skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a very crude version of reality :) Ironically, blanket statements like these cause arguments in the first place.
The examples you provided have nothing to do with facts, actually. They're about trustworthiness of the fact sources.

Given all the shenanigans pharmaceutical companies pull, given how FDA itself is often reported in the news as unreliable or even corrupt, given that so many studies keep turning out to be unreliable - ask yourself, why do you believe you're right about vaccines? :).
Whichever leads to the best, most efficient medical industry and provides myself as a consumer with the most value.
That's a micromanaging board, and no CEO should put up with that because as the most public face of a company it'll make the CEO look far worse than "the board". But OK, she's getting paid a metric f ton of money so maybe she doesn't care how bad the boards' micromanaging makes her look.
> It communicates exactly what the browser is

This is true, which is not particularly useful when deciding if a feature is available. Using the user agent to make this decision incorrectly assumes that all user agents of a particular browser+version all support exactly the same set of features. This is obviously not true.

The user agent may be meaningful[1], but the meaning that it communicates isn't feature data.

[1] If you take the header at it's word; as the bug being discussed demonstrates, user ages may be lying.
I wasked just thinking about this today. I realized that Evernote on my phone is crap for meetings because I get all the other interruptions. It doesn't help me focus on the meeting it tees me up for failure.
Because there's a limit to how much most people can spend.

It's why the martingale strategy sounds ok in theory but fails in practice. You don't have infinite money (plus most tables have max bids too)
Would you join a company in whose purpose you don't believe?

I find it rare for people to take an opportunity with a company they don't feel good about, regardless of how much they might like the interviewing manager. IMO those who do accept such an offer are just resume surfing, and weren't going to stick around regardless.
It's a 20% discount for a time/budget management/forecast solution that I don't think makes much sense to stop using every other month -- so I'd be surprised if most that go from free trail don't convert to yearly subscription? (They could of course have 600 different users each month, and be failing due to big churn with their customers...)
No, his university's press release says he calculated the value 25 carefully; it's even in the title: "You’re more likely to become president (25 times more likely, that is), than win Powerball, but someone will win, says UB biostatistician". See http://sphhp.buffalo.edu/home/news-events.host.html/content/...
[Cloudless developer here]

Hi Boris! It's Brad from Dropbox :)

Responding to the parent comment, in terms of running time, the primary bottleneck is the RCNN localization portion; that takes about a minute and a half on my laptop to process a single image. In the Future Work section of the blog post I talk about collapsing the entire detection and localization pipeline into a single deconvolution network that directly takes in raw images and outputs image masks. The hope is that this runs much faster at inference time.
That's easy for you to say now that you're one of the Google bourgeoisie, financially protected and coddled by its search monopoly. The vast majority of developers will never be so fortunate.
what insults?
> Would you stay at a company in whose purpose you don't believe, if you liked your manager?

There are a couple of people on my current project whose company I enjoy and who have personal attributes that I'd like to foster in myself. I'm staying with it solely for that reason, the business model it uses was dead in the water two years ago and it's in the die-off period - the project itself is just making efficiency savings on something that's never going to be profitable again.

I'd choose to do so again, it's never made life bad for me to choose to share closer company with the people I respect - and when the time to move jobs has come up, a few months ahead of the crash, there have always been plenty of friends in other companies that would put in a good word.

What has been a bad call for me has been to stay in bad company, for the chance to work on something 'important' while management has been incompetent or peers have been markedly hostile. That's contributed to some of the lowest times of my life.
What is WebAssembly?
The thing that stuck out to me was the Geekbench score. 2,287 vs 6,350 over the course of a decade isn't that impressive improvement. Given it's reflective of what a computer can do, comparing metrics such as Ghz or gigaflops seems superfluous in the context to the average user. During the exponential improvement in 80's or the 90's, it seems like we have hit a brick wall.

Not to say there hasn't been massive strides of improvement over the last decade, SSD and GPUs in particular have been spectacular. But many consumers have the decision they'ed oven rather have a power efficient processor than a heavy duty CPU.

As developers it means being conscious of bloat and writing more efficient software. Already we're seeing many libraries that are closer to the hardware or 'metal'.
https://www.browserleaks.com/ is another useful resource to help understand browser fingerprinting and how to combat it.
Ask yourself - how many of those issues affect you directly? And by directly I mean something you'll suddenly have to account for in your daily life and spending patterns.

Personally, their equivalents in my country don't affect me at all. I'm young and relatively healthy, my employer pays for my health insurance. Yes, accidents can happen, but it's an abstract possibility. Gun control - when have you last seen people shooting each other on the streets in real life? It's another topic that's just abstract for most people. Gay marriage is something that naturally affects only LGBT people. The opposition argues against same-sex marriages mostly from a moral standpoint, which is again something abstract.

