skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's the issue, yes, you can disagree, and your workflow is different.

But in general, most people get their news from social media now - mostly Facebook as it turns out. That is hardly a disputable fact. RSS is a technical detail of how sites publish, and in the end, people seem to not care about it. They care about end user features, which apparently includes their friends commenting. And that is what Facebook does.

Yeah you could make an argument that Google Reader killed the promising RSS market, but I don't think that argument really holds a lot of water.
I used Jest early on, it was nice, but I quickly started to encounter problems related to how new it was. It's way better now, so maybe I will switch back to Jest from enzyme.
The gaps between animal understanding and human awareness are just as fascinating as the similarities, and I'm glad that someone's reminding us to push back on the "They're just like us!" narrative of how animals minds must work. One of the more influential texts I read in college was Daniel Povinelli's work on whether or not chimpanzees understand weight, basically concluding: they don't, at all. Scientists tried for thirty years to train chimpanzees to recognize weight as a separate property of an object, and failed spectacularly.

It's such a basic component of what it is to be aware of the world, and yet it's complex enough it seems a uniquely human faculty. Chimpanzees can sort objects by color, size, or shape, but not weight! how similar to humans can their internal experience be? (Or, of course, what aspects of the world are we missing that would be obvious to a slightly more complex intelligence?)
I'm not sure what you are suggesting. There is no getting around "at most/at least once." You can shift the posts, some, but at some point that is your choice. This is a good read on the problem: http://bravenewgeek.com/you-cannot-have-exactly-once-deliver...
Stop. Broken privacy tools have gotten people tortured and killed. Just because you can't imagine it happening to white dudes in the US and western Europe doesn't mean it isn't the norm pretty much everywhere else.

You were fine before your "Snowden is still alive" thing. I don't have an opinion about whether Stavros's site is a serious privacy application. Maybe it isn't. But other manifestly unqualified people have tried to deliver privacy to people and failed catastrophically.
The "flavor of the week" is mostly a meme. You would be fine just learning ES6, a front-end technology like Angular or React, and a bundler like Webpack. Learning Webpack is painful, but there are other choices.

The front-end is harder IMHO, but as another poster mentioned, the opportunities are tremendous.
Not very AFAICT, partly because audio out was relatively uncommon, never knew anyone who got it to load and they stopped doing it after the first series IIRC. Great bit of nostalgia.
For a developer role, and in the context of web applications(CRUD-ish) what do you think is the ceiling potential (in terms of earnings) Comparing JS/frontend positions vs backend development?
> And every time the database restarts the app server crashes and the site goes down.

Nope. I've also never had these phantom poorly behaved forking daemons leaving orphan processes all over the process space that people claim drove them to systemd. Like I said, YMMV. What I've built works really, really well, and can be picked up tomorrow by anybody who knows sh.
> Personal freedom, as defined by the London-based Legatum Institute, measures a nation’s performance at both guaranteeing individual freedom and encouraging social tolerance.

Probably quite different from the definition used by Freedom House or other groups that have tried to measure this. I wonder how much results vary between studies like this conducted in good faith at the same time using different conceptions of freedom.
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>He was a college graduate from a middle-class family. But on Christmas Eve three decades earlier, the Archangel Michael had come to him in a vision and demanded that he spread God’s word.

Suppose it's false.

Given that it's false, are his actions acceptable conduct for a person? Really what is unacceptable is going without treatment for obvious full-blown AIDS.

>I run a program for young people experiencing psychosis for the first time. Every day I confront my impulse to coerce people into care. This spring, one of our participants, whom I will call Mark, once again went off his medications. He had been on track to finish his first semester of community college and was looking for part-time work when his father showed up after years of absence. Soon he was smoking weed daily with his father, had dropped out of school and was refusing to take his medications. Over the next few months he became increasingly psychotic, stopped sleeping and started rhyming all his sentences. Then the sentences gave way to incoherent word pairings that psychiatrists call “clanging.” Soon he was nearly mute and rail-thin. But he still refused medication.

You're lying.

Not to me, and not to Mike, but to yourself and to society. Nobody wants to help Mike be himself or be happy. That's Mike's job. The modern paradigm of psychiatry says "take your medications so that you can be happy", but what we obviously mean is "take your medications so that you can work". Here's the thing: he'll be just as happy smoking weed and babbling as he is at college. Or, to be more honest, we have no good evidence that he won't be.

Here's the thing: how on Earth is Mark supposed to work if nobody cares that he does? The society around him has stated quite clearly that it isn't worth going to a bunch of effort to get him to work -- he's not being medicated in order for him to work -- his work isn't necessary or a duty, according to everyone who tells him anything about anything -- yet the actual standard being applied is "does this guy pass his classes?".

