skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Nothing is being taken from you when Facebook makes a shadow profile

Something is clearly being taken. The fact that it's being assembled without my consent is disturbing, the fact that FB has repeatedly been reckless with securing that data is even more worrisome.

Your privacy (and possibly safety) is being taken. If a burglar can use exfiltrated FB data to know when I'm vacationing, it's information that makes me less secure.

If insurance companies think I'm at a higher risk for expensive treatments, I may be denied or forced to pay a higher premium (perhaps without knowing why).
> Facebook is overwhelmingly known for its social network

But, while this is "how" they get information; twitter and facebook's business is actually in selling advertisements.
hopefully not as bad as the last one... reverting back would be an upgrade...

Maybe this time they will decide to hide the TO field?
How does the system gets information about its own price in relation to the US dollar?
Yes, it's because newspapers are telling me it's dying. Right. Newspapers. I don't know if you mean newspapers in a literal sense, but if you do, well, nobody except my parents reads those anymore. ;)

Profit and number of users are not good metrics for the future of a platform. Facebook the company probably isn't going to die, but Facebook the platform can and will inevitably become a ghost town in short order, just as all its predecessors.

Remember, Facebook is a parent company to other revenue sources. The company will continue to survive. Then again, the same can technically be said of Myspace.

Facebook's user growth in North America is in decline.

https://techcrunch-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/techcrunch.com...

Being someone who works for a media company, we've already seen a significant drop in Facebook followers since the Cambridge Analytica fiasco.

No, I don't think Facebook the social media platform has a bright future. The fact that Gen Z isn't using Facebook is a sign that Facebook has entered the initial stages of apoptosis.

https://amp-businessinsider-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/amp.b...

I can't say I blame Gen Z. Why would any young person want to use Facebook at this point when it's highly censored and your mom and grandma are peering at every post you make or like?
These redesigns always scare me because the come with a loss of functionality

I distinctly remember when Google Maps underwent Material Redesign. I traveled around Scotland for over a week pre materialization and Google Maps was a fantastic tool for navigation. Post materialization I went on a trip to Ireland and it was a train wreck.

The scale was gone so your navigator was unable to give you helpful instructions like "the next turn is in 300 yards". Eventually they added it back, first only when zooming and later with an option to make it persist always.

The old Google Maps had inertial compensation so if you lost a GPS lock briefly it would continue to update your travel along a route using your last recorded speed. This was useful when driving in the mountains or city. Now if you momentarily lose your GPS lock it just freezes your position on the route until it reacquires a lock. It's incredibly frustrating because there's no indicator so you have no idea when glancing at the screen driving down the street. I can't tell you how many turns I've missed because of this.

The old Google Maps had some rejection logic so if you were following a route and GPS reported your position radically different from the last update it would be ignored. Now if you're driving through areas with sketchy GPS you jump around and Maps is constantly calculating a new route.

They removed elevation data which complicates trip planning. It's not so much a problem with driving, though it can be. For hiking though it's a pain because you can't see how difficult the terrain is going to be.
Physician here: CAR-T is a potentially amazing technology, but really only works in a small sub-set of the patients for which it is tried. For now
Ah, That was likely my issue then.
Never trust a website without an About page.
You could use https://jmp.chat/ instead - JMP does support short codes, and you can use is anywhere you have Internet access, regardless of whether you have a SIM or not.
I normally use git commit -a. I use git diff to preview my commit. However, recently I had to git add a file. After that, git diff didn't show the file, even though git commit did include it in the commit.

So, it doesn't take long to realise that you need to understand the index after all. You need to learn git add -N, or use "git diff HEAD" instead of git diff.
DotNetty got HTTP codec
Give me your stock options. You're just a selfish beneficiary of the pyramid scheme that is the US technology industry.
Plus real-time sync and offline capabilities. And I think some search and access control features.
There are a few major convention changes, most notably that print is now a function and must be formatted differently to work. People are using libraries that aren't being updated because some people don't want to go update their old work, especially scientists who made the libraries as part of a paper years ago and haven't touched it since.
Huh? Incorrect spam filtering is one of the main reasons I'm moving away from gmail. I routinely have to check my spam 'folder' to restore messages that aren't spam.
IEMs can have pretty good bass response just because they don't need to generate much volume. Hold them about an inch from your ear and turn the volume up high enough to hear from that distance. Very little base at that point.
That's a little harsh, and also doesn't even acknowledge that the teacher has any responsibility to engage their students and spark their interest in the subject.

It seems to be that the responsibility level depends on the institution. For K-12 teachers, they're definitely responsible for trying to help every student succeed. But in college the students are there voluntarily in order to better educate themselves. The responsibility to succeed lies with them. The teacher's responsibility is to teach the material to the best of the students ability to learn it. That maximizes the value the student gets (and is able to get) for the education they're paying for.

