skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my experience the explanations you provide apply more to general flexibility of working hours. Reasonable employers shouldn't have an issue with you stepping away from work at anytime as long as your performance is at least adequate. Playing politics might offer a similar result, but I think it'd be easier to lose this privilege if you don't actually have the skills to back it up and are found out.

Leaving early for the day is more likely to happen if you complete a big deliverable early than anticipated. Like you reserve a full day for launching a major version, it goes smoothly, so your afternoon is unexpectedly free. The gamble is sometimes you might end up occupied until late into the night, so it tends to balance out.
The CEO of Reddit is officially a cursed position, on par with the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor at Hogwarts.

In other circumstances this might have gotten laughed off, but The Donald has really developed a bunker mentality IMO after having mods doxxed, the algorithm changed to end their front page dominance, lots of other subs being anti-Trump, and the general tenor of the campaign against Trump.

I hope Spez can take a nice relaxing weekend holiday and let someone else deal with this shit-hurricane.
It looks like they take a video first approach with their music.
I mean, he's not /forced/. He was done with reddit.

But he just couldn't quit.
> we reduced [bandwidth requirements] by 97%

> The bandwidth required by Holoportation has been reduced to 30-50 Mbps

Does this mean the previous demos required 900+Mbps of bandwidth?
It was pretty obvious throughout the campaign that mods were constantly battling a tsunami of political spam from all sides.

I suspect you don't have to dig very deep to find out that quite a bit of squelching was being done on several subreddits.

One needs to look no further than the spam that has made youtube comments a no-mans land of crass stupidity to see why a fairly broad brush of modding is req'd to keep some reasonable level of maturity.
Thats kinda the point... with the vast array of languages out there, that are performant and powerful and very well established, why should anyone suffer through the learning curve? what value does the language offer to make that worth the effort?
/r/The_Donald has changed a bit since the election has passed. There was some serious investigative work being done on the wikileaks podesta files. They uncovered things that the maintream media missed because they were too busy convincing people Hillary was going to win by a landslide. Things were uncovered that got some powerful people fired.

It's since turned back into mostly memes and shitposting though.

All I'm asking is to not automatically dismiss it all as propaganda. Regardless of your political affiliation, the podesta files should be looked at very closely. Most of the mainstream media glossed over it and the only place that really dissected the emails was /r/The_Donald. It's concerning that wikileaks was rarely, if ever, mentioned in /r/politics.
High five for PRK. One month in, I was 20/15 and had zero perceptible problems.

But... I used lubricant eye drops religiously during that month. I went through several bottles, putting drops in my eyes several times an hour. I also took omega 3 supplements, which help tears remain intact over the epithelium longer. I read some studies that suggest omega 3s shorten the reepitheialization period significantly.

So, if you're prepared to do some work and take slavish care of your eyes for an extended healing period, I believe you can have great results from PRK. Absolutely no regrets.
I do realize that. Again, I am not uncovering some hidden subtext here, I'm just reading what is written. These are the intended meanings.

A couple more quotes to elaborate the immigration thing:

> Immigration policy follows a similar pattern: by the numbers, cheap foreign workers on H1B visas make perfect economic sense. But natural conservatives have other concerns: chiefly, the preservation of their own tribe and its culture.

We don't have to guess what tribe and culture mean here. The very next paragraph says they're talking about Western Europeans, so Western European immigrants would not be a problem. If you're still not convinced that "tribe" has anything to do with race or ethnicity:

> The alt-right do not hold a utopian view of the human condition: just as they are inclined to prioritise the interests of their tribe, they recognise that other groups – Mexicans, African-Americans or Muslims – are likely to do the same.

> You’ll often encounter doomsday rhetoric in alt-right online communities: that’s because many of them instinctively feel that once large enough and ethnically distinct enough groups are brought together, they will inevitably come to blows. In short, they doubt that full “integration” is ever possible.

Clearly the immigration concerns are directly linked to concerns about racial and ethnic mixing.

> Halting, or drastically slowing, immigration is a major priority for the alt-right. While eschewing bigotry on a personal level, the movement is frightened by the prospect of demographic displacement represented by immigration.

The movement dislikes immigration specifically because of demographic displacement. As the rest of the piece makes explicitly clear, that demographic is "white".
How would you feel if all of your comments on hacker news were edited to say the opposite of what you mean, or were phrased in such a way as to discredit everything you are trying to say?

And not just on hacker news. What if the same thing happened on twitter or facebook?
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Look for any estimation or inference problems in the context of stochastic processes. For a simpler example you can take a look at sequential test of hypothesis. It is quite ubiquitous, but not always called out by its name.
"Working class" people (with incomes below $50k/year) voted for Clinton.
At the same time though, you'd imagine reddit has some sort of distributed backend so that getting direct access to the datastore and doing something like

UPDATE the_donald SET comment = replace('/u/spez', '/u/notspez', comment) WHERE 'fuck /u/spez' in lowercase(comment);

would create massive consistency headaches.
GNU rm (coreutils) vs BSD rm.
So far as I know, he only found a vulnerability in the Windows version of 1Password, which is now fixed.

