skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah - but imagine that Paul Graham w HN for example disagreed with your position.

Let's say that instead of allowing you to express this last comment - he used his admin privileges and made your comment PRO trump.

Do you see the difference?
Having a strong opposing - even annoying - demanding - opinion is not the same as impersonating others and censoring their words.

HUGE HUGE DIFFERENCE

Does that make sense?
Quite a few bird species and some other animals[2] can have chromosomes of both sexes[1]. When it happens to northern cardinals, they end up split down the middle in color--one half gray like a female and one half red like a male[3].

[1] http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150916-these-animals-are-ma...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gynandromorphism

[3] http://www.remotesensingart.com/CardinalMF/index.html
Agreed. This is completely removed from the context of the article but I primarily consume HN on mobile and I detest it when quotes are done this way. I really wish something was added to the FAQ re this.
Always.

A "side project" is a project, which by definition, doesn't have my full attention. I need to have confidence that I can tweak it and re-deploy it when I have a moment of inspiration or a bug-report.

The main way to be confident that you haven't broken things? Adding test-cases. I started out writing unit-tests for the APIs I present and consume, then later added more tests which run from "Signup, Use the service, Delete the account".

In all honesty I don't run the full suite very often, but when I do I'm glad I took the time to write it.
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If people want to believe conspiracy theories and fake news, that's up to them. If we can't convince a reasonable impartial observer that our election results are almost certainly valid, then we've got a serious problem.
The community has begun contributing to microsoft-sactioned projects (notice those projects listed are all ms initiatives). There is still weakness in community initiaited/run projects, 2 years later http://www.aaronstannard.com/the-profound-weakness-of-the-ne...
>The_Donald might be awful, in your opinion.

Interesting way to put it. "in your opinion." Are racist comments and harassment awful only in "opinion"? Are we not at a point where spewing racism in a public forum is not "factually awful" now?
I used to have my site on s3, but the last time I was on hn I got dinged $450 (images and 4k videos)

now I self host with failover to s3.
I hope we don't get to the point where it's really just all out information warfare

Make no mistake, it's always been all out information warfare. The difference now is that the new messengers are not high ranking government or business people and the medium is faster and easier to penetrate.

In the past you had to have background, credential and access to get your word into one of the few mediums available, Radio, TV or Print. Now all you need is to make something look good enough and find the right audience.
Although the medium is new the idea of publishing stuff that misrepresents other people's position is nothing new. Here is a relatively modern example from the very early 20th century https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Protocols_of_the_Elders_of...

And although the term has a very tinfoil hat connotation "false flag operations" have also been a thing for millennia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_flag Even young children understand the logic of "I will do a thing and try to make it look like someone else did it."

>But it also creates an environment where you can't ever actually know what any group thinks.

You never could really. At best you could get a vague approximation that was hopefully not inaccurate in any way that would bite you in the ass.
I believe the streisand effect is picking up steam with Pizzagate. I would encourage others as well to approach it with an open mind.

Also, this has potentially far reaching implications not just for comments on reddit, but any comment made on any forum on the internet. Without a way of proving a comment has not been tampered with, how can what you write online be used against you in the court of law?
No. They're distributing the binaries, so they have to provide the source code to users of the binaries on request. Publishing it like this satisfies that requirement.
Has it really been 2 years already? I'm still waiting for a decent build system for .NET projects for Linux or macOS. Last time I tried (~6 months ago), it was a tire fire.
>the fake news was created by the left to discredit the alt-right

I would say that this individual who was a liberal tried to do this. This isn't like a group of leftists conspiring to do (anti-)propaganda. It is pretty stupid, and his continuation of it is extremely confusing.

Sorry, but a side rant to the more "entrepreneurial" startup-cats who browse here. Would you consider this fellow and others like him an entrepreneur? I ask because there is talk in the article that he is one. Even if you take him at his word that he is trying to highlight the problem of disinformation rather than profit off of it, it seems quite suspect to me.

A good analogy here is a cook serving spoiled food to highlight healthy and safe cooking habits, regardless of who it hurts. It makes no sense.
Would be nice if they all moved over there
Serious question as two people now have mentioned Bootcamp "drivers", and I've only ever gone the other way (Hackintosh) - why do you need Apple drivers to install Windows on what seems to be a perfectly normal x86 machine?
Your first sentence is the justification for paying people less than 40k year and expecting 80 hours of work out of them. It doesn't hold up.
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probably CBF updating the page to say macOS
my only regret is that I have but one vote to give. bravo.
I doubt it was planned. I wouldn't be surprised to see spez step down tomorrow.
I hadn't seen it before, but your reaction to 'tl;dr' at the end of that search in the Privacy Badger thread is fantastic (which is to say, it matches my own feelings): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7789697. Are you still fighting the good fight, or have you since given in?
They were acquired for 19 billion dollars, so they were very obviously doing things right. Your condescending snark seems misplaced.

