skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I generally agree with the model; it's a model that's been independently struck on many times now. Most directly in the hunt are Google and Flattr.

I had the same idea some time ago, but silly me, got interested in solving the technical problems of tracking visits while preserving privacy. What I should have been doing is fretting about the business side of things.

At least I got a patent out of it.
Try reformatting your title as a Show HN, i.e. `Show HN: Titan - invest like a hedge fund`
Doesn't support OS X though.
Facebook CSO: I am still 'fully engaged' at FB
"...and apparently has already been abused (some might even say weaponized) in a major election."

While it's clear that CA/Russians/whoever tried to influence the election through these techniques, is anyone aware of any studies or evidence that they actually affected anything at all? Has anyone even done a survey asking people if they either did not turn out to vote, or changed the candidate they were going to vote for, based on paid advertising they saw on Facebook?

I'm genuinely curious about this, I'm not trying to be argumentative. After this erupted yesterday, I went looking and found nothing. This whole thing may be much ado about nothing.
> Kentucky

Is there any public post, news, or data available yet on the work you're doing in Kentucky?
"breaking" implies it was "working" in the first place.
It'd be more future-proof too.
Breaking news: San Francisco says a resounding ‘no’ to fur
> the customer data wasn't used by any government, but by a political party.

... to become the government.
There isn't much to do about an auto accident, not even in the same ballpark.
Though, as, say, Chief Scientist, how much equity can one expect?
How does a more sophisticated radio avoid having its position triangulated?
True. Then again, Telegram really has no encryption at all, since no one uses the secret chats. So he probably meant something like "why not use an app that actually tries to do what it claims to?".
A bunch of wishful thinking. Too many companies have too much to lose from the mobile market.
It is astonishing how many conflicting bits of information are slowly trickling out about this person's death.
How does that work? Github style contributions, LinkedIn profiles, or some sort of activity trail of planning dinner with friends on FB?
> There is no way anyone would trust an "average" driver to pickup their kids, more than themselves.

I mean, most parents will—at some point—trust their teenage children to pick up their younger siblings. And teenagers are decidedly below-average drivers.
No, you don't understand the system at all

First, they shift all profit to Ireland as "licensing costs" for intellectual property.

Next:
"Ordinarily, those profits would be taxed in Ireland at the relatively low rate of 12.5 percent but — thanks to an agreement between Apple and Ireland — the vast majority of profits in Ireland were attributed to a "head office" not located in any country and therefore not subject to taxes in Ireland or anywhere."
https://www.cnbc.com/2016/08/30/how-apples-irish-subsidiarie...
Didn’t the third party collect data after users gave explicit permission to the third party app to use their data? From my understanding, users didn’t read the short text explaining the information the third party would receive before pressing the “okay” button.
I see no reason why not actually.
Is that a question or a statement? If it's a statement, it comes across as pontifical.
> Hows that?

There's a balance and you missed it both times
Well, he could be referring to the relative changes over time of what is contributed by a desktop computer and what is contributed by a smart phone. Antiprivacy features on phones seem to get better at a much faster rate than antiprivacy features on a computer.
The coverage of Facebook has been quite negative, including from the NYT. So I'm not sure what self-censorship you're referring to.
That's hopeful... but false.
If there are no consequences, then it doesn't matter whether or not they lie, does it? The accused's outcomes are +1 or -1. The officer's outcomes are +1 or 0. The rational play for the officer is to lie for the +1.
Respectable sites usually include a list of corrections and changes made to an article after publication

Respectable sources properly fact-check before publishing in the first place.

