skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amen. I'm a hobbyist programmer and a while back I used Twilio and was amazed at how easy it is to use.

The finance geek in me is very excited to see their numbers and have a chance to do some due diligence and possibly invest.
"What makes you qualified to be a reporter?"

"I'm willing to violate anyone's privacy for my personal gain, then claim with a straight face that 'the public has a right to know.'"
Important things: producing a good or service that is valuable to some market and that supports the livelihoods of employees/stakeholders in an equitable way.

Not important things: disfavoring groups of people that it is currently stylish to consider as "oppressive", "problematic", or "triggering" in favor of other groups of people that are currently deemed to be "diverse", "oppressed", "modern".

Real life isn't handing out stickers to preschoolers.
Your question isn't clear. Attention is value, why does it matter what other apps they also use?
This came up about a week ago, I questioned why it was a useful feature and people were quick to bark "security, if you don't like it you should be writing service/unit files for your programs."

To me, I can't think of a single other operating system that works this way, even Windows. But I'm sure the pro-systemd supporters will "correct" my thinking.

Additional: "You can just disable it, don't worry about the defaults" will be another argument that comes up, seems to be a nice way of stopping discussion.. it's the same thing people espoused when binary logging/journalctl was enforced.
This is such a key point and yet also quite confusing. Obviously copyright is not patents. Copyright is about preventing literal copying of someone's creation.

So.., if you implement an API in a different programming language, such that the text and structure is different, and yet the function remains the same... then have you not infringed any copyright?
Paywall. No thanks.

Edit:typo
I think a few of them, although most social apps are bound to have these kinds of features:

hijack#2 (slot machine): you get a notification when you receive a snap but you don't know what it is until you open it

hijack#3 (Fear Of Missing Something Important): snapchat stories disappear after 24hr, so if you don't wanna miss content from your friends you must make sure to log in at least once a day

hijack#4 (Social Approval): when you post a story you can see how many people viewed it

hijack#5 (Social Reciprocity): when someone sends a snap to you personally and not to their story you feel compelled to send something back
I do have to admit to being impressed by the boot speed of Arch under Systemd.
She was set up near a stream. And it sounds like maybe she tried to start a fire but was unable to.
Sounds like an undue burden on German businesses; how can we expect the private sector to thrive when businesses might be bearing their own training costs instead of shrugging them off to labor and a public education system?
The proper acronym is SCOTUS.
We shouldn't forget that antibiotic resistant bacteria become that way by giving up a metabolic pathway. Calling them 'superbugs' is actually misleading, because the resistant bacteria are usually less efficient.

If you remove the exposure to the antibiotic, they will revert back to the wild strain pretty quickly.

If we just stopped using antibiotics in agriculture, especially to promote growth, this could actually be possible.
"A decrease in institutional privilege"? What are you people smoking?

The choices you make affect real _people_--not institutions; hiring someone over someone else based on some relatively arbitrary superficial trait--thinking that you know that person and what they've lived through--has serious effects on that individual--not an institution.
But you choose to make those choices, because you perpetually believe you know things that you do not.
Ask PG: What's the Most Frighteningly Ambitious Idea You Were Pitched On? (2012)
Does this really indicate any private correspondence was printed via the internet? Even if a printer was set up which _was_ writable via this web address, that doesn't mean that emails from the email server itself were printed to that address rather than directly to the device, does it? In fact, presumably the printer and email were hosted on the same server so it doesn't make much sense to me that they would send one to the other via the web address.
It is actually called the "tragedy of the UNMANAGED commons".
Wow, thanks for going through them one by one!
> I guess the risk of fewer Taylor Swifts. Fewer Kany Wests. Fewer Oracles. Fewer Microsofts. Fewer Steve Jobs. Those are such small consequences that, to be honest, they might be additional benefits.

Most of the public would consider those pretty enormous consequences.

Heck, I'd be upset if I had to switch away from a MacBook Pro to a commodity-PC-hardware + Linux solution for personal use today, even without any of the other things that group of people and companies you mention have produced. And I'm a-ok with paying for those things, or paying other people for doing interesting things on top of those things.

Maybe you think the risk of that actually happening is pretty small, but as-written, the consequences are actually pretty huge.
> That, as I said, is not likely to be true.

