skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, it's always accessible by Facebook itself, and those they're legally obliged to pass it on to.
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Tech companies are in a very awkward situation with regards to surveillance. It's hard to argue that individuals have an "expectation of privacy" in their Facebook content, when their thousand closest friends at Facebook are mining that information to sell them advertising. Indeed, you have the opposite of an expectation of privacy: you expect that your information will not be private.[1]

The business model built on harvesting user data to sell advertising is just fundamentally at odds with the scope of the 4th amendment's protection of privacy.

[1] You may expect that the government won't look at it, but that's not what "private" means for the purposes of the 4th amendment. It doesn't just mean anything you don't want the government to see. To analogize, your house is private: you may invite selected guests in, but not your thousand closest friends at Facebook.
> As far as I'm concerned, students have a right to a high quality education because without one their future will be a trainwreck. Just because they're largely minors doesn't, to me, mean that their parents have the right to deny them a future in favor of whatever their personal reasons may be. Yes, this is an infringement on the 'rights' of parents, but I don't think parents have the right to treat children like property in the first place.

I would really love to see tokenadult respond to this, because I know he has very strong (and informed) opinions on homeschooling.
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it's just illuminating who the government listens to

If Obama and the gov actually listened to Zuck, the problem would be fixed. Heck at this point, it is not too farfetched to think that parts of the government don't listen to the President, even.
We'll judge you by your actions, Mr Zuckerberg.
Yes, other attempts "also fit faces to a 3-d model to rotate to frontal (with varying quality)," as you put it, but this method for rotating faces appears to be superior -- more accurate and reliable.

It looks like the main contribution to me :-)
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> RAX is a minimum of $16/mo now, for the same VM strength

I don't see this on their site (http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/servers/pricing/). Minimum pricing there is $29.20/mo for a 1gb instance.
It's not just because Zuckerburg has personal wealth. It's also because Facebook directly employs thousands of people, pays corporate taxes, enables new markets that rely on Facebook, and sells advertising to all those other corporations. His age has nothing to do with it.
Russian mentality still longs for strong leadership. Young people do try to break away but the majority of Russian population want to have a powerful and dominant head of state. It's in our psyche. Thanks to our our history and our brooding character.
haha, my thoughts exactly, my OCD is driving me nuts just looking at this.. Can't even focus
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Which scams aren't possible with real money?
It's funny how nobody implied that.
Since then it's gotten even easier. Just buy a couple of NAS drives (or a couple of Raspberry Pi with external hard drives), setup OwnCloud, that's it (note have recommended doubling the hardware used to ensure multiple backups).

I use Dropbox but I used the AdWords trick to give myself 20GB space on the free account, which is ample for me. If I thought I would need one of the pricier options I'd see very little reason not to spend about an hour of my time to build an OwnCloud solution. Oh and it has support for iOS/Android for those that are interested... https://owncloud.com/products/mobileapps
An international tax lawyer who knows what an AMA is? I love you already.
[citation needed] about those deals between Facebook and NSA.
Commit to 1 dirty branch; assume it is broken and let tests prove otherwise. When tests pass, you know it is a working branch, tag and release. I skipped a few steps for simplicity.
Here, merges are an exception, not the rule.

This workflow won't work without automated tests... is lack of automated testing the reason to have individual branches for features and bug fixes?
The keyboard + lack of monitor space reduces my productivity. Even on a laptop with a "large" (17"ish) screen and a decent full keyboard.
It's quite a bit easier to drink to that point with some drinks (higher proof) and in some contexts than others (shots vs sipping, peer pressure, distractions). I've never passed out drinking, but I've certainly wound up drunker than I expected on occasion. For someone substantially lighter than I, it could probably sneak up even easier. That said, if someone does so regularly there is probably something else going on.
I have no idea how they should do it.

It's just clear that if you have money, and a lot of it, you have a voice in shaping the world. If you don't have money regardless of what position you are in, you don't have a voice (extreme popular outliers excluded).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbOwdjSodeU
Serious - how are friends involved with dropbox ?

Now I'm a (traditional?) dropbox user, using dropbox as a synchronized folder between various computers combined with a remote backup. All I would need to do to transfer is send a few links to people to my new shared stuff (folder / album )

My only technical issue with transfer is actually transferring the file from Dropbox to Google ( 1 MBps upload ) and getting all the machine synchronized.

What keeps me on Dropbox is a few years of flawless reliability. I still remember the dark times of syncing before dropbox, YMMV, but I intent for losing files, silent conflict, ... to stay a thing of the past.

