skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's it. No one will scour every Facebook account, posts and so forth. Even Facebook can't do it (hence hiring folks for the very similar reviewing of posts). Instead, it's used as a future legal leverage, OR as a future check in case they need to look into you.

It's insidious, of course, and really makes me regret posting anything to Facebook at all.

Who knows if you're friends with someone who did someone naughty or who is suspect for some reason? Social media has turned into a nightmare.
Next step Git for those that already know add and commit
Ultrasound Patch Could Make It Easier to Inspect Damage in Odd-Shaped Structures
Google employees who leak official confidential information: unannounced products, internal company documents, etc can get fired. There's nothing shocking about that. That will get you fired at pretty much any workplace. These are not "whistleblower" leaks.

If you leak say, a private thread from internal mailing lists, you could lose your job, especially if it could harm other employees. If you summarize some issue, you probably are on steadier ground.

Google has a vibrant internal culture of criticism. Memegen has already leaked (https://gizmodo.com/5946769/google-workers-make-internal-mem...), execs and products get raked over the coals at weekly company wide meetings, there's actually internal comics that satirize company beliefs.

And yes, management doesn't always listen, probably the single biggest reason unionization might be needed in Silicon Valley, not for worker pay and benefits, which are already good, but to ensure management listens on other issues.

BTW, the TGIF transcript and meme leaks are the kinds that have ended up Doxxing employees and triggering harassment. The gizmodo link I put properly redacts the usernames, but other leaks have not.
... but Nvidia has their own drivers for even the most recent graphics cards that work perfectly fine. Writing this from a OSX setup with a GTX1080.
The US frames prison as primarily revenge, it's about taking things away from "bad" people. Take away their nice things, destroy their family, make sure they'll never get a decent job and so on.

The EU (and most modern actual thinking on the issue) says prison primarily lets us force convicts to reform, we can impose structure in their lives, show them how to be good - and in the worst case we keep them there if they refuse to reform.

The British government fought and lost a legal battle to retain the status where prisoners can't legally vote (and many people who are in jail but aren't convicted of any crime don't end up being able to vote even though it's legal). The EU said that's not OK. You can target criminals who e.g. are in prison for vote tampering, but you can't take away people's vote just because they're in prison since they're still citizens.
Apple hasn't released a product with an NVIDIA GPU for years. Also, driver support for NVIDIA GPUs on MacOS is not very good compared to AMD GPU driver support on MacOS.
Can't understand how people still deny that there are simply way too many humans on this planet. We need population control asap otherwise this will only end up in the worst humanitarian and ecological catastrophe ever imagined.

Edit: Love the downvotes, where is this anthropocentric bias coming from? it's absolutely illogical and irrational, look at the situation neutral, replace humans with another species, we kill certain animals if they overpopulate areas and cause other species harm, so how are we any different? your cognitive dissonance most likely only stems from society's norms or religiously induced moral standards
Yeah but they are willing to let you siphon out a bunch of money in order to keep the founder happy and healthy.
Minimalistic, yet highly addictive one tap Game
Culture Dive into Silicon Valley – the TV show vs. the best books on startups
This was the most interesting statement for me in this blurb. -- "These NOAA regulations were enacted to prevent individuals from launching and flying their own personal spy satellites in space. However, as astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell pointed out on Twitter, it is not clear what national security rationale there is for controlling cameras on the second stage of SpaceX rockets."

I asked in this comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16555617) what happens when someone sends up a cubesat that turns out to be a "spy satellite." Apparently NOAA has a regulation for that. Apparently buried in this web site (https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/CRSRA/) which includes "Balance commercial viability of private Earth remote sensing space systems and sound regulatory practices and policies while protecting national security, foreign policy and international obligations."

So I guess they would come after you if you put up a cubesat that you could point in any direction and take pictures and send them back to Earth.
Single Sign-On for Kubernetes: The Command Line Experience – The New Stack
and the employees get nothing.

oh but that founder risk. right.
Show HN: WebAssembly Port of gl-matrix
From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html :

Please don't post on HN to ask or
tell us something. Instead, please
send it to hn@ycombinator.com.

