skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Both PCI and HIPAA have credentialing (and HIPAA has a statutory mandate to require it, though the implementing regulations have not been adopted on the timeline mandated in the statute, and presumably won't be now since the Trump Administration seems to be applying the same neglect and sabotage approach to the required updates to HIPAA standards as to most of the ACA, perhaps because some of the requirements for the former were adopted with the latter or related bills.)
That's interesting. I find the wiki concept truly transformative. One of the first things I've done with almost every job I've had is set up an internal MediaWiki wiki. It's always been worth the effort even if I was the only one who bothered to contribute it for the most part.

Playing with this, I was trying to figure out a practical application for it. Is it fair to say it has largely been obsoleted by things like wikis?
Communicating in a way that is mutually agreeable is a more powerful enabler of friendship than the existence of an entry in Facebook's database.

I put it to you that Facebook is about group communication, whereas friendship is about one-on-one communication. As such Facebook has nothing to do with friendship, and it is a delusion to think otherwise. Those Facebook "friends" are actually acquaintances, and your friends are those smaller number of people whom you talk to outside Facebook.
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Unfortunately more and more functionality has been moved into the closed-source Google Framework over the past few years. Some of this is a result of Android's terrible update situation: the only way for Google to get new software to many Android users is through software they can update, unlike the OS which OEMs control. But the fact that Google hasn't open sourced the Google Framework tells a lot about how "open source" Android really is. I wish we had a decent open source phone OS out there, since I don't trust Apple to produce good software (and increasingly, hardware) and I don't trust Google... well, I just don't trust Google. Our current duopoly is a pretty awful situation for consumers.
Wouldn't it be a way too much? Wouldn't the people get the clue immediately in such a scenario?
Humans need to have some fucking respect.
Yeah but my data - I'm middle aged, read HN, speculate a bit in crypto etc - is not anything I'm worried about people knowing. I can understand if people want to keep stuff secret but I don't have much of that and what I do I don't post on the internet in any form. I've never really thought of facebook as much more private than HN - ie not private.
It's quite obviously better in terms of data privacy.

I don't use Android myself, but I'm not going to say their approach doesn't have any upsides. For example, I still can't pick a third party iOS app to be my default email client.
This post seems to be based on the idea that dhouston was "throwing his success in BrandonM's face", but I'm not sure I see that. dhouston is thanking the HN community, and specifically BrandonM, in that comment. If you look at BrandonM's response[0] (which Zed cropped), he even congratulates dhouston on his success.

This post seems to imply conflict where none exists.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16661824
And as a counterpoint, I will say that after I deleted my Facebook, I feel a lot more connected to the people I do see, when I see them, because I cannot assume I know anything about their life, and, I have to, yknow, be present with them? i’m
HyperCard together with Qbasic both fell into that forgotten realm of democratising programming; making it so that even your aunt could write a simple program herself. A lot of people ended up learning programming because of these simple languages/tools, and I used to love playing with their projects I'd download from Geocities and the like.

It's a bit of a shame the industry gave up on the idea, and abandoned these syntactically-sugared programming languages. HyperTalk reads just like English; it very much seemed like the next generation of the niche BASIC aimed to fill. Because computers of that era typically opened right into a development environment (e.g. a simple BASIC interpreter), there was even brief discussion of HyperCard potentially replacing Finder as the default Mac OS environment.
Not maximum possible. This isn't that difficult to compute. Not so long ago, 1099-B only showed the sale price of stocks (funds, etc) and you had to go back and compute basis yourself from the confirmations, even if the asset purchase was 50 years ago. It's no different for a house sale.

Having a CPA doesn't help at all whatsoever to compensate for bad record keeping.

There are other ways to do this that would be simpler, e.g. tax equals 1-2% of the asset value per year, rather than taxing the income. This isn't fundamentally different from property tax computation.
Interesting idea, but getting 50% of the final price is a huge incentive to simply say it was sold then send it to your own house, pay 50% of the price to seller. Also why is the name Wesify?
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I actually think it's there literally for the Apple store experience. It seems cool and responsive in the store and it it's only after some time with it you realize what a gimmick it is.
There's a huge leap between using the platform and giving them all of your data. Be restrictive around what you put up, and the permissions you give it. Sure, it's some measure of personal involvement, but it's necessary for the most basic of access.

Shouldn't it also be the case that, if you're the one not on a widespread platform that - clearly - a lot of people are using to communicate, it's on you to make the effort to reach out?

I actually think the opposite of your claim - expecting a family who's member has committed suicide to have to actively reach out to this one person is rude and without depth. Expecting any kind of personalised treatment whilst alienating yourself is similar, but that one example sums it up for me.
I have a very different interpretation. If dhouston didn't say anything about that comment, someone will write a comment to remember it and quote it. If the old comment were deleted from HN, someone will still have a copy and copy it in that post.

