skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If anyone can suggest a better solution than "make a new post in append-only fashion" I'd love to hear it.

Command tab category: "featured", where submissions are ordered in a way that certain "editor's choice" submissions are boosted.

This solves the problem of propelled posts looking "weird" on the front page; they look weird where that is the behavior.

"Featured" doesn't have to be ever-present; if there is nothing being featured at the moment, the link can disappear. Its intermittent manifestation could help get it noticed and used.
>He wasn't charged and convicted of 5 attempted murders, his guilty sentence for running a continuing criminal enterprise was modified based on the preponderance of evidence that he attempted to have 5 people killed. It's 5, not 6 due to the corrupt FBI / SS agents.

the 5 had only chat logs as "evidence". The 6th had chat logs and the Force's testimony. This is why the 5 have never made it anywhere in the proper court procedure - they even didn't made it as far as formal charge, and the 6th stuck at the indictment once the Force's corruption became known. The 5, ie. the chat logs, chronoligacally appeared after the Force's one.
Perhaps American sentiment is based on China's hundreds of years of bad policy relegating those same millions of people to extreme poverty?

[edit: it might be more fair to say decades here, if you believe we can only attribute "policy" to the Communist Party]
You might lose all online communication options with at least some of your friends. This is unacceptable to many/most people, hence why they join Facebook and end up perpetuating the effect.
Unintended Consequences of Employee Engagement
Yes, a vast number of the world's poorest population have been raised out of nominal abject poverty, this is true.

What Kristof doesn't state, however, are these facts:

1. Those people live almost entirely in China and India.

2. The rise in nominal wealth has come from a tremendous increase in energy consumption.

3. Both nations have extreme environmental problems, including the worst air pollution situations in the world, result of extreme amounts of coal consumption, water shortages, water pollution, and extensive land contamination from mining, industrial, municipal, and other waste.

4. Though overall efficiency in GDP output per unit energy has increased modestly, overall, increases in economic wealth require vast amounts of additional resource consumption.

The combination of factors 3 and 4 above means that the gains in economic output are being accomplished largely by both strip-mining resources and exhausting effluent dumps in China and India.

5. Much of the apparent "de-materialisation" of economies in the developed world outside China and India is actually, on closer examination, based on exporting raw material (and effluent) demands to those countries. See research out of CSIRO (Australia) and UCSB.

6. Outside of China and India (though yes, they're both huge countries), progress in the "developing" world has been far more modest. In cases, backsliding. Add to this economic regression through much of the Middle East and North Africa (much of the disturbances of the Arab Spring is attributable to economic circumstances), and even in OECD/European nations, particularly Greece, Italy, Spain, and Portugal.

And finally: the foundations of modern economic wealth, vast quantities of nonrenewable resources, tapped at uttelry unsustainable rates, are quite simply not sustainable. Without looking to this basis, effectively the fuel in the tank, observations of altitude or velocity tell little.
Working within the existing HTTP spec is an idea worth pursuing. Of course I'm biased because my startup is in the process of doing just this by implementing a 402 server. http://www.fairtread.com/

While the status code is a good place to start, you really need Accept-Monetization and the corresponding Content-Monetization headers to fill out the picture. We propose these to work the same way that Accept-Language and Content-Language headers work. Essentially the user passes along the monetization methods they allow, and when there's a mismatch on the server, a 402 error occurs...along with instructions on how to fix that.

The ideal system would allow multiple ways to pay for content, and would include advertising as a "free" option.
Twitter should buy Slack and own the workplace communications market.
Just to make sure no one thinks badly of ryanfait (or whoever manages ryanfait.com) -- this comment was in no way endorsed/sponsored by that site (just one of the first reasonable explanations google produced when I searched).

Comment is purely heavily downvoted passerby-opinion, not sponsored content.
Better luck here: https://wdronline.worldbank.com/handle/10986/6781
Hello -

I am just here to verify that this is all legitimate and I posted it here to learn more from the community and get feedback. Start-up community has always been very helpful with their opinions and also pretty good beta testers.

This model works and is operational. We charge $2 for any customer service call.

If you have any specific questions, I will be happy to address them.

Thank you
Anil
The threshold is inflation-adjusted: http://iresearch.worldbank.org/PovcalNet/index.htm?0,6
"Would you tell your full name to a random person at a bar that scares you? No, because they can find a lot about you just from knowing that.

"Okay, you don't have that choice anymore. They can get it just from seeing your face now."
"The solution for hardware device drivers is to push the complexity where it belongs in 2015, not where it belonged in 1965. Some say they would not trust hardware vendors to get complex software right, and therefore the complexity should remain in software running on the CPU. As long as systems software authors cannot get software right either, there is no huge difference in correctness."

It's not a matter of whether hardware companies can get their firmware right, it's a matter of

* Who keeps developing the firmware after the company abandons the hardware?

