skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I often see this given as an excuse for the U.S.'s prison system, but it seems a sort of non-sequitur along the lines of "difficult to compare the two, because Finland is named Finland".

Is it just a codeword for the sentiment that the U.S. has black people, and they're inherently evil, so cannot be rehabilitated or treated nicely like Finland? That seems to be the only explanation that fits. If that's what you think, why not say it?

If that isn't what you meant, maybe you can explain further. For instance, you could try to finish these sentences:

"The USA is a larger, richer, country, and therefore it cannot build a prison facility that holds 300 people and is rehabilitative rather than punitive because......"

or for homogeneity:

"The USA has a somewhat more diverse population than Finland, and therefore it cannot build a prison facility that holds 300 people and is rehabilitative rather than punitive because......"

I'm curious to see what the explanation is. It certainly isn't anything obvious to me.
Not much has changed. My diet, routine etc is the same. My problem is mainly due to wonky brain chemistry, but I haven't faced such an episode in a couple of years.
If the information that belongs in one pixel is spread out over 50x50 pixels, according a known mathematical formula, you can reconstruct it pretty well.

If you just have one pixel with the average of what it covers, then that is all you have.
AFAICT most mountaineers deplore the current Everest situation, though it pays well at $60k+ a head. While it will never happen, I wish they would simply outlaw paid guiding and the use of bottled O2: a few people with the genes and skill could still climb these peaks, but rich tourists couldn't even try.
Very Interesting response to this from Tim O'reilly:

https://medium.com/@timoreilly/getting-over-taxis-79849b3a42...
You know fake votes are super obvious right? Especially when you got flag-killed for it already this morning under one of your other accounts.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10407992
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Probably death:summit -- IIRC K2 is about 1:4.
Would it be correct to think that you would be shocked to learn that the FAA has a publicly-accessible aircraft registration database?

http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNum_Inquiry.aspx
Just the demanded mandatory comment to complain about CVS and Comic Sans. Whiiiiiiinne whine whine.... ;)
War on talent
Bemused by this, because if the same standards applied to the ad world, hardly any ads would be made.

The notional difference is that the ad industry works with implication, dramatisation, and suggestion.

Even so, how many celebrity endorsements are genuine and not bought and paid for in exactly the same way a five star review is bought and paid for - but with rather more money changing hands?

Does anyone believe that corporations have never, ever encouraged ad agencies to plant positive reviews?

Perhaps the issue isn't so much that Amazon's review system is being damaged, it's that it's being manipulated by the wrong people - which puts it outside the usual borders of corporate control.

And personally I find the reviews unhelpful anyway, because Amazon often groups unrelated reviews together - so I see 200 reviews of an old 2TB hard drive, when I really want reviews of the latest 6TB model.
"Subpixels" are an artifact of the display type you're using. Although there may be individual colour components of an image pixel, they aren't restricted to a region of that pixel. And in most digital images - those made with a colour filter array, as opposed to a multi-chip, multi-shot, or Foveon-type sensor - the colours at each individual pixel are just an educated guess based on the surrounding pixel values; the RGB values are not captured separately, and attempting to increase resolution depending on which part of your screen is lit up by how much in order to render the colour that should appear at the corresponding pixel can only introduce artifacts. (If green is brighter than red in a particular pixel, it only means that green is brighter than red, not that the detail is laterally displaced.)
Do remember to apply the patches after the install http://www.openbsd.org/errata58.html
What I have often wondered, is how are "distributed" systems different from systems in the small where different components may be thought of as nodes on a network. In other words, why are not multiple threaded apps writing to the same database subject to the same constraints if the components of the system are not provably 100% reliable? Is it just a practical matter, that communication between a host and external storage is just so much more reliable than communication across larger distances that we don't have to worry about it?
This opt-out works for me (add to hosts file):

127.0.0.1 www.google-analytics.com
127.0.0.1 google-analytics.com
127.0.0.1 ssl.google-analytics.com
Not correct. Google will completely ignore the rules in robots.txt if it deems it acceptable. I think there's a link to this somewhere in this comment page.
> Twitter could have been a town square. But now it’s more like a drunken, heaving mosh pit.

Nitpick: every mosh-pit I've ever been to has been a safe and supportive place. If someone falls down, they're picked up. If they get hurt, the mosh pit instantly clears out a space so they can be helped. If someone's being an asshole, they're kindly escorted (cough) out of the pit, and likely out of the venue.
You think a quarter-trillion dollary company hasn't thought about letting users freelance on top of the Amzn distribution model? Don't make me laugh! They want to play 'good guy' here because they can get easier data collection if they don't have to verify customers for reviews, and it allows for customer conversion if someone sees that the product is in fact what they want from reading the reviews. They want the identities for that very reason of removing who could be faking it, but I think you're absolutely right that they don't feel threatened by the reviews themselves.

