skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd also add to your statement that the "I'm giving away personal info to use this" implied contract applies easily to free apps and software on a low consequence device as you discuss, but people pay for Windows. Microsoft shouldn't be able to make money by selling the software AND selling the information of the people who use it.
I subscribe to an email newsletter by a major German news-website (www.dw.com). Every morning and evening, I get the most important news delivered to my inbox, one paragraph per item. It takes about a minute to scan and I am "up to date" on what's happening. If there is an item that really interests me, I'll look it up on the BBC. Of course this newsletter doesn't give me any kind of depth or breadth of coverage, but then, how often do you really need that?
Agree re: disruption. I've thought about this type of thing a lot, and I wish there was a way to fix the root cause instead of what I consider the symptom (dodgy overpriced software for a specific niche, especially when it targets non-technical users and/or has to do with medicine / HELPING HUMANS PHYSICALLY). I came to the conclusion that it's Very Hard to disincentivize greed. Anyone have any ideas for what could be done to help curb behavior like this by companies (companies which are really just people who are making these kinds of decisions -- never forget that)?
Transcript of Donald Trump's Interview to NY Times
The article is definitely worth reading and I agree the journalist did a great job simplifying the topic. I also liked this section near the bottom explaining the mindset of the traders:

Different financial markets have, over long periods of time, evolved standards of behavior that are not, perhaps, entirely honest in the most traditional sense of the word. To outsiders -- and to some less experienced participants in those markets -- those standards can seem shocking, even criminal. To regular participants, they can seem normal, even admirable.
Thought experiment: let's say that Apple doesn't know what the suspect in a law enforcement investigation is suspected of. If the request is between revealing the identity of a user from a particular IP address (which is probably easy for them to determine), or giving away (essentially) a master key to decrypt all iPhones, which would it comply with? I think it would have complied with revealing the identity of a user pretty much every time, even if the suspect was a terrorist, but not necessarily to give away the master key for all iPhones even if the suspect was an intellectual property pirate.
Rationale for submission: his points about "Cyber" might elicit a discussion.
Of course seeing what OS X does over network by itself (and the apps installed) is kinda scary as well :/
Realistically, what kind of skillsets, experience and understanding would be required to setup and operate such a fund?
> You know, if this happens in schoolyards, we probably call it "bullying." But if a bunch of libertarians do it, it's "principles."

When a bunch of civil rights activists do it, is it still "bullying"?

Similar lawsuits are why Texas and other US states can't enforce their anti-homosexual sodomy laws anymore.
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Could just be that the police don't know this, and they'll get a rude surprise when they go and try it.

Not that it's important, but I believe it's 48 hours, and 8 hours if you haven't entered your passcode in the last six days. You also only get five tries, so a finger that is sometimes recognized but not with great reliability would still probably fail.
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You're free to not use the site, I guess.
The Astounding Collapse of American Bus Ridership
And my all-time favorite, for the title:

"Law Firm Accountants Were Bad at Accounting, Law"
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2014-03-06/law-firm-...
Its a leadership position, Can't you deal with the situation? are you hoping to find a perfect team to lead?

IMO, Its a negotiation. Ask for autonomy so you can shape the culture the way you want it to be.
Bear in mind that this might still be Mr Zuckerberg's "Paypal Phase"; making his fortune by means of a generally-reviled yet enormously-used service to enable him to personally pivot to Great Human Projects once he casts it off.

Mr Musk wasn't known for wanting to save humanity in that phase of his life.
They write "The automatic landing algorithm also performed well, tracking the glide path and centerline with expected accuracy."

That's very little to go by, but this plane likely can fly very slowly. I guess they plan to glide it almost into ground, stall it to further decrease speed, and then 'crash' it in some fairly soft spot. Alternatively, they could land it on top of that dolly, but that might be more of a challenge.
1. you don't have the grounds to speak for 1 billion people. you are not the whole facebook userbase. not every facebook user shares your opinions or uses the product the same way you do.

2. you don't know what the primary method billions of people use is. you're presuming and projecting. your own life and habits is not the life and habits of others.

3. it doesn't matter if your have a financial or material interest or not. this is a non-argument.
Also might want to check out http://concord.io, it's a bit more work to set up, but it's much faster than most stream processing systems
>> almost no one likes the current situation unless they are a landlord.

Anyone who owns property in the city, whether they are a homeowner or a landlord, likes the current situation. For non-landlord homeowners, the current situation keeps their property values and home equity high and it ensures that the neighborhood and quality of life they bought into stays permanently stuck in time.

