skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's entirely unnecessary for it to be a party position. Anti-GMO is an extremely widely held belief on the left.

"There's also a political difference. Republicans divide evenly on whether genetically modified foods are safe or unsafe. Independents rate them unsafe by a 20-point margin; Democrats, by a 26-point margin."

https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=97567&page=1

"Republicans are more skeptical of the theory of evolution, though by a surprisingly slim margin with 39 percent of them rejecting it as compared to 30 percent of Democrats. When it comes to other scientific matters, the waters are even muddier. For instance, Democrats and Republicans believe in the false link between vaccines and autism at roughly equal levels."

"Only 45 percent of Democrats support expanding the use of nuclear energy, as compared to 62 percent of Republicans"

https://reason.com/blog/2016/07/15/are-republicans-or-democr...

"The poll also shows more Democrats (9 percent) and independents (10 percent) say the measles vaccine isn't safe than Republicans who say the same (5 percent)."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/02/09/he...
I use a separate Chrome profile to isolate Facebook. I'm wondering how Firefox does things differently?
This makes it harder for Facebook to track your activity on other websites via third-party cookies.

Why not bundle uBlock Origin into every Firefox install and make it impossible for Facebook to track everyone's activity on other web sites?
They should just create their own awards, you know, with black jack and hookers. Seriously though, anything that curves to Hollywood's caprices isn't that great anyway.
Very informative note from the CEO owning up to some key strategic mistakes. His key insight: solving a customer problem really well isn’t good enough, if customers don’t have that problem very often...
Good to see plenty of people in the comments experiencing nostalgia due to fond memories of playing this great, great game :)

You may be unaware that there is "Belzebub", a "HD mod" for the original Diablo, available today, that taches the original engine a few tricks (besides the obvious 1080p resolution), and also re-introduces a lot of the game's planned content that had to be cut from the final release shortly before the gold master was spun. And IT IS AWESOME! Even if you never tried the original classic, you should probably give this a go if ARPGs in a dark fantasy setting are something you might like.

To whet your appetite, check the trailer (https://youtu.be/m4PfLbMJCoA) on the (afaik, unfortunately discontinued) mod's website: https://mod.diablo.noktis.pl/features

The 1.045 release you may still download there (you need to provide a copy of the game's assets in the form of the main CDs ".mpq" data file yourself) is essentially a polished and extended re-make of the original Diablo 1. I played for hours each day for a few days straight after I discovered the project in 2015. Hope someone else in here enjoys it as much as I did! :)
​Kubernetes 1.10: Improving storage, security, and networking
I also stopped paying for health insurance; the cost of healthcare was already high and Obamacare only exacerbated the problem. This article is misleading, suggesting that the problem is the Trump administration rolling back Obamacare. The reality is that health insurance was high (over $1000/mo for me) before Obamacare, and Obamacare only made it higher still, nearly doubling the monthly cost.

I'm a self-employed contractor paid by the hour, and for my healthy family of 4, Blue Cross Blue Shield insurance here in Minnesota was going up to $1800/month. (It was $1600/mo in 2017, and $1400/mo in 2016.)

I switched to a Christian health bill sharing ministry[0]. You pay $450/mo for the entire family. And if you go to the hospital, you're on the hook for the first $500. Anything over $500 they cover 100%.

So, I lowered my health bill from $1800/mo to $450/mo.

The amount I save each month I put away in a separate bank account to use as emergency funds, medical or otherwise.

It's been working out fantastically.

[0]: There are numerous ones, but I use http://chministries.org
"It's hard to tell what exactly happens to the sperm, except that they don't come out the other end"

Isn't that something they should know by now?
Atlanta Working 'Around the Clock' to Fight Off Ransomware Attack
> "All Americans Deserve Equal Rights Online."

Didn't they already have that with the net neutrality rules they've just fought to kill?
Maybe he should lead by example and make is credit card number publicly available ...
It is an advantage because it's independent of the producer. They don't have a lockdown on the content.

