skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How do you know Google does the same thing? What can you get out of Google by writing an app?

Off the top of my head, I don't think Google even has most people's friends lists (outside Orkut back in the day, and Google+, which isn't so popular). They do have contact lists in Gmail, which is a bit different.

There is address book spamming via mobile apps, but again, there are permissions. How good are they?

It seems like it's "the same thing" only if you ignore all technical detail. We should be able to do better than that!
How do we empower cops to be honest?
Why do we empower them to allow such misbehavior?
tl;dr: "We want to privatize parole so we can siphon some sweet government cheese and have near zero accountability".

Where will the perverse incentives land this company in 10 years? Will we see them lobbying to keep xyz illegal so as to maintain their "customer base"? Will they under-report parole violations so not to undermine their income, thereby leading to (terrible crime z)? Who knows. It's not a thing that should be privatized, because money can't be trusted, because incentives corrupt.

But hey, if it makes YC a buck...
Time Machine backs them up, as well as iCloud.
I purposely blocked all news of a certain sort, and they still get pushed to the top of my feed. I'm convinced that Google is using News to push its agenda, as evidenced by both my experience and Eric Schmidt's comments [1]

1. https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/pa39vv/eric-schmi...
Hahaha, I love some of the replies when he revisted the thread 4 years later:

" Isn't this one of the apps that take all your contacts from your device and upload them to a remote server? Since I have many non-contact entries in my address book (e.g. a contact card with DOB's, passport numbers, etc.), I'm reluctant to use such an app since it would indiscriminately take all this personal information and store it on a remote server.

I stick with Skype b/c basically, by logging in with a distinct login/password (as opposed to a MS ID linked to my other MS programs and accounts) and saving only limited information in Skype's address book, I'm limited the amount of data Skype would have and could take and save."

Odd to think some people used to believe Skype was more secure than WhatsApp, though to be fair, WhatsApp used to send (and store I believe) messages in plaintext.
> The rest 95% either don't know, or could care less even if they know. I've told my non-techie fam and friends about data harvesting, privacy, and how facebook tracks everything, only to be ignored or outright ridiculed ("Oh you techies are so paranoid").

pretty much exactly my experience with Canadian and American family. People didn't give one iota of a fuck when the Snowden revelations came out because they just assumed that it was the case already.

I think the average techie underestimates how important platform lockin + user interface design + ubiquity are. Once something like Facebook Messenger has reached a critical market share trying to get people to stop using it, no matter how privacy violating FB may be, is about as effective as trying to get people in the year 1985 to disconnect their house's analog telephone line.
I did 2 skype interviews - a non technical and a technical. Skill levels varied quite a bit.
Not yet, but our goal is to enable that in the future.
If you're using uBlock Origin or uMatrix to block third party scripts it won't matter. That's what makes using the dynamic filtering in uBlock Origin so powerful. Easily the best bang for your buck ad blocking that you can do.
> US does the same, no?

No, the US doesn't do the same. You're comparing two very different things. Property is/can be owned, people are not and should not be. China & the US do not own their people or their brains, even if they'd like to.

Both countries technically allow people to move to and work in them, from other nations. It's practically impossible to become a citizen of China as a foreigner. The US grants a million green cards per year.

China almost entirely disallows outbound technology/IP/property/asset tranfers. That's the overwhelming point of contention.
Racism in the justice system isn’t even close to arguable. It’s proven. We have plenty of data.
He owned 20% of Whatsapp, so its possible he didn't want to sell to FB. Only 50.1% of the shareholders presumably had to want to sell to overrule the others.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Acton
Humans are terrible at remembering specific events, particularly after something so traumatic as hitting and killing a pedestrian. And given that a woman was killed, driver inattention doesn’t seem at all unlikely.
It's theoretically plausible that the noise has some structure, and with some bayesian priors, one can classify some of the variation as "probably noise" vs "probably signal". Of course it works best if you know what the signal is before you start, but if that's the case why are you trying to experimentally construct it? :-)

This is a common subtlely problem with statistical denoising (aka pattern recognition, aka lossy compression). Commonly the source data and noise models are synthetic formulas (simple sine wave or aussian), and knowledge of the data-generation procedure can infect the supposed algorithm. (a subtle form of training your model on your test dataset)
Yep. I’ve been explaining this stuff to friends for years. Even the most intelligent and rational dismiss it as paranoia or say, “I don’t care, I have nothing to hide anyway.”
Maybe this? https://slite.com

This is their post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16476092
I wonder what their rational for this is. I know in the past malware have modified the hosts file to block malware removal tool domains but why ignore entries for Facebook?

I heard that blackholing requests to Microsoft telemetry URLs also has no effect. Any way of finding the unlockable list I wonder.
Just enabling dynamic filtering doesn't do anything as far as blocking is concerned. You'll still have to set up how you want to handle it.

