skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree with the conclusion of this article. The author conflates familiarity with lack of creativity. In order for an idea to be sold, its presentation must resonate with its audience. That means it must latch onto their beliefs as well as those facts that have been proven to them, and it must leverage those conceptual building blocks to bring them up to date with this new logical composition. With no frame of reference, how should anyone know where a product fits in? No one other than the innovator can be expected to have such a vision—after all, how often is the next trend predicted? In retrospect, analogies to past breakouts become apparent. Being analogous to pre-existing innovations is not mutually exclusive with being novel and creative; in this new age, we will soon find that all new developments are built solely at a higher level, on the foundation comprising progress thus far. We therefore cannot present this as a disrespect for knowledge, but rather an impatience for those who create things before deciding their place in this unfair, pragmatic world.
Europe's highest court has rejected the 'safe harbor' agreement
> On the other hand you are just as likely to get a loan you otherwise wouldn't have because you haven't been seen with questionable folks.

I would imagine the list of things that will count against you in those situations will always be much longer than the list of things that can count for you, i.e. just because A can count against you doesn't mean that ¬A will count for you; ¬A will just be 0 points and the assumed baseline.
>Great example of innovation from Vice. If only those starchy ol' newspapers could have thought of something like a 'letters to the editor' section... What? Oh.

The very first sentence of the Vice post:

>As a kid, whenever I'd get some BMX or car magazine in the mail, I'd always dive in first to the letters to the editor.
Ultimately, judges are God when you are in the court room, or treated as if they were. In reality judges are human beings with human problems. We should replaces judges with AI. AI is much better at acting like God than fallible human beings with their biases and their legal systems which are basically like religions.

Ultimately though the guy was guilty and should have spent 5-10 years in prison.
Almost 1 year ago I gave up a 90-minute each way train commute in Sydney for a 20-minute cycle commute in Ireland (obviously there were other factors).

I love the freedom to come and go when I please, and not be held up by seemingly random infrastructure failures that can ruin your whole evening.

I've actually found myself extending the bike route to get a bit more exercise in (when it's not lashing that is).
> I think telecommuting is going to be the norm pretty soon.

Holograms. Imagine sitting next to a hologram, in a meeting or just in an office setting. This would be amazing, and is coming (I hope).
Nothing happened to email in the last 10 years, IMAP is fine.
Is it a coincidence that the folks mentioned in the articles are in high profile high salary jobs? These folks has these commute already factored into their salary package.

Here is a question, how many middle level managers or engineers are doing these type of crazy commutes in the US?
Maybe it's just the beauty of being entry-level haha.... the stuff i'm working on is pretty interesting so I haven't really thought about about till recently, maybe i'll have to start thinking about it, thanks
I agree with you ddingus. Even if a comment section is flooded with nonsense the chance to read an insightful or funny comment still exists, and I'd rather be the one who decides what adds to the conversation.

Whilst I'd be interested to know how this experiment from Vice plays out, the main concern I have is over editorial bias. Sometimes interesting ideas are expressed poorly, do these make the cut, and is it the substance or the way in which they are expressed that gets commented on? Also, will we lose out on some of the funny comments that are only funny in context? Will have to wait and see how diverse the feedback section turns out to be.
Reddit about to do what Buzzfeed does with popular Reddit content. ;-)
I thought this looked nice until I saw that it's not an email client at all, it's an interface to a backend service.
Sure, you can get the backend and run it yourself but who wants to do that. Pity, it looked nice.
The original statement of the Tragedy of the Commons implies that ownership of grazing land leads to better outcomes. Whether that applies in similar cases when it is invoked depends. Pigou taxes are proposed as a bridge technology to gain the benefits of private ownership for common goods.
> 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.

One of the problems with how Facebook is currently implementing it's "real names policy" is that it is not accepting people's real world identity, because FB only accepts certain things as "proof".

For example, trans people often get stung by this.
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Testing react-native components with Jest
4), and here's why: the manager is already aware of this behaviour and hasn't acted on it. In other words, you're dealing with a toxic _culture_, not a toxic co-worker.

By all means do 5 while you execute on 4, but you're in no position to change the culture of the firm. Go and find a better one. (Context: I've done exactly this.)
It's almost like computer security. One little vulnerbility might be nothing. But it allows someone to pivot to something else. Which allows them to pivot to the next level. etc. etc.
Mistake #1: thinking reporters should be moderating comments (see quote below).
Mistake #2: Sending their readers elsewhere on the web to comment on stories. Media outlets are looking for a revenue stream/value-added features. Web companies are all about engagement. What an opportunity they are missing! Why? Because they are scared of a little honest feedback?

