skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By that definition the usage of condoms is murder, too, as their usage means intentionally killing ovocytes, which are innocent, human, and alive.

But it doesn't stop there! Following that logic, not getting every single fertile girl and woman forcibly pregrant every 28 days is murder, too! Otherwise, all those ovocytes will die.

Somewhere in the syllogism you postulated has to be a logical flaw.
A breach is unauthorized access, possession, or use of data. Cambridge Analytica was not allowed to retain this data, or to use it for commercial purposes. Therefore it’s a data breach.

Consider an alternative scenario: a Facebook employee has access to data to perform his job. He makes a copy, takes it with him, and uses it in his new startup. Breach? It’s exactly the same as above, only the employee was an external partner in reality.
I agree...and more and more the same articles are being presented to me for days on end, maybe because they are a "match" to my interests.

But in fact my interest is have an unbiased/multi-biased news feed so I can properly survey the news-scape. It is how I can get a sense of the world,upcoming trends.I can choose, and quickly, based on text, whether an article is of probable interest. I do not want a bubble, and I do not want an algorithm deciding what is interesting to me. It is inefficient and false.

And don't get me started on AMP
>I left Iraq a few months after the 1991 Gulf War and went to graduate school in the United States, where I’ve been ever since.

Love the ambiguity here.
The SPLC is part of YouTube’s “Trusted Flaggers” program, yet Google News supports Farrakhan's The Final Call, even though the SPLC lists Nation of Islam as a hate group.

I won't link the rant about the Jews controlling the FBI, but check out this "news" brought to me courtesy of Google:

"Did the Honorable Elijah Muhammad know of the mathematics in the writings of the scriptures before Doctor Khalifa, and others, did? Not only did he, but he demonstrated that he was brought into the under­stand­ing of far deeper mathematical truths, which produced, correlated and in­terlocked all aspects of reality—including all of the problems of human­ity—by Almighty God Himself. He was taught the very root of all mathe­matics. This root is in the brain, or mind, of the human being. God taught and brought him into the very nature of the movement of the mind of Him, Who originally conceived of all of that which we call “universe” and Who produced the human mind. Allah taught him the root of math­ematics—which ultimately resides in the core of the mind of God Him­self."

https://news.google.com/news/search/section/q/%22There%20is%...
The news feed of a Hacker News frequenter is very atypical. You likely have more friends in the tech industry, and thus you're likely to see posts on this story.
Ya. Builder, Composite, Method Chaining implementations are (can be) isomorphic.

Thanks for the immutables.org link. Amazing. FWIW, I once fudged a UI DSL for AWT/Swing using annotations. It sucked. Too many edge cases requiring shims. Mostly because the underlying UI components were not designed for (clean) composition.

Like the OP, I went a little nutty with Fluent APIs for a while. Never again.

Now I prefer Builder for small stuff and DSLs for anything interesting. Composite & Intepreter is a potent combo.
Without wading into the politics of the gesture, I'd point out that in the Southwestern US there's a strong influence of Spanish Colonial architecture, which is based on a central courtyard with high walls (in turn influenced by Arabic architecture in Andalusia). Which doesn't mean that what those high walls mean now is necessarily the same, but there is a general pattern[1]

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courtyard#Historic_use
> people in Southwest cities... very often live in communities or cities where every house being surrounded by a wall is the norm

In addition to the other points in this thread, I can't think of a city here where this is actually the case.
To give context to all of the surrounding links, which are all about libel in the UK, remember that truth is not an absolute defense to libel in the UK. In addition, the burdens of evidence are different.
I can't disagree enough with a "blame the user" attitude.

First, it absolves the perpetrators, who are definitely in the wrong. I include both FB and CA in this category.

Second, it is becoming clear that there can be no such thing as "informed consent" in a networked world with respect to data privacy. Zeynep Tufekci, whose writings I heartily commend, had a good article on it a few weeks back.[1] She argues both that the actual uses known of that data are not fully described in consent waivers, and also that it is not possible to know ahead of time how that data will be combined, recombined, projected, analysed, and used in the future to fully consent to all those things. Even if you could do so for yourself as an individual it's not possible to consent to the effects of the combination of an entire society's data as a whole, on others.

Again, it's not possible to obtain informed consent in today's privacy environment, so let's stop blaming the victims.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/30/opinion/strava-privacy.ht...
Yeah, in addition to potential security problems, I have to imagine that an old Safari for Windows is not a particularly faithful reproduction of the behavior of modern Safari anymore.
>Saying "just quit Facebook" is like saying "just stop making phone calls" or "just get rid of your mailbox" or "just stop reading emails"

I don't agree with this analogy. Phone calls and physical/electronic mail are a technology, not a corporation. While I'm sure Facebook would like to be there, as it stands a Facebook account is nowhere near the importance of phones/mail to function in a modern society. In fact, I truly hope it does not reach that point, as a central authority like Facebook can choose to blacklist your accounts entirely. (https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/18/facebook-has-suspended-the...)

