skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> (1) Make an ernest attempt to use ML, algorithms to identify their customers who are using those leaked datasets Facebook negligently exposed and help devalue the data, instead of eagerly selling them targeted advertising services? I don't know if they did this, but it sure seems doubtful.

How could they do that? The cat is out of the bag and FB aren't going to have any knowledge about where that data is now. Have there been reports of it getting out from CA?

> (2) Quickly and openly disclose the extent of the leaked data

I think some caution is a good idea, they don't want to get the numbers wrong - although they are making steps in the right direction with the message to 87 million on their news feeds.
FYI, it costs $20 to file a statement of information (every other year) to establish and maintain an LLC. But it costs $800 a year in state taxes.
Developer Update on ZFSOnLinux bug
It looks like no data is actually lost. The regression caused us to lose hard links in some directories where new hard links were being made. That means that we can get all of the files back, minus their names and directory paths. There will be a tool integrated into the driver that will let people repair affected systems. The missing files would go into a lost+found directory. Running it also would scan for damage on systems.

There are a couple caveats though. Any snapshots containing damaged directories will need to be destroyed to restore the pool to pristine condition. If anyone cloned those snapshots, the clones will need to be destroyed too (but you can copy data off).

The tool will provide a list of things to destroy that require manual destruction by the system administrator. It is possible to optionally just leave things as is, and nothing bad should happen aside from having an annoying message about the bad snapshots.

I cannot give an exact ETA on when the tool will be ready, but I can say soon. :)
No. I released Wekan v0.81 today:
https://wekan.github.io
https://github.com/wekan/wekan/releases

Currently using Meteor 1.6.0.1 with Node 8.9.3 and MongoDB 3.2.19. Planning to upgrade to newer version of Meteor, add new platforms, etc. Wekan is in use at companies that have thousands of users.
I think most people are fine with the GDPR applying to large companies.

The biggest contention with the GDPR is it applying to small companies, because the amount of work to comply with it costs a lot. And the penalties being scaled in a way that only makes sense to large tech companies.

TBH, small under 10 engineer companies are are rarely privacy threats. And Sue's maid service who uses excel spreadsheets to track their business is not a privacy risk either.
Right. The point was how confused the senator was about how encryption works
I expect everywhere is different. When I worked at Google I brought things up during open microphone time at the Friday meetings (usually hosted by one of Larry, Sergei, or Eric)
Facebook has effectively a monopoly on social networking. Even further: Facebook can be seen as an essential service for maintaining your social life. Not using it puts you at a severe disadvantage.

I don't think monopolies are necessarily a problem that needs fixing, but call it what it is. Facebook makes decisions based on their understanding of dominance.

If you don't like Ford, you can buy a car that you can't drive on most public roads and even fewer gas stations offer you the type of gas you need.
Well, same actor. I don't think the rest of the cast is quite relevant anymore.
I could imagine interesting apps designed to riff on your launguage patterns
Check out this snippet i use to made: https://codepen.io/Nico_KraZhtest/pen/mWzXqy

You will see a very larger list, unicode 10
PSA: $800/y minimum tax for a CA LLC.
This is the sort of word game that surely wouldn't last ten seconds in any courtroom.

"Did you delete the data or not?"

"Yes, we deleted the data."

"Then how is it that we're all sitting here looking at it?"

This modern fiction of pretending something is deleted just because someone set a flag called "deleted" has about as much relevance to actual deletion as the evil bit in an IPv4 header has to actual Internet security. It's not deleted in any technical sense, nor in the common English meaning of the word.
> how often do you not know whether a particular variable is a string or an integer?

In someone else's code? 100% of the time. I was once a diehard Ruby believer, and I still use it for small programs. But having had the singular displeasure of working on a huge Ruby codebase (pre-JVM Twitter), I have learned, in the hardest possible way, that untyped languages are absolute nightmares when more than one person is involved.
> You can find scientists who refute climate change, too.

That's an appeal to nature as well as a false equivalency. It is difficult to refute climate change because we have incredible amounts of tactile observations that match predictions - the stuff from which the scientific method stems.

At one point science (well, philosophy as the progenitor of science) said that the Earth was flat. It was a small number of rebellious scientists that corrected this misconception. Group-think and consensus do not mean that you are correct, it could mean that you are collectively wrong.

We've never seen dark matter. The so-called "evidence" that is continuously regurgitated[1] is an image of the problem. It would be like making a map of the missing periodic table of elements and calling it all "Dark Elements," never bothering to figure out what the missing elements individually are. We didn't do that, which is why we can do so many useful things with heavier elements today.

If axion decay is observed, I will have no choice but to agree with the WIMP theories. As it stands, there is zero credible and scientific evidence for the stuff.

