skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 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.

But isn't the bigger problem sucking up the entire social graph from a small seed of users, not how those users signed up in the first place? If I'm getting spammed via a friends-of-friends connection, I'm not particularly worried about the pretense that initial vector signed up with.
The story about the conspiracy aspect has been hiding in plain sight since the election https://washingtonmonthly.com/2017/11/24/a-trumprussia-confe...
I think that's just you. Most people I know still pay for anything small (like lunch or a taxi) in cash.

I've been using it more lately because it's the only payment form with any type of anonymity.
Facebook isn't unhappy because CA used user data to manipulate people. Facebook is unhappy because CA got the date through a third party, instead of paying for it directly.

The real test will be whether Facebook sues CA for a billion dollars over what it did, or just gives it a slap on the wrist.
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He said this in response to a reporter who asked if she was homeless: https://www.facebook.com/cnn/videos/10158139292591509/

Can't speak for the reporter who asked that, but I can take a guess about why it was asked. The victim's death and identity has been known for half the day. Her being homeless might possibly figure into next-day stories about why we haven't heard much from grieving family members. But yes, you're right, it is a detail that will figure into people's prejudices.
For better or for worse for quite a large portion of the world Facebook is the internet. The sentiment is admirable but I have a feeling the people able to #deletefacebook, are the ones in the least need to delete facebook.
It doesn’t matter how good the driver is, AI or human, if you unexpectedly walk right out in front of a car moving at 40mph it’s not going to be able to stop.
If they're your friends, why don't you have their cell #? This isn't rocket science, throw everyone in a MMS group or Signal group and boom, you can easily coordinate two dozen people to get together sometime on Saturday.

Facebook went in the rubbish along with High School for me, its been years since I last logged in. I doubt that cesspool will see me anytime soon.
There's no indication that this is the fault of the car or its human driver. Unfortunately, the media won't notice that. She stepped out in front of the car and since she was struck immediately, it sounds like the car had no time to stop or swerve, let alone time for the human driver to react in any way.

EDITed to remove offensive word.
Blackmailing politicians is definitively on the illegal side.
How many was that?
Nuh-uh, the youngin pose no threat.
Enter the internet, video-games, social-media, on tap 24/7 porn and endless escapism. (now with more opiates!)

As long as youngins have food and internet, there is no war to be had. Porn is very key in reducing street-level agression. Moreover discourse on the internet is very easy - aand affordable - to control.

Nukes ensure that there are no wars between the big players. Nukes are also probably the best - least scary - way to go as long as it's done right.

We live in a very dystopian world truly. I would not have imagined that things would have turned out this way even as recently as 100 years ago.
I know, Facebook is god, we can't socialize or plan things without it! /jk
Either this or wire seems to be what people suggest.

How do you convince people to use one of them though?
Jesus Christ, man! This was a person, not a "negative externality."
My career is in software, but when I peer out of my cave at those in more traditional engineering backgrounds, I realize they have so many more checkpoints and structures for guaranteeing performance / operability under load. For 99% of us in software, if our software fails, nothing really happens of consequence other than downtime - no one dies. In this case, the software written can have mortal consequences. Maybe there's a need for increased scrutiny on software development - especially as IoT gains more popularity and people are relying more and more on the software that supports or replaces human involvement in critical and/or potentially high risk activities.

Raises the question though: will stakeholders be willing to pay the upfront financial costs to obtain the level of quality and assurance that other engineering disciplines provide? We'll see.
> rabble

Please follow the site guidelines when commenting here. Adding flamebait into a flammable topic sparks explosions, making this place worse for everyone.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Happy to help you share a board or pin from outside Pinterest. I've absolutely never had a problem with any of the things you mention. My problem with Pinterest is that it is way too commercial now with lots of links to buy and spam contained within images. I used to enjoy it but not so much now.
Those books are interesting in that Liu seems to get away with seriously portraying narratives that would be out of bounds in the "approved" popular culture of the West. Murder by robocar is a minor example, but others include portrayal of the inherent weakness of societies in which men are effeminate and the superiority of leaving strategic decisions to military authorities. (I don't particularly agree with those propositions, but they are certainly present in the books.)
The MirageOS project has done this, they call it the "Bitcoin Piñata".

It's still unclaimed I believe: http://ownme.ipredator.se
Is it worth it if we exchange 3 drunk drivers' lives for 1 bystander's? Can we really just use a single measure here?
Isn’t this the best practice for, like, everyone?

Name one social network that lets you view its content without a significant reg wall being displayed.

You can’t see a single tweet without logging into twitter.

Browsing Facebook? Good luck seeing past that login box that dominates half the browser screen.

Want information about a restaurant on Yelp besides its address? Better login.

Not sure why Pinterest is being singled out here.
> why not just test them in private and hire people to be pedestrians?

