skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's kind of weird to call it a "shadow profile" when it's simply connecting those dots.

Is it kind of weird to call a shadow a shadow when it's just connecting the dots from yourself to the ground? What do you mean it's weird to call it a shadow profile? Just because you know how they do it does not make it "in the clear" or something not-shadow-like.

A shadow profile is a profile unknown to the victim and likely unknown to their friends. Facebook creates huge datasets of information about people without those people ever signing up for Facebook or even hearing about it. That's a shadow profile and it's creepy.
Yeah I'm still using Viber. Works great, including desktop client. Phone call quality is perfect.
So what about left wing published news? Automatically becomes legit? By the way, I didn't know that site was right or left.
The electoral college is gerrymandering though. Obviously it exist because otherwise the Eastcoast and Westcoast decide every election instead of Ohio lol.
I'm confused. Is this the same project? https://github.com/sdispater/poet
Seems like multiple issues with Firefox (Cliqz and now this). FF's new privacy policy has so many exceptions that it makes it challenging to read: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/firefox/

The Brave browser seems to be carrying the torch for privacy these days:

Brave is not in the business of selling personal information. We believe the best way to ensure your private personal information is protected is to make every effort to ensure we are not receiving your private personal information in the first place.

https://www.brave.com/privacy/

https://www.brave.com/
Lol not in Canada.
It is a definitional thing. We're talking about law; definitions are important. Here is a somewhat useful starting point:

https://www.aclu.org/other/what-censorship
I would believe that lots of politicians do want to hurt people at the lower rungs. This is also an explanation of why there is so much opposition to welfare - I want to help 'good people' who lost their jobs and need help, but not those losers who just live forever on welfare and are in "some group I don't like". Same argument will be used against UBI. It's very compelling for a lot of people.
You agreed on 50/50 when you joined, there is no way CEO will give his equity to you. Would you do it?
> There is still a direct correlation between work and benefit, as in if you work more, you make more, but you keep more.

This correlation isn't all that direct in my experience.
At some point, people merely adopted these platforms, transitioning from nothing to something. The notion that we can't simply transition from Facebook to nothing is nonsense.
Reddit doesn't have to permit freedom of speech on their site. The US government does have to permit it, supposedly.
On the Scalability of Blockchains
A "Little Snitch"-like system for Linux would be pretty easy to develop without these changes as well. I've thought about building such a tool, but never really had the need or saw the point over my existing workflows.

I did once (over 10 years ago now) develop a tool that would, upon receiving a packet from a new source, perform an OS fingerprint on it and if it turned out to be Microsoft Windows, block it once the fingerprinting process returned... :-) This tool actually just fired off a script (JIT compiled) for every packet that matched pre-defined criteria and that script could return a verdict on what to do with that packet, which could involve inspecting userspace connections trivially
That's what communications and PR departments are for. It's silly to think they don't push specific topics that align with their goals, as directed by the people who pay their salaries, the board of directors.
There are some odd artifacts in the video[1]. Like that the brightness is very low and there is black blob over part of her which then disappears.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKBy4_3azBg
Do you know what "Is impossible means?
It is possible to eliminate most of the drunk drivers, but here are some ideas:
1 put an AI with sensors and cameras pointed at the driver,
do not allow the car to start if driver is drunk, if he starts texting or sleeping turn of the car, you can add a bypass for emergency,

If you put self driving cars on the road you still have many years until everyone is forced to use this cars so you still have drunk drivers.

So are not companies working on a similar idea like I suggested, because there are not money to be made, cars would be expensive, drivers would not like it, but similar with the airbags, helmets if it will be mandatory to have such a system in the car the safety will increase.

Btw there is a very improbable solution but not an impossible one that would eliminate all drunk drivers, don't allow alcohol production, qed is not impossible
What seems horrible from a SW engineering point of view is that they probably didn't QA this scenario. I mean, it's not a corner case, it's basically the scenario where someone appears in front of the car "all of the sudden".

I just hope engineers working on software that can cause serious injury or kill someone do the appropriate diligences to ensure this doesn't happen again.
Silicon Valley's Regulatory Exceptionalism Comes to an End
Is this surprising? People in the past had much more time and much less resources. This isn't just medieval workers. It might have applied to the last two generations, before the information age allowed us to check work email first thing in the morning and last thing at night.
> CA used data that was collected for research purposes only. OfA didn't violate any rules.