Maybe the fact that WhatsApp was colossally successful, more so than nearly any other startup -- this was the largest ever acquisition of a venture-backed company -- should get you to update your priors on what kind of scaling practice is a "good idea" and what isn't.
I'm not sure that is constructive to the topic in any way
Yes, but they bought it from Japan's Softbank, which had purchased it previously.
I have a mostly infinite to-do list, so my work is never done.

When I'm on a more well-defined project, I'll have a deadline and a set of things to do based on how fast I work and what we (me, the project manager, maybe the other developers on the project) think is reasonable.

Several co-workers usually have a single project where work is lumpy. They can have a several-day to-do list one week, and be twiddling their thumbs waiting on other people the next week.

I don't know anyone who gets a daily task list that isn't calibrated to their skill level.
It doesn't contain the bug tracking, the wiki or the project sites. It doesn't include the team organization and access control. It doesn't include the bot integration. And it doesn't include the merging workflow that people are really starting to rely on.

GitHub going down would be a major inconvenience.
Sure, I'll check in a week or so and remind you if needed.

> Except wait, are you saying anyone reads the FAQ?

Fair point :)

The 'vouch' idea is interesting, but I'm not sure if you really need another click mechanism to accomplish it -- if people above a certain karma threshold are voting it up, it's a topic that people integrated into the community do think is worth being seen, regardless of the quality of the discussion currently in the thread. That said, it might be worth trying -- having a visible indicator might result in a different reaction; it's possible that the majority of such stories would get vouched, which could be a useful signal in tuning your algorithm.
> I can understand it for higher earners

What's the cutoff that determines when someone is classified as a higher earner?
I was tricked by KNP7.com. If you search "Eminem moves to {city name}" the exact same article appears for multiple cities including Seattle, New York and probably dozens of other cities.
No, it has to do with temperature. Li charged when cold/hot will significantly degrade the battery. See Tesla(with liquid thermal cooling) vs Leaf degradation over the last couple years.
> if people above a certain karma threshold are voting it up

Sadly, that just doesn't work as well as it seems like it ought to. In fact it's crazy how well it doesn't work.
So you think that laptop is sitting on cinderblocks somewhere or what?
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FWIW, I have had a number of incidents with sketchy "content" on reddit over the years. This incident with content modification is in alignment with my experiences.
Trump should not pay anything, nor should any other non-commercial endeavor. Commercial use ought to pay based upon revenue.
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The general public sees members of the armed services as people who, for one, are contractually obligated to be guinea pigs. I doubt there will be a huge reaction outside e.g. opsec circles, for better or worse.
Fair to say. I did not mean to imply that no original content was produced on Reddit, only that its primary mission or purpose is to share and discuss — not to authoritatively, reliably and accountably document — ergo, the site had little credibility to lose.
> Also, there's no reason you couldn't play internal series/parallel (or transformer, or DC-DC converter) games to charge the thing up at a higher voltage (and thus lower amperage) while discharging it at normal phone operating voltage.

Capacitors aren't charged by voltage, they're charged by current. One does not apply a voltage to a capacitor, one applies a current. If you doubt this, try connecting a capacitor to a high-powered constant-voltage power supply. But first, step back.

A capacitor's charging rate is determined by its value in farads and the applied current. Nothing else matters. One farad, one ampere, one second produces one volt and one joule of stored energy. Nothing could be simpler.

If you raise the voltage expecting to see a faster charging rate, you will see the opposite, because a higher voltage for a given power rating means a lower current, and a lower current will require more time to charge the capacitor.

> Heck, why not charge it at full line voltage?

Why not indeed? But don't be in the same room when this idea collides with reality.
>That pretty much destroys the credibility of Reddit's commenting system in a single act.

The admins kickstarted reddit by impersonating different users, they even had a field to enter the username which which to post/comment. Fake it 'til you make it. Nothing inherently wrong with it.

I'm not going to stop visiting reddit over this. Hell, if it erodes trust by /r/the_donald who'll move over to something like voat, fair enough. I have no illusions that content is safe from subversion, whether it be in-place or not, and I've myself applied some CSS during April Fools on a major subreddit that modified comments as a lark.

It was wrong of /u/spez, sure. But the guy's pissed off, he should be with the amount of upvoting bots on that reddit and no real solution. He fessed up almost immediately and it's not like they're going to go at it in scale - especially since it's so very easily provable with archive.is.

It was a juvenile messing around with a group that breeds on persecution complex. I consider this a joke. Not bad in taste, not the height of comedy.

But no curtain with the wizard behind it has been pulled open here in my view, it's fine.

...

