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> For a second it seemed you were defending Facebook!

I would not rule it out on principle but it is highly unlikely.

If FB were to be shut down tomorrow I would probably not even notice.
I hope they do. That will mean a lot of lost tax money for the EU (I'm EU citizen btw).
That’s fantastic, for the US. The next step would be to follow all EU laws to the letter, too.
In the US "special" is often used as a shortened version of "special needs" and has a slightly negative connotation [1]

I think a more positive term might be "specialized".

1 - https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/35777/can-the-wo...
Yeah, had a similar issue with parentheses while using it today (but escaping them with '\' worked just fine).
Facebook clings to dark patterns that surely appear to be "working" in the sense of generating engagement and ad spend.

The problem is, younger users have a much better intuitive sense of those dark patterns because they must develop street smarts about how they can be misused (cyber bullying, revenge porn, deepfakes, etc.)

I don't see how any responsible parent could put a video of his/her kid on Facebook when it's just a simple download away from being turned into someone's perverted deepfake, bullying fodder during junior high, etc.

In fact I'd argue that it's irresponsible stewardship of a child's future online autonomy for a parent to post any pictures or data that could be easily misused/abused by his/her own Facebook network. This means pretty much all pics and videos.

If this sounds silly, consider that Facebook makes deleting pictures one has uploaded a significant chore that requires 10x the number of clicks it ought to.

When I think about deleting some of the old pics I've uploaded to FB that I'd rather take down, the thought of dealing with all the dark pattern speed bumps trying to make it difficult underscores the outright hostility Facebook feels toward its users.

Recently Facebook had a bug where any Instagram account that had been linked to a Facebook account magically got the Facebook user's profile photo. Even this is a crass disregard for user privacy. Instagram is used much, much differently than Facebook and it's completely unreasonable to expect a user to wish to use the same profile photo.

Young people are just a bit more savvy than the rest of us because their peers/foes/etc are more likely to have had the time and inclination to do minor mischief that Exploits Facebook's defaults. Younger users prefer Instagram or Snap largely because the privacy settings are less opaque and fewer dark patterns are used.

This is probably why Facebook bought Instagram, and why Facebook has allowed the younger users to leave... The revenue generated by milking the older users must outweigh the value of having the younger users. After all, Facebook could easily create a linked Facebook account for all Instagram users and role out a new privacy pattern geared at the preferences of younger users if doing so would result in profit.

But as it stands, younger users are happy to engage with Instagram and Whatsapp and Facebook is not throwing away any of the behavioral profiling data, so eventually when the platforms change/evolve Facebook has lost nothing.

Analogously, Facebook isn't wasting time feeling hurt about users not loving its namesake platform. The company is far broader and more encompassing than the namesake app. If you are using a Facebook owned product and generating data in it, you are helping move ad inventory and doing your part to help Facebook make money.
Don't see this as Trump's doing, this is the American auto industry using Trump as their punching bag for something they've always wanted.

American auto companies do one thing well; large and loud. SUVs, pickup trucks, muscle cars. They lose when they compete against Germans for luxury and sport, and they lose when they compete against Japanese/Korea for economy and quality. (Yes yes, you will cherry pick a handful of cars to "prove me wrong" but this is a general sentiment that I think most car aficionados would agree with.). Tesla is an exception (everyone is afraid of them).

American auto will have a tough time turning around to "efficient and economical". Just watch any Dodge commercial; the entire brand is built around american over-consumption, it is fundamentally opposed to the new age of the automobile. This is their last ditch effort to stay in the game before electric takes over.

It's either this, or we have another recession while the auto market fails and people move to other industries.
Shared libs with security related side-channel leakage?
Oldie but goodie. Reminds me of another oldie, Andras Konya's "My C++ Experience/Disaster", which is sadly gone from the internet now.
They allow users on from the age of 13. It is rather unclear to some children that they are consenting to mass surveillance, rather than just trying to fit in with their friends
RE the phone number thing, isn't that common knowledge? You can type in any phone number, and if their privacy settings allow it, their profile pops up.
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We've observed that every software project and every team is different. Sometimes projects go through a quick-and-dirty prototyping phase; sometimes they don't. In almost all cases, design continues to evolve even after the initial code is written.

Through the thousands of users who went through our private beta last year and the feedback they've shared, we understand that many modern "product teams" need a better solution for collaboration between design and development — because in these teams, design is a living breathing part of the product. Waterfall style "design hand-off"s are a huge pain point.

As a bit of empirical proof for this kind of workflow: consider Unity. Unity uses a workflow very much like Haiku's to connect design and development, through common data formats and pipelines of interoperating tools. Unity works great for building incredibly complex UIs and software—or to repurpose your words, Unity is suitable for production purposes.

