skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But the dangerous tables saws were still used to build things by lots of people before 2009 when riving knifes were mandated.

I don't see why it's a crime to build a battery pack if you aren't working for Tesla.

I still don't get how you can bring up mis-wired inverter as anything related to a DIY battery pack. Without using any batteries, I can go take a wire strippers and 2 extension cords, make a male-male 120VAC cable, plug it into the gas generator in my shed and plug it into an outlet in my house when the powers out and shock a lineman.

In the country I live in we have building codes that describe how the work must be done. An owner without a license is allowed to perform that work and have it inspected and permitted. Screwdrivers aren't like lightsabers that can only work if you're a jedi (or have a college degree or certification).

I disagree with lumping every form of DIY together. Incompetent DIY projects are dangerous therefore all DIY projects are dangerous?
I think most famous people find being famous a burden, so I'm not sure they're missing out by being well known only among people who can actually understand their accomplishments.
It's complementary to Kibana, I would say. Dejavu gives the raw data view as well as an ability to add/update data along with mappings. It also comes with an importer view where you can add JSON / CSV files to directly import into ES. Doing this otherwise currently is a major PITA.

Kibana is more for dashboarding and visualization, Dejavu gives you control of the raw data views and indexing operations.
http://attrition.org/errata/legal_threats/
A realistic robot fish could help scientists spy on secretive sea life
> The researcher choose a particularly small sample size

It wasn't a sample, it was supposedly (but very much not, in fact) the entire universe, that is, the set of recipes that were present across the entire time period from the first to the most recent edition, and thus could be compared across time.
I'd also be really interested to see screenshots of what the users saw when they clicked "ok." I've been able to find a few screenshots online for other apps, but nothing that indicates what it would have looked like in 2013.
Agreed. I was referring to the parent post's comment about using personal accounts at work. That might be safe, to some extent. But again, I would lean on the side of paranoia if you're talking about anything that could get you (fired|put in jail).
Don't Blame Facebook, Blame Yourself
Just a life tip here, make sure you work your way up the ranks. Which means studying and learning how to manage people not learning the obscure computer language. Tech is very tough on old guys. Programmers and CS jobs start to disappear as you get older. The happy stories you'll read here are the exception, not the rule. You need to cover your bases. Good luck.
It seems to me that they are planning to restrict what an application can see about users, but what about what an user can take from her friends. Can a bad actor like Kogan harvest private information by using fake profiles or even some famous people with lot of friends? It seems to me that the problem is much worse than it seems, like a fundamental flaw in this particular social network, if everything becomes an island how users are going to network?
I think there's an inconsistency with the title of the article and what's mentioned. The title suggests that the study used 'Cardiogram and Apple watch'. However in the article it says that other wearable were also part of this study:

> Now, the startup is reaching a new milestone, this morning publishing the first large-N peer-reviewed clinical study showing that the Apple Watch and other wearables can detect atrial fibrillation with a high degree of accuracy.
Outsourcing authentication is tricky. Some of most likely sources are ones that many of us don't particularly trust.
One of the reasons the government punishes criminals is so that private individuals are less likely to punish criminals. We're trying to prevent an endless cycle of revenge. The victim, or their family, needs to feel that the criminal has suffered. Private punishment is not bound by any restriction on being cruel and unusual.
I don't feel like this post does enough to talk about how the online marketing tools were used for the sole purpose of persuading people's opinions.
Ha, the United States who forces globalisation for everyone else but can't handle it themselves!
you people use facebook still?
....bunch of losers.
'Fresh ingredients' are not the problem, slathering everything in oil and butter is. People do that in home-cooking too, because it is the easiest way to make things taste delicious.

