skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Zuckerberg should resign at this moment. Facebook needs new leadership if it wants to change the way it has been operating.
We should be very weary of regulation that has support from those it regulates.
How does it compare to sqitch ?
French Man Praises Police Death, Is Arrested for Apologizing for Terrorism
This is probably a testament more to Apple not having enough time to sprinkle in their proprietary magic dust following the transition to Intel x86 CPUs. Giving Apple credit seems a bit misplaced if he had to jump through hoops just to install a few basic hardware upgrades and the most recent OS to work. It's a testament to how good the x58 (or the Xeon version (5520?)) chipset was, which spans Macs and PCs. My x58 PC lasted me ~7 years in grad school and the only reason I upgraded was opportunity/boredom.

There was a ton of headroom with those 36 PCIE lanes and the longevity of those systems probably contributed to the relative stagnation of PC consumer hardware pre-Threadripper rumors. Intel even said (sometime around 2009) that they were predicting 50 core CPUs by ~2015, but then released nothing but 4-core and special edition 6 and 8 core CPUs. They didn't need to push things further because these early Core i supporting chipsets met the needs of most PC users.
We also pay for Internet service, yet a lot of ISPs collect and extract browsing behaviour about their customers.
> You'd think so, but most companies have pretty strict internal controls for this sort of thing. Access is also carefully logged so a leaker is pretty much guaranteed to get caught at which point they'd immediately lose their job and likely face criminal prosecution.

That's not enough by any means (edit: and as [1] pointed out, I don't even think it's true). There needs to be more to security than mere deterrence. I'm pretty sure at Google, etc. it's simply impossible for a single rogue employee to mess with customer data (except for a few in very privileged positions), and my impression has been that Facebook is not like this at all (unless it has changed recently).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16675494
> "It's creepy what all these companies do, but what can I do?"

That goes for everything for those with position of power.

"It's creepy what all these policemen do, but what can I do?"
"It's creepy what all these politicians do, but what can I do?" etc etc

In case of FaceBook, whey know what to do. So "Regular people don't care much..." is the correct conclusion as as far as I can see.

My anecdata is that I met plenty of people who said "Facebook is the best", then they take a picture of you to upload it there regardless of what anyone thinks (would even tag it by the name). And I can't see how they would change their mind unless it is by public shaming - the same way that smoking has been reduces in many places.
Build better transportation to support density, then add density. But to add density first on the promise of improved transportation has led to the traffic mess of today.
Facebook is an enabler for individuals to successfully undermine our democratic mechanisms. It shouldn't feel nice to work for a company that has to explain itself in front of the government. The employees of Facebook should be aware of what monster they are building.
This was addressed in the next update:

https://www.pcworld.com/article/227171/apple_ios_update_remo...

Related HN comments at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2469375
Hey
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Your Hacker News bio doesn't link to any of your art! That very well could be intentional, but if you don't mind I'd be interested in seeing the paintings of a fellow HN regular. :)

Also, I'm sure you're aware that Paul Graham wrote a book titled Hackers & Painters? The short blurb in your bio reads as if the coincidence was intentional, at least.
> Facebook invented the one-column social news feed.

Did it? Seems a lot like a twitter feed one could build for oneself.

And I disagree that facebook won for being faster or more innovative. Most people I know switched because it was less obnoxious with glittery animations and autoplay audio. Also, the crowd, at least initially, was more attractive to young adults since it was exclusive to people with a university email address.

Arguably it took the lead, at least initially, by doing less.
I hope so, but keep in mind Facebook has a magical password that worked for every account for almost a decade.
They don't solve much at all, other than blocking annoyances and improving the browsing experience.

The ads blocked by most adblockers is a tiny part of the advertising you are exposed to. It's also a great signal that shows that you are an "adblock user". Everything bit of data is used and you are not special or hard to reach.
That sort of access limitation is what I meant by "pretty strict internal controls."

Having never worked there, I can't speak to how it works at FB but I would imagine that there are a lot of limitations on what rank and file employees can do. I guess I could be wrong. Perhaps someone with direct knowledge will chime in.
most companies have pretty strict internal controls for this sort of thing

This does not ring true to me at all.
I'll throw in another place where permissions aren't nearly granular enough - online file storage (Dropbox, Onedrive, Box.com, etc.). Perhaps I'd like to allow an app to save information for cross-platform use or just because I want it on my own personal cloud storage - 1Password's older versions are a great example of this. I haven't looked at it recently, but I'm not aware of any changes that add that level of granularity to the APIs.