Fiverr is the threat here, and that's a good thing. Either way, I'm buying from Jet from now on.
TCP would guarantee delivery, but you're right in that you wouldn't know if the consumer actually did anything with the message. It could have crashed on parsing or something.

But moving the concern to the consumer to track the cursor doesn't make the protocol any more stable. To keep a stable cursor, the consumer would need to persist that someplace, which just pushes the acknowledgement to that persistence component instead. If a stable cursor is what you're after, then co-locating it with the durable queue provides a simpler solution with a slightly better consistency guarantee.

The garbage collection problem is a real one, but realistically how many consumers is an infrastructure service like this going to have? Tens? Hundreds? Thousands? Millions? Billions?

No matter which one of those you pick it's a trivially small secondary index to maintain even if you never reaped it. I mean it's a K/V problem (consumer_id -> queue_offest) and there's a K/V store already sitting there. If you didn't want it to grow forever then you could establish a TTL policy via configuration.

The problem you would have is consumers that don't have stable or bounded id's. Like a system that assigns a new id every time the consumer makes a request or the consumer is restarted.
Glad they added sed -i, that should save some time. For me anyway.
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Someone getting fired for annoying people with unprofessional opinions is vastly different than a guy making a dick joke to his friend loudly enough that someone else heard it, was offended by it, and told his employer she demanded his resignation.
I don’t need prejudice in online dating, too
Yes, it still works that way. (Downloads both the JavaScript file and the pixel)
Bordering on victim blaming. We don't say to the people killed by Firestone Tires, they should have independently tested their tires. Unfortunately, victim blaming typically crops up when the circumstances involve illegal or morally contested activities, and by doing so make a difficult coversation even more convoluted.
I had a job working on Oracle Application Express.

On an awfulness scale from one to ten, it ranks as cthulu.
So... it's a reinforcement learning tool for spammers?
Sharing 3D models via the browser
I didn't get that at all from the post. I read that GP is sad that the 'social consequences' for speech have created an environment where people are afraid of voicing benign, unpopular opinions.
"Don't be evil," Google.
From my (limited, I Am Not A Lawyer, etc.) understanding:

First, it's expensive - you should count a good S$5k SGD/year if you go through an established player (e.g. Hawksford, who you are quoting), maybe a bit less otherwise. This ad infinitum, as you need a local director to keep the company open. And unlike in Hong Kong not so long ago, it has to be a real director - someone who theoretically can open bank accounts and hire people - so you're taking that risk too (the director will, conversely, be taking the risk that you might be a scammer or other criminal whose acts he'll have to answer for in court).

Then you have to put in S$50k in capital in order to be able to apply for a visa (EP) for yourself, should you want permission to work in Singapore (if not, you'll get taxed at home when repatriating profits); this visa will require, today, at least S$4-5k/month in "salary" (which will be taxed).

This also assumes that the Ministry of Manpower doesn't suddenly catch upon this very convenient way of getting yourself what is effectively an investor visa at a fraction of the investor visa cost (which they did two years ago with the EntrePass, which is today utterly useless for most foreign founders due to its requirement to have funding from a short list of approved VCs). Guessing what MoM wants and is going to do seems to be a bit of Kremlinology which HR directors love talking about as their special value add, but it is a bit opaque and the rules change with time, elections and special circumstances (like the famed riots last year, or the Ferrari and taxi incident).

The "plan" should you want to take advantage of Singapore's otherwise fantastic conditions for running a business is to get PR, which takes up to 3 years employed locally (depending on salary - someone on a high salary and from a "desirable" country might get it in 6 months). Singapore is fantastic... for local founders. Or if you're willing to pay.

The days where you could be in business for USD 1,500 and a flight to Hong Kong appear to be, unfortunately, over. I'd love to be proven wrong...
Ruby is really fun to program in, but debugging it can be hell. I would not be very enthusiastic about debugging this code.

But still, this is a really cool trick that I didn't know you could pull off with Ruby, so thanks for sharing!
I recorded a brief screencast of how I keep a dev journal. :) https://youtu.be/4W8i8FTz_ck

Hope it's helpful!
> The oauth gem, for instance, redefines '==(val)' on the AccessToken to 'Base64.encode(self.signature) == Base64.encode(val).'

Is this just a complaint about the ability to overload operators in general?
I remember the mosh pit in the Fargo Civic Center in the 90's and it sure as heck wasn't that polite or safe.
Is this censorship or editorial/curation?

I've been infuriated by Facebook because I have a local events group on high priority in my feed, but FB has decided I only want to see about one post in five. So I miss a lot of news I want to see.

