skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Reddit has some pretty extreme heavy handed political censorship.

> Techdirt is censored from r/news and r/worldnews and some of the other main subs.

You are confusing "reddit" and "users of reddit who have created subreddits and run them as they see fit".
>> whereas Microsoft lets me to do whatever I want with my computers and my software

Whatever is left after bricking it, I suppose?

You do know that there were actual lawsuits against Microsoft over the Windows 10 auto upgrade right?

https://www.amazon.com/Winning-Against-Windows-10-Microsoft-...

Even assuming that issue was overblown, I distinctly remember that Catbert-style perma-nag message appearing on each login asking me to upgrade. Microsoft doesn't even deem its users worthy of a simple "Don't bother me again" close window.

Let us conservatively say about 10% of the 300 million people who supposedly got the Windows 10 update didn't actually want it. That's about 30 million folks who would disagree with this notion that Microsoft "lets me do whatever I want with my computers and my software".
Venture Capital's Goldilocks Problem
In California's Commuter Rail Drama, Nobody's a Winner
Just enter your current salary + $30,000. Unfortunately you have to play the game. If they call you for an interview it means they think your are worth that much.
Philadelphia is trying to ban this and is getting major push back from the likes of Comcast. HR departments keeping procedures like this in place suppresses the wages of minorities, women, and people who may have graduated from lower tier schools. Basically anyone who may have had to accept a job at below average wages is screwed going forward.

Last time out I just flatly refused to provide the information, some recruiters refused to move forward and it is what it is. This is just another reason why it's better to be interviewing while already gainfully employed. Gives you some leverage when dealing with BS like this
> The one with the bad image will have to be better at his job (95% success rate) to get hired as often.

Or he could fast talk his way into preference, or get a drinking buddy to hire him, or countless other ways that don't involve being better at his job.
The Data APIs are not actually generated. The Data API service exposes a JSON query language on any Postgres table.

So if you want to customise the controller, the easiest thing to do is to write a custom API endpoint (which you can deploy to your server using a heroku style git-push or a docker image) which in turn can contact the data APIs or even the Postgres database directly.
>something isn't right.

Is that a pun? Because obviously reddit has a leftist bias.
I wouldn't call myself an unexperienced user at all but even after months of trying to disable the auto updates in W10 through all sort of settings and tweaks I gave up on it. Whatever I did it never lasted for long. When I'm not in control of my own machine what's the point? I have switched to a Linux distro and haven't regretted it.
I don't quite understand you. Are you saying that attacking political activists is more acceptable than attacking someone during "routine circumstances" (such as a pub brawl, I presume)?

I live in Finland, where our criminal code actually has a separate crime called "infringement of freedom to political activity", for threat of violence or endangering well-being of others who express their opinion, participate a demonstration or set up an association for peaceful political activity. So attacking someone at a political rally is a worse crime than a random violent attack.
An analogy isn't a proof.

When someone uses an analogy they're not trying to prove anything, they're trying to get you to see things from a specific perspective, or they're trying to communicate an idea.

You can still walk away from the analogy and disagree with them, but you should have a better understanding of their perspective or their argument.

> Do you disagree that using an analogy is oversimplification?

I think your entire approach to analogies is unnecessarily combative. You view an analogy as someone trying to prove something rather than trying to communicate their position better (or just an idea in general).

And your approach is to point out that the analogy isn't perfect, and therefore you've "disproved" the analogy.

Only analogies are, by their very nature, imperfect. When an analogy is perfect it ceases to be an analogy and becomes the thing being discussed.

It should automatically be understood that there are the analogy isn't perfect and anyone can find flaws in it. That doesn't mean it isn't an effective way to communicate.
This kind of reasoning is valid in an idealistic, meritocratic society where the standing of a doctor is mostly established by track record and skills. In a corrupt society or a hospital with an unethical management, this may simply not be the case.
I have a bit of a different theory on this, based on my experience as a recruiter for almost 20 years. I should clarify that I don't even ask for current salary anymore in dialogue with my candidates.

