skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It has a lot to do with the community governance structure.

Wikipedia is something akin to a democracy. Every editor has the potential to become an Administrator or a Bureaucrat. This means that a lot of editors engage in metrics-gaming behavior and become involved in the Wikipedia community, which by its very nature means weighing on on various controversies, like whether or not to delete an article. There's nominally a focus on creating a consensus, but in practice, the opinion of the Right People wins the day. There's a process for everything, and everyone has a refuge in some guideline or another which leads to lots of rules-lawyering. It's difficult to get rid of problematic people who are good at rules-lawyering and garnering support.

On HN, dang and sctb are kings. If you cause problems, you are warned. If you continue to cause problems, you are banned. There are no higher appeals. Your interpretation of the guidelines is irrelevant; that of dang and sctb is irrefragable.

I think it is possible to construct well-run, friendly 'democratic'-type communities on the Internet, but very difficult. In practice, it's always seemed to me that dictatorial moderation creates the best communities - of course, there are communities with bad administrators, but they generally die out. I've seen some really excellent forums where moderators ban posters simply for not having sufficiently high-quality content, and the result was amazing.

Granted, for any reasonably active community, it means that someone is going to spend a lot of time doing the moderating. I think HN strikes a good balance with allowing users to downvote and flag, even though I feel that most people generally downvote for reasons I disagree with (disagreement.)

One other key factor I've found in community civility actually seems a little strange at first. In my experience, it is very important for no communication backchannels to exist - for example, no IRC channels. Those effectively breed the creation of cabals and all sorts of strategic interventions in discussions, or in the case of Wikipedia, talk pages and votes. That's been a major problem on Wikipedia. It is nominally community-run, but "community" really refers to the insiders who frequent the right IRC channels and are friends with the right people - connections you have no way of seeing simply by looking at Wikipedia talk pages. On top of that, people who are friends with the right people outside of Wikipedia always, simply by human nature, get much more leeway when engaging in abusive behavior than do people who aren't.
He didn't assume but presume. And I think that's quite understandable for a non native speaker, given the connotation of the word 'dark'.
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Google was ethical under Brin, and it showed when they pulled out of China.
None of their units shared data, they had a solid privacy policy. And their main business was search and ads vs. profiling.
When Page took over they completely changed course.
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I can start a foundation tomorrow. Your point?

In any case, he was a billionaire several times over by then. The MS IPO was over 30 years ago.

Edit: Now that I re-read my comment, I come off as an arrogant prick. Sorry about that.

All I really meant to say was that setting up a foundation != charitable work. Any poor guy - like me for example - can setup a foundation, but it will only exist on paper.
Amazingly realistic painting from the browser
I do continue to shake my head how people push Ada Lovelace, someone who wrote a paper almost 200 years ago, as the symbol of women-working-with-computers, when the _actual field_ has figures like Grace Hopper and Margaret Hamilton.
Kaliningrad still needs fixed - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Königsberg
A historical example of what one can do with limited memory is the Sinclair Scientific calculator (http://files.righto.com/calculator/sinclair_scientific_simul...). It doesn't use RAM at all, doing everything in registers.

If it would have had RAM, one could have used it to implement a memory or to implement a 'normal' infix UI.

And no, it isn't cheating that it uses a CPU designed for calculators. At best, that keeps the ROM space needed down, but I doubt that, given its somewhat weird instruction set.
Indisputably good? No. But his stances aren't indisputably evil either as is often said. I find myself in the curious position of agreeing with some of Trump's actions but vehemently disagreeing with his reasoning behind them.
Grace Hopper is a great choice.

John C Calhoun was unambiguously a reprehensible piece of shit, as is anyone—from any time—who works to maintain slavery.
Because every previous filter has worked so well. And what is it for this constant cry for censorship? Censorship doesn't work. People always find a way around it, but now it's less obvious. That's why we said we'd stop censoring.

Next time, before you ask for censorship, consider the wider ramifications. How is the filter going to work with jokes/sarcasm? E.g. do you know any people who've threatened the current US president (even in jest), and would the rules apply for them, too? Of course, "threatening" a state of head could just mean asking for his removal in other countries. Oops.

Censorship is plain stupidity, and history shows this time and time again.
I have a concern not mentioned in the article. I have had tinnitus for 30 years. I have not heard silence in that long. I hear a constant, high-pitched squeal, mostly on my right side. Between that, and diminished hearing on the same side (all due to the same events), I do very poorly hearing what people are saying in noisy environments, often cannot hear things quieter than the squeal, and cannot determine the direction a sound is coming from with any accuracy. (Also, due to the surgery, I can't use ear buds on one side, they just fall out. And if I put my head under water, I get so dizzy that I can't stand up or even sit up straight.)

