skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google Street View says 45 MPH, but they might have change it in the past seven months.

https://www.google.com/maps/@33.4350531,-111.941492,3a,75y,3...
Can we not let this become framed as a "breach"? No systems were compromised. Nothing of Facebook's was accessed that wasn't supposed to be accessed. This was data intentionally exposed by Facebook, just exfiltrated and given to an entity whom Facebook hadn't authorized.

This is simply the extent to which we've permitted these Internet giants to collect information about us. It's business as usual.

Edit: To clarify, this is indeed worse than if the data were taken from Facebook without consent. What it means is that not only does Facebook have access to vast troves of personal information, but so does everyone tangentially connected to someone with a Facebook developer account.
Isn't this just the way Win32 programs were written? Each window could have a routine that received messages like WM_PAINT, WM_SIZE, etc.
Yes and no.

I've had a lot of people ask me if Facebook is listening in on the microphone on their phones - because they've been discussing something offline and then started seeing ads for it. Of course, maybe they've searched for it and then forgotten about it - but it's becoming a common topic of conversation.

Likewise, retargetted adverts are getting noticed more and more - people often tell me that they find it extremely creepy and annoying.

So there is a growing awareness out there ... it's just not reached a point where people want to take action yet.
The issue is that the undesired language constructs one would like to remove are not universal. What is an improvement for one user group will be a regression for another & vice versa.
Isn't that just part of FB's culture? Didn't the Zuck start out by scraping Harvard's student registry?
Surely you understand the difference between the media reporting on facts vs. general public speculation.
Let me guess. It’s a globalist media conspiracy to take down Trump?
That is not the only thing one can do. Our governing bodies could be disentangled from private interests and put to task protecting the vulnerable members of our society for the better of the whole. This idea anything but new. Have you not thought of it before? If not, what do you think has prevented your awareness?
> I can put together a full HTML/CSS/JS UI for a screen in hours

Hours for a single screen ? Exactly what I'm talking about. The fact you think that's quick is worrying.
Just a reminder, I'm still eagerly awaiting this-- I check your site everyday! :)
A lack of novelty is no reason to be dismissive.
Yoga (proper yoga, not the gymnastics they do in most gyms) is all about stimulating the vagus nerve and several others. The "locks" (bandhas) and various breathing exercises (pranayama) all work on it in different ways and stimulate different parts of the nerve. If you really want to juice it up add in some breath retention.

Eventually you reach a sort of homeostatic state where your breath just naturally suspends, and that's when the doorway to the inner world opens.

There's more about the nerves in The Accidental Yogi's ebook (free online), and more about breath retention in Kundalini Exposed (on Kindle). The "Supreme Kriya Fire" technique in that book is the absolute real deal, but definitely not for beginners. Beginners may want to start with Yogani's free lessons at aypsite.org.

Remember - Kundalini is not a game. Work up slowly to avoid negative side effects.
This is a pretty old/widely used technique. Here's a paper about it from 1999, implementing on a DOS PC.

http://www8.cs.umu.se/research/ifor/dl/LOCALIZATION-NAVIGATI...

The really interesting stuff more recently is using RTK software to get accuracy on the order of 10s of cm with cheap GPS receivers.

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/RTKLIB
As a matter of fact, this is news and surprising for most users of Facebook even if it's not for you. By saying that no one should be surprised, are you not taking the same condescending attitude that you're pointing out in Zuckerberg?
Interesting. How about "cleaning" them with salt water? Sure the salt on the panels is not ideal, but it's better than dust.
BMW built the C1 from 2000-2002. They showed an electric version, the C1-E as a concept in 2009.
tell me again why you think the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a bad idea?
That's not really what it's about! It's not about achieving physical correctness or ray tracing. You can have a PBR renderer selectively break energy conservation for artistic reasons. It's not about ray tracing either. Current game engines like Unreal and Unity are considered PBR because they use a roughness/metalness workflow.

PBR about having maps that are easy to understand through physical analogy, and simplifying the workflow so that it's mostly shared across render engines, applications and pipelines. It's about the ability to create texture in Mari or Substance, which use rasterizing engines, and seeing the final render in Arnold look nearly identical.
As someone from Middle East I totally agree with this. Oil is basically element which finances waging war in Middle East by governments .
I would get an opinion from an account and/or a lawyer.
Then it shouldn't be deployed. I had several occasions where I overlooked somebody (luckily without consequences) but never one where I falsely registered someone or something to warrant to brake.
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Groovy, sometimes grails ( lately, ratpack ) hibernate, postgresql ( sometimes mongodb ), vue.js and lit css.
On bitbucket private repositories. Home machines are Linux && FreeBSD.

daily job:
Spring 4, Java, Oracle, AngularJS 1.5 and (argh!) subversion. Office machines are Windows 7 Enterprise (aaaargh!) with cygwin.

