skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But I know that human beings are intensely social creatures and being alone, even if in self exile must be painful.

I'm not diagnosed as autistic or as a psychopath, but I'm really not a very emotional or social person. I take great pleasure in being alone, far from the madding crowd, and I find it much more difficult to be among other people, mandating the menagerie of masks necessary for me to get where I want to go in society w.r.t. my career etc. I say masks, because unlike many people I seem to meet, I do not have any enthusiasm for consumption, decadence and self-gratification.

I mean, I'm no buddhist or anarchist, I just prefer to perfect my craft over going out on the town or accumulating wealth I'll never use. I'm happy with cereal, I don't need some kind of smoked dolphin's nose on squid-ink dyed seventy-seed toast. I therefore have to act in a certain way, other than as myself, in order to be perceived to be relating to people I meet and work with.

In reality, you might call me a stoic, to use a loose definition of the term. I don't find it painful to act like someone I'm fundamentally not, indeed to act in an archetype I internally find rather absurd, but it is tiresome. It tires me greatly to be among other people, and I try to keep my relationships with others to a minimum. I have nothing to hide, I just prefer to spend time in solitary and uninterrupted recreation or study, refining skills and knowledge of topics I find interesting.

I'm not disagreeing with you, and I'm not saying that my individual existence is a significant indicator of anything contrary to your point, but my existence does at least indicate that some humans (since I find it difficult to believe I am alone) aren't as intensely social or pained by isolation as you say – and I dare say there's more than a little overlap between the set of asocial humans and the set of self-isolating hikikomori who prefer no company at all.

Though, in my experience on anonymous message boards over the past fifteen years online, hikikomori (or at least the western equivalent) seem to prefer the company of others like themselves whom they may encounter on said message boards. Or some certainly act like they prefer the imagined company of anime/video game characters to the company of other human beings, most of whom will never, ever come close to understanding them or what they're about.
I believe a lot of the fear of hikikomori can be resolved by working remotely.

I'm an American who spent only 5 years working in an office before coming to the conclusion that it wasn't for me. I spend most of my time working from home these days, with the occasional trip to San Francisco to make an appearance at HQ.

Because I still contribute to society, my relationship with my wife stay strong, I am able to socialize without anxiety, and depression from conforming to office society is long passed.

I still shun society in many other ways. I disagree with some schooling systems, most political systems, and others beyond the scope of this comment, but working from home gives me the willpower to make compromises.
That wasn't what I was thinking about, there are good reasons to choose one stack over another once you are in a job. When you are job searching though there are a ton of criteria: salary, opportunities to learn and develop, autonomy in the role, enlightened management, realistic schedules, short commute, holidays, decent desk, chair and screen. I'd put all of those over a choice between Ruby and JavaScript.
There's Macchiato (https://macchiato-framework.github.io) by the author of Luminus if you want to target Node.js.
This is actually a problem that bothers me. Most of the recoveries also ship with absolutely no security (see: twrp and the "I can just format your phone by booting into it"). I don't really have a good answer though - if you lock a bootloader, even with a secured recovery image, and that image breaks, you're stuck forever. Without a huge QA effort (that doesn't work for an open source project like this), I don't think there's much we could do sadly :( In actual OEM land they do a build and test it for weeks/months before releasing it, we just...build things and ship them.
Focusing on Facebook gives the benefit of focus. Techies have been warning people for years about tracking on the internet, but “tracking on the internet” is a vague premisse.

It’s by bringing the actions of popular bad actors to light that we’ll raise awareness to the rest. People need something tangible that they see is affecting them, and Facebook’s scandal is just that.
I am sure they ran the numbers and found that the likelihood of you returning to an app after three months of not logging into it is incredibly low.
Agreed though the caste system was exploited by the British to divide and rule, the upper caste brahmins used to be poor beggars that the other castes would goto for advise and the British saw this and corrupted them as they saw they had authority
> any lithium battery from a drill to a tesla is simply a 1.5 volt cylindrical cell

Incorrect. Lithium Ion batteries are 3.7V (nominal) with different chemistries varying from 3.2V (LiFePO4) to 3.8V (LiHV).

>The safety features you're so worried about are just fuses. And maybe some diodes if you're that worried.

Also incorrect. It won't just have fuses, but also low voltage (over-discharge) protection, high voltage (over-charge) protection, and transient current limiting with auto reset, typically done with an IC + FETs per small pack of cells or even per cell.

So before you can build your pack you need to make sure that the cells all have the same chemistry and charge level, and that the ICs are programmed to cut out at the same voltage and current, otherwise you get nasty surprises when connecting in parallel (the voltage mismatch) or in series (current mismatch) or any hybrid of the two.

