skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Newsflash: software has bugs and does not always meet expectations. See Microsoft's Cortana...The "driverless" fanatics are following in the footsteps of Don Quixote to expect their (and only their) software to be perfect and anticipate every eventuality and corner case in the real world...Driveless cars, Crypto, Juicero, Raw Water, Theranos, advertising funded products (Facebook, Google search) lead me to believe that Tech and SV are in a giant bubble...which will inevitably burst when reality does not meet expectations. I am almost certain the next recession will be triggered by a tech collapse. There has been massive overinvestment in Quixotic projects.
"In 2012, the Obama campaign encouraged supporters to download an Obama 2012 Facebook app that, when activated, let the campaign collect Facebook data both on users and their friends." [0]

The only real difference between what was done here and then was how it was represented to the users.

[0]: https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/facebook-data-...
Yeah, I think that works. Honestly, one of the 'surprises' of American adulthood was finding out how many different categories of folks are expecting a tip. I would much rather have prices up front - whether it's someone doing a job or taxes (like a VAT) be included with prices so you actually know what to expect to pay.
So, you retired at 45?
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Honeypot?
Yeah, and that's exactly how I ended up in my situation. I was pulled off of one top-priority project to another, magically higher, top-priority project because a so-called senior engineer wrote some checks he couldn't cash.
I'm not a loner, but I did find that it wasn't that hard to adjust to not having FB. One imagines all the things you'll miss out on by not having it, but honestly, you don't need to see what the deepest crevices of your social network are up to.

People you're actually close to matter 100x more, and you're going to stay in touch with those people regardless.
> cutting out sugar completely is probably the first and easiest place to start

This would represent a radical and complete change in diet in me and probably many other people. Since it would mean having to change from most cheap preprepared versions of common foods such as pasta sauce, like you mentioned, and even regular store-bought bread. These foods would either more considerably more expensive or time-intensive versions that don't include sugar, or replacing them with completely unlike foods.

It's in no way an "easy" change, and involves so much alteration that I doubt the significance of the "no sugar" component matters as much as the other collateral changes.
Ah ha, thanks! I must admit that I always skip the guided tours where possible so I might have missed out on that info while actually there.
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I think what happened is that the lady saw the car, and started crossing any way in expectation that the car ll slow down, as a human driver would have. But the car didn't and hit her at full force..
I don't get it either. Email has always worked just fine for me to stay in touch with friends and family.

I have a Facebook account that I set up for some service that needed it for a login. But I've never used it beyond that.
More or less, yeah. Also the height - most of the impact ends up getting absorbed by the bus's undercarriage, and relatively little of it is transferred to the occupants.

Supposedly un-belted bus occupants are safer than belted car occupants, and may even be safer than belted bus occupants, because seat belts tend to cause spinal injuries. Which is why very few school districts opt to install seat belts in their buses.
People got so comfortable with ease of being able to reach anyone anywhere and in one place of all places that they have been conditioned to give up all privacy. Today's environment is a heaven for law enforcement agencies, marketing agencies and cybercriminals. It's too easy to manipulate, build profiles and do just about anything with anyone you'd like to Target. One could argue that while technology improves various aspects of our lives it also dumbs us down to the point of being totally numb to sanity.
Me personally? Just the people.

Friends seem to like 'rich chat' stuff like gifs and stickers and all that crap.

Voice/video chat would be a bonus too.
> Personally I've noticed a correlation between the pushing of "team culture" and toxic environments like this. The most egregious example of this was when it was suggested that I work unpaid on the weekend to "complete the sprint work as a TEAM."

The military has known for a very long time that [group] loyalty is absolutely necessary to get people to do things that they wouldn't normally do (for better or for worse), whether it's working extra hard, putting in more hours than usual, treating other groups as enemies, or even, yes, killing other people. The Stanford Prison experiment was a pretty good example of this in a bad way.

This quote from Australian Defense Corps training also shows an understanding of this principle: "Willingness to apply lethal force requires . . . sufficient bonding within the team to override each individual’s natural human resistance to kill. The toughness and bonding required increases the closer the contact with the enemy." [1]

So I wouldn't be surprised if team building exercises etc. were encouraged not only because of the actual productive results, but also because it's at least implicitly known to raise the boundaries of what individuals are willing to do.

[1] McGurk; et al. (2006). 'Joining the ranks: The role of indoctrination in transforming civilians to service members', (in 'Military life: The psychology of serving in peace and combat [vol. 2]'). Westport: Praeger Security International. -- snagged from Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/853218/in_bo...

