skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wish the EFF and others who are against using real names would at least acknowledge the drawbacks of pseudonyms and the proliferation of fake accounts and fake names which comes with them.

The real name policy has huge benefits. I'm not constantly bombarded by fake friend requests like I am on Twitter, Skype, or any other platform which allows random usernames. Even more importantly, I can easily find the people in my life without having to go through an awkward song and dance. If I'm working on a project with someone, I can immediately find them and message them without worrying that it's some random imposter or some such.

Facebook is a platform designed for digitizing your real world relationships, not for accumulating thousands of "followers." There's a reason they limit you to 5,000 friends. People who are trying to disconnect their Facebook identity from their real world identity are not using Facebook the way it's meant to be used and should probably just leave it.

That being said, Facebook could definitely do a better job of making it easier for people to prove that a name is their everyday name even when it's not their legal name.

I fully expect to lose a lot of karma over this comment, but I'd love to hear an argument over why access to Facebook is a right together with your down vote.
How does that work exactly? Does the value of the equity simply go away, or is ownership of the company literally handed over to the creditors?

Just listened to a Planet Money episode on the benefits of bankruptcy, and it seems like while you will have every single document and decision reviewed/approved by creditors and the judge if you try to make a deal and pay it off, you'd still retain ownership.

Not familiar enough with the details though to know how that works in various scenarios.
It really doesn't matter if they have a plan now -- what matters is the demographic that put them in office. So if they want to get re-elected, they know they have to work hard enough to keep those that voted for them (and can vote them out) happy.
Some key points by Adeo Ressi in a keynote at StartupFest 2015 (video at https://vimeo.com/135082216 )

Founders take out the trash.
There are easier ways to be happy.
You cannot have a good “what” unless you have a good “why.”
What is your life story?
How does your company fit within your life story.
How does your company create your legacy.
You cannot pivot your purpose in life.
You can only succeed when you know who you are.
You can only succeed when you know what you want.
My core skill is inspiring people to do great things.
Why Vine is leaving social behind- Q and A
The government doesn't test the cars. The manufacturers self-certify.
How is that physically possible?

I had a temporary job transcribing videotaped meetings to text and I used ctrl a lot for controlling the video. That fn placement almost killed my left hand, would have been perfectly fine if they were switched but that alone greatly limited my freedom of movement as I really wanted to borrow a sane keyboard wherever I went.

edit:
I guess it must depend on the size of the keyboard. On the x-series it was unforgivable.
There is no God and computers will overtake humans in the next 100 years
> Thankfully you can change it in the bios.

Unlike on Macbooks and the Apple Wireless Keyboard. Grump.

Yes, you can use Karabiner[1] to swap the keys, but it's not at a low enough level that it works everywhere. Still, it's good enough for most use.

[1] https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/
Environmental protection and race discrimination laws are designed to protect the health of the world and the dignity of the people that live upon it.

The main reason ISDS would be used is if a company's future profits are put in jeopardy. This is either going to be because a democratic decision or a non-democratic decision restricts these profits. In my opinion, democracy wins over profits, and if the decision is non-democratic it's probably made by dictatorship, which is unlikely to take any ISDS decision seriously anyway.

The main point though is this, the desire for corporate profits must not overrule the will of the people, and there's a strong possibility that trade agreements with ISDS will not meet this criteria (can see how it has been used already). ISDS has the power to negatively impact the quality of life in a country, and this is the main reason why ISDS is undesirable for the general population whereas environmental protection and racial discrimination laws are not.
Isn't that true of anything that has automatic updates? Browsers, games, operating systems, etc.

Does this mean that if we don't trust our government we should stop pushing anything that automatically updates?
So the idea is we give up social networking entirely because a small percentage of people are jerks? Doesn't that seem a little defeatist?
> Math can give an illusion of accuracy, when the real world is chaotic and often has far more confounding variables than you know about in something as complex as "the economy".

I don't know what you folks are talking about on this thread branch (what with "efficient markets") but Keynesian Economics is the "theory" that suffers from this "illusion of accuracy".

I don't believe in efficient anything, but I know Free Markets Theory involves no Math (only deductive methods like Praxeology).
I no longer know what to do about this problem. I'm convinced surveillance is here to stay and that making it illegal will only serve to hide the microphones. I'm still extremely grateful for those who fight for privacy, is just that I don't see how we can win.

Not knowing how to treat the cause, I'm at least trying to treat the symptoms. We might not be able to stop them from seeing our secrets, but we might very well stop them from making us feel ashamed and from blackmailing us.
Flux is just the name of the overall design pattern as well as FB's reference/example of it.