Source: specced and sourced cells, safety ICs and chargers for portable payment terminals. And 15 years experience in electric RC aircraft.
That's the same book and link.
The definition of certify here is to "attest or confirm in a formal statement." So, Cambridge Analytica could be sued if they lied in such a statement.
I haven't used Facebook in a while, so maybe things have changed, but don't they show you a permissions page where you agree to give the developer access to your information?
> Won't this behavior break a ton of apps?

Would they really be moving fast and breaking things if it didn't?
I suppose my experience in large corporations is limited. But I'm going to hazard a guess that for all but the biggest corps "company sanctioned" is a not an official term, and that most have given little-to-no thought about all the various ways they need to keep track of the way their employees communicate.

Keeping in context with the OP, Slack allowing admin access to all conversations is a cover-your-ass corporate move, not a solid new tool to combat workplace cultural issues. Perhaps once in a blue moon employee surveillance and bad culture might intersect and prove useful. But that should in no way be used to justify corporate surveillance.

As an elected government official, I understand the importance of papertrails and record-keeping. But the mere fact that so many companies USED SLACK WITHOUT THIS FEATURE, means most had no qualms about side channels being un-auditable before. And now this is just sweet sweet honey to corporate overlords.
> How is it at all possible to certify that data has been deleted and no copies were taken..?

By, e.g., signing a paper which says that.

You probably meant how can you know that, which is a different issue than how can you certify it, and which amounts to a question of degree of internal accountability and control of data access.

Certification is about assuming responsibility for the truth of the thing certified, which doesn't actually require knowing it (though obviously knowing it to a reasonable degree of certainty makes it more comfortable to certify it.)
I wonder, when these APIs were initially opened up that giving consumers kitchen sink access was a good idea. Even if a developer gets decertified does it matter? The "bad actors" have already run off with the data. This seems like it it will make life harder for legitimate app develpers, maybe rightfully so.
Anyone else remember Beacon? This was how FB has always designed to work from the beginning. They've just been toying with the PR ways to say it to make people accept it without thinking.

The election woke people up.

I found this from 2011 when they shut it down as a "mistake." (https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2011/11/our-commitment-to-the-f...).

Unfortunately, it looks like they removed the launch release - but it would be interesting to see how it was presented in light of the recent news.

They're not a product company, they're a distraction company.
Fwiw, Cambridge Analytica still maintains that they don't have any copy of FB data and are open to do a forensic test by a FB appointed team.
Yes, and it always has been the case. The issue here is the scope of data requested, and what that data is being used for.
Servlet containers have two levels of isolation: individual apps are mostly firewalled from each other as you say, but when running multiple servlet containers they are as isolated from each other as multiple docker processes are when it comes to shared libraries, security policies etc. JVM processes are easy to reason about at the OS level, while servlet applications are more complex. But we are comparing Docker with JVM, not Docker with e.g. Tomcat webapps.
It's called "manufactured credibility" and it's about as worthless as the paper it is written on.
And with AMP, Google as well, now, wants you to stay.
> Discretion still has its place, but that's different from privacy and compliance.

It should be, but often digital tools obliterate discretion in the service of compliance or even just monitoring employee work habits.

> I would not refuse to work for a company just because they could look into my conversations if I was accused of wrongdoing.

A healthy workplace needs to solve the underlying issue, here. But there are simple ways (i.e., asking or ordering the employee to send you conversation transcripts) to get the information needed. Managers and compliance officers are reluctant to let the investigated employees know they're being investigated, which I understand, but I don't think throwing out discretion-oriented communication is worth the benefits there.
Somehow I never considered batteries as part of their IP :)

Thanks
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My probability was for hearing the phrase "exponential back off algorithm" without knowing anything about the algorithm. I don't work in that field and had never heard of the term before the earlier post.

Experience suggests that most of the time when people say exponentially they mean an exponent greater than 1, but I have been surprised by what people have meant before so I personally wouldn't say that probability is greater than 90%. That's what I meant in more detail.
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Hikikomori are a result of Japanese salaryman-esque jobs. In order to heal hikikomori, you first need to evolve work.
It certainly seems like FB and some credit bureaus are much more fast and loose with the data they collect when compared with Google/Amazon/MSFT
>> Second, we will restrict developers' data access even further to prevent other kinds of abuse. For example, we will remove developers' access to your data if you haven't used their app in 3 months.

The problem was data that was secretly kept, right? How would removing access change anything? Or am I misunderstanding what happened?
This feels strange to those of us from technical spheres, but much of the world works without formal verification of facts. There are in theory severe penalties, both implicit and explicit, that ostensibly act as deterrent to bad actors.

