skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
3) is a perfectly reasonable objection, and I can understand why people say "it's too far in the future, we have more pressing issues right now". But 2): "dumb and inept enough to interpret its instructions absolutely literally, like a magic genie" is not a reasonable objection, unless you have some compelling reason for why the orthogonality thesis is false. Why should an AI care about what we want from it, unless we're exceedingly careful about programming it so that its utility function is perfectly aligned with human desires; and is "exceeding care" a feature, now or ever, of how we approach AI engineering?

Even if the smartest hypothetical AI can perfectly extrapolate the mental states of every human who ever lived, we still die in a cloud of nanobots if it isn't programmed ever-so-carefully to care about what we want.
The immediate side-effects of any program and the processor are only to read, manipulate, and write data. Data is stored in a finite memory that all have states 0 and 1.

Every single thing that can be represented or manipulated by a program is just an array of 0s and 1s that are read, manipulated, and written. The values in the array are the state, and everything a program is capable of doing only moves it to a different state of memory.

Every single program ever written is a state machine, so is every microchip for that matter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_machine
Women in Tech: The Anatomy of a Female Cybersecurity Leader
I'm not one to normally defend Facebook, but I disagree. Advertising was not prioritized for a huge chunk of Facebook's history, so I'd argue it's not part of their core ethos (it's a necessary evil, if you will). While a lot of their more recent product decisions have been made around revenue generation, I don't think that's what keeps their leadership up at night. Keeping a monopoly on user attention (euphemism is "connecting the world") is their biggest challenge, especially in the ever-evolving social industry.
I was going to simply say that we spent $1 trillion on the Iraq War (another trillion in Afghanistan).

I was only trying to show how little the research costs in the big scheme of things.
Yes, it is hard, and the UX is horrible.

Google proposed, and Chrome implements, Origin-Bound Certificates (http://www.czeskis.com/research/pubs/tls-obc.pdf) which are just about as good and with no UX impact. Section 8 covers many of the problems with TLS client certs.

AFAIK Chrome has the only implementation of OBC.
Wondering if you can say more about managing "energy and motivation"? I'm curious abut the details, how one does this. It sounds like a great approach!
Lol I thought the author might be joking, but couldn't tell. Overall I love APL (hobby language) and think this would be neat if feasible.
A lot of great advice here. Just throwing this in:

http://exploringjs.com/

A lot of great free material, about the actual language, not a framework.
Sex is where new people come from. Once a society loses this perspective it dies.
Traditionally? I don't think there was a "tradition". ":=" was used in Algol. "=" was used in Fortran. COBOL didn't use either "=" or ":=".
There are some recent articles about California in general:
https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Chinese-investment-i...
and inexpensive areas in California being bought up for mafia marijuana grow houses (which seems incredible in that it's much cheaper in the midwest to buy homes but here we are)
http://www.sacbee.com/news/business/article207938184.html
Am I missing something? Take the Senator who spoke about monopolies. An oil monopoly is bad because we all need to get to work and trains need to run. Microsoft monopoly, arguable but I can see how it can be bad. All companies end up using Microsoft and this affects everyone, hospitals, schools ... Facebook is optional, we won't starve, hospitals won't close, aeroplanes will continue if we delete Facebook. Is this an acceptance that modern man cannot but keep up with the Jones. Just because my neighbour and school friends are on Facebook, I need to be on Facebook. Don't mind though me as an African we have some way to go before this becomes a burning issue.
It's a good option for $1k-$10k claims.

It's not so great for a $150 claim when you take into account the filing fee and the time it takes.

Can you reliably get the fee back? Still a giant hassle.
Throwing around some "call options on campaign support" be the best investment FB could make right now, to be honest (yes I'm jaded to the idea of an uncorrupted democracy).
>That's already illegal.

Maybe we should just make one singular law that says "be nice".

Hey, I bet you could make a religion out of that!

