skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>What value could possibly be extracted by such a person from being “on” Facebook?

It seems silly to deny that people genuinely enjoy Facebook and find it useful. It makes sense considering that Facebook has supplanted and absorbed many of the sites and software that people used to use - Flickr, ICQ/AIM, and vBulletin/phpbb for instance.

I know a lot of people who share family photos on Facebook. I know many people who discuss topics ranging from gangstalking to glassblowing to autism. A lot of people share memes and humor and political discussion and people consume that content. Clearly people value FB for communication and entertainment. Messenger is also clearly with value for text chat, voice calls and video calls.

Many artists I know have made a living from selling things for free on Facebook, with few restrictions and 100% less fees than Etsy and eBay (the market switched to Instagram ~4 years ago). Many advertisers get the majority of their leads from Facebook.

Does the world need Facebook to do this? No, there are alternatives. But people clearly find it useful and it would be hard to support that the platform is without utility or value. Are you saying that the harm done by Facebook’s business practices exceeds the value of providing this for free to consumers?
You know, I'll bet Backblaze goes through lots of memory, cpus, etc, too. Yev? :)
Anecdotally, I grew up in the UK, where they are very strict regarding underage drinking (18 is the legal age). Worked in a small town in Austria in my early 20s and noticed that kids in the 15 - 18 year age range were generally allowed to drink (at an outdoor pub / concert venue) without too much hassle. They definitely did it more moderately than kids in the same age range in the UK.
Courses, instructors, etc all fall short because ultimately mastery requires deep and prolonged immersion which the author and many people post-middle age never commit to. Her kids live in France yet she talks in English at home, doesn't watch TV/movies in French, and doesn't read much in French (inferred from one of her comments) - all her choices and all sufficiently big deal to 100% explain her lack of mastery.

I'm far from convinced based on anything in this article that learning languages is actually harder for middle aged people at all vs kids. Consider typical 2nd language education in the US: 1hr/day for 4 years during highschool - those 14-18yr olds speak terribly also and the reason has nothing to do with age.
We're everything!

JS is heavily used, as is Groovy, Java, Python, C and C
++, etc.

Depends on the project and the team. We're not about limiting people, but the choice should be justifiable (like... Brainfuck is probably not ok)
The more secret an agency is, the less likely you'll hear about the great achievements they've done for your country on the short term. On the long term, it might end up declassified. That's the conundrum of secret services. The public cannot possibly assess their performance.

As for the needle in a haystack point. Bill Binney architected a system which was targeted. The NSA rejected it...
I saw the story break while I was reading WSJ and forgot most people are paywalled. Can definitely promise this specific case was not "seeded"
> I pop on a zip-bomb of two out of principle against anybody scraping my phone

Do zip bombs still work in 2019? I'd expect most antivirus and unzip programs can detect this easily, no?
I have found Duolingo great for revising basic vocabulary (Spanish) but, yeah, for grammar not at all.

I have also found that anything I have really learned (in a sense that I don't need to revise, I just know it) has not come from the comfort of an app but from the real struggle of trying to converse with someone in their native language.
Girl’s $143,000 bill for snakebite treatment reveals antivenin price gouging
The ars review of the Quest is really glowing: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/04/oculus-quest-review-2...
Why is it so hard to catch them? Can't the FTC set up a house sale, and when the buyer presents himself at closing, have him arrested? Eventually the buyer needs to be available to close the sale. I suppose it can all be done electronically (I bought property with an electronic closing) but for the demographic they're trying to market from, electronic signatures and document handling may not be easy. Someone will have to meet with them, and there an arrest can be made (for the robocalling).
I always liked the pictures of it blending into couches: https://havokjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/ACU-couc...
Discussed in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19704418 10 days ago.
"Are you okay? Is something wrong? Can I help you? Those are the words I desperately wanted to hear right before I catapulted myself over the rail." — Kevin Hines, survived jumping from the GGB almost twenty years ago.

http://suicidetherippleeffect.com/
Valve Index VR Kit
Under the understanding that suicide is an act of spontaneity and not always highly determined, a hotline gives the amount of time necessary for an acute urge to pass. Depending on the source, it also informs people where and how to get help.