Generally, most people who read an erroneous original will never see the corrected version.
Safety Wing caught my eye (https://www.safetywing.com), but I've been using the same provider for years and would be hesitant to switch for only $30 extra a month, then worry I'd be getting lesser coverage. Does anyone have any experience with Safety Wing, or comments? Reading the coverage document is one of those things I think you need a medical or law degree for..
For anyone who's interested, I also maintain a tracking protection list for Internet Explorer. It's based originally on the Ghostery and Disconnect lists, but I now update it independently. It's designed to be concise and speedy, yet also comprehensive. Note, however, that due to the limitations of tracking protection lists in IE, it can't block everything. You may need to supplement it with a small hosts file. Check it out here: https://github.com/amtopel/tpl
By the way, I don't have the depth of experience or team to build something like this in a way that I would feel happy with, so feel free to please use this idea if you think it is good.
If the woman suddenly walked in front of the car at the last minute, I don't see how the situation could have been avoided

From /r/roadcam yesterday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYvKPMaz9rI

Human driver avoided hitting the pedestrian. There are lots of videos of human drivers successfully not hitting people who "suddenly" pop out "at the last minute". Self-driving cars should be able to match that. If they can't, they don't belong on public roads yet.
Jeff Bezos vs. the ping-pong robot [video]
Well, not overwhelmingly effective. Ted Cruz was a client and look how well he did.
What's driving impairment like, after this amount?
Yeah, I wasn't precise. Software in whatever form it's applicable in that case, not just source code itself. But my point was what you say - the license didn't cover the implemented idea.
You received the injection? Can you share some more details, I'm very curious.
As someone who worked at the NYT for 8 years and saw the inner workings I want to say the main assesrtions of this article are FALSE. Seriously. WTF
wait do you mean you want to run it on OSX, or that the DNS in OSX is somehow different, and wont work with pihole as its server?
How is the word of Jesus an objective moral standard?

Should we cut off a man and woman who had sex during the woman's period from society?
Ok, we've added 2016 above.

Unsurprisingly, there is recent stuff on https://github.com/jmdugan/blocklists/pulls. If anyone notices it getting updated, could you tell us? hn@ycombinator.com is best.
LinkedIn is the exception, but I do my best to avoid all others corporate run due to the predatory practices against users.
I was recently called for jury duty, and the whole jury was asked if they would give testimony different weight if it came from a police officer. When called up in voir dire, I said that I would give police testimony lower weight than others, and it wouldn't be enough on its own to prove guilt. The judge excused me from the case.
The idea is you use some inexpensive hardware (like a Raspberry Pi) and simple set all your devices to use it as a DNS server.
What's strange about anything the parent said?
Maybe that's something that marketing people, SEO optimzers and PR people should have.

At least for me having Github page, Jypyter notebook, Goodreads profile or something similar and no FB or Twitter profile sends a positive signal.
Only getting a white flag using this:

https://thepiratebay.org/static/img/tpb.jpg
Then have a probation period like 5 years before it can be discharged through personal bankruptcy. Infinity is not the right number.
Your VM uses its own network stack and handles its own DNS resolution. /etc/hosts isn't a firewall, it's a zone file.
> That's a pretty clear fail.

And yet the police were so quick to say that camera footage indicates that Uber was likely not at fault. It was so quick that it makes me inclined to think it's pretty obvious. However, after the SF Chronicle published its exclusive interview with the Tempe's chief of police, the Tempe Police PR person had to issue a statement that, "Tempe Police Department does not determine fault in vehicular collisions."

I'm not one to believe in conspiracies or to automatically suspect shadowy influence, so I want to believe that the the camera footage seems to argue that this was an unavoidable accident. But the evidence released so far argues against that, regardless of whether the victim's crossing was illegal or not. And why are the police making a judgment on this so soon in the first place, especially when the decision will be made by county law officials, and ostensibly after referring to Uber's full suite of sensor data?

https://www.engadget.com/2018/03/20/uber-fault-pedestrian-fa...
Thanks, the system really has been modernized along the way so isn't a huge tech debt as it could be. I just want to put in a good management process to do this properly, maybe there isn't one.
It's a shame Theranos poisoned the well so badly. There's a lot of good work to be done in the space. But that kind of science just cannot be done by hyper-secretive overfunded outsiders. For the good of us all, try not to let Theranos drag down an entire kind of company - but in that, be critical of science, credentials, and data.

