skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually deleting the account doesn't matter -- if you don't use the account, that's what matters more and here's why.

Facebook's revenue is almost exclusively from advertising. Advertising costs on Facebook depend on reach, PPM, and/or PPC. Facebook advertisers don't pay for "active users" or even "users" -- they pay for PPM/PPC. In other words, your data is relatively worthless if you aren't around to be targeted based upon it.

Despite having a profile, if a user isn't there to see the ads, that means less reach and fewer clicks. When advertisers realize the apparent ineffectiveness of FB advertising, ad rates will decline, reducing revenues for FB. It's unlikely FB would actually run out of money because with reduced scale comes reduced costs -- eventually the entire platform might be operated by Zuckerberg at at a WeWork rented desk after having laid off everyone else.

My point is that your data is pretty much useless if you aren't there to be exploited because of it.

Facebook and Google are huge really for one main reason -- self-service advertising. Some local bike shop can experiment with $200 in PPC super-easily. That local bike shop can't as easily run a radio ad or TV ad and measure the results as easily. So Google and FB have made advertising something that is accessible to those with both lower budgets and lower sophistication. The Coca Colas and General Motors of the world don't care about FB or Google at all -- they have the resources to sponsor the Olympics or national TV shows or pro baseball teams.
I don't believe the article's claim about --all being on by default is true.
Given the stated goal of Gameworks was to get usage out of high end GPUs using the latest effects in games that were otherwise ported poorly from console I think it has really been delivering. Now we have the opposite problem where these special effects can genuinely be hard to run on anything but the latest and greatest. It is a better situation than the alternative where you could 4x SSAA a console ported game and max out the FPS.
New paths to cure cancer emerge from immunotherapy trials
Are you generally able to achieve the results the new research claims after you implement it yourself per their description?

I would have thought if their description is shit then their results are shit too (cherry-picked from hundreds of runs, outright fabricated, misinterpreted, incorrectly graphed, whatever - just plain doesn't work, like a bad recipe.)

As a followup if this is the case then how do you know what new deep learning research is worth your time to implement?
Do you have examples and agreed that things like forcing Intel ME do not help, but please note that many of these partially rely on proprietary Windows drivers.
AT&T's “You Will” ads from 1993 accurately predicted the future
For federated services that is a problem of each individual administration team.

Instances may decide they'll ignore the DMCA or allow japenese content that would be illegal as CP elsewhere or don't give a damn about hackers compromising you.
Ask HN: How do you manage your SSH keys?
Will PHP Die in 2018?
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The difference between good and bad Facebooking (2017)
Lockbox – A stand-alone password manager that works with Firefox for desktop
The example that I gave (OpenBazaar) is not an organization making application using the blockchain. That's like saying Bitcoin is such an organization.

Yes, they got 3 mil for developing their open source platform further, which in my opinion, is mind blowing. Especially since they don't have any clear plans on how to make revenue out of this.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenBazaar
This looks like a great resource. I really think the chapter difficulty idea is a good one and wish more math books adopted this approach.

On another pedagogical note and as someone who reads a lot of math texts, I wish math textbooks would spend way more time on introducing the intuition (geometrical if in any way possible) of the ideas before or simultaneous with going into the formulas, theorems, and details. This not only vastly improves comprehension but I find having a geometrical understanding ( even if rough and partially incorrect) greatly helps in me being able to later derive the same formulas and theorems.

Having written about various math topics over the years I know its much more difficult to follow this approach, so I don't blame anyone for not going out of their way to imbue intuition, but its still something I wish more mathematicians who teach would advocate for.
I use a light variant from it :

git config --global alias.lg "log --color --graph --pretty=format:'%Cred%h%Creset -%C(yellow)%d%Creset %s %Cgreen(%cr) %C(bold blue)<%an>%Creset' --abbrev-commit --date-order"
If I have to deal with yet another Electron based editor, there is no reason to go beyond VSCode.

At least Microsoft knows how not to make it suck so much.
Vivaldi Enables DuckDuckGo as Default Private Search Engine
> We will see how judges interpret that.

Judges are getting more tech-savvy, and I think lawyers are also getting better at explaining the deceit. There is hope, the question is how long it will take at this point.
https://archive.org/download/They_Want_Your_Soul/They_Want_Y...
Dotcom Wins Privacy Breach Case Against New Zealand Government
They had cooler dreams about the future back then.
Access to the file system can be done via HTML 5 File API.
Request Network (YC W17)announces Partnership with PwC France
Shared networks, tracking and fingerprinting and they're affect on privacy
Some time ago I used to work on VSCode with vim plugin and to tell the truth all those vim plugins were nothing compared to spacemacs or evil-mode on vanilla emacs.
Of course, I only make win-win bets!
So, reading through this discussion, I'm seeing a lot of "IRS tax law is confusing, complicated, and even contradictory on cryptocurrencies", and a lot of other people saying, in effect "well tough, it's the law, deal with it".

