skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Obligatory mention of New Yorker cartoon in Seinfeld's last season, dissected by Mankoff: https://www.newyorker.com/cartoons/bob-mankoff/i-liked-the-k.... Great quote he uses from E. B. White: “Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.” If you still want to go ahead and dissect there's a whole area of linguistics devoted to this topic and this journal: https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/humr
Try PressReader, my friend. Shoot me a DM on Twitter (@jordanpowpow) and I'll get you started with some free access.

If you like it, awesome. If not, that's cool.

It's unlimited newspapers AND magazines. 7,000 of them. You can create 'playlists' and set auto downloads.

And every time you read something, the publisher gets paid a royalty.
Err...not really.
Hm, the catch here is something like this could happen:

+--------------+ +----------+ +--------------+
| | | | | |
| other server | | Server | | other server |
| | | | | |
+-------+------+ +----+-----+ +-------+------+
^ | ^
| | |
| http request |
| containing user |
| data for UI |
http request made | rouge http request
with a legit purpose | sending the user data
say fetching assets v to some other server
| +-------+-------+ |
| | | |
+------------+ mobile app +--------------+
| |
+---------------+

And there is really no way of knowing which requests are for legit app purposes and which would be leaking data. Now, you could require that the mobile app make no requests to any service but Facebook, which brings two questions:

1. can facebook do this? Apple could; they approve apps and get the binary/manifest before the app is released. But how could Facebook enforce this?

2. would developers be ok with this? Relying 100% on facebook?

It is an option, I'm not saying it's infeasible. An interesting idea for sure, thanks for sharing!
Cool to see that you created a notebook and are publishing this like a paper. I was thinking of doing some projects and this looks like a good format to follow.

However, this looks to be grossly overfitting. You can't just randomly drop out samples in a time series and use those for the test dataset. You need to cut out larger contiguous sequential time ranges and reserve those for your test set. Probably a single contiguous time window.

Anyone can predict with a high degree of accuracy what stock price is given the last 5 days and the next 5 days.

Predicting a few randomly dropped out pixels in that graph is really easy due to the nature of time series. You can just interpolate it.
It is private and permissioned. You deploy the software on a server and create / send access keys to users you know.
Pantographs are even better, they allow you to scale.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantograph
Too late. Deleted Facebook last night.

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me 763 times, shame on me.
Which seems all the more reason to demand transparency in "cui bono"/"who benefits?" for micro-targeting, especially paid micro-targeting.
but the quality of their journalism is generally superb.

What's an example to you of an article on a hot-point issue where you think the quality of their journalism was superb? And how do you know the quality of their journalism in that article was superb?

I have noticed that on topics that I have independent knowledge of, particularly topics relating to race, sex, or politics, I often find their reporting to be slanted and misleading. They care more about selecting anecdotes and statistics to fit the narrative, rather than starting from the perspective of picking representative anecdotes and a full composite of statistics that give you the actual truth of the matter.
Do some of the alternative platforms offer a way to repudiate a "published" paper?
That's true now. A decade ago, being a development platform was their main goal.
Imagine a billboard, you drive and the content changes because your GPS is close to that billboard

Or your Google self-driving car just happens to pick a route past certain billboards and retailers...
Say what? Ruby has been faster than Python for interpreted code for years now.

Granted, Python is faster for tasks like those Numpy solves, but in arbitrary execution performance, python is just slower. 8x has NEVER been true. That must have been you doing some really bad stuff in one of them but not both.
I wonder what do they do with Service Worker updates that the browser normally does every day or so. Do they somehow block install and activate events? If not then the attacker just needs to update the worker and the history repeats.
Great quote from Paul Graham on Yahoo's demise: Hacker culture often seems kind of irresponsible. That's why people proposing to destroy it [replacing it with "suit" culture] use phrases like "adult supervision." That was the phrase they used at Yahoo. But there are worse things than seeming irresponsible. Losing, for example.
> but they're mid-2000s tech in quality .

This was the most disappointing part of being acquired. It was quite a wake-up call to realize that the culture inside Yahoo actually believed that their tech stack was good and competitive and that they were as innovative as Google/Facebook/Microsoft/Amazon.

Nope. Yahoo obviously had a bunch of really clever people working there up until the year 2000, and they had to build a lot of things that didn't exist back then, because they were the first internet behemoth. But then all of those really clever people quit, and the company was left trying to steward the existing systems, while not having enough brainpower to create successor systems. So they were stuck, and a myopic "we're hot shit!" culture developed.

