skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not an expert on self-driving cars, but modern, statistical machine learning systems have to be trained sort of end-to-end. That is, if you want to machine-learn how to perform a task, you have to learn both the low-level and the high-level actions at once. And you can't add to the knowledge of the task, once the system is trained.

That's a limitation of the technology: statistical machine learning models are notoriously non-compositional. That means that basically you can't take one trained model and use it as a feature, to learn a new model for a different task.

Say, if you train a machine learning classifier C1 to recognise class Y1 from features F1,...,Fn, you can't then take the model of Y1 built by C1 and give it to a different classifier, C2, as a feature in a new feature vector Fn+1,...,Fn+k to learn a different class, Y2.

So you have to learn everything you need to know in one go- and that's terribly, awfully difficult.

There is a type of machine learning algorithm whose models are inherently compositional- Inductive Logic Programming (full disclosure: that's my research). These learn logic representations and from logic representations, so once you learn a model you can use it as a new feature and continue learning. Statistical machine learning folks have been trying to do that for a while now, without much success.
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As they point out, the public, consensual mutation-resistance of blockchain makes it rather hard to walk back mistakes.
It feels like Zuck is in panic and listening too much to his PR advisors who are likely telling him to stay out of the public until the storm settles. Not a smart move on this particular case
I worked abroad for 12 years, 10 even in China where dual sims are even more common. Even my Chinese colleagues would often use an iPhone and just switch the SIM in the airplane, it isn’t that hard. Dual sims are actually meant for (a) people with a personal and business SIM or (b) people cheating on their wife (so an official SIM and a SIM for the xiaosan(s)). Both very niche even in China.

Dual SIM simply isn’t really a feature that would drive phone sales in the states.
> I'd prefer a heavily regulated private provider rather than handing all this to data to any government

Agreed. By "public" I meant the government has to step in, not that they need to take over. The solution involves:

1. Breaking up Facebook; and

2. Implementing an American analog to Europe's GDPR.
The recent breakthrough is high current YBCO tape, not YBCO itself.

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> and it's not because he has genuine concerns about his users privacy.

yups. FB users are to FB, what cows are to milk farms. main difference is that FB users are free to go, and cows are in some sort of bonded labour/slavery construction, although it is not commonly called that way.
It's a balancing act. If you're a Canadian company (or have a Canadian subsidiary, I assume), adding French to support Quebec is not enough to show that you're targeting EU customers[1], but if you add French and payments in Euro, that might me.

[1] https://gdpr-info.eu/recitals/no-23/
"The trouble with losing weight is that we actually like fastfood."

Yeah, no shit. It still makes you stupid and fat and the only reason you won't quit is because their marketing and how their product is built is stronger than your will. So you do the wrong thing despite better knowledge.
I went out with a girl who works at Facebook (she does software development) and asked her this very question.

Basically her response was that the whole incident really isn’t even Facebook’s fault but rather the third party developers. Even though Facebook could have done a better job of protecting data, it’s a waste of time to do so as these companies will always find a way to violate the TOS. It’s a bit like fighting software piracy or ad-blocking, hackers are always getting a step ahead. No company is perfect, despite everything Facebook still does a lot of good in the world, and as a company it’s going to keep doing more of it. There’s a lot of people who hate Facebook for personal or business reasons, but in the end there’s no fundamental reason why Facebook is a bad company that shouldn’t exist, it’s only going to get better anyway.
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HN is not allowing me to edit my adjacent comment (11 minutes ago...), but I meant to add:

I'm sort of amazed that the implicit var args don't bother you... with var args promoted to first class syntax in ES6, the only reason they're still there is for backwards compatibility. Passing an unhandled arg to a function should at least be a runtime error, and likewise omitting a positional arg that lacks a default. I've seen countless bugs caused by this "feature" alone. When I think of JS programming in the large, I think of "undefined is not a function" and "cannot read property 'foo' of undefined." It's quite hellish.
Sort of. There is Azure Stack ( https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/overview/azure-stack/ ) and Microsoft also deploys Azure in private data centers mainly for Governments.
I don't think this is true in a world where people can borrow money.
Indeed. I had the same thoughts in mind.
Of course, don't fix the cause of the problems. Just fix people's perception of you, or more importantly, bribe Congress to protect you from the people asking for your head.
I'm much more optimistic. I suspect increase in social network investments and viable replacement coming out ~year from now. It's not very hard to copy main FB features, but baking privacy in will take some effort.