I'm not official, but my belief is that you can't change an account name, the best you can do is create a new one and start afresh.
I can confirm that Sierra and Capitan do have Nvidia drivers for Pascal series.
In "What You Should Know About Politics ... But Don't", these two points of view are labeled "environmental moralists" and "environmental utilitarians". For the most part, the goals remain the same, but the reasons given for those goals are different.

Things tend to break down a bit when utilitarians try to force moralists to adopt their view, or vice-versa. In the end, it should just be sufficient to have some reason to care about the environment.
My point wasn't that SpaceX is actually losing money on every launch, only that the launch rate isn't the proper metric. The financial analyses I've seen online (eg, https://www.fool.com/investing/2017/11/11/will-spacex-earn-a...) conclude that the business is only marginally profitable, if at all. Musk could dispel the speculation by releasing the true financials. Until then, we only have limited information to go on, and that limited information points to slim-to-none profitability.
Allow me to contextualize all of your controversial deflection:

You specifically selected parts of the body that finish maturing earlier than my statement, because it was the most controversial thing that popped into your head. It didn't pop in to your growth plates, it didn't pop into your elbow. It didn't pop into your left middle toe. It popped into your head.

You should allow these very statements to marinate in that same head, and see if you can come to the correct conclusion as to which part of your body I was referring to in my original comment.
Cleo Is a Safety-Minded Donut-Shaped Drone That Fits in Your Pocket
My goodness. Most people I know have refrigerators full of condiments. I have that and two bottles of seltzer.
Don't 'Object'-ify Me: An Introduction to Functional Programming in JavaScript
Actual journalism often means pissing off wealthy or powerful people.

This suggests that the more powerful and wealthy a journalistic outlet gets, the less interested it is in actual journalism.
Do you really need WebSockets?
Foreign Investors in China’s Tech Sector Face New Risks
Will the world ever be ready for solar geoengineering?
Honoured to be included.
i m confused, what does EU mean then?
Yes, if you want to send bulk email you'll need to play by the rules of the receiving servers. It's not easy but it's doable, as evidenced by the multitude of Mailchimp competitors and self-hosted systems like Sendy.

Just because it's not as easy as using `<?php mail(); ?>` doesn't mean Mailchimp has some kind of monopoly that makes their acceptable use policy the same thing as censorship.
I strongly doubt we would let giraffes as a whole go extinct. There are many species (mostly birds) we have kept around for over thirty years now that went extinct in the wild since invasive species have rendered a lot of habitats uninhabitable for native fauna.

It would be an undesirable state of affairs to see giraffes go extinct in the wild, but zoo populations can maintain themselves and would probably expand to compensate if they were the only populations left.
Coming from a human?
He seems to still be alive and going on speaking tours at the moment, I believe.
It's 2018 and still leftpad issue, really?
Seeing the comments of some of these Facebook employees and the caps for “integirty” checks reminds me of flavor of the internal discussions at Booz Allen Hamilton after Edward Snowden leaked and was promptly fired from the company.

If you’ve worked somewhere, and given them sweat and blood for years, whether it’s Facebook or the NSA, it’s impossible to not feel defensive and betrayed when someone challenges the very ground you’ve been building your career on. Regardless of whether the challenger is right in the end.

Having said that, at least the government is honest about its secrecy and opaqueness, sounds like Facebook has a bit of a cult going on.
alias lsd="ls -d */"
Right, these are nice but you could also, yknow, just track it yourself...which is what is happening actually, but then you're giving it to google
> If you get regulated, you are now approved by the government.

Not necessarily. I suppose it would be possible to regulate it into nonexistence, by undermining the privacy-invading business model. You could probably get at least part-way there by requiring that profile-based targeted advertising and data collection be explicitly opt-in with informed consent. IIRC, the GDPR has a lot of good stuff about how consent must be obtained. Further regulations could mandate that services and incentives cannot be provided conditionally based on tracking or accepting profile-based targeted advertising, etc.

