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Up until now, wasn't Facebook collecting large quantities of data about users from data brokers?

Why were they acquiring that data about users?

In the leaked memo from a Facebook senior executive, what did he mean by "questionable contact importing practices"?

Do contacts count as collected data?

Why does Facebook collect contacts data, and why does FB collect it in ways that are "questionable"?

Why are the contact importing practices questionable?
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You call 120MHz lowly? I call that luxury! I am working on a product where we're running an M4 way below 1MHz. And our hardware guys have me counting bytes in software...

FreeRTOS is a pretty good fit for this situation. I am only disappointed that newlib is so ridiculously huge in comparison. Some functions in there are twice the size of FreeRTOS.
You probably should also consider that below some productivity it's probably not worth hiring anyone, even if they're willing to be paid very little.
> would a reasonable person infer that documents which could only be accessed by editing a URL

Except there's no way to know whether that's the only way to access those documents. That's what access control is for. They could be linked from elsewhere for all you know, and it's perfectly reasonable to assume that if you can access the document by punching in a URL, then it is so accessible.
> Even People’s Daily, a state-run newspaper, published an article online that included veiled criticism of Weibo’s announcement. The article said that being gay or bisexual was “not a disease,” but it added that gay people needed to “take on their own social responsibilities while advocating their rights.”

I think this [1] is the People's Daily article referenced. If so, the quoted language has been scrubbed.

[1] http://en.people.cn/n3/2018/0416/c90000-9449771.html
Really good write up; it is going to help explain to people how data can lead to unhelpful biases by showing a few of your graphs!
I'm not a heavy vim user, but this is THE reason I was afraid of the touch bar. It turned out not to be an issue. I honestly don't think even heavy users would have much of an issue.

My only problem with the touch bar now is that it has crapped out on me more than once requiring a restart.
We had video call and wait for the invitation.
They add to the discussion because they remind us that the phenomenon is likely to be mix of reality and bias and that we are very uncertain about proportion.
That ... is far from ok.
The sidewalk cluttering is such a non-issue. The real problem is people riding them on the sidewalks, which is annoying and best and dangerous at worst. Riding them in the street, on the other hand, is scary, I'm pretty sure too scary for mass adoption - I'm pretty sure Bird knows this and is hoping that people will be able to get away with riding them on sidewalks.

Edit: when I say that the sidewalk cluttering is a non-issue, I just mean that as far as I can tell there is barely any sidewalk cluttering, not that said cluttering wouldn't be an issue if it was actually happening.
That doesn't really make it better.
For Ubuntu is a checkbox at install, this is a big difference between that and 20 hidden switches in registry that each stop different spying code and also get reset by mistake at each update.
The city is just trying to ensure that the vehicles don't end up abandoned by riders all over the place. This has been a problem with bike and scooter services in many cities globally.

They are giving the companies plenty of time to respond with a plan to address that issue. They're not going to be shut down. They just need to be more responsible for the impact on public places, because we humans are sadly too self-focused to b conscientious.

Hell, the city will probably build more bike racks to accommodate them.
The main problem is that most other systems have their own biases. A typical suggestion I hear a lot goes along the lines of "if in doubt, let a human make the decision". If you think about ML in say a school context it's likely that certain biases are baked in but I'd argue that these biases tend to be more extreme when humans make decisions because they take into account less factors (this may not be true but it's my working hypothesis). I think a decent example is "first names". There's certain names that result in worse overall grades during a normal school career, even if the teachers are aware of this bias (in Germany the posterchild for this is "Kevin").

It's a tough problem. I think being aware that biases exist in ML is a good first step.
It's similar with Russia. It has its own search (Yandex), lots of mail servers, video hosting, social network (vk), etc. Western analogs are popular, but if they would become inaccessible, most of people would switch and not care that much.
What do you mean, "when"? This makes it sound like we could fix Capitalism by banning banks and investors or something. They're inherent to this system. Institutionalized loans were a corner stone when Capitalism emerged a couple of centuries back in Europe. If we want to organize society differently, we should have a honest and broad debate about that rather than focusing on one aspect / one group of supposedly bad actors.
Actually, Apple doesn't "need" to do anything.
Interestingly, Salesforce was originally planning to build a 14-acre campus in San Francisco (the Mission Bay neighborhood), but had to scrap those plans due to growth[1].

[1] https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Salesforce-s-fast-gr...
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I was in Fujian, China, two weeks ago and did a Bing web/image search for ‘gay men’ (unrelated to any of this news).

Zero results returned, and a standard note about violent and sexually explicit content being censored.

Thought that was odd.
That should start with good bias tests that can be run over all the public facing AI. It's a problem for sociologists to identify all these cases.
Arithmetic expressions on BigInteger and BigDecimal currently look like an OOP parody. I cannot believe there are folks willing to defend this decision. Even Sun couldn't resist overloading '+'.
Where in the article does it say that Weibo is backing down?

