skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mmmmm. Kind of.
That insight is pretty accurate, in my experience (I work for PressReader, disclaimer) and what we're building is basically the Spotify for News. But for real.

It took some doing, and we definitely had resistance at first, but we have more than 7,000 newspapers and magazines now. And more every week.

Where we've really found success is taking the time to build strong relationships with the publishers. I totally get that they don't want a Spotify-like service to eat at their regular subscribers.

So - part of our benefit to them, is the way we let big brands buy access for their customers. That way, newspapers can reach hotel guests, airline passengers, people like that, that they couldn't before.

Whatever product you build, you have to consider BOTH the reader and the publishers.
At least at one point, you could. See the example of the person who pranked his roommate through very specifically targeted facebook ads. [1]

It's even mentioned in that article how to get around the fix they put in so you couldn't target a group of less than 20 people.

I'm not sure if this particular method still works, but let's take a step back and think before we make claims about what is and is not possible in a complex system with lots features and knobs to twiddle. Whether this was an emergent feature from other features of the system or a specifically desired and designed behavior, at least at one point Facebook allowed very fine grained targeting.

1: http://ghostinfluence.com/the-ultimate-retaliation-pranking-...
> the suits running newspapers would rather die than accept Spotify for newspaper

Then let them eat cake.
It's the worst. Disabling Javascript temporarily can work around this. Or using Reader mode... Assuming the content is worth it to you.
Training with trends and patterns is like a technical trader looking for patterns. When things go right they attribute to the pattern, but when it’s wrong, they attribute it to unforeseen events. The unforeseen events is something if can be predicted, you will be rich lol
This definitely feels my own golden age now being able to write Rust and seeing all these great people doing interesting projects and hacking things...
Ah, then "low end" is the more appropriate descriptor.
it is; by scaling his single variable before making a test-train split, he's allowed his model to know how the future is distributed.
yeah, i was surprised at the positive tone of the article, too.
We're talking about the threat of lawsuits, right? Can we be so sure that the word "lawsuit" was never mentioned in any of those discussions?
Also, don't use Chainfire's SuperSU in 2018 regardless. It's owned by some Chinese company that's not very reputable. The current trend is towards Magisk, an open-source root (and systemless /system) modification framework.
How to overcome shyness and Introversion?
Awesome! I’m considering doing the same - Harvard Extension.

Is there a reason you chose to do the bachelors program over the masters?
California should emulate Tokyo, where housing stayed ahead of population growth
In general languages tend to focus on one thing, where Perl tend to focus on many things. So it is difficult to classify.

In addition almost everything that is easy in Perl 5 is also easy in Perl 6, but it also makes a wide variety of additional things easy. For example there is are several meta operators for dealing with lists.

(1,2,3) Z+ (10,20,30); # (11, 22, 33)
[Z+] ( (1,2,3), (10,20,30), (100,200,300) ); # (111, 222, 333)

[Z*] (1,2,3,4,5), ( 10 xx Inf ), ( i xx Inf ); # (0+10i, 0+20i, 0+30i, 0+40i, 0+50i)

((1,1),(2,2),(3,3)) «+» ((40,50,60),)
# ((41, 51, 61), (42, 52, 62), (43, 53, 63))

So it has a lot in common with data-driven languages.

There are also features which you might expect to see in a distributed language.

Basically if there is a choice between A and B, Perl tends to choose both. With Perl 6 doing this to a greater extent than previous Perls.
Clarification: "mass parallelism" may also involve distributed and duplicated data sets.
As a way to discourage Facebook and other companies from doing this in future, a fine per person per data item shared must be imposed.
Since the data that's leaked is more or less permanent, all the people affected should get a recurring, life-long annual payment for each personal leaked data item.
Who the hell fries hash browns in butter? It's liable to burn.

