skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're misunderstanding how propaganda works. Certainly, states lie, and certainly, states commit false flag actions. However, it's much more common that they frame narratives or manipulate news cycles to get their ideas across. In a case like this, where they have no reason to lie, they're almost certainly telling the truth.

It's also far more common that they provoke and propogate skepticism and conspiracy theories, so citizens don't react on information they obtain, since they are skeptical of everything.

The ideal mindset for a propagandaist is not certainty, but rather universal cynicism. Elections are rigged? Maybe. Extra-judicial executions? Sounds probable. Aliens? Who knows?

In a country where the basic values of truth and honesty are undermined, the state will always win - because it has the resources to drown out opposing narratives.
That’s not really “weird” though - it’s can be straightforwardly explained in any number of ways. You can think about it in terms of the circle group and its Lie algebra, in terms of Taylor expansions, etc.

The OP is just not very interesting. Pi^2 isn’t close enough to 10 to trigger my not-a-coincidence detector.

A much cooler problem of this nature is: why are musical notes generated by powers of the 12th root of 2? I remember seeing a good YouTube video about this on one of those math channels.
On the topic of toy stores / toy store innovation, that American Girl doll store is insane. My wife and I went there to buy a doll for our friend's daughter for Christmas and holy hell is that place busy / kinda weird. It's like a Bloomingdale's or something for dolls. Kids can even sign up for "doll spas" and bring their dolls in to have their hair and nails done and stuff. Obviously I don't really get it because I'm not an 8 year old girl, nor do I have any kids but that place must be making a ton of money.
The only reason I can think that the Democrats wouldn't have used the data is because their plan was to rig the election. I say that because other than Seth Rich, the Democrats have no a single shred of ethics at work anyplace. If the Democrats thought murdering old ladies would win them the election, they would murder old ladies. Not that some of the Republicans wouldn't--they are all birds of a feather, after all.

The delicious thing about Trump, and what is becoming more and more clear, is that he is a reformed sociopath, or is trying to be that. I support him only for that reason--if we can't successfully reform our government and eliminate many of the truly awful people in it, then we're headed for a civil war as the next step. Regular Americans can't survive an oligarchy.
This is basically what GDPR is.
What about ... Nafta, Steel tariff, Boeing VS Bomboardier, Trans-Pacific Partnership... all those moves go against neoliberal ideas.
Link for those curious: https://www.amazonaws.cn/en/
Just think of all the children whose whole lives are being put unto Facebook by unthinking parents. They never stood a chance.
I mean that is similar to what they make railway workers in the UK do. Nothing like seeing exactly what happens when it goes wrong to focus the mind
Gold Mining vs. Bitcoin Mining
The variance in productivity.

1. How do I estimate how long something takes?

2. How do I deal with the fact that some developers are an order of magnitude more productive than other devs? For some reason it's not acceptable to pay some devs 10x more, unlike sports stars.

3. When it's normal for an individual to do huge things, it becomes their expected of them. And so people often work a little slower than they can.

4. When you're not getting paid accordingly to your output, is it fair to work as fast as you can?
According to what campaign workers told the NYT, the harvesting of data seems most certainly to have violated FB’s TOS, especially regarding the storing of data for reasons other than caching performance: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16624506

But FB has the right to decide when to enforce TOS or not. It seems they never did so, not just for Obama but for other operators as well. Pretty sure most FB users would be surprised that their data was knowingly analyzed by a third party as thoroughly as the NYT article describes, with FB’s knowledge.
S3 also does eventually consistent multi-region replication (at a premium).
Do what a search engine does: detect a more common form via edit distance and substitute that word.
> Additional stores would give Amazon space to showcase its popular Echo line of devices, which run on the Alexa voice-activated platform.

I'm pretty sure they're not going to buy a big box retailer to jam a bunch of echos into it.
No it won't.