User-generated commentary can be done right. it can be done in a way that minimizes trolls.

"I think that our readers are best served by dedicating our resources to doing more reporting than attempting to police a comments section in the hopes of marginally increasing the number of useful comments."
6. Tell the coworker to vent on Twitter. Works wonders for me. It is like shouting at /dev/null :)
Well, I was commenting in particular on the fact that the site is currently a private WordPress server. The plan appears to be a bit more involved than aggregation, comprising interviews with Reddit OPs and curated articles written by Reddit staff themselves (although they’re probably hiring mostly new people to work on that).
I know I know, comments 99.9% of the time are non-constructive; but goddam it, I enjoy reading them. Sometimes they're good, but most of the time just a laugh. I like you're attempt to try something new (old) but as others have said, I don't do social media other than Twitter which is just too restrictive for decent comments. Its ironic though that I'm using HackerNews to comment on this. I'm a big fan of building a community who can self-police comments. It may be a pipe dream to be full proof that a bad comment will be down voted enough to remove it completely, but I really think there's a better way than resorting to email and social media.
There are similarities here to the adblocking debate, in terms of having to load 3rd party scripts. Disqus, FB etc - load through another request once the page is up and running, degrading the experience. Removing these parts will mean a quicker web, if as others have mentioned, at the cost of less immediate interaction.

Vice seem to have correctly identified that the quality of that discussion (and the branding) was not adding much to their content. Thumbs up for trying something different.
> In fact, Facebook is not a public utility, but a private company.

Public utilities have been privatised, and are required to operate under strict regulation. Why not the same for FB>
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The Unbundling of AWS
thanks for the research.

this article
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2033886/India-Pakist...
may give further insight. from the picture, one can estimate that lights are separated by approx 20 meters, and the length of the lighted border is about 2000 km. This gives about 100 000 floodlights, which is consistent with the Wikipedia figure. Those lights seem rather powerful. I would not be astonished if they were 1kW each (might be much smaller if made of LED, but the yellow-ish color suggests it's not). This gives 100 MW of lighting power. Crap, that's a lot.
You mean that the <95% requests will tend to go to the same few users?

If half of them go to a few unlucky users and half go to scattered users, the chance is of avoiding a <95% request is 0.6% for the lucky users and 0 for the unlucky ones.

This share is a bit unrealistic — who will go on for five whole page views if performance is that bad? But it doesn't matter, 99.4% or 99.997% both mean "practically all users experience slow requests".
> Why should I present a different identity at work than I do in personal affairs?

Here's one: Gay people. There are many places where you can be fired for being gay.

> you should consider changing jobs.

That isn't always possible.
So engagement is important, but not engagement with the author of the article (the person who, y'know, might actually be able to answer the questions people pose in the comments section)? And honest feedback – you mean like the honest feedback you see at the bottom of YouTube videos?
well, this is what helped when I faced a similar siutation :
1. I took the guy who offended me to an informal cup of coffee and discussed about the situation.
2. Instead of confronting him, I explained my perspective and sought out his guidance to help me out.

It did help me in two ways :
1. The other person realized that I'm another human being just like him and not some "ideal code cranking robot" that he expected me to be ! He even apologized at some point for any offense he would have caused, explained his reasons and assured me that it was not personal.
2. I realized that he was under similar stress for meeting his own challenges / expectations laid out to him by his superiors. So, helped me feel better about myself , that the situation was caused mostly due to his inability to communicate rather than any fault from my end !
There's no guarantee with insider trading either. It's still illegal.
That doesn't help if they are encrypting the data before sending it.

As responsible developers they wouldn't want to send your entire address book across the wire in the clear, would they? Why, someone could easily listen in and then you would have no privacy! /sarcasm.
> Look who owns often cited media for example the Economist on Wikipedia

Aha! I was wondering why some of their editorials recently were out of whack. Usually a fairly progressive publication it's posted some fairly biased stuff about protecting the rich lately.
European Court of Justice nullifies Safe Harbour agreement
Safe Harbor is invalid EuGH says
Sorry, but it's true. From what I've observed, Reddit has started to supplant 4chan in that role in the public eye.
> You can't present a different name, but I think that's a pretty narrow use-case.

In the USA (and increasingly UK), everyone calls everyone by their first name. This is not the case in many places. Why not let people be "Jim" to friends and "Mr. Smith" to co-workers? That is very common.
And those are clearly working, right?
Just from looking at it, it looks simple, clean and intuitive. Would love to know how it's different from Trello, since it looks like you guys use Kanban too.
> you believe universal healthcare

The difference is it's something that benefits the many, as opposed to the few
Dalke didn't claim that Google Books is authoritative. He's right that nearly all attributions of famous quotes to famous people turn out bogus—the real sources are usually obscure and often interesting. They're also often more recent than you'd think. Who knows if that 1970 find is the origin of this one (probably not), but it's exactly the sort of thing that could be.

