skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately this is nothing new. Facebook advertising has long been seen as garbage in many respects, especially when it comes to "liking" a page.

After $1,000 spent, I would estimate over 75% of all the accounts that liked my clients page were fake. Pretty inexcusable.
Nothing in that linked article is new to me. The religious and deontological arguments are uncompelling.

No one chose to exist, but I think everyone is entitled to not exist, regardless of their reasons. Even if someone is thankful that they were prevented from taking their own life, that's essentially an argument of the form "the ends justifies the means."

As Camus said, "There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide." I think it's up to everyone to decide that for themselves. Preventing people from doing such is unethical, imho.
I think you just described IPFS (http://ipfs.io), actually. :)
Presumably, the more coders there are, the smart thing to do is to hire some of them for reviewing pull requests. Perhaps professional code-copyeditor will become a thing.
Universal content syndication / income-indexed broadband (or total content) tax.

$100/year will cover all Internet ads.

$500/year will cover all advertising. Period.

That's money you're already paying.

Oh, and that's Europe, North America, Japan, and Australia, pretty much. The rest of the world gets awesome content for no charge.
I am surprised that Dropbox' investors would allow it. It also indicates that Dropbox likely does not have a Redemption Clause in their term sheet.

Redemption Clause basically says "if the company does not IPO or get acquired in X years, the company has to pay the investors back their money, plus a hefty interest".

It is a relatively unusual term, but not rarely-seen.

(Source: I used to work for a VC.)
>Google Drive does not run on windows

and you must be a trump supporter, right?
Actually, it's more like a nice shiney bank which gives a huge interest rate on your deposits, but you go to the bank and the doors are locked, and you can't get in to make a deposit...but you can kind of see opaquely through the window that there are a lot of amazing bankers in there making tons of money, but they won't look at your or acknowledge you, because they are too busy making money on the money they already have.
How pixel density works and how it affects your designs
Exactly. It's the same situation as high fashion leaving fur behind. Even wealthy buyers decided fur was a dirty industry, and they readily moved to high-quality alternatives.
or the idea of MIT (or similar) license might attract a couple more people... might want to throw up a one time donate link just to see :)

[edit: ah, I see how this patron thing works - or not - one time would be nice]
The trouble with snidely expressed truth is that the snideness ends up dominating the discussion more than the truth does, and these effects compound over time. Therefore it's important to focus on simply expressing the truth as one understands it, as indeed you did in your comment here.

This is one point where the discourse on a large internet forum differs from that of smaller, more cohesive groups. We have to be vigilant about this on HN because we're more vulnerable to those compounding effects. The discussion doesn't naturally right itself and return to interesting things.
Bed Bath and Beyond buys online retailer One Kings Lane in all-cash deal
well it's not an expected situation that anyone runs a science nonprofit, so your confusion is understandable.
I'm a maintainer of runC and long-term contributor to Docker. From my perspective, systemd has been nothing but a huge pain from a development perspective. Not because of the UX (which is okay, there's lots of odd stuff there too) but because systemd sets up the system in a way that is ridiculously frustrating for people using low-level kernel primitives directly.

If you want to use cgroups and don't want systemd to start messing around with your setup, then you have to go through systemd (which is bad, but it gets worse when you find out that systemd doesn't support all cgroups). Also, systemd has ridiculous defaults. I wrote the pids cgroup code in the kernel, and was surprised when systemd set the default limit for all system services to be 512 tasks and 4096 for all user tasks. Then there's the binary logging format which is such a brain-dead idea, that I'm not even sure how someone actually went through the process of writing the code without ever considering that it was a bad idea.

That's just one example of the things that annoy me with systemd. Things mostly work with it, but if you actually want to do something, using it is such a pain. If systemd had stayed as what was promised (a replacement for init scripts) and hadn't gone beyond that (managing your bootloader, binary logging, abusing cgroups and changing the kernel plans for what cgroupv2 should look like, messing around with coredumps, misusing /dev/kmem to actually spam people who are trying to debug kernel issues, an-almost-but-not-quite reimplementation of ntpd, etc).

