skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks good! Unfortunately for me I had just started working on something very similar.

Mine had only a web interface and optional Facebook Messenger bot to proxy your chat through (I don't need another chat client).

But overall the same general idea to solve the problem of reliable IM without giving up personal info.

Good luck with it!

I'd suggest when a user first visits the site, you generate a link for them to share, which will start an IM between the two users when opened.

Then offer each user more options, registration, etc.
During election they modified their algo to avoid the_donald posts getting to front page.
> but most applications that I can immediately think of are harmful to society (reduction of white-collar jobs, increased potential for surveillance and profiling, etc)

Those are not applications, those are side-effects to _some_ applications.
so far so good, pretty detailed too

some might care images / screenshot, not me tho :D
Just a heads up: quoting long-line content with code quote blocks makes it hard to read, especially on mobile.
So if Twitter were bought by a Chinese company it would be the same as being bought by a British company?
I've interviewed at a few places without any technical questions. They basically talked to me about my past work and what I wanted to do. It's strange indeed.
> I hear good things and it's passed review at a few companies who know their stuff

Tavis Ormandy found some really bad vulnerabilities in Dashlane (and 1Password). [1] [2] [3] [4]

[1] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=89...

[2] https://twitter.com/taviso/status/769391927892598784

[3] https://twitter.com/taviso/status/763801055725359104

[4] https://twitter.com/taviso/status/773218040758448128
> back then I grew tired of Linux desktop (which is going to be MASSIVE NEXT YEAR, at least since 2001)

The snark was really unnecessary.
Sure, but Zuck was what, 18? Spez could conceivably have a 18-year-old kid at his age.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe he's calling for a specific organ of government to take on regulation of the internet and connected devices in a general sense, not calling for some specific regulation or law.

I suspect what he's getting at is having some set of "safety standards" to be put in place, especially for IoT tech. The whole quote of

>Our computers are secure for a bunch of reasons. The engineers at Google, Apple, Microsoft spent a lot of time on this. But that doesn’t happen for these cheaper devices. … These devices are a lower price margin, they’re offshore, there’s no teams. And a lot of them cannot be patched.

sums up that point pretty well.

I honestly don't know how you would really enforce something like this, but the proposal seems to be less about the specifics of regulation and more about the need for new regulation. The FCC really isn't equipped to handle this kind of thing.
i do the same. put their affiliate links on my blog and the commission is more than enough for run the site for the next few years now.
The founders have already taken some money off the table and made some angel investments. I'm sure that will accelerate now.
In particular, starting with their oldest and working towards their newest: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0FB9262CF878A34A
What role did Morton Salt play, and what is
#WalkHerWalk
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support a group of people who are bravely making
a positive difference in the world. They’ve
pledged funding and assistance to incredibly
inspiring and effective young innovators who are
tackling difficult issues like the global water
crisis, the plight of young female refugees,
systemic failures in arts and music education,
and children’s health and wellness education.
The slogan for this campaign is #WalkHerWalk, a
reference to the girl in their iconic logo, and
you can learn more about the innovators and the
many facets of the campaign at
http://MortonSalt.com/WalkHerWalk.

Morton was moved by the message of “The One
Moment,” and felt it captured the spirit of
what they are trying to do with #WalkHerWalk, so
they reached out to us and asked if we were
interested in making art with their salt – a
video that could fly the banner for their
initiative. We were impressed with their efforts
to support positive change, so we proposed this
idea, and together we collaborated to bring this
video to life.

A beautiful and inspiring 4 minute video ad for Morton Salt.
> The other problem here is that 'thought' is a complex and compound entity while 'qualia' seems to imply something atomic. So let's not use this concept.

Funny, I see it as exactly the opposite, as would any materialist I'd hazard. "Qualia" is a term describing a vague, poorly defined concept that's inherently intertwined with our complex perceptual systems and with our internal model of the world, and this dizzyingly complex aggregate leads us to falsely conclude we have subjective experience.

"Thought" is merely a mentally held belief, a proposition inferred from ones perceptions.
Reddit CEO caught surreptitiously editing user comments.
"Your" vs "reactionaries" and I'm the one engaging in ad hominem?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem
Which places specifically?
Could we not solve the problem of DDOS through collaboration between hosts and ISP's?

1) DDOS attack is detected
2) Attacking IP addresses are sent automated DDOS abuse notifications
3) ISP, like your credit card company when it's machine learning algos detect fraud ask for human back channel verification like SMS.
4) ISP notifies user of suspected bot on one of their devices. The onus is put on the user to run a secure network and remove or fix offending devices.

This system could work well for residential connections at least.

