skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depending on how an organization is constructed, profit is not always "all that matters".

Public Benefit Corporations, as well as Nonprofit Corporation, are possible, and will provide some assurance that the company doesnt turn evil tomorrow.
I don't use FB and definitely do not like their business model, but it's also true that their users are there voluntarily and most of them are at least vaguely aware that they're being aggressively data harvested by an amoral, profit-maximizing corporation. So I don't see a legit reason to blame or hate on the devs there. Especially when you consider that most of them work on the "good" rather than the "evil" part of their stack.
It may depend if the test cars are used on routes with lots of homeless people or not, for the Mountain View test center I know of a handful of regularly seen homeless people on loaded bikes nearby in downtown Los Altos/Mountain View but it's not close to the level of San Francisco/San Jose/Oakland/Los Angeles/Anaheim/San Diego.
This list must've updated a lot since 2016.
The whole discussion surrounds events that occurred long before September 2017, which is why this is interesting. Previous articles indicated that the company, and likely Zuckerberg himself, was aware of part of the situation in 2015 and found out more in 2016 / early 2017. If it can be established that he knew about it, the 2017 September sales announcement is arguably tainted.
Am I the only one that thinks "a social network for women (Leap)" is a bit sexist?
Early Apple: “The Macintosh”
Michael Crichton and the Computer Game Industry
I find it remarkable that people don't understand there's a non-subtle difference between signing up voluntarily on the Obama website using Facebook and consenting to the information collection vs. signing up for a quiz from an unrelated company and having that data used by the Trump campaign.

If you don't understand the difference, it is the same difference between having consensual sex with your girlfriend and raping your neighbor girlfriend because she consented to have sex with him...

Now, this metaphor is imperfect, but from what we could see the Obama campaign was within the boundary allowed by Facebook TOS and what disclosed to the user. Did they push this to the limit? Yes. To the point that FB didn't think it was feasible. But legit according to the rule. Maybe having consensual extreme BSDM sex with your girlfriend vs. raping your neighbor's GF? Quiz, which one is legal and which one is not?
The Concept of an Academy and the Celts (1962) [pdf]
I don't understand that comment. "Sensor fusion" is the integration of data from two or more different sensors. It doesn't matter what those sensors are. They don't even have to be different types of sensors.

It may well be that the Uber cars only have LIDAR and optical, but that doesn't have anything to do with sensor fusion.
GWAS identifies 30 loci associated with bipolar disorder
This is not easy to do in say Java which is significantly different from clojure (or how typescript enforces typing). In your example it appears that you're using the name field rather than the type Named to shape data that the function will use (this is in essence ducktyping)
It’s not whataboutism in the sense that both campaigns have done things that I would like to see outlawed.

I was merely pointing out a peculiar selectivity in reporting and outrage.
Steve Bannon Oversaw Cambridge Analytica's Facebook Data Program
You can't invent away human nature. Given time, if the goal is to replace Facebook verbatim we can expect to see a similar result.
Are you including the rural populations of each city? Chongqing, for example, is actually fairly rural, it’s basically what we would call a state.

Chinese municipalities are complicated. Even Beijing is about half rural.
A bunch of people on here work for FB...
> How do you distinguish a population that "thinks more critically before they act" and one that lives in constant fear of social backlash? They're two sides of the same coin!

That's not what critical thinking means.
Seems something the CIA would do in Cuba or Nestle would do in a small country or village if they could. Why is it OK for corporations?

http://naturalsociety.com/nestle-ceo-water-not-human-right-s...

It actually happened:

https://earthjustice.org/news/press/2006/bechtel-surrenders-...
I mean, there was a human in the car too, and the human's statement was that the first sign that there might be a collision was after the collision occurred.
Does SafetyWing covers health insurance for families on vacation? It says it is targeted to digital nomads but I wonder how this is different than a vacation insurance.
what is the recommended iOS way of blocking the facebook domains?
CA also has Russians playing key roles in its lifecycle, with early work done in Russia, and a link to a Russian government oil firm, Lukasoil, considered to be an overseas intelligence/influence agent of Putin's. I'm less concerned by the connection with Allied national citizons.
If it helps, I think the best phrase I ever heard on jail overcrowding comes from a politician in Kentucky who said (and I'm paraphrasing):

"We need to figure out who we're afraid of and who we're angry at."