Reflux is Flux but using the environments event model as the dispatcher. It's event based, it's simple, it's easy to get started with. It's not very opinionated, but it doesn't work well on the server (not very isomorphic app friendly).

Redux is the new hotness. It's also very isomorphic app friendly. It's really a "build it from the ground up with this in mind" framework - that's not a bad thing, it just is what it is. It's very smart, but also extremely verbose. Downside - it holds all app state in one giant store. That's... fine, but it actually over-complicates your app if you have a lot of disparate data domains. It's a super opinionated framework.

There's also AltJS which is basically most of the good of Redux but with less of boilerplate. It's way less opinionated than Redux but more so than Reflux.

They all have their pros and cons. Redux is rather over-hyped right now though for what it brings, careful of the hype-train.
Dude, this is half the point of redux. Theres a debugger that lets you visually step through every state of the store and your corresponding app - https://github.com/gaearon/redux-devtools
That's like... 15% of their revenue. I imagine lower % of their profits... for the biggest publishing brand out there.
I found The Circle entertaining.

As an argument against Facebook (or Google,Amazon,etc) it just sets up a strawman. Not realistic enough. That politicians can be pressured into 24/7 live streaming is ridiculous. The Circle has no serious opponents, while in reality there are more powers which would acquire or destroy Facebook if they attempted something like that.
In a similar way, Starbucks. Can't think of a time when I am in Starbucks and mom or dad is there with kids in tow. All future customers. Ditto for McDonalds obviously. SB is more significant to me only because McDonalds is a place you take kids to, Starbucks is a place you go to and bring your kids with.
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How about this: set tuition caps on any government guaranteed loan. Or maybe expand the role of community colleges so that you can get a BA or Masters at CC pricing.
Everything in development is a cost-benefit trade off. Despite it's speed limitations, Ruby remains an excellent language for development because of its focus on developer efficiency. You can produce feature complete systems in a short period of time at the expense of slightly higher hosting costs, which is significantly cheaper than labor costs.

Monolith development is still much faster than microservice development even though microservice development is the better long term option by far.

It's all tradeoffs. I'm an architecture nut and for years I really wanted nothing more than to design the ultimate perfectly scalable and secure system but unless you're at a virtually competition free enterprise, like a telecom or an insurance company the time or budget to do so probably doesn't exist.

I've gone from "get it done" to "do it perfect" back to "get it done and avoid obvious problem starters". The reality is just that "get it done" wins the business case almost every single time.
Hey kstenerud,

Thanks for checking out N1! I work on the client. Unfortunately `keytar` is a bit of a nasty module. Try using `nvm` to run script/bootstrap with Node 10.x. I think this might be the issue you're seeing: https://github.com/atom/apm/issues/195.

If you run into anything else, feel free to ping us on the Nylas Community slack channel (http://slack-invite.nylas.com/)
All of this is true of the existing advertising system, which is a micropayment system, but instead of taking money from me, it takes resources and information about me and gives them to advertisers for a fraction of a cent.
I can tell you what works for me (and others, I hear): pick a project. Decide what are you going to create; a site or program which does X. Write it down, in detail.

Then do it.

Of course, you don't know how to do it. That's the point. Your project goal will guide you to learn the things you need to know in order to accomplish it.

When you succeed, pat yourself on the back, then pick a new, harder goal and repeat.
If he might have opened a losing door, your odds are no longer 2:1 switching. This surprised me as well (in fact, I wrote a simulation for myself intending to reassure me that it was not the case, and learned better).
Nylas CEO here-- we build infrastructure that powers apps and developers pay us to run it (like AWS). Check out a few here: https://www.nylas.com/use_cases

N1 is a new platform, and fits within our free usage for developer accounts. Paid features (potentially via paid plugins) are coming later. For now, we're focused on ironing out the UI/UX bugs, scaling onboarding system, and opening the codebase to developers.

We're a product company, not an advertising company. We have no plans to sell user data or build the kind of targeting/tracking systems used by Facebook and Google. Our goal is to build rich new experiences and tools on top of email that empower developers and end-users.

Privacy and security are obviously hugely important to us, and we know that it's our job to earn your trust every day. It's one of the reasons we've open sourced nearly all of our codebase. We make money to continue developing this product.

