skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
She didn’t make that argument. Your interpretation of the article is uncharitable at best. If I were to interpret your comments as uncharitably as you have interpreted her article, I might think you were intentionally presenting a strawman version of her argument.
do you mean 'uses'?
I try to put my mind in the head of whoever at Facebook would be making this decision. Chief of marketing? Chief of Technology? Mark Zuckerberg himself? A product manager? Some director?

And I believe all of them in fact would be perfectly fine with it - if it somehow helped them hit their quarterly bonuses or user growth numbers.
I used to blame monopolistic tactics by Microsoft. There's no doubt that shrewd business moves a big reason for the success of Windows. However, the high quality of Windows developer tools as well as the fragmentation of the Linux desktop (just like the Unix world before it) also both played a huge part.
I didn't even know Etsy is a public traded company. What are some other companies that are basically 'a website' that are publically traded?
I’d assumed it was commercial flight ticket and a quick search appears that’s the case: http://www.flyfighterjet.com/edge-of-space-flight although I’m sure you could disprove a flat earth for one of the lower altitude flights they offer
Is there anything more to this than a landing page collecting email addresses?
didn't realise you could hire a 'co-founder'
suspect it means subordinate who is paid in share options
Ask HN: What are examples of smaller publicly traded web companies like Etsy?
Wasn't there just a story about Apple giving Uber special permissions (which were not turned off after they were no longer needed) so they could do stuff on the Apple watch? Is it that much of a stretch to think they would also give Facebook special permissions?
I like opinion articles as they make it easier to understand the perspective of the author. At least as long as at least some facts are present, but that does not seem to be a problem here.

So while I do not necessarily share the authors opinion, I find his opinion a valuable context.
> And that isn't what network neutrality is anyway. Network neutrality doesn't regulate content. It says nothing about what anyone can print, it just says that everyone can buy ink on the same terms.

What do you make of the case of Gab then? They're a competitor to Facebook, Twitter etc. They're not allowed on either app store and they've had their site taken down by multiple domain registrars. Are they being allowed to buy ink on the same terms? No, they're not, I guess we explain that away by saying: "well... they're hate speech." That's going to convince some people, some other people will take a look at that and say: "Wait, if they're hate speech maybe I'm hate speech too, maybe this whole net neutrality thing isn't actually meant for me." Which is why net neutrality has suddenly become a much more partisan issue.
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I was expecting some kind of ICO or some weird Ethereum token. Something like a token that has the standard ERC20 interface, but the contract has a weird hidden part that also sends a message somehow when someone transfers the token. So you can put in a single wallet all your normal ICO tokens and additional tokens and this "canary" tokens and if someone steal them perhaps you can realize before they spend the valuable tokens. [I'm not sure if this is possible or if this is a good idea, but everyday we get more and more weird tokens ...]

Anyway, ..., you must consider renaming the page or the submission, because some people could confuse this with yet another unuseful valueless ERC20 token.
Wrong thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15777831
Author here - completely agree with you. I think the presence of these things can be a nice shortcut to establishing expertise, but lack of them does not imply lack of expertise. These are just suggestions of things to look for, and it certainly isn't my intention that people be ruled out because of an empty GitHub profile. I hope that isn't what it sounds like.
> The more expressive a type system is, the more difficult type inference becomes.

This is always mentioned and I always fail to see the relevance. Inferable terms stay inferable when we add dependent types.
Every one of my friends, including me, has a story about how they used a phrase in conversation that they don't typically say ("Renaissance Faire" in my case, which I have never attended and generally have no interest in), and then seeing an ad for it on either Facebook or Instagram right afterwards. This is purely anecdotal, of course, but it is creepy anyway. The only way to stop this "myth", if it is one, is for Facebook to stop doing whatever it is they do instead of listening to us to get to this unnerving level of targeting.
I think the GP was referring to something like Migflung rentals[0

[0] http://www.migflug.com/en/jet-fighter-flights.html
>Guess what pops up on Facebook moments later? An ad for Wendys! Were they listening?

If you saw an ad for Wendy's in any other context, would you have been surprised?

I saw an ad for Wendy's shortly before coming to comment on this post. Are HN's advertising algorithms predicting the future, or is it just a coincidence due to the overwhelming volume of fast food advertising?
> legislated "net neutrality" enshrines the current mode

I don't see how that's the case. It doesn't prevent distributed solutions from existing it just makes them less necessary.
Sure I don't doubt your capacity to find new work. But hearing from recruiters every day doesn't mean anything. Recruiters say whatever they need to get you to an interview.
I admittedly took a liberty with "eastern bloc". Aside from that, where did I do her wrong?
Likely anything built by someone else has a filter in it to adjust the lens when it gets to the right height. This isn't about logic after all.
It's not them funding it, if they even exist. The "flat-earther" part is just for the media exposure, which seems to work great.

