skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Social media companies in Germany are required to review and delete reported content within 24h.

The law is NetzDG
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-42510868
There are enough real techniques in here that it has some credibility. Looks like some of the things I have seen marketing teams who really don't understand the tech put together.
I just remapped caps lock to esc. Works great, but it takes me a minute to get my mind back around when I’m back using my normal (wired Apple) external keyboard.
Thank you. I hadn't seen the about:robots page before.
I got the 13" without the touch-bar and I love it. Note for this blogger: you don't have to hit the keys hard.
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>>Before I even started reading, I knew it was going to be an attack at the phone. A few centuries ago, they'd attack books.

Books are categorically different from smartphones. For one, they don't constantly interrupt regular conversations by beeping and buzzing and demanding the owner's attention. For another, they tend to be about a single subject, and tend to explore that subject in depth.
In Firefox, I could use its Reader View to remove most of the distracting elements. Would that work for you?
I've done php, ruby, go, c++, c, java, javascript, and python and I must say I prefer python the most for generic server side stuff. Super well organized and documented. Just the right amount of abstraction. I like c++ for lower level stuff, where python starts to fall off. Go is growing on me but its still so much easier to be productive in C++ in most realistic situations. I use C only when I can't use C++, which is rare.
Thank you for this. At least we can hope that Mozilla's version of SkyNet should at least be human friendly.
Well, the simplest way to "monitor" it is to just block one of the slits. Then you definitely know which slit photons that hit the screen went through! Alternatives include:

- Marking the photon itself (e.g. by rotating its polarization with a waveplate).

- Placing a crystal that does spontaneous parametric down-conversion after one of the slits. This splits the photon into two photons. Aim the secondary photon at a detector. Detector clicks -> went through that slit. No click -> went through other slit. But this will also mark the photon itself with a change in frequency, so really should do it to both slits.

- Having a magical device that stores a bit and toggles it anytime a photon passes through a piece of glass. Place the magical toggle-glass over one of the slits.

Anything that can distinguish the case where a photon goes through the left slit from the case where a photon went through right slit will work fine.
If Facebook can't work economically in a way that's also somewhat responsible socially, maybe it shouldn't have 2 billion active users per month. Maybe it shouldn't survive. Maybe I should finally quit it.
Intel notifies Chinese companies about security flaw ahead of US govt
We could always make it law and prohibit Facebook’s continued existence.

Similar to how GDPR is going to gut the business model of firms who suck up all personal data and sell to the highest bidder.
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It's expensive, and perhaps less enjoyable that other aspects of engineering, but it certainly pays dividends in many environments.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Failure_mode_and_effects_analy...
If you're tired of "picking up the tab" you should leave facebook and encourage others to do the same. What ever happened to the idea that people who say stupid things expose themselves.. it's kind of a favor
Scott's Cheap Flights.

It's an email list that tracks price wars and mistake fares, and sends you an email immediately when they're found. Saves on searching. They have free and for-pay tiers.
Finally I'm beginning to see what smart contracts can do. This looks like a shameless ripoff of PonziCoins that was on here a few days ago, only they've used a modified version of Jochen Hoenicke's "self-trading token" code with a modified Bancor formula, so the price adjusts up and down with every buy and sell and somehow (they claim) it's a pyramid scheme that can't ever collapse.

Why people are actually throwing real money into this is anyone's guess, but the concept is fascinating.
A JavaScript NES emulator. https://jsnes.fir.sh

It's a library that works in both the browser and Node.js. The browser UI is available at https://github.com/bfirsh/jsnes-web.
For what it's worth I had the exact opposite experience. I closed the page without reading the article following a full screen video advert.
Yes, these are problems you come across in a nanny state. Which is why in the US, most all speech is protected, even hate speech. And for the government to impose laws or rules to force a private company to regulate that speech runs counter to that. So I'm not really sure why this is a conversation in the first place.
For us road trips roadtripper works well to start. I typically end up using Google sheets docs and presentations to bring together all of the logistics. Things get a bit nutty though when you are organizing with a larger group
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The policy seems to me a form of price discrimination (i.e. separating a single market into two or more separate markets, based on the price elasticity of demand of the customers).

People for whom $10 or $20 isn't a big deal, will not bother to check if their flight has gone down in price, so South West gets to charge them the higher price. Others who bother to check a few times get to pay a lower price.

