skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Work for any big tech company in the beginning. Doesn't matter much in my opinion other than the fact that your goal should be to:

1. Pay off all student debt as fast as possible. It means that live below your means no matter what you make. Under no circumstances, take on more debt specially credit card, car loan etc.

2. Try to find a team that is entrepreneurial where your manager has the power to make decisions. Learn how that works. Running your own business comes down to you knowing how and when to decide something based on the situation you are in.

3. Learn to Sell. Selling is not just about being a typical salesman with a suit and tie. Selling includes your ability to convince people to do something for YOU. For example, you convinced a co-worker to help you with a task ? You just sold. You convinced your manager that xyz is a great idea to build ? You just sold. Learn how to negotiate, convince, persuade and win people's trust. Important for CEOs and founders.

4. Start a side project if possible. Build something. NO matter how small. Don't worry about whether it works flawlessly. Tinker with stuff. Doesn't have to be code only btw.

5. Time Management. Learn this early if you can. Don't waste time only watching TV and internet surfing just because EVERYONE else does. Remember that to be a founder/CEO/startup person, you cannot be like others. You have to be different. Not special. Just different. Your time is THE MOST valuable asset. Utilize it wisely.

Many more but I would focus on these areas first. You can then definitely take the next step.

MOST IMPORTANTLY: Plan your exit from corporate world. Don't just say "i am going to do it one day" because then you never will. Instead, have a plan and work towards it. You will have your own path but the end goal is the same: to start your own stuff. If you leave this for too long, you will become what I called "Corporate Institutionalized" (stealing from the great Red in Shawshank Redemption). Don't be that person.
Facebook has become a privacy nightmare
There's no evidence any primaries were 'rigged'.

Hillary got more votes, and some DNC people were catty about Bernie over private email.

I even voted Bernie, I just can't stand seeing claims repeated without evidence. Put up or shut up.
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In the day of fluff blog/medium posts, it's great to see something like this with it's incredible detail and exhaustiveness. I'll always be amazed that one of the main weapons in modern times is concrete. I worked for years as a contractor (geeky contractor, not merc-like contractor) for the DoD and it is fascinating to read this in-depth coverage of battle zones.
I would like to see a source for this quantitative claim.
It's not the countries of the European Union's job to care about their historic ally and second largest power remaining stable and friendly in a time of oligarchs and autocracies? Put aside remain/leave/nationality, your statement is nonsensical.

No, the behavior of the EU does not align with the interests of its member states, that is the truth. As with Greece, so now with the UK. Crushed by unaccountable committee.
Yes! I wish people would take car safety as seriously as they take high tech profits. Tens of thousands killed every year. Surely if lidar is a big boost to self-driving car safety it could also help human driven cars with the right interface.
another perspective: FB's big mistake was paying these users too little.

if FB had paid, say, $2000 a month instead of $20, the users would have been angry at Apple for forcing such a program to stop. FB would look like a force for good.

instead, FB cheaped out.
Not really. It’s a fairly short list of organizations with the means and the motivation. If you’re already spying on them it’s not hard to pick up on changes in communication, movements or even catch them red handed on a recorded line.
> You show a complete lack of of understanding of the power structure of Iran and the history of the revolution.

No, what you seem to be trying to do is claim that because the regime that is the result of the Revolution did not deliver on all of its promises when the Revolution started, it is somehow a different regime?

Politicians often don't fulfill their promises. Does that make them different? Liars, deceptive manipulators maybe, but they're still them. The reason they were even able to consolidate power was as a result of the revolution that put them there, which is separate from if they delivered on it.

You wouldn't claim that Barack Obama is some different president, or an illegitimate one, because he did not deliver on all of his campaign promises would you?

> You link is laughable - Vietnam, Thailand, Jordan, Afghanistan, Ethiopia are all listed in that chart and none of them are dictatorships.

They're not exactly 'free' countries, are they now? Authoritarian countries would be a better title for you perhaps?

> So an attorney, actor, radio commentator and disk jockey compiled some images from social media and "the internet." Brilliant. Perhaps you might read more critically.

This is based on the Freedom House report of non free countries, it's not some data that the author of the piece made up. In fact there are other reports about it, this is literally just the first link I grabbed.
Facebook isn't in hotwater with the public. No one gives a shit about any of this except us nerds. https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/30/facebook-us-revenue-growth-o...
>Please list the terrorist organizations that Pakistan funds and supplies that have a very significant destabilizing impact on its neighbors.

