skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can someone list the advantages of using this instead of a regular bank+credit card?

1) Monitoring spending in real time or on a weekly basis is useful, and this seems to make it easier. But just a tool for downloading, viewing and analyzing the data from a regular credit card site would suffice, and can be self made.

2) It creates competition for the regular banks, so they potentially would stop being hogs about some of the fees.

But what else?
They already have. There's massive migration towards instragram, owned by FB, and whatsapp has always been huge (owned by FB).
> It's the only solution.

How is this a solution? Leaving Facebook doesn't remove ad industry's, political and state surveillance incentives. Literally anyone who wants to participate in a market economy or any political system fuels surveillance incentives. I don't think it's possible to remove such incentives, but theoretically could be possible to limit the scope of surveillance capabilities by distributing and disallowing concentration of power and wealth, capping the size of corporations and so on.
I cannot find a reference to backup your claim of the 10% + 2mph margin having been axed. In fact I remembered the Chief Constable calling for the end of it recently (implying it was still being used):

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5332443/Police-chief...
[30 January 2018]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/01/31/motorists-should...

Can you explain why you think this rule changed a decade ago?
The real point is that companies like facebook and equifax have such large caches of personal data and have no legal obligation to protect it. This is a point most people outside of tech don't understand. You might not even be a user of facebook but these companies still have data on you that is highly personal and invasive.

An academic who has done some great work on this is Evgeny Morozov. Highly recommend his books, articles and lectures.
A technique I used to learn to breathe with my diaphragm:

- stand tall like you're the batman (open up chest, don't slouch shoulders)

- place your hand on your belly, pinky on navel and thumb touching the tip of your sternum

- inhale from nose

- let jaw loose and make the deepest "oooohm" note you can produce, look at the hand on your belly getting closer to your spine as you exhale

- inhale and look at the hand on your belly rise

- repeat, always inhaling from your nose only, keep lips closed and jaw loose (no need to make any sound once you get it)

This technique immediately drops high stress bpm's from 120/140 to ~68.
>I've been asked before to turn off security monitoring systems because executives prefer to not know about vulnerabilities rather than know about them and not be able to fix them.

It's a simple cost-benefit analysis.

Implementing effective security is difficult, time-consuming, and expensive. Ignoring problems costs nothing. Unless it's clear the cost of a breach is higher than the cost of security, corporations will risk a breach every single time.

The ultimate loser here is users, who bear the burden of having their data appropriated and misused. Unless the government steps in and imposes penalties on corporations on behalf of users, they'll continue merrily offloading the risks of poor data security on the general population.
Please do share that list.
I have been programming in languages that theoretically permit this error for nearly twenty years. This error has happened to me a sum total of zero times. And a great deal of that time was in Python and Perl, where it's much easier than in Go where you have to exactly match the interface fully, not just on name.

I understand the concern. I'm not just saying that, the Haskell side of me still feels it. However, the pragmatic side of me says that it's not worth giving up the convenience, power, and decoupling of not having to explicitly declare conformance to interfaces to save myself zero bugs over nearly twenty years.

Now, HN is big and I'm abundantly sure there's a dozen people who can pop up with stories of when this bit them. But it's a question of tradeoffs; literally every day I program in Go I benefit from not having to declare interface conformance. Do you face this bug literally every day? Or even every month?

("What if you did have the problem and didn't notice?" Then apparently the cost wasn't that high, so cost/benefit still tilts in the direction of doing what Go or Python does. "What if it happens as the project gets bigger than what you've worked on?" Well, the dynamically-typed scripting products I've worked on tend to be past the size event horizon for other reasons, so we could never witness this being a huge problem because the code base can't get that large without also adopting practices that would tend to eliminate this anyhow. Statically typed I haven't gotten there, though I'm thinking statistically projects tokens would tend to diverge faster than they could converge here... i.e., even if I do somehow end up with twelve Start() functions that I don't intend to be a single interface, and all manage to have the exact same function signature, if they're separated by enough in the code that they just never cross, it still isn't a problem. With Go, you still have a hard time just accidentally passing them in... they have to traverse the codebase to get to the wrong place, across statically-typed paths.)
> Revolut (similar concept to N26)

Isn't Revolut a pre-paid debit card though? N26, in contrast, is a bank.

EDIT: oh, I see that "On 8 February 2017, Revolut launched UK current accounts, enabling its customers to get a personal IBAN" on their Wikipedia article.
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But this will no doubt be tied to that access token and so can trivially be separated from the "real" activity by Facebook. What you should be doing instead is have like a Chrome extension or Userscript that does the liking from the user's own browser, indistinguishable from the real activity.
> some sort of test for users, that verifies that they read the terms of service, as a form of consent for the user agreement.

