skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But (assuming the recruiters weren't in on it), the students could be under the impression they were allowed to stay.
And so not have done anything to prevent them being in the country illegally.
I don't see a contradiction. If I avoid doing evil less evil will be done. And if we outlaw a particular kind of evil that will likely reduce the incidence of that kind of evil. Both things are helpful.
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I did a load of work in defence (in the UK) and found it a very frustrating experience because the way it works they weren't even "paying for a solution to their problems".

You have to underbid the initial proof of concept phase to win it, and then hack together something that vaguely meets the requirements in the limited budget.

Then you've got the next 10 contracts over several years to develop that into the actual product - meet all the requirements. The problem is that nothing in this process encourages you to write good, clean code. If the code was such a mess that it took 3 times as long as it should to add new features, that meant that we could charge 3 times as many hours.
I grew up cutting firewood with a 1m diameter buzz saw driven by the power take-off of the tractor via a long belt that would be more than happy to consume your loose clothing or hair with you still attached. The single safety guard for that whole contraption was barely worthy of the word (it was mainly to give you something to put the wood against). Cord after cord was cut with that saw, and both my father and I still have all of our limbs and fingers.

If that buzz saw didn't kill me, I'm not fiddling with that stupid safety guard on the table saw/lawn mower/high-amperage device; I've got shit to do, I know what I'm doing.

(In reality, I personally use every safety feature of every cutty/stabby/choppy powered device I own. I'm not getting any smarter or attentive in my old age.)
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You are missing part of the history.

Iran was Democracy until 1953 when a CIA coup took down the government. Its a myth that Iran was only progressive because of the West. They were progressing without direct Western influence.

The Shah was installed and he was super progressive (in some ways) pushing values on the population and that cause a huge backlash.

The US essentially destroyed the only real democracy in the middle east.
I've been observing https://www.minds.com/ , which appears to be an interesting open-source competitor in the space.

It's based on blockchain, which makes me nervous, but it does allow you to purchase a version of the product which removes all promotion from the product entirely.
My guess: Playing on our phones. I have no measurements to back it up, though.
"treated since 1979" - the US should have treated them well while holding American hostages? Is that what you're claiming here?

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.

> "Iran and six world powers known as the P5+1 (China, France, Germany, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States) reached a historic nuclear deal on July 14, 2015 ... Prior to that, Iran had been engaged in efforts to acquire the capability to build nuclear weapons for more than two decades."

https://www.armscontrol.org/factsheet/Timeline-of-Nuclear-Di...
At YouTube they must be called "gold mines" then.
> However, there is no possibility to open a test account on the production system, and no budget for a license for a test installation of X. The main troiuble with X is that its public API (web service) changes from version to version and there is no useful documentation about it. How would one write integration tests for that?

How would you manually test in a situation like that? If you can't interact with the production API because it would corrupt data, and there is no dev API, would you just be guessing that everything works before you deploy your code?
I think the issues are:
- they were collecting data from users who were below legal age for responsibility and/or local laws about collecting data about minors.
- The general public know very little about everything. Companies have a moral duty to not only educate their users but also to not do wrong.

Personal responsibility is a flag many people wave but it's a farce. That argument can be used for anything, from seatbelts, to smoking, to privacy. It is impossible for everyone to know enough to make informed choices about EVERYTHING. There is a need for societal organisations (governments, NGOs, responsible journalism) to provide guidance to the public and legal limits in order to provide protection to the whole.
The orders are coming from the same people on top. It's a distinction without a difference at this point.
> You do realize that it's the other way around, in that "Palestinians" have always hated Israel (aided and abetted by Israel's Arab neighboring states) since it's lawful establishment by the UN?

If you're giving the historical context, it's worth noting that Israel was indeed established by the UN, but only after years of massive migration to the territory and committing significant terrorism when the British were there(in fact the IDF is a result of the merger of several terrorist factions), the kind of terrorism that is often used by Israelis to pain the Palestinians as uncivilized savages.

The UN also established what should be the Palestinian territory, which is today occupied by Israel.
The Arab states did in fact invade, the Palestinians saw it as eroding on their land, (and the British agreed to a large extent at the time), however I do agree that they should have accepted the UN ruling. It was wrong not to do so, regardless of how Israel came to be.

This does however not justify the present occupation of even the few remaining Palestinian territories, especially because the very UN that you cite considers them illegal and Israel is regularly condemned at the UN for it. Yet it continues to ignore international law with impunity because of U.S. support.

> Palestinians are still failing to acknowledge Israel's right to exist.

