skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For all the conspiracy theorists and people crying "who will they go after next": All that's happening here is a non-profit is buying ads for common ISIS-related search terms and displaying anti-ISIS advertisements. You know, exactly like millions of people use Google ads for politics, selling things, etc. They're even getting external funding from donors to buy the ads. It astounds me that anyone could be against this. How are ads ok for selling your shitty SaaS product but they are not ok for convincing people not to murder one another?
I'm not sure why that would matter, but that's not true. No sudo needed to look up that I set my password on this VM on 2013-10-08.
I'm seeing a lot of comments that are basically saying, "we don't need no stinking transactions because we can mostly reinvent them in the app." And the point of the article was, yeah, or you could pick a solution that already solves this.
Uhm, "making money off Flickr"?

You clearly haven't used FlickStackr. It did a lot more than what the Flickr app does. I use it every day and it's sad that Apple have decided to arbitrarily kill it for zero reason.
doesn't visa do it already?
> Being in a train without air conditioning

Western and Indian trains without air conditioning aren't the same -- in the Indian ones (at least 2nd AC and below) the windows can be opened, and often are. The wind blows away everything but the faintest aroma of cooking food.
Yeah it's kind of an empty word. As this article and many other observations show, everything is multifaceted. You have a culture like America which embraces the outliers at the top and elevates them often at the expense of the average person. Creatives and ambitious types are well regarded but the downside is big egos and self-absorption are chronic, along with disdain and lack of support for the poor, and these types often rise to power in government and private organizations. Or you can look at how "more equal" societies always have some element of "tall poppy syndrome," conservative cultural outlooks, conformity, blandness and bullying of those who dare to be different.

There is no perfect society as some personalities will thrive in the same society that another personality will despise. I have met Scandinavian entrepreneurs who truly feel in their element in the US and have no real desire to go home (look below the surface eventually and you'll find a bit of narcissism and ego there too) and I have met Scandinavian salarymen who are seek a regular comfortable family life and eagerly seek to return home.
It will be cool if someone from WD-40 chimes in here with more details on their culture.
I'm not saying you should not have availability. On the contrary, many strongly consistent algorithms actually have very good availability characteristics. The whole point of being distributed is often to increase availability. Algorithms like raft and multi-paxos can provide availability so long as a majority of nodes remain reachable to the client, which I think is pretty acceptable in many cases. This is sort of why the availability vs consistency dichotomy is a false dilemma. Sure, having linearizability means you cannot have total availability and vice versa, but generally you can have very good availability and preserve strongly consistent semantics. What I disagree with is that trading strong consistency to achieve total availability is useful in many domains. To be fair, there are some, and for write-heavy workloads that tend to materialize a readable view in the future or for things like immutable caches, it can be extremely useful to weaken consistency, I just have often found that for the bulk of business logic, weaker consistency semantics make unacceptable tradeoffs to users.
There is also a tension between "helping" someone and "infringing their rights as a human."

Somehow I think that Thailand/Bangkok doesn't worry all that much about the "rights" side of that balance.

At what point do you declare someone with mental illness "sick and unfit"? This is not an easy question. Family members, who would know a person best, can't always answer that question well.
If you buffer to disk, the same problem will eventually show up. Queues (in memory, on disk, anywhere) are all ultimately bounded, and when they are full, you have 2 choices: block or drop. Somehow you need to make the choice, there's no getting away from it.

If you don't make the choice consciously, say by assuming that you can buffer to disk and avoid the problem, at some point you'll fill up your disks and your system will block: you'll have unknowingly picked the "block" option. If you decide to rotate logs and delete old rotations when too many logs are present, then you're picking the "drop" option...
City Plan for Urine-Repelling Paint Is Extremely Misguided
Beware of the auto-pay video ad on that site. Hate those.

But this:

> While nearing completion, the F-35 is still in development and challenges are to be expected...

Why, then, did they declare the aircraft combat ready?
Instead of preparing for interviews do you think it would help if you instead improved your skills with algorithms?

Would knowing that you have it down pat make you more confident?

Do you like this stuff? If you don't, you can always do something else like sysadmin or devops.
I agree. It can potentially affect people in ways corporate want them to think.
If google results are biased on some fresh field I'm mot accustomed to, I may feel that's the majority's thinking.

And ISIS related researchers may be flagged to be a potential terrorist candidate.
No, which is why I said that the story and their comment can't simultaneously be true.

