skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, but it wasn't signed by the CPO, the board, or anyone, they were all signed by Zuckerberg so I think it looks especially fake to take out those ads (which are especially targeted at the 'political class' IMO) and then refuse to come before MPs.

Source: https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/180325071038-01-faceb...
This Is the Inventor of the Chocolate Chip Cookie
I didn't mention Swift and I should have. I agree it's close enough to Go to provide useful inspiration.

But even Swift implementation of generics has its issues and tradeoffs. Look for example at this thread about "Compile-time generic specialization" in Swift: https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/Week-of-Mo...

Repeating that Go ignores "already researched and widely-implemented solutions" is getting old, really. Would you say that OCaml doesn't have shared memory multicore parallelism because it ignores already researched and widely-implemented solutions??? Would you say that Haskell garbage collector causes long runtime pauses because it ignores already researched and widely-implemented solutions??? The truth is that solving that kind of things is a lot more complex than just copy-paste the code from another language.
A 10x engineer is someone who makes those around them 10x better
Downvote all you want--I know open source can't handle criticism, but as much as I want to love GIMP, it's completely unusable.

First, it's still in GTK2 so on my monitor it looks zoomed out at 50%.

Then, the UI is the least intuitive thing I've ever seen. To resize and move a layer takes 4 times the steps compared to Pinta (or of course Photoshop).

Shortcuts are the weirdest thing, completely different compared to any other software I've used.

It's such a pity because undoubtedly there is so much work behind it, and the effects are absolutely perfect.

I really don't understand why they don't try to make it usable instead of showing a performance meter.
When you download map data from Maps.me, it loads them from the maps.me servers. But that's to be expected. openstreetmap.org isn't going to be hosting those files.
Maps.me also includes some hotels from booking.com
> the vast majority of Facebook users are not from the US

49% of Facebook's 2017 worldwide revenues came from the U.S. and Canada [1].

[1] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1326801/000132680118... page 37
They don't exceed highway speed so swapping batteries every X miles will be worth it if they reduce total costs by doing so.

As to weight the engine weighs ~3000 lb and 300 gallons of gas weigh ~1,900 gallons. Transmission is another 700lb, include tank weight and verious odds and ends and you can get ~5 hours at highway speed. Assuming a battery swap takes 10 minutes. That's easily worth saving 50+k per year in operating expenses.
With luck this could be the beginning of the end for Facebook. Probably not, but one can hope.
In my experience, studying finance books is almost a complete waste of time. There are several platforms, such as Interactive Brokers, that provide APIs and market data feeds that you can get started on writing trading programs very quickly. Don't think that you are going to invent profitable trading strategies, at least not for a long time. There are lots of interesting and useful exercises that are lots of fun and can be executed with very little capital, for example, try building an algorithm that executes N shares of stock over the day and executes them at an average price that gets as close as possible to the volume weighted average price over the day. If you can do that, you'll have learned as much as most working algo developers, and if you're trying to break into a job in finance, you'll have a big advantage over most candidates who have dabbled because you will be about the only one who has built something useful rather than focusing on some hokey alpha signal.

If you really want to trade your own money for profit, yes, the space is crowded and HFTs have already found most of the profitable signals that scale, but it is still possible to find profitable signals if you source data that is somewhat new or unique and you look for signals that are capacity constrained and therefore of less interest to HFTs.
Sales and Marketing Automation Tools to Convert Leads and Retain Customers
At least in Brazil I think there is serious competition in the form of WhatsApp. It allows plenty of the things that FB initially brought to the table in the form of family, friend and work groups where people actually share their personal stuff now, while in FB people just mostly show off some generic things and share news articles in their bubble. I would say WhatsApp right now is a lot more social than FB is. When you meet someone new you ask them for their WhatsApp number, not to add them to FB.

Sure FB owns WhatsApp but I don't think they can leverage it financially nearly as much. If ads start to pop up on WhatsApp people will simply flock to different messengers with similar functionality.
Chilled cow lo fi hip hop - https://youtu.be/8XiqrERZo_8 (goes live every day)

Trap & bass - https://youtu.be/yY7iGa4t9-I
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Well, the rule of thumb is that if you need stability, never upgrade on the first day of release but rather wait for 1 week or two. I personally have faced and upgraded my apps through many of these upgrades and there was rarely an earth-shattering issue that I was not able to solve. YMMV.
I wonder if those in self-driving development at Uber et al. share the same non-engineering background. I think it would be ultimately in the interest of these companies that stringent regulation is enacted, so the public can feel as safe and confident riding self-driven vehicles as they feel riding a thin aluminium tube with two gigantic kerosene hairdryers flying at 35,000 ft.
It can't be that both affirmations have negative connotation:

"Monero can be 100% anonymous, so it's the preferred coin of criminals"

"Monero is not 100% anonymous, so big time criminals can't use it."
Here's the problem I see with this though.. One of the main values any social network provides is exploiting your network activity and social graph, and so it must be allowed into your personal/private sphere (at least to some degree).