You can only watch a Netflix movie, on Netflix. You can't watch it on Amazon, nor Google Play.

Promoting independent access to this media is a good thing.
My kids, dog, and friends seem to enjoy hanging out on my grass more than they'd enjoy hanging out on some trees, shrubs, and flowers. "Come on over and hang out in the shrubbery while I bar-b-que..."

As a very much secondary benefit, I get some exercise and a minor outdoor hobby.
One way or another, bad or good, right or wrong, he's probably right. Even if you decide to go "off the grid", you'll probably never find work in a society that considers lack of social media footprint evidence that you're "hiding" something.
Facebook board member Peter Thiel helped fund Cambridge Analytica's work
Then we should apply that same logic to the military because they don't seem to care about just blowing money up.
They haven't had any major privacy scandals yet ... just wait until we do, and it starts coming into public consciousness just how much they know about us.
A change in the vision system can absolutely affect handbrake tests. As far as we know, last week how Uber detects obstacles changed in a way that affected latency enough that it couldn't brake in time, which is why we now have a broken person instead of a broken test.

An autonomous car is inherently a system, and you need a deep suite of integration tests, regularly run and covering all possible cases, to believe you're even approaching vehicle safety. The wider you space out when any given integration test is run, the harder it becomes to fix. And if a given test only runs once per week, sooner or later (sooner with a sufficiently large test suite) you're going to hit a place where auto-reverting the commit breaks additional tests.

And when that happens, unless you put a global lock on new code entering the system, it might be impossible to fix the regression. And putting a global lock on new code submission will make new feature development extremely slow and expensive.
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Steering input sensed, give up steering control.
Brake input sensed, give up brake control.

I'm not convinced the two should be linked in any way, human driver or AEB or whatever else. If the human is taking evasive action, the auto-drive is getting input from all the available sensors.

This shouldn't be that hard (relative to the other challenges being faced).
No. Implicitly yielding and getting scheduled back is exactly what synchronous sequence is. And it cannot ever be faster than asynchronous, because asynchronous doesn't yield. Any "rediscoveries" are just mistakes due to lack of fundamental understanding of these things.
The same extension, but for Chrome, is what I use to browse facebook.
I'm asking this from a position of massive ignorance (I'm mostly a backend dev who does the occasional website), but is there any type hinting tooling in the Javascript ecosystem? Python has PEP484 where you annotate types in either comments or docstrings, Ruby has YARD tags used similarly, and smart IDEs can pick up on these and offer decent refactoring tools.

But does anything similar exist in JS land?
Replying to your comment below. I am not missing your point. I am merely pointing out that your point is incorrect as a matter of law. Copyright does not cover re-implementation. Copyright only covers copying. Your statement that IBM could sue company using a clean-room developed re-implementation of IMB's BIOS if IBM owned a copyright to their BIOS is incorrect as a matter of law.
Back-Office Integrator Pipefy Raises $16M Series A
I hope that little company does not come under pressure to make Android phones.
What exactly is that supposed to prove?

Not a fan of any of the two companies but I believe you're being unfair.

At least Microsoft[0] does not sell your personal information or build it's business around renting access to your personal information. There is a big difference between sharing data with advertisers and sharing data with company-controlled subsidiaries and vendors.

Amazon is a little more permissive [1] but again, it does not sell your data.

Both of them ask for your consent before sharing the data. So for example, if your friend/contact shares his data, the third party does not see your data (as opposed to what Facebook did).

Posts such as yours reek of whataboutism (same as the Obama campaign narrative) and do more harm than good. The two companies have not built their business around personal data. The personal data in this case is a side-effect of selling an actual product/service which brings in the cash.

If you mentioned Google, then that's a different thing. I find it interesting nobody is bringing up this book: https://www.amazon.com/When-Google-Wikileaks-Julian-Assange/...

