skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eh, maybe. But worst case scenario at a casino is you blow your life savings. Worst case on Facebook is you waste a few hours of your time being bored.

Additionally, if we do introduce social media regulations (shudder) you can guarantee Facebook will have a hand in writing/influencing them to benefit itself and hurt any startup competitors, as the article argues.

I wouldn't be opposed to basic data protection laws, but I'm always wary of "oh just regulate them" as an automatic cure-all for when we don't like how a company behaves. There's almost always unintended consequences.
Most wallets these days don't reuse addresses, but without mixing, confidential transactions, or another approach, it's trivial to cluster a wallet via its chance outputs, etc.

Iota is/was incredibly broken, and shouldn't be used as an example IMO.
"More than just America's environment and human health is at stake. "Low-paying jobs, like hog slaughtering and breeding, will remain in places like Duplin County, but the higher-paid executive and marketing jobs will be lost," says Usha Haley, a professor at West Virginia University who has studied the Chinese takeover of American agricultural assets for a decade. "

So... exactly like how many products are designed and managed in the US, but manufactured in Chinese factories? Globalization goes both ways, especially since we seem to be competing in a race to the bottom, with looser and looser environmental and labor laws.
Last time I checked, Photoshop and most of adobe's products barely function on a 4k device, yet Gimp works nicely.

It's astounding that a company that makes graphics software can't support modern hardware at all.

But I guess they are the company that can't fix the tremendous piece of shit known as flash
We've had regular assembly for decades and it doesn't seem to have stopped people from trying to make higher-level languages faster. Just the opposite, somehow!
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What Microsoft needs to do is make UWP APIs on par with Win32 APIs. Also, the reason why so many companies wrote custom apps for windows was because of VB. They need to make it so that you can write code and compile it to a single executable without the framework tacked on that is as easy and powerful as VB was. This will get them back in the game and push them over the 1 trillion hump.
I feel the same and was happy to pay the $1 to WhatsApp, until that changed. I can only imagine that FB values its unfettered access to you and your data as worth more than $40 or double that!
I'm not saying I disagree with you, but what the purpose was is irrelevant for what the content shows.
I use AppImage[0] builds[1] for testing development builds without install. Here[2] is latest nightly build from GIMP 2.10.x branch.

[0] http://appimage.github.io/apps

[1] https://github.com/aferrero2707/gimp-appimage/releases/tag/c...

[2] https://github.com/aferrero2707/gimp-appimage/releases/downl...
This is a massive collision of laissez-faire crushing a command economy. Taxis in NYC were overregulated to the point that government was fixing supply to a specific number. Car services were unregulated to the point that they could charge whatever and hire whoever and drive whatever. The TLC should have eased off years ago.
"Consumed by greed, rendered numb to human suffering by a life of hedonism and extravagance, devoid of empathy, incapable of self-criticism or self-sacrifice, surrounded by sycophants and leeches who cater to their wishes, appetites and demands, able to use their wealth to ignore the law and destroy critics and opponents, they are among the most repugnant of the human species."

This psychological shift toward delusional megalomania seems to happen to many if not most human beings when given incredibly high status and rendered largely immune to consequences. In authoritarian socialist systems it happens to the ruling party elite and bureaucrats.
I dont remember agreeing to facebook keeping lots of private data about me. (I dont have facebook)
Hire bright scientists to work on fusion, move them to some other boring research project after two months. ... But perhaps I'm pessimist about corporations.
That's assuming that the explanation that decision came from a neural network isn't enough. Same way you wouldn't have to explain the physics of a coin toss if you'd use that as decision maker.
Oh, and I forgot to mention they were also sponsored by DARPA. You can pretend these are all irrelevant arguments and wait for your proof, but the reality is that reasonable doubt and ad hominem are sometimes appropriate, especially when dealing with privacy. It's on them to prove their trusted setup can be trusted, and everything they've done is antithetic to trust.
Are you going to defend this as being good & moral? Because the claim was simply that this doesn't seem to fit under good & moral.
How do you manage the network boot server? How will pxeboot interact with hosting your rack switch images?
The term is called "Dissonance". It's okay and quite normal to have conflicting emotions about things. To have the head and heart in conflict. Peterson himself would say this is part of the process of getting to the truth. If you're just courting "comfortable" ideas all the time you'll get nowhere.
> Sixty-seven percent of Americans say online communication strengthens their relationships — compared with just 18 percent who say it makes those relationships weaker. If you aren’t on Facebook, you’re missing out on important parts of your friends’ lives — maybe even missing your friends entirely, if they live far from you.

I really don't think what people think Facebook does to their relationships actually maps at all to the actual impact of Facebook on their relationships.

