skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a great list of links that I can refer to whenever I need to tell someone how bad Facebook as a company really is and what it does. Every time I see an article like this, I feel highly disappointed that there is still no alternative platform to move people into (at least easily).

> Facebook: the most congenitally dishonest company in America.

I've always believed this to be the case for a long time, except that I had "world" in mind instead of a specific country. I don't like Google tracking users either (and avoid/reduce/change how I use it), but Facebook has been at an altogether diferent "super evil" level all along and continues to be so. The "authentic name" policy is one of the worst things about Facebook as a platform and as a company, and it limits speaking out freely for many people (although there are many others who don't care).

I try to limit the damage I'm causing (since I cannot avoid using FB for a few different reasons) by not putting personal information on it (except unavoidable ones like events I create), not using the FB mobile app (and instead using a browser where I have more control), and having diferent user profiles for different purposes (though Facebook doesn't "like" this).
They can and will, but that's the least of your worries about Facebook.

Every page that has a "like us on facebook" or "share this on facebook" - estimates are 50% of the web pages - reports your web surfing habits to Facebook. Whether or not you have a facebook account.

uBlock Origin, AdBlockPlus, Disconnect, Ghostery, etc. are your friends.
There's a site called "Tedium"? Funny.

Computer output direct to microfilm used to be a thing. This predated laser printers, and was much faster than line printing, since it used a CRT as the output device. This was often used with Kalvar film [1] which responded only to ultraviolet light and was developed by passing it under a heat lamp. No chemical baths were required. It was also easy to copy Kalvar film with a simple machine with rollers and lamps. So lots of boring but useful stuff, such as parts lists, were made and distributed that way. You still see microfiche readers at some parts counters.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesicular_film
Orhan Pamuk's Black Book may give an interesting introduction to public views on homoerotism in Ottoman Istanbul circa 15th. century.
> Perhaps the companies involved have been told by their lawyers that choosing a password is a legal action, like an electronic signature

That might be plausible if anyone actually thought that.

E-contracts require typing out a signature, not a random phrase.
I can't help but think that this article, and other comments, gloss over some major, obvious factors:

1) More than anything else - high volumes, low margins, and intense competition. People travel to Chinatown from all over NYC to buy at those prices. When they do, they're often making a long trip (in many cases, over an hour), and so they buy in much higher quantities than they would at a local grocer or supermarket. Conversely, people who just get their groceries at a local shop aren't fools, they're saving considerable time by not having to go to Chinatown.

2) Low labor costs. Most retailers are, small-scale immigrant businesses. In many cases, it would be a family operation, where children feel obligated to help their parents, or the workers are immigrants that speak little or no English (beyond that required for selling produce), are possibly undocumented, possibly are paid cash-in-hand without being taxed, and for one reason or don't have many employment opportunities outside of Chinatown. Compared with an outfit like D'Agostino, Gristedes (both of which use unionized staff), or Whole Foods, they're going to be paying a lot less for their staff in Chinatown.
He said he didn't have the FB app installed on his phone, though.
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Nice that the simplest explanation is borne out in the end.
>It was tricky to dive into the project because everything seemed so layered with complexity.

That's technical debt. Good code makes things easier to add, work gets done faster, not slower.
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This is all made up nonsense. You can paste your signature, choose some random image to represent your signature, or even merely click to sign. Have you used Docusign? HelloSign? Document signing in Mac Preview? Please don't spread FUD.
So you only support the newspeak that supports your point of view?

How do you feel about terms like "collateral damage" that used to be "murdered civilians" in war?

Secondly there is internal logic to "used" that is not present in the name calling you compare it to. False equivalency does not strengthen your argument.
No offence taken, I can certainly understand your position.
> "Nobody's telling anyone how to live their life here"

--------

> "Don't do this to others — don't be used by Facebook yourself!"

> "Don't be tracked — pay cash."

> "It is very important for you personally to [refuse to use Facebook], especially if some of your friends do (or might), because that's how you influence them, for good or for ill."

> "Unfriend Facebook now — you are its product, not its customer."
It comes around and around. Vocal fashions of teenage girls cause consternation. Remember the handwringing over uptalk (HRT)?

In fact, I think there's a lot of the anti-HRT sentiment at work in vocal-fry. Girl's being told that high rising tonation is bad, so no wonder they ground out at the bottom of their range.

Women can't win. Not too high, don't push low, don't use like. And so on.

Men also fry, btw, you'd just be hard pressed to find a handwringing article decrying that.
All I stated was the scrollbar is a non-issue with wheels and touch. And it isn't.

