skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, I totally agree where this applies, like that knifes and guns are not permitted.

But there are also other, quite ridiculous measures that target to prevent high-profile attacks. One of the most infamous ones is prohibiting liquids. That's like putting your phone into a Faraday cage to defend against fraud calls.
I feel you just described a core reason that many people are conservative. Even if they don't know it. The risks of the hypotheticals outweigh the potential benefits.
Apple has frequently used exclusive advanced screen technology as a differentiating factor in their products. Retina displays, better colour fidelity, wide colour gamut, 5K, etc. Previously they have done so by working together with screen manufacturers and underwriting the development of such technologies, the tool chains and manufacturing buildout with massive (Bns of dollar) loans, but actually owning the patents, tool chain and manufacturing gives them even more control and exclusivity.
But modern cars don't need nearly as much maintenance and are more reliable on averable.
I don't doubt you, but could you be more explicit?
Google is seen as progressive institution, and that's also how the majority of the media classifies itself I'd say. Their core audience is more techy as well and cares about information.

Facebook is more on the populist side of things, their core audience are common people focused on maximizing their reputation.

It also reflects their core businesses, Googles ad business centeres more about search and information, and Facebook more about persuation, and call to action.
they moved the presentation layer into the kernel

That was a nightmare, I remember opening a printer queue on a server at one customer and it instantly blue screened the machine. I'd only been on site for five minutes before I had to go and apologise to the customer.
Show HN: A set of high quality Vue.js components
This sounds like a somewhat minor psychological addiction (I'm not a doctor though and addiction is not always harmful)
Usually I like Snowden, he seems to be fairly level-headed about most things. This seems like a bit of a nothing statement though. No evidence to back up his statement, no call to action.

I was thinking about reasonable ways to protect personal information. People always say that they delete FB outright, but I don't think everyone has that luxury. It's also a pretty good way of staying in touch with others. I came up with a couple ways of at least making it harder for them to track you.

1. Whatever email you use for FB, stop using it for other things. My understanding is that a lot of how they can put your purchase history together with your facebook profile is that companies that collect purchase data joins it on e-mail.

2. Stop using the FB apps. I think the "FB is listening to me" thing is mostly BS, but apps in general give away a lot more information than websites.

3. Log out of facebook when not using it. A huge reason that Facebook was allowed to reach "beyond" they're own website is the Facebook pixel, which allows FB to know where you're browsing when you're not on the site.

Of course, these won't work 100% (I have no idea if they'll work at all, this is all stuff that I gathered from working as a data scientist at a much much smaller social media company), but I think they're reasonable measures to take to protect your data if you can't just stop using FB outright.
For those advocating for more awareness of the loss of privacy, some more precision would be helpful.

What Facebook does is not the same as a “surveillance company”.

To throw out the term, with the obvious negative connotations, might attract attention, but muddies clear understanding of the dynamic flows of networked information that we are part of, and the incentive structures of the entities involved.

I’m saying, just getting a clear understanding of what is happening is hard enough, never mind determining the possible consequences of various paths of action.

There are a lot of unexpected, emergent properties of such a complicated system as the global internet, which has billions of autonomous agents as fundamental components.

A prime example is the current examination of the influence of the “Russian Trolls” in the 2016 election. I doubt many people foresaw the current controversy around this subject. I cant think of any parallels to the phenomenon.

Knee jerk reactions about such complicated systems, which from people influenced by the “hacker” ethos tend to the anti-corporate, anti-government point of view, severely misrepresent the threat environment that a common citizen confronts.

From my point of view, the biggest threat to an individual is from criminal activity. People like to rag on Equifax for the security breach, but I don’t come across similar screeds against the actual perpetrators of the breach.

The phenomenon of these large scale hacks of personal information is an unintended property of the current business, consumer, and governmental conduct.

A “surveillance company” is a whole different category of threat.
Deploying Private GitHub Repositories to NixOS Servers
For steam boilers and heat exchanger systems, being able to expand and deform under high pressure is a desirable feature.

