skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TLDR: It looks like Instagram has a way to automatically deactivate people's accounts, opening up the reporting tools to abuse. Then it's hard to get in touch with anyone to fix it.

Should be a good lesson for startups building tools to moderate user generated content. I personally think humans should review everything, but use the number of reports to push up items as higher priority to review.
100K aint what it used to be.
Gender Wage Gap Narrows to Smallest on Record
I know, right. GitHub hasn't moved in years, until they felt Atlassian and GitLab starting to close in.
The inconsistent font sizes and whitespace is a total disaster. All of their design changes are regressions it seems now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iof5pRAIZmw

( Sorry )
If you've got space for 2 machines, you can increase energy efficiency by using the specialized machines.
That could work!
You're speaking as if people exist for the benefit of cities and not the other way around. Some people like living in more quiet, open, kid-friendly spaces: i.e., suburban sprawl. If a city can't provide that for them, they are under absolutely no obligation to get cut down to fit in the urbanist Procrustean bed.
> I wonder if I (a US citizen) might get trouble the next time at the border?

I would be hugely surprised to learn that anybody would spend any time or attention to whoever votes how on a petition. There are thousands of those and only so many border agents, and making trouble to an US citizen carries a non-zero risk. Your profile is too low for that.

> Or get a higher score in some database, that combined with other things might get me into trouble?

Possible, but other things should be like donating to known ISIS front or frequenting a Hezbollah darksite, or something like that. Otherwise it's just noise.

> Increased scrutiny from the IRS

Unlikely, IRS is interested in money, not online petitions. You'd need to do something more spectacular to deserve special scrutiny, that puts you out of the crowd. Voting on online petition puts you in the crowd.

> but "they" might say hell why not?

Customized treatment on these scales is rather expensive. If voting on online petition had triggered customized treatment, they'd have to do a lot of useless "increased scrutiny". If they did, you won't be different from millions of people, but most probably they don't.

> Inability to get security clearances in future?

Security clearance is one area where such scrutiny could be warranted. But given who gets clearances, at least at low levels (like terror operatives working at airports and security companies, etc.) not likely unless we're talking about very high clearance levels.

> Being targeted for more intense data collection by the NSA?

Unlikely, again, you'd have to get out of the noise level for that and voting on a petition does not do that. If you'd be a close personal friend of Snowden then it'd be a different thing...

If Snowden revealed something is that the NSA and accompanied services are very smart, very powerful and very resourceful in achieving their goals. Nothing suggests they are so stupid as being unable to distinguish between signal and noise. They may be collecting a lot, but it all would be useless if they couldn't distinguish between interesting things and noise. Signing an online petition is noise.
This gets us back to the original comment by Zanny that a dollar handed to a poor person has a different net effect than one handed to its richest. A poor person will spend the money. A wealthy person will deposit it, and it will have a smaller overall impact.

Even in a hypothetical scenario where banks always loan the maximum amount they can, a dollar in the bank would result in less money in the economy than simply handing the dollar to someone on the street. Fractional reserve lending means that the bank can issue a 90 cent loan after receiving a 1 dollar deposit. And we assume that the 90 cent loan will stay in the bank as a deposit so that they can issue another loan for 81 cents. And so on. In this model, a dollar in the bank actually results in ZERO net money entering the economy. It's all deposits in the bank that can't be withdrawn because it would cause a cascading loan call.

At any point in this lending chain, if someone decides to withdraw the money they were loaned, it stops the chain and some amount of money less than 1 dollar enters the economy. It might be 90 cents, 81 cents, or 15 cents, but it will always be less than the dollar that was initially deposited. So even in the model where banks always lend as much as possible, there's still less money entering the economy than was deposited.

And of course, banks are aware of the cascading loan call problem and therefore keep more reserves in aggregate than the minimum so that they don't end up in this situation. Which means that the impact of a dollar deposited scales back even further.
> I don't really quite understand all the love of GitLab

- Open Source

- Free private repos

- Free self-host (edit to add "Free")

- Everything in one spot (repos, ci, review, coding environment, etc...)
Interesting, didn't know about this case. Not sure how a degree would be any less discriminatory given the makeup of college graduates, and if I can cite this case the next time I'm asked to whiteboard FizzBuzz, but either way, I still believe it would be better than a purely educational focus to instead subsidize apprenticeships so that employers see if someone is simply incompetent for lacking the right skills or if they have a lot of potential and are worth investing in.
Cities have sprawled because of zoning regulations and poor transportation policies that force them to, because they can't build up, so they have to build out instead. You could easily get the reverse effect with an urban growth boundary and relaxed zoning.
There might be a risk. But if you do not act the risk is much higher. I am not talking about social good or sacrifice. Just think about the state in which your children's and their children's will live in. It is not worth living in a state like that. Its like we are being prepared for breeding future slaves.
Leaked documents reveal secretive influence of corporate cash on politics
It looks like they had only just entered the crosswalk. Sure there's a "letter of the law/intent of the law" distinction here, but I don't see this as a particularly egregious action, especially when compared to normal human behavior (human drivers do this often, and with much narrower margins).

