skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let us please remember that these incidents are not specific to Facebook, rather they are systemic to the big five.

A couple of years or more I was posting on Facebook regarding Cambridge Analytica's practices and was considered a tin foil hat and crazy.

No the reason I was able to shed some light at the time was I knew exactly how we could utilize the Facebook API back then to elicit the kind of data we are talking about, and completely legally. Nobody needed to circumvent FB API policies, it was yours for the taking.

I didn't do it although I did put together multiple PoC's from 2011 to 2014 to see what was possible and it was bad.

Another thing we should remember is that Cambridge Analytica is just one small tip of a fractal iceberg whose body is Facebook and the big five, your internet connection and certainly your smartphone themselves.

Google, Apple and Amazon are no less culpable in this regard.

The question now becomes which side of history we want to be on.

Another question is we assume we want to take our privacy back and how we do that with consent and assurance.

I don't have a Facebook account anymore but I'm still tracked as we all are. My mother doesn't like me not being there but a small price to pay. I can contact her elsewhere and do.

Surely enough is enough?

I think it is time to look for broad scale technologies that are better both in the real world and in our private world.
Everyone who ever googled a name should realise that.
You don’t see how Facebook could prevent exploitation? After 2014, they restricted access to friends data after CA first blew up. But they knew in 2012, the Obama campaign had similarly abused TOS to harvest friend data and to perform analaysis and cross-referencing with (such as identifying friends who are also on campaign donor lists).

Saying that people could just write a web scraper anyway is a bullshit rationalization. The technical barrier is high enough that it would make it an extremely costly option, certainly more costly than all the other data sources that campaigns traditionally use.

FB may not have outright committed evil, but they sure didn’t seem to prioritize safety for their users. And that’s enough on which to consider judging them accordingly.
I don't think that extends as far as expecting a company that was in some sense the victim to welcome them with open arms.
We'll see.

If I had to bet, it will not be the case that we'll see some big exile of users as a result of having to click through an additional "Agree and Continue" dialogue to get to what they were going to do anyway. The GDPR will do a lot more to appear to be doing things right than actually benefiting users.
This is a phase 1 trial (usually just undertaken to check safety before larger trials are done to test efficacy and dose), so it seems all the more amazing that such a big improvement was seen.
More like protect blue collar factory workers who voted for him for his very reason. These same people used to be the democratic base a few decades ago.
Do I have to pay to play the lottery? If that case, it's practically equivalent to a ticket price of (lottery price)*(probability of winning), so you haven't really solved anything, the scalpers will buy many lottery tickets. Double more so if the lottery is free, then the price becomes expressed as the grinding of multiple identities, straw buyers, etc. into fooling the system to give them more chances; scalpers are even better positioned to game a free lottery since they have the economies of scale to produce a very large number of straw identities.

Any friction you introduce other than "being a fan" is just a convoluted way to hide the real market prices, and that's exactly the margin where scalpers operate. As for "being a fan", it's very hard to quantify and operationalize.
I think what you're talking about here is static types getting in your way, not just types getting in your way.

Strong/weak types and dynamic/static types are really two different spectrums. People conflate strong types with static types and weak types with dynamic types, but they aren't really the same thing.

Static/dynamic just has to do with whether the types are checked at compile time or run time. Examples: Static: C, Haskell. Dynamic: Javascript, Python.

Weak/strong has to do with what kinds of checks the type system does. A strong type system is capable of checking a lot of different things for you. Static types are often stronger, but not always: for example, C is statically typed but its type system checks hardly anything: int* + int is perfectly valid. A list of programming languages from weakest-typed to strongest-typed might look something like: JavaScript, C, C++, Common Lisp, Perl, Scheme, Ruby, Python, Java, C#, OCaml, Haskell.

Static types are nice for projects which will grow large and where bugs are a big problem, but I think for the average HN person, static types aren't really necessary.

Strong types, on the other hand, are extremely useful. Even in a dynamically typed language, they aid in debugging a lot, because type errors occur much closer to where they're caused. In Python, for example, `"foo" + 42` immediately fails. But in JavaScript, you don't get an error until much later, perhaps when your webpage is mysteriously displaying "foo42".