If you are willing to launch yourself in a home made rocket the Internet will fund, as long as they can find you.
Most airliners fly at 35,000 feet. Couldn't he just raise 400 dollars and buy a plane ticket?
Is there a global, persistent CMD history (windows)?
Agree for sure. Especially management enthusiasm
It’s really amazing that people think Facebook is listening. It’s like wearing a name tag and assuming someone is psychic when they call your name.
Given that the context means that there’s always a shell available, presumably ‘with kill -QUIT’. I got into this habit myself many years ago, when varied access methods made it uncomfortable to rely on having a full range of key-bindings.
That was my intended point (I'm a CTO at a startup).

I consider myself a decent rocket scientist (CTO) but would make a terrible brain surgeon (CEO) ;-)
I predict his journey will be Darwinian.
I read the gizmodo article when it came out and it really seems that the only reason these machines are still running is because the few remaining users have found technically-minded friends that can do the tinkering required to keep them running. I wondered at the time if there couldn't be some sort of crowd sourced effort to make replacement parts and help iron lung users find people to service their machines. But the liability associated with doing so seems to be enormous in my mind. I doubt good samaritan laws would protect someone in the slightest if they volunteered to service an iron lung, the user of the iron lung later died, and then the family decided to sue. One would hope that the family would understand the situation enough not to do so, be is there honestly any way to such a situation from happening?

If my grandmother used an iron lung I would absolutely do everything I personally could to keep it running, including servicing it and making replacement parts. But the thought of doing that for a stranger absolutely terrifies me.
Which societal problems do you think are caused by a lack of capital?
The internet was built by white people. If you hate white people, then get off the internet. You're supporting something built by people you hate.

The entire premise of these articles is "I hate the people who built something, so I'm going to use it to hurt the people I hate".

This is the behavior of infants.
bunch of previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15751398

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15760481

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15764574
They teleport to the opposite edge when they hit one. It is common knowledge to anyone played Asteroids.
http://www.freeasteroids.org/
There is a difference between "it works" and pixel-identical results. Those are probably impossible due to font rendering differences anyway.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/775647.The_Private_Life_...
Question: what do people use as their prefix?

I started using tmux last week, and although it's mostly been a good experience, I still haven't been able to settle on a good prefix. I find C-a to be a terrible choice because I actually use that for command line navigation, and so in the meantime I've tried settling on C-q, but it just feels awkward at times.

(Note that I've remapped Caps Lock to Ctrl.)
Is there an explanation for why that happens to even non-dyslexics?
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Her point is that the true threat to net neutrality is large content providers and social networks, e.g. Google and Facebooks, not ISPs. That means net neutrality regulations aren’t going to solve the real problem, and also that solving the real problem is not straightforward because regulating content providers for neutrality is far more problematic than preventing ISPs from favoring some traffic over other traffic. Problematic enough that maybe governments could not do it well or fairly, and that such regulation might do more harm than good in the end.
I bet Wendy's also had a billboard on the highway leading to that food desert uh? They know people are on their phones looking for food options (since clearly they aren't easy to find) so they target that area with their ads. It's not that hard.

This is getting similar to horoscopes. When they are wrong, whatever. When they are right, it's "creepy".
Between zero and ninety percent depending on which network provider you are on. Comcast? Seventy percent. Reliance Jio in India? Ninety percent. Fptelecom in Vietnam? Sixteen percent. Telstra in Australia? Forty percent. Sky in the UK eighty percent. .. it depends. (I measure this for my day job, btw)
Alternate explanation: the person(s) you discussed this with did some google'ing and browsing. The tracking cookies do their thing and since you and those persons are linked, you end up with the ads served.
My favourite kind of knife steel - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPM_S30V_steel

It keeps an edge and is relatively easy to sharpen. Also, it's sintered.

Sintering just has interesting material properties. I believe most ceramic knives are sintered too, as well as some processes used for packaging chips.
That Worked:
- Analytics app for automotive dealerships to analyze market and dealer inventory to determine the best inventory to order month-to-month. It works since we are solving a true problem, helping dealerships make more informed decisions backed by data vs. listening to their "gut".
- Management and scheduling app for commercial swimming pools to schedule staff, track chemicals, oversee maintenance, and more. It has worked since our customers prior had been tracking everything with pen and paper and if they were more "advanced" Excel. Centralizing their operations digitally has solved a huge management problem.

That might work:
- Investment banking deal management. Our team just finished our MVP and are currently in talks with various banks.

