skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They made the loans under the condition that they are not dischargeable and that the government would pay in case of default. You can't retroactively change the rules.
Yes (though it doesn't seem they're increasing the sample frequency much - but still above the limit)

It seems because the signal and noise characteristics are known (in the original article), the noise can just be "averaged away"
The pantyhose mafia.
To clarify, the general public outlash started after Trump and Brexit.

I reacted back in 2012 to the fact that Obama's campaign bragged openly about doing same thing. Back then the problem statement was a bit newer to me, I guess I was a bit more sensitive to back then.

The few articles back then praised them about this.

Disclosure: I don't really mind that Trump became president or that UK decided to leave EU - wouldn't have cared if the outcome was the opposite either. It's just different approaches of running countries with different pros and cons.
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Except...there is data that is not explicitly sent. My mum doesn't know what an IP address is and therefore wouldn't know it's used for location tracking.
The high price was primary due to them trying to offset the high RD cost vs the actual hardware cost. Google might be able to sell it cheaper if they can get ROI with other applications.

Update: hardware cost about $400 interesting analysis of their strategy here http://hc25.web.rice.edu/files/projects/LytroMarketingPlan.p...
Oh, but it does, if you treat "assembling a copy of yourself from atoms in the environment" as equivalent to the implementation details of printing to standard output.
> If sci-hub is going to scrape publishers, they could put in a bit more effort.

+1, especially for the Onion site. Onion service supposed to be a primary mean to host uncensored websites instead of having to look for the latest domain name everyday, unfortunately it seems nobody cares about it. Most of the time I access it from my browser, the front-end proxy was malfunctioning, or the back-end Tor daemon has dead... Tor network itself do have capacity problem, but they could do much better than a broken front-end proxy... e.g. with Onion Balance.
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This?

How can I download a copy of my Facebook data?

https://www.facebook.com/help/302796099745838
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I care full-time for my wife and I don't have the resources to eat out. That is a luxury for us. It takes much time to afford such treats. I have less income than many who cry poor, but live comfortably because we manage what we have so that we can. I have worked in very low paying jobs and that was my choice at the time. When it become infeasible to continue working in that area, I left and found other work that paid better.

The only ones picking the pockets of low-wage workers are those who are responsible for paying those workers - the businesses they work for (they are the cheapskate - not the customer). A customer is not responsible for the workers failure to negotiate a fair wage nor are they responsible for the failure of those workers to find better employment.

If you want it fixed then fix it where it needs to be fixed first - the negotiation of wages between business and employee. If you work for a robber baron then expected to treated like a serf or villain.
The "assembling of a copy" is implemented by a combination of printing to standard output and compiling (and running) the resulting program - both of which are parts of the environment, not of the quine.
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I'm not a big fan of Facebook but I do find it useful. That being said, this feels to me like a coordinated attack campaign. Take an issue, blow it up, attach various other nebulous bad things and push it to a public that was already primed against that very service. Seems to be working great.

I do not know who or why is pushing this campaign but it definitely feels organized and calculated.
http://foxsanantonio.com/news/local/first-bombing-victims-fa...

https://www.thedailybeast.com/police-treated-first-austin-bo...

The police in Georgetown about half an hour north of Austin went with his gut in one murder case - "it has to be someone the victim knew" and ignored physical evidence at the scene and the eyewitness testimony of the murder victim's son. Then the prosecutor kept working against the accused for the next 25 years and suppressed evidence.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/politics/the-innocent-man-part-...
In practice, clicking “I agree” is legally worthless unless backed up by case law with explicit supporting judgements.

FB and other big data corporates need to be reminded of this.
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Show HN: a Yelp for iOS developers
I came up with this idea "a Yelp for developers" when talking with my colleagues.

My hypothesis is that, it would be very helpful if we know more about a library before choosing to use it. It's similar to
that we want to know more about a restaurant by checking Yelp before visiting it.

For example, there're a lot of videos on Youtube advocating how great AsyncDisplayKit (an performant UI library for iOS) is. But it's hard to tell how prod-ready it is. Instead of investing in time to try it out, it would be awesome if I can know about how other people feel about using it.

Following this hypothesis, I put together a prototype to showcase the idea:

http://branchtip.com/

As an iOS engineer by day, it's currently only for iOS, just so that I can contribute some reviews to it.

What do you think of this idea? Feedback would be really appreciated.

Cheers,
- Kenny
For most practical uses, something like the transaction described in Approach 1 should be good enough.