And get these employees to do what exactly? You obviously can't tell them to put their lives at risk to test what happens if they walk onto a car's path, or if they ride a bike on a car's blind spot wearing dark clothes at night, or if they fall from a motorcycle in front of a car after hitting a raccoon.

The dichotomy here is that private courses are inherently orderly and the real world is inherently chaotic.
I wasn't aiming to call you out, as such. I just wanted to air my opinion, but thank you none the less for providing some sources :-)

The 45 feet from 30mph is a common figure (the UK government's Highway Code uses it as well).

The cars I tested are normal cars, but I concede I had good tyres and I always choose smooth roads to test on. Once you include:

1. Driver ability

2. Vehicle quality

3. Road quality

4. Prevailing conditions

5. 4 passengers plus luggage

I guess you can explain the difference.
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> Because the "breaches" and "abuses" aren't breaches or abuses, it's Facebook's business model working as intended

One's market value doesn't crash by tens of billions when investors learn everything is going as intended. This is a side effect of Facebook's business model which Facebook ignored. Chickens are coming home to roost.
Thing is, when facebook isn't the primary platform this doesn't have to be an O(n^2) problem. Throwing everyone in a group, whether it be on Hangouts or Signal isn't terribly hard, nor is sending out an email invite if you'd prefer that vector.
Definitely for worse. Especially if there are any areas where that Facebook is being zero rated to continue that horrible narrative.
I did answer with two specific examples of public protocols that can rely on DNSSEC. The fact that I will not point out specific endpoints where those or similar policies are in use should not be too surprising. Real world people use SSHFP and DANE, and those would stop working if zones suddently didn't validate.
Yeah. The timing's weird, but stranger things have happened...
"become familiar with Python's syntax in two weeks and are able to implement a distributed client-server application with sockets in the third week" are there plans to extend the book to include the design of the distributed Client-Server Application?Would be super intrigued.
Have you looked into docker-compose?

1. Install Docker

2. `docker-compose up`

3. Run tasks to seed the database
Facebook is complicit in a lot of shady shit happening with Russia from the very beginning. Including taking money that was laundered for the Kremlin when they were strapped for cash in the early days.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/zuckerberg-got-early-business...
Sometimes you don’t know what the implementation will be yet, and writing a bunch of interfaces out can help you discover what it should be, then you start working it out with interfaces gradually giving way to implementation.

Interfaces are rarely rarely about interoperability even in Java. Most interfaces have one implementation. Instead, they are about abstraction, design, and so on. This article assumes that the end product is what was intended all along.
Hmm just posted by @alexstamos:

“Despite the rumors, I'm still fully engaged with my work at Facebook. It's true that my role did change. I'm currently spending more time exploring emerging security risks and working on election security.”

https://twitter.com/alexstamos/status/975875310896914433?s=2...
Of course traditional media is primarily to blame for this outcome, but legislators have no business addressing the 1st Amendment-protected activities of the New York Times et al.

Lawmakers have a duty to mitigate foreign interference in U.S. elections. Foreign campaign political campaigns, through traditional and social media, need to be monitored and regulated. The regulation is there. The enforcement is still catching up.
The way I see it, by using the road, you're sort of giving up the right to revenge justice. It's a game of Russian roulette. People make mistakes and kill others or themselves no matter how careful they try to be. It's like asking where's the justice if you die from a heart attack or cancer? Those aren't crimes, they're bad luck.
Perhaps Facebook were contacted for comment on the Channel 4 story (in which CA's CEO suggested something that sounded a lot like sex trafficking Ukranians in to Sri Lanka to help a fictional Sri Lankan businessman discredit his opponents) and by BBC's Newsnight (in which the CEO was interviewed before the Channel 4 interview aired but was to be shown at 22.30 GMT) and realised that something big was going down involving CA.
I feel like I should share this here.

The first person killed by a car:

http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/first-pers...
That's one of the reasons this behavior has been banned since 2014.
Change via Destruction is much different than change via Cohesion.

And now we have the Chaotic President, thanks, Bannon.
I had all 3 Pre phones, and yes, the Pre 3 really was the best of the line, and was up there in quality with most of the Android phones of the time. But everybody else was moving at light speed and Palm (and then HP) could not keep up.

Quite sad.
Alex Stamos claims to not be leaving Facebook as reported.

https://twitter.com/alexstamos/status/975875310896914433
Well, that's what makes Cambridge Analytica so good, they have the data, and they're cheap. They just needed to target undecided voters in swing states, and through trawling Facebook data, they knew which voters to influence, and how to influence them, because they also have their psychological profiles. And how do you target them? By posting Facebook ads where you define your "target market" so narrowly that it basically hits individuals.
Also, when that propaganda is full of invented racist conspiracy theories and defamatory lies about the opposition, it starts getting pretty ethically gross.

