skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure that's true. I think its just people realizing the power and reach of internet media giants like facebook.

Nobody wants Russia to spam American news. Nobody wants to filter through media coverage and wonder which one is fake or not.

People I think are looking for a bit more liability. Show me content truthfully, validate its source, don't change the order of my news feed, don't purposely remove some content and add others because you've learned my ad click habits.

Trump is trump, I don't think he's the reason for the outcry. He's mentioned in it, because it can be seen as an example, but people on all side of the political spectrum I think have issue with propaganda, and the power that lies to whom control the internet mass media. So Facebook is scary to all party, and I think only now do a majority of people have woken up to its potential destructive influence. It's not known to what extent that potential is, and the debates will probably focus on that. How much/little regulation is needed to mitigate its applications that can affect our free social democracy, while maximising our capitalist ambitions.
Inaccurate news is news based on outdated or incomplete information.

Fake news is fake information passed off as "news", for whatever reason.

Stories, as they are reported, are constantly evolving and changing in the details. For example, in the Uber AV fatality story, news outlets initially reported the driver as a man named Rafael. The driver's actual name is Rafaela, and she is a woman. The news outlets were wrong but they got their info from a police spokesperson.

To continue reporting the story and say that it involves a driver named Rafael would be inaccurate. But the intent is not deliberate or malicious. Fake reporting would be to say Uber's driver was a 12-year old illegal immigrant, and making that fact up out of the blue.

In regards to reporting on public issues and officials, libel law gives First Amendment protection to reporting false information. A defendant is only culpable of libel/slander if gross negligence or actual malice is found: https://www.rcfp.org/category/glossary-terms/actual-malice
I’m pretty sure “that filtering process” refers to removing frequency components beyond what your sampling rate can support.
Trump received billions in free advertising in the form
of “earned media”.

I don’t know if one could even account for all the third party spending.

Money is not speech, corporations are not people.

Any one who cares about free speech would advocate for restoring the Fairness Doctrine, so we know that angle is just rhetoric.
The allegations revolve around campaign finance. If this data was shared with the Trump campaign, it was a campaign contribution, which has real value, which is limited to $2700 iirc. The data on 50 million Americans is worth well more than $2700. It really depends on if that data was shared, and if it should have been shared.

There is also the question of whether foreigners were working on behalf of the campaign.

There are a number of allegations that should be explored. Do a search, and you'll find these reports fairly easily.
The car can begin to brake right away, and must certainly be expected to have a faster reaction time than a human. Whether it started to brake seems like the most important question here.
Yeah ticks will really swell up on an animal that can't get rid of them. You see them on outdoor dogs sometimes too, they look like grapes they're so full of blood.
Not "FUCK YOU," but as a vote of no-confidence and of optimism for a reset button.

Source: that was my vote.
> Harvesting fruit is far more complex than driving. It's a 3D search through a complex space.

Are you making a joke? "a 3D search [for a path that reaches the destination safely and legally] through complex space" is exactly how I would describe driving. (Also, driving is an online problem.)
Where did you get that information? Channel4 is reporting that Mercer donated to the Trump campaign on the condition that he would take on Steve Bannon and hire CA. Steven Bannon joined the Trump campaign in August 2016, after Trump won the primaries in May.
This is even with most of the global mainstream media supporting Hilary and party. And now the media wants to divert their failures to some social media effect - as if FB only showed pro Trump news.
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I don’t think Brexit really falls into the same category. At the time of the Brexit vote there were a lot of stories in circulation that were incorrect or not telling the whole story. If people were given the real facts, I find it very unlikely that the majority would have still voted leave.

Yes I agree there are some real arguments for leaving, but most people were voting leave for reasons like the NHS getting an extra £350m a week, which turned out to be just spin. Maybe a company like CA was invoked to promote stories, and maybe they were funded by powerful people, but that’s not really a conspiracy.

Even now it’s still unclear on what is going to happen on some major issues, like what will happen to British citizens living in the EU.
Yet weirdly the Komodo Dragon lizard has so much bacteria in its mouth that is how it kills its prey. It just bites, and then waits around for the prey to die of infection.
According to CBS, the trump campaign didn't use the CA data ( they may have in the Primaries):

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-campaign-phased-out-use-o...

In late September 2016, Cambridge and other data vendors were submitting bids to the Trump campaign. Then-candidate Trump's campaign used Cambridge Analytica during the primaries and in the summer because it was never certain the Republican National Committee would be a willing, cooperative partner. Cambridge Analytica instead was a hedge against the RNC, in case it wouldn't share its data.

