skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The first speaker is a lawyer. Then the second lawyer, a cop, says essentially "he's right. but you should trust our (cops') judgment, we are trying to help."
US Training for Arctic Nuclear Satellite Disaster Amid RU Weapons Developments
That is clearly not the case, as the article repeatedly shows. By the time you have a digital signal, it’s too late. Any noise above the nyquist frequency has already been mixed into the noise below it and they cannot be separated.
I would appreciate if you elaborated on your supposed improvements.
Well, the "weight" on the parasympathetic nervous system is important for sleep and other low-arousal states so... uh... yeah? I guess?
I think both questions are good.

People ask for tools and then the tools shape them.
Oh now I have to look this up. Whomever that person is sounds quite entertaining.
Maybe she stepped back into traffic after crossing? Perhaps the car thought she would be on the sidewalk by the time it arrived at that position but she stepped back or fell back into the lane.
You may be missing the context that political adverts are strictly regulated in the UK (and most of europe). For example, there are no politicians in TV commercials, no politicians on billboards, etc.
Block at DNS level on a device (router or DNS server) and proxy all Android traffic to said device.

I use a pfsense router running OpenVPN and pfblockerNG. PfblockerNG sinkholes all DNS requests to domains from a list such as this one. Then by using OpenVPN I simultaneously encrypt my connection when roaming remotely and I can specify to use my home DNS server to sinkhole ad/tracking domains.
They have a known anti asian american bias not an anti asian bias. Asians pay full tuition.
> nobody would have batted an eyelash.

Doubtful, considering the number of scandals from this list that made major media attention:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Obama_administration_...
I mean, considering the use of 99.9% of Windows PCs out there it probably make sense.
With the way they create shadow profiles for non-users, I'm a strong believer that the opportunity with facebook is to feed them as much bad data as possible and let them deal with filtering it out.
I had 6 or so different police officers testify against me during trial. Everyone of them told a different story, and the stories told did not corroborate with the evidence.

Even so, I received the stiffest possible penalty, 6mos jail and thousands in fees. The judge said his conviction was based on the fact that he "thought I was lying".

My life has been severely impacted by this wrongful conviction.

This issue runs deeper than lying police. When the DA and court system are in on it too, there is no hope.
Jan's commitment to privacy motivated WhatsApp. Jan and Acton always have believed in it strongly.

That said, if your company has 50 people, and FB offers nearly $20B. How exactly do you tell those people that you refused an acquisition that huge, because you personally feel that FB is bad. Could you deprive an engineer who has worked his ass off for 4 years >$100M?

Anyway, I was contracting for WhatsApp, when the acquisition happened. Conversations took place, but I'm not going to quote anyone.
What? Trump will be out of office, and brexit cancelled in three months?

(I actually agree with your point, but think it is wishful thinking on FB’s part)
5 Questions with DreamHustleCode: Not Your Average 13yr Old
I think that MuleSoft is a really great business, although I wouldn't use it personally just due to not being in the right industry.

For back-office environment with tons of point 2 point integrations, it just seems to make sense.

Business model is good. Once you're in, going out is really tough. This is exactly like the SFDC app cloud.
The US acquired practically zero infrastructure in Europe over the last 70 years and practically zero of Europe's farming output. Europe as a whole is notoriously protective of its farming, both in terms of ownership and tariff protection.

Trains/rail, bus systems, power generation, power distribution, telecom - US companies own an extroardinarily tiny share of those things in Europe overall.

Verizon + AT&T are worth ~$420 billion and are giant, wildly profitable businesses. Why don't they own most of Europe's telecom industry, which is mostly dominated by numerous far smaller companies? Because it doesn't work that way. You can't just go into a dozen European nations and buy up all of their telecom, the government roadblocks to doing that make it impossible. Instead, it's Softbank (Japan) that owns Sprint (#4), and it's Deutsche Telekom that owns T-Mobile that is the #3 telecom carrier in the US.
On an iPhone without jailbreak you can use 1blocker[1]. Since every browser on the iPhone is basically a UIWebView/SFSafariViewController controlled by iOS, Safari Content Blockers[2] apply globally preventing web visits. Safari Content Blockers also prevent Messages from rendering Facebook content inline.

