skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of people were targeted specifically for their ethnicity. Germans, Tatars, Chechens, Jews to name few examples (Jews not so officially, but there were unspoken bans for Jews in universities, for example). Family of my grandmother was deported from Ukraine to Kazakhstan, because they were Germans. These repressions were caused by World War II and are the reason why Germany now has a repatriation program for Jews and Germans from ex-USSR.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Germans_in_Russia,_...
When Pewdiepie (person on your [2] link on Silver & Up banner) complains [0] that YouTube isn't communicating enough, most people will agree that problem is at their side.

>Demonetization happens when a video doesn't meet their "advertiser-friendly" policy, but there is an appeal process where you can have a human look at it to determine if the original assessment was wrong [0]. Do you have data to support your claim that their algorithms are "poorly calibrated"?

It happens all the time when content creators are using content under fair use. Jim Sterling goes over demonetisation with ContentID [1] and latest changes [2] in his videos. I don't know if he have used that email support, but it would be fair to assume that he have tried and gave up.

[0] https://youtu.be/aQVMnW6LGfM?t=222

[1] https://youtu.be/cK8i6aMG9VM?t=62

[2] https://youtu.be/gkfQsQlI8T8?t=96
No, you are not right. In video (Q&A section in the end) you can hear that rewriting stored logic took a couple of weeks of one developer. Maybe a couple of month with good tests.

It took much more time to rewrite backends logic because of lots of legacy code in many applications without using abstraction libraries.
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I'm not saying their solution is perfect. Nothing is. But will I send a hate mail to utensil factory because I cut myself with their kitchen knife? No, I won't.
There are quite a few people who are looking out for the mistakes too - the population of hacker news includes security testers, lawyers and the like.

At least this company is taking steps to improve things, which is a vast improvement over, say, V-tech, whose initial response to finding data had been taken was to update the terms and conditions stating that they had no responsibility for keeping data safe.

It is scary how much data we send around though, even when you are trying to keep the worst offenders out of your house.
>Swift was invented hastily and without much care

Swift was started in July 2010 by Chris Lattner[1] and it was publicly announced by Apple in June 2014 (and the 1.0 release was September 2014). Spending 4 years on it and including other programming language experts to contribute to it doesn't seem like a reckless and thoughtless release. What it shows is that even if a group spends years on it, they will still get a lot of things wrong. Same for C# that was (formally) started in January 1999 and not publicly released until December 2002. Even though that language also had 4 years of gestation by smart people, they still got generics and a bunch of other things wrong (e.g. terrible name of "destructors" for the concept of finalizers.)

I didn't realize that programmers thought Swift was created in a hurry like Brendan Eich's "10 days" to design Livescript/Javascript for Netscape Navigator[2]

[1]http://www.nondot.org/sabre/

[2]https://www.quora.com/In-which-10-days-of-May-did-Brendan-Ei...
He was a professional designer for many years and up until a few months ago he was primarily responsible for the design of Vesper.
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OMG, that was a dreadful reading. And definitely, as an adult my life feels quite more easy and manageable than what she says, and I work, clean, cook, watch netflix, practice sport, and meet my friends besides all the other adult obligations.
Nobody argues that Oracle is a very good database. But 3x more hardware and 10 man-years are an order of magnitude cheaper than Oracle licencies cost (even with maximum discount).
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Because of a free market. And limited rules against making profit.

A CEO of a new drug company can legally set his salary at $10MM and have it be a part of the cost of running his business, hence selling drugs for $10MM+.
The killer feature of Hipmunk for some of us is the ability to understand some of the ITA Matrix codes and so it's one of the platforms to book an interesting itinerary put together on the Matrix. (If you are interested in this, there is an up-and-coming service which tries to do same called bookwithmatrix and there's a userscript maintained on flyertalk adding booking links to the ITA Matrix itself.)
wow you really, uh, latched on to that one word, huh
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I have scaled back years ago: ditched the car ( does away with a whole class of problems/bills ). When I had a job no more than 32hrs. No TV, no cable. Do my groceries in combination with going the postal office, while biking/walking. I rent, do not own. Try to own as little as possible.

I call it the 'small life'. Lots of people in town know me, I know them, build a pretty social life.

I am not going back.
Agreed, if civilization does come tumbling down. However, as far as I could read, for it to survive a nuclear exchange is quite possible, even probable.

Blasts themselves seem relatively harmless, beyond the hundereds of millions they just outright kill that is, radiation we're just characteristically paranoid about, but can actually deal with at least in many remaining areas, and the main issue at debate is whether a nuclear winter of substantial duration would be formed or not. Which depends on the scope of the fires, so flammability of urban environments and the like. We can't pretend to know a real answer, but its certainly possible.

And then there's the issue of whether the south hemisphere could avoid that fate even in such a case, due to weather patterns, provided there's no detonations there (as there are no weapons there).

