skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For anyone interested in this shift in power, check out futurist Alvin Toffler's Powershift.

His thesis is that the pinnacle of power throughout time as technology has evolved has shifted from brute strength, to money in the industrial age, and now finally to information in the post-industrial age which we live in now.

http://www.amazon.com/Powershift-Knowledge-Wealth-Violence-C...
Most of Facebook's users are international. There is a chance that what is "liberal" in America is simply something that runs counter to the American conservatives disciplined beliefs.

Example #1: When a prominent American conservative does something like shutdown the government instead of compromising (remember compromising gets you booted at the next elections see: Paul Ryan). To most of the world (liberal and conservative), this is nuts. Facebook bubbles news reports about how "crazy" this is to the top. American news media will most likely call this a liberal bias when really it's just an international one.

Example #2: If facebook, editorializes a giant Ice-sheet melting and how that is related to anthropogenic global warming (something most International conservatives have accepted), most American conservatives will call that to be liberal bias. Note that this is not about policy decisions, most international conservatives don't agree with Carbon Taxes for instance, but one of just straight facts and assumptions.
No, it's a result of the voting system. It will never change unless the Constitution changes. The best you can hope for without constitutional change is something like Britain; i.e. still a two-party system but less extreme differences. I think the extreme differences in the US vs the UK is less because of the media (british media is nastier than US in many ways) and more because UK society is more unified.
>However, if a forum claims to be "open" and "inclusive" but then censors people, that's just hypocritical and wrong.

I just dont think the trending stories ever made an emphatic claim to be open and inclusive, nor is promoting some stories artificially the equivalent to "censorship." Not allowing stories in the timeline is completely different than manually choosing the trending stories for a day.

Facebook has always been pro censorship. No nipples, no porn. I dont think of facebook as a place for free speech, and I never felt as if the trending stories was some organic popular list. I know everything on facebook is specifically chosen to get ME to click.

That said, watching the watchers is easy if sites publish transparency reports and publish "stories we didnt cover." Problem solved.
Spot on, for file system now it should not be a problem to have links in different places in hierarchy. You can have "favoriteSong.mp3" in catalogue with artist name and use links to put it in catalogue with "ultimate super songs". But I think people are not aware of possibilities.
Who's Lincoln Chaffee?

What this shows is the media has a positive bias towards Kasich and Sanders, neither of which were received as such by voters. What it also shows is media bias doesn't always win votes or elections.
Or, "how not to drop a satellite on the floor":

https://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n0410/04noaanreport/
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Node.js, it's a great fit because it doesn't try to be much more than a thin framework for web services. The value of code JS sharing between server and client is a bit overblown imho, but sharing same language skills is nice.
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With exception of PayPal, of which I know nothing that would explain them being included in this list, I'd say yes - that's exactly what we want. AirBnB and Uber are burning social trust to make money, they're literally poisoning the society. And to (literally!) add insult to injury, Uber management are also being assholes about the whole process.
Supporting the others here : this is not sexism, this is fun.

Calling everything sexism just destroys the debate. There is a lot of real sexism to fight against, no reason to rail against a light-hearted tweet.
> It seems naming things is still one of the hard things in Comp Sci: http://rack.github.io

I think rack is a pretty good name for something that is meant to be the infrastructure for running services. Not sure of the etymology for this project, but to me it conveys images of a server rack in a datacenter.
I assumed we were talking about investing directly in the bonds. Even if you do an index fund though that 4.79% is ignoring fees. The LC returns being talked about are after fees.
> legally

Tax laws are so complex that we don't know if some tax avoidance schemes are legal or not. The accountants selling them claim they are legal. The tax authorities sometimes claim they're not legal.

Ideally they'd go to court and get a ruling, but that's expensive and regulators tend to avoid court if possible (at least, in England they do) and so we have "agreements" where a scheme is deemed abusive and some amount of tax is repaid.

There's no prosecution; no sentences; no convictions. These repayments are not fines. So it's hard to call that illegal.
The others do not need your support and are just as wrong as you, and there is no "scale" of sexism. You are apologizing for it by calling it "fun," and there is no "real" sexism. There is only sexism, and identifying when we do it casually is just as important as fighting against the "obvious" cases.

