skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>A few of those will be very ethical and unselfish and operate completely within the rules and the spirit of the system. A few others will be total assholes and just exploit every weakness they can find to advance their own interests, regardless of the damage inflicted on others

This seems far from the general consensus in social psychology, which is that the context we exist in determines the majority of our actions. The Milgram and Asche lines of research are the most prototypical, but Zimbardo has spent his whole career on basically this question.

True sociopaths are incredibly rare (less than 1% of the population). People find it very difficult to betray or hurt other people, and this comes from genetics, not context, and we know this because it is a human universal.

In similar experiments measuring trusting behaviors and betrayal vs. reward responses to those behaviors, 90% of people engage in a trust behavior (giving money to another research participant, over a computer game, never seeing this other person), and 95% of people who are trusted reward, rather than betray, their partner.

This sort of human-naturism is just defeatist propaganda meant to maintain the existing system of total hierarchical dominance of elites (the capitalist class, men, whites, cisgenderds) over the oppressed. You can choose to stop being a shitty person, and your doing that will create a context where other people are pressured to do the same, and will likely concede to that pressure.

(It's not surprising that this didn't exactly take on in an environment like the Soviet Union, where trust was intentionally minimized by the state, which itself didn't trust its citizenry because it was the active target of an espionage and proxy war for its entire existence. It's also not surprising that people in an environment that values capital accumulation over all else are quick to betray each other. However, there are a lot of examples of libertarian socialist territories, brief though they may have been, that contradict the notion that communism (which is the same thing as socialism, there is no difference at all) inevitably leads to totalitarianism. Since these societies were attacked both by capitalists and authoritarian communists, it's not surprising that they didn't last very long either.)
Not to mention non-disclosure agreements and such.

What I want to know is, how did Vizio get caught? Was there a whistle blower. This article doesn't mention (unless I just missed it) how the FTC discovered this.
Or maybe they figured out that relying on population growth to drive the economy is a Ponzi scheme. Eventually you can't add more population so you have to reckon with aging one day, might as well solve the problem ASAP. Automation combined with exports allows you to grow your economy without adding humans.

If they still wanted to, they could turn on the migration spigot at anytime. Plenty of brilliant engineers and scientists to pick off out of Eastern Europe, Iran, etc. Labor has already come in on its own.
Ok perhaps it should be put more accurately like this : millions of people died at 5-20 years old that would have died at 50, maybe even 65 years old.

And the reverse is also true, if we hadn't outlawed DDT, when resistance occurs, a number of people would have died (at age 50) without it actually affording them protection. That number would have been smaller and of course those people would have had a life before they died from DDT side effects and complications.

The thing about outlawing DDT that's "surely not related" is that it protected hundreds, maybe even thousands of western lives, and lives of the local very rich (mostly politicians, UN diplomats, ...) at the cost of millions of black children deaths, poor children.

And, of course, environmentalists are still at it. You see, the only way you're ever going to protect against malaria in Africa is "vector control". Eradicating the mosquitoes in other words. How ? Well, by purposefully destroying their habitat. Anything that's a swamp, or swamp-like anywhere near human populations (that's almost everywhere), we dump in sand until it doesn't support that ecosystem anymore. Doing this is what's currently protecting tens of millions of lives yearly, and apparently it's bad.

In the same manner, the (few) alternatives, like genetic modifications to eradicate the mosquitoes by inserting "termination genes" into male mosquitoes, are being fought by environmentalists as well.
Male to female ratios are second order compared to being foreign and relatively monied. You allude to this by using the word 'status'.

By the same token you could suggest people go to South East Asia or parts of Latin America and flash your Macbook. Yes, it works, be careful what you wish for.

The calculus and game theory of dating is interesting for nerds (for many reasons) - you might find no place is miserable for meeting women when you let go of this. Even the Bay Area.

I am trying to say this with kindness: you should introspect on how you treat people.
Given the net effects of the ban, it might as well have been that.
I emigrated from Kiev at the age of 16, back in 1997. I jumped at the first opportunity to get out of there, even though I knew it would be tough for some years to come at the new place. As you can imagine, I hated everything about that country.

I felt completely unprotected - there was no effective law, everyone was either scared shitless and fighting for survival -- or a thug. It felt like the thugs had complete power over "normal citizens" like myself. I was used seeing them on my way home from school on the street corners waiting for a chance to jump at a passerby and rob them. Often they would approach you and start a conversation, probing your fear. Then you can only get away without being humiliated/beaten/robbed by walking to a crowded place, maybe.

My dad, a scientist working at an institute (in the Soviet and post-Soviet system the science was done in specialized "institutes", not in universities), could barely make ends meet. That was in part because of hyperinflation (at the lowest point he was making $100-$200 per month, IIRC) and in part because of accumulating delays in salary payouts. I remember some periods of time when all we had was bread, spaghetti and potatoes. We could not even afford transport expenses for me to go to school - thankfully, the transport system was in such shambles that there were barely any inspectors in the Metros and buses, and certainly they didn't care enough to seriously try to punish me for using it for free. Lots of people did that during the worst years in the 90's.

