skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did move in before prices went crazy, and yes, I'd like to have a say. But people aren't negotiating "in good faith". They simply want to keep their property values sky high, without regard to what is good for the community.

They don't realize that their plumber and their house cleaner and their kid's teachers can't afford to live nearby anymore, which means they will either have to pay a fortune for those services, or deal with crappy service. They refuse to see the big picture and realize that sky high housing prices aren't what should be optimized for.

And now, because of their stubbornness, SB827 is going to come in and take away any control they had. Now local residents will have zero say in what happens, because the state is going to set the rules. So now we won't get a say in what's actually important because a bunch of stubborn people wouldn't allow anyone to do anything.
I doubt that. Kicking the Rom builders out of the Android Eco-System would probably cause the rise of a new mobile OS. So as long as Google doesn't want to end its monopoly they won't do that.
Alternative if you feel extra paranoid:

- Load the page

- Disconnect from the internet

- Drop your zip

- Get your files

- Clear all page info
Note: the project is called Upvote (and it's by Google) and the OP is not trying to vote manipulate.
Who you friend are says a lot about you. So does what you talk about.

Sure, you're not generating the most marketing data out of all facebook users, but you are generating a decent amount of marketing data.
> The entirety of China should be a Superfund site.

That would require a sizable expansion of EPA jurisdiction that might run into a few issues.
Top Performers: Stop Giving Your Time Away for Free
Disclaimer: This isn't legal advice.

The legal definition of recklessness requires that the person know (or should know) that the ride is dangerous. Legally, it is more difficult to prove when that person took actions that suggest they did not think it was dangerous.

To your point about broken safety features:

One could potentially even argue that the brake isn't a safety feature. It could be there to help riders that are scared of going too fast to more easily control their speed, simply for their own enjoyment. I don't think that use of the brake would be required under normal operations and therefore, it could be argued that the brake wasn't a safety feature. I personally don't think it makes sense that a "safety" feature is optional and relies on the rider, but I could be wrong. The designers were certainly negligent in other ways....

Not sure if that follows or if it makes any more sense to you, but legally, its a potential argument.
It looked like a brilliant move but they bought out quite a few social networks.

But Instagram can't save facebook (the website), though it may save Facebook the company.
Don't you get problems with equal Signatures but different meaning or different scale?
Example:

interface SomethingWithAge{
age();
}

class Person{
age(); // age in years
}

function classify( SomethingWithAge item ){
if( item.age() < 20 ){ print( 'young') } else{ print( 'old' ); }
}

p = new Person( 33 );
classify( p ) // prints 'old'

class Message{
age(); // age in milliseconds
}

c = new Message( 231443 );

classify( c ); // prints 'old'
Facebook responds to SMS and call logging concerns
I largely agree, and still for everything that Rust and company get right and for everything that Go gets wrong and for how much optimism I approach Rust and company with, I'm still far more productive in Go than any other language (even the ones with which I have much more experience). The only way I can explain this is that programming language design is something of an art form, and the integration of features and tools is far more important than the set of features and tools.
A few months back I had tried doing the "Hide this Page" game hoping to reclaim my feed. This turned into a Sisyphean task that makes Inbox Zero look fun. As it turns out, there are also a number of pages[0] that you simply cannot hide or otherwise unfollow.

I happened to "delete" my profile a week before this shit storm blew up and thankfully someone pointed out the Deactivate vs. Delete dark pattern and I quickly fixed that situation.

It's a weird world when the Smut Peddlers have some sound advice on living.

