skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Facebook started to get worse after the first 3 or 4 major privacy calamities. When nobody left Facebook must have figured, well, great to heck with it then. Because beyond that point they just started straight up selling data.

People stayed on.

I needed an account again after nearly 8 years, just for one (very) important group I needed to take part in temporarily. Not only did Facebook somehow know who I used to know (and had absolutely no interest in speaking to) but every time someone visited my page it would tell me. That wasn't a feature that was there a long time ago.

Doesn't it bother anybody there, when they visit someone's page the fact you did that shows up for them? Isn't that exceedingly creepy? I think it is. Terribly creepy. It also one day knew I met someone the day before on the street, as their face showed up as a recommendation.

That is way too much info.
Please see www.hellolyra.com
Which company is this?
Well, not exactly. Very basic x-ray equipment is easy to find on eBay. The more modern equipment that the TSA uses is not available on eBay...

https://securitytoday.com/articles/2008/07/30/tsa-to-expand....

"Advantages of AT X-ray include a greatly enhanced image with the ability to target novel threat items resulting in fewer bag checks and faster throughput, and the ability to upgrade the system with enhanced algorithms."

...and that article describes the 2008 edition of the technology!

For a more technically-specific perspective, I can say that the newer machines take images from multiple angles and are closer to a medical CT scan than a old-school x-ray. Owning one would allow you to practice placing your items in a direction and location that would be least able to be seen by the operator.
wow even though I know katakana, I never put it together that the shruggie used tsu. I'm gonna start using the shi version ¯\_(シ)_/¯
Genetic Color Sequences
Unfortunately, in a lot of cultures and environments today (where culture is not only your global, national, or regional culture, but also the culture that you choose to surround yourself with), this kind of thing is much more devastating for women than for men.
Yes, they pay with they developer account.

If you don't like it, please, tell Apple (or Google) that bandwidth has to be paid.

Until then, it is irrelevant if the app is 10kb or it is downloaded 12.000.000.000 times.
This is an interpreter, not a compiler. The page title itself, "Little Lisp interpreter" is more accurate.
EDTX is in the 5th Circuit, not the 9th Circuit.
Q for the author: how valuable would an actual proprietary airport X-ray be, in terms of designing devices (as compared to another X-ray of similar spec)? Does having access to the actual X-ray for purposes of product testing really make that much of a difference to a technically gifted bomb-maker?
I think DropBox will shut down their API in July of this year. I got email warning me about six months ago - since then I moved our internal system to FTP...
Not to mention google. My nexus 6p charger broke, I wanted to buy a new one. Turns out google doesn't sell usb-c chargers in my country anymore (they used to). Anker was pretty much the only decent other option for a usb-c fast charger that was up to spec.
Sure, my concern are all the bad things that will happen when all collected data ends up in the hands of a future totalitarian state. Do you know if there is a kill switch in place ?

https://www.wired.com/2017/05/googles-perfect-future-will-al...
It's called the Dunning-Krueger effect. I'm not trying to be silly. The geek you describe thinks his ability in this area is better than it is.
How the Indian space agency thrived despite massive poaching during the IT boom
All the main AR/VR news of Google I/O 2017 condensed into one article
abuse: use (something) to bad effect or for a bad purpose; misuse.

Abuse doesn't mean breaking the rules. It's like going to an all-you-can-eat buffet and staying for a week. Or taking a job with unlimited vacation time and coming to work once a month.
In the city where i live , there were carriages that took you (the wealthy) to the water and back but if you were the Queen obviously you had your own personal mobile palace, powered with a steam motor: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historia_de_San_Sebasti%C3%A1n...
I remember this debacle:

https://plus.google.com/+BensonLeung/posts/TkAnhK84TT7

The cable has long since been recalled, but it is worth mentioning that Benson Leung is a Google employee and Anker was formed by former Google employees.
VimWorkspace – IDE-like Vim tabline
That's an interesting report. The table only has 15 districts, but it looks like the best area against NPEs is Northern Illinois, and Northern California, with only a 13% success rate (vs. 48% success rate in EDTX)

Texas Southern only has the lowest success rate for NPE (9%), but the median damages is $58m, compared to only $5m and $6m for the California and Illinois.

