skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Coverage is well deserved but only focused on one single case: Trump's campaign.

Syrian Civil War began in social media first. The journalists criticising Facebook nowadays used to run campaign for how social media helps protesters organize. What if Arab spring wasn't an organic movement? Isn't it weird that some "experts" suddenly changed their mind about social media after Trump's election?

Also, why noone even talks about Google? It's much bigger weapon for manipulating facts if you consider millions of people trusting its results for their questions. People ask Google if Brexit is good, people ask Google if Trump is doing good. And we don't even know how Google picks the best results. What if there are some SEO tricks shared with only a few companies?
I added STEEM and SBD as a payment option to my small business
News sites largely care about what brings in the money - when a wave starts, they all pile on, and the ad revenue goes up for a while.

I don't entirely blame them - it's driven by extremely perverse incentives, and alternatives haven't worked out (yet). But it's undeniably terrible for everyone, and IMO contributes to undermining their usefulness.
Not an actual bug, but I found this a couple of days ago. And it seems like an elegant hack, allowing `/` in directory, files, etc.

Typing `mkdir foo:bar` in my macOS's terminal leads to a directory, that Finder shows as `foo/bar`.
Isn't this the perfect example of lack of markets inside companies? i mean the consumers of your reports are either perfectly prepared to pay your department enough to keep the reports coming, or they don't want them that much. but without a free floating price the larger company will never know.

Roald Coase probably has something to say on it
I don't agree that collecting private data is "inherently positive to society" considering the result is low quality advertising
Sorry, you stopped being the 'good guys' sometime shortly after WW2.
> How much is my data worth? I’ll sign a buncb of revenue sharing agreements with YouTube, Google, Mozilla, Facebook etc if the price is right.

That's not how it would work.

In that scenario, you'll have a choice of paying $N per month for the higher privacy version of Facebook, or you can use the advertising supported low-privacy option.

They are not going to pay you. Your other choice will be to not use their platform and they will be fine with that because everyone else will continue to choose ad supported because they do not want to pay $50 or $100 per year for Facebook when they can get it for what they perceive to be as free.
Fitting an 8.5"x11" or A4-sized display into your pocket would be pretty handy.
He actually had a used car dealership in the US called Nissan Motors almost a decade before Datsun changed names to Nissan.
Background and alleged author since my parent failed to provide both:

There is no royal road to geometry. (μή εἶναι βασιλικήν ατραπόν επί γεωμετρίαν, Non est regia [inquit Euclides] ad Geometriam via)

Reply given when the ruler Ptolemy I Soter asked Euclid if there was a shorter road to learning geometry than through Euclid's Elements.

Proclus (412–485 AD) in Commentary on the First Book of Euclid's Elements as translated by Glenn R. Morrow (1970), p. 57. ἀτραπός "road, trail, track" here takes the more specific sense of "short cut". The Latin translation is by Francesco Barozzi, 1560)

https://en.m.wikiquote.org/wik
Isn't this just an audio modulated version of this: http://www.physicscentral.com/explore/action/femtosecond-hol... (it's hard to find a version of this with the original audio intact, it makes a crackling sound just like the video above)

Here's one from 10 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HHJhpStza0

So not really new tech, just a weird application of it.
Can well imagine that. It might be better than that now only because cars are safer.
I am constantly on the lookout for people whose studies are related to what the f has "suddenly" gone wrong with humanity. I really think Jonathan is on to something (although at the same time, I sense he's trying to sell a lot of books, but what can you do).

I just listened to:

#03 Under The Skin with Russell Brand & Adam Curtis - Do We Really Want Change?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBy08P7tHPQ

Adam Curtis is a documentary film maker, his most recent one is fairly famous, Hypernormalization. I haven't seen it because I thought it was a hardcore conspiracy theorist movie, but now I think that's not the case.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Curtis#Filmography

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperNormalisation

If you can recommend anyone else with interesting opinions on the insanity of the current world, please share.
nicely done! for taking it all the way on the deployment side.

what subreddit(s) are pulling from?
OT: is this domevent account a new bot on HN?
The name, frequency of posts, closeness to article published times...
With standards and open source.

