skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Surprise: regulating and legislating doesn’t actually make bad behaviour go away. I too have had the experience of interning at a medical software company where security and patient privacy were a joke.
You don’t even have a dumb or basic phone?
"YouTube. It has users who love conspiracy videos, and YouTube takes that love as a sign that more and more people would love those videos, too."

Not exactly. YouTube sends everybody down rabbit holes, because it adores sticky topics and video sources (more views, more $), and so rewards those who create a bit of an information monopoly by simply lying; after which, one of their videos leads you to another one of their videos. Nobody else is making videos on that, 'cause you made it up. You win. Novel "information" is more likely to be viewed through, and then followed up on with searches for more on the topic. So make up, and YouTube is all about you, thrilled to facilitate the niche info-market you've created out of thin air or wildly exaggerated.

Merely having your own misleading phrases to refer to your bent views will be heavily rewarded by search engines including Google's and YouTube's. For example:

"I wrote about this in my new book, Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism. In it, I discuss Dylann Roof, the Charleston mass murderer, who said he Googled the phrase “black on white crime” after the Trayvon Martin shooting. He has talked about how important that experience was in forming his white supremacist views. He noted in his online diary that when he Googled the phrase “black on white crime,” the search engine gave him information that shocked him—and helped him come to a different understanding about the so-called truth about race and the value of a multiracial society.
That’s because his search only returned the white supremacist websites that use such a phrase—a phrase that is used by hate-based sites to radicalize white Americans against African Americans and other people of color, including Jewish people. Google didn’t provide any context on the white supremacist movement. It didn’t provide any counterpoints of view."

https://logicmag.io/03-engine-failure/
Those were innovative ejection seats, but sadly, similar style 'capsule' ejection seats failed during the ultimate test during the prototype XB-70 Valkyrie accident. [0]

In that case, the centrifugal forces generated by the aircraft going into a spin meant that the second pilot, Carl Cross, waited just a few seconds too long to initiate the ejection sequence, and his seat was unable to be retracted into the capsule for ejection, so he ended up riding the aircraft all the way to ground impact.

[0] - https://tacairnet.com/2014/10/27/crash-of-the-valkyrie/
www.livecode.com is a cross platform updated Hypercard descendant. Their free Community edition is GPL
Rabbits Feeds and Feeding Management
It's interesting that you mention that. I have Blue Cross, and I've been dealing with seemingly procedural denials every month for a chronic condition.

It's getting to the point where I'm genuinely thinking there is some bad faith activity going on.
If you use it from a browser, rather than the app, you are safe.
Which election are you talking about? The 2016 one where everyone cares about Facebook helping elect the US president, or the 2008 and 2012 elections where everyone was ok with Facebook helping elect the US president?
It kind of sounds like you're trying to think of tax law as some sort of CTF programming game where you're supposed to find the exploit. That's definitely not what tax law is.

You should report your taxes as honestly as possible, using reasonable prices for things.
This is only the first major company to experience an issue like this. More will follow. If it wasn't Facebook, it would have been another.
Note a huge reason to target political ads is precisely that you can send your targets highly offensive or obviously misleading ads that you know they won't be offended by, without showing the rest of the electoral how vile the shit you're slinging at voters really is.

Targeting covers the stench. Keeping the average voter from seeing your nastiest ads is just as important as who does see the ads.

Democracy is about informing voters, targeting is all about keeping information about your ads from most voters.
Early this on, the process of building physically accurate "fake humans" was not really possible.

Bear tests were probably more an early proof of viability than anything else. The bears survived, proving that humans wouldn't be completely annihilated.

Animal testing cruelty wasn't really being thought about heavily in post WWII military aerospace development. It's unfortunate but a historical footnote reminding us of the importance of proper testing.
You can safely assume the GPS coordinates of just about every WiFi egress IP address to be known.
The pragmatic approach would be for the smaller party to change names. This actually happened. Google couldn't operate Gmail under that name in Germany because a direct mailing company had registered it before and had been operating under that name for years. Eventually the domain changed hands, but that was only sometime after 2010.
The problem is how much to pay? And does paying help the candidate at all. Usually the candidate is taking some kind of leave, and is already being paid so they don't desperately need the money. I think better than paying is to have equal consideration.

For example if a company gets 100 devs to do a 2hr online dev test, then picks 1 for an interview then they have generated 200 hrs of work in the community but only at a cost of 2 hr of their time. This is like 'spamming' in a sense. And this is what can waste a lot of time for candidates. They should have filters before those stages to minimise the time of candidates that they waste.
I see Thorne has for $39 and Amazon has for $79. Looks to be same product, so I don't understand why it's so much more at Amazon.
Their business model does not rely on third parties accessing private user information.
It's fine to point out that a controversial piece was written by someone that might not be impartial or, in this case, has had some ethical issues.

