skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm well aware of that step. But not every troll or spammer is. How many trolls or spammers actually research the target forum well enough to know that they use such a moderation style?

It seems to be a very small number, given how many trolls and spammers get hellbanned and keep on posting, compared to how few seem to create new accounts immediately.
http://www.openbsd.org/papers/tame-fsec2015/mgp00007.html

"Optional security is irrelevant (in the long term). Mitigation technologies which can be disabled -> fade into history"

This this this this this. As much as I like having control over my system and the ability to disable things, I've seen enough examples of users and corporate sysadmins taking years to fix basic security issues because there exists a quick and dirty workaround.
This is the premise they are betting against. "Quality" is not a one-dimensional value, and a team full of Ivy League graduates are going to have similar biases and weaknesses that could hard a team. I think that's what the focus is shifting towards.
Twitter User Fart Weighs in on Edward Snowden’s New Twitter Account
What about introducing users to specific qualities each track has in the player panel? "8 bit", "MIDI", etc. Get them into the content, and then answer their questions about what it is and why they should care.

I think showing the menu automatically is great, just that when I go to re-open it myself, the button at the top right does not feel natural. I know there was a panel there, so my natural tendency is to scroll or move the mouse cursor in search of it.

You've only got a few core features, so you've got more creativity available in how you present them: On desktop you could reveal the nav when the mouse cursor is in the top 100px, and on mobile show it when the user scrolls to the top. No clicks or taps necessary, because there's nothing that would conflict with that behavior. Consider something similar for the player/info panel at the bottom. When the user stops interacting for a second or two, slide the panels away and show only the visualizer.
It's likely I'll use tame() at some point, and I found the presentation annoying enough to read that I went to google and searched for information about it in an easier to digest format. Still though, point proved: if content is interesting enough, poor presentation won't entirely turn people off from learning about it.
That's not a fair way of looking at it, though, from a business-owner's perspective. You need to look at the overall market, and you can find equally good developers in cheaper parts of the country for fractions (50-60%) of that cost.
I remember in elementary school the popular kids passed around a survey in which they ranked every student in our grade based on some nebulous combination of attractiveness, coolness, etc.

This will probably not be that much different.
8 character minimum; atleast 1 lowercase, atleast 1 uppercase, atleast 1 number, atleast 1 symbol.

The only systems that don't/can't follow that are legacy systems which likely have other issues and where the list would not be that much help.
About 96% of dietitians are women.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17314627
Trello has become indispensable to my 12-engineer team in a 40-person startup as a way of visualizing all project from a high-level view and implementing a kanban board to control workload.

When we tried Asana we were never even able to get buy-in from the whole organization, so I can't say for sure how it ultimately would have worked out, but it certainly seemed to lend itself to too many people dumping too many tasks on other people without awareness or respect for overall priorities and the value of focus and procedural workloads for engineers. Perhaps this is a unique problem to tech startups that are only 30% engineers/designers, but in my mind it weighs heavily.
For some reason I always knew something like this was coming. All that content form the 90's must be stored somewhere out there and one of us would recreate the channels in a way that we could relive it.

I really wish this gets to something real and that I might be able to show my kids in the future the cartoons that I grew up on.

Great work on this project!
10 days ago EY drops the 2:1 degree requirement [1] for UK applicants...now Deloitte feels the need to one up them by removing college branding from the consideration altogether. Next up is PWC rejecting any applicant with a college degree and poaching them right out of high school instead :)

[1] https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/ernst-and-young-dr...
It sounds like you personally gained access to better tools and that programming tools and productivity enhancing technology in general have become far more accessible. But programmers had access to unix workstations, dvcs, places to ask and answer questions online, etc, in 1995 as well. "It's fair to say that a good programmer in 2015 is probably 10x more productive than a good programmer in 1995" is an extraordinary claim without any of the required extraordinary evidence.
Should research on vehicle software be hidden from the public?
It’s all a matter of opinion, but I’m not sure that “bloatware” is the appropriate term for bundled software that never runs unless it’s explicitly opened by the user, thus having negligible resource usage. Does that extra 4MB really bother you that much? Because that’s the only effect you’ll ever feel as a result of not deleting Game Center.

