skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes you are right that from an economic standpoint you will be able to quantify anything. However, GAAP/IFRS was specifically created to handle only a subset of that whole gamut viz. recordation into Books of Accounts and generation of Balance Sheet, Income Statements and Cash Flow statements. There are commissions in place to handle fraud and deceptive practices for things that cannot be codified into the Books of Accounts. For instance, the Anti-Monopoly Acts enacted in various countries have safeguards that prevent a single entity from monopolising the market. However, if you try to codify this into the Books you are going to have a tough time when the law changes. You can't go back in time and retrospectively change your ledger transactions (which is static) to reflect changes in law (which is dynamic) or values/morals (which is also dynamic).

Please note that I am only replying in the context of GAAP (which you mentioned). If not, I agree with all the ideas you presented and only disagree on the one aspect of it being added to the GAAP/IFRS standards as the purpose of it's creation was to precisely steer away from unknowns and only record the knowns.
Possibly referring to a violation of their 2011 consent degree with the FTC.
Didnt both the GOP and DNC suck down user data in 2010-2012?

Way before the rule changes.
JanSt it seems we are talking across each other so this will probably be my last post on the subject.

The EC's determination is being challenged in court on the very basis that Vestager completely misunderstood or deliberately miscalculated what was "EU" profit.

She basically claimed that Apple USA's intellectual property and management contributed nothing in generating profits on Apple sales in the EU. This is clear nonsense - without Apple USA, there would be zero "Apple" profits in the EU.

Ask yourself a simple question; when Apple sells an iphone in Europe, say for say 600EUR excluding VAT or sales tax, how much of that profit "belongs" to the US operation and how much "belongs" to the European distribution center which happens to be based in Ireland?

Vesteger's claim is that ALL OF IT belongs in Ireland. This claim will not last 10 minutes in front of the ECJ judges.

The vast majority of it - according to decades of international tax case law - belongs to the Apple USA as they invented and developed the product. The product isn't even manufactured in Ireland.

As a result of transfer pricing, the Irish distribution has very little profit to declare and so pays very little corporation tax.

But this does NOT mean that Apple has avoided tax. They park their US profit in a Carribean bank account waiting for an opportune moment to repatriate it and when they do they pay corporate tax on it. The ironic aspect of this thing is that the US has the highest effective corporate tax rates in the OECD and so Apple would be far better off shifting as much of the profit as they can to Ireland. But they cannot because of international norm on transfer pricing.
If developers were given the chance they would turn every plot of land into a Kowloon walled city.

We need someone pushing the other way to keep some spaces livable.
Can you source this?
Stop repeating this meme. It's not productive and doesn't help drive the conversation forward in any way.

He said those things when he was 19 years old and Facebook was still a random side project in college.

And yes people were indeed "dumb fucks" to give a random college kid with a side project their personal information. If you went around Walmart and asked people for their SSNs with no value proposition, then they would indeed be dumb as well.

The $400 billion company that Facebook is now and the growth a person goes through over decades of being a CEO and managing people is significant.

For you to bring up something the guy said when he was a kid is disingenuous and does more to harm any point you may have had than help it.
I'm another "project lead" at LineageOS:

Despite being based on AOSP, omni/lineage/etc all have pretty different features, so usually it takes a nontrivial amount of effort to go between the two (although it's definitely less effort than starting from scratch)

Most devices within the project are maintained by single developers - the difference is that official devices have been submitted to us and have everything working.

We don't blindly support devices (even as "beta") because we have no way of verifying that everything actually works (e.g. blobs that depend on an old C library ABI can't really be detected before runtime, afaik). Shipping stuff that's broken is something we'd like to avoid. The idea is that when you download a LineageOS build from lineageos.org you know that it'll work flawlessly (that may not always be the case, but it's the goal :P)
At the very least, I would call the local community college and talk to a counselor. You could get a two-year CS degree that will give you the important concepts and plenty of programming exposure for not a lot of money. If you really want to transfer for a full bachelor's, the community college can still give you cheap units for everything you need up until you switch schools, and it may just be that your previous degree can help out here (NB: IANA couselor).
That's not a popular idea here on HN. Former YC'er created https://gab.ai which is what you're looking for, and now they have a full video streaming / tipping system.
So was I, but the streets weren't busy and there was plenty of grass and other open areas to play in. Hell, I used to bike and walk to school a couple miles away by myself starting in first grade.

This is a community that is basically all pavement next to the only major road into or out of the town that is always busy.

There are gradients in circumstances and what is reasonable, is my point. We ought not be too rigid nor naively permissive.
Does anyone know why java.com only offers to install Java 8 for a desktop user?
I imagine he'll be answering questions provided to CNN by the Facebook PR team.
Android API Use in Google and Non-Google Applications
I'm honestly not sure I can trust anything this author says.