A grey area would be college courses that are required for a degree, but which the student has no interest in. They're being forced to buy a product they don't want, as part of a package that includes the products that they do want. Sometimes they might not understand that the required courses really are necessary to fully understand the rest of the courses, but sometimes it's like cable TV where the under-performers are bundled with the desirable channels to justify higher overall prices.
I would agree with you if you're saying that they're not at all a measure of human worth. I don't get the 'rename' comment, though.

If we don't call one's skill at mental tasks 'intelligence', just how should we label it?
Google Analytics purports to honor DNT, correct?

If Google disregarded DNT Headers while keeping the option in Chrome, that would be some impressive cognorporate dissonace, even for Google.
I like Nuclino personally. Good feature set without all the cruft of a wiki solution.
I find it odd that they're singling out the monopolistic nature of Facebook, when monopolistic/oligarchic industries are the norm in America.
Around 20 years ago, I met Dawna Markova at a conference where she spoke about the work she had done in learning styles. My recollection is that the Visual, Auditory and Kinesthetic forms was not about how you "learn", but rather on how you stay "focused".

Researchers found that there were three brianwave patterns that corresponded to your level of focus. For me, Visual stimuli kept me focused. Auditory stimuli practically put me to sleep. And Kinesthetic stimuli are transitional for me. In meetings where there is just discussion or words on a chart, I find myself fidgeting, and that helps me stay focused. So I am V-K-A. (The first letter for what keeps you focsed, the second letter for the transitional mode, and the third letter for what causes you to drift into la-la-land.) The research found that the six combinations of these three types of stimuli was equally distributed in the population.

The lesson for teachers and presenters is that you should provide all three stimuli in your presentation so that all people get what they need to stay focused.

Markova wrote a wonderful book called "How Your Child Is Smart". It was fantastic resource for bringing up our children and helping them stay focused in all of the ways they actually learned.
> Sure they sell ads but so does Yankee Stadium

But in this case, Yankee Stadium sells seats, and Tv rights (that the station puts ads on)
We just launched a redesign and ground-up rewrite of Guilded, which makes it easier for gamers to build and organize teams. There are also a bunch of of new features, like fully-featured forums, customizable team dashboards, team streams, and team rosters.

On the tech side, the frontend was all written in React 16 + MobX. Besides the redesign and new features, there were a lot of technical goals related to the frontend infra that we were trying to achieve, which are allowing us to move a lot faster now.

Anyways, hope you all think it's cool, would love to hear any questions/feedback.
For those of us who didn't grow up coding at age 7, this is golden!!!! The amount of terrible CS teachers out there would amaze you!! I mean "blow your mind away" amaze you. I almost gave up CS because of my absolutely terrible professors. I couldn't even understand simple Classes and object!!! It was that bad!!!

Luckily, since I really wanted to learn, I had to seek alternate resources. I was fortunate to stumble on Stanford's Cs106a taught by Mehran Sahami and it changed my life forever. That man is the gold standard for what a teacher should be. He broke down complex ideas and made them look so simple.

Since then, I use a combination of different resources to learn said "difficult concepts". Recursion, got it...pointers, got it too. I have used Standford courses, Berkeley course, udemy, Udacity, Coursera and even youtube to learn. These sites have some really good teachers.

I have since come to understand that CS is really not that difficult. All is takes is a willingness to learn and a good resource to learn from.
Can anyone explain how you go about re-engineering a cell to fight off cancer?
I did this for a while to cope with some of Google+'s redesigns, and came to realize that you end up in a constant battle of dealing with your custom CSS being broken by updates and changes to the website, and that you are better off just suffering through what a given website wants you to use, if you're going to use it at all.
> "Oh, I really don't understand American demographics very well."

Every few years, something pops up that shows most of us don't understand our own demographics. Such as polls where the majority of Americans estimate the black population to be around 40% (it's actually around 10-15%), or the LGBT population around 20-30% (it's actually around 5%, maybe even lower), or, well, the Trump election.

My personal take: The media was so focused on Trump's personality quirks that, however bad they are, it seemed like they had nothing bad to say about his actual ability, accidentally making him appear like a pretty good candidate (especially compared to the actually-relevant-to-the-job controversies around Clinton, like email security). So while I was a bit surprised that he won, I always expected it to be a close race.

I think ability-vs-personality is one of those things that people largely mistake what other people will care about.
Benefits of 2D code layouts (2018)
It's more towards Volvo's Care [1] subscription plan than anything else (large amounts of money in return for convenience; a leased car, bundled insurance, maintenance subscription) - but yes - death by a thousand subscriptions.

