skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's been evidence that the Trump campaign did a massively better job of taking advantage of Facebook than any other campaign, Republican or Democrat, had previously.

There's also evidence that Facebook's advertising models were a massive help -- the Trump campaign and affiliated organizations were paying much lower advertising rates than the Clinton campaign + affiliates, largely because Facebook's model prioritized the kind of controversy-and-outrage-generating stuff Trump was putting out there (since controversy and outrage drive engagement, and engagement is the metric Facebook cares about).
The preview should ideally be a summary for it to be useful. Many articles nowadays seem to stretch the topic a lot more than is necessary, with the paragraphs at the beginning being a lot of fluff.
It's actually https://www.facebook.com/help/delete_account
Curious as to why you edited your post to remove mention of the other service that you had listed originally?
I'll switch to them as soon as they support Sweden or Malta. HSBC is pure evil.
America's State Religion (2016)
Is a multi-cloud strategy right for a startup?
That's libelously untrue. You might think Ceph or Swift are better, that's fine, but it's no toy. I've seen a few toy S3 implementations. I even called out Zettar on my blog back in the day. If it's not scalable or highly available it's a toy. If it's unstable it's a toy. If it's super-duper slow it's a toy. Minio is none of these things, plus it has features like erasure coding and encryption that are mature enough to be backed by real support. Best ever? I'm not saying that, but it's no toy.

Disclaimer: I have no affiliation with Minio. In fact, they're very nearly a competitor with the project I work on. However, Minio is full of ex-Gluster people and I consider many of them friends.
Iran is part of the problem, but the less-discussed issue remains Isreal's nukes. The race for nukes in the middle east started long ago. The saudis have just decided to start trying.
Going from Hobby to Agency
> a range may change based on interview performance

What has been your experience with this?
Cheaper at scale in the long run too. Short of some unforeseen breakthroughs in non-typical nuclear like thorium.
I used to optimise for this, but different customers have different requirements anyway.
Also dev en to me is my macbook pro + terminal + text editors, but on top of that there's set up for each project.
I used to optimise for this, but it took a week or so 3 years ago and I now I don't care how painful it was.
I'm sure it matters a lot more for open source projects, where you want to encourage lots of ad hoc contributors who can set up easily.
How does whatsapp compare to facebook messenger, for intrusiveness and access to data and call logs?
Why do you think Zuckerberg is in denial? (Honest question.) Seems to me he knows exactly what he's doing.
Since it is a boilerplate and not an npm module, you can totally use the UI and write your own backend logic.

I just wanted it to work out of the box, so used Hasura BAAS.
What I'd like to see is, instead of a wide range of topics displayed on the same page, unsorted and un-categorized, a tool that would only display the topics I'm interested in. For instance I don't want to read about politics on HN, only computer science, so an app that would auto-tag/filter links depending on the source/content would be welcome. To me that's the biggest flaw of HN, having to go through pages of link to only get what I'm interested in is painful.
There’s a bot on Reddit that automatically posts summaries of long articles (/u/autotldr). Looks like it uses the smmry.com API, and it works quite well. Something similar for HN would be interesting.
A lot of people hate in-app support. Revolut (similar concept to N26) for example really screwed this up, someone drank too much AI and bot framework koolaid at a conference and now millions of users (and arguably the pecetion of the business) suffers. Having a email support method is a must.
Sorry @cyberferret. I previously listed Storj [1] but did a bit of research and it didn't actually look cheaper when you consider bandwidth cost.

$0.015 per GB per month

$0.05 per GB downloaded

[1] https://storj.io/
In Russian, bee colony is also called 'family' btw, unlike any other animal.
The positive outcome of this could be society’s shift away from marketing to meaning.

This isn’t unique to Facebook. It’s true of many large media companies that rely on advertising (Comcast with NBC, Disney with ABC, NYTimes, Google, etc).

Facebook is just among the best at advertising’s extreme optimization.

