skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The polarisation of opinions is a nasty side effect of some filters: people going in the web to be in conflict will click/trust/consume less. They are more aware of potential lies.

Thus the algorithm must provide the best un trollesque experience possible.

For this, it is better to have people feel cumfy with people sharing same believes/opinions. This way the CPC diminishes bringing more ad conversions.

Do the experience on yourself: did you prefer to go to school where diversity was greater than in your actual probable IT job, or do you prefer going to a conference on «your favorite whatever tech» it is. I have used noSQL techs because I thought it was cool after a python conf while I was pretty much dubitative. And I should have kept my doubts they had solid grounds.

Basically, conference and school are the same ; people talking thinking they share something, except school is full of conflict because of diversity whereas conference feels amazing because you feel in communion and you are more receptive. (I loved every conf I attended in the beginning until something itched me (my nosql conversion)).

That is also the secret recipe of churches, sects, successful corporate cultures, modern musical tendency to be based on genre that are caricature of themselves, even meme ... polarisation of the mass in one direction and fervor and a feeling to share something common, making you feel more likely to embrace new paradigms.

What we should fear is not facebook, algorithm or even google: it is our on Nature to feel cumfortable in uniformity and avoid conflicts.

The side effects of the algorithms is just that it turns us people in fanatics because we are not able to deal with diversity anymore. It is the experience we all wish: PEACE, shared progress and experience!

However believe it or not, since we are not always right, we sometimes need to have painfully disagreeing opinions. (real life). But in our bubble of agreement, opponents get marginalized as pisse froid.

And I know the tendency is to fight/blame the trolls, but trolls are not the problem at hand. It is a growing tendency to prefer avoiding conflicts, and I am concerned, only for one reason: it makes crappy software. Regarding politics, I don't really care that a globally skewed system towards the person rich by birth is getting unstable.

They wanted the power, no one was concerned since everyone was thinking it was a great idea: now they have it and I just grab my popcorn and sit.

The world can burn, I will rejoice myself with it but I did not bring the oil nor scratched the match that set it on fire. I am innocent, I was just a troll doing my job of trying to wake up people on the dangers coming...

One day us trolls will be given a medal for trying to save the world. Or maybe, I am still trolling...
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That was indeed the case in December, 2014 (before I joined the team). Legal docs were quickly fixed. Tech was fixed in March 2016 when everything (text, assets, calls) were moved to E2EE and open sourced.
Is a ToS rule like that even legal? This comes a bit more from copyright law, but the US has the "right of first sale"[0] which guarantees individuals the right to sell works they purchased to someone else. I can't imagine this protection would be weaker on physical purchases.

Additionally, Google's Terms of Service also says you own your data, including IP rights: "You retain ownership of any intellectual property rights that you hold in that content. In short, what belongs to you stays yours."[1] I would question if refusal to grant users access to download their own data could be considered theft.

Of course, IANAL, but if I were any of these people, I would seek the opinion a real one immediately.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine
[1]http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/terms/
The Economist carries just as much propaganda as any other political magazine. They're better at hiding it, perhaps.
As a statistician I spend ca. 80% of my time collecting and transforming data. Maybe because I never had the luxury having 1-2 own data engineers doing that for me. Having worked with SAS, SPSS, Matlab and python and tried some other tools I would say that the choice of statistical programming language does not make a big difference. If you once understand a modelling process you can reproduce/use it in any language as long as there is a documented package for it.

On the other side knowing how to work with data is IMHO more important. Being an SQL pro, knowing how to think in data sets instead of data records, when to use flat tables, how to use vectorization and matrix manipulation even for all day tasks especially in "in memory" systems is essential.

I would say SQL + R/python makes a good combination. With that you can solve a lot of problems at least two different ways. R gets integrated step by step in DWHs, what makes a lot easier. I hope SAS dies a short and painful death, but could be also a valid choice.
No shit ; fuck you whale !
I would be very curious to know why this has happened to economists alone--out of all the liberal arts departments. Are sociologists, historians, and political scientists immune to these influences? Or have the multinationals just refrained from attempting to influence them? What explains the lack of "multinational capture" among non-economist academics?
Sincere question: how are such clauses enforced?
and they have the added benefit of massive analytics and tracking systems to data mine user retention and in app purchases and a/b test ideas at a scale the casinos could only dream about.
"The only reason I have taken so much time away from work to address this personally is because you are Mr. Shultz’s grandson."

--Theranos President Sunny Balwani to [Theranos employee/whistlblower] Tyler Shultz in a 2014 email

Ouch.

(Tyler is the grandson of fmr Sec. of State/Treasury/Labor George Shultz, who was also a Theranos board member)

Edit: Another quote from the email:

"We saw your email to Elizabeth. Before I get into specifics, let me share with you that had this email come from anyone else in the company, I would have already held them accountable for the arrogant and patronizing tone and reckless comments."
Assuming she doesn't get prosecuted...