>"Leaving" Facebook is close to impossible. They track you and keep a profile on you no matter what.

This is mostly dependent on data being fed by your friends and family. Unfortunately, you enjoying events and sales is contributing to this "shadow profiling".
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I have to blame the language barrier, thanks for pointing this out. I assumed prescription drugs as being prescribed.
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Apart from EBCDIC and 3270 emulators, which are uncommon but in daily use in IBM-addicted environment such as banks, disk imaging software is still relevant.
Who would you trust then?

I agree that Mozilla has been horrible in how they treat their users, and people should be much more critical of them. But from what I've seen, they are the only ones who are even trying.
Wow, so strange to see my hometown's newspaper on HN.
Information and data are good as long as the right people have access to it.
Because they know that apps make money through Facebook ads and they do charge for those. If Facebook knew about the true purpose of this sort of app, then they also knew that they were going to make a lot of money off of it.
Although "Murder is the intentional killing of an innocent human life" sounds like a reasonable definition out of context, you've presented a context in which "innocent human life" just means any human cells that you've arbitrarily judged "innocent". I'm going to guess this dodge is here because you support, or at least wish to avoid antagonising, people who believe that killing other people is a legitimate criminal punishment and so somehow it's not "murder" if the state chooses to do it. Although it's also possible you condone extra-judicial killing, with the same dodge, it's OK to torture somebody to death so long as you know, they're bad guys...

Anyway, a more reasonable definition of murder requires the victim to be a _person_ and an embryo is not a person.

Personhood is a strange phenomenon, and there's definitely room for a grey area. But embryos aren't in that grey area, not even close.
It won't be too long (decades, not centuries) until we have molecular nanotechnology that can build out human-scale devices atom-by-atom. But right now, as far as we know, room temperature superconductors don't exist, so even if it is difficult to produce now it is a monumental step forward if this were a room temperature superconductor.
> US historically had very high tariffs.

And...so?
Did you read the protest? https://www.gao.gov/assets/690/689544.pdf

The army asked for a radio that could transmit a signal itself. This company offered to build a radio that sends the signal (using radio over ip) to a truck or other radio system that would then transmit the signal. Their radio would not work if there was not another radio locally available to tether it with.

That's not even the same product. Cheaper sure... more effective? I don't know where they got that from. With their system, if you're not in range of the truck, or terrain interferes with the signal to the truck, or the truck gets damaged, you lose all communication.
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I disagree with your sentiment about Google News. I think it does a great job of aggregating all the sources to a given headline. It even goes as far as labeling the sources as "Opinion pieces", "Highly Cited", or even "From ___" opposing entity sources (eg. From Saudi Arabia sources).

There is no easy answer to to display ONLY unbiased sources, because that would require an unbiased source to pull from. Which I don't believe exists. With Google News, responsibility falls on the reader to use the sources in front of them to formulate an educated opinion and gain an understanding of the story. If a reader chooses to only view either right-wing or leftist sources via Google News, then that's beyond Google's control.
Wonder if this guy will also apologize for the horrible things Iraq did to both Iran in the early 80s and Kuwait in the 90s.
I've been wondering what kind of collapse would happen when something like this happened to a business where the majority of their revenue comes from monetizing their consumers. Of course, a collapse would only be possible if:

* The FTC actually does something about this in a way that companies in a similar manner are also affected (directly or indirectly)
* These companies don't find a way to get around the issues.

I'm not convinced anything will significantly damage tech companies whose primary profit driver is their users' data anyway. The general public has been using them for years now and despite any outrage, it's become too integrated in society for people to suddenly stop (unless someone comes up with a better alternative).
BTW, the CSS for 'p' has 'sans-serif-light' but I don't have that (or the others) on Chrome/Debian, which results in my default (which happens to be Serif).
Absolutely. Fed time sounds good for him.
> I wish there was a name for this fallacy because it comes up so often

it's called false dichotomy
It's also satisfaction because you failed to get laid, you are going through a divorce, your own job is a shit experience or your life otherwise sucks in some fashion and you are the kind of asshole who enjoys taking your crap out on other people.
Few if any of these would be limited to 90s sysadmins. If you were an office worker in the 90s this stuff is almost all familiar.
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Shhhh ;)
PCMCIA = "People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms"

Oddly, that's one I had memorized. It actually stands for PC Memory Card International Association. (That one I didn't memorize; I had to look it up.)
Thank you for finding the source. Looks like this was inaccurate / ambiguous reporting. Still a great discovery for what it is.
You're making the mistaken assumption that this accident could have been avoided at all. While autonomous vehicles should have a higher threshold for responsibility than human drivers, it's not possible to expect them to never be involved in accidents. For all we know, the jaywalker ran right out into the road.
I never worked at a place like that, but now I want to...