We believe that if somebody gets this right for apps outside of games — on a more open platform than Unity — that we'll start seeing big steps forward in creativity and team efficiency.
> This strategy typically involves what Keith Frankish has called illusionism about consciousness: the view that consciousness is or involves a sort of introspective illusion.

What's an illusion? If by illusion you mean an abstraction, like how a TV picture is an illusion of a picture rather than actually being a picture, then I'm on board. If by illusion you mean "worth excluding from your map of how the world works," then I have a bone to pick with you.

My main problem with physicalism is that it doesn't handle abstraction well. I'm fine with monism over dualism but you need some kind of functionality with which to consider different kinds of 'stuff'. Otherwise a rock, Conway's Game of Life, and Lord of the Rings are all on the same plane of existence.

What draws me to Objective Idealism isn't so much the fact that it's compatible with religion but rather that 'mind stuff' is the best 'thing' that we can use to describe everything. The fact that it doesn't put severe emphasis on the physical as "better" than other modes is just a nice little bonus to annoy materialists with.
I just purchased this after doing a lot of research, hearing Jordan Peterson discuss the psychology behind it, and reading a lot of reviews. It makes perfect sense in theory so I figured I'd give it a shot.

Going to start it tonight, but I am still unsure of what order I should complete them in (past-, present-, future-authoring). I've read a few different recommended ways to go about it.
> Now Germany - having failed to clone Facebook domestically (StudiVZ) - sits around extracting money on the grounds that users somehow did not consent to their data being used (...)

That is an inappropriate accusation. In Germany, large data collections have been seen as very problematic since before social networks were a thing. Authoritive action and laws take time to adapt to new problems. Given the prevalance of social networks like Facebook nowadays sped up the process, but I'm confident it would have come sooner or later anyways.

Also, Europe is certainly a place where one can do business very fine. Handling data about other people they are not aware of or don't consent to is a very specific aspect. Just don't record data about other people and you are fine in this aspect.
That's not true. That's the purpose of the cookie law. If you continue to use a website that gives you the notice, you've given consent. You can still use blockers also.
I think it's more that there just is more interest in the EU in acting on behalf of their citizens, than there is in the US. Much of the US prides itself on being "Business Friendly", and the counterpart to that is not being as responsive to citizens or employees.
It's a happy fact for me that the EU protects us where we fail. I am more aligned with their privacy rules and anti-trust policies than America's - grateful for it.
In my area (Midwest USA), you can only get 100Mbps or more from either

A) Cable company. In my case Mediacom.
B) Fiber, which is also offered by Mediacom as well as some rural providers to select locations.

DSL is barely 20Mbps around here, and you can't even get 10Mbps service in some spots two miles off US 20. As someone who'd like to buy a home in the country, I find this lack of coverage a much bigger issue. Forget competition, there's practically no service at all.
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Does anyone know if there exists an updateable torrent which lists other torrents?

That is, a torrent using http://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0046.html to keep an up to date archive of magnet links or something?

If not, does anyone if any of the major trackers offer an API to scrape all magnet links + tags? I don't want to take on the liability of publishing said tracker-torrent, but I can certainly write the software to make it easy.
Depends on the treaties setup with the US, assuming that is where the company is based. It may be possible to take some EU judgements to a US court and have them enforce it.
And the reason is...?
I think this is really flawed logic. Sandboxing adds some development cost, sure, but the implication here ("grievous strategic mistake") is that it's the key reason developers are building web apps instead of native Mac apps. That just defies common sense.

Clearly the key reason Mac apps cost so much to develop is the platform-specific codebase they require. Mac apps have little in common even with iOS apps, so it's a huge cost. Against that baseline, adding sandbox entitlements is an extremely minor incremental cost.

It's not like eliminating the sandbox would drop the cost of Mac apps by some huge factor. Developers are writing web apps because they can use a cross-platform codebase, plain and simple. That's why I am much more optimistic about the rumor that Apple will lower the delta between Mac and iOS codebases, letting devs leverage their iOS investments. There will always be a cost to adapting a touch-based app to the desktop, but there's orders of magnitude more efficiency to be gained there than in blowing away a whole layer of the security model.
Would you mind please posting civilly and substantively instead of rants?

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Alternatively, the service provider could implement a procedural jingle generation system to produce a short, catchy customized song to help them recall the number.

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You do realize the EU can stop or confiscate the money that is transferred to you from European customers? Noneuropean companies already have to pay VAT on stuff they export to EU, so it is not as if there is no big collection already going on.
This article fails to see the difference between streaming services and p2p downloading.

