skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Slashdot moderation system didn't start out great, of course; it was actually pretty simple in the site's early days: no cap on karma, karma scores displayed prominently everywhere, no meta-moderation, etc. Much more Reddit-like than the system in place today. Which turned out to be a disaster, as this kind of naïve scoring system is catnip for trolls. Over many years they slowly improved the system, with each improvement leading to a new wave of attacks by trolls looking for ways to defeat it, until it finally got good enough to make trolling unrewarding and the attacks died down.

All of which is to say that the current design of Slashdot's system contains an enormous amount of valuable information about how to defeat trolls. You could write an entire book on all the lessons Slashdot had to learn the hard way along the road to making it what it is.

Which is why it's so tragic that their experience has been more or less utterly ignored by the community sites that came after it -- looking at you, HN! -- who universally went with simpler, naïve systems like the one Slashdot started with, with the completely predictable result that they were as much a green field for trolls as Slashdot used to be. So much heartburn, all of which could have been avoided if we as an industry had an institutional memory that ran farther back than two or three years. What a waste.
They would probably be CIA tools disguised as FSB.
This is the exact problem snaps are supposed to solve. Check out Snapcraft.io
The great thing about "values" is that everyone can have their own (play on same phrase with "standards")

To have "rights", they must be encoded in the legal code.
No, you shouldn't.

You're missing the problem of sequencing of returns. If you made that decision at 65 years old in December of 2007, you would quickly regret it unless you were one of the small percentage of people who can take the massive volatility that followed over the next 15 months.

You ABSOLUTELY MUST take into account the risk. Not doing so would get your sued as a financial planner. Frankly, this is where people lose so much of their savings is listening to hogwash like this.

Go spend some time and get your CFP or CIMA certification and then come back, and your answer will have changed.

And if I sound ticked off, it's be cause I am. you are totally ignoring Behavioral Finance, which is much, much more important than simple math.
The best apartment I ever had was in an 8-unit building. The city tore it down so they could put in a park.
No one said HIPAA made any logical sense
Been there, done that. Beats humans :)
I'm guessing sometime in the last couple years they got some competition in your area.
So, stop at this restaurant, get the grilled cheese, get out?
Ok, foodies, thats a big value add.
Curious on advantages besides being secure. I normally have garbage computers so I like to run lean on stuff. Not to the point of using Arch but Ubuntu with i3. Also will "regular" programs still run. Like as a developer I need VS Code, Filezilla, file manager, Kate, LAMP stack installed.

Are there concerns on non-dedicated graphics cards, or running say an ARM-based processor.

Also I'm not sure what you mean by '...easy to compile...' How do you compile this? I'll have to read up on it. Get that checksum bruh.

I remember trying to use Slackware and for me that was a lot of work.

Edit: Oh I see at this time it is limited to three physical machines. Interesting on the Pi 3 part. I wonder if I could try it in Virtual box. But why try it in the first place?
Parliamentary systems have other checks that the American Presidential system lacks (of course this varies somewhat widely by state, from Britain to Israel to Canada there is something of a spectrum).
I don't understand this article at all. I participate in two large professional forums (one for poker, one for development). The professionals are winning the internet there. There are dedicated subforums for trolls and random bs, which are pretty funny sometimes, but serve as an outlet for the garbage.

I browse hacker news... It is what it is, I'm happy with it as a content sharing platform. My biggest gripe is the obvious advertorial/astroturfing that I think is probably something hn offers as a service, but I'm not stupid, so I ignore it.

I get news through economist.com and npr.org and scattered other sources. I don't feel overwhelmed by trolls, except when I read yet another fucking headline about gluten.

My social media is so boring and predictable I'll probably delete it all shortly. I've never had a problem there, but I respect that some people do.

I shop on the internet frequently. I get trolled by counterfeit goods sometimes! Also by fake reviews, but that's what professional forums are for in the post cluetrain world.

I get scholarly articles on the internet every other day as part of a professional masters program. Sometimes open comments on academic articles read like troll fests, but not really.

I participate in open source on github, that's not being trolled to death (Although big os project maintainers may disagree).

And on and on... The internet (as I know it) isn't being won by trolls at all. So what is the article actually about? Twitter? Comments on news sites (lol)? The pessimistic attitudes of "technologists"?
The distance between of the third and fourth formulations of the problem is very small. Once apps can be dynamically redrawn with a scale factor, simply make the scale factor customizable.
Of course, it must be. My theories explaining this were mind-boggling, at least.
A necklace that glows red during your period
Samsung unveils hibernation pod – Hiberpod
I prefer the aesthetic qualities of paint applied by strokes over an inkjet print of a "painterly" image. I'd enjoy a service that allows you to upload source images, pick a stylization, and then buy a painted-by-robotically-wielded-brush version.

