skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What you are seeing is an eve.com web property following the same rules as every other website. Nothing to worry about, install malware...

Why is the add-on not hosted on addons.m.o? I thought mozilla thought there was some benefit to users when they only installed things from addons.m.o.
There's no legal precedent here. Tech can go like Hollywood and push whatever political agenda they want.

That being said, this is the type of thing that makes 1984 look a lot less like fiction. How many 13-18 year olds, who don't watch TV, are instead experiencing intense indoctrination controlled by Facebook? No matter your political leanings you must find this troublesome.

I remember when I was 18 I went to college, started working, started paying taxes, and stopped watching TV. Suddenly I had space to question my political views, which I realized on the whole had been implanted by the media. Facebook could be even worse - how many people actually get away from their influence?
I actually have written a custom fuzzer. It has been really useful in chasing out bugs caused by improper handling of corrupt files, but fuzzing won't help solve the combinatorial coverage problem.
Most of the companies I have worked for would likely do exactly that. The problem employee would be terminated as an ordinary cost-cutting layoff, and no one would be the wiser.

The expedient solution is to be spineless and cover your own ass. It does not produce the desired behavior at higher levels, but the Nash equilibrium is to do it quietly and kick the can down the road for the next employer to deal with. This is exactly how the Catholic church and the Boy Scouts handled its pedophiles--cover it up and delay accountability indefinitely.

If there may be a threat to sue, offer a severance package that precludes civil lawsuits.

I was once laid off, and I suspect the reason for it was that the company did not want to pay off on my as-yet-unvested options at a time when the public stock was at an all-time high. I didn't sue, because the severance package was worth more to me than the potentially years-long litigation hassle. They, in turn, never admitted to any particular reason for laying me off. If I'm going to end up screwed either way, I'd prefer the method that allows me to get it over with and get on with my life the next day.

The impetus to throw just enough money at the problem to make it disappear fuels some of the scams that prey on very large companies. This is closely related to the business model for patent trolls. If you ask for slightly less money than litigation would cost, you get quietly paid.

Edit:

Most civil cases don't go to trial, and I don't care enough about my own disposable post on the Internet to go look up legal citations as a tangentially interested non-lawyer just because some other disposable post on the Internet asked for them. My point was that corporate employers are amoral, and would prefer to handle a potentially hairy situation cheaply rather than ethically. The only points required are as follows. 1. It is possible that a recently terminated employee could sue the former employer; it even happens occasionally in real life. 2. Such a lawsuit has a nonzero cost to the employer (and also the ex-employee). 3. Therefore, the employer can theoretically save money by bribing the ex-employee with a lesser amount than in #2 to not sue. 4. This could potentially allow the ex-employee to escape the consequences of actions that may or may not have led to the termination.

The general consensus among companies is to do the easy thing, not the right thing.
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> If the interest rate the market is willing to pay for a particular muni bond rises, that bond will be worth less and that difference is extremely easy to calculate.

I think you are thinking of individual bonds and I agree, but the fixed income muni bond funds are not as easy to calculate and don't fluctuate as much.

> The fact that rate is rising means that investors are not giving as high of a value. The better way to think about this is that investors decide the Muni bond and other fixed income assets are worth less so they pay less so the yield rises. It is kind of opposite of how you are thinking about it.

Not the opposite at all. If a bond fund is paying 30 cents per share each month and investors value the bond less causing a price drop, the yield goes up as I mentioned and becomes more attractive. The drop isn't as significant as you would think. The funds are diversified across various bonds with different maturities. If investors devalue a fund too much after an interest rate hike, I'll buy more at a higher yield.

> Muni bonds are no more 'safe' than other investments.

I don't agree here. Muni bonds are a debt obligation with a lower level of default compared to other bonds. If they weren't safer than other investments very few people would care about them. The stock market is just legalized gambling. The article is about LC and I've proposed an alternative. Do you not think muni bonds are safer than other bonds or LC?

> It sounds like you are highly exposed to interest rate risk in your portfolio and you should work really hard to understand it more clearly.

I'm not that exposed to interest rate risk. I have more in cash than muni bonds. I buy cash flow positive properties and have a fixed rate mortgage. Most of my money is in my companies and I have two successful ones (one in tech services and one highly profitable subscription model business). They're the only investments I trust.
Of existing statute? Probably not. But there could be a push to subject social networks to the Equal Time Rule [1].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal-time_rule
I took to C like a duck to water, probably because I was just coming from having extensive experience programming the PDP-11 in assembler, and C looks and behaves a lot like 11 assembler. (Such as integral and floating point promotion rules.)
The chances of the average (ancient) Greek sitting in front of a playstation / driving to work was also much lower though so I can imagine them being tangibly more muscular/fitter etc.
Which airport?
First off Acceptance Rates' imply an employee relationship. Actual marketplaces connect both sides instead of requiring action on one side. Amazon marketplace in no way requires sellers to only act though Amazon, but if people can't be Uber and Lyft drivers at the same time that's a problem. Note: Managing cancellation rate's is fine as someone agrees to do work and then fails to do it.