I don't know anything about Windows 1Password, but for macOS, I strongly recommend 1Password over any of the alternatives.
I don't really think the main problem is that software engineering in general is hard. I think the problem we're facing right now is that writing secure software using the tools we have available now isn't realistically feasible.

We need to ruthlessly eradicate undefined behavior at all levels of our software stacks. That means we need new operating systems. We need new programming languages. We need well-thought-out programming models for concurrency that don't allow the programmer to introduce race conditions accidentally. We need carefully designed APIs that are hard or impossible to mis-use.

Rust is promising. It's not the final word when it comes to safety, but it's a good start.

An interesting thought experiment is what would we have left if we threw out all the C and C++ code and tried to build a usable system without those languages? For me, it's hard to imagine. It eliminates most of the tools I use every day. Maybe those aren't all security critical and don't all need to be re-written, but many of them do if we want our systems to be trustworthy and secure. That's a huge undertaking, and there's not a lot of money in that kind of work so I don't know how it's going to get done.
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Do you mean probably wrong?

Either way I disagree. Both approaches have pros and cons depending on the type of analysis.

At the very least, just the presence of competing approaches in the field has pushed statisticians to have more rigour and do way more double checking than they might have, out of fear the other side actively looking to poke holes. It's easy to lie with statistics and the only people who can call statisticians out on their BS is other statisticians...Need more of this.
How can I obtain reliable data on non-free software when the public cannot study the source code?

You also seem to discount the possibility of _intentional_ vulnerabilities (from the user's perspective) being included in the software by its developer.
It does make sense... however my point is that the next president of the United States talking about manipulating media is much bigger deal than someone changing my comments on a site. Both are bad... one is much worse.
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Not claiming to be knowledgeable about OS X internals, but... it ships with a hypervisor now?

Is it at all similar to BSD jails?
One of my favourite "physical effects" music videos (for lack of a better term) is http://nigelstanford.com/Cymatics/
> the last time we called on a government security solution for a problem that was perceived as too difficult and too critical for the private sector that had been, up to that time, managing the issue. / That's roughly how the Department of Homeland Security was born

I'm pretty sure the U.S. government has taken on other security issues since the DHS was founded in 2002.
Someone ought to formulate the Godwin's law analogue for CLT.

Hint 1: what happens when variance does not exist or is too large to be considered finite for any practical purposes.

Hint 2: Levy processes, stable distributions
do not connect things into the Internet...Let them talk locally.

Too simplistic. If devices talk then there will be a way to listen and scale that talking/listening.
Exactly who gets to decide if news if fake?

There's a lot of theories going around because there's quite a lot of circumstantial evidence. Just because there's no proof does not automatically make it a conspiracy theory.
It was a stupid decision, but it's not nefarious. He got pinged every time someone wrote "fuck /u/spez" in /r/the_donald, and he got sick of it. So he changed "/u/spez" to the members of the /r/the_donald mod team so they would get pinged instead.

Professional? No. But not nefarious, either.
Now you know how #spiritcooking got trending on Twitter after people found mentoin of it in the emails and wanted to know what it was about. After that, people started looking at Podesta's art collection. There's an interview somewhere (NYT? it was some big newspaper, IIRC) talking about how pleased they were this one time some group toured his house or something and were mortified.

But yeah, there's a reason I put so many exclamation marks on that.

I feel sick if I so much at glance at some of those.
The issue is that is is hypocritical and completely against what reddit claims to stand for.

Reddit CLAIMS to be a Bastion of free speech. But in reality, is this true?

The answer seems to be NO.
How is the top comment on an HN thread about Reddit one that burns two paragraphs contemplating whether there is actually a conspiracy running from a DC pizza parlor?
I just went to look at Reddit to learn more about this. Someone there makes the good point that if the mods can edit user comments, they could in theory plant false evidence of crimes.

https://i.reddituploads.com/26af29432a2340a98d83052a0ed3efcc...

I didn't understand the significance of this until reading that comment.
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> This is nonsense obviously, but it's a way of pointing out that the claim that the Python 3 VM can't be made to run Python 2 code is also nonsense.

> This is very, very obvious.

Um...what? That in itself is nonsense.

The reason he brought up Turing completeness is to make it seem like Python 3 breaks some fundamental programming 'law' that all programming languages should adhere to, in order to further his point.

