skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, legally it is if the tax code says it is (or multinational agreements say the tax code should say it is). And ethically, I don't see why an artificial entity which exists purely because governments are benevolent enough to bestow special privileges like limited liability upon its shareholders should carry less responsibility for the maintenance of the civil society required for its continued existence than the average person living in that country.
> Nor is it just the Middle East that is out of sync with the times. It is 2559 in Thailand, though only year 28 (of the Heisei era) in Japan.

That just might take the reward for most western-centric statement of the century.
I agree, Ads in theory do help connect people or businesses to services and products they might need/want ...

But, it becomes a race to the bottom, and it is to be expected that every business will want more eyeballs on its products and try to outdo their competitors. The collateral damage of this advertisement frenzy is with people who are bombarded and overstimulated by product placement and a relentless marketing machine. Consumers become skeptic and dulled by the efforts and advertising becomes the pain in the a it is now.
> People are paying a lot for ebooks, in-game items and other virtual goods.

Oh yes. Besides the small money drain Netflix and Spotify are, I've lost count on just how much money I spent buying e-books - legal, official e-books - just because of the convenience factor.

> A decent article that makes you think for a bit? Not good enough, chances are they'll follow a popular author and his movement and put some money down for the cause they believe in.

I rarely see such articles published in an ad-sponsored context anyway. An occasional mainstream journalism article, maybe. But as far as I can tell, most interesting/thought-provoking pieces now are being published by bloggers, which can successfully be funded by patronage, or even pay for hosting themselves (it's peanuts).
Anyone else find the Author/Developer separation odd. I mean it is a software project, so the developers are the authors. If you don't write the software, what are you the author of?
Ok, so I may or may not have actually used this extension in the past (I may or may not be really vague as I don't really understand if this is legally fraud). The extension may or may not suck really bad. It may or may not lock up your browser when it clicks all the ads on a site. It may or may not 'work' at all in conjunction with TrackMeNot (a similar extension that flak-cannons trackers) and BSOD your laptop all the frickin time. I may or may not have uninstalled the extension within a hour due to how bad things got.

I think it's a fun concept, but the implementation of it may or may not be something that you want to fight with for less than a day before swearing it off. It's possibly so bad that I think it may have been written in order to turn people off from this 'attack' towards trackers as it may or may not remind one of the repulsion that rotten milk has upon first sniff.
That's even worse, you know. Not only you are working people to the brink of exahustion. You are failing to cull the idiots in your midst and then work those idiots to the brink of exahustion. What could possibly go wrong.

Also, I am not convinced that the study that found there's no difference in outcomes means what your overseeing board claims it means. As mentioned in the article, they have not measured the performance of individual workerd, but of the hospital as a whole. Most likely it just means that whoever happens to be better rested in the team is catching (and covering up) the fuckups of the ones that are most tired.
>The creators of the content allow anyone to view it, regardless of whether they run an ad blocker or not. Sometimes, they place alternative content where the ads would be, requesting that I disable my ad blocker, or like them on facebook as an alternative.

So would you suggest (or would you even use) AdBlockers identify themselves to the website (so I can write "if($_SERVER["AdBlocker]){echo "Sorry, see ads or leave}"?

Because there are adblock blockers, and people write _adblock-blocker-blockers_.
>I still think macOS/OSX provides the best user experience for personal computing.

I don't know anymore. i use a mac for work and im hitting so many more weird bugs than I used to.
Short answer, no
Here's a leaked video of a briefing for the Q15 about Chelsea Manning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpVh24_wGoY

Yeah, let's focus on whether Chelsea Manning is gay or not. Really important. Very enlightened.
That sounds pretty harsh. Did your wife talk to her doctor about the withdrawal symptoms?

When I quit, I've taken it for about two years. I was able to prevent the brain zaps by making a concious effort to not move my head or eyes too fast. The other symptoms persisted for some weeks-months.
It's a bigger deal than that because he was put back in charge of the engineering organization for real. That means that from when I started there to now, the engineering leadership has been:

Mike Abbott

Dick Costolo -> (Chris Fry, Adam Messinger, Mazen Rawashdeh)

Chris Fry

Alex Roetter

Adam Messinger

???

Not as bad as product, but illustrative, and there were far more VP/Director changes in there along the way. In general you knew you were in for a re-org that affected you in a material way every 6 months. I had 10 managers in well under 5 years. It's not surprising many people just crawl in a hole and hope they get ignored while they vest and get stuff done.
>social objects - other people are visiting those pages, so I have to check them out too in order to participate in the conversation.

So maybe that's the cost of not seeing ads, you don't get to participate in conversations.

It's like if Stallman would, instead of making GNU, hack into MS and put the source online because he "just has to".