Meanwhile I still get porn posts on the various technology groups I read, even though I keep asking not to see similar content.

I'd have no objection to a good AI editor curating my feed. But FB has a very bad AI editor making bad choices for reasons that ignore my interests, and I really don't want that at all.
Right now it doesn't store any consumer offsets. And you can get either at-most-once or at-least-once guarantees.

But I found the idea of multiple consumer groups per queue very interesting. So basically you would still be able to fetch queue messages as you can do now and it will delete dequeued items, but you would also be able to use something like
'get queue_name:consumer_name'
and it will create a consumer group internally with a stored offset and will serve messages using that offset. In case of reliable read failure each consumer group will keep it's own queue of failed deliveries, will check that queue and serve these failed items first. If source queue head has changed and became larger then consumer group offset, then consumer group offset would just start from the source queue head.

This way you can get Kafka-like multiple consumer groups per queue as an additional feature.
In its place, being able to redefine equality on value types really helps clarify code. Misused, it creates confusion. The problem is that it's easy to think you've got a case where it helps, when actually it's not well-defined. Usually that revolves around there being state you care about which is missed from the equality comparison.

Another trap is redefining #== without also looking at #eql?, which means Hash doesn't behave like you expect. It's just another bit of mental trivia you've got to Just Know...
Sounds like a good idea to me. In America, we do too much imprisonment, and not enough rehabilitation. I understand has a lot to do with costs and politics, but I really think we should stop warehousing people for years and years, with no rehabilitation.
So, about that state machine definition and the method cache...
Headline should read: "Legislators' arbitrary implementation of laws targeting drug use creates dangerous environment around a previously legal substance which is even now being safely used in clinical trials"
I subscribe to their digital, and I agreed to the daily email of news items, and one or two other more focused ones.

I don't know if I receive the 3 a week upsell emails, because when I see a nyt email in my inbox, it's either the daily news collection that I want, or everything else, which I just delete without reading. Easy.
You got wyclif’s comments for free, stop complaining about them.
I like your imagined scenario very much! It can be, essentially, a "helipad" designed for a drone landing and a "chute" to an interior staging area for sorting and whatnot. That post office letter drop box is a really functional and cool example.

As you pointed out, there are numerous avenues for customer support (putting the package in the garage without explicit instruction) that can be hashed out in the agreement between commercial customer and the delivery platform. It also could help with building a relationship and sharing liability in some ways.
Does anyone have experience with the mtier binary update packages?

https://stable.mtier.org/

Looks interesting to us casual users with our 'dime Thinkpads'.
What it should and should not do is a matter of opinion. The fact is, putting something in writing is permanent. Writing casually/carelessly can haunt you, like it always has. The confusion comes when regarding things like Twitter as 'speech' and calling the authors 'speakers'.
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For anyone else who was perplexed by the references to "coney islands": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coney_Island_(restaurant)
Colonising Force: An influx of Indian users ruffles an online community
Ask HN: How to negotiate fewer hours as a project manager?
I've joined a great team where the most overworked people were the two founders (agency; 1 other PM). They have over a dozen projects going on at once, and more in the pipeline.

I don't like to micromanage, but one of their goals was driving efficiency, so less slacking off. As such, since joining I am always completely on-point all day, hold scrum standups every morning to maintain focus (by the way, this is something anyone can benefit from, ask anyone who's worked for themselves and had nobody to boast to.) Likewise we do cooperative planning and review meetings around sprints, to maintain motivation high, keep delivering, keep client satisfaction high.

I appreciate the recurring paycheck, but one of my personal (outside work) goals is to continue to plough ahead on more risky projects on my own (allowed). The pay I joined on is below-ave., but I really like working with this team.

Given that a lot of my work is client communication, does it sound like I would be in a position to negotiate even fewer hours in the office? Specficially, to suggest coming in in the morning for the scrum motivational meeting and to learn about roadblocks (as an equal), to hold planning and review meetings and meet with the owners; but to do some/a lot of the client contact from my home office? I'm very closeby.

I'd really like to tie this somehow to my performance landing new clients and projects, and how well I PM them, as opposed to tying it with just hours.

At this office, there is a very productive 1 day in office, 4 days remote worker (down from 3 days in the office in the past) and this makes me think that a solution like this might work. slack is used heavily. Of course, if there are any late afternoon meetings (bunch of time zones are involved) I can stick around.

What do you guys think? Is this a reasonable thing for a manager to do? Or should I just suck it up and sit in the office all day, keeping everyone tense?
Nice:

> Found my way upstairs and read hackernews
> whining about comic sans and CVS.