/s

Saying there is already a law that covers something is disconnected from reality, or at least disconnected form language and the way that humans communicate.

For instance: "drugging people is illegal". You haven't defined "drugging" or "people" in that case. Is it drugging a person when a school nurse gives a child a acetaminophen? You're definitely changing both their physical and psychological state, and are in some way establishing a relationship of dependence.

This is why we have more than one law, and why we don't base our laws on religion.
I think this is the most important question. I've seen a lot of comments saying various things are bad. I have not seen any suggest alternatives.

It seems like the people who think prostitution is bad want it to just go away, favoring words like should/shouldn't. I want to know a solution to prostitution that takes into account human nature and markets.
Have you seen the movie?
I seem to recall a statement from Apple recently that if you return an iDevice to an Apple Store when you're done with it, it is torn apart and 100% of it gets recycled.

Not sure if that only applies to recent devices, or everything it's ever sold.
An unarmed Palestinian...trying to cross a security fence defended by soldiers, not a peaceful protestor.
I also hate team building exercises, so there's that. Just let me go home.
No electing trump was the bomb going off.
Let me try to address your points in general since I assume the question is whether productivity is worth 'pedestalizing'?

Even if you forget about the impact to company / society / civilization and focus simply on yourself, you can see that you get X hours in total and one shot at life. If you pare it down by necessary but not directly productive hours like downtime / time spent towards learning / physical-mental well being etc. You get Y which is very much lesser than X.

Some folks want to maximize the heck out of this Y just because they have so many things they want to get done OR they have chosen to listen to someone / company that tells them that they should get all of those done.

Usually maximization like that in comparison to a lifestyle that maximizes consumption is always 'pedestalized' because of a few reasons:

- historically they have moved the bottom line on many real world scenarios.

- someone else values it enough that they pay actual money for it (I am yet to find a viable lifestyle option that will pay me money :). I personally value money because it buys me time (via ability to delegate) and experiences with the limited time I have.

- When you have a ton of things you want to get done (irrespective of socio-economic impact) and little time, there is no other choice.

I agree it might be 'marginal behavior' which is what makes it so sought after. There are folks who can't get there, folks who don't want to get there, folks who will try but won't get there and a ton of mortals who will get somewhere close. In general, humans want to make a difference in some way, we see the Elon's of the world somehow making a difference and folks chase after it (hence pedestalizing). IOW your question will make more sense if we are immortal :)
Not the parent, but this is a comprehensive source: https://examine.com/supplements/melatonin/

You can ctrl+f "dose" there.
People here told me Google+ was amazing and that everyone worth associating with was on there.

Is that no longer true?
I think the whole point of IQ test is being stable independent of age.
How the Islamic State stayed in power for so long
Facebook doesn't delete all cookies (for instance, there's an `sb` cookie still set) in their logout response. They may choose not to do anything with the cookies that remain, but the technical answer to the question is yes. And even if they currently did delete all cookies, there's nothing from preventing them from introducing cookies that do remain.

Zuck knows this is generally feasible - he's a talented software engineer. The question was ambiguously worded, and Zuck could have clarified or answered that it's generally feasible but that Facebook has tight controls around the usage of that information. It's the panel's responsibility to not let him get away with that type of maneuver, and they don't have the type of real-time support that, say, a news anchor has (with earpiece and live research staff) to handle interviewing domain experts in an optimal way.
Looks good, though I would like a better support for github pages out of the box.
Robert Jordan (Wheel of Time) is rather ahead of George Martin worldbuilding-wise and is probably second after Tolkien in the genre.
No that's not what he was saying.
I actually rationalized the '=' symbol in assignment into the following statement, "Let 'left hand side' be equal to 'right hand side'". Using this wording resolves some dissonance around its overloaded usage.
Riak the database so indestructable that is survives its parent companies demise is going into code freeze for its first post-bankruptcy release even as we speak
I am working on a fitness/nutrition tracking webapp and a service for landlords to track rental, tenant, repair, etc. information.
Yes, and Martin Richards still maintains it himself. He even uses it for his music processing research.
Re: "You still have to host the images somewhere—they're not embedded in the document (which is what I meant by "inline")"

I still don't follow you; why is this an issue with markdown? Why do you see this as different than any other markup language (e.g, HTML)? Unless we're talking about something like Word documents, you'll have to host the image somewhere, which could be in your github repo. I still don't see why this is an issue.
>Welcome to 21st century America.