* Who bothers to realize that the code for $HARDWARE_COMPANY's 200+ devices can be refactored down to a single module with a few, very minor tweaks for each device?

History tells us (and the explosion of model-specific drivers on Windows, for which there exist single-driver-with-minor-model-specific-tweaks on Linux, demonstrates) that hardware manufacturers generally have little to no desire to do either thing.

"Even on the desktop, the square peg is not the correct shape: we know that the system will be used by a single person and that the system does not need to protect the user from non-existent other users."

As I've intimated elsewhere, an (ostensibly single-user) modern PC has a bunch of unrelated daemons running to serve the logged-in user. User isolation, along with running each daemon as a different system user is what keeps those daemons from messing with the actual computer user's files and processes. This isolation is a pretty important property. Extending that isolation further; by -perhaps- writing wrappers that run each application as a different system user might be quite desirable. :)

"The current cloud trend is gearing towards unikernels, a term coined and popularized by the MirageOS project..."

Maybe. As Linux's ability to sandbox a given process from the rest of the system gets better and better, I suspect that this sandboxing will be the way that a lot of people choose to secure their systems. The sandstorm.io folks report that they have had great success just by using libseccomp on the software that they deploy.
Georgia Tech Is Pumping Water Through Silicon for Chip Cooling
It's probably due to the Tinder app being tied to your Facebook account.
You could say that PHP == "static language", even if you maybe can't say PHP === "static language"?
I went on 1999. Same interpretation as you do.
I used to think this exactly...but now, given how heavily the NFL, NFLPA, and individual teams have been promoting Draftkings/FanDuel, it's obvious that the business model involves paying kickbacks to all the important stakeholders in the sport.

And regarding how relatively chummy the NFL is with elected officials, don't forget that commissioner Roger Goddell's father was both a senator and representative from NY state. That's just one data point, but there are probably a lot of backroom conversations that we don't know about. I think there's too much legitimate money at stake for there to be a online poker-like, "Black Friday" type event for the daily fantasy scam.
There are some very unfortunate beliefs around language acquisition which torpedoes people's attempts to learn language, I think.

One of the most damaging and prevalent beliefs is that memorizing 2-3000 words of vocabulary will make you "fluent". When I taught English, my co-workers would even tell their students this outright. But 2-3000 words gets you to the level of a 3 year old child. Even 10,000 words will bring you up to the level of a 8-10 year old only. If you further dilute your vocabulary with useless words like "unemployment" and "discrimination" like they often do in schools, you will have the working vocabulary of a 5 year old -- i.e., you can talk at length about Pokemon (as long as you watch it over and over again), but not much else.

"Communication" is such a tenuous concept. You don't need any formal language to communicate in a convenience store, for instance. Hand gestures will do nicely. I had a friend who learned Japanese primarily by chatting up girls at the train station. At first he communicated any way that he could and slowly made progress. He supplemented that by reading science fiction novels in Japanese. It's a crazy way to study, but was very effective (I should mention that his success rate with the girls was absolutely dreadful).
Same thing as before, you've stated it's ugly, but haven't given any specific examples of why you think this.
Build a push notification check in module in 5 mins
Sure, contact me at newsletter@kuschku.de (that email goes per default to my spam folder, if you send me an email today I’ll whitelist your address).

And the implementation is very simple: I just store every timestamp when you visit a thread (unless you visited it in the last 5 minutes already), and then just display those in a list.

Highlighting then all comments that were created after that timestamp is pretty simple.
There's a huge difference between criticism, and saying you wish that someone was retroactively aborted.
Do they not notice Facebook using facial recognition to automatically tag faces in their photos already? That isn't even a very new feature anymore.
I like how the article talks about the uselessness of percentiles, when a lot of people are still using averages!

Seriously, one of the best tool we use is to count thresholds and buckets. On a per-route basis, identify a threshold that you deem worrisome (say, 50ms), and then simply count the number of responses above that. Similarly, create buckets, 0-9ms, 10-19, 20-29... I say "best" because it's also very easy to implement (even against streaming data) and doesn't take a lot of memory. Not sure if there's a better way, but we sample our percentiles, which makes me uneasy (but keeps us to a fixed amount of memory)
I still don't get what stopped them from using any of the existing operators.
I have a great way to explain Facial Recognition and why it's important....

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I wrote a program called uWho(https://github.com/jwcrawley/uWho) for our hacker/maker convention, Makevention. Our goal was to determine how many people showed up to the convention, as it was a free-to-attend with a suggested donation event.

With a permissive license (OpenCV) attached to a GPL3 (Qt), I was able to make a real-time face scanner. My version was nice, in that it saved a one-way hash of the person's face. It is a 2 liner to save the full face instead of the nice method I did.