I think there needs to be some control over the veracity, some intrusion into the bubbles with which we inherit the web. If it takes a reddit admin to cattle prod around the fucking bat-shit insane /r/pizzagate idiocy into outrage and feeding their persecution complex sarcastically and ironically then I may actually be for it.
Mark Zuckerberg has great power. But is he responsible?
Make?
And, not to be prudish, but the lack of regulation is part of what has allowed the industry to explode. It's more unlikely I can succeed at a kickstarter for a neat computer dongle if it needs an extra few thousand dollars for regulatory approval before I can ship it. While I have no personal experience with the FDA approval process, my father worked for a company in the healthcare industry - I'd hear stories of multi-month long FDA audits of their hardware after a 'statistically significant' number of failures in the field. That kind of pressure is not amenable to single-man operations, as is frequent in our field - nor should a dev be on the hook for lifetime tech support for a silly lightbulb or other trinket. Yea, the infrastructure as it currently stands has issues, but while regulatory pressure will whip the big players into line, it could also easily choke out smaller players and startups.

On the subject of answers, rather than questions... I have a funny story. So the XBox one has this neat feature where you can control your console via an app on your local area network PC or phone. The default setting was that any device on the network the Xbox was connected to could control it. Imagine this, in a college dorm. I saw a lot of xboxes available to control. So, after testing with a friend (yep, I could easily interfere with whatever), I developed a key combo that I could rapidly input from any console state which would open the settings menu and disable the remote control feature, locking out my own access (And I'd know it had worked because I'd be disconnected). That's right, I effectively developed a virus which patched the vulnerability. If attackers have the advantage in this field, then maybe we should put more effort into thinking about friendly counter-attackers. If the silly IoT device can be pwned, then it can be pwned for good, as it were. Does anyone know of any groups working in this area, or any research done towards it? Pen-testing and other white hat hacking activities I know about, but does anyone officially do this kind of guerilla-patching?
Smashing Pumpkins Ava Adore: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uWwvQKGjLI

Goodshirt Sophie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePo9G-Rzr9k&list=PLCFB19EC4B...

Goodshirt Blowing Dirt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzLBfBtknxk&index=8&list=PLC...
Prospects are good generally for technology talent. I'm in Tokyo now. Take a big chunk of vacation and visit several places that you have considered moving. Once you've visited and met other expats, you'll know what it's really like. The biggest barrier is your own decision.
I don't get why this is such a massive deal.

Kids were trolling, he trolled back. Reddit is a fun site, what do you really expect?

Personally I think it's funny.
> [1]: It has been open sourced in the past:

I am really hoping that you were joking.
Donald Trump: A Portrait of a Man Who Knows Nothing About Climate Change
probably because Steve (I'm sorry but in this context /u/Spez just seems inappropriate...) had spent weeks being called a pedophile. Hes a person and he snapped. Bad judgement? yes, obviously. But really hes a person...and this is a group of assholes being assholes and I will generally grant people some empathy for having a limit and maybe not having the most rational reaction.
The problem I have is that I have never seen a denouncement. If there have been any denouncements, then they have not had the same amount of impact as the initiating fake news lie.
Still fighting! But I restrain myself from commenting about it.
Hard to believe you're so unaware about the world that you'd write that unironically.
> "FBI Agent Suspected In Hillary Email Leaks Found Dead In Apparent Murder-Suicide." The story is completely false

Yes this story false. What's not false is that a DNC staffer was found murdered in DC and nothing was taken from his pockets right after the DNC email leaks. Assange suggested he was the source and offered up a $25k reward[0].

1. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/08/10/assange-implies-m...
So have I, but that's because I work with embedded systems and my employers are electrical engineers.
4. The employee’s hourly rate of pay, or annual salary if paid on salaried basis, meets a minimum threshold amount set by California’s Division of Labor Statistics and Research (DLSR). For 2015, the DLSR set the amounts at $41.27 per hour or annual salary of not less than $85,981.40 for full time employment, and paid not less than $7,165.12 per month.
And your reply is also not constructive.
It's a federal judge. There isn't much career progression beyond that because they're appointed for life.

So, no, it won't follow them. This is also why we have lifetime appointments so judge's make legally correct rulings rather than politically appealing ones.
OS X/Darwin follows the design philosophy of it's cousin FreeBSD. The base system is only upgraded when a new OS version is released. Upgrades may or may not be the latest version of a software package. If the tool does it job and does it well then it may not be upgraded. The idea is " the lastest version may not equate to a better version" or "if it ain't broke, then don't fix it". So, the base system on your version of OS X will only be patched when there is a security concern or severe bug.
Project sites are already github repos. Bug tracking etc should be backed up (https://backhub.co/), or did we forget how to make backups?
I wouldn't think of running any Unix on a machine without an ESC key.
The idea that Facebook has any chance to exert pressure on the Chinese government in the first place is not only imperialist but laughably unrealistic.
Sorry to discriminate, but I read on a desktop mostly and the block text makes it clear it is a quote. Sorry about that, but of course, the article has the full text; although I'm not sure how the hill respects mobile or not.
Fiverr. You can buy a huge amount of unique ("unspun") articles with $20k-$30k month.

