skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This will end up making facebook a more expensive place to advertise, but I doubt advertisers would stop given how much screen-time facebook gets per user per day. So really this is an overall benefit for FB, because people will spend more for the same amount of sales.
I'm sorry this happened to you.
Point of order: There's more former prosecutors on the bench than defense attorneys for a myriad of reasons, including financial (public service, bribes excluded, doesn't pay as well) and personal (there are honorable defense lawyers who believe the system is corrupt and want to make sure it doesn't win when it shouldn't).

The fact that they've pissed off the cops may or may not factor into it. Not saying you're wrong, just that it's not quite THAT simple.
a backpack sized radio can also fit a fairly high bandwidth geostationary satellite comm link. There are backpack sized radios which hold a disassembled Ku/Ka-band 1.2 meter sized satellite dish, SSPA (solid state power amplifier), BUC (baseband upconverter) and modem with 1000Base(SX,LX,T) interface. They're not very commonly seen being carried around but it's the sort of thing you might see deployed at a COP (combat outpost) or FOB in a remote part of Afghanistan. Not so much now, since the US doesn't have COPs on top of hills in random parts of Kunar province so much anymore, but they definitely exist.

examples:

http://www.c-comsat.com/antenna/flyaway-antenna-mp-100-ku-ba...

https://www.thalesgroup.com/sites/default/files/asset/docume...

http://www.tampamicrowave.com/satellite-terminals/

one of the uses for such is to give a high-resolution video feed to a platoon (or several platoon sized) group, from a drone such as the reaper, for use in their TOC (tactical operations center) of the COP/FOB. And fairly high resolution data uplink from the COP/FOB for things like hilltop mounted infrared cameras feeding data back to a larger base somewhere in the region.
https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/212535858-What-...
Trezor seems much worse, in nearly every security write-up I have read.
WhatsApp requires your phone (and it must be a phone) to be on and connected to WiFi, using battery, to use their desktop "app". This is terrible usability.

WhatsApp doesn't have a native (or near native Qt app as Telegram does) on anything but phones. No tablets, no desktop OS. This is bad usability.

If I sign in to a new device on Telegram (and it can be nearly any device), I can instantly have my entire message history available. This is what they mean by chat history.

I no longer actively use Telegram, but only because no one else I know could be convinced to use it over Messenger. Messenger solves some of these problems but not all.
Actually, there is quite a bit of evidence, some linked in the articles in the previous post. And there are many other sources if you search. Did you read the linked articles? they aren't just opinion ...

BTW, what is the deal with being flagged? First, other than your highlighting it, I see nothing in the UI (displayed on Win/FFox) indicating to me that I've been flagged. How could I tell, and what is it flagged for (If I'm somehow violating some rule or norm, it's kind of hard to change behavior with no info)? What am I missing?

I agree with most of the posters here about the article that it was unremarkable that the NSA searches the identities of BTC users and it's in their job remit.

The point, which I probably could have made more clear at the outset, is to look at the reason behind the article's existence -- it's published to promote the RUS narrative that the western intelligence services are untrustworthy, and by extension the western governments and alliances are untrustworthy. This is a primary theme in the Russian Active Measures directed at the West.
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That's a really good point with respect to advertisers. Even on the competitor level, I'm not sure how they would use that data.

So worst case scenario is a conflict of interests between user privacy and business revenue. I think if Facebook wants to take effective action to correct this, they'll go beyond simply restricting the API, and give users options to limit which data of theirs they want to let their friends expose to third parties, because even when the API is shut down, someone willing to violate the terms of service can do quite a bit of data harvesting using fake profiles and social engineering to get people to add those profiles if some of the data seems plausible.

Granted, this method is slower, but still possible, and I think currently being exploited based on friend requests I've received through friends. I've asked friends if they knew the person, and they said they weren't sure, but they might because the information seemed similar; this is the same concept as a phone call spam technique known as "Neighbor Spoofing".
Web application from scratch, Part III
China faces even more serious problems that Japan did at the time. Much of the country still lives in poverty and there's no social safety net.
People are obsessed with the story of OK soda. I don’t get it.
AMD Confirms CTS-Labs Exploits: All to Be Patched in Weeks
>it's an alternative that allows people that the judge already deemed eligible for bail to have a non-monetary option for release.

