skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Authorities of all sorts love the bully narrative because it legitimizes their demands for compliance. Social media is undermining to them because people don't want to be supervised.

The real reason social media sites die without moderation is not because it alienates people who take bullying, it is that when there is no way to become a moderator, people seek status and power elsewhere. Reddit survives because it is a status pyramid scheme. HN survives because of similar aspiration to be seen as that smart person in front of a VC audience, a kind of Enders Game fantasy.

Facebook and Twitter are waning not because of trolls, but because they have signaled a nannying supervisory role that reduces overall user optionality, and takes away the thing that drew people in in the first place: Hope.
It is an interesting and valid point, but hasn't this been always the case ?

Media distort perception almost by definition, the difference is that now there are new actors and technologies, which are mostly outside of governments' influence, unlike traditional newspapers and television.

I'm not saying that it is an improvement upon the old status-quo, but let's not pretend that before it was much different.
Misleading title. More accurate title would be "the domain name system is actually controlled..."
I would agree it is more a matter of reflexivity - personalization increases and feeds on personal bias.

Embodied here: http://chainsawsuit.com/comic/2014/09/16/on-research/
As I'm reading these comments I can't help but wonder, why hasn't anyone come up with a sane git cli interface that people can use in place of the standard git cli commands (of course the sane git cli commands would just call the "old" git cli commands under the hood)?
This looks about the same as Google Contributor https://www.google.com/contributor/welcome/ but Google has the advantage of owning the ad network and the ability to communicate with website owners.

It will be interesting to see where companies spend more on advertising if they can't reach their whole audience online. Maybe more in the form of product placement and such.
Doesn't it feel like a waste of your talents to have society employing you full-time to make rich people richer via gambling in the financial markets rather than something more beneficial to society?

I don't blame you at all (I'm sure your quality of life is magnitudes of order better, and I'd do the same in your position) and this isn't personal at all, it just pains me that our brightest graduates are working in finance rather than something like curing cancer.
because copyright is subject to national laws - not global universal laws
It's a cool-sounding book but let's not go overboard here. Marco Polo? The Grand Tour? Ibn Battuta? Alexander the Great? All the Roman nobility who would take tours of the famous sites in Greece (so much so that Pausanias wrote a length - and now historically invaluable - guidebook)? Hakluyt wasn't even much of a traveler himself: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hakluyt
Thank you, this is very insightful.
> But... Powershell, really? The Linux subsystem exists now, you know :)

Right, but running Powershell for Linux on the WSL doesn't work quite right...
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Agreed. Seems like this advice factors down to "have lots of $$$; don't forget to stop and enjoy all the stuff the money can buy you in the free time that it gives you."

Truth is, if you grab a soda from 7-11 on your mad dash from your BK job to your Wally-world job, you're just not going to be stopping and savoring it.
Visiting their website main page consumes 2.2 MB of bandwidth. This is a basically a blank page with some small icons. If these guys can't build a lean website then how are they going to build cross-site tracking technology that will improve my browsing experience?
I use it pretty much every day and it's very nice, especially for free. They've had their fair share of bugs, but patches come out pretty quick. Still interested in looking at Tower's new Windows version at some point, but I have a feeling I might stick with GitKraken on all platforms.
Interesting. I wonder if this kind of bugs could be found automatically, via fuzzing. It would be nice if someone found a way to add a definition of unexpected behavior to fuzzing with AFL...
It's about damn time!
They are able to operate a company at that scale. I think your comment dismisses a lot of very functional people within their organization.
That mindset is prevalent in people who can't understand any business being more valuable than a lemonade stand (preferably cardboard, so you can profit from day 1).
Great objective perspective and advice.
Are you sure half those nginx machines aren't running OpenBSD?
An experiment to fix social media
I don't have an iPhone to try it out, so a few questions.

