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Facebook are losing their core competency. Just this morning I had a post removed for 'violating community guidelines'. I have a number of pages most of which automatically post content, and I have absolutely no idea which post was removed, from which page, or why, the notification just didn't say.

This move reeks of desperation, Facebook needs to forget about 'redesign' and garbage like 'workspace' and just work on fixing it. The best way to do that is to get the people building it actually using it again.
This seems like it will inevitably discourage victims from reporting crime. Imagine a scenario where someone is mugged but doesn't want to report it to the police because they have some texts from their weed dealer on their phone: as a result the mugger never gets reported and may mug somebody else. Not to mention the huge opportunities it creates for a kind of blackmail (criminal A commits a crime against criminal B knowing in advance that criminal B could not report criminal A without being implicated in a different crime when they hand over their digital info).

So it's easy to see how this kind of policy can counterintuitively end up increasing crime by making it easier for someone who has committed a crime to get away with it.
Apple services revenue reaches new All-Time high of $11.5B
"After over 18 years on the Board, Eric Schmidt is not seeking re-election at the expiration of his current term on June 19, 2019. He will continue as a technical advisor to Alphabet. Eric has served as a member of the Board since March 2001. He was Google’s Chief Executive Officer from July 2001 to April 2011, and its Executive Chairman from April 2011 until January 2018."

From the press release: https://abc.xyz/investor/news/releases/2019/0430/
Hanlon's razor (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor)
Thomas here, programmer at Golden. We don't have any specific plans to announce at the moment, but we've been thinking about how best to provide API access, including looking into GraphQL. Let me know if you have any specific needs or ideas! thomas@golden.com
> It was a show about all of life's very real events that contribute to the thought processes that go on inside the head of someone in this state.

But no, it's fiction. It's not real, and it's not based on reality. We don't get any actual insight into what goes on in the head of of young person who is suicidal or who dies by suicide. We get what some author and show-runner think might be going on in that person's head.
The hiring spreadsheet and the clash at The Markup
At first I thought it was a good thing that I started seeing condo buildings create FB groups to create at least some sense of community.

But the ones I’ve seen just end up being an disorganized mess of negative comments that should be directed to condo boards and security themselves. If there is useful information it shouldn’t be locked into a platform like FB either…
Conveniently enough, it works out that they're about $740 million short of their obligations. That's a lot of money.
You are right.

That is why there is an expectation of you paying attention. Including during a red light. That means not using your phone.

I can assure you, if you are using your phone at a red light, it takes more than 0.01 seconds to notice the change in light, put the phone down, look at the street in front of you to make sure there isn't anything new since the last time you looked and go. In fact, if it took you the 0.01 seconds you say, it would literally be impossible for someone to honk you in time before you take off. The amount of time quoted is mind mindbogglingly small.

I don't get honked at. When I'm at a red light, I'm paying attention. If I need to use my phone, I pull over. Therefore, when a light changes I generally move along as quick as possible. If for some reason something falls in my car, I'm having a conversation with someone next to me or I get distracted (happens once or twice a year) and someone honks, I defer to them, since I know I'm in the wrong by not being on the ball.

I defer because I have no entitlement over the time of the person behind me. I'm not making up excuses saying how little time it is. I understand it's wrong of me to impose on them unnecessarily. Using your phone while driving is not
necessary. It's all very logical. Basically:

My pleasure < Their Right to not have people impose on their time.

I always find it strange when an issue isn't addressed but instead denied by making it seem small (generally with gross underestimations). I remember a coworker once got fired for stealing a box of pens. When caught he claimed "I didn't steal, it was just a box of pens! It's basically worth nothing." - I think the boss actually fired him for giving that argument instead of owning the issue.

* Exceptions could be made for checking the traffic in GPS or some other activity that aids driving (knowing you need to change lanes with advance notice is important). Checking messages emails isn't one such activity, though I've seen a lot of friends and colleges do it much to my chagrin.
It could be a boiling the frog thing, but IMO the desktop experience hasn't changed much in a few years. It's not exactly information-dense, but more so than Twitter, somehow, despite the latter's "short text only" origins.
There's an in-between: develop locally in a non-notebook environment, and deploy that software in a container. Notebooks are great for fiddling around with new ideas, but when building production AI systems they tend to fall over.

