skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
She did not use the text editor with its own email client(s), which is all we really needed to know.
Especially ironic because 4 years ago Obama was belittling the idea of Russia as a foe, now they are the Democrats new boogyman:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1409sXBleg

Doubly ironic because it was Hillary that "pushed the reset button" with Russia - because (I guess) relations with them were so bad under Bush - but her team screwed up the translation:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7930047.stm
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That's interesting... DarkMatter LLC has an office here in Mississauga, ON, CA. I kept wondering what the hell they do exactly. Their online presence is a bit vague and ominous.
Building cellphone hardware is much less complicated at scale than building a car, though. Tesla has been at it for a while now and they still have quality problems (though apparently that's gotten better lately?) and there hasn't been a profitable new entrant in like .... 50 years?
That's because Lisp isn't image based at all. It merely has a live environment, much to the frustration of anybody who wants to dump the running state of their lisp system to disk.
Just 5 years ago, as a freshman in college, I was alternating between Amazon and eBay to find the cheapest price for textbooks. This was the first time I ordered anything off of Amazon, and it was their bread and butter; a book. Fast-forward to present day and I order almost everything off of Amazon, even if I can get it at a store nearby. Why? Because products reviews have grown to be essential in my psychology for buying, and it's very easy to wait just two days for the product to arrive at your doorstep. And I haven't used eBay in years.
Mobile app ads keep paying more and more. I'm regularly getting $1 per click, and sometimes as high as $5 (finance category). I can't remember ever getting this much for websites. I'm using google admob
The whole "adult coloring book" thing initially struck me as weird and vaguely sad, but then I realized it's not substantially dissimilar to the way I use hand chores - not so much as a way of falling asleep, but as a method of relieving stress by finding something to concentrate on that isn't in any way related to work. Unlike a coloring book, hand chores also provide a sense of accomplishment, because you're actually doing something with a valuable result instead of just burning ink and time.

For me, sewing is a great option; I always have a zipper to fix or a patch to sew on or a seam to reinforce or something - if nothing else, I'll whip up something out of patches and scraps, just so's not to have old clothes go to waste. It's the same kind of concentration that goes into precise coloring, but in three dimensions, and you end up with something useful to show for your time. It's definitely worth a try, and all you need to start is a pair of scissors, a spool of thread, a needle, and some fabric to work with. (I can't be the only one with old clothes sitting around!)
>I agree that those tasks likely will be solvable by AI in the not too distant future.

What experience or understanding about "AI" do you base your opinion on?
Quick article summary

"For the second quarter, Amazon recorded an $857 million profit, or $1.78 a share, compared with $92 million, or 19 cents, a year earlier, as sales rose to $30.4 billion from $23.19 billion. Analysts were expecting a profit of $1.11 a share, according to the average estimate compiled by Thomson Reuters.

Amazon had forecast sales of between $28 billion and $30.5 billion.

Helping prop up results was the Amazon Web Services cloud computing division, which rents computing power to other companies. AWS increased revenue to $2.89 billion, up from $1.82 billion a year earlier. The unit appears on track to exceed Amazon Chief Executive Jeff Bezos’s goal of reaching $10 billion in sales this year."
I'm not the person you asked. But for me, I think we have for too-long "fought" pure progress in the name of social-welfare and protection. So much so that that effort affects and pervades every facet of life. Just look around you and think how many jobs would not exist, or how many generations of people would not have made it this far if it weren't for societal-level intervention on the part of a state. The net-result of that is that if we were to now have some sort of revolutionary piece of progress, it would displace millions if not billions of individuals. Of course that is bad.

I know it sounds cruel to talk about people like a resource or as an animal, but that is precisely how I see society as treating lots of us in the name of a greater good. Under the guise of social-welfare we've increased our numbers to levels that never would have occurred naturally by us simply taking care of the really needy.

So now we're stuck in this predicament. Either we progress our society, and potentially affect a lot of people negatively. Or help everyone slightly-struggling and below out by preventing a technological-revolution so we can grow a bit at a time, and delay the problem for the next generation.
I like to imagine Hootsuite's contracts are comprised entirely of what they'd buy with their money, rather than for the money itself.

"And on the 4th day of each month, you agree to send us six rolls of toilet paper, double ply. In addition, you will send six boxes of napkins, as well as four boxes of tissues."

It... kind of cuts out the middleman, right? I guess?
Also practically the same alphabet (Futhorc rather than Futhark)
I mean I laughed. But yes, tptacek worship, even from wannabes like me, is annoying (perhaps even to him).

