skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's too easy for some of you to get excited about one giant corporation taking a rather public beating. The anti-facebook tribe is strong in the Hacker News community.

Plus, what SV company wasn't a free-for-all of user data in 2012-2013? I don't know if any of you remember the Path app's lawsuit that triggered Apple's lockdown of API permissions. Apple, who suddenly got religion about privacy, but they too learned from their mistakes.

Anyway, I'm not here to argue in favor of FB, but the stock going down is pretty self perpetuated right now. It's algorithmically triggered in response to bad news in the press, that then generates more bad press like this and so on. I'm not sure where the bottom will be here, but I'm pretty sure it'll reverse course soon enough.
There’s a real disconnect I’m noticing, which comes with a kind of script here. “Nobody cares,” “I’m buying their stock,” “It will all blow over,” “No one outside of our bubble cares.”

I suspect the same people will be saying the same thing next week when another $50b have been shed, another scandal or two has come to light, and more users and advertisers flee the platform. I wonder at what point it’s going to sink in that between Trump’s election and a general backlash against tech, this is the tip of a very large iceberg?
Thanks, didn't know that.

Still, seems like a loophole if the goal is to reduce waste.
Mainly because of their cloud business, which I feel is a fair evaluation.

Azure is widening the gap between 2nd and 3rd place in cloud hosting, while also making huge gains in cloud services, which is something AWS doesn't have.
"Disrupting the water slide economy."
Litecoin falls 10% after payments processor 'LitePay' closes
I'd like to know if Mark's and other executive's Facebook data were available as readily as everyone else.
(2013) should be removed - this page has been kept up-to-date, and includes mention of Cambridge Analytica.
Let's say you are an Appointment Reminder Saas to pick an HN relevant example. You are selling to a Dentist practise in Germany. The Dentist is the controller of the personal data. Your software processes the name, address, phone number of the Dentists patients. If a patient wants their records deleted (maybe moved house) then on-premises or not, your software needs to support such deletion.

if you sell it as a normal hosted sass, you are the processor and must delete and audit the deletion. if you are selling it as a packaged software (on-premises by any other name) then the Dentist is also the operator or processor - you are hands off the data. but not in the clear.

Because almost no-one buys packaged software anymore and absolutely no-one will buy it unless it says "GDPR-compliant" on the box so no matter what you have to support this.

https://www.eugdpr.org/glossary-of-terms.html

Edit - oh already answered!
The parts that allow you to do unsafe casting are easily detected by a static analysis.
At the massive institution I work at, we recently went all-in on O365 18 months ago and are now switching to Google (over the next 12 months). So perhaps, but the room for change seems to be evident.
Folks are running around wanting to ban the AR-15 because of a few black swan events featured that particular platform. Guess what, knives kill more people annually in the US than all rifles do. Handguns kill many times more people than that. No one is clambering to ban the handgun.

In the case of the Parkland shooter that sparked this latest round of protest, the murderer had something like 30+ police visits in a year including one in which he attempted to drink gasoline to commit suicide[0]. My ex-girlfriend, after attempting suicide with a kitchen knife, was committed for evaluation and subsequently barred from owning any firearms after a single incident.

Florida, and the United States as a whole already have laws on the books for this exact type of situation but the LEOs failed to act, and as a result 17 teenagers needlessly lost their lives. How about, before attempting to ban something, we enforce the good laws we have on the books? Banning the AR-15 would not have prevented this shooting. Enforcing our existing laws would have.

[0] - https://qz.com/1214418/the-fbi-broward-county-sheriffs-offic...
Private information? If it was so private, how was Krabs able to get it all off of domains they registered? Answer: It was never private, and just nobody bothered to connect the dots before now.
The comment I was replying to was grouping Hypercard and QBASIC together under the umbrella of "..democratising programming... reads like English..." and it was specifically this that I was responding to.

