skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Yeah Facebook might not be around, but I'm sure there is an app that will archive everything so you could store it locally.

You've forgotten that those pictures belong to Facebook. So whoever buys them out from the remains of Facebook will do whatever they want with it. They may share it with you. They may not. Maybe they'll use it to train some AI and then discard it altogether. Maybe they'll put your head onto some porn star. Maybe China will buy it. Can you imagine, a Chinese man coming to your grandparents house and taking away their photo album? What would your grandpa do?

> I don't understand your view though

It's not a view. It's a fact. Did you even learn your job somewhere? Any scientific background to this "work in digital advertisement"? Ads steal your attention. You can't do anything about it and most of the time you don't even have any kind of profit from it. To say it in the new cultures terms: it's mind rape.

> I think many people, you included, misunderstand the economic benefit of advertising.

Please spare me that marketing talk. I do accept that there are ads on the internet. Sure. Some people even watch and click them. But just like the part you ignored in my previous comment you seem to intentionally forget about _extend_ here too. There is a huge difference between a cookie and a canvas fingerprint. There is a difference between a picture advertising a product and an autoplay video or malware infected script. There is an difference between an IP in your HPs log and a live track of a user.

The internet would have not gone bankrupt without the higher extend of advertisement intrusion. It's a lie to make advertising companies make even more money because that's what you do on the market. Their new product is data, profiles build upon that data (the more data about a single user, the more worth it is) and the continuous lie about the customer who WANTS their tips on where to spend money. I don't want those tips. I don't know anyone who wants them just like I don't know anyone who didn't want an adblocker installed. Think about it. The trust is gone. Forever.

> I work in digital advetising and see no reason to distrust the industry.

Of course you do...it's soothing for me though because such an amount of ignorance would be frightening.

> I'm not sure what you mean by sneaky methods,

Then you are a pretty shitty digital advertiser. You need to get some updates fast.

Edit@Edit:

> Edit - very true that most people don't understand it. But then again most people don't understand anything they use daily (the internet, any app, etc).

So you assume that this gives you a carte blance? I mean, this attitude by people from the ad industry is just another reason nobody trusts you.

Imagine, that I'd be tricking your grandparents into letting me into their apartment by brabbleing some tech bullshit about their cable. I wouldn't do any kind of work. They'd have no benefit at all but I'd have stolen their photo album.

With your world view, I had the justification to do it because they didn't understand a single word I told them to get in their house.

Would you like that?
> The build-X-in-low-Y-minutes trope implies that something is trivial to implement

I think it just implies that the reader can do it without prior knowledge, and that Y minutes is surprisingly small.

You wouldn't write "build a blog in 80,000 minutes" even if it could be done with one line of code. And you wouldn't write "build [complicated thing] 3 minutes" and then show an expert rapidly typing a pre-determined program into an editor.

If a newbie can do it in Y minutes following the tutorial, it seems valid to me.
> see EA, Ubisoft, Zynga etc

You're cherry picking a handful of awful companies for the sake of making a point about the entire industry.
With most of that coming from Oak Ridge, where the resulting distribution is intensely scrutinized by the NRC. This is bull.
Context for the significance of this article

> Barack Obama's re-election team are building a vast digital data operation that for the first time combines a unified database on millions of Americans with the power of Facebook to target individual voters to a degree never achieved before.

> Digital analysts predict this will be the first election cycle in which Facebook could become a dominant political force. The social media giant has grown exponentially since the last presidential election, rendering it for the first time a major campaigning tool that has the potential to transform friendship into a political weapon.

> Facebook is also being seen as a source of invaluable data on voters. The re-election team, Obama for America, will be inviting its supporters to log on to the campaign website via Facebook, thus allowing the campaign to access their personal data and add it to the central data store – the largest, most detailed and potentially most powerful in the history of political campaigns. If 2008 was all about social media, 2012 is destined to become the "data election".
You're assuming the United States elects its leader by popular vote. I guess you didn't check the latest results.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_ele...
Knowing the way realtors' mind works (not GAAP) they measure the $5M as "sale".
The American dream is about climbing from the bottom to the top, the idea that the 'real' American dream is working your ass off your entire life on the bottom rung so you can put your kid on the second rung and he can work his ass off his entire life to put his kid on the third rung and so on, always with the risk that one generation will slip and fall back down is total crap. It is antithetical to the idea of meritocracy.
i looked on youtube, there are lots of ways & applications to use to un-format external storage devices... please can i get a free app that will help me out, as i don't know which one to use. thanks much
Just because SQLite's API is synchronous does not mean that it must block the node process. libuv manages a thread pool, which node uses to offload sync APIs and let the main event loop run. This is described here under "What code runs on the Worker Pool": https://nodejs.org/en/docs/guides/dont-block-the-event-loop/
They're already. Especially the youngsters.

