skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It seems to equate "investors" with "VCs"

I agree, it does appear that the author made this error. It's a common one, though. I think it would benefit everyone, including VCs, if people were more aware that venture capital is only one type of investing out of a wider pantheon of investing.

Each type has its own advantages and disadvantages and the wise entrepreneurs and investors alike should judge the different types of investment strategies according to what most aligns with their goals.
This could be done previously with on custom Android builds with XPrivacy (an XPosed module).

It worked quite well for a long time, but tended to be quite a burden to maintain through OS updates. Starting with Oreo or so it no longer worked, but there was another similar module that had much of its functionality.

It could even go as far as exposing a subset of your address book to an app. So, for example, when I wanted to use WhatsApp I could just show it the 3 contacts that I wanted it to see.

The operating system should sandbox every app and by default provide it fake data for everything. The user should say what they really want to allow the app to access.

I eventually switched to an iPhone and just don't install many apps.
Does anyone have the link to the original Facebook source?
There are many so-called software engineers who respond with some variant of "no one knows about it but us, so it's fine". It's not even security-through-obscurity, as no particular efforts are made to obscure the resource, just that no particular efforts are made to publicize or document it and thus "that's good enough security for MVP".
LinkedIn pulled something similar a few years back. At the time, I was using the same password for both my email and LinkedIn account, and found that people from my email address book were showing up as suggested connections. I can only assume "consent" for this was buried in the T&Cs.
Depends who is doing the watching. Wouldn’t want to be watched by some oppressive liberal government trying to change my life by forcing me to “progress” how they want.
It is when the two are conflated with extreme regularity.
Would it be possible to make single-engine planes usable for commercial passenger flights with similar economics?
> That doesn't mean people will like using it.

It is easy to assume that from the vantage point of being a developer and being able to notice an app that is native vs. something like electron. But for most users and even a lot of developers, they won't notice as long as the app functions.

I work on a team that encompasses both Tech and Business Associates and all the non-tech people love slack, and have no complaints about the app itself. Hackernews loves to get on its high horse and complain about electron and so many other trends, but as us developers love to forget, we are rarely the target audience for the apps in which we create.
> It's likely because the majority of tech folks are left leaning, whether leadership in the company or audience

I agree. I don't think it's being done out of malice, just that tech is so politically homogeneous that not enough people realize this is out of line to keep these sorts of projects from going forward. The ball gets rolling and there's not enough people voicing a strong enough objection to stop it. I think in the future we'll see this as a failure to acknowledge that tech is not as diverse as the population in general. Car companies aren't stupid. They know they don't know everything so they do customer research, get focus groups, etc, etc, to help them determine how to tune things to be attractive to the target audience. Tech's target audience is the global population but tech mostly fails to account for all the customers that don't live on the West coast or Northeast of the US. We saw the same thing when music was somewhat democratized by the internet in the 2000s. Country and hip-hop surged in popularity because a bunch of well of white music producers in a few cities on the coasts didn't have the perfect picture of what everyone wanted.
How the Game Boy found a new life through emulation
The time has come for flying wings!

https://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/northrop-once-built-planes-t...

https://www.nasa.gov/topics/aeronautics/features/greener_air...

http://www.aeroflight.co.uk/civil/flying_wings1.htm

Or if you believe these nerds, a sort of flint axe with little weedy wings:

http://oddjob.utias.utoronto.ca/~dwz/Miscellaneous/ReistZing...
It could upset some Republicans. HN at some point decided to hide any sort of controversial story.

It arguably doesn’t much matter in this case, where it’s hard not to hear about it in some way. In other cases, it strikes me as an abdication of responsibility.

Most recently, as but one example, when the tech community embarked on their ethics-in-astronomy harassment campaign against a female programmer: HN was one of the fora where this actually happened, but all submissions of stories on it, from reputable mainstream news sources, were quickly flagged into oblivion.
Perhaps the continuous executive push for cheaper international labor is having an impact on their core competence. Who could have known.
It also works for Hamming distance of bit strings. For an n-bit string there are C(n,k) ways of achieving a Hamming distance of k, for example there is only 1 string with distance 0 (the original string) and 1 string with distance n (the complement of the original string), and everything in the middle goes first up and then down—following the components of Pascal's triangle.

This could also be viewed as, for example, the distance along edges from one corner of an n-dimensional hypercube to other corners. There is 1 corner where you don't move at all and 1 corner where you move in every dimension, and the largest number of corners in which you move in half of the dimensions.

I agree with your intuition that this phenomenon will apply to a whole lot of contexts and situations.
I'm sure you're wrong.

