skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I find it curious the number of comments blaming government regulation, instead of greed and massive private misidentification of risk

1) Greed is a constant. Everyone is greedy, and there's zero evidence that "greed on Wall Street" increased before or during the crisis, nor that it could be reduced. To a first approximation, "greed" has no explanatory power in cases like this, and to the extent "greed" does have explanatory power, it is a constant you need to work around. People like money, power, and prestige; this isn't news.

2) What misidentification of risk? That's the criticism of bailouts; private individuals got all the upside, and the public wore the downside. For the people who benefited from this, they correctly identified that their risk was zero. Why was it zero? Government regulation.

If we lived in a world where people consciously took crazy risks and suffered huge losses trying to win outsize profits...sure. But we don't live in that world. The financial crisis was about systemic problems, underappreciated tail risk, black swan events, privatized gains, and socialised losses.

> as well as firewalls between banks and financial investment firms.

There's neither evidence nor a plausible story on how this might have had an impact. The biggest failures were banks that existed on one side or the other of the old Glass-Steagall lines. Countrywide had no investment banking operations; AIG wasn't a bank; Bear Stearns wasn't a retail bank. And we saw the same pattern overseas, where the old Glass-Steagall never applied to start with. How does the failure of Northern Rock (a retail bank that originated too many bad mortgages and blew up due to a bank run) tie in, considering it wouldn't have violated that firewall if it had been in the US, and it was in the UK which never had that rule to start with? How would a law preventing retail banks getting into investment banking or insurance have helped any of those institutions? Conversely the banks that weathered it best were diversified institutions that would have been banned under the old rules.
Live is definitely a bit of a mess. I changed my password a while back and, IIRC, included a '%'. Worked fine on PC/Xbox, but then I went back to a GFWL game some time later and found that it would claim my password was incorrect. Took me a while to work out -- I assumed it was just a bugged install because I could log in fine elsewhere, and a password reset didn't help -- but eventually realised that changing my password to something that didn't include that character let me log in.
>"Mr. Stamos had been a strong advocate inside the company for investigating and disclosing Russian activity on Facebook, often to the consternation of other top executives, including Sheryl Sandberg, the social network’s chief operating officer..."

This is quite a telling - advocating for transparency and disclosure put this individual at odds with the C0O Sheryl Sandberg. It's worth noting that Chapter 6 of Sandberg's very successful book "Lean In" is titled "Seek and Speak the Truth."[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lean_In

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How would you define the term breach?

Is it fair to use the term breach from the perspective of the user whose data has been acquired? Or is breach only in reference to what the company that collected the data intended to do with it?

There’s also seemingly two types of breaches at play:
1. The idea of a security breach, where a company gets “hacked”
2. The idea of a breach of trust, where people had given a company data in good faith that it would not be abused, and then had it abused, even going against that company’s TOS
...and Jauguar is months away from to shipping a strong competitor to the Model S in volume.
The fact that real world public systems such as SSH and SMTP rely on it has led to people relying on it in other protocols as well, where data is transferred between two parties and it is convenient to rely on established infrastructure for key rollovers and distributed trust.

It's not a bad idea where the trust model is a little more complex than two parties exchanging keys on a regular schedule. Public implementation leaves a little to be desired, but that doesn't mean the protocol is ill designed.
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If he's leaving anyway why would he really care?
> Then the main question is, is what you're willing to pay to append a record more than what the operators (miners) are willing to accept to append a record? In the case of elections, I don't know a lot of governments that would be willing to pay to do what they do for free today.

If a government is holding fair elections, they should be willing to spend money on the opportunity to prove that they are fair. That being said, you don't actually need mining in an election-based blockchain. Mining/PoW exist to solve the 'double spend' problem - but that's just a race condition. There's no need to worry about race conditions in elections. The global consensus can be computed slowly. The important property that you want is that each individual voter be able to mathematically verify that their own personal vote was counted towards the total, and counted correctly. Blockchains do offer that capability.
This fact has me more confused than anything.

What did most people think Facebook was doing... Keeping all the data locked away an never letting anyone make use of it? The interest in that data by political entities should have been especially obvious.

Additionally, this information about Cambridge Analytica came out months ago. I remember first hearing about it on a podcast that was mostly focused on the personality profiles. [1?] However, it was open about CA optaining the data via the survey. (I'll provide a link as soon as I dig it up again). Suddenly, months later, this story is exploding in media and political rhetoric.

