skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
instead of deleting my account, i wrote an email which i bcc’d to my “real” friends: i’m deleting our facebook friendship, i love you and expect we can stay in touch just fine without.
then i deleted all my fb connections, and left a public account with no friends and a publi message about how to find me.
if i want to spam a post to my people, i use the bcc email.

i still have an account for logins. i could technically make messages happen.

i don’t have to eject all my pictures, or delude myself about the efficacy of “deleting” my fb account, but i can be sure nobody is going to benefit from selling my social graph to my “friends” or frienemies
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If you launch to the west this might be viable. The government wouldn't be particular thrilled about test flights over land (or any flight over land), but for a test flight you would want something longer than a jump across the continent anyway.
By toxic, of course, you mean "not devoid of emotion"?
The BBC worldwide service is funded by advertisements. If you browse their website from outside the UK, you get redirected to BBC.com which is plastered with ads.
(Yeah yeah "I don't trust your source", but my methamphetamine-enthusiast uncle assures me that Safeway supermarket lets the Jews decide how much salt your food is allowed to have, and Gwyneth Paltrow's magnet stickers can totally cure hemorrhoids...)
It's the domain they use when an engineering team doesn't make the website; this was probably made by a marketing team, so it doesn't go on google.com.
This seems strange to me since Salesforce already has an ownership stake in the chief competitor to MuleSoft, Informatica Cloud. Salesforce was one of the four companies that took Informatica private [1] three years ago but it seemed like Salesforce was still treating Informatica, MuleSoft and the other cloud data integration solutions equally. Now if Salesforce fully owns MuleSoft, I expect them to prefer it over the other solutions.

It seems like they are cutting their own throat in a bid to gain more data integration revenue, except the other companies will reduce their partnership with Salesforce so the total revenue decreases over time.

[1] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/08/07/informatica_buyout_...
Facebook is just one target right now. Working in ad tech, you know how many data brokers are available and how much information your phone and apps, regardless of OS, leaks real time personal data. The issue is with the ad tech industry as a whole.
This may be true with large datasets, but with small datasets it's no contest. I don't have to show a kid a thousand slightly diffferent bananas in different environments to teach them what a banana is.
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So if you are going 10% faster (38 vs 35) you have 121% the kinetic energy.
That's a very good question. As a business owner, as far as I'm concerned I'm tied to Facebook. As someone who writes a local blog, Facebook is where I get most of my information about my city.

The Internet (and this thread) is full of people telling you to get off Facebook and go to something else, but especially for businesses, what else is there? I have thousands of followers on Facebook and Facebook drives 90% of the traffic to my site, meanwhile my email newsletter has 6 subscribers.

When I'm walking, I like to know where my next step is before I take it. Without that, shutting down Facebook means shutting down my business.

A lot of people here are telling me to take the step, but can anyone tell me where my foot is going to land when I do?
Not sure why people are so hung up on the "breach" vs "not a breach" debate. The issue is this: taking a random personality quiz online is old news. We've been doing these since the 90s. The problem is that when you log in with FB, your real name, and all of your metadata is attached to that quiz.

It's not just "IP 12.342.32.1 is chaotic neutral" but "'Bob Smith, with a degree in X from Y, that likes A, B, and C and is newlywed' is chaotic neutral." The issue isn't really the quiz (and it's not even CA tbh), it's Facebook giving out real names, real pictures, etc. every time you "Log in with Facebook" on any random website or app.
Super off topic....

Do you also feel the same about murder of other sentient beings?
You think it's ironic that people with fences around their houses think a 1,954 mile wall 30 feet high is impractical? What makes that ironic?

Are you suggesting that in these heavily walled Southwestern cities, people are using fences primarily as a form of defense against immigrants, and it's therefore ironic that they think their home walls will successfully protect them from large scale immigration, but not a wall along the border of two countries?
The Google News Initiative is yet another attempt to combat fake news
And, later, Borland C++. I still have fond memories of that blue-green screen.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11791052 has some coverage of the topic.
> this type of Data Sharing has been known about in our community for years.

> why are we making such a big deal of it now? One whistle blower?

The "we" who are making a "big deal of it now" is not the HN community.

> Our media/TV is tightly manipulated and controlled. I mean if anything, this leak should make that more obvious than anything! So it's not so far out there as you might think.

