skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it’s difficult to create a distinction between allowing a photograph of a nude child in one instance and not others

No it's not. 99% of photos of nude children are fine. Children are born nude. Most very young children play nude for many hours a day. They don't have, or at least the ones I know don't have, any matching sense of self-consciousness or modesty for the misguided cultural copy-paste being applied here.

If a photograph is pornographic, then someone will report it immediately, and facebook can take action.

And no matter how difficult it might be in some strange edge cases to decide whether something is "pornographic" (in reality, these cases are probably very rare), this photograph is obviously not pornographic is any sense of the word.
My logs show frequent timeouts when looking up setting through their API. Their SDK default timeout is 3s. Wouldn't want to wait longer. Maybe not serving all 4B
They can't save your root password with system one.
"Engineer" at VW doesn’t mean he wasn’t in a managing position – VW almost exclusively promotes their engineers to managers, and rarely ever hires external talent.
I still don't understand how this allows for accessibility circumvention dialog.
Finding a market need that everyone else seems to have missed.
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How much did he get paid for this plea?
I'm pretty happy with a (the?) species definition in microbiology:

<97% 16S rRNA gene sequence identity? You're a different species [0].

It's a little more complicated than that, and some important people (especially in the older generation) don't like it, but it's a good / quick standard.

[0] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1764935/
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Are there any plans in Atlas to support Ireland?
> protecting people from things that they neither need nor want protection from can be at least as disrespectful as exposing them to things that they wish to avoid.

In a setting where respite from a resource is a click-away, I think that it's always more disrespectful to "protect" people from things from which they ask not to be protected.
> Obviously debit card technology is mostly american.

There's a french version since 1967 and it uses a chip since 1992 (probably the first country where cards with chips was in widespread use)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_card
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carte_Bleue
The data regarding the early venturing out of Africa is not good, but even the wiki article says humans reached Australia 46,000 years ago.
Don't forget the "up to". Your app may be in another section of the statistics.
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What I like most about the long term vision for Atlas is that, if it's truly "as easy as spinning up an EC2 instance" to form a new corporation, then it will be possible for a single entrepreneur to create complex global corporate structures previously limited only to multinational corporations. How nice would it be, as say, a digital nomad, to be able to have a single "holding company" based in HK, and dynamically create a new corporation for every new project?
One of the biggest reason big companies fail is they get disrupted by smaller players mainly because they are not able to do new innovative things on their own because of drag of a giant company.
And now they only have to find a fall guy and ensure his family is well off after he goes to prison.

In this case, three DAs have already found that top execs (and more) were implicated:

> "This cover-up was deep, wide and long-lasting. It extended from front-line engineers throughout the corner offices ... and right into the CEO suites," Schneiderman said, adding that the "toxic corporate culture that produced this fraud must be stopped."

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-volkwsagen-emissions-idUSK...
What is it about Dropbox's UX that you dislike?

Or are you looking for an alternative for another reason? If so, supplying the reason will help commenters avoid recommending alternatives that share the same problem.
In a way, both privacy and control issues of FB are related.

Privacy => how FB chooses to share your data with others,
Control => how FB allows you to share your data with others

Ultimately it is the data about you that is funneled through FB.
Keeping track of the pokemon on the ethereum blockchain
I wasn't trying to suggest that it's actually used in a derogatory way, just that, as someone hearing it for the first time, it's feels like harsh word.
The best part about paper notebooks is being able to page through them years later. I experimented briefly with a computational notebook (tiddlywiki) in grad school, since my work was primarily computational, and unfortunately those were lost when my laptop died.
Actually its much more than that; with "discounts" (all the premium points dollar matches etc) its more like 5-6%.

How can it be done and continue for years in the USA, you ask? here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobbying_in_the_United_States
One example that comes to my mind, is that you won't be able to copy any data from keychain. In fact, no one can access protected keychain data, if any app that is not in Accessibility "listens to keyboard".

http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/212622/keychain-won...
This is fascinating, but it's nothing to do with whiteboards, and everything to do with individuals making technical assessments of other people. The title of the article is:

You will randomly bomb technical
interviews. Everyone does. Here's
the data.