Which is still more plaintiff-friendly than any jurisdiction in Europe.
It obviously hasn't stopped these problems from ever happening, but do you have evidence that the policies are not effective at all?
Not to mention it's in SF, which puts it around the poverty line. With that money you'd have to eat rice&beans and noodles for a month to alpha test a product.
>Is it because the board was full of connected people?

The board was scammed by her and lost billions of potential dollars, so that's probably not why. If anything, I wonder the opposite, why the connected people didn't do more; I'm guessing it's because destroying her further isn't worth their time?
> It is interesting that Google did not feel just using containers for GNU/Linux was secure enough.

Not a surprise to anyone who has followed Linux kernel security for the past years...
It feels like a decade ago now, that FB and Google had data deletion buttons that were protected by how bad the interface was to find them.
"Will you be comfortable stating the hotel you stayed last night?"
>> For every case of losing money, there’s probably a lot more that pays off, especially when a billionnaire can afford to have entire staff working to minimize the chance of bad investments.

Not true at all! Most businesses sink, even with the smartest people on board it's really hard to beat the S&P 500 longterm, that's why managed funds are suffering and also a big reason why stocks are overpriced right now. Everybody just buys into passive investing. It's gotta come down, but the best experts won't be able to time it.

Think about it, if all it took was money to hire some experts to beat the market, why not make a product out of it to sell to everyone? Warren Buffet can't hold a candle to the capital commanded by middle-class retirement investors.
I'd like to note that I never said ISPs shouldn't be regulated. Simply that modern ISPs and large network-effect web companies share many characteristics, so calling for one to be regulated and the other not (whichever way it goes) seems odd.

As for the specific point, in my threat model ISPs aren't competent or rewarded enough to poison VPN clients.

Comcast may be anti-user, but I don't think it's NSA-capable.

My overarching belief is that there are technical solutions to network adversaries. There are fewer (and sometimes no) technical solutions to application adversaries, when I desire to use the service. (And see my previous comments about some large services approaching unavoidable status)
CS109: Ethical Foundations of Computer Science
Honestly is there anyway that he could explain the Facebook Pixel/ad network that wouldn't just be describing any ad network?

By definition, ad tracking (cookies etc...) is opaque to most people and explaining it publicly would make it seem like FB is doing something more nefarious than others.

It's an important discussion but his response would just make FB seem way worse on that specific issue than highlighting how the entire ad network ecosystem works.
Can we stop referring to 'controls in plain English'? ML models that microtarget people cannot easily be explained in plain English, and that is what they are doing.
He failed to answer a simple question of who can their users migrate over to when they are not happy. Wonder if that will come back to hurt him.
"has never worked"? Sounds like you're setting a hard metric. I'm pretty sure that changing laws does have some influence on the social norms and culture around some of these items, and their level of consumption. The propents of some of these rules might call it a success even if it just changes behaviours or attitudes about them.
How widely deployed is that display stream compression?
IL2CPP will still be needed for IOS as far as I know.
>I wonder how many new hires pass up Facebook because of ethical concerns

haha, i bet very few

>If there's a real net effect on their hiring, they'll have to increase salaries to lure people in

Facebook already offers the highest compensation among Microsoft, Apple, Google, and Amazon ~~on average~~. They'll be fine.
Interesting. I think what the last guy was trying to ask was whether the data from apps that have facebook analytics (pixel?) installed is cross-referenced with your facebook account. It's a shame he didn't ask it more clearly and allowed Zuck to dodge by saying apps are 'isolated' on the phone.
SQRL has been debunked. Google quickly returns https://security.blogoverflow.com/2013/10/debunking-sqrl/ but there are plenty other critical reviews.
I'm no cryptographer, but while the warning is valid, I don't think it's crucial here.

