skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Now I'm genuinely baffled. Here's the first sentence of the definition of Humanism on Wikipedia:

"Humanism is a philosophical and ethical stance that emphasizes the value and agency of human beings, individually and collectively, and generally prefers critical thinking and evidence (rationalism and empiricism) over acceptance of dogma or superstition."

And two of the sentences from the first paragraph from the entry on Christianity:

"Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life, teachings, and miracles of Jesus of Nazareth, known by Christians as the Christ, or "Messiah", who is the focal point of the Christian faiths. [...] They believe that Jesus is the Son of God and the savior of humanity whose coming as the Messiah (the Christ) was prophesied in the Old Testament."

Your position is that the former of these is dogmatic and devoid of rational argument, to the contrary of the latter.

I simply can not argue with that position. It's too weird.
Do you use whatsapp or any similar messenger app?
If so, do you receive notifications when the app is not running (foreground or background)

Play services is responsible for connectivity with Google's servers which are used to distribute notifications to the device.

Play services is probably also responsible for backing up the App's data to Google servers (not sure about this one)
The far bigger problem from my POV which is not described in the article is manipulation of YouTube trends. This is to some extent related to buying views but needs a special kind of attention.

A few weeks back I noticed weird videos in the German YouTube trends, things like "cheap iPhone cases buy now" with channels that had zero subs. A day later there were 3 of these videos in the trends, the next day 6, then 50% of the trends were full of this. A guy with 0 subs even made a video explaining that he does this kind of manipulation for a living...and unsurprisingly the video made it into the trends the same day.

Simply buying views has very little effect (except on maybe advertisers that pay you) but gaining massive exposure through being featured in the trending videos is big.
They were at CA because it's a multibillion dollar company and that means that they have people who keep tabs on stories that result in millions of dollars of lost stock value. It's not because they were in cahoots with CA, they were covering their bases.

Are you honestly suggesting that CA wrote Facebook a check?
Dell EMC Puts Open Networking on the Edge
I agree this is something which should be prioritized, but I don't necessarily think the answer should be to just provide pre-built binaries. I feel really uneasy about open source projects that are almost impossible to build by anyone by the authors - more work should go into making the build process less obscene.
That would be like saying most people prefer VHS to Beta.

Systems don't always/often win because they're the best or most liked.

As with political views, most people prefer the ones they first learned. Only later in life, perhaps after becoming dissatisfied with what they know, they may risk trying something very different.

My CS education was the typical Pascal/C/C++, so it wasn't decades later until I actually learned a Lispy language. But I had read enough to know that a lot of very intelligent people had loved Lisp; surely there was something to that.

Likewise, the people who grew up on Lisp probably only grudgingly moved _down_ the ladder to use some of the more popular languages ;).
TLDR: We aren't going to change our business model of systematically harvesting your data, but we will at least make it slightly more difficult for other people to do so.
Completely by the by but is the scrolling on this page screwed up for anyone else? Seems to have a weird slow non-native scrolling method for me. I'm running Firefox on Android
It is frightening. And it varies significantly by state.

For example Utah (where I foster) has 2.8 per 1,000 children in foster care, while neighboring Nevada has 6.7 per 1,000. New York has 5.0. California has 6.2. [1]

The ever-conservative Utah legislature puts a very high priority of children living with their legal parents. As long as there's no imminent health risk (abuse, hard drug use, severe neglect), parents virtually always keep custody.

I really wish it were like that in more places.

Traumatic situations for children should not be taken likely. But being forcibly removed into state custody is also a very traumatic event. You've got to be confident that the latter is the lesser evil.

[1] http://datacenter.kidscount.org/data/tables/6243-children-in...
Along those lines, how is it possible for Facebook to demand that CA deleted the data, when CA is a third party and never had any kind of agreement with facebook(at least, relating to the information Kogan shared)?

If someone leaks facebook data to a journalist, can FB demand that they delete it as well?
Buying Machine Tools: Foreign or Domestic, New or Used?
Great point. We already know from the 2012 election and from the 2015 Podesta e-mails that Facebook doesn't exactly have a great record of political neutrality.
> At least compared to Netflix which is super annoying with its geographic, VPN, and increasing DRM restrictions.

Netflix has to honour its contracts with media providers, who have been accustomed to regional contracts and blackout clauses for decades.
But there are many legitimate use cases of sharing email addresses. Just scratching the surface,

* someone used Facebook Connect to login to NYTimes Web site, curious about their Food & Recipes newsletter, wants to sign up

* someone logging into e-commerce shop through Facebook Connect, making a purchase and then deciding that yes, they would like to track and manage their order on the retailer's Web site, and they will even sign up for an account with retailer to do that
"We have a responsibility to protect your data, and if we can't then we don't deserve to serve you," so Zuck says.