If they didn't have such strong views that they were entitled to be the owners of my system, it might actually have turned out as a good project. Too bad that the management of the project has decided that they should "rewrite all the things, but badly".
> Revealing element order can in fact reveal most of your data set in some cases.

A contrived example to demonstrate this is if you published some kind of database about behavior observed from IP addresses, but using ORE-encrypted IP addresses instead of plaintext ones. If the database explicitly contains all 2³² IPv4 addresses, someone can then perform a series of comparisons to sort the entire database (which is an explicit goal of ORE), which then reveals the plaintext values because they're exactly equal to the positions of the entries in the sorted list!

A subtler case could arise if the database is complete for some range of IP addresses and an attacker happens to know the plaintext values at the bottom and top of that range. Then the attacker can learn the plaintext values of everyone else in the range.

An even subtler case could arise if the attacker simply knows a bunch of specific plaintext values. In that case, the attacker can learn constraints on the numeric values of other database entries, which could mean, for example, learning the first 1-2 bytes of a particular IP address, which could confirm or disconfirm hypotheses about a user's ISP or geographic location.

Edit: I'd like to see some of the more subtle attack ideas that the people you linked to are developing!
And 2 years warranty on defects for all consumer purchases (not for B2B sales).
Testing shows the presence, not the absence of bugs. Dijkstra (1969).
The fs should be case sensitive. If they want to enforce insensitivity it should be done with APIs for programs including the Finder.
Thanks. Yes, I just checked it out again and realised that the language option is missing on their mobile site, which is what I visited earlier in the day. I've installed the app though and it looks interesting. I will definitely give this a try.
Should we prevent people from making horrible choices? We certainly don't use the force of law to prevent someone from marrying the wrong person even though they may be making a horrible choice.

I think there are conditions in which someone can live that is worse than death, and the problem is finding where you draw that line for yourself. For instance, I would prefer death to slavery or permanent incarceration.
The H1-B is a dual intent status. There are categories that are strictly non-immigrant intent, TN work permits fit this category. Border guards can and do test that you have non-immigrant intent during normal border crossings while under this status ("Where is your home?" "what will you do once your TN is over?").

If it really was intended that H1-Bs not have immigrant intent then there was a legal framework already in place to ensure that. Most likely it is you that is incorrect about the purpose of these H1-Bs.
I never said the apple slices were fresh. Of course they're not, they come pre-packaged, who would think they were fresh? That doesn't change the fact that they are slices of apple, and that they're not fried or baked. I'm replying to your delusion that you can't get worse than that meal, I'm not claiming it's the best or most nutritional meal in the world.
Note to entrepreneurs: this is a really, really bad term if you see it early on in a companies life.

It allows nasty investors to put a gun to the head of the company to either bankrupt the company or (in reality) force a crazy negotiation for more equity when an exit isnt found within enough time.

Avoid like the plague.

So, good for Dropbox.
Apache Spark 2.0 and the Need for Big Data Speed
Just to bust their chops on valuation - box is valued at $1.42B today. Dropbox better have 10X in revenues and profits to justify the $10B valuation. My guess is that they don't, and hence disinclined to address public scrutiny of their financials and/or valuation.
I'm on Zoloft now as well (who isn't). But its done wonders for me even with the side effects.
I suffered from actual psychosomatic dizziness and vertigo which was making life hell and it totally got rid of it.
Also looks like they have managed to align all the holes in a straight line at the bottom of the phone which after apple no one has done so far

http://m.imore.com/difference-apple-samsung-industrial-desig...
> and their science and craft carried on

And their gods too?
>the "right" as we know it

Insert standard parable of the blind men talking funny about elephant parts. Like it or not, there's at least five "right" wings and its like herding cats. The Christians were dominant maybe two decades ago, neocons were dominant for awhile, not so much recently. You can guess who's on the rise and the progs don't like it very much.

