skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are mealy-mouthed refrains on all sides of this issue. For instance, I would be happy to see Tom Metzger and his White American Resistance group banned from Facebook, however the core of his white ethno-nationalist agenda isn’t too different from the black ethno-nationalism espoused by Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam. In fact Tom Metzger has been invited to talk at NOI events and collaborated with their leadership in the past. Banning NOI on Facebook would cause an uproar, but a consistent policy would require it. A lot of organizations who want to ban certain groups but don’t want to have an entire department adjudicating culture would like to rely on outside groups for certification. But even once-august groups like the Southern Poverty Law Center can lose the plot, as they did when they recently and perplexingly called liberal Muslim reformer Majid Nawaz an anti-Muslim extremist (they had to settle a lawsuit with him and issue an apology). [1]

I’m not saying that a company like Facebook shouldn’t take sides at all, but you can certainly see the attraction of a simple open platform doctrine once you get into the weeds.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/10/ma...
Shouldn't that be the corporate entity which should be held responsible? Not employee ABC?
I think the point was that if providers like Twitter or Bank X don't provide a useful enough API then people will just skip the API entirely and use something like a headless browser.
Then these financial institutions are openly declaring themselves insecure. But, of course, clickwrap contracts declare them not responsible for anything ever.
I'd be more interested in worst-case performance. If the Samsung and Google devices maintain a similar performance advantage with very marginal signal strength, it could frequently make the difference between a useable connection and no connection at all. I suspect not.
Economics is an evolving field of study like any other. There are many different schools of thought even within the 'mainstream' position. Using disagreements and changes within the field as an argument that the entire field is flawed is what climate change deniers use when they want to dismiss evidence of climate change. There is room for disagreement on policy without dismissal of the entire field.

Besides, which heterodox viewpoint are you going to argue for? The Marxist? Austrian? Both of these are more clearly 'marketing pitches for a set values' than 'mainstream' economics. If an excessive emphasis on the free market is a pet-peeve of yours then you certainly don't want the latter.
Given how many times twitter has screwed developers attempting to build things on top of their API, does anyone still care? Does anyone still think developing on twitter's API is a good idea?
The page load speed is seriously impressive, congrats!

There's something weird going on with the styling of the dropdowns, though: https://i.imgur.com/WQ3m52X.gif

I'm on Windows 10 & Chrome
The Juggler3D "screensaver" https://linux.die.net/man/6/juggler3d can also be run manually with a pattern, and it will attempt to show a stick figure juggling with that pattern.
It's more costly so it probably changes the economics of spam.
Apparently, this German legal model is that small children are a force of nature, like a tornado or hurricane. That's...one answer, and maybe reasonable in the context of homeowners' insurance and social safety nets, but it's not an indictment of some kind of crazy American helicopter parenting.
I never equated the two. The government is still under the obligation to treat all speech equivalently. However, for a private citizen or corporation to extend a platform to these people is a very ethically problematic act, one that transcends this already-questionable notion that private citizens owe each other a chance to be heard.
> At best, HTTPS complicates the attack but it doesn't make you immune to it.

That's literally all security. It isn't binary. It never is. At best, ASLR complicates ROP. At best, salts complicate breaking password hashes. At best, memory safe languages complicate buffer overflow attacks.

One could use your argument to dismiss basically all security. You've chosen zero mitm protection rather than a lot of mitm protection.

If you aren't using https then a network attacker with no preplanning can cause problems. If you are using https then a network attacker needs to get a bogus cert ahead of time. This costs money and time and does not scale well. Security is an economics issue. Making it more expensive to attack people is good.
Right now if you want to connect a third party application to your most online banking accounts you need to give that third party application your online banking username/password, or log in to your online banking through the app.

The suggestion is doing this for Twitter too, so instead of using an API key you would log in through an app and it would scrape the data it needs.
I am giving you the higher level view on what I think it does ... read the docs! or even better the source code it is open.
Explaining to you how the car works can be as far as explaining how physics work, because you need understand combustion, gravity etc.
EDIT: and that will exceed 20 sentences by a few very heavy books.
They could claim copyright over the API key (unlikely) or (more likely) ask a friendly prosecutor to charge you with violating CFAA. You are accessing their systems, not in a way they authorized. Enjoy some jail time. Sadly, yes, it has come to this. Eg: https://www.newsweek.com/most-hated-law-internet-and-its-man...
Thank you so much for you comment. Very good advice in here. Spot on. We hadn't even though about recursive drawing. On the todo list.
We agree with most of what you point out and we are currently working on ways to simplify the controls and option.
The book Behave by Robert Sapolsky describes this topic (among others) nicely.

