skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If they're going for the international markets (China might be big, but Rest of the World >>> China), they also need buzz in English... Otherwise they're locking out 90% of the developers in the world.
Azure storage is available in way more than 10 regions FYI: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/global-infrastructure/serv...
I'll leave this here, I don't want to pressure HN into learning anything about privacy or Facebook's practices though: https://phys.org/news/2018-02-belgian-court-facebook.html
Interesting part: "For example, the iPhone SEP has a direct connection to the fingerprint reader, because the application processor isn’t trusted with that data. Weirdly FaceID departs from this but I digress."

Anyone have any info on why FaceID works a different way? Because it needs more processing power?
Is that why they hate Peter Thiel so much and try to smear him in the media?

ala

https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2016/06/peter-thiel-i...

(Kind of strange how they can target a gay guy for getting mad at being outed by a media company. Victim blame much?)

Meanwhile, he apparently called Uber "ethically challenged." So far, he's got 2 and 0 for good quotes.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/richkarlgaard/2014/12/10/do-jer...
60-75h/weeks is still crunch and can be sustained for ~6+ months without total burnout. And really this level of crunch is fairly common in our industry.

The difference is Google/software as a service, does not have the same kind of hard deadlines. But, when you start talking about major launches and boxed software or startups you really do see crunch.

PS: By crunch I mean unsustainable pace leading up to a hard deadline.
I’ve got the Student Start-Konto with Commerzbank, and they offer me a CC with a Jahresentgeld of 39.90€. Nothing below that.

You can get the CC for free if you are in high school, but if you’re above 18 it’s 39.90€ per year.

https://i.k8r.eu/A5R6Pg
To your second point, I argued this sort of data was weaponsized and not just in an election (http://www.armyupress.army.mil/Journals/NCO-Journal/Archives...).

To the third point, focusing on Facebook seems like that scene from Casa Blanca though:
"There's gambling going on, I'm shocked, shocked"
"Your winnings, sir"
Not confident FTC fines would actually change any trends.
I would be interested in your repository of resources, is it something you plan to make public soon?

Something I find very useful as a developer is to see how tools work on concrete examples. For formal verification, this is well examplified by the document "ACSL by Example" about Frama-C:

https://github.com/fraunhoferfokus/acsl-by-example/blob/mast...

This has inspired other researchers to do the same for SPARK, but currently they have done only the code/proofs, not yet the doc around it:

https://github.com/yoogx/spark_examples/tree/master/spark-by...

As I like that approach a lot, that's something I have adopted for the static analysis tools we develop around Ada and SPARK:

http://docs.adacore.com/codepeer-docs/users_guide/_build/htm...

https://docs.adacore.com/spark2014-docs/html/ug/en/source/gn...

This shares with the O'Reilly Cookbook series (https://ssearch.oreilly.com/?q=cookbook) the goals to get very concrete immediately, on code that the reader might have to write or have already written.
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The electronic residence permit is legally not an ID card (even though it looks like one) and they are not allowed to use that as identification as required by banking laws.
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> You only need an internet connection to change your perspective in a minute

That is a double-edged sword. There are wonderful and terrible things online. Deciding which ones to partake in are just as important as who you surround yourself with.
All you said, doesn't change the fact that it's a substantial effort. Whether it's easier than other features is irrelevant to the point above. It's hard overall.

So it's an extra cost for developers who need to spend time on it, and it's exactly the cost MS and other lock-in freaks are benefiting from, since it's increasing the difficulty of releasing cross platform games (one more difficult thing to address). The higher is the difficulty, the more is the likelihood of some games remaining exclusives, which is exactly what lock-in freaks want.

And if you claim that this difficulty is offloaded from most game developers to third party engine developers, it's still a problem. Longer development periods, more bugs, harder support all that contributes to some not making cross platform releases as well.

There are no two ways about it, lock-in is evil, and your justification of it is very fishy (you must be working for one of the lock-in pushers).
S3 allows you to turn versioning on and off for a bucket; my understanding is that B2 does not.
But... the market... Oh, the damage that neolibertarianism has done.
Regulation is a serious barrier in the U.S. but Canada is a lot more rational about new technologies.

Simple answer to "why not solar" is that we need power at night, and it's not clear that storage at large scale would be cost-competitive with molten salt reactors. (I think nuclear baseload with solar for extra daytime load makes a lot of sense, though.)

I once described molten salt reactors to a very anti-nuclear activist in the Green Party, and he said "hmm...that actually sounds pretty good."
This is one thing I've never understood. For almost any skill set, there are multiple industries you could work in.