My local Nimby group, for e.g., sends out monthly notices (e.g http://pastebin.com/0TJiV0aM ) letting us know where the next development is, why we should protest it and sends us sample templates on how to email politicians to protest any new development. While large developers are probably able to lobby politicians, I doubt they're able to do this kind of astroturfing.
Exist and they will lend. The solution is land value tax.
Very beautiful, poetic, relevant to a lot of the audience of HN, and props for detailing the tech behind it.

Meanwhile... the highest and lowest hex I can spot is 1265 / 457 = a ratio of 2.76 with both endpoints having relatively steep curves compared to the rest of the histogram. With the graph's Z0 set to 457 and Zscale set to an arbitrary ratio, the sculpture-graph conveys the impression that there is a discrepancy of 5 or more times between the top of hill on the bottom tier vs the nearby flat area of the top tier. When the reality is something more like 1234 / 810 = 1.5
They have a lot more control that just the routing layer. They own your process, they have your source code, they have your API keys. There is a huge implicit trust in Heroku. It is my host of choice but they definitely own the keys to the palace.
I did not intend for it to be insulting. I often see posters complain about laws that prevent them from shoehorning them into and industry start making money, and defending similar laws when it's in their best interests. My original comment was a merely to argue the other side of the argument because HN has a tendency to be two-faced when it comes to topics like this.
My first year at Test Double (and what I've learned)
Well, I did mix up my units - I should have said hundreds. Megabits is a weird unit to use for hard drives.

But read speeds on a spinning HDD are typically going to be between 50-100MBps, so 400-800 Mbps.
Q&A on Akka.NET 1.1 with Aaron Stannard
Honest question, do you know many people who enjoy jumping into dysfunction and making it better?
Exactly, and I've started to look at the bright side of Facebook's "centralization" of the internet: it allows niche communities (like Hacker News) that aren't mainstream to thrive again. The end of the Eternal September.
You don't necessarily need to authenticate every request. For example, Amazon.com allows a user to be "semi-logged in", but forces you to authenticate yourself when doing something like making a purchase.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14VYnFhBKcY
I don't think your code example supports the point you're trying to make. Of 3 lines of non-logging code, one of them is AWS-specific, and so would need to be refactored to use another FaaS platform. That's what lock-in refers to. It's not saying you cannot migrate at all, it's just saying that there's a refactoring cost to swap out the platform APIs.

If you can get the same message-delivery semantics from Google's message bus, then the refactor would end there, but if you happen to be depending on a feature that's not implemented on your new platform, then you might have to refactor your application logic further.

Furthermore, you still have to get your code into production, upgrade it, monitor it, and ensure that the other functions that it, and all of that currently tends to depend on platform-specific tooling.

Much of this is also the case in the VM-based PaaS world. But, there you have projects like libcloud that can abstract some of the differences away. That feature gap is pointed out in the OP article, which makes it clear that the lock-in issue isn't a fundamental defect with the functional paradigm, just a side-effect of the FaaS offerings being young.
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https://vimeo.com/28627261
The problem that got Colvin killed is at the RF/layer 1 layer in the OSI stack... Iridium and Inmarsat phones operate in the L and S bands (1.2 to 2.0 GHz) which is not difficult to do radio frequency direction finding on, if the Tx source remains active. Particularly easy if you have access to Russian military grade DF equipment. The protocol layers and crypto are moot if you are radiating and have a determined DF adversary.
Actually, there's a site to help answer the question "how closely are we related?"

https://www.relativefinder.org

It uses information from https://www.familysearch.org/ (sponsored by the LDS church, but widely used by those interested in genealogy). To get started, you'd need to enter some data to get back to your deceased ancestors.

My wife and I are "9th cousins once removed" (common ancestor 10-11 generations back).
So basically your solution is to have more money.
Presumably people have been rightly complaining about this for 100's of years?
I'd say the same is true for musical notation.
Though similarly I doubt anything will ever be done to ameliorate these issues, the bad old system which has accreted over time has a tremendous amount of cultural momentum
Hey, I love my bus. It's a really pleasant part of my morning.
I like this documentary better. It's a bit long, but I like real footage, and the interviews, and more in-depth discussion.
https://vimeo.com/28627261
The organizations who benefit from these laws have significantly more lobbying power and popular influence than anyone else can hope to gain. Ostensibly one reason courts exist is to allow harms to smaller players to be addressed.

I could make a bulleted list of why a republic doesn't work very well to tame media oligarchs, but it boils down to control of the media and decades of experience with framing the public conversation.
You and I wouldn't get administrative leave and the police's blind eye if we shot someone who was laying on the ground with their hands up.
Defective equipment is not the issue here.
Ah, okay, I confused this with an official recommendation. Thanks for the clarification!
How does concord differ from the others? spark/storm/flink/etc...? Aside from being written in C that is.
DJ Drama, the mixtape guy, was raided under the same law. It's an interesting story, google "dj drama raid"
> Crypto is about immutability and decentralization

if crypto was about immutability, then we wouldn't have things like homomorphic encryption would we :)?

