skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
CA also scraped the data of friends of those users, meaning that many millions of people had their info exposed instead of a few hundred thousand.
Out of interest, do you have a circle of people who give you feedback and vice versa? Like a writing group? I'd be interested in something like this, as I really want to improve my written skills.
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Thanks for the upvotes. Gratifying to see there are others who choose to think positively too. I do understand some of the skepticism, but I think saying:

"The product doesn't exist. The only image of the device on that Creator page is a 3D render"

..about a company that has received over $2billion in funding is pretty childish.

If Magic Leap are watching and want to send the team here at R01 a Creators Edition we'd be really happy to start creating on the LuminSDK with UE4 and represent here in London.

Anyone from @magicleap.com - feel free to use the chat widget at the bottom left of our site to get in touch (http://realityzero.one).

Edit: took Trolls comment off - because I realised, ironically , I was now the one being overly negative. Sorry about that.
FB can definitely see who chats to who (and from what kind of device, and from what IP address, etc.) - they own Whatsapp. While the content is secured by end-to-end encryption the metadata is still incredibly valuable.
I’m on my phone so maybe I haven’t found the most relevants links, but I found the followings.

This is Elon musk bragging before the first autopilot accident :
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2016/04/25/elon-musk-...

This is a counterpoint with some fact:
http://safer-america.com/safe-self-driving-cars/

And concerning the crash, last update seemed to point driver’s fault... with autopilot... don’t know if final ruling is already out:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/06/20...
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> None of these are instrumentable/hookable. Want to enforce some of your own organization policies before deployment? Want to use everything _except_ with your own monitoring tool? Sorry. If you use GitLab, you use their universe and everything that comes with it. There is no graceful integration with a broader set of tools.

Huh? Gitlab has a huge list of integrations[1] and webhooks[2]. You can use Jira for issue tracking or Jenkins for CI, for example. If something is missing, it's open source, so the plugin can be added by the community if need be. The software itself is hugely configurable for different workflows and team structures. Can you be a little more specific on what Gitlab is doing poorly here?

[1]: https://docs.gitlab.com/ce/user/project/integrations/project...
[2]: https://docs.gitlab.com/ce/user/project/integrations/webhook...
I agree. It would be much better if there was a way to utilize the existing infrastructure.
Facebook did not authorize data retention. CA’s actions were therefore unauthorized use of data, which is the textbook definition of a data breach.
> and even erroneously has the "RPG Maker" tag on Steam

This is unfortunate, but is effectively a consequence of an enormously over-saturated market. People casually browsing through Steam will make instant snap decisions about a title.

Having that tag for instance will prevent Steam from ever showing it to me as is one of my (many) excluded tags[1].

It's completely brutal and as a developer I sympathize, but as a consumer/gamer the market is so completely and utterly tilted in my favor that I can "afford" to ignore 99% of titles that I might otherwise probably enjoy and still have more entertainment to last a life time.

[1]https://i.imgur.com/fwiiOed.png
What's noteworthy of this news event is the involvement of an autonomous vehicle.

People are being killed in accidents constantly. We aren't going to be in a constant state of mourning over it.

This is implicitly a discussion about autonomous vehicles, and the very currently relevant and heated topic of wether we want these things on our streets.
You can argue this device is fake, but they clearly don't have any problems creating a physical representation.

https://youtu.be/m-Tp8-CAxPI?t=6m8s

These companies also frequently market with 3D models:

- apple.com

- ikea.com
IMO Uber should be on the hook for funding the NTSB investigation; smaller competitors should be able to get insurance if they need to.
It's a layer under the "it's a bidirectional stream" abstraction. Having had to debug gnarly TCP problems before (generally with semi-"intelligent" load balancers), the two-node consensus concept is good to keep in mind.

Right now the "two-node consensus algorithm" idea has got me thinking more about some of the nasty problems I've debugged and how to look at them through that lens, especially considering partial partition tolerance. "Under what circumstances can the TCP state machine on either end lose consensus, and how will/won't it recover?"
Great point. So much of our daily driving relies on the exchange of subtle social cues with other drivers.
Could not get hold of the paper. Are they doing Gibbs sampling or a semiparametric variant of that ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibbs_sampling

Generating tuples(row) by Gibbs sampling will allow generation of samples from the joint distribution. This in turn would preserve all correlations, conditional probabilities etc. This can be done by starting at a original tuple at random and then repeatedly mutating the tuple by overwriting one of its fields(columns). To overwrite, one selects another random tuple that 'matches' the current one at all positions other than the column selected for overwriting. The match might need to be relaxed from an exact match to a 'close' match.