Meanwhile, the rest of the world went on, and "Yahoo scale" just aren't very impressive numbers anymore, and their 2000's tech stacks are just horribly overly complex solutions.
It's actually using just one day's data (one point) to predict the next day's data, let alone predicting 5 days.
I don't agree that server-side rendering tends to be faster. I think it largely depends on the use case. I am going to use the word "responsive" rather than "faster" since it is more descriptive of how a UI feels. If you don't need to go to the server, performing an action will be more responsive if done client-side in general. If you do have to go to the server, then you are at the mercy of the network. However the less data transferred, the better in terms of responsiveness. In many cases, asking the server for JSON rather than HTML/JS/CSS is more responsive. Render time is also a factor. If client render time is slower than network/server time, then rendering on the server is more responsive in general.
At a guess, I think they didn't really realize how serious this data is at scale. After all this was (I think, anyone know the actual details?) fairly mundane data. Name, age, last check-in date, pages you like, public figures you follow, posts you liked, friends, stuff you're interested in. MySpace/LinkedIn/etc made this stuff public, on FB it was mostly semi-private.

The reason this whole thing became a scandal is because data is powerful at scale. To quote The Guardian's original article:

"(Cambridge Analytica) used them (data) to build a powerful software program to predict and influence choices at the ballot box."

Facebook now have a $50bn business based on using exactly this kind of data "to predict and influence choices" people make. That's why their ad system works now, and didn't just a few years ago. They got very good at using large quantities of otherwise mundane data to guess who will click an ad and sign up to a cookie subscription or who needs a mortgage.

This is the same thing. If you know who's a maker and what seminar's they'll like, you know whos a Tory and what conspiracy meme they like. FB now know how powerful that is, but I'm not sure they did then.

Still... this sounds only semi-tangentially related to privacy. It is technically user data, but IDK if individual users were violated that much, at least relative to other breaches. It's not like the icloud breech, or Ashley Madison. Generally not data that people are horrified to find someone knows.

I think the meat of this issue is "power got into the wrong hands." At least that's what The Guardian was concerned with. User privacy is just the only violation. Power is the problem.

On that note, is FB the "right hands?."

Incidentally, all this is interesting in the context of Zuck running for office, or even just being involved in a politics. Whatever Cambridge Analytica could do, Zuck could day a lot more.

On top of that, he heads the biggest and most influential news/media company that ever existed. He should probably be banned from political involvement.
The solution I wish for is one in which the knowledge graph generating users' news feeds is opened to users. Rather than hoping that an aggregator platform will pick what they need to read, a user ought to be able to ask questions like, "Show me articles arguing _", or, "Show me articles that contradict this one," or, "Show me articles about [topic] which users have labeled clarifying (or any synonym of clarifying)."
Would be cool to get something concrete out of this, eg a guarantee, at least, that people who do not use FB at all or are currently logged out are not tracked. Because right now whether you are logged in or not, you are tracked by dozens of different companies, including FB and Google. This non-consensual tracking is creepy AF, and the only reason it exists is because 90% of users are not aware of it, or its ramifications.
They probably assumed that if devs couldn't access the data anymore it wouldn't be a problem in the future.

> 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.

Sounds like they'll make the developer agreement legally binding so they can take legal action for violating the ToS.
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> you're going to need to pay somebody to "design the menu" for you.

In the proposed model, you are paying New York Times to design the menu, if it so tickles your fancy. You can browse to their homepage and feast on an all you can read buffet, thereby increasing their statistics in the system and giving them a proportional larger share of the revenue stream. But you can also read the occasional WSJ or FT article.
You meant: why sell the cow once, if you can continue to sell milk indefinitely :)
This is my story too. I dropped learning and got laid off. I spent 4 months looking for a job. I joined a team that did j2ee but couldn't handle the complexity of it. Got laid off again. Spent 4 months looking for a job. Now I got production support job. I want to get back in programming but I find all the new technology so hard.
More like the herd got out six years ago, and Z is trying to distract from the fact that it's a glue factory.
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The parent said "gathering and storing". While facebook is a lot more loose about who they give that data to it's still worth taking a long hard look at what data you want these companies to have, and consider how they are using it today and what they might be using it for or who they might expose it to tomorrow.
Oops, my bad. I meant this one:

https://www.amazon.com/TANGLED-WEB-Digital-Shadows-Cyberspac...
Perhaps people don't feel like spamming a number of people with a conversation that only needs two participants.
The words he's been rehearsing in hours of mock interviews with the same PR hacks, for the last couple days.
Trust me that a minute spent reviewing a paper is one less minute you have toward your actual KPI’s. About the only value of peer review is to give the paper to your students and tell them to find all the mistakes and holes in the paper. This is actually quite a good for the education of grad students as they learn what not to do.
I was reckless and wrote papers unrelated to my dissertation and submitted without going through my advisor.