"Protect" is the keyword. He means protect while letting Facebook be profitable. Facebook's business will not let him do that without losing a large chunk of its profits.

I expect a lot of talk but little effect on how they sell their data. The problem is that "free to user" = "sell my data". The model fundamentally works against the everyday user.

The only fix is for people to guard their data. It's your data! Facebook is not your friend so don't act as if it is.
Personally the sad part is that I wouldn’t mind living like him given my current life situations.
DNS66
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.jak_linux.dns66/
https://github.com/julian-klode/dns66

Successfully being used on a 1st-gen Moto Z Play, no root, stock firmware. Works great.
What else do you look for ? I recently spoke to a hiring manager and he told me that my resume made me look very “green”. It’s only after talking to me that he noticed my resume paints a bad picture.
Why does Facebook need to give up any of this information to developers in the first place? Presumably these apps are part of the reason Facebook has the engagement it has? Or part of the reason for the user growth it has seen in the past?

Perhaps this will prompt Facebook to start cutting out third party developers and build more home grown social apps, leveraging the data it already has on what eye balls engage with. Maybe they'll only grant API access to large companies, eg. TripAdvisor, who they can hold accountable and would be worth investing the time to audit. Perhaps they will start their own internal Cambridge Analytica where no data sharing is even necessary, assuming they haven't already.
I tend to do most of my paper reviewing during the weekend. No one is going to complain if I do it during my normal work hours, but the demands on my time are high enough that it's hard to focus on it. So in some sense, for me, it is unpaid, outside of my paid day job.
> What did Obama's campaign do? I remember a lot of news when he was elected praising his revolutionary social network mining team that got out the youth vote. How is this different than what Cambridge Analytica did?

The Obama campaign engagement was overt, users knew they were connecting to a political campaign and whose, and the entity with API access didn't transfer the data for radically different uses than the overt ones to a third party.
Doesn’t matter. As long as a single smartphone with GPS enabled roams past your WiFi (and sees its advertised MAC address), any app on the phone can associate the user’s GPS coordinates with your router’s MAC address. Do this with enough users, and enough routers, and you’ve got a nearly perfect geographical mapping of WiFi routers.

This isn’t a conspiracy; Apple and Google have been doing this sort of triangulation for a long time, and even use it as a method of saving battery while avoiding the GPS radio.

Any app on your phone, including the Facebook app, can see nearby WiFi networks (maybe this is a gated permission now?). If the app has enough users with GPS enabled, its developer can easily build a GPS/WiFi map.
Check out Substack, they're working on exactly this: https://on.substack.com/p/a-better-future-for-news
To really fix this, Facebook will have to stop allowing 3rd party developers direct access to user data.

Basically, FB should introduce an App-Engine like platform where the backend of any 3rd-party application that uses FB data has to run on FB-owned servers. Developers of these applications would then ship their code to FB (similar to Heroku) and run in a sandboxed environment where they are not allowed to take data out at all.

That way FB can audit how the data is being used at anytime and kick out people who are out of compliance with their terms. If a user deletes their FB account, now all their data could be deleted from any 3rd party applications automatically. This is basically similar to the way the government handles classified data.
Copy pasta for people that don't want to go on that bloody website?
> I literally said "people tried to accuse Obama of all kinds of stuff" and my point was to the parent post who said "Its purely Trump hatred driving this".

Right, but that's still comparing the current amount of information we have on what the Trump campaign and CA did to mere baseless accusations. The comparison is implicit.

> because you don't like that I'm not blaming this entirely on Trump.

No, I don't like the fact that you're trying to cast this as mere accusation like the many false accusations against other prior campaigns.

> But I was stating that I don't think the parent post was correct in saying that this is all about Trump.

And I agree with that bit. Which is why I didn't engage it. Instead, I engaged the implicit false equivalence that the parent post was outright stating and that you were merely suggesting.

> You're trying to pretend like there's more certainty than there actually is

And yet you haven't refuted any of my statements, sources, or facts.

> and that this is somehow all Trump's fault.

Just like how it's the fault of the person composing and releasing doxxing info, not the fault of the person the dox is about for putting it online.

So if it isn't Trump's fault, whose is it? Bannon's? CA? The Mercer's?

> the Trump team keeps claiming that there's a witch hunt going on so when all new scandals are pinned to him it actually helps them as far as optics go

Are you seriously suggesting that we not use new information as it comes out to paint a larger picture, simply because of the optics on the part of Trump?

