skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a very legitimate answer to your question: some people believe that having your code be actually used, at scale/ in the real world, is a benefit in and unto itself; you get a "portfolio", a "brand" - things that are intangible but still valuable. If your code makes it into some mission-critical system, you have a fair shot at consulting for that "massively wealthy corporation".

I guess it all boils down to: "do you get more value out of people using your code, or out of keeping the code to a restricted set of people?". Similar to how there are two ways to approach your billion-dollar-startup-idea: either guard it with NDA & limit sharing; or talk to everyone about it. Both are legitimate approaches, but really, in a lot of cases the "billion-dollar-idea" is not really worth that billion dollars. Same with code - in a lot of cases, the code is not as valuable as we'd like to think, until it's actually used (& gets a chance to be refined by many users, and to evolve in the right direction(s)).
Not necessarily. It should be fairly straightforward to build correlations like "People who like Breitbart are likely to vote Trump" (and less obvious ones) to help target specifically crafted ads to the people who are most likely to respond positively to them. It's not rocket science, but effective. Basically demographics on steroids.
The general public and mainstream media do not really care about big tech companies harvesting personal data and using it for marketing. Every now and then you'd see someone bringing it up in an article of Ars or Popular Science, but they never gained much traction.

The difference is now there is an example of it helping Trump. And if you can find any story that puts Trump in a bad light, it's almost guaranteed that it will hit the front page of HuffingtonPost/WashingtonPost/NYTimes/Salon/etc.
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I can't help feeling like there's a fair bit of tech astrology going on here

Perfection is a red herring, as long as it's more accurate than the alternatives people will want to use it.
This is surprisingly normal. A majority of programmers have contracts that vaguely specify ownership over everything you produce. It's why "personal github as CV" is such a terrible idea.
matrix/riot.im has e2e encryption and chat history stored on home server (which you can host yourself). It also doesn't require phone numbers, plain usernames are possible
China is still copying as much as they ever did.

China spent almost all of the last 30 years copying developed nations to try to catch up. They're still aggressively doing it across every field, from reverse engineering Russian jet engines, to stealing IP & copying US fighter jets, to using CRISPR knowledge & technology developed in the West to try to leap frog, to the Landwind clone of the Land Rover. Their phones remain copies of what Apple and Samsung are doing; nearly all of their domestic phones run versions of Android, because they can't build their own OS yet. Copying permeates their entire economy.

That isn't in fact a criticism or a negative. It makes sense for any poor or undeveloped nation - which China absolutely was until recently - to do that to attempt to rapidly improve.
More charts and a more detailed writeup here:
https://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21738903-blocking-br...

This might be a key factor in the drastic rise. China is annually graduating about 8 times as many STEM degree holders as the US, as of 2016:

"...In 2013, 40 percent of Chinese graduates finished a degree in STEM, over twice the share in American third level institutions."

"The World Economic Forum reported that China had 4.7 million recent STEM graduates in 2016. India, another academic powerhouse, had 2.6 million new STEM graduates last year while the U.S. had 568,000."

Source: The Countries With The Most STEM Graduates [Infographic]
https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2017/02/02/the-co...
Wire drains the battery of your phone so hard it's unusable in practice. There has been a bug report about this open since May 2017, with a note that "we're working on it". It hasn't been solved so far.
The FSF simply has one goal: that all users can access and modify the code of all software they use.

If I access photos.google.com, I am a user of photos.google.com – yet I can not access the code. This is a problem.

You are misdefining "user" here.
It's very simple. No one will care unless it has a tangible effect on their lives. For that reason, if it does have a tangible effect on peoples' lives, Facebook is doing it wrong.
>But Facebook will treat someone with bipolar or serious impulse control issues just the same way... Assuming some level of accuracy, an algorithm could predict when someone is having a manic episode, susceptible. Its predatory and dangerous.

And what would they do out of that ? People with poor mental health don't need facebook to be triggered, it seems even less harmful because it's through an interface and not a direct human interaction.

>use rational means to work out for yourself what products are best for you and your budget, or on the other hand what political affiliations actualy represent your interests.

I don't buy stuff mostly, it's an easy solution. And no political affiliations represent the rare interest I have that I think would undoubtedly be good.
Renewables mate. Human usage of power need not have a negative effect on our environment. Global Warming and human use of electricity need not be linked as directly as they are today.
Yes I believe OJ was guilty but I also believe that most of America didn't know what the L.A. jury inherently knew - that the cops were corrupt and that they had reason to believe that they were lying.