Email is great because there is no vendor lock in. Open source is great because large groups of people can decide to fork it (or even inividuals).

The blockchain tech now opened a lot of applications that could rival these current tech giants.

Just 1 example: OpenBazaar received 3 million dollar investment. I'm curious what these kind of web 3.0 techs will change.
Just because you don't use automatic filters doesn't mean every else doesn't use it. Just because you can pay $30/mo subscription doesn't mean every else can or are willing to pay it. Just because you don't want to be Google's product doesn't mean every else doesn't want to be the same. So just stop it.

You seriously had the audacity here to compare GMail (a wonderful free product) with Protonmail (a $365/yr product) and ask me why I don't find it as a good replacement. At the very least, have some empathy man.
This happens at the company I recently retired from. At intervals of between five and ten years someone decides that R&D should either be centralised or that the development engineers should be closer to the factories. The people are the same people, the work they do is the same, but the location is different. The justification for centralisation is usually that there will be better communication between the development engineers and the justification for putting them in the factories is that they will be able to communicate better with the management and workers of the factories. The reorganization is always intended to have a valuable side effect. I could never understand why they don't go directly for the side effect.
Did you find that university building inside the red square yet? Where is it on google maps?

The story which made it to HN: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/01/dutch...

My analysis is below, but I encourage you to look at Suzie Dawson's epic takedown here:
https://steemit.com/steemit/@suzi3d/10-reasons-the-dutch-rus...

So, just because the US intelligence community gets attribution details in 2014 doesn't mean they didn't fake the attribution for the 2016 DNC hack. That's like me registering an account with your username on some site and posting stuff with it - many digital "fingerprints" can be faked. Readers of HN should know this (lol).

Also, the author's claim that the US intelligence community attributed the DNC hack is dubious. James Clapper did, and he threw around a debunked "17 intelligence agencies" slogan[0], but the man's a retired partisan[1]. Recall that the DNC would not let the FBI do actual forensics on their hacked server[2] - well, there's one intelligence agency that didn't get a chance to make an official attribution. Recall too that the Crowdstrike's hack report claims were debunked by the Ukranian army[3] & authenticity of the C&C software was questioned by many in the cyber security community[4].

Like, who didn't know that Russia had hackers? We also know that the DNC/DeepState have a scapegoat.

[0] https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2017/07/06/clapper_c...

[1] https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-11-17/lawmakers-re...

[2] http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2017/05/09/the_fbi_i...

[3] https://www.voanews.com/a/cyber-firm-rewrites-part-disputed-...

[4] http://www.zdnet.com/article/no-smoking-gun-for-russian-dnc-...
Vintage Easter Bunny Pics That Will Give You Nightmares Part 3
'F# for scientists' by Jon Harrop is excellen. It's a bit pricey, but provided tremendous value on the how and why of functional paradigms within the scope of practical, brief programs.

'Expert F#' by Don Syme et all is a fantastic reference.

Real World Functional programming by Tomas Petricek is very good as well.

'Programming language concepts' by Peter Sestoft is fantastic as well, as programming languages are perhaps the most obvious domain where functional approach shine, and the concepts are needed everywhere even though one was not implementing an interpreter.
“Eruv” Wires Symbolically Extend Homes to Encompass Cities
Android has a lot of nasty corners around stuff like this, which can prevent being both streamlined (accessing all photos does let you optimize for your app, some people want that) and privacy-friendly (for people who don't want that). My personal favorite:

If you don't request camera permission, you can still open the camera with an intent. This is great!

If you do request camera permission, and you are denied, you can't use that intent either. https://blog.egorand.me/taking-photos-not-so-simply-how-i-go...

