skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Clearly neither is anything you'd call a liberal democracy but Iran is still a meaningful improvement on Saudi Arabia. In Iran ultimate power is held by the Ayatolla and theocrats but the elected part of the government has substantial power. And censorship, etc, are pretty consistently less encompassing in Iran than in Saudi Arabia.

https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2018/iran

https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2018/saudi-ara...

They're both horrible, oppressive places but if you were forced to move to one Iran would be the clear pick.
Their effects are not well controlled either.
When two street gangs fight each other to the death for control of a territory, those that are not in that territory are better off staying away, not deciding that one likes a specific gang more and start helping it.
I think it's worth noting that there's a big difference between (1) allowing advertisers to display ads on your platform based on user profiles (e.g. matching certain demographics etc) on the one hand, and (2) handing out arbitrary user data on the other.

With the former, you stay in control and are able to enforce access and use, including the guarantees you gave users on how their data is handled. With the latter model, you're handing over the keys to the castle to random and possibly quite shady third parties that you cannot have the slightest chance at controlling.

It seems rather reckless to do (2), both regarding your responsibility towards users, but also economically – if a bad actor exfiltrates all user data into their competing ad service, you have little to keep them from doing that.
It's easy to integrate in a scraping script though, which I thought was what this was supposed to combat.
Online dating apps as part of our culture
Recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16620454
That's definitely a great benefit of higher end luggage. Other brands with similar service are Rimowa and Tumi. With Rimowa I had a case where someone cut the into the luggage with a knife all around the zipper and they repaired it.
They're made out of meat (1991)
pony-parcel hints at the Pony Express, it delivers ... puns (in a package)!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pony_Express
The one bit of positivity I get out of this is, well at least white rhino poaching is over.

(Unless they're revived by cloning, as one person mentioned, in which case either they remain in captivity or poaching continues.)
The sooner we get fusion you meant.
Read about it? Just put a stand-alone wall unit outside and sit underneath. Done.

Popular everywhere that is hot, rich and lacks building codes.

Conversely outdoor propane heaters are popular for counties that are cold, rich and lack carbon taxes.

I mean it is an obvious luxurious waste of money which is why people do it. It’s a fine show.
It's interesting how you see the same idea pop up in different forms over the years.

Two they missed: Lazarus (based on Delphi) and Qt. I've dabbled with Lazarus, people who use it a lot tell me it's great. I use Qt professionally and it's the most enjoyable way of building GUI applications that I've found.
If the company wants to get more money from the customer (to pay to the driver or not) they need to put the prices up.

If the driver wants more money he needs to negotiate that with his employer.

It's not the customer's responsibility to pay over the quoted price just because the driver thinks he is underpaid.
Well, you don't have to force people to accept the treatment. Many will take it voluntarily, while some will choose to let "nature take its course."
The ones who have gotten away with it so far to the tune of billions of users and dollars? The ones counting on a short media-public memory and attention span, and to all of our misfortune, they may be right.

If you want that to change, it’s going to take more than transient outrage.
Related: Statement from New York Attorney General's office on sexual misconduct victims and witnesses being released from NDAs
https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/statement-attorney-general-s...
Agreed, I always double check that the browser password manager works, but it's tricky because there is no standard around what the fields should be called to make it always work. The best way to make sure it works is to put the username directly above the password in the same form, that will result in most password managers working, and this is especially important on registration forms.

Also for those that don't know why hunter2 was used above, enjoy!
http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/065/965/989...
You're right, it was in fact the Veer! Thanks for the correction. (Derp.)
Yes, "Next job opportunity" is the biggest stumbling block in the midwest. It's workable, but more difficult when you become more specialized.

I've always assumed this is the same everywhere, but I've never received a competitive raise outside of my first year with a company. If you come in and make some big adjustments that save money, you might (maybe) get a bump, but after that they take it for granted. I've only ever kept up with inflation (especially health care inflation), by changing employers, so "next job" is a huge consideration.
Make your new hires watch the multiple camera feeds and lidar of that woman being run over again and again until they really really understand that they're working on life-critical systems.
The panels are sealed against ingress in any case.
I still think FB is a useful tool, but it puts things into perspective when people try and argue that Microsoft of the 90's is/was evil.
I've said it before, but it's shocking that Facebook has escaped regulation thus far. They have 1,860,000,000 monthly active users. What other business has this many customers (or "product") AND can profoundly impact its users happiness... AND goes unregulated?
What is cheating, in reality? What are these rules you endorse? What makes a hypothetical not cheating but a hypothetical presented as fact cheating?
> That scales ... Poorly.

Maybe the OP doesn’t want it to scale. Maybe they’re not interested in frequent events with 20+ people. Maybe they prefer going to events with an established group of friends.