I am very, very scared given that I'm about as indifferent to progressivism as it gets and I'm apparently too progressive for this thread. I'm never that guy who does this in public and I decided to try the waters of calling out something quite apparent, and this is how it's going. People are rallying to support each other and call me wrong. That really, really scares me and does not bode well.
For hosting a few dozen API requests a month? Yes, massively too high. Compare to the rest of it, that $3.50 is more than everything else involved combined. For that price you can just run wordpress on a VPS.
Check out eMClient desktop email application, it's definitely faster then Outlook and supports Exchange.
I think there is an option for screen recording from a real device in QuickTime. It is mostly used by developers to create promotional videos for an App Store page.
I'm not seeing your point. A vulnerability was found in OpenSMTPD. That vulnerability could not be exploited on OpenBSD because there was no way to overflow the buffer without smashing the stack canary. If you had the same version of OpenSMTPD running on a generic Linux kernel or on Mac OS X, it was vulnerable. On OpenBSD it was not. Ergo, OpenSMTPD running on OpenBSD is more secure than OpenSMTPD running on other platforms that do not provide the same mitigations.

At least, that's the way I see it.

Now, are you saying that because it's possible to bypass the mitigations in some other cases, preventing that vulnerability (and others) doesn't matter?

Or, are you saying that it would be possible to craft an exploit that bypassed the stack protection for that particular vulnerability? In which case I would love to see your PoC.

Or something else?
We're hoping it can be, but we're also considering open sourcing it.
Very cool attack on the problem.

I've been working on ideas for managing filesystems and tools for thought for a while off and on, it's starting to coalesce into a set of design ideas as well as prototypes.

What I won't do is set up a filesystem: I don't think that adds value to me; it mostly sounds technically complex and hard to figure out. And, I think that driving the whole business through manual tagging is a lost cause. Manual tagging can be _useful_, but actual attempts to derive semantic knowledge will be _more_ useful. I have many thousands of documents - manual tagging ain't gonna happen.

I need _semantic_ search and _semantic_ cross-referencing; something like a Xanadu or a (much better) wiki/hypertext system.
If it is not for work and you are not sure, go desktop with pyramidal approach (don't plan for upgrades, just include them, so that everyone has the latest).

If it works well, then plan for the upgrade circus, or if your market allows it, subscriptions. If it goes south and you get tired of it, just release a final free "sunset" edition.
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Just a quick review of the site - the "Product" page - shows a lite version and a pro. Lite has debugging symbols built in that can't be stripped. It is compiled at a lower optimization level than pro.

It says for Access to Source: Lite - Limited, Pro - Unlimited

Not sure what that means though, I didn't dig very far.

Found the above here: http://www.minocacorp.com/product/ - scroll down a bit to find the product comparison. I quickly checked each top level page and did not see any prices. Unless I missed something it looks like it's a contact us and we'll tell you situation wrt pricing...
3D view, speech, north changing directions, the slanted angle of the map during navigation; these are all things that are so disorienting for me I have to turn them off.
It's probably not that hard to figure out what's going on if you live in a european welfare country and suddenly are asked to sign nominee contracts and have passport copies sent to Panama.
Nothing wrong with that -- as HN readers we can flag / downvote comments and perform our own collective self-censorship (for better or worse).
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I believe he referencing the fact that a well known technology called 'Rack' already exists.
It's not a bad name. The point is it's a name of a very well established, years old open source project used as the near-universal interface points between web servers and Ruby web frameworks.
Yes they would. The rumblings of clojure and the dynamic language trap are already out there.
I apologize. I thought I was better than ranting, but apparently not. That wasn't cool.

Thank you for the advice. I appreciate it. Sorry for the sour grapes.
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Hi, Matt from Convox here.

I'm happy to answer any questions you have about Rack or any of Convox's other offerings.

To join a discussion with our user community please join our Slack! https://invite.convox.com
So if I understand correctly, this will give read/write permissions to a database within a webbrowser? Not to mention the requirement of jQuery.

Edit: Confirmed. It will.
Sugary snacks and diabetes pills are complementary goods though, magnifying risk not managing it. So your example is kind of unrelated.
I could see where a tool like this would be a huge help to legal and compliance departments.

There is a frequent need to produce documents for discovery purposes. However, you generally have to review the documents or send the to outside counsel first for review before they are produced. This can take hundreds of man hours and cost thousands of dollars.

Building something on top of TMSU could be a great solution for this task.
Such as the BBC only advertising jobs in the Graun, and wondering why people accuse it of bias.
hashin does something similar but supports cryptographic hashes that pip 8 understands.
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/hashin
The subsequent Reddit thread did not help PHPixie's credibility: https://www.reddit.com/r/PHP/comments/4iju97/95_of_phpixie_i...
Its the culture. My first RoR application a decade ago had basically no dependencies. The medium article implies the cool kids won't build an app unless it has enough dependencies to be unmaintainable and undeployable. So either you can't use the cool kids or you can't use the tool, the combo is no longer sustainable, its just done. The high time preference people will insist you install GEMs until the crash, its a technological bubble of sorts.

