skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The privacy setting on a given FB post is most likely a list of which "friend groups" within your account can see the post, and modifying that value in the database would change how the post appears. Whatever you choose is just a different parameter that gets stored on that post and can trivially be modified on FB's side in the future. FB could make every post you've ever made show up as public, and update your profile to be completely public as well. It's completely technically possible, though not too likely to happen.

Regarding the other point - the fact it took them 5 days to revert the privacy status on weeks' worth of posts of some ~14million users just points to them being thorough and _not_ doing it in a hacky manner. A hackish solution could have been done in an hour or two, most likely.
Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvckBJP8QPU

I mean, auto-pilot, as promised, would be a god-send for such a poor driver (or anyone with even mild motor impairments). That it preformed soooooo poorly and that Tesla has responded soooo shadily, should put anyone seeking auto-pilot (as a real need, not a gadget) on notice.
> In one study, Mr. Greenstone and his co-authors found that in China, which is currently negotiating to buy more U.S. coal, life expectancy is reduced by three years in households that use subsidized coal in the winter.

Even though life expectancy has been dropping across the U.S., here in NYC life expectancy has increased by 3 years over the last fifteen due largely to new policies around home heating fuel and other laws to reduce fine particulate emissions. Sad to see Trump trying his best to take us back in the other direction.
Possibility of ancient life on Mars
You can replicate some of the live-like environment using SAM[1] and SAM-local[2]. Combined with services like ngrok[3] you can even test remote hooks and such.

[1] https://github.com/awslabs/serverless-application-model
[2] https://github.com/awslabs/aws-sam-cli
[3] https://ngrok.com/ or http://serveo.net/
Yup, to expand on that you don't even need to make it bespoke. Just having the option to mirror a floor plan makes a huge difference in how well you can use a plan.

We did that with our new house, flipped where the kitchen/livingroom would be so the good view out of the back of the house is much more usable. Super easy to do with a stick-built house, probably a fair bit harder with modular.
Why, because they are both food? Lentils and almost all plant proteins are not complete proteins.
Did this article just presented prefabricated housing as an innovative and novel way of building, and a solution to the housing crisis? Am I really reading NYtimes?
It's a sad day that even NASA has to use clickbait titles.

The title is factually correct but it's not very representative of the actual content.

A more appropriate title would be NASA confirms predicted levels of organic carbon in martian soil and long term measurements help scientists identify possible cyclic releases of methane on mars.

Organic molecules are common as hell in space including fairly complex ones, asteroids, comets and space dust are rich in them as well as many other "complex" molecules like ammonia based ones are also everywhere.

Hydrogen is the most common element, Oxygen is the 3rd most common one, Carbon is the 4th and Nitrogen is the 7th and Sulfur is the 10th.

Hydrocarbons are common, ammonia based compounds are common, heck cosmic clouds of sulfuric acid are common.

At this point the main study in Cosmobiology is to figure out how to look for life in an organic rich environment since the amount of it in space is essentially blinds us and effectively made us throw out all of our assumptions out of the window.

So what we left is to either try to identify some cyclic processes in these organic rich environments that cannot be explained by any other means (e.g. the methane, although more likely than not it's tied the temperatures during the summer one way or another).

And look at the inorganic and complex organic processes such as minerals that may indicate life and the search for much more complex organic compounds like uric acid and urea since we've identified microbes, fungi and other types of life with uric acid and urea pathways where's it was previously thought that only vertebrates (excluding fish) and mammals (respectively) had these pathways.
It extrapolates pretty well, and this is the problem, because if you stop early at merely "the world (political and economical) dominance" everything should be fine, right?
Your contribution graph should never be assumed to be an authoritative statement on your activity, and for sure, you can have dozens of typo correction PRs on a day versus another person's major feature, and the typos look like you did "more".

But what I found was very neat about the contribution graph, and why I was so disappointed they removed the streak counts, was it was a good self-motivational tool. As a hobbyist coder, having an encouragement to keep a streak going by looking at code (either mine, or someone else's), and try to improve it in some way on a daily basis was a really good push for me.

I think it's obvious from my full contribution graph (visible at https://github-contributions.now.sh/ under my username) where I was using the contribution graph/streaks to encourage me to contribute more in late 2015 and early 2016, and you can see how much it fell off when they removed the streak count in May of 2016.

Which is to say, healthily used, you can be honest with yourself and use it to encourage yourself to continue participating, but obviously, it's bad as a metric of how much a person codes in general.
Well, I believe NASA is one of those few organizations in the world that's actually doing the humanity a favor. Despite that, it has been criticized for decades. Remember how people complained about millions of dollars that NASA used for Apollo missions? Some even argue(d) that space missions are pointless, and that there are more important issues on the Earth that we should cut NASA's funds. In my view, this view is just outrageous and disgraceful. Astronomy and space exploration is a very humbling science that not only will help us survive our disastrous extinction on this planet, but also makes us realize how unimportant we are in this vast universe, and what issues really matter in the world.