I sympathize with any health issues, but to be fair, if we were discussing accessibility then RSI is just the beginning.

Also, maybe you're not able to use it, but most Wacom pens have options to allow scrolling by just clicking and dragging, making the scrollbar a non-issue. The scrollbar has never been the most convenient of interfaces.
To explain that, you first need to understand what options are.

Options are a financial instrument where you can make bets on the market. To give you a simple example of an option, suppose you have a house worth 250k that you want to sell. You want to sell it within a year, but you are afraid that your house might lose value within that year (this is called the maturity). You might decide to instead sell an option contract for $5k, pricing the house at $250k which can be exercised within a year. What does this mean? This means that as a buyer, I pay $5k for this contract for the right to buy the underlying asset at $250k at any point within that year. The buyer is betting that the house value might appreciate beyond $250k, and the seller wants to protect themselves from the scenario that their house value depreciates. In general. options are all about betting what will happen in the future.

The problem now is in pricing your option contract. The earliest and most famous model of pricing comes from the Black Scholes model for pricing European options. With European options, you only exercise your option at the end of the maturity of the contract. However, with American options, things are a lot more complex, since the buy may decide to exercise their option at anytime within the maturity period. Moreover 99% of the industry trades with American options. For pricing American Options, the best method is to use a binomial or trinomial tree with many nodes (I will let you look up what those are).

The problem with the binomial and trinomial tree is that, it's very slow. You could lower the number of nodes in your tree, but then you lose accuracy. There are analytical solutions like Ju-Zhong which are very fast. Unfortunately such approximations tend to lose accuracy, and their error blows up. Finding an accurate approximation for pricing American options is a significant breakthrough for the industry. This problem has been eluding the best researchers in the field for decades.
What we have is an analytical solution to option pricing that is very fast, and highly accurate.

Why are we interested in option pricing? For one thing, it is a $500+ trillion dollar industry, and a lot of money is being lost in pricing errors. More importantly, if you are given an option contract, you can infer the implied volatility of the underlying asset (volatility is the degree of variation of the price of the underlying asset; could be stocks, real-estate etc.) . Since our solution is highly accurate and fast, we can extract the implied volatility in real time, along with the associated partial derivatives and make real time decision and assessments on the market.

You can checkout our white papers, we have a series of papers coming out to explain all of the use cases:
http://oquant.com/OquantRealTimeOptions.pdf
http://oquant.com/OquantWhitepaper.pdf
It's discouraging when you look at the standard deviation though. The Eastern countries have disparingly low turnout.

Edit:

USA numbers are artificially low, because they don't account for felons and the incarcerated population (of which the US has a high number, about 3 million people now).

This chart shows we have better than EU turnout if you calculate based on eligibility rather than voting age:
www.electproject.org/2012g
I'll take the view that they are saying:

This is the way things are, and it's not going to change soon.
Wow... and I thought cereal was the lazy option.
That's one sense of the word. There are others. I was thinking of "the action of working artfully to bring something about".
doesn't this basically mean you are $85M/yr short on your own finances and are relying on external sources to keep the books balanced? Which defacto means you have a negative cashflow and thus are essentially insolvent?
It's noteworthy that 2 of us responded but the attack artists like yourself didn't provide anything other than anger, sarcasm and feelings-based logic..
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Preamps and compressors will be integrated in the "console" (even though typically the user-interface will be separate from I/O and DSP, the latter being housed in a 19" rack).

This is radio, not some boutique studio with a ton of outboard gear.
The direct and indirect cost money laundering regulation has reached a point where it far outweighs the benefits. Thousands of clients have to jump through cumbersome hoops just to increase the chances of catching one single money launderer by 1% or so. Even the IRS estimates the implementation costs of Fatca at 100 billion worldwide. In reality, it is probably much higher and far exceeds the amount of additional tax 'income' it generates. We really need to start to discuss the negative externalities of overzealous regulations.
In Michigan it emerges in May or so, which is the middle of spring.
After the trial period is done, it doesn't stop working, it just becomes nagware. All the functionality is there, but it will close itself after 30 minutes, and every once in a while will pause for five seconds to ask you to buy a license.

I've used the nagware version at work while waiting for purchasing approval. It's perfectly functional for the work I do, and only very slightly annoying. YMMV depending on your needs (I never need it for more than ten minutes at a time).
You missed the point—this is a person's opinion. Harshly (and possibly ridiculously) worded, sure, but there are plenty of opinion posts everywhere and their point isn't to direct others as to how to live their lives.

