skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I also don't think you've provided evidence that the Obama campaign still has the data. If I've missed that please let me know.

> “Where this gets complicated is, that freaked Facebook out, right? So they shut off the feature. Well, the Republicans never built an app to do that. So the data is out there, you can’t take it back, right? So Democrats have this information,” she said.

This is what Davidsen has said.

Also, as you said, they obtained the data legitimately. Why _wouldn't_ they keep the data around for future use?

> I also noticed that you are conflating the Obama campaign with the Democratic Party. If you have evidence that the Obama campaign shared this data with the Democratic Party, you should also share that.

Common freaking sense. It's a goldmine for future elections, they would be fools not to share it with the DNC.

Considering how much traction this story is getting, and considering that the Obama campaign used the same friend list "breach" to obtain data, they really should comment to the effect that they aren't keeping the data around. Otherwise, common sense says they are. That, coupled with Facebook's rather "it's OK" response to learning that they sucked down tons of data makes me think FB didn't make a big stink about deleting the data. If they did, they need to attest to that.
> Empowering users to become more and more power users is literally the reason humanity bothers with science and technology.

Quite the opposite. Technology allows users to become less and less power users.

> It's sad to see profit motive distract people away from that core reason.

Not sure I got that part, are you complaining that other people are not leaving their jobs and living aside to build the product you want for free with no pay?
Unlike Ripple, where the pre-mined tokens are held by individuals, the pre-mined stellar tokens are owned by Stellar Development Foundation, a nonprofit corporation.

Here are some quotes, but do check the link bellow too:

"SDF manages the execution of lumen distribution, with oversight and direction provided by SDF’s Expansion Board. The initial lumens held by SDF are required to be distributed to the world in the following manner:

50% for distribution via the Direct Sign-up Program

25% for distribution via the Partnership Program

20% for distribution via the Bitcoin Program

5% held by SDF to support operational costs"

https://www.stellar.org/about/mandate/
Cleaning aside, I'm surprised that having unsecured bodies in a passenger vehicle is a requisite for being a service provider.

Letting your dog loose in your own car is your own choice, but the trunk exists for unsecured cargo so in an accident, you don't have large objects flying around inside the cabin.

The correct solution would be to identify the handicapped passenger with animal and dispatch an appropriate vehicle. Instead, Uber puts both driver and passenger in danger with this policy.
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Ry disagrees:

https://github.com/propelml/propel

This is basically Tensorflow enabled to run in browser and server environments. And it does have GPGPU support via Tensorflow bindings and WebGL. Yes, really.
Well, it wouldn't be recidivism, but rather if the accused committed another crime prior to their trial date. Or, if they missed their trial date.

It's easy to keep getting confused around if we're dealing with accused criminals or convicted felons, as both are in jail. Sounds like Promise is focusing on the accused.
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I personally agree that the guy was naive and had no idea what he was doing, seeing as most of the news coverage is not actually substantiated by the source documents when you look through it all. That would be a valid criticism.

However, unsubstantiated claims of being an asset is pointless to use as an argument, there is no evidence and it does not help the discussion even if you really do believe it.
Nice, but I was comparing with 'microprocessor' (which is roughly 1 sq. cm).
I'm actually a fan of his, and mostly mean it tongue in cheek. I kickstarted Light Table with my last $50 after paying rent one month in college and, while somewhat disappointed in the outcome of that project, remain generally supportive of his dream big/fall short approach.
What is your general concern about for-profit prisons?
That day will arrive if running becomes more important than the weight of the gear. But, for right now, fighting seems more stationary than ever so mobility isn't as important as medic supplies, communication and weapons. And if there's an empty pocket on the vest, there's a huge military budget that wants to fill it.
Someone who hasn't been convicted of a crime is not yet a criminal, at least not from the perspective of a criminal justice system based on "innocent until proven guilty." If we start restricting the rights of people we're merely suspicious of in the off chance they commit a crime, we create a very dystopian society.
This is not true. The old Facebook API gave access to all data the user had access to. This included information (posts, photos…) by “friends” which was not public.
Good comment. I was going to say that while prison might work for some with addictions, it certainly does not teach them anything about staying away from drugs. In many cases recidivism is high because these people who remained sober for the duration of their sentence get out and fall right back into it within a few months. They might have trouble finding jobs due to a record, or maybe they were incarcerated long enough that they lost old, good connections or have bad ones they made while incarcerated. It might just be a matter of time until they fall back into usage as an escape mechanism.

