skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A couple of sample captcha images from a google search: https://i.imgur.com/e4uv0bQ.png Looks like it has some ways to go before defeating captcha :)
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It's a pity that Google terminated those accounts - I don't know what scrutiny scares them.

As for the lady, she seems to genuinely believe in veganism and fitness. Whatever weird things she did to propagate that seemed to be working (330K views?!!).

Why she resorted to gun violence is much awaited.
If this were true, Bandcamp and Soundcloud would be killing it.
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Please don't post unsubstantive comments, especially on divisive topics. It makes this place worse and encourages others to do the same.
Why do you trust Bernstein more than you trust Mike Hamburg?
She's a disgruntled Youtuber.
This is her website: http://nasimabc.com/

From her page showing a screenshot of her Youtube ad revenue dashboard:

> Analytics Last 28 days

> Views 366,591

> Revenue $0.10

Highlighted in Red: Revenue $0.10?

There's also another bit where she shows her historical vs. current traffic and makes a reasonable case that she's getting down ranked.

Interesting times.
> Zuckerberg said many of the tools that are part of the law, such as the ability of users to delete all their data, are already available for people on Facebook.

Uhm, do those tools actually delete the data though? Are they not required to under GDPR?
Isn't that for updating the bios on a board that won't boot with a Ryzen in the socket? It's a 10 day loan.
Because people wanted to take them around. At first, I think the dev system fit in 16 gig macbook pro without any trouble and it was a startup, so it was just natural to say that's all you need. Then the dev env started getting a little bit bigger.

I showed up at the company and noticed you couldn't run the vm for a test and compile separately at the same time. Next I found out I couldn't have a bunch of tabs open while doing dev. So that was painful, and I got a desktop. The existing people who were used to how things worked said you shouldn't have a bunch of tabs open, don't do that and it works fine (oh and don't run any tests while compiling).

Then as memory use kept up even the at most 4 tabs people found they kept running out of memory and they bought a few 32 gig laptops and suddenly things worked again.

A few of us have desktops, most people are struggling with 16 gig notebooks and they started buying 32 gig notebooks for people that want them.
A mentally unwell person is likely to feel targeted, oppressed, threatened, harmed, etc

Interesting that we’re going for “mentally unwell” rather than “gun owner” this time.
There is that whole thing about having a place to live since a downpayment is massive.

I dunno, maybe homeless wouldn't be so bad.
>Why she resorted to gun violence is much awaited

Because from a game theoretic POV it creates the biggest impact. The media cycle will after every shooting will surely keep her message in the spotlight for weeks to come.
> Hard to look at the history of aircraft and think aesthetics have nothing to do with the shapes designers choose.

In my reading about the history of aircraft, aesthetics have nothing to do with it. Performance and cost are everything.

For example, the elliptical wing of the Spitfire is often mentioned as a big part of the beauty of the design. But the elliptical planform is the most efficient wing design (the Mitsubishi Zero had one, too, for the same reason). Giving your pilots every edge possible is everything in those designs. And yet look at the beauty that resulted.

The downside of the Spitfire shape was it took twice as many hours to produce as the Me-109, which was designed to be easy to manufacture.

I can't think of a single successful airplane design that was designed to be beautiful - from the Wright Flyer to the Sopwith Camel to the Spitfire to the DC-3 to the Concorde to the Blackbird. Not one. Yet they're all beauties.
Perhaps a more apt comparison is to the Tegra processor, and still, Nvidia crushes apple in performance/Watt.
Ah, cool. Thanks for the link! I was confused by the original post.
The problem with your statement is that many people did and continue to do exactly what was stated going from rags to riches. Elon Musk is probably the most well known example. Now one of the most influential business and technological leaders in this nation, he immigrated from South Africa with little more than to rely on than his ability, motivation, and work ethic. A soft spoken immigrant with a slight speech impediment and South African accent is not exactly what you'd call 'the right background/means/cultural fit', yet it posed little issue.

More fundamentally the problem is that in America there is a very distorted sense of self. A total of 4% of Americans think they are less intelligent than the average American. [1] And so the vast majority of people in this nation who are not particularly meritorious think they absolutely are, or at the worst no less meritorious than average. Yet that, no matter how you measure it, is simply not the case.

[1] - https://today.yougov.com/news/2014/05/11/intelligence/
No, I've heard good things about the ASUS. The ASRock (which is what I bought) is absolutely terrible. I regret buying the ASRock because I now have a computer that freezes constantly. It's not related to processor load or heat. It simply just doesn't work well at all. Sometimes an hour, sometimes 5 minutes....

I'm hoping I'm phrasing this well enough.
Upvoted you for admitting that Facebook is a useful product.
No, being unwilling to admit the extremely racist history of the US perpetrates racism.
So what’s the deal with jurisdiction? YC is a US entity and GDPR is an EU law.
Your last statement is incorrect. If it were true, then only millionaires would be able to start companies.