Track 2, A Year in the Life. http://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html#58d
Revenge is personal, whereas retribution is societal? They might be the same thing ! Still, it's an interesting point. Prison is revenge for the victims. You can also be retribution by society and the government. One is in response to an emotional desire, the other is a policy response. It's like you can punish your child to teach them a lesson, but not because you hate them.
Why are these patches listed there instead of applied directly to the distribution?
In the US: https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/business-center/guidance/ftc...

In the UK: https://www.asa.org.uk/News-resources/Media-Centre/2014/Maki...

See, eg, http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/nov/26/youtube-ad-oreo...
> Added pvbus(4) paravirtual device tree root on virtual machines that are running on hypervisors.

Which hypervisors are supported, e.g. is AWS an option?
How much time when you contacted for the last time ? If more than 1 week, contact the head-hr.
In a commercial setting, the box could be on a roof with a chute to the mail room. No reason for it to be exposed in public that way.
As mentioned in the post, Microsoft Research is working on this. Part of the functionality (rep counting) is already included in the Microsoft Band
Why would you assume he isn't?
What about the doubleclick domains and adwords domains which feed the same data into the same system too? And what about when they launch a new domain? (Would be difficult to keep up with those changes)
This is not a unique situation. Many things could have happened.

There could have been a better candidate that popped up.

There could no longer be no longer a budget for the job or the team decided to make a change that made this hire no longer needed.

People that interviewed you could have left the company.

A more senior person could have felt threatened by you and actually wanted someone less talented.

Those are things off the top of my head that I've been a part of in my career.
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Can you give me an example of where redefining equality makes sense?
And guess what if you male you will receive less messages than if your female... online dating on average is a indicator of the fickle. but, you don't have to care if you get less messages than someone else. at the end of the day you only need to meet one person. online dating is not that different to offline dating. use whatever platform or situation to try and meet someone you like and get on with your life.
Last email I sent her was September 15th.
My bad, death:summit is correct.
The CD's shipped a while back
It's a complaint about the ability to redefine many things that shouldn't be redefine-able, operators included.
The problem with "which license will lead to the largest and most viable ecosystem of free software" is that it's the wrong question to ask, because the perspective is too narrow. What matters most IMHO is which option will lead to longest and most viable ecosystem of satisfied engineers. If you take this perspective of satisfied people instead of an ...

IOW, I suggest such a system simply moves the problem from answering virtually the same question over and over to the problem of which level to ask a question at. Perhaps, in the name of progress, a step forward, or perhaps not.
In a nutshell, as these companies grew(number of users), the utility of the community started to decline.

Think about it: what's the main use of Twitter? It might have fostered a great community in the past, but it's become too broad and filled with fake users, shallow communities and users.

Not self-promoting, but I've written about how many companies are facing the same issue as Twitter.

http://tonomics.xyz/2015/09/28/Stay-for-the-tool.html
Without explicit comments/documentation it is hard to imagine a good example. Its a longstanding issue. Even Lisp has 'equals' and 'equals?' which is an abomination. One looks for identity of object; the other for identity of value (if I understand it right). These kind of things are bug factories.
Indeed. It's why local papers deliver papers to households that don't even subscribe. It ups the "readership" (which in many cases is really the "throwawayership"), and they can con ad buyers into higher prices.

Similar is phone books. I used to live in an apartment building where phone books would be dropped in front of your door at least annually (maybe more, there are more than one phone book company). Residents would passive-aggressively leave them out there on the walk, and maintenance would eventually pick them up. I hadn't had a land line for years, and I got one like all the other residents.

But the phone book company can then claim "readership" and sell ads.

And now we block ads on the last place where ads can reach us. Ads may survive as a revenue source, but it's going to have to change in some way that most of us can't even imagine. And it's going to have to change for "our" benefit, because we've gotten very used to controlling that stream.
Is that so unexpected, though? Ingroup vs. Outgroup.

Many. many people will steal from "faceless corporations", even if they wouldn't steal from an individual.

The owner is clearly part of the in-group.
Is it a bad thing black men are choosing outside their race, or that Asian women are choosing outside their race?

If there is racism, it's cutting both ways, isn't it?
Generally it shouldn't, sometimes though it certainly should.
The only difference really is single-point-of-failure. Multiple threads writing to the same DB record can be assisted with transactions or locking - but again, the DB is, in the end, absolutely authoritative. What it says goes, and if it's unavailable, so is everything.

When solving for high Availability through a distributed cluster, you might give up immediate Consistency. But partitions can end up giving different answers (authoritatively, even) and an unavailable master record doesn't mean something won't answer as if it _were_ authoritative.

A single node DB - like a MySQL server - still has failure points, but none that plague CAP systems (well, except Availability, but that's how we got into this mess to begin with).
> - but they still show adverts

Block them. I never see a NYT ad, in my email or on the web.