skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting, no problems here with uBlock Origin.

This whole thing about distributing malware, isn't that a widespread problem with any website that uses ad networks? Is it fair to single out Forbes in this regard?
Well, to be completely honest, yes. It would be honest and help to get away from the common political non-stance that most companies take.

Two good examples of this are Chick-fil-a and Hobby Lobby. (I worked for Chick-fil-a briefly when I was a teenager. I appreciated never having to work on a Sunday.) Both of these companies establish policies based on the belief structures of their founders. I readily admit to being an liberal atheist and am proud to stand behind that. While I may not agree personally with those policies, the companies are very forthcoming about them and as a customer, it helps me to make decisions about whether I am comfortable or not doing business with them.

To be even more specific, I want leadership of companies to be more open and honest with these things specifically because we have a lot of hard-won laws in the US to prevent discrimination. I want conservative leadership to be called out and potentially punished when they violate the law, rather than being allowed to execute their discriminatory beliefs in private and hide them under made-up reasons.

Now just to round that last statement out, I do not stand for other progressives and liberals to discriminate against people just because they hold personal conservative viewpoints. As long as everyone is obeying the law and not letting their beliefs affect the lives of others, I seriously couldn't care less what they think. Do I personally believe that conservatives are lacking in basic levels of education and compassion for other people? Yes, yes I do. Do I believe that those people should somehow be discriminated against just because they are happy to discriminate against other people? No, I don't.

So I guess to summarize the answer to your question: Yes I have similar political stances as those two, but I want more openness among all corporate leadership because it makes it much easier and clearer to decide which companies to do business with.
It works for 4chan's users or they wouldn't hang out there. But the level of moderation is a competitive feature. Users decide where to hang out based on the quality of discussion, and moderation has a direct effect on that (in both directions - too heavy-handed or too hands-off).

Also, in the end, the people who host a forum get to choose whether they really want to host a cesspool or not. If it's not working for them, they can shut it down, or maybe outsource moderation to Facebook or Disqus.
The election was about electing a white racist bygot. Everything else they say it was about is just deflection. He could have defrauded students, assaulted woman, have a wife pose in pseudo lesbian porn pictures, use his charity for personal expenses and he still would have gotten elected. Ho wait...

Edit: At least the white nationalist guys admit why they like trump so much.
Wget Access List Bypass Exploit CVE-2016-7098
While difficult to exploit, the advisory itself paints quite an interesting picture of what could be possible by exploiting the bug: https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-195.html
does it support gradle for android?
Feedback: Drone Taxi
Hello,

I've been thinking about this new invention. A drone large enough to carry people from place to place.

You may have seen the Ehang 184 on youtube, it is a new autonomous aerial vehicle capable of carrying a single passenger.

What do you think the biggest thing holding this back is? Are drones that large too expensive? Are people afraid of flying? Why do you think this hasn't become a reality yet?

Any feedback would be much appreciated.
> Angry "The _Donald" members accused Reddit leadership of modifying or otherwise censoring their posts — which turned out to be correct, when Huffman posted the following comment, confessing that it was him personally who was performing the changes.

I knew this sort of thing was going to happen and stopped using most social media.

These new platforms like Twitter, Reddit, Facebook etc are devolving into the same sort of ban happy in group out group tribalism you get on irc channels Where some clique has all the oper accounts and anyone who has even the slightest disagreement is banned.

I would rather use a much smaller bbs or forum that does not censor rather then a huge social media platform where anything you say could get you booted if it rubs the censors the wrong way.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/21/technology/fact-check-this...
My guess is that there would still be a PV revolution even without the Chinese factories, though the cost drops might have a come a bit slower. Costs were dropping at about the same year-over-year rate for decades before China leapt to the top of the PV manufacturing ranks.

Silicon refiners in the US actually had lower production costs than Chinese refiners even with the extra labor and environmental costs in the US. Unfortunately, a few years ago China imposed punitive trade barriers against silicon imported from the US. It was in retaliation for trade barriers the US put up against imports of Chinese solar modules. Until both sides erected their dueling trade barriers, the value of US-to-China silicon exports just about balanced the value of China-to-US modules. It was like a textbook example of comparative advantage. Now Chinese manufacturers get higher priced silicon made with fewer environmental protections, and US buyers get higher priced modules :-/
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That is not the same issue. There has been coverage of the Standing rock protests in all the major media outlets, the story dies because in part because of how it is presented (Native Americans notion that their idea of sacred ground isn't shared by the current legal holders of that ground) and in part because the risk of pipeline leakage relative to other risks (train derailments[1], coal plants dumping into rivers[2], the EPA uncorking tailing ponds[3])

Thus for much of the country they hear : "These protesters, with no compelling reasons, are preventing work on a pipeline that will help make your oil and gas prices stay low and create jobs for drillers and oilmen in the Dakotas."