I wish you guys all the best.
I definitely think that both mainstream parties being in shambles absolute does have an impact on the chance of a third party candidate winning.
If I were insider trading thats what I would say too. It is tax deductible.
Reminds me of Facebook and LinkedIn shadow profiles.
I love this post for two reasons. First, it's a great reminder to question assumptions about high abstraction mathematical models that tries to say something about reality. And to not take what a community of even scientists say as stable truth. Ask a room full of signal processing engineers if it's possible to do better than the sampling theorem, and they'll confidently – with bravado – tell you that such an idea is ridiculous. Second, the end is a great example of a "proof by incentive" argument, which is one of my favourite ways to produce trust in a theorem.
Better Passwords in Ruby Applications with the Pwned Passwords API
Show HN: Interactive diagramming application for Rails
Reminds me when a youtube founder raged against the mandatory google plus login they added on for no reason.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/08/youtube-founder-go...
This article said 35mph. Other articles have suggested it was a 45mph zone.

On Google Streetview, you can see that the road changes from 35mph to 45mph at the underpass before the site of the accident.
When broadband got reclassified by the FCC under the "huge loss" for Net Neutrality, a little noticed M.O.U. was published as part of that decision that explicitly stated the FTC would be now be beefing up its presence to protect the consumer. It's only in Facebook's interest if they believe they'll get caught. If they think they can sell this data for profit and escape scrutiny, they will. Here's hoping this is a sign of more work to come from the FTC.
Once again, your friends agreed to the possibility of this happening when they agreed to the TOS. I’m on my mobile phone right now, so I won’t be combing through the TOS looking for the specific clause atm. Maybe in an edit later. But it’s there.
Please don't be discouraged by pushback! The immediate reaction of a crowd to anything new/different/radical is almost always negative.
The person will be prosecuted, but you'll still have been beaten up. Unless you change you're behavior there is a good likelyhood that you'll get beaten up again.

Justice may be served but it's still not as good as not having been beaten up in the first place.
From my understanding Suntory is a very well run company, so at least from afar it looked like an acquisition that could have a good result.
Are you sure? Per Street View, there's a 45 mph sign where the road goes under the underpass, prior to the site of the accident. Unless that's since changed, of course.
I had both types and was able to reformat them to windows.
> these days, few people want specialized computers for artificial intelligence, preferring powerful general-purpose machines like those made by Sun Microsystems Inc., a fast-growing Silicon Valley company.

This is a starking example of how tech cycles change over time. The period in which the article was written was during an AI Winter (in fact, the Fifth Generation program is listed as a notable example[1] in the Wikipedia entry for "AI Winter") and Sun Microsystems was still in its prime at the time (work on the yet to be released Java language had started just 12 months[2] before).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter#The_fizzle_of_the_fi...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_(programming_language)#Hi...
Can this be addressed by having clear metrics available early and often on the clients?
Please don't accuse me or other commenters of spreading "rumors and speculations", without evidence or logical arguments.

I didn't state a bunch of claims, I linked to a NYT published article. If it turns out that the NYT depicted the incorrect lane, then I expect we'll see a correction. But they published this graphic staked on their reputation for accuracy, not on just "rumors".

Moreover, it does not contradict what the police chief said; here is her initial and only interview:

https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Exclusive-Tempe...

> Pushing a bicycle laden with plastic shopping bags, a woman abruptly walked from a center median into a lane of traffic and was struck by a self-driving Uber operating in autonomous mode.

> “The driver said it was like a flash, the person walked out in front of them,” said Sylvia Moir, police chief in Tempe, Ariz., the location for the first pedestrian fatality involving a self-driving car. “His first alert to the collision was the sound of the collision.”*

The police chief also said a number of things that have subsequently been changed. In the Chronicle article, she's reported to have said that the Uber was driving 38 in a 35mph zone. The NYT graphic and other stories from today have said it was a 45mph zone.
> Saying "I will evaluate the officer's statements along with the other evidence produced to determine if his/her statements are factual" is not going to get you kicked off a jury.

If you say this you won't be selected. Engineers and Scientists routinely get denied because of the application of logic.
This is the moment when we decide that human lives matter more than cars
Google just made paying for the news dead-simple
Why'd they ignore the top survey result, var AND val? It was by far the most popular choice, and it saves you from writing final over and over again, which would hopefully help to encourage better code style/practice for Java developers.
Does anyone know the percentage of Zuck's total FB stock that he has sold in the past year? It looks like a lot but have not been able to find a precise percentage change.
Facebook already made this change; however, they changed these things after the data was fetched and stored.
Same story. I have always been dreaming of a Linux equivalent for LittleSnitch. More than a decade has passes since I've switched to Linux, still nothing...
Might be an error? If you travel that road on street view, you see a sign for 30mph, the 35mph before the bridge over water, then 45mph at the underpass. The sign is mounted above the road, on the underpass itself.

Of course, something might have changed since street view went through.
I don't like the choice.

It's a matter of being ~abused. With analytics, many large companies are so powerful they can manipulate my emotions and decisions. Effectively they can choose what I will do.

It's true that people and small companies have always done that, but I'm on a relatively level playing field with them. With these massive corporations, I can do pretty close to nothing about it.

And in many cases we're talking about companies so big they're as powerful or more powerful that whole countries.

