skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“anything they struggle with is their fault.”? When did I say or even imply that? I didn’t. Like the author, don’t make stuff up.
1) It's irrational. Facebook as an advertising platform is likely much more effective than what you will gain by crunching the limited data collected through apps. Googles advertising platform has other data points than Facebook but is equally potent in targeted marketing. However the biggest irrational hypocrisy in this shitstorm is that TV ads has always been known to be very effective in influencing elections yet no one has tweeted #deletetv.

2) Since Facebook, Messenger and WhatsApp are all 3rd party apps on Apple's platform, you just proved my point. Though I'm not sure you intented to?
"Like this article says: for fucks sake, do invite them out. Do try to engage them in mental-age appropriate activities. That's the entire reason people sacrifice their lives for them, to give them the opportunity to be alive." I've got to say thanks for writing this and making me think about that. It's a great perspective that I don't have as a dad to kids with no special needs. I'm sharing both this article and your comment with my family, because we're as guilty as everyone else in this society of being in the "don't stare" class but not doing much else. And beyond just sharing it, we're going to really try to take it to heart. There are certainly kids and families we need to make an effort to be friends with!
your second assumption is false because the idea of race is a relatively recent phenomenon.

If you read any of the old Roman texts, you would not find reference to race rather you would find references to a person's ethnicity. Ethnicity is tied to culture and language.

It is only controversial when you have what is the far right using Mott and Bailey arguments to justify racism.
You should look up a guy called ,,James Damore''.
Everything you have seen on the internet as a valid point towards a big company has been raised to the CEO, and usually you get an answer that doesn't really answer the questions / even consider those points.
Quitting and joining a startup is not an option for any rational person because of the network effects big companies have.
> if they created a Single Issue rule it would not be an issue anyway

The single issue rule does not stop omnibus spending bills (which is exactly what normal budget bills are.)
Been working on https://serpapi.com

We value full and unreasonable transparency both in our internal and external communications. We believe a world with complete and open transparency is a better world. It has been very interesting to try to make the search engine data world more open.
Is there a way to download all the information FB stores about you?

There surely is more than in the official download. You can't even see likes there, let alone shadow profiles, multi-accounts and whatnot.

Does living in the EU help maybe?
I had disabled my account a week ago, not realizing there was a separate delete option, then deleted it a couple days ago. I didn't run into this issue; I signed into my "disabled" account first, then went to the delete link and it worked.
Free markets aren't interested in innovation as a norm.

It's too disruptive of the capture the entrenched players have.

At this point, the economy is really just a "make money off money changing hands".

As it evolved to a "service oriented economy" it started servicing it's ephemeral efforts over literal.

Cause, IMO, the literal production of goods is a dead end for business. It's being left behind as we've realized how to make enough, and that the same cotton T-shirt is just what it needs to be regardless of a logo.

We're rather starting to grasp at straws about what to do outside the rigorous STEM fields.
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Mozilla is a large enough of an organization to have the resources and wisdom to not depend on “Most people won’t even notice” when it comes to legal issues.
There's a high chance that without political activity from people who care, efforts to further decentralization and encryption will be suppressed and thwarted.

In other words, the right legal environment is likely a necessary-but-not-sufficient criteria for decentralization and encryption to flourish.
You can't go around relying on studies with only n = 3636.
This explains some of it:

http://www.businessinsider.com/pivotal-906-am-breakfast-meet...
Jesse Unruh. Truly, a man for his time. If Raquel Welch had nicknamed me "Big Daddy", that fact would be on my tombstone.
According to this[1] LTE macrocells range from 20-69W "at the antenna connector." When they operate at the high end of that range, however, they're serving wide, sparely populated areas from atop large towers; you can't usually operate that much power where cell density is high.

And the GP is correct; both the e-field strengths and the exposure intervals in this study are far beyond what people actually experience.

[1] https://sites.google.com/site/lteencyclopedia/lte-radio-link...
> I'd expect tears from our visitor and a high likelihood of violent resistence if you try to send them back.

I'm not so sure. See the antropologist https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Good_(anthropologist) He married a native girl named Yarima, but after several years in Western society she choose to return to her tribe in the rain forest. Life as a Medieval peasant seem to me to be inferior to life in a hunter gatherer tribe, but I think it is far from certain that the peasant would refuse to go back.
This was the statement I was referring to.

<quote>

Spirit of C:

a. Trust the programmer.

b. Do not prevent the programmer from doing what needs to be done.

c. Keep the language small and simple.

d. Provide only one way to do an operation.

e. Make it fast, even if it is not guaranteed to be portable.

The C programming language serves a variety of markets including safety-critical systems and secure systems.

