skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FB's 'business model' is of primarily of journalistic, academic and legal interest. It's an anti-democratic corporate surveillance outfit. How it makes its money will be of interest to regulators and prosecutors, but is of marginal concern elsewhere.

The important questions are more like: (for personal safety) how to reduce contact with FB collaborators, and (for society's safety) how to put the organisation itself out of business.
I don't understand how Android phones in the US can be backdoor-free considering it's the carriers that provide the final update to devices and they are the ones to sign it. Would the OEMs know if the carriers included a backdoor in there on NSA's behalf? Probably not.
I haven't looked into the Lightning/Stellar combo yet, but one thing that Lightning/Litecoin and Lightning/Bitcoin (and others) have is that you can abstract away which coin you are paying with, and which coin the vendor accepts.

If all the LN implementations match, then I could, for example, pay with Bitcoin on LN to a node that will convert it to Litecoin at a given price, then will send that payment to the vendor's node who will accept Litecoin as payment.

That gives a massive incentive for altcoins to support and match the Bitcoin lightning-network APIs exactly, as then it becomes much easier for them to gain market share based on their other qualities (like stability, security, decentralization, longevity, etc...)
Productivity Growth in the US Continues to Decline
Fair enough. In that case I wonder who's gonna pay for that failing cellular module.
Tbh that's not surprising at all
> I suspect that the ADA will come under severe attack in the next few years.

I'm not worried. No politician will carry the flag of denying rights for people with disabilities.
Imagine tying your shoes, but with blockchain.
IIRC this is exactly the case.
Would a limit of 2 per verified cellphone or 5 per credit card fix this?
End-to-end is supported

https://telegram.org/faq#secret-chats
Not always public, but a lot of DAs have lists of officers who's testimony was not legit, and so they were meant to be kept away.
That's always been the concern of the gig economy. People too poor or with some other qualifier that prevents them from using gig services get stuck with a crappier and crappier public option as people with the means to do so flock to gig services and lose their appetite for funding public services they don't use.
Unrelated..except for the one small fact they they are all large scale social systems built on foundations of technologies and philosophies from the 18-20th centuries.

And yes, crypto hype IS 100% in full effect and there is a plurality of nonsense in and amidst all the hype.

And yet, from the railroads to the automobile to the stock exchange to the internet, groundbreaking technologies seem to develop via a massive wave of speculation that brings with it the full battery of scammers, hypers, and snake oil peddlers but also the funding and expertise that actually builds new infrastructure...

Then all the get-rich-quickers lose their shirts, some of the scammers go to jail, and what's left behind is a completely new way of doing things.
Could people start wearing small transmitters that nearby autonomous vehicles can read?
Personally, I think he is doing the right thing. The more fb communicates the more the press is going after them. At this pt, fb should just stop communicating as that will give media less fodder to go after since they tend to dig into smaller details anyways to get more views.

A good counter example is Twitter which had equal if not more exposure on Russian ads but they have kept mum. And no one is going after them.
You're right that it is somewhat danced around in the initial announcement. I think a lot of people, including myself, read into it based on some hints throughout (such as where it talks about pre-trial incarceration along with some other types), and made assumptions.

That said, there is a comment that clarifies that this is at least one area they are looking at:

The fundamental issue is that we are focusing on poor people who are bail eligible and incarcerated only because they cannot afford bail. [1]

That said, they could try to expand beyond that. In addition, this additional comment means a lot of what I said, and others have said, may not quite be accurate, at least in the future:

It is a judge. However, there is a recent court decision(Humphrey), that is creating a lot of change within the system. [2]

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16631647

2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16631990
If I was driving a car and saw the pedestrian ahead of time walking or trying to cross I would have slowed down and changed lanes away fro them or at least moved far right if safe. Same thing when you pass bicycles. Change lanes away if possible or at the very least give more buffer. You can never tell what someone may do so you should anticipate the unexpected.
Facebook didn’t elect trump. The us populace did.
I understand the temptation to interpret people's comments that way, but users are far too quick to jump to conclusions about astroturfing or PR, and cross into personal attack in the process. That damages the community at least as much as what you all are insinuating, if it's true—and it's usually not true. For example, I doubt that a shill would write about their Cobol programming experience.

I just wrote more about this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16632589
We'll soon have a a future where our cars have like 14 cameras and a radar and police officers will still be having trouble getting their cameras to work reliably no doubt.