Mark Furhman was definitely a liar and just a few months later the Rampart scandal happened.
There is a clause in the work contract that claims that Google has ownership of all your IP relating to Google's current or planned businesses. Given that it's Google, that's... a very broad category.

You can apply (the process is described on the same website as TFA) to have Google declare that a certain project definitely is not one of their businesses and therefore not covered. You could also make your own judgment, but (having talked to a lawyer about this when considering a Google offer) my impression is that that is a very bad idea and you should go through the process.

(I only know about the US-but-not-California version of the contract; it might be different in other jurisdictions.)
It is not E2EE by default, but the "secure chat" feature is E2EE.
And ? Did the world crash, the USA's GDP sink, did people starve and die by thousands ? No, nothing happened.
Well sure, gold is not easily created but an asteroid made of pure gold could fall on Earth and make gold completely worthless.

It could also happen that banks lobby to make Bitcoin illegal in all first-world countries.

For some reason I tend to believe the latter to be more likely to happen.
Not as of now. Though until very recently, you also needed to have at least some personnel physically present in a location if you wanted to conduct business there.

As that changed, thanks to the internet, those rules might need to change as well.
In addition to what the other commenters said, I believe it is also the name of their web server executable which includes the core Google search code. Written mostly in C++ but also ships with some Python scripts and protobuf linking it to other services.

I don't work at Google, this is just what I heard.
What's the harm in having the option?
Isnt this just simply marketing/targeted advertising? There is no voodoo or psychographics going on here.

Honestly, I think people are giving Cambridge way too much credit.

I have seen enough overblown promises in the big data, AI, <insert buzz word> industry to know people just make things sound more innovative than it really is.
The idea of informed consent applied here (which is EU law) gives SomeFacebookApp permission to access the data, like the text you have written says, and nothing beyond that.

Once they had accessed the data, they would not [legally] be able to store it, or use it for any purpose. Text like this worries me because it's clear there is some illegal intent - that doesn't mean I agree to the illegal action.
Did you hear about coins, and banknotes? It's like pen, and paper - it just works.
How/where did he invest? I’ve been out of the loop for a while.
If the use case is only checking YOUR OWN email address, then why not require a verification of the email before providing the results? E.g. you enter your email and get a results link sent to this same email address. Because now HIPB appears to be an interesting OSINT tool for gathering information about people, specifically for finding out what "shady" services did they ever register at.
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But the format is opaque. I would like to archive as html, pdf, etc. - and not by saving them one at a time.
What sort of little bubble do you live in? Where I live people get pretty good utility out of their sport utility vehicles! We have had a ton of snow this winter, including a couple of storms where having ground clearance was key to getting around. The snow was coming down so hard that the plows couldn't keep up. I saw who got stuck and who didn't in that big storm. The interstates were a mess, secondary roads had 2' banks where plows had only gone through in one direction. Front-wheel drive cars and minivans were stuck everywhere, as were tractor trailers, RWD cars without snow tires, and so forth. Everything AWD was still moving pretty well.

Now if you're saying people with true low and high range 4wd trucks and SUVs don't go rock crawling with them that much, that's probably true, but those vehicles have a lot of utility doing things like pulling a boat trailer up a wet boat ramp, driving on a frozen lake to go ice fishing, and driving on farm roads or other unimproved surfaces.
Gold is valuable because of its chemical properties and as long as there is a demand for high tech electronics and jewellery it will continue to be so.
Gender and race doesnt seem very farfetched. You can get halfway there with just the name of a person. Add location and you’re almost there.
Interestingly, pointing the finger at the driver is a get-out-of-"jail" card for Uber, but will ruin his life.

They can claim he's an integral safety for the test of the whole self-driving system, and he failed to do his job.

Which would make other safety drivers either think "I have to pay 100 %attention" (which they should, anyway), or "I'm outta here!"
I am not 45 :)

I do know 3 people who did by working insane hours in their early 20's. Less time to spend money + more money makes saving 50+k per year after taxes viable. None of them kept working those hours for that long but compound interest works much faster with a larger nest egg.

Now, they used a second job to get there, but having your boss pay you for extra time also works.
Yes, I agree that this policy provides reasonable guards against someone introducing AGPL by accident, or even maliciously. But I took GP's point to imply a hypothetical where Google decides to more or less actively flaunt the restriction.
Nice to know about the EUPL. I will be using it in my next projects :D
> Freedom is never a _loophole_, freedom is just freedom.

By that standard, the only truly free "license" is the public domain.

FSF and other license authors have a different philosophical representation about what freedom means: we are not discussing the freedom of the person using the code (that is maximized simply by ceding him all intelectual rights, ideally with the exclusion of everybody else); we are concerned about the agregate impact the licenses have over the way society uses and engages with technology.

