skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is bogus, and a slight of hand meant to further erode privacy while giving Facebook an argument to fall back on other than "it's in our interest to post everything you do into our stream."

The bottom line is that what is actually going to happen here in the real world is that people are going to connect their Facebook account to these web sites, not realize or forget (yes, people forget these things) that this web site has been given the keys to the castle to post whatever it wants on their behalf, and a ton of shit is going to get posted to the internet that was beyond the intent of the user originally clicking buttons just to get past an annoying confirmation dialog.

That said, the people fighting against this are fighting a losing battle. Facebook is basically going to control the world unless someone comes in and tries to beat them at their own game and impose their own vision of how and when information like this should be shared.
According to some the app will have to ask for those new permissions before it will be allowed to do them, for now.
"loose prominence"?...
Suggested rule of thumb: the more a company uses the words "big data," the less likely they are to actually implement machine learning algorithms in their day-to-day.

"Big data" is, for the most part, large scale business analytics. You'll analyze Apache logs loaded onto a Hadoop cluster, clean the logs with a scripting language, use Hive/SQL to query your desired data, then analyze the result using R/Numpy.

Sorry, this has been an issue recently (exacerbated by Strata NY).
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You might want to read http://www.imperialviolet.org/2011/09/23/chromeandbeast.html, which sums up Chrome's reaction to the attack.
I smelled a rat, especially when they started to open offices in places like Bulgaria just for the hype.
My point was that most pages hopefully will have two levels (like spotify). One to log in and do basic things, and the second level a social one.

So, if you don't do the second part, you should be fine?

Also, I personally would be careful in installing apps. This goes for any application (not just facebook). If you trust an app, go ahead, if not, just avoid it. This is going to be different for different people.

Edit: Ok, I think I see your point. You don't want an app to ask for too many permissions right off the bat and then you having to go back and remove them.

Again, I think this is going to be developer and users driven. The more people ask for apps to start off with minimal permissions the developers will have to comply. Does that make sense?
I hit the road to see the world that isn't involved in technology. I was in Mountain View, CA, when I moved into the motorhome. I wanted to escape the tech echo chamber for a while. I mostly seek out interesting music and America's remaining wild places. So, I went from Detroit (which has a great music scene, all things considered), to Mammoth Cave National Park, to Nashville. My next stop is Austin. If there happens to be technology, or a conference that's useful to my business, on the way, I'll get involved...but, mostly I'm trying to achieve an appropriate work-life balance, that doesn't revolve around tech.

Ann Arbor sounds nice, and I know Google has a sizable office there, but it's not high on my list of places to visit (no music scene to speak of, no wild places). If one had to start a tech company in Michigan, I reckon that would be the place to do it. But, why start a tech company in Michigan, at all?
It's easy to write a signing tool, but you'd still need to have the private half of an appropriate key to do anything useful with it.
Bert, your facebook profile ID is in that URL (the number starting with 1389...).

Also, there is no restriction on who can see pictures when you a direct link to an image. This is mostly due to the fact that CDNs used to store static files usually don't send cookies and thus have no concept of a session.
If the main tweetboard.me version is not working for you please post your twitter username here so I can try to find out what the broken users have in common.
I think you got those mixed up.
Could you be a little more specific? What kinds of things were you not showing that are now showing?
I generally oppose doing crypto in Javascript, but I'm not so sure that this bug is a good argument for that position. You realize you're taking two extremely unsettled debates and combining them, don't you? :-)

* We will probably never get to a point where everyone agrees on the exact severity of the BEAST exploit, simply because all of the parties are defining "severity" from their own perspective. The best we can hope for is that enough fixes get put in place that nobody (else) gets pwned by it in the real world.

* Yes, "average developer does not stand a chance of getting it right". Professional crypto engineers don't always get everything right (often only understood after many years).

* But I personally object to the "hands off ye mortals crypto is only for the Gods" argument. People should be able to hack on whatever they want without being ridiculed. What we need to be vigilant about is the security claims being made on the result! The only thing worse than amateur crypto in amateur packaging is broken (or backdoored) crypto in professional packaging.

* Ptacek gives good reasons Javascript crypto is a bad idea:
http://www.matasano.com/articles/javascript-cryptography/
My own summary is simply:

A. The server provides a vastly more stable and secure environment for performing sensitive crypto operations. Yes, really. There are attacks with CVE numbers and careful code patches in OpenSSL that have to be completely ignored by Javascript crypto advocates simply because they have no mitigation there.

