skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you don't try to distinguish between whistleblowers and government intelligence propaganda, then you end up discrediting the former and becoming a tool of the latter.
One important thing that visionaries get credit for, but perhaps shouldn't...

Being in the right place at the right time.

It is a delightful bit of luck that Steve Jobs made it back to Apple. That scenario could have been way different where Apple bought BeOS, and Steve Jobs didn't return to Apple.

If Jobs isn't at Apple, he doesn't have the opportunity or resources to make his vision for the iMac, iBook, iPod, iTunes, iPhone, or iPad a real thing. In fact, he probably wouldn't have had the reason to envision any of the things at NEXT.

Also, you could argue that Jobs being at Apple when ARM got good enough for mass market smart gadgets at scale played into it too. If the tech isn't quite there, it doesn't look as interesting at all.

Without the right tech being available, Apple stalls out at the iMac and Power Mac and so on and is a profitable computer vendor, but not the most valuable company in the world.

So, Tim Cook might not be as visionary, but it might also be a poor time for anyone to be CEO as the opportunities shifted.
And does it support decimal math or will it have floating point errors instead? ;)
I know this is how it works. But it troubles me. When did we abdicate responsibility for the systems we built? Does a bridge Engineer find it acceptable to give notice "The bridge will fall in high winds". Then build the bridge anyway when management decides its an acceptable risk?

At some point (agile?) we explicitly gave up all moral responsibility for our creations, to people with money.
Somebody read the Jargon File...
https://www.brainpickings.org/

The title truly says "A meaningful inventory of Life".

I get lost in the labryinths in that blog covering science, philosophy, literature & art.
There are some major factual errors in this post. A few of them:

> Docker has lower memory footprint, because of forcing to run only single process per container

Docker doesn't force you to use a single process per container - that's a design choice that some people espouse, but not a requirement. For instance, we run the official GitLab Docker image and it consists of many processes.

> Docker won't be able to run even Postfix

I'm running Postfix in a Docker container right now and it's working fine.

> But we are talking about Docker: it does not support IPv6 at all.

IPv6 support is incomplete, but not non-existent. I'm running IPv6 in my containers right now.
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This is especially true when the community in question literally has a policy of banning anyone who thinks of fat people as human or suggests they might be going too far. (They also liked to take identifiable photos of people they've posted to other subreddits and repost them with enough information that their members could track down the original poster and send her nasty PMs, and when someone complained the moderators reposted her photo in the sidebar to draw even more attention to her.)
Just like the Star Trek TNG episode "Clues". Humans are a far too curious species for any smoking guns to be left around.

I agree with you, our successors will question why there's a tunnel in the ground, why a painted stripe appears within the tunnel, and for what purpose the tunnel was hidden.

Though I'm incredibly pessimistic about our future, no matter what signs and warning we give, human curiosity wants to know for what substance those warnings are there to dispel people from, and human greed will ironically want to claim it all.
I'd say it's among the best sci-fi stories I've ever seen on screen. Superbly structured and executed.
Disappointing, but not surprising.

We were surprised the insurance was so good for so (relatively) cheap, honestly.
Agreed. The onus is not only on the user to respond to threat landscapes, but also on the site owners. Shunting all the responsibility to the site owner typically does not work in your favor.
Apple in the PC market is a single digit percentage point(7.2) participant. Premium niche is a functional business model, but broad market speaking, commodification has taken place, in that 25% of the PC market is Other in most reports. That number is important because it implies that 25% of the entire market is "small" actors that have been able to leverage commodification. If you also consider Dell as a commodity vendor then that group jumps to 40%.
Pretty much all devices with wifi have "black box" elements: their closed source firmware is quite capable of sending and receiving packets without the OS ever being informed.
You said that better than the OP. In fact the OP opened with an example that didn't explain it at all. They oversold the gimmick - 'like begets like!' Then they contradicted that.

For a person who's supposed to be convincing me about the right way to convince, they did an awful job.
The Last Psychiatrist, http://thelastpsychiatrist.com . Excellent insights into the ways we lie to ourselves, how we react to the media, and how society operates.

I also love ribbonfarm, previously mentioned in the thread.
I don't understand why this sentiment is gaining so much traction lately. I'm not claiming to understand the complex world of economics, but I do recognize great inventions - and our world is full of them.

ML is the one I'm most excited about at the moment.
Are you suggesting a reddit post could irreversibly damage someone if they read it? That's a bit extreme is it not? I was able to glance through and glean plenty of keywords that lead to me being able to search for reputable sources that before hand I wouldn't have known what to search for. Now I'm just hoping I didn't contract a virus somehow xD
I completely agree with his sentiment. While it certainly won't catch all vulnerabilities, it should at least catch the more obvious and easily exploitable ones. And it concentrates the skills required in an entity that has a business model that can sustain it.

