skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a noble goal but, I think, doomed, because we're all inherently biased towards things that a) were written(1), b) in a language we understand, and c) were delivered to us somehow. What about all the things that happened that weren't written-about? What about all the things that didn't happen, for that matter? The tree over there in Bloomington IN at the corner of Whatever and Whatever, is still there -- find out more, tonight at 11! Or what about the things that were written-about, just not in your own language? Putin has an 83% approval rating back home, but the US media seem to want me to think he's the next Hitler. If I could read Russian better, I could find out a lot more about it.

What about the things that were only described with squeaks amongst porpoises cavorting in the deep? What about the things that happened on the other side of the galaxy? We're predisposed against knowing anything about any of these categories of things.

(1) When I say "written" you can alternatively insert (for example) "talked about" or "filmed" or "addressed in any medium."

Edit to get rid of italics-incontinence.
have you been to Italy? maybe your situation is better, but here is a cesspool.
If you have a Google account why should they still need to do an interview?
The same people you trust with regulating, you trust are going to regulate against regulations. There's going to be an arbiter no matter what. The way we make sure he's not corrupt is through democracy. By limiting his time in power, and having the people choose his replacement.

The problem with monopolies is that they begin to approach government like control over one or more dimensions of society, but we have no corruption control on them.
Why on earth would a service get shut down for allowing consenting adults to opt into an agreement that allows anonymized data to be shared in a compliant way?
It's gotten a lot of media attention and is an interesting (if not entirely fair) barometer of unicorn startup culture and industry.
This kinda thing makes me glad I'm in web dev.
We all have ways to go regardless of how many years we have walked :)
How Uber uses interaction design to manipulate its drivers
The final sections "Five other mind-bending theories" is very bad, but at least it's short and clearly bad.

It mix some theories that are weird but with a lot of evidence, interesting theories that are dubious, and crazy ideas that are borderline crackpotology. Each one with the same mix of credulous/weird tone and in each one uses "Evidence?".
People who can't distinguish between the meaningful impact of the differences between the two parties approach to health care are not paying attention or willfully ignorant. Bringing out the trope perpetuates this. It's a real problem.
I'm the author of the article and ShellCheck. The RAM requirement comes from my own experience, where I had to add a swap file to my VPS because 1.7GB RAM wasn't enough.

I'm very surprised you've been getting by with less than a gig. What's your arch and GHC version, if you don't mind?

Older GHC versions appeared to use significantly less RAM, and I imagine 32bit pointers would save a lot.
Linux distributions are very similar to each other. Having package management as the main thing that sets them apart.

In illumos land these different distributions exist because they have very different design goals and visions.

But I agree that the illumos community is also a lot smaller and maybe (sadly) too small for each distribution to be commercially successfull.
I'm extremly sad about this announcement as OmniOS is a great operating system and the team behind it did a fantastic job.
As a user I like the minimal setup and clear stable releaes.

From what I've read the community is now thinking of possibly consolidating with OpenIndiana for that usecase. So while having less commercial supporters is a pity the community is determined to keep pushing forward.
Another reminder that everything we do on the internet is being tracked as though it were happening in public.
To get past the paywall: https://t.co/dfxOzeF66S

That's a redirect via Twitter.
There are individual vocal Corbyn and Sanders supporters- Owen Jones of the Guardian for example is possibly the only person in the entirety of the mainstream media to be an ardent Corbyn supporter, and his pro-Corbyn articles frequently hit the front page, but as a whole it's true that most journalists there are Blairites. Sort of very mild-centre left who are socially liberal and oppose austerity, but are still pro-corporate.

That's not great, but for US news they are certainly in the top 3(alongside NYT and WaPo) and the only ones who are free.
This is true and they ought to have retracted that. However if you apply the principle that you should boycott — at least least refuse to pay for — all publications that have ever published a misleading article on an important topic, then you will rapidly run out of options.

If you want to take a moral position it should be based on an overall assessment of whether the world will be improved by a particular news source ceasing publication. Given the rumored state of the industry it's easy to imagine that in a few years we could be in a "post news" society, where reputable sources have not managed to keep the lights on and it's only the populist publications that are still in business. If the long term choice is between "support a publisher that once made a bad mistake in a technology story" and "The Daily Mail is the only source of news", well to me that's not a moral dilemma.
>Wikileaks showed the the cia goes into incredible detail to frame other countries.