[0] - I didn't keep a list, but I recall one called "Wittitudes" or something along those lines simply lacked the "Hide" option, and all attempts at blocking it failed.
Fiat onramps will remain important because they drive the majority of mainstream adoption. Setting up a fiat on-ramp in an alternate jurisdiction invites a poker Black-Friday style government intervention (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Scheinberg#Ac...).
People in US don't really use Whatsapp.

iOS users do use iMessage and Android use Hangouts.
"Many boomers facing retirement want to work because they fear they don't have enough money for retirement." - shouldn't this increase the unemployment rate?
Don't forget Telegram is gaining tractions lately. I just registered Telegram and hope Whatsapp die!
Even when you're not doubting the recommendation enthusiasm, it's hard to not be suspicious of the charity itself, given how badly most of them are managed.
Facebook has no serious competition at the moment other than Snapchat. Young people are still using Instagram and Messenger. Ironically, the calls for regulation might actually end up helping Facebook in the end as they will make the barriers to entry higher.
Packaging Wine Application 'Path of Exile' with Flatpak for Linux
If that's the case, it's a pretty recent development. Python and JS didn't have this until very recently. Yeah, Go is a bit late to the party, but hardly worth the dramatic criticism in this thread.
Yeah, that's fair but, from experience, the threshold in Seattle is much less than 6k
The entire on-prem vs. cloud is orthogonal to GDPR. Your stack either compliant with it or it isnt, regardless if you run on AWS or on OVH.
I don't see how call and text history needs to be logged. How are they using that data to 'help friends find each other' or 'make the experience better for everyone'? Wouldn't access to your contacts on your phone be more than enough? Or even just logging who you've ever texted or called before, instead of every single call and sms.
iRobot builds more than just roomba, I was wondering about their more advanced military robots.
Average Return Per User?
All fair points and an indication to the quality of 'friends' sometimes who might or might not make the effort. One point I'll make is that being on LinkedIn, to me, as what being on Facebook is for him. I don't like LinkedIn, but I'm on it, reluctantly. I am only there for potential business and 'presence'. My "contacts" are mostly former colleagues, and recruiters. Every button click on LinkedIn requires a second thought as it might be a contact harvesting trap or worst. I really don't like it, yet I'm there because I realise that sometimes this is a viable channel for this or that purpose.
Or, maybe, gasp companies are realizing that senior guidance is particularly important amongst all these self-entitled millennials.
> whereas the allegation seems to be that they were simply negligent in the Kogan/CA case.

No, the allegations in the CA case—the specific lawsuit being discussed—is that they were willful and based on Facebook’s corporate strategy of selling itself on the basis of the platform as a tool to manipulate behavior.
It might help, actually. Your assumption is that what the rich do with their mmonet doesn't actually hurt the poor; but it can. Itcab be used to purchase narratives and political influence in ways deeply harmful
Unlocking a Hotel Room Door with a Paper Menu [slyt]
There’s a very popular way of talking about autism as “explaining” or providing a “why I am different,” that to me doesn’t make sense: https://intellectualizing.net/2015/03/31/not-explaining-auti...

There’s a misunderstanding that diagnosis of autism is finding a cause for some traits. The reality of the DSM is that autism literally is a list of traits - a shorthand renaming of the list. There’s no implication that it’s a single condition, or a discrete condition, or has any known cause, or explains anything. https://intellectualizing.net/2013/12/17/book-rethinking-aut...

Naming or categorizing isn’t the same as explaining!

Anyway kind of a pedantic point I guess but maybe autism explains the need to make those :-)

I do think there’s value to finding kindred spirits and community, which categories and names can help with.
"How do we get people to consent to uploading our metadata?"

"I know. Why don't we use a cute character with a heart next to him?"

I wonder if there's a name for this sort of dark pattern.
> Hotel-Breakfast-Cook

...if you only knew what I know, that wouldn't be item #3.

/then again, food handling in general is sausage making at its finest I suppose...
> It's not like Google is a privacy haven for people who care about that sort of thing.

Google, Facebook, and Amazon are all on my shit-list. Any company that harnesses hapless users as a product can rot in hell.
Instagram is a completely different app, usage, and completely different UI/UX from Facebook.