Sure, maybe the Python 3 VM should run Python 2 code, but he doesn't need to puff up his argument like this. It just makes him look uneducated.
Jestin Coler is a cancer and his actions should be made illegal. It seems possible such a law could be narrowly applied such that it would prove constitutional. Judicial review could weigh the value to society of false speech, or lying, against the erosion of integrity in the free press.

One example of a false speech review was the stolen valor act. Lot of doors left open here; http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/the_first_amendment_a...
I agree with you for the most part. But I invite you to consider why we put so much instinctive faith in NYT/CNN/etc., especially on political topics. What have they done to earn our trust? The fact that they have a neutral tone does not speak to their accuracy. There is big talk about neutralness and impartiality, but do we know that there are effective practices to enforce these things? Have we closely considered the process that produces their content and determined that it maximizes accuracy? I have almost never seen anyone arguing in these terms.

I see no reason to believe that standard journalistic practice leads to high accuracy. Consider that the NYT encourages writers to fit stories to a predetermined narrative:

"By and large, talented reporters scrambled to match stories with what internally was often called “the narrative.” We were occasionally asked to map a narrative for our various beats a year in advance, square the plan with editors, then generate stories that fit the pre-designated line."
http://deadline.com/2016/11/shocked-by-trump-new-york-times-...

Furthermore, consider journalistic practice around quotations--an area where newspapers would want to be extraordinarily accurate, because quotes are easily verified and people expect them to be verbatim. On the contrary, it is standard practice to give paraphrastic, i.e. incorrect, quotations:
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=6200

None of this is to say NYT is worse than Breitbart, based on my personal judgment. But being better than Breitbart is a pretty low bar. My point is, on what basis do we privilege the old, established media?
Related discussion can be found here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13027031
This is one thing I still have a hard time understanding about people. I understand that hypocrisy and the like are baked deeply, inextricably into our DNA, but the thing is we've all witnessed this stuff happen time and again and without fail still choose to let it happen again.

People get on board with giving up power because it will work out for their team _this_time_. The thing is, it will absolutely be used against your team in the future. This has been proven time after time after time (just in recent history, not even considering the whole of human history). It will be used against you. It's not like smoking or other unhealthy behavior that will have an effect far into the future but that you can't really grasp fully...you just need to remember all of the other times it has happened in your lifetime to know what it feels like.
Ask HN: What programming language syntax do you find amusing, witty, or clever?
Now, it's true that dissecting humor is a lot like dissecting a frog: No one laughs and the frog dies.

On the other hand, a collection of syntactical features can, in the words of James Geary, “fit easily into the overhead compartment of your brain and contain everything you need to get through a rough day at the office or a dark night of the soul.”

So, what frogs do you keep in your overhead compartment?
I doubt Obama would do anything now to improve transparency, since that would be admitting that he had failed at transparency.
I initially thought it was a great example of false persuasion.

However, after looking at the Vigilant Citizen article on it, it seems like the ultimate example of false persuasion. It is super bizarre and intriguing, but obviously false.

I still don't understand why a "kid-friendly" place is posting photos on their Instagram with people engaged in sex acts on top of slices of pizza. Not to mention the references to crude sex acts, occult rituals and (objectively) creepy photos of kids.
That isn't gonna help him. Reddit is notoriously suspicious of its own staff, and /r/the_donald is part of the absolute worst side of Reddit, paranoia included. This'll be really annoying and virulent for a while.
>Are you kidding ? I would rather be an average working man in USA in 2016 than a rich guy in 1950s. Hands down.

Then you probably have no clear idea what either entails., except if you think that the differentiators, like access to the web and mobile phones as an "average working man in 2016" are so much better than a cozy and much simpler life in the 50s (there are social differentiators that could turn the tables, of course, e.g. if one is black etc, but you only mentioned "rich guy").
It's probably been linked outside of HN. Doesn't take too many votes to push it to the top.
It depends on the terms of payment. For example, for some of our projects we collect 50% of payment upfront and 50% upon project completion. The client is "billed immediately" at those times.

We also have "open-ended" projects where the client can use our services on an ad-hoc (as opposed to per project) basis. For those, we bill the client once a month, on the last day of the month.
As a nice supplement the Conference issue of Byte is on the Internet Archive. The issue has a painting of a ribbon cable on the cover.
Whistleblowing is when an employee, contractor or supplier goes outside the normal management channels to report suspected wrongdoing at work, i.e. speaking out in a confidential manner. This can be done via internal processes set up by the organisation (internal whistleblowing) or to an external body such as a regulator (external whistleblowing). While public disclosure to the media can also be perceived as whistleblowing the IIA report focuses on formally prescribed channels.
Technically, sure.

But, usually a company of this size/scale puts in place restrictions so that accessing privileged abilities like this is extremely difficult and requires authorizations / clearances / permissions from users, etc.