Many were left in the cold, with no means to survive. A generation of pensioners basically died from hunger after years of struggle and humiliation. Old people begging for money in the streets were a common sight.

Everything was dirty, malfunctioning, disintegrating. Police, courts, doctors, the army - all corrupt. Army service was an absolute hell - underfunded, unoccupied, with disintegrating facilities and corrupt officers, the soldiers were at the mercy of inevitable bullies and thugs of their unit. Let me just say that the abuse was commonplace and leave it at that.

Finally, it felt like everyone hated each other. Racism and xenophobia of every kind. People just waiting to exploit your weakness.

Before leaving, I thought there would be periods of home-sickness I would have to fight. Nothing like that ever happened. I left my parents and family behind, but was reluctant to even come for a visit; only visited them once, in 1998. I often hear claims that it's all different now. But I think that's wishful thinking - the same thugs who made it hell back in 1997 are still alive and kicking. And, more importantly, so is the culture that nurtured them.
If we expect employees speaking up to fix this, we are going to live in constant disappointment. The pro-privacy people live in a very small, but loud, echo chamber. We need to be proactive with developing pro-privacy technologies if we expect something to be done about this.

The majority of the population and the majority of developers seem to not care at all about intimately targeted ads.
Wow, the joke that ends up with "I can stand in front of Kremlin and yell To Hell With Ronald Reigan too" is the famous one. One can even find the references to it nowadays in Russian blogs. CIA is good!
Former NOAA Scientist Confirms Colleagues Manipulated Climate Records
I'm curious too. Do you have a blog post detailing it?
a) The government has already illustrated through Flint and other incidents that they are very capable of completely screwing water up as well. And when things go wrong, unlike in the private sector nobody seems to ever get punished in any way.

b) I misspoke in one way, the government does kind of innovate in providing water. Take their decision to mass dose basically the entire country with fluoride. At best, fluoride's main benefits are for young kids about 4-10 years old in preventing child cavities. The point isn't to argue the health benefits of the substance, but to point out that they're medicating everybody without tailoring the dose to what's necessary for the individual. What's crazier than compulsory mass medication of an industrial byproduct that doesn't take into account individual dosage?

c) You presumably ingest food, created by non-government sources everyday. They look to cut costs all of the time. How often do they really screw up? And when they do, they immediately have to work to fix the issue and they're punished severely on top of that.
Well obviously it has a bunch more features than just being the thin layer, but Docker really is the best thing since sliced bread.
So....stop buying everything?
If by "ruined" you mean "banned by casinos", then yes. Otherwise, excepting people who actually attempted to defraud the casinos by cheating in ways we'd all agree are in fact cheating, I think yours might be difficult argument to support with evidence.
What matters most will be the quality of implementation. Is the compiler smart enough to know that an object passed 3 routines deep doesn't really escape the stack scope? If it can do that, it can elide all the cost of either approach.

This is the plan with Swift and what makes it zippy.

bone of contention with sweeping collectors is constantly walking

The real problem is that you cannot determine when the program will pause. It makes interactive and soft realtime impossible with gc. (Hard realtime should not run a generic allocator at all.) You can't write anything but servers and unpleasantly unresponsive apps.

Android developers have to carefully jump through hoops to avoid allocating any RAM at all if they don't want to bug their users. For years when the chips were slow, ref counting was a major competitive advantage for iPhone. A hundred-billion dollar win.

And then there's system software. You can't afford a live, unpredictable runtime messing with you in systems code so anything that touches low level code can't use gc. There's a disincentive to really invest in a language that simply can't ever do a full stack, even if you're unlikely to need to write a device driver anytime soon. That's why no major browsers, performant ACID databases, or fast app servers depend on RAM gc.
Why woul;d sites want to count those users anyway?
At least a few of them were actually used at least in early nineties in (ex)USSR.
Well played. This is the kind of stuff botnets should be put to work doing. :)
For the space constrained, the Joule is a good bit smaller.

https://anovaculinary.com/anova-precision-cooker/specificati...

https://www.chefsteps.com/joule/specs
That while Telco's do use regulatory capture well, you have to admit there's some sort of natural monopoly inherent to hard wired internet service.
Be glad that Ethernet over HDMI never took off.
The author actually mentions similar things..

> The juxtapositions in Kiev are manifold: people are either really hard on each other or very kind, the architecture beautiful or ugly, the smiles are wide and real, or faces rigid like stone, the women hot and the guys not [...]