It would be interesting to see the data for All district courts in the US. In those 15, California Northern looks the best in term of outcomes if you're likely to be at the mercy of NPEs, but I wonder how it compares to lets say Oregon, Western Texas, or Western Washington.
Thing is, my social life isn't restricted to "loved ones". I just want a way to connect online with anyone I might bump into in the real world. I hate the fb ux and how it breaks the web in so many ways, but currently there isn't anything else that comes close. Taking my ball and going home is not an option. I wish there was some way to force them to make a decent API that allows you to do everything that can be done via the web or the app.
I haven't heard of one, the conspiracy-theorist in me is reminded of all the ammunition that various federal agencies have been purchasing over the last decade and the militarization of local law enforcement.

I'm not sure if that's an indication of any actual plan (certainly not a sensible one) or simply a hedge against the fact that nobody has one, or nothing at all.

In any case, ignoring even just the truckers is a bad idea (let alone ups, fedex, usps, etc), they know the highways and the trucks and if they form a new Luddite group then any self-driving trucking company is going to be in for some surprise expenses when their trucks start disappearing and/or breaking down randomly in the middle of nowhere.
Not sure kettle is the right analogy here. It's too simplistic. As a product Facebook is vastly more complex beast, and the argument is much more naunced. Many feel compelled to use Facebook. 99.99% didn't read the Terms and Conditions (and BTW that's by design) and aren't aware, for example, what Facebook is allowed to do with their content. Most aren't aware that it's not in Facebooks interest to make it easy for you to report revenge porn; it's costly for them requiring manual review and against their general principle that all your content is theirs and will be stored forever. And that's just for starters
I haven't heard a single proposal yet. I could imagine a government passing a succession of laws which first required all autonomous trucks to have a supervising human on board (with a relaxation of existing maximum hour rules), operating under a new Trucking Supervisor License (which any current CDL holder is automatically granted); then slowly ratcheting up restrictions on actual CDLs (reduced hours, reduced permissible routes, reduced maximum weight) to make them less attractive; then ultimately ceasing issuance of new CDLs for heavy trucks once the final generation of drivers-cum-supervisors has retired.
Express is also a framework
I'm a bit skeptical about how much deduplication saves them. I have a couple of 100 gigs on ACD, unencrypted, most being family photos/videos - I don't think they're going to find any portion of those that's remotely common to other users - at least, I hope not!
+1

> Each party will have patent lawyers (often more than one) and trial lawyers (often more than one) on their team. Those will all have secretaries and paralegals.

Often way more than one. It's not unusual for a patent trial team to have five or six lawyers, divided into teams that handle different aspects of the case, plus a couple of paralegals, and possibly an admin / secretary.

(A patent infringement trial is often bet-the-product-line or even bet-the-company, so you often spend 16 to 20 hours a day either in court or in the "war room" in your side's headquarters hotel, getting ready for the next day in court. And as I can testify from personal experience, it's not hard to put on a few pounds snacking on the food with which the paralegals oh-so-helpfully stock the war room.)
As lithium batteries are opaque to X-Rays, perhaps a ban on laptops with batteries should be considered. This will surely push for standard swappable batteries and standard power supplies so the laptops could be used on board without batteries.
Well, first this is late 19th century Victorian England, it's a bit late to be offended about sexism in the society.