Of course, much of the effects relies on the skill of the folk on the other line. But it is always extremely important to have something, anything, interrupt what is often a compulsion that passes.
> the study linking shows with transgender themes and increase in transgender association ( especially amongst young girls ).

Do you have a relevant HN thread/source for this? Just curious and can't seem to find it.
Thanks for the AudioKit Synth One shout out! We're working hard to improve open-source synths
>While some users still miss the now-deprecated Unity interface, the GNOME 3 desktop interface has won fans. Indeed, Shuttleworth said, "GNOME kind of saved my bacon, to be honest. Unity was causing a lot of distractions and it was controversial, even though it was good. So, when we decided to retire it, we needed a desktop, and that was GNOME"

This is pleasantly surprising to read. Many were happy to see Canonical drop their homegrown Unity for GNOME, and GNOME has received quite a few performance improvements from Ubuntu devs as a result.
Awesome. I love to see small teams tackling big problems like this. Good luck guys!
OK, we've done that now!
> Thoughts on Fedora vs Arch?

Both perfectly good systems. Both are reasonably up-to-date though Arch is more cutting edge, and Fedora has releases rather than rolling release. Fedora has a real company backing it at some level. Arch probably has the greatest package availability of any operating system (at all, if we allow the AUR).

> but forgetting to mount my boot

...so stick it in fstab? Using -o bind if need be.
Thank you for that link, it was a joy to read
You have data on 3 users, Facebook has it for 2.3 billion
In certain ways the entire concept of retirement saving is an investment in the ability to time travel later in life!
> what about the Bible (Jesus)?

Erm, what?

> what about Socrates?

Erm, what?
Andrew Yang understands the fact that we're heading towards ubiquitous automation.
Not really. While he makes it sound bad, what is happening is that in exchange for actually proving that drugs we "know work" actually work companies get a monopoly for a short time. I'm glad some of the treatments doctors have been using for years now have science behind them so we know more about how well they work.
From my experience people are not concerned about me not drinking, but rather they’re extremely surprised that such a thing exists and want to know the reason why.

The answer “because I enjoy myself without it and I don’t want to get drunk” only gets accepted about 50% of the time. The other 50% people start speculating odd reasons as to why I’m not drinking :)
Yes, though in Apples case they fell foul of Apple records and eventually settled that they would not do anything music related. That changed, though they financially better placed to handle and settle that issue than the initial conflict.

Just checked for a wiki entry and good to see my memory of that era not that bad: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v_Apple_Computer
I'm taxed on my actual income though, not something like the whole country's median income. But I can only deduct a crude approximation of the whole country's minimum necessary expenses.

It definitely works against you both ways in high COL areas, where salaries are higher in part bc expenses are higher, but deductions are still fixed.
Yup. I've had this happen on my Verizon business phone. I called Verizon and was told the only recourse was to change my number, but of course the rep acknowledged the spammers could spoof any new number I received just as easily. So Verizon's only answer was basically "Deal with it."
If by 'rapidly improve' you mean 'become even more mired in regulation, over-analysis and responsibility-shedding behavior' then sure, I guess.
It's incredibly concerning that we could have "medical students and other health professionals" reading images and providing labeling data that would actually get used to teach AI...
I guess the value is that you can keep in touch with people without knowing their phone number or email address. That's about it.

Personally, I don't feel like I'm missing out on anything by not being on Fb.
Why can't you use ROC with an imbalanced dataset?

