skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's why we used to have regulation of media; the pursuit of attention is always more profitable for any mass media endeavor.

Facebook and Google are media. They are just more effective at engagement than TV. The CNN stuff is particularly telling there as their reach is very low. More people are watching baseball on a given day than CNN. Shows like "Pawn Stars" can attract more viewship than all cable news combined.
How can we be confident that some of us on this forum are not trolls working to discredit the story?

We can't be.
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The word 'capitalism' was invented by communists, so the moment that someone uses the word in a disparaging sense it makes conjure up the 'capitalism vs state socialism' debate. Even if that weren't the case, the GP's point would still stand. Bringing up 'capitalism' in this manner reeks of political agenda. Whether that agenda is communism is irrelevant.
My opinion is that they would not.
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Bloom filters; using bit arrays for recommendations, caches and Bitcoin
I thought about doing these many times when I needed money, didn't follow up with it though, exactly because I'm too shy.

I'm gonna have to do it soon though, again, because of money.

Would love to hear more about your experiences.
Facebook is actually bad for you, and a bad actor in society. If we can't see that because we're addicted to it, maybe it's worth turning a blind eye to just a little more bullshit; whatever it takes to get us out of social networks.
> But having and raising children is literally one of the most natural things to want to do with your life.

"Natural" is not good. Life in nature is nasty, brutish, and short.

Some other things that aren't natural include eyeglasses, prosthetic limbs, vaccines, antibiotics, air conditioning, cooked food, and electronics.

I worship artifice, and I find the idea that natural things are laudable to be repugnant in every possible way.

I'm also a proud trans woman, and that's sure as hell not natural either. I utterly detest nature.
Not an accurate summation: https://twitter.com/cld276/status/975565844632821760

"The entire social graph" did not agree to be used by the Obama campaign. What the Obama campaign did was worse that what CA could have done because by the time CA rolled around the API holes had been closed. (As I said yesterday, CA was deceptive and the Obama campaign wasn't, sure, because the Obama campaign didn't have to ask at all. This is not an improvement.) And they knew it was sketchy, too.
This reminds me about the Tesla incident with the stoped firetruck, the software was programmed to ignore static o objects as an optimization, so we could have the software ignoring the hardware detection, I hope we can find soon what the sensors detected.
well done for the DIY social network and getting your family onboard!
I read the docs on how to get an instance up and running, but couldn't find details on how to "unfederate" it. Would you care to share some details?
Users' Friend data, which was used by OfA, was not explicitly given by those Friends.

Yes, Facebook's user agreement allowed them to do that. But I'd bet most people didn't consider that by signing up for Facebook, their personal profile data could be given to political campaigns without their knowledge, if any of their friends consented to it.
I'm sorry that the advice didn't fit with your situation.

Since I don't know more about your particulars it's hard to give more useful tips or suggestions and don't want to come across as condescending or rude.

But if there is indeed something I could help you out with, please reach out through my Keybase in my profile.
You have a point on the amount of effort you are putting in.

But, there is a larger point here - People come up with ideas left and right. It is often said "Ideas are dime a dozen". Not many people put in effort to take a risk and start something.

So, when someone joins a startup they have to understand what they are getting into. Is the founder good enough or he is just hot air? People take a huge risk in joining a non-technical CEO on tech-oriented/facing projects. The founder/CEO might not be up to speed on tech methodology. They might even be reading stuff off magazine covers. And then demanding that their software work exactly like what they have read. This can be frustrating.

Unfortunately, not much can be done about it.
Offtopic, but I found the right justification made that kind of hard to read. The big mid-sentence spaces read like pauses in my head.
Because, to a lot of people, guns are a euphemism for...
It’s not that simple. As the article correctly states:

> But he said the idea that obesity itself or eating too little fibre "causes" cancer was "somewhat simplistic" and still needed to be explored further.

Diet is certainly contributing to cancer risk but there’s no simple, direct line from sugar to cancer, or from inactivity to cancer.

For example, one aspect of cancer risk is that it’s simply a game of numbers: obese people have bigger cells (and, at least in the case of children, more cells!). More cells trivially translates into a higher cancer risk because every single cell individually has the potential of becoming a tumour precursor. But even a constant number of bigger cells increases cancer risk by a similar logic: more cellular mass increases the risk of a cell becoming cancerous because there are more molecules that can become abnormal, disrupt cellular processes and ultimately lead to DNA damage.

These are the facts. Whether this noticeably contributes to the increased cancer risk in obese people is an open question. Nevertheless, in this scenario it’s actually the obesity itself, and not the diet/inactivity that acts as a causal factor for cancer.

