skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some people in the top 10 asked us not to show karma at that point. It's a distraction.

Actually I hate that leader page and would like to replace it with something more interesting. There's too much past and not enough present and future in it.
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This is cool as hell. That’s an expensive API though — is it gonna cost you?
Isn't that what I described? That user has 2 submissions with at least 2 points each. I also think that's a fairly sql-esque way to calculate h-index. I can't think of how else I would do it.
About building-block mindset
You'd expect property owners to be entitled to build on their titled property, yet somehow this has turned into a pejorative.

It reminds me of people arguing for higher taxes accusing others of being selfish. Yes, it's completely selfish that someone would like to keep the money they've earned and yet completely selfless that you feel you have a right to it.

Down and down we go into opposite land.
> "Abusive men threaten spouses" (aka domestic violence is a man thing)

Anyone can be the victim of domestic violence, and anyone can be the perpetrator, but overwhelmingly domestic violence involves a male perpetrator and a female victim.

Even if you expand the definition of "violence" to include "abuse" you still see double the number of female victims of abuse.

Here's a source. They list their methods, they give the Excel sheets.

http://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandj...

Here's one quote:

There were differences between males and females in the pattern of relationships between victims and suspects. Women were far more likely than men to be killed by partners/ex-partners (44% of female victims compared with 6% of male victims), and men were more likely than women to be killed by friends/ acquaintances (32% of male victims compared with 8% of female victims).

> People need to denounce prejudice by anyone (despite what political correctness says). Feminism doesn't deserve protection in the way that the KKK don't deserve it. You aren't born a feminist or KKK, but you sure can choose to propagate the intolerance. I took my stance when I saw that young boys are impacted by a gender war that never should have started.

For fucks sake.
Was Ultima Online not the pinnacle of the Ultima games?
This list of names made me think of Ken Silverman. Apparently he's now doing http://www.voxiebox.com/

The latest "game developer celebrity" on my list is Kenta Cho, I guess.
Hi Joe,

Form my perspective: sometimes when I report a bug it's more so that other users don't waste their time troubleshooting it than to have it fixed immediately.

Maybe sometimes I'm not 100% clear but it is a bit discouraging to have to send follow-up messages on clear-cut issues like these:
https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1...
https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1...
(the comment #10 of the former issue was written a bit too quickly don't you think?)

Then there are issues that "work as intended" but that seem like bad product design:
https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1...

Do they really reach a product manager?

Finally there are issues like these ones that are not clear cut but that I can't investigate myself because it requires time and resources (they eventually cost me a few bucks running instances for testing purposes).
https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1...

You guys have a good product. I think that the promise of not having to manage infrastructure hit a cord with many people. However you do have many bugs to fix to make the platform more stable and (non intentionally) discouraging people from reporting issues will make things improve at a slower rate.

Good luck!
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@trtobe: you could ask the supermarkets. Doesn't hurt. Perhaps you would have better luck promoting this idea with grocery stores that have loyalty cards? Loyalty cards I suppose are already used to track specific users and what they purchase. I think working with the supermarkets are better because it results in a more frictionless experience.
Agreed, even to this day I long for the characters of Ultima IV and the conversational power of picking out keywords as you talk to them to gleen more and more information. Skyrim, Witcher 3.. for all their graphical power lack what is compelling about Ultima IV. There was a definite conceptual integrity about the game you can only really get when you just have one programmer who can take risks.
It's actually probably so you can autocomplete a contact as a destination address for your Uber. The same is true in Maps for navigation. Unfortunately UX wins over privacy so launching an intent to pick a contact probably wasn't as elegant as using a unified autocomplete field.
I believe the Gmail TOS used to state that one person could only have one personal account. That has either changed, or I am misremembering.
That's more of the primordial soup pre-evolution. Something might make it, but the chances are slim and nothing's really evolving, just kinda there.

Randomly changing the file is mutating an existing codebase with predecessors that made it out of the primordial soup.

I may have stretched the analogy too far now.
This permission should just simply not exist. I had two games and an another app. The browsing history was, in this case, used for targetting ads. I did not need the apps and uninstalled the apps (it was around 2 years ago, on previous version of Android I think).