My 1blocker rule called "Bye Facebook" is:

https?://([a-z\.]*)?facebook\.com.*

I should probably update it to factor in a lot of these other TLD URLs now that I think about it.

- [1] https://1blocker.com (This costs money)

- [2] https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/Ex...
http://invisible.institute is working on this in Chicago and i know there is another project working on it in NYC
This is briefly discussed in the article.

“For example we know that the neural recordings of interest are a superposition of pulse-like events – the action potentials – whose pulse shapes are described by just a few parameters. Under that statistical model for the signal one can develop algorithms that optimally estimate the spike times from noisy samples. This is a lively area of investigation.”
Facebook is the new Uber.
Also some words are confusing when flapping around and some are not, depending on how many other words can be formed with the letters that are not visible. Perhaps some algorithm could be made to ascertain the flagworthiness of a string.
> I assume they were cleared out during the revolution.

When you assume...

"It was under the reign of King Louis XI that Mont Saint-Michel became France’s version of Alcatraz. Transformed into a detention center, it took in prisoners until 1860." - https://www.pariscityvision.com/en/france/mont-saint-michel/...
Adjudicating by Algorithm: risks and benefits of AI in judicial decision-making
The effect on democratic processes ceased to be hypothetical.
And blackmail and/or extortion.
'Catastrophe' as France's bird population collapses due to pesticides
'It Took My Life Over': Inside NBA Players' Fortnite Addiction
I t thought their target was Twitter, not Facebook.
The treaties do not change the underlying principle, though. They change the application of them, in that the only way for parliament to breach the ECHR for example would be to leave the treaty, but that is no different from other laws - the only things that is different is the complexity of the process of doing so.

So, yes, it's more complex. I don't think anyone would suggest parliament would just rewrite arbitrary laws on a whim, because there are complex dependencies (hello Brexit). The point is there is no legal hindrance to it, and that is almost unique (I write "almost", but I don't know of a single other country where parliament has so unfettered power - I'd love examples).
My barber has been cutting hair for two decades and a masseuse I go to has various certificates. I assume they're all professional yet still have to tip on top of the regular prices. I don't tip at the dry cleaner or after having clothes altered. Working as a barista in various cafes, tips were few and far between, vs pouring beers. Not much difference in the actual experience.

Good rule of thumb but I think it can still trip up non-Americans to some degree.

Best tipping I ever had was working at a fancy hotel - paid a decent service industry wage and would regular get tips of $10-20.
> It's just that Google maybe be a bit hesitant to sell data to 3rd parties

Which is the entire point. I know Google is taking data when I use Google products. The problem arises when Google freely gives my data to a random third party company I neither know nor trust, without my knowledge.
If you are in private chat mode, this works well, because all devices have an encryption key.

But if you are doing regular messages between people, those messages are certainly readable by the server and because adding a new device decrypts all previous messages, the server has decryption knowledge.

Note: At each point in their sesame algorithm the user has a non-empty set of devices. So if you want to sync another device acts as a p2p syncer.

What happens when you remove your last device and add another new one. Hence why whatsapp has a non-privacy mode. Or am I misunderstanding?
I disagree; I get a lot of stuff I disagree with on Google News.
Personally-identifiable information that users chose to share with the world as part of public profiles.

We might say that you can't sign away the secrecy of your PII, so user consent is irrelevant. Then we had better get on YCombinator, Stack Overflow, Medium, etc. for allowing prominent community members to use their real names on their posts. Someone could [0] use them train statistical models to who-knows-what purpose, after all.

