skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s actually the point of my post. I have been developing Facebook apps since the very beginning of the developer platform, but stopped because the new rules were so restrictive that they made apps useless. There is no point to developing social network apps that can’t involve the user’s social network.

Since all apps have these restrictions, I don’t believe that any apps at issue here had special permissions. However, it is possible that they scraped public data and were assisted in being pointed to which data to scrape by the direct profile data they obtained through the apps. Enough friends lists etc. are public to make this potentially beneficial.

No specs have been released about CA’s “psychographic profiling”. We don’t know the extent of the data that they had access to, what data went into it (perhaps it was based on name and friends list only, which are mostly public etc.). So until we know more, we can only assume that these apps had the same constraints that all others do.
> but if that's the case why are you trying to experimentally construct it?

People are able to interpret speech under very high levels of noise due to having strong priors / being able to guess well / having shared state with the speaker.

Of course you should take advantage of whatever priors you have about the signal; we know rather trivially from information science that information gain / transmission rate is maximized when the listener knows as much as possible about the source. This is also key for compressed sensing.

You see analogues of this pattern everywhere in the world: e.g. people learn most quickly when they have some context about the problem space already.

The real question is why the sender would produce a signal with any level of predictability in it, rather than a signal that purely maximizes the effective bit rate of transmission (e.g. minimize redundancy modulo noise). But it's easy to see that physical constraints (e.g. how the human voice works) are at least partly responsible for the enforcement of regularity, at least for many signals that we're interested in in practice.
Ralph Nader: How power in America has turned the rule of law into a mere myth
Nobody cares what your philosophical objection to tipping is. Functionally, there is no difference between you and a tightwad. The custom in the United States is to tip and the entire system is built around this expectation. Whether this meets your Platonic ideal of what a "gratuity" ought to be is really just completely irrelevant.

I'll go further: if you are visiting a different country you should make an effort to adhere to their basic norms of behavior. If I go to Japan and I see a shoe rack at the entryway of a building I am not going to traipse around the building in my shoes, even though nobody would think this behavior was unusual at home.

Also, if I were going to carry out your policy, I would not plan on visiting the same restaurant twice.
Despite the barrage of negative stories that would have ended nearly every other Presidential campaign - ranging from accusations of racism, misogyny, treason, incompetence, mental instability - despite all of it, tens of millions of Americans absolutely love President Trump.

I cannot imagine how utterly frustrating it must be for them to watch the media bounce from story after story in some convoluted attempt to explain why they voted the way they did - from Russian hacking to white supremacy to Facebook ads to Facebook data. This is just one more in a long line of justifications when the most likely reasonable explanation is that he is beloved by millions, not just in the USA but around the world.

The same goes for Brexit.

"Your side won because the Russians and this data company and Facebook made you vote that way. We're going to make sure this never happens again!"

It's unfortunate that in the aftermath of polarizing and controversial decisions like these, this kind of rhetoric will now drive people further apart, because one side refuses to accept the reality of the other's opinions, and dismisses them with conspiracy theories.

Today people are pretending to be shocked that Facebook shares data with apps through the developer API. Most of the permissions being talked about were removed a long time ago. What is happening now is basically vindictive hatred for Facebook from the tens of millions who feel wronged and cheated by electoral results that they lost fair and square.
Kefir - a symbiote that can get the probiotics through the stomach more effictively than yoghurt alone.

According to this BBC research
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-38800977
There are so many.

My self-treatment for suspected SIBO and diagnosed Microscopic Colitis is Pepto Bismol Max (1 dose) followed by a strong probiotic 12 hours later. The probiotic I've had success with is this one: https://www.renewlife.com/ultimate-flora-extra-care-probioti...

I really can't back this up, it's just the only thing that works for me consistently. That and meditation and yoga to help get the anxiety under control.

But (if you'll allow me to digress) the anxiety is most definitely influenced more by the state of the gut than other factors, in my experience; particularly (as in the original post) if I'm hungry or haven't "fed the bacteria." Anxiety spikes off the charts until I eat some simple proteins and it makes it past my stomach. The first grumble of the stomach emptying, and the anxiety disappears; I feel entirely normal again instantly, no joke. I realize that's weird, but it's my clear cut experience. Back to the medical pinball machine with me...
This one references a study of modern day hunter gatherers and hunter farmers and found no modern day sleeping issues of insomnia or intermittent sleep with no mention of diet, only finding some signals with hours of daylight and temperature.

