Hacker News: SolarUpNotehttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=SolarUpNoteHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Tue, 09 Jun 2026 23:10:50 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by SolarUpNote in "macOS unable to open any non-Apple application"]]>[deleted]

]]>Fri, 13 Nov 2020 14:41:28 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25082625SolarUpNotehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25082625https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25082625<![CDATA[New comment by SolarUpNote in "Armageddon Looms over World Chess Champs after Carlsen’s Shocking Decision"]]>ChessNetwork has my favorite analysis of the world championship games. His AlphaZero vs Stockfish series is also very good. https://www.youtube.com/user/ChessNetwork

]]>Wed, 28 Nov 2018 14:52:55 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18551914SolarUpNotehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18551914https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18551914<![CDATA[New comment by SolarUpNote in "Problems coming for online publishing"]]>Compare ad tech that news websites use to what Cambridge Analytica did.

1. Ad tech:

As I browse, my interests are accumulated into basic interest groups, demographic data, and maybe recently visited websites that use tracking.

The result: when I visit a news website, I might see an ad for tennis racquets (because of interest), or a local bank (because of location), or DigitalOcean hosting, because I recently visited that site.

2. Facebook's platform, used by Cambridge Analytica:

I install a Facebook psychological quiz app (supposedly from the prestigious Cambridge university), and give it permission to access my data.

Through that, Republican campaigns also access my grandmother's account, with all of her photos, likes, and comments. They use that data to learn her deepest fears.

They hire designers and writers to create fake news websites, and get their propaganda stories to appear in her Facebook news feed, where they appear to be legitimate right next to the news about the local sports team.

The result: when I visit for Christmas, I have to try to calm her down, that Hillary Clinton isn't actually running a late term abortion clinic out of a pizza parlor. And she won't believe me.

]]>Sun, 25 Mar 2018 12:12:11 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16671828SolarUpNotehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16671828https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16671828<![CDATA[New comment by SolarUpNote in "Facebook suspended the account of whistleblower who exposed Cambridge Analytica"]]>The whistleblower said they had access to private messages. Are those ever publicly available? I don't see any privacy settings for messages in my FB profile.

]]>Mon, 19 Mar 2018 21:01:50 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16623130SolarUpNotehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16623130https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16623130<![CDATA[New comment by SolarUpNote in "The Cambridge Analytica scandal isn’t a scandal: this is how Facebook works"]]>I'd like to see which country the ad / news post / video is coming from. Stick a little flag icon on it.

]]>Mon, 19 Mar 2018 20:54:45 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16623061SolarUpNotehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16623061https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16623061<![CDATA[New comment by SolarUpNote in "50M Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica in major data breach"]]>... and all of their ‘friends’, totaling over 50 million

]]>Mon, 19 Mar 2018 02:51:16 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16615925SolarUpNotehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16615925https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16615925<![CDATA[New comment by SolarUpNote in "MacOS High Sierra"]]>You won't be able to connect to a shared drive using AFP anymore, if you get the new file system APFS when you upgrade. Apparently you only get APFS if you have a pure SSD drive (not Fusion).

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT208018

  APFS and file sharing
  - Volumes formatted as APFS can't offer share points over the network using AFP. 
  - APFS supports SMB and NFS, with the option to enforce only SMB-encrypted share points.

]]>Mon, 25 Sep 2017 14:34:21 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15330804SolarUpNotehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15330804https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15330804<![CDATA[New comment by SolarUpNote in "Apple does right by users and advertisers are displeased"]]>> Apple has traditionally been very user hostile

Here's an interview with Steve Jobs on privacy regarding location data:

https://youtu.be/39iKLwlUqBo?t=23s

Apple takes care of their users.