That's more accurate that the one given here.
Given the minimal information in this article you cant help but wonder if this is a blatant attempt at designating someone to take the fall for a larger conspiracy, or if higher-level indictments are on the way. At a company like VW decisions like this are never made at the engineering level.
Some people like (the beta) K8s implementation on DC/OS because they like K8s abstraction for container orchestration , but at the same time they also like DC/OS because of distributed stateful (data) services support, While you can run everything in a container on K8s, the advanced data services require some special handling (see the comments about postgress and glusterfs from another commenter), and some people like to get the best of both worlds

for example, if you restart a Kafka node on any container orchestration platform, container is destroyed and respawn on another node which is great, but you lose all your data and the broker has to rebuild all that queue again, while Kafka on DC/OS wait and maintains the volume just in case you are having temporary maintenance restart before relocating the workload.

another example is Cassandra if you want to add more than 1 node, the traffic to resync the data across 2 nodes can actually degrade the performance on your cluster or even taking it down.

I can go on and on, all of these issues and requirements come from running these mission critical data apps in production, with each application having its own logic on how it handles day 2 operations, but you don't know what you don't know unless you tried running them in production.

Some people talk about the custom scheduler feature or Petsets in K8s, those features are cool and hats off to the K8s community, but they are still early in development while the framework architecture is a core mesos functionality since day 1.

And finally, everyone is free to run whatever they want/like, each company and person might have different preferences on how they want to run workloads and how much effort they want to go through that, I don't think it's productive to go to another VI vs emacs here ;-)
> When you buy something online or swipe, send the CC come any a check that same day.

Having to write out checks daily kind of defeats the purpose of using a credit card instead of a checkbook.
Commercial would mean you make a gain from distribution of the book. Money can be one of the gains.
I don't think a second American revolution is unlikely; I think it's inevitable if conditions don't change. I don't think it'll happen today, but eventually it will. Your historical examples are spot-on; every civilization in history that survives long enough eventually has all of its wealth and power vested in the hands of a small elite, and then there is a revolution that destroyed the civilization. The only long-term survivors seem to be the civilizations with strong gifting economies, or where the overall civilization is so poor that there's very little difference in wealth between the poorest member and the ruler.

Those who oppose Income Redistribution seem to think all of their wealth is going to be taken away. Very few advocates actually want that. I think most of the issues of wealth inequality could be solved if the wealthy were just a little less wealthy, and got richer a little more slowly, than they currently do. They'd still be quite wealthy, and probably wouldn't even notice the difference as far as their lifestyle and security. But everyone else would feel a lot more secure and have more opportunities, and that's what will prevent the revolution.
Can you also tell us why Dropbox eats lots of CPU cycles anytime there is any filesystem activity?

If I unzip a large archive in /tmp, Dropbox is eating 60% of my CPU.

If I open the new Xcode for the first time (and the system verifies all the signatures) Dropbox is eating 100% of one CPU.

It really seems like the Dropbox client is monitoring the entire filesystem (all FSEvents) instead of just the dropbox syncing folders, and doing it relatively inefficiently at that.

At this point if I'm doing anything filesystem intensive I close Dropbox first.
If you ask someone involved in the court system, they will tell you that plea deals are actually vital within the current court system. The judiciary is, in general, so underfunded in many jurisdictions that it would be simply impossible to try every case. Plea deals lessen the burden on the courts.

Obviously, this shouldn't be seen as a defense of plea deals, merely an explanation of one of the incentives that currently exist for them.

Properly funding our court systems would remove this incentive.
I'd say that causing 11 million cars to spew pollution into the atmosphere against regulations is fairly repugnant from a moral perspective. It's not different than him going around the back of a chemical plant that produces toxic byproducts, and opening a valve that releases toxins into a river when he knows the inspectors aren't watching.

edit: actually saw the number of cars.
This post is exactly why Facebook will eventually fail.

People don't want a centralized authority controlling free speech. Democracy is what's needed in this context and it's going to be messy(read:human, we're all messy).

>I'm sensitive to censorship, and Facebook is a powerful and important platform for sharing, but I'm not prepared to say every photo of historical significance must necessarily be allowed.

False. If you think 'powerful' means big enough to censor things for everyone then you are not sensitive to censorship for rational values of censorship. We all deserve reality.

What is your argument against this photo? Too 'powerful' for a child to see? Are parents no longer held responsible for their own children? Are we all considered children now?

Who shouldn't see this, and why? Explain it exactly, not with 'feel good' stupidity.
He needs to create a hook that deletes the repo the next time they do anything with the repo.
Needs a follow up where people are playing for their whole families and the ones making less for some reason have more kids. In other words, trying to extrapolate from this to larger societal class conflicts misses a whole slew of other issues.
I don't get it why merchants should be responsible for covering it?

