skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm actually a user of LineageOS and I do not run the Play Store nor the Google Services.

I prefer to install everything with F-Droid failing that I use a Play viewer called Yalp that downloads apk's from the Play Store. The only app I ran into that fails to load is Hangouts (I use that for work). While Facebook Messenger shows an error when loading it doesn't crash when using it. Yalp will ask for your Google credentials, but I also saw that it also has a fake account mechanism.

My only other complaint is that by default the ROM comes with a couple non-free apps like Br0Zip that is quite obnoxious and you can't uninstall. I could re-flash my device and remove the app, but that's just annoying. If anyone from LineageOS is reading this please remove this ridiculous app.

Honestly though I'm just happy that I'm running an OS that's open source at it's core and that I have access to an app store that exclusively hosts open source applications. It even warns when apps promote non-free software (like Yalp).

PS: I'm not saying you're wrong, but that I've had quite a pleasant experience.
In 2010, JA/Wikileaks were Saints of the Left, until they went rogue in 2016 with DNC leaks. I would reconsider my stand if you provided a better example.
Well, if that's the distinction we're talking about, then I would say that the Democratic Party also has far fewer people that it looks out for than that vote for it. They no longer seem to have the working class as a constituency, for example.
I like it more than the snub / blank nose of the original concept.
Of course, I didn't even mention hiring as I assume we all know its a terrible solution. Hiring is a spotty, error-prone process. Its arguably better to train who you have, than take another roll of the dice. Hiring is how you got into the situation you're in.
I think what you are suggesting is a classic recipe for office politics.

It frequently can be more difficult for a supervisor to get an accurate assessment of a direct report's skill level than a peer, both because they have many other demands on their time and because employees know it is important to put best foot forward in interaction with their boss (or, more cynically, make themselves look better than their peers/competitors).

If you leave your metric fuzzy, as you suggest, managers/whoever is doing the assessment will tend towards 'gut feel' and you will get people optimizing to be their boss's best friend or to be the one who makes life easiest for them, instead of optimizing for those who are doing the best job.

It isn't always this bad: individuals in manager roles can mitigate this by doing their job well, but the system overall can tend that way.
>There's not really any such thing as "sentiment". You can classify reviews as positive or negative, and then train a model to reproduce those annotations pretty accurately.

Here's an example of what I'm looking for in terms of sentiment and emotion.

https://natural-language-understanding-demo.mybluemix.net

Journal entries can be given an overall positive/negative sentiment rating and then plotted on a line graph over time.

Drops in positivity could then be further analyzed by looking at the keywords and concepts of the affected time period.

Similar analysis could be done with the emotional analysis (i.e. joy, anger, fear).

I've input a couple test journal entries into that example and it seems feasible, but I'm looking for something free and/or that I could host myself though I realize I may be asking for more than I can get.
> Markets in the capitalist sense, with people having to sell labour-time for wage in order to survive to a market of bourgeoisie is also a recent invention, a little over 200 years old.

It's significantly older than that; "capitalism" was described and named by socialists over 250 years ago, but labor markets of the type you describe are much older (the transition from feudal to capitalist economies began several hundred years before "capitalism" was named by its critics.)
I would have really liked to see gnome2-esq style DE - bare bones, focus on a great windows like task bar / windows management. I really hated the unity dock thing and I especially hated the color scheme.
This should drive the stock price up another $200.
They already do. Stop pretending there's this mass persecution of alt-right people.
Funny, I thought the model S with its black nose looked ridiculous and was very happy they got rid of it in the 3.
A wise man once told me: "no politics at work". As time goes on, the value of that advice becomes more and more certain.

There's no reason that libreboot needs to be a political project. There are enough reasons to want our firmware to be free. We rely on our machines for our work, for our art, for our lives.
You should crawl under a rock and d-i-e. -> fine.
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We can't pull stats we need.

We tried: so many continuous query rollups...
Eats into ability to write data... at only 1000/sec (artificially tripled due to splitting into multiple measurements to get around cardinality problem)
Dropping writes even on 24 core 500gb ram, SSD Dedicated.

Can't scale when also used to query against.

Basically: their claimed performance looks great; but real works doesn't match up.
They've pushed fixing cardinality two quarters.

No reply on my github issue with broken top()

Compression is good... is about all I can say lol
I don't have a problem with skeptics. They're a healthy part of the scientific ecosystem. But as devil's advocate style checks against the consensus, challenging premises and acting in an adversarial but respectful manner.

