skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I fear it's much more insidious than that. Facebook has a tendency to start doing some invasive stuff and then announce it to the world only 5 years later.

> They probably plan to use your facial profile for a number of things, none of which have to do with authenticating you to the Facebook website. I even see them sharing the profiles with the DHS to build more accurate facial recognition at airports, and other stuff like that. But of course they wouldn't admit it now, because it would mean everyone refusing to use it from day one.

This validates my little project of uploading a ton of stock photos to my Facebook account and tagging myself in them.
Amazon was part of your reply to:

> What's an example of rent-seeking caused by someone having a pile of capital much bigger than small companies, that does not happen through lobbying for regulation?

It seems like you mixed the discussion of rent seeking with a separate discussion of the competitive advantage of big companies.
In my experience it comes from grants that the adviser gets for other research.
It is there as well https://aws.amazon.com/eks/
This is a response to an earlier article by Scott Alexander, and he's already written a response to this one, too:

http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/11/21/contra-robinson-on-publ...

The general idea is "you can't compare real capitalism with a fantasy government, you have to compare real capitalism with a real government, and real governments are worse than real capitalism"
@bovermeyer would you mind sharing your 5 minute stretching routine?
I think you're being too harsh. Sure, there are a number of poorly run soup kitchens. There are also some excellent ones! And even the poorly run soup kitchens ostensibly do good - they certainly use the money that funds them more efficiently than most other enterprises, and they of course provide food to the hungry.

Maybe your choice is to be hungry rather than go back to a soup kitchen. That's fine, you're entitled to that opinion. But I don't feel that your experience should deprive others of the choice - I know some people who rely on soup kitchens so as not to starve, and they certainly would prefer to have soup kitchens than not.
I should write a blog post about this, but to those thinking about deleting Facebook,

My experience deleting it 5 years ago is summarized as: my friend count went way down, my friend quality went way up.

Your results may vary, but the purpose of my comment is not to immediately be worried that Facebook is a mandatory lifeline for your social life.
Yeah, it was the same with Bill and Melinda from what I recall.
> and it's obvious why.

Because most countries don't have crypto-secure identity verification, which means Facebook would still need something like this? I suppose they could contract out to Experian (or other local providers) and ask you to answer some questions from your credit report, but I'm not sure that's really a good solution either.
I wonder why I got downvoted here.
> It’s not the norm for PhD students to pay any tuition.

Ok if it's not the norm, why go through the charade? Just make the tuition $0

EDIT: Ah, found it in article - because they think IRS will charge them anyway. Well, ok, let IRS then charge them and see what happens.

> As the university bulletin explains, “for a standard [research assistant] appointment in addition to the salary, the grant pays half of the tuition.

Yap happened to me. Got a grant and a large part of it evaporated because it went to pay for my "tuition". Well there we go. Everyone is upset at the government, why aren't they upset at the universities.

Let's check Yale's (the article talks about it) endowment for 2017. $27.2B - nice. How about they use that to pay a higher stipend to students instead of $30k for lab work, how about pay them $100k. And maybe Universities should stop skimming so much off of grants that are often coming from government labs.

But of course it is easier and more fun to get the grad students to sit on the floor and yell "Look what Trump just did to us!". Makes for better news at least.
This is a really cool midway point between lambda and ec2. You can have a large codebase, run continously, but on "serverless"
>if the tools we were given during our formation were python, php or javascript.

Well, these are not the "modern" tools I had in mind with writing my comment above...

>I don't think resolving the philosopher dinner problem in Go can teach you much. In C, it does.

Yes, I agree. But I never questioned C's value as a teaching aid.
It's not clear from the article, but it might be that someone other than the subordinate complained. Perhaps he had given this subordinate preferential treatment. That would be grounds for pushing him out.
Sure, this is what I meant by natural.

Just one thing: when you write that Ruby script, could one of the reasons why you don't use a FP style be not only that maybe it wouldn't be natural to do so in Ruby, but also that it's unsuitable for the kind of problem you are trying to solve with that script to begin with?

I mention this, because I have the impression that people tend to believe that to solve a programming problem you should use whatever paradigm is perceived as the main one for the language at hand. However, I believe that it's the problem that should dictate the paradigm.
AWS managed kubernetes (EKS)
Exactly, its' hugely popular in Venezuela and Zimbabwe and other places where government messes with peoples' money.

But then, remember, Charles thinks that pepe is a nazi symbol! He's not exactly among the rational.
Full disclosure: used to work for Alphabet, and while I seem to recall the sexual harassment training on this pretty well, take my word with a huge grain of salt.

