skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Twitter needs fixes now!!!
3 days prior to a presidential election in Ecuador the Twitter account of one of the two major newspapers was hacked and used to post fake news damaging the runner up candidate, who is in a very good position to force a ballot and pull a hard win on what could be the end of a 10-year period of yet another Chavez-like regime in South America. Furthermore, during the campaign, the current government has used its army of fake trolls to push trends to either damage opponents or to mitigate the dozens of accusations of corruption, like the well-know Odebretch case (Ecuador and Venezuela are the only Latin American countries where the list of names of bribed officials is not published yet!).

Twitter needs to take very seriously its role as the de-facto news/comm channel for political affairs!!!

The hacking problem seems easy to fix: a special client app that works with a USB key. They could even charge for it.

The fake accounts may be harder to fix but not impossible, if they cared.

If Twitter does not fix fake trends it is actually helping build a fake reality.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13659864
We're about 2-3 years into the latest iteration of neural networks (aka deep learning), and the first one with practical application. IBM Watson didn't use neural networks.
I'm the same but that's because of the so-many bullshit articles I had to read before figuring this out. Now I read the comments first and learned to stay away from certain sources with frequent low quality content. Also, this happens when you give hackers imaginary points; they want to game the system.
Founders don't start companies to live a "pretty good life in the top 10%".

We do it because we are ambitious, want to solve huge technical and business problems, make our mark, and change the world.

We usually have more energy and sleep less than others. We love work. We love our business. Most of us would not want to be corporate "drones". It would be like a living death.
My breakthrough with R didn't really happen until i started programming functionally. If every step to acquire, process, aggregate, graph data are all outputs chained together, re-running everything is a pretty simple process. It's when you try to think too much about objects and states that R is just really clunky.
I have the same problems as the author but I also have to worry about money because none of the risks I took have paid off.

The only thing I look forward to is the next economic crisis; then maybe I'll be able to build something out of the rubble of other people's failures.

Economic stability is painful for me.
So, basically there probably going to be honest people where they would tell the truth, that they don't use thefcnkfacebook but because some scammer has created a fake profile of them would be turned back at the border. Amazing brave new world we live in...
The whole article comes across as very defensive... here's all these examples of people seeing me as an asshole, but really I'm a nice guy. I try to relate, but it's not my fault I don't understand all of these people that are beneath me while I'm kicking it in my crib with my stone counter tops and $300 jeans. Oh I really love my wife and kid, but... I'm just so unfulfilled.

Brutal truth to the author after having read the article is that he probably does qualify as being an asshole.

As a slight counterpoint to that though, despite what everyone says it is okay to be an asshole up to a certain point. It is better to just own up to it though than to deny it. This is advice from a self admitted asshole.
I like being able to watch movies or TV shows on the plane. I don't keep that stuff on my phone and I don't own a tablet. I guess I can hope it'll lower the cost of the ticket, but that's not going to happen. :)
I read this article in the same way. Some kind of narcissistic personality that doesn't want to account for they are simply an arsehole and needs excuses. Sound like when they were CEO of ~100 employees they could get away with people accepting this behavior and feel accepted but now they lost 'im in control of your career' the reality check is here and they are looking for excuses.
That people are both emotional and logical is a non sequitur. The responsibility of picking a database includes trying explicitly to discount how ones feels about petty things like the name and rush to the technical discussion. That's part of what it means to do a good job picking a database.

All the best technical people I know would feel a visceral disgust at the thought of a product being discarded due to its name. Someone who was truly suited to attacking the problem of database selection would proactively make sure he wasn't letting nontechnical features into the discussion.

Whoever creates the successor to Linux should name it Holocaust OS or something just to mess with people, and laugh at those who due to its name thereby do their computing on an inferior system.
"Calorie restriction or changes in dietary composition can enhance healthy aging, but the inability of most subjects to adhere to chronic and extreme diets, as well as potentially adverse effects, limits their application."

Well, obviously, when they call fasting / keto / etc. "chronic and extreme" within earshot of potential subjects, and use scary warnings, compliance will suffer.