B. Almost all reasons people give for wanting to do crypto on the client side in Javascript don't hold up under scrutiny. It usually turns out that the person advocating it is being optimistic because he doesn't really understand his attacker's capabilities very well.
But atelier is already a perfect valid English word. Sure, it came from French, but it is now part of English language. Complaining about it would be like complaining that word 'Robot' is a Czech word for work/worker.
To the author of this page, you should consider spelling out the meaning of AVR somewhere near the top of the page, so readers don't have to Google it. Also tell us a bit more about what it is before launching into an introduction that seems to assume we already know.
Kind of amazing how it loads 10x faster, eh?
No need to revoke access it doesn't really do anything other than use it as a way to tell it's "you" for the "Me" button.
Apart from the logo, did you design the site yourself? Start off with CSS from somewhere else? Nicely done, Justin. Header you talk about it with impatience on Techzing :)
Slightly earlier submission: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3033327
I changed the URL to include my name instead of what's-'er-face's and the page didn't update. Probably true of every user, but I'm @ColinTheMathmo

Loading it in an entirely new window gives what I assume is my page, but there's no data in it.
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There's a fair amount of non-flight work. It'd say that it averages 120 hours of work time total per month. Less than we work, but with worse hours.

If you fly international with the majors, you're in good shape. Those guys make $200k easily, but those jobs are essentially inaccessible because the people who get them never retire. The rest make very little, and work a lot harder.
Radiology is a very difficult field to get into after medical school, something like 2/3 of American grads who apply get turned away. Additionally, for those who get in, up to 1/3 never pass all the board exams. It almost seems like you want to lower the bar, and I'm telling you it needs to be raised.

All you've said is that some tests aren't being passed. Can you correlate them with improved medical care? Again, in my alternate world, I can construct a CS test that 90% of those w/ undergrad CS degrees would fail. That's not hard to do. The question is "does my ability to pass such a test correlate with my ability to do a website?"

You're pointing to scarcity and arguing that this is proof that we require scarcity. I'm saying that if you dropped the bar on these tests, but increased other policing practices that yielded a net increase in the number of doctors, I think you'd see an increase in medical care. My thesis is purely speculative, I grant you that.

I suspect we're likely to find out if this does work out in non-US countries once as medical information and training becomes more prevalent on the web.
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I want search functionality at the grocery store.
> The only thing less useful than an internet petition is... actually I can't finish that sentence because I can't think of anything less useful than an internet petition.

Oh! I know the answer to that one!

The only thing less useful? An online political statement that doesn't actually accomplish anything!

And my opinion has nothing to do with the White House. In fact, it stems from my only time petitioning my congressional representative. I begged him for no form letters and no additions to any email lists -- and a I got a form letter and put on an email list.

Now I get emails every month or two telling me what an awesome guy he is.
>And perhaps I didn't make my points clearly enough in the article

You made them more than clear. People just want to argue the headline. Good post BTW I'm subscribing to your RSS feed.
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Indeed, that's the main component of the gold-standard results replication. For a chemistry experiment, for example, you're not supposed to replicate it by going to the original lab, using their existing apparatus, and just re-running the experiment. Instead, there's stronger confidence in the results if you replicate it using your own equipment in your own lab, reconstructing any necessary components from descriptions in the paper. That way you know that the results were actually due to what the paper claimed they were, instead of some overlooked happenstance in the original lab or apparatus.

Of course, reimplementation can be quite time consuming, which is the main problem. But then sharing code can actually decrease the likelihood of anyone ever reimplementing the algorithm again, instead just re-using the same (possibly buggy) code forever without looking at it.
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Best practice - I don't leave things like that lying around.

And it has still not asked again for access, so it's still not getting data (I assume).

Edit in response to your reply - noted. Thanks.
Add to this the fact that Android is free (Google makes no money in it) and you can see why all hardware manufacturers are moving like droves to the tablet market.

Google does make money on Android, through selling the eyeballs of it's users. The entire goal was to make a new advertising platform they could control.

Another result of this - hardware vendors have no motivation to keep the OS up to date after they've stopped selling that model - why add value to an old model that will then compete with your new models?

Nobody is looking out for the end users in either case, other than tangentially in ways to further their own business goals or prevent PR nightmares.
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Why should this be developer and user driven? Facebook on their permission page when I first visit it should be more than capable in allowing me to change what permissions are given.

If they can retroactively remove them, they should be able to do so before I even grant any permissions.