I would recommend "Medium mode"[1] as defined in the uBlock wiki.

[1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode:-medium...
I'd take with context. Everything in this article should be understood by a 3rd year electrical/computer engineer as standard knowledge. Because I'm a computer engineering graduate, I can understand it. However, give me an article with '3rd year standard knowledge' from any other engineer discipline and I'll have no idea what's happening
To be honest, if things like this has to happen, I think Google should be the first.

https://qz.com/520652/groundwork-eric-schmidt-startup-workin...
Out of all the debts you'd want to forgive, education seems like the top of the list. The fact that it's not even on the list is insane.
Google absolutely harvests all info they can get. They scan gmails, they monitorig everything on all Android phones, even when you disable something [1].

It's just that Google maybe be a bit hesitant to sell data to 3rd parties, since they abuse them themselves :)

(and this is the price of a 'free' service).

[1]: https://gadgets.ndtv.com/apps/news/google-tracking-user-loca...
Speed? No, not really in comparison to any other LN implementation.

But Stellar will be supporting state channels in addition to payment channels, (presumably) allowing for even faster exchange operations (buy/sell market and limit orders) and path payments across multiple currencies, neither of which LN on Bitcoin can do (at least for now).
I can block domains on my laptop, no problem. But I have not been able to figure out any convenient way to block websites on my Android phone. My Android phone comes with a Chrome browser. Any ideas about how to block websites reliably on an unrooted/jail-not-broken Android phone?
Tldr: authors of paper claim their digital signal processing method is superior to those methods imposed by sampling theory; in practice, their method works only on examples where there is high level of a priori knowledge of the signal, i.e., not in any practical environment.
It's really funny when you look now at what are the default app permissions in a standard consumer configuration of Windows 10 Home. And what Microsoft by default allows Skype to use. It's basically fully enmeshed with peoples' contact lists, and for business users, whatever other features of Office365 they keep squeezing skype into.
I agree, but want to point out that the plea for a lesser offense system is probably a bigger problem than false testimony. Cops and DA's in the US are allowed to lie through their teeth, at will, to get a plea deal. Often, they are aware the case is really weak, but that the suspect has no money to fight them.

It's just as bullying as false testimony, but far more common. I suspect a magnitude more innocent people are screwed by this than by purgery. Other countries, like the UK, seem to have more fair systems.
For those who prefer reading to watching videos, there are also excellent transcripts in the PDF format.
Nope

The only way to win is not to play
I don't understand. The post is about a paper that was written with weak math and suspect empirical process.

What is the "unstable" truth?

What is the "proof by incentive"?
The extent to which the HN consensus is simultaneously exuberant about EU regulatory enforcement because "you should follow the law" and angry about other forms of regulatory compliance is astounding.

Repressive laws under authoritarian regimes are laws too. At the very least, we should admit that we're evaluating the specific rules (or the people making them) under some other rubric before deciding whether they ought to be obeyed. The sentiment you express here is exactly why "companies should obey the laws where their users live" and "countries should make laws according to their values and enforce them against websites accessible by their citizens" are too simplistic.
I haven't written as much Rust as I'd like, but one of my favorite things about the language (there's a lot of competition for "favorite" things about Rust, to be fair) is the way that types are required in function signatures, but not within functions. So if you can see the declaration of something, you can always tell what it is -- it's right there. But if it's done in a function somewhere, or if you're just trying to get a sense for the types passed around in a library, it's all on the surface of the signatures. I personally find the lack of declared types in python/javascript absolutely debilitating on large projects, so that really appeals to me.
What I found specifically cavalier was the statement that they "believe scale will be critical". That sounds like every ML/data driven start up that doesn't have enough data to actually make accurate models. There's a lot of fake it til you make it in startups like these.

What rigor would look like to me is something like:

(1) Do a historical analysis of who skips court and why.

(2) Come up with a plausible intervention strategy to solve problems identified in (1)

(3) Test your strategy in a well designed pilot and calculate it's effectiveness

(4) Validate your pilot results on a larger scale

(5) Offer your product commercially nationwide
This is the only reasonable way I can see going forward.

I recall reading once that a person would need a lifetime's worth of time (50 years? 80?) just to read and understand the legal ramifications of the contracts and TOS he or she must agree to in order to use software.

Clicking "I agree" is probably the most obvious and common lie told by humanity today. Something has to change.
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I am interested. It looks at the very least as interesting as the project in the op thanks for the link.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/mark-zuckerbe...
What Do You Not Like about Product Hunt, Beta List, or Indie Hackers?
Can any Stellar operation be used within a state channel, and as a result, can any Stellar transaction be sent through the LN?

For example, my use case requires users increasing and decreasing the limits on trustlines between them and another user, as well as making path payments across these trustlines. I know how to do that with Stellar proper, but could such transactions use the LN instead?

