skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the insurance company would care a whole lot!

Facebook's big data is getting to where they can predict things like pregnancies, illnesses based on parsing minor changes in behavior and correlating it against the big data set. This is of course super interesting, but it also gives you results like 'suddenly this guy is 42% more likely to die in the next 6 months and doesn't know it'. There are no certainties, but to an actuarial entity like an insurance company?

That's more than worth getting your lobbyists to repeal any shred of requirement that you have to keep faith with such a person. Insurance combined with big data and stripped regulations makes such an industry purely a financial play: handled properly they can, for a time, collect money and never pay any of it out, until it becomes obvious that's what they're doing.

Those are the entities most interested in having Facebook tell them you're probably getting sick. And why would Facebook ever tell you? That's their inference. You never said a thing about it, and indeed they could be wrong. But don't bet on it.
Taking a corporation private, loading it with billions in debt, starving it of funding and sucking it dry before collapse should be a criminal offense IMO
It's not a baby, it's an embryo. Lots of embryos don't survive for lots of reasons.
>The game provider knows the scratch-off ticket is a winner or a loser the instant that it is printed.

Yes, this is the way it works today but it isn't required by design. My reply illustrates how you can have a "scratch-off" game where the game provider doesn't know if the ticket is a winner when the ticket is printed.
Wow, how much money do you think facebook makes. They have 114$/person in the US revenue.

And that's taking all the global revenue into account.
does the tin foil hat cause too much interference? (I'm kidding)
Is the css showing a 404 for anyone else?
Oh man, the Expo line isn't synced with the lights, it's horrible. That and the bums like to go crazy and sit on the rail lines, causing jams at the street crossings. It's not that frequent, but it happens. It used to back up to Bundy on a bad day, now it's every day.

Riding a recumbent to UCLA from 16th is hardcore. Everyone I knew that rode in west LA got hit at least once, if not more.
Are you a Mozart or Beethoven style developer?
Riding on sidewalk is often safer for everyone, though. And, in some places I've lived, it's only illegal in specific marked areas of high foot-traffic. The police maybe shouldn't be giving advice that is technically illegal (if it was), but it may have been pragmatic advice, at least.

Personally, as a biker, I get slightly annoyed by pedestrians who seem to think I have little control or awareness. I ride on the road where practical, and, if on sidewalk, I go much more slowly and sometimes just get off and walk if the area calls for it. Generally, bikers are much more aware of their surroundings than drivers (both out of self-preservation and an unobstructed, elevated view).

Of course, the best solution is fully separated paths for walkers, bikers, and cars. And, in this instance, it looks like there is ample room for building that, with no street parking to complicate things (and the sidewalk also looks wide and sparsely used).
>which at least pi^2 isn't

pi^2 is 9.87. If that counts as close to 10, then half of all numbers are close to some integer. And the significance of 10 is entirely cultural. Nothing in math favours base 10, we use it because the right civilisations were dominant at the right time. Other civilisations counted using base 4, base 5, base 6 or base 12 (e.g. using the five fingers and a closed fist to count up to 6 for each hand).
Ironically though I don't think Amazon often offers the best prices.

On various 'crapware' (cables etc), eBay is cheaper (especially if it is an 'addon' item and you have to pay for shipping).

For larger purchases I've done usually a different online store has similar prices, but a free extended warranty/accessory.
I feel like claims like these are easy to make, yet very difficult to substantiate.

I think it's in the media a lot right now because it potentially helped Donald Trump win an election (despite the Obama '12 campaign being praised for similar tactics).

People having the data I put on Facebook (which is not notably more than is available through public sources) is not going to destroy my property or lose me my job. The rhetoric here has been dialed up to 11 and it's not winning any converts.
That Target guy is Ron Johnson, the same one who built Apple retail and tried to help JC Penney
This is simply not true. GDPR applies to businesses targeting people located in the EU. Citizenship does not matter.
Big enterprise software contracting is similarly dysfunctional.
CSS is showing 404 for me too.
EDIT: It looks like there were 3 blog posts by Google announcing this initiative.

