skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why give it to Google, a company very well equipped to tie those data to personal identities?

Companies already frequently outsource that list with full personal identities to payroll/benefits providers, among others. Sharing it with someone who might potentially tie it back to personal identity is not, comparatively, a big deal.
>Deleting Facebook is privilege. The company has become so good at the many things it does that for lots of people, leaving the service would be a self-harming act.

It's hard to believe this was written with a straight face

>I’ve lost touch with friends. I don’t go out much anymore and don’t know when cool things I might like to go to are happening. I’m pretty much not a part of any scene anymore. I don’t know when old friends are in town I’d love to see.

These people aren't really your friends
Coal is still easy to access in many areas even with just hand tools and can be converted to liquid fuel or used directly for ships / trains. Hydropower and wind power are both easy to access and can scale up to cover modern needs even without coal.

Metal resources are a complex issue. They are arguably much easier to access now as people can just mine old city's.
Reputation! And I don't mean some convoluted algorithmic scoring system.

Most people seem to find out about Mastodon from someone, and that someone suggests the instance they're on. That's why a lot of artists end up on Mastodon.art, for example. So far, the admin has a good reputation for being consistent about updates and keeping the community engaged.

People keep trying to find some technological heuristic to establish trust, like requiring legal names or some kind of scoring system. So far, it's even worse because people encode all their cognitive biases into it and none of the mental models or processes people develop for checking those biases.
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If it's useful for anyone, I made a list of all the ways engineering media can be manipulated (including journalists):

https://github.com/nemild/hacking-engineers

I added this example to it since it's a particularly good example of how marketing/PR uses threats of access and cherry picked demo sessions to get their favored view out.

(Contributions welcome)
I haven't either. My opinion is based on my own anecdotal observations, and news coverage, both of which may be biased.

I do follow fringes of online anarchism and anomie, and I was surprised to see so much support for Trump, when the polls were showing him so far down. And much of that support was so odd that I thought it ironic. But whatever.

I'd like to see such a study, for sure. But I'm not optimistic. Arguably, many who voted for Trump would be no more forthcoming to researchers than they were to those doing the election polling. There's just too much polarization, I suspect.
I am on a plain LineageOs, no play services, apps installed directly via their APKs.

GPS & maps: Google Maps and Open Street Maps both work normally.

IM: Whatsapp, Telegram, Skype work normally (but I suppose they make use of a custom notification system)

Browser: Firefox seems not to care about play services

Media: Vlc, Netflix, MX Player are all fine.
One of the key points of the Z post is that for an app to be able to request permissions from users, the app creator will need to sign a contract and be subject to an audit.

This appears to solve the issue of having wide permissions, but it does not do so. In reality, this is an attempt at transferring facebook's risk to shady app developers, while the overall lifecycle for the app won't change.

In essence, this is a do-nothing from the standpoint of app developers who have requested additional permissions. Any app developer who is told they need to undergo an audit, due to transcribing the entire social network, can simply say no and get their account banned. It will likely have no effect, as the account will almost certainly have already been suspended in such a spot.
Meanwhile, on the Vulkan side: https://gpuopen.com/announcing-real-time-ray-tracing/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9eMciZGN4I
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I had just started my career and hid out in college during most of the bust, so I'm not a great source. I had double the salary when I got out of college in 2005, but there's this huge conflating factor of having a CS degree from a top school and a big volunteer project with 100K users under my belt.

From what I remember happening to coworkers & classmates, though: it was more a crash of employment than of salaries. Basically, the dot-com boom allowed a lot of people who lacked all the fundamentals to become highly-paid tech workers in this VC-fueled machine. When the VC funding dried up, their employers disappeared, they all got laid off, and many people exited tech altogether. I know a number of people who graduated 99/00, and their resume shows 1-2 years at a dot-com, followed by a 3-4 years stretch of temp jobs, usually followed by grad school or a switch into some totally unrelated profession. Their salary never really recovered, because they entered a field that paid much less than the one they exited.

Most people I know who had 5-10 years of experience, a solid track record, and really enjoyed programming for its own sake did fine - in many cases, better than they did before the bubble. Think about it: if you were laid off from a dot-com in 2002 but lucky enough to get hoovered up by Google when they were the only ones hiring, you are almost certainly retired now and probably have a good-size family foundation to give away money. Similarly, I knew one other engineer that got laid off from the dot-com where I worked, ended up doing high-throughput transaction processing for an enterprise storage startup, and made a few million on stock options when they were acquired. The really top-end programmers who had the courage to persist when the industry was cratering - think of Markus Frind of PlentyOfFish, or Joshua Schacter of del.icio.us, or Evan Williams of Blogger, or the YouTube guys - ended up doing really well, and in several cases are now billionaires.

