skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I keep a wide variety of references around this desk. Some of my favorites:

Manuel Lima's "Visual Complexity", "The Book of Circles", and "The Book of Trees". These are useful as references and as visualization inspiration.

Jacques Bertin's "Semiology of Graphics". Gorgeous and immensely useful.

Desmond and Nicholas Higham's "MATLAB Guide, 3rd Edition", and Yair Altman's "Accelerating MATLAB Performance". Both are invaluable for serious MATLAB work.

Titus A. Beu's book on Numerical Programming is very good as a reference.

For anyone needing to work on military simulations, "Engineering Principles of Combat Modeling and Distributed Simulation" by Tolk is the best reference I have found on the subject.

And TAOCP and CLRS are here for reference purposes as well.
Running without LIDAR, at night especially? If that is true, I can imagine that's why they paid off the family so quickly.
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You can also see the unprintable characters at the command prompt by piping the data through `cat -v`.
This made me recall immediately the "I, pencil" article. It's stunning to remember that almost anything one gets to touch or see throughout the day is a product of almost always global collaboration, if we include a things conception with its production, and also transportation, selling, etc.
Options are relatively complex instruments with an enormous amount of risk involved. If you can’t understsnd the difference between “call” and “put” will you understand strike price and expiration date and that you will literally lose 100% of your money if an option ends up out of the money on the expiration date? I doubt it.

For example, Robinhood calls Facebook July puts that are 10% out of the money “medium risk.” In other words if Facebook doesn’t go up 10% by July you lose all your money.

Options are very high risk, high reward plays. Making that more accessible is... risky.
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Reddit DOWN
> ignored

Not exactly, it still serves as a word
separator. Like the newline (not a space) I put between "word" and "separator".
The point is more that they have an automated system scanning and flagging messages, specifically so that they're reviewed by humans, for content they don't want on their platform.

Expect more of that due to the recently passed sex trafficking legislation that got Craigslist personals, reddit escorts and all sorts of other places shut down.
"improperly shared"
These are the key phrases for ads that Facebook has for you specifically
Nothing, if it delivers what you need. Maybe the powerful side of react-smooth-dnd is animations that feels like you really moving things.
There seems to be a cottage industry around making words more palatable when it comes to tech privacy.

"Scans" should be "reads and stores"

"What you send to other people" should be "private messages, images, and videos"

"What you send to other people" implies that there was no expectation of privacy in the first place, which (while true) I think does not match the 'normal' person's expectations or understanding.

News organizations need to be more candid with the public about how their information is being inspected and stored instead of using slick language to downplay the distasteful practices of many organizations.
Secure Scuttlebutt. The problem is to get people on it.
Im confused, do people working at Google not know the origin of their company? There would be no Google if not for Pentagon funded military research.

Look up "Highlands Forum", DLI, MDDS. Sergey Brin was literally funded by NSA and CIA under MDDS.
> If you don't want facebook to track you don't make an account on their website and don't click any of the stupid buttons on their website.

They still build a shadow profile of you from mentions and photos that friends upload.
What was shared would be an additional question.
Edit:
Or maybe what was not shared would be easier to answer.
Yes, they previously claimed that they will be reaching out to people affected by the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
It is funny you mention that actually - as a personal anecdote, I can say that many of my friends who happen to be advocates for free distro of crypto tech - or more commonly, cryptocurrencies - also tend to be fairly strong 2A advocates.

TL;DR; - IMO there is some significant crossover between crypto* people, and 2A people.
It definitely felt like that for me as well in the beginning but sticking with it helped me get better at it :)
s/he just did ask that question.
Bad code isn’t Technical Debt, it’s an unhedged Call Option (2014)
Isn't tempting people into making losing trades the point, though? Robin Hood presumably has some way of profiting from trades which does not include directly charging people, such as commissions. So the more confused novices are, the more valuable they are as resources whose money can be systematically extracted by counterparties.
If someone want to burn all their personal money, so what?

So basically: At least they will not be programming insecure things, even websites that leak millions of records every week by "thinking they know programming".

Too much double standard: "Lets make programming accessible so everyone can become code monkeys without clue, but do not touch my precious stock trading terms. We do not want anyone trying to get rich without a clue."
I'm not trying to be glib. In America the Soviet contribution to killing the Nazis is almost entirely written out of mandatory education so I think it's often relevant in American-heavy discussions to point it out.