QBASIC isn't for sharing hyperlinked information either!
Fond memories of childhood visits to a local "flume" ride, essentially a long concrete-lined ditch dug in a switchback pattern down a big hillside. Painted to make it slick, and they pumped a continuous stream of water all along it. You rode it by sitting or lying on foam mats, about 3x4 feet in size.

A ton of fun, you could get going pretty fast and you definitely wanted to have your legs crossed when you hit the pool at the bottom. Never heard of anyone getting hurt though, other than some mild abrasions if you slipped off the mat -- the concrete wasn't totally smooth. The curves were pretty steeply banked and the most you could really do if you went over the side was end up in underbrush.

Terrible that adults who should know better are making rides without apparent regard for safety of the (mostly) kids that will be riding them. Those elevated trough rides do worry me, they really need to be fully enclosed anywhere there is any chance of going airborne or over the edge.
> For a cable network's customers it's instantly apparent when their internet speeds suck; it's not apparent when someone sells your private data.

There is no way to tell when they sell it but there is a way to tell when they have it to begin with.

If you're using software with public source code that you know is end-to-end encrypting the message to the recipient, you know there is no third party doing nefarious things with the data, because no third party has the data to begin with.

And that's the distinction that matters. Prohibiting a company from selling your data to someone who will do evil things with it is no use if the company itself can still do the exact same evil things with it. Or just get itself hacked like Equifax and reveal all the data to the attacker.
>The world’s capital of tech innovation prefers to keep its superlatives, good and bad, under wraps.

Can anybody explain to me what "superlatives" means in that opening sentence? As it doesn't seem to match any of the standard definitions. [0]

[0] http://www.dictionary.com/browse/superlative
The issue isn't whether the company has the answers to the questions, but what it costs to assemble those answers in the requested form. You can't respond to detailed legal inquiries by just having customer support copy-paste from documentation; they don't have the expertise required to guarantee a complete and correct answer.
Anyway, I'm not here to argue in favor of FB

You’re just doing a really great impression of someone who is? My initial reaction was an unrealistic belief that you and others singing a similar tune work for FB, but I doubt that. I think it’s a very rational fear that FB is the first domino to fall, possibly along with Uber. Fear and self-interest, and the simple desire not to see your industry facing a prolonged public backlash ending in regulation makes more sense as a motive.

Is that about right?
You're 18 (I'm assuming based on first year at uni) and have no idea what you really want. Experiment a lot and see what works. Have you ever actually worked for someone for money? Work hard at your studies, take a part-time gig if you can, or start your own, have fun, and try on a lot of different hats in your 20s. Take note during that time of what you like and dislike about certain jobs. Aim yourself toward the things you like.
If winning the War on School Shootings and curing the Opoid Epidemic means a few sexual deviants get what's coming to them, who cares?
Ha. My team implemented something very similar. We were writing a browser-based animation editor, and we needed to render a 'film strip' of frames. But we were targeting tablets, and loading a new canvas filled with heavyweight vector assets for each frame took forever. Since the animations were auto-saved to the server, it proved quicker just to spin up the app in a headless browser on the server, render all the frames, and have the client download them!
There's also https://www.fbexporter.com/, which uses the Facebook API to get the metadata and put it back in the EXIF data, but unfortunately it will only export photos you are tagged in, not all photos you've uploaded.
I just don’t agree with your premise (because you don’t need to know how a Seiko watch works to learn how watches work) or your conclusion (because in the absence of AOSP, projects like Firefox OS might well have been successful).
This is looking at it all wrong. Watch Chris Urmson's video from SXSW on how Waymo does it. I've mentioned that before. You build a map of what's around the vehicle. Then you try to tag some obstacles to help predict their behavior. But the obstacle detection is geometric, and does not depend on the tagging, which uses machine learning. If there's an obstacle, the system doesn't hit it, even if it has no clue how to identify it.