[1]: http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2007/01/3D_map_of_da...
Not a surprise that the gripes came from the guy who birthed Pascal, seem odd.
Have you ever tried talking to your grandparents about technology?
Anker produces officially licensed cables that legitimately carry the ‘made for iPhone’ mark. If they stop working it is much more likely something else caused it instead of a software update.
800 dollars a year even if you have no income? yeesh
Money does not trump physical law.
Is this dynamic class execution a common use case? How frequently are you broadcasting new bytecode to your workers?
Red Hat's latest Linux release shows its goal is in the clouds
I put an update here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16806176
Reminds me of Dell denying warranty support due to VLC damaging the speaker

https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/14/02/09/1828229/custome...
Because equifax is not eating mainatream media's advertising pie i guess.
$130 up front and $200 a year beats the heck out of $70 up front and $800 a year.
US senators demonstrating they are embarrassingly out of touch with the current age.

Also sad to see a senator resorting to dramatic effects like taking off his glasses before making a grand statement.

These people are running your country?
That is what these testimonies always turn into. The big Apple tax evasion hearing a while ago was basically the senators taking turns to kiss Tim Cook's ass.
This is literally something a basic Wikipedia page covers in excruciating detail with multiple sources.

Like... really basic research would get you further along in your studies. I see what you mean by “didn’t look hard enough”.

Please start there, I think you’ll see see more detail than I could hope to provide in one HN comment.
People still do this. Watch HGTV's Texas Flip N Move. Awesome link BTW.
Wow, this looks amazing. Have you used it for web?
> Zuckerberg had to be gracious and say his team would follow-up on many things that it was clear the Senator didn't even understand

IMO on way too many things, even when it was clear that the senators did understand what they were asking.. and it wasn't because of grace or politeness, it was the new 'I plead the fifth'
You have something similar in mathematics. Recurrence relations. Since we are dealing with a sort of time difference inside a computer, something like "x = x + 1" can be interpreted as "the value of x at the next time unit is the value of x at the previous time unit plus one". That is "x[n+1] = x[n] + 1" and this is a recurrence relation. My guess is that early programmers were deeply aware of this time difference, so "x = x + 1" made perfect sense.
Well... yes, the market starts picking up in late January every year. December is the lowest month so we bought at s good time too.

But only in the Bay would a 20% jump happen and be normal
I've heard the same but with 'becomes' rather than 'gets'.
I think becomes works better for people with a mathematical background, where the concept of variables is totally natural. For people without this, 'gets' might be better because it helps anthropomorphize the variable. The coder 'gives' X a value to hold.
Berkeley Students Build Free, Public Platform for Sanctions Investigations
Hey, before that was AOL floppies which were great -- free disks to use! Just put some scotch tape over the "write-protect" hole in the disk! hahaha :)
Theranos lays off about 100 employees
1) just stop using ml because it is worthless garbage for the end users and paying customers

Facebook ads are cat shit wrapped in dogshit
Seems like he’s talking about standard seasonal variations (December is the worst month to sell in)

However the difference is crazy even accounting for that
https://www.nvsilverflume.gov/home

Nevada has SilverFlume for many years. Also, no income taxes. Also, no Employment Development Department. Also, real estate at $1/sqft. Also...
That one really gave me a chuckle.
It's not just a joke. It's the best joke.
Rancher CEO Sheng Liang Announces Feature Freeze on Rancher 2.0
I don't think any of those are productive questions. If you alter firmware that is usually unchanged over the life of the product (as for a desktop graphics card) and you specifically edit the rules it contains for thermal throttling, then you are obviously liable for the lump of slag that you end up with. Likewise if you're making hardware modifications that compromise the thermal management capabilities. In either case, it will be pretty easy to show after the fact that the product was modified, and that your modifications were probably related to the failure. None of that applies when the host software is responsible for preventing hardware damage. As I've explained, relying on software running inside of Windows to prevent hardware damage is asking for trouble even without user intervention.

You may also notice that I'm not advocating for "legislating engineering decisions"; though there are plenty of situations where engineering decisions obviously should be determined by legislation, this is more a question of after the fact liability to be worked out by the courts, which are generally pretty good at figuring out whether to place the blame on a user or on the engineers.
By granting access to your messages, they are also implicitly gaining access to your friend's messages with you.

All people should have an expectation of privacy that when they send a private message to someone, that someone does not have the right to disclose the conversation.
Anker cables are licensed, they are tested to be compliant.
Isn't that low for a business? I mean unless you're running a lemonade stand.
> or admit that it's not going to do anything.

What would that be good for?

Honestly. Now they have started applying pressure.

They can start sending fines later this year or next year.

But giving up? I can't seen an upside in that.
I agree completely - this is why my opinion of Facebook hasn't yet changed. However, you have to admit fault before you can resolve it. The alternative would have been "we are giving users a sense of pride and accomplishment with their likes."
>> Also, don’t fall into the trap of productivity porn

>> ...