But it's not necessarily a double standard, there can be more eroticism in a wet piece of clothing that tries to hide but reveals in fact a lot, than in bare nudity which is the natural state and not that shocking all things considered.
Yes. See my comment below to djmdjm, but also, I'll add one more thing. Take a knife out of your kitchen drawer and hold it in your hand in front of you such that the sharp side of the blade is on the left and the dull side is on the right. Easy to see. Now rotate it 90 degrees such that the sharp side is facing you and the dull side is facing away. Much harder to see, especially if you can imagine what it would look like on an x-ray, and how you could further conceal it by carefully placing other items between the "camera" and the item.
their marketing may be getting a revamp, since this piece is a massive submarine that's been at the top of HN all day.
They just updated it to a new/improved version of the API
Then we agree to disagree.
This is a perfect example of why companies should never offer unlimited services, if they don't expect users to actually take them up on the offer...

While I can understand and agree that fair-play should be a part of the service, if the offer on hand is Unlimited, then it is not abuse to upload tera-bytes, peta-bytes, exa-bytes or even zetta-bytes.

Amazon is hardly a neophyte as far as understanding big data, they are very well placed to know that offering unlimited storage could actually attract really big chunks of data.
Photos and videos might be easy to keep a local copy of, because you would be uploading from your phone or computer onto Facebook.

But memories cover many other aspects as well. Such as the descriptions that you write on your Facebook photos. The conversation threads that ensue. The face tags that you add and other people add to your photos. The set of photos that you selected for upload (rather than the outtakes). The way you name, organize, and describe albums.

Storage may be cheap these days, but ensuring that you have copies of your data in multiple places - such as hand-typed text - can be very time-consuming.
So is this basically sharing the same API key? Wouldn't that make using this insecure, as you'd be seeing the same data as other rclone users?
Technically it's not. Hoarding for hoarding's sake is a waste of a obviously limited resource, though.
So here's one of the reasons I dislike not having offices: I actually really like having the lights on. I want things to be nice and bright. I hate it when things are dark and dungeon like. If we had separate offices, we could each make our space as we wish. I could be lit, and you could be dark. No one would have to fight over the setup.
Defining "bad content" is difficult. I don't think we're nearly advanced enough avoid human intervention. Using user reports works well.

Here's an example: if you go on YouTube you can find harmless videos of parents bathing their babies, and I doubt anyone would call that child pornography. Same goes for something like a birth video, even though it shows a vagina. How do you detect the differences?

I think it'd be an improvement if Facebook were more open with their policies and allowed nudity, even if it required flagging content as mature. To get around this people end up placing tiny black bars in any of the "offensive" parts. But how does that seriously change anything?

I'd say it's pretty reasonable to request users flag content. Detecting it programmatically is currently impossible, so what other choices do you have if you want to allow users to upload content? Should only multi-billion dollar companies be able to have user-uploaded content? How would you handle this issue if you were building a small media sharing site?
All I'm saying is I think you are making it a little more personal/deep than it might be. The seating arrangement in many/most instances may in fact just be a logistics issue of fitting a large number of people into a economical amount of space. Standard corporate structure/org charts determine who gets the offices. If one person serves as the buffer between management above them and the 10-20 developers below them, why shouldn't they? It would seem they would need a private space more often for meetings and such. Hopefully a lot of them sat out on the floor and did their time as well.

As I see it, with great risk comes great reward. Managers are held responsible for the the great successes or great failures of their team(s). I wouldn't work for a manager that I don't respect and feel deserves a position of management above me. If you do, thats your bad.

If you are concerned (or care) that your perceived status isn't living up to your expectations for the work you do and the value you provide, you could always try doing something else that people perceive as more respectable and worthy of awe and special treatment.
Honey should extract water from the area. Is sugar. Could avoid blisters formation?
You could say the same about the toner cartridge ban cited in the article (and the article itself does!) -- but DHS did it anyway.
This is really well written, thank you for taking the time to post it to HN to give Nim a bit of visibility. Have you considered using Nim's JS back end to make it work in the browser?
Been off FB for years. For kids photos, I setup an "announcement-only" mailman list on my VPS for family, and routinely email photos to members, with a footer requesting they not be re-shared without permission.