I'd rather see my money go to NASA and be spent on space discovery than see it spent to make useless products, or worse yet, to shed blood.
There are only two possibilities I see: acquired by Atlassian and merged with Bitbucket, or by a low-tier cloud player with deep pockets such as Aliyun or Oracle. The IPO market just isn’t that buoyant at the moment.
Not known the intricacies of reddit is probably better than the reverse, toxic as reddit is.
Maybe someone from FB can chime in and prove whether this is true but wouldn't FB take a copy of ANY data that is made public for any portion of time? So it may have been public for a day but ultimately that data is now stored and available for 3rd parties to leverage.

This is exactly what something like Archive.org would do.
Sorry, confused you w/ someone else. Question though:without a utility company, who is going to pay to maintain that network? We already have an existing mesh network of multiple power generators w/ the associated distribution systems. My father's house is off-grid solar, mostly due to the $18k required to run ~1 mile of overhead line. Currently these costs are distributed over a large # of customers, and a large interconnected grid is required for the plan of using EV batteries as distributed storage.
As a little aside here, gaussian distributions aren't really that common. Even if we put ignore splitting hairs about "true" Gaussian versus approximate Gaussian (which would just be pedantic), Gaussian distributions seem to show up frequently for two reasons. The first reason is because they're attractive and useful as a model, so many measurements are specifically designed to approximate a Gaussian. These are usually artificial, not naturally occurring. The second reason is because it's easy to abuse the term to refer to anything that looks decently uniform visually, if not rigorously, and hand wave away the details as long as it gets the rhetorical point across.

The first phenomenon leads to many natural things being interpreted as Gaussian when that's just an artifact of measurement (as an example, see the BMI scale). The second is very similar to the way you can reliably hear people use the term "exponential" to describe a large absolute increase, even if that increase isn't even quadratic.
Out of the 250 000-ish projects that migrated to GitLab.com, only about 3000 are mirrors (= using GitLab's mirroring feature).

Source: I work for GitLab.
So you wanted to know something, and this person knew it, and it's funny because you wanted them not to know it either? I don't get it.
How many engineers suggested functional tests for this?
I would wager that the market value of selling one's own organs (or their replacement cost) is not accounted for in this study.
Threema is doing something like that: https://threema.ch/en
I have heard multiple people say that it is an OS thing specific to MacOS. Can't verify, have just seen that around HN a few times.
I mean I get your point, but just because there's other snake oil salesmen doesn't make the practice any less wrong.
React, Redux
ASP.NET Core
SQL Server
AWS (EB, Cloudfront, S3)
Redis
Certainly many US employees were against it.

Also Google is a global organization. I don’t believe that corporations should primarily serve the interests of their government, they should serve their users and reflect the attitudes of their employees.
IIRC the only magic is in parsing the format string to a structured representation of it; but that format object is a normal ocaml value and the actual typechecking happens without any "magic".
According this article:

* http://blog.krisk.org/2013/09/apples-new-facetime-sip-perspe...

... FaceTime is more or less SIP hacked to work better with the crummy Internet we have to contend with these days. So we probably know enough to make something compatible. What we don't have is any assurance that Apple would allow such interoperation going forward.

The problem is not actually technical...
Most people who can't afford to buy an EV can't afford to buy carbon-neutral synthetic gasoline either. I'd expect it to cost $8-$10 dollars a gallon, at least with foreseeable near-term technologies.

People who already own ICE gas vehicles and don't drive them very much might still come out ahead buying $10/gallon fuel vs. acquiring an EV. (I put maybe 1500 miles/year on my car.)
Ask HN: Game idea that makes people pick up trash
I got an idea today about a game that encourages people to pick up trash. I've not been able to process the idea completely, but I want some people to bounce the idea with.

In short, the goal of the game would be to collect and scrap as much trash as possible. For every piece of trash, you get some reward/points. The trash would be identified by the bar code on it. The rarer the trash, the higher reward. Virtual trash bins would be placed using Geo location. The game could be developed to add achivements, social features etc.
Read more on the ideas here: https://github.com/zappen999/trasher-proposal

Some problems (also stated in the repo):

* Not all trash have bar codes.

* Need to prevent cheating (people declaring trash multiple times).

* Getting the viral effect (Pokemon GO comes to mind).

* Scalable way of placing/verifying trash can locations.

* ...

The idea might sound cliche, but I would like to hear your thoughts :)

I would enjoy collaborating on building something like this if there are more people seeing potential.