It has no limit imposed by precision, the benefit of a compact and well-supported storage format (just one BIGINT) will probably compensate for any inefficiency caused by updating several rows, and the multiple steps are not fragile at all if you trust PostgreSQL to handle trasactions properly. If you're really worried, just increment the sequence before you update a bunch of rows, not afterward.

But what if you have millions of users reordering billions of todo items?

Well, change the uniqueness constraint to (user_id, list_id, pos) or something composite like that. Only reorder items belonging to the same list owned by the same user. If a person is manually reordering items, there can't be too many items in any given list in the first place. There's no need to touch billions of other items belonging to other lists and other users.
And this would be the time to revisit John Oliver’s Snowden interview [1]. Specifically at 25:53. Since the topic is surveillance it may be inappropriate to link YouTube. If you haven’t seen it and don’t want to, the gist is people only care when their dickpics gets leaked...

[1] https://youtu.be/XEVlyP4_11M
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It depends a lot on how many items are in the list. If there are less than 10000 items in each sorted set you should probably let the client handle the ordering and just do bulk inserts with order index in a denormalised JSON col or something, but after that you probably want something db-native.
Or, in the time domain, if you talked a lot about nachoes recently.
Your logical argument makes sense to me, but I think your summary is a little off in the details of mannykannot's argument. In particular, I don't think he requires that Facebook PR had direct contact with the authors of the piece. I would suggest this timeline instead:

1. Perlroth et al publish a story in the NYT that arguably reflects poorly on Sandberg.

2. Facebook's PR firm contacts the NYT post-publication requesting that changes be made to the story.

3. Within a few hours the story is edited in a way that arguably is less negative toward Sandberg.

Given just this information, is it fair to claim that 2 caused 3? You (with your "conspiracy theory" level of attention to detail and logic) say "no"; mannykannot says "yes". While logically you would seem to be right, let's see how strong we can make the argument that this series of events actually does show causation. How about this:

1) Facebook is willing to pay an expensive PR firm to reach out to the NYT with the goal of changing the coverage. At the least, I think we can say that Facebook (and probably their expensive PR firm) believe that such edit requests produce results. Do you think they are wasting their money? If so, why should we trust an idealistic academic on this rather than a self-interested profit-driven firm willing?

2) If the authors know that there is pushback from Facebook on the story, they will edit the story differently than if there was no pushback. The only question is how big the difference is. Maybe it only prevents them from adding further negativity, or maybe it makes them choose slightly more defensible word choices. They might eventually redirect their efforts in a different piece, but do you really believe that knowledge of pushback will have truly zero effect on their editorial choices? And we've established that it's a non-zero influence, aren't we (like Churchill) just haggling about the price?

3) In addition to having journalistic ideals, the NYT is also a business who needs to be concerned about their reputation as a trustworthy news source. Facebook is one of very few companies influential enough to make or break the NYT's reputation. Thus when Facebook reaches out to the business side of the NYT suggesting that greater consideration be given to their side of the story, it would be prudent for the NYT to do so, or at least to give Facebook the impression that they are doing so. While this doesn't directly explain any individual edit, it might explain a general trajectory whereby edits are generally made in a direction favorable to Facebook. Do you deny that these forces exist?
Look, using data to target audience is nothing new. That's the promise of... everyone in marketing? Does Nielsen ring any bells?

"Obama and Trump both used user data" is equal to "Reddit and Hacker News are the same, both use upvotes".

The way that data is used is what all matters. The risk is to hoard and distribute data, the disaster is to use that data to manipulate the population to do something horrible(I'm not necessarily saying that Trump is horrible but there are many people who see it that way).

And...

>To clarify, the general public outlash started after Trump and Brexit.

You'll need to prove that one because we had multiple products and a giant corporation(Apple) targeting privacy cautious audience before all this happened.
Perhaps you can point to the clause which makes it explicit that the data you provided in a personality test app can be used to swing elections.

Or was FB expecting users to be “accountable” enough to work out that part for themselves?
> And, of course, Manafort, who is dirty AF (right up there with the Podestas, the Clintons and the rest), but nothing relating to the Trump campaign.

Manafort served as Trump's Campaign manager from June 2016 to August 2016, but I guess that has nothing to do with Trump's Campaign.