If the propaganda was fundamentally truthful and respectful (e.g. sharing additional accurate factual analysis that people just didn’t know about), it wouldn’t have quite the same odious smell.

There’s not that much distance between some of the ads and fake news stories flashed in front of people before the election and e.g. ISIS recruiting materials or Nazi propaganda from the 1930s.
For what its worth, this is no longer the case with HTTP/2, which is up and coming for most sites (I hope). I imagine in a few years time this will be gone with the wind (hopefully).

see https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1r7QXGYOLCh4fcUq0jDdD...

and

https://medium.com/@asyncmax/the-right-way-to-bundle-your-as...
I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure the word "breach" is reserved for specific security incidents that fall above a certain threshold. Something like if X amount of users were affected it must be considered a breach, which means the company must alert the authorities and alert all users who have been affected.

If he's saying it wasn't a breach it's probably because it doesn't fit the actual criteria for considering something a breach, but doesn't mean he's trying to downplay the severity of what happened.

Edit: difference between a data breach vs. a security incident - https://www.alienvault.com/blogs/security-essentials/whats-t...
These seem like related complaints: low pay doesn't attract top talent. Most of the people looking for higher pay would likely go to Minneapolis or Chicago.
This statement caught my eye. In what ways can tell that someone is a great programmer without them being good in a particular language? Can someone be a phenomenal programmer without being well versed in any particular language?
Facebook Inc: Zuckerberg sold 245,400 shares
According to Wikipedia [0], Bee-Hunter is one of several competing etymologies, additionally including Bee-Wolf, Bear-Hunter, Thor-wolf, Beow-wolf, and Woodpecker.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beowulf_(hero)
Thats some shady shit
No doubt, spamming is a practice that people hate. Whether it's as unethical as what's being alleged against CA is another matter, though. AFAIK, there was nothing when signing up for the quiz app that said your data would be used for political purposes. At most, the quiz might have been said to be affiliated with a Cambridge professor and his studies [0].

[0] https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/gsb/files/conf-presentati...
> You can't have the certainty to make such statements

Can you point me to where I made a statement? I only see questions.
"claiming that Facebook knowingly allowed them to mine massive amounts of Facebook data — more than they would’ve allowed someone else to do — because they were supportive of the campaign."

That's how.
I believe the $1MM they're referring to is from outside investors (and is commonly on convertible notes, so the valuation floats).
Facebook security chief reportedly leaving the company
> This is a bad idea even in concept. If anyone can validate their vote went for the candidate of their choice, someone else can force them to perform the same validation for money, under threat of violence, familial ostracism, or whatever really.

I responded to this issue in the previous thread about this. But short answer is: create a verifiable but also deniable scheme.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16598591
„Stamos responded to the report on Twitter, saying, "Despite the rumors, I'm still fully engaged with my work at Facebook.“
Well, fair enough, I suppose.
Have you thought about releasing this book with something that makes it easier to read online? For example Gitbook: https://yumedzi.gitbooks.io/python-book/content. I am sure here are others as well.
World fertility rates are on decline for decades regardless of the economy situation or societal structure.
What's weird about the timing? I assume NYT ran it as soon as they could confirm it, and that Alex commented as soon as it was published. The timing here seems pretty straightforward.
There is not a single time I had though to myself "This should have been an ID instead of a class"; but there are hundreds of times where I have though to myself "This should have been a class instead of an ID".
Isn't failure to pay just stealing, and therefor already covered by existing law without needing to be written in the contract ?
I was wondering already some time ago that when they will start directly grabbing the share of some other business revenue.

I saw this coming when I learned that they have started to connect the cap between showing the ad and then directly entering the web page.

Even when there was no correlation, they want to squeeze themselves in.

This made me realize that their endgame is to get share from every sale. They want to claim that the sale happened because their ad and they are entitled to get the share. Maybe not now but soon.
How exactly can one mess up reading bytes from `/dev/urandom`? Serious question.

Open the file. Read from it. If no failures on open or read, you have random bytes. In essence, there is already a library for this: `open` and `read`, which seems to be the same API surface area as this library.
Sure, and also paying the drivers is a big part of the reason they aren't making money yet. Nevertheless, I don't think it changes the fact that there is a big temptation for someone to start cutting corners if it's not moving along fast enough.
Okay, fine. You think ML is pointless- I still posit that calling something "hipster" is dated and shallow and says more about the person saying it than the thing they are describing.
of all the 1000s of companies collecting user data, the full focus of the world is now on this one? why is that?
There is a free plan!
Yup but Legal is probably smart enough to realize deleting it won't make it go away tho.
Out of curiosity, where do you keep your myki? It's the one thing that ties me to carrying around a thing that can hold my cards.