Every year that I get my ears checked out, I ask my doc if there is any progress on tinnitus. And every year the answer is no, there isn't. It is a very complex and poorly understood problem. My understanding is that researchers have determined that the neural activity associated with tinnitus is distributed through many parts of the brain.

So I hear "brain-computer interface", especially relating to hearing, and I get very concerned about unintended consequences, because the circuitry is so poorly understood. While some of the benefits described in this article would be important for me, the possibility of triggering something even worse than my tinnitus would prevent me from being an early adopter.
Interesting points. I think you are right that technological progress doesn't imply societal progress, I think there may be a relationship that goes the other way around: societal progress can cause technological progress, or at least, more rapid technological progress. A society that is dedicated to eliminating its collective problems, to easing the burden of the less fortunate within it, will necessarily divert resources to finding to ways to do so.

> But it's not entirely clear to me whether we've fundamentally changed our nature, or if the tribes have just gotten bigger.

I think part of the reason for this lack of clarity is that we are going through this change right now. We're in the middle of it, with people at all ranges between "totally tribalist" and "totally humanist" (if "humanist" is the right term to use there, as in advocating for all peoples). Nationalism is one kind of pseudo-tribalism that is about more than just who your family is, and I'd argue globalism is another step along the path towards a less tribal society.

The other issue is that not everyone agrees that becoming less tribal is a good thing, so you have some people actively trying to speed the change, and other people actively trying to slow or even reverse it. So, yeah... it gets pretty confusing.
I run a two-sided network. Our providers sometimes ask if PayPal is possible. It's helpful they include draconian language like this in their contracts; giving me something to reference, other than the myriad horror stories, when saying No.

They're their own worst enemy.
Repetition not only feels like truth but also like beauty.

If you create art, even if it's primitive or ugly, if you can repeat something within one artwork or across multiple works, the works suddenly gain some merit, feel more like art, less like random doodle, just due to repetition.

To be clear, I'm not claiming that's the only way to invoke perception of truth or perception of beauty. It's just something I observed while trying to appreciate some contemporary art.
Nah. Even client side UI is just that... A UI. It's trivial to copy a UI anyways by just taking screenshots.

If more substantial parts of our apps were client side, like if we sold an online image editor, I would be very afraid.

However I have doubts as to how much more vulnerable to copying JS is than anything else. People have been pirating compiled apps just as long and they don't seem any less prolific
Only to a very high level. btrfs snapshots are writable, but share blocks, so you can boot directly from a snapshot. It's a better system.
Alternatively, you could simply vote with your wallet and not increase demand for exploitative industries.

The world is rife with stories of menial workers who were lured to international job roles that turned out to be lies. One common one is subcontinental workers lured to the gulf states to work on construction, and when they arrive they have their passports confiscated and a treated like slaves. Another common one is southeast Asian women lured to first-world countries and similarly tricked, but into sex slavery. These are the worst-case scenarios, but there's plenty of versions without the idea of 'slavery' - the international 'maid' industry, for example. A lot of south east Asians go to other countries and become maids, where they are frequently abused - and it's hard to get home when you haven't been paid since you arrived, may not have your passport, may be physically isolated, and don't speak the local language.

Ah, but no, "it's a job and someone's doing it, so clearly they were fully informed before they went in and no-one is exerting undue leverage over them"...
A foreword is a lot more substantial all by itself.

Imagine if they copied the index of a textbook. It's possible to create a complete and compatible textbook using only that structure, but very few people would call it a separate work that has meaning unto itself.
I don't think it's aged well. I tried watching it recently and couldn't get past the first five minutes.
Take a look at PostreSQL.
From my limited, anecdotal observations this past year (in the U.S.): (Facebook) Messenger is how people PM other people they've met when they haven't swapped phone numbers.

I was at dinner with a friend. Because of unexpected circumstances, we ended up sharing a table with one of her friends and some people that friend was with.

One of her friend's friends was quite gregarious and engaging towards my (non-romantic, by the way) friend. Seemed pretty obvious to me, at least.

We get back to my friend's place, and this guy is IM-ing her on FB Messenger with a bunch of flattering and engaging texts. She didn't give him her number, despite his hints in the restaurant parking lot, but he readily found her on FB through their mutual friend/contact. (Who, by the way, told her, "Yeah, no... He was a jerk to me and you don't want to go there.")

Sorry for the lengthy story. This friend of mine also went through an extended period of significant but not always close network building, this past year. And this is how much of that worked: Where phone numbers weren't shared, PM-ing through FB Messenger.

