skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Congressman Costello from Pennsylvania asked if AI will be used to recognize the faces of "non-FB users".

Combined with the shadow profiles question by Congressman Lujan from New Mexico, some of these questions are getting closer to what people need to know and understand. Unfortunately, a lot of the rest of questioning seems like blind man's bluff / Marco Polo [0].

It'd be nice if Congress can be asked to host a debate between subject matter experts in the privacy domain (who are knowledgeable and can effectively communicate this knowledge and their concerns to lay people) and tech company C-level executives like Zuckerburg.

2:50 PM EDT: Congressman Duncan from North Carolina is going to give Zuckerburg a small copy of the US Constitution.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_man%27s_buff

2:59 PM EDT - Edited to add "to lay people".

3:02 PM EDT - Added "Marco Polo". Thanks to caabalis for the reminder.
3) is provably false by the product. Facebook can accurately suggest friends for you immediately after sign-up.
I guess it depends on your company, At my company we have unlimited PTO and I definitely get more PTO days then people with a set number of PTO days at other companies.
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It's probably not possible that fb has zero data on non users, for example they no doubt have faces in pictures that don't match up to fb profiles. But it is possible that they don't attempt to collate that data in a way that identifies specific individuals who aren't on the platform, e.g. they don't do anything with those unmatched faces.
>Online lectures don't offer exercises

The OP wasn't asking about just online lectures, it was asking about MOOCs. The best MOOCs I've taken strike a really good balance between lectures, additional reading, and exercises that are automatically graded.

A lot of books don't have any exercises, and the vast majority of the ones that do have no method of verifying it was done correctly.

So maybe today the best C++ book is better than the best C++ MOOC today, I've no doubt that a MOOC could be designed far better than any book could ever be. And I'd bet that's exactly what the OP was trying to find.
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“Excellence” is a poor criterion for comparative analysis because it is (a) subjective and (b) unquantifiable.

Do you have objective or quantifiable data and references upon which your opinion is based, _and_ is universally applicable to any arbitrary problem that a SQL database might be an appropriate solution for?
Apparently, that's pretty common:

Target: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-34556644

Fred Meyer: http://www.phonelosers.org/zine/pla025/

General Info: https://www.mattwilson.uk/2015/12/16/stores-pa-systems-attac...
Mortal Kombat was not a bad movie if you ask me.
> Isn't anyone who has Google Analytics installed on a page collecting information and creating "shadow" profiles?

No, but you could argue that Google are.
>If you are upper middle class or higher in the US...life here is better than most other places in the world

Please change to: your purchasing power is better than most places in the world.

Do not confuse purchasing power with better life. 13% of Americans are on anti-depressants. I know many "successful" people in my very affluent suburb of a major US city, who have an addiction problem ( prescription drugs, mostly).

Add growing social isolation, caused by constant uprooting (moving from place to place to advance one's career).

As they say, "all that glitters is not gold"
I love this article. Quickly breaks down the types of debt.
I tried out the download tool. It's basically things that the user posted directly. They did have FB messenger conversation logs in their too. It doesn't include any likes, comments, attention metrics, or clicks to external links. It doesn't seem like it includes everything they have.
Ooh I strongly dislike that effect on large monitors. It’s basically a waste where we distill the design down the lowest common denominator for 1024x768 screens (or whatever is current).

Facebook does the same thing. I don’t know why companies prefer the fixed width design. The original timeline design was SO compelling with photos filling the entire width of the screen.
You're talking about calorie differentials amounting to 40 or 80 per day. Hardly something worth considering for the average person, but I'm sure it gives you easy grant money to chug out reports.

If you think obesity is due to the difference between 80 calories or so, you have other drastic immediate concerns (the terrible mental model being one). People aren't becoming obese because their body isn't "processing" fat calories compared to carb calories, they are obese because people eat obscene amounts of food daily.

Countries like France and Italy eat massive amounts of carbs in their diets and they don't have obesity issues on the scale of the United States.
I'm surprised that no employers even offer this as an option when hiring.

There might be some legal barriers to this problem like recovering the investments when the employee breaks the contract? Seems like some kind of insurance would help there, though.
As the father of a kid that died of bone cancer that is par for the course. Other cancers have made HUGE improvements but the hard dense sarcoma tumors still sit in the 1980s in terms survival rates.
The first country to successfully lay down regulations for cryptocurrency
This post is especially awesome to me because Guilded was launched on reddit, and a majority of our continued feedback comes either directly from reddit or from users that found us initially through reddit.