As to your second paragraph, well, here is my point illustrated. Added sugars are probably our biggest problem. Even when it comes to lipids, I don't think most people cooking at home are making Cheesecake Factory-style meals. But my understanding of the latest research is that trying to remove fats from your diet is no longer necessarily recommended.
One is much easier to inspect and verify than the other.

There's really no way to check if someone has made a copy of data if you've given them that data.

It's not that hard to check if an application prompts a user for an email address.
I belongs to get-shit-done camp. It is so easy to check if someone has packaged a module for you. like if mongo call is blocking in tornado, i don't wrap it with coroutine. simple search i found motor/tornado redis/etc. only during debug, occasionally I jump in their codes and get idea how they do it. but that is only out of curiosity.

my work doesn't have collaboration other than users. if they want realtime feed, i do quick meteor app just a bit more complex than quick starter tutorial. I really want to break into serious development
That worked for me until I wanted a visa. Now I am getting a CS degree.
A 25-Day, Cross Section Timelapse of a Bean Plant Set to Classical Music
This was revealed years ago. Facebook was literally running experiments on people on the site, without their consent, to see how they reacted when their feed was made either more negative or more positive. Most people seemed to not care when this was revealed which is, in my opinion, just an indication of the level of addiction people have to the service.

You can find a plenty of hits searching for 'facebook run psychological experiment on users.' Here [1] is one of a plethora of sources discussing it.

[1] - https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/facebook/10932534/Fac...
Which is fine. But most apps that I remember of this type (back when I used Facebook apps) would ask you for it on landing. Nothing ever has to be black-and-white.
Such a weak response. Facebook is an older Uber, ridden with idiotic allowances for illegal narcissistic behavior that bites them in the ass.
That's super interesting. I think others are right, that's a lot like Medium.

But, what about when a reader doesn't really know which author they like. What if they just read the entertainment section of one newspaper, fun stories from some other magazine, and whatever's dominating the news cycle from that national paper somewhere else?
Definitely not a joke. Well, perhaps that specific instance is, but at Yahoo! many of the most common search terms were domains; one argument had internally for not putting cursor focus in the search bar was precisely because people just used it as if it were the address bar, and the appetite to support that use case was low. (Source: ex-Yahoo! staff, albeit not in search and with a fallible memory).
This is exactly my point: you mix up 20 centuries of christianity with 20 centuries of specific christian institutions and worldly regimes that existed in christian societies. And then you cherry pick some terrible, big historical events. You completely miss the 20 centuries of Christianity that inspired a vast cultural patrimonium and provided courage, justice, moderation and dignity to its laymen and clergy.

Unlike what you say, abandoning this patrimonium has only started recently. Definitely not centuries ago. For instance, where I live, there is still an annual Christian pilgrimage. Attendance started dropping only a few years ago. I'm not sure if it will still exist in a few years. A lot of us are fascinated and sometimes even a little envious when learning about foreign cultures. Yet when our own culture is dying or has died, we shrug. Some even want to beat on the corpse.

Also: "we have all sinned and fallen short of the glory of God" sounds to me like a pretty accurate description of mankind, including Christianity itself. Other ways of saying the same thing are: "don't be too satisfied with yourself" or "try to do better next week". I'd say the first version packs more punch but that's a matter of taste.

(Then again, as I implied earlier in this thread: maybe this matter of taste is an important part of modern Christianity's problem.)
Charging rent doesn't necessarily have to be rent-seeking. The Bay Area suffers from a severe and self inflicted housing shortage, meaning that landlords and property owners are actively rent seeking by not letting housing change to match demand.
A good pair of headphones can help a bit. If you’re not used to working with headphones, it might be worth trying that out in advance.

What has changed that means you think you need to go back to an office?
> renting is better to society as a whole.

Care to explain?

I would say that widespread renting is actually quite terrible. It means that property is kept in the hands of class of landowners (and when wealth is concentrated, this also tends to concentrate power); that instead of investing one's income, renters are basically paying off the owner's mortgage; that generally, people prefer to own, and so widespread renting is a sign of being unable to participate in the real estate market; that it generally is associated with a rentier economy.