All it seems to say is "backlash happened".
That's not what he said. He said that bc they have been working a lot of overtime lately, their paycheck will probably work out to be around the same as they would normally get. He also said it was shitty that they did it without warning.

But you already knew that. There's no reason to falsey attribute malice to what someone says just to flamebait.
Sounds like the same problems as the dockless bike shares. I saw one of those parked next to a Goodwill collection box, probably by a befuddled or malicious resident.
I apologize for the negative tone. I should have tried to make my point more neutrally, with less exaggeration. I have major complaints with how single-player games have been given minor online integrations that have justified locking them down completely in the name of anti-cheat. It has left me a little jaded.

But, that's neither here nor there. Regardless of my personal feelings, the average gamer agrees with you. Arenanet had pure intentions. They were trying to fulfill the wishes of their fans, so the mistake in how they rolled this out will be forgiven.
Why should the city provide free storage space for their inventory? I can’t just drop a vending machine wherever I want.
More likely a pickup. Still, that's a small % of the overall market, which is mostly headed in the direction of hatchbacks, crossovers, and SUVs. The reason Ford is staying in the truck market but greatly de-emphasizing it's sedans is that their trucks are generally considered to be the best you can get, and with their sedans its the opposite. It would be a major investment for them to try and compete with everyone in that segment even if it weren't shrinking. Although for what it's worth, their newest crossover, the EcoSport, is basically just a taller Fiesta (arguably their best sedan/hatchback despite it being the cheapest).

Anyways, in many regards the growing segment of the market is more like sedans/hatchbacks on stilts than it is like trucks.
Hm; I stand corrected then. Thanks, guys, especially for pointing out the car exhaust and other things. All of those things are true (about additional time to be talked out, etc). I was coming from the perspective of someone who followed Sir Terry Pratchett's campaign for legal suicide in response to things like Alzheimer's, where it isn't the kind of thing one is likely to be talked out of. In that case, of course, people are campaigning for legal euthanasia, so it's a bit different.
I hope Seattle follows SF's example, as unlikely as that is in the local climate.

Seattle's current adoption of bike sharing is, in large part, an effort to reduce carbon emissions and too make more use of our roads. I am 100% for doing both of these things, but I think Bike Share programs are not the best path. Deals where University of Washington Medical Center provides employees (noticeable) extra pay for biking to work, and removing minimum parking laws in more areas are the best way to move away from car transport. Even the downtown toll will be more effective at reducing car rides than bike share programs. Bike shares pollute sidewalks, are too slow for any distance more than two miles, and too heavy for going up Seattle's hills. In addition I believe they encourage the dangerous (and locally illegal) practice of biking without a helmet. Finally, I think Seattle's DoT has higher expectations for bike share programs than will actually pan out. I wish data on their usage was more public.
That's what I'm saying, the "reported cash profit" includes stock-based compensation as an expense exactly like regular salaries. You don't even have to know what dilution means.
It's been an interesting ride for sure to follow Microsoft the last few years. The work they do with Azure and dev tools and open source is pretty neat. Folks like Scott Guthrie and the new CEO certainly made Microsoft more appealing again. It's kind of funny even how times change and how I think of Microsoft as one of the top cloud and online companies now, even before Google but still behind Amazon. Certainly a personal opinion, but that's how times and my opinion changed.
This is rich coming from SF, where homeless tents, needles and human excrement are abound:

“creating a public nuisance on The City’s streets and sidewalks and endangering public health and safety.”
I heard that there was an even more evocative death behind the hand crank idea: Kofi Annan was demoing the prototype laptop with attached hand crank in public, and the crank broke apart from the laptop while he was turning it.

I worked at OLPC, and I thought this aspect ultimately ended up fine: we quickly moved to having a separate pullcord charger instead. The pullcord didn't put any stress on the laptop, and you generated power with actual large muscle groups along your body, rather than just rotating your wrist, so it was massively more efficient. But everyone kept mentioning the crank, for sure.
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It will not work. The last two IT projects the government ordered I have in mind are the ears dropping facility for the police and SAIP, an application to warn citizens in case of a dramatic event such as a terrorist attack. Both are failures. On the first one, the police complains of crashes, slowness, and not fulfilling its missions. The second simply does not warn people when there is an attack...

The worst is that it will cost tax payers millions
Data, of course, is a source of objective truth. It is a source, not the entire source, but it is a source.
I'm not saying I agree/disagree with the parent, but I think if you view Musk's motivations though that lens OpenAI and Neuralink still make sense.

