skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was largely a patent buy, they later sold them to Microsoft for a billion in 2012 [1], which Facebook ended up buying 650 of the 800 they bought from AOL [2].

[1] https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-buys-netscape-web-pa...

[2] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/04/facebook-will-bu...
It's nice to see more options becoming available in this space. Industrial PCs (and, in the same vein, PLCs) from the old-guard industrial automation providers are generally lackluster for the cost, in my experience. So many acts of industrial automation and robotic system integration can be achieved with a Raspberry Pi and/or an Arduino, with a little hardening.
I see, it's an internship targeting hiring minorities - thanks for the link. I am a middle aged white male, and there are lots of internships that seem to be primarily hiring white and asian males, and we need to encourage more minorities and women in cs and I guess I'm okay with this. The reason is that if we try really hard to encourage nontraditional people to be devs, we are going to be more likely to get some of them over the hump.

I don't think internships targeting minorities lessens the value of non-minorities and reduces their opportunities in life, because there are so many jobs already for asian and white male programmers. I have realized that no one ever tried to explicitly look for someone like me in their job listings - a white male from a non-name school. I didn't get into harvard or mit, I didn't get an internship from a prestigious school, I didn't work with a famous professor.

I did have the advantage that everywhere I looked, there were people looking like me working at leading companies. I just had to pass interview loops and get into that school. I was never the first woman or black guy in a group - I was just another white male. So maybe think about that if you hate on this company. What if you were trying to do something and you "looked different" than everyone else - it would be so much harder.
TIME Magazine: Visions 21- June 19, 2000.

Will AOL Own Everything? America Online could do in the early 21st century what Microsoft did at the end of the 20th: control the flow of key technologies

by Lawrence Lessig

pg. 9-11: https://transition.fcc.gov/transaction/aol-tw/exparte/disney...
I deleted my linkedin account many years ago but still get mysterious messages saying that I appeared in n searches (n being 2 or other random number)
Distributed Deep Learning on Kubernetes with Polyaxon
The odds of a Chinese homed VPN provider not sharing logs with the Party asymptotically approach zero as time and user count increase.
Robot Sophia Sings Duet with Jimmy Fallon on Tonight Show
I've gotten suggestions to people who have only been on an email chain whom I've never directly emailed with before. In my opinion that goes too far.
What Colour are your bits?
Why India-Born Pichai, Nadella, Nooyi Rule US Business
Parliament shouldn't be able compel any random company to hand over internal papers just on a whim. The police can't do that. You have to have a reason, and it can't be a fishing expedition as we say in the us. You must have cause to suspect something. In this case, it's unclear what the cause to justify this could be.
I also like the "just give maintainer rights to people who submit good PRs" approach I have heard of. Used it successfully on one of my open source projects that I no longer cared about.
If people stop using Facebook, is anyone around to like its posts?

I stopped using Facebook (though still use Instagram and Whatsapp) and my life is much the same as it was before.

And here's the secret - I'm not even loyal to Instagram or Whatsapp, more to the network.

If friends fall off Facebook, then there's even less reason to go. In fact, Instagram has entirely replaced it for me.

And if Photos on iOS had a public sharing feature, I'd probably just use that, and then fall off Instagram too.
This has happened exactly the same with me.
Yeah, but Netscape was purchased with AOL stock, which was wildly inflated at the time, so you could also argue it feels like a couple hundred mil deal given the eventual tanking of AOL stock.

That was the thing about a lot of the huge deals of the original dotcom bubble. Most of them were made at inflated prices with (inflated) stock of the purchaser, but it's not like anyone ever paid that much cash for the total amount of those shares. That's one reason when the bubble burst that while painful it wasn't devastating to the overall economy: most of the insane valuations were never fully "realized" in the first place, so when they fell back to earth it really didn't wipe out as much wealth as the headline numbers made it seem.
The work done to clean up the footage in that Peter Jackson documentary is impressive, but the colorization is not. It basically looks like a movie colorization from the 80s, where they just segmented the image and painted one color over each section.
You are right. People often associate facebook with "just that website" when in fact there is much more to it: ads on facebook, commercial groups, fb pages, whatsapp, insta.

Not to mention their open source projects; we use fb prophet a lot for our ML
On a text-wrapping browser, reddit desktop mode on mobile is the best way to browse that I've found
This is an article about a New York Times article. It doesn't link directly to that article. It links to another article which links to go.redirectingat.com which links to go.skimresources.com, which is blocked by Ghostery as hostile. This is thus clickbait.

The actual New York Times story is here.[1]

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/14/technology/facebook-data-...
Einstein, Aristotle, and Ockham on how real geniuses solve problems
Do facts exist? A philosophical perspective
And sold to Verizon by $4.1B later on...

If you want to see the entire history of AOL acquisitions look here [1].

As the list grew, there was a sense in the crowd that AOL is a cemetery for startups. That is, ,buying them in, and then shortly afterwards, they die.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_acquisitions_by_AOL
Isn't this one of the requirements of the gdpr compliance? I want to get to that in the us, but it's going to be like pot laws. Liberal states will do it first, conservatives will try to stop it in the us congress, and it's possible the will of the majority will change.
short answer; it depends, but in general we are looking for holes in EM shielding to turn the RVs into paperweights.

As a former nuke maintainer, the way I think they would do it would be to launch a titan with a full MIRV payload of W53s or their predecessors out into an area for HAD (high altitude detonation). The understanding is that we were relying on the emp from nuclear blasts to make things drop from the sky. This is also a time when insensitive high exposives were not a thing and simple shock would begin a detonation for most weapons. The emp overloading electronics in either the launch vehicle (depending on altitude) or the reentry vehicle could cause the weapon to detonate (noncriticality, just a simple detonation). Aditionally consider that passing through the EM contaminated zone would likely render the same effects to the launch vehicle. The RV might not even separate and instead just continue into orbit. Lastly, the RV angle and positioning done by the RS (reentry system) is highly dependent on both explosives and electronics. Lots of room for EM to muck with that and cause a poor reentry angle or even an outright spin fault which would lead to detonation on reentry. Regardless, most RVs will not critically detonate unless all flight conditions are met. This means launch, RS positioning, proper spin, etc.

Side note : In the service I’ve heard rumors of the Russians having the same doctrine when under attack and defending key government areas, but at lower altitudes and being initiated with Tuplovs and gravity weapons (non rv, aircraft dropped). This inherently implies fratricidal consequences for pilots and civilians.
Show HN: Autonomous Landmines
no. I should have mentioned that.
I confirm Linkedin is a vector for spam, the way they handle and publish your email address: I use a dedicated, unique email address for my account, and systematically start receiving unsollicited emails and spam a few days after.

I now have the habit to register a new email address every few months on Linkedin, to track the issue. It's clear and easy to prove that the new email address is used by spammers after a short time. One of the main reasons is probably because once you are connected to someone, he/she can access your profile contact details including email and phone number. My guess is there are bots scraping the contacts to populate their spam databases.

I'm sure most, if not all users of Linkedin don't realize this issue, as they generally register using a non-dedicated email address, preventing them to check the origin of the spam leak.
Skimmed through. Article says "Yahoo is the only one that is completely free to use but is self hosted hence not included in this"

Is the set that yahoo released long ago the only self hosted option available?

I have several projects that might end up using some of the yahoo release in order to stay self hosted. I can't imagine telling all users that we share all their pics with these third parties to check up on them.
An email hash can be used to identify an individual and so would very much be in the scope of GDPR, the same as any other number used to identify an individual. Curious why you think that would not be the case. It seems to fall squarely into Article 4’s definition of personal data.
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I know I'm not the target market for their UPS addon, but is 91.00€ for a UPS board [1] that does not include the required lead-acid battery sound reasonable? I know they have gone through the certification process for everything, but doesn't this seem fairly high?