It is far out if you have a limited view of current events and how the world works. Zuckerberg is already eating shit from all sides in America, including questioning by Sen. Wyden [0]. So who are these "unknown actors" who have the power to control not just the U.S. Senate, but a totally separate governmental body? And why the hell would these "unknown actors" risk organizing that kind of conspiracy when it is completely unneeded? Don't you think that pulling strings at that level has some costs and baggage associated with it? But "unknown actors" are willing to risk it to add a little more bad PR to someone who is not even yet near the initial stages of a candidacy?

Why is that all more reasonable than the boring explanation that: most people don't know the details about Facebook's data hoarding/sharing, and now that high-profile investigations have come to light, people are more inclined to be pissed than complacent? That's how politics and public outrage work. It hasn't even been a week since another U.S. Senator proposed legislation and wrote a similarly angry letter to United Airlines because a dumbass flight attendant caused a puppy to die [1]. Where's the conspiracy behind that?

[0] https://www.wyden.senate.gov/news/press-releases/wyden-quest...

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/14/politics/dog-death-united-ken...
Which they won't. Very few people of significance from the 2008 financial collapse are in jail. The justice system in America doesn't apply to the 1%.

There was a movement that tried to make people aware of that by camping out for weeks. They were marginalized, by the news and media agencies owned by that same 1%.

As the previous post stated, this type of stuff was know in 2011 and 2014. There is a good chance the only reason this is making such strong headwind now is because it's in someone's interest to have the media run with these stories.
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This is the most important and disturbing part in my view:

> At the same time, MONKEYROCKET is also described in the documents as a “non-Western Internet anonymization service” with a “significant user base” in Iran and China, with the program brought online in summer 2012. It is unclear what exactly this product was, but it would appear that it was promoted on the internet under false pretenses...

> The scope of the targeting would then expand beyond terrorists. Whatever this piece of software was, it functioned a privacy bait and switch, tricking Bitcoin users into using a tool they thought would provide anonymity online but was actually funneling data directly to the NSA.

One has to wonder what this tool was. Later in the article they speculate that it could be a VPN.

My advice if you want your traffic to be anonymous and private: use a VPN over Tor (not the other way around!). That way the VPN can't see who you are, and Tor exit nodes can't spy on your traffic either.
As a SAW gunner in Afghanistan on my last deployment, my combat load minus body weight was > 90lbs.

This was for double digit (at least) hours long missions many times per week in mountains around +/-10K ft. Brutal.. lol

The accumulated weight of every little required item needed on missions.. a perpetual source of annoyance.
> "This doesn't have a formal meaning, therefore it's not useful" is quite a logical leap you've got there.

It means that everyone defines strong and weak in their own way, which has happened in every type system debate I've seen over the past 15 years.

> "Soundness" certainly gives stronger guarantees, but it's more than I've needed.

Soundness is exactly the metric you need. Either you can rely on your type system not to lie to you, or you can't.

Programming language expressiveness means "Felleisen expressiveness". It's a metric approximated by source code compression, which is why the great programming shootout includes gzip metrics for source programs.
In case you missed it, this project is no longer being actively developed: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/eve-talk/YFguOGkNrBo/E...
This is no longer an active project...
https://twitter.com/with_eve/status/956258695049981952
Odd that its not mentioned on their site though?
Unrelated: In a previous talk, Brian Chesky mentioned writing down the core values of Airbnb before they had hired a single employee - do you think (other) startups should follow this example in the early days and consider the future culture of the company?
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There probably is a term for it, and tragedy of the commons is pretty close to being appropriate
Watch the "Pentagon Wars - Bradley Fighting Vehicle Evolution" video: https://youtu.be/aXQ2lO3ieBA

It's a great example of how trying to design a product that works well for every stakeholder in every scenario leads to a Frankenstein of a product that doesn't work well for anybody. This happens all too often in government (typically military) contracts.
Who just walks out in front of headlights on a dark street at night? Who DOES THAT?

This appears to me to be a suicide.
Did they solve the PTT problem yet? Or the direct mode problem? Or the spectrum problem? lol
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Is there a conceptual difference between GUI and TUI? Same UI elements, only represented by different technical means. CLI is different, but CLI does not have to be text-only.
> How do you catch this broken unit test?

def test_increment(x):
assertEqual(increment(x), x - 1)

This isn't a trick question. You run the test, and see that it fails.

If you write the wrong test or the wrong type AND the wrong implementation, they won't help you, but the point of both types and tests is that you have to make two mistakes for a bug to get into production. It's possible that in your test, I could have made the same error in the implementation of `increment`, but it's a great deal less likely than making that error in just the implementation or just the test.

And to be clear, I'm not saying any of this as a "types versus unit tests" thing. I've specifically said that both are useful and needed for reliable software.