It seems similar to coupons/offers in the Safeway app. If you can be bothered to look and add the coupon to your account, you get a discount, but if you're rich you don't bother, and pay the higher price.
So why not provide multiple Facebook views? That is, put everything in the same databases. Automate creation of flags for posts and accounts. Then let users set moderation level as they desire. Some would want everything. The rest would specify what they don't want to see. And they'd be warned about false positives. Some governments would limit options, I'm sure. But we already have that, so hey.
It sort of is, though. Nietzsche in particular didn't actually portray nihilism as a good thing, but just an inevitable stage in human development, which could be either very good or very bad depending on what kind of values system (if any) arose from that nihilism. There are in my opinion some similarities between the direction we're heading and what he called "The Last Man", which was basically the worst possible outcome of nihilism.
Your severance agreement probably includes a non-disparagement clause (you can't bad mouth the company after you sign). That clause should be mutual (they can't criticize you either in public or to a future employer). Even without that in place, most companies will do nothing more than confirm length of employment and (maybe) job title to avoid a law suite.

When you apply for future jobs you are under no obligation to go into the details of your departure from this one. I wouldn't recommend lying, but you can certainly phrase it differently than "I got fired". Especially since you were already looking for other jobs, you can legitimately say that you felt the role was a poor fit and you started looking for something new.
We live in a world where less and less you can make a good income from a 'job'. Erosion of the middle class, and all that.

So learn how to live within your means, and invest money to make it work harder for you. Love your job, but enjoy being able to quit it whenever you like and take a rest because you've set yourself up.
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Plus, somehow in all this discussion, people seem to be accepting the idea on its face that somehow psychological counseling would fix said issues.

Maybe in some cases it would, but we are far from being able to cure many psychological problems consistently.
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> if it's done in a closed room, the wave function won't collapse and you'll get an interference pattern, but if you're in the room, it will collapse

That is absolutely 100% not what happens. The experiments play out the same way whether or not a human's face happens to be nearby. All the data is collected automatically by photographic plates or electronic counters or other instruments, and "observation" always refers to some instrument being present or not.
The kernel of the lesson here is an old one but key: own the customer relationship, at least in the beginning.

We wasted a year trusting a huge but disincentivized distribution channel: huge value for the org, but their salespeople didn't care. It ended up ok because we accelerated learning about the rough problem space, learned to own our accounts, and as we go back, have stronger footing ("oh you are taking over OUR account discussions?", "Here is exactly how to sell..").
Except for very large applications, most software you would find on the AUR can be compiled in a few minutes or less.

And it's not about "saving the time to recompile", it's about using the source code so that you can keep using the AUR as long as the compilation process does not break.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A

I think you mean "overtly mandatory" in China's case.
I am amazed at how structured the operation was. Is there any estimate as to how profitable a campaign on this scale (or any scale for that matter, I do not know where money enters into the equation)?
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Prop 65 is ridiculous, though well intentioned I'm sure. There are so many things on the list, at such low levels, that raw vegetables would need the warning label if not for being exempt.

Companies just slap on the label so they don't get sued by a lawyer who makes a living suing over Prop 65.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_65_(198...

https://redmond.life/prop65/

https://www.sunfood.com/sunfood-prop-65/
Lots of people take 2 Extra Strength Tylenol at at time. If you do that every 4 hours (instead of 6), you're looking at 12 pills a day. Add to that a few doses of Nyquil or some other multi-medicine that has Tylenol in it, and it's possible to get up to a toxic dose.
I have no problem with content moderation as long as it stays on a specific platform. I strongly object against any form of internet censoring (e.g. DNS manipulation), but deleting posts by the rules of a specific forum is okay for me.