And the story falls flat on its face and nobody picks it up again. If anyone involved in the protest wants to get any traction at all on that story they need to figure out a way to get regular people angry about it.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=derailed+cars+leak+into+rive...

[2] https://www.google.com/search?q=coal+plant+dumps+into+river

[3] https://www.google.com/search?q=epa+accidental+release+in+co...
I will once again point out the irony of r/The_Donald members constantly complaining about SJWs being up in arms over their racist, sexist, homophobic rants. Yet the second something like this drops, it's the end of the world. Reddit as a whole is going to crumble because the CEO got sick of their childish antics.
A minor point, but this rule was to help others who don't have your kind of work to have some protections.
'macOS' is just too much of an affectation to ask for in styling capitalization. You'll notice a lot of people resisting it, defiantly writing 'MacOS'.
> Many of us are concerned about abuses of state power to roll back progress on abortion, teaching evolution, secularism etc.

The problem is that you can't pick and choose. If you want limited federal government you have to protest just as loudly against Common Core (federal involvement in education), gun control, environmental action, etc. And the same applies with regards to executive overreach - re: border control and immigration policy.

I think you may be surprised to realize that many conservatives (obviously it depends who we're talking about) will gladly ally with you to prevent both of these, but unfortunately no one on the left was willing to do anything as long as they held the reins of power. I only hope that now that Republicans are in charge, conservatives will not get too giddy with power (and I think there is hope).

Limited government and constitutionalism are the only way to ensure an even balance, and prevent the other 51% (give or take) of the country from forcing their views down your throat.
No, it's very different than two subspecies. The males of one morph almost exclusively mate with females of the other morph, and produce offspring which are one of the four sexes in roughly equal proportion.
Bias I can put up with, so long as it is not supported by fabricated facts.

That I have friends who are more conservative when presented with the same facts that I can see doesn't bother me. In particular, it is likely a place I should take notice and get a better understanding of the situation.

When the beliefs are based on complete nonsense and they are not open to discussing how what they are pushing is just flat out false....
>There's a downside to spelling things out completely

Are you gonna make every title a puzzle?
Or change the title back?
Or keep your YC-serving contradiction?

I didn't know who "spez" was until this incident! The title should at least say Reddit! This is a terribly mystifying and non-descriptive title and the previous one was completely accurate.

EDIT WITH REPLY TO THE FOLLOWING:

I only found this thread because I searched "reddit" to see what the discussion was here after reading about this incident in the Yahoo News article. That means I would have passed right over it and not known this article was about Reddit if I had started here because I didn't know what u/spez was yet.

And the title you gave this isn't even a title from the content, it's a partial quote of a line from within the body of a comment underneath a page with a completely different title. All the examples you linked were to pages with titles that were then used or lightly trimmed into the title here (possibly with a year added).
"So I googled what I could buy for that. It turns out, I could buy a 2002 Mercedes Benz..."

So the author figured out that he could stop wasting a little bit of money on coffee every day, but then thought it might be a good idea to waste it all in one shot on a flashy car? Think of all the money he'd have left over if he got a 2002 Toyota Camry instead (assuming he needed a car in the first place).
reposting a shadowbanned account's comment that is relevant to this:

> Like the Rolling Stone's fake rape story?
Maloney's email was terrible. I would never want to work for someone like that, and never will if I can avoid it. It was a kind and wonderful thing to send a company-wide email saying something to the tune of "If you ever feel marginalized in any way, come to me personally, immediately." He then promptly shat all over the goodwill by indirectly calling for Trump voters to quit. Screw that. I would have loved to have seen a brazen employee call him on that.
Its in the link, isn't it?

> As much as we try to maintain a good relationship with you all, it does get old getting called a pedophile constantly.

constant fighting and complaining with other subs as well (which normally they would just shut down, but (un)fortunately, the r/the_donald mods are doing all they can do prevent that being needed, so its a constant minor (but active) problem, instead of being a large one-time problem that they can just ban)

Its the whole concept of poisoning the well, you have some people acting bad, and then the other people act bad in return, and then everyone watching just feels bad for watching it, and it makes everyone feel shit
Spez isn't emotionally adept to handle the abuse you get as a reddit CEO. Yishan wrote before that he was good at the technical side of the job but he's neither a strong businessman nor a community leader.
I find the asymmetrical warfare argument…weird. Afghanistan as a nation has been in a state of massive system failure for decades. Is that really the hope guns offer? “If the government goes ballistic, our guns will ensure we end up like Afghanistan”?
There's certainly no way he could have flipped the pages at the correct rate.
Do the run their own ads like a lot of the bigger news sites do?
Sounds good to me. Trump should appoint a Secretary of News whose job it is to determine "fake news". How does Bannon sound to you?