Crucially, the OP made a specific point (emphasis mine):

> none of this is how anything works for me.

It’s not like Facebook removes the hassle of organising 20 people. It just makes it less of a hassle. If you don’t typically go to events with that many people, then Facebook solves no problem. Maybe you feel Facebook is necessary for your group of friends, but it’s definitely not necessary for every group.

> you people have no idea what its positives are

I’ve used Facebook. I’m well aware what its positives are. For me they don’t outweigh the negatives, so I deleted my account. Maybe “we people” are not interested in “making a real alternative to Facebook”. Maybe for us the better alternative already exists and it’s called “no Facebook”.
The commercial products aren't representational of the limits of the form, just what's currently economically feasible to produce and sell.

You've got to have a market first, and affordable entry-level VR is damn good way to generate interest.
Iran is winning. They invest $M's to provide weapons and training, the Saudi's spend $B's on F16s.
Russia orders Telegram to hand over users’ encryption keys
And I did substantiate it by linking to a story about the UN resolution, yet you ignored it.
Telephone EXchange Name Project
No it doesn't. Not in the dictionary. Not even in any definition of "data breach" I've found published.
You don't need any that for load balancing on any cloud. Google Cloud has the best load balancer with a global anycast address that will route to the nearest DC with instances and free capacity.

For automatic cross-region replication for storage, are you talking about Azure's GRS class? That's the same as GCP's multiregional class and AWS allows you to setup entire bucket replication to anywhere else in a few clicks.
I’m specifically talking about the case where the operator is not at fault.
Stop them from making zero-rating deals with ISPs.
R-CNN is slow but Fast R-CNN and Faster R-CNN simply use one forward pass per image, making it feasible for use in real time
Last Week Tonight did this bit brilliantly when they interviewed Edward Snowden - https://youtu.be/XEVlyP4_11M?t=1437 - in essence we need to get dramatically better at telling this story so everyone understands.
That's OK, the people who know that there is a general conspiracy of corruption and that there are definitely conspiracies within the political and military power structure have been quite fed up with those who refer to people as "conspirationists".

Just this weekend I was reading and watching about Norman Finkelstein, the son of a Holocaust survivor and author of The Holocaust Industry. He's been kicked out of his job and banned from entering certain illegitimate countries due to his work that simply tells the truth.

People who don't want to look at what's going on in the world around them or have no interest in standing up to prosecute those who do wrong, are the problem in this world.
That train has left the station loooong time ago. Now any country that can fund educations of grad students in the west and has enough money to buy/extract materials needed to enrich nuclear fuel and has enough money to build such industrial operation is given to have access to nuclear technologies.

The fact that NK managed to do it pretty much makes "not have access to nuclear technologies" a non-starter argument
One could argue that Apple and Microsoft are not as bad, because Apple and Microsoft sell products, not advertisements.
>"Academic research from 2010, based on an analysis of 1,800 Facebooks apps, concluded that around 11% of third-party developers requested data belonging to friends of users.

If those figures were extrapolated, tens of thousands of apps, if not more, were likely to have systematically culled “private and personally identifiable” data belonging to hundreds of millions of users, Parakilas said."

So it's quite possible that there are more than a few third parties holders of FB user data who have now been alerted to the potential profitability of their old "research data."
Having implemented several projects in the world of analyzing data to make predictions, I think a bigger issue exists: the philosophical (existential?) difference between frequentists and Bayesians. Essentially these two approaches have 'irreconcilable differences'. This is where the 'not enough evidence' objection (objection 3 in the article) usually rears its ugly head. In my observation, the reason silicon valley gets a deserved reputation for using data to make decisions well is that they are (mostly) Bayesian. Startups have to make decisions with very small data sets. If they were to wait until there was a large sample size of users, they would never get over the chicken-egg problem of scale. So they all out of necessity go talk to their small set of users, find out what they like, then make prior assumptions about what a slightly larger group of users might like.
Did you not hear the amazing tale of Stuxnet? Buckle in. The world has truly became a cyberpunk playland.

https://www.wired.com/2014/11/countdown-to-zero-day-stuxnet/
I honestly think reward cards are a rent-seeking mechanism against merchants. Merchants (or CC processors a la stripe) pay the higher transaction fee just because a customer swiped their “Platinum Bonus Cash Back Rewards Ultimate Black++” card for the painting they want to buy from you. Fuck that.
Under disadvantages:

> It’s harder to reason out program flow

This seems like a big one. You're basically creating a distributed systems problem for yourself.
Klingon Language Institute
Microsoft publishes open source TPM 2.0 implementation
Do you find it hard to believe that an organization based in the UK, and citizens of that union, are more interested in whats going in Yemen than an organization based in the US, and of course the citizens of that union.

