skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't have a problem with 'truth' per se, merely a problem with who gets to adjudicate what is true versus what is not, even if something is apparently non-true.

Rather than delete or abridge any legal content (as defined by a litany of 1st Amendment SCOTUS cases), at least in the USA, instead of deleting/modifying/filtering news content, we should do with news content what we've done with movies' rating labels for as long as we have - tag the content with a 'truth' label.

So Google News can develop a tagging system that labels news articles as "most likely" to "least likely" to be true, like a 1-10 rating. HuffPo can have its own truth ratings for the content they push. Breitbart or Infowars their own, etc.

I'll go for a system like this any day over Google or the SPLC or CNN or Snopes or whomever crowning themselves "truth" endorses, when in fact, they're mostly spinning the facts and telling a story from their own POV/context.
Sorry about that, I thought my lead-in was obvious and you were playing the straight man :(

Still, I stand by what I said.

EDIT: OK, OK, so after snoozing on it for ten minutes, perhaps I can see why it might appear that I'm more right than you are to a lesser extent than is truly the case. Even though there's nothing for me to apologise for, perhaps I should at least have taken the high road.

What can I say? I'm just reluctant to sit by and stay silent when people seem to blaming the victim so enthusiastically.
It was a 35 mph zone.
What if the ad networks start using IPs directly instead of domains?
The full version of Civilization 6 is available as an iPad app, I was delighted to discover this year. Recommended (on any platform).
The speed limit on that street is 45mph. The 35mph speed limit being quoted is in the other direction.
Little Snitch is for MacOS.
As a linux user I desperately looked for an equivalent and found none.
Douane was suggested. It's no good.
What a sorry state of affair. We need a simple app-level filtering solution.
I tried switching a few months ago, but failed. The UI is really complex for non tech people. And if you try to enable end-to-end encryption, then it's unusable for them.

I'd like to try again once these issues are solved.
Lessons from Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Fun with Themes in Firefox
That's what I wonder. Yes, it has LIDAR etc. But there was this comment yesterday by arbie:[0]

> Sensor Fusion typically merges LiDAR with stereoscopic camera feeds, the latter requiring ambient light.

So might LIDAR data get de-emphasized when there's too little light for the cameras?

0) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16619917
It's meant to be impartial /to the accused/. It's not meant to be completely agnostic of the whole judicial system, and in some cases doing the right thing may require not fully disclosing your knowledge of that judicial system. Example: Potential jurors will be dismissed (or at least, so I've read) if they admit to knowledge of jury nullification, despite it being a legitimate part of the jury's powers.
"The vehicle was doing about 40 miles per hour on a street with a 45 m.p.h. speed limit when it struck Ms. Herzberg, who was walking her bicycle across the street, according to the Tempe police"
"Here is an example" =/= "I have one data point"
I don't see how this is at all accurate without taking to account the speed of that car. If human reaction time is 1/4th of a second, how time does that actually leave for the car move as well - the car can't teleport either.
I do it instantly with Nix, which keeps my system configuration and my dotfiles in a declarative way.
Damn. This reeks of higher-ups knowing what was going on (or taking advice from malvolent scrupulous people) in order to maintain plausible deniability.
Interesting to see several domain names/servers with 'mqtt' referenced. Wondering if Facebook interacts with IoT devices routinely, or perhaps they use MQTT for Messenger message transfers etc.?
reminder that this went up not long ago https://whereisscihub.herokuapp.com
Giving Mars a Magnetosphere
The data & privacy abuse by the Obama campaign was in fact dramatically worse. As an opinion piece at TheHill.com noted today:

> The former Obama director of integration and media analytics stated that, during the 2012 campaign, Facebook allowed the Obama team to “suck out the whole social graph”; Facebook “was surprised we were able to suck out the whole social graph, but they didn’t stop us once they realized that was what we were doing.” She added, “They came to [the] office in the days following election recruiting & were very candid that they allowed us to do things they wouldn’t have allowed someone else to do because they were on our side.”

It's universally understood why the media wasn't interested in turning that story into a scandal. When it's your team, you look the other way for the perceived greater good.
US Only? :/
It does not work.
I don't agree, I think the issue is that it is certain people jobs to just have meetings. They have no productive work to do, they measure there progress in number of meetings had. Business people usually.
Congrats to OpenSea! https://opensea.io/

They're one of the best crypto asset exchanges around.

Crypto Racing League is excited to finish integration with them soon! http://cryptoracingleague.io/
Where Is Mark Zuckerberg?
if this form of blocking becomes popular, they will.
Many users can't modify HOSTS on work computers, etc but can install an extension.

Hosts file is a real pain to disable/enable, at least quite a bit worse than clicking one button in your browser.