That would be a big deal, but I don't see that in the OP or their website. Can you quote where they say that is what they are pitching?
Yup, started exercising. Just struggling to stay motivated but its gotta be done. Breathing doesn't really help with back pain, unless I'm missing something?
Linguist James Marshall Unger in his book, The Fifth Generation Fallacy, argued that the primary motivation for FGCS reasearch was to develop NLP for the Japanese writing system. He claimed that the project was doomed to failure because the high level of ambiguity in the Japanese writing system required contextual understanding for even simple processing tasks. In that respect, things went as he predicted. Do Japanese IMEs like ATOK have any heritage in FGCS work?
Probably selective memory on my part but outside of a few research projects I cannot recall the last successful venture to come from IBM since the Space Shuttle onboard computers. (edit) also laptops when they made hardware but they sold off a lot of divisions it seems.
I had no idea this was a thing in SV, I can’t imagine anyone having anything but utmost respect for those that have served in the military.
That sounds like extremist individualism. You have to trust someone. The potentially nice thing about cryptocurrency in this regard is that you have more control and transparency about who you're trusting and what they're doing with that trust. But there's still trust involved.
I don't understand this line of reasoning at all, but it's getting repeated a lot on HN. Is the AI expected to hit cyclists, but not pedestrians? Shouldn't it consider any moving object to be a hazard?
First your not even using my range assuming 60-75 just means 75 and assuming a normal week is only 40. People still get sick and go to dentist appointments etc during crunch. They just don't take 2 week vacations.

So, it's closer to 46$ / hour: 30,000 / (52 weeks * 1/2 year * 25 hours)

Anyway, if you consider doing this 1 out of 4 years that's 60k extra for a 'hell' year not bad for a 22 year old. And again 30k is for entry level people it can go up quite a bit.

Alternatively, many Animators only work crunch they end up working 6 months a year and taking 6 months off.
Stock advice from random internet commenters has no value. Smarter people will have already priced any news information into the share price before people read your advice.
Looks like those things that are advertised on marketing channels to get abs while sitting on a couch:

https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss/143-0074589-0085364?...

How are they helpful?
Keep the cash for lawyers...
Once more, for those in the back:

Toys R Us was profitable. Period.

They were acquired by predatory capital companies (Bain Capital) via a leveraged buyout which loaded them down with huge debt repayments. The new owners extracted massive amounts of money from Toys R Us and then let them die as they were crushed under their debt burden.

This is not a story of a company that failed to keep up with modern times, Toys R Us had a long profitable life ahead of it. This is a story of corporate predation, one company killing another in order to feast on the carcass. Bain Capital basically pocketed hundreds of millions of dollars while leaving Toys R Us customers and employees as well as private banks holding the bag.
This is good advice. It is sometimes preferable to start with the right people though, and together explore various problem spaces.

In reality this isn't much different from the reverse order, since usually you find out what kinds of problem spaces are interesting to you from talking to friends.

Great people that you work well with come around way less often than reasonable ideas in my experience. So I think it makes sense to prioritize finding the people rather than finding the problem space.
Well I imagine with this in place, you would get drug tested regularly, and if you fail those tests eventually you would actually go to jail since you would not be respecting what you need to do?
Why host your own probation instead of providing tools to the professional probation systems in the existing judicial system?
Oh yeah, I know the data gathered through the API isn't anonymized, but I was referring to what they sell to advertisers who don't use the API and just do business directly with Facebook, unless they don't sell any data directly to advertisers and advertisers just have to put in place certain metrics for whom they would like to target.
/slight-tinfoil-hat

A lot of espionage recruiting goes on through academics, so I'm wondering if this isn't just a good opportunity to open avenues for spies to be sent over.

That name change alone makes me immediately suspicious of this company:

- From: Jiangsu Zhongtai Bridge Steel Structure Co

- To: Beijing Kaiwen Education Technology Co.
If I were ever in a jury box, I would treat police testimony as less trustworthy then that of any other witness, because there is no censure for perjury by them.

Of course, this would disqualify me from ever sitting in a jury box.
It also has a better user experience. And encryption enabled by default.
The media piling on top of facebook is payback for how much facebook has screwed them over with the changes to the news feed. If anyone is interested I'll look for the original sources but in 2012-2016 something like 50%+ of all views on some news sites came from facebook. Then facebook tweaked their front page and now all that traffic is gone.

Someone should have read Machiavelli more: if you are hated, the second you show weakness everyone will try and put you down.
https://support.n26.com/read/000001324?locale=en

Salary etc. or 1000 EUR per month, with some other exceptions. Possibly country-specific.
But you consented to give your data to your friend... why is it Facebook's problem what your friend does with your data?
It was blatantly obvious to me within a few years that FB had no interest in thinking through the implications of data sharing. There was a time when a friend liking a picture of their friend would show up in my news feed and clicking through it would expose the entire album to me - who is not even remotely connected to that person. That's the day I went frantically removing photos of friends and coworkers from FB and eventually all of mine as well. Facebook is very unlikely to earn back my trust ever.
Yes, it really went that deep. But only if you pinky swore to only use that data to improve your app and then delete it! Facebook changed their API in 2014 and removed that ability, allowing companies to only see the profiles of friends that already had the same app (which the developer already had access to anyway). They claimed it was for user privacy, but really they realized they were giving away the crown jewels and allowing other companies to recreate large swaths of their social graph.
> Does Apple really think that it would be better to outsource cloud services to IBM than develop their own? To me, it looks like Apple lacks confidence in their own internal abilities, and that’s not a good look.