Created an account to attempt to derail this conversation into being about Seth Rich and Hillary Clinton. lol.
Microsoft really need to fix windows defender and search indexing. I have myself benchmarked horrible pains similar to this, 7-10x slowdowns doing things like copying many files around. It can make the Linux Subsystem almost unusuable.
Google never really was generous with its acquisitions: many of its most successful ones like Blogger, KeyHole (Earth), Where2 (Maps), Writely (Docs), Zenter (Presentations), Urchin (Analytics) and Android were for tiny dollar amounts, sub-$100M. And the really big ones - YouTube and DoubleClick, and to a lesser extent Metaweb - turned out to be worth way more than Google paid for them. The only big duds I can think of where Google paid a "generous" amount for something that didn't really make them a whole lot were Motorola, Andy Rubin's robot collection (Boston Dynamics etc.), and Skybox, and in all cases they managed to sell them off for decent amounts.
With some hackery you can get an RTKLIB compatible GPS for as low as $30, but one should expect to pay no less than $200-$400 for a ready made solution with an useable antenna. Costs go up fast from there.
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you can just do ids.join(",") to store just the ordering separately from how you store the list itself. It could still use sql it's just not as normalized. Once you switch to nosql you can just store the list in an array or linked list.
I ignore ads. I don't click on political news.

You don't have to click it. For example I have zero interest in celebrities or reality TV, I've never clicked a link or read an article about them. Yet even I know who Kanye Kardashian is, and that he's married to (or is? * ) a woman with an enormous backside. it's pervasive, it becomes part of the background and what you consider "normal". I absolutely guarantee that despite never having clicked a link about Trump, just having that link there and seeing the headline, will have influenced you, same as it would anyone.

* No don't tell me, I don't care
That's their problem. I never use FB and it does not hurt one bit. People have to be responsible for their own choices. No one is forced to use FB. Their weak will is not my problem.
Interesting, thanks for posting,I wish Postgres would add a native rational type to core, would be far more useful than the umpteen other esoteric types they have. How battle tested is your rational number datatype? I just use 2 columns for fractions and some udf’s, is there a huge advantage with a single column?
Did you look at the pgmp extension includes !mpq rational type based on GMP library? Looks v powerful but License put me off.
What is the use case where your app would need to let the user sort such a large list? I cannot think of any use case. At that point I would let the user set the order field (integer) as it would not be feasible to have a drag and drop UI anymore. That would be cumbersome to use.
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Instead of requiring Facebook and google to improve their ways, if we all started using ad-blockers more aggressively, setting up things like pihole for our family members and friends, wouldn't this solve the problem since companies won't have any incentive of collecting the data? It seems to me to be a much better idea that expecting multi-billion corporations to act against their interests.
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The whole point is that you cannot meaningfully consent to give out information about your friend since they’d have to consent to that. Even acknowledging they exist and are your friends is already information. To make matters worse, the v1 API would happily hand out information about your friends, such as their likes without _their_ consent. Not your privacy is breached - theirs is. And there’s no way user A can meaningfully consent to have user B’s information exposed.
Yeah, but my comment was made back when there were 2 stories about the Uber accident. This one, and the original one. The Bloomberg story has little more information than what the police chief claimed to the Chronicle, and at that point, the Tempe PD was downplaying the importance of her determination.

But everything the police claimed was in context of witness interview and camera footage. Since this is a self-driving car, we know there is more data and more ways to assess performance besides camera vision.
I never said the research was open-access, I said it allowed open-access to research. There's a difference, and although it's just positioning, it makes quite a difference in the meaning of a sentence.
Rewriting even a sublist generates unnecessary updates—on both the table and associated indexes. (While the article doesn't specifically describe using sublists, this is likely for pedagogical reasons: he doesn't include surrogate keys either. The pathological case of a full table rewrite on any update would be avoided in any event.)

As for storage, the rational datatype described in the submission has the same size as a BIGINT (64 bits), so there's no storage disadvantage there.
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I was of the opinion that Lytro was just a gimmick (we have light fields, what can we do with them?), but your post is really insightful. What you describe sounds like a useful product.
Awesome work.

Otherwise, the filesystem bench is pointless without:

- SSDs type. Tlc? SLC? Are they same, different?

- Linux filesystem type and fstab flags.
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There was a long thread about them two months ago, with the founders answering some questions on that topic.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16159808
Baskets might work for your garden, but not for a big strawberry field. That solution doesn't scale.
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I don't know about "likely", but that is an awesome idea.
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First of all, other countries don't have the stupid plea system, so prosecutors are not racing to get a plea deal at all cost. And a lot of countries don't even have peer juries(which in my opinion is another crazy invention) - just the judge + experts if needed.
Maybe like reddit?
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Can you link me to this? I only know that Google is using GoPros to do light field capture: https://petapixel.com/2018/03/15/google-built-arc-16-gopros-...
How can you give consent to share with a third party what I have shared privately with you? Just because the TOS says so doesn’t make you exposing my private Information consentful.