The truth is that that sounds awful. But the deeper truth is that the psychiatrist and the family and the legal system as a whole have collectively chosen the non-awful fantasy of "mental health" rather than the awful reality of "crazy people are useless". And then we wonder why the patient wants to make the same kind of choice!
I <3 the logo! It really is cute.
Hey, cats keep wanting to send messages once per life, so it's actually pretty fair!
13th International Symposium on Mathematical Morphology 2017 CMM Fontainebleu
The day Iceland's women went on strike
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More info about the participants would be nice. How where they chosen ?
Ask HN: Uptime monitor for mobile apps?
Friend's B2B SaaS company has a lightly-used Android app. The login screen stopped working, and nobody knew about it for several days.

I know there are plenty of uptime monitors for servers / websites, but are there any uptime monitors for mobile apps? Something that lets you say "here's our app store URL, here's a dummy account login - can you make sure you can download the app, log in, and access all the menu options?"
> Recruiting as an industry usually benefits from the other parties having a lack of information, and I hope that starts to change.

Agreed. I appreciate your work in this regard.

> A counteroffer can "right a wrong" in some cases, and employees who are not sure how to ask for raises/promotions/changes to their employment situation may find that their resignation facilitates a conversation that maybe could have happened if they'd asked.

I was thinking about this very problem after my post, and while I don't have a better solution, I think I have a better understanding to the cause. Sometimes employers take for granted the increasing value provided by the employee (which, along with other factors, may be a sign of bad management) but even when the employee's value contribution is stable, their opportunity cost for keeping their current job goes up.

Either the employer is unaware of that increase in opportunity cost, or they are banking on the employee not being aware / being unwilling to leverage that opportunity cost. It's not enough that the employee be fully aware of their own opportunity costs, their employer has to know that they know (and the employee has to know that their employer knows, and so on. i.e. "common knowledge"). I see your point as being that the only way right now for that opportunity cost to become common knowledge is for an employee to field offers from other companies.

Trusted intermediaries or professional associations could probably help make the costs to all sides more transparent, and maybe they already do, but that's about as far as I know.
Basic income isn't far left under any definition. It isn't full-on libertarian either, but it's definitely to the right of organized welfare programs.
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Did you make that key public at any time? Its fairly easy to leak keys on github that get picked up by automated bots. AWS is very good about covering charges from account 'hacks'

I wouldn't jump to conclusions on Datadog unless you can verify they only had access to the key.

(Just went through a key leak with AWS)
I read it, I wasn't impressed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaOgZwk9rN8
> Considering we're encouraging everyone to use transpilers and features from the future

Please don't encourage this. Transpilers have a huge set of dependencies and technical complexity. I know everyone is in a hurry to use the next standard ASAP but, especially for new people, I think transpilers should be recommended against. Otherwise now you now need a build process and you need to learn how to use map files to properly debug back to your original code not to mention being unable to properly debug on older / alternative browsers.

> Detailed versioning is an implementation detail.

For the engine sure but for everyone who needs the features they need to know what is supported when, etc. It's far, far more than a simple implementation detail.
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I don't think I'm being pedantic when I expect security software, or software dealing with secrets, to be secure.

It's not malice but solving sensitive problems without taking security seriously can actually have really big consequences for your users.
Los Angeles, CA -- Riot Games -- Esports/Merch Engineering Team

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Tech Lead/Senior Software Engineer (Platform)-
Have lead the design of, written, shipped + operated RESTful services at large scale (>10,000,000 MUs, >500 aQPS)
Expert level in Java or Go

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Expertise in Android and iOS

If you're interested shoot me your resume to nclauss(AT)riotgames.com
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> Private competition almost always ends in monopoly or trust [truce? oligopoly?] anyway.

Doesn't seem so to me. As far as I can tell, all real life monopolies or oligopolies only exist because of intervention by the police state. The canonical examples that come to mind would be Microsoft (only possible because of copyright, a monopoly granted by the police state) and Standard Oil (only possible because of mining concessions, a near monopoly granted by the police state).

Here in Germany, Deutsche Bahn (the rail operator) had a practical monopoly on long distance travel, all thanks to a special law granted by the police state. Said law has been repealed by the EU a few years ago (2009 or so), and the competition from long distance buses is fierce now.

Can you name any monopoly that ever existed and wasn't created by the police state effectively granting it?

(For this argument, it doesn't matter if these police state granted monopolies are a good thing in some sense. I don't think so, but the point is really that competition works unless it is artificially restricted.)

> other examples--Coke/Pepsi, IBM/Intel.