My point was can someone steer us to good materials. I proferred what I heard hoping others would correct me and other posters.

I like the premise of LCTHW. Why not show me small projects that are simple to compile, but sucky and basic, and ask me to gradually fix him.

I went through a few chapters, and it is good. I am just lazy. But the projects are small. If somene fleshed this out into something more thorough, it would help sucky learners like me everywhere!
(1) removing the word "secret" from the HN title removes the only "interesting" element, since the fact that the stark was attacked by an iraqi jet is a matter of record. the article's claim is that it was a dassault bizjet training aircraft (falcon 50) that fired on the stark, as opposed to the dassault fighters (mirage f1) it was supposed to be supporting.

(2) there are no documentary sources cited for the article's claims. (the guy who wrote this writes whole books explicitly relying on unverifiable primary sources as well: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1841767875) i don't have any particular reason to disbelieve it but i also don't understand the claim that an f1 with a refueling probe and two hardpoints could not possibly have carried two exocets.

(3) the cyrano/exocet combination fingerprinted the iraqi air force even if they hadn't quickly copped to the attack. even if true, knowing this "secret" doesn't change anything.
Was this surprising? What exactly did it find?

I haven't been able to track down the original source of the "Machine learning is like money laundering for bias" quote, but I worry about it in situations like this. To be clear, I think the phenomenon the article is discussing is real and valid: the implicit linking of genders to occupations is pretty well-documented, and I don't doubt they've found something. But it's a little difficult to say what's actually been contributed to the literature here.

That said, their work on manually "de-biasing" the language by applying mathematical transformations to the word space is definitely interesting... I'm just not sure what it is yet.
Q2 2016 earnings press release from Amazon: http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=97664&p=irol-new...
I think it accomplishes a few things: recurring facetime, but also physical awareness of the magnitude of the point. If the vendor suddenly starts doing $500,000/month, both parties notice "Gee, we're going out to dinner a lot more than we used to." That seems an important fact to highlight.
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Agreed, from everything else I've read Yahoo has serious internal issues that no CEO is going to be able to fix without a lot of help from those inside the company, and those inside the company seemed to be just riding the ship down to the ocean so they didn't need to jump.
I also strongly recommend Expert C Programming. In addition to giving a newbie lots of good info on C, it's also a lot of fun to read.
While the tooling uses Node, the bloat comes from the bundle which includes canvas-fit, regl, and gl-mat4.
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I think this looks to be the more plausible reason for massive executive pay than anything else. I remember watching a documentary about F1 and there was a comment about Bernie Ecclestone made everyone understand that they have to work together to make the pie (F1 earning) bigger so that everyone's share become bigger.

It seems that executives are essentially doing the same. Making and perpetuating the myth of extreme compensation being essential and justified for such responsibility. I would agree that it can be an extremely complex responsibility to bear and be compensated similarly. Depending on the company I can understand 5-10 times the salary but 10s of millions sound absurd.
What you've described looks more like Amazon's strategy. It's probably more correct to say Google & Facebook are copying Amazon rather than BH.

The core of BH has ~20 employees. Warren Buffet always calls out his subsidiary CEOs for doing a great job, because BH couldn't exist in its current format if he had to manage day-to-day operations in any subsidiary.

The steps in Buffet's algorithm are the same, but the emphasis is different. Amazon builds moats and cashflow, while BH buys stable companies that already produce cashflow. BH doesn't need moats, only profit. Amazon, Google, FB need both moats and profit.

Buffet's algorithm looks more like:

- (1) Identify stable, profitable businesses that WB understands
- (2) if they're a good bargain, and it moves the needle on BH stock, buy
- (3) goto (1)
I should have RTFA'ed.
It had a nationality, did not it?
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Actually USA goverment works like the CIA World Factbook are public domain only inside USA.
According to (S. REP. NO. 473, 94th Cong., 2d Sess. 56 (1976))
section 105 page 59

The prohibition on copyright protection for United States Govern­ment works is not intended to have any effect on protection of these works abroad. Works of the governments of most other countries are copyrighted. There are no valid policy reasons for denying such pro­tection to United States Government works in foreign countries, or for precluding the Government from making licenses for the use of its works abroad.
Pensions. There will likely come a time when most of us are no longer employable. We have (or will have) put our lives into this and made a small group of people very wealthy. Without negotiating from a position of relative strength, we will be left with nothing when we are no longer necessary.
No, it is not as complete. It does not cover as many points of view. But it is analogous, and it is better than anything that English has. English has enough going for it that it can get away with dropping the ball many times. I like to call it every time ;)
Yeah but TV ads have the nice advantage that you can't easily block them - unless you're timeshifting, that is. And muting, well, it blocks the audio, but you still see the video that can get a message across.