After over 15 years and a handful of jobs, from POS enterprise software to game porting, I started to think of psychological safety as a SciFi term :)

I'll keep looking for my holy grail.
There's no ambiguity though.
> thanks to the horrors of Trumpism

Wait. What? Is this necessary because it's required of every article in the NYT or because it means something?
The British Parliament is an institution that helped shape and construct the present international order, at one point holding jurisdiction over a quarter of the Earth's surface area.

Yeah, this guy is a US citizen, but he is the officer in charge of a multinational corporation that does business in and draws revenue from the UK and its dependents. Is he legally obligated to show up? Probably not. Would Parliament be able to enforce their decision if they decided he was legally obliged? Probably not, not in the case where they come up against the US though if he were resident in nearly any other country in the world though, they probably could.

International law relies on conventions agreed upon by nation-states, themselves a hodgepodge of various domestic and foreign interests. The only really big enforcement actor in the space is the United States Military, and so in cases where the United States Military isn't willing to take action for domestic reasons, international law basically means nothing.

So while Zuckerberg may not have to go himself, he probably should or just cut business ties with anybody in the UK now. They may not be able to force him by military might, but they can make his life difficult and Facebook's continued operations in the UK very very difficult.

Oh and do note that Facebook hosts British data globally, even if operations are conducted locally. In their position I would be going after the parent company, not the local stub unless I had to make a few examples out of the local stub to get the parent company's attention.
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Right, but, capitalism. The only ways to change the behaviour of companies is either legally mandating them to do something (which has a decent hit rate), or starving them of employees willing to put up with their shit.

Nothing else works. Evil would be the word we would use to describe a person behaving as amorally as companies are expected to behave.
>This is only true because the voting US public believes it to be true.

It's true because it's true. Full stop.

You may argue that there are ways to stop it, and sure there are. Like you said, the EU did it, and it's a great law. But GDPR doesn't make it less true in areas not impacted by GDPR, which is everywhere because it doesn't go into effect until May.

I didn't say "there's no way to stop it", which is a statement that is only true because the voting US public believes it to be true. I said "they track you and keep a profile on you no matter what", which is true because it's exactly true.

Not believing it to be true won't make it less true.
The inability or unwillingness to come up with new ideas. You wind up recycling old ideas and avoid trying anything new. An old criticism of telltale games is that if you've played one of their games you've played them all.
I use google to look up rules from a game pretty frequently. I find that for some pretty vague search terms it is giving the results I want, from the particular game I want, at the top of the search results. Aside from the significant privacy concerns, this is useful...until I try to search for something else...then my results get screwed.
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The question I have is who loans a company like that money?
You’re right; it’s not difficult, but it’s (IMO) a lot cooler than the OP.
Very true! Hard to imagine how commonplace this stuff all was and now it's like a museum
My kids loved it as I had it loaded up with their favorite Disney movies, and they had figured out how to operate the camera. The interface was simple and intuitive enough for a toddler to use. They still call the new iPad a "TouchPad".

I continued using it as a glorified e-reader until the Apple Pencil--taking notes and markup PDFs is what finally made me switch. I wouldn't go back as iOS has finally surpassed what Palm/HP had half a decade ago, but it still holds a place in my heart. Kinda like the Amiga, Commodore 64, and BeOS.
I know people who are 3D artists getting into the game industry. They don't even necessarily care about the games that much, but love the art. They'd be thrilled to work in some other industry that provides the same type of work but wasn't games, but it doesn't seem like there's much demand outside of the gaming industry. Are there other industries that heavily exercise 3d modeling/art?
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Who gives a flying fuck?
Except, I think the rub here is that Bain will have paid itself enormous consulting fees from toys r us coffers.

My guess is that they come out ahead even after the bankruptcy. They would have put some of their own money in to purchase equity but my guess is, not more than fees would amount to after a decade.
For me, this is about ensuring that all 100 companies play along the same rules. If, while following the same rule book, 10 are significantly more successful than the others, fine. If another 20 are significantly less successful, also fine.

What is no fine, is having some companies be exceptionally successful by breaking some rules. Think insider trading, it's a highly profitable business for those risking it, but has a long term negative impact on the market. Therefore we, as a society, via our proxy, the government, decided to enforce rules forbidding insider trading.