[0] https://www.kaggle.com/hacker-news/hacker-news-corpus
Running Java in a Container
See my comment on TAForObvReasons - If you invest in a Safari Content Clocker that allows custom rules, you can effectively do the same thing as a hosts file. Safari Content Blockers prevent network traffic similar to host files works. The only thing you wont be able to block is some app that has a Facebook analytics or Facebook login dependency inside e.g.
Spotify.
We know the car was going roughly 40mph, so that puts some constraints on the minimum response time that was available. Unless this woman literally catapulted in front of the car, there were at least 4’ of lateral walking pace worth of 40mph time to react. You do need to make assumptions about how fast she was moving, of course, and as has been noted elsewhere in the thread you have to assume that the driver was in the left lane for this scenario to even be remotely plausible. Even in this sequence, the car should have been able to substantially decelerate but, looking at the pictures, that doesn’t seem to have happened.
You are implying friends list is the main factor here. Let's assume you are right. Still, Google may have a database for people you might know, you just don't know its existence yet. They don't have to let you input your contacts voluntarily to find out about your relationships. For example, have you used Google Maps? You search a place, Google tells you popular time of that place, how did they get the data? If they are able to do things like that, they might also be able to know who (or which Google account) you spend time with and where, they just don't have reasons to tell you they have the data or they have deep learned the data for various purposes.

We just don't have a whistleblower to testify that they sell the data yet, possibly because they have strict internal confidentiality policies.[1]

Disclaimer, about that Google Maps example, it's just my assumption, I don't know how it actually works.

[1]: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/employee-lawsuit-acc...
Speaking of which, tonight I made a scan of _Japan as Number One: Lessons for America_, Vogel 1979: http://libgen.io/book/index.php?md5=10dd41d874075bdd04be0a46... https://www.dropbox.com/s/rr14mgyq8cnrp32/1979-vogel-japanas... https://mega.nz/#!peoiWAya!siIb9bDw6JbX9-toqTj6bP5iW4VlVTK4b...
Sounds a bit like: "Send this jerk the bedbug letter!"
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/the-bedbug-letter/
Arguably Google can create a pretty good social network from email. That's why the use it for ads.
Wow the hate/dislike is very real.
SUVs exist largely because fuel economy standards effectively outlawed station wagons: http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2012/10/how-cafe-killed-com...
String versus list of string continues to be a rough edge in Python, both being iterable.
I have a similar experience. I thought it was blood sugar related as well and started dinner later. Through a food diary and experimentation. I found that I got best sleep results when I had a high fiber meal in the evening. Having a bowl of steel cut oatmeal in the evening has helped significantly. I have had good success with fibrous vegetable salads as well.
The OP article (from bloomberg, not nytimes) says that the woman moved from the median into traffic:

> The Uber had a forward-facing video recorder, which showed the woman was walking a bike at about 10 p.m. and moved into traffic from a dark center median. "It’s very clear it would have been difficult to avoid this collision in any kind of mode,” Sylvia Moir, the police chief in Tempe, Arizona, told the San Francisco Chronicle.
I confess that I too fell for the 5th gen hype and spent a couple years diving deep into Prolog in the mid 80s. It wasn't a total waste however, I still find my knowledge of Prolog coming in handy. Logic programming is an interesting concept, but not in the way they envisaged it in the 80s. In particular, I am fascinated by answer set programming. There is no need to shoe-hard Turing completeness into logic programming.
One of the lessons college taught me is that I can learn anything, but I can't learn everything.
As has been mentioned elsewhere in this thread, the vast majority of people really don't care what data Facebook collects. Addresses, phone numbers, etc are all publicly available already. Products you like, your political affiliations, etc, not a big deal to most people, not because they aren't aware, but because they don't care.

So ask yourselves, if the vast majority don't care, perhaps it's not really that big of a deal.

And maybe, just maybe, Cambridge Analytica has a target painted on its back because it helped get Trump elected, and we're being manipulated into hating them now by media that is engaged in all out war with the Trump administration.
You should check them out. They have some really interesting “framework”apps that you can quickly customize and deploy.
The stock will come back, just as Wells Fargo, United Airlines, and Intel stock came back after their scandals.