So the banks fight with each other offering more points/rewards/etc - meanwhile you pick up the tab.

I wish usgov would look deep into this criminal scheme.
I never said anything in the article was wrong. I liked the article. The 'actually' part was just a bad habit typo I hadn't noticed until right now so I fixed it ;-)
Is there any official communication re Starfighter?

All I can find is this:

> Starfighter is not only not hiring, but also closing its doors. We are 'pivoting.'

https://twitter.com/boboTjones/status/774303916464930816
One thing that I think Kube (and dc/os) are missing is what Chef is working on right now. Application definition should live within the app and consumed by the scheduler.

Chef's product is called Habitat https://www.habitat.sh/ and it has some VERY interesting concepts that if Kube will implement it will be much more interesting (to a lot of people).

Right now, the deployment and configuration of an application is supposed to be separated but I feel they need to be just a bit more coupled. An engineer that develops the application will define a few things like "domain" and how you connect to the application and this will be consumed by the scheduler.

Right now, dc/os and mesos are really fine grained around the DevOps people and I feel that the first that will crack the "batteries included" approach will win the fight by a knock-out.

Imagine something like Heroku on your own infrastructure, if an engineer can launch and deploy a micro-service with the same ease they deploy and access a Heroku application. That will be awesome.
I feel like people's opinion of git's usability is lower than what it actually is.

Certainly, it's got a lot of different switches and stuff, but since its data model is so simple, you can always understand what it's doing to your data. So you can read a description of what a switch does, and then understand exactly what will happen when you use it.

(The exception to this is automatic merge conflict resolution with rerere, which is just magic to me. But it's a bonus feature anyway)

For me, as a long time git user, git's UI and UX is approximately a bajillion times better than something like SVN, which can barely even do half the things that I use every day in git.

Maybe I haven't just dug deep enough into Subversion's manual, but can you tell me how to do the equivalent of "git log -p"? Last time I checked (SVN 1.8) that's not very trivial. Or how to revert a commit? IIRC that requires a merge.

So at least compared to subversion, git enables a workflow that was previously too much work, and gives me a better tool for working with version-controlled text data.

Mercurial is another thing I find puzzling, and I'm honestly interested why it is that people find it so much easier to use than git. I'm so used to working with throw-away branches that hg's default branching model just feels needlessly difficult to me, and good support for managing branches is the most important feature of a VCS, since any change you ever make is automatically a branch from the base. In git, this feels natural, since branches are a feature of the underlying data model, not something treated specially.
Actually, prison is far from a free shelter for the imprisoned, at least in the US: https://www.brennancenter.org/states-pay-stay-charges
congrats patio11! - I think many of us agree that stability and less stress is a nice draw when you got young kids. Startups don't always play nice with family.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65_PmYipnpk#t=30s He stumbles when talking about death.
No, he really didn't - he said specifically, "So many, many things can be wrong and make a planet uninhabitable".

What if Proxima B has chlorine in its atmosphere? Uninhabitable.

Proxima B is a tidal-locked eyeball planet - what if the equatorial stable zone still shifts enough to not provide a stable environment for life? Uninhabitable.

What if Proxima B encounters too much ionizing radiation? Uninhabitable.

Use your imagination.
That too, but personally I think that it was targeting way to limited subset, required practically non-existant time if you already have a job, so it was mainly targeting capable people between jobs or college students. Even though I loved the subject of algotrading, there was no time for me due to work etc.
You should give DC/OS a try, Mesos required some time and skill to implement, DC/OS GUI and CLI installers solves that completely.
It doesn't do that. It doesn't cache the credentials. It doesn't even see your password.
What’s Your Motivation
> The overwhelming majority of jobs in the technology industry do not go to people who cold apply via jobs pages.

sigh
>decisions like this are never made at the engineering level.

True, but the law has long held an obligation to "fall on your sword" disobeying illegal orders, even if it comes at great personal cost. See the lack of success of the "just following orders" defense at the Nuremberg trials.
BTW there actually is a legit case when DB would need your admin permissions: so you can save files with different ownership (or suid files) in your DB.

But they could handle this by asking for permission when they need to read/write those files.

None of this excuses them: since they use an underhanded dialog box I don't trust them at all. Unfortunately.
Hi HN — Ben from Dropbox here on the desktop client team. Wanted to clarify a few things —
- Clearly we need to do a better job communicating about Dropbox’s OS integration. We ask for permissions once but don’t describe what we’re doing or why. We’ll fix that.
- We only ask for privileges we actively use -- but unfortunately some of the permissions aren’t as granular as we would like.