And I use the word "exploiting" in a neutral sense here, because it can be good, in the sense of using all this data for your benefit to give you relevant and timely updates about your friends and surroundings, and let you know about things that interest you (i.e. why most people use Facebook today).

But, by its nature, that same data can also be used against you, exploited by marketers, advertisers, governments, etc..

So how do you get one without risking the other? How do you allow a social network to capture and analyze all this personal data about you - in order to return a valuable service - but then be totally (or reasonably) sure that your data will be protected and also not used against you?

Someone else mentioned HIPAA and other data protection laws that exist for medical data. I know regulation isn't a trendy topic in tech, but maybe there does need to be some clear codified rules about what companies can do with our personal/social data and what the consequences are for misuse or neglect.
I am not impressed. Years ago Dr Dale Bredesen already removed Alzheimer from 9 out of 10 humans.
Here in India it was on the front pages of most of the popular english newspapers.

My dad, who is 50+ years old, knew about Cambridge Analytica few months from now because of a documentary related to Donald Trump's win; he deleted his Facebook then and there.

However, I'm not sure that a majority of the people in India really care about the shady privacy permissions Facebook has slyly made them accept.
Normally I'd think this comment is a bit too lowbrow for the orange site, but I think it's justified in light of just how fundamentally the world shifted due to the Brexit vote. If this breach was part of that then people should be incredibly angry.
I think that the keyword in the parent post is "most".
We are trying so hard to use Teams, but the performance is just not up to snuff. They took a shortcut using Electron to get it cross-platform. For such a large pervasive company, I don't think this shortcut is worth it as they should have just invested in native like their other desktop apps. It's going to hurt them long term in my opinion. I even submitted a user voice about the memory issue and slow UI.
Overly pessimistic, this represents less than one user.
You did and will keep getting downvoted (like my comment below about GIMP's usability will), but you're absolutely right.

This is another case where developers decide what's cool, and of course pick features that are cool to them, not their users.

Not once in my life would I ever think I'm missing that feature in GIMP.
If Gen Z joins other Facebook-owned social networks in stead it won't hurt them in the least. Facebook might not be hype anymore but Instagram and WhatsApp seem to do just fine with the young ones, at least as far as I can tell as someone in his 30s.
Intel CPUs Vulnerable to New 'BranchScope' Attack
Hyundai did until South Korea shut down the joint economic zone in North Korea to protest a rocket launch in 2016:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaesong_Industrial_Region

It's not a perfect analogy because China already has nukes. If they didn't, it's plausible Taiwan would do the same in the face of Chinese saber rattling.
To what for a price..

The new Firefox mainly caters to simple users. Mozilla has abandoned their feature rich concept to appeal only to Chrome users.

Mozilla's only goal today is becoming number one in marketshare and beat Google no matter what. Even if that means they alienate every single power user.

I do not at all agree with that. That is a pure simple betrayal - exchanging their origin user base against Chrome users. Opera did that too.

The issue is, there is already an over-simplistic browser - Chrome. And only a minority of Chrome users will switch over to Firefox - the hope to absorb the majority of the Chrome user base will not work out for Mozilla.

They should have kept the features for the nerds and geeks inside. You know, there is something which is called honesty and dignity. This is for what we from Anonymous are standing for and what we are valuing.

And it is disgusting to see that an Open Source organization throws all of that over board just to become mainstream compatible.
Reading comments lately on HN feels like an expression of Two Minutes Hate.
Coward of cowards.
Looks like traffic is down approx 6% so far. My guess is maybe 5% will drop off, and maybe 25% will use it less over a period of time. And this will show a slight bump on the upward trajectory which might reach apex in maybe 10 years as the rest of the developing world comes on board.

In the meantime, there will some general adaption both to and by social media towards more sensible and responsible usage: better privacy protection and safeguards against mass-scooping of data, and for users; turn off notifications, log in maybe once a day, banning phones in schools etc. which will calm the novelty mania that has been the case in these early days.
Liberal compared to the other party, which is far-right.
How would you avoid that, and still find out the disk usage?
Saying this is a strategic mistake may be a bit too early to tell. It depends on whether this issue will slowly disappear in the media and minds of people (like most things). He has no legal obligation to appear if I understand correctly. The select committee mainly consists of MPs who objected Brexit. Of course they try to make their point that the vote was skewed or manipulated. If, on the other hand, the pressure stays on, it may very well be a strategic mistake not to appear.
Eh, not that I disagree with any specific point, but I've certainly been able to use it many times to do real work. Plus the Python-fu was awesome when I needed it.

