skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The active page (along with a couple others) are shown on https://news.ycombinator.com/lists (the 'Lists' link in the footer). There's a few more odd pages like newpoll that aren't linked to in any obvious place.

I don't really see any of it as secrecy, as that implies actively and intentionally hiding, to me it seems more like not going out of the way to show/tell people. The Guidelines and FAQs go into it a bit IIRC, and dang has written comments on it as well. I'd describe it more as unintuitive than secretive. It seems like the same reasoning behind keeping HN minimalistic and not webapp 2.0 bloatware. It might chase some people away but it also keeps an eternal september at bay.

Also the front page is not vetted by moderators (if it was they'd be doing a terrible job as dupes and blatant linkbait are common), but there's code in place to mitigate flamewars and such. If you want to see what stories and comments are actually getting killed (by users, not the mods) you can enable showdead in your profile, which imo should be enabled by default but I can understand why it's not.

Generally if you see a story drop off the front page quickly, it's getting comments a lot quicker than it's getting votes. I do think mods will occasionally remove the penalty for this on stories that triggered the flamewar protection without there being a flamewar. Additionally some domains and topics are penalized, and there seem to be filtered words that will auto kill your comment. Try leaving a comment with (Im sorry, gotta avoid it somehow) m@$tur b@t3 in it. But again that's all automated, just unintuitive.
VW won't be doing a buyback because they simply decided on their own to do so. It will be part of a deal with the US to settle the case. If the terms include a resale prohibition, VW will have to honor that if they want to keep the case settled.
The point the author was making was that computer files are fundamentally different than physical goods. But software engineers don't produce "computer files" for sale. They make products and services. Whether it's a file or not is meaningless, and the abstract idea of a "computer file" being a public good is inaccurate.
What is keeping gamblers from making bets in "skins" on real sports? Surely there is more interest there than pro CS.

Isn't it just a coincidence that the skins originate in CS? If I want to make a bet, does that matter to me?
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Definitely a big priority but still a secondary one. Your app won't affect battery life if they've uninstalled because it's laggy.
But, I mean like Yale is excluded, and a lot of really top schools. You could make a good case that the top 25 schools are so close in quality that there is hardly any difference, and it still creates scarcity.
Well, it does get a bit murky. A book is a physical good. An ebook is not. But if I print an ebook out, it is now a physical good.

TL;DR Things are complicated. We keep trying to find physical world analogies for the digital space, and that just isn't going to work well.
It's Anders Behring Breivik. Also, Norway has an extradition treaty with the United States since the 80s. Not to be harsh (really), but it doesn't matter what you believe.

Edit: Breivik will never be released btw. Also, court found yesterday that elements of his incarceration violated Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights.
And yet they managed to make another complicated cloud service.

Would be nice if someone would cater for Startup owners that do not have time to study documentation and overlook multiple processes just to run a simple bot etc.
I think it depends on what level you're referring to. If you mean record-level, then I concede that it's not self-describing. However, looking at the suggested use cases, it seems that it's "self-describing" in that you'll always be able to decode data stored according to what the documentation recommends:

"Avro data is always serialized with its schema. Files that store Avro data should always also include the schema for that data in the same file. Avro-based remote procedure call (RPC) systems must also guarantee that remote recipients of data have a copy of the schema used to write that data."

https://avro.apache.org/docs/current/spec.html#Data+Serializ...
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MessagePack is quite fast and the newest version has binary fields, but it lacks the rich datatypes like decimals and timestamps mentioned by another commenter. If Ion is as fast and has adequate language support, it sounds like it would be a good first choice for a new project.

Edit: There is a benchmark script that tests a few serializers and validators in Ruby in my [employer's] ClassyHash gem: https://github.com/deseretbook/classy_hash/. It would be easy to add more serializers to the benchmark: https://github.com/deseretbook/classy_hash/blob/master/bench...
Are there ad blockers for mobile? I feel like Google has already solved the ad blocker problem with Android.
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Relevant: http://lesswrong.com/lw/3w3/how_to_beat_procrastination/ http://lesswrong.com/lw/jyg/outline_summary_the_procrastinat... http://www.amazon.com/The-Procrastination-Equation-Putting-G...
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Real decimal type - invaluable when working with currency

What does JavaScript do with this though, just cast it to a float?
What evidence do you have that makeup is actually linked to sexism at all?
Thanks for the quick reply. Problem with 2FA is that it's a pain in my country. I don't always get the text messages.
And they would have non portable code.