If the above regulation takes effect, much of the business value of profile data evaporates. Facebook would only be left with eyeballs to shove non-targeted ads in front of, and maybe generalized market research.
Ask HN: What are the best online communities for learning architecture?
Outside of work and classic software architecture design books, what are the best resources online for learning about design patterns, architecture, etc?
I can't imagine how much worse my life would be without ever seeing a giraffe.
The Nokia 3310.
Google is very transparent about what they log with their public DNS servers[0].

[0] https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/privacy
Compassion and foresight are in short supply these days.
Which is a shame. This is the only reason my wife still uses old 11" Mac Air. She has an Apple Thunderbolt screen which she doesn't want to replace and is unusable on the Macbook. Pros are just too big for her, so she keeps on using the old Air.
Because AMD GPUs are the only discrete GPUs Apple supports on current models?
Sure.

Submitted title was "European Commission to cancel 317k .eu domains with registrants in UK".
I suppose if you take it literally, this isn't too common a thing. Having a week's supply of _food_ is easy, but if you want to have a weeks supply of _meals_ that's a different situation.
Anecdotal, but I don't have that. And I don't feel like I'm an outlier.
It makes more sense if you consider that accounts relating more directly to cryptocurrencies and ICOs are juicier targets for spear-phishers, which makes Mailchimp a target for social engineering and direct intrusion.

If there is an account that announces a sale on semigloss paint at Brick'N'Mortar's this Saturday, that's not much for Mr. Blackhat to work with. If there's an account that announces that phase 2 of their ICO is going live this Saturday, Mr. Blackhat might want to hack in and send out an "update" just as that is happening, to trick people into sending Bitcoin into his own account, while also preventing legit e-mails from going out.

It's not just that ICOs and cryptocurrency mailings are more likely to be spam. Information-based money transfer systems allow manipulation of information to be more easily monetized, which puts an information-dissemination hub at greater risk.
They take the "lie" route:

# dig +short this-should-be-a-nxdomain.com @4.2.2.2
198.105.254.11
104.239.213.7

They do it a little more cleanly than some other attempts I've seen, but there's still flaws in their approach. In particular, they will generate redirects for NXDOMAIN responses to certain records under domains that do exist:

# dig +short why-does-this-resolve.example.com @4.2.2.2
198.105.254.11
104.239.213.7

Specifically, they'll generate a redirect for any record that starts with the letter "w". (No, I'm not kidding. Try it.) Other records generate a real NXDOMAIN.
> Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton

This man deserves to be in prison.
> In your experience, what are the kind of things that people do in `componentWillMount` that they shouldn't be doing?

The biggest one is probably adding event listeners or setting up subscriptions (which can cause memory leaks).

Here are some others:
https://github.com/reactjs/rfcs/blob/master/text/0006-static...

> Is it correct to say that `getSnapshotBeforeUpdate` is named to indicate what you were supposed to use `componentWillMount` for?

No. `getSnapshotBeforeUpdate` is not really related to `componentWillMount`. It relates more to what people were using `componentWillUpdate` for.
No, it was Breaking Bad.
I take it this is a hackintosh? Are you able to use it ok without signing into any iCloud services, or have you found a way around that?
It’s hard to go to bed earlier because of interruptions and noise levels on campus, but if they can be managed, so can this problem. The idea that there is some innate biological problem is silly IMO. Young people have no unusual difficulty adjusting to time zones when traveling, but they do have computers and cell phones that are like brain cocaine and very difficult to self manage. I started scheduling shut off times for my kids’ cell phones and magically they now get up more bright eyed and get themselves to school on time.