It really doesn't matter that your potatoes have been sitting in the fridge for two weeks, or that your steak's been in the freezer for a month, or that heaven forbid, your onions did not magically arrive from a farmer's market to your plate. The problem is that you fried your potatoes in half a cup of butter, and that you're eating steak.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16635676
They are selling market making for an ad market. Any market is a trade of both value and information.
That's a good point, actually.
The fantasy robots of Boston Dynamics
Nah, I think OP is talking about bootloader unlocking and rooting without OEM support. Using tools like DC unlocker or kingroot.
Could smart contracts (maybe in addition to a Trusted Execution Environment) be used to enforce these sorts of guarantees?
https://web.archive.org/web/20180321193752/https://www.faceb...

Here you go.
Extensive discussion of original source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16641550
Deletion (or confirmed re-deletion) of the data is irrelevant at this point, it is the models created from that data, and their use, which will now persist in usefulness to Analytica. Armed with these models, and future refined/iterated versions, they likely will capture the data more directly from users in the future. Once the genie is out, it doesn't readily go back in.
For Algebra and Calculus have you tried Khan Academy? Their only downside is that they don't apply the concepts enough to real-world problems, but I found Sal's explanations clear enough.

I also liked http://www.mathsisfun.com/ and https://brilliant.org/ although you need to pay for the Calculus content.
> the backend of any 3rd-party application that uses FB data has to run on FB-owned servers

Would that work for mobile apps?
I found the old permissions request. Seems fairly clear to me, but I doubt people really understand the consequences

https://photos.app.goo.gl/0z3F0BH9Q0wNK0nz1
Sure, and maybe they'll put it right next to the "you're not allowed to save any data" clause.
What dish is made by doing that?

Frankly, I don't think I agree with this, because someone who's cooking with fresh ingredients gets to see, for instance, that they are adding a boggling amount of sugar to their food.
Plus, a lot of the "news feed" articles started as re-shares of microtargetted ads. There absolutely should have been more transparency on virally reshared things that started as microtargetted ads.
Buddy of mine wrote about his experience trying to get into the New Yorker here https://www.jasonchatfieldcomedy.com/blog/2017/4/26/new-york...
I think ambition beat them. The idea was a two-way data exchange; if you use the facebook platform to build apps with user's data,

a. it might be in your interest to help keep the data updated. Say, if your app depends on an accurate home address, you'll ask the user to update it.

b. you might generate more data or content. Say, to publicize your app you might ask the user to post on facebook.

Moreover, it's always advantageous to have other developers depend and build on your platform. It makes your platform richer by adding functionality you may not have the resources to develop, and gives you leverage (ie, Apple and Google's mobile OSes).

If I recall correctly it wasn't "full access to all of friend's data", but similar access to what you had on the user? I thought it was very exciting. I could think of a ton of potential apps, and got to use it at a hackathon once before they limited the access. Back then I thought it was a bummer, but the move made a lot of sense.
Access Transparency and the data custodian model
Sorry I'm a fan of FB. I use many of the tools they've provided to the open source world.

I know this won't be a popular opinion but I'd welcome some regulation and bureaucracy for technology firms. This way there wouldn't be this weird gray/imaginary line situation going on that we have right now. I think Congress should probably outsource the regulation and bureaucracy similar to how the SEC works...but maybe not tied to the POTUS and instead creating a structure outside the purview of the POTUS.
I have a rudimentary tool (written in Ruby) that can be used to delete your history across channels & DMs that might come in handy: https://gitlab.com/reagent/slack-purge
The backend of the mobile app would run on FB servers.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/0z3F0BH9Q0wNK0nz1

I think this is from 2013.
"should not happen again"
"Whoopies, we gave out your information out to some really shadies companies. Sorry, our bad, won't happen again. Like, really, it isn't our fault what those people did with the data."

Facebook, you provided them with that data, you fuckers!
It was probably my school email (which still works). Either way, the emails stopped in 2016. So no worries, it’s not worth looking into, but I sincerely appreciate your responding. Good luck with the business.