Other result of note: "No serious adverse effects were reported."
CBP is Customs and Border Protection which is the American department for that. Canada has the CBSA - Canadian Border Services Agency. So you wouldn't get harassed by the CBP if you were entering Canada, it would be the CBSA.
isnt our evolutionary destiny just to reproduce as much as possible?
The audit does seem to have been a setback but looks like it didn't take that long relative to the total development time:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReactOS#Internal_audit

That is to say, I doubt they'd be running Aero Glass or UWP applications this month even if they hadn't lost time to the audit.
Domestic United flights with DirecTV show advertising when the screens aren't otherwise in use.
Sounds like the author has personal problems they're mistakenly ascribing to their work. Many of their assertions are simply not true (It's possible to be confident without "being an asshole"; I know several such people), and it just comes across as written by an unreliable narrator (if I cared about this person's issues, I'd likely be asking the people who shunned him about what happened and see if the stories matched).
Yeah I'm saying they should be... but they just shouldn't be stock images.
>nobody would force you to use generics

Yes and no. In a couple years, a Go developer gets hired at a shop and realizes on the first day "oh snap, these people have a years old codebase that uses generics everywhere and I'm stuck with it." Is he being forced to use them? Can he leave if he cares more about generics than his paycheck? Sure. Can you withold the combo to your safe from the home invader if you care more about what's inside it than your daughter he's pointing a gun at? Sure.

I don't think it's incomprehensible that GP prefers that a language remain simple and opinionated for the sake of what one might call "cross-developer" code.

Someone up the thread a ways mentioned 1980s C++, object oriented C++ and functional C++ as examples of how disjoint different styles of a single language can be when its building blocks allow it to be sufficiently flexible/agnostic. Another example that comes to mind is Lisp, where its ability to create macros and abstractions mean a developer can, if he chooses, essentially write his own language per project (as far as its legibility to newcomers is concerned).

C++and Lisp are both powerful, of course. But power isn't everything. Jira is much more customizable and flexible than Trello, but Trello is clearly doing quite well with the small subset of Jira features that a large chunk of the market is satisfied with.
For the ones that don't know: 4% [0] is supposed to be the amount your wealth grows, on average, every year. If you spend at most 4% of it, you end up never eroding it.

[0] www.investopedia.com/terms/f/four-percent-rule.asp
The trick is teaching people to view food only as fuel, at least for long enough to give an alternate diet strategy an honest attempt.
Out of curiosity are you primarily flying short haul flights in US / Canada? (I know Air Canada rouge has ditched a lot of screens.)

Im genuinely curious because almost all flights I've been on have screens in the seats.
It also increases the weight of the payload they can move around since they wouldn't have batteries (unless the weight of the receiving coils overwhelms that).
This comes from a guy who literally built a wall around his house and tried to evict people from his estate in Hawaii.
Pretty neat demo, sitting inside a loaded cavity resonator. Probably not very practical, but still cool.
Oh, you are right, thank you. Makes sense. The books I checked from him had around 800 pages, which is anything but short :)
I feel like I'm going to be one of the few (if only) dissenting voices against everyone else here: I actually LIKE the screens in the back of the chair in front of me. My general experience with them for long flights, while buggy with a bad screen, etc. has been very good. This is due to what is generally a pretty good selection of movies, often with many I haven't seen but know about and would like to see, or fun surprises that I would have never considered otherwise. (example: I got to see "Shin Godzilla" on a flight to Japan recently. I had never heard about it, but it turned out to be one of the most interesting movies I saw of the multiple I selected, and just generally a very interesting movie in general with strong commentary against the government's handling of the power plant disaster) These turn out to be very beneficial for me, as when I'm on a long plane ride I often "shut down" and don't want to do anything except brainlessly watch movies or potentially read certain books that suck me in very well. On the long flights to Australia and Japan I've done recently this has allowed the flight to pass quickly and easily for me.

I'm sad to see them go. I don't want to watch movies on some silly app on my phone which is much smaller than the screens now. I want to use my phone to read books and save the battery charge for texting people or driving when I land.
VHD – The forgotten 1980s Videodisc
Yes, the 'why' that is eating at me is why anyone would try to proselytise religion to anonymous people on HN.
> Brutal truth to the author after having read the article is that he

Should probably figure out his own issues before giving advice to other people about how their experiences "will go".

(I'm sure some people can relate to the piece, but relating and getting good advice are two different things - if you're looking for the latter, ask someone who at minimum has a good grasp of where their problems truly stemmed from [likely because they're now seeing them after having solved them])
Translation: the ends justify the means.
Back in the '80s, when Korea was still a military dictatorship and Samsung was still run by its original founder, one of the founder's sons was recruiting me for some unusual (non-criminal) skills I had. He made it clear to his staff that he wanted me as one of his guys for special projects, and the way the somewhat militaristic Samsung guys kowtowed to me was truly creepy, even for dictatorship-era Korea. I was well aware that it wasn't about me but entirely about the founder's son. I was a pure symbol, inspiring fear and with no intrinsic value of my own whatsoever.

The founder died as this was happening, and I was quickly warned by some decent insiders that I should cease all contact with my benefactor and get away ASAP. The sons of the founder were going to fight for power and, as the Koreans say, "when whales fight, the shrimp's back gets broken". In a clash between the most powerful men in a military dictatorship, little people could have tragic "accidents", and so what? I took their advice.