What we'll often do is use a small dataset locally on our desktop to confirm that something works, and then ship it to a multi-GPU setup in our cluster to train things for real-world uses. It's much easier to do this when you're developing on the same OS that is running in the cluster, hence Ubuntu desktop.
Show HN: JavaScript for Full Stack Programming
IOT devices - JerryScript (by Samsung)

Android, iOS, Windows mobile - Apache Cordova, NativeScript

Browser - JS (AngularJS, ReactJS and many others)

Server - NodeJS, GraalVM

Desktop Apps - ElectronJS (embeds Browser & NodeJS)

Database - MongoDB, PostgreSQL (PLV8)

AI and Machine Learning - TensorFlow.js , BrainJS and ml5js

Automation Testing - Jasmine, Cypress (Browser-based) and Artillery (Load testing)

Any Desktop OS Automation - RobotJS

Remote and Cloud Deployment - ShipItJS
Voice notification desktop tool for headset gamer
The point being, it would be nice to know the trial isn't going to collapse because the defense got a subpoena on the phone's contents and nobody in the prosecution had plans for what they found.

This is an artefact of the adversarial model of justice. Someone is being paid to get mister rapist, mister burglar and miss stabbity off the hook and they can and will use anything that makes you look like a liar or unreliable. Regardless if you actually are.

If the UK switched to a continental style system of judge-led discovery, this kind of fishing for anything that looks bad might become less prevalent. But that isn't presently in the offing.
The Tyranny of Convenience: the future we all chose, but nobody seems to want
I'm excited that audio-programming-in-the-browser is becoming a thing. It means more people are likely to fall down this exquisite rabbit hole. I'm totally in this field so I'll list a few websites that let you program music in the browser, and my rough opinion on them:

- http://wavepot.com/ is just built on top of Javascript. The code tends to be long since the library is pretty bare-bones right now, but it's really well executed.

- https://gibber.cc/ is also JS-based. The library and functions provided make for some pretty terse yet readable code, though focused on somewhat traditional synthesis methods (and I still don't think JS is ideal for this...)

- http://ctford.github.io/klangmeister/ is based on Clojurescript, which is a safe choice since Overtone has long demonstrated that Lisp is great for music programming. Right now there's not much of a library to go with it, though.

- http://faust.grame.fr/editor/ - Faust is one of the greatest music programming languages, and it also runs in the browser, but I think they haven't sufficiently polished the browser experience in a way that lets a novice learn the language in the browser.

- https://audiomasher.org/browse - I'm biased on that one since I made it. An obvious weakness is that the language is a little frightening at first glance, but there's a tutorial. It's terse yet open-ended, and the built-in library is pretty extensive.

For SOUL, it seems running in the browser is just a little demo, and the language is meant to be used in other situations. In fact, most of the above projects have grander aspirations than running in the browser - it's generally just a way of getting people to try out the language or system. But I still wish more projects would take the extra step and create a community-style website where anyone can upload and play with each other's code, otherwise the web experience just seems like a proof-of-concept.
One reason why I like contributing to Wikipedia is because it feels like I'm contributing to the knowledge-base for all of humanity. Why should I spend my time working on a VC-funded version instead of at a non-profit? VC companies go bust all the time. I would have little share in the governance. Plus, it seems like you all are using public labor for private profit.

That all said, more knowledge is better than less. Good work on creating this.
Fascinating. I'd never heard this.

Also of interest are the "insurance covers" signed by Apollo 11 astronauts as a form of life insurance and mentioned in a linked Wikipedia article.
All the personnel would go work for a private company doing the same thing whether in the US or for someone other than the US. $$$ talks.

[0]https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-spying-raven-specialr...
>I get that FB is convenient

>We surely don’t need a multi-billion company to host events and groups for us

This is the crazy part about most "cloud" and "social" things today. Instead of spending money on making core technologies easy to use and accessible to all people we (collectively) fund middlemen who provide usability as a centralized, temporary service. This is exactly like TurboTax, except it's happening with all kinds of IT products and almost nobody cares.

For example, there is no fundamental reason why creating your own forum should be significantly more complicated than creating a Facebook account and installing their app on your phone. The only essential pieces of information you need for a forum are universal name/id of some sort (e.g. a domain name), administrative login and administrative password. Maybe not even that. Really, you don't even need login/password if you're okay with using email for authentication. Everything else is made-up bullshit that IT industry refuses to optimize (and, in fact, makes more complicated as years go by).

This isn't just about being annoyed by Facebook's bloated UI and glitches. We live in an increasingly information-driven society, so the ability of normal people to own and control their online information is increasingly important.
Whether this is "unconstitutional" is, of course, a hotly contested legal issue. While EFF asserts that the "border is not a lawless place" the fact is that border searches are where personal property rights and the right of a sovereign to police its borders intersect, and the former has historically given way to the latter. One of the very first things Congress did in 1789 was create customs enforcement, empowered to conduct warrantless searches for contraband or dutiable goods.

