skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yesterday, I was logging onto Australian MyGov site, and forgot the password, it sent SMS code for reset to my mobile phone, but then would not let me proceed without answering the secret questions. I usually put last word of the question sentence as an answer itself because I can't be bothered, but it was not the case this time. Not a great experience when they threaten lock out of account, and you have to go link all services again on a new account. Also, the site has no option to change mobile number for SMS code, and you will have to create a new account if you change your number.
> there is very little about this hearing that is spontaneous

but, isn't that pretty much always true about Congressional hearings?

it seems like they're just a platform for Senators and Congressional reps to get some high profile air time and maybe enhance their reputation amongst their voters.

and maybe, if they're lucky, some YouTuber will excerpt their "performance" and title it "Watch Senator XYZ DESTROY Mark Zuckerberg!!!"
One word. Trump.
Why don't you just build on top of Atom? Like Julia did with Juno.
This reminds me of a point well made in Peter Thiel's 'Zero to One'. Monopolies make it seem like they have a lot of competitors to avoid anti-trust and companies that are in a dog fight like to make it seem like they are monopolies in a niche area.
Correct. This fact seems misunderstood by many people but the rules are very clearly written.
Sorry but I don't understand how you're using the word 'comprehension' here. I agree that logical axioms aren't associated with time (this is what I mean when I say that math doesn't require an idea of time).
But was it? "Informed" consent, that is?

I think the new CONSENT Act, by one of the authors of the child-privacy law COPPA, looks quite promising to make these things much clearer for users.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/04/facebook-would-n...

I watched the hearing and Zuckerberg kept evading questions about users "controlling data" responding with nonsense such as "Of course users control the data - they decide what to post on Facebook!"

Completely omitting the issue about what happens to their data once third-party developers have access to it, even in the context of sharing something with friends (and not "the public"), or in this case private messages.

And I agree with others here. Private messages should have never even been as part of a permission. I think now I understand why Facebook recently said that they see Messenger chat as "public". I thought it was just more of a metaphor, but they seem to be thinking of that quite literally. Your private messages on FB are no different than your public profile data to both Facebook and third-party developers.

Oh and by the way, Facebook also recently admitted that most of its 2 billion users' profile data, including email and phone numbers, have been scraped off the website.
Here’s the Brain Trust of Advisers Steering Mark Zuckerberg Through This Crisis
I'm sick of being the go to person in my team to fix their git rebase problems.
Unfortunately the people counting the theoretical profit are different from the people paying the hidden costs.

I’ve seen awesome devs leave after being assigned to check and ensure the quality of an offshore team.

It’s more often than not a torturous and demoralizing task.
I haven't used Fossil, but just a comment on some of that page, in the order they're presented:

1. It's unclear to me what he means. Yes git doesn't store anything like a doubly linked list of commits, and thus finding the "next" commit is more expensive, but you can do this with 'git log --reverse <commit>..', and it's really snappy on sqlite.git.

It's much slower on larger repositories, but git could relatively easily grow the ability to maintain such a reverse index on the side to speed this up.

2. Yeah a lot of the index etc. is complex, but I wonder how something like "git add -p" works in Fossil. I assume not at all. Is there a way to incrementally "stage" merge conflicts? Much of that complexity comes with significant advantages.

3. This is complaining about two unrelated things. One is that GitHub by default isn't showing something like 'git log --graph' output, the other is that he's assuming that git treats the "master" branch magically.

Yeah GitHub and other viewers could grow some ability to special-case the main branch and say "..and this was merged into 'master'" at the top of that page, but in any case all the same info exists in git as well, so it's just a complaint about a specific web UI.
Did he just say that when an account is deleted, all the data are hard deleted (not just a boolean in a column)? It's really hard to believe.
In the free society I want to live in, we ought to let people voice their opinions even when we disagree. There are limits to freedom of speech besides those put in place by the state.

Taken to an extreme for purely rhetorical purposes: if you get fired, black-balled, and publicly shamed for voicing any opinion, then do you live in a society with freedom of speech?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Liberty#Of_the_liberty_of_t...
There have been massive improvements in average nutrition over the last few decades though.
Most states have minimum franchise taxes. CA charges on the higher side because CA offers the biggest market. In effect, CA is taking advantage of the libertarian free market principle of supply and demand. They have the largest supply of potential customers, and there is a large demand of businesses wanting access to those customers, and the minimum franchise fee reflects that.

You're free to set up shop in South Dakota (no minimum) and see just how many customers you find there...
Bird cage out of a fan
You are the one who put it in their phone/inbox in the first place. You can argue about copyright laws or NDAs, but otherwise "private conversation" means nothing.
> can you run a business that is free for some people and isn't ad based? ... [some users] subsidize [others].

