skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Github searches your code to index it so you can be able to use the search box to find things.

Everyone searches your code; because if you upload child porn it needs to be detected and removed.

Maybe this is unfortunate but the only way to own your data is to self host.
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Location - Panama city.

Despite considering myself a Jr., which may or may not be accurate, I try doing front end stuff from scratch. My stuff would probably be prettier if I used a framework.

website: https://talescript.com
There's a difference between useless and unnecessary, both in definition and how a reader views the statement.
Um... downvoters should read these submissions. This guy isn’t a troll, he’s Aaron Greenspan, the creator of Facebook’s predecessor, code for which seems magically to have appeared in FB. There was a settlement: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Facebook#Aaron_...
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The Axioms in the MetaMath system
Oh dear, don't get me started on 'Silicon Beach' (Bondi Beach, Sydney)...
Shkreli messed up by continually taunting US law enforcement. He probably wouldn't have had the book thrown at him if he wasn't constantly talking about how great it was to be an evil capitalist, and instead gave the mealy-mouthed platitudes that every other CEO of pharma companies does.
I don’t get some of the concerns about this.

Take the Facebook app that Huawei built using their special API access to offer Facebook on their devices. Their implementation was supposed to store the Facebook data locally on the phone. Of course, there’s a concern here that Huawei, a company with strong ties to the Chinese government, could still be siphoning Facebook data off the phone despite that breaking their agreement with Facebook.

But if you don’t trust the device manufacturer and their operating system, what does it matter? If Facebook existed solely as a mobile web app on the phones or as a Facebook Inc produced app, you still have to trust Huawei to not be siphoning off that data. If you don’t trust Huawei, you’re at risk regardless of whoever made the software you use on their phones.

(The device manufacturer FB implementations that stored data on non-FB servers are a different situation though...)
Thanks for the feedback -- definitely a fair point. I think the piece can be beneficial in different ways for different people. In the first section I noted that CEOs/Founders might use it as a template for their management structure, while department heads (i.e. Directors and VPs) may not care as much about the culture aspects, but the Objectives and Process sections may be most relevant for them.
It's really appalling. The correct behaviour is to pull the plug on your shitty promotion and issue a message of condolence. One company, one guy is not representative of an industry, but my experience of 75% of people in the blockchain/crypto space has left me with a sour taste in my mouth.
I like some of the metrics, e.g.

>>Azure SQL DB (100K machines, 1.82M DBs containing 3.48PB of data)

Makes you realize how different the scale of the top cloud companies is, compared to the average service/site. Pretty amazing.
And according to the Supreme Court, many times over, the very purpose of the first amendment is to protect speech, and the most important form of speech to protect is political speech.

Yes, there are downsides to unfettered speech, but freedom means having to let other people do things I don't like, and in exchange, I can do things they don't like.

If the problem is that money can buy unlimited federal power, then you can limit the federal powers available for purchase without curtailing the freedom of the citizenry to engage in political speech as they choose.
It's not yours, your password should be changed before you leave the building so you can't access it.

Practically, anything you want personal access to needs to be in your name, outside of business uses. Forwarding stuff from business to personal is probably questionable, depending on your industry and what you do with it.
Yeah but if making money was the same as charging a machine gun nest then the military model would be top notch.

Military leadership has the extra ace up its sleeve that all the people reporting to you are bound by law to do what you command.

Leading Civvies is like herding cats by comparison.
China's ZTE signed preliminary agreement to lift U.S. ban: sources
Keyword arguments tend to lead to bloated functions that try to account for every possible situation. So they're unidiomatic when compared to C-style functions which tend to always do the same thing in the same way every time you call them.

Of course, I'm assuming you're imagining an implementation where you are allowed to omit keywords to set default values. Naturally if every argument is always required, you don't have this problem.
> NSAdtech
I can’t tell if this is an NSA pun or if it’s an Apple API.
This article and the nyt one are almost completly bullshit.

They do not understand the difference between "apps" on phones that integrate with Facebook for sharing purposes, and "facebook apps" like the quiz crap that Cambridge analytica abused.

There IS the potential that your phone OS vendor used the FB API access and your credentials to steal your data, but does anyone seriously think apple or blackberry did such a thing?

This whole thing is insane. You might as well accuse Google, Apple, Mozilla, and Microsoft of stealing users data because you use their browsers to access facebook.
> What's strange to me is that Zuck isn't the only person who works for Facebook

But the only person to have majority of votes (more than 60%) in the company. If Zuckerberg doesn't like the responsibility which comes along with being the majority owner of the company, he should change the structure to 1 vote per share. But he won't.
Cognitive Performance App
It's clearly there to demonstrate the pipe support...
I can only speak for me, but modeling financial flows in terms of transactions and not accounts is much more intuitive than the classical alternative.

