skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been thinking more and more recently of deleting my facebook profile.

1. I barely add stuff on it
2. 99% of my news feed is irrelevant and I really don't care (there maybe 1 post/day from a friend that is interesting to me)
3. Starting to be more and more concerned about all this data

But I'm scared for multiple reasons:

1. connections needed from a lot of friends, family etc. that I would not keep contact with otherwise
2. It does a great job at keeping my contact list updated (no later than yesterday I searched for friends/coworker to make sure I don't forget anyone on my farewell email)
3. Messenger. I use it a lot (almost as much as iMessage) and again, a lot of people I talk to on facebook I don't have their info for telegram/whatsapp/etc.
You have a point there. Genereally speaking I agree that Facebook itself is on it's path down. Do they have enough money to just hang in there and buy the next thing 'what the kids like'?
It would be sad if you were correct, but you're not https://www.bbc.co.uk/search?q=yemen+civil+war
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I think I prefer the old Mochi project (a refresh for webOS UI) he was undoubtedly involved in.

[overview image](http://enyojs.com/mochi/Mochi%20panels%20with%20email.png)

[design specs](https://github.com/enyojs/mochi/wiki/Mochi-Designs)

[repo](https://github.com/enyojs/mochi)
We’re in the midst of reviewing our GDPR compliance one more time ahead of the May 2018 at my company. As a consumer, this kind of regulation makes sense. On the technical level, with so many service providers involved in running a modern day company, it’s obvious that many things have to be restructured for strict compliance. Eg. ESPs for mail delivery, analytics for business insight analysis

In the end, it’s about using data as it’s intended and nothing more.
I don’t think you have to be a conspiracy theorist to find this weird.

Facebook has been aggressively monetizing user data for years. They are just one player in an entire industry built around this business model.

The existence of this industry is most obvious to technically literate, who you can generally identify by their use of strong ad blockers and password managers. But it’s been reported on before [0]. Online privacy is not a new concern... just look at the “Facebook is listening to me” meme.

So what I want to know is: why now? Why Cambridge Analytica? Why Facebook?

Here’s my best take so far.

1) Facebook’s user base is so big that it’s a relevant political constituency, and thus democratic governments have a reason to care.

2) Facebook creates an expectation of privacy and illusion of control that doesn’t exist with public-first platforms like Twitter

3) Cambridge Analytica is a scummy company in many respects, not just their work with Facebook data. They got lots of Facebook data from a third party who probably wasn’t authorized to sell it to them. This makes them a good candidate for regulators to make an example of.

4) Cambridge Analytica is closely tied to the Trump and Brexit campaigns, both of which are regarded as “dangerous perversions of democracy using lies to exploit vulnerable people” by exactly the kinds of political and media organizations that are driving this story.

Overall, I think this is a “Pigs get fat, Hogs get slaughtered” situation. The industry’s toxic practices are finally causing enough damage that institutions responsible for protecting the public (government, real media) are responding.

Bravo, I say.

[0] WaPo has an article explaining this on the front page today https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/facebooks-ru...
And it was described as brilliant, when Obama did it in his campaigns.
All the self-serving memes are out on parade here: "This not news", "what did you expect?", "anyone paying attention should have known", "it is the new normal", "it could not be any other way", "everyone benefits"...

Actually, as of posting, the "Apple/Google/Microsoft are just as bad" version has not yet put in an appearance.
I think every nation should become well "regulated" nuclear power
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I remember a Louis C.K. routine about the phrase “the N word.” He summarized it as “I’m not going to say the word, but I’m still going to put it in your head.”
If people just followed a little bit the news, we had the PRISM scandals going on for years, it's hard to not notice that.
... or not http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03...
I was actually surprised by the generally positive reaction the GDPR got in recent threads here on HN. I guess the suspicion of data hoarding overcame conspiracy theories about government regulation or EU protectionism.

BUT it’s important to note that GDPR would probably not have had an effect on the specific situation with Cambridge Analytica. CA is obviously toast if not by law then by the attention alone. Facebook, however, is likely allowed to share data under GDPR as they did with CA: they got the users’ permission initially, and there isn’t much you can do to protect yourself against malicious actors.
You'd still need some human control, to stop invasive species (eg the Kudzu vine comes to mind) from killing off other species.
A lot of grid style environments. Unless I somehow scrolled past it, the missing big one is 'Excel'.
That's not how posted speed limits work in Tempe though. Traffic flows an average of 5-10mph above the posted limit.
Highly dynamic behavior like this is great in very clear scenarios but think carefully before using it for the majority of your program.

Dynamic behaviors are gained at the loss of type safety (function calls are type checked, messages are usually not) and system coherence (just because you can add and remove components on the fly, doesn't mean that it's safe to do so). To compensate for these losses, you need to increase documentation and increase testing. Most people don't and the result is significantly less reliable code.