Absolutely! Github, Dropbox, etc, that's how tons of "freemium" companies work.
He definitely did say that -- all of your data does not exist in any archive.
Nashville's getting pretty expensive, too, thought it's nothing compared to the Bay Area.
External yeah. But for most of my old games (that are not yet on GOG) I just turn them into iso and use a no-cd when necessary. Too lazy to plug the drive every time :)
What will it take for us to trust Facebook again?
There are a lot of valid uses. Why would it be better for your data to be locked up and unexportable?
I watched for the some reason but instead of squirm he confidently answered some very poorly worded questions.

The only take away for me is that these senators are not even close to being capable of engaging MZ properly in debate.
I definitely agree that assignments should be statement level operations.

I don't think case-folding identifiers is helpful. The language has decreed fooBar is the same as foobar, and that handles the error where you spelled the same idea two different ways, but it fails silently on the error where you spelled two different things a similar way. Worse, there are some people who are very sensitive to case and will be confused, while others will happily type their entire code in all caps.

I think a linter is the best way to catch these issues, and those subjective rules are precisely the sort of thing that need to develop more rapidly than the core parser.
Thanks for sharing, this is really cool. I often struggle with my Emacs theme switching between light and dark traveling in and out of my windowless office which is filled with intense unnatural night. I once tried to write some Elisp for determining my theme based on the network I was connected to, didn’t work out. I’ll definitely try using this!
We saved $50k/year with a Go microservice coded in a hackathon
Outcomes like these seem to be why the founders of the United States wanted to avoid setting up a direct democracy, instead opting for a constitutional republic.[1]

[1] http://factmyth.com/why-did-the-founding-fathers-choose-a-re...
Bmw will remotely disable a car if you don't use their batteries or have an authorized dealer install it. Would be cool if that sort of thing was covered.
Purely speculative, but I imagine you identify a bug that was introduced in commit X from 2 years ago. You want to answer, "Which supported releases of this product need to be patched?".
Data lords: the real story of big data, Facebook and the future of news
On the other hand, do you really want random people on the internet to be able to inject objects into your git repository by creating a branch or whatever? Especially after SHAttered, that's a huge liability that sort-of justifies the "you take yours and go over there" approach.
The difference between a sole proprietorship and an LLC is that an LLC is a legal entity and an SP is a guy pretending to be a business.

An LLC--even a single-member LLC--has limited liability for legal purposes, though the practical effect is usually limited if the business is under-funded or with respect to third-party loan security requirements.
I'm curious, why would you root for anything in particular?
I don't remember doing nothing special really. For the slowness, see my other reply. I usually don't run directly from the CD drive.

The one that gave me the most troubles was Riven (before I got it from GOG). For this one I had to do some mumbo-jumbo to finally get a full screen yeah.
Defining things, usually preceded by "let", "if", etc.: "let f(x) = 2x+1" or "let w = 2", etc.

Sometimes mathematicians us ":=" to be clearer and shorter.
Interesting how given the tax does exist, the city with the HQ of the richest company in the world is in a homelessness crisis in the first place. Perhaps these taxes are not actually useful?
Both excellent points.
Is DDoS protection from your host a lie?
Isn’t this what their business education defined as success?
Good luck with getting even more suboptimal solutions with this extra non linearity.

No wonder why when your autonomous cars are plowing into people or walls you have no clue of what is going on.
IIRC it is generally preferable to incorporate in DE for dispute resolution but doing so does not exempt you from paying CA taxes & fees. You will still need to pay the minimum tax amount if you are doing business in CA.
I dont use it and I see that as a severe advantage.
RSS IS easy. Filtering, caching, routing, fancy features are not. I’m okay with a poor RSS feed over none.
What is impossible? The minimum franchise tax? Are you sure that you understand?

https://www.ftb.ca.gov/businesses/faq/712.shtml

>> Minimum tax is the amount you must pay the first quarter of each accounting period whether the corporation is active, operates at a loss or does not do business. The current minimum tax is $800.
I found myself using the "network" section of a work project on GitHub on an almost daily basis. It's basically a prettier git log.

I know about git log (and the millions of options it has), but it's ugly as a sin, difficult to just quickly browse, and is just so busy that it's hard (for me at least) to quickly get information on if employee x merged branch y into z or if v has the latest commits from w, etc...

So I ended up writing a user script to blow up the small window on the GitHub page to a larger size, and get rid of some stuff that we don't care about and made it a dashboard of sorts.