Tesla/Mobileye managed to get that backwards. Their original system was "recognize vehicle visually, compute distance and closing rate to vehicle". If it didn't recognize an obstacle as a vehicle, it ignored it. We know this for sure, because you can buy a Mobileye unit as a dashcam-like warning device and many people have seen how they work. That led to three collisions with vehicles partly blocking the left side of a lane. One death ramming a street sweeper, one collision with a stopped fire truck, one sideswipe. The NTSB is investigating the fire truck collision.

The NTSB is now investigating the Uber collision.[1] As they usually do, the first thing they did was to get control of the wreckage.[2] Uber does not have control of the investigation. The NTSB investigators are working this like an air crash. They are "beginning collection of any and all electronic data stored on the test vehicle or transmitted to Uber". As usual, they haven't announced much, but they have mentioned that the video seen publicly is from a third-party dashcam, not the vehicle sensors.

[1] https://www.ntsb.gov/news/press-releases/Pages/NR20180320.as...

[2] http://wsau.com/news/articles/2018/mar/21/arizona-police-rel...
I would say I am reachable for 24h/day, but that doesn't mean I'll start working on a problem until the start of the next 8h working period.

I might not even take your call and just assume that if it was something truly important, you'd leave a voicemail.

Don't know if that truly counts as reachable.
We at https://www.ably.io host our website on Heroku for convenience as the site is less mission critical than our globally distributed realtime messaging platform.

15 minutes ago our site went down, and Heroku have scheduled maintenance which means every single API is unavailable. That means:

- I cannot tail the logs to see what's going on

- I cannot restart the apps

- I cannot roll back

- I cannot view my dashboard

- I cannot contact Heroku (their dashboards and login are down)

We are completely and utterly helpless, so have been forced to redirect all website traffic to our status site in the short term.

Whilst we have invested serious engineering into complete redundancy in every part of our realtime platform (https://goo.gl/ZyZ9zT for example), it's we should be putting some of that engineering into our website too! I now seriously question using Heroku as a reliable platform for hosting given a decision that they have made to cripple everything all at once.

Heroku, you have failed badly IMHO. How did you think it's OK to disable every single API and not notify me many times about the severity of this in advance.
What services does Azure have that AWS doesnt? I thought it would be the other way around if anything.
Anxiety and fear make us retreat to safety. This means we do what we can to reduce risk. Less risk = less reward. There is the "luck".
Perhaps I could start working on the side as a college counselor. I am only 19, but I toured over 35 undergraduate universities and successfully applied to a top 20 school. That experience taught me a ton about how the process works and I am certain that you can "hack" the college application process.

One personality trait that has helped me in life I am extremely curious self-starter. When I want to learn something I completely immerse myself in it. I have done this a few times in my life. I did it with DJing, graphic design/ typography, finance, and more recently colleges. I think that the best way to describe this without talking to you in person is that I am able to talk about the things I am interested in such granular detail that it would raise suspicion of autism.

The reason I ask how to avoid the 9 to 5 is that many people, especially on this forum (I assume), are pulling it off. I am wondering how I can take advantage of my intense curiosity to do pull it off myself. I have 4 years to figure it out.
I agree. It's worth remembering that placing trust in the people--as a democracy does--is not perfect. It's just better than alternatives, like a corporatocracy--let Alphabet Inc. decide which ideas are OK--or other authoritarian models.

However, it is a truly difficult problem. It is difficult to say what penalties there should be for fake news. One thing I would propose is that civil liabilities associated with false reporting be extended to cover entire minority groups.
Sorry to say it but its been a few years since I started to consider FB "useds" lame (just to use your word, but I would describe them with harsher terms). It seems my side of the fence is growing in numbers pretty fast lately.
[Comment deleted because I'm mainly just angry at Microsoft for literally 20 years now.]
How do you think the US debt plays into that?
Literal survivorship bias. Our ancestors did, but many others did not.
No finding has been made that they violated anything, nor is there anything suggesting that they "probably" violated anything. The article you linked to says that a radical left-wing group called Common Cause filed a complaint with the FEC saying that in their opinion, a violation has been committed. It means absolutely nothing at this point.

