skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think you can probably find a suitable subset of the internet and it still feels like the old days, but then you have to be happy with a much smaller community.

I think most people would be happier with a smaller community. Facebook encourages a large number of low-quality connections, which are actually worse than not being connected at all: I don't want or need to interact with my friend's racist cousin I met at a party three years ago or my ex-roommate's mom who always wants to sell me homeopathy supplies. These people are actively detracting from your life.

Those are extreme examples, but even people I might get along with suck up your time. If I am not connected emotionally/socially with someone enough to get their phone number and send them a text occasionally, I probably don't need to give them even a few seconds of my time on a regular basis.

> And fair point to regard money from software as a potential net negative, and I just don't have an answer that is objective. There is a lot of software that highlights the creativity of people, and I like it, and am happy to pay for it, and also happy to get it for free. Like paying for books or borrowing them from the library.

I'd be happy to pay for good internet too, but unfortunately there are few businesses willing to do this. Ad sellers won the race to the bottom on price (a strange game--the only winning move is not to play) by simply being "free" to users. This works because of short-term thinking: users don't think ahead to how ads will affect their lives, and content providers don't plan to grow a business slowly the way a for-pay business grows.
I remember seeing that dam when I went camping at Elwa one summer. That is such a beautiful area, it doesn’t need dams like the Columbia.
It was also ludicrously fast at returning results compared to everyone else at the time. I was shocked at the time that a dynamically generated page could return so quickly.

I still to this day miss Altavista's advanced operators though
As a firefighter, this is absolutely terrifying. We are not expecting this sort of hazard in a "routine" house fire.
I wasn't entirely clear. I was really just responding to the point that you couldn't target people yourself. It wasn't meant as a refutation to your point, just a clarification of one aspect of your point.

That said, since you can target specifically, if the system did allow some way to exfiltrate user data, it would make financial sense for larger analytics companies to do so to provide value-added services where they could target much more specifically than Facebook intended (or at least intended to make obvious?).
For less well off people the effect of inflation matters far more in terms of cash flow - pay and expenses - than cash holdings.
Water shortages could affect 5bn people by 2050, UN report warns
Because there's no third option. It's either the EU or Russia; there's no independent in-between possible. NATO won't help with a self-inflicted economic and geographic squeeze.
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Ideally, the confrontation of economic realities that America is long overdue for.

I did not like reading this and won’t defend it on a general basis. It suffers from the same problem that undermines all identity related political efforts: a failure to acknowledge the integral role of capital disparities in every area of our lives.

It’s tough, and somewhat pointless, to debate the effects of affirmative action unless it can be isolated from the circumstances it seeks to defeat. We have by and large failed to accomplish that.

Isolating the maps of our societal relations (culture, tradition, economy, geography) is incredibly difficult, until we can offer equal opportunities in life, we will be fools to expect equal outcomes in particular segments.

Let us be humble and consider that Democrats are equally challenged in these considerations.
Even "Slack changes DM import/export" would be a better title. This current title I find to actually be almost completely unacceptable.
Could be. I'm definitely an over-educated New Yorker of 15 years now, and I haven't laughed once at a cartoon of theirs, but maybe that's why I'm not a socialite?
Not sure @andreyazimov is actually selling domains, only allowing you to connect your own, right? But if you want to actually sell domains via your application I'm sure that's possible via Namecheap API or something similar.
GNU/Linux doesn't do anything like that by default unless you where to write a script to.

I honestly don't see a good reason to do it although one of my friends pointed out that using TOR is probably one of the better ways to check for this since it won't rely on a specific server.
> .. by non-state actors.

By any actor.

> When a recognized government does it, it's generally called a war crime.

That it is a war crime in the context of international armed conflict (or against humanity otherwise) doesn't stop it from being terrorism, just as a state actor committint genocide doesn't make it any less genocide, though that too is either a war crime or crime against humanity.
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> the government getting involved in tech usually sucks

The internet was built by government organizations (e.g. DARPA, NSF)
I spent so much time resurrecting ElasticSearch and then developers wouldn't even use it because the query language is based on ngrams and they want grep-like capabilities instead.

Unless there are hundreds of GB/day to index it's much simpler to forward the logs using syslog or journald and then use grep on the collector.
Actually GDPR also applies to your personal information that a company holds about you as an employee. However GDPR doesn’t apply if there are other laws that also apply to the data, which will be the case in a lot of circumstances for employees.
I'll blame writing on my phone while on the bus. With my stop coming up. :)

That said, probably nothing too deep. I certainly wasn't aiming for it.