They largely do acknowledge it, the PA certainly does and even Hamas has amended their charter in 2017 to that direction as far as I know.

The fact is, Israel has a state in any case. Do you acknowledge the right for Palestine to exist? Because Israeli continued expansion of illegal settlements on the ground does not suggest so and it certainly does not help the peace process in any way.
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What if it's a game that is good for mental development but has microtransactions, allowing them to unknowingly spend $1000s while also stimulating their brain?
Not my exact field, but I keep track of the research for potential applications.

The general vibe is that there are potentially large welfare gains to be achieved if algorithms, ML or statistical methods are integrated into human decision making in principled way. People have innate tendency treat noise as a signal. That does not mean that the dangers mentioned in the article are not real [2].
We should be very aware of them in their current forms and prevent repeating them.

Few of my favorite papers:

1. Human Decisions and Machine Predictions
The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 133, Issue 1, 1 February 2018, Pages 237–293, https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjx032
https://www.nber.org/papers/w23180

2. Dissecting Racial Bias in an Algorithm that Guides Health Decisions for 70 Million People (2019)
https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=3287560.3287593

3. Simplicity Creates Inequity: Implications for Fairness, Stereotypes, and Interpretability
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.04578

4. Direct Uncertainty Prediction for Medical Second Opinions
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.01771
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" ... consider how woman and minorities more than doubled the work force from the 1960s to 1990s with no loss in jobs or lowering of wages ..."

I am not sure that is true ... in fact, while I cannot provide a reference or citation, I believe I have seen well-received research and academic studies that suggest this increase in the workforce was a key component of weakening unions and depressing real, inflation adjusted earnings over just the period you cite.

In fact, I think it is Elizabeth Warren's work in a related area (the fragility of two-income households) that has been more recently discussed and overlaps this discussion.

I am genuinely interested to see how the intersection of liberal immigration policies and support of unions and workers' rights is supposed to be implemented. I note with interest that Ralph Nader believes it cannot be done.[1] I also note with interest that corporate interests, which are assumed to be "reactionary" and "conservative" are very supportive of liberal immigration policies.

I personally believe that the US is, and should continue to be a "nation of immigrants" - especially those coming from countries that we broke. Given that first world workers literally rioted in the streets over a very minor increase in fuel taxes[2], I am skeptical that any real reckoning of the costs and trade-offs involved would be acceptable to the US workforce.

[1] http://www.ontheissues.org/celeb/Ralph_Nader_Immigration.htm

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_vests_movement
If you wanted to really speed things up, you could do this in an automated fashion or with google sheets (to suck in the graphic below).

For manual review: https://github.com/users/mooreds/contributions?to=2018-12-31

For more automation: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@simonwep/github-contributions or https://github.com/sallar/github-contributions-api look useful.
Got off fb 5 years ago. Now on instagram is my problem.
I can also recommend a sales or sales-related/product management role as something that would prepare you for founding a startup, especially if your intention is to be CEO.
Except selling drugs is illegal, recruiting students isn't.

Keep in mind their employer was in "The Department of Homeland Security’s list of certified schools".

Their work was only illegal because their employer turned out to be "corrupt". And presumably the cover was strong enough that doing your due diligence on your new employer wouldn't raise any red flags.

As an employee is it my responsibility to ensure that my day-to-day work hasn't been made illegal due to my employer's actions!?
Are you being facetious?

Identifying demographics and targeting the marketing to them is the bread and butter of modern advertising. The entire justification for Google's and Facebook's mass consumer surveillance is to offer corporations more targeted advertising.

There are gray areas but if you're marketing to children, you know you're marketing to children.
>Students knew that the scheme was illegal, "and that discretion should be used when discussing the program with others,” prosecutors wrote in their indictment, which was filed Jan. 15 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.

Not sure if this is actually true but that's what it says in the article.
> If, as an Israeli, one makes claims that the sanctions are justified because Iran is sponsoring terrorism, perhaps it's justified to look at whether Israel is not only sponsoring, but committing terrorist acts on its neighbors, unless Israel is somehow justified to do so, while Iran isn't.

You must have a very broad definition of "terrorism" if you consider Israeli military operations to be "terrorist acts". Iran sponsors an out-and-proud terrorist organization called Hezbollah. They've committed textbook terrorist attacks around the world.

> Right, but my point is that isn't nor really a one-sided thing. Israel does it too towards not only Iran, but its closest neighbors, they regularly threaten to "bomb Lebanon back to the stone age", as an example.