I spent some time one day trying to find something like it, butcame up with pretty much nothing that was easily setup and maintained and that I didn't need to build my own application around.
That isn't true at all. Most small businesses start out extremely lean and at risk.
I’m not saying that there is no coercion. Coercion leads to an involuntary transaction. It is not a degree of voluntary/involuntary.
and minimum $800 fee each year to CA for no reason whatsoever
He just confirmed they remove the data from the backups.
Your parent is right: IQ has been increasing. Even in countries where you wouldn't expect the cause to be improved nutrition. But nobody really knows why, nor has anybody discovered an intervention that can, on its own, reliably increase IQ.
Money is what allows me to provide a good lifestyle to my family.

Facebook, well...I don't get my news there. Most of my profile is blank, false, or misleading. A decade ago, I used it for more. Now, it's a couple of technical discussion groups and the event calendar.

Facebook is a blip. Equifax is the reason that I spent a lot of last week defending my bank account and cell service from takeover.
Is it? I think the point is to get more information, to ask questions that have not been asked and decide if the government needs to take further action. They do this by introducing legislation. I think the electioneering has them spooked as well.
There are some git renders out there., like Gitkracken (commercial/gui) and tig (console/oss).
$800 is a lot of money for someone pretending at business but it's a trivial cost for a real business actually earning money.

And that's the point. It's a filter to weed out those that can't afford $800/year or aren't serious enough about their business activities to put up with the expense.
For people I've discussed with, the surprising part is that they can do anything with it. You and I know that (currently) if someone has the data, they'll scrape/manipulate it at will.

I believe, a reasonable person, would expect the limits of the access grant to end with the purpose of the app (a quiz) and not extend any further.

Most contracts/agreements have limits and this one is implicit in the working of the app. It is in no way clear that the app is earning it's money by selling/manipulating the data you're giving access to.

Additionally, it's disingenuous to ignore that a subversive app will make up/add features in no way benefiting the end user but for the sole purpose of scraping messages.

Intent is important, for some of these apps it is clear the only intent was to harvest data en masse.

Yes the user agreed to grant some permissions so a quiz could be taken. It cannot and should not be ignored that the app developer purposefully did not disclose the true nature of the app. This wasn't an accident. They didn't trip and fall into the data. They made something appear benign when it was really cancerous.
Possible progress on the Hadwiger-Nelson problem (chromatic number of the plane)
The point is, Mercurial is much easier learn. We are a team of 20 developers distributed across globe that transitioned from SVN and it was easy for us to pick up Mercurial and start using it within a couple of days.

We tried git too and lost our changes inevitably. Our git knowledge is to be blamed but blame git CLI too! It is not easy to learn at all. After 12 years of git, I see articles with tips and guides on using git. That kind of hints how esoteric git CLI can be.
Both are choices. Both have consequences. Why ignore one and not the other?
Even landlords renting property?
Consider a graph on R^2 where two points are joined by an edge iff they have distance 1, in the 50s people wondered what the chromatic number of this graph is and established the trivial lower bound of 4 and upper bound of 7.

By a classic result of De Bruijn and Erdos this problem is equivalent to finding the maximum chromatic number of a finite unit distance graph in the plane, but no further progress was made in decades.

In a preprint published yesterday De Grey claims to have constructed a 1567 vertexes graph which can't be 4-coloured, as can be seen in the comment section of his polymath proposal this was raised to 1585, the non-4-colorability of this new graph seems to have been verified independently with SAT solvers by a couple of people, so that's promising.

As usual that's huge if true, the result looks promising, but time will tell
Actually Cambridge Analytica licensed the data from GSR, according to their press release from earlier this week [1].

> A research company (GSR) licensed the data to us, which they legally obtained via a tool provided by Facebook. Hundreds of data firms have utilized Facebook data in a similar fashion.

[1] https://ca-commercial.com/news/time-facts-not-conjecture-say...
Have you read the whole paper? cause the whole idea around that paper was not to introduce a new architecture or breaking any new state of the art results but to identify and introduce a series of guidelines by which one can achieve better performance in "any" architecture.

Their "demo" architecture which they call simpnet outperforms much deeper and more complex counterparts without the use of any fancy techniques such as skip connections, DenseBlock, etc.
Not only their test network which was in fact a demo showcasing the effectiveness of the mentioned guidelines (as they indicate that in section 3 I guess) could outperform much heavier and more complex counterparts, the memory usage and training speed is also different and much better.

The "SAF Pooling" part was to show how a design choice concerning something as trivial as a pooling operation can particularly affect the end result, improving network generalization capability, and what the intuition behind such design choice was. In the section they talk about SAF Pooling, they clearly state they deliberately did not choose a complex mechanism such as the ones they had covered, in order to keep everything simple ( a reminder of/reference to what they first claimed in the introduction) and show how much performance can be harnessed out of a simple design with a proper systematic approach.