If I want to watch content more than once, I contribute to increased traffic every time I stream that content. In other words: Streaming = certain amount of traffic, every time content is viewed.

P2p downloaded content is usually downloaded once, but can be watched infinitely without touching the internet.

The article also fails to touch on the fact that the internet itself is now much more mainstream (especially globally) than it was in 2006.

Of course there's less torrent traffic today than there was in 2006. Streaming services are big for mainstream content that is being consumed by the mainstream. The non-mainstream continue to fill their increasingly cheaper storage devices with downloads. The difference being: they don't contribute to internet traffic every time they consume media.

Kind of renders the article moot for me..
Well I only phrased it that way because OP suggested running a regular expression on the English CC subtitles. :)
Demand proves that things are good, this is why slavery and cold prostitution are good, for example.

Your brain has been broken by money.
Look after yourself first. Good luck.
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> Facebook will do just fine, they had years to prepare and an army of lawyers.

They won't do fine. Don't want to go into details but their actual products/required architectures for their products just can't be GDPR compliant. And they didn't prepare anything. You confuse them with Google--they prepared GDPR but FB?

Btw, one of GDPR's key motivation was to take FB down.
1. GDPR is a good example of why to abandon the market imo. It's not even clear how it affects backup strategies, let alone more complicated questions. Most vaguely written law I've seen in a long time. I can't help but suspect it's designed to be violated, as a revenue source. But just don't set up a corporate presence in the EU and they can't do much.

2. I remember people saying that about China. The market was too big to ignore. Somehow Facebook got banned in China completely and did fine. Same for YouTube, Twitter, etc. They're companies any founder could be proud of. You could serve the US market and make money advertising to EU member state citizens without having a corporate presence in the EU, it'd still be a nice business.

3. Hardly, Apple / Ireland are appealing the EU tax ruling, Google has been getting fined repeatedly for things like Google Shopping and maybe Android, FB getting fined is nothing new. And what's "stupid" about fighting in courts ... unless you believe the EU's courts are kangaroo courts that are guaranteed to always take the EU's side? Why shouldn't they appeal? It's hardly like these cases are bulletproof. Most of them can't even explain what precisely was wrong.
Not true, there's the cookie law - if you continue to use a website that has given you an option to leave, it's consent.
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Only you can really answer this question. How feasible is it to achieve profit, scale, exit over a short timeframe with your startup? How deep are your potential investors pockets and can you use your job offer as leverage for the valuation and salary if you continue with the startup? 400k/yr guaranteed is pretty good, especially if you’re broke. You should have a very high degree of confidence in your startup to pass it up. Unless you can raise money fast and pay yourself 200k you should probably take the job and continue the startup on the side.
I've seen the effect you describe also in the Philippines and other developing countries I've visited. Some Filipinos don't seem to realise that FB is just a walled garden on the internet, not the internet itself.

Also, I think your second point contributes to this: mobile is huge in the Philippines, they send more texts than any other country. And on top of that, social ties are a lot stronger than those in America, especially familial ties, with many siblings, cousins, etc.
This is a seriously uncivil comment. Please don't post like this on Hacker News.

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IMO, we might have a replay of what was going on in the early 2000s when iconic sports cars (IMO) such as Supra etc. disappeared and were replaced by body-on-frame SUVs. Even if you want to do the right thing and buy a fuel efficient car, you will likely take your life in your own hands for no good reason; [1] below shows nearly an entire family in a Fiat 500 killed when a drunk driver in a jacked-up jeep crossed medians and hit them head on. Edit: correction.

[1] http://www.statesman.com/news/local/driver-was-drunk-northwe...
> You need to handle payments, and invoices and everything inbetween

Back to July 2017, when we launched PixLab[1], we opted for Paddle[2] since implementing billing, invoices, purchase orders, refunds, etc. was the last thing we want to code from scratch. We were a small team of C/C++ engineers and ML scientists with no clue on billings.

Not only Paddle did handle all the payment stack smoothly, they do also offer Paypal in the same payment modal which was a great boost for our sales since most Europeans customers prefer to use that method. One drawback is that they took 5% for each sale/subscription instead of the 2.9% that Stripe takes.

[1]: https://pixlab.io

[2]: https://paddle.com
Yeah there goes the Hitler argument...
> I check in once every few months, usually when I need to sign in because someone messages me there instead of email.

