skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was one of the people affected by this. I spent at least an hour trying to figure out if the paper letter I got was even legitimate, as it directed me to go to a domain I'd never heard of to enter personal details.

Eventually, I figured out it was nominally legit, but then I figured out the same organization that leaked my info was asking for more personal info so they could protect me. I opted not to do anything, because I couldn't think of any course of action that would improve the situation, and I certainly wasn't going to voluntarily give Experian any more of my info.
It's because women have specific preferences, and men just want women.
Thanks, I always appreciate hearing from satisfied readers.
I was just thinking about this yesterday! I went with https://app.simplenote.com instead. Your app probably won't be compelling until you add more specific features that beat a generic note-taking app.
Some academics tested 110 popular, free Android and iOS apps in the Journal of Technology Science. They found that "73% of Android apps shared personal information such as email address with third parties, and 47% of iOS apps shared geo-coordinates and other location data with third parties".

http://jots.pub/a/2015103001/
Lots of sites (e.g. Stack Overflow) block IP ranges of cloud providers.
There appear to be rape accusations against Jacob Applebaum. But so far only 2 Tor developers have stated this. No outside verification. Hopefully more facts surface as time goes on. This is very disconcerting.

https://twitter.com/puellavulnerata/status/73523010215444889...

https://twitter.com/puellavulnerata/status/73858143289374310...

https://twitter.com/maradydd/status/738802983173922817
Undersea cable sends Ethernet to observatory on ocean floor
You've posted a bunch of unsubstantive comments to Hacker News. That's not what this site is for, so please don't do that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
Not everybody is in it for the (direct) money.
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> I'm discussing the narrative

No, you're discussing your narrative... which doesn't have much to do with the post you replied to.

Greenspan is rather heavily implicated as one cause of the problems. But he's attempting to shift the blame to the political side, rather than the economic side he was responsible for. He may actually be right, but I wouldn't take his word for it just because he was there. He's joined by political hacks pretending to be economists (like Krugman), and a few genuine economists. But it's far from agreed-upon.
And yet we keep measuring what our models predict to extremely high levels of precision. We know there is something missing (gravity not playing nicely with quantum theory being the most obvious example), but it has worked remarkably well whether you like it or not.
> We do not need to provide victims with advice that "targets the world as it actually is"

Unless I'm completely misunderstanding you, this is nothing short of delusional. We absolutely need to provide victims - and potential victims - with the tools to handle (or avoid) unpleasant and dangerous situations.

> but instead we need to provide all members of the community advice that targets how they can (and should) be preventing transgressions against others.

As others have mentioned, these aren't mutually exclusive options. Social norms can - and have - changed for the better, but it's more than a little ridiculous to expect victims to wait a generation or two in the hope that society will become more self aware. What's so evil about advice that is intended to improve their quality of life now?
> nor can they predict the spectral gap with certainty

I'm not sure that's the proper thing to take away from that paper.
If you make something interesting, I might want to get the recipe off you and try it myself, or ask if you'd like to make it for the next social thing I host.

If you go somewhere I haven't been to (or it's a place I go to often but never tried what you got) and it looks like something I'd be interested in trying, I'll ask about your experience and maybe go sometime (or set up a dinner event there).

There's been a few times that this has been the case, for me.
Strangely enough, my Dropbox client just asked me for a password for the first time in... ages.

Says it's version 5.3.19.
Meredith Patterson's pulling no punches:

https://twitter.com/maradydd/status/738802983173922817
It's preferable to be lenient, than to abuse power
I'll be honest, you sound like someone who has never had to be desperate. There are times in someone's life when it isn't a choice.
Soz.
That doesn't change how your metabolism works. A seven year old can generally manage not to break their neck.
You sound an awful lot like a developer that doesn't think they need a project manager and is oblivious to the chaos that surrounds them.
The article: http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/transgress_v2/trans...

Sokal announcing the hoax: http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/lingua_franca_v4/li...

The response by Social Text to Sokal announcing the hoax: http://www.physics.nyu.edu/sokal/SocialText_reply_LF.pdf

Sokal's response to Social Text's response: http://www.physics.nyu.edu/sokal/reply.html
Uber and Lyft Are Adding Jobs, Not Just Stealing Them
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I've used Safeway's home delivery service before. Wal-mart's as well. The whole, get your groceries delivered, it isn't such a great experience to be honest.

First of all, pretty much every single time, I was missing items!

Secondly, navigating the online store is a horrible experience. Finding things, thinking of what you need. The whole thing stinks.