Though I suppose there is a self-talk component too, whereby if you convince yourself it’s an innate problem (you’re young, you’re a developer, you’re special) then it might feel more like one. I used to tell myself I couldn’t exercise in the morning, a belief I maintained into my forties, then one year I needed to, after about a month of getting used to it, I was then a morning exerciser...
There are many good reasons to rationalize away the possible costs. But there are equally good reasons to believe we're underestimating the cost by not accounting for the unknown. Experience leads me to believe that the latter case is much more likely to be true, given the singular nature of a manned Mars mission.

Full disclosure, I love SpaceX and absolutely want to see them succeed. But we should be realistic about the challenges that Mars presents.
It isn't informative if it's untrue, and there's no way for us to easily verify how true it is. That's one reason we have the rules about titles at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
Perfect example of what Chomsky was talking about, and the former cult member above who sincerely believes they were in a free speech zone demonstrates how effective this management technique is.
How is it different from maven deps?
There's a difference between literally no food at home and no fresh food. You could of course eat a can of beans that has been sitting there since Obama was in office, but you'd really rather a fresh meal.
confirmed fakes

Does anybody ever sell hacked accounts or accounts where people gave some random app way too many permissions?
It's not burning through cash now it has being burning through cash for a while before it was able to achieve it's current status.
I am working more and more on this. We have a ton of legacy code we drag along because nobody understands it so it's too scary to touch. I have started to push the idea that it's simply not acceptable to have code we don't understand. We have now refactored several parts that were painfully complex and convoluted by analyzing what they really do and then rewriting or changing. Most of the time it is not that difficult once you commit to the task.
Wanted external GPU support while traveling some to be able to do deep learning on the road. Too bad this is only AMD support.
This is speculation, but I’m betting that we will see a GPU-backed external display (sort of an iMac minus the Mac) sometime in the next year. Apple never builds out support like this unless they plan on having a product to sell.

And they seem to generally "dislike" putting discrete GPUs in laptops, going all the way back to the Titanium G4 days.
These posts are the most interesting pieces of game development / history I've read so far. Hats off to the author!
Are they truly unpopular? The events in question happened several years ago, and while this specific incident wasn't known, it was well-understood that FB profiting from harvesting personal data.

In my daily casual conversations with co-workers and friends, the topic is very rarely raised, and only to speculate why the timing of the issue seems to tied to a rise in conservative politics.
I just laid out the derivative of your behavior, and then you said

"thats ridiculous, we quickly adapted over a short amount of time".

So, if I hear you correctly, what your saying is that as your understanding over time, lets call this du/dt, has a positive rate of change?

You're probably right though, the biggest trick Copernicus ever pulled was convincing everyone of heliocentricity by employing mathematics. We've been under the illusion ever since.
There was a story a month or 2 back about some guy who pissed off a local sheriff.

They raided his house and found that he made pot butter. They tried to charge him based on the weight of the butter. So his small amount of weed suddenly became a pound and he was facing ridiculous jail time.

But yeah, this judge is probably quite happy to be guarding the integrity of the voting system by tossing a woman who did nothing wrong into jail for 5 fucking years. What a piece of shit.
Tensorflow Bog
The vast majority of these people signed onto what they believed was a sure tradeoff:

They knew FB wasn't the most ethical company around, and that they at times would have to pinch their nose.

In return they would be handsomely financially rewarded.

What we are seeing now is not the response of cult members - it's the response of lots of pragmatic employees/"investors" being protective and worried about their investment. In the worst case they would have irrevocably stained their personal reputations for a relatively small gain.

