skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It should be publicly funded because it's a good investment on a country level, with great ROI. The more educated citizens you have, the better companies your country will attract, and the more innovative startups your citizens will start. This will enable your country to better compete with other countries for industries and smart people. Also, educated people make (hopefully) educated choices, which should benefit democracy and the effectiveness of a democratic government.
But the practical case for it should grow as long transistor counts increase while the speed of light doesn't.
The whole "both parties are the same" argument has been disproven quite a bit. At this point, it's just a sign of intellectual laziness.
s/They/He it appears.
> Realistically? National security.

This is absolutely not the case. Sure there are some classified programs but the majority of government spending and money flows should be 100% transparent.

It's not because there is some degree of corruption and those involved wish to evade accountability.
Chaos could be opportunity for some, indeed. But usually outsiders will be brought in to stabilize the situation (company surgical doctors) and there will be little room to grow except those remain absolute loyal to the real boss (in this case, the investors, as the CEO himself is in a disarray).
This is probably one of my favorite blog posts ever.
If someone is interested in doing this in India, here's our LLP agreement:

- https://github.com/nilenso/cooperative-agreement.

We've also written and talked about it a bit:

- https://blog.nilenso.com/blog/2014/11/19/huh-a-software-coop...

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7K3E1Q_MBk
Security Engineering - A guide to building dependable distributed systems http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/book.html

It is hilarious and informative! Described in more detail here: https://hackernoon.com/how-to-become-a-hacker-e0530a355cad
"Keeps getting"
They're copying snapchat features wholesale. If you want a glimpse of what feature they'll release next month just take a look at snapchat of today.
The article posits that instead of trying to focus on display ads and impressions, they should have focused on sentiment analysis, data mining, trend forecasting as avenues of monetization. Shazam, the app that can recognize a song from a recording, did this [1], and they can predict what songs are going to become really popular based on their users' interest.

Of course, actually doing this in 2010 would have been extremely ambitious, given that sentiment analysis was an up-and-coming field having recently overtaken by extreme hype (just look at the edit wars on the Wikipedia article [2] in their effort to revert marketing drivel). It was a far more sure bet at the time to pivot towards display ads and a more locked-down ecosystem, and about new user onboarding [7] and content curation [8], than the even more vague promise of being able to mine useful data out of aggregates of Tweets (preferably in near-real-time).

This particular bet may have been the wrong one, as the next year academic papers were coming out by the dozens about sentiment analysis on Twitter; by this time the company had doubled down on display ads and keeping more users inside the application with embedded videos, a captive shortener, a captive image host, the acquisition and relaunch of native mobile clients, and the like.

After yet another year, in 2012 Facebook smoked them with their ad onslaught [3] and also bought Instagram for good measure. Twitter acquired Crashlytics in 2013 and then the ad network MoPub and reworked it into an embeddable Twitter SDK that app makers would want to use [4], then bought a machine learning startup and I finally was sure the omnipresent sentiment mining Twitter would materialize [5] but this ship sailed at last when they sold most of that to Google after all [6] to focus on their 'core product', which isn't growing... a problem the article, despite its title, doesn't offer a solution for.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12083782 [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sentiment_analysi... [3] https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/12/2012-... [4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11914620 [5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11942293 [6] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13429179 [7] https://thenextweb.com/twitter/2011/12/08/a-new-version-of-t... [8] https://thenextweb.com/twitter/2011/12/08/why-twitters-disco...
I did it. I went straight from my PhD to industry (actually my own startup) and then 5 years later I went into academia and tenure. I left academia in 2012 back to industry. This is the biological sciences (Molecular Biology / Microbiology).

I should say I am the only person I have ever met in the biological sciences that has done this so it must be relatively rare.
Has to? Are you saying that the whole thing would not fall apart if, say, someone used color images instead of greyscale?
> His first instinct, naturally, was to go to a search engine. “My favorite one, of course: I go to Bing,” he said. “And by the way, I check it with Google, just to make sure there’s nothing I’m missing.”

It appears that Mr. Ballmer could cut his search time in half by just skipping the first step here. I believe this is the optimization everyone else applies.
> I actually don't even know how to see replies on someone else's thread. The UI is quite confusing TBH.

Have you tried clicking it? Because that's it..
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Shut up. You went to a 4th rate school and are a 4th rate intellect doing backend web dev because you are 4th rate. Accept your lot in life, swallow it, and move on. You are inferior, and you know it. You are a genetic failure. Good night.
Um, no.

Turkey is a peculiar case. Turkey's post-Ataturk government has (usually) been more secular than the United States (to the point of--at times--making it illegal for women to cover their heads). It was quite a pleasant place for non-muslims to visit, e.g. alcohol was legal and widely available, and Israelis routinely went on holiday to the Turkish coast.