What I'm getting out of it all is, people who did not make money on cryptocurrencies this past year are getting some satisfaction from the difficulties of those that did.
That's the myopia of a technologist.

I know many older people for whom an iPad is the first "computer" they've ever owned, and for them it's a lifeline to grandchildren and community. These are people who were never going to learn MacOS or Windows.

These people don't need your pity.
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I’m repeating myself, but you are wrong in at least two ways.

Health insurance in the US is not conducted in any way like the over simplified, text book example you provide. There exists no real world example of health insurance that functions as you describe.

There is the obvious problem that there is nowhere near that level of precision in anticipating the given level of risk for any individual getting a certain disease, especially as most populations are fairly heterogeneous when it comes to health risk profile.

The insurance companies use statistical tools to estimate the average risk of insuring a pool of people with some element of similarity, like a pre existing conditions. This is a far cry from being able to evaluate the risk profile of a given individual.

The complaints people have about being rejected for coverage based on a pre-exsisting condition, when they think that condition doesn’t really make them that risky reflect the imprecision of the actual tools.

This is also illustrated by these blanket denials: insurance companies are rejecting populations that the feel cannot be adequately evaluated for risk.

There is another aspect of such complaints (about blanket denial of coverage) which come from the issue that some people simply do have a health condition that they cannot cover the expected cost of.

This is a societal issue, and different socities deal with it differently. It inevitably involves some sharp elbows between the various interests involved.

In the US, for historical reasons, a big method of covering the costs of those who can’t afford the full premium was through the patchwork system of employee health plans, complementing government run plans like social security, Medicare, Medicade, local government programs, and charitable programs.

As imperfect as the system is, it remains the case that the health care coverage of high risk individuals, meaning those who can’t cover the full cost of a risk based premium, relies on what is known as “health insurance.”
> I would be happy to pay this amount of money if it would ensure that Facebook would not try to do an nasty things with my data.

Only if enough of your friends were on it to make it worthwhile, the danger is that many of your contacts would disappear, which would lessen the value of facebook for even more people, leading to a vicious cycle. And even if it didn't happen to your social circle it would stem the inflow of young people even more than is already the case).
It is going to require a shift in perspective to make headway on this issue, I feel. I don't really see it happening except perhaps with some of the more cocktail Linux distros... but honestly, I think that a lot of it has to do with the quality of the tooling. Users don't have time for error messages or debug buttons. Developers barely even do, also.
I tried: I have used debootstrap to create minimal Debian images in the past.

A big part of the motivation for gokrazy is to use a safe, high-level programming language.

This allows us to re-implement the userland with small amounts of code, see e.g. the NTP client at https://github.com/gokrazy/gokrazy/blob/master/cmd/ntp/ntp.g...

Replacing the implementation language eliminates whole classes of attacks, while stripping down an existing Linux distribution can only go so far. Plus, it’s not clear to me how one would maintain such a stripped-down distribution in a way that isn’t a lot of effort.
I am not a manager. But I will list down a few traits of one of the best manager I have had:

- Shield the team from all the churn that happens from manager upwards. There can be so much shift in priorities, uncertainty in the upper management that it's mind boggling. "Shielding" team means - Providing a sense of stability, making sure the engineers are working on problems that are important for company now & will be important 6 months from now.

- Team succeeds: Attribute everything to people working for you. Publicly recognise folks who have gone above & beyond to achieve an impossible milestone/project.

- Team failed: Take the blame on you/process. Confront with engineers in private but at an organization level you bite the bullet

- Know everyone's interest & goals, like really know. On a longer horizon, try hard to align projects that matches individual's passion & challenges her skill level.
Indian Aadhaar story in parallel world to FB-CA scandal
I know this topic might not be of global interest at first view. But it surely needs backlash from community and notice of more independent security researchers, practitioners.

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Latest comment from Aadhaar's founding chairman i.e. national database for biometric, IRIS, mobile, banking, passport and so on.

https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story/aadhaar-is-generating-data-that-indians-will-be-able-to-sell-or-barter-for-benefits-nandan-nilekani-1195578-2018-03-22

Title:

Aadhaar is generating data that Indians will be able to sell or barter for benefits: Nandan Nilekani

Excerpt:

In a rather contrived way, Nandan Nilekani, the current chairman of Infosys and architect of Aadhaar programme, on Thursday asserted that systems like Aadhaar and UPI can make Indians richer. He said that Indians are getting data rich and they will be able to sell or share this data for actual money or services.
Nilekani said that all data, the digital trail that is available because of Aadhar and UPI, is good because Indians will be able to sell or barter their information to get economical benefits.
To be fair, I get weirdly familiar faces from different times in my life coming in my suggestion box... and I've never had facebook on my phone. I do have Instagram, but this was a trend before it was installed on my phone.

