skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been aware of this for a while but haven't done anything about it, but since you mentioned it I might as well ask: Is there an easy way to block this beacon? Is it something an adblocker would block by default?
Watching Donald Trump speak has always made me feel deeply uncomfortable in a way that is very difficult to articulate.

But here we are.

Edited to add: in my opinion Mark Zuckerberg as US President would probably be a huge improvement over the incumbent.
Hyper Physics – Georgia State University (1998)
ROS Robotics and OpenCV and Raspbian Stretch Lite Disk Image
Without any doubt, I would buy a small house in the midwest, put the rest in index funds, and live comfortably for the rest of my days, working on exactly what I want to.
On a related note. A couple of years ago I was really annoyed by all the notifications FB emailed me. I went to settings trying to change it so that FB only sends me emails if someone is tagging me or sending me a message. Maybe I'm stupid, I just couldn't figure it out. They made it so confusing and after a few attempts I just stopped receiving any notifications, missing out some important messages from people. I don't think it's just a bad UX (which it is). It's probably by design, intentionally making it hard for people to disconnect.
There are tons of rules that are not immediately enforceable, but are still in place and make the society better. Make it illegal, find and punish people who don't follow the rules, and things will be better. Many people are not willing to do outrightly illegal stuff.
the old, boring mysql
Using animals as test subjects isn't really comparable in magnitude to the damage we do on a global scale to ecosystems, which is what is actually causing extinction
Clearly they have a heuristic for identifying pornographic videos that they have enough confidence in to use on what very well might be irreplaceable footage that is not pornographic and/or does not violate ToS. I can assume that they can find something similar to identify encrypted content, perhaps simply by identifying files of unknown format with high entropy. Short of steganography, which is inefficient, I don't think you can prevent Google from knowing you're storing encrypted files.
Google Cloud has something similar, https://cloud.google.com/public-datasets/

I think it would show a kind of gilded age maturity if all the cloud providers cooperated on their public datasets, because they are for the public good.
While this may be true, Rene Ritchie certainly has his own agenda here.
> I hate that, if I somehow don’t want to consign my personal data, beliefs, preferences, relationships, work history, daily plans, and private messages to a massive advertising corporation, I have to risk missing out on seminal life events.

Why not have a Facebook account but only use it read-only for the most part? Nothing requires that you post your beliefs, work history, daily plans and such.

That's what I do. I do post a couple of times or so a year, just to keep the account looking used, but those posts are always just something innocuous. Usually just a link to something funny I saw on Reddit, but sometimes a photo or video of mine. The latest, for example, was a link to this video of several Chestnut-backed Chickadees that landed on my hand to eat peanuts out of my palm [1].

I do the same thing on Twitter.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShPgZhSbxU0 If you watch, I recommend a second viewing going frame by frame as they land and takeoff.
Tangential, but what is it with people using German words, randomly? "Achtung" here, I saw some (US, afaict) people on Twitter try to establish "#forwärts" yesterday..

Is there a connection between any recent event and German(y) that I missed?
PoS is also plutocratic isn't it? Money would always flow to those that already have the largest stake. Economies already naturally do that, so also coding it into the monetary system would double the exponent on the effect. Winners take all, and are then the arbiters of all transactions.
Reader mode on Firefox bypasses it (and displays it as one page).
Even that doesn't solve the problem...

https://www.tomsguide.com/us/FCC-Mobile-Devices-iPhone-Andro...

"Devices that are not GPS-enabled must be tracked via triangulation with local cellular towers, a time consuming process that can only give an approximate location and can dangerously delay critical assistance. The new regulation will allow almost universal pinpoint location of 911 callers by emergency responders. No date was given for when non-GPS enabled devices must be discontinued, but given FCC estimates that by 2018, 75 percent of all mobile devices will be GPS capable, it is likely that the assumption is the sunsetting of obsolete devices will occur naturally as consumers chuck outdated gadgets for shiny new ones."

I'm really curious to know whether this means my iPhone will give up my GPS location against my preference setting if I call 911, or if it means the carriers are going to be required to improve non-gps derived location data from cell towers to "allow almost universal pinpoint location of 911 callers by emergency responders"...
I did not downvote you but here are some possible reasons:

1. If you're coming from regular vim you should expect having to bundle syntax files for languages that aren't hugely popular.

2. Shortcuts on a vim frontend should be pretty self-evident for a regular vim user. And some reading on the documentation as well until the 1.0 release.

3. This is a good point, but you did not clarify your point well as I assume you meant discoverability and ease-of-use of configuration.

Still, I think it's valuable feedback and actually captures some issues that are being worked now:

1. People coming from IDEs expect everything to work out-of-box and perhaps in the future some plugins will be bundled by default (configurable to not be the case for veteran users).