What the EFF's motion for summary judgment actually does is ask the court to extend Riley. There, the Supreme Court held that a search of electronic data on a phone was a fourth amendment violation, even where a search was otherwise permissible without a warrant because it was a search incident to arrest. The idea was that an electronic search did not serve the purposes of a search incident to arrest, which focuses more on ensuring officer safety. A more honest reporting of the article therefore would be "EFF asks court to extend the reasoning of the Supreme Court's recent decision in Riley to hold that the Fourth Amendment protects travelers from searches of electronic data on phones and laptops when such searches are not reasonably related to the purposes of finding contraband and dutiable goods." But that wouldn't bring in all the donor dollars!

I think the EFF actually has a good argument. Possibly the correct argument, at least taking Riley as a given. But man do I hate the press release. (Of course, the EFF's legal filing omits the crap.)
I once decided to talk with a "Hi this is Windows your computer wanted me to tell you it has a virus" guy once, and he's going through his script, trying to determine whether I have a Windows box or a Mac by describing whether I have a command key or a win key on my keyboard. My fancy-pants programmer keyboard happens to have neither, but in trying to explain this to him, he got so mad I literally heard him throwing things off his desk, last of which being the phone itself. I assume my family is still cursed, though I never took his physically improbable suggestions.
What about for desktop?
I've only hurt my ego. I've tried to fix an iPhone and an iPad. Destroyed both.
Oculus Quest review: 2019’s best new gaming system is wireless, affordable VR
Facebook Unveils Redesign as It Tries to Move Past Privacy Scandals
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19790323
It seems they market their premise to users every day. Every event that I find it easier to keep track of, every event I find it easier to plan. Every community I participate in.

This is a clever redesign because events are even 'stickier' in their network effects than the news feed is. I don't think it's altruistic, but I think it's smart.
Audiobooks are an amazing resource. I've been using them for years and never looked back, although some books do deserve physical attention.
It's gonna be interesting for me. I'm about to move to Montreal (flight is in 2 days). I want to learn French very well to idle-mine immigration points. I'm gonna make mistakes. That's just how it is. The surest path to success is failure.
It looks like you can use EncFS and TrueCrypt now on Android, with a few different apps. But I'm not sure how good the implementation is, or if you need to be rooted.
Beto O'Rourke, a Democratic candidate for the 2020 US Presidential election, was a member of "America's oldest hacking group."

[0] https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-poli...
The assumption you leave unstated is that it is unsafe to have your phone searched by the government. While that's a point of view I consider true for many, and I endorse halting warrantless border searches of phones, it is certainly not true to say that phone searches are unsafe for all.
i suppose they either tricked 2 billion people to use an app that does nothing for them or you're wrong and the value prop is obvious
They are also piloting comment voting.
Show HN: An Open-Source Multiplayer (.io) Web Game
People can hurt themselves trying to fix their cars too, or any other object. That's not a good reason to make your product unrepairable.
AAPL up by 10pts (~5%) afterhours as of this comment timestamp. Is this purely due to the dividend announcement?
I wore this everyday for 5 years, including in Iraq, and I always felt that it was horrible at actually camoflauging anything. One main reason was that it would get brighter and brighter over time, as the colors tended to fade -- a well worn was incredbily light-looking that Soldiers would pop out at you against a darker background. We were told eventually that you can't use regular detergent on it because it has brighteners, that you should use Woolite. It was also supposed to be a benefit to have velcro for nametapes, rank, and unit insignia so that soldiers didn't need to pay to get things sewn on, but it made for very noisy and inconvenient examples of people sticking to each other in close quarters.
Thanks for clarifying, I see exactly what you mean now. It looks like some Gitlabbers are in this thread now so hopefully they see this as well
But you just answered the GP's concern, safe from what?

Also, just my phone? What about my laptop? Safe from searches? Pickpockets? Malware?

There's a big difference between raising awareness of issues(ex know your rights - check out xyz.com for more info) vs big brother is, watching; trust no one, followed by a border security queue
So, you understand what it means, but you don't understand what it means?
"No and no thank you" certainly does speed up the checkout process.
Government collection (especially under this program) is a tiny drop in the ocean compared to commercial data collection by tech companies. And the government programs, unlike the private sector ones, operate within a framework of laws, regulations, and ultimate accountability.

I agree with your sentiment, but the US government is a bit player here compared to private industry.
VPN is a good point. I don't think that I could get anywhere near 100Mbit with my Pi on OpenVPN, though in practice it is enough for what I need it for (access to home automation and maybe a couple of cameras).
What are the benefits of a real name policy?

It's easy to create bot accounts that have believable names, and a whatever vetting process put in place may just be a false sense of security that you're interacting with who they say they are.