In the past, when the Turkish government has veered toward theocracy, the military has stepped in, restored democracy, and stepped back. The coup didn't work this time, and its failure made the theocracy stronger. I fear that secular Turkey is over.
Please add [pdf] or something similar to the title, it's very annoying to accidentally and unintentionally download a pdf on the phone.
National Security is a scam and a racket. It's the goto excuse for racketeering government money whether through war or through financial means which are closely linked. The people who want to know the secrets know the secrets. China, Russia, etc. They all know the secrets. The only people who don't know the secrets are people who are not sophisticated enough to do anything with those secrets and the people who pay for it.
The UI is actually making me feel angry, for some reason I can't put my finger on.
Thanks, I had no idea uservoice was that expensive. yours definitely does look better as well!
I see Twitter mostly as the backend to apps like flipboard. It will go through my Twitter timeline and determine what is worth reading.
I don't think there's a public dataset for this, but would be a fun project for someone to crawl and figure out a number.

My best offer is here Yahoo. Just before and after the announcement of acquisition, there was a bleeding of top executives from Yahoo.
Hacker to Security Pro: On the Shoulders of #InfoSec Giants
You can have categories (or rather - lists) on Twitter.
"It did this despite the tremendous odds against any company that sets out to change the world"

That's a pretty bold claim. I mean, everyone sets out to change things in some way --I think this thought was an afterthought that formed later on, not at genesis.

I also don't believe they are the only ones who can effect a kind of public megaphone or rather police radio everyone could broadcast in or listen into. There is an intersect of that, but for the most part it serves commercial interests and that is the main reason anyone cares about "numbers". If it were a public service, the press and all the activists and all the commercial interests would not care about "lack of growth"

That said, some ideas about handling the negativity for end users would be to enable a few features which would further frustrate growth but give users more control:

Don't ban users but do classify them be it automatic classification or crowd-classified. Allow users to allow comms from these classes or not.

So for example, if I only want to receive tweets from "clean" accounts, that's all I can ever get. If I want more mature streams, allow those too, if I want to allow "offensive" then allow those in too. Basically, I'm a fan of Flickr and the control they give users and mods to moderate content. It's a pretty useful approach, but it sort of undermines the "social network viral growth" requirement.

That said, social has come, but it will go as people settle down on how to interact with on-line social networks.
What are your requirements in terms of editing / updating (e.g. adding new blogs) content once your site is live? If you expect non-technical person being able to author the content, you may consider headless CMS like Kentico Cloud (https://kenticocloud.com/) or Contentful (https://www.contentful.com/) to store and manage your content and then pull it to your template via technology of your choice.
Eventually, you could feed that content to static web page generators like Hugo and serve only generated pages.
Brilliant evasion of the point there
Sure, but there might be git repos sitting around elsewhere. Why risk exposing a git repo literally anywhere in the filesystem to a restricted shell account?
I would ask whether the investigation will ever end or just die hoping the noise is gone.
Job expansion/preservation from the social media people at the brand.

On Twitter's end, basically forcing brands to interact, since you can't delete complaints (you can't can you?)
Jaeger a distributed tracing system
Overlooks the more basic problem that it's simply overbuilt. There are quite a few articles where CEOs point at the over-abundance of retail in general: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/u-s-retailers-have-a-ridiculous-...

Even as stores die, they seem to get replaced by even more stores elsewhere.
Everything is illegal if you are oppressive enough.
I hear that. When I ran my business, I had trouble trying to give shares to people who already worked for me!
Mother Earth Mother Board – Neal Stephenson (1996)
Especially when Uber is by far the most valuable unicorn and you'd think these guys would want to stay on for their IPO payday. Maybe they know it's not happening?
Many years ago my colleagues and I helped another colleague and her kids move out of her home. She was deathly scared of her abuser husband and planned everything in secret. But things quite stressful when the husband showed up in the middle of the move (a neighbor called the husband thinking a burglary was taking place). In the end nobody got hurt and we drove away the moving van but we were all shaking. Her husband was a NASA scientist.

The point I want to make is abusers come from all walks of life and are of every nationality. Please do not use this incident as an excuse to generalize or discriminate against Indians or any other particular group. Abusers need to be punished to the full extent of the law, regardless their origin. In this particular case you can look up on crunchbase who funded this guy's company and try to bear pressure.
Pretty much. You can't grow double-digit percentages every year without running out of customers at some point. At that point you'd better be making money.
I agree that it's annoying, but it's so that the message is carried across

It's not acceptable to annoy people to run your business, and the fact you have internalized these justifications from marketing people underscores my point. I know all about the technicalities involved from >20 years as a sound engineer, much of it in the media landscape.

