skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure when those files get created, I just knew about that example off the top of my head because I had to spend some time figuring out why our post-renew hook wasn't working.

dpkg -L helps a lot when figuring out where all the files get spread.
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I like the current trend of being able to support e.g. bloggers (or youtubers, or whoever) via Patreon; I do believe there should be multiple providers of the same service because right now Patreon has too much influence / mindspace, but it's a good alternative for advertisement - not as scummy, and much more reliable. $1 / month / fan is nice. I follow one youtuber (and not the annoying screamy meme type) who seems to have 13.000 Patrons.
The performance penalty for running your browser in a hardware assisted VM with a virtual GPU is much smaller than you may initial think. I do it regularly and doubt most people would even noticed if you didn't tell them to look for it.
To add a data point to this, I created a MailChimp account a couple of years ago. I never used it as other projects became priority. Recently I decided I might give it a shot again. Tried to login. My account is deleted and my email banned. I'm not tied to any weird or shady business. Dodged a bullet I guess.
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How is it open hardware if they're using an ARM CPU? I don't see a link anywhere to the open source firmware, but I'm admittedly on mobile.
Ethics, labour, and politics are intertwined. A single parent risks blacklisting and imploding a means of income, for example.

Markets regulate themselves to a profit driven “ethics” solution that reverberates.
This was my end goal. A better one liner for you. This one liner works for me as a programmer. And I'd venture to say most business people would get it too.
We elected the "grab 'em by the pussy" guy. We're clearly not Russia.
? 'North American Liberals' are definitely 'left' and 'socialist'.

In the most popular, common use of the term 'Liberal' in north America 'socialist' and 'left wing' would be the most common substitutes.
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In case anyone is interested, there have been some commits over https://github.com/WireGuard/wireguard-windows/ in the past week before they're taken down (or made private).
This business email scam spreads Trojans through Google Cloud storage
I got my immediate family and the friends I care for (3?) to switch.

My family was easy. No pics of my daughter on any social network. "Y'all want pics? install Signal. If I catch you posting on FB, you're cut off"

Once mom installed Signal, the rest followed.

As to my friends, the ones I actually care for are privacy freaks like me - although they're not techies - and understood its importance.
Two landmines:

1. The MC one
2. Relying on any free service as an important part of your business.

The adage "you get what you pay for" really does tend to hold true.
In a binary sense, you are right but I think everyone still uses them to sell their product. Maybe I can add a disclaimer listing the conditions in which this guarantee doesn't hold true.
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They have made it all too easy.
Through this scandal and others, society will learn just how harmful the dual-share class structures that allow founders to reap the economic benefits of public markets while shirking the oversight aspects and keeping all control are.
System Integrity Protection would protect against many of the same threats that Windows Sandbox would (since it prevents applications from doing extreme damage to the system even with root), and by default it only lets you install software from developers registered with Apple (either inside or outside the Mac App Store). It'd be more secure out of the box than a Windows system, as if you have admin and are willing to click "yes", you can let an application do anything on Windows (although most attacks can be prevented with the new features in Pro/Enterprise).
I am glad someone brought this up...

The idea that Facebook's "Russian meme/adverts" situation had anything to do with Trump winning is laughable beyond any reasonable measure. He won because Clinton was perhaps the worst candidate in the history of US Presidential elections, not because some Russian trolls wrote some silly crap on FB.

But I agree with your premise...FB is just being used as a big fat scapegoat so the real culprits that engineered Clinton's loss don't lose their cushy political positions.
Kalanick owned 16% of Uber voting rights when he was ousted.

Zuckerberg has 58.3% of Facebooks voting rights.

He's not going anywhere.
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I'm not saying it doesn't make sense, just that it ignores existing terminology of the language, which just leads to confusion down the road.
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My suspicioun is that while Travis did have voting control they also needed financing and I think that was used as key leverage in the situation. It is possible that the investors had blocking rights on certain investments or that they went to SoftBank to force the issue which was using a possible investment in Lyft as a forcing function.
Mine has worked almost flawlessly since I got it 2 years ago. I have not had a single problem that a simple reboot has not fixed. The only bad thing in the device was the thingies where you screw the antennas. In my router they were somehow loose and I had to open the router case to tighten them. Otherwise I could not have been happier that I bought mine.

The turris team actually started another kickstarter project last summer:
https://mox.turris.cz/en/overview/
I instantly backed that project too. Not because I needed a new router, but because I have a soft spot for any Open Source / Open Hardware projects and I wanted to support them.
>"I have a problem with the way NYT is reporting on this whole thing."