In my justice fantasies some smart ass company comes along to "help" the police by providing them with vests each containing 60 cameras all operating independently and unable to be turned off. The same company will "help" the police avoid complicated data maintenance issues by uploading to their secure servers. This same company would be very popular with the voting public who vote for laws that ensure police accept the "help". Just a fantasy for sure.
Failing a test, or more accurately the fear of failing a test, and being cut off from a supply are separate concepts.
It should be considered worse than perjury.
Let draft Oprah people have their moment, okay?
This looks like this only traces the original Unix and the BSD lines. I assume that's because that's what the sources are available for. It would be cool to see what came from the SysV side of things over time, but, one would have to get the sources for a SysV-derived Unix. I'd think Illumos would count, having come from Solaris. But that doesn't help much either, does it, since Illumos is a modern Unix, and not a historic version?
This is possible.
When booking a ride, Uber needs three toggles:

- Do you a service dog

- Do you want AC

- Do you want to talk to the driver

Edit: I can’t format.
Then we need to fire them, and blacklist them from the industry. They are not deserving of being cops.
I don't know of anybody who goes into anaphylactic shock due to dog hair, so an epi pen would be a bit much. Standard OTC allergy meds are fine.

Anyway, unless you're constantly carrying around dogs or have unusually severe allergies, this seems like a minor irritant.
That's the theory. And, everybody claims that's what they do. But, in practice it is exceedingly difficult to estimate not just software, but software that is premised on delivering novelty, creativity and a volume of original and highly-technical art greatly exceeding the budget of the engineering team.

On top of that, there is pretty much no defined path for learning how to be a game production manager. People come in, in myriad ways, pretty much completely unskilled as junior producers and mostly learn by following their seniors. As a result, project management skills in the industry are generally quite... poor.
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It's interesting that the lawsuit is against Uber, and not the "independent contractors" that fulfill the service on Uber's behalf. Likely because there's no money in suing drivers, while Uber itself has billions.
This is a big part of why I bristle when Uber fans claim that ride sharing makes public transit obsolete.

Families, too. Taking kids on the bus or train is fine. If I were to try and use Uber, though, I'd need to also lug along 60lb worth of car seats. One car seat might be manageable, but even then I'd have to deal with the drivers giving me a hard time about installing it.
Please no. You should not be required to carry a beacon in order to be safe walking around a city or crossing a street.
You're absolutely correct (more specifically when it comes to near-peer adversaries). Depending on the threats that we're facing, LEO satellites can be a huge asset even though they're vulnerable.
Addressing some concerns here (which I don't think will go away as you become more successful), consider registering as a Public Benefit Corporation or at least announcing that that is in your game plan.

Ref: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public-benefit_corporation

For background:

A Public Benefit Corporation makes it explicit legally for corporations to act morally, ethically and responsibly in regard to society, the environment, the natural world and the world at large.

The Certificate of Incorporation must list the company's altruistic goals and overall mission statement. However, in every other manner, the structure of a Public Benefit Corporation can mirror the structure of any type of Corporation.
It may not have had good enough information to tell that she was a cyclist at all, and instead interpreted her to be something static/non-human altogether (in parent's example, a bush). Of course, without seeing the data its sensors gathered, and what that data registered as, it's all speculation. The problem is with misidentification, not bad priorities.
Errr, They (probably) did that a few weeks ago:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-43443271
Ask HN: (ReAsk) Are they trying to fire Mark Zuckerberg?
I asked this question 5 months ago, I want to ask again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15462092
In general yes. We like to gratify people's curiosity since that's the main value of the site.
There are two ways to weather a crisis: get out in front of it or keep quiet and hope people move on.

The problem in this case is that FB represents a direct threat to the media businesses, and they are incentivized to drag out the issue as long as necessary
Uber halts self-driving tests after pedestrian killed in Arizona
It's Time to Ditch Facebook and Give Google+ a Try
I'm not sure I follow your math. Facebook had the following figures at the close of 2017 per https://investor.fb.com/investor-news/press-release-details/...:

Earnings (Q4 2017): $4B

Earnings (Y2017): $16B

Revenue (Q4 2017): $13B

Revenue (Y2017): $40B

So, maybe you're confusing revenue with earnings (net income) and a quarter (3 months) with the entire year (12 months). Because $90B is over 20x FB's Q4 2017 earnings and over 5x their entire 2017 earnings.
I don't remember running across that paradox before.

It clearly is an example.
Although i can't help but think he was thinking of the Cornish one, being Cornish: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Michael%27s_Mount
Facebook Forces NYT to Quietly Delete Unflattering Reference to Sheryl Sandberg
> Of course, this would disqualify me from ever sitting in a jury box.

Probably not; I've been on a criminal jury where virtually all the testimony was from police, and the questions in voir dire wouldn't have he really revealed that attitude unless it was so extreme that the prospective juror themself felt it would prevent them from fairly evaluating the evidence.
Doctors say stem cell transplant could be a "game changer" for patients with MS
In the USA we elected as president a politician who openly mocked a reporter with a physical disability. It doesn't seem like that much of a stretch to imagine someone carrying exactly that flag.
You are saying to adjust p0 so I get that the frequency of bad pixels = 1e-6? That makes sense but it would probably now depend on what size screens are being considered... not sure if I'll go back to it.
I don't see a correlation, actually, so far.