In this article he links to another he's written [0] which posits that Professor Jordan Peterson is recruiting depressed men for the alt-right. It's full of nothing but false emotionally-driven insinuations, and is especially ridiculous considering Peterson's very explicit stance against extremist ideologies on either side, including the alt-right.

[0]: https://theoutline.com/post/3537/alt-right-recruiters-have-i...
Yeah, You'll notice I called what you said racist, specifically because your statement didn't tie what you were saying to income, but instead to "demographics".
> plain pg and having no indexes

but you can have indexes in pg..
Ask HN: How do you structure a seed round?
When you are raising a seed/angel round - what are the do-s don’t-s for a seed round?
More like "British pimping/extortion ring" combined with possible "Russian aynchronous warfare" but yeah you're right, there's nothing wrong with that, is there? It's just the subordination of my democracy and civil rights.
> That’s because the more than 1 million Obama backers who signed up for the app gave the campaign permission to look at their Facebook friend lists.

permission for one.

> The campaign called this effort targeted sharing. And in those final weeks of the campaign, the team blitzed the supporters who had signed up for the app with requests to share specific online content with specific friends simply by clicking a button. More than 600,000 supporters followed through with more than 5 million contacts, asking their friends to register to vote, give money, vote or look at a video designed to change their mind.

intent and deliberate action up front by the user of the facebook app for two not some shady psych profile that gets sold later and used behind the scenes to target them without any link to the campaign. that's absolutely a false equivalence.

Also, that number 189 million is absolutely likely to be way too high and is likely bullshit. Say I have 190 friends with a significant overlap with say 50 friends who all know each other and are likely also friends with each other. it simply doesn't follow that every single friend has 190 unique friends to get a graph of that size even though the average across all users might be 190 friends. have a few more of those for different groups (business, whatever) and you have a much lower number. coupled with the fact that you have no idea what the average number of friends the people that opt into that app have if you are just comparing it to the overall average number of friends for the entire set of facebook users you possibly have a lower number still.
The Facebook outrage is interesting since it is tied to Trump. When Obama did it, no one cared. For example, there's a video of Jim Messina, Obama's 2012 campaign manager, talking about how they obtained the entire Facebook social graph and used it to target voters. [1] I don't remember any "delete Facebook" campaigns back then.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZmcyHpG31A
I understand your intention and don't mean to criticize, but please consider avoiding the term 'free software' when referring to businesses like Facebook and Google.

https://www.fsf.org/about/what-is-free-software
I listened to Cal Newport's Deep Work a few months ago and am now a regular reader of his blog. He has a wealth of great study tips and articles on staying focused.

http://calnewport.com/
The black box criticism is fair but to be expected. Early 3D APIs were black boxes, but that had the advantage of allowing IHVs to experiment with different implementations behind the scenes.

Now that things have largely settled down, moving to explicit APIs like Vulkan makes sense.

With hardware acceleration for ray tracing we're only just at the beginning of the development, so having fairly black box APIs makes sense again. Expect that to change eventually once the industry has settled on answers to many of the currently open questions, but it might take a while.
Virtual columns in Postgres (2015)
Because everyone that uses WeChat understands that their data is being provided, without question, to the Chinese government?
I live an an extremely dense city.

Prices are not dropping even when thousands of units are hitting the market every month. The reason is because foreign buyers like to park their money out of their country so it won't get confiscated.

When there are multiple real estate agents all of whose promotional material is in Chinese in an English speaking country you have to be willfully blind not to see cause and effect.
the crux of what CA did was to re-sell data they collected from Facebook, right?

No. An independent developer had an app many years ago, recorded data from that app, and then sold that data to CA years after the fact. That developer did in fact violate Facebook's developer platform policies by selling the data, but CA had nothing to do with the app or what was represented to the people using it when they installed it.
Social Ontology
> McAffee who announced a few years ago that they will happily turn a blind eye on NSA&FBI malware.

Source?
A “forensic test” to check that they didn’t copy and hang on to some data in 2013 ... well I’m reassured.
Calling Hillary the "worst Democratic candidate in history" is just a meme - she was perfectly qualified for the job, more so than Donald Trump, anyway. What she wasn't was photogenic, charismatic or capable of not coming across as "a politician" at a time when both parties were in a disgruntled, antiestablishment mood. I think she and the DNC felt it was finally "her time," and she didn't take Trump seriously, perhaps because she felt the winds of destiny were at her back.

Unfortunately for her, Julian Assange decided to make it his religion to ruin her and Donald Trump happens to be very good at channeling populist antipathy. So it goes.

>She had MSM, the entirety of liberal America, all major tech companies, most/all colleges, illegals voting en masse

Ok. Let's go through this one by one...