Not to mention that I rarely use my phone's "phone" features, including SMS. I live an ocean away from most family and have never had many friends. I have a couple here in the country outside my spouse, and we talking is sporadic at times since they both have young children.
Tracing stolen Bitcoin, using a precedent from 1816
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FB income : 15,920,000,000$ [1]

FB users : 2,129,000,000 [2]

$7.47/year

This is quite affordable. Curious how would marketing companies react to such idea.

[1] https://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/fb/financials?query=income-sta...
[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/264810/number-of-monthly...
I think it shouldn't be that only people can take their data, I think the main value in social media is keeping a history about the user's actions, where one has been and so on. I think using decentralized servers like that will cost us a lot of data that later would have become to have historical value. We can see this loss of data well with old image hosts and forums, so much has been lost...
It does matter because if/when they comply with these new regulations, it diminishes large portions of reasons to be mad at them because it will help curb all of the shady stuff they have been doing for more than a decade.

So yes, it does matter, and them being compliant is a good thing.
SpaceVim is not same as oni, oni, is a gui app for neovim. And SpaceVim is a configration for vim/neovim to make it works like IDE,

in old version SpaceVim has many plugins, but we just release v0.7.0, and the default plugins is only 50.

you can checkout our release note:

https://spacevim.org/SpaceVim-release-v0.7.0/
The File API is very limited in comparison what can be done with the Electron fs API which has direct access to the file system.
1. Headline ends in "?". The answer is "no".

2. Longevity breakthrough discovered in mice. Mice biology doesn't bother picking the low hanging fruit of longevity. Said breakthrough picks some of that low hanging fruit. Chances are near-certainty it won't work in humans.
`git gui` is not a commit tree browser though. It's used for making commits.
I love these things. SaaS companies who aren't explicitly clear about what their product does or it's limitations with pricing that is all contact us for a quote then BING "how can we help you today?". I have no idea because you don't provide a single point of reference for any of the things I need to evaluate before I care if you exist.
Not present by default, but I like QGit for history browsing: http://libre.tibirna.org/projects/qgit/wiki/QGit
A relationship with a travel agent where it has been established that you want to be very hands off.
I imagine that's exactly what the business sector doesn't want to do.

I remember when Google and Microsoft changed their privacy policies 2-3 years ago to become much more generic and "unified" - as in they could now use your data however they found fit from across all of their services and products. Great piece of PR that "unified" trick, though, so props to the PR team, I suppose.

The tech media mostly treated it with a shrug even when there was something that sounded quite suspicious in there, and had a tone of "yeah, but that's probably just used for X, and it's unlikely Google/Microsoft will use it for other nefarious purposes. It's just for legal reasons, you see."

No, those provisions weren't put in there "just for legal reasons" and they were put in there on purpose because they were meant to be used. Also, if they put it in there "for legal reasons" it's also because they intend to use it and need the legal cover. It's weird how the media took out exactly the wrong message from it back then.

It also bares repeating, because the media didn't cover it much back then, and it was quite a sneaky thing for Google to do - Google changed its privacy policy to no longer keep your data "anonymized." Many people even on HN like to defend the companies' data collection "because they anonymize it", which in itself has always been a joke, as studies have proven, but they no longer even do that:

https://www.extremetech.com/internet/238093-google-quietly-c...
Octopus and the bicycle
I’ve found some time to add the mapping as a table to the Wikimedia image [1]. Not sure how to best refer to this inside the article. Having it inside the image itself proved problematic (the resulting plot became too big to be readable inside the article) so I ended up not doing that in the end.

[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chernoff_faces_for_e...
> With Facebook's warchest - what do you reckon the chances are of them _not_ buying cellphone location data on the open market to add to their advertising-marketing machine?

I don't think they would have to pay for it. They're just going to give the phone company a nice fat discount on their advertising campaign. That way they don't have to own up to selling your data either, win/win. /s

Mobile phone location data is so valuable that there are whole companies dedicated to 'enriching' mobile phone OpenRTB requests with location data.

https://www.iab.com/guidelines/real-time-bidding-rtb-project...
If they are willingly taking the pill then it's not "against their will" at all?

The difference is crucial.

Is it true that you have to work, put in effort for most things in life? And that people need to learn that? Yes.

But isn't it also true that the science is largely an endeavor of decreasing the amount of work people need to put in to achieve the same result in some area? If you look at almost all of the history - that is also true. This is just another installment of that same centuries-old trend.