If you know your current market value, there is no harm in providing your current salary.

As a real-world example (and a bit of an edge case used to illustrate the point clearly), if you know the typical salary for an entry-level developer in Philadelphia is 70K a year, and $NEWGRAD is currently making 35K while working during school, saying "I'm currently making 35K and looking for 70K" is entirely appropriate, as both sides are aware that is the going rate for entry-level developers in Philly. You can't offer NEWGRAD 38K and expect him/her to accept the job.

This applies to anyone, whether you are overpaid or underpaid in your market. If you have strong data on what the market will bear for your services, whether you make half of that figure or twice that figure currently has little bearing on your actual market value.

The challenge is that most people do not have that data, and it's tough to figure out for many. As much as people hate recruiters, an experienced and specialized recruiter should be pretty good at telling you what your market value is - and most should be willing to provide this info to you without any strings attached.

Based on my own recruiting practice and my tendency to allow (encourage) most of my candidates and clients to negotiate directly much more than most other recruiters, I tend to find that candidates who are the most dodgy about their expectations or history are more likely to face a more difficult negotiation from the client.

People who are honest and transparent are perhaps viewed differently by employers than those who fight the question.

I think employers appreciate a healthy negotiation as long as it is done in good faith, but I think the value of being transparent in the negotiation may outweigh any benefits of secrecy, based anecdotally of course.
Trump+repeats+call+for+US+nuclear+supremacy+•+THE+WORLD+INFO
I suppose a fair counter question would be how on earth the interviewer ended up with a couple of nested heterogeneous lists in Java, instead of a simple Tree data structure.
Deep Learning for Real-Time Atari Game Play Using Offline MCTS Planning [pdf]
Anyone serious should start with HN's guidelines and try and steal dang from YC lol.
GWAS Reveals First Hit for Anorexia Nervosa and Metabolic Correlations
Common Lisp?
Interesting, but I don't consider iOS or Android a real operating system.
More precisely List<Integer | List<Integer | List <Integer | List<Integer | ...> :) That would be trivial in functional languages.
"...runs windows just fine if that's your thing."

I have a 2015 MPB and used it for 1 year before switching it to Windows because I got fed up of the apple dev environment.

It doesn't just run windows fine, it runs Windows with amazing speed compared to macOS. Everything feels (and is) snappier. I'm still left with a very expensive and under-powered machine.

PS. Installing Little Snitch, one becomes immediately aware that macOS does talk to base....a lot!
I used to recommend the Razer Blade, but tons of horror stories on PCMR have veered me away. The only other laptop in the same class that I know of is the Gigabyte Aero.
FWIW, that's not the only good stuff on GCE:
* Instances have sustained use discounts - you don't need to pay in advance and reserve them and the discounts are applied very, very fairly.
* Pre-emptable instances are cheap as all hell, and they are perfect for batchwork, celery workers, etc (anything disposable). You don't have to bid for them so automation is easier.
* Up to 2 Gbits/second/core, depending on your workload type
* CUSTOMIZABLE instances.
* live migrations.

The only thing I really miss from AWS is RDS's postgres.

I don't even want to talk about Azure.

Why do people use AWS?
1. Free tier.
2. Plethora of PaaS as you mentioned.
3. AWS was there first, has brand recognition and is a safe choice for management.
PugJS: syntax adapter for Django, Jinja2 and Mako templates
No one said HN is exempt from this, actually it happens all the time.