The same family controls that company today. The guy just arrested is the nephew of my old "benefactor". The country is no longer a dictatorship, but the powerful people at the top haven't necessarily changed their ways. Every few years, there are accusations that the top Samsung people are guilty of bribery or similar manipulations. Hard to believe, right? They'll get charged, then the charges are dropped. They'll be convicted, then pardoned by the President. These are power struggles by people who are all above the law but not necessarily above one another. If you do business with them at the small, overseas, trivial level, this may not matter, but you should be aware that behind them you have a system that plays by older rules.
Burner phones are pretty good for this but I've seen another solution to it, at least for apple devices (though it should work on anything).

Run an OS X VM and connect your phone to it. Run a full backup of the phone and then wipe your phone and transfer the VM to networked storage such as dropbox. Wipe the VM from your computer and then go on your flight, hand over your blank phone and computer (or load dummy data) and leave the airport. Download the VM and restore your phone.

You can also use this to secure work files from search and seizure by working from the VM at all times (though this naturally is inefficient and can be troublesome for some developers)
how does it destroy? even if its nonsense I've seen people find a sense of community and purpose from religion.
Yeah they are selling a lifestyle fix. It wouldn't be bad to get some normal people before and after photos. But the founders should be examples and they should live by their program and be an example for would-be customers.

My point was that the founders real personalities and story are absent and instead we see stock photos.
Diversity means whatever you want it to mean: women, Asians, whites, gays, whatever
> 4) Does this company have a clear and important mission?

> Without this, I usually get bored. More importantly, companies that don’t have this usually have a hard time recruiting enough great people to work with them, and thus struggle to become very large.

Says the man whose first big exit was Loopt, a drain-circling "Grindr for flip-phones" that only got acqui-hired because a Sequoia Capital board member who'd invested in Loopt pulled strings to get Green Dot to buy it and cover his investment. Harsh, I know, but hardly inaccurate:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=385178

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3687816
Before you move on, fix your website :)

GET http://ayushgp.me/ net::ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT
I wasn't really arguing with sama - just making some commentary on a small part of a larger document.
google is an expert at soaking up the good publicity for their "moonshots" and then not delivering. and they slowly fail to where people don't notice it and get excited for the next shiny thing
Proof of funds is one of the three things they apparently still require. I had to show proof of funds (~$1000/month), proof of lodging (airbnb itinerary), and proof of leave (an already-booked plane ticket at the end of my stay).
Perhaps something combining all of the things you've made use of? https://play.golang.org/p/8RDqjjZDB8
Ask HN: Do you think “real” AI is possible?
A fully autonomous system capable of recognizing itself as a being and learning new concepts at a human-like level.

Personally, I don't think so. There are just too many hormones and chemicals that go into the human psyche and cause us to think and learn the way we do.

But I'm interested in hearing what you guys think.
Algorithmic trading in less than 100 lines of Python code – O'Reilly Media
> Now it turned out that the warrant was just for some malware-extortion ring, not due to a crackdown on political dissidents, so arguably a "false positive" from the perspective of what most people using riseup for its stated purpose care about

Except that now that it's gone there's nothing to say that people who were previously held at bay by the canary [side note: hah] moved in right after it disappeared.

Thus I agree; a WC should be seen as nothing more than a "probably not" to a "maybe/assume so".
His problems have nothing to do with the money... not sure why he correlates that. Sounds like he simply sucks at interpersonal skills ...

E.g. "I feel like my opinion doesn't matter around him because I haven't made $1 mil" we'll if that's how you make people feel it's your fault... if they're simply insecure whiners it's your fault for keeping them in your life...

Same thing with friends...

Another area to improve would be a sense of style (no person with style buys $300 jeans, they're basically a product targeted at insecure nouveau riche... just shop at H&M)

... I guess the only reason this article is popular is that it comforts people who haven't made a million dollars that his life sucks too regardless...
FeFETs: How this new memory stacks up against existing non-volatile memory
I have to wonder how effective he will be at advancing tunnel boring using existing technology. From the article, it sounds like he has no figures of the cost breakdown on a standard tunnel boring project such as the fixed costs like moving and assembling the machine, or the variable costs like how much is spent on materials, labor, etc. Given that, I'm skeptical that he can bring down the cost of tunneling since this approach seems to eschew a first principals based approach to the problem. I'm guessing that he really just wants to be able to build a federally subsidized tunnel from LAX to the SpaceX office so he doesn't have to sit in traffic.
Haha. That is hilarious. 280 million years old, the preservative of preservatives. In many other countries (developing especially) they don't even pay attention to food expiration dates. We have eyes and a nose and they're really good at telling us when food shouldn't be eaten. I have a friend who is from Nigeria and was selling bags of rice at her shop. Food inspectors told her she had to throw the rice away because it had expired. She was devastated because she wasn't even used to thinking about rice expiring, especially not when it's just a few months old. Welcome to the West.
Let’s not demonize driving, just stop subsidizing it
If you're interested in more detailed info (like aeronautical charts and such), I recommend ForeFlight [0]. It's what I use when I'm actually flying. It also uses the GPS in your mobile device rather than the slightly delayed position information from FlightAware.

