skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cool! Interestingly, I'd seen a product on indiegogo that kinda answered one person's wish, so I tweeted it to them (so that idea is out :-) And no, I'm not gonna say what it was, I'd feel like I was product-spamming here.
I live in LA too, I have a six figure salary and I don't see myself long term here buying a property here would be a huge commitment. We are talking 700k - 800k for an old 1960's single story house. I always think what I would be getting in other state,say Texas or Florida.

I wish LA/SF had more relaxed regulations so that developers could build lots of housing like it currently happens in Miami or Houston. or Tokyo

Build MORE houses.
There is an article from a year or so ago discussing her background and expertise.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13400687
Techies take the job because they wake up each day believing that they’re having a massive positive influence by connecting the world.

I don't think this is really the case anymore - at least from the FB engineers I know.

Great engineers are at FB because they get to deploy really interesting projects on the largest platforms in the world with best in class technologies, or get to work on cutting edge AI research (FAIR) or interfaces (Oculus).

The whole "connect the world" thing seems to be an afterthought at best for most.
Sure, if people in Hollywood would be developers instead of actors, the world would be a better place, LA certainly so.

All kidding aside, I think the solution to this sort of problem, and specially LA, would be to have an open market for public transportation.

The city council could hand out coupons for transportation to the poor, so they can commute to work. (The transportation companies would take those coupons and get the cash for it from the city.)

Such a system would be a much better investments of tax dollars then the currently offering of public transportation.
I agree entirely that it's a total waste from the societal perspective (which is why I say we should ban it). But it can be very effective from the individual advertiser's point of view. That's true of any arms race.

I believe that tomrod is claiming the latter is also false.
I heard about this on NPR last week - even if it could make old people's blood vessels youthful, it seems like it would be better to just make the person change their diet and their exercise regimen, assuming exercise was possible. This chemical only affected blood vessel health. This is only one component of health. Bone density requires load bearing exercise. Another recent study pointed out lack of exercise led to nerves to major muscle groups fading away with lack of use - led to muscle loss - one has to use those muscles to use the nerves, age related muscle loss can be staved off by exercise of the muscle groups in question.
Tangent: people tend to fixate on "LLC" as if it were the only reasonable corp structure for small outfits. S-Corp is often a better choice.
Seeing as he's the majority shareholder, you seem to be out of luck.
i was sole proprietor of my own pass through llc with no other income and single through oct 2017
I have been here 8.5 years. I appear to be the only woman to ever have made the leaderboard (under a different handle). I have had exactly one conversation with Thomas where I did not feel completely crapped all over while he routinely positions himself like he is some sort of advocate for women's inclusion.

The discussion was wrecked for me the minute he decided to comment on something I have expertise in where I don't agree with him. It is never a positive experience for me to engage him, he can't be avoided and there is no remedy at all from my end for the situation.
You're jumping to conclusions. We already regulate advertising by the FTC to ensure you cant outright lie in a TV commercial.

The point is that digital advertising is much newer, faster and far more vast in scale. The fact that you can run ads for scams and not get caught, or just create a new account when you do, shows the issue. Facebook and every major ad network already "audit" every single creative that passes by, with rules on what you can and cant do. Clearly even they don't let things go by unchecked.
Recent news ([1]): Facebook security boss says its corporate network is run "like a college campus"

1. http://www.zdnet.com/article/leaked-audio-facebook-security-...
You can audit Android and see that it leaks like a sieve. Ever seen “read phone state and identity”?
The money probably helps, especially given the Bay Area cost-of-living.

The FB employees I've met have been fine with explaining away the consequences of their actions with "oh it's just a job", "that's not my team", or "the technology is really interesting".

And as an idealist, I'll invoke Goodwin's Law depending on our relationship.
Linuxkit is another option, slightly different approach.
It's just the cheapest one to set up. I was assuming that if someone's self-employed and not deducting insurance, they're probably a sole proprietorship, and are probably sensitive to accounting costs.
Argh. But thanks for the honest headsup.

Time to go learn how to do DPI...
"Migrate effortlessly off of Facebook" is arguably more important than any of those.

This is where Google+ and all the others failed.
Edit 2: can a mod please delete this whole thread, starting 3 posts above this one? Arguing about whether tptacek does or does not regularly “crap on people” is neither productive nor topical.
I wish Mac Pro range focused more on upgradeability, at least on desktop models, and less on thinness.

I don't use Macs anymore, but I still admire old Mac Pros. Good looking and incredibly functional.
The dump was originally to comply with EU law. If they miss out data they would be legally liable and would be in a very difficult position in Europe.
Facebook is not most companies, though.
The UI was so mouse-centric that I haven't tried it much on mobile. If the menus work ok on mobile, it might make sense for "draw multiple" to be switched on in the menu like the way "draw wider lines" is now.
> Like others have, I’ve received ads for products spoken about near my phone but never typed into a device I own or on my router.

