skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, of course that is the current standing. But we also know neutral witnesses memory and recollection are not perfect, not to mention non-neutral witnesses like the actual perpetrator, or an officer who has perverse incentives, etc.
I use Docs all the time. It's really nice to hear privacy is important to the team!
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I don't see what deserving one thing or the other has to do with it, honestly. Retribution is something the justice institutions have been slowly moving away from for centuriea now, but unfortunately remnants of eye-for-an-eye still linger.

And yes, my personal judgment is that taking a person's freedom may be necessary in sone cases but is always a violation. If we want to keep putting people in prison, we need to bear that burden, not pretend it doesn't exist.
That'd go a long way to making US citizens and corps more interested in development and repair of our nation.

Or making them leave, not sure.
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In the case of this election there were so many genuine incidents where wrongdoing was committed by both candidates so I'd be less inclined to buy into the theory that fake incidents were what caused the anger.

One candidate stole a primary, was under FBI investigation for most of the campaign, was chastised by the director but then given a pass, had a trove of emails leaked wherein she was called incompetent by her own team, and cheated in debates due to a highly inappropriate relationship with the media.

The other candidate was crucified in the press almost daily with a slew of controversial and crass, lewd statements, each of which was dissected, repeated and debated during the 24 hour news cycle as well as the late night talk shows.
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A lot of commentary here (not all) seems to miss one critical point: what is the inherent value of Facebook to its users, and has THAT been recently degraded? Controversy aside, this will be the big factor behind an exodus from Facebook, and I would argue that for months if not a year or more, Facebook has ceased to provide value to an enormous portion of its user base.
It is unethical to tell people that it is ethical to lie. The end doesn't justify the means.
Can somebody elaborate why this link from 2016 is gaining steam here? Is it because Cambridge Analytica misused FB data? May be I am missing something, do we know if facebook was wittingly complicit?
I provided those two documents because they currently bookend official public activity on the subject.

The indictment I provided is from the investigation headed by Robert Mueller, special counsel, former FBI director, and Republican. Dismissing it as "partisan activities" suggests either that you are extremely uninformed on this subject (in which case you should do your own research) or that you've already decided in advance to dismiss the results of a nonpartisan investigation.

Even the highly contested House Intelligence Committee report acknowledges that there was Russian interference in the election (they simply claim that there is no proof the Trump campaign was involved). There is a bipartisan consensus on this subject.
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It isn’t so much as “helping” a company but rather putting your money where your mouth is and refusing to make a personal profit off a company you don’t agree with.
> they aren't going to help that electron/desktop app that's phoning home.

What's your threat model? Mine is third-party tracking cookies, and desktop apps don't share my browser's cookie jar. So while technically I can be tracked by IP from a desktop app, Facebook can't tell if it's me or someone else at the same coffee shop.

In particular, one nice thing about Chrome extensions is that they don't apply to incognito windows. I regularly use HTTPS Everywhere in block-all-HTTP-requests mode + an incognito window on wifi connections I don't trust, because the incognito window will permit plaintext requests, but it doesn't read my cookies or write to my cache, so it's sandboxed from my actual web browsing. I can safely read some random website that doesn't support HTTPS with my only concern being my own eyes reading a compromised page; none of my logged-in sessions are at risk.

> any software dependency library that you install without properly checking if it's got some social media tracking engine built in.

... is this a thing? (I totally believe that it's becoming a thing, I just haven't seen it yet and am morbidly curious.)
I don't believe this will be effective. Thinking back to the VW scandal, did any executive get punished for this? Same question for the Equifax breach and the insider trading issue.

My 'money' is on people with money figuring out loopholes, like plausible deniability.
Yes, but some JVM implemetations have(had?) more support for this use case than others:

e.g. https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/j-multitenant-jav...
"To determine popular times, wait times, and visit duration, Google uses aggregated and anonymized data from users who have opted in to Google Location History." [1]

"Location History and Location Reporting data may be used by any Google app or service." [2]

It looks like you can turn it on or off, and delete your location history. I don't see a way to use Location History without having it also be anonymously used for traffic and other stuff. [3]

I've turned it off on my phone to see what happens. Occasionally I'll run across a permission dialog to turn it on.

[1] https://support.google.com/business/answer/6263531?hl=en
[2] https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/example/may-collect-...
[3] https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/3118687?hl=en
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Modernization efforts for Fortune 500 enterprises with 1000+s of legacy applications still exist.
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same here --- the new one is classic overengineering
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Tell me more about the bioavailability of your "+ vitamins", haha..
That only hurts yourself. It results in no benefit to any cause or harm to the company you don't like.
During the debates candidate Clinton suggested enforcing a no fly zone in Syria which prompted the moderator to ask her whether she would shoot down a Russian plane while she armed "moderate" rebels.

