skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's break this down. You're saying that social interaction and the experiences offered by the Facebook platform are an important part of your life. I could maybe prod a bit more on this point, to really highlight that the modes of interaction and experiences offered by Facebook has comparable alternatives, but let's say that's subjective and you like what you like.

But in terms of the data collected by FB, especially the extent of it, your view is that it seems okay, considering the benefit you receive from FB and you're not bothered. This broadly places you in a category of people who have not experienced a negative experience / erosion of your position in a transaction due to information asymmetry. Either that, or you are in a significant position that this doesn't bother you much.

An example from the past - SS used to target dissenters in Germany by throwing bricks at their windows during the night, sending lewd anonymous letters to their partners and causing strains in family relationships etc.

Key to this was knowing your affiliations and information on when you were at/out of home, if you lived with a partner or not, what your address was etc. they collected this through extensive surveillance on the ground, storing this information on paper documents and sifting through them when needed.

In our case, we have an entity FB that can capture extensive amount of our information, through voluntary and non-voluntary means, store them easily with marginal costs and have the ability to sift through them in seconds. Now, it begs the question who gets access to these capabilities if they are being offered up for sale - a benevolent company will use it to market its services, an aggressive company will try to outmaneuver you at negotiations to maximize their profit and limit your savings, a benevolent government will use it to improve services to you, an authoritarian one will use it to crush you.

If you think about the actual operation of collecting this data, it's nothing more than the commoditization of detective services. What would take a human hours of work to keep track of your whereabouts, not how long you eat your food, what you possibly spend at different places, who you interact with and how much etc now is done through our devices for no cost.

Some of us believe this is not correct, that such information is being gathered on us, because some experience in our past has negatively impacted us, due to information access and asymmetry. We oppose this and seek out ways to curb this / put guard rails. Others like you, do not see the need for jede guard rails, which to me is a little naive indeed.
If the blockchain follows the rules in the code / protocol and it is part of the blockchain fork currently known to have the greatest amount of accumulated proof of work, it is considered canonical / real.
Artistic only. You'd need an exact verifier in case of engineering designs, and something built with neural networks is not one.

To get a better understanding (other than reading a paper) read this excellent blog post
https://openai.com/blog/generative-models/
Wealth and the Law of Attraction – How to train your brain
And yet back then we built the entire infrastructure of the internet and connected the world. Now we use it for Snapchat.

I'm not just being nostalgic. Before quick money ruled over all a lot more actually beneficial innovation took place. Now that the Balkanization is in full swing and the battle lines are drawn we've regressed: realtime chat is fragmented, non-corporate online entities are sidelined everywhere and any attempt at widespread integration and change goes crashing headlong into shortsighted gold rushes. Why do something that works for everyone? You can't monetize that. You can't fight Facebook with that. You can't impress your financial suitors with that.

We could do so much more than we're doing today - and we did. The most painful part of being embedded in Silicon Valley this long is seeing so much potential and momentum sacrificed on the altar of shit like G+.
> The reason [for board games' popularity], Sax suggests, has only a little to do with the games themselves, and more with the desire to do something with other people

Sort of. One of the most important features of board games is that they're comfortable to play while drinking. Sax's example of Snakes and Lattes, after all, is actually a bar.

The digital gives us an alternative to typical entertainment, food, drugs and alcohol.
How does the targeting work , and is it only inside the cell or also outside of it ?
While technically correct it's not very meaningful a distinction in context. I'm not tasked with developing all the code required for every platform, I simply have to describe it once. Native platforms will all run off the exact same JavaScript bundle in a different, platform-specific shell. You wind up with a different bundle if you target the web.
"The Metropol club literally did not have a protocol for lost coat-check tickets, because literally nobody had ever done it before in the history of the Metropol club."

I ran into similar things living in Germany. I went to the Allkauf store just to look around, only to discover there was no way to leave other than the checkout lines, which were very long.

So, I (discreetly, I thought) jumped the turnstyle that lets people in so I could exit. There was immediate pandemonium, with security people coming my way, disapproving looks from shoppers, and so on.

I'm curious where the German propensity for strict organization, rule following, etc, comes from, and how far back it goes. The posted story seems to suggest it comes directly from WWII, since the East Germans don't seem to have the same attitude.
> You be really chaotic nerdy and use Lynx, Usenet, BBS to find what you want?

Yes, it was great. People actually took the time to learn about the technology and knew how to use it. You didn't get idiots calling the Internet Explorer icon "the internet."

It wasn't great if you were trying to sell to the general public but that's also what made it great for everyone else. It wasn't commercialized and saturated in ads.
With Marie Le Pen about to be crowned, how is that going to help with the escape from an oppressive regime?