The experience of walking down an isle and picking out what you need, is strangely more efficient.
If it really bothers you and you don't believe your concerns will be taken into account and there is a huge ground swelling of community support, its Apache 2.0 Licensed, fork it and make something better that fits with your vision: https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn-project-system

Its OSS, nothing stopping you...
don't you mean reinventing speech - the original form of communication?
You have valid points that I think are very much worth considering and should be. I appreciate good convo in threads like this so didn't want to come across as trying to be petty or battling your perspective. Also yes I understood your point :)
Conversion modeling has it's issues, but run eg a state-wide geo fenced test and the ads work. And, again, all fraud and/or fake conversions or whatever it is you believe is rampant gets priced into what companies pay for ads.

With 0% fraud you can pay up to (discount x conversion value) / (ad count). With fraud, the numerator doesn't change. Buyers just spend less on ads.

There's lots of ad buyers making lots of money buying ads and they're going to keep making lots of money buying those ads.

And, to repeat myself, the idea that buyers don't push on how conversions are calculated plus run their own calculations is true only in a fantasy world.
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According to the abstract (http://science.sciencemag.org/content/352/6290/1190),

>Diffraction-limited focusing is demonstrated at wavelengths of 405, 532, and 660 nm with corresponding efficiencies of 86, 73, and 66%.

...but I'm not clear on whether that is from a single lens or if they constructed different lenses for each color. (Those wavelengths correspond to violet, green, and red light fwiw) EDIT: the full paper makes it clear this is three separate lenses, so yeah, you're right.
And then you can hear the sucking void of silence of a response from the crowd and a few months later an sdk was out.
Not quite the same, but before getting my license i had a small moped which was a lot of fun. I wouldn't switch back to it though.
Yeah, but once you get established enough (which you probably are if your salary is really high), then 95% of interviewing is you looking at the work they are doing and deciding if you want to do it, and salary negotiation. When you are good, the filtering on your part should come way before interviewing.
Most free market advocates (and lots of people who aren't particularly inclined that way ideologically, but who analyze impacts of policy rather than superficial forms) view prohibitions (and the associated enforcement) as just one form of imposition of regulatory costs on a transaction.

> Usually, legal arguments about what can be bought or sold are settled in social/political terms, economics isn't really all that relevant.

The difference between "social/political" and "economic" is superficial.
The unemployment rate is not a good metric. The labor force participation rate is more inclusive, and declined for the 2nd month in a row.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/04/business/economy/jobs-repo...

Furthermore the quality of available jobs appears to have declined.
I hope to one day understand how a post, with 4 points only, by a newly created account, gets promoted to the front page.
All the client-side code then.
Go's advantage when it comes to GC is very temporary. HotSpot's GCs are more advanced, and Go has the upper hand only thanks to value types, which are coming to Java. Go will not come close to catching up by then. I think that containerized deployment is likely to evolve and change at a much faster pace than development platforms, so it's really hard to tell which approaches would fit where.
I think the last time I checked it was around 5%
If the cells are already in your body what's the point of extracting them just to reinject them back in?
This just in: fanatic says things that don't make sense. News at 11.
How about "terrifying 90 year old tattooed bikini butt"?

Just above half way down. NSFW.
Anyone vaguely skilled can reverse engineer an android app. Modern versions of android (ie Android 6, which I appreciate only 0.0001% of android users actually have) let you control which permissions an app can use.
Interesting to see the second response put his name in triple-parentheses. (ref: https://mic.com/articles/144228/echoes-exposed-the-secret-sy... )
They didn't say anything more worse than the comment which provoked them.

>So really, it's your prejudices showing here more than anything else.

If you're going to ban them, ban mootothemax, too.
Third-party recruiters and staffing agencies won't have this conversation or play this game at all: they'll be 100% upfront with you upon demand.

"In-house recruiters" would require that kind of short-circuiting, and it will be met with varying results.

Asking: "what is the top end of your current employees' salary range for X role/experience?" can be good, too, to preempt the conversation.

It's not asking them to make an offer or anchor a price for you specifically, but will save everyone time when you discover that the top-end is 40% lower than you would even interview for.

If the prospective team is large and diverse enough, there will exist people that are more experienced and more-compensated than you. At that point you will at least know that they're paying it to someone.

If they're not paying anyone what you expect: you do not want to be the most well-compensated or smartest person in a role at a company and should pass on general principles.
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> Sure you can read them, but does anybody actually ever hand-edit them?

Sometimes yes, a targeted intervention into the .csproj file is the best/only way.
1) Tribes/Feudal Lords ARE government, albeit often not effective/efficient government.

2) You'll find that in an anarchy situation, mysteriously there is some market governing force...like a tribe, or guilds, or even just a shared understanding of how the market/society is to function. Even mob justice is a sort of governance, and the definition of what the mob will allow before uprising is the law of the land...

3) While there are markets in conflict zones, they aren't free markets. Free markets by definition require things like homogeneous products and perfect information. Perfect information has never existed in a conflict zone, and it never will.