I'm a long time Buxfer user, which also works like this.
It's not that I don't understand double entry bookkeeping, I've used GNUCash for a long time before moving away. It is indeed very powerful and flexible, but it always was too much of a chore to maintain and next to impossible to get other family members to contribute.

I'm not sure this "transaction model" would be appropriate for business accounting, but IMHO it works very well for Personal Finance.
Indeed.

https://www.ajjmanhattan.com/instructors
There wasn't much substance to the New York Times's report, and as an outsider, Facebook's official reply--corroborated by Tim Cook's statement about Apple's actual use of the reported APIs--seems perfectly reasonable to me.

But dogpiling on Facebook is popular right now, whether it's deserved (Cambridge Analytica) or not (this), so the actual facts of the matter will be secondary when politicians evaluate whether to hop on the bandwagon.
OP's friend needs a store quickly, and probably wants a stable, feature-rich, ready to use store. OP most likely does not want to get blind-sided discovering that the plethora of currently existing solutions have upwards of well over $1 million dollars of labor-hours (features, QA, documentation) put into them. Magento might even have over $1 billion in labor-hours. Rolling your own out of simple ignorance regarding what exists is already rather dumb, but the surprise finding out that making anything worth using is a full-time job will be soul crushing, depressing, and may even damage OP's relationship.

Writing an ecommerce CMS because you are educated on what exists and want to innovate is a completely different matter.
and Zuck doesn't?
Not a bad idea actually. Only works if you have a phone that syncs with my other devices.

Still looking for more of a simple application or website.
The nuances for what a "3rd party entity" vs a "3rd party app" represents in Facebook is really what's at hand here. Anyone who spent time in Facebook developer platform knows this.

NYT's watered down article for the lowest denominator and maximum clicks (imo) vs Facebook's way too technical explanation for the maximum PR defense. None of this is going to help US/EU/World lawmakers understand the permission scope that was set in Graph API for hardware vendors.

It will take anyone with an HTTP listener Charles, Burp, Cycript whatever your choice... 5 minutes to see where and how the access token was used.

If only we were discussing the data and HTTP requests and not the way reporters and PR play with words to fit their agendas.
I hope it happens so much.
Right, I'm sure that the WhatsApp founders thought that Facebook paid $19 billion for a company just to keep charging $1 per year with no ads and no data collection.
Edit: Life is too short to argue about this kind of thing on the internet. Have a nice day.

XKCD386.
If we’re talking about switching to a new language from C, why only go almost safe with “modern” C++ and not all the way to fully safe Rust?

I’m not trying to be snarky, but the thread was about Rust as an improvement to C and you just threw C++ into the mix... which isn’t as safe.
> There IS the potential that your phone OS vendor used the FB API access and your credentials to steal your data, but does anyone seriously think apple or blackberry did such a thing?

Huawei, Xiaomi, and others are a risk for this.
> And how is it connected? How does this system actually work?

Look at things and keep asking: "Who benefits?"
I must add to this, mixing a psychedelic (LSA) with weed was the most terrifying experience of my life, and I have heard others recommend against it many times.

CBD oil however, is probably a good alternative. I will report back in the future with results.
> To give some context, in Chinese culture, asking a family member or a close friend to advise on the naming of a child is normal.

In all cultures.

To the downvoters: In all cultures happens and is considered normal, that doesn't mean everybody does it. I'm glad your family/circle of friends has a different tradition. This just means that when someone does it no one finds it weird. What is weird, is asking the president of another country for advice. That is weird in all cultures.
We had a similar experience as well.. in our case, tried hard to like SF, but eventually moved out.
The Dev experience is sub par and even with the one node cluster, things take a long time to come up. Also, the tooling that pushes for services to be in a single application means that boot up times are impacted negatively. SF's application model means that you can't just run it outside.
One of the lead devs had previously got burnt with reliable collections (no way to have it write to an attached disk.. will only write to VM local disk.. reported to ms) and risk potential disaster if you have a cluster loss.

Eventually ported to .net core and Orleans 2 on k8s and it's been a more pleasant experience.
Just take ad revenues (not just gross profits since we also want to count the money going to publishers) of large tech firms. Then deduct however much of that you think was the reduction in offline advertising (most of it, non personalized) as ad spend shifted to online. Then add another 20-50% of typical ROI (an advertiser would only spend $1 on ads if they think it would increase their profits by $1.20-$1.50).

You would easily arrive at the ballpark of several hundred billion.

If you disallow sites from using third party ads and ad tech, they would only get a small fraction of their normal ad revenues. Even without that, many publishers end up giving up on the ad model, either going for paid content / promos (far more misleading IMO), subscriptions, transactions, or just shut down entirely. If you reduce ad income by several times, a lot of free stuff on the web will disappear, and with it the jobs at those publishers and the advertisers who sell more things due to those ads (non personalized ads aren't very effective).