That didn't work:
- "We-Owe" form management for automotive dealerships. Especially when somebody buys a car at the dealership they are given an option for various upgrades, such as lifts, rims, tires, etc. these upgrades are tracked on "We-Owe" forms. The SaaS our team created helped dealerships track these forms digitally. The product eventually failed due to lack of distribution channels and overall market value.
SSE2 instructions in msexcl40 in a Server 2008 update
I wish to confirm what you have written about African countries. I speak about sub-saharan Africa here. Even without donations Africa has enormous unrealised wealth and potential (minerals, gas, agricultural potential). Geopolitically also well positioned. With the exception of places like Nigeria, also comparatively underpopulated. Money is not the main problem here - an educated populace and strong institutions like proper independent courts, etc are needed. Without them, a very predictable form of feudalism emerges frighteningly fast. The west does work differently, but there are important lessons to be learned by watching what's happening here.
I don't think that's so. These technologies are decidedly non-net-neutral. A mesh network by its nature most have packet-gnosticism as a first principle.

I think it's very likely that if a "net neutrality" framework becomes US law, that municipalities and small organizations who launch their own mesh networks will be told that, in order to comply with the law, they need to deliver Fox News and Netflix at the same bandwidth and latency with which they deliver locally available curated content.

In other words, I suspect that "net neutrality," well-intentioned as it may be today, will be a way to silence alternative internet topologies tomorrow.
"... losing a dollar hurts more than gaining a dollar..." Big finding? Kahneman won a Noble for it in 2002!
I was gift shopping, and was just browsing topic by topic. In the past I had done so and stumbled across all sorts of amazing handmade items without much digging at all.

Look at the landing page for "Home & Living" and you'll see what I mean: https://www.etsy.com/c/home-and-living?ref=catnav-891

I could see how some specific topics might still have more handmade items than not.
Zero loss of life is considered acceptable in any non-military field of engineering or design that I'm aware of. (With the possible exception of automotive and highway design, where we have a huge blind spot, but that's a topic for another day.) Bridge collapses and nuclear accidents both tend to produce non-zero loss of life, and be considered shall-we-say "bad." So they are treated exactly the same by their respective fields; namely, zero such incidents are tolerated, allowed or expected.

Which means your example doesn't demonstrate a difference or answer the question "How is this different from calculating any other design?" Nobody allows collapsing a bridge just because it "only" kills 30 people. (By the way, the Golden Gate is about 8,000 feet long, a car is about 25 feet long, let's say 30 including buffer space, and there are 6 lanes. So if traffic is bumper-to-bumper, everybody is in their car alone, and there are no trucks or buses, that means there are about 1,600 people on the bridge. More if there are buses and carpools, less if there are trucks.)

If you wanted to show a difference, you would have to pick a field of design where catastrophic failures are tolerated and calculation accuracy isn't such a big deal, such as the shitty web apps we all work on. Unfortunately you picked structural engineering, where as far as I know they require 6 years of school, 4 years of mentoring and two all-day exams just for licensure, at least two engineers have to sign off on every design, and both of those engineers are held personally liable (read financially and professionally ruined) for any negligence resulting in an accident. It's a non-illustrative example.
> They're not allowed on either app store

The app stores are monopolies. The FTC absolutely should be slapping them for half the stuff they're doing.

But the app stores still aren't natural monopolies. They wouldn't be monopolies if people could install apps the same way they do on desktops. There is no need to regulate their content, what's needed is to restore normal competition to those markets.
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This is also why I'm super into rewriting local branch history - when you get into these situations, you reorder the changes into dependency order (F -> E -> D -> ...) and then it becomes trivial to create a PR for a suitably small prefix of the dependency path.
I switched to Iosevka for terminal
can't stop using Bitstream Vera Sans Mono (or Monaco) for code editors, though
To be honest, I have no idea. Maybe I'm even wrong about why it works.

I have a toy service with ~200k requests/day to a public service and I was blocked all the time.

After I changed to use API Gateway + Lambda as a proxy, never had these problems again. I just monitor the 4xx and 5xx errors and they are almost zero now.
Is there a standard workflow for talking to sources?
> IQ is a pseudoscience

This is how people trying to oppose the alt right shoot themselves in the foot. Alt right intellectuals and propagandists immediately capitalize on this kind of nonsense. (The fact that the author identifies as a communist before denying the strongest predictor in psychology is somewhat telling as well and acts as free fuel.)
At first glance, I thought this was an onion post.
I would not say that something applied in California, state with the largest population, is an example of "work small before they trust it big".