I do something very similar to hosts file (at router level rather than os), but there are a few drawbacks over an extension.
Not sure why you were downvoted, but this is correct. Facebook (or anyone else) can easily create more domains.
FTFA:

Where is Mark Zuckerberg? Where is Sheryl Sandberg? And more importantly: Where have they been since 2016?

Nothing that has come to light in the recent days is news to Facebook. They’ve known about all these things for months and, in some cases, years.

They built the system that allowed data to flow out of Facebook with only very mild oversight. They built the system that allowed dark political advertising.

And, most importantly, they built the service that created these massive stores of data and the tools for using them to reach billions of people.

This is what they’ve built. These are the governance problems that come with this kind of market dominance.

Mark Zuckerberg created a service and a corporate structure that centralized power in himself. And that means we need transparency from him because there is no other way to get it.
I tried uMatrix several times and quit. It's crazy heavy. It takes forever to whitelist parts of a page until functional.
Scripts then XHR then more cascaded scripts then frames..
What you want to do is possible with a structural type system. In structural type systems, type compatibility is based on the structure of the type instead of the name (as opposed to nominal type systems).

An example in TypeScript:

interface Named {
name: string
}

class Person {
name: string
age: number
// constructor here
}

function f(obj: Named) {
// do something with obj.name
}

const joe = new Person('Joe', 25)

// Compiles, even though Person has an extra `age` field
// Person is structurally compatible with Named
f(joe)

If you pass f() a class/object that doesn't have a `name` property of type string, the compiler would catch your error.
Definitely couldn't be our corrupt and racist justice system, just a simple misunderstanding of course
If the exponent is less than 1 then the amount of data collected from phones is less than that from desktops.
Brian Fox had a canned email response to whiners: "Please return Bash for a full refund."
And there's the rub. Less responsibility, but less ownership (I imagine). You can't have everything.
I met some of them. They either don't think about it, or they actively revel in not being one of the proles that aren't in on it. The ones that stress about it eventually leave.
Funny how often black males seem to end up on the wrong end of those.
Maybe all countries should ban American citizens and corporations from owning anything outside of the US.
Yes, sound money is on par with both of those. Fiat money has indirectly killed more people than the lack of antibiotics ever did. Fiat is what gives corrupt governments like the USSR and China under Mao (and their modern, less corrupt equivalents) the ability to control an entire economy to the detriment of billions of people.

Once control over money is finally wrestled from the hands of the elite the world will see a boom in prosperity that hasn’t been seen since the industrial revolution.

Read some books, educate yourself on how important this topic is rather than posting a snarky reply.

Here’s a good place to start:

The Mystery of Banking by Rothbard

The Creature from Jekyll Island by Edward Griffin

Theory of Money and Credit by Mises

All are available for free online by searching for the PDF version.
And where the math of reality seems ugly or awkward or contrived, we invent notation to make it look neat and simple.

The reason why math education takes so many years is to learn all the complexity, conventions and abuse of notation. As in speech and image interpretation, the adept cannot see the complexity.

You can make anything simple by inventing a language to state it in. Use custom entities instead of multiplying them.
You don’t consider sound money to be an important innovation?
Cops can do what they want in America. They might not feel that way about it of course ("I have to wear a body camera and I'm not supposed to beat people up for being gay"), but it's basically true.
Their work was so “upfront” that FB internal monitoring alerts have fired from the spike in load, and FB assured them that this is OK and they are “on the same side”: https://www.google.com/amp/thehill.com/opinion/technology/37...

Bad optics, no matter how you slice it.
Nobody at Facebook pushed a button, but the article was edited to remove an unflattering reference to Sheryl Sandberg after a phone call from Facebook PR.

Also, just because you work(ed) at a company it does not mean you are fully aware of everything that goes on there, so don't make blanket statements about what can or can't happen.

Employees are often some of the least informed about the inner workings of an organization, as they tend to dismiss uncomfortable findings out of hand and refuse to read about them.
Maintainer bottleneck is the origin of forking-as-a-feature; previously forking had been considered a disaster: https://gcc.gnu.org/news/announcement.html (1997)
atomic swaps have awesome potential, the first to provide a stable intercurrency decentralized exchange with escrow of funds and wallets held by the asset owners with private keys will be a big winner :)
I'm not sure it's that straightforward -- from the Guardian's coverage:

"The data was collected through an app called thisisyourdigitallife, built by academic Aleksandr Kogan, separately from his work at Cambridge University. Through his company Global Science Research (GSR), in collaboration with Cambridge Analytica, hundreds of thousands of users were paid to take a personality test and agreed to have their data collected for academic use."

It's not clear to me whether the transfer of data from GSR to CA was legal, or covered in the ToS for the app.

