skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a pretty silly perspective. If the idea is that high-carb diets are universally bad, a counter-example falsifies that notion. It may be that high-carb low-exercise lifestyles are bad. But you need to refine your theory to account for the fact that there exist large groups of people with high carb diets who do just fine. You don't just get to dismiss it.
I would assume he has an admin type of account on Facebook, but does that even matter tho. He and many other employees have direct access to their databases and code. They can do whatever they want and there do not seem to be any checks in place to prevent crime/abuse.

If some engineer at Facebook wants to log into the account of someone they have a crush on, search for nudes or something else nefarious, I have yet to learn of any systems in place to prevent that from happening besides Facebook telling us to trust them.

They used to have a master password to log into any account[1]. They say they replaced this with a special tool you need "permission" to use.

Quote from the article "Finally, while the interviewee says the ‘master password’ has been deprecated, employees can still access your profile through a special tool, but they need to provide a reason for why they’re doing it. If they get audited down the line and fail to provide an explanation, they can be fired"

That sounds like a system where you trust everyone and audit later to verify nothing bad happened. Imo these systems are put in place to hide abuse not reveal it because they are reactionary instead of preventative.

That entire system of checking employees from abusing data, relies of everyone trusting the people in charge at Facebook to do the right thing, insert "dumb fucks" Zuckerberg quote here[2].

Imo it is a matter of time before we find out about wide scale massive data abuse from Facebook employees. Either an insider feeding out data to others or someone on the inside listening to hedge fund managers private conversations to insider trade off of.

I am just generally tired of everyone trusting everyone all the time. We have to have rules and systems in place to eliminate the need for trust.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2010/01/11/rumpus-facebook-privacy/
[2] https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mark_Zuckerberg#Quotes
I grew up with Electronics Magazine, Radio Shack (the Source).

Today, in addition to this there are monthly electronic subscription kits that can be pretty cool.

The way I'd do it today is find projects online that I can order the parts myself from AliExpress/eBay to come from China and have a project a month to do. Things take 4-6 weeks to arrive, and you can order the next project while working on the current one.
Unionization is a form of supply management (as is minimum wage[1]). A union does not change the rules of supply and demand, it exploits the rules of supply and demand for the benefit of the employees by artificially limiting the supply. With the reduced supply of workers, the power of the workers increases as I described in the final paragraph of my previous comment.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16775810
Not to mention location metadata on pics taken at or near doctors offices, and “private” messages in Messenger which they admitted they read.
The Twinkie Diet guy may have been funded by coca-cola. http://observer.com/2015/10/here-are-the-people-coca-cola-ha...
The latest spending bill was 2,232 pages of allocations, nuance, and a wide variety of different laws and rules that have nothing to do with spending. How many members of congress do you think read this bill and actually considered each item in it before voting on it?

Here [1] are some statistics on how much legislation congress churns through each year. The last congress, in their 2 years, enacted 329 different laws, passed 708 different resolutions, and also dealt with a whopping 10,334 other pieces of miscellaneous legislation. And congress also has relatively few legislative days where this is taken care of. The house averages around 140 legislative days a year, the senate around 160.

And congressmen spend the vast majority of their time not dealing with legislation, but instead fundraising for their next election, which involves "donors" "lobbying" them on the issues that matter to them. It's a great system, isn't it?

[1] - https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/statistics
Yup. We are the problem. We shouldn't have moved in. But we did, so we transformed the place. Deal with it.
Have you been to a restaurant in the US? Food portions are ridiculous. Even a fast food meal has 1200 calories. A sit-down casual dining place will give you > your daily allowance in one meal.

Our drink and appetizers sizes are enormous. It's disgusting.
That's one way of looking at it. Another is that with hobby projects, people often do the first 80% of the work, see that the concept works, and then move on before finishing the other 80%. There really aren't THAT many hours in a day.
The HIPAA violation would be on the care provider by transmitting in cleartext over the internet.

If they're transmitting properly over TLS then no patient info would be divulged.
Very true, in my experience.
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What do you want them to say? That they are shutting down FB?
Yes, but it is far harder for my ISP do monetize that data than it is for the two largest ad networks on the planet.

My ISP is welcome to know what sites I connect to because I pay them to do exactly that. Facebook and Google inserting their riders everywhere I go is not part of something I consent to.

And that's the root of the problem, if I send an envelope with my return address on the back the postal services have access to the meta-data and it is my decision to let them.

But it is not my decision to let a bunch of unrelated third parties use the contents of the letters to build up profiles on me and my counterparty.
It turns out there was a reason,
cows were out of season,
and one of the hunters wasn't insured!
> Is it possible that black holes could account for a good portion of "dark matter"?