So, no, I do not think renting is better. At all.
An interesting parallel can be found in the anonymous review of grant proposals. See "Fund ideas, not pedigree, to find fresh insight", https://bit.ly/2Fy64cP. It ends with "peer review may be the worst system, except for all the others". It can be found in Nature, a peer reviewed journal.
46 here, well employed and not worried. There are a lot of positions in Silicon Valley for older engineers. On the bias- most of the engineers who are my peers are men. The female engineers I've worked with in my 15 years in California have mostly been in project management, product management and test. Over 40 you may not get hired by any underfunded startups, but the 'old money' is still here and values experience over alma mater and 'dumb enough to work cheap'.
That sounds nice but it’s a pipe dream.
> Trade secrets are not private information.

Trade Secrets are a form of intellectual property. They have legal protections, and disclosing them without permission can have legal consequences.
I remember Windows Phone 7/8 used to do a lot of that (integrate the built-in apps with Facebook data). It worked fairly well for a time, at least if you didn't have a huge number of FB friends.
Not to defend peer review as it is now, but one of the things I've come to value from editorial gatekeepers is that they put the brakes on me publishing things that in later years I might regret. I wrote some pretty mediocre papers as a grad student and I'm grateful some of them were rejected, because I wouldn't want them forever part of my legacy. As a matter of fact, I wrote some "papers" when I was a teenager, which, if I had been allowed to freely publish at that time, might have become permanent albatrosses around my neck :P
If they knew about CA obtaining this data in 2015 and sat on it then, no telling what information they may be sitting on now.

Most companies, when they learn of a data breach, they take measures to notify their affected users (whether contacting them directly, or publicizing it). Instead, FB's saying, "Here's a tool at the top of your feed, you can check the safety of our data yourself". (And fat lot of good that'll do people who don't even use FB.) This lets them continue to do business as usual, putting the onus on users to safeguard their privacy, while they can stick their heads in the sand.
Real alternative? How about good old-fashioned email?
That's a very interesting take. I've been a subscriber for a long time (and have worked in journalism, which often involves sitting in front of a computer and browsing news sites until something happens). I take front pages for granted, but still appreciate them compared to any feed.

The NYT (and the Wapo, to a lesser extent) is still a daily visit because it is a homepage that features a lot of manual curation with a ton of change over the day. There's a few feed like sections to see latest/breaking news. But I really like the serendipity.

Right now, the top news story (top-left column) is the Austin serial bomber. But the centerpiece of the page is an augmented reality feature with David Bowie.

I don't know if it's just for me (an old person), but the thing beneath the main centerpiece is a "Smarter Living" section that has random evergreen features like "Is it Better to COok With Coconut Oil or Olive Oil".

The Washington Post has a decent front page, with quality reporting and decent variety. It does feel less hand-placed than the NYT. I do think I've gotten in the habit of going to the WaPo for breaking news coverage, while visiting the NYT for random interesting features.
"At Full Speed with Python" sounds more like an intermediate to advanced book. "Up to Speed with Python" sounds more like what you're trying to achieve.
If the employer had physical access, what would prevent them installing a rootkit? Then you couldn't detect a fake certificate no matter what you tried. Or deeper, if you distrust the provided software, what makes you trust the hardware? It's turtles all the way down ;)
> We have different approaches but we're on the same side in case you haven't picked up on that.

I did. I'm just more concerned with giving an accurate picture of what happened than trying to pass off some kind of false equivalency.

> but until the proper investigations proceed not much will happen. And this administration will attempt to block or obstruct any investigations that they think are part of a "witch hunt" so putting too much emphasis on Trump himself seems risky in the meantime. Let the investigators put those dots together.

On the contrary, its necessary that we connect these dots. IMO, it's an insurance policy against the eventuality that Trump decides to fire Mueller or stall/block the FBI investigation. We the people need to democratize this information and disseminate it whenever possible.