The government could arrest someone I love and hold them under administrative detention because they'd decided "type of person X" is bad for the Party. But Facebook manipulate people's emotions - someone with that kind of power could encourage those who they don't like to commit suicide or acts of terror.

It's not obvious to me that 1984 would have be different if we realised that the Party was democratically elected every four years and had merely manipulated everyone using a private service into voluntarily acting that way.
That's because tuition costs were not increasing at unsustainable levels before GWB (and technically the big debt explosion almost entirely happened during the Obama terms). University costs were extremely reasonable in the US prior to the year 2000. They were hilariously cheap compared to today.

As so nicely represented by the explosion in student debt:

https://i.imgur.com/K6TxfQB.png
Degree is irrelevant until sentencing is it not?

Failing to read the TOS is not the same as being informed either. The judiciary seem aware of that too.
Edit: Wrote out a reply, but now I feel like it's a waste of time. Have a good one.
This title should read "Tempe Police Chief alleges/interprets video shows woman stepped out suddenly in front of self-driving uber"
The system will always be bent towards people with money; thats what money is for.

I like that you are trying to help the people on the other end of that curve.
Windows Server 2019 will feature Linux and Kubernetes support
The right to summon the local corporate representative, legal team, etc.? Sure.

Does every country have the "right" to summon a multinational CEO? That'd get crazy really quick, and I doubt it'd benefit anybody (beyond politicians.)

I had the same reaction as the parent comment - to "request" his presence is perfectly fine, but a "summons" would be a bit much...
The human in the car said that the first sign they got of a potential issue was the sound of the collision itself. Unless they were paying no attention, that might indicate that this scenario was likely to be very difficult to avoid?
You are very naive if you don't know that many, if not most campaign consulting agencies are entirely apolitical about collecting and shopping around their data to various candidates. It's simply about expanding their market. Do yourself a favor and volunteer on a single campaign for a state or federal level committee-favored candidate to see for yourself.
A lot of sites pull in popular js libraries from google; the idea being that they'll already be in a user's cache and even if they're not, google has a better (cheaper, faster and/or lower latency) CDN than the site author.
this was app.net’s goal right?
Acton recently donated $50MM to Open Whisper Systems (Signal) and is now involved with their board.
> their users are there voluntarily

Not really. Many people just feel they have to use Facebook to connect with the society efficiently. Some people even consider those who don't use Facebook weird.
"Well duh, it says it right there in section 37, paragraph 12, in dense legalese – how could anyone be surprised?"

Perhaps the very best thing that could come out of this is an end to the longstanding legal fig leaf of lengthy, complex legal documents presented as click-through agreements somehow constituting "informed consent."
Say you have a function f(q(x)) where q quantizes x into one of s_1, ..., s_n. Then if q(x) = s_i for a certain x, df/ds_i = df/dq and df/ds_j = 0 for all j != i.

That breaks down for values of x precisely at the boundary between steps, so I should have qualified "differentiable" with "almost everywhere".

It also occurs to me that this might interact strangely with the approximation dq/dx = 1, but since the quantization steps are globally shared, I think it should be stable anyway.

If the evaluation suite for your code doesn't require too much manual interaction, I might try and see for myself.
Doesn't FB keep track of (possibly profile) people who don't directly use FB? They can possibly profile you from using data brokers and information actual FB users give to them.
> The attitude in your comment is imho perfectly representing why the US has such problems with career criminals.

Apparently Lyft shares the attitude you describe, but Uber does not.

https://www.thezebra.com/insurance-news/5215/criminal-backgr...

Note that I was merely showing surprise that this was allowed, not passing judgment. I had heard of cases (see above link) where people were denied because of prior misdemeanor convictions, which is why I was surprised.
Since all Chinese companies are partially owned by the Chinese Government, and ultimately controlled by the Chinese Govrrment they all should be blocked from purchasing anything in the U.S. we would never sell anything to the Russian government, or the German govt. etc.

It’s foolish to test their companies as independent from the government.
Also how this really a cross-platform path factoring in Android? Has IBM been relevant with anything in the past 10 years regarding technology?
> Annual Run Rate is different from ARR though

What exactly does ARR mean if not Annual Run Rate?
Perhaps it may end up that way in some cases, but that's not the intention. Art & Music universities often feel that diversity increases creativity, and they are in the creativity biz: the more (perceived) creativity that flows out of the U, the more they can hike tuition.

Having one group heavily- or over-represented may be seen as going against that goal. It's not necessarily personal against Asians. They may not want too many whites either.
Or most likely, they do it for the real or perceived immigration benefits. An accredited educational institution in the US can issue F-1 student visas, and these can be converted to OPT, H-1B, Greencard, and ultimately a US Citizenship. That's probably what would attract wealthy families to send their kids to an unknown no-brand college that is clearly owned by a Chinese company.
It doesn't even support Intel's own GPUs (although I don't know how useful that would be).
YC companies go up as "Launch HN".
Remember you’re reading a thread of some folks on the internet that come from a similar background and seem to have opinions absolutely inconsistent with reality IMO, based on my experience.