However, other people contacted the scientists interviewed by Lehrer and asked for their opinions on what he wrote, and they generally agreed that it was accurate: http://www.lastwordonnothing.com/2012/11/05/jonah-lehrer-nat...
Uber has sold its Southeast Asia business to competitor, Grab – Recode
I always got the feeling that had more to do with shipping at MVP stage rather than something they weren't always planning to do.
True, but that's something your cell provider (and the providers of other base stations your phone has pinged) has access to, not your typical website.

But you are 100% correct that the cell network knows to within a rough approximation where you are and how fast you travel. This information is also used to predict where and when the next cell-hand-off will happen.
Can you tell us the benefits of running freebsd on a development machine?
I still use TypePad. I actually like it much more than Medium, much better typography imho.
This is the data I actually want to see when I “download a copy of my data”.
Agreed, a lot of cognitive dissonance happening on campus.
Ask HN: How to begin writing?
I'm thinking about writing essays or maybe a book. How did you get started writing?
I think you can still cut that budget in half. ( What are you cooking that takes up the most cost? Meat maybe?) I spend too much on food these days because I can and am lazy but when I was on top of it we spent $200 a month to feed TWO people with healthy tasty food. On that budget obviously it's just groceries and produce, no takeout or beverages or meat

Also, i found nyc and manhattan to not be much more expensive for groceries than central arkansas or NJ, my other adult reference points, contrary to popular belief
They don't sell your data. Your actions and data are used to put you into categories, and advertisers pay to show their ads to people associated with those categories. No one is given direct access to your data. This strategy is not unique to Facebook-- it's how Google, Yahoo, and other major advertising-based tech companies work.
Response/discussing is preferred to down votes!
A cynical take on productivity hacks
Zen mode in VSCode is very configurable. You can disable the full screen mode, and also disable the dumb centering thing it does in the most recent release(s)
That’s the comment I referenced, but notice the white paper is never linked or even titled.
According to favorability surveys, Hillary Clinton was widely disliked even before Donald Trump declared his candidacy. Regardless of whether the hatred was deserved, the DNC made a serious error in nominating a candidate with such negative ratings among the broader populace.

http://www.people-press.org/2015/05/19/hillary-clinton-appro...
Except you're exactly wrong in that Facebook has been directly selling data while Google has not. Cambridge Analytica was crunching specific user data, not just buying aggregate targeted ads.

That's what this whole uproar is about: they're allowing wholesale data access, not aggregated targets through their API.

Google, whom you criticize, is the one actually only selling aggregates.
Optical illusion: Why do the dots disappear? (2014)
Which is why they keep trying to push the app on you. I've gotten emails from Facebook saying a friend wants me to download messenger. Like, huh? Why would they care if I'm using an app or a browser?
I've seen the same behaviour, excellent comment and thanks for sharing. It would be great to see a documentary on these companies and their relationships with the companies they work for.
The real problem is that a large majority of sites do permissions by bot, whitelisting only google and possibly bing while excluding all others.

Further if you actually try to crawl a website you'll find yourself blackholed by a lot of websites pretty quickly.
That's a curious opinion and I still am too see the facts to back it up with, perhaps you can provide it. Because, as a matter of fact, I've seen exactly the opposite: laws that are not enforceable are the worst laws ever, disasterous even. If they are not "important" in their consequences, they just leave the simple folks (small businesses, for example — and hurting small business is really unwise thing to do IMO) in the state of FUD, because it takes a professional cons-man (e.g. and experienced lawyer) to know how to deal with this bullshit — it puts "honest" people in uncomfortable position, while doing nothing to people who are used to operating in perpetual state of moral hazard, which means it is beneficial to people who are most likely to exploit the law (or its absence) to start with. If this law is more "important" and involves a lot of regulations it fuels corruption, because, again, it's beneficial for dishonest people — it's up to somebody's opinion if you are breaking the law, and opinions can be swayed with some money…

In the most general and seemingly "harmless" case these laws do exactly nothing: nobody is following them and nobody tries to punish people for not following them. This just makes the legal system more complicated (and — yes, there are plenty of such laws, and this is one of the reasons so many legal systems are shit) and provokes the disrespectful, hand-waving attitude towards the law, which isn't a good thing either.
That's the power of scripting languages. You don't focus on the language but on solving the problem.

unrelated: the ui is impossible to navigate on mobile.
Anyone know how this works in practice? Is Grab somehow able to rebrand the Uber app with Google/Apple's blessing? I'm really curious.
Their only big growth opportunities were to expand the number of gamers. Open specs don't help much with that.