The amount of virtue signalling is starting to feel a little bit forced at this point. The courts are pushing back appropriately, and the Senate is already starting to worry about the midterms. Resistance is the answer, and always has been. Fleeing is the second to last resort when resistance fails. Cornered survival fighting is the last resort. We are no where near that point.
Are you using the Premium version of Pocket? Asking because extensions are a big part of their entire product offering.
Law of attraction series- How to create good habits
Really? Where I work we expect knowing how to test code and being careful and incremental in our junior candidates more than anything. It's easier to teach someone how to code better than let them send anything to production with 0 tests.
Low pay,shitty benefits, demands to work long hours.

My wife makes HALF of what I make at the SAME employer. She does semiconductor and microelectronics back-end process engineering. I do RF/Microwave circuit design.

She transferred divisions a couple of years ago. In her old division (mine) there were TWO female engineers out of probably 100.

It's not constrained to woman though, as 80% of those who graduate with an engineering degree are no longer practicing engineering by 40 years old.

She wants to quit every day. We can easily live off my salary, but the additional salary is good for college savings (2 kids) and retirement savings.

She want's to quit and quilt full time; yes quilt. She is really good at that, applying all the engineering knowledge to CNC quilting, tricky geometry on piecing, etc.

May have to do with woman, in general, being more risk averse than men. Also less agressive for self promotion. At my employer, you must promote yourself and make your argument in front of a review panel.
Why Some People Get Burned Out and Others Don’t
All it would take is a state actor to decide to break that 51% mark, and bitcoin would crash. I wouldn't be terribly surprised if the US (specifically, the FBI or CIA) isn't poised to do just that if they feel it necessary.

An "accepted" blockchain where all of the funds are diverted to their own wallet even for a day would be enough for all of the speculation that provides bitcoins with value to fall apart. Who would want to invest in a product when can demonstrably be devalued?
I'm with you. IMHO, Go's simplicity is its biggest virtue. It has fostered a community that values consistency and clarity over syntactic sugar. And, as a result, I find each new codebase extremely accessible.
Does this not run afoul of IP laws?
Comparing Go directly to Spring Boot? ;)
I for one will be more interested in using Go when Jetbrains finishes their IDE. Clearly not everyone cares to develop in an IDE but after 33 years of doing it, I prefer the idea. Give Swift (my current work) as many years as Go has had (10 years), and maybe I won't find Go that interesting any more.
Don't play with dead snakes and other advice (2014)
To be honest, the difference between geeks and nerds is so regional that it's hardly ever worth trying to explain the distinction. I always found it interesting that the difference between the two words could change so radically depending on where you are, considering most of the west got the same movies and TV shows.
Nice job.

Nit - it would be nice not to use the term "signed" for a block that has a sufficiently small hash. The term "valid" is more commonly used for this attribute of a block, and less confusing with signed transactions.
Is there a Licecap equivalent for Android mobile?
Not using Java the #1 server language? What do you code your server in C++?
How is Go as a compiler-target? I'm asking because I've heard that Go has a very good concurrent garbage collector.
Do you think libertarians are far right or far left? Because I subscribe to something more like this: http://www.littlecamels.com/files/PoliticalCross.jpg

Where libertarianism is on a separate axis to the usual left/right.
If you don't enable mouse support (set -g mouse on) then the terminal process handles mouse and does what you're describing* . When you enable mouse support tmux handles selections within panes and doesn't span.

* the other possibility also is that your term emulator is configured to grab mouse control without passing it through.
I just spent four weeks in Cuba, where the only Internet is (expensive, slow) public wifi hotspots in extremely select places, and I had zero cell service either as my carrier had no roaming agreement.

I got quite a bit of exploratory programming done, and read a lot of books (and explored Cuba itself of course! Made half a dozen friends, amazingly friendly people)
That's great, but realistically how are non-FF devs supposed to take part in this discussion? There are many users who will be affected by these changes but are not being given any voice in them because of the way Mozilla has handled the discussion. Hopefully this petition and other efforts can raise awareness beyond the FF dev community.
> Last year, in fact, the OECD reported that “students who use computers very frequently at school do a lot worse in most learning outcomes.”

There's no universe where having less information available to students improves learning.

Wikipedia for everyone is revolutionary! I doubt an OECD test can capture that.

The problem OLPC faced is that the iPod touch was a more compelling device for children. Its bill of materials today is less than $100. And children use touch devices religiously. OLPC had no hope of delivering a competitor to iPhone on technological and business grounds. But the theory is probably sound.
Now the question is: do these fields discriminate against women? Do women just not prefer these fields? Or do men crowd into high-paying fields?

One claim I've seen mentioned all over the place is that pay goes down when women enter a previously male-dominated field [0]. Sure, that's one way of looking at it. Was the question asked that men are actually leaving a field because the pay is going down?

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/20/upshot/as-women-take-over...
E2E encrypted chats aren't by default. But they did achieve what they planned - you thought they were because you saw it mentioned sometime somewhere, but didn't look into the fine details. When reading headlines, a person might memorize "facebook encrypted chats available", but the devil is always in the details.
Everything? They are implying that their some some conspiracy against them.
> I do RF/Microwave circuit design
I'm actually interested in this

"cannon fodder lining up on his doorstep willing to eat Ramen and gleefully line the coffers of his investor’s portfolios"

characterization, which I've read a good twenty times now. How does this make sense, when generally speaking, if an investor gets rich, it means the company succeeded, and thus the founders get rich too?
Next time you try something try it while chatting on Pharo's community on Slack. I'm sure you'll find a very welcoming and helpful community there. You can join here:
http://pharo.org/community
I noticed the username immediately and took "arrogant and verbose though he may be" to be tongue in cheek, which I think is how it was intended. I don't think he was trying to deceive anyone.
The state of residential solar power
This seems like a fairly lazy article.

It is not at all a like-for-like comparison, to compare merging two already sorted vectors with (naively) merging two hash collections.

Yet there is no real elucidation of the meaningful take-aways, such as random walks in memory over a larger structure are slower than a linear walk over a more compact structure, or that if you have an already sorted collection and don't need to shuffle it, you probably shouldn't.

Nor any attempt to normalise the results, by for instance constructing two sorted vectors from the unordered sets, and merging these; mentioning of course that this necessitates worse algorithmic complexity (but better constant factors).

Nor even any discussion of the more efficient approaches for producing intersection/union if you cannot afford to do batch-wise construction of a sorted vector.

Basically, if you did not already know this before you read the article, you probably are no better informed now.
Thanks. (It was edited in.)
Maybe not replace. Supplement, sure. Kinda like card catalogs don't replace librarians.

I'm a unicorn. No one knows what to do with my diseases. I've been told, with absolute certainty, for 25+ years that my worst one will eventually go away.

Finding effective treatments are more the result of drunken sailor's walk thru the solution space, than finding a leaf in a decision tree. I believe (but cannot prove) that'll be true of all rare multi-factor diseases.

The key point, advice is to never stop asking for help. Someone, somewhere out there has the answer.
It took me a long time to realize that a VT100 was essentially a low-end microcomputer that just happened to have a "VT100 emulator" in ROM instead of having BASIC or a bootloader.
Bitcoin does support using arbitrators via multisignature transactions
How is Snapchat not something that connects the world?
One of my coworkers, when he thinks people aren't doing a good job, calls them ladies or girls. He also doesn't listen to the women on our team, insists on pair programming with them if he has shared assignments with them instead of splitting those assignments into subtasks like he does with the other guys, and is in general a nice dude to the other guys and treats the women like they're junior. If the rest of the men on the dev team behaverd like that, I honestly bet there would be no women on our team. I'm not sure how to approach him about it, but the women we work with don't seem to want to take assignments with him or interact with him, for fairly obvious reasons I guess.
The monad laws guarantee that there's no difference between do_x(); do_y(); and do_x_and_y(); where the latter is defined as { do_x(); do_y() }. In fact, monads would be pretty useless if that were not the case.
Terrific visual explanation. Would love to see this extended to explain permissions and smart contract aspects of hyperledger/ethereum.
This is great news. Quality of conversation is abysmal on those boards.
> the axiom of choice requires that you have a countable number of sets that you are choosing elements from

You're referring to the "axiom of countable choice", which is a different axiom. The Wikipedia entry for the axiom of choice makes it clear that the number of sets can be uncountable.

> select the sequence in which the "finite prefix" is all zeros

This doesn't really make sense as a selection rule. The size of the prefix can vary between pairs of members from the same equivalence class.
The axiom of choice applies to index sets of arbitrary size. Indeed there is an axiom of countable choice for those who don't like the axiom of choice.
I don't think they care about that.
The article doesn't mention public access. I assume it's not available?

I'd pay a small fee to get access!
Note that this was written in 2014.