[edit]: nvm, should've read more carefully as it's mentioned explicitly in the article:
"Stellar supports a more flexible generalization of payment channels called state channels, meaning that any operation you can execute on the Stellar network (such as not only payments, but also creating, deleting, or changing permissions on accounts), you can execute within a payment channel."
The Obama campaign employed Big Data to target which doors to knock on and which issues to bring up at each one.
Your comment calls into question the anecdotal evidence used to dismiss a claim made with no evidence whatsoever.

I have a similar anecdote, but mine does not match the mitigating circumstance you ventured.

Regardless, even a less-than-credible personal account clears the bar of required evidence to dismiss the above claim, since that requirement is currently zero.
Indeed, and digital audio systems typically combine some sort of oversampling with digital filtering. They still need an anti-aliasing filter, but the filter works at a higher cutoff frequency and can be much simpler.
perjury is punishable by 5 years in prison. That's a suitable punishment. The problem is that the law is not enforced.
As if someone at facebook will have a hard time being hired elsewhere. But either way, that's what solidarity is all about.
I don't know if they generally do, but I'm sure they can/will if they want to.
Not even. They create shadow profiles for non-users.
So harvesting Facebook data without authorization is fine as long as it’s done by Americans? That’s not what people were saying, at least until someone remembered the Obama campaign.

Either way, https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2012/10/08/exposi...
How to search your Shell command history
I'm pretty sure the US's better nature is to be a melting pot of the world. I'm sure if you've gotten this far, you can get along with other people and realize it is beneficial to all when you do.
A couple of personal examples.

1. I've noticed that adaptive cruise control doesn't account for vehicles entering my lane in front me, even with their turn signal on. As a human driver, I see them entering and know to slow down (at least take my foot off the gas), but the system only performs a hard brake AFTER the car has actually moved into my lane. Disclaimer: I don't know if autopilot systems suffer from the same limitation.

2. I was once waiting to make a protected left turn at a busy intersection. There were two protected left turn lanes, and I was in the farther left lane. Light turns green, I take my foot off the brake, and prepare to accelerate. The car on my right, in the other left turn lane, is also barely starting to move forward, when it suddenly rocks to a halt, indicating they applied the brake, hard. Without thinking, I also brake hard. Out of nowhere, a car appears speeding right through where I would have been if I hadn't stopped. Apparently, this car was entering the intersection on the cross street, going right to left. He wanted to beat the red light (he didn't), and also make his left turn, right down my street, in the opposite direction I was headed. I guess he didn't realize there were two left turn lanes. I never saw him. If I hadn't gone with the herd instinct and hit the brakes, I'm sure there would have been a serious impact. I wonder if autopilot would have caught that one, but it probably depends on camera placement.
Isn't selling or just giving data to third parties what we're talking about today?
That is the biblical adage of "an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth". If you look very closely into the background of this, one of the express conditions for this applying is that you lied to get someone else punished. You then faced the exact same punishment.

So for law enforcement, any lies or withholding of evidence to ensure conviction would automatically mean that the penalty being asked for is applied to all of those law enforcement and prosecutors involved. There would be no "free passes" given to law enforcement or prosecutors.

This, of course, will not happen any time soon in most jurisdictions.
I am frankly shocked at how many people wanted to nail CTS to a cross for the method of disclosure while granting something like an "it's cool bro" to AMD. These are truly serious flaws that, IMO, greatly undermine the "third party security audit" that AMD did in lieu of open-sourcing or publicly documenting the PSP last year.

1. Whichever third party security firm they hired should be discredited and ashamed.

2. AMD should work with its partners to provide a feature which verifiably and permanently halts the PSP CPU when the BIOS exits POST, for users who do not need the TPM feature.

If they just minimally-patch these specific bugs, within a year some other security company will probably find more. Or worse, next time, malicious actors will find them instead.

Most users should not trust, and should not permit, these secondary "liability cores" to continue to run alongside the x86_64 OS.
Because technology is the means, not the ends. Many of us work with tech not because we're fetishists for proximity or status of technology, but because we recognise that the technology is a means to actually do something meaningful in the world.

Have no meaning in the work that we do, and job-wise we'll be as happy working with tech as we were flipping burgers at McDonald's: pay and conditions aside obviously.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16633774
World's smallest fiddle, Zuck. World's smallest fiddle.
What's more, I suspect that if this exact same thing had been done by a company working for Obama's or Hillary's campaigns, nobody would have batted an eyelash.

PS - the reason that the regs wont happen during the trump years has nothing to do with the collusion investigation. He's put a mandate in place that for every reg to go into the federal register, two have to come out. His administration is in general very anti-regulation. Therefore, yes, absolutely no way he would ever regulate it ... but not for the reason you hypothesized.
They’re probably brushing up their linkedin pages
I am a developer of an app that makes use of Facebook friend permissions and have seen the various API changes they have made since 2014.