1) Neocon / megacorporate lackey. Never seen an eternal war their defense contractors who pay their re-election funds don't love. Koch Bros. Loves immigration; the middle/lower classes and the whites are to be eliminated. Thinks "Brazil" and "1984" and "brave new world" are instruction manuals. Loves income inequality. Globalist Imperialists. Basically they embrace their inner "bad guy James Bond villain" rather than suppress it. Some women (and men) really like the bad boys. Popularity in the population was much higher in the recent past. Have more money than they know what to do with, none the less struggle to get votes. These guys buy ads on social media and run campaigns.

2) Evangelical progressive Christian. If your church has electric guitars and spotlights and a projection TV and glitter as part of ceremonies you are here. Also see prosperity gospel and theological concept of "buddy jesus". This is where small local businessmen chill. Foreign policy is turn the other cheek. Weakest nominal attachment to the R party. Can't get these people to stop social signalling on facebook ("like and share this prayer" etc)

3) Bible belt southerners. If your church hates gays you are here. Strange alliance with Utah churches. Doesn't like alcohol, caffeine, or weed. Mostly a group defined by who and what they don't like. Like abortion, for example. These guys don't use computers or social media because those and Dungeons and Dragons are a tool of the devil.

4) Establishment / conventional wisdom / co-opted psuedo controlled opposition. These are the guys you see on TV and in congress. Maybe if we steal the platform of the progs from 20 years ago they'll love us. Cut to chase, no, the progs still hate them. Generally don't care about anything but gaining power. Kind of like neocons but less spine and much lower energy. Thinks about morals and ethics in terms of voting poll percentages. These guys buy ads on social media.

5) Alt right / 1488 / Libertarian crowd. Explosively growing. Trump. Average age is about half the above groups or lower. Smokes weed but calls it degenerate when others smoke up. Looks at gays the same way. Build a wall. Abortion is OK but to be avoided. This wing is meme central. Some memes: An alt right is a libertarian who finally noticed the worlds average IQ is below 120. Another meme: A 1488 is a guy who figured out the dominant belief of progs is they are anti-white people. The only group with a sense of humor, which is unfortunately (or entertainingly?) caustic and corrosive and so dark its like blacker than black humor. Foreign policy is non-interventionist, anti-imperialist and anti-globalist. Generally broadly speaking anti-corporate and anti-social media.
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I guess the investors understand the current situation in funding and exits/IPOs. I'm also guessing that neither of the big players is currently willing to buy Dropbox, because they all started/run their own solution (which, in most case, still come not close to sth like Dropbox).

Why start a firesale/-IPO, if you can sit the cold winter out?
It was a Greek device. Theory is that it was pilfered with the other artifacts found in the shipwreck, en route to Julius Caesar. Rough couple years to be a Greek scientist.
When they say "simplicity" what they mean is something more like "deterministic processes."
> What kind of attitude is this, really?

"Good internet citizenship."

Keep your criticism relevant to the topic, which was: McDonald's used as a community center in poor neighborhoods. Not, how to teach your kids good eating habits.

> Is parenting some sacred thing, immune from analysis or criticism?

Parenting MY kids, most definitely is sacred.
>McD's are pre-cut and frozen

So?

There are lots and lots of reasons with many types of food to prefer fresh. But it's also possible to fetishize fresh over frozen for no particular reason. (As is often the case with seafood.)

I can only report my experience, which is that I'll sometimes grab (only) some McD's fries when on a long drive and I generally avoid either In-N-Out or ShakeShack fries when getting the rare burger at those places (which I rather enjoy).

It's probably also worth noting though that the premium fast burger places are, to greater or lesser degrees, (unsurprisingly) a non-trivial uplift over McDonalds.
> I’m convinced that functional programming vs imperative programming is a much more important concern...