> We need to investigate this all and get to the bottom of it

We are. The media is. And this is what is coming out. What, are we not supposed to connect the very obvious and extremely public dots? Are we just supposed to pretend that the Paradise Papers don't exist and don't show money being moved around from sanctioned, Kremlin-owned finances, through shell companies residing in tax havens, and finally on to various American/European companies like Facebook and Cambridge Analytica?
Works for me. But I'm using an iPhone.
Your example makes my point for me. Thank you.
>A lot of medical guidance...

>busybodies who have no ability to perform cost-benefit analysis

Not just medical guidance. All sorts of rules, laws, regulation and other BS is the result of these people.
It seems that everyone just hates Facebook and we're collectively trying to nit pick any missteps that they make.

I think that the whole issue is not surprising at all. Definitely not newsworthy. I'm pretty sure that everyone and everyone's mum knew that Facebook was doing stuff like this.

What changed is that now we all distrust and dislike Facebook at some deep level... So we respond strongly to even the most mundane criticisms against it.

I think that what's happening is that Facebook is so good with analytics that they are always able to churn out a perfectly optimized statement in response to any situation... But it doesn't change the fact that everyone is eagerly awaiting the next scandal.
What makes Cambridge Analytica worse than Google, specifically? Is the distinction you can draw between the two objective, or subjective to your personal view (or political party)?

(From what I've found, most people upset with "all political parties are the same" are people who belong to one, and are upset that they get grouped in with people who do the exact same things they do. Not "all political parties" are the same, but the two of them I deal with as a US citizen definitely are.)
"We're sorry!"

I agree, I don't think anyone is buying it.
This is exactly what medium is doing.
A better future for news
yeah, is there a non facebook.com link?
Thank you for posting this, this is what most companies should be push forward!
Ask HN: How to adjust returning to the office after remote working a few years?
With the exception of recent on-site interviews, I haven't set foot in an office for work in about 5 years. Around mid-2013 I got my first full-time remote job and then have been able to secure other jobs and gigs that also let me work remote.

This has been fine for a while, but with my shift in job and career priorities I realize I have to go back to working at an office sooner or later. How do you adjust to that after having not been talking in person with your co-workers for so long?

When I work remotely I mostly chat online, via Slack or Hangouts. I engage in phone conversations maybe twice a month at the most. (that's usually with most people too, I'm not a big phone talker)

Outside of work related stuff, I do not go out with friends much, as for me it's usually a monthly affair. I also just talk to my siblings and parents about once a week too.
There is Blendle, although I can't find a list of newspapers and magazines that they publish.
This is so great to hear! I don't know who you are but I'm proud of you.
> I see it as a community.

Maybe you'd like to take a look at these members of the community, who show they care about the community by refusing to participate in journals for certain publishers: http://thecostofknowledge.com/ It even has a Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Cost_of_Knowl... And here's an example of one of them: https://www.scottaaronson.com/writings/journal.pdf
> What kind of safeguards would you introduce?

How about the ones they agreed to with the FTC in 2011 [1][2]?

[1] https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/documents/cases/2011...

[2] https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2011/11/faceb...
Disagreeing with terms is not unethical. It's the "pocketing." An explicit rejection of terms is perfectly reasonable. But I think it's deceit to try and hide from the other party that you did not agree to all the terms that were offered.
I'm glad there are no friends on Amazon.

Company culture determines everything!
Good work by Kaspersky. This doesn't look good for their competitors. Either they didn't know about the attacks, or they permitted it to happen.
> What makes Cambridge Analytica worse than Google, specifically?

The outright lying about purpose thing, by which CA’s key data was gathered, for starters.
Tl;dr

1. Dishes with the same name are conflated despite being completely different.

2. Many dishes don't have a serving size they simply yield things like "1 cake".

3. The researcher choose a particularly small sample size (18 out of ~4500)

As a cooking enthusiast I find it frustrating that a researcher forces a narrative that home cooked meals are the problem when the reality is that all the fast an processed foods we have today are much more likely the culprit of obesity. We need to be encouraging people to cook for themselves with fresh ingredients and not publishing dubious studies that suggest to do the opposite.
How to Use the Internet and Stay Private
> In practise, however, when there are issues, maintainers often work quickly to resolve them and apologise in the same way as a company does. This is one of the biggest causes of burnout.

Nonsense. This is what FOSS maintainers crave: someone cares about their project and has a real problem: call to action!

It's the cure for burnout.

> For maintainers: if you’re not enjoying most of your work on a project, don’t do it anymore.

If your regular day job is software developer, and you're not even enjoying your side project, then you're basically burned out from development, which is a bigger problem.

If the FOSS project is in fact a piece of crap that you hate (because, say, you're now 10X the developer compared to when you made important (mis-)decisions in that project that are difficult to undo now), then ... just stop. What's the big deal.
Maybe not the home user, but people are willing to pay lots of money for photography gear if it gets the results they want.