The election is high attention now, but I’m looking for research on whether society is worth off from drinking Coke and sitting for hours watching video.
That's because there's an army of people who are quick to discredit anything coming from blogs and lesser known sources as bunk while falling all over themselves for traditional news sources like NYT. Even when the big sources completely fail at their jobs and end up piggybacking on the story. Like you're doing in this thread.
Some quick questions:

- How do you version your messages?

- What problem domain are you working on?

- What kind of process orchestration system do you use?
Impressive! However, no mention of Oberon or BlackBox; that's a serious omission.
http://fruttenboel.verhoeven272.nl/Oberon/index.html,
https://github.com/pdewacht/oberon-risc-emu,
http://blackboxframework.org/index.php?cID=home,en-us
Show HN: One Year Using TypeScript  on JVM
Neural nets are also likely to be used to model the behavior of other road users (i.e. 'how is this car/pedestrian/etc likely to move in the next few seconds'?). No-one seems to be seriously considering an end-to-end neural network (i.e. inputs are sensors, outputs are throttle and steering wheel), but neural nets are pervasive components of the full system.
Similar to https://hckrnews.com/
Does anybody here have experience with the VNS devices mentioned in the article?
Also the famous Dodo : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodo
In the case of sat nav software, the software is at its most important when users aren't moving in a smooth way.

Sure, 99.9% of gps measurements on a sat nav are users going in a straight line - but it's when navigating complex junctions with many turns, traffic circles etc that users most need the sat nav's guidance.
If they announced a totally different business model, you would trust them and go back? I’m just asking because that’s an interesting thought, making Facebook change. How can you trust them enough after quitting in protest?

If we expect to have any success, people need to remove this idea that they need social media in their lives. All this is hypothetical too — last I checked Facebook brought in more cash than the 15 lowest GDPs or something like that. Making Facebook change just isn’t realistic. When you quit Facebook, you join a protest against for-profit social media, and as long as Facebook is a blind money machine it will always be part of the problem.
While I don’t like Fluent interfaces at all, I don’t like the alternative presented much either.

My dislike of Fluent interfaces stems from two things. First, it’s trying to contort an English-like sentence out of a programming language, which just looks and feels wrong. It leads to weird methods like ‘.method’ in the example. Second, Fluent interfaces really try to paper over the fact that the language lacks an equivalent to Visual Basic’s ‘with’[0] statement.

On the other hand, the example presented is not great either. Should ResponseAssertStatus be an object? Wouldn’t it make more sense to do the request then have a separate line of code to evaluate the status? How does it make sense for BodyOfResponse to be constructed out of some kind of ResponseAssertStatus object?

Between the two options, the Fluent interface makes more sense, even if the underlying implementation ends up being kind of ugly.

[0] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/visual-basic/languag...
So $5 is way cheaper? if you need any of those data down the line, transferring out, any savings you have with AWS in the past year or years are going to be wiped out.
I appreciate that no-one uses fascism to mean fascism anymore but it's not clear what you're using the term to mean. Do you mean anti-immigration?
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I dunno. Seems to me that the main source of users of the default mail app are people who will just use the default browser anyway. Surely most people just use online mail such as hotmail / gmail these days anyway.
As a US citizen using N26 in the EU, my main complaint is that I can't have any savings accounts (FATCA blah blah blah), so my entire balance is in the checking account that is flashed on the screen when I log in, and linked to my cards.

I don't want something with a high interest rate, or stock picker, just a way of putting a firewall between the cards and my cash.
Doom (2016) – Graphics Study
Is political propaganda against their TOS? I don’t like it, but I don’t like all the other propaganda (re “ads”).

I don’t see how this is worse than a targeted ad trying to get me to invest with Schwab. Also a pretty coordinated campaign. Or just Doubleclick in general.