Thanks for release!
Come on Zuck, think about how this will make you look in the sequel of "The Social Network".
Python – Understanding Generators
Or assume the government has unlimited resources to throw at a problem, and not commit crimes.

Most of these headlines describe something that would require nation-state resources to crack. If you wanna hide paying for something legal, it's probably still sufficient.
I'm aboard this train as well. Removed both the app and messenger from my phone. Should I need to access messenger on foot I can use mbasic.facebook.com (sneaky, because the regular website disables messenger to push for app adoption, which is another button trigger for me)
Most people have yet to discover what a tiny little machine can do if you spend some time addressing bottlenecks. I have fond memories of running websites on the cheapest VPSs I could find, and getting very respectable performance from them with little more than cutting down on resource-hungry services, going static html whenever possible and being vigilant about any resources loaded by the browser.

See also https://lowendbox.com/ and https://hackernoon.com/10-things-i-learned-making-the-fastes...
Not really about GIMP but for people who look for an alternative to Photoshop, I can really recommend Affinity Photo. It's actually on a sale right now on Windows Store at least. Unfortunately it doesn't support Linux like GIMP does but it's a really viable alternative to Photoshop for Mac/Windows users.

I used to pay for Photoshop, but it's so darn expensive and I even had to pay to get out of my subscription plan. Affinity Photo cost like one or two months of Photoshop and isn't a subscription service.
how about going full nerd and taking things into your own hands ?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16392096
Maybe because its hard. Maybe because the core developers can be counted on one hand.

My knee jerk reaction to your knee jerk reaction is: If its so easy, go fix it!
There's also the other perspective here where they are hiring subject-matter experts to help them figure out how to work with the government in order to resolve this?

Remember a "lobbyist" is really a "government process consultant" at the end of the day.. and there are no doubt good and bad ones.

The same way you'd hire a technical consultant when your business encounters an obstacle or challenge you have insufficient experience with and can't afford to spend the time learning on the job.
Since it's a pinned tab, it's always number X (3 in my case). CMD+3 inside chrome always takes me there.
I would not mind in this case. Some people may need that to see the new perspective.
The all new Python Package Index is now in beta at pypi.org
The problem I see is that there is no money to be made in a social network that doesn't sell its users' data. It will require a fundamentally different business model (e.g., subscription based). Maybe a philanthropic model like Wikipedia. If any of the many billionaires on Earth donated a few billion to it, it could be self-funded forever.
Rupert Murdoch somehow managed to survive. They aren’t as savage in person as they appear to be. Indeed, who knows what info Facebook/whatsapp they have on the MPs and their families!
What a mess.
My experience (full-time Android dev) falls somewhat in the middle.

This sort of compatibility breaking was fairly common back in the AS 1.X/early 2.X days. As of now, it's really rare, and usually resolves automatically.
How to disable all of Windows 10's built-in advertising
Some black slaves in the US South got to live in the house, eat and drink with their masters, whip other slaves, and maybe even got an education. They lived in luxury compared to the field workers.

They were still slaves.
I tried in latest versions of FF and CH and it does not work (on Windows10). When I drag the ZIP archive to the area it does not do anything. Do all people just try on MAC or why it does not work for me?
How Facebook Helps Shady Advertisers Pollute the Internet
What Americans call liberals is "right" in the rest of the world. Versus "far-right" which is what Americans call conservatives. When Americans talk about "far-left" the rest of the world reads "center" .. there's no such thing as real "far-left" in American politics.
i use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avidemux for my video splicing needs.... it goes easy on my machine's resources.
The standard showcase for such things are usually transparent displays. While looking cool, they would be pretty annoying: There's always interference with the background. That's also why no one uses transparent whiteboards as seen in movies.

But of course, it would also be neat to just have displays on surfaces where not visible when turned off.
Anatomy of source maps
> I am unsympathetic to anyone at Facebook feeling moral disquiet. I think you know what you ought to do.

I don't work at Facebook and I actually don't know what Facebook employees ought to do, but I'm curious to know what you think about that.

Resign? Blow the whistle (to a society that really, really didn't seem to care until last week)? Try and find ways to put pressure the non-engineers in charge of product decision to do something? Unionize? Something else entirely?

Also, are you talking about all Facebook engineers or only some? Do you put those who work on React, Flow, Haxl, Hack, ReasonML, Mercurial, Occulus, etc. in the same basket?

Edit: Thanks for the link. Good read.
This thread is exactly what I'm talking about.

Making fun of "the other side" through strawmen and irony will earn you social points among people with the same views, of course. meanwhile, people that you make fun of will think before venting their opinions the next time among you or on this platform in general.

What it will not accomplish, though, is changing anybody's minds. Just make the forum more of an echo chamber which creates an illusion of political consensus.