Blog posts announcing Google News Initative: https://www.blog.google/topics/google-news-initiative/announ...

Subscription payments feature: https://www.blog.google/topics/google-news-initiative/introd...

Elevating quality journalism: https://www.blog.google/topics/google-news-initiative/elevat...

Some news coverage on it: https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/20/17142788/google-news-init...
“Any unregulated financial system is a hive of villainy and scum as a truism.”

Wow, you do realize that fiat is the number 1 one way to fund the drug trade and terrorism right? It certainly isn’t crypto.

Not exactly a great way to sum up what will prove to be one of the most important innovations in human history.
I've heard about stories about government agencies and such second hand from family members. To me, it sounds like it breaks down to this because the projects that they are running are not subject to risk of failure. There isn't a small company that is going to absolutely die if a deliverable doesn't meet the market's demands at a certain point in time. Just don't stop throwing money and resources at the project until it is done no matter what.
because a year has ~ ½×1×2×3×4×5×τ days - 11 and π:=½τ
> and apparently has already been abused (some might even say weaponized) in a major election.

You mean major election_s_, right? I do seem to remember the Democrats crowing about how Obama's team had used social media to their advantage and Republicans were hopelessly outmatched in this arena.

http://swampland.time.com/2012/11/20/friended-how-the-obama-...

Fun tidbits:

> But the Obama team had a solution in place: a Facebook application that will transform the way campaigns are conducted in the future. For supporters, the app appeared to be just another way to digitally connect to the campaign. But to the Windy City number crunchers, it was a game changer. “I think this will wind up being the most groundbreaking piece of technology developed for this campaign,” says Teddy Goff, the Obama campaign’s digital director.

> That’s because the more than 1 million Obama backers who signed up for the app gave the campaign permission to look at their Facebook friend lists. In an instant, the campaign had a way to see the hidden young voters. Roughly 85% of those without a listed phone number could be found in the uploaded friend lists.

Whoa, that sounds exactly like the "breach" we're talking about here!

And a former Obama staffer confirms this: https://www.theblaze.com/news/2018/03/20/ex-obama-staffer-cl... (yeah yeah "I don't trust your source", but it's just screenshots straight from the horse's mouth).

Money quotes:

> Facebook was surprised we were able to suck out the whole social graph, but they didn’t stop us once they realized that was what we were doing.

> They came to office in the days following election recruiting & were very candid that they allowed us to do things they wouldn’t have allowed someone else to do because they were on our side.
I'm confused. Facebook is a service. As a service it's terms are "your data is ours, if you use our service". If you agree to that and you then use their service that should be the end of it. You are the product for Facebook.
Unlike Google and Facebook, Apple does not make money by selling user profiles for marketers to target.
The types will make reading the code multiple times easier when someone else reads the code. Or when you go back to the code six months later.
Call me crazy but isn't a big part of the promise of these systems supposed to be they see things humans wouldn't or couldn't? If they're just as surprised as the human behind the wheel, that feels like a problem.
In computer-land, not in human-land.
I guess I'm having trouble keeping track of the point you're trying to make. It's pivoted many times since the start of this thread.
First: Great, so their culture is what is causing them to outperform us in virtually every positive metric. That certainly doesn't make me want to be less welcoming to them.

Second: The non-trivial penalty came AFTER Chinese people became over-represented.

It's not as complicated as you're trying to make it out to be. Something is causing East Asians to outperform us in basically every positive trait. They have higher IQs, higher incomes, lower criminality rates, lower poverty rates, etc. And these stats hold true even generations after immigration. Maybe it feels complicated because you're concerned about the root cause analysis. I'm not. They're doing great, we should want great people here.
> I didn't even know Google Drive had a throttling mode.