Facebook's problems are caused by Facebook (website)'s design, trajectory, and business model. It doesn't have anything to do with inherent evilness in the company itself.
Yup this will work. You can also check out the actual JS code to make sure we're not doing anything sneaky with your data:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/Common_questi...
You mean where the ones where the apps you want don't exist or the one which works on Amazon.

Apt sources don't require permission to use them with a particular device.
The profiles can be fractured but combined conceptually with Keybase for the best of both worlds.
As Obama famously said, it's "just metadata" -- why do you think it's a problem?
This line of argument doesn't mean anything when we already have cars with intelligent, independent drivers, and these systems. And yes, their purpose would be to override the AI control when they trigger. Exactly the same as they do right now.
While I'm not top talent, and haven't been pursued by Facebook, I've always wondered why anyone would want to be associated with them. Other than as a status symbol in tech. I've never thought of them as anything less than a reprehensible company.
>senior guidance is particularly important amongst all these self-entitled millennials.

Probably not great to generalize "millennials".
Fake news is the symptom, not the disease.

The disease is that our society is gullible and emotionally fragile, and the people bombarding us with propaganda know this. Fake news is tuned to our weaknesses and to fix this we need to improve ourselves as a society. If we don't then whatever media comes next will be similarly tuned, and the cycle will repeat itself (again), as it nearly always has.

That sounds like a big task, but look the (regretfully temporary) wave of intellectualism that swept across the US in the '60s, in response to russian Cold War Space Race shenanigans

We can do that again... maybe. (There were a lot less conveniences then) But something tells me our society has neither the heart nor the guts to do so.
I enjoy gaming and occasionally there’s an application I want to run that is unavailable on Linux. Up until now my primary way of dealing with this was to use multiple wine bottles, one for each game. While this provides a little bit of segmentation for applications, it is not a sandbox.

I figured this would be a good opportunity to test out flatpak, and figure out how to package and build a wine application with it.

I'm not actually distributing Path of Exile, or technically even packaging Path of Exile. This package really just contains everything necessary to install Path of Exile.

Path of Exile is not installed until the user runs the flatpak for the first time at which point it downloads the installer directly from their website and runs it. Everything distributed in the flatpak is open source.

Path of Exile is also free to play.

Let me know what you think of the post and if you try the flatpak and have any criticism feel free to leave me a pull request on GitHub.
> "(yes I know facebook owns this, but it's not facebook)"
Facebook Changed Everything, It’s Not a Fad, and I’m with Zuck (2012)
I’m extremely introverted, but spent a few months backpacking which really forced me out of my comfort zone. I met my wife at a hostel on that trip and we have two kids together. I’d never had ordinarily talked to her, but I was lonely and we were the only Americans there. I don’t think we’ve been apart for more than a few days since we both got back to the US.
> Any full uninstall of a system app would require remounting /system as rw.

Why do Google Apps have to be installed to the system partition anyway?

I have tried several email clients and image viewers from Google's app store, — all of them work fine without being system apps.
Firefox Hello stands out to me as another case of Mozilla stubbornly trying to make something work for much longer than anyone on the outside would have advised. It started as an intern project to demo WebRTC and persisted for 3 years amidst incessant predictions of its doom.

Thunderbird has received continuous development and maintenance for coming up on 15 years since its public release.
And even if the stock went super low with the information we have today by some miracle where every investor takes a stand and refuses to buy, stock doesn't impact a company's operations. A lower stock price doesn't mean a company makes less money, and "wiping out their valuation" only hurts investors.