I honestly can't tell if it's this way to be intentionally hostile to users, or by accident, or if they honestly think this is a positive quality.
Squaring the Triangle: Secure, Decentralized, Human-Readable Names
> From my perspective, Google's goals are aligned with improving the world by offering information services. Search, Gmail, Maps, Translate, basically all of the Other Bets, etc.--it's easy to imagine that the people behind them are more concerned with impact on the world than on generating profit or consolidating Google's power.

I completely believe that the people behind them are more concerned with impact than on generating profit or consolidating Google's power, but good intentions only get you so far. Google is still abusing it's power, whether that is the goal of the people behind it or not. Google could build those systems in a way that protects their user's privacy, but choose not to, simply because they are optimizing for profit, rather than for empowering their users.

Most people aren't scared of the intentions of the good people at Google, it's that Google clearly has too many people with bad intentions in the mix as well, based on the actions that the company takes as a whole.
I’m assuming you already have experience with one imperative language.

Graham Hutton’s programming in Haskell is a really great book and will get you up and moving in no time.

If you’re new to programming, id suggest Haskell Programming from first principles by Chris Allen And Julie Moronuki. It’s a very large book(1000+ Pages) but teaches you functional programming concepts from scratch in Haskell without assuming any previous exposure to the language
Yes, I agree.

My point was that marijuana has remained popular in the US, despite several decades of draconian suppression. But perhaps people won't care so much about freedom of expression online.
Which abstract algebra book if you don't mind me asking.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16657583
Slightly related; I'm finding the bicycle headlights (and to a lesser extent, rear lights) are becoming a blinding hazard for other cyclists on darker bike paths. Bike lights have certainly gotten brighter and cheaper over the past couple of years, and more people have them. Certainly, this is a good thing for visibility on the roads, where you're competing to be seen against all manner of light sources, and there is high ambient light. But on a darker off-road bike path, there is little ambient light, and it completely blinds a passer by. For a pedestrian, this is an annoyance; for a passing cyclist, this means you cannot see the path in front of you for a few seconds. I regularly have to shield my eyes from passing bikes in the evening. I don't think there's any real solution to this problem; no-one's going to regulate and police this, and people don't seem give enough cares about (or just don't think about) anyone other than themselves.
The biggest issue to me was he was running car ads to make money. If he had only been running his computer business under the brand name, would have had a lot less trouble. But those car ads probably made good money. Can't find any old data, but car clicks would probably have been in the dollar range, 500,000 visitors a month, not bad money.
... guy talking to hiscelf --

I still wonder every time
How can you have a market inside a company? Markets depend on having multiple suppliers and multiple customers. Nokia tried having internal competition and it didn't go well.

Something like it can work though. Many years ago I worked for Philip Semiconductor at the Mullard factory in Southampton in a department that designed and built production and test equipment. We had a formal project process where if the customer department wanted something they had to ask us first and allow us to perform a feasibility study or produce a prototype while spending up to ten percent of the rough estimate of the project cost. At the end of that we would present a detailed plan and cost. The customer department could then decide whether to offer the job to us or ask an external player such as British Aerospace to do it.
I actually encountered his story in the early 2000s and I have refused to buy Nissan cars ever since. Almost compromised once or twice but No. I’m just one person but we are all a bunch of one persons, and we can all together make a difference :-)

Interestingly this issue seems to matter less and less as everyone I have observed goes to websites now via Google. So they don’t go to Nissan.com first, they Google Nissan and go to the first link. And NissanUSA.com is indeed the first non-ad link when I searched just now.
ProtonMail does have filters...am I missing something?
I agree with everything you said except for "generally stays out of your way."

Try blocking all Google domains via a hosts file, and you'll see that they have put their hooks into all kinds of systems, and do so in ways that seriously impede how normal web-pages should function.
Voting became a gameable activity primarily designed to convince the masses they matter. Almost all major decisions are made behind closed doors.

