skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is paywalled but the crux of it is that NFL's viewership has been in decline (something in the ballpark of 11-17%) the past year due to their desire to make things political and partisan.

The NFL game is increasingly designed to appeal to a superficial viewer who expects exciting special effects, and also to fantasy sports/gambling addicts. I don’t think the heart of TV viewership is really in either one of those categories.

A lot of the appeal of sports and entertainment is based on escape from politics and serious concerns. Bring them into those areas and, by definition, the audience will grow smaller.
The same guys who made Second Life have made a second second life that's pretty sweet. Better in many ways than OP's demo.

https://highfidelity.com/
Larry and Sergey tried selling their pagerank engine to Yahoo back in 1998, before they formed Google. Yahoo wasn't interested. They founded google as a fallback plan after being turned down.
Sounds like that was specific to transistors based on silicon
It is legal to hire people to work as maids, fishing crew, and field laborers, yet there are is still a slave trade in those areas. I don't see why sex work would be any different.
No one should feel shame at having a toilet at the office and needing to pay someone to help clean it.

Everyone should feel shame at coercing a person who would otherwise not have sex with them into having sex with them. Buying someone's labor is different than buying their bodily autonomy and consent to sex.
As a general rule, lawyers and accountants are typically happy to provide ~30 minute introduction calls for free, where you can ask as many questions as you like and effectively "interview" them. They do this because the LTV of a client is so high that this is cheap relative to the potential upside. Take advantage of this to call a number of accountants and ask them these questions -- you'll get answers quickly
Holy shit I can't tell you how happy that makes me to hear.
How is "Can't breed" a good thing? Something to do with

> good bugs ... will stop bad ones from reproducing

? Are mosquitos monogamous (or do they just get really tired after sex, or do they transmit the infection to others...) If "good bugs" don't bite, I'd have thought you'd want them to reproduce as much as possible, so long as not-biting was hereditary. A non-reproducing population can never out-compete the reproducing rest of the species.
pump.io and OStatus are not compatible.
Agree. One more thing they should do better : List
It won't be illegal anymore if Hillary gets her platform implemented. The first thing she said during the first debate was she wants the Law to make sure that if you take the average woman's salary, ignoring all factors, it should be the same as the average men's salary. Given that women major in "Gender Studies" and men major in Engineering, the only way to achieve that is have significant numbers of men unemployed.
and it was based on a few reports of minors, who paid for ads on backpage.com, and that the sin was backpage.com took their money and should have known they were minors somehow. Out of millions of ads posted annually, they should have known that those three women were underage. Even after they checked the "I am 18" box.

Bad backpage. Or maybe someone is trying to get headlines on how they are tough on crime. Because elections.
" I can't conceal every trace of what my browser is sending, no matter what I do, and so I just accept that I'll be tracked."

It's worse than that. I determined early on in that game that just concealing stuff could be an identifier or profile in itself. The apathy of the crowds, little oligopolies that form in browsers/apps to make them more alike, and creative ways outliers try to be different combine to increase the odds outliers get identified given certain amount of data.

The original way I figured it out was when I was working on deployment strategies for both high-assurance SSL and Tor appliances. They HW/SW architecture should've made them immune to code injection with some protection against leaks. Sounds great right? Wrong. They'd be about the only nodes where the 0-days NSA et al likely had wouldn't work. That would instantly identify them as using the strong stuff. Low volume & niche offering means small enough for close inspection. Few that mattered to enemy would be so low in number so as to be easily targeted with other more personal attacks. Just being bulletproof was itself an identifier that led to them using something better than digital bullets.

Any solutions devolved from the strong security I could prove to a large degree to a cat and mouse game like others were playing but for different objectives. Seems a bit hopeless. Even software immune to hacks has to blend in if you're wanting privacy or dodging attention of nation states. So, the widely deployed stuff also needs that property at least for whatever components you're blending with. Didn't leave me optimistic...
Hi Oliver! I am getting started with this data. Please share pointers\direction about how can I start consuming this data.

Update 1 - I see there are lot of details here - https://medium.com/udacity/challenge-2-using-deep-learning-t...
Well said. I've used and depended on Dash almost every day for years, and I've followed its development closely. I know the developer has absolutely no reason to manipulate reviews, and that this allegation is false and unsupportable. I also know from firsthand experience how impenetrable the App Store review system can be, and unfortunately was forced to leverage a connection to get my Mac app unstuck and onto the Store. I sincerely hope Apple does right by this developer and the many others I'm sure who are being wronged. This has got to change.
My advice: Don't ignore the part of you that likes art!