( both cases, conding on IntelliJ-Ultimate )
The whole problem with the tiles is that they are much too big. Bigger targets are easier to click, but targets farther away are again harder to click. The targets in the start menu were plenty big to start with anyways.
I own Whatsapp. Do you know why? Because I own my contact list. I can migrate my whole family to Telegram or Signal tomorrow. Currently it's not bothering me.
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“Protest” by way of market choice is such a tired fallacy. It’s really amazing so many HN readers are so ready to take such outdated philosophy to the grave.
> Adding a new rendering backend to a games engine is a trivial task

You keep saying this, but it remains false. If it would have been so trivial, studios wouldn't have hard time adding such backends and wouldn't need to hire third party porting experts when they decide to do it. You can see how long it takes major engines like Unreal to make a fully functional backend (since features added to such engines are publicly communicated). It's very clear it's not trivial at all.

And MS and Co. obviously do all they can to keep this difficult, that's the main idea of their lock-in which they designed to tax developers with.

What's bad though, is your justification of this practice.
Just so the quote [2004] isn't out of context:

Zuckerberg: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS

[Friend]: What? How'd you manage that one?

Zuckerberg: People just submitted it.

Zuckerberg: I don't know why.

Zuckerberg: They "trust me"

Zuckerberg: Dumb fucks
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“The media” has always been sceptical of Facebook, and I’d love to see examples of them “acting surprised”. In fact I would guess your scepticism was always informed mostly by what you and those you socialize with read in “the media”. The current scandal’s staying power in the news is similarly based on journalists’ pent-up suspicions finally finding a vehicle to be expressed in public.

These stories are newsworthy because they represent the break from generalized scepticism to specific examples of harm. If the New York Times had waged a nebulous campaign against Facebook without clear evidence it would have rightly been accused of getting ahead of the facts.
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TL;DR: Nope.

"Most people" (which is, in reality, "most of my geek friends with high disposable income") shifts to "everyone" by the end of sentence. Also, my devices seem to know where I am...within a few city blocks: I do not like your requirement of always-on mandatory tracking, both from privacy and battery life POVs.

Even worse, this has major false negatives: it's not a probation tracker device - if I leave it at home, am I now fair game for AVs? And even if I have it with me and fine position is requested, rarely do I get beyond "close to a corner of X an Y Street," usually the precision tops out at tens of ft: worse than useless for real-time traffic detection.

Moreover, your proposal for car-only roadways is only reasonable for high-speed, separated ways; I sure hope you are not proposing fencing off streets (as would be the case here: 50 km/h > "a few km/h", this is the usual city speed limit).
Have you been forced to make code changes against your will?
How the fuck could people be surprised?

Open a software job board. 50% of offers are by companies trying to optimize some data harvesting and analysis to better target some ads.

Ads, the direct child of propaganda. So to everyone working in those kind of companies: you're not better ethically than people working on missile software. I'd say you're worse because you can argue missiles can be used as deterrent.
It's important to realize that Facebook's lax attitude to data harvesting was most likely one key to their success. If they had closely guarded user data, there would soon have been stiff competition, but this way everyone could benefit from Facebook's data treasure trove and Facebook's success was in many other companies best interest. The current state of affairs should therefore be seen not as the result of negligence but a desired outcome of Facebook's core business strategy.
Ok, you have a point.

But I still think that you have multiple packages and each one is calling all the other ones, then it doesn't make much sense to have multiple packages at all.

I prefer smaller packages too, but currently I'm trying to avoid overmodularizing, specially when a package is too connected to some others and is not going to be used elsewhere.
a) Feel free to read the indictment, some detail there. I assume there will be far more at a later point.

b) I have no idea what effect it had. I personally am not sure it did have any effect that made a difference. Coverage is still warranted because attacks from foreign nations are newsworthy regardless of success.
We knew it facebook was going to be the next friendster+AOL+myspace but I never suspected it would disintegrate to these levels. Expect employees to start jumping ship left and right.
Actually PBR is quite a very important workflow innovation in rasterizing engines, see my post above!
B2 is great as a backup store. I use it for backup.