Give me two columns, one "Allow" and one "Disallow" and I can drag the permissions to the columns as I see fit. Can an app give me a template or ask for certain permissions by default, yes, absolutely, but let me change them.
I thought that too at first. A better title would be "Petition for the White House to end ...".

I haven't even heard of this petition site before, it's interesting that it hasn't been overrun by 4chan scripts inflating whatever. "We petition you to make 4chan the official capital of the internet."
Google is pretty much working on this: telling a car to go where I want it to go.
Thanks for this commentary. I'm the author of the article and certainly didn't mean to gloss over some of the really big problems Detroit has. But I was impressed with the energy there (I also co-hosted a dinner for education innovators in the city during my time there and felt a similar energy). I do think we have two options with cities like Detroit. We can give up on them and move elsewhere and let them become ghost towns. Or we can fight to keep them alive, similar to what people did in New Orleans post-Katrina. I'm a believer that the latter is what we need to do. It's not going to be easy but I'm really proud of the folks there who are committed to sticking around and doing whatever they can to help make the city better.
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The median salary for experienced radiologists is $300k-400k. And increasingly radiology has been outsourced overseas with mostly technicians required stateside (scan during the day, radiologist in India examines at night, results available the next morning).

But roentgen claims to be a businessman as well as a radiologist. If so, most of his income would be from several radiology businesses. In that case the 800k/year number would not be surprising.

Always remember

- "On the Internet no one knows you're a dog." and

- "Don't believe everything you read."
I'm in a similar situation, I'm replacing a Macbook4,1. I don't want to deal with EFI/refit/GPT/etc anymore. As far as 13' laptops go the ASUS U36SD-A1 is the most attractive to me, but I think I'm going to end up getting a SAGER NP5165 because I can get more power for the same price. The HP Envy series also looks pretty good, if you can find them for a decent price.
Nice approach, i like the look. My follower graph & data is wrong though.

Is this a side project or are you fulltime?
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Try avc.com next...
This exactly what I mean by:

sometimes provides you with an additional insight in the structure of the stuff you are researching and makes it easier to notice and classify similarities between different kind of structures

I just tried to avoid the notions which average HNer is unlikely to know, and understanding them takes too much time.

Anyway, I have yet to see a deep and nontrivial result in a pure category theory, and mind you, I have the Mac Lane's book in front of me. Most of it is easy symbol juggling which only result in something interesting when you think what it means in context of concrete structures.
My personal portfolio site is listed in my HackerNews profile, on my portfolio site I have a link to my Facebook profile (so that people I give my business card to are able to more easily find me, and not my dad).

I am familiar with what is in the URL, and I am also familiar with CDN's. I was merely posting my rebuttal to the OP who said it was obfuscated.
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There are commercial pilots and there are commercial pilots.

The senior staff can pretty freely pick the longest and easiest flights with the most turnover time, and thus they can enjoy eating and sleeping, and probably some shopping or exercising as well. On the other hand, if you're a young co-pilot you are likely to get the shittiest flights and the worst possible schedule, and you will probably find yourself in situations where you've flown more than your fair share of hours straight and you still have to haul one last plane home. And wake up next morning at 6am to begin a new shift.

I must say that planes have autopilot but operations don't. That might not be of much consolence, however.
Bizarre? I can't imagine any other response.

There's no way Facebook (or anybody else) can completely prevent people from making mistakes.

So, the best they can do in that situation is give people an easy way to clean up the mess, and make sure they don't do it again.
Since this is being brought up, and since even most New Yorkers don't know this (and therefore Staten Island is the brunt of many jokes) -

The Fresh Kills Landfill, which consists of 2,900 acres and includes the Richmond Avenue Truckfill, the Brookfield Landfill, the Isle of Meadows and parts of the William T. Davis Wildlife Refuge. This was a city planned land reclamation and waste management engineering project which would convert swamp and creek ground to habitable ground in the future. The landfill itself had daily covering over all new garbage dumped, and when it was closed, a 2 foot final cover was put on top of it.

The Fresh Kills Landfill project lasted 55 years in total from the start to the final dump; however that did not include all portions of the Landfill project. The Brookfield Landfill specifically (since that is what I am commenting on) was open from 1966 to 1980, and in it's 14 years of operation, there was unfortunately a scandal where there was illegal dumping of toxic waste at these grounds - at one point a sanitation supervisor was convicted for taking bribes for looking the other way. The Brookfield Landfill covers 132 acres of the 2,900 acres that was the Fresh Kills Landfill.