As a result I share fewer photos, but the ones I do share are precious and well-received.
Despite being a $120M company, we still have and foster an entrepreneurial spirit. I love working here.
I agree, if you want to hold them to their word then you should include all of them. They agreed to unlimited storage at their discretion, and so did you.
What? No, that's a wholly unnecessary solution (though more standardization of batteries would certainly be nice). Swab the outside of the laptop for bomb residue, which would be especially difficult to clean from a laptop because the stronger solvents to clean with (like acetone) would mark the plastic. Or hire more dogs. Or make a "puffer machine" for laptops (blasts with air and then samples the air for explosive trace). Or come up with another solution -- this is HN! :)
I have a Kinesis ergonomic keyboard with Cherry Red mechanical switches, without it I get wrist pain.
Apart from people putting out feelers about a Universal Basic Income, the next best thing I've heard is an informal proposal by Bill Gates about taxing automation [1] so we can better control the speed in which this stuff will upend everything, and buy more time for a more controlled transition.

I say that as a developer who is one of the classes that will benefit more from automation (until we are also replaced).

[1]: https://qz.com/911968/bill-gates-the-robot-that-takes-your-j...
"I just think he's overrated" fair enough. I just think that a lot of HN folks drawn to business-oriented posts are trying to start something business oriented of their own. He has some useful things to say/write. Some of it good, some of it not. But usually interesting.
> Why bother when you can just drop some atomic bombs to test on them (to "make them surrender")? Or spray them with agent orange?

How is that categorically different than the firebombing of Germany?
While it is perfectly possible that a scanning device disappeared somewhere, it is not the only way someone can study how to conceal hidden explosive in luggage.

I mean are the people that operate daily these machines vetted to a level where you can totally exclude that they (in ALL airports wordwide) can be affiliated to whatever evil organization and do some tests after hours?

Does the same happen for all technicians that maintain/repair these devices?

Does the same happen for all designers of these devices?

Or if you prefer, do you believe that such a scanning machine cannot be re-built from commercial parts by someone who knows their innards?

Are ALL purchases of new scanners subject to governemnet approval (and even if yes, which government)?
>> Apple doesn't even have an option for connecting to DisplayPort screens.

I'm still pissed that I can't connect with my 2014 MBP over DisplayPort without knocking out the wifi with interference.
I forgot about pitch control, which is indeed the deciding factor here, but still - isn't the angular momentum used as that "kinetic energy storage"? Small, light propellers suck at that anyway.
Yeah but the progression was brilliant. Started out from "I disagree with this, but ....okay...." and then got progressively more absurd. It wasn't until #5 that I realized it was clearly satire, prior to that I figured it was one of those rationalization posts that tech CEOs make to defend these practices as somehow useful or beneficial.
They should declare limits, then.
They are not opaque to X-Rays, much less the ludicrous penetrating power used in baggage inspection. Baggage X-rays can happily penetrate inches of metal, nothing short of lead brick will obscure contents and that's going to raise other questions. Where did you get that nonsense from?
> The noise is from bottoming out.

Not with my Model M!

/buckling springs ftw...
Not to mention entire small town economies, particularly in the West, are entirely economically dependent on truckers to stop by, rest, fuel up, visit prostitutes etc.

Those people are gonna have a much harder time. Any owners of property will see the values of their assets plummet just as their jobs disappear.
of course there's a third option, one that small businesses are opting for en masse: pay for a well-known 3rd party to run a simple remote vulnerability scan, pass the results (full of false positives and just plain wrong information) to someone else to deal with, and pretend like you just accomplished something useful, and reject all recommendations for anything that costs more.
If you bought $100 of Bitcoin 7 years ago, you'd be sitting on $75M now
Wow, that's awesome! Thanks for the heads up.
Hmm, I'm having trouble figuring out your argument here. I see three premises:

Premise A: Pascal's wager is based on sound reasoning.

Premise B: People who live by pascals wager "live a good life", etc.