A great resource for these is the Quote Investigator, an anonymous researcher who has slowly been building up an impressive portfolio of all the well-known catchy quotes. Here's a great recent example: http://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/08/28/fish/. He or she takes requests, so I asked him or her to put "history is written by the victors" on his or her todo list.
Well, this time the German government is pissed. There are powerful people at both ends this time.
The responses to the iPhone were interesting. This article makes me wonder how many people like Ballmer and Balsillie had already been presented with similar ideas and had rejected them.

When the iPhone came out, I felt that the clones weren't so much people copying Apple but creative engineers being unshackled and being allowed to make what they wanted.
Safe Harbour Declared Invalid in Europe: Tech Giants' Data-Sharing Under Threat
ECJ Schrems Judgment: EU-US Safe Harbor Loses [pdf]
Safe Harbor is invalid
This is amazing. This is huge.

But for this to be a full success, the other vendors will also need to come on board. Can't think of a more important feature that needs standardization than intents. So once this gets standardized:

- Mozilla probably will implement, because (barring minor transgressions) they care about users more than everyone else.

- Microsoft may, because any chance of increasing their 2.5% market share depends on maximal interop and web-apps being a genuine cross-platform solution to make up for the lack of apps in their App store.

- Apple and Safari. This is going to take time, if ever. They might even come up with their own solution, requiring developers to implement two solutions to do the same thing. Strategy-wise, web apps becoming more potent is not in their interest.
Horse racing (and other sports) insider information is an odd edge case in betting. You can't get rid of it, since the owner/trainer will always know more than the public. So it is grudgingly accepted. Using it as justification for other, preventable insider-information abuse is plain wrong.

The fact that it is a bet, and might not always pay out, is irrelevant. If you keep using insider information, on average you will profit from it.
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These guys were heads of the teams of other engineers that constructed the software.
No kidding. And what a lot of people are missing is if the choice was to either cheat or walk, they should have walked.
You can use Babel with node on the back end. See https://babeljs.io/docs/usage/require/. Definitely not the most ideal solution, but it allows you to easily transition into ES6 when all the features land in node.
People have been complaining about this for years and FB has yet to actually change their policy. This is a company that has "Move fast and break things" as a motto, and you expect us to believe that they cannot move fast with updating a company policy doc?
Deng Xio Peng pivoted away from pure central planning. Whether it's actually... efficacious :) remains to be seen.

One economic historian was asked to speak to the Politboro and when he got there, found out they wanted to know why it was that the government of Britain did not fall in the 1870s. These guys know they're riding the tiger.

It looks pretty good right now.
You failed to see the sarcasm ;)
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As a European they're adding a lot of value for me, by making useful products available for me.

Don't like your products being copied? Stop making them US-only. I would use the "real thing" if I could.
+1 for small Scottish town :-)

we want our daughters to have exactly that, it's great to see our 2-year-old make friends that she could reasonably expect to finish High School with, and that might even last a lifetime
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Exactly. I have been let go (with a good package, though) from a dream job over a single personal comment from a long-time friend, who happened to work for a rival company. "You're friends irl with NNN? Sorry we have to let you go, cannot have risks like this when planning this merger". Hello, depression.
Online firms block terrorism investigations – top British policeman
…unless drives were encrypted by default, in which case the wrench would have no method to distinguish the two! Any reasonable wrench would not pursue such a doubtful case anyway. And regardless, the goal is not to avoid being beaten by the wrench, but to sustainably deny the existence of the secret. There is no incentive to ever give up the actual secret when the wrench cannot tell the difference and must continue beating (which would only happen at high levels of worth or likelihood); I might as well have continued lying.

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Honestly, how many people can get up in the morning, get ready for work, go to a car and then just fall asleep again? I guess the percentage of people who will be able to sleep on a commute will be quite low; I know I wouldn't be able to do that.
And the home secretary is going to say today that immigration is bad for the economy !

In my sector, Supply Chain Management, we are facing a skills shortage.

* Warehouse operatives are moving from many low skilled pickers to a few skilled robot sitters and the latter are in short supply.

* Procurement - moving from the soft skills of buying person to person over the phone to electronic exchange and online bidding - again a skills shortage is looming for the non-managerial staff.

* Driving - HGV is facing a short supply as the retiring workfoce is not being replaced by young people and more demand for last mile drivers for the shift to single package delivery.