Even worse it will be a partial quote, perhaps only of the first part, without the second and third part that are more spot on. [The first one is technically correct, but overestimate the normal user ability, so it's almost funny and is the only one that is quoted.]

Moreover, deleting the old comment will delete the rest of the thread that has a nice conversation between the two main characters of the story and a few more users. Reading all the old thread make the comment more interesting.

The main problem is that it's a classic comment like

> No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame. -CmdrTaco, Slashdot.

It's a classic comment that is impossible to erase, and perhaps it will be quoted for centuries. I never read the full thread. Is it interesting? How does the comment change viewed in that context?
You may want to read up on Singapore's Central Provident Fund system, as a real-life implementation of something similar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Provident_Fund
Ok, I'll bite. Why don't you have a cell phone?
The whole "we shouldn't regulate Facebook because it will help Facebook" thing really seems like an underhanded attempt at tricking privacy advocates and others to fight against their own best interests.

In reality, it depends entirely on the details of the regulations.
> Zuck could use FB data for his own presidential run

Well. It could be true for Google CEO, and many others. Technically, there are too many bad things that can happen. Laws are what that's preventing those.

My computer can phone home with my every keystroke or technically it's possible for a modern air conditioning system to release its refrigerant gas into the room with certain key combination on its remote. But until those are proven to happen, it's just a conspiracy.

In short, there are so many bad things that can happen, doesn't actually mean that will happen. At least - for many cases - that's better way to think, so that we don't have to live a fearful life. And in the cases we can, be in the safe side, like not using Facebook, using completely free software OS, putting a tape on camera, etc.

Edit: On a side note, it would be nice if HN team change http urls to https if the site supports it, and discourage links that requires javascript with no added value.
Would not be better to have a tool which automatically creates a/some profile/s similar to that/those the dev needs for debug purposes BUT filling it with fake data? So the bug is reproducible but the users data of them is not accessible to the dev
> Last I checked it needs a valid email address, name, and password.

And your social graph. You implicitly give it information about all your interactions and connections - and allow it to record even interactions you aren't aware of (like other FB users looking you up or checking your profile without interacting with you in ways you find out about). You're also opting in to web-wide surveillance, where FB track you individually across every webpage with Facebook social widget on it (unless you take steps to manage your browser's FB login status - and most likely even if you do log out whenever you're done with FB by using "industry standard" ad network browser fingerprinting...)
Hence the moniker "Man Jose".

For historical perspective looking back to the 1970s, check out the excellent film "Time After Time" (Malcolm McDowell, Mary Steenbergen), where Mary's character decries the minimal SF dating pool for straight women in that era, given the high percentage of gay males in SF.
Unfortunately the internal tech infrastructures of many (not all) financial institutions are a mess of many decades of mergers and acquisitions resulting in a Rube Goldberg like backend of seemingly endless unnecessary complexity and dysfunction with, in many cases, superficial controls around who gets access to what.
I don't think companies "should", but my companies do when we give people take-home projects to assess programming skill. Our preference is to do contract-to-hire, but not every applicant can assume that risk.

Thanks to this post, my companies will now pay applicants for interviews as well. Time is time.

I've honed my hiring process over the years, so we only spend more than 15 min with 3-4 candidates at most (and one of them is always a home run). It won't cost much to pay 3-4 people.
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>Well-regulated advertising is important in helping consumers make informed purchasing decisions.

Do you think the adtech industy is "well-regulated"?
This one company's unauthorized access to millions of records may just be the tip of the iceberg.
Civ 3 had pollution, and managing it created a number of complaints: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/an-option-to-turn-off...

Civ 4 had global warming, and it annoyed people enough they hacked the game to get rid of it: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/global-warming.145922...

People already complain the games are too complex. If you add a bunch of knobs for various forms of pollution and exploration, you'd just get thousands of requests to turn it all off.
Cambridge Analytica sent foreigners to advise U.S. campaigns
> Look Usenet is nice and all but it's not a forum system

That's exactly what Usenet is, and Usenet with 1990-era terminal clients was superior in most respects to most current web-based forum systems.
The problem is one of counterfactuals. Given the growth of the internet, something that provides the value of Facebook to people was inevitable. What wasn't inevitable was that it take on the form of a centralized service that ended up enveloping the world. In the past, centralized services gave way to shared internet protocols before they reached the size and scale Facebook has.

There are certainly other paths the world could have taken where such power and control would not be in the hands of one company (and one person, really) but that's not what happened and it's worth lamenting if you believe the problem of "keeping friends connected through the internet" could have taken on radically different forms.
This is cool!