What "way" is that? By reporting facts? What "whole thing"? Facebook sharing user's data with third parties without user's consent and then lying to congress about the continued existence of it? And doing so while they were under a consent decree by the FTC You mean that "whole thing"? They talked to 60 people for this piece including former FB employees and partners, they reviewed 270 pages of internal FB documents regarding the program. There were 5 contributors to the article. To suggest that this is just some flimsy piece of yellow journalism is a joke.

>"The most egregious sounding parts of this (eg giving Spotify and Netflix the ability to read your messages) sounds like it was entirely tangential to what those agreements were all about."

Unless you work for FB and were involved in negotiating these agreements how do you know "what those agreements were all about"?

What we do know was that FB allowed third parties to access user's data without those user's knowledge or consent. Access to user data was exactly point, the carelessness with which FB did that can hardly be seen as a "tangent."
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I just exported my subscriber list for safe keeping. If I could automate this as a monthly job that would be even better.
ABET requires an ethics course to get a computer science degree.
Facebook says companies got access to data only after user permission
What trust?

It is still shocking to me that people EVER trusted Facebook. Since the very beginning, Mark has always been openly dismissive of user privacy.
> If your customers/users own their copies of your software, then your rights to control what they do with that are enumerated in 17USC§106, and limited by eg. 17USC§117 or §109. Section 109 for example says that your customers can sell off their copy, but can't rent it out (unless they're a library).

That's an interesting analogy...

Is creating KSQL-as-a-service the equivalent of renting copies of the software? What would the "library exception" look like (which AIUI includes both private and public libraries)?

> If you want to prevent your users from re-selling their copy when they're done with it, you have to assert that you have retained ownership of their copy of the software.

Attempts to do that contradict the "first-sale" doctrine, but that doesn't stop folks from trying.
Yup. FTDI is the only chip maker that I avoid out of principle. They have been blatantly and unapologetically abusive.

Their devices are also overpriced to a degree borders on comical, so they're not hard to avoid. For the price of their USB-UART chips you can get a top-tier microcontroller that can do USB-UART easily as fast, and still have plenty of capacity to spare.
> I never used MailChimp but if I did then I would assume that the mailing lists I built with their service would be 99.999% secure, and that I'd always be able to access it even if they went out of business.

You're saying you never used service X, yet you would absolutely trust service X and assume that even when service X is out-of-businness, you can access data related to you.

That's very surprising to read, I'm exactly the opposite - own your data, don't trust any service, they always can go away, at any random moment.

This makes me wonder, what is more popular? Absolute trust or -ENOTRUST?
Vue.js and EF Core. Publishing packages on NPM and Maven.
> Any blog IMO should have a minimalist design. You want to draw attention to the content and present it as plainly and with as little visual clutter as possible.

There is a German blog who hit "minimalist" rather well.
http://blog.fefe.de/

Tbh, I prefer this kind of representation not just when it comes to blogs. Hackernews is another great example for "less is more".
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PFsense on a PC Engines APU is a good alternative for now if anyone is looking for something today.
When I tried, it supported IPv6 on static and some other modes, but not the 6RD mode, which ATT uses.
The definition of liberal in North America is different to the rest of the world. Liberal is not left wing or socialist elsewhere.

And to confuse matters further, I imagine GP is saying 'left wing' and 'socialist' in NA are somewhat diluted compared to the rest of the world.
RedHat wasn’t always as big as it is now. In fact, it was likely smaller than Debian, in terms of manpower, for some time. I suspect the total number of package maintainers is still higher on the Debian side.
> My hope is that by that point we have all grown enough as a society to be able to look past the little mistakes we all make as humans.

I doubt that will ever be the case.
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Ah, the laptops are great as well though a bit outdated now with the core counts climbing.

I do have one and it works perfectly with most linux distros. I use manjaro to be specific.
I’m glad this got posted and I hope this gets resolved and MailChimp does the right thing (I’ve also upvoted the OP).

But man, I don’t envy companies deep in the anti-spam/fraud business. The impression I’ve gotten is that when you act with a lighter touch and/or give lots of info about why an account was closed, spammers/fraudsters weaponize that and either figure out how to bypass your controls or social engineer your support.

I hope I’m wrong. Any thoughts on how a company should balance good service to users (and false positives) with the need to fight black hats?
Once again, the lesson shines through the "clouds"; Data that isn't on your hard disk isn't yours.
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This is absolutely amazing. I‘m extremely impressed with the engineering behind this, especially the details like the OAuth bridge or the WiFi adapter.
This is very likely a “move fast and break things” related problem. However, if you handle millions peoples private data, move fast and break things is no longer a responsible approach, especially if you’ve broken quite a few things in the past.
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In my opinion, the solution isn't to initially replace the messaging platform. Rather, user metadata management first and foremost must be addressed. There needs to be a way for people to have something like OpenLDAP+SAML that is federated. User metadata can then be used on whatever shiny app is cool at the time.

Messaging platforms come and go, but the people are what remain fairly constant. Applying this logic also means you can give people multiple options and use the same logins on multiple applications.

If I were to take a first stab at this, I would probably use something like the OpenLDAP fork ReOpenLDAP [1] and use my domains and my friends domains to set up master-master replication. Each domain owner is master for their domain. I have no idea what saml2 provider I would put in front of it. This system would store password hashes, ssh public keys, contact information, bio (used for signatures and "about me" boxes).

There should be a combination of web API's and a web UI to self service account info so that anyone can maintain, update or otherwise remove their data when they want.

[1] - https://github.com/leo-yuriev/ReOpenLDAP
Probably the CDN was dead. With ? in the end you invalidate the cache and goes directly to the backend server.
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I'd imagine the issue is more that a recent graduate doesn't necessarily know when or how much to push back
I think the better scalability does not come from lambda itself but because you have to design for share-nothing concurrent executions from the start.
I apologize if my argument wasn't clear enough. My issue isn't that they aren't being factually incorrect, it's that they're seemingly using "facts" to be misleading.

Example: Saying Spotify has full editorial control over your messages is a very different narrative from "If you connect your FB account to Spotify, you can then send FB messages to your friends from Spotify's desktop app."[1] In one, the implication is that Spotify as a company somehow has the power to directly modify a users' private message. In the other, the user has the power--through Spotify's app--to modify their own private FB messages.

NYT is being factually correct with their reporting, but they're also being misleading, and my argument is that at a news organization of their size and stature this is no accident. Just read the comments from their readers and you'll quickly see how many of them are misinterpreting the above information.

[1] https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/12/facebooks-partners/
Did your work on that project occur under a 45 minutes deadline on a whiteboard with someone watching you?

I see "It's the process not the result" all the time, but almost always from people who already work at Google and have for some time. From candidates and fresh hires I usually see the opposite.
As dense and as cheap as Musk's technological vision becomes, a question remains: why carry a car at all instead of carrynig people ? Why carry mostly dead weight ? The denser the network, the more acute that question - if Musk's vision is an ubiquitous three-dimensional underground transport mesh, then why does it seem to conscientiously avoid being a public transportation system ? Does Musk believe that saturating the city with autonomous vehicles that use tunnels as network backbone can be more efficient than heavy public transportation networks ?
Why "reconsider"?
Nah, that's just how it looks there.
I find it’s less the act of making the cards and more the lack of tools. Its possible to make Anki cards on the iPad app but many features are missing. Perhaps I just need to try AnkiWeb.
JavaScript is truly the new Java. It even has design pattern articles now.
I don't think FB has that many unseen costs.

I don't really care if FB sells my information to advertisers, so they can market products to me more effectively.

I don't care if FB co-operates with other companies in order to suggest friends to me.

FB adds a lot of value to my life (messaging & finding out about events).

What I truly dislike about FB is that it creates information bubbles, so people are never exposed to viewpoints outside of their own. Also FB doesn't regulate false information/alt-right propaganda enough.

Obviously, I would prefer if FB didn't sell my data, but at the end of the day it doesn't impact me at all.

That being said, if I ever become an important figure who is running a business that is competing with Facebook in some way, then I'll be sure not to use their service.
The irony is that if MC had sent me an email saying that I needed to upgrade to a paid account in order to keep it active, I would have sent them a check without hesitation.

That's one of the frustrating things about this. MC has turned this into a lose-lose when it really didn't have to be.
IF this was a free plan, do not expect much help. if this is a paid plan, totally unacceptable.
Zuck might be a prick but all of FB's business relies on user's data. Even if he was to be replaced I can't see how FB could follow a different business plan. Their money comes from advertising and advertisers flock to it because they can target groups of individuals by choosing demographics in a way that no one else offers. If you remove that part from the equation FB's revenue would collapse.

Zuck isn't the problem, the whole fucking service is the problem.
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We've had a similar experience. We use them for both marketing mass emails and for ingesting support ticket emails (I believe that's through Mandrill). Someone sent a marketing email they didn't like (they said another one of their customers complained about it, or something; literally one complaint) and so they silently shut off our incoming email. We noticed it when one of our customers called to ask why we hadn't replied to one of their support tickets. They didn't bother to tell us.