Do you want to leave in an illusion? Do you think that bullying people of opposite political opinions into shutting up helps your political agenda in any way? Or, may be, you're setting yourself up for another big surprise come next election?
The phenomenon of smart contract honeypots
OnlyOffice is pretty good.
‘Academic’ honeypot datasets with 368M users that nobody is talking about
Well, yes, it always happens to someone - I mean, every upgrade will break some stuff for some devs. After all, the userbase of Android Studio is quite sizeable.

What I find hard to believe is that these problems would hit the same bunch of people every time, and on the top of it, affecting every project they work on. Come on.

And this is what dheera claimed ("almost every release of Android Studio has succeeded in breaking every single Android app"). If it's really so extreme, I'd say that he - or she - is not unlikely to be alone, or close to that.
It's hard to develop the effects, not move buttons around.

As for the "go fix it", that's exactly the reaction I was expecting. Open source projects can't handle criticism because it's volonteers working on it, so "go fix it if you don't like it". Not very productive, uh?

Personally, I use Pinta or Photoshop via Wine. Pinta is very good though.
But it was never built as a backup system. It's a whole feature that was designed from the ground up assuming it's the only thing on the car doing anything like the job it does.

There's 2 chefs.
You know, I'm inclined to agree with your sentiment. I just think it might be more nuanced. At least to me my friend's suffering is more immediate. Whatever work he would have done there is multiple layers removed from me. I'm not saying that this is ok, but I feel it's just human.
Luckily the story ends with him getting a nice internship at another company that's less problematic.
FB will acquire or crush any upcoming social networks. They actively watch out for any rising upstarts and have a lot of cash on hand.
atop i sweet for overview, but for IO I reach for iotop
Yes but Facebook is driven by the network effect, and only 230M users are from the US, compared to the 2.2B global.
I think you have dramatically different usage patterns than me. I use -o all the time. I only know -w for a limited time, but it's one of my favorite options since you can filter out a lot of garbage. You could replace it with grep -P '\bpattern\b', I guess.

I think what you are doing here is search, but -o and -w shine at data extraction and data manipulation. Things you would use Excel for, except on multiple GB files.
They have nearly the same information a normal user could get by running atop themselves, which reads the world-readable virtual files found in /proc. If you are using something like selinux to restrict access to /proc files, the same system could be used to restrict access to the /var/log files.
“Not commit crimes” is a good maxim when you’re living in a liberal democracy (and even then …). It’s less easy when the state outlaws things unjustly. Like being gay. Or being (a)religious. And to give just two examples that apply to (otherwise) liberal democracies, most people would include “personal, recreational drug use” in the same category. And there are Western democracies that outlaw certain sexual acts between consenting adults (e.g. Germany, which outlaws any incest, even between consenting adult siblings), which also rubs many people the wrong way.

In sum, “not [committing] crimes” isn’t always straightforward.
> That shouldn’t just worry anyone trying to stealthily spend Monero today. It also means evidence of earlier not-quite-untraceable payments remain carved into Monero’s blockchain for years to come, visible for any snoop that cares to look.

This is the key point from the article and it applies to every cryptocurrency. Just because a crypto seems anonymous now, does not mean it will be forever, and all the transactions from “now” will still be on the blockchain “forever.” Almost ironically, scrutiny of a currency increases with its usage, so you’re probably better off just not using cryptocurrencies to commit crimes.

P.S. Anyone got the link to the paper? Can’t believe wired didn’t even link to it
From what I know Ada is basically a legacy language mostly used by the military now a days.
Also, if it is too dark to drive at that speed you are supposed to slow down not use it as an excuse after the fact.

The speed limit is the max limit, conditions permitting.
As someone from the UK I am not at all surprised, there is no upside to him doing so. There is nothing he can say that will help, the committee will absolutely rip into him as their primary audience is the press and people of the UK, they don't really care about his answers to their questions.
The problem is that the story isn't about FB making mistakes, or being hacked, or doing something they said they wouldn't. It's that people are working out what it is they've agreed to to use the service, and there is no spinning that.
You say *nix machines, but some of your commands are Linux specific.
Both Android and Facebook use a passive security model. They didn’t ask for permission, but buried it in small print and pretended that’s good enough.
I don't know, I must be slow but many, many times I _forced_ myself to learn it, and there's just no way.

I've finally come to the conclusion that it isn't me, but it's the usability that is completely flawed.

Unfortunately, when one tries to say anything the response is "you go fix it then, asshole!" but I don't know how to develop desktop apps, so...
- domain names

- buying websites from flippa that have income

- collectible coins

- emergency water and food
(expect 1000x return if nuclear apocalypse)
> there is no money to be made in a social network that doesn't sell its users' data

There are plenty of decent business models between selling ads and pulling all stops to maximize ARPU [1]. Regulation could allow private social networks to flourish without abusing users or publishers.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPU