skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I think people are being unreasonably demanding of FaceBook."

Considering the amount of influence Facebook imposes on it's users I don't think so. It's very difficult even for the best of men to be constantly aware of ones cognitive biases. If facebook only shared friend's posts, I would have to agree. But the fact that it intertwines this reality based, emotionally meaningful data with effectively biased noise it gives that biased noise a terrible force. That noise will start to bounce around in ones social circles like in an echo chamber, thus giving it even more credibility.

"However snobbishly trolling with risque art and historical pictures, and slamming FB because the overworked mods were not sophisticated enough to recognize them seems like bullying to me."

FB feeds false signals from unvetted third parties, while censoring input from trusted parties.

Once again, if Facebook was a bulletin board, I would agree. But it's something far more insidious. The problem is that the whole point of Facebook is to convince users that any data they see from third party sources is meaningful and important - to create add based revenue. It creates this effect by utilizing ones friend network. Thus it twists something precious and important into a cognitive attack vector.

The problem is - this is not made explicit - and the more ignorant users are of this effect the better it is for their business.

I'm not saying they are evil geniuses. They just want to sell adds. It's probably the way it is through constant application of A/B testing. The metrics drive the interface to be ever more convincing. It's a system to create ever more convincing messages from unsolicited third parties.

The censoring then actively intercepts messages from vetted parties, adding insult to injury.
And they obviously are. Facebook has been trying to address these issues, and has made missteps on the way. They wouldn't have issued the statements they have if they weren't concerned about it. I'd be really surprised if they're happy with the current situation and are going to just stop working on it.

Maybe they're not working fast enough or in the way you want them to. But it's helpful to recognize that they're human, too. The issues of free speech and privacy and business and how they inter-relate are not solved issues, and things that we've grappled with as societies for at least a couple hundred years. Coupled with the novelty of online communities, it's not something I expect them to figure out overnight.

It's good that you admit that you don't have answers to these questions. I don't either. Which is why I'm very slow to make statements like Facebook simply kills democracy for their own benefit. It just doesn't recognize the reality of the situation as I understand it.
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Chihuahua are an old breed and I don't think we know their true history. Old breeds tend to be healthier and more compatible with humans though, as we have worked all the bugs out.
I have a little off topic question. The article says that after months of investigating a career diplomat with 40 years of service under suspicion that she turned and now works as a Pakistani spy in the US...

>> Two FBI agents approached her, their faces stony. “Do you know any foreigners?” they asked

Why do cops ask such questions? What is this investigative technique supposed to achieve? Make the suspect angry so they would be less careful in phrasing their answers? Let the suspect assume the investigator knows nothing so the suspect would think they can blatantly lie and the investigator would not realize? Something else?

I don't think there are any elicitation techniques the FBI has that she hasn't mastered, so why do that?
Ignorance is killing democracy. And that’s not Facebook’s problem. It’s an educational problem. Our education system is failing to instill critical thinking into young people. So they go out in the world and become adults who are easily duped into this idea or that because they lack the skills and the mindset to evaluate opposing viewpoints. Sure the Internet has made things worse, and that’s a bit shocking for those of us who a couple of decades ago hoped that free information would help the world move forward, but it’s hardly the root of the problem.
The broader point is that this analysis applies not just to Facebook, but Twitter and Reddit as well. Engagement is a revenue driver and veracity isn't.

What's worse, the same applies to regular news as well as aggregators. It always has to a certain extent, but improving technology, changing social attitudes and razor-thin margins have weaponised this.

But we're not even finished there: the US and the UK are geographically sorting their populations by political affiliation. Want to see a political bubble? Look outside.
You can write down your master password somewhere, or share it with a loved one. This is no different from having backups for important data. You can't easily backup your iris, face, or fingerprints.
Thats true, actually I mostly code in Scala and there are many SQL libraries that allow you to do:

sql"""SELECT * FROM users WHERE username = $username"""

Actually that looks like a problem at first, however the library will actually create a parameterised query out of it.
It's pretty cool since now you don't need to think about (http://slick.lightbend.com/doc/3.1.1/sql.html#string-interpo... or https://github.com/playframework/anorm/blob/master/docs/manu...)
> A regular employee/salaried dev is looking at at least 90k euro/year in nl

According Payscale, the average salary for a developer in Netherlands is 41k Euro/Year (http://www.payscale.com/research/NL/Job=Software_Engineer/Sa...), and in Amsterdam, the capital, 53k (http://www.payscale.com/research/NL/Job=Senior_Software_Engi...).