The reason you people are now switching to better PPM meters are because people like me have been making a fuss about this issue for many many years. I'm sorry you think my comment is awful, but I am do not support capitalism reflexively the way you do and I reject your claim that it's OK to increase sales by making people's lives a little worse. I am using the word ethical judiciously, whether or not you agree with me, and I am not going to change my opinion about marketing people either.
No, if the alleged crimes are legitimate, he needs to be jailed. Simply handing him off to continue his abuse in another country doesn't fix the problem. It's not like the US has any hesitation with imprisoning people for petty crimes, they sure as hell could do well to actually put away criminals. If he gets deported after serving a sentence, by all means, but we should be focused on actually solving problem behavior not just simply passing the buck.
Yes, you can. I expect it will be a little bit hard to get that first job, but once you have experience it will get easier and easier to get better jobs. You need to practice practice practice coding. The best way is just to code some things that are interesting, then work your way up to doing some practice problems.

Interviewing varies widely among companies. Some places only want to hire people that are experts in some tech they are using (say a js package), others want to hire people that are generalists, or have worked on mostly frontend - ui, or backend (not ui). Some places want people who can learn anything. There's no uniform thing.

Most companies in the US would not consider you for a senior coder, unless you were very very advanced in some aspect of cs. Since you don't have much experience, you could look for an introdutory role. I don't know about signapore, but in the us because of the huge demand its generally easy to find a starting programming job. You could also look for a job that takes advantage of your dev ops/admin background while have some easy programming required, but you'd want to make sure it was really a job that had programming.

Good luck! I'm 50+ and have many years of experience and have no shortage of jobs. Just program, try for an hour a day if you are still working in your admin job, and in a few months you'll be much more fluent.
I guess I just don't understand the premise of these articles questioning why something has stopped growing as though growth is the natural state of an already large market. Is it a forgone conclusion that the core product is so appealing it should just keep growing forever until everyone is consuming it? Is it possible that no matter who is or was running Twitter that there would only ever be so many people who want to communicate in hashtags and 180 characters? That a large part of Twitter's growth trajectory was from novelty and network effects of semi-engaged users? That user engagement from tweeting has a shelf life on the scale of months to years and that attrition is/was inevitable no matter how many third party APIs and pink bows you wrap a tweet up in? I'm asking in earnest because I just don't understand why the simpler explanation is that tweeting will only ever appeal to so many people and that there is a middle ground between failure and dominating the world. Somehow the talk of CEOs and corporate visions overshadows the product itself--one that has barely changed since its inception--which to me seems like the obvious place to start questioning.
Trixie is a lightweight HTTP request router for go
Putting him in prison costs us - the taxpayers - money. Deporting him doesn't.
In pursuing radical new ideas, costly failures are inevitable. This is hardly reason to quit and never try again.
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No that is not 'literally how it works.' It works differently in a lot of other places, and I suggest you consider another perspective besides your own.
Then use a chroot.
When 3/4 of the "users" are bots, and you hit a point where your personal firehose is too much to read in a day... you don't use it as much. They try to be "smarter" but the fact is bots don't click on ads, and trying to promote popular/sponsored crap is something we already get from Facebook, and frankly, they're better at it.

It's pretty nice when you want to follow a handful of celebrities... when you're in tech, for instance, you wind up with a few hundred people you're interested in seeing stuff from, but it winds up too much, and then drowns out any people you may know personally. Add to that the follow-spam crap that just floods the experience, and there's not much that can be done imho.
It's dangerous to justify a statement about a large group of people or their culture using anecdotes. It's the kind of reasoning that leads to racism, antisemitism, etc.
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>The majority of the country elects the President

Majority in what way? Not necessarily a majority of the people.

> Frankly, I wouldn't mind every state having an equal voice, rather than unfairly privileging populous states.

More people live there, though. So those states represent the views of more people. Under your system, someone in South Dakota would have a 1/750,000th of a say in their state's choice, while someone in California would have a 1/36Mth of a say in their state's choice.
If I was interviewing someone who took a year off, I'd want to know why they did that, and also I'd like to see that they have done something to get started again practicing so you are fairly ready to do some work. So it would be helpful to have some kind of good way to describe what you were looking for during your year, because peopel will want to ask you. I agree with others who say it would be an idiot company that would avoid people who take time off.
The US wants a friendly government in Turkey because its location is very desirable for the US's ability to stage and project military power in the Middle East.
> There is a tribal sense of which side is correct that is totally unrelated to the facts

I think it's important to acknowledge some role of the Left in alienating the Right in their framing of climate change: Greedy, evil corporations are polluting the environment, and the solution is massive public spending or restructuring of society. Of course I'm exaggerating.