(If the software was designed not to do this but failed to behave appropriately, then the situation deserves addressing.)

Also note Google's cars are explicitly programmed to exceed the speed limit in order to track with a lead car in order to get better info on road conditions ahead. [1] Technically illegal, but this both increases safety and is well within the bounds of normal human driving behavior.

[1] http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-28851996
Yep! But as someone that built something on top of the BW API, I'd wager anyone going after SC1 AI to probably write their own thing. It's still an amazing API for general heuristics and modeling, but there's a few issues with it that stand in the way of making it a scaleable foundation.
The thing about torture, and more generally interrogation, is that you're not just asking "what are the secret codes." You should be asking a lot of questions that you know the answers to. You also shouldn't be revealing to the subject that you know these answers. These questions are what help you identify when answers change from false to true.

Contrary to the movies, you don't tell them what you know about them so that they'll know when to lie.
15 banks sign to drive Ripple adoption for unmediated fund transfers in Asia
They mentioned using https://github.com/shopify/graphql-batch which was designed to solve this problem. This is similar to https://github.com/facebook/dataloader which solves the same problem for javascript.
Seeing mostly downvotes for those not in agreement with the herd.

I, too, do not support a pardon. He should stand trial, and if he in fact broke laws should pay the penalty. I wouldn't want to set a legal precedent that it's OK to join one of our intelligence agencies and leak information.
Use sudo-enabled Ansible in environments with unprivileged users
One really great feature of GraphQL (which GitHub doesn't support yet in this alpha, but we plan to) is the ability to store queries for execution later. This lets us optimize and plan for the data and volume of requests being generated from a given query. Other soon-to-be-added features like subscriptions where we only return the data you need when it changes help a lot on this front as well.
Increased AI performance in RTS is always exciting, but part of me is disappointed by the fact that the AI doesn't "see" or interact with the game that humans do. That is, humans don't play the game by querying the state/status of each unit and then issuing commands via some API. It would be fun (though complicate things significantly) to produce an AI that at least has some notion of a mouse/keyboard so that you could see it in action from a first person perspective.
>There is no support for https, it's kind of a no-go if you want to access REST APIs from Guile.

That is not true. While Guile doesn't support HTTPS out-of-the-box, gnutls ships with Guile bindings. Guix is a notable user of those bindings.
Did you personally witness or experience this? While at first I thought it sounded quite extreme, the more I thought about it the more plausible it sounded.

If so, what recourse do bullied children have these days that minimizes the risk of bankrupting their families and landing them in juvie, merely for the crime of defending themselves because someone decided to prey on them?
A city limited to buildings 5-7 stories tall can get moderately bigger than a city with buildings 1-2 stories tall, but the model will fall down if it becomes too popular.

Ultimately, NIMBYism and these sorts of height restrictions are a result of the city deciding that it doesn't want new people moving in past a certain point. I won't moralize that choice, but it is certainly different than the set of choices that led to a city like New York becoming so special.
I agree with you, even though I haven't graduated until December. I did 3 internships throughout college, and it really taught me a lot about life. Before that, I too, had a distorted view of life. Working in the real world really opened up my views on life in generally. Your example about hard work is excellent.

I used to think staying up 24+ hours working on something was what hard work meant. Today, for me, hard work means getting adequate sleep, making sure that I have great energy so I can function for 10 hours a day on my personal projects, school, work, and wellness.
> I don't really quite understand all the love of GitLab except rooting for the underdog.

and self-hosting :-)
> The added value of the API is that it coordinates the requests of all the apps on the phone in order to poll the sensors as little as possible and allows you to create complex conditions (like walking OR in the park AND headphones plugged in) while balancing them for battery useage.

Then it should be open source, publicly verified, OR it should be sandboxed and have no network access at all.
Interesting.

But as it Wikileaks doing the releasing and the Observer is merely reporting said release, how does it make the leaked material any less damning?
> They often barely break even with mortgage payments, maintenance, dealing with deadbeat tenants, etc. Sure, once a house is paid off, they have a nice source of income

So they get several hundred K for very little work that anyone could do.

There is no risk with the central bank land ramping. In urban areas they are limiting supply, forcing up prices and taking labour.

If someone does very little work and gets several hundred K that comes from somewhere.
DNSCrypt was not designed to guarantee privacy, but arguing that DNSCrypt actually reduces privacy seems strange to me.
That's just something I learned to do as an employee and so far didn't bother to question it.
Are you implying that locking hundreds or thousands of children in a building all day with periods of minimal supervision is a system built on hundreds of years of experimental results and academic consensus?