On the other hand, if we’re talking about the junk that your average Windows or Android device comes preinstalled with that is either configured to run at startup and/or modifies the stock UI (TouchWiz for example), yeah, that’s definitely bloatware and it’s reprehensible to make that unremovable. That isn’t what Apple is doing, however.
Or, "I can prove that you are studying intuitionistic logic."
HLN Tricked into Debating Edward Scissor Hands Instead of Edward Snowden
Unless you're getting actual, liquid, tradable stock, it's fictional compensation. You can't pay rent with "upside".
Offshoring/Nearshoring works great if you're not an idiotic manager.
The article was calling for that kind of comment. However, there is still a good point in there.

Since last time the general public have taken the brunt of the crisis, what kind of lesson did we want the bank to remember ? The article should really be titled, "7 years after the crisis, how the public and politicians ignored the lesson of the crash".
Not off the top of my head. I don't mean "regularly" like once every few minutes, but more like a couple times a month.
Thanks, this was a helpful response unlike the SOish answers which I found unneccesarily hostile. If you see my comment below I was fairly protected.

I will look into those suggestions. Do to the differences and additions in caputan little snitch does not work. I havent connected to internet yet whoch ice floor needs to be configured properly. Does SOPHOS UTM work well even as a free version. It is annoying when snitch lets traffic out after 3grs.

As sad as this will sound, I cant afford a VPN. I set one up myself using OpenDNS and tunnelblick, which I should probably spin back up. Any other security suggestions? I can only use free stuff ATM .
Yes, but it's very hit and miss, they tend to leave a lot to be desired re quality, a lot of them are mirror-imaged to get around automatic copyright detection, or the sound is bad, or...and so on.
John McWhorter, the Columbia linguist who pinned the article, makes a conniving argument.

However, the counterargument is that Shakespeare plays are just that - plays, which are meant to be experienced and watched, and not read. The fact that Shakespeare's prose are full of alliterative sound echoes and half-rhymes means that translations to modern English will likely see nuances rid of or at least diminished. A good band of actors can conveys Shakespeare effective beyond just the texts: via delivery, body motions, intonation, and all of this aids in the audience understanding and appreciating his plays.
Connection Request Queuing with the Node.js Driver for Oracle Database
6 Ultimate UX Tips for Mobile Web Usability in 2015
He was talking about SF. :)
I can't speak to El Capitan, but no Apple software has dropped anything in /usr/local that I've found in the last 3+ releases. I'm very confident El Capitan would continue that history.

A lot of other apps do put stuff there though (when I wish they'd keep it in their own bundle).

Even worse, a lot of other apps drop stuff into /usr/bin.
10 Dynamic STEM Apps That Make Learning Fun
Neat. Came across this ad from AT&T about connectivity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kfIFDX9kE4
>while you're peers who graduated will only be up to around $50K in their contributing 401K's

I'm saving quite a bit with my $bigcorp job, and at the current rate, I'd be way over that in 3 to 7 years.
> I wish they would have mentioned what languages the company is using instead of Java.

This isn't about them being uninterested in using Java, its about them being uninterested in sharing Java with their competitors or being responsive to other users' needs in the community when it comes to developing Java.

Oracle's use of Java internally -- and developing Java in ways that serve Oracle's own uses -- doesn't seem to be at issue.

OTOH, its based on a single note from an anonymous "former high-ranking Java official", so I'm not sure how much credence I'd give it. It fits with a lot of what people think -- for some good reasons -- about Oracle's attitude toward open source generally, but any "former high-ranking Java official" with a personal axe to grind with Oracle would recognize that opportunity.
YouTube Time Machine has been doing this for awhile, and they do a _great_ job at it:

http://yttm.tv
Great talk. Alan Kay and others have said similar things.

We've squandered all the gains the hardware people have made on slower, more bloated software, resulting in computers whose response times are no faster - and sometimes actually slower - than their equivalents were 30 years ago.