However HN is tiny compared to reddit it doesnt fracture itself into small subreddits. Things are much more managable this way. When shill content does pop up it's pretty obvious and it's usually called out.
Without substantiation of any of these types of things occurring, it actively destroys discussion to engage in speculation of them, particularly online. People are left with no good faith upon which to have constructive discourse.
http://libgen.io/ads.php?md5=BE5AF91A8FB3A0705B825B53B01E016...
I suspect it is because most people do not have attractive options from which to select business partners...a problem that is not generally solved by founder matchmaking services. Perhaps in part because the limited options of some people are a function of their lack of attractiveness as business partners.
They say former employers can only verify dates of employment, where else will salary information show up? I wasn't aware that this information shows up in background checks.

I wonder if you could just counter the request by saying you signed a NDA that forbid sharing that information.
r/worldnews is full of divisive commentary that shapes discussion in stupid and toxic ways.

https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/5vwt2g/israel_de...

Top thread (minus auto-summary bot's) erroneously declares the title misleading.

The thread under that amplifies some seemingly very flakey accusations a different employee at that organization maintains ties to a terrorist organization renounced decades ago.

Derail accomplished! Threads about Russia being bad usually lead with how the US is bad. Threads about Syria often debate whether Bashar al-Assad is not so bad. I am usually annoyed I read the comments in that subreddit.

Look at this awesome 2 day old account's comments -

https://www.reddit.com/user/Supercootur
Your wording on this seems unnecessarily harsh: the article mentions AVX-512 but doesn't go into much detail about that or mention anything else. Some people may immediately know that their code will benefit from AVX-512 but that's only relevant to a subset of workloads.
I came over to deviantArt from dMusic. I had no interest in graphic design or digital art but I loved what those guys were doing as web architects. I definitely lied about my age on a contract when I joined the staff. I cringe looking at my old userpage and have no idea why they ever put up with me, but I'm glad they did because I learned so much as a programmer just from being in the same room (or IRC channel, more accurately) as them.

The biggest gift they gave me was a little space on their server to run my own PHP site, which I used to rip of all their code and make an online community for DIY punk bands. It kind of exploded in popularity and was so badly coded that I constantly crashed their MySQL server and eventually got the boot. When I went to college I figured programming was the obvious path, but the Java and VB classes they offered seemed so outdated and unimportant compared to what I knew was possible on the web. It really bummed me out on real world computer stuff so I just dropped out of technology completely and played starving musician for way way way too long. Now I'm old and trying to catch up to kids who don't even know a world without social networks...
Sha1 was already a questionable idea in 2005 when git came out, because it was then already understood to have fundamental flaws.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/02/cryptanalysis...
How the BlockNotary App and EULA Work with the Vermont Blockchain Law
Yup and recently all of my credit cards (Amex, Capital One, Citi, Discover) have implemented push notifications for all transactions. No middleman in the way and I get cash back :)
I have stopped applying to companies that require these forms for an initial application submission, but recently I was asked to fill one out after a few email exchanges, a phone interview, and an online coding test.

We were about 2 weeks into the process at this point, and I was interested in the position and they seemed interested in me.

Next step was a technical phone interview, but before doing that they just needed me to fill out a formal application...

In this case, it doesn't matter much as I did not do well on the technical interview (got hit with a tricky algorithm question that I didn't know the trick for).

But it also probably didn't help my case much that I put down a fairly high number in their 'desired salary' field on the form -- basically I put down the top number I thought I could expect them to pay for this position.
As someone with diabetes on both sides of my family this sounds dangerous even under a doctor's supervision.
I don't. Nothing's changed, and nothing's been done to those officers. Society has implicitly accepted these actions as justified.
In fairness, while double clicking the upper left icon did work, it was non standard and redundant.
This assumes that the person looking for work has more leverage in negotiations. If a person really needs the job, they can't just walk away over a drop in salary.
> Pay Equity, which will go into effect on July 1, 2018 for Commonwealth employers and employees.