Please list how many politicians in Iran are assassinated by their own people, and cheered for it, for opposing blasphemy or apostasy legislation, and for defending minority rights.

It's quite notable how you focus on only one aspect of my comment, and for only one country.

It's also notable on how you appear to think the standards you set are the relevant ones, and don't address others.

As for the list you asked for, I'll let folks from Afghanistan and India answer. It's also quite accessible from the perspective of a Google search. I do not want to be drawn deeply into the conversation, as in my past experience, it always devolves into "No, that's not a terrorist organization. Yes, that is."

If destabilizing a region is a legitimate metric, the US should consider sanctioning themselves. It's silly to accuse Iran of interference of neighbors when the US travels far across continents and invades two countries.
Because risky behavior doesn't always lead to disaster, and people get complacent. You cut a corner on safety one time, and nothing happens, so you do it again. Eventually it catches up to you.
People used to say the same thing about reading if you go back far enough.
Ladders with tubular hand rails exist alright here (Italy/Europe).

Examples:

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https://www.ediliamo.com/scala-professionale-con-parapetto-f...
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OTOH, reading between the lines, it seems like there was contention between the story author and the rebuttal author all through fact-checking. This hints that there is another side to this story.
How interesting that you would choose as your examples "seatbelts", "smoking", and "privacy".

If you print in large letters on every pack of cigarettes, "SMOKING KILLS" and people still choose to smoke, should a benevolent government be allowed to prevent an individual's poor choice?

Right now, we allow the sale of cigarettes and prohibit the sale of raw milk.

Don't you see any room for personal responsibility? None?
>The question is whether you think that the self-protection from scandal is worth the systemic discrimination the rule requires you to do.

From a Christian perspective(both Billy Graham and Mike Pence are Christians) it's honestly more about being true to your wife than avoiding scandal (though it is both).

It's the same reason many Christian men put internet filters on their phones and computers, to protect themselves (and their relationships) from themselves.
>As Bill Maher said, working for HBO is not the same as working for Monsanto.

Replacing your own personal morality with the average morality of the organizations you are a part of is a trap, because you could also be way more evil than average. In fact, the most vile schemers at HBO might be worse than the most vile at Monsanto; and they could justify themselves by saying, "I can't be vile, I work at HBO, and HBO is not vile on average."

The best person at the NSA was probably Snowden while he was planning his defection. It's Snowden's actions that count for his judgment, not the morality of the NSA on average. If all NSA employees were traitors to the American people then Snowden would be one too! Obviously, only the NSA employees that do their jobs are traitors to the American people. There is more opportunity for heroism at Facebook because people could put their jobs on the line to defend what's right.

By no means am I justifying complicity, I'm saying that there's more opportunity to become a hero of the revolution in a terrible country than in a great one.

To use your fascist example, just because someone came from West Germany doesn't mean that they were members of the Statsi, and even if they were members of the Statsi, they could have been (and I would say they would have a duty to be) agents of the people working to undermine it from within.
But they don't, and they certainly play favorites.

- So far, they have taken no action to Google's similar behavior ( and yes, the removed the app, but after Facebook was punished )

- They had a huge privacy bug with Facetime that they have brushed it under the rug, which may expose underlying privacy issues ( how is this possible if the connection isn't established before you consented? )

Apple has done some good, but it's no saint, and should not be a vigilante.
for those that use lists on youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BleOgPhsdfc
Presumably if they were using an industry term to categorize these young children they were definitely aware of what they were doing. That implies a level of malice on their part and is what I believe people are actually outraged about, not simply the usage of the term.
Who is the customer for children's toys? You might argue it's the parents because they supply the money, but I think that would be like arguing that the customer for any product is the actual customer's employer - who provides the money.

It is the child who supplies the purchase motivation and the child who your product needs to satisfy. I'd say the customer is the child.

I don't think there's anything wrong with thinking of children as customers. I do think there's something wrong with manipulating children into spending thousands of dollars on digital gems, but I think that actually generalizes - it doesn't strike me as good moral choice to manipulate anyone into wasting large amounts of money on mobile games.
It reveals the attitude that pervades among these companies towards children that have been duped into spending via dark patterns and addictive games.

You're making an argument that since the word is consistent, everything is fine and dandy, but the meaning of the word hardly changes the situation here. Not everything is about outrage, there are legit disturbing points this article makes.
I guess the votes come based on whether you assume he's being serious or sarcastic and the current opinion you hold of Sudan.