Edit: Even being aware of these kinds of tactics doesn't do much to help as the tactics (and stress and lack of sleep) themselves wear down your resistance to them and affect your ability to make decent decisions.
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This is to be expected. Ludicrousness is in the Zeitgeist.
So again, you attempt to hand-wave reasons why people would vote for Donald Trump.
Nah, it's just hypocrisy.

All candidates take such data from social media, and have done for the last 2 elections at least, but, Trump being not that popular with the Republican establishment/deep state either (him coming from outside to steal the party's favorites thunder and not 100% controllable by the party bureaucracy) only one side has enough media stronghold to hammer the other side 24/7. The other can at best spew its own BS on FOX.
> In California, adult ticks carry Lyme bacteria less often than nymphs because of a biological quirk in the region. Ticks that carry Lyme bacteria and feed on the western fence lizard lose their infection in the process. The lizard's blood actually clears the infection, said Andrea Swei, who studies ticks and disease transmission at San Francisco State University.

That’s a new one for me. Any idea why the lizard blood cleans out the ticks?
The election was won by a very slim margin. The core of Trump's support may have been with him regardless but they weren't enough to win. It's the actions on the margin that matter here.

Also, as other's have pointed out, there are a lot of other problems with social media in general and Facebook in particular. Russian meddling in the election is the spark that is lighting the fire but the fuel was already there. (That last sentence optimistic to an extent that might not be warranted).
The online world as of a decade ago.

I'm finding this rather interesting from both a "where are they now" and "where are we now" perspective.

It's also a bit of a counterpoint to the Schadenfreude of the past several days.
I was curious whether there was any advantage to being a 15-year-old in this case, so I did a bit of research.

As a minor in the UK, he's not capable of entering into a commercial contract, so he could void the contract at any point before the age of 18. Normally when a contract is voided, the parties are returned to their prior state. But, it seems that the doctrine of restitution makes an exception for people incapable of contracting. They are not required to return benefits received under the voided contract.

I am not a lawyer, but I think he could have signed the contract, published his piece, and kept his money even if it was against the terms of the contract.
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It's true that many companies come back from scandal but it really depends on the impact to the bottom line. Chipotle had tremendous negative press years ago from food poisoning issues and hasn't recovered since. Even though the number of instances are in the single digits compared to millions of burritos served on a monthly basis.

With social media boycott campaigns it's hard to separate the noise from impact on the bottom line but with recent stories of Uber and what was occurring behind the scenes, the #DeleteUber campaign actually did have a negative impact on the bottomline that was felt and was definitely a huge driver for the board moving to remove Travis which is underreported as everyone instead focuses on the drama that occurred as that sells as a better story from the press side.

With Facebook it will really be about how many people truly delete Facebook.

The difference of course is that every Uber user was generating significantly more revenue on average than the avg Facebook user, so the number of users that delete Facebook would have to be much more significant.

Also interesting, is what is the global response. Is this localized to the US, are many people globally doing the same thing?

If it doesn't impact the bottom line through a massive amount of users deleting, then the stock will bounce back well before the next quarterly earnings report.
I wonder if the news media's reaction to Facebook explains Google's $300m effort to save online news.

$300m buys a lot of good will, and maybe some favirbale coverage.
It's all speculation until we get a release of the actual video footage from the car. This is ridiculous. The NTSB/police need to release the actual footage to dispel speculation. We have actual evidence of exactly what happened and yet no one outside of the investigators and Uber can see it.
SMS is what everyone abandoned for messenger. Signal looks like a winner though.
This is a hard conversation to balance. You were right to state OP added more to the scenario than is known. But people tend to react defensively (which turns into offense often) when they’re personally called on as you did there.

The nonviolent thing to do, I am honk, is to simply describe what is actually known and point out how the accounts differ.

For what it’s worth, none of us were there and it sounds like definitive information is lacking. My hope is for this to be valuable used to ensure safer driving for everyone (autonomous or not).
Sure, legal penalties don't stop people who don't believe in them. But we believe in legal penalties, so we put people in prisons. Even if they don't believe in them.

>then don't expect me to care next time it ends up with someone you didn't want.