Two interests meeting is where great things happen.

> If you want an average successful life, it doesn’t take much planning. Just stay out of trouble, go to school, and apply for jobs you might like. But if you want something extraordinary, you have two paths:

> Become the best at one specific thing.

> Become very good (top 25%) at two or more things.

From: http://pmarchive.com/guide_to_career_planning_part2.html
Definitely — Chrome sandboxes its renderer processes, for example. The tools are all there, it would just be cool if something glued them together.
> On a sunny day, up to 39 megawatts of energy can be produced – enough to power the desalination plant...

They don't appear to be using evaporation and distillation, but instead generate electricity and run the desalination plant with that... I'm guessing, by pressured osmosis, as used elsewhere in Australia.

My question is: why don't they do it as you assumed? Whatever a solar still might lose in efficiency, it must surely make up in the reliability and simplicity of no moving parts.
If the password is too short, an attacker can brute force the hash by simply trying all 6 character combinations of allowed password characters, provided that the hashes get leaked or hacked, which happens quite a lot these days. (Or if the website is stupid enough to allow an attacker to brute force try all these combinations without throttling you or stopping you at the xth wrong entry)
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Perhaps smarter email inboxes? i.e. tell me the urgency of an email based on the words/content of an email, things like this
> So, what kind of prostitution charge is average or not special? That kind.

I don't even want to know how you consider a child prostitution charge "average or not special".
Foreign companies can access the US market though. For instance, Mylan is registered in the Netherlands.

http://www.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/news/2015/02/27/mylan-...

Still, research investment doesn't come close to explaining the much higher healthcare costs seen in the US.
Which tools do you know that will handle automatic refactoring in, say, java, from the command line? Genuinely curious, I've wanted something for this
I imagine it boils down to a question of expense.

Pests can probably arrive through:

- People's boots/clothes.
- The water.
- The soil/fertiliser.
- The air.

Each of those inputs would need to be filtered. And the cost of filtration (or the entry/exit protocols for the workers) would need to be balanced against the cost of losing a crop.
Unless Craigslist has changed their model 0% is from prostitution since I think they only charge for house and job listings.
I did, though it's been several years. Making an inflammatory statement, then denying it as a joke is a common mild double bind, one that's best avoided. I'm not speaking toward your intentions as I obviously don't know them. I'm just pointing out that particular rhetorical form isn't doing you any favors, again, IMO.
It takes a long time to put together a lawsuit like this for many reasons. What you're seeing now is the result of a lot of work.
Twitter tends to be ahead of HN. The trick is in knowing who to follow. Start out with following a small number, perhaps 10-15 people, who are experts/well known in the fields that interest you.
I am not sure I agree with this focus. As someone who does not exactly do single-question technical interviews but more like two- or three-question ones, my goal is somewhere in the vicinity of measuring the software engineering version of IQ. Granted, free form technical interviews are well known to be bad at this, but all the other ways seem worse.

Bloom's taxonomy[1] is useful here I think. Assessment ideally shouldn't stall at 'understand' or 'remember'. I do agree it is important to know about a large variety of things. The more specialized the job is, the more important it is for a candidate to do a decent subset of it on day 1. But sometimes you can explore a candidate's knowledge through 'apply' (use X to do Y) or 'analyze' and 'evaluate' (do Y), such as in a system design question, to see the structure of their thought process rather than something more scattershot.

Finally, regarding skipping a question, sometimes you can sense that a candidate's knowledge is limited in some area, which is a good time to just move on and try to go deep on something else. Not everyone has been afforded the same opportunities and has the same amount of experience. Software is a job where the potential to grow can do you better than a fixed skill set, especially if you see hiring as similar to making an investment.

[1] https://cft.vanderbilt.edu/guides-sub-pages/blooms-taxonomy/
Logical answer right here. No conspiracy theories, for once.
I think any network with tons of users has some value. Whether that value is what founders or investors hoped it would be is a different question.
For what it's worth, I hate and am doing everything I can to kill the coding interview as typically practiced.

