skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If this was defined behaviour and it fell back to being a dumb light, I'd be disappointed, but could live with that.

Unfortunately, that's not the case. I gave the example of going from day to night, and the bulb being bright around midnight. However, my wife gets equally frustrated in the morning, when she turns on the light in our ensuite and it's dim because it was last on late the night before.
To me, a one semester course is 150 hours (10 hours classroom and homework and home study per week, 15 weeks). If you study on your own, without lectures or office hours, I imagine it should be harder.

I’m trying to read a good chunk of a math book (Analysis on Manifolds) while following a syllabus for it so that I know I’m covering roughly one semester of material in one semester of study hours. The most I can realistically devote right now is 30 minutes per day, most days per week. That means this is basically a one year project if I’m consistent enough to spend time on it everyday.

Some people seem to act like it’s extremely easy to teach yourself technical material, but I really don’t buy it unless you do one or more of 1) learn at a very shallow level 2) ignore keeping rest of your life in order and can sacrifice lots of time 3) work in a situation where you have a lot of resources and free time to do it (eg a technical lab at graduate school where reading the book is part of your actual research duties)

So I agree with you completely
Hi, a friend of mine started a similar thing called the Jolly Roger Telephone company. You should check them out, to fully appreciate the merit of your final point :)

Regarding your proposed feature, how much time, or how many calls/fewer distractions, would you look forward to saving every month if this real live human did their job well?
What happens to cognitive diversity when everyone is more WEIRD?
> Yeah, but... CompSci college homework... really isn't that hard?

Don't know. To me, college CompSci material might as well be greek. But I somehow get by programming...

Now - if we want to talk about contrapuntal music composition techniques - I'm your guy.
You're allowed to set your value system however you want, that's not my business. My issue is just that there is no details on their server-side security, and that the terms used to describe the effect of the root certificate are not nearly strong enough. But if someone truly is informed about who is collecting this then their's nothing wrong, other than FB violating their agreement with Apple which I trust Apple is seriously chewing them out for.
It's the "no one is harmed" part I strongly disagree with. Perhaps they signed up for something and have perfect knowledge of how Facebook will use the information they collect (doubtful) but the rest of us will be impacted, manipulated and harmed in some way by what Facebook ultimately ends up doing with the data that their guinea pigs willingly gave up.
Any recommendations - specifically for replacing physical light switches?
That’s called recognizing UAE sovereignty and not imposing our laws or values. It’s flawed, but probably the best we can do.

On the other hand, the NSA vets who went to work for the UAE knew who was paying their salaries, and knew they’d gone to the dark side the minute they crossed passport control.
It doesn’t. The articles all say, in summary:

1) Facebook said to the media that they’d stop distributing it to iOS users.

2) Apple revoked Facebook’s certificates from the enterprise signing program.
At least in Spain you can ask to be in the Robinson list and then, no company can call you for advertisements or offers unless you're a client of them. AND, in Spain is against the data protection law to do marketing calls from mobile phones if you're not their client. So they can get into trouble if they do.

You can always set you're phone to ignore calls, but this doesn't avoid the call to reach your phone. However, the robinson list does.

"Is an opt-out list of people who do not wish to receive marketing transmissions"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robinson_list
Ask HN: How to delete Facebook with a guarantee of the GDPR wipe?
I'd like to know how you can delete FB with the assurance they will do so under the GDPR regulations that require they wipe all data about you (I'm in Europe). When I go to the delete options, there is nothing in there about this compliance and I have no reason to think it is any different than how a resident outside Europe would delete their account without these protections.
The standard procedure invented by management(mostly as a 'cya' tactic) is this. They can never be wrong. Like never. Your bosses are never wrong. No matter how effectively you communicate with them to convince them to arrive at different decisions.

From Shuttle disasters to Diesel scandals to Data breaches.

The obvious solution to this is by blaming engineers. Engineers must try harder. If the management still doesn't agree, well then you are not trying hard enough. Remember the rule, they are never wrong, if you fail to convince them its your mistake because you didn't convince them otherwise.

Hence a 'Communication problem'. Which implies management is mostly innocent, and engineering didn't do its job well enough.

This absurd rule exists for a simple reason.

Who is supposed to audit these disasters and arrive at a root cause?

Answer: Management.
> f I want to leave I can re-house my content somewhere else and write a script to have the URLs match medium's article identifiers so I don't lose

Didn't they block it? I read a post here about it some time back. I doubt medium would make you leave it easy.
Chicago train tracks set on fire to keep trains running in record-breaking cold
According to the single information there, Apple DID NOT take it down the last time already which means it was still collecting data before Facebook removed it.