Also my first CRUD app was very small and boring. That means un-debuggable isn't a big deal. Now apps are huge, therefore undebuggable. Even if you limit external dependencies that doesn't help internal dependencies.

You can prototype things quickly, as long as they're small, featureless, no one uses them, and you don't care how difficult the are to deploy or debug. Other than that, no problem. Hmm.
Ooh I didn't see that menu item because the link was to the download tab and product was left of it
Who decides what "app" answers when I want to get flowers? I bet there are tens of apps doing it currently, and users have their own preferences. Same for anything weather-related. What would be my chances as a developer to compete with the more mainstream providers? While it isn't huge now, it seems impossible with this future, where the user practically doesn't even chooses the tools she wants to use.

(sorry if the question was answered in the video and I missed it)
there's nothing morally wrong with avoiding taxation if you have no sense of community
Please read Hearne's journal. It is probably the best record of what living off of the land in those conditions fully entails.
I put my email down to spy on you:)

My personal feeling is that (A) you're totally right that we need better _personal_ organization systems, but (B) the bottom layer (tagging, schemaing, relationships) should not involve fuzzy processes but should be totally understandable by the average user.

I know (B) is a weird opinion though so I look forward to seeing how far you can get with (A) plus machine learning & whatever other tricks you guys plan:)
So... I don't know if we got the same test, but the one they sent me literally took less than 30 minutes to do. Just a pseudo "AI" that took a few trig functions to solve.

My guess is that if it takes you more than an hour to do a code assessment, you're doing it wrong.
This seems like an overly simplistic interpretation.

The answer to "why" can be three different things. So you ask why to each of those. Repeat.

The five whys is only "problematic" if you expect it to give you the answer. It's only a means by which it can be easier for you to arrive at one or more of the many possible answers.
I'm fairly surprised at the reaction you've received here. HN sure is weird some times.
> The last paragraph then goes on to suggest that different languages are required. This seems wrong.

I feel that the programming languages are being used here as proxy for something else: the community surrounding them.
I don't really get how that pun works (it's not as though that's a common phrase). It seems more likely that it's chosen just because five is a round number.

If we're just going for homophones it could just as easily be "fifth floor" but that also doesn't make a lot of sense as a pun.
Impressive demo, but yet i can't help thinking that the "big" question still remain largely unsolved for those services.

Two points :

1/ viv keeps mentioning a "breakthrough" in computer science because they managed to create a program that will scan a network of services and fill the parameters from the query. Now, those guys aren't jokers, so i presume there is definitely something fantastic behind, yet i can't help thinking that once you've "understood" the intent, it sounds quite close to a sql / graphql query planner.

2/ Which leads to the big question : guessing the intent. Every time i hear people mention "intelligence" or "understanding", i show them this : "hey siri, please do NOT set a timer for 4 minutes, i beg you". The fact is, it's just a trick. It recognize words, but it doesn't understand anything, it doesn't have concepts, knowledge or any experience. It's a dumb program that never had any life or sense to understand anything.

If i say "find me a good ticket for Chicago tonight". How will it know that i'm talking about the rock band that's playing tonight in Paris, France, since there's absolutely not a chance that a human being asks for a plane ticket for such a big trip just a few hours in advance ?

This is, to me, the big and interesting question that online assistants makers needs to solve. Now of course, viv is aiming for a product release this year, so they're building an intermediate solution, where developers will manually associate keywords to services, in an "easy" way. And it will sort of work.

Yet i'm still waiting for the real "big" advance.
Perhaps it should have been powered by Erlang (or Elixir):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96UzSHyp0F8
It's exactly the attitude you describe what gets people into trouble with frameworks.

Getting up and running and building things on a huge foundation like Rails is easy but you should also act responsibly and take the extra steps required to understand what's going under the hood. The effort of understanding a set of well defined "small" libraries is less daunting than a whole monolithic framework (probably with tons of bells and whistles you rarely even use) but both approaches (compare for example the style of the Clojure web app community vs Rails) have their benefits. A set of libs can be adapted more easily to specific needs and development of each of the individual dependencies can move fast without worrying about the others. On the other hand Rails changes relatively slowly but each Rails app being just another Rails app with all the pieces where you expect them to be can be considered a big plus in maintenance.
Nice experiment and data, happy to read this. The general idea is right, but some of the technical explanations are wrong.

> The fat from our food gets stored in our bodies as a compound called triglyceride. What’s triglyceride, you ask?