In Copenhagen and Barcelona (the two Euro cities where I have worked) 90k is totally off the market.
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She compared Trump to Hitler? What an innovation!
By chaining calls I can just drop in anything that has the correct interface. For example, if I wrote a "to_stdout" function I'd need to modify replicate() in order to use it. This way I can do;

db.replicate.to_stdout('http://example.com/mydb');
Did you know in France they allow people to rent trucks?

A lot of people don't share your irrational fear of guns.
This relies on all iris scanners everywhere not being hotwired to feed them a saved iris scan.
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A small library/extensible framework that aims to solve the problem of needing a cache while coding small/medium scale python projects without depending on 3rd party cache systems.
"nearly 1,400 lines of multicolored commands in seemingly random order, tossed about like a salad." oh geez, really?
With only 13,000 training entries, I humbly think we built a better predictive model than anything else we could find. Certainly way better than Naviance. All the code and analysis is available on github if someone wants to make a business out of this.
At first, I didn't see it either. The big image in the header is just a simple Youtube video.
TIL I basically work for free.
But then again, I hardly do any work, so it seems to even out in the end.
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> All the banks are considering some form of biometric authentication for ATMs

First I've heard of this. Is this a regional thing or a global trend? Got any sources?
for some reason, the idea of autonomous bots crawling around the internet also unsettles me. i guess it really depends on what kind of rewards you train it for.
Wow wow, Amazing!
How about bubble baths?

I always loved bubble baths.
The second one mainly. There is probably a way to do MPC in a truly trustless manner but that's another big challenge and Zcash investors were probably getting impatient so they pushed for a launch.
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Determining what facts are is not a political decision.

Decisions with political implications are not the same thing as political decisions. Huge categorical difference, in fact.
You probably could but you're having a bad time compiling and building Skia. It uses a peculiar build system (that is used throughout the chromium ecosystem). It does have a performance in mind and even comes with a tool (nanobench) to measure perf.

That being said for a game you'd probably be better off with a higher level engine that also manages the scene graph, spatial sorting etc things for you unless you want to work on that part yourself.
Whoa bro, send your authoritarianism elsewhere please.

The people with power who try to screw over society for their own benefit always go with the same argument. I know best, so please give me all the power so I can use it to enrich myself.
Mens rea anyone? Regressive left gone wild.
The best advice I've seen is to give them limited responsibility, and then let them deal with the limited consequences. Your job as a parent is to short term care for your children, but long term make them independent and functional in society.

If you never let them wear their shorts and tshirt in the snow when they really want to, they will never respect the cold or your advice.
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Could we not have the editor wars?

Aside from that: I love vim and use it any time I work remotely (via ssh). But I spend good chunks of my time in Linux (Mint), Windows, and Mac. And Vim is great for the first and the last, but is awkward for Windows. And even if I don't mind the gui that looks like it came out of a dog's derriere, it makes synchronizing my settings a pain in the same region just because I need to change filenames (.vimrc becomes _vimrc, if memory serves), add a bunch of conditionals to handle different features, and possibly also change line endings (I forget if that is needed). Whereas atom is easily synced with a single mostly automated plugin that pushes everything I need to a gist.

I still prefer vim on my primary work station, but I am also eagerly following atom development in the hopes of filetype specific tab/indent/linelength rules to be better supported and various improvements to performance.

And on a less usability note: Atom looks REALLY good when you are doing a code demo or a presentation.
I see. It seems we disagree on the substance of what is at issue here.

> But if people think his work his crap, and want to ignore him, then that's their right.

Of course. That is not at issue.

From the article: "My conclusion might be wrong, but I think I’ve earned the right to share this research without risk to my career. Instead, my research was under constant attack for years by activists, journalists and politicians."

The allegation is not that people are disagreeing with him in good faith because they think his work was crap. The allegation is that people are shunning him and his research because it is inconvenient. Whether that is true or not, that is what is at issue.

In your top-level comment, you don't take issue with his allegations. Rather, you seem to suggest that whatever happened is acceptable because his research is open to misinterpretation and misuse. You also claim he misconstrued something as censorship, but what he claimed was an attack on his career, which you didn't address.

So, my argument is that you appear to be justifying something that shouldn't be justified (and may or may not have occurred) and you haven't actually engaged with what is being alleged.
That, I would also like to know. There must be a safety procedure in that kind of event. I imagine they would just detach and leave the lab. Suits are probably made in a way that no air can leave from the air plug
Psychologists do study personality. But despite that I still think as human beings our theories of mind are based on our own understanding of our mind. Those neurons that fire in our brain emulate the behavior in our brain. So the advice that any psychologist gives is based on that. But I am not a fish, so I don't know how it is like to be a fish, a psychologist in this case.