And I don't see much youth fuelled zeal going into solving the problem, or even coming out with much in the way of innovation which might help. Instead, people are excited about "new" languages like Golang and Rust (which doesn't even have a garbage collector!), and rebranded copies of BSD and Linux.

People are incredulous when I tell them that while the trailing edge - people entering COBOL into IBM mainframes on punched cards - has advanced considerably, the leading edge has regressed. As Philip Greenspun put it: " These days, most former Lisp programmers are stuck using Unix and Microsoft programming environments and, not only do they have to put up with these inferior environments, but they're saddled with the mournful knowledge that these environments are inferior."

And don't get me started on AI.
> It is highly correlated with successful application.

Almost axiomatically so if you make it a hiring criteria. The real question is whether it's correlated with good KPIs, (and the secondary question of whether your KPIs express your business needs.)
Why LTE Cat-O Will Be the Next Big Trend in M2M Connectivity
A tumor stole every memory I had – what happened when they came back
> And yet, the food pyramid continues to exist. Scientists disputed it at the time it was introduced only to be blackballed.

Change takes time. Do you have any theory (besides "FDA are idiots") about why exactly the food pyramid is still taught in school? I doubt it's a conspiracy of Big Food, because they can easily switch their "Fit" product lines from low-fat to low-carb and people buying it probably wouldn't even notice the change.

Personally, I'm betting inertia, which is an inseparable part of the way big groups of people work. But whatever the reason will turn out to be, it most definitely won't be proving that the FDA is torturing citizens.

> Who is this "everyone else"? And are you suggesting we want people doing whatever they think is wrong?

No, I am suggesting that we want people doing whatever is right, as opposed to whatever they think is right. Those two things don't always overlap in large societies.

> For the love of god, go back to high school science class. You have it backwards, in so so many ways.

Now do I? Please elaborate on those ways. I stand by my assertion. Disease spread patterns are simple, because they follow relatively simple rules that are easy to verify empirically. Dietetics on the other hand is very hard for the same reason psychology is very hard - both fields are based around understanding insanely complex mechanisms and it's almost almost impossible to set up clean double-blind experiments with large samples for them, pushing practitioners to pursue advanced statistical methods that they aren't really equipped to handle. Thus both fields are mostly filled with bogus and bullshit results, making it unwise to believe anything there until it has been thoroughly analyzed and replicated many, many times.

> You're calling yourself and your family mentally ill criminals?

You started with torture and mental wards. I'm only adjusting it slightly. The important point to note is that governments don't magically appear - they are born out of people's desire to set up some rules as they notice that "everyone doing whatever they think is right" only leads to death, destruction and pain.

But still; on large scale, people really are idiots. And yes, myself and my family are also idiots in many contexts, though understanding the difference between local and global optimization helps in becoming smarter in time.
Are they also missing the bottom edge? I ask, because I can kind of imagine a reason for such behavior. Half-open ranges let you just paste everything back together to get the original. I seem to recall the CSS box model just sort of arbitrarily cuts diagonally across overlapping borders...