Star ratings are again a black mark. A gruff driver who plays loud music, but safely drives from A:B still preformed the work. Requiring more than what is directly required to do the job is problematic. An actual marketplace should show low star drivers as long as they uphold a defined minimal standard and users may still pick them. This also rolls back to price, a market place should let high star drivers charge more not ban lower star drivers. This even rolls into the perception it's marketed as people using 'Uber' not connecting people to drivers.

One of the best signs someone is a subcontractor is the ability for them to pay someone else to do some or all of the work. If Uber let other company's onto their platform and users could pick one of several 'Joe's Cabs' which all share star ratings that would be a marketplace.

All together if you compare Uber to say Amazon's marketplace, Apple's iOS store, a stock market, or a Flee market it's clear Uber is doing something else.
Great plan! If you don't plan on hunting you can get a cow/half cow easy.

Best place to buy land is to the east in the Dryden/Freeville area. Mostly because it's cheap and it has good bus connections. Anything in the town or city of Ithaca is (seriously) at San Francisco levels of cost relative to average income. The real house might be best placed to the south in the Danby area, since it's also cheap and there's a lot of south hill development (past IC) being planned, so the value is gonna go up in the next few decades. It's also the best way to get to New York (south via Owego).

I hope you enjoy the most good enough place in the world :)
Is it possible to implement features similar to the above without being a ycombinator insider? Since upvotes aren't visible on comments, other than comments you made yourself, how could you calculate it? (Are the upvotes on comments available through an API for example?)
Or radiation.
I believe that's the nicest thing anyone has ever said about words I put on the internet.
dura lex, sed lex.

"The law is harsh but it is the law."
Most employment agreements (in the US) absolutely do not have a probationary period of that kind. That would be quite unusual.
I believe the threat you're invoking --- from the accused harasser to the employee terminating using their privilege as an at-will employer, to sue for damages stemming from that termination --- is fictitious.

Could you clarify by citing a case with this fact pattern which actually made it to trial?

* At-will employee

* No special contract terms tied to for-cause termination

* Disputed or false accusation of harassment (or, if you like, any claim of harassment whatsoever --- or, really, any "cause" whatsoever)

* Terminated, either formally for cause or for no cause

* Claim of damages stemming from the termination itself
Did I just hear that Jupyter notebooks are coming to VSC?
There's no specific law or regulation referenced in the complaint. This is just grandstanding. Facebook PR flaks will gladly reply with a generic corporate non-answer and that will be the end of it.
Facebook is trying to become a defacto medium for inter-personal communication globally. It's more akin to a telephone company not handing out phone numbers to people it deems "undesirable". Fox is one-way media. Quite different.
I've learned a huge amount from screencasts such as destroyallsoftware.com, so I think we can agree to disagree on this point. Additionally, I think the success of Codeschool, Code Academy, Pluralsight etc. show that I'm not really in the minority here.

A number of points you mention are possible topics. Although I can't think of a single situation where "understanding several compilers" would have helped me design/maintain/troubleshoot infrastructure I'm responsible for.

But hey, looks like you're not in my target market, and that's ok!
I'm not sure you would find anyone in agreement of a defence of the Iraq War that was along the lines of "It could be worse, just look at the Holocaust!" Pointing to something else and saying "it could be worse" isn't a defence of the actions in question. It's something along the lines of "passing the buck."
Also picoc: https://code.google.com/archive/p/picoc/
> Maybe most people on facebook have liberal views and they're showing people what they are more likely to want to read?

Trending happens regardless of political view. If they're manually suppressing views which don't align with FB management then users should be made aware of this.
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I wish they would focus more on getting Realm to version 1.0.
Honestly these lies do not matter. Let people buy what they want without government using our money to subsidize anything.

In the long term facts win because they are self evident. I find it disgusting that rich people get $8K per Tesla.
Looks like a similar situation with Apache Groovy. Only "grails" and "gradle" are in there.
Hilariously, this is what Thune had to say about the Fairness Doctrine when he sponsored an amendment to prevent the FCC from stepping in on talk radio;

> Our amendment would have helped preserve the vibrant marketplace of ideas we have today in our media. Our support for freedom of conscience and freedom of speech means that we must support the rights granted to even those with whom we disagree. Giving power to a few to regulate fairness in the media is a recipe for an Orwellian disaster.

