skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why edit tag when you are not even annotating what you edit?

Your original post was nothing as it is now.

You are being grossly deceptive, and this is coming from a guy who loves to play devils advocate on hn
It's more like the combination of ip / website / using-adblock / screen resoluction / installed fonts / installed plugins and their versions / hash-this / hash-that are individually non-identifying by themselves, but a combination of them can be used to uniquely identify an individual. [1]

But who, exactly, is the individual? Well, that comes later. Maybe your blocker fails to block something that is gathering that data plus your identity. Now, all of that activity (that was previously not tied to an individual) can now be safely linked to you, the individual.

1: https://panopticlick.eff.org/
You're comparing harvesting from a tree/small tree to harvesting from a vine that, by nature, always grows very close to the ground. Many plants in strawberry fields are maybe a foot high (often less), and very dense.
You are saying that the dollar amount spent decides every election. Do you really believe that democracy is nothing more than rule by whoever spends the most money?

Not entirely but is has a very big impact, are you saying that money spent in an election doesn't have an impact? We don't even know the true dollars spent anymore...

Follow up, do you want MORE foreign funds deciding elections for your nation over what citizens and national companies contribute?

This isn't just for elections either, this is for legislation after election... I don't believe anyone would want foreign money deciding their leaders, best interests and laws.
Yes. Maybe it's time we quit obsessing over headlines, and realized that actually reading the article might be necessary.
In other news, we don't actually have the technology anymore to put a man on the Moon. Hence why we are having to redevelop it all over again.
>but why now?

The two things catalysing the latest media frenzy are first the recent Facebook Russian interference scandal increasing interest in Facebook data stories generally. That’s just a tip king issue.

The second is the Channel 4 undercover recording of CA execs advising on the use of corrupt practices in a Sri Lankan political campaign. Of course the US angle is getting all the press in the US, but this is what triggered a Renewed journalistic interest in the company.

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/uk-news/2...
There's something quite funny about him being capable enough to discover a vulnerability like this but not being (legally speaking) capable enough to enter into a contract. :)
They were the first to deploy it on such a massive scale, but I can assure you they did not invent that concept.
I assure you that if you jump in front of a moving train you will be killed. How is this different?
Most of the research in compressed sensing type applications now is focused on more sophisticated prior distributions than sparse/Laplacian. These more general bayesian approaches provide significant performance improvements over LASSO etc.
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Yeah, I have always felt that a lot of these easy reasons for crashes (texting, drinking alcohol, speeding) are, while statistically linked with crashes of course, also emphasized due to psychology -- we all want to feel like there's something straightforward we can do to avoid serious wrecks. If it's moralistic, even better, that means morally good people don't wreck and wrecks happen when people do morally bad things.

There's not enough emphasis on the strategy and skill of driving, and that's for the same reason, I think. We've tried so hard to make driving as basic as walking, someone anyone should easily be able to do, and that doesn't fit well with something that takes a long time to master, that you can always learn a little more about.

So instead there's a narrative that all a driver has to do is obey some cut and dry rules, stop at all stop signs, never drink and drive, always do exactly 5mph over the speed limit (or is it 10? or is it 4? 7? 0?), and if they do all that they can zone out and not worry about anything but what's right in front of them in the windshield.

No immediate source, but pretty sure I read somewhere the safety stats between the best and worst drivers is one or two orders of magnitude. And the above is why. The best drivers are playing chess, the worst drivers are playing checkers. The worst drivers look at the same playing board but ignore almost all the information and just stay zombie-like in their lane till they need to brake to avoid something or their GPS says time to turn.

I'm really curious how self-driving software approaches all this. I have a sad suspicion they're programmed from a naive rule-following non-defensive point of view but would love to be proven wrong.
Looking at the policy doc (https://www.safetywing.com/documents/safety-wing-specimen-po...), it looks like scuba diving is covered as long as you are PADI or NAUI certified and not cave diving.
With the exception of big evil things like Comcast, you might be surprised how few ISPs keep detailed logs like this. The effort to correlate them with customers is generally not worth it unless you get a subpoena, and only then is it done manually.
What medication were you prescribed?
> undermine your own countries democratic elections on behalf of an adversarial foreign nation state

Citation needed.
Uber Halts Autonomous Car Tests After Fatal Crash in Arizona
> TDD…) are a direct consequence of that lack of static checking.

Static checking gives you basic unit testing. TDD is far more expansive than unit testing. Static checking is not going to integration test your app for you.
run https://github.com/iancoleman/bip39 on an airgapped laptop
> It's very hard to imagine a scenario in which a 49-year-old woman walking her bike manages to cross 3 lanes of traffic so quickly that the Uber AV, moving at 40 mph, had no time to react, in a location with good street lighting and with clear weather

Explaining the imagining, is the salient issue.