Ultimately this is probably a tiny contributor. Another comment correctly singles out that obesity causes (chronic) inflammation, which is almost certainly a much bigger single contributor to cancer risk.
By Bitcoin I meant Blockchain based money.
Arguably that's how the U.S. government was designed to function. The new (well, the recurring thing) is that Congress, White House, and even the judiciary get more political capital from inaction and blame than they get from cooperation.
zeronet isn't really that anonymous, you're looking for tor or i2p
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https://www.nhtsa.gov/risky-driving/speeding

> Speed also affects your safety even when you are driving at the speed limit but too fast for road conditions, such as during bad weather, when a road is under repair, or in an area at night that isn’t well lit.

This vehicle was speeding. Uber is at fault. How is this disputable?

Edit: One More link.

https://www.123driving.com/dmv/drivers-handbook-speed-limits

> You will need to drive with extra care at night. You cannot see as far ahead or to the side, and glare from oncoming cars can reduce your vision even more. Follow these guidelines for driving at night:

Use your headlights (low beam or high beam) between the hours of sunset and sunrise.
Low beam headlamps are only effective for speeds up to 20-25 MPH. You must use special care when driving faster than these speeds, since you are unable to detect pedestrians, bicyclists and others.
High beam headlights can reveal objects up to a distance of at least 450 feet and are most effective for speeds faster than 25 MPH.
Don't use high-beam headlights within 500 feet of oncoming vehicles.
If you are behind other vehicles, use low beams when you are within 300 feet of the vehicle ahead.
When leaving a brightly lit place, drive slowly until your eyes adjust to the darkness.
If a vehicle comes toward you with high beams, flash your lights to high beam and back to low beam once.
Don't look directly at oncoming headlights. Instead, watch the right edge of your lane. Look quickly to be sure of the other vehicle's position every few seconds.
Drive as far to the right as you can if a vehicle with one light comes toward you.
simple, fast, secure, reliable. definitely the best messaging service right now.
Our most trenchant and persistent criticism of Facebook has been rooted in a skeptical view of its illusory component; one where illusory experience is scapegoated as our fatal flaw to be subsequently exploited by Facebook’s evil machinations. We view the net-worth of its board of directors as being directly proportional to their malign influence in our society, pulling the wool over our eyes with an addictive illusion while voraciously funneling our private information into vast data-centers where AI is trained to new heights of persuasiveness. In this view ‘The Filter Bubble’ and ‘Fake News’ can easily be seen to be be mere effects of the following feedback loop:

User engages with material that matches their base desires, they are seduced and enveloped by these illusions, and the illusory experience of having their internal life seemingly manifest in the real world, this feels important to them so they form groups on this basis, like the prisoners in Plato's allegory of the cave.
Facebook optimizes for engagement, presenting this user with more specialized material, eventually this material detaches from reality altogether.
However this results in a skeptical cul-de-sac where the meaningfulness of Facebook is ignored. Instead it is scapegoated so that we can largely avoid taking responsibility for our actions. To refute these claims Mark Zuckerberg has emphasised our agency in deciding what Facebook is for and does. Regarding Fake News he has said:

> “I do think there is a certain profound lack of empathy in asserting that the only reason someone could have voted the way they did is they saw some fake news … If you believe that, then I don’t think you have internalized the message the Trump supporters are trying to send in this election.”

And regarding the Filter Bubble:

> “The research also shows something that is a little bit less inspiring, which is that we study not only people’s exposure in Newsfeed to content from different points of view, but then what people click on and engage with. By far the biggest filter in the system is not that the content isn’t there, [or] they don’t have friends who support the other candidate or are of another religion, [it’s that] you just don’t click on it. You actually tune it out when you see it. You have your world view. You go through, and I think that we would all be surprised how many things that don’t conform to our world view that we just tune out.”

Usefully Winnicott’s transitional object helps us out of the skeptical cul-de-sac by foregrounding our agency in choosing our illusory experiences and thereby restoring their hopeful character. It also matches Mark Zuckerberg’s informed view on what happens on Facebook.

- http://iain.land/posts/20170201-transitional-object.html
The Revolutionary War era was as bad or worse than it is today. [1] They spit about as much venom at each other as you possibly could. They said arguably far worse things about each other than have been said about Trump or Obama.

There was a bit of comparative calm that settled in, from the immediate time after the Civil War, until the late 1960s. The level of ugliness of ideological attacks that Franklin Roosevelt saw, for example, were nowhere near what Obama & Trump have seen. That century was a far calmer era for political vitriol, than the 1780-1860 time frame, or since the late 1960s.

A not amusing Civil War era example:

"In 1856, U.S. Sen. Charles Sumner of Massachusetts gave a speech criticizing pro-slavery southerners. Three days later, he was beaten so badly - on the Senate floor - by U.S. Rep. Preston Brooks of South Carolina that he didn’t return to the Senate for three years."

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/09/the-ori...
You are a Trumpkin delibrately posting nonsense. Misdirection and Lies.