Facebook may view its internal policies as akin to the law, but I don't. The fact that CA violated some Facebook policy and OfA didn't is a distinction without difference. Facebook let both pull friends' personal information without consent, which people probably didn't realize they were sharing because Facebook has a history of obscuring sharing like that.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/facebooks-heading-towar...:

> Facebook is so accustomed to treating its ‘internal policies’ as though they were something like laws that they appear to have a sort of blind spot that prevents them from seeing how ridiculous their resistance sounds. To use the cliche, it feels like a real shark jumping moment. As someone recently observed, Facebook’s ‘internal policies’ are crafted to create the appearance of civic concerns for privacy, free speech, and other similar concerns. But they’re actually just a business model. Facebook’s ‘internal policies’ amount to a kind of Stepford Wives version of civic liberalism and speech and privacy rights, the outward form of the things preserved while the innards have been gutted and replaced by something entirely different, an aggressive and totalizing business model which in many ways turns these norms and values on their heads. More to the point, most people have the experience of Facebook’s ‘internal policies’ being meaningless in terms of protecting their speech or privacy or whatever as soon as they bump up against Facebook’s business model.
"The state is the institution or complex of institutions which bases itself on the availability of forcible coercion by special agencies of society in order to maintain the dominance of a ruling class, preserve the existing property relations from basic change and keep all other classes in subjection."
Hal Draper
They had to wait 10 years to get a GOP majority in the House and Senate and a nominally conservative President to rubber stamp it. It's conceivable had the same technology hypothetically existed before that Reagan/Bush/Bush 2/Clinton would signed it as well.
He wasn’t driving.
I use cyanogenmod. But I never said I had a phone that meets all of this criteria.
They're certainly in a prime position to try to say that they're not eeeevil like Facebook.

They can sort of imply: hey, what did Google search, Gmail, maps, Android ever do to you? Microsoft and Apple are in a similar boat. It'd be sort of comical, if Google ends up benefiting from failing so spectacularly at social media.

Amazon has a problem of terrorizing other competitors at the moment, that's primarily who is upset with them (spurring endless media stories about Amazon's growing power). Consumers mostly love them.
So the media should have just said nothing about a candidate who is clearly a danger to the country? How does ignoring problems work out for you in your life?
> It's not like the Soviets where it was blatantly obvious that things are mismanaged.

Do you mean blatantly obvious at the time and from outside? Could you please elaborate? I thought the USSR put up a good front, and fooled much of the West with regard to economic development (not freedom).
>To be fair, cell phone cameras as I recall have a tendency to push the ISO up, so it potentially could look different IRL (I'm purposefully being vague).

That is true, but raising the ISO for proper (well 18% grey anyway.) exposure is something pretty much every retail camera made in the past decade does. I doubt UBER is using some experimental esoteric camera here.
This is not always possible, and that's not what I meant (although there's still abandon in the same vein).

There are institutes where they can be housed and cared for, instead of having to care for them 24/24, at least where I live. Most end up there by adulthood anyways, considering how hard it is to care for adults compared to children, especially when you're aging, and come back for week ends or the like.
>It's like humans enjoyed their time for millennia and only now we have to work.

Has nothing to do with the OP's comment, and it attempts to shift the conversation to justification.

>For all human history, the conditions of people were dire. Today people might be stuck in an office in their "best year", but people in the past had to toil all day to barely scrape by and didn't even have that many years to live.

Again, why are you doing this?

>It's only now that we live these comfortable lives with houses, heating, electricity, technology and a sea of information at our fingertips. These things all exist and keep functioning because people work.

Who is arguing against work in general? The article and the OP are discussing working conditions. Work doesn't have to be torture. America has a very unhealthy relationship with the idea of work and what it means. No pain no gain, right?

>And yet some think that "society has gone wrong", as if the past was paradise.

In the last 40-50 years, American society has taken some significant steps backwards, and the workers have felt it. If you're comparing conditions to hundreds or thousands of years ago, why? What is your goal?

>Work has been a human universal through history. There is surely an argument to be made about the fact that now we are so productive that we might not need to work as much as we had to.

At the same time I think we should be grateful that we live in the best life conditions ever seen by humanity.

You finally brushed against the point in your penultimate paragraph.
Blogging is basically just content marketing, which has been proven to work when done well. It is also one of the cheapest ways to market if you have a little time each week to invest into it. I know of at least 10 companies and/or individuals who have used this strategy to build an audience and start selling one product or another with great success and a very limited initial budget.

You are right that one (or ten) success example(s) doesn't prove that this strategy works, but similarly neither does one (or many) failure(s). It depends on the quality of the articles, the audience, and many of other factors, just like paid advertising depends on various factors like where the ad is, what audience you target, cost, etc.