However, first it was https://hubic.com/en/offers/, now Google. Even box.com is significantly cheaper. In a few months, that will be difficult to ignore, I hope dropbox is listening.
No call to action. No clear guidance on what exactly the bad things are. Typical facebook post.

</joke>

I wish Zuckerberg would have taken on Schneier's meme:
Make bulk mass surveilance prohibitively expensive.

Everyone can understand what's involved in making that happen.
>I don't think there's anyone foolish enough to pretend that the US/UK/etc governments haven't already been in this ethical sphere of operations for decades.

You underestimate fools.
I don't know about the accuracy of this graph depicting the Node.js job market. I think a lot of companies like to sound "hip" and include Node.js to try and attract javascript engineers. YMMV but I've found most companies saying "you can hack in node" means "we've done a side project or two using Node.js"
I'm sorry, coming from Zuck, this statement means very little to me.

I guess I'm old school, but Zuck has shown disdain for the privacy of users in the past, FB actively tracks the movement of users across the net (likely without many realizing), and I'm under the impression that this culture that emphasizes sharing every fucking thing is more dangerous to people than the US government trying to get at data that they probably already have.

Don't get me wrong, I don't like that the US government is doing this, but I don't trust FB at all.

Nothing to see here folks. Just the old tug of war between governments and corporations for power, while the actual citizens get trampled.
Put 1TB of data into Drive, and then lose it all when Google closes your account and has no humans to fix it....
I did, and it's too much. The chair is a nice in-between solution while still encouraging you to sit upright and balance yourself.
That would be fine with me, but we have precedents establishing that minors are not well-equipped to make important decisions for themselves (at least until they're older). So I don't know if they can actually make that choice.

I know a couple kids who preferred homeschooling, but mostly because it was easier than going to school. That was to their detriment later on when they started college. I don't know if that makes it wrong, though. Education is definitely not one-size-fits-all.

You could make the libertarian/capitalist argument that if a child is really lazy and wants to do highly relaxed homeschooling that won't prepare them for college, that's fine, and they can just accept never having a good job or lifestyle, I guess? I don't really like that.

If the parent prefers homeschooling but doesn't have the time/energy to do it right, is that similarly fine? Or do they have an obligation to deliver their children an adequate education, just like they have an obligation to feed and care for them (otherwise the kids will be taken away)?
I might include "and it was my very first experience with alcohol" as a situation where it is a weak excuse.
I bought a cushion bar stool off craigslist. Works great. Stand, lean, half-sit, full sit, whatever.

Before that I had drafting stool. Sometimes made my ass fall asleep, which was my reminder to move around.

Followup: Just googled "Swopper Air". $699. Bam. My bar stool cost $40.
I searched on C# instead - which seems to bring it into line with what I'd expect:

http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=javascript%2C+java%2C+node...
Does it? Does the average user know this?
When our engineers work tirelessly to improve security, we imagine we're protecting you against criminals, not our own government.

Why?

Any company that cares about 'security' and controls such a massive amount of personal data would know that governments do not always behave morally/legally.

This excuse should not work; we the public should expect better.

Yahoo did not use https. Facebook scans your IMs and tracks your website visits for ads.
When do we reach the point when plausible ignorance of governmental overreach and the need to 'monetize' are no longer considered valid excuses for compaines to be lax with the data they hold about you?

As an aside: as far as I can tell these are just crododile tears - if Zuckerberg truly cared, Facebook would back off from generating ad revenue off IM and would enable OTR.
That confused the hell out of me. I still don't actually understand it. I was just after an ssh host that I could bounce a SOCKS proxy through so it didn't really matter to me, but I tried to figure out what the different storage options meant and just couldn't.
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No doubt about that, I only mentioned age because it hits home there. He's a job creator which is why he has a voice.

Don't overlook the personal wealth aspect though because he was able to start that PAC fwd.us.
Good point.

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Zuck is the wrong person to make entreaties to the President about this because it doesn't affect Zuck personally. As far as the Executive Branch is concerned, Zuck is just expressing an opinion about policy the way an airline CEO might about the FAA: as a business concern, not a legal nor civil liberties one. Obama already knows that the only thing Zuck is talking about is money, not people.
> That’s why at Facebook we spend a lot of our energy making our services and the whole internet safer and more secure. We encrypt communications, we use secure protocols for traffic, we encourage people to use multiple factors for authentication and we go out of our way to help fix issues we find in other people’s services.