The crucial decision was made in late September or early October when Mr. Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner and Brad Parscale, Mr. Trump's digital guru on the 2016 campaign, decided to utilize just the RNC data for the general election and used nothing from that point from Cambridge Analytica or any other data vendor. The Trump campaign had tested the RNC data, and it proved to be vastly more accurate than Cambridge Analytica's, and when it was clear the RNC would be a willing partner, Mr. Trump's campaign was able to rely solely on the RNC.
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The data collection isn't the concern. The criminal concern is federal election finance laws potentially being broken, as well as foreigners working for the campaign. There are very real and very serious potential issues here that are being brought up.
Perhaps the reality is two things. One, there may have really was been collusion and manipulation of peoples psyche as the data seems to be trending towards.

But two, as you suggest, perhaps some people really do like him and what he represents. And maybe the "other side" would rather believe Trump voters were tricked then believe the alternative, that Trump voters really love Trump and what he represents.

The thing that posts like yours seem to silently imply is that if "the other side" would just accept Trump and his ideology, the country will be fine. But perhaps two peoples can become so divided that they would rather take up arms against each other then accept the ideology of the other group. This is the possibility that really scares people the most, and is something that no one wants to talk about.
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You only have 60 days to be compliant for your license to be reinstated. The ilks of Allwinner have failed to comply for years, and are outside the scope of the "GPLv2 safeguard" that's the topic here.
The issue isn't the data collection. It's campaign finance laws potentially being broken. It just so happens that data collection was at the center of that.
Plus the two million eligible voters who were denied their right to vote.

But who’s counting?

It’s more fun to argue about facebook, benghazi, email servers, value voters, likeability...
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How do you even do that for a group chat?
[nuster](https://github.com/jiangwenyuan/nuster), A web caching proxy server based on HAProxy released v1.7.9.8

Added more cache purging methods, by host, by path, by regex and their combinations.

### Added

- Purge cache by host

- Purge cache by path

- Purge cache by regex

### Changed

- Incorrect host and path of cache.entry
> They were just conned into it all

Were they conned?

The truth is if the US doesn't fix illegal immigration and put a general slowdown on legal immigration then conservatives are done for and their way of life is going to be slowly destroyed.

All indicators show first and second gen migrants overwhelmingly vote for Democrats.
We have to backtrack on Citizens United vs the FEC decision or else foreign countries and oligarchs will be deciding every election.

You are saying that the dollar amount spent decides every election. Do you really believe that democracy is nothing more than rule by whoever spends the most money?
I believe you missed my point. Those that cry foul over those targeted Facebook ads also fail to realize that people were still willing to drink the Kool-Aid.

Of course, it would be asinine to paint with broad strokes. But one can't disregard that it takes two to tango in exchanges of ideas and information.

Edit: my horrendous spelling
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Every company has its ups and downs. Some downs or negative things warrant their demise. I don’t think what FB did here is worth calling burn the witch on them or actively trying to kill them, and I do hope FB are able to learn from this and change for the better.

Now, that said, I do think there is an underlying point others ops have alluded to: The disdain for Trump and everything that could have helped him win ( legitimately or illegitimately ) which I am not sure is the best way to react. I think that approach is not a very rational one. What needs to be done there w.r.t Trump is probably worth a separate discussion, but I disagree with knee jerk reaction here from the whatsapp founder.
This was posted here, but worth a repost as you might be interested. Most SV VC money, traced back far enough, goes straight to DoD.

https://steveblank.com/secret-history/
I am using `Named` as an argument. In structural type systems, what matters is the type structure. It's not duck typing because it's checked at compile-time.

If I change the type of "Named" to have the fields `firstName` and `lastName` of type string, accessing any other property inside `f` (like `obj.nonExisting`) or passing objects that don't have those fields.
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I guess what Snowden said is true. FB is a surveillance company under the guise of social network. FB is not the only one in this case. All companies which store info could be suspect.
Judging based on anecdotal feelings, you find that it "seems the algorithm is pretty safe"

But if you looked at the data (just numbers I've seen repeated a lot in this thread, heh), you'd find Uber's achieved 1 fatality after only around a couple million miles of driving. The average human being goes a hundred million miles between fatalities. Not a lot of data but so far Uber looks 50 times more dangerous than an average human driver. They have a lot of catching up to do
As a strong libertarian, I have some pretty… unconventional ideas in that regard. Suffice it to say that I think any imprisonment of non-violent or non-property-crime offenders is abhorrent.

But I understand this viewpoint is nutso in the eyes of many. Still, I think most can agree, especially the wealthy Silicon Valley liberal types the tech industry is rife with, that things are out of control with the current state of the "justice" system.
Yes, the conservatives are done for. That is, the party itself will fail to stay relevant.