To be honest, I don't see FB coming out of this. Their image is ruined, now they need a push and will start slowly collapsing. I'm betting on Yahoo-style slow decay.
The GDPR doesn't apply to EU citizens outside the EU. It applies to people that are in the EU (be they EU citizens or not).
This is gold. Are journalists typically aware of these improvement suggestions or are they just on the hamster wheel?
I've tried to reverse engineer it, but failed. The best place to start, IMO, is the communication between client-server over a websocket. It is binary, but shows some interesting data and keys as in key-names, from key-value, not crypto-keys).

My idea was to make an API-rate limiter, where a client has to submit a list of calculated hashes (PoW) with each request and so protect the API against bots, scrapers and other (D)DoS attacks. Bad idea, because the data that has to be transfered (in Headers) is going to huge, megabytes, if you want to make even a few cents on a million-hits-per-day API.
It does because the non-compact version is ITER and that costs $50bn. Smaller = cheaper.
I hardly think 10 years ago qualifies for this point of view.
Sounds like a lot of ego protection going on. "We're the real victims!"
You don't buy a 'random' phone, you start your shopping process from the list of devices supported by LineageOS.
To be fair being called in front of MP's is like a ritualised grilling, nothing ever comes out of it other than total humiliation for the victim.
It seems that very few political meanings are accurate when it comes to US politics. The terms liberal and conservative have pretty much lost all their original meaning.
to paraphrase the immortal words [1] of Mandy Rice-Davies, well she would say that wouldn't she.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandy_Rice-Davies
So when they tell me to open my luggage at the airport, it may be because they have just seen a fake knive or gun placed on the x-ray image by the system to enhance their attention? Amazing!
The average American has maybe 3-4 hours of discretionary time per day. They choose to spend an hour of it on Facebook. The newsfeed algorithm could be optimized to do anything -- Facebook's own experiments show that they can make people happy or sad. They choose to maximize their own revenue. There is immense potential to improve the lives of their users, and they choose to sell an unimaginable amount of human potential for what amounts to 30 cents per hour.
Yes, and I was pointing out that parent’s post missed the point of grandparent’s post.
Maybe they do it as well, but you still can test just a limited are with this approach.
> Zuck is in panic and listening too much to his PR advisors

In all fairness, and with a healthy dose of irony, he isn't a terrific people person. At least not in front of the camera. Unfortunately, one of the jobs of the CEO of a crisis-stricken company is to be the face of the response.
Not being familiar with the area, what problem would this solve for indoor farming?
The statement "with 95% confidence" is a classic misinterpretation of what a CI is, the assumption of Poisson is dubious but there's no obvious plausible alternative. Overall seems reasonable.
How much should your boss know about you?
Bad news: you already have an unregulated private provider who's handing all this data to any government that will pay for it (and some that haven't).

https://theintercept.com/2018/03/26/facebook-data-ice-immigr... (caution on source reliability, but the essential fact that any intelligence agency could have done the same thing as CA, or bought their data, or stolen it, remains.)
From a while ago, this famous onion piece...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juQcZO_WnsI
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Facebook used to have a little book that they gave out to employees that was almost like a manifesto for what Facebook was, and should strive to be.

The book claims strongly that Facebook is a communications company, who want to help (not force) people be more social, and that advertising is purely a side effect intended to enable them to achieve that mission. It was quite cliche, but overall I got the impression that it was honest, I really do think that Facebook the company, and by extension, many of their employees do see themselves like that.

I personally find that to be a little naive, but then I am more sensitive to privacy issues than the average person.
Less Instagram and more snap for the younger kids.

In general, I find each generation has its own preferred social platform — Facebook for generation X, Instagram for millennials, and Snap for whatever we’re calling whoever comes after. Each of these platforms seems to reflect the collective concerns of each generation.
True. It is fairly hard to unsettle an incumbent defacto 'standard' that doesn't make mistakes.
Yes is this a new thing? I don't remember in the past the committees being so publicly snide and unpleasant like they seem to be now. Maybe it wasn't televised so prominently before?

And the most strange part is how they now have celebrity appearances as well - comedians and actors?
I'll never understand why they actively fight people wanting a chronological timeline.
Facebooks PR seems all over the place. It seems to go like this:

1) Blame users/say it wasn't as bad/not a breach

2) Controversy gets worse

3) Apologise, say we got it wrong, working on it

I think this is especially dumb as FB took out a personally-signed-by-Zuckerberg letter in 6 UK sunday papers last weekend. It looks very fake.
What else would the world expect from a spineless little jerk?
It's not because 'there is no state' - you just outsourced state(s) to the third party.
Yes, I think there's a natural "churn" with these things. A lifecycle was first identified for MUD users decades ago, and there are already ""dead"" social networks to show that it can happen: Bebo, Orkut, Myspace, and so on.
Well, maybe you get lucky and some "influencer" picks it up and writes about it or whatever ;)
Using Facebook in limited ways can hurt them nearly as much as deleting. Monthly actives might not go down much but revenue per user will.
GIMP has helped me time and again, glad to see it getting such impressive changelogs. Layer group masks are especially interesting to me.