Basically, busts exacerbate inequality. Love what you do, keep doing it, and find out how you can apply it so that other people genuinely benefit from it, and you end up cleaning up on all the wealth that everybody else is too scared to create. Flit between the hot new thing with just a superficial understanding and you'll probably end up unemployed when it's no longer hot.
Interesting, thanks for the feedback. It seems like the lesson is analogous to what I learned from Crockford's JavaScript parser.

That is, regardless of whether you're doing it top-down or bottom-up, using an
operator precedence algorithm for statements is painful.

I think the reason is simply that there is a fundamental relationship between the language you are parsing (the data) the algorithm you choose to parse it with (the code). Those 2 things are tightly linked.

I think this isn't emphasized enough in introductory texts. They usually only have time to teach one parsing method, and the language being parsed is chosen to fit that. Or maybe you choose one problem like shift-reduce conflicts, but you don't get the comparison / contrast to other methods.
I am not a nuclear policy wonk, so I apologize if this question is answered elsewhere.

Much of the argument presented in this paper from last year is based on how destabilizing it is because Russia does not have an orbital launch detection capability. Since it would double the time they had to respond and requires no action banned or restricted by treaty, why would they not put satellites in orbit that could detect the IR signature of a missile launch? Why not strap it on to their constellation of GLONASS satellites? This seems like a much easier technology to develop and deploy and test (the US is launching rockets every month, it should see every one of those launches reliably). What am I missing here?
Probably because Germans earn 3x as much. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_European_countries_by_...
Hypocrites...
Do I understand correctly that this is basically G-Suite without the apps? Or are there extra features in this (if so, are those coming to G-Suite as well?

I recently redid the identity system for my organisation. Despite using G-Suite as our productivity platform, we ended up going with AzureAD for our identity services for these reasons:

* We needed RADIUS services. No way to get those from Google. It's messy with AzureAD (you need to run AzureAD Domain Services and an NPS server in a VM), but possible.

* A lot of SAML app vendors only seem to know about the existence of (i.e. have built their SAML implementation based around) ADFS (which is close enough to AzureAD). Those either outright didn't work with Google, or involved a messy workaround and a heap of time.

* G-Suite only allows for OU-based access control to SAML apps (unless you want to implement and maintain some code to do this for you, which kind of defeats the point of cloud-based identity IMO). AzureAD can do this by groups or even ad-hoc users.
Netflix productions have errors and missing lines, but they're at least always available. I report the problems and they get fixed pretty quickly.

Here (Japan region), it's fairly difficult to find things with subtitles, which I pretty much need, so I'll take what I can get.
The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists exists primarily to encourage awareness.

The Doomsday Clock is perhaps imperfect, but it keeps the conversation going, something essential.

I want to live in a world where instantaneous human-caused planetary disasters cannot happen.
Congratulations on your new career.

On a side note, anyone else a bit worried that there being a tech or economic bubble? Reading this thread, I can't help but be reminded of the dotcom bubble when everyone was getting into tech or the "I just became a realtor" craze before the housing bubble crash.

Anyone maintain a list of indicators other than S&P 500 PE ratio or the interest rate?

I'm generally optimistic on the economy because of the tax cuts and the expected infrastructure spending, but still, don't wait to be caught with my pants down like the 2008 financial disaster.
It all seems perfectly reasonable. If you buy something, they need your credit card info, etc...

The problem is that most companies sell that information on to other parties. I've read on the interwebs that Apple doesn't, but I'd feel better if I could see it in a web page or something more concrete.
To be fair to the previous commenter, they did not explicitly propose cryptocurrency as a solution; they're just asking a question. Also, cryptocurrency != blockchain technology.

That said, I do agree with your sentiment that the blockchain-as-a-solution space is getting a bit ridiculous. I can't imagine a way to translate this problem into a smart-contract-solvable form.
Thoughts and prayers that our random business partners will behave.
Many people were skeptical, even right here on HN. Sometimes, their voices are drowned out by those that like to accuse the skeptical of being pessimistic. Optimism can be inherently unscientific--it can often be a manifestation of what we want rather than what is scientifically likely. To me, the battle has always been between optimism and realism.
Recommend this: https://books.google.com/books/about/Surveillance_Valley.htm...
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I always see people say this after any PR crises... but how would you say it instead if not that? Is there a way to be truly creative and not shoot yourself in the foot at the same time?
Of course safety is compatible with being a hacker. However, safety rules are not unique to hackers nor makers. My issue with the parent is the linking to some makerspace's rules as if they speak for the community at large. Much the same way I find it goofy to use the glider from the Game of Life as the emblem of hackers everywhere.