For what it's worth: the story is likely to be true. That bit is my own opinion, of course, but it's a reasonably informed opinion.
Interesting, I wrote such an emacs FFI about 15 years ago, but RMS was fundamentally opposed to it. Gtk-emacs was then based on a smaller scale FFI, but a more generic exposed FFI was still devilish.
I wanted to use a proper AutoLISP environment then.
The accusation towards conservatives which want to change the status quo is usually that they're being reactionary -- usually trying to change society back to some idealized, mythical "golden age" that never actually existed, and to bring society back from the ashes of moral decay to some kind of ancient purity (of "blood", race, ethnicity, culture, or nationality).
Is Emacs all that useful on Windows where even the most basic Unix commands aren't available? Is M-x grep even available?

Or does Emacs require a Cygwin / Ubuntu Subsystem?
I've read this comment like 3 times now and I can't figure out what it's trying to say. I summarized the point I was trying to make in the comment you just replied to; you know what it is now, so we don't have to dance around it anymore.

I think you and I talking more is unlikely to be productive.
This seems to be just one more instance of ISIS providing a very valuable service to western powers. In this case giving a "sympathetic" target for testing out search based propaganda/information switching techniques. No one could argue that this plan is bad or dangerous. They are stopping ISIS! But wait till you search for info on Ed Snowden and get "counter" articles shoved down your throat. And then the FBI shows up.
It really is interesting how many objectives ISIS has helped advance for US powers and how difficult it has been for us to actually hit one of their camps with a missle. Russians seem to be able to do it no problem, but then they have different global agendas from us.
>It would be quite simple to have a two tiered approach to the logging problem since they have separated it into 2 components. One can just write and ship files while the other is what they have described in terms of providing real time streaming.

Yes, they absolutely could do that, but they apparently don't. And maybe that's because they would lose a lot of the simplicity they won by ditching Kafka.

Anyway, I didn't want to defend Kafka specifically. The one time I considered it, I ended up not using it because it seemed too heavy weight for my use case in terms of memory usage and complexity.
Today Is Your Big Day
> But to hear repeatedly such notions form well education otherwise forward thing people is something I still can not remotely comprehend. And how they would develop such views is even more incomprehensible.

Do they say all homeless people choose to be homeless? Some people certainly do choose it. Hell, you come across posts on HN all the time of people who have real jobs or work at a startup and choose to live in their car (which counts as homeless for statistics).
I already had a few surprises with the for loops + closures too :-). Thanks for sharing.
Such long Base64 URL parameters usually carry encrypted data. So they might be impossible to shorten.
Thanks for correcting me. I had outdated impressions.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12519613
Well, given you have money, where does choice end and mental illness begin?

I talked to a few army vets who are homeless and stayed near the building where I lived. They still had income but chose to not be a part of the system. They were cogent and fairly convincing.

I think the problem is largely cultural. People see it as an acceptable thing to do if you fall on hard times or if your philosophy changes.

This is in contrast with Japan where people wouldn't see it as an option and even Russia where income/expense ratios are even smaller.
touché...

In essence, I hope to have argued the point that one can reasonably conceive of any person as living in their own reality. A reality that is shaped by the need to survive in a given environment. To reach someone in there, you have to speak in a language they understand - not only verbally - but also on a (let's call it) knowing level. For example, concepts can mean different things in different cultures (e.g., family, country/state). If there are strong differences in understanding a productive conversation is going to be almost impossible. So there are a few options here (list not necessarily exhaustive):

1. Force someone to 'change' by action and either don't care about the other or hope that they come to realize the benefit of your actions, but that will likely be an edge case.

2. Ignore the lack in understanding and expect the other side to figure it out on their own (maybe guided by some actions, norms, etc.). I guess this is what has happened for a long time. It can work, but it seems a little bit like gambling.

3. If there is problem of understanding we embrace the opposite as a being of equal value with the capability to contribute and grow. We realize that we don't yet know everything. That we even can't know everything because everything can change. So we engage with each other in a quest to discover how we can overcome the problems we face. One technique is Quine's [1] semantic ascent: instead of talking in terms that lead to conflict let's talk about the terms and find some common ground and understanding. But I also think that we can facilitate this with technology. A (global) translation network if you so will. I have the feeling a lot of people are already working on this... they maybe just don't know it yet :) We live in interesting times!

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willard_Van_Orman_Quine
When Udacity is as difficult to gain admission to as the schools McKinsey and Goldman typically recruit from?
There at a lot of places in the world that have a smaller inequality gap than San Francisco not for any noble reason, but simply because they drove out all their poor people.

Show me a city with massive inequality, and I'll show you a city that has found a way to allow its least-fortunate citizens to make a way of life there.
One interesting thing to me is that today we are able to collect way more data around driving than before. Since 2004, almost all of us have an incredible video camera in our pockets capable of recording our driving and the road conditions. We also almost all use highly detailed maps that we correct and add to (waze)! Finally, we have companies that care deeply about technology and data (Uber, Tesla) with fleets of cars on the road. These advancements mean we can improve on such software faster than before.
I mentioned this presentation on the beginning of the post, it is a great source of information on nil behaviour.
It seems the entire Bay Area is from someplace else, myself included. I landed at San Jose Airport from Illinois in 1989, just in time for the Loma Prieta earthquake.