- The Democrats/leftists/DNC do not control the mainstream media. That's a conspiracy theory started by the right-wing fringe and Fox news, and of course, canonized by Trump and his supporters, in order to dismiss all criticism in the media as being manufactured.

- The entirety of liberal America does not think and act in unison, nor were they entirely behind Hillary. Both parties were fractured this last election, and many Democrats who couldn't get Bernie wound up voting for Trump or stayed home.

- All major tech companies are not liberal or leftist. There is a deep wellspring of right-wing, alt-right and libertarian ideology in tech and SV.

- "most/all colleges" are also not automatically leftist. Plenty of right-wing, alt-right and libertarian ideology there as well.

- "illegals voting en masse" is just a baseless conspiracy theory.

You are correct that the race was Hillary's to lose. Unfortunately you couldn't resist running through the typical Trumpist hyperbole. Sad.
WeChat is this big because of its dominance in China and it very much operates in cooperation of the government [1]. It was subsidized by the government, it has no international competition because the government doesn't allow similar apps to operate there, and it's an "accepted reality that officials censor and monitor users".

Aka, the "privacy and collusion with the state" bar is at a very different level.

[1]: https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/1/16721230/wechat-china-app-...
Wow, is it just me, or is Bloomberg really on the attack on Facebook? Every article on Facebook from them submitted here and other places like Reddit have always been quite negative, especially the headline.
> I don't know, they should have done it when Obama committed even worse Facebook privacy violations back in 2008/2012.

Citation needed. Everything I've seen indicates Obama's campaign didn't violate the rules: https://twitter.com/mbsimon/status/975231597183229953

"I ran the Obama 2008 data-driven microtargeting team. How dare you! We didn’t steal private Facebook profile data from voters under false pretenses. OFA voluntarily solicited opinions of hundreds of thousands of voters. We didn’t commit theft to do our groundbreaking work."
Why I'm Dropping Rust
With a milquetoast echo of everything we already know.
Lying usually doesn't end up working in your favor legally.
No it isn't. I only learned of the political implications of FB data during this election cycle. It's gotten a lot more headlines, and the stories have been much more explicit about the implications. So we've proved "everyone" didn't understand the full implications until now.
Didn’t that YC’er get expelled from the Ycombinator community for harassing other founders with alt-right slurs?
You're completely wrong about this:

https://twitter.com/mbsimon/status/975231597183229953

"I ran the Obama 2008 data-driven microtargeting team. How dare you! We didn’t steal private Facebook profile data from voters under false pretenses. OFA voluntarily solicited opinions of hundreds of thousands of voters. We didn’t commit theft to do our groundbreaking work."
Don't trust it as a security measure though - it's very easy to read the hash data in JS and then submit it to the server.
He laid out what happened, and several concrete actions they're taking to prevent it from recurring. That's not boilerplate.
I have an honest question, what is the end game for Theranos employees. My understanding is the company is a complete fraud but yet if I go on linkedin they still have 200+ employees working there:

https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/people/?facetCurrent...

are all of these people going to be fired in the coming months or do investors think this is still a good idea but Holmes isnt going to be apart of it ?
I’m sorry, what quagmire? Most people either aren’t aware of the privacy issues or if they are don’t care. People like using Facebook, or at least are addicted to it.
Operations Research PhD to Lyft Data Scientist: Jeremy Karp
I'd rather think about an interesting problem than think about career building. I thought this was a common problem, but this thread is sure different.
I actually thought of rich ultra-competitive types (or "techies") pushing out locals.
But that is very human: we are really, really bad at grasping abstract ideas but make something concrete and we will react. I can talk about privacy with someone until their ear falls off but to most people I sound like a lunatic. Show them how we can be manipulated into sometimes literally tearing each other apart and suddenly people care.
There's a lot of bad information in this thread.

https://twitter.com/mbsimon/status/975231597183229953

"I ran the Obama 2008 data-driven microtargeting team. How dare you! We didn’t steal private Facebook profile data from voters under false pretenses. OFA voluntarily solicited opinions of hundreds of thousands of voters. We didn’t commit theft to do our groundbreaking work."
She could have kept digging and probably ended up with a Pulitzer; instead John Carreyrou is going to get another one.
> rather in preserving the less-developed neighborhood in which they have invested and chosen to live.

If they didn't buy the property, they should have absolutely zero say about what kind of housing someone else builds on their property. Central-planning-via-veto (the effective state of USian land use law) is utterly broken in its giving veto authority to the most meddlesome moralistic normies on anything that they might not like, whether it be a cell tower, an apartment building, or bloody clothes lines (not kidding about the latter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clothes_line#Controversy_in_No...).

That these people (the Twitter thread here has some prime material https://twitter.com/maelig/status/975219562433015808) have the ability to obstruct the construction of housing (to the point that there are people literally living, shitting, and dying in US streets because housing is so unaffordable) is heinous. This is not how well-functioning societies look like.
Definitely not just you. And to me, it's not just Bloomberg, looks like most of traditional media companies are out this time.
If you're not paying, you're the product.