There's just very many ways that going to prison hurts a person and very few ways that helps, and only for the right kind of people too (ex: longterm drug abuser with a lack of self control relinquishing his rights in this case).
I believe there a multiple layers involved:

a bizarre decisions about median divider design that attracts jay walking.

a governor with a stake in this subject.

an inexplicable disinterest in even minimal government oversight of the tests.

a company with a history of bad behavior.

a possibly reckless race to get a new technology market where trade secrets outweigh sharing safety results.

Clearly the data was not closely reviewed before issuing the statement. But I doubt the data retrieval is done by a police officer. More likely by an Uber employee; yet another potential issue.

The police report could easily be perfectly normal. Or perhaps there was call from the Governor. Or perhaps the police saw the data Uber wanted them to see. Perhaps the city doesn't want to be sued about it's median divider. I honestly have no idea what is going in in such a complex and invisible system but I sure am curious.
It could also go the other way. There is no way to know it. If you can learn one thing from history it's that empires never last as dominant as they may seem at the time.
No, very much listen to them. Privatization has been one of the absolute worst things to come to the criminal justice system in the US. This company absolutely must learn from those mistakes if they want to do good. Otherwise they're just another garbage company profiting off of higher criminalization rates.
Sorry, I should have said. It's a custom command I wrote.
> So if a bail bond company grants a bond to someone and they rape someone, is the bail bond company at fault? Or the judge that permitted them to bail out?

It's not a matter of fault. It's a matter of who is going to do a better job at granting bail. Promise or a Judge?

Promise says that they can, which in most tech start ups is enough. If we find out 5 years later that your algorithm sucks at, say, picking out clothes for someone, who cares? You go out of business and some people will have gotten worse clothes. If Promise's algorithm sucks then in 5 years later we will have a bunch of additional crime victims on our hands.

>And I'm willing to bet that for each person who commits a serious crime while out on this program, they will have hundreds, possibly thousands of people that don't - that are able to continue working and providing for their family when they otherwise wouldn't. Still an absolutely massive net win.

How will we know you are right? The things that Promise does are the things that should end up as peer reviewed journal articles. That's the point of my question. How is anyone going to know that Promise is working?
I'm sorry you didn't move forward with the state machine integrations.

I think some core primitives and conventions exposed at the language level would have developed it into a uniquely useful language environment.
the equivalent might be that every uber ride would become .001% more expensive.
For confirmed (as in, by a doctor) dog allergic drivers I'm cool, for everything else this just seems like a cheap excuse and shifting of responsibilities...
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People do not put their dogs in the trunk and they may or may not use carriers in vehicles with a back cargo hatch.
Leveraged buyouts are basically ponzi schemes designed to use recurring revenue to pay back debtors, rather than the usual scheduled lump sum payout down the road.

They were tweaked to work on a different time scale.

The idea they can get some distance to avoid scrutiny.

In a lot of cases, the debtors are also the owners of the firm that initiated the leveraged buyout. They load the target up with debt, can't make the payments, and then they collect as debtors.

See Sears and their current CEO for exactly that model. It's been going on in retail for years. They're all getting boned hard though thanks to Amazon gutting brick-n-mortar retail. OOPS.

Of course the real people being screwed are the folks on main street.
Sorry for my reaction then. So much is lost in text posts.
APRS does not have the reliability necessary for commercial use, let alone military use. Packet radio is pretty trivially jammed, handles routing poorly and interference almost not at all.
Probably not the best idea if your VPN uses any sort of client software, seeing as it would be able to collect your "true" IP address if it were malicious.
As someone who just finished a custom caching solution for Salesforce-backed data I couldn't agree more. There are a number of solutions out there that attempt to mirror salesforce to i.e. Postgres, but they are expensive. Plenty of people want to leave Salesforce but are caught in by the cost of exfiltration.

That said Salesforce isn't THAT bad. There are plenty of edge cases, dark spots in documentation, shitty pricing tiers, BUT there's also a lot of cool stuff you can do with it and most of the cool stuff is incredibly well geared for solving common business problems.
I thought it would be about social media patriotic astroturfing.
> I very much doubt that the future of healthy journalism is in the hands of a big company such as Google.

Especially one that's shown a willingness to try to silence narratives that are against its corporate interests:

http://www.businessinsider.com/new-america-fires-antitrust-r...:

> Barry Lynn, formerly the director of the antitrust-focused Open Markets program at New America, charged Wednesday that Google pressured the think tank to fire him and drop his program after he wrote a statement in June praising European regulators for fining the search giant $2.7 billion for abusing its market power. In that statement, Lynn said Google's "market power is one of the most most critical challenges for competition policymakers in the world today."