The U.S. Navy's KISS principle equally applies to the amorphous concept of being a hacker, but you don't see people espousing that as a tenant.

I just guess I'm against people attributing ideas, &c to something that doesn't need them in the first place (and may even be better when left to the abstract). shrug
Malwarebytes flagged this page as malicious; and umatrix lists a lot of javascript from elsewhere.
Association for Computing Machinery. Theoretically everyone in the computer science field is not just aware of them but is a member :)
TIL you can get 18650 batteries from old laptops, which is something I use in my mechanical vape..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GpvOvw5oEc
"Second, we will restrict developers' data access even further to prevent other kinds of abuse. For example, we will remove developers' access to your data if you haven't used their app in 3 months. We will reduce the data you give an app when you sign in -- to only your name, profile photo, and email address. We'll require developers to not only get approval but also sign a contract in order to ask anyone for access to their posts or other private data. And we'll have more changes to share in the next few days."

Nah. They need to not offer any identifiable information to 3rd parties. Email is fine. Yes, I know can figure out ways to identify an individual by their email, but there's nothing more closely tied to one's identity than their name and face.
Awesome, did you have health insurance/coverage? When I think of going back to school as a slightly older person, this is one of the only things that scares me.
HN is easily one of the most valuable "tools" I have in my toolchest. 20-30 minutes a day of front page browsing and the occasional post is like having a secret weapon in my tech arsenal. The number of times topics (not just tech) have come up in my professional life that I heard about first, and usually only, on HN...and then my ability to engage reasonably intelligently on those topics because of HN is countless.
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The trend is definitely set. However even AAA gaming is more accepting of minor artifacts over any dips in framerate below 30fps. We might see biased non-rasterized realtime rendering before we the type of unbiased rendering of offline happening in games.
Coal in the quantities needed to rebuild a shattered civilization are not easily accessed unless you’re thinking of existing mines (which without maintenance would be inaccessible before we were done desperately trying to stay alive as a species). Hydropower and wind power both require advanced industry to work at any useful scale beyond the individual, and there would be no industry. Mind you, I’m ignoring the loss of knowledge, and just how people would remember to do these things, and I’m assuming a “best case” nuclear apocalypse.

I’d prefer that our fate as a species not rely on begging the question of industry and technology.
I feel like this could be proven/disproven mathematically using an average oxygen diffusion rate over time calculation for whatever species the author is referencing.

ex: Microbe A diffuses (0.0003mg of oxygen per day)x(population of species)x(years) = 100 billion tons of oxygen diffused into atmosphere per millenia
Here's an interesting paper by some Columbia grad students that I've been meaning to read:
http://sustainability.ei.columbia.edu/files/2014/07/Navigati...

Also check out the MSCI links in my other comments to this thread if you have a chance.
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Can't tell if the camera has poor contrast resolution or if it was indeed that dark. With the dynamic range available on digital sensors, it seems to me that even without some form of FLIR it still should be more possiblle to capture this for sensors than eyes at any rate. Do self driving vehicles use any of this, especially at night?
If you're borrowing at a fixed interest rate (or buying outright), you're also locking in price for housing against future rent increases.. and, currently in CA, against uncontrolled property tax increases too.

It doesn't really prevent you from moving to another job, one could always rent out the owned property and rent in your new location. (Though if the area you own in has crashed in prices that's a more difficult proposition...)
I can't, for the life of me, understand why the major nuclear powers still cannot commit to full denuclearization. It's really one meeting away between Russia and US, they agree to take all nuclear weapons out of service by 2050 then strong arm every country in the world to participate.

What plausible purpose do these weapons serve (except deterrence itself), fully knowing that using them will almost guarantee massive retaliation?
"Sadly, the bill is already encountering opposition from homeowners’ groups, which are no doubt eager to push up their property values."

My impression is that neighborhood groups aren't generally interested in raising property values, but rather in preserving the less-developed neighborhood in which they have invested and chosen to live.
> According to a Time magazine account just after Obama won re-election, "the team blitzed the supporters who had signed up for the app with requests to share specific online content with specific friends simply by clicking a button."

you are doing the old classic false equivalence... the deliberate use of an obama sanctioned facebook app that asks you to press a button to share the get out to vote (probably for obama) with their friends is 100% different than Cambridge University creating psyche profiles on people to ostensibly use as a fun way to find out your profile. then to sell that harvested data to a different campaigning firm Cambridge Analytica to use to micro target ads to them for political purposes unbeknownst to them is way different. It's about expectations: one expects it to be used in a political fashion because they opted into it and the other is not expecting it to be used to target themselves and their friends later.
This is an interesting story.

Maybe he had special glass. My gut says he just made sure it was of high quality. Rejecting most samples, putting his work into the best.