The apps on Android should be sandboxed and not be given this kind of permissions, that's all.
The city of San Francisco doesn't need to accommodate anyone, they simply need to get out of the way to let others do it.
Not to be confused with the Eddington number in physics[0]

"I believe there are 15 747 724 136 275 002 577 605 653 961 181 555 468 044 717 914 527 116 709 366 231 425 076 185 631 031 296 protons in the universe and the same number of electrons."
--Sir Arthur Eddington

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddington_number
We've banned this account because comments like this don't belong here and requests to stop (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11338015) haven't worked.

I'm sorry about the pain you're in, and don't want to ban you, but these comments have been over the line frequently and for a long time. If at some point you're ready not to post any more of them, and keep to the HN rules, you're welcome to email us at hn@ycombinator.com.
If you want to fix the country then remove all limits, let developers develop whatever and wherever they deem there is demand.

It's hilarious that some replies to this proposition complain about the Mexicans moving in and using local services like schools and sewer treatment, while others complain about the Chinese buying and not using local services! I'm hoping that these are not written by the same "well-meaning liberals", but it does seem likely.
I really miss OpenVMS. It's a damn shame it doesn't run on x86-64. I might try to set up one of the Alpha AXP emulators that are floating around out there, if only to feed my nostalgia.
Two thoughts.

* If it ain't broke don't fix it.

* Google could take some tips from a lean tech company that creates a legacy product that requires minimum upkeep while staying respectable profitable.
>Do you have a citation for the claim that school districts have classist and racist origin?

The 1896 Supreme Court case, Plessy v. Ferguson. Among these facilities were public schools, often located just miles apart, which separated white and colored students. In almost all instances, schools which educated colored students were underfunded, extensively degraded, and/or lacked the necessary materials to rigorously challenge the students. It was also estimated that the amount of per capita expenditures devoted towards colored students was 40-50% lower than for white students, further deepening the educational inequality between the two ethnic groups.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_diversity_in_United_Sta...
It's so they can quickly switch between the most recently used maps application like Waze or Google Maps for drivers.
Your explanation (user has n submissions with a score of at least n) fails to pass one of the Wikipedia examples. ([25, 8, 5, 3, 3] should result in an h-index of 3)
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Pretty sure you mean "de rigueur".
I like the h-index better. It shows contributions rather than making comments that aren't controversial... So speaking of abortion...
It would be nice if you changed it from "white paper" to something more accurate, like "provisional".

The reason is that "white paper" has a very specific connotation, and this paper is not consistent with the white paper.

Personal opinion: in science the word publication now means "to make accessible" rather "to publish in a conference" (the conference = publication thing is mostly CS) or "to publish in a journal" (like biology and a lot of non-arxiv physics). Pre-pub peer review isn't even required any more. arxiv (and scientists putting preprints on web sites) changed this. Of course, this is personal opinion, based mainly my observations and doesn't necessarily represent the mainstream opinion (yet).
The "GPS 2.0" label used in the article is a bit of a misnomer I think, and possibly just something the author came up with. There is no radically new satellite navigation system described, just some rather superficial mentions of the need for alternative electronic navigation aids to augment satellite navigation (Loran, inertial sensors etc), which are not limited, or directly related, to GPS.

The closest thing to bear a "next gen" GPS label is the new block IIIA satellites, sometimes (officially) referred to as GPS III.

For civilian users, the most notable change in block III is that there will be a signal L2C available on the L2 frequency. With 2 frequencies, you can calculate ionospheric delay, resulting in better accuracy and resilience. Before this, L2 only carried the encrypted military Y code (but L2 could still be used for carrier phase tracking, so industrial non-military GNSS receivers could still make some use of it).

There will also eventually be an improved (backward-compatible) signal on the L1 frequency, and even a 3rd signal on L5. There fundamental system remains the same though, this is more of an evolution than a revolution. E.g, L2C is already available on some block II satellites. For military uses, there are some other interesting changes in block III, notably a new military signal M with a spot-beam antenna that can target a limited area, which is pretty cool.

Russia's GLONASS satellites evolve similarly, with the new 3rd gen K satellites getting more frequencies etc, and using CDMA just like GPS (previously the GLONASS signals used FDMA, i.e. each visible satellite used a different frequency slot). Galileo and BeiDou are also quite similar, but BeiDou is notable for using geostationary and inclined geostationary satellites in addition to regular medium earth orbit satellites (essentially to get improved coverage in Asia). A possibly interesting feature of Galileo is that there may be a "commercial service" signal, i.e. that non-navigational data may be broadcast via the Galileo satellites.
The name.com bundled DNS service no longer does this, and hasn't for a while now.
What about the kids who go to the suburban school? Kids from the ghettos can simultaneously be the victims and causes of the state of their school.

