skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This sounds like the view of someone who has never owned a pickup truck. I did once, because I needed transportation and a friend had a reliable one to share.

Every time a friend needed to move apartments, they would ask what I was doing. Pickup trucks are really useful for moving large objects like furniture or lots of big boxes. Depending on how you live they may be an affectation, but in my brief experience the utility was real. (As opposed to SUV's which don't seem to really hold more space than vans, and almost never go off-road.)
Said every acquisition ever.
Africa has demographics, renewable energy sources and technology on its side
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I don't run a MySQL server on my personal computer. I don't want to run one. If I want to start writing code right away to flesh out an idea, SQLite is the tool I can use, it enables me to develop locally with no SSH/FTP overhead or setting up a VM. It lets me start writing code instantly. And it's performant enough for most any MVP, and the SQL dialect is pretty standard so you can upgrade to Postgres or SQLAnywhere or whatever you please when the time comes.
If the discussion here is bad, you definitely have played a role in making it so. Claiming people who disagree with your point of view are "deranged" is not constructive.
Surely that applies to every API in existence, for example, on the HTTP API I'm using right now to post this comment, I know that Mozilla stores some of my data on their servers (through FF Sync), and HN know that's possible, but it's not up to HN to ensure Mozilla aren't taking that data and selling it elsewhere.
Thanks. We obviously have to do a better job of getting the word out. I appreciate what you said though.
I don't know how I missed that, sorry man!
When Microsoft acquired Skype, there were a subset of accounts that essentially became un-useable for close to 2yrs. There was a sub-sub case where if you had a Skype ID that was an email (not a username) which was also a pre-existing Microsoft email, your profile became unreachable and passwords could not be reset either. This is from personal experience and validated with a half dozen other people in the same sub-sub-case complaining online. Support just gave the same boilerplate response - reset your password. It is honestly shocking there was no review that a certain cohort of very similar accounts had suddenly and permanently stopped logging in. Honestly inexplicably given the size of the acquisition.

That was when I finally dumped Skype and moved fully to FaceTime/Duo/WhatsApp/Messenger. Thank goodness for competition.

I adore GitHub. My children and I wear their tshirts, we brandish their logo on our laptops and phones. I hope Microsoft doesnt half-abandon this post-merger integration.
Even if they broke their promise (EULA), what remedy does that EULA provide for FB breaking their promise? What legal consequence is there?

The burden is on the plaintiff to prove FB violated the agreement, that violation caused damage, and the value of that damage. The EULA doesn't say the user gets a pay out if FB admits (or is obviously caught) non-compliance with the agreement.
I was banned from HN some time after I made that post (for something else) and should not be posting any more (sorry mods, I'll stop). This will be my final post.

Here's a news article about it (probably).

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/oct/02/facebook-...
> It makes it sound like Facebook gave a big fat chunk of user data to device makers as a bribe to include Facebook on their devices, when in reality we're talking about giving their software the access it needs in order to actually provide access to Facebook in the first place.

These two things are not mutually exclusive. They effectively did both, even if the intention is unclear. You must have forgotten how bundled apps on OEM Windows worked.
Exactly that.

I consider myself relatively tech savvy, but when - thanks to the GDPR - that hive of scum and tracking that underpins the modern internet was revealed I was really shocked.

Clicking one of those "manage your cookies" links is a truly enlightening experience.

How should Average Q User even begin to grasp the implications of this fucking datasucking hydra?

I was glad having "deleted" my Facebook account some 4 years ago.

Man, I didn't no 10% of the shit that's really going on.
I believe they meant consequences from the affected localities to Bayer. The point being that while it was immoral and disgusting, it may not have been short-sighted for their own selfish interests.
Apple co-founder backs call for global digital currency
Why link to PDF instead of its dedicated web page https://graphics.pixar.com/usd/docs/Usdz-File-Format-Specifi... ?
If data isn't protected unless it's physically impossible for privileged persons to access it, then I'm afraid essentially no data is protected.
What they should have said was, "Remember when our official app was garbage and you needed to rely on 3rd party apps to have a passable mobile FB experience?"
Anyone know what language HN is written, what stack etc?
Sure. At least that way they won't be continuing the damage, at least.
7 billion is a bit much for that
A bit off-topic, but it bugs me how the picture in the article shows a Blackberry Bold running the BB10 OS, which never supported such device. I wonder why they showed a (probably) photoshopped device instead of a real one.
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https://www.google.com/search?q=facebook+psychological+exper...
It is not coincidence. The page has been created today!
One of the articles cited there is an excellent article that Edward Epstein wrote for The Atlantic [0].