So to repeat, no - this is not a cult - the employees knew what they were getting themselves into. We should not feel sorry for them.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions, innit?
Much LOVE to D.tube A true alternative for monetizing your content. (atleast thats the impression i get) and isnt ipfs tottaly opensource? (the file system where the content is hosted)
To save Africa's flora and fauna, would the US and EU (as the richest areas on the planet) be willing to take Africans to their country in order to stop the destruction?
Iron and the Soul
For the first year of my mindfulness practice, I cheerily recommended meditation to acquaintances who were struggling with anxiety and a lack of joy. After a harrowing experience of dissolution that lasted for several weeks, I realized that mindfulness isn't just calm and pleasant experiences. I still continue to practice and it does bring me joy but I no longer recommend this particular practice to anyone who has a rocky past and a limited support system and just wants to feel 'good'. For that, I think diet, exercise, and sleep are safe bets.
> but now with a new layer of government intervention

As far as I can tell, the government is the least active actor in this area, so curious choice of picking it here.
Here me out on this. Maybe the internet needs this. Maybe we need a clear delineation between the PG, corporate sanctioned mass market internet, and the real web. I couldn't possibly care less what arbitrary decision Reddit makes about it's content policies, because that's not how the internet works. No one will just throw up their hands and say "welp, guess we can't talk about that stuff anymore.". New communities will form. New services will thrive. This is a good thing. Perhaps this leads to users taking back the control that was rightfully theirs in the first place. I honestly feel that the combination of this legislation, combined with the massive backlash against social media 2.0 and the rise of blockchain tech, we are on the eve of a true paradigm shift towards Web 3.0.
No, having an open source kernel means a lot more developers looking at the code and working on a fix if some bug is found, rising the probabilities to find a bug and shortening the time required to fix it. How would keeping the source closed decrease the number of bugs?
Migrating a Large Scale AngularJS App to Angular 5 in a Startup
The current MacBook similar size bigger screen, but wow is the dongle life a horror.
Using LaunchDarkly to Target Personally Identifiable Info During Flag Evaluation
Won't we adapt?
In this case steadfastly ignoring patterns is part of the problem.
There is a project working for this: https://github.com/plaidml/plaidml
CA used data from Facebook's Graph API. They don't sell access to their API, it's freely accessible. It's disadvantageous for Facebook to not keep your personal info in their walled garden of advertising, where they can use it as a competitive advantage for better targeted ads.
>Wrote another: “This is so disappointing, wonder if there is a way to hire for integrity. We are probably focusing on the intelligence part and getting smart people here who lack a moral compass and loyalty.”

Says the company who's very moral compass is coming into question.

Nazi soldiers following orders to line up minorities in slums and shoot them, or herd them into cattle cars - loyal, yes? Moral? No.

"Loyalty," in that post, to what? To Mark and the investors' bottom line, and tangentially with it the bottom line of you and your fellow employees? Loyalty to this idea of "connecting the world?" Is that really the value of Facebook?

It sounds like a cargo cult.
You don't need fancy GUI's, nor do you need to remember long flag names, when there is tig - text mode interface to git. You only need to remember it's "git" backwards:

https://jonas.github.io/tig/

Screenshot of main view:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/jonasfonseca/3316428644/in/alb...

Available in most repos (ubuntu, homebrew I think, etc). Never understood why it's not more widely known than it is.
Elected judges are one of the most absurd ideas the US has ever used.

Just shockingly bad.

this guy will probably run on his tough on crime crackdown on voter fraud.
> Is this a common state of affairs? Who doesn't have at least a week's supply of food and water in their home?

I cant tell if this is a serious question? I definitely do not have more than 1 weeks worth of food in my home.
So? I wouldn't have kids, putting kids in this world seems like one of the most egoistical and damaging things one can do. I'd volunteer for a vasectomy (if freely provided by the gov)
Selling Shovels in the Startup Gold Rush
As a min/max gamer, I have to ask: do these stack? (nicotinamide riboside AND caloric restriction)

But I do disagree with the article that caloric restriction is impractical or dangerous - at least for "rich" western societies that already consume 50%+ more than their healthier eastern counterparts.
Really?

As far as I know there is plenty of space, people just tend to co-locate.
Not tech centric but words that strongly resonated with me while deep in the startup trenches.
AFAIK you were already able to use external GPUs via 3rd party thunderbolt enclosures, it just wasn't officially supported.
The Limits of Crypto-Economic Governance