skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do not understand why he loaned them with a fake name. He could just have made the loans in his own name. If they questioned his high loan numbers, he could have told them that he was compiling a bibliography, or researching typography, or something, in his own free time.

He went through a lot of trouble to make what he did illegal.
Originally we thought the same thing, but we wanted to remove as much bias from the analysis as possible, so we opted to keep all tools in the running. Since the weighted rank was based heavily on tech stack inclusion, we felt it was more valuable to keep the raw rankings.

For trending, we calculated tech stack growth over the past 6 months for each tool. I wish we had time to pull in job data, but the data pull was going to delay the article a while and there are some core features we were itching to get at (there's only 6 of us on the team). Not saying this is a perfect list, but it's a snapshot of the data we have and felt it was a good indication of what developers/teams are using.
Thanks! Yes, the game is highly scriptable[1], so you can test the types of scenarios you'd want. We've disabled violence against the driver, but could enable[1] it on-demand if it's useful for training.

[1] http://www.dev-c.com/nativedb/
[2] http://gtaforums.com/topic/822314-guide-driving-styles/
Last I heard they will offer a on-premises solution for companies that need it. However without being connected to the hivemind, I imagine it's utility will suffer. :(

It's a great idea though!
> He says his aim was actually to save the library money in the long run, by not having to repurchase books which often go in and out of fashion with readers. One of Finley’s choices, for instance, was John Steinbeck’s “Cannery Row.”

Any librarian worth their salt will tell you that every library should have a copy of Cannery Row. Any algorithm that says it should be discarded is simply wrong.

Circulation numbers can be very useful. But they cannot tell you what people will be looking for in the future. Common sense and experience are necessary to put the list in the proper context.

A good librarian can talk knowledgeably about thousands of books. They are community treasures that are not easily replaced by algorithms. They do a lot more than just put books on the shelf. Just as there will always be bartenders, there will always be librarians.

There is a culture war going on in libraries. The old guard -- book reading, book loving librarians -- are being replaced, especially at the top, by hip "Library Scientists" who want to push ebooks, internet access terminals and even rock concerts in libraries.

Ultimately there is a balance to be struck. Budgets are tight and libraries are evolving. But if libraries are going to remain useful and relevant, they will need to provide both internet access AND copies of "Cannery Row".

That said, the guy in the article did a bad thing and he'll likely lose his job at minimum.
I personally never sign in with a google (or any other) account, I always sign up for new accounts with my email.
From VentureBeat Article...
http://venturebeat.com/2017/01/09/marc-benioff-eric-ries-dav...

Here’s a list of the supporters matching donations: Skoll Foundation, Salesforce’s Marc Benioff, Techstars’ Brad Feld, Y Combinator’s Paul Graham, author Eric Ries, 500 Startups’ Dave McClure, Aramex cofounder Fadi Ghandour, Crescent Enterprises CEO Badr Jafar, Leap Ventures’ Hala Fadel, Tech.eu cofounder Jon Bradford, Kapor Capital partner Freada Kapor Klein and Mitch Kapor, National Beverage Company — Coca-Cola Palestine Chairman and CEO Zahi Khouri, Jabbar chairman Samih Toukan, Google principal scientist Blaise Aguera y Arcas, Uber’s Amsterdam head of engineering Mustafa Sezgin, 500 Startups’ Khailee Ng, Techstars COO Jenny Lawton, and Techstars cofounder David Cohen.
I have. I use 1Password for about a year now.
But I didn't log out (hence log in) of github since I installed it and as a result it (1password) doesn't know my github password. And frankly nor do I.
So my point is valid, at least until next time I have to relogin.

Case in point:
I also use Authy with backup, but I don't store my backup password in the password manager, because that would be a potential single point of security failure.
The app kindly asks for a backup password occasionally. It's not for access, but for reminder. In fact if I don't remember my password, I can reset it right there in the app. I find that feature very useful.
Almost fell for another clever one today: https://medium.com/@scardine/clever-phishing-scam-of-the-day...
I think that depends, many would argue that a flux implementation is an easier way to reason about the problem set, thus their existence. Making someone aware that this is what flux implementation where designed (in part) to address, allows them to see the full scope of possible ways to accomplish their goal. I see nothing wrong with saying "hey that is why these guys built this library".

He was asking for best practices, certainly a sizable amount of developers would argue to use a flux implementation for that particular problem, as a best practice.
I mean, there's always RSS, but that's always had the issue of adoption.

Is Steemit just a Reddit clone with the blockchain buzzword sprinkled on?
> Does TFA imply that things got worse since Marx's days in terms of the absolute standard of living of "the poor"? Does the modern state redistribute less from "the rich" to "the poor" than it did in Marx's days?