Google Docs (docs, spreadsheets, and presentations) is designed for collaborative editing. It scales really well to lots of docs; it scales to a decent number of people collaborating on a single doc.

If many people want to simply view a single document, use the "publish" menu item. It's more restrictive (iirc, it doesn't show chat, comment threads, document history, or live updates) but AFAIK has no limit on how many people can view at once.
As a working mathematician, I'm uncomfortable with this apotheosis of 'the proof'. While there's always room for aesthetics, this might support the rather misleading premise that mathematics is about digging up chiseled beauties, when it is really about hours, days and months of flailing around, trying to understand one thing, or even what it means to understand that thing. And it's rarely pretty.
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The article starts off reasonable but then seems to veer off into unsupportable assertions about human reaction times when presented with danger and how self driving cars will kill more people.

And some of the comments about processing power seem at odds with Waymo videos showing it tracking all objects in the scene and making predictions, even non-moving ones, such as emergency vehicles on the side of the road.
Without looking at the numbers in the article, I think the use case of storing data you never access is more of an edge-case? Sure a meager 10x down to up ratio (100gb up/month - distribute to 10 locations / people) will be very unfavourable to Amazon.

But what's the use-case for uploading 100 gb a month, and then... Not deleting it (keep paying for storage) and not accessing it?
Netlify making it easier for web developers to use AWS Lambda event triggers
Wow, you do realize that fiat is the number 1 one way to fund the drug trade and terrorism right? It certainly isn’t crypto.

Number 1 by volume (duh) or number 1 by percentage of transactions for illegal goods and services?

Not exactly a great way to sum up what will prove to be one of the most important innovations in human history.

You hear that atomic energy, antibiotics and computers?
I mean, you aren't wrong, but you are unrealistic. Something like that will take years just to get to a final vote, and then the lawsuits will tie up the issues for at least 20 years. Say 30 years total, just to get to the point of a permit to build. To get things moving faster, you may need to re-write the CA constitution.
Unless you're locked in an airtight space (or small closet, etc) high CO2 should not be a concern whatsoever.

Any normal living space is going to be fine. Even a relatively "tight" super-efficient modern home changes air over several times per hour (and have fresh-air injectors on the heating/cooling systems to introduce fresh air and prevent staleness). Even there, a house full of people wall-to-wall could not significantly alter the CO2 levels to a degree there is a health risk.

If you need something to worry about in the air, be concerned about diesel particulates in filthy city air.

source: former HVAC tech.
Azure ACS: 7 month retirement notice
I don't understand how this works
FYI they’re known to be a joke.
Exactly. This is the typical business drivel. "Here's a problem A, which you have. We have a solution: let B solve it for you. blah blah. Approach. Example. Anecdote.".

Problem needs to be a convincing and preferably very common problem of some kind. In this article it's "forecasting". And, of course, standard HR/Management practice (surveys + "impartial" statistical analysis in this case) is the way to solve the problem, but of course nobody does it right.

How to solve it ? Buy book X or, if you've got at least 100kg of money to thrown down a hole, hire consultant Y. Only 10kg of money to burn ? Visit website Z, subscribe, buy video, whatever, and get colorful pictures stating the obvious, often with audio.

For this one it's :

A = "forecasting" (really deciding future direction)

B = "forecasting tournaments"

X = https://www.amazon.com/Superforecasting-Science-Prediction-P...

Y = Philip Tetlock ( tetlock@wharton.upenn.edu )

Z = https://www.gjopen.com/

Now, don't get me wrong. Hiring organizational consultants CAN work, of course. Getting ideas from within an organization and being frank and fair about them can bring incredible results. Having someone else come in, see the organization and tell you what's wrong can at the very least give you an idea of what's happening from other people's perspective. Maybe it can help you improve things. If you can afford it, I would advise to do it.

I'm sure this person is a capable organizational consultant, but ...
Do you genuinely believed that a baby was killed to harvest stem cells? If the baby was already dead, are you morally opposed to using an unsaveable baby's stem cells?
This is technically true, but there are a lot of really weird implementation details. Since GDPR only applies to EU citizens, and those citizens could physically be anywhere in the world, how Facebook implements this will be super interesting.