Generally big / public tech company employees are not even allowed to LOOK at PII or the data of a specific user name etc. You run all tests on staging / fake populated DBs only, etc.
I like it!

I've been bummed not to have Privacy Badger on my Android Firefox. I will give Brave a tumble, thanks!
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So what you're saying is maybe Hillary Clinton did have an FBI agent murdered, and maybe Putin and the Dalai Lama really did meet up to talk about how Clinton and Obama started ISIS, a few days after the Pope endorsed Trump.
> Furthermore, I'd challenge you to name one open source project that can be shipped AS-IS as a product. Don't even say the Linux kernel, that has like what 2% market share?

GitLab. Postgres. Atom. Docker (debatable). I could go on, but to be fair I am a bit of a hoarder of interesting oss.

Re the Linux kernel: isn't it way higher than 2% if you count commercial and industrial usage? Also Android devices.
> Don't even say the Linux kernel, that has like what 2% market share?

87% on mobile. Surely majority on servers. Lots in routers etc.

I don't reslly see your point, though. If something is available for free, obviously it won't sell a lot. If that must be your definition of success, it seems you just have a preconcieved notion.

Also, ovviously 99 % of all open source is garbage. But who cares? No one is forcing me to use it all.
It's actually a lot better than normal Solitaire. You can stack cards by rank (lower on top) in alternating color. The goal is to get the cards in stacks of their own suit in the reverse order in the upper right. The upper left are the free cells, that can store a single card each. The cool thing is that using the free cells and other empty spots, you can move larger stacks of alternating colors.
Reddit's not that large, and the admin in question is the CEO.
I agree it's bad, but it's almost assumed. In your opinion - did past presidents like Obama or Bush "manipulate media"?

I think all presidents have and will.

I would love to keep the naivety that CEO's of social media sites don't censor opposing views.

Suspecting that they do and having proof... are two different things in my book!
The term "entrepreneur" is value-neutral. It refers to someone who successfully forms a business venture by noticing and taking advantage of an opportunity or need.
I regret that I have but one flag to give.
This could cause a meltdown that will make previous reddit meltdowns look tame.

Facebook higher-ups have been fired for creeping on ex-girlfriends. This is arguably worse--editing user's posts has huge legal repercussions. I would be pissed if I was a board member of reddit right now. A CEO is empowered and paid for exercising good judgment and leading people, not "trolling the trolls a bit" by violating the site's fundamental rules and creating a storm of bad press in doing so.
Do any of these people know how unbelievably batshit crazy this pizza parlor stuff sounds to people who don't live on the "The Donald" subreddit?

This is --- not exaggerating --- the most batshit thread I have ever seen on HN. And I seen some shit.
Adrian has done a lot of recent work on 11ac in -HEAD, but not anything on BRCM of late.
Sure, but it was nearly always just referred to as "OS X", so the official renaming in 2012 was just moving it in line with how people already referred to it.
President Obama to Republicans: I won. Deal with it. (2013)
I think we can agree to disagree on which is worse.

The next president is making a bunch of public actions that will be critiqued, audited, and probably checked / balanced as the government was set up to do. The CEO of reddit is SECRETLY tampering / modifying the "speech" and content of private citizens without any checks, balances, or even repercussions (so far).

I'd also argue that reddit has a more direct engagement model with private citizens that makes this hit closer to home (i.e. if we actually were real-life friends, or internet buddies for years, and one of our messages/comments to each other was modified that could cause far more direct impact — e.g. "you" convince me to commit a crime because you have my trust as a "personal" friend)

I'm honestly surprised he publicly admitted to it at all, and I'd further be shocked if he doesn't end up stepping down because of this incident.
It's more being very aware of the world and the varied perspectives of the people in it.

Why is it hard for you to say what you mean instead of making snarky implications? Given your responses so far, I'm not hopeful that this thread is likely to be constructive. Be well.
Either FAKE (F# Make) or CAKE (C# Make) work perfectly on NIX/BSD systems. The new build system FOR .NET Core works great too with `dotnet build`.
Thanks! Good reply
Let's not pretend this is some altruistic "academic" endeavor to satiate some curiosity. This is a thought-out play borne out of the rejection of the election result by the left.
Reddit is one of the largest and most influential community websites on the Internet (#25-29ish).
Thanks! It was good insight
In high-dollar consulting, up-front payment is a super weird term. Friends and acquaintances ask me for sanity checks on bids and pricing and deal structure all the time. If I ever see "pay me up front", I red-flag.

If you're dealing with a client where you feel you really need a safety deposit, that's a sign from the universe that they shouldn't be your client.

Do what you need to when you're just getting started, I get it. But try to move away from the kind of work where you get paid half up front, as soon as you can.
Homebrew and a Vagrant managed Linux VM depending on the situation. I'm seriously considering moving to Linux next time I'm switching my work laptop.
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