Decentralization? A hard fork is something that only happens because of decentralization. If your system was centralized you would never have seen a hard fork.
We actually started with Flow, and at the time I'd assumed it was the more popular, robust, and entrenched one. Its definitely the opposite tooling wise, and that's our main reasoning for using it (over Flow). Flow seemed like a better overall typings layer (Im absolutely not qualified to judge this) but a common suggestion here on HN was "They are more similar than different, learn one and you learn the other" -- so we dove in with the one with more mature tooling. I worried it would be harder to integrate than Flow -- it is somewhat -- but its not been a major issue. Its not flawless, but overall its been a fantastic boost to (personallly, my) productivity (code completion, free documentation, and more-correct code).
> Words mean things, and that's what those words mean

I want to put this on the biggest billboard I can find, or put it in Nazca lines across the surface of the moon, so maybe we'll remember. Language lawyering is profoundly useless, and I've no patience with it.
I am not able to buy into his 10 year vision without feeling like things are getting muddled between charity and FB's business model.
I had an idea the other day of creating a three-fold informational website.

1. How to backup your Facebook content and delete your account.

2. How to use non-Facebook services to share photos, organize events and talk to friends.

3. How to open an online trading account and purchase PUT options against FB.

In my delusion of grandeur I imagined this site going viral with the idea that if a critical mass of users decided to follow through on those steps then Facebook's network effect and user base would crumble and their stock price would plummet.

All that lost stock value would flow directly into the hands of the users that went through step 3... a legitimate capitalistic redistribution of wealth and a new opportunity for the world to define social networking is done.

I still kind of have stars in my eyes when I talk about it.
He has always seemed inauthentic to me (though quite smart in handling things). Even before "The Social Network" movie came to be, many people saw him as shrewd, ruthless, arrogant and uncaring. Whatever Facebook has done, with all its missteps on privacy and the still-flourishing-but-ridiculous "authentic names" policy that puts people at a disadvantage, will always be tied as blotches to his name and legacy (not that he needs many).

I thought there were some smaller positive changes in him after his daughter was born. Time will tell what kind of a world he wants his daughter (and future children) to live in and what he would like to be known for.
I think that attitude deserves some mention in the section discussing why C++ doesn't get used more often. If you listen to the faction who denigrates anything that looks like "C with classes" then C++ is fundamentally incompatible with bare-metal programming.
Let's rephrase that, why isn't the French government going after Google, Apple, and others for telemetry?
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This is how the checks and balances of American government work, or are supposed to, at least.

Legislation is inert. The Executive exists to execute the will of the people expressed through the Legislature. The Judiciary interprets legislation, particularly the interactions and priorities of various laws, ranging from the Constitution, to legislation, to case law. This in turn informs the Executive as to how to execute the legislation.

Therefore, if a citizen is of the opinion that the Executive is doing a bad job of balancing concerns in enforcement (in this particular case asserting that 1201 is unconstitutional due to the 1st Amendment), they sue the Executive. Again, this is entirely in keeping with the structure of checks and balances American government is founded on. When it works, it works well.
> "Oh wait, why sue Congress when you can simply vote them out of office?"

That can be radically difficult because of gerrymandering.

That aside, launching a public campaign, garnering votes, and voting on a _single issue_ is often the wrong way to elect a representative.

For instance, I think the 2nd amendment is actually a good idea to prevent invasion of a foreign force (an armed population is very hard to rule over). However, I pretty much never vote for candidates that support the 2nd amendment because they often also deny climate change, vote for private prison control, etc. I can't go with their whole platform. I don't want them representing me.

So in those cases, when you have one issue - especially when it's just part of a whole (e.g. just section 1201) - it seems like the right approach, especially when you think there's a piece of legislation (like the Constitution) that supersedes and invalidates the legislation you're looking at.
I'm glad you finally came around, but if you think this is the first non ambiguous situation, you've been ignoring what black folks have been saying for decades.
Police asked locksmith to recreate a dead man's key to unlock house.
A question I like to ask at the end of an interview is 'What do you most like about working here?'. Not only does it end the interview on a positive note, it also allows you to get a better grasp about what the corporate culture is like. I'd suggest that you want to look for responses that indicate a strong team dynamic, interesting work or freedom to manage your own time as long as you get the work done. However, regardless of what is said, if the responses don't quite sit right with you I'd suggest you trust your gut.
Very good point! Yeah, please be advised there's artistic license taken and the Z-axis scale is arbitrary (well, not arbitrary, it's linear but stretched and certainly doesn't start at 0). You're totally right that the difference between the lowest areas and the highest isn't really as exaggerated as it appears. The real delta between lowest and highest is about 2.7x. I'd argue though that a difference between ~$500/sq ft vs $1,200/sq ft is enough of a difference to make the top of the range feel entirely out of reach for anyone living in the bottom of the range, and that's what the sculpture was meant to convey.
The Tesla blog, Elon's contribution in particular, seems quite authentic. I wonder how many eyes see his work before it's published to the world. Maybe it's 10 layers of lawyers and PR, but the posts sure do maintain a strong level of facts and direct language. Would that be similar on his Twitter account? It seems extremely relaxed.
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It had everything to do with race. The thing is, Irish were not considered white!