Think about how a shadow profile gets created, for example - they notice that a group of three people keep getting tagged in photos, but there's a fourth person in the pictures who doesn't have a Facebook profile. The three people keep logging in from the same physical place (say, in the U.S.), and that same place is where the pictures are geolocated. You can assume this fourth person was in the U.S. So, Facebook starts a shadow profile on him - pictures he could have been tagged in, locations he probably was in, interests he probably has based on the intersection of his friends' interests.

But this guy is actually an EU citizen who showed up in the U.S. for a vacation. Uh oh. When would Facebook have found that out? When would they have asked this guy to opt-in? Can they assume everyone in the U.S. is not an EU citizen until told otherwise?
Good points.

>Heck, a lot of retail TUIs still run on them

Yes, you still see them in general stores, etc. in India and I bet in other countries as well. The speed of data entry and operations of those apps by operators well-versed with using them, blows any GUI apps our of the water. Not that I dislike GUIs, they are fun to build and use, but talking here about business benefits. And of course it is not all black and white, there are other benefits of GUIs too.

Some were/are written in compiled XBASE versions like Clipper, so speed of loading and running (apart from speed of operator use) is good too.
It seems like the article is ignoring the countless pedestrians that have been killed by human drivers. Obviously self driving cars will make some mistakes, but I believe (correct me if I'm wrong) that self driving cars already have a much better safety record than human drivers even with the as yet unsolved problems.
What do you put in a backpack size radio? I'm struggling to imagine what could require that much space. A car battery?
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How may physical stores complain that shoppers go in, examine the objects on the shelf, and then compare to Amazon via their phone to just finish the purchase there?

If Amazon ran the store, they could just buy it right there @ Amazon prices, and within the Amazon ecosystem That would kill the other stores.
Probably amazon buys it from the same supplier, but they can sell it for less margin, because they don't have the overhead of running a store, and they have the scale of being amazon.
Curious about this scandal: is the bigger play here (by some unknown actors) to damage Zuckerberg's reputation in order to hinder him running for president in 2020? Or this is purely about violating privacy?
Isogeometric analysis is a means of doing finite element analysis over boundary representation models; FEA is used to physically simulate materials, and usually requires a polyhedral mesh (a mesh where the elements are 3D, instead of the "normal" kind where the elements are 2D polygons). IGA is a way to skip conversion of your b-rep to a mesh while doing that sort of simulation.
So it begins:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaHzUlR2MUg
Unfortunately that's the nature of business. Sometimes it's impossible to predict market situations 10, 15 years out. I doubt anybody at Bain could have predicted in 2005 that Amazon would completely dominate the retail market in 10 years. Also, some responsibility falls on the debtors themselves for taking on potentially risky investments, but there are so many loopholes and gotchas here that I really can't comment much on that. While this type of private equity story seems more and more common these days, the opposite happens fairly often as well, and private equity firms like Bain make insane amounts of money from these types of strategies.

Bankruptcy in general is shady though and no matter what, when it happens, somebody is getting screwed out of a lot of money... usually the debtors.
> [Spammers] don't take it seriously because people don't actually care. Some do. The vast majority don't. They might say so in a survey, but at the end of the day, Facebook (and companies like it) will continue to survive doing what they always have been and people will continue using [email].
Ask HN: How many of you can build distributed key value store?
I am wondering how many of you developers know enough to build a distributed key-value store, which is highly available and can be scaled on demand.
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The House of Commons is, in terms of authority, one of the most powerful parliamentary chambers in the world.

Most places there are constitutional limits on what parliament can decide and/or qualified majorities and other constraints needed to change constitutional law. In the UK, a central principle is that parliament is entirely sovereign. That is, parliament is not bound by any law decided by past parliaments, but can revoke or alter any of them (they are bound as long as they let a law stand, though) with a simple majority.