Look at the example of what LinkedIn and WhatsApp and all its ilk does: I don’t want to be on those platforms. But friends upload their address books all the time, so I’m fairly sure they all have a full view of my social connections. How and where did I agree to that? How can my friends meaningfully consent to that on my behalf?
Yes, it's a shame for the founders in this situation, particularly if the wished to continue whilst their investors wished to exit and recoup any losses they may have had.

I'm reminded every day that the adoption curve can be brutal for those at the sharp end of the stick.
At a previous employer we had a high up executive from Facebook come out to give a presentation.

One of my main take away was that one of FBs big goals was to build a 'knowledge economy'. It struck me as a bit of an odd objective at the time, but I think I am now starting to understand what this means (and it's a little scary).
Random comment but I see so many people talking about regulation. Why do we want to hold the wolf by the ears here, continuing to use a service that doesn’t respect us while trying to force them to act like they do, when instead we could be advocating the use of user friendly services that truly respect our freedom? Why if Facebook has proven to be focused on things we don’t want (deep profiling), would you think any regulation (from politicians who are seemingly all bought by campaign donations) would somehow redeem Facebook?

For those advocating regulation, why do you advocate that over the development of services that genuinely respect user freedom?

Thanks all who comment thoughtfully.
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This already exists: http://lightfield-forum.com/light-field-camera-prototypes/nv... (among others)
They have one of the best JVMs.

Are the ones porting Go to their UNIX and mainframe variants.

Used to be the biggest contributor to Swift on Linux (not sure about nowadays).

Seat on the ANSI C++ table.

I imagine many Linux kernel goodies are still coming from them.

They are still one of the companies with biggest amount of patents per year.
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What exactly's your point? A "department of the Olgino Troll Factory" that directly benefits a vast portion of the world's population? That, again, only happened because of government—and therefore taxpayer—coin? That has no direct or indirect involvement in government, democracy, or harm of any living entity?

Forgive me for not seeing the downside.
Don't know about best, but it could work. I'd easily imagine some horribly spider like appendage expertly pushing leaves aside and sticking a little camera in there, probing for them little berries.
The instructor, though, wasn't the one driving.

Being engaged in a particular role relative to a situation can (I believe) alter one's capacity to perceive and respond to it.

This isn't to say that for definite the instructor would have had the insight described in the parent post, but it is to say that you can't rule this out just based on the information that as a passenger they didn't have the insight.
Sounds plausible to me.
Where/How did you get that list?
This is unnecessarily pedantic. An exponential back off algorithm has a 100% chance of increasing the delay, that's the whole point. Nowhere other than pure mathematics would I see the phrase "exponentially" and even consider a <1 exponent.
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Plus pilots in planes with autopilot engaged still have their hands on the controls and still monitor the activity of the autopilot.
It's not fun, but it only affects a small percentage of voters so likely nothing will happen. The fee to renounce is ridiculous too.
> success typing puts the burden of proof on the compiler which will only reject a program if it can prove that the program is incorrect [1]. But as far as I know, that approach has not been included in any mainstream programming languages.

Dialyzer, the optional static typing system that is of part of the Erlang distribution, is based on success typing. Here is an accessible introduction:

http://learnyousomeerlang.com/dialyzer
Is this the Same WhatsApp that demands unfettered access to your entire contacts list before it will work?
Bash costs you so much more than mere money. ;)

Sometimes it takes a lot of work to make free software affordable, don't ya think?

http://www.h-online.com/open/features/GCC-We-make-free-softw...
Not just the JVM, lot of libraries build thread pools based on number of processors and some of them even hard code the multipliers (X the number of processors etc).

Setting up each one becomes a lot of work fast, so we wrote a LD_PRELOAD[1] hook that overrides sysconf[1] _NC_PROCESSORS* call to
get number of processors availabale/online to a certain specified value and is baked in the docker image by default during builds.

[1] http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/sysconf.3.html
I graduated with honours, did 3D graphics programming in the past, systems programming is one of my favourite areas, worked at few well known names internationally.

Yet I can't get my head around neural networks and related concepts.

Just because it is easy for you, don't assume the same for everyone else.
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I get your point, but that video as described would not contradict anything of the testimony.
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So do people ;)
That's not how databases are generally optimized. You're essentially doing random access, extracting a single tuple each time, in a datastructure optimized for locality. Think of it more like a memory-mapped region.
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So a hypothetical strawberry variety that ripens simultaneously would help this by eliminating this step?

Also, ripe strawberries are quite different in mechanical properties from the green ones, I imagine that ultrasonic methods could possibly be useful for this too.