What throws me is that I'd expect security conscious developers to be clamoring for this. If I'm writing an app that should store data for users on the user's own accounts, it's not "I do not want to have access to everything" it's "I do want to NOT have access to everything."
What I find amazing is that early B&W GUIs were more usable than modern material design. Most takes on Material that I’ve seen take poor use of screen real-estate, poor conveyance, and distracting/hard-to-read color choices to an art form.
Sounds like Facebook is having their NSA moment
I'm not a biologist so here's a dumb question. There's a lot of talk about replicating the study experimentally but do we simply not understand biology well enough to make a theoretical analysis? Basically can we not understand on a fundamental level why it works in mice and why it might or might not work for humans?
Haha! I love your thoughts.
East coast is the place for women, there is no one in SF haha
It was true at Google. It's certainly true at financial institutions. I dunno about Amazon. I'm not sure what other comparisons would be relevant here.

EDIT/NOTE: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16675493
> Would it be legal for Mark Zuckerberg to use person-level insights gleaned from his enormous data trove to fuel his own run for office?

It's not his data trove, it belongs to a corporate entity called "Facebook". If Facebook gave his campaign access to user data or ad targeting, it would probably be considered a campaign contribution, valued at whatever price the same data or ads would fetch if they were sold to any another political campaign. Such a contribution would need to be publicly disclosed, and it would get heavily scrutinized and criticized.

But at this point, I think Zuckerberg can lay to rest any hope of ever running for office. His opponents now have a lot of material they can cite to show his ethical shortcomings. And the media is going to keep digging for more dirt on Facebook, since it's something that the public can relate to, the majority of them being Facebook users. This issue isn't just going to go away.
Anecdotally I've heard of interns getting fired for just looking at profiles (that they aren't actual friends with) even around 5 years ago. So at least they take it somewhat seriously.
> SPA => Nope

This seems like a positive aspect for a blog? Most blogs are pretty far removed from being “applications”.
Unity is a bottomfeeding company in so many ways. If they were more upfront about prioritizing phone-apps and low-fi projects, it would be acceptable. But instead, their business plan appears to be:

1. Rope in beginners with network effect, asset store, popular fear of C++.

2. Promote as many new features as possible, with only the most minimal discretion of whether the features actually work or help, anybody because once their demographic notices the ploy, they are too invested to leave. Ideally, they will build a few products for the asset store to make up for the dismal investment.

3. Throw enough dirt and some of it will stick. Mass promotion to beginners gives them enough sign-ups to keep going. Interesting how the pricing model means beginners can’t view the unpredictable performance issues until they start paying.

They consistently fail to prioritize the problems with memory management, lightmapping, and material standards that plague serious Unity devs. I have switched to using Unreal and it’s like night and day. I am super interested in Godot.
> to me, this is another silently ticking time bomb.

I agree. It'll eventually happen to some social app or email provider (think Slack, gmail, facebook, etc) where some huge portion of the database is dumped online -- not through a hack, but through a person willing to do it internally because they can and do not fear or care about the consequences. The Ashley Madison hack was a preview of what's to come.
> It was true at Google.

Yes, because Google is not your average company. It takes security extremely seriously... in fact it's about as awful of an example as you can give for a blanket statement you made about "most companies".
"Give app X direct access to the camera, microphone, and all my photos literally any time it pleases" and "use this camera app I trust instead" are very, very different desires.

Usually I hate the in-app cameras, because they're not optimized for my device. They're usually slower, have no flash control, no zoom, no manual exposure options, etc. I'd almost always prefer to use a dedicated camera app instead.

Because of this permissions decision, if an app wants to bake in a camera thing (nearly every app that might ever touch the camera does, even if e.g. only for a QR code reader or something), I can no longer choose. The app can't open my camera app when it makes sense.
this is great, but how do i hit option on an android to draw multiple?
Sure, people screw up. So systems must fail nonfunctional/closed. Whonix is an excellent example. Tor runs in one VM, and user apps run in another VM. The Tor VM is not a router. There's no forwarding. It merely exposes Tor ports on a private network. So apps can have no Internet access except through Tor.

Regarding uniqueness, using personas that must remain unlinked on the same physical machine is very risky. Given the risk of guest-to-host breakout. And because hardware signatures may be visible remotely. If WebGL is enabled in VMs, Internet sites can link VMs on a given host (graphics card) that use the same virtual graphics driver. In particular, ones meatspace identity should never share a physical machine with any personas that's at all risky. They should also be compartmentalized on separate LANs.

So Debian and the Ubuntu family have the same signature. But Windows, OS X, Centos/Fedora, Arch/Manjaro and PC-BSD have different signatures. So one can use VMs with different WebGL signatures on the same hardware. But only for personas where linkage would be survivable.
But that's how it works. You should assume everything you've ever posted to another server could someday become public record. Especially with social media since it's being posted specifically to be viewed by others who may copy and redistribute that data at any time.

