skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I started using Twitter 3 months back. From that day onwards, my time spent on Facebook started reducing dramatically. I just use FB to connect people and reach them, if i don't have any other medium to reach.
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So...

if you downvote this to make it grey out or disappear, doesn't that mean you think it's OK to supresss ideas on a public forum you don't agree with?

Heh.
Ye, Facebook is Facebook, which is creepy.

Some friends asked me to sign up for it because they wanted to use the messenger service for a groupchat. When I registered it immediately propagated my profile with information about my highschool (10 years ago) and suggested a lot of people I knew from back then as well as some devs I've collaborated with on Github. All this from a new email.

So I went into the settings and changed all privacy settings I could find, and was suddenly banned for "suspicious activity". To unlock the account they demanded my phonenumber, surely only for 2FA. But because my friends kept nagging I gave them it so I could chat with them.

After about 10 minutes of chatting I got banned again for "suspicious activity". This time they demanded a recent photo of my face to confirm my identity. But also said that I shouldn't worry because only their servers will see it. So I just sent a photo of some random from a local magazine and they replied that it was not me in the image.

So although I've never posted any photos online, never used the email, never posted my phonenumber online. They know everything about me, including what I look like. Can't imagine what data Google has if Facebook has all that..
That's the worst case for rubber hose.

Even if you give up all your passwords they can still keep beating you to get the "real" pass.
The 1000+ Horsepower Mercedes-AMG Project One: This Is It
> This is what happens when the metric of how much time users spend using your thing supersedes the goal of providing legitimate value to your users.

What metric would be better to gauge "legitimate value"?
Same here, no more phone app.

But I do have the basic mobile site bookmarked:

https://mbasic.facebook.com

Instead of getting notifications and getting pulled into the app I can visit the site when I have downtime, or have something I actually want to accomplish on FB.
Should Amazon buy Nordstrom next?
>We hate the way academia is structured. It's just that no one can figure out anything better and the benefits for enough people are important enough that swaying them is incredibly difficult.

It's also that everyone who wants to do science is held hostage to this system. There is no other institution focused on original research, beyond shipping a product within three to five years.

Academia sucks. There are no full-time research positions for good researchers anymore; grant funding has gotten as selective as the startup lottery. Even the people who "make it" have to work horrendous hours and spend all their time marketing themselves.

Even from the very outset, you're forced to put your heart on the line, declare science your calling and your passion, and then just suck it up when you can't find a tenure-track job.

Some fields don't have an "Exit" option that makes anything better, just a "Voice" option or bust. Besides which, every "Exit" is a betrayal of the social contract, a tiny declaration that society would rather rot and burn than fix problems like mature adults.
Am I the only one not seeing the adultery/murder connection here?
Some .AI domain name functions limited due to Hurricane Irma
It certainly seems like an opportunity of some kind. I was thinking about this the other day. It's not often you have such high changeover of vehicles on the road. Could you incentivize everyone to go electric together? Start up some kind of city-wide transit co-op with auto insurance payouts as seed capital?
https://onespeed.io
Banging into Google using !G is like searching Google directly. Banging from DDG doesn't confer any privacy protections. A lot of people don't know this.
But will they stick around?
> The answer is obvious here: yes.

Let's say the statistical size of the effect is something around a millionth of a millionth of a percent, then I think most people would answer the question with "no" and be understood correctly by everyone. These kinds of questions almost always have a "big enough to have a perceptible impact"-clause implied. Pretending they don't feels needlessly pedantic.
Just drop dead to minimise your carbon footprint the proper way
I did it on purpose because I didn't want to be forever locked out of accounts that required a FB signin. Case in point, just hours after deactivating (the first time), I realized I couldn't log into Airbnb without Facebook. So I had to reactivate, change Airbnb settings, then deactivate again.
> LetsEncrypt is wonderful, but if I'm a company that needs to show the company name next to the padlock, who should I be using?

Sorry, what's a company that needs to show the company name beside the padlock? (Except maybe: Company that has too much money to spend on pointless "premium" security services without any shown benefit.)
The United States has been disrupting, corrupting, and in some cases, overthrowing elections for decades. Now all of a sudden another country as the audacity to screw with our elections and suddenly everyone is shocked! So much hypocrisy. If you want to really see how an election can be corrupted, and thrown, just wait to Zuckerberg runs for President.
I definitely do for my bank. And the country code that is shown next to it.
All things considered, it is in the public interest to allow willing people to spend their time and resources assisting in situations like this. This is possibly the best community-building thing that you can do. Giving everyone regardless of background a stake in surviving something like this can really open up lines of communication that were previously closed by cultural differences or old enmities.

We all came away from this with the feeling that we had done some good for people that really genuinely needed and appreciated outside help. We began actively planning how we could assist the next time something like this happened. We analyzed what we had done and how we did it and identified our own deficiencies and came away resolving to be more prepared.

I think that likely benefits not only us but those who we attempt to assist if there is a next time.

I honestly wasn't trying to knock the Cajun Navy or Zello though it probably reads that way in spots. I'm a consultant in real life and a lot of my work involves identifying logical problems and other deficiencies in my client's operations so that they can focus their improvement efforts where they get the most benefit. Hopefully some of this is useful at some later point.

One thing I forgot to mention that we encountered involves rescuers entering neighborhoods where most residents do not speak English. The 'official' groups we encountered didn't have anyone who could translate English to Spanish or vice versa and thus were unable to understand what problems one potential evacuee needed resolved. Groups should get an introduction to Google Translate or other real-time translation tools so that people who may be in imminent danger can be assisted without having to wait for a translator to arrive.

Houston is a very diverse city culturally with large vibrant populations of people who do not speak or understand English. Once you get into smaller cities you are more likely to find groups where Spanish is the main language. Tools for communication with ALL affected people should be available with all trained, official first responders.

I think your idea about use of unconventional resources is spot on. Most people there with a boat and not part of an official group only wanted to know where they needed to launch or would be allowed to launch and addresses where people were requesting assistance or rescue. I believe a very effective solution to disaster response was demonstrated in Houston and the surrounding area over the last couple of weeks. There are things that could use some polish but overall it is a great model.
Eh. I work at a digital marketing agency and plenty of brands are spending lots of money just so you hear the name and think that brand is good. Some never mention a product or a service, just pure branding.
I believe the 3% could still be shouldered by the business, if I'm swiping with them. Venmo would just be sitting in the middle of the transaction so they can prompt me to charge my friends.

I think this is possible with Marqeta today: www.marqeta.com
It's pretty wild, he seems to suggest that because wetlands wouldn't prevent the whole thing, they aren't worth having, or something like that.
Exactly. I've never understood why all the US / EU language versions of Chrome, Firefox, etc. include all the root certs for CAs from China, Turkey, Russia, etc.

I cannot read Mandarin or Turkish, and in the unlikely event I get forwarded to a site from a company targeting citizens from these countries, I'd prefer to just get an SSL exception instead of the 'trusted' page.
Note: I haven't yet read that paper.

Funny thing though is R=0.19 being used as evidence. First of all, effect size is what matters. Second, this is near zero and essentially worthless. Third, they didn't really check how their methods work or know why they work, just guess.

For fun, let's see how easily you can make someone gay with evolutionary approach used in the 2015 fooling face detectors paper.
The algorithms are in opencv_contrib.

I bet it is essentially worthless.
"I'm probably going to be downvoted for this, but..." (insert common opinion, receive upvotes)
That's sort of what the national guard is for. They train a couple weeks per year and respond to situations like this.
Yes, but you're still talking hundreds of charges to 100% for a Li-ion before you lose capacity. A regular charge to 90% and then only charging to 100% on the odd occasion you need the little bit extra gives you the best of both worlds.

Do even a handful of deep discharges on a lead-acid battery and you'll kill it.
Well, that isn't really true, since the conception of what races exist and who belongs to which shows wide cultural variation.

More to the point, though, racism is an obvious manifestation of the kind of tribalism I think we are talking about and I don't think it's really controversial to argue that it is harmful at least to the marginalized groups. I'd personally even go further and say it harms all parties involved.
Evolution doesn't move fast enough for any technology to be relevant to the discussion of how this works.
Does this mean that if you have similar experiences, then your genes change? I have found that experiencing things together forms friendships much more than genes.
"that used racism to drive the middle classes out of the cities into the newly built suburbs."

I'm sorry, but this is not fair.

For whatever reasons (and ironically, after major civil rights advances) - many urban areas on the US became massively violent.

Rates of violent crime increased 600% (robbery) [1] in America overall during the 1960-1980. That's quite a radical increase. And again - note that this was a time of ostensibly major civil rights progress.

To wit - the increase in violence was not so much in rural areas, it was urban, ergo, there was even more than an 600% increase in crime. This was an era of increasing literacy and access to education for all Americans, including those who were underpriveledged. And this was way before Regans+Clinton strategy of mass incarceration.

It's deeply unfair to suggest that a family - of any race - that decides to move to the relatively affordable, calm suburbs, where they can own a full home and have a backyard, and avoid the massive increase in crime - is somehow 'racist'.

If your neighbourhood violence increased by more than 600% over the span of 10 years, and you were having kids, you might just decided to move somewhere else.

[1] http://www.disastercenter.com/crime/uscrime.htm

I don't think 'walkability' is a thing in any US city other than the one's established before cars, sadly.