I'd guess that end users agreed to blanket sharing of data in the FB ToS, but again I don't think we can be certain that their ToS covers exactly this situation -- according to FB, CA / GSR were in breach of their ToS agreements, which might mean they transitively caused FB to breach their agreements with their users. I'd be interested to hear theories from anyone with legal expertise, but I imagine we'll hear more before too long.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/17/cambridge-analy...
Does their salary really outweigh this collective disapproval of their peers?

Isn't that the going ethos currently?

Something akin to: Pay me as much as possible, don't ask me to be part of your culture, don't ask me to work more than 40 hours a week, don't ask me to take stock, don't have a mission statement, make sure I'm working on something that is engaging mentally.
You don't know what the heck you are thinking or writing about. Somehow you've got some emotions you can't control and that overwhelm any rationality you have.

I did NOTHING wrong. Instead I made a contribution to the OP, one that stands to be good for the intended audience of the OP. You are very much out of line and trying to start a fight.

If you really were unable to read with understanding what I wrote, then maybe a local community college will be able to give you a remedial course in reading comprehension.

I used my startup as an example to address the main points in the OP; what I wrote stands to be really good for the target audience of the OP; what I wrote certainly would have been good for me early in my startup work.

Net, it's getting obvious: You resent my startup.

If you are able to read what I wrote, then you need to calm down, apologize to me and the rest of HN, and then severely restrict your future posts. In particular, you need to stop trying to pick fights.
I'd be curious to read more about what your friend saw. There are ways to make that happen, e.g.

https://www.nytimes.com/newsgraphics/2016/news-tips/index.ht...
This seems super obvious to me too. The more important question, from which this is a distraction, is: what was The Donald's role?
> I wouldn't want to be tried by jurors that were wilfully dishonest

Why not? That's often by far the best case scenario.
Block all accesses to non-local (192.168, 10., etc) IP-based URLs. Will break some legit stuff, but, not that much for most users, and they can just whitelist that as it comes up.

IP whitelists could also be aggregated and shared on github similar to the current DNS blacklists.
IANAL but believe one key difference is if work is done by US citizens or green card holders.
perhaps their hosting service (or your ISP, depending on where the image gets pulled to) blocks connections or DNS lookups to TBP?

Update: looking at the JS console, it looks like CORS policy is preventing this:
Access to Image at 'https://thepiratebay.org/static/img/tpb.jpg' from origin 'https://krikienoid.github.io' has been blocked by CORS policy: No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource. Origin 'https://krikienoid.github.io' is therefore not allowed access.
I’m not sure it scares me as much as, say, the Koch brothers doing the same.

http://time.com/4148838/koch-brothers-colleges-universities/
Do most websites usually work with JavaScript disabled?
Facebook is a public company. They have strict rules related to informing stock owners and insider trading.

Investors should be able to win a lawsuit if they can prove that company did not immediately disclsee important information, falsified information or that some owners were privy to insider information when they traded (Zuk sold his shares in suspicious time).
In countries where higher education is free, it’s either much cheaper per student, or a way lower fraction of the population goes, or both.

Europe can afford free education because it isn’t American-style education.
That's like asking why didn't Yahoo, Google, Apple, Amazon etc. acquire Netflix after the Qwikster debacle when the stock imploded down to $7.x / share losing ~80% of its value (now $317 / share).

As irrational as it sounds (and it is), companies overwhelmingly prefer to chase strength in acquisitions. It makes everything about it look and sound better. They don't care about the cost difference, it's not their money/value being vaporized. They care about protecting their job, so they want positive optics, something that is perceived to move the needle on value.
I'll truly never understand the people who defend Facebook to the death on here.
A lot of people have more important things to worry about than the respect of their peers.
To be fair, there are a lot of senior developers telling upper management what they want to hear, including by saying nothing and charging once more into the breach.
Cofounder of Whatsapp tweets “It is time. #deleteFacebook”
You mean you left Linux for .Net. Visual Studio is just an IDE and C++ is cross-platform last I checked.

You appear to be speaking on behalf of all/Windows developers. Perhaps not 'most' think that way? What is your evidence other than your stated status and related anecdotes?

Why should we care what AAA studios care about? Should we be happy they've continued to push DX as default?

What do you do when DX doesn't provide what is needed for a game? Too bad? Fight with MS?

Overall, shouldn't we want gamers to enjoy the games being developed as widely as possible on a range of platforms? It's a little lazy to just fall back on the old catch-22 of 'no market' because 'no games' because 'no market...'
Bravo! While I hope that some (IE, Musk) have our best interests in mind, it’s of utmost importance to keep in mind that any individual (and particularly, any organization) has their bottom line as their top priority.
I'm a US citizen and was about to part exactly this ... we need fewer people in jail period. That probably applies to most if not all of those who Promise would help so I can't help thinking this is simply putting lipstick on a pig.