4) In order for a market which approaches "free" to exist, there must be some governing entity to setup and enforce rules of trade, fund basic infrastructure which the market relies upon, provide peace which minimizes volatility for the market, etc. Even the staunchest of free market economists have made this point for centuries. Adam Smith and Friedman both are very much in favor of governments in some fashion or another.

I guess you could say that markets exist without governments, but they certainly aren't efficient ones.
The last interview process I went through was three weeks and four separate meetings (1 long email, 1 online test, 1 phone interview, and 1 in-person interview). All in all, it was about 9 hours of dealing with them, plus a 2 hour round trip to their office and having to take a half day at my current job. They never asked about salary expectations and I never gave any (a mistake on my part, I believe) and when they finally made an offer, it came in a full 25% under my current salary (which is what I had been looking for). Asking around, a few other devs received similar offers that they turned down from that company.

I feel that I could have saved myself the majority of those 9 hours if I had told them my salary expectations from the beginning. They would have either balked immediately or told me the position wasn't going to be paid that and we would have been done. I think that is how I will handle things going forward, personally.
Same here. I totally agree with the fact that you should always be negotiating and don't sell yourself short by thinking you don't deserve what you are worth.
This seems unrelated to the original post's request. He does not say he wants to see fewer ads, nor ads for specific brands, but rather more customized ads.
At the end of the article: it was a launch day bug, and no longer happens. Wow.
Well he changed his mind more often and quickly than you can say "magical thinking". Still, better to seem certain when speaking to investors, developers and other get-rich-quick types.
So every con artist should be unrestricted in selling false hope to the most desperate of us?
It seems really silly to compare the "search/insert/delete performance" of HashSet to HashMap to ArrayList to LinkedList, since the fundamental purpose of each class is different.

Not to mention that "search/insert/delete" are three separate operations with sometimes three different performance characteristics.

For instance it is incorrect to state that the insert/delete performance for LinkedList is O(n) - both are constant-time.
It seems I've missed the boat on this discussion, but I wanted to say that I appreciate the context in which the list was created and the choices in that light. In other words, this list is a thoughtful attempt to educate people of a certain bent via "constrained breath" -- not the greatest term, but the best one that comes to mind. I've been trying to put together a list in the same spirit for some time aimed at programmers, systems thinkers, etc. with varying degrees of success. The current list can be described as "books for programming that are not about programming" containing such gems as How Buildings Learn, Pattern Recognition, Living System, Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets and Philosophers, and others.

I suspect Dr. kay would have a lot to say about (and perhaps add to) such a list.
gdb has technically supported Rust for some time, although Rust has distributed a pretty-printing wrapper (rust-gdb) to fix variable naming and some other items, but having upstream support is pretty awesome.
There are sort of tiers in the U.S. I would think of something like this for things we have in the Southeast US:

* Convenience Store

* Dollar store (a little more food options at places like Dollar General/Tree/Family Dollar, usually with a small refrigerator section and eggs and milk and juice)

* "Mini" grocery stores, like Piggly Wiggly Express or Dollar General Market

* Stores with mostly food and limited selection like Aldi

* Supermarkets like Kroger and Publix

* Supercenters like Super Walmart and Super Target with full supermarket selection and lots of other stuff
> The problems that the JVM solves are solved by other platforms as well, and they were in fact already "solved" by the time Java was invented. Java was the prototypical flavor of the month language at one point in time.

Perhaps, but they're not solved by any of the languages/platforms mentioned.

> Smalltalk VMs might have captured the server-side with technologies very similar to what the JVM became many years later. They were arguably on the verge of doing that.

Except that they were the same VMs (HotSpot was a Smalltalk VM). Smalltalk didn't lose; it just got repackaged as Java.

> And Java failing on the client side has created another problem unsolved by the JVM, which is code and skills sharing between client and server. That's one of the main reasons why node.js exists.

With that I agree, but JS has its own issues, and the other languages mentioned don't have it any easier in that regard.

> And the one problem with the JVM that is probably unsolvable forever is the influence of its authority-seeking users on software design. That's what makes the JVM environment so utterly broken. Its culture of excessive complexity.

Except that the JVM is by far the leading platform not only in conservative enterprises, but also among the thought-leaders and biggest technological innovators. I don't know if the JVM environment is "broken" or not, but it certainly isn't any more broken than any other platform for serious server-side software. As I said, for less-serious/smaller applications, Java and the JVM were not meant to be the first choices. We had VB and Delphi, then Python and Ruby, and now Node and whatever. It's the same market share, and I don't see evidence that the JVM is slipping.
Once you've used C#, it's really hard to go to Java. If they were radically different, it might be easier, but instead Java just presents itself as a worse version of C#.

Microsoft can fix their platform issues but Java the language can't really be meaningfully improved. So, in my opinion, it's still Microsoft's game to win or lose.
That's true.