Messenger is well on the way to becoming the de facto "public" venue for IM-ing.

Other platforms tend to be turned to for more private, personal stuff -- at least among folks who actively use multiple platforms.

P.S. Invasive as it is, and with all the reservations I have, you nonetheless have to give FB credit (as a self-interested business) for turning Messenger into this. And, privacy concerns and limitations aside, it pretty much "just works". Which is the definition of win and first choice, for most "ordinary" folks.
Absolutely no because It has not alternative choice. Any code can reverse-engineering, any languages.
> it's a logical fallacy to assume that people who downloaded your work would have discovered it and actually paid for it if there was no free option

it's a "logical fallacy" to assume they wouldn't
I had some level of respect for The Guardian vis a vis Glenn Greenwald. But wow, the brazen seed on current events "Might Trump have been recruited by Putin?" and "right wingers are easier to convert". First class journalism right there folks, way to be taken hook line and sinker by the intelligence community while doing an article on the intelligence community. Pretty comical.
this seems like an equivocation
> That usually doesn't work for remote servers because you can't access the grub menu over SSH

Depends on your environment. My hosting company offers a remote console you can enable that gives access to a virtual serial console via SSH; with that, you can access your bootloader.
Our opposition to GMO food.
Remember though, that the MMPI personality test actually trolls for those gaming the test (diagnosing them with personality disorders, usually.) It does that by tempting people to exaggerate their virtues, for example. So if you're willing to dive into the details of those commits, trumpeting that metric might be a nice honey trap. You don't want the serious gamers and players in your workplace.
It's not the same thing.
Even without any intention of malice Columbus would not have ended well for the natives.

Any sufficiently advanced civilization would supercede lesser ones.
Even if contact would be limited to prevent any cultural leakage the knowledge of the existence of intelligent life will lead to collapse of at least 3 major religions and their cultural frameworks.

Aliens might know we exist but they might have rules against visitation unless being invited first.
Individuals that send powerful invitations can be seen as putting the earth and human civilization as we know it at risk.
I'm still very amazed on how few useful things I could find that lend themselfes to sense substitution.

It is really easy to map a compass to a vibrating belt (someone did it) and learn to feel it instinctively.

But for useful things: Either the sensor is too big (like radar, might be changing right now), or the bandwidth to high (most camera things) to sense through the skin or ears (you don't want to occupy a whole eye), or it's just not useful (e.g. infrared thermometer to vibration for remote temperature sensing).

Our body is made for this world, it's pretty good at sensing it.
TIL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On-premises_software
When I was consulting we charged 125 an hour for any small jobs, like less than two work weeks. The problem with small jobs is that the overhead from meetings, paperwork, phone calls, design, server setup, etc is routinely more than the time it takes to actually write the software.
A Popular Diet-Science Lab Has Been Publishing Really Shoddy Research
I'll probably get them if I keep up my level of travel, the free tsa pre-check, airline expense reimbursement, and benefits at hotels (free spa treatments etc) alone pay for the annual fee.
Yet in the same timeframe US Army Cyber Command selected it to stand in front of their infrastructure.
Remarks on Viber Message Encryption
A Mindset Revolution Sweeping Britain’s Classrooms May Be Based on Shaky Science
Why Latin America is the deadliest place for environmentalists
This is exactly what is done to spread the satellites in their orbits.

https://support.planet.com/hc/en-us/articles/212641458-How-d...

This paper covers diff drag in more detail.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.03270
Thrill – Big Data Processing with C++
iPad. It's can use multiply purpose and it's already installed "iBooks" App. So, It's useful.
I also dislike it not having an API, but we have a strategy now.
See, I personally do the exact opposite of that. PayPal has caused me more fraudulent bank activity than CC (it may help that my only CC is the debit/credit card from my bank account). So I'll give my CC over the web, knowing that I will know about any fraud when the transaction hits, and I can call the bank immediately - plus I know what retailer specifically did it rather than "PayPal".
Borderline?
Please don't throw around baseless accusations of astroturfing, and don't complain (preemptively or not) about downvotes. Neither of these things contribute towards the kind of discussion that we're trying to have here.
Faster than light doesn't mean instantaneous it can but doesn't have too.

Objects can move relatively at greater speeds than light when you account for the expansion of the universe.

Other hypothetical modes of transportation such as wormholes, hyperspace or quantum slip space allow you to take shortcuts but often there will be travel time involved.
When I copy text from your PDF it comes out all garbled. Does this happen to others as well? Is it intentional; some form of copy protection?
do other countries have laws?
Consider the possibility that somebody somewhere has FTL destructive capability, distinct from FTL travel.
you haven't established how that is necessarily not-exploitation.
For people who like this sort of thing: https://www.lrb.co.uk/v10/n16/paul-foot/the-great-times-they... (on the British Royal family being infiltrated by fascists).