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2015/10/the-many...
Got second to their other client.
So, are the natural numbers human? (Kronecker would famously disagree: Die ganzen Zahlen hat der liebe Gott gemacht, alles andere ist Menschenwerk.)
An obligation to prosecute crimes seems like a difficult idea to work, but at the least it shouldn't be entirely up to the same prosecutors who rely on the police to do their jobs.
All of this Facebook hubub and broad public outcry is really all owed to the election of Trump. If Trump handnt leveraged CA, we’d still all be happy and fat on out individual bliss boxes – patting ourselves on the back – because our side [a la Obama] was smart enough to use this technology to our advantage.

Now when the enemy has (and use) the same technology, we’re forced to cry foul. Demand oversight. Demand regulation.

The greater public is OK with this technology. They’re Ok with sweeping data collection (Snowden Files). They’re OK with mining personal data (Facebook, Google, etc). Thy’re OK with 1984, so long as it’s their sides version of 1984.

It takes a Trump for your side to realize how shitty things got while you were enamored with charisma on your bliss box.

Edit: typing on my phone. Fixing grammar.
So you’re saying they believed in privacy strongly but believed in getting rich more. Got it.

Nothing wrong with that. I’d do the same.
> People didn't give one iota of a fuck when the Snowden revelations came out because they just assumed that it was the case already.

It's more complex than that. The tracking and surveillance are not visible to the average person. Point your camera at someone in a coffee shop or bar and take their picture. They'll be coming over to ask you why you took their photo. The fact that the coffee shop or bar is brimming with overhead cameras is completely lost on them because it is mostly invisible (or least no longer noticed).

Just wait until someone does a massive leak of actual personal data, photos, and videos, as opposed to abstract technical reports and Powerpoint slides that Snowden leaked. The average person will be screaming like a banshee when they can look up all the personal info and private pics of themselves and their neighbors and friends on some public webserver.
Linux virtualization on Fuchsia
As sibling comment pointed they were about just as scummy on average but everyone decided to look away and pretend to not notice, even FB after they caught them siphoning all social graph data.

Well actually that's not quite accurate, some didn't look away, they were singing praises. His campaign won a major marketing award in 2008, beating Coke, Nike and Apple:

http://adage.com/article/moy-2008/obama-wins-ad-age-s-market...

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I honestly look at Obama's campaign and I look at it as something that we can all learn from as marketers [...] to see what he's done, to be able to create a social network ...

Jon Fine, marketing and media columnist for BusinessWeek, pointed to Mr. Obama's facility with engaging voters in social-media channels. "It's the fuckin' Web 2.0 thing," he said.

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(Sorry for repeated link, I know it has been posted many times but I think it perfectly illustrates the point well).
I'm in the right business and I still don't understand why I'd ever need this kind of software.
>There are simply too many forces trying to manipulate us and get our attention to expect every person to never mess up ever. This is where the government steps in

If government should step in to prevent manipulation by misinformation, then one or both of the New York Times and Fox News needs to be shut down, depending on who you ask.
The Cambridge Analytica-Facebook Debacle: A Legal Primer
Well, the idea of "professional" is a bit slippery, I guess, but let's say the exempted categories are mostly tradesmen and white-collar professionals.
"as we were designed".

Sorry what does that mean? Do you think that 50 odd generations before us aren't changing our DNA with habit changes, while living in a different country for 2 years does?

Also we were designed?
No need to make a shopping list, let the tao guide you. Thrift stores, they'll have coffee table book in spades, and cheap, and quite likely ones that're out of print and no one else knows about.
Sure, but I don't think you can expect that kind of information the next day or even the next month.

Someone is dead and there may well be one or more trials as a result. Facts will take a s long as they take to surface.
Elwha: Roaring back to life (2016)
Facebook isn't going to disappear, but the company's valuation has fast growth baked in the cake.

We're already seeing dramatic deterioration in DAUs and minutes per user.

This episode will cause a few users to leave Facebook completely, but many more will use it less.

And that deceleration in the growth rate will need to be offset with an acceleration in earnings and cash flow for the stock price to increase from here.
The Constitution and centuries of common law tradition thinks it is a legitimate use of the powers of a juror. Since those are the ultimate source of law in this country, the criminal justice system is wrong.
If you get on a packed morning commuter train and start playing music on a boombox, you're not breaking any laws and nobody can stop you. Nevertheless, anybody with their head screwed on is going to think you are acting like a jackass.
> What is happening now is basically vindictive hatred for Facebook from the tens of millions who feel wronged and cheated by electoral results that they lost fair and square.