He seems to think AI is coming very soon and could destroy humanity if it isn't handled correctly. It would be hard to colonize Mars with humans if they are all extinct. Neuralink is part of his solution to AI.
Thankfully the Russian regulator doesn’t feel that kind of power.
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Have you seen piles of them on the street yourself? I never have, in Beijing, Shanghai, or Xiamen. People are 99% considerate; the 1% who aren’t make for better photos. The frictionless utility of dockless has brought so much ease and joy to these cities that any marginal, occasional mess appears far outweighed to me, and anyone I’ve ever talked to.
The companies should probably just ignore the city attorney considering the city’s dismal record at prosecuting crime. Considering that you can break into vehicles and defecate in public with impunity, I think the city has about a hundred worse things to deal with before attacking badly-parked scooters.
“Hey Siri” actually a pretty challenging trigger phrase. It’s short (few phonemes), and it’s phonetically confuseable with phrases like “Hey Serial is out” (could be “Hey Siri all is out”).
Even at 250k transactions per second that's over 20 billion transactions per day which seems unlikely. 1k transactions per second (100 million per day) is probably a closer ballpark figure for a company like Uber, given they only have around 3 million drivers worldwide. The problem definitely would scale vertically however it does depends on how they interact with the API of their payment processor.
> Jacques said that his book’s fictional meals stemmed from childhood food fantasies during the years of British rationing.

He also wrote books (i.e. Redwall) with blind children in mind, which might explain some of the emphasis on the taste and texture of the food.
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Debian has allowed users to go back to sysvinitrc (for both security and stability reasons), and Redhat has been trying to EEE the systemd project entirely to fix their issues with it.
My windows 10 Pro cost me $270 when I got it on christmas sale.

I can't disable debug telemetry or cortona. If I set the options to via admin (or even safe mode) via registry edits. After a reboot I'll find them back on.
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Great response. I’ve been disappointed by HN and it’s fairly credulous acceptance of Musk despite all the hallmark traits of hucksterism. It’s refreshing to get cogent and precise criticism.

As someone who closely follows Tesla, I would love to hear your critique of its current state and likely fate.
Is it really open source? Do you have a link?
Have kids and use a stroller? Old and use a walker? Blind and use a cane? Walk and don't look where you put your feet?

Slip and fall are a major cause of death, only second in accidental deaths after motor vehicles. It brings 8M americans to the emergency room every year. In San Francisco, a whole department has been created only to litigate Slips and Falls.

So yes, I'm glad the city prevented my grandmother from tripping on such a thing.
I'd be interested to know where you find this to be true. I have noticed that BART trains through Rockridge don't make much noise. But the track noise is so bad through Fruitvale, you can hear the trains over a mile away.
As an act of solidarity, we should all run it until they drop charges and fix the damn thing. They can't charge 5000 people.
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Exactly. I’d also say that the broken glass from 30,000 annual vehicle break ins is a bit more of a public nuisance than some misplaced scooters.
I think it does have to do with the topic, because it answers the headline question "why do fantasy novels have so much food"; I literally came to this comments section to remark that the answer is likely to do with the fact that engaging all of a reader's senses is a common literary trick to make the reader feel like they've been transported into a world. Turns out, eating food is one of the most common ways to engage the sense of taste. :P The author of the OP is probably being a bit narrow in that this isn't something confined to just fantasy, but if one were to somehow prove that this is a trope that's uniquely prevalent in fantasy (which the author doesn't), then the further answer would probably just be, like many other fantasy things, "because Tolkien did it". But really, when Rowling describes a Hogwarts feast it's not because she's trying to check off the I-wrote-a-fantasy-book checklist, it's because eating is a familiar sensation that helps the reader establish a firm relationship with a setting that is often otherwise deliberately alien and mysterious.
> why can't one transaction be completed in less than 1 million CPU instructions

Transactions in this system are almost certainly network bound. The relevant CPU overhead is likely trivial—-likely comparison and not arithmetic in nature even. In that context “add more NICs” is effectively an exercise in horizontal scaling. On top of that any network operation has consistency concerns to contend with.

You could contrive a system that is block device I/O bound but it’s likely to have significant network overhead as most block devices are network attached these days anyway!
Any chance you'd be willing to share more details on what your life graph ended up including?
Even Apple moved part of the iCloud data to China to continue working there, so I guess they don’t care that much as long as that doesn’t affect their xore audience.
So they are going to allocate city resources to seize and impound them? NIMBYs win again.
A miller operates a mill. The joke hinges on the idea of a computer as a "mill" for information, a symbol grinder.
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Thanks, that explains a lot.

Do you think the same think will happen in Europe too ? Or does Alibaba has a chance there ?
Just landed in SF an hour ago. I had read about the controversy, but I hadn't expected to see the scooters everywhere so far. Soma, FiDi, and North Beach. Some had headlights on that made them obvious in the dark. It's a very visible phenomenon, partially because I thought that anything like that left on the sidewalk in SF got stolen.