So it's an Orwellian disaster for the fairness doctrine to extend to talk radio, but he's okay with the government threatening a private internet company to make sure there's enough conservative opinion being displayed? Nice scruples.
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Fair 'nuff. And no, I haven't used commercial UNIXes all that much, but I have experienced plenty of Linux's warts. I do agree with a lot of those points, but containers on Linux just aren't there, systemd is a mess that's going to get pushed in no matter what we say, and there are plenty of issues to be had, although the ladder is true of any UNIX. If you want to know what the rest of the issues are, just start googling. And while you're at it, listen to some of Bryan Cantrill's talks. They are biased (obviously), but they're entertaining, and they do point out some things that I think are real problems (posix conformance (MADV_DONTNEED), and epoll semantics, mainly).

Oh, and don't flame me for speaking in ignorance. I've been a Linux user for half a decade at least now, and I CAN say I see problems with it. I can also say, as a person who is programmer, that some of the things that Cantrill pointed out are actually evil. Note, however, that I don't claim Solaris, or any other OS is better. Every UNIX is utterly fucked in some respect. I just know Linux's flaws the best.

By the way, I've been trying to get Amiga emulation working for a while. It basically works at this point, but the *UAEs are a misery on UNIX systems. Without any kind of loader, you have to spend 10 minutes editing the config every time you want to play a game. But if you're in any way interested in the history you lived through, check out youtube.com/watch?v=Tv6aJRGpz_A
Knowing assembly is a good first step and a prerequisite to be useful in an embedded project.
Mostly no. But they can choose to work only when the surge pricing levels are above a certain point.
Fun project!

I watched the Building Blinky video.

You could improve the video if you hold a loupe in front of the camera lens when trying to zoom in for fine detail, like when you were trying to show us a bridge on two pins.
Well, in EE, you know your model of your circuit is right if the measurements are all consistent with V=IR and so forth!

The world, that's a little harder.
How would this be different from the way Google's algorithm ranks news stories or for that matter how the New York Times editors choose their stories? Perhaps some transparency form FB on how they rank content would be useful. Might also be nice to have a setting in FB for this sort of filtering.
Which report is this? I've seen the Facebook press release, I've seen Tom Stocky's post, but I've never seen this report. Source?

And the biggest issue I have, is that as far as I know, from January 2014 to present, Facebook's help page was written in a way to mislead users on how trending topics actually work [1]. From reading that help description, most users, including me, imagined Trending topics to work as /u/cft described. Yet that page has no mention that every single trending article on Facebook is curated by a human. How is that not an enormous oversight?

[1] https://www.facebook.com/help/737806312958641 How does Facebook determine what topics are trending?

> Trending shows you topics that have recently become popular on Facebook. The topics you see are based on a number of factors including engagement, timeliness, Pages you've liked and your location.

> On a computer, the topics are grouped into 5 categories: All News, Politics, Science and Technology, Sports and Entertainment.
What's probably happened is "conservative views" are hate screeds. They're racist, they're sexist, they're homophobic or transphobic, they're advocating violence. And so they've been blocked.
milfseriously stated that he saw the conversation/evidence
I'm not the person you asked, but since you invoked Bogle, you should know that Vanguard (a) uses wholesalers and (b) has publicly and repeatedly claimed that high-speed electronic market-makers have improved outcomes for their investors.
Has the elm installation on Linux improved in recent months? Last time I tried my system's GHC was too new to install it from source and the node installation went kablooey in weird parts(too recent ncurses, the automatic "reactor" browser repl not finding the Html package etc...)
Or you can just admit that facebook is liberal leaning and treat it like any other liberal site.
Good to know I (probably) got it right.
Looks like someone doesn't understand correlation vs causation.
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How often will that indoctrination be better than they'd get otherwise?

Not that I approve of Facebook manipulating users, I think we are at a point where we need to diffuse power wherever we can. We certainly shouldn't blithely hand it to businesses. That said, it's hard to not end up at least giving the above aspect of it some consideration.
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For those not aware, Senators send letters to companies on a pretty regular basis. It does not carry the weight of law, just the PR pressure of having a Senator publicly questioning you. Companies usually take it seriously and respond in some fashion.

More examples in an earlier comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8634332
Consult your lawyer.