By way of analogy: I own some furniture from Ikea and some nice antique furniture. I don't know or care much about the provenance of the antique furniture. It's made up of bargains from yard/estate sales. If a big box store could sell me an inexpensive antique-alike bureau that was indistinguishable from my existing one (to unaided human senses), I'd happily buy it. I want the thing more than the story behind the thing.
Not as much as I should/should have.
Susan Fowler should've had a union to complain to, instead of Uber's hostile HR department.
shmoo needs a Nod logo.
The theme is also quite dark. Notifications are black, background is dark: It makes me feel claustrophobic compared to a macOS. Maybe, generally, hire more graphic designers.
I want it, in writing, as part of my contract (with spelled out liability and fiduciary damages), or the claim is not worth the bytes transmitted over the internet to make this statement.
Having talked to a bunch of very experienced LISPers recently (including Richard Gabriel) about this very topic, it appears to be the case that most people go wild with macros for a little while, but this passes and then you write fairly straightforward code.
"The graphics drivers for Fuchsia also exist as user-space services. They are logically split into a system driver and an application driver. The layer of software that facilitates communication between the two is called Magma, which is a framework that provides compositing and buffer sharing. Also part of the graphics stack is Escher, a physically-based renderer that relies on Vulkan to provide the rendering API"
> So why do they persist in promoting this education for management, which, according to mounting evidence, produces so much mismanagement?

> The answer is unfortunately obvious: with so many of their graduates getting to the “top”, why change? But there is another answer that is also becoming obvious: because at this top, too many of their graduates are corrupting the economy.

The MBA is a graduate degree that is the highest compensated of the Masters degrees that you can get from business schools. Here's why I think that is:

How do you put together economics, finance, accounting, organizational behavior, marketing, and operations, in a way that makes sense?

A lot of people have trouble thinking of these things both holistically and distinctly.

The MBA is both a high-level overview of these subjects, and a sustained study on putting them all together in an aligned way.

The degree says the owner has studied that specific body of knowledge rigorously and at length. It does not mean the owner has studied each component as in-depth as someone with a degree in any of these individual subjects.

I have a generalist MBA myself. But I supplemented my studies with a lot of time in the library studying books and journals on finance, statistics, computer science, and management. I tried to lock down my learning by logging each article and book, and I believe I had 400 items in my bibliographic database when I graduated - I understand the rest of my cohort used the bibliography tools built into Microsoft Word. I didn't get any networking value from the degree - I got it from a half-decent state school in Florida - most of my cohort was civil service, local accountants, and a couple of engineers and housewives.

I used R for my statistics project. The rest of my cohort used Excel.

For the capstone project, a business competition, I tracked my competition in spreadsheets for simple charting (every turn took about an hour of data input manually from pdf) - I don't believe the rest of my cohort did anything of the sort.

I was able to do a lot more than my cohort with the same education as my cohort. The business school was accredited by the same standards body as Harvard.

I don't know if I'm qualified to be a CEO yet. I like to say that I want to be qualified to run technology at a hedge fund. I'm continuing my education by signing up for the CFA, and I take my first test in December. Wish me luck.

But to answer Mintzberg's question - why keep promoting this education for management, which, according to mounting evidence, produces so much mismanagement? - This is the wrong question. The course material is correct. The problem is selection bias. Those looking for the fastest route to career acceleration go for their MBAs - thus being, at least on paper, the best qualified to run firms. We need to get this education in the hands of the right people.

We can also address the problem on the CEO side by better aligning their compensation to long-term performance instead of short-term performance measures. But shareholders are fairly impatient, and boards of directors seem to like the idea of juicing short-term performance.
APFS to Add Case-Insensitive Variant for Mac
Ask HN: Cheap but decent quality Android smartphone?
Looking to purchase phones that are being used by customers on a rental basis.
Does anyone knows if there is a REST variant that allows to send/get associated resources nested on a single call?

Taking the customers+charges example on the article, something like:

POST /api/customers/null/charges

{
name: 'John Cash',
dob: '1990-01-01',
charges:[
{type:1, amount: 12.5},
{type:1, amount: 22.8}
]
}

I think the option to bundle things on a single call is wonderful, but GraphSQL seems much more complicated to implement than REST.
Did you forget to convert the currency? 44,900 * 1.3 = 58370. Also, you don't have to live in a single bedroom apartment for $3500/mo. I've had comfortable living conditions at $2000.

You're also forgetting that Toronto does not reward being a good developer. Your salary is capped way too early compared to America where you can easily go above 200k+ total compensation. Not to mention networking, getting technology for cheaper (in general), exclusive events, etc.