Giving a take-home exercise and having part of the interview be a collaborative review of it? Good idea, works well.

Developing exercises where interviewer and candidate pair on a problem, using real coding tools and looking things up as necessary? Good idea, works well.

"Here's the whiteboard, here's a problem, code it up" -- doesn't usefully distinguish qualified from unqualified candidates, doesn't give you meaningful information about job-relevant skills, serves only to make people squirm and serve as a "yeah, but I had to do it to pass the interview, too, so now you do". Get rid of it forever.

Also, any set of questions designed not to determine someone's programming ability but instead to act as a proxy for something else, like "went to Stanford", goes out the window first chance I get.
I think mutual consent and money for sex are probably fine.

The problem is that reality isn't black and white. Trafficking is very real, especially in Chinese communities, where victims are shuffled all over the place on cheap intercity busses.

These are complex problems, and the typical HN lazze faire approach doesn't address that complexity.
> Ok so has that worked out well for Yahoo?

I'm afraid it's a question we will never be able to answer. I wonder about it myself. Disclaimer: i've known the Seymel..Bartz yahoo and I've always thought that there was an enormous execution problem amongst employees (myself included). In addition to this, in my field (engineering), I've always kinda felt the culture was rather mediocre.

Call me pessimistic, I've never believed it's a company that could be turned over, I remember jokingly letting my friends know back in 2005, when i got hired, that I had just signed up for a sinking boat. Yahoo would not die but would simply not be a landmark internet company but somehow get to a secondary rank. Apologies for the digression.

So to get back to the yank and rank strategy that yahoo followed: what's best, a mass layoff or giving people a chance to be in or out? Seems like at yahoo the rank and yank strategy was not implemented state of the art as each team had to get a certain % of employees yanked and ranked. Side effects are very well known, lower performers of high achieving teams get the axe while highest performers of low achieving teams get promotions. People start aiming at the middle to prevent promotion, and more :)

Now I still wonder what's the least unfair way to clearly cut a workforce that needs to be cut.
It was my impression that sites like Backpage were massive "honey pots" that feds and local law enforcement used to contain and frequently thwart illicit activities such as prostitution. It seems like they are taken down at arbitrary times afterwards either after their usefulness as a law enforcement mechanism has diminished and, slight tin foil hat here, whenever an agency needs a "big bust" for political purposes. Go figure many are hurt in the process.
The larger Embraer E-Jet series (E170/175/190/195) jets do somewhat compete with the Boeing 737 & Airbus A320 for the regional market. The E195 is smaller, and significantly cheaper than the 737. The E-Jet has a respectable safety record, and few major accidents.

The DC-10 is notable for having several major crashes due to design flaws, which significantly reduced sales of that aircraft.
I am curious how you arrived at the calculation that:

"That means the transistor wires are about 2-10 atoms thick"

Can you elaborate?
https://www.quora.com/Is-it-true-that-Yahoo-turned-down-an-o...

there was also a time a few years later, when yahoo offered 3b for google: https://www.wired.com/2007/02/yahoo-3/
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So many potential unexpected consequences. Most attempts at killing off a pest have resulted in all kinds of negative shifts in the environment that end up being worse, just look at the Great Leap Forward in China. There are examples worldwide of this. Ecology is just too networked and interdependent to be able to easily engineer.
It is unlikely that Ferrer was her pimp as it is usually understood. It looks like that the state wants to charge him as a pimp because he provided a venue for sex workers to advertise and therefore was effectively doing promotion. It is unclear at this point whether the court will agree with that interpretation or not. I am sure the 15 yo was brought into the charging documents as a sob story for the public (and later the jury) and to pressure the accused to make some sort of a plea deal.
This HN:er does. Here's my take:

Decentralized: Not centralized, not a single server or provider.

Federated and distributed systems are both decentralized systems.

Federated: Several providers or servers, equal among themselves, but users are tied to one of them, possibly with a mechanism to switch providers, but there's always at any given time a "home server".

Distributed: Peer-to-peer. One user, one node, client and server in one, no providers or servers that users connect to, users connect to "the network". Nodes come and go over the day, so data is necessarily replicated.

My dream social network is distributed at its core, but with a federated overlay that allows people to easily join, and to discover the network and its contents by clearnet web search.
To me, the whole idea of this API is an anti-pattern: embedding Javascript in a website to make an entirely new GeoIP lookup from a third party host is wasteful and unreliable.