Also, print ads, given a sufficient niche-ness of the magazine, are way better targeted to actual customers than web ads.
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There can be both a finite appetite for advertising and increasing Google revenue as long as Google is either making advertising more effective (expanding the market), taking revenue from other publishers (controlling the market), or making money outside of advertising.

Some random stats I found estimate that advertising is currently a $500B yearly industry, which means Google is only 15% of the industry.
"clarifies nothing about our understanding of the world" ... LOL
Is TV not a shrinking market? I thought subscriptions to cable and satellite were down.
Most mailing lists I've used have a fairly poor archive interface compared to Gmane. Some of them are also missing parts of their own history due to careless maintenance.
> Why? It is ontologically no different from 1) solipsism

Sure, but it is vastly interesting to think about, and imagine about and have meandering ideas about. There's probably also trappings of psychoanalysis in here somewhere.
Just a technical writing tip, when you are using any sort of acronym that's the subject of the piece it's helpful to do something like SDR (Software Defined Radio), then use SDR through the rest of the text. Either that or do the blog-style hyperlink the first acronym to the wikipedia page or give a footnote.
I find that eBay's bread and butter is really small fry to small fry - or at best, dealers in collectibles to collectors.
Was the DB cache a write-through cache or a write-back cache? Memory-canonical persistent databases (e.g. Redis) and disk-canonical persistent databases (e.g. SQLite) have very different persistence strategies. Only the memory-canonical type can really be used sensibly to persistently back (or, really, partially-crash-restore) a OLTP process's "hot spots." Basically you want the same characteristics for such persistence that you want for a logging engine—nonblocking behavior being first and foremost.

EDIT: "There are currently three different data stores that support the Elephant API: Berkeley DB, Postgresql via the postmodern library, and any database supported by the CLSQL library including SQLite3." — so, write-through, then.
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You continue saying a lot of stuff that's just not relevant. No one's talking about diving into deep conversations about eating habits in salary discussions. I'm saying bringing up eating habits at all -- even just the slightest bit -- to say that the suggested benefits-based compensation they are offering is not actually something you are able to extract value from -- merely that causes lots of problems with lots of HR/recruiting/hiring folks.

And when companies tell you they will accommodate your diet -- and you make plans based on that promise -- then when they fail to keep up their end of the bargain, you do need to talk to them about it, and it usually does bother them that you won't just be quiet and accept worse treatment, much the same way it bothers them if you won't just let someone else's questionable jokes slide and you instead feel it's proper to raise a formal complaint or something.

> "Manager types" are just people. They are generally people who were doing your job a few years ago. You don't help yourself by pretending that your managers are amoral and unsympathetic. But frankly, if you want to imagine that as reality, then do so, and you know exactly how to handle it: take care of yourself and stop expecting your manager to.

This again is such a bizarre kind of reply and just doesn't seem connected to what I'm saying. It's not really true that most managers were doing the same job as me a few years ago. I've never been managed by a person who was ever a software engineer. I've only been managed by people who started out doing other things and eventually came to managing software engineers through other routes.

There's also zero pretending going on. Moral Mazes is a sociological research book based on years of collected data. These are not my opinions. It's simply an established fact about the way status hierarchies work within bureaucracy. There's no disagreeing with it. Whether "manager types" are 'good people' outside of work is just not relevant. What's relevant is the way they perform the social construction of value within the context of management hierarchy -- and this has been well-studied and it's well understood that this does lead to dehumanizing behavior, even from well-meaning people. Management and HR exist to protect the company, even if it means acting in dehumanizing ways to subordinates (and it often does).

The only pretending I'm seeing is that you're pretending your responses are somehow connected to what I'm saying.
I dunno, that's language... sometimes vague, sometimes misleading, always keeping you on your toes. ;)

I don't take the porn analogy as trying to be a precision term in every possible way, it's not referring to the sometimes lack of class or over stimulation, and it's literally not sexual, so yeah, no perfect analogy here.

Porn and it's associated activities is primarily and always self-absorbed, and going after raw physical attraction, those are the things the analogy "Typography porn" is trying to get across. The typography here is crafted so finely that to someone who studies typography, it looks almost masturbatory. Unnecessarily and over the top amounts of craft. An amount of craft and subtlety that as a nerd, you keep to yourself and only talk about or work on with other people who appreciate your weird fetishes.

