skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
...logical step in this chain of events is that the government will inbound all of Facebooks data for further investigation.

Maybe with this move, we can skip the whole 2018 census. ;-)
Just my point of view, but while the two roles overlap, it feels like there's a difference in how you work with them. A mentor is someone you can bring your problems to and they suggest paths forward, navigating challenges based on their experience. A coach looks at what you're doing and proactively suggests changes you may not have brought to them. The two complement each other but I don't think they're quite the same.
The hope is that Facebook will not have two different data handling strategies for EU and non-EU users and we'll see some sort of regulatory encroachment from the EU to the rest of the world. But obviously GDPR endangers so many of Facebook's shady but lucrative practices that they will have financial incentives to set up two different user silos.
That's not how GDPR works.
I love how fast the notifications are with N26. When I am standing at the ATM I can feel my phone vibrating while the ATM still counts the money to give it out to me. Same when I pay with the credit card at a hotel for example, I know the transaction worked before I the credit card-machine spits out the receipt.

I know this doesn't sound like much of an advantage but it fills me with trust in the system and just feels very modern.
Though this sounds good, I would frown on doing this. Companies often state that any work produced 'at work' does not but belongs to you but belongs to the company. I would go to a Starbucks or some other place where you can do your side projects.
We all know what a data breach is, calling this a data breach is playing fast and loose with the term.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_breach

Look at all the examples of a data breach in this wiki. The CA/Facebook incident looks nothing like them.

CA either paid facebook to collected data through apps or scraped data from public profiles. Maybe the CA/facebook incident will change what we consider "breach" to mean but right now "unauthorized collection of public data to create a political profile of users" is not a data breach.
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You know, I thought the same thing. But honestly I rarely used those forums. And the people I can't keep in contact with, well... I don't really miss them. I have phone numbers for the people that matter and have resumed exchanging phone numbers with people, which I hadn't really done in several years.

I am part of an organization that uses fb as the primary means of communication. The people that at the top have been pretty obnoxious about me not being on it anymore. But frankly, I see their attitude as pretty toxic and think they should move to a professional method of communication (they are a pretty amateurish / small org).

Sometimes disruption is a good thing. I've been studying a lot more (as a professional dev taking online classes) in the past few months since leaving fb.
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My point (made more explicitly a couple comments upthread) is just that my life is not organized around "events" like you're describing. So yeah, it doesn't "scale", but that's not the point. I'm also not suggesting that Facebook is "worthless", what I'm pushing back on is the idea some people seem to have that this "someone has to organize an event" way of socializing is the only way. My way is a different way that works well for me (and I think lots of other people), and I'm certain there are lots of other ways, some of which benefit greatly from Facebook, and some of which don't.

> you will not ever be able to make any real alternative

This seems like a bit of a non-sequitur. I'm not sure who suggested they want to make an alternative. Certainly not the person you replied to, because that's me, and I don't want to do that :)
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They do not and that fact is unambiguously stated on both bank's website[0] and price list. It also hasn't changed compared to last time you claimed that on this site.

[0]: https://www.comdirect.de/konto/girokonto.html and https://www.dkb.de/privatkunden/dkb_cash/
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Yes, always thought it weird that folks are so protective about health data but nothing else. Why the dichotomy?
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Facebook DO want to frame it as a breach. Because then it's a f*-up, not expected behaviour.
Nothing will change with government regulations, those companies like Facebook, Google, etc are gold mines for the FBI, CIA, NSA and other 3 letter organizations, so in the interest of national security, they will continue to harvest the user data... Only major boycott can do some damage...
> We know people can sustainably live at much higher densities than Africans currently do.

Really? What are some places where people live sustainably at higher densities and at the same scale?

3 people sharing a sustainable farm doesn't count. You also have to account for the cities, which consume vastly more resources and produce vastly more waste.
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Yep. If/when the 50M profiles become public, Facebook will be bending over backwards to rebrand this as a breach. However, on the (Twitter) record, their CISO has already said emphatically this was not a breach. He's been demoted.
Because they're stealing secrets from people? I confess I'm confused why this is confusing. The exercise here is to know when something is public that you want to keep secret. The proposed solution is to make the secret something have value independent of its secretness, to tempt those that stole the secret to obtain that independent value. I'm fine attaching "greed" to profiting from stealing secrets.
It's a test to see if they should bother moving forward. You don't want to gear up a big study just to find out that the treatment gives everyone cancer (which is a concern mentioned in the article) or that it doesn't work at all. You do a pilot study to see if there is potential before you waste a lot of work and maybe hurt people.