(Neither for nor against - just an observation)
SF made an exclusive deal with Ford GoBike, the expensive docked bikes that are never nearby when you need them. That pre-emptively barred these companies from launching their dockless bikes in SF, and so the scooters are the workaround. And as someone else points out, scooters are scary on the street, so now we have a sidewalk problem. This is 100% the city’s fault for saddling us with old bikeshare technology.
Updated my comment: what I'm saying is that there isn't actually any cluttering, not that cluttering is OK.
Are you sure you’re actually getting your battery drained from this? The phrase spotting happens in a super low power processor which can run without the rest of the phone doing anything.
It would have been much better if they had thrown their weight behind Android Things ( https://developer.android.com/things/index.html)
Maybe build an open foundation around it like Kubernetes CNCF.

Google is surprisingly open to build democratic orgs around its tech.
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related discussion:

https://www.quora.com/What-is-your-opinion-on-the-recent-Chi...
Here are just two recent examples of this not working out well in Seattle:

Someone abandoned one on a ferry, prompting a $17,000 search:
http://kuow.org/post/don-t-leave-bike-shares-ferries-coast-g...

... and piles of them are being left in people’s yards, too: http://amp.kiro7.com/www.kiro7.com/news/local/dozens-of-lime...

There is a very significant aspect of externalities happening here, in my opinion.
There is no danger to others in biking without a helmet.

The helmet issue is mostly something to try to get at biking people, it is not a public health issue. That why all warning are worded along the line: “helmet prevent head injuries” (like knee pad limit knee injuries), and not “helmet improves general outcomes”.

Most studies agree that head injury absent a car strike are rare and are compensated by the long term benefits over the population. The most dangerous thing in a bike is the surrounding cars.
Nothing yet, I've also not received any video views.
What other problems are there with the hyperloop other than creating a really large volume of vacuum and getting in and out of it?
More resource fficient, which ususally means faster in execution or runs better on resource constrained machines. For example how well does it run in 2G compared to Windows 10?
You're being downvoted because the article actually explains this quite well.
I thought people on HN weren’t supposed to change the headlines? The NYT headline is completely different and contains nothing saying that Weibo was backing down. Is HN just another fake China apologist now when it comes to changing headlines?
Is it though? Does it happen in a centralised system in any democratic country? I feel you are letting them off the hook in a sense, centralisation != censorship, often it seems with western services the centralised system providers fight against censorship.
Sensible riders do it at a speed of a brisk walk.

It's as much of a danger as a grandma (not to say there aren't badass grandmas) riding a bicycle.
Depends on where their loyalty of kindness lies. Were its kindness 'programmed' to be the preservation of the most life at the expense of the least, then human extermination would be the lowest of the low-hanging fruit.

Keep breeding stock, but then you get into adjudication of value, and at that point all I can think of is Dr. Manhattan saying "the world's smartest human is no more threat to me than the world's smartest termite".
Exactly! Now let's abolish all public parking.
I and you can drop my bike anywhere I want.

Sharing them means less bikes left everywhere.
Is this shifting the blame? It seems people are addicted to smartphones because it's what they want. Or put another way what else draws interest in their life. Which goes to a quality of life aspect.

The onus should not be on the manufacturer to address addiction. But instead, provide means to combat addiction. Apple has that notification toggle. What more do we want, auto lock after X hours of usage. This will probably be harsh but how about learn some self-discipline. If a stepping program is needed, then implement that. Like to ween people off. But it shouldn't be a constant. Why are you checking your phone so much? Why aren't you out doing something, or talking to someone? If you don't want to do that, why are you complaining about checking your phone so much.

That is to say some people are introverts. They don't want to talk much. The smartphone allows them to better socialize, and keep to their habits.

I've noticed since I upgraded to a pixel. I find myself subconsciously pressing the fingerprint authentication while it's in my pocket. Not looking at it, but just pressing it feeling it unlock. I came to this realization the other day. I was reminded of some of my other addictive behaviors. I'm looking at dumber phones now actually.

I've recently downgraded in a way. My biggest use of my phone was for music. I grabbed an old iPod nano and put Rockbox on it. Largely leaving my phone in my backpack. I've also eyed the recent Nokia phones.
I don’t understand how these companies don’t get that a public space is meant to be used, not abused.

If they want to disseminate their vehicles around public spaces so much better but they must at least coordinate with the administrators to do it in an orderly fashion.

IOW, get a permit, pay rent and install sidewalk parking racks. Public free ones are for occasional individual use.
You mean like the 450k street car parking spaces that line almost every street in our city?
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