I see it as analogous to FCC certification of RF related equipment.
Arrow functions get auto-named in many browsers based on how they are used. This auto-naming is actually being somewhat standardized between browsers and means there is no difference between anonymous-style function () {} and arrow functions.

Promises are more than just a wrapper around callbacks because they also standardize behavior between "stacks" of callbacks, by instead "chaining" them and creating a standard infrastructure for things like error propagation down a chain. That error propagation and the ability for simple action chaining is worth having over "simple" callbacks, even without the syntactic sugar of async/await.

let/const have similar benefits to function hoisting in that you don't need to declare let/const variables until when you use them. In this case the runtime behavior throws an exception if you try to use them before they are declared (in the so-called hoisting dead zone).
> I have noticed that reddit seems to have less drama since Steve came back.

Less drama in recent years, but also lower quality content and less of a sense of community.
I used it for the first time last weekend and it worked pretty well. The app is really great.
I discovered ribbonfarm after being pointed to Rao's outstanding series about office politics, through the lens of the Office which is here:

http://www.ribbonfarm.com/the-gervais-principle/

Then I decided to read much more material from the blog, but for the most part I have been disappointed. I feel like the authors there love intellectualism to the point that they create fancy constructs even when there isn't much return. Basically I feel like it's trying too hard to be clever. I have found a few gems there, however.

Not trying to pick a fight with anyone, just wanted to share my own experience here.
I want a new economical system besides crony capitalism. Time to start thinking outside the box.
Although most like the convenience of using a fingerprint to unlock, it would be nice to have the option of turning it into a form of pseudo keypad by requiring two to thee different fingerprints in sequence. That should make it a bit more secure as well as misdirecting those that assume the types of security.
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RationalWiki are part of the same social justice crowd as SRS, so that's not entirely surprising.
That, plus patents.
This is also referred to as "priming" which researchers have repeatedly failed to replicate.

See:
http://psych.stanford.edu/~michael/papers/Ramscar-Shaoul-Baa...
The New York Times is buying the Wirecutter for more than $30M
What's r/KiA?

I have only found a subreddit about the car brand (KIA)?
Think of the children!

Sorry, I don't buy this. Reddit doesn't have a "social responsibility" to be the morality police.
http://www.sporcle.com

It's not high-brow by any stretch, but is's a great time waster.
https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/
There was a nice writeup some time ago that the server can detect piping to shell via some properties of that call, and perhaps send an exploit in such case:

https://www.idontplaydarts.com/2016/04/detecting-curl-pipe-b...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11532599
I resisted const for like 10 minutes. You get used to it really quickly and then when you see a 'let' in your code you just know something is happening with that variable afterwards.

When I have to go back to programming in a language without const declarations it feels bad.
We met Garry, Alina, and Alexis at YC16 investor day. After talking for twenty minutes, they said "we're going to go talk about you behind your back, then give you an answer."

They made a decision in 2 minutes.

That's what it's like working with other founders. There's no bullshit. They proactively ask how they can be helpful, are empathetic and understanding when we go through tough times, and push us in a great way.

I'm pretty critical of a lot of Silicon Valley, but we are big fans of Initialized.
This comment may got down voted on HN, but it is reality in real world.
I've had uninsured hospital visits and when I called to pay they were shocked and surprised. I think they jack up the price so they can write it down because they don't expect to get paid.
That's been my big complaint about the reporting on the DDOS attacks. The specifics of the devices should be listed.
Just because most of what yishan says is probably true, that doesn't mean he's not tactically omitting details.

For instance, you can go to any of the right-leaning or conspiracy related subreddits and find posts where they show collusion between SRS and CTR. Evidence that is completely undeniable, like mods of SRS and r/politics also modding pro-Hillary or anti-Trump subreddits.

When one side says CTR has totally taken over the site, and the other says they're not involved at all, the truth is probably somewhere in the middle.
Yeah, that's probably the case, and quite possibly what was intended. I think my elaboration deals fine with that case too, though.
"You'll LOVE the horror stories <3"

It's even better when you're on a site like Hacker News with stronger-than-average, technical people. You get to read endorsements of the latest and greatest with people asking why (insert failure of common action here) is happening... in the same thread. I'll just stick with a hardened, flexible configuration of classic architecture and components that work.
Tunisian engineers (including software engineers) have a national union. It is a corrupt, useless, greedy organisation.

But the intentions behind its creation (on paper) are to protect the "engineering trade".
It depends on the town a bit I think. In Brighton there are lots of small business and some areas have no chains at all. Not sure if that is because of planning policy or for another reason.
> I do understand the technical difference very well - I have a PhD in implementing programming languages like JavaScript.

I am happy for your PhD and that it is for implementing programming languages like JavaScript.