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/311787/behave-by-ro...
Lowest unemployment rate since 1969 [1] coupled with negative real wage growth [2] is an indicator that our current ideology (low taxes, limited regulation) is broken.

[1] https://money.cnn.com/2018/06/01/news/economy/may-jobs-repor...

[2] https://www.bls.gov/news.release/wkyeng.nr0.htm
Facebook runs the internet's de facto social network. They're a monopoly that only exists because open solutions didn't come about in time. It's an accident of history that a few companies control what should have been decentralized protocols.

The internet itself permits unfettered free speech and so should the largest social networks of the internet. As private companies they're not required to by law, but they should feel required to by their own ethics.

Facebook could provide tools to allow people to do whatever they want with the data. Users themselves should be in control of censoring whatever it is they don't want to see.

It's extremely dangerous to have a single corporation in charge of deciding what people see. It's inherently tyrannical and paternalistic. It's a decision to remove agency from adults about what information they consume. It's hard to imagine a more damaging attack on individual freedom in a time where this is the primary source of information for many people.
> It's about allowing racists and other toxic bigots to use Facebook to push their agendas, recruit others, and harass their victims en masse."

If Facebook had existed in the 1950s:

"It's about allowing commies and other liberal lunatics to use Facebook to push their agendas, recruit others, and harass their victims en masse."

When you ask the tech industry to build a muzzle, don't forget that it fits onto you just as easily as onto the people you hate.
It's easy to start drawing the line at the low hanging fruit. Let's start with holocaust denial which Zuckerberg raised last week. This argument that it's complex doesn't mean we can't do something and act in the most agregious and obvious cases.

Facebook already censors for business reasons and draws lines. Why can't they do it in other places and make it clear where they are. Their objections are based on free speech but are likely really about cost - they don't want to spend money to do it.
How about we start with whoever is calling for extermination of people with identifiable characteristics such race/religion/etc or using a number of well known dog whistles against those groups, should be banned. The sarcasm/satire/meme defense is not a real thing.

It's not that it's hard identify Nazis, it's that they make Facebook money and that's why Facebook is not willing to deal with them.
The two of these groups advocate subjugation of minority demographics at their best, genocide at their worst. It doesn't matter who says it. Taking a stand against these ideas and refusing to support these ideas is ethically clear.
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Fair, but I would suggest that the above comment really is equating free speech supporters with white ethnic-nationalists. It's just implicit rather than explicit.

To quote ashleyn: 'Very tired of this "free speech" refrain... facebook is under no legal obligation to extend white ethno-nationalists a platform or support their cause in any capacity'

ashleyn may not have intended it, but their comment implies those who are using the "free speech" refrain are white ethnic-nationalists.
I live in West-Europe. War is always the worst case involving all (non-)imaginable harm and misery.

I side with Syria/Russia in the war in Syria because the case is clear.

Protected by the Syrian army: https://www.unusualtraveler.com/damascus/

Destroyed by the opposition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Syrian_Civil... and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6omfaKhZL0 and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0OeM0tFmFs

I side with no one in the past Kosovo war. The conflict was complicated and some conflict still remains in the region.

Some years ago, when I found out about the extent of propaganda and lies and often ignorance or lack of normal morality of the politicians and the media, I was shocked and angry.

After much time reading various sources and comment sections, one learns what to expect from the usual factions and actors and what is most likely true and what is story.
Steam's new React and Chromium based chat UI now available to all users
... except that one conspicuously avoids the assertion that one should use it on one's lap.
The fun part of social signals is that you can choose your own. You can hire a nanny and sneer at parents who can't hack high-powered careers, or you can be with your kids and sneer at the gunners who can't raise their own children. Or you can work long days and have no nanny and pass your kid from cousin to uncle to latchkey because you are a normal human being with no time to play status games of the privileged.
ICE Opens New Supermax Detention Center for Most Hardened Toddlers
The folks who run /r/askhistorians had to go through several years of adjusting their rules until they found a solution for holocaust deniers - don't give them a platform to speak - they are just trolling and wasting the time of rebuttals and any re-publication is used by holocaust deniers to authenticate their views.
https://slate.com/technology/2018/07/the-askhistorians-subre...
The only recollection I have on the Amish is from Family Guy - I'm not close to that. On a serious note, what I was trying to argue, in short, was: 1. Anything in excess is not good. 2. Try to think and be aware of the effects of things like the internet have on you, people, culture, etc.
I think about this a lot: If someone arrived at at conclusion through irrational means, what makes you think that a rational argument would change their mind?

I'm convinced that rational thinking is often so unhelpful for survival that humans developed this massive set of patterns to recognize (read stereotypes and logical fallacies) in order to simply keep living. Now that we are starting to push the limits of our biology we run into these anti-patterns that arise.
> We need to be willing to pick sides when there are clear moral or humanitarian issues.