Maybe he spins them too, but getting huge amount of unique content cheaply is trivial if you don't care much about the quality.
Homebrew doesn't have any existing support to accept license to use for every application. Users of brew just download and install.

If Apple had to implement a package manager, I think they would ask application developers to accept Apple's own license and policies for distribution etc. which may not be acceptable with them.

Also, wouldn't it make Appstore redundant ?
Are you implying

That we could have a supreme court ruling in the near future

That trolling is a constitutionally protected freedom?

Because I'd be okay with that. Affirmations of freedoms always feel good.
Only before it starts leaving the body.
I didn't know that. Was the motivation simply to get everyone to turn around their cash?
Great, now we'll have a huge solar leak. Just kidding.
Because it undermines the integrity of literally every post on the site.

If the admins have the ability to modify posts and comments without any notice or indication, this opens the door to...
- Creating false content via discrete edits that violate ToS, allowing for false flag to ban a user/thread/subreddit
- Any comment or post used as evidence (ahem, e.g. Hillary Clinton's IT guy, mention of drugs or crimes, literally anything like that) now is called into question. Wouldn't surprise me if he now has to testify that posts were not altered if it is accepted as evidence, etc.
- Literally anything else where a verified identity post and people assume it is what they (the person) said. AMAs are basically the thing that took Reddit mainstream, so that is kind of a big deal.
I don't believe his narrative for a second. He's in this for the money, period. He peddles lies for a living, and also is lying about "publicly denouncing" anything.
try

rm -rf somedir/

vs

rm somedir/ -rf

Linux (the former) allows me to be lazy while MacOS (the latter) forces me to hit crtl-a and insert -rf.
Basically, this is pretty much academic at this point. Hilary would have to gain enough votes to flip all 3 states. Trump will win the recount.

However, this will absolutely enrage his base as they see it as an attempt by the elite to steal the election. Trump seems to be moderating on some of his previous stances, but will likely reverse and be even more extreme after he wins a recount. Also, look for pressure on the Senate to completely suspend the filibuster and push through a very right wing Justice.

Based on how President Obama and Hilary Clinton are handling this so far, I expect them to intervene to squash any recount and try to make the transition as smooth as possible.
I hope we don't get to the point where it's really just all out information warfare... and it seems like we're already halfway there.

Those in power have been there for all of our lives. J. Edgar Hoover only died in 1972 and his practice of information warfare was well in place by then. The "halfway" you speak of is in the citizen's awareness that anybody can be ratfucked[1] and that they're going to need to be able to protect themselves. Maybe there should be a 2nd Amendment for data, packets, or internet connections in general.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratfucking
It's human nature to resist change. Making a clean break and avoiding backwards compatibility was the smart move, it annoyed many, but I look around and see some languages truly suffering from such things years down the track.

Python3 is superior, its nothing but fandom when people say otherwise. Starting from scratch I'm yet to see any real benefit for 2, yet it still happens routinely due to the mindsets of some.
What better solution to the problem do you have?
"Those opposed to their antics WILL FORGIVE /u/spez"

That's wishful thinking if you ask me.

I'm "opposed to their antics" but I'm 10X more opposed to CEO's censoring people and literally putting words in their mouth!

I feel sorry for those that would forgive that, if in fact many people on a social media site would think that's "no biggy"
How about cooking, laundry, daily hygiene etc. It would be really hard reading all the time while doing that.
Not really. "iOS" is standard and no resistance has been noted.
> If it doesn't look like a bell curve, it's unlikely that common statistical calculations (which assume something close to gaussian) apply here.

The key word in there is common. There is an entire industry of statistical techniques that do not require Gaussian assumption or for that matter any parametric assumption.

I strongly feel it is time to retire the Gaussian distribution from the space it occupies. Discovering and studying Gaussian distribution and the bog standard central limit theorem should be considered one of mankind's crowning achievements. They deserve to be put on a pedestal to appreciate their elegance, but when rubber meets the road one has to open ones mind to look beyond. Appearance of the Gaussian distribution is rarely as normal as many expect/claim it to be (I blame the stats education machinery for this), nor was it invented by Gauss. In fact Gauss used it as a post-hoc justification for backing the least-squares method. His original motivation for least squares was simplicity and convenience, not the normal distribution or CLT or for that matter the Gauss-Markov theorem.
People have been saying reddit is turning into Digg since the very first comment thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/17913/reddit_no...
Definitely this xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1171/
Alternatives common on HN are to use > or italics.