Say, on the other hand, that we'd have confirmed reports about zombies (or evil commie nazi aliens) showing up in various places in the US. I'm pretty sure the gun control debate would be resolved unanimously in a single hearing.

That of course doesn't account for all policy disagreements. But the most I've seen so far always involve at least one side with no immediate, tangible stake in the issue.

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EDIT:

Replying to the three (so far) responses.

Thanks for sharing your perspectives. I guess I might be underestimating the direct importance of some of those issues to people, as well as the amount of disagreements that are about conflicting interests. I will reevaluate my opinions on this topic.
Anything saying 'order of magnitude' can't be taken seriously.

That would imply a horrid baseline in order to get it that fast.
Merely I don't believe a tracing JIT would have a great impact in a real world scenario.
"Google Is Forcing Routebuilder to Shutdown"
I don't think it has anything to do with "Western society", but rather the nature of internet discussions. They're impersonal. They're amenable to favoritism and the echo chamber effect. You can't interrupt somebody in the middle of a soapbox lecture to ask for clarification or offer counter-arguments. The atomic unit of discussion is the paragraph, at best, and your audience numbers in the hundreds. Basically, it's Permanent Debate Club.

In my experience, people in the real world are far more kind and open even when discussing the most controversial of topics.
Regarding the ee jobs, I've seen quite a few of them exported overseas over the years to places like Taiwan and China. Usually the software side is considered "the secret sauce" and kept close to HQ. I've seen more than my share of experienced ee folks telling me they wished they chose software as the focus. But it is always hard to predict in the game of musical chairs what the next winner or loser will be. You try to stay a broad focus as a problem solver and learn to adapt.
"Conservative" is more than just a synonym for the Republican Party.
Here's what I don't understand, and I'm likely the weird one here: Why are political opinions considered private? Is it an anglosaxon thing? Is it a middleclass thing? It feels completely alien to me.

Where I come from politics (in one form or another) are the first thing you talk about with new people that you meet. It's the most fruitful ground for conversation that goes beyond mundane boring smalltalk nobody cares about.

I mean, isn't that the whole basis for democracy? That people discuss these things?

Hell, isn't most mainstream-but-not-quite-pop art political in nature?
That is my point.
There's a loss of faith outside the Company, too. I can't imagine anyone becoming an employee of Yahoo today.
Actual title: Amazon has absolutely no idea how to run an app store

Why did the title change? It used to be the same as the original article, but now it's been needlessly editorialized to be kinder to amazon. Seriously? What the fuck. That's not HN's job, and is a disservice to the article, and the community.
And this "feature" being not noticeable to the user, but kinda a requirement that it be there, and apparently associating stuff on someone's Google/YouTube side... but the Googler in question is unwilling for that feature to be identified.
The more you do it the better you get: Why Americans might not work less
Debian packaging guides are less useful because they concentrate on how to build package for Debian?

And nobody is hiding from you any tutorial - Debian is an open community and the wiki is open to everyone so you can search for what you need but I really don't see the point in your sentences (are you saying that we should favorite somehow quick and dirty hacks instead of our strict high-quality ways of building packages? Because if yes, then Debian wouldn't be what it is today...)
So why do you publish your innermost thoughts to a bunch of strangers on Facebook like that? Even in the online world it is possible to find many different forums where you can discuss things with people who are open for real discussion and conversation. Don't let Facebook grind everyone down to the lowest common denominator. Use many forums.

Become a regular in the comments section of certain blogs. Create aliases and join web forums or email lists or a Reddit subcommunity or something. And encourage diversity of discussion groups.

Just being on HackerNews is already a step in the right direction. And maybe some of us will build apps and sites that encourage people to form smaller groups to discuss issues without having to fight off trolls and uninformed newbie types.

The Internet used to have a lot more of that when mailing lists were the main way to have discussions. And there were services like the Well, and Compuserve that put a lot of effort into managing interest groups with sysops who kept them from getting out of hand.

The WELL in particular, put a lot of effort into the psychological aspects of humans in groups, in writing their guidelines for users and for the sysops managing the groups.
When you start assuming that anyone who behaves differently is just doing it for attention, then yeah, that's a bad thing.
Data Science Fueled the Largest Outreach Effort in the History of New York City
As a former card carrying Debate Club member, I suppose this article may be helpful for people who aren't used to having these arguments. But I don't believe it is very helpful for most interactions on anything really controversial right now.

Most people making arguments for "the other side" haven't actually had to defend them against real criticism. They also are usually not the originators of their position, they're forwarding the ideas from someone else, so they don't necessarily even understand what it is they are articulating.