Kudos to the dev team.
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Every single time something seems to claim to be untraceable or anonymous, it seems to hold for a while, and then there's a "<X> is not as safe as we thought" headline.

Seems to be a good rule to just not trust anything.
I roughly agree with this in terms of the recent events, but Facebook has been doing creepy stuff that I think many people disagree with for a long time, and that seems to be getting worse.

Advertisers being able to target so effectively, by salary, by socio-economic status, and by hundreds or even thousands of metrics. I think that's still bad, and I don't think I could work on a product like that.
I think it's the other way round. We are not "breaking through to regular people", the current campaign against Facebook is rather exploiting peoples superficial knowledge and unfounded fears to build a disingenuous case.

Facebook has been too slack, and the good part about this whole thing is that they may finally might get their sh*t together. At least they have the power to bring this under control, as the various decentralized alternatives being touted here on HN won't have.

> To call general articles on websites like cnn.com "targetted influencing " is a bit of a stretch.

Yeah, well. Depends on your definition of targeting, but influencing it is. And as usual, how good or bad you think that influencing might be depends on if you like what you are being led to believe or not.
Same. When they changed the algorithm to show things other than my most recent friends updates, I removed the FB app from my phone.

I still use FB because I have a lot of international friends, but removing the FB app and replacing it with the site.

I only use Messenger for about 3 people right now, so that's going soon too.
I don’t get the implication.
More or less; if you just happen to be accessible from the EU, but have otherwise no connection to the EU at all, you're probably not subject to the GDPR:

"In order to determine whether such a controller or processor is offering goods or services to data subjects who are in the Union, it should be ascertained whether it is apparent that the controller or processor envisages offering services to data subjects in one or more Member States in the Union. (..) the mere accessibility of the controller’s, processor’s or an intermediary’s website in the Union, of an email address or of other contact details, or the use of a language generally used in the third country where the controller is established, is insufficient to ascertain such intention"

https://gdpr-info.eu/recitals/no-23/
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Only on certain Linux systems is it deprecated. On the BSDs netstat is still the preferred tool.
Right, that's why no one ever gets a raise without coercion. Companies would never compete to establish the price of labor without coercion. Similarly, this is why no basketball players make more than $100,000... after all, why would any company ever pay someone more than unless they were being forced?
So still no GTK3? I think when GTK4 is released in a few months, it would be a good time to move to GTK3 as they can still be outdated.

I know I am being a bit bitter for an open source project with less funding, but GIMP was supposed to be a poster boy GTK application in the first place.
So now they are trying to bribe their way out of their lack of ethics.

Pathetic bunch of liars - they're right on par with Trump.
% of overall profiles is probably low; there are a lot of bots on these social networks.

But real, active users? Once that starts to decline, Facebook is dead; and I’m not sure they can tell bots from humans very well. Facebook has a lot of data; but it turns out every company that advertised with them turned around and used that data to essentially build their own customer targeting databases. Facebook’s data policies were very naive, and it’s coming back to bite them now that user expectations have come around.
This probably makes sense. I've wondered looking at coinmarketcap.com which tokens every could possibly be adding. The top by market cap are: EOS (a placeholder until they're mainnet goes live), TRX, and USDT. None of which seem like good candidates for coinbase or even gdax listing
> That's a bit of semantic but yeah Google is 100% responsible of the hacky mess of the Android landscape nowadays.

100%? What about the hardware manufactures which release closed source and buggy drivers?

> If you cannot even run the OS on the hardware without using some buffer overflows in the first place, that's another level.

Buy a phone which allows you to unlock the bootloader then ;) LG does that since since 2015 for example.
example? I tried a few things, clearly since -r it's not a single file grep, but throwing in -h with -r is confusing. I thought I was pretty good at grepping...

-r everyone needs, but usually -R is a better default since it does not ignore symlinks

-h I practically never use since I'm almost always using grep to find what file I need to further investigate and letting the stuff down the | line deal with it

-o makes sense, kinda, I want to do that in the next stage of the pipe, maybe I have used it once? cant remember

but -w... I feel like I'm missing something there.
> which shows you the processes and owners of open TCP/UDP ports

naw, that would be `netstat -lntup`
(listening, nummeric, tcp, udp, programm)

your mentioned command shows essentially all currently active tcp network streams.
https://explainshell.com/explain?cmd=sudo+netstat+-atpn

btw, glances is even more complete than htop

https://github.com/nicolargo/glances
It always has. You have to edit your gitconfig. On mobile, so I can't paste mine. A Google search should get you there. It did for me like 5 years ago.
They always let loose a little - you can go back and look at old transcripts and see much the same thing.