> My move to Kiev was more of an accident laced with the intangible—a decision rooted in a feeling and impulse over rationality or reason. I can point out the obvious: it’s a beautiful city, it’s an economical place to live, it’s in a great position to connect with the world (2 hours to Istanbul, 2 hours to Berlin), it’s adventurous, it’s a city with a rich soul, its women are beautiful, it’s real, it has human connections that run deep, it’s modest with a rich history, and so on….

Personally, I felt like the author was trying too hard to be a travel writer that romanticised what he saw.
Might be titled, "Sketchy Sounding iOS apps confirmed Sketchy."
They are privatized and regulated. Being a utility doesn't necessitate a government monopoly, and regulation needn't describe only a narrow range of allowed approaches.
Getting Started on Ninja Turdle (Game Dev)
For the most part agreed. In general, if there is a 'natural monopoly' AND the private sector is failing to provide better service or better pricing or both as a result of competition, I don't understand why we wouldn't simply treat it as a utility or fully make it public.

One counter here is that the reason they have a monopoly is the last mile lines and easements, but arguably there is enough spectral bandwidth in the wireless realm that perhaps whats really missing is competition for home internet from wireless operators. I'm not sure where I stand here but I do think its interesting to consider whether it would be better to help bring competition somehow from that side into the home broadband realm or whether the landline route should be made more public. I'm sure there are some capacity limitations on the wireless side also that may make this a pipedream.
Switzerland, Singapore, Norway, Hong Kong and UAE don't match my definition of "quite small". Each of them has several million inhabitants.
If I hadn't lived in NYC/Philly/some European capitals before SF, I'd be tempted agree with you. SF was a far far far harder place to connect with new friends, especially women to date. (trying hard not to sound like some MRA asshole) References to sexual reality != sexism.
ClonOS Freebsd Based Virtual Hosting Platform
Every single C++ project of any significance I've worked on or seen in the wild has some awful dependency compilation script/process. It sucks. There are no good cross-platform solutions. Even if everybody is using CMake perfectly, you still have to glue all the pieces together.

But hey, modules are coming in the next couple years. Should really help with this.
Nothing I've said is "secret" anyone active in the Smart TV or Interactive TV space knew this was going on and how it worked. When I said intimate I didn't mean secret, I mean I actually used the technology being discussed, and at its very nascent stage.

There were multiple ACR Vendors doing the same thing (Gracenote, Samba TV are two at top of my head, there were many failed vendors in this space)

Google ACR on TVs and you'll find all the info you need
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_content_recognition

https://techcrunch.com/2015/01/04/cognitive-networks-ces/

(BTW the app in that techcrunch article is the one we worked on)
A couple of issues, really.

First: did the residents of Crimea prefer to be part of Ukraine or part of Russia?

Second: should residents of a region have the right to declare independence (or annex themselves to another country) without getting permission from the government of their current country?

The US fought a bloody war 150 years ago to settle this issue (no, US states do not have the right to leave). But they followed a different policy on Kosovo.

The Russians have been happy to recognize the right of Abkhazia and Crimea to determine their own path, but didn't grant the same rights to Chechnya (or recognize the split of Kosovo from Serbia).

China, with Tibet, Taiwan, and Hong Kong on its mind, did not show any support for Crimea's move to Russia.
I'm not too familiar with RethinkDB. Can someone explain why it's so popular on HN? The wiki page shows that it's not that popular overall and the comparison to other DBs makes it sound pretty bad.[1]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RethinkDB
What a powerful point. Thanks for making it -- you've shifted my perspective.
(4000 + 0) - (800 + 1000 + 0 + 150 + 150 + 150) = $1750 CAD = $1336 USD
OK, I need to add my favorite Russian joke here:

A German and a Russian die. Neither has been the best person in their life, so they get sent down there. When they arrive in hell, the devil says, "Well, especially bad people have been dying lately, and we're all full up. I can only accept one of you, the other will go to purgatory and get a chance at redemption."

He proposes a simple test of their human decency: Each man is given a dog, a huge crate of sausages and one month to teach the dog a trick.

One month later, the devil returns to the German, who has clearly bonded with his now-plump dog. "Alright, let's see what you've got!" the devil says. The German plucks out a sausage and proceeds to wiggle it in the air. The dog, perfectly balanced on its hind legs, does an acrobatic pirouette. "Wow!" says satan. "Impressive!"

He walks over to the Russian his dog, whose relationship seems strained. The dog looks like a wild animal, but the Russian seems satisfied enough. "OK, show us your trick," the devil says. The Russian plucks out a sausage and proceeds to wiggle it in the air. The dog, wide-eyed, says "Please, Vanya, just one sausage!"
Alrighty, let's try this again.

I'm thinking of writing a website that requires the employer to give feedback. Else the site will list the bad employers.

Or it requires the employer to pay upfront per candidate who applies, and they employer gets a full refund if they give full feedback.