It's well written, but that's not the impressive part. The impressive thing is that this "expose" was written in 1982, 36 years ago. As Epstein mentions, diamonds are not "forever", or even particularly robust (they can be burned, crushed, chipped, etc), but the industry seems to age quite well. In the half-lifetime since that article came out, nothing has changed.

[1]: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1982/02/have-yo...
There's definitely a need for a better system. Some would argue that we have package managers specifically to help solve this problem. Yet, for many developers who just want a "good enough" install system without thinking or working at it much, curl-and-exec gets the job done.

That so many people aren't thinking about security at all is a sad comment on the state of software engineering. But perhaps inevitable, given our cultural history of favoring freedom over security.
What contradiction?

Google should have paid Sun instead of playing a Microsoft's move fostering Sun's downfall, period.

And in doing so, Android would have been JavaSE compliant plus whatever additional libraries they would think to drop on top of it.
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I think he did not have time to implement yet. The page has been created today.
Wow!

So THAT is where all of the worst managers I've ever had the misfortune of working with seem to have had their mindset built from.

There seems to be some value in there by putting a name to some patterns, but it reads like a psychopath's social manipulation how-to guide.
> average UK house price reached £226,071

Aren't house prices an aggregate of 'owned outright' via cash, inheritance, debt repayment and 'loaned against' in the form of bank loans against real estate? There's been a dramatic inflation in housing debt, worldwide, that first precipitated the financial crisis a decade ago, and that continues to overhang economies worldwide. It was observed a long time ago that 'the debtor is servant to the lender.' You can't look only at private household wealth, you have to look at bank balance sheets as well. I bet if you include bank balance sheets, you can find a 'small group accumulating so much money.'
Reddit, Vimeo? What is their justification for blocking those?
Did you consent to anything that Facebook approves when you consented to using Facebook? Did you consent to the transitive property?

How does Facebook approving of some obvious third party make the third party not a third party? Approval and third party status are orthogonal.
In this specific instance, the Times article might be overblown.

They specifically mention that they were able to use BlackBerry Hub with a reporter's account to query Facebook data. The article never states whether BB Hub connects to Facebook directly, or whether it receives data from a BlackBerry-operated service.

The latter case is clearly user-hostile. If BlackBerry (the company) can read user data and Facebook claims not to allow 3rd-party access, then that is bad, and it should be treated as a breach of the user's trust.

The former case is more complex. As a user, I care a great deal that I can access Facebook using my choice of browser, whether that's Chrome, Firefox or Edge. I shouldn't be limited to the top three either. Some users may prefer a browser that works with their screen readers, others may prefer the built-in browser in their smart TV, and others yet might prefer a unified messaging app, like BB Hub.

The distinction between what happens locally or in the cloud is often unclear, and it's not getting any better. Chrome on Android wants to accelerate mobile connections by routing them through a compressing proxy. I can get an extra-secure version of chrome from authentic8 to protect against malware, with the caveat that it runs in their datacenter.

I feel that the tech industry in general, and Facebook in particular are struggling to tell users what happens with their data. Sometimes it's because things actually are complicated, and sometimes just to hide obvious overreach. The obvious blowback: complaints, strict regulation and mistrust. As the people who build and run systems, we should strive to do better. Regain the trust lost by past mistakes, and get back to the point where one could realistically apply hanlon's razor to reports of user surveillance.
How would Mozilla afford this? Anyone in the open source community? The selling price of $7.5B is huge. Red Hat’s market cap is only 4x what GitHub sold for.
The law does not prevent anybody from murdering you with an axe. The law forbids people to murder you with an axe.

Once you understand the distinction there, you will understand the answer to your question.
So? Your not forced to own or buy one.
Likely referring to this article [1].

However, the claim that they made "hundreds of thousands of people fall into a depression" is pretty exaggerated - FB demonstrated it could influence the mood of users via changes to the algorithm, but the overall effect size was small (Cohen's d = 0.001).

I am very critical of FB and this type of research, but don't know if anyone became depressed over the experiment. It's possible, but wasn't demonstrated.

[1] http://www.pnas.org/content/111/24/8788.full
I keep reading USD as $. Would be very hard to google by itself.
GitHub was closed source, so its a good fit.
It is difficult to say anything about the partners' agreements without seeing them. The problem these agreements exist in the first place. Instead of Facebook writing a Windows Phone app, they had Microsoft write the app and paid Microsoft with users' data.

The difference would be ignored if it hadn't been replicated in the Cambridge Analytica scandal. People are reasonably concerned about how much data Facebook is giving these third parties and how diligently it's ensuring they aren't retaining it.

These concerns are heightened by the existence of these agreements contradicting with (a) the FTC consent decree and (b) Zuckerberg's statement to Congress. It may also be material in the ongoing biometrics lawsuit in Illinois.
This does not feel like a great decision on Apple’s part.