I know whats happening in Yemen, I've read the facts, and now I don't care anymore. I don't want to see it in the news everyday because it wasn't relevant to me when I read about it and it has practically zero chance of every being relevant to me.

What Trump said about xxx person at yyy place is varying degrees of relevant to my life, all of those degrees more so than Yemen.

If Fox had a large Middle Eastern demographic that it's advertisers cared about, you would see Yemen Nightly at 7:30 without question.
I'd argue that there's no way to understand monads as a whole except by understanding the monadic laws. That is to say, I don't think there's some grand theory that unifies all monadic types. Rather, I think that certain types just happen to be monadic and, as a result, we can reason about and do certain things with those types that we can't do with other types.

What's the similarity between List, State, and IO? I'd argue that there is little similarity apart from the fact that we can define the monadic operations for all three. And, having defined those operations, we can then use more complex operations like `sequence`.

Monadic types sometimes represent data structures, sometimes represent contexts or, in the case of IO, sometimes represent nothing really at all. IO is arguably just a marker that imposes a linear sequence on what would otherwise be unsequenced computation.

In short: don't spend too much time trying to understand monads as a whole. Rather, try to understand why specific types, like List and State, happen to be monadic.
Am I missing something or would this be a lot easier to read if it were organized somewhat chronologically?

I say somewhat since era of main use is more important than initial year of release.
>a sane human driver will evaluate the possibility of someone coming out from between them suddenly and will not drive @40 Miles an hour speed.

If that's the case most drivers on the road are very far from "sane drivers." I've been illegally passed, on narrow residential streets, many times, because I was going a speed that took into account the fact someone may jump out between parked cars.
This fact alone should be reason enough to leave Facebook for good. Facebook's goal is to be the middleman for all communication, and why the hell would you trust a corporation that can blacklist you from all of their platforms with a snap of a finger?
I guess what OP meant was that for backups durability is important and periods of downtime are not as crucial as for say catpicturegram.
Twitter, Snap, Instagram, Uber, Palantir, and pretty much every SV unicorn which exists because the law is slow to react and they’re running at full tilt? This seems like the accepted playbook in SV, and until recently it was lauded on this site and elsewhere.

That’s how.
> If the FTC finds Facebook violated terms of the consent decree, it has the power to fine the company thousands of dollars a day per violation.

Maybe I'm misreading this, but only a few thousand?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16627060
VR is still early but it's convincing. Have you tried a very good VIVE setup? I've only used it once but that's all it took for me to understand that VR is the future of immersive entertainment. Based on that experience it seems apparent to me that the only thing stopping it from becoming mainstream is the clunkiness you describe. However, we should all know that it's only a matter of time before that clunkiness is replaced by a better engineered form factor.
Assad isn't even close to "one of the most brutal dictators" the Middle East has ever seen.

That's a ridiculous statement to make and reeks of propaganda.

The Iranians are supporting him though and since our strategic interests are not aligned we get the propaganda.

(Not to suggest Assad isn't somewhat brutal, but there is a history of history of brutality in the area stretching back to the beginning of civilization and Western/Turkish effort in modern times haven't been kindly either so lets don't get all carried away with nonsense.).
AFAIK the law in the US is much more arbitrary in the sense that a lot of it is case law. Until such a case has been before a jury, and jurisprudence has been established it's basically a coin toss.

The thing that may feel arbitrary is simply the fact the laws in Europe actually enforce privacy, whereas a company, and people, form the US expect that these laws are teethless.
It's like the diesel scandal, IMO. Everybody in the industry knows what's going on, but that doesn't mean the industry's Overton window isn't liable to be reset with severe repercussions once the general public gets looped in.
>Curious, why doesn't that developer work remote for US/EU/UK and cash-in but works locally for 4K?

Certainly some do. If US/EU/UK companies were more open to hiring remote freelancers with near nil language/social/work culture skills who can run away with money at any moment, Western labour market would've been overrun long ago.

Please guys, no more further derailing of the original topic.
If no one paid a tip, people wouldn't want the job so the company would have to raise wages to compensate. This extra cost can be passed on in higher pizza prices.
Im honestly not surprised by this news at all.
It will offer a possibile solution in Europe, where Facebook has already been under heavy scrutiny.
It won't change anything in the US, South America, SE Asia and developing countries where Facebook is already dangerously synonimical to the whole online experience of the average user.
If each person is considered a separate violation then $1000/day adds up quickly.
So, when do we start discussing the scientific research of Wim Hof? The "Wim Hof Method" combines breathing exercises that stimulate the vagus nerve with cold exposure to release cold shock proteins.
Computation on encrypted data
Sure, but we still need some term to disambiguate between "a company didn't protect my data against intruders" and "a company sold my data, then didn't like what the buyer did with it".

