by another.
Not always useful if e.g. you're locked out of the BIOS, the setting constantly auto-resets for no apparent reason, the keyboard is partially broken.

The sad thing is that I've personally experienced all three of these problems. #%^$ whoever decided that the Function keys should be brightness etc by default.
It's funny how Google advocates always "bash" apple for being "closed source" when this company ships the most popular Unix in the world... and all of their products, even the watch, are based on it. Yes, they do keep the Application/UI layer closed source, but so does google ("Google Apps").

Yet google has spend years propagandizing that they are "open" while Apple is "closed" and that plays right into the latent desire to hate Apple from those who got a PC instead of a Mac when they were a kid.

Apple is different because for nearly 40 years they have been honest and forthright and treating people different. Google says "don't be evil" and then goes out and does evil. Apple doesn't say it, they just don't do it.

The idea that all these companies want private info and thus are all going to be evil is cynical.

And it ignores the fundamental truth: Apple's product is really nice software sold in a hardware box. Google's product is your private info.

The business models couldn't be more different.
SF city officials vow to ride public transit for the next 22 days
I'm saying that most people are biased towards loops and mutation because they learned them first. It's like riding a skateboard vs riding a bike. They're equally challenging if you know neither.
I think you took a few too many 9s there. That implies its the centre of the universe for 0.0000000000006 of a person.

/snark
Yep. (Sorry, I was on mobile earlier)
That doesn't seem all that different than advertising in the yellow pages to me. You have to ask the customer how they heard about you, but if they mention the yellow pages, you're pretty sure you know what they were looking for, because you picked the section(s) you advertised in.

To my knowledge, Google doesn't tell you where the keyword was found, or even if it was an exact keyword match or something they deemed similar enough to show (but I'm by no means an expert in Adwords).

At some point you just have to accept that when you call a plumber, the plumber going to have a pretty good base to assume you need a plumber, and this is releasing some information to them. Without that, communication would be impossible.
Jonathan Blow is also working on Jai, a programming language for game developers.

https://inductive.no/jai/
If you're going to call someone a hypocrite, and immoral, you should put up evidence of such.

Apple may send traffic to google, but it has privacy protections in place, anonymizing the traffic from the browser.

I don't see how the Facebook app being in the store makes Apple immoral or hypocritical, especially compared to google.
Search engine and email is always going to be 'free'. The difference, what Apple claims, comes from who pays for that.

Google's free services are subsidised by advertisers.

Apple's free services are subsidised by hardware, the software costs are lumped in when your purchase an iPhone or a Mac.
Apple has shown they aren't really into your data, but they've also got a pretty atrocious security record (poor handling of data on phones and slow OS patching among others) making it seem like that's also not as much of a concern as it should be.

I don't trust google and I would love to pay for 'cloud' but I think trusting Apple is also misguided.
It's mystically working now. Previously it reliably failed.
> All these companies are in it to win your private information,

The companies he Tim Cook described, that offer "free" services and data-mine/aggregate/sell your personal information to fund the business? Yes.

Apple has a vested interest in not collecting, analysing, aggregating and using the vast amounts of private information other companies do: they're seen by many as a premium brand, where you pay a bit more and get a better product/experience. Part of that is not getting "maybe you'd like X" emails from the App Store, or "Hey do you need a new printer for that Mac you just bought on Apple.com" type shit.

> and we are all prepared to give them some of our private information if what we get in return is worth it.

You might be. "We" are not all prepared to hand over private information.
https://www.google.com/settings/u/0/ads
> "College is just a means to a higher salary" is a straw man.

I've always wondered about this. Does having a degree lead to higher salary? Or is it that the types of people who go to collage and get degrees are more naturally inclined (for whatever reasons) to get paid more?

It seems like a pretty 'basic' and fundamental question, so I'm sure there's been studies/research on it before.
This is really cool (and unfortunately I know nothing about powershell, I'm young and dumb) but I'm pretty sure this is replicable line for line with bash (and curl, maybe awk too idk). Am I wrong?
The quest to save today’s gaming history from being lost
Google wants to count the calories in your Instagram food porn
The placebo effect is not that mysterious, and doesn't need religion to make sense. Opioids and neurotransmitters such as dopamine play a large part. The neurological and psychosomatic mechanisms have not been all figured out, but the solutions are not found in superstition.
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/922351.shtml

Yes this is just one article, but it doesn't mention anything about post-birth selection. That would be terrible. I just don't believe it is happening at scale - people are not that evil.
Perhaps a privacy advocate should be wondering about the 'sniff test' of the speech. What does “Like many of you, we at Apple reject the idea that our customers should have to make tradeoffs between privacy and security” mean? That there's a serious argument that less privacy is more security? Aren't they functionally the same thing in this context - 'security' here is about maintaining privacy.

It's also a bit rich that Cook is talking about other entities gobbling up your data for themselves, when Apple is the epitome of the 'walled garden'. Apparently being in control of your own information is only what Apple wants if it's concomitant with their control of your information.

Cook isn't being morally upstanding here. He's just reframing his company's position to make the other guy look bad. It's the traditional pattern of hide your weaknesses and expose those of your competition.
Very cool concept!

I spent a while tweaking the code to get more CPU cycles, but after a while tired of mining the asteroids manually, so I just got rid of them:

ENGINE.Game.spawnAsteroid = function () {}

After that the next logical step was to give myself more ships:

SHIP_CPU_COST = 0.001;

Of course, it's a lot more interesting (and challenging!) to actually play by the rules.
(1) Google also puts ads and other little tracking widgets (google analytics, G+ social buttons, etc.) all over the web, gathering massive amounts of information about people’s browsing habits unrelated to any direct customer relationship or informed consent.