Except that you can be functional and imperative, like Clojure, Erlang and even OCaml. Those are functional-imperative languages (you can even be pure and imperative yet not functional, like Esterel and maybe Céu).
Of course, this doesn't mean it is a good thing. The most probable reason is that poor neighborhoods are so much in need of public services that even a McDonalds will alleviate their problems. In a concrete sense, private companies have largely taken over public spaces and many have no other alternatives.
You can't invent some new standard for "honest behavior" and then accuse others of dishonesty for not following it. There's nothing dishonest about not informing sites about what addons one is running. We're being just a straightforward as sites are with their information about exactly what PII is captured, by whom and exactly who gets a copy of it and for what purposes it is used. If new standards of reporting are to be expected, then sites - most of which can't even tell who is serving the ads they have on their site - would be screwed.

I actually only use adblockers on my tablet, since I have misgivings about the effect of the end of web advertising on the availability of sites to poor people (since ads effectively act as a redistribution mechanism), but I don't blame anyone for not being willing to subject themselves to that crap.
no it won't... cause I don't have a "Face Book News Feed" ;-)
I dread reading techcrunch technical articles. This wasn't an exception.

The author, a data scientist, interviews at start-ups and is asked to solve algorithm / data structure questions. Some of these were challenging in Python due to the lack of available data structures in the standard library (he used an example of a heap). He swapped to Scala and got better results.

Scala is also great with Spark. Scala is the new golden child.
In Canada, Spence Diamonds is already advertising (what I presume are the same diamonds) as "artisan" and "handmade".
> Does this mean I’m a static typing zealot now ?

That part made me chuckle, because it made me realize that a typing zealot is exactly what I've become! I used to be a huge fan of Ruby and I was using it for everything, and now 10 years later I'm a huge fan of Haskell instead, I give talks about how JavaScript is horribly error-prone and how Elm is so much better because not only is it statically-typed, it's also purely-functional, and yadi-yadi-ya.

The transition occurred so smoothly that I didn't notice it. Beware! You might not be a zealot now, but if you continue on this path, you might unintentionally become one too :)
It would be a major perk.

I closed my LinkedIn account because of the spam and dishonest tactics. I want to feel like the companies I work with want everyone to "win" not only them (i.e. their users derive value also).

The bots are problematic, but unfortunately some of it is humans acting bot-like, meaning recruiters pasting in generic messages, so even captchas might be ineffective.

But anything a LinkedIn competitor could do to drop the spam, contact harvesting, and bots would be a massive perk over LinkedIn actual.
> Derek de Solla Price is an interesting character. 50+ years ago while stacking and organizing scientific journals by year, he noticed the stacks grew in height in a logarithmic curve. From there, so much.

I'm afraid I don't understand, especially not the last sentence. Could you explain?
Buried in that article I found this little gem: ...lab-grown diamonds are identical in structure and appearance to natural ones. They are, however, much cheaper. Baruch says savings may be as high as 40 percent in some cases...

All this noise about a lousy forty percent discount? I was looking for a ninety eight percent discount. I was looking for diamonds flowing out of our faucets like water.

Meh.
Motopia: A Pedestrian Paradise
The "dual-purpose" nature of the H-1B basically means that (1) you are not prohibited to enter on an H-1B with the intent to stay permanently, and, perhaps more significantly (2) you aren't required to leave the US for a period of time after entering on an H-1B before getting an immigrant visa which will let you stay permanently.

But it is still a non-immigrant visa that does not lead to permanent residency or citizenship, but requires you to qualify for, apply for, and secure an immigrant visa if and when you want to become an immigrant rather than a non-immigrant worker.
Feross is awesome, I've met him several times and WebTorrent is driving the future forward. I have a complementary Open Source project ( https://github.com/amark/gun ) for live data sync - it is already decentralized and anonymous by default (other than a session-ID).