USD and USDZ were designed to exchange source art assets in the content pipeline of a film studio. They are fantastic for that use case, but they were never designed for the needs of real-time client-side rendering applications like Apple is promoting it for.

Adopting USDZ as the preferred runtime distribution format feels like a decision made by a manager who lacks serious experience in high performance real-time client applications.
"Contrary to claims by the New York Times, friends’ information, like photos, was only accessible on devices when people made a decision to share their information with those friends."

Hasn't FB had a history of assuming the decision was positive if the user didn't opt out, through a difficult procedure?
The fact that "data made it to device maker servers" is a stupid, meaningless point. Of course it hit their servers. And it should hit their servers. It's idiots who don't know what they're writing about causing hysteria among idiot's who don't know what they're reading in order to sell advertising dollars.

And the whole time they're pointing at facebook as the corrupt ones.
Thanks for the heads up, ill keep that in mind if i start seeing issues. So far so good.
Warning :the Microsoft bots are coming............. Github is going to inject malicious code in your computer..... The NSA try to get access via github.......To be honest, they are many types of devs (Hardcore cyberpunk = Hate corporations and true devs only use Linux and build cyber weapon systems to destroy evil corporations ) and Slaves devs (Slaves to corporations or materials etc...and write codes to destroy their own citizens ). Many slave devs are programmed via advanced algorithms warfare systems, so the corporation figured out the weaknesses of this type of Slaves devs (Microsoft devs etc....). I believe that they try to track/steal code project without being noticed from the owners of the project. Then, they will create the same project (Products), and they will sue right away if you try to compete. By the way, they will upload malicious code in your computer via github or they will get easy access to your computer or startup from this software. In short, Microsoft is a spy agency made by the NSA...... Solution :Gitlab(open source) with your own VPS
Listen Notes is awesome. Just found out about it recently.
It's rather simple:

If something's too good to be true it's practically always neither good nor true.
popcorntime was strictly confrontational, and was blatantly illegal. "Transforming BitTorrent media streaming" can be a good goal, but doing it illegally will cause you to be shut down. Remember grooveshark? They tried the same thing -- to create a legit service that disrupts and industry. But there's a reason they failed and spotify succeeded, and I think it's because they partnered with existing companies instead of tried to act in direct opposition.
What's the news here: astro trash, big-org responging? Amateur going a long way? Everybody loves a success story.
It is different because there is plenty of popular options and you can as well encrypt your data here on any cloud hosting. And for email better example would be GMail due to market share.

And GitHub is obviously biggest player on market.
If they did that nobody would support it. That wouldn’t be very helpful.
Note: GitLab has also taken VC money (damnit!!)
"Convincingly" would be a bit of an overstatement.
I've used Power Point and Keynote before recently switching to Google Slides. It's gone well and there's even a publish mode to embed them on your site. It did take some getting used to, but I'm happy I made the move now.

I'd previously been using Slideshare for the embeds but it has been glitchy for me lately.
Microsoft sucks .
It is, of course, useful to remember that "These partners signed agreements that prevented people’s Facebook information from being used for any other purpose" was ostensibly the back-stop against the mass-harvesting undertaken by Cambridge Analytica, also.
Then, I guess I have to ask you to be more specific about who is trying to erase that from history. I don't think many people dispute the faith of our founders.
Most children are raised with single parents.

That implies daycare and possession schedules.

Both have the potential to drastically screw up a kid. (Imagine being bounced back and forth between two homes throughout the month. It would drive you mad.)

Strange that he article doesn't mention it. The utter lack of stable and consistent housing for children (due to possession schedules) is perhaps the biggest societal 'experiment' ever run.
There is one on Craigslist locally for $35 in working condition. Free Brother laser printer sans toner, included.
I was already using 1.1.1.1, did not unblock. Would be very curious if the ISPs were actually proxying my DNS requests. Any tips on how I might test that on Ubuntu?
This is a confusing issue because there is a mix of newsfeed and friends, and "friends" on Facebook.

Do you consider time spent on twitter to be catching up on news, and thinking about the world, or a waste of time?

How about hacker news?
Some interesting technical decisions in the file format, USDZ is a zip file with no compression or encryption for zero copy / mmap the file from heap. 64 byte alignment for AVX512. Consideration given to file ordering for streaming and LOD.
People don't read terms of service. In using your phone who knows what you agreed to let your phone company do with your FB data.
I love how there are so many Latinists here :)
> This comparison goes further - the vast majority of people who want to be actors suck at being one. Or musicians. Or writers. Or any other artists.

Most people realize they suck and don't try to make a career out of it.