Actually, most of what we call fat are just triglycerides, there are many kind of it, it's a family of molecules:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triglyceride . (And some of the food is stored in other forms, like glycogen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycogen )

> Indeed, more googling suggests we release somewhere around 20 mg of water and 36 mg of carbon dioxide per exhalation. [...] we breathe out about a pound of the stuff formerly known as dinner (and lunch, and breakfast, and snacks) while we sleep!

Actually, part of that mass comes from the oxygen in the air, that is used to burn the food, so that part has to be discounted. (I guess it's something like 75% of the mass from the food and 25% of the mass from the oxygen of the air, but I have to make the calculations carefully to be sure.)
I feel like this would be a major blow and failure on Apple's part if this team that they already acquired was bought by a competitor. I wonder what happened that led to this not being a new version of Siri.
They don't have a system that makes malicious uploads impossible (outside of hacking, of course). They could implement such a system, without much trouble. They choose not to.

Using a third party ad network is not inherently risky. But most specific third party ad networks are risky, because of bad practices.

That most ads are harmless is enforced through social norms and after-the-fact takedowns. They could do better, but don't. Negligence.
To stop those old, damaged eggs from generating more springs? Perhaps the cell quality decreases as time passes by, and it's better to set those men free to get new ladies, with new eggs.
> I feel fine and this is one of those cases where I know I'm right

Please come down from your high horse. Seriously, as someone who has actually been bullied a bit, calling this sexism seems like a giant misunderstanding.
Can you really not see the extreme bias in that statement?
I understand; but it's hard for some convenient phrase to cover every aspect of the process. So in the end there has to be some understanding that it's the name of some process that has more aspects than just the literal meaning. (Just like "Zero Bugs").
We're not talking about partisan preferences. We're talking about good and bad sources of journalism. News sources that use good journalistic practices (confirmation by second sources, publication of corrections, etc.) and that don't perpetuate debunked misinformation are preferable in my news feed over lower-quality "news" sources. If that penalizes certain partisan or ideological outlets, then tough.
Cool! Can you describe a user who would see this as a perfect fit?
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I'm not, depressingly. Once my first comment hit -3 in as many minutes I knew it would go this way, because there are a lot of people here who want to whitewash things like this, apologize for them, and hold their hands up like the Iraqi Information Minister and explain what they consider sexism and how nothing they see qualifies. I'm satisfied being correct on this one and this thread just communicates something about Hacker News to me that I already suspected. (It's not good.)

Watching both camps fight over my comments' scores is even more depressing. I really wish I had the foresight to graph it, because there is some carpetbombing going on and it only proves my point.
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One of the maintainers of Convox/rack here...

A few important differences between Convox and other options in the space.

AWS only. We use lots of AWS services to piggy back on all the reliability AWS has baked in. For example we use DynamoDB to record all your builds because none of us want to manage a Postgres for record keeping.

Open source. The layer between you and your AWS account is open, transparent, and modifiable.

Simple. I want to remove as many moving parts as possible, not add a heavy middleware.
> It is much less so now, when was the last time you bought anything substantial without reading a review of it or checking the customer ratings?

Besides the already mentioned point of reviews being made too soon to be able to reflect on product lifetime, keep in mind that easily available (e.g. on the shop site) on-line reviews are mostly bullshit anyway. It's mostly a mix of people being affiliated with producers or paid to endorse a product, with an occasional person which is too dumb to operate something correctly but quick to drop a 1-star rating with a nonsense explanation. To get any sensible reviews, you actually have to know some trustworthy reviewers - be it a site you follow or a friend you know. Either way, maintaining sources of trusted reviews requires some effort, so you won't be doing that for most of the product you buy anyway.
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The funny thing is with tooling you get the power of being able to instantly refactor your way out of a "zombie constraint" and seeing if you like it.

There is no textual or design pattern alternative to that - ides simply get you there faster and safer.
> Who's Lincoln Chaffee?

Exactly.

> What this shows is the media has a positive bias towards Kasich and Sanders, neither of which were received as such by voters.

No, what it shows is that the media writes way more articles about Clinton, positive and negative.

Imagine the media writes 2 articles about Sanders, one negative and one positive. And then it writes 20 about Clinton, 11 negative and 9 positive. Who is it biased in favor of?
I guess the trick is to be an expert in Machiavellian games and intrigue without truly holding the values that typically drive such expertise.
That's exactly the etymology. We were thinking about datacenters and servers. The original name was convox/kernel, but we thought it wasn't very descriptive.

The naming collision with the Ruby interface is unfortunate, but we figured it was pretty easy to tell them apart from context.