skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"dozens of people have already been killed by faulty software in cars, while hundreds of people have been killed from faulty software during air travel"

If facebook really did cause T. to get elected, fb programmers may be responsible for orders of magnitude more suffering and/or death than the above.
At the end of the day users just don't care about decentralization. They do care about:

* The network of users present on the app
* Quality of the mobile and desktop clients
* Ability to have success promoting their own voice/ content

Decentralization kills innovation in the underlying protocol. (see email for a nice example of common standards holding things back). It also creates a situation were nobody can effectively monetize the platform. Which makes it hard to create a competitive product.

Sure, open standards work well for many things, don't think it will ever catch on for social networks though.
A highly relevant older story and discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10763274.
Why do most Indian startups fail (IIT-D)
If he said that directly he could be sued, so he used more subtle threats. Mentioning Trump's name twice in his email is not a coincidence - it wasn't necessary to make his point about racism or anti-immigrant sentiments, but it was necessary to make Trupm's voters get the message that they are not welcomed.
I suspect an Amazon IDE is coming. They did acquire[1] Cloud 9 not too long ago.

[1] https://www.google.com/amp/www.forbes.com/sites/janakirammsv...
Maybe most of them are non verbal too, so differently stored, associated, and harder to communicate.

I also imagine the first 4 years as a massive influx of raw stimuli to be processed, from which only a few abstraction will remains. Kinda like learning anything knew, the first period is mostly wrong perceptions, and you only remember the valuable bits after an integration period.
Code and architecture could be anonymously peer-reviewed like in science, but then of course everyone is paranoid of having his secret sauce in the open. Open sauce, that would be a great idea.
Our language can be arbitrarily abstract and represent arbitrary information. If there is something fundamentally beyond our understanding, then it is intrinsically nonsense.
Details are missing.

If a device downloads updates over a non-secured channel, it doesn't automatically mean that it will execute the update unconditionally. For example, a package might be signed with vendor's key, the public part of which is shipped with the device. If the sig is missing or invalid, the device will discard the package.
Hmm. It seems likely this will result in the Streisand effect for Walmart.
I've tried listening to university lectures and varies conferences talks. But, I find them distracting on the road. I've found, consuming really technical stuff to be much easier. When I can give it my full attention.

Personally, I like to listen to podcasts that cover new and upcoming technologies in the field. They could be about high level stuff or even the nitty and gritty, like new language syntax or upcoming improvements to the GC.

Though, I prefer listening to audio books just as much. And, I find them to be a great supplement for professional growth along with podcasts. When I'm not listening to fiction or sci-fi books, which isn't much. I try and listen to books about soft-skills and anything relating to software development that doesn't involve having to read code.

I can't really give you any hard suggestions here. Because, I mostly, work with languages like Ruby & JS/ES6. But, there should be similar options available for at least the JVM, if not the Java ecosystem.
All of this information is probably readily available on these users' facebook profiles.
I'm curious about how people that see unions as something that causes a negative outcome for workers explains the massive gap in worker rights etc that clearly exists between the US and Europe.
A problem with that model is little kids do what feels good and what feels good is watching the same TV cartoon many times. Once they're socialized into adult life they stop. I distinctly remember when little kid cartoons (tom and jerry type stuff) became boring and repetitive to me so I stopped while my kid sister was still cool with watching endlessly repeated stories.

And at the other end of the age scale, my MiL watched (watches) MASH (a 70s sitcom about the Korean war, which sounds improbable but was actually hilarious due to good writers) and she never, ever laughs, quiet as a church service, but I'd LMAO at a funny line I'd never heard before, and her entire family would stare at me like I'm insane. "But don't you get it, it was hilarious, Radar compared the other guy's wife to ..." and they'd just shush me like in church. I'm not entirely sure what she's thinking when she sees episode #24 for the three hundredth time. I should ask her over the holidays...

Something that both anecdotes fit is the model of not being in adult society or caring much about adult opinions.
CS294: Program Synthesis for Everyone
At first I was confused... thanks for pointing out that this study is totally impractical.

Cattle, like most ruminants, rely on the fermentation of cellulose for most of their energy needs. Any feed additive that shuts down this process will result in malnourished cattle, and is unlikely to see broad adoption in the industry. Luckily for the PEI farmer, the seaweed he used didn't have this effect.
> The biggest producers are and will always be the mass market stuff, though. Who cares if 1% of beef is produced carbon neutral? It's nice, but it makes no tangible difference.