My understanding is the PR curve is preferable to ROC since the ROC can make it difficult to discern differences between models on imbalanced data; but the ROC is still a valid way to compare/measure models.
Self-professed creator of Bitcoin faked evidence in court, expert claims
That is great film but it had the opposite effect for me and everyone I talked to who watched it. They tell some pretty scary stories in it...
Things I Enjoy in Rust: Macros
IMHO enforcing public groups is probably just a way to collect data from user’s public activity, which allows for better targeted advertising without boring (themself) with privacy. Which is fine if used in a good way.
My impression is that the We Company (holding company), will diversify into social spaces for social things, including short term hoteling: a la co-living, airbnb/Marriott, event spaces, popups, etc. You're right, the gym membership subscription model will quickly fall apart during the next downturn.
Looks like a mod has taken care of it.
If people are asking you if you're having fun its because you're showing you're not. Grab a sprite and say it's a G&T and enjoy yourself.
Very useful, thanks for this level of critique.

I wish they added this context in the limitations section. The paper only says:

"There are some limitations to this system. It remains an open question whether the design of the questionnaire had any influence on the performance of the dermatologists compared with clinical settings. Furthermore, clinical encounters with actual patients provide more information than that can be provided by images alone. Hänßle et al. showed that additional clinical data improve the sensitivity and specificity of dermatologists slightly [5]. Machine learning techniques can also include this information in their decisions. However, even with this slight improvement, the CNN would still outperform the dermatologists."

Your points hit on validity issues. Where would it fit on the errors of omission/commission scale?
Why throwaway?
It helps that the Koch network has probably hundreds of millions of dollars of already laid into relationships, think tanks, and academic centers, so the $10M is all action, with little need to foundation build.
Fake news marathon from the 2016 election hasn't finished yet, but Deep State and their minions from the NY Times are already trying to start another campaign.

I wish there was some truth to it, because the US government is the worst election meddler (and let's not forget the wars and coups) in the history of mankind.
It always has been ;)
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Having seen students in Europe and from the US, agreed. It definitely helps to be lower.
Important correction: 20 MBit/s, not 2.
They probably don't want to publicize their methods, and they might not have to due to parallel construction -- we may never know what they've stopped. There's not a lot of oversight here: they're also spying on Congress and civil servants and every time a terrorist attack or mass shooting happens, they get more money and more power whether they've stopped any other attacks or not.

In the unlikely event that someone told them to stop because the 4th amendment was violated, they would just have someone in an intelligence-sharing agreement like Five Eyes get the same data and send it over.
All the algorithmic propaganda is entirely optional. If your view of the internet is only what you see on FB, twitter, and instagram, then sure it's pretty terrible. But you aren't under any obligation to sit there and scroll through advertising, Zuckerberg isn't holding a gun to your head. Social media is an echo chamber that seems much larger than it is, with far less voices contributing than it might appear (1).

1. https://www.pewinternet.org/2019/04/24/sizing-up-twitter-use...
AI Pioneer Li Deng Named Canadian Academy of Engineering Fellow
You're correct. I confused MBit with MByte - the correct number is 20 MBit/s.
I think it's many immersions into media that can produce this. There's a study running around that we experience media as if we were physically there.
I watched the show and I didn't get it. I mean, she wasn't around to see the effects, so what was the point? I mean, she did all this for revenge. But she's gone, so ... ?

Not trying to be insensitive, I just plain don't understand why she thought suicide was the solution for her problems.
Interesting, I know the variation of this from https://www.remoteonly.org and didn't realise it was associated with gitlab
State of Node.js Core Fireside Chat – Questions and Answers
thanks @sctb
I get why you're getting downvoted, but staying one release behind a certainly a way to avoid bugs, and if you're on 28 then this is definitely a good reason to bump up to 29.
>How can it be that teenage girls, who watch more dramas and presumably empathize with a female lead more, show absolutely no effect?