What I can say with certainty is that there are definitely markets where you can get to the front page of Google within a year by just writing a few quality articles every month. You don't have to pay money, use spammy backlink tactics, or anything like that. Whether OP's audience is one of those is unclear, but it seems that he knows his audience reasonably well if he is making $$ from them, so chances are he could get a positive ROI on a blog if he gave it the proper attention.
Spotify: 2M Users Block Ads
Could it have more to do with agriculture? during certain times of year you probably didn't have work . waiting for things just grow or thaw. before you can begin plating or harvest?
If you're in space or international waters you have to due so under the auspices of some particular country and obey its laws. Otherwise you have no recourse if someone comes and takes your stuff.
It was sponsored by sessions so I would guess yes
This has been tried many times before, and eventually all these attempts die a lonely death. Why use extensions anyway? If one desired the luxury of modern scripting languages, switch to C++, Rust, Go or one of the other alternatives the article mentions.
It would: Monero is the de facto standard currency in the deep web nowadays, not bitcoin.
Uber basically does own the Carnegie Mellon CS department, they hired up most of the faculty a few years back.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/is-uber-a-friend-or-foe-of-carn...
You sound like a talented person with a lot to contribute to the company. You're going to help build a great product, and if you combine that with the talents of other people you'll build a great company.

That last part is the important part. A company is MORE than a product. Do a google search for Steven Blank business canvas. Product is just one column in the whole thing. It takes a lot of work to build a good product, and you'll want to best person you can get for it (sounds like you're him!) but at the end of the day, you will also need someone who is going to help get it sold. You'll need a sales team, a marketing team, relationships with partners, you'll need all sorts of non-product related things. They're necessary. Products don't sell themselves. They just don't.

It doesn't sound like you have any experience building a sales pipeline, marketing, or business in general. Your CEO is going to work on those things so you can put your effort on a great product. If you don't think he's up to the task, maybe you need a new guy... but don't diminish his equity. He has an important job, he deserves as much.
What I wonder is if their system system is so efficient at censorship/control, if there are very dark things going on which don't have the opportunity to make it to see the light o day - or if 99.999999999% of the population is being treated fairly and benefitting fairly from the systems they've implemented.
/r/beertrade got banned. several beer groups that used to feature beer trades have stopped allowing it, trying to avoid being banned.
Site is down... that doesn’t exactly bode well for an article seemingly about programming.
The British people rarely express outrage at this kind of thing.
That's a fair point. It'd be interesting to see a comparison with the modern phenomenon of the Hajj, which seems like the best point for comparison of something in the modern world. People do, of course, do tours of Christian holy sites too, but I think that, in general, the seriousness of purpose of the average Hajj-goer is likely greater.
Kind of a rude response to an honest question. The point of the question is that taking care of a severely disabled child takes some dignity out of the parent's life. Their whole world for however long that child is alive is about that child and only that child. It's appropriate to ask what the motivating factor is, because the answer isn't always obvious to someone who doesn't have to think about taking care of a disabled child.
It's pretty common to ramp up contrast in cam used for self-driving inputs for basic computer vision to make lane markers pop up. So such a camera won't have much chance of detecting a person casually crossing road without any concerns for traffic. The crash points more to failure in sensor fusion; LiDAR should have detected it, but clustering algorithm might have either removed it, or she appeared in too few scanning frames to be reliably detected as an object, due to heat map thresholding to avoid false positives.
The references to Obama (and Cruz) are empty both-sides-ism, but then this is McMegan. On the other hand, she might almost unintentionally have a point about the need for people to feel that they've identified and fixed the single root cause of a problem. We see that all the time in programming - bug fixes and rewrites that are highly satisfying until the bug reappears and turns out to have had an entirely different cause. Even if these things don't work in practical terms, they have an important psychological effect of providing closure. Seeking that might well be at least part of why this story has driven even more important ones out of this news cycle.
Oh damn. Thank you for pointing out the slideshow. I hadn't really noticed it. It was in the well lighted area before the stoplight, not in the darker area afterward where the news crew was filming and comment was made on the second video.

Not only does it have brighter street lights, there are illuminated signs and parking deck lights in the background.
I don't think it's necessarily a pipe dream but I don't it's just a case of changing some laws I think it would require a culture change to. To me politics still seem really representative of the people, politicians can only prosper if there's an environment for them to.
So my initial read on this whole thing was a bit more sinister. What if uber altered the video to playback as darker in an effort to help their cause?
It's not technically open source if it's merely visible. It's only technically open source if you explicitly license it to be so.
Millenials aren't entitled; Boomers were just lucky
Yahoo Japan to open cryptocurrency exchange
Some of the wierd things I found out about Quebec's absurd language laws -

Toys and games, which require the use of a non-French vocabulary for their operation are prohibited on the Québec market, unless a French version of the toy or game is available on the Québec market on no less favourable terms.

KFC was renamed to PFC (Poulet Frit Kentucky) inorder to operate in Quebec.

The child of non English immigrants or naturalized citizens cannot go to English schools in Quebec by law !