Until we outlaw a way to make money, expecting people to morally not use it to is extremely naive. Something a 5 year old would expect in fact.

There is a reason why we have police, courts and jails after all.
>Here is some food for thought though, about the potential for our civilization to fall; it will not rise again. We’ve accessed far too much petrochemical wealth and burned it, and the same is true of coal, and metal resources...exploit

This is nonsense, for a number of reasons.

First, you ignore that smaller, shallow deposits of petroleum still exist all over the world, in more than enough quantity to support a developing civilization if it were to be reduced to, say, less than 1/10th of its current size.

Second, existing stores of substances necessary to civilization will not simply evaporate. Metals, plastics, and other raw materials will be recoverable and recyclable.

Third, while there may be a couple hundred years or so of dark ages, I think it is extremely unlikely for any substantial amount of our current scientific progress to be eradicated. Unless we cover every mile of civilized earth with bombardment, I imagine it is guaranteed that there will be survivors with minimal technical knowledge required to operate computers and harvest various data that will inevitably be left on servers in random locations. All it takes is a handful of hackers to spread knowledge of operation and recovery. Not to mention books and magazines will likely still exist.

I think you underestimate the resilience that modern technology can offer over decades in terms of recovery after a global catastrophe. A laptop, a generator, and a copy of wikipedia will get you far in preserving enough scientific and technical knowledge. Civilization at this point is hard to permanently wipe out.
They could've been, but they weren't.

I wasn't calling it "explicitly racist", I was calling it "vaguely racist" because, while we all new what they were implying, They didn't come out and say it. Ergo "vaguely racist".

Nobody is talking about "neoconservative demographic shifts" causing problems in cities in this article. The demographic referred to is "poor people".

But please continue being intentionally obtuse for the purpose of calling me a racist.
Also no tax incentives for investing in stock compared to real estate.
Average wage doesn't matter unless you adjust for cost of living.
Absolutely. Likely it's bidirectional - pharma identifies high prescribers (or recognized experts) and invite them to speak at conferences or dinner meetings. This increases their affinity for the product, and presumably their prescribing. Lather, rinse, repeat. One /could/ sort out causation a bit more by looking at lagged data (does prior-year payment influence subsequent year prescribing, eg) - but it was such a colossal pain to match in the first place that we never went back to look.

Of note: pharmacies sell docs' prescribing history to aggregators who sell it to pharma, in fully identified form. So, pharma sales folk know exactly how much of everything docs write.
> Buying a desirable home in a solid market is pretty much the only way for an average person earning the median wage to make it into the middle class.

There's also low-cost index funds and ETFs...cheaper, lower barrier for entry, more diversified, more liquid. The government won't seize them for non-payment of property taxes in case of unemployment or health issues. I'd argue they're a better choice than a home for an average person to build wealth.

Index funds and ETFs have been around since the 70s - nearly 50 years.
I recently finished a small project at work for another business unit-a straightforward tableau dashboard-only for them to turn around and say "our laptops aren't powerful enough to run tableau, thanks but we're going back to excel".

They were the ones who insisted I use tableau, I had originally planned and suggested a nice server-side rendered dashboard that they could have used on any grade of laptop, but no they wanted something _right now_ and any kind of proper solution was simply "too hard".

The real irony being that they'll waste more time doing and redoing these excel reports every time they want one of these reports than it would have taken me and my teammate to build a solution for them.
what happens if someone swoops in and buys or merges with facebook, what happens to the data?
We really need a battery that's high capacity and doesn't explode.
What makes a slur specifically "alt-right"?
That last point is super critical, the real finding from this is that zuckerberg could very easily leverage his power to massively shape global politics in a way no person has ever come close to doing before. People talk about the dangers of fox news, but Murdock doesn't even come close to the level of power that Zuckerberg has.
"With a population of just 579,315, Wyoming is positioning itself to become a leader in one of the fastest-growing industries in the world: cybersecurity."

No it's not.

Outside of Jackson and environs it is frankly a miserable place to live. Imagine a wind-swept steppe petro-state inhabited by a mostly rural, extremely conservative population. Cold in the winter, hot in the summer, and perpetually windy. I could say "windy" 8 more times and it still wouldn't capture the reality. Like many states in this position, mostly rural, most jobs don't require a degree, almost everyone who gets one leaves for better pay, usually to Colorado.

I do believe that this bill is a great idea, but it's not going to magically transform their economy.
[video] Uber Self-Driving Car Hits Pedestrian
It may be beside the point but Psychographic Targeting is useless Pseudoscience
Hope you've got a good lawyer on retainer, or bulletproof OPSEC and a bunch of spare identities...