This will only happen if terms of service get vastly shorter, or if a law is passed that forces it. I would bet that any such measure would absolutely destroy user signup metrics, which means that not only do companies have no financial incentive to take such measures, but they also have an active financial disincentive to make the "I read the TOS, let me sign up now" process any more complicated than they absolutely must.

I'm also pretty sure that the everyday user would be pissed about that additional barrier to entry.
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Their point probably is that humans are a part of nature as well because we naturally evolved from animals, and that moved us to the very top of the food pyramid. Sometimes animals evolve bigger teeth to survive - and humans evolved bigger brains.
It's both naivety and lack of understanding, which as I've said before is by far the #1 problem with getting people to want more privacy.

It's really not that they "don't care" about privacy, even if they themselves think that's what it is. They usually say that because they don't understand the 1,000 horrific ways in which that data about them could be exploited, from personal blackmail situations, to identity fraud, to manipulating elections, to using it against them in court in a possible future conflict with law enforcement, and in many other situations.

I've seen people who are typically quite "anti-privacy" because "they want to benefit from Alexa, Google Assistant" and other such gimmicks, and "aren't scared" if Google or Amazon holds their data, because after all it's not the government holding it (ha! good one).

But now they've deleted their Facebook accounts, because they're finally beginning to understand the implications of these companies holding all of this data about them and how it could be abused. And it's still early days. It's only going to get worse from here, as we see more such abuses using Facebook, Google, Amazon's data, carriers', and other data hoarders' data.
NativeBase is written on top of React Native and the docs are fairly clear about customisation. Yes some components are hard to customize, such as tabViews, headers and buttons, but I think it is fairly flexible.

Is there any particular limitation that has been bothering you?
“his is in some sense an extension of the Myers-Briggs-type personality typing, which in its early days also grew out of data analysis.”

What a bizarre statement to make. In this sense anything that is in any way scientifically based “grew out of data analysis.”
> What's utterly horrifying about this whole thing is how the media is acting as if this is some sort of surprise

I agree. A couple of generations ago the media was much more combative and willing to take on the powers that be (and each other). By this time most media outlets would have been saying "told you so (many times)". Unfortunately, now media mostly follows trends and competes on beauty of their talking heads, which is a lot safer than, say, investigating slavery or organized crime.
Yeah pretty much boils down to "good guys" and "bad guys." THe USA and allies are the good guys. From their perspective (and objectively, for the most part, in comparison to the others).
Not that this would ever happen..probably, but if Amazon were to offer users a $20 amazon store voucher to get users to disable their FB account and port all their pictures to a social media solution they build, I could see myself doing that. This platform would only be accessible to users with Amazon Prime accounts and that would be a way for them to keep it ad-free.
And you keep not understanding how game's industry works.

Make yourself an IGDA member, attend GDC, go to Independent Games Festival, network with people there and see how many would actually share your opinion.
I mean this is HN not Reddit, so I expect most people to know the context of that comment by now (on this site) and his apology and explanation of it.

On Reddit the normal person can be forgiven for not knowing the full context of quote, but this quote has come up on HN many times over many years.
Good call. Edited to clarify.
That's incorrect as it pertains to Saudi Arabia.

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=18111
And the website's original purpose was for upperclassmen to rate the hotness of incoming female freshmen.
> Is it natural for people to assume that these laws are broken at such a large scale?

Across international boundaries where those laws may be difficult to enforce because other countries are not in sync with them? Hell yes. Call me cynical, but...
Why do we censor words? Aren't we all adults here? Does HN have a policy about this?
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No offense but I couldn't find a licence or open source mention ;)

If you are publishing something as "open source" I think you should include the license or mention it some way. As long as you don't, it's not "open source".
Water is wet.
> Keeping to exactly the speed limit also just isn't how anyone drives.

People should not "keep to the speed limit". In England at least the speed limit is the absolute maximum speed at which you drive. You should be driving slower than the speed limit at all times, with no exceptions. Anything else is almost always incompetent driving.

I find it hard to understand why drivers think the laws don't apply to them. Sure, it's annoying when cyclists ignore road laws, but cyclists are far less likely to kill other people.
Well, I was with you right up until the gratuitous equivalence to Zuckerberg.
Ola drivers are probably not on HN, which is a shame because that would have revealed a more balanced picture.

Ola drivers are often dealt a short end of the stick by Ola. Ola knows this, and gets away with it because many of the drivers come from a financial background where they do not have much of a choice. Drivers face ridiculous delays in getting paid their share of the ride, that is, if they get paid at all. You would often encounter Ola drivers insisting on getting paid by cash rather than Ola money.