If they wrote posix compatible shell scripts it wouldn't be any big deal because they'd just work.
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I think if the US can have a President's plane redirected, forced to land, and searched, with that President on it, they wouldn't have much trouble getting Norway to look the other way for a few minutes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden#Morales_plane_i...
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that's about 1.8% monthly growth
I work in a FinTech startup and most of our components are written in Elixir and are in production. We are very happy with it. So I would say atleast consider Elixir and Phoenix. It's as performant as Golang, it's even better in some cases and it's a better language than Golang imo.
I said: "hire someone who knows what they're doing". I didn't say "blindly trust someone who holds themselves out as an expert and don't do any homework yourself". In fact, you said you hired an expert to validate your findings, which is exactly consistent with my advice.
It would if I didn't have mouths to feed, taxes and rent. I'm starting to prefer time over money at this point.

I think my stuckness has more to do with working at a place that's always a few steps behind the private sector, so nothing I'm doing really translates well into finding new work. It doesn't help my confidence, that's for sure.

Besides, if anyone is looking for an experienced Java 7, Spring 3.2, Oracle dev, I probably don't want to work there either!

I know the way out is side projects, building a portfolio, contributing, etc.. and being able to prove (to myself too) that I can do more than what I'm doing currently..

It's the odd coupling of frustration and complacency that I need to figure my way out of.
That just means == is a "lossy" equivalence relation. I rather the precision be truely observable----every number is "infinite precision". Once can always include natural as extra field if one cares about empirical precision.
Well, he could just travel by land through Finnmark. That'd take the air plane intercept out of the question.
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Wouldn't dismiss this so quickly. True, nothing grand in the post. But, the piece about the Muhammad Ali vs. George Foreman fight was insightful.

TL;DR Summary of OP's reading of this book
Nonsense: The Power of Not Knowing, a recent book by Jamie Holmes

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00SEF112Y/
This is the second time I've read something like this in as many weeks. It's nonsense.

The US is a net food exporter to the tune of thirty million tons per year. If Argentina decided not to sell food to the US it would have no effect whatsoever.
For the record, we went through this too. Kite is awesome, and I have no doubt it will succeed, but we fought the enterprise virtual appliance train for years. The cloud grew, we got more customers, but there were certain verticals we could never reach: finance, government, etc.

We recently built a virtual appliance. It's growing infinitely faster than our cloud solution ever did. Those numbers speak for themselves.

Certain products just need to have the virtual appliance option. I'm sure Kite will get there one day.

For now, I'm going to use it for personal projects because it's still a badass solution to a problem I have. :)
I thought that's what all the illegal mass-surveillance was for ?
As I said, I have no problem with a post about "here's what happened to me and how I dealt with it". In this case, the OP is promoting a web-based spreadsheet tool and essentially advertising for a number of lawyers and firms.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11537307
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Walmart Labs is in San Bruno - I believe may also or formerly be in SF :)
It's amazing to me too that the very concept of an "unwarrantable" space is simply impossible to conceive.
That's interesting. I didn't know that about Avro. Does the framework take responsibility for including the schema and defining a format consisting of schema plus data, or is that the responsibility of the application layer? It sounds like that might just be a convention or best practice recommended in the documentation, rather than a technical property of Avro itself.

If it's the application's responsibility to bundle the schema in Avro, then one difference is that Ion takes responsibility for embedding schema information along with each structure and field. Ion is also capable of representing data where there is no schema (analogy: a complex document like an HTML5 page), or working efficiently with large structures without deserializing everything even if the application needs data in just one field.

Another platform in contrast with Ion is Apache Parquet [1]. Parquet's support for columnar data means that it can serialize and compress table-like data extremely efficiently (it serializes all values in one column, followed by the next, until the end of a chunk -- enabling efficient compression as well as efficient column scans). Ion by comparison would serialize each row and field within it in a self-describing way (even though that information is redundant, in this particular case, since all rows are the same). Great flexibility and high fidelity at the expense of efficiency.

[1] https://parquet.apache.org/documentation/latest/
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Yeah. I thought the whole point of court ordered warrants was to NOT be scalable, cause, you know, due process or whatever.
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Written by Matt Levine, who has 3x the experience working as Associate and Vice President at Goldman Sachs than he had working in the public sector.

I'm usually pretty skeptical, but reading an article on "how hard regulators are on banks" from someone who worked at Goldman Sachs in the 2007-2011 period, I had to chuckle.
being a public good isn't a binary state, it's a continuum. I think there are internet services that approach the theoretical definition of a public good (non-rivalrous and non-excludable) close enough to consider them actual public goods.

Edit: I'll give you am example that might fit the definition: DNS
TL;DR; The science is merky but researchers have noticed self-forgiveness, seeing tasks as fun (or rewarding), and changing the perspective of procrastinators have been beneficial. Emotions also play a role.