* Supply chain managers - a relatively new title and one that few young people consider. The Novus Trust in the UK is promoting the career path in a hope to encourage new entrants.
All businesses take things from those that have come before. These guys make money because they're providing a valuable service.
Definitely.

I wrote a mental note that that when I have to start thinking in this manor and tread carefully in a minefield then the technology does not serve me any more and I don't want it.

Time up.
> why not just legally change your name?

Well, what if you're not fully out of the closet yet? What if you're a teenager in a very religious household?
No kidding. "Uber" appears nowhere in the article.
Yep. I get downvoted every time I say this on HN, but I will keep saying it: wealth disparity matters. Even though everyone's standard of living has risen over the past several decades, the fact that the ultra rich are able to buy representation and power is a huge problem. It actively and fundamentally subverts democracy. That's why we must do everything we can as a society to fix the issue of income inequality before it's too late.
The rest of the commenters display the same corporatist mentality they usually complain about in other professional groups.
IP traffic export: how to mirror traffic on a router
Nuke command line – Launch nuclear weapons at mapped USENET sites
A couple points:

* Uber won't be much cheaper than a taxi in Las Vegas. If you look through their published fare rates, you can see that a 17 minute trip from Mandalay Bay to Fremont Street costs ~$24 with Uber and ~$25 with a taxi [1]. Add in surge pricing and an Uber could cost much more than a taxi. You don't have to deal with the taxi cartel experience, which is a major difference. But you don't win on price like in other markets.

* I posted this yesterday, but earlier this week Uber secretly threw a massive party in Las Vegas for its employees [2]. I suspect Uber did this for political goodwill with the casinos, as a thank you letter for allowing Uber on the strip.

I heard a rumor that several Uber employees were fired for talking to the dailymail about the party.

[1] http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/traffic-transportation/ube...

[2] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3256259/Luxury-hotel...
Average level of HN audience is pretty high, and for people with decent programming skill and good English remote is an option - with liveable wage, if you live anywhere outside SFBA/NY/London; and if you live in SFBA/NY/London, you have plenty of options as a developer.
Safe Harbour: EU Court Ruling Hits Facebook, Amazon
As a side note, mr. Nicolas is the one feeding the media with "war, scandal and disaster". It's enough to take a look at his wiki:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Kristof

or the topics he covers:
http://www.nytimes.com/column/nicholas-kristof?action=click&...
They don't need to keep the information secret. They could operate just like pool betting if they wanted to. The problem comes when the information is kept private but insiders can see it. This would be equally bad for pari-mutuel betting.
Part of the problem is that many people don't have (or want) any reputation on most sites they might comment on and creating accounts is generally trivial.

I tend to worry, though, that what people label as trolling ranges from the idiots who spam bigoted nonsense to anyone who doesn't believe what the moderator does. I think it's better to moderate only incivility, bigotry and the like, as bans on "trolling" appear to have morphed into bans on dissent at some point, possibly due to some corollary of Poe's Law, even though what used to be labelled as trolling is still just as present and obnoxious.

I say that as someone who moderated quite a lot of different forums and who has banned all manner of spammers, flamers, etc., but I'd never ban someone for expressing, in a civil manner, why they did not agree with me and I've been left feeling in the minority in that regard.
Tangentially to the article, this whole sacrifice of personal life is starting to make me think about other options. And I don't even work long hours.

Last week I had to travel, to work abroad for that week. To be there on Monday morning, I flew Sunday just after lunch. I missed around 25% of my weekend and all the "after-work" time and activities I usually have. I just moved (within the same city, a few days before traveling), and my girlfriend had to finish the packing, cleaning and all that fun stuff by herself.

It was not a big deal actually, as it doesn't happen frequently, but - with this post - it got me thinking. Shouldn't we make a bigger deal of it? The fact that companies expects this kind of commitment - very outside working hours - reveals so much about the inequality in the employee-employer relationship.

And I'm not even mentioning the fact that I work on a country where I'm paid x, but was traveling to work in a country where my fellow associates in similar functions are paid 4-5x. :)
I've had a similar experience with a fellow co-worker. In fact, my manager also saw this as an issue but the toxic co-worker was too important to the team. I suffered through it for a year and ultimately left in the end (although for different reasons). I guess what I'm trying to say is, having a toxic co-worker isn't the end of the world. Keep on learning and do your job. If at the point you find yourself not learning as much and not enjoying your job (and your co-worker is still toxic), it means it's time to move on. By that time you'll have learned how to deal with and thrive around a co-worker who is "toxic". Live, learn, adapt.
OK boss.
Perhaps you would be kind enough to share with us, the way to do user-generated commentary right? A few examples, or just a single, would go a long way.
How to actually get the song:
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