You’ve (inadvertently, I believe) just prohibited every independent plumber, carpenter, computer programmer, etc., from starting their own business. Because, trust me, starting a business is very illiquid - it’s like having a hole in your pocket.

Even worse, said plumber, carpenter, etc., has a high concentration risk - pretty much everything in one basket, including the person’s income.
He's talking about germanium channel FinFETs, GaAs was intended to entirely replace silicon, which probably was never going to happen.
Threema is pretty good. Unfortunately it also sucks.

(Sucks as defined by OP)
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You’re the one trying to use this data to prove that the gun confiscation had an effect on homicides. If now you’re saying that there was no statistically significant change in homicide rates five years after the government destroyed over 600,000 guns, then you’re severely undermining your point.

The gun buyback isn’t something you’d expect to have a delayed impact on homicides. Certain weapons were banned, they were confiscated, and the program was over by 1997. Those guns could not be used to kill people. The number of guns started to go back up right after, as well.
I've wondered about this too. The whole thing about citizenship affecting how you're treated on the internet just seems to have so many holes.
Why was her YouTube channel nuked after this happening? Seems weird and dystopian, even if what she did was obviously very wrong.
> also has decent roads that take between 30 - 45 minutes to commute in from a number of areas.

So intolerably long.
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Hi all,

I would like to run a home server so I can use it as a backup, some small static website and serve a photo gallery(about 2TB of photo takes by iphone) it's a Golang app.

So nothing crazy, just for family purpose since I'm moving away from facebook.

Anyone know some cheap server that isn't too noisy and consume a lot of power? How about just using a cheap old laptop? Did anyone try these out?
Here is a mirror of her videos http://www.dailymotion.com/yesilnasim
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I had posted it on the other link as well where Panera Bread's leaks were discussed (1 and 2), but since it is relevant to this discussion, reposting it here. I have edited my conclusion a bit from the original two postings:

Commenting only on the speed of response (or the glacial interpretation of it in Panera's case):

For companies operating in European Union, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (3) mandates that such breaches need to be disclosed under 72 hours. The implementation deadline for GDPR is by end of May 2018 (~7 weeks to go).

Underarmor, a US-based sports apparel manufacturer, who operates in EU as well, recently had a breach that affected 150-million users, and went public within 3 days of discovering the breach (4).

I believe UnderArmor's case is the norm we can expect going forward. As most companies are not "tech" in nature, unlike FB which happens to be one, it will make sense for them to keep just one security policy and the legally mandated strictest one may be the dominant policy across the enterprise.

(1)https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16739753

(2) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16741391

(3)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regula...

(4)http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-43592470
Her videos are still up on Dailymotion http://www.dailymotion.com/yesilnasim/videos
Like conservation of energy this is the modern mythology. Not sure who is insulting who here, surely our ancestors "knew" all kinds of now know to be nonsensical things. They too believed to be advanced beyond that point. Its actually rather funny this stacking of "if we assume"'s into facts.

You have to admire us for trying our best tho :-)
In case anyone is interested, the phone plus web combo was apparently the final solution to the thorny problem of establishing identity with the web client without requiring any more info on the user beyond the phone number.

All bets are off, now that it's FB's beast, but the two device solution was intended as a privacy feature, afaik.

I sat next to Pasha Sadri, the web client lead, for 4 months before the acquisition. He mentiond the problem a few times.

The fact it took another 2 years to get the client out seems to indicate that multiple problems were solved in other ways.
I did 16gigs of 3200. Be careful as the processor will only support 2400 or 2600Mhz (I can't remember off the top of my head) I don't mind the actual layout or operation of the BIOS. I did have to upgrade it to recognize my M2 NVMe. I've just been trying anything I can to get the thing stable.... to no avail.
Awesome.

Why didn't MUDs ever go rogue-like ... with simple 2D tile-graphics?

I think a few tried and failed, but wondering why that was. Seemed like everyone jumped to Everquest(crack) when it hit the scene, we seem to have skipped the 2D.
> There are links to her (4?) youtube accounts and her instagram, which have all been terminated.

You'd hope they just set a deleted flag and didn't remove the actual files, otherwise they're interfering with a criminal investigation.
Elon Musk is the exception used to sell you the american dream.
> Interesting that we’re going for “mentally unwell” rather than “gun owner” this time.

We're?

Your response comes off as quite rude and dismissive. When in the past did I go for "gun owner" instead of "mentally unwell" or similar, such that your statement makes any sense?