While advantageous for system level programming, facets (a) and (b) can be problematic for safety and security.

Consequently, the C11 revision added a new facet:

=> f. Make support for safety and security demonstrable.

</quote>

http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2139.pdf
The fact that they’re analyzing African Americans and not anybody currently living in Africa makes me quite suspicious of the general applicability of these results. The former group has mixed a lot more than the latter as a consequence of their tragic history.
It is when you do it publicly and announce it to the world.
The introduction is a generic example of learning to program and the kind of difficulty curve you encounter there. Nowhere does it suggest that it's the current state of the authors knowledge.
I don't think so. I've kept my account primarily because I assume they'd have a shadow account on me. Just because you don't have a FB account doesn't mean they don't have data on you.
Still in beta on my localhost, probably launching in a few weeks. It's a fairly big project even just as an MVP for a single exchange.
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> Europe certainly has a better model here than the US

Makes you wonder why are there more Europeans moving to the US than the other way around.
I remember reading this a few years back a feeling a little guilty while having such a good laugh: http://theoatmeal.com/blog/apps
And with other social norms you see the opposite. People in Brazil as black as Obama, identifying as white if they come from money.
If you think about this as a correct/incorrect thing, you're going nowhere. There's this usability concept that so many people resist to apply to dev tools as if programmers were not regular humans.
Precisely how to classify “species” seems to be a major debate. Regardless, it does not appear that these two kinds of moths are actually considered to be different species.
On a mailing list discussion on whether or not to add a study to a version of software put out online for testing? You're being ridiculous.
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I can't help but feel that there is some mild trolling going on this thread :-) If not that, there are at least a couple of people who are seriously optimistic about their personal invulnerability in the absence of modern medicine, healthcare, and public health practices.
> The idea that race is a social construct is simply dumb.

All of the interaction surface with 'race' in our society is absolutely a social construct which varies dramatically over time and from location to location. Moreover, even if the genetic variations by population do lead to statistically significant differences, that doesn't matter one iota: the qualities of the individual matter far more than whatever statistical distribution they may be drawn from, and to give those poor proxies any kind of social significance is morally wrong and extremely dangerous, as centuries of bloody history have demonstrated.
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All potential buyers would submit how many stocks and the price they want to pay for them, then the submissions could be sorted from most to least expensive and sold at that submission price until there are no stocks left.

An auction of this sort actually incentivizes the buyers to underbid their valuation, in the hope of getting a bargain. With a single good to be bought, the game theoretically correct way to run the auction is to award the good to the highest bidder, at the second highest bidder's price [0]. It's more complicated for an auction of stock, but closer to what they actually do.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vickrey_auction
Yeah, i have recently finished a tokio based server. Working with future combinators is very frustrating. I accidentally captured a variable in a closure(should be cloned and moved), and it didn't tell me where it happened, just an error saying requires 'static lifetime for the variable.
And if you said you were a a European Citizen (or even just neglecting to mention that you aren't), would Facebook really check?
Right, but this opens the door to there existing, in theory, racial genetic differences causing variation at the human scale; whether or not these map to racist stereotypes, it becomes harder to argue against them because people can no longer discard them by just denying the concept of racial variation altogether. So they actually have to put the work in to demonstrate that they're untrue, invalid or inapplicable.

Anything that makes it harder for people to attack the enemy is interpreted as aiding the enemy.
Blogger even blocks the "Go back one page" (Alt+Left / mouse side button) for me.

Visitor, you better stay.
That's only because I choose to be illustrative with that last sentence. Without me making parallel with that sloppy logic of mistranslation, you'd be just convoluted and shown wrong by the previous ones, and I might as well rest my case on that.
The problem is that they are using the existing boundaries. We'd construct different labels if we started with genetics.
It's hard to have discussion with someone who will not acknowledge basic facts.

> Trump Told Russians That Firing ‘Nut Job’ Comey Eased Pressure From Investigation

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/19/us/politics/trump-russia-...

You also found the exception that proves the rule. I can't believe you would honestly think Trump is not deferential to Russia if you did try to look for a bad thing he has said any only found that one

The pattern is clear for anyone who wants to look.

The fact remains Trump is much harder on our allies -- all of them -- then Russia. The Trump admin has also been slow to enact sanctions passed by Congress, as is their constitution duty. There is no reasonable explanation behind these actions and actions speak louder than words.

Finally, foreign countries try to influence our politics, but usually not in concert with a candidate and certainly not supplying said candidate with hacked info on their opponents. As more comes out, that may actually be some of the less scandalous ways Russian assets worked with the Trump campaign.

Let's not forget Trump's campaign insisting the RNC change their platform at the party convention to be soft on Russia re: Ukraine.