A key issue with this hypothesis is how the holes could have formed. In order to form a black hole, a system has to gravitationally collapse. But that involves emitting a lot of energy, usually in the form of radiation, as the system becomes more and more tightly bound gravitationally.

For ordinary matter, the kind we and visible stars and galaxies are made of, that's not an issue. But there are strong limits on the fraction of the total matter in the universe that can be ordinary matter (basically because of the relative abundances of light elements, mainly deuterium, helium, and lithium, which are highly sensitive to the total number of quarks and leptons--i.e., ordinary matter--present in the early universe). The ordinary matter we can see is basically the same as the limit, which means there can't be a significant amount of ordinary matter we can't see.

But the total amount of dark matter is about an order of magnitude larger than the total amount of ordinary matter in the universe. So if a significant portion of that is black holes, the holes would have to have formed from something that is not ordinary matter. And the problem is that such a something would not be subject to any of the known interactions except gravitation, and hence would have no way to emit enough energy to gravitationally collapse to a black hole. (This is also the reason why dark matter "halos" around galaxies are much more diffuse and spread out than the visible matter--the dark matter can't clump together gravitationally the way the visible matter does.)

All of the above makes it very unlikely that black holes can account for a significant portion of dark matter.
Take up amateur radio and you'll be rewarded with a license and a lifetime of fun for the learning investment. Here are some resources:

http://www.arrl.org/what-is-ham-radio

https://www.qrz.com/i/ham-radio-howto.html

http://www.ncarc.net/?q=node/57

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It may work better without "http://" ...
I don't think Fox News is awakening people to skepticism; I think Fox News is convincing many people that only Fox News can be trusted.
No probs. I spent quite a long time experimenting and instaLooter was the best I could find.

Instagram's gone from a place where I posted the odd picture to a serious attempt to document my life (mostly to be consumed by myself). Throughout last year I became increasingly nervous about not having access to all the data!
Facebook Falls as Pressure Mounts on Zuckerberg Over Data
This book influenced me the most: Bebop to the Boolean Boogie

https://www.amazon.com/Bebop-Boolean-Boogie-Third-Unconventi...
Greed explains it well.
Immutable.rs: immutable data structures for Rust
A list of good deep learning books (March 2018)
I honestly thought the author was trolling us (until I read the comments). There are so many holes in his example of ebook transaction. Here's just the two points he made that were the most egregious to me:

>> and that the book — rather than some other file, or nothing at all — will actually arrive

Really? Ever heard of checksums - its used all over the place. And if we weren't able to trust it, I guarantee you that blockchain tech is not the only thing that will break.

>> It’s a complicated way to buy a book! It’s not trustless, you’re trusting in the software (and your ability to defend yourself in a software-driven world), instead of trusting other people

It's like arguing with my grandma about evolution. "But you are trusting the scientists!!". I don't know where to begin.
Seems pretty journalistic to me. This "right to be forgotten" seems incredibly dangerous to me. Should we give Trump the right for his bankruptcies to be forgotten? Do we give child molesters the right for their crimes to be forgotten? Why should people have the right to have things they don't like wiped from the historical record?

EDIT: I should point out, I do understand the other side. People shouldn't be punished forever for a crime they've already paid their ostensible debt for. However, I think this is a pretty nuanced issue, and a universal 'right to be forgotten' or a blanket "everything about everyone is accessible forever" is probably not the right solution.
Gajillions of people send money to each other on Venmo, to the point where my parents know what it is. You can't say that about Bitcoin. QED.
Gerhard Kreisler, who sings in German, is from the same time and every bit as witty and creative musically.

In a weird turn of events, when he lived in the U.S. Kreisler must have crossed paths with Lehrer, as they both became famous for a waltz with the same title — Kreisler's "Tauben vergriften" and Lehrer's "Poisoning pigeons in the park". It's not clear who copied from whom.
>Bargaining position is ENTIRELY defined by economics.

In theory it is, but I haven't seen much if any economic research that actually analyzes, say, desperation as a factor in aggregate wage levels.

Much like the effect of raising the minimum wage on profits (ridiculously under researched), there are apparently some topics economists simply don't like looking at.
> England’s Information Commissioner dismissed Google’s argument and said that journalism presupposes a process that includes human editorial decision-making, something that Google’s very algorithmic service does not do.