Couldn't you look at it as a vanguard thing? Like, once the public is more used to the idea because it's been on the market in some form, it's easier to mandate it?
Last time I was in Germany (2015) I had to pay 50pf to the little emperor who ran the toilet in the Paderborn train station; I didn't see the sign about paying (it was blocked by the open door) and he basically attacked me as I walked out. Not sure how this is a wonderful solution. I also remember a European airline wanting to charge people to use the toilet on their planes.
I'm amused that long-running British newspaper the Daily Star has made the list. I mean, it's probably accurate as they do have a bit of a reputation, but still - surprising.
That seems very intuitive if you think about the difference between a line segment and a circle. In 1d space a segment that extended S1: from 0 to 1 covers half the space of one that extends from S2: 0 to 2.

In x,y space you have that same 50:50 ratio at y=0. But, for every y > 0 the ratio decreases as a higher percentage of S1 is used up just reaching that y height than S2, until all of it is used up and the top segments are 100% s2.

In x,y,z space you get that same picture at z=0. But at any z > 0 more of that S1 is used to than the S2 segment so the ratio must be lower than in x,y or x space.

Moving to 4D and up the same simple idea just continues.
Chrome used to natively support tree-style tabs. Unfortunately they were removed a few years ago.
Am I just weird or is it unusual to have scant memories from between the age of one and two?
I'm biased saying this, but Chalice is a half-baked rip-off of Zappa[0], deliberately nerfed by Amazon to lock you into the AWS stack.

If you want to see an example of how easy it is to use Zappa + Lambda + DyanamoDB, you can check out Zappa BitTorrent Tracker, which can use S3 or DynamoDB as a back-end.[1]

As a bonus, Zappa has had both local and remote environment variables as a feature for months - although it's pretty cool that this new announcement can use KMS, although that will of course mean more vendor-lock in if you choose to go that route.

[0] https://github.com/Miserlou/Zappa
[1] https://github.com/Miserlou/zappa-bittorrent-tracker
Thinking further about this, I think framing it in years is highly misleading. If we imagine an event that occurs once every ten-thousand years, with even probability of two outcomes, then if I pick one of the two as my guess and I correctly assign a 50% probability, you can say "you're saying your guess will only be wrong, on average, once every twenty-thousand years!" That's technically true, but I'm clearly not making too bold a claim!
I did give him a chance. He used it all up with his cabinet picks and the people on his transition team. I see nothing to suggest that his administration will be friendly towards labor, organized or not.
Yahoo fight on Google
> Is there a better descriptor for what Eich was put through?

Yeah. He was given a taste of his own medicine with regard to what it feels like to be victimized.
Why is the focus on the unethical work of programmers?

How about addressing the root cause: People are doing unethical thing as part of their job. Either because they either don't understand the issue or due to their financial situation.

Apparently we have all accepted that business people in general are going to be unethical to the point where there is no fighting it or expectation that it's fixable. How about we address the real issue: The unethical business practises of some company and the people who run them.

But no, let us once again leave it to the developers to fix the problems.
Probably Xiaomi MI5 with cyanogen would fit the bill - not sure about point 2 since I'm in the EU.
The market is great, but everyone seems to just mill around from job to job because no one from the outside can afford to live there.
JavaScript dates in a nutshell
Remember, I am frequently wrong and fond of bombast.

I feel that AWS has a strength and weakness in the fact that its longevity has led to a massive feature set. For those who've grown in expertise alongside it, AWS seems natural and obvious.

I have instead come to this super-featuresome platform and found myself totally lost. If I was one of the people who'd consumed the new features piecemeal over the space of a decade, it wouldn't seem so daunting. I guess the same will happen to GCP.

But even so, I find it much easier to get around in GCP. The console is obviously built as a unified experience. It still has a CRUDish flavour to it, insofar as it requires you to have some of the underlying model in your head to use efficiently.

But it needs less and it tends to be less of a hunt for the foo that uses the bar that depends on the baz based on the quux which is ten bloody screens away under an ill-chosen name.

Oh and AWS console seems to have a vendetta against allowing me to open up a bunch of tabs easily. I hate that. I usually want to look at two things side by side because weirdly, I find it hard to retain randomly-generated strings in my short term memory.

As for performance, GCP brings up VMs extremely quickly, the networking is really fast and the prices are nicer.

Truthfully, I've touched maybe 5% of what AWS or GCP offer. But the 5% I've seen is compelling. I think Google are going to finally break their total reliance on advertising revenue.
Actually, you just bounce it between goats and brass until everybody who had skin in the game is dead or dead bored.

The problem with always deferring culpability upwards is that it usually leads to no culpability.
why are there so many neo-nazi sympathizers on hackernews...
Both AWS and Google Cloud does not support Ipv6. Suprise Surprise
Phones, like antiviruses, modems, cloud provider etc increasing feel like a case of "pick which nation state's backdoor you feel more comfortable with." I find myself occasionally thinking (we work on human rights topics), well I don't really piss off the USA or EU so I will buy say an antivirus from there but I do piss off XYZ so I won't buy a product from there. What a mad world we live in that software/hardware purchasing has a geostrategic component. It always has done for government etc but now it does for the consumer.
This is great! I like how the filtering quickly lets you drill down and find phones that meet your criteria.