This is not normal. This is not business as usual. This is a tale of a corrupt political campaign using every dirty trick in the book, the likes of which we've never seen before, and winning because of it. Every party involved deserves to be punished, but the fact of the matter is that while we can't do much to stop people from putting together intel via publicly available data sets, we sure as heck can do something about corrupt politicians using said data sets.

In much the same way, we punish the doxxer for using the dox, not the target for putting said information online in the first place, or the social networks for giving them the outlets to publish said information. Obviously Facebook deserves some blame, especially if they were somehow complicit in this (in as far as investment money/advice from Russian sanctioned industries/individuals).
Is this natural virality of a link from a reddit comment?
Just wondering, this was the most upvoted answer about how to sculpt when I saw it yesterday.
https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/85wwhr/t...
it's pretty interesting in context of how David might have been created .
Sometimes you want to access the application from outside, available via some corporate proxy, and all do not support WebSockets, and even those that do on paper are so complicated to set up that some admins abandon the idea (looking at you MS Forefront TMG). So it's good to know that you'll get the baseline functions working without WS.
Like Autolisp? Autocad (and its clones) of software used by zillions of designer, architects, ... extened by zillions of Lisp programs.
> Who actually adds a mind-boggling amount of sugar to their food when they cook from basic ingredients?

The sugar contents of some of the staples - bread, sauces, etc. - can be shockingly high. A tablespoon of ketchup has more sugar than a chocolate chip cookie.
That sounds less promising, I had hoped you could select a single channel and export it. Or even better give permission to a user to be able to export one channel. We often have Slack channels shared with clients etc. and they have asked before to get a transcript of chats for reference. If you had fine-grained control, you could give that access to the project manager for the client in question, without having to share the access / have a central moderator handle all requests.
>why can't they make it easy to see all my pics and posts that are public?

Not a FB power user by any means but at least on desktop that's pretty easy to know

>Why can't they make it easy to see who can see what I posted?

Doesn't each post have icon showing who can see it?
Most of the supreme court judges still hail from the old system (not sure of the average age but it's got to be around 70). Communism/socialism was in a slow decline when they started their careers, but that does not change the fact that they swore their fealty to the communist party.
I like his methodology, mainly because of a couple reasons. 1) We don't have that many civilization level societies to study in history, and 2) no society specifically sets out to implode, in fact there is tremendous benefit in not doing so. So even if we only had one collapse to study, we probably should do so and learn as much as we can from it, careful not to put too much value in the 'this time it's different' thing for our own prospects.
Volumes on Most Major Cryptocurrency Exchanges Are Fake or Inflated: Study
We have found a successful niche for doing simple integrations without all the platform bloat and the best part is that it all runs on the Salesforce platform.

https://appexchange.salesforce.com/appxListingDetail?listing...
It is!

But Hercules lives! Sort of. PressReader (disclaimer, I work there) is doing exactly this. Think Texture, except way more content. We have more than 7,000 titles right now. About half are newspapers.

You're absolutely right about the US news brands, though. They've got some good things going on their own already. But, we're working at it. This month, we added Variety, Robb Report, and a bunch of Meredith titles (mostly newspapers).

I'm loving this thread, though, you guys. It shows there's a serious interest for what we've got going on at PressReader. Awesome, awesome.
It's complicated, there are pros and cons of each. The fewer landlords you have the better, but at the same time, situations like the United States-- where half the country has gigantic mortgages and relies critically on their home being an always-appreciating asset-- isn't great either. Economists have argued about this forever and there's no clear right answer.
I can't trawl through all of their terms of service to confirm whether they do it, but AWS alone is a valuable resource for analytics collection.
Outline uses Shadowsocks (socks5 proxy) instead of OpenVPN, which makes it harder to detect.

https://shadowsocks.org/en/index.html
Being actually really isolated is not same as being able to regulate amount of socialization you are exposed to. The amount of optimal amount of socialization vary and some people are more strict about what socialization count.