Are you proposing a direct democracy system where the regular election cycle for representatives is obsolete, and people directly vote on issues and/or can elect new representatives at any time?
To this day I have not received a response from MS.
I have been using C-q for many months now, and it works fine for me.
Ohh I like the idea of knowing the password requirements for the top 1000 websites!
can't help but agree with you.

people are scrambling to debunk an ill-defined phenomenon that's only exists anecdotally... and in the realm of those who ask "qui bono?"

who benefits if "facebook is listening"? what are the incentives?

the question of technical possibility is the first place people will go to... without realizing that if there is a will, there is a way.
I think there should be space for all kinds of discussion, even those I don’t agree with, but in this case what worried me the most was the authors claim that once a person enters a community to discuss whatever white nationalist subjects, they are told or manipulated into believing they cannot leave, or they are made to watch propaganda videos in order to stay in the group. That crosses the line from communication of ideas to coercion and cult behavior. I don’t know why people don’t see that they’re being treated in this manipulative way, though. Even at my most lonely, I was highly suspicious and dodgy whenever any similar tactic was used on me; I preferred to be lonely.
Have several of these. I run an Mqtt broker, HomeAssistant and "Sonoff Tasmota" https://github.com/arendst/Sonoff-Tasmota . I believe however, this firmware will also emulate a Philips Hue Bridge or Belkin Wemo to make integration easy with Alexa and such.
Facebook may only need to recognize a few keywords. The one that companies had payed for. It wouldn't be that many. An approximate recognition is good enough. So processing and data transmission could be small.

As long as there is no uncontestable proof, the doubt must benefit Facebook.

The testimonies are not uncontestbale proofs. Considering the million people uisng the facebook app, there will always be a small set of people who will see advertisement of what they just talked about. That is statistic. Some of these, understandably chocked, may be very vocal about it.

We also know that people are payed to spread fake news and manipulate people. So I'm cautious. The truth is unknown, and the longer it takes to get uncontestable proofs, the less credible the listening thesis becomes.

Facebook can't do much appart to let it rain. Open source is the way I would go. That is one way to calm down paranoid or conspirationist people.
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I have found that I dislike fonts that have overly squared-off corners, in which all the letters look so uniform. So, I just don't understand the appeal a lot of boutique "programming" fonts like proggy or monoid.

I tend to like monospace fonts with a bit more rounded corners, which to me gives them a bit more "character" (one could almost say quirkyness) and readability.

good examples of this would be Bitstream Vera Sans Mono, Monaco and to a lesser extent, Iosevka
One time I dosed up on pseudoephedrine to help with a particularly nasty flu, fell asleep, and dreamed I was watching a disturbing cartoon. It was very slapstick and "wacky", like a Tex Avery cartoon, but something was... off about it, and it was horrifying.
nada...its just a landing page
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The article link is wrong https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/21/russia-radioac...
I don’t think FB is listening because all the stories I’ve heard can be explained by their graph.

I think it’s hard to debunk because people don’t recognize how powerful their knowledge graph is at this point, and simultaneously underestimate how hard general-purpose speech recognition is, even with studio-level audio setups. And especially to a non-programmer, I think it seems so much easier to just figure out speech recognition than to maintain a huge knowledge graph about billions of people, their connections (explicit and implicit), their current whereabouts, the sites they are visiting, and the text they literally give to Facebook in the form of messages etc. But of course, each one of those things is a tractable problem, and can progress independently of the others, until all of a sudden it’s so good it seems like they must be inside our heads, or at least listening.

But here’s the thing: I think all that big data is actually waaaaay creepier. If they were just listening in and showing relevant ads, that’d be one thing. But instead they have all this data going back years, and can make all these inferences from the data. Just imagine what inferences could be made about non-advertising topics!
a good alternative hypothesis, but also one that should be proveable, at least in some cases.

designing an experiment to test this would be quite easy.

ultimately your explanation could exist alongside audio snooping, perhaps even helping to resolve areas of ambiguity...
>(We’ve built AI that is so smart that it can predict your conversations)

We've built AI that can do a great job of slicing and restitching your old conversation into responses that are plausible responses to input sentences.

Whether that's good at predicting a conversations depends a lot on the conversationalist you're attempting to emulate using that technique.
This is almost what I do today, only difference is that I use a proxy switcher plugin in Firefox, rather than using a PAC file.
src:

A Guide to Not Getting Hacked | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15733698 (15735789)(Nov2017:175points,78 comments)

A very similar conversation to this one, but with more criticism of the advice in the associated article.
100% - I'm not sure why others are so dismissive. It's not that technically difficult, and FB has a reputation for being creepy. If only I could figure out how to get random one night stands out of my "People you may know" list...
What was the source of your network, if I may ask? Old college friends? Church? Co-workers?