This wasn't an action instigated by the FEC because a professional decided that there is probable cause to believe that something happened. This is more akin to a neighbor who was angry at not being invited to a party weeks earlier calling the police and filing a false noise complaint.

Finally, the equivalence is that Obama used the data outside of the Facebook developer TOS at the time, which stated that the data acquired through the API was supposed to only be used for the operation of their apps. By all accounts, including celebratory news articles sourced directly from campaign staffers, they used that data in violation of the developer TOS for campaign strategy and ad targeting purposes - with great effect. ~199 million people that did not authorize Obama to have their data had it handed to him anyway, for the express purpose of defeating a candidate that about half of them wanted to be President. I'm not sure how that's not far worse than the CA situation.
The AI can still drive the car normally, the only thing that changes is it's prevented from running into another car at full speed. Which is no worse than having drivers override the system forcing a disengagement.
This is also the standard approach in the java world, where it's known as "shading."
Humans can't properly detect the most vulnerable users in all conditions. Not an excuse for this system failing to perform, but all self-driving cars have to do is be a little bit better for net safety to improve. People are notoriously unreliable. Computers don't get drunk or sleepy, for instance.
I totally agree. Reducing their monetary outgo is only a part of their story. If someone makes minimum wage, there’s a sharp limit as to how “frugal” they can be.
See my prior post but don't sell short the usefulness of that business degree. If there are aspects of it that you like, talk with your professors and see how you might best choose how to direct your course of study and electives.

I have friends that are university professors and they actually like it when students give a shit about some things and will help out. Those are your mentors. Then there are the other folks in your degree, some who might be like-minded. Find them and make friends. Those are your peers, and sometimes your (friendly) competition. That network will be invaluable outside of university, not only for any sort of deep friendships you establish but in terms of career networking.
That's a surprisingly dismissive reading. The first external source cited is Abramson. Every other source cited in the letter was also cited by Abramson in his original thread [1].

The letter summarizes Abramson's allegations: "The facts point to a coordinated effort by some in the FBI to change the course of the Clinton investigation by leaking sensitive information to the public, and by threatening to leak additional information after the investigation was closed."

There are no two ways about it: Either Abramson is onto a huge story that hasn't been reported elsewhere -or- sitting members of congress take investigative actions based on the ramblings of an irresponsible conspiracy theorist. Both are concerning.

[1] https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/939432544008921088.html
Agreed that stock_price:weather::company_value:climate

But a double-digit drop in a week's span is a pretty strong message
Testing in production, the safe way
All young people are on FB, they may additionally be on something else (probably Instagram which is also FB and starving out Snap) - the default remains Facebook.

I'd bet against you. The trajectory is fine and Zuckerberg is a good CEO. They have nearly a third of the earth as users and a ridiculously high percentage of internet users.

Given a long enough time horizon any company is vulnerable, but FB is here to stay for a long while.
create a coming soon webpage in under two minutes
Prosecutors will often start with very serious charges, then lower them in exchange for cooperation against the people they are really after.
AWS should partner with Apple (like all their other enterprise partnerships) to hawk iOS and Mac devices as a complete solution. Although it would only really work if AWS goes further up the stack from IaaS.
Yes. We had that in our DARPA Grand Challenge vehicle a decade ago. In addition to the main navigation and control system, there was a separate process taking inputs from the radar and speedometer, with the authority to slam on the brakes if the vehicle was about to hit something. Backing that up was a hardware stall timer reset every 100ms. If it hit 120ms without being toggled by the computer watchdog process, the brakes went on and the engine dropped to idle with no computer involvement. Then there was a DARPA-mandated remote engine kill radio system.
15% (of a group of 400) JavaScript bugs could be detected with type annotations.

