skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regardless, a social media profile displays the things that you value - or at least that you claim to value. Social media tends to be a highlight reel for many younger people, so having insight into what they view as "highlights" gives you insight into what they value and how they want to be perceived. If you see someone with wildly differing values on social media from the ones that they portrayed in an interview or application, then that should definitely be a red flag when reviewing their application.
Maybe a 100% complete social graph is not required, but I suspect social graphs to be more and more important. Facebook is not a 100% social graph anyway. I keep business relations to LinkedIn and my Chinese contacts do not use Facebook.

People in highly connected points of social graphs provide a valuable service to society, and are using technology to monetize on their contribution. The people are a mix between a tribe leader and a thought leader. They bring people together and help spread ideas. Even in a very monetized network, Youtube, experts believe Influencers receive less compensation than they would with similar audiences in the old media [1]. This undervalue suggests a market imbalance that should correct it self with time. As more money comes into the field the competition will increase and the quality of the product will increase. That is why I think social graphs will become more and more important.

[1]https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelthomsen/2015/07/11/pewdi...
What's amazing to me is how the media can stir the public into a fever pitch with such ease. I've told people about FB and Google data collection for years and nobody cared, at least not until the talking heads told them to care.

What FB does is innocuous compared to the CIA vault7 leaks, and yet the media shoved that down the memory hole. The real question is why is this being pushed now when literally of this has been public info for years?
> If I wouldn't do something in public, I wouldn't post it to social media. Maybe I'm unique in being able to restrain myself.

Another possibility occurs to me: you are on a path in your life where, for whatever reason, you rarely engage politically with the world. Or at least you rarely engage politically in a way that would bring a substantial risk to your career, personal, or political life. Or you are lucky enough to be in a situation where you don't have to do that in order to protect yourself.

I'm not implying that you do this consciously (though that is a possibility). It may be something like the mathematician who finds a job at the NSA that fits their interests like a glove and burrows away their for the rest of their life. There is certainly nothing wrong with that, just as there is nothing wrong with the person who just "clicks" with adversarial political action their whole adult life.

However, while I'm not particularly political myself it takes me maybe 3 seconds to imagine people who are (esp. people affected by Trump administrations policy toward immigration). So I'm left confused by your apparent inability to do the same. I am certainly not unique in being able to empathize with people who's safety is at risk from Facebook's creepy, leaky, sniff-it-all system of social media.
So is it OK for Russia to push Brexit? What about pushing for Ukraine to give up land to Russia?

Obviously not. Foreign countries are always going to act in their own interest. They are not interested in the stability or longterm prosperity of other nations, usually quite the opposite.

Those affected by foreign policy have other ways of exerting influence (tariffs, their own policies, immigration policies, etc) they don't get to alter my day to day life. Freedom of the press and Freedom of speech in the US is a critical and fundamental right - China doesn't get to throw money at shutting those down because they're inconvenient to Chinese policy.
It always amazes me how you can convince a founder/CEO is not right man for the job, and slowly push him away.

Companies that succeed are driven by burning vision, not by day-to-day operation people. It might make feel the companies run smoother for some time, but day-to-day executives are harmful to a company core vision leading to boring companies if they manage to sustain profitability in the long run at all.
If you make the naive assumption that you are observing the company at a random point in its overall lifespan, the median of the distribution for how much longer it will survive is how long it has survived already.

More than that, if it has survived N years already, the odds that it will survive at least M more is N/(N+M). If you work out the probability density and then integrate it, you come up with an arithmetic mean that is also N. However the point where it is most likely a priori to die is tomorrow, and that probability steadily decreases.
Twitter ( for the most current news on my echo chamber ) and Linkedin.
Not baseless.

That none of the many savy hackers people who want publicity for their protest tried to find out how many donation pages they could have open simultaneously sounds like it would take a conspiracy. The 'raid' and its coordinated nature is almost by definition conspiracy.

The description of Dr. Moench and his conviction for murder is on the exact Krebs post being protested.
>the mechanism for deletion of any user data must be no more complex than its creation

I don't think that'd work too well... indeed, it's already in place. You can create a single post with one click, you can delete a single post with one click. I guess we're looking for "batch deletion".
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There should also be an easier way to let apps that you've connected to with Facebook before know to delete any information they gathered from you from Facebook.