Premise C: "Living a good life" is a desirable thing.

Somehow you are arguing that if I reject premise A I must also reject premise C (if I were to act rationally), but I don't follow it.
Those designs are not identical.
Show HN is expected to be submitted by the person who made the thing to show, and it's expected that they're showing it for a reason: it's either new, or had a significant change.

Edit: So technically, GH probably could have had their new shit posted as a Show HN: but you generally want that to be something people can 'play' with right away, not a blog post about a way to pay more for the same things. /Edit

My best guess with what happened here (based on the similarity of the texts) is that GH arranged a pre-formatted 'base' text, with placeholders, sent it to each of the involved CEOs/whatevers and said "we will submit our story to HN, once we do please comment using this template".

Every one of the comments basically matches this pseudo-regex:
"<Name> (at|from) <Company> [1] ..... one of the ([:digit:] <App Category>)? launch partners" and the [1] is referenced as a link to GitHub Marketplace. Only one has a link to their own site.

The HN story itself was submitted by someone who at least used to be, and based on that, likely still is a GH employee.

I assume they were trying to drum up lots of positive attention about this with the cool-kid me-too cargo-culting developer set that makes up a large part of HN readers.
> Facebooks creates false endorsements for products from you to your friends - and they never reveal this to you.

Wow, really? That sounds to me just downright illegal.
I know any framework or any single line of code on client is all about "local" state. But when people lost focus they _potentially_ couple business logics, local truth and constraints with "Global" state from servers, and trust wrong source of truth. And that might end up with next corrupted, e.g. POST, requests.
Submarines generally aren't sail-powered.
Yes, a stateroom on a cargo ship sounds like it would be fun. Something to try one of these days.
For what it's worth, it did seem to be true at my last company. Engineers were outgoing and the artists were all the introverted quiet ones.

Edit: Then again, I was pulling a lot of engineering weight and was the one with headphones on all day...
No. They can tell us exactly. And they can be accountable. We just don't get to see them with their clothes off.

It's odd because apparently citizens get to have no secrets. Laws protect government secrets, but as far as I know the law is just as confused about privacy and secrecy as we are when it comes to its people.
> Module system supports linking

Nope, that's an entirely proprietary, intentionally unspecified extension.

> it is possible to create a JRE for distribution having only the code that actually matters for the application.

I don't see how this reduces the startup time and memory footprint of the JVM. If a class is not needed by your application it's not loaded, that has been the case since Java 1.0. I don't see how it not being present on disk makes any difference.

> It is also part of how the upcoming AOT compiler to native code will work.

Nope. It also works on classes and plain old JARs [1]

[1] http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/295
There must be some real dullards working on the mod team.
Uninstall Facebook's phone app and check out mbasic.facebook.com. It doesn't require javascript to run. You can access Messenger and everything.
I think they made it when members of the Samsung family got pooched when the whole Presidential cult thing came to light.

You know you're somebody when you're basically the mafia running a country.
Python for Data Journalists: Analyzing Money in Politics (MOOC)
In my experience, the US federal government tends to see this as an issue for those who are being unemployed to figure out for themselves. Not to be cynical, but I wouldn't be surprised if their solution boiled down to granting lots of money to private companies to try to tempt them into providing retraining.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't a relatively benign way to fix this simply be that the TSA agents randomly reorient/flop some carry on luggage items in the bins before they go through the scanner?
Aside from having various ad blockers (also Privoxy and a modified hosts file), I never open Facebook except in a private window.
If it's file-level deduplication, sure. But if it's chunk-level, I think you may find that you actually have many chunks identical to many other users' chunks.
Amazing. Brings me back to the 90 and my days with the FUEL coders when putting asm as first line of your demo was the thing to do.
I don't think Google Voice will work for that nor will a Trello number. I saw someone complaining on HN that their landline didn't even work.
What do we disagree about?
Nope. The article makes pointed and convincing arguments and it doesn't rely on unsupported assertions like your comment.