Now that doesn't seem substantially different from any large-scale warfare civilization easily survived previously, like world war II; urban devastation and millions of dead. Hardly a civilization-ending event.
Some context for that NYT sugar article
If you look deeply it's surprising how much of that list is self inflicted.
Intel ME is a step beyond UEFI, so this kind of bug, while bad in UEFI, would be much worse if found in Intel ME.
> you're working a 40 hour a week job but the rest should

What rest?
You mean Twitter-like timeline. At risk of being a bit "pedantic", I think credit should go to Twitter and not Facebook for this idea.

Facebook Newsfeed was a smart move. They took the best idea of Twitter at the right time. That and introducing asymmetrical relation.

They're trying to do the same thing with Youtube. And apparently Google isn't going to wait to respond.
Ha don't forget the cost of the clothes you wore there, and the sustenance you had to eat for energy that day.

These things work out expensive!
Why does it show four months of countdown if voting's in a bit more than two months?
"and respect the process and fruits of natural history"

sounds to me like an appeal to nature fallacy. The crops we grow have been modified beyond recognition from their wild counterparts. Add to that use of mutagenics to randomly mutate plant dna and that hasn't ushered any cataclysm.

That doesn't mean that there aren't any danger and you can't prove beyond doubt that any food is safe, at the end of the day its a risk vs benefit decision. The evidence shows that GE crops lead to less land use via better efficiency and reduced pesticide use.
For what it's worth, you story seems to be the common one for gifted kids. Maybe with less setting things on fire usually.

Although resenting your intelligence seems to be doing the exact opposite of you were told to do. The rational thing would be to instead use it for any purpose you see fit, irrespective of anyone's jugement.
Scott at Slate Star Codex recently discussed this in depth: http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/09/07/reverse-voxsplaining-br...

tl;dr: Regulation is the problem, not the solution.
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Risky click of the day.
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What about BTrDB from Berkeley? http://btrdb.io/
Pardonning Snowden while allowing the NSA to continue their business as usual would be strange.
Because the sitting president doesn't leave office on voting day. The actual hand-off (Inauguration Day) doesn't happen until January.
(1) it equates achievement with intelligence

The two are positively correlated, as the article mentions . The super-intelligent are more likely to achieve success as measured by creative output ,wages, educational attainment, publishing paper, and social status

(2) it does not actually seem to tell you how to "raise a genius"

The article is about how to not waste talent once it has been identified
I wish there was real world analytics
But if they're writing a new system and hailing it as a fresh start, why drag along all the old icons? They could replace those old icons in the same indexes in those DLLs with new flatter icons so it doesn't feel like you're using a horrible mess.

It would be a case of opening the RC files and going through the source images, surely? As for it being a nightmare, it is their operating system so they should be able to maintain it... (I think they have sufficient resources to draw icons - after all, they have drawn a new set of flat icons for half of the system).

As for the restart for new icons - I would have thought they would have done this before releasing the OS so that it didn't feel like a hodgepodge of different eras.

Other inconsistencies include the 3 new menus: the right-click menu on the Start menu, the right-click menu or normal menu within Edge and the right-click menu in Explorer or anywhere else. Apparently it is the same system (and these 3 things were released concurrently, remember) yet they are different.

It hardly encourages developers to be consistent if the OS vendor can't be bothered.
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And it should be related to the feeling time passes so quick when you are an adult.
AdasWorks is doing this, check the videos 'Data Generation Tool - Annotation' and 'Real-time Data Simulator' towards the bottom of this article (text is in Hungarian):
http://index.hu/tech/2016/09/13/obudan_epul_az_autoipar_noki...
How? What can you realistically avoid? (edit: or rather, what do you mean?)
I save a solid 10.5 hours a week.. that grooming nonsense is for public facing human resources and not a cave dwelling engineer like me.. just put me in front of a computer in a dark room or in the lab with a bunch of hardware leave that grooming shit to the sales force.
Almost every version of Swift until now has had source-breaking changes. We're used to fixing things every 6 months or so.
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For those outside of the US the link (https://www.amnesty.org/en/get-involved/take-action/Edward-S...) does not work. Anyone know what the correct link should be?
I'm kinda suspicious of this site -- none of the ACLU, HRW , Amnesty International links work at the bottom. And none of those organizations use whoisguard.
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The problem is that you are not taking advantage of previously unrented space, such as a spare room would be. You are forcing people that live in the city out so you can rent their room.
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Point 1 - what a pity! On Windows we can use Everything which uses the NTFS index to do really fast searches; it is a pity there isn't the same function on Mac OS filesystem (as far as I know).

Note that point 2 is the same problem on any OS - if you open a file dialog, you have to supply the working directory for the dialog so it affects Mac OS, Windows, Linux etc.