Meanwhile Candidate Trump said he thought they could get along and co-operate to defeat ISIS.

Personally, sitting thousands of miles away from the USA, candidate Clinton said everything that I'd never want to hear. Also Russia has been a great ally to my country for many years so culturally the russophobic impulse has never been there.
Great. So far so good. Where was the part where I agreed they could harvest my profile information because a friend filled out a quiz/questionnaire/etc.?
When Elon (I think it was him) was talking about it, he seemed pretty confident that they could do it effectively.

They already land the Falcon 9s on a relatively small area; with a bit of extra maneuvering capability right before touchdown, along with the Raptor engine's deep throttling ability, it should be entirely possible to do pinpoint landings.
I'm trying to figure out if I know any women that wear pantyhose. Maybe central coast California is not the target demographic.
It could go a couple of ways - Trump could fix immigration - if "they" can remove the anti-Trump Repubs in the house or pick up a few extra seats then he has a good chance.

If he doesn't then I see a shift to socially conservative (in the religious sense) but pro-welfare.

New immigrants in general are socially conservative. As are a big chunk of current Dem voters - my extended family are all catholic and vote Dems.
SUSE or RedHat are excellent examples when it comes to monetizing OSS for large businesses. What about consumer software? I do not think OSS will survive monetization when it comes to dealing with individual consumers.

And then there's the question of SaaS. OSS exists but a lot of high quality alternatives are paid. I don't think services like Todoist, Pocket, Evernote etc would exists on the open source model you described.
I remember ObjectStore. Tried to use it, but it didn't work that well for our use case; we were better off doing serialization. Very interesting design, though.
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I normally avoid spouting off, but you seem like you're looking for an answer.

My reading indicates this is inflammation.

If the bacteria have nothing to eat, they eat you.

Inflammation is not always localized. It can move. And there's lot of indications that many neural problems (Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, etc) are inflammation-related.
The only way this works is if Promise is a nonprofit. No plan to profit from human suffering is justified, regardless of good intentions. We cannot have our justice system driven by profit seeking corporations.
> We have some corners where old houses are even intruding a bit on the road. When passing these corners you will have to slow down so you can stop in case a child runs out behind the corner. You can't just blame the victim if you are in control of your own speed.

Yes, but this is a 4-lane roadway. I can totally imagine driving cautiously and slowing down near residential areas where houses are close to the road. However, this seems like a different case.
The RAML just ends up generating the usual swagger/openapi stuff now
> the cameras in retail are expected to only be used for review, when some event occurs. No one expects it to be used for data mining and behavioral analysis purposes.

Right. Except that this is also not true.

Source: "A crashed advertisement reveals the code of the facial recognition system used by a pizza shop in Oslo..." => https://twitter.com/gamblelee/status/862307447276544000?lang...
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I'm not splitting hairs. The person I replied to, and you, are splitting hairs.
That is not the meaning of the word peer in this case. The concept of a jury of peers differs from the King being the jury. It refers to citizens as peers not people with red hair, the same skin color, or socioeconomic background as peers.
Supposing Signal had a larger userbase, and got offered a similar deal. Well, it basically did happen; Moxie's previous company Whipser Systems got bought by Twitter, Moxie left after a couple of years, losing his options in the process. I doubt it would happen again.
It’s not irrational. Integrating an acquired knowledge work company is a costly and risky effort in terms of management bandwidth, culture clash, and business model alignment. Unless you are buying pure assets, it rarely makes sense to acquire a questionable company and risk poisoning your own. That’s why most acquisitions are of companies too small to jeopardize the acquirer or healthy enough to be a low risk and worth the effort.
Whatever happened to safer gravity-tractor strategies?
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Maybe you are unemployed or something and have tons of free time, but the rest of us are too busy to read every single article that arrives at the front page. That is why headlines should be accurate summaries or descriptions of the submissions.
It kind of does: Jave EE was all about having single Java Application Servers running on each host, and deploying applications/services on top. In practice every service was built by the same company though, so focused moved toward shared libraries in containers and things like that: Search for OSGI.