I have just received bad advice before from a psychologist and looking back on it was because they don't know me and could not have known me in the few hours I spent with them. In order to know me they would have to go through a lot of people, and very few people are like me in personality terms. So to know me they would have to go through many many people before they had enough experience with people with my sort of psychology or temperament... to give me any sort of advice that would work with my temperament and actually add value to my life.
Someone is going to have to start up some type of syndicate at some point to make it easy for publishers to put up paywalls and easy for readers to subscribe and unsubscribe to them.

Whoever does that will do pretty well for themselves.
Fair enough... I mean, emoji domains are not for everyone, right? And, of course, there are all kinds of totally valid concerns about unicode domains in general. I would call it an idea at the beginning of its lifecycle. I guess the question is... since it's supported in iOS, is that enough to kickstart interest, which will then pull in the other browsers?

That said, a lot of people are using emojis every day in their communication... seems pretty normal that they'd use them in domains as well, right?
Unless people are currently getting karted off by the Canadian feds for not calling older Canadians, "sir" and "mam" or not calling blind people, "visually impaired", I think this guy may be creating an unnecessary panic.

http://sds.utoronto.ca/blog/bill-c-16-no-its-not-about-crimi...
Never heard of the Orbi before. Just took a look and It sounds good, but at £350 it's not exactly an inexpensive solution!
> Is this a sign of the publicly available stock dwindling?

Could be. The front loaders tend to wear out their cart connector due to the weird VCR loading mechanism. It's easily fixable now but at the time it probably doomed them to the trash.

The top loaders were always sorta rare because they came out way late in the NES's lifetime (post SNES and Genesis) and IIRC only sold for a couple years.
You can wipe without a passcode, but if the user turned on Find My iPhone before the phone was wiped, the phone will be a brick until one logs into the associated iCloud account.
> Simply incredible.

It is, but not only for the reason you provide.

FB is "inclusive of all perspectives and view points", only when it matches its own US-culture-centered-policy (breast-feeding, nudity is just a very obvious hint).
>Is this what you think Facebook should be?
It was a metaphor.

>What would this look like in concrete steps?
Taking social responsibility. I dont know the steps because I dont run that business only affected by it.

>How do you manage bullying?
>Knowingly spreading misinformation and disinformation?
>What prevents Facebook from becoming one big flamewar?
FB should be deciding on these. They can if they want to.

>How do you decide how to confront contradictions?
By letting people talk instead of hiding them from each other.

>It's another thing all together to put in place the features that make this possible.
Yeah of course and its big time they accepted they should.
I still don't really understand why we had to use punycode for this instead of plain UTF-8?

Unicode domains are nice, because it's always frustrating to have to misspell words just to make them fit within ASCII for no good reason (other than technical) but it really should have been handled in a better way, both on the technical side (punycode is ugly and scary for everyone) and the administrative side (it's actually not that difficult to handle phishing or to semi-automatically attribute domains with accents to the existing owners of the equivalent domains without accents, for example, at least for most European languages).
I'm curious what this wild side is like. "letting your teams do whatever the hell they want as long as you're delivering" sounds like working remotely from a beach is common. Yet almost all job postings I see from companies in London are on site. Or does it mean I can leave work after six hours on very productive days?
I don't have a nanny or a housekeeper. My solution to that have been: Sometimes let dinner get ruined, and include a discussion of consequences. Sometimes allow yourself to be late, and do the same. Sometimes tell them they have to wait and ignore them - yes I know its hard - while helping your other kids.

A ruined dinner or getting late to swimming are one time events. Teaching your kids that tantrums will "work" in all the wrong ways will affect your life for a long time.
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Asking helps you move forward
This is some relevant reading from a credible authority:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/201...

The short version is that the federal government has the power to pass laws, but under federalism, the states are not obligated to help the federal government enforce those laws.

That's how sanctuary cities and the like are born -- by states simply refusing to assist the federal government in their endeavors.

State marijuana legalization is a slightly different animal. On the one hand, they're exercising their anti-commandeering power (by refusing to arrest marijuana users). On the other hand, they're directly defying the supremacy clause by passing laws contrary to the federal laws, which is a step beyond anti-commandeering.