> [] I want to see dancing monkeys and for that, I agree to have all my data shared with unnamed third and fourth parties indefinitely.

See? Everyone clicked that :).
I don't see the connection?
I got a Ledger wallet and was too paranoid to trust its seed generation, so I wrote some code to generate my own seed on an ESP8266 (after a failed attempt at doing the same thing with just a PDF and dice).

Here's the writeup, with code you can audit/try:

https://www.stavros.io/posts/perfectly-secure-bitcoin-wallet...
YouTube's new policies on content featuring firearms
An analogous example would be if the CA/FB breach had access to private facebook messages or information that was never intended for public consumption.

In the CA/FB case the information was either public (and could be scraped as such) or was collected in the form of facebook apps.
I don’t see how this argument makes sense. You can opt out of using Google’s services just the same, if you so choose.
The corpus alone can't be sufficient. The corpus displays associations that are disproportionate for how we want to use it, because corpora are from the past. But the point of ML is to build something that will be used in the future. [1]

There is no objective way to describe this difference between your training set and your test set, because you don't have data from the future. It requires a conscious decision. Enforcing that the future should be like the past is a conscious decision, and it's a lazy and unfortunate one.

This is just one instance of a problem that ML is already quite familiar with, and has been since "ML" was called "statistics": observed data produces a biased estimator of the actual distribution. You always have to correct your objectively-measured distributions for what you can't measure objectively. Here I mean "biased" in the mathematical sense; when it comes to human biases encoded in word embeddings, it also produces bias in the ethical sense. But there are many simpler instances of this.

For example: a maximum-likelihood language model assigns a probability of 0 to any word it has never seen. Maximum likelihood is, when measured, a better model of the input data than anything else. If you implement this completely objective language model, it would be useless when applied; it would output the impossible probability of 0 for most inputs. Instead you have to "smooth" and "correct" it for the fact that other words exist.

[1] https://twitter.com/random_walker/status/975700725807439879
Apart from practicing deep breathing periodically, you might want try getting a lacrosse ball and using it for deep point massage. I was able to release a lot of tension from my neck and shoulders with one. Also, a theraband was recommended to me by a physio so I could do flys to help pull my shoulders back into proper alignment.

I'd recommend seeing a physio - one did me the world of good and was able to suggest exercises and make me aware of what good posture looked like. I've had to do a lot of core strength work to fix bad habits and now I feel much better.
Serious question no snark:

How does this work? How does UK know who Zuckerberg is? Shouldn't they be dealing with Facebook UK ceo? Zuckerberg is a private US citizen as far as UK is concerned, no?

Edit: stop being smartasses (to the no longer top voted replies). I am asking from a legal perspective. Facebook UK is the only entity UK law should know of (acc to my limited understanding)
Lack of evidence is conspicuous in of itself, although that right now is tin foil hat territory. I'll tell you in a few years.

On the other hand I'd refer you to Bletchley Park.

Turing et al knew the decrypted Enigma messages but the Government were unable to act.

For good reason.

Secrecy is a thing
Is the square root of 163 supposed to be a number I recognize? It looks awfully magical in that equation.
FTA:

Never mind that Erdős doubted God’s very existence. “You don’t have to believe in God, but you should believe in The Book,” Erdős explained to other mathematicians.
This registration office law has finally been changed to opt-in just this year.
What would that accomplish? The entire point of having the SEP wired directly to the fingerprint reader is that fingerprint images never make it to the AP because there's no reason for that. If the SEP is just going to copy every image to the AP why not just have both processors connected to the camera? (which also removes the security surface of any SEP->AP image copying code)
Proxi: a new game from Will Wright
.. or government
> Can't this be mitigated by resetting the device when you first get it?

No, he demonstrates a device going through setup and "generating" a predetermined seed. It's not the easier "your wallet has already been set up for you" attack.
I think this is good advice, not only because it generalizes the problem, but also because it avoids the politicization of the topic re: Cambridge. This shouldn't be viewed as a left vs. right problem.
Would be fun to say something over intercom, then hear hundreds of echos answer back.
Disclosure: I'm the creator of Mooltipass.