> Coupling between callers and responders is removed.

But the number of dependencies is the same (reference versus message type). And now it's unregulated dependency without any compiler-level contract between the two. Are the parameters still what you expected? Are the parameters in the correct format? The message type will continue to match, even if these details change.

> Messages can be dispatched to multiple subscribers

Which is great for communication that is intended to be observable but if you're using public message passing for everything, it's going to be tempting to snoop on the message bus and pull data intended for other recipients instead of passing it cleanly. Now your program is a fragile mess because everything is dependent on precise implementation details of unrelated parts of the program.

> Dependencies can be changed on the fly.

Which is another way of saying that you need to handle dependencies changing without notice. What happens if you're expecting a response but the generator of that response is removed between request and sending response? What if you get a timeout? What if you get a partial response?
It wouldn't be that unforeseen, there are a bunch of companies working on molten salt reactors and there don't appear to be any showstoppers. The main issue is getting regulators to wrap their heads around it, but Terrestrial Energy in Canada got through the first stage of regulatory approval last year [1], and ThorCon appears to be making good progress with Indonesia [2]. Moltex is pursuing licensing in Canada as well [3], and thinks it could have its first reactor online as early as 2026 [4]. Terrapower has been awarded $40M from the DOE for their work on a molten chloride fast reactor [5].

[1] https://www.terrestrialenergy.com/2017/11/terrestrial-energy...

[2] https://medium.com/@bobsoef/indonesia-is-preparing-to-go-nuc...

[3] http://moltexenergy.com/news/details.aspx?positionId=85

[4] http://moltexenergy.com/files/cms/7_Moltex_Energy_Press_Rele...

[5] http://terrapower.com/technologies/mcfr
Not on a social network? You've still got a privacy problem (2014)
People love to pretend to be horrified by things they've assumed to be true. "What? A politician is corrupt? Outrage!!" "What? They're tracking me to build profiles on my use of all their advertising driven free services? Outrage!!" I'm sure there's a word for it in German.
I hope you are saying that this is worse than a simple breach, not that it is a non-issue.
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It may not be seen as ethical here, but I also plan on buying some more FB. This is a huge overreaction, and we all know it'll blow over inside of a week.
> . I just say, "hey let's do something!"

That scales ... Poorly.

> Sometimes yeah, people don't want to go to the same restaurant or whatever, but it just gets figured out through communication.

Sure, solving these problems through communication is fun. Especially with 5+ people involved. Or god forbid 20+.

I wonder how many events these "i dont use facebook its worthless" people organize. And with what frequency.

Even the crappy timeline feature has benefits - I went to awesome concert last week with a friend that I had not met in a while. Only because I saw him interested in it on the timeline.

Facebook sucks, but you people have no idea what its positives are, and therefore you will not ever be able to make any real alternative ... That sucks even more, because I would really like platform with better UI than FB.
Most people are extremely nontechnical and are inadvertently ignorant rather than naive.

People that don’t have jobs working with data, who are not technical or mathematical, aren’t going to know.
Salt water + electricity = not good

Study mentions up to 50% of efficiency decrease after 6mo

Seems like the best solution would be mechanical cleaning (either automatic or manual)
wow Google can't even deal with a butt out cordial HN hug? Really reflects well for their cloud offerings... sheesh
Set up a site specific browser, which makes it easier to sequester all FB cookies and browsing to a separate environment. I use Fluid on macOS, but there are other approaches.

http://fluidapp.com
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I was wondering why this suggestion wasn't included in the OP, as it's exactly the route that the JAX-RS client specs took. There are several interfaces, and some of the fluent calls are basically terminal by leading to one of the other interfaces.

It starts here with the `Client` interface:

https://docs.oracle.com/javaee/7/api/javax/ws/rs/client/Clie...

Which then leads to `WebTarget`, then `Invocation.Builder`, then `Invocation`. `Invocation` objects can then be executed to generate `Response` objects, or typed responses, depending on the overload used.
I'm seeing lots of negative sentiment in this comments section. Just a question, why do you think you have the right to say who gets nuclear power and who doesn't?

Why can America get Npower and nukes but SA can't?
It would be interesting to see someone analyze if the relationship between government and Facebook got more news coverage this time than it did when Snowden reported the exact same thing in 2013 or when other people reported it back in 2012. In particular it would be interesting to see which new sites write articles about it and if possible how negative they are.

For example we have CNN article in 2013:
https://www.cnn.com/2013/09/30/us/nsa-social-networks/

vs now in 2018:
http://money.cnn.com/2018/03/19/technology/facebook-data-sca...