(Porting contacts between lists seems dangerous btw. IANAL but pretty sure subscribing to one list does not count as opting-in to another.)
> now I think

"They trust me -- dumb fucks" right at the start was not enough warning?
> dejavu uses a websockets based API and subscribes for data changes for the current filtered view. For this to work, the Elasticsearch server needs to support a websockets based publish API

Is websockets a requirement just for the real-time updates, or for the entire UI?
Better than I expected, but still pretty standard damage-control boilerplate. Also, his "timeline" is definitely not the whole story. I'll be curious to see how it squares with that of Sandy Parakilas[1]. In particular, what was the real reason they shut down the friends-of-friends permissions? Parakilas' take was that they didn't care until they realized people could use it to build competitors:

“They were worried that the large app developers were building their own social graphs, meaning they could see all the connections between these people,” he said. “They were worried that they were going to build their own social networks.”

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/20/facebook-data-c...
> Someone that can build a working DIY powerwall can cheaply build a cinder-block shack and run conduit back to the living quarters

The real issue here is to prevent thermal runaway.

I would go further, and add a thermal cutoff switch to turn off the battery charging if it's too warm outside (We've had summer days here at 115F.) Then maybe a fire suppression system of some sort.
They let third parties access data but where are you getting the idea that they “sold the data by proxy”? There is no evidence they wanted the data to be stolen, or that they willingly allowed it.
To me it's an issue of cost vs reward.

While I would love to see greater privacy awareness and consideration from all entities I use, the fact is that there are certain web properties that I find indispensable and without a privacy considered alternative.

Facebook I can live without, likely even happier than with it. I also think that the social contract of "sell me as a product in exchange for enabling my social communication" is not the correct paradigm, and once there's a user friendly alternative similar to secure scuttlebutt (i.e. Mozilla level friendly), that best represents the proper social contract (I'll provide hardware resources to enable my social communication).
Show HN: Carl Jung's Seven Sermons to the Dead
Zuckerberg's comments are clear and seemingly accurate as far as the publicly available information goes. The only problem is, they do nothing to address the real elephant question in the room. That question is - what is the state of political campaigns powered by the extremely detailed personal data Facebook holds?

Democracy only works when everyone gets an equal vote. What are the consequences when special interest groups, including from abroad, can pay to use the official Facebook APIs and craft targeted messages to shape the public opinion?

We have seen the consequences of this approach. Trump won by the smallest margin. Brexit was nudged with 100% false and misleading statements (300m for NHS, showing refugees from Syria etc.) Should we be OK with this much power available on tap?

The real questions Zuckerberg needs to answer are: what political campaigns are being run? Who is being targeted with political messages? What are the budgets like? Most importantly, who is ultimately paying for shaping the political opinions in our democracies?

This is a question that strikes at the heart of our society. Facebook is not going anywhere. Google is not going anywhere. People will continue to put all their personal data in cloud services without thinking about any Privacy policies whatsoever.

We should have an open debate about how much digital opinion shaping is acceptable before we have built a tool that sells the democratic decision making to the highest bidder. There is a reason why political spending is so carefully controlled in Europe. Facebook needs to own up and come clean on the state of political advertising taking place on their platform.
Very interesting, I wasn't aware of this option. Here's the WaPo link: https://www.amazon.com/The-Washington-Post-Digital-Access/dp... Only $3.99/mo.

I can't find the New York Times on Amazon, though. I pay $7.50/mo for a digital subscription directly to the Times. A pretty great deal, if you ask me. They run a sale every week or two.
Many people find various apps on Facebook to be useful. That makes Facebook a better platform which makes Facebook more valuable. Of course there's the profit that comes with making their product better. Heavens forbid!
Kind of depressing how he didn't end up seeing it through, but I get it.

The point itself of the story seemed very 'New Yorker' in and of itself - a kind of existential, staring out the window looking at the rain kind of feeling.