Applications using Facebook Graph 2.+ (which is the only option since Spring 2015 or so) who access friend data may only access data of friends who have also given consent to your app. So if A and C log into a Facebook app, and A is friends with B and C, the app can only be aware that A and C exist. This is true of legacy and new Facebook applications. It used to be possible to get basically everything about B (name, age, gender, photo, etc), but that all got shut down when Graph API 1.0 was discontinued. If this is somehow not the case for some Facebook apps that got special permission or there is a hack to get at the data, that would be a huge breach of trust.
How are you paid?
Ahh, the Cardassian system of Jurisprudence and Justice.
“I’m not my job”

You are when your job requires you to sidestep your morals.
You should consider they might be downvoting you for other reasons other than a hard to believe one.
Shit, I trimmed a paragraph at the end and dropped the reference with it. That's supposed to be https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr66/nvsr66_06.pdf
Government Starts to Build New Links for Its Blockchain – Nextgov
Juries (And indirectly, the Supreme Court) are the only part of the criminal justice system in the US Constitution. Juries are the core of the system. Everything else is minor details.
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> The NYT just published a graphic that purports to show the location of the vehicle and the victim:

It has a vague location for where the victim's body ended up, yes, but I don't interpret that graphic as purporting to show the actual location of the vehicle or victim at the time of the trash.

> This is the first report I've seen that indicates the Uber AV was in the right lane.

I'm not sure I'd go that far. I think the arrow represents the direction of travel, but I would assume they just placed it near the body, and aren't explicitly trying to suggest which lane the car was in. And the notation "somewhere in this area", in my eyes, confirms this.

Further, if they do know which lane it was in, that would be an excellent bit of investigative journalism that no one else has reported, and you'd expect it to be in the story, if not the actual lead. It's not, so...
> why ignore entries for Facebook?

Malware would redirect facebook.com to some scam site probably.

Given how popular FB is, Microsoft decided to "fix" this.

(This is all a hypothetical, I don't actually know this for sure.)
That is ungrateful on his part.

Much like #deleteuber this #deletefacebook tantrum is about Trump. Facebook was roundly lauded for helping Obama get elected.
Can someone help dispel my ethical concerns over using papers like this? Eg sci-hub.

Any and all arguments, on both sides are very welcome.
https://krikienoid.github.io/flagwaver/#?src=https%3A%2F%2Fo...
No he didn't.

Carnegie gave away his wealth.

US Steel did not rename itself the US Library Corporation.
Proof by incentive is a terrible argument. There are a ton of cranks out there offering money for proof that the Earth is round or whatever, and holding up the lack of takers as proof that whatever nonsense they espouse is correct. All it proves I’m these cases is that either nobody cares about them, or their standards of proof are crazy.

I think the author here is clearly correct, I just don’t think their $1,000 offer does anything to demonstrate it.
Agreed. As I mentioned in an earlier thread, it would make a lot more sense if the pedestrian was crossing from the right side (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16625829). But it's all speculation until we see the video, or at least get more detailed and reliable reports.
Actually no. I read all 300+ documents leaked by Snowden independent of the news coverage in order to determine if the media narrative was true, as that would be absolutely enraging to me and I needed to decide if I would need to be calling and mailing my representatives/senators daily about this.

I was not able to find evidence in the leaks to substantiate any claims of improper use on everyday citizens. I like to operate on facts, so if there was a leaked document I somehow missed, you can provide a link and I would be happy to review it.
GP for NNs has, but this isn't GP; "self-reproduction" (as in the original title) here means that the neural network is learning to output a copy of itself. In other words, the NN is learning to be a quine (as indicated by the current title). This is a very different than just applying genetic programming to NNs. In GP, you're updating the NN (or whatever) by copying it with mutations/recombinations. Here, the NN itself is learning to create a copy of itself.

The fact that they manage to also train to the network to simultaneously perform somewhat complicated tasks is super crazy.
> There were 15 US casualties in Afghanistan in 2017, and 14 in 2016.

There were 15 US fatalities, not casualties. I'm sure there were many more casualties - many of them life changing injuries.
The NYT reporters have denied that Facebook's PR had any influence, so why do you take OP at its word when there is no proof otherwise?

Furthermore, those same NYT reporters who apparently were cowed by Sandberg and Facebook PR published another article that same day in which the focus is on the disgruntled CSO:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/20/technology/alex-stamos-fa...

This was part of Facebook's PR push too?
Not to burst your technocratic bubble, but if you want to know how body cams work in the practice you can take a look at the Baltimore Police Gun Trace Task Force trial.

They stole money, then they filmed themselves afterwards (re)discovering the (now reduced) money.