I'm 22 years old. I graduated from college last year. I think in 2008-2012, Facebook helped me keep in touch with friends because all of my friends posted to it regularly, sharing life events and photographs. My News Feed (back when it was chronological by default) helped me keep up to date with the biggest things in all of my friends' lives. It was nice. Notifications told me when somebody interacted my content, and I could take the time to read every comment someone made on one of my photos or posts. There were a few ads in a sidebar, which I could mostly ignore.

Today (well, two months ago, when I deleted my Facebook account), none of this is true, and Facebook is completely useless because of it. My News Feed regularly hides major posts from me, and throws "suggested content" and ads in my face before I can see anything I care about. My friends never post any more, and when they do, I don't see it because it's a) hidden in the News Feed of garbage and b) might not even be in the News Feed of garbage because Facebook's algorithm doesn't think it's "relevant". Notifications are complete spam, telling me that "X posted something!" and never letting me know when people post on my own photos and posts. Because it's hard to tell when people engage, there's no point in engaging -- nobody will read your comments! I studied abroad Fall semester of my senior year, and when I got home I posted a huge photo album of exciting places I visited. For 6 months, I assumed nobody commented or liked anything because I didn't get any notifications. I checked back on it when I first started thinking about deleting my Facebook, and realized there were dozens of likes and a handful of comments per picture. None of which I knew about. All of these people tried to reach out to me via a comment, asking about my trip, and it looked like I ignored all of them callously because Facebook never told me anything.

Facebook was once a useful tool for social interaction, but today I simply keep a list of the two-dozen or so friends I actually want to keep up with. Whenever I have a lazy afternoon or some free time, I consult the list, think about who I've lost touch with, and give them a call. I find that this is a much more rewarding way to interact with the people I love and care about. If you're feeling trapped by Facebook's social graph, just remember that humans interacted for tens of thousands of years without social media, and decades with only phones and letters. You can do the same.

Don't feed Facebook's ad engine at the expense of your own social circle. You can do a lot better.
As someone who was born and raised in the SV, this is just something they trot out every once in a while to scare the newcomers.

Almost no one is on well water and the chemicals are relatively low toxicity in most cases. You are probably getting harmed more by the smog in the air than any leakage from these sites. Yes, bad stuff was happening in the 70's environmentally. SV is NOT an isolated case.
And that's a completely legitimate response.

Krita is targeted at artists and illustrators, just like any other specialized tool. People don't look at Vim and complain that lacks desktop publishing features, despite novelists and programmers both needing to manipulate text.

The original complaint regarded tools for artists, and that's Krita. For photographers, there's DarkTable (https://www.darktable.org/), RawTherapee (http://www.rawtherapee.com/), and many others. For my modest needs, I find DigiKam (and occasionally The GIMP) adequate, though I am envious of proprietary tools.
"We have to violate HIPPA to follow the EU." is strictly not true, legal requirements is a valid reason (user consent is just one of possible reasons) that allows you store and process private data.
For programming tasks I've been using waffle.io - similar to trello but is built on github integration. Makes tracking/resolving issues for me easier.

For tech/programming tasks that don't involve github, I use trello.

For everything that doesn't require writing code, post it notes. I've found that using an app instead of post its lead me to over filling my day, forgetting to mark stuff as done, and subsequently I stop checking it all together. Post its are simple, easy to manage, and satisfying to cross things off of.
The Pet economy have already started ;-)
What’s the fee? Can they advertise cheaper options, e.g. include a printed menu with each delivery?
> Modi promotes it on his own, non-official capacity

Modi is the head of the Indian government. Non-official capacity in such a position does not compute.

Imagine Merkel having a shady side business after she's done being Chancellor for the day.
>That's the same thing
Yea, I'll conceed that.

>Facebook or any social media has zero influence on districting
I don't think facebook or big data are responsible for districting.

I think that access to their data makes district gerrymandering a certainty, rather than some guessing game. In the past I'm guessing they had to go door-to-door to take the temprature on issues and try to figure out where people stand politically. Today some guy with access to this data - that we willingly make available - and a python script can do the same thing in a weekend with a much higher degree of success.

I think this is a more significant consequence of the social media age, than say targeted ads. I can ignore the ads when I'm watching hulu. But I have no power over how it's being used against me. Maybe this an overly reductionist view on something that is far more complex and nuanced, but I'm open to changing my mind.
Fines do not work. Look at the banking sector: HSBC, JP etc. they get slapped with fines all the time but continue business as usual.

Heavy taxation is a very quick way to make these types of socially and environmentally polluting business to change or to go away all together.
"Seen as OK" by UK press / establishment politicians in the sense that no real outrage was generated or hearings held or laws changed. Unlike what seems to be about to happen with Facebook...
> Let's all just be intellectually honest here: people only care because Trump made effective use of social media.