There is absolutely no information about this time. Actually according to the content it is again Facebook and not Apple who removes the app.
The one thing I would love to see a good story in chan/go concurrency in general for still is 1-to-n fanout. Right now a lock and a loop seems to be the answer, which is a bit of a blunt tool. Possible I'm missing an option, though!
How Early Humans Handled Aggression
There is an assumption that developers "knew" how the code being implemented is going to be used. In a big company like FB, as an IC or team, the context under which code gets developed may be far removed from how it gets used. I can imagine a scenario where someone developed this code for testing FB app on devices, another engineer had similar need and morphed it into different product etc.

The solution to these problems is oversight from security, compliance, and privacy on all systems dealing with consumer information, and having privacy education for all employees on regular basis. GDPR is a step in that direction.
> It's the "no one is harmed" part I strongly disagree with.

I can't prove a negative. So you would have to prove the positive, what harm came from this app?
It wasn’t in the App Store. It was sideloaded from a Facebook website using a profile signed by Facebook’s enterprise developer certificate. Screenshots in various news articles confirm this.
Who offers parimutuel betting without vig? Sign me up! The cumulative losses from vigorish are the reason that most people cannot make money with horse racing over time, regardless of their skill in picking winners or spotting edge cases. The OP is right in saying you're not playing against the house since the house/track/government takes a piece of every bet. They don't care who wins.
It's certainly discussion worthy though and I think discussion is more often the point here on HN than the actual "news" articles.

In my opinion, the web standards have moved way too slowly and that is directly the fault of Mozilla, who won't let us have things like WebSQL due to their ridiculous insistence on having 2 independent implementations (as if we don't already have that for SQL and, as if there has to be 2 implementations of oxygen for air to be breathable...)

I don't trust Mozilla to do the right thing here or ever anyway. They're allegedly a group that fights for merit, freedom and openness but they consistently work against those things by rejecting the best ideas and by selling their users out to marketers. Honestly, I trust them less than Google or Microsoft and since I don't like anything about Firefox anyway, I simply ignore it and build all my apps to target Chrome. And that's the same thing that a lot of people are doing, which is why web devs keep using things like WebSQL in their projects.
Where is this love for NSA coming from?
Enterprise developer certificate, which is a different program than the standard Apple Developer program used to release apps on TestFlight and the App Store.
Dating app Scruff bans underwear photos after Google Play Store suspensions
Hmmm, as interrupting to answer at the time has the additional overhead of task/context switching, I'd say it's more.

If you just switch to/from the voicemail context once for 10 messages, the cost is only 10% of the cost for real-time answering.
They weren't duped into running it, i.e. they knew they were downloading and installing an app from Facebook Research. They likely did not understand the effect of installing the VPN and trusted root provided by the app.
Podcasts for programmers
I imagine some people are getting a bit tired of this topic, or at least the rate at which stories are making it on to the front page, and honestly, the HN community doesn't have all that much to add to this discussion. Heck, it's not particularly clear the NY Times does either. It's a huge topic that probably nobody really knows in the end.
> Do you have a cursory knowledge of all those fields?

You don't have a cursory knowledge of everything you use/own and believe it's alright?

Do you know you shouldn't cut your electric wire while having them plugged in?

Do you know you shouldn't put your finger under the knife while you are cutting carrots?

Do you know you shouldn't put metal into your microwave?

You do have cursory knowledge about the tools in your house. You give an absurd list of example in your comment, but theses aren't the tool in your house, they are completely different field that sure are required to give you the tools/food you have, but they aren't part of any of your tool-set required to live. I fully expect someone that use a fountains pens to know how to change its ink cartridge, just like I fully expect a plumber to know how to use a wrench safely and a web user to know how to safely navigate the web.

Sure the tools can be made safer and better, but that doesn't means to remove actual feature from it. You wouldn't make the wrench out of rubber because the metal is too hard and can hurt someone, you expect the wrench user to know it or to teach him if required.
A case like this can be sold to developers in odd ways. Devs typically think that people who download things have way more insite than they do and can assess what putting the certificate on the device means. The team that started the project likely feels that this helps them build a better experience for their users.

Facebook in general seems to have good intentions and terrible awareness of what is crossing a line. They really wanted their platform to be the center of everyone’s lives and now appear completely unprepared for the consequences of pushing that agenda so hard.
>> ... really gets to the heart of how the US treats the rest of the world.