If I were HR I'd be running away from this, because of liability, which is probably why employers don't give feedback at interviews. So the site will require candidates to sign away their rights of of suing the employer over the interview process.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13536957

What'd y'all think?
Real grammar [1], regularly used by me, at least. It may not be the best way of doing things today, it was written three or four Perl 6 compilers ago. But it works on the latest Rakudo release.

[1] https://github.com/colomon/ABC/blob/master/lib/ABC/Grammar.p...

Edited to add: I think originally based it on https://web.archive.org/web/20120201072612/http://www.norbec...
Calling that sexist is uncharitable at best. The comment barely discusses gender, but focuses on the dating scene somewhere.
Also, check out-

- Official Django Tutorial: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.10/intro/tutorial01/

- Tango with Django: http://www.tangowithdjango.com/

- Real Python: https://realpython.com (note: I am the co-founder/author)
The US government definitely has at least "indirect" access to Facebook servers.

What does "direct access" mean exactly? Does having to enter a password constitute indirect access?
How do tech teams manage internal communication/collaboration?
I wanted to know how tech teams big or small manage internal communication? I've seen all kinds of things from just having meetings, slack, project managers (like basecamp), or more developer centered ones like Jira. What is the best flow you've seen? or use?
The JS include is something you add to your own HTML. Couldn't you add an SRI hash in here?

<script async src="https://cdn.ampproject.org/v0.js"></script>

You could also serve the JS from your own domain if you prefer. Similar to Google's cache, it's something available as an option to you.

Regarding the Amp standard, that is indeed something controlled by Google. Particularly as it pertains to the SERPs. But because it's open you also have the option to fork it, or write a completely different implementation if you desire.

If you'd like to modify Amp but still stay within their standard, you can submit a PR as well. It looks like about 75% of PRs are merged.

https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml/pulls

The Amp standard is locked down, but the technology isn't. Which is not too dissimilar from HTML itself.
No need to make it illegal. Votes can't be sold because they can't be confirmed (it's anonymous). That's not what they are talking about here. They are talking about representative votes and yes, it is illegal to buy/sell congressional votes. It is also not private, just like every other Western/Democratic representative government.
I would love to know what is really going on here.

I'm admittedly not very technical, but like a prisoner scratching tally marks on the wall each day, I try to keep up on the latest "how tech companies are fucking us over" news of the moment, even though I can't do anything about it.

Google is pushing AMP on pages in their search results today. Fine, implemented it like idiots. Happens.

But I would not be surprised if in the near future Google comes out with "AMS" "Accelerated Mobile Sites", and forces entire websites into this madness.

I get it, "fast, efficient" is always the story. Monopolistic nerves, quasi-TLA control fetishes, and an old-fashioned internet land-grab is the rumor. But that is too simple for this much trouble and expense. A few years ago Google was dealing with SPDY, QUIC, HTTP2, and talking about "fast, efficient" but you know something felt fishy there too and there was a back-room-dealy vibe with more to the story.

Anywho, while I would love to know what's going on and I have some guesses, I don't really care anymore. Google is wasting everyone's time with these games. So...

Why doesn;t Google just get on with it and host the entire internet? [1]

For free.

Please correct me but Google is already cacheing the internet.

Offering to just host the world will allow them to implement whatever bullshit protocols they were going to do anyway. It would kill off most competitor risk from AWS and whatever Microsoft came out with 9 years late. They can afford it. And they have the space (yottabtye my ass).

That's it Google. Just bend us over and host the internet.

[1] ok not the entire internet, 99% of it. Doubt they would host the porn for free.
You are greatly underestimating the Russians' gift for political humor.
> There are no killings in cities

I mean yeah if you ignore all the people shooting up malls, attacking people with machetes, driving trucks into crowds etc, Germany's a really peaceful place.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgSSRE27GQ0
Yes. You will have a memory leak if you don't delete that memory later.

But don't use new. Just push/emplace it into the vector. Perhaps ask more on stackoverflow.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13581872
How Apple can win back the Chinese smartphone market
Good to see plans for further improvement of code reusability.
Seeking Senior Project Advice
Hey HN,

I'm a senior CS student and I'm currently working on my senior project. Our group decided to go with my idea and I'm having trouble conceptualizing what we're going to need to develop. I haven't really had much experience building a project of this scope before. I was wondering if any professional developers would mind lending me some of their wisdom on how to prototype/develop a semi-ambitious web-app?

Thanks,
Stressed CS student
I have a Vizio TV, can i disable tracking?
Some ancient societies deigned it honorable and mandatory for the most wealthy to be sacrificed to the gods and their property to be thereafter redistributed by the state.

Some forgoed the sacrifice and allowed them to host large community events where their wealth was shared broadly.

Others made it fashionable and socially expected for the wealthy to be absurdly risky with their investments and so ensure their wealth would be redistributed regularly through the risk and reward of the market.