skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>evolution certainly works at the species level (in the sense that population genetics is a thing).

That's not at the species level. That's, at the very best, at the level of a very small group. And most of those theories have generally been discredited - it only works if the beneficial effect on the group is sufficiently large, see http://lesswrong.com/lw/kw/the_tragedy_of_group_selectionism...

>there are genes preventing cancer (tumor suppressors), and those genes are under active selection.

That doesn't contradict what I said. Those genes work well enough to prevent cancer in young organisms, but they are clearly not enough to stop all cancer.

Why hasn't evolution evolved away all cancer? Because even if there was a gene that could decrease cancer risk by an additional 1%, it wouldn't actually increase fitness that much. A 1% decrease in risk is small on it's own, and then it only affects the 1% of organisms that haven't already died of other things. Preventing cancer is just not in evolution's priorities - at least not past a certain point.
> I follow lots of white nationalists

Why?
It's clearly a hug. Has been for decades. Just start reading it that way.
I understand the reason the upgrade is free is to rather move to an ad supported service.
If it's not too personal, how much do you make in a month and year? How much does that vary? How good would you rate yourself at doing this? Do you work a lot with a small group of companies or do you do it for tons? How long does it take on average per bug?
I suspect you can pin the start of when they discontinued (in classic Apple fashion) the Xserve line. And being finalized with the into of the "trashcan" Mac Pro.

Then again, Apple have for nearly a decade now being selling their stuff as "lifestyle" devices, so one should not really be surprised.
RDP at home is certainly difficult, but I have to disagree on the performance bit. In fact, RDP is probably by far the best such protocol in use right now.
Swiping through subways is already happening. You can pay your fares with Apple Watch on the tube (London subway). See https://tfl.gov.uk/fares-and-payments/contactless/other-meth...
The difference with caller ID is, of course, that you need to deliberately initiate an action (calling someone you don't trust) for it to "erode" your privacy. Facial recognition can be done to you on the street by anybody, without you being able to opt out or even know it's happening. It's not even remotely the same thing.
I used to love delicious. I loved seeing who bookmarked the same thing and following them for more similar content.
> "we presume that observations are not caused by biological differences without concrete evidence of those differences. The corollary to that is that disparities in outcome are prima facie evidence of disparities in opportunity."

Ummm...the first part is fine, the corollary reasoning is what is academically dishonest. Prima facie is not academically acceptable when determining causal relationships in statistics. The illustration of this is why the power of Hypothesis testing is centered around rejecting the Null hypothesis. Failure to reject the null hypothesis doesn't confirm/prove the null hypothesis as true.
Yes! That's the one - thanks!
Nominated for comment of the month, thank you very much for writing this, and even more for your actions.
PDFs and Word were originally designed (still meant to) for enterprise documents, not books. It works somewhat for books too but then PDF is not really "on web". People still have to download an artifact, save it somewhere or may be bother about other similar digital book formats the same way.

If that isn't broken then what is?
Yes, I just had a look at paypal's user agreement, and this does seem to be the case. That begs the question - why are the hackers even bothering to do this, if all their transactions will be cancelled? Are they hoping that a small % of their victims won't notice the fraudulent transactions?
Which they provided by linking to the benchmark/data.
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As the parent comment mentions, QlikView is now the previous generation product, and Qlik Sense is where they are moving towards.

Qlik Sense is pretty snappy, has much improved UX, etc.

Qlik are top-right quadrant for BI tools, on a par with Tableau.
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I... don't really see why what you attached is funny? Not because of the offensive topic but just because... there's no humour there?
Not so much as talent, as him narcissistically using himself as the yardstick for "end user". Supposedly the iPod shipped with a idiosyncratic equalizer default tuned to Jobs ears.
Depends on the org. I went from sales to PM, so I had to learn the engineering knowledge to the point that I could properly scope and spec things. I have been building websites since I was 10 so I was not green by any measure, but up until this point I was employed as a salesperson.

I think if you are coming from the engineering side, you might want to read up on sales. If the PM as mini-CEO of a product holds true where you work, the CEO mainly sets direction (for the product) and develops the business.

So sales (as in talking to customers) is really the part you may have less experience with. I think that exposure to real, imperfect, angry, complaining, confused, biased, excited customers is a good education in this. Your goal really is to interface the market/customers with the product/operations.
...or, you know... Tattoo detection software. Since you, you know, just permanently put some uniquely identifying paint on your face.
So, what would happen if say, trolls read this and started using the symbol around every random username in sight? Because that's exactly what some people are gonna do after reading articles like this, and it makes me wonder what the crossfire would inevitably look like.

Wouldn't this make a really easy target for the likes of 4chan?
Awesome - looking forward to trying it out again!