The most fun thing about this project so far has been how all the things I spent tons of time on just for fun (reddit, gaming) ended up showing their worth later, like the superhero movies where the useless power ends up being useful in a really contrived way at the end.
Of course - he wasn't actually trying to formulate a coherent ethical framework for artificial intelligence and demonstrate its utility, he was writing mystery stories with robots.
I would love to see resistance training looked at in comparison to distance running, which is usually what's meant by "exercise" in this context. The theory behind jogging for exercise is that you'll raise your calorie output, but as the article states, you may just end up compensating by being less energetic throughout the rest of the day or feeling hungrier and eating more. The idea behind resistance training is that you apply a stress to your muscles, and in response to that stress your body dedicates a higher than normal percentage of the calories you take in to repairing and rebuilding your muscle fiber.

Anecdotally, I've been powerlifting for the past 2 years or so as my "exercise", and while I weigh about what I did two years ago, my body looks completely different. Weightlifting may not cause you to lose weight, but no one actually wants to lose weight, they want to lose fat.
Except for saving some typing, is there any benefit to stash over local branches?

In other words, shouldn't git just fix ux for branches and rip out stash?
Not under this proposal, as long as you continuously updated the software. If you never payed the tax, the version from two years ago would lapse into public domain, but any maintained versions would continue to be copyrighted (or at least contained copyrighted elements) as long as effort was expended to maintain them. In theory there is nothing preventing this from happening with GPL software now, except that the length of time for something to go into public domain is so long.

Edit: In some ways this is actually an improvement over the status quo. It solves the problem where software can't be relicensed because no one can track down all the authors. You only have to track down the authors who have been active in the last two years.
Job Title as well, cause that's a finite list.
>So many of these games are inspired by movies in the first place, and their stories are mostly just cliches based on their source material.

Just Cause 2 was the best "shitty action movie" video game I've ever played!
It was fantastic up until the vampires/zombies turned into cartoons. One of the scariest scenes I've ever seen was the bit where he goes in after the dog and the vamps are all huddled in a circle shivering in the dark. That was some top notch creepy. And it was brilliant acting by Smith (so much of the scariness of that scene was just because the character was scared).

But, then we got a closer look at them a bit later and they were flying through the air, bouncing off the walls, and just all around looking like cartoon monsters. I'm just not frightened by cartoons. And, it really killed the slow, calm, horror of the book for me. The things that made the book unique and scary in a way that sticks with you are just fundamentally different from the jump scares of the film.

The Vincent Price adaptation (The Last Man On Earth) remains the most faithful film version of I Am Legend, in spirit if not in specific detail. I don't really mind when a movie script changes some plot points or some character details to make it work on screen, I just dislike it when the spirit of the thing is thrown away and replaced with blockbuster tropes (which is my primary complaint about I, Robot, as well).

But, again, I thought Will Smith was excellent in the role. I just really hate what they did with the vamps.
You know, now that I think about it... Node projects pretty much have all their tooling written in JavaScript already. I wonder how hard it'd be to run all that in the browser directly (right now I think this IDE is handling that on the server).
However, she focused on statistics, not intent behind those things - what type of data FB collects and why. She was almost there but sort of wasted the opportunity.
I believe they do this based on emails and phone numbers.
Plastic bags are arguably better for the environment than the alternatives:

https://www2.mst.dk/Udgiv/publications/2018/02/978-87-93614-...
zip car is crushing itself. they only recently started allowing rentals over 24 hours. most require round trips. or if not a round trip, return to a zip car parking spot. it’s just slightly less inconvenient than a traditional rental car at a higher price. i have a really hard time imagining when zip car would be the best choice for any driving needs
I think this is a bad analogy.

If site-usage data is being collected via use of your site, then by definition it’s on users.

That’s not the same thing as buying files on individuals who don’t use your site from data brokers.
I would recommend you also support iRacing. It's probably the game where the largest percentage of players are in a team on some level, and actively race under that team.
Everything involves politics. At least they're being explicit about it.
looks fantastic! I would love a version of this but for board game groups, but right now, I will organize my Civilization group with it
Please don't copy-paste. HN threads are for conversation, and that makes bad conversation.
Actually this is great! Let's look at some data together. The first genetically engineered product was released in 1994. It was called the Flavr Savr Tomato [1]. There are a couple of big points here. The reason this is important is because we can now look at a graph of food availability [2]. You might notice that well before genetic engineering of products was a thing, there was more than bountiful food that was increasing at a steady rate. Genetic engineering has had a negligible impact on this one way or the other.