Many of the climate change skeptics actually allege a huge conspiracy and accuse the enormous consensus of educated scientists of lying or being fundamentally incompetent, which puts them on the level of cranks that don't deserve a moment's notice. But there's a lot of money and prestige in denial, it's a huge business because the longer we deny the more money certain large companies can make. So these cranks (and the minuscule fraction of qualified honest skeptics who barely exist) get credence and money far beyond their due. They get paired off 1-on-1 with an actual scientist in the public sphere. They get asked to speak on commissions. Which is what I have a problem with.

I don't have a problem with John McAfee existing. I'd have a problem with him and Ron Rivest holding a public 'debate' about RSA to 'understand the controversy'.

And you'll notice I never mentioned second-hand smoking. Evidence has always been shaky and arguable about how much of an effect it has, it simply followed the same moral panic as the very scientific smoking evidence. And we found out we were being lied to and results were being fabricated and manipulated by extremely powerful interests about smoking, so to be on the safe side we chose to trust nothing pro-tobacco after that, a correct choice I think. A societal immune response against the cancer that infected us, if you'll pardon the appropriate analogy.

I picked smoking as an example because the evidence is incontrovertible and because it was covered up as long as possible by actively malicious corporations and lobbying groups with the intention of killing as many people as possible so that they could sell more cigarettes to unwitting innocents/children. It's a history lesson that we should give very little credence to "skeptics" who happen to always end up having connections to vested corporate interests and insist "the science just isn't settled yet" but provide no evidence to back their contrarian claims and insist that we should drag our feet. Sound familiar?
The two are nowhere near the same.
http://www.aafp.org/news/practice-professional-issues/201505...

>On average, primary care physicians overall -- and family physicians, specifically -- earn $195,000 annually, compared with $284,000 for physicians in other specialties
> I have to clarify that I'm a "minority"

lol. This is the internet. People should really not judge differently based on the claimed position of the poster because of how easy it is to lie.
> After spending some time with a programmer, especially in a work environment, it's easy to get an overview of how strong their skills are

If you're another programmer, yes perhaps. But I've seen weaker developers consistently claiming undue credit from management through superior social skills enough times to know that, even with the best evaluation system in the world, it's _always_ possible to game the system.

More to the point, as the article points out, I've seen teams full of "stars" who's collective success depended on that weaker member that fixed all the bugs no one wanted to touch. Scoring that persons value directly would have missed their value entirely.
Leaving aside threats of violence, which are properly illegal, what you're arguing for here is for free speech to be limited to the expression of ideas with which you agree.
You read the several times in which I said, "Don't apply stack ranking to small teams"? Do you think you're arguing with me?
Correct, Twitter bans people who violate the TOS.
The First Amendment does protect hate speech. However, Twitter is not bound by the First Amendment.
Striesand Effect is about censorship/exposure and is not relevant to this case which is about seeking the identity of the poster presumably because they are a federal employee. It doesn't seem like they're trying to do anything quietly, just get information for now.
WW3 ITS TIME TOO RECALL ALL THE GOOD THATS HAPPENING AROUND THE GLOBE
> Always have an actual skill as a back-up, that’s very good advice.

This advice from Coupland is the best part of the article, because it uncovers the intended audience: telephone sanitizers. [1]

> Most people who work in tech – 99% – don’t want to look at the implications of what they are doing. They just want to hit their milestones and that’s it.

This statement actually works for about every profession.

[1] If you don't get the reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golgafrincham
If you are shorter than me, you are short. If you are taller than me, you are tall. If you are the same height as me, you are average.

Makes it very simple.
This is what happened during the RadioShack bankruptcy iirc.

Instead of putting customer data up for sale they essentially just split off the portion of the company that held the data and put that up to be acquired.
In the US maybe, but not in Germany. "Free Speech" can mean different things in different countries.
This is truly terrifying. The fact that the US government will pursue this kind of action, potentially exposing and punishing criticizers of the government -- seems like this is how dictatorships/autocracy/totalitarianism start.

"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." If we believe in the free America, this should be what we should all fight for, if we want to keep America for the reason it became great in the first place.
Yeah, but Google doesn't need Uber. Google has the self driving tech (clearly), has the reach (Google Maps on Android and iOS). Uber? Ain't nobody need Uber.
You are right, "hate speech" was not the right term to use.

That said, there absolutely are types of speech that the First Amendment doesn't cover:

http://www.americanbar.org/groups/public_education/initiativ...