My main points:

* Most of us in engineering focus on intrinsic measurements of our code's quality. These don't generalize well to product quality
* Nothing wrong with being a builder, instead of an artisan. Especially when it comes to building.
* Most people that succeeded fall to survivor bias and think they know why they succeeded. They are usually wrong.
There were hundreds (if not thousands) of FB apps from that time period that pulled comparable social graphs before FB switched to the v2 Graph API

That is simply not true. Facebook rate-limited apps for exactly this reason. Additionally, although it was technically possible, the TOS did not allow mass-scraping of friend data for any purpose, much less political purposes. Facebook monitored and routinely banned apps long before they ever accessed the data of even a few million friend profiles, let alone 190 million of them. That's why, according to Obama's own campaign manager, Facebook was "surprised" but then decided not to ban them - which they would have done to any other app.

the data was used for political microtargeting (in violation of FB's TOS)

Which is precisely what Obama did.

If you know of any evidence that Obama's campaign broke either the law or FB's ToS, please let me know.

See above.
A lovely piece of characteristic pretention from the NYRB (a journal I love BTW) which it still preserves today: "on one side were Sinatra, Horne, and Holiday, stylists of a high order, wonderfully performing material of little musical interest (when not derived from Gershwin or Porter) and dim literary content. On the other side were specialized concert singers—Frijsh, Fairbank, and Tangeman—who, though vocally uneven, helped to create a new style..."

The author could probably guess that Sinatra, Horne and Holiday would still be popular 50 years later while Frijsh, Fairbank, and Tangeman are essentially unknown.

But as others have written this piece has aged well, and that too I predict will be true of most contemporary NYRB articles.
Nuclear weapons are not currently a threat to the existence of the human species. Modern civilization might be at risk, but there are a lot of people spread across vast stretches of land and not enough nukes to kill them all.

Granted they make it vastly easier to kill everyone in a city or even a small country, but people have done similar things for the last 10,000+ years.
"They’re also pointing out that Zuck is fine meeting with Xi Jinping, meeting with Medvedev but refuses to appear before the US Congress and sends the company counsel instead."

I get the feeling, but you'll agree that a legally binding legal procedure that is an actual existential threat to your hundred billion dollar company that employs 25k people requires a different approach then a seduction meeting with a despot to try to loosen regulations.
Not deserving of jail time: VC funded, Charismatic founder with a fraudulent business.
Gnome Shell Has a Rather Big Memory Leak
> Last week, we learned from The Guardian, The New York Times and Channel 4 that Cambridge Analytica may not have deleted the data as they had certified. We immediately banned them from using any of our services.

He was part of Cambridge Analytica at the time. So they suspended his account along with the rest of them I suppose.
Worth the read. I keep wondering "What are Trump and his minions thinking". Most of the regulations being eliminated are in place to improve the quality of life and the environment. Why the rush to degrade the quality of life?
Well, yes, and that's what I said "in a fairly volatile form" with regard to gasoline. :)

Any energy storage medium that holds a good amount of energy and has a methods to release it in a fairly short time frame (either through a failure mode or through intended use) deserves some real thought. Which is basically what you were saying...
> Sgt Peppers was the birth of concept album recorded in stereo!

I believe that honor goes to Pet Sounds by the Beach Boys, though the public wasn't ready for it in 1966.
Ah makes sense. So it is more about delivering it closer to the shore so it can't be as easily detected than creating tsunami waves as the main mechanism of destruction.
Japan has incredibly high levels of domestic borrowing, but has long suffered deflation. What factors make Japan the exception?
The apps being able to siphon 10s of millions of user's data makes what you're saying you can't do possible though: you use an app to get everyone's data, then you analyse that and work out the groups you want to target and with what. Then you realise that the best way to deliver those ads, given your data is Facebook profiles and all your targeting categories are from Facebook, is with Facebook ads.
I didn't realize that this was even an option - are there any other well regarded online Masters programs in CS, infosec, or software development I should be aware of?
I agree, I just worded it slightly poorly. My point is that the biggest focus should be on reproducing studies, not that peer-review shouldn't be revamped also.

I mean, isn't reproducing a study the ultimate peer-review?
AT&T suffers another blow in court over throttling of “unlimited” data
> I'm pretty sure that everyone and everyone's mum knew that Facebook was doing stuff like this.

"Everyone" knew Facebook was gathering tons of data on its users and everyone else, but we didn't understand many of the implications until now. People assumed it was just useful for banner-ad type stuff. There are probably even more implications of this data collection that we have still yet to discover.
Was going to comment to say the exact same thing. OP used a paper by medical professionals to poo-poo formal peer review and then used math papers as examples of successful arxiv papers scrutinized by other scientists. After realizing that, I stopped reading the article then Googled his name, and--surprise, surprise--he's a mathematician.