A year and 3 months to go before it is illegal.
The article is specifically about what the jackets mean, which is more important than the jackets themselves.
My idea is for reddit to make as much of the users' posting history available for anyone to download and analyze, but while respecting the privacy of their users. I'm not sure how this can be done (I don't know their terms of service). But the idea is to allow researchers to use reddit's data to find manipulation. I certainly don't expect reddit to solve the problem on their own.
> AMD has been outsourcing verification to its customers for many years

You have no idea what you're talking about if you think for a second that a large CPU vendor like AMD would delegate verification to "its customers". It's like saying that Boeing just builds planes and tells airlines to make sure they fly correctly before allowing passengers to board them.
It's not pretty, it's a bully's style to rely more on forcefulness than good arguments.
hmmm, that's interesting, I may have to take a look at it again.

I was a part of the original mass exodus from Digg to reddit back when men were men, reddit was pissing off the lisp community, and reddit was mostly technical. That damned bar Digg introduced was horrible.

But I've always had a soft spot for Digg, I think I'll check it out again.
Sorry bout that. Wasn't really even my idea, either.
Ironically as I was considering Caddy as an NGINX alternative I found about a security issue that is very reminiscent of what happened at cloudflare:

https://github.com/mholt/caddy/issues/1204#issuecomment-2781...
Sell the licenses directly to consumers then? Their reputation doesn't take a hit that way. Just sell it on a "use at your own risk" basis and just let people have it who want to use it on their own builds. I figure the support for the bazillion possible hardware configs would make it a nightmare though.
Not a new terminal emulator. Damn.
I agree. There was a report in December that they had lost $800 million in the previous quarter. It seems like utter insanity that:

1. They'd even bat an eyelash at paying retail for the needed quantity, and
2. They'd think it's even remotely ok to exclude a section of the team completely due to any reason (sex, race, size, whatever)

Yes, it's just a jacket, but this definitely smells of a deep seeded cultural problem due to how ludicrous it is.
Sounds like you'll fit right in at Uber.
Well, by definition, it's the former, whether as a byproduct of the latter or for whatever other root cause.
Sure, this is an OK scheme for finding higher quality discussion, but it's just not what the market wants.

After the initial adopters had been outnumbered, but long before reddit was popular enough to attract legions of professional marketers, popular subreddits were dominated by puns, memes, highly biased politics, emoting, etc. It's what people upvote, and it doesn't require a reputation system.
> The law’s original intent was to patent mature discoveries, things like a genetically modified crop, or biofuel-farting yeast. Over the years, however, universities started filing patents further upstream—on everything from protein structures to bits of DNA. This frenzy of molecule-grabbing can actually work counter to Bayh-Doyle, locking up promising discoveries that don’t need help getting commercialized. “Crispr totally epitomizes that,” says Michael Eisen, a Berkeley biophysicist and long-time advocate of open science. “Everybody in the universe is chomping at the bit to use it. But patents are an obstacle to that happening right now.”

I recently read "Basic Economics" by Thomas Sowell and each chapter highlighting an economic concept included examples of government policy relevant to the subject. Such as rent control, price controls in agriculture, zoning, industry licensing, etc. Almost all of them had similar unintended side effects as seen here (ie, rent controls intended to reduce rent prices resulted in a shortage of affordable housing for poor people in NYC, Toronto, etc). They almost always create an imbalance where the negative side effects largely outweigh the intended benefits.

I'm not sure leaving such highly technical debates, such as whether or not you can patent a low level protein, should be left for random courts to decide.

How do we solve such a prevalent problem? Should the legislation then become more specific to make sure it has it's intended purpose? Or would that ultimately lead to endless complexity in law? Creating loopholes and increased difficulty/cost to implement?

The easy answer that some people take is that government should largely not be involved in this type of stuff but I'm always interested in exploring alternatives. But otherwise this stuff is largely ignored outside of the usual generic complaints about regulations coming from business groups each year, yet it continues to persist as a black/white issue in politics.

