skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(author. thanks for the kind words).

I think desktop-style devices are going more in the direction of being personal. And where they aren't, probably in the majority of cases you don't want the OS to mediate access poorly. I'm not saying that there aren't any counterexamples, though.

What you say about running processes "on behalf of you" is really quite interesting. There is no reason you should trust the application programmer to get it right, yet that's what the OS currently gives -- you can run your db as user "db" and httpd as user "httpd", but it doesn't do much good in terms of the actual user. So, some radical thinking is required. The editor of ;login: actually tried to point me in the direction you mention when we were working on the article, but I couldn't formulate clear enough thoughts on the subject to include in the article. Maybe someone else here has already thought about it and can put it into writing?
Keep digging.
You've over stated things, Target makes the pregnancy prediction based on pregnancy related purchases, someone making those purchases is going to be aware they are pregnant. In the article, a father is outraged that his teenaged daughter received an ad for baby clothes and complained to a store manager, he didn't know his daughter was pregnant.
One of American Apparel's selling points was the Made in America vertically integrated production center in downtown LA.
They didn't cut corners by offshoring to sweatshop factories, and the paid the working class factory staff living wages.

Vertical integration by definition shrinks a company's
carbon footprint, as the materials are not shipped back and
forth internationally, across thousands of miles, in the
production process. As you can imagine, most garments you
buy are the sum of disparate entities - knitted in one
place, dyed in another, sold wholesale somewhere else and
finally cut and sewn in unethical, sweatshop conditions.

American Apparel, in contrast, is made in the USA by highly
skilled workers we consider our friends and family.

When you buy a t-shirt from American Apparel, a smaller
portion of the margins goes towards fuel, trans-ocean
container ships, middlemen, boxes, pallets and entropy.
Instead we're able to spend that money on paying living
wages to our workers, higher-quality materials for our
garments, and investing in the future of our company.

By centralizing our manufacturing operations, we're not only
increasing efficiency, we're being held accountable and
responsible for our actions, because our name is on the side
of the building. We do our own knitting, dyeing, cutting and
sewing in-house which means we can ensure adherence with US
environmental regulations with regards to effluents, waste
disposal, airborne particulate matter, and many others.
Fashion labels who sub-contract their labor and sewing to
dozens of shadowy third-world factories never even need to
know the names of the environmental codes intended to keep
run-off from polluting local drinking water.

Our average factory worker makes $12 to $14 dollars an
hour -the highest pay worldwide for the manufacturing of
apparel basics, and significantly more than California's
minimum wage. For us, higher pay means heightened
efficiency, a better and more consistent quality of work,
stronger employee morale, and ultimately, retention rates
of skilled operators. For them, higher pay is often a
path to the American Dream for their families.

We don't have to do things this way, we just believe it's
the right way.

We employ more than 5,000 people in our LA area
manufacturing facilities, making us one of the largest
apparel manufacturing employers in the country. This, in
a state with unprecedented unemployment and an
unprecedented budget deficit. American Apparel keeps
Californians, keeps Americans, working, and in doing so
contributes millions of dollars annually to the State and
country's tax base, as well as the local economies in
which our employees live.

Some of these initiatives may fall under the banner of
"Sustainability." Others may be closer to "Corporate
Responsibility." To us, these are the natural results of
our business model, which encourages responsible and
informed decisions, alongside innovation.
Definitely check out Mosh. It's a (roughly! Don't yell at me:) layer ontop of SSH that uses the normal protocol for the initial connection, but after that it uses a UDP based protocol that is heavily tuned for poor network environments.

That, ontop of a whole host of other reasons, is why it's amazing. Absolutely love it, and have been using it every day for over a year now. Despite frequent internet drops (yay, comcast) and laptop closures, i only reconnect to the server when i reboot my laptop (maybe once a month, at best). It's neato!

edit: Note that my "server" work is my IDE (vim), and many panes of tmux, etcetc. Basically all my work. So it's used over 50h a week.
In Prometheus we solved this by having Histograms where we exported cumulative buckets of latencies, which can be aggregated and then the quantiles calculated from them.

http://prometheus.io/docs/practices/histograms/#quantiles
I'm 99% sure this isn't satire.
Heh, I was wondering the same. As others have pointed out, it looks like it's the namespace separator. Now someone has to explain why on Earth you need the namespace separator if these class names are already in the namespace?

PHP has an incredible knack for almost copying other languages' features, but making them uglier in some random way, for no particular added benefit.