And though science is still hard, signals from the NSF, QB3, Berkeley, UCSF, MIT and Cornell all point towards a much different culture and kind of company than was to be found in Theranos.
I work with people in Europe right now and they are just as bad as anyone else. I get filled with 30 minute calls.

Last week I had 35 meetings before my noon.
I've got a RaspberryPi Zero (WiFi via USB..ugh). Would that be too slow for DNS, or would having my DNS server be local vs remote negate that slow interface?
Just curious (and not trying to challenge or be confrontational), how long have you held a driver's license?
Yes; in fact, cars have had this technology since before there was flash memory or GPS or (good) accelerometers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event_data_recorder s were originally designed to record the instantaneous mechanical state of the car (e.g. whether seatbelts were buckled, to what degree the accelerator was depressed, etc.) during a crash, for insurance purposes.
If this car hit a woman coming from so far on the other side of the street, how are they going to deal with suicides? A coworker was driving home once when a man jumped out in front of her van and she barely stopped in time. He started whomping on her driver's side window screaming "Why didn't you hit me?!?!" again and again. She quickly got away and tried to come up with an explanation for her kids and called 911.
Physicist Proposes Alternative to Black Holes
Additional resource: https://www.staticgen.com/
Perhaps I'm not understanding the intent of this collaboration between Apple and IBM but I would like to think that anyone who can write/publish iOS apps should have the aptitude to spend a couple hours understand the basics of deep learning. Would you honestly use an app that was contains an image-classification model that's trained using this flow. Please enlighten me. Or am I the only person who DD'd on their product? Have you tried other web interface versions of online models trainers like SageMaker, Rekognition? Do you work for IBM?
> Proto-life would have to assemble copies of itself from molecules available in the environment.

Quines also live in an environment: the programming language they're written in. It's a very different _kind_ of environment; for instance the physical world has preservation of mass while it's really easy to copy bits. But both quines and proto-life can only replicate in the right environment, and they do so via an interaction between the information contained in themselves and the environment in which they are embedded. They seem quite analogous to me.
You can turn on disconnect’s blocklists in ublock origin rather than run both. ublock origin comes with quite a few lists, but most of them are turned off by default.
How wouldn't it support OSX. You just set it up as the device that provides a mac with it's network. It doesn't have anything to do with OS's
You make a great point that there's a lot more to being a founder than simply pulling the trigger on a business license. Props for making it work in your bidness.
IBM Cloud does have a few unique and killer features mainly courtesy of their acquisitions of Cloudant and Compose.

Show me any other cloud provider with hosted MongoDB, JanusGraph, Etcd, ScyllaDB, RethinkDB as well as Cloudant itself.

If it wasn't for the pricing I would definitely have considered IBM Cloud for my project.
Maybe it will come back in line with wage growth... If wages won't go up, maybe productivity will need to go down. :)
It's mostly subdomains since windows can't use wildcards (*.domain.com). Setting up such a large hosts-file might slow down your computer a bit though.

There are some tools that lets you run wildcards in the hosts-file but can't remember the names at the moment.
Similar solution to blocking things at your local recursive DNS resolver, assuming you have a captive pool of devices, let's say in 10.240.0.0/24) in a LAN, all of which are given DHCP addresses and DHCP-assigned DNS resolvers, and you're in control of a bind9 server that's on the same LAN.

Not going to prevent people with admin rights on their workstations from using another DNS resolver (or VPN, or whatever), but a fairly low effort solution.

https://community.jisc.ac.uk/library/janet-services-document...
Fortunately, having sane data protection laws gives you things like being able to rescind an agreement like that at any time. Then the party that collects the data has to inform any third parties of the change and all of them have to delete your data.
I would put it this way:

For maintainers: if you don't want people to act like you promised them anything, don't put up a fancy website showing how wonderful it is and what its best features are.