It could be implemented similarly to the way spam is handled by the internet, bad neighborhoods and networks that don't self police are treated as second class citizens.
Many of the topics haven't changed much in a decade. BIND is the same as it ever was. Sure, there's relatively new stuff, like DNSSEC, but I suspect it's actually covered in the latest edition of DNS & BIND; for whatever reason, DNSSEC adoption has been very, very slow, so the spec was formalized like a decade ago. BIND is the reference implementation for new DNS features, so it was probably in there and probably in the book ten years ago. But, I dunno. The last edition I had was probably one or two revisions before this one.

Essential System Administration is kinda out of date on several fronts. I looked at the most recent edition a year or so ago when I was thinking about writing a book on sysadmin topics, just to see what the current state of the market is. I'd probably toss about half of it, if I were charged with producing a new edition, and add several new chapters about containers (across all of the various unices), systemd, more modern interop topics (LDAP and AD, in particular), and just general updates to standard practices. But, still, it's probably in the top five books about UNIX/Linux system administration, since it is well-written and does cover a lot of ground. You could just skip what you don't need, and double check with the google for whether the material is up to date for the stuff you do.

Most of the other stuff will be accurate but missing a few things. bash and vim and emacs have improved a lot in the past decade, but core competency with any of them looks about the same as it did a decade ago. New things will take some additional research, but you won't waste your time learning from an old book, because a bash script written 10 years ago is 95% of the time going to run unmodified today. Likewise, a vim user who time-traveled from ten years ago to today won't, at all, be confused by modern vim.

So...they're cheap because they're old. And, you probably don't get tremendously more than you're paying for. But, they were good books ten years ago, and they're still pretty good books today.
Fake News May Not Be Protected Speech
That's different because it's an end-user action, not an internal action. I always know that the person who is saying that they're a Navy SEAL may not be or that it might be Morgan Freeman's or President Obama's PR person answering the questions. It's a lot different when the site admins use their root privileges to put words in people's mouths. Imagine if someone edited your comment or my comment to include a bunch of racist or hateful comments.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13027031
You just introduced me to pied piper and that silicon valley sitcom. :(

I should have listened when someone said HN is just noise now.
Parent's rhetoric is self-righteous namecalling. That does nothing to persuade people, it only makes them come back at you. He/she may think they do a service to people, but they are only turning more people to name-callers. As such my snarky comment was deserved. If that interrupted our moment of collective atonement, i apologize.
That's the problem -- there should be no "Reddit". The only interesting part of Reddit are the communities and there's no reason why the_donald and SRS can't exist under the same reddit.com domain. I really wish /u/spez et al. would take a hands-off approach except for cases where users are breaking the law.
Yeah SkyScanner is easily the best for international flights. Obviously in most countries a locally based competitor is going to be better for domestic flights.
The Apple app store is located at itunes.apple.com.

I was just trying to help? If you put that search into Google you will get better results than the app store itself.
Just a friendly FYI: block-quoting long-line text makes it very hard to read, especially on mobile, due to side scrolling.
They wanted to know what it was about, that's the best summary I know of and it has sources you can look up yourself, many of which aren't covered in your article. There is actual weird stuff that's provable at the core of this--a quick search of 'pizza' in the Podesta dumps will give you at least a few WTF moments.

Yes, you can find unhinged conspiracy stuff written about this. I'm not aware of any proof of anyone committing crimes, nor am I going to claim anyone is guilty without evidence. But there's enough weird that people are going to be digging into this one for a while.
Raise your asking rate by 10%
Almost a decade of freelancing with customer all over the world with little more than an email exchange most of the time and I have had next to zero issue with getting stiffed. Requiring written contracts will likely force businesses to use services Freelancer.com which will just mean that instead of one on one relationships you'll be forced to compete against a pool of competition racing you to the bottom and won't get paid directly.
Just like Apple believed and progressed towards facetime, Microsoft believed and is progressing towards teleconferencing with people visibly present in front of you.
I don't even know where to start.

But you're going to anyway, right?

Do you have any sources on your first claim?

I'm not your personal reference librarian, but you might start with a few of the more reader-friendly popular accounts and see where your interests take you. Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago is worthwhile; also Milton Mayer's They Thought They Were Free, and perhaps Ma Bo's Blood Red Sunset. The idea behind recommending these particular books is that they helped me move past the special pleading fallacy that is American exceptionalism ("It can't happen here.")

Hopefully others can point you toward some similar books on the Armenian, Cambodian, Rwandan, and other 20th century genocides, as I'm not as familiar with them.

All told, you'd have to cite about 100,000,000 civilian gun deaths to catch up with the records set by modern governments who weren't as afraid of their citizens as they should have been. It's going to take a lot of Columbines and Sandy Hooks to rack up that kind of score.

Would you have Hillary be against gun control, offering the majority of people that favour it no major candidate reflecting their beliefs?