Still a lot of value. I would have appreciated some advice in knowing what can be learned and what needs to be innate, as that seems key to finding the right person.
Stephen Hawking: Humankind is still greedy, stupid and greatest threat to Earth
Living with USB type C
In Search of the End of the World
IIM-A MBAs make more money than Harvard or Wharton MBAs
In Bitcoin, when the coinbase reward falls, miners will approximately spend as much on mining as the users spend in fees. So the users collectively decides how much hash power they want to pay for, while miners decide what transactions to prioritize.
> In any case though, take any highly successful company. Imagine if all the marketing people and product/engineering/design people were suddenly segregated, and forced to work without the other. Who's more worried?

I tend to avoid engaging in the eternal engineer vs. sales/marketing debate (nothing ever comes of it), but that sounds like a pretty disingenuous argument. Whether you remove (a) and (b) or (c) from the equation, you're still missing an essential part of the business. Engineers with 0 sales channels make 0 revenue. Marketers/Salespeople with no product make 0 revenue. Who should be more worried?

If you're saying "Well, engineers could always try selling stuff themselves, while marketers couldn't code" you're adding, I believe, unwarranted assumptions. The reason people are paid more or less has more to do with supply/demand. Also note that salespeople at Oracle often make more money than their engineers.
It would seem the biggest impediment to the "fairness" and successful implementation of a free market is the ability of the participants to have access to perfect information.
Excellent list, I had not seen some of these. Time to fire up Mathematica and get some coffee I suppose. And I'm sure the list is helpful for many others also.
Nope. And you can use it even if you aren't using their premium version. It allows me to save some link (without opening) to my Pocket, save the current page to my pocket and also puts a small link to websites with links (like HN) to quick-save a link. Been using it since they launched it.
Best case, you should build both integration tests (the entire system tested together) and unit tests (tests for individual pieces of the system isolated from others). The two types of tests will reveal different flaws in your code. Also, since it's difficult to write unit tests for tightly-coupled code, having a battery of unit tests can also help guide you towards a better overall architecture.

If you're going to write just one kind of tests, you should write integration tests. But, if you have the time to write both, they will pay dividends.
Two related thoughts:

- A potential European famine won't happen because the lacking quantities of food will be imported, to the detriment of all with less purchasing power and no sufficient own production (read Africa)

- Is there some principle similar to "financial diversification" applied in Agriculture to obtain a Portfolio with low risk? I could imagine to use some "genome distance" instead of asset correlation.
What Killed the Linux Desktop (2012)
> First, the axiom of voice requires that you have a countable number of sets that you are choosing elements from, but there are undoubtably many of the equivalence classes that he described [0].

No it does not? The axiom of countable choice [0] is a strictly weaker axiom.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiom_of_countable_choice
I think you found my concern. When you are in your app code playing with native API's on the JS-side of the bridge, you are playing with mostly thin proxy objects. These proxy objects serialize your intent across the bridge, evaluate, serialize the response, and send it back to you over the bridge.

This is exactly what React Native does too. The difference is how much of this is done. NativeScript encourages you to stay on the JS side of the bridge- that's why they surfaced those API's. React Native encourages you to cross the bridge to do heavy lifting and then bring the final answer back. This means you typically end up utilizing the bridge a lot more for similar features in NativeScript than you would for React Native. Of course, you pay for this in React Native by having to write Native modules. (I'm purposefully ignoring some of the work I've seen in the RN community to surface these API's in the same way that NativeScript does).

At the bottom of that article there are suggestions on how to mitigate some of these problems, and just about all of them relate to minimizing unnecessary trips across the bridge.
100% agree re: readability (as I've mentioned elsewhere).

I've actually been very surprised at the near-ubiquity of Go in the modern infrastructure/tools space though. Seems like each new OSS product I evaluate is written in Go. See companies like Cloudflare, Hashicorp, InfluxData, CoreOS, and, obviously, big projects like Kubernetes.
I find it fascinating that people interpret his essays as elitist or "meritocratic" (in a dirty sense) when his basic message is optimistic: you, too, can start a startup. The whole self-serving thing, too. How does it make life better for him if more people who shouldn't start startups try? YC just gets more bad applications.
To be fair to the screenwriters: If I don't remember wrong, in Interstellar, they don't have interstellar level of technology, they just find the tech.
> The pay was not nearly in the same area.

Because the dot-com bubble had recently burst...
> PG may have become an investor and most newcomers may have forgotten this but before YC he was himself a hacker who started a company and became successful.

Yes, that is certainly laudable, but he may be suffering from survivor bias.
Same here! I code Go for ~3 years in my spare time and PHP only for hard bucks
Ideally, I would have chosen a more FLOSS solution for this petition; however, time constraints led me to choose change.org.

I totally understand your privacy concerns and applaud your choice to choose not to sign vs. doing something you feel would violate your privacy.