You don't have to listen to it or even read it.
> Anyone who is interested in social blogging should have their own website (wordpress.com is free)

The free wordpress.com blogs may show ads to users (who're not logged in) so that Automattic can make money. It's very likely that there's profiling and tracking going on there too.
Ntfs-3g writes fine on ntfs nowadays, WUBI even uses it for root, but there can be some edge cases still.
Your entire post consists of red herrings / ad hom, and you failed to make a single argument or counter any of the points he made in the article.
Well, Apple is moving in the direction of syncing everything with iCloud - iCloud Drive has been around for a while, and Sierra adds the ability to sync the desktop and Documents folder; of course on top of long-existing things like photo sync. If the file was previously uploaded to iCloud, there is redundancy, and you definitely don't want to overwrite it with the corrupted version.

How big an issue this is in practice I don't know.
In the same vein, Orwell's Politics and the English Language[1] is an earlier observation of similar phenomena.

[1] https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/orwell46.htm
I don't think the OP said anything about supporting other kinds of newspeak.

I don't think the OP said anything that seemed falsely equivalent. Constantly saying "used" instead of "user" is clearly similar to saying "Democrap" in at least one obvious way: that you're childishly substituting a replacement for a common word in an attempt to be clever and subversive, while alienating anyone who doesn't already agree with you.

Their point was very clear and it seems like you're misinterpreting it on purpose, as though you have your hands over your ears.
Yes yes, let's focus on the superficial components of his arguments via false equivalences and ignore the very legitimate criticisms he makes.

RMS argues like an idiot therefore Facebook is probably blameless. Progress.
> couple of bacteria won't kill you

That's naive.

Enjoy your chicken sashimi.
The two stores deal with very different tagret markets and have very different economics. Whole Foods shoppers are willing to spend way more on produce, which is usually very low margin, so they don't need to make up the profit on their other items. Compare, for example Vons and Pavilions, which are owned by the same company. In my town we have a Vons literally across the street from Pavilions and while their prices for alcohol are the same, stuff like produce, coffee, and cereal can have a huge price differences even from the same vendor. Likewise, Trader Joes has the cheapest and best eggs, milk, and other staples in my general area, despite being overall more expensive.

When it comes to produce or meat, I have never seen anything at Whole Foods that would be more expensive at a low end grocery.
Leave won due to the votes from non university-educated people in towns & villages and white working class, and both groups are more xenophobic than the university-educated generation under 40, who are furious. People were not voting about economics or trade agreements or the ideals of multi-national unions. It's not pretty to have this divide along socio-economic lines, and it's not pretty for liberals to realize that they wish that the xenophobic white working class didn't have such an influence in a vote, but that's how it is.
The key words are "almost always". While I haven't checked, I heard that Pink Floyd's remaster of "The Wall" and some of Led Zeplin's sound better because they focused on removing noise instead of making it louder.
It's very easy to go from FPGA "source code" to a foundry and get a chip with exactly the same thing implemented, and at a cheap price if your scale is large enough.
Well, technically speaking, dynamic range compression /does/ make an MP3 smaller (IIRC)
Let's suppose for a moment that this is true. In that case, as a human behavior, we should be able to find such acts described in the historical record and in particular in literature.

Can you name three such examples?
It may be a billion dollar problem but it's a billion dollar problem like tax software, it wouldn't exist without the troll demanding his toll. The resources could be used elsewhere like on curing disease or on educating people: http://www.americanbanker.com/bankthink/money-laundering-is-...

It's a billion dollar problem that doesn't need to exist.

Many people will probably make cursory argument that taxes(and by analogy ML regulation) are a necessary evil(They're now doing the troll's work for him)— I'd argue they are not necessary and they short-circuit us working on better replacements.
One of the (many) things that struck me in the article was his dismissive remarks regarding copy on write within a filesystem. That seems like a fantastically useful feature for development, etc, where you are almost always building, then copying the artifacts into the deploy/test directory. Avoiding the disk IO in those situations seems like a pretty sound win to me in terms of giving a performance boost for free.
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Having suffered physical injuries and chronic physical impairment -- including congestion that impairs sleep and functioning -- I can say that correlation with physical health conditions causes me no surprise. Actually, I'm amazed and angry with Western/U.S. medical practice that so often and ignorantly divorces the two.

I'll probably be gone in a year or two. My life has been a downward spiral that is reaching its endpoint.
> Unless you're savvy and your answers are all strong passwords themselves, and if they are you're probably using keepass or something like it with 400+ bit passwords and you hate wasting time on security questions too.