Does that make sense? Happy to dive in more if you'd like, or you can ping me directly: mg@nylas.com
A lot of the options kicked around are tablets running some app. Most suffer from some combination of these problems:

1) Unproven and unfamiliar software: the TI calculator OS just works, no crashes or bugs to really speak of especially in the simpler 83/84 models. (Though there are some in the 89 where you start to get into symbolic solvers and dealing with infinities.) Teachers and resource makers have also had a lot of time to create and learn materials for the older calculators.

2) Power: Calculators really sip power compared to any modern touch screen devices and with AAA batteries as the power your just a few seconds to go from a dead calculator (assuming you didn't bother to replace the batteries in the multiple days that the warning kept popping up) to a working device again. They also last much longer than any tablet out there and the batteries don't degrade in performance over time.

3) Physical interfaces vs touchscreen: There's a lot to be said for physical interfaces in speed and accuracy and the feedback they give. I've found them faster & more accurate in a lot of cases.

4) Admin overhead: This falls a bit under the unproven part of (1) but is a bit broader. Locking the tablets down and making sure that they're running just the base software and cannot communicate during tests is massively harder with a tablet alternative. Graphic calculators can be reset to factory default in well under a minute and it's difficult to put much in there beyond simple plug and solve programs to begin with. Plus free isolation because (generally, newer models like the NSpire are an exception) they can't communicate wirelessly to begin with.

None of these are necessarily show stoppers in and of themselves but they're a pretty high ramp for any competitor to top.
There's nothing to merge. The technology really isn't anything proprietary like a new machine learning classification algorithm. They'll just inherit lots of freeloaders
Why not use actual Test Users for development? https://developers.facebook.com/docs/apps/test-users
The claim is quite old, and comes from an era where a fresh install of an operating system would have web servers and DNS servers and file servers globally exposed. Many projects have adjusted since then, but there was definitely an era of Apache worms that could spread juat by pwning the default "it's working!" Web site that many operators didn't even know they were running.
Effective Cryptography in the JVM
>The world really was different for Baby Boomers, and there's more than a grain of truth that a BA in any subject would be your (upper) middle class meal ticket.

I'm not sure I buy that. In the mid '80s my dad's secretary had a graduate degree in marine biology, and the attitude was "Yes, she has a graduate degree and she's working as a secretary. But what do you expect? Marine Biology."

The past wasn't as comfortable as people make it out to be.
You're misunderstanding the use of "exploitation". Think more of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploitation_film
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The interesting origin of the word “Handicap”
The little "people you may know" widget is really useful

It seems to be quite useful for generating spam-mails, I'll give it that...
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The article is about that.
Ship.io says goodbye
In my React (+Redux) applications, Express only plays a very minor part of being the entry point for the server.

Check this out https://github.com/joshhunt/reactapus/blob/master/src/server.... Koa or Express.js wouldn't really make that much of a difference.
It's terrible that we are doing this to someone who probably would have learned their lesson with only 5-10 years of prison and been able to return to society. He had the potential to return as a productive member of society and now instead he will be a lifelong debt all for assisting in the sale of drugs that people willingly purchased knowing the risk of death from those drugs. He's no saint but this punishment is unreasonable and it seems like the Judge was just out to get him.
React swipeable views – A component for swipeable views
I don't take this into account. I use the 'new' link and read the newest interesting sounding articles; I avoid the ranked posts altogether.
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The NSA doesn't have to tamper with hardware to backdoor it, they can just as easily find a hardware/microcode bug.

And as far tampering with the actual silicon goes, well if the device is complex enough to require substantial logic then you'll probably have room to plant a bug, a simple device won't need a complicated bug to begin with.
And silicon tampering doesn't require you to implement an entire bug in the silicon it self it can be as simple as intentionally added flaw that causes an error or an errata when say exposed to certain radio frequency which in conjunction with other external or internal attacks might lead to an effective backdoor.

We can build fractal antenna's on a tiny scale these days http://nextbigfuture.com/2013/06/nanoscale-etching-of-3d-fra...

Incorporating something like that into silicon won't be that expensive, and all that it needs to do is maybe short 2 pins that put the chip into debug mode and GL discovering that in a postmortem.
Supporting older browsers.

It is impossible to properly support older browsers, which your users will be using whether you think they will or not, without knowing a good history of CSS, HTML, and Javascript such that you know what browser had what bug with what feature and what the expected behavior will be for that browser such that you have fallbacks or workarounds in place to support that browser.

Not a major problem if you only support evergreen browsers - but you will be incapable of supporting older browsers without being familiar with the history.