...as a response to legitimate threats made by Hezbollah in Lebanon. Don't forget that Hezbollah started and escalated the war in Lebanon in 2006. Israel does not threaten Egypt, or Jordan, or even Syria itself except for Hezbollah's presence therein.
could not agree more!
IIRC, 'fish' is the term for someone who on average loses money in their gambling (in some particular game, or overall): a fish is a creature whose head is under water. In games like poker it roughly divides the recreational (and/or problem) gamblers from the pros. AFAIK 'whale' is probably an extension of that: a big fish.
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If you want to use Facebook for the groups or business purposes, you can disable the news feed. I use the Firefox add-on 'Disable Facebook News Feed' or 'Kill News Feed' on Chrome. If you want to reduce their tracking on Firefox use the tab containers.
If only life had been as simple as dropping an .apk on their phone...

I don't expect Facebook to get a whole lot of sympathy, but really, Apple's power on device owned by customers is ridiculous.
It was from slides in a deep learning CMU course with examples such as walking into a restaurant with group seating where staff immediately knows your name and preferences/allergies, and you immediately have information on what topic each table is talking about and in what languages (which are automatically translated) what seats are free to sit at, which order is currently being cooked, ect. The idea was a scenario where each room you walk into your device can tell you everything there is to know.
can someonepost the link to the main article in question?
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The MAPS.ME map service launched paid routes within the app. Users will have access to professional content provided by partners from around the world.

After updating the app, users of MAPS.ME will have the opportunity to download paid professional travel guides, as well as routes created by bloggers. The cost of the route depends on the region and the user's mobile platform, as well as the type of route. In Russia, the minimum price will be 30 rubles.

Paid routes are divided into three types depending on the number of points and the degree of detail. Basic travel guides include the most popular tourist locations, photos and brief descriptions, allowing users to get to know the city in a short time. Sightseeing routes have a large number of points with a more detailed description; they provide maximum information about the place of stay. Professional routes are the most detailed; these are guides to certain parts of cities with unique locations, detailed descriptions and photos, indicating the mapped route distance and the duration of the walk.

To download one of more than 700 paid routes, you need to find it in the Bookmarks and Guides section, click on the Get a Price button and then pay by specifying a cellphone number or using a Facebook or Google account.

In total, MAPS.ME today offers more than 800 routes in more than 600 cities located in 70 countries. They contain information on more than 50,000 locations. Routes are available in different languages.
The issue wasn't the app exists and people were using it. It was the demographic this app was targeting.

The app was targeting 13 to 35 year olds. People under 18 has to get parental permission which was literally just selecting a box.

The $20 of free money is a big deal for a kid and they might not have the best idea of what they're giving away with agreeing to this.

It's a really scummy move and possibly illegal to target kids like this.
FB is a company with a completely rotten top-down culture. Nothing is going to change until a huge set of executive leadership swap, or they are forced to by mean of legislation.

After apologizing thousands of times, they internally justify each of those breaches by rejecting the fault to "users" or other external factors (source: several friends working at Facebook, and reading public tweets of Facebook leaders).

The culture there is inherently anti-privacy and whoever fundamentally disagree is about to leave or has already left.
If you are setting up a sting, wouldn't you want it to look legit as possible? ICE is part of DHS so it makes sense they would add it to their own list if the goal was to catch people attempting to exploit the program. If a student enrolled in this institution, it wouldn't have taken long for them to realize this was a sham and transfer out if they were truly seeking education. I believe it wasn't entrapment because ICE only set up the fake university, they didn't actually recruit people to it. That was other "students/recruiters" who were enrolled and helping others out to join (hence the indictments of the 8 recruiters).
Also in there was this in the article:
>Khaalid Walls, a spokesman for ICE in Detroit, told local news station WXYZ that the students had entered the United States legally on F-1 visas after being accepted to legitimate schools and had later transferred to the University of Farmington.

If they were accepted to legit schools and then transferred to this one it seems likely that they weren't seeking education, but a means to stay here, which would be in violation of the visa.
Please list the terrorist organizations that Pakistan funds and supplies that have a very significant destabilizing impact on its neighbors.
Was it your money? Was it really your decision as to whether you could spend it?
This has always been a great book https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Lie_with_Statistics
I'm a hobbyist woodworker. After meeting so many craft store employees with missing fingers (vast majority from table saw accidents) I will never operate anything other than a SawStop [https://www.sawstop.com].

The origin of SawStop is quite a cool story. The founder and inventor created this auto-stop saw, and tried to sell the tech to all the major saw manufacturers. No company would buy it because they didn't think there was a market, so he started a company around it which is disrupting the entire market.
Since we're talking about Rigetti, you could take a look at pyquil: http://docs.rigetti.com/en/stable/index.html

pyQuil is the python interface to Rigetti's Forest SDK for quantum programming and development.
> Iran's sponsorship of Hezbollah towards attacking Israel is part of their defence strategy?