It will work for mathy and theoretical sciences like CS and theoretical physics, but good luck getting experimentalists to review papers for free (or at least without being asked by a journal). I'm not sure whether peer review is necessary in those cases, but the culture around more applied sciences definitely considers peer review more important, even though we routinely post to arxiv anyway.
You can make delicious hash browns with just potatoes, salt, and butter. Yes, you have to keep it from burning, but it's not that hard, you just use a lower temperature. The result is delicious and crisp.

It's not the only way (Honestly, I prefer duck/goose fat if I'm feeling fancy, beef if not), but it's a perfectly acceptable way of making crispy delicious hash browns.
By default elasticsearch stores data in 3 ways: rowstore (original doc/row), inverted-index (for fast queries), doc-values (columnar store for aggregations). So you need to configure it for what you want, for each field.

While you can do all of that with plain pg and having no indexes and doing table-scans, it will be slow when you search (depends on how often you need to search and type of queries).

So es is very good at some stuff compared to every other type of db. For logging, yeah, there are some companies who just do full-scan on each query and are fine.
Good point, but for people that will have a link anyway, it at least makes service-use consensual.
I used to do viewbotting back in the day but it isn't as lucrative as you would think. Basically, the creme de la creme is views from residential IP addresses, especially from the United States. Most proxy and VPN IPs are allocated to datacenter IPs so those IPs are easy to detect by youtube.

When you run the viewbotting app all it does is scroll though various youtube videos. Sometimes it likes the video and other times it will add a fake comment. Occasionally it will subscribe to the channel. The software is designed to mimic real user behavior. In exchange for running the bot you get credits which allows other bots to view your video. Since it is residential IP addresses, you do get paid for the views.

The big downside is that there isn't that many people using it so you don't really make much money from it at all. In fact, you are better off just spending your time making quality content.

From what I understand, the services mentioned in the article are not quality views. Youtube will most likely delete those views eventually.
lol "illegally uploaded contacts" contacts are public knowledge. you dont want someone to share it dont give it to that person .
Someone needs to make an anthology of first-person stories about trying out Theranos. I actually thought the OP article was by John Carreyrou because I saw it in his tweets (and it makes sense that they'd pull the fire alarm upon seeing him), but it's by a reporter (Jenny Gold) from Kaiser Health News, who apparently visited there (Nov 2014) before Carreyrou's WSJ investigation was published in October 2015.

The only other stories I can think of are:

Eric Lakin (DeciBio Consulting), 10/2015: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/10/27/what-...

Jean-Louis Gassee (former Apple exec), 10/2015: https://mondaynote.com/theranos-trouble-a-first-person-accou...

Melia Robinson (Business Insider), 10/2015:
http://www.businessinsider.com/i-tried-theranos-2015-10
CA staff apparently just did a better job at using the data to manipulate people.

I've seen no hard data showing that any of this did Trump any good. Apparently not a single study has been done as to whether people either failed to vote or changed their vote based upon fake news or the use of this data.
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> I have Zuck blocked.

I thought Facebook forbid you from doing that. Same with his wife.
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I think I'd go a step farther and create web pages for them -- making sure to mention "the company" created them -- and possibly even send out press releases about them to local media.
It seems like this is a pretty important and existential issue. If illegal content is injected into the blockchain, how do you remove it without a hard fork? Immutability is the whole point, right?
Doesn't matter what you signed and how it relates to civil law, you cannot sign away your statutory rights.

What matters is how criminal law views this particular data collection in the context of Facebook's working relationship with this particular client, within all of the various jurisdictions that Facebook operates.

The article "What Colour Are Your Bits", is a pretty good look at this - http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23
Regulating Facebook won't prevent data breaches. Regulating academia might
Not exactly true. Many things that are important are audited or inspected, not simply signed off on.
I don't why Coursera gets so much attention for an online CS masters when it has been available for years at Harvard. Even Stanford relaxed the prior constraint of being in a member company for their online masters in CompSci.

http://scpd.stanford.edu/admissions/apply-and-enroll/master%...
Indeed. As a person who routinely browse the web in 2+ languages it is infuriating how Google "corrects" you,it is worst in new devices I concede because with time you can adjust some search settings, but still.
As much as I like machine learning (despite the hype) , I really fear for the future of the web where big company algorithms "curate" all content for you.
Should I remind you that even if you don't click the sign up button that you have a facebook account?
Should Facebook be sued?
Yeah why are police going after that one murderer when there are so many out there that they havent caught yet??
Startups may want to rethink what they are asking for here.