2. Recently a lot of features out of regular vim were added such as markdown preview, browser tab, file explorer and sneak mode; which have particular keybindings. For the moment they should be visible when you run the 'Quick Open' menu (`<c-p>`) but seems like there should be another way to discover these. An issue will be opened for this case.

3. Discoverability of options and configuration UI is a current issue indeed and there are plans to improve it (https://github.com/onivim/oni/issues/976).

I hope the downvotes do not discourage you from giving further feedback as it's best when given sincerely, issues are very welcome, thanks!
Ask HN: Software project with best documentation?
I’m looking for examples of really good software documentation (and also WHAT makes it great to you and WHY) can also be documentation of proprietary software.
Note that this is perspective from an investor, not a tech head, developer, etc.
Ask HN: Software engineer in the interim
I'm between jobs at the moment, I've been working on side projects and getting involved on SO. I'm mostly interested in data engineering and architecture, both of which are tricky to practice without a real business environment's use case or resources. Trying to keep my skill-set relevant, any advice?
Its not about law, its about investors. Big investors have outsize control of the boards of most companies, and they pretty much only care about profits. The public doesn't blame them either because we don't talk about how decisions made by those on the board shape the entire company. Investors have little to fear from unethical decisions, so they make them.
Simple: signals travel through the brain through to a kalium-natrium cascade reaction (not even a real chemical reaction, just a gradient change), and every time they hit a synapse it becomes a lot more complex involving a dozen plus neurotransmitters. (This is why a kalium/potassium injection will kill you: it reverses the gradient for a long, long time, meaning the nerves cannot fire during that time, which means your heart and breathing (and everything else) stops. Incidentally, this also fires every pain nerve in your body so it should be unbelievably painful, and survivors do report that. Kalium is the Latin word for potassium)

Electrical conductivity is barely used at all. It is used in the processing of the resulting signal, but not in transmitting it. Even that part is very different from a current on a wire or through a transistor.

This video describes the 99.99% part well (99.99% in terms of distance, which is the axons): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_H-ONQFjpQ
Does "pernicious" have some kind of political connotation now?
> Why didn't Apple limit their API usage with technical restrictions.

Because this was impossible without forcing users to stop using Objective-C. The language allows dynamic method dispatch and so it's always possible to allow internal API calls.
I'm not sure what you're disagreeing with. I never made a claim on effectiveness (which depends on very many factors) but only that it works on everyone and needs more regulation. Are you claiming that it doesn't work at all?

What exactly do you think "internet advertising" is? Ads also don't need to be "good" or leave a lasting memory, they just need to work. Were you really going to buy "plates"? The ads might have made you buy them sooner. Or buy a different brand. Or buy something else along with them. And why did you even start looking for plates in the first place? Why go to google at all?

Regardless you don't need to take it from me. Go ahead and buy some ads and pickup on the power yourself. It's especially interesting seeing results when you're trying to prove it doesn't work.
Lack of imagination. First, the biggest complaint sould be that it's regressive. Second, no one would accept 1-2% tax on retirement assets, even though this would actually benefit them over a long haul: grow tax free for 40 years, and then pay a n% asset tax, where n=asset pool (your retirement account) age?

Almost everyone does better with Roth versions of IRAs and 401(k)'s anyway. Pay the tax up front, no tax at the back end, and thus basis and record keeping isn't even relevant.

There's a bunch of ways to simplify this while also making it fair if it weren't for the greedy rich people who want regressive taxes, i.e. flat tax.
Now my paranoia about never using Facebook from my phone is retroactively justified.
But it’s not the secret data people are worried about with Cambridge Analytica. It’s mundane stuff that works to define a profile of your beliefs and mental vulnerabilities. And a big issue is many people see their data as not a big deal because they haven’t posted any nude photos to Facebook. Time to reframe how we view what is sensitive in the age of ML
What has Apple opened up along the way? To me it seems like they just started with permissions to slightly fewer things than Android and restricted access away along the way. Both gave developers access to MAC addresses early on, for example. Apple also stopped allowing developers to identify other apps installed using canOpenURL but AFAIK it's still technically a public API.
Great point! I did pay with a credit card quite a few times
Just duct-tape it to the back of the case /s
I don’t really understand the outrage. Just what do you expect when you share things with hundreds of people (your FB friends) online? For it not to be used? The only reasonable assumption is that anyone and everyone can read whatever you share on FB.
Yes, exactly. You can sign up to Facebook, but you may not get the notifications you were expecting. You can even set up notifications via email or text message so that you don't have to log in to the site, but what you will get is a stream of of crap as a Facebook AI's feeble attempt to draw you back in to Facebook. But the notifications that you might actually want? Not so much. And even if you do they will be drowned in spam.