This comes down to people wanting to limit some ads. There are already laws for political ads. Should we change them? I think they currently apply to Facebook ads.
It seems like a big problem until you just do it, and then you realise you didn't need it anywhere near as much as you think.
Don't worry. This is only about support URL, marketing URL, and "What’s New in This Version" - now you can edit these fields any time and starting April only when submitting new version.
Close a FB account is no option... ever lived in a country where FB is essential? It's maybe not USA or many bigger Europe countries but if you go to smaller countries (where Google Maps is even bad) you will loose a lot (groups, buying/selling, advices).
> Should we all just leave Facebook? That may sound attractive but it is not a viable solution.

It's the only sane response, and has been the only sane response, for the past decade. The only counter-argument given by NYT is that in some countries Facebook has a stranglehold. I don't see how that's relevant to people who don't live in those countries. As for organisers of political groups exclusively using Facebook (which is just a terrifying idea for a number of reasons), just pull a Stallman and email them explaining the problem with Facebook and ask if there's another way of staying abreast of the group. You can't fix the problem if you don't even try.

By not exercising your ability to protest against systemic and deep-seated abuse of user privacy, you're just making the world worse for the people who don't have that option currently (because it just tightens their stranglehold).
Finally a use for 5g bandwidth: sending big ML models to the client.
The Forgotten Ideas in Computer Science
> Of course it is. It's the only solution.

One viable alternative is legislation, such as the EU has been doing to some effect. Of course the laws lag the technology by some years and we have a wide range of political views on things like "the right to be forgotten" but more consumer protections seem to be needed, perhaps also factoring in "dumb" consumer behaviour e.g. not reading Terms & Conditions.
Maybe some parts of AWS are blocked in China some of the time in some places (the Great Firewall is not applied very consistently), but I have used AWS servers to play around with deep learning; connecting from China without a VPN worked fine.

Since Amazon probably uses most of their services themselves for their Chinese site, I'd be highly surprised if there were any large-scale bans in place. (Maybe you are thinking of Google Cloud?)
Maybe you haven't had it happen then to know what I'm talking about. Never had a gut instinct or a bad feeling that becomes true?

Sure maybe it happens and there is nothing really going on but my point is there is something about our sub-conscious that cannot be implemented with computers.
Even without that support, if you return interfaces instead of the concrete type each return can be a different implementation. There is no need to have one giant class. All of those methods in his example should return IJdkRequest, not JdkRequest.
I think I might be confused on the definition since I don't see semantic-ui, bulma, or other common ones listed on here?

edit: idea - maybe indicate if they're mobile first or not? more than just responsive, but actually have appropriate actions and metaphors for mobile interface.
Hundreds of Startups Tell Investors: Diversify, or Keep Your Money
IIRC there was a NIPS 2016 paper that showed that the blurry images are because of the variational approximation used in the generator/decoder network. They replaced this by doing MCMC inference on the encoder network, and showed that you get sharper images, but much less efficiently. In general, variational inference will always tend to model the mean or mode of the data.
Yeah I'm not talking about chatbot style support, but real live chat support. They have it on the web UI, it would be nice to have in the app again. But I'd settle for a contact form in the app like they used to have.
> solar potential

If I recall there's too much dust in Saudi Arabia for the solar panels to be any useful (and not enough rain to remove it). Here is some article on the subject: http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2013/ph240/alshakhs2/. Nuclear would make more sense there.
You are repeating what is in the article.
Not only that, but some of these are terrifying:

https://i.imgur.com/uRenwqm.png
Incredibly Strange Programming Languages
Not sure why you are downvoted. I fully agree with your complaint.

The site loads slowly even on a decent internet connection - without any good reason.

I'll probably never get why people are constantly struggling to get serving static text (with a few images) right.
You apply a multimeter on resistance mode. Generally if the cap grows in resistance it's good, if resistance goes down or stays steady it's bad.
Alternatively it could cross-reference posts with Reddit and see what subreddit they’re posted in and filter based on that.
Technical Debt – How to Use It in Your Favor
There is http://n-gate.com/ if one wants a week's worth top stories with a bit of commentary.
Sure.