The people being blocked are right-wing extremists radicalised by hate speech, not just garden-variety right-wingers. And the reason they're being blocked is because they've been involved in an increasing number of violent attacks around the world. From Anders Breivik, to the murderer of Jo Cox in the UK, to the Christchurch mosque shooter, the extreme right is doing an outstanding job of persuading everyone else it's happy to house murderous racist kooks.

There's no equivalent - not even close - for anything that could be considered the far-left in the West today.

Whatever you think of Bernie Sanders, AOC, or Jeremy Corbyn in the UK, they're not known for threatening to murder anyone, or inciting anyone to murder. Nor - realistically - are they ever likely to be.

Free speech ends in US law - not just in opinion - where incitement to murder and violence begins. At that point it's no longer about civilised debate, it's about criminal consequences, and there's no constitutional protection for those.
Does anyone know how to download this?
One could email the mods, but this seems to be a perfect example of the kind of thing that, while the discussion here might be good, is squarely within the “If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic” rule, so I wouldn't have a strong expectation of a positive response.

OTOH, the mods definitely see the guidelines as just that, not rules, and might agree that this is worth protecting.
That looks like Hangul...so Korean.

Interesting, I think this is the first time I’ve seen a ShowHN from Korea.
Well at least the far right groups will be safe from having their emails harvested by marketers and criminals.
I also deliberately do not share much on Facebook and other social networks because I feel the same way. It was not long ago that it was relatively common for potential employers to request your Facebook password as part of their hiring decision. It seems obvious that the ways in which you use social media can and will be used against you if necessary, whether by employers or law enforcement agencies, and fail to see why anyone wouldn’t be defensive in how they use these services.
Generous reading of the comment is sarcastic scepticism of claims and basically calling the parent a liar, but even in this case it adds little substance to the discussion.
And when their ads in some hypothetical way influence an election, is that still ok? What if something something Russia something too?

They’re free to place any demands on their platform as they see fit. I have no problem with anything they’ve done.

The problem arises when you insist that Facebook do things according to your political leanings, but then suddenly your political leanings don’t line up with everyone else’s anymore and you’re the odd one out and now people are demanding that you be banned.

Yes, for 99.999999% of people that’s never going to be a problem. The crap they post on FB is so worthless I’m sure it’d be a negligible loss to the world if they were, but that’s the point - banning them isn’t the right way to get them to change their minds or to improve their posts.
aka bogosort
Thanks for your input. I appreciate you taking the time to share. Companies like Google and Amazon should make it clear in the beginning that their intent when it comes to these job posting is to collect market data and they're not really interested in hiring the candidate. It's totally fine to be upfront with this information because believe it or not, there are candidates out there just looking to practice there interviewing skills to improve. Obviously, these Technical Recruiters have a quota they have to meet for the numbers of candidates to interview for an opportunity each month so it looks like they are doing their job*(Recruiting). But as a Technical Recruiters, it would be a good idea to make that clear to the candidates you are interviewing at the beginning of the interview process so that you are not wasting anyone time. As a Black Man in America, the gears almost always change once the person that hiring for the role finds out that I am Black. I always get past the phone interview because talking over the phone it defaults to tell my race. I've been dealing with this sh!t for 8+ years now and it's getting really old. :)
> Sort of like "huge pile of empty high end electronics boxes on curb on trash (recycle) day after holidays" is also a signal.

But what can be done? Spread the disposal over many months? The signal is still there.
Keybase Proof
[ my public key: https://keybase.io/devpgsv; my proof: https://keybase.io/devpgsv/sigs/Lz_DSlKPTRsRQ3s6jm0yBuKyQurMfcxthOfqNscC_ys ]
Infineon not exactly... Intel's 5G chips were being developed by the former Infineon Wireless Solutions unit, which was bought by Intel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Mobile_Communications
I would bet the Skittles factory has no such system - the data appears to be highly consistent with what you would expect from mixing the skittles well and making entirely random bags.
How is tech "politically homogenous"? If anything, tech folks are a bit more likely to skew away from the political center, but it's not like they consistently lean "left" as a group.
Hum... I guess we could have government run Social media maybe? That's how public space work no? In that. It is owned and maintained by the government.
At the US federal level that’s largely only true for entitlement spending for the elderly which is spread across large swaths of the economic spectrum.

The trend of the last 40 years or so has been relative cuts to entitlements to the poor specifically.
> Many projects of love are free with no revenue model at all

Yes. I myself have several different ongoing projects. Some of them are in no way intended to be businesses and intentionally have no revenue model at all. Those are free for everyone and will always be (at least until/unless I tire of them and pass them along to someone else).

Others are intended to generate some sort of revenue -- with a couple, I only want them to cover their own costs, with others, I want to see them make a profit. Those are not free.

There is room for both types of project.
> Does this article meet conditions where flagging it actually justifies action?