It would increase the number of companies who could produce their own designs and thus diversity the market; and GPGPU might've come sooner if the documentation was far more widely available.
Uber is selling its Southeast Asia business to Grab
That sucks, but you might consider next time talking to people and seeing if they are working to improve things and, if not, being a whistleblower.
A good recent paper on sources of inflammation in aging:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5850851/

As it points out, the most obvious and promising of current prospects for reducing inflammation is the selective destruction of senescent cells. Though I think that the clearance and recreation of the entire immune system, to remove all of the senescent, exhausted, misconfigured, etc, immune cells is also a promising path, albeit further away from being safe enough to apply to old people.
I don't understand. I asked for a use case. You gave me a glittering generality. What concrete task that i might desire to achieve in life can be done with Facebook but not the other tools?

Pretty much everyone who has a facebook has a phone, so I can communicate just fine with Facebook users
neat. thanks. will probably waste a lot of time on this :)
There's more likely than not some bad faith activity going on. They are essentially watering down what it means to have insurance, since they are required to sell it to people that they wouldn't otherwise have and are trying to make up the difference. One way or another, we're all paying drastically higher expenses than we would have before. If I have to pay the denied claims in my case, I'm looking at a $9800 out of pocket expense, on top of the $5K/yr premium I pay as a healthy nonsmoker.

Anthem pulled out of my state altogether for 2018, so I also had to switch providers at the beginning of the year (this claim was from late 2017). I think that's another reason they are giving me issues with this claim - they simply don't care because they no longer have to deal with my state's insurance regulator.
The new insurance provider (which was the only choice I had in my area, regardless of price) so far appears to be even worse and more expensive. Something has to be done about all of this. I don't pretend to have the answer, but the ACA was apparently not it.
Lead paint: California ballot measure would hit taxpayers with costs for cleanup
Can Meditation Make Us Nicer?
Here are the top Midwestern states and cities for startups
3 reasons why I like Fortnite more than PUBG
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Emergency rooms are required to stabilize a patient, not treat them or cure them. This is not universal care and it not giving everyone access to the medical system. One does not got the ER for things like cancer screenings.

From the link you provided:

Hospitals are then required to provide stabilizing treatment for patients with EMCs.
You have a young family of four, and can barely afford insurance premiums. Basically, without insurance, every single year you're hitting on a blackjack 17 against bankruptcy. You see the ACA penalty, and you see the insurance premium cost, but you're not factoring in the 5-digit cost of virtually any significant medical expense.

Rising insurance premiums aren't good for anyone. The ACA set out to fix the problem of rising insurance premiums and (I think) pretty much failed. But it didn't create that problem; 5-digit annual premiums for a family of four were a reality prior to the ACA --- or, at least, they were in Chicago on the small group market.

The subtext to these discussions though is whether we'd be better off without the ACA. No, we would not be. We would lose guaranteed-issue insurance, so a sizable fraction of families wouldn't be able to get insurance at all, and, from the available evidence, we would at least have the same rate problems we have now, and (according to some studies) have worse rates. Obviously, this subtext is about the GOP's health care rhetoric, and I'm not wild about opening up a political salient in this thread, but let's at least be clear: the idea that you can repeal the ACA, do nothing else, and get lower health insurance premiums for real coverage is sleight of hand.
No, sorry. Originally from the East Coast.
Not browser based but a „modern implementation“: https://livecode.com/ - the website is a little „marketingy“ but you can download a open source version of their „hypercard succesor“
At the end of the day, your data goes into a black box, gets jumbled around and then sold. To suggest this is different than "selling your data" is pedantic and misleading. For Sheryl to deny this "selling of data" reveals her concern with words and reception over real actions and effects.
I grew up in a foreign land, with four seasons, and i feel the same about Cali. This is probably the place i will grow old. But i also acknowledge not everyone is like me.

For many, Texas seems like a good place too.
I’m sure gov. Will fix it./s
Agree entirely, on a bean oat potato egg and vegetable diet, you'll be healthy, eating fairly tasty, and spend maybe $100 / month. (Not sure how you got $200, my experience was different?

Food costs can be much higher if you choose to indulge in luxury, but those are all choices. You don't need to eat out or eat any meat at all. I sure enjoy it, but needs first, wants second.

The original topic was how much money you need, not want
This updated piece by Android Police [1] provides some more pieces of information (see the bottom of the article for the updates):

- The company [Facebook] reiterated that it wasn't saving the actual content of calls or SMS/MMS messages—something neither Ars Technica nor we claimed, but presumably other outlets did.

- It's actually a part of Facebook Lite and Messenger (and users can opt out [...] respectively). Facebook considers the data collection opt-in since the apps in question directly ask if you'd like to upload that information during setup.

[1] https://www.androidpolice.com/2018/03/25/facebook-gathering-...
On ArsTechnica, you just need to bring up Obama’s use of FB’s social graph
As a reader, I use Medium because it recommends articles that I enjoy and probably won't otherwise come across.

