skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess I'm glad that my github graph looks like the end of a minesweeper game. >.<

Its not that I'm not working, just that most of the stuff I do I tend to either cleanup and squash commits for, or they tend to be very much research project type deals that sure I can commit something but most of the time it would end up as: "this didn't work", "neither did this".

I'd love to commit something meaningful every day but honestly can't be arsed most of the time. If I'm sitting there at a serial terminal figuring out why I can't boot on an arm board, what silly thing should i commit? I have org notes that document that stuff, commits are for semi useful things not a measure of work/worth.
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The first two links cited by the washington post suggest there is little evidence of fraud. That totally misses the point of hackuser's critique: why do we pretend it's not happening until there's a smoking gun?...That's like assuming your critical network hasn't been hacked, and doing nothing to protect it, because you haven't seen evidence of an attack yet.

To refute this claim, you need to show that fraud would be easily detected if present. In stats terms, show P(evidence|fraud) is large.

I suppose that requiring ID before purchasing a firearm, alcohol or opening a bank account is also unreasonable if said ID is not free and easy?
Wozniak is so rounded when it come to relationship I think he has an issue with having issues. He is always too nice. I also think nothing applies to their relationship, I bet it was some kind of family relationship at one point. Being in this venture together, at that time. You take the hit because of the greater bond it built.
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The main problem with CloudFlare is how dumb their "protection" is.

It doesn't make sense at all to block Tor users from just accessing read-only content, like CloudFlare does today. Forms/login pages/comment boxes etc should be protected of course, and most people wouldn't have anything against solving a captcha for logging in, but preventing people from just reading stuff anonymously/securely is borderline evil from a user experience point of view.

However it's obviously much easier from an engineering standpoint though to just block people outright.
The number of hn users replying solely to tone and not content is pretty disappointing.
Why rumors are "a huge problem" in China?

Is it because common folk is too easy to fool? If so, wouldn't April's fools day improve critical thinking?
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Looks like if a room votes Grow, it combines with other rooms who voted that way.
Yeah the post about React Native is fair.
My information comes from someone who accepted a job offer there -- and was sent to a lab to take such a test -- and from conversations with employees at that office approximately 2 years ago. (Who both basically said, "Yeah, I don't like it, but what are you going to do?")

There were also, at the time, easily findable statements from one of your founders (not on your websites; it was in an interview done somewhere) in which they touted the benefits of drug screening, as it it were a key ingredient to their success (like pair programming, and making everyone work the exactly the same hours).

Perhaps the policy has since been phased out, and/or it was only applied to certain groups (or applied inconsistently during latter stages). If it hasn't come up in conversation during your time there, that may be because... it's not something people like to talk about. But by all indications it was definitely a thing at Pivotal, at one point.
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It's like I just read a 16-year old girl's livejournal. Great stuff HN.
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Well that's another problem. When you fill out the captcha you are given a cookie that can allow cloudflare to let you through next time.

If you are blocking that cookie for privacy reasons (which is not a bad thing!), then cloudflare has no way to verify you again (short of doing nefarious things). It's a bit of a self inflicted problem at that point.

That's not to say that the answer is "deal with it", but that we need to find a better way. A a way to verify that someone isn't a bad actor without having them take a pretty significant chunk of their time to answer captchas, or give up some of their privacy.

It's a tough problem, and i think the "proof of work" solution proposed in the original could work, but it would need participation and collaboration from "both sides" of the problem. And of course it won't happen overnight.
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This is exactly what is wrong with this form of idealism. People create these things which remove accountability/reputation, it works great for awhile and is lots of fun (just like a mask party), and then the leeches move in and use it for spam/trolling/illegal stuff. It's usually the leeches who are the real long-term beneficiaries of these kinds of networks. However, the idealistic people who originally created it don't want to admit that their experiment failed and they actually created something which is now serving the interests of something not so idealistic and perhaps even quite sinister.

Bitcoin has the same issue: there are lots of legit uses of it, but to make it a good widely used currency, a reputation system is going to emerge, and from there you've already erased half the benefits of using Bitcoin. However, in the mean time Bitcoin is used by a bunch of people purely interested in speculation or as a way of avoiding taxes/money laundering laws/etc. There are people, just like Tor, using it for legit reasons, but my bet it's for mostly reasons nobody in the Bitcoin community likes to admit.
I'm not sure the piece answers the implicit question posed by the headline. This seems less like a general lesson about "Why smart people have no friends," and more like a personal story from which the author extrapolates generalities. In this case, I found myself relating to a few of the author's observations, but seldom agreeing with his conclusions.

And that's kind of the problem with generalizing from n=1, particularly when n=self. We're not all the same. It may in fact be true that smart people have a harder time making friends. (Or it may not be.) But if it is, and we're going to make categorical statements about "smart people," we need to base those statements on something other than personal anecdote -- especially when we suspect that our personal lives are atypical in some way.
Fair point. My brother Marius and I used to post separately, but now we formed a 2-person LLC. It's still freelancing at its core!

Also I agree with @odonnellryan :)
>Tor has acknowledged their "botnet problem" since at least 2013:
>https://research.torproject.org/techreports/botnet-tr-2013-1....
>That same paper walks through the challenges of dealing with it and doesn't find any satisfactory solutions.

But that's all utter nonsense! These botnets only access stuff inside the Tor network (i.e the C&C, that the operators want to hide), they don't use Tor to access clearnet content. Even a small botnet will have more nodes than there exists tor exit nodes (966 as of right now), what possible benefit could there be for the botnet operator from doing that?
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US citizen. There on business (client meetings), denied access for visitor visa. Applied for work visa, denied because didn't fit NAFTA categories.