This doesn't matter to voters. They ought to pick whoever will best serve them. So in that sense, I would argue that yes, they were conned in some respects.
Upon reflection, I wonder where that British term comes from. Maybe it basically means "woman". Reflecting the slur that women are stupid. So it's still sexist, albeit not as vulgar as the US term.
I like this essay but got irritated by the number of times 'nothing to hide' phrase is used.
Your edit is wrong; the NY Times reporter only confirmed the chronology, i.e. that the change happened at a later time than the contact from Facebook PR. She did not confirm that the change was a "result of a request from the Facebook PR team"; in fact she vehemently denied it on Twitter.

The story in this blog post is bullshit; it's made up.

> I was the NYT reporter who was in contact w/Facebook over our Stamos story yesterday. We didn't remove any references to Sandberg at Facebook's request. (For the record, Facebook made no such request). If anything we added MORE detail to the story between the 1st and 2nd versions

https://twitter.com/sheeraf/status/976238483122487296

EDIT to clarify: Nicole Perlroth is the reporter mentioned by name in the blog post who confirmed the chronology. Sheera Frenkel was another reporter on the same NYT byline who tweeted the above. Here's a tweet from Perlroth too:

> Echoing Sheera here. @colinkalmbacher needs to correct his blog post to reflect that it is inaccurate, even his attempt at our name spellings. He should also address why he chose to ignore our responses, which contradicted everything he wrote.

https://twitter.com/nicoleperlroth/status/976241288411430912
Sorry, I wasn't "claiming" it gives a person MS, more so i used the word "Think" as a colloquial sentence starter to get the person's mindset visualizing how certain dis-eases can alter a nervous system's function. Esp at the later stages of the practice, usually after decades of sense refinement from body scanning.
Diaspora, Pulse and a half a dozen other sites and apps tried, and failed spectacularly.

The replacement to Facebook, when it comes along, will look nothing like Facebook.
...or it's not that voters were swayed by anything at all, and lots of people voted for an unproductive celebrity for their own reasons.

In the months and weeks approaching election day, I was struck numerous times by the reality that each political faction was profoundly disconnected from the other, in media consumption silos so different that if you happened to drift from one conversation to another, it felt like crossing an ocean and entering a distant country.

And to me, it was obvious that this social rift had calcified during the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Somehow, amid the victory of the Obama presidency, left wing democrats simply felt as though their job was done, they could die happy, and anything else they imagined as natural was a foregone conclusion of the retirement they were set to sail into.

I don't think the media silos I noticed are the root of the problem. You cannot blame cartoons, talk radio and memes. I strongly believe that complacency, assumption and tone deaf, willful blindness among democratic party consituents led to the results we have watched unfold. I don't think it was New Media manipulation, and I don't think "fixing social media" will solve for the chaos we now see.
What if he were given the option today of selling WhatsApp to Facebook (all other things remaining equal)? Do you think he would have refused?
>The fact that the coffee shop or bar is brimming with overhead cameras is completely lost on them because it is mostly invisible

With the coffee shop, it makes sense; the cameras in retail are expected to only be used for review, when some event occurs. No one expects it to be used for data mining and behavioral analysis purposes. And even if it were, the expectation is that this would be for academic purposes; that is, with no real commercial intent.

Worst case scenario is that it'd end up being archived in a box of tapes somewhere.

Datamining abuses this expectation. But it makes sense for the expectation to exist; it was the norm until extremely recently.
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There are a lot of smart, experienced, thoughtful developers who know from experience that they are more productive using types. And there are smart, experienced, thoughtful developers who know from experience that they are more productive not using types. So something interesting is going on here. Obviously this is not a situation where one of those choices is "objectively correct". It is very likely that both groups are right. So what can we learn from this? Perhaps that it depends on the developer and/or the kind of software they develop whether types make sense or not. It might also depend on how well the developer understands type systems and the kind of exposure they have had to them. I think THAT is a much more interesting conversation to have than the usual "my way is better than yours" typical conversation we have had SOOOOOOO many times.
I'm in the right business too, and one of the things I've realized is that it's not about building software developers need. It's about building software that people authorized to spend a lot of money think the enterprise needs. It's dazzling to listen the Mulesoft folks talk about experience APIs and system APIs while dragging and dropping stuff. I can see why people would go for it.
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Well no, you said more than that.

> "Your side won because... Facebook made you vote that way"

#deletefacebook doesn't mean that people think Facebook made people vote a certain way. It's about Facebook being a poor custodian of personal data and allowing it to be exploited to guide adversarial campaign efforts.