There's a certain element of it becoming slightly worse due to being televised. In an era where there is a huge gap between government rhetoric and practice, it can be a useful way to signal ones 'principles' even as one files obediently through the government lobby when it comes to voting on actual legislation.
> FB took out a personally-signed-by-Zuckerberg letter in 6 UK sunday papers last weekend

Were they identically worded?
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The reason for no/lacking customer support is that it requires humans, and humans are expensive.
I see quite a lot of those views here, I'm often surprised at the amount of support they get here.
A new Dashboard dock helps with monitoring GIMP’s resource usage to keep things in check, allowing you to make more educated decisions about various configuration options.

That looks so ridiculous and out-of-place in an image editing program. If it weren't for the left side, you'd think it was Visual Studio!

https://msdnshared.blob.core.windows.net/media/MSDNBlogsFS/p...
Please recall that the vast majority of Facebook users are not from the US. I'm not sure the scandal has been that much publicized or that their global image has changed much to be honest.
That is baffling, and probably down to your setup somehow. What exactly prevents it from compiling?
I’m still amazed that people think really efficient advertising is creepy.
At a guess, being able to easily augment sunlight in parts of the world that get few hours of sunlight during local winter.
Sun shines through when it's there, LED takes over when not.

However in practice I don't think this would be useful - they're considerably less efficient than existing LEDs (currently 1% vs 25-30%) and I think that efficiency is more of a problem than transparency.
Those are level 1 or level 2 systems, not level 4 ones. In the former systems, the driver must and will intervene often, in the latter intervention is really really rare. It would get painfully boring very quickly in a level 4 system to have the driver on the wheel at all time but not do anything. The same problem arises in airplanes with modern autopilots.
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Large corporations usually lack a moral consciousness. Why should they have one, if it is bad for their sole purpose - generating value for it's shareholders?
> if Google comes out with its own tablet

Yes, I get that Google is not really pressed in the tablet space (as it seems to be dead in the water, no new shiny tables for ages), but this interpretation reads too much into Google's tablet strategy. (Which is so far to concentrate on mobiles, and pay lip service to the tablet line by simply allowing Acer et al. to use a/the Google brand.)

> developer fees

??? So far Google Play dev account is free, of course Firebase is expensive as fuck.
I use GIMP regularly, and always impressed at the quality of the tool and the amount of features it has. Looking forward to the v2.10 release. Anyone know where I can download a Windows build of the release candidate? Can't seem to find a link on the website.
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Change isn't coming. Sorry.

Trump's victory signaled a social media gold-rush for political campaigns. 2018 is a major election year in American politics. You can bet that campaigns are evaluating and signing onto social media related efforts. To meet this demand, as Cambridge Analytica buckles, others will take it place. The people who benefit by these services are those who make the laws. While legislators benefit by social media targeted services, there won't be a political will sufficient to pass a law that will slay the goose laying golden eggs.
And the critics all sound like short sellers.
This Russian shtick is really getting tiring now. It's bordering on xenophobia and Mccarthyism.
I moved overseas. The thing is that politics back home does affect me. If they go absolutely nuts back home (US), that affects how folks approach me here. It can affect travel and all sorts of things. The tax codes affect me since they find it prudent to tax citizens regardless of where they live and work. Fortunately, taxes here are high, but if they weren't, I'd have to pay the US government. The unfortunate part of this whole thing is that I can't really influence politics back home. Technically, I can vote. But it makes me question whether or not it counts, since the form asks me if I plan on living in the states again. I don't think a senator will listen to me, especially since I'm from Indiana and therefore a tiny demographic. I certainly feel taxed without proper representation.

On the other hand, I can vote in local elections here (Norway) since I've lived here 3 years. I just can't vote in national elections (the elections switch between the two, first a national election then 2 years later, a local election. 2 years later, back to national). It benefits me to pay some attention to local politics.
Arrogant little boy king.

This is a major PR blunder. It's hard to imagine such attitude will make the parliament more lenient. Facebook just played a vital role in the manipulation of British democracy in one of the most important decisions in a century. But the CEO responsible couldn't care to fly over and explain himself. If what Facebook wanted was to be forgiven (or at least forgotten), and to secure more accommodating regulation, they just made that a lot harder for themselves.
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Do you mean Facebook the platform or the company? The product has been slowly declining for a while now, losing (potential) users to Instagram. But since Instagram and Whatsapp belong to the same company, they likely won't collapse.