Really gets to the heart of how the ruling 0.0001% of the US treats the rest of the world. Fixed that for you. Some of us just live here.
Parimutuel betting works the same way regardless of what you're betting on. It could be thoroughbreds, harness racing, or jai alai. Technically, you can offer parimutuel wagering on anything, even football or car races.
This is so slick!
Texas quietly informs counties some voters flagged for review “incorrectly”
Why I chose Flask to build sr.ht's mini-services
Logical reasoning is required, and the ability to determine an efficient solution for the task at hand is required. Keep in mind that many of these algorithms that are tested for are not intuitive and took researchers years to come up with. What you are being tested for in an interview is not logical reasoning (as much as they claim that's the case), but rather your ability to memorize algorithms. It's silly and counter productive to finding actually intelligent people.
This reminds me of Zbigniew Brzezinski's The Grant Chessboard. It describes how the US secured its empire. China is not only building for economic growth but also building up valuable relationships and influence. Also keep in mind that one of Rome's greatest military innovations might have been its roads.

Meanwhile the US is seems to be played by everyone from the outside and tearing itself apart from the inside. It seems like we aren't only losing the fight for global hegemony but barely actively taking part.
Thank you, just activated this. And it is #632# to opt back out again (for my own future reference, I can probably find this thread faster than T-Mobile's documentation :)
Full headline (edited for length): "Texas quietly informs counties that some of the 95,000 voters flagged for citizenship review don't belong on the list"
This is not correct, either. Horse racing allows bets on the second and third finishers, as well, not just the winner.
What I struggle to understand is how could esteemed AI researchers like LeCun and many others work for such a company to give it even more powers and edge? How can they justify this as scientists?

The huge influx of money into research (here AI, but could be anything in the future) combined with the disfunctions of academia is very troubling.
Yes looks like it. I make a note to handle that more gracefully
Clover Health raises massive $500M round in exploding Medicare Advantage space
I mean, that book was looking at technical analysis and charting. Also, he was just looking at mutual funds (which can only go long and suffer from a host of other problems). Hedge funds weren't really invented/popular back then and quant investing was practically non-existent.

Economists love to talk about EMH, and there's a great joke that illustrates the difference between economists and traders: The economist is asked what he would do if he saw a $20 dollar on the street. He replies "well it wouldn't ever happen, because someone would have already picked it up!"

The trader is the one picking up the $20, and the economist is the one who never believes it can exist.

Back to the point, it seems clear to me that there are few quant hedge funds that can have consistently outperformed the market that disproves the null hypothesis (no out performance) with a P < 0.05. Names like RenTech, Bridgewater, AQR, 2 Sigma.
Is Spring Cache abstraction fast enough for you?
Google wante to make neighborhood of the future in Toronto, residents rebelled
Indeed. This is the origin of the expression "break a leg." At the track, you could never wish someone else good luck because their good luck will cost you money. Instead, you wish their horse breaks a leg so he'll be eliminated, moving the money in his pool to yours if you win.
If there had been a hack of the data collected by this program, people could very easily and rightly have been fired or disciplined for exposing corporate data through a VPN. Even if most things are run through a corporate VPN or intranet, one sign in to your work account on Office 365 is game over for the company.
Object Detection with Luminoth
Awesome. Love all those honest feedback.
Also to you success with your projects.
This is super awesome! Being able to export this to colab would be amazing. I'm really looking forward to this feature! Are you willing to share which web framework you used to build your site?
What do you mean "moved it all up into Google Play"? Are they hosting mp3s now?
Many dark patterns including forcing people to login to read content.

Now it's a "modern" ExpertSexChange where "online marketing specialists" ask questions with one account and answer their own questions with another account.

"Disclaimer haha I work for Bullshit.ly as a growth ninja but here's my response..."

"In conclusion I'm not saying you should totally checkout our stuff ... but you totally should. just my 2 cents."

And they are getting more sophisticated so it's not always so easy to spot.
If they're thinking of the child, that is.

Which brings us back to you falsely claiming anyone but you uttered that phrase, and your implied assertion that there is something wrong or odd with looking out for others, including children.
We have also seen this. The huge memory capacities now offered in the cloud makes single node processing very capable with entire TB datasets fitting into RAM, and running quickly enough to offset the hourly cost. Spark clusters are more efficient though for longer-running or continuous background processes.
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> Tweet at them about it

Baseball cap, please. I found a potential security bug and stumbled pretty hard delivering the details to MSFT (we all have our first time). The PM was emailing me within minutes, it wasn't deemed a risk.
You'd think we'd have some special regulations regarding what kind of jobs ex-NSA can have after leaving.
Why not? Shenzhen was once a backwater no-where-land, now it's a major city and China's answer to Silicon Valley. No reason why they can't replicate it over and over.
12:40am : restate my assumptions
We are burning money
Facebook trying to see how low and far they can go before people or other companies object. Good job Apple.
im not justifying it, but its easier to do research at a place like FB than in a university these days
That would have gone really well. Especially when the comment comes from someone you work with every day.
No, not at all. Move along. Everyone tries this initially, and (quickly) learns this lesson. I suppose it cost you a lot less to find out the answer via posting to HN though.
Seriously I get that they want the 'shit plain look to scare off normal people' schtick but it's also terrible for accessibility.