This is a little depressing given Zuckerberg's recent interview in which he said, with regard to Sandy Hook or Holocaust deniers posting these things on Facebook, "I just don’t think that it is the right thing to say, 'We’re going to take someone off the platform if they get things wrong, even multiple times.'"

This email was sent in March. It seems pretty clear that Stamos' hopes for a major shift in Facebook's behavior have not come to pass.
> I meant counting in the broadest sense, which is where numbers themselves emerge from.

Are you asking how define quantity without quantity?

Also, I think it's fair to say there are quantities that no human has ever "experienced".
All of my college peeps learned BASIC* while running the interpreter. We learned to fingerbone in the seq. to load from the tape, after the tape loaded I don't recall, but we then could get an OK prompt maybe from the BASIC interpreter. We used TeleType terminals w/paper rolls to print, with a tape reader. In parallel we learned Motorola MC6800 mach language on the new Heathkit trainers; our final task was to interface a speaker and play "Anchors Away" as my prof was an ex Navy instructor. *We learned BASIC, but by applying it to data and practical problems IIRC like physics of projectile motion, electrical like resistors, simple databases. Was a Pop Electronics reader from 1970 or so.
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You aren't going to find a lot of overlap between homework being done and turned in and parents that view school as daycare.
It has been working out. Please continue to ignore success until it's too late.
Then another filesystem with snapshot support.

My point is to use utilities that do one thing, and compose well.
You're thinking too narrow. Attackers cast wide nets then narrow down the attack to what they've caught in the net. They don't blindly bait individual traps targeting individual users and hope they get a catch.

I'm a hacker at a local Starbucks. I go there every Thursday and use a WiFi Pineapple in my backpack. By naming my WiFi access point similar to the Starbucks' free WiFi I trick a few dozen people a day to connect through my Pineapple instead of the Starbucks provided WiFi. Over a period of a few weeks I log all traffic and devices. I see a number of regulars - many with their own unique browsing habits. I create a few phishing sites to target these unfortunate users who routinely browse at the coffeeshop. Over the course of the next few days I MITM all traffic in the shop and successfully phish a small number of the users. Now imagine a wider net. A collection of compromised networks that don't require my physical presence in a coffee shop and a small team of individuals selecting vulnerable targets based on their browsing patterns.

Neither you nor your users need to be individually targeted by some 3 letter government agency for this attack to work. They only need to be an unfortunate victim and you only need to be too lazy to spend 10-15 minutes setting up a TLS certificate.

This attack is heavily thwarted by sites using TLS certificates. I'd need to get my hands on a number of invalid certificates and even that can be thwarted by HSTS. Now instead of my attack being completely transparent I need to worry about raising suspicion of users browsing https:// sites not getting errors about invalid certificates.
Twitter is currently locking down their API and making it harder for developers to access. My bank doesn't even have an API, but developers still gain programmatic access to it, only they ask users for their full credentials instead of limited, monitored, and revocable API access. My concern is that Twitter's new restrictions, and restrictions like them, will push apps towards just collecting a user's login credentials.
What your tax advisor suggested is even less relevant than a apartment rental agreement, as you can make calls and use credit cards on vacation...

What is evidence of change of residency is change of voter registration and acquiring a driver's license in your new state of residence. Coupled with proof of a non-New York address, it shifts the burden to NY to prove that you are no longer one of their residents.
But I can't do that in the moment. Without HTTPS I sit on the network and see a clear request to your website. I intercept it and cause problems. With HTTPS I need to have planned ahead of time to target your website specifically and spent time and money on getting a bogus cert for your website. If your website is small I am not likely to do that. But I don't care how big your website is once I'm seeing cleartext traffic.
You're right. Maybe I was confusing it with the Metropolitan Commuter tax.
People either still use drugs and then use fake or someone else's piss for the test, or if they have some willpower they just sell. So that's what the "hypothetical genius parolee" is planning to do with it.

It's not rocket surgery.
> As a semi-academic, practice supervision sounds like a horrible use of limited teacher/classroom time

Research shows the opposite: lecture is a horrible use of limited teacher/classroom time.
As every parent learns, there is no shortage of assholes who are quick to explain how you are doing it wrong. No matter how you parent, someone thinks that they know better and has no trouble explaining that in an insulting tone.

Thank you for being a case in point. It doesn't matter what else I do, (see http://bentilly.blogspot.com/2012/10/my-sons-flashcard-routi... for example), I can always be accused of being lazy from the peanut gallery.
Are you in physics? Sections in CS courses are more for discussions and Q&A, they aren’t coding their assignments during that time.
How is this relevant to my question?