1. Do you need to "log in" to use it? Or can it be used without an account?

2. Can you have hidden/secret conversations? That is, the conversation isn't easily observable by everyone within 1km?
Tim Sweeney has said this many times, but it's continually not held up. That same month, Microsoft released an update to make it easier to install UWP apps outside the Store. Steam could distribute UWP apps if they wanted to support it.

And Win32 is going nowhere in the next decade, the entire world runs on it, and it's the reason Microsoft is in business.

Tim Sweeney's comments on Windows 10 should almost be entirely dismissed as FUD. We have more pressing issues (telemetry) to worry about.
That's really just a function of how you define savoring. For me, savoring something is being fully present in the experience, and really turning the senses experiencing it up to 11.
What do you do as your day job? Do you find that you don't focus on one thing as part of that?

I'd say I'm the opposite. Funnily enough, I'm envious of people who are a jack of all trades because they can choose the right tool for the job. I just do iOS development in my day job and side projects and although I love app development, I find the lack of knowledge on other tools limiting.
Ask HN: Has anyone encountered sneaky tricks from recruiters?
A contracting recruiter emailed me about a new contract he was trying to fill. The day rate was attractive enough (X euro per day) and I said I was interested. After this he tells me that the daily rate is actually X-50 euro per day. I told him I wasn’t interested.

A week later he tells me that he is able to get X euro per day after all so I tell him to submit me.

I go through three rounds of interviews, on the final one I am speaking to the team leader and she seems enthusiastic and wants to know when I can start.

I get a call a few hours after the final interview to tell me that they can’t pay me the full amount and how much below the daily rate am I willing to go. Their plan is to lure me in with the sunken cost fallacy. They know I’ll accept the X euro per day rate and they want to see how much extra margin they can eek out of the employee on the hope that they really want this new job. As a matter of principle I turned it down.
Yeah, that is what it seems like.

Using a column store and doing a bunch of pre-aggregation is the only way we've been able to to come close to these requirements, but I keep hoping there is a system that will do what we've done without having to write code. Trading space for computation is the only thing that has worked reliably.

We also have the benefit that most queries just want a small subset of time and have things sorted to take advantage of that. But occasionally people want to do something over a large range and if isn't a set of group-bys we've pre-aggregated then they just have to be patient.
"Apple won the smartphone wars a long time ago"

So no data to back that up? Did this become a topic of opinion rather than fact? YoY sales and market dominance would suggest the opposite is true (http://www.theverge.com/2016/6/1/11836816/iphone-vs-android-...)

Also (and I know this is anecdotal evidence), in the past 3-4 years anyone I know who jumped ship went from iPhone to Android and never went back. Not a single person switched away from Android.

In my opinion (which is mostly backed by fact, but I'll keep it as an opinion) iPhone is quickly becoming a niche product, and there's nothing Apple can do to change that.
I know of no city in the world that operates a primary network of point to points. I think it's a fascinating engineering problem with a bunch of unknown problems that will arise in the process of attempting to deliver the solution.

Things break in exciting ways at scale :).
The current state of online advertising still has a significant impact on loads times, battery life and bandwidth. It's getting better and, I think, will continue to get better, in part because of the huge take-up of adblockers which is, I hope, spurring the industry to improve.
I wouldn't mind taking a look. I prefer VanillaJS.

I'm currently using .Net/Java/C++ (yeah...) and am wanting to get away from that and switch to Python full time. So, I have been looking at as much Python code as I can lately.
Well, whoever gets to control what IPs get attached to domains, controls pretty much all of the internet...
> Hmm -- most migrations don't need to be reversed,

This is true - but when something does break unexpectedly in a production migration, the last thing you want to do is figure out how to do your revert/'down' on the fly.
http://traviswingo.com is my personal site.

I built an interactive unix-based terminal to navigate my projects and resume. I'm planning on adding a better layout though since it's been pointed out to me that the people actually looking at my site to hire me won't know what to do with a terminal :p.
I'll reconsider when ad networks stop bloating websites, autoplaying videos and shore up their security.