From Adam Smith's "The Wealth of Nations":

> By necessaries I understand not only the commodities which are indispensably necessary for the support of life, but whatever the custom of the country renders it indecent for creditable people, even of the lowest order, to be without. A linen shirt, for example, is, strictly speaking, not a necessary of life. The Greeks and Romans lived, I suppose, very comfortably though they had no linen. But in the present times, through the greater part of Europe, a creditable day-labourer would be ashamed to appear in public without a linen shirt, the want of which would be supposed to denote that disgraceful degree of poverty which, it is presumed, nobody can well fall into without extreme bad conduct. Custom, in the same manner, has rendered leather shoes a necessary of life in England. The poorest creditable person of either sex would be ashamed to appear in public without them. In Scotland, custom has rendered them a necessary of life to the lowest order of men; but not to the same order of women, who may, without any discredit, walk about barefooted. In France they are necessaries neither to men nor to women, the lowest rank of both sexes appearing there publicly, without any discredit, sometimes in wooden shoes, and sometimes barefooted. Under necessaries, therefore, I comprehend not only those things which nature, but those things which the established rules of decency have rendered necessary to the lowest rank of people.

His point is that poverty is not to be measured absolutely, but relative to the society and times that it exists.

"The poor" might have indoor plumbing now, which they might not have had in 1860, but it is disingenuous to suggest that means anything relative to living in America in 2017.
I disagree that it doesn't add to most programs... it absolutely does as most programs are deployed web applications and use of async/await affects the number of users/requests a server can support dramatically.
This is why I disable images by default in my email client.
Oh, yea. How could I forget? I still use IRC on a daily basis... I don't think of it as a place to read news, though.
Ukraine power cut 'was cyber-attack'
MongoDB was easy to setup and new. It got popular among developers who always jump to the latest trend and don't care about quality, maintenance or long term support.

Internally everything is screwed, from the architecture to the security settings, to the reliability of data storage (or lack thereof).

MongoDB is the school case of 1) Worse/bad software can succeed despite being bad. 2) Don't trust hype. 3) Developers in general have low standards.
Pretty much everyone in a relevant space is already doing it.
Just in France we have 3 or 4 main actors in this space. Can't even imagine how many US-based companies are doing this.
I'm assuming they must have been in unincorporated/county jurisdiction as it was the county DA prosecuting and not the city one. County police are also far more likely to fail to respond in many places as county departments have vast amounts of area to cover with ever shrinking amounts of manpower due to budget constraints.

That said, I have no idea how CA'slaw enforcement/county government/judicial/legal system might differ from that of the states I've lived in.
Yeah, I think I still say it wrong sometimes. To me, it's a word I learned in English, and so I think of it the English way. In that way, loan-words are troublesome in both English and Japanese for words from both languages.

Don't even get me started about learning French words in either of them and then learning their pronunciation in the other, and then the actual French. As an example, the Atelier game series.
we, the citizens who vote are supposed to do that.
Donna Brazile shared questions with the candidates and CNN promptly terminated her position.

What exactly did CNN do wrong here ? By your definition every company that has a employee who makes an egregious mistake is corrupt.
Check out the FAQ: http://eta-lang.org/docs/html/faq.html. For the record, I love Haskell as a language and even after solving the tooling and documentation problems, it doesn't solve the integration problem. The JVM is widely used and being on top of it makes it easy to integrate into existing systems. You can certainly reuse code between Eta and Haskell given the number of extensions that are in common.
One of the reasons it is plausible is that so many people disregard the risk because they see it as implausible.
This maybe doesn't apply for many people in the us currently, but in my age group (late 20s) student loan payments are so high that it's not worth moving to a lower cost of living area. Staying in the city where the jobs are and the higher pay is, nets you more money at the end of the month even if rent is >30% of your pay.

Having a large static payment is making cost of living a much less important part of my cohorts finances
Just asking for fun, as I'd never bet my money on it, but is there any way to 'short' bitcoin today?
An enormous portion of Bitcoin that is continually mined comes from China due to cheap electricity, so that + artificially inflated Yuan means a lot of activity.
and circulation numbers are the strongest signal that a book is valuable

I disagree. A book might go out once and chance someone's life. Another might go out a hundred times and sit unread, or have a negligible impact. An algorithm can't determine this. A good librarian can.
>just like Democrats

You say it as if "both sides do it." No, recent history puts it worse. No sitting Republican president has had a balanced budget since Eisenhower. They are demonstrably worse.
I don't use our local library system much because they stock few or no copies of the things I'm interested in getting from them, like non-fic outside the poppiest of pop-non-fic—not even hardcore academic stuff necessarily, just not-garbage non-fic—math/computing books, and semi-obscure classics or translations. It's usually a waste of time to even check for those sorts of things there, and they don't even seem to be part of an inter-library loan program that can provide them.