I think it's by far the likeliest explanation given everything we know of human societies and human history (i.e, as a general rule, almost everything is fluid). Moreover, it's the safest: if, as a result of such under-representations, certain groups have less power in society, it's unreasonable not to try to fix it. If people get sick and you don't know if the disease is curable or not, the far safer (and more ethical) assumption is that it is. Both assumptions are not symmetrical.
Coroutine libraries are in the class of libraries that are small and easy enough to write (if you know assembly) that most people roll their own. libco (used in the bsnes/higan emulator) is a good, portable one.
Ember is going to be 5 years old this year and has a team dedicated to backwards compatibility. It's the least "churn" of the frameworks.

And the government could just choose not to use any third party framework.

But to prove your point, people are moving to React, not Angular :-) jQuery is used in almost all Angular apps anyway.
Yep, that looks much cleaner and easier to reason about. Thanks for the sample config file.
New stuff only churns as fast as you churn it. Why wouldn't Rails from today, or your other examples, still run in 10 years?
I'm a very regular hiker and backpacker, and while I always feel bad in situations like this, I also always feel that people who get lost so easily that they can't find the trail—especially one so developed as the Appalachian Trail—after stepping off it for a few minutes shouldn't be hiking alone, or should be using some sort of navigational aid to help avoid that happening. She wasn't initially hiking alone, but she should've left when her hiking partner did if she wasn't competent enough to navigate solo.

Perhaps I'm unusual among hikers, in that I hike off-trail regularly, hunt for lost and abandoned trails for fun, and am a trailwork volunteer with the Forest Service, but I cannot understand how people get lost. If you lose the trail, you simply go back the way you came until you find it again. And yet people get lost all the time.
Brunch looks pretty cool actually.
The Myth of Metaphor (1995) [pdf]
Can you post one of your projects?
I personally question the legitimacy / usefulness of affirmative action, but the best argument in support of it which I have heard is that people bound their career prospects based on the individuals they observe to be occupying those roles in society. For example, if a person is female and all the software developers they see are male, perhaps they believe that software development is inherently a male job and not for them. This could then lead to a negative feedback loop where females are afraid to make the first step into the industry because no one has done it before them, and the industry misses out on people who could turn out to be very qualified workers. Affirmative seeks to break this loop.
"Most of these problems simply didn't exist or were not nearly as severe with previous revision control systems"

Are you kidding? :)

CVS, Subversion, Perforce, and some propriety revisioning systems were HUGE PITA. People used to lock files, so noone else could change them when they were working with them. Merging different feature branches was like locking whole repository with huge lock, so noone else could touch anything at the time.

Any time I had to work with legacy revisioning systems I wanted to kill myself. Git workflows are conventions to help improve small issues with staff that wasn't even possible befor (before Distributed VCS). And a lot of these problems are superficial ("oh those merge commit are annoying in `git log`").

It reminds me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFsOUbZ0Lr0
Market sizes isn't the same as societal benefit. Just like how a modern society built around horses and carts with all the overhead and work that would require wouldn't be an improvement.

It seems to me that it is very very rare that it is the copyright enforcement and/or necessity (will) to stay within legal limits that itself is the reason any given copyrighted offer stays profitable. People pays because they want to pay for quality, in general.
It's not even blurry or doubtful. Sometimes pioneers have hints that something may or may not... Here, it's crystal clear from the start.
We need RADDDD (Rapid Application Development) !!!!
Concision is an art-form. In clojure I would do:

* lein new figwheel hello-world

And done. Say lein isn't installed, it is a simple script you download and run once.
Obvious throwaway account for obvious reasons. I worked at a well known international "activism" type organization. If our data practices ever came to light, the organization wouldn't exist anymore. I promise.

Never underestimate the incompetence even by the largest of organizations.
The anger in this thread does not bode well for the future of React.

I predict big, complex, arcane React stacks will be a punchline in a few years, much like J2EE/EJB is today.

And yes, I know React itself is a small library - Java servlets were a small, simple API that formed the foundation for a ton of over-engineered abstraction on top.
Even if the software never needs an update (possible for isolated process-control systems, less so for central record-keeping at the IRS), there's hardware to consider -- where, nowadays, do you get a replacement 8-inch floppy drive? Or, say, new read heads for one?
On one hand it seems inefficient and perhaps dangerous to be reliant on such old systems. On the other hand, the idea of a new software project to replace it also sounds at risk of being extremely expensive and overly complicated. Because of all the government contracting anti-patterns.