Definitely would use Sourcegraph with Python support.
Seemed to me like it was only spreading through already established circles because of the lack of ability to search for it. Racists in those circles saw someone tweet with that punctuation and just ganged on the person mentioned in the tweet, knowing they were Jewish without it being directly stated.
Do we have to be Jewish to do so? My background is Scotch-Irish hill folk, but my given name is (((Jesse))) so that should work?
I know rich people like that, too.
I have a space alien. Enough said.
Twitter reports Monthly Active Users as 310M [1] which, as far as I can tell[2], represents just logged-in users. I presume that Bloomberg would use the standard-ish term of "active users" to mean the same thing.

Twitter also reports it has 1B monthly uniques "to sites with embedded Tweets"[1].

[1] - https://about.twitter.com/company

[2] - http://www.statista.com/statistics/282087/number-of-monthly-...
Great article! Reminded me of this jewel: https://pouchdb.com/2015/05/18/we-have-a-problem-with-promis...

Great explanation as well.
> There is absolutely no excuse for this kind of terrible customer support from a company with this kind of money.

Given the attention given to customer experience in other areas, one assumes Apple knows how to treat their customers.

One reasonable conclusion is that they don't see developers as customers.

"Sharecropper" is probably a much closer match to what they see.
I'm excited to see when snapchat figures out a way to replicate the 'DJ Khaled' effect. I want to discover interesting people doing cool stuff and right now i'm not sure how i'd go about doing this on snapchat whereas Twitter won't stop recommending people to me.
It occurs to me that the correct "punishment" for a hate crime is to force the person to live in a loving, caring community of the hated group until one day they break down and cry and want to hug and apologize to everyone in the community.

EDIT: "I'm so sorry, I've been such a schmuck," the ex-neonazi tearfully confesses as his pretty Jewish girlfriend hugs him and kisses him on the cheek.
That is an important speedup if you access a lot of data compared to what your DRAM can cache, or often do a full reboot (which means cold re-reading a lot of executable images from storage). Max out the RAM first.
I like that he deleted his comment that said "I am a white nationalist".
The Venn diagram of the AltRight and 4chan's /pol/ board (the only board that would care about ((()))) is a circle inside of a circle so I don't think it will make any difference.
Hmm. That's an interesting thought about how to skew 'engagement' stats. Maybe that's why I can't view Pinterest pages without that irritating "you must log in" sheet scrolling over the content.
Memory is terribly expensive and I have to fight all of the other developers/product folks/upper management for every byte in my environment (hundreds of thousands of servers).

I have no choice but to use DSOs for our Rust code.
I'm not sure it's twitter's responsibility. That's up to twitter, though I would appreciate it if they would clearly mark their position on these sorts of things.
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News to me. I suppose we live in different bubbles.
>What's also funny is how the article insists on ((())) being designed and engineered by evil masterminds to be unsearchable

From the article:

>Whether they know it or not, Neo-Nazis on Twitter have discovered a brilliant loophole — a code that's difficult to filter

Typical white nationalist, not bothering with the details.
I did, because people here can get pretty salty and I didn't want to "bite the bait", but yes, now that you insist, I am one, and I am not ashamed of it.
I am actually quite worried about this development (http://buff.ly/1ZhvE9c).

With facial recognition, the ultimate people database, and location-patterns we are well on the way end-to-end surveillance.

*not too serious : Maybe conservative Muslims are way ahead of their time?
That was tolerated?
It's surely free speech to write articles suggesting free speech be curtailed. It's also free speech to disagree with censorship. What's your point?

(GP didn't seem to be expressing an issue with the article having been written, but with the article's suggestion that Twitter (and other media) need to do more to censor hate speech. In that context this comment is non sequitur.)
The problem was that, even though Reddit had multiple engineers, they were all on the same plane, and thus unavailable at the same time.
A () inside of a () inside of a ()?

You mean ((()))?
It's not. I was looking for context beyond what a press release could provide. All due respect.
>feel embarrassed by things they do in public.

That is a slippery slope that usually starts with "if you have nothing to hide".
There's a difference between free speech and harassment. It's perfectly legal to use the echo in a Tweet. What's not legal (or at least isn't allowed on most social media platforms) is using the echo to call people to harass and threat a specific person.

For example, it's legal to say/tweet "Bob Smith is a little bitch"

It's not legal to send Bob Smith 50 messages telling him he's a little bitch and threatening to murder his family
Not by me, but yeah, barely. Let's just say a lot of kids from Far Rockaway & Breezy Point went to my high school.

I'm sure he's grown up some -- I don't imagine you can last long at acting (not that he's very successful) as an anti-Semite in NY.

Here's a shining example of what that area of New York has to offer and an event some of my classmates were present for: http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/outrage-racist-para...
"people here can get pretty salty when I admit I am a white nationalist" is probably the most positive thing I've heard anyone say about HN in years.
Sure, but unless they're willing to communicate their benevolent intent to us, alien science should be viewed as hostile. What is the point of a machine science that is not amenable to human examination? How could we be sure that the machine is acting in concert with human interests?