I don't carry cash, and quite often don't even carry my wallet, but I need somewhere to stash my myki if I'm taking the train & tram to work. Given that it may have anywhere between $100 and $1500 worth of value on it at a time, I don't really just want to throw it in a pocket.
I personally call it "brainwash", as "propaganda" tends to have political connotations (which I think may be a reason you don't see it associated with typical advertising).
Wow, that's quite a dark pattern.
Whoah! Thank you for this post!! I'm interviewing for a Perception Engineer role and found this while I was searching for background on the company.

I've got some questions & would super appreciate your honest feedback on what it's like to work there. Can you please email me? throwaway_av@protonmail.com
Mark Zuckerberg lost $6B and his head of security in one day
https://mobile.twitter.com/BenRossTransit/status/97579157290... says:

> US has 1 traffic fatality per 85 million miles driven. Uber's self-driving cars have driven ~3 million miles & killed one person

> While loss of human life is always a tragedy, individual fatalities are absolutely worth it if we can begin to reduce that count sooner than by proceeding with excessive caution.

Wait, when did I agree to be a utilitarian with you? Did I vote utilitarianism into power?
2. Why do you need hatred? Why not appreciate that every self-driving death would be used to improve safety for everyone else, just like what happens with plane crashes, building collapses, etc. Also, you can't hate anyone if you kill yourself by accident. What if your loved one kills themself by breaking a road rule?
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Why is SMTP not like the web: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7672#section-1.3
The goal of the Nazis was to conquer eastern Europe, remove most of the existing population, and resettle it with German colonists. The rationale was to feed and support a growing population, which is an idea at least reminiscent of Malthus.
This is telephony. '*' is indeed a valid element of a telephone number field.
That's actually very interesting, never heard of it. Can you link the paper?

Or did you just made that all up, hmm?
They are not but ultimately, a farmer's problems are best solved by interacting with the farmer...not suburban SF techies.

People still need to meet but it doesn't mean every company needs to be in the same city for one industry.
Ask HN: Are there any tools that generate fake interest for online trackers?
I'm curious if anyone is aware of any tools that create the equivalent of "interest white noise"? Someone I know purposely clicks like on everything they see on facebook in an effort to create noise and mask their actual interest. If you like everything, then you like nothing.. Seems like something that could be automated and implemented on a wider scale. Does such a tool exist? Would it even be effective?
I'm not familiar with the messagebird story but there have been other later stage companies in YC before. For example, Quora entered YC when worth $900 million. https://techcrunch.com/2014/05/11/quora-y-combinator/
Just curious, what authority does FB have to have the personnel in CA offices? Why didn't CA simply call the cops to get them out?
You could do that, but how far do you take it? Do you program a car to slow to 10mph every time it passes a parked delivery van just in case? Would people find that acceptable?
Guzzle isn’t really embraced in the WP ecosystem for one main reason: WP has its own HTTP layer. It’s atypical for developers to switch out to using cURL, since the gains you get are fairly minimal, and you lose the benefits of the WP HTTP client. (Keep-alive connections aren’t particularly useful to most people.)

WordPress doesn’t use Guzzle because it requires PHP 5.2 compatibility. It does use an open source, third-party(-ish) library called Requests under the hood: http://requests.ryanmccue.info

(I maintain Requests, and am also a committer to WordPress.)
That is exactly what those employees would have to be paid and consent to do—just like test drivers. In fact, someone else linked a Waymo blogpost saying that they have employees do exactly those things (walking into cars’ paths, lying down on skateboards...)

How is it not OK to have consenting people do these things but OK to have random people on the street participate in exactly the same tests?
Time for Facebook to pivot, and pivot quickly they must.

edit:
Daniel Ive of GBH Insights supports this notion:
“Changes to their business model around advertising and news feeds/content could be in store over the next 12 to 18 months,” Ives wrote in a note to investors.
http://time.com/5205336/facebook-shares-fall/
Yes, because the Obama backers signed up for an app that was clearly affiliated with the Obama campaign. Were these backers assholes for knowingly wanting to spam their friends with Obama propaganda? Sure, because everyone hates spamming.

Cambridge Analytics is accused of using data that was harvested from a quiz app that was purportedly the creation of a Cambridge professor. I think that CA is being accused of something different than just spamming, but part of the overall problem is the subterfuge involved, which is generally a frowned upon thing in U.S. election regulations.

For example, it's not shady if Clinton buys up all the ad space during your favorite shows to spread her liberal indoctrination. It is problematic if those commercials run without a "This ad funded by the Hillary Clinton for President campaign" disclaimer.
Where will the 1000 frame fly through and the 10 noisy frames that they use come from? I find that paper very disingenuous when they don't count these things in their filtering time.

Not only that, but they compare everything with "1 sample per pixel" knowing that the SURE filter uses per pixel statistics of variance that require more than one sample per to start working.