I would appreciate publishers who follow your solution of doing both!
TL;DR: 'In January, the companies invested $6 million to fund the measure, which they call the “Healthy Homes and Schools Act.” If approved by voters in November, it would declare that lead paint, which was banned for consumer uses in 1978 and causes brain damage and other physical problems in children and pregnant women, is no longer a public nuisance under California law, and the companies are not liable for ($700 million in) cleanup costs.'
> losing Uber for a feature that will be used by 6 people is not a reasonable trade-off for a platform to make.

Than it stands that Google values money more than they value designing a system with their user's best interests in mind.

> Unless you mean that you think they are lying and secretly storing your data in which case there's a plethora of legal reasons they can't do that.

Yeah, because Google never lies about what they do with data, or how they collect it. /sarcasm

I have no direct evidence of them doing it this time, but fool me once...

The point is that they could make it work without being dependent on Google Play Services, but they choose not to.
What every ML/AI developer should know about ONNX
I don’t think there’s any chance of that. Uber is only getting 27.5% of Grab. Uber has roughly 50% of India’s market. Grab has basically none of it.
Set up publii for a non-technical client, it looked like everything the client needed, but a few stumbling blocks

1) Themes are too limited, there are <10 and the path to customization is not simple. This is a chicken and egg problem, if publii grows, more themes come into the marketplace, but only having a few themes limits growth.

2) Even though it has a pretty good GUI, it is still confusing for non-technical people, and I struggled a lot with it too, mostly because there aren't tooltips next to fields to explain them (e.g. what is the difference between a "title" and a "label" for a link?)

I'll have to unfortunately move to something else for my client, and revisit publii at a later time.
Also Uber merging/making a joint venture with Yandex in Russia and a few local countries where they got 1/3 of the company.
It's not merely questioning phrasing. It's saying that use of a certain set of words, including "pernicious" and "female", is an indicator of holding beliefs that are so wrong that the comment warrants total dismissal.

>>You're just pissed that anyone is calling attention to your rhetorical tactics,

But using a word like "female" is not a rhetorical tactic.. You're imparting motives without any evidence beyond broad paranoid generalizations.

It might be part of a rhetorical tactic in some particular instance, but I can't assume it indicates that based on the use of the word alone. That would be ridiculous and anti-intellectual.

It's Orwellian to effectively blacklist a particular set of words as wrongthink, and it is disingenuous to claim that the use of these words is a "rhetorical tactic", or that calling for comments containing these words to be ignored is merely "questioning the phrasing".
As a fan of Ghost’s design and preferring static sites, I started using Jekyll with the theme Jasper2, which was based on Ghost’s default theme Casper. Super easy to set up and use if you’re comfortable with not having the ghost editor, and with github pages hosting and publishing was a breeze.
Can you elaborate on how exactly maintaining your own site/blog/domain/presence etc is at odds with privacy advocation?

You can't publish your site/blog/domain/presence privately to your friends. That venue does not substitute for Facebook. When talk about replacing social media, we have to accept that most people don't want to share their baby photos etc with the world.
The CA story is the first tangible example of the societal consequences of exploiting social data for something other than selling you cat litter.
Cheers! I'll definitely check this out.
Pourquoi-Pas?

Some words, phrases and symbols from foreign languages can become internationally-famous so almost everybody can understand them and also gain meme-like semantic self-emphasize.

¡No pasarán!

ॐ

PS: I have also heard it's quite popular among French metal bands to use German in their names to sound scarier (e.g. Blut Aus Nord).
In theory, is there any reason why this couldn't support git-based comments as well? Maybe through a PR-style interface?
I believe it completely, since it's just a small figure off what companies were paying for group coverage several years ago. The problem isn't that the figure is unbelievable; the problem is that the causal link being suggested isn't real.
"A foreign entity that was not registered as foreign agents collaborated with a multinational corporation to influence the presidential election" is why people are outraged. But it's likely that none of this would have been investigated had Clinton won the election
I've been having trouble with running Goyo on similar projects, but maybe Oni is an exception.
Eventually perhaps. There are differences for now. Namely this battle is mostly or only in India. And Uber has around half of the market share. With SoftBank owning 30% of Ola and 15% of Uber, I’m sure they’ll want consolidation.
Citizen science experiment predicts massive toll of flu pandemic on the UK
And the first terabyte of analysis for free in BigQuery!!

(Work at g)
Chances of bears testing humans in ejector seats are rather low. In spite of bears being massive and dangerous humans are far more dangerous to bears than the other way around, even before we start using them as test subjects for new technology.
That we do even worse is really no excuse.
Blender's path tracing engine, Cycles, supports realtime use in the editing viewport. Unless your machine is quite powerful, however, it doesn't render anywhere close to 30fps. Instead, it iteratively updates the viewport. It is fast enough that this is tolerable and useful for many workload+workstation combinations.