skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That is, after 'alice takes this step with respect to 'bob, no matter how many times 'bob includes the string "@alice" in his tweets, neither 'alice nor any of her followers would ever see those tweets or any other by 'bob. This would not be difficult, and would make Twitter much less threatening.

The problem with is then @alice controls whose tweets I can read if I want to follow her content. :/ Just because I want to hear what @alice has to say doesn't mean I want @alice to control whether I can talk to @bob.

I think solid ignoring features is really the limit to this approach due to that fact. [e.g. @alice ignores @bob, @bob never shows up in her feed no matter what]
These guys tried really hard to disrupt the domain business, even if they didn't always succeed perfectly. They made mistakes, but this kind of thing is how growth happens for entrepreneurs. I wish them good luck.
It has everything to do with the internet -- fundamentally, the last ten years of online technology are the story of previously borderline behavior types demonstrating emergent properties at scale. The ways in which people are regularly, even commonly, harassed online now are life-destroying. If you think the cops have the resources to follow up on thirty thousand death threats from all over the world you're being willfully naive at best.
I thought this was going to be about COBOL. :)
It doesn't mean you're completely dependent on the state, people can still get jobs and have a career, go off grid, same as now.

It's almost as if there are different people with different opinions in the tech community.

And what's wrong with applauding the government when they make a policy decision that helps your average person, while critisizing them when they make a decision that hurts your average person?

The hilarious part is, the rabid anti-government "libertarians" are always the first ones to also be rabidly pro military (the largest socialist entity in the government).
Yeah, I get the economics of it, which unfortunately can be a good deal for the company. They get numerous people working on a hard problem for basically free. And most of us do it purely for the challenge and fun, so the reward (if any) is oftentimes irrelevant.

It's just there's such a large market for this sort of information (and I'm not talking about stolen credit cards, spam, fraud. Competitive intelligence is a huge industry) and there are many full-time security engineers whose only job is to find the holes some company is trying to outsource to bored programmers.
I too have read Mustache. His articles are good, but his ideology has always been achieving financial independence from complete (or mostly complete) detachment from materialistic wants. Money (or FI) isn't liberating when all I can do is ride my bike from place to place while always worrying about the time I'll be home since I'll almost never eat out according to his paradigm...
There's a problem with your analysis: you're assuming that people are all the same, and that work is all the same. Do you have any evidence to support your assertion that noisy, open spaces inflict "undeniable mental and physical health problems", or is that just your personal belief? This isn't like smoking: there is zero evidence that smoking is good for your health, and all kinds of evidence that it causes health problems, because our shared basic biology is consistent enough that this is true.

For one example of a work environment where noisy, open spaces seem to work well, just look at stock traders at NYSE on the trading floor. That whole environment works by people being close to each other and able to turn around and talk to each other at a moment's notice. I sure as hell wouldn't want to work there, but there are people who seem to like that environment.

I don't like open-plan offices either, but I'm not going to assume that what works for me works for everyone else. From what I've seen, the type of people getting involved in programming in recent years are not the same type of people who got involved in it back in the 70s and 80s, so it's quite possible these offices really do improve productivity overall. It's also possible that certain personality types gravitate toward certain industries, so certain workplaces work better in those industries than in others. The people interested in finance are probably not the same kind of people interested in, say, programming Arduinos. Maybe Bloomberg's office really does work out well for them. I don't have any data to disprove their beliefs, other than my own personal bias, but I can't claim to speak for all programmers.
Yes, I am, Bolsa Familia is a national program. We have a city (Santo Antonio do Pinhal) that seems to have implemented UBI, too (I don't know much about that one). This article[1] (2013), in English, explains the current scenario and the law that I referenced.

The original proposal seems interesting to me, but I don't see government efforts to implement it as defined in law.

[1] http://www.basicincome.org/news/2013/06/opinion-a-three-step...
It seems to me we need a bit more data to discover it. The IRS gets total wages paid but not hours worked. Reporting that should make it harder to hide it at least.
hey man !

Do not worry too much. Its much easier to "hack" dumb recruiters then C code.

As someone who recently graduated and is "one of them damn kids" - a lot of people from my graduating class know a lot more about marketing then actual programming.

Since 2008 - the world has became a much more cruel place - and that has forced many of us to graduating since then to play an arms race with "trends" - switch jobs constantly and be selfish.

The way I see anyone who has been writing production code since 1990 is a WW2 veteran. You guys have been through the PC revolution, Internet revolution, survived the dot com bubble, shipped code before git, stackoverflow.