- We use accessibility APIs for the Dropbox badge (Office integrations) and other integrations (finding windows & other UI interactions).
- We use elevated access for where the built-in FS APIs come up short. We've been working with Apple to eliminate this dependency and we should have what we need soon.

- We never see or store your admin password. The dialog box you see is a native OS X API (i.e. made by Apple).
- We check and set privileges on startup — the intent was to make sure Dropbox is functioning properly, works across OS updates, etc. The intent was never to frustrate people or override their choices.

We’re all jumping on this. We’ll do a better job here and we’re sorry for any anger, frustration or confusion we’ve caused.
It's similar to having the right to assemble peacefully in pseudo-public spaces like malls. But I would say the argument for freedom of speech on someone else's website is weaker than that; it's easy to just go to another website and say something there instead. Well, at least it's easy today. If Facebook succeeds at establishing a Facebook-only internet in parts of the world like India and Africa, then you might have a real reason to enforce that freedom, since those users wouldn't have any other choice.
Put another way, "We're trying out a smaller, faster dict implementation that has the side-effect of being ordered. We would like to be able to change our mind in the future, except for the three cases listed above where we really want to guarantee ordering."

The original proposal was only about improving the implementation https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2012-December/1...

Also, Guido wants people to write Python3 code that doesn't rely on dict ordering so that their code run on both Python3.5 and Python3.6.
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I've noticed that arrogant people have a hard time losing their native accents, despite living in a country with a different language for decades.
Great article. A couple notes

Just git reset <ref> should do. The --soft flag is implicit.

Amending and rebasing is something you should be careful with. If you've already pushed, you'll now need to force push. If another person has put new commits upstream, they will be wiped out irreparably. Not saying don't do it, just that it's very risky.

Instead of deleting and recloning the repo at the end, if you're really at that point, just doing git reset --hard origin/master should be equally as effective with fewer steps and less time.

Pulling down the repo a second time, however, can be more useful for just having a snapshot of the code in a second location that is totally independent of git traffic (don't pull to it very often). Say someone force pushes something that removes code. Your snapshot or someone else's non-pulled repo is your only hope of getting it back.
> I've yet to meet a person who was against redistribution, as well as against certain benefits they get from tax money (police force, etc).

I've met plenty. There are those who relish the opportunity for free market alternatives to public police forces.
I don't think it's that VW can't meet the requirements, it's that they don't think it'll be as commercially successful.

I think it's the tension between emissions requirements and customer demand for powerful vehicles. As allowable emissions decrease over the years, which automaker will be successful shipping a vehicle that has less power than the previous model?

And that's the whole reason for emissions requirements, left to their own devices, automakers and customers weren't getting it done.
You can dispute a charge on a debit card the same as on a credit card. Just say the merchandise was not what you ordered and you attempted to return it and they wouldn't take it back.

But in this case, it sounds like the merchandise was what was ordered, it's just that the order was a mistake.

Disputing that on the basis you gave would be unethical at best, and quite possibly a violation of both the buyer's card agreement and the law as well.
From a different perspective, it's great to see Chef making a credible play in the container space.
> James Robert Liang, leader of diesel competence for VW from 2008 until June

This isn't a guy quietly tinkering with hardware or writing code in a cubicle; he was in a leadership position.

Seems to me, though, they should be charging people above and below him, as long as it can be proven that they knowingly assisted in this.
Ask HN: What's a practical way to learn microeconomis?
What I mean by "a practical way": a good balance between how much time I have to dedicate for learning and how much I learn.
> But that also means it is very hard to use an alternative, especially as Facebook buys relevant competitors of information exchange like Instagram and WhatsApp.

It's not very hard. There are literally thousands of popular forums that are not facebook.

> Given Facebook's overwhelming presence in modern daily life, it is necessary to regulate

No it's not. The fact that you are frequenting a particular site does not give you the power over other people, neither should it.
That's almost guaranteed. Most other parts of the world are (even) more corrupt though.
The reason for offering a discount for paying in cash is probably that most clients would get angry if merchants tried to charge them more for using a credit card while they are always happy when they get a discount for paying in cash. I think the credit card processors are smart enough to realise that this is happening, so if they wanted & could do anything about it, they would probably write their terms differently (cca. "prices for payments in cash and with cards must be equal").