In theory there's a middle ground that avoids both these extremes. In reality, with government software... I'm skeptical it will happen.
Dude thanks for taking the time writing such a detailed reply! I wish I could give you more than one upvote..
Seems similar to Hanlon's Razor:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor
It's interesting to compare those two examples in the context of the present copyright controversy. In the Visual J++ case, obviously Sun having copyright control over all Java reimplementations would have given them more leverage than just the trademark (though they were able to kill J++ with what they had).

But in the case of proprietary file formats, or really any non-crypto-based attempt to hinder interoperability, the less control, the better. For example, Microsoft could have hypothetically designed their DOC format for the explicit purpose of creating legal issues, such as by having files consist of a series of API calls to reconstruct the document (like WMF!), so that anyone parsing the document would have to reimplement the APIs. To be fair, the need to do so for actual compatibility would weigh heavily in favor of fair use, whereas the story with Android is somewhat weaker (especially because nobody seems to have told the Federal Circuit that Android actually is compatible with existing Java libraries, rather than the API copying being solely for the sake of programmer familiarity...) Also, there is no real need to use copyright for this purpose in the first place: patents have been shown to be quite effective in locking down file formats (c.f. H.264, x86 instructions) - and don't have fair use - so arguably copyright gives offenders nothing they couldn't achieve by other means. But then, patents are limited-duration and who knows, maybe the law with respect to them will be improved some day. No need to hand out extra tools.
Interesting point. I wonder how much of an economic impact these goods have? (Ie if they exist, do they matter?)
> On a side note, affirmative action policies ultimately help middle-class blacks at the expense of lower-class whites. The upper-class whites who push for affirmative action are not affected by it, and neither are their children.

Data to back that up?

> isn't it only logical to view black resumes with more suspicion? Objectively, blacks need to display lower competency in relevant skills to achieve identical resumes as whites.

No, that's against the law (in the US).
You may very much enjoy the book "On Intelligence" by Jeff Hawkins. He was the founder of Palm computer with a strong computer science background and then went on to found his own neuroscience institute.

He has been working on AI in a system which he terms Hierarchical Temporal Memory which he describes in his book. The interesting point is that his algorithms and data structures are based on existing neuroscience research and "reverse engineering the neocortex". It sounds very buzzwordy but I found the book an excellent cross-disciplinary read.
One article[1] at least suggests that she wasn't able to start a fire.

She had also tried to make fires using the matches and
lighters she kept in her backpack. There was a stream
near her camp, but it's unclear whether she was able to
find any food.

[1]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/05/2...
This is really sad. Part of me wonders why, in such a remote area, she decided to go far enough off the trail to get lost just to use the bathroom.

It's scary how disorienting the woods can be.

I was hiking in the woods in my backyard and after a few twists and turns to get around thorny areas, discovered about 20 minutes later I was hiking in the opposite direction I thought I was. It was completely dumbfounding.
The study fulltext is free:

http://stm.sciencemag.org/content/7/278/278ra33.full

The mechanism claims to be that the SUS merely selectively opens the blood-brain barrier long enough for microbubbles to pass through, implying (as I read it) that their action is mechanical.

First ad campaign: "Scrubbing Bubbles -- not just for bathroom surfaces anymore!"
Isn't the dead-line for Google removing Symantec from Chrome supposed to be this June? (if they don't adopt CT for all of their certificates by then, that is)
Relevant: http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2015/02/study-e-coli-vaccines-...
I might look at that for my next frontend project. Thanks for the link.
> data mine the shit out of them

That's one of the reasons they are so valuable - data. Data is so valuable to companies - it gives them insight into how consumers behave. Gett Taxi just raised $300M from Volkswagen and it's not because of their tech. It's because they have data on how urban residents move and travel. Google released TensorFlow and gave everyone access to easy to use and super advanced neural nets and they do this because it's not actually their algorithms that give them their competitive edge - it's their data. More data beats a clever algorithm every time.
Looking at it the other way, why don't search and rescue services have a mobile cell-phone "tower" attached to an aircraft?
Not only that, but the damn app pop-down from the top of the page when using AlienBlue on iPad is infuriating once it happens enough. Slows the entire experience down.
All sysadmins have nation-states as their threat model (or at least they should have it). If spy agencies can in any way leverage your network, then you're an automatic target.

https://theintercept.com/2014/03/20/inside-nsa-secret-effort...
I dont want to live or work in a society where employees at every company reflect the demographics of that society, where everyone gets equal pay, feels less and less like diversity and more and more about conformity. Its the road to socialism, if all of this diversity was valuable the market will reward companies accordingly.
I lost a lot of money in the MtGox theft. Not a nice feeling.