Anyway if the effect size is big enough, you don't need a really large study to get statistical significance. I mean, what are the odds of macular degeneration reversing by chance?
My intention was to contrast the mundane connotation of "business as usual" with the visceral negative reaction most of us seem to have with our data being used this way.

The point I'm trying to make is that there's a difference between an isolated attack (e.g. Equifax) and what Facebook has going on here. To the person who reads about a "data breach at Facebook", it does sound like this was an abberant event that happened suddenly — rather than systemically, by a machine built on doing this every day.

Cambridge Analytica's actions may illuminate how far this can go, but we should treat it as the norm — and regulate accordingly.
A week and a half isn't crunch though, I'm talking about sustained long hours over a month or more(usually 4-6 months).

Working a strong week is totally fine if followed by some recovery time. As long as it doesn't go longer than 2 weeks that's possible to do without destroying productivity, although you still run the risk of burning out your employees.
That’s nice, but it doesn’t change the fact that I tried to get a CC with them, and they said no.

I tried with Commerzbank, Comdirekt, Postbank, DKB, ING-Diba, Hanseaticbank, Wüstenrot, and a bunch more.

Every bank required either some income, or that I pay. I’ve been in bank branches or called their sales every time.

You always say "it’s technically possible", but that doesn’t change the fact that these banks all said they couldn’t offer it.

The fact is, N26 is the only bank that agreed to open an account with me, and offer me a CC, where I hold 0.00€ balance and transfer about 25€ via CC per year.
None of course, but I don't believe they will get them all.
I don't work for facebook. I don't have a facebook. I don't like facebook.

What I do like is honesty.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_breach

Look at this very robust list of data breaches and tell me how the CA/Facebook incident this week looks anything like any of them.
Wasn't all this started with Blairs Premiership new Nudge technolgy to allow the government to get its subjects to behave as desired?
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Grab some introduction to ethics book and think how you would implement what's written in there - and how you choose which one is the right ethical theory for the situation you're in. We had a lecture on that (lecturer had MSc in C.S. and was doing a PhD in philosophy), and many problems are very hard to reason about.

Even if you don't plan to build such software, I can really recommend any computer scientist to get an idea of ethics; in addition to the lecturers slides we used the book "The Cambridge Handbook of Information and Computer Ethics".
Research in that direction is only gaining traction right now (not only, but also the "how do you implement an ethical decision automaton?"-part).

Remember: We humans can be lucky to have intuition and reflexes, which kind of put us out of the ethical issue: Usually accidents happen so fast, you can't think about the ethically acceptable reaction and just act more or less random/whatever your training and reflexes tell you to do (or you're so in shock when you realize what's about to happen you can not react at all). If you run over a child because you evade an elder person that's a bad situation to be in either way (assuming your driving was within legal parameters); if the computer actively decides to run over person X instead of person Y due to some algorithmic decision (or coin flipping, doesn't really matter) that's basically worse - because it ultimately decided person Y deserves the right to live more than person X.

That's why there was/is that large hype involving the trolley problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem
wow, ok. i was very wrong! thank you for explaining!
GDPR isn't only about data deletion, but also about the transparency of data handling strategies. There was a "nightmare GDPR" letter HN post a couple of days ago that illustrates some of those responsibilities.
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There is a certain amount of second hand smoke in the room, though.

1) I can quit my social media, but people are still creating a lot of content with me in it that is being used. I don't need to take a poll about which potato I am if all the posts my friends tag me in are mined for data.

2) While social media is in itself great for cloistering my own community, it's still the case that vast numbers of my compatriots are involved with it and it will continue to be affected by it.

"Just leaving" isn't going to solve either of those problems.

I wholly agree, by the way, that leaving it is a personally good thing. I still use, but I heavily filter it and I have several 0-tolerance policies for unfollowing / blocking / etc. I probably ought to quit, but the crushing loneliness and disconnection of being a 40-year-old, divorced, atheistic remote worker who is quitting drinking make it about my only social interaction short of buying groceries.
Twentieth century, as Martha (probably the last member of the species, although the standard post-extinction cryptic sightings continued into the 1930s) died in 1914.

If anybody wants to read an extremely complete book on the subject, it's hard to do better than A Feathered River Across The Sky[0]. It's well written and the science is sound.