This is usually only noteworthy when it fails, but by and large it works. The friction involved if we did not generally accept someone's (signed, notarized, appropriately formalized) word as bond would cause our world to grind to a halt.
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Yes, but the problem is that Facebook's API also allowed lax access to your friend data, so people who had not consented to the collection of their data through this app ended up with their data harvested as well.

Also, there are various ethical issues with the users consenting to provide data under the guise of academics and then the data being turned over to commercial and political interests.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/head-quarters/2018/feb/1...

Even his poster child Bottomless Bowls study is now under dispute. Something rotten indeed.
'They could be twins': photos appear to show Russians voting twice in election
I created an app so I could grant myself access to the API with it. It was an embarrassing amount of data on all your friends.
Indeed. But the original type isn't 'burdened' with the interface. I've used the technique for a simple audio signal processing chain.
If you use Facebook to login to Spotify then that information is definitely available. The information doesn't even need to be sold to the record labels. If the labels then use Facebook ads, the targeting can be as specific as someone who likes a particular band or song.

The fact that people use Facebook to login to EVERYTHING, means that Facebook has access to their usage data.
Just like last.fm :(
Ruby's composabilty really puts Python to shame. I can't imagine how Ruby lost out to Python.
On that note, saw this on Reddit this morning:
https://www.reddit.com/r/quotes/comments/8605g9/people_just_...
I think Zuckerberg should have taken this opportunity to more substantially address the larger discussion around data privacy and Facebook. The outrage surrounding the CA revelations are based on a larger trend of continuous privacy abuse by FB.
> First, we will investigate all apps that had access to large amounts of information before we changed our platform to dramatically reduce data access in 2014, and we will conduct a full audit of any app with suspicious activity. We will ban any developer from our platform that does not agree to a thorough audit.

Isn't there a bit of moral hazard here - as in, Facebook potentially getting material business advantages from reading other people's repos? Are they going to put up a Chinese Wall between the audit team and the product team?
AFAIK, John Sonmez ( simpleprogrammer.com ) made his career jump to the multi-million-dollar status starting with his blog.
So, i would look into it seriously.
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"It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission."

Seems to be the go to business model nowadays...
It's entertaining that Google are and always have been typo-squatters, but "pwn" has been a typo since the very first time it was typed.

Now since there is no red squiggly line I am wondering whether I added "pwn" as a custom addition to my local dictionary...
Is it clear exactly what 'data' was actually obtained by CA on those millions of people? (I am referring specifically to the millions, not the original subset of 200,000 or so).

Is it all public and friends-visible activity? Or it is basics such as name, email, profile photo, etc.? I cannot find so far addressed in the coverage exactly what kind of information CA have had on a per-person basis.

If someone can share coverage that outlines this I would be very grateful.
We need Netflix for newspapers. $10 a month, gives you access to read hundreds of news articles.
Yeah, I got special student status which allowed me to take grad level CS classes. Requirements:

* min 64 credits, 32 of which from HES, 12 of which must be in the relevant field, i.e. CompSci

* >= 3.33 GPA

* The hardest part: two recommendations, hence the value of building personal relationships with the professors.

https://www.extension.harvard.edu/sites/extension.harvard.ed...
You have to try really hard to make LiFePO4 catch on fire. LiIon just requires 0.5v of overcharge, but LiFePO4 usually also needs a case puncture, followed by a short circuit.
"the most important actions to prevent this from happening again today we have already taken years ago."

This...is not comforting.
Does this work on any document that you pass into it? How does it handle questions for ideas that continue to the next page?
Facebook, Cambridge Analytica and our personal data
From Apple (https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/en-ww/):

When you create an Apple ID, apply for commercial credit, purchase a product, download a software update, register for a class at an Apple Retail Store, contact us or participate in an online survey, we may collect a variety of information, including your name, mailing address, phone number, email address, contact preferences, and credit card information.

When you share your content with family and friends using Apple products, send gift certificates and products, or invite others to participate in Apple services or forums, Apple may collect the information you provide about those people such as name, mailing address, email address, and phone number. Apple will use such information to fulfill your requests, provide the relevant product or service, or for anti-fraud purposes.

In certain jurisdictions, we may ask for a government issued ID in limited circumstances including when setting up a wireless account and activating your device, for the purpose of extending commercial credit, managing reservations, or as required by law.
Indeed, but if Zuckerberg/Facebook Inc. refuses to comply I would expect that to be the next step.
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> In 2007, we launched the Facebook Platform with the vision that more apps should be social. Your calendar should be able to show your friends' birthdays, your maps should show where your friends live, and your address book should show their pictures. To do this, we enabled people to log into apps and share who their friends were and some information about them.