People redistribute snaps all the time even though they're supposed to "go away", yet people still use it.
I believe it's true of Google! I do not believe it's true in general.
Let's not do the cryptoracism on HN, pease.
This library looks very interesting. I've used a similar approach for pulling batches of items from a queue (e.g. discover the optimal batch size and inter-poll wait time). There are plenty of other places we could benefit from something like this. I can't wait to try this out.

Netflix puts out some amazing Java libraries. I've had excellent results using Hystrix [0]. It has been an excellent addition to our systems.

[0] https://github.com/Netflix/Hystrix
It is pretty easy to call for resignation as an outsider. This is not an elected position, i do not think people get to call this.
Apple fights back against Google’s classroom success
This is it (I believe): http://www.sleepwithmepodcast.com/
shrug

Without evidence we're both just guessing. Perhaps someone else will chime in with direct knowledge of how FB works.
Ask HN: What problem does blockchain tech solve that databases don't?
To me it seems that every alleged application of blockchain technology can be done by having a trusted organization maintaining a reliable database.

Am I missing something?
Doesn't that sound like you weren't gifted but were misplaced because your new schools non-gifted curriculum was lagging behind your old school?
$18,000 doesn't sound large, relative to the high prices we all pay. I have a good solid job, and my family plan is $24k per year. That's the most basic family plan my employer offers, but it isn't a high-deductible plan. Of course, most of that is paid by my employer, so I only pay about $4k directly out of my salary. If you are self employed, then you obviously have to pay the employer part too.
http://theweek.com/articles/474339/facebookinsider-memoir-sk...
As a shareholder I do, this kid works for me and it is time to take full responsibility and go home...
If regulators really wanted to stop the abuse by Facebook and every ad company, they would outlaw the collection of any tracking data of users on any website except the ones you own (website operators have security needs). Embedded content in other websites (via any means including iframes) not owned by your company could not record tracking data or insert data into the user's browser (e.g. cookies, custom urls, Web SQL Databases). Any sharing of user data with other companies is illegal. Cannot abuse what you don't have.

I expect any legislation to make competition with Facebook very difficult.
Couldn't you just pick the top N paths (maybe ordered by how sensitive they are to changes in input) back through the neural net, then list the data sources they ultimately trace to?

"Visited aaa.example one day ago, .34; visited abc.example three days ago, .27; therefore display ad for zzz.example"
Ice Creams That Make Everything Else Seem Vanilla
I used to be an engineer on Google's search indexing team. I don't have any specific inside information in this case, but knowing the Google mindset, I'm sure they would have pulled up a large unbiased frequency-weighted sample of search queries with quotes in them. The would have then spun up a custom web search front-end that used an algorithm that sometimes ignored quotes, and ran all of the sampled queries through both the regular front-end and the custom front-end. They then would have manually looked through the affected queries. They would have used this to determine whether the change seemed to better serve the user's intent on average. Of course, this involves a bit of subjective inferring of the user's intent.

It don't like it, but I'm sure that for the average query using quotes, it does better find what a user is looking for. That's why Google does this.

On the other hand, there's a lot of observation bias: I'm much less likely to notice Google is ignoring quotes when it works out well. It's mostly in the frustrating cases that I really notice and remember noticing that Google sometimes ignores quotes.

As for what black magic allows them to sometimes determine that you don't really want quotes, you're guesses would probably be as good as mine. I'm just pretty sure that on average, this black magic has a positive impact on search quality.
OK you're right that I overstated when I said "most companies." What I meant to say was most companies of the size and sophistication of Facebook that have a significant amount of private user information. Sorry for not being clear.
Unfortunately neither Christian Medishare nor our out-of-pocket health care payments are deductible.

https://www.medishare.com/blog/is-healthcare-sharing-tax-ded...
US Workers fired so they can learn how to trade crypto to make their own money
It's worse. We are "Dumbfucks".
> shrug. Without evidence we're both just guessing.

Do I understand correctly that you just admitted that your (extremely confident!) factual statement here:

> most companies have pretty strict internal controls for this sort of thing

was actually "just guessing"?
Thanks for such a detailed comparison--I think I'll give Godot a try!
Consequences and credentialism don't have to go hand in hand. Software's lack of credentialism is what allows so many to rise above their circumstances, break through class barriers, etc.
If you add "and notoriety" to that list of qualifiers, I agree with you!
That's a very interesting insight into the world of American healthcare and privatized healthcare in general.
Previously I thought that all these statements about the US healthcare system were seriously exaggerated, but I guess I was wrong. It's kind of terrifying that being sick excludes you from access to healthcare. In my experince, public healthcare has many problems, but you get what you need.
For those of us who don't know the author, what's the context here? The article seems to assume we know where they work and what they work on.
There's a difference between carefully earning an audience versus forcing your message upon billions of people within seconds.