They were sub-human, ape-like, violent alcoholics. Many English viewed them as such, and brought that viewpoint with them to the US.

... Racism doesn't have to make sense.

And 1 in 8 is super-low for a settler nation. It's also only slightly higher then the average European state.
Python 3.5 introduced the async/await syntax, I don't do C# but at a glance it's the same.

I've been working on a similar project and I've also found the push model easier.
I never said I'm allergic to open-source, I said I'm allergic to frameworks and the vast majority of libraries out there. That leaves the few gems like React.js but they're libraries, not frameworks.

I won't have to write my own framework by not using one, while it may be easier to use one, its far simpler not to use any. You spend so much time trying to fit your use-cases into the framework's paradigm that its usually much faster to just write from scratch. Every single framework I've seen so far had huge scalability issues, they're easy to get started with but you end up crippling your agility as the codebase scales.

As for rolling our own libraries, we can make them specifically for the use-case at hand without anything extra. What's the point of using a few dozen libraries when you only use a fraction of each and now your bundle is megabytes in size? And that's not even counting all the extra code required to wire them all together. There's a reason why we say the web is bloated.
Oh shit! And why Google is still running than?
According to the trivium [0], the path to learning consists of a sequence: grammar; dialectic; and rhetoric. In my head I think of it in terms of vocab, logic, and application (respectively).

Notation may not be the hardest part. It is however (as you say) the first part. If our goal is to make math more readily accessable to the masses, perhaps the greatest immediate gains entail improving the notation to better reflect the concepts -- exactly because it is the first barrier.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trivium
Not this crap again.

The notation is the way it is because it works for mathematicians. Works well. It's not that complicated, but it does take some time.

Just learn the god damn notation and quit whining about it. Ugh.
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Good one, and quotable :-)
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Straight-up enjoyment? Definitely harder to find, though I think it's an important quality in a turnaround manager. You have to at least be willing to do some of that if you're an outside hire.

Mainly, the OPs job sounds like it will be a cleanup / turnaround role since the past person was dismissed for poor communication and has a globally distributed team (remote teams are hard enough to manage even with good communication).

The question asked by the OP indicates that they would not necessarily enjoy some dysfunction among the development teams so... maybe not the best fit unless they're willing to do some repair work.

I'd be more worried about detecting dysfunction from management than from the teams that I would be leading. I know I will have the option to re-shape the team, but I will be dependent on support from management without much leverage there. Sounded like the OP knew the managers already and trusted them so not as big an issue for the OP.
Police are often not particularly good marksmen. I wonder if it is possible the shots were intended for the other guy and missed?
Well good for you. I on the other hand never felt the need to use the place and its privacy policies annoy the heck out of me. I also don’t like the fact that it’s a walled-in garden contradicting the essence of the medium it was built upon.

Other than that, you don’t have to be working somewhere to have a positive stance about the place. We’re not cheerleaders, we’re just opinionated people. No one is accusing you for promoting Facebook’s agenda out of personal interest. So chill, all is good.
Seems like the site went down, and Google Cache isn't helping.
_EVERYTHING_

every mouse click, every letter typed, every program installed, timestamps of start/shutdown of every executable, serial number of every usb drive plugged in, etc etc etc
The interests of the lawmakers are more aligned with corporations with deep pockets than with the general population (at least regarding copyright laws).

Fixing this issue via the legislative process would therefor require realigning lawmakers with their constituents, which could be done possibly by enacting laws which prevent contributions from corporations (which is itself something that lawmakers may disagree with their constituents about) or by a grassroots campaign to basically replace the entire legislative branch with non corrupt law makers.

Both of these paths are slow and difficult, if possible at all. Meanwhile, there is an argument that the law is unconstitutional which means that it could be repealed immediately. We are still completely within the realm of being a citizen. This is the whole point of the checks and balances system.
Technological change and the future demand for labor
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Is it just me or is his HTTPS website down?