Also, in order to have got reunion messages from his school, he'd have to have 'liked' their page. It's kind of a dopey way to advertise a reunion really.
My impression was most people found him much more charismatic than Clinton. Charisma plays a huge role in elections: From Influence: Science and Practice

>a study of the 1974 Canadian federal elections found that attractive candidates received more than two and a half times as many votes as unattractive candidates (Efran & Patterson, 1976). Despite such evidence of favoritism toward handsome politicians, follow-up research demonstrated that voters did not realize their bias. In fact, 73 percent of Canadian voters surveyed denied in the strongest possible terms that their votes had been influenced by physical appearance; only 14 percent even allowed for the possibility of such influence (Efran & Patterson, 1976). Voters can deny the impact of attractiveness on electability all they want, but evidence has continued to confirm its troubling presence (Budesheim & DePaola, 1994).

Yay representative democracy.
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That's the thing, this account has NO friends. I follow random people who draw things or dress well. But it still recommends my son's friends' parents or people that I went to high school with two states away or even the woman who cleaned my house two years ago. I bet FB's friend matching algorithm is something special
Migra is strictly a diff tool. It doesn't impose a particular migration workflow on you (but is suited to some more than others).

Sqitch is a migration workflow tool, for its particular preferred workflow.
I wrote about this exact problem roughly 2 years back [1].
Tech can be very influential since you already have captured highly dedicated attention from a clearly defined market segment. Looks like we have now reached that point where someone has weaponized this politically.

[1] https://medium.com/@thisTenqyuLife/uber-and-lift-set-a-very-...
The most damage you'll do is -4 points per instance of this comment. So, not that fast.

I do think the hysteria is getting to be a bit much, though. We get it. Also, Zuck is not going to run for President. I really doubt he ever was.
HITRUST CSF is a framework for auditably proving HIPPA compliance. It prescribes controls such as encrypting data at rest. If you have a business relationship with a company which provides you PHI without explicit user consent you must have an agreement (a BAA) with the third party which puts them under the same requirements (backed up with third party audits).

Everything you’re describing sounds like it’s either incredibly fly by night, not in the US, or substantially out of date. If the last two aren’t true, you have a situation that is literally illegal.
I think the future of age-related research is going to focus on inflammation. There is already a term for it: Inflamm-aging[0].

[0]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4963991/
I'd imagine it's at least partly expectations - people know that Facebook has their data (even if not the full extent), so adding an additional class of data doesn't change that fundamental understanding or register as strongly. The fact that a third-party can pull your data out of Facebook is less obvious.

The fact that it was used for political ends probably makes a difference as well, both in the amount of coverage it is receiving and that it makes the use of data into a more concrete issue (it's much easier to understand "this is what the data was used for" then "Facebook has your data and that's bad for hypothetical/abstract reasons").

> Isn't the Cambridge Analytics headline really just, "Group doesn't follow website's terms of service from five years ago"

That's the act, but I'd say the usage/intent behind doing so is part of the story.
HyperCard on the Apple IIgs fully supported colors. :-)
I will say that if you are organizing an event on Facebook, and you actually have a list of people you'd like to see there or who should be there, then if you don't make an effort to contact the non-FB people, you're a bit of a jackass.

We put together a big list of people for a HS reunion, and used real-life social networks to (try to) reach the names that weren't on FB. Mostly successful and with a large nucleus who were on FB, easy to distribute the workload.
The bill itself can be found here: http://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/110/Bill/SB1662.pdf
I believe it's true of Facebook as well.

Source: I interviewed with their security team once and got a fair idea of how their various security teams are organized.
"Privacy Browser" from F-Droid shows the text just fine.
How do you know there isn’t a team at Google doing this? It’s standard practice at companies of even middling size and Google is so large your friend might just be unaware of it.
Most adblockers include a list that blocks those beacons by default, such as EasyPrivacy or Fanboy’s Social Blocking List.
Honestly that is all just legal boilerplate that could be found in the annual report of any public internet business.
I don't think anybody expects this surge of anti-Facebook articles to continue indefinitely. Personally I'm just hoping that all of this makes people dislike the company just enough to shatter the illusion of usefulness. Plenty of people will still heavily use Facebook, but if we can pull even 5% of the technologically-aware, that's a smidgen of influence that Facebook no longer has and a chunk of people who no longer serve as lures for others to join.

It's not going to happen quickly, but if this awareness gains momentum a much more healthy (federated, preferably open source) social media site could have a higher chance of survival. I think that's worth something.
I just use Vanguard and their target retirement date fund for my age. I don’t have to manage anything or make any decisions.