(I know, I'm a hater... but seriously, why?)
A myth is an attempt to explain mysteries, supernatural events, and cultural traditions. Sometimes sacred in nature, a myth can involve gods or other supernatural creatures.

The fact that the same sources that assert the existence of figures such as Abraham and Ishmael also state that an angel talked to Ishmael's pregnant mother and that the Sakina (a spirit sent by God) or Gabriel guided father and son to the location of the Kaaba, etc. make this story mythical.
Watching Minority Report the other day, this reminds me of the automated retina scans in the movie. Really creeped me out when Tom Cruise was walking through a mall, gets picked up by the scanners and they start shooting targeted advertising at him.
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Here's the problem. Twitter has to decide whether it is A) algorithmic (facebook style, they show you content they think you'll like an optimize it by the time you are engaged with it), B) curated - someone else decides what you may like and it is suggested C) you organize it yourself.

Lots of people at Twitter are all about (C), and have ideas how to improve it. However, management has never really been hot on it, and prefers (A) because it is easier to "measure" and optimize for. If (C) was done well, and allowed users a good way to find content they though was interesting, it would be super helpful.

Another problem is that Twitter still sucks for media. Michael Sippey, then head of product, was against anything but text. He was out within a year. Text is hard to create (well), but photos are very easy- snap, apply a filter and bam, billions of food photos on Instagram. One of the appeals of Snapchat and Instagram are that they allow you to broadcast photos/video very easily. In essence, they are a better Twitter for 99% of the population.
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Why are innocent Pakistanis killed with drones being operated from Germany?
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This reminds me of the meme of first world problems versus third world problems.

Essentially, you are saying that because it saves you some annoyance, it's a good tradeoff, even if that means that a few others face not annoyance, but actual existential threats of death, violence, imprisonment, dismemberment, etc.

http://violetblue.tumblr.com/post/130440543695/why-im-sittin...

Edit: and yes, participation in Facebook is somewhat optional, but there's a larger price to be paid for not participating than the price of any of the annoyances you mention.
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I hope they didn't anchor any debt.
PHPs design and grammar precluded using any of the other existing operators. The backslash is really the best choice and in practice it works pretty well. The actual debate on the separator choice was very very very long.
They can't tell "before you do". They can tell before you tell people, but the woman needs to know she's pregnant before her habits change.
The cellphone trackers that stores already have are automatic, too. Sure, one could leave it in the car, but does anyone do that?
I don't know what kind of financial situation you're in, so I'd recommend securing a new job before you quit, but if you are doing fine financially, you may want to consider quitting first. Health is not cheap.

Burnout is a very real thing; personally, I didn't realize I was burnt out until months later, and I just felt nothing. Absolutely nothing. And it's not like you can just flick a switch and make it all okay again.

That said, make a best effort to not burn any bridges and leave as amiably as possible. Good luck!
Of all the sources outside of Google, I'd say XKCD is likely to be closer than most. Even if you ignore the fact that Randall (XKCD) spends a good amount of his time estimating things in a rigorous and scientific way that would mean his estimates are actually pretty good, he has the exact background that means people at Google would take his call if he picked up the phone to muse upon the question of how many machines Google has. They might not give specifics, but helping would be a pretty cool thing to do so they'd probably do it.
My experience is that the credit card company will contact you if the merchant contests your side of the story or if they are going to give you your money back. I've been on both sides of a chargeback. Though, it may depend on the specific bank.

1) When a customer lied and tried to charge back a ~$250 software purchase where we had emailed each other a few times about it, I simply forwarded the emails to the card issuer and the case was dropped. My company got the money.

2) When I found someone locally had stolen my card number and booked a hotel and tickets to Disneyland, I told my card issuer that I had no idea what those charges were. The hotel and ticket seller wrote back contesting it, so my card issuer contacted me and I signed an affidavit saying that, "No, really, I wasn't at Disneyland 50 miles away and also buying gas by my house at the same time". I eventually got a letter saying the charges had been reversed.
> Why is this not accessible outside of America yet?

Anything that involves moving money and comes out of the valley is always US only for a long time.

The problems boil down to tax laws, money laundering laws and the fact that all banking is local. Moving money is just incredibly painful.
"Surely"? Only when there's sufficient protest against it.