What fun in Quebec.
Ben Shapiro is disingenuous by isolating Facebook data only. It's the combination of illicit Facebook data + fake news + Russia's APT that is at the heart of the problem. The fact that Facebook was warned about this and didn't work to solve their share of the problem is why they are criticized.
To understand digital advertising, study its algos – A Skinner box for software
If you are paid by the hour (as most low wage jobs are) time in the "office" does translate into more returns. There are many people (mostly immigrants) working long hard hours so they can afford to send their children to better schools. The returns don't make sense in any short term sense, but their ~grandchildren tend to get rich as we know from history.
I rarely use FB and have never had their app on my phone. But I use whatsapp.

Anyone knows how much info whatsapp is vacuuming up?
Do we have a measure of how happy people were in hunter-gatherer times?
> China is the living embodiment of what 1984 can look like in 2018.

Or britain - you know the place that 1984 was about. Or germany, spain, canada, russia, saudi arabia, etc.

> I do wonder if an ever increasing crackdown and everything ultimately becomes so unwieldy that the whole country falls apart.

People like gordon chang have been wondering for decades now. Wouldn't hold my breath on it though. China has a few decades more of development and urbanization ahead of it. They'll continue to grow for a few more years.
Yes. In the video there is a short snippet where the audio is shown as a Fourier transformed image on the screen and a user is annotating the image of the sound using red boxes. This is a part of the process to train the ML model to recognize chainsaw sounds vs. other sounds.
If you use Firefox, you can use the "Reader view" to center align and dark-mode the page contents. I use it constantly, great feature.

If you use Pocket, it will do the same thing.

I'm sure there is a chrome plugin that does something similar.
Pinker often frustrates me, I think he has an unpleasant tendency to only entertain one explanation of any given event. But he's certainly an interesting writer, and his work prompts more fascinating discussions than almost anyone else I can think of.
It goes in cycles, but anyone who imagines that e.g. the Civil War wasn't preceded by strong feelings has no sense of history. Keep in mind that decorum and conduct are different things. Since the 1950s, USA has done some awful things, with inconsistent discussion, heated or otherwise. As someone who regrets that history and takes Orwell seriously, I'm glad there are now some cracks in the consensus.
How Disclosure Medium Affects Investor Reactions to CEO Bragging
> ”Evanston has the metra, not the el.”

Evanston is served by both Metra and the El. The Purple line north of Howard runs through Evanston and has multiple stops.
If a share vesting schedule makes you feel like it's not your company, why not get rid of that?

Have both of you own equal 50/50 stock directly and without conditions — that's the only way to really feel like you're the entrepreneur. If he doesn't want to do that, it's a sign that you're not being trusted either.
For convenience of other readers, here is a version cached by Google: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:wEWECJ...
Saffron Curtain: How Buddhism Was Weaponized During the ColdWar
Uber's history defends the position that they're willing to do things regardless of the chance of getting caught and being willing to deal with the fallout later. That's kind of their whole thing - drive in a city no matter the regulations of taxis and the like, and deal with the bureaucracy after. Why wouldn't they alter things if given the chance?
The CEOs job is to sell the vision. To investors, employees/recruits, and early customers. That's the job. Not to code or do sprints or stay up 3 straight days testing a release.
I still don't think online will take off soon as a popular way to buy for toys. There is a reason why almost all toys come semi demo-able with buttons you can push and open-ish boxes. Amazon is apparently behind in apparel for a similar reason, you can't try anything on!
I'm not the poster you replied to, but my current complaint is that message deletion is rather slow.
I don't know what fantasy land you live in but it isn't the UK.

Almost nobody will give a shit.

Those that do won't remember come election time.
GNU C is probably my favorite extension of C. There's a lot of good stuff in there. The vector extensions make it really easy to write platform agnostic SIMD code.

https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/C-Extensions.html
No. I always make sure I put Linux and BSD logos on my slidedecks when introducing Netflix. Linux on the cloud, BSD on the CDN. And also, the TCP tracepoint kernel commits was really done by multiple other companies. :)
> High explosives, nuclear material, anonymous banking are all examples of technologies that, while useful, can and should be restricted.

I'm not sure how to take your comments, based on your other thoughts. We shouldn't have anonymous banking, i.e. cryptocurrency or even cash?
They paid substantial taxes in grain. They were pretty much considered the private property of their landlord. If they wanted to get married they first had to be allowed so by their lord, and then pay him as compensation for being so nice to them. Then there's debt-servitude, invasions, and all that fun stuff.
Pre iOS 10 apps could scan your music/podcast library without asking permission
Android Work Profile can help with this. You can turn off the work profile, which completely disables your work account, apps, and notifications.

https://support.google.com/work/android/answer/7029561?hl=en