Until then, you can pry my adblocker out of my cold, dead hands.
And yet small companies often try to adopt "best practices" from megacorps 1000 times their size! One of the huge advantages of working in a small companies is that you can do all these things that don't scale.
I'm honestly willing to give a pass on the forced updates. It's a hard place, as most people will never run updates, and we end up with botnets taking down Dyn. The downside, of course, is the debacle with the anniversary update. I wish they had a better update process..

The telemetry, on the hand, really does need to be a lot more transparent and much easier to opt out of...
Not needing a transpiler would be a major plus.
eww

This is no better or worse than:

"Is that JavaScript in an HTML comment inside a SCRIPT tag?" Which is exactly what the original JavaScript implementation was[0]. The HTML comment was to prevent browsers that did not support specific tags from choking on them. And the OBJECT tag has always used it's child elements to give configuration for the external resource it represents.

https://web.archive.org/web/20001101095326/http://www.javasc...
Healthcare is always rationed, though. It can be rationed by need, ability to pay, or some other way, but there's no system for infinite healthcare yet developed.
I'll never forgive MS when they cancelled my XBOX Live Account because they accused me of hacking the XBOX. Meanwhile, for 3 months My XBOX Live account was hacked - Credit Card info etc. was modified. MS LIve was hacked & it didn't make the headlines. I endured 3 months of trying to get back my account. When I did get it back, after 2 months, my account was shutdown. Reason - We found that you hacked your Account/XBOX live. What? really? I was able to prove all the purchases etc. SO FUCK YOU MS and FUCK the thousands of dollars on XBOX - XBOX 360 Purchases.

As for the Windows 10, it's not bad, but there's something in the background of this and how they want you to move all of your shit onto the "cloud." Use your MSDN or outlook ID for a better experience. WTF.

I don't trust them, never will. The OS is good for games though... I do like F# and visual studio. But too bad they don't have a Unix/Linux like su or sudo. Oh well.
Fuck you Microsoft, with love and lube.
I've identified a Philosophical Zombie. Someone contact the nobel committee, for I have refuted Physicalism. I knew your kind would finally let it slip. I jest!

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/zombies/
Correct. At least Microsoft[1] and Clinton Camp[2][3] have been known to use it on reddit.

1. http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-positive-reddit-com...

2. http://correctrecord.org/barrier-breakers-2016-a-project-of-...

3. https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/141
Sadly, shameless self-promotion works. It gets you hired, it advances your career, and it opens up doors to great opportunities. The talented hacker with just a standard resume that lists their projects and results will always get passed over for the self-promoter with mediocre output who glosses it up with superlatives and bullshit, blogs about himself every week and has 10K twitter followers.
FCC Passed New Rules to Protect Online Privacy
ASP.NET Core 1.0 High Performance: https://unop.uk/book
It's always interesting to see how someone elses tackles something. Personally I'd probably have used Pjax or intercooler.js for that. I assume the ajax-ey part is simply to avoid full page reloads and improve the general speed? Other than that it's fairly static content?

(would be interesting to compare the performance of this vs static site generator output on a really fast CDN - my hunch would be that this would probably win unless you were at a geographic disadvantage)
Totally agree. Freescale, NXP and TI are all great at documentations etc. Qualcomm and Broadcom and Marvell are all notorious on that regard, in most cases all you can get is a product brief unless you're their top 10 customers, otherwise they probably don't even bother sending you a NDA. Broadcom was bought up, Marvell is going nowhere, Qualcomm is the exception though itself is undercut by MediaTek/Huawei these days heavily, which is probably one major reason for this deal. Really sad to see Qualcomm swallows in NXP/Freescale.
Quadrilateral Cowboy
There is also a beautiful course on EdX "The science of happiness" where they show beneficial impact of happiness on health.
https://courses.edx.org/courses/course-v1:BerkeleyX+GG101x+3...
Report Reveals Humans will have Sex more with Robots than Humans by 2050
>Besides, the company just isn’t scary any more. Or tone-setting. Or, in many areas of past glory, even relevant.