It hasn't been tested in court, but a likely argument would be one based on Marbury v Madison, in which the relevant portion is that congress may not pass an unconstitutional law. American jurisprudence tells us that an unconstitutional law need not be enforced by any court, officer or person, as an unconstitutional law is not a law at all. The states, if challenged, could assert that a federal ban on marijuana is unconstitutional on its face as it flies in the face of both the 9th and 10th amendments (and possibly the 5th, with maybe a sprinkling of the 14th, depending).

Of course, that hasn't happened, and this is all conjecture, and it's a crapshoot as to whether or not it would work, but it's not impossible that the federal government hasn't exerted too much top down pressure on early marijuana states because they wouldn't want to chance the precedent of losing.
> And they obviously are.

Don't you think they are bit late in the US? :D

>The issues of free speech and privacy and business and how they inter-relate are not solved issues, and things that we've grappled with as societies for at least a couple hundred years

But this time its much more hurting than before because we know more now and shouldnt let bad things happen because of a company's business decisions.
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Someone at The Guardian have just discovered what Google bomb is?
> but maybe represents a small set of 'the industry', with smaller studios

The tech tools in the biz are downright ancient. ;) At my place of work we just got C++11... on an old ass version of GCC. We are also stuck on Qt4 (uughhh!) for the foreseeable future. Also no Python 3. Version control? Enjoy those merges in Perforce!
Ask HN: Have any side projects from Show HN gone big?
Any side projects from Show HN went big in terms of users, revenue or open source etc...
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@negamax, the scripts specify exactly why we exist.
An 8% click rate is great.

A few things:

1. 800 email subscribers is low in terms of getting results, because open rates are low and click rates are low.
Mailchimp has a good benchmark for open and click rates: https://mailchimp.com/resources/research/email-marketing-ben...

Software click rates are around 3-4% so 8% you are doing well.

Consider:

A) Ways to increase your subscriber list. This could be an offer, popup on your website, or advertising and promotion on different sites.

2. A/B test subject lines. To me, emojis seem spammy and also they can get filtered out by spam filters. So watch email deliverability cues.

3. Test frequency - more and less.
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It's simpler to explain in economic terms. You get what you incentivize. The google-dominated internet incentivizes page views for money. People are going to post what makes people click - shock, hate, gossip. Posting feel-good me-too stuff does not bring views. So you end up with an internet looking like this. Does it matter? I m not sure, the yellow press was always there and we did not end up with a new hitler every 4 years. Does google matter that much to democracy? I'm not sure its propaganda can be that effective. I think the best kind of propaganda is economy: give people the economic rewards they asked for, and they 'll quit being racist.
That page was written circa 2007. Unfortunately, the UK version of the website is terribly outdated.

OVH does not install any SSH keys on the servers.
> Iris scanners […]

Iris scanners for authentication kind of lost their appeal to me after watching Demolition Man.
People don't acknowledge this enough, one size doesn't fit all.

It bothers me most when people discuss diet and obesity. "Just don't eat so much!" is often given as slightly condescending advice. Such advice reflects a personal experience where your body isn't screaming in hunger 24 hours a day. Different people have different metabolisms too, turning food into energy to be spent, or locking it away instantly as fat -- makes a huge difference. Calories-In-Calories-Out is a rather limited view of the situation.

Our internal experiences differ, it affects who we are and how we behave. We all have to be responsible and deal with our personal realities in an adult manner. But it's rather lame to assume that anyone who is challenged by things you find simple is either stupid or lacking in willpower.
Does anyone know the name of the Russian choir song at minute 16 of the documentary? I want to use it for the background song when individual factions reach the Factory in Scythe (parallel universe board game).
https://youtu.be/tICL-lwI7KM?t=930

One piece of software I am very impressed by is Dmitry Shkarin's Durilca, a very fast and efficient file compressor, topping the benchmark charts. I wonder what he's doing now.
And if I'm not mistaken Eltech's Exagear (close to native i386 binary emulation on Arm) was made by Russian programmers too.
@WhitneyLand Sorry for insulting you with the truth lol!

The specific thing I am talking about is not based on supernatural concepts, as @DougN7 said, turns out half the Science that comes out has to be revised when they realise its not true.

There was a time when Scientists said in the 60s that smoking was good for you, then there were the Harvard Scientists that were bought out to say that sugar has no effect on our weight. Now tell me, if such great scientists can get it wrong, how can you be insulted?

Comparing ideas that great scientists read up on as fiction is insulting to both their theories and you're only fooling people.
Since there are no new posts in the [category 'fundamentals'][1], I assume that there is no part two yet.

[1]: https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/category/fundamenta...
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