Of course, there's a small cost to strong types: in the case where I actually do want to append a number to a string, I have to do `"foo" + str(42)`. But I think people tend to overstate this cost because it's visible. But if you look at the big picture, typing five extra characters takes a lot less time than debugging almost anything.
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>> you might bend a gas piston

Tubes on low- to mid- range civilian DE guns can burn out very quickly, and are in fact designed to do so long before you get damage to the more expensive parts of the gun - I've seen it happen in most of the cases (which are admittedly quite few in number despite how often I'm there) where I've seen someone using a bump stock at a range. In the most recent case I think the guy was on his 3rd mag and it ruptured. It was a M&P 15 Sport II, if I recall. Not a cheap no-name brand, but about as low-cost as you can get and missing all the upgrades in the version they market to cops. High-end ARs would fair better, I'd expect, but high-end ARs are again so rarely used for actual violence because they're usually only purchased by people shooting for a serious hobby in stable life situations. And honestly I feel the same people buying those probably feel bump stocks are tacky and gaudy like I do.

Even in the most liberal interpretation of the proposed law, I don't think any bump stock ban would become a semi-auto ban. I could see the vague language getting applied to after-market triggers, especially ones like Franklin Armory, but you've gotta have some added device for any of the proposals I've seen to even remotely apply.
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Another interesting one gone: Aurochs, larger ancestors of domestic cattle, died out in 1627. They were famous in Greek myths and used in Roman arenas. Elasmotherium, a sort of furry rhino, died out about 10,000 years ago, and could have inspired tales of Unicorns or other mythical beasts. Aepyornis - The Elephant Bird (9.8ft tall, 880lbs) died out in the 11th century, and Dromornis was even taller. Quagga, a subspecies of Zebra, went extinct in the 19th century.

Many animals may have been spared extinction by humans due to the fact that the western world thought they were myths, until late in the second millennium AD when furthering exploration brought back evidence of their existence. Among them: tigers, komodo dragons, giant squid, giraffe, pandas, gorillas.
>The big difference typically being that most of today's nativist right wing parties tend to work within the democratic systems instead of advocating takeover of government

Both the Nazis and the Italian fascists worked within their respective democratic systems in the beginning.
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They are Trump's way of not having every industry hollowed out so we are only a nation of consumers. What country survives (or is stupid enough to) give up its IP on a monumental scale and survive?
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I have a feeling they really mean Spinoza's God (like Einstein), but this use of 'God' causes confusion for a lot of readers. Some readers might think they are referring to the God of the Bible or Koran.
It's... not? It's 9.87. If you throw a dart at the number line, the average distance it will be from the nearest integer is 0.25. The distance from pi^2 to 10 is 0.13. That's below average, but in the second quintile. There's nothing special about 10, other than it happens to be the number of fingers on two human hands.

However, deriving approximations for pi from the Basel series is sort of interesting. Except summing the Basel series requires at a bare minimum the theory of Taylor series, so it is not an accessible theorem for a primitive geometer.
> HIPAA data is accessed by researchers, sometimes anonymized, but not in all cases. These are not considered breaches. In addition, as others indicate, FB posts are not, at least at this time, protected data.

In order to receive data protected under HIPAA by a covered entity, you have to go through an extraordinarily elaborate and complex legal process. In addition to signing an agreement that (in effect) binds you to all of the same restrictions on the data that the original covered entity (e.g. hospital/insurer) was, if you're accessing the data for research purposes, you'll have to go through an institutional review of your intended purpose and methods for the research.

Facebook does none of these, which is why they have been (rightfully) criticized for conducting unbelivably unethical studies[0] without either user consent or institutional approval, even though both of those are typically required by all reputable universities and publishers for research.

Facebook posts are not protected under HIPAA, but they're not entirely unprotected either, and it's totally valid to refer to that breach of responsibility and trust as a breach.

[0] e.g. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/07/0...
They have a reputation of buying expensive cars and driving them recklessly with impunity.
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CA's CEO is on the record specifically talking about setting up "encounters" with attractive women and/or offering bribes to "influence" politicians.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/mar/19/cambridge-an...