You are not simply told to ignore muggers. You are told to comply with muggers because muggers are life-threatening. You are also told to fight back if they go from threatening your wallet to threatening your physical well-being. Many places will actually send out the authorities to search for and imprison muggers after you report them. You are definitely not supposed to "just ignore them," you're supposed to do what it takes to survive, then report them, and have them brought to justice.

I don't see people saying violence is a solution, only that it can sometimes be the best choice out of a bunch of bad ones if you're in a situation where the authorities have failed you and you have to fend for yourself. Me, I'm advocating the exact opposite of violence being a solution: I'm saying, repeatedly, that schools need to do more to prevent violence, precisely so children don't have to take matters into their own hands.

Come on, you can do better than this weird straw-manning.
I can't wait for compact strings.

All the Jigsaw compatibility issues OTOH I'm not looking forward to.
I don't think inflation adjustment is what OP was referring to be "adjusted". It's a very common practice for the Fed bank and other econometrics outfits to release "revisions" several months after the initial publication, and with startling regularity the revisions are much less optimistic than the original "headline numbers".
The other leakers, the ones without great plans, have much weaker media followings.

Those potential leakers might be emboldened, but I doubt many would get away with it. There is also a great deal to be said for Snowden being right.

If the President pardoned him while denouncing other named leakers (Manning, et al), and highlighting that Snowden was the only one protecting the constitution. Then perhaps only the leakers strongly backed by the constitution would be emboldened.
There's some nice stuff here -- probably some of it that I'll use -- but most of this is targeted at organisations (and in particular, managers and administrators) rather than individual developers.

Understandable -- it's clearly companies that are paying the bills these days -- but a little disappointing given the extent to which GitHub got big by attracting lone hackers and little open source projects.

If somebody else manages to claim the small-scale end if the market it could eventually spell trouble for GitHub.
Philadelphia. Madison.

HTH.
Not so much "strange" as "wrong".

The blog post is good! It makes an important point. But its conclusion is badly flawed.
Relax zoning so you can have more jobs near housing. Then you won't have hundreds of acres of homogenous tract housing that requires such a long commute.

Houston has no single major business district. It does have a serious lack of solid transit. But if you want to live close to work, that doesn't necessarily mean in the "downtown" area like in many cities. There are huge concentrations of offices and stores in the Energy Corridor, the Galleria, Upper Kirby, the Bush airport area and several suburbs/exurbs.
Not only "here's this manual", but also "the manual for this product documents some scary features which we didn't know about before".
This is a huge issue for us at the Linux Foundation. Infra accounts make enforcing MFA for orgs impossible

Even if I could do classes of accounts. Owners and admins, MFA required. Users (bots) that just update CI status, not required.
Yes. That was my question. Sorry.no native English speaker.
What do coffee shops that sell good espresso use? Why can't you buy one of those?
I have a strong intuition that countering bullying with violence only works with disproportionate violence and/or public humiliation. It's almost like there needs to be a situation in which either the victim turns the tables in a spectacular way in public, or responds with violence that is shocking and disturbing.

In other words, I feel like the "snapping" is just as important -- if not more -- than the violence, per se.

I'm reminded of an anecdote which I think is attributed to Robert McNamara. Basically, he claims that a nuclear power shouldn't appear too rational. Adversaries should be left with a sense of "they're just crazy enough to use it". I think the same goes with bullying: "he's just crazy enough to actually kill me over this".
GNU Guix is part of the software deployment process for a pretty complicated speech recognition platform at the company I work for. Thus, I consider it real software.
I think the current (huh, pun) Bolt looks fine, but then I drive a 1988 Mazda 323, paid $900 for it.

I just want an EV that gets me to the beach and back (120k round trip) and then to work and back the next day (6k round trip) that I can put roof racks on. And I want to buy it second for under AU$15,000.

I don't really care what it looks like, but I do find the BMW i3 weird looking. I will probably wash it twice a year.

Not everyone wants a luxury looking car, or a car with sports styling.
The Niche Selection Algorithm
It's giving /some/ people money that is destructive to goodwill; giving /everyone/ money doesn't have the same downsides.
No Android Wear Smartwatches from Lenovo, Huawei and LG This Year
> One of the reasons cities have sprawled is because their development has been entrusted to, well, developers

This is specifically the opposite of the case. Developers would happily build New York and San Francisco up into the stratosphere if it were legal. It's not, so they have to build out instead. This is 100% determined by the regulatory structure that legalizes sprawl and prohibits densification.
And I wish you'd try to engage with me instead of jumping to your usual tone arguments.

Yes, that is indeed what I am referring to, as engines already do for HTML.
I'm frankly shocked that so many people seem to disagree so strongly with my belief that texting in a meeting is rude, discourteous and unprofessional.
Nothing wrong with suburbs, but many American policies have basically forced sprawl even when people might like moderate levels of density.