The TV series Deutchland 83 is also well worth watching for a snappy spy drama about a young man from East Germany being coerced into being a double agent.
Sapphire reserve gives you at least $1,500 up front if you spend $4k in first 3 months, and you get at least 4.5% back on restaurant and travel for a card that costs $130 per year assuming you use travel credit and global entry.

For many people traveling and eating out, the 4.5% will easily cover the $130 expense and so you easily make up the yearly fee.
That was me making those comments.

The person who has been CEO since September 2012 is a woman.
I'm very curious to see this CV!
And I sort hope it does.
Curated list of awesome Elixir libraries
> why make it scream LaTeX if one can do it more subtle and make it more personal at the same time?

Because the point of a business card is to effectively signal your impressiveness.
Sqlite might be good bet too. Especially with engineering. I have their famous test suite in mind.
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Examples? There isn't a whole lot from that era that I haven't found SOMEwhere.
Thanks for your understanding... we all make mistakes.
I can't believe PayPal and the credit card cartels can get away with this shit. Card fees eat up an astounding amount of profit from low margin items, retailers should be able to encourage whatever payment method they want.

If customers knew how much they were actually paying to these card companies indirectly (thousands of dollars a year) most people would switch to cash
Hi arik,

Thank you for redash, we are using it at Beintoo (with Presto and Redshift) and everybody likes it.

Well done!
Blockchain Car Wallet: The First of Its Kind
nearly every online resource will expose you to statistics, probability Theory, algorithm design, and a practical application space. Unfortunately most of them assume that you have a reasonably strong grasp of linear algebra.
The shopkeepers schooled the landowners big time. Sic transit.
Obfuscation works. It doesn't have to be perfect. It just has to be good enough that it's substantially harder to copy/reuse than to do whatever the alternative is (rewrite, buy, etc).
Google wasn't evil, at least not before the IPO (which is when I worked there). People took the slogan seriously and based decisions on it. I don't know what happened.
MSN Messenger - 1999 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Live_Messenger
It would mean anyone willing to use that software can use your hardware invention without paying you. No thanks. You can dispute this I suppose because the wording of the license is awful and far too terse, and hasn't been tested in court - but for businesses, that IS the risk, and therefore the problem.
Not really.

The search input to search in the current repo is still in the black bar.
I mean, we could argue about this all day, no (although, the income is separated logically, which is why I made my argument in parent comment; it would take Congressional effort to spend payroll tax income on non-entitlement spending)? Sure, federal tax receipts will be used to replenish social security and Medicare, but I'm fine with that. We can afford to cut defense spending back, as we spend more than the next 8 countries combined. That's our own money being squandered.

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/jan/...
table-layout is another CSS property that I think too often goes unmentioned when talking about table based layouts; the default value (auto) is essentially "do something the spec isn't even going to try and define because implementations be crazy because they're essentially reverse-engineered copies of IE6's behaviour which is itself a reverse-engineered copy of NN4's behaviour".

The other value the property can take, fixed, makes table layout way more predictable: with no width properties defined, an n column table will result in each column having an equal width. If you define a width on some columns, it will split the remaining space between the remaining columns. This is far more often what you actually want when laying out non-tabular data using display: table as a make-shift grid layout system.
Article says he wrote software for a living becoming director of IT. Although nothing in React Native.
Amazon is in the middle of a top-down migration off of Oracle. despite owning AWS, there are still a huge number of dependencies still running on Oracle.
I've deleted fb messenger now but this was on my app menu for a while. Very unhelpful. > https://twitter.com/KatAlexPas/status/822434870223896576
Security professionals tend to care about open source over closed source much less than many other factors.

Things that seem more important^:

- Well known and vetted data structures/algorithms etc

- Vulnerability history

- Large install base

- well regarded, well funded security team vetting the project

- capacity and history of fighting expensive legal battles on behalf of its users.

Its possible that there are android phones that meet these criteria but there are many that do not. The iphone on the other hand does. So rather than having very specific android phone recommendations its generally easier to just say use iPhone. So much so that most of the security professionals I've talked to view it as the most secure, commonly available computing platform period.

^Not a security professional, but I drink with a couple.
I mean explicitly that Wikipedia does as least as good on lying by omission as the most reputable sources (NYTimes, the Wall Street Journal, whatever).
Huh, totally weird. Maybe it's an encoding issue? The character appear to be getting shifted by -39 (ex. c 143 ->D 104) I never noticed because I'm typesetting for print.