From what I've been hearing from internal teams, Facebook is hoping to take some of email's pie. I expect to see them pushing more people to use Facebook Messenger in place of email. And they're working on new types of ads that interface more with the Messenger. E.g. start a conversation with a company instead of taking you to their web site after clicking the ad.
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Not going to lie, after reading that I quickly went to check that "Date.now()" in javascript returned UTC.
That's a very uncharitable way of looking at things. A different way of phrasing it would be that the EU recognizes the power disparity between Facebook and any individual user, and that an individual user does not have any ability to negotiate with FB, and thus the contract of adhesion that is the ToS is not made in good faith.
It's an US company if I remember correctly. Does a hamburger place in the US need to follow EU laws because tourists come to it often? No.
Maybe this site: https://del.icio.us/
> Just have to balance that cost with our budget.

Just to give you an idea of potential savings: Including utilities and fiber optics into my house I pay $500/month (two bedrooms, fully furnished house with giant terrace) - the same is available online for $120/day. This is in southern Morocco and even the 500 I pay include a tourist penalty fee. Local cops start with a salary of $220/month...
V100 has 900gb/s memory bandwidth [0].

TPUv2 has 600gb/s per chip x 4 chips, so 2400gb/s [1].

As we've discussed elsewhere [2], comparing TPUv2 to V100 on a per chip basis doesn't make much sense. Who cares how many chips are on the board? If Google announced tomorrow that TPUv3 is coming out, which is identical to TPUv2 but the four chips are glued together, nobody would care.

The questions that we should instead be asking are, how fast can I train my model and how much does it cost?

Per elsewhere in thread [3], on Volta you have 900gb/s per 100Tops/s = 0.9 bytes/s per op/s, whereas on TPUv2 you have 2400gb/s memory bandwidth over 180Tops/s = 1.33 bytes/s per op/s. This means that TPUv2's memory-bandwidth-to-compute ratio is 1.33/9 = 1.5x higher than Volta's.

We can do a similar comparison for memory available. V100 has 16gb per 100Tops, TPUv2 has 64gb per 180Tops. So the memory-to-compute ratio for Volta is 16g/100T = .16 milli while for TPUv2 it's 64g/180T = .36 milli, for a ratio of .36/.16 = 2.25x higher on TPUv2.

Does any of this matter? Does it translate into faster and/or cheaper training? Do models actually need and benefit from this additional memory and memory bandwidth?
My guess from working on GPUs is yes, at least insofar as bandwidth is concerned, but it's just a guess. I'm excited to find out for real.

(Disclaimer: I work at Google on XLA, and used to work on TPUs.)

[0] https://images.nvidia.com/content/technologies/volta/pdf/437...
[1] https://supercomputersfordl2017.github.io/Presentations/Imag...
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16360212
[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16359531
What the hell? Why do they need my money if they have 50 Million dollars in cash or cash equivalents? Am I reading that right?

And who the hell are their employees that are getting paid 33 million dollars a year? How many employees are there?

EDIT: Reading a related comment's linked OP-ed, it appears that the Wikimedia Foundation spends a lot of money on non-wikipedia things. That is disturbing to me. I would like to donate to Wikipedia, not Wikimedia. Wikimedia may or may not be worthwile (I'm simply not familiar), but it isn't where I want my money to go.
From the source code, it looks like that's what this program is using as well.
Please stop using this site for political battle, that's absolutely not what it's for and we ban accounts that continue on like this.

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How is the law reasonable? It's not even clear what is allowed under it and what isn't. The EU refuses to clarify anything, the only time any decision will be made is by courts, if there's an actual dispute in progress.

The rules are so vague that any firm could be argued to be in violation. And the EU acts as judge, jury and executioner. It looks like a way to tax the SV tech firms without needing a treaty change. After all there's no practical difference between a tax and a law that everyone is guaranteed to always be in violation of that has huge fines attached. The money all goes straight into EU central coffers.
> one of GDPR's key motivation was to take FB down.

Do you have a citation for this claim?
I don't have a strong position on the broader issue, but I feel like this argument ignores some context. It's one thing to sign up for your local car wash's loyal program and have them do some lightweight customer research on the data. It's quite another for to input your demographic info and interests into a social networking site and have it be analyzed by some of the most sophisticated data analytics in history. The potential downside/cost to the user is orders of magnitude larger. I think it's a stretch to say the user is giving informed consent to (for example) have their manual photo tagging be used to train a model so that a computer can identify their friend's faces automatically. The average user has no idea such a thing is even possible.
Dropout is a good track! ...I'm not quite sure what the inference was on your first link (it's reference #8 on the Joshua Wise PDF) but found it amusing to come across.
You know you don't have to use Facebook, right? It's not even like it's the only social network. Facebook is not something you need.