I'm curious, why? Presumably it's more than just the fact that deformation allows for less catastrophic overpressure failure?
The problem for me with Emacs is that (while I use it everyday for just about all editing, and recently org-mode) it's so damn brittle and hard to configure. It's like editing autoexec.bat on DOS and reboot to try your settings. Still, it's the best I've found.
A Ghanaian company (subsidiary of the Indian one) donated the computers, so hopefully they're aware of any potential power issues.
Prototype. The big bro behind ES6 class
1) Prices don't rise gradually on supply demand mismatch. They can rise as much as somebody can pay

2) People will not really change behavior.

Say a country of 1 billion people can only grow food for 600 million people due to a draught. Maybe the food can be stretched to 700 million, but don't expect it to be enough for 1 billion people. In this case, hundreds of millions will die of starvation and the remaining 700-800 million will pay hand over foot for food. That is the "bomb".
> the app is packaged using Electron, which is supposed to be cross-platform.

No, it's a native mac app. It does make use of webviews and an embedded javascript editor (Ace IIRC) to implement the multiple cell types per note. But it's definitely a mac app (quite idiomatically so in many ways).
> Your argument against the possibility someone has undergone personal growth is that you yourself have not experienced personal growth?

If that's your definition of 'personal growth' its probably better not to have experienced it.
I am voting you up!

I figure we must promote your calming beliefs. We must allow the the socials' privacy violation pressure cooker to build up its internal pressure to WMD levels. When it finally blows, the socials will be destroyed by the combination of regulatory over-reaction and lawsuits.
No, because that would take full rows of the feature matrix (thereby corresponding to the full information of one individual).
The idea here is to “generate” rows corresponding to plausible artificial individuals.
That way you can give a third party artificial data to build an ML model without compromising (too much) the privacy of the real individual in the initial data.
Posted on FB, friend knew someone looking for a job.
The point is to enable the kids to get entry-level work using computers elsewhere.
But many people use Google Search, Maps, Mail, Analytics... And of course the endless tentacles of Adsense, Adwords, Recaptcha, Doubleclick.

In my opinion the reach of Google, and therefore their ability to cause harm, is even greater than Facebook's, and beyond the veneer of perceived benevolence they are just as unethical.
No. It has a simple & documented file format (https://github.com/HappenApps/Quiver/wiki/Quiver-Data-Format) so an equivalent could be built, but it's very much a Cocoa app so a port wouldn't be very feasible.
Reached out to someone after reading a blogpost about them. Was initially interested to learn more about their process. First call they let out they were currently looking for a job - several weeks & exchanges later i hired them.
Experts discovered remotely exploitable vulnerability in #MikroTik RouterOS
Aside: Can someone has any pointers on HIP? What it solves, who is behind it (is there a chance to have it supported in mainstream OSs).
GDPR does not apply for state actors.
Instagram managed to do it, but then it was bought by Facebook.
(misread, off topic, ignore)
I'm sorry, I've must have misinterpreted your post, but it seems unlikely based these short comments, you concentrate on how other groups affect you but seems to miss the reason the people might have for saying or doing certain things, and these ideas seldome represent homogeneous groups. From my perspective you should always take a step back when you think "those OTHER GROUP are so SOMETHING". The long european monotheistic struggle is a sign post of fear, uncertainty and doubt (I'm sure the Islamic conquests also did something similar, re: my comment above).

I'm not sure what part you mean should be mathematically identical it seems like a strange measure for social interaction, too many unknown variables, and too many individuals.
I believe it’s native Mac.
The stalling has been a shame. I like it so much (and have been so insecure about my likely long-term macOS use) that I keep having stabs at writing versions on various platforms using the same file format. But so far I keep having to shelve them for more urgent stuff.
I upgraded my projects to webpack 4 about a month back and I did not have much of an issue. The builds are definately faster.