> The parent didn't say that he is imagining anything

Splitting hairs over the phrasing is not compelling. The poster was proposing a scenario as the most reasonable interpretation while couching it to minimize criticism (the equivalent of the "just sayin" trope).

The premise is flawed. It never sounded reasonable to assume the pedestrian did not see the vehicle at all. I can imagine a perfectly reasonable scenario where the pedestrian tried (and failed) to clear the vehicular path before being struck on the attempted destination side of the road.
While "bodycams" show mixed results in civilian-police interaction, given[1] and from what the MSM say, officer testimony may be an area where bodycams do have a valueadd.

Perhaps bodycam footage could be required as corroboration for officer witness testimony to carry weight.

[1]http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1477370816643734
People care, but assume it's inevitable. The government knows everything about me since I have to pay taxes. Likewise the banks because I have to keep my money somewhere. Likewise my cell provider because I need a phone to participate in society. Social media is not as high on the necessity list, but once you've already accepted this inevitability, how much is going to change if you give up Facebook? There is a downside which is measurable if you value the social contact. The upside is completely abstract and un-measurable. What outcome could you ever point to and say, this thing X happened specifically because I gave up Facebook?
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Very good point, those fingerprinting techniques were what I was missing.

Also, thanks for sharing that EFF link, I really like the breakdown of how much entropy they can get from each fingerprint dimension.
low power, spread spectrum, this of course severely limits the range. Example http://www.milspec.ca/radspec/prc-343.html
You've seen hanging strawberry baskets right?

https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/edible/fruits/strawberry/ha...

Point being we don't have to grow things in their natural forms. And we often don't. Olives, after all "by nature" are big trees (which was the point, not to suggest growing strawberries exactly like olives).

And this is without even talking about selective breeding for a different form factor for strawberries. Never mind severe genetic alteration we can do nowadays.
A huge number of people are 50 lb overweight or more. That's probably why bad backs, hips, and knees are so common generally.
> Disclosure: I bought more FB today

May be you can consider the moral side of what you are doing, if you care.

This makes me really sad. People say, they care about privacy - theirs and others'. But they are okay making money investing for the same.
I was under the impression this wasn’t really believed anymore. The only discussion I can find for it is here though:

http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2013/06/27/the-myth-...
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China's Tencent to take stake in Ubisoft
More often than not ticks are hanging out on long grass waiting for you to brush up against it.

I believe it's a common (and unproven) myth[1] that 'falling from trees' is the primary way that ticks seek out targets...

1. http://medent.usyd.edu.au/fact/ticks.htm
JDK 10 is out
There’s definitely nothing new or different about privatizing criminal justice, and considering they are merely adding a middle-man to probation, it’s not radical either. This has been done many times. It results in cruel, unjust behavior hidden from public scrutiny and regulation. America has enough of this garbage as it is.
Having grown up around Johnson Space Center and the decommissioned Saturn V on display, I think this is more of a "technically true" misnomer. It's true in the same way we don't have the technology to build a 69 Camaro anymore because we dismantled it and have no desire to, not because we have lost the technical capability.
How do you frame that kind of thinking today though? Pewdiepie can reach 3.2 million people with a YouTube video. As can hundreds of podcasters. That's more effective than any ad. If Joe Rogan does 50 podcasts with folks pushing one narrative, and the corporations and unions who support that narrative donate to his patreon page as a result, how do you enforce this?

If The Young Turks do 3000 hours of pro Hillary content, which is watched and shared by millions, how do you propose they be regulated? If unions simply give them money instead, rather than buying ads on TV, is that now illegal?

If I am a billionaire and my fellow billionaires and I want to start a TV channel where we do 24 hour marathons promoting clean energy and encouraging voters to vote for candidates who will bring us clean energy, my right to do this is taken away?
I probably have things to hide, but: I ignore ads. I don't click on political news. I pretty much ignore everything except my friends' vacation photos. Please tell me in concrete terms a specific downside to staying on Facebook. What's the non-tinfoil hat scenario that I am naively ignoring? Wake up and my bank account is drained, or what?
I think the original idea of 'crunch' is that short period but games (and, in my experience, vfx) tend to just normalize that constant long hours (though they'll hire you saying that hours only get bad at peak times without mentioning that it's always a 'busy' time).
> If a person causes suffering, then they should experience suffering themselves. Balance attained.
> However, if the intention of a justice system is to reduce the total amount of injustice done in the world, then punishment is surprisingly ineffective.

This.