Most of the time, taking a moral stand requires sacrifice.
Metafilter does this. It's surprisingly effective.
Great to see! StatefulSet's are an example of how Kubernetes is enabling applications of all types to run on cluster. This doesn't mean the user can't take zero action to port to Kubernetes, the application needs to be running in a container of course, but it is proof that an application doesn't need to be "12 Factor" to run on Kubernetes.

Essentially I see the world broken down into four potential application types:

1) Stateless applications: trivial to scale at a click of a button with no coordination. These can take advantage of Kubernetes deployments directly and work great behind Kubernetes Services or Ingress Services.

2) Stateful applications: postgres, mysql, etc which generally exist as single processes and persist to disks. These systems generally should be pinned to a single machine and use a single Kubernetes persistent disk. These systems can be served by static configuration of pods, persistent disks, etc or utilize StatefulSets.

2) Static distributed applications: zookeeper, cassandra, etc which are hard to reconfigure at runtime but do replicate data around for data safety. These systems have configuration files that are hard to update consistently and are well-served by StatefulSets.

3) Clustered applications: etcd, redis, prometheus, vitess, rethinkdb, etc are built for dynamic reconfiguration and modern infrastructure where things are often changing. They have APIs to reconfigure members in the cluster and just need glue to be operated natively seemlessly on Kubernetes, and thus the Kubernetes Operator concept https://coreos.com/blog/introducing-operators.html

You can see more from about Operators in my short KubeCon keynote here: https://youtu.be/Uf7PiHXqmnw?t=11

Overall, great progress in Kubernetes v1.5! Great to see critical features moving from Alpha to Beta.
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> Is this really activism or just vandalism?

Analogy time. A guy sits outside my house with a camera, making pictures through a 10cm slit between the curtains. I come out of the house, take his camera and smash it. Vandalism? Don't think so. Activism? Not really. Basically, this is just self-protection. Preventing this from happening in the future (or at least making a good attempt at it).
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At least the name is great. I think it's reason enough to install it.
This is a good description. When I came home with my firstborn years ago, my once-beloved cats suddenly looked like malicious, germy predators.
Usually this discussion is around residents' performing worse while deprived. A big problem no doubt.

But I wonder why people don't bring up another aspect: sleep is essential for actually retaining and making any learning from practice permanent. Anyone who has trained or studied anything knows this well and it's clear in the literature. How can we expect these doctors in training to be actually learning and improving if they are so often sleep deprived?
Newspapers in Arabic are talking about economic reasons and implications. About $4 billion saved for the Kingdom and employees losing the equivalent of half a month of salary annually.

Some sources talk about the birth of the Hijri calendar (Abu Musa, a Government official, complaining to Omar, the Caliph, that they receive instructions dated by month and they don't know if it's this year's or last year's. This prompted the Caliph to introduce the calendar retroactively at 17 Hijri, or 638 AD).

As for the slippery slope.. It's roughly طريق الهاوية. Which means "the road to the fall/cliff" (it's more scary in Arabic. It makes me think of "Rebel without a Cause" "Chicken Game" scene).

>And what is the technical term in Arabic they used that translates to "slippery slope?"

I think the closest I can do is that the logic of a slippery slope according to clerics comes from this:

شر الامور محدثاتها، و كل محدثة بدعة، و كل بدعة ضلالة، و كل ضلالة في النار.

The evilest of things are X, and each X is Y, and each Y is Z, and each Z is in Hell.

X: according to clerics, is heresy, something different and new from what the Prophet did to get closer to God (this is important, I'll explain why later).

Y: fad/heresy..

Z: misguidance

So "the evilest of things are heresies, and each heresy is a fad, and each fad is a misguidance, and each misguidance is in Hell".

Why is the definition of heresy important? Because clerics define it as innovation in the way of worship while radicals define it as innovation itself (arbitrarily decided to suit whatever logic they have. Example: using a toothbrush is heresy, but rolling in an SUV is not)...
Smart pointers are as hard to manage as pointers.

There are different kind of smart pointers and you gotta think what you want to do with them. A GC is easier.
... because a typical Google service will have to call many other services to process a request (keyword: fan-out). The effective latency is badly impacted by the _worst_ latencies of these services.
Well, yes, if you want to desperately make sure nothing ever changes on this front, $1B for road widening is a perfectly reasonable investment.

Cities are growing, suburbs are dying, you can spend the money now or face the meltdown later.
C can be a problem. It's how the military industrial complex that Eisenhower warned us about is structured.

"C" is what leads to things like corporate bail outs.

Parenti talked about this with Conrail in the 80s. It was a train system that was put in public trust because it couldn't make money in the 70s. Then after the public made it profitable, under Reagan, it was reprivatized - not because it didn't work, but because it did work.

"C" goes beyond this in corruption. You get "compromises" where you have private health-care paid by public taxes (obamacare) or medicare part D with prescriptions being covered but the government forbidden from negotiating the prices. Or you get private for-profit schools able to use government loans for tuition and getting to the corrupt state of affairs we have now.