They are demanding investors discriminate in their employment practices based on race/color/gender, which is both unethical and explicitly illegal by US employment law -
https://www.eeoc.gov/laws/types/race_color.cfm

Note that discrimination in employment is illegal even if you are discriminating against white people - "Title VII prohibits race/color discrimination against all persons, including Caucasians." - https://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/publications/fs-race.cfm
Spoiler: It Won't.
Bits can’t be colored... http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23
And I think that's why you don't see that kind of energy storage happen in a home very often.

- Natural Gas is brought in through VERY small pipes, and is never kept anywhere, it's just used immediately.

- Jerry cans are found regularly but are also sealed up as much as possible while still remaining usable.

- Vehicles have sealed fuel systems, and are designed to not allow the fuel to combust all at once if at all possible.

In fact, now that I'm thinking about it, pretty much the only time you hear about homes exploding/bursting into flame/etc. is when one or more of these systems is compromised.
Is it possible to even find small creators in a large category? For example I was looking up pubg videos the other day but it's just pages and pages of videos with 1m+ views. I was a bit curious to see what the lower-end creators were like but I wasn't able to figure out how.
Medical records exposed by flaw in Telstra Health's Argus software
It seems like the issue would be for people who want to publish their results, get paid, and otherwise be able to publicize their accomplishments.
Zuckerberg Has No Way Out of Facebook's Quagmire
I worked at a company that had viral apps during the same timeframe mentioned in Zuckerberg's response. Our company pulled data of friends of friends. The amount of data people gave us was staggering.

A few years later the data was much more restricted, much harder to get, and much clearer to the user what was going on.

It's easy to point to Fb and say they are evil, but it really seems to me like it's the 3rd parties that are causing most of the issues, and Fb has been pretty decent at locking it down in the last number of years. Keeping in mind that they were the first who had social data in such large amounts where there was no prior example.
A summons is an order, which is not what the committee has issued to Zuckerberg. The BBC's usage of the word is still incorrect.

The procedure for soliciting evidence before a select committee is first to extend an invitation - as has been done - and only after that would a summons be expected to be issued, if at all.
And for those interested, here's a link to the paper: https://fc18.ifca.ai/preproceedings/6.pdf
Mystery of Van Leeuwenhoek’s microscope lens is partly solved
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If true, would it be different than the NPR pledge drives, really ?
Love this. Thank you for sharing. It is an inspiration!
> If you are not logged on to Google they don’t construct a personally-identifying profile of you.

Have they guaranteed this in writing somewhere, or is this just something that you're saying? It's harder to put together a profile that's not personally identifying than one that is; what if I ever used google maps to find directions from my house?
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It's not that difficult to do if you focus on arranging your life around it. You can make a meal around raw vegetables (broccoli, cabbage) if there is nothing else healthy available while away from home. Most people think that they can't skip meals, but calorie restriction and water fasting can be healthy, so I don't worry if I go a day without much food.

I'm not sure if lectins are a problem to worry about. Most results that I see in Google are blogs by self-described health experts who are selling products and personal brands. There's also this:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/wellness/going-lect...
The stores and credit card processors sell the information to Amazon, Google, etc...

There was an article in Forbes or Bloomberg or something recently that stated that Google now gets something like 80% of all credit card transaction data, online or offline.
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It is good to see the reporter refused to go along with the PR people from Theranos. But I am surprised they did not still report on the experience and point out that no-one could be found having the pin prick test and that the PR people acting suspiciously. Surely that is a story in itself?
> What about the punishment to Christopher Wylie, by closing/suspending his accounts in facebook, whatsapp, etc ?

The Christopher Wylie that, by his own account, was a knowing, active, and key participant in the things they punished CA for, and in fact claims to be the one who came up with the concept for it?

What about it?
50? Try thousands? Just see the comments above from folks who created developer accounts just so they could spy on friends...
Can someone weigh in here? Seems like if china wanted to slap a tax on every cpu chip it would hurt a bunch of our businesses that rely on fabs in China (intel, apple, etc.)?
The following is pure speculation, and may not align with Professor Loury's intent, but I think seems plausible:

There is some portion of the population who view the visibility of an action as a signal of its virtue. In other words, actions conducted "secretly" are "bad", and actions which are "good" may conversely always be conducted publicly. (Somewhat analogous to the familiar "If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear.")

To this group, "secretly" advantaging one group of students over another is a signal that doing so is intrinsically wrong, and that if such an action is a good one, the university would do so openly and transparently. These negative perceptions, over time, may result in a backlash by this group against a well-intentioned policy meant to increase "the well-being of black students."
A nuclear winter might be arguably better for the long term survival of the human species than an uncontrolled thermal runaway from global warming. Previous ELEs either ejected seeds-of-life into LEO or were Ice Ages, not hot ages. The oncoming arctic methane positive-feedback loop looks "interesting".