> After Lynn published the statement, Eric Schmidt, chairman of Alphabet, Google's parent company, contacted New America, and "communicated his displeasure," Lynn told the New York Times on Wednesday.

> "Google is very aggressive in throwing its money around Washington and Brussels, and then pulling the strings," Lynn told the Times. "People are so afraid of Google now."
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> if the charge is murder, bail is automatically denied.

Not at all. Some judges may have that policy, and perhaps some state laws require it (though that would arguably not be constitutional and a violation of the separation of powers), but it's not certain that someone up on murder charges would not be able to bail out.

At any rate, the point is that if someone who has been charged - just charged, not convicted; remember, we're all supposed to be pretending people are innocent until proven guilty here - with a crime commits a crime before their conviction, the fault lies only on that person and that person alone, not on anyone else - and certainly not the judge.
> illegally transferred

I'd question illegality. In violation of agreements, perhaps. If there were any, and there wasn't a wink, wink type of understanding on what would be done.
I don't think it's "you aren't going to find any startups interested" as much as "you aren't going to find DoD interested in trusting startups to be around". No one gets fired for giving a billion dollar contract to General Dynamics.
..and what? He served his time. Supposedly the "correctional facility" did the job and the guy was corrected. He should not wear the blame his whole life.
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How effective would such a venture be?
The type of person to pay to turn off ads is generally the type of person that advertisers want to influence.
I seem to recall aphyr said he hadn’t bothered to Jensen mnesia because it was obviously so bad.
Does this mean that Stellar is completely decentralized, or is there some component that is still centralized? I'm not very knowledgeable about Stellar.
>I'm convinced there will never be a day when the infantryman isn't carrying too much weight. There is a limit to how much weight a fit infantryman can carry and still be able to fight and they will always have us carrying stuff up to that limit.

That day will be when we have sustainable mechanized body armor. When the suit can carry more than the man wearing it, the man is no longer the bottleneck.

The question will be whether we just send drones at that point.
I'm aware people do not put dogs in the trunk, nor was I suggesting that-- hence dispatching an alternative vehicle to accommodate an animal.

A van with a carrier, or an SUV with a partitioned front/rear would suffice. Instead of calling Uber X, you call Uber Furry or somesuch.
TUIs are pretty much driven by keyboard input. GUI's are mostly mouse oriented. That's a big difference.

I have seen people use terminal data entry applications (mostly using the NumPad part of keyboard) with such speed/accuracy, no one using a GUI/Mouse will be able to match.
Those aren't so bad if you have something like hasklig installed. But otherwise the stilted typography just drives me crazy.
What is a dating websites incentive to couple people up? They have seemingly reverse incentives too. The better a dating website is the less potential users it might eventually have.
Here comes the scapegoating.
Page displays undefined two times in my browser (not sure what that would be, most likely Android WebView since I'm on Materialistic).
> I think braces are better in that they reduce the "word clutter" of the code.

I prefer Erlang's approach: dispense with the words and the braces. Unfortunately Elixir decided words were friendlier.
Then they should not be driving an Uber. Everywhere else, be that shops, taxis, trains etc, there is a legal requirement to allow guide dogs and other service animals. This is the case in the EU at least.

Allowing drivers to opt in or out of providing adequate, and legally mandated, service should not be an option.
I think Fowler would describe the model in the article as more like "Event-carried State Transfer": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STKCRSUsyP0 .
Oxygen consumption increases with activity, obviously. Air handling is rated on square footage, structure design and intended purpose. A home is going to carry a very different set of requirements than a factory floor or a restaurant (which often has high CFM exhaust hoods and requires a large amount of fresh-air infiltration to make up for exhausted air). Max occupancy permits as based on these factors, and often limited by egress (exits) plus a safety-factor is added to that. But that's about the limits of my expertise. Beyond this lies architects & permitting inspectors.

The calculation of human heat load and perception of temperature (sensible/latent heat, and psychrometrics in general) is a big part of system design. I'd have to break out the software and start asking specifics to get you an actual number but my gut feel is that a dance hall is going to easily pass the air quality tests.

Of course, somebody could pack 100 people into a low-ceiling windowless 200 ft^2 room without forced ventilation and have a problem with not just air quality but also heat (each person is approx 20W at rest, 200W w/vigorous activity), but I'm speaking in generalities about properly used residential & commercial space.
My company has an opening for a process engineer (Bay Area or Florida). My email is my handle at gmail.