It certainly doesn't make anyone less of an jerk. Plenty of racists sexists etc on facebook arguing with everyone else in the world.

How does is prevent impersonating someone not on the platform? Twitter is notoriously bad at this... you can just call yourself whatever you want as long as your target isn't a user of the platform and takes notice...
Wow: Personal Deep Learning Computer Can Be Faster Than AWS and GCP
Technically, they're part of the Department of the Navy. The only practical consequence I know about is that they're under the Secretary of the Navy rather than having their own civilian-in-charge.

They also have different camouflage, which was never blue.
While noble in appearance (that's what you're going for with the Golden name?), I'm skeptical of a VC-backed company going after Wikipedia, which is, IMO one of the treasures of the internet.

Without a VERY transparent and provable business model, I would never support this, as it seems like exactly the wrong direction to take "the internet". Especially since from the CEO's language, it seems to be competing directly with Wikipedia, rather than trying to work with them.
You can turn FaceID off.
Vulnerability Remediation Requirements for Internet-Accessible Systems
IP to Country Database (IPv4 and IPv6)
The saying in San Diego is that you can surf in the morning, ski in the afternoon, and camp in the desert at night.
Extensive discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19782634
It's called the Werther Effect. That's why some countries outright censor stories and talk of suicide because it sparks a rash of them.
Nasa 2019 Hypothetical Asteroid Impact Scenario
Couldn't you trivially defeat that by randomizing your IRC username? Blocking email addresses does literally nothing against email spam, why would chat be different?
Being able to provide a query engine that can combine general knowledge with trade secret / internal knowledge will be a huge step for chatbot engines or other document retrieval. Cool project.
Partially, along with beating expected EPS by $0.09 and expected revenue by 400MM.
I agree with him although the accuracy of that statement is partially based on how “published research” is defined. Operational definitions and measurement are themselves much of the problem.
Not a native French speaker, no. Apologies if that one-sentence broad generalization was tiring to you - I meant neither to explain nor be exhaustive. ;)

Obviously they're not different languages - I was a bit exaggeratory in that regard. And I do understand both, in as much as I understand either. French is my third or fourth most proficient language after English, Spanish and maybe German, but I never get to use it (or German for that matter).

The two are however different enough in some pronunciation and idioms that we ultimately had to do a second localization to support both. And the differences reported to us ran the spectrum from simple things, such as how to correctly pronounce the (cardinal) number 1 (a cleaner "un" compared to what sounds to my ear like "arn"), to the longer phrases one might expect to hear in a voicemail prompt. Ultimately our translation department got things ironed out, but it was a (somewhat amusing/bemusing) learning experience for us.
I guess that is possible, but I think it is just as likely that people just overestimate the requirement. My Pi is practically idling while pushing ~100Mbit between the builtin Ethernet and an external dongle. Routing really doesn't take as much CPU as people think, even with a few rules for things like bandwidth monitoring on a per IP basis.
America’s Favorite Door-Locking App Has a Data Privacy Problem
Agree, but unfortunately all your suggestion of taking the high road does is disqualify you from ever obtaining elected office...
They actually state why they don't report unit sales numbers: they aren't meaningful now that the iPhone is no longer opening in new markets, the mobile phone market has reached maturity, and the number that is meaningful for their business growth is active devices.

I'm not going to defend Apple's reasons for crafting their message to Wall Street, but to say that they only care about revenue and profits, but not innovation or products, just doesn't follow from sales number reporting (or from their other actions, in my opinion).
Sidebar: Tandem's Q1 2019 results came out today and they're doing pretty dang well. http://investor.tandemdiabetes.com/news-releases/news-releas...

Operating margin is still negative, but it's improved tremendously year over year.
Forums existed before Facebook and will continue to exist after Facebook. Just because Facebook was seen as the lowest barrier to entry for many groups doesn’t mean they wouldn’t exist without it.
We can always vote and legislate for something better. From my experience in the US, police vary from decent people just trying to serve society, to up-armored mall cops on power trips. If you give them assault rifles, tanks, and unlimited surveillance, you encourage the worst among them. A guy wearing a uniform and trained in de-escalation instead of "verbal control" could do some good.
I'd ask for 25% down and 20% interest, and write quicker eviction for non-payment into the security instrument, as a separate civil action from a foreclosure.

...and then, I'd re-sell the note to a rich person/company who can afford better lawyers, because I don't really need my assets pinned down like that in one high-risk loan.
Forums are nerdy and almost nobody wants to check N number of different forums to keep up with any groups they want to be part of.

FB isn't convenient because people have an account that works with "Login with Facebook." It's convenient because it's a one stop shop for your members.

Whether FB is ideal is going to vary per community though.