In 2010, 31% of the residents of Alameda county, home of Berkeley, Oakland and Fremont, were born in a different country. Another 3rd, like me, were American born outside the State of California. I'd wager that less than 10% of the residents of Alameda County were born in Alameda County (the remaining from some other part of California).

I'm not sure how that stacks up to other parts of the US, but in Boise, for example, 7% of the population is foreign born [0].

[0]http://www.census.gov/quickfacts/table/PST045215/1608830
Taking no action isn't the same as not being present though. The outcome might be the same but since you were able to change it you are a part of the system and by not acting you have imposed your will on the system, it's just that your will was for nothing to change.

As in all situations you can choose not to act but that does not mean you haven't made a decision. However you justify action/inaction doesn't mean you haven't taken part.
overgard's point is that you wouldn't run iOS on the desktop, you'd run macOS there, but on chips designed for mobiles (A*).
Care to point towards any resources, authors, or links for those of us who might want to do more reading of our own? Seems like you have some knowledge on the subject, these would be much more helpful.
The standard joke: "How do you make a small fortune in the restaurant business?"

"Start with a large fortune".
If that golden age never existed, wouldn't that technically be progress?
Isn't that already happening indirectly through higher salaries leading higher property prices, and those leading to higher property taxes?
Sorry, I was unclear. By "this", I just meant the dam across the strait of Gibraltar. That would allow the Mediterranean sea to be kept at its current level. I was not referring to the plan to drain the whole Mediterranean.
Well, what does it say? The article seems to abruptly end without laying out a thesis or conclusion.
> funds for schooling, education, access to internet and more importantly, free access to information

The ISIS recruits from western democracies had all of these things. In some cases they're recruited digitally. I'm glad someone is willing to fight the rhetorical battle with something other than bombast and saber rattling.
Rio Paralympics 2016: Iranian Para-cyclist dies following crash
You still pay the cost in processing time of the optimization tool with every real time request. Pug is adding in unnecessary HTML elements which the next step in the pipeline removes. It's clearly inefficient.

Whether that is really important is another question; probably in the big scheme of things it's not worth worrying about. But I wouldn't dismiss it without knowing for sure that the costs in complexity to Pug are actually significant. That would require someone who knows the codebase to comment.
They are trying to take over the entire publishing industry with Instant Articles.

They are trying to create a mobile UI for every small business with Messenger Bots.

They have added ways to send money via Facebook messenger. This is important in places like Israel, where people use Facebook as Craigslist. It's also useful as a payment method for the messenger bots.

They are releasing innovative ads products such as automatic audience targeting (based on the conversion rate of various audiences, which is calculated by just including a facebook tracking pixel on your site, they will automatically target your ads towards the highest-ROI audiences).
By choosing not to act, you have in fact acted.

By choosing not to make a choice, you have in fact made a choice.
Focal Length and Angle
Because there is not much a difference in going to Australia or to the next big coast if you are staying in your hotel anyways. Many people go on vacation trips without any reason but showing off to friends how well they get around. Going without electricity or central heating on the other hand has a big impact on your every day life (and even there we are advocating it like powering off devices and light when you leave the room, cooling down the temperature at night, when you are away and also in general. It is just that for intercontinental flights there is most of the time no real reason but because you can. And thats no reason at all.
Actually, what _you_ should do is have first hand experience of dealing with a good friend in the midst of a severe drug addiction crisis (who can't phone mommy and daddy for help with rehab). It was impossible to get him committed for any length of time, even after he set fire to someone's house. He would have been way better off if he had been on lock down for 3 to 6 months, but instead had to completely destroy himself, lose everything, get thrown in jail, etc. He's just lucky he didn't end up in our shadow mental health system also known as state prison, which happens to an awful lot of people whose only crime is to be mentally ill and poor.
> The primary purpose of this tool is to help someone choose an OS, which is a significant decision for many people. If a 5-10 minute survey to help answer this question is too much work, I don't think you are the target audience.

Why make something more effort than it needs to be...? You could use that argument to justify needlessly laborious processes for lots of things. Keep in mind also that the user might be skeptical the advice they get at the end is any good so if it looks like too much work they may give up.
That's a great tool. Thanks.
Ryan Castellucci: Forensic Bitcoin Cracking
Why is it that one city can 'say' anything about America as a whole?