Yes.

Particularly, it's central to their defense strategy against Sunni-dominated neighbors.
This is getting the details incorrect and ignoring a century of interference.

Following allied occupation during WWII, Iran was developing a progressive secular government until the US decided to overthrow it as Iran was trying to regain control over it's oil. This led to 25 years of a pro-west regime that can not remotely be considered progressive, followed by the revolution leading to the anti-west regime that also can not be considered progressive.
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Should be GDP per unit of carbon. Not people.
We're also big users of Julia.
What on earth does “got strong” mean? Is it a section of the immigration and nationality act? 18 vs 27 years is just situational, it’s a range. When someone says “leveraging their ward” they mean days/months or a dedicated process not supporting evidence in the standard two to three decade process. And sure, why read evidence I found for you when you have your gut and a single anecdote.
>Facebook paid users as young as 13 to install an app that gave the company access to everything their phone sent or received over the internet.

This is a big part of why they're in hot water.

>Perhaps not, but last time I checked this is still a free country and people can sell their property for as much or as little as they want.

Children? No.
They did not make it clear that this app could bypass SSL. I've talked to numerous people on reddit who installed the app thinking that they were safe because all their communication was encrypted, not realizing that the whole point of the app is to bypass encryption.
Pretty good vision, all told. Though the constant scanning motions of the eyes as opposed to fixed cameras mean they may have at least as much in common with LIDAR.
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fully agree. Even though I'm not fully onboard with Apple's huge power over their phones, in this specific case the enemy of my enemy is my friend.
My favorite by Moby was Knulla Kuk : https://elmobo.bandcamp.com/track/knulla-kuk

I thinks he calls himself Elmobo these days.
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> If you read the information in the link posted, it's obvious that the important decisions still require unanimity, even if minor decisions (yes, some of them in important fields) now only require QMV.

not true (again)... might be true most of the time, but not always (which is the entire problem)

see the fuss over the past two years where eastern european countries were forced over their explicit objections to accept migrant quotas using QMV
Sorry, maybe it is just the Model 3, but I thought to get anything like lane keeping and ACC, you had to buy the self driving package, otherwise you only get standard cruise and no lane keeping, which are standard on Honda now.
Sick ASCII art.
It was the West what broke it.

The 1979 revolution probably would not had happened had the US and UK not overthrown the Prime Minister in the 50s, because he had the audacity to nationalise his country's oil. How very dare he. Once the Shah returned he turned initial popularity (thanks to an economy spared from the oil nationalisation sanctions) into a repressive dictatorship.
Actually the world appointed them overlords in the Bretton Woods agreement.
Thanks! That'll teach me to cut and paste from StackExchange. Also why I got different results last time I looked at this; was using a different base 16 encoder.
Maybe this- https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/17/magazine/ancient-dna-pale... ?
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Exactly. Coupled with it's complement: "roach" or "cockroach" was similarly used in sales to refer to non-spending tire-kickers.

I bet you'd find a few more issues with children being called such because they only played the free tiers, or didn't take part in micro-transactions to get ahead.
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None of what you wrote debunks female selection theory.
How is this not entrapment? Yes, the students knowingly signed up for a fake university and used it for visa application, but the fake university only existed because the government set it up.

If people applying for student visas for fake universities is a real problem, why not just compare their applications with a list of real universities?

Especially putting the fake uni on DHS’s list of certified schools. Is there a problem of fake unis getting on DHS's list? Otherwise the crime they committed (applying for a visa for a fake university certified by the DHS) would have been literally impossible if DHS/ICE didn't intentionally certify a fake uni.
Yep. I work on Integrity at Facebook. The challenge is massive and a huge proportion of the world uses our services to communicate with friends and family.

Personally, this is true for me. I've lived in four cities and three countries in my relatively short life, and my immediate family is often in four countries at any one time. I have friends around the world, who are starting families, getting married and generally living their lives. Facebook's products are the best way for us to stay connected to each other.

The world has never dealt with issues we're now facing, on the scale we're now facing. The lessons we learn as a society from Facebook, both its successes and failures, will only make whatever comes next that much better. Every single day, I work alongside incredibly smart people who are empowered to turn the tide. We're making a difference but perception often lags reality. It's also a really, really big ship to turn around.

I've been given an opportunity to be part of the solution. I know that I would regret it forever if I didn't give it a try - if not me, who else?