[0]: https://www.amazon.com/Feathered-River-Across-Sky-Extinction...
Zuckerberg and Sandberg, who in past years would post frequently about the issues of the day, have shied away from reacting to the most controversial news. They need to comment on this ongoing craziness.
Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me twice, shame on you.
I'm starting to think that game developers enjoy their toxic work environment until they finally realize that it is taking a toll. By then, they find that they're often stuck / lack the confidence to move on.
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If people were paid fairly for this data then these companies wouldn't exist. I'm not saying this is good or bad, but you'd turn around and be charged to use the service.

Interesting side question, how do you see market forces working to set a proper payment for data to users? Right now Facebook is essentially saying your data is worth free photos and being advertised and propogandized and people seem to accept that. How does this not become the standard of exchange in your system for any popular network effect service?
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Yeah I didn't have the smoothest onboarding experience with the identity checking (I'm not from a first world country) - however it eventually worked (Feb 2018).

I originally couldn't even request postident (verification by Deutsche Post at a local post office for those not familiar) - after an app update the option magically appeared to request postident.

What disappointed me was that I was on the phone with their customer support and apparently even if you have a residence ID (I'm assuming this should be considered a legal document proving your identity to the host nation since it's issued by them) that it would not allow me open an account. I really do hope they accept this legal form of identification for those with less luck.

I wouldn't say it's a racist thing, but it's certainly feels extremely personal when you can't open an account with an organization because of your nationality (or your national documents to be precise).
Have had a free CC with Commerzbank for ages, as a student.
WA? CA? I personally really like the fact that servers are getting paid so well here in WA, and I've been tipping a lot less as a result. When it goes up the $13, I might reconsider it altogether. Thank goodness, I dislike the entire process. I think that it makes people mean; when you are a server working for tips you have a thousand bosses, and far too many people are terrible with even a modicum of power.
You don't even need a developer account. You could just scrape Facebook which is probably what CA did in the first place. They used the app to identify US users and from there on just scrape the pages using a headless browser and multiple proxies.
It's one thing to state that it's common and simple to, say, overclock a CPU, even if the processor specs have a speed a few percent lower. Typical headroom, operator requirements, and a decent cooler suggest that everyone could probably bump clock speeds by a few percent without issue.

But you wouldn't expect a plane crash investigation to mention offhand that the flight computers were mildly overclocked.

A test drive of a new self-driving car should not speed, even if it's common or normal.
More to the point, I've talked to second line tech support agents who have told me that they block all incoming connections on port 25 as a spam prevention measure.
It's valid to almost any other dev work apart from gaming.

As long as you're in your job not purely for the passion but also plain old pragmatism, management is forced to treat you well - otherwise you just walk next door doing the same shit (ideally for 10-20% more).

After university I was deciding which way to do (basically either cca backend Java vs cca game dev in C/C++). I took the more corporate Java way and couldn't be happier for last 14 years (within work-for-money restriction, my true happiness comes from stuff I do outside of work).
It's hard if you licensed some of the code elsewhere and boundaries are unclear (and then ignore all the fallout from publishing - others can't use it and will call support, security researchers might find bugs, ...)

If more code would be shared it would be a better world, but the way s not simple. Respecting licenses of ocurse is a requirement.
Usually they are implants, a control unit with battery embedded under the skin in your shoulder and then a wire up to the vagus nerve in the neck. They are used to control epilepsy among other things. I think there may be external versions too but they are newer and I'm not sure how effective they are.
Being lauded on HN has zero impact on regulation.

What amazes me is that there's so little regard for privacy amongst legislators (and by extension their constituents, I suppose) that these behemoth companies have escaped so far.
I think there's a meaningful, non-definition difference - and in some ways it makes Facebook look worse.

Metaphorically, somebody had a gun, and someone else took that gun and used it to rob a bank. Equifax left the gun sitting visible in an unlocked car, and people are angry about the predictable results. Facebook was running a "borrow my gun" program for strangers, but had a clause saying "no using my gun for crimes, no lending my gun to any third parties". One of those strangers lent the gun to the robber, and Facebook is saying this isn't their problem because they said not to do that.

So yes, they're both bad outcomes. But "breach" usually means "this was stolen without our knowledge", and that's a very misleading impression to create here.
Alexis, how would you help someone in work-till-death-depression-spiral help to recognize they may not be as happy as they claim to be? I have a friend who works all day and all night (literally), and is almost guaranteed deeply depressed and borderline psychotic (although I am not a doctor).

I have tried being suggestive, and tried being direct, but the response had ultimately come down to "you are not working as hard as I am, so you just don't understand."

What, if anything, could help snap someone out of their depression or at least help them find help on their own?
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Can't seem to load any documents today, getting a server error.
Looking at the google street view I am astonished someone thought it was a good idea to allow a bunch of random plants to grow in the median.