I have to call “bs” here. It took Facebook nine years – nine years! (2004–2013) – to turn HTTPS on by default (http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/11/19/facebook-https-t-...). Beforehand, anybody on your network could trivially hijack your Facebook session to gain access to your account (I made a video two years ago about how easy this attack was [and is] if you don’t know what I mean: http://youtu.be/g5mFbgxMHqQ?t=1m33s).
The problem is letting people with DUI back on the roads. The punishments for negligent murder is only a few years; the punishment for just getting caught is often not even jail time, just a short suspension of license. (This guy had 2 DUI arrests already before murdering two people: http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2020640576_nseattleac... ) The punishments for violating license suspension are minimal. Want to get serious about DUI? Make this the punishment:

1st time: 10 year suspension of driving privileges, monthly random police tailing to make sure you don't drive that day (funded by the violator); if you drive, the rest of your sentence is spent in jail

2nd time: 10 years in jail, permanent driving privileges revoked, monthly police tailing as above.

3rd time: Life in prison

You ever kill or injure someone while DUI: Life in prison
Gotcha. Not calling it an excuse.

Maybe anyone can become dependent, but not everyone _does_. I think our model of behavior ought to include the recognition that in some cases people are unable to refrain from drinking even though they know, in the abstract, that something terrible is likely to happen sooner or later. Acknowledging that alcoholism is not an excuse doesn't change the fact that some people are apparently undeterred from driving drunk by potential legal sanction. I too would hope that such people just wouldn't drink, but this seems insufficient. I admit that I haven't proposed a solution, I just think it's an interesting problem.

So, having established blame, what next? Ignition interlocks seem like a stop gap. I few months ago I watched a guy come out of a bar, and ask his friend to blow in the breathalyzer installed in his truck. No shit. A solution that is not strictly technical might be called for, but I'm not sure what a social solution looks like.

It seems like people in general are kind of bad at safely operating cars, and drunk people are just even worse. I fantasize that self driving cars. They would never get drunk, or distracted or sleepy or have road rage. Maybe someday driving your own car will seems reckless, pun fully intended.
As I read the article, hiring the employees wasn't the issue at all.

Nitai was just aghast that the laws were so strange.
Yeah, honestly, at most places I work this would never fly because we support people with disabilities and that means having more than just color indicate something is a clickable link. There are even laws forcing this, ADA, for government and education.

Personally, I think they should at least make the summary clickable if they are going to do this.
I bet that Drive will still be around in 5 years because Docs relies on it. If Google wants to continue pushing Chromebooks, they need Docs and therefore Drive.
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More to the point, what's the difference between the government and criminals?
I'm pretty sure listening to everyone equally is the definition of democracy.
I've been fighting with wrist/back/neck pain for a while now. I always attributed it to working on a laptop on my train commute (1 hour each way) to work. I just watched that video and tried it out at the office, it feels MUCH more comfortable. Thanks for sharing! Hopefully it helps.
That's encouraging. They are not nearly so strict in the US.
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I made this thing:

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It isn't, but I'm not trying to negate the experience of anybody else either. If you had good luck with them then great, that is your experience. But don't come and tell me that what happened to me is invalid or didn't happen. Sorry, I do not keep exhaustive benchmarks for every poor product that I decide not to use. I can tell you that it was taking MINUTES to open and read the contents of a file that took seconds on AWS and my local development machine.
Google Drive allows Google to create a more 'accurate' fingerprint of who you are by examining everything you create. This clearly has huge value... Possibly even more than Google+ if used correctly.

The better they get at identifying your needs, the better they can target ads to you within their ecosystem.

Google Apps + Google Drive makes sense for Google. All the products they're creating are designed to kill the desktop as we know it. Google Apps, Android (reliance on Google Now), Chromebooks, Chromecasts, ...

If I was not a developer and didn't have a garage full of old computers, a Chromebook would be the ideal PC for me.

My children will one day probably access all their data from the 'cloud'. I know that at some new schools they're even supplying Chromebooks with textbooks and assignments pre-loaded. I personally still like learning using 'dead-tree' books, but It's a different world for this generation.
"It's also because [] directly employs thousands of people, pays corporate taxes, enables new markets that rely on []..."

Insert {Halliburton, Exxon, AT&T, Comcast, BP, etc} into those brackets and you'll get a much better idea of the nature of political influence and lobbying in the U.S.

This is why I think all the bluster around Citizens United and the influence of money in politics is overblown. Because at the end of the day, a post-card listing the number of employees Exxon has in a Congressman's district is just as effective as a check.
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Can we please stop using "headline grabbing math?" You know what would be a more impressive growth percentage? Starting at when they had 1 server. If you look at the chart, every other competitor save linode had faster growth by the unit (as opposed to percentage).