Deleting data in Facebook itself isn't enough when there are apps out there that could have siphoned your personal data and details. Going through each app one by one and contacting them to delete your data is just painful and usually falls on deaf ears.
Some apps don't even provide a way to delete data or even delete your account. Some people that I have contacted about deleting my account on their app even told me that they never built such functionality. Facebook is on the news because it's a big target, but it happens everywhere.
Yes, and it should be good natured... not at someones expense.

Hence the reason YOU should be leading the laughter.

There is a case that laughing indicates that the stressful situation has passed:

http://mentalfloss.com/article/69830/why-do-we-laugh-when-we...
True, it's amazing when you think no no no no but yet you do it.
I work as a software developer who's pushed for open sourcing code at our company (unsuccessfully). Premise is that the company's value isn't code, & the idea is that making it open source will produce a more successful product. Generally a software developer's job security correlates with a product's success. It may mean we don't need to hire more people, but I'm not looking to work at a large company, & less people means less mouths to feed

In my own experience I was trying to demonstrate that we didn't need to bastardize the codebase into a million pieces in order to give remote developers only the small part their working on; that we might as well make the code publically available
Social media is not a problem. Tools for social internet connections are. Before all centralized tools we stayed connected with blogs, forums, etc. Fragmentation is important.
Practically speaking, content is king. By giving your content to someone for free, you are creating a precedent in which, someone will explore your effort for nothing in exchange. Facebook is bottomless pit of greed. Thats why they are failing. Yes if you are technically and psychologically educated individual you can make this tools to work for you. But in a long run this is not true solution.
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I'm not convinced that meaningful regulation in the areas of concern would make it that hard for up and coming competition. Sure, the free-for-all exploitation would no longer be available, but that's not necessarily a startup killer. However, with giants like Google and Facebook in place there's a huge risk of regulatory capture[1] specifically aimed at inhibiting new competition.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture
Nice execution! I made something similar a few years ago, except it generated a playlist of previews from iTunes with an option to connect Spotify. It worked by finding all venues within a certain radius from you using the Foursquare API, and correlating that with the JamBase and Songkick APIs. It was a bit ahead of its time because not enough people had Spotify, and their catalog wasn’t big enough to cover artists coming to some of the smaller venues. I might still own the domain rockout.fm if you want something a bit more catchy.
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This was my first thought as well. I would love to see the reaction from the pro-spin-bit camp if Google announced that Chrome will never set the spin bit.
But was it nascent and about to .. boom or already an established way that got killed ?
It's not authorized or unauthorized. We have laws that say somebody pushing political ads has to have their name associated with it so the target of that ad can decide the trustworthyness. Somebody who is conservative might distrust information paid for by the DNC and vice versa.

When foreign actors are allowed to subvert that rule and are aided by an American company selling access to Americans, that's a problem. No other country would ever allow such a thing - can you imagine if the US started taking out political ads on Baidu against the current Chinese administration?
amelius, if you're reading this, don't use platforms that do not respect your privacy. If they didn't respect it yesterday and don't respect it today, what makes you think they'll start respecting it in the future? Quit while you are ahead.
I've never seen stuff like that, but then again I heavily control my fb feed by only following "close" friends and select family members. I don't follow any news sites, and pretty much only follow art pages/ and a few programmers that have public profiles. This has more to do with people who have family/friends who enjoy stuff like that, but it's easily possible to never run across articles like that on fb. I sure haven't.
In 2016, there was a ruckus about Facebook collecting nonmembers viewing habit across the internet, so the answer is yes for my case. As far as I know, as a nonmember, I cannot access my shadow profile unless I join and give them yet more data to invade my privacy.

Rather than live in George Orwell's nightmare, I have resorted to spending my time blocking their tracking at the dns request level on my router for all my devices. The great thing is you can block a bunch of other trackers and spyware as well.
As a hobbyist, you have a freedom to work on meaningful problems that most companies and engineers don't.

I suggest you look for problems that it's valuable to the world to solve even though they may not be profitable. Solve problems for homeless people or people in third-world countries who can't afford to pay for software or services.

Create tools for NGOs to use. Write open source libraries for other people to build software on top of so we don't have to use the Googles and Facebooks of the world.

Or solve a problem that's too small to be profitable. Create a community tool or a babysitting bulletin board for your homeowner's association or co-op board. Write a transit app for a small town.
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It appears to be a standard 6 axis robot arm equipped with a specialist end effector designed to pick, mortar, and place bricks. It's possibly on a linear track to drive up and down the wall too. This is likely far cheaper than designing and building a specialist robot for this one task.
That's exactly what I assume. If I know 90% of the image, but need to brute force 10%, I just reduce the possible field of values by an order of magnitude. The better I know what the image was to begin with, the easier it gets. That's exactly why poor RNGs are bad: I can brute force the value by knowing your method + approximately your input.