Anyone know what LaTeX font/setup was used here?
I tried searching for the style-file for the published venue (MPC), but that doesn't appear to be what's used here. :(
AOSP is a far cry from Android. You can audit Chromium too, but in the transition to Chrome you have no idea what they changed.
Exactly. Big difference between:

1) asking a user who had signed up for the Obama campaign if the campaign could contact their friends Johnny and Sue (discovered via their Facebook API) to ask them to support the Obama campaign.

2) Obtaining Facebook data by a professor for an academic study, who then turns around and sells said data to Cambridge Analytica, who uses it for targeted fake news propaganda. All of this without any consent from any user.

Add to this the fact that CA was also self-admittedly conducting political blackmail and bribery, and allegedly hacking election results, and you have a pretty ugly picture.
Right. Features are for customers. Facebook's primary feature is ubiquitous surveillance of 2 billion users. The newsfeed is a use of that feature, where advertisers and "Facebook partners" can pay to manipulate targeted portions of those 2 billion users.

To Facebook _users_, the newsfeed is just a gimmick they use to get you to reveal more about you and your friends/connections than you would otherwise.
Your phone carrier still triangulates your location from cell towers you're connected to. It's not as accurate as GPS, but is good enough for many purposes, except in places as dense as NYC.

And don't tell me you're cash-only.
> tax equals 1-2% of the asset value per year, rather than taxing the income

So penalize everyone in down years when their stocks lose money, plus wipe out a ton of potential growth in 401k accounts? At least, that's what it sounds like to me.
chomp: For starters we could make you and many others (0.1%-1%?) just accept it and enable javascript so we help stop the global warming, don't you care about the earth? :))

And its quite possible to make a SPA that renders on the server and serves you an html but then maybe we can show just half the information so we don't send too much info to your browser.
Once we get usable and affordable e-ink monitors designers will have to revisit this territory seriously.
A bear ain't going to treat you nearly as well when the tables are turned.
Forget Zuck. Every ad network knows what porn you watch.
Why is wyager getting down voted? This is not uncommon given that people with certain types of last names (e.g. Yellow Horse) are targeted and then need to prove who they are. I cannot confidently say they don't keep the id given the whole phone call revelations of the last week.
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Decent idea, but super hard to filter spam it seems.

Best of luck!
I think you need to grow up some and experience this from the other side. In the past I've felt the same kind of contempt for this process, but after having experienced being on the other side I respect the difficulty in identifying(accuratly) good candidates.
And it’s comparatively one of be simplest and most reliable transports for business data exchange.

In my first professional job, we used PKI-encrypted email as a transport for ebXML messages (order, despatch notifications, etc) between our customers ERP system and their suppliers. And in my most recent role, we received retail transaction data and returned analytics reports via email.

The great thing about protocols like this is that virtual all enterprise systems support them in one form or another. And it’s always been easier to get clients to set up exchanging data via automated emails vs SOAP or REST APIs.
How fast can I kill all my karma by pointing out that the 3 of the top 4 articles on HN are some realization that Facebook does not give an ef about anybody's privacy?
Wouldn't you have to connect to every instance on the planet and ask each one individually if they have public messages with those hashtags?
The Plague was never really a problem outside of Europe because it required particular conditions. Other diseases did spread, but those didn't have the same apocalyptic effect on society.

When smallpox and other diseases rampaged across the New World the rest of the world didn't notice. It was geographically and demographically contained.

That's not the case now where things like SARS can go world-wide in a matter of weeks.

A failing society could cause considerably more damage today than at any other time in history.
Note that you never mentioned person who actually receives service. IMHO problem is exactly that - none of players you mentioned truly interested in long term cost control. Some might just care about short term budgets, but otherwise all of them will pass it down to the consumer. And consumer being on their own, with little to no competition and information asymmetry has very little leverage..
So there's a lower bound on how much you can make and still get the subsidized plan? that seems broken in a very American sort of way.

I think a lot of the bureaucratic issues might be the nature of insurance companies? My (pre-aca) experience was that any lapse in coverage and they don't let you back on. All this 'life event' stuff, I think, was part of how group plans worked back in the day, the rules about when you could change things and when they could kick you off.