And furthermore, the industry with the worst treatment of employees is likely not the best paying (given that bad treatment tends to stem from popularity / availability of naive new employees).

So, if you don't like your work life... find a related industry!
Why would the HIPAA standard of a breach apply here? Scraping public data to create a political profile is on par with getting access to private health data?
It's the BBC. They make mistakes, but it is entirely reasonable to start from the assumption that they have not made such a big mistake.

Anyway, here's a publication about the study that makes it pretty clear that they got it right (abstract only, paywall):

https://www.nature.com/articles/nbt.4114

(I found the study by assuming a page like http://www.thelondonproject.org/ would exist and then following the link provided)
The only companies that can follow a policy of license purity and waste money rewriting code is those companies that live in markets with very little competition. The more harsh the competition is the more agile the company need to be in reducing cost and using any free code that help create the product while keeping to your core business model.

For example, game developers will use any code that don't conflict with the model of selling copies under exclusive rights. Blizzard Entertainment which is currently one of the largest game developer studio in the world has used everything from LGPLv3 to custom permission granted by free software developers. Having a lawyer read a standard license and evaluate if it can be used is much cheaper than pushing the release date on a game a few months further, not counting the additional cost of having to write your own XML parser, html, javascript, fonts, or what have you. It also the reason why game studio are willing to pay a lot of money for third-party libraries with extensively custom written restrictive licenses. So long it fit the business model, and it save money and time, then using it is a competitive advantage in a industry that is heavily over saturated.
The GDPR should take care of that to a large degree.

Consent must be asked for in a clear understandable fashion.

Burrying some legalese crap at page 29 of your 12'000 word TOS doesn't cut it.

Could be that Facebook tries to push the envelope yet again. They may come to regret it.
I’ve looked into the credit rating, and asked the bank – the rating is fine, the banks all would take me as normal customer.

But no bank agrees to open an account if I am not going to hold any balance, and only use it for one or two transactions of a few euros per year.

I only need a CC for a handful of shitty US services (namecheap, Google Play developers, etc) that do not take SEPA payments, everything else, including my servers, I run via SEPA Lastschrift.
That's a neat way to nationalize FB.
Having issues loading the text on this page. Seems to keep "blinking" out for me. Is there anyway we can get a printer friendly or text only version? Super interested in this article.
>"And you just figured this out now?"

You realize this is an editorial piece correct? Note the section header at the top of the page. And the format of of op/ed piece includes a layout objective explanations. This is not meant to be a regular reporting news piece. See:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/03/insider/opinion-op-ed-exp...
Is it time to delete your Facebook?
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I love math (and have recently gotten into the beauty of the Golden Ratio) but this seems remarkably non-profound.

Squaring a number that’s a little higher than 3 will get you close to 10.

If it were 9.999999 then it’s another story.
Remember folks, if you've got nothing to hide, you don't have anything to worry about.
Right, seems like you need 300 € incoming per month for the free YoungVisa, didn't remember that.
What would be Facebook options to stop Kogan or Cambridge Analytica?

They already have the data, other than suing, what's possible here?
I'm not sure I agree that it would be swept under the rug, seeing that you can mention those earlier issues without explaining them. Outrage and discussion occurred the same way they are now, and just like in those cases, not much is going to happen concerning facebook and its use of personal data. What I'm saying is that your assertion that it has anything to do with progressive/conservative narrative is false, because the result is going to be the same.
The project claims to be licensed under the GPL and markets itself as an open source competitor to Plex. Even if only the copyright holders have the standing to pursue a violation, that doesn't change the fact that they are falsely advertising their project and are not following their own selected license.

They distribute packages for Linux distro's, where the GPL is listed as the license for the package, instead they should be listed as custom or proprietary.
Facebook/Cambridge Analytica: Privacy lessons and a way forward
> We are actively trying to build a culture that promotes “psychological safety,” defined as “a sense of confidence that the team will not reject or punish someone for speaking up.”

Wow, everywhere I've ever worked has tried (consciously or unconsciously) and succeeded to build the exact opposite culture.
It's an alleged legal breach of Data Protection principles. That language is used historically by the ICO in the UK to describe exactly this type of situation.

Facebook's responsibilities and Cambridge Analytica's responsibilities towards data protection have been breached.

There's no other useful word for that. It might not be a hack and it might not be a security vulnerability, but it is surely a breach.
As discussed in the other subthread, I suggest you open an account with them, do not ever hold any balance on the account, and only transfer a few euros per year in and back out per CC.