The issue is both that the security concerns were way softer than they are today, and that all your dependencies better be deplorable in a JVM too. Modern ideas of having databases deployed along with the services that need them don't work quite as well as just using OS level virtualization. That said many a crufry old company still deploys hundreds of services to production by loading .war files into a cluster of servers running JBoss or WebLogic.
Remember, you can do pretty much whatever you want just as long as you don't screw over rich people.

Probably wouldn't be seeing this headline if it weren't the investors that were upset.
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When you're having trouble justifying at compile time that a property holds, it's not always because you don't know why it holds, but frequently a problem with the type system you have to write the justification in. Some type systems are so limited that you can't even express the conditions under which the property holds, let alone prove them. Others are powerful enough to prove anything, but that makes type inference intractable, because the inferencer might have to prove arbitrary theorems.

The advantage of dynamically typed languages is that you are not glued to one specific proof language and don't have to provide proofs for trivial properties, or one-off programs you only need to run once. There are some type systems that attempt to provide similar benefits, e.g. 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.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.01278
Sweet, great to hear. Any particular papers you'd recommend checking out?
"the license didn't cover the implemented idea." What does that even mean? Software==ideas in code/boost form.
like all my mom does on her phone is facebook
It may not put money in Facebook's pocket but.. Last time I checked Mark Zuckerberg is Facebook's CEO and largest shareholder. I imagine that taking actions that devalue the stock and therefore his net worth are bound to influence his decisions (and therefore Facebook's)
With all due respect, I think you are missing the point altogether. Tools are created for most part with good intentions. What you do with those tools is what separates good from bad. Obama used the same tools to inspire a generation. Deeper penetration of technology is inevitable and there will continue to be bad actors who will exploit those tools to their benefit. Unfortunately, the negative narrative won over inpiration this time. Making tools the scapegoat is not the solution. We need to be more connected as a society than ever before. We have a bigger fish to fry, climate change is the biggest threat to humanity and without being connected it will be impossible to work together.
I wasn’t. If Congress is being obstructionist and petty, as they undoubtedly were during the Obama years, the executive branch still needs to do its job, which is to lead the country forward.

That said, I agree with the spirit of your post, which is that every now and then we should scale that power back.
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"Java 9 is obsolete [...]. What? You haven't upgraded yet? Well, Java 10 is only going to last six months before it is obsolete too."

http://blog.joda.org/2018/02/java-9-has-six-weeks-to-live.ht...
WhatsApp has no private chat mode. Every message is e2e encrypted.

If you switch devices, other clients will use the old keys until they have received the new one (and then they will silently re-encrypt and resend undelivered messages, something WhatsApp was heavily criticized for).
There's a collective impact on society for which everyone participating has some amount shared responsibility. It's up to the individual to decide if that impact is a positive or a negative one.
What about kids' doodles of mine workers, garbage collectors, soldiers killed in war, prisoners, and other undesirable fields?

I would guess they still draw mostly men. Or rather, I would guess they don't even draw them or think about them. I don't hear many calls for equality there.
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People are fucking okay with their data being in public. They even fucking post any slight event in their lives.
I actually just got a job there out of school, starting in a few months. Reading these comments is certainly interesting although it's not news to me that Hacker News hates Facebook.

I've long been skeptical of the effects of social media though, and I'm taking this job mostly just because doing otherwise seems like a really poor career choice. Plus it seems like Facebook is here to stay, and I can dream of helping to fix the problem instead of just enabling it.
I finally got back into RSS and started using Digg Reader less than a week before getting the notification it was shutting down.

Sigh...

What even are the options for free RSS readers these days?
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Roy Moore had lots of issues. Let’s not pretend he was taken down by Soros.
I can barely even stand to read threads here anymore, if the topic is something I'm very knowledgeable about. So many intermediate-level folks making way overconfident assertions that are way off base, or completely unaware of the state of the art. And it's virtually guaranteed that if I was foolish enough to spend time replying with corrections, they'd try to waste my whole afternoon arguing with me. I wish some of these overconfident statement-makers understood they and this community would be better off if they asked questions instead.
Because when an SUV hits someone, they get pushed under the wheels. When a sedan hits someone, they get pushed over the hood.

This is because a person's certain of gravity is above where a sedan's front would hit them.
I go backpacking recreationally. My base weight (everything but food and water) is under 10 lbs. Even 50 sounds awful.
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This is all happy-path talk. We'll do everything right forever in all cases no matter what, talk.

I'm concerned about what their plan is for if and when they find out that the hypothesis that is their most prominent, and most marketable use case has been falsified, yet it turns out that some other market they hadn't even considered at the start is absolutely printing money for them, even if it represents significant mission creep from keeping poor people out of jail.