There are two potential sources of problem, the seed and the PRNG. The seed should be OK, because Python will use urandom as long as it's available in the system. As for the PRNG, a non-secure one shouldn't be used in encryption because it has statistically predictable behavior, but as far as I know that requires access to the ciphertext, which isn't the case here.

Still, replacing random with SystemRandom is easy and would fix the problem.
>merely allowing some contracts to be valid, will allow large power-discrepancies to effectively force people into them.

I think this ie consistent with my original point: society should not allow exploitation of people who are simply trying to survive.
Ditto.

Fun fact: various dialects of BASIC let you optionally put LET before your assignment statements. So the following are equivalent:

X = 10
LET X = 10
which you seem to think automatically is exactly the position you believe :-)

So you have read Aquinas and have a reasoned argument against the concept of Jus ad bellum - please I am sure hn readers would like to see your argument.
> Senator: Would you feel comfortable sharing with us what hotel you stayed at last night?

> awkward pause

> MZ: No.

I like where this is going.
Of course i would. I'd also probably throw up beforehand, at least three times

I'm pretty worried and sour about monolithic things existing that are too big to fail, especially Facebook. It seems suboptimal, but I feel powerless. It mostly felt good to write 'glib leech'.
> is truly faster

With Mike Acton involved you can count on things getting truly faster, and not just because of .NET core.
It's a really odd line of questioning from people who don't seem to understand the subject matter. This gem made me laugh out loud:

Senator: How do you sustain a business model in which users don't pay for your service?
Zuckerberg (in a disdainful tone): Senator, we run ads.

https://clips.twitch.tv/FantasticCrowdedDelicataPipeHype

Edit: I directly transcribed the exchange
IIRC, the securities fraud is based on them claiming to perform tests that were actually performed on standard blood test equipment made by Seimens, as well as claiming to perform more diagnostics than they actually could.

The whistleblowing is based on the data 'grooming' that their machines did, which made it look like the machines were more accurate than they actually were. Tyler Shultz brought up his concerns and was rebuked, and then went to the WSJ.

The basic idea is that their machines didn't actually work.
You'll have to pry my BCPL heffalumps out of my cold, dead hands.

The operator " = >" (pronounced "heffalump") is
convenient for referencing structures that are
accessed indirectly. The expression
a=>s.x is equivalent to the expression (@a)»s.x.

Source: https://archive.org/stream/bitsavers_xeroxaltobualSep79_5187...
Yeah, I also never liked that kind of advice. For me personally just doing something that roughly seems somewhat interesting was usually enough - if you get good at something, the motivation can often follow.

If I had spent more time thinking about what my passion is in life then I'd probably still sit there pondering without an idea of what to do.
This is an exceptionally poor way to "summarize" the employees of any large company, including Facebook. Your personal ethics aside, whenever you're about to describe an entire company's staff using phrases like, "these sorts of people" and "mind-virus", you should stop and reconsider what you think you know about the world.

You are making an uninformed judgement based on a generalization of over 20,000 people.
Is it really worth allowing assignment in places so weird that you also need ==?

Wouldn't it be easier to use = for everything and get rid of those weird edge cases?
So where do you draw the line? How many of these would you put on your resume?