It makes visibility insanely complicated, especially at night.
Listening to politicos, you'd think the systems were actually compromised, and, in the same breath, boogeypeople from Russia are mentioned in order to conflate things in the mind of the audience. This willful conflation is a tactic to drive a narrative.

HIPAA data is accessed by researchers, sometimes anonymized, but not in all cases. These are not considered breaches. In addition, as others indicate, FB posts are not, at least at this time, protected data.

So, while illustrative, the analogy is not apt.
unfortunately that is all we have. There is nobody on earth with your exact genetic makeup (even identical twins, though then the random mutation is small enough to ignore: consider it an exception). As a result nothing exactly will behave correctly for you. A drug that causes death in 99% of those it is tried on might be the one you need, but because it is so deadly trials will ensure it never makes it to market.
Wait a minute.....

Wasn't the FTC already "monitoring" Facebook?

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ftc-to-monitor-facebook-for-20-...

Oh, that's right. That whole monitoring for 20 years thing, that they're also applying to Google and a few other companies is a complete joke. If anything, it has become almost a badge of honor/certification thing - like "Look, the FTC is monitoring us for 20 years, so that obviously means we can't possibly abuse your data or do anything nefarious with it!"
And that's what libertarians fail to grasp.
Honestly I think ease of use of a library is way more important than implementation elegance. How many people are ever going to look at your libraries source code? .001% of your users? I use the C++ stl every day, but if you look at the implementation it's basically horrifying, but I don't really care because the interface is straightforward and does its job.

My main issue with fluent interfaces though is you can end up with objects in weird half initialized states, and there's generally combinations of parameters that are incompatible which the type system can't help you with. The point of constructors is you don't end up with semi-initialized objects
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Easier than what?
I wonder if GDPR could be applied to companies I don't have a relationship with but have my data (i.e. CA-type data collection companies)?
I am not sure I want:

* HTTP-requests done in constructors

* Assertion classes that wrap objects of interest which in turn must be extracted from their wrapper

* Specific methods that assert that one very specific attribute has an equally specific integer value.
Yup, the pay thing is a double edged sword too because most studios are usually in high CoL locations.

When I left the industry it was an instant 2x income increase. I went from paycheck to paycheck to being able to actually afford living in the Seattle area.

I remember running the numbers on the hours I was working at my salary rate and realized that I would have been better off flipping burgers instead. It wasn't the breaking point but it definitely was a contributing factor.
Unfortunately, “has no obvious bugs” is not quite the same as “obviously has no bugs”. TDD gives you the former, static typing the latter (within what can be represented by the type system, of course)
It would just pass the buck. What everyone on HN is clamoring for will result in basically more bureaucracy and longer EULAs with no actual change in business practice.

Businesses don't take it seriously because people don't actually care. Some do. The vast majority don't. They might say so in a survey, but at the end of the day, Facebook (and companies like it) will continue to survive doing what they always have been and people will continue using those services.

That's the root of the issue, though. People really don't care as much as posters on HN think they do. If we could acknowledge that, I think we could come up with better solutions.
Isn't that their business model?
Everyone at least says their compensation is competitive—-it’s not a way for an employer to differentiate. As a candidate, when I see the word “competitive” that tells me it’s lower than “generous,” “excellent,” “top of market,” basically lower than any other description of compensation out there.
I sort of agree. However note that when you pull data about friends, you don't get information about friends who have a higher privacy setting. Also, you can't get personal information about these friends through the api, however you could just web scrape it for many.
You're just saying the driver is even more to blame - going faster than the speed limit even though visibility is reduced should increase, not decrease, culpability.
I wonder if terrain roughness features could be used collectively to form extremely accurate positioning for vehicles. Collect data on bumps, slopes, curves, orientation and then use this data to predict most probable current location based on accelerometer data. This would be accurate in cases where "Dead reckoning" is inaccurate and vis versa. (related concept https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TERCOM)
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Which narrows it down. The problem isn't that the offers don't exist (they are successfully used by many people) but that for some reasons almost all banks refuse you as their customers. The only explanation I have is that something is seriously wrong with your credit rating. Have you looked into what Schufa, Infoscore, and Boniversum have on you? Have you asked the refusing banks for your data? (The latter one isn't really well known but possible as well.)
The before state may or may not be bad, but the after state is hideous. Multiply nested constructors?
CA state that the data was collected by a third party as "academic research" and they didn't know that when it was given to them - so they violated the terms of service in good faith.

Whether you believe them is another matter.