Both sides look for jurors who have bias where they will come with a pre-shared opinion. The last jury I was on included a former US Attorney, an insurance investigator and a NAACP regional director. We were asked to answer questions honestly and nobody had access to our process.

I’ve been on 3 juries, and in 2/3 we partially or fully acquitted a defendant based on many factors. Frankly, in each case I walked away with an appreciation that the system can work.
Accounting Rate of Return

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/arr.asp
One problem other than convincing people to use it is convincing people to pay for it.

If we don't like Facebook's business model of using user data to make money we'd have to charge people to use it, and not a lot of people would be willing to do that.

Of course, one could argue that it's possible to make money with user data without being evil, but no one seems to have managed to do that so far. I bet if this project became as successful as Facebook it would be hard not to end up in the same exact spot.
>However during the time in jail for crimes related to my addiction the only thing on my mind the entire stay was, "can't wait to get out of here and get that first dose again".

Speaking to someone who had recently been released, he talked about people shooting up in the car two minutes after being released. Friends and sometimes even family members would be there to meet them at their release and would bring along drugs for them to consume at the first possible instant as some kind of "welcome back" present.
There's an important difference between corporations and governments. Corporations rarely get a monopoly and in the event that they do they don't last forever. Once a government gets power it almost always keeps it forever.
Interesting to see how much the NYC property will go for. I don't think the regulators are that concerned about HNA's properties in China. Domestically it is a zero sum game. Their loss would be someone else's gain, as long as solvency of the banks is not threatened.
I don't understand why lying in court by cops is not being treated as one of the worst offenses they could make. Cops are entrusted with the use of potentially lethal force so they should be held to the highest standard. There is no excuse for lying.

It's the same for judges taking bribes. If you can't trust the legal system then a democratic state can't work properly.
What does it conclude?
Acxiom and others of the old guard have been doing exactly the same for 40+ years. Why should Facebook be singled out for voluntary disclosures when the data mining industry has far more aggregious transgressions.
I want to share my favorite HOSTS file provider [1] which includes FB addresses.

[1]: http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/
> commonly seen as retribution and punishment, or more generally some kind of revenge

That's not the purpose of the justice system per se, though I don't see any problem with someone offering criminals, in the spirit of charity, opportunities and help in turning away from criminality toward good ways of living. (Obviously, they must be willing, and we shouldn't delude ourselves into thinking criminals are victims.) However, justice implies that retribution and punishment are merited, and if merited, then legitimately inflicted. If it didn't, mercy and forgiveness would be meaningless. Indeed, crime and evil actions would cease to have any substance. A justice system that does not punish in a manner that is commensurate with crimes committed is no justice system at all. The word "retribution" for some reason offends modern sensibilities. Part of that stems from what appears to be the false belief that retribution entails hatred, which it does not.

If there are flaws in the justice system because either the punishments for some crimes are excessive, or innocent people are being convicted at high rates and possibly because of perverse incentives, or whatever, then those things need to be addressed. But I do not support a generally lenient attitude toward crime in the spirit of Norway's treatment of Breivik. That that unrepentant criminal is alive and in relative comfort is a sickening insult to his victims.
Rockets have been made in and around LA for ages. It is a defense industry hub, arguably the biggest outside DC area. Overview: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-socal-aerospace-201607...
The co-founder of a company Facebook bought told followers to delete Facebook
Luckily caused isn't the same thing as forced, so you are both correct.
That’s a proposal, not a proven solution, and it assumes that the chosen algorithm, implementation, and operation are all perfect or it fails open. That’s why you need to look at this as a system rather than a chance to use the current fad: this class of proposal replaces something which is cheap, robust, easy to understand, and fails closes with something complex and unproven which most people would cannot make accurate threat assessments about. There’d have to be a huge win to make up for that and “it costs a lot more and my startup could cash in” doesn’t count.
How do you all bypass these horrendous paywalls?
technically he did start a Facebook competitor (loosely speaking), he just happened to have been bought by them!
Diaspora raised a slew of money back in 2010 but flopped.... it’s almost as though we knew this would happen....

https://techcrunch.com/2010/05/12/diaspora-open-facebook-pro...
Wire is awesome. Keybase is like Wire, but for teams...it's amazing. Encrypted file system for personal, public, and individual teams, chat, git repos...oh boy!
JDK 10 General-Availability Release
On top of that, on a non-jailbroken/rooted device, a user cannote replace/overwrite the hosts file.

On my jailbroken iphone(s) one of my first steps of security hardening is to replace the hosts file.