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The comparison with lack of blah at a shelter is telling, don't you think, when you think about how shelters are usually a place where people are "doled" out stuff? It is not merel…

Thanks! Your summaries are really helpful.

Hmm.. this is way too much friction. I call upon the tech giants to brainstorm and make the process more seamless. For example: why can't the govt take your picture and upload it t…

"Many other toolkits create examples that appears to be identical to the original implementation of a paper, and then offer a converted model for people to download and evaluate. T…

>> Facebook going out of business seems unlikely Is it? Because it seems to me that they are having plenty of issues with gaining the trust of advertisers too. Considering that adv…

Not disagreeing, but I would certainly like some references if you could provide us any. In fact, it would be genuinely troubling if you cannot find any good sources. Here is why: …

Oh, come on! Why did you have to ruin the fun? Don't you know we can have a ton of fun chuckling sarcastically to ourselves when we see folks like GP keep making these kind of shoc…

>> going to be forbidden unless you consent This was exactly my point a while back. That the default option should be to get explicit permission for each piece of data you collect …

Unethical: lacking moral principles. Moral: of, relating to, or concerned with the principles or rules of right conduct or the distinction between right and wrong I think it is "cl…

Not really. At the moment, there are only two kinds of employees at Facebook. Those who care and are getting irritated each time these issues are raised on HN (see here [1]), and t…

>> We really need someone to fight for our privacy and neutrality. Well said. I certainly hope it is not a PR stunt, but WordPress is probably the other big player in the fight for…

My first thought was: why only 70%? This may be a case where the savings (i.e. money from selling data in return for a big pile of cash) are actually passed on to the customer - e.…

That's because they can't do much with this info since they aren't also a giant ad network. Now imagine the same data in the hands of a company which has built one. They should pro…

>> he never jumped through the new hire hoops To paraphrase an old Steve Yegge joke [1] "What? How could they? He doesn't even know JavaScript!" [1] https://sites.google.com/site/s…

Indeed, it is amazing how many 'soft' things surrounding the software can be improved without requiring to 'get into the zone' as a developer. Of course, you also need to do the ac…

This might actually be a pretty huge opportunity for a company which can hand hold the transitioning from Windows to Linux in an enterprise. After all, if the new Windows OS is pro…

I don't like AMP for no other reason than I don't believe there are any genuinely decentralized initiatives anymore. "Oh, we open source it, you know", seems the common answer. If …

I don't disagree. If you have done this much research though, you could actually set up a little case study on this, write an eBook with nothing more than screenshots on how the pr…

I wonder what traits will define the Facebook transcender like the Windows transcender [1] mentioned in PG's essay. You can argue that since that essay (2005) the iPhone/iPad and A…

>> What guarantee do users have that they won't be individually selected to receive a higher price? As long as Uber is not the only means of transport, this issue should take care …

I actually wish you all the best if you plan to build one. Having said that, you are identifying a niche product which can only survive by charging people money for searching, whic…

The saying usually goes that laws should be designed to a) disincentivize and b) not set bad precedents. This law fails on both counts. No investor/shareholder will actually worry …

Love the title of Neil Degrasse Tyson's book "Astrophysics for People in a Hurry". So apt for today's readers. Maybe "for people in a hurry" will become the new "for dummies" franc…

>> According to the Merger Regulation, the Commission can impose fines of up to 1% of the aggregated turnover of companies, which intentionally or negligently provide incorrect or …

Except, their AI is simultaneously too stupid to preempt problems like the story we had with the Firebase customer. To generalize this a bit more, their AI is certainly too stupid …