Like most sociopaths, she will no doubt reappear in a few years. She'll show up with some well-honed, vague expression of regret and implication that she was overwhelmed by her duty as a woman do accomplish whatever.
It is possible mega-mergers make sense economically. However economists do not take into account individual ambition. A chairman or a CEO might say satisfying words for a merger, but with real plans to increase prices due to increased market share
This trend represents the unlearning of very hard earned lessons. Personally, I can't wait until people rediscover that programming can be more fun and productive without boilerplate. A language being explicit, by itself, is not a feature. Being explicit instead of implicit is only worthwhile if you get clarity in exchange, and boilerplate is clarity-reducing because it's so regular and so obscures program logic.
And reinforced with advertising algorithms which keeps everyone at FB employed, it is a FB problem as it is now the Fast Food of news...very unhealthy.
It seems stupid that they just throw away talented people. And then they pay millions for talented people through buying startups.
Wouldn't Romney in 2012 have been better if it avoided Trump 2016?
20 out of 58, so far....
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They are far, far away from iOS being a dev platform.
Is this really different than TV news? Most people stick to one network (Fox news, NBC, CNN, etc) and not only do they not watch the others but believe they are corrupt, fixed, and lying.

The problem is we don't have multiple major news organizations per major area like we used to. Back then there was bias, but it was easier to be called out on it. Now I think many people are fine living in the bubble.
No good. It seems that some genious at the WSJ decided to make accounts mandatory.
I don't like UI frameworks that work the way you describe either! I think this is mainly C++-legacy living on in Java and .NET, where they pay a penalty for being static. OO UI frameworks in dynamic languages can be structured very differently.

In Cocoa, you don't have these silly class-specific interfaces ("ButtonClickListener" or whatever). Instead it uses target/action: you give the button an object, and the method name to call on the object. So it does allow you to bind any member of that "world of classes" as-is.

Next, you allow the target to be dynamically determined. For example, say you have a button representing the Copy to Clipboard. You can set its target object to a sentinel representing the keyboard focus. And the button can even use reflection, and disable itself if the focus doesn't support Copy.

In a functional world, functions are opaque: the only thing you can ultimately do with a function is call it. But in an OO world, functions are closer to objects: they have names, they can be inspected, they can be dynamically dispatched. This is part of what makes OO languages excel at UIs.
Yes, but ignoring the news and political changes is kind of a luxury, it means your life is secure enough that you can afford not to pay much attention to any of that stuff because you feel confident it won't affect you personally.
Yes of course. Do you want an educated public or are you just trying to get them to believe in a doctrine?
Like it or not, tech now has a huge, huge place in society. A tweak in Facebook's algorithm could easily decide an election (I'm not saying it has, but it definitely could).

For many people on HN, their work has the potential to have social implications in a way that was never the case twenty years ago. I for one am glad to see stories like this posted to HN, as I think engineers that make things like the algorithms that decide news feeds have very valuable input.
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I have interacted with several people on Facebook who rely on fake news sources.

I pointed out fake news articles several times on one person's Facebook page. She agreed the articles were not true.

However, she added "I don't have time to figure out if they're true. People can read your comments."

I asked her what she thought of the fact that this particular article, which was blatantly false, was shared 16,000 times.

Her response:

"That's comforting."

I was shocked.

And yet, that is the reality we now live in. Many, many people are acting, and thinking, exactly like her.
Please see the FAQ regarding job posts: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

For the latest post, see https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring

(Also, remember that the system detects the votes of sockpuppet.)
> You can't have reasonable value types that own resources if you need explicit error checking.

The proper place for the period in that sentence is before the "if"; owning resources is not a reasonable thing for a value type to do.
Yeah, but why? I've never used a libc on embedded, and I'm kind of confused as to why you'd want to. Am I just Doing It Wrong™?
I don't trust them one bit when their profitability is driven by clicks, and clicks are driven by bullshit stories.
> Azure runs on Linux

Are you sure? I thought I'd read Azure runs on Windows's HyperV.

Or perhaps you meant "Azure runs Linux".
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I was obviously being flippant, but a long story short is that going to a JSON-based, RPC-style SPA app gives up a lot of the advantages of the original RESTful web network architecture, not the least of which being simplicity.

Long-suffering HN readers can skip all of this (sorry guys) but I expand on this in the following blog posts:

http://intercoolerjs.org/2016/01/18/rescuing-rest.html

http://intercoolerjs.org/2016/02/17/api-churn-vs-security.ht...

http://intercoolerjs.org/2016/05/08/hatoeas-is-for-humans.ht...
Facebook sponsored a hackathon to solve this issue and a team of college students found a somewhat trivial answer in just 36 hours. That's pretty cool.. and related to the topic of this news article... Its worth discussing I guess? But the article itself is pretty paltry.

http://www.businessinsider.com/students-solve-facebooks-fake...
As a matter of jurisprudence, I agree with that - in that the purpose of the statement is to say the US Constitution does not impose such a moral judgement upon the individual states.