I wouldn't use it for non backup object storage, as it's in a single data center. S3 and Google Cloud are completely different, I'm not sure on the Google specifics but S3 has data replicated across three AZs.
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Haha. I work at Hasura :)
We have been putting out open source content for React and React Native. This is one of them.
Our problem is not about auto-completion (we're not dealing with that much data to need sophisticated algorithms for that). What we're doing with our NN is ordering the set of results (matches) we already have. In other words, we're assigning a relevance number in [0, 1] to each result, based on the query string and training based on past user choices (clicking a result). In order to maintain some consistency and robustness, we need our NN to yield similar results for similar word fragments.

So if the NN has previously learned meaningful result priorities for "cargo", they should ideally also work out for "carg" (and vice versa) because of the live listing nature of our tool.
And that in essence is not really any different than an extension method in C#. At least not from maintainability point of view.
Having recently moved into go at work and interfacing with its community, I 100% agree with this. The absolute dogma drives me crazy and makes me not want to deal with the go community at all.
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I’m have to disagree strongly with the blanket statement “companies are evil”. Companies don’t “sell something that is usually bad for you”. That’s ludicrously naive. Most companies are able to exist because of the net positive they have on individuals and society. I can’t build my own house, produce my own food, make the clothes I wear, or create the medicine I need when I’m sick. Companies publish and distribute the books I read, the entertainment I enjoy, and can can fly me anywhere on the planet if I want to expand my horizons. And yes, they make money off of all of those things, but there is nothing evil about that.

Perhaps the smallest part of some of those things would be possible in a world without companies, but the vast majority of it would not be. Facebook is an exception, is a net negative in my opinion, and we would be better off without it, but that doesn’t mean we have to go back and reinvent the last several hundred years of human history and progress by labeling all companies as evil entities.
It is such an eye opening experience to see how media frames things when they try to support or sabotage somebody. This seems so far the clearest demonstration for anyone remotely interested in the topic.
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You might find one of the Notational Velocity forks to be exactly what you're looking for:

http://notational.net

http://brettterpstra.com/projects/nvalt/

(nvALT adds Markdown support and a few interface adjustments)

Point whichever NV you use to a directory of txt or markdown files in your Dropbox. NV is nimble and lightning quick, and it excels at super-fast search. Don't even bother with tags, just search.
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I use extension methods extensively, and it keeps the code closer to where it's used and the classes they operate on clean. It's a huge win for maintainability.
No but in the grand scheme of things, things like the Yemen Civil War that has been ongoing since 2015 has gotten less attention in our media than a single Donald Trump tweet.

For lack of a better word: sad!
Move Fast and Ignore Bad Things. It got FB pretty far.
> What's the point left about self-driving cars then?

The point of a self-driving car is unburdening the user from the task of driving it, allowing them to engage in other activities if they chose to do so.

That it has the potential of being safer is a nice perk but definitely not the primary goal. Right now the challenge is whether we can make them as safe on average as human drivers do, that way we can avoid effectively sacrificing people for the convenience such a system would provide.
Just started the process of deletigg my accpunt last night. Love this news.
Your comment is either born of extreme ignorance, or is deliberate misinformation.

Lambasting SA for fighting in Yemen and then praising Iran, the other country fighting in Yemen, is beyond ridiculous.

Trashing SA for being an authoritarian dictatorship and then praising Iran, another theocratic, authoritarian dictatorship, that is just as happy to have the secret police disappear its citizens, is intellectual malfeasance.
My LG OLED65B7P can definitely play .mkv files, at least ones encoded with H264 and H265. Not sure about other codecs though.
First, thanks for the pointing out the lack of a NOSCRIPT fallback. That's an embarrassing oversight because I usually browse without js enabled myself. That'll be corrected soon.

As for saving and exporting, my plan is to add integrations for Dropbox and Github and any other services that seem to make sense, as well as allowing downloading the presentation as a text file and exporting to Google Slides.
Saudi Arabia population is 30M actually (much higher than I guessed before checking, and on par with many African countries). And it is NOT dominated by immigrants, unlike UAE.
Worth adding that if we get more hardware support for deep neural networks on the GPU (e.g. tensor cores), training a denoising DNN on the noisy renders can save a lot of computation and fits neatly into the pipeline.

If the ray tracing can be done at or around 1 ray per pixel or less using a network trained to do merge information over multiple frames and upscale we could probably get away with less. Maybe more if we can feed in a depth map, velocity map and a flat shader less rendering or other information to help guide the DNN.

Might even end up faster than current raster renders.