For being a company that beats the inclusive and equality drum they seem to go out of their way to make it impossible for people who don't have incredible dexterity or eyesight to use this site.

I love the simple layout but make it accessible to everyone.
We'd love to experiment with you on Librem. If you go through crazy spikes of data usage, we could comp them if you helped us characterize and understand the behavior-- and especially the value you hope you procure by way of privacy.

Do you operate your own VPN? Or if not, how do you truly evaluate whether you are solving your problem? What questions would you ask post-Librem and post-VPN adoption whose answers would tell you how close you are to solving your problem?
The attack vector is weird. Having LIFX bulbs personally, I’m going to notice if you steal one of my light bulbs pretty quickly. I’m also going to assume that the vast majority of LIFX bulbs are in private residences. I highly doubt any high security areas are using WiFi connected light bulbs.

In that case you can probably just ask to use my or really most people’s Wifi, rather than destroying our $30 light bulbs. Honestly I would prefer you did. This is really a case where social engineering is almost guaranteed to be quicker and easier.

Also correct me if I’m wrong here but once he had shell access into the device, could he not just use the WiFi via the device anyway? Why does it matter that it’s plain text.

Also also, isn’t plain text WiFi credentials pretty standard? That’s how basically every Linux-y WiFi connected toy I own does it. It’s how all my raspberry pi’s are set up...
WTF is Facebook doing? They've been making bone-heading privacy-destroying decisions for at least a decade now, but it somehow seems like it's gotten worse recently even as they've increasingly been coming under scrutiny? Isn't this the opposite of how a rational actor should be responding? Or are they figuring since they're already taking the heat for it, they might as well continue doing it?
We need an Operation Paperclip for Facebook talent.
Huh, your right. Scrolling in Firefox on Android was awful for years, and was the main reason i stuck with chrome. I'll have to give it a proper go now...
thanks, PMed
My point is that you don't have any standing to claim that, and you're probably wrong.

Given how many hoops the medical establishment makes trans people jump through to "prove" that they're really trans and need treatment, I'd think you'd be more sympathetic.
The president is immune from legal liability.
Those two and the lack of a robust, documented framework for Facebook to delete the data it is not interested in analyzing and store what it is securely.

The biggest question I have is why they needed the root to analyze popularity of future competitors. Surely doing domain requested (visible even with TLS) and number/time of requests would be sufficient, and that would have greatly reduced the amount of private data gathered.
Will Facebook just get another enterprise certificate though and do it all over again? Facebook's track record makes it seem like they will.

This also doesn't help those on Android; I know it's not illegal, it's still shady as most user have no idea what they are agreeing to.
On my 28k modem with my Win 3.1 machine, I relied pretty heavily on MIDI files. I had a good collection Greenday, Nirvana, and movie theme songs (Ghost busters, Jaws, Jurrasic Park, Spaceballs, etc..) Oh, and I recently discovered that browsers no longer even support MIDI files.... yes, I _recently_ tried to create a webpage that would play music on load, don't ask me why...I'm just an awful person sometimes.
Please keep in mind that what you hear coming out of Washington does not necessarily reflect the thoughts and feelings of the people it governs. I'd guess that the vast majority of Americans would not support the statement you quoted.
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What's the alternative? Google? Baidu?
Haha - thanks, I will see - thank you.
That's a good nest egg for your age. Are you part of the FIRE movement(not sure how else to phrase this)? If so, what are your plans? If not, same question lol.
Discover Financial Services notifies customers of data breach incident
This would need to be spoofed for every individual though. I imagine this would be cost prohibitive enough that it would at least in the short term kill most spam phone calls.
@ML experts: could a model be trained from ECoG data so that we can better isolate signals from EEG?
Everyone in the US can bet using his or her smartphone, with the current odds shown up the second the gate is opened. There's no advantage in a private betting machine. Some online betting tools even let you set parameters that place your bet automatically if and only if certain odds are reached, so you don't have to stand there and watch it. Of course, for casual bettors, that's half the fun.
Facebook has yet to face any real consequence for their actions, so they persist.

This isn’t ever going to change until governments do their job and take protecting the population they are sworn to protect as a serious part of their jobs.
How would someone have an iPhone, cell service, and a PayPal if they don't have $20 a month?
In UK some of the call centres use a fake local number.

It seems to me that phone companies can detect that, but they don't want to reduce the number of calls, do they?
Here is one of many articles on Microsoft's stack ranking debacle: https://www.smh.com.au/technology/microsoft-made-me-secretiv...
Facebook paid teenagers to mine device data
US Military Space Plane Wings Past 500 Days on Latest Mystery Mission