They also show some previously known practices/thoughts should not be followed and why. For example, concerning overlapped pooling they show the idea of overlapped pooling being better than its counter part, advocated by many including professor Hinton does not apply all the time, and interestingly using non overlapped pooling would be a better choice. Thats when they dig into the pooling operation and later show how to get to the SAF pooling idea and why that makes sense.
The same thing goes about why architectures face degradation and explain what PLS and PLD issues are and why networks face such problems. They also explain why strided convolution is not a good replacement for maxpooling and many more.
Very informative, thank you! Yeah, it sounds like some very unethical behavior on the part of the company.
When Boris Yeltsin Ended Up Drunk and Disrobed Outside the White House
Yeah the original article is almost worthless.

The 2nd article you just linked is much better, and usefully informative. However, it still needs:

- info about the need for an operating agreement

- more detail about piercing the corporate veil

- discussion of FTB and IRS reclassifying as hobby business

You are advertising to a very technical audience and should address these things at a deep level.
The question and its answer succeed in getting Zuckerberg on record (in the Congressional Record, no less) as saying that his business model depends on advertising, with all that that implies about the relationship between Facebook and its users.

Think of it as like when you're on the witness stand and the attorney asks you a question. It's not because he doesn't know the answer. It's because he wants you to say the answer, to make it part of the public record and to have the jury hear it.

Speaking of juries, the arrogance of Zuckerberg's answer wouldn't win any points with a jury, either. He walked into a trap right there.

It's fun to bust on our parents & politicos but I'm pretty sure anybody who managed to raise you, or especially get into the Senate, has a much more extensive and nuanced understanding of life (and politics) than you think.
Git Extensions seems adequate for visualizing branches.
Google will shutdown Gmail Contextual Gadgets on August 1, 2018
>An employee has plenty of time to peruse offers in the marketplace before accepting one of them, and even more time after accepting one of them.

You seem to be extrapolating middle-class experience and choices to the working poor and below.

The idea that the marketplace is immune to distortions caused by a well-founded fear of pain or existential threat seems like an pollyanna view and the type of thinking that leads to ill-conceived policy like removing worker protections because the market can do no wrong.

People can and do get stuck in a treading-water situation where they simply try to feed themselves and their family and keep them housed and clothed at a minimum standard while working so much that finding another job or spending time improving their value to the marketplace is an unreachable dream.

That's not to say I completely disagree with you. There are plenty of open questions. If basic survival and physical security was guaranteed for a population how many would take that minimum guarantee and just spend all of their free time on activities that benefit only themselves (making them the worst possible drain on society)? How many would find a suitable job or other activity that creates significant value for others but that doesn't make up for the resources spent on their minimum guarantees (making them a smaller drain on society)? How many would take the opportunity to improve their lot through more aggressive negotiations in the sale of their time and labor or through improving their value generation capacity through education or by taking bigger market risks to the point of contributing more than the societal investment? And, finally, how would each of these groups contribute to the whole in aggregate? Would it be a net gain? I think that is an open question and one that a lot of current ideology makes it very difficult to get real answers.
ftp.cdrom.com was such an amazing resource, especially /idgames/. Dialling up 56k and jumping to /incoming/ to see what had just arrived was really fun in it's heyday.

There's a kinda archive available on https://archive.org/details/walnutcreekcdrom
Netflix opensourced Kayenta – Automated Canary testing analyses
> it's generally a C-corporation for tax purposes, federal and international law

A single-member LLC electing to be taxed as a corporation will still be sued as an LLC (i.e. it can be pierced more like an LLC and less like a corporation), dissolved and maintained as an LLC and enter into contracts, open bank and brokerage accounts as an LLC, and have the same difficulties raising outside capital as an LLC.

Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. This is not legal advice.
It does? Never made much sense to me; especially considering that it already means something useful, equality; which then becomes == and sticks out like a sore thumb. I prefer 'let' for assignment and generic '=' for equality; Cixl[0] adds '==' for identity, can't remember where I stole that one.

https://github.com/basic-gongfu/cixl#equality
As I'm not familiar with those, I have to ask: did you mean CVS and SVN?
The name will just lead to confusion. AVI is already a well-known and much-used video (container) format, with no relation to AVIF or AV1. As discussed in AV1 discussion yesterday, AV1 will already cause confusion, and possibly coding and security errors. This name will lead to more of the same. Regular expressions, in particular.
PyPy is a very underrated project. I really pray that after the C-extensions improvements that the upcoming versions brings, a major wave of adoptions come.
Only a group of politicians could make Zuckerberg look like the human one. These senators are a disgrace. Their questions and statements are ignorant, intellectual dishonest, and bullying. They're mostly shitty people.

We do not need these ignoramuses making decisions about social networking technology. They're as clueless as it gets. We just need users to become aware of the value of data privacy and then demand it. Technology will deliver.

I'm not worried because I think users will support the right things in the end.