Just an anecdote, I went to an upper middle class suburban high school. The poorest kids in my school were the biggest bullies and class disruptors.
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I couldn't agree more! If I recall, by the time I encountered Ultima IV, I had gone through dozens and dozens of games on Atari, Apple, and other platforms. I had even tried Wizardry (but although a D&D fan, it did not immerse me as much as the Ultimas). With the exception of the Infocom games, mostly Zork, Enchanter, Spellbreaker, nothing came even close to Ultima IV around that era, in terms of immersion and fun. I remember writing down in a notebook, every single town, and every conversation in each of those towns, for later reference, probably my first discovery of the power of analytical thinking as a kid. Ultima V was also great, but I think mostly due to the fact that it was a sequel to U4 and carried on much of the same sense of imagination, excitement and wonder. I played Akalabeth first (from a zip-lock bag), U4, U3, U2, U5 then rest of series.
The network is important because we're not going to go from manual driving to self-driving overnight. It's a transition that will take years. For most Uber users, the change will be transparent; the only practical difference would be that there isn't someone in the front seat of the car that comes to pick you up. Growing the userbase and making the investments in becoming the primary method of ride acquisition is useful because that will carry over into the self-driving era.
Yeah, but did you stay on the Pacific island?

Remote work doesn’t necessarily mean I don’t want to mingle with others. It means I can stay at home when a child is sick or visit relatives for a week, and still work and get paid.

I like the meetups. From my office, so far I have walked to Google, Symantec, Salesforce, and a bunch of other companies. It’s like being in a conference, for free, all the time.

Supposedly there’s job security in having all these companies nearby. Not that you’ll keep your job, but that there are so many other places to work nearby.

I think people here are generally optimistic about change and progress, compared to people in other places. It’s self-affirming. Techies, after all, are still merely human.
There's some confusion here, I do believe my explanation means [25, 8, 5, 3, 3] has an h-index of 3.
> $1bn over the history of computing is about $2k per hour. I would not be astonished if a class of bugs cost that much across the industry.

It's not about knowing whether it's $1bn, or 10bn, or just a few millions. The question is to know whether fighting so hard to make these bugs (the "caught at runtime" version, not the "undefined consequences" version) impossible is worth the cost or not.

Can you guarantee that hiring a team of experienced Haskell developers (or pick any strongly-typed language of your choice) will cost me less than hiring a team of experienced Go developers (all costs included, i.e from development and maintenance cost to loss of business after a catastrophic bug)? Can you even give me an exemple of a business that lost tons of money because of some kind of NullPointerException ?
I believe that is not true.
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So now we can expect annoying up sells and unsolicited pressure marketing whenever we buy or register for a Google product?

The last straw for me with Godaddy is when they started sending me e-mails warning me my "domain was not secure" trying to get me to buy some phony domain secure service with a bundled drag and drop website builder. No thanks.
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Please don't post like this here. Substantive discussion requires resisting the pull of generic black holes.

It's typical for web publications to be mostly bad yet sometimes good, regardless of one's politics. This article is good and interesting (and maybe also wrong in places, I don't know), so let's stay on that planet.
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"Simplified Permissions" is a relatively new feature of the Play Store and only gives you general permission categories. It was probably changed from the older specific permissions to make it less complex for people who didn't care as much.
Note that PackageInstaller still shows all permissions, which is used when clicking on an apk or using a 3rd party app store (like F-Droid). Due to backwards compatibility, this can't be changed easily at the OS level.
Wikipedia very unhelpfully tells me that SF has 17k/mi^2 and Berlin has 4k/km^2, which works out to about 10k/mi^2.
There are 5 scores with atleast 3 points. :P
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Regardless of whether it's a non-issue on Lollipop (or later) or not, it exhibits the intent of Uber.

And google is no less: https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2015/06/google-ch...
Is there anything in this that is relevant to the legal case re co-founder?
I would also say understand the basics of digital logic design.
I don't mean to sound dismissive, but do you have any idea of how O_APPEND interacts with PIPE_BUF? The problem you're describing is basically solved on modern POSIX OS's.

You're just proposing moving the semantics of what could be better done in kernel-space by resizing PIPE_BUF to userspace.

The way this works now is that you open a logfile with O_APPEND, any write(2) you make to the file will be atomic up to PIPE_BUF, so it doesn't matter that you have a "race" with someone else if everyone's write is <PIPE_BUF, which is the common case, they won't interleave with each other.