Retribution is a terrible way to run things. "The law is reason free from passion."

https://theamericanscholar.org/death-by-treacle/

"One of the first victim impact statements made outside a civil courtroom was that of the mother of actress Sharon Tate, who was murdered in 1969 by Charles Manson and his family. At the time of Manson’s 1978 parole hearing in California no state specifically allowed victim statements in criminal cases—those brought by government and “We the People.” Today, however, they are a routine part of the sentencing and parole process in every state. According to advocates, they allow victims to personalize the crime and elevate the status of the victim by describing the effect the crime has had on them or their families. Some laud the courtroom ritual as an aid in the emotional recovery of the victim, with the criminal proceeding envisioned as part of a larger therapeutic process. A few legal scholars suggest that the well-intentioned personalization of a crime can blur the line between public justice and private retribution. Conversely, does a criminal deserve a more lenient sentence if his victim was someone of so little charm or social worth that he had no one to testify movingly for him? Of course, rape charges used to be mitigated on just such grounds, that the victim had so little virtue or sexual morals that the crime against her didn’t mean as much."
Germany (and NZ) use MMP - everyone gets 2 votes one to select someone for their local voting district - that provides half the seats in parliament, the other vote is for a party, these votes are used to choose the other half of the seats which, taking into consideration the parties of the local representatives who have already been elected, are used to pad out the party representatives to match the country wide party vote.

In both countries there is a threshold (5% party votes) that a party must get to get party seats ... looking online in 2013 AFD (spit) got less than 5%, below the threshold, and got no seats, in the recent election they got above the threshold and were awarded 92 seats (14%) - seems to me that the system is working as designed.

But just because they got seats it doesn't mean that the other parties are required to stoop to form a government with them.

MMP is a far better system than the FPP system used in many other places, most people end up with someone they voted for representing them, unless they are in an extreme minority (<5%), and it's pretty immune to gerrymandering. Personally I'd argue for reducing the 5% threshold to the size of one seat so even more people are represented.
It doesnt work like that, even GSM "fixed function" DSPs had scratchpad ram area for patches, this is how clever people were able to hack old cellphone hardware for more general purpose usage https://osmocom.org/projects/baseband/wiki/HardwareCalypsoDS...
And here's his original letter to Weil.

https://publications.ias.edu/rpl/paper/43
Really? I see the entire article. Here are key points:

The funding is led by Fred Wilson at Union Square Ventures and Chris Dixon at Andreessen Horowitz.

Cryptokitties launched in November 2017 as a project inside of Axiom Zen, a Vancouver-based studio. With its series A, Cryptokitties will spin off into its own company.

Roham Gharegozlou, CEO of both Axiom Zen and Cryptokitties, said he has about 20 employees focusing on the kitties and plans to use the funds to grow his team, including by adding roles for artists and content creators.

Edit: I received paywall after refreshing window. Article goes on to say most expensive cats are listed around $55m
There's no point in saying that a signal is "noise like".

The signal maybe "noise like", but it should be a noise that has a distinct bandwitch from the "real noise"

The antialias filter just reduces the amplitude of the data collected (signal plus noise) in the exact frequencies that pertains to the bandwitch of the "real noise".

i.e you have to garantee that your desired signal has a different bandwitch than the noise. In that case, thermal noise must have this proprierty in comparison to neuron signals.

PS: English is not my first language. Sorry about any grammar or orthographical errors.
cars are not trains, for one.

road usage is shared among cars, motorcycles and scooters, trucks, pedestrians, bicycles, mobility scooters, and other things.
I was confused when I clicked on the article and could not find a video. The title is misleading, and while it would be nice if we always had the time to carefully read every article we come across, the reality is that I (and probably many others here) will skim through multiple titles and only click on the most interesting ones. Something as definitive as "Video Shows Woman Stepped Suddenly..." can easily leave a false impression in people's minds.
Agree it depends on the bottom line. But if this makes people more skeptical of things they see on Facebook and reduces the effectiveness of ads on the platform then it could be a problem.
Here's demo day #2: https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/20/these-are-the-64-startups-...
Yeah. And if you wanted to virtualize Android apps...
and the purpose was to establish merely a financial/technical barrier to entry for potential attackers at a time realtime grabbing/processing more than one megahertz of bw was $$K expensive.

Today $130 gets you 30MHz full duplex radio, $300 60MHz one.
The article credits three journalists in the byline, with four other individuals credited as contributors.

Given that this was published a day after the SF Chronicle piece, I think there's a good chance the article has deeper sourcing or corroboration, and that the headline is deliberate.
I think it's more a acknowledgement of the current state of popularity of languages and an attempt to win people over rather than a manifestation of latent doubt.
> Yes, the conservatives are done for. That is, the party itself will fail to stay relevant.

I think it's the opposite - the people are done for. The party will just shift its stances. In many respects it already has - Trump faces almost as much opposition within his own party as from the Democrats.

If Trump doesn't sort out immigration expect the US to shift closer in laws and accepted practices to the UK.
> That doesn't mean they were brainwashed by Facebook, that they're all white supremacists, etc.