A subscription here and there isn't going to change anyone's mind, but a dozen or so subscriptions every month as long as you need the service (sometimes lifetime) surely comes out to more cost over time.

[1] https://www.volvocars.com/us/cars/new-models/xc40/care-by-vo...
It's ok to post workarounds in the threads, but we don't change the official URLs to those. Doing that would obscure the article source, among other reasons.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989
Where are you from? In my country a company would pay 100% of the salary for 12 months and then 80% for another 12 months in case of sickness.
1) I'm not always on a Mac. In fact, I'm most frequently not on a Mac. And even on my Mac laptop, I spend my day in Linux VMs and interact with few pieces of Apple-native software. An email client I use must be portable, and web software is preferred since, well, nobody wants to write Linux client software anymore (or if they do, it's just an Electron app, which at that point I'm better off using a web version anyway).

2) Filtering and categories are still unparalleled, a decade on. Nobody's even come close to the power of Gmail's tagging and filtering. (Seriously, if you want to see just how bad the competition is, fire up Outlook Web Access and try to create some, even really basic, filters. You'll commonly end up with multiple copies of emails or broken read-state tracking, broken threading, etc. I'm forced to use OWA at work and it's excruciating to the point where I simply don't use their filters at all and deal with Inbox Hell by searching alone.)

3) Searching. Gmail's search engine doesn't seem to have suffered as badly as Google's main search has over the years, and as so it still remains incredibly powerful for "power users" like myself. By comparison, OWA's searching feels like something a CS student would implement in class to check a box on a requirement list.
Error establishing a database connection

There's a Dapp for that:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InterPlanetary_File_System

Interesting points:

- there is no token, and so IPFS isn't as sexy as some of the stuff running on Ethereum

- there may be no role to be played by VCs in advancing IPFS.

There's a lot of innovation going on that ticks both boxes. I'm curious to see how venture funding will adapt (or not).
If that graph is a jpeg it kind of disqualifies the author in any discussion on compression.
As the article mentions, this would possibly cement Facebook's position in the market, as they have the resources to comply, whereas "the next Facebook" might not.

This is one possible explanation as to why Zuckerberg is conciliatory to any call from congressmen for regulation.
This, did no one watch it? I'm not even pro facebook, what happened to informed discussion.
Yes. That is understanding. Difference between inalieanble and lessor rights is you can't waive or contract inalieanble rights away.
> Car-T is at the cutting edge of biology: it involves extracting a patient’s blood cells, re-engineering them in a lab so they can identify and destroy cancer and then re-inserting them into the body.

It would be interesting to see if we could one day make this more optimal by reducing the extra step. Changing the above to:

> Car-T is at the cutting edge of biology: it involves re-engineering a patient's blood cells in a lab so they can identify and destroy cancer in the body.
No, crypto should mean cryptosporidium, a microscopic parasite that causes diarrhea. Even the US CDC seems to agree in https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/crypto/index.html.

(with credits to https://twitter.com/musalbas/status/973600356377808896)
You can hedge your bets in many different ways with different assumptions for likely outcomes. For example, if you think it likely that your employee won’t hang around for very long, then you can act by treating them as disposable. You could also choose to mitigate the risk of them leaving if you thought you could be successful at it. Both approaches are forms of self insurance, none of them are full proof, and they can also lead to self fulfilling prophecy problems.
Personally I believe it's all about random success through variety: Present the same idea enough different ways and you're more likely to stumble across something which happens to click for a given student at a given moment.

In some cases, the overlap between different (individually unsatisfying) attempts to teach may itself be valuable, helping the student eventually make whatever intuitive leap is necessary for that moment of epiphany.
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Regarding "relatively slow writes" mentioned in the article:
Can you share a bit more details about this, e.g. storage engine used, type of operations performed etc.? Would really like to see if something can be done about it.
Ripple is spending $25M in digital currency to back its own venture firm
In my own experience of studying during my life - which admittedly is a sample size of one and hugely biased, I would say that without fail, every class I've failed to gain traction in is because I was uninspired or lacked critical prerequisites in my understanding that helped my understand during the class, or some combination thereof.

I'm an X learner is a symptom of this. I'm an X learner means that I have pigeonholed myself as only being able to effectively learn when (for example) I am being taught by a highly engaging orator who exudes passion for their subject that exhibits as a charisma so drawing that I am excited by the material...

...I wonder how many teachers fit that description... looking at my history of taking classes, I'm going to reach into my farcically small data set and suggest almost none.

So... perhaps given that, I need to find a way to discover how engaging a topic is of my own accord so that I'm inspired to dig deep and understand it from the most fundamental levels required in order to absorb the material presented by my motivated, but somewhat uncharismatic teacher.