Also, I recall hearing a talk about how one of the effects of post-WW2 soviet communism on western/northern europe was the creation of lots of social welfare programs. (Sadly I'm not in a place where I can source this but I could have sworn it was a talk by Michael Parenti.) The reason I bring this up is because I think it's disingenuous to claim that if it hadn't been for Britain and the US that France would today resemble the Balkans or Ukraine. What we typically associate with "post-communist bloc" countries happened far later when the USSR fell apart. It's a big jump to say that places like Britain would have become part of then suffered under Soviet Communism.
I don't think your analogy holds water, if only from the fact that "pass by reference vs value" is rooted in pointer knowledge, and is rather key to "not screwing up your app." (And as sister posts pointed out, messing up an app usually does not put ones finances on the line)

I also disagree with the core thrust of your post, but that's subjective so I'm listing this second. As someone who went from "financially clueless" to trading options over the last few years, I got to see my own mistakes firsthand, which were at least initially rooted in not understanding the implications of various vehicles and the patterns by which to use them, and that was even after quite a bit of time practicing in simulators.

No, I absolutely agree with the parent that there's a risk to not only trying to spoon-feed gambling (which is honestly how I see options, take it or leave it) under the guise of investing to uninformed consumers, but in splitting the jargon so a new entrant can't even easily bootstrap their knowledge by looking up the terms.

(I find it additionally funny to be arguing this, as I'm normally a staunch opponent to the Accredited Investor laws, but there's definitely a continuum between "keep poor people from using these vehicles" and "everyone and their grandmother can now shoot themselves in the foot without the most base validation that they know what they're getting into or have the tools to do so with eyes open")
Yeah, maybe...

I think the problems are far easier to explain. Watching the documentary Restrepo, I was surprised to see how terrifyingly stupid American GIs are at anything but actual warfare.

The most telling scene was a meeting they had with the local "elders". This was in one of the most isolated valleys, even by Afghani standards. They were talking about a road to be build, and promising jobs for the locals.

Yet it was absolutely clear that these villagers did not even share the concept of a "job". They were goat herders mostly, and possibly some farmers. I'd bet that not one of them is a wage-earning employee or worker. They simply tend to their family's animals.

"Trade" is probably understood in these places, "jobs" is not. They tried to win over the local population with promises entirely based on an American POV.

In larger cities, such promises might have had a better chance to succeed. But I think it's instructive to look at the only people whose "hearts & minds^ the US actually managed to win: translators and other local employees tend to be the US' most ardent supporters. That's maybe due to the money they got, yes. And there's some selection bias at play, as well. But if I had to guess, I'd say simple, honest day-to-day social contact had the most influence.

I think the Us military should form a brigade entirely made up of hippies that can play instruments, like to talk to strangers, can play soccer and basketball, grow weed, and are good petting dogs and getting children to smile.
"Facebook is asking users whether they think it's "good for the world" in a poll sent to an unspecified number of people."

Source:

https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/apps/a19671683/f...
Facebook: Cambridge Analytica took a lot more data than first thought
Ask HN: Did npm5 kill yarn?
It's 2018. Is everything bailing off of the yarn ship and headed back to npm?
replace "drone strike accuracy" with something like "zyklon b efficacy"
> It's not Google's fault, exactly - the roads here are an absolute mess

It's Google's fault for deploying a product that isn't up to the task for which it is promoted.

But that's not unique to Google. You just have to look at Apple earbuds to see another example of "Works in Silicon Valley, so it must be fine everywhere else, too."
I strongly disagree with this comparison. In the prior, successful cases, the military funded research which was open, while in this case, the direction of information is reversed and the outcome is secret.
Then a thousands of them over the split with a thousands less ratio :P
Nobody attacks the data collection itself. Anyone who accepts this is a fool for letting Facebook continue to pull the wool over your eyes. This human centipede of data collection needs to die.
Thanks for that link - I can’t edit my above comment now to note that some scanning does happen.
I wonder how well it works, as the false positive rates must be huge? The idea of someone looking at my account and playing abuse/not abuse roulette is disturbing.
None of these changes will do anything to fix the basic issue. All the following aspects were derived from watching the testimony Christopher Wylie gave before the UK House of Commons Select Committee. He's the CA whistleblower. It's a very illuminating watch - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5g6IJm7YJQ

The problem is the foll:

[1] CA wrote a trojan FB app to derive psychographic user data for FB users. This let them determine for example how susceptible you were to misleading or fake news.

[2] They then used FB targeting to target these specific people at scale, pushing extreme fake news such as "Obama moving troops to Texas to ensure 3rd term". This is military grade psyops applied at unprecedented scale.

[3] These people, as they were susceptible to manipulation, would then convert at unusually high rates. He says 5% or higher conversion. Conversion was measured as an action like donating money or signing up for a mailing list.

In this way, the entire democratic process was corrupted. The issue is not that there were dirty tricks in the 2016 election. The issue here is that the existence of FB's app platform allows the detailed psychological profiling of millions of people on scale, and then allows them to be targeted at scale using that profiling. This is a clear and present danger to democracy.