Cool to kind of get a window into the process, but I don't think anyone imagines that you could make a 'living' as a gag cartoonist. I'd automatically imagine you'd also be doing other work.
A lot of commenters mention dnsmasq. I wrote some scripts a while ago to help minimize a dnsmasq config that had been generated from a hosts file. People in this thread might find them useful.

https://petedeas.co.uk/dnsmasq/
Since the past determines the future, the relevant part of the 1994 interview is "... Instead, he claimed distribution rights on the Slackware install scripts since they were derived from ones included in SLS...", which as I understand it, is the restriction of distribution I was referring to (perhaps redistribution is more accurate).

This suggests that the business model benefited from restricting redistribution and modification of the source code, so breaks the assumptions that the business model was purely based on making money from open source, and so doesn't fully support the idea that proprietary software is unnecessary, in the case where we take SUSE as an example of saying it is "already solved".
I don't actually think the data sharing piece is the most important concern highlighted in recent days. To me, it's Facebook's pernicious effect on those who become addicted to the service and can't stop generating and consuming mindless status updates and photos all day.

The introvert in me wants to say that's a good outcome in that Facebook serves as a honeypot for certain types of personalities which I tend not to like very much. But speaking more broadly, it makes me worry for society.
I personally find this one better: SwitchHosts https://github.com/oldj/SwitchHosts
Also interesting he was not keen on “I am the Walrus”.

He didn’t seem to mention production either. Sgt Peppers was the birth of concept album recorded in stereo!
Facebooks real existential threat is just that . He thinks that having everything he wants now is correlated to the future. He should call his bud Billy Gates and see how not playing 5 moves ahead with the government worked out.

Facebook as almost insured that it becomes the whipping post of the FAANG companies as the government wants to look hard on tech. Im genuninely not sure what Zuck can do as long as Apple, Google and Amazon don't make mistakes in the same way.

The next 10 years are going to be a lot like the old ad age about being chased out of a campsite by a bear. It's unimportant to be the fastest (best) of the group, you just cant be the slowest.
LinkedIn's MyNetwork down
I think it seems accurate enough:

> Wansink also insisted on only comparing recipes that bore identical names in different “Joy” editions, regardless of the accompanying recipes, which sometimes led him to compare two entirely different dishes. He liked to point to gumbo as one of the most egregious calorie gainers, but the recipe from 1936, a clear soup of chicken and sliced vegetables simmered in water, has almost nothing in common with the sausage-studded, roux-thickened chicken variety featured in the 2006 book. “It’s like comparing a Chateaubriand to a whole roast steer,” Heathers said, “and saying they’re both roast beef.”

Presumably this would also exclude many recipes whose names were changed but are basically the same.
Ask HN: What are the best man pages to read?
Man pages are supposed to be documentation, often times they tell you what the tool does not what it is. What are the most entertaining, informative or educational man pages to read?
I like the lever analogy a lot. Mainly because it is scientifically accurate, the longer a lever the less force is required. Archimedes saw the value is this tool in his quote 'Give me a place to stand, and I shall move the Earth with it'.

> though the Gates Foundation and others do apply their power/tech toward leveling sometimes
can you elaborate on this some more?

I like science and technology as much as the next guy and I didn't think I'd say this, but IMO it's contributing to a continually decreasing quality of life. A part of me gets excited with new gadgets, like smartTV and Alexa, and another part of me cringes at it. I kinda get where Ted Kaczynski was coming from when he turned against technology and industry.

> I recommend moving to Australia or New Zealand if you're not looking to get caught up.
Why there?
Slightly offtopic too, but I would love to hear suggestions for good books on economics and/or philosophy that would discuss non-monetary profit and values.

https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2014/oct/01...
Discovery on youtube is pretty poor, imo.

I suppose it's a lot better than FB (we decide what you see), and the navigation model (search & browse a database) is what I want. But overall, it's worse than most porn sites.