Google has a pretty open-minded approach about relationships: you won't get fired for starting a relationship with a report/manager, but you are required to disclose it to management and take the appropriate steps to fix the power imbalance. Moving the parties to two different teams is one of the suggested solutions. I could see that being hard to achieve if you are in the board of directors, but it should work for the vast majority of employees.

So my guess about this "inappropriate relationship" was that it wasn't reported and the proper actions weren't taken. I hope for everyone involved it was consensual and just an indiscretion, rather than something more perverse being at play.
Notably, this appears to confirm a Kubernetes offering (EKS)!

I will tell you that we plan to support launching containers on Fargate using Amazon EKS in 2018

[Edit] Looks like that just got announced too: https://aws.amazon.com/eks/.
None of these performance hits sound like they negatively affect the purpose of the app though, at least not detrimentally to the point where poeple would complain about it.

I am but one person, but there are far more complaints about the quality of the photos, than the milliseconds of lag you see hitting the capture button.
> In reality, they should "award" grad students $0 in tuition and pay them like what they are - employees (and deeply exploited employees at that!).

Here's the rub.

If universities do this, then the current tax bill is basically a cut to federal funding for science and undergraduate education.

If universities do not do this, then the current tax bill places even more of the social cost of science onto graduate students.

IMO the way out of the quagmire is two-fold.

(1) Place a strict limit of 20% on overhead -- the sum of all expenses that aren't either researcher/educator salary or research/teaching equipment should not exceed 20% within certain revenue streams. This should be required for revenues from undergraduate tuition, non-taxed endowment earnings that aren't reinvested into the endowment, and revenues from research grants.

(Why not $0? Because some amount of administration is necessary, and buildings need to be cleaned/maintained/secured. "Overhead" can mean waste, but it can also mean "literally keeping the lights on". 20% is negotiable, and perhaps this is something that varies from campus to campus, but "a lowish non-zero number" seems right.)

(2) Only after doing (1), increase funding for science and public higher education.
No, I doubt that. For someone to be convicted for this, criminal intent must be proven. If someone lives alone - and informs any guests that they have a camera inside - it should be hard for the burglar to claim that the home owner intended to secretly film them.
I can pull a fingerprint off the subway stair rails but that doesn't mean I can identify who it is. We anonymously reveal ourselves everyday but the danger comes from confirming which data is ours. The goal is to make it difficult not impossible.
Genetically Modifying Yourself Sounds Like a Bad Idea So This Guy Is Doing It
Then maybe they should strike.

Remember strikes?
Straw, meet camel's back.

I'll give up Facebook before I give up that level of privacy.
ISPS: hardware decription languages before VHDL
100%

My point was, at the beginning and until we build a fundable startup, we get obsessed about finding alternative ways to raise money through consulting and freelancing (as an example) that we tend to get very comfortable with the money generated from those sources and focus less on what we aimed to raise the money for: build a startup.

Later, with a product worth investing in, Yes, like you said, it all depends on the goal. Do you want to get funded and potentially build a bigger company or bootstrap, move slower and own all of it but likely a smaller company.
Whoever installed the OS agreed to it. http://images.apple.com/legal/sla/docs/macOS1013.pdf:

”Q. Automatic Updates. The Apple Software will periodically check with Apple for updates to the Apple Software. If an update is available, the update may automatically download and install onto your computer and, if applicable, your peripheral devices. _By using the Apple Software, you agree that Apple may download and install automatic updates onto your computer and your peripheral devices_. You can turn off automatic updates altogether at any time by changing the automatic updates settings found within System Preferences.”
The apparent delight in low-quality photography that pervades both Snapchat and Instagram are among the reasons I don't bother using either. Earlier photography applications and platforms such as Flickr celebrated high-quality camera equipment and the resulting photographs. Intentional dramatic down-sampling and filters that add vintage discoloration have never resonated with my senses.
To add to this, you can always /try/ deleting your facebook account and see if it's for you.

It's not like facebook is a nightclub that will refuse re-entry once you leave or anything.
The guidelines created by the USDA have always been and continue to be the product of corporate lobbying, not science. https://www.theverge.com/2016/1/7/10726606/2015-us-dietary-g...
> This is incredibly exciting. I see the end of Moores law as the return of the era of performance-oriented software development.

And I see this as the exact opposite. Optimizing for developer time is one of the largest productivity enhancements we have. A true/pure positive feedback loop in technological progress. Optimizing for performance is getting little real gain for large human cost.

The end game of optimized for developer efficiency is we can design and implement "anything" we can think of in almost no time flat. The end game for optimizing for performance is it takes significantly longer to develop a program just to run it on the equivalent of 5 years ago hardware.