Maybe that would explain why we see so many that got surprised by this while others has seen it for a long time and just got used to everyone not caring.
First slide says "Not covered: spreadsheets".

Edit: however, a little more recognizion to spreadsheets would have been nice, since some of the UIs are so evidently rooted in that metaphor
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This was a great read—Ohanian's essays are always, really.

I can't say the executive coach bit makes sense to me, though. Athletes play a single, relatively unchanging game. Business, especially in the tech world, is anything but stable. There's no set of rules like there is in atheletics. Is he effectively referring to just a mentor?
You must probably don't know how powerfull this analytics are. Is it possible to correlate and infer all kind of data, based on other signals, what kind of person are you.

For example if you drive a bicycle and eat beef, most likely you have a certain income, have a certain family type ( you use same IP!! ) , which means you might have a certain political view and concerns. And this is where targeted manipulation is active, they can drive you in a certain direction. Psychology at it's best.

This is how you win an election.
Obama had the Obama 2012 app (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nafYT7_i4as). Anyone downloading it knew that the goal of it was to help get Obama elected.

CA (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ) tricked people into giving up their data and used it to spread targeted propaganda.

How is this the same?
I know this is HN (where it is probably less of a surprise) but for a wider audience taking this kind of opportunity to write a smug comment might just be harmful to them, their privacy and their rights.
I asked DO about this, and their answer was that 1) data are replicated on-site (in the same data center) but are not replicated to another data center; and 2) as for now Spaces does not provide lifecycle management.

As a side note, I think lifecycle management is very useful for backups. A server push its backups to the object storage, but cannot overwrite or delete previous backups. This is useful if the server is hacked...
The key part is keyboard control and training. If one knows the relevant shortcuts and codes by hand working can be quite fast.

Each time one has to look at the screen to target with mouse or touch it becomes slow.

This all can be done with a GUI as well, as long as one doesn't create too many windows, where the user has to find the correct window all the time.
When you have to update several data stores via messages to several groups, what do you do for transactions?

Seems you'll need a consensus layer and the ability to rollback if you don't want to end up in a terrible mess later right?
It's $500 a month but I pay $.16 after tax credit. (my income is pretty low due to only freelancing as little as possible)
Yeat, especially considering that:

- This was part of an open API, you just needed to sign up for free. There is no data breach.

- EVERYONE was using it - this consisted mostly of games like Farmville. This is how they can show your friends progress and their profile pic.

- It was shut down more than a year ago.

Actually there is no newsworthy thing at Facebooks side at all, the new thing is that companies built games just to harvest this data and use it for something else.
> Abysmal security [0]

At 24:57 in the talk, there is a specific section about "disclosure and conclusion", where the talker points out that N26 acted very professionally and that all issues have been solved. You can hardly say so about regular banks, which usually just ignore you or send you canned responses (I know, I tried to report some issues to two banks of mine, still unsolved after 3 years).
Wait, so your proof of claim "county A is fighting in country B" is that there were some weapons manufactured in country A found in country B? Do you realize what follows if I say county A is the US for example?

Regarding "training Shia insurgents", do you know that Houthis are Zaidis and Iranians are Twelvers? Do you have any evidence of claims you make about training with the "Imperial Guard" (are we doing Star Wars now)?
but you are the average HN user right? I'm sure I'd be able to share a board easily to you if I wanted to.

What I witnessed is constant struggle between my 30yo fiancee and our 50yo wedding planner. It happened multiple time, so there is an obvious issue either on the sharer's side or on the receiver side.
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This is not news.

(2010)[http://www.zdnet.com/article/fbi-feds-collect-facebook-socia...]

(2010)[https://www.technologyreview.com/s/418971/facebook-personal-...]

(2012)[http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/05/opinion/sunday/facebook-is...]

(2011)[https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/ne...]

(2011)[https://techcrunch.com/2011/11/01/researchers-flood-facebook...]

(2012)[money.cnn.com/2012/03/22/technology/facebook-privacy-changes/index.htm]

(2011)[https://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2011/09/26/facebook-defends-get...]

The real discussion to be had is how do you know that the person is actually aware of giving consent, similar to how a recaptcha verifies whether or not you are a human. I see in the future, some sort of test for users, that verifies that they read the terms of service, as a form of consent for the user agreement.

Edit: Fixed all urls. All work except, cnn where you have to copy paste.
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Well, for the past few years, the media has been a "partner" of Facebook. Now it's not any longer. Seems like a wrong move for Facebook to dump the media like old clothes. Whoops.