The battery is not lithium, but lead-acid. For an application using a Raspberry Pi, I generally assume size is a fairly major consideration. Considering a lead acid battery will need to be three times the size for similar charge capacity, doesn't this battery chemistry choice seem very strange?

A quick google brought me to the PiJuice HAT [2], a $54 piHAT, with an included 1820mAH LiPo. This device also doesn't massively increase the size of the Pi. PiJuice claims "~4 to 6 hours in constant use". Let us assume this is a vastly inflated figure designed by the marketing department. Isn't 2 hours run time more than enough for a UPS? If the power failure is longer, I want my UPS to allow me to safely shut down my gear.

1: https://www.sferalabs.cc/product/strato-pi-ups-board/
2: https://ameridroid.com/products/pijuice-hat-1
Invariant generics would at least let you rely on the type system doing its job correctly. But even better would be to annotate each type parameter as covariant, contravariant, or invariant - this is what Scala and C# and probably a bunch of other languages do.

As an example, here's approximately how the Function trait is defined in Scala. The square brackets indicate type parameters (like angle brackets in Java), the - indicates covariance, and the + indicates contravariance.

trait Function1[-T, +R] {
def apply(arg1: T): R
}
Can you explain the moral relevance of that distinction - the reason one kind of theft of intellectual property is morally less bad than the other.

One idea is this: stealing trade secret is "active theft" whereas stealing copyright is "passive theft". You do not need to leave your house in order to steal someone's copyright. By contrast, to steal closely guarded trade secrets you practically must conduct espionage. So this form of theft reminds us more of real world robbery. We are apt to consider the victim physically violated (by comparison, the idea that by downloading some pdfs from libgen while sitting at home in bathrobes we've 'physically violated' Springer obviously sounds very odd)

If that's the response then my reply is twofold. First, just because something is more 'graphical' doesn't mean it's morally worse. For example, many omnivores tend to consider people who eat dogs and cats to be especially evil. On reflection, they realize that they have no principled basis for judging themselves to be morally superior to the dog- and cat-eaters. The only reason their initially reacted as they did was because they found the imagery of eating dogs and cats much more graphical, since dogs and cats are such cute animals. But cuteness is not (as most people would agree) a morally relevant difference.

It's also worth pointing out that stealing trade secret is more graphical than stealing copyright only because of contingent technological reasons. If we lived before xerox machines, stealing books may require making efforts not that different from physical robbery.

Second, I want to point out that you haven't really responded to the substance of my point. My point was that perhaps the Chinese is unconcerned about their 'theft of intellectual property (trade secret)' for the same reason many Americans are unconcerned about their 'theft of intellectual property (copyright)': because "it's not theft to steal something from those who aren't entitled to it". Simply pointing to the distinction between 'trade secret' and 'copyright' is not yet pointing to a distinction that makes an obvious difference. If the point is simply "stealing trade secret is obviously much worse than stealing copyright, because trade secrets are closely guarded, so you need to basically pry them away from the victim", then (i) see my first reply above and (ii) note that the two acts of theft I stated in my original post, because they involve literal acts of physical violence, is obviously much more 'graphical' than any industrial espionage.
Except if the phone itself contains an exploit.
It is awesome to see battery backup being added to the Pi. There aren't any good solutions currently short of a full on UPS or a consumer grade battery pack.
Har+Gow+(Dim+Sum+Shrimp+Dumplings)
I thought the answer was ‘Facebook without any activity from friends’ or ‘twitter’
Samsung phone? I found out that standard Image Gallery contained Foursquare adware in it, just after GDPR kicked in and they popped up a consent dialog.
Maybe LinkedIn matched you by geolocation? That would be closely related to sharing the same IP address or Wi-Fi network.
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Reminds me of the hallway fight scene from Inception. The fact that they build an entire rotating set instead of relying on CG is what (I think) makes the scene so much more convincing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PhiSSnaUKk
They do indeed! The current state of the open source community owes quite a bit to for-profit companies working on the code.
It works both way. I used to use a shadowsocks based service called "God Use VPN" or 佛跳墙 in Chinese, which is a dish name. It was so popular to the extend that google translation used to believe that the English name of that Chinese dish known as "佛跳墙" is "God Use VPN".