I've had this experience, and I still suspect it's likely to be confirmation bias. Chances are if you're speaking about something, there's a decent chance Facebook can figure out your likely interest in it in a variety of surprising and convoluted ways - your recent credit card purchases, news articles that may have mentioned it in passing, etc.

We also don't really notice all the times Facebook totally whifs a recommendation.
I can see that. But it's tiresome as a reader.
You should maybe ask your accountant why you couldn't deduct, then? I know there are conditions, but this is one of the better-known self-employment deductions.
i interned at fb a few years ago. any engineer, intern or not, can access production data. day one you set up an instance of fb on your dev server that you can mess around with, and its connected straight to the prod db. you're able to view anything you want, but they're very adamant that they monitor what you look at.
I’m a recruiter from Amazon – AMA
You aren't a moderator here. You are just making this worse. And your comments are in violation of the guidelines just as much as mine are.

Edit in reply to your edit:

Maybe you haven't noticed the dearth of women on HN. There are lots of subtle ways to crap on someone. One of those is for all the guys to nitpick a woman's comments, shoot them down, never engage her in the same congenial fashion as the men and then downvote her comments to hell when she gets fed up with such patterns. Oh, and then bonus points for blaming the woman as if she is just wildly misinterpreting the consistent disrespect that she gets subjected to.

Oh, and now you delete the edit I replied to, thus making me look unhinged. Sweet.

And now you are imploring the mods to delete the evidence of your mistreatment of me without apologizing. It just gets dirtier and dirtier.

And now you have deleted everything I replied to.
For more variety: http://without-systemd.org
Every Congressional campaign the Facebook PAC donated to in 2018 is a Republican
You request access, and justify it with something like "I need it to debug issue #123". Someone manually oks/disallows it, and there's asynchronous reviews of these requests to double check. My guess is the intern lied about what they're using it for.

How else would you suggest to do privacy checks like these?
> The Touch Bar is useless garbage

I think they probably realized this and then decided to put the escape key there to justify its existence.
That's great! This way I guess both sides could benefit, people looking for product ideas as well as people searching for solutions :)
Unfortunately the criminal charge would be theft of facebook's proprietary information.
Yes, but you have to explicitly request data every time you access anything. IDK what it was like when you interned, but that's what it's like today.
I agree with you, but the reality is that domain registrations lapse, the niece/nephew who set up the initial web site went away to college, passwords are forgotten.

All these responses about setting up your own web site are similar to BrandonM's infamous Dropbox advice in the context of small retail shop owners.
was not the case when i was there, and it wasn't all that long ago
Can someone explain to me why the Cambridge Analytica story is making people so much angrier than the later revelation that Facebook was scraping call+text info? That seems to be the larger problem to me.

Somewhere at Facebook there is a team of people who wrote software to scrape, store and analyze the personal call+text data that users didn't explicitly mean to give to Facebook.

The data that Cambridge Analytica attained (from Facebook's API) doesn't seem surprising at all. Isn't the Cambridge Analytics headline really just, "Group doesn't follow website's terms of service from five years ago".
I think I mostly agree with you? I think the problem with 2A is that it's intrinsically incoherent, not that we're wrongly construing the language of the Constitution. Having said that: if 1A read the way you suggested it could have, then absolutely I do believe we'd routinely be allowing speech to be limited.

Really I think I'm just coming from a place of, Heller is usually a bad example for any kind of legal argument premised on universal principles. It was an extremely divisive opinion and a split-the-baby result, at that.
Personal Reason for Hating Facebook (2015)
> What I meant to say was most companies of the size and sophistication of Facebook that have a significant amount of private user information.

Which is to say... Google and Amazon?
See, for me, I only buy devices that have 3.5mm headphone jacks. I won't give up a viable and fairly open technology for a mass of expensive walled-garden nonsense. When I can buy non-3.5mm headphones at Dollar Tree, I'll consider moving away from that standard.
What's the "baseline" you claim? You can prove it yourself by buying some ads. 24 hours and a few thousand dollars and you can sell pretty much anything (which is a much greater signal than just views or clicks).

The obvious explanation to that is that it works, unless you want to call it magic. Also you probably do not realize how much advertising you are exposed to everyday, far beyond some banners or search results. It's never that simple.
Yeah, that's the conjecture I was thinking of.
These two below resonate after hiring dozens of engineers:

> – What kind of quality work does this person produce in a normal work environment where someone isn’t breathing down their neck?

> – Can I work with this person on projects that span weeks, months, or years?

No matter how well they anwser questions, how they whiteboard, how high is their IQ, or how well they do homework - none of it would tell you anything about their work quality or actual on the job performance.