When creating the Mooltipass offline password keeper we actually spent a considerable amount of time thinking about solutions for the particular problem explained on this website.

We therefore opted for the following techniques:

- only allow signed firmware updates, signed using an encryption key unique to each device

- given that firmware flashing using external programmers requires complete flash/eeprom erase, we implemented a challenge/response protocol to check for tampering during shipping.

Obviously things are way easier when you don't allow custom firmwares to be flashed on a device. But as a general rule I wouldn't trust a device that would allow other programs to run on it (eg phones, computers...)
This isn’t about FB selling ads. Cambridge Abalytica and the Obama campaign are third-parties
This shouldn't be shocking to anyone. Computers still can't consistently identify a banana when it's the only thing in the picture, despite the fact that a small child could with perfect accuracy.

While the human brain is rather slow on response time, it's pattern recognition is still far superior to even the best algorithms we have today.
Looming regulatory threats will push any stock price down.

And I'm not selling people short. I think the risks are incredibly overstated and the people who appreciate free services (acknowledging some data sharing is happening) are not necessarily just dumb-dumbs being preyed upon.
I fail to see how gun prohibition and the destruction of the rest of our civil rights in the process (e.g. end of due process?) is anything but full-on hard-left playbook. Moving to the center? Only if you are left of Stalin himself.

I think what we are seeing is the age old game--trick the naive into giving up everything in hopes of utopia and then when they are starving and in dire need of security (@see: Venezuela) then shove them all into mass graves. That's your communist history in a nutshell.
The ACM has certainly tried to keep software development a profession, but yes the industry mostly ignores the ACM and still revels in a cult of amateur programming.
You're using 'complex multiplication' in a pretty specialised sense there. This isn't your grandma's (a + ib)*(c + id)
Sure, but starting and stopping takes time, which means she did not "suddenly" run into the street.
It is normal in phase 1 trials involving complicated surgeries.
Despite what Redditors like to say, the big banks have done a surprisingly good job at self regulating since the financial crisis. That said, these regulations will probably lax as people get more confident and comfortable with taking risks.
Given TVs these days, it's also possible the firmware version you have is missing mkv support.
Or as my dad used to say: Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades.
Been there with The Times in the UK; boy they really don't want to make it easy to leave.
Our firewall blocks it for some reason.
Profound or not, these kinds of (near) identities are a lot of fun to explore. Here are some great lists:

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/AlmostInteger.html

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

Some favourites:

- 5 phi e / 7 pi = 1 (to 5dp)

- pi^4 + pi^5 = e^6 (to 4dp)

- e^pi - pi = 20 (to 3dp)

Also, remember that many very profound discoveries come about from noticing fun little oddities.
Gage: Okay - no. You don't think I deserve your attention.

Mark Zuckerberg: I think if your clients want to sit on my shoulders and call themselves tall, they have the right to give it a try - but there's no requirement that I enjoy sitting here listening to people lie. You have part of my attention - you have the minimum amount. The rest of my attention is back at the offices of Facebook, where my colleagues and I are doing things that no one in this room, including and especially your clients, are intellectually or creatively capable of doing.
Cool attack, but the the proposed mitigations don't seem to solve the threat model.

An attacker on the supply chain can always add a part that interposes on all i/o to the secure parts. This would have the same impact, unless I'm missing something, as compromising the insecure micro. The underlying problem is that there's no cryptographically secure path between the secure element and your eyes.