CRISPR is such a critical and important technology, it'd be a shame if it was held back by unintentional interpretations of law.
I agree that hiring anyone based on race or gender is abhorrent but your delivery here will not change any minds.
I guess the submission's title was changed to the email's subject, rather than the title of Mr. Gutmann's one-line summary (which is how I submitted it):

"Reports of SHA-1's demise are considerably exaggerated"
> often time foreigners themselves not familiar with American values of workplace equality and non-harassment.

This statement is somewhere between intentionally callous and "needs heavy citation" with a dose of "blind or out of touch".

"often times foreigners not familiar with" - citation needed.

"American values of workplace equality and non-harrassment" - There are literally dozens, hundreds, of easy examples to draw on where such values do not exist or exist in name or policy only, and not in action or consequence. That you chose to make this claim on an article talking about a recent incident highlighting how, seemingly top-to-bottom, sexist and gaslighting responses from HR and managers were made to Susan Fowler and other women working at Uber is... confusing, at best.

You're deflecting and diminishing a real problem and there is no clear path to understanding why.

edit Oh, I see you made another (worse, and more overt) xenophobic post elsewhere in the comments. That helps explain things.
Eh, do you know of another "Republican" subreddit with ~400,000 readers? The obvious r/republican is still <100,000 and affiliated subs aren't any larger.
I like there system for deliverability too. They make you setup up the sending domain and verify it which really helps. Check out this tool if you are interested in deliverability: https://www.mail-tester.com/
Yes, I started syrah (https://github.com/boulos/syrah) in 2009 precisely because I loved the masking of LRBni and wanted to "use it" even from SSE, AVX and (later) AVX2. Once I played with NEON though, I realized I had screwed up the format for it.

Sadly, (because KNL doesn't have nearly the same volume) until Skylake became a real thing, I had no reason to update this. I'm planning on dusting it off now!
Thank you. That seems a lot more trustworthy, sadly there isn't a lot of information in that article.

There is also an Artikel in "Der Spiegel", now that I had a closer look[1]

Btw, I don't know on which page of the google search you found that link, but in my case it's not on the first two result pages. Well, that's the trouble with customized searches :)

[1] http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/schweden-polizei-verhe...
Do you think something like this could overcome the effects of say, the 50 Cent Party[1]? Or would they eventually end up being 80% of the "vetted accounts"?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party
So when the NSA publishes SELinux, do we get to know whether it was red or blue team?
Wait, you're saying someone posted an article on their corporate blog with the intention of promoting their business? Has The Intercept been notified?
While you are right i know the current market in my area pretty well. Would it be in a different country i would pick another strategy.
Maybe because Ford and GM shouldn't be in Exxon's business, just like how Google shouldn't be in Exxon's business, and Bank of America should probably not be in Exxon's business?

Energy is an undifferentiated low-margin commodity. (Unless you're getting sweetheart resource extraction rates.) Especially when it comes to grid energy - there is zero synergy between being a producer of it, and selling products that consume it.
MPX (hardware bounds checking)

SGX (secure enclaves)

TSX (Hardware Transactional Memory)

SGX can store SSL keys in a hardware protected enclave that can't be accessed by hypervisors/AMT so that can be useful for security sensitive stuff.

Cloudflare probably could have used MPX to prevent their recent leak with minimal performance overhead.

TSX is cool.
See "Mitigating the risk..." at https://security.googleblog.com/2017/02/announcing-first-sha...
Absolutely.

I would guess that's the most common reason for people to look the part. I can't really tell if you're agreeing or disagreeing with what I said!
So why did they ask? To see if you would lie?
> The cost of a product/service being roughly equal to the human labor needed to make it, [...]

The cost of a product/service is only roughly equal to the human labor needed to produce it when the human labor cost is significantly higher than the material costs of producing that product/service. When you heavily automate production, the cost of human labor becomes an insignificant factor in its cost.
*Article says COO, but Twitter says CTO. Strange.

And he's fairly active on these forums. That seems like such an odd thing to say given how important security is/should be at CF...curious if jgrahamc would further clarify his position here.