I would say this though: Webpack (and in general the current JavaScript-way of building) is one of those build systems that invite programmers to put a lot of stuff into their project builds plus a lot of programmers rely on templates or generators that gives a lot of code that they never bother to understand.

That is a recipe for stuff that is hard to upgrade and hard to maintain.
Comes not without surprise. FB has clearly shown it's a prime choice for letting your know good night - algorithms put aside - taking your every info and paying little respect to one's privacy concerns. For traffic ? - nah no good either - unless you cough up endlessly. Google better ? Anytime - africasiaeuro.com/google_traffic_2018/
"Moreover, the document focuses on the concept of privacy by design and tries to make it more clear,
especially for mobile app developers. Approaches to privacy and data protection by design and by default
are presented that help translate the legal requirements into more tangible engineering goals that
developers are more comfortable with. In particular, the concepts of data protection goals and privacy
design strategies are discussed in general terms, while providing concrete examples from the mobile app
development perspective."

This is the part that was missing on the web, mobile applications are breaching users privacy to the extent unavailable to web pages. Typical android application has less code than the frameworks for tracking and advertising that are used in it. Not to mention google play and google services. This documents sheds some light from mobile application development perspective and provides some guidelines.

Actually I think the greatest and most meaningful battle in context of GDPR will be on field of mobile applications.
I use Quiver every day. I really like the way I can organize my notes and projects. However the main issue I have with this software is the absence of synchronisation between devices: I can’t browse on my iPhone what I wrote on my Mac.
How easy is it to game a personality judgement made by a computer vs. one by a human?
Imagine the look on Stephen Hawking 1011156B's face when he finds out Stephen Hawking 7086C published the exact same paper that he did, died two weeks later, and the combination of those events compelled scientists in that Universe to eventually master interdimensional travel, when 1011156B only got laughed at.
Perhaps in Roman civilization. The alphabet of every European language, including English, was inherited from Latin, which was the language of the Roman Empire. This indicates that the Roman bureaucratic system, and along with it, its administrative principles, were adopted in whole by the states in Europe that succeeded the Roman empire.
Fun fact: there is a ship by this name: https://www.a38.hu/en/
Thanks for the push. I never use Twitter on my phone anyway but I had the app installed for no use at all. Just got rid of it.
> It makes me wonder if the whole site plays games and tries to waste my time.

They seem to be desperate for traffic. I've been using it for a while, but recently they've sent me a wave of spam emails "suggesting" to me various content which has no relevancy for me and is not connected to anything I've been doing. I've unsubscribed from all their mails (I hope so) but now I am hesitant to even use the site again, so that I don't get more spam sent to me.
How do you think Facebook should monitor in future?
It is a nice story but perhaps overstating the problem a little: "Showing his class how to use a PC posed a fundamental problem as the school’s only computer and his own personal laptop were both broken." https://news.microsoft.com/apac/2018/03/15/teacher-who-used-...
Brace yourself, the social justice warriors have arrived!
Nice work! I remember when this was written for Haxe. The project seemed to be quiet for a while so I assumed the project was dead. Very happy to see it’s almost ready! I have some questions.

1. There aren’t a lot of mentions of Haxe. Are you moving away from Haxe?

2. Will there be any console support? There are very very few decent 2D frameworks with good console support that are simple and just work. There’s Unity (for 2D... yuck) and Monogame, but these frameworks still have quite a few rough edges.

3. How hard is it to build your own custom shaders with custom geometries. Do you need to delve into C if you want to mess around with vertices and shaders?
Well, exactly. Their motivations are independence, security and self-determination - exactly what one might expect and qualities I'm sure most Americans would understand.

Like most Powers, China doesn't have friends, it has interests. If cooperation furthers those interests, it will cooperate; if not, it won't. Attempts to cast these behaviours into "country A hates country B for reason C" are usually agenda-driven, simplistic attempts at populism, or both[1].