In general women are more likely to attempt suicide, but men are much more likely to succeed because of the methods they tend to choose. The data for attempted suicides is much less granular and reliable than the data for successful suicides.
This is a great strategy. I for one burn as much fossil fuel as possible. The sooner we run out, the sooner we can stop releasing that carbon into the air. I'm doing my part to reduce the finite supply of fossil fuels.
If that is true, then not only digital tools, but all books, classes, tests and every other technique aside from what you recommend for language learning are fraudulent wastes of time.
I can confirm these people :) Most of interesting things in my life happened when I was drunk. People are boring without drugs...
If we executed every developer that committed code that introduced new bugs, do you think software quality would be better or worse in the long run? Would there be any tradeoffs?
We already have kids identifying cars, storefronts and traffic lights. What’s the worst that could happen?
No. But at least RHEL 8 (based on Fedora 28) has been available as a beta release for a while now (since 25th November 2018), so it shouldn't be too long.. I'd speculate another 4-6 months and we'll have it.
I was at Benning in the circa 2004 era and in my unit, we expressly forbid starching. However, that was definitely not true for many other units.
... for the reasons of national security, of course.
Multi-dimensional strided array views in the Magnum engine
Last remark seems uncalled for and unnecessary.
Thanks. I'll have to check it out!
IIRC most JSOC operators wear MultiCam, which as the article pointed out, is a Crye Precision proprietary blend.
Sure, but dedicated hardware and a very deep nested zip hinting at something juicy deep at the bottom, maybe - maybe not. Be fun to find out if such an eventuality transpires.

Might prove that they are the perfect way to store your sensitive data - buried deep inside a zip-bomb, knowing AV will filter it away. Food for thought.
I work for a crisis hotline specifically for transgender people of any age. Suicide contagion or "copycat suicide" is a very real thing. Addressing it requires a concerted effort by media and everyone involved when reporting or talking about a suicide to help contain the effect. When there is a situation that is already getting a lot of attention (in our community or nationally/internationally), we are very careful with how we spread even messages of love and solidarity.

I haven't looked to see whether our numbers reflect any trend from that time period two years ago, but I'd be curious to see at some point.
I don't see how an age group of 10-17 which is at a much more formative time in their lives with some not having fully developed brains points to p-hacking. Gender difference is interesting but doesn't mean p-hacking because the reasoning for it is non-obvious.

It's also possible that the 10-17 audience of 13 Reasons Why was significantly more male, but Netflix does not release that data. But there are plenty of plausible reasons for the gender divide.

> Now we have two seemingly "significant" studies with opposite conclusions

But not conflicting results. There's nothing that says one age group, with vastly more life experience, would be affected less or even differently than another with significantly less life experience.

> Or could it be that the researchers had an expected result, broke down the data until they found a dimension that had a large enough increase by chance, and submitted it to a journal full of peer reviewers who would find the result plausible and prestigious to their field?

A result in either direction would have been interesting for the field, so I don't think this is the motivation. The positive does get a bit more media attention, but I think this view is overly skeptical.
Modernity, Faith, and Martin Buber
Also a bet that you will live to later. I've known a few people who died young: on hindsight they should have lived life better and not saved so much (I have no idea how much they saved, but even 1 penny in their pocket...)
Pattern is just a numeric lock underneath(the dots that you connect represent numbers on a numpad, on Android they even used to be saved in plaintext as a pin until Android 2.1 iirc).
Arch is not quite a real-world-usable system IMHO, it breaks way too easily if you're not constantly updating it, which means that at some point you'll have to reinstall from scratch. Debian Testing/Unstable just tends to work better (for a rolling distro) in my view.

The Arch vs. Fedora comparison is not very sensible given how different the update models are... if you're ok with Fedora's update schedule it can be a fine choice.
That's an interesting point, but I wonder how big of a problem it is? The way drug R&D dollars are currently allocated, it actually seems like we are steepening the histogram of death

These days it is actually easier and more financially viable to develop drugs for rare diseases than highly prevalent diseases. 58% of new FDA approved drugs in 2018 were for orphan disease [0]. This is consistent with other measures like % of pharma M&A, % of venture deals across indications, etc. This suggests that it's more profitable to develop drugs for rare disease -- otherwise we'd see more funding for more prevalent disease

Since we focus more on rare disease, we won't be making as much headway on "big killers". And since developing drugs for rare disease is more profitable, it seems the drug development model may actually work better in a world with more rare diseases.