A company's accountant couldn't care less what their stock price is (unless the accountant owns that company's stock).
thanks! updated in comment too
Fair enough, I had trouble coming up with concrete examples. I do think there are plenty of engineering situations where safety isn't a major concern though.
Can I just say that my service doesn't cater to EU residents?
“Overpriced” means the market will not bear the cost. That’s all it means. Most of these vacancies are accounted for in some way already (vacation property, rented but not yet occupied, etc). The article provides no evidence that the majority of the vacant properties are in any way overpriced.
> Google was down over the same period BECAUSE of Facebook

This feels counter-intuitive to me as these are the major players in online advertising. A facebook exodus would feel like a positive for google's primary revenue driver. Why is the inverse effect true?
Which is also what the Obama campaign took advantage of. The victims of the Obama campaign - those that did not know that their data would be used in this way and did not authorize it - approximately 199 million people - all have causes of action against Facebook if this lawsuit is allowed to proceed.
It seems like they can direct book specialist referrals, so I guess that’s where the money is.

My doc hates it — they built a good practice and did a lot of innovative stuff. Now it sounds like 10/10 on the awful bureaucracy scale.

The only happy doctor I know is an eye doctor who pays the fine to Medicare instead of putting in an EMR. He keeps the staff minimal and avoids overhead like IT. According to him, all of his colleagues with the big systems are miserable, working 80 hour weeks and probably 50% have alcohol or other substance problems.
The non-broken promise of static typing
Let's not forget that Facebook's network is actually a virtual one. The real social graph is independent of any virtualization provider.

Which is why all it will take is a compelling competitor to start the great migration. This is sort of the corollary to the network effect — as soon as there is a better alternative that people really move to, a vast amount of people will move spontaneously.

Imagine if Instagram started right now. Do you think they would accept any offer to be bought by Facebook?
True, one of the primary reasons enterprises want software to run on-premises is so data doesn't leave company. But this article is talking about SaaS software, specifically it is talking about fairly complex software where the software provider might actually manage the software even though it is running on-promises at a customer site.

This type of software is delivered as virtual machines, or in the case of Gravitational they package up Kubernetes. Think something more like GitHub Enterprise (if GH managed it) instead of Oracle Database.

The enterprise running the software would be providing block storage as part of their virtualization infrastructure, but they would have little insight into how the data is stored. It would be a black box. The software would need to provide sufficient APIs to get GDPR data out (deletes, dumps, etc.).

As an easy example let's say I make a SaaS logging service. I can tell my customers (the controllers) that I know nothing of their data, they send me a JSON blob and I index it, I have no idea what parts of the data are personal. They can either not send personal data in the logs, or they can use our APIs to search, extract, and delete data when a customer makes a request. For me, I wouldn't have to service any additional requests or write any additional features, it makes little difference if I deliver the software as SaaS or on-prem[1].

A harder example would be a SaaS CRM product, maybe it includes a support ticket system, a forum, purchase records, etc. All of that is locked up in a GUI, with no meaningful API. As a SaaS product I would have to write features so my customer (the controller) could dump and delete data for a specific one of their customers. I know what the records are, how they relate to individuals, what rows in what tables in what DBs matter. My customer (the controllers) doesn't know any of that. If it was delivered as on-prem software it would still need features to dump or delete that data.

[1] It isn't quite true that there is little difference between SaaS and on-prem. There are trade offs in both directions. With SaaS you have to deal with all the sub-processor stuff, ensuring they are GDPR compliant and getting consent from the controller to use each sub-processor. If it is on-prem you can pass that burden to the controller. On the other hand updating software and troubleshooting it a lot easier if you run it yourself, versus having it locked away in some enterprise virtualization system you can't access. And it is easier to write your software to run on your infra instead of all the mixes of infra that enterprises run. But then again if you are running a multi-tenant SaaS you are going to have to deal with big scaling issues, but if it runs on-prem at each customer site you have effectively sharded your data. Now you just have to make sure you can reliably run a schema change across 1000 DBs, spread across the worlds, that you can't monitors and can't access. Yep, there are trade offs.
Summary of GitHub special files and paths:

README LICENSING CONTRIBUTING CODE_OF_CONDUCT etc.