While your comment elsewhere that they need things to pass through House of Lords is sort of right, consider that the House of Commons powers are bootstrapped - e.g. the UK Parliament Acts 1911 and 1949 severely curtailed the Lords powers, and both were passed as a direct response to the House of Lords being seen as obstructing the House of Commons. The Lords failed to stop both, because they knew in advance of the 1911 act that the government had threatened to simply stuff the Lords full of sympathetic new peers (lords).

As such, while the UK has a bicameral system, the Lords exceedingly rarely stop laws, it usually only delay them or cause negotiations over revisions, as if the Commons decide to push something through over the objections of the Lords, they generally get their will, and coupled with the lack of constitutional hindrances, they're more powerful than even most unicameral legislatives.

> I interpret this as trying to understand the problem better, not prosecute someone, in which case it's not who's-legally-responsible, but who-gets-Facebooks-DNA-and-vision-for-the-future.

This is true. It's not in any way a court proceeding. In this respect it's no different from being summoned to attend an inquiry in any other parliament.
There are, I live near one in Sunnyvale, CA, and it's awesome. It's got more hot wheels cars than I ever want to play around with.
Another point is even if Cambridge Analytica didn't exist, Facebook itself would and are doing the same things themselves, although not over a 50M population radius but over a billion. With a budget to match.
> It’s a powerful feeling. I remember these moments of beauty and excitement. And there’s a very powerful type of happiness that comes from it.

I always try to explain to people this is the reason I love math so much. There is no feeling like getting to the bottom of something and it makes sense in such a perfect way, you can hardly believe the universe works like that. I am no believer but I think it's the closest I can feel to God.
Monzo for personal and Tide for (small) business. Though I probably would only use Tide as a business expenses account, as they're not FCSC protected
creichenbach: I believe I have an algorithm with working code, for you, but don't want to spam this thread. send me an email if you want to. (on my profile).

[Also. I hate having to spam discussion threads with personal user-to-user comments.. but there's no message user feature. This message will self destruct once it's goal has been achieved.]
The crux here is the difference between affirmatively doing something wrong and failing to do enough right. I'm not going to wade into the rest of the debate, but I think anybody giving an answer should try to be clear which question they're answering.
What gets me is that in almost no other industry (besides maybe investment banking) would this mentality even make sense. “Boss had me putting in roof shingles for 16 hours straight with no overtime—it was awesome!” “We had crunch time in the garage for six months where I never saw my family. I’ve finally made it as a real mechanic!” Could you imagine hearing any of that?
Seeing as how that notion is a joke outside of the bay, you can take this on face value.
Sorry for this stupid question: how does Facebook to prevent kamikazes developers/sysadmins data dump and run away? It's there some framework to manage data loss prevention in this way?
After visiting retail Amazon bookstores on more than one occasion, I have to strongly disagree with your vision of possible Amazon retail ventures.
I think Davis and Hersh say this. Ruben Hersh "what is mathematics really" felt like it was opening the door to the sausage factory.
So it begins:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaHzUlR2MUg
If social media companies don't find the way to make things work i suspect outright media pressure and hard regulations.
You can believe that if you're that guillible LOL. He's doing his trumponomics damage control mechanics.
That will completely defeat the purpose of having a hardware wallet, as you will be compromising the keys by divulging them to a networked computer.
Beautiful docs
Radioshack in the 1980s/90s was like the original maker space. I bought so many circuit boards and magnets and batteries there. Their staff all knew their stuff too.
Last I saw there were over 1 million accounts distributed by CA.

Even assuming they were only distributed 3 months (unlikely) and there were only 1 million accounts (also unlikely) the maximum fine is:

1000x1000000x90 = 90 billion dollars.

Imposing the maximum fine would be more than double their entire 4th quarter earnings last year.

That's a bite. That would hurt any company.
I think you're talking about sense2vec