However, real comlte isolation tend to drive people crazy (in medical sense and in long term - recovéry is hard).
The irony of a lawyer calling others, essentially, low effort contributors.

Being able to take a law and see meaning relative contemporary culture (likely by memorizing the meaning some professor prescribed it) isn't producing anything new.

Have seen you post here before. Haven't lost any of that self-aggrandizing tone. Know your roll, bruh. You're just a cog too.

I get sick of this in the IT community too. LOOK I CAN READ MANUAL AND MAKE COMPUTERS DO WHAT IT SAYS! I R KING
Quite. Although it’s not quite as extreme as having access to my timeline (for example). What’s annoying is even now after a week of reporting I have no way of finding out what, if any, of my non-public content has been compromised; or what the scope of the data was available at various periods in facebook’s history.

We need an equivalent of haveibeenpwned
Is someone who describes themselves as cooking from fresh ingredients likely dumping loads of ketchup into their food?
I imagine they're trying to imply that someone who was convicted of a serious crime could still be an unreliable, irresponsible, or untrustworthy person.

It's another question whether it's fair to assume that. I don't think it is, though personally I think it's reasonable to take the information into account as long as you restrain yourself from jumping to any conclusions.
For all those criticizing the statement as just PR speak, what would say if you were Zuck?
Indeed. I've been waiting for discovery on youtube to get better, and waiting, and waiting.

I'm subscribed to a lot of channels (mostly sciency and maker stuff) and whenever I got to the "home" tab it's basically just everything from the channels I've already subscribed to, which isn't very helpful. There is some sort of deep laziness going on at youtube which extends across the entire platform. It's very frustrating to watch so many creators put up good content and then have the platform basically fumble handling those creators year after year.
"Source: I'm an industrial electrician and went through an IBEW apprenticeship,"

"any lithium battery from a drill to a tesla is simply a 1.5 volt"

I wouldn't hire you to wire my buildings when you don't even know the nominal voltages for lithium chemistries.
Ask HN: How to form founding team while working for your Startup fulltime
I am working in Silicon Valley for my startup full-time since a lil less than a year. I am a solo founder currently. Because of being a solo founder, it is not the easiest to start building a founding team. What are your suggestions for a solo startup founder like me to tap in to the vast and brilliant talent pool of Silicon Valley. If I cannot get a co-founder or employee no1 in Silicon Valley...then what good is Silicon Valley for?
So you knew that breach happened in 2015, they might have already handed off data to someone else, and you didn't bother telling people? Quoting:

"In 2015, we learned from journalists at The Guardian that Kogan had shared data from his app with Cambridge Analytica. It is against our policies for developers to share data without people's consent, so we immediately banned Kogan's app from our platform, and demanded that Kogan and Cambridge Analytica formally certify that they had deleted all improperly acquired data. They provided these certifications."

What does banning or disabling app means? If you were responsible enough and you cared about user data you should have made it public right there and then! This is no excuse!
Google told to cough up info on anyone near a crime scene
I know a guy who makes videos pointing out the errors in Peterson's logic - I didn't even know who Peterson was, but it's funny how rabid his supporters are, like you.
can this raytracing pipeline be mixed with rasterization pipeline?
Cool!
Hacker Dojo was created by my brother David. :)
It looks nice, but then again:

irb(main):002:0> 10.methods.count
=> 133

Oh well...
Didn’t your supervisor step in and say this is not up to scratch? When I was a supervisor a good chunk of my time was spent going through my student’s and postdoc’s manuscripts to ensure nothing was in them that might embarrass us both.
Seriously, every CEO is held responsible for the actions of the company he runs. He's just restating the obvious here.
I've been using elasticsearch-head [1] for four years now and it seems it has more features than dejavu? Specially the node/shard visualisation.

[1] https://github.com/mobz/elasticsearch-head