[1] The obvious exception to this is in the case of historical or otherwise wrongdoing. China still genuinely resents Japan for its behaviour around WWII; many middle eastern states resent the USA for its meddling and violence in the last half-century over there. These are legitimate complaints. Even so, when a country is run by a bureaucracy, it will still generally act according to its current interests, rhetoric notwithstanding.
Yeah - but so does Google and I would argue they know far more than FB does given they own a mobile OS, searches, have credit card info including transactions, have major partnerships with publishers who share data etc. Why is the backlash only against Facebook?
Most likely someone was told that his bonus depends on improving the number of sign ups. Which he then did.
As you likely know, it is a common idea now to "release early, release often." This encourages community participation and investment.

Best of luck
Because usernames are PII under de GDPR too.
Low latency and/or low bandwidth data transfer in M2M communication, especially when the client and servers are done in different languages.
I think you read the question wrong.
Also, Godot 3.0?
Truly amazing. Thank you Professor Hawking! RIP.
Something I've never understood and would greatly appreciate understanding: could someone ELI"5" how the concept of "parallel universes" will not always be a metaphysical instead of a scientific question?

If there are truly separate "universes", then by definition wouldn't it be the case that there would be no way to test (or falsify) whether they exist or not, so would the question of their existence not be in the realm of philosophy and metaphysics rather than the sciences? What am I missing (I assume it has to do with my understanding of the word "universe")?
Probably at some point the plan was to support other platforms as well, but development got stalled for whatever reason...
I understand what you mean. But the personality properties like agreeableness, extroversion, openness, should reveal themselves through behavior over time. Otherwise, what's the point in them? And, say, hi-tech work seems to provide enough opportunities, say over a year, to reveal all of them. This is what I meant by "contact".

Besides, have you not heard the "we do not spend enough time together" idea from a spouse? Not to glorify it, nothing good about it, but it seems to be the reality for more people than it should be.
for a lot of people its a low-effort blog. So I follow some friends who tweet a bit about their life and fun stuff.

Artists also use it as a low-effort gallery/WIP blog. Fun to look at stuff in that scenario as well.
Yep, boostnotes is pretty good. VSCode w/ some markdown extensions is pretty much the same and is what I use.
As phone companies are in an arms race to remove phone bezels, which would be motivation to make selfie cameras "behind" the screen or something of the sort, this might happen sooner than we think.
Sanctions? The threat of being obliterated by a massive opponent? Pressure from China?
Until it's published and reviews there isn't much to say. But it's exciting to me, hope I can read it soon.
A new foundational crisis in mathematics, is it really happening?
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ahd kamera ve ahd kayıt cihazları en uygun fiyat ve kaliteli ürün satış mağazası. ahd kayıt cihazı
Ahd kameralar özellikle diger muadillerine göre (TVI, CVI) daha ucuzdur. Bundan dolayı AHD kameraları fiyatı uygun diye tercih edebilirsiniz. Ahd Kamera olarak tavsiye edeceğimiz markalar arasında özellikle AVENİR Markası ön plana çıkmaktadır.

Bir çok markanın fiyatı ve kaliteyi düşürdüğü yerde Avenir markası fiyatı düşürürken kalitede bir oynama yapmamaktadır. Kaldı ki Avenir marka kameralar Türkiye çapında en fazla kullanılan kamera modelleri arasında en ön sırada yer almaktadır.

Ucuz Ahd Kayıt Cihazında ise durum farklı değildir. Diğer (TVI, CVI) türlerine göre daha uygun fiyatlı olan ahd kayıt cihazları kayıt kalitesi olarak da h.264 formatını kullandığı için görüntü kalitesinden ödün vermeden kayıt yapabilmektedir.

Ahd kayıt cihazlarının yeni modellerinde artık Hybrid özelliği bulunmaktadır. Hybrid özellikli Avenir Ahd Kayıt Cihazları (AHD+TVI+CVI+CVBS+IP) kameraların tamamını desteklemektedir ve görüntüleyip kayıt edebilmektedir.