So for me, an X learner, my X is someone who absorbs material most effectively when my teacher is amazing... and I've done the leg work to understand what they're talking about before I sit down in their class and start asking stupid questions to disapproving tones of the other students.

I'm a fun learner and your class is very... not fun :P
That it's the norm doesn't mean it isn't problematic.
But including unenforceable clauses into a contract arguably constitutes a deliberate attempt to deter the consumer from exercising his rights. That's what at stake here.
It's possible that new primitives based on the same SI problem might have significant performance differences, but we're basing this on the NIST round one submissions. In that setting, there's been a decent amount of optimisation done already and the performance gap is two orders of magnitude. Since elliptic-curve implementation is pretty well studied, improvements might close that gap a little, but it's unlikely to make vast differences.

So it's a balance between adding an extra ~1.5 kB to the transaction, verses that CPU difference. In different contexts those two costs will have different weights, of course, but my feeling is that in TLS, we probably want to pay for the extra bytes.
Sure, why not. Please feel free to email me (address in my profile).

I'm going through a bit of crunch at the moment so answers may be a little slow but I always like a good discussion :)
I mean, most of my interaction with hacker news is through the bot that reposts to facebook. The UI is better and since it’s half of my FB feed I effectively have one less homescreen icon to think about
It’s built on AWS primitives, so while there is some lock in there, it’s not as bad as being tied to Firebase’s backend.
Let's try a different tack than ownership: it can be seen as stalking.
Mostly true, but I would say that - while regulation certainly shouldn't be the primary tool used to fight spam, it can help discourage bad behavior within a jurisdiction, and can reduce spam load a bit. Mostly by secondary effects (e.g., an email service provider says to their customers, "here's the legal standard, we need you to adhere to this").
I think we just had a misunderstanding. Had my parents listened to all the advice given to them about me, I'd have ended up in conversion therapy, so I do understand. When it comes to advice, some people (maybe most) just want to bloviate, not elucidate.

It sounds like you are being proactive (acting in anticipation of future problems, needs, or changes).

The reason I suggested Minecraft modding and video-making in particular is:

1: It turns his current passive engagement with it into an active, creator role. Most Minecraft mods and media seem to be made by kids, or at least people who started when they were kids. I've read more than a few accounts from people who ended up in CS careers because of Minecraft.

2: Java and A/V are great skills to learn for a variety of possible career paths. Java also translates easily enough to C# and .NET, which also has plenty of career paths.

I don't have kids, but I know enough parents to know how insecure they get when they realize how woefully unprepared their parents and society left them for it, and how often people give lots of useless unsolicited advice. I tried not to do that, but I can see how it might come off that way if you're constantly fending off useless, unwelcome advice and criticisms.
So-called "learning styles" is only useful in that it forces the instructor to repeat the material 3 or 4 times thus reinforcing what he's already said. Repetition isn't necessarily a bad thing but wrapping it in this mythology leaves some to be desired. And this myth is alive and well at least where I go to school. One professor even has us go through a book and fill out a questionnaire to "determine" our style. And another, while not doing anything with it, brings the idea up frequently. I don't want to get a target painted on my back by going against orthodoxy so I play along. Sucks though. Feels like a real waste of time humoring this nonsense.
>Could they have had the foresight to know for sure if you would or would not have been harmed?

There are endless things in this world that can harm your child. It's natural to be scared of these things, but folly to try and address them all. Each one you address adds another layer of restrictions to your child's psyche, but barely moves the dail on how dangerous this world is. The tradeoff is steep.

>I didn't try to give my child the tools to function in this environment

You didn't give your kid the tools to function around pornography, you did the opposite. You futily attempted to remove pornography from the equation entirely without giving your kid any tools with which to face it. He will seek it out and he will find it, you've only made that fact certain. Only now, you have become the adversary, and when your son does seek these things out he won't ask you for help in understanding them for fear of retribution for breaking your rules.

Remember this axiom: you cannot stop your kid from viewing this content. He is smarter than you. If you cannot block this content but try to anyway, all you're left with is the negative effects.

>can you say they would have been different if they had just allowed you to blatantly disregard their rules?

You don't respect your child's autonomy by setting these rules. You can make endless excuses for your rules being just, but step into your son's shoes. "Dad says 'my house, my rules' but it's not like I can move out." What is your kid's recourse in this situation? Again, if you think your filters are effective you're delusional. All you do is disrespect your child by doing this.

>Would you care to elaborate on these things that your parents didn't like that were blocked? Did they explain to you and try to get you to understand why they didn't like them? And why you didn't respect them enough to abide by their rules(not saying that you should have respected them, they may have not deserved it)? It sounds like there may have been some deeper issues there.

I would be happy to discuss this privately, my email is in my profile.