Instead, do what you can to discourage people from using your software. Tell people how crappy it is, that you could abandon it at any time, and so on.

Making it version 0.15 alpha might not be enough to counteract a marketing message that makes it sound like the greatest thing since mobile phones.
Yep, after a friend had someone try to use her van to commit suicide I am paranoid and get ready to avoid every pedestrian. I don't know what I'd do if I lived somewhere with many pedestrians.
It's definitely possible that this would have detrimental effects to their bottom line. I know I would start buying their products, and I would encourage others to do so, though, I'm not sure if that would make up for the loss.

But that's irrelevant to the point. The point is that Apple prevents users from understanding or controlling how the user's data is being used. Just because we understand why they won't fix it doesn't make it any less true that they could fix it, but choose not to.

And that's what I mean by "putting their money where their mouth is". They talk a big talk about protecting their users, but their actions are different than their speech.
Did Uber release sensor data from the vehicle?
Created a pi-hole friendly blocklist
https://gist.githubusercontent.com/angad/3db2da1cb50a4432c9e...
This is quite a powerful message!
It's analogous to that, except that speed limits very reliably take the reasonable-balance number and then drop it several mph. It's a feedback loop, where people drive faster and limits are set with driving faster in mind.
you can do this with a DNS zonefile at your local resolver, though.
Same as what other commenters have suggested, both runtime and compile time checks are useful. We'd like to consolidate around Flow (our docs specify flow types) but just haven't gotten around to adding/vetting that Babel plugin (or alternatives). I'd personally like to just use static types but it would mean that all users would have to use Flow + our specific version of Flow.
Perhaps Mexico is a better example; they restrict the ability of Americans to buy Mexican land within X distance of the border or within Y distance of a coast.
And that's not a good enough argument anymore. They did force this upon the company, and they are feeling absolutely none of the consequences of their decision.
I would absolutely pay for Music, Messages, Notes and iCloud Desktop.

The alternatives do lack a number of features.
MS is an autoimmune disorder. Claiming that you could voluntarily give yourself the condition through counterproductive meditation is emblematic of the general mystic nonsense of yogiism. You'll never be able to levitate, either.
Please be clearer. Which claims do you not think are true, and what reasons/evidence do you have behind your assertions?

Do you mean the assertion that NYT made these changes in response to being reached by Facebook's PR team? (This is difficult to prove but suggested by the facts we have.)

Do you mean the assertion that the NYT regularly changes headlines in response to criticism of those being covered? (This is alleged, but I have no proof of this.)

Do you mean the assertion that Facebook contacted the Times after the article was published? (I highly doubt that this is false, and it being true suggests that the first point was true.)
> Why so much faith in non profits?

Perverse incentives. If a company's profit is linked to higher incarceration, they are incentivized to make the problem worse, not better.

This doesn't make all non-profits magical paragons of virtue, or all for-profits evil. It is simply an indicator.
Imagine actually investing in this. This is social workers as a service, because of course a bunch of Stanford nerds and SV VC elites know how to fix society better than anyone else. You couldn't come up with satire better than this.

So like what happens when the first 22 yr old "community assistance team member" gets raped and chopped up into pieces by one of your clients? Is that just the price of disruption?
141 this batch. There's some detailed info in the article.
Especially when there is video of it. Please tell me there is dashcam footage, since that's the first thing that should be available as evidence with a self-driving car.
I work as an executive at a non-profit, and have worked in other non-profits. With that said, I don't think this makes sense as a non-profit. Primarily, you choose to be a non-profit if you want to get your revenues from donors. They are targeting government, and so unless they thought they could fund their program through governmental grants, it makes more sense as a for-profit where they are bidding on government work.

Keep in mind, a for-profit can have a social good mission and remain aligned to it (See Patagonia for instance).
Can you explain this a little more? Can this be done on a personal phone? I was under the impression that the hosts file was essentially untouchable on an iPhone.
Facebook Sued by Investors Over Voter-Profile Harvesting
>permanent professors are tenured or tenure track and are very hard to 'cut loose'

Hahahaa. Hahahaaa. Ha.