I'm not saying that's not part of it, but it's only part of it. There's plenty of other bad stuff about Facebook that people don't like: children experiencing isolation and depression; cyberbullying; addiction; shallow, empty interactions; clickbait mental junk food replacing content from actual friends... It goes on.
If you have Google Maps running on your phone with data and GPS on, the app will explicitly ask you about your experience in whatever place you're visiting at that moment. I have friends who enthusiastically respond to those notifications every time, arguing that the information will help other users. More people than you think are happy to share more than passive metadata.
Quit Social Media – Dr. Cal Newport
You are right. Basically what I'm trying to say is they could do the same thing regardless whether they have your friends lists or not.

Indeed, I don't know if Google does the same thing.
If you have enough samples, then of course you can do it. The article is all about someone claiming they can do it without taking more samples. Given that was the topic at hand, I kind of assumed that was what you meant.
Which is a dangerous family of opinions to apply without fully understanding them, as asking for a lawyer when they’re at your door inquiring about a missing neighborhood kid is probably counterproductive and escalates attention on you unnecessarily. It’s a fine opinion when common sense is involved. I don’t have a problem with the sentiment, just watching people who digest YouTube and shout “where’s your probable cause” at the poor guy looking for gypsy moths at the California border.

(Yes, I’ve seen that on 50 in Tahoe.)
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I guess maybe it is time to re-evaluate Web 2.0? User-generated content was supposed to be empowering.

But we have ignored the powerful amplifying effects of positive feedback and "echo chambers" artificially induced by such "customised news".

Maybe it is a bad idea to present customised news, what we need are diverse views. Maybe it is a bad idea to tack on voting systems and like buttons with every comment and tweet.
Google stopped scanning emails 9 months ago[0].

[0]
https://blog.google/products/gmail/g-suite-gains-traction-in...
>accidental billionaires

Not sure if you were being clever but that’s the title of a book about Facebook’s history.
Someone who has been selected for the belief that police are more reliable that others is clearly not impartial. It's right in the dictionary definition of the word impartial: "treating or affecting all equally".
One of the neat features of Microsoft’s storage service is that you can append to existing files.

It surprised me that this isn’t standard on other services.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/storageservices/un...
One note: fair and square by your interpretation of "fair", maybe. But the country as a whole uses its laws to interpret fair, and the important allegations are that the Trump campaign broke those laws by directly communicating with this agency.
Bah... my intent was certainly to be vulgar, and I stand by that. But if it's going to be interpreted as specifically offensive towards women (an implication not present in UK English) then I'll certainly apologise to all that were thus offended, because that was not part of the plan.

Looks like it's too late to delete it, so we're stuck with it forever.

Please still do drive carefully!
I think its one of those things where it could be optional but when you're using it it's like hey it's nice that we have that ability here... that said it's gone a bit beyond it's architectural hey-day now that we have containers and infrastructure as code in general, but it will have it's customer base for years to come.
You can hear a band play music from a radio, even though there is no band inside your radio. How? Because electrons in a wire will slosh back and forth in near synchronous response to electrons in a different wire far away. We live in an interactive world where the fact that correlations can occur in matter interactions means that communication is possible.

And the ability to count sheep by counting pebbles is just a generalization of the same principles. One antenna can move in sync with another, without literally being the 'same' antenna. This is indirection or abstraction, depending on how you want to slice it.

The point being, there is no question of why arithmetical operations apply to the real world. The real world permits an infinite variety of valid and useful abstractions. I'd wager it is impossible to imagine a reality where this weren't the case.
If it's knowledge that's important, does it matter whether it's transferred through asset purchase or by hiring foreign talent?

Also, this is musical and educational colleges they are buying, how did tech/IP transfer sneaked into the discussion?
I mean, I know why people love him too — he is entertaining as fuck and if you’re too poor or too rich to be affected by government policy, who gives a shit about the president?
I do miss the mad west of the IRC/NNTP days. I also miss multiple search engines. Yahoo/Lycos/Hotbot/Dogpile/AltaVista all give you different results and you could have fun searching around.

The current Internet is a monoculture
Good find.

And if the Uber had changed lanes quickly, to avoid hitting the woman, the backup driver would presumably have mentioned it.
Actually, as a quirk of the design, the final transaction MUST be a series of transactions which are 'conflict free'.