An analogy: it's early in human writing. People have trouble expressing average thoughts. We can either teach society to have a better grasp on writing and expressing complex ideas precisely. Or we can teach people to write really small because we're running out of paper.

The positive feedback loop of improved development is enormous.
But you'd have to supply work/capital to get it to the point of generating revenue.
The FCC Has Always Defended Net Neutrality. Why Stop Now?
I prefer posting only articles critical of Facebook to my feed until I get locked out of my account for some reason.

I won't create a new one, but I might as well use the one I have to do some good.
It's not surprising, but this is a very welcome announcement!
feels like this could be easily bypassed with something like this https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/30/16569402/ai-generate-fak...
I believe this is the "Hawaii 5-0" approach to television.
yeah- 56. double-checked. But linux mint- they try to not break things :)
Apart from possible biometrics collection, it is Facebook that now decides how do you behave and what to grant you for your behavior. Like Santa for adults.

Maybe it’s time to open your eyes and see that there is no Santa since 1984?
Because they're still virtualizing literally everything but the actual computer. You can attach NVMe backed EBS volumes, snapshot them as normal, etc. You can have this thing exist in a vpc next to your virtualized components, with 25gbps dedicated link. They're virtualizing the things you shouldn't need to care about, leaving you with a free Cpu and access to all the things that make aws aws
I don't think this is that straightforward. One of the comments on the article said it nicely: graduate students are still being trained and are not very effective researchers, and they are getting a significant education in doing research even if they are not taking classes (whether it is "valuable" or not today is a different discussion).

Already the cost for a postdoc is comparable to that of a student (including tuition) and probably about twice that of a student excluding tuition, and their research output can easily be more than twice that of a student (on average). There could be adjustments to the model, but charging tuition to the students is not that outrageous when you consider what the students are learning. Tuition is also typically charged on the standard credit rate for classes (pretty low for public universities).
See Apple's comment on this, given to BuzzFeed I assume: https://twitter.com/JohnPaczkowski/status/935909264362586112 / https://www.buzzfeed.com/josephbernstein/apple-released-a-pa...

"Security is a top priority for every Apple product, and regrettably we stumbled with this release of macOS.

When our security engineers became aware of the issue Tuesday afternoon, we immediately began working on an update that closes the security hole. This morning, as of 8:00 a.m., the update is available for download, and starting later today it will be automatically installed on all systems running the latest version (10.13.1) of macOS High Sierra.

We greatly regret this error and we apologize to all Mac users, both for releasing with this vulnerability and for the concern it has caused. Our customers deserve better. We are auditing our development processes to help prevent this from happening again."

(posted to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15808164 if separate discussion is preferred)
You can set global rules and individual exceptions based on domain.

Read more about it here: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Dynamic-filtering:-qu...
If the motel housekeeping or management is the one planting the camera, then I don't see how this is any different than case with Airbnb. Airbnb hosts are explicitly expected to follow the terms of service, just as hotel management is expected to follow corporate policy.

Plus, the whole point of a hidden camera is that it's hidden. If anything, it would be far harder to find a hidden camera as the number of rooms to search increases.
Recursive argument file support in picocli 2.1.0
I have had similar thoughts. Also just an option for people who don't have families or live far from their families (e.g. single and moved to a new city for work) to prepare and share meals together. Like maybe I know that I'm cooking for ~6 people every Tuesday as part of a meal sharing, and someone else is cooking on Thursdays. Or maybe one night a week, I know that I'm cooking on the first Tuesday of every month, and someone else is cooking the second, etc.
It's funny you should mention that - the startup that I mentioned was part of the first class of an accelerator run by a PBS Frontline producer-turned-venture-capitalist. Lots of good advice on journalism and product development process, not so good advice on managing and growing capital-friendly businesses. PBS has the advantage of government backing, massive public good will, and a gargantuan fund raising arm. Still, a very interesting overlap.
@weavie Great question. It depends on the work I am doing. I take all of my calls and virtual meeting standing on/off the board. I also create most of my status reports and do JIRA board reviews standing. However, for deep investigation, deployments, requirements writing, and other tasks that require deep focus I sit, either on a barstool or a medicine ball.
As time goes the cost of privacy is increasing. It become more burdensome and costly to maintain privacy. How do we adapt to the society where everything is public ?
Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes
Rich San Francisco homeowners get sold-off street back
I want to create a library for generating photos of computer-generated faces
I'm not really sure an AirBnB would be any less safe then a previous small boutique licensed private hotel/bnb, these also operated out of peoples homes or even larger hotels for that matter. Basically anyone can gain access to a hotel and wait for your to leave your room and break in or assault you as you enter/exit.