Tenure-track professors are simply denied tenure in the end of their glorious $50K/year 6-year stay.

Hard to fire a tenured professor? You aren't thinking big, my friend. Shut down the entire department. Who[1] needs[2] physics[3], after all[4]?

That's not to mention the obvious solution - eliminate tenure altogether[5].

Think that's hard to implement? Time is on your side then (if your side is the side that wants to ruin academia for good). Simply let the academics retire (or die out), and never open tenure-track positions[6]. When someone leaves the department, replace them with an adjunct.

For every linked reference, I could also provide personal anecdata. And as far as problems in academia go, I didn't even scratch the tip of the iceberg.

[1] https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/201110/physicsprogr...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/science/2006/sep/29/highereducat...

[3] https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/PT.6.2.2018021...

[4] https://www.aaup.org/media-release/crisis-university-norther...

[5] https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/01/13/legislation-t...

[6] https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/14/upshot/so-many-research-s...
CEO of Cambridge Analytica claimed they used U.S. proxies to influence election
And it's not like searching in google scholar, getting the doi and putting it in scihub was any great hardship before.
I think this ultimately comes down to the problem of attribution in marketing -- how do you determine if an ad or story is effective in actually influencing somebody to buy a product or vote for a candidate? We know millions of people engaged with content from Russian trolls masquerading as Americans, but (like any marketing campaign with an offline action) it's difficult to quantitatively measure the ultimate impact they had.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/02/the-r...
I don't think we can really know whether or not this incident was a suicide.
Arguably, students are a great investment, just not for money.
What do you pay as a wage for these people who you, so to speak, bail out of jail? Is it minimum wage? If so, then this seems less, but still rather exploitative of the individual. Especially in in the case where they are acquitted and not convicted.
Nah, I meant that Twitter's current logic is like counting UTF8 bytes, but that they Twitter's scheme gives an emoji codepoint a cost of 1, whereas it "should" have a cost of 4.
This story doesn't appear to back up the headline. Unless I've missed something, it says that Facebook PR reached out to the NYT, and that the article was edited. That might mean Facebook "demanded" changes, or it might mean that they pointed out errors or additional facts that warranted the correction.
Ask HN: Free Alternatives to Financial analysis companies like Sentieo?
Looking for free / open source alternatives to companies like Sentieo that do analysis on 10Ks, Qs and financial statements?
Apple flagship price tag: $170M or more
Nobody cares about the banks. But the banks are going after Toys R Us (and other targets of the parasitic buyouts) because that's their only recourse, and they are costing plenty of innocent people their jobs. I feel things would be different if they could go directly after Bain et al.
It's true. If you get parasites from a pet like a cat you'll find yourself waking up at around 5 AM every day.
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I attended the Signal Officer Basic Course (SOBC) at Fort Gordon in 2002. Believe it or not, they didn't even have real radios to train us on at the time. We got a powerpoint presentation, which was pretty much useless.

What communication equipment they did train us on was basically obsolete. "We have to train you on the old stuff because the new training hasn't been approved yet. You probably won't see any of this in the field."
I feel the same with ReasonML / OCaml. I've spent hours on a refactor and everything work beautifully after fixing all the type errors.
NYT stories routinely change, sometimes substantially, between online and print versions, without corrections.

There used to be a site that tracked this.
Emergency and police vehicles by sirens yes, but likely not other cars.
If either of those two cases is true, then the AI is not ready to be driving on public roads.
Suspended from a shell company with no employees: https://twitter.com/carolecadwalla/status/976199917915033601
delete your facebook account. It feels sooooo good!
I've heard this one before when discussing a non profit that was thinking of shopping itself around for an acquisition: "I thought they were not-for-profit?" ... "Well, yeah, but they're also not-for-going-out-of-business."