That is such a broad topic, lending itself to such diverse political views, that it's impossible to say FSF or GPLv3 are "wrong" without acknowledging their premises and examining your own hidden political assumptions. (I use 'political' here in it's broadest sense, an attitude regarding the functioning of the society).
A large proportion of strawberries are now produced in polytunnels using the matted bed or table top system. The former allows strawberries to be picked from a seated position from a wheeled trolley; the latter raises the strawberries to about chest height. Gross yields can be slightly lower and there's a significant capital cost for table top production, but it can work out cheaper overall due to easier organic pest control, higher quality and reduced husbandry and picking costs. We're likely to see a considerable shift towards table top production as brexit starts to bite.
I assume this is just:

https://github.com/vector-im/riot-android/blob/d0cc1053fe7f7...

i.e. Riot/Android requires minimum SDK version of 16 (i.e. Android 4.1).
So does that mean that AGPL code isn't suitable if you need to interface it to, for example, an Oracle DB as you don't have the source or rights to release Oracle (as an example)? If that's the case, then I could see why it would be on the no-list. Google has a bunch of internal secret sauce that may need to be called on by an external-facing app.
If by conspiracies you mean conspiracies yes, otherwise I don't think those events are disputed by anyone.

I don't think banks are bad. I have all my money at a bank, not a Bitcoin exchange. I'm just saying that ethics are not their forte, and that's just a fact.
I think we should prevent any foreign country from buying our land in general tbh. Land is literally the country itself and while it's good for capital owners, the past 10 years show that foreign real estate investment seems to be decreasing QoL of the people that live here by jacking up rents and home prices.
Every signal can be represented as a finite or infinite series of sinusoids.
Where I live (Finland) cops would have very little incentive to lie. We are brought up to treat each other in an egalitarian way, and that transcends most levels of our society. For example, in Turku stabbing[0] the police did not attempt to kill the suspect but to incapacitate him with as little force as possible. It's about how they are trained.

Police are quite respected, and not feared by anyone here.

Justice system is not about punishment, but about providing as low level as possible downside to illegal actions. So it's set up more like a statistical tool than like a personal punishment scheme.

Yes, small country, homogenous culture, etc.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Turku_stabbing

Edit: I have to add, that while the general standards seem to be quite high, individual officers are not incorruptible. A head of drug enforcement was recently jailed for basically corruption. But the fact that anyone can be deposed if found wanting is perhaps a signal about the self repair in the system - individuals are corruptible, but the system and norms aren't. At least for the moment. Yes, a single officer might lie if bucketloads of euros are at stake, but a random officer would generally not lie for leisure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jari_Aarnio
Huge topic at the moment for many really big applications, I believe. If you work in bigger setup you can't really avoid building new containers on the fly at some point or the whole container concept stops making sense.
It's only 4 years so it would still take time. Probably need another 2 years for things to grow that big.
> If you steal, pay back the stolen goods manyfold.

Setting things up so that you profit when someone is convicted of stealing from you seems like a dangerous incentive.
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Whataboutism isn’t excusing; it’s deflecting. To quote from the OED:
“The technique or practice of responding to an accusation or difficult question by making a counter-accusation or raising a different issue”

This is exactly what you’ve done.
I remember posting a random paragraph of text I had previously created into an "analyser" on the Cambridge Analytica website - as an alternative to giving Cambridge Analytica access to my FB profile.

It then accurately deduced my gender, race, sexual orientation, age group, and other key data - all from a single paragraph.

No "likes" required anymore.
The key factor is that US cloud systems are not being included in supercomputing calculations at all. The most powerful supercomputers are Amazon's AWS or Google's systems. Alibaba's cloud systems are still tiny by comparison.

Cloud compute systems are the next evolution of supercomputing. Or put a better way, the traditional supercomputers being measured, are history.

It'd be like holding up 56k modem market leadership today as a sign of technological dominance.
Won’t this work the opposite way as well? Facebook will be free to ingest all of the data from the smaller social networks
> I hope projects like [...] IPFS etc to move to this model

I work on the IPFS project so might be biased, but why do you prefer AGPL over MIT (which IPFS is currently licensed under)?

Personally I prefer short and sweet licences, MIT is so short and simple that even I can understand it. But then again, I don't know enough about AGPL to know why I would prefer it over MIT.