A side issue (not relevant to the mentioned court case, which deals with long-ago crime convictions): Google News incorporates some human editorial decision-making -- the whitelisting of domains. At some point courts will have to make more difficult/less binary decisions about what constitutes human editorial decision-making, which in modern times almost always involves a mechanical algorithmic process. I guess we've run into this before when deciding if bloggers enjoyed the same protections as traditional news institutions.
Wasn’t sure which direction he was going in but now I see. That’s incredible satire. Thumbs up.
For some reason, I get this mental image of everybody in a city street dressed in hazmat gear.
> In its defense, Google has argued that it should be protected under an exception for journalism because it provides access to journalistic content

This is like saying a grocery store should be exempt because it sells newspapers
the build for codecov didn't work when I did that.
Ouch. You have to hope they weren't plugged in. If they were I don't want to play poker against either of those models.
Bullet Train looks amazing, thank you!

I'd also love to see someone templatize backend stream processing and API integration systems.
> dark matter is considered rather low mass density i.e. doesn't bend light too much. Black holes would.

Not if the holes were spread out in a very large diffuse cloud around a galaxy. A single hole would bend light significantly, but the averaged effect of a huge diffuse cloud of holes around a galaxy would be basically zero (because there would be as many holes bending light one way as the other, so their effects overall would cancel out).
Are we talking about digital or analog electronics? AC or DC power? For me, a DC powered circuit with a clock and chips made sense but I never understood how analog circuits worked until I was introduced to the concept of the LRC circuit. It has a resistor, a capacitor and a inductor. As a software guy I am trained to think in terms of discreet components. Then I realized that when you put those 3 discrete components together that things really start to happen.
A course called "[Intro to] data science" should be taken about as seriously in hiring as "Intro to computer science", or "Intro to mechanical engineering". There's no reason these courses should bear any weight in hiring, and it's disingenuous to attempt to lead people to believe otherwise.
Apple’s New Ad Conversion Tracking Will Benefit User Privacy
>a) you're using legal definitions when the question is about morality

You don't think the legal differences between those two things were based on perceived immorality?
I'm not appealing to his authority—you should review the scientific literature he cites. Also, I cannot recommend enough actually trying out different diets to see what personally works best for you. I would be very interested in hearing about your living by the recommended "Daily Dozen" [0] for a month, to see for yourself how fantastic it will make you feel. Also, I would recommend checking out The China Study. [1]

[0] https://nutritionfacts.org/video/dr-gregers-daily-dozen-chec...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_China_Study
Author here, and uncomfortably excited to discuss this with any and all who are interested.
Wait for the next software update.

And remember not to have an emergency requiring you to stop on the side of the road:

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fc0yYJ8-Dyo

[2] https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/23/16923800/tesla-firetruck-...
The really in depth stuff tends to be blogged about - SO should really have a team of sockpuppet writers who pose questions and then also post summary answers with links back to the blog posts.
/j/ is a semivowel. Generally, these are classified and behave as consonants, but their vowel-like behavior still creeps in sometimes.
This is what I'm working through and I like it. I've read a ton but nothing clicked until I started actually "doing". And the components are all available in kits. (Make: Electronics Components Pack 1, etc). You can get the stuff cheaper, but this puts it all together in one place for you.
Sure, possibly valid points. But the original comment made an explicit point that I can't verify because I cannot find wage data going back past 1964.
Journalistic? Like an "editor of content"? That's something that will backfire.

There is no escaping that google is the author and editor of an algorithm and that it chooses to remove things from the index for a variety of reasons, so I don't think it's unfair to have laws that try to regulate the list of exclusion.
now I am resentful about FB dark patterns and practices like the next guy here, but let's be clear - unless we absolve ourselves from freedom of our choices, it is WE who go here, it s WE who scroll, click likes and shares, talk crap, whateva. All these browser extensions, hosts blacklists, even router settings, out of those capable here, maybe 0.01% did it. I didn't.

All this stuff tells much more about ourselves than some petty (yet highly valuable) company. And most people don't like the message. This is as much about forcing the company to make better product for its users (even if it means its eventual demise, which over long enough timeline is inevitable) as a very valuable introspection. We can skip that part and just hate more, but it would be a wasted opportunity, don't you think?
What? uBlock already make ads completely transparent
Depending on where you are (Europe or the United States) Velleman in Europe or Heathkit in the United States will sell you all kinds of electronics in kit form. Get some practice with that, try to figure out how what you have just built works (and in debugging you will learn a lot) and then later move on to your own designs or modifications of existing designs.
This is nonsense. The world changes. You can't possibly keep it the way it was. Austin still has a very strong identity and cultural history -- it's just different now than it was 5 years ago when it was different from what it had been 5 years before that when it was different from...