Trump will be one of the best things that happened to free speech and civil liberties. President Obama was so smart and benign that many people felt comfortable giving up protections on free speech and civil liberties. It is a lot easier now to convince people for the need to protect free speech now that Trump will be in charge. These protections for free speech were created because the founders knew that you would not always get the wise and good people in charge. These protections are for when foolish and authoritarian people get into power.

This is why I think these "fake news" pushes to limit free speech are foolish. People are sharpening a very sharp knife for censorship, baring their chest, and handing it to Trump who will have the Presidency, Congress, and soon the courts. You are free to do this, but no one will be sympathetic to you when Trump stabs you in the heart by banning your speech because it is "fake news".

Let me give you something more concrete to think about. What will be your response when Trump and his EPA say that global warming is "fake" and ban all mention of of global warming as "fake news". After all, fake news is not protected speech.
Based on what you've written here, I think you might find Jonathan Haidt's "The Righteous Mind" interesting. He's been involved in a lot of recent research into human psychology, morals, and understanding how people can arrive at different political stances.
But they have your upvotes, saved links, private messages, and at least some idea of which outbound links you've clicked (you can turn some of that off).

It's like an ISP knowing a significant portion of your web browsing behaviour.
Expose First Paint, First Contentful Paint,  to Developers
Here's where they forked https://github.com/jpmorganchase/quorum/commit/f7cb85824c732...
Uber taxi service hits Dhaka streets
I agree. Modi should have gone after making the Indian tax system efficient. And less corrupt.
> That Emdrive paper has all the smells of bad science around it.

I've seen this thrown around a lot but no one has bothered to mention what the papers shortcomings were.
We Tracked Down a Fake-News Creator in the Suburbs
/r/The_Donald is such an Internet cesspool.
Also note that DeepMind went even further than that, there is DeepMind health division aiming at using this technology to help doctors and patients directly.

Thing is, there is plenty of existing AI research that could hypothetically revolutionize medicine. Even in the eighties there were expert systems that outperformed doctors in certain areas. The issue with it all isn't that the algorithms are not fancy enough or accurate enough yet, it's the practical application.

I believe the biggest challenge of today's AI research is making AI and ML accessible. Not just for consumption, but for actual training and open ended use.

I don't see Deep Mind doing much in *that" regard.
This is the perfect ploy to get conspiracy nuts to leave Reddit. I'm sure spez is tired of dealing with the pizzagate cats and he thought this was the best way to drive them off without creating a bigger shitstorm by telling them all to get fucked.
Technically, how do you know "The Pope endorses Trump for president" is fake without contact the Pope's office for verification? You can't just say it looks obviously fake so it is fake.
I don't understand HN rank algorithms. With 300+ points in 3 hours I would expect this to be at the very top, not sliding off the front page.
You Asked: Is It Better to Sleep in or Work Out?
Why the fuss about serverless?
Name them!
The gift of freedom
Blackwater linked figure to run education
Everyone is pissed that T_D won an election with meme magic.
Because not all open source software has to be distributed via GitHub.

Think about what happened to SourceForge, and be glad that the Internet hasn't become totally centralised around a few major websites yet.
Let's be clear - this whole "false news" thing is the liberal, elite press reacting against independent thinkers who dare question the narrative they are trying to push.

This. Is. Why. Free. Speech. Exists.
http://www.snopes.com/pizzagate-conspiracy/
"the internet" once some weird thing nobody heard of. now the medium that has the most influence over everything. shouldve seeen that one coming morons
I wonder if you could create a journalist certificate system which allowed you to sign your news stories with your journalist's private key. Then places like facebook and twitter could check the registry to see if you were in fact a "certified" journalist. Then people who read your stories could vote for or against their truthfulness.

The sign up process would be open to anyone, with or without degrees or training, but it would require enough information and be costly enough that you wouldn't have people send out a fake story get banned, get a new cert, and do it again.

I don't doubt there are people out there who don't "write the news" for a living who would be outstanding journalists and those who do that would get banned for their lack of accuracy.

The idea being that in the past a brand such as the New York Times would carefully manage its journalists such that its content was viewed as accurate and authoritative, it has in the past loudly fired employees who "broke the code". Aggregators like Google and Facebook and Twitter could use the 'newsy score' to trend stories from respected journalists and de-emphasize or spike stories from discredited or non-journalists.
They are working on APFS to replace HFS+ and sierra ships a beta already, at least :)
Serious question - what's the difference between that, and running all apps in their own chroot jails?