A good example of this is Level of Service, a policy that dictated for decades that roads be evaluated by how many cars they moved in a given amount of time. People going by other modes? Safety? Measuring how long it actually takes people to get where they need to be? Not important; always cars, always faster.

One of the dumb things about American cities is that you have big cities with large apartment complexes and sprawly suburbs and not a whole lot in between, which is entirely due to policies, not the choices of individual families or developers. See: http://missingmiddlehousing.com
Another trick I see in grocery stores is a get 2 for $2 deal. This tells you nothing about the price of 1 but people assume getting 2 is some sort of deal and buy more than they need.
> It is the central location for the vast majority of code I use and see.

And that’s exactly why you shouldn’t use it.

> Since the open letter to Github with the complaints of feature requests,

This, and the answer from GitLab to that letter, is what made GitHub move in the first place.

You need competition for a healthy market.
I think mulle-bootstrap can do this for you using ".bootstrap/embedded_repositories".I would try it out, and if it doesn't work out and you think it's almost there but just needs a little fix, then let me know,
Developers aren't responsible for the construction of the municipal facilities and infrastructure necessary to support such a drastic increase in population density.
Hey! Let's race to the bottom - everyone's a winner!
It's not that complicated; unfortunately a lot of FUD has been spread about alternate models based on misconceptions, which definitely makes it tricky to explain because you have to overcome that FUD.
Downtown high-rise condos are always way more costly than the equivalent size condo 20 miles out.

Build a bunch of three story condos out on some cheap land and you don't even need an elevator or parking garages because there's room for covered outdoor parking.

Build a high rise and you have all sorts of cost with putting something 20 stories high. Just the materials cost more. It also takes longer to break ground and build.
1. Ask HN: Urgent connection to Twitter support

--https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8006869

The admin of an automated twitter feed alerting followers of rockets launched between Gaza and Israel appeals to HN for help getting in contact with someone at twitter who can relax rate limits on the account to prevent it from being suspended during a sharp escalation of conflict.

2. Einstein and the Great Fed Robbery

--https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6417511

Research from nanex using the speed of light to prove that results from a Federal Reserve meeting were leaked early. Ultimately led to policy changes at the Fed.
There have been a few food scandals posted to HN recently, so I thought this which is history, and had more severe consequences, would be interesting.

It also led to a change in taxation of sugar and an increase in regulation of foodstuffs.

Here's an article, rather than a wikipedia entry, about it. http://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/Dying-...
> OK, in a theoretical world where meetings aren't hours long with no agenda and tons of circular, pointless discussion, I agree.

Well, an agenda is part of the courtesy the meeting convener owes the participants, and a well-run meeting is part of the courtesy the chairman owes the participants.

Meetings are incredibly expensive: everyone owes it to their organisation, one another and themselves to make that expense worth it.
It's more like Illinois pensions are second to the Ten Commandments in terms of universal truths that must not be questioned under any circumstances.

It's one thing to make a promise and intend to keep it. It's another thing to stick to the promise until it's beyond the realm of possibility to fix it, and a lot of people end up getting hurt.
State support of Colleges GOES DOWN per student as the number of students increase..the actual number to watch is the increases in enrollment...

Increasing Fed subsidies tends to de-fund Colleges at the State budget level..its very counter-in-thinking as the more Fed subsidies the greater the student enrollments..

Thus if the Fed decreases student subsidies student enrollments will decrease and thus serve to reverse de-funding colleges at the State level..

ITS NOT ANY INDIVIDUAL BUDGET ITEM FOLKS..that is an illusion
Finally, Github getting some Love!
Can't wait to switch to Projects and wave Goodbye Jira. I'm a happy dev today.
Is this petition being championed by the ACLU?

Would donating to the ACLU be more effective in affecting real pressure?

Just like subscribing to Linux Journal, or running a tor node, if you sign this petition your information will end up on a list of "person to keep tabs on".
I wonder whether accents could be layered on top of the trained data?
You've got to be kidding. There's one going on right now with a prize pool of $31k! http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft/Main_Page
This is most probably because no-fly list is a pile of steaming crap, they had Senators, Congressmen, military veterans, toddlers, etc. on the list. 99.99% it has nothing to do with this specific person (though of course not being a Senator, but being a Muslim from Qatar doesn't exactly help). It's not targeting, it's the opposite.

I'm not sure though why he couldn't fly to Mexico instead - is DHS no-fly list mandatory for other countries?
At some point you likely also need eminent domain (with a fair-ish system for compensating people whom it affects). Somehow we are really good at eminent domain for building highways, but not skyscrapers or trains.
In some social groups. Rural Texan society would probably advocate shooting a mugger. I suspect the Texan approach is better for society as a whole.