I'm not saying it's bad, I'm just saying that's something worth knowing before settling on an opinion about this topic.
To keep with the 'going to the shops to buy milk' theme you can break it down into bits you can estimate. Assuming you've never bought milk before:

- how long will research take? Where do you buy milk? Where is the nearest shop? 3 mins.

- how long to get to nearest shop and back (eg 10mins x 2) = 20 mins.

- find milk in shop (30 secs to 5 minutes), so say 4 mins.

- Buy milk. (1 to 5) say 3 mins.

Don't forget that these are estimates and always add a bit of headroom. The above comes to 31 mins, so say 35 and you know you're covered. If the manager isn't happy with it, give him the low down figures.
They're linked. When you are managing people who can legally be put in jail or shot for not following orders, the dynamic is quite different.

Especially in the case of Marines, if you have a very well defined objective that requires brute force to solve, that's the ideal situation for them and they'll do amazing things. Anything that's a gray area, not covered by rules, or that requires creativity or questioning authority... It's not going to end in a good result.

I can't count the number of times Marine officers did ridiculously inefficient or plain stupid things because an authority figure or regulation said so. Usually the justification was, "the rules are there for a reason," or something similar. Whole that might be true, the idea that someone in authority can, in advance, create a set of rules that we can blindly follow to a successful outcome is insane for all but the most desperate situations.

Most of the military was like that to some extent.
As long as Facebook paid, their money was good, and there was a contract signed, it does not matter.

This is wrong. Who cares what somebody else thinks when you get billions of dollars? Not your problem anymore.

They should have really held Zuckerberg's feet to the fire and enforced the contract by suing. It seems like a slam dunk. (IANAL)
“Our developers need deadlines. If I don’t give them a deadline, the work will never get done.”
— Many, Many Managers
I agree with this 100%. If you absolutely must disclose the vulnerability to them, consult with a lawyer. Otherwise, forget it ever happened.

EDIT: Depending on what potentially-logged http requests your curiosity lead you through, you may want to pursue the former.
The threat is going from rather hypothetical to more and more concrete. The phone is an appliance that runs software. It would require some substantial effort to get around that barrier - reducing the risk of it actually happening.

Now we're seeing that it didn't require any baked-in compromise in the hardware, firmware, or Android distribution. It's available via API.
Jet Brains makes a lot of sense, I agree!
Facebook should really be split up. WhatsApp would have been such a great alternative to Facebook now - but with that acquisition the consumers are really the ones on the loosing end.
Facebook gave data access to Chinese firm flagged by US intelligence
> If the problem is that money can buy unlimited federal power, then you can limit the federal powers available for purchase without curtailing the freedom of the citizenry to engage in political speech as they choose.

This is an excellent point.
Not to sound cliché but that is resoundingly the primary symptom of late stage capitalism. Commodification of all; nothing is sacred, not even your own life. This has actually been the state of affairs for quite some time (at least from 18th century) but the ever increasing creep of wages, which previously shielded high wage positions from this reality, are becoming increasingly transparent as information technology becomes more prolific.
How to Detach from the Trade Outcome to Get the Desired Results
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When your say "scummier", are you referring to Facebook ads that follow your recent activity online? Or something else?

On another note, as you put it, everyone wants everything for free. Is it really your place to tell them they can't have it, by disrupting the flow of money that makes that free stuff possible?
Something about "making no law abridging the freedom of the press."

What other forms of speech would you, personally, like to see require government registration?
With gdpr, I came to realize that (for better or worse) the internet is transitioning from a place outside of the law to a place subject to the union of all laws.
I'm on board with this. There's nothing wrong with a good old fashioned call to action at the end of the article. Encourage subscription by producing good content, not by abusing your reader's time and attention.
I wonder how kids today get away with texting in class, that was like the height of spy craft when you'd be texting a friend in your pocket while pretending to be writing notes on what the teacher was saying.
Not from a CCFL inverter, you won't.

This thread serves as a great example of why it's not a good idea to plaster dire warning labels all over everything on the planet "just to be safe." When everything is dangerous, nothing is.
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I seriously doubt that. 1000+ servers is a lot. The number of organisations worldwide running that many servers in any sort of coordination must be pretty low. Services (or "pods") sure, but actual servers? Can't be more than a few hundred companies, surely.

One would also think that by 1000-ish servers it's starting to make a lot of financial sense to move out of AWS anyway.
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Oh, there was a whole round of shitshows with the original typical white male engineer founders, then hypocrisy with the diversity/sjw crowd brought in to save face.
Supersonic flight: will it ever rise out of the ashes of Concorde?
Elon Musk appears emotional as he overcomes vote to remove him as Tesla chairman
>They coined the term.