HN is first and foremost community moderated: flagging it is action that affects ranking.

The official mods can negate or tweak community moderation effects, but there is no action from them necessary to give effect to flags.
> It could upset some Republicans

I know they aren't representative of most republicans in general, but r/The_Donald is definitely not upset right now.
What happens when British intelligence partners with a global innovation hub
Where does it claims that it does not track?

From your link:

Google Fonts logs records of the CSS and the font file requests, and access to this data is kept secure. Aggregate usage numbers track how popular font families are, and are published on our analytics page. We use data from Google’s web crawler to detect which websites use Google fonts. This data is published and accessible in the Google Fonts BigQuery database. To learn more about the information Google collects and how it is used and secured, see Google's Privacy Policy.
Do you have another source? That link 404s.
https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmVM5vkWxopNKRNszADnCKcPp66XEbsNBT2HsnF...

That contains both the original report and one I ran through ocrmypdf (version 6.1.2) from the Ubuntu 18.04 repo.
Well, if they had, they would have put those persons under close surveillance or put them away earlier.

So, obviously it's the one's that people "have no idea" that do the acts.

That's probably some kind of logical bias with a name and all ("survivorship bias" perhaps: you have to "survive" the scrutiny people get when they appear capable of a horrendous act, to be able to carry such an act out).
We live in a globalized world, there's an argument to be had that nationalism in the cheery light you just presented it as is no longer such a good thing. I'm of the opinion that the very concept of countries is inherently violent, so there's my bias, but I don't want to get into this.

What I do want to get into is all this "why ban one side and not the other", well probably because one side is significantly more violent and is only becoming more agitated? Is that not completely obvious? They're not trying to ban a school of thought, they're trying to prevent terrorist attacks by white men on non-white and immigrant people. As has been literally happening. The most violent parts of the left are responses not home grown hatred, and they're not shooting up places of worship. Go ahead, find the like 2 bad examples of left leaning violence but it doesn't take much to find 10x that from the right. One is not like the other.
If somebody doesn't want to influence you, they don't surveil you. The contraposition is more revealing; If somebody surveils you, then they do it to influence you.
Google+ Is Dead. So What?
So it's a DBaaS with a neat UI and GraphQL? https://www.prisma.io (formerly GraphCool) is similar.
The right likes to claim that media and soical networks have been censoring them, but they always fail to mention that there are actual laws on the books(!) that target BDS supporters, who are overwhelmingly on the left, you're likely to be fired if you speak in favor of Palestinian rights etc. This rarely gets mentioned.

Much of the media also promotes a rather conservative economic agenda, constantly does smear pieces against Sanders, pretends that single payer means the same as throwing people off of insurance etc.

Yes, corporations do have a 'liberal bias' when it comes to social issues, (guess what, gays are also potential customers), but they tend to be conservative on economics.
It’s less than a tenth of an F-35, to put things in perspective. And the Manafort restitution alone almost pays for it.
> What makes you think that my matress is safer than a bank?

Nothing, hence my confusion.

> No, my argument is that security is theatrical.

Claiming this in a general sense is a strong claim. Are you suggesting that end to end encryption is theatrical? Or by sidechannels do you mean that anyone can come along and beat you with a hose until you reveal your password? You're being very coy, speaking only in vagueties, and that makes it difficult to not overinterpret what you're saying.

In fact you seem self-contradictory, saying that security is theatrical yet appearing to claim a bank is safer than a mattress. Which is it?
They replaced "something", but probably haven't confirmed that, and haven't coordinated with the incoming crew to watch out for that, etc.
I'm one of the flaggers. While I'm totally ok with politics on HN, it should have something more than that. Americans have enough places to discuss their party politics.
I feel like "appeal to the founding fathers" is becoming its own category of fallacious argument.
Tours Offered at Amazon Fulfillment Centers
I miss Oliver Sacks. To see that there are still some writings by him to discover is a treat.
Phoenix CSRF Protection in HTML Forms, React Forms, and APIs
The logo is very similar to Office 365's...
Or do a startup, but not with the intention of it making you a billionaire.
I don't think that's accurate. The vote was on Leave (with the specifics completely unspecified) vs. Remain.

Within those who favor Leave, no-deal may be what the majority want. That isn't the majority of the country, though. If you said that May's deal and no deal were the only two flavors of Leave available, then I think it would come down to 48% Remain (using the figure from the previous vote), at most 35% for no-deal, and at least 17% for May's deal. Even if the exact numbers are off, there's no way that no-deal has so much support among leavers that it has more total support than remain.

Worse, of those who support something like May's deal, some would prefer remaining to a no-deal exit. So it's unclear, if the only options on the table are specifically a no-deal exit and remaining, that a no-deal exit is what the people want.