[0] https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/privacystatement
[1] https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=...
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100 Titan Vs = $300k. And the big deal about this system is the NvSwitch which allows the GPUs to appear to software as a single huge GPU.
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I'd prefer creating a throwaway container/context every time. Safari allows you to store pwds.
That's right, France actually has a law that after a movie is shown in a theatre it can't be streamed for 36 months.
It's spelled Refuctor
That has more to do with conscious control of your vagus nerve for mindful breathing.
Responsible on it's own? Likely not. A contributing factor? I believe the jury is still out.

Either way, the simple existence of the tools to do so (via social media and data-crunching groups like CA) should be investigated. And governments rightly should take action to ensure "fake news" is not being used to subvert their elections.
I want to believe there are very smart people studying these "strategic" issues, with mathematical models and stuff. That is : beyond the technical aspects, the implementation strategies, science return/cost ratios and whatnot.

NASA used to be good at implementing incremental approaches to projects, weren't they? I mean isn't the Apollo program a perfect example of it? If they seem less incremental in their approach to space observatories, I assume they have good reasons.

Am I being naive?
I always wondered what the empty lot next to an apartment complex I lived in was. Did some research and it was the Jasco superfund site. I read the entire lease agreement and it didn’t mention anything about it. We need a disclosure law for that. Ended up moving.
So now you've given that extension full access to your Facebook account. And if you didn't uninstall it after using it, it's still able to see everything you do on Facebook. How is this any different from the Cambridge Analytica mess people were upset about in the first place?
The point is that you have choices with Google that you don't have with Facebook.

You don't have to use Gmail.

You don't have to store work documents in Drive.

You don't have to log in to watch YouTube.

You don't have to use Google Photos.

But for social networking, what choice do people have when no other service has even 5% of Facebook's social graph?
>Netflix and Amazon are going to continue their quest to destroy cinemas, and in this case, French business.

If true, that quote from the comment you're responding to is probably a good representation of the attitude that France approaches that regulation with.

Hearing an argument like that uttered unironically can be baffling, but it is how the thought process can go in France. Those cinemas, they might well argue, are French businesses which inherently deserve to exist - and damn the consequences.
Scott McNealy, CEO of Sun (whose former campus is today Facebook HQ), 1999

> The chief executive officer of Sun Microsystems said Monday that consumer privacy issues are a "red herring." "You have zero privacy anyway," Scott McNealy told a group of reporters and analysts Monday night at an event to launch his company's new Jini technology. "Get over it."

https://www.wired.com/1999/01/sun-on-privacy-get-over-it/

This rot goes way back.
You can normally buy the complete source code together with CAD models for all the plastic parts, circuit board designs and datasheets for all the chips for $50 on those super dodgy chinese source code exchange websites.

The only problem then is typically getting it all to compile will be many person-months of work. There will typically be hundreds of toolchains, many missing, lots of build scripts missing or wrong, etc.
Can someone explain the technology edge Nvidia has?

AMD, Intel etc. have not been able to compute in high-performance GPU market, so Nvidia must have an edge. How big and sustainable it is?
Possibly:

https://www.york.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/2015/research/ps...
Yes, the obsession with industry awards is significant, while almost totally unimportant to the end user.
Incidents like these could very well kill the technology just as its leaving the crib, if mishandled.

It's all defensive. In this case, the interests of the companies and the interests of the users are aligned.
First two sentences are catchy and on-point! Love it :)

Ever been in a Tesla and hit the accelerator in Ludicrous Mode?
If you have, you know you'll speed up like the proverbial bat
out of hell. The development of Kubernetes, the leading container
orchestration program, has been like that.
>so thats the reason the us subsidize farming

It may be true that subsidizing corn has the controlling effect you talk about. But I assure you, there is no higher level thinking going on here. The US subsidizes corn for one reason alone. And that is the powerful corn lobby that uses the old idea of a small town farmer to rally voters and strike fear in the heart of any politician who dares oppose corn/farm subsidies.
TypeScript is fast becoming the go-to language for JavaScript with types.
Just make good content. Make a new award ceremony. Invite everyone.
100 GPU rig would not have 512 GB in one address space, accessible by 16 GPUs. Each GPU can directly address the memory on any of the 16 GPUs.
Right or wrong, 'Palantir' is a great name for this kind of company.
The previous remark's point was that Java copied many C functions, inventions largely of AT&T and BSD.
> As a company why would you prioritize your developer's time on that?