It is hard to judge when made over an impersonal channel like a plain text comment and most people won't check grecy's profile to draw the correct conclusion: not a trace of sarcasm.
WhatsApp threads for arranging get togethers.
Doesn't matter. Apple consumerist NPCs are beyond cure, it's in their nature.
Which might lead to fewer micro-transactions in games marketed to kids? I'm okay with that.
I read 75% of it, does that make me qualified to trash on it? I thought it was complete garbage. Not the idea, mind you, the _book_. It's a blog post's worth of information that's comically stretched out in an early college I'm-trying-to-meet-a-word count way.

The book is almost entirely pointless fluff.
You can only sideload to devices that are registered in your Apple Developer account, and there's a 100-count limit per each device class (iPhone/iPad, i.e.). This doesn't seem feasible.

Another option is TestFlight, but for devices that aren't registered (so-called "external beta") the app has to go through some App Store review.
What is the encryption algorithm Intel is planning to implement? I can’t seem to find any references to it.
The community version of Arc does at any rate: https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki
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> Wow, what a condescending view point that people can't possibly think through things on their own without other people making decisions for them.

...

> Smoking, seatbelts, and privacy are all personal choices that people should be able to make for themselves.

There is a legal minimum age for purchasing cigarettes. Most states have laws requiring the use of seatbelts. So why shouldn’t some power, be it governmental or corporate, push people towards protecting their privacy?

If you’re going to cherrypick counterexamples to the idea that people can think things through and make the right decision for themselves maybe try picking, ya know, counterexamples?
>This all comes down to one of the most poorly understood concepts in FP, the monad:

Of the languages you mentioned just Haskell, and Scala to some extent, has any deep concept of monads (and even in haskell they’re not part of the language, just a common idiom and ”easily” implemented)

Also, I’m using FP for the exact problems I used to use IP for, not sure what needs ti be proven..?
Tor has nothing to do with browser fingerprinting

So you're just purposefully being an idiot..
> As America steps back from the world stage, we will see more alliances being forged that exclude the USA.

That's all a fantasy though. The US isn't stepping back from the world stage. Its $20.5 trillion economy is growing twice as fast as the EU's smaller economy. Its $700 billion military isn't going to be reduced in size. The USD is as strong as a global standard as it has been in the last 40 years, it has no serious currency challenger (including the Yuan).

The US isn't stopping / abandoning trade. The US isn't leaving NATO. The US isn't reducing its economic or military heft. The US isn't leaving the UN or the security council and giving up its permanent seat. The US isn't ending immigration in any regard. Few of the things people pretend are happening re a step-back & isolationism, are actually happening.

Germany + UK + France = $9.5 trillion in economic output, with the combination persistently lagging behind the US in output growth. The global alternatives to the US are all growing weaker, not stronger, with one exception: China. The EU isn't better off today than it was in ~2005, it's weaker.

Trump is gone in 2-6 years. He's opposed by nearly the entire political system when it comes to isolationist policies. There is no actual step back occuring and there isn't going to be one. Trump is a fluke one-off as a politician. The next president - which will be a typical politician from inside the system - is guaranteed to follow the same script every other president has since WW2 when it comes to the US global engagement and power projection. When people write that there is a step-back occuring, it's a projection on their part of what they would like to see happen (it often involves an emotion-based fantasy that the US will soon collapse and be humbled as a superpower).
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>... do not have incentives besides impartially reporting the truth?

That’s a very big assumption and a rather naïve view of modern journalism. Impartially reporting the truth is what we like to think journalists do, but it isn’t safe to suggest that’s what they actually do.
It's related to what we already know about Facebook: They are willing to bend the rules and engage in questionable behavior.

They were happy to violate the terms of Apple's enterprise development program. Yet another display of disrespect. So how can the public trust Facebook with their data?
Not just R&D, but it runs in production as well. Their downloadable SDK as well as some of the software backing their QMI’s are written in Lisp.
It's not unjustified "outrage culture". It's Facebook's actual outrageous, egregious behavior, repeated over and over again, that is getting to be too much.
Not while people keep electing "outsiders" to "clean up" the government. Turns out that process tends to further entrench corporate interests.
Your copy & paste comment really resonated with my experiences. Our services are a cobbled together mess of pasted solutions from other services, and members of the team often say something is impossible because they can't find an example of the exact same problem being solved somewhere else in the code base.

Amazingly, they are just as aggressive as the competent people when it comes to pursuing promotions and responsibility, despite not being able to write a function in the main language of the company after working in it for multiple years.