Comparing guns per capita on a small sampling, the top 5 most violent states per one survey are Louisiana (gun ownership: #11), Alaska (gun ownership: #1), Tennessee (gun ownership: #15), Delaware (gun ownership: #51), and Nevada (gun ownership: #16). All over the place, at least so far. Maybe a small bias towards "more guns=more violence per capita", but with such a huge outlier with Delaware, that makes me imagine that the overall data is pretty noisy.

My impression is that there is a much stronger indicator of guns-per-capita: population density. The top 5 guns per capita states are: Alaska (population density: #50), Arkansas (population density: #40), Idaho (population density: #44), West Virginia (population density: #29), Wyoming (population density: #49). Again, somewhat messy, but there seems like a strong bias towards more rural areas.

This makes sense to me. In America, a driving force for many people with guns is less pure self defense and more sport and recreation. Of which the opportunities are quite a bit more readily available in rural areas.

[1] https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2016/07/29/ame...
[2] https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/gun-ownership-rates-by-stat...
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territ...
I read it again, and don't see that limitation in there. If so, though, it would be a welcome innovation for bailing defendants.
Actually, It is you whose logic is faulty here. Life (according to the commentator) begins when an embryo is fertilized.
When will the US feel the heat of global warming?
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How would this help if OS manufacturer or even baseband operator could read anything in your phone's memory remotely, including encryption keys?
You've got to be kidding. The recent chemical weapon attack was done for the shock value, because they literally do not give AF about the consequences. It's Putin flexing on the world stage.
Mozilla petition pushes Facebook to lock down app privacy
Fortunately US has a very developed social safety net.
Seeking out possible moves to keep Apple on the leading edge of technology and user experience, a determined Tim Cook arrived at page 103 of his Strategic Decision Making in Information Technology textbook, and came across what some may call ancient wisdom -- such wisdom that seemed peculiarly familiar, as though it was encoded into his subconscious from birth. Left alone in center aligned bold text along the top of the page was scribed "NO ONE GETS FIRED FOR PARTNERING WITH IBM".

Tim, being the savvy executive and decision maker he will always be, concluded that the only logical choice is to make the decision which will virtually nullify his chance of getting fired. "Your legacy shall not go to waste, Steve...", he said under his breath as he picked up the phone.
Remember in 2013 when Lavabit said their email was so secure that even their sysadmins can't read it? And then, after the secret US government subpoena was made public it turned out that Lavabit's claim of "can't" was more like "won't".

Better to not have to trust the intentions (or ability to resist torture, etc) of Telegram, Pavel Durov, et al. Better to have end-to-end encryption by default, like in Signal.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20131002/17443624734/lavab...
On my browser (Firefox 59.0.1), the page displays "undefined" in a couple of places, then, after a couple of seconds, it displays what appears to be the complete, correct page.
Mediated solutions are better than the alternatives of the perpetrator getting a criminal record or the shopkeeper deciding to break the shoplifter's fingers. These systems can and should be improved to avoid life-ruining spirals (bad for society), but there has to be some form of consequences for the perpetrator. Otherwise, victims would have to pay the costs of their victimization while the abusers learn nothing (also bad for society).

Promise should "do that" if they can improve the process relative to the status quo.
"The problem in this case is that FB represents a direct threat to the media businesses, and they are incentivized to drag out the issue as long as necessary"

Maybe the problem is that they've actually done something objectionable here, and it's not just a conspiracy against them.
I would guess that the elderly are much more skeptical about handing over their personal information online than younger generations. For example, Facebook started off in colleges. And other forms of social media like Snapchat, Twitter, and Instagram are predominantly used by younger cohorts who are ambivalent about what companies might use with their data. The information about data collection is out there, what with Google searches and all. People choose not to abstain.

I'll give a more recent example: I meet 20-somethings at a meetup I go to each week. Most of them go to a pretty well-known university (thus, they are well educated), they ask me if they can connect with me via Facebook. I say I don't use Facebook, and then spend an extra 20 minutes explaining all the reasons why often to their astonishment. In my mind I'm like, "Really? How do you not know all of this? You read tons of magazines/journals?"

The sad reality is that billions of people don't care. Even with this whole scandal, I'd be shocked if Facebook's stock price was hurt in the long term.
This is a pretty weak line of reasoning IMHO. There are plenty of non-profit organizations which scale very large and address large societal problems. For instance, most hospitals.

Why couldn't the same thing be done to solve this problem, especially given your concern for eliminating perverse incentives in the justice system?
I am, especially with this administration slashing regulations under the guise of being "business friendly".
> due to the constant influx of young people willing to take it on the nose to get into the industry.