I'm not sure that's accurate either in the context of how the Trump campaign used this data and the investigation into the Trump campaign. The issue isn't that Trump used social media, it's how they used it and who they worked with (Roger Stone and the WikiLeaks/DNC hack angle for example).
“We don’t want people to be confused or think it was a failure of the technology that we supply for Volvo, because that’s not the case,” Zach Peterson, a spokesman for Aptiv Plc, said by phone. The Volvo XC90’s standard advanced driver-assistance system “has nothing to do” with the Uber test vehicle’s autonomous driving system, he said. Aptiv is speaking up for its technology to avoid being tainted by the fatality involving Uber ...

No. This is Volvo pressuring Aptiv to make a statement on its behalf, to avoid being tainted by this PR disaster and to shift investigators' focus away from both companies.

Also, in all of the discussions about this incident, let's forget that Elaine Herzberg, a mother of two children, lost her life due to an engineering experiment and publicity stunt ("Come to Arizona! We don't have safety regs!") being conducted on public roads with great risk to members of the public. Volvo, Aptiv, and other participants in these trials should have never signed off ... yet they willingly participated, and an innocent member of the public has paid with her life.
The TextDecoder/TextEncoder APIs are a much easier and faster way to handle WASM strings, and most browsers already support them (Edge doesn't but can be polyfilled).

https://caniuse.com/#feat=textencoder
Slide out keyboards are an option. Combine with an on screen keyboard for the other layout and the only cost is a slightly thicker device.
I googled "Photoshop alternative" and GIMP was suggested in the first five hits (I stopped checking after that).

There's this annoying FLOSS motte-and-bailey conversation that you see over and over again that starts with "X is a Free replacement for Y!" and ends with "Why don't you fix it yourself then?", via "Nobody ever said X was a replacement for Y".
I'm not the OP, but I associate with everything they said, so here's my take if you're interested:

> I'm curious about your "mask" statement. I have that same feeling, and experience with alcohol.

Same, but I still drink a lot. It helps clear my mind. It's really apparent when two distinct groups of friends meet and the masks that I used for each set (which tend to be different) need to be reconciled. That can be uncomfortable.

> Do you ever imagine yourself to be a robot?

Oh hell yes, when I was younger (I'm nearly 40 now) especially. I desperately wanted to be a robot. Now, I mostly just love robots, and have built them (https://sendcat.com/dl/LcVKl5kWv6LJZEYusgVq9bLoieURiffZX7cKa...).

> Or do you memorize and rehearse things to say in social situations?

Kinda, but not in the "rehearsing a talk" sort of way. I do pick things that I've heard and apply them in other similar social situations though.

> I often feel like I am operating a virtual machine at social gatherings.

I've had that feeling, also that it feels like a game at times. Interestingly it feels like I'm creating a neural network of how what to do and say, but not the one in my brain, one of my own making.

> I tunnel in and give myself commands to operate like a normal human being, but I take absolutely no pleasure from the social interactions.

I think at this point playing the game has become almost transparent to me, it turns out I'm pretty good at it. I've developed a set of behaviours that work in most situations I find myself in (user groups (talks, the bar after), conferences, weddings, etc. etc.) and I do enjoy the friends I've made at the local Ruby and Go groups.

I do still have to force myself to do certain things though. Ask about people etc. Switch the conversation from what I want to talk about to them.

> I also get EXTREMELY tired, very quickly, even though I am able to function for a brief period at a fairly high level.

Social situations tire me too, though I can definitely manage full conference days or weeks of company meetup if I push myself. Towards the end I'll just spend hours by myself recharging, put on a smile and throw myself out there again.

It's tiring, but ultimately rewarding. I've made friends, I've had good jobs etc.
He doesn't pay them how much their work is worth. He pays less, that's how he makes money.
I can recommend setting up audit beat & kibana or similar. Auditbeat is a recent addition to the Elastic beats agents and it sends audit logs for a lot of things, including ssh logins, system calls, and you can monitor changes to files/directories as well. So, you can flag boxes where people are poking around in /etc, and see which boxes are being accessed via ssh by which user.

We have this and a few other elastic beats on most of our vms in amazon baked into the amis we use. So anything deployed by us starts sending lots of data to our logging cluster for metrics, auditing, internal application events, stacktraces from our docker infrastructure, syslogs, etc.
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Hunger and access to water are largely already political problems, and like I said, energy is going to get cheaper fast in the coming years (shifting them further into the political realm).

Vertical farming is going to provide perishable produce to rich people, so it's kind of weird to end on that point given where you started.
> Is it really that controversial though?

Yes.