I think if you projected that experience into confidence you could easily do whatever you wanted - you deserve it !
Also, to be clear. I think that having many years of experience, hard-won judgement, really strong foundations, and experience with a variety of technologies (even if they aren't the newest) SHOULD be enough to be seriously considered for a job. Someone who has been in the industry for 20 years and knows a bunch of languages and frameworks is most likely going to be able to pick up a new one quickly. And he or she will bring with them experience that a younger programmer with more knowledge of some specific new technology can't provide. In a perfect world, companies would understand that, and take it into account when they're hiring. But in reality, that doesn't always happen, and all I can do to prevent myself from being impacted by it is make sure I have the right keywords on my resume, along side my years and years of experience.
This is the parent-level post. There's no dishonest misrepresentation of anyone. The poster also didn't even come close to suggesting anything so unsophisticated as "therefore cyberbullying can't exist in any form!"

That is an awful misrepresentation.

The paragraph in question basically pushes the conversation toward, "Where are the brightlines?"
I was told XML will solve this.
Yes, we are all adult excellent phd. prof. experts professionals critical-acclaimed well balanced peer reviewed lotus-effected post-ironic iconic humans.
The market won't change too much. Everyone can afford food and shelter and clothes now, in the former 1st world countries. There are places in the world where people can't get food and thus die in the streets, but this is a rounding error here. Therefore not much will change at the bottom end. Prices might drop slightly due to reduced demand because people will occasionally splurge.

Note that this won't actually help with many social problems. For example kids who go to school hungry because mom spent todays money on crack will after UBI merely go to school hungry because mom spent todays money plus UBI on crack. Neither the slumlord nor the supermarket will see a penny more. Cultural changes are much harder to make than mere economic changes.
Worth watching, contains and interesting an segment about Andy Grove's and Robert Noyce's relationship with each other at Intel.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/silicon/
But whales get a lot of support, and whales are not very cute. They have tiny eyes compared to their head, and eye:head ratio is probably the most important factor for determining cuteness. And humpback whales, one of the most popular species, have ugly tubercles on their skin which you'd probably mistake for a disease if you didn't know better. There must be more to popularity than just cuteness.
I'm not going to comment about cygwin (because its build process is not as transparent) but instead about msys2, the spiritual successor to cygwin. See for yourself: https://github.com/Alexpux/MSYS2-packages/blob/master/coreut... is the `pacman` style `PKGBUILD` used to build the `coreutils` package.
> He didn't say the position was correct; he said it was widely held. He is right. Your arguments, thus far, are incoherent.

Completely unsubstantiated.
Lots of great stuff going on internally that has left little time for writing. Will get back to sharing more soon. Thanks for the gentle prod.
criticised that too.

There is no criticism in my statement that CIFS is not likely deployed in any enterprise. Indeed, I had hoped that it would be an interesting fact for anyone not intimately familiar with SMB's history.

Cannot win.

Seems like you can't lose with an argument that is "Windows AD requires SMB", which is almost tautologically true. I (obviously) agree with that since it's clearly true. So since there is no reasonable "conversation" to be had about that, then what is the harm in providing some CIFS/SMB history since we're talking about it.
If competition works, companies won't be able to hike the price of necessities.

If competition doesn't work, the entire premise of capitalism is unsound.
A random thought. Linting and static analysis tools for code smells might be correlated with bad code, in which case a tool that let you see that package A has huge monolithic functions and poor test and Package B is modular and simple and good test coverage might be a good way to decide between modules that do the same thing.
Modern Agile: Who manages technical debt levels?
why pick just one language?
with the polyglot Beaker Notebook, you can work with many languages, even in the same notebook, and your data is automatically translated between them.

each of these languages has its strong point.
there is always some library you want to use in some other language.
or you want to collaborate with someone.
or next year you change your mind and Julia is finally good enough.

http://BeakerNotebook.com
Thank you very much for the link. That documentary is awesome!
Sift Science: “I like big ____ and I cannot lie”
> The reality is unless you are using a formally-defined language like ML, you are relying on undefined behavior in your language.

The CompCert C verified compiler is a verified compiler which supports "almost all of the ISO C90 / ANSI C language" - http://compcert.inria.fr/ .

It isn't C. It is a formally-defined language that is very similar to C. It is otherwise nothing like ML.
No. I really, really wish it weren't what weekends were for. Believe me. And I don't spend all of my weekends doing projects like that. But the reality of the industry is that not being up to date on technologies handicaps you in a job search. So as long as my day job isn't providing me the opportunities to learn these things, I feel like I have no choice but to use my spare time to do it myself.
I don't know if it is correct but I've seen it mentioned elsewhere in this thread that the passcode they need is 4 digits.
That's definitely something we're planning to do more often now that we have a great space for it (both in San Francisco and London).
Jeez I wish people would quit this.