Adding encryption is pretty easy, now with WebCrypto! The future is looking exciting, between WebTorrent, IPFS, and other projects!
Well, yes, and other things diminish one's chance at success massively, and no one knows how these factors objectively sum up—but that doesn't stop them from believing they do and angrily making judgments about others.
The quote is about heartbeats.
So the entire industry of diamond squatting is on the verge of collapse, that is unless DeBeers buys out these labs.
They already market them that way. See Brilliant Earth's mission:

"At Brilliant Earth we strive to make jewelry as beautiful as it can be. We are passionate about cultivating a more ethical, transparent, and sustainable jewelry industry."
I use 85% Firefox and I only see issues on experimental stuff. I'm curious, where do you have these issues?
The title is wrong. The title should be "How I ended up successful in tech through the hard work and perseverance of my mother and myself, with a side dish of good fortune."
Unknown meteorite found in Swedish quarry
Comcast has a pipe that goes to the last mile which is capable of 10Gbps+. Netflix or Level 3 have a pipe coming into Comcast which is capable of 10Gbps+. Comcast puts a thing in in between which is not a pipe, it's a device, and it transfers data at some lower speed. Or zero.

That's what throttling is. A device between two fast pipes that lowers the speed they can exchange data.
There is a big difference between McDonalds in the US and abroad. I know them from Brazil, and there it is a relatively upscale fast food chain. In the US, they serve very low quality food and most locations are also borderline usable (only clean enough to pass inspections).
Exchanging problems you know for problems you don't know.
I couldn't help but recall the "Submarine" [1] essay from PG, which made me wonder if this entire article wasn't just a huge PR piece written by the lab-grown diamond company.

[1] http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html
Slippery slope is valid when party A is trying to move parties B into a position far down on the slope gradually by easing parties B down the slope.

Many situations exist wherein a series of steps could superficially be arranged in a progression or slope between points a and b but in fact individual steps have different costs and benefits and are in fact independently good or bad.

Often those arguing for/against a subset of the points in the graph have good arguments for/against then some jerk goes and implies that if you allow point 1-3 on the graph somehow by magic you will eventually arrive at point 37. They ignore the fact that its possible and in fact reasonable to support point 1-3 and skip right to the extreme and absurd.

They neatly bypass any and all relevant arguments in favor of 1-3. This is destructive to conversation because you can use it in nearly any situation. It is especially frequently used in anything involving government because somehow all roads that don't lead to anarchy somehow lead to hitler.

Its frequently useful to just point out the obvious fallacy and move on rather than giving a longer treatment because such tracks are frequently useless and drag the entire discussion inevitably towards stupidity.
Everyone will know, because you just won't shut up about it.
A friend of mine is a poet. He is creating an entire mythological saga with an exact pool of letters per stanza. The same letters must appear in the same amounts in every one. He has programmed his own tools. I think he uses Python.
It brings a certain awesome vibe to the story. It's a bit like photography in colored versus natural light.
An interesting argument.

Well, a phone with Emacs as the OS/gui? Given a good chording keyboard, I could have lived happily ever after with that.

(But premature optimization is still evil. First you make it work, then you make it fast. Preferably using better algorithms. There is a lot of experience with this.)
Also, lazy dogs who find themselves jumped over by speedy brown foxes.
> Incidentally, if you want to know if a publisher is going to survive the next five years, a decent proxy is the number of intermediaries involved in their ad supply chain.

indeed. rule of thumb: every intermediary is a potential disintermediary (see Google, Apple etc)

bright side: or acquirer!
> Not sure humanity is progressing, though.

What would constitute humanity progressing? Would evolution count? Would it count if it appeared in the shape of weeding out suicidal people?
In fact, there's a long history of people trying to publish anonymized IP logs in ways that preserve the IP address structure (i.e. anonymized ip's from the same subnet end up in the same anonymous subnet). It turns out that leaking that structure frequently ends up identifying the IP addresses.

The bottom line is beware of academics baring leakage functions. Their work often has considerable merit, but one must be very careful about how it's used in practice.
AES-256 Encryption Possibly Now Broken