Since many may skim this article here are some highlights with direct excerpts:

- (defining proc) What I’ve found is that while everybody may procrastinate, not everyone is a procrastinator,” says APS Fellow Joseph Ferrari, a professor of psychology at DePaul University.

- (regarding a research social experiment) As it happened, chronic procrastinators only delayed practice on the puzzle when it was described as a cognitive evaluation. When it was described as fun, they behaved no differently from non-procrastinators.

- (proc is self-defeating) In an issue of the Journal of Research in Personality from 2000, Tice and Ferrari concluded that procrastination is really a self-defeating behavior — with procrastinators trying to undermine their own best efforts.

- (defining procrastinators) The idea is that procrastinators calculate the fluctuating utility of certain activities: pleasurable ones have more value early on, and tough tasks become more important as a deadline approaches.

- (link between proc and emotions) “Emotional regulation, to me, is the real story around procrastination, because to the extent that I can deal with my emotions, I can stay on task,” says Pychyl. “When you say task-aversiveness, that’s another word for lack of enjoyment. Those are feeling states — those aren’t states of which [task] has more utility.”

- (on the Neuropsychology) Rabin, the study suggests that procrastination might be an “expression of subtle executive dysfunction” in people who are otherwise neuropsychologically healthy.

- (Solutions?) Sirois believes the best way to eliminate the need for short-term mood fixes is to find something positive or worthwhile about the task itself.

- (Solutions?) Ferrari...would like to see a general cultural shift from punishing lateness to rewarding the early bird.

- (Solutions?) But while the tough love approach might work for couples [references to not doing a spouse's stack of dishes], the best personal remedy for procrastination might actually be self-forgiveness.

- (Solutions?) The research team, led by Michael Wohl, reported in a 2010 issue of Personality and Individual Differences that students who forgave themselves after procrastinating on the first exam were less likely to delay studying for the second one.
Yes, I'm planning to add an Android version eventually.
Open question to anyone reading this: Would you use Ion if you were designing a new house-wide message queue? (e.g. broadcast messages to /Home/Lounge/Lights/ to turn on/off)
I would hire this moron, that's a good idea.
I agree, but let's be fair here. Porn brings much more value to the world than Taboola and Outbrain could ever hope for.
Everyone should order their Lexis Nexis report to see what is collected.

http://www.lexisnexis.com/privacy/for-consumers/request-pers...
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Considering all communication is subject to eavesdropping the space they are wanting to access borders on the realm of private thoughts. And some day soon it just may exist in that realm.
> I built exactly this app (functionally, but even used "down" in our vocab) in 2003 for a class project called Nitester using the web and an AIM bot. If only I had the drive then to push it further rather than jump to the next project :/

Do you seriously think a web based, AIM bot from 2003 is "exactly the same app" as a mobile, iOS, push notification based app of 2016? Your takeaway from this shouldn't be thinking you would have succeeded if you had the drive and kept working on it. There are probably at least tens of thousands of other people who tried solving the same problem, counting myself. I honestly have no idea how this took off because I've seen so many apps that tried to do the same thing and never took off, but these guys did. So I give them credit for the execution.
Do you mean passing around binary between backend services and then having a binary->JSON "proxy" behind whatever is receiving AJAX requests from the client?
and every single one of those was profitable from day 1!
Wasn't this solved already by the BSON specification - http://bsonspec.org ? Sure this allows you a definition of types, but this could easily be done using standard JSON meta data for each field. I find BSON simpler and more elegant.
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This is an interesting loading animation.(IN ANDROID)
Apparently $1 million is how much it costs to discover that no information was on the phone.
Wow. That was an interesting set of comments to read. The consensus of the crowd was actually against Facebook in that probably due to their overpromising on bounties for big compromises and under delivering plus going after dude's job. A number of security professionals, including a friend of Stamos, were against that because he dumped and sat on data plus had his business info involved. Cited expectations of pentesters and responsible disclosure. What a mess.

I don't think Wes acted in good faith in that one but neither did Facebook in anything privacy-related. Who cares about fundamental ethics given parties involved. I will say his actions were nearly warranted if Facebook was promising huge bounties for something that could cause them big problems which that case seemed to be from that thread's comments. I don't know for sure.

Far as escalation or downloading data, I found that to be the only way to get taken seriously by management. Had to be done non-disruptively with trusted personnel, protection of that data (eg RAMdrives, crypto), and assurance it was gone after. Rarely even read it as filenames & credentials were enough. Nothing like showing marketing plans or private emails to execs with a contract that's vague enough for it to be legal to get security taken seriously. Responsible disclosure debates of 90's showed us that letting vendor decide almost always resulted in them downplaying risk saying it "hypothetically" could do something but probably overstated. People playing that game usually get bounties that yearly add up to less than a median IT person.