Your assumption/s about me and what I believe, have no place on HN, in my opinion. If you want to know what I think about something, you should ask. There's a polite, collegial way to add to the conversation in doing so.
Here's her last video. One youtube doesn't want you to see evidently,

https://www.freedomsafespace.com/m/videos/view/YouTube-Shoot...

She seems really upset.
To put it more positively, progress is made by stringing together many small incremental improvements. Even the RISC revolution started as a special purpose project that stripped away the inessential to achieve a specific, narrow goal.
Hers’s One complication:

Assume I start a business. I own 100% of it. It grows like crazy, and 5 years later, it’s worth $5 billion. Now you require me to go through all the regulatory hoops so that my stock can trade publicly. But nobody will buy my stock. Because there is only one owner, and he ain’t selling.

Simplistic, I know, but problems very similar to this actually exist.
Then can we (the people) donate our time to make an end to end encrypted, decentralized, peer to peer, optionally anonymous (through Tor or whatever if necessary), native chat client for all relevant platforms?

It takes a few maintainers per platform and a few people willing to lead the effort, but I think we could get enough people on Hacker News to help out.

(I've actually been debating making an "Ask HN: Would you join this effort?" post but have been putting it off for one reason or another.)
There is none. Unless YC has EU assets, they could go after those.
Would agree, I thought that was pretty impressive. That said, it seems a bit risky, since if you miss the target it's pretty much a guaranteed crash. I wonder why this approach was preferred to just using a net or similar, it seems like that would be substantially simpler. Landing with the cable is definitely cool looking though.
> also, what about people who have neither a passport nor an identity card?

Not possible. Can't say 100% about all countries, but in my country it's a must to have either passport or ID once you hit 16. There's even a small fine if you don't take out or renew personal document on time.

US and their passport-less life looks very strange from Europe. You can't do anything without ID in EU. No bank account, no employment, no driving license and the list couldgo on and on.
I think that's answered near the end of the article:

While Zipline isn't making any specific announcements yet, Rinaudo did say that they're “working closely with a number of different states to demonstrate medical product delivery in suburban and rural areas." [...] Zipline is ready right now to operate at national scale, Rinaudo says, integrated with existing healthcare systems, making hundreds of long distance deliveries per day under just about any conditions.
Yes, and kudos to AMD for even doing it. But, it's a two week from acceptance into the program to delivery (in some cases - a week in others).
It applies to all EU citizens, no matter where your operations are based. It would make sense though for most companies to just treat everybody as an EU citizen for GDPR. Unless apparently you're Facebook and don't want to...
The general way to master a large pile of difficult abstractions is to study for years, ideally in a context focused on that study. This can be done independently of any expert feedback (e.g. by reading books, watching lecture videos, and doing a big pile of ungraded self-assigned homework problems), but it’s not easy or typically very efficient. For the majority of people who want to deeply learn mathematical topics but who are starting from a low level, the most efficient and effective advice for them is to go attend a university.

An online discussion forum isn’t typically going to cut it, IMO. People won’t be at the same level, won’t be working on the same topics, won’t have the same goals and interests, the same level of commitment, coordinated schedules, etc. This has been tried many times, but I have not heard many successful reports.

Online discussion forums are great for handling independent limited-scope questions–answers (including for current university students), and okay for coordinating research efforts among people who are already experts, but in general are not very effective for getting a group of people to diligently work through years of prerequisite material in an organized fashion.

You shouldn’t spend your life in a university, but if you have a goal of learning advanced mathematics, you might benefit from spending a few years there. YMMV.

As an alternative, if you can find an expert tutor/coach to meet with one-on-one on a regular basis, that is even better than a formal course. But that is expensive and hard to scale.
> Views 366,591

> Revenue $0.10

So basically all of her videos were demonetized?
> I don't know what scrutiny scares them

To be fair, YouTube/Google just had an active shooter on their campus. If there's anything that justifies terminating someone's account, it would be opening fire on the company directly and injuring people.
The problem is that we don’t know. It doesn’t specify a definition of necessary. Necessary for whom? It isn’t necessary for Facebook to solicit people to make wall posts, so arguably they’d run afoul of the law by simply offering the option to do so.

My point was that the law leaves massive room for interpretation. The threat of aggressive application and interpretation of this law could deliver significant leverage to the EU over these companies in matters reaching far beyond privacy.
"As it had done consistently in its history, the firm, when faced with financial pressure, moved ever further in the direction of monetizing users` personal data. In this case, it finally went after the like button.

A little over a year after the IPO, on June 12th, 2014, Facebook quietly announced a change to its terms of service. "Starting soon in the U.S., we will also include information from some of the websites and apps you use," the company wrote. "This is a type of interest-based advertising, and many companies already do this."

...