At the risk of engaging in a debate I don’t want to participate in, is this not building a strawman?

When I purchase a product after viewing a targeted advertisement for that product, no reasonable person would claim I’d been brainwashed. One might, however, claim I’d been influenced by the advertisement.
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My comment is about the coverage of this story, not the story. The story is being covered in the way that I've described.

Facebook privacy stories never get this kind of coverage. This story is everywhere right now, for political reasons.

People want to delete Facebook because of trust and that reasoning is perfectly sane. As far as the coverage is concerned, this is the same story with a Facebook flavour today.
I don't talk about US-partisanship in the media, but of reality. I am not a DC insider, all I know is that at this very moment I am living in peace.
1. Seize distribution (facebook likes, subscribe with google)

2. Muddy the waters over who's user it is (FB instant articles / AMP, FB news feed / AMP carousel)

3. Start taking higher percentages of the ad revenue

4. Laugh when the publishers try to negotiate some back with no leverage

5. Do a big song and dance about how sad it is that publishing has lost all of it's revenue

6. Rinse and repeat (instagram / google news initiative)
Most defendants don't.
Why only Facebook? All companies which store data are suspect.
Because they asked people to opt in, told everyone what data they were collecting and why, and didn't lie about how the data got used.

> This Facebook treasure trove gave Obama an unprecedented ability to reach out to nonsupporters. More important, the campaign could deliver carefully targeted campaign messages disguised as messages from friends to millions of Facebook users.

They weren't "disguised." Messaging friends about Obama was the entire, publicly stated, purpose of the app. The only reason anyone opted into the app in the first place was to message their friends. That's the only way the Obama campaign advertised it.

> in the case of Obama, they had no way of knowing that the Obama campaign material cluttering their feed wasn't really just political urgings from their friends.

It really was just political urgings from their friends. The Obama app did post content on its own and the Obama campaign did not put any ad money behind it. It was a tool for people to harass their friends about Obama.

It's not in any way analogous to what Cambridge Analytica did; the only commonality is that they were both Facebook apps. IBD might as well run an editorial titled "When Farmville Harvested Facebook Data, Everyone Cheered."
The difference between the technology to build a 69 Camaro and a vehicle to take us to the Moon (heh, among many) is that the technology to build the Camaro has steadily evolved into the technology we use to build cars today, whereas we literally stopped making Moon transfer vehicles about 50 years ago and literally haven't made anything since that is capable of doing it again.
> There's nothing (except possibly your ISP) stopping you from opening your firewall and using it remotely.

My ISP won't but there are ways around that. The biggest problem I've faced is on the modem side of things, finding something I'd trust to be open to the internet, ideally something I can install openWRT or similar on and something I know will work in my market. It's an options minefield.
Wow interesting that's the first I had heard that the bacteria theory was discredited.
I agree that Super PAC's need to be eliminated. One funded by George Soros was particularly effective in the anti Ray Moore campaign in Alabama:

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/how-democrats-use-...
Ah, I see. That's certainly an interesting hypothesis. Makes me wonder who the Republican party would target if their typical base evaporates. What would incline center-leaning individuals to continue to support the party after the shitshow that was the 2016 election?

Now you've got me looking forward to how this all turns out even more! :)
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Not really, it's common knowledge. There are a pile of dead Russians ex-IC people all over Europe, the existing Mueller indictments, the Crowdstrike DNC Russian APT attributions, all of our own lying eyes...
BlueprintJS is missing.

Also, material-ui, react-md, Prime React, and quite a few others...
The Bitcoin Core developers have been openly been hostile toward the smart contract use case. They even went so far as to change the size limits on Bitcoin's OP_RETURN op code in order to screw over Counterparty one of the original smart contract implementations. Vitalik Buterin, the creator of Ethereum, is on record saying that the whole reason Ethereum exists as a separate thing instead of a system on top of Bitcoin is because of the contempt the Bitcoin Core developers showed toward the smart contract use case.
Wasn't the original promise of the JVM to provide container like services to applications? This field is way outside where I normally work, I would love to hear some expert commentary about this.
In your example the replacement technology is demonstrably better and more capable. We don’t have replacement technology for the moon lander or even the shuttle.

Though I suppose you could argue sending robots instead of people is better?
One interesting thing about sci-hub is that it's actually in a researcher's best interests to have their articles uploaded to sci-hub and widely distributed. The more people that have access to an article, the more people can build off the ideas contained within, resulting in potentially more citations and advances that the original author can take advantage of.

So, you reading articles off of scihub and expanding on the contained work within directly benefits the author. Just make sure to cite the author if you yourself publish! (Which is actually much less difficult than you might think. Even a blog post can contribute to the field).