Guiding where to invest efforts and dollars in an election campaign is extremely strategically valuable intelligence. That's different from just changing people's minds.. it's where to push for more voter turnout, for example. So at a minimum Facebook helped identify the psychological profiles and locations of people who were prime targets -- thanks to just a handful of friends who were exploited.
WTF? Spoken like an inveterate speeder... it's at best equally dangerous, the effect you are speaking of happens for both higher and lower speeds. At low speeds, other cars pass you. At high speeds, you pass other cars. Either way, every pass is an opportunity for failure, and the probability is higher the higher the relative speed. However, the road, barriers, trees, etc, is always going at 0 mph, so not just the relative, but also absolute speed control crash severity. Twice the speed means 4 times the kinetic energy... speed kills.
As far as i understand it a jury is supposed to be composed of one's "peers", but the people the parent describes strike me as way off the american norm.
I think a lot of the HN crowd has enough experience and clout to keep from getting exploited, but I'd personally love to be a part of a large union where I can help mentor junior engineers and get help in turn from more senior ones.

I think beyond shared negotiation, what a union could really help with is managing younger engineers' careers. I stuck around in a bad first job way too long because I just didn't have enough experience or exposure to successful engineers to realize how crappy my job really was.
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so, hold on, he's wanting to charge people $10 (to get a file) to attempt to solve the problem, then give a prize of $1000 to anyone who can do it?

Hmmm.

Interesting.
Sure Unions and Corporations should be allowed to express their views on a candidate. But np more than any other individual - that's the real problem, money amplifies people's (or corporation's) voices and corporations have a lot more money to spend on elections than the median voter
The parent didn't say that he is imagining anything. Read the post again.

They are saying that based on the information in the NYT article it does not seem credible that the woman came out of nowhere, that there was no time to react, and that the first thing the driver noticed was the sound of hitting the woman before even seeing her. The driver is a party in this story and may well be at fault for causing her death.
Self-determination and liberty are not necessarily moral either. There have been moral despots and immoral democracies, there is more involved than that.

>Again, there is no comparison.

Yes, there is. On basic principle, the choice between two is not far better than one choice. Beyond that, some of the things done to rig American elections are worse than what Putin does. For example, in 68 Nixon interfered in Vietnam peace talks to ensure election. What would have happened without that is unclear, but it potentially cost hundreds of thousands of lives.
I can't really tell from the video, but they would, in addition to knowing a strawberry was behind a leaf, need to know if they were ripe or not --so they would have to push leaves out of the way to tell visually via color if they were ripe; unless there are other signals that could be used. Basically, "presence" is not equal to "ready for picking".
While the criticism directed at social media is certainly warranted. I feel compelled to take exception with your reliance on false equivalence. It's kinda qualitatively different when you're actively engaging in illegal activity while working hand in glove with a clandestine foreign intelligence service to undermine your own countries democratic elections on behalf of an adversarial foreign nation state. If you can't see the difference, then keep at it. I assure you it's there. But if you already know that then you go ahead and keep explaining to folks how apples and oranges are the same things because they're both round fruit.
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Can AI be used for improving RDBMS performance by letting it figure out what indexes to create and letting it decide the query plan?
> I don’t like being a product.

I'm right there with you. I try not to use Google products either...I guess probably the only one I explicitly use still is Waze...there needs to be a mapping/traffic alternative.
Veriff really caught my attention. I've had to scan the front and then the back of my drivers license a bunch of times and send the jpeg into a company for verification. Doing it all on a phone would be great.
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> the trump campaign didn't use the CA data

That might be technically correct, but CA was unquestionably working with SuperPACs[1] behind the scenes to get Trump elected in November. CA was particularly proud of it's crooked Hillary campaign ("the OO of crooked was a pair of handcuffs").

1. According to the Cambridge Analytica CEO in the Channel 4 undercover documentary https://youtu.be/cy-9iciNF1A?t=6m21s
Nobody complains about the electoral college when their candidate wins. But when they do complain about it, you’ll notice they tend to only mention the shortcomings that support their point of view. For instance, you’ll never hear a Democrat talk about all of the Republican votes that are suppressed in the large liberal states.

Both candidates entered a race to win the electoral college. The race was fair and one of them won. You can’t claim some moral victory by counting the popular vote, because every candidate would campaign very differently to contest a popular vote.

I think you’re correct about one thing though, it is an oversimplification to say that people liked him more. It would be more accurate to say that they thought he would be a better president.
> commonly seen as retribution and punishment, or more generally some kind of revenge

Role of the incarceration is 1) incapacitation, at a bare minimum prevent continuing criminal activity; 2) Rehabilitation, in so far as causes and proclivities toward criminal activity can be remediated, do so; 3) Punishment, enjoying the rewards of criminality offend our sense of fairness.

The problem is (3) seems to be the only one we're capable of...
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