If you want GeoIP details in served JS, the details should be served from an existing host on the initial page load where you can centrally manage availability/maintenance/etc.

If you are doing nodeJS or something server side, then it would be quicker to call out to established command line tools and cut out an entire internet round trip.
You must be reading different social media then me since there are plenty examples of bad male CEOs. Isn't there a Twitter article on the main page? HP is a special case as they have had a run of awful CEOs (the SAP guy being one of the worst) and most damaging a criminal board. I think the jury is still out on Meyers. Holmes is basically a criminal. Not one has approached SCO or Enron bad. There are plenty of sucky male CEOs out there.

[edit: seems the male Backpack CEO made the front page doing something far worse]
This was no more a prostitution website than Craigslist, before Craigslist struck a deal with attorney generals of several states to shut down its Adult Classifieds section [1]. In fact, given Craigslist scale it had many more prostitution (and probably child prostitution) ads. The question is: why Craig and this CEO were given such disparate treatment? Because the times have changed, or because Craigslist was much bigger and an arrest of Craig would have unleashed a huge wave of rage from free speech supporters as a violation of the principles of Section 230(c) of the Communications Decency Act, since classifieds sites are republishers, rather than publishers of content and should not be responsible for the classifieds content.

1. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/16/business/16craigslist.html :

"The sex ads cost $10 and were on track to bring in $44 million in revenue this year, according to the AIM Group, a consulting firm that closely monitors the company. Craigslist also charges for some real estate and job ads, but most listings are free"
@dang. Flagging this comment for the same reasons listed elsewhere in this thread.
> Why is it that in such cases, the government reaches for the CEO right away;

War on sex is new War on Drugs. By going after the CEO they are setting a precedent. They want to make sure no investor would invest into something that challenges government authority.

Wells Fargo CEO will not be touched for the same reason why big banks get bailouts, Hillary clinton is not in jail and Obama is still a president despite killing thousands of innocent people around earth. They are too close to powers.
Wow, so many different news about the same tech company within a month and now this one too. They could not have pulled a better stunt to compete with what Apple and Google is doing in their keynote.

http://gizmodo.com/7-of-yahoos-biggest-fuck-ups-1745729341

http://gizmodo.com/how-yahoo-totally-blew-it-on-security-178...

http://gizmodo.com/heres-what-happened-to-all-of-marissa-may...

http://gizmodo.com/yahoo-secretly-scanned-users-emails-for-t...

http://gizmodo.com/state-sponsored-hackers-stole-personal-in...

http://gizmodo.com/sad-yahoo-sale-confirms-that-marissa-maye...

http://gizmodo.com/the-internet-is-targeting-yahoo-for-foste...

I almost felt sorry for them when I read articles like that it's the saddest deal in history as they could got more much money earlier. Now, I feel good that they are gone. fuff .. gone ..

I need to take care of my Flickr account now.
I am OK with this. What annoys me is the discrimination against non asians happening in the valley these days. I mean, gee wilikers.
Thanks for that! I try to collect these sites.
Formatted:

What you may like about go if you come from:

python/ruby: go is faster and allows you to write concurrent code

php/js: go is faster, concurrent, and its designers were competent

c/c++: go is simpler and prevents some common mistakes, compiles faster

java: go is faster and simpler. garbage collection is less of a problem

rust: go is simpler, compiles faster, io/task switching might be faster

functional languages: go is simpler, for some its faster/more predictable

What you may not like if you are coming from:

python/ruby: go is verbose, you'll need much more code to express the same thing. Many libraries/frameworks are missing. more advanced concepts will be hard/impossible to express in elegant way. Long list of language features is missing.

php/js: can't think of anything, everything is better

c/c++: no access to c/c++ libraries, many language features missing. You cannot write operating system in go. It has GC

java: no access to java libraries, lot of missing language and platform features, verbosity

rust: lot of missing language features, verbosity, sloppy attitude to code correctness and safety, GC, slower generated code

functional languages: Any functional language features are missing
Text editors do have this though, YouCompleteMe for instance does semantic analysis on several languages to generate its completions (using different backends, like Clang or Jedi). Some of the Haskell plugins for Vim and Emacs are also downright amazing with the sort of code analysis and even code derivation they can do right in the editor.