Because as a leader within the org you're watching the company's reputation and share value erode, and having them spend some time on those items would gesture to the community and world that you take the public's concerns seriously.

I'm sure they are already prioritizing developer time on many different privacy fronts, including auditing old apps to see what data they siphoned off. (As was implied by Zuckerberg's interview on CNN)
"What Would Elon Musk Do" is a tiresome theme. Mostly because the guy is a total anomaly.

He and his company have accomplished a lot but that does not mean NASA is wrong for running space programs the way they run them. This stuff is complicated, NASA doesn't always get it right but that doesn't mean they need to reinvent themselves in the image of a technocelebrity.
>It wouldn't be that hard to start with an openjdk repo, and delete all the files as you added in the davlik code. Release it as GPL, and call it a derivative work.

They've done just that https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10803775
It either works or it doesn't, and you seem to agree that it does, so you're asking how it's better than existing channels? That's completely up to implementation and 1000s of factors as mentioned, and it doesn't need to be better than any other model to be useful for the bottomline, only that it returns a positive ROAS (return on ad spend).

A company selling to younger people might only advertise online while another only sells well through TV commercials. I don't see how that tells you anything useful other than to use the right media mix for your marketing needs.

That being said, whether a medium works is very easily proven by changing spend in isolation and seeing the impact on sales, and it's done by every major company. If spend exists, then campaigns exist, and so a outcome on sales can be measured as compared to the lack of spend (and thus campaigns). I'm unsure sure why that isn't evidence for you.
Nvidia stuns by driving a car in real life through virtual reality
Yes, you still need to convert to svg for the best result. These things will always be fragile.
Agreed. In my understanding the CA data wasn't a friends list, which it what OFA got, but your friends Facebook data (their photos, posts, likes AND their friends data). That's how they got to 50M users. And how they used it sounds pretty different too.
According to BuzzFeed, Palantir and Cambridge had no official contract together:

---"We actually had several meetings with Palantir whilst I was there. ... There were senior Palantir employees that were also working on the Facebook data," Wylie said.

"That was not an official contract between Palantir and Cambridge Analytica but there were Palantir staff that would come into the office and work on the data."

"We’d also go meet with Palantir staff at Palantir."

"Palantir didn’t officially contract with Cambridge Analytica , but there were Palantir staff who’d help build the models that we were working on."---

https://www.buzzfeed.com/markdistefano/the-cambridge-analyti...
LinkedIn is particularly adept at repeatedly asking you to share your e-mail contact list.

Don't think there is an option: Never share my contacts and stop bugging me about this option.
Delete the Facebook app. It drains your battery and drains your attention.

I use the Mobile Basic interface to check FB once a week or so for messages or events:

https://mbasic.facebook.com/
They're rhetorically true, and we're having a rhetorical argument. China didn't build all of the bay bridge, no. They won several large parts of the contracts and subcontracted many more. The exact percentage is meaningless, the important point for argument is that they had a large hand in it and both demonstrated and grew their engineering prowess by being involved.
As far as the Scandinavian countries, I'd agree that they're operating well. However, like you said, they aren't socialist. They're strong market economies with social safety nets layered on top. They're also very homogeneous, and smaller population-wise than the US, making those social programs easier to implement, fund, and maintain.

"I don't think that socialism has to mean large-centralized government. I look at it more like extending democracy to include the workplace and the economy."