The new time waste machine is Facebook again, but with a different name: Instagram.
No doubt. Historical examples are not good. The nuclear club gives you clout.
> 30 years from now, candidates for president of the United States will have their old social media posts under a microscope. Whatever dumb thing they posted in their teens will be brought to light.

Considering that the leader of the free world is currently using twitter the same way as some of my friends do it, I really doubt that the social media will be such a significant way to check politicians.

More or less it will happen the opposite ( already happening ), where the politicians will judge the "average" citizen, by analysing tons of social media posts and reactions to them.
Diaspora[0] and Hubzilla[1] exist, but never really caught on for various reasons, possibly nothing more than that they came out too soon.

There is a project to build a Facebook replacement that federates with ActivityPub[2], which would make it to Facebook what Mastodon[3] is to Twitter. However, I don't want to link it because it's in too early a stage to face HN levels of scrutiny.

There is also Patchwork[4], a peer-to-peer social application built on top of the Secure Scuttlebutt Protocol. It doesn't have all the features you'd want yet, but ticks off the boxes some people care about.

[0]: https://diasporafoundation.org/

[1]: https://project.hubzilla.org/page/hubzilla/hubzilla-project

[2]: https://activitypub.rocks/

[3]: https://joinmastodon.org/

[4]: https://github.com/ssbc/patchwork
I think I'm being conservative in stating 99% of people using Google have no idea this feature even exists. Majority of people no longer even type a domain into the address bar, they just Google the name of the website, and click on the first result.
Was it the end of Windows just because Windows 10 had some hoopla in the press about analytics and its auto-update?

No, nobody cared. I mean, it was a meme that everyone made jokes about, even late night talk shows. But nobody cared.
It can be both. Doing good by others does not require absolute zero benefit for yourself. The total refund is a win for Epic and it’s customers alike.
It's worth keeping in mind that most Americans are not news-addicts and do not regularly read the news. For negative press to filter to the less-engaged public, you would need continuous press for months at a time. (This is also why it's a key political strategy to identify one bad news story about a politician and beat it until it's past dead.) Until that happens, I am not convinced this is bad for facebook.

The real question should be: do I believe Facebook will decline more than I believe Facebook will sort of muddle through (like Twitter) or Facebook stages some sort of recovery and return to grace.
If you don't even have the ability to quantitatively differentiate luck and talent, what is the point in developing an economic model completely dependent on those two things?
MySpace declined because Facebook offered a viable alternative at the time. Today, out of all the alternatives the most attractive to the public is Instagram, which is owned by Facebook Inc.

Besides, just as others said the impact of bad press is not that pronounced. There's always bad press about it, and so far Facebook continues to dominate the social network market.
Keep in mind that many of those immigrants were still doing a lot better in the US than they were where they came from. So they may "well off" in significant ways even if not compared to someone who was born here. And for some people, living past 35 is well off compared to their homeland.
https://www.google.se/amp/s/www.dailysabah.com/investigation...
Title seems misleading - a poorly chosen default behavior caused the outage
RDS supports one that do not run as superuser and run sandboxed. pl/perl and pl/v8 are great procedural languages because of that reason.
I recommend https://wolframalpha.com as a replacement for those types of queries. It’s even better than Google for that.
Everything in the article suggests that it’s either moronic clickbait (FB tier) or disinformation.

Implausible amounts of Californium, nonsense about red mercury, the bit about Al... it reeks.
Those sciences don't touch upon what ethics is about, which is what is good and bad, right and wrong.

There is no "core of philosophy", and it's certainly not confined to "understanding consciousness". I'd have to agree with others here who have tried to admonish you that you're arguing from ignorance and being unserious, even if a great deal of what passes for philosophy is a waste of time. What about logic, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of language, ...?
I think this is how it will end up. Rather than everyone sitting on facebook all day (like we used to back in the noughties), people will keep their accounts active, but only login occasionally, or for very specific purposes (e.g. setting up events).

Facebook started off as twitter, then added the kitchen sink. People thought they wanted the kitchen sink, but realised it wasn't worth the noise and/or privacy/security risks. Twitter itself has suffered 'feature creep', but to much less an extent. Facebook does have the 'monopoly' advantage, so I can imagine a lot of people will hang around out of inertia, but I also think that other competitors to very specific subsets will arrive, just as twitter did, and some will prefer to jump ship.
However, because they're all the same color all of the OLEDs degrade at the same rate so the color balance doesn't shift over time.
I'll agree the "surprisingly small" interpretation is more charitable.
It's still an improvement over the way things where before (nothing at all, and complete blind faith in every part of the DNS and internet routing) and arguably better than CA which isn't that useful for email.

Furthermore, the browsers replace the TLD in who you trust with CAs and in many cases it's practically difficult (or impossible) to "fire" your browser.