It's not even close to comparable despite recent propaganda to show otherwise. Not unless you're a below-average developer, in which case, it is better to be in Toronto.

Source: Born and raised in Toronto. Ran the numbers a bunch of times trying to convince myself to stay. Money won out.
The tech community, or the portion of the tech community that is Silicon Valley Liberal?

(Bear in mind that even if you feel inclined to write off non-liberals, there is a such thing as a non-Silicon Valley liberal.)

I can't help but feel this organization is going to have a built in equivocation fallacy where whenever it is suitable they'll claim to be a "tech worker union" but whenever it comes time to decide what the union is actually going to do it'll be the "Silicon Valley Liberals" deciding what to do.
Unfortunately, nowhere right now :). The premise is hypothetical.
> Much like America, we think we're all temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

The reason that old canard doesn't carry a lot of weight around SV and the other tech hubs is that a lot of rank-and file, non-manager techies actually _are_ millionaires.
Our starting salaries are much larger than other engineering disciplines, and I'd argue we don't make nearly as stable constructions as other engineers. In Australia the starting-out civil engineering salary is almost half the starting-out software engineering salary (and this is a country which hates technical innovation and prefers building more mines).
Interesting. It looks like they are not subletting/subleasing, but working with property management companies to sign up tenants. They are basically offering a service to match tenants and collect payment without any risk of dealing with roomate issues. The tenants sign a lease directly with the property management company.

The are probably "quiet" about it because they don't want property managers to do it themselves.

I looked at one apartment complext LSeven. The floorplan 2bd/2ba goes for $4,683, but HomeShare is probably collecting $6,300 per month on that unit.

I had roomates in college. I would never, ever do that ever again.

I had one roomate who would masterbate at night on the couch in the living room, and seemed to think it was acceptable behavior. Had another one who would come in after 2 am strip down and fall asleep on the couch in his whitey-tighty underwear while watching ESPN. I've had to kick out roomates that stopped paying rent. I had a roomate break our lease so he could move in with his ex-girlfriend so he could try to save their relationship -- and that didn't work out so well for him.
At my last job(not tech), our wages were negotiated with the union at a much lower rate than our competitors and owed dues. We had no control because the union was "representing" us and we could take it or quit.
Did it recover a golf course? If you're talking about examples #1 and #5, the golf course is the input, and the output is a map.
Yeah, there's a genuine need for it, it's not just a joke. But the problem is that floating point people think that it's a magic cure to accuracy and precision issues, when it's really not (just look at Kahan summation).

I'm with Gustafson on this one.
For those interested in understanding how chess programs work, also see Toledo Nanochess: The commented source code

http://www.lulu.com/shop/oscar-toledo-gutierrez/toledo-nanoc...

Toledo Nanochess is the world's current smallest chess
program written in C language. Now for the first time is
published the complete documented source code. Also
including the documented source code of the JS1K 2010
Chess entry (2nd place winner)
take a look at build.snapcraft.io ;-) magic is happening :D
> Waits for downvotes from people who believe russians actually hacked the election!

They waged overt info war, combining state run hacking efforts of political opponents with an army of paid trolls to degrade a democratic process. Yes "Russians hack election" is too simplistic, but to dismiss what happened is equally as wrong.

This is warfare.
Visualize other's truths at the expense of your own.
it's odd the tech community in sv wouldn't want a union. i mean the tech alone is already attracting top talent imagine what a decent union would do. people from all over would be like omg they work normal hours and have decent benefits and they get to work at these huge companies and they're protected by a union damn

but the execs are waiting for most of us to be replaced by the algos we're writing before that happens so who knows
Don't worry, Betsy de Vos will defund libraries and make them charge airplane WiFi prices.
FLAVOR: All 3 flavors (installer)

HEADLINE: Allow installer option to boot from a _compressed_ ZFS rootfs (not btrfs)

DESCRIPTION: Using ZFS for a rootfs, make full use of its capabilities (snapshots, compression, etc...).

ROLE/AFILIATION : Embedded systems / (A large provider of industrial things)
Basically, "fake news" happen when the messenger adds their color to the content. It's activist journalism.

It's "the President issued an executive order" vs "the President, in a Hitler-like move, issued an executive order"

Journalism was needed because people wanted to know what happened across the globe. Citizen reporting on twitter, Periscope, and YouTube erased that need. Journalists also didn't help themselves last year by being completely one sided. People noticed that.