This is a classic case of "I'm going to cite bad statistics and blame X without explaining its causal relevance or why not-X would be better."
And Apple's seems like it is where they baby you by not allowing you to install other browser engines, set the system defaults for email,
maps, camera, nor let you install non approved software like anything adult.
They don't need to file a lawsuit, they can garnish your wages and freeze your bank accounts.
As I see it, as long as your organization has people using IT in any capacity at all, you will need someone in charge of IT Operations. Whatever you may want to call it: DevOps, or SRE, or PE, or even if you just decide it's something that each of your regular devs is going to be doing, it's a function that needs to be done.

That's true, but I don't need to worry about the server that my database, load balancer, queuing system, RedisCache, storage, etc. is running on. I only have to worry about my applications and the actual database. If I need to provision more hardware, it's a click of a button (well actually updating my CloudFormation template).

There is an entire level of both hardware and operating system maintenance that I don't have to worry about.
Suicides rise with temperature in much of North America
You don't need to go back to 4:3, just turn your widescreen monitor sideways and there's even less evil horizontal space.
At the risk of sounding too glib or reductio ad absurdum:

The best code is impossible to spot, because it's not even there.

Put another way, a truism I've often heard from the most senior programmers (especially in the context of critiques of LOC as a measure of productivity), is that their best work is often writing less code, or outright deleting existing code. It stands to reason that this kind of work is much more difficult to spot if all one looks at is the codebase in its current state.
Looks like a missing word in this blurb.

“Science have already proven we can grow all kinds of animal protein in labs. This book is the founding story of a revolution that will how we eat and the planet forever.” – Gustaf Alstromer

I believe it should be This book is the founding story of a revolution that will change how we eat and the planet forever.”
> If the majority viewpoint shifts so that your opinions become unpopular, will you happily accept getting deplatformed yourself? Don't be so naive as to think it can't happen.

I've seen this happen recently. The same people cheering on the deplatorming of Milo Yiannopoulos shouting "freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences" were just stunned when James Gunn was fired for his tweets.
The great thing about science by gut feel is you can choose which contradictions you like. In a fitness thread, it's "abs are made in the kitchen, not the gym". But in a parenting thread it's "fat is burned in the street, not the diet"
There was already an experiment with holocaust denial on reddit. The moderators found it was a waste of every reputable historians' time to rebut the same arguments over and over, and, the holocaust deniers were using that platform to insinuate some respectability behind their cause to recruit people so giving them a platform helped the holocaust deniers cause.

https://slate.com/technology/2018/07/the-askhistorians-subre...
I don't understand this argument. Twitter hasn't tricked anyone. They have an enforceable terms of use agreement with their users. If you deliberately circumvent controls described by that agreement, they have civil recourse. It's their site and always has been.
I had an Amiga in the late 80's.
The Mac felt like a joke in comparison. The Amiga OS was much more advanced (true multitasking, shell, etc.), never mind the games.

You could even emulate a Mac on an Amiga (using AMax.) There were pirated versions that had the ROMs on disk.
What school on earth has a policy that allows parents doing kids' homework?
Which sounds like a fine argument to make when dealing with the more extreme cases, but where do you draw the line of who gets silenced? The question is whether we are comfortable with corporations assuming the role of thought police - corporations that are not subject to the same discrimination standards that we hold our government(s) to.

It sounds to me like "informed world view" as a general standard for evaluation really just means "whatever world view is in vogue at the time", and is designed as an exclusive criteria. Think of how many cultures, customs, ethnicities, sexualities, philosophies, etc, were previously not part of the acceptable, "informed" world view, as well as those that previously were and are now considered taboo or unethical.
Thanks for the feedback!
The reason why we mix up the settings is to let users play around with predetermined arrangements. We think that that is cool in certain circumstances. But we also agree with you on the fact that separating "Random" and "New" button is a good idea.
They don't need a prosecutor; CFAA includes civil causes of action.
I believe you did actually equate the two, just implicitly rather than explicitly. May not have even realized you were doing it.

That being said, I do agree with you that private corporations are under no obligation to respect free speech laws that mainly only apply to the government. Facebook is free to do as it pleases regarding who to censor or who not to.

In regards to extending a platform to people who's ideas you disagree with... I think we're just going to have to agree to disagree on this one. First, it's often wayyy to difficult to draw the line between acceptable and not. Secondly, I'd rather have racists and idiots explicitly write out their views so that we can have a conservation with them rather than causing them to go underground where their views understandably fester and become more extreme due to persecution and lack of other viewpoints.
Sigh, the only thing guaranteed is political fighting over the pork.