I did this using software anyone can get. Now, imagine having this software, with mainframes combined with the ability to trawl through a user's facebook profile... Because a like allows that. And do you have a company's Facebook permission? Now they can see your whole profile, as well as your friends.

Now, tell me this: what would happen if a company downloaded every face in a user's profile, checked the names of tagged faces, and ran all of them through a face recognizer like what I already made?

That's why it is important.
Which side has the actual ability to forcefully implement their desired policies over a large population?
Who is questionable and who defines it?

It might not be a person making the call. Whatever the state of the art machine learning algorithm decides. Not to suggest that a learning algorithm won't be able to learn racism.
It depends upon the nature of the call. Without divulging details, one person just wanted to learn that they can start a company while being on H1B. This doesn't require any other knowledge i.e. it is a generic question. However, you still want to confirm from USCIS and gather any online resources they refer to. If dialing person's time is more valuable than $2, then why not have someone else do it.

Another example is find out whether you need to know when can H-4 visa candidates work on spouse's H1B visa. These are pretty generic questions and one has to wait in queue for 45 mins to 1 hour for no reason. I am not sure whether you have tried calling once. It is pretty painful. More painful, when you were waiting for one hour and your call gets cancelled or you run out of network while driving or traveling (or in elevator). You have to just make sure that you have sufficient battery and that you don't move anywhere without a network :)
The Scrabble app for iPad used to do that. There was a separate 'Tile Rack' app for iPhone. The iPad app for Scrabble was paid ($9.99 IIRC), but only one player had to buy it. The companion tile rack app was free. For some reason, EA seems to have removed that functionality:

https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/838860/scrabble-tile-rack-a...

https://twitter.com/askeasupport/status/237941190538977280
This is almost certainly it. It comes from adding each other to your smartphones address book so a name shows instead of a number.
Ha, when watching those shows, I am always the nerd telling my wife how it's impossible to zoom in and enhance, because you can't create more information than existed when the photo was taken. I'm not sure that she gets it.
do we really need to see bad java examples to understand his opinion?
"As for Linus, I think he gets somewhat misrepresented in many places."

He's told multiple people he wishes they were retroactively aborted. I don't know of many ways that can be interpreted.
One benefit: I could have a "Share on Twitter" button without Twitter seeing me load their button and thus profiling me based on my web browsing?

> ...We determine the people you might enjoy following based on your visits to websites in the Twitter ecosystem (sites that have integrated Twitter buttons or widgets)... (https://support.twitter.com/articles/20169421)
Instagram accounts aren't private by default, and posts can be embedded in other web pages (e.g. a lot of clickbait "journalism" does this), though it does not have a friendly logged-out interface like Twitter.
Heavily tax guns and bullets.
Hi -
Could you please direct me to the logos that are mixed up? I checked some and they looked fine. Appreciate your help.

Thanks,
Anil
Anyone have a text transcript handy? I don't like multimedia.
"We cover planes that crash, not planes that take off."

It always fascinates me how much my world view and the world view of those around me is based on the exceptional and not the mundane. The news outlets report the news assuming that the audience knows what's normal. When the news is used to become informed about the world many people come away with a skewed impression of reality. I am of the opinion that people would be better served by news reports that provide context to explain why the news is in fact news.

Here's some context I find interesting:

According to the CDC:

Americans murdered per year: 16,121

Americans killed in car accidents per year: 33,804

Americans killed by smoking related diseases per year: 480,000

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/homicide.htm
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/accidental-injury.htm
http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/fast_...
Facebook Inc (FB) Partners with Eutelsat to Bring the Internet to Rural Africa
Monkey Light M232 review
> Why should I present a different identity at work than I do in personal affairs?

In the tech industry, perhaps not so much of an issue. But, for example, I'm sure many K-8 teachers have a "work" self and a "weekend" self that don't (and/or shouldn't) mix well.
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. In any case that kind of policy is already illegal. And it's not even technically feasible at the moment. Even if it was, it's very unlikely there is a strong correlation between being seen with some random person in a photo, and your likelihood of paying a loan.

There is plenty of questionable shit happening right now in the NSA and stuff. I don't see why we need to resort to fearmongering about absurd hypotheticals.
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> not someone who has actual power in the company.

Two men are named in the article. One is on the Audi board of management. The other is on the Porsche board of management.

I understand where the cynicism comes from, I really do, but it's exhausting to wade through all the uninformed naysaying in this discussion. The above information took me less than a minute to find.
> http://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2015-09-24/y-contributo...

Ahh yes, Dan Altman, a recent hire at SV clone "Y Contributor", talks about attention to detail, and working with the Samwer bros.