Ledger's verifiable erasure scheme is pretty interesting, actually. I prototyped something similar and ultimately abandoned it due to the high complexity and bandwidth requirements. From the sounds of it the major differences were that ledger didn't attempt to wipe and then reinitialize, but instead just tried to verify know state. Might still be made to work by changing that, although good luck over a uart.
>> would not be improved by adding static typing

Well, that's a matter of opinion, even by long-term Clojure veterans. There is a reason Core.Typed was developed, though it hasn't been maintained recently. The fact that Rich felt the need to give the keynote at the last Clojure conference about the dynamic vs static issue shows that it is still a highly debated topic within the Clojure world.
Remember for a lot of regular internet users, Facebook is almost indistinguishable from "the internet" itself.
Based on my admittedly limited understanding of the UK's particular brand of parliament, the House of Commons is essentially a panel of experts and advisors from various fields and they hold little direct legal authority in and of themselves, but they're supposed to be very influential to the people who do. I interpret this as trying to understand the problem better, not prosecute someone, in which case it's not who's-legally-responsible, but who-gets-Facebooks-DNA-and-vision-for-the-future.
The article is full of speculations like these. It's as if they didn't have enough content but needed to hit certain number of words.
Google News Initiative
Human control is the exact reason why Kudzu is an invasive species.
To be precise, he overwrites the entropy source with zeroes, so that all words (except the last one) of the seed are "abandon". With a non-zero entropy source, you could generate random looking but deterministic seeds.
Yes! And, also, I swear I've seen this method done before. I can't remember the paper. Can anyone help?

Basically, instead of making neural word embeddings, much like you describe, the objects being embedded in a vector space were "hit|noun(1)" "hit|noun(2)" "hit|verb", and so on.

I believe they used WordNet or some ontology, or maybe a POS corpus like Penn Treebank....
Police recruiting white hat hackers to combat cybercrime
6 Secrets for Creating Headlines “You Just Have to Click”
> our argument assumes that Trump has both the knowledge to determine what policies would result in positive net change in the heartland and the power to get then in place.

Also, it assumes that Trump desires a second term or actually believes what he says. As evidenced by his recent schizophrenic behavior on gun control, the biggest threat to "Trumpism" is Trump.
> How does UK know who Zuckerberg is?

...

> Serious question no snark

Uh, sure. Everyone in the UK is dumb as a rock then and never heard of Facebook or Zuckerberg? How do they know who he is? Are you kidding?

Indeed, you have lots of 'snark'.
It's a little easier than getting everyone to sign up, back at the time this app was circulating if you gave it access to your data the app would also gain access to all of your friends' data. That's why a relatively small number of installs allowed it to hoover up huge amounts of data. So even if you were militant about not granting access, but your grandma clicked a button... Whoops!
Yes, but "within what can be represented by the type system" is a fairly large caveat. Type systems often can't represent intent.

int* increment(int* i, int step)
{
return i + step;
}

Is there a bug here? Well, that depends on the intent. Did we really intend to add an int to an int*?

Even Haskell's type system can't tell what you intend:

increment i = i + 11;

Did we really intend to add 11 rather than 1, or is that a typo?

A unit test would clarify the intent of both these functions, and catch both bugs fairly reliably (if they aren't the intended behavior).

Ultimately I think TDD and types guarantee different things, and both are useful/needed.
I live in Germany for almost 3 years now and for the first half I just used EUR account of my Polish bank. I only needed an account here, because I moved to a new apartment. And to sign up for Internet connection available provider needed German bank account number. It's prevalent to pay for all recurring costs with Lastschriftmandat. That's totally alien to me. I prefer just to manually pay it myself with bank transfer. Generally it's a form to fill out, sign and send - then they go to your bank and get paid.

Anyways I tried with two other banks first. One did not answer at all. A second one after 4 weeks or so just answered that they will not open an account for me, with no reason why. With N26 it was really fast and pleasant.

From my Polish bank I have Visa card and at least in Berlin it's not widely accepted. N26 gives Maestro card that is accepted a bit wider. However German EC card is a standard one that will be accepted everywhere where cards are accepted, while it's not the same with Maestro. However there are many many places that require cash. N26 gives 3 free withdrawals. My Polish bank gives me free withdrawals everywhere. That's why I still use it. Even more, in Poland cards are very widely accepted. Lately I could get by with just a phone in my pocket - Android pay is supported.