It was recently sold to a foreign owner and stopped provided any Chinese based services - if you send them some emails in Chinese, you get English responses. Pretty clear sign that they quit the Chinese market for whatever reason.
Providing vpn services is almost illegal in china. The party doesnt ask for logs; it shuts down vpn services and punishes the providers. So the odds of vpn provider sharing logs with the government is ironically low.
Hm.. Is Functional Neurology (the journal in which this published) related in any way to the field of functional neurology? I think the latter is a rebranding of chiropractic neurology, which some would argue purports some less than scientific ideas.
I was also going to mention this: cake flour for it's low protein levels. In determining what you're cooking/baking, the brand matters far less than the actual type of flour.

Cake / 'biscuits' (my idea of a biscuit is a solid thing to dip in tea, how British of me, but anyway) flour: about 8-9g of protein per 100 grams of flour.

All-purpose flour: 11-12 grams of protein per 100 grams of flour.

Bread flour: 13-14 grams of protein per 100 grams of flour.

'Pastas' vary a lot. Italian-style uses high-protein durum wheat, which is about 14g/100g. On the opposite end, Chinese jiaozi (steamed/boiled dumplings) use low-protein content (8-9g/100g) to give a very smooth texture.

I'm curious if flour in the US is sold with such nutritional labeling: protein, carbohydrate, fat, salt, etc, measurements per standardised measure (in the EU and much of the world, this is per 100g)?
Arguably, you have no choice in a lot of such matters, so any agreement is by submission. If "the" popular platform is X, and you're not using it, you're missing out. And it isn't far fetched to consider instances where choice of any kind isn't applicable.

> I would say that's a gravely mistaken belief.

Plenty of companies appear to use third-party recruitment services, which entails you giving your personal, identifiable information to a third-party instead of going directly to said company. LinkedIn being one of such third-parties, indirectly or otherwise. The observation that trends like LinkedIn are a imposed reality is in no way a mistake.
Designing for GDPR in a customer-first way
My reply to the first person who replied to me, above, also tries to address your point about espionage being especially bad.
Baguettes are supposed to be made with high-protein wheat / bread flour. Proper Southern Biscuits are supposed to be made with low-protein flour.

I'm somewhat surprised: in my grocery store, there are "cake flour", "bread flour", and "all purpose flour" in the flour section. It only took a brief search to learn the difference (and which had higher or lower protein counts).

Further research (actually book: "On Cooking"), describes the uses of each flour. In effect: high-protein causes gluten formation, which is necessary for a proper "doughy" bread like Baguette, but is counter-productive for southern-style biscuits.
There were worse "burns" than this. 1M books is now fairly easily obtainable over a 6 month obsessive hunt on the Internet.

The real Library Of Alexandria - of Music - was shut down, WHAT.CD . The way everything there was curated, level of quality and global community, is hard to describe, grasp and convey here.

It was so good that artists, released their stuff there, first. For free, to get coverage, and it worked.
Possibly, but people are pretty aware of the flour difference. Even back in the 60s Julia Child mentioned it in her cookbook (Relevant TV episode: https://youtu.be/9iH3hjDUhWw)

I suspect the real difference is in the customers. I've heard people arguing over which bagels or donuts are superior, but I've never heard such a conversation for baguettes.
Is there any reason to trust a free VPN service?

At least with a paid service I might think that my money ... could be enough to sustain the company. At least it could be.