It makes me wonder if this isn't more about a concerted effort to force regulations to give someone control over these platforms?

After seeing what happened in the 2016 elections around the world, I'd imagine many people became interested in ensuring social media would work for them next time around.

[1] https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/wnyc/note-to-self/e/5231252... (not -the- podcast I was trying to find, but still has the info as far back as November)
Worth noting that CSO / CISO isn’t really a C-Level position. They usually report to the CIO or CTO and are leveled at VP or whatever one one or two levels below what the “real” execs are.

You’ll notice he isn’t listed as an exec in their SEC filings, which include their CEO, COO, CFO, Chief Product Officer, VP Business and Marketing Partnerships, CTO, and VP General Counsel.

That tells you a bit about how important tech companies really think security is. In fact you will often find the head of HR among that group before you’ll see a CSO.

It doesn’t matter though, as it’s incredibly rare for a CSO to actually know anything about security. Stamos is an exception. I’d wager that you can likely count the number of CSOs who have ever written an exploit on one hand.
Uber still has a responsibility to avoid hitting jaywalkers. I would be more sympathetic on a freway, but this seems negligent. If they can’t avoid hitting jaywalkers they need to keep testing in a less dangerous circumstance.
Apropos of nothing, Ellen Pao commented on how Reddit handles user data:

> In 2014, we decided not to sell reddit user data because there is no way to monitor and verify use. There is no way to ensure data is deleted/corrected. It may be on any engineer's laptop. Who had access to copy it? How do you correct or delete PII or unauth porn after it's sold?

https://twitter.com/ekp/status/975192404167831552
> Not only that, but the blockchain is not even immutable... Forks happen all the time and the developers end up arbitrarily choosing which fork is the real blockchain. Anyone that was using the other fork in the meantime sees their chain mutate (gets wiped out, essentially) or be given a different name.

Yes they are. That's not what 'immutable' means. Immutability refers to an inability to change the past. Not an inability to fork the future. A blockchain is a persistent, immutable data structure. This is just a simple fact of computer science.
In many cases (such as Let's Encrypt) the CA verification process is merely "controls some DNS resource" or "controls some HTTP response that directly depends on DNS". In that case it is theoretically impossible for the cert to be more trustworthy than DNS(SEC). [The cert's untrustworthiness is DNS's untrustworthiness plus the CA's untrustworthiness plus some other misc factors, such as TLS library untrustworthiness].
Here's a Twitter thread by someone who worked on Obama's campaign talking about her firm's use of Facebook data. It was tweeted by Julian Assange so I'm assuming it's one of the more damning examples of the Obama campaign using social media data:

https://twitter.com/cld276/status/975564499297226752

https://twitter.com/cld276/status/975568130117459975

This person asserts that people from Facebook gave them their blessing because FB was "on our side". However, she says that from what she knew, FB was on the other team's side too. Kind of need more specifics about who from FB said what, and what "suck out the whole social graph" means. But it's still a different situation than what CA is being accused of, which is using the guise of a quiz app to mine the social data of the quiz participants' friends.

In contrast, the Obama campaign Facebook app/outreach was explicitly connected to the Obama campaign efforts, i.e. people who signed up for the app knew they would be explicitly allowing this Obama-connected app access to info/friend data.

edit: Here's a tweet by someone on the Obama campaign, protesting angrily to a tweet by Cambridge Analytics:

https://twitter.com/mbsimon/status/975231597183229953

> I ran the Obama 2008 data-driven microtargeting team. How dare you! We didn’t steal private Facebook profile data from voters under false pretenses. OFA voluntarily solicited opinions of hundreds of thousands of voters. We didn’t commit theft to do our groundbreaking work.

Of course, we shouldn't take Obama's team at their word that absolutely everything they did was on the up-and-up. But it's important to acknowledge that there are distinct differences between what we know of their work so far compared to what has been revealed with CA.

In other words, it's fair to say that the Obama team was lauded for their "innovation" at mass usage of FB data, which they talked about publicly. It is unfair to say that what they talked about publicly is anything like what CA is currently being accused of.

edit: I more or less agree with u/makomk that @mbsimon (the staffer who tweeted angrily at CA) is not giving the most complete description of how Obama's campaign harvested FB data: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16624794
She's the COO, not the CEO :)
Can you actually answer the question I asked?
Note that there was no survey in 2017 so that data point can be removed.