[0] https://www.foreflight.com/
It's a solved problem, the question is how expensive the ground stations are.

Iridium phones have always worked with fast-moving satellites. The 9555 phone is $939 on Amazon, and the Iridium Go hotspot is $689. Ideally, an internet access terminal would be closer to $100, but if you're sharing the connection with a bunch of neighbors using mesh WiFi, $689 is doable.
Sadly engadget is not a reliable source, so there's really nothing to take specifically from this article at face value (not that it said much other than FUD anyway). Lately they've been caught making or repeating way too much fake news related to politics and even entertainment topics.
Yeah, we tell ourselves many things to rationalize our behavior.
It depends on the problem domain, but it's been my experience across a few domains that many errors are of the "trivial" type you've described, in that recovering from an error by taking some alternative path is usually not very valuable. A bail-out-on-any-error approach doesn't necessarily mean it's a "toy program".

Nothing in Rust (or Go, even) ordinarily precludes the type of retry approach you're describing, of course.
Many flights now have free streaming content from on-board servers via the WiFi. It's basically equivalent to what you'd get from the old screens but you can use your own device to get at it. No need to keep large movies/shows around on your device at all.
It's maybe pride talking, but Chartreuse is most certainly not an obscure liqueur.
Probably in reference to his grandfather and father basically getting away with not serving jail time for their corrupt dealing associated with former presidents of Korea. President Roh Tae Woo and Park Jung Hee (father of the current president)
There are very few things that start to rot near or even well after a "best before" date (ie: the point of the article/regulations). Vegetables are the worst "mental" group; there's no health/safety issue involved, just the change to a slimy texture that turns people off. Fruit goes soft, but takes 1-2 weeks past its date to become undesirable - and by then, it's obvious that there is rot or mold. Bread is fine until you can smell or taste mold, no date checking required. Unprocessed meat and dairy products are really the only ones to be concerned about. Nearly every other product is just a matter of freshness - a subjective perceived metric of quality more than anything else.

Really, just try smelling and then tasting it. By and large, our noses and tastebuds are amazing natural filters. If it isn't so revolting that you need to gasp for air or spit it out, you're probably safe. So very few products actually "go bad" to the point of being dangerous to consume.

I'm curious to see just how clear-cut the "use by" label will be. I suspect that even with these changes, such a label will continue to be abused to label things as "unsafe" long before it is really the case. The industry desire to have you throw out perfectly good product (and buy more to replace it) is far too strong for regulation to make a difference. I wouldn't be surprised if they start adding dairy (or some unstable chemical) to products that don't normally contain such things, in order to get away with marking their product as having a shorter shelf life than required.
ehh well they are rich in that they own actual infrastructure, not just say a digital infrastructure. They often own content networks and of course plenty of IP, so they do fine. When you see telecom failing it's generally them letting themselves get raped due to contracts that serve people internally that they've enjoyed passing off to their customers without care.
I would suggest you turn on the 6pm daily news.
I fear most entrepreneurs really do care about leaving a mark. Any mark. Ad tech companies? Big data (selling) companies? Marketing (convince the consumer to buy something excessive) companies? LinkedIn and other companies that intentionally force dark patterns on their users? Security companies selling spyware and hacking tools to anyone who'll pay?

The world could do with fewer of those marks IMO.
I can't quite put it to words, but there's something about this statement that makes me very sad.
You only need to succeed once
All good points. However, not every airport had the potential to provide the return on investment they were looking for to get them into multiple rounds of funding with this business model.

If you read the bios in the article, one of the investment banker guys got his start in Mergers and Acquisitions in the 80s, so it's the kind of approach they would take since it's what they knew and also what the people fronting them the money would be able to relate to. If he had gotten a start in consulting work instead, it would have been a different approach and a different story.
To be pedantic, your wealth will erode at the rate of inflation if you spend the exact amount it grows (if you are measuring wealth in dollars, that is). The proper amount is S=G/I where S = spend rate, G = growth rate, I = inflation rate.
Sounds like a win-win for them!
While I applaud you for thinking of ways to share knowledge, I would like you to consider incentive structures and presentation of value +truthiness

If your goal is to curate expertise and create an on going knowledge base I would suggest wiki style
Or GASP a magazine

If your goal is to crowdsource the info with up and down voting , I would dig deeper into the incentive structure and possibility of fostering a conspiracy theory community