I will agree that no one seems to use good crypto with DNSSEC though. The only people I know using it are using 512 bit RSA which is pretty horrifying.
"As with all of Epic’s internally developed assets, the Paragon assets are only licensed for use in Unreal Engine 4."

This is marketing for their game engine. They don't have to do it, sure. But SaaS companies don't have to provide free blogs, webinars and e-books either but we don't pretend they are benevolent for doing so.

Don't get me wrong. I think more art assets available in the game dev community is a good thing. I think more free stuff from one company (Epic in this case) will beget more free stuff from their competitors (Unity mainly). I'm just pointing out that this isn't free for the sake of being benevolent. It's free for the sake of capturing market share.
I'm interested to see if Epic releases the entirety of the remaining assets, while they are no longer interested in developing the game there was a small but dedicated community that was sad to see the game shutdown. It would be interesting to see the community take over the game and continue to give it life, and it wouldn't be the first time this has happened (see Allegiance/FreeAllegiance as an example, Microsoft just re-licensed the game under the MIT license last year at that - it was already available under the MSR-SSLA for quite a while).
Relevant xkcd: https://m.xkcd.com/1370/
The state has no incentive to publish bad news.
Yeah, it's definitely not just in the tech bubble at all. My parents in Tennessee, as well as my sisters and friends, all dislike Facebook for one reason or another-- the lack of privacy, the constant barrage of low-quality posts and annoying ads, the near-complete lack of content you actually care about, etc.
Right, but the wording of the article said “worth $70M” then went on to describe the worth as something different. I’m not disputing the amounts (even though all of it seems suspect), just pointing out that they aren’t in agreement with each other.
There are systems used by first responders that allow for radio basestations to be connected to landlines to run to other basestations. This allows you to create more coverage area for your network. The radios run a trunked system that is more like how cellphones work than how something like CB radios work.

This is why things like ARES (Amateur Radio Emergency Service) is important for disasters where centralized systems aren't working but long range, simplex (decentralized) nets can still operate.
'... here in the UK for example it is now mainstream news on a weekly basis.'

Well mainstream news 'in the UK' seems to focus on most things that are not in the UK, so no surprises there.
Plenty. Some have kids. Others are in grad school. Some are even dealing with both.
Short answer: unfortunately no.

Proper answer: I just saw their stock plunged 10%. And I use the word plunged, because it created a gap (which I am super fool not to have taken advantage from this and short their stock since I knew of the 50m users fiasco way before NYSE opening). And although I do not appreciate, nor use FB, I do undertstand that they serve a purpose, and as many note, the average Jo/Jane doesn't care for privacy violations as "they got nothing to hide", and for as long people abandon(ed) their right to privacy, then Facebook will be growing stronger.
DB-19: Resurrecting an Obsolete Connector (2016)
This is a very good point. Regardless of talent or luck, the person who is willing to keep trying dramatically increases their chances of success. Someone who only applies for one job and stops if they don't get it, is much less likely to get a job than someone who is willing to apply for 100 jobs until they get hired.
Except for when it doesn't, which is the point.
An Intuitive Motor
No?

Well I mean in aggregate yes, but that's just because there are so damn many of them, that's not different from saying "people murder eachother all the time". Presumably you mean normalized to the number of companies/people involved/something.

Also yes if you mean "misinterpret civil law in their favor", or just "not quite comply with some regulation - in the regulators opinion".

But not in a case like this where it would appear to be fairly unambiguous and criminal law which you could go to jail for. When that happens it's newsworthy.

Besides which, even if that were true, the right response isn't to create more laws on top of this GDPR thing, it's to create it and then enforce it, and fraud. Once you send a few hundred people to jail for fraud I imagine that the rest would fall in line.
DNNs are not magic, and not everything needs them, especially a fucking JPEG decoder, come on.
Most people won't host their own server. I am not speaking for the HN crowd. In general, people just are not interested enough in learning how to do this or stay on top of patches.

To answer your question though, honestly any blogging software that support good ol' fashion RSS feeds would be fine. Your group of friends could link to each others feeds. With a little effort, you could probably do this server side using some fashion of RPC call. Each language has it's own way to accomplish this.
"Fox News declares war on Facebook" would at least help toward restoring Facebook's image, at least among those who are most upset about Cambridge Analytica.
It's rather more likely that they seized 1.4 grams.

(even that's questionable as it is much more than the licit, annual global production)
You might also want to ask them to change the way red mercury is referred to near the end, as its existence is generally believed to be a hoax[1]. Charles Stross actually wrote a fun short story that uses references it[2].