You turned a joke about 'secret society' into a conspiracy. Trump supporters made up lies about Pizzagate and Seth Rich murder to spread more bullshit.

It is a credible report. Attacking random board members doesn't do shit.

If Mueller indicts someone you right wing hacks will attack Mueller and claim he is partisan democrat.

When Comey letter harmed Clinton you claimed Comey was a non-partisan and good but when he started harming Trump you started claiming he was a Democrat.

Comey, McCabe and Mueller all of them are Republicans and were appointed by republicans.

>Unless the DNC's cybersecurity was run by literal children, the kind of sophistication needed to pull off that hack would not be by the caliber of person who would allow themselves to be traced back in the basic way this story claims.

What the fuck does this mean? Hacking is still a crime.
We need a new platform before we can #deleteFacebook
I like that interpretation, but I don't think that's why people like him are passed over; you're attributing far too much self awareness to the hiring manager types. My own observation is that, among people who can't program, programming is viewed as sort of a semi-skilled bricklayer type task and a CS degree is an expensive vocational training program that covers when to use different sorts of bricks and what color bricks go best with what other color bricks. What they're looking for is not educational experience or ability to grow, but a demonstrated willingness to lay lots of bricks down, really fast.
The only surprising thing here is that those guys at deepmind were surprised by their findings.
Fastest growing aspect of Google is their non ad businesses.
Sure, it's just like that, because all that hacking of Democratic databases didn't happen.

I think the assumption that the wrongdoing was a conspiracy to get Trump elected gets far too much attention and is a secondary issue, but unlike the birther issue, there was quite a bit of funny business in general. The birther issue was just made up a priori.

The funny business, regardless of whether it benefited anyone, needs to be investigated. Once we understand what happened, then we can worry about whether it was an effort to swing the election or just a tactic for creating chaos.
There is a difference between empiricism, as in testing ideas, and ideologically motivated behavior that involves only seeking only information that can buttress one's current beliefs.

> Only example I know, Giordano Bruno...

You know this example because I just pointed it out to you. There are many others, but I'm done doing your homework for you.
How can anyone read that website with all that crap around the text?
To the deli guy - I've had this experience too. When you meet someone who has what Americans would consider a "high school" job or "work between jobs" is very much someone's only job, it's really hard to wrap your head around it.
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Can anyone confirm if they also do this for Instagram and Whatsapp ? Is it a whole group policy or is it FB specific ?

The future sucks
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Russian+hacker...
> Except, unless there was some hashtag I missed, that no one was asking Google to do anything

Advertisers have been asking Google to do something about the the content youtube plays in videos their ads play against for a while now (not just restricted to guns). If the people who like guns are losing Google money and are a political liability in the aftermath of Parklands - well, this is what happens.
It has, but it's never been so easy to spout off to the world before, or be instantly informed about what other people are thinking.

In the 1980s the media hated Reagan about as much as they hated Bush or Trump. Before that it was Nixon. But you really only heard about it if you watched the evening news, and that was 30 minutes of the day. It wasn't being fed to you continuously like an intravenous drip on your phone.

It's the speed and pervasiveness that have increased, not so much the partisanship.
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Evanston has the metra, not the el. Fewer stops. And even THEN, you have to get to your actual place of work from the transportation station. And things have changed even in the last 5 years.

It adds up:

If you don't live close to the El, you have to walk there or catch a bus. That's 20 minutes.

Actual trip on the el is another 30 minutes, if you're lucky.

If you don't work right off of an El stop, that's another 15 minutes.

And that is OPTIMAL time, oftentimes you will get delays because the blue line is over-populated and has constant delays.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-per...
Not just that, it seems to imply that Uber either aren't maintaining the vehicles correctly, or that their modifications are rendering them unsafe on the road.

The Volvo XC90 is an exceedingly safe car already. With the LED lighting, it shouldn't be possible for the headlamps to illuminate that poorly - it's as if the auto-levelling circuitry thinks the car is riding nose-up.

The XC90 also comes with a factory auto-brake that is supposed to prevent the vehicle from having this type of accident - their stated goal is zero fatalities. Did Uber not buy models with this included, or did they de-activate this feature? You'd think an independent system like that would actually be seen as a positive feature...
Tension, yes. The stakes have been raised but there's no going back. We need increasing knowledge, technology and wealth to confront not only the problems of today but problems we don't even know about yet. Any attempt to reverse englightenment values or even just slow down the effects could only degenerate swiftly into violence and make the fears come true. As Karl Popper put it:

"The future is open. It is not predetermined and thus cannot be predicted – except by accident. The possibilities that lie in the future are infinite. When I say ‘It is our duty to remain optimists’, this includes not only the openness of the future but also that which all of us contribute to it by everything we do: we are all responsible for what the future holds in store. Thus it is our duty, not to prophesy evil, but, rather, to fight for a better world."
You are confusing Alphabet other with Google other. Google other is material and their fastest growing segment.
How, indeed...
By that logic, we should limit owning and operating a motor vehicle to special car parks because we're scared of the mental fitness of our fellow citizens. Why take the risk?