Why do we not even have this?! These features sound fantastic -- where the hell are they? The most comical part of the situation with centralized social networks is that we give up our personal & friends' data to advertising monoliths, and we don't even reap any of the benefits from it in terms of improved user experience.

Facebook doesn't give you the best calendar, the best maps, and the best address book. It gives you the Facebook calendar, the Facebook maps, and the Facebook address book. For any of this to actually work from a user's end (never-mind the creepy privacy stuff), Facebook has to design the best-in-class experience for each of these product categories, which they of course have not done because that is an impossible thing to ask.

No one company is actually going to monopolize the social data market, yet every player in the field is trying (and assuming they eventually will) do so. It's maddening. Society will eventually wake up and realize we need a large-scale replacement to W3C focused on standardizing access to the social graph, which should be a public utility like roads. That's all there is to it. Until we figure that out, we're going to be having the same conversation every decade, nothing will change, and we'll keep begging Daddy Zuck to pwetty pwetty pwease fix all of our issues out of the kindness of his heart. Keep doing that, if you want.
If they're serious about this, and I'm leaning toward they aren't really serious about it, this will affect a lot of startups, specifically in advertising, but probably a lot of mobile apps as well:

“First, we will investigate all apps that had access to large amounts of information before we changed our platform to dramatically reduce data access in 2014, and we will conduct a full audit of any app with suspicious activity. We will ban any developer from our platform that does not agree to a thorough audit. And if we find developers that misused personally identifiable information, we will ban them and tell everyone affected by those apps.“

Might be a too little, too late attempt at self regulation since they've apparently known about this cambridge analytica situation since before the election and since then there have been facebook employees embedded with CA to help them target ads.

MSNBC is already playing this as: 1) starts with a denial 2) admits wrongdoing 3) claims behavior will change 4) changes are not carried out and we're in the same place a year down the road.

They’re also pointing out that Zuck is fine meeting with Xi Jinping, meeting with Medvedev but refuses to appear before the US Congress and sends the company counsel instead.
Police used receipts Google searches to identify Austin serial bomber
I think you're confusing loop unrolling and autovectorization. That said, it's kinda moot, once SIMD is stable, we'll find out :)
Maybe mind your own business? Especially if you ask them and they tell you they are fine and to stop bothering them.
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He didn't mention the Obama campaign at all. Isn't that relevant as it happened substantially earlier?
While Facebook is busy caring about our privacy, can I meanwhile leave this here: https://imgur.com/a/RCldJ
> Amazon doesn't have a million photos of me,

Yes, but what good are they to make you buy stuff or otherwise spend money?

> hourly location data,

Location data is a commodity nowadays, if Amazon want's your locations data,
it can have it.

> and lots of other things freely

Your messages, which are probably much more useful than your photos and your location, but what else?

My point is that Amazon's data is much more valuable, but I'm neither in advertising nor data brokerage so I might as well be wrong.
This made my day, thank you! I am currently working on changing careers to CS.
On the parenting quality scale, there ought to be a huge gap between "good parenting" and "illegal parenting". Lots of crummy stuff should be in that gap.
Peterson galvanizes the alt-right and he also pushes ridiculous conspiracy theories. His conspiracy theories are much more mundane than the likes of Alex Jones and crisis actors proponents, but that likely makes him more dangerous.

I'd say he very much belongs there.
But you still have a Facebook account, so Zuck wins.
Since they noted an 1800 degree flame (for what looked like an extended period), I wanted to look up the temperature at which cinder blocks failed, and came across this[1]. Apparently, depending how "cinder" your cinder blocks are, they might actually catch fire. :/

1: http://www.eng-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=94710
The trusting developers not to sell any data but putting zero safeguards in place to prevent this and extremely punitive repercussions despite being repeatedly told by the public, media, and even high level employees tells me Facebook can't plead ignorance to this and they not only knew this was happening, but they probably intended for it to happen. They knew it was illegal but put all the incentives for companies not to follow the rules. That's the only hole in his statement.

As for the rest of it, it's progress. It seems like a lot of good changes, but Analytically Facebook execs probabaly summarized that this is the least they had to do to stave off regulations or monopoly anti trust from congress. Any less, regulations would still be placed on them so it's brilliant strategy to do this and frame it in a way that Facebook is concerned about all the damage and we voluntarily do this for you instead of the truth which was we knew about this forever and only are doing it because of threat of regulations.

Overall, an optimal outcome for all parties currently, except for society as a whole down the line