These things have feedback loops and 3rd order effects. If discovery worked differently, it's not just what people see that gets affected. Pretty soon, what gets created is affected as the market reacts.

This problem is kind of reminiscent of Google SEO/spam problems, but youtube seems a lot worse than search ever was. SEO-spam, clickbait & stuff that hovers just over the spam threshold.. these are pretty dominant.

"Monetization" was another example of market poorly handled. It just did not reward the kind of thing youtube should want to reward.
Your bank has even more valuable information then.
Yeah the reality of the situation is that it's never as straight-forward as just recompiling with the latest JDK.

From my experience it wasn't generally code written in-house that'd cause problems (but sometimes it was), it was dependencies and transitive deps that required the older JDK (sometimes they relied on old bugs or old tooling, sometimes they just couldn't be recompiled on the new JDK for whatever reason).

Build tools that relied heavily on JVM internals often couldn't upgrade for some time. Third parties integrating with your software and the new JDK brings a slight change in it's SOAP/XML/ser-deser stuff etc.

That said, Java has been the best at backwards compatibility that I've tried, given it's popularity, and most of the pain was in the early days (like anything I suppose, see the Javascript world atm). Microsoft's offerings probably do backwards compatibility well, but then you get all the rest of the technical- and wallet-pain that that environment brings with it.
Who doesn't know Facebook sells targeted ads?
The good news is that the most important actions to prevent this from happening again today we have already taken years ago.

suicide fuel
Here's a press release from Facebook's press office released concurrently with Zuckerberg's statement: https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/03/cracking-down-on-platfo...
This is such a well crafted statement not from Zuck's heart but from a PR team that has been working over time.

Shame on you FB and Zuck you Suck.

If they are so honest or like to be honest going forward why can't they make it easy to see all my pics and posts that are public? Why can't they make it easy to see who can see what I posted? Which app or user is using my data. They have billions of dollars and can't implement simple features?

Its just a game they are playing and they will go back to their old ways in no time when no ones watching or under a different name.

I was reading FB fanboy Robert Scoble's post and it pathetic. You almost feel like he's being paid by FB. He used to be a well respected tech journalist.

I have deleted my FB account and I am so done with this company.
To me the ugly piece of this is that companies like Zynga really operate in the realm of addiction. So, Facebook is operating as a sort of addictive drug on steroids.
> The current government is a far right Catholic party [...]

More like "far center, a little to the left", with a twist for religion and
nationalism. It doesn't have that much with being pro capitalism.
"It was installed by around 300,000 people who shared their data as well as some of their friends' data... this meant Kogan was able to access tens of millions of their friends' data."

I wonder why the Facebook of pre-2014 thought that this was an acceptable level of data sharing to developers?

Did they trust that all platform developers would forever have good intentions? Or perhaps they felt the data being collected was harmless in perpetuity (i.e. did not anticipate the political ramifications of the CA abuse)? Or that their legal team could effectively enforce their TOS to prevent abuse?

In hindsight, the pre-2014 policy seems ridiculously careless - but I'd love to understand why they didn't anticipate a breach of this magnitude at the time (or if they did, why they dismissed the concern).
WRT to FB's knowledge of this happening: Your assuming bad intent is no worse than FB's assuming good intent. Otherwise, one of the more reasonable FB comments on HN.
For all intents and purposes, I "restarted" my software career in 2008 when I was 34. I had been at one company nine years and stop learning in 2001.

When I went back on the market in 2008, I basically had to look for junior developer jobs even though I had 12 years experience on paper - and a degree.

Fortunately(?), by then I waa so underpaid, even junior developers were making more than I was so it was still a slight raise.

It took 10 years, a lot of humility, and a lot of job hopping to get to an architect role and to get to the 50th-60th percentile of lead/senior developer for my local market. (After awhile your experience doesn't mean more pay if you're not a manager)
It feels like a rare success. We managed to get an unneeded dam removed and we did it without endless fights in court and it seems to be working.