It's porn because it's sexy, it has allure, it's hard to look away, it's attractive and it makes you want more. I think on the whole typography porn is a pretty decent term here.

And really, attaching porn to non-sexual things is meant in the spirit of fun, intended to be a teensy bit shocking, aimed for effect, designed for exaggeration, and above all a little silly. Just enjoy it! :)
Students are the clients, not the product. The teacher should be fired for calling the cops, and no, it doesn't matter that the cop is referred to as a Resource Officer.
You are correct. I work remotely for Red Hat in a generally lower cost-of-living area.

Big company salary (plus 401k match, stock, bonuses, etc.) in an area that is, from what I read, ~11% cheaper than average.

Life is good.
This is all good news for our industry. Soft numbers among the top players trickle down in the form of reduced demand and investor interest for earlier stage companies. Good numbers send a signal that the industry is healthy.

Edit: wow stepped on a mysterious hater button. :P
Why would you be fired?

This isn't illegal. It's any two employees so it doesn't benefit an individual. And it doesn't seem to involve government contracts. What so wrong with this?

Sheesh, given that I've seen contracts signed because someone brought expensive alcohol, strippers, etc., this seems perfectly reasonable.
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> without ever needing to speak to a human engineer

That would be one way to remove bias from the process.

I've often thought college admissions should be done in a blind manner. Applications go to a subcommittee that removes all race/gender clues from it, then the scrubbed applications go to the admissions committee.
I read the reviews for anything I buy. The average rating is pretty much useless though.
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The total output of the world economy is about $13,000 worth of goods and services per person per year. That's not enough to provide even just education and healthcare up to a standard that would be considered remotely acceptable by people in the west.

(For comparison: the average public school student in the US costs $12,000 to educate. And yet plenty of people will say that even that is not enough.)

But the good news is if we don't fuck up, that number will continue to grow nonlinearly, just as it has for many decades. We will live to see it cross the point where it really is high enough to give everybody a comfortable life.
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This looks nice. Would you consider adding Micropub support (https://www.w3.org/TR/micropub/) so that someone could use this editor with their own blog backend?

For example, I have my own software that runs my website, and I've spent a lot of time making it work exactly how I want. But, I'm not the best at building editing interfaces, so I have avoided building an inline posting interface. I would much rather use a tool that someone has spent a lot of time making work well, if it can save articles to my own website.
I wouldn't work for Amazon if my life depended on it. I interviewed once with A2Z. Phone coding interview, working on their music service. I was just coming from a major company in the space where I did the exact thing they needed and they recruited me based upon the strength of the product I developed. I answered and passed all questions without a sign of issue. I was expecting the new step was an in-person interview, and in fact was told that. Although I was local, I got called again to do another phone screen, more coding. I told the recruiter that I already had other offers and would be more than happy to do coding on site, so I could streamline the process.

She didn't like this and put up a hard-lined attitude about it, insisted I needed more basic questions. Totally treated me like less than a person and didn't care that I had other offers that would expire. Acted like it was a gift that Amazon was interested in me at all.

Who seriously puts up with this crap? One can only imagine how working for a company must be if this is how their hiring process works. I hung up the phone and last I checked I wouldn't want to be working at the music thing anyway.
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For example "I didn't have any Internet so I couldn't work" (this is in SF, you can tether your phone, go to a cafe, go home and work, etc).
For a small part of the population, yes, but it's still mass media.
Being good at something, and being efficient at something, in general, is not equivalent.

Earliest computers were designed for calculating missile trajectories, and they were good at that task. Not efficient (required a large room, cost millions, and consumed megawatts of power), but fast enough to produce results faster than any other known method.
Later, this design, which was inefficient even for the original task, was used for other tasks, and it was of course even more inefficient there. Modern computers have become more efficient at the original task (numeric calculations), but they are still horribly inefficient for hosting forums, because of the limits of vNA. If you want to have something that is more efficient, the answer is easy - build a specialized processor, designed to host forums. It won't be able to do anything else, but if will be orders of magnitude more efficient at hosing forums. You have to choose having one computer that is inefficient at many different tasks, or many computers that are efficient at single tasks.
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I can't think of any reason why anyone with a decent grasp of technology or even logic and rational decision making in general would consider the use of secret, proprietary algorithms permissable in the due course of justice. So why is this deemed acceptable here? Is it a lack of understanding how a decision making tool differs from, say, the brand of microphones used in the court room?

Mind, I don't see how anyone can condone privatized penitentiary institutions either. Perverse incentives and all.
My Australian relatives have this smelly herbal stuff they put in bowls which is apparently called 'pot poorey'...