First reaction: Wow, actual data! Cool!

Second reaction: 15% is not nothing, but... I'm kind of disappointed that it's so small.
The odd thing is that the credit is fairly new - IIRC, within just the last few years.
After it was an HP building that soccer field in the photo was a gas station, which was likely worse.

And people are taking steps: in Santa Clara (the city, not county), residential areas are receive Hetch Hetchy water while areas zoned industrial get groundwater. When I had an office there I was able to look this up on the city's web site. The only time I've been willing to pay for bottled water.

Much of Moffett Field is a superfund site (the main reason it's still a government facility) because back during the cold war the Navy used to dump toxic de-icing chemicals on those sub flights that took off from there every hour...from an area right next to the marsh.

Back in the 80s I remember visiting the Intel fab (also in santa clara) and watching a farmer harvesting wheat next door. I always wondered what happened to that wheat since it was obvious back then that the leachate would be a problem (nowadays the water coming out of the fabs is cleaner than the water that come in...but the damage is done).

And it's not all bad. I remember sitting in Cadence HQ (early 90s) watching an old guy work in the cherry orchard next door. I'd have eaten those cherries. And before SGI and Alza HQs moved in (to where Google HQ is now) that area was all bean fields. We used to cut through there to get to the shoreline...though back then the park and concert hall was the mountain view dump, so also probably pretty bad.

SV actually managed to maintain the ag vibe for a long time. I believe the last operating farm in East Palo Alto just shut down within the last five years.
Dude, you are being extremely arrogant here, like what you've seen and what you know are universals. I've already violated my own policy of never arguing with other people about GC in games, so serves me right. Peace out.
>> Heroku, you have failed badly IMHO. How did you think it's OK to disable every single API and not notify me many times about the severity of this in advance.

It's scheduled maintenance that they announced a week ago.
Critical ManageEngine vulns affect majority of Fortune 500 companies
Reminded me of this article that just came out:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/22/t-magazine/art/artist-day...
Advances of Robotic Surgery – The Da Vinci Surgical System
Not just programming. There are many industries that feed on the young and unencumbered. I've seen it in visual effects, architecture, etc.
If everyone's got the plague does that mean they're all in tip top health? Nope. Festering, bulbous pustules are what they are, and don't magically transform by force of numbers.

The same goes for the tendency to mechanically pigeonhole others - it is what it is, a mania for rigidly organizing the (supposedly) rigidly organizing. It sees its own whimsical image in the mirror and explodes with delight.
Most of which don't put lives at risk.
Title is misleading. ICE is actually two organizations under a single umbrella. There’s Enforcmenet and Removal Operations (which is what people commonly associate with ICE) and there’s Homeland Security Investigations. The article is about HSI. HSI doesn’t “track immigrants” (that’s the ERO), they track criminals. Smugglers, people traffickers, etc.
The camera video seen publicly is from a dashcam, not the vehicle's own sensors. The NTSB has mentioned this.
I have pretty extensive knowledge of blockchain, but I have yet to see anything where I could take advantage of that fact without making one of those ICO type companies that doesn't seem to have actual demand for their product.

VR/AR are super interesting to me, but my school has very few courses on human computer interaction, which is a shame because I find that stuff super interesting.
I guess it depends on whether "if" is treated as an expression which returns a value, which I don't think is the case due to the fact that I don't think there is an implicit value return in JS (such as in Ruby; the final line in any scope is the value that scope returns; same as in Elixir)
More rigor is definitely required, but it may not be possible to formally verify AI driven code to the same extent. Aviation software is driven from formal requirements, has a strict set of coding rules, and the generated assembly code is compared to the original source code. Within the coding rules, the software isn't even allowed to dynamically allocate memory.

I have no idea how you'd build an AI system with those constraints, given that the computer essentially programmed the model itself by learning.
I also use pass, specifically iosforpass and the command line