My assertion is the advantage of having function scoping is apparent to those who understand function scoping. Block scoping-style programming in JavaScript was always, in my experienced, shoe-horned in by people who wanted to make JavaScript more like Java. That is all there is to my point.
There should be recalls from more manufacturers. Someone I know purchased a surveillance camera with a major brand name (Samsung) from Costco [0] just a few weeks ago that gave me a root shell by simply telneting in as root with no password and no way to reliably set a root password or disable telnet. It was returned the following day. Last I checked, Costco is still selling it. This problem isn't confined to cheap Chinese cameras you can buy online. Vulnerable devices are being sold at major American retailers and they are still on the shelves.

[0] http://www.costco.com/Samsung-SmartCam-HD-Plus-1080p-Wi-Fi-I...
A lot of people in the outskirt of the tech space (investors, analysts) is insisting on AI without really understanding capabilities.

There's good money to be made in pushing existing analytics tech undo AI monikers and sell them repackaged.
He means on HN (the internet as a whole) and so forth.

You and I know that /DIY/ (what it sounds like) and /OUT/ (as in outdoors, camping and stuff) have nothing to do with /POL/ the venn diagram is a near perfect non-overlap.

Also /hc/ and /s/ (both NSFW) are supposedly politics free.

/DIY/ and /OUT/ are possibly the last refuge on the entire internet from marketing shills and paid reviews and all that kind of corruption near omnipresent on the internet.
In science, major breakthroughs don't usually come from strained application of rational thinking, they come from spontaneous intuitive leaps. These leaps occur more readily when the mind is in a relaxed state free from worry and distractions, where you can just let your thoughts wander.
It's a little weird for me that a company supposedly in "maintenance mode" has been ignoring the Mac for so long. Even a 5th rate computer company can manage to come out with a new model once in a while. How did Apple get to the point where a company in "maintenance mode" ignores a big product line like this for so long? Is Apple not capable of executing on more than 1 project at once?
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Agreed. I'm having trouble thinking of any product category where Apple was actually first to market.
The military is very good at doing whatever they want to.

There's a better than good chance they just started docking 100% of his pay without telling them anywhere but their pay stub, then put them in a situation where it takes man-days at a minimum to get answers. It's something that happened to a way too many people that I knew. first one was old navy so ended in a hilarious fist fight(after being without pay for two months from an admin error), second one was new navy so it was a very painful process of working with personnel while they were on 4 hour workdays in shipyard, then there are way too many people that fell into classic bonus blackmail were the navy just beats you down in all directions(socially, finciancilly, and time) after getting disqualified from your job(mast, medical, mental, and family issues all included) (basically if you get bonus of some sort it hangs over your head for a good 4-6 years, and if you do pay it back you're paying it back in docked pay, withheld taxes, and maybe even your bank account. And in the amount that was paid to you before taxes).
"because of forcing to run only single process per container"

Which isn't really true, because you can still fork processes / run an init system. A lot of people don't do that, for reasons I don't really want to get into, just to say that this is a factually-invalid point, there is no forcing going on here.
The problem with all this nudging and using of biases to influence people is that it is hardly better than spicing their drinks with drugs to make them more complacent and willing to agree.

In my personal experience, being honest and reasonable, sticking to the facts and presenting good arguments have worked better in the long run than any eristic tricks. It depends, though, there are some fields where arguments do not really count and people are fairly irrational anyway, so I don't want to condemn these methods in general. Just as a tendency, it seems better to take other people seriously rather than only as allies or antagonists and as mere means to an end.
Isn't Nix(OS) ready for production? As far as I know it does the same as Guix, but without LISP.
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> For all the complaints I see about the relative toxicity of HN and its comments, it seems vastly less insane than Reddit.

Well, of course. In the subs I subscribe to every once in a while an HN discussion gets linked because of the quality of the comments.

The defaults on Reddit have a ton of SRS/SJWs vs. MensRights/Red Pillers. Also memes and general herd behavior.

But there are also subs for pretty much every TV show and game out there. Frameworks and programming languages have subs devoted to them. In general many, many interests have their own subreddits.
That's where you can often have intelligent discussions with mostly sensible people.

And of course, let's not forget heavily moderated places like the shining star /r/AskHistorians

What I mean to say is, you can't compare Reddit to HN, comparing HN to a specific subreddit would be more appropriate.
Was hoping there would be visual of an unstable glacier, not just text about sea level rise.

If you have never seen a glacier calve before, check out these videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hC3VTgIPoGU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RL3EjH9-WSs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1s5-IvHVDqg
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It's a little bit dated now, but the C2 wiki is a fun place to read about software development. There are quite a lot of patterns, anti-patterns, practices, rambling debates and just generally interesting ideas:
http://wiki.c2.com/?DesignByCommittee
This reminds me of Daniel Kahneman's "Thinking, Fast and Slow", which is terrific but probably oversells some of the research results.