And therein lies the problem. It seems nobody can agree on what socialism actually means these days. I think it does necessitate state control of the economy by definition, like the USSR back in the day or Venezuela more recently. That's more in line with what Marx originally advocated for and how a lot of countries have tried to implement it.

However, if we scrap that definition, then it's anybody's guess. I have no problem with socialism on a small scale - by all means, start a co-op or go live in a commune. As long as it's your choice to do so. My problem with large-scale socialism is that it's "an idea so good, it's mandatory." There's no "opt-out" when the government seizes control of the economy under the guise of promoting equality. So that's what I worry about when people promote socialism. Like you said, there's a fear of authoritarianism in any system, but I can't help but notice socialist countries are historically much more likely to become despotic dictatorships than capitalist countries are.

In terms of combating climate change and automation, that's a much broader issue for sure. But I'm optimistic that modifying our current system can help rather than overhauling it completely with an ideology that has proven so difficult to successfully implement.
How do you propose they do this black box testing?
Sucks for you <> sucks for FB. Facebook (and it's pet AI) likely cares more about it's revenue than it does about you.
When people buy a heart shaped container on amazon, browse cat pictures on tumblr, and watch a certain anime on crunchyroll, they probably don't mind. What is a problem is when people take all these disparate actions, aggregate them, and then create a "profile" for each person's personality is where they start to worry.

It's the same as how people go outside, go to restaurants, stores, gyms in the public and don't hide their faces because there's no shame in what they're doing. If, however, you as an individual follow them throughout their day, jotting notes on what they're doing, when they're doing it, and with who, you're considered a creep even though you've observed things in the open.
Hi ABCLAW,

I read page 17 and it is clearly written by someone that doesn't understand software. My non-lawyer reading of the justification implies that polymorphism violates copyright law - which is an even deeper issue. This would destroy all modern software development. Yikes! I am now even more confused. Even Oracle would disagree with this point of view.

In your text, you are now making the argument that Google did not have a cleanroom implementation. This is a different discussion that should be on it's own thread.
As a fan of horror, my observation is that the best horror (that is, the kind that sticks with you long after you've finished the story) doesn't come from spooky monsters (as much as I love imaginative monsters) or grisly gore, but the nightmares woven into real life. And that's Hellblade in a nutshell. "Unsettling" is a good word for it.
iPhones are generally sold through carriers with the phone locked to that specific carrier. The main point of the Apple SIM - the ability to switch between short-term mobile internet contracts across multiple carriers - would be pretty moot in this scenario.

Note that the Apple SIM isn't new, nor tied to the release of the new iPad model today. It's been around since at least 2014. I remember going to an Apple Store back then to pick one up. The associate at first didn't know what I was talking about but eventually found them somewhere stashed in the back-office.
So where are the benefits coming from in these "rediscoveries"?
I admit i don’t understand the details of that case fully and have no time to waste to change that...
What i can say: To me it seems like oracle only bought Sun to squeeze out money from it’s “intellectual property” as hard as possible, giving a shit for all the(not fully finished) work Sun did in the years before to make Java a good Open Source citizen that could easily delivered in Linux distributions. The very first thing oracle did was making that harder again and limiting access to the compatibility test suite.
Oracle is a greedy company that doesn’t care about anything than making more money, no matter what it costs and no respect to any otger party in no way.
They give not the slightest F about being a good OpenSource citizen, in no area where they enter that ecosystem.
And their products might have some nice features sometimes but in the end are hard to handle/install/maintain expensive crap.
I didn’t write a 100 lines of Java since they own it, and i try to avoid it wherever i can find a viable alternative.
For the 300k you'll save just hire a full time dev to write you a distributed implementation of your solver.
Perhaps that's true. I appreciate the insight. However it doesn't really address my point, as it was directed at another comment.
I took it as mocking. And I'd wager a hefty sum that I am right.