No.
I think it does. There is another project called Gallium Nine, too. Never got it to work on my system though. The first paragraph in VK9's FAQ actually compares the two: https://github.com/disks86/VK9/wiki/F.A.Q.
as in Italy, making medallions transferable lifetime license was the original screwup.

in general if a state want's to limit concession to a scarce resource (whether riders, coal, fishes) it's best to make them time limited and non transferable, with the current owner having a preferred option for renewal and a bid for reassignment.
For monetary transactions that's fine. But they are not the only type of smart contracts. Consider the people trying to e.g. bootstrap systems for using the blockchain as a share ledger for a company for example. There the court will just say "X is the owner of those shares. Ensure the record reflects that." If the system they have chosen for the ledger can't let them rollback a transfer because of a bug, that is the company's problem.

There are a lot of potential circumstances where people will need to find human workarounds for the supposed immutable nature of these blockchains because courts will simply say "this is how it is; make it happen". The above example is "simple": The company can worst case just pass a board resolution to replace the ledger and/or reissue it.

But it is a demonstration that the immutability of the ledger will often be irrelevant, in the face of a court that says "this is the truth now".
Very good. Looks like it's using OpenTomb?
> Let me know what the Republicans would have done for health care?

"Obamacare" (formerly known as "Romneycare") is a republican healthcare plan. One of the big reasons we claim that our two major parties are approximately equivalent is the Democrats' habit of passing Republican policies.

> since they are clearly very, very different

There are differences between R & D that are significant, but they are minor compared to all the ways they are the same. You can be 100% sure that politicians will side with their establishment, monied donors.

> Are the two parties the same on health care?

No, but they're both bad. Yes, Republicans are not going to improve healthcare, but neither are the Democrats. Did you know Feinstein said a few days ago in a town hall that she has no intention to support single-payer?

> it seems the only people that say that are Republicans

Assuming things like that only makes you sound partisan or uninformed. I'm not a Republican, so now you have a counterexample.
Show HN: PropertyWebBuilder – real estate site builder with (basic) MLS support
"The draw of Instant Articles was that they load much faster than the Facebook links that take readers back to most publishers’ own sites."

Are you serious, that is the draw? Apologies as needed from me (someone who doesn't know or care a thing about Facebook) but I'm surprised. Couldn't a publisher easily silver-bullet this just by removing the bloatware from their own site?
From an antitrust perspective, a monopoly is simply a firm with significant and durable market power with courts having typically set that to having over 50% marketshare within a certain geographic area.

Intel certainly qualifies.
You bring up an important point. I have thought about this issue a lot.

For ISPs the problem is that companies tend to expand. So where 20 years ago an ISP might have been a small regional provider. Things have consolidated and expanded so now that same company owns almost the entire infrastructure and many other services that depend on it. They can also bundle services together to make it harder for a new competitor to enter.
It would be an interesting challenge to popularize free services as loan-sharking your personal information.
Scientists hope they've found a drug to stop neurodegenerative brain diseases
Mercantilism is how capitalism dies. Self interested capitalists buy monopolies from politicians until no free markets remain.

Today we have Trump favoring Coal, Oil, military contractors, the Sands corporation (Sheldon Adelson) and corporations searching for special favors such as Tariffs, etc, because of their contributions to his campaign.

Hilary would have favored Wall Street banks, hedge funds, "green companies" in search of federal handouts, unions, etc.

We have the political system we have because of massive contributions by moneyed players who want either handouts or rules to keep competitors out.
Sure. Imagine you have a process with 2^20 active allocations (e.g. 2^20 calls to malloc()), i.e. you have a tree with the metainformation, and every time you de-allocate and allocate you have to search trough one or more trees. So no matter how "smart" is your library for avoiding OS system calls, you already have a hell to maintain (search through a tree or a list, delete, split, etc.). Things get ugly when a process has lots of dynamic memory calls, on non-trivial cases.
Wouldn't all these issues be solved by the customer reading a one time key over the phone?
Hi, I work at Google. I am sorry for this. This should never happen. How long ago was this? I can try to follow up on your behalf.
A demo without a person within the vehicle is not very impressive. Hope this tech has a future, but not mentioning this fact in the article seems like a mistake.
Why Some People Respond to Stress by Falling Asleep
One problem with comparing those stats across nations is that having centuries of stability will make those stats look a lot worse. Right after a big event like WW II, much of your lot in the world was the result of bad luck -- there were lots more highly-capable poor people, who were likely to move up in life, or whose children were (because of inherited personality traits). A few generations later, a lot of them have moved up, and social mobility will be smaller. You'd expect Singapore to have more social mobility than white America, for this reason alone.

There are also other factors that can help or hurt, like everybody living in the same city.
If you put floors on the salary for H1Bs that are higher than the prevailing wage then the companies using H1Bs will self select the more skilled employees. Right now a H1B employee costs less than a local American so companies who are price sensitive go for the H1B's. If you flip the cost on that companies will only go after H1B's if they really have some skill that they cannot get locally
Why do you log failed connections ? Unless you are doing some sort of analysis where things are coming from its a waste of log space. Turn off password auth, use only keys and log only successful connections.