Yes. It's not as if removing gun control from the Democratic platform would send those voters into the arms of the Republicans.
Obligatory: Fuck You, Pay Me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVkLVRt6c1U
How pathetic
Sockpuppet is one thing. Altering a user's comment to frame him/her is another thing. Basically any comment cannot be trusted anymore. It takes years to build trust. It can be destroyed in an instant.
Yes. Authorship, "karma," etc do not concern me. Discussion that makes me think, that challenges my preconceptions, that enriches my understanding of technology or that links me to new skills to learn -- those concern me.

Which is why I can't really feel outraged that a nonsense comment was changed into another nonsense comment. Nothing of value was lost.
If you're willing to entertain the idea that some people don't know they're conscious, it's not that far of a leap to say they actually aren't. You might be interested in reading about Julian Jaymes. He put forward a hypothesis that consciousness is a very recent (3000 years or so) phenomenon. This is a rabbit hole I prefer not to go down, because it just seems so absurd and solipist.

I agree that there's an almost eerie inability to grasp the idea of what some of us refer to as consciousness. This word has all kinds of linguistic baggage, so it often feels like thinkers talk past each other when talking about it. I hesitate (perhaps refuse?) to read any more into it than that.
That was one thing that occurred to me while watching the video, because they keep transitioning between different speeds they can choose the transition point so that the music will continue to match up even if in real time there was a very minute timing difference that would cause a problem. I'm assuming that's how they got the various flipbooks to sync up perfectly, where the lead singers singing when they went back to real-time video for a second.

I think I have all their albums, I love their videos and their music is often pretty good. I suppose I should know his name. (Edit: Damien)
Glaring typo on the first page.
Like the Boston marathon bomber?
We are a "serious consultancy." The only clients we have large figure receivables with are long-term clients our owner has a personal relationship with. All other clients (over 90% of them) are billed immediately and all bills are due in 30 days.

At the end of the day it's a matter of how much risk you can afford. I would never hold it against a freelancer if they wanted to get paid right away.
So we should just ignore it?
Then Apple should have waited until that type of integration was available. This is the first comment that has made me even the slightest bit excited for the touch bar interface paradigm. Controlling your system using your iPad/iPhone would be really cool and I think I would be on-board. As it is, this little touch bar thing on some MBP models is a big yawn.
I haven't heard of Laravel getting SSR yet, so yeah.
Almost a decade of freelancing with customer all over the world with little more than an email exchange most of the time and I have had next to zero issue with getting stiffed. Requiring written contracts will likely force businesses to use services such as Freelancer.com which will just mean that instead of one on one relationships you'll be forced to compete against a pool of competition racing you to the bottom and you won't get paid directly.
https://snag.gy/nb7BJj.jpg

The lines max out at 75 characters. (`fold --spaces --width 75`) But I'll nudge it down to 60. (Now 50)
What position were you interviewing for? and did you get hired?
> We see and also personally observe how coding tests do not effectively measure a persons analytical skills

I'm not convinced of this. It's not a perfect system but a well-orchestrated coding test is a great indicator of performance. In fact I think that's a huge pain point when hiring for a soft-skill oriented role -- it's very difficult to judge candidates until they've spent ~6 months on the job.

So what do established companies do? They rely very heavily on pedigree and experience. Coding interviews suck but I think they're necessary for meritocratic hiring. Plus, most of the complaints I see here are the result of poorly conducting programming interviews, not necessarily programming interviews as a concept.
"Well, if a white person cites that research as a reason to halt immigration and preserve their racial and cultural homogeneity."

You keep inventing stuff. None of the immigration comments referred to race/ethnicity in any way. You do realize that white people immigrate too, right?
I suggest pass [1]. It's just gpg with git. If you don't like the command line very much you can use a front end for desktop [2], Android [3] or iOS[4]. There are scripts to migrate from others password managers.

[1] https://www.passwordstore.org/

[2] https://qtpass.org/

[3] https://github.com/zeapo/Android-Password-Store/

[4] https://github.com/davidjb/pass-ios
I am /r/outoftheloop. What happened?
I'm not a statistician but even so I think this article makes assumptions that may not hold up for computer science. The first thing to do is plot your data. If it doesn't look like a bell curve, it's unlikely that common statistical calculations (which assume something close to gaussian) apply here.

If you're doing benchmarking, another common model is a peak at a minimum value (when everything goes right) and a long tail, due to various events like cache misses that always slow things down, but don't happen in every test run.

On a system with multiple programs running (a typical desktop), taking the mean is meaningless - this just adds noise due to activity unrelated to your program. You'd be better off taking the minimum, which with enough test runs should capture all the events that happen every time and none of the events that don't.