For instance, if the close gives Alice 10 lumens and Bob 10 lumens, these must be expressed as two transactions. Otherwise, if Bob deletes his account, this causes a conflict when the transaction is published (and the transaction will fail). If they are two separate transactions, there is no problem if Bob deletes his account.
Ok.
I was mostly pointing out that sentences from the original article like

"That filtering process, because it happens in the analog world, requires real analog hardware"

are wrong or misleading.
Nothing black box about it. If you send data to a company, they have that data.
Calling out the company that made you a billionaire is such a brave move... inspiring.
I found a few things interesting when I add them up:

1. She was walking from left to right.

2. The dent was on the right side of the car

She probably knew she was going to be hit if she sped up like that, AND... it was probably more than .2 seconds of total visibility to the SDV.
I don't think Erdős seriously, let alone literally, attributed the proofs in question to god in the sense you seem to be interpreting it in.
I read this comment before reading the article and got excited to read an article showing how the "establishment" was wrong. Much to my surprise, the article was saying the exact opposite! I'm still not really sure how to read this comment in a way that makes sense.
Well, God is the word (i.e. the proof).
I mean terms of service are not that hard to read. Facebook's TOS is only 4k words long. It is not particularly dense or full of legalese. I have written source code comments a tenth that length for a single function. That is not many words to describe the plethora of implications of using their service.

Go ahead and have a glance at it. What would you remove from it that wouldn't cause a significant gap?

Some example clauses:

> For content that is covered by intellectual property rights, like photos and videos (IP content), you specifically give us the following permission, subject to your privacy and application settings: you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content that you post on or in connection with Facebook (IP License). This IP License ends when you delete your IP content or your account unless your content has been shared with others, and they have not deleted it.

(They have to put this. If they didn't, they would get sued by someone who shared a video and then was mad that other people could see it.)

> Facebook users provide their real names and information, and we need your help to keep it that way. Here are some commitments you make to us relating to registering and maintaining the security of your account:

>

> You will not provide any false personal information on Facebook, or create an account for anyone other than yourself without permission.

(Not exactly dense legalese. It is good to ban impersonation, and it is right that they should include such a ban in their terms.)

> We’ll notify you before we make changes to these terms and give you the opportunity to review and comment on the revised terms before continuing to use our Services.

(Seems reasonable to me. Many years ago, people used to complain that the terms changed without notice, so FB committed to not doing that any more.)

I don't know. This whole "terms of service are impossible to read except by a lawyer" meme just doesn't hold water for me.
There are a lot of interesting ones here, but Sheerly Genius is the one where the founders will either make a billion dollars or perish in a mysterious accident.
>What is happening now is basically vindictive hatred for Facebook from the tens of millions who feel wronged and cheated by electoral results that they lost fair and square.

I'd say that a lot of the articles are driven by the news medias hatred of facebook.

It used to be that facebook would drive upto 80% of the traffic on some news sites from shared articles between 2012-2017. Then when they started to tweak the news feed a lot of news sites found their traffic dying.

There are definite reasons to hate facebook, but news sites hate them for controlling their very existence, and lately pushing them into irrelevance.

Between facebook and google the views news sites receive from other sources are/were a rounding error, before we even start talking about advertising.

That everyone is attacking facebook now is good. From a purely tactical point of view killing it or strangling it with so much regulation they need to ask you 5 times if they can access your data for every picture you upload will be a huge net positive for humanity. I only wish the same happens to google asap.
I'd love to have something of a union to back us up, I honestly don't see any way to improve the situation otherwise.
> signing up voluntarily on the Obama website using Facebook

So the whole social graph signed up to Obama's website? Because that's exactly what was happening.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/feb/17/obama-digital-...

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Every time an individual volunteers to help out – for instance by offering to host a fundraising party for the president – he or she will be asked to log onto the re-election website with their Facebook credentials. That in turn will engage Facebook Connect, the digital interface that shares a user's personal information with a third party.

Consciously or otherwise, the individual volunteer will be injecting all the information they store publicly on their Facebook page – home location, date of birth, interests and, crucially, network of friends – directly into the central Obama database.

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> it is the same difference between having consensual sex with your girlfriend and raping your neighbor girlfriend because she consented to have sex with him...

Really, rape, that's the best metaphor to reach for...
I overheard a billionaire say he got worried when the market for his primary stockholding dipped by 20%. “I lost $200M. I actually started worrying I might go broke. Then I realized I still had $1.2B...”
You're not counting state prisons, violent offenders are nearly half of the total US prison population.

Why would I have faith in your start up if you can't even get this right?
Actually I go to France for traditional music events and festivals in Berry/Auvergne (I play diatonic accordion), I just happen to particularly like going to castles and my partner is an archaeologist :)