The worst part is that some companies (TradeKing) turn these into multiple choice questions, where a password-like answer will stand out like a sore thumb.
Ok, your site, your rules. But I'm surprised to see that that title in another submission in the top page has been changed from "Reasons not to use Facebook" (the title of the document in the <h1> sense) to the less neutral and more hyperbolic "Reasons not to use (i.e., be used by) Facebook" (which is the <head><title>).
Is he making an off joke when he claims that all the replicants are animatronic, not played by human actors?
Or were there animatronic heads used in the movie?
Right now, you're undermining his point by drawing an example from something he clearly didn't even talk about (i.e. Your example not his). Whether you love or hate Stallman, OP has made a valid point here. You can't expect to capture the hearts and minds of a prospective audience by alienating them intellectually. If I had no idea who Stallman was, and I read this, I wouldn't even consider taking it seriously. It comes off like a spoiled child who's just angsty enough to "fight the power".
I haven't gotten to fact check the entire article yet but one glaring error is that Jordan was never colonized by the British.

Jordan was not only "colonized" by the British it was created by the British it was part of the "Syrian Province" which later turned into the British Mandate of Palestine.
The Kingdom of Transjordan was created on 75% of what then was Mandatory Palestine after the Brits got the Mandate after the San Remo conference.

Lebanon in which the Muslim population has (and is) mistreated homosexuality was never a British protectorate/colony.
Iran which was never a British colony especially during victorian rule now is probably one of the worse offenders as far as male homosexuality goes in the world.

If we take Pew research numbers then Turkey which was never part of any British legal system and is the most "western" majority Muslim country today then only 7% of it's population support of acceptance of homosexuality.

While I'm sure that victorian era laws on sodomy really didn't help I would really find it a stretch to call them the reason that Islam rejects homosexuality so violently these days.
Also the article seems to ignore the resurgence of Shia Islam as well as the emergence of the Muslim Brotherhood and Wahhabism which I don't think have anything to do with Victorian England while being quite anti-LGBT.
But how do you do:

SELECT
posts.*,
(SELECT COUNT(1) FROM comments WHERE post_id = posts.id) AS comments_count
FROM posts;

In ActiveRecord, without 1+N queries, or caching comments_count in a column somewhere?

Admittedly, that was not the best example. The last time I need something more intertwined than a simple COUNT in subquery, the answer was "give up and just use Arel." But at this point it is no longer quite ActiveRecord, but rather a SQL without strings.

This is my biggest gripe against the Active Record pattern in general, as it ties its model too tightly to the underlying database. It is convenient for a simple CRUD tasks, which may fit about 90% of use case, but that's not the only thing the database is capable of.
C++, STL or Qt containers?
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Yep, industrial robots this is about 5 % of the usual speed.
That may be so, but:

A snapshots lets you freeze the state of a file system

Doesn't really read well. A snapshots as a construction in English even in context really grated as I read it.
qmail contained a buffer overflow that allowed remote root access, prevented only by having a low limit on available memory.

http://web.archive.org/web/20160401021400/http://www.guninsk...

djb is a smart and motivated guy and even he isn't quite capable of writing correct C code; how much chance does anyone else have?
I would recommend anybody interested in filesystems to watch Jeff Bonwick (ZFS inventor) explain the design of ZFS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRoUC9P1PmA. They have a few very nice war stories explaining why they found it useful to have the user data checksummed as well.
To use your analogy, it's not the lung cancer pictures that are putting people off, it's the fact that in this case someone put a exaggerated cartoon picture of lung cancer, and while they know that the cancer is a real thing they can't take seriously the exaggerated imagery. It's not the message, it's the way the message is conveyed
Same, never thought of doing that even though I run Privoxy locally and on my home internet gateway (Ubiquiti ERLite which runs ARM Debian; could probably run nginx on it as well).

Do you set up anything to terminate SSL?
Is the algorithm secret and you make money selling computations as a service?
Let’s summarize. I want to implement efficient LRU cache data structure.

In C++, I don’t need to spend time implementing and debugging my own linked lists, because standard library implementation already good enough for the task. I only need to encapsulate two standard containers together, and write a pair of methods to add/remove stuff.

In Rust, I need to roll out my own lists, because stdlib doesn't want to expose too many unsafe APIs on its data structures.

You agree with all of the above?

If yes, hope now you see how Rust isn’t good enough for creating complex specialized data structures.
Sobering what a non-expert like me can miss then reading this.