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I wonder if a vaccine for SARS-CoV-2 might trigger the same response from the immune system.

With mRNA, vaccines could be much easier to create and could have an interesting side effects.

This is so ridiculous. Google Maps accesses the clipboard. Try it out: copy an address and open maps.

So do Facebook and Instagram, I’m sure.

The level of paranoia in the Valley is astounding.

I foresee tech companies creating paid and non-paid versions of their products. If you don't want your data monetized, please pay $50/month for Google Search, GMail, Maps, and YouTube. If you are okay with the value exchange of ads and free services, then you are opting into a mutually agreed upon arrangement with no compensation.

Doing something good in hopes of also making money seems okay, no?

Is there another model that has had similar success?

No, it isn't because of privacy. It is because they get a cut of the total volume processed on the cards and, as a bonus, they get details about where you spend your money.

They aren't operating a charity. You also left our hotels, airlines, etc. United Airlines makes $$ by signing up members for the United Cards by Chase.

I could have sworn that HN told me that Twitter is for journalists and not Facebook.

Regardless, they presumably maintain a Facebook presence because that’s where people are, but that’s not where you have to be. Shocking, I know.

That’s a stupid argument. Plenty of people now state that they aren’t active on social networks.

HN just has an unhealthy obsession with Facebook.

Get over it already.

HN's Facebook obsession is so unproductive. Let it go already. Focus on building your own thing.

Yes, people use Facebook. No, you don't have to.

Edit: yes, please downvote this comment. Let the HN naval gazing continue.

> "to all pool their training data"

The press would skewer them alive and politicians will have a field day about tech companies violating privacy and sharing data.

RTFA - "The company said the users who were affected chose the option in Facebook’s Messenger app to have their voice chats transcribed. The contractors were checking whether Facebook’s artificial intelligence correctly interpreted the messages, which were anonymized."

It also isn’t the amount of data but the value.

On the value spectrum (high to low): - Equifax - very little but very high value data - Google - Search, Gmail, location, browsing, apps and time spent on them - Facebook/Twitter - my posts from high school and photos of me trying to look cool

Interestingly, I think Reddit could build a much scarier profile on me based on what I read and what I upvote.

Confirmation bias is bad when others have it, but not when HN readers have it.

You haven't bothered to read the source, haven't bothered to understand what the context is, and haven't even bothered to see that there is no mention of WhatsApp in the talk.

Ducking tired of click bait and people who ducking reward it.

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I'm not sure I understand the point of this article except to write a hit piece against Howard Schultz. For shame, NYTimes.

Schultz is no longer the CEO of the company and it is easy for Starbucks to distance themselves from his campaign. A simple press release: "Howard was a great founder and we wish him well in his future endeavors".

Additionally, media should refer to him as: "Howard Schultz, the former CEO of Starbucks." That makes it clear that the two are no longer affiliated.

What?!

They don't have to _collect_ it. They can say that we have access to it but will only collect it when you use a related product.

Whoa! I didn't know they used Plaid. Plaid's terms are even more alarming. Why does Plaid need all this information?

"The types of information we collect from your financial institutions may include, but are not limited to:

Account information, including financial institution name, account name, account type, and account and routing number;

Information about an account balance, including current and available balance;

Information about credit accounts, including statement due dates and balances owed, payment amounts and dates, transaction history, and interest;

Information about loan accounts, including due dates, balances, payment amounts and dates, interest, loan type, payment plan, and term;

Information about the account owner(s), including name, email address, phone number, and address information.

Information about account transactions, including amount, date, type, and a description of the transaction."

src: https://plaid.com/legal/

Telegram has security issues [0]. WhatsApp and Signal both use the Signal protocol [1].

[0] https://gizmodo.com/why-you-should-stop-using-telegram-right... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_Protocol

What data does Facebook have on you that Google doesn’t collect?

Google buys your credit card purchase data. Did you give it that? Why do you think Google wants you to stay logged into Chrome?

Let’s be honest here and call a spade a spade.

The world is just realizing how ads based business models work and there’s no difference between Google and Facebook.

> I do not think it was 'just' that people didn't like Hillary and somehow happened to choose against their own interest.

This is exactly the flawed takeaway from this election.

Mainstream voters kept telling us that they are not optimistic about their economic future, they kept complaining about their jobs going overseas, they kept complaining about immigration and our response was: ”it is better for you”.

We lost 2016 and will lose 2020.

Political advertising has existed for a long time. In news papers, radio, tv, and on social media. Most advertisers and political ad agencies will tell you that pschographic targeting isn’t useful at all. The only thing that works is raise money or “get out the vote” campaigns.

No, they didn’t. Trump won because people liked his message. Plain and simple. These companies existed long before 2016 and if they couldn’t help other legitimate candidates get elected, what could they have done so magical for Trump?

Is it really so hard to believe that people didn’t like Hillary and didn’t think that another 8 years of the same would be good for them?

I’ve tried submitting multiple times with shorter titles but I get the same error (as the second screenshot in the Imgur link) after I hit submit: “Sorry, that story was previously submitted.”

This is the first I’ve heard of Reddit being used in this capacity.

In my opinion, Reddit could have had a greater influence than either Facebook or Twitter. On Facebook, the Russians ran ads and they used bots on Twitter but in both of those cases the total reach was probably less than Reddit’s reach.

Also, while we are scrutinizing Facebook and Twitter (rightly), it is time that Reddit (the fourth most popular site) should also have to explain what it is doing.

I just tried again with a shorter title (below) and still got the same error message.

“Reddit’s The_Donald Was One Of The Biggest Havens For Russian Propaganda“ (72 characters)

This isn’t about politics. It is about how tech companies are enabling outsiders to create political discord and influence elections.

This probably explains it but definitely wasn’t apparent in the error message shown.

I’d like to believe you but I tried submitting from another account: http://imgur.com/a/tDiA7

For the curious: https://www.inquisitr.com/4790689/reddits-the_donald-was-one...

Yeah, I agree that there is risk in content production but Netflix is a public company and there is nothing preventing any investor from selling their shares.

Unless you meant something else.

This is an area where Apple could really improve iOS and add API support to enable apps to screen calls, like what Android already has.

Telecom companies don't have any incentive to fix this.

Fix that worked for me: 1) Put the phone in Airplane mode 2) Power it down 3) Power it up and while staying in Airplane mode 4) Delete Booking.com 5) Power it down 6) Power it back up and turn off Airplane 7) Go to Safari and browse normally

More sources: http://www.zdnet.com/article/ios-9-3-update-breaks-links-in-...

Unclear at this time but seems like the bug existed in 9.2.1 but now is more widespread with 9.3.

Exact behavior: a Google search results page loads but you can't click through to any of the results.

I can reproduce the behavior both in Safari and in Facebook, which uses WKWebView.