Or for Javascript - ES6 code could make your code far more maintainable, lowering your technical debt, but you'll need to transpile it down to ES5 to work in current browsers. So knowing where the language is heading is important.

Not all languages/software maintain backward compatibility. What if you are using an API that is going to undergo a major change and completely break everything you are doing? Being able to plan for that change and update your API could be the difference between your business shuttering or remaining operational.
VMware erases day's gains on report of lost Apple deal
There are quite a lot of things about ny times that you can't see anywhere else.
Excellent post. I was curious about how to do this properly but always got scared off by the fear of having to actually write my own crypto code. It's a pity it's not maintained better by Google. Maybe the EFF will get behind it...
This drove me batty as well. When I eventually caved and re-subscribed, I did it through iTunes -- it's the same price (they eat the 30%) and a one-click cancellation.
What Mr. Robot Says About Bugs
IIRC, IMAP flags/keywords were limited compared to folders (and a message can't belong to multiple folders). But maybe I got a wrong idea when I read the RFCs...
Avoiding Draw-Downs
Any way the solution to this problem will be the same as streaming movies and music. There will be an aggregator or curator you pay money to for access, and they will pay pennies to the content creators per view.
It barely matters. Compose.io's mongo db service is also in aws east. It's simply a matter of pasting the mongo connection url they provide. The scalability they provide would be a waste of MDG's resources to build themselves. Perhaps they could automatically integrate with compose.io, but other than that its identical to what MDG could ever provide.

So unless ur bummed about costs again (i.e. the Compose.io costs on top of Galaxy's costs), U pretty much have everything u need now. It seems soon they will provide a cheaper account.
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Money quote:

"the preponderance of evidence is that people participate in terrorist organizations for the social solidarity, not for their political return."

Reminds me a bit of an article from earlier this year [0] which argues that young men who leave Europe to join ISIS do so largely out of a desire to belong to something important.

[0]: http://aeon.co/magazine/culture/the-appeal-of-isis-isnt-so-f...
Agreed. Just FYI, you probably mean "ceding the small-fry market" (i.e. concede).
Exactly this. Price discovery can really bite.

But if you've been watching this develop as long as I have its really fascinating to see how these markets emerge.
I used to like the Model M keyboard, before I knew anything. When my wrists started hurting, I discovered the cherry keyboards and that the Model M requires a disgustingly large force to depress the keys. My M's are now rusting in the garage, and I'm using cherry browns pain free. Also I have extra keys with hardware macros, which aren't dependent on some host software to work properly, so I can activate my console switch, etc.
Do you guys cover plumbing or home repair appointments or calls? Like if I need to book someone to come to my house and don't really want to call them?
Are there any concrete examples of the homophobia and sexism that could be pointed out?

I've taken part on LKML and I've been dressed down on it and even privately a couple times and part of me wanted to crawl into a cave and disappear, another part of me took it with sort of the playful teasing the LKML hacker culture has. I had some issues with my patches, they got called out and there was some joking. It wasn't personal. Now there have also been some arguments where people up and walked away, clearly some of it has been taken personally.

I'm not trying to defend LKML, it can be harsh. Also a lot of people depend on Linux, the standards for patching it have to be pretty high and there has been a lot of abandonware patches added over the years. These higher profile flames and resignations draw a lot more attention than the incredible amount of noise from the other side of the spectrum... I've also had some incredibly helpful responses from very busy people that helped out when I clearly should have known a little more than I did. Sexism, homophobia, racism, etc.. seems a bit outside of what's acceptable though. I'm not denying that it has happened but I'd love some concrete examples if anyone has some.
That argument makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. It's trivial to obtain legit sounding names for spamming purposes. It's better to report actual spam than something indirect such as names; being able to report accounts just for their names is asking for abuse.
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Heh, I graduated as a mechatronics engineer(so my education leans mostly towards the mechanical Eng. side) and wound up as a firmware engineer for the auto industry. These days I'm quite staggered, frankly, how inefficient the auto industry is at writing good firmware and would love the chance to chip at something more useful than what I'm doing right now.

I was asking what you wound up doing afterwards because I was personally curious what career trajectory one can expect going from such cool projects.(esp at that time)

It's really curious how this bit of history isn't that well known. I've only just heard about it 3 days ago. Since they have been working at it since the 80's, I would have expected Daimler to have the lead in the sdc game. How brilliant were the people working on it at the time? How come they didn't try to hit the market with what they had? I guess it wasn't feasible in '92, but I see the project running till' at least 2005, so I guess they could have tried putting some commercial applications of it out.