If the conditional distribution for some conditioning event has very low entropy or the conditional entropy is low, one would need to fuzz the original to preserve privacy, but this will come at the expense of distorting the correlations and conditionals.
I would greatly appreciate a barrier of some kind between me and car drivers looking at the cells.

Or just do what Germany has sensibly done and split sidewalks between pedestrians and cyclists (though, cycling enthusiasts are unlikely to enjoy the experience as much)
Again, history does not repeat but it rhymes.

Dot-com bubble had similar group of valuation leaders whose price would not collapse in enforceable future.

The Four Horseman of Tech in 2000 were Microsoft, Dell, Cisco and Intel.
Their combined market cap increased by 94% in few months before the bubble crashed.
P/E values were MS 60, Intel 50, Cisco 200. There was no reason to assume that these companies would not be important in 20 years from now.

The stock price of __good__ tech companies will not collapse because they stop making profits, gaining market share or growing. It collapses because they are overvalued.

People simply refuse to understand that great companies can't escape massive over-valuation just because they are great companies. Amazon was a great company in 2000, but it took over 10 years before it's stock valuation recovered to dot-com levels.

Apple probably survives a next crash with much less damage than Amazon just based on their P/E valuations and business models. Amazon is in low profit margin business, Apple is in large profit margin business.

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edit: If Amazon long term profit margin is 4%, it must make $1.9 trillion in revenue in the future to to justify current market cap $748 B with 10% ROI.

Retail and logistics are low margin business (~2.5%). Bulk web services will be low margin in the future when the industry matures.

It's very unlikely that any platform business has room, or is allowed to grow, into several trillions per year revenue behemoth before regulators around the world step in.
Data ingest scales linearly assuming the source is scalable (S3, HDFS, or Kafka). There are other things that matter: how wide is the table, what data types, etc. We achieve 1GB/s on a 16 nodes cluster for some combination of the above. What is your target?
I agree the statistics we have are pretty terrible. However, in this case, I think Waymo's statistic is actually quite useful. It's likely that Waymo's x miles driven statistic is largely driven by the fact that Waymo has tested their cars on a small number of roads, in fairly safe settings. But that paints Uber in an even worse light. Waymo is supposedly ahead, or at least on par with Uber in self driving technology, and they have chosen to limit their testing and driving to safer and a limited number of roads. Uber has not. That seems to underscore the fact that Uber has pushed beyond their tech's capabilities even though their competitors have determined the tech isn't there yet.

Also, if someone had posted a poll a day ago as to which company's self driving cars were likely to be the first to kill somebody, I think the vast majority of people would have predicted Uber. I don't think that's a coincidence.
> I won't be surprised if someone at some point wears a stripy outfit, and the car thinks they are a part of the road, and tries to explicitly chase them down until they are under the wheels. Or if the car suddenly decides that the road continues at a 90 degree angle off a bridge. Or that the splashes from a puddle in front is actually an oncoming car and it must swerve into the school kids crossing the perpendicular road.

Are you working on the next season of Black Mirror?

In all seriousness, my fear (and maybe not fear, maybe it's happy expectation in light of the nightmare scenarios) is that if a couple of the "weird and terrifying" accidents happen, the gov't would shut down self-driving car usage immediately.
This subthread is not about the massively complex system. Rather we are discussing the good judgment of individual drivers. Even if my statement were not literally true (the best kind, and it literally is), it would still be good practice for all drivers to commit themselves to driving slowly enough to prevent collisions with pedestrians.
Would love to hear your comments on my second point as well. How does this not ruin long-term prospects of projects?
Yeah, I honestly hate that name. Just by the meaning of words, Unreal Tournament is an "online multiplayer battle arena" but somehow it came to mean specifically "top-down Warcraft 3 custom map with fighting in 3 lanes" now.

But the lane fighting genre has been all downhill since Monday Night Combat anyway, so I'm happy to ignore it :P
Good to hear - the HTML & JS approach as the entire mobile OS was a good 3-5 years ahead of it's time.
He posted a tweet later, it wasn't a cyclist:

https://twitter.com/daiwaka/status/975771533745336320
I mean, you still have issues like wildlife on the roadway.

It's impossible to fully remove the issue. Vehicles still need to react to and reduce accidents, but they will absolutely never eliminate them.
>Fatalities will happen sometimes

How many self-driving cars are there on the roads right now? And what's fatality rate? I' quite sure it's higher now than compared to human-only driver.

> they are unavoidable sometimes

Were autonomous cars not designed to prevent such situations?

>Let's, as a community, set the standard for how we will react to these events

Yes and let's punish non-conformists!