I bet they’ll either close your account, or, if you tell them ahead of time, never even allow you to open it in the first place.
This isn't SPARC, it's Alpha.
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It goes a long way, especially if they were part of a much larger group. Breaking rank and whistle blowing is something to be commended.
you can can disable your access to it and its background upload to google. If you read the fine print the "anonymized" gps/cell-tower/wifi data is still used periodically by google to refine their maps etc. Same for apple, same for the GPS in your internet connected car.
Eulers identity on the other hand...
Why is e^2 so close to 7? Just to highlight how arbitrary pi and 10 are...
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And there it is, now feels like the fable of the boiling frog. Can't remember wanting a company to crash and burn like this.

>The rise of social networking online means that people no longer have an expectation of privacy, according to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.

>Talking at the Crunchie awards in San Francisco this weekend, the 25-year-old chief executive of the world's most popular social network said that privacy was no longer a "social norm".

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2010/jan/11/facebook-...
They could have banned CA from operating on FB much sooner.

They could have sued the developer in court to send a message to other bad parties.

They could have notified the users that their data was used improperly.
That URL doesn't tell me what I really want to know -- what parties used the graph API to download data from me.
This is what I call a full of shit company. People will stab you in a back to work for those but when they are there they start to realise how rotten it is. Then it's too late for them as they are getting into the Stockholm syndrome. Afraid to go, being pushed around because they do not believe they can do something better somewhere else and such CEOs take advantage of the situation to use them as much as possible and throw them away like a used condom.

I hate this and it is not worth wasting life working for such companies or such people even for one day.
You messed up the math. You need to count (# number of pixels that where bad) / (total number of pixels produced) not simply call the odds for the first bad pixels as the rate of bad pixels.
I suspected something like this, I'm new here so wasn't definite on that one - in other countries residence cards are (for day to day except at the border) more or less ID proper.
FORTH ?KNOW IF HONK! ELSE FORTH LEARN! THEN

My point is that FORTH is point-free!

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

Tacit programming, also called point-free style, is a programming paradigm in which function definitions do not identify the arguments (or "points") on which they operate. Instead the definitions merely compose other functions, among which are combinators that manipulate the arguments. Tacit programming is of theoretical interest, because the strict use of composition results in programs that are well adapted for equational reasoning. It is also the natural style of certain programming languages, including APL and its derivatives, and concatenative languages such as Forth. The lack of argument naming gives point-free style a reputation of being unnecessarily obscure, hence the epithet "pointless style."

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

A concatenative programming language is a point-free computer programming language in which all expressions denote functions, and the juxtaposition of expressions denotes function composition. Concatenative programming replaces function application, which is common in other programming styles, with function composition as the default way to build subroutines.
In Australia the government decided this was non-competitive and regulated interchange fees down to less than half a percent. They still have credit cards, but limited rewards programs.

The 3% processing charges are really just inertia in North America, since costs have gone down a lot over the decades, but the fees have been reallocated into marketing/rewards.
Same here, was kind of a early adopter in 2015 and I really want to like them, but they're making it very hard if not impossible.

For a startup that wants to disrupt banking, they have horrible UX (one example, when it was time to change creditcards because they changed the backend bank. A new card was sent and then the App asked for a 8 digit number on the card. I spent 2 days until I figured out, they want the number from the OLD card).

The advertise that everyone gets a small creditline with them (1000 eur, or so), but when I applied for that after 3 years being a customer I was denied completely (just wanted 200 Eur) for 3 Months or so.

The other points like security are already mentioned by the parent post.
Neolibs are dead. Trump was elected on "'free' trade is unfair trade" and if Dems want to change some things on this front it can happen.
Sumo Logic on radical adherence to microservices boundaries
Operator of self-driving Uber vehicle that killed pedestrian was felon
> 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?

Poor idiots like me who get hired to help get the hard, last 10% done.

Given the small percentage of projects that actually have a lifespan of more than a few months, I'd still chose usability (by devs) over elegance for prototypes or MVPs, but one should never forget that this can incur a huge technical debt.

PS: I do not consider the article's proposed solution elegant - quite the contrary.
Where did you get the idea that data, of all things, is objective? Data is shit! Data is the noxious raw material that we have to process with great difficulty into something useful!

If you are familiar at all with machine learning, you should recognize that human decisions affect every step of the process, especially the part where the data is produced and collected. It is not an oracle of objective truth.