See https://www.chaosgroup.com/blog/experiments-with-v-ray-next-...
It's not that simple, I believe. Many governments have issues special registrations to self-driving cars, which waive off the requirement of an active driver to some extent. In that sense, the car actually has a "license" while the person sitting in the "driver's" seat is more of an attendant.
When Iran tries to do the same, all hell breaks loose. Media mindlessly and predictably add "weapons" to any mentions of Iranian nuclear program.
Well, it is extremely naive to think that Facebook does not use all the data they get about you. Then again, most people are very naive about this kind of everyday technology.
This is what I do to keep facebook from being annoying

1. Delete (disable) facebook app on phone
2. Stop all notifications from facebook from browser
3. Use email notifications to see updates to conversations
4. Use a seperate browser (phone and desktop) to login into facebook to reduce privacy tracking

If you want to check up on a specific friend, just go to their facebook profile.
I would call my users dumb fucks too if I was 19
It's an explanation of how cruise control works.

It sounds like cruise control is dangerous to use in Germany, based on your description. My 2012 VW GLI certainly did not stay within 3km/h of the set speed when utilizing cruise control.

>If that means going up to 6mph too slow, I guess that's the way it is.

If you want to be in a situation that is more dangerous than going 3mph over the limit, sure. If everyone was going 6mph under the limit this would be fine, but staying closer to the speed of traffic around you is less likely to cause accidents than going significantly slower. (Which, surely, if 3mph is significant, than 6mph is even more so)

>With electric cars, regulating the speed smoothly will be even easier.

I agree here. That just means solving the speed determination issue, which is not simple. GPS is the best method we have now, but is very problematic if there is no signal, or a degraded signal.
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Long term benefit of self driving car is that I don't have to worry about the tedium of driving. I doubt uber (and most people) gives a shit about improving driving standards.
Sure, but having nuclear reactors != having nuclear weapons. There are two ways to make nuclear weapons: enrichment and harvesting plutonium from reactors designed to make it.

Enrichment is almost certainly not going to be acceptable due to past and present conduct.

Harvesting is going to simply not be possible, because it requires a type of reactor designed for the task, and nearly all modern reactors are actively designed against it (known as proliferation resistant reactors). The US and allies won't sell LEU to the Sauds if they know they don't have proliferation resistant reactors.

Russia and Pakistan might though. Which is why it's important to lock the Sauds in on proliferation resistant reactors and LEU imports ASAP.
The UN would suggest your numbers are correct but for Africa as a whole not just Sub-saharan africa
https://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/Publications/Files/WPP2017_KeyFi...
Ask HN: What's your opinion about service meshes?
I remember there was a lot of hate for SOA/ESB in the 2000's.

Now with microservices, we're seeing service meshes (Istio, Conduit, ...).

What's different this time?
The readme mentions the boilerplate app uses Native Base. Do you have any thoughts on Native Base after using it for a while? I used it to bootstrap our app, over time I felt confined by it's limitations.
Absolutely, please do!
Why aren't there more coworking spaces with childcare?
Wow, "create modern cross-platform TUI apps visually" - I think you're onto something here. I'm not totally convinced on the "visually" part, but I love the idea of cross-platform apps with text-based user interface.
You just described subreddits.
It reminds me of the Snowden leaks about mass surveillance programs like PRISM. I think most technical people expected something like that to exist ever since the internet became mainstream. Still, if it's just an "educated rumor" without hard evidence there's not much for the media to talk about. Up until now you could only say "it seems pretty likely that Facebook is doing something like that, but we don't know for sure". That's not enough to make an article and that's not enough to convince the general populace apparently.

In general it's pretty amazing how trusting the average human being seems to be as soon as computer are involved. I suppose that it's mostly out of ignorance and complacency. People seem a lot more careful when physical mail is involved than emails for instance. They also don't hesitate to share extremely intimate details about their private lives with a faceless corporation. Some of my friends willingly opt into streaming their position in real time continuously through their smartphones. That's terrifying to me but apparently very convenient for them. I think Zuckerberg agrees with my sentiment since that's the source of his "dumb fucks" comment.

I hope these articles will help change that mentality but I'm not overly optimistic. I read a comment on a forum earlier today that basically said "screw Facebook, I'll close my account and do everything from WhatsApp instead". I don't think it was sarcastic.
Ethics can't be a side hustle.

https://deardesignstudent.com/ethics-cant-be-a-side-hustle-b...
Not at all. Just media's desperate hunger for any story that paints Trump in a bad light. The recent video evidence on Cambridge Analytica shows that they were at least shady in their operations. But their approach to targeting voters and scraping Facebook userdata would have been described as brilliant data wizzardry if it were done for the other side.
My thoughts exactly. People seem to hold on to Facebook whatever the stories are, so there is no real problem. I was even thinking of buying stocks soon (wait one more week to have the market process these 'new' facts).