N26 has quite nice application, but it does not even begin to compare to my Polish bank. In Polish bank when I want to setup a transfer it gives ability to fill out everything based on history. In N26 I have to copy the amount and the message, it's tiresome.

Now I think about account in more traditional bank to get EC card and set up join account with my wife, that's also not possible in N26.
> I find that most people generally obey the speed limit or don't go much faster.

Regional culture definitely plays into this. I grew up in the midwest and almost everybody speeds. Now I live in Seattle and I'm the fast guy in the left lane going 5 MPH over the speed limit.
Well... I guess I didn't need to do much work this morning. Thanks for the links.
How do they know who he is? He's widely known and famous worldwide as the CEO of a multibillion dollar social-media company. Also, does Facebook UK have a CEO? I don't think they are compelling him to speak simply requesting it.
A Go interface type is not an abstract data type. The difference is not even subtle:

(0) An ADT has a single internal representation that is known to the implementor, but hidden from users. The upside is that the ADT implementor can use his knowledge of the representation to optimize on n-ary operations, i.e., operations that act on several instances of the ADT. The downside is that ADTs cannot be extended by third parties. You would have to create a different ADT, even if satisfies the same contract.

(1) A Go interface has a list of methods, but does not proscribe any fixed internal representation. The upside is that anyone can create values of an interface type as long as they can implement the methods. The downside is that it is difficult to implement n-ary operations, because, at any point in the program, the implementor only knows the internal representation of the single value they are currently creating.

In other words, ADTs optimize for efficiency and predictability, whereas interfaces optimize for flexibility and extensibility. As a general rule, ADTs require more time than interfaces to plan ahead their design and implementation, but already implemented ADTs are easier to use correctly than already implemented interfaces.
I mean, only the ones that are GeoIped in Europe, no?
We recently open sourced a library that does exactly this:

https://github.com/plasticityai/magnitude

For word2vec, GloVE, and fastText. It is able to generate vectors for out-of-vocabulary words through "fragments" of words or subword character n-grams rather.
Because these are irrational numbers, they can't be expressed as a product of fractions. Integers are a special type of fractions.
Toys'R'Us was the victim of a leveraged buyout in 2005. The business hasn't been doing all that poorly, just not well enough to pay off all the debt. So capex is taking a backseat to debt servicing. It's a slow-motion train wreck.

The same thing just happened to Clear Channel. The bankruptcies aren't likely to kill off the business, but hand ownership over to the debt holders.
It'll be about as beneficial as the "this site uses cookies" notices or the Vista UAC that everyone just clicked through anyway.
"explained in any number of ways", which involve complex numbers, geometry, trignometry, and calculus, is what makes it profound.
The Obama campaign literally did the exact same thing as CA.

See this thread: https://twitter.com/cld276/status/975564499297226752

Here's Time describing exactly the same tactic of friend-mining and using the data for targeting, and praising it as a game-changer: http://swampland.time.com/2012/11/20/friended-how-the-obama-... ctrl+f privacy -> no results

When we do it it's awesome, when they do it it's a data breach, it's a privacy violation, it's a breach of trust, and it requires government regulation.
Cities are almost always wildly more efficient on a per capita basis than rural regions due to economies of scale.
I remember reading this couple of years ago and I guess the graph was more eloquent than anything else:

http://mattmckeon.com/facebook-privacy/

What's also interesting is to read comments about privacy from 8 years ago...
More interestingly, why is 355/113 so close to Pi?
Absolutely and hits the nail on the head.

We can't be seen to pick on Facebook or CA here since there is a bigger picture.

It's not about picking on anyone, it's about a line being crossed and bringing it back home.

Thank you for your comment.