The surveys in all of these years were open for different amounts of time and advertised on different platforms at different frequencies. I think primarily they show the limit on the number of people willing to take an online survey.

The big jump from 2014 to 2015 coincides with the emergence of the Clojure Slack community. As a real-time chat platform it tends to collect more people and make it easier to find people in the community that are available right now to answer a survey.

I think it is very hard to conclude from this data alone anything useful about the number of users of Clojure. I watch metrics on a number of platforms (some public, some private) and my sense right now is that there at least a small spike happening over the last few months, but again it's very difficult to conclude anything with certainty.
This is a very good idea. It works quite well for Innisfil, and may well be the real future of Uber in many places?
>>"We're smart enough to not fall for it but the proles stand no chance" doesn't pass the smell test as anecdotal evidence.

That's why I said "then again, maybe not".

>>What they are doing is what marketing people have done for years, only we know from years of data and experience that these "profile and target" ad campaigns are barely above baseline for RoI.

This is completely irrelevant in the current context, because for people with deep pockets, the ROI of a single project doesn't matter if it leads to huge gains further down the line.

Case in point: CA is owned by the Mercers, who just got a huge tax cut thanks to Trump.
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Common forms of Type class pattern in Scala
Also known as, "having principles."

See also, "consistency."
You think that problems with election legitimacy don't exist? They definitely do. Especially in non-western countries, but even in western countries there are often questions of legitimacy. Blockchains have the potential to remove all doubt. I'd say that's a pretty worthwhile goal.

That being said, this particular project is not a good example of any of that. But blockchain for elections is actually one of the few truly technically legitimate uses of the technology.
As a Danish company who a year ago moved to Minneapolis, I can tell you that there is hidden gold in the mid west.

Especially in Minneapolis there are tons of universities and cost of of living is much lower than the west coast. It makes it a lot easier to keep your employees once they want to start a family, something far too many companies neglect.
Uber drivers don't get paid by the minute. It's a fixed fare.
I don't think it's quite that clear. Sure Epic has been in the game engine market longer, but it was only relatively recently that they entered the non-AAA market due to a major change in licensing. Unity was really the incumbent in that space at the time. In some ways Epic is the up and comer. You can also see that as Unity has had to react strongly to Epic's entry into the market.
I don't know about the US, but where I live speed camera are relatively large bright colored boxes with reflective stripes on the side of the road, with mandatory "speed camera ahead" warnings.

Most of them are empty but people unfamliar with the place will usually slow down.
Facebook announces forensic audit of Trump data firm Cambridge Analytica
FTA "Elaine Herzberg, 49, was walking her bicycle outside the crosswalk".

The article says "as soon as she walked into the lane of traffic she was struck".

The police sergeant also "said he believed Herzberg may have been homeless".

These three things may together indicate that even a human driver might have struck and killed the lady if she entered into the roadway unsafely. I'm not sure how everyone (especially on Twitter) can be jumping all over Uber yet until the investigation is complete.

Sad of course, either way, but not yet enough evidence to assume that the algorithm+driver combo was any less safe than a human driver alone.
Btw. Interfaces can also be used to resolve circular dependencies: Just define compatible interfaces in both packages et voilà, no circular dependencies anymore.

I am not sure if I agree with

> Defining an interface upfront is usually a code smell for overengineering.

So far I had less problems with overusing interfaces than with not using them enough. So when you write tests for a package, you define the general interface to the package in terms of types and methods. The remaining challenge is to break that general definition into smaller pieces as one big interface for a package is almost certainly a bad idea.

However, in general I follow the authors verdict to not just build 'Java-style' interfaces, as that completely misses the point of interfaces in Go.
Grit, I think. It's not a static trait, the way some people talk about it. More something you discover when you need it.
This "extremely small" argument falls flat, as is well known, pre-industrial levels were < 0.05 ug/dl. That said, I agree the result is suspiciously strong.
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>Virtue signaling is a dirty term, but we just don't virtue signal about it the same way. We accept immigrants and they accept us and we get on with life. Anyone is welcome to come build here and they do. Not that racism and such isn't a problem, but I'd guess it's as much an issue in almost every major US city, certain places are obsessed with showing how enlightened they are.