A lot of what's happening in Austin is a result of public policy too, and it's been so for at least two decades. The city has actively pursued its transformations. Though even if it hadn't, Austin would still have been a huge draw for refugees from California and the East Coast.
Third party DNS is at best a very minor hiccup in the ease of an ISP monitoring where you're going, though in combination with things like HTTPS Everywhere it's a start - mostly if you're going to good-sized sites where most of your traffic actually goes to CDN providers.

Hm, thinking about it as I write, I could see how encrypted DNS plus everything being encrypted and served via CDN could actually cut down a lot on what carriers can see. Still far from perfect, but not quite as bad as I was originally thinking.

Edit: I wasn't familiar with Server Name Indication (destination hostname is unencrypted even though the rest of the URL and session are encrypted).
How in depth are you wanting to learn, and how do you like to learn?

You can build some cool stuff without having much in depth knowledge (there are tons of step-by-step projects for Arduino/RaspberryPi just a Google away).

If you're the type that doesn't mind hunkering down and reading textbooks, I'd suggest Electric Circuits (Nilsson and Riedel) paired with Fundamentals of Microelectronics (Razavi).
Interesting. Can you provide any more details? Obviously the force of gravity exists in space. So what's a better way to describe the difference?
Many universities have lab materials for introductory electronics courses available publicly online.

For example, here are the labs for Berkeley's EE105: http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~ee105/fa15/labs.html

I believe MIT OCW has several electronics courses with lab materials.
So, your spec house is the yet-another-crud-webapp, where the spec is clear and the tech mature... Engineers do those too, but they aren't so much entrepreneurs as jobbing contractors or agencies
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If you enjoy that, you could look up other https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flyting & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_debate_poetry to read. There are also fun prose debates like the Islamic "The Case of the Animals versus Man Before the King of the Jinn".
There are a few recommendations for The Art of Electronics. It's a great reference, but probably hard to approach as a beginner unless you're very motivated and comfortable being confused at points.

Electronics covers a huge field and many people specialize in just one area. Here are some of the main areas that are accessible to hobbyists (roughly in increasing order of difficulty):

- Digital electronics. Using microcontrollers to do things in the physical environment.

- Audio electronics. This is a fun area of electronics because the quality of what you build is directly reflected in how it sounds.

- Amateur radio electronics. Lets you talk to other people around the world. Harder than basic audio circuits because you need to know about antennas and radio operates at higher frequencies. Also requires passing an exam to get licensed, but studying for the exam helps with learning some of the theory.

- FPGAs. These are sexy, but not many applications that are that compelling for a hobbyist unless you have something very specific in mind. Plus you have to learn Verilog or another HDL and the way of thinking is very different than normal programming (since you're effectively describing the hardware you want rather than an algorithm).

My advice is to first figure out which field you're interested in, then find a project to work on related to that field. Having something practical to refer to makes understanding the theory (like what you'd learn in The Art of Electronics) easier.
Yet, in general, more valuable, thus increasing in usefulness over time. 1 bitcoin in 2018 is objectively more useful than a 2010 bitcoin, as it has more buying power.

So I would argue that any deflationary cryptocurrency will more likely be more useful over time as it has increased buying power. (But not necessarily value!)
Oh no, don't get me wrong, I think the regulation is totally stupid. Why bother regulating something over which you have no control of? It is just putting unnecessary barriers for domestic innovators while your real competition is not wasting precious cycles.
But it might be safer to start with the right to be forgotten then start outlining exceptions to that, instead of the other way around.
Sure, I don't disagree. Personally, after moving away from BASIC to other languages, I felt freed from a bunch of problems I had had with BASIC. For example, scope eliminated problems with reuse of variable names. Perhaps lots of other people who started with BASIC felt the same way.

On the other hand, sometimes other people never transcended those bad habits from BASIC. Sometimes you run across programs that are one big function, with variables reused, etc. I don't know what the thought processes are of programmers who write such code. There's an old saw, "You can write FORTRAN in any language." Maybe this should be applied to BASIC as well. That's probably what Dijkstra was driving at. I don't know about "mental mutilation" (certainly hyperbole, in my book) but only Dijkstra knows what he really meant.
It seems strange to me that a New York based journalism institution didn't use the plaintiffs real names. On what basis do you suppose they decided to honor EU/English law?
How about making ads go away?

FB appears locked in to a business model that relies on continually pushing the limits of invasiveness.

Does that model have a breaking point?

Does FB know where that point lies?
> > country and folk music

> Folk music has nothing to do with country.

I think the point was that they're both "music"; congrats, now you have a hierarchy again!
If you have a local independent ISP, use them!

Two great ones in SF, MonkeyBrains and Sonic. Both support net neutrality, and don't do any of this evil shit.

https://www.monkeybrains.net/
https://www.sonic.com/