I just had the impression DOTA was made by some guy who wanted to make something like DOTA and Fortnite was made by some people who wanted to make some mix of L4D and Minecraft, but pivoted to doing something like PUBG instead.
Look, my parents were interested in environmental issues like pollution in the 1960s. They demonstrated against racism.

These are not new issues.

But still, if somebody writes an essay saying that we are polluting the earth and that racism is a pervasive, structural force woven into the very fabric of our society, let's support them.

Sure, they're only now realizing what some or perhaps many people have known for literally half a century, but every person coming to that realization is another element of resistence against malevolence.

No, it's not a stunning revelation for you or I that FB is a digital cancer. But yet... Every voice saying this is a lamp, regardless of how late it came to light.
I'm Croatia based I've been using revolut for a year now. My only complaint with all these "new banks" is: none of them supports Apple Pay.

Maybe now that N26 is going to become a real bank supporting Apple Pay will become a possibility?
And that goes to show that I haven't really understood them. I won't ask for an explanation because most probably I won't understand them anyways :)
Are you unable to ask those people for alternative contact information?
Δεν του σηκώνεται; Δείτε τι πρέπει και τι δεν πρέπει να κάνετε; -
How old are you? I am asking because I remember full well the pre-facebook days when people would send around 'funny videos' to groups of friends, with no chance of opting out, getting your email address shared with people you don't know, filling your inbox with crap, etc... Something like FB is hundreds times more convenient
Their security check captcha doesn’t load for me.
React Native – A look inside how it works
My favourite single Wodehouse sentence, on the subject of Psmith's sudden realisation:

"For there was no doubt in his mind that in a world congested to overflowing with girls Eve Halliday stood entirely alone."
Were Sierra Leone’s Blockchain-Based Election a Fake?
Dropbox’s IPO is oversubscribed
There was an interesting CCC talk about N26 security in 2016

https://disruptive.asia/researcher-n26-security-gaps/

Their security seemed a bit lax back then
Ask HN: How Would You Build an Ethical Facebook Replacement?
If the Cambridge Analytica/Facebook incident[0] is an example of Facebook's negative affect on society it doesn't appear too far removed from its standard business model. However, With over 2 billion users worldwide, Facebook clearly provides a very useful service. I understand that Facebook being replaced by an ethical competitor is tremendously unlikely, that said, how would you do it?

How would you build a Facebook replacement without a Faustian deal with surveillance capital?

- Wikipedia: has built humanity's largest encyclopedia without it

- signal: has built a whatsapp clone without it

- mastadon: has built a twitter clone without it

- peer 2 peer: has solved many distribution and scale problems

- federation: has solved many single points of failure problems

- GNU & FOSS: has provided many thoughtful approaches to similar problems

I would love to try and keep this discussion positive and fairly technical.

Please don't just:

- list all the obvious obstacles

- point out that this will never happen

- get stuck too deeply in the 'what is ethical?' conversation.

Technically, how would you approach solving this problem.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/mar/17/facebook-cambridge-analytica-kogan-data-algorithm
I use N26 as my main bank, but there have been some annoyances/stupid bugs. For example, when I tried to make a transfer and used Greek in the description, the app got in a very weird crashy loop. The website's login screen looked weird on Firefox, the UX is odd (it requires you to confirm a transfer four times), and it takes them forever to fix these things.

Other than that, I really like them, and they're very innovative for a bank, but that's a very low bar. Hopefully they'll step up their game with this funding. Revolut, by comparison, is much more usable, although there are things I don't like there as well.
Cool thanks! I presumed that it didn't meet some sort of criteria that was being discussed here. I just wanted to make sure there were no issues with the service itself per se.
> to reduce consciousness to behavior and dispositions to behavior is to eliminate it. To say that consciousness is really nothing more than (dispositions to) behavior is to say that it doesn’t exist

I beg to differ. Consciousness is a vague, "suitcase word". It is close to intuition, but resists being put into words or being explained in a scientific framework. But what is concrete and observable is behaviour, environment and reward signals. They are the basis of the constant environment-adaptation (homeostasis) that we call consciousness.