(2) Use of Google search does not at all imply that a customer wants all of their searches to be associated with their identity, processed, stored indefinitely, used to build a comprehensive dossier to better target advertising on unrelated pages, or handed over to nation-state spooks who come asking. It’s not at all clear that most customers understand what information they’re handing over or what can be done with it when they use services like search.

[Yes, plenty of other ad networks, analytics companies, social media services, etc. do the same thing, and plenty of other types of companies (e.g. the banks you mention) and government agencies also build permanent profiles of people based on whatever scraps of data they can; this is not only a Google problem. It’s creepy when anyone does it, which is why there should be better regulatory oversight ensuring that customers know what data is collected and how it is used, restricting certain types of data aggregation and customer profiling, and placing limits on how long various types of data can be kept.]
Note that this is note exactly the same thing, Sorensen has been advocating a Thorium fuel cycle, these folks seem to be advocating a Uranium fuel cycle.
As I never tire of pointing out, he was actually pointing out how to protect your privacy from the federal government before many cared at all:

> "People are treating Google like their most trusted friend. Should they be?"

> "I think judgment matters. If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place. But if you really need that kind of privacy, the reality is that search engines, including Google, do retain this information for some time. And it’s important, for example, that we are all subject in the United States to the Patriot Act. It is possible that information could be made available to the authorities."

But that never got play back then, so we get the incomplete quote everywhere. It took Edward Snowden to make the tech blogs finally change narrative.
>but why should I be paying 100,000 grands for just directions

You don't have to spend anywhere near 100k for college, and the vast majority of people don't.

The average in state tuition and fees at a public university is $9,139. Some kind of assistance is available to most people--the Pell Grant is income based and many states have Scholarships. Georgia (where I went to school) has the hope scholarship that covers around 90% of tuition and fees for high school students with a B average and close to 100% for students with a 3.7.

In addition almost everyone qualifies for student loans. And if you take out more than $30k or so (I forget the exact amount) you can qualify for income based repayment where you pay back only 10% of your discretionary income (Income - 1.5 * Federal poverty level) for 20 years.
Can I sign up to receive a notification when you do add canada.
>You're arguing over semantics. Selling a product (ads) that is a direct result of having that data is basically selling that data.

For some definition of "basically" that means "not whatsoever". Selling involves exchanging money for goods or services with another party (to paraphrase Homer Simpson).
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I have, but not seriously.
Tips for a good User Interface
Thanks for that - I got the same impression after reading it through.

I think one of the major points of the presentation is that as an industry we don't understand enough about IPv6 the implementation. Basically, know what you're getting into by understanding what IPv6 is and what it means for us.
You can remap your Caps Lock key to Esc on pretty much everything: Windows using AutoHotKey, Mac OS using Seil, Unix using xmodmap.
I was referred to a similar website, when I share this with my co-worker.

https://www.motifinvesting.com/motifs#catalog=our
I've thought about that. To keep on heroku free, I removed churned clients data. I'll keep that in mind, thank you.
Part of that is not getting "maybe you'd like X" emails from the App Store

I use a fair variety of google products on a couple of different platforms and have for years. Google has never sent me a suggest-sell email. They don't hide the fact that they're in the advertising and marketing business, but they're not that unsubtle.

Perhaps other people get suggest-sell emails from Google, but it's not something I've seen (or heard people complain about).
I don't know if the debt load is all that heavy with student loans. If you take out more than $30k or so (I forget the exact amount) you can qualify for income based repayment where you pay back only 10% of your discretionary income (Income - 1.5 * Federal poverty level) for 20 years.

If you are stuck with a crappy low paying job, that means that your only paying 10% of any income over about $18k (for a single person).
I think StorageReviews.com has an article on exactly this.
So I downvoted your original comment not because people get value out of machine learning (which I agree with) but that you purport that Apple is incapable of delivering something based on machine learning. Unless you're a core Apple engineer I don't see how you could know this for sure; it sounded more like an opinion that didn't further the discussion.

In fact I wouldn't be surprised if they use machine learning for a few things (they do collect data after all just not as much).
I think there's a real difference in emotional impact between finding out your actions at work have been monitored (pretty much expected) and that your calls and emails to friends, family, and donors can be dredged up at will. I think we're starting to see a reaction to the second.
Thanks for the thoughtful response and resources. I've done some of these, like emails, and started/stopped others. I'll look into the podcast, I can never listen to enough :)
What is OOP
I'm repeating myself (from other threads) but Mozilla should use this sales pitch. Very few users can evaluate business' privacy practices; they only can trust the business. Due to their non-profit, public good status, their mission, and their track record, nobody could compete with Mozilla on trust.

EDIT: I'll add: Certainly the other two leading browser makers couldn't compete, and in mobile platforms only Apple, if they sell Cook's pitch effectively, can provide any competition.
They have an income based repayment plan where if you borrow over a certain amount you only have to pay 10% of your discretionary income (Income - 1.5 * Federal poverty level) for 20 years.
> Trust me I have a friend who loves breaking into my personal server.

Sterling work establishing your own competence there.
'Private search' already exists. If that's what you want, then use duckduckgo. As a bonus, it's outside the Apple ecosystem, so you're diversifying your risk.
> 1. Make something new, useful and free.

FREE IS NOT A FEATURE
I am not disputing that people may get value from advertising but (a) it is not the reason people use the service and (b) it is not even close to being a popular feature of the service.

And giving data costs you when something goes wrong. Dealing with identity theft, stolen credit cards etc is not fun a experience to deal with.
Ha, yes I think I posted when I was highlited on Nitrous's blog. I'll update if it takes off, or gets shuttered, freeing up some AWS juice for all of you.

http://blog.nitrous.io/2013/10/15/built-on-nitrous-io-pet-si...