Now of course if your write is bigger than PIPE_BUF you might have interleaving writes, but at the point where you're making >4K writes you're usually better off having some custom log system anyway and not rely on the kernel serializing things for you.

If you want to emulate this proposed mechanism of yours now without any syscall changes you can simply flock() the file for the duration of your write. The solution you're proposing already exists, but locking sucks more than O_APPEND + <PIPE_BUF sized writes.
Tech people, scientists, atheists, libertarians, and the like are not actually more rational than other groups. These are just groups who have a practice of suppressing divergent epistemologies (ways of knowing).

Think about it, each one of these groups is primarily about not accepting divergent viewpoints:

Tech is about intelligent machines that can't empathize with anyone.

Science is about having one very strict epistemology (the scientific method) and pretending no other ways of knowing are used in the lab.

Atheism is about deciding all god beliefs are wrong even the ones you haven't heard about yet.

Libertarianism is about removing all forms of structural social coordination except contracts.

These are groups who have set up walls that help them ignore other people. Any sensation of "rationality" you get in these places is just calcification of ideology due to a strong program of stifling dissent.

If you want true rationality go look for communities where dissent is celebrated.
Linus is a true genius. Listen to his piano version of Galway's soundtrack for parallax!
No. I can't name a source though. Basically Microsoft was hemmoraghing money on this unit and Uber took a chunk of staff, the tech, AND the operating expenses.
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Why do you think it costs very much to provent null pointer exceptions?
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This is one example of a job where neural networks/AI can, and should, replace humans. Video and image classification is basically a solved problem. Numerous companies have already trained deep convolutional networks to recognize pornography and other forms of content unwanted on their platforms.
Yes, if there are 5 scores with at least 3 points, then there are 3 scores with at least 3 points. Of course he left out the fact that the h-index is the largest number for which the property he mentioned holds true, but that was obvious.
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Not Cantor I guess.
An hour a week? This is the wishful thinking of someone with precluding commitments.
Or Canada.
Right. I remember hearing from somebody about Google Now recently. The guy was happy that it reminds him of bills etc., added that it even gets the amount and due date from the "emails" and "reminds".

Frankly, a vast majority (99.99%+) don't care.
It wasn't always this way. The individual permissions used to be displayed to the user directly; newer releases of the Play Store have "streamlined" this permissions prompt so that users see general permissions "groups", and some permissions (such as INTERNET) are considered "not dangerous", requiring a click on the "See all permissions" button to view everything the app requests.

I imagine it's because Google recognized the general insanity of the system, and presenting fewer "scary" permissions improved conversion rates.

Then they threw the whole system out with Android 6.0, moving to a much more sane flow for everyone involved, where the user is able to grant or deny individual permissions at runtime.
A running average of the latest <x> posts/submissions would be a better way to show the current most popular users. However I feel a better metric than popularity, which is all karma really is, might be some way of tracking influence. Response count springs to mind initially but that promotes controversy rather than quality.
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outside of bay area bubble, your age doesn't really mater. so, yeah, go for it
I switched all mine to EasyDNS... a quick scan of their blog gives a good idea of their philosophy: http://blog.easydns.org/
No, it really doesn't. It's a fundamental flaw in the earlier Android permissions model that it requests so much.

Uber doesn't try to pull anything like this on iOS.
Seems sort of sad to me how we want to encroach on everything, we can't let even the animals be free, we must surveil and control them too for their own good.
And what intent are you implying? Is it not possible that they request these permissions to improve the functionality of the application, and do not in fact actively spy on their users?
Lyft requires drivers to go to a mentorship process but with Uber all you do is sending pictures of your driver license and car to become a driver.

Lyft also sends training videos and material to drivers. Because of the possibility of the tip drivers are trying their best.

It's a good idea to tip to drivers that do a good job. They are low income people and deserve that extra $1 more than your bartender that usually earns a good chunk of money each night.
It's more interesting why Google hired her.
I agree with statements above that GoDaddy is someting from 90s. GoDaddy isn't famous for tech innovations.
What's kind of expertise potentially she can bring to Google?
If you compare the marketing/spin apparatus of Clinton, Obama and Trump; I am not sure that you will find that Trump has the largest.

The original comment though was intended more as a snarky hint at the current administration rather than a praise for the policies of Trump.
Given enough incentive, Google might even be willing to issue a patch to allow permissions to apps that were not possible otherwise.