You are free to have your opinions about this but the facts speak for themselves.

> Diana Denman, a Republican delegate who supported arming U.S. allies in Ukraine, has told people that Trump aide J.D. Gordon said at the Republican Convention in 2016 that Trump directed him to support weakening that position in the official platform.

> Ultimately, the softer position was adopted.

https://www.npr.org/2017/12/04/568310790/2016-rnc-delegate-t...
> concepts of race

How is 'genetic characteristics common to humans with a shared geographic origin' a concept? Did you read the article?

> Groundbreaking advances in DNA sequencing technology...enable us to measure with exquisite accuracy what fraction of an individual’s genetic ancestry traces back to, say, West Africa 500 years ago — before the mixing in the Americas of the West African and European gene pools that were almost completely isolated for the last 70,000 years. With the help of these tools, we are learning that while race may be a social construct, differences in genetic ancestry that happen to correlate to many of today’s racial constructs are real.

Allow me to emphasise: "differences in genetic ancestry that happen to correlate to many of today’s racial constructs are real".

Wow, what a coincidence given the fact that "differences in genetic ancestry" is exactly what race is.

Maybe you have another definition of race that might be a social construct but "differences in genetic ancestry" is what most people mean when they say 'race'.
Well, a lot of what PCF does is help you map the services available in AWS / Azure to an internal service catalog as defined by an enterprise architecture group. This is really powerful in the “small enterprise” space ($1 billion - $5 billion) because that’s often where the EA value proposition becomes strong enough to worry about.

This is the level PCF plays at; and the level they’re useful, but in my experience Pivotal doesn’t know how enterprise companies develop software. Their scrappy pair-programming Dojos don’t really build systems the way those kinds of companies need to design system requirements.

So in my mind, Pivotal’s consulting services are a bunch of startup guys coming in to the enterprise world telling enterprise developers how to build java services. They’re smart and know what they’re doing, but they’re totally out of touch with the kinds of internal controls, reporting metrics and architecture management that larger companies often require.
Your argument seems to be that racism is perpetuated by any discussion of race.

No. What I'm actually saying is that it's acerbic groupthink that engenders more acerbic groupthink. It's blame and acrimony that engenders more blame and acrimony. It's an eye for an eye making the whole world blind, as Ben Kingsley's character said in the movie. If it happens to be about race, then it's racism.

so therefore we can only fight racism by consciously acknowledging and addressing it.

We can only fight toxic group-think by acknowledging it. It's hard to acknowledge and easy to fall into. The danger that the struggle against racism would itself fall to such group think is something that both MLK and Gandhi were keenly aware of; a level of self awareness which is starkly lacking today. Ascribing guilt to people on the basis of their skin color, eye shape, nose shape, or any other indelible characteristics is obnoxious and wrong. It's bigotry. People should be judged on the content of their character, not on their characteristics.
I think the next step from here is giving the ability to assign maintainers for certain sets of files (in this directory or matching a particular regex) and then when a pull request comes in, GH can looked at the changes, match the maintainers, and require all of them to sign off prior to allowing merging.
Omnidirectional antenna held in close proximity to their heads. Water absorbs that radiation pretty good and turns it into heat.
Downvoted, deadline hasn't passed. No reason to stress about it
Getting paid to do nothing
I just joined as a full time employee at a company and there is no work to do. Or my boss isn't assigning me any work. They are going live in a like a week so everyone except for me is busy. Should I get familiar with the code base? They are using microservice architecture.
It just depends on what you use it for. A lot of my friends have cheap phone plans with low network minutes/texts but unlimited wifi. Facebook Messenger becomes a cheap phone in this case. There's alternatives, but I'd have to convince everyone I know to swap to them...not gonna happen.