From there, he "got it", as humans tend to do. Excellence, pushing a craft and skill to the max the world allows.
I read the craft beer forums got hit hard, since they cant sell alcohol. Also cigars trading and buy clubs are now banned.

The finally got all the dark net, and idtheft, shoplifting subs.

Sexsells is still up, but thats a political discussion sub, not for advertising.

I know my local WA_Gun sub is purging all its trade/sell posts, since they allowed it, since all transactions are done at a dealer under law here. Gun forums are in massive purge if they allowed any swaps or sales. (More work!)

For youtube, no idea the scope of the channels banned, but looks like all legal accessories that are "Fun" are banned from youtube.

30 rounds max? Really, its still legal in many states.

BTW, Pot still seems to be legal everywhere on Youtube and Reddit, even r/WeedDeals is still up, so thats interesting rule breaker they allow.

AND now Weeddeals is banned.

The ban process is rolling on still.

Also, appears the banned subs are moving over to voat.

http://www.voat.co/v/gundeals
Whatever his plans are, this will be something big.
He is a guy who could, if he wanted, build a secure kernel for mobile devices for example.
I always think this security thing is a waste of his talent though, he's such a creative guy and could do many other different things, instead he gets paid for finding holes everywhere, and he's extremely good at it, so...
Businesses accusing each other of illegality. How rich.
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I would like to also hear an explanation of how the Obama campaign apparently grabbed data in 2012.

- how was this episode discovered? what was FB's initial reaction and can it be justified?

- are the allegations true? including the one that FB employees collaborated on it. Silence on it only deepens suspicions.

- was this done in a similar way (3rd party dev, etc)? If not, how was it done?

- who were the actors in that episode? What was the actions taken then?

- what about the pedigree of those who rightly raised the issue in the 'Cambridge Analytica' episode? Did they not have the information for the 2012 episode? How did they find this out?
I don't think so. If you work in a hard science like medicine or psychology, where problems are still so hard we can't produce clear answers as to results of a paper, we shouldn't really be trusting papers until they've been reproduced by some unrelated team. But if these results don't contradict the previous papers, they're not really communicating new knowledge.

Sometimes this isn't a big deal (medicine is as far as I know regulated enough that reproduction is a part of the problem), but most science is characterised by not enough money distributed without caring about scientific outcomes.

So we do have a problem at the moment. A team who does important but thankless scientific work can't get published. Too much science is just first draft status. And the only way to determine that is that people keep trying and trying to build on it and eventually decades later the tower of cards collapses when clever new PhD students start down new research avenues.
It’s not possible for them to keep targeting data to themselves.

Targeted campaign products leak data about the user’s targeted attributes by their very nature.

If you want FB’s targeting data, simply buy targeted campaigns and associate the target attributes with the users who click once they are on your server. At scale, the targeting data is transparent.

Big ad analytics companies and ad exchanges can and do basically sit in the center of many campaigns and slurp up the targeting data which is naturally leaking from FB by virtue of their selling capaigns based on those targets.

Whether they want to or not, they are selling their data.

Edit: Care to reply instead of downvote? Is everything above not true?
While I agree with you, there aren't any known case of people dying from Theranos: https://www.quora.com/Did-people-die-from-relying-on-Therano...
If they are just robot versions of humans then I would argue they are far too underdeveloped to be on real roads with real people.
What I meant was their job is to author such books. Not that they should be paid separately for them. Depending on the country academicians might be underpaid, but that's an issue on its own.
It seems ironic to me to block facebook while using chrome. Assuming you wouldn’t use ungoogled-chromium. As you see more often people only get scared and undertake action when there’s enough media attention and public outrage. Even though this has been happening for years with companies like google, twitter, instagram, facebook and what have you not. People should remind themselves that the sun doesn’t rise for nothing, neither do companies.
You have to consider that if these journalists get a reputation for publishing "hit pieces", they'll stop getting access.

Does that make it right? No. But consider the journalists incentives. Also consider what happens if said journalist gets a reputation for publishing negative articles.

It's the same reason you hardly ever see articles bashing popular stocks or investments even though they are outright scams or wildly inflated (eg: bitcoin).

People say they want hard hitting tough news, but I actually think the reality shows this isn't the case.
I agree, it's more the "I got mine, screw everyone else" mentality.
If you can receive email to an address, then the sender knows your address. Either you had a"blonde moment" or else I'm misunderstanding what you mean wrt sending vs receiving.
What kind of a role were you hired for? Is it a pure SDE role or a product/solutions engineer kinda role? I've seen Google largely prefers people with 6 ~ 12 yrs exp for SDE roles.
The cult principles don’t exclude sending a firehose of everything that you look at or buy on Amazon to Facebook.