I guess what I'm saying is that (aside from charging you the extra tax) I don't think it's worse than it used to be.
Pointing out risks is not a conspiracy. A conspiracy would be a claim that it happened without evidence. The risk here is real, however, and must taken care of, just like we do with so many other risks.
I was a Facebook user before I have my first Android phone, it was on 4.0.3 ICS, then I'm on 4.3, 4.4, 5.0, 6.0, 7.1...etc, and before I delete my Facebook account, I see no call logs in the backup data archive downloaded from Facebook, guess what, there's at some point, some users just simply say yes to let Facebook 'manage' your SMS, or calls, if an Android user's call log got scrapped, it's partially his/her own fault.
It seems to be happening more and more post-Obamacare. Further, this is an actual policy now, and this policy was created post-Obamacare (my incident occurred in Nevada, where they have not received permission to deny these claims like they have in other states, so apparently they feel the need to roll it out nationwide without telling anyone). There was no need for the policy before, but now apparently there is in an Obamacare world. But they can't expect people to diagnose themselves and determine whether or not a situation is an "emergency" under insurance company rules, since the symptoms of many non-life threatening conditions feel like they may be life threatening.

Unfortunately, in capitalist economies, when you use the law to put the hurt on companies, they will pass that hurt onto unsuspecting consumers. The money will come from somewhere, and it's not coming out of executives' pockets. Perhaps this is why Nancy Pelosi urged lawmakers and the public not to read Affordable Care Act before it was passed it into law [1]. Had everyone read it, they would have known that problems like this would eventually arise.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hV-05TLiiLU
Interesting, they used to have Wikipedia data and now it's gone from the list, anyone know why?
Have you seen this guy on TV? He is not a polished speaker
One infamous clown in US pop culture was Pogo the Clown, AKA serial killer John Wayne Gacy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wayne_Gacy
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This is sickening
I use Amazon reviews but I try to stay conscious that sexy labels/marketing influences people. When in doubt, stick with the high quality, no additives, stuff like Thorne.
Pre-ACA - California had guarantee issue health insurance with little or no rating factor adjustment (surcharge) for companies with 2-50 employees. Definitely took advantage of that at the time!
I've predicted "remining" for a long time, especially for rare materials.
This is a sickening and inhumane system
I'm sick of people making this comment because it's flat out wrong.

Insurance is about lowering variance, not about subsidizing high risk. The ACA tries to make insurance affordable for everyone, and in the process, some people pay less than their actuarial cost and others pay more. That is not just insurance, it's forcing people with a lower actuarial risk to subsidize those with a higher risk.

Insurance is about taking the chance element out of something that is inherently probablistic because the rare event would be catastrophic. By pooling risk, you make things more predictable. But everyone is still paying for their own, individual share of the risk pool.

I'm not arguing that we shouldnt, as a society, ensure that everyone can afford health insurance, but we shouldn't pretend that "it's just insurance" because it's something entirely different.
In order to get married you first need to meet someone worth marrying. It's quite possible he's never met that person.
This is a direct consequence of productizing things that should be rights. i.e. justice, education, accounting, health care, infrastructure. Making justice a product rather than a right means if you can afford a better lawyer, you get better justice. If you can afford a better accountant and tax layers, you can pay less tax. If you can make yourself not black or brown, or not show up in court and just have lawyers fight for you, you get better justice.

Republicans absolutely, unequivocally, believe in class. Better people have more money. Period. They can buy better products with that money - otherwise there's no point in being wealthier than others. Democrats are kinda sorta sometimes maybe occasionally OK with this but then abruptly not OK when the political winds change a bit. The party of ambiguous ethics are the Democrats. The aristocrats' party is the Republicans.

Directly asked, both party types lie. But if you look at a few dozen policy positions an individual policians has, with emphasis on the less conventional (the ones with ready talking points) ones, it's really easy to triangulate their positions and contradictions - for a political scientist.
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When it comes to tech like this, it's good to not just ask "can it happen", but "why wouldn't it happen".

Pressing a button to fill your room full of gas is doesn't strike me as serving any good purpose. It doesn't benefit anyone. Computers can phone home with your every keystroke, and the NSA does indeed track loads of people for "security" purposes. Zuckerberg could potentially track everyone, and why wouldn't he? It'd get him loads of valuable info for campaigning and material to use against his opponents. Once he gets into office, he can grab the entire legislative and judicial branches by the balls with the info he harvests about them (if they're married and ever used Tinder or followed a porn star on Instagram, they wouldn't want those secrets out in the open). The NSA and FBI wouldn't have any reason to publicly oppose one of their most valuable surveillance and 4th-Amendment-dodging farms.

If it's easy to do and has a potential to benefit someone, it's good to assume that someone is taking advantage of it. Zuckerberg would be honestly incredibly stupid to not use Facebook for his political gain. Even if the media reported on it, the average person won't understand why it's bad and won't really care.
... that's really no excuse?

1. How many animals have humans driven to extinction now? Perhaps they would not be extinct were people to treat them with greater respect.

2. If you treat an animal with respect the tables will never have an opportunity to turn, because you won't be blatantly trespassing on it's turf.