Trying to engage with someone who doesn't know how to argue and doesn't actually grasp their ideas is about as productive as trying to argue with a 4-chan meme. I've long ago decided to just put my 2-cents in a single time, if I feel they're saying something really stupid, then move on.
this isn't OK. It's not HN's place to change the title because they disagree with it, or because it's harsh. If the original article changed the title, then there would be justification. But they didn't, so HN has no business injecting their editorialization into it.
I'm curious - do you have first hand experience with companies that does this (and does it well)? I might want to work (at first part time, remote) for such an outfit, if I they provide a good service (and good/skilful colleagues).

I've seen a lot of people that hire devops in-house (technically, it's a little hard to see how "devops" might work with the "ops"-person just doing drive-by installation and maintenance once every month -- but I suppose if the "dev" part isn't "special" (web application server + database + static resources + database) one could argue there's not much need for "devops", just "ops"?).

Although 30k for full-time ops works sounds really low, anywhere? (As a customer, I'd probably prefer one tenth of a 100k/year engineer than one tenth of a 30k/year engineer... even if the price might be 3-4 times as high).
I've honestly considered going back to a simple PalmPilot. Simple, well designed apps that are lightning fast. Graffiti works flawlessly once you learn it. Battery life measured in weeks just like Newtons... as far as just keeping your life organized, it's honestly pretty compelling.
I suggesting we give funds to people who raise children, who are traditionally women, because they preform a very important role in society without any financial compensation. And the article suggests this can (or has) lead to worse gender imbalances. It is certainly a job and rewarding it wouldn't be a "handout".

The quote I even referenced included "and other caregivers". This isn't "let's just pay women cause they're women" even if people want to get all up in arms about that and make a strawman. I'm thinking you didn't even bother to read the article.
I think it's an age-old custom. There are two things that are off-topic for casual conversations with non-family-members - political and religious beliefs. People tend to tie them to their egos, and it pretty much always results in resentment. It's a general population equivalent of inexperienced developers arguing about merits of programming languages or text editors.

'pg actually wrote an essay about it once.

http://www.paulgraham.com/identity.html
I wonder what all this means for Mozilla, who tied their fate to Yahoo...
Google is Forcing Routebuilder to Shut Down
Trade-Off Gets Tougher Between Security, Convenience
This attitude ignores the other 90+% of people who read your replies: people who aren't actually engaging, just reading and considering. I think the meme of 'debate online is pointless' is wrong because the vast majority of people who read anything you write publicly will be able to read from a position where they could have their mind changed, maybe. Write for those people.
> using the user agent string instead of feature detection has always been terrible engineering

Is there a better solution for server-side feature detection?
Millions of people are in this bucket - they are doing it to pay the rent.
Then that's your own fault?
Don't wait. Learning C++11 will put you ahead of the majority of C++ programmers. Learning C++14 put you on the bleeding edge.

After sitting down and getting everything actually working between 2000-2010, C++ now seems to be on a steady path of improvement with major releases every three years with no plans to stop.

So, it's not a matter of waiting for things to finalize. It just deciding to go ahead and climb on board the moving train.
Any chance at asking questions here? Whoops, guess I just did...
In the British tradition, university students used to participate in debates where two people argued the opposite sides of a question. The debaters got brownie points for winning the debate, not for arguing the RIGHT opinion. Often the debaters had to argue for a question which they themselves were against, or vice versa.

The audiences who voted the winner, paid more attention to the quality of the debate, not to the question itself.

In a culture where this type of debate is practiced in the schools, people of all ages will be more open to discussing an issue in a social setting without strapping on revolvers and a bulletproof vest.

It is not a question of identifying who is the enemy, it is a question of figuring out which path will lead to a better world 100 moves in the future. Because real life really is like a chess game. The outcome of the next move is not the be all and end all.
> Here's what I don't understand, and I'm likely the weird one here: Why are political opinions considered private?

People often keep their political opinions private in polite society simply because of what this whole thread is about - it's very easy for people who don't know you very well to judge you by the political opinions you spout and then possibly treat you more poorly because of that. This is why I tend to keep my mouth shut about political stuff at my workplace. (It doesn't help that I know that, statistically speaking, my opinion will be at odds with most of the others in my industry and location.)
Ratings Agencies Still Coming Up Short, Years After Crisis
Everyone likes to think about their ingroup as victims of oppression, and their outgroup as the oppressors. In extreme cases, this is what drives the social justice movement on the Internet.
With nontrivial amounts invested and remaining, this seems like a good time to consult an experienced lawyer, rather than asking some dudes on the internet.
My thoughts as well, I guess that is Why things are taking a lot longer for Xeon E5.
It shouldn't be the only input signal for determining those things, but it can definitely be useful (i.e. "this codec is only supported in vX.Y+ of this browser", or "vX.Y of this browser has a bug handling this type of video", etc.).