No, "C" is a terrible idea because it's a giant funnel into the hand of corrupt bank accounts - it promotes the state to prop up forms of dysfunctional capitalism.

In fact if you look at the total tax burden by country, including state tax and other things (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tax_rates) You see that the US is higher than places like Luxembourg, Denmark, the Netherlands - way above France and the UK. We pay more and get less, and it's all because of "C".
High Quality != 0 bugs.

(Small) teams of high quality engineers do exist, but are very expensive.
No you're right. However, aside from having ad revenue I don't see anything they can do to accelerate their revenue growth. But yeah, cut spending, get employee count way down, and they could break even sooner than later.
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Thanks for suggesting https://barnacl.es it looks like an HN for bootstrappers.
You're calling for a minimum income for them or suggesting they just do it as a side project(supplemented with a regular income).

The fact is a lot of great content is expensive to produce.
So what you are saying is that, simply by clicking a link, I become obliged to execute whatever piece of code is served to me on my machine or render any media on my display without knowing in advance what it contains?

That is not how the web works, and that is not the social contract that it was built on. Sorry if it doesn't fit advertisers' needs, but that is really not my problem. Maybe advertisers and payed content could go to some other medium that accommodates all the restrictions you desire, and then we can all be happy?
No, that isn't what I said at all.
HN is very actively moderated by dang and sctb. It's mostly soft moderation, but it's pretty effective.

Lack of high-sticky features (no "notifications" indicator, e.g.) also help.

Founding cohort and community also help.
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After Mike Abbott left he was responsible for user-facing engineering reporting to Dick. Eventually Chris Fry moved up to SVP and he moved to CTO. So you're mostly right, but there was that weird period in there where he and Chris were peers. Then they were "peers" again, although he didn't have directs.
>What I do with that data isn't up to you.

I didn't say it was.
Yes and European law is bound to the same expectations of due process that American law is, except due process isn't being followed here EXCEPT in Ireland.

You approached this discussion with the assumption that the new federal government of Europe has a legitimate authority over their taxation argument, when it simply does not have a clear case, it doesn't have supportive case law, and the administrative procedure is being made up on the fly.

The public servants in the European Commission honestly believe in the concept of fairness, but are interacting in a revenue collection system where that was never a prerequisite.
Global atmospheric temperatures are an existential threat. International terrorism is not.

It might be worthwhile to check the assumption that halting warming will be possible while maintaining all of the transportation infrastructure we've grown accustomed to over the last 102 years. What sounds better to you, a working ecosystem or cheap airfare?
There might be some truth to this. I use Firefox as my primary browser (despite everyone I talk to from my co-developers to my teenagers expressing shock that I don't use Chrome since "everyone" uses Chrome) because I use Firebug. I've tried using the Chrome developer tools a few times, but I'm so productive in Firebug from long years of use that I just can't get used to it. Maybe now I'll be forced to do so :-(
I believe an natural segue here is to remind people about cryptopals (especially set 8). Ie., I don't have the chops and wouldn't attempt to writeup EC/DSA nonce bias and partial key exposure attacks better than you all--not to mention the challenges regarding GCM. Cheers.
Really? You seriuosly think i meant to comment about military vets? Words in context.
>The foundation of the Web - the Hypertext Transfer Protocol - is that I request a piece of data from a given address, while also providing relevant information about my capabilities and media I'm willing to accept, and then you send me back that data.

So Facebook says that the foundation of the web is sending data to the server (such as cookies) and receiving information back.

Nowhere in the protocol does it say they can't track you. Ergo, tracking is perfectly legal and moral.

The foundation of the internet is that the server sends you data. Your browser happens to have a security hole and you got a virus.

Totally ethical and legal. Nowhere in the HTTP protocol does it say not to send viruses.
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> You also got me thinking about what "slippery slope" would be in Arabic. It could be directly translated but the idiom would lose its meaning. Regardless, I think the point the article's author is trying to convey is that religious conservatives are wary of the slow creep of Western concepts into their society.

I went to Slippery Slope article on English Wikipedia and then clicked on Arabic. This is a way I often use with languages I regularly use (such as English, Dutch, German, and Spanish) in order to figure what something means in one of those languages. I wanted to describe this process because I believe it can help others in a similar situation. An alternative is Wiktionary, but I find it working less good.

So, the Arabic Wikipedia entry for Slippery Slope is [1]. Using Google Translate, I ended up with it meaning also "Nose of the Camel". This is apparently an Arabian tale.

Quoting: The Camel's Nose In The Tent.

One cold night, as an Arab sat in his tent, a camel gently thrust his nose under the flap and looked in. "Master," he said, "let me put my nose in your tent. It's cold and stormy out here." "By all means," said the Arab, "and welcome" as he turned over and went to sleep.