The reason why the secrecy makes ISDS even worse is that it undermines democratic means of the people to improve their country. They might vote for a good law, but doing so might lead to steep damages paid to the companies whose behaviour made the new law necessary in the first place. It seriously undermines the country's sovereignty, and that's not something that should be bartered away in secret.
I've only heard of the issue from the LGBTQ stance, and I'm not very clear here. But I'm wondering, for these people, why not just legally change your name?
Right, I could definitely train existing facial recognition software on a database of people I've met. The problem is delivery; when I need this information, I'm not sitting at a computer. I need some kind of device, with a camera and a way to feed me the person's name real time, that I can reasonably wear in public without looking like a walking server closet. That's hard to hack together (just ask the Glass team).
I think this is key.

On Media Watch (Australia) last week they discussed how savvy politicians now use social to speak directly to the public, cutting the middle man out of the equation. The middle man being traditional news media.

I think facebook is less appropriate for this kind of celebrity broadcast.

I find it frustrating to watch twitter flail around because I can see this epic opportunity hanging right in front of them. I really hope they can take that small step and make twitter something truly epic.
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For those of us living in the UK:

https://archive.is/ZiipD
The release today is about opening it up for the community participation. Making sure we release it early and not overbaked. So the community can shape the direction. We wanted to have one real HW platform that would be fully functional + Docker container image, which is being heavily used in the development and CIT. Other Broadcom Trident II/Tomahawk based platforms would be quite easy to support. For other ASICs, we would be glad to get their vendors involved.
Well, I think it's a bit naive to say that a reliance on ad revenue doesn't impact the editorial line at all... but I take it you mean the print edition doesn't come with a spy camera that watches you while you read, or mix contact poison/spores in the ink, so that you get sick from reading.

There are absolutely many issues that are unique to digital advertising.
Yep, this should be the top comment. The disappointment others have voiced about a lack of indie price tiers is understandable, but it all makes sense if you look at this as preemptively attacking the top end of the market. It's an ambitious play - if they fail to attract enough big clients they're going to have to go down-market into something more crowded, but if they succeed, they have the opportunity to create a powerful feedback loop between Meteor's profile and Galaxy's success.
Just yesterday I saw here on HN a news about what the TPP actually means for intellectual property, which should be a quite known problem here in the community. Interestingly enough though that news has only got 10 points and right now it is quite low in the list.
The first news today in HN is about CPU caching. What do we need it for if we're losing our rights so quickly?
Please distrust goodreads as an authoritative source for quotes. If you search you'll also find that "History is written by the victors" is also attributed to Churchill and to Hitler. My experience is that quotes to famous people, without any citation, are almost always misattributed.

For what it's worth, the oldest Google Book search for 'history is written by the victors' is from the 1970 "Willard W. Waller on the Family, Education, and War", p148, in a section dated "previous unpublished." A search for 'history is written by the winners' finds this summary of the history of the quote, https://books.google.com/books?id=d6JZryGvfxYC&pg=PA90&dq=%2... and concludes there is no clear origin.
It really is. It's ancient, stateful, no one is compliant (everyone has their own extensions), doesn't provide easy syncing, and the guarantees for id consistency, well, aren't there. You can't simply say 'this was the last delta I saw, give me all the updates for my entire user'. That's why email clients spend so long 'syncing' across all the mailboxes.
This view is too cynical even for me. ;)
> My experience with Reddit has been that, like most other places on the Internet, it's a mixed bag.

That I will agree. It's a very mixed bag, the worst subreddits are utter crap, but the best ones are pretty much the best source of knowledge on the Internet. You have to find the ones you like, but fortunately it isn't hard :).

Personally, I still prefer HN as my primary procrastination target. On Reddit I usually hang out only on /r/KerbalSpaceProgram. However, I turn to Reddit whenever I need to research particular interests. Almost always there exists a high-quality subreddit for the topic I want to explore. I'm usually less interested in the on-going discussion then, and more in the accumulated knowledge.

For example, I actually went (successfully) on a diet with Reddit. When researching ways to lose weight I ended up browsing dieting subreddits, and eventually ended up on /r/keto. The ongoing discussion is, as you may suspect, mostly photos of people trying to lose weight mixed with topics covering minutiae of the ketogenic diet. The sidebar, however, is a trove of knowledge and experience that community has collected over the years. It linked me directly to books, research, experiences and best tips that helped me set up and execute my plan.
Management has two goals:
1) Make themselves look like they contribute value: Micro-manage projects, track time spent, etc. Even if there's nothing achieved, they can claim to be doing something and organizing meetings.
2) Swap out programmers like cogs in a machine.
3) There is no incentive to have good quality code because chances are everybody will be off the project in a year or so, so you take credit for the success and place the failure on the poor SOBs who have to maintain the system.
The obesity epidemic is probably not being caused by people binging on whole fruits, however.
The namespace separator is not required if already in the correct scope. I am not sure why the author decided to include them in the examples.
> Now someone has to explain why on Earth you need the namespace separator if these class names are already in the namespace?