Day-to-day I use Google Finance for quotes, but I might switch to Yahoo Finance because I’m not a fan of Google’s recent changes.
Facebook's data is very different from Google's. At Facebook you might have a bug that's related to how many thousands of different objects (and their specific properties) interrelate. How could you safely mock that out?
I like it, but it's not reliable, as I've been going through "The Hacker Classics" and the comments section is not coming up.

http://jsomers.net/hn/

Should show this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16442888 right?
>> That super niche boat is in a fleet of boats that are killing off old businesses that are lagging behind. Sure BMW may be doing great today, but how long until they’re a Borders.

But is it killing businesses? At least from my European perspective I don't see VW, BMW, Daimler losing business to Tesla really, they seem to be doing fine (the only problems they are dealing with are of their own making like the emission scandal). In Asia I also don't see automakers like Toyota losing to Tesla at all. The moment Hong Kong stopped electric car subsidies the number of sold Teslas dropped to 0.

Maybe your American perspective is different? Do you think US car companies like GM, Ford etc are losing badly to Tesla? Is Tesla so popular? I thought owning Tesla was something akin to owning Porsche of Ferrari, it is a status symbol for very small minority of wealthy people. But I don't see Tesla becoming mainstream car for middle classes any time soon.
That's very fixable, just look at John Carmack's talks over the years - and he had to overcome a legitimate nervous tick.
When the iPhone first came out you had to jailbreak it if you wanted to install third party apps.
> For what purpose?

On the upside, any case where one is engaging in high-value transactions (broadly speaking). Knowing a negotiating counterpart's likes, dislikes, communication style, et cetera can help one avoid mistakes, build a personal connection and draft (and frame) terms correctly on the first try.

More seedily, such information about a political opponent (whether a politician, rival on a commercial or non-profit board, or commercial competitor) is useful.

As a risk mitigation tool, such data would find a natural home in a due diligence file. Prospective executives, board members, business partners, political donation recipients, et cetera expose one to reputational risks. Catching those in advance is already worth tens of thousands of dollars of legal time.

I would hate to live in a country where the above is legal. We should recognize the value of the information every single single Facebook employee has routine access to.
The quote hits it on the head. I’ve thought about it briefly before, and I think zuck makes me uncomfortable because he is emotionless while speaking, barely moving his head, and not blinking. His face is in a kind of paralysis while speaking.
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Does anyone know if there is any type of glasses that will protect one's vision against these lights without cutting visibility too much?

I have been seeing this type of headlights more and more often, and it can't be good.
Zuckerberg running for president is delusional at best.
Wow, do yourself a favor and read the comments section since the Project Officer, tracking antenna designer, a co-worker of one of the engineers, and a trajectory dynamics engineer for General Dynamics. They all dispute the one comment saying the bears were hurt / destroyed although the chimpanzee was slightly injured.
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A fair point, but I would rather they didn't have knowledge of my social graph at all. The minute I make an account, events, friend connections, private messages, and more all start aggregating there. Then you have to log in to check when you get messages and invites, and they know where you connected from and when you connected -- even more data.

And since Facebook is tracking the phone calls and text messages of at least some of my Android-using friends, there goes even more privacy, this time completely out of my control to keep private. Unfortunately Facebook is pretty good at being "sticky".
NVidia and ATI/AMD experienced more than a decade as a duopoly where everyone who wanted a powerful graphics chip bought one from one of those two companies. Their only big growth opportunities were to expand the number of gamers. Open specs don't help much with that.

In the meantime, computer graphics has long been a patent minefield, and Hollywood has been pressuring the chip makers to play along with their DRM schemes. Both of those are strong incentives to not be fully open.
> This believe based on trust to Apple, not on technical limitations.

I don't think you're right; “entitlement” is a technical term used for OS-enforced permissions on Apple platforms.
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The Snowden case is an interesting example. He went out of his way to get access to information, going so far as to transfer into a role that had more access (I don’t recall all the details but I remember that much). Every company has some category of employee whose job it is to ensure enforcement of policies, for instance, and if these people set out to subvert the system you should expect them to be able to do so. The watching watchers onion does eventually run out of skin (and it’s not even that deep most places).
Agree about the overlap, but want to call to attention OP's requirement that I don't believe is part of GDPR:

> Targeted ads are required to include both a declaration that they are targeted to a user and what criteria were used to select the user.

This makes a massive difference! GDPR currently revolves around informed users making a request. OP's requirement would force companies to educate users about their methods. I see an analogy to the health warnings on tobacco ads.

Incidentally, as someone who thinks targeted ads can be beneficial, I think this would help me interpret and engage with "sincere" targeting.