I really hope it works out for everyone.
They're growing in popularity, but they're expensive and some of the popular ones (not PLBs specifically, but satellite trackers & communicators) like SPOT and DeLorme inReach have monthly subscription fees as well. Someone who isn't out alone all the time may not feel they can justify the cost.

I carry an inReach and find it fantastic. I've never used it for an emergency (though an emergency leading to a late-night Air Force helicopter rescue of someone in my hiking group several years ago prompted me to purchase it) but it's fantastically useful for text communication with friends and family in areas with zero cell reception, as well as (very recently added) weather forecast downloads for your precise location. And in the event of an emergency, being able to communicate details about your situation is very useful sometimes.
No nefarious plot. My understanding is that it went roughly like this. Back in 2009 Clinton requested a secure smartphone from the NSA. It's a custom made device (security by obscurity?). Anyway, the president gets one. As the secretary of state she has to travel a lot, and not being able to do email on the road is highly impractical. So she thought she should get one too.

The NSA denied her request for a secure smartphone and gave her some nonsense excuse. She tried a few more times to get one, and then Clinton gave up and ordered somebody to set her up with a private email server. She used this unsecure email server for years. She used it to communicate with top level officials (including the president). That she had this server was common knowledge in the administration. She knew it wasn't secure and she's been very careful not to discuss any classified information over email at all. In a handful of cases she slipped up and some classified information ended up on email anyway.
It seems like it would be strange to give a printer a DNS name if you didn't intend to talk to it over the internet. If you're directly connected it doesn't need an IP at all.

I think the sniffing threat mentioned is overblown. As one of the commenters mentions, ISPs don't generally allow adjacent IPs to sniff traffic.

A bigger threat is that a vulnerability in the printer may have been exploited. E.g., for a long time most HP printers could have their firmware upgraded by sending them a print job. And so far the cursory look I've taken at various printer firmware has been really alarming – think thousands of calls to strcpy/memcpy and other unsafe friends.

Edit: Here's a reference for firmware upgrade via print job: http://www.internetsociety.org/sites/default/files/03_4_0.pd...

Edit2: Also, when I say "firmware upgrade" I mean arbitrary code – it wasn't verifying a digital signature or anything.
Between the time of issue and renovation, a lot of people can get arrested, monitored, or blackmailed.
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I tried to be careful in my phrasing, which is why I said "broader population of qualified candidates" and not "population at large" or "general population", and "good chance" instead of "certainty", because as you point out there are unfortunately systemic factors outside of your immediate short-term control that will affect the numbers.

But I think a lot of people/companies use this as an excuse to just not even try, and that doesn't make sense. Even if a group's share of qualified candidates is smaller than its share of the general population, that share certainly isn't zero, and once your team reaches a certain size its not hard to check the math and see if your process is producing results in bounds of reasonable estimates. Very frequently it isn't, and that can point to hidden or explicit biases that you can work to remove from your process.
SystemD is the distro. Manifest destiny.
There will be the kernel, and the distro system.
Everything you like about "your distro" will cease to exist when we are done.
> you simply go back the way you came until you find it again

In a densely wooded, unfamiliar remote area, it isn't so simple just to backtrack, especially if you begin to panic.

In a way, it is similar to falling through ice, and not being able to simply find your way back to the hole you fell through. Panic plays a role.
Here's a screenshot of their Share UI:
http://i.imgur.com/6J3CvKD.png

There is something labeled very clearly as a "Direct Link." When I paste that link into my browser, I go to the image file.

If people are posting the Direct Link and it is indeed redirecting to the full site (per the claims), then that is most certainly a very dark pattern if not an outright example of blatantly lying to their users.

So in this case it is very much about the UI and what is presented to the user at the time they are grabbing the URL.
It's interesting that the labor cost doesn't seem to make _that_ big of a difference, compared to other variables like taxes. New Jersey has one of the cheapest gas prices in the nation but is one of the few states that forbids motorists to pump their own gas. I don't think it's due to logistics either, since neighboring PA and NY have much higher prices. I'm guessing it's just the taxes? What else could it be?
The difference is that Facebook was within reach of cashflow positive at all times in it's growth, ie if they fired non-core staff could be cash flow positive within months (source: Mark Zuckerburg talk I went to). It had ad's from within the first few months of existence, that was Saverin's role before he left/was fired but they always built that part of the business and revenues always scaled with expenses.
Just the idea that this configuration may have existed is a red flag for me on what other configuration choices may have been made.