I think it's a good move. At the very least, they can learn a bit from someone else on how to run a cloud service.

Let me ask you this -- if you didn't already have the Apple hardware that was integrated with iCloud et al, would you pay money to use any of the Apple internet services? Like if they build Windows clients and you had Windows, would you pay to use any of their services?

I can't think of a single Apple service I would pay for if I wasn't on Apple hardware. And even worse, despite the free services from Apple, I will pay to use competitors that offer a worse integration, just to not use the Apple services.
Of course they aren't the same. I still don't agree with the statement. And if the pitchforks weren't out, most people would realize that they trust companies to do the right thing quite frequently even when there are no regulations to prevent the wrong thing from being done instead.
Promise would make these programs more efficient by providing additional support to participants and having the technology take care of many of the routine, time consuming tasks that social workers or case managers currently do.
>Nobody dies in Wodehouse novels or stories. In his fiction there are no wars, economic depression, sex below the neck, little Sturm and even less Drang, with only satisfyingly happy endings awaiting at the close.

Yes. By keeping the world at arm's length he was able to make it a better world.
I think the reason for that is in the first sentence: "[...] it shared information from tens of millions of users with a data analysis firm [...]".
Literally describes my last uni to a T, it was a new state uni. I left before finishing my degree because all the good professors left after their first year, leaving some very blatantly unqualified professors behind. Most (but not all) of the replacements are adjuncts. Also, I got a job in my field, which made it easier to leave.

My favorite example to give to explain their hiring problem is the professor of a webapp development class, a computer science professor, who was completely dumbfounded by ES6 syntax and closures and taught straight from the W3 Schools website. Literally came into class, plugged in his laptop, opened W3 Schools and started reading. I ended up tutoring a lot of people for that class, and typically had to dispute all my test grades by proving that my (handwritten -- he was that type) code worked.

That is to say, he was simply not qualified to teach that class. Not even close. We didn't even get anywhere near finishing all the material, we never even wrote a single webapp in that class. We didn't even get close to that point.

However, the building is gorgeous. And also sunk so far in the first year that they had to bolster their drainage considerably. This is Florida, by the way. Rain is a way of life here, and they didn't plan for it. After the recent hurricane, the building was damaged, but they can't do a whole lot to fix it because the architect owns a copyright on the building. It's a damn shame that if the damaged parts fail, it will be a huge disaster because directly under them is the glass-filled roof over the student commons.

Feel free to guess the school if you like, it should be easy. But I have nothing more to add.

E: Wait, I do have one more thing to add. I worked in a lab with grad students, ostensibly as a tech but since I was already experienced with the stuff we were doing (mostly development), I was instead tasked with real R&D. Except all of my work just ended up on a table to be used as a marketing tool during the ten tours that stopped to gawk at us every day. None of it ever went anywhere. And now that lab is going unused. So basically all that money just went completely wasted.
Not really.
You granted permission for your friends to access the information. You did not give your friends permission to grant permission in accessing your information or share it directly.

Now Facebook may make a different statement etc and the rules of service, privacy can allow for this. But it is not a property that is transitive in general. And it is bad publicity. (I hope.)

I can be told a secret, I do not necessarily have the permission to share, for instance, what happened in the bachelor party last Saturday right?
This data breach is different in nature. It is not same as Ashley Madison or Experian where someone got hold of root pwd or some other data storage (some form of hacking involved). This is about third party using Facebook's API to access user data and exploiting those API to retrieve hoards of information about a particular user. IN this case, Facebook most likely knew which third party developer was heavily hitting a certain API in a certain pattern but they decided to turn a blind eye.
Only because iAd (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IAd) was a horrific failure.

In early 2011, the minimum buy price on the platform was $500K. By midyear, $300K. By early 2012, $100K. Early 2013? $50 (no K missing, just fifty bucks).
The ‘Oumuamua Asteroid Likely Came from a Tatooine-Like Star System
Until Democrats face up to the fact they are now the party of the spies and advertisers they will continue to bumble into this.