]]>Thu, 21 Sep 2017 13:56:14 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15303395SolarUpNotehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15303395https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15303395<![CDATA[The “About Us” page of every digital media agency]]>Article URL: https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-about-us-page-of-every-digital-media-agency

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15150618

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]]>Fri, 01 Sep 2017 17:34:47 +0000https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-about-us-page-of-every-digital-media-agencySolarUpNotehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15150618https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15150618<![CDATA[New comment by SolarUpNote in "Reddit raises $200M at a $1.8B valuation"]]>I've always been surprised that Reddit hasn't had many trackers - basically just Google Analytics and Doubleclick. Especially since their parent company is so heavily into tracking on news sites.

It will be a real shame if they start gunking it up with trackers - many news sites are basically unusable without ad blocking.

]]>Tue, 01 Aug 2017 14:19:41 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14900858SolarUpNotehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14900858https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14900858<![CDATA[New comment by SolarUpNote in "Ask HN: Resources for learning advanced JavaScript and React"]]>https://egghead.io has excellent ES6 React, Redux tutorial videos, and step by step code examples.

]]>Mon, 31 Jul 2017 13:33:11 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14891757SolarUpNotehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14891757https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14891757<![CDATA[New comment by SolarUpNote in "Donald Trump’s Contract with the American Voter [pdf]"]]>Replace health insurance with health savings accounts?

]]>Wed, 09 Nov 2016 22:46:54 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12915563SolarUpNotehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12915563https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12915563<![CDATA[New comment by SolarUpNote in "Donald Trump is the president-elect of the U.S."]]>What's an issue that Trump talks about?

]]>Wed, 09 Nov 2016 07:55:12 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12907408SolarUpNotehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12907408https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12907408<![CDATA[New comment by SolarUpNote in "Taking PHP Seriously"]]>Doesn't Opcache take care of that? Using a large framework isn't really a problem because all of the classes, configuration, etc is all kept in ram.

]]>Thu, 13 Oct 2016 22:56:10 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12704841SolarUpNotehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12704841https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12704841<![CDATA[New comment by SolarUpNote in "Facebook will force advertising on ad-blocking users"]]>What good is your personal information if it's not to show you personalized ads?

]]>Tue, 09 Aug 2016 15:08:42 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12255038SolarUpNotehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12255038https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12255038<![CDATA[New comment by SolarUpNote in "Facebook's News Feed"]]>That's what I don't understand either. It's already the case that news isn't shown to a lot of people unless it gets a lot of engagement.

What's different? Is Facebook now saying that it won't show the posts of publishers, even if people are liking/sharing/commenting?

]]>Sun, 03 Jul 2016 22:58:57 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12028014SolarUpNotehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12028014https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12028014<![CDATA[New comment by SolarUpNote in "As Tech Evaporates Jobs, “The Tipping Point Will Be Driverless Trucks”"]]>In the movie "Her" the main character's job is to help people write thoughtful letters to their loved ones. I'm sure the film meant that to be ironic, but that seems like a realistic 21st century job.

When all the industrial jobs have been automated, couldn't they be replaced by jobs that help us fulfill our emotional needs? Or is there some set of core jobs that fundamentally produce value for the economy?

]]>Wed, 15 Jun 2016 20:46:16 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11912035SolarUpNotehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11912035https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11912035<![CDATA[New comment by SolarUpNote in "402: Payment Required"]]>Couldn't ad networks move from javascript to server-side?

]]>Mon, 05 Oct 2015 15:59:57 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10332667SolarUpNotehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10332667https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10332667<![CDATA[New comment by SolarUpNote in "402: Payment Required"]]>Which phone company?

]]>Mon, 05 Oct 2015 15:43:19 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10332540SolarUpNotehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10332540https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10332540<![CDATA[New comment by SolarUpNote in "The Decline of ‘Big Soda’"]]>I'd be amazed if warning labels had any affect at all. The real factor is the price.

The last time I smoked, a pack of cigarettes cost about $2.50. Now it's over $7.

]]>Sun, 04 Oct 2015 18:11:13 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10328251SolarUpNotehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10328251https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10328251