I should have said I was there for pleasure, but I was trying to be ya know, honest. Now my passport is flagged for 7 years, so I better have a rock solid vacation plans if I want to try to enter on a tourist visa.
Firstly I am very sorry for your experience growing up in China, but do note that many others grew up normally in China and continued on with their lives.

I agree with all the problems that you listed, but I believe the spreading of rumors is a problem that has to be tackled. It is true that there are many more problems to attend to, but why not fix them one by one, starting from the most obvious ones like rumors.
Something working or not is a binary.
> I claim that left-pad is an example of a malicious actor + a system that doesn't protect from that, not of the failing of small modules.

It is mainly that, this is right. But small modules make such a shitstorm more
probable, simply because there are many more of them.

> And actually, `kik` is almost the same example. "Luckily" nobody cared about kik.

Do you believe it won't happen in the future? The more modules, the more
likely it is. And project with JavaScript modules has an order or two of
magnitudes more modules than in other languages.

> I also claim that having many small dependencies is very different from having many large dependencies.

Of course, but that's not what everybody talks about. It's many small modules
vs. only several big ones.

> It also takes some experience with small modules to see they are not like large modules at all, and you cannot apply the same thinking to them.

But you can't apply different thinking to small modules, because you don't
just use small modules, you use big ones as well, and those are in no way
distinguishable except with the amount of code.

> Example: once leftPad is performant and working, its done. You can just pin it. When is lodash done? Probably never.

Oh, if it only was that easy. You don't control all the instances of left-pad
you include (because indirect dependencies), so pinning it in your project is
far from enough.

> And dependency hell also looked impossible before npm and commonjs brought a solution to the mainstream :)

Oh really? I thought it was solved dozen years earlier with various package
managers in Linux distributions, and then re-solved by PIP and gems, and only
after that comes npm.
So do something about it. You can't complain in the preposterous way that you're complaining and not actively do something about it. And I'm not talking about voting, it's decades too late for that, and you'd never get the rest of the country to agree with your views.

Do something. You're sitting here bitching us out for how the US government works like it's our fault and we should have done something different. Well what are you doing? Because if the answer is "nothing", then maybe you should sit down and reevaluate your tone.
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The author lists 3 reasons (2 are essentially the same argument) why ""learn to code" is looking like bad advice."...I disagree with all of them...

> CODING CAN’T SAVE YOU

The author essentially states that coding will increasingly be outsourced and so don't bother. But this logic assumes that the size of the market is static...in fact it is not.

Literally every industry right now is already or on the verge of being dramatically changed by technology. Even traditional companies IKEA to McDonalds are turning themselves into tech companies, and all of these companies need coders. Regarding "learning code is hard"...yes...it is. But it is immensely rewarding and provides a very in demand skill set.

> TRAINING OUR ROBO-REPLACEMENTS

> HIGH-TECH UNEMPLOYMENT

I'm not disputing that automation will trigger widespread job losses but an individual is still far better to be the robo training worker than the person being replaced by a robot. If learning to code is such bad advise what alternative does he propose for the individual? Deny the fact that high tech is disrupting traditional industries?

My two cents.
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It also mutes the conversation, which suppresses replies from showing up in Inbox.
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Why don't you just drop IP-based reputation system for Tor IPs completely and develop something else for these IPs, something based on data from actual requests and responses?

Because it sounds like you want to preserve an incorrect system and are pushing this problem on Tor.
Capitalism relies on employers to value their employees for the money to trickle down and the system to work.

It is not capitalism but rather neoliberalism/monetarism that propels the trickle-down theory. The time period where grandfathers worked for the same employer and then got a pension coincided with the post-depression/WW2 period of Keyensianism when many western governments pursed full employment economies via fiscal policy.

In the period from the early 1970s onwards when neoliberalism/monetarism has been dominant, we have seen falling real wages, the financialisation of the economy (including the consumer credit explosion you describe), governments restricting themselves to managing the economy only through the very blunt tool of monetary policy (i.e. interest rates via a central bank).

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It may be a joke, but it actually works:

$ telnet telnet.wmflabs.org
Trying 208.80.155.160...
Connected to telnet.wmflabs.org.
Escape character is '^]'.

(I had some more text pasted here, but it didn't format well on HN)

I've tried a few queries, and it seems to work. Though I did just get an article in French for some reason...
Just because it has mail in the name doesn't in anyway imply it falls under the same jurisdiction of our federal mail system.
Instead of using the public schema in your db, use schemas with version numbers.
Have you ever had problems with malicious botnets/spam targeting your site and they are all behind TOR? It's not really that simple.

If an IP, or IP range, behaves badly - goodbye. It's a TOR problem to solve it, it's not the problem of web servers and also CloudFlare.
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Hm, I must have been on the wrong parts of the internet back then. I've seen his more recent projects (Line of Defense), but I had a Mac at the time so my selection of games was ... slightly limited.
If they're clocking in at 8, clocking out at 5, and simply playing ping-pong all day, then get rid of the ping pong table and get rid of the devs.

If they're working when they need to and getting the job done, then they're capable of managing their time well enough to do what they were hired to do, even if they seem unfocused.

But even if it was the latter, I would think that this would distract anyone who was attempting to focus and work.
A lot of viable products came out that way. Gmail, I think.

Edit: Looks like it wasn't intended as a joke, but was initially received that way because of the timing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Gmail#Public_releas...
It's just clunky, not well organized, and slow.

Like any open source project, the features are all there, but five minutes after installing it I was googling "Thunderbird slow redraw".
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As a developer I will direct my clients away from CloudFlare services as long as CloudFlare continues this sort of attack on Tor which is ultimately an attack on privacy.