Rather not play that game. If the company bullshits, do what you can within their legal framework to call them on it and provably without doing any damage. If they didn't in that case, then he went way overboard and looks like he's running an extortion racket. I think key parts of the story aren't published and I can't be sure. Good news is Facebook and Wes both of don't mean shit to me. Moving on. Appreciate the entertainment and different perspectives, though. :)
Yeah, but at the same time... If they want to reap the tax benefits of basing themselves out of a country, I would argue that they should be subject to that country's rule.

Really, calling themselves an "Irish" company seems like tax evasion to me, if it's in name only, with none of the negative ramifications.

Edit: speaking with regard to Apple, though other companies are in the same boat.
They also claimed that all crypto is based on prime numbers, while bitcoin is actually not, and called hashes "encryption". They sound like they sort of know what they're talking about, but jump to conclusions and assume their educated guesses are correct without looking them up.
The inputs to FICO are far from secret; just the specifics of mapping them to scores are. If you've got bureau data on a wide population, it's trivial to nearly perfectly replicate them with standard machine learning models.
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One significant advantage is you can opt-in to sharing schemas - without requiring all consumers to have your schema. Like a lot of Amazon's internal data formats, Ion designed to support backwards compatible schemas as well (that is, adding additional fields does not break existing consumers).

It has isomorphic text and binary representations as part of the standard making debugging or optimized transport a config option.

The type system is significantly richer than JSON and maps well to several languages (internally Amazon uses it with C, C++, Perl, Java, Ruby, etc.).

S-Expressions.
One thing yo remember is Norway isnt partnof NATO, which makes quite a bit of difference in this. Still not sure what the end result will be, but good luck to Snowden and I hope Norway does it. If only so I dont have to hear any more ignoramouses talk about how Snowden went to Russia on purpose.
Well, many of their top grossing apps are pay to play slot machines, though you can't take money out of the system as far as I know.
Do any of the popular message serialization formats have first class support for algebraic data types? It seems like every one I've researched has to be hacked in some way to provide for sum types.
>>even though there are lots of advancements that can be made.

Such as?
You can - extremely rarely - get something valuable through the rank-up drop process. I got a skin worth ~$120 (FN M4A1-S Icarus Fell, one of the most valued patterns too) that way. It is incredibly good luck as the rest of what I've got ranges from $3 (once) to about 10c most of the time.

That seems to form part of Valve's escape plan if they're called on this. They can claim that gamers can get the items through other mechanisms that do not require monetary input. In reality, it's vanishingly rare that it happens.
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I think libraries generally take care of stuffing the schema into the wire protocol, and I have a hunch you're right in that it's implementation-defined.

I like that in this regard, any individual record in Ion is standalone. I can think of a few ways that could come in handy, e.g., a data packet of nested mixed-version records. Did not know about Paraquet, thanks!
There's Processing and Processing.js, or you might be able to find a modern LOGO. Some terms to search for: "live coding", "turtle graphics".
Your ability to conjure self-interest & confidence seem uncommon (incredible) though. In my life, nothing has been so simple.
move the decimal and use an int (cents in US). It still blows me away that javascript has become so popular on the server without 64bit int types.
The JSON RFC was published right around the time Ion was being created making Ion about 10 years old this year. It was not clear at the time that JSON would become so popular ;-) and at the same time Ion fixed a lot of its weak areas (numeric types, dates, struct/object syntax, etc.)
We will always have to worry about intelligent, motivated people who wish to do us harm. Isn't that enough to worry about without being vulnerable to careless people, behaving unintelligently, who put lives at risk through their ignorance? Keep in mind, the latter group is much bigger.
This is incorrect. As I already stated: the cross-breeding is to take advantage of hybrid vigor[1], it is not an effort to intentionally hamper successive generations. This same practice occurs in non-GMO, non-patented plant breeding, and has been done for over a hundred years[2]

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterosis
2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_plant_breeding#Gree...
I wonder how difficult this would be to port to C#?
Ion has functions to turn Ion into JSON which will, of course, lose information. Annotations are dropped, decimals turn into a JSON number type which may lose precision, etc.
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No that's overkill, just use JSON.
Yeah, we've seen similar issues with runC on point 2. I don't think it's an upstream kernel issue as it didn't happen on openSUSE Tumbleweed when we had 4.4 (we're on 4.5 now). So presumably it's some patch Ubuntu applies.
When I fix Regex related bugs, I use the permalinks for Debuggex generated graphs for comments, documentation, JIRA tickets, etc. Very useful.
Depends on how slow it we before they improved it.
This is the conundrum. I'm used to the sight of 45mpg on my dashboard. Passat TDI was kind of my perfect car, so I really don't know what I'll go for next.
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