I've attended a few sexual harassment training's over the years. There are no clear cut rules. In fact, in my first training, harassment couldn't occur until the other sex said "stop, no, etc." In the last one I attended, things aren't so clear cut, and it seems like the lawyers have made sexual harassment so unclear that the only ones who can determine it are the lawyers themselves.

It doesn't matter that it was after work, using a non-work communication medium. It still could be or maybe its not harassment.

You are going to have to talk with her and let her know that you have to act upon this. You don't know what is going to happen. At a bare minimum, something is going to his HR file. At worse, a lawsuit is going to happen.
Do you feel reading that many random comments has an impact on you? Hopefully we keep the experience net positive.
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I stumbled upon this page while reading the docs: https://twitter.github.io/distributedlog/html/design/main.ht...

It looks like they use fencing and a two-phase commit to prevent duplicate writes. Whether that covers all failure scenarios I'm not sure.
The quality of the comments here is so high that I often preface my Google searches with "site:news.ycombinator.com" when I'm researching technical stuff.
Very minor point: be careful comparing IDs the way you do in the REPL (i.e., without keeping a reference to the previous object)--since the old one is released, it's possible that the memory address is reused and the ID of the new object ends up being the same, even though the object is different, which can have misleading results:

Python 2.7.10 (default, Oct 23 2015, 19:19:21)
[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 7.0.0 (clang-700.0.59.5)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> class A:
... def b(self): pass
...
>>> A.b
<unbound method A.b>
>>> hex(id(A.b))
'0x104e2c0a0'
>>> hex(id(A.b))
'0x104daeb90'
>>> hex(id(A.b))
'0x104daeb90'

So the `x is y` approach is "safer." :)
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Heck yeah. Thanks for the tip. Btw, new link is here:

https://github.com/zsaleeba/picoc
You're too kind! If I pursue this, I will definitely be in touch.
intense indoctrination

Where you seeing that? And if filtering a few news stories on a social networking site is 'intense', then what are those private companies writing specifically tilted views of history for school textbooks in Texas doing?
I made a similar comments about videos vs text and got quite a few upvotes. So I imagine it's a similar sentiment among the HN crowd at least.
Why should users be made aware of it?
Yes, some licenses have poorly defined metrics that are hard to properly evaluate.

No, ensuring people that claim to understand a topic they are selling their advice on as a product actually know what they are talking about is not a worthless endeavor.

Should a Doctor have to spend a certain amount of time performing operations even if they nail their first one? Should a pilot need to fly 50 hours in a circle even if he got his landings down in the first 3? What if a person can pass a law school final the day after they take the LSAT? Should they be able just to skip law school completely and be admitted to the Bar? Clearly law school only exists to discourage employment!

I'm constantly amazed at how so many of the people that don't think time invested matters at all never have time invested themselves.
This is incorrect: Facebook is not a media, but a distribution platform. A media, like, say, The New York Times, can have as much bias as it wants, but a platform that distributes media should treat all media equally, otherwise it becomes a media that promotes a certain viewpoint, and enters into competition with its own clients.
I'm not a Sanders supporter but I don't remember the good Senator promising to expand torture, threatening to kill innocent family members of terrorists, or threatening to nuke Syria -- all of which would be war crimes. If you don't think there's room between Trump and Sanders on foreign policy, you aren't paying attention.
I think the complaint is that when conservative ideas "organically" trended, meaning were being actively discussed/traded/etc by many people, curators would substitute their favored stories as "trending", despite the fact they weren't or weren't to the same degree. The Senate letter suggests that by suppressing actually trending conservative news in favor of progressive news that was not trending and then calling it "trending" that something akin to false advertising fraud is in play.

In one sense, assuming this happened and is true, the Senate has a point. Having said that, even if the Senate does have a point, this doesn't rise to the level of being worth pursuing. In fact, I think as a society we're all too ready to try to invoke legal remedies for relative minor transgressions, including for claims of false advertising. Yes, Facebook should be able to do what ever they want on their service; including being a little fast and loose with the truth and still get away without legal sanction so long as no one was hurt as a result.

If they lied about what was trending or not or, shall we say, carefully defined what it means "to trend", I know about it now, I suffered no direct physical or financial harm, and can make the case Facebook isn't to be trusted in such matters. I'm not a conservative, but I am nearly wholly opposed to political progressivism and the political left's agenda. I can tell you I had already figured Facebook manipulated (manually or algorithmically) their news feed and trending news box to meet their own interests be that political or economic. Nonetheless, I think the First Amendment concerns are greater than the concerns of possible puffery about what is "trending" or not and that government force, or the threat thereof, is not the answer.
Totally agree. Facebook is dotcom equivalent of AOL. Hopefully it goes away.