I mean, I guess. I'm in my late 30s and I just got sucked in to a project that was behind schedule by miles to try to meet an impossible deadline. The expectation seems to be that the 90 hour week I had last week is going to be repeated again this week and, most likely, also next week, come hell or high water, and any sort of common sense or evidence about how short-sighed this effort is be damned. I like my job, for the most part, but this has me considering my options.

My point is, I see this as an upper management issue. I can't fault people, including myself, for doing what we have to do to keep the paychecks rolling in, and especially when the power dynamics are as uneven as they are. You are right that younger people (and, also, let's not forget our friends in this industry on work visas) are less capable of dealing with the issue than veterans. But, from my point of view, it's not us who are wrong. Instead, it's the management chain who is unaccountable to their bad planning, poor decision making, etc... who create this situation.
I'm curious about which people care and actually do something about it. I guess it would be some countries in Europe?
Not 100% relevant to the article, but if anyone hasn't already given it a try - Signal is a great cross-platform messaging service. I don't understand why more people aren't using it
Is there a benefit to society in having this organization be a for-profit corporation, or would this be better handled by a non-profit with a strict mandate to put the needs of those semi-incarcerated first?
I presume you mean Xeon Gold (Skylake-Servers are the latest release. Intel just did away with the "E5" naming scheme).

Between Xeon Gold and AMD Epyc (or really: their stripped down HEDT cousins. Intel i9 or AMD Threadripper), I find it unlikely that I'd ever get something like the Power9.

AMD's Threadripper 1950X gives 16-cores / 32-threads, compatibility with x86. Granted, its in a "NUMA" configuration with some warts, but switching to x86-NUMA is probably way easier than switching to Power9.

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The main advantage to Power9 seems to be the NVLink, which is like 10x the bandwidth than PCIe 3.0 x16. So if you're decking your computers out with NVidia V100 GPUs and have a dataset which is shared between GPU and CPU compute, maybe its worth a test.

Otherwise, standard server x86 with GPGPU accelerated over PCIe x16 is probably good enough. We're talking about computers well over $10k+ before Power9 looks like a reasonable alternative.
The thing that makes smartphones so damn cheap is you can sell a couple of hundred million of them every year. It’s the same reason consumer grade GPUs and CPUs completely wiped out SGI, Sun, etc. Those companies weren’t incompetent, it’s just the economies of scale are insane.
It's not perjury unless it's willful. I have no doubt that some of these inconsistencies (most?) are deliberate, but human memory is often pretty terrible. Good luck proving that the officer was deliberately not telling the truth.
Consider a business model based on per day an individual did not recidivate, pro-rated by a prediction model for initial likelihood of recidivism, and severity of crime.

This would perhaps ascribe a number for level of difficulty, and an initial estimate for how hard the case is.

Keep in mind that a convicted offender on the streets may suffer from a potential for revenge and retaliation, and thus is possibly safer in jail, however horrible jail may be. This would augment a recidivism predictor further, if you cannot isolate them from their victims, should victims be bitter about the perception of your service lacking punitive action.
The user experiences of Notes and Contacts are both perfect, and they're an enormous part of what I do with a computing device
"The future of journalism depends on all of us working together."

Translation:

"Your future as a new organization depends on you working well with us here at Google and finding ways for us to quietly tax part of your prior earnings"
this is so dumb. I'm a founder. I was chosen to be the technical co-founder of a company where the space had been selected and problem had been identified. before that I wanted to start something but because I'm not asinine nor had any useful domain experience I didn't have any notions of valuable problems to solve. i have all of the makings of a founder (work ethic, risk tolerant, creativity, people skills, etc.) and we're alive because I do. are you really going to argue because I didn't just start another Shopify clone for dogs and then pivot 10 times that I don't have founder DNA?

edit: i'm probably getting downvoted because i come off as a braggart. maybe but that was not my intention - i just meant that there are plenty of counter-examples to this claim that if you don't go out and start from scratch impulsively then you're not genetically predisposed to being a founder.
> Personally, I think he is doing the right thing.

Right for who?

> fb should just stop communicating as that will give media less fodder

Oh I see. Right for Facebook's public image. Wrong for their customers which have a right to know what the hell Facebook has been doing with their data.
I think that would really depend on the university. I doubt the Chinese government would care to plant spies in US choir societies versus let’s say sending students to Georgetown with direct recruitment feeds to Capitol Hill.
It's not a settled question whether a taxi can refuse service to a person with a service animal to accommodate a driver's allergies. Some jurisdictions allow it, some do not. It may also depend on the severity of the driver's allergy.
I don’t really understand how there can exist any debt that can’t be bankrupted, apart from federal treasuries.

It may produce some desired affect in the short term, but in time creates a massive liability for everyone, not just those who took out the debt.