Anyone know how well this new psychology stuff is surviving the replication crisis in the humanities?

Edit to add: less charitably, it also reminds me of Scott Adams' rambling blog posts about Donald Trump. Adams has persuaded himself that this persuasion stuff is like magic, and applies it to everything he sees. It's the new astrology.
It also doesn't help that let is 3 letters versus const is 5; programmers if anything will default to the faster to type option.
It just means that the sub is more "anti-trump" than "pro-clinton" right now, even though the end result in both cases is similar.
The function passed to the promise is executed synchronously, the call to `then` is always asynchronous.
Anyone who cites not being able to run an FTP server as a reason for not using something else these days turns me off to the rest of their arguments regarding that something else, especially when their core argument is about what they consider the right/wrong tools for given jobs in a modern environment.

FTP was a pain to work with back in the day when I wrote and sold client applications using it, when there wasn't an alternative for many use cases, but these days there are few (if any?) reasons to want to run an FTP server where there isn't a better alternative.
> If your webcam is hijacked you have effectively let an intruder enter your home

Except it's not. They can't touch me, hurt me physically, take things away. All they can do is see me.

So what they see some guy in front of a computer. I'm more worried about the hacks that can take over my keyboard, and can access financial data. But even then it's the banks problem and insurance that will take care of it.
There have been some good recommendations here for machine learning and data science, but I'm not sure that's what the OP is looking for here (or maybe it is, certainly no harm in posting them).

But yeah, if what you want to know how to do is query, organize, filter, trim, format, reformat, munge, and finagle data, you're probably looking for something more like the oreilly book hatmatrix mentioned above.

If not the book, I'd recommend just going through pandas as much as possible. Nothing wrong with just going through the online docs.

Oh, one more thing, I'm personally a huge fan of pandasql as well. It's a nice library that allows you to query a panda data frame as if it were a sql table (joins work with other data frames). Pretty much whatever is available in sqlite will be available through pandasql.

There have been a few spats on the interwebs about whether it's better to do things in sql vs data frame operations. Personally, I use both - I do find some things are far easier to do with a query, and then transition over to pandas and bumpy when I get to programming/mathy things.

Lastly - if you do want to do data science/ML stuff, I'd recommend going over to scikit-learn and just going through all the examples, trying things out on your own datasets.
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I've been around a bit longer. I remember that pretty much every "major windows version" (including the first) drew ire from Microsoft PC users. People complained about the transition from DOS to Windows (which was rough), from Windows 3.1 (and WFW) to 95, 98 to ME (probably one of the worst transitions), 98 to XP, XP to Vista (which had 90% of what everyone loved in 7), 7 to 8, and now 7 to 10.

Each iteration people hated it, then loved it. I don't think it's any kind of "Stockholm syndrome", each version introduced and refined new functionality that people grew to love. What a "Desktop OS" means seems to be really in a state of flux right now, so it remains to be seen if people love 10 (I'm enjoying it, but then again I liked Vista).
Google tells me that the average time on death row is ~15 years. I'm not sure the average criminal weighs the difference between life or 15 years when contemplating murder. I also believe that sentencing for crimes are compounded in the US - so you might get 15 years for each murder, 10 years for robbing a bank with a weapon, 5 years for robbery, 5 years for using a weapon in a crime etc - effectively a "life" sentence.

Also, is being shot by a sharpshooter the death penalty without due process or a reasonable effort to preserve the lives of innocent people who may be involved?
If you're looking for an alternative, you might want to try our app Boxcryptor: https://www.boxcryptor
This article certainly seems to be pre-suading people to buy Cialdini's books...!
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"their only purpose now is to perpetuate their own existence."

AKA the inevitable destination of all extremist political movements.

If there were an easy way to identify that kind of content and wield a banhammer against it, it would really clean up the internet in general (and stinkier corners of reddit in particular).
Can you elaborate a little more on the "company car" thing? It sounds interesting. Does it mean that you basically get a car from your employer as part of the job benefits, but in reality you cover the cost (which is deducted from your salary)? How does it work?
I know I should use const. I lazily leave it until the end then try to shoe-horn it in. Then it ripples through the code until I give up. Then I hate myself.
ahem... well, there's, uh... me...

I'm afraid that you would find the number of people who failed to consider blackbox internet appliances as attack vectors to be disappointingly large.

Luckily, I already had a paranoid router setup, so I think I'm probably okay.
This is extremely disconcerting
A few things with this:

- It doesn't work with JS disabled :(

- I typically want applications like this client-side only because I could use this for creating diceware-like passwords, and I don't want any of this logged on a remote server.

It's making remote requests here which is annoying

/api/suggestion_service;word=xxx?returnMeta=true