I'll send you the details by email. As far as I know, our company does sponsor visas and pays for interview flight + relocation, but we were recently acquired.
The policies behind prison are enumerated by the 3 "R"s: Rehabilitation, Removal (from society), and Retribution (punishment). Promise sounds like it covers the first "R" very well, but I don't see anything geared toward the other two.

Maybe this idea would be more akin to a halfway house than to actual jail.
Hilarious. Reminds me of what it's like working with a client to build a website. Build it!!
The alternative has to seem better than the current situation. I've rationally brought myself to these places by feeling that the income and success is worth the price. When it stops becoming worth it, you change. That's why there's a prevailing wisdom that someone has to hit "rock bottom" before they change. In reality it's their bottom that they hit before they want to change and that bottom is different for everyone. It sounds like your bottom is at a higher threshold than your friends which is why there's a disconnect as you watch them do thing you can't imagine doing yourself.

I think the biggest way to help is to try to understand them and their values. Sometimes people are operating in a way that they don't even know is unhealthy. If you can simply get curious about their work habits in a positive way and then repeat that back to them without judgement: "It sounds like you value money." or "It sounds like you're scared of going broke in the future.", they can feel heard and it brings down their defenses.

But if you're saying "Stop working so much" or "You'll burn out." the person might be wondering why you're saying those things. Are they jealous? Are they wanting to hang out more? But if you can say "Hey, I've noticed you've put on some weight and I'm nervous about your health" or "Hey, I've been feeling lonely while you've been working so much", they might have a better understanding of your intentions which might help them lower their guard.
How much control does Jed McCaleb have over this foundation?
Isn't it ticket-centered? Most of FB events are free for all or paid on-site with cash.
Unlike Parliament you're not bound by international conventions; though you may be bound like them (for the moment) by EU law.

The ECHR for example puts restrictions on impositions in to the private life of individuals. A demand to appear before Parliament without proper jurisdiction would appear a priori to be such an infringement.

Suggestions that "well Parliament can make things very difficult for him" whilst probably true should be given utmost contempt. Parliament should uphold the Rule of Law and not threaten people, even if it can.

I can't see any reason not to simply demand an officer of Facebook with executive powers be in attendance. Perhaps specified to be the person with management responsibility for data protection.

FWIW I'm very far from being a supporter of Zuckerberg, though am a user of Facebook.
"put your bodies upon the gears"

I absolutely agree with you that this is a moral decision for the employees. At a former company I pushed to improve our user privacy and decrease our storage of unused personally identifying information.

I left that company when they neutered my project to only affect the UI...

We aren't soldiers following orders, we are humans that can reflect on our actions.

That said, I had the savings to be unemployed for a while, not everyone does.
It is already here, actually.

I do a lot of numerics related to simulating quantum computing hardware (which is just linear algebra of fairly large matrices). I have used Theano to write some of the simulations, and there are plenty of projects on github that use TensorFlow as a backend for quantum-mechanical simulations.

Either way, I do not care much whether they call it a "deep learning" framework. It is still directly usable in all other types of linear algebra applications.
> It's not a matter of fault. It's a matter of who is going to do a better job at granting bail. Promise or a Judge?

Promise would not be replacing the function of a judge here. That's ludicrous. The judge would be permitting a suspect to work with Promise's system rather than rotting in jail.

> How is anyone going to know that Promise is working?

When people are able to work and take care of their families who would otherwise be sitting in a concrete box, waiting for time to pass.
Dromornis was prehistoric, and would never have encountered humans, according to wikipedia

https://simple.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dromornis
Windows 2000 was just barely POSIX compliant for defense purposes.
I'm also very interested in this question. My current understanding is that mathematics only works well because the mind is only capable of conceiving a mathematical reality, i.e math is basically the end result of an evolved mind, a tool that divides experience to concepts (including objects, properties, relationships) which at first approximation don't change with time (a lion will remain a lion, a lion will remain dangerous). Later, higher level observations that are constant are also observed (e.g location that linearly changes with time is a constant speed, every triangle on a plain has 180 degrees etc.) - my point is that the mind is geared to find relationships that are constant (in every level of abstraction), and once we find such a constant we call it "truth" (or if we're more honest, we at least admit it's a good model). So I think the bigger question is not why mathematics works (it works because reality, including thought itself, can be seen through the filter of concepts that appear to be self consistent), but rather why reality lends itself to being categorized in the first place into "things" that have internal integrity and consistency.
This reminds me of the 1988 Willy Horton attack ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Io9KMSSEZ0Y

I think it's an idea we as society should look into, but I fear criminal justice is just too politicized these days. But maybe this is only at the national level, and people are much more open at the state/local levels.

What have the state/local people thought about it?