That's of the voters. In Parliament... who knows.
Break down the boxes and take them to the recycle place directly. Opsec.
Can't someone file a class action lawsuit against Facebook?

I mean, it's nice that they are deleting the information now, but they clearly did something wrong, and by basic standards, they should be punished. And the deleting the stolen information isn't punishment, and since they probably won't delete any new ad targeting information they gathered as a conclusion from the contacts, they are still profiting from it, so the punishment should be more then just a small fine (that I hope they get).

I'm just sick of them (and other companies) "accidentally" doing something wrong, and barely get a slap on the wrist.
>I cannot say exactly how nature exerts its calming and organizing effects on our brains, but I have seen in my patients the restorative and healing powers of nature and gardens, even for those who are deeply disabled neurologically. In many cases, gardens and nature are more powerful than any medication.
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I have witnessed this with my wife who's neurological disorder causes her to be in a "fright or flight" state virtually all day every day.

When she is either planning the garden, tending to the garden or just enjoying the garden I can see a reduced level of stress and increased ability to focus and multitask. All things which are very difficult outside of the garden.
>request your Facebook password

They what? Where was this happening?
Could be interesting to see the robotics. Also reminds me of a South Park episode.
Then what do you intend to contribute by just saying yes? The congressman is a totally fair example IMO, even though he's technically not in the scope of my question. He was thoroughly covered in the news, however. Las Vegas isn't really a good example in my mind as I haven't seen any credible sources indicating it was a left wing attack or otherwise politically motivated. Either way, he too was obviously covered by the media.
> The big thing I've heard is vacation photos in real time means unoccupied dwelling, which means ripe for breaking and entering.

This is mostly FUD though. Dutch police did an experiment where cops using traditional methods were 3 times (iirc) more effective at spotting vacationers than ones using the internet. It's much more important to secure your home than it is to not post to social media.
Well, there is Android, that uses Linux and is as mainstream consumer as it gets. Do mind that I specifically said 'Linux survived' as in 'the Linux kernel project', followed by a number of Linux distributions.

Also, where are those Linux users [who] have for years been fooled into running binaries or installing packages? The majority of Linux users get their software from repositories maintained by whichever distribution they use. This fact is one of the reasons why Linux users are far less likely to install 'random' software. It is that aspect of Linux distributions which 'stores' like F-Droid bring to Android.

Last, what kind of 'hardening' do you deem every other consumer OS has had to make which Linux distributions have yet to accomplish? I'd go so far as saying that the likes of Windows and MacOS are playing catch-up here in finally getting around to implementing a sane repository infrastructure from which users can install and update software instead of having them hunting around the web for some SETUP.EXE to download and click on - which then proceeds to install not only the requested program but also a host of toolbars and 'shopping assistants'.

That both Apple as well as Microsoft took one step further in making these software repositories single-source to the detriment of their user's freedom of choice is what started this discussion in the first place.
Absolutely. Unfortunately the rest of the world has and now I’m a million miles away from my friends in a country that doesn’t speak the same language and there’s this great thing called the internet that makes it feel like I’m not so far away anymore...

This is why the internet was invented and why there were free and open protocols invented to communicate using it. Unfortunately then AOL and AIM started and it was downhill after that... now we all rely on Facebook or Google or Twitter to relay our messages and that’s not great for anyone.
I was a bit too young to follow Watergate in detail. Could you be more explicit about what the president signed?
The OP makes a related mistake (although for their data, it worked out OK). It uses this grid:

x_grid=np.arange(x_min-h,x_max+h,grid_size)
y_grid=np.arange(y_min-h,y_max+h,grid_size)

where h is a small constant, and the range ends are the min/max of the data. In general, this will result in rectangular pixels, which you probably don't want.

In your example, even for a small geographic area, a degree of longitude will typically translate to a smaller distance than a degree of latitude, so as you say you can't treat them the same.
is "Show HN:" a paid way for companies to advertise on hacker news? If not, awesome, otherwise, I feel a bit naive in thinking HN was a more pure approach to content and would be very disappointed.
I don't know if the people that make up tech lean left over all if you summed them up but the ones that don't lean left sure seem to keep their mouth shut in the workplace which has the same effect.
>It is also the first to set requirements for public access to the design and data used to build the tool’s predictions, requiring that records created during a risk assessment tool’s development, validation, and use to “be open to public inspection, auditing, and testing.”...

Now these are the kinds of laws we need! This is the sort of thing we should be doing all across the US for a lot of software being used, allegedly, "in the public interest".
Your argument basically is:

War is good, b/c after the first strike everything is ok for the attacker.

You forget that there is always some kind of reaction. Protectionism always works in the short run. We'll see how protectionist US looks in 10y. Then you can argue depending on results it works.