Supposing that their motives are profit driven is putting two and two together. We're currently in the middle of YC demo days. This very post constitutes a prong in their launch strategy.

Claiming that profit motive and the motive to do good in the world are mutually exclusive is the true red herring here. It is separately egregious, because it also aims to frame my argument as wanting them to fail in any related venture. As I've said all along, I'd simply like to know what, besides blind trust, should we lean on, to ensure that a private company, who will undoubtedly have lots of reasons to want to keep its methodologies a secret, will be honest and forthcoming in the better than average chance that their favored marketing use case doesn't end up as what is truly sustaining their business. After all, no plan survives first contact with the enemy.

The answer to people claiming you might be a bad actor is go the extra mile, and do things and con men cannot, such as provide meaningful context, and coherent arguments that actually address your skeptics' questions.

The Lucas Critique is actually one of those theories that has been put forth in many permutations, such as the Cobra Effect, Campbells Law, and Goodhart's Law. In plain english, its just saying that if you want to prevent some behavior in others, giving clear, explicit, comprehensive targets of what it means to comply is counterproductive, because those targets are always an imperfect proxy for the actual behavior you wish to curb, and "compliance" can nearly always be achieved to the letter of the law, while not in the spirit of the law. It applies to social theory in general, which is the context of Campbell's Law.
Why the hell are my non tech friends and acquittances so surprised by this? What did they think? That Facebook will not sell their data for profit? How can people be so fucking naive?
>it's not clear to me why this is wrong or bad, only that people "don't like it."

Ah yes, the poor plebs just don't know what's good for them!
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While I acknowledge that your use case may be confined to browsing the internet, I still don't see what prevents a desktop app from reading your cookie jar.

Edit: your browser history (which may contain your profile URI) might be pretty out in the open, too.
A 4000 lb SUV, traveling nearly 40mph, at night, on a 4 lane divided highway, hits a pedestrian walking a bike.

The kinetic energy mismatch is the real problem, and at the very least, these companies should be testing at only 20-25mph, with _much_ lighter vehicles.

We'll have to wait for the NTSB to check in, but I'd be surprised if Uber isn't shut down(at least in Tempe) for a good long while.
People will now be looking to jump and developers just got a huge motivation to build alternatives. Facebook will survive for a while, but I think we may be seeing their high water mark.
https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/report/1985/...

According to that, in the 1920s the British Army "discovered that armies in the past had on the average issued the soldier between fifty-five and sixty pounds". Investigations by the British, Germans, Russians, and US into how much infantry should carry throughout the 1900s all end up around the same number of 30% of the soldier's body weight (48lbs) being the ideal load, and that the maximum load a soldier should carry shouldn't exceed 45% of their body weight (72lbs, and will degrade their combat effectiveness for the next few days no matter how physically conditioned the soldier is).
Since nobody else thought it appropriate to mention, I'll bite the bullet: the person you're imagining being playful with the toys to see which one your kid likes has historically been you.
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His power is not more terrifying in any way
why not use a linked list made of self references?

id | text | prev | next
1 | "steal underpants" | NULL | 2
2 | "???" | 1 | 3
3 | "profit" | 2 | NULL

For the use case of rearranging and inserting at arbitrary positions, wouldn't a linked list be ideal?
The thing that bugs me is that there's no middle. People appear to either be the type of asshole OP mentioned or they idolize soldiers in an equally terrifying way. I view the military as a job. It's not a job I would want, but there's tons of jobs I don't want. In peace time it's pretty effective at helping people move up the economic ladder. In war time it provides trained killers to take out the bad guys. I don't say that flippantly, that's an important and necessary part of maintaining our civilization. Any beef I might have about things the military might be doing at any given time is better directed at political leadership than the boots on the ground.
Jim Gaffigan, "Food: A Love Story" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20697471-food

"Although they can’t be thin, the food adviser can’t be too fat. If they are morbidly obese, then you can conclude that they will probably eat everything and anything and do not have dis­cerning taste. This is not to say that they won’t have valuable views. I’d still trust an overly fat person over a skinny one any day. The best adviser would have a very specific body type: pudgy or just a little overweight. This makes it clear they have a somewhat unhealthy relationship with food, but not a clini­cal problem. They are eating beyond feeling full."
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Um... you can’t say “whataboutism” when you are comparing two directly hypocritical reactions to the same scenario.

CA sold data to Trump, Rubio, and others - pitchforks!

FB gives data to Obama and Clinton, marketing awards and praise.