You hit the nail on the head IMO.
Frankly speaking, if someone should took the blame for Clinton voters staying home, it's traditional media. They were constantly talking how her victory is predicated, how she is supposed "to take Ohio, to take Florida, to take Wisconsin", NYT and HuffPost showing election calculators with "95% probability of Hillary winning" (Nate Silver was the only one who said that Trump has 30% chance, and he was laughed out of the room for that!).

Is it really a mystery that democratic voter turnout was low? Why they should be bothered if the victory in their pocket? And Trump voters were energized beyond belief by the exactly same message from traditional media.
I've been using the intel realsense D415 recently on linux/windows and it works quite well.
Pilots don't share control of an aircraft; the copilot may help with some tasks, but unless the captain relinquishes control of the yoke (etc.) he's flying it. So you'd still have issues where a cars "pilot" gets distracted, or makes a poor decision.
When have they really ever had their feet held to a fire on a controversial issue? Zuckerberg is still a pretty young guy, despite his position and all he's done he's still inexperienced in some things. Ever since he started Facebook things have pretty much gone his way. Maybe he just doesn't instinctively know what to do.
Stackoverflow has always been a place where Clojure produces a weaker signal. Most people in the Clojure community ask questions elsewhere (irc in the old days, mailing list, Slack, clojure subreddit, clojureverse, etc). As Clojure has always had a very friendly and welcoming culture towards newcomers, people usually get their questions answered rapidly on these forums.
Everyone wanted a different outcome. All of the monies accepted by NRA and other right wing organizations would not have been investigated if Clinton won in 2016. Trump would have averted the whole issue of finances and set himself up to create a new right-wing media organization. Chaffetz and other politicians admitted they had "years of material" on Benghazi with which they could hound Clinton. All of the potential money laundering operations through the RNC would have gone unnoticed. Facebook would have enjoyed years of elevated activity with political arguments.

But because of how things played out, we slowly became more introspective and started questioning. Scandals involving sexual impropriety with actors, culminating in the #metoo movement, is part of this introspection. And there will be increased scrutiny in social media and its role in enabling the current situation.
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Unless you want a bunch of people from CA to show up and ruin it you should stop bragging about how great it is.

Sincerely,
Denver
trump spent tens if not hundreds of millions on this company to discourage voter turnout, per their own guy:

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:cHYYHF...
I think you're technically correct, but 'isometric' is also a pretty widely used non-technical term when describing video games which have some form of non-perspective 3D projection, even if the axes are unequally foreshortened.
In this case, it is measurable. You can have enough education to get a decent job, even if some of that education is optional. Minimally, you can make sure that your basic average education is enough to be accepted into vocational through university level education without the need to take remedial classes so long as you go right after high school. You can make sure there are enough nursing schools to meet demand and make sure folks aren't avoiding certain fields because the education is too expensive for the salary they will be making (a lawyer wanting to be a public defender or criminal lawyer, for example, or even a doctor for that matter).

I think if we were using taxpayer money for these education, there would also be more interest in making sure that the education requirements aren't filled with too much fluff that should be part of basic education or an option within basic education (we can, for example, have longer high school for college bound students than those going into a vocation).
Because I still have Al Gore's voice in my head. I assumed they took this data and put it in a "Lock-box". You see, we need to take it all in and put it in a "Lock-box".
As someone who went to school in the Midwest, moved away, and then moved back, I think it's good that this is happening. That being said, I plan on moving away from the Midwest for good later this year, as there are better opportunities (and weather) elsewhere.
True names can be dangerous things, impossible to unspeak.
YouTube is reportedly introducing your kids to conspiracy theories, too
https://twitter.com/cld276/status/975564499297226752
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The difference is we have a lot of experience with the human brain, and not much at all with self-driving cars. All we have to go on are the statistics, which say that although humans are bad drivers, self-driving cars are even worse (or at best that we don’t have sufficient information).

Again, why not just test them in private and hire people to be pedestrians?
This forum is not like reddit for snarky/sarcastic comments. OLA folks are smart enough to cater to each individual local market. And all the drivers will be from local cities there.
“Often they kill people”??? That’s not even intellectually honest. This is the fliplant attitude the top poster is responding to.