My suggestions for improving this would be to add:

- Dual SIM - many buyers, esp. in developing countries and frequent travellers prefer dual-SIM phones.

- Network Bands - many people have a preferred mobile network, e.g. Verizon or T-Mobile in the US, Telstra in Australia, etc. Each of these networks only supports specific frequency bands for 3G and 4G. So I'd suggest adding in a search-based filter which allows a user to find phones that support a particular band, e.g. 28 that their favorite mobile network uses.
I seem to remember them saying that they're interested in adding functionality required by the current addons though. Probably less of a priority than perfect compatibility with Chrome though.
My hypothesis (along with your observation) is that as we age, the way we remember things is different. At a young age, it's all sounds and images. Then language gets added to it, and we start seeing events in different ways. Our old ways of accessing information (in the brain) are used less often, and we forget.
>In fact, the vast majority of users will actively avoid such a system.

Why is this?
Twitter really depends on who you follow. I don't follow friends, but thought leaders I respect. I get r of the best ideas and all my news from there
Thanks for making this! Finding myself shopping for a replacement phone, and so far have decided to settle with waiting unless I see a decent deal on a nexus 6p.

Would suggest also adding whether the phone supports a removable battery/extended battery. That seems to be a feature that is nearly dead on new android phones these days, except for the lg v10 and the moto z (via the moto mod battery case).

Also seconding the 'last update' column - I'm largely trying to forego most of my power-user desires for sd slots/removable batteries for a nexus phone because of just how many security issues with android seem to require it to be up-to-date.

Oh yeah, would also like a 'fingerprint reader' column - it's becoming near-ubiquitous these days though some phones from last year don't have it (e.g. moto x)
Perhaps it is because just as we have seen here, they are told by labour advocates that fair compensation and room for negotiation are a good thing? Since a union takes both of those away, if fairness and freedom are good, one can only conclude that a union is bad.

That's why I found the use of the parent's words so interesting.
uBlock Origin, as a random popular example, has 2,231,919 users on Firefox and 6,483,302 users on Chrome. So Chrome has almost 3x as many uBlock Origin installs, though Chrome has about 5x more users than Firefox. From this one data point, it would seem that people using Firefox use more extensions, which interesting.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin...

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpa...
Once I worked with a company that didn't use cross-validation, and gave accuracy numbers based on its training data.

I guess that's more on what's now called data science though, rather than programming.
Cows fart methane even if they are just fed for milk. I'd rather have cow from milk than a synthetic substitute.
It was unethical before anyone died.

The survey is a trick to make the site look unbiased. To look like it just happened to tell you to take that particular drug from that particular company, with other options available if you selected different things.

The ethical way to implement it would have been to just have a website that was obviously by that company, no survey, just saying "do you have problems with {x}/{y}/{z}? {Our product} may be right for you. Not to be taken if you have {some allergies etc}."
Has anyone been able to use Lambda for relatively high-memory load applications? (~2GB+ RAM)

That's our biggest restraint at the moment, so far I haven't seen any good options.
A working video player built in Factario
5 Amazing Benefits of Cryptocurrency: A New Digital Future
I think all SM has good and bad parts. It's all addictive to some degree or another or it wouldn't be widely used. I think the addiction in hn is not the articles but the comments
Some Sony Xperia phones have AOSP source available: http://developer.sonymobile.com/open-devices/list-of-devices... , would be nice to see them listed.
Nice to see this done at the 2 level.
I don't think any demand is exotic on it's own, but to get them all together you have to be pretty lucky.

You'll need a company that can make a water resistant phone with a card slot, or is willing to give up the water resistant feature.

You'll need that company to be able to ship a CDMA version, which is harder when GSM is more common.

You'll need that company to not be a *ick company and have drivers for their hardware.

You'll need that company to achieve all of that and still be able to get a 820 and keep expected margins.
how does he manage to sound so insufferable over something so insignificant. this is prime hn content.
My opinion on the 10th is that, while "sovereign citizens" and other similar movements distort it to the point of meaninglessness, the standing mainstream judicial interpretation (that it basically means nothing at all) is also a heavy distortion of the original intent, and is harmful to the stability of our federal system of government.

But then, I am a states' rights liberal - a species so rare as to be considered mythical by many.
I don't understand how Blogger was a social network in the way FB is?
'handle expensive treatments'? What, unlike doctors everywhere else? Apart from the education costs, what is different?