Not exposing ssh means you will forget/not care you are running an old version and eventually this will bite you
Just rank by salary and pick the top N? There's plenty of things to bikeshed over, like how to adjust for cost of living, but I don't see how you could argue that this could be any worse than literal random chance.
It's not clear at all that they are reading people's emails and selling the data

They don't think it's any of the customer's business to know that, and it's counter to the company's interests to publicize it.
WW3 WILL THE WOMEN TURN OUT TO SAVE WEST
Through working with teams in India, and spending a lot of time there over the years, I have several Indian friends working for Capgemini and Cognizant. The opinion I put forth (and it is just my opinion :) is based on what I've observed and also what friends and colleagues have told me.

Assuming these managers you mention were also Indian, couldn't their behaviour also be part of it being a 'cultural thing'?
Is it really going to be safe to use? I don't know Perl that well, but it feels like there's enough language features to make a safe eval harder than writing your own parser for a DSL. That's certainly the case for Python: https://nedbatchelder.com/blog/201206/eval_really_is_dangero...
Land use planning, eminent domain, employee regulations, tax regulations, etc, etc, etc. Where do you want to start?
I was taught "Dear Sir/Madam" at school in England around 2000.
To be sure, CAN-SPAM was not aimed at end users so much as defining what they can complain about, which is not much, and the law is toothless besides.
> very much benefits the American economy

This move seems consistent with Trump's and part of the GOP's nationalist, anti-immigrant, anti-international trade ideology. He'll try to sell aspects of it in ways that appeal, but IMO it will have bad consequences for the U.S. and other economies:

First, demonizing foreign companies is a very dangerous trend to start. It's the same thought process as racial and religious prejudice - the outsiders are just one broad stereotype and threatening. Is it coincidence that he chose a country that is different and more foreign to most Americans - i.e., he didn't choose the UK or Australia, or even Germany.

Second, much of SV sells their products, including their technical services, outside the U.S.; if the U.S. becomes hostile to foreign goods and services, why will others continue to buying the same from American companies? If the U.S. abandons free trade in general, why will others pursue it? It also is a blow to global productivity; instead of large productivity benefits of economic specialization, with everyone using best-in-world products and services (again, many of which are American), we all become limited to best-in-our-country.

Third, India in particular is very important to the U.S., economically and strategically. Power comes from wealth and population; since WWII the U.S. has been by far the largest advanced economy in the world (Japan is second, ~40% as big), and thus the leading world power. China and India each have around 4 times the U.S. population and their economies are advancing quickly; if they advance far enough, the U.S. will be to them as the UK is to the U.S.; also the core of world economic activity will be Asia, where the people and wealth are. China is hostile to the U.S. in many ways; India at least is a (somewhat) pluralistic democracy which shares a British heritage with America. The U.S. may need India economically and strategically, and if Indians feel the U.S. is hostile to them as a nation or on a racial basis, it could cause significant damage.
AST-based editor: https://medium.com/cirru-project/stack-editor-programming-by...
> I hadn't done anything with bits since college.

No offense, but then the job probably was not right for you (which does not mean that you would not excel at other roles, of course). It then seems that the interview might have served is purpose just fine and saved both you and Google from being cast into an unfitting position.
Qualification: I need to re-read it and refresh my memory.

That said, I think that for many, it's akin to the first time you take the/a Myers Briggs test. It may not be "scientific", but damn, does that summary strike home.
Assuming they even know what they are doing.
How is it nefarious for Uber to use anonymized data to come to conclusions like:

1. Emails with subject [xxx] are opened more often than emails with subject [yyy].

2. Lyft does more business in Scottsdale than we expected.

3. 25% of people who use ridesharing use multiple services and 75% are loyal to one service.

4. 33% of people who don't use ridesharing services also don't use traditional taxi services.

"Nefarious" is a strong word.
> The recruiter also said I was borderline, which might be just a nice empty word from her, but made me feel better.

I don't think this is just her being nice; I was also told I was borderline and they actually ended up letting me interview again for a different position (SETI instead of SWE). Alas I got rejected again, but the year after they called me back because I was borderline, or so they told me, and I am working there now.

As others have said, there is some element of chance, both on their part and also likely on yours. Hopefully you'll apply again as it seems like you have a good chance.
There is no canonical monoidal operation on booleans (just as the case is in any arbitrary ring), so I'd guess using the bitwise operators explicitly is good for disambiguation.
Is there a specific journalistic integrity issue going on with this article?
> This type of unsubstantive, inflammatory comment ...

My comment doesn't have these properties, in fact it's the conventional view, as shown here:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/theory-knowledge/201201...