Bills like this are always bipartisan yet despised by the public.
> Folks whining about data collection should realize Google hasn't decided to be an ad company, it's just they have succeeded monetizing it better than their more recent cloud offering and in future their hardware business.

Yet they still don't offer paid options, that allow me to remain anonymous for almost all of their systems. I don't see how anyone can imply that Google is reluctantly in the ad business when they don't even offer alternative monetization models.
There are two questions here:

(1) Was Facebook biased in favor of the Democratic party?

(2) Should the press have been more critical of the way personal data was used for political purposes?

My answer to (1) is 'probably', but maybe Facebook would have been willing to "manually shut those alarms off and open the floodgates to the data" for anyone who gave them a million dollars?
Gifted education has a big problem, pupils are fed the education adults feel they need to excel. Problem is that if students are always given the answers to life then they never learn how to maneuver thru the unknown path that life is.

In academics the path to a Ph.D. is known, you can figure it out even for newborns. The problem is that in life there is no determined path. Gifted Education lacks the ability to teach children how to get from A to B without a determined path. So many of these programs are teaching kids how to be great students but not how to excel in life, 2 different goals.

What society needs from their brightest are trailblazers that solve problems and make advances in any given field. What these programs produce are great professionals that aren't likely to be leaders in any field.

I truly believe that once these kids know the basics these programs should help them figure out how to excel at life when the path is unknown by letting them make their own decisions and nudging them in the right direction rather than showing them how to get there.

Also, every time I read about these kinds of programs, they try to identify the best by some kind of IQ. But as we all know smarts, not necessarily high IQ, and hard work is what makes the successful individual. Given 2 smart kids at the same level, hard work will determine who comes in on top. There needs to be a way to ID these kids so that it's not just IQ but a combination of hard work and intelligence.

Also Gifted is a horrible name. It should be high achievers. My view is that geniuses are made not born.
> Normally there's a handshake involved: your browser and the server send packets to each other to set up an encrypted channel, then the server uses its certificate to prove that it's in control of its end of the private channel, then you can send a request.

Not an expert on this but this seems a little bit wrong or at least very misleading when I reason through it? I don't imagine the server needs to prove anything before it is sent data encrypted with its public key... if it doesn't have the private key then it simply can't decrypt; it wouldn't need a certificate for that. Rather I expect this is because the server & client want to generate ephemeral keys (for forward secrecy), which fundamentally requires a round-trip. Is that correct?
One advantage of spreadsheets is that data can remain local. Even air-gapped.
I second that.
G'MIC has an impressive bunch of built-in commands to manipulate images, see e.g. the examples shown in the reference documentation (click the first magnifying glass, then use right arrow on the keyboard):

http://gmic.eu/reference.shtml#subsection15

And as the commands are built-in, no needs for external scripts, those effects are available from any interface using the `libgmic` API (including C/C++ programs).
What if the 'heat loss' is just the required 'activation energy' to get from State A to State B, where B is far superior for the customer.
I found this insightful, but disagree with two points.

First is that people think working on adtech is important. It may be fun or offer a good lifestyle, but they seem to know it's not the most meaningful, important work to do.

Second, that retirement portfolios are a major beneficiary of all this heat loss. Most of the value is captured lower on the food chain by employees, execs, and money managers.
Here’s some I’ve used. Mostly just beginner stuff though.

Professor Frisby’s mostly Adequate Guide to Functional Programming by Brian Lunsdorf is great[1]. A pretty solid book meant for beginners that introduces functional programming in a simple manner without over burdening you with all the math. It uses JavaScript, and helps you create a lot of the functional programming patterns yourself.

Learn You a Haskell For Great Good [2]. This book is pretty light hearted and an entertaining read. It’s for beginners. I’ve heard a good follow up to this one is Real World Haskell, but I’ve also heard the code for it is outdated, but I’m not certain whether it is (I’ve never read it.)