Ola's software backend leaves a lot to be desired, losing track of money is quite frequent, used to be routine before.

I don't expect commentary from Ola drivers but hope some Ola engineers will comment on their engineering backend and culture: lack of work life balance, insane hours, continuous firefights to keep their service afloat, just about barely in spite of being staffed by way more engineers than Uber India.

Someone privy to the details claimed -- "The marvel is not that the bear dances well, but that the bear dances at all." I am not sure if things have changed, they are rolling in so much investor money that they really don't have strong incentives to.
Sounds like a breach to me.

The only difference is that instead of the baddies having to sneak in carefully at night to nick stuff, Facebook said 'welcome, come on in, help yourself – here's a sack'.

The end result – millions of people having their personal data used against them without their knowledge or consent - is the same.
You can perform brilliant data wizardry without deceiving people. Micro-targeting has been around since the 60s. There is a huge gulf between finding people receptive to an ad whose content you publicly endorse and creating astroturf sites and fake news content to manipulate people's world view.

I keep seeing comments which equating cheating and cleverness. If I win a chess game by moving making illegal moves this is not a sign of my brilliance. If you can't distinguish brilliant play from cheating, perhaps you don't understand the game.
but does it uses serverless blockchain technology to attract business scale?
I missed Visual Studio and C/Java Builder.
Not a direct answer, but I've found this helpful: http://www.swimsmooth.com/exhalation.html
The point of my comment is that we should not compare Facebook to Equifax. The latter may have been lax in protecting that data, but the millions of records exposed last year were taken without their consent. Facebook is literally inviting anyone who can sign up for a developer account to harvest their — sorry, our — data at scale.
can you help me out here? what is the context/explanation?
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There can be no consent for the usage of your data, as it is impossible to grasp in what ways the data will be used exactly, what deep learning algorithms will learn from it and what impact it will have on your life and society as a whole.
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The key issue with N26 is their poor unit economics. Right now, they are losing money on most of the checking accounts, as they foot the ATM wholesale fee (though they limit it to 3 "free" ATM withdrawals per months).

The issue is that they don't have enough premium services to compensate for the "loss leader" like regular banks do. The hope from Tencent and Allianz is that they will add these now, and then move to great unit economics, but for now they are bleeding red ink.
As someone who considered himself reasonably well-informed about the privacy implications of Facebook, the "friend permission" was still news to me. That Facebook would share my profile data with a third party because some Facebook contact of mine "allowed" it, is utterly horrific. It is also a clear and massive breach of EU data privacy laws. (Which unfortunately seem difficult to enforce against international companies at the moment; the GPDR can't come soon enough!)

In any case, if this should have been known by everyone already, I guess Facebook has no reason to panic if it's all over the news now. Just a bit of publicity for them, right?
>...general handwavings about "fudging" of floating point don't apply...

Handwaving is all I can do, I am just the tech taking orders.

I just talked with my statistician friend on the phone, here's one issue my friend just showed me. (integer error, not even floating point)

111,111,111 * 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

(I did this by hand to confirm, he made me the big meany)

Excel, Libre Office, my calculator, Javascript, etc.. all get this number wrong. But with R there's a library that can add support for numbers this big. (I guess this is a well known issue)

Edit: _All_ numbers in JS are floating point numbers, there are no integers... <hmmm>

"In JavaScript, all numbers are implemented in double-precision [...] There is no specific type for integers."

Edit 2: (for fun) This is from R:

> library(gmp)
> bignum <- as.bigz(111111111)
> mul.bigz(bignum, bignum)
Big Integer ('bigz') :
[1] 12345678987654321

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Guid...
Are people not taught about "stranger danger" as kids anymore? Why do they just trust that someone won't abuse the information that they hand over?
> if you ever see a pedestrian in your path and you are not able to avoid them, you were driving too fast, simple as that.

That flies in the face of biology and physics.

In the scenario where someone rapidly moves into the traffic from behind a parked car or some other visual obstruction: It takes up to 500ms for a human to take note (not react, just take note) of an obstacle, add reaction time to that and you'll arrive at a mean of over 1 second[0], usually more[1], before a driver can react to a new obstacle and this is for attentive drivers under good visibility.

Your argument relies on the fact that slower speeds result in shorter braking distances but braking distances are always non-zero, therefore it stands that there is a distance at which someone could move in front of the car and get hit even if the reaction time was 0ms, instead of ~1300.

[0] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/274973324_Braking_R...