> which gets posted on HN whenever a self-driving article comes out.

I honestly have no idea what that comment is.
Ah man, the irony of complaining about childishness, insinuating everyone against you is a loser, and then making a new comment just to thank people for upvotes... 20 minutes after posting the first one.

It smacks of when Theranos supporters were shrieking down suggestions of malfeasance.
I keep seeing it listed just as "friend data", and no one clarifying that.

Does it mean "friends lists", or "the data of the app user's friends profiles"? And in that second case, "the data of the app user's friends visible to the app user", or "as much data as if the friends had installed the app themselves"?

Unless it's that final situation, it's exactly how I assumed Facebook scraping worked already.
In about 20 minutes, an explosive documentary about this will be airing on Channel 4 BBC.
> This is precisely the arbitrary value judgement that we do not have to accept.

Sure, I agree. Neither of us made the case for particular cruelty / non-cruelty because it's not really the point. My intention was only to broaden the scope and perspective of the reader to view the economic system in its macro-level historical and global context, and compare in reference to the natural forces and conditions that cause economies to emerge. I personally think it's hard to argue that things are particularly bad right now, but I certainly don't want to stop people from trying if they are adequately informed and really believe that.

The point is that whether you think our system is great or terrible, you can't change it by dictum. It doesn't bode well that you've apparently dismissed the whole crux of the argument because you believe that we may have a different ultimate value judgment.

>You (and others) don't believe that it's particularly cruel or unfavorable, and you're just wrapping that judgement in a mantle of inevitability.

I mean, like I said above, whether I believe that or not, it's neither here nor there. You still have to identify specific things that you want to change and the mechanisms by which that supposed change would operate, because "We'll just demand things change" is not a serious approach to anything.

You and I may have different opinions about a certain piece of software and its subsystems, and that's all well and good, but neither of us would take someone seriously who showed up and said "We have to just write 'STOP CRASHING' at the top of each file". That's not how any of this works!
Although the country is nowadays irrelevant on the international arena, it's always a shame to see represented only four of the five then-big players of the colonization race, missing Portugal.

It's like a game about space exploration missing the USSR, for example...
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I think that's a strange thought experiment, since it's basically requesting that you think emotionally and as irrationally as possible to draw conclusions.
It was a breach followed by business motivated poor handling of the breach. Facebook learned about the TOS violation, requested that CA delete the data, and did not follow up with verification that it was indeed deleted. The fail to follow up is compounded by the fact that:

a) Facebook was notified that CA did not delete the data; and

b) The CA-held profiles were used to target politically motivated advertising on Facebook.

One can't avoid linking the two facts. Facebook has no incentive to aggressively protect its user data when it hurts ad spending on the platform.
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Somewhere at Facebook is a poor Winston Smith, throwing scraps of paper down the memory hole and editing yesterday's headlines. (edit: And at google, and reddit, and youtube, and ...)
If 1% fewer people died with self driving cars that would be 400 fewer deaths a year. That's absolutely a good change.

I agree that the _goal_ should be 10x or even 100x better than the best human drivers, but better than average would result in net good and it's hard for me to see an argument in which that's not true because it's less net suffering/death.

>If you want self-driving cars to be successful then you should be demanding from the carmakers to make these systems flawless.

We're still talking about tons of metal moving at very high speeds around other vehicles. That's just not possible. Should my self driving car handle a catastrophic tire failure at 90mph better than me? Absolutely. Is that still a situation that's likely to result in a crash regardless of the best inputs on a compromised system? Yes. There will _always_ be situations in which fatalities can occur with cars or any other kind of vehicle no matter how well they're engineered.
> how would you react if your father/mother/sister/son/daughter/etc was the victim?

How you would react when emotionally distraught shouldn’t be the model for how you act all the time.
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I have an IRC channel that I invite my Patreon supporters to and I like to post the drafts there, as well as to private social circles. If you'd like some feedback on your articles feel free to send me drafts, email's in my profile.
...you mean facebook said "don't keep this" and then they kept it? And people are calling that a breach?
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Probably not since Google drove millions of KM without a single fatality.
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I don't appreciate the

>>Instead of putting energy into this I'd suggest pointing the energy towards creating something yourself.

attitude. Just because I don't play football doesn't mean I cannot criticize the coach. Just because I'm not in politics doesn't mean I cannot criticize politicians.
By that logic, we should mandate all cars go 1 mph everywhere. Doesn't matter if it takes forever to get anywhere as long as no idiot jumping out in front of cars dies, right?
as of today, yes, the data indicates that self driving cars are less safe. The fact is, as of today, self driving cars are generating more fatalities per mile driven than human drivers. That may change in the future as technology matures.
Why is Uber allowed to test its software for free on public roads ? Why doesn't it use a purpose-built test-track of its own, where it must prove that its software won't kill people (using robotic crash-test dummies to avoid) before it is allowed to use public roads ?
lmm the data does not support your claim, see gpm's comment above.
They went out of their way to avoid regulation and after, ran over a person in a bike lane.