I'm by no means a treehugger, just a guy tired of all trash that we are leaving behind.
> Will Google's AI push the fat man onto the tracks?
> Slowness

If anyone complains about Python performance and don't use PyPy....they are poking themselves in the eye.
I've basically never seen the former. I do see 100X as much ranting against it though. It's hard to feel oppressed when you fit into all the majority categories.

As for people "making up" aspects of their identity ... so? Who fucking cares? It doesn't affect me at all, let alone make me more prone to committing suicide!!!
I think most people don’t give a fuck and will continue using GitHub.
Not from what I can tell: https://imgur.com/r1d3sj9
This country's willingness to dump massive entitlements on the coal, etc. industries while simultaneously deriding individual entitlements is the height of hypocrisy. Really makes me wonder what the breaking point is for this particular brand of cognitive dissonance. You'd think things like the recent Carrier factory shutdown would at least present a speed bump to this sort of thing.
When the Toyota electronic throttle "unintended acceleration" accidents were in the news, the software was described as a "big bowl of spaghetti" but the NTSB ultimately determined that it was not the cause of the problems. It was drivers using the wrong pedal.
Biodiesel is just over $3. Citation?
So some people who worked for Google think Google was helping do something that is immoral, and other people agreed, and the collective outrage convinced Google to change their minds. Great, that's how it should work. What else would induce a company to stop doing something immoral, if not outrage?

This applies regardless of whether you think this specific example is immoral.
Something like human hibernation is reportedly possible for people who live isolated lives in places with tough winters (can’t remember where the article I read about this a few years ago was). It doesn’t happen in the modern world though: abundant food, many distractions, artificial lighting, climate controlled spaces, ...
One issue is that at scale, communication costs dwarf almost every other cost. So, sending objects between nodes isn't as critical as you might think it is for distributed systems.

(I was also in Norm's class! It was awesome, and also got me over the Rust hype to some degree)
Here implying I don’t live here. I really don’t think doctor salaries is the problem with outrageous health car cost. I could be wrong but seems like admin overhead and over prescribing treatment is a big problem from my small point of view.

Edit: also people wanting it and the financials of it being practical are entirely coupled together. My point was I don’t see how someone can not be for the idea of health care for all.
I know and contribute through https://opencollective.com, but I wouldn't be surprised if there are more platform like this.
Was going to say much the same thing, thank you. You said it much better.
Google: We take Pentagon contracts to track people's location with our AI. That's so bad.

Also Google: We will totally use our AI to 'legally' track a single mom that clicked a fine print EULA once while signing into our app. That's totally fine. It's different mmk?
As of January 2018, over 144 million copies had been sold across all platforms, making it the second best-selling video game of all time behind Tetris.

^ from wikipedia

If they sold each for $10, then thats $1.5 bil (if my maths right). So I think it's safe to say that they have not made their money back ... yet.
> and therefore compromised the national interests of the United States.

Did I miss something? Was the Selective Service Act amended to extend to corporations, too? Was Google drafted?

Last I checked, cooperation with the United States military has been purely on a volunteer basis since Vietnam.
No one's really arguing for coal, truly. They're arguing for jobs, respect, and a livelihood.

I've got a lot of family from southern Appalachia (N GA to WV).

If coal sunsets, America needs to make a promise that we're going to do right by miners. In a bigger, more sustained way than recent token retraining efforts. Something on WPA / TVA scale.

If we made that bargain, and stood by it, then we'd be able to start seriously transitioning away from coal, with broad local political support, today.

And I feel like this is something that we as a country need to get better at anyway, as it's going to happen to a lot of industries in the next 100 years.
I feel like this comment is coming from some parallel bizarro world. We have an openly racist president and majority party and yet somehow it's the whites who are suffering?
Indeed it is not meant to be any kind of business justification - I clearly cannot comment your business and its needs :)

In my experience of moving applications to the cloud, there are always folks who don't believe there is any gain to be made. These folks have always been wrong (so far!)

I suppose I'm only commenting because I hate to see someone snub the potential of cloud. But hey I'm just some guy on HN.
How is phone call spam a revenue stream for carriers? Most plans these days are unlimited calling. Under that assumption, spam calls are cost and bad customer experience.
The point is that it is a philosophical problem, not a technical one. A human will see that it is unsolvable, whereas a machine will probably optimize for unethical or strictly cost-win payoffs without considering the philosophical parts.