[1]http://copradar.com/redlight/factors/index.html
3) It's much quicker to get an account. There is absolutely no paperwork involved.

4) Concentrating only on one thing, they tend to get UI and UX much better than old-fashioned banks, who have to still serve clients who are skeptical about online banking and fill in paper-form money transfers and bring them to the bank in person.
Are we really that ahead of the curve here? Did the general public not realize that a free service that collects tons of information from you might be gasp using that information to make money?

I know some people who work in SEO and marketing and the stuff CA was doing was a more sophisticated version of what every free Facebook game or 'survey' vendor is doing. This is literally the business model of the free/popular Internet. Of course it's going to be used for political campaigns-- why not? It's used for every other kind of marketing.

I'm not saying it's good. I think it's terrible. It's a plague. I'm just shocked that people are shocked by what's been happening in the open now for years.
They forgot: http://move.rupy.se/file/logic.png (2005)

You can download the program here: http://rupy.se/logic.jar
"Better to ask forgiveness after than ask permission before."
you dont have to delete it, you can just not be an MAU
Isn't backing up the last place where you want zero redundancy?
Does anyone else have the wild speculation that Rupert Murdoch is opening a bottle of champagne today?

The interest in FB and privacy, while gratifying, also seems focused through a particularly yellow lens.

People on HN have also pointed out that it’s very likely that CA’a analytical prowess may well be overstated as part of submarine marketing efforts.

I suppose many people are just surprised that this is taking off now, without any truly new or novel fuel driving it - when the same articles and worse, had no effect earlier.
http://fortune.com/fortune500/list/

There's your list. Seriously.

I obviously can't share with you the list of specific clients I work for, but this attitude is pervasive enough that you should assume that any and all major corporations have this same mindset. All of them.
Data protection laws are so strong in Germany that they let registration offices sell your data if you don't explicitly opt out. Most people don't even know whats going on and that they have to opt out to avoid that. Or German credit scoring institutions, who are allowed collect data about you even if you don't have any mutual agreement with them.
The media likes to get people's eyeballs just as much as FB. They will over react to get views.

If those little radio buttons in privacy settings do literally nothing on the backend, then FB could have a massive legal/financial battle if they knowingly ignored user preferences and sold off unaggregated data for profit.
It really depends on the application. If you’re comparing to classical instance segmentation methods like a distance-based watershed, Mask RCNN (e.g. using the Keras-RCNN package) has nearly identical performance. However, if you’re looking for real-time performance, you’ll need to look elsewhere (and likely reframe your problem as an object detection rather than instance segmentation problem).
TIL. thanks for the followup.
IJdkRequest would inherit other interfaces, so the other methods would be declared there. The default implementation could be handled by a base class.

And now that I typed it out, I see how it also doesn't really help. I see your point. I'm not sure what's worse, one giant class, or the handful of interfaces and abstractions just to make it work in multiple classes.
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That's a nice perspective. With that said though, what do you think about centralized data types?

I admit it, I make Repository and Service quite frequently. With that said, I also have data types shared among implementations. Normally the data types are defined within the parent packages to the implementations, the same packages that hold the Service definition.

I actually agree with your assertion that Service is bad form, and think I'll change it. I still have the issue though where a shared data type is commonly used among many implementations. Where do you think that will live? Perhaps in the same location, just without a formal Service interface?
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So could you educate us by showing the comparable actions of the Obama campaign?
Was this a security breach in the sense that the company with the data got “hacked”? No.

Was this a breach in trust to Facebook users? I think undoubtedly yes.

And was there a breach of a the Terms of Service by companies taking all this data and using it for non-academic purposes? Yes there was.

So the type of breach seems to be a worthwhile distinction to make.
I'm okay with the market keeping the money than MC/VISA getting it. Here's the thing: I want the market to make money and stay open so I can keep shopping there. I don't care if MC goes up in flames.
Some examples: they admit in interviews to lying to obtain votes. They propose entrapping their client's opponents by bringing girls to them, or by giving them an offer 'too good to be true'. They give the impression there isn't much they won't do.
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Confirmed: using it all the time because banks in France (except Banque Populaire) are hell-bent on not supporting Apple Pay, pushing their weight around for the local clusterfuck that is PayLib.
That's a very good point. Thank you for pointing that out. AZ does allow self-driving cars without drivers, as long as they follow the traditional laws and rules of the road.

I would argue that in this particular case, from the information that has been released, the car may have followed the laws of the road but it didn't appear to follow the traditional defensive driving rules of the road that parents teach their children, such as, "see that person with the bike standing on the median? Be careful. Don't hit them."