Advertising is commercial speech and already regulated by the FTC (in the US) which is why you can't say false things for an ad. The problem is that it has not been updated to deal with modern digital advertising's speed and scale.
my accountant never allowed me to do this in PA
Are we going to talk about the fact that a whole bunch of these employees are former elected officials, or related to one? Which is part of why Zuckerberg isn’t actually concerned about the political fallout?
To the parents: the solution is to not allow pre-teen social media. In my opinion.
My favorite is "An app that reminds me to turn my phone on".
I'm guessing based on:

1) my direct knowledge of similar companies

2) the fact that no large scale leak from internal sources has happened from FB which is evidence that they have at least some internal controls or procedures to prevent one
There is no Nationwide standard for gifted. Some districts do Gifted, others Gifted and Talented. Some use IQ testing, some don't. Some do more creative project work than regular school, some regular schools also do creative project work.
>ACA is horrendous, unless you're receiving a government subsidy.

I'm curious as to why you say "the ACA is horrendous" rather than "The income cutoffs for the ACA subsidies are way too low" - I mean, it seems obvious to me that if you make a median salary and have a family of four that you need some sort of health insurance subsidy, but I don't know where the ACA subsidy lines are, or even if they vary per state or not.

I personally am in favor of just expanding medicare or medicade so that everyone can use them to get minimal health care if they need it. I mean, sure, if you have money, you probably still want private insurance on top of that, just like retirees today, but we've got a reasonable system for giving everyone over 65 a minimal level of care, and healthcare for younger people is a lot cheaper than healthcare for old people, so it seems like a big rich country like ours should be able to cover that bill.

but I don't think that is politically possible. I think this last election was in some ways a referendum on the ACA, and I would interpret the results as saying that many, if not most Americans think that you should only get healthcare if you can pay for it. Which seems weird to me, because as you point out, if you make anything like average money, healthcare for a family for three or four is impossible to pay for without a subsidy.

>I'm seriously considering returning to wage employment for health care benefits.

In the days before the ACA, I'd just get a full time job every time COBRA and CAL-COBRA ran out, because I couldn't get a plan at all without. I mean, I was happy paying $6K/year just for me, and that's what I'd pay under COBRA or CAL-COBRA but, once that ran out, nobody would sell to me. Maybe I wasn't asking the right people, but it wasn't like they came back with high numbers, they just said they couldn't cover me. It was weird, because while I did have a chronic condition or two, none of them were particularly dangerous or unusual.
I saw the same crap running uBlock Origin.
Are they seriously smart enough to collect this data but stupid enough to dump it in an archive copy?
Other people do pay for the cancer treatment. Make up a pool of, say, 1000 people. Make up a cancer rate of say, 5/1000. Make up an asthma rate of say, 50/1000.

The people that are going to get cancer are unknown, but the whole group is willing to pay 0.5% of the cost of cancer treatment for a contract that covers 100% of the cost.

The 950 people that know they don't need expensive asthma treatment don't really want to pay for contracts that will cover expensive asthma treatment, so (in a pure insurance market) either the cost has to be included in the contracts for the 50 that do have it or the treatment can be excluded from the contracts.
I'm comfortable with such a qualification. Glad we can violently agree. ;-)
Are you willing to forego medical care if you have an accident tomorrow and your savings account isn't big enough?
I do have ublock origin installed. It was all their on-site elements screwing shit up.
For a little perspective, I supported a family of 3 on less than $18k last year and we only had partial coverage. Even though we were homeless for most of the year, the ACA penalty is pretty painful. I am in the midst of filling out my taxes.

For a great many Americans, the figure you brush off as not particularly large is an unimaginable amount to come up with for insurance alone.
"special" isn't a euphemism in education. It literally means "non-mainstream customized treatment". It's used for both disabilities and gifted. "Special" is also a slang term for people with disabilities.
That's a really short list of companies, though! There are a lot of companies that each independently hold a ghastly amount of information about random people that have virtually no meaningful controls over this stuff. "No meaningful controls" is the norm.

I'd also say it's the norm among most Fortune 500 non-tech companies.
The fact that this cost that much is alarming too. I get that the staff and bed bay aren’t cheap, but the consumables for the situation you describe would probably cost less than $10, and at bulk buy prices perhaps on a couple of dollars.
As an iPhone user I’d like to think iOS does not allow this. However, I understand there’s a private API that allows larger companies access to functions that are not available to regular developers. It allows them access to the microphone without the red bar showing even when there’s not a call. 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.