I'm not saying the decision will be better when a human makes it, I'm saying it will be more humanely considered.
An argument that relays heavily on racial prejudice and emotional appeal is philosophically underdeveloped.
Oh and if you want Google Maps to retain your search history, you have to turn on Global Search History across all Google products. It's impossible to keep a local file on your phone that would have the history in it just for that app. Totally impossible. That data needs to be sent to us.
I know a bunch of mysterious Mars images were debunked in the past, but I'd very much like to know real explanations about these:

https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/150828091203-mars-pyr...

https://i0.wp.com/planetaria.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/3...

http://files.abovetopsecret.com/files/img/ox53f235bf.jpg
Sorry on the late reply, but your URL fails and I'm not sure I follow what you're talking about. I enjoyed Elm quite a bit @ version 0.16, then they got rid of signals and forced everyone to use TEA. To say that they aren't forcing you to use it isn't true. AFAIK, you can't even publish a module that interfaces with javascript without Evan's permission.
This technology is one answer to an often-heard criticism (often presented with dubious motivation). The criticism is that storing solar or wind energy for when the sun isn't shining or the wind isn't blowing is a problem with renewables. However, if one considers intelligent grid balancing, solar-thermal towers, increasingly better battery technology, and this kind of solar-to-hydrocarbon conversion you have plenty of places to put excess renewable power generation.
> For example, maybe Google leadership did hear the complaints, then realized what was happening and what could happen, and decided that something needed to be done to create and uphold values.

I don't find the idea of Google's leadership being as out of touch and out of control as that would require to be more comforting than the idea that they are responsive to bad PR.

> Let me guess, you don't vote because "all politicians are liars"? How's that working out for you?

Let me guess, you vote for the candidate with the worst track record to prove that you aren't cynical about them. How's that working out for you and Mr. Trump?
> insults Redditors intelligence

What intelligence?
New York Hacker News Meetup
Which we forgot to mention when you turn that on we begin recording your location history.
This comment comes off as intentionally disingenuous to me.

In the latter case, it's about serving up ads.

In the former case, it's literally about assassinating people from the sky.

They really are different.
I found the actual published article in Science.

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/360/6393/1096.full

Someone with more domain knowledge might appreciate it.
"There's a huge difference between being first world poor, and third world poor."

True.

"but my first world poor friends, without exception are all bad with money."
ROTFL. What about your third world friend? This may give you an idea.

Read this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17218250
But are they serious developers? The impact might not be felt for years.
Another thing that would make an interesting souvenir, I think, would be if you could figure out how to condense the fork graph into something that fit on a T-shirt or something somehow. It's pretty interesting how unique that graph can look based on how different PRs were developed and merged over time.
I bet you are fun at parties.
But did they close their Github account?
So the outcome here is:

- All key leadership and board memebers are to be fired and replaced within 30 days

- US picked compliance team embedded in ZTE that the commerce department is reimbursed for by ZTE

- $1B fine and $400M in escrow

- Qualcomm / NXP deal seems likely to be approved, helping US jobs

In the past we've seen other countries deal with Iran while under sanctions, and we've gotten nothing out of them other than speeches at the U.N.

I kinda think I like this better.

oblig disclaimer - I didn't vote for Trump, and I don't knee-jerk defend his actions...
Honestly, I'd lean towards /r/AMA to get a higher signal-to-noise ratio & limit trolling. The smaller user base means you're more likely to bring genuinely interested parties into the conversation -- people watching the related twitter feeds & so on.
The principles state that they will not make weapons. However the latest report I’ve seen states that their current contract for the military ends some time in 2019. [1]

So while google says it will not make weapons, it seems that for the next 6-18 months it will continue to do so.

Does anyone know when in 2019 the contact expires? It seems odd to come out with a pledge not to make weapons while continuing to make weapons (assuming that is what they are doing).

(Full disclosure, I am a contractor at an Alphabet company, but I don’t know much about project Maven. These are my own opinions.)

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/1/17418406/google-maven-dron...
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I think this falls under “I want a president I would have a beer with”, you’re judging something by a bad metric.
That's true.

But it's still a much better time to be a white male than a nonwhite male, or female, or any type of transgender, in many parts of the world.
The discovery of microbial life on another world would be as significant as the Copernican revolution.

If indeed the methane signatures are not from serpentinization and we can somehow figure out how in situ to determine if the methane is indeed organically produced then the next question would be "Are these lifeforms the result of Panspermia"? We will then need to figure out how to sequence the chemistry of of these lifeforms which may require us to redefine the definition of "life" altogether. Regardless of the answer as to life independently forming given a certain set of criteria or if carried by meteorites from world to world such would provide good evidence that the universe is at probably teeming with microbial life will shifting eradicate our geocentric views even further.

Note: I have undergraduate degrees in both Geology and Astronomy. IMO Mars is likely a dead world and these methane signatures are from serpentinization as this is the most plausible scenario.
I thought we are supposed to be sharing our opinions on HN with respect.

Since when is stating my opinion on an opinion-based community none of my business?

I am saying these questions should not be asked. Please provide a counter argument.
Mars is very similar to the Earth and was even more similar to it in the past, when it used to have running water on its surface. We can learn a lot about the Earth by studying Mars.