Minimum income means guaranteed maximum prices for things like rent and food that you cannot live without.

You think your $500 a month apartment isn't going to become $800 when the landlord knows everyone is getting at least $1000?
Wait, parent post is saying to just ignore it. You're saying to report it to police.

Which is right?

Thousands of reports are made to police each year. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-24160004

> About 2,000 crimes related to online abuse are being reported to the police in London each year, according to new figures.

Over a thousand reach the threshold for court action: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23502291

> More than 1,700 cases involving abusive messages sent online or via text message reached English and Welsh courts in 2012, the BBC has learned after a Freedom of Information request.

The criado-perez trolls were enabled by the Internet. They saw other people trolling and thought it was okay; they were able to create many accounts rapidly; they were able to send very many messages.
M&Ms “Marketing Code” forbids kids
Sorry, yeah, that is a known issue in Firefox that we're trying to have resolved; it apparently cleans up ServiceWorkers/AppCaches that haven't been actively used recently. Was this your first time opening cyph.im, or had you used it in the past?
Ask HN: Why do you use Twitter?
To those of you who use Twitter - what are some of the reasons you use it?
Most of these are "tried and failed again and again" attempts that have been "obvious" since 1999.

Sure, they could sell "no ads", "exclusive accounts", "developer tools", etc. None of these will entice enough users to be remotely worth it -- as it hasn't worked in most other platforms.

This is for something at the scale of Basecamp or Automattic to make money, not Twitter.
Filename autocompletion is a thing though, and especially for .brotli files, which would likely be generated by something like `brotli uncompressed.thing`, the length matters very little.
That's not the worst of it: the truly intractable part is preventing use-after-free UB. The only ways to do this are (a) remove malloc from your language; (b) add a lifetime system (incompatible with all existing C libraries); (c) add a garbage collector (which most projects written in C will not accept for performance reasons).
The problem is that it can generate vulerability fatigue, especially when some of the named vulns turn out not to actually be that serious.

After the first 10 or 20 people will see it as de rigeur and stop paying attention again...
I would love to see pictures of the testing / analysis rig, etc. That would be very interesting.
Discover stories within data using SandDance, a new Microsoft Research project
Yes! No more buffer overflow exploits in the core utils.
Yeah...I wish I knew that when I financed my Accord. It just so happens that my Dad is paying only ~$150/mo more on his loan for his 2011 535i than I am for my 2012 Accord EX-L (insurance included in both cases). Sure, his 535i had 35k miles on it (mine only had 6.5k), but his car is SUCH a nice drive and has COMPLETE coverage for 4 years, so any work that he needs to have done on it will more than likely be covered.

If I had known that, I probably would've considered getting a slightly older 335i instead. That said, I don't regret my decision. I love our car (except for the driver's seat...boy is it bad), and owning a nice car here in NYC is a fool's errand unless you don't mind paying tons on body/wheel work.
Data Visualization of Hacker News Salary Spreadsheet
That is hilarious!
I'm not paid by the hour. I'm paid to deliver. This is true for most developers - typically we take a salary in return for getting stuff done.

Now if you want to lawyer up and demand X hours, $Y pay, rigid adherence to various requirements, etc, that's great for you. But if people are not willing to pay you as much due to the fact that those rigid requirements are a pain, you aren't being discriminated against due to your age.

Needless to say I'm opposed to your desire for the government to hobble your competition.
While I would agree Minimum Income is more along the spectrum towards Socialism that Capitalism from our current point, I don't think we can fairly equate it with Communism. There are a few places trying it out though[1][2][3].

> The fatal flaw in all of this...who is going to pay for it?

Well, the simple, possibly simplistic answer is "the same people that pay for wellfare". Which is everyone not receiving it. To be sure, it would need quite a lot of work on the details to even be possible in an economically viable way.

Edit: Added more references.

1: http://www.businessinsider.com/this-dutch-city-is-giving-bas...

2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11273482 (Alaska)

3: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11273482 (Ontario)
What you argue has been tried in the early have of the 20th century in the United States where workplace safety laws and minimum wages were ruled unconstitutional based on the theory of free contracting parties. It failed MISERABLY and by miserably I mean it left working people in ... literally ... misery.