Obama absolutely expanded the surveillance state to levels Bush II could only dream of.
> The potentially nice thing about cryptocurrency in this regard is that you have more control and transparency about who you're trusting

No, you don't. That's, like, the exact opposite of the whole model of cryptocurrency, which is trusting an anonymous collection of people.
But what if their family members are sitting on a bench in the UK? Lets face it, there are less places you are safe from russia than places you arent.
Yes, the Constitution implicitly permits bail by prohibiting excessive bail. (That's at least one way to read it.) The courts have also asserted that bail is somehow "fundamental" to the system of law (it's not to be questioned). Still what's not clear is (1) whether the power to deny bail is constitutional (some might think refusal of bail, in effect a bail that cannot payed at all for any amount of money is rather excessive) and (2) whether excessive should be understood as relative of the client's ability to pay. In fact Stack makes it somewhat clear that the defendant's ability to pay partially determines excessive... and yet here we are: every year millions of people go to jail because they are denied bail or they cannot pay. It should be clear that the current system where the government locks up millions of defendants because they cannot pay bail (or are refused jail) is not what was intended by the framers. Abolishing bail or ensuring that bail is always and everywhere affordable and reasonable is the way to go. A startup like Promise offers a perhaps much-needed band-aid but the entire system is broken and should be revisited.
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We need a constitutional amendment banning anyone with a TV show from being president.
Blocklist Facebook domains
permanent professors are tenured or tenure track and are very hard to 'cut loose'
There is a 4 part documentary by Channel 4 [right here](https://duckduckgo.com/?q=facebook+allegations+zuckerberg)

/s
There needs to be serious discussion in society and the legal community, about the deliberate "weaponization" of legal actions. Where the purpose is not to pursue a legitimate and balanced complaint, but rather to cow another party into compliance/cooperation by threat to destroy them through legal actions rather than the outcome of a legal process.

The threat of forcing the other person to spend themselves into bankruptcy, for example.

Standards need to be defined and enforced, where such activity is grounds for punishment up to and including disbarment.

To the extent such already exists, it is clearly proving insufficient.

Law should be about justice, first. Not just another field of unfettered warfare.

Also, to that end, sealed records and confidentiality should be more severely constrained. The judicial system is a public system; everyone should be able to see what you're up to in it, for better and for worse.

Protecting clearly threatened victims, sure. Defined legitimate, critical secrets, for defined limited periods of time, ok (real national security, trade secrets). Beyond that, not so much. Not at all, maybe.
I think it's an excellent idea. It represents an incremental step towards getting people out of the system - if only for a time pre-trial - and keeping them in society as productive humans with their dignity somewhat more intact.

In fact I'd like to see restricted freedom and monitoring systems like this put in place for people who would be in jail otherwise, not just those awaiting trial.
Why not a blind auction? Have everyone who wants a ticket choose any value above $10 (including $10). The highest 10,000 (presumed seat capacity) priced bids get their tickets. If there is a tie at the end, sort by first come, first serve, excluding excessive bulk orders.
I have read the rules, and I simply did not think of this at the time of the comment. I posted in haste.

I certainly don't have the data to demonstrate a valid concern, this was an assumption.

The rules mention we should "email you" if we are concerned. Out of curiosity, if you did find manipulation in the data, would you share it with individual who emailed you about the concern?
The personal intellectual highlight of my life was when I published my PGP fingerprint on my Wikipedia userpage.
Perhaps we shouldn't allow any foreign national to own US property when a US national can't own property in their country.
Not in the field but I am assuming that the AI/ML cannot handle the ability to see possible road hazards with in the human peripheral vision area

Such as a kid attempting to chase down a ball that is rolling towards the road (object vector path collision), specially with the ball and or kid suddenly hidden from view because of a parked car (real environment vs visual environment). Or a group playing basketball in a driveway. Both where slowing down is always the safer bet.
On the ledger blog:

https://www.ledger.fr/2018/03/20/firmware-1-4-deep-dive-secu...

> We would like to congratulate the three security researchers who found these bounties.

> Saleem Rashid – MCU fooling

> We fully appreciate their contribution, and they certainly deserve their rewards.

> We have asked each security researcher to sign our Ledger Bounty Program Reward Agreement, that you can review as part of our transparency process

> (this document doesn’t prevent the researcher to publish their own reports).
Cause Russia's fucked?
Here's a more cynical possibility: What if casting about for brilliant startup ideas is actually a signal that you are unlikely to be a founder, by DNA.

In my experience, founders simply can't help themselves from starting things, regardless of how ridiculous (or great) their ideas are. There are obvious exceptions to this (for example, I wouldn't include people who inherit businesses, who have a lot of startup capital, in this founder pool).
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> "A driver-partner CANNOT lawfully deny service to riders with service animals because of allergies, religious objections, or a generalized fear of animals."

> https://accessibility.uber.com/service-animal-policy/

I interpret this as "if you don't want dogs in your car and don't want to be near dogs, don't become an uber driver in the first place".

People have a choice whether or not to work for uber... If you have a religious phobia of dogs or legitimate allergy there are lots of possible choices of work where you have an extremely slim chance of ever encountering a dog.