Eno worked on a number of projects to generate music years ago, with Bloom and similar: http://www.generativemusic.com/. A quick fiddle with that can definitely generate some banal hold/elevator music.
> Are you a charity doing good work with orphans? Or are you

> a business trying to make as much money for the investors

> as possible? If the latter is true, why

> wouldn't someone work for you with "money as the primary motivator" ?

It is possible to offer a fair return on investment without having to take every possible step (ethical or otherwise) to maximize profitability.
Maybe if you're a black hat firing up a brand new computer from a cafe while you left your phone at home. For the rest of us that just want to, say, watch the US Presidential debates from another country going through our own VPS is far better than relying on some possibly skeezy third party VPN. Personally I use HideMyAss when I'm travelling to countries I don't trust or when I'm on wifi networks that I fear may be monitored, but I'd rather spin up a Digital Ocean box if setting up my own VPN were as easy.
Delivery guys use these all the time in NYC and I'm seeing more and more folks riding on them, even fellas in bizness suits. I'd say they've arrived.
You're right, and I didn't mean to make the driver sound complicit. From the post:

> “So, that guy literally uses this as a dating app,” our driver explained. He clearly could not wait to spill the beans. “That girl you saw before he got in your ride — she was from another Lyft ride. He said he’s gotten with 25 girls through Lyft Line so far.”

...

> “Yeah, so he told me all about it, he’ll specifically order rides that are really far — ”

On a second reading, it seems possible that it is heavily influenced by the guy trying to portray himself as a really clever pickup artist to the driver.
Not here, please.
Your move, Social Text.

It's worth looking for Chomsky speaking about post-modernism on youtube (or transcripts). Very amusing.
Hacker News gets:

81: Mobile Friendliness (tap targets too small)
91: Mobile Speed
97: Desktop Speed
My (biased) interpretation:

The author previously wrote a book about how Limousine Liberal vs Populist Conservative is a false dichotomy that has polarized political perspectives ever since Nixon invented the term. Back then, the progressive/socialist left opposed liberalism for it being intimately connected to the war machine (where war in Korea was engineered to serve aggregate demand for American goods). As we entered into the bold new (Post-Nixon Shock) era of the 1970s where the failure to replicate the "success" in Korea caused economic turmoil, liberalism co-opted the efforts & reforms of the left when it came to social equality, and then liberalism and the progressive left became conflated under assault from the resurgent right for decades to come.

Around the time of the 1990s, the Clintons realized that you can form a bulwork against many forms of discrimination without "disturbing the equanimity of the 1%." Until both the Occupy Movement and Tea Parties arose, as responses to the damage of neoliberalism, whereas the former was motivated by similar ideals as the 1960s left, the latter was motivated by "fantasy of older capitalism, one friendlier to the way they think America used to be".

Later in the article it talks about how Trump and Sanders camps have been damaged by neoliberalism, where Sanders is a New-Deal style social democrat, whereas Trump is a "conscienceless demagogue, serial liar, and nihilist".

(By "biased" I mean that I would prefer to bring more attention to the economic paradigm shift precipitated by the Nixon shock rather than the particular propaganda method of the concept of "Limousine Liberal")
He had to have been hiding. There's no way he got out of hearing range before they came back a few minutes later.
I agree. Bootstrapping has come to connote "small sums" as opposed to self-funding.
If I like the sheer horse power of a BMW, would it be snark to contrast it with some other car's priorities over leather seats?

There are plenty of cars (programming languages) with varied priorities. Identifying and labelling them is very useful in context to make ones own calls.
They are also increasingly common in Copenhagen. Both regular style bikes and three-wheeled cargo bikes.
American supermarkets have numerous options for delivery, many of them provided by the same brand, but only Instacart has come close to delivering an experience I can endorse. Their employees are professional and have been taught to provide an easy, pleasant delivery experience.

The first time I tried Amazon Fresh the mailman showed up in the morning before his route with my groceries rolling around in the back of the mail truck. I unloaded them myself, and also had to give back the re-usable bags before he left.
Is Plaid the password antipattern as a service? If banks can enable Apple Pay in less than two years they should be able to solve this problem.
> I feel that I could have saved myself the majority of those 9 hours if I had told them my salary expectations from the beginning

Or you could've asked their range upfront, and then you could be the one disqualifying and doing the balking. This information is freely given to third-party recruiting agencies (if they use them) as well.

For me, this serves more purposes than knowing what I'll get paid. I need to know that my coworkers are well-compensated: it's a huge indicator of the quality of team you'll be working with.

Sure, it's possible that the entire team is grossly overpaid, though it's not likely. You'll find out their competency in the interview loop.
Right. Java 9 will move from char[] to byte[] for String.value which will lead to further savings.
this is a joke right