>> Some sort of sleep tracker to figure out how to sleep best is helpful

>> ...

>> I take a low dose of sleeping pills (like a third of a normal dose) or a very low dose of cannabis

>> ... I use a full spectrum LED light most mornings

>> ... so I get about 15 hours of fasting most days

The whole article is productivity porn.
Not if you're talking a group of Senators who have always voted for state-sponsored spying on citizens.
The $800 "minimum tax" on LLCs and C-corps is assessed whether you have any revenue or not.
>I really can't understand how you can put "getting ready" and feeding your dog above your own nutrition.

>Maybe you don't enjoy food the same way that I do.

First, these are two separate thoughts, unless you have some confusion between 'proper nutrition' and 'enjoyment of food'.

Second, 'proper nutrition' and 'enjoyment of food' often conflict since what provides the best nutritional value to your body is not often aligned with what tastes the best.

I think the different between you and OP's position is that you see a link between 'nutrition' and the breakfast event. What's your reasoning for believing that breakfast is important with regards to your body's nutrition/health? Do you understand it to be of short-term (i.e. energy levels before lunch) or long-term importance?
If we have a private conversation, you shouldn't have the right to reproduce the contents of my contributions to the conversation.
Mozilla Internet Health Report 2018
The shorthand I use for "becomes the same as" is "gets".
2, 4, 5, and 6 seem pretty weak. Not a particularly interesting article. Mostly comes down to 'we like X and Y about Fossil, and it works for us, so we use it instead'.
"The Facebook hearing is the greatest generational divide I’ve ever seen. It’s like watching WWII generals question somebody on drone strikes and cyberwarfare."

https://twitter.com/eugenegu/status/983788172306874369
I'm a big fan of Fossil myself. But the SQlite people have something that I don't really have within the teams I operate : the authority to dare and speak out against Git and not be laughed away like a hipster that is just trying to be different.
It's not a meritocracy
Is that per month or per year?
"As a CTO, my default loop is 'First, cycle through all my employees and make sure that I have equipped them to be happy and productive in their jobs. Second, find something to do. If possible, delegate it; if not, do it. Repeat.'"

- tkiley https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3408449
Because they not only showed a poor recollection of what he did read (misremembering) but they showed less understanding of the topics involved than a 10 minute Wikipedia binge would provide (looking hard enough)?
On a personal note, I really despise handwriting documents. Writing for an extended period inevitably results in uncomfortable cramps in my hands. Thus, I typeset whenever possible (markdown -> pandoc -> LaTeX -> pdf). However, for taking notes in ad hoc situations, handwriting is so much easier. I recently got the 10.5" iPad Pro and the Apple Pencil and I _love_ it for writing notes for classes especially. I also keep a stack of engineering paper around for doodling out problems I'm working on. At least for me, handwriting is still an integral part of my workflow even if it's not my favorite.
How government mortgage policy determined where you live
The intent of the question should be along the lines of "if a user is pissed off at Facebook as a result of the latest revelations, and wants to move to a competitor, what would they move to?" or a more accurate "Whom are you worried about users moving off of Facebook to?"

Facebook is defined by a single product, more so than even Google or Microsoft.
It's been years since anyone should have had that expectation.
Then you better go protest at Google's offices, because Gmail allows apps to interact with your email too.
This is blown out of proportion. The reason why people are leaving Facebook is not political at all. It also has nothing to do with decentralization, by the way.

Yes, people are leaving because of privacy, but not from advertisers but from their parents! People are still using whatsapp, because it's easy and crystal clear that when you send a message to a whatsapp group, only the people in the group will see it. And it's not that people can't do that in Facebook, it's just that perhaps the interface is not adequate for that.
There is zero chance Zuckerberg is perjuring himself in front of the Senate. There is probably some obscure legal meaning of "delete" that Facebook follows.
For your first question, step 1 is to escalate and when you escalate make sure they know you are creating a paper trail. If you can use the term "paper trail" it will help get your call escalated. Ideally you will get to someone senior enough that you can mention this enforcement action by the FTC and they will recognize it.

If that fails, you take your paper trail to small claims court. This can be challenging in different circumstances to serve the other party but courts can be pretty liberal here in California. I was watching cases one day and the person had served Microsoft by giving the summons to a Microsoft Store employee who worked in a kiosk at the mall. Microsoft hadn't shown up so they won their default judgement and went to the next step which was to put a judgement lien on the corporation's assets. (long before that actually happens their legal team will pay you your damages).

You could concurrently file a complaint with the FTC. It won't give you any money but it will add on to other complaints and that will eventually get action (like this article). Getting a registered mail letter from the FTC tends to get the attention of the right people.