The median or 95% percentile might also be useful if you're investigating events that don't happen every time. But if you want to know about cold start performance (for example), maybe the best thing to do would be to flush your caches before every test run, so the events you're interested in are events that happen every time.
> Because of those catastrophic failure modes, nobody except governments want to assume the risk.

That would be a fine if it was a level playing field.

Lots of things have catastrophic failure modes. Dams[1], supertankers[2], chemical plants[3], oil drilling rigs[4], coal mines[5], etc. To say nothing of climate change.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banqiao_Dam
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exxon_Valdez_oil_spill
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepwater_Horizon_oil_spill
[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benxihu_Colliery

The reason those things have no trouble being built anyway is that they aren't required to carry billions of dollars in insurance coverage to begin with.

And maybe they should, but you can't single out nuclear for a requirement to carry that much insurance and then fault it for not being able to satisfy that requirement when its competitors don't.
> But you're not saying that the pencil is not broken, you're saying I can't see a broken pencil.

No, I'm saying you're inferring a false conclusion (the pencil is broken/we have subjectivity) from an inherently flawed perception (I see a broken pencil sitting in water/I perceive subjectivity).

For the sake of argument, let's assume the mental model of the paper I linked to. Our pseudo-perception of our own subjectivity is really a false conclusion we infer from a differential between the signal we receive from our perceptions of the outside world, with the signal from our internal model of ourselves perceiving the outside world. The constant switching back and forth as these signals consecutively dominate each other, combined with our slow perceptual response time relative to this switching, yields the illusion of subjectivity, similar to how a uniprocessor computer yields the illusion of real parallelism by context switching processes thousands of times per second. It's still just an illusion though.

> I'm not sure what distinction you're making? What would it mean for something to be "truly subjective"?

Subjective in the ontological sense, in that it cannot be reduced to an account consisting purely of third-person objective facts.

Certainly we perceive a type of "epistemic subjectivity" that's inherent to our distinct perspectives, but that's not true subjectivity in the ontological sense, like qualia.

> ...but I know I'm not a p-zombie. Even if I can't prove it to you, I know I definitely have subjective experience.

Materialistic theories of consciousness necessarily deny the conceivability of p-zombies, so you have nothing to prove. Any system with the same information processing structure as the model described in the paper (or whatever the "correct" model may be) would necessarily have consciousness. There is no non-functional "secret sauce" by which you can construct a p-zombie.
On mobile it's about half that. If you use two newlines per line, you'll get the same effect with decent breaks in narrower view ports.
If you're in the US, and are a programmer, your savings are way way too low for your age. It means you either haven't been changing jobs often enough, getting massive raises every time, or you spend too much.

If you're a US citizen, consider finding a well paid hourly remote job, and move somewhere cheap. You can reduce your work hours to literally 1-2 per week, enough to sustain yourself. Europe is quite cheap if you avoid big cities, Switzerland, and Norway. Most of Asia is very cheap except Singapore and Japan. There's also Africa, South America, and a gazillion island nations.
Also Clinton campaigns Correct the Record[0] took over Reddit during election. Most likely with reddits co-operation. To suppress the voices of Bernie supporters and later Trump supporters.

[0]http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/04/21/hillary-pac...
[1]CTR Spent: 8MIL https://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/lookup2.php?strID=C00578997
Traditional as in c? Object files would maintain state and build incrementally.
This is quite concerning. I do wonder if blockchain could fix the problem of stealth edits by privileged users.
* This makes engineers reluctant, but necessary, brokers of public discourse.

"Turner: I don’t envy engineers or executives at tech firms. They’ve been put in the position of being legislators for our public debates. America’s architecture for such debates — Congress, the courts, the executive branch, and to some degree, the press — was built in the 18th century. But the conditions of public discourse have changed, and the speed at which those conditions are changing has accelerated too."

I don't think our craft has quite figured what to do about this.
Why be snarky at all? How does that promote civil discussion?
I seriously considered trying to use elixir to start a new site with similar intentions to hn/slashdot/reddit, but then I did a precursory search of all the legal implications and it seems nightmarish to run a high-volume user commenting site these days.

I've settled on a side project of just editorials that dissect the rhetoric and logical strengths of current stories in aggregate.

I think the next version of reddit is going to have to be on a blockchain or something decentralized and verifiable.

That being said, I really have to give props to the HN team for how well they do their job technically and politically compared to most internet forum sites.
Dangerous. Hurts the thing shorting the supercap and anything in close proximity to that thing
> Los Angeles could also recycle its water for a much lower cost than desalination, but due to campaigns that claim it is unsanitary (ass to glass, etc) it is not an option politically.

Unsanitary isn't really the problem. Laden with organically active toxins is the problem.

We don't have a good way of dealing with most toxins other than simply diluting them and letting nature break them down.

This is why treatment plants take water from rivers and pump treated water back into the river rather than immediately recycling outflow back to inflow.