This isn't like the Equifax breach. It's not a result of Facebook's security practices. It's a result of Facebook's entire business model.
Well, all I can say is that I personally often find the full stack interesting when debugging exceptions, and might still try and implement passing stack info in my monolithic system (in spite of this discussion which might have been above my pay-grade honestly). In case it breaches some important CS principle that I don't fully grasp yet then it will surely come back and bite me - which has happened before ... :) . Anyway, thanks for your time.
Data they could have acquired directly from FB anyway? It seems like they found a way to make the data acquisition process more efficient (while also violating FB's TOS, which is the actual problem here).

But the point is, the methods CA used to influence voters weren't significantly different from Obama's 2012 campaign.
In my experience, health insurance is no cheaper in the midwest, but you have lower quality care in many areas. Care can be especially difficult in rural areas.

For comparison, I pay about $600 / month for a High deductible plan that pays nothing until I pay $6k. This is through a company with about 300 employees. I'm in an urban area (Indy).
If none of the upstream copyright holders feel there is a violation worth pursuing, then there is no real issue.

If the upstream copyright holders feel there is a violation worth pursuing, then they have venues to which to escalate if an issue filed with the project is inadequate to resolve the problem.
I was with them when they were still a frontend to Wirecard Bank and called Number26. Not sure if it's gotten better since then but their support was much more unprofessional than any other German bank I've ever dealt with. It's important to notice that we have so-called direct banks (i.e. without a physical branch) for a few decades now and the competition had a long time to work out their processes.

Number26 was unable to provide actual, immutable account statements. They generated some PDFs for every month but they were often retroactively changed on certain events (e.g. if a merchant cleared a transaction more than seven days later). I was unable to get someone there to even recognize the problem.

Their terms of services stated that foreign currency transactions were converted using a data source made available to both parties. Naturally I asked for access to that data source. The one linked in the FAQ didn't match my actual transactions and was missing some currencies I used completely. Once again, support was unable to understand the problem at all and repeatly said that Number26 doesn't have access to the fx rates they use either. So much for the contract they themselve drafted.

I then closed my account shortly before the switchover to their own bank. The new terms said that transactions might not be processed on certain days announced on a paper at their Berlin HQ which I found pretty amusing (and have never seen in other terms). Hopefully that has changed now as well.
Use a lottery system with prepaid authorizations? Pretty much any system where people can put up some money and walk away. Fixed price, no queues.
Pretty much everywhere. Here’s the first google result for “starting salary by major”: http://time.com/money/collection-post/3829776/heres-what-the...
Facebook exec who helped hunt down Russia’s political ads is leaving the company
Kotlins `apply` seems exactly like the much maligned `with` statement from JavaScript, which has been deprecated.

Why is it elegant here, but deprecated there?
Or Trudeau. Or anyone.
No, I'm not being silly: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/11152980/

> There was a significant increase in accidents for the Monday immediately following the spring shift to DST (t=1.92, P=0.034).
A lot of people want to work in games, so your junior people are easily replaced. Projects are episodic, and often do or die for small companies or even studios in larger companies. So the choice is perceived as maybe burning out a team or probably shutting down.

Games are also one of those things where there is a big reward for being first and best, and little or no reward for being competent. Even though, as an audience you may not see it that way.
How is this enforced? What is software development as a field doing to regulate itself and ensure members follow this guide?
The alt-right is in decline. Has antifascist activism worked?
>> ...but that protected data was accessed by folks who shouldn't have had it.

Facebook handed over the data. They need to understand that they don't have control over it once it leaves Facebook. Is a violation of ToS a data breach? Do we really want to conflate those things?
I spent a half day playing around with something very similar to this. I wanted a concise language for describing data pipelines in Pandas, and was (ab)using python dunder methods (operator overloading) to this end. Like:

`data | groupby, "author" | mean`

Would create a graph object, which could be lazily evaluated, run in Dask, TF, etc.

It started to get ugly when passing in multiple parameters into a function. I had to watch out for left and right associativity, and manage casting of arguments.

It was a fun little experiment but I'm not sure how much it would actually improve workflows. If that sounds interesting, let me know and I'll poke at it again.
Yeah, I'm not sure either. (The misspellings, perhaps?)

From what I've read, there has been some pretty decent progress in reducing demand for elephant ivory, which has a similar issue in Asia, due to various information campaigns. (https://www.economist.com/news/china/21678838-remarkable-pro...) Sadly, this seems to have not worked for the rhino.
1. Telegram.

2. You tell them it has cooler stickers.
Trumpet player here, and I’ve had similar experiences. A longtime friend of mine is an operatic soprano, and she can practically break a spirometer!