I don't know how things got this absurd, but here we are.
The way it works is that although high schoolers using FB has leveled off, they tend to start making FB accounts after high school, when many of their friends are no longer reachable by simply meeting up with them in class.
Environment vs genetics is a minefield for anyone who tries to be objective. Just say that differences are in 99% shaped by environment and you are fine and safe for today. However a lie is good for a short time, but really bad for a long term. Especially if it becomes a base for, let's say, a national policy.

Also, saying it is mostly environment makes individuals blame others for their own failures - "I am perfect, the environment is wrong and has to change".

A sad thing is that scientists that study this question get publicly destroyed.
Seems like the most common answer to this might be SICP (Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs -- you'll find course videos pretty easily from Google; the ones from the authors are really great). Note that it's based on Scheme, which is a ancestor of Racket, but Racket has a language pack that papers over the differences and works with the code from the book. Official course website: https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/sicp/index.html

You might, as a novice coming to Racket, find "Realm of Racket" to be more approachable as an intro: http://www.realmofracket.com/
If the encryption has no authentication, an attacker could still conceivably flip individual bits, much like they can when attacking a stream cipher.

Does the spec say that the encryption be authenticated? If so, where are the MACs stored?
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$100 on Facebook, sure.
$1000, probably not.
$10K, no way. The CC company is going to believe it is an error. It is wayyyyy out of line. No source is needed.
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It seems the article almost wants us to feel sorry for Facebook.

Facebook are really the Oracle of the "social" tech companies. They are not even pretending to be good or follow rules. As long as cash / clicks / impressions keep coming in nothing is off the table.

Google is struggling with its positive PR image, every time they fall short they are judged by the "Don't be evil" motto and everything it entailed. Facebook doesn't have to worry about such details and it's easier for them in a way. Their shares are going up as we saw recently, CA scandal didn't do much damage, everything is great.

> “We designed our Enterprise Developer Program solely for the internal distribution of apps within an organisation.

Watch them pivot to "these researchers are part of the Facebook family, so their network device are considered part of the internal network's edge, we did nothing wrong".
I think you are misinterpreting the backlash with the article and what's been happening overall.

> Facebook wouldn't refund large purchases made by underage gamers.
(Regardless of if they are 1 years old)

Need more be said?

My interpretation of all these stories coming out on the news this past year is the creation of a narrative (you could also say exposing) of the reality of Facebook's corporate culture. One that lacks empathy towards its users and society overall, and instead is focused solely on the ends of user engagement, data collection, and revenue generation plowed with a blind following of the word of "Zuck". This all regardless of the means to get there.

Given the prominence of FB's products in so many people's lives, I don't think the outrage is misplaced.
Actually I'm really happy that I was informed from my young age that smoking decreases my life expectancy. I never smoked in my life (except once-twice for trying it out).

I wish I knew this for air pollution as well, as I didn't care about it, and now I'm feeling the consequences every day.

Just the fact that smoking can lead to cancer is a recent development that improved the lives of so many people, it's statistically significant in the average life expectancy of the human race. But to get here it took fight from many researchers, regulators and non-profit organizations. This has nothing to do with common sense.

One more thing: have you seen the video of the child who's smoking at 2? Is he doing it because he's lacking common sense?
The US has one of the highest CO2 per capita of the OECD. Germany emits half the CO2 per capita that the US does.

Also, Chinese people don’t drive stupid big SUV and trucks while running the AC on full blast all summer.
That's a very interesting thought process! Thank you for bringing it forth.

Might there be an easier answer? Perhaps the West was using a risk-based approach to security, where a missile built with aging technology just isn't as dangerous if stole as a current one.

I'm sure it's just my naive reading, but this seems like it would produce a functionally identical outcome without requiring a tinfoil hat or deliberate staking of bait for an adversary.
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This outrage is ridiculous when compared to mobile micro-transactions. Get off your high horses.
I just meant since the government changed.

> It has to do with all the things I've stated. And stating that "Iran never had a program to build nuclear weapons" is just nonsensical. They may no longer be pursuing it, but you're conflating many things.

No. I am not. Iran never had nuclear weapons program. That is a fact. At the very most they had a program that did some basic research to understand how you would even build a bomb, far away from what we would consider a nuclear weapons program.

> https://www.armscontrol.org

The fact is that Iran didn't want to an enrichment program, they asked France to do it for them, with all enriched uranium being controlled by France and in full view of international supervision.

It was the US who blocked this move by France and did not allow that to happen. Only then did Iran start to invest in enrichment facilities.

The ACA is a lobby group that spreads their point of view as fact.
I do not wish to live in the type of society you appear to be comfortable with. I hope your view does not prevail.
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