"Fake news" is the journalism's last attempt to save itself. It's already dead from self inflicted wounds.
What happens these days is that GPU buffers are mapped into user space, where they are filled with textures and drawing commands. Then, they are submitted to the kernel GPU scheduler for execution. See e.g. https://lwn.net/Articles/283798.
That OpenAI article is based on the paper:

Evolution Strategies as a Scalable Alternative to Reinforcement Learning

by Tim Salimans, Jonathan Ho, Xi Chen, Ilya Sutskever

This seems like counter-evidence to the idea that people are unable to challenge the stars of the dominant paradigm.
Though very similar in idea and goal!
Because they would need to join the union and the union negotiates compensation for everyone, that's one of the main purposes of a union.
In a thread above you imply that Trump committed Treason. Now you are accusing me of being "too partisan" for a real discussion.

Pot meet kettle.
So I'm just supposed to take their word for it? If there's one company which I absolutely do not trust as a consumer, it's Comcast.
No, not all companies. Many still follow the age-old wisdom of staying out of the social commentary business. I think the goal of this endeavor is to change that by convincing the tech workers to create a culture of doing so where it didn't exist before.
Is anything being done in DDR5 to mitigate rowhammer at the design level?
chess engine on PicoLisp
https://bitbucket.org/mihailp/picolisp/src/b0d59b0e01acfc35f...
It's not loading anything :|
We just visited a lot of customers with ready demo's of our product tailored on their business and needs. We persuaded them to test it, and then they all loved it and the majority of them are now our customers.
In the future, in order to open a new country market, I'll follow the same tactics.
Amazon Alexa with PetLexa
https://youtu.be/fdhxzqkvkZw
Seems FSB has better security than CIA.

90% of intelligence community cyber security spending is on offensive projects, so this revelation should not be too surprising. (http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-cyber-defense-idUSKBN1...)
I'm poised to try out Void Linux after trying out FreeBSD (it was missing too many conveniences like Dropbox and Steam).

Could you convince me why I should try Devuan instead?
It seems to me that my internet connection is the same as a telephone connection. The telephone company cannot listen in on my calls to see if I mention "aspirin" then try to sell me aspirin. The same should go for my internet connection. The content should be completely private, including the metadata such as browsing history.
Indeed. But he also put it into a more sinister light. Lippmann meant it as a positive thing.
In Australia, non-citizens can get engineering licenses. The process is basically the same as a citizen (just more complicated because of visa requirements, as you would expect).
Google has repeatedly prommised, and failed to build a lightweight open OS. Every time they have produced one it was full of bizzare political constraints and closed source spyware. I would be shocked if this time was any different.
>> It will happen.

As someone who was born and raised in the Soviet Union and spent the last 20 years in the US, I hope to dear god this doesn't ever happen. I don't know where else I'd have to emigrate if it does. To Mars maybe?

What you're describing is essentially "collective enterprise" or "kolkhoz", where nominally you own a share in a venture, but in practice you don't own shit, and as a result you don't consider it "your own", and as a direct consequence of not actually owning property, you just can't bring yourself to care. This gives rise to a lot of unsavory and damaging behaviors: from not actually working all that hard, to outright stealing. They had a saying in the USSR: "Everything belongs to the kolkhoz, so everything belongs to me." So who's to judge you if you e.g. steal a couple of tons of kerosene to heat your hothouse in winter?

Communists had to _shoot people_ who had even a modicum of entrepreneurial skill ("kulaks"), and take away their property in order to get the rest to join after the October Revolution of 1917. I suspect that's how things looked to the revolutionaries back in late 19th century. They've never experienced their proposed ideology on their own hide and therefore did not see its rough edges and downsides. All of this collectivism in the US can exist only as a part of a broader staunchly capitalist economy, and then only during the "good times" when people's needs are more or less met and they can spare some energy on pursuing ideological purity.

All of this discussion about communist ideals from people who have never experienced anything anywhere close to what it's like is like a bad nightmare to any Eastern European who actually has a first hand experience living under a communist regime. Truly, those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.

I, for one, will sacrifice everything I've got to prevent any even remotely communist development of events here in the US. Yes, that does include not considering Bernie "Money grows on trees" Sanders seriously. Communism does not work. It never did work. It never will work. I'm 100% certain of it.

Cue people explaining to me that the "USSR never actually had communism" and "you're holding it wrong". You're missing the point.
> this irrelevant because common security of practice, IIRC, is to run nested X11 servers and give each program its own.

If true that is a valid reason to drop it in my opinion.
What would be the advantage to making your exploits appear to come from other countries? What do we gain from this? It feels like an instigation.
That's a fair observation. You break it, you bought it.
A couple of months of living costs in savings is not a luxury, if you have a family.

I'd stash it in a savings account. Feel free to take a holiday, but then I'd get back to work.