I would assume a free service would have to be selling your information just as a matter of policy / economics.
Does AvaxHome still operate? Noice! I helped me immensely during my days in academia.
I've successfully managed to not have one to this day. Keep fighting the good fight!
Exactly. Amazon needs robots. No place for humans.
Ask HN: Can competitive gaming mix video games with programming?
I wonder can competitive gaming be taken to the next level by cleverly mixing video games with programming? ex: two players write the program to compete in Starcraft.
Why in the world do you think it's acceptable to get in an uber when you are likely to vomit?
bc they want a new billion ppl market.
Are you converting "an unfinished never-posted blog post" into "a rambly twitter thread"?
I am failing to recognise the use case (Beside the learning dimension which is great).
What to Blog About Next Year?
Good points and well laid out. I don't quite get the DVs.

One point I'd make, about the "tissue culture that originates from an aborted baby" vaccine. According to [1], the MMR vaccine:

"The viruses are cultured in aborted fetal tissue cells. The cells were obtained more than 50 years ago, as a result of elective abortions"

There are no new fetal tissues being "harvested" (I know that's not the proper term, forgive me) to make more vaccines. They are keeping cultures donated fifty years ago growing.

I can understand people not liking the hard-sell on vaccines, but what I can't wrap my head around is how much effort should have to go into the argument "give your kids these shots so a horrific number of children don't make it to 15". The CDC has a broad info page, but one point comes across crystal clear to me (even specifically about the MMR vaccine):

"An epidemic of rubella (German measles) in 1964-65 infected 12½ million Americans, killed 2,000 babies, and caused 11,000 miscarriages. Since 2012, 15 cases of rubella were reported to CDC." [2]

1: https://www.verywellhealth.com/do-vaccines-contain-aborted-f...
2: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vac-gen/whatifstop.htm
I had a relatively normal, good childhood until I lost a parent to cancer (shortly after discovering she had brain tumors) at eleven years old.

I am now 29, and for all intents and purposes believe to have overcome the grief and able to talk normally about my mother, etc. although of course it is still sad and I can go to that crying-space, if I focus in on it. I don’t blame anyone for what happened although it was sudden and tragic.

I do recognize there are things I may not have learned and I missed out on a mother’s love and nurturing from 11 years old until now (and for the rest of my life). My dad was often traveling and not a huge presence in my teens, either, so a lot of the burden of emotional support was transferred to my older brothers and a close family friend. I do not blame my father for this; he worked his ass off to provide for our family and it just so happened that his work (oil and gas) required lots and lots of travel and he would not have been able to provide the same lifestyle for his children without being away most of the time working internationally. All of this on one hand has made me a much more independent person and I learned to do things for myself that my friends in university had their parents doing... it seemed silly how 18-22yr olds had parents scheduling doctor appointments, taking their cars to oil changes, etc. - stuff that any 18 year old with a brain and money (either earned or given from his parents) should be able to handle on his/her own.

There’s a lot more to my story but in my late 20s I started having emotional problems and addictive habits.

What would therapy look like for trauma in my case and how can I possibly believe that my childhood trauma is still the cause and root thing underlying all of my troubles? I could talk to you for hours about my mother, she was the most amazing woman and I desperately wish I could have known her longer, but I believe my healing level to be normal and positive.

I won’t say the grief or healing of losing a parent can ever be complete, but I do think that one can come to a point where he is accepting of the loss, not broken into shatters when discussing it, and able to move on. I wish I could list the ways it changed me as a person, but that’s probably an endless list. I stopped wondering “what if?” because that’s not a healthy thing to do, but I do wonder what kind of person I would have been if she was still around: would I have gone to the same university? Selected the same career path? Still be single?

I’m on mobile and can only see about 5 lines of text at a time, so I’m losing track of the overall arc of this comment, and I’m going to end it here, but if anyone wants to reach out, I will update the email on my profile after posting this.
It's interesting work, but I don't think it's relevant to real world models, because real world models violate the conditions they assume at the outset. Namely, real models are not run until anything near convergence on the training set. Everyone uses early stopping to prevent them from overfitting, which they happily do if left to train forever.