Science wants (and should rightfully want) to make a pill that will make something require less effort (staying healthy for long time). If some people would not put in the big effort, but would put in the small effort, given the opportunity - than all the power to them. It's the ultimate goal of science anyway.
200K is not a large profit margin, you are a few employees' paychecks away from going under. While I'm sure you yourself would survive any technology shift and specialize in other related fields, the business might suffer. And these shocks are more and more frequent, it's essential to dig your heels in when you have a growth opportunity or expect to be amazoned out of your margin in a few years.

Ok, you say you don't know how to grow the business - how about taking that money and hiring somebody who does know, and move to a CTO / proprietor role. 200K a year should satisfy the immediate cash needs of a proven business man if you couple it with a good stock options plan. And if someone who could find work in a corporation for 500K accepts 200K and stock options, you know he's serious about growing your startup.

If you are looking for startups to angel, your own starup is the no-brainer choice because you get to the exponential returns on the rest of your assets. The only reason not to do that is when you diversify or you sense impending failure.
Dialectic Materialism has been Weaponised.

People think that because they are capable of pitching an anti-synthesis against a synthesis, they are intelligent - whereas nothing could be further from the truth. If you can't get out of the pro-vs-con mindset you are stuck in a trap designed to ensure you don't think beyond the curve, outside the event horizon of 'generally approved thought-process' society.

People need to be given uncomfortable positions to evaluate. Just maybe, its important to not discount the conspiracies and realise that in fact truth is stranger than fiction ..
Thanks! Where's the announcement about the fixed release blocker for 3.4.0?
Technically that is correct, but I don't really agree in reality. Most users lack the discipline to simply walk away from a still available account when Facebook is a savage drug addiction for so many people.

I downloaded my Facebook archive this weekend and it was a massive 12kb. I know entirely what it means to have a living account and not feed the beast, but I am also the rarest exception that disproves the norm. Deleting a Facebook account means the drug addict cannot relapse.
> Ownership -> All self-owned data can be removed from everywhere

I HEAVILY disagree with this. Content generated by people obtains, at one point, historical value. Self-owning should end with personal details, anything involving someone else has to be kept because I think social media has no point if someone else can just now delete basically what are part of my memories. I know Facebook doesn't do this well either, but they aren't making it easy to scrub everything clean either.
Linus Torvalds Remembers the Days Before ‘Open Source’
With GDPR they can't block you.
Arquillian Chameleon. Simplifying Your Arquillian Tests
they have a lot of fabs in germany.
I found the "one bomb dropped every twenty minutes, mostly on innocent people" statistic to be the most scandalous issue of Obama's presidency, personally ..
It was certainly worth as much as the legal cost to Nissan motors. Why should Uzi Nissan be denied that implied value? Whatever else, it certainly wasn't domain squatting as I understand it.
In-silico simulations of certain biological processes, or hopefully entire cells or organs can't come sooner :)
In reality we are still quite far off.
So true. Nowadays many of us believe both that we have no free will and that losing weight is just a matter of diet and exercise.
Sure. I’d be happy to help though let’s not go off-topic in this thread. Feel free to drop me an email, see my bio for the address.
Sorry for a noob, could you please explain how adding hashes would help in better integration?
Combined with git and some webhook to regenerate on change, I think it's better than most CMSs. It's fast, nice-looking (assuming you use a theme, like m.css), secure, doesn't take much storage, really simple, nearly bug-free etc.
It's a little different as Internet makes it far easier to target a user compared to classic means of propaganda especially excaberating the issue of identifying real news vs "fake" news. With TV and Newspaper there are less "anonymous" outlets for content and a system of oversight could be applied in theory. A WhatsApp forward or an FB post spreads like a virus with no clear source. It's trivial to spread lies and for a user to consume it.
Granting permission isn't a default setting obfuscated by deliberately poor interface design and reset everytime you decide to update your api.
because they make it so easy to join but difficult to leave. It's basically a cult
Except instas sponsored ads are more pernicious (from a mobile ux pov) than fbs including the fact that fb still tracks you on every site. All credit to the Zucc for buying insta and whatsapp since the entire world (especially on whatsapp) are locked in that ecosystem.
No kidding. If it weren't for the animals it'd be us.

It's always ironic to see animal rights advocates' responses when they are asked if they'd rather volunteer to be the research subjects instead. They are surprisingly reluctant...

This tends to make them ponder a bit more:

"If we hadn't experimented on animals, you might not even be alive today."
Value Creation and Design Thinking
Do you have a blog? ;)
It's interesting that the article comes out of Sweden, who's pretty good at not throwing stuff in landfills. After recycling materials and energy less than 1% of the material ends up in landfills here. The environemntal benefits of incineration (which isn't "recycling") are disputed of course, but at least it reduces need for other sources of energy, and obviously means we don't just aggregate trash like a landfill does.
Is Support for Capitalism Declining Around the World? [pdf]
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