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Nice story but I think you got the question backwards.
Once people

> how this runaway freight train ... can be stopped at this point

Once people realize what they will lose, then the only way to win is not to play.
This needs me to have Windows 7. It is not an OS for free, but an upgrade for free.
I remember them mopping up all the e-commerce companies in the shareware/software world.
Could you elaborate on the iodine?
I’m just replying to your comment as it jogged lose an example of what I see as a missing piece of the issue.

Namely, a course of conduct in self protection needs to have an understanding of what the potential harm is from a given threat.

As I see it, the big danger is not from these corporate data vacuums like Facebook, directly.

The biggest threat is the use of this aggregated data by bad actors.

I have yet to hear of a major tech company undertaking actions to directly harm the users of their products. In fact, they are highly incentivized to minimize harms to users.

I don’t see targeted advertising as a bad thing. If I’m going to see adds, I prefer they reflect my interests. I actually find out interesting things from such adds.

Because the overall system has become so complex and monolithic, I think taking steps to thoughtfully minimize personal information leakage is prudent.

But inconveniencing oneself to no discernible benefit is counter productive, and can easily backfire.

For example, if you move your email service to one provided by your shared website host, you open yourself to many potential woes.

Emails from private domains are more likely to get lost in spam filters. I’ve had unfortunately breakdowns in relationships because people who needed to reach me thought I was blowing them off.

Last time I had an email address a private domain, the spam filtering was so bad, it rendered it almost useless.

You’re also hosting your mail on god knows what server, controlled by a company with a lot less security resources than Google.

So there is a substantial cost in avoiding the free email services like Gmail, for nebulous benefit.

I am very concerned about the issue of personal information security. But everything comes at a cost.

The question of whether allowing law enforcement back door access to private communications is worth it is not so straightforward as many commenters seem to imply.
Thanks!

1. see the dev log on language - https://luxeengine.com/dev-log-5/ - dev log 4 also mentions this aspect a bit.

2. The website mentions consoles in passing - I can't talk about them yet, but the intent is strong native console support.

3. Trivial :) The full engine is available from scripts directly (the same api that is available on the C++ side). for example: var geo = Geometry.create(Primitive.triangle, material, vert_count) and from there, you can populate the vertex buffers any way you choose. the engine provides generators (like "make me a quad" etc).
What does the word "toxic" mean to you in this context specifically? There are so many takes...
"The publication was targeted by Congress in 1982 with the passage of the Intelligence Identities Protection Act, which made the practice of revealing the name of an undercover officer illegal under U.S. law."
This sounded like clickbait when reading the first bit (SHA1+iterations isn't that bad, as the SHA1 vuln doesn't affect password hashing), but it turns out the number of iterations is 1. That's not SHA1 "with a low iteration count", that's just plain SHA1. And no salt it seems.

Pretty bad indeed, but then again: this is a master password you're setting. The one password to rule them all ought to be strong anyway. If you do that, it's perfectly safe.
Where is Facebook different?

They know who you are.

For real.

They have your real name, your friends and family members names, your phone number and your position in the world.

They know who you chat with, who you speak to, when, from where

In a forum I could be everyone I want without being easily identified or tracked.

Spying is not really knowing your secret sex desires, it's about having enough metadata to extrapolate more meaningful data
Angular, brunch, babel, webpack. While not limited exclusively to the JS community, it seems that much of the JS community especially does not care about backwards compatibility or long term support. Piling on new features and re-architecting everything with every major version number, and sometimes even with minor version numbers, seems to have taken over actually creating and maintaining useful products to the detriment of all software that uses such products. Now we end up with software that's dependent on literally un-upgradable components that are no longer supported and in some cases do not even get security patches. With certain breakages, the software cannot be built at all. Perhaps it might not be a bad idea for open source developers to include a small section in their documentation that details their intended philosophy for the future of the software. That way, people don't get duped into using software written by teams that plan to abandon it completely (I'm looking at Angular here) or partially (everything else).