Ironic, considering the author of this article.
> Twitter gets extremely mixed reviews from people who are the targets of abuse

That's (as you note) putting it very lightly. It's basically unusable as a public platform if you're moderately famous. Go watch Jimmie Kimmel's bit with celebrities reading mean tweets on youtube and imagine being on the receiving end of it. The ability to lock down your account misses the point, though it does say that Twitter thinks abuse might possibly be a problem (as does comments by its CEO).

Screening out abusive users is a hard problem that hasn't been properly solved yet, anywhere in the world. An eternal September, to revive the phrase. G+/Youtube and Facebook's real name policy hasn't managed to solve it, and Facebook is only able to screen out the worst - gore and pornography, with devolving political discussions leading to many unfriendings this election season. Maybe not quite abuse, but still unpleasant.

If fighting abuse is your life's mission, then join Twitter. See what they're doing about abuse, talk to people who have tried to fight abuse for years, find out what's succeeded, what's failed. There may be some Twitter org-specific implementation barriers, but that's still a learning experience for the future. If you find some Twitter org-specific barriers that are insurmountable, get out.

My bias, here, isn't that I work for Twitter (I don't) but I doubt Twitter's inability to quash abuse has anything to do with corporate governance (other than an inability to spend infinite amounts of money on an infinite amount of moderators).

Humans are still currently the best at understanding humans, and we still do a terrible job sometimes. Computers aren't able to parse sarcasm, idioms, or subtlety, and being fed in plain text instead of speech makes it even harder as there's no vocal tone to analyze either. Twitter's 140 character limit hurts quite a bit here.

I agree that making a difference is key, but the problem itself also has to be considered - the early teething pains at Twitter in reaching "webscale" have been fixed by now (when was the last time you saw the fail whale?), but "people can be assholes to each other" is probably the oldest problem in the world.
Same boat more or less as you. I switched to macOS just to play with it (after using Windows and Linux) and ended up never leaving. Power of unix with a beautiful UI/UX. I knew I needed to be on something Unix based for my own sanity (so Windows was out) and I tried Linux multiple times but always needed some app that I couldn't use unless I used wine and even then it was shitty. Also dealing with graphics drivers and a number of other small annoyances and a generally ugly UI I switched to macOS. My tools are beautiful to use and I spend my time working instead of fiddling/fighting with my OS. People may say that it doesn't matter how your tools look but IMHO they either wear the "ugly" as a badge of honor or simply just don't know any better. Good looking tools (and ones that all fit together instead of each being different creating a jarring experience switching between them) used to be something I didn't care about until I had them and now I can't imagine going back.
From what I've seen, the answer is yes. Build once, drop and run anywhere.
So for people who think they need Redux, first read "You Might Not Need Redux" [0] by Dan Abramov himself, creator of Redux.

Then also I would recommend MobX [1] over Redux, it's easier to get started and in my opinion easier and better in general.

[0] https://medium.com/@dan_abramov/you-might-not-need-redux-be4...

[1] https://github.com/mobxjs/mobx
How to Choose an Ideal Accounting Software for Your Business?
This kind article comes out every year or two and it's always incredibly misleading. They always try to make it sound spooky and dystopic. What would it even mean for 14 people to "control" the internet in any newsworthy way?
Quality Assurance Testing for Software Defined Storage (SDS)
Having different priorities than you is not the same as corrupt.
we started a practice ~1 month ago that a friend taught us. we now ask 3 questions of each other
1) How were you brave today?
2) How were you kind today?
3) How did you fail today?
I've found it amazing how much conversation and learning it provokes.
Exactly. The amount of time I've wasted creating regexs to describe & cut out data with grep, sed and awk, vs a simple '| select some-field' in powershell these days is huge.
I'm somewhat reminded of some Einstein quotes (probably dubious but whatever):

"You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one."

and

"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer."

At the same time:

"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing."

and

"I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious."