To me the most important questions are: How has science communication failed to convince the public of the danger, and what can be done memetically to counter corporate misinformation campaigns?
Are you saying Optane is a terrible idea?
Thanks! If it weren't so far (past SLO) I'd go. I can imagine: https://www.flickr.com/search/?text=carizzo%20plain&sort=rel...
A Pythonist Finds a New Home at Clojure Land
I personally use XXX all the time; but I tend to use it in places where perhaps ATTN or NOTE would be more explicit.

It may be simply an artifact of other code in the past; when I switched to vim ~10 years ago I noticed XXX was specifically highlighted along with FIXME and TODO and so I used it as a third option: here's something that doesn't need to be fixed, isn't really a todo, but you should read and understand.

Interestingly, I just did a quick check in vim to see which prefixes were highlighted and ATTN / HACK were not, but the usual suspects (BUG, FIXME, TODO, NOTE, XXX) were. I should probably use NOTE in most places that I currently use XXX...
I don't think Uber can go IPO any time soon. The financial of Uber is very bad. Bank is happy to manage the IPO, but the stock will probably be very unstable or fail to single digit if Uber continues to lose that much of money. If a company lives on investment money, the stock is useless.
In fairness, most new accounts are follow-spammers... of course the bots are probably better at working around the limits in place.
That's a really surprising experience, I would never have guessed that it would hurt. I learn new things constantly, but rely on a lot of deep ideas I have learned over time - how to craft code & design things (not just express it in c++ or something), how to work with people, how to express things tactfully, how to give negative comments without being personal. I use all this in my job. I wish I had taken time off years ago. Now I have a "career" and a family, its hard to take time off.
The+Quantum+Communication+Revolution+and+Extraterrestrial+Intelligence
Why can't military spends be in one classified bucket and the rest be open and 100% transparent? I don't think information on how much is spent on roads, healthcare, police, education will affect security.
I agree, I think absolute transparency should be a given with any democratic government. One reason, aside from national security to a hopefully minor degree, is to cover their behinds when stupid things are done (and they're done an awful lot in the public service).

I think if we had a crystal-clear/omniscient view of the wastage that goes on in various governments, we'd be collectively appalled.
Indeed - automated tests introduce more friction because they are hard to maintain and to write.

So really, the best thing to do would be to make it easier to write and update automated tests.

Recording clicks is of course one way, but the tests are probably more brittle for it.

If you have access to the source templates, you could probably right up some kind of rudimentary compile time type checking and validation of selectors, so you could know when a new feature breaks something.

The best would probably be some seamless mixture of the two - record tests in terms of the templates, with the ability to detect breaking Ng template changes...
Ask HN: Was I skipped for promotion in the sequence of events
Throwaway for obvious reasons. 3 years back I started working with a startup where the founders and founding engineers came from networking background. I was hired as first full stack engineer so I ended up working on UI/middleware/api even though my speciality is more server side. It was also discussed that overtime, I would like to move to engineering management profile.

Eventually, the team grew and I was managing the 6 people team. Overtime, they hired a specialised UI/UX person (having half of my work ex in year terms).

Cue last year when we got acquired and during the corporate shuffle I was made an individual contributor reporting to another manager while he was made the UI development manager.

To me, it seems like between two people with no previous management experience, I got overlooked while the other person got promoted.

I suppose this is normal in enterprise environment, but wanted to see what HN crowd thoughts are. Should I be switching as once you get into such condition, I am not sure what my future growth is.
Show HN: Loophole in Clipper Card System Allows for Card Theft
I recommend using jekyll or hugo for your site using either netlify or forestry.io for the CMS and hosting. This is the future, and it can be hard to convince the non tech savvy, but I think you know the benefits. I'm willing to help if you run into any questions with setup. You can find me here: http://templatestud.io/.

P.S. This is from working with Joomla, Drupal, and Wordpress sites in the past. Static sites are the way to go.
Checking Code Style with Neural Networks
Good ideas below, like meeting your customers and learning their problems before coding, also getting a job first and working on this on the side. If you got severance, or you can afford to not work for a while, take a few weeks off and enjoy life if you can. I sometimes have burning ideas and I like to explore them, but I think working in a real job while you do this new thing on the side is the most practical.
He was given a lesser than normal charge because to quote:
'He confirmed that Gattani’s immigration status was a factor.
“It was a consideration, yes,” he said.'...
"Santa Clara District Attorney Jeff Rosen, seeks to avoid such deportations."