It isn't a problem that Apple should take care of - who says the dialog box should always go back to the same directory? In some cases it might not be required, which is why they leave it up to the application devs. Tell your app devs to stop being so lazy.

For point 5, it is debatable. On Windows if you have multiple non-modal (or even modal) dialogs open as children of an application, Windows can sometimes get the Z order wrong and there is no way to alt-tab to that window, as alt-tabbing shows the parent window. So having a window switch option would be great (actually Windows 10 fixes this a bit with its Windows-tab overview system).
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or potentially more correctly, "the regulations" are the problem, since plenty of health care systems work much more efficiently with different regulations so saying that regulation is the problem is clearly incorrect
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I want to learn Object-oriented programming.
When I was in college I had learnt few concepts, but now I don't remember most of the things.
Also, presently my work doesn't demand to learn object-oriented concepts or OOP.

Any suggestions on:
how/where to start?
which book to refer?
I wonder if we should (some day) gradually start to regulate marketing in some industries. Cannibalizing through marketing only increases prices for consumers, creates bullshit jobs and destroys the environment.

If it is about commodities, the increasing profits could then be taxed away until the product is virtually free for society. Not regarding the obvious opposition from shareholders a big problem seems to be to decide when something is really a commodity. Drugs are obviously not, we still seem quite mortal.
Its definitely not the research you pay for. Thats a small piece of the big picture. Marketing, lobbies, pseudo medical conferences in resorts, high salaries, you name it Big Pharma has it.

The research part sounds just like politicians justifying less Freedom because "terrorists".
If it doesn't happen now, what 's the probability that Hilary/Donald would grant pardon?
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People hate you if you are academically gifted. It's much easier to pretend to be a dullard

Maybe it was that way decades ago but not anymore. Unlike earlier decades and generation, with the rise of technology and an economy that rewards STEM jobs, post-2009 or so culture seems to prize intelligence.
When I look at my 4 yr old son, what really strikes me is the way he lives in the moment. He does not care about the future one single bit. He does what he wants to do (or has to do) and that is his entire world at that moment. No worries, no planning, no "I have to save some energy because I still have to do X in 2 hours and then Y, and when am I finally going to finish Z?" He just goes until he drops. When he comes home from a camping trip, which seemed quite intensive, activity packed, he runs into the garden and starts to jump on the trampoline. The he cries because he doesn't want to go to bed but is asleep as soon as his head hits the pillow... Until he jumps out again to play with his cars. There is only now.

I feel the answer is in there. Live more in the now and experience the calmness, even though you may be just as busy as ever. Busyness is just a label you put on your activities yourself. I'm sure my son does not understand being busy and if he would he would label it as a positive feeling. Busyness is a feeling caused by thinking of all the things you still have to do. Some people feel it when they have to do shopping and cook on 1 day, some people seem to never feel it even though they shop, cook, visit friends, work and do sports on 1 day. It's very subjective and there are techniques (mindfulness?) to feel it less than you do now.
If it were more clear, the nature of the packaging, and the installation process for any software included/offered with the device, it might be easier to develop an opinion about whether the user was sufficiently warned about the level of scummy behavior they could expect to suffer while using a remote control massage apparatus.

On the one hand, having ripped so many EULA warning stickers, and clicked through oh so many zombie consent rubber stamp dialogs, I'd figure that with enough labeling, and smile-and-nod EULA prompts, the plantiff would be doomed.

But, then again, given the slipshod and middling tendencies toward product packaging and general software hygiene across the adult entertainment industry, I'd be completely unsurprised if they cut corners, and shipped an autorun.inf CD-ROM in a paper sleeve, alongside a vacuum-molded plastic shell inside a scotch-taped cardboard box.

Without understanding the the packaging (which is probably nsfw) I can't really draw conclusions about which direction this case is headed in.
To be fair the Pharma market is so regulated calling it Free Market is a seriously good joke.
Holy hell! Looking at the supporters page (https://www.pardonsnowden.org/supporters) I do have to admit that they've acquired support from some people that I never thought to see there, like Steve Wozniak, Noam Chomsky, and George Soros.
The article doesn't really answer the question. It says adults are busy because they have too much stuff to do (duh..) But "why" is still a good question, and it remains unanswered.

The answer is that, as we grow up, we tend to develop the belief that our well-being needs to be justified somehow. In other words, we start to believe that we are not by default worthy of living a good, joyful, care-free, abundant life.. unless it is "deserved". And the way to justify, or "earn" our well-being, we are told, is by action. By doing things. So we become obsessed with doing things, as a way of seeking approval and justifying our well-being.