And let me quote Arvind Narayanan for why you are not going to get the right answer in your search for objectivity: "Training data is from the past and test data is from the future. We use ML because we want to learn from the past, not reproduce it." [1]

[1] https://twitter.com/random_walker/status/975700725807439879
Funny, I quit smoking and Facebook around the same time a few years ago. My life has been enormously better for it.

I miss neither.
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.

FB didn’t drop billions in value because nobody cares, it’s just that most people take a lot of repetition to grasp the scope of the issue.
I do have the Facebook trackers disabled in Ghostery but I wonder if that’s enough
Related link – NY Times article about Kenyatta family (including Mama Ngina Kenyatta, who is almost 85 now) being involved in poaching, from 1975: https://www.nytimes.com/1975/09/22/archives/elephants-are-de...
The application processor needs access to the camera so that you can take pictures and transmit them outside of the phone.
Why is 3^2 so close to 9?
So you're saying this is not an elaborate hoax? There goes my last hope..
I was just able to get them to display in Chrome (not Firefox) by finding an option for loading 'unsafe scripts'.

It wasn't an option on Firefox, even after disabling several security extensions I use. [Ghostery, privacy badger, adblock.]
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They were directly involved with the Obama and Clinton campaigns... and so was Eric Schmidt.
The same article is here: http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/lore/crash_cows.html
Investors care when a company is painted in a negative light and threatened with regulation.

That is not the same as individual users caring about data privacy as much as HNers believe.
Unless I’m doing something wrong, a developer account makes this sort of thing harder: you can’t just access anyone’s data, you have to convince them to authorize your app first. . . Which is probably why there’s all these “find which star wars character you are!” quizzes that make the rounds on FB.
> Are they sure? They can now harvest stem cells from regular tissue and blood, as I understand it

There are adult stem cells which are differentiated or partly differentiated to particular systems, eyes, skin, blood etc, and there are induced pluripotent stem cells, where chemical or viral factors have been used to 'wind back the clock' for adult, differentiated cells back to completely non-differentiated (pluripotent) stem cells, equivalent to embryonic stem cells.

In the long run, it seems that embryonic stem cells won't be needed, but for the moment induced pluripotent cells are not 100% understood, everywhere apart from Japan clinical researchers are wary of using them in human trials, because they are not completely certain a particular preparation doesn't have abnormalities. Embryonic stem cells for the moment are the gold standard, and some work is needed to iron out the technology to standardize and check the process for inducing pluripotency.

But in principle any cure proven with embryonic stem cells could be 'ported' over to induced pluripotent stem cells once the iPSC process is standardized, it's just a question of whether you want to pursue these two research paths in parallel, or wait for the iPSC problems to be ironed out before even starting the process of running human trials.
i suspect some or many of the reasons it's discouraged in js do not apply to kotlin. as we all know, js has... unique constraints in it's design. why is it deprecated in js?
> You can have different margins and different volumes, with the same rate of profits for capital invested.

Having the same historical returns isn't the same as having the same risk-adjusted returns.

Having higher margins is a risk unto itself. A low-volume high-margin store might have the same total profits as a high-volume low-margin store, but move them next to each other selling equivalent products and you know which one is going out of business.
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>How about when merging, or changing lanes? The speed limit is not _always_ safe or practical to obey strictly.

In the case of overtaking, you just need to make sure you don't cut someone off in the overtaking lane. No need to go over the speed limit just because you're too impatient to wait for a proper gap in the traffic.

I've never seen a situation where you're merging onto a freeway and everyone in the right-most lane is speeding excessively. That would be a very dangerous situation, and if you yourself go significantly faster than the speed limit to merge you're just adding to the dangerous problem.
"Now, in order to understand the composition, you need to trace the thread through the entire system"

I don't think that's necessarily true. It depends on the implementation. In an actor based system, the syntax might not change that much. You just sprinkle in some async() here and some yield() there. So the code still looks like it is using function calls, and uses the stack/instruction pointer for state management, but is running asynchronously.

I do very much agree with you point about coupling.
EU doing the right thing with personal data
https://pastebin.com/raw/NR0SzmiL
Even if it is close to zero, how do we decide if the lives saved from going from a .1% fatality rate to a .09% fatality rate is worth the speed reduction or not?
Is almost a definition.
They definitely move on, or at least drop out. But there are always more to replace them, so the company doesn't feel a lot of pressure to change.
Because God carries a slide rule.
Wait... so the ledger allows any firmware to be uploaded without signature checking? damn :(