On the subject of the article - if the Government is banning the sale of private property, or worse, forcing property sales - this is a problem. Banning to international investors - sure. Buying up land, sure, if they want. But banning sales from Germans to other Germans, or forcing sales to the government - no way.
it's possible they rejected your photo because they did a reverse image search and it matched the magazine?
During the height of the storm the spillways came in use (due to so much water). That happened at 108 feet and the top of the dam was 118. This happened in spite of the engineers releasing water for hours. Had they not done this those dams would have catastrophically failed.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/08/2...

The person you are replying to should make fewer assumptions about the work of engineers outside of their domain.
Why were people lying about rescuers being in danger? Just trolls? I think we would have heard by now if there were pirates out there stealing rescue boats at gunpoint.
It's the recent "Zeitgiest" conspiracy theory "documentaries" that float around on the internet. They just note similarities with the New Testament and old Egypto-Greco-Roman myths/cultic practices and say "See? This is where it came from".

You're right; it's not based on and scholarship or methodology. It's just simple associational reasoning. "These two things are similar, so therefore they are the same".
I have never seen a company both so technically capable and supportive of user privacy as Apple. It stands completely apart from all of the tech giants of today.
Nothing modern about it, it's one of the classic old selling techniques.
Yes, it was about the things that fat people hate.

Not about the hatred of fat people.
> Army Core of Engineers caused more damage than Harvey did... that is, their home didn't flood until after the water releases from the dams.

The water was released because without that, the dams were in danger of overtopping and catastrophic failure.

Blaming the Corps and not the storm for that is justified if, and only if, there is evidence that the assessment of danger was made irresponsibly given the available facts. (And the opposite seems to be the case here.)
I wonder if the FTC would be interested in this. Section 5 of the FTC Act lets the agency regulate deceptive marketing practices. The FTC's test for deception has three requirements:

1. There must be a representation, omission, or
practice that misleads or is likely to mislead the
consumer.

2. The act or practice must be considered from the
perspective of the reasonable consumer.

3. The representation, omission, or practice must
be material.

The post suggests StubHub is making very specific misrepresentations about specific ticket rights; the tactic here would deceive a reasonable consumer; and the misrepresentation is made to induce the sale.
Verisign's SLL authentication business was spun off and sold to Symantec a while ago, but Verisign continues to operate the .com registry as a separate company.
For me, it was more like cigarette usage: "I can quit any time" I thought, even as the constant demands for my attention distracted and upset me. Recognizing how much I disliked Facebook, then quitting cold-turkey was the only way I was able to break my addiction.
This article is filled with very carefully crafted language to leave the impression that this car 1) is being mass-produced, and is 2) capable of driving itself. But if you read it closely enough, it's clear that neither of these things is true.

I'm sure there's political pressure within GM for Cruise to announce these sorts of "wins" to keep management satisfied their money is being well-spent. But the breathless tone of this write-up conveys a sense of accomplishment that doesn't actually exist, and the failure to set reasonable expectations will just make the disillusionment that much stronger when it happens.
Zappos's CEO gets more eccentric all the time, and the site's search function could use updating, but the selection remains excellent and service is first-rate. We still use them.

Other Amazon acquisitions such as IMDB, Goodreads and Audible seem to be humming along. Kiva, now Amazon Robots, is crushing it. (Little joke there.)
Where-to a-history-of-autonomous-vehicles
Venmo isn't European, and at least from what I see not all that common here in comparison.
This is a rare case where multi-factor authentication, and the option to involve biometrics as hardened sub-layer auth, would be nice.

To be adequately effective, though, all back-up activities would require the full authentication credentials for all verification factors, which might only be possible with, say, a fingerprint scanner (touchbar) equipped laptop, or additional external hardware peripherals for other types of systems.
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Is that the only thing that's different about Tokyo and Paris? Beijing is over 95% Han Chinese and yet I don't think things look as harmonious.

On another note, I think Japan ends up with kind of a distorted picture since so much of the crime is associated with organized criminal groups with ties to legitimate business and government operating with a degree of openness that I think would surprise most Western observers. Dubro's Yakuza book is a great primer on the topic.
This isn't just a one time thing, it's how StubHub operates. They will even "sell" tickets with no inventory and then not exercise the option if they can't fulfill it profitably.
It's sad that Windows totally had the opportunity to own and drive that kind of market but it never worked out for them.
That's the thing, you're fighting the straw man, "evil ways" is your invention. Wrong and unhealthy and costly ways is what I'd say.

I'd say that tactic (criticisms and making fun of) worked in many instances.
EV is an option for companies that worry about branding - specifically ones that are well-known to do business offline. This extra layer of trust, relayed to the user from the web browser, reinforces the fact that they are on the correct website.

