0xmohit

Also discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20921531

As per this meta question [0], the one you've linked to doesn't appear worthy of downvotes. However, when I was active on the site, it appeared that (some) users active in a tag tend to downvote questions when they didn't have an answer to it.

That said, the reputation model also encourages low quality answers [1].

Overall, I found the site to be somewhat toxic and stopped visiting it several years back.

[0] https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/252677/when-is-it-j...

[1] https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9731/fastest-gun-in...

pass [1] is great. It also has clients for various platforms [2].

[1] https://www.passwordstore.org/

[2] https://www.passwordstore.org/#other

Stack Overflow does not honor Do Not Track [0] and in response to a question [1] indicated that they don't intend to do that either.

Tracking (including third-party tracking) seems like a feature.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Not_Track

[1] https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/237062/does-stack-e...

Did someone say that it happened because Facebook believes in transparency?

Reminds one of:

Amazon's electricity rate discounts have pushed up utility costs

Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-20/amazon-is...

> It’s not just spreading phony stories everywhere—it’s killing real news.

It is spreading #AlternativeFacts.

It is funny to think that company that makes money by showing you ads based on information that it harvests by various mechanisms would let you browse the web without watching ads.

Interesting changes to Chrome seem to have become more often. A recent one was the forced login policy. https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2018/09/23/why-im-l...

Curious to know why do you need Google Analytics on the page.

Although Zuckerberg might refrain from calling users "dumb fucks" any longer, it is evident that he continues to consider them so.

It shouldn't be surprising that such networks will continue to monetize whatever they can.

> "They trust me — dumb fucks," says Zuckerberg in one of the instant messages, first published by former Valleywag Nicholas Carlson at Silicon Alley Insider, and now confirmed by Zuckerberg himself in Jose Antonio Vargas's New Yorker piece. Zuckerberg now tells Vargas, "I think I've grown and learned a lot" since those instant messages.

Source: https://gawker.com/5636765/facebook-ceo-admits-to-calling-us...

The article mentions the speed, but a difference that I've observed is that the newer version consumes significantly less CPU and memory.

Similar story: "My Amazon bestseller made me nothing"

https://www.salon.com/2013/03/15/hey_amazon_wheres_my_money/

Authors make little or nothing, but Bezos keeps getting richer :)

India had self-driving cars back in 2002.

https://www.hindustantimes.com/india/2002-hit-and-run-case-s...

> Often when you are pulled over they will try to find a reason to give you a ticket ,even when there seems to be no breach of the traffic law.

So true. The policemen know for sure that they'll manage to find _something_ that'll enable them to ask for a bribe. Even if one were to insist on paying the fine in case of a real violation, they'll ensure that they don't end up issuing a ticket and grab money _unofficially_ so that they can pocket it.

> Driving at India is similar like driving all the way with brakes applied. It’s slow, unpredictable and tense.

Driving in India is stressful. But walking on the roads is even more so. You may be walking on a one-way road and suddenly a bike travelling in the wrong direction might run into you. What's worse is that the guy is more likely to be abusive than sorry.

The New York Attorney General is opening an investigation into a Marriott data breach that may have affected 500 million guests.

https://twitter.com/NewYorkStateAG/status/106851007239602995...

> The first thing that they say I should improve on is: Must-Have-Words.

They might as well expect everyone to read the following texts:

https://i.imgur.com/DQcks8u.jpg

https://john.do/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/buzzwordfirstdesi...

Ever wondered why such "secure and privacy-concious" national ID cards only find place in third-world countries.

"Citizens of Australia, Canada, NZ, UK, and the US successfully opposed biometric national ID schemes." https://www.eff.org/issues/national-ids

Modern national ID cards are invariably designed for surveillance. Consider the case of Aadhaar (the Indian national ID card). No words can better describe the kind of services it has enabled than what is illustrated in this image -- https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DnWQpoTW4AARm2t.jpg (The image illustrates an app that claims to provide personal information about a random individual by way of facial recognition made possible by use of Aadhaar APIs.)

> Another interesting point is that they are really eager to block embeds that do not respect Do Not Track header but do not respect DNT themselves. Yes, Medium will collect your profile even if you are not a registered user and explicitly ask them not to do it.

PDFs can also have file attachments.

https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/links-attachments-pdfs...

The official documentation also seems to recognize those as a security risk :)

https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/attachments-security-r...

> You won’t be promoted for doing your job, you will be promoted by focusing on your promotion.

You aren't recognized for doing your job, you are recognized for worrying about your job.

> "When you owe the bank a million dollars and can't pay, you have a problem. When you owe the bank a billion dollars and can't pay, the bank has a problem."

Precisely the reason why something called "corporate debt restructuring" was invented.

> “When Google covers up harassment and passes the trash, it contributes to an environment where people don’t feel safe reporting misconduct,” said Liz Fong-Jones, a Google engineer for more than a decade and an activist on workplace issues. “They suspect that nothing will happen or, worse, that the men will be paid and the women will be pushed aside.”

It'd be good if there was a law that'd fine corporations for being unable to protect user data.

Make the fine directly proportional to: number of people affected * bits of leaked data for each user.

> This means a significant portion of the millions of Android phone owners who downloaded these apps were secretly tracked as they scrolled and clicked inside the application. By copying actual user behavior in the apps, the fraudsters were able to generate fake traffic that bypassed major fraud detection systems.

So the fraudsters essentially did what Google is best at -- tracking and making 'use' of the information.

Having to build technology that attempts to manipulate humans and call it "Deep Learning".

Too bad that you guys don't write software that makes current hardware appear inadequate :)

> But the 85-page briefing, titled “The Good Censor,” admits that Google and other tech platforms now “control the majority of online conversations” and have undertaken a “shift towards censorship” in response to unwelcome political events around the world.

> Responding to the leak, an official Google source said the document should be considered internal research, and not an official company position.

> The briefing labels the ideal of unfettered free speech on the internet a “utopian narrative” that has been “undermined” by recent global events as well as “bad behavior” on the part of users.

> Google is shutting down its long-neglected Facebook competitor Google+ following the disclosure of a vulnerability that could have resulted in third-party developers accessing private data from around 500,000 users, the company announced Monday.

Source: https://variety.com/2018/digital/news/google-plus-shut-down-...

I've been using DDG for a couple of years now and never feel like using any other search engine for "better" results.

Bangs are a really cool feature. https://duckduckgo.com/bang

Not to mention instant answers. https://duck.co/help/features/instant-answers-and-other-feat...