Edit: << pun intended.
It's very similar to what he talked about here:

http://blog.samaltman.com/unit-economics

At least for the first section of the interview.
For those that down voted the above is a reference to Orwell's 1984 where big brother watches us all and the above nations are in perpetual conflict to keep the population in line. In light of my understanding of some of the TPP provisions I thought it was an apt reference.
I know many people with highly distinctive, and, in a surprising number of cases, entirely unique names. Some rather surprisingly.

Name plus city plus one other piece of data (approximate birth date, school(s) attended, former employer(s), a few other associates/contacts, profession) are very often enough to uniquely identify an individual, even with an otherwise common identity.
As far as i know private spaces are part of Heroku Enterprise and prohibitively expensive for most startups.
"I'm not too interested in having to do too much sysadmin on it"

Buy a Mac. Or just buy a MiniDP-DVI adapter for your MBA.
Those are the advertised pricing for players. If you do not believe that these companies have a private, internal model to set those "prices" to maximize their returns...
Something can have a value to me at free, and if the price were to rise at all, I would shift my consumption elsewhere.

Like Taylor Swift on Spotify.
No, it will continue until it stops generating revenue. It is our appetite for this sort of journalism that feeds it; if all the journalists in the world suddenly stopped writing fear-baiting stories, then someone else would start writing those stories to fill the void.

The journalists aren't the ones with the addiction; it is their readers that have the addiction.
I think you're right in your edit, the Community Party has only been in power for decades. Prior to that, China was in turmoil due to colonization and imperialism by the U.S., France, Britain, and other European states, as well as Japan.

I believe it's more accurate to say that the American sentiment is derived from China being a rising world power ideologically backed by Communism, and an actual threat to America's dominance (by some methods, China's GDP has exceeded the U.S. already). As a Chinese American (I've lived in the U.S. all my life), it concerns me that American media shows such an insanely biased and untruthful view of China. Growing anti-Chinese sentiment is not a good thing for me, or my future children.

I actually find it ironic that we Americans believe that the Chinese population believes in false state communist propaganda, but in reality, we suffer from it ourselves, just from free corporate backed media instead.
Well, governments gave us TOR. So just because some parts of government(s) want to listen in, record and have available all the things -- this isn't universal.
"PPP"	refers to Purchasing Power Parity. The default option is the PPP rates for consumption in 2005 estimated by the World Bank’s Development Data Group.

So yes, it does account for inflation, assuming equal inflation across whatever basket of goods was chosen as the reference point for PPP.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purchasing_power_parity
> reducing efforts to centrally plan the economies

"Reducing" is technically correct, even in China. But China still has a command economy in housing, infrastructure, telecommunication, transportation, etc., and is still run by a big 'C' Communist Party. That's where the uplift happened, and it needs to be explained in terms of local conditions.
I love learning random facts like this. Can I get a citation/link to where coping your own ID is a crime?
Seems to be the case, moor often than knot.
You could accomplish the same "don't allow Joe Random UserID to bind to port X" by specifically mapping designated UIDs to ports. This doesn't require that accounts be root, avoids the security issues of running network services as root, and prevents arbitrary processes from binding to ports.
Quick Introduction to Communicating Sequential Processes in JavaScript
I was pretty amazed at what the card issuers have to put up in chargeback contests. I had to file an affidavit after someone charged my card with the wrong name and wrong zip code; the retailer accepted the charges anyway, perhaps because they were in on the fraud. What an amazingly out of date system.
Honestly I'm amazed that even here on hackernews PHP gets so much hating over meaningless things.

I mean, hating PHP for copying Java OO model in 2004? Com'on... It's not like PHP ever wanted to be a fancy language.

EDIT: Apparently PHP5 was released in 2004, not 2003.

EDIT2: One thing PHP got right over Java: type-hinted parameters are not nullable by default. NullPointerException anyone?
It's already inflation-adjusted.
It's to decrease the perception of click fraud.

Facebook's real name policies have to do with how people perceive the plausibility of the numbers reported for their a-la-cart paid advertisement customers.

This policy doesn't actually decrease fake shell accounts. It's an intentionally ineffective ceremonious anti-fraud campaign.

Facebook knows that third parties conducting click and follow fraud for paying advertising customers brings them a lot of money.

They came up with a policy that gives the perception of combating it ... actually closing real human accounts. However, all the fake bot accounts are and have always been named like "Jane Doe" and "Bob Smith" ... they remain untouched.

What's the effect? The paying customer thinks that Facebook is making an effort to combat fraud but in truth they have every interest in keeping the fraud around and creating a false perception that things are changing - like the oil and tobacco companies; like nike and nestle; like fast food - like every other billion dollar company ever.

You don't amass $30 billion by being an honest Joe.
I followed HN policy of submitting with original title, though the claim that employees have explicitly used inside info to bet at other sites remains speculation at this point. What is clear is that the same employee who accidentally leaked player ownership percentages early also won $350,000 on rival site FanDuel the same week.