Facebook in particular will come back because there is no alternative social network with nearly as many people on it. The fundamentals of the business aren't really at risk -- most of the users will stay. The impact of potential privacy-related regulation is already priced in to a large extent because everyone already knew that GDPR was going to happen before this latest scandal broke, and Facebook was already prepared to comply with it. I doubt the US Congress in its current state would pass anything as strict as that.
> Regulations

Is more government the solution to every problem? Just let people make their choice of whether the product Facebook offers is worth the privacy tradeoff.
Well, the research and the researchers are all almost entirely funded with public funds from around the world. The fact that they are forced for professional reasons to funnel all their work into a for-profit publishing industry for distribution is a historical anachronism that dies hard.

In a broad sense, there's only very weak analogy to music or film piracy in terms of the process of creative work. Everyone has already paid for scientists to do this science. Scientists and institutions have even paid the journals to publish their work in almost all cases, and they won't reap any reward if you read the work through the legitimate distribution channel. You only pay the publisher, not a starving researcher.

Personally, I'd feel very happy if someone read my papers by any means necessary. That was the whole point of writing them, setting aside the practical annoyance of simply trying to keep my career afloat.

Edit: The lifetime value of a single paper to the journal can actually be priced, since they started charging researchers for open access a few years ago (often in addition to other fees). This number is usually in the $2-5K range per paper, in my field.
You should be paranoid about pedestrians it turns out, even if they aren’t suicidal. You are in a pedestrian-killing machine, after all. Being paranoid about this is no less reasonable than being sure to keep your chemicals and sharp knives out of the reach of toddlers if you have them both in your home.
I spent weeks learning secure messaging protocols there in 2003 and never used it once... because email exists.
Isn't just plain yogurt a pretty good probiotic? Or did you mean a pill with a live culture or something?
Most of them are in creative careers or advertising.
Daniel Solove eloquently states the problems with the "I have nothing to hide" argument in this famous paper now turned book https://scholarship.law.gwu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=...
Specialized hardware/generalized hardware is one of the classic 'wheels of reincarnation' in computer tech: http://www.cap-lore.com/Hardware/Wheel.html

But looking back over the last 20 years, at least for the silicon paradigm, I think we may finally be in the last turn of the wheel. The trend back towards specialized hardware (for audio, video, encryption, NN, servers vs smartphones) seems fairly inexorable. There's no CPU architecture remotely on the horizon which is general and blows away everything else for flexibility and speed. Even specialized hardware like GPUs are starting to see their lunch eaten by ultra-specialized ASICs and TPUs.
It's important to separate the things CA claim to have done into 2 categories: 1) things that sound sketchy but are actually normal campaign tactics, and 2) things that are actually illegal.

The following tactics are in category 1:

- Micro-targeting voter with specific persuasion & get-out-the-vote technique based on their profile, which is constructed from various data sources. Indeed, the 2012 Obama campaign is famous for such kind of analytics and behavioral persuasion. [1] [2] In academic Political Science, it's also a mainstream topic of study, of which Donald Green (Yale) is a famous researcher. [3]

- Persuasion campaign is not about facts, but emotion. This is just an axiom in campaign tactics and behavioral sciences. Obama, too, built a campaign around emotions (i.e. hope and change), not detailed policy proposals.

- Strategizing to maximize electoral votes instead of popular vote. This is extremely normal tactics, and is the reason why swing states are more important than strongholds. (Once again, Obama analytics team did the same thing [4])

- Spreading the message through super PACs and other civil society groups that are sympathetic to the candidate. While one may argue about whether CA crosses a line by serving as a conduit for coordination between the campaign and the super PACs, I find this particular indictment of CA mostly a technicality. No matter whether the super PACs coordinate with the campaign or not, they can still come up with the kind of analytics-driven attack ads we saw last election. The problem here is really the Supreme Court decision to allow super PACs, not CA.