However, with that said, my complaint is just regarding the article and not with Digital Ocean themselves. I think they're pretty kick ass...
I suppose doing the right thing for the wrong reasons is something, at least.
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Curious, if you don't mind. Are you under $1000 because you have money elsewhere, or is it for more upsetting reasons?
I used to disable adblock on Google since I didn't find the ads intrusive. However the ads blends right into the results with the new changes, so I'm re-enabling it.
Though overall I assume Google will get a revenue boost from their change to the ads.
Everyone runs dev environments locally and tests. A dev environment is really easy to set up with mongo and node. Occasionally, we’ll put stuff on a staging environment if we want to test a database or infrastructure change. Big, experimental client changes go to the alpha channel on production.
His point was that it could not be cheaper enough without going negative.
I work at PayScale and I'm a pretty huge Node fan. We don't use it internally, but last year (maybe the year before, I don't remember)... I made sure we could report on it.

Here is some salary data on it.
http://www.payscale.com/research/US/Skill=Node.js/Salary

I've got to run to a meeting, but I'll see if I can find more details when I get back
But they're not "playing".
It is a problem in the sense that companies could commercialize robots for the home if there were applications for the robots. Currently the hardware is good (Honda first debuted ASIMO 14 years ago). Commercializing the hardware would drive costs down, which would allow us to do more widespread research on AI. Currently a decent robotics research platform costs more than a Tesla Model S, and until recently they were 10x more expensive.

The "AI problem" is the fact that robots don't have many applications until we have AI. The problem can be eliminated by making the hardware useful even without AI. This does not mean people will stop working on AI, just that robotics hardware development can be decoupled from AI development. More robots out there will make it even easier to develop AI for robotic platforms.

Your Adderall comment seems to be a way of poking fun at me, and if so does not seem to contribute to this discussion. I thought I contributed something thoughtful to HN. Would you prefer I just make snarky comments? I left Slashdot years ago so I could find people who make an effort to think and communicate - lets do that here.
Facebook was listed as one of the companies participating in PRISM, with a specific start date.

None of the denials or other announcements made by any of the companies the NSA seemed pretty sure were collaborating addressed why they appeared on that list. Until there is a good explanation for why the NSA thinks they were collaborating, denials ring pretty hollow.
Life in prison has got to be one of the worst ways to deal with a criminal. If you think that the danger posed by DUI is worth life in prison, then it should apply to texting/phone use too.
What's the deal with classes starting so early in the morning? Is this just a US thing? All through my schooling in Australia we never started before 9 am.

When I read the title I though schools would be letting teenagers sleep in for an 11 am start.
That citation might be tough. But what do you honestly believe?

Personally, at this point, with all the Snowden revelations, it should be up to Facebook to prove to me that they aren't sharing information with the government.
If only we lived in a democracy rather than a constitutional republic.
You're leaving government because the President of the US won't take your phone call?

Did you quit school because your name wasn't in the textbooks?
Outside of it's document editing, I find Drive's iOS app to be pretty half-assed. Dropbox can handle anything you throw at it much more reliably, and typically has a far better built-in viewer/player. You can't play .m4a files in Drive, for example, or search within a .pdf. Sure, these things can be offloaded to other apps, but I find this makes managing my phone's storage a lot more cumbersome. I also like how photos/videos get their own tab in Dropbox's iOS app.

I wish the iOS Drive team spent half as much effort on these details as they did shoehorning their own UI conventions into iOS.
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This just really surprises me! Maybe I'm not doing enough intros.
Check our defense budgets. They don't go down. The NSA has massive data farms that are not constrained by budgets. That's not exactly the problem.

The more outlandish the plots on Scandal and House of Cards, and the funnier Jon Stewart gets to be, the more and more awful the truth revealed in the real news seems to be. We get the truth we're willing to accept... what else will come?
"one should assume the trial was flawed."

Only to the extent that similar, pre-replication studies are typically flawed. I don't actually know what extent that is.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/robertwood/2013/11/15/u-s-citize...

"Still, leaving America can have a special tax cost. To exit, you generally must prove 5 years of tax compliance in the U.S. Plus, if you have a net worth greater than $2 million or have average annual net income tax for the 5 previous years of $155,000 or more (that’s tax, not income), you pay an exit tax."

"The theory of the exit tax is that is the last chance the U.S. has of taxing you. It is a capital gain tax as if you sold your property when you left. At least there’s an exemption of $668,000."
Well now he knows what its like when Facebook does the same thing.
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Mixed feelings for me. I wrote a paper on the very same thing, "Demand responsive public transportation" but never really had the conviction to implement it full scale as I thought it would simply fail in a country with huge population as india, where there is always demand in all locations. It would be interesting to see how it would fare in a densely populated route.