Even with these changes, a rogue app such as CA's would be allowed on the FB platform. FB has no visibility into how app data can be used offline.
you seem to be in the wrong thread
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That's what I used, the webrings. I did a lot of link hopping from people's amateur sites because they all had "Links Out" pages, and there was a lot of website social circles that operated with message boards and webrings.
"Morgan Stanley cut its price target on Facebook shares to $200 from $230 on Wednesday, citing concerns about the social media company's ad sales because of its data scandal.

...

"While we think FB's high advertising performance speaks to the value users get out of the ads served, general consumer dislike towards advertising and increased data scrutiny could cause more users to opt-out of sharing data with FB," he said."

Source:

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/04/morgan-stanley-lowers-facebo...
> If the US wants AI/autonomous weapons then they should agree to have their troops held accountable at the The Hague International Court of Justice.

Why would US agree to that if Russia or China couldn't care less about it? That'd be just handicapping the military.
>My YouTube channel also used to net closer to $1k/mo (about 100 coding tutorials) and as a result of frequent algorithm changes and algorithmic demonetization now nets shy of $100 per month.

Please correct me if I'm missing something here: It appears like that channel hasn't had a new upload in some time. That could explain the drop in revenue, I wouldn't expect a channel to maintain the same revenue indefinitely without new content. At some point videos get saturated.
This is the result of free markets. Centralized economic planning is simply unable to deal with the complexity.
How language can affect the way we think
I'd like to be clear that I know and love that the soldiers and everyone else who fought fascism did so to defeat fascism: it's very possible that I wouldn't be commenting today had your grandfather not made that decision. That's not what i meant to imply here.

EDIT: To make clear what I meant, re: your comment: the state-building narrative the US has adopted substitutes the righteous struggle of people like your grandfather in order to avoid acknowledging, among many things, the reluctance to participate in world affairs and the frankly brazen pro-Nazi stances of many in the american public and the government at the time.
I'm not sure what case you're thinking of, because I didn't explicitly mention one.

Chaplinsky v. NH was in 1942 and had nothing to do with draft dodging.

Since then, the courts have ruled inconsistently on the matter. The only common thread is the courts mostly agree that some restriction on speech is permissible - where that line lays is very much up for debate.

WRT the militia - the government disagrees with your assertion. A random citizen cannot go into the gun store and buy a machine gun, or grenades. Special (and expensive) permitting is required. If you're contention is that these restrictions are unConstitutional, I'm not really sure we should bother debating the point.
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Advertisers do get to decide but advertisers don't want to have to decide between 10 million channels. They wanted a curated list with some minimum quality control to decide from.
>The only value-add is secret rotation and that's not something that most of the time makes sense to use.

This attitude is why company after company keeps leaking customer data.
I'm interested, eye opening in what way(s)?
Shouldn't you start with your self?

Write briefly about yourself, what you do and leave your contact for others to reach out to you.
Yes, we're running multiple k8s clusters on AWS. Only a few components are not there yet due to their too snowflaky deployment procedures, but we're getting there. So far everyone likes it and would recommend it.
How is it then that different states infringe on the right to bear arms to different degrees?

And it was indeed the case well before 2008-2010. See United States v. Cruikshank (1875), Presser v. Illinois (1886), Miller v. Texas (1894).
What's the backend? If it's HSM, that would explain the steep price (sort of).
It's not at all certain that Hitler would have defeated Britain if the US had stayed out of Europe.

As far as I know, most historians agree that the US hastened the Allies victory over Germany but the Allies would have (eventually, probably) won anyways.
This hasty drawing of conclusions from a post that wasn't suggesting you shouldn't rotate secrets is why populist after populist keeps getting elected.
Then you get into the quagmire of what is personal data, right? As in, how many clicks on external ads are considered personal data? IIRC the definition of personal data under GDPR is "any data or collection of data that when combined with any other data can uniquely identify you" (or at least that is what my company is operating under). So that means a lot more that what we traditionally see as "personal data".
Yeah, we certainly can't produce toilet paper unless 50% of the population is in poverty.
I am amazed that Samsung decided to ship with a obivously sub-par scheduler. How did this happen? Deadlines that had to be met?
Doesn't beat Equifax who impacted 143 million Americans, jeopardizing consumer Social Security numbers, birth dates, addresses and some driver’s license numbers. Just another day with no consequences for exposing what I'd label as highly personal information.