Of course, as any child knows... this is ridiculous. Action is not a means to an end. Action itself is one of the ways to enjoy life.
the SAT is useful because it is strongly correlated with IQ and is administered for millions of children, creating a very large sample to work with
If someone were to remotely access one of these devices and use it posing as the owners lover, would that constitute rape?
> Or are you saying that web applications are now written to retain all that data in memory despite the fact that it's not actually needed

Even the standard PHP MySQL API (mysqli) defaults to MYSQLI_STORE_RESULT which buffers all the results in memory. You have to specify MYSQLI_USE_RESULT to get streaming results.
Previous discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10517631
was about Wikipedia article
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Domesticated_Red_Fox
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I totally disagree that we can't do anything. With the existing TCP/IP protocol we can't do anything because it's possible to forge the origin IP address or modify the datagram content on its route to destination. A receiving end has no way to verify the validity of the datagram.

An IP datagram authentication at the lowest level is required so that anyone on the route can detect forgery, error or tempering with the data. This would allow tracking the real sources of DDOS attack, diagnose the cause and fix it.

What's the point of keeping digging deeper trenches ?

This should be a top priority change of the Internet. There was no incentive to move to IPv6. Now there is one to move to a more secure Internet.
Most of tasks are exaggerated or poorly managed. I do all the mentioned stuff, get a good night sleep (7-8 h), plus studying for master's degree and still have time for my hobbies and friends. Time management is a critical skill to learn while being adult.
A lot of my time is 'wasted' by recovering from work. I have a nice physically easy programming job. But it's quite a lot of hours, and there is travel on top of that. But when I get home I need to spend at least an hour basically going 'ughhhhh' and just doing nothing much. It's necessary, but eats so much time.
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can he do that? pardon someone that hasn't been apprehended nor trialed yet?
The deep and continual paranoid suspicion of difference and of everything is well covered in a great book by Simon Sebag Montefiore called "Stalin: Court of the Red Czar". Actually, anything by Montefiore is great - His book on Jerusalem is particularly excellent.
We're able but we don't do it, since there's a 9 to 5 job with a manager that always screams we work to slowly, and then after work we have to pick up kids, do the dishes and what have you.
> See also http://www.npr.org/2014/02/12/275897092/more-ambassador-post.... , which highlights some of the errors of that view point, like when George Tsunis, nominee to become ambassador to Norway, said the leading Norwegian political party was a "fringe element."

It was much worse than that. If he'd just said they were a fringe element, it'd still have been embarrassingly undiplomatic, but most of the population of Norway would agree.

The party in question ("Progress Party" / Fremskrittspartiet) has never been the leading party, but they are now the junior coalition partner in government. At the same time they are also the most right-wing party in parliament, and widely detested by voters for most other parties. As an example of how they are often politically isolated, when the senior coalition party recently negotiated a settlement over asylum policy, they ended up negotiating a deal that every other party in parliament, from the Socialist Left Party, through the Labour Party, and several small centrist parties agreed to, but not Progress Party. Wide consensus agreements on basic principles in an area (e.g. there was one agreed related to pensions a few years ago) is common in Norway, and Progress Party often end up not even being invited, or being invited and quickly sidelined because they others find common ground without them. So they're pretty much objectively a fringe party. Doesn't mean he should've actually said it out loud if he wants to be a diplomat, of course.

But what he actually said [1] went further. In his answer to a question about why they were popular, he said pretty much that when you have free speech, you get some fringe elements, but that the Norwegian government had been quick to condemn them.

At which point he was interrupted by McCain, who pointed out that they were in fact part of the governing coalition. McCain later ended the questioning by sarcastically thanking "the extremely highly qualified candidates" (paraphrased; I translated back from a Norwegian report).

[1] based on this Norwegian report: http://www.vg.no/nyheter/utenriks/usa/flaut-da-usas-nye-amba...
I'd like to see it in my cloud deployments. Modularity means smaller size of server jdk and thus smaller size of images. Faster deployments and builds, less traffic and storage in build farms...
Missed security. You could argue it falls under the responsibility sections, but protecting your possessions without your presence is definitely extra effort.
I would say none.
It might have that option, but it is not available anymore (or I can't find it). This was different from the stock Camera app. If it replaced the stock app, then it's not available for devices that use different Camera app (namely Samsung).
It's really interesting extension and I would love to use it. Is their any plan to take advantage of the Web Extensions standard to offer this extension on Firefox and Opera too?
Well, from a political point of view, Snowden is just a guy, and he did what he could do already. Pardoned or shot dead, makes little difference now (well, chilling effect is certainly even worse if the latter happened tomorrow, but its bad enough as it is).

The important thing would be wistleblower protection laws changes that would protect a future Snowden from this situation.
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I doubt Hilary would consider it seriously and I strongly doubt Donald would even give it a second thought because of his primary voter base.
Also, and perversely ironically, the death of Stalin had a twist where a lot of the Jewish medical doctors had been implicated in a plot and therefore weren't readily available when Stalin fell ill. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctors%27_plot