I'm far more concerned with statements like:

> Contrary to the cliché so tritely tossed about in freshman poli-sci courses, the States can and must legislate morality.

and

> Even legislation that is largely symbolic and infrequently enforced (due to other salutary checks on government power, like the Fourth Amendment) has significant pedagogical value. Laws teach people what they should and should not do, based on the experiences of their elders.

FWIW, I'll also say that I strongly disagree with the amicus, on multiple grounds.
from your link:

> "When Rochelle called Holmes's office to explain what had happened, the secretary was devastated and offered her sincere condolences. She told Rochelle Gibbons that she would let Holmes know immediately. But a few hours later, rather than a condolence message from Holmes, Rochelle instead received a phone call from someone at Theranos demanding that she immediately return any and all confidential Theranos property."
I've found https://www.securemessagingapps.com to be an interesting source of comparison. The author seems to actively update it based on crowd-submissions.

There's also http://öä.eu/bac.html (based on http://öä.eu/bac.pdf thesis) but I've emailed with the author and he said that he's not keeping it up to date.
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In line with Female Founder Stories & the Employee #1 series, it'd be fascinating to hear (un)successful founders' perspectives on previous failures (potential program title: "Start Overs"?), what they would have done differently, if there's still a market for their idea, and what they learned from it for their future successes.

Ideal speakers:

Travis Kalanick -- Scour

Drew Houston -- Accolade

Justin Kan & Emmett Shear -- Kiko

Jack Dorsey -- Uber Imitator in the early 2000s

Sean Parker -- Napster

Parker Conrad -- SigFig

Ben Silbermann -- Audiobeta
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You can also just google the title and click on the first link.
And a more nuanced counterargument: http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/07/22/freedom-on-the-centrali...

TLDR:

> We don’t trust the free market to necessarily preserve racial equality – that’s what anti-discrimination laws are for. We don’t trust the free market to necessarily preserve worker safety – that’s what OSHA and related regulations are for. [...] Whenever we think something is important, we regulate the hell out of it, rights-of-private-companies to-set-their-own-policies be damned. But free speech? If you don’t trust the free market to sort it out, the only possible explanation is that you just don’t understand the literal text of the First Amendment.
Thought I'd work on an article on Medium while suffering through jet lag in Beijing. Alas, it's blocked. If medium.com can confirm, I suppose it needs to be added to the Wikipedia list.
I don't necessarily disagree, but how does this follow from what I said? I'd argue people are TOO independent to reach a third party consensus.
IIRC one of the main tenants of science, when I was learning it in middle school in the early '90s, was that it's fact until it's disproven. We don't know everything about it which is what makes it different than religion. There's no faith involved.

I know a lot of it is corrupt and aiming for a target but good scientists will tell you that they're basing their findings on studies which may have flaws and they'd want you to try and reproduce their studies to tell them if they've gotten something wrong.
I have a lot of mixed feelings on this one. Of course one shouldn't rely upon Facebook for the news, just as one shouldn't rely upon Fox News. But people are going to anyway.

The problem in this election was that Facebook did exactly what it was designed to do: show people more of what they wanted to see. Unfortunately that creates extreme echo chambers, where blatantly false news ricochets around the site, blindly liked by partisans on each side.

So that leaves open the question of what to do.

On the one hand, Facebook is a massive media company, and I am not comfortable handing them carte blanche to police and control the speech of their users. On the other, Facebook's current policy of "neutrality" creates an environment that favors political isolation and the spread of outright falsehoods.

At the very least, it seems Facebook could do something about purveyors of those falsehoods algorithmically. But even then I have my misgivings about a private corporation, or really anyone, determining the acceptable range of public discourse.
If you search for the title on Google and open the link from there you should be able to get past the paywall.
Tldr; someone?
Wire’s end-to-end encrypted bot API is coming
https://github.com/lakario/wait-google-sent-me
How do you get experience with a library if you never choose a library with which you have no experience?
They sign a contract stating they won't do it when joining Apple.

Needless to say that doesn't work, especially given the number of enforcement officials at the SEC and the capacity there, and the fact that Apple would have to sue it's own employees (plus the fact that you wouldn't want them to be heavy-handed at all).