I was referring more towards their negligent design than self-driving cars themselves, but if we're going off of that:

In 2015 there were 5,376 pedestrian deaths by a vehicle. There were, at the time, an estimated 263.6 million vehicles registered.

There has been a death so far this year off of a self-driving vehicle, and there are how many on the road at the moment? If you're going by deaths-per-vehicle, autonomous is losing.

I don't dislike all autonomous vehicles, but Uber is showing a lack of care for all but basic safety measures, that seemingly all of their competitors have gotten down thusfar, and alongside of that they're avoiding regulation quite heavily.
Right, but that was a privilege that the users authorized them to grant, no? As in, the people who signed up for CA's app had access to those profiles, and they explicitly granted CA's app access to those profiles. And then CA scraped them and saved them. Am I understanding correctly?
Good point, but I added that in because I think recent is the most important for trying to know if something learns from its mistakes.

They seem to be adjusting quite a bit in the last 1-2 years so that is the definition of learning. Otherwise, just showing how companies were once dumb is usually not very useful in knowing how adaptable they are.

I agree that we’ll know better looking back how they react to this event.
> users who authorized their app to do so.

Users did not authorize the app to do any of this. You are incorrect in that assumption.

This was a data breach. Facebook also knew about it and did not care. It is a data breach made worse by likely criminal negligence.

Edit: I have been (temporarily?) banned from replying or writing comments on HN. Maybe it is because of all the downvotes. Here is my response to the comment reply below (and with this, goodbye, I'm no longer allowed to post on HN I guess).

> In what sense did they 'not authorize' this?

Users did not authorize the data that was collected by these apps to be retained for more than a day or two, as described by Facebook's terms of service for CA using the data.
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Unlike all the other comments discussing charges, this one actually has a good point. Presumably the safety driver is there specifically to prevent this from happening. They'd still have to show that the driver was personally at fault. That would mean showing that the driver was e.g. sleeping/not paying enough attention, or something similar.

At the very least, it might call into question whether safety drivers are actually providing any real safety. Localities may start to crack down on using that kind of excuse for self-driving tests.
Not everyone has good friends like that.
Looks like it was updated to the following which is closer:

> Depending on the exact algorithm used, rays of light are projected either from each light source, or from each raster pixel; they bounce around the objects in the scnee[sic] until they strike (depending on direction) either the camera or a light source
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That wont be the case, the data is an evidence in a criminal investigation.
What the problem is that those sort of cycle lanes conditions cyclists that its always right to undertake in any circumstances - its got to the point now in London that cyclists feel entitled to undertake at speed in stopped traffic.
Nope! I mean https, most people send and receive email on a browser.
The author recommends buying them from here in the article (that being said, the article is from 2016) so YMMV:
http://www.iec-usa.com/cgi-bin/iec/DB19MS
Since you are on HN, you and your friends most likely men.
https://www.webmd.com/men/news/20060601/how-many-men-become-...
Also, does living longer mean longer fertility window for women?
Ah, I see where you were going now. That is interesting; never heard of it before. I agree with you, that at first glance it seems like the gain in potential energy would be countered by the increase in the lift force necessary.

Maybe there's some sort of flat efficiency loss going on, that is overcome by the higher energies present in the heavier scenarios? It does seem that everyone is in agreement that the heavier helicoptor would require more applied pitch. Which may not actually be desirable, given my impression that a pilot would attempt to burn the kinetic energy in the rotors to lift via pitching the blades right before landing.
40100 deaths in 2017. Averaging 110 per day.
Predictions I make HN hates:

- Crypto is going to be worth billions

- A country is going to issue it's own digital currency

- The future of crypto is commodity backed assets, for example
- petro coin!

Things that are going to happen that HN refuses to consider:

- Blockchain based government

- Decentralized voting mechanisms

- P2P based political party

The irony is this place being called Hacker News.
Silicon Valley has a radically different viewpoint and set of priorities than the rest of the world. This discrepancy still has not been exploited to anywhere near its full potential.

Edit: To clarify, I think SV is increasingly insular, and there is untapped innovative potential outside the bubble.
You usually need to get a ton of people physically together to shoot a scene.

Programming isn't like this.