Just ask them a for loop question and give them a contract to work on something. If it works, maybe hire them.
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For 1, there's https://github.com/elixir-editors/vim-elixir.
Sorry, I didn't express myself clearly

I agree, $18k for insurance, or $24k, is an enormous burden for most Americans. I was just trying to point out that that the ACA price the parent was calling an outrageous seemed completely inline with every other insurance policy I have ever had, ACA or not. Insurance in the US is just plain expensive, no doubt about it.
The overhead cost of compliance with something like GDPR would probably kill most small startups that had a data-backed business model.
Agreed. I've never been at FB, but been at a similarly big "darling" software company (don't want to go into specifics for identification reasons) and it largely is about creating an internal "us-vs-them" mentality and a culture that lionizes the good deeds over the bad.

Don't think of the employees as evil, they are probably legitimately not aware of the entirety of what's going on. Like soldiers in a war, they only know how their battles are going, not the war.
That the Chinese wall has been sometimes breached is not proof that it doesn't generally still operate. There is definitely a line between real news and random-ass websites. That Buzzfeed is producing some real journalism is definitely not proof that real journalism has stopped existing.

If you think I'm wrong about this, please do go buy an article in one of the top news sites with content of your choosing. And if you can't, then that's a pretty clear sign that it's different than advertising.

That Amazon sells self-published books is definitely not proof that real book publishers just print any old thing. If you think otherwise, again, please demonstrate it. (And that you'd suggest it as equivalent strikes me as either not understanding the point or a desire to be contrary.)

Regarding your constitutional whataboutism, it may be that we would need a constitutional change to fully ban advertising, but I don't think that changes my view that were I king for a day I'd ban all advertising.
actually, most medicare is not outcome based today, although that is the vision.

"value based care" has many meanings. simply using patient satisfaction surveys can be considered value based care, while participating in a double sided risk sharing ACO also qualifies. as of 2016, only 36% of physiicans participated in ACOs, under 30% in patient centered medical homes, 31% in bundled payments (which only impact a subset of diseases). howver, 75% used patients satisfaction surveys, 55% used PQRS, and 64% achieved meaningful use [0]

so the reality is that outcomes based care is still the minority, and real risk-bearing (two-sided risk sharing, full capitation) arrangements are even less common. most care is still reimbursed as FFS. and even as value based care is becoming more common, cost of healthcare is still not decreasing

and yes, medicaid can be fraudulent in some cases, but not always

[0] https://physiciansfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/...
Beaker Browser: A Browser for the Decentralized Web
this pleases me greatly. I hope the $1000 level is reached ASAP so it can import existing stacks!
> I’ve seen this us-against-them mentality play out elsewhere in various toxic cult-like organizational cultures

Wall Street, too, after the crisis. “Of course we bet against our counterparties! They’re counterparties, not clients. If they didn’t read the prospectus they’re morons who deserved to lose their money. We're just the political whipping boy du jour."
Former Googler here. I'm pretty sure the vast majority of Googlers understand they work for an advertising company with a gigantic and generally well-run software "engineering" department. I don't mean that in any derogatory sense. Well-regulated advertising is important in helping consumers make informed purchasing decisions.
Nope - you're 100% correct. The "problems" blockchain solves are exactly those two requirements you've identified.

Blockchain tech allows for a distributed and trustless version of whatever you'd otherwise do with a reliable centralised database operated by a trusted party.
He should donate his shares and resign... this is how he can help humanity...
“Full responsibility”...
Yes, that is called "self-publishing" because it is distinct from what a real publisher does. Vanity presses have existed for decades at least before Amazon, but they too are irrelevant to the point here.
When did Facebook, Equifax et al start hiring random schmoes, or more charitably, people who don't know what they're doing?
No more offensive language on Skype, see section 3.a.iv
Running for president...
I'm not sure if Google even has an internal red team that performs breaches, last time I talked with someone there at a conference they didn't (that was 2016). So I am not sure Google has metrics on how easy it is to gain access by an adversary.
> You request access, and justify it with something like "I need it to debug issue #123". Someone manually oks/disallows it, and there's asynchronous reviews of these requests to double check. My guess is the intern lied about what they're using it for.

OK so an insider can just lie and access whatever they want. Heck, they can even tell the truth! Just find a bug that's exhibited in a particular profile and use that as an excuse to look at the profile.

> How else would you suggest to do privacy checks like these?

Whatever Google does. I don't know the details. But, for starters, my understanding is that their interns generally can't do what you just described, so fixing that would be one obvious step forward.
I had an equivalent multimedia authoring system on the Amiga, called Hyperbook.
http://obligement.free.fr/articles/hyperbook_beta.php

It was very much influenced by HyperCard, obviously. They didn't try to hide it, to the contrary, so much so that they hacked the UI-controls to make them more "Macintoshis" I guess.