A little later the Arab awoke to find that the camel had not only put his nose in the tent but his head and neck also. The camel, who had been turning his head from side to side, said, "I will take but little more room if I place my forelegs within the tent. It is difficult standing out here." "Yes, you may put your forelegs within," said the Arab, moving a little to make room, for the tent was small.

Finally, the camel said, "May I not stand wholly inside? I keep the tent open by standing as I do." "Yes, yes," said the Arab. "Come wholly inside. Perhaps it will be better for both of us." So the camel crowded in. The Arab with difficulty in the crowded quarters again went to sleep. When he woke up the next time, he was outside in the cold and the camel had the tent to himself.

Disclaimer: I know practically nothing about the Arabic language.

[1] https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%86%D8%AD%D8%AF%D8%B1...

[2] http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1800611/posts
I'd love to hear how you think they make money in this world.
Oh yes, it's true that there are aren't many different anaphoric macros, though I occasionally run across a useful new one. But the core ones (in Arc: aif, awhen, aand) are useful in many places.

I don't see that famous SICP as applying to this the way you do. Anaphoric macros obviously don't exist to make programs easier to execute—they're there entirely for humans to read, though obviously the humans don't agree about them.

To my mind, wanting a program to be readable by someone who hasn't learned its idioms is like wanting a newspaper to be readable by someone who hasn't learned its words. Some words are easy to guess from context, and that's nice. But others require learning, especially when a text isn't in your native language, and that doesn't make them unreadable.
Deep learning is pretty much entirely linear algebra and calculus, at a mathematical level. But I really think that a code-first approach is much better. So I'd suggest just getting started working through the course, and really dive into the Jupyter notebooks for each lesson. Do lots of experiments.
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advertising, same as any other company.

edit: oh are you talking status quo, or an idealized business model?
It's to do with story selection.
For me, yes, but it took YEARS.

My kids are now teenagers, and I feel sharper than ever, but those baby years were a blur.
The RAM involves taking the bottom off and shoving in some more sticks. Officially this can only support a maximum of 8GB but I have had no problem with 16GB.

For the hard disk, it is fairly trivial too. Follow iFixit's guide:

https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/MacBook+Pro+15-Inch+Unibody+Mid...

I went with a Samsung 850 EVO 1TB.
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Facebook could face $500,000 fine each time it doesn’t remove fake news
He was A VP of Product. Not The VP of Product.

The head of product is Keith Coleman, who was preceded by Edward Ho (interim, now also (interim?) head of engineering) and preceded by Jeff Siebert (both of whom are still at the company).
This page is so poorly designed that I -- an engineer with 15 years experience and a mid 6 figure salary -- can not figure out how to read the actual article.

Why are newspapers trying this hard to implement shitty webUX gimmicks? Give me the words.
But you assume that not taxing companies is an option.
The problem is the "long-tail" of content.

Sure, Wikpedia will stick around post adblock, and so will big conglomerates (they can afford to put up paywalls, like WSJ and others).

Many content-farms will just stick to being a "review for hire" gig.

The problem is that the small shops will close down.
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What I wanted to suggest is that they didn't have to wait for WebAssembly. Even if it's now presented as "a small wrapper around the WebAssembly" it was possible to do that since Mozilla introduced asm.js, as in the "ams.js" block is exactly enough information that enables for what they did now.
You are asserting that "the Universe" can exist without a "conscious entity".
That's good to hear - actually a better resolution than my 2012 MacBook (should have got the higher res one but with DVD drive).

What make/model is that Chromebook, out of interest?
nope, thats their monetization strategy not their identity. a subtle difference.
Financial Times and Spotify make money on subscriptions.
Yes that makes much more sense. User experience is possibly the most important thing - what else is software written for?

Thanks for clarifying.
Can only speak about my corner of a very large organisation;

- Technical debt of custom coded solutions is a known issue across our organisation. New strategy is to move to market solutions, therefore outsourcing the risk to organisations with (hopefully) better code management than we have. For my corner, we don't have technical debt measured accurately enough for my liking.

- Yes, we pay for an use centralised logging. We've actually been through two solutions, and are now moving to a third due to various factors (cost, integrations, speed, out-of-the-box metrics). Integration into the centralised logging system is part of our Request for Tender marking criteria.

- Relatively good at disabling access after someone leaves. We integrate as much as possible to a central repository. It's just the outliers that tend to last beyond someone in the organisation. Critical systems are absolutely shutdown within 24 hours of a leaver departing (usually immediately if they're a bad leaver).

Edit: Formatting
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I'm not trying to be antagonistic.

All pyramid schemes start out solvent. That's how they convince more people to join.

There is a simple test to see if any of these things are pyramid schemes. If no new money comes in and no new people participate, can all the payouts that have been promised be made? I think it is clear that pension plans don't pass this test.