It's a big bag of "do not recommend".

(As for how we manage to use them for incoming email; emails go to a gsuite inbox, which forwards them to MC/Mandrill, when then calls a webhook to actually process the email further. Yes, we could do way better with our own SMTP server that cuts them out. I think this architecture was chosen to have a failsafe in the event that our services all go down.)
Same, maybe he is going to complete it later with something special?
Mine was opposite in a different direction. My dad was a historian. When I was seven or eight, we had an outdoor cat (didn't get along with the indoor cats) and needed a table to keep its food dish off the ground. The cat's name was Tiny, and it weighed about eight pounds. My dad spent an afternoon hammering the table together out of board scraps, and it shook and sagged when Tiny jumped on it. I (the budding math nerd) was babbling to him the whole afternoon about how he needed triangles because parallelograms can change their shape without changing the length of their sides. It didn't make any sense to him so he ignored me until his table went catawampus trying to hold up half its weight. Then he added some triangles where I told him to. I don't remember him ever building anything again, except we rebuilt our backyard fence exactly the way it had been built fifteen years earlier by someone else. By that time I was in college, and we worked better together.
Thanks for brat, its quite useful and is also the default annotation visualizer for CoreNLP.

Edit: can’t find github but the JavaScript made its way to annodoc project too. Have tried using both and I am sure there’s lots of use cases for brat.
There's Quantum Information Science (https://www.edx.org/course/quantum-information-science-i) on edX.

Pros:

- It's an MIT graduate class (this could be a con if you are a beginner in other areas and not just in quantum computation).

- It's taught by Isaac Chuang (of Nielsen & Chuang, the leading textbook on quantum computing) and Peter Shor (of the Shor factoring algorithm, the most famous quantum algorithm).

Cons:

- Shor does 90% of the lectures, and he is... not a good teacher.

- When I took it, there was almost zero support (e.g., when there were bugs in the problem sets).

I'm glad I took it, because it induced me to learn a bunch of material I had been wanting to learn for a while, but compared to what it could have been it was pretty disappointing.
What drives the assumption that their mailing lists would always be available to you even if they went out of business or that they are almost perfectly secure? Is it due to standards set by large companies or just an idealized desire?
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https://learn.adacore.com/

http://docs.adacore.com/live/wave/gps/html/gps_tutorial/inde...

http://getadanow.com/
(http://www.adalog.fr/en/freeada.html)

https://www.adacore.com/press/make-with-ada-competition-2018
HN badly needs an article downvote
They don't have to lose users to lose value -- at least for a while. But their hydra heads are spread everywhere. Every single "Like" button on a 3rd party website is a tracking pod and this has been well documented. Every single advert hosted by Facebook is a tracking pod as well.

Your engagement might be low -- mine is almost zero -- but you are still a source of data even if a reduced one. I am not sure even disabling Javascript altogether will help; I am pretty sure they fall back to techniques like your IP history, known devices from which you logged in and few other such techniques.

My gut feeling is they are holding on very tight to their personally identifiable information harvesting practice and won't let go of it anytime soon. Hope I am wrong.
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Most people still give not a single fuck unfortunately.

I went on a usage embargo for quite a while before deleting my account. Most of my friends’ event planning is done through FB so it’s hard to get invited to stuff if you arent a user.

After the Instagram plaintext password thing I decided it was time to go.

I made a post on FB stating why I was deleting my account and that I was keeping it up for another week for time for friends to read the post.

I outlined a lot of the things FB has done or let happen. The responses were the typical trite FB shit.

1. What even is privacy, man‽

2. Tin foil hat problems

3. My account is fine

4. I am 12 and what is this
>> I think they made a lot of enemies with their behavior during the election and afterwards. Deservedly so, imo.

> He won because Clinton was perhaps the worst candidate in the history of US Presidential elections, not because some Russian trolls wrote some silly crap on FB.

Both of these things are true. Nothing about Clinton's weakness excuses Facebook's shameful and evasive behavior when it was discovered that they were ground-zero for a foreign propaganda campaign.
I think a good starting point is to take the existing process and add a more formal appeals process for people who feel their accounts were unjustly terminated.
Yes, in practice the user will either get angry for having to dig for the useful stuff or simply give up.
> [It's a term established in the language specification.]

I'd say JS getters/setters are syntactic sugar for the OOP concept the author is talking about.
For me, the trust was destroyed when Mark Zuckerberg bought houses which were around his house for privacy.

How can you trust a man and his company with your private data when he himself is so private about his life?

Don't get me wrong, I still admire Facebook's R&D but that's pretty much it.