The US also takes in a lot of foreign-trained doctors, who don't have those same education costs.
Availability row would be useful, e.g. you cannot purchase new Nexus 5 any more.
Not to mention TN status, nor EB-2.
> Those who couldn't reach an agreement have do not provide work for Walmart at all

This is completely untrue. There are a lot of people who need to work to eat and pay rent. Often they're backed into a corner where there's literally no other jobs available than Walmart, which means that Walmart can offer any wage they want and the potential employees have no options beyond accepting, or being on the street.
It might not be possible, but could you share the ride with someone from your workplace that has the same interest?
That spelling of defense is correct in American English.
Well, I seem to have no trouble with the distinction.
(small typo in title: Fact o rio)

Is this using a mod, or are those newer vanilla elements? Even earlier versions had lots of ways to do crazy logic if you wanted, but this seems a lot more streamlined and featureful)
Thanks, I didn't know.
Useful comparison layout, please add battery size & life
if anyone doesn't want to use a clunky browser addon, you can just ask me. Like the author of the app, I too know what is true and what is not and I will guide you on what news is safe for you to read.

Please, let me do your thinking for you.
The author of the 2001 book that OP was referring to wrote a new edition in 2012ish with the new docs. He wrote about it in HuffPo:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/edwin-black/ibm-holocaust_b_13...
I suspect OP was making fun of the open office fad where interrupting my debugging flow by hearing the finance clerks arguing about workload when posting accounts receivable forms or whatever will magically make my code 100x better. Or if I stand up and read from the book of Knuth on the topic of the evils of the bubblesort, that will motivate the salespeople to sell sell sell. Or at those open offices that are as quiet as libraries used to be, the off the charts sarcasm level displays that nobody works together with anyone at all, which is kinda sad and sterile working environment.

At a large company I worked at they tried discussion software but once the shine was gone, out of 150K people you'd have like 10 people who actually posted and on this web discussion board thingy and the content was all filler. Sometimes funny filler, but filler none the less. Imagine the sadness of a HN with only 10 participants.
Looks like it doesn't support a micro sd card.
Since it is addressing beginning programmers, I would like to add my take. I'm not a programmer but I have many years worth of computer experience. Programming never appealed to me because it never came naturally.

Lately I (once again) started paying attention to programming and started looking around. I went from one e-book and MOOC to another with much of the python hype (previously in my - failed - attempt, I tried Perl, PhP etc, when they were in vogue). Well I have eventually concluded, that the problem with programming is not necessarily me, but it is the lack of proper padagogy itself. There are programmers galore out there trying to teach via YouTube and MOOCs, but most are code monkeys who know what they're doing but I wouldn't call them "teachers".

So my search eventually led me to Scheme/Racket where I see some signs and hope of proper learning (I'm not going to be able to afford myself to take a college level CS). I looked into Small Talk as well but as of now I don't see a proper MOOC on it. I have started Racket course (BSL) on EdX. After spending much time and energy chasing Python basics and going nowhere, i feel I can possibly and eventually learn programming the way it is meant to be.
I think the `title` attribute is used to show the tooltips.

> I recall being quite amused sometimes at what people would write as their alt text.

XKCD :)
>Walmart pays exactly what they and the employee agreed to at the onset of the employment agreement. //

Seriously, do you think that's how it happens? Is that bluster, naivety, or what?

"He sonny, do you want to eat dirt or accept our below healthy subsistence wages?" seems closer to how it goes. People don't work for low wages because they can't bargain, they work for low wages because the alternative is for them not to work and the government won't mandate a Living Wage.

It's not fair because people who have less resources, from birth usually, are in a far worse bargaining position and usually don't have the occasion to negotiate their wages. The only chance they have to create leverage is to unionise and force the company to decide whether to waste 20% of their workforce and do a massive employment and training drive (or suffer a strike, or ...) or to accede to paying a, for example, inflation matching wage increase.
I think it's the 5s with CDMA, but whatever it is double check the bands before purchasing an imported phone, especially Chinese.
Also may give the false impression that you are becoming smarter though contact with constant flow of info
For those who read the comments first, this article essentially consists of a synopsis of a previous HN submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12965589
Mozilla's Firefox Sync server code is open source and even packaged so you can run your own Firefox Sync server, if you are concerned about privacy or Mozilla no longer supporting the service:

https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncserver
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Classical QM (Copenhagen, if I'm not mistaken) does have that problem. The collapse is indeed an additional hypothesis done on the part of the wavefunction the math already says we cannot observe. As always, unfalsifiable additional hypotheses are bad.

I can't speak for De Broglie-Bohm, but it would seem that theory also have a similar strike against it: the math is more complex than the equations QM physicists are familiar with. It's just not the simplest theory that fits the observation.

The obvious alternative is to just stick to the math. Problem is, the simplest math that explains our observations implies a universe that forks all the time. For some reason, possibly the intuition of a unique universe, many people cannot accept that.