At least with AirBnB you can leave reviews that are easily read by potential future guests.
I agree with 100% of what you said, the level of tech being used for behavior predictions is scary and the level of tech being used for sales seems like we could be putting all this engineering to better use. OTOH, this seems like natural economics to me given our system, for better or worse. Money is the driver of all things, sadly.

Yep, heat maps for mouse movements are a very common technique. You get click location data out of Google Analytics and everyone uses Google Analytics.

But we should be clear and careful -- since I'm using the web site, my click data is not something I can ever keep private from the web site. We can (and probably should) keep it from third parties, but first party mouse and keyboard data isn't a privacy concern.

Good point about cross-tab tracking, this is fairly common too, and an ad blocker does usually block this. But, the article was primarily about key logging, and the iframed ads can't do any key logging.

Don't get me wrong; I use an ad blocker myself, and I think it's a good idea. I just wanted to make the point that blocking only 3rd party content does not solve the problem this article pointed at, and it especially doesn't solve direct key logging or mouse tracking by the website you're using.
I'm fine with the picture quality (they are ephemeral after all) but I'm not fine with how the Android app is slow, clunky, battery-destroying mess.

Example: If I get a plaintext chat message through snapchat, and I tap the notification to open it, do I go straight to the chat thread? No, I'm dropped at the camera, which has to start streaming and download all the new filters and god knows what else until it allows me to swipe left to get to chats, then tap the specific thread to see the new message.
Treat startups as lottery tickets. That investment risk class is way too high for your goal. A high salary and saving will get you there.
This is super confusing. Why is there color-coding if "color means nothing"? What is the vertical axis? Why are these pre-rendered youtube videos?
My undergrad is in Neurobiology, but I don't work in the field, but I can give you my understanding.

This article is basically an article that reviews the current theories regarding the neuroscience of intelligence. It's saying that there seems to be evidence of 'g' (which you could call IQ, but is the variance in cognitive abilities) that dictates the efficiency of our brain as a network of networks. It describes the brain as a interconnected global network of local networks that have discrete responsibilities. The reason these local networks to handle specific things is because it's more efficient to process in close proximity. And that the communication between these 'nodes' and the ability to tap into stored memory and intuition is described by 'g'.
IMO, it's more elitists than trolls. I use SO more like a complement to Google rather than a Q/A platform because it's hard to break into the community as a low-karma newbie. It's very discouraging when you ask for help nicely, provide context to your question, and try to contribute back only to see your question immediately closed or the only replies you get are unhelpful or self-serving. Why even bother to put in the effort of asking a question when you are seen as the pool boy at a country club to everyone else.
I don't understand your comment - do you mean that every story has to be related to America in some way? (by which I guess you mean the United States of America, by the way, which is one of many countries inside the two America continents)
Fix has been released: https://www.macrumors.com/2017/11/29/apple-fixes-root-passwo...
Magento Integrations
I think the point is that the quality should be at the level of informations decision makers have access to

I am too a decision make

Smaller scale

Same need of quality information
Works in a secure and predictable way without eye candy to me trumps works in an insecure way but has eye candy.

Software was plenty usable before we had the CPU power to burn on 'pretty'. In fact, in many ways it was more usable.

To some extent hardware has outpaced our ability to do useful things with the cycles and transistor budgets available. So we've become super wasteful and our software is now mostly immature. If instead clock cycles had doubled every decade or two and ditto with the transistor count we probably would have had a much more mature software eco system as a result, rather than a bunch of pretty junk with plenty of that pretty junk as a service rather than as an application that you control and all the security headaches that come with that.
Announcement: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-elastic-container-se...
> whereas a Go slice is not generally used through a pointer

I think this is referring to a syntactic difference more than an implementation difference. In Rust, a &[u8] (usually called a "slice" but maybe more technically a "slice reference") is a pointer + a length. This is basically the same as Go's []byte, which is a pointer + a length + a capacity.

Rust also sometimes uses the [u8] type (without the &). This is an "exotic" type, in that it has no fixed size. It refers to the bytes inside the slice, but it's not really a pointer to them -- it is the bytes themselves, however many of them that might be. This mostly comes up when you're dealing with generic traits like AsRef or Deref, which will put the & back in all of their method signatures.
Are time-consuming custom fixes still commonly required in other (not camera reliant) Android apps too? I haven't really done any Android development since I had a Galaxy phone four years ago because this problem really turned me off to making hobby apps for Android.
Thanks Amazon! Now I can finally drop GCP :-)
Haven't seen this mentioned anywhere so far but this was not a remote vulnerability right? Only from login screen, right !! ??