So I say follow your curiosity. If it wants to go deep go deep. If it wants to go broad go broad.
Too soon. Among the others let's see how the current embracing of Ubuntu plays out.
Show HN: Setup a gpu optimized spark/hadoop cluster with docker compose
Hey folks, I figured this might be useful for a few people who want to play with hadoop and spark locally. Feedback hugely appreciated.

I built this from the pain of wanting to setup a cluster for demos.

I have gpu bits in there due to the use case but figured maybe some could draw inspiration from this.

Happy to answer questions if there's any interest.

Link here:
https://github.com/deeplearning4j/docker
Perhaps unintentional, but your examples are extremely biased.

More than one politician has distorted reality and played fast and loose (to be charitable) with facts.

Moreover, who checks the fact checkers? Politifact and other sites aren't unbiased themselves, after all, and we certainly have seen that the news media in America are easily manipulated (c.f. the tons of free media Trump gets and the collusion explicit in email dumps from the DNC hack).

We don't have high quality, (mostly) neutral fact checkers in this country. That's a big contributing factor to the state of our current election, where the highest office is contested by a bigoted, stupid clown and a corrupt, deceitful and likely criminal woman, both of whom are likely to engage in terrible and aggressive foreign wars, while just about anything down-ticket of these two is ignored unless it intersects with the Presidential race or involves some completely irrelevant and salacious sex scandal.
Some streaming sites (e.g. 4 on Demand, IIRC) have a peer-to-peer element; you could reverse-DDOS those by running a lot of computers "seeding" (perhaps by leaving them on the page but at the end of the video) distributed all over the globe.
Is there a way to set a pre commit git hook in a project's source code? So that the same hook only runs on that project and not on every project using git.
wow much old and experienced greybeard masterman. much smile and knAwledge. much superior to linux kiddies. much much ms very good boy like powershell.
I agree with having a site for experienced staff. The BBC are employing minority groups and this is not unlawful, what about jobs for juniors that's not unlawful, what about jobs for apprentices that's not unlawful, you can't pick and choose what suits.
Google Halts Expansion of Fiber in 11 Cities Amid Layoffs
Yeah, it's my case too. I'm really satisfied with the iPhone. I upgrade it every 2 or 3 years without even looking at the competitors.

In addition to your comment: iOS was THE platform for mobile gaming during years. Some people on NeoGAF have spent $100, $200 or more in games. I personally have several Square Enix titles (games at $15-$20) and dozens of games at $5. You don't even think to move to Android when you have invested so much.

For those interested to learn about iOS gaming:

- http://toucharcade.com

- http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1287308
I don't use windows for anything anymore but having to occasionally rebuild a machine for a friend I've found this tool [0] to be a HUGE help and timesaver. It lets you pick from a big list of popular tools and it gives you 1 installer for all of them. Installing a base windows machine for me went from an all day off-and-on event to <10min to get 90+% of the apps up and running.

[0] https://ninite.com/
Pretty organically. Several neuroscience guys who did my kind of research got into finance/trading as well.
You can have whatever you want when it comes to DNS. I mean it doesn't mean the rest of the world will support it or join in but fill yer boots lad.
Agreed. The Surface Studio looks amazing - I'm not a creative type, so it isn't really designed or intended for me, but boy do I want to play around with one. And the Surface Book also looks phenomenal - when coupled with the Linux subsystem, it could be a machine that does 90% of my daily tasks.

Unfortunately that remaining 10% involves running and debugging sites and apps on iOS, which requires macOS. So I'm still on a Mac for now, but the temptation to get a Hackintosh running inside a VirtualBox VM increases every day...
hey, I'm one of the developers of this repo. We actually use docker in some of our projects but we never had time to add it to this project. Feel free to send us a PR :)
Thanks for the heads up. I was hoping this would be an ideal system to have the community moderate/flag messages/users.

Being a little paranoid about privacy myself I tried to build the platform with as little logging etc. as possible. This of course also makes it harder to avoid misuse of the platform.