> The answer to your question is, you can't. In this case the implementation is the specification. You're going to have to set a more meaningful challenge.

You totally can catch this bug with some type systems (Coq, for example), it's just much easier to catch this bug with a unit test in most languages.

I think that your boss would probably disagree with you that this bug is not meaningful if it makes it into production. You don't get to pick and choose which bugs are meaningful because they don't support your views.
My original argument was:

>The stock price of __good__ tech companies will not collapse because they stop making profits, gaining market share or growing. It collapses because they are overvalued.

>People simply refuse to understand that great companies can't escape massive over-valuation just because they are great companies.

You are arguing that Amazon is a good company with good business model, just like I predicted people will do.

What you must do is to take the current market cap of Amazon and then calculate how big it's market share must be to justify it's current valuation. Then you must make a sanity check and compare it to total markets in US and OECD and think if that king of growth is possible.
Nice! Classic memories :)
Also, 100% of the internal CDN stuff for ticketmaster.com was squid. I know because I was on the team that configured them in ~2007.
Good. Under GDPR, if there can be no consent, there can be no data.
I used a heart hate monitor once and that thing was always beeping
The Sovereign would never risk a showdown with the House of Commons because the latter would win. As such, the Sovereign’s role is largely ceremonial.
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The way I'm reading that is that if it is anybody but Zuckerberg, it will not reflect well on Facebook during their testimony.
When viewed in a certain light, maybe. But the monarch's hands are tied by parliament: while in theory the Queen may choose not to assent to a bill put before her, it's widely considered that freedom would be withdrawn if she actually tried to use it.

Much of what goes into the sausage-making that is the UK parliamentary system is there by custom, on the one hand because it would be legislatively expensive to modernise; on the other because no-one would ever agree on what to replace it with.
From [1]

>In addition, the lease would accommodate recovery operations undertaken by Space Exploration Technologies to bring to shore vehicles returning from space that are retrieved by an autonomous drone ship offshore.

So they would have the option of doing that at the new manufacturing facility (even though we can speculate that that would not be the norm).

1: https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/85i6rd/bfr_producti...
So far, no POTUS' actions (taken as a whole) support a feel-good narrative. Unpleasant compromises, manipulation, and dishonesty may be inherent to winning a national election and then running a 330-million-person organization.
It's 10 to 12.5 hour days six days a week. My sister is an animator for Disney and they do this every other year. But they also have significant bonuses associated with these crunches it's not unpaid overtime.

Not something I want to be part of, but 30+k bonus for six months of hell is a choice many people would happily take. Hell look at fishing boats they do 15 hour days of hard and dangerous manual labor. But, again they tend to pay people for that effort.
Wow you really, REALLY like Google based on your comment history
They’re not equivalent. Radiation is likely
to mutate DNA, but it’s also likely that the body self-repairs such mutations. Lead, however, has no self-defense mechanism. It mimics chemistry in the synapses between neurons causing havoc with nervous communication. It does a host of other horrible things across the body depending on where it ends up.

There is no safe amount. Clearly it exists in nature, as does arsinic and uranium, so we will be exposed to toxins unavoidably. That doesn’t mean it’s safe or good, especially to be consciously added to your daily coffee.
> sounds like a definition of "job satisfaction"

Depends if you like dealing with people, right?
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It's insanely easier to filter those things out with email.

It's been years since I've used FB, but I don't recall any very good filters for those types of things, and in fact they are incentivized to show you more of them.
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The Canadian stores were very well kept and actually performed so well that MGA Entertainment (Bratz dolls, etc) was trying to get a group of other toymakers together to try and keep those stores open.
Is this related to the eveonline game?
For now yes, but it looks like SpaceX are considering doing at least some manufacturing in Texas in the long run.

https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-mars-rocket-factory-south-t...
I don't think it's about ideology as much as interests. In the 80s and 90s, the US was the world's most economically powerful country and was able to use free trade to further its own interests; the ideological arguments for free trade were constructed to justify policies which were deemed to be in the interest of the US and its owners. Now that the US is facing serious competition, protectionism is gradually becoming a more rational policy, and the public ideology of American politicians is adapting.
mBank. Funny thing is that mBank started as purely as an internet bank. Nowadays it has also stationary branches. I think that most banks in Poland had to up their game, because of mBank.

And you can have cheap transfers in EU between EUR accounts, even when the country does not use euro as the currency. It's around 1.something EUR.
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I do this a lot too, and just one word of warning from personal experience: don’t overwork one spot, or apply steady pressure to one spot for a long time. The former is going to cause a feedback loop of swelling and irritation, leading to more overwork, and so on. The latter just hurts, and impinges on circulation.