Looking at some CDC numbers [1], in 1980 85% of total deaths were caused by a top 10 cause of death. In 2015, 74% of all deaths were caused by a top 10 cause of death. Cancer and heart disease are still up at the top, and cancer deaths have increased 43% since 1980 (with US population growth of 42%). We will make more progress on cancer, but the "big killers" will remain so for a while, esp as little is spent on cardiovascular disease R&D or mental health (which shows up in the top 10 as suicide, which in 90% of cases is mental-illness related, and "unintentional injuries" which include a lot of drug overdoses). Rare disease in aggregate would probably make the top 10 causes of death. It would be interesting to see how rare-disease related mortality has changed in the last decades

[0] http://www.hbmpartners.com/media/docs/industry-reports/Analy...

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hus/hus16.pdf#019
Benefits of having an onboarding process with your remote development team
Once I was introduced, via an SAT prep book, to the idea that the objective was not "what is the right answer to this SAT Verbal section question" but "how would Priscilla, who is the blandest person imaginable, answer it," I crushed it. 1490 on the PSAT, 1600 on the SAT.

I am not brilliant, but am a fantastic test taker.
Also NoScript.
Bots Exploiting Blockchains for Profit
If you read the article they don't talk about "online" services / API which are probably most of them in Java.
Not sure if this comment was intended for a larger audience, or just me? I mean as my original comment suggests, I haven't drunk any alcohol last ~4 months, and even before that I don't think I had any of these symptoms. Anyway, thanks for the heads up!
I've seen digital-only IPD adjustment listed as a con elsewhere
It looks like Twitter to me. Like a very bright Twitter.
Softbank does not come with political strings.

China's 'belt and road' are political, national investments part of a grand strategy.

Softbank is just money.

If you set out to attack MBS/Saudis while taking their money, you can expect trouble, but I significantly doubt you're going to be trouble otherwise.

Whereas Chinas national loans have an entirely different set of objectives.

Softbank/Saudis are just looking to make money, like most other VCs.
Is there an FFMPEG type of filter that can translate information recorded in the vertical interval space like CCs or even VITC? All of the equipment I ever used expected an incoming video signal for processing. For archival processing, it would be an interesting approach when finding the proper video based equipment would/could be difficult.
beside excel, what other reasons are there for windows usage ? some old contract ?
Uh...not at all similar. Refrigerators don’t have the capability to fry burgers, and if someone came along and figured out a way to do that, the refrigerator manufacturer couldn’t say “your banned from making any modifications to our refrigerators”.
This is cool.

Can I have it against CoreAudio or Pulse or anything other than WebAudio?
True, but I've known Nick Pestell (IVPN CEO) for several years, and am confident about his integrity.
I've found that some users here hate flippant views and actions for no reason other than to feel superior and principled. I've broken an unspoken rule in the hackernews game.Or maybe my analysis of Cinderella surfaced some unresolved penis envy.
People that use/believe the "giving the content creators the clicks they want" line should care.
Hi, I see that you used our project's [1] layout as a template for your project, but forgot to change the image and the link on it. Just pointing it out. Good luck on your project.

[1]: https://github.com/javascript-obfuscator/javascript-obfuscat...
I believe there’s a congressman in Kentucky that is an MIT grad and tech entrepreneur.

Edit: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Massie
I've had the same experience. I really think some people feel awkward if there is someone not drinking like it's some sort of tacit disapproval of their actions.
Of course, there is the idiocy of using Velcro for field uniforms. Most of those patches aren't going to get swapped out all that often.