For example, I can go grab something like "bannk.com" (notice two 'n's) and get a DV cert for it - because I hypothetically own that name. Now, I can copy the real "bank.com" onto the site and perform a phishing attack. They both appear to be encrypted but the EV'd one has the organization noted, the fake one will not be able to have that legitimacy.

I am not saying the system isn't without its faults (people might not even notice), but it's an extra measure a company can do to keep itself distinguished from phshing websites or copycat services.
Felons can't vote, today.
Same. This sounds drastic to people who are in the habit of Facebooking, but I still have friends and a social life and the hours of mindlessly scrolling through low-info-density posts, likes, links, and whatnot is all gone.
Temperature differential creates hurricanes. If everything is warmer, it doesn't necessarily mean more hurricanes. Not really disputing what you're saying, just adding some precision.
Good paywalled piece on FT about the hedge/shift to LNG by the big petroleum players
'Big Oil bets on a dash for gas'
https://www.ft.com/content/f23e35e0-92b5-11e7-bdfa-eda243196...

LNG is a big electricity creation fuel, escaping methane is the big pollution challenge.
Can you elaborate why offline use is something that matters for bus schedules?

I mean, I get the usefulness of wilderness-related apps (e.g. ocean fishing) or various things that could be useful in an emergency like the aftermath of a hurricane, and for these offline functionality matters, but for buses, if you're within a few miles of a bus stop and the buses are running at all, then you're guaranteed to have high-speed cellular internet access and offline features don't matter.

I can imagine being in the middle of some national park where the closest bus is unimaginably far away but I still have mobile internet access, but I really can't imagine a situation where I'd care about buses but don't have internet. Or are USA data plans so small that it's worth thinking about the data usage (as opposed to just latency) of downloading a webpage with timetables?
When I was a child Benny Hinn made me cum 3 times in one morning. I didn't enjoy it.
> without any shown benefit

on the contrary, I know that the presence of an EV line has helped my mother avoid a pretty decent phishing attempt. Any company holding confidential details or data should have one, its just a shame they are so expensive (which due to their verification is unlikely to come down too far).
This doesn't match my experience. I've recently built an "intranet" website for some consukting agency. They had an IOS app already, but no android app. I built them a SPA based on create-react-app with a material design look and feel, making sure it worked fine both on desktops and on phones (which also means changing how certain things are presented, not just scaling the same screens). I told them to try the "add to start screen" link on chrome mobile (or the equivalent in IOS safari)... they ended up ditching the IOS app altogether.

All in all, it depends hugely on the functionalities your app/web provides, and whether you can build an experience that is app-like enough or not...
I still don't understand how water can raise an extra 10 feet over the spillway. Isn't a bathtub only as high as its lowest side?
What about the huge number of English language Chinese run ecommerce sites? Why should they be discriminated against because of their native language?

That just makes the normal user who wants to buy stuff learn to ignore SSL errors.
>If you are wondering how this library is different from other GUI toolkits, check out the FAQ

I see no details at all about how this library is different [or not]. While not an UI expert, I have some low-level experience with gtk, qt, appkit and uikit, vcl, immediate ui, and full manual drawing / event processing. When considering new ui framework, these questions are of high priority: how does it integrate with, or supports for, existing custom run loop; what layout system is used and which problems it elegantly solves (i18n, baselining, excessive boxing, complex constraint cases); how does it implement repeating cell rendering and caching, if any; what are base classes and how metamechanics like scrolling/resize/animation/state cues are distributed across these; how does ui state interact with controlling entity and vice versa; which non-ui mid-controllers exist to reduce or abstract out basic boilerplating. Without these details, it is yet another "throw edits, buttons and labels to fixed form and call it a day framework" at most. UI is usually hard because of internals and extension, not because it lacks fixed functionality. Web is partly so popular because it feels like everything is possible from the styled box primitive (but has its obvious downsides; like a 100mb complex c++ rendering engine that only few groups in the world can implement correctly and somewhat effectively on latest i7). Without all this and many more, there is nothing to reason about — ui is not a yesterday's demand, and regular cases are covered by virtually any mature library. Drawing static hearts with beziers is not a big deal.

Tbh, I'm highly doubting any of listed topics can be designed in just one version step, because even most decent frameworks have so many hidden flaws that require insane efforts to overcome under specific requirements.

It would be great to see how it is actually better, e.g. by comparing side-by-side examples of solving normal-to-hard ui tasks in different libraries.
Go look at the "discounts" on Wish vs the Amazon prices. Big company now, 100% lying directly to the consumer.
...or like the employee just shouting rather loudly across the showroom floor to a colleague:

"Hey Joe we just sold another one of the <insert TV you happen to be looking at>. That's the 3rd one today - we better order some more before we run out of stock"
I give you a hint: Yes