It's not like YouTube is a company of full of nothing but dopy idiots. I don't think they'd be using the User Agent if there was a better alternative.
I don't share links on social media, and I've basically blocked all news sources and link-factories so I don't see when others do either.

It took some time, but my facebook is now more or less back to inane chatter and cat/baby/both pictures.

Everyone else is free to get on with signalling their hearts out, I don't want to know.
Paul Graham Clarifies Again
The EconTalk podcasts are great examples of this, though with an economics flavor.
The style of music you're referring to is called Nerd Core. I had a friend who was really into it and he took me to a show about ten years ago. Lyrics ranged from video games to math and physics with clever word play and a lot of "in" jokes targeted at the intended audience. I had fun and could see why my buddy enjoyed it so much.
> 2) People don't leave companies, they leave managers

Nah, I don't believe that.

I'm leaving and my manager is fantastic. HR and pay policies are garbage. I'm leaving the company. Because it's fucked.
> I have been accused more than once of stealing the rubberized signature pad from a UPS delivery man.

This is the most interesting part of this article.
I don't know. I had one or two friends come out as anti-vax IRL and we didn't have a discussion, instead my opinion of them just plummeted.
What is the best comment in source code you have ever encountered?
I'd put the two loop-headers on the same line in that case.
http://think-async.com/Asio/AsioStandalone

!! I've always heard that Asio is great, but never bothered to look because I don't like introducing Boost's 450 megs of compiler-test-suite-worthy C++ to my >45kb programs. But, as a stand-alone library. That's interesting!
Cookie law related, perhaps? There was a cookie-related change in FF43 for third-party cookies (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=536509).
Dogged skepticism is a good thing. We need more critical thinkers asking questions.

I'm sad that there is a "deniers" meme meant to attach visions of the holocaust to those who choose not to go with the flow. I would totally blush if I said something so faux-outrageous to someone's face.
It's still somewhat controversial, because if everyone did that, it would reduce the GDP.
Glad to see my home state Tamil Nadu in the list. India and each state in India is extremely diverse and there is a lot to see and explore. Much of India's rich heritage is unbeknownst to people outside India. What India lacks is excellent marketing and lacks in visitor experience. As in software, the code or a functional product does not guarantee success. It is the entire user experience - usability, help documentation, security coupled with marketing and some luck. India has a great product - novel and differentiated - but, lot of work needs to be done on marketing and visitor experience.
The video mentioned the Nikon was 4k UHD.
I always viewed this kind of debates as potentially harmful though. If you award brownie points for "debate quality", as opposed to "getting it right", you may end up promoting eristic over rationality.

But maybe British universities get it right. I don't know, I haven't had the experience. We had debates in my secondary school, and I remember that the best way to win those was to be the cleverest bullshitter in the room.
Trump is hardly a Tea Party favorite. If you're thinking Trump supporters and Tea Partiers are one in the same, you misunderstand the goals of one, if not both, groups.
This is actually pretty great. Youtube has some issue with Firefox 43 and serves it lower quality video to deal with it (probably as a hack to enable video for some users for whom it didn't work at all under 43, but there's no explanation from Youtube engineers in the thread). The Firefox team complains to Youtube, but Youtube responds with that they won't budge until January at least.

Firefox sees it as a threat to their reputation (obviously for them having a few users for whom it doesn't work is better than having loads of users with a degraded experience) and they start spoofing their UA to another version. The Youtube engineer is indifferent (or can't really do anything about it).

Then when it's done a Google employee from a different team comes in the thread to complain about the situation because the fact that the UA is spoofed for only youtube.com and not other (Google) domains breaks his product.
Try to have that discussion. It's enlightening.
Do you think we could maintain the current staffing level of nsx across the entire US with all their current responsibilities (level 1 trauma etc) if they averaged $200k/year each? How do you ask 2 or 3 surgeons to evenly share 24/365 call to keep a trauma center open at that comp level?
> [...] the meaning that it communicates isn't feature data.

But it kind of is (to some degree, at least). VP9 was recently added to Firefox 28. If the User Agent says the browser is Firefox 27, then you probably shouldn't try serving VP9 to that browser.

Obviously the User Agent doesn't communicate the complete feature set. But some useful inferences regarding features can be derived from it.
Lame clickbait for Amazon Associates, Google Analytics, Gravalar, and Skimlinks.
I'm pretty sure you have to keep the checkbox unticked so that the Amazon app can install apks and even update itself. In fact Amazon's official documentation[1] for installing their app doesn't tell users to uncheck the checkbox. The way I see it, keeping the untrusted apks checkbox ticked is a massive security risk.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/underground