FB might not reasonably be expected to know about this, but the company still turned a blind eye to CA's abuse of user data - which seems a strange thing to do when this kind of abuse is illegal in many jurisdictions.

My suspicion has always been that FB's primary purpose comes from the political value of data harvesting, user monitoring, and voter influence. IMO there's always been a shadiness about the way FB operates, and it's certainly not a company I would trust with any non-trivial personal details.
The name and address data isn't anything unique. There's probably multiple companies with better address data than Facebook has. And the national party organizations have pretty much complete voter rolls with addresses.

The unique data is the friend graph and the likes, which they can use to (quite effectively) predict political attitudes.
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I agree. I find https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/03/suspending-cambridge-an... accurate about facts.

On the other hand, in Facebook's own words, "In 2015, we learned that a psychology professor at the University of Cambridge named Dr. Aleksandr Kogan lied to us and violated our Platform Policies". If Facebook learned this in 2015, why are they suspending violators in 2018? That part is blameworthy. But I agree the primary blame lies at Kogan, CA, SCL, etc.
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Ray Dailio's new book Principles deals a lot with this sort of idea. He is a huge fan of creating formulas to assist with prediction. Also, writing down problems and your solution to that problem so that you can go back and see if your solution was effective, and if not, what went wrong and what you can change to get the desired result.
I mean there has to be an non-dilapidated Toy 'R' Us location somewhere right?
Many times programmers do not even know that their language contains something akin or better than VB's `with` statement. For example, in Ruby `instance_eval` or the even more powerful `instance_exec` could be a drop in replacement for half the stupid fluent interface libraries out there.

The one exception I'll make is query builders like ActiveRecord, as the submitted post mentions. It's hard to figure out how else you can dynamically pass `User.where(age > 18)` to a controller that has the filter to only include men and to paginate by 10 records at a time. I'm not saying it's not possible, it just seems like the one case where the fluent interface is worth the pain it brings. Even so, I really hate them even if I love Rails. Also, scopes are so brittle I avoid them whenever possible. They seem clean and elegant at first, but they're hard to combine and that combining is really only needed as the application gets more and more complicated.
Did you know Chrome has a FaceDetector API?
2006 - AOL search data scandal [1]

>The release was intentional and intended for research purposes;

Sounds pretty damn close to this event with Facebook

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_search_data_leak
Are there any liability laws that hold those in the chain of custody accountable for third party misuse? Seems like it is an obvious burden of responsibility.
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1. It's free or being very close to being free. Some European banks charge a quarterly fee unless there is minimum amount of Euros in the account.

2. The partner app you get is easy to use and offers full transparency about how many Euros in the account at that moment in time. This is stark contrast to some Irish banks who can't even give you a Bank statement on your account even if you walk in to the branch that holds your account. Which in this day and age is tantamount to being ridiculous.

3. The cards do look very nice.

4. The on boarding process is smooth and quick. Again in stark contras to some other banks who seem to want to stop you creating an account.
Just what my partner was told when they were caught speeding and offered a course in how to avoid speeding instead of getting points on her licence.
15 hour days for 6 months? Nope, fuck you.

Not only are you doing worse work than you normally would at a sustainable rate but you're also putting tons of pressure on people's home life. I saw 3 divorces at my second studio from people working hours along those lines.

If you really think that's sustainable then you have no place in this or any other tech industry. We aren't in emergency service or work in an environment where lives are on the line. Those hours have no place here.
I think this would get much better responses if the title was something like "You can use the zeta function to get an upper bound for Pi".

Here's a more interesting result with the same flavour:
https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/4544/why-is-e-pi-sq...
One issue is that the older version of the graph API permitted third party apps to access your full friends list and data your friends had shared. So I post photos and statuses, and those aren't just visible to my friends but also to third party apps my friends are using.
“Higher privacy setting” is kind of meaningless when Facebook seemingly goes out of its way to make the settings page hard to use. You pretty much need a PhD at this point to understand what all the toggles do, and even then it’s not enough because they automatically opt you in to any new feature. I remember at some point in the beginning when they kept resetting all my privacy settings because they refactored their features but didn’t preserve my old privacy setting... I just gave up at that point and stopped bothering.
The reports have been so vague as to what Cambridge Analytica did its hard to know what they have or how they used it.