And if I can affect the image in a way that makes it even more predictable (black sheet over the camera, bright white light into the camera), it gets even easier.
I imagine something like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MKcTbYDP7w except for bricks
Are you trying to play around, or set up a working cluster? If you just want to play around, I'd suggest just using minikube to get things going.

Anecdotally, I got an HA cluster running across 3 boxes in the space of about a month, with maybe 2-3 hours a day spent on it. The key for me was iterating, and probably that I have good experience with infrastructure in general. I started out with a single, insecure machine, added workers, then upgraded the workers to masters in an HA configuration.

I don't think it is really that hard to get a cluster going if you have some infrastructure and networking experience, especially if you start with low expectations and just tackle one thing at a time incrementally.
Yes, the first website I ever made was in this space for Philadelphia. I wanted to make show listings with playable songs for every night of the week. I just manually found listings and found youtube links and built it. Every site I found always had a bunch of cruft. This was in 2011, figured it had improved by now. :)
In Illinois, several recent taxes have been sales tax increases which are effectively regressive. Also a our state income tax is a flat percentage, and a temporary tax reduction expired so that increase is also hitting lower income residents at the same time that services are being cut.
"An error occurred during a connection to wonderunit.com. Cannot communicate securely with peer: no common encryption algorithm(s). Error code: SSL_ERROR_NO_CYPHER_OVERLAP"

What the hell?
I've seen variations on this dead-simple concept so many times I made my own two months ago:

https://codepen.io/fenwick/pen/YYdXXb
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Thank you for sharing that. Inspiring story. Social media clearly has positive and negative properties just like any other form of communication. I'm glad it's helping here.
Because that particular question was not targeted at Snips, but at Mycroft.
I love the art made for the post. It's so emotional and powerful. The letter told the story, but the image made me feel the story. So simple, but yet so powerful.

Also, @solomonstre has changed his Twitter profile picture. This is brilliant communication. He lets everyone know that he has moved on to other things, just from his profile picture. I think this is very interesting and clever.
Having read this I wonder what really went down. I get that his shares are fully vested, but personally I would not walk away from such a role at a company with this kind of growth and mind share.
Certainly, but not in the direction I think you're implying. Open source means that you know how to solve all the problems MySQL has solved, even if you don't actually know how to implement a good database engine.
Did they 'open source' that font?
If you're conscientious about health care utilization it's worse than that, though. If you have a zero deductible policy, you're priced based on the typical health care utilization of somebody on a zero deductible plan. Since people on zero deductible plans probably utilize more health care than people who are not, you're paying for high utilization whether you use it or not. IMO, it's probably better for most people to be on a high deductible plan and then just be judicious about going to the doctor.
> Google buys your credit card purchase data.

A more accurate explanation of the scare quote:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16698587

> IIRC, this was announced as part of a program that uses double-blinded crypto that allows google to perform matching against this data in aggregate (Set intersection knowledge), but not individually identity of what a given user purchased, at the same time preventing the merchants from learning the identities of individuals either.

> According to what they presented at a crypto conference, they went to great pains to avoid capturing personally identifiable transactions. The overall strategy is that Google Knows = Set A = (all ads shown for user X at Merchant Y) Merchant/Credit Card Proccessor Knows = Set B = (all $$$ paid by User X at Merchant Y), and that it is possible to cryptographically compute sum($$$ of A intersect B) without either side learning Set(User X).

> Now whether you believe in the security of the algorithm and whether there are side channel leaks or attacks is another issue.

> Edit: http://bristolcrypto.blogspot.com/2017/01/rwc-2017-secure-mp...

> About 10 minutes in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ee7oRsDnNNc
This article is really a stretch to say Japanese wine is using big data. These environmental sensors have been available for a very long time and are no where near the cutting edge of precision winegrowing. Things like hue measurements and sap flow sensors in individual vines are much more advanced techniques for monitoring vineyards with the goal of increasing the quality potential.
That’s incredibly myopic, there are lots of successful businesses that run because everything runs smoothly. What is the burning vision of Coca Cola? I’m pretty sure their business is successful because they sell the same product year after year with little to no change.
Can companies really get away for not licensing properly with GPL? I mean selling your product without buying the commercial license. How to get yourself caught? Different SLAM solves the same problem anyway.
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Thanks Solomon for creating the inflection point of the container revolution.