EDIT: I should also note that it's nice to see teams are trying tackling to tackle harder social problems.
This was in Europe though. I hear your point, but this was probably a main design decision. It's not a portable EKG for MD, it's for rescuers. They're trained for the average situation but they need a second opinion and the ability to transmit your EKG as-is to an actual doctor is probably very useful. Now the frailty of wireless I understand, but in this case it's a bit absurd. Considering a chart is 1000 x 32bit samples (uncompressed). You could almost tweet that today u_u.

Anyway, I wish I could discuss with people about the possibility of blending both models. I understand the economy of scales, but maybe some partnership between large mainstream electronics could give medical device suppliers special access to some standard, well rounded/tested at cheap prices even at low volume compared to say cellphones.
The Top Tech of 2017
Oh, I'm pretty sure that self driving software isn't being programmed to systematically disregard speed limits to match traffic, not even by a company with Uber's attitude towards regulations, but it is an example of conditions where rigid adherence to speed limits might increase rather than reduce risk.
Not exactly cutting edge, but;

They now have their own fairly large CDN, and growing, likely even more so once they have their own Original TV Programme.

They have the largest Mesos system running in production.

iMessages is likely Third in terms of toal messages sent in Global IM Market Share. First being WeChat, 2nd being Whatsapp.
Nothing could have been premined since there is no mining on Stellar.
Exploring Session-Level Google Analytics Data
This is an excellent list. YC will do very nicely with this batch. Modern agriculture is about shift hard and a few of these companies will go far even if they look to be "failures."

- Bear Flag Robotics

- Macromoltek

- Culture Robotics

- AesculaTech

- Reverie Labs

- Ovipost

I can see all of these being positively impacted. I just hope they can capitalize off it in some fashion. Definitely follow these companies for a while.
Probably 50% of the CPU time executed on my 386SX was playing Civ. Good times, not good for my study habits though.
IBM's Watson Assistant Is Coming to IFTTT
I don't see how "ped" is necessarily an offensive abbreviation (though it's one that normally isn't used), so I don't think you're justified in believing that the commenter is trying to dehumanize the victim.
But he did though...and there was no scandal then. Why now?
If you don’t understand that the process of reconciling 2 chains of blocks is for the sake of consensus on 1 ledger, maybe you just don’t understand distributed systems ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Because if you did, you would understand that when your values (in this case, transactions) get modified unexpectedly even if they’ve been consistent for an arbitrarily long time, you cannot claim that your database is immutable. The fact that the individual attempts at consensus are immutable is irrelevant because the user only cares about the resulting ledger, which as I have proven to you over and over again is mutable.

I see what you did though, you defined “blockchain” as just an individual chain, not as the encompassing consensus-finding system... which to me is not a useful definition because it leads to misunderstandings like yours (ie. “the database is immutable”). Picture this:

Exchange: “Why did the Bitcoin I received vanish? I thought Bitcoin was immutable??!!!”

You: “Oh lol you’re terribly misinformed, it’s the data structures that are immutable, silly, not the actual database. Obviously the database consensus can fail and that can make you lose money, unless it’s controlled by trustworthy and honest people of course... who made you believe otherwise?”
Exactly. While I have generally held the NYT in high regard, the whitewashing of their coverage after being contacted by Facebook's PR team is immensely concerning.
unfortunately some people are boot lickers by nature.

or perhaps they need to believe facebook is innocent to justify what they're working on.
Facebook lost more than Tesla's market cap
Yet again, software freedom fighters got there years ago.

Free Software Foundation got there earlier. From publishing https://www.fsf.org/facebook published on on Dec 20, 2010. FSF & GNU Project founder Richard Stallman has been rightly objecting to Facebook for years in his talks and on his personal website at https://stallman.org/facebook.html.

Long-time former FSF lawyer Eben Moglen rightly called Facebook "a monstrous surveillance engine" and pointed out the ugliness of Facebook's endless surveillance (at length in http://snowdenandthefuture.info/PartIII.html but in other places in the same lecture series as well). See http://snowdenandthefuture.info/ for the entire series of talks.
Shouldn’t self driving cars be designed to be as safe as possible in the world they’re actually going to drive in, rather than one where everyone else adjusts their behavior?
I agree they should be able to get jobs, but not any job. I don't believe those convicted of murder, kidnapping, and other seriously violent crimes should be allowed to drive potentially vulnerable passengers.
Judging from Twitter the odds are 100%.
They might just not have an insanely long commute like you do.
At a glance it looks like it's really just a proxy, that was limited to scholar.google.com and mutates the page slightly (adds a header, sci-hub links).

Does google generally block proxy servers?
s/Business /Sales/

If persuading people is your job; meetings are great because you have lots of real-time feedback on whether your pitch is working or not.

If you put a salesperson in charge of a software team, you are; like the man says "gonna have a bad time".
I've already ran across at least one user who was obviously astroturfing trying to play down FB's involvement in this crap, it's actually kind of horrifying to see on here.