Meetup.com maybe? But I agree, I use Facebook Events a lot. It comes back to that issue of "everyone is here and using it, so this is where events are posted".
The only two experiences I had with Pivotal were with RabbitMQ (a very well designed product) and with Pivotal Tracker - I tried it about a year ago. I felt like I was fighting the software; they were extremely stubborn about adhering to Scrum 'best practices' that may not work in practice.
The Rosenberg et al paper just says that at a particular K partition (5 in this case) you get genetic structures that closely map onto what Americans view as race. It also says that at K=1 there are only Africans,and at k=3 there are only Africans, Europeans and Asians. If you’re gonna say these are races, why stop at k=5? Why not look at what STRUCTURE pops out for k= 25?
Funny, I see the opposite trend. Technologies like kubernetes enable immutable infrastructure that’s not locked into a single cloud. There’s no reason you couldn’t build a system that regularly and automatically buys the cheapest capacity, sets up a kubernetes cluster, and deploys the latest build to it.
Genetic differences between selective and non-selective schools
It is a bad example because when you use git, your local copy is a full repo with the whole history so it not like your code is lost forever if github cancels your account.
Hey HN! Did I do something wrong? I got a Twitter notification that this reached the frontpage, went to check it and it did, had like 48 upvotes, checked it again a minute after that and it's now buried in "new" with 20 upvotes. First time at HN – sorry if I made some mistake
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Indeed; however, a convenient line of differentiation presents itself: animals, let alone humans, are not plants.
A sizable first day pop can be good for a number of reasons, not the least of which is publicity. 40% is obviously excessive, but there are reasons to leave a little money on the table.
This is heartening.
Irish and Italian people were previously considered separate races but have merged into the "white" race. Have the genetics of Ireland changed drastically in the past 100 years? Or was it the social construct of "race" that changed? Why do some countries consider certain groups a different race and other countries view them as a socioeconomic class e.g. gypsies? Humans migrate and interbreed with different genetic groups and have been doing so for a long, long time. We are really a spectrum of genetic differences and not really a bunch of grouped individuals.

https://academic.udayton.edu/race/01race/white13.htm
The whole reason Tesla can exist in the first place, and was founded in 2003 and not 1993 or 1983, is because of advances in battery technology that have already been driven by the consumer electronics industry. They're not solving hard problems now because the hard problems have already been solved by dozens of companies trying to make laptops and cell phones and other battery-operated devices. If they started way back when, they would have to solve those hard problems themselves.
> are there crimes that journalists frequently commit for which they are not charged?

I suspect for trivial ones like this (tresspass), it is pretty common. This guy was tresspassing in the wake news-worthy trespassers. A rationally self-interested owner might want to let the journalist off to avoid bad press.

That said, the other journalists remained at the gate. So this guy was going beyond the informal norms around there. Also it says: Mr. Brake embedded himself with a largely Indigenous group of protesters (which he refers to as “land protectors”) while they occupied workers’ accommodations. He live streamed their protest for several days.

So maybe he was seen as one of the protesters rather than a journalist covering them. Also does he cover a multi-day tresspass? If so, it is clearer that he should have sought permission from the owners before going in to film; at least after the initial rush.
Yes, but the GDPR makes a distinction between data controllers and data processors. The data controller is obligated to process your request, but Google could argue they're just the data processor, and redirect you to the users (again still speculating... not a lawyer)
Coming from NYT I am sure that any research that could be used to demonize their scapegoats will be front and center and fruitful/valid scientific avenues of investigation, whereas of course any research that could be used to hurt the victims of the world will just be racist/sexist drivel that should be censored from the face of the earth. I mean that is pretty much a literal reading of mainstream media these days. It's not uncomfortable to talk about race all day every day in these times didn't you know that? It's not only a social construct it might be that I'm just racially/sexually disposed to being evil.
There's always grey areas with everything, and something like this would likely come down to a court decision.

Was the person who removed the PII acting in good faith and to the best of their ability?
Don't do this. This is a felony in the states. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Fraud_and_Abuse_Act )
It's not a direct democracy is it? these representatives are not blindly beholden to the whims of every Tom, Dick and Harry, they are also entrusted with the wellbeing of their constituency which ultimately means supporting existing and emerging local enterprises.
Yeah but you've broken a sanctity to take that 0.00005% away. You've opened the door to instrumentalizing science, formerly the pursuit of truth, for political gain. And I know everybody's doing that already, but there's a difference between everybody doing it and everybody being okay with it. One of those is salvageable, the other isn't.
Yes I believe so, although they say it may take a while for various batch processes to get rid of all traces - for instance tape backup.
> let implementations define the behavior themselves

That's literally the definition of implementation-defined behavior.

Undefined behavior really means undefined; in terms of the C language, there are no constraints on behavior. Sure, you might get a result one way on one implementation, but if you rely on that you're technically writing a dialect of C, and need to let the compiler know using flags.
"seemingly well-intentioned"

After dealing with a few non-profits, I'm utterly convinced about this maxim.

"Intention is nothing. Intelligence is everything."

Ask a toddler to solve world peace and he/she might say something like "Go boom boom the bad people!". That's what it's like dealing with certain non-profits. Full or people with good intention but without the intelligence to choose effective courses of action.

Example: Homeless days in shelter. Got prescribed Ritalin for the first time in my 30 years of life (up 'till then). It was a life changer... After I moved out of the shelter. Was told by the head "you can't take stimulants here. I mean look at it, it has meth in its' name!"

People with good intentions but unable to make good use of it because they had no natural curiosity about the world. Only curiosity in meeting limited sets of metrics that can always be shuffled around and gamed.