Edit: I also came across this wording: "Using AGPL software requires that anything it links to must also be licensed under the AGPL", that sounds like the opposite of freedom. I don't know much so probably getting something wrong here...
Just based off the press release, and speculating a bit (note: this isn't implied in the article; this is my attempt to link up the long genome / repetitive elements and number of receptors)

Repetitive DNA can allow for increased frequency of DNA recombination; depending on a host of factors (including the relative location of the repetitive elements and the receptor genes, etc) this may facilitate generation of new gene variants for the receptors, increasing the receptor diversity, while preserving / retaining the parent genes.

Again, this is very simplistic speculative attempt to join the two dots.
Last I checked waging war without declaring one is a war crime.
It is useful, it helps fund the infrastructure, it helps fund hackathons, it helps hosting hackers during the events, it helps bringing developers who would not make it because they wouldn't afford the transportation, it helps getting hardware needed to write new drivers, etc, etc, etc...

As far as I'm concerned, a single week of hackathon achieves far more than months of individual work on the side, and the hackathons take place because the foundation can bring many developers together in the same place at the same time thanks to the donations it receives :-)
Similar to the goals of the multi-tenant virtual machine (MVM)?

I feel like all this cloud, container stuff is incrementally, painfully evolving towards grid computing and agents. Kinda like reinventing LISP or Prolog like features with your own 'C' runtime, instead of just using LISP or Prolog.
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Gold can alredy be synthethised, but either all synthetic gold isotopes are radioactive or you have to use very rare metals (like Pt or Hg196) to obtain stable Au197. To do that you need a particle accelerator or a nuclear reactor, both of which are very expensive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthesis_of_precious_metals#G...

The solid gold asteroid crashing onto Eatrh theory is even less plausible. So I'd venture to say gold is a quite safe store of value for the time being. A lot better than Bitcoin or any other crypto currency that could be easily wiped out in the event of a nuclear blast or rendered useless in the absence of electricity.
"Indiscrete Thoughts" is terrific, and there is a lot of gold in its pages.

Of possible interest to those who work in artificial intelligence/machine learning is Chapter IV "The Barrier of Meaning", where Rota records Stanislaw Ulam's thoughts on the matter.

Note also that there is a similar volume entitled "Discrete Thoughts".
Troy: you might want to use the standard emails (eg, admin@ rather than dns-admin@) for domain ownership - I'd worry that dns-admin@ might be available to users at some domains.

Also maybe apply for a .well-known to HIBP file uploads?

(It's Mike from CertSimple here BTW)
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This is a policy change that I fully support. Is this a county-, city-, or state-level change? What does your sister-in-law need?
You do realize not everyone is cut out to be a startup coding ninja right?
> but a large group of people simply can't reach the level of critical thinking necessary to fully grasp the nudging and political weaselling they are submitted to.

Isn't that exactly the kind of problem that education can solve? Of course that's a decade long process which doesn't happen over night.
Thats how low the trust in passwords has got nowadays
brings up the question: why are we still using passwords ?
I think any payment system that is dependent on a working network connection to a 3rd party being concurrent to the transaction, is unsuitable as a primary underlying monetary system. The chaos caused in a restaurant when the card machines break is insane and that is while there is still cash to fall back on.
But the short-term effect of taking away discretion would be a slew of cases everybody knows shouldn't be pursued. And it's not clear to me how it would be enforced.
My employment contract prohibits me from accepting outside money for software engineering work. I can't offer a paid license option, and moving to a company that has no such restriction im the contract would be a huge pay cut, beyond anything I could hope to make from license sales (unless, perhaps, I do that full-time).

We cannot solve capitalism with capitalism. If we want to stop gigantic, massively-wealthy corporations, let's do that with legislation, not by monetizing our free-time projects.
Why are you baiting another pointless US vs China nationalism faceoff?

China has had a huge population and economy for decades. Almost by definition they will play an important role in the future of the internet. Anyone who said otherwise was wrong then and is wrong now.
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Any plans on message passing / clustering with this, so that multiple hardware nodes could be connected to the same computational graph over the network?

Assuming also that this has support for AVX-512 acceleration?
And today they circulate articles bragging with the number of supercomputers. It's the same as publicly listed companies increase headcount to look like they are thriving ("X is profitable and hiring"). Microsoft, for example, created a specialised AI department. Does it mean we'll have AGI in a couple of years?

In the age of cloud computing, does the number of supercomputers even indicate anything except the ability to run simulations on climate and nuclear fallout?

Personally, I wish someone created a more intelligent, less cronyist, less wasteful, but as willing to experiment alternative to the US tech industry. But it's definitely not China today that is even more reliant on meaningless KPIs than the corporate America. Of course, when the dear leader has an ambition to make the country a superpower, it makes sense to order more supercomputers.
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