How can circulation numbers take into account people who aren't using the library because it already doesn't have anything they want? I can't be alone in this, but simply looking at circulation numbers won't capture that, and piloting with a book or two from those categories won't get me back in (I probably won't notice because, after many disappointments, I've mostly stopped looking). Let an algorithm go nuts on that data without human judgement and I suspect you'll gradually put more and more people in my position, unless it's a damned smart one.
This is a modified version of GTA where the behavior of people is non-violent.
They can, and they're hardly the first. But it's very jarring to some people.
Linux Anti Debugging Technique
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I don't know that I agree, mid last year I was able to run a few .Net server applications in docker -onbuild images, and it worked with minimal changes. You also may have better outcomes using the Mono runtime, which is more encompassing.
TireIron. ;- )
Yeah, what the heck does Chuck Marohn know? He's only been a city planner/engineer for like 15 years. He probably has no idea what he's talking about. I bet some computer programmers could really educate him.
Not familiar with Europe, but I'm really curious why blablacar has been a success - Are there cultural reasons? Are there 'power seller' drivers perhaps in the form of work commute rideshares (which is something Waze is now doing)? Or something just different about it's business model or how it was started (e.g. mostly bootstrapped or happened to remain longer)?

Curious since every year or so I start wondering how to make a better ski daytrip carpooling network. Despite having various ideas / mockups, the best solution still seems (which is what I use in WA) to just use a meetup.com group with decent communication and pre-defined prices for a few well-known end-destinations.
I'm guessing they can't pull their head out of github to know that it is the better version of what atom is trying to do.
I've been carrying around this everlane modern snapback for years and love it. https://www.everlane.com/collections/mens-backpacks-bags
This.

I'm a back end dev at a small non-profit news org and it blows my mind how fast my employer wants us to integrate with FB instant articles and AMP without considering the consequences (AMP traffic staying in Google's network, etc.) Coming from a startup where our data was proprietary and execution meant everything, it feels weird sometimes that I get paid to make it as easy as possible for Google, FB, and others to access our content at scale (for free) while the news organization bears the infrastructure and engineering costs to do so.

These big companies aren't in this to help media companies, they've successfully commoditized content production and demanded news organizations to get with their program or get buried and forgotten.
Fine line between censorship and moderation.
It's an illiquid investment that appreciates at a rate that varies in conjunction with inflation. You might win or lose, but it's tough to predict, varies with geographical area and in relation to inflation and wages.

There are many graphs that show aspects of this, here is one useful one I found: http://lesjones.com/2008/11/25/inflation-adjusted-us-house-p...
Creator of Glance here, happy to answer any questions.
I don't see why Buzzfeed are being criticised for it either, because they only reported verified facts - that the report was going around, that it was neither verified or falsified, that it contained errors and falsehoods. I imagine the others are just annoyed Buzzfeed jumped first when they all had it so they're criticising them.
Years ago Oracle had two admin accounts out of the box, but half the docs only talked about one. So a whole lot of people discovered that they had an admin account with a default password hanging out in production. Those were some awkward conversations.
Man I dislike all of their top picks, I guess I'm just old now adays.
A spoiler for the future – Bitcoin
Swarm of 100 military drones exhibits collective behaviors in flight
It was actually not familiarity. We specifically asked people "Which code sample looks readable to you?" People just love concise code. Less cognitive burden.
> and to have spent money moving

Point that at the ~52k median US income, a long distance move + the inevitable missed weeks without a paycheck is not a trivial decision for a lot of people.
France’s ‘right to disconnect’ is a nice idea, but it’s also pretty vague
"Great in theory, terrible in practice" is a good summary of pure functional programming, in my experience :-)
I'm a fan of the term "narrative fallacy" for #3 https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Narrative_fallacy
"Fake News" put some egg on their face and they're scrambling to find a way to censor alternative news.
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TLDR: The author predicts that China will crackdown on Bitcoin, heavily regulate it, and then use it to undermine foreign currencies.
I enjoy the developer's definition of 'visual'; just surrounding textual code in nicely coloured boxes.
Yeah you can call the language a tool, since most languages can get the same job done but some do certain jobs better.
The fact these people were picked at a conference is already very strong confirmation bias.