This is total speculation. I could be way off-base here.
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Are you saying governments shouldn't create policy that allows student loans?
The accuracy here is frightening!
It was a bizarre era. Almost reminiscent of Rick and Morty's Inter-Dimensional TV bits.
Yeah, I hope this doesn't damage whatever relationship iFixit may have with Apple, or in any other way inhibit the flow of information and resources for consumers to understand and fix their own devices.
Συμπεραίνω πως σπουδάζεις λογική.
Πιστεύω πως σπουδάζεις δοξαστική λογική.
Γνωρίζω πως σπουδάζεις γνωσιολογική λογική.
Υπάρχει πιθανότητα να σπουδάζεις πιθανοθεωρητική λογική.
Έχεις σπουδάσει χρονική λογική.
Κατά 73% σπουδάζεις ασαφή λογική.
Σπουδάζεις παρασυνεπή λογική και δε σπουδάζεις παρασυνεπή λογική.
Είναι πιθανό πως σπουδάζεις τροπική λογική.
Πιθανόν ίσως μπορεί να σπουδάζεις πολυτροπική λογική.
Δεν δεν σπουδάζεις διαισθητική λογική.
Σπουδάζεις γραμμική λογική, σπουδάζεις γραμμική λογική.
Παρατήρησα πως σπουδάζεις κβαντική λογική.
Έχω αδιάσειστα στοιχεία πως σπουδάζεις εποικοδομητική λογική.
Ένα από τα πράγματα που κάνεις είναι σπουδές λογική δευτέρου βαθμού.
(συνδιαστική λογική) σπουδάζεις.
Φαίνεσαι προβληματισμένος, μάλλον σπουδάζεις απαγωγική λογική.
Σπουδάζεις και το αντικείμενο είναι μοναδική λογική.
Το αρνείσαι, αλλά λέω πως σπουδάζεις διαλεκτική λογική.
iFixit, I love what you do, so please don't compromise your integrity by breaking license agreements that companies try to get you into. You have the power to refuse those agreements and post them for the world to see. If you find yourself breaking them, please don't post blog posts with witty remarks and ask that people abide by your own licenses.

Your mission is so important. You have gone so far in holding companies accountable for e-waste and sustainability of their products. Please don't screw it up with stupid mistakes like this.
If you use Outlook 2011 it apparently hangs/freezes a lot on El Capitan.
You are underestimating the taxes. The simple way to get the after-tax income is just divide the annual cost of the 1-bed apartment by the % of salary and multiply by 100. The google employee only keeps $56k after paying for the 1-bed apartment, if my calculations are correct (compared to $59k for the RadPad employee).

If you do the calculations with 2-bed apartments the numbers are much worse for SF. Google employee gets to keep $39.5k, compared to $53.5k for the RadPad employee!
Hi this is James from OpenSignal.

By "proprietary" we basically mean "here's a cool new metric (ps we invented it)" not "here's a cool new metric (ps we're not gonna tell you how it works)". That said the link to the methodology is a little buried, but you can find the details here: http://opensignal.com/methodology/time_coverage/

One thing to note is that it's possible that if you only launched LTE in urban areas and the LET users stay within those urban areas, then the time-coverage can be great, even if if the geographic coverage is poor and a low percentage of the population has access to LTE overall. Nonetheless, it is a measurement of the experience that those users that have LTE are getting.

Given this, we do have to be wary about markets where LTE is not mature yet.

Good point re. unlimited vs limited data plans and how the latter can make it easier for an operator to provide good throughput (but overall you might get less volume). This is illustrative of a bigger challenge - there's no single metric that can tell you: "this is the best operator in the world". We're never going to claim that. But our crowdsourced data can offer a global, impartial view that I think has been missing.
Yes, I saw that too. But amphetamines have some nasty side effects.

Methamphetamine was the standard military "go pill" for decades. Then dextroamphetamine. Now there's interest in modafinil, which has milder side effects.[0,1]

[0] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22764609

[1] http://goflightmedicine.com/stimulants-sleep-aids/
I feel like I'm missing the punchline here.
This is cool though. Hope it can screenshot a pdf image.
A dramatic demonstration of this is the Bugatti Veyron. Between the original version (1,001 hp) and the SuperSport version (1,184 hp) - the top speed only increased from 408 kmh to 431 kmh. So a 183 hp increase in power yields only a 23 kmh increase in top speed - bearing in mind that 183 hp is more than most passenger vehicles have in total.

It gets exponentially harder to push air out of the way the higher the speed gets.
"online" is accepted as a word now, but the navigator.onLine property was added in IE4 (released in 1997) back when "on line" was the conventional spelling.
You can use an anonymous internet access point, say fo example in a library. The target audience are "spies", I'm sure they can figure it out.
Cabs might not have been regulated for the cab drivers benefit, but benefit they did. This guy saved for years to get the benefits of the medallion system.