The next point is worldwide share, which gets back to the original post. The primary goal of genetic engineering foodstuffs is profit, and the developed world is where that profit is at. That said the big GMO companies have increasingly started to target the developing world. But that change in direction happened as acreage growth in the developed world began to flatline, and in some cases decline. This [3] is a summary report of GMOs from ISAAA, which is a (pro) GMO advocacy group funded by Monsanto, Bayer, the USDA, and others.You'll note that GMOs are basically a US focused projected, though Brazil and Argentina also have substantial acreage.

The whole point here is that GMOs are a product of no necessity. Monsanto is 'feeding a growing population' in the same way that McDonalds is, but at least you know when you're buying a Big Mac.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flavr_Savr

[2] - https://ourworldindata.org/slides/hunger-and-food-provision/...

[3] - http://www.isaaa.org/resources/publications/briefs/52/execut...
MySplit Kickstarter Campaign
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"Bastille's researchers note that ATI's website references siren systems installed in many other sensitive locations, including 1 World Trade Center in New York, the Indian Point nuclear power plant along the Hudson River, and campuses including UMass Amherst, Long Island University, and West Point. Bastille's researchers caution that they couldn't confirm whether those customers had installed the same vulnerable setups."

New York City can get crowded around 1 World Trade Center. A false alarm could kill, not to mention cause tremendous economic damage.
> It'd be nice if Congress can be asked to host a debate between subject matter experts in the privacy domain (who are knowledgeable and can effectively communicate this knowledge and their concerns) and tech company C-level executives like Zuckerburg.

That'd be amazing. Effectively champion warfare[1] but for civil liberties.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champion_warfare
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Interesting, I haven't looked into iRacing yet. I'll definitely check this out, thank you for the suggestion.
I listened to the whole video and it has good audio all the way through.
Agree with that. I also advise to avoid machines with i7-3770 there. I had a problem with this CPU and some mobo combination which ended up in random crashes under network/disk load. More evidence here: https://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1200617
Or 4) Facebook has shadow profiles, but Zuckerberg's out of touch, doesn't read his critics closely, and is unfamiliar with the terminology ("shadow profiles") they use.
Facebook OpenGraph v2 stopped the ability of api app developers from getting friend data without their consent.

For the most part 'shadow profiles' are dead as of 2013-ish when OpenGraph v2 came out. Lots of scammy Facebook companies died because of this, if you remember many game companies also suffered a bit like Zynga and threatened to leave, they were given special access to still do it for a while and I assume others like CA possibly.

With v2 they also shut off using global Facebook user ids and moved them to a per app basis so you can't correlate outside your app, you'd have to correlate with other identifiers like email or deeper data comparing.

Facebook also turned friend access into invitation lists where the other user had to agree and join the app themselves before you could pull their data.

Facebook knew about shadow profiles and they already addressed it.
I am not an Android dev, so I don't know if it is possible, but maybe they are accessing the GPS radio directly and doing RTK?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Time_Kinematic
> "In most of these experiments, the participants lost far less weight than would have been expected, mathematically, given how many additional calories they were burning with their workouts."

Maybe it's the sceptic in me, but I'm reading this as: the calorie model is broken, or at least flawed.

When someone else reproduces this I'll give it a second chance. As it is, calorie fail aside, I get the feeling someone beat up their data and/or had an odd set of mice. That is "get different mice, we're not finding anything interesting."

Personally, I'm extremely unlikely to change my diet + exercise habits over a mouse.
And the numbers prove it.
Amazon patents 'voice-sniffing' algorithms
The reason I like mailbox.org is that they basically like to be the host and leave you to read your mail the way you want it even though they do have a web UI - Open-Xchange. Not my favourite, but I don't find it jarring whatever few time I've to use it. Otherwise it's just IMAP for me.

Also, they have a very different take on 2FA. 2FA access is PIN+OTP and even though someone figures out PIN and OTP the OTP always changes and PIN is useless w/o it and one can access IMAP with the normal password.
Because the world and characters some games develop is occasionally interesting and compelling?
In the case of the CPA I knew, she wasn’t worried about personal injury claims against her from people she didn’t know. Obviously, other jobs are more exposed to personal injury claims (and, potentially, a non-client could slip on her front steps, so she wasn’t completely in the clear).
Please don't use HN for partisan flamewar, it's seriously destructive of the site. Regardless of which side you're supporting or opposing.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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I think that backlash against tech has reached such a fever pitch at this point that a huge number of criticisms of it are overblown.