For the lower back, I recommend a “foam roller” although it hurts at first, my god does it help.
Yup, just what we might expect -- hordes of downvotes, zero discussion.

I used to think Snowden was cool too, until I read more. He was a lousy sysadmin, and definitely not as pure-intentioned as he claimed. And the information he released had definitely damaged the US and the western democracies' ability to maintain national security.

edit:typo (correct to "used to")
The marketing specifically showed viewers of their content not wearing any gear.

For example: the famous whale splashing in a gym video.

Unless you’re arguing that Magic Leap themselves were uninformed bystanders to their own marketing videos... that’s simply not true.
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The nostalgia is super high in this one. I still have all my AOL & Netscape CD's laying around somewhere. As well as some old zip drives, floppies and my original Gateway desktop along with an old IBM machine.

I should dust them off and see if they still run.

I didn't even realize at the time T1 meant 1.54mbps; we definitely take for granted the speed today (currently at 250mbps for roughly ~$60USD/mo).

Great article :).
Probably works there, or is paid to be PR.
Amazon seems only interested in buying the real estate, not the Toys R Us brand or business. Here's a quote from the article:

"The online giant isn’t interested in maintaining the Toys “R” Us brand, but has considered using the soon-to-be-vacant spaces for its own purposes, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the talks are private."
It might be beneficial to engage in such fiction, seeing how unable the right is to even pretend to put country above self-interest with regards to election hacking.

But let’s not pretend that this fiction is true. Only one campaign hired this company. And if they are bragging to journalists now that they are willing to entrap politicians with hired prostitutes, I’m fairly certain they would have had some things in their sales pitch two years ago that would raise red flags in an ethical campaign.

The people you hire are a reflection of your character. And if they end up arrested one after another, it becomes less and less likely to just be bad luck.
Is it a competition? I made 20/23 in this quiz.
A leveraged buy out like the one Bain Capital used here is often used to milk cashflow and value out of a business that is in a bad position. They essentially seized on the opportunity that Toys R Us' bad decisions left them in to buy them with debt and use them as an ATM. I suspect that Bain didn't care about letting them grow, and saw this as an opportunity to bleed out all value from them for their remaining years until they could file for bankruptcy and liquidate.
I'd contend that (a) it's still murder even if the victim isn't innocent, and (b) embryos aren't human.

Especially the sort of early-stage embryo used here. There wouldn't be even a hint of a brain.
Many of the largest players in the 2008 financial collapse -- e.g. banks -- are not regulated by the FTC:

https://www.ftc.gov/about-ftc/what-we-do/enforcement-authori...
Not sure what you mean by "out of the box". Both Google Cloud Storage and Amazon S3 have cross-region replication built in. Something not "in the box" would imply you have to build it yourself, or buy a vendor product, to get it.

Google Cloud Storage's multi-regional support (asynchronously replicated to two or more geographic locations) is even easier than AWS: You simply specify, on bucket creation, whether the bucket should be regional or multi-regional.
This kind of marketing content is often provided by an agency. Hosting it on google.com where users are logged in would require extremely strict security reviews.
The possibly-apocryphal story of the first Han ruler, Emperor Gaozu (pre-regnal name Liu Bang), is that he was overseeing the transport of convicts when some escaped. Since the penalty for allowing an escape was death, he released all of the convicts, went into the mountains and became the leader of an outlaw group which came out on top after the fall of the Qin dynasty.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Gaozu_of_Han
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But in that case the second image was already stored in (low significance portions) the first. A truly innocuous image won't have such stored data.
Your life might be better, but mine wouldn't be. I use FB to keep up with loved ones and discover local events. That's it. It's not toxic or upsetting to me. All news is filtered out of my timeline.

The privacy issues are my only motivation to quit, and between Google, LinkedIn/Microsoft, and FB, my privacy is irreparably fucked anyway, so it feels futile to try to fix it now.
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I'm very surprised by this. What about WhatsApp and other messaging apps?
Not what I said, total burnout = zero work done. Yea, they might only be 1/2 as efficient as someone doing a 40 hour week, but meeting etc add overhead so it can still be a net gain even with dramatic productivity loss.
Discussion from original release in 2016 (nearly 400 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12817468
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Ghost... such fond memories. I was like black magic to be able to pull a drive running out of space, ghost it to a new larger drive, while resizing the partition, and stick it back in the server and just boot it up.
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