The difference is that one thing forms a community by the rules they set for themselves and the other thing tries to restrict the communication between people.
I got invited to a birthday party in NYC recently. I seriously considered showing up for it, but would have been a lot of travel for what it was worth...
Yes but it's the May 2015 model.
Disaster recovery/business continuity is like insurance: you grumble about paying it (or don’t pay it at all) and then you’re happy you did pay for it when disaster strikes.
That's exactly what they do...the algorithmic feed is basically what you described except instead of it being very explicit upfront, the signals are a combination of explicit and implicit and the resulting view is always evolving independently for each person.
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The MacBook Air has been woefully insufficient for years now. How about trying the 13" MBP and forego the touchbar? Maybe try the 2017 MacBook? The MacBook is very much better than the air in every single conceivable way.
I don't really plan the travel itself, so no help there. As for where to go - keep in mind 90% of what you find is going to be someone trying to sell you on something for financial gain. That's fine, but leads to questionable honesty. I've had best luck asking someone from a country you're interested in, if you're lucky enough to know one. If not, perhaps try the subreddit. I find people tend to perhaps overstate attractions at home, but not as far as to be deceitful. And they'll call the bad places bad.
Also easily spotted are military outposts littered across North Africa.
On the one hand yes they're quite enthusiastic, and written with a clear love of learning.

On the other hand I find that if every other sentence ends with an exclamation mark, or a question-mark it gets quite exhausting.
It's never been widely used for anything, so there is none of that pesky practicality to demonstrate clearly it's just the same old.
>These criminals are hijacking programmatic advertising and giving publishers a bad name.
>Our sole focus is on helping advertising platforms and publishers rid the world of malware.

Getting rid of malware is good, but giving web advertising a bad name also sounds good. Advertising/Propaganda or whatever all act to try and manipulate people's behaviour. The term 'Mind Virus' comes to mind.
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Parents forcing autistic children to drink bleach in flawed search for a cure
sadly this is the last thing a company would use ml for because ml guys are expensive and this wouldn't really be profitable unless you can actually replace these workers, which are apparently getting paid minimum wage or worse
You know your consumer protection laws are a little over the top when "not for sale in California" is a marketable feature for pretty much any product you wouldn't want to ingest.
so you're against the idea of social networks?
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I firmly believe that, if the NSA, CIA, and possibly the FBI found out about this exploit, and found out there would be a window of several months to exploit it, then these agencies would be a danger to the safety and security of the American people.

Therefore the patriotic and responsible thing would be to help vendors patch their stuff before directly disclosing the bug to any party that would be likely to abuse the exploit.

The NSA doesn't play ball and responsibly disclose exploits to vendors immediately after discovering and profiling them, expressly because they want to use the exploits, so why should vendors be obligated to do the reverse?
It's pretty easy to avoid that side of instagram. I haven't seen it in over a year and I browse it every day.
> But VISA didn't kill them. Why not?

Because Visa don't own the whole credit card platform, there's also Mastercard, Amex, etc. And Visa are still trying with their "Visa Checkout" tech (whose value proposition I still don't understand).
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Do you have something concrete in mind when you refer to gnosis (akin to mystery school methods)?
It's "just five years" compared to the "lifetime of servitude" connotation of slavery.

Is slavery an awful, despicable thing that no one should ever endure? Of course. But 5 years is significantly shorter than a lifetime of enslavement. Just is rightly used here.

I would also be skeptical of anyone willing to make a mortality judgment on the basis of a single adverb.
> Basically, Facebook should be taxed for the externalities they create like fake news

All economic activity produces externalities, positive and negative. That doesn't mean we should increase taxes and subsidies on everything.
I completely agree, mine is basically filled with pictures of mountains, climbing, skiing. In many ways it is much more enjoyable then FB for me
Yes, and books don't tell you everyone hates you and show that awful photo where you look fat and stupid every second minute and how much better everyone else is at everything and how a person even stupider and more obnoxious than you ends up as president and that really cute guy/girl has millions of friends and you're not one of them...
Just because the FDA says it's OK doesn't mean you should be putting it on your face...
Wow, my response really blew up on this post. This thread is like a meta Glassdoor Review!

Sad part of such behavior from Glassdoor, is that I cannot tell anyone anonymously that this particular company is a bad place for high skilled immigrants on h1b.

I can only hope no one else makes the mistake I did in beleiving the hiring manager and recruiters without having anything in writing.
The TN, non-retina display on the latest MacBook Air makes it feel neglected by Apple. That screen is also awful to look at and the viewing angles are supremely poor.