Fortunately, the bad ones were rejected. The good ones ended up making me well-recognized in some extremely tiny niches, and ultimately did way more for my career than my PhD work did :D I'm really glad some of the bad ones didn't see the light of day :P
I think my biggest takeaway from this article is how few names I recognise in it, apart from all the CEOs, despite working for Yahoo! from 1999 to 2011. Mind you, in Europe I rarely felt particularly connected to what was going in in Sunnyvale. Still proud to have worked on the official FIFA world cup website, among other things.

The Google misstep (as it was considered by many) hurt for a while. The high traffic mailing list for unmoderated developer chat eventually begat a "what would Google do?" offshoot because Gmail this, search that, page rank the other were dominating too many threads.
But Mozilla doesn't let me download the files directly. I copied the XPI link and tried to download it with curl, but got an empty file.
Nothing in the concept of OO enforces mutability. The paradigm doesn't enforce anything at all there. You want immutable objects that never changes once created? Fine, go for it.
It's because the test dataset involves randomly choosing samples spread throughout the time series.

Imagine dropping 10% of the pixels randomly spaced out in a historical graph and then try to fill them in. It's trivial because you can just average the previous and next sample and have an extremely high accuracy.
How about decentralized social networks?
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Giving our data away is key to safety. How can companies like the CIA, FBI AND ICE keep us safe, if Face Book does NOT have any data to hack?
> Hashbrowns. Mashed potatoes. Fried in butter or oil in the former, butter added to make them taste good for the latter.

I have never used a full stick of butter in the making of either of these. For hash I use as little as I need to lubricate the potatoes. For mashed I use about 1 tablespoon per 2.5 pounds of potatoes. Since I have never made 20 pounds at once, I have never used a full stick.
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fair point, something to think about for me
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Why they admit that they'd audit the pre-2014 apps now when NYT and Guardian/Observer broke the news?

I don't know, they should have done it when Obama committed even worse Facebook privacy violations back in 2008/2012. I guess when you have Chris Hughes working for your campaign, it's easier to keep things under wraps and spin what does become public as a positive. It was only after Trump won that this kind of use of the data became an issue for the press. The Obama-era articles on this subject actually celebrated the use of these techniques almost universally.

And what policy is in place now that makes sure that these 3rd party Devs won't sell whatever info they do collect as per post-2014 policy?

You're not understanding what he said. The Facebook platform was completely neutered in 2014. They broke my (and most other developers') apps by disabling access to almost any friend information, even things as mundane as public profile pictures. In fact, these days, more information can be gleaned by scraping publicly available data from Facebook than can be obtained through the API. The post-2014 policy has zero chance of any friend data being sold/abused/whatever, because apps simply don't have access to the data anymore.
I met one asking are you package users or know the underhood.

Your interpretation is well said. I am doing that 80% stuff. it seems to deliver a lot and feel like developers
currently I am writing very defensive codes which not addressing problem directly. I just want to get it done quickly.
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Nice work! It looks really cool. The JS scripting is of particular interest to me, as I’ve recently been experimenting with sandboxing user scripts within a v8 vm instantiated from a go program, with v8 statically linked to the compiled go program executable.

I’m on mobile so I’ve only glanced at the code, but what was your experience like interacting with v8 from c++? Any tips, or dare I say, pointers for implementing v8 as a scripting engine?
The academic peer review debate has strong parallels to the social-media news debate -- As traditional newspapers/ TV channels are no longer gatekeepers of publication, we have given up a level of vetting in exchange for freedom-from-censorship. But that puts an onus on consumers -- it's not right for consumer to accept everything they see with the same level of default trust they had before. Consumers still must "consider the source", and society to create an effective replacement for the editorial filters we are discarding.

see also: "web of trust"
Absolutely hilarious. Just opening the page on my phone, I get 90% crap, 10% content (see https://imgur.com/a/sh3Xl).

Memorable quotes:

"We have responsibility to protect your data"

"We will investigate"

"..we announced that we were changing.."

"I started Facebook"
There's no way to block activate events, but there's a way to delay them. In the meantime, you can check the new Service Worker file against GitHub, and if it doesn't match, warn the user.
JRuby is now about 3x faster than MRI, thanks to improvements in JRuby and increased support from the JVM for optimizing dynamic languages like invokedynamic.
I didn't have any prior degree so I couldn't go straight to masters. Not even any transfer credits. But I was able to test out (via CLEP) for the equivalent of 4 classes including the language requirement, which saved me a semester.
Try doing it while working full time for someone else!