In perhaps the creepiest example, Facebook applied for (and received, last year) a patent for a tool called Techniques, for emotion detection and content delivery. It would use the camera in your phone to take pictures of you as you scroll through content. Facebook would then use facial analysis to measure how much you did or did not like the content in question, so as to determine what kind of stuff to send your way. Ideas like this are what make Facebook, at times, feel like a giant blood-engorged tick hanging off your frontal lobe.""

Source:

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/taibbi-facebo...
I was about to disagree, but it seems that course was redesigned in 2017 and the new syllabus looks like a real course.

So I'll just say the pre-2017 version I took was clearly created by bad PR-people.
That is an amusingly awesome claim.

I thought it was accepted that algorithm improvements have sped things up more than processor advances. I suspect there is a strong argument that memory sizes has been key, but processor speeds themselves haven't necessarily advanced at the same rate as the speed we complete problems.

That said, I tried quickly googling for this, but just came up with https://cstheory.stackexchange.com/questions/12905/speedup-f.... Looks like a good answer, but basically points out that it is complicated.

For my part, it is frustrating to see so many folks rediscovering things that used to just be too expensive to do and think they have rediscovered alchemy. I say this as someone that constantly thinks to have discovered a key method. :)
> Why she resorted to gun violence is much awaited.

My theory is this: I went through some of her past images. One of them showed a picture of a dog that was being mutilated (alive). She states that dogs in China are skinned alive because they believe that it makes the meat taste better.

Well, that is going to invoke strong feelings, especially if that's part of your core cause (to expose the mistreatment of animals to the world). When YouTube censors that, they might as well be part of the problem, from her perspective.
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Questions I've had about this:

How does the allowance of comment/submission deletion affect HN being perceived as a "permanent record"? I've always found this aspect of HN to be important to me.

If comments can be deleted selectively, what effect does that have on the permanent record? How many users would be tempted to write something they don't want recorded permanently simply to judge responses before they delete the comment later? (As opposed to requiring that all comments for a user be deleted together, which would likely discourage deletion to remove specific comments.)

Would this give rise to third-party "comment recovery" services that scrape something like archive.org (assuming it is less affected by the GDPR) or maintain their own records to piece together comment threads with deleted comments? Similar to services that archive tweets that might get deleted.
> people tend to perceive [the narrative] to be whatever they don't like

Heh heh. This is supported by research. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostile_media_effect
Content platforms have no place policing content. All the algorithms currently used are utterly flawed, and they will always be flawed, both technically and morally. Technically, they'll always have false positives, especially at scale. Morally, they turn the platform owners into political figures inherently, siding with or against certain thoughts and sentiments.

The only solution is for platforms to be completely content agnostic and allow absolutely everything except outright graphic violence and adult content.

No removing any kind of speech whatsoever, including so-called "hate speech", no policing political topics, no identifying "fake news" and so forth -- words cannot hurt anyone, objectively, and everyone has their own personal agency to decide what they want to watch and make their own decisions based on what they see, even if it's state-funded propaganda.

If the police or FBI come to them with a warrant and take down notice, then sure. Otherwise, allow absolutely everything, and allow the free market of popularity to reign supreme.

In fact, all sides of all political and social issues should be outraged that content platforms think they have a place deciding what we can and cannot see.

And advertisers should stop allowing online outrage to dictate where they advertise by realizing two simple truths: a) if I'm watching a video with your advertisement on it, it's because I made the conscious choice to watch that video, and even if the video is about apartheid or waterboarding or guns, it's content that I want to consume, so they have no place stripping me of my personal agency, and b) the old model of advertisers being seen as endorsers for TV shows doesn't apply to on-demand online content.
Maybe before downvoting people need to realize that Google, instead of fostering a better internet, by working on promoting honest and hard working publishers and creators, decided that it will concentrate on goals of increasing its own profitability? Do you see new publishers popping up on the internet? Have you heard of such as thing as VC investment rounds in start ups in publishing? No? Maybe Google has something to do with it. And internet is poorer, as a result, and your experience on internet is poorer.
Please consider not giving this person the online attention she sought as a result of her actions, and join me in flagging stories that dwell on her motives.
If they were looking at my face through my camera while I read their ToS, they wouldn't need a patented technology to know how I felt about their technology.
> It's a pity that Google terminated those accounts - I don't know what scrutiny scares them.

Because they don't want to encourage people to gawk at the death spectacle? This includes all the times a suicidal killer leaves behind a manifesto that could serve to inspire copycat killers.
Probably because you dont know what she put up there, and you dont want to give an attempted murderer a giant platform, as a win.
Not you in particular, the collective narrative.
I don't know that much has been written about this yet, but consider data portability as one example. If an EU court rules that Facebook must allow extraction of a social graph with an email address and consistent ID included for each contact, it dramatically weakens their network effect and lowers the barriers to on-boarding users onto competing social networks.
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