There is a course on egghead.io that is free by Brian Lonsdorf the author of the Mostly Adequate guide [3]. I hesitate recommending this one as it’s got a pretty different approach and uses stop motion that can take some getting used to and the voices can be somewhat annoying, but overall great content wise and covers many of the things in the Mostly Adequate guide. He also does a course on Frontend Masters which is just him giving a workshop in person so no stop motion or weird voices.

Lastly I haven’t actually read this one even though I believe I purchased it when I first saw it announced by the author and it is, Functional Light JavaScript by Kyle Simpson [4]. Great author that always takes a r ally great approach to explaining things he wrote the You Don’t Know JS series that he released through O’Reilly and also put up on github. Kyle Simpson also has a course on Frontend Masters modeled after his book Functional Light JavaScript.

[1]: https://github.com/MostlyAdequate/mostly-adequate-guide/blob...

[2]: http://www.learnyouahaskell.com

[3]: https://egghead.io/courses/professor-frisby-introduces-compo...

[4]: https://leanpub.com/fljs
Why French Kids Don't Have ADHD
Technically they were called Nissan but not in the US.

Yes the US legal system is indeed messed up. Lots of Pyrrhic victories out there. Read about the USFL vs NFL case. The USFL actually won their anti-trust lawsuit against the NFL behemoth —- three dollars.

That one troubled me personally as that shut down the only professional American football team I rooted for as a kid :-/

Interesting fact: Donald Trump was a USFL team owner. I’m guessing he lost a lot of money on that.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Football_Leagu...
For normal consumers...

Netscape -> IE monopoly -> explosion of choices

Email provided by your employer or ISP -> explosion of choices

IBM & Apple computers -> explosion of choices

Intel processor monopoly -> ARM computing explosion of choices

Kodak, majority of the film market -> explosion of camera choices

Tight music label monopolies + radio & store distribution -> explosion of cheap consumer choices for streaming vast amounts of music. No longer do you have to spend $20-$25 in adjusted 2018 dollars to buy an album with two songs you want to hear.

ABC, NBC, CBS, limited tightly controlled broadcast platforms with very regulated content -> endless array of media start-ups online, streaming choices, news sources

Playboy & similar, nearly your sole porn option for decades, highly restricted distribution -> seemingly infinite porn online from thousands of large sites

Information broadly, from limited, tightly controlled research options, difficult to access (if you can at all depending on your location) -> explosion of research options online, at a click, practically at zero cost

Limited publishing options, from almost nothing for the common person -> dozens of easy, inexpensive ways to publish text/audio/video and reach an audience. For $5 per month I can easily serve up video on my own site, host my own blog, post my own music, whatever.
Self-taught rocket scientist finally blasts off into California sky
Funny. A similar thing happened in Japan in 90s, when a then-notable search engine goo.ne.jp sued a porn site, goo.co.jp. The search engine won the case.
They intentionally design their products in such a way that puts their user's privacy and security in danger, by not putting the user in control of their own data. By using Advertising as the basis for their business, they have encouraged a huge race to the bottom for other online services. They also tie themselves unnecessarily into other parts of the web, and degrade the experience in efforts to consolidate power for themselves.
By the way most of these resources the authors provide for free but you can also generously pay them for their work.
Germany has privacy protection laws and a privacy protection officer warned that 99% of WhatsApp users act illegal by not asking their contacts for permission before giving WhatsApp access to their contact information.
You mean you don't just go read the man page for every bash command and intuitively understand it?

Sorry for the sarcasm, I just feel your pain. Learning even basic things in bash has been slow for me too. I love it. I prefer it to GUIs on most things I have figured out.

But there's so much to learn.
Uber Agrees on Southeast Asian Sale to Grab
Why would you post on behalf of other people?
They disproportionately capture people's network effect value and sell it back to them.
Resources that truly taught me functional programming were Erik Meijer’s course on edX and it’s companion book, Programming in Haskell by Graham Hutton, and then Learn you a Haskell web book.