As for your sarcastic question it is isn't that manufacturers have tried to get the laws changed, they have been unsuccessful. Support the 'right to repair' efforts when you run into them, talk to your representatives if you get a chance. That will keep the pressure to maintain the status quo.
Facebook is an ad company. The product they sell is targeted ads. As a customer who wants to buy ad space, you can go to Facebook, or you can go to Google, or a myriad of other players.

Yahoo and Bing are not significant Google competitors. They aren't even independent — Yahoo search is Bing.

As a social media user, you're not the customer, you're the product.
> Fossil and Git are both block-chain version-control systems

Wow, we have gone full circle. Can’t wait for Linus to announce the git ICO!
The question becomes much clearer to answer when you understand that the end-users of Facebook are not its customers.

Facebook competitors are literally every other company that is trying to sell advertising.
If you can't come up with US$ 800 a year to pay a business tax you're pretty much bankrupt already and it wasn't the tax that killed you.
CA has 1 of the highest business taxes.

If you want to do business in California, you will be paying that tax whether you register in California or another state. Consequently, if you're in California there's no reason to consider exposing yourself to the jurisdiction of another state.
The old-school boxing club where fighting means family
That doesn't make it ok
If someone comes along with a service that fulfills the same niche that Facebook does, charges $9/month, and has a guaranteed (audited) enforcement of personal privacy ... I'd do it. I like being connected to my family & some friends.

The problem is getting from zero to critical mass with that model. Though I guess that doesn't stop a lot of other companies with less plausible revenue sources from getting seemingly endless money thrown at them.
I don't know anything about Fossil, but saying that no one understands Git just makes me think they're ignorant to learning Git. I doubt that's the case, but still, why say that?
Remote Teams
In my opinion Apple should be forced to provide original spare parts to any repair shops that wants them, and for a reasonable price.
Ads and the data used for those ads aren't the really the issue, and that's a problem that people don't realize. The issue is that entities can utilize the Facebook platform to target specific individuals (or specific groups of individuals) and bombard them with disinformation that looks like legitimate information.
>Why this pressing need to maximize productivity?

Cynical answer: Because the person paying for your time would like the maximum return from that investment, and the need for human agency requires that we rationalize that pressure as something that originates within ourselves.
Apple is making a show based on Isaac Asimov’s ‘Foundation’ books
You sound new
True, but nonetheless, fraud is fraud. Even rich board members get scammed sometimes. Fraud laws protect people from scams after the fact.
Thanks for the thoughtful comment.

First chaining. Most defiantly needed. Current implementation will make it hard to support due to the simplistic way code is rewritten in real time. Will have to work on it...

Second, loop helpers. This is something I’ve debated with myself. I’m not sure being forced to do ‘vanilla’ is ‘boilerplate nonsense’. It’s debatable.

Last, function inconsistency. It is actually to illustrate both are ok to use. Maybe being opinionated on this is a better idea... will fix that.
It's funny that they don't list the real reason, which is that Fossil is built on top of SQLite and they want to dogfood it.
GitCoin
There’s certainly nothing wrong with that position though. If another tool fits their workflow better, then that’s what they should use.
90% of what you learn will be high-level transferrable concepts, that you can already apply to Vue or Elm or whatever else.
Good list, but I feel like they bury the lede: integrated wiki, issues, and notes. That doesn't scale to every project (linux kernel for example), but for a lot of projects it's really cool.

Other selling points from the Fossil site:

* Integrated Bug Tracking, Wiki, and Technotes

* Built-in Web Interface _and_ Self-Contained (I combined these)

* Simple Networking (no git://, just HTTP and SSH)

* CGI/SCGI Enabled

* Autosync - "Fossil supports "autosync" mode which helps to keep projects moving forward by reducing the amount of needless forking and merging often associated with distributed projects."

* Robust & Reliable - "Fossil stores content using an enduring file format in an SQLite database so that transactions are atomic even if interrupted by a power loss or system crash. Automatic self-checks verify that all aspects of the repository are consistent prior to each commit."

It would be easy to get into comparing git and Fossil feature by feature. That's interesting. But it's more interesting to compare the philosophies between the two tools.

edit: for grammer.
Rebinding is essential for recursion, which is a concept in mathematics. Given a fib(x) function defined in terms of itself, the when we express fib(10), the parameter x is simultaneously bound to a number of different arguments through the recursion. We just understand those to be different x's in different instances of the f scope.

Rebinding is also needed for simple composition of operations. Given some f(x), the formula f(3) + f(4) involves x being simultaneously bound to 3 and 4 in different instances of the scope inside f.
Correction: Just San Francisco. It even says so in the linked page.
Feel free to post an example of any society, now or historical, that has managed to suppress any of these activities into inconsequence by making them illegal.
"A couple moderators" aka goodbye user generated content that isn't generating at least six figure income.