You don't. This is just illustrating these classes are in the global namespace.

> PHP has an incredible knack for almost copying other languages' features, but making them uglier in some random way, for no particular added benefit.

Well you have a case for "no added benefit" typically they aren't ugly for a random reason. There's a lot of very necessary reasons for the way these things work while making a language which is still PHP. PHP isn't precompiled. PHP has autoloading of classes. PHP allows code to be imported into other code. Combining namespaces with all the other existing features isn't an easy task.
> Congress cannot delegate its powers or constitutional requirements to the executive branch

The Constitution gives Congress explicit powers to set its own rules regarding procedure. Among these constitutionally allowed rules are "let's decide not to debate a particular bill the President gives to us". They still get to vote and all the other things the Constitution states; all that has changed is the procedure by which the bill is presented to a vote.
ELI5 is golden. Not all posts are that good, but you can always quickly get a decent overview of difficult topics.
yes, like in the previously available court documents (like the Maryland indictment which was basis for the prosecutors to mention the charges) pretty much everything about the murders comes from those agents (actually mainly from the one of them). The transcript doesn't contain anything to add to the previously available documents, it just basically summarizes and mentions what has been already stated elsewhere.
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Did you know some businesses have the ability to instantly identify you by nothing more than physical features? Did you know the storage and exchange of that identifiable information can be used by businesses or governments to violate your rights and privacy? By the way, there is no regulation regarding the use of this information, nor can you do anything about it.

Have a nice day.
I'm convinced these are the primary reason that gmail added the tabs to its interface, so we could all ignore the "Social" tab.
I was thinking more "We are all American, now". China isn't in the TPP. However, the US is pushing a lot of it's IP law.
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Damn, this was actually a really helpful and easy to use service...
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Most people have a partitioned identity. There is a side you show to your friends, a side you show to your colleagues, a side for your parents, for your significant other and even one for your kids.

An online persona is just another partition that whilst you may don't want to hide, you probably want to keep the intersection with most of the rest of the partitions to a minimum.

In real world there is a physical separation. All your contacts know you by your real name but only interact with a specific partition. On the other hand, in the virtual world, all your contacts will have to interact with your one online persona.

A pseudonym is an easy and practical way to have more than one online personas or keep your one persona limited to a certain group of people in your life. The people you want to interact with a certain part of your identity, are easy to reach; online nicknames are part of everyone's life. For the rest, they will have to search a bit more to find you and even then, they will be less imposed to take into account that part of your identity due to the use of a pseudonym.
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Indeed, one of the things I mentioned when I was discussing the OS/2 2.0 fiasco was that OS/2 was much more difficult to clone than MS-DOS.
The problem with drug research is that current incentives reward companies to focus on new (or sufficiently new to patent) medicines of little advantage and compete for market share at high prices, rather than to develop clinically superior medicines by focussing on social benefit vs costs. More publicly funded research into drugs with high social benefits would also help.
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That seems like a solid strategy. I look forward to the Tomahawk chip, but also support for Trident+ would be great, as there's a large installed base of those. And I'm sure you're already planning supporting a 32x 40Gb Trident II switch, as those are common spine switches.

I could see us switching from Cumulus Linux to Open Switch, with that hardware support, and if Open Switch stays open source. We'd likely even pay for support, if cost competitive.
Isn't this what Ink/Filepicker tried to do?
I don't think that's a fair analogy. At this point, I believe we have pretty good ideas that make it possible to write correct software. Most impressively, there has been progress on creating a completely verified C compiler named CompCert: http://compcert.inria.fr/. This really means "completely verified"---they formalized the semantics both of C and of assembly, and used an automated theorem to prove that the semantics of the generated assembly are the same as the semantics of the source code.

Of course, building (and verifying) CompCert took something like 10 years, so it's certainly not a feasible way to write software yet. Maybe a better analogy would be around the invention of the first airplane---we have a long way to go before everyone's flying in a jumbo jet :)
People just need to stop using Facebook. Join Twitter and be Happy #JackIsBack

"I don't make the rules, I just pick which rules I follow"
I thought we were supposed to use Concurrent Pascal? Did I miss a memo?
To me, that seems to add a lot of weight, cost, complexity, maintenance (battery charging and replacement), and failure modes (running out of juice) when you could just spend a couple more bucks for a lighter bike that's also more fun to ride.
They just need to (il)legally compel Apple to do it.