A purely machine science is anathema; if the machine does science, it must participate in the community of human scientists to validate its conclusions, or else its 'knowledge', however encoded, is as obscure and terrifying as the path of an impending asteroid.
Like just the other day, I was having a conversation with my friend Snu. I said, "Okay Snoogle, it's time to dispose of the bodies of that couple we killed downtown last night.
I'm on to you. You're part of the Lispish Conspiracy.
Cloud backups don't suit every scenario though. The video editing studio here got a new 40TB storage device and filled it in months, and are talking about going bigger next time. They are struggling on rural Australian internet with a service that varies between 10 and 2mbit depending on the weather, often with high degrees of packet loss.

Multiple "experts" have walked through the door and demanded they move all backups to various cloud based services. Trying to tell people that some great solutions aren't always great for every scenario is like talking to a wall.
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Most paypal fraud, like credit card fraud happens at a very small scale. A fraudster pays $50 for 50 accounts and then spends a day with them and maybe walks out with $300.

The guy selling the accounts sells hundreds of thousands of them, and obviously doesn't get involved in the fraud itself.

This is why this whole thing is so strange, there's a bunch of people claiming that someone hacked teamviewer and is now using that access for petty paypal fraud instead of targetting the tens (if not hundreds) of thousands of PoS systems teamviewer is used to manage.

>Are they hoping that a small % of their victims won't notice the fraudulent transactions?

No, they certainly don't care if the payments get charged back or not. If they try to send money to their own account, it'll be suspended before they can actually withdraw it out of PayPal.

Instead in this case they seem to be trying to buy itunes gift cards, undoubtedly with the intent to sell them (on sites such as g2a.com) before they get cancelled.
if twitter clamps down on this, it creates an unwelcoming place for the neonazis. if it does not, it creates an unwelcoming place for their targets. twitter has to pick one; doing nothing is not a neutral action.
I call it the San Francisco bubble. Fortunately, it's just a bubble. ;P
Again, I was only speaking to the issue of whether it's misleading/clickbait to the average person, not whether they're really equal.
Github is pretty transparent with theirs too: https://status.github.com/

All the numbers usually tell a story
But once data collection tools become easily abstracted and implemented anyone can create their own surveillance network to do as they please.
Sweet until you're hugged by internet tough-guy white supremacists.
One of the things I love abt HN is the difference of opinions. You can have a post that tells you all the great things abt A, then in the comments you hear why A is bad, but also there is C.

It is sad that internet trolls exist, but at the same time the internet is amazing bc trolls exist, or that they can exist. The ability for everyone to communicate freely brings out the best in humanity, but also the worst.

The same power that allows GitHub and Wikipedia to exist, and that ends oppressive government regimes in the world is the same power that allows neo-nazis to have the world hear their hate speech.
For the born warriors, often the boredom allows bad things to surface they would rather not face, rather not think, rather not contemplate. Battle is like eating an extremely hot pepper; if you eat more you delay the pain of taking that first breath.

Incredible metaphor.
Was addressing the other commenter too! Hehe
Why are you a white nationalist? Do you think badly of people who aren't white or that such people should be treated differently? If so why?
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All due respect to SnapChat, I'm glad people use it and enjoy. As for me, I had it before, it wasn't really my thing. I never had instagram either, so maybe there is some relation there.

edit: spelling
How could that even be possible? Short of PayPal having a hole in their 2FA implementation, it's very difficult for me to imagine how this could happen.

I mean, unless the hackers logged in, left the 2FA prompt up and then a user completed the 2FA exchange, but that would be a foolish thing to do anyway...

edit: thanks for the answers; makes sense!
I think this is fine.
If you use a 3rd party repository, you can almost expect it to fail. If you rely on repositories so heavily, run Apt Cacher or mirror them on s3 or the like, its pretty simple.
This is a pretty common practice in any professional environment to contain all your dependencies - binaries, debs etc locally mirrored...
Can't wait for dockerhub to go down now... :troll:
Also I guess you don't use GMail or Google Docs?
Best to use LastPass (or equivalent) and require your master password to use the Paypal account.

Having to reverse the payment is likely not "minutes" when talking to any customer service org.
I really like this post. Thank you for writing it.
Dunno what GCC is doing but a statically linked C++ "Hello World" built by MSVC is about 140k and for C it's about half that.
C++ is very hard. IMO, that's why people dislike it.

I was writing a test output parser in Python: ~50 lines of functional code in less than an hour. Testing the script for about 10-20 mins and tweaking it to my liking.