I even remember such articles from TheGuardian before decrying that people are "going dark" - no, it wasn't about using Tor or VPNs. It was simply about using tracking protection.
Weird headline. Oil is mostly used for transport, not power generation.
To be fair, I have seen the word "neo-fascist" or "post-fascist" applied to some of the various recent Western nativist movements due to some of the philosophical similarities (the nativism, nationalism, and populism, along with xenophobia / racism in some sectors of the movements, and the desire for strongmen leadership). The big difference typically being that most of today's nativist right wing parties tend to work within the democratic systems instead of advocating takeover of government; they typically don't advocate authoritarian states and economies; and most are typically less interested in expansion via military conquest.

Even this is a contested word at best; while some sources advocate this definition (eg, Encyclopedia Britannica: https://www.britannica.com/topic/neofascism) other sources do not like to apply the label unless there is an explicit strong state element. (https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/3768/5685c703892b8f734d34ac...)
It's difficult to use with speculative numbers too. I recently compared Imgix and Cloudinary for use in front of an origin server and the numbers that we projected with made Imgix look 3x more expensive. When we put it against real usage, Imgix was actually 1/4 the price of Cloudinary.

It's difficult, sometimes, to guess at numbers that may or may not play to a specific service strength. A lot of times there's something hidden in the details that you're missing as well. In our case, we didn't notice that Cloudinary didn't have an overage rate so if you go over any of the capped limits on a particular plan you have to move up to the next plan level. It was a very unpleasant surprise. We didn't notice it to compare because it simply...didn't appear anywhere.
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Agree completely. Does it say much more than my job though? My car? my public travel patterns? etc. There's a reasonable about of information about me that I expect cameras on every corner to know.

Giving my information to FB/etc though? That's another story.
A modern car that makes skidmarks under heavy breaking is a car with a broken brake and safety system. Modern ABS brakes actuate fast enough that they don't leave skidmarks under maximum braking.
Scaling they code they can easily. The issue is with collaborative editing and keeping everybody in sync - which is the job of Google docs.
This exact same scandal broke in 2012 only it was with Obama’s campaign. It is humorous to see the media much more outraged when Republicans do it, as if it wasn’t that big of a deal when Obama did it.

https://twitter.com/cld276/status/975564499297226752

Edit for interesting link to the 2012 Facebook election data story.
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> and surprising for most users of Facebook

Yeah, but let's be honest, they're dumb fu * * s.
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Do people actually write code on iPads?
It’s not perfect to still be sharing your social graph, but at least chats are e2e encrypted by default.
Wow, great service. I will give a try with my team. One question: will the Widget make my company look bad if I don't release new features or announcements for a while?
Avegant has replaced its CEO and laid off more than half its staff
Some sort of "spray and squeegee" system would likely even remove most of the salt. Windshield wipers for PV panels?
Lol.. good point. I like to think I was one of the first million people on Facebook when I got it in college... Maybe users who were initiated to Facebook earlier have it more ingrained in their lives.
Yes. Nature is not static. If your goal is a static status quo, that will still require human intervention.
Even "exfiltrated" is not really accurate since it was freely handed over.

The problem is that Facebook just made its partners pinky swear to only use the data for research, which is obviously not an adequate data security measure.
Also wouldn't recommend them. I was a early customer, and when they switched over from the underlying 3rd party bank to their own banking license, they had to swap out everyones credit/debit cards. I lost access to my account in the process and only after a very tedious process of going through their support was able to get it back. Just because you are a digital bank doesn't mean you don't have to provide good support.
Yeah. It's a tool, use it in moderation when most appropriate and you should be ok.

Yegor often seems to take an extreme position, which makes for a good discussion especially as there's usually some truth in what he says but I suspect there are no silver bullets to find here.
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Gaskets + insulators = problem solved.
The talk has been mentioned in a nearby thread, and includes a specific section about N26 response to the incident, which was deemed quite professional.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16627730
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UK investigates Facebook over data breach, to raid Cambridge Analytica
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What’s the difference between that and the front page? Is it like the difference between the “top” and “best” algorithms that Reddit use? How do these algorithms differ specifically on HN?
Their cloud offering is a joke. Terrible UI. terrible on boarding.

It took me over 30 minutes of trying to deploy a small vps just to find out my account was locked out as a brand new user.

The moment they said to mail them a copy of government ID and the like I just closed my account and never looked back.

Don’t use them.
You mean of course as opposed to the Chinese or Russians that are alternatively guaranteed to build those nuclear power plants.

Tell me more about this political science genius and how the US controls the entire world and all actions by all nations and at all times, including a superpower like China.
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True.

Even a place like Congo is, geographically, the size of Western Europe, with about 1/6th the population. Over population isn't really an issue in sub-saharan africa, conflict is.
I mean on average the readership of HN are vastly more likely to be aware and care about their data and identity privacy than the average facebook user. so in this sense you're not wrong.