FB can limit what it wants but someone will eventually find the means to buying the necessary data today and build what CA did going forward. IMO the 2020 election campaign costs will be the billion $ candidate that competes, so just buy the data you need.
While what this lady did was atrocious, it does highlight a big problem inside Youtube. That their completely biased, unfair demonetization system is costing people enough money in ad revenue to ruin online careers. Smaller channels and politically incorrect channels get flagged pretty much every video, while bigger, white listed channels that post clear ToS breaking content are still allowed to rake in ad money. This woman didn't have that many followers in the respect to what others do, she wasn't making millions of dollars. Here's someone who was making a few dollars here and there, trying to act like it was her livelihood that was at stake, like most medium sized content creators with no real world skills do.

I should follow this up by saying I believe Youtube careers are pathetic, and shouldn't exist. Just as with Twitch, Youtube has become nothing more than a money making opportunity that is getting flooded with people who would rather deceive people than get a real job. Just people who want an easy ride begging for money. However, for those who do decide to take that route, the way Youtube flags videos absolutely impacts them. If I were making money, and my income were to be suddenly cut due to something that was entirely out of my hands yet fixable, I imagine I would be pretty jaded as well. Losing a few dollars is no reason to shoot people, this woman was just psycho. You can tell from one look at her on her site, she has the look of one.
Yet another mentally ill individual who did not get the treatment they so clearly needed.
Silly indeed. I applied for it twice, having submitted a screen recording explaining what I was using it for. They gave me partial API access, pretty useless functionality. Not what I needed which was clearly explained in the second video.

The application felt like I was begging. Not something I'd ever do again.
On the same day there was a drive by shooting in the UK

Doubt that weapon was legal

Gun laws dont stop criminals

Murder is already fairly illegal, if I recall correctly
I agree that it is not the only militia.
Sorry, was reading multiple articles on this topic at once. Yes this is a newsroom post, however they plan to let individual users know via their newsfeeds: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-04/facebook-... "Facebook says it will tell people, in a notice at the top of their news feeds starting April 9, if their information may have been improperly shared with Cambridge Analytica."
Upper deck on an A380 was like sitting in a quiet living room, just with weird furniture. Totally surreal experience.
So make it optional. Call it family-friendly, make it default, whatever.
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Customer support and marketing. Requests were more fluid but have since been formalized, e.g. different bug templates to help clear out some of the back and forth.

Thanks for this - sounds like we're trying to do some things right.
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I've been focusing on the marketing side of things lately because it seems to be the sticking point for a lot of my projects.
> App Controls: Finally, starting on Monday, April 9, we’ll show people a link at the top of their News Feed so they can see what apps they use — and the information they have shared with those apps. People will also be able to remove apps that they no longer want. As part of this process we will also tell people if their information may have been improperly shared with Cambridge Analytica.
It might help to think speed as lower power consumption.

So yes. As long as cellphones and laptops need a battery.
Advertisers don't actually want to spend time picking YouTube channels individually. But they will complain if YouTube runs their ads against the wrong content. They have threatened to leave before. [1]

Picking channels that are good for advertising is a service that YouTube does for advertisers.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/why-advertisers-are-pulling-s...
Creative section on Twitch is much more likely, as there is a culture of donation.

There's some demand for programming content there, especially if it can be applied to game development.
No, you were right, they mentioned the News Feed in this post too.
Don't you mean, is everything unwinding from the yarn ball?

I'll take my pun-ishment now :P
So if this gun were obtained illegally this wouldn't be a tragedy?
My request was for the positive reasons to use this library, rather than the negative reasons for not using the other.
Sun Tzu's The Art of War, O'Reilly's SQL Pocket Guide, Numerical Recipes in C++, an old GW-Basic manual, and a reprint of the first edition of Machinery's Handbook.

Most of my work is boring old enterprise apps in java, c# or c++; the GW-Basic manual is a relic from my first computer that I keep around for sentimental reasons. Numerical Recipes is referred to on occasion, as is the SQL pocket guide, the other two are good for taking a 5 minute break from things.
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I agree, militia is a wider concept and there can be many such free-formed associations. I merely wanted to mention that the National Guard are also known as militias, and they have always had very powerful weapons at their disposal.
Remember when myspace became my`____` in an attempt to rebrand itself? That amount of cringe, and no regulations.
In Argentina and some other South American countries bidets are standard and found in almost every bathroom. They're usually not integrated into the toilet as the Japanese type, they're a separate fixture, but serve the same purpose. You still need toilet paper though, at the very least to dry yourself up after using the bidet, but common usage is to wipe first, then use the bidet to finish the job.
Was just thinking this. This would be especially useful with plagiarism detection.
Yes. I had many web projects that were cut short by the requirement that you had to submit a video of a working app to get access to the API.
I sense there is no irony in using a command line to alter a mouse attribute that could ostensibly less-cognitive-dissonantly be done via a mouse-driven GUI