The same in C++ would've required me to look up/read up a bunch of library functions that I've forgotten (Should I use file I/O, string manipulation C functions or C++ functions?), link to a few libs (non-C++11) or read some obscure documentation on C++11's regex implementation. Compile, test, change, repeat. This is way more time spent as compared to the Python option.

This is not a fair judgment of the language, but my point is that for something simple there are other languages. For something complicated, C++ has been used in many applications (successfully and unsuccessfully). But there is no doubt that once a C++ code base becomes large it is extremely hard to maintain.
I deployed a status board once. I was forced by the higher ups to take it down. Something about it sending the wrong message to our clients. Sending out emails once an hour with status updates was way more productive.
Weird, I call it "the civilised world bubble".

But yeah, I know, silent majority and all that, right? There are dozens of you. Dozens!
Wonder to see the analysis of REL claims. REL includes people with proven engineering record, and, AFAIK, got money from European organizations familiar with engineering, so it would be interesting to learn what's wrong with their approach.
I use "last year" filters all the time with Google (via !g bangs), this !gyear is awesome. Thanks. TIL.
How difficult is the NSI-189 synthesis?
Flic isn't exactly a fair comparison, since it requires Bluetooth and would only work when your phone or computer are near.

But I am also non-plussed by this offering. Ignoring the price, this should come with an option where it isn't dependent on external servers. For me, Particle's Internet Button[0] is still my favorite solution on the market.

[0] https://www.particle.io/button
I've been on the phone with PayPal on far too many occasions, and they definitely know how to handle these issues quick.

Although, you wouldn't even really have to call them. You can dispute the charges with like two clicks on your account page. It's just that if you call them, they can instantly settle the dispute in your favor.
The Brier score isn't very principled mathematically though. Squared error was developed for findinding models over real numbers, and doesn't fit very naturally with probabilities.

Log likelihood does allow infinitely negative scores, but maybe it should. If you assign a probability of 0, you are saying it's literally impossible. Not just unlikely, or even really really unlikely.

I prefer geometric mean of probability. It represents the "average probability" you gave to the correct answer, and the number is interpretable. But it's isomorphic to log likelihood, so has all the same mathematical properties.
Well, legal stuff and also you just don't badmouth people you worked with until recently. It's simply not nice, and we are still friends with some of the Inc employees.

For more info I recommend the Q&A from Frank and Jos today: https://youtube.com/watch?v=iMfokaX2r8g – we try to be as honest as we can.

Disclaimer/source: I'm one of the »poached developers«, or rather the designer. ;)
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> This is tantamount to the antivax movement

Could you please not be offensive. Vaccines don't have keyloggers or forced-adware.
You may think nothing is noble about war, but by and large, you're probably in disagreement with the majority of the ~120 billion humans who have ever lived. Particularly in the 18th and 19th centuries, war was generally seen as a noble thing and generally a focal part of high culture. Think of the glorious portrayal of "doomed last stands"--the Alamo, Pickett's Charge, the Charge of the Light Brigade. It's largely only WWI (it should be noted that the German High Command fairly indisputably saw a coming Great War as an ultimately good thing--the dispute is mostly in how much this influenced their actions immediately prior to the war) that created a massive cultural cynicism in the portrayal of war. And even after WWI and the Vietnam War, we've again returned to a condition where glorifying war is a sure moneyspinner (even if critics tend to be less thrilled about it).
> Raising kids is often hard unfulfilling manual labor

I don't see how raising a human can be classified as unfulfilling. Is making a CRUD app really more fulfilling than raising a child to a happy, healthy, well-adjusted adult? That seems an order of magnitude more fulfilling.

As for the ex-exec who's now bored, that can also be seen as a symptom of "career worship" that projects such as the OP seem to focus on. There's a lot you can do with your time so you don't end up bored. Learn to cook, sew, program for fun, read, write...

It seems like the #1 problem is that people are basing their identities on their career and then finding themselves lost when they end that career to raise a family. Even worse they are resenting the children and partner because they're not on the career track anymore.

A career is a burden not a privilege. People would be a lot happier if they saw through the marketing hype and realized that.
Thanks. I didn't even have to waste 1.
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I know that I tolerated some things that Microsoft did for too long. I'm far from perfect here. What Microsoft did in Windows 10 was rather the final straw.

I nevertheless still stand by my thesis that the privacy issues that Windows introduced in the past have been far less severe than the privacy issues cell phones introduce (let alone for the fact that one can be geolocated for the whole time).

By the way: I know quite some people who don't have a cell phone for similar reasons.
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Anyone that doesn't recognize the imminent death of privacy is mentally challenged.

Not a single rational person can honestly believe that privacy is either sustainable or desirable.

I can't wait for privacy to die for good. I'm a bit concerned about the transition to total transparency, but there's no way around it.

How some people attribute so much value to privacy is truly baffling.
Could an early-stage bootstrapped business even take advantage of the latter?