>>In this country there is no right to speak fighting words—those words without social value, directed to a specific individual, that would provoke a reasonable member of the group about whom the words are spoken. For example, a person cannot utter a racial or ethnic epithet to another if those words are likely to cause the listener to react violently.
The new Model S doesn't have the black nose, and it looks great.
There are legitimate, appropriate ways for the government to subpoena, court order, and issue warrants for certain records from social media like Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, and HN. For some insight into this process, Reddit just published their 2016 Transparency Report:

https://www.reddit.com/wiki/transparency/2016

They complied with some 60% of them, finding the others invalid (and, notably, not being proven wrong in that regard).

It's shocking to me that agents of the government so regularly abuse the trust placed in them to make illegitimate requests of these corporations.
It isn't that hard to open a court case with a TBD defendant. If the USG thought they could get a subpoena, I have every faith that they could have figured it out.
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And only a small subset of that 2% is able to cause pathology pathology.

So any diagnosic or risk predictive tests need only check those areas know to result in or increase the risk of pathology.
Indeed. I believe that those who deliberately conflate the two do so in order to restrict legitimate (if often vulgar or hateful) speech.
Federal courts and the founding fathers would disagree.
Why? I think the amp version of the page is better. It loads faster and has less irrelevant crap.
Well, you are the Visual Studio Product Manager, so I assume you are being paid to post these things. No?
continuous compilation isn't just a nice to have in scala, it's mandatory given how slow the compiler is. Does maven solve this problem?
I think I see what some people mean about Musk fandom. A "sighting" link on the first page. How is this different than tabloid celebrity citing?

That being said, I hope model 3 does good and they meet their dead lines more or less. Mostly because of how unnecessarily some news outlets were about Tesla from the start and especially around modle 3.
Ok, so the average guy is STILL short.
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To me, the front looks like a porsche.
Model 3 : http://bit.ly/2p72kq6
Porche Panamera GTS : http://bit.ly/2p7ijV6
Free speech also includes calling other who are being assholes out on being an asshole, and choosing not to associate with them.

One is entitled to say what they want. One is not entitled to a platform to say it on, nor are they entitled to not have consequences of saying those things.
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I worked on projects for Steve and reported to his direct reports. One would have to be very naive to think that this isn't just typical business practice. Or do people really fall for that "free market" stuff that we are being sold?
> I don't see a reason why a centralized planning scheme could not work better than capitalism if performed by optimization algorithms in a hyper-connected world.

One very Hayekian (Austrian) reason is that you won't have [very useful] data on consumer preferences. The price system will aggregate this effectively. You can't really poll for this, but purchase decisions will reveal it.
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Its disturbing the amount of posters here who are directly equating banning users who actively post racist, hateful bullshit and handing over the user info of somebody who opposes the president.

Because they did one they should do the other? what?
I think this list is a bit too focused on big, dedicated software companies.

If you're spending a month or two making a throwaway bit on analysis, for example, maybe it doesn't need hallway usability testing and plugging into a CI system (although I'd argue for a makefile, which maybe does the same job).

Similarly, if you're not collaborating on a thing, maybe you don't need a schedule. You can do the job with an ordered list of tasks and a future date when you'll revisit that list to see if you need to ditch some things to stay within the budget.

And if your company only has a couple of developers to support the business, then you're probably not going to hire dedicated testers or UX specialists (how much longer before that gets replaced with some other buzzword anyway?).

And actually, all these things can be changed. If you go to a company that doesn't do something that you think is important, then make your case. If you're in a position where your case won't be listened to, that's a much worse indicator.

I wouldn't work without version control though. If I have to be responsible for some text then it's going in Git, be it code, configuration or notes.

On a different tack, I think the idea that a spec isn't useful any more because of agile is definitely a wrong one.

Your spec doesn't have to be absolutely rigorous, set in stone, or meet some standard. Writing down in detail what you intend to do and how it will meet your aims is really useful for non-trivial tasks.
I wish it worked the way you said, but the Streisand Effect is a myth. If you've worked in customer service, public relations, as a manager, you know that 99% of the time when something is suppressed the problem goes away.

It's just as true from the opposite point of view. If you're a customer, client, or user, and your complaint or comment is suppressed, 99% of the time you do nothing or it goes nowhere.

Once in a long while, something blows up but it's not the rule.
I have a coworker who reported fraudulent cab driver activity to the TLC. It was an arduous process involving multiple interviews and a hearing, and in the end the driver was fined about $200. Nothing inherently unfair about that process, but it's hardly a world of hurt.
Does supporting Trump make you a white nationalist?
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Neither is Twitter. They are free to ban people who violate the ToS.
This is true in the extreme but to reduce white supremacy to a mere disagreement is reductive and also willfully naive, I think.
That's right.