People (this author included) seem to forget the vastness of America's size and the depth of it's diversity. People and society in San Francisco are nothing like that of Birmingham Alabama or Fargo North Dakota.

Seems to me like stereotypes and generalizations being leveraged for views/clicks.
Nerf OP broom.
Can you point to the part of that article that offers any concrete evidence of wrongdoing?
So you don't think obeying the law is a good thing? Don't you think regulations exist for a reason? In the case of the medical field for example, I'm very happy it is heavily regulated and I would expect everyone in that field to follow those regulations.

Now if you think think some of your industry's regulations are unreasonable, that's a whole other discussion. But it seems like what you are complaining about here is that your business has to follow rules/law/regulations.
There is the gorilla also, I cannot remember her name right now
Presumably, those who have children would pass their genes onto those children, and raise their children similar to how they were raised. Therefore, those children would be more likely to have children than the general population.
I agree - in fact, I thought that the page had cut off half of the article. It just ends with something about Walmart. I thought he was going somewhere with that.
Syria conflict: US air strikes 'kill dozens of government troops'
I had the same happen to me when I was 2, living with my mother while doing her dissertation in Chihuahua, Mexico in early 70's. Everyone wanted to pet me.
I know people who have been homeless and got off the street that say many homeless people want to be homeless. Perhaps in a high pressure, individualistic society people seeing themselves at the bottom of the chart express themselves by refusing to conform. A homeless ex-teacher I spoke with said she had no interest in leaving the streets. Perhaps the arrogance is in believing that the way of life we choose should be desired by all others in an individualistic society.
American Psychosis is an excellent book on this topic.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/14/health/american-psychosis-...
Meaning what exactly? Turn off notifications globally? Turn off location based notifications globally? No platform leta you do the latter AFAIK.
> One is the climate. If you had to pick a place to be homeless, this would be one of the best places.

My experience here in Portland OR seems to reflect the same feeling on this. During the spring/summer months the homeless population explodes... then they move down south for the fall/winter seasons.
Well it's part laziness (and priortising) and part working on an abstraction layer for the DOM API which can be quite hairy (it is known :P). So I have 10 windows open in total.

I have lots and lots of pages open of DOM documentation from many sources and many GitHub code searches to see how others' code deals with the mess. ~30% tabs are probably StackOverflow. The rest is (potentially useful) Google searches, programming blog posts and the usual pinned tabs (Gmail etc.).

I use a AutoHotKey script to make the scroll wheel switch between tabs (this is the default behavior on Ubuntu but I'm on Window), this way I can quickly scroll/look for the desired tab through an entire 100-150 tab window in 10-15 seconds. Thinking of this.. I would have probably indeed gone insane without the AHK script.. (or just kept fewer tabs opened instinctively? :P).
I am currently working full time as a scientific developer with substantial background in statistics and control theory, and I want to attend, but I am not sure about the expected course load. Could you discuss average hours a student is expected to spend on this? And whether this is like a full-time student course load or a part-time course load?
That´s true. The bus at night is (or should be) there to prevent drunk drivers.
What does it matter in your scheme if the food being given away is substantially devalued? It's a gift, it should be held to a lower standard, right? Or are you saying that the gift must be of an equal value to that sold? Do they have to also serve it on fine china to the homeless? How low should the lowered standard be, then?

My second statement is disagreeing with yours. The law does and should absolutely hold organisational gifts to the same standard as commercial transactions. Not least because otherwise you create a massive loophole ripe for exploitation, at all levels.

"Hey, don't tax my import, it was a gift!".

"Hey, my formula milk shouldn't be subject to marketing laws, it's a gift to new [and ill-educated] mothers!"

"Hey, I shouldn't be subject to your weird license restrictions, my source code was a gift to the community!"

Now, sure, good samaritan laws are important things. But so is equality legislation, and disability rights legislation, and much of the other legislation that defines the standards society expects of its participants.
To be clear, this is not the first nor will it be the last time Google's "Jigsaw" has gotten involved in politics. It's CEO, Jared Cohen, worked for Hillary Clinton at the State department, and once at Google, had emailed back and forth with her about Google helping encourage revolution in Syria. I don't want to see a Trump White House, but I am also sad that if Clinton wins, Google's influence in the White House will continue, or expand.

Considering Google's width of influence and overall power, it should be looked at as an international threat, because we have no way of knowing what they'll use that power for next. Anti-brainwashing is great, until you realize it's not much different than straight-up brainwashing. Google is proud to admit it uses manipulative tactics to subconsciously trick it's own employees into eating healther. Again, laudable goal, questionable moral ethics.

I actually had an extended argument with a Googler here on HN earlier this week about Google's apparent happiness to manipulate people's views to suit it's goals.