The above answers who. This leaves the question of sensibility, I am afraid there will hardly every be consensus on what is sensible or not within a diverse enough group of people. If you'd ask a bunch of investment bankers about sensible rules for banking regulation, I'd assume you'd get quite a different answer than by asking a bunch of consumer rights activists. Our current solution to this problem of finally arriving at a single "sensible" rule is the democratic process / parliament. I guess most would agree this process seems to be sub-optimal, but it seems there are not too many other options on the table.
So is the United States this man's country, or is Iraq this man's country?
Suicidal people wouldn't typically try to take their bicycle and their shopping with them. But honestly, the reason she was there isn't really important. The reason the Uber couldn't avoid her is a far more important question in terms of where we go from here. It should have detected her as a potential hazard. It should have been prepared to stop. It shouldn't have been exceeding the speed limit.

A good driver will look back at what they did after an accident to see if they could have done anything to prevent it, even if they weren't at fault. Uber need to do exactly the same thing. Fortunately, unlike a human driver, they have significantly more data than an adrenaline-fuelled mind and some grainy dashcam footage to work with.
"Fallen apart" is a nice way to put it. Another way to put it is that Amazon duped Toy's R Us into a terrible deal, learned everything they could about the toy market, then dumped them and violated their contract knowing that regardless of proceeding lawsuits (which Toys won) they would dominate the online toy space in the future. Everybody here blaming Bain, when the reality is that Toy R Us got thoroughly outplayed in the online space and never learned their lesson.
Also, vagus nerve can be stimulated by anal penetration. Some people might also recognize the feeling of having a very relaxing poo.
Facebook is entrenched because the culture allows it, but I sense a major kumbaya moment for Baby Boomers, Gen X, and Millenials that could upend this culture. Finally, the younger generations can see in practice why many of their elders were intuitively resistant to social media.
To be fair, on the one hand we are training computers on thousands of static photos of bananas.

Kids are trained with continuous live action of bananas they are turning around, seeing with binocular vision, seeing from all angles, pulling apart, etc.

Kids are taught with massive visual data.
I'm surprised how many have the same experiences I had from "back in the day" as we all say :)
Also, among statically typed languages there is a significant difference between languages which make the programmer write out all the types and languages which offer type inference. I think most of the comments about types "getting in the way" come from experience with the former (C, C++, Java, C#). In a strongly- and statically-typed language with type inference (such as Haskell) even moderately complex programs can be written without any type annotations. The result looks a lot like a dynamically-typed program, but static types are still inferred and checked for consistency at compile-time. For example, this is a perfectly valid Haskell program:

import Control.Monad
import Control.Monad.Tardis
import System.Random

-- A solution for the Trapping Rain Water problem employing
-- the bidirectional state ("Tardis") monad.
-- https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/trapping-rain-water/
volume hs = sum . flip evalTardis (0, 0) . flip traverse hs $ \h -> do
x <- min <$> getPast <*> getFuture
modifyForwards (max h)
modifyBackwards (max h)
pure (max 0 (x - h))

main = replicateM_ 20 $ do
n <- randomRIO (3, 10)
hs <- replicateM n $ randomRIO (0, 10 :: Integer)
putStrLn $ show hs ++ " => " ++ show (volume hs)

Note that the only explicit type in the entire program is the `:: Integer` annotation on the upper bound for randomRIO. Without that annotation the program would be underconstrained, since the input to `volume` can a list of any type with Ord and Num instances.
I'm a huge advocate of bringing usability/ergonomic considerations to programming languages. That said, I have strong opinions about syntax decisions that hinder those goals.

For example, writing out words instead of using symbols is easier to understand at first glance, but it's much harder to skim (even after becoming familiar with the language). SQL is a really hard language to skim. Of course, the opposite end of the spectrum (C is close) is also hard to skim.
I wonder if other countries also start making laws like the GDPR? The EU is creating a frameworks which makes it very easy for other countries to "attach" on too.
The only danger is not having enough leverage to "prevent" companies from leaving and not adhering to privacy standards, but by cooperating this should be possible?
Your parent's pension fund most likely.
Yeah and how many people adhere to this? Anyone can call themselves a software engineer, and many do despite never having been near an ethics course. Calling for mandatory ethics modules as part of a CS course has been an unpopular opinion here for years :-l
My personal development hosts, desktops, and laptops all run Debian, but it was interesting to hear about such things regardless!
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It is a little more complex. The small company realizing money will run out will start to look at options. The obvious option is cut back requirements/scope until they can get something - anything - on the market to bring in money. If they can slow the rate of losses they might be able to finish eventually. The other option is to show their investors current progress and ask for more money - this is a hard sell but it sometimes works.

In government the first is not allowed - the contract is specified. However you can ask for more and if you have made progress they will sometimes grant you "that little bit more" - remember ultimately they want what you are under contract to make and if you fail they have to start over again with someone else.