Except it came in colors. The multimedia aspect of the Amiga, remember?
Mirror: http://archive.is/qOGJo
There is a difference with the NSA, I remember they recruited pretty heavily on our college campus and you are presented with the chance to work for and defend your country with your brainpower ostensibly. Then we throw in this war on "terror" and for me it seems like the questions and answers for an employee at the NSA would be much harder than for someone at a private company where it's much easier to just quit and walk away (if one were not indoctrinated as you describe.)
I'm not arguing against insurance - I'm arguing against the government forcing insurance upon groups of people with extremely dissimilar risk profiles and forcing the younger, poorer group to pay to subsidize the older, richer group.
> It's certainly true at financial institutions

It's certainly not true at financial institutions. By financial institutions I mean Fortune 100 financial institutions, as well as smaller financial institutions.

If by "pretty strict internal controls" you mean they can, like Prince Potemkin, point to such things existing in some chimeric form, then yes, I suppose you are right. But in any real sense, no, there are no effective controls in the real world.

About 25 years ago I assumed it was early days for a lot of these things and they would sooner or later be closed up, but they haven't been. Things are wide open - as the recent Facebook/Analytics things have shown. In a very small and indirect way at that.

The first major book on this broad subject was Donn Parker's "Crime by Computer" published in 1976. The book opens by saying that a company's biggest enemies in terms of computer crime is its own employees. This is still true 40+ years later - the biggest enemy of the people who own companies are the people who do the work at them.
For me routine kills creativity, I suppose it could work if you're making "consumer art".
I stopped writing code for investment banks after 10 years to found a startup
Because people are really, really bad at understanding threats that have vague, uncertain consequences. For the last 15 years, trying to get people to seriously worry about privacy has had about as much success as getting them to worry about climate change: they claim to care, but their revealed preferences tell a different story. The problem is that the downsides are uncertain and in the future, whereas the upsides are immediate and certain. Our ape brains are horrible at evaluating tradeoffs of this kind.

But the flip side to this is why the CA story has blown up: for once, the consequences— "CA got Trump elected!"— are immediate and graspable, in a way that "Facebook is scraping your text info" is not (even if it's probably not true). When the effects are right in your face and not time-delayed, people sit up and pay attention.
If the price of the fine and the price of MediShare are comparable, then any benefits obtained through MediShare are effectively free.
Facebook's Board of Directors is a remarkable collection of silent-yet-complicit heavyweights:

-Marc Andreessen;

-Erskine Bowles ("President Emeritus of the University of North Carolina" and "White House Chief of Staff from 1996 to 1998");

-Ken Chenault ("Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of American Express Company");

-Susan Desmond-Hellmann ("Chief Executive Officer of The Gates Foundation" and former "Chancellor at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) from 2009 to 2014");

-Reed Hastings ("Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the board of directors of Netflix");

-Jan Koum ("co-founder and CEO of WhatsApp"); and

-Peter Thiel [1].

Might not be a bad idea to pen a letter to their Board [2] with your state attorney general [3] and perhaps a U.S. Senator [4] copied.

[1] https://investor.fb.com/corporate-governance/default.aspx

[2] https://investor.fb.com/corporate-governance/?section=contac...

[3] http://naag.org/naag/attorneys-general/whos-my-ag.php

[4] https://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_...
If you haven't already, you might enjoy reading the EU's forthcoming GDPR regulations [1] they cover all of this and much, much more including things like:

- data should be exportable in digital formats

- you can request what information a company has about you regardless if you're a full "user/customer" (think of things like how FB tracks anyone who visits a webpage with a Like button).

- you have the right to request a manual review of computer made decisions (ex: a credit approval)

- right to have your data corrected/fixed if it's listed incorrectly

- right to escalate to each country's "supervisory authority" (this is the agency within each country that handles things)

- serious fines in case of non compliance (% of revenue, not a flat amount)

1 - https://blog.varonis.com/gdpr-requirements-list-in-plain-eng...
Nah. In a week all of this will be forgotten (do you still remember the helicopter in the river, and the bridge that collapsed?). You and me and a few more people will remember, but we all already know that everything that is posted privately on Facebook will be leaked sooner or later.

I even expect to see a few angry post from people that decided to delete their account now, and when they tried to undelete the account after a few weeks they surprisingly discover that all the old information was missing and Facebook can't recover it because it is deleted.

fake quote > If they used Windows instead of Linux, they could have send the account to the Recycler Bin, and recover it now.
> More recent versions of Android should prevent this kind of data collection.

So the title made me think all Android are exposed to Facebook phone data scraping.

But considering how slow it is for Android devices to upgrade to the latest, it's probably still a sad state.
not too long ago the emphasis was on whether Facebook is a -media- or a -tech- company. Media companies have more responsibility to censor content then tech companies do.

Interesting how quickly the narrative changes.