How does Coke/Pepsi even come close? I see quite a number of caffeinated sugary soft drinks on the market (all equally disgusting). IBM/Intel? Well, IBM had something resembling a monopoly in the mainframe era. I wasn't around back then, but most computers were probably sold to the police state. Intel has had a near monopoly on desktop computers for the past 25 years or so, but only because Microsoft DOS/Windows wouldn't run on anything else, so this is actually an extension of the Microsoft monopoly mentioned above.

I'm not sure about the cable companies. Theoretically, is anyone allowed to run a cable from A to B? If no, you can only ever have one cable provider in a given region, again, thanks to artificial rules made by the police state.

I'm genuinely curious about any examples of monopolies that developed in a free market.
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100% definitely not! It's a specific IAM key only for the use of DATADOG.
Thanks. I always wanted to learn modern C++, but there was no such lecture at uni and in my spare time I was only able to fill the gaps partially, learning about the obvious things like the auto keyword and move constructors and the like.
There is no published research I'm aware of. However, you can find an article about every major tech company talking about how reducing their latency increased whatever their core metric was (not necessarily linearly though, sometimes it was and even steeper curve). I know for sure this is true at eBay, Netflix, and reddit because I've seen the numbers personally, and I have friends at Google, Amazon and Facebook who have said the same.
The cost of living is higher. Medical expenses aren't really a thing for recent grads, and good medical insurance limits your outlay. Normally most people with solid insurance and serious health concerns will max out at a few thousand dollars a year. And for the kinds of jobs we are talking about, that isn't a big deal.

Anyways, I'm making way beyond 2x as much as I ever could have in Canada. Also I get to work on world class tech, with world class people. And when I changes jobs, I don't have to take major compromises. There are way more high quality employers in the bay area than anywhere else for technology!
CRISPR will have to wait for that Nobel prize
Don't give up hope, yet. CRISPR could be awarded for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The Ribozyme discovery was a Chemistry Nobel [1]. And, yes, Nobels take decades to come to fruition.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribozyme
Nextgen (https://github.com/hbowden/nextgen)

A genetic file, syscall and network fuzzer for unix operating systems.

I hope to finish implementing the memory reclamation scheme and do some bug squashing this month.

I need C programmers and anyone who is interested in building fuzzers.

The project is under an ISC license.
Reading stories like this one, of generosity and honesty, makes it more bearable to live in a country that nominated Donald Trump for president.
We've never received this email either...
> The success of many companies, and probably all of the unicorns, has nothing to do with technology.

Execs love to think this but it's just not true. Top heavy companies waste money. It's true that tech of not the only ingredient but for a tech company it's critical. Good tech is not a commodity. Top-tier engineers are worth as much as a good CEO. That is if you want to remain lean.
Nothing would make me happier than to be able to take your word for it, but I think your definition of "hardening" might be incredibly broad. DoD funding Ada development, SELinux, rainbow series, cyber grand challenge - hardening. DoD buying firewalls and maintaining Oracle licenses isn't hardening.
Completely unrelated to the article, but I'm curious what people's thoughts are on full-width lines of text characteristic of unstyled HTML.

I've seen some[1] bemoan its impacts on readability and others[2] complain about websites which artificially restrict themselves to (what can be) a narrow slice of the viewport.

[1]: http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com

[2]: https://plus.google.com/+LinusTorvalds/posts/2Ndtw3ZBRX2
When a certain set of events occurs (the files arrive etc) I want to kick off one and only one batch processor task. This is accomplished with a transaction and a write lock in an sql database, but when trying to use event sourcing it ends up requiring a 2 step "intent to run" event before running or some out of band synchronization.
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> It's not malice but solving sensitive problems without taking security seriously can actually have really big consequences for your users.

This is very true - but often the author does intend to take security seriously and they've simply overlooked something. The best approach in that scenario is just to talk to them and ask them to take a look at a vuln you've found, rather than immediately telling all their potential users to stay away.
So we both agree that if the bias is linear, and your model is linear, you capture it. Similarly if the model involves interaction (score x is_black), and you include linear interaction terms, you'll also capture it.

Now the question arises; what if things are more complex?

In real life they always are; both your biasing factor and the rest of the model. So we've cooked up all sorts of fun models like SVMs, random forests and neural networks to analyze such complicated models and find hidden features and relations that we didn't think of. Bias is one such feature.

If I built an algorithm that learned to display different ads to mobile and desktop people (i.e., treat mobile "time on site" differently from desktop "time on site"), would you be surprised by this?
NASA's Curiosity Rover Begins Next Mars Chapter
Planned state economy might be pushing the usage of the word, but the government and economy were so intertwined in ancient Greek city states it's hard to call them capitalists. At the most extreme, they were palace economies, with all redistribution of goods done by the state, and most of them had the largest part of economic management handled at the agora.
Bows

Gladly, good sir.

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