The term was coined by Christine Peterson who was not part of OSI, AFAIK. [1]

[1] https://opensource.com/article/18/2/coining-term-open-source...
Utterly awful article.

If I know that I've gone and gotten the milk a dozen times or more recently, I have a pretty good idea of the minimum and maximum amount of time it'll take me to go get that milk. It's 4km, about a seven minute drive, and the quickest I've done it is 20 minutes round trip, and the longest about 40 minutes (probably browsed the store a bit for other stuff), then I can give a fairly confident range quite quickly without having to over-plan.

It's after you've gotten the milk that the client remembers they're lactose intolerant and can you please go get some almond milk. That's when you get over-time over-budget. Although in hindsight, perhaps I should have asked what sort of milk they prefer.
Funny. I just graduated and bought the physical copy like last week. It’ll be nice to have the ebook too. I haven’t really started it yet, because sadly I hoard books, and collect a lot faster than I read. I’m interested in the topic though. I would love to learn more about how we make mistakes in our assumptions, and statistical fallacies.
True, and if they wanted to steal all of your data they could do so with rootkits and modified TLS libraries.

If device manufacturers are stealing users information, at what point are they held accountable instead of FB?
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You've got the book, right?

https://archive.org/details/TheAmateurScientist
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I see contemporary radical relativism as being inevitable.
I disagree. We're perfectly capable of judging an act on its own merits.

Orson Scott Card is a good author.

Orson Scott Card is a bigot, and I do not ever wish to give him any money, so I will not buy his books now that I know of his bigotry.

His bigotry doesn't cancel out his talent as an author, and while I might find that I don't enjoy reading his books any more as a result of what I know of him, that doesn't change what my opinion was before I found out about his bigotry.

A good act is a good act, even if it's surrounded by a dozen bad acts.
I haven't. Thanks for sharing!
Fine percentage of revenue, then. I don’t see how going after individuals would disincentivise the system unless they go after a significant percentage of the organization. Otherwise there’s no point to penalizing people at all—it’s just outrage theater.
Apple front page
Hello! This is a side project I made for myself, and figured I'd try to see if others would find it useful (and help cover the costs of running this!) Happy to give people access without requiring a credit card if you're willing to help give feedback!
> so any prior on conservatives' IQs won't skew hiring. Sex and race are visible

Except for accents, choice of clothing, different speech patterns, etc.

I can easily pick if someone is from Austin (overwhelmingly liberal) vs another part of Texas just by the accent.
Taking a photograph is creation of a new copyrighted work under some now-very-old United States Law. The key idea is "transformation": it's understood that photography includes an editor's eye of what is worth taking a photograph of.

Making a copy of a public domain book does not create an independent claim of copyright to the contents of the book. You can make a case that maybe it should, but it legally does not; that's just not how it works.
It’s pretty negligent to sell or give access to a company, someone else’s personal data with a handshake and wink that they won’t turn around and do nefarious shit with it.

So while you’re right, it’s also just kinda shitty and probably illegal or at the very least unethical.
A youtube capture: https://youtu.be/rnBvSNYy-EY
Yeah, sorry, I did forget to qualify my statements that apply only to a specific demographic. Now that I think about it, I don't even know what fraction of HN readers, and of SV residents it represents. Might be a lot smaller than I expected.
Agree this is a problem. Here's how we make it work:

Work with great people. Also code reviews make sure new dependencies don't usually in unless the team agrees (we are a reasonable bunch).

Standardized on Angular. It seems to me Angular has less churn. Yes: there is a life cycle and we have to follow the releases but it is mostly well documented.
What about it
The difference is between having a window that's easy for a thief to break and giving the thief a key to your house and asking them to sign something promising not to steal.

I would like, at least, for a thief to have to put some effort into it.
The great think about equity is you can keep issuing more of it, doing secondary offerings, diluting existing stockholders, and raising more money until your stock price has gone to zero. That takes decades.
The front page lacks design
I may have jumped the gun a bit. Although I still think coming on here when the CTO isn't able to defend themselves is a little like trying to get people to do mobjustice in a way.

But you're right. I'm sorry.
I downvoted because the comment just doesn't seem like a good comment. Here are some HN guidelines I feel it breaks or comes close to breaking:

- Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents.
- When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names.
- Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say face-to-face. Don't be snarky.
- Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work.

Though Aaron, given the history I do understand why you'd have strong feelings about Zuck's integrity.

(of course, I'm also breaking this guideline in my own comment! Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.)
People shouldn't be climbing Mt Everest. There is little to be gained by doing so. Unless of course somebody creates a reason by artificially choosing to incentivize it, but they could just as well incentivize doing something else instead.