The following tactic is in category 2, which I actually find problematic:

- CA spread memes and videos on the Internet without attribute. This obscures the source and bias of the ads, causing voters react differently from what they would have upon seeing "This message is endorsed by XYZ."

On balance, I think that CA needs to be punished for the actions in Category 2. But that alone is not sufficient to reject the hypothesis that Trump got elected based on real frustration from real voters, who would have voted for him even without the fake news and attack ads. Therefore, I believe that we shouldn't neglect their grievances while trying to pin Trump's victory to just underhanded tactics.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/13/health/dream-team-of-behav...

[2] https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/11/when-...

[3] https://isps.yale.edu/node/16698

[4] https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-the-obama-campai...
What you describe is fundamentally different than building psychological profiles of the entire electorate using stolen data, then finding mentally unstable swing voters, and serving them self-deleting, libelous advertisements designed to exploit their mental illness to get them to vote your way.

That is the service that Cambridge Analytica sells. It was used to swing the brexit vote and by the Trump campaign.

CA was replicating this strategy on multiple continents until Facebook (hopefully) pulled the plug.
Based on the NTSB pictures of the vehicle as well as police statements, it doesn’t seem that the vehicle tried to brake.
No, an author/maintainer is free to do as they see fit. If they don't want to merge your PR, that is their choice.

If you don't agree with that choice, you are free to clone/fork the project and merge the PR there. No one -- even the author/maintainer -- is stopping you and they have, in fact, granted you the permission to do exactly that (via their choice of an OSS license).

This is core to open source. See gumby's e-mail about this from 1997: https://gcc.gnu.org/news/announcement.html
Machine learning also has tendency to unlearn things and corrupt it's own models when left unaided.
Besides the likes of LinkedIn, what do you mean?

Is "Show us your Facebook Twitter Reddit" still a thing? Yes, I am a bit under a rock.
What if you can't judge the privacy tradeoff because it's a complete black box?
How do you 'automatically merge' a comment where a user voices a popular concern? What about a merge request that needs to be rebased? What about a merge request that requires deep knowledge of the project to understand if it would break something critical, or introduce security flaws?

A nation state could submit a merge request to the Linux kernel that is a blatant backdoor and override maintainers by just shear numbers of 'supporters'? This is a very bad, no, terrible idea.

Code merges should not be an open democracy with no opportunity for oversight.
A timely request:

http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/03/19/the-dark-rule-utilitari...

"So this is my argument that Sci-Hub can be ethical. Universalized it would destroy the system – but the system is bad and needs to be destroyed. And although this would break the law, a very slight amount of law-breaking might be a beneficial solution to inadequate equilibria that could be endorsed even when universalized."
I am extremely surprised, there is no obligation to prosecute.

Reading more into the article
"Bronx dropped the case. Then the court sealed the case file, hiding from view a problem so old and persistent that the criminal justice system sometimes responds with little more than a shrug: false testimony by the police."

The judge themselves are obstructing justice. Where I am from the prosecutor would have turned and charge the officer on the spot.

Like as a judge how do you even trust the testimony of that officer or any officer anymore if the rate of perjury is half of what the article implies. They are not talking about
"I don't remember correctly." or "Maybe he mistook him for the wrong person." They literally planted evidences and then perjured themselves.

I really don't understand the police organization in the U.S. It incentivizes
There’s a lot of implicit privilege baked into that statement.
I hope this sticks. My family is quitting it, after thinking I was odd for not being on it the last few years.

I don’t like being a product. Yes, Google products still make money off me, but I try to minimize it, and they’re at least slightly less callous.
Sometimes everything is OK until it isn't. Critical Mass can take awhile to build.
Why is that? Seems like it would be really beneficial to the scientific community.
No you aren’t. (Well, you could be, but not because you can’t follow this). On any given article with a lot of technical content, it’s reasonably safe to assume that it’s on the front page of HN because a lot of people are enthusiastic about the subject or interested in it. Only a small number of people actually follow what’s going on for most of these topics.