The stock price reflects the market's overall expectation of all future cash flows discounted to the present value - all the way out to infinity.

When you buy at stock, you are implicitly betting that reality will exceed those expectations.

So, you just said that massive growth is priced in, and the fact you hold the stock implies that you are betting on even more massive growth - relative to expectations.
>The Internet, which is provided to you by Verizon, is the destination.

Uh, that makes so little sense that it kinda hurts my brain. Do you even understand what 'common carrier' is?

>You don't have to use the Internet.

There are services I use that only accept payment via the internet and are not available locally. Again this makes little sense.

> I'm uncomfortable with the idea that Google deserves all the advertising revenue,

Google doesn't get all of it, but they get a large majority because unlike everybody else a decade ago, they decided not to suck. Google will one day collapse under its own weight, your local cable monopoly will not.

>sometimes at a loss due to regulation (being forced to serve remote areas and so forth, regulations that companies like Google do not have)

Your cable company didn't have to do that. They only play the 'woe is me' trick when asking for money. If you countered that they didn't have to serve all the customers, but they would lose the monopoly they will stick with the monopoly every time. It is very profitable, and yes, I've worked for Cox in the and had lots of experience.
(1) 'Exchange between strangers is a unique feature of us modern hominids' isn't really falsifiable without begging the question or establishing a hard boundary between kin and non-kin, which afaik is currently a function of the problem under consideration (i.e.'kin' might mean something different to geneticist vs. anthropologist vs. linguist vs. classical economist and even something different for a different problem in each of those disciplines). But 'this is what makes us human' is far from essential to Hayek..and probably basically inimical to Hayek, as some other commenters have pointed out.

(2) The 'reduction of collective intelligence to the price mechanism' objection (which is often a specific case of generic objections to dimensional reduction, including e.g. perceptron thresholds) is addressed throughout Minsky's Society of Mind[0], esp. the 'frames' concept.

(3) The article doesn't mention the benefits of localized knowledge (as opposed to the 'practical reality' of localized knowledge, which may be lamentable and/or fixable), which iirc Hayek does get into (or maybe some other Hayekians? more modern systems-oriented folks? can't think of a source at the moment). If some knowledge (for example, within a community of practice) weren't pretty strongly localized, then every knowable would be in one truly global variable space, and abstraction would be incredibly computation-intensive, and knowledge growth would be horribly O(n!), and all of thought would work like JavaScript (ZING). This is a stronger kind of localization than technical specialization (which just maps onto SOLID class design rather than variable space).[1]

[0] Beautiful html edition: http://aurellem.org/society-of-mind/
[1] Broad philosophical musing on this sort of thing: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/bubbles
It puts me in mind of:

https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2014-03/enha...

https://ae01.alicdn.com/kf/HTB1d4e0HFXXXXcNapXXq6xXFXXXn/The...
You just quoted the argument that my comment refuted. What is your argument?

1) Uber is saying "I can get you from A -> B for $Y" and the rider agrees to pay $Y.

2) It tells the driver that it will pay them $Z to drive from A -> B and the driver agrees to it.

So what? Where is the fraud?

Consider a similar circumstance in Amazon:

1) A merchant is saying "I can sell you this widget for $X" and the consumer agrees to pay $X.

2) Amazon tells the merchant that it will pay them $Y to sell the widget to a customer. $Y here is $X minus Amazon's cut. The merchant agrees to take $Y in exchange for the product.

Is that fraud? Of course not!
I just tried halp, it seems pretty cool, thank you for making it available!
Was, not is. I believe that's an important distinction.
Heroes vs. Villains (good and bad entrepreneurs)
But when an advertiser looks at how many people they can reach that they're actually interested in, it doesn't matter if they have 10 million users somewhere else.
Ask HN: Can Uber just hide or destroy documents related to Waymo?
When a court orders a company or individual to search their own private systems for incriminating evidence, can't they just destroy or hide it?

Going by the mantra that its only illegal if you're caught.

Whats to stop Uber from denying they have any documents, payoff/threaten any employees with knowledge of those documents and have some unscrupulous data forensic team transfer or destroy any evidence of it from their own servers?

They would need to be precisely thorough to ensure no crumbs are left in emails with no suspicious gaps, but conceivably they have enough resources, lack the morals and are delaying for time that it may be possible.

Is there something I'm missing?
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