I would not deny consciousness, just put it aside as a vague concept and replace it with Reinforcement learning. RL has had great results in AI recently (AlphaGo) and can explain everything including qualia. In my view, qualia is the evaluation of the current state with regard to future rewards (how good a state is for the agent). Qualia is necessary in order to select appropriate actions depending on the situation. It's not just a "what it feels like" first person thing.

My critique to those who support the views of this article is that the concepts of "qualia" and "consciousness" are stuck and lead to no progress. It has been 2000 years since philosophy has been grappling with this problem using introspection and pure thinking. We need to go back to the data and observe environment, actions, values and rewards. These concepts are much better, they are concrete and implementable in software. They are much better intuition pumps that explain human, animal and AI behaviour. I think trying to create a separation between behaviour and consciousness is a wrong path to take.

RL puts much more emphasis on the role of the environment in the development of concepts and intelligence. The environment is often overlooked by philosophers who look for neural correlates of consciousness in the brain. In fact the brain is a distillation of the environment, a model that depends a lot on the input data it learns from. Consciousness cannot be understood outside of its environment, it makes no sense outside, it's always consciousness of something, not consciousness in itself. In the end, it's all a game of life and death, a game of self replication and competition played by consciousness, the genes and the memes.

What philosophers need, in my opinion, is to take a look at RL, deep learning, game theory and complexity theory. They explain how everything comes together in a more rigorous and parsimonious way.
DNA in bones. Not actually etched in bone - like writing or artwork. Title should be "David Reich hopes to Unearth Human History in DNA".

Check this video from National Geographic (dated 2015) "DNA Genesis - The Children Of Adam - National Geographic Documentary Films - Full HD Documentaries" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XWaRZf1A-Y
It makes sense because Cloud is very expensive. You should try to
Dev/Test/Qa in a cheap cloud. Usually they are very stable.

Then, with your CI/CD pipelines you should use a more stable and
potentially more expensive cloud for PROD or a live environment. Your
branch should be in always ready to deploy in the live environment.

If you already layer your startup to easily move from 1 cloud to
another, then your startup should instantly benefit from the cheap cost
to develop and stability for your clients. Also, at a later point you
will be already ready to use multiclouds in the live environment.
Perfect timing. Author if you’re reading this thanks for sharing/porting this, was just on github looking for a solution yesterday.
The thing is - and I don’t know how this is in India - cards often have rewards programs funded off that 3%, and you don’t usually get a discount for paying in cash. So if you pay in cash or “cheaper” payment options, you’re actually just paying more money to the supermarket than if you used a card and got some of that 3% back.
Kubernetes Operations (kops) Part 5: Accessing Kubernetes Cluster
+1

Some things are impossible to solve by independant actors. Imagine trying to boycott cars in the 1940s because they were manifestly unsafe, or in the 1950s because they polluted the world with lead.

Only legislation changed these things... albeit not enough. Same for workplace safety, child labour, and so on.

Some systemic problems require systemic solutions.
This is one of those 'soooo obvious but untrue' statements

I use it to keep in touch with far away or unimportant people. Second degree aunts, ex schoolmates, etc. Without FB it's a nightmare keeping in touch the few times I want to (people change email addresses all the time). Also, many groups are useful
The profits generated from Google's business belongs to the shareholders ( owners ) of the company. If the money can be used to defend the business ( Android, Chrome etc ) it can be - and should be - reinvested. Is self-driving cars related to search ? You could argue that it defends the brand. But otherwise, the money should be paid out as a divident and the cash thus obtained by Google's management ( Larry and Sergey still hold a lot of Google stock ) can be used to fund these type of projects. Other shareholders who do not believe in such projects can invest their dividents in businesses they believe in
The power consumption of computing the kalman filter is negligible compared to the power consumption of the gps module.

I thought that ios and android did this already for a long time.