Pick 100 random (really random) programmers and I'm betting a lot more of them will feel more comfortable with the imperative version over all the others.
You would care about the pointers in that linked list if one of them had gone awry.
I really want to know if the eventually arising full-blown web framework in rust still can claim "zero cost abstractions", and if this would translate into basically "the most performant/efficient way to write a web-app".
Sophisticated users understand when to adopt a product. MongoDB had all the red flags, a sophisticated user would have done a trial and ban it with a company-wide memo after the first week and already the 3rd disaster.
Ah yes, everything is absolutely what I was getting at. This line of thinking is what allows these problems to happen due to pure laziness or not caring.

When you build a product or service, you should own it end-to-end OR simply let it be known that you are unable or unwilling to do so.

If you take it seriously, you'll know what can sink your project/business -- and stuff like leaving your entire database publically available with no auth, is one of them.
Number 5 is a recurring pattern on financial markets. But it tells you nothing about timing, and there's always the "this time is different" risk that although low can easily eat all of your money.

Or, in other words, #5 is a recurring pattern on financial markets. If you rely on it alone for investing your money, you are crazy.
Why would TOTP not suffice to prevent this exploit ?
Wouldn't pushing a story that was "neither verified or falsified", be considered "fake news", by some definition?
My open office is GREAT for my health. I don't know of any other open office where you climb literal mountains.
I think there's a world of difference in how the statement was intended and your examples. Personally I read it more as "If this is going to happen anyway we should make it as efficient and pleasant as possible to those impacted"

Yeah, getting deported would suck but there are things in the process that could make the experience a lot less dehumanizing and cruel. Things as simple as making sure the person understands the proper pathway to legally immigrating. And even more important would be making sure that the proper pathway is properly documented and easily understandable.

I do agree with you that technology (and some tech people) don't seem to care if the change they are enabling is positive or not.
Regarding number 4, are you sure it's not the other way around?
I know how it's played out at my local library. The shelves are significantly less full and there are fewer of them. What did they cull? Among the the books was Richard Rhodes' Making of the Atomic Bomb which won a Pulitzer. Elsewhere though, there's eight shelf feet of Orson Scott Card and twelve of Danielle Steel.
You can buy put options on deribit.com (with a huge spread, mind you). https://www.deribit.com/main#/options

It's effectively shorting selling, except you know in advance how much you stand to lose (what you paid for the option), as opposed to borrowing bitcoins and selling them, and then having to buy them back at some unknown price in the future.
As usual, what you really want to do is read the paper: http://www.nature.com/articles/s41551-016-0009

This is a well-written and very clear paper. It covers several aspects that went unmentioned in the Gizmodo article, and highlights that although building such a device may be trivial, evaluating and studying it is not.

Some highlights: the paper covers how the device was built in detail, including information on the three safety mechanisms used to ensure the operator doesn't get exposed to infected blood (shatterproof plastic capillaries, epoxied sample holders made from drinking straws, and sealing of the capillaries inside two paper discs). It is exclusively made from low-cost materials, but it's more than just a piece of paper, handles and some string (fishing wire).

The paper also covers the physical dynamics of the "paperfuge" in great detail, analyzing its rotational dynamics and building a theoretical model of motion that agrees well with the physical observations (captured with a 6000fps high-speed camera). It also shows that the max RPM varies with disc size, with 125000 RPM for a small disc (5mm diameter). The paper even mentions that this was submitted as a Guiness World Record.

Finally it shows that the paperfuge produces sample separation results on par with electromechanical centrifuges using similar spinning time (1.5min for paperfuge, 2min for centrifuge for plasma separation), and does an analysis of the resulting blood samples.
You can short Bitcoin at Bitfinex and ICBIT.
Walk into any modern hospital central lab today, look at the life saving technology thats available to us and ask yourself why we still have not figured out how to give other people access to this?

paper centrifuge? come on...
I agree that this is certainly a concern, everyone has a bias and we should be aware of it. On the other hand this bias isn't always bad. A librarians bias presumably comes from reading hundreds of books and years of education. If they think an unpopular book is worth saving presumably it is because the book has a high value for the few people who do read it.

It also comes down to trust in the librarian, presumably in the interview process you try to make sure you are not hiring an outspoken Nazi. If you do hire a Nazi librarian they have many other ways of injecting their bias by inviting speakers, recommending books etc. so it is still going to be an issue even if they aren't picking what books you have.
Since we aggregated data across all users, our "web" tools definitely shone through (as you might imagine, there are more web devs than native on stackshare), but given that we included all tools we felt it was more accurate as a description of the methodology.

Do you think it would be valuable for us to segment these rankings further next time? Create a couple different rankings?
Gaza has population of about 1.8 million with a high literacy rate, 97%. It is a densely populated enclave.

It might well be a political statement, but not necessarily a statement against Israel. I think its more like providing an economic life-line.