My point is that if you rely on the government to create your business, don't cry when the government takes it away.
Bcrypt exposes patterns in data, it is broken (2013)
Note that this is the BBC, and applies to Deloitte UK. It is unclear if it applies to Deloitte worldwide.

The university system in the UK is completely different to in the US, so hypotheses around it being to do with the cost of university or student loans need substantial adjustments to make sense in the UK context.
So, this paper is actually from 1986. More fuel for your argument.

Out of the Tar Pit (http://shaffner.us/cs/papers/tarpit.pdf) is an interesting response. I'm not convinced Functional Relational Programming is a silver bullet. But I think the arguments about state are certainly compelling.

After reading Out of the Tar Pit, I got the impression that No Silver Bullet was perhaps accurate for individual programmers. But I think there are still lots of silver bullets for teams of programmers. I think a lot of your examples fall in that category. Source control, internet resources, etc. That all helps us collaborate.

I think maybe Out of the Tar Pit points at some things we can do in our code to improve our productivity as a group (by making code easier to understand and reason about.) I think some of Bret Victor's immediate feedback stuff (https://vimeo.com/36579366) and the places the Eve team are taking it (http://www.chris-granger.com/2015/08/17/version-0/) are also pointing in that direction.

Ultimately, I think a lot of the crappiness in software these days exists because the things that are very easy for a single programmer make things hard for a group. It's funny because the author of "No Silver Bullet" is also the author of "The Mythical Man Month". Maybe he doesn't focus on collaboration because the conclusion of the Mythical Man Month was "only let one person code and have everyone else support him."
When there's strong suspicion you once hired militias to attack and intimidate unions [0] [1], paying off health experts feels a bit tame. It's still interesting to see how they went about it though, pushing the idea that exercise is more important in weight loss than your diet is pretty sneaky (and a patent lie).

[0] http://www.theguardian.com/media/2003/jul/24/marketingandpr....

[1] http://colombiajournal.org/colombia73.htm
I'm getting older now (40), and let me tell you one thing:

It's really saddening to look at all the wasted effort made to solve the same problems, over and over again.

Mainframes were shit (in most contexts), but have been reinvented and reinvented again and again. The browser is the new 3270 terminal, but are getting more and more capabilities, becoming the new PC. Most it-departments are enforcing rules and practices of the mainframes - the same rules that caused the PC revolution, ie you are not allowed to manage your own computer, and run your own programs.

RPC and IPC has been reinvented and reinvented again and again, but no real progress. The few things learned along the way have been lost. (Abstract syntax notation, separating message definition and encoding for one.)
So we get this new protocols that does not (or did not) use a message definition language, because parsing text is "easy."

We run all protocols on top of HTTP because it was impossible to get the firewall guys to open up the firewall.
Now the firewall guys have caught up and can close down specific http applications, so we are back at square one but with shitty protocols instead.

There is STILL no (real) language with intrinsic relational support, ie two-way-relations as a first class language feature, instead we are mucking around with (one way) arrays and maps (using monads though!), but in another cooler language.
(I happen to believe that an entity-relation model typically is a reasonable representation of the real world and the abstract concepts in it.)

Javascript and PHP. Nothing learned at all. 50 years of computer science down the drain.

Functional programming: well lisp and scheme are not exactly new, and to be honest, clojure is not that much of an improvement over scheme. Everyone should know a bit of scheme or clojure though.

The only thing that's getting better and better at quite some velocity is the hardware.

Possibly also the "agile" movement, since it's effectively about claiming back the control to the ones that know how to build stuff from the checkbox-guys and process-followers.
You can't make a statement like that without facts to back it. The truth is that companies do this all the freaking time. Besides that, it has also been common for a decade+ for CA-based employees (both LA & SFBA) to sell their artificially inflated house and quit their job to move a lower COL state (often Texas, Washington, Oregon, or North Carolina, all of which are much cheaper and have lower income tax schedules). If they stay with their existing company, their salaries are frequently decreased based on COL calculations. Otherwise they use the previously mentioned tactic and quit for something different, using their current salary as a negotiating point.