Does tech have problems? Sure. But in order for the criticism of it to be effective, we shouldn’t mix it in with general compliants about our current economic system.
It came up yesterday. A question was asked wether or not Zuckerberg thought user understood that Facebook had the ability to track every website they visit when Facebook social media icons appear on those pages.
Extracted boilerplate from some of my libs:

https://github.com/alexkrolick/react-lib-quickstart

Want to port this to a CLI eventually, too
Actually why not overload operators to do something like:

dq.match(data, Field("friends.age") <= 26)

or in the appengine style if data is some class (say Friend):

dq.match(data, Friend__age <= 26)
thanks for making your point with humor, it’s underused on hn. i agree with the sentiment too
Mortal Kombat wasn't amazing but it's definitely watchable. The sequel, on the other hand...
Right (no pun intended). In general, a right to X means you can do X, not that you have to do X. But the original article said that the new law would add an inalienable right to remuneration, and said that meant publishers would be required to demand payment.

That made it sound like when a right is inalienable in the EU, you must exercise it.

In the US, inalienability affects how hard it is for others to stop you from exercising the right, both intentionally and unintentionally. It is still your choice whether or not to actually exercise it, and depending on the particular right you may also be able to freely agree by contract to not exercise it.
They have to anonymize it somehow, because otherwise it wouldnt be legal in germany.

(If i understand everything correctly, which might not the case)
Balint is great! He's presented at Dorkbot-SF a couple of times:

* about the ISEE-3 space probe reboot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTljlMH-0oM

* visualizing flights in airspace: http://youtu.be/a623A6JVuek

(I'm the Dorkbot A/V geek, but these aren't my recordings.)
To be fair, Hollywood is improving. Their first attempt was the Super Mario Brothers movie, which was so bad that it's difficult to understand how they finished it.
The article doesn't say much other than state the current reality of central banks shaping a lot of market forces in todays paradigm. I disagree and think that the Central bank has inserted itself in things that economic forces would have otherwise managed anyway.
I have found the closer I am to the product and the clients that will be affected, and the more thoroughly I understand the usecase from the client’s perspective, the better I am at understanding how much effort to spend on “getting it right” in this way. Still wrong sometimes though!
Yeah, agreed. I'd like to have more customization options in the future, including themes like that. To keep the scope small enough to make this launchable, it didn't make the cut, but we'll definitely be revisiting that.
What's funny is it's completely the opposite in other industries. If your a tech worker for a non-tech company your the second class citizen.
I think the only thing the referenced studies proved is that people don't know what their actual learning style is.
Actually, in some ways, Hardcore Henry (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3072482/) was a great video game movie. It has lots of problems, but it captures both the feel of a video game with the power of film. While not based on a specific game, it's easy to see many gaming cliches (intentionally) in the film.
Inbox is going to be Google's sandbox to test new ideas about email, with the most successful features graduating to gmail itself.

So progressive enhancement/alteration for now, not a product shutdown
His channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/balint256
PyPI clients must now support TLSv1.2+
Uwe Boll's "Tunnel Rats" is surprisingly decent BTW.
Of course slime has always existed but this YouTube slime movement is way bigger than anything that was on Nickelodeon. I don't think you realise the magnitude.
Oops. Sorry. I was speaking about something like Git, not a particular language tool.
Seems like the best approach here is to not introduce breaking changes to begin with. Go has done a very good job at this. And AFAIK most of the breaking changes in Java have been the introduction of new keywords and have been relatively easy to manage.
Use a Digital Asset Management (DAM) system. You get binary version control, automatic extraction of text for searching, automatic document type conversion, tagging, thumbnails, custom fields, etc. Everything can be sorted into a category hierarchy, with many-to-many relationships. You can control who can access what and when, and users can use native or web-based clients.

As others have said, your company culture has to support it, lest you use the resources to set it all up and no one uses it.
This is strictly a first week "problem." Having lost 22+ pounds since February on a (renewed) low carbohydrate diet, I can assure you not all of that was water weight. Previously I lost over a hundred pounds by eating this way and have managed to keep it off for years. It took a series of very large lifestyle changes to get me a little off track---something I'm now correcting.
I've also heard a convincing argument that there's an evolutionary response to prolonged hunger akin to fight or flight response that enhances cognition to better enable us to find food.
a. There isn't really a gap. Employers are just slow to adjust to market rates for quality engineers.

b. If engineer salaries went up to the market clearing rate, certain business models that assume certain labor costs will become flawed

c. Who is going to pay for the training, especially in the case that all the training doesn't actually end up making the candidate any good at the job?
Even as a teenager, I found it pretty cringy.
The options around conversation view are not only staying, but they're being built into the phone apps as well.