> I'm nearly 40 and I feel like had Jordan Peterson said a lot of what he says now when I was at University it would have been of almost no note whatsoever.

Whether it would have been controversial in another context is irrelevant to whether it is controversial, which is never an inherent feature of an utterance and always a statement about its relation to a particular context.

But, yes, I'm nearly 45 and a lot of it would have been controversial when I was in college (in fact, a lot of it is almost identical to controversial things right-wing speakers were saying when I was in college; the only exception of note seems to be the factual controversy over his description of the content of specific current laws.)

> "Enforcing equality of outcomes though imbalanced policy is less desirable than giving equality of choice and letting other natural variables dictate the outcome" seems such an uncontroversial statement as to be almost self-evident, and yet...

...it's been a controversial statement from the right for four or five decades or so, and only not earlier because before then the right was almost uniformly overtly opposed to equality of choice, and didn't need to engage in elaborate concern trolling of this form.

It's not controversial because anyone disagrees that equality of choice and opportunity is the ideal, it's controversial as a criticism of specific policies because it assumed that equality of opportunities/choice is not their goal, and, where those laws directly address material circumstance as part of their mechanism, assumes that the circumstances addressed are immaterial to equality of choice/opportunity.
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Ask HN: Do the stuff that did Cambridge Analytica actually work?
We know they used an app to analyse users' personality traits, then correlated these traits with, on one hand, patterns of liked pages, and on the other hand, behavioural predictions, and specifically predictions of susceptibility to different ad campaigns.

All of this has been discussed and criticised from different points of view; what I seem to have missed is discussion on whether this is just a fraud or it actually works. Specifically:

* Does an app allow to determine the personality traits of its users? Won't users take it too lightly, being it an app rather than a white coat wearing serious professional asking questions?

* Do tests for personality traits actually make usable and accurate predictions on people's behaviour?

* Do correlations between like patterns and personality test results hold? In other words, could you really predict the result of the personality test of people at large having their like patterns?

* Is there evidence that people with different personality traits reacts differently to stimuli ad campaigns?

* Did people's voting behaviour actually change? How strong was the effect?

All these questions may be framed differently, that is: did Cambridge Analytica actually try to disprove the null hypothesis? How did they do it, or how could it be conceivably done? Did they succeed, or did the null hypothesis win?

N.B. I'm not asking: do personality tests work in general? I'm asking: did this stunt actually work? How would you tell a genuine CA style proposal from a "let's win the elections using tarots, talismans and acupuncture?
I'm old enough to remember the 1993 Jack in the Box e. coli outbreak... and then fast-forward to Chipotle's 2015 handling of the same thing. The responses between then and now were staggering differently. Back then it was "deny, deny, deny". In today's PR conscious world - for better or worse - the people expect an immediate confession from the very top.

Given's FB's breadth and depth of exposure to many people's lives, I would expect no less than to see Zuck fielding questions in front of the cameras. It will certainly be a circus and many people will tune in to watch - but if handled correctly can bring an enormous amount of goodwill back to FB - which it desperately needs right now.
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One thing I fight with, internally, is his idea that if you "clean up your room", so to speak, your life will start to have meaning. Because of him, and due to doing his Self-Authoring program, I followed the steps, took responsibility for my life and changed a lot of things, but the meaning part has yet to hit me. Perhaps it's there, yet buried, I don't know.
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He at least offers a structural critique, not minor tweaks, to the liberal order. If a young person is feeling alienated and disempowered, he recognizes that the solution isn't to just go to school or whatever watery prescription modern society might suggest. There are many conservative thinkers who, though they're basically irreligious, will tell young men to pull their pants up and take out the trash. Our moral landscape is such a wasteland that guys like this can tut about manners or whatever and he seems like a prophetic genius.

He's a thoroughgoing Jungian and a mediocre philosopher. He gets sassy with reporters, which people like, I guess. But he's still going to situate the problems with modern society with a couple of french theorists rather than the forces that actually affect people's daily lives.

I'd also argue that his popularity is a sign that people still really, really want religion/religious guidance in some form.
I still like to imagine that there is some bright eyed and eager Cal or MIT grad who goes to work at Apple because they are first and foremost a Mac user - and haven't done iOS development.

Working full time on macOS might not be all that exciting, but it's the foundation that holds the rest of the house up.
To be honest what really worries me is the people who have "agreed to this" without even realizing anything remotely closer to this. I mean people with poor education to publish everyday photos and texts into Facebook.
> if you have an NDA that can be broken by using your personal phone

Almost every NDA, including those standard with employment packages, include in the definition of confidential information the time, date and duration of phone calls with customers and sensitive suppliers. Anyone in a customer-facing role would thus be required to keep those data confidential, i.e. not disclose it without proper authorization to a third party, e.g. Facebook.