If you look at the truly dedicated actors, musicians, or whatever, out there... the ones who practiced during High School and/or pursued Drama degrees in college... they're for the most part, as high quality as any other Hollywood actor.

You can pretty much go into any off-Broadway or even local Theater and find excellent singing, dancing, and/or acting technique.

That is to say: "Good Actors" truly exist, and most people that I've personally met in the field seem to be of "good" quality or better.

Unfortunately, life sucks for them. Just being 'good' isn't enough, you basically need to reach "Star" status to get anywhere these days.

"Stars" are often worse actors than these dedicated unknown folk actually. The thing about "Stars" is that they've built up brand recognition and have learned to generate free press through (often contrived) magazine drama.

Long story short: being a successful actor is COMPLETELY different from being a "good" actor. A good actor can take on a variety of storyline roles, memorizing lines, creating characters, holding a stage presence, etc. etc. Stuff that takes lots of practice, but there really are a LOT of people out there who are really, really, really good at this.

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To put it into technical / programming terms: no one really cares if a game programmer has excellent architecture and bug-free code. Hell, the Speedrunning community seems to prefer bug-ridden code for the credit-warp glitch, sequence-breaks, or whatnot.
Device manufacturers can also of course trivially bypass any way facebook tries to hide this data from them as well if they really want to. They control the OS and it's implementation, nothing can be hidden if they really badly want to get it.
Motharex
It's not a misquote and it's not disingenuous. That was their attitude at the time.
I unexpectedly agree with FB here.

If NYT are correct then we can kiss goodbye to APIs that are used by any services that are not explicitly written and signed by the service provider. In the extreme that means you won't be able to log in to facebook on the web, only via a facebook app, because there's no guarantee that a 3rd party web browser isn't stealing data. That goes for any and every service dealing with personal data, and we pretty much lose the open web.

I want to protect user's data as much as anyone, but if a user deliberately installs a 3rd party app and enters their credentials into it, then they are consenting to that having access to their data under that app's privacy policy/terms. This should be obvious to all users, especially where GDPR advice has been implemented.
I recalled this joke after reading your comment, one guy working in finances asks another guy working in finances:

- How much did you pay for your tie?

- $400 in the store next door.

- They tricked you! Store across the street sells the same tie for $800.

If you are paying 10K for an engagement ring and I can buy the same exact engagement ring for 1K, it is just matter of time when your ring will loose it's "social show off value", because "everyone" will have similar rings.

I think after some time De Beers or a company similar to theirs will find for rich and/or overly emotional people something else very expensive to buy to show their "love".
It is just a social signal "my ring is better than yours" => "my male ape is better than your male ape" => "I am more superior". People are social animals,
social signals are very important for them, they'll always find a way to send social signals: super expensive cars, shiny things, handbags for $5K, golden iPhone for 18K, ... Look at luxury industry, it is booming.
That's really weird - why didn't they parse it into a map in the first place, immediately removing duplicate keys? This seems like more of an argument for automatic deserializer generation than it does for adding undue complexity to a serialization format.
I don't think additional funding is enough. Funding doesn't appear to be the problem with respect to SF's homeless, for example.
Kill it some other way, and frequently test things that should be 'sterile'.

I don't actually study (3) particularly, nor am I a biologist. As far as I understand, the "how" question is pretty well studied, and is because it's pretty aggressive with DNA repair, and has lots of various tricks to facilitate that and minimize damage from occurring in the first place. The question of "why" is (in my mind) more interesting, and less understood - it may be due to evolving to deal with prolonged dehydration, which is a much more useful ability for life on earth. IDK.

R&D at a startup.
Putting this out here in case if anyone finds it useful - I like a lot of good ideas from Contracts.rb such as the type signature looking more expressive (personal taste - looks Haskell/Elm ish) and support of Maybe's. Granted it's not static but def some good ideas to steal from.

https://egonschiele.github.io/contracts.ruby/
The whole article seems to be just an ad.

That being said, this topic always generates a lot of discussion.
"The Majority of Children Live With Two Parents, Census Bureau Reports"

https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2016/cb16-192...
It is not an easy, pleasurable read, maybe too intellectual. But it is worth for the truth and insight it provides.
Why will they kill of Github? They just shut down their own repository website (Codeplex) and moved all their code to github. That's perhaps the most misplaced fear I've read here.

Plus, from what I've read, MS was perhaps the best possible buyer of GH - and no, a federated distributed model was definitely not a possibility given the huge sums of investor money involved.
I imagine the joy is tempered by the lack of 100% confidence. "Your cancer is gone...but we really can't say that it won't reappear, because we can't say if ALL the cells are gone, they are just too few for our technology to see. So go forth and be joyous and I definitely won't be nervous that this all turns out to be false hope that results in you back here again, feeling doubly betrayed".