I feel like the political climate is so energized right now that everyone is freaking out instead of waiting for details and specifics. Facebook seems to be taking this very seriously and, generally speaking, I've always been impressed with Zuckerburgs ability to be introspective and make changes instead of digging in his heels.

I'll give them the benefit of the doubt for the moment while all this shakes out.
Why is Pi*10^7 seconds so close to one year?
I picked up a Ledger in a raffle at a meetup a few months ago, and it's just been sitting around ever since because I was concerned about this kind of risk. It's a bit of a shame... Can't ethically sell it for the same reason. Fortunately, I was recently able to use it to introduce a curious friend of mine to Ethereum, using small amounts, so there's been at least some benefit.
What constitutes that reputation if not the views of “individual users” determining the fate of the platform?

I think you’re selling poeple short, and in the face of evidence contrary to your claims.
Webassembly can’t access the DOM. What?
And with Peter Thiel being a Trump supporter, even giving a speech on stage at the RNC in praise of Trump, it would be crazy to think that Palantir's involvement isn't of similar (if not much greater) scale as Cambridge Analytica.

Palantir, in my guess, is probably like CA on steroids.
AWS is not blocked but there are some inexplicable restrictions. Even with full licensing, you can't host a website on S3. And a ton of services are missing. Even SES which per the usual makes no sense. Welcome to the jungle.
Out of interest, is there any evidence that Apple are collating data and making it available to 3rd parties in the same way as Facebook? They like to position themselves as more caring of the user’s privacy than the rest, but I’d definitely like to know more about any problems.
I like the "pipeable operators" approach that RxJS takes in order to prevent this. Each instance of an Observable has a ".pipe" method which can transform the observable stream in some way and returns an Observable (https://github.com/ReactiveX/rxjs/blob/master/doc/pipeable-o...).

It would also be nice to have an operator like the proposed "pipeline" operator, à la F# (https://github.com/tc39/proposal-pipeline-operator).
The reviews on Glassdoor show that the actual culture at Twitch is closer to what you described.
"seems remarkably non-profound."

I'd point out the linked article doesn't particularly claim otherwise. It just provides a slightly deeper explanation but doesn't claim it's an explanation of anything particularly meaningful.

In other news, if you'd like to see the Golden Ratio strut its stuff in a context not related to the supposed aesthetics of the ratio, this relatively recent (and relatively in-depth, for the channel) video and linked proof may be interesting to you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtNWzlfEQgY You'll seriously be asking "what was jerf talking about?" for like a third of the proof video before foom in comes phi, and it takes quite a bit of abuse before the end.
> I'm guessing you're not american? Their attitudes towards tips are different than, for example, those in continental Europe.

It's not attitude, they do underpay certain people. But at the same time various US pizza places do include a service or delivery fee which still doesn't go to the driver. As a result you might pay a delivery fee which is isn't a delivery fee.

In a restaurant if they don't get tipped enough the restaurant has to make up the difference / pay them minimum wage (though this rule to differ per state). So not paying still should result in minimum wage.

From what I understood in US it's rather arbitrary whom you pay extra and which persons you do not (e.g. even pay extra to get a haircut). Once you travel more you'll notice these rules are rather arbitrary (custom in one country, totally unexpected in another). For restaurants I often don't go back to the same place twice so I don't see the point of randomly paying more. As result I'm trying to stop doing that (it feels impolite, this despite me sometimes being unique in adding giving a tip). Paying by bankcard helps to avoid tipping.

Going back to pizza delivery, in my country (not US) the delivery fee is often included in the pizza. This is done by offering a pretty huge discount for picking up a pizza.
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Why Pi^2 is so close to g, gravitational acceleration on the Earths surface?
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Oh.. for a moment I almost thought they actually cared about equal education for everyone.
The first sentence from your link: "A data breach is the intentional or unintentional release of secure or private/confidential information to an untrusted environment."

Sounds like exactly what happened with CA and FB. People came for friends and fun personality tests, their information got into the hands of a propaganda machine. Definitely a breach.

As for the examples, do you want me to edit the Wikipedia article and add the CA/FB incident?