So SOX means that very few employees can have access to such data. The more enterprising amongst them still do of course - as do the ones that you really don't want to have access to it. The ones that would both "need" the data (not really), and would know exactly how to profit from it - general and financial management.
Note that when confronted about false stories (which were sourced from white aupremacist propaganda) he retweeted, the President-elect, while still a candidate, responded fairly similarly, so, yeah, it's definitely an attitude that is becoming quite normalized.
I'm excited to see a P6 book, but don't know why O'Reilly isn't funding it unless Brian gets to keep most of the $. Some things I'm concerned about are the crazy short length (350 for a language this big), what will be included, and the fact that it sounds like he is still in the exploratory phase.
You can no longer communicate with Google users with the XMPP client of your choice. They require you to use only their client.
Yeah, agreed
C# first introduced lambdas and LINQ in v3, back in 2007. It was the first mainstream OO language to really push a more functional/mixed-paradigm approach.

This is definitely an area where Microsoft has lead the market, not followed it.
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Tell me more about how std::string is unreasonable.
Something like Mail2Tor@onion?
It's not that the iPhone is bigger than Donald Trump, but that political leaders are only remembered if they're apocalyptically bad (Hitler, Pol Pot, Stalin) or put in exceedingly difficult situations (FDR, Churchill).

The others get forgotten almost as quickly as they leave office. Who was George W. Bush again?

Political leaders often have little impact on the timeline of history, though there are exceptions. Kennedy (space race, being assassinated) and Reagan (cold war) stand out as two notable examples in recent times where their actions had a measurable effect on the world.

Most of politics is far more mundane. An effective leader might not have any pyramid-scale achievements and yet still have done a great job. Sadly they're often forgotten, not unlike some IT worker who is never given credit for the things that didn't happen because of their hard work.
I'll probably do the same
> The primary business objective of advertising for companies such as mine is to build brand awareness, product benefit awareness and brand identity (eg. are you partial to Coke or Pepsi? Nike or Addidas? etc). Doing this will influence your purchase when you next shop for our categories (eg. your next shopping trip to Walmart or Amazon). Note that we are looking to influence a future shopping trip, any "digital conversion" we may get (eg. click thorough to our product page or an online retailer) really is pure gravy from our point of view.

How do you calculate ROI for the ad spend? How do you figure out if you targeted correctly? For instance, I'm highly unlikely to buy either nike or Adidas, so I'd be a poor target.
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They didn't build an Ubuntu userland. They did build a subsystem that pretends to be Linux (the kernel) and takes and processes Linux syscalls.

It's just that Ubuntu itself runs on Linux, so they can run Ubuntu on this subsystem. Nothing technical stopping other userspaces to be run on it.

So it is quite appropriately named "Windows Subsystem for Linux". What you are talking about may be called "Ubuntu on Windows", "Ubuntu on Windows Subsystem for Linux", or "Ubuntu on WSL". (pardon the long names, not my choice. Bad/long naming is an old Microsoft trope.)
Snowden is an American hero. Anything he has to say is interesting to me.
It's about Russian spies working on Wall Street, and them being busted by the FBI.

Nothing to do with LinkedIn as far as I can see.
There's also that they seriously undercut the marketplace solutions in price. As said before - this is typical for Amazon.
I recommend http://minuscode.com
Go is unsuitable for programming, and UI development typically involves some programming.
May be with an ETag:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_ETag
Wow. It feels like a miracle whenever anyone takes a principled stand despite the hype and pressure of Silicon Valley and startup culture, never mind the usual corporate pressure. But this kid stood up to his own family, and lawyers hired by his family.
Fairly or not, Stanford will always have some association with the legend of Elizabeth Holmes, but the engineering school can feel proud that they produced a graduate who showed real ethical backbone. It's fairly easy to imagine oneself bravely standing up to Theranos after reading the WSJ investigation last year. It's another thing to be the guy who launched it despite legal and familial pressure.
Reader mode in Firefox?
Satellite imagery? The salvage ships would be 10s of metres in length and would have loitered for days. Might give some clues (but I'm not sure what you could do with them...)
> Take the statement "Lowering income taxes causes people to work more and in the end generates more revenue for the state". That theory has been put to test in many countries (like in the US during Reagan's presidency) but they still can't agree on if it is true or not. So how can economy be a science when empirical evidence doesn't cause facts to accumulate?

This is not the best example. When a panel of economists was asked whether "a cut in federal income tax rates in the US right now would raise taxable income enough so that the annual total tax revenue would be higher within five years than without the tax cut," none of them answered in the affirmative. 8% said they were "uncertain," and 71% either "disagreed" or "strongly disagreed." (5% answered "no opinion" and the rest didn't answer at all.) See: http://www.igmchicago.org/surveys/laffer-curve

If you don't take economists seriously, you might not notice when they agree on things.
"web link" != the link with the title of the article. It's literally the link with the text 'web' on the line below. That goes to a Google search for the article. Clicking the first hit takes you to the article, no paywall.