If you have a MacBook Air and like it, by all means use it. If you're in the market for a new laptop, don't buy a MacBook Air. It's essentially been abandoned by Apple.
If you can't make more than $5 per quarter per user, maybe you shouldn't be in business. If you have never, ever turned a profit, then what are you, a charity?
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Heating was an example to demonstrate that non-ionizing radiation still impacts tissue. It doesn't make sense to dismiss a possible link between cancer and RF emitting devices just because we don't understand all the mediating mechanisms in that relationship. A lack of understanding is not negative evidence. And the fact that I can't disprove your butterfly theory is not a reason that simpler theories (phone usage ~ cancer) are invalid.
>The trouble with articles like this is they don't explore the other factors. Maybe the simply access to information makes kids more nihilistic. And nihilism isn't a bad thing. The universe is absurd, we have no meaning except what we give to ourselves (through religion or belief of whatever). Maybe kids are just realizing this, and it has nothing to do with technology? Maybe they're realizing that because of technology.

I don't want to just write you off with a snotty, "Rubbish!", but IMHO, yes, this is rubbish. Nihilism is just plain wrong-headed. It's answering, "No" where you should answer, "Mu"[1].

[1] -- http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/M/mu.html
The things that bring most pleasure (family, friends, learning, creating and exercise) have nothing to do with any of the fake stuff on Instagram. I've been on yachts and frankly I was bored out of my mind and dying to leave.
There are certain videos that contain extremely graphic violent content and could easily be automatically detected and blocked because they are reposts of the same video. That is a simple problem for which Facebook should be able to apply existing technology. There is a lot Facebook can do, but they are not, because they are lazy.
That is just the plugins repository. I think a wiki model would work better for that kind of listing.
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Very often not enough to raise a family where those $100k/yr salaries are located.
The use of uniquely cut zig zags to confirm two document halves came from the same pair is really interesting.
> You don't have to specify a length--so you won't make a VARCHAR(255), then get burned when one day a value has more than 255 characters.

Does MySQL not have a TEXT data type, or is it not well-supported or otherwise disadvantaged?

> It's very easy to add new fields. If, tomorrow, we decide that each unit type needs a `minSqft` and `maxSqft`, I can add them with no database migration.

TBF, column-adding being a pain is really a MySQL-specific problem.

> It makes it easy to use SQL directly, with no ORM. SQL is a powerful language; ORMs are often a leaky abstraction and a source of unessential complexity. With JSON columns for extensibility, you end up with way fewer migrations and way less need for auto-generated SQL.

ORMs being a "leaky abstraction" is a good thing; good ORMs are not too far removed from SQL precisely because they're leaky.

Pushing schema management to the app layer (as opposed to migrations) is also a source for "unnecessary complexity".
At a cost of $20,000 per CSR that is $40 billion a year, which is more than the revenue of Facebook.
I've seen this claim floating around a lot.

Seems to be just https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/tether/ getting delayed data - it jumps from $1.6B to $2.2B at 01:14 UTC on Jan 28, but Tether was printing $100M chunks during the period it shows as flat.
the school shootings are a really big problem here.. and its a strange, almost uniquely american phenomena (even including 3rd world 'shitholes' like pakistan and afghanistan') https://eand.co/why-were-underestimating-american-collapse-b...
Nihilism can be liberating and a source of joy. Why does there have to be "meaning", whatever that is? Perhaps the issue is that we don't prepare young people properly for it and have an over-reliance on "god". Realizing that you can live your life as you wish is amazing.
I'm absolutely gobsmacked that people are starting from the position that hate speech should be censored at all. The determination of what constitutes 'hate speech' is made by whoever happens to be in power at the time. Winston Churchill would have given a much different answer than Adolf Hitler. From my point of view, it's chilling that the mechanism to do this has been built in the first place.
Your statement is as lacking in evidence and reasoning as you suppose the one you are attacking is.
You raise a good point, but we could replicate that with a couple of trivial shell scripts too. Throw a curses library (https://bashsimplecurses.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) into the default profile and you've got an environment capable of simple apps and games too.
What’s the threat from China?
I get your point. The NSA has anchor points very deep in the system.

The overt, pervasive mandatoriness of the Chinese system is another ballgame entirely.

If the Chinese gov't shows up and asks for basically anything, of course you give it. There is no questions, no lawyers. It is how things are done.

US tech companies do have lawyers and fight back at some stuff. Think about all those defamation cases where people try to sue Twitter to get the identities of people criticizing them.

How do you think that works in the Chinese social environment?