There's no way to have a meaningful conversation about Kalanick -- or Steve Jobs -- without addressing these issues.

Would you prefer that topics having a psychological dimension be categorically excluded from HN? Nothing would make me happier, but that's neither realistic nor likely.

I appreciate your helpful link to the HN posting guidelines. They include this rule:

"Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site."
BitTorrent was invented by Bram Cohen in the early 2000s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bram_Cohen

New technology brings about new opportunities. BitTorrent wasn't feasible back in the 90s because there weren't enough users who were always online to seed files. The question is how do we use this new technology in a way to accomplish tasks we might otherwise thought impossible?
I agree. I can think of two proposals which are both superior to the current system.

A) Get the rid of the H1B cap, and set the minimum income requirement to $100k/year. If you're smart enough and talented enough that someone is willing to pay you 6 figures, you would be an asset to this country and there will always be room for you here.

B) Keep the H1B cap, and auction off the visas using annual salaries. If there are more applicants than visas, the people who get paid the most will get the visa.

I won't pretend that either proposal is perfect, but it's sure better than the current broken system.
Yes it's cool but maybe not everybody gets the drift. That and the fact that Perl6 error messages are really meaningful as in not a wordplay on a reference to sanzaru.
Yes, I understand how the FLAC codec works. My comment was pointing out that FLAC can either represent the codec or the binary and that in neither case one can say that FLAC is bit-to-bit identical, since in the former case you're referring to the specification and in the latter case you are referring to the binary executable.

One can say that FLAC is a lossless compression codec and as such it is homomorphic to the original raw binary encoding and the WAV encoding.

It might be pedantic, but saying "flac is bit-to-bit identical to wav" is just wrong. To me it sounds like saying: "The speed limit is 80 kilometers".
Why Memphis Has Two Marches for Science
I got hired by Google, but didn't get an offer from Facebook. There are some differences in the process that could lead to a different outcome sometimes.

However, I think they have more in common than differences and luck is a big factor.
You have to be naive to give a service access to a trove of your private data and expect them to just leave it there...
I think it is a matter of perspective. Say we take Planck time to be the atomic unit of time. Then really any larger unit of time can be viewed as interval of time with some error bounds. One you reach time units of on the scale of "days", time zones definitely impact this interval. Saying something happen(s/ed) on a particular day is not precise because a day is just a particular interval of time that varies based upon your time zone.

This is why if you've ever submitted a paper to a conference, the deadline will nearly always be given with an hour level of precision and a time zone. Because just saying submissions are due on day X is not well defined in the modern world.

Edited: Not sure why this is getting downvoted. Do you people seriously believe that 4/23 is the same period of time in NYC as it is in London?
Is there a good tool to create these line art "sketch" renditions like that of Kalanick in this article?

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2017/04/19/technology/24trav...
> It'd be nice if Apple had been less pragmatic and more principled and just yanked any version of the Uber app that broke the rules.

Spine implants are hard to get, even for Tim Cook.
Eval Really Is Dangerous
Ask HN: Is the outrage over Unroll.me selling Lyft receipts to Uber warranted?
Unroll.me is a popular inbox tool for unsubscribing to email newsletters. They monetize by selling your data through Slice Media (and don't really talk about this on their marketing site). In Mike Isaac's profile on Travis Kalanick of Uber, it was revealed Uber engineer/growth folks bought this anonymized receipt data.

Original article: https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/04/23/technology/travis-kalanick-pushes-uber-and-himself-to-the-precipice.html
because it's less depressing.

I'm proposing a corollary to Occam's razor called avs postulate:

1) The likelihood of an explanation being true is correlated with how boring it is

2) crazy conspiracy theories are a useful exercise with which to guide convergence and formal presentation of evidence of 1.
Every factory, the explanation hours for the kindergarden- do not jump, do use the stairwell rails, do read all the rules, do not use the robots for rodeo.

And if you complain about the stupidness of regulations, the responsibility shysters barricading proclaim you hysteric or careless.
My personal favorite is lumber-work, where in some of the heavy duty protection equipment you are supposed to wear is so heavy, people make exhausted stupid mistakes and get injured because of the security measure.
Example references the Kevlar jackets and trousers- lately partially replaced by lighter plastic protection gear.
The worst part is - some regulations introduce routine- and routine kills.

There are good examples, like the Japanese railroad signal system though, so its not all bad.
You're not addressing what I'm saying. What I said has nothing to do with journalism
This should never ever happen. How long ago was this? I work at Google. I can try to follow up for you.
On my Google onsite (in Zürich as well), one of the interviewers told me that if he gave me a 4.0, he'd have to argue on my behalf if the hiring committee wasn't sure of hiring me.
Do you still have the reddit articles? Sounds interesting.