You say that until someone gives your information away for you. Then you'll be crying about how unfair it is that nobody else protected you. Possibly from threats you didn't even know existed.
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You weren’t alive for the founding of any of those companies.
Most of this can be worked around by installing Decentraleyes, which replaces common CDN-loaded resources with local copies.
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Close, but not quite: compressed sensing really works in a lot of domains. You "just" have to know of a basis set in which your signal is sparse. This basis set can be (and often is) overcomplete; i.e. you don't need a minimal orthogonal set of basis functions. So if you know that "most pixels of an MRI are black" or "music only has a few non-zero Fourier frequencies", you can apply compressed sensing techniques to recover/reconstruct the underlying signal. This is a fairly mild and merely structural form of a priori side information, as opposed to having to know detailed precise prior distributions or etc.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparse_dictionary_learning and https://arxiv.org/abs/1012.0621 for the gory details.
what you have described is an impossibility. what makes you think uber or waymo or anyone can suddenly make a perfect self-driving system?
Please include citations and an explanation of a bold claim like that. How did the campaign break the law here? Otherwise you're just stoking partisan fires.
Yeah, I've seen a fair bit literate code that is awkwardly structured to satisfy ordering needed by the underlying language. It works better in languages that don't care about the order of declarations, of which there are many, but usually there's something at the top to the effect of "we need to start off with a pile of imports, because compiler."

Haskell will recognize a .lhs extension and do comments by default, using > to prefix lines that are actual code (looks block-quote like).

Frankly I am something of a skeptic of literate programming. In most of the literate source code I've read, the code is clearer than the prose anyway, and having every detail in comments just makes the whys and the high level design harder to find.

My approach is to basically assume the reader is familiar with the language and the key libraries, document the whys, overall design, and the api contracts, and try to pick good variables and write clear code. This is not to say "inline comments are bad," but I find that usually when I find myself writing a lot of comments explaining the details it's because I'm writing a lot of confusing code.
Exactly, he won the election thanks to 80000 votes in three states.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/12/01/do...
Pretty proud to say that at Buffer it's a few minutes. We've written a CLI that sets up team members including getting them a new SSH key to use with github. If you are running the install fresh, you simply use ./dev setup. If you are running some services for the day, ./dev up.

This CLI wraps around docker-compose and does some gnarly stuff using Bash.

We now have multiple services and products and at any given time, a team member could be working on any one of them. So to avoid burning people's computers out we even have the ability to spin up only a subset of services specified.

So ./dev up account session-service <product-name> will get you all the required stuff to work on the product you want to work on for example. This involves a surprising amount of work such as re-configuring config files for our reverseproxy and deciding which repos to actually pull updates for.

We found that with dev environments, it's not just setting up. It's also the continued running of things. Architectures change. Dependencies change. Each of these can break people's dev environments and we try to use the tool to contain as much as possible. We are currently adding some functionality in to diagnose and auto resolve errors such as services not starting up due to node dependencies not being installed for example.

This area excites me a lot, so if you want to chat about it, my email is in my user profile :) . Happy to share the work we've done.
I'm a big fan of Airflow. Used it to replace our "Python script run on a cron" batch ETL process - you have to conform to Airflow's model of DAGs and operators, but it's really good for monitoring a workflow and restarting it from a failed task etc.
I was being rate limited for some reason, so I could not respond earlier, but here is my response:

Think about this regarding not trusting your own lawyer: if the case gets dropped, the attorney makes no more in fees. If that evidence is neutered, it needs to go to trial. Trust no one. I'm a very hard looking guy (hard life but I'm really quite soft) and most people think I'm guilty of everything. Add that I am not white, don't look rich, and it's a recipe for distrust on sight. Even when faced with evidence, I've had people continue to lie as if admitting that I'm innocent would cause a tear in the fabric of the universe.
"Strong bayesian priors" is just another way of saying "high-redundancy signal".
jail != prison
The WWII and Cold War technology arms race (in which Silicon Valley got its start) is intellectually interesting and easily justified by clear existential threats to our civilization, whose emotional content we we weren't around for.

US foreign policy since then has been... murkier. I don't think the Bay Area really has a position on soldiers, so much as it opposes the current and previous few wars.
He basically ran a campaign of "People in Washington suck and I'm going to ruin their day" and that is the one campaign promise he's knocked out of the park. Every time the media gets bent out of shape about something he does, his base feels vindicated.
to my knowledge, no company is even close to even an average driver.
It's only viable if you're comfortable sharing your contact list and metadata with Facebook.
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For some reason whenever negative stories come out about Trump or about Facebook or about some political figurehead in today's environment, people drag themselves out of the woodwork to pull out the tired argument that people are just 'jealous' that Trump won.