It seems like the goal of this app is to isolate things from the network, and from each other. A web app or chromebook method isolates from other apps, ok, fine, but not from the web. Seems more like jail in that sense.

Maybe I'm just misunderstanding.
That title is clickbaity.
Article 11 of Reddit's user agreement states, "You are solely responsible for the information associated with Your Account and anything that happens related to Your Account."

This sole responsibility is predicated upon user content not being tampered with, except for removal for moderation or administrative purposes.

This act is unprecedented and not accounted for in their own legal agreements with users. User trust aside, does this impact their ability to enforce their user agreements?
Running Blackwater and Amway while donating to alt-right causes is a way to a cabinet post....
have they not seen 2001?
https://youtu.be/1s-PiIbzbhw
One of the issues that really leaped out at me was head and tail. In the functional paradigms where those are common, they're both O(1) because they apply to cons lists, which are a form of linked list. Head is probably still O(1) but if tail is O(n) you really need to point that out, as even with relatively small data sets O(n^2) can be noticeable.

Perhaps it's obvious to a Fortran programmer that it will be O(1) because Fortran has slicing built in, I dunno, but still, documenting the general space and time complexity would be worth doing. (Plus even if Fortran does slices natively, it's still nice in a library like this to guarantee to your users that you're using it correctly and it won't copy n-1 elements on every call, and to clearly say whether they can safely modify the results. As I assume Fortran is not big on the immutable arrays.)
The problem with "permitting firmware updates, at least for security updates", is there are no vendors that only do security updates. Our industry is guilty of using security updates as the proverbial carrot. :(
See this thread for some details:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13027367

Short (incomplete) answer: it tripped the flame war detector and has likely been flagged by a number of users.
>as a malicious Reddit employee can frame you as having said anything

So that means I can go back to posting random 1960s Spiderman memes everywhere? Awesome!
Java is currently the most popular language in the world. There are far more job postings for Java than for any other programming language. Java is the enterprise standard language. Java has a tremendous ecosystem and a vast user community. Java is pretty much unassailable.

However, in 1995 Java was nothing more than a hopeful upstart from Sun Microsystems. There were no job opportunities for it. It had no ecosystem to speak of and relatively few users. Performance-wise, it ran like a slug (today, the JVM is well-optimized). How did Java achieve today's status?

To a large extent, it was thanks to Sun Microsystem's marketing efforts. People were drawn to the promise of "write once, run everywhere." They also liked that Java was a fairly simple and easy-to-learn language. In time, Java developed a large community and widespread usage.

The point is, all programming languages have to start from zero. They either grow from grassroots, or they grow from corporate sponsorship and marketing. Incumbent languages with their large ecosystems and user communities eventually yield to newer languages with their promise of greater ease, productivity, flexibility, power, etc. Getting the job done is important, but one should also look to the future. That's the hope of languages such as Go, Swift, Dart, Julia, Rust, Elixir, Smalltalk, and so on.
OK, but this page is made by Apple.
Wikipedia is not WikiLeaks
How to negotiate an amazing job offer
This is only partially right. Software engineering is hard. But trust is harder. Much much harder. And most things you have to trust people with just doesn't matter.

However, in the future where software can do everything, there is no such thing as "limited trust." If you trust someone to operate on your car, you are trusting them with everything the car interacts with. Which... quickly explodes to everything.
> Is there really any rational behind these laws?

Not really. It's just people from religions that reject sexuality trying to impose their beliefs onto others. I think it's disgusting how far this has gotten in the UK.
The fun and games are just getting started, it's just the stakes have been raised.
I've been using Google Flights exclusively since it was released, I love the UX.
It is a lot of people who support their candidate who is now the president-elect, some memes, and some good debate.

Nothing about it warrants spez's behavior.
I was asked if I could chime in to automate repetitive, inhumane, tasks in a HR process (a large number of people). It's mainly monitoring records matching a set of sentinels and triggering stuff.

I don't want to impose Python because the tools they're using offer scripting capabilities, so I'll just learn their stuff and point them towards scripting.

Also working on a few projects and learning as I go (JavaScript, XMPP, Google App Engine..) and will buy a couple of things for a hydroponics experiment.
As I recall it was more like 2% or 3%.
Doing a startup is gambling, and it's gambling in a particularly high-risk way. If all you have is $50k in savings, you should not put that money anywhere near a startup. The money that isn't in your immediate checking account should be in a low-fee index fund, especially if $50k is all you have.
Looks like it is going to happen. The fundraising is getting close to its goal and it is over 1.9m, (it was 1.7 just 30 mins ago).

https://jillstein.nationbuilder.com/recount
Gonna happen again and labelling images is not going to stop it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13020523