I'd much prefer you arm yourself if you are genuinely worried about crazy people. It's precisely why I never leave the house without arming myself. The world is full of crazy people and those people don't follow laws.

It may surprise you to find that lawful gun owners are some of the most law-abiding citizens out there. CCW permit holders, for instance, are 37 times more law-abiding than the population, as a whole, and they're roughly 9 times more law-abiding than our own police officers.

So, no... your irrational fear of people with guns will not keep me from defending myself. The 2nd amendment doesn't give us the right to bear arms... it ensures that the natural right to bear arms is not infringed upon.
That's not what censorship means.
I worked at AWS before moving to Google. AWS is not perfect (their oncall story being a good example) but they have _a lot_ of very talented engineers and are _really_ good at doing ops (and cloud systems are necessarily sprawling, complex beasts that require a lot of operational support).

Perhaps your corner of AWS isn't as nice as the one I worked in but to generalize that to AWS management "death marching mediocre talent to ship untested and brittle things" is a very inaccurate assessment of AWS and its customers' perceptions of their products.
> -2h private (eat, exercise, shower, read, girlfriend, etc.)

How to manage to do all of this in 2h? Just for Gym it's always around 40-50m, not counting the time to get there and back. Eat unless you always order out it takes also 40-50 (prep and eat).
If they held all content to the same rule, probably yes critics would be mollified.

The problem here is that Google's critics feel like the exact opposite is happening.

edited to add: From the article

> It then posted links to YouTube videos on synthesizing meth and other illicit acts.

Kind of hard to imagine that meth instructional videos are good for YT advertising revenue.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5520303/Obama-campai...

By their own admission.
Hasn't happened so why speculate?
Apple may be making a foldable iPhone within the next two years
Of course they do. They influence the bias by various means. They don't select particular topics. To choose the specific topic everyone is talking about today, you need just a bit more than a handful of board members though.
Did anyone read YouTube's actual policy? They're restricting direct firearm sales and DIY manufacturing instructions. Seems reasonable for any controlled device.
Venezuela is so sad, and scary at the same time considering it didn't need to go that way and was "ok" before it took such a nosedive.
Exactly. Focus on providing value to your customer and all will be good with financials. Google grwth has actually accelerated as their numbers get bigger.
No, but I seriously doubt the idiots at Cambridge Analytica and the guy with pink hair were the genius masterminds who can swing political votes through targeted advertising.

People don't like to admit that the people in swing states are mostly against globalisation, wall street and the system as it is.

Trump spent less than half what Clinton did on ads. I truly believe he could have spent nothing and still won. Voters are just pissed off at the current state of affairs.
I absolutely agree.

Plus, the meaningfulness of the task sometimes is beyond economic; many people code in crazy hours because they love the job. I doubt it was the same with miners 500 years ago.

But all these nuances aren't even looked at in the paper.
Time to bring back web rings. I'm completely serious.
> Subsonic ammunition is easy to press and real suppressors use closed rubber wipes which are only good for a couple shots.

"real"? i don't think any of those are even available for purchase. take a look at thunderbeast arms or silencerco for what "real" suppressors look like.

they're astonishingly effective, and last for forever. (which is important when it takes 12 months to get one.)

> When would I need a suppressor? If I'm not shooting on a range where everyone SHOULD have headgear

ugh, have you ever even stood next to someone setting off a hunting rifle?

suppressors are additive with ear protection (super useful for anyone with hearing damage), and also eliminate the whole-body experience of the blast.
> Start blathering about Hillary's emails, as if that were somehow important.

Well, it was certainly an incident of corruption and/or incompetence. People do (and should) get fired for mishandling sensitive information.

Maybe the HN community in general wants to give Clinton a pass on it, but investigating facts that illustrate the character and competence of presidential candidates is certainly newsworthy.

There was plenty of similar corruption and incompetence to report on for Trump, but its generally easier and more salacious to report on his Cinco de Mayo taco salad.
Probably nothing much, as usual.
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I've just approached navigating streets as a pedestrian/cyclist as if I were invisible, because I might as well be to any driver that hits me with their vehicle.
OK then the word has no meaning because every community has rules and the right to organize and self moderate.

That is what is happening. You do not get to force your voice on another person's platform.

How is that justice?
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First of all, I don't think we are. Also, I live in a modestly sized European city of about 650k citizens (excl. metro), and even we do have some sections of road with 4 lanes in each direction, and in intersections, even more. I'm quite sure bigger cities have more of those, even in Europe.