/.github /docs /ISSUE_TEMPLATE /PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE
etc.
At the time that I wrote this post, I was only getting started in digital advertising. I knew Facebook had a wide social and technical moat. But now I know that as a competitor to, and user of Facebook advertising — it's so much more powerful than other options for advertising at scale. The craziest part is that they haven't even opened the doors to what they can really do yet in terms of targeting.
Atlanta airport considers axing parking as ride-hailing apps gain favor
We need an injunction to keep Zuck from using FB data in 2020 run
Thanks, unfortunately IMDb's data dumps miss a lot. I used to work at a (VFX) studio, and people would always complain how they didn't make it on IMDb, even though they were in the actual credits.
> Neither case was illegal

Cambridge Analytica probably broke U.S. election laws [1]. The Obama campaign didn’t. This recurring false equivalence is disengenuois.

[1] https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics/exclusive-cambridge-anal...
Every single Heroku API is down. Wot?
My day job is at a massive institution. We recently went all-in on O365. The odds of us ever leaving this platform are slim-to-none. Microsoft has really hit a powerful long-term business model.

The key is tying these services to discounts on Windows licensing. We're buying them anyway so no matter what Google offers us they can't beat the cost savings Microsoft can provide. Same with AWS vs Azure — we can use our volume licensing in the cloud with Azure where with other providers we'd have to pay through the nose.

Until Windows is threatened, this will be the status quo. And I think that disruption will take quite a while.
I explained to a friend that since WhatsApp demanded full access to all contact details it, and by extension Facebook now knew his full postal address, which bank he used, where he worked, the identity of his boss, his therapist and his parent's address and possibly birthdays. He looked a bit thoughtful, at least. Its not the encryption, its the meta data.
> Seriously you just have to work on it - dating post college is much more work (for all genders and orientations) - like multiple dates a week for months to find someone you click with.

I agree with this (and the rest of what you said - MTV isn't feasible for young starving artists or baristas) but this is so much harder when you can barely get any dates.

That's actually my point: the real problem in SFBA isn't having a diverse romantic life (though that's also virtually impossible): it's finding a pool of candidates large enough to have a real shot at finding a compatible spouse, if you're a man.

Precisely because it can take dozens of dates to find one good spouse, one must realize that engineers who can't find dates for years (as someone commented below from his own experience) will have virtually no chance of finding a compatible partner.

And even if you are lucky enough to score several dates and find a woman who is compatible, you'll often quickly discover that she has her own wait-list of qualified candidates, and you are unfortunately not at its top.
This is what they call "Game" and it too is learnable. Being relaxed is a big part of it.
So, let's say that their choice of media consumption indicates, or creates, their not-wealthier.

If they can tap into the entire universe of education and experience an Internet connection implies, and pick cat videos... what would you say is the critical link in their paupery?

I mean, horses to water and all that, and it's a matter of choice.
Making security sustainable
The success rate of anti-depressants is closely comparable to sugar pills.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4172306/
Running code wherever the database thinks is best is a nice thing, but nothing really prevents it from being implemented in a more flexible language than something built on top of SQL. SQL is powerful, but it's a DSL.
No, that's not included. Read the link.

I do not speak for Fitbit, but I work for Fitbit, and I do not appreciate my employer being baselessly lumped in with violators of privacy.
Antidepressants and the Placebo Effect (2014)
That's a cultural problem, not a technical one.
To clarify, on MIUI devices one can install Google Play at anu time without having root or system fs access, though the author's concern still stands.
So will they be present after a full device reset. The alternative's to download them after reset. But that would not always work if you were in an area with a bad connection.
Seems similar to the one who shot and killed her boyfriend (husband?) in front of their kid for a YouTube prank.
We’ll survive too. It’s just going to cost a fortune. 9 billion people on the planet by 2050.

The US debt is $21 trillion and we’re adding a trillion a year.

We’re going to need both an economic and technological miracle in about 50 years.
'Top talent' generally have a lot of options, and there are plenty of companies in the Bay Area which have an engineer-friendly environment. Street-cred matters a lot more than you might think.