I'm a bit puzzled about where docker as a company has to go. But the enthusiasm that was unleashed is without par.
'Incredible journey' is usually reserved for software companies selling out or shutting down, neither of which is happening in this case.
Docker Swarm might be worth looking at regardless:

(1) it's like 15 minutes to learn how it works and then maybe a morning or so playing around with it. Very low investment.

(2) if you're already using docker-compose, it's pretty much an in-place switch. You might need to deal with a few restrictions (mandatory overlay network, no custom container names, no parameterized docker-compose), in exchange you'll get zero-downtime upgrades, automated rollbacks, and of course the ability to add more machines to your swarm.
I thought that this was a reasonable way to think about health insurance until the time I ended up in a random ER "through no fault of my own", and after spending several months watching bills roll in and learning just how skillful an insurance company can be at accomplishing their primary job, which is to avoid paying for health care, found that the impact of an enormous unexpected expense you cannot possibly afford is not substantially lessened by the knowledge that it could have been worse.

There is a corollary to the law of diminishing marginal utility here. If having health insurance actually meant I didn't have to worry about the impact of future unexpected disasters, then the incredible monthly cost might seem worthwhile; but all it's going to do is push the threshold of disaster upward, so I'd rather manage risk by maximizing flexibility and keep the cash in my pocket instead.
I still see facts as:

1) Nothing was reflective

2) She was walking across the road between street lights in a random space.

3) If a person hit the woman it would not have been homicide or manslaughter even if we didn't know the driver was on their phone.

I would say the pedestrian was legally more than 50% at fault in this horrible accident.

http://www.alllaw.com/articles/nolo/auto-accident/driver-at-...
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This is done so well. I currently work at a phone comparison company and permalinks would allow us to tweet about the difference in sizes etc. Pictures just aren't as cool. Nice work
I kind of don't get this. But this is why I've never really been into SM. Just cause they make a shiny deletion UI and your stuff appears to be truly gone... as in, never reappear visibly ... this makes you trust them that is actually truly gone?
http://svdictionary.com/words/incredible-journey
Rip docker !
I think there's room for babel and typescript to co-exist. In fact, I use typescript purely as a type checker (by setting `jsx` to `preserve`, `target` to `esnext` and `moduel` to `esnext`). As a transpiler, babel is just a lot more configurable and updates much more frequently than typescript.
It's just part of the media machine. FB is currently the "bad guy" so any media agency who can push the narrative is rewarded with more user attention. This has a huge snowball effect and will result in FB getting hammered into the ground until a more interesting antagonist comes around.

Another interesting "bad guy" right now is Russia -- justified or not, notice how media outlets are trying their hardest to find any Russian links whatsoever to every bit of political news, even things completely unrelated. For instance, try searching for "cambridge analytica russia" and look at the number of results.
Nothing terribly interesting needs to have gone down. Someone who is the right fit to lead a company from a scrappy three-person startup to a large established tech company, and enjoys it the entire time, is a unicorn among unicorns.
Reminds me of the folklore of John Henry.

He beat the steam engine in a steel driving competition and was treated as a hero, but died from over exertion. The steam engine continued to work the next day.
Like a lot of tech folks, I've only interacted with Solomon on the internet, but in probably every interaction, I've come away from it feeling smarter, or more capable, going all the way back to the very early days of Dotcloud.

I understand the realities of working in a corporation, and the demands on C-level executives, but it's hard to imagine any company that is improved by his departure from it.

Fare well, Solomon. Eager to see what you've got planned next.
What a bizarre turn of phrase that bricklayers are "safe" only if they continue to engage in their profession, which comes with a substantial risk of injury.

Of course bricklayers will be safer when robots are able to build houses. Then bricklayers will be able to stay home and do as they please.

How have we come to think of the challenge of automating the matter of the universe as within our reach, but the challenge of seeing each other as viable individuals defined by something other than a "job" as unattainable?
I don't know about AZ, but windshield tinting is usually illegal in TX, except (I believe) for certain newer methods of tinting that are designed to filter only IR frequencies. But I think those newer forms are also fairly rare. In any case, I definitely wouldn't assume the windshield was tinted.
To me Polly is way behind WaveNet when it comes to realism. Polly is robotic, WN is fluid.
Raise taxes on the rich. Raise taxes on the big businesses in Illinois--or, if they're anything like Oregon and Washington, stop giving them so many tax breaks.

That's one solution.
"Our goal was to harness an obscure technology called containers"

Was that really the goal? My impression was that dotcloud was just a hosting company