"I wrote software that took advantage of addictive behavior in new ways"
"My new flagging mechanism, tailored to prevent users from leaving the platform, led to someone committing suicide after being unable to block an abuser"
"My relevancy algorithm, based on what had the most engagement, led to a genocide"

I've made these purposefully extreme, but these are all based on reality. Making something "novel" isn't always a good thing.
I found several in the April jobs posting. Not a lot but there were several for interns and 1-3 (max) years experience.
Components relying on <State context> will be re-rendered with new state.
It's interesting seeing all the men supporting 'sex work' when it is the woman who is left to deal with the repercussions of her body being used and abused for money. The real problem is not the crack down, but the social forces that make women feel like this is the only source of income available to them, and the dirtbag men who take advantage of them. This does not boost my opinion of internet "intellectuals", nor of the HN community who seem largely in favor of taking advantage of women in this way.
What's wrong with Terry?
What are you talking about?

They are equal opportunity data vacuums!

Of course, they accept the data of all kinds of people.

They are very diverse in they data collection efforts.

They can still, and certainly will, virtue signal!
Goodness knows what else is/was going on... And they are arrogant to think its gonna all blow over!!!!

Mark Z is rich enough.. time to dump facebook, and their associated products hard. They are a menace.
Wait...LET was optional? Auigh! Whole months of my childhood, wasted!
Yawn. We've had this in Perl for decades using the DBI Shell (dibsh). DBI is a common database interface. To connect to a data source, one uses an appropriate driver (by convention, in the DBD name space, such as DBD::Pg or DBD::MySQL) to get a db handle that can run SQL commands. There are a lot of drivers for things like CSV files, in memory database, etc.

Plus you can access all this programmatically and not just through the dbish command. Since this is a central part of Perl infrastructure, there are a ton of tools that extend the DBI, from a variety of ORMs like DBIx::Class, to data export and even DDL delta management.

Generalized Database Interface: https://metacpan.org/pod/DBI
DBI Shell program: https://metacpan.org/pod/DBI::Shell
CSV driver: https://metacpan.org/pod/DBD::CSV
>makes all of them worse

This seems like a pretty outrageous claim. It seems obvious that:

1) There are moral hazards surrounding prostitution

2) The legal status of prostitution has a negative effect on the number of people participating in it.

So while legalizing prostitution certainly could (and anecdotally would) negate some of the hazards, to say that it would negate all of them seems foolish, or at the very least extremely poorly reasoned.
In retrospect this is probably true. Should have left it at the comment about QNX - the rest is honestly irrelevant.

Apologies to Garret for assassinating his character based on a single blog post.
Also used in Pascal for the same purpose.
I've usually had good luck filing claims with credit card companies, depending on how long it's been. The one downside is that the extended warranty service may not be as valuable as just filing a normal claim right after you buy something.
Pro tip: let someone else read you poetry. Get an audio book version for poem books (see also: the Iliad and the Odessey, which I couldn’t force myself to read past page three)
No. I’d just tell them what I know and what I don’t know. The truth.

And I wouldn’t feel nervous at all. Furthermore, I’d give their obtuse questions the treatment that they deserve.
It's entirely possible, but it didn't go unnoticed that the women of the family who didn't have kids didn't develop dementia, and those who did have kids did end up with it later in life.
I guess I don't know what his payout was, but he attached his name to something embarrassing which couldn't have possibly made him that much extra cash.
It's a good strategy, all the media coverage is about his actual testimony today, whereas when he sends an update to the committee next week, it will not make as big of a splash as this one.
From the article:

> Looking at this as a whole, = was never “the natural choice” the assignment operator. Pretty much everybody used := for assignment instead, possibly because = was so associated with equality. Nowadays most languages use = entirely because C uses it, and we can trace C using it to CPL being such a clusterfuck.
See also my previous statement on the subject: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14599601
I'm curious about the whole "avoid food packaging" section.

For things like vegetables, sure, but if you need to buy a steak or chicken breast you... just stick them in your pocket? How does that work exactly?
For platforms, I invest to get a discount on apps I intend to release. SONM falls into this category and is one of my largest holdings.
A tragic and disturbing incident.

But the news item is unfortunately "pure politics" per site guidelines.