Heck, it sounds like you’re working for yourself ... if building a team is a priority, then just do it!
And disabling JS permanently makes almost all other websites better!
Yes! Wow, that was a long time ago. FWIW, it looks like Archive.org has a copy of the press release:

https://web.archive.org/web/20080214193303/http://www.facebo...
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> emasculating

that's an unfortunate word.
I don't think that's true, because of the `shuffle = False` argument to `train_test_split`; it's just chopping the tail off for the test set.
If he wants to know what the general public thinks or has to say, he should do a Reddit AMA. That would be the best response IMO.
This equivalence is false. Facebook’s business is selling access to your private data to third parties. Google’s business is not that. They are not the same.
That's not relevant here. Most code uses those things, no??
Exactly this; no one is sorry, they're sorry they got caught after the fact. This is simply an attempt at ass covering and shifting blame onto Cambridge Analytica so users / investors / governments don't sue Facebook.
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> google was altering their search results

Hnm, I think google is somewhat biased, but I can agree that this claim is weird, is it that bad though?

> Marxist academics are out to destroy society

History speaks for itself

> Bill C 16 and Free Speech

Kinda ties back to the Marxists, every video I've seen he said he would call trans with whatever pronoun they like, he opposes the government creating speech laws, which I think is a valid argument.
I don't think it's designed as a competitor to AD, but rather to smooth the AD-cloud user transition, especially as more and more companies buy into SaaS like O365/GApps, etc.

You are right about SAML of course, but my point is how the lines between SSO/SAML etc and AD/LDAP etc are getting blured because companies want them to essentially work as a single unit.

Here are a couple of the interesting alternatives in the arena:

https://github.com/apereo/cas

https://www.univention.com/products/ucs/

https://www.shibboleth.net/

https://wso2.com/

One of my planned side projects is to test each of these.
John Hennessy was the president of Stanford is now the Executive Chairman of Alphabet. He has been and is being well rewarded for his work.
> How can you explain European Christianity with top down imposed rule if the Western Empire collapsed before the medieval ages?

Much of it by Francia, whose first King converted to Christianity in 496, and which rapidly became the dominant power in Western Europe.
Is he wrong though?
1) agreed - for mobile apps to maintain some semblance of data sandboxing, this would require FB to work with Apple. I'm imagining some kind of new iOS "Secure API" where the return values from certain API calls are marked "tainted" and then Apple uses static binary analysis to reject apps that write the tainted data to non-whitelisted socket calls.

2) Developers simply wouldn't have a a choice in the matter - FB is so big that they can force the market in a certain direction if they want to.
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Apple is good about PR promising user privacy. In regard to making good on that promise, however, they have yet to take action.
Predicting for only the last year is good, but there are two even better ways:

- An expanding window where you train on the first year of data and predict the second. Then train on the first two years and predict the third, etc.

- A rolling window where you train on years 1 and 2 and predict 3. Then train on 2 and 3 and predict 4, etc.

You need to show that your predictions work for any time period, not just the past year.
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I think the "one reader" refers to the reviewer, who ostensibly should read as a part of the review process.
I'm glad the article called out that they can't prove a casual connection between payments and prescribing because the cause and effect could be the reverse.

When drug companies are looking for physicians to speak at conferences or speak to other physicians, they are looking for "true believers" in the product. Why else would you work with them.

As such, it's not surprising these physicians prescribe more branded products and that there is a higher cost per patient. I wonder whether or not that would be true without the payments.
The article doesn't even mention the whole Yahoo-Alibaba fiasco.
Here is a one attempt at using environmental, social and governance (ESG) integration factors to create an index of companies that are measured beyond just the basic plain vanilla profitability/market cap metrics:

https://www.msci.com/esg-ratings

https://www.msci.com/research/esg-research

Recommended watching the following TED video to introduce the topic:
https://www.ted.com/watch/ted-institute/ted-state-street/aud...
2018’s 3P data and tracking tech no longer needs to violate FB policy to do what was done in 2013.

FB provides a platform for ads, sure, but it can be used for way more than just ads.

3P tracking can infer who (even specifically) is viewing ads and it knows the social graph by other means. It can also do effective mass psychometric tests. A/B testing infrastructure can be used for more than just optimizing ads ... all of the psychometric dimensions tested by Kogan’s 2013 app can be expressed as embedded imagery and messaging in ads, and the same types of tests can operate at the same scale by integrating 3P data and tracking (some of which certainly originates from policy-compliant FB apps) which already knows the social graph beyond what FB will allow a single app or ad to draw.