Broncolor, Hasselblad, Leica and Zeiss, all come to mind as specialty companies that make money from selling expensive gear.
I think it is ridiculous to think that Facebook is sharing data to 3rd party sources out of charity. If you provide more value via data to integrating applications than any of your competitors, you will continue to have the largest share of the market. So yes, there is profit incentive.
I was speaking generally, not specifically employers. I was asked for my SSN to get a mailbox once...
> Haven't you just traded one set of biases for another?

Shh. He's found peace and reassurance. Invaluable.
These fake consent (EULA, signup clauses) need to be shot down once and for all. Consent needs to be visible, granular, and explicit.
This is great stuff!

I am a CS professor and these are exactly the kind of things my undergraduate students struggle with!

Especially these two points:

* Start assignments as soon as they are given out. Stupid, right?

* Be curious. You are there to learn, which means digging beyond the provided material. So many students are sadly focused on the grade or assignment, not on the learning.

You should definitely write a book!
Same here, using Chrome on Mac.
While I much prefer writing Ruby to Python, Python is just dead simple to get real work done with. It's not elegant, but it's still so much less nasty than C++ or Java.

Ruby's #1 problem, for me at least, is that your small project someday runs into a performance wall. I don't know the latest benchmarks, but last I recall Python was about 8x faster than Ruby when both are being interpreted. Yes, there's JRuby, but that's not something you can drop into a new system and do useful things with immediately (without more setup).

And with Clojure, you get all the elegance and lovely collection manipulation tools you can possibly want, much faster performance, and a huge stable pile of Java libraries (compared to Ruby).

So with Python and Clojure as one's main tools, life is quite nice.
I would argue both Google and many other data collection based companies do this as well. Data is collected under the auspices of being able to "provide you with better services", even though the actual purpose is to target ads to you more accurately. (They may have better legal disclaimers and statements of how data will be used stuffed in their EULAs nobody reads, but I don't feel that's much less deceptive in reality.)
I was going to read this but then I realized this was posted on facebook.com.
"The good news is that the most important actions to prevent this from happening again today we have already taken years ago"
What an asshole, if this were true this wouldn't have happened. I liked Zuck until today, now I think he's a lying sack of crap, which probably means he'll make a great politician.
I think that's sorta kinda was happening with

> we immediately banned Kogan's app from our platform, and demanded that Kogan and Cambridge Analytica formally certify that they had deleted all improperly acquired data. They provided these certifications.

To generalize the issue, if you were in charge of APIs at some company A and some company B (not necessarily located in your jurisdiction and not necessarily subject to the same legislative framework as you) told you they used to have the data, but deleted it since then, what additional measures would you recommend company A pursue?
> Islam as is has very little desirability to convert for non-Muslim

The successful pitch of a certain variant of Islam seems to be "structure": That it tells you what to do and what not to do down to the tiniest minutiae (and it tells you that it's desirable that everybody sticks to the same set of rules, and if necessary, is made to do so).

For people who are overwhelmed by the many degrees of freedom in some western societies, that seems to look like a safety net: The most active radical islamists in Germany are converts.
Double Face Prossime Date
"Personally, I’m disgusted that my data has probably been compromised just because I have some less technically astute friends who sign up for these idiotic apps."

Now just imagine what happens to your contact info when your friend links their email account or their address book to "find their friends" on all of these services?
If he have two shits about users' rights all he could do was sue CA. And he could extend that policy to any developer that went the same path. Warning perpetrators that all that will happen to them in case of misconduct is to get banned is irrelevant, they could simply reapply with a fake ID, new company and whatnot.
I can see that Bloomberg is still bloomberging:

First paragraph:

>> "Poland: reasonable strategy roiled by leftist impulses."

The current government is a far right Catholic party that has just enacted a law partly denying the Holocaust (somewhat related to this, one of their senator sparked a scandal by posting actual Nazi propaganda online), and the country may have its EU voting right suspended due to the administration's attacks against the judiciary. But yeah the most important thing is that one of their economical policy happens to be left-leaning.

On the economist Thomas Piketty:

>> "Last month, the anti-capitalist economist wrote about ..."

Piketty is left-leaning, not "anti-capitalist".

Caption of a Piketty photograph:

>> "Only academic. Until now."

Piketty has been a (prominent) advisor for politicians on the French left for at least a decade.

You go Bloomberg "News". You keep doing you.
The ACM model is a good one, but it's not the norm in the other sciences. By which I mean that the main publisher of computer science work is actually a professional organization, which is community run and managed. But for people in fields where their professional organization and main publishers are different, it's not the same.

As computer scientists, we have it pretty good.
Law enforcement and courts aren't funded in a way that makes that effective.