Since closing they have monitored all the landfill from this project for safety, and environmental impact and are currently transforming the grounds to the largest park in the 5 boroughs - even bigger than central park. In the 9 years I have lived on Staten Island, I have had no complaints about smells, etc. The landfill itself (as far as the portion bordered by Richmond Ave, Arthur Kill and LaTourette) is grassy and there is plenty of wildlife living there. Ecologically speaking, it is thriving.

It is unfortunate that there was illegal dumping - but the ground was not an illegal toxic dumping ground for 20 years. I am more concerned about illegal dumping of toxic waste in water ways.

As for it still being cleaned up; as I mentioned, the Fresh Kills Landfill is currently in a 30 year project to convert it in to the largest park in the 5 boroughs - and remediation of the Brookfield Landfill started last year, it was the last of the landfill grounds in the project to commence remediation. The ground is safe, and the only reason the residents that lived next to the Brookfield Landfill property line were sueing was to force remediation of the property so that it wouldn't just be overgrown land, and could also be turned in to a recreational area for the community.

Please don't just spew out things about the Landfill unless you actually know the background and what is being done. I didn't grow up on Staten Island, and I don't care about the jokes, so I have really no care in the world what people say - I just want informed discussions taking place.

Some sources of information for numbers and stuff I wanted to confirm while responding:

http://earthjustice.org/news/press/2010/staten-island-reside...

http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/pdf/fkl/about_fkl.pdf

http://www.silive.com/news/index.ssf/2009/04/city_to_discuss...
You shouldn't stand up for facebook and scummy Mark Zuckerberg so much. You realize he's postponing IPO again and again so he can get you guys to work late nights month after month on tasteless projects like tracking people over the internet, kind of like carrots on a stick for donkeys, right?
All the Facebook engineers on here sound like I imagine IBM executives do when asked about the involvement of IBM in the holocaust...

I'm genuinely surprised that the EU haven't stepped on Facebook yet. It's the creepiest, most invasive thing ever developed.
I can't scroll to right, half of the screen is cut.
This is awfully generic. Almost a template.

"You can down-vote all you want, only thing your post shows is that you are struggling with insert development practice here development. You should learn it well, and then you will be in position to say what part you don't think is useful."

The blog post, on the other hand, is not generic. I've had similar experiences: in many cases TDD makes trivial coding issues influence overall application design (in a bad way) instead of application design driving those trivial decisions. I can even tell you when this happens. It happens when the complexity in the application comes mainly from structuring large chunks of mostly trivial functionality. I've had pretty positive TDD experience with other type of applications - ones where complexity comes mainly from some data-processing algorithms, while the overall structure of the app is fairly simple. (Think web app vs language parser.)
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Very cool. Did you use any framework for the widgets? How was it built?
Thanks for the link, it is a fantastic talk and her work is very good.
I like it, what will you do to remind me to get back after a few days when you have stats about my account? (@thanpolas)
There's always g+ from Google. So far they're staying true to the deliberate opt-in mindset instead of the facebook all-in then opt-out later mindset.
Indeed you are right. That is what I meant. And building a product that reaches market fit takes some time and quite a few iterations.
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The OP mentioned two numbers: 10 years and 10,000 hours.

I think alnayyir is trying to say that deliberate practice can bring down the 10 year number (which I agree with and is why the rule switched from saying 10 years to saying 10,000 hours) and michael_dorfman is interpreting that statement to be referring to the 10,000 hours number.

My point in the OP was to show that by having a large amount of data, this provides a nice example for understanding why the rule was changed. (But for it to be a good example, it would require someone knowledgeable about art to look over his prior works and pinpoint when exactly he became a 'master' (although this may be a hard thing to do) and to then estimate how many hours of practice was spent to get there.)
Characterizing it as a "short cut" is disingenuous.

The argument here is that medical boards are too rigorous, and test things that do not matter practically.

To give a ridiculous example, if a medical school required you to climb Mount Everest before becoming a doctor that might result in only 1 person becoming a doctor per year. However that scarcity isn't proof that climbing Mount Everest is needed to become a doctor. Nor is it proof that cutting out that requirement will provide significantly worse doctors than previous.

Additionally, in many things we need quantity more than we need extreme compentancy. For example when cut, its better to have some kind of treatment (e.g. first aid, stitching) rather than waiting for a surgical specialist.
He probably sold to (supposedly) sophisticated investors that thought they'd scam retail investors later on.
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