Could you explain your justification for trotting such an irrelevant point? We can argue all day that everyone knows that Facebook does all this scary stuff (and the nearly tech-illiterate people I interact with have no clue about this sort of thing while being barely able to use Facebook) but I'm more curious as to where your main point comes from.
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I think the best thing that has come out of the election of Donald Trump is that many people are now excited about the idea of constitutionally limiting the power of the executive branch. That idea seemed to have been forgotten for the past few administrations. Even when I agreed with Obama or Bush, I was very disappointed when they would use innovative methods to single-handedly override the will of congress or the judiciary.
Absolutely. Trump got the true American feelings in every issue out which have been suppressed for far too long. The media will move on to the next Trump tweet tomorrow and face book will regain lost value in a week.
My problem with this argument is that I cannot surf the web without being tracked even if I have chosen not to use their platform. Even if I stopped using the web completely, their platform would still gather info about me from anyone else that has my contact info and has decided to share info with the platform.
When I was getting my learners permit I was practicing on a curvy mountain road. I saw a person with a camera phone on the "drop off" side of the road, taking a picture of from what my angle would've been a boring cliff face. But I knew that a camera phone photographer was probably actually photographing a human, who would likely be on the other side of the blind corner. So I slowed down, despite my instructor chastising me for doing so. When we came around and there was a person in the road she asked, "How did you know?" If a self driving vehicle can't make predictions about "irrational" pedestrian behaviour like this and slow down it shouldn't be on the road.
What's ironic is that Trump didn't use CA to win the election. CA was used a bit in the primaries but after that the campaign only solicited a bid as a hedge in case the RNC didn't share its data. CA wasn't used for the general election.

On the other hand, the Obama campaign used sneaky Terms and Conditions to suck up friend lists and create a national social graph for the sole purpose of winning the General Election.
Serious question, the US constantly states what side of a vote some lame senator or rep is on, but you never here anything about who is the makeup of the electoral college in msm - what their tax returns look like and who is paying them off. Why?

So, have one electoral college rep release their finances, and then you know the true state of politics
The modern approach to consent in these things arguably immoral, and indisputably awful.

Most adults simply don't have the ability to understand the dense legalese that these contracts are written in, so they don't. Asking people to take an hour or two to properly read and digest it just to sign up for a website is ridiculous, and expecting them to actually do so is like something out of a Terry Gilliam movie.
I concur. The purpose of Snowden’s leaks was to educate the masses that mass surveillance is a thing, and privacy should be taken seriously. He did not suggest the government was breaking the law, just that the law permitted surveillance on a scale that the average person probably wasn’t aware of.

As a result, we gained things like GDPR, which will revolutionize privacy worldwide because of its extra-jurisdictional effects. And think about how much more SSL is happening now. Http:// is mostly gone. We have letsencrypt. Google is encrypting all traffic between datacenters. Etc...

But no, Snowden did not reveal anything suggesting widespread illegal surveillance of Americans.
This could just as easily mean that children simply don't see scientists anymore and have no idea what they look like.

For me scientists are certainly far far less visible than they used to be. It's all programmers now.

What would help would be correlating "draw a person", from the same child and seeing if a scientist varies from that.
Not really, I think that for a certain subset of the electorate, voting Trump was highly rational from a game theoretic perspective, and the worse Trump is, the better he serves this purpose. So I don’t need to hand Wave the emotional reasons.
This topic deserves (at least) a top-level "Ask HN".
A handful of restaurants have gone no-tip but I think there's a pretty clear disadvantage to being a first-mover here.
NTSB investigation has begun and it make take a few weeks:

https://twitter.com/NTSB_Newsroom/status/976215176323194880

I do think discussion is warranted because the Tempe Police have gone out of their way to share details and preliminary judgments about the case. Some of these details have been inaccurate, both for and against Uber's favor. But Tempe police officials are already going out of their way to downplay what their chief claimed:

http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/federal-agencies-investi...

> Glover downplayed Moir's statements, saying some were taken "out of context" by the Chronicle. The chief disagrees with the Chronicle's headline, "Tempe police chief says early probe shows no fault by Uber," Glover said.
In terms of law, I think they key is that (presumably) the Obama campaign didn't have direct access to that data. Not a lawyer, but saw enough of the Jon Oliver / Jon Stewart SuperPAC skit to get the general idea that communicating directly with your funding source is a no-no.

In terms of ethics, the key difference is mentioned in your article:

The only difference, as far as we can discern, between the two campaigns' use of Facebook, is that in the case of Obama the users themselves agreed to share their data with the Obama campaign, as well as that of their friends. The users that downloaded the Cambridge app, meanwhile, were only told that the information would be used for academic purposes.

This is big. If a university researcher asks me a few questions and tells me that my answers will be used purely for research purposes, I am much more likely to engage than if a campaigner did the same. It would be unethical for a campaigner to present themselves as an academic in order to get more information.
you can afford a dedicated openbsd system?! i'd have to use a friend's free shell account and hope i don't get klined (again)
That's what I'm wondering.