BTW, my 'smug one liner' I learned in school was uttered by President Abraham Lincoln who is widely regarded as our nations greatest President.
TensorFlow ConvNets on a Budget with Bayesian Optimization
I know this one! The good answer is: A.
which one are you? a marketing guru, graphics designer, accountant, lawyer, or salesman?
You would have to restructure taxation, such that incomes from rent-seeking behaviors and business activities are taxed at a higher (possibly punitive) rate than incomes from voluntary, equivalent-value trades between economic equals.

Otherwise, as has been seen countless times before, the value of the government benefit will be mostly captured by those best positioned to monetize it.

The alternative is to provide the housing and food benefit directly, rather than distributing dollars and employing a middleman. If UBI provided 3000 kcal of food per person per day directly, as pantry staples, rather than with a $500 check, it is much more difficult to skim rents out of that. Even restricted use food stamps fuel scams that convert them into cash. There may be people who rent out their government-provided housing as storage units, storefronts, or offices as they live in a non-gratis premium residence, but assigned tenement space is not quite as liquid as cash in the wallet, and therefore less able to be sucked out of the local economy.

Twice as much of the same apartment you already have is simply less valuable to you than twice what one apartment is worth to you, so anyone trying to rent it out cannot demand the same price as it might otherwise cost for the first apartment you live in. Imagine where you live now. Now make an exact copy of it. Would you pay twice as much as you currently pay to live in both places at once? Would you cook twice as much or twice as often if you had two identical kitchens? Would you sleep twice as long or twice as restfully if you had two identical bedrooms? If housing is a benefit guaranteed by UBI, rental prices for the non-gratis residences crash, because the only people willing to pay are now only those looking for a better place to live, rather than those looking for any place to live.

Whereas if the benefit is up to $500 in cash to the person who rents you an apartment, that's just fueling an economic bidding war where everyone in the auction has another $500 to spend.
Guess I'm an outlier. I like people with experience more than not. I respect more older devs than I do younger. The older devs tend to have the best projects on Github.

Then again, I don't allow stupid data structures or algorithms questions in interviews. I can pretty much tell someone's experience level by the types of interview questions they ask.
Measuring SMTP STARTTLS Deployment Quality
The cultural climate will be more forgiving, but the economic climate less so, since there will likely be an oversupply of programmers (of all ages).
Soviet Union and China didn't really have a universal basic income. They had a state defined income, if anything. Which meant you couldn't make more than that, either.

It actually has been "field tested" - and in the US of A, no less.

The entire state of Alaska has a guaranteed minimum income.

Granted, it isn't much - on average it's been about $1,000 per anum.
> No, because they would still have Milton Freidman's famous helicopter money drop. Previously, this took the form of quantitative easing.

QE was not the same as the "helicopter drop". The helicopter drop (HD) is much closer to basic income (BI), except that HD might be a one-time thing, whereas BI is ongoing.

QE is creating money to buy bonds. This raises the price of bonds, and injects money into the system. But where does it inject the money? To everyone? No, only to those who currently hold bonds - that is, to the wealthy, and to financial institutions. HD and BI, by contrast, give the money to everyone.

QE didn't do much to solve the problem of inadequate demand. HD and/or BI may do better. They may do it at the price of increased inflation, true. But under the current circumstances, the Fed would welcome a bit more inflation...
Hi, I'm one of the co-founders of SigOpt (YC W15) here. I'm happy to answer questions about this post or anything about SigOpt. More info on the methods we use can be found on our research page as well [1].

[1]: https://sigopt.com/research
Pretty sure he means: Buy your macaroni in bulk, and just shred a half cup or so of cheddar to stir in with the milk/butter.

Prep is the same, but it's actually cheaper to make.
Andy Grove, former Intel CEO, passes away
> Intel would go on to sell XScale to Marvel in 2006

I was astonished to see how far reaching the Marvel Empire has become (I do like their comics and tv shows and movies :-)), but it's MarvelL.
There are a lot more comments than there are upvotes to the article. The HN algorithm appears to penalize that heavily. There seems to be a cliff at about 40 comments: if you hit 40 comments before 40 upvotes, it falls off the front page.
3. An NSA 0-day is likely also out, as the court briefs suggested the technique came from outside USG.

This seems like very flimsy logic. Not to say that an NSA 0-day is clearly the answer, but ruling it is non-sensical. Both the NSA and FBI are well are well practiced with "parallel construction": http://www.dailydot.com/politics/nsa-dea-fbi-snowden-doj-oig...
I'm not sure there is much that would compel me to change... Finding a broker is a question most people solve when they first start needing insurance. The only reason to switch would be a breakdown of my current broker. It just isn't something I shop for... the problem is solved acceptably in the status quo.

Which is a bit of a problem for this idea... you aren't solving a problem... just adding a new flavor to existing solutions.