1 - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_mercury
2 - https://www.tor.com/2012/07/20/a-tall-tail/
Other stuff owned by facebook?
What's the energy/time cost of breaking 512-bit RSA keys in 2018? I wonder if we could sign a message that says "DON'T USE DNSSEC" with their private key.
> In a free market system there will always be winners, losers, and a lot of us in the middle.

Yeah, well I'm seeing a lot of "winner takes all" lately.
Trying to decide who I dislike more out I News Corp and Facebook. I think News Corp have actively done a good deal more "evil" than FB, while FB have mostly been just sort of clueless or ambivalent about their negative effect on the world.
The Case for an ePad
Trump bragged about "grabbing women by the p*y" on tape only 13 years ago and he still became president.

No matter the amount of stupid or disrespectful stuff someone says on (social) media, many voters actually don't seem to care that much about it.
This reminds me of the Golgotha drop from 2000: unfinished code and assets from a scrapped game, released as open source/PD. I don't know what, if anything, ever became of those...
Yeah, but that doesn't mean that "work hard and you'll succeed"is a lie.
The article does mention there's a lot of monero in the indicated wallet.
I killed my account somewhere around 4 years ago. Overall, I am probably a better person (interpersonally / socially) because I have to actually talk to people in order to "catch up". However, there are some difficult downsides. For instance, given that basically everyone else that I know still uses it, all of my friends now have to single me out with a text when they create an event and want me there or post about something they wanted to get the news out about. Basically, being the one (or one of the few) non-facebook user(s) in my friend group effectively shifts the burden of communicating with me to the person communicating, from the app that was specifically designed for mass communication. So expect to be left out of the loop a lot. Expect to lose some friends (because you won't communicate with all of them anymore). Expect to have to put more effort into maintaining your friendships (since you won't have that constantly opened communication transport that you can easily use).

That being said, I'll never go back to using Facebook. It changed my behavior patterns too much and I was just not happy.
At most organizations change management is nothing but bureaucracy that does nothing but preventing things from getting done.
In a nice tone, it's "The Featured Article."
Indeed, I've had almost strangers at the bar even start to talk about how bad facebook is now. I don't ever remember this happening before. I don't think its just in the tech bubble, this definitely appears to me to be outside the tech bubble now. I also notice people texting more often lately in my friend groups. It definitely feels more mainstream.
When I deactivated my account about 4 years ago, I thought it would impact my life more than it did.

I have actually strengthened my friendships and moved quickly up in my career as a result of deleting most social media.

Social media is like the dessert of the internet. Use it sparingly.
> Facebook is going to get done in by the fact that the younger generation doesn't like it

All the younger generation I know are big users of Instagram and WhatsApp - both FB properties.
Hi John, just an FYI: if you have Facebook Messenger installed on your phone, you are probably giving Facebook a lot more data than you think.
Inventing the digital watch again and again and
Epic is absolutely SWIMMING in money thanks to what was essentially a weekend project by two of their engineers.

Fornite BR is exploding in popularity, with Ninja recently streaming with Drake, Kim Dotcom and another popular rapper. They broken the all-time record with 620k+ viewers at 2am!

I'm sure their success facilitated the decision to release this for free and also give out refunds for Paragon. Win/win for them!
Searle explicitly addresses this point in his original argument for the Chinese room. Something I’ve found rather convincing about the Chinese room is that he predicted many of the counterarguments ahead of time and addressed them, but people still present them as if he hadn’t thought of them.
Author here. Manual installation will certainly always be possible. The instant/cloud parts of this feature are designed so that things can "just work" under optimal network conditions. Suboptimal and offline conditions are always to be expected and planned for. This is shown by Ledger's offline-first design.
Sexual-minority students more likely to abandon science majors
plus all the Claremont colleges are in LA too
I teach other people. I support other people. I manage other people. I work for other people.

If you have a relationship which is more accurately described as parasitic than teaching, supporting, managing or working for, you should certainly reconsider it.
I was thinking more of this one which is more directly relevant to abusing user expectations of privacy:

http://www.businessinsider.com/well-these-new-zuckerberg-ims...

Neither murdoch nor Zuckerberg are admirable characters.
One thing that the bot is missing (just my opinion, obviously) is a pseudonymous identifier. I realize this technically does not make it anonymous anymore, but I don't think it matters.

For example, if you post anonymous feedback saying "the toilets should be cleaned more regularly" and you then post an anonymous comment to that post saying "I agree", there's no way of knowing if consensus is building or if someone is astroturfing the discussion.

Compare this to if the feedback is posted by anonymous#f46d and the reply is posted by anonymous#6c7e